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CHILEAN PILOT'S VIDEO
By Leslie Kean Investigative Journalist and Author
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/groundbreaking-ufo-video-just-released-from-chilean_us_586d37bce4b014e7c72ee56b
1/10/17
thanks to CEFAA and openminds.tv for photos.
An exceptional nine-minute Navy video of a UFO displaying highly unusual behavior, studied by Chilean authorities for the last two years, is now being released to the public. The CEFAA - the Chilean government agency which investigates UFOs, or UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena), has been in charge of the investigation. Located within the DGAC, the equivalent of our FAA but under the jurisdiction of the Chilean Air Force, CEFAA has committees of military experts, technicians and academics from many disciplines. None of them have been able to explain the strange flying object captured by two experienced Navy officers from a helicopter.
The Chilean government agency always makes its cases public when an investigation is complete, and acknowledges the existence of UAP when a case merits such a conclusion.
General Ricardo Bermúdez, Director of CEFAA during the investigation, told me that “We do not know what it was, but we do know what it was not.” And “what it is not” comprises a long list of conventional explanations. Here is what happened:
On November 11, 2014, a Chilean Navy helicopter (Airbus Cougar AS-532) was on a routine daytime patrol mission flying north along the coast, west of Santiago. On board were the pilot, a Navy Captain with many years of flying experience, and a Navy technician who was testing a WESCAM’s MX-15 HD Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) camera, used most often for “medium-altitude covert intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,” according to the product website. The aircraft was flying at an altitude of approximately 4,500 feet on a clear afternoon with unlimited horizontal visibility, and the air temperature at that height was 50 degrees F (10 C). There was a cloud base above at 10,000 feet, and a layer of stratuscumulos clouds below. The helicopter was flying at about 132 knots, or 152 mph.
A Chilean Navy AS 532SC Cougar helicopter in Mejillones, Chile.
At 1:52 pm, while filming the terrain, the technician observed a strange object flying to the left over the ocean. Soon both men observed it with the naked eye. They noticed that the velocity and the altitude of the object appeared to be about the same as the helicopter, and estimated that the object was approximately 35 to 40 miles (55-65 km) away. It was traveling W/NW, according to the Captain. The technician aimed the camera at the object immediately and zoomed in with the infra red (IR) for better clarity.
The route of the helicopter derived from the displayed geographic coordinates displayed on the camera.
Shortly thereafter, the pilot contacted two radar stations - one close by on the coast, and the other the main DGAC Control system (Ground Primary Radar) in Santiago - to report the unknown traffic. Neither station could detect it on radar, although both easily picked up the helicopter. (The object was well within the range of radar detection.) Air traffic controllers confirmed that no traffic, either civilian or military, had been reported in the area, and that no aircraft had been authorized to fly in the controlled air space where the object was located. The on-board radar was also unable to detect the object and the camera’s radar could not lock onto it.
The pilot tried several times to communicate with the UAP, using the multi-national, civilian bandwidth designed for this purpose. He received no reply.
The technician filmed the object for nine minutes and twelve seconds, mainly in IR. This sensor produces a black and white video in which the black, white and grey tones are directly related to temperature. IR detects heat, and the hotter the material being filmed, the darker it appears on the image. The officers stopped the camera when they had to return to the base and the object disappeared behind the clouds.
The Navy immediately turned over the footage to the CEFAA, and General Bermúdez, accompanied by nuclear chemist Mario Avila, a CEFAA scientific committee member, conducted interviews with the two officers at their Navy base. “I was very impressed by these witnesses,” Avila told me. “They were highly trained professionals with many years experience, and they were absolutely certain that they could not explain what they saw.” Both offiicers also provided written reports at the base, as is required, and for CEFAA.
The Navy Captain stated that the object was a “flat, elongated structure” with “two thermal spotlights like discharges that did not coincide with the axel of motion.” The technician described it as as “white with a semi-oval shape on the horizontal axis.”
The video depicts two connected white circular lights or hot spots, giving off much heat (left).
This image was part of an analysis by astrophysicist Luis Barrera. “Envoltura” means “envelope.”But there is one additional component that makes this footage particularly unique: “In two instances it discharged some type of gas or liquid with a high thermal track or signal,” the technician stated. After filming for about eight minutes, the stunning ejection of a massive plume of a very hot material is captured on the video, trailing behind the object. (The plume blended into the clouds when seen in HD.) Another ejection occurred moments later. It is indeed bizarre to watch this on the video.
The object moved away from the massize plume it ejected just moments earlier.
During the following two years, at least eight somewhat contentious meetings were held with members of the baffled CEFAA scientific committee, some of which included the active Air Force General who directs the DGAC. According to CEFAA international affairs director Jose Lay, the general tone of the meetings was astonishment: “What the hell is that?” No agreement could be reached to explain the video - theories that were proposed were ruled out by the data.
A rather somber meeting of the CEFAA scientific and military committee to discuss the Navy video.
The DGAC Director presided (with his back to the camera).Written reports or video analyses were provided by the well-known astrophysicist Luis Barrera; an image expert from the Air Force photogrammetric service; photo and video analyst Francois Louange and colleagues from France, arranged through the French agency GEIPAN; Luis Salazar, Chilean Air Force meteorologist; a DGAC aeronautic engineer; a digital images specialist from the National Museum of Aeronautics and Space in Santiago; and Mario Avila, a nuclear chemist. All radar, satellite weather data, and details of air traffic in that sector at that time were provided.
DGAC’s Director, Air Force General Victor Villalobos, attended two committee meetings on the case.
The French analysts proposed that the object was a “medium-haul aircraft” coming in for a landing into the Santiago airport, and “the effluent trail observed on two occasions probably results from dumping some cabin waste water, forming a plume oriented along the local wind blowing from the west.” They based this on their calculation that the distance between the two hot spots was “consistent with the standard distance between the two jet engines of a medium-haul aircraft.”
Chilean experts knew that this would have been impossible, for a number of reasons: This plane would have been seen on primary radar; it would have had to be cleared for landing in Santiago or at another airport; it would likely have responded to radio communications. Airplanes do not throw out water when landing. In fact, in Chile a plane wishing to eject any material must request permission from the DGAC before doing so; that regulation is widely known and respected. And, it seems unlikely that this experienced pilot would not have recognized this as an airplane, or at least kept that option open afterwards if it were a possibility.
In fact, if - hypothetically - water was expelled, it would have immediately plummeted to the ground given the warm air temperature. According to NASA, “Contrails are human-induced clouds that usually form at very high altitudes (usually above 8 km - about 26,000 ft) where the air is extremely cold (less than -40ºC). Because of this, contrails form not when an airplane is taking off or landing, but while it is at cruise altitude.” The plume ejected from the object must have been some kind of gas or energy, and was not something tangible like water.
The French calculations confirmed that the UAP’s altitude was the same as the helicopter’s, and that “the helicopter’s velocity along its linear trajectory was constant (120 kt),” just as the witnesses had stated. In addition, Louange and his colleagues determined that the average distance between the helicopter and the object was “almost exactly the estimated value reported by the Navy (55 km).” Clearly the two witnesses were competent and accurate observers.
Data from the various reports eliminate other conventional explanations. Meteorologists determined that no weather balloons were in the sky at that time, and noted that a ballon would not move horizontally along with the plane because the wind was blowing from the west towards the shore. Comparing the footage to similar IR satellite imagery with known temperature values, they stated that the object’s temperature must have been higher than 122 degrees F (50 C). The object was not a drone; all drones require registration with the DGAC and whenever flown, the DGAC is informed, just like it is with aircraft. Also, radar would register drones. CEFAA staff went up the chain of command to a Navy Admiral who informed them that there were no joint Naval exercises underway with the US or any other country. The Admiral confirmed that this could not have been a US drone, or any type of espionage or secret vehicle from a foreign country.
Astrophysicist Barrera explored the possibility of space junk re-entry - especially Russian - which somehow may have broken and released compressed gases at this low altitude. It was confirmed that no space debris entered the atmosphere on that date in that location, and in any case, such an object would have fallen rapidly and not flown horitzontally. Two independent experts on explosives told CEFAA staff that in such a scenario, the rounded vehicle would explode in the air due to the high internal pressure, and that the gas would catch fire in a flash. And any such re-entries would have been communicated to the Chilean government so that aircraft can be warned, as is the protocol.
Barrera also noted that when the first ejection event occurred, the material came out from two different parts of the object and then joined in space making one wake. The first was massive and dark in the IR (meaning very hot); the second lighter and semi-transparent.
Air Force photo analysts confrmed that the object was a real, three dimensional form with volume and that it “has control in its movements.” It was not affected by the winds, reflected the light, and threw out “some kind of energy.” They established that there was no evidence of hoaxing or of “alteration of the video by any computer application in the editing and processing of the images.” They also ruled out a bird, flying insect, drone, parachute or hang glider. “It can be concluded that the object has all the characteristics to be classified as an unidentified aerial phenomenon” wrote Alberto Vergara, the lead analyst from the Air Force Photogrammetric Department.
It is unclear how much of the apparent horizontal motion of the object may be the clouds moving or the relative motion of the camera on the helicopter, but the witnesses reported that the object kept pace with the chopper and the French analysts confirmed this. Also noteworthy is the fact that when in HD mode, the large plume looked like part of the cloud and would never be noticed as anything unusual by an observer. Without the IR camera, it would have been difficult to see the white object against the sky and impossible to capture this remarkable footage. It makes one wonder what kind of actiivites may take place within clouds that are unknown to us.
“This has been one of the most important cases in my career as director of CEFAA because our Committee was at its best, “ General Bermúdez said in an email. “The CEFAA is well regarded partly because there is full participation from the scientists of the academic world, the armed forces through their representatives, and the aeronautic personnel from the DGAC, including its Director. I am extremely pleased as well with the conclusion reached which is logical and unpretentious.” The official conclusion was that “the great majority of committee members agreed to call the subject in question a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) due to the number of highly researched reasons that it was unanimously agreed could not explain it.”
This case represents one of the most puzzling and fascinating of all cases in the CEFAA files, according to Jose Lay. “It is our first video taken with a sophisticated camera in the infra red; the first time we have ever seen the ejection of a substance from a UAP; the first time we have a sighting lasting over nine minutes with two highly reliable witnesses,” he said when we spoke.
General Ricardo Bermúdez has directed the CEFAA since its inception in 1997. He retired on Jan. 1, 2017, but will remain an advisor to the agency.
The CEFAA has been a world leader in official and open investigations of UFOs. I have been priviledged to work closely with the staff there for about five years, learni
Forgotten Newspaper Article on Roswell
San Mateo Times of California July 8, 1947
Posted By Bob Spearing, Publisher of worldufowatch.com
October 3, 2016
ARMY SAYS HAS DISC
San Mateo Times July 8th, 1947 pg.1
Missile Found By Rancher in New Mexico
Turned Over to Atomic Group and Flown to Headquarters
ROSWELL, N. M., July 8 — (U.P.) — Possession of a “flying disc” was disclosed today by the intelligence office of the Five Hundred Ninth bomb group of the Roswell army airbase. Officers at the base say that the “disc” was flown in a Superfortress to “higher headquarters” undisclosed. The intelligence office reported that it gained possession of the “disc” through the co-operation of a Roswell rancher and George Wilson, Sheriff at Roswell.
Landed on Ranch
The disc landed on a ranch at Corona, N. M., sometime last week. W. W. Brizell of the Porter ranch was the man who discovered it. Not having telephone facilities, Brizell stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the Roswell sheriff’s office. Announcement of the discovery was made today by Col. William H. Blanchard, commanding officer of the Roswell army air force base.
No Details
The air base refused to give details of construction of the disc or its appearance. Residents near the ranch on which the disc was found reported seeing a strange blue light several days ago at 3a.m.
In a statement to the Associated Press Lt. Warren Haught, public information officer at Roswell said: “The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 400th (atomic) bomb group of the 8th air force, Roswell army air field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chaves county.
“Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher’s home. It was inspected at the Roswell army air field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters.” The rancher’s name and location of his place were withheld.
George Walsh of radio station KSWS which provided first news of the announcement said that only Major Marcel, Col. W. H. Blanchard, commanding officer at Roswell airfield, and the rancher had seen the object here. The sheriff, Walsh reported, upon receiving word from the rancher went immediately to the intelligence officer at Roswell field.
Brazilian Island of Colares - UFO Encounters of 1977
from www.ufocasebook.com
August 10, 2016
COLARES ISLAND UFO
In 1977, the Brazilian island of Colares was visited by flying objects of an unknown nature. Nearly all kinds of UFOs were seen; some big, some small, saucer shaped, cigar shaped, luminous or not. They arrived from the North every day, from the sky and also sometimes from underwater, and it lasted for months.
Regularly, some Island inhabitants were targeted by the objects, sending strange rays to them, and many were badly hurt, with two reported dead. The Army intervenes, the press follows. 35 people were hurt by the strange rays, and many fled from the Island.
The events mainly concentrated on the city of Colares, about 2,000 inhabitants, on Colares Island, which is in the region of Pará, the delta of the Amazon river on the northeastern coast of Brazil. But the whole region was visited by the same phenomenon. Which has brought many ufologists to visit the city.
Beginning in August of 1977, in the island of Colares, a strange phenomenon began to occur, that the Brazilian call Chupa-chupa.
Strange luminous objects appeared over the few towns of the region. These objects were often projecting thin rays, seemingly of light, directed at the people. The touched people fainted and woke up with a strange anemia. They stated that they felt as if some of their blood was removed by the strange rays.
The fisherman Manoel João de Oliveira Filho, aged 44, married and residing at No. 64 rua Carneiro de Mendonça, was strolling towards the beach early one morning with some companions, to spend a day at sea fishing.
Before they had arrived at their boats, they saw - above the Rio Novo beach - an object shaped "like an umbrella" stationary at about 4 meters from the ground. From its under-part came a vivid white light.
No sound was detectable from it from where they were standing. The object then moved away silently towards Machadinho, turning off the light as it went.
A carpenter named João Dias Costa (aged 44) and a fisherman, Joao da Cruz Silva (aged 54), both of Colares town, saw the notorious "luminous spheres" so greatly feared on account of their "low skimming swoops".
Another man from Colares town, Sr. Zacarias dos Santos Barata (74) saw the glowing balls on two nights. The first time, the object came from the direction of the Bay of Marajo, and rapidly vanished towards the interior of Colares Island.
On the second night another ball, blue in color, flew over the local football field. "It lit up all the trees around the field and then vanished towards the town's center,” said Sr. Zacarias.
Sr. Sebastiao Vernek "Zizi" Miranda described his experience as follows:
"I was there with my wife, Palmira, in front of the church on the sea-front, when at about 8.00 pm, we saw an intensely vivid "orangish" light coming in from the sea towards the town. As it approached, it climbed, and then, moving rapidly, vanished towards the inner part of the Island."
The barber Carlos Cardoso de Paula (aged 49), living at Travessa Deodoro da Fonseca No. 231, had a still closer encounter with the "lights", as he himself relates:
"Everybody else was asleep. I was just still having my last smoke when suddenly a ball of fire entered our house up near the ridgepole of the gable. It started shooting round and round the room, and then finally came right close to my hammock.
"It ran up my right leg as far as the knee (without touching my skin). I watched with much curiosity as it then moved across to the other leg. Then I started to feel feeble and sleepy. My cigarette fell from my hand and I came to and let out a yell. The fireball quickly vanished and everybody woke up.
"I think it had been searching for a vein in my body but didn’t manage to do so. As its brightness grew, I felt a sort of heat coming from it."
Worker Raimundo Costa Leite, very well known in the town of Colares for his skill in making and repairing fishing nets, described his own experience:
"At about 4.00 in the early morning, I went with my pal “Baixinho” (Orivaldo Malaquias Pinheiro) to fish off the beach at Cajueiro. As I recall it, Baixinho shouted, 'Look! There it is!' and took to his heels, leaving me alone on the beach.
"The craft was of the size and shape of a helicopter, made no noise, and was flying very high.
"I could have taken a pot-shot at it if I had had a gun with me. I was terrified when the machine shone a sort of searchlight down on the beach. That light was sweeping the ground, illuminating everything! It was a bluish light (sort of ‘cold light’).
"It made it easier for me to see this because the craft had several small reddish lights beneath its front part... The craft seemed to be seeking something on the ground.
"I was scared that it would touch me and, despite my poor physical condition, I managed to run quite a distance, and then Baixinho returned and helped me. The object had come from the direction of the sea and it headed off into the inner part of the Island."
Actually, so many more people reported being attacked by beams of light from small UFOs in this area that only few of them are mentioned here.
On October 20, three women were hit in the breast by the beams of light: "All three were overcome by tremendous nervous tension and an unknown sort of lassitude as though they were receiving constant electric shocks," wrote a newspaper.
On the evening of October 29, Benedito Campos and his seventeen-year-old wife Silvia Mara were at home when "they spotted an oval, silvery object emitting a greenish beam like a searchlight towards the room where they were lying.
"Filled with curiosity, they approached a small window and, as they did so, the beam shot in through it, and made straight for Silvia, throwing her into a sort of benumbed trance-like state."
Silvia, who was pregnant at the time, then fainted, whereupon two entities apparently entered the house carrying something resembling a golden torch and "once again the beam struck Silvia, this time hitting her in the left arm at the level of the wrist.
"Her veins seemed to 'rise up out of the body' so swollen were they by the beam striking them."
Later, while at a neighbour's house, Benedito was also briefly paralyzed by a light beam. Fearing a miscarriage, husband and wife were taken at night by boat to the Mosqueiro Medical Clinic, followed all the way by the UFO, which made no further attempt to harm them.
They remained there for three days while the wife recovered, but Benedito "was in a state of severe depression for some days, his motor functions disturbed and, as his mother reports, weeping frequently."
The UFO activity over Colares Island was so intense that the people began to think the "Chupa-chupas" were trying to make some sort of contact with them. Such was the view expressed by Sr. Raimundo Ferreira "Mimi" Monteiro. He still believes the craft were coming up out of the sea or out of some underwater base located in the Bay of Marajó, possibly in the region of the Caldeirão.
Alfredo Bastos Filho, a former town mayor, confirmed this and said: "Yes, indeed I can tell you, there wasn’t a moment of peace. The populace were terrified by that "Chupa-chupa" affair. I even managed to see one of the injured victims myself - Dona Mirota, a lady who was receiving medical treatment at the Health Clinic."
The locals became so frightened that many of the women and children left town. The men that remained lit bonfires to mount guard at night, letting off fireworks and banging tins whenever they saw the Chupa-chupas approaching.
Others locked themselves in their homes for fear of the phenomenon. It was mentioned later that the more din people made and the more bonfires and fireworks, the closer the craft came.
Colares image 1 Colares image 2
By November 1977 doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, the physician in charge of the health unit on Colares Island, took care of to some 35 people claiming to have been touched by the strange light.She took blood samples, and concluded that the victims suffered from generalized hypertermia, superficial chronic headache, burnings, intense heat, nauseas, tremors in the body, giddiness, asthenia and presented very small orifices in the skin where they were hit by the rays.
She wrote: "All of them had suffered lesions to the face or the thoracic area." The lesions, looking like radiation injuries, "began with intense reddening of the skin in the affected area. Later the hair would fall out and the skin would turn black. There was no pain, only a slight warmth. One also noticed small puncture marks in the skin. The victims were men and women of varying ages, without any pattern."
In describing their experiences with these light beams, most victims claimed that "They were immediately immobilized, as if a heavy weight pushed against their chest. The beam was about [seven or eight centimetres] in diameter and white in color. It never hunted for them but hit them suddenly.
"When they tried to scream, no sound would come out, but their eyes remained open. The beam felt hot, 'almost as hot as a cigarette burn,' barely tolerable. "After a few minutes the column of light would slowly retract and disappear." Most symptoms usually disappeared after seven days. "
At Agulhas Fincadas, Mrs. Maria Lopes, inhabitant of Vila Gorete, to the margins of Rio Tapajós, in the neighborhoods of Santarém (Pará), tells her case involving "strange devices" that absorb energy from human beings, known as Chupa-Chupa.
"I saw an object to settle quiet in the bushes here close... It had left two men and a woman, who had started to move with two fishing," counts Maria.
Other people in the place had been paralyzed when observing the scene.
Many had hurt themselves when trying to escape one of the strange objects. In many cases, the marks left by the rays on the victims skin were marks that could have up to eight small holes. In these occurrences, the Chupa-Chupa term was proven right as many of them had lost up to approximately 300 ml of blood, from these wounds.
This was the case of Claudomira, resident in the Island of Colares. She claims that her family already did not sleep right with fear of the devices.
"In one of these days, after midnight, I woke up because of a strong flash, a sort of focussed bright green light ray that came down from the top roof to my left chest. I tried to shout, but my voice did not function. I felt an esquisite heat... Later, that beam of light diminished and I saw that I was burnt."
Claudomira told that she sighted a strange object, much similar to an umbrella, from which a being of clear skin, oriental eyes, and great ears.
According to her, the creature was dressed in tight green clothes and had a sort of pistol in the hand, which emitted the luminous beam. At this moment, Claudomira felt perforated as by needles on her breast.
"After this, I felt a migraine headache and a great weakness, that left me collapsed for several days."
The next day, she had been directed to the Sanitary Unit of the town, where she was taken care of by Doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, who sent her to the Medical Institute Renato Chaves, in Belém, for backup examinations.
Her ill-being and the constant migraines lasted many days, followed by fatigue and weakness. Years later, Claudomira still did not feel cured.
"My health never came back to be the same since that night."
She is not the only one to have passed for such situation. Some estimate that thousands of people, also men, had suffered the attacks of the Chupa-Chupa in the years between 1970 and 1980, and they still occur today, though less frequently.
"Emotional and physical sequels are very common in these cases," affirmed Dr. Wellaide Cecim Carvalho, who took care of Claudomira.
Although she was skeptical and she believed that the occurrences of Chupa-Chupa were popular belief or some witchcraft, Dr. Wellaide ended up convinced of the veracity of the cases when she was confronted with their increasing frequency.
"With the increase of hurt people, I started to give more attention each time in the existing injuries. I saw things that do not exist in my medical books," she said.
According to her, the victims of Chupa-Chupa presented strangest burnings, not as those provoked by fire or hot water, as she thought herself, but very similar to ones produced by cobalt irradiation."
The injuries varied in intensity. First it started with an intense reddishness in the hit area, known as hiperemia. Later, the skin of the affected region started to fall (alopecia) and days later the skin peeled off.
In this period of development, said Wellaide, it was possible to note holes, similar to perforations by needles.
One of the most interesting cases she took care of happened with a lady who had cardiac problems. She arrived at the doctor's office very nervous and immediately she showed her left breast, in which were two strange holes.
She complained of giddiness, shortness of breath, and weakness - characteristic symptoms already known by people hit by the phenomenon. The doctor tried to calm her and she returned to her home.
But at about 03:00 pm, however, Dr. Wellaide was called to the residence of the woman, who had become very sick. Her whole body was still, and she gasped for air, but she did not have fever and did not vomit.
Seeing the seriousness of the situation, the doctor took her to a hospital in Belém.
Hours later, she received the medical papers and the certificate of death forwarded by the Medical Institute Legal Renato Chaves, which stated a heart stroke as cause of the death.
The intriguing fact is that at no time, doctors in Belém had mentioned something about the injuries on her body and did not even say if they had effected backing examinations.
Regarding the possible effects of the UFOs on the supply of electricity, Sr. Geraldo Aranha de Oliveira (aged 37) of the C.E.I.P.A. (Pará Electricity Plant) explained:
"In 1977 the C.E.I.P.A. sub-station consisted of three Scania 125 kw engines supplying light to the city from 6 pm till midnight. I don’t recall having ever seeing a UFO over the plant. I merely remember that, at that period, lots of lightning conductor rods were burnt out and, at times, some fuses too."
COMAR (Comando Aéreo Regional, the Regional Air Command of the Brazilian Air Forces), arrived in Belém, and made a series of researches in the region, under the project name "Operation Plate." (Operation Saucer)
Captain Uyrangê Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima, head of information office, directed all the operations in the region. During the investigations, the Air Force obtained four films and hundreds of photographs of flying disks in the basin of Marajó.
They also were a great help to the population, providing psychologists assistance, to eliminate the panic that sized the entire region.
The beams of light from the craft were described as being so bright that they resembled those used to illuminate night sporting events. They were "always sharply defined, directed with perfect precision towards any target – houses, people, boats, trees, even the Brazilian Air Force's helicopters deployed over the island during the investigations."
On one occasion, one of these powerful beams is reported to have forced one of the helicopters to land, although the exact technical reason is not given. (Giese, 1996)
According to a statement by Sr. Sebastião V. Miranda, former resident of Colares, "the Brazilian Air Force spent more than 35 days in the town, and installed various devices near the Bacurí beach."
Sra. Alba Câmara Vilhena, a married lady living at 683 rua 15 de Novembro, added: "At the time of the "Chupa-chupa" everybody was scared to sleep at night, and so almost every night we went away to be with relatives. On one occasion some people saw one of the craft. It was round, and all luminous.
"Just at that moment, a helicopter of the F.A.B. (Brazilian Air Force) was flying quite near to our house. Then we saw the UFO direct a very powerful beam on to the helicopter, obliging it to land on the São Pedro Airfield. That happened at about 8.00 pm one evening."
Professor Raimundo Sebastião Aranha said: "At that period I was closely connected with some of the Air Force's enquiries. They were seeking more information about the "Chupa-chupa."
He said the Air Force had with them masses of equipment: cars, helicopters, radio transmitters, cameras, powerful glasses, etc. He recalls that, in addition to the rank and file Air Force recruits, there was a whole group of officers, and he had the impression that there was a foreigner among them.
"The helicopters that appeared from time to time, bringing materials and personnel, attempted to chase the UFOs but without much success. Indeed, on the contrary, it was the UFOs that chased them!"
One night several months later, on May 24 1978, a journalist and photographer, who had been sent to cover the local UFO encounters, were in their car when despite the heavy rain they were woken up "by a powerful beam of light which – however unbelievable, it may seem – passed through the metallic structure of the roof of the vehicle."
Not surprisingly they leapt out of the car to see that "a tube-shaped light beam, about [twenty-five centimetres] in diameter, was coming down from above onto the roof of the car and passing through the metal panelling."
On this and other occasions, they managed to take numerous photographs which they claim that their newspaper later sold to "a North-American group."
On another night while trying to use flash equipment to photograph one of these craft "the UFO emitted such a vivid beam of light that it smashed the windscreen" of their car. (Giese, 1996)
Several newspapers started to write that the alleged UFOs were weather balloons, or secrets satellites, although there was no possible reason to think that. Local authorities were of course extremely angry because of such articles. Elói Santos, councilman of the old Enclosure for bullfighting stated:
"It is not possible to deny that Belém is, today, a frightened city. We are not technicians, and we do not argue with the conclusion of the authorities. But we did surprise them with declarations of the witnesses who saw light crossing their roofs to penetrate in their skin, removing a little of blood and leaving visible marks of needles and burnings on their epidermis."
Mosquiero image 1 Mosquiero image 2
During the "Chupa-chupa" wave, many new "sighting zones" emerged, such as Pinheiro and São Bento in the State of Maranhão, and Viseu and Bragança in the State of Pará. Some areas indeed reached such a 'level of saturation' that rarely a single night passed without UFO sightings.One of these "ufological epicentres" was over the bay called the Baía do Sol (Bay of the Sun) and had a direct effect upon the Island of Mosqueiro. Mosqueiro is one of the most important of the islands, and it is the biggest, belonging to the municipality of Belém.
Public concern was immense, all the men banding together at night to organize watches, with bonfires and fireworks, thinking these would deter the craft. But nothing seemed to stop the UFOs, not even the Air Force’s film men and their cameras - and even less the journalists from the Estado do Pará!
There were frequent and regular sightings of mother-ships, probes, and flying saucers, all performing incredible manoeuvers over the Bay.
A 61-year-old widow, Elisa da Silva, residing on rua do Bacari, was one of the witnesses in that year (1977). One night, from her house, she saw a flying saucer appear. Vivid white light came from small windows or apertures on it. Seen from below, she said, it seemed quite dark and quite flat. It vanished towards the South, in total silence.
In the opinion of some of the members of the GUA (Amazonian Ufological Group) based in Belém, there exists, or there did exist for a considerable time, at some point beneath the Baía do Sol ("Bay of the Sun") a concealed base for extraterrestrial probe craft. Such an idea would account for the constant appearances, in recent years, of unidentified flying objects over the region.
In 1981, one woman who had been exposed to the UFO beams in Colares died, although it is not clear that her death was clearly related to the attack.
In 1986, not far from Colares, two persons on Crab Island were discovered "badly decomposed by heat" amid numerous sightings of balls of fire in the sky; cause of death "not known" in either case.
Same area, different time: a "ball of fire" seriously burned three men out cutting wood on Crab Island; one of the woodchoppers died.
One of the two survivors, Edmundo, had a gaping electrical-type burn injury on the side of his chest, an almost perfect replica of the chest burn suffered by Jack Angel in Georgia in 1974.
In 1993, again in Colares, a 32-year-old missionary and a 40-year-old domestic worker died, a month apart, as a result of close encounters with UFO; according to Ufologist Bob Pratt, these women were "both burned on the throat and the chest, as were most of the other people the doctor treated."
Said Pratt: "I know of about ten deaths that have some connection with UFO close encounters."
According to the USAF, there is not one proof of the reality of UFOs, and there is no evidence that they can be a danger. According to the skeptics... According to the skeptics? To tell the truth, skeptics never express anything in such cases. And the majority of the general public does not know about such cases.
The Curious Case Of The Gosport Fisherman
By Bob Spearing, publisher www.worldufowatch.com, MUFON SAT and STAR Team Investigator and MUFON National Director of India
July 1, 2016
Early on the morning of July 22, 2015 around 1:50 am, Don Martin (his real name) felt an unusual compulsion to gather up his fishing tackle and head out to Stokes Bay Beach in Gosport, Hampshire U.K. and see if the fish were biting even at such an ungodly hour. It had been a rough couple of years for Don. Heart problems, medical setbacks and procedures punctuated his life. He was a Mini Bus driver for disabled children before his ill health forced him into early retirement at the age of 62 this last year.
Two years back he had a very unusual experience in the doctor’s office. With his arm held out by a nurse during a procedure and looking into the doctor’s eyes, he saw what appeared to be colorful star-like shapes float across the room and enter his right eye in a sort of psychic experience. As odd as the experience was, he kept it to himself. Perhaps it was just his blood pressure acting up and causing spots before his eyes. There would be another similar corresponding episode. Then something unusual happened in March of 2015.
His nightly ritual entailed looking out his window to ascertain the weather. It was approximately 9:30 pm. He was taken back by what he saw.
“Under low broken clouds something caught my eye. Above the house approximately 30 feet above there was a disc 30 to 40 feet across, metallic silver, 6 blood red "ports” in a circle .It was very sharp and a gold color to my eye. I could not work out why this thing was above the house nor understand its unusual red colored windows. The base of the object was concave. ... .I`m sure this sighting went on for at least ten minutes.”
Since the March 2015 event he has felt the necessity to become a vegetarian. This is one telltale sign of an abduction experience.
Don is a congenial man. In my first interview with him he came across as coherent, reflective, truthful and of sound mind but deeply disturbed by what was befalling him and how he felt isolated. His friends and life partner didn’t want to know. Then came that disastrous July 22nd early morning fishing excursion. With fishing pole in hand “I noticed a light high in the sky moving in a northeasterly direction. My initial thought: maybe satellite or possibly the international space station. After a few moments the light brightened. I looked for aircraft navigation lights. There were none. The light seemed to fall from the sky. A moment later a huge pulsing pure white “not reflective” light (it looked like a "blob" or a "splat") was above me. I felt a pressure change and I remember taking an intake of breath. I was fixed to the spot trying to take in what I was witnessing. Then a large cream colored orb slowly ejected from the light object and ascended vertically above getting smaller to its zenith and started dancing about high in the sky. I noticed a very pale yellow haze around me. Moments later the main object started to dim. Until this moment I did not see a solid craft. What I did see then was what I thought looked like the top of the Eiffel Tower, a solid aerial perhaps, definitely looking metallic. The main object blinked out. The small orb was still high in the sky. Then I saw another light which I believe was the main object connect to the small orb then both moved off to the northeast for a few seconds then blinked out.”
An oddity Don relates about the sighting is that the main blob of light seemed to be dropping globs of some material on the ground.
Don’s case to this point is eerily reminiscent of the Pascagoula Abduction on October 11, 1973 when two fishermen, Charles Hicks and the younger Calvin Parker, fishing on the western bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi saw two flashing blue lights and an oval object descend upon them. "Conscious but paralyzed" while three "creatures" took them aboard the object, they were subjected to an examination before being releasing by the presumed robots.
While in the yellow haze Don felt a sense of peacefulness but immediately afterwards the feeling was panic. Don still worries that they will return for him. Why? Well maybe it is the suppressed memories that have begun resurfacing at odd intervals. Don can’t account for 20 minutes. Enraptured in the haze he felt calmness but nothing else. What went on for twenty minutes? While in the yellow haze he suddenly remembers a small entity” marshaling” him somewhere.
He subsequently begins to have flashbacks of huge tunnels with artificial light with entities pushing carts going by. He also remembers entities in groups like military formations passing each other in units on this large tunnel-like highway. Like Travis Walton related in his experience, the interior of the “ship” seemed far larger than the exterior in his flashbacks.
Next there came the beautiful woman with blond hair, blue eyes and a supple fertile pear shaped body. Was Don a contactee like the late George Adamski dubiously was? Was he about to be told enduring words of wisdom such as ” Cease your warlike ways. Your atomic bombs will only destroy your planet!” No. It turned dark for Don fast. There was no peace, love and understanding coming his way! The beautiful blonde ripped away her face revealing an insectoid countenance black and ant-like. This was no Grey. This was no human hybrid. This was an insectoid. More abduction scenario!
Then he was on a metal table. Sound familiar? The ant-like entity drew close. Its eye seemed to enlarge greatly distorting the face. It went eye to eye with Don. Was this the bonding technique Dr. David Jacobs talks about in his book “Secret Life?” Or was it the great eyeball machine Budd Hopkins describes in his book “Missing Time?” Suddenly, in a reversal of his doctor’s office visit several years prior, manifestations of light seemed to exit from Don’s left eye into the insectoid’s eye. Ever since, Don has had a piercing ache behind his left eye.
Something was happening to Don and it wasn’t very pleasant but it was all very familiar to anyone who has ever studied abduction phenomenon.
Being that I was in the U.S.A. as a member of the Star Team International Case Assistance Group helping with MUFON’s burgeoning backlog of cases due to our increasing popularity abroad, I needed to ask Don to do a little experiment for me. One of the telltale signs of abduction is the possible implantation of a device or object into the experiencer. A charmingly simple method for determining if an implant is in a body is to purchase a stud finder from a local hardware store which is an electro-magnet capable of finding metal nails in a wall. Used as an implant finding device, it is waved over the entire body looking for metal under the skin. Don purchased a Stanley Brand S100 stud finder for approximately fifteen dollars. Not only could it detect metal under the skin it also had an A/C function that could detect live electrical alternating current passing within three quarters of an inch from the surface of an object which in this case would be Don’s skin. There was no metal found in Don’s body scan. However, on the left side of Don’s neck and behind his left eye, the A/C detector tone went off as if some sort of electrical current was present in those areas. Don subsequently went for an MRI scan of his left eye for the pain he was experiencing but the test results were negative.
Don had a flashback where he was in a blue dome. It was a shimmering undulating material and it seemed like golden confetti fell from the ceiling where a large orange ball illuminated everything. This was his most pronounced and repetitive vision to date.
Don decided a solo sabbatical without his life partner to Greece was in order. He was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He checked into a vacation resort consisting of modest yellow bungalows called Aberdeen Studios on the Island of Thassos in Greece. He received no reprieve.
In the middle of the night he recalled everything going completely dark. He felt paralyzed yet totally awake. A hand was roughly trying to drag him from his bed. The entity was a small bald silhouette and had a big thick neck when Don drew the courage to look. Either he or the entity said “Let Go!!”Don did not let go and he lapsed back into sleep.
Don had another episode that predated his July 22nd affair. On June 8th, 2015 at a friend’s house at approximately 10 pm, he states “I was very tired and fell asleep on a settee and feeling a severe burning pain on my left foot I woke up. It stopped. Later, I woke up again with the pain. I looked to my foot and there was a green and yellow glass-like rod approximately one foot long which looked and felt like a welding rod lying on my foot burning my skin. There was no mark. There was no smell of burning flesh but there was a buzzing noise. My socks were also hanging off my toes as if removed. The atmosphere in room was strange, silent. The television was on but had no sound. Three friends were there but they did not move. Then I blacked out. Nothing was said in the morning and I left it at that.”
I decided to investigate Gosport itself to see if he was fishing where he should not have been. I was taken back by the results. Gosport is a sleepy town with a series of chapels and a nice seaside. But it is also home to the Portsmouth HM Naval Base just a half mile away from Don Martin’s fishing spot. It is the home of two-thirds of the British Navy and soon to be home of Britain’s two new aircraft carriers. It also has a submarine base.
Even closer to Don’s Stokes Bay seawall fishing spot is Fort Moncton. It is a two hundred year old edifice protecting the bay. Its only entrance today is still via its drawbridge and its English Channel facing side has an enormous and unscalable sea wall. I did a search for Fort Moncton on the internet. The reader should do the same. According to Wikipedia, the only legitimate website mentioning Fort Moncton, it seems its only purpose apart from its function as logistical support for the Special Air Service (SAS), the special forces arm of the British Military, is purportedly as the main training facility for MI6 (British Intelligence Service) teaching “field craft.” Additionally, it is the almost universal absence of anything on the internet for this 200 year old fort that is most disconcerting. That’s not all.
Gosport is also home to the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) “just up the road” from Don’s house as he put it. It is the U.K. equivalent of the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The DSTL’S mission, by its own admission, is “to maximize the impact of science and technology for the defense and security of the U.K.” Its means are the utilization of experiments in chemical, radiological and nerve agents. One of its specific areas of research is Air and Weapons Systems. It seems Gosport and its surrounding areas are perhaps the most secretive and sensitive top secret locations in all of Great Britain! And our fisherman went fishing there!
From 1972 to 1985 Don was in the military. He spent considerable time in the 47th Air Dispatch Squadron. He flew on many missions in support of the SAS on C-13O transport planes. When asked if he ever flew any secret missions, he stated when he was handed a gun and a knapsack on several missions it was inferred something was going on.
In August 1982, Don was stationed in Cyprus when he caught the tail end of a UFO sighting over the communications base responsible for intercepting all communications from the Middle East. Don was stationed at Bloodhound Camp on the outskirts of Akrotiri Sovereign Base which housed the Royal Air Force. It is Britain’s largest overseas base. It was 3:30 am. Don was roused from sleep by a commotion. He ran outside. Sirens were going off. Akrotiri had three listening stations housed in white golf ball shaped facilities called radomes. People were taking flash photography of something over the golf balls. Don saw a silvery blue elongated donut shaped vehicle hovering over the golf balls. It had windows and was engulfed in a sort of misty atmosphere and it glowed. It was also absolutely silent. Don and several comrades estimated that its size was slightly longer than a 747 Jumbo Jet.
For many years the Akrotiri base was the site of a powerful shortwave transmitter called the Lincolnshire Poacher, which was used by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) to transmit instructions to undercover British agents. Additionally, antennas at Akrotiri tracked surveillance satellites as well as U-2s on secret Middle East Intelligence gathering flights.
According to Wikipedia” "The Lincolnshire Poacher" was a powerful shortwave numbers station that transmitted from Cyprus from the mid-1970s to June 2008. The station gained its commonly known name as it uses bars from the English folk song "The Lincolnshire Poacher" as an interval signal. The radio station was believed to be operated by the British Secret Intelligence Service and emanated from the island of Cyprus.[1] Amateur direction finding linked it with the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri, Cyprus, where several curtain antennas had been identified as being its transmitter. It consisted of an electronically synthesized English-accented female voice reading groups of five numbers: e.g. '0-2-5-8-8'. The final number in each group was spoken at a higher pitch. It is likely that the station was used to communicate to undercover agents (spies) operating in other countries, to be decoded using a one-time pad.”
There is a corroborating story in Richard Dolan’s book entitled “The Cover-Up Exposed 1973-1991.” In this version of the account as forwarded to Mr. Dolan by Nick Redfern, on August 16, 1981 (a thirteen months difference with Don Martin’s estimation) an order was given by the British Ministry of Defense for all aircraft operating out of Akrotiri to stand down. Shortly afterwards a “vast” object was tracked at 30,000 feet traveling at 900 mph. The object came to a halt over the base for 45 minutes. Witnesses described it as a white triangle over 700 feet long. As Don Martin recounted, many photos were taken. On the following day a man and a woman arrived at the base and confiscated all photographs. Don’s story seems to hold up well against Richard Dolan’s!
Therefore a highly classified MI6 operation was underway in Cyprus where the UFO hovered. Given Don’s role in SAS support operations in his 13 years with the military and his proximity to the SAS support facility Fort Moncton later as well as his living down the road from DSTL Laboratories, one must question if Don was an innocent bystander in a highly complex spy world. Don’s experience in Cyprus may well be of an ultimately important UFO sighting currently under wraps by governments involved in the sighting. The British Government has no equivalent of the American Freedom of Information Act so we may never know what went on at Akrotiri.
Around the time of the Akrotiri incident, Don was found in a sleepwalking state in his underwear on the base. Several years earlier, back in England again in the employ of the 47th, Don woke up in a Chippenham military base’s garden without any clothes on. He doesn’t remember how he got there. Was Don simply a victim of somnambulist’s nightmares or was he being returned from abductions?
So we have Don, a witness to a UFO sighting on a British Military base in August 1982, a victim of a July 22nd, 2015 sighting with physical effects in a highly secretive British town and a victim as well in several ancillary experiences such as Thassos, Greece, reaching out to MUFON for help. What else could be construed as being irregular in this twisted tale? The sad answer came soon enough! On January 28th, 2016 (exactly six months and six days after his July 22nd sighting), I heard from Don for the first time since his Greece vacation. The email went as follows:
“Hi Bob, I`m sorry for the delay in contacting you. Unfortunately it has just been confirmed I have been diagnosed with terminal Esophageal and Liver Cancer. I believe this is a direct effect of the event of 22 July 2015. I am interested to know I if you are still willing to write up this event in the Mufon Journal, using my name. My prognosis is two to three months life span. I will leave it at that for now until I receive your reply. Sincerely Don.”
There had to be more to this story. Only 7 months after being enveloped in a yellow haze of a UFO, Don Martin was dying. Was Don imagining everything or was something happening to him?
What could I do as an investigator? I couldn’t walk up to Fort Moncton’s Drawbridge and ring the bell asking if anyone was sending killer drones on unsuspecting British citizens, could I? I could only detail what happened. There was no physical evidence but the circumstantial evidence, the amazing coincidences concerning the SAS and MI6, and the amazing onset of terminal cancer so soon after his horrific July 22nd 2015 affair suggest a pattern. And so “What if?”
What if his whole story is true or even just part of it?! Then we must confront the legitimate possibility that Don Martin, the Gosport Fisherman, was murdered by someone or something unknown! Don Martin died on March 5, 2016 exactly 7 months and 14 days after his encounter.
Is it a Meteor or a UFO?
By Bob Spearing, Publisher www.worldufowatch.com
May 4, 2016
The American Meteor Society has observers all over the United States and Canada reporting in when they see a purported meteor in the sky.
If you have a UFO seen at 10:02 PM over New Jersey you can go to the AMS website fireball log at http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_report and see if someone reported a corresponding meteor seen in the sky at that time over NJ.
The other advantage to the American Meteor Society fireball log is that it gives you a trajectory map with times of sightings at various points.
This is what the log looks like for June 20th to June 22, 2014 for New Jersey. You can see that a fireball was reported over Tewksbury at 10:02 (22:02) PM.
This however does not prove that the object was a meteor. Meteors usually enter the atmosphere between 25,000 and 160,000 miles per hour which is what creates its tail.
First, expand your search of the North American eastern seaboard south of New Jersey for the timeframe 10:02 PM to 10:03 PM. Try Delaware and Maryland!
Let’s say you get a hit from Dover, Delaware at 10:05 PM. That means the object traveled from Tewksbury, NJ to Dover, Delaware in three minutes. That’s 109.5 miles.
Let’s calculate. There are 3600 seconds in an hour. The object traveled 109.5 miles in 180 seconds.
Multiply 109.5 by 3600 seconds to get miles per second and then divide by 3 minutes ( 180 seconds) to get miles per hour. The answer is 2,190 mph. This is definitely not a meteor.
Let’s try another one. The Tewksbury object at 10:02 PM reaches Dover Delaware at 10:10 PM. It took 8 minutes to go 109.5 miles. So 109.5 miles multiplied by 3600 seconds divided by eight minutes (480 seconds) equals 821.25 mph. Most definitely not a meteor!
The other advantage to the American Meteor Society fireball log is that it gives you a trajectory map with times of sightings at various points.
Looking at the map above you can see that the Tewksbury sighting at 22:02 PM and the Somerset NJ sighting at 22:00 PM are probably related but the Dansville and Montrose, Pennsylvania sightings are not related.
Since the distance between Tewksbury and Somerset New Jersey is 20.1 miles and the object took 120 seconds to go from point A to point B we can again calculate that it traveled at 603 MPH.
We have a serious UFO situation here! Thus the importance of using the AMS website in your reporting can not be underestimated! Just because the news tells you it is a meteor, doesn’t mean it is one!
The Mysterious Lights Of Ergyn, Wales
From Wikipedia
February 29, 2016
The Egryn Lights, or the Harlech Lights Flap, was a wave of unexplained light phenomena that occured in Gwynedd, North Wales, in around 1905. One day a huge arc, like a kind of aurora, was seen spanning from the mountains into the sea. After that, the lights came. At the time there was a religious revivial which had been started by a Mary Jones, who preached at a small chapel in Egryn between Barmouth and Harlech. The lights soon came to be associated with the revival.
Journalists from London and other cities flocked skeptically to the area, but were soon shocked by the lights and wrote back a series of very intriguing articles. Kevin McClure summarised these events in a well known book of the 1980s called Stars and Rumours of Stars.
The area has a history of strange lights. As Fiery Exhalations in Wales notes, the 1905 flap wasn't the only one in the area: there was another in 1693 and 1694. At this time it was called the Harlech Meteor, meteor being the general name for any unexplained light, which at the time included what we now call meteors.
“Winter of 1694. — A pestilential vapour resembling a weak blue flame arose during a fortnight or three weeks out of a sandy, marshy tract called Morfa Byden, and crossed over a channel of 8 miles to Harlech. It set fire on that side to 16 ricks of hay and 2 barns, one filled with hay, the other with corn. It infected the grass in such a manner that cattle, etc., died, yet men eat of it with impunity. It was easily dispelled: any great noise, sounding of horns, discharging of guns, at once repelled it. Moved only by night, and appeared at times, but less frequently; after this it disappeared.”
Orange Orb Appearances and Behaviors
By Robert Spearing, MUFON Field Investigator, NJ and publisher
June 10, 2015
I had the very good fortune of investigating MUFON Case 59379 which occurred at 8:30 p.m. on August 14, 2014 in Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey where the witness had a close encounter with an Orange Orb.
She observed it coming over her neighbor’s roof into her backyard gliding along several feet off the ground at a walking pace. It was silent and odorless as it came within ten feet of her. She screamed and it backed away and accelerated up into and through a tree overhanging her home.
We can assume two things at this point. First, it possessed some form of awareness causing it to retreat and, secondly, it avoided inanimate objects like houses but had no qualms about passing unhindered through a living tree.
More interesting was the description of the orb itself. It was an orange churning ball of gas surrounded by an almost invisible membrane that was shaped like a bell or a jellyfish. The membrane was eight feet tall by five feet wide. The interior glow occupied about two thirds of the bell.
What was the membrane? A cloak for a machine? A force field? A biological skin? If the membrane was a cloaking device it was poorly designed as the glow of an Orange Orb is clearly visible from far up in the night sky. It must serve another purpose. Also the shape of the bell was clearly not aerodynamically efficient either unless the orb turned somewhat diagonally or horizontally when it accelerated.
What was the orange ball of gas? The combustion from an invisible furnace? Was it the life form itself? If so, what was the mechanism for its flight through air?
On August 24, 2014 in Oauchita, Louisiana, the two witnesses in MUFON Case 59219 described an “orange see-through bell shaped object.” The report says the time is 9:30 a.m. but it is most likely p.m. In their report they marked off that it was between eleven and thirty feet tall. It also was silent. Though the report is short on details, the witnesses drew a color rendition of the object. When shown to the witness in the Washington Township case she exclaimed “That’s it!” It is more likely that the object was closer to eleven feet in height than thirty based on accumulated sightings.
In MUFON case 59187 from August 23, 2014 at 10:55 p.m. in Southampton, Long Island, NY, the witness states he “saw an orange glowing bell shaped silent craft moving slowly from E to W low in the sky across Southampton, NY.” Witness marked off that object was 31 to 100 feet tall and 501 feet to a mile away. Again, the object may have been much smaller.
On January 1, 2015 at 12:00 a.m. in MUFON Case 62327 out of Paulsboro, Gloucester County, NJ, the witness observed a pink orb surrounded by an almost invisible membrane. I investigated this case also. The witness was about 80 yards away. He also drew a diagram of what he described as an old fashioned milk bottle surrounding a glowing pink ball. It is similar to our bell shaped orb but the curves have been squared off more. He checked off that the object was between four and ten feet tall. He related to me that it was the size of a small car and that it was silent. Going around a microwave tower, it negotiated a ninety degree turn. It was shortly followed by a second orb which conducted the same maneuver at the tower. Had the objects maintained course they would have crossed the Delaware River and flown straight into Philadelphia International Airport. Coincidence or a calculated move?
MUFON Case 48901 occurred on March 19, 2013 in Whitley, Indiana at 1:30 a.m. Again, the witness was within 100 feet of the “red-orange bell shaped object.” He checked off that the object was between 31 and 100 feet tall. It later changed color to a deep golden yellow.
Case 57610 from July 4, 2014 at 10 p.m. from Savannah, Georgia is particularly important because it discusses a red-orange bell shaped object hovering near a recently completed fireworks display. Fireworks are extremely important to orbs as we shall see.
We also have the ongoing sightings of Michael Lee Hill who has photographed and videotaped Orange Orb activity over Lake Erie for decades. Mr. Hill is a fringe character in the UFOlogy community who has somewhat been discounted by his unsubstantiated bizarre claims of contact. However, his video collection is extensive and cannot be discounted. His remarkable description of an Orange Orb close-up has all the similarities of our current reports. While walking along the Great Lake’s beach he encountered a pulsating top hat shaped object very similar to our bell, jellyfish and milk bottle-shaped sheathed orbs.
The earliest case on record of a sighting of orbs with a possible hat shaped membrane took place on August 17, 1962 in Duas Pontes, Minas Gerais state, Brazil . It comes from the late Jim and Corel Lorenzen’s now defunct Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) files. Two strange looking men about three feet tall were seen digging by diamond miners in the area. When discovered, the little men retreated to a red glowing hat shaped object which took off at a high speed. For reasons I will explain later, it can be assumed that the hat tilted in its trajectory upward.
In journalist Frank Edwards’ last book “Flying Saucers Here and Now” written in 1967 shortly before his untimely and somewhat mysterious demise, he recounts a February 16, 1967 account on page 179 where Mrs. Esther Millard of Bandon, Oregon related a close encounter with an Orange Orb where she quite plainly saw the outline of a rectangle around the orb at 10:20 pm. A rectangular membrane?
There is one more case that needs mentioning before we begin dissecting things. It is not a MUFON Case. It was found on a Scottish UFO website called uforth.com.
On February 2, 2009 in Cinderford, England just a few miles from the Welsh border at 1:45 a.m., the witness was awoken by an extremely bright orange light coming through his window. Though almost blinded, he observed “a small bell shaped UFO “ about 60 feet away in his garden. It was the size of “a Volkswagon Beetle” car and it was hovering about 10 feet off the ground where it was engaged in sucking up water from his stream. The column of water was about three feet wide going up into the bottom of the orange bell. When it finished it began to move away in a clumsy robotic zig-zag fashion. The witness concluded by saying “It then rose sharply and shot off to the west at amazing speed. As it rose in the air, it tilted dipping the nearest side to me downwards slightly, it did not appear to rotate and there was no noise whatsoever at any time.” For three days afterwards no birds would approach the area. He also experienced blurry red-tinted vision for a time. Again we see the tilting maneuver.
Several behaviors are important in this last case. The object took on water. Why? For cooling if it was a machine? For sustenance if it were a biological entity? Where did it store the water? If the membrane filled with water, wouldn’t that extinguish the molten orange core? Obviously not. Taking on hundreds of pounds of water, how could the object achieve lift so easily? There may be a reason for this I will get to later.
I reason it was extracting something from the water and later defecated the used water and any other objects it acquired with it in its sucking maneuver.
The object also tilted before gaining speed. So the smaller top to the bell shaped object did seem to act aerodynamically after all!
So then, what do we know about Orange Orbs at this juncture? Historically, they have been observed for centuries. In World War II, they followed our pilots over Germany and the Pacific when they were known as Foo Fighters. They engaged playfully, almost ignorantly, with our aircraft. They flew from wing to wing as if delighted to be engaging the planes. It should be noted that prior to WWII, the vast oceans were unexplored and seldom traveled. Did these objects engage our aircraft in innocence as benign objects entering into their airspace?
Ship logs and newspaper accounts from the last 200 years detail them rising out of or plunging into the oceans of the world without effort. They can appear to be star-like or bigger than a basketball to an observer. In groups, they form aerial patterns like triangles and rectangles. They fly solo as well as in fleets (or flocks) of up to 30 or more. They are nocturnal. They range in colors from yellow to orange to pink to red. They have been observed outpacing our military jets at over 900 miles per hour without producing sonic booms. They hover for hours, blink out suddenly and can execute right angle turns or completely reverse course at incredible speeds which would kill a human pilot attempting such a maneuver. Now, thanks to MUFON’s Case Reporting System, we know they can be the size of a small car with a transparent shell around them. They can take on water, and pass through living objects. They are aerodynamically built (or evolved) and they appear to be somewhat sentient in that they negotiate turns and exhibit the “fight or flight” tendencies of higher order beings. They operate in hot or cold weather and in every month of the year except for March when they are conspicuously absent. Dare I say they may be mating in March? They have an affinity with water. Salinity is not a factor.
Are they machines, biological or a combination of both? They are not, as you will see, Chinese Lanterns, ball lightning or flares attached to helium balloons by hoaxers (in most cases anyway).
Last year, Pennsylvania MUFON Field Investigator Terry Ray wrote a ground-breaking book on orbs with the long title “The Complete Story of The Worldwide Invasion of The Orange Orbs.” It was a fascinating read. One of his contentions is that these objects have an affinity for water and may have bases in the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. My research leads me to conclude Terry is right.
Recently, I decided to do a small study of New Jersey Orange Orb sightings from January 2009 through the first week of January 2015. What I found was amazing! In all, there were 110 sightings in that period. In all, there were 685 reports in NJ for that period. 16 % were orbs. If you subtract the “insufficient data” and known IFO Cases the percentage is even higher. This is a substantial number.
My parameters were to search the MUFON Case Management System for circles, ovals, discs, eggs, fireballs, spheres and star-like objects. There is no searchable “orb” category in the CMS. Colors I searched under were pink, yellow, red, orange-red and yellow-orange. I read each description to determine that the incident was not any other type of object. I included several “insufficient data” cases as well as an IFO case because I felt the details fit.
To start off, they prefer certain parts of the state and are totally absent from others. The pattern of where the sightings occurred was exactly the same for each of the six years studied. They knew exactly where they were going!
There were three main clusters. One cluster was along the Atlantic Ocean coastline from Staten Island to Cape May like a string of pearls. A second cluster was in the northeastern part of the state and the last and most dense cluster was on the Gloucester/Camden County Line along the Delaware River opposite Philadelphia International Airport. At first, I thought the airport was under their surveillance but their purpose in that part of the state turned out to be for a more peculiar purpose.
Additionally, the largest number of sightings took place in September and July. March saw only one case in six years. Where are they in March! By far, the orbs were busiest on New Year’s Eve and July 4th. There is a good reason for this.
So what are they doing? I scoured my maps for potential targets and found none. They didn’t seem interested in populated places, airports or military bases. What then? Well, I discovered it by accident. While looking at the densest cluster along the Delaware River across from Philadelphia I noticed they seemed to be found hovering over little inland tributaries of the Delaware River. Three in particular – Cooper’s Creek, Mantua Creek and Rancocas Creek - seemed to be favorites of Orange Orbs. Why?
I scoured the internet for clues and came upon several New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection documents that led me to believe the common denominator was high phosphorus levels from farm fertilizer runoff into these creeks. Orbs seemingly are attracted to phosphorus! This would explain the Gloucester/Camden County cluster well enough but would the theory hold up for the other clusters?
It turns out that the highest levels of phosphorus in the Atlantic Ocean are on the Continental Shelf running the length of North and South America. This is an area that, of course, includes the area from Staten Island to Cape May, NJ. We shall return to this point later.
The third major cluster was more geologically diffuse from the central eastern to the north eastern part of the state. The area included the Passaic, Pompton ,Rahway and the Raritan Rivers as well as Budd Lake. Again, phosphorus seemed to be the deciding factor as each of those rivers were high in phosphorus pollution.
But there was another clue to suggest phosphorus was a culprit. My boss, Ken Pfeifer, the Chief Investigator for MUFON in New Jersey, has always been fond of telling me that UFOs are attracted to fireworks. He stumbled upon a great clue! Of the 110 reports of orb sightings over a six year period, 11 sightings took place just before, during or just after fireworks displays. Of six cases on New Year’s Eve, four occurred in conjunction with fireworks. Of the nine cases occurring on July 4th, six occurred in conjunction with fireworks. It seems orbs can see, smell or otherwise sense the presence of phosphorus in the atmosphere. Were they looking for a free meal perhaps or were they looking to mate with what they perceived as other orbs?
If anyone, at this point, is in denial as to the connection of orbs and fireworks they should view the very concise video submitted to MUFON for Case 48659 from Nebraska from 2013 where we clearly see three orbs making a hurried path for a fireworks display. To suggest that Chinese Lanterns have suddenly turned sentient and developed a fondness for fireworks is to deny logic. By the way, anyone can access these reports and associated videos. You don’t have to be a MUFON member!
I expanded my search outside of New Jersey to other Orange Orb hotspots. Lake Erie and Lake Ontario have historically been the center of many orb sightings. Author and MUFON Field Investigator Terry Ray suggests Lake Erie is a prime location for an orb base. This echoes cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson’s exact same contention in his book “Invisible Residents” published in 1970. There is even an Ontario UFO website called orbwatch.com dedicated to these sightings over Lake Ontario.
Mr. Sanderson, who mused on the possibility that UFOs and their occupants may not be extraterrestrial but rather a terrestrial offshoot of our own evolution, theorized that an intelligent marine civilization would prefer the harder ground of the Continental Shelf to build into as opposed to the deep ocean’s mud. Indeed, interesting coastal formations beneath the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Malibu, California could validate this theory one day. I theorize that the high concentration of phosphorus would also make the Shelf an attractive place to live.
As expected, Lake Erie was found to be traditionally high in phosphorus and is slowly being remediated. Lake Ontario remains so high in phosphorus that the United States and Canada have launched a joint effort to mitigate the problem.
This brings us to the crux of the matter - the connection between orbs and phosphorus.
Remember the English orb taking on water? Why didn’t it extinguish the orange fire within the membrane? We can theorize that the orange orb itself was made out of phosphorus. The fierce glow of the orb in Cinderford was probably do to its sucking up phosphorus-laced water thereby replenishing its energy. The nearby River Severn, it turns out, is high in phosphorus. In his 1882 book “The Coal and Iron Industries of the United Kingdom”, the author Richard Meade details how Cinderford was a production center for hematite which frequently had to be separated from phosphorus. .
Additionally, just south of Cinderford on the Severn is Portishead. In 1951, a large chemical plant was built on the Severn River bank for the production of red and yellow phosphorus. When the plant closed the area had to be decontaminated.
Another interesting thing about phosphorus is that it is water insoluble. Water can’t extinguish it! That is how the orb light became stronger rather than being extinguished at Cinderford.
Also, phosphorus in a certain form (yellow) will ignite spontaneously in an oxygen rich atmosphere such as our Earth which would explain our fireballs in the sky precisely.
I may suggest that when an orb blinks off (usually while hovering over a location) it may be in the process of making a clandestine run at the surface water of these contaminated creeks. It shuts its light off to avoid detection.
Another interesting thing about phosphorus is where it sits in the Periodic Table of Elements. It falls under the category of “Other Non-Metals” along with Carbon, Oxygen and Nitrogen which are the basic components for all life on earth. It also abuts Silicon which has been considered as a possible building block of extraterrestrial life. Phosphorus is also a necessary component in all RNA and DNA here on earth. Could it be possible that Orange Orbs are a life form?
There is a strange ancient mention of fiery orbs in the sky over Egypt about three thousand four hundred years ago. The mention is in a now lost document known as the Tulli Papyrus. In it, Pharaoh Thutmose III’s scribes may have detailed the earliest ever orb sightings. The sky was full of them and more arrived each day. Had they arrived from somewhere outside our atmosphere-perhaps from interstellar space? Had they found a suitable planet to colonize or to co-habitate on that possessed all the qualities necessary for their life requirements such as phosphorus and oxygen?
The scribes wrote: “In the year 22 of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day ... the scribes of the House of Life found it was a circle of fire that was coming in the sky.... It had no head, the breath of its mouth had a foul odor. Its body one rod long and one rod wide. It had no voice. Their hearts became confused through it; then they laid themselves on their bellies.... They went to the Pharaoh ... to report it. ... after some days had passed, these things became more numerous in the skies than ever. They shone more in the sky than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of four supports of the heavens.... Powerful was the position of the fire circles. The army of the King looked on, with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening meal when the Disks ascended even higher in the sky to the south. Fish and other volatiles rained down from the sky: a marvel never before known since the foundation of the country. And His Majesty caused incense to be brought to appease the heart of Amun-Re, the god of the Two Lands. And it was [ordered] that the event [be recorded for] His Majesty in the Annals of the House of Life [to be remembered] forever."”
The last part of the inscription may give us our best clue. If the inscription is a forgery it is a bizarre addition by the authors. It mentions that there was a “fish fall” as well as other “volatiles” falling from the sky. This may answer an ancient mystery of similar rains of fish and frogs and stones over the centuries such as those investigated by the late Charles Fort. If orbs take on water sucking it up in streams up to 3 feet wide like in Cinderford they are bound to catch up other things besides water using such force. If the Egyptians saw a fleet of orbs it can be assumed a lot of water and fish went up with the orbs who later expelled the depleted water and debris after the phosphorus had been extracted. It should be noted that the Mediterranean Sea is phosphorus rich as well as being the scene of an exquisite sighting of Orange Orbs over Lebanon in the 1950s as per noted UFOlogist Aime Michel.
The term “volatiles” is also intriguing. Besides meaning turbulent or unstable, it can also mean “quickly evaporating” and even” flying.”
There is a “quickly evaporating” phenomenon called “star-jelly” or “devil’s jelly” that has occurred over many centuries. It is similar in nature to Angel’s Hair – the mysterious fibers that fall to the ground and disappear shortly after a UFO sighting. Star-jelly is a gelatinous substance found in grass or hanging from trees. Some conventionally disciplined scientists attribute it to frog spawning or amphibian vomit, however, the sheer volume of it raises doubts about these theories. Ancient folklore claimed it usually fell from the sky after meteor (orb?) sightings. According to Wikipedia there are two cases that require our attention:
``` `On November 11, 1846, a luminous object estimated at 4 feetin diameter fell at Lowville, New York leaving behind a heapoffoul-smelling luminous jelly that disappeared quickly,according to Scientific American Magazine.
That was one big frog vomiting! A luminous object 4 feet in diameter! Was it an orb? A domed disk of quivering jelly 6 feet in diameter? Was it an orb’s membrane? This raises two curious questions. First, do orbs die and second, can they shed their skin if they are biological?
There is a plausible explanation for Star-jelly in that it is a substance known as Nostoc. According to Wikipedia, “Nostoc is a genus of cyanobacteria found in a variety of environmental niches that forms colonies composed of filiments of moniliform cells in a gelatinous sheath.”
What is interesting about Nostoc is that it thrives in phosphorus rich waters. Could the membrane around an orb be comprised of a living terrestrial colony of bacteria? Could some form of symbiosis be taking place between an extraterrestrial and terrestrial life form? And again, could orbs, as Ivan Sanderson theorized, be an unknown intelligent marine life form that originated in the deep oceans of Earth millions of years ahead of our land dwelling ancestors who crawled out of the oceans?
On December 25-26, 2014 I investigated two cases that occurred one hour and 11 minutes apart on a stretch of Interstate I-195 in the town of Jackson, New Jersey near New Prospect Road.
Case 62159 occurred at 12:26 am on December 26th. It was a simple aspirin sized Orange Orb sighting. The American Meteor Society had nothing in their logs for the time in question but it was what happened an hour before that made me realize this was certainly an orb.
The earlier case (# 62355) was remarkable. The witness was driving west down a lonely stretch of Interstate I-195. The car behind him was the only other vehicle in view. Suddenly to his left in the eastbound lane on the other side of the highway divider he saw an object hurtling down the road approximately 10 feet off the ground and flying in an oscillating wave-like motion up and down. It suddenly crossed the divider in a left hand turn and crossed directly in front of his windshield and then made a right turn around the passenger side of his car. He heard a sound like static or aluminum foil crumpling and thought the object struck his car. He theorized that the object had little fingers or protuberances extending from it. He later found no evidence that his car had been struck. The object continued into the path of the car behind him driving that car into the divider in an attempt to avoid it. The witness lost sight of it at this point.
Interestingly, on December 20, 1983, a driver found himself in a bizarrely similar situation when, according to a MUFON Journal dated December ’83, a seven inch sphere with pegs protruding from it buzzed his car in Riverside, California.
In Case 62355 from 2014, the description of the object was very interesting. First, he made the observation that he felt it was in distress. He described it as a dull grey non-metallic ball about 4 feet in diameter. It was spinning profusely in a noon to 6 o’clock rotation many times a second.
Just over an hour later, the Orange Orb sighting in Case 62159 occurred on the same stretch of highway at exactly the same place. Was it the same object no longer in distress or was a search and rescue mission underway? It clearly was not a coincidence. If the object was an extinguished orb where was its membrane? Did it shed it or lose it like Star-jelly? We have already considered that orbs may extinguish themselves in clandestine operations close to the surface of a body of water but had this supposed orb lost its flame for some other reason? It clearly seemed distressed to the witness.
And then there is the furious spinning of the grey ball to consider. All through modern UFOlogy, especially in reports from the 1940s and 1950s, spheres and discs spun rapidly in numerous reports. Many theories have been developed since. Since a glowing orb in a translucent membrane shows no ability to propel itself, could this spinning be a clue to an orb’s propulsion system? Oddly enough, I can find no other rotation in the UFO annals of a noon to 6 o’clock spin!
The late great NASA aerodynamicist and UFO propulsion theorist Paul R. Hill had some fascinating insights which relate to our problem of whether our bell shaped orbs are biological or mechanical. To anyone unfamiliar with Mr. Hill, a review of his biography or a reading of his seminal book “ Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis” will convince even the hardest skeptic that something is amiss in our skies.
First, he was of the belief that UFOs operated in a sort of gravitational repulsive force field which acted as its propulsion system. There would be no repelling propellant like our jets and rockets which is why orbs are silent. Within this field speeds beyond the sound barrier could be achieved without creating sonic booms. Our orbs never create sonic booms when traveling in excess of the barrier because they are locked into a field that disperses our atmosphere around them without friction.
He also proposed that when using a force field, UFOs would maneuver in a tilt forward or tilt backward fashion to gain altitude and acceleration just like our bell shaped membranes do. When viewed head-on, the person witnessing the force field would see the faint outline of a cloaked metallic craft as our witnesses report when seeing the bell shaped outline around the orb.
The resulting glow from the ionization of air around the craft would result in a yellowish orange neon glow. A quickly spinning orb could achieve this ionization like our orb shows.
A force field also prevents heat build-up around a UFO as it travels at supersonic speeds. It also allows the object to negotiate hair-raising ninety and 180 degree turns without killing any occupants from incredible G forces. Just like our orbs!
So our study of Orange Orbs has brought us to a dilemma. They appear to have many biological properties and yet they behave as if they have technological propulsion systems.
As mentioned earlier, there is the possibility they could be a combination of machine and entity or even two biological entities (one possibly extraterrestrial) surrounded by a terrestrially evolved membrane in a symbiotic relationship.
So where do we go from here? What has been presented is a combination of empirical data and speculation biased by my own opinions. What is needed now is empirical results from testing.
One of the simplest ideas to test these hypotheses is to go to areas identified in my New Jersey sightings maps and anticipate sightings. Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before! Heavy areas of concentration for these sightings are dates like the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve in places like Paulsboro and Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The likelihood of sightings using these parameters are high. Utilizing these dates and places and using advanced scientific tools like spectrographs and infrared and ultraviolet filtered cameras, we can begin to decipher the composition of these objects.
Emphasis on tools like Tri-field meters searching out electromagnetic fields and microwave radiation are critical since a byproduct of the force field theory is that these objects generate microwaves. Likewise, using radiation detection tools such as an Inspector Alert Geiger Counter are invaluable in establishing the consequences of a close encounter with an Orange Orb.
Regardless of whether or not these objects are terrestrial or otherwise, benign or hostile, organic or mechanical, it is incumbent upon the UFOlogist to determine the difference sooner rather than later.
St. Paul of Tarsus, Abductee?
By Robert Spearing, publisher of www.worldufowatch.com
April 26, 2015
In Star Trek V: The Undiscovered Country, the U.S.S. Enterprise has been commandeered by a religious zealot who has been purportedly asked by GOD to bring Him a Starship. Captain Kirk incredulously asks Spock the plot’s pivotal question “Why would GOD need a Starship?”
Likewise, I ask “Why would GOD need PAUL?”
If you accept the New Testament premise that Jesus is the Son of God and perfect, then he chose his twelve Apostles wisely. Twelve is an ancient mystical number corresponding to the Zodiac and this was not lost on Jesus. Judas served a purpose and was replaced by the drawing of lots where Mathias was chosen to restore order as the new 12th Apostle. Why would GOD need Paul?
I must admit that I am not the first person to suggest that Paul of Tarsus was an alien abductee but the available literature and theories are thin to say the least and no one has (to my knowledge) done an in- depth assessment of Paul’s case based on established criteria for commonalities among victims of the abduction phenomenon.
David Halperin, a retired University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill religious studies professor, author and UFO Investigator, mentions in one of his blogs that Paul’s alluded to “thorn in his side” from 2nd Corinthians could be an alien implant. I agree but David doesn’t take the point far enough.
There are over 70 symptoms which an abductee may experience. In reviewing Paul’s case it is evident he has many of them. Let’s look at Paul’s story.
Several years after the death of Christ, Hebrew Paul (known as Saul at the time) is parading around Israel torturing and killing Christians with his band of religious zealots. On the road to Damascus, Syria in the presence of witnesses in broad daylight, he is suddenly enveloped in a bright light and knocked from his horse. He is blinded and hears a voice calling him. The voice identifies itself as Christ and asks Saul to stop his evil ways. Saul reveals that he is taken to third heaven (a Jewish religious construct of the day) and heard things that cannot be told.
What happened to Paul that day was nothing less than an epiphany not only for him but for the burgeoning faith called Christianity. It altered everything. In the 21st century we have institutionalized Paul’s experience in what is called a “Road to Damascus Experience” for those among us who have had a sudden enlightenment of any kind.
But what exactly happened to Paul that day? And what about the aftermath of his experience on the world?
For three days after, he was blind and did not eat. A devout Jew named Ananias in Damascus has a vision where the Lord tells him to meet Paul, lay his hands upon him and heal his blindness where scales of skin then fall from Paul’s eyes. Paul promptly changes his name from Saul to Paul and is baptized. He goes on to write one third of the Bible’s New Testament with some of the most inspired and eloquent theology themed letters concerning God, Jesus and love ever written. But was Paul inspired or was he manipulated?
When Jesus was alive, he chose 12 apostles to carry on his ministry after his death and resurrection. If Jesus was the Son of God you would think his choice of apostles would be divinely inspired for the ages. Yet he comes to Saul of Tarsus from heaven (an afterthought from GOD?) - A strange bald short cranky possibly humpbacked little man - and asks his assistance in spreading the good news! What was wrong with the twelve? Were they inferior in some way? Did God make a mistake? Or is someone or something else at play here interfering with things!!
Paul was a religious fanatic. People who are abducted frequently are fervently religious!
For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
—Galatians 1:13–14, NIV
Abductees have low self-esteem and are usually beset by physical ailments.
Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
—1 Cor. 15:3–8, NIV
There were witnesses so it was a real event, not something internal to Paul and not some epileptic seizure as some PHDs suggest. Additionally, the encounter was violent in that he was thrown from his horse and there was bodily injury. All physical signs of abduction.
The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.
—Acts 9:3–9, NIV
Abductees frequently complain of implants.
And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.
--2nd Corinthians 12:7-9
Paul is directed to a place and a man (Ananias) by a vision simultaneously occurring with Ananias. Was this divine interloping or was it a telepathic communication between two abductees? Ananias has all the earmarks of a fellow abductee. If God is perfect, why did he need Ananias to cure Paul? Why couldn’t He have done it himself? Likewise, why was Paul blinded at all? Did God need to blind him? Ananias had to use his powers (resulting from an abduction?) to cure Paul. Frequently, abductees have healing powers given to them.
Paul is blinded by his experience. Later scales or scabs fell from his eyes. He seems to be a victim of corneal leukoma (whitening of the cornea) and Klieg Conjunctivitis which occurs after exposure to severe ultraviolet radiation. UFOS often are associated with intense ultraviolet radiation. Was Paul’s flash of light the appearance of a UFO discharging ultraviolet radiation in its wake? Abductees frequently describe flashes of white or blue light.
Abductees frequently feel chosen. There is no doubt that Paul feels chosen to carry the message of Christ. He is a totally changed man from murderous religious zealot to peaceful New Ager!
Abductees believe they possess special powers after their experience. Paul believed so firmly in his assignment that when he could not respond in person he touched relics and sent them along to heal people in his absence.
Abductees believe they have been given special knowledge and a mission. Paul fully wrote one-third of the New Testament.
I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. –2nd Corinthians 11:5 NIV
Paul visited 3rd heaven. This is an unusual aspect of the story. In the 300 years before Christ’s birth and possibly beyond it a book was written in parts called the Book of Enoch purportedly written by Noah’s grandson Enoch who was carried body and soul to heaven because he found favor with God. While it is evident from its authorship timeframe it was not written by Enoch, it contains numerous references to extraterrestrial travel and mentions third and seventh heavens.
I was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether I was in my body or out of my body, I don't know--only God knows. --2nd Corinthians 12:2 NIV
Why did Jesus chose only 3rd heaven? A spaceship with its stark appearance but with a window showing earth from its orbit below might count as 3rd heaven in contrast to 7th heaven with its paradise scenario.
Paul’s motives today are looked at as certainly sincere but what if he was manipulated?
Is someone or something interfering with the timeline –someone or something that has the audacity and power to dabble in GOD’s scheme of things?
I could devote another article to the possible abductions of St. Peter and the Prophet Daniel but there are myriad examples of incursions into our religious timelines I can talk about here.
In the year 571 A.D. when the Islamic Prophet Muhammad was born, an Ethiopian army descended on Mecca to avenge the defiling of a church. In retaliation, the Christians were going to destroy the Arab pagan’s place of worship in pre-Islamic Arabia. The Koran in Sura 105 tells a short tale later recounted by other Islamic traditions about the encroaching army being destroyed by birds dropping stones from their claws and beaks.
While the story has all the outward appearances of religious myth, could there be a technological solution to the tale.
In today’s scientific frame of reference which the ancient Arabs were not privy to, could the birds have been fighter jets and the stones they dropped cluster bombs? Think about it. Could stones from birds really defeat an army? Modern jets with cluster bombs could easily defeat and ancient land-locked army.
But for what agenda? If there is a temporal war in progress for centuries between two opposing forces for whatever purpose?
Perhaps the intent was to ensure that the Prophet Muhammad was born. The destruction of Mecca in the year of his birth may have made him a casualty. Could modern machines have infiltrated the time line to change it or ensure it wasn’t changed?
There are episodes of UFOs infiltrating the timeline of history throughout recorded history. Not only Muslim on Christian but Christian on Christian battles. Indeed, the Buddha performed miracles that by today’s standards seem arcane.
It is easy to surmise that Paul had a revolutionary mystical experience but in today’s pragmatic world it can also be interpreted as something proto-scientific.
Was the life of Mohammed manipulated like St. Paul? Were they pawns in a greater conspiracy to dictate the direction of our history? Were events planned out long before they were born? Was Paul an experiencer given a false message to direct the course of Christianity away from its original intent? It is interesting that Paul is considered the Apostle to the Gentiles. Was his “grafting” of the gentile by adoption into the Salvation of the Jews an aberration meant to change the course of history? And if so by whom - time travelers from the future attempting to change the course of human affairs or by extraterrestrials seeking to imprint their plan on earth history?
A Brief History of Orange Orbs
By Robert Spearing, publisher of www.worldufowatch.com
December 20, 2014
What exactly is an Orange Orb? The short answer is that no one knows. Yet it is one of the most ubiquitous of all anomalous aerial phenomena taking place in our skies today.
Debunkers will tell you it is ball lightening or flares attached to helium balloons by hoaxers or Chinese lanterns released by party goers. That may be true in a handful of cases but can either fly at over 800 miles per hour and stop on a dime or hover for hours in a terrible wind? Is it common for military jets to chase Chinese lanterns and helium balloons?
And then there is the apparent intelligence that seems to accompany these orbs. They merge, they separate, they form geometric patterns like triangles and rectangles and star constellations, they blink out and return and some alleged contactees even claim telepathic communication with them.
Conspiracy theorists will suggest they are plasma ball weapons being developed by DARPA or some other U.S. Government Agency. Boeing Phantom Works is rumored to be working on these Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) for the military but maintaining large plasma balls suspended in the atmosphere for hours or guiding them on trajectories in groups of up to 30 at speeds faster than the speed of sound is still science fiction at this point. Yet it is happening in our skies with or without Boeing’s participation!
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) will not classify them as Unidentified Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and requires Field Investigators to label them as “Unknown Others” in their reports. When searching reports, MUFON doesn’t even use the term orb. The closest you can come to a classification in their database is circle or sphere. Yet if one goes to the MUFON sighting database (and anyone can, dear reader) there are reports on a daily basis flowing in from around the globe and even some with some very good video evidence to back up the sightings. Are they technological craft, some sort of biological entity or a little bit of both?
To be clear, these utterly silent Orange Orbs traipsing about our skies are not to be confused with the small paranormal orbs often seen in photographs surrounding people in cemeteries and supposed haunted houses.
These are objects of advanced technological capability yet on occasions when they have been seen close up they seem to be molten pulsating blobs of energy or biomass with faint outlines of something possibly mechanical but almost invisible about them like a shell.
In 2008, the British Ministry of Defense released their so called X-Files and among the generous amount of information released was this nugget about Orange Orbs:
"That Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP or UFO) Exist is indisputable. Credited with the ability to hover, land, take off, accelerate to astonishing velocities and vanish. They can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly and clearly can exhibit aerodynamics characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile - either manned or unmanned.
The Conditions for the initial formation and sustaining of what are apparently buoyant charged masses (of Plasma), which can form, separate, merge, hover, climb, dive, and accelerate are not completely understood.
Dependent on a color's temperature and aerosol density, it may be seen visually, either by itself generated plasma color, by reflected light, or silhouette by light blockage and background contrast.
Occasionally and perhaps exceptionally, it seems a field with undetermined characteristics can exist between certain charged buoyant objects in loose formation, the intervening space between them forms an area, viewed as a shape, often Triangular, from which the reflection of light does not occur. This is a key finding in the attribution of what have frequently been called black "Craft", often triangular and up to hundreds of feet in length.
And while sightings of these orbs are proliferating all over the globe especially in the past two years, their presence is not new. Some researchers believe them to be incarnations of the famous and mysterious Foo Fighters seen over the skies of Germany by Allied pilots in World War II.
In his 1954 book, “ Flying Saucers on the Attack”, author Harold T. Wilkins recounts the harrowing WWII episode of U.S 415th Night Squadron pilot Lieut. David McFalls 20 miles north of Strasbourg, Germany on December 22, 1944:
“At 0600 (6 pm) near Hagenau, at 10,000 feet altitude, two very bright lights climbed towards us from the ground. They leveled off and stayed on the tail of our plane. They were huge bright orange lights. They stayed there for two minutes. On my tail all the time. They were under perfect control. Then they turned away from us, and the fire seemed to go out. “
Newspaper clippings from all over the world harvested by UFOlogists like Cris Aubeck and Jacques Vallee clearly show evidence of an Orange Orb presence in the 19th and early 20th century long before Nazi scientists and engineers were harvested by the Americans after the war for their space program. So one an not conclude Foo Fighters were secret weapons of Russian, German or American design.
In the India Gazette of July 1832, we receive the following report of orange orbs:
Meteors of 23rd June and 24th July 1832, observed at Delhi and Meerut. An extraordinary large meteor or rather three balls of fire at first rose out of the Est Southeast horizon on the 23rd of last month, and after rising to an elevation of about 15 degrees joined into one forming a large ball of brilliant fire nearly as big as a full moon in the meridian and passed over an arc of the heavens aboutb 115 degrees before it vanished in the West Northwest. The light was very brilliant.”
And on October 2, 1907 in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania the exact same occurrence happened as follows:
A remarkable story is told of a phenomenon in the heavens last night about 6:30 that is vouched for by the foreman of The Star (the reporting newspaper) and a friend who witnessed it. While they were standing talking near Frank’s Tavern a brilliant golden ball of fire appeared suddenly in the northern part of the sky, remained stationary just a moment and then dividing itself into 3 distinct balls of almost equal size of brilliant and flaming beauty moved slowly and with graceful downward curve across the sky. Except for its gigantic appearance it resembled the appearance of a sky rocket with its beautiful play of bright colors. As the three stars moved over the sky a pale lambent trail was left in their wake much resembling the description of a comet. The mysterious stars disappeared behind the eastern horizon…”
Again in the Kapunda Herald, Australia of March 16, 1880 it is recorded that:
A resident of this town informs us that a strange phenomenon occurred on Monday morning March 15th. At five minutes to 4 o’clock a star appeared to be burning brightly in the north-eastern heavens about 45 degrees above the horizon. Immediately afterwards it shot with immense rapidity towards the southwest but became motionless while still high above the horizon. It burned fitfully with a reddish glare for a quarter of an hour and then slowly set in the southwest as brilliant as when it first appeared.
There is even a mention of orbs in April of 1676:
"In Offenburg a comet has been seen, which looked like a flaming sword with the blade pointing to the west. Alongside it was a star and two bloody red spheres".
Source: Extraordinaires Maanedlige Relationer, April 1676
Even the U.s. Air force Project Sign (AKA Project Saucer later Project Grudge later Project Bluebook) has a letter from Major General Cabell (Air Force head General Vandenburg's second in command) dated November 3, 1948 to a Colonel McCoy inquiring about UFOs. Colonel McCoy responds on November 8th specifically stating:
"The objects described fall into the following generl calssification groups according to shape or general configuration.
a.) Flat disc or circular or approximately circular shape.
b) Torpedo or cigar shaped aircraft with no wings or fins visible in flight
c) Spherical or balloon shaped objects
d) Balls of light with no apparent form attached
It is item d) that we are concerned with!
Lake Erie, in particular, has been a hot bed of sightings as early as 1867 with the Native American tribes in the area calling them Wizard Lights suggesting an even earlier presence there. So lets begin our investigation here in Lake Erie.
Enter Michael Lee Hill 2006
Beginning in 2006, a musician named Michael Lee Hall who lived near the shores of Lake Erie began to video tape Orange Orbs appearing in the skies. His videos are clear and crisp and plentiful. Check them out on Youtube. Michael, to some in the UFOlogy community, has diminished his status by his unsubstantiated claims that he is an alien hybrid descended from the Annanuki with special blood. That blood was sent for analysis by Bill Birnes on the now defunct UFO Hunters television program and returned with certain extraordinary results that in no way prove he is alien- just rich in an enzyme called Creatine Kenase which some UFOlogists consider a trademark side effect of an abductee’s experience.
MUFON also investigated his Lake Erie Orange Orb sightings and concluded they were merely airplanes Michael was filming. This conclusion was subsequently vigorously challenged as Lake Erie is a no-fly zone since 9/11 because of the Perry Nuclear Plant on its shores near Cleveland.
Enter Robert Bigelow 2010
Michael Lee Hill has made some extraordinary if not outlandish claims on many UFOlogy blogs, web community pages and TV shows but one is very interesting and somewhat plausible. He claims that in 2010 an investigator for Bigelow Aerospace Corporation named Gary Hernandez contacted him concerning his orb sightings requesting that Michael divulge the coordinates of his orb sighting locations. A search of Linkedin.com reveals that indeed a Gary Hernandez with an extensive law enforcement background did work for Bigelow as an investigator on “Classified Projects” from 2010 till 2011.
If the claim is true it casts Orange Orbs in a whole new light. Robert Bigelow is a billionaire real estate developer from Nevada that made his fortune with his hotel chain holdings. His aerospace company has launched two modules for the International Space Station. He sees a future for his company in space tourism. Mr. Bigelow also has an interest in UFOs. It stems from childhood when his grandparents were almost killed in their car evading an Orange Orb in their path. His now defunct National Institute for Discovery Science collected UFO sightings (especially Black Triangle sightings) until 2004.
In 2009, Mr. Bigelow entered into a much maligned and ill-fated financial partnership with MUFON (a non-profit) which quickly came undone. Mr. Bigelow also owns the infamous Skinwalker Ranch which is a hot bed of cattle mutilations and Orange Orb sightings. And an even more telling fact is that the Federal Aviation Administration now defers UFO sightings by pilots to Bigelow Aerospace.
The point of all this is that we have a billionaire aerospace tycoon apparently interested in the coordinates in the Lake Erie Orange Orb sightings. If they are just airplanes like MUFON says - why? If Michael Lee Hill is a charlatan – why?
Perhaps it is an attempt to intercept and retrieve one especially if it were extraterrestrial technology? That’s why!
Enter Terry Ray 2014
Terry Ray is a MUFON Field Investigator from Pennsylvania. I met him at the Pittsburgh MUFON Conference in October and he is a very nice man. Terry wrote a book this year with a very, very long title called “The Complete Story of The Worldwide Invasion of Orange Orbs” available from Sunbury Press. It is a three part book beginning and ending with his investigation into the phenomenon sandwiching some 200 actual reports submitted to MUFON and elsewhere in the middle of the book.
Perhaps Terry’s greatest achievement in his investigation into the phenomenon is his sighting map based on thousands of MUFON Case sightings over the past few years. Terry has determined that these orb sightings are increasing exponentially and that they are visible over every major American city in an apparent attempt to be seen by as many people as possible. Their objective, it seems, may be to slowly acclimate humans to their presence if indeed they are extraterrestrial. They avoid one city completely however and that is Washington D.C. Are they avoiding confrontation with our military? Would Chinese lanterns and helium balloons with flares attached be so discerning?
Terry also believes these orbs come from underwater bases and that they are frequently seen along the Atlantic Coast on their nightly maneuvers and seen also (not surprisingly) en masse over Lake Erie and Atlantic Ocean locations like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.!
Terry believes they are extraterrestrial and that seems to be the growing consensus.
I am a MUFON Field Investigator and of the 50 odd cases I have investigated this year about 40% have been Orange Orb sightings over New Jersey.
MUFON Case 5937 on August 14, 2014 is perhaps the most sensational I have worked on although there is no video or photographic evidence. The object when far away was clearly an Orange Orb. The object was first seen at close range by the witness at no more than ten feet away. It was a churning glowing orange globule suspending itself in mid-air with the faint outline of a bell around it almost invisible to the naked eye. The witness gave specific dimensions to it being about 8 feet tall by 5 feet wide. It was shaped like a bell or a jelly fish. It hovered near an outdoor electrical transformer just outside her back yard possibly in an attempt to siphon energy off it. When it became aware of her presence it began to back away and accelerate up displaying sentience and awareness of her presence.
On August 24, 2014 MUFON Case 59219 witnesses in Ouachita, Louisiana described the same object as seen in NJ in Case 59379. They stated “My wife and I noticed an orange see-through bell shaped object about 200 to 300 feet above the ground, headed north then turned 90 degrees east. No sound at all, watched it until it disappeared.”
The witnesses drew a very accurate diagram of the bell shaped plasma ball.
When comparing case 59219 and 59379 to Michael Lee Hill’s initial 2006 encounter with the Orange Orbs we get a strikingly similar description of an Orb close-up. Michael stated it looked like a top hat and being more specific he added: “It looked like a flat platform made of glowing plasma red, you could make out the edges very well, they were not blurry. On top of this platform sat what looked like a glowing sun, kind of like a ball of plasma that was around the size of a small plane. The ball was about 1/3 the length of the bottom part. Just picture a line with a ball on top and that is what it looked like, the line part about ten feet thick I would say.”
Three close encounters with Orange Orbs and all very similar. They seem to be balls of churning energy with a faint outline of something larger surrounding that energy. The outline is large and flat at the bottom and smaller and rounded as you progress towards the top.
It may be coincidence but on December 9, 1965 in Kecksburg Pennsylvania just such an odd shaped object crashed in the woods outside of town attracting a quick and overwhelming military response. Whatever the object was, it was carted away on a flatbed truck never to be seen again.
And another even more intriguing coincidence emerges from the realm of conspiracies about bell shaped orange orbs. In 2000, Polish weapons expert Igor Witkowski published a book entitled “The Truth about the Wonder Weapon.” It details his experience speaking with a former Nazi SS Officer named Jakob Sporrenberg who tells Mr. Witkowski about the now infamous Nazi experiment called The Bell (Die Glocke).
What Die Glocke was and whether it ever really existed or not are questions for debate but when taken in the context of bell shaped Orange Orbs in our skies travelling in truly mysterious circumstances, one must wonder if the Nazis were indeed working on some sort of transportation platform using exotic technology possibly reverse engineered form a purported crashed UFO in Germany before WWII. If Mr. Witkowski is to be believed, then many German scientists lost their lives contributing to this experiment. Additionally, it is assumed that it fell into American hands at the end of the war. Was The Bell an advanced propulsion system or something even more exotic like a time machine as has been suggested? Was Die Glocke the object that crashed in Kecksburg in 1965? Was Die Glocke the object seen in a New Jersey backyard in 2014’S MUFON Case # 59379? We don’t know but we see patterns emerging.
One more case to make a point. MUFON Case 57701 from July 5, 2014 in Eatontown , NJ. The witness asserts that after seeing an Orange Orb cross the sky “Within a few minutes, multiple fast moving aircraft were seen flying in the same direction as the unidentified object flew.”
Eatontown, NJ is just north of McGuire Air Force Base. The Air Force is adamant that they don’t investigate UFOs yet time after time we have apparent jet fighters scrambling after UAVs in MUFON database reports. This has been going on since the 1940s and they never seem to catch those things!!!
So how long have they been here? A few centuries or a whole lot more?
Over 3,500 years ago in ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Thothmosis III committed to papyrus an account of possible extraterrestrials in his skies as follows:
"In the year 22, of the 3rd month of winter, six hour of the day, the scribes' archivists or chronicles, or annalists, of the House of Life found that there was a circle of fire coming in the sky… (but) it had no head. From its mouth came a breath that stank. One rod long was its body and a rod wide and it was noiseless. And the hearts of the scribes became terrified and confused, and they laid themselves flat on their bellies….
They reported to the Pharaoh. His Majesty ordered… has been examined… and he was meditating on what had happened and which is recorded in papyri of the House of Life.
Now, after some days had gone by, behold, these things became more numerous in the skies than ever. They shone more than the brightness of the Sun and extended to the limits of the four supports (quarters) of the heavens…
Dominating in the sky was the station of these fiery-circles. The army of the Pharaoh looked on with him in their midst.
It was after supper. Thereupon these fire fire-circles ascended higher in the sky towards the south.
Fishes and winged animals or bird fell from the sky. A marvel never before known since the foundation of this land! And Pharaoh caused incense to be brought to make peace on Earth… And what happened was ordered by the Pharaoh to be written in the annals of the House of Life… so that it be remembered forever."
Was this the initial arrival of the orange orbs to earth? Perhaps they were extraterrestrial visitors looking for a new home. In the 3,500 years since their arrival they have not seemed to have caused any problems with earth. Are they a race of beings looking to peacefully co-exist with earthlings? Are they machines? Are they living biological entities?
And what of their affinity for water? It has long been speculated that they have underwater bases near Myrtle Beach and Lake Erie. Why? Since WWII they have been spotted worldwide from the Pacific to the Atlantic to the Arctic to the Tasmanian Sea!!! Is there something about water that soothes them or helps cool their engines or in some way provides sustenance for them?
Take the unusual sighting of lights below the ocean surface from this past summer. A congregation of orange orbs under the surface in the Pacific perhaps?
From the Daily Mail of August 26, 2014:
A pilot and his co-pilot have spotted a mysterious orange and red glow over the Pacific Ocean.
The strange lights were spotted south of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka during the flight of a Boeing 747-8 from Hong Kong to Anchorage, Alaska.
And while no explanation has yet been given, it's thought that they may have originated from the explosion of a huge volcano under the surface of the ocean.
Dutch pilot JPC van Heijst explained… how, five hours into the ten-hour flight, they spotted an intense flash of light like a lightning bolt, directed vertically up in the distance. This was then followed by a deep red and orange glow 20 minutes later. And the experience left van Heijst somewhat perturbed, owing to the lack of an explanation for what happened.
Together with his co-pilot van Heijst says they felt ‘everything but comfortable’, while no other aircraft were nearby to confirm the sighting.
‘We reported our observations to Air Traffic Control and an investigation into what happened in this remote region of the ocean is now started,’ he added.
While we are far from solving the Orange Orb enigma we now, at least, have questions we can ask. Are they extraterrestrial? Are they friendly? Are they time machines or inter-dimensional transportation machines? Are they secret government black operations projects like anti-gravity propulsion systems? Are they machines at all or are they alive? We don’t know…YET!
So what exactly is an Orange Orb? The short answer is that no one knows. But we are sure learning a lot about them!
MARS VACUUM CLEANER ATTACHMENT!!!!!????????
By Bob Spearing, publisher of www.worldufowatch.com
December 5, 2014
What is it now on Mars!!!! Yet another day and yet another anomaly photo. This one is very interesting. Thanks to http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ for bringing it to my attention.
On November 27, 2014 (SOL 821 in Mars days) Rover Curiosity captured this peculiar anomaly.
It certainly looks artificial. As a matter of fact it looks like an attachment for a vacuum cleaner! Am I wrong? What do you think!
If you want to see the original photo (its not a fake!!) go to this link:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0821MR0036170080500530E01_DXXX&s=821
AND HURRY BEFORE THEY PULL IT!!!!!
Pittsburgh Pa. MUFON Conference was a Blast
By Bob Spearing ,editor, www.worldufowatch.com
November 11, 2014
On Saturday November 8th, I drove five hours from New Jersey to Westmoreland Community College near Pittsburgh to attend the Pennsylvania MUFON Conference. I had a blast!
The Conference opened with a talk by author Terry Ray on his book “The Complete Story of the Worldwide Invasion of Orange Orbs.” Orange Orbs are unknowns that have been sighted thousands of times since the 1940s with ever increasing frequency. Terry’s take on the matter as a result of his research is that these objects are extraterrestrial and under intelligent control. They frequent major metropolitan areas in an attempt to be seen and avoid Washington D.C. in an effort to avoid a confrontation with our military. Terry also asserts that these objects emanate from underwater bases particularly Lake Erie. The author believes these contacts are benign and mean to acclimate humans to their presence.
Next up was a cryptozoology talk by MUFON West Virginia State Director Fred Saluga and his partner Brian Seech. These two gentlemen delved into the large amount of Sasquatch sightings in a belt of U.S States from Pennsylvania to Ohio to West Virginia. Some of the interesting questions they asked were “Why have we never captured or shot a Bigfoot? Why has one never been hit by a car or photographed at close range?” Some of their answers were startling. Some of their theories centered around UFOs. Apparently many Bigfoot sightings are associated with craft sightings. Other cases had the Sasquatch simply disappearing in a flash of light. Both researchers entertained the idea that perhaps these are intelligent creatures and that their ability to elude detection is based on the premise they are inter-dimensional. Heavy stuff indeed but not as heavy as the next speaker’s topic.
John Ventre, Pennsylvania MUFON’s State Director and Conference Organizer presented stark evidence of a conspiracy by the U.S. Government to cover-up the UFO Phenomenon through deception and ridicule of whistle blowers. John took his audience through the modern history of UFOs and their investigation invoking such names from the past as Donald Keyhoe, Admiral Forrestal and Edward Ruppelt as well as significant projects and organizations such as Project Blue Book, NICAP and CUFOS. Perhaps the most startling evidence John presents is that even though the Air Force officially denies the existence of UFOs, their 1968 Pilot Flight Training Manual (specifically Chapter 13) deals with what pilots should do if they encounter UFOs. The chapter speaks of Alien involvement in human affairs for 47,000 years and makes mention of at least four different species of aliens visiting our planet.
John was followed by Alien Abduction Expert Derrel Sims who is a Texan bigger than life in personality and in physical stature. Derrel was very engaging and to the point – Do not assume aliens are friendly because you would be wrong. Derrel’s slide show was at times disturbing with graphic images of bodies, mutilations and physical scarring at the hands of E.T. He was clear that their agenda is unknown to us but that to think we are just lowly pond scum to them is a mistake. They abduct special people that possess something valuable to the aliens. Derrel also went briefly into many types of evidence the aliens leave behind on their victims such as fluorescence which may be biological and can be seen under a blacklight and objects which were removed later from abductees. To make his point about these “Implants”, Derrel brought a box of these mysterious items removed from people for the audience to view.
The final speaker was noted UFOlogist and Crypto zoologist Nick Redfern who has authored an amazing 29 books so far on the topics. At the conference, Nick dealt with various types of European sightings of strange animals and Bigfoots. Nick asked the question “How could a country as small as England produce so many Bigfoot sightings?” His answer was similar to Fred Saluga’s earlier in the morning that perhaps these creatures are inter-dimensional.
The conference concluded with dinner followed by a question & answer period with the speakers. I didn’t get out of there until after 8 o’clock but it was well worth the trip. However the five hour drive home was not!
TIME TRAVEL AND ITS IMPACT ON WORLD RELIGIONS
By Robert Spearing editor of www.worldufowatch.com
October 25, 2014
I am a huge proponent of the link between UFOs and Time Travel. I can site numerous examples of apparent timeline tampering throughout history whenever UFOs appear. More interestingly, these events often are tied to religious clashes that are still unresolved today.
In their 2009 book, Wonders In The Sky, Jacques Vallee and Cris Aubeck describe a September 20th, 1571 flaming column of light seen over Lepanto, Italy as the Christian Papal Fleet prepared to depart for battle with Selim II, the Sultan of Turkey off the coast of Italy.
According to Alberto Guglielmotti, the Papal Historian of the fleet, “It was a clear starry night with a cool wind coming from the north. Suddenly a colossal fire in the shape of a flaming column was seen by everyone to cross the sky over a long period of time, filling the witnesses with great admiration. .... All the witnesses regarded this as a good omen and sensed they were on the verge of a great victory. They believed the column of fire was showing them the way, guiding the Christian fleet in the same way the people of Israel were guided across the desert…”
On October 7th the Christian Fleet defeated the Muslim Fleet off the shores of Lepanto.
And this is not the first time we have perceived UFO interference regarding Muslims.
In 571 AD.just before the Prophet Mohammad was born an army of Ethiopians attacking Mecca to avenge the defiling of a church was destroyed by a purported flock ( air force?) of birds dropping stones. A theory suggests these birds were fighter jets dropping cluster bombs.
The Koran tells a short tale later recounted by other Islamic traditions about the encroaching army being destroyed by birds dropping stones from their claws and beaks.
The Koran in Sura 105 states:
Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
Did He not make their plan into misguidance?
And He sent against them birds in flocks,
Striking them with stones of hard clay,
And He made them like eaten straw.
While the story has all the outward appearances of religious myth, could there be a technological solution to the tale.
Had the army not been defeated there existed the possibility that Mohammad’s family would have been killed in the onslaught as Mohammad’s grandfather was directly involved in the conflict.
In today’s scientific frame of reference which the ancient Arabs were not privy to, could the birds have been fighter jets and the stones they dropped cluster bombs? Think about it. Could stones from birds really defeat an army? Modern jets with cluster bombs could easily defeat and ancient land locked army. More interestingly, cluster bombs made out of non-metallic compounds would leave no technological evidence should anyone in the 21st or subsequent centuries desire to do an archaeological dig!
But for what agenda? If there is a temporal war in progress for centuries between two opposing forces then for whatever purpose? The supremacy of one religion over another perhaps or a future endgame as to who rules the planet? Is this something extraterrestrials would want to be involved in or is this more likely to be terrestrial pursuits using technology to alter history’s course in the past?
Were UFOs sent to alter the timeline to ensure Mohammad was born? The destruction of Mecca in the year of his birth may have made him a casualty. Could modern machines have infiltrated the time line to change it or ensure it wasn’t changed?
Likewise, did the Christian Fleet exactly 1000 years later enjoy the interference of a UFO in defeating the Muslim Turkish Fleet. We must ask why this interference!!!
One has to wonder if a power balance struggle is not ensuing across centuries.
One of the least known sky battles in the Bible takes place between 180 and 160 B.C. in the last book of the Catholic Bible called 2nd Maccabees. In chapter 5 we read of a battle over Jerusalem:
About this time Antiochus the Fourth made a second attack against Egypt. 2 For nearly forty days people all over Jerusalem saw visions of cavalry troops in gold armor charging across the sky. The riders were armed with spears and their swords were drawn. 3 They were lined up in battle against one another, attacking and counterattacking. Shields were clashing, there was a rain of spears, and arrows flew through the air. All the different kinds of armor and the gold bridles on the horses flashed in the sunlight. 4 Everyone in the city prayed that these visions might be a good sign.
A rain of spears??!!!! Arrows flying through the sky??!!! Missiles perhaps??? Oh to do an archeological dig and recover some specimen of this battle!!!!!
Even more bizarre, a second air battle unfolds in the skies over Jerusalem in 66 A.D. The first account is from the Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus and portend the destruction of Jerusalem 4 years later. Writing in 75 A.D. he says:
Besides these [signs], a few days after that feast, on the one- and-twentieth day of the month Artemisius, a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared; I suppose the account of it would seem to be a fable, were it not related by those that saw it, and were not the events that followed it of so considerable a nature as to deserve such signals; for, before sun-setting, chariots and troops of soldiers in their armour were seen running about among the clouds, and surrounding of cities. Moreover, at that feast which we call Pentecost, as the priests were going by night into the inner [court of the] temple, as their custom was, to perform their sacred ministrations, they said that, in the first place, they felt a quaking, and heard a great noise, and after that they heard a sound as of a great multitude, saying, "Let us remove hence"
The Roman Historian Tacitus retells the same story of the days before Jerusalem’s fall. Writing in 115 A.D. he says:
In the sky appeared a vision of armies in conflict, of glittering armour. A sudden lightning flash from the clouds lit up the Temple. The doors of the holy place abruptly opened, a superhuman voice was heard to declare that the gods were leaving it, and in the same instant came the rushing tumult of their departure. Few people placed a sinister interpretation upon this. The majority were convinced that the ancient scriptures of their priests alluded to the present as the very time when the Orient would triumph and from Judaea would go forth men destined to rule the world."
One is also reminded of Jesus Christ’s prediction of great disturbances in the skies prior to Jerusalem’s final days in the opening years of the 1st century in the common era.
The neverending question for UFOlogists has always been – Why then and why there?
It is obvious that Jerusalem is the center of three of the world’s main religions. The significance of it then and its possible role in an end of the world scenario much prophesied makes one wonder as we have on this website before whether or not time travelers are at play attempting to alter or secure the course of human history. It would actually make prophecy more plausible as the prophecies may have been based on scientific fact if somehow the authors had details of such technological interventions!
The bible often predicted in the old testament and in Jesus’ own words of troubles in the skies. Were they talking of comets and asteroids or of armies in the air - time travelers perhaps that were either attempting to alter the timeline or preserve it.
To anyone living in the 21st century it is obviously inpossible for armies to be fighting in the skies in the 1st century A.D.. But if one invokes time travel then we have a legitimate theory to expound.
Who would gain from altering the course of history? Quite a few it turns out. The Americans, the Russians, the Chinese, the Jews, the Muslims, the Christians – HEY!! That’s just about everybody isn’t it!
And why does it seem to be a question of religion?
A more recent example of temporal tampering may be seen in Germany over Nuremburg in 1561. In perhaps one of the most significant UFO sightings in the history of the world an aerial battle was seen by thousands of inhabitants and enshrined for eternity in a woodcut by Hans Glaser several years after the event.
Before we go into the details of the Nuremburg sighting lets describe the religious climate of the time. It was only 40 years earlier that the great schism in the Catholic Church occurred with the breakaway views of Luther and Protestantism.
Where did these earth changing events take place? You guessed it! Germany. And besides Nuremburg there are several other documented aerial sightings and battles in the skies over Germany and Switzerland in the ensuing years. What was taking place? What was the attraction of so many UFOs to a place so torn by religious differences? Were these UFOs attempting to reconcile the Christian Faith? Or were they attempting to ensure division? How many possible scenarios may have played out with assassinations and counter-assassinations taking place on the ground during these years to ensure a certain outcome or an alternative one!! We may never know. So on to the analysis!!
This paper aims to understand one aspect of the famous Nuremberg UFO sky battle of April 14, 1561 – that of the huge black spear that followed later after the battle. Before going any further please read the description of the day while looking at the photo and pay particular attention to the last sentence.
Translation by “Stapledon”
“In the year 1561 on the 14th day of April in the morning between … [difficult special time phrase] … and … [difficult special time phrase], that is in the morning between 4 and 5 on the little clock, a very horrible vision showed at the sun when she rised and was seen at Nuremberg in the town and in front of the gate and at the countryside by alot of male and female persons. First the sun showed and was seen with two bloodcolored, halfround strokes like the diminishing moon right through the sun, and in the sun, above, under and on both sides stood bloodcolored and partly blueish or ironcolored, also blackcolored round orbs. The same on both sides and in circled plates around the sun – there were such bloodcolored and the other orbs in great numbers, standing three in a row, sometimes four in a quadruple, also alot as singles. And between such orbs alot of bloodcolored crosses have been seen, and between such crosses and orbs were bloodcolored
strips, thick behind ["streyme hinden dick"] and to the front a bit smoother than … [ ? "hocken rho[?]“]. Mixed in between together with others stood two big tubes, one to the right and the other to the left [hand's side], in those little and big tubes were three, four and more orbs. This alltogether began to fight ["streyten"], the orbs first in the sun moved towards the ones standing at both sides, so the ones, which were outside, moved together with the orbs out of the small and large tubes into the sun. Also the tubes moved towards each other like the orbs and everything fought and battled ["gestritten und gefochten"] with each other nearly one hour long. And after the battle, which moved for a while into and again out of the sun from one side to the other most violently, exhausted itself by each other, everything (as drawn above) fell from the sun and the sky down to the earth like burning alltogether and vanished ["vergangen"] down on the
earth gradually [? "allgemach"] in a big smoke. After such events something like a black spear, the shaft from sunrise [east] and the head towards sundawn [west], has been seen with big thickness and length. "
Everyone is familiar with this battle and the myriad craft types associated with it. It is clear two opposing forces did battle in the sky with casualties crashing to the ground as well as a clear winner. Oh to do an archeological dig here also for fighter craft remnants!!!
What isn’t usually focused upon is the large spear like object that appeared later in the day after the fireworks were done. What was it and why did it appear?
My theory is that while the earlier objects were most likely extraterrestrial UFOS with opposing agendas, the black spear is most likely terrestrial in origin. It bears an uncanny resemblance to a B-1 Bomber and there may be a reason for that.
First, AND MOST OBVIOUSLY, B-1 Bombers are black and spear like.
Second, why would an advanced alien race or races cross interstellar space with a spacecraft or plane in tow that is only capable of flying in earth’s atmosphere when it’s obvious they could use their orbs and flying crosses and tubes to the same effect? Something’s not right. It’s not aliens here!!!!
Could the black spear like object be from another time but terrestrial? ARE WE TALKING TIME TRAVEL? Is this an American 21st century craft and do opposing forces want to impede or advance it’s mission in an all out battle earlier in the day?
Third, if you look very closely at the black spear you’ll notice cuts or canals in its fuselage Could these be the cuts of wing flaps? If so. was the plane descending for a landing? If so, to where?
Finally, if you look very very closely at the Nuremberg woodcut you will see that just behind the lower left wing of the black spear is a small rectangular protrusion. Looking at the B-1 photo, we see a similar rectangular protrusion just past the cockpit and just before the start of the upper right wing. Coincidence? Intentional attention to fine detail in the 1566 woodcut?
To conclude, is it possible that a 20th or 21st century American, Russian or Chinese vehicle travelled back in time for unknown purposes and did someone or something attempt to intercept it as opposing forces attempted to allow it’s passage? Is this all part of a centuries long battle across time to influence the final outcome of the world religion’s end times view? Let’s keep digging!!Consider using this space to introduce your page. Just click to add your own content.
With files from Leif Larsen
by Bob Spearing,publisher, worldufowatch.com
January 11, 2016
MUFON has given the go ahead to a study of the purported phenomenon called Orbs or more specifically a certain type with the moniker Orange Orbs. The study is called Project Orange and is headed up by the MUFON Utah State Director Erica Lukes. Until now the investigation of these so called single anomalous balls of light with very particular characteristics and behaviors has been haphazard and unorganized and really just a catalog of reports dating back hundreds of years. Like almost all aspects of the UFO phenomenon we are hampered by the fact that no one has ever captured and studied an Orb. Thousands upon thousands of reports in the MUFON and NUFORC databases suggest there is something to it all but photographic and video evidence, while abundant, has been of inferior quality generally speaking. Are photos in focus or out of focus? It’s hard to tell with Orbs when there is no background such as the moon or trees and the camera eye reverts to infinity. Are the images seen of Orbs or just dust particles or lens flares? Again, it takes a sharp eye and some photo software to figure it out. And are the witnesses reporting accurately what they see or are they misidentifying drones, Chinese lanterns, LED light party balloons, hoaxes like flares attached to helium balloons and so on.
We need to come up with methods and tools to begin sorting out, for example, what is an Orb and what is a Chinese lantern. Lanterns, until now, have been the “catch all” for explaining away Orbs because of the easy availability of such paper balloons and their similar description to Orbs. The MUFON Field Investigator, hampered by virtually no budget at all for his investigations, must be inventive and take a grassroots approach to the problem using tricks of the trade and deductions to tease out what may or may not be an Orb as opposed to an IFO. With no resources, remarkably enough, the Scientific Method espoused by MUFON can still be employed successfully!
To begin, we have not proven one Orb case beyond reasonable doubt however the circumstantial evidence is abundant.
Take, for example, an account from a newspaper called the London Weekly Dispatch from September 14, 1845. The sighting took place on the Isle of Jersey off the coast of France. In 1845 there were no drones or LED lights on party balloons. There were no phosphorescent road flares borne by helium balloons. Chinese lanterns were not mass produced like today nor did the object behave as one. Neither did the object behave like a natural phenomenon such as a shooting star. So what was it? Judge for yourself. The account goes:
“A globe of fire, apparently of the dimensions of a good sized balloon, was observed to move about from position to position, making its appearance now in one place, now in another. It might be seen at one moment blazing with all the crimson lustre of the sun setting in the autumnal sky, in another shining with a full, clear and burnished light irradiating the whole aerial vault. Sometimes stationary, it would all of a sudden shift its position, and locate itself upon a spot at considerable distance. Here again it would remain for a few minutes, when , as if tired of the quarters it had chosen, migrate without further ceremony to another. Alternately, the subject of these appearances it remained for nearly an hour, when in a second, becoming detached from the spot on which it was fixed, flew with a tremendous velocity through the sky and took refuge behind a dark and murky cloud.”
We have an object larger than a star before the advent of airplanes doing incredible maneuvers. It seems to shoot out beams. It can go from zero to many miles per hour instantly and can hover for long minutes on end. What in this 1845 account was this object? As we shall see it possesses many behaviors of an Orange Orb as studied by MUFON today.
A sighting from 17th century Paraguay from the Jesuit archives tells a similar story:
“On the 10th of August of 1631 at the San Ignacio de Ipané Reduction, something strange and luminous was seen to fly in the heavens. Between six and seven in the evening, a luminous globe of strange grandeur was seen to rise, flying unhurriedly and rather slowly, over the town, like a full moon. It gave off a large number of sparks toward the east, and upon reaching the western horizon, blazed with greater light, which was then diminished. In the time it takes to recite the Apostle’s Creed, it issued a tremendous report like thunder.”
How can we determine (by the process of elimination in many cases) what is an Orb and what is an IFO?
Let’s begin with Chinese lanterns and their fuel cells. A Chinese lantern, also called a sky lantern or a paper party balloon, is a paper globe or rectangular paper balloon that achieves its inflated shape by the expansion of hot air from the ignition of a fuel cell whose open flame inflates the globe/rectangle and causes lift. When the fuel cell is expended the lifting effect as well as the luminescence of the paper balloon ends suddenly and it falls to earth in darkness.
So how to tell the difference from an IFO? Well, duration time is a factor in a sighting. If you go to one of the lantern vendor websites you can find a “Frequently Asked Questions” section where they will tell you a lantern can travel many miles in the right conditions and stay aloft and illuminated for up to fifteen minutes. This is one key to our understanding of Orbs. Is it true? If a witness reports an object in the sky which seems to be an amorphous ball of orange light and it is seen in excess of 15 minutes it is probably not a Chinese lantern. Let’s investigate this idea one step further.
Project Orange investigated purchasing Chinese lanterns on www.eBay.com and learned several things. First, there are two sizes of lanterns for sale on the internet. By far, the most common type of lantern is a somewhat teardrop shaped frame that is thirty-one inches tall with a fourteen inch diameter base.
A quick note about the base – it is a bamboo wood ring which holds a wire cross to it. These cross beams intersect in the middle of the bottom of the diameter of the base and have a bit of wire protruding straight up about an inch at the center. The fuel cell is usually a square piece of a flammable material with a hole in its center. Using this hole the fuel cell is impaled upon the one inch wire protrusion which is then bent perpendicular to the hole to hold the fuel cell in place. It is primitive but effective. The fuel cell is then lit and its heat gradually fills the balloon with hot air causing lift.
Project Orange purchased several lanterns of the 31 inch variety to test.
The second important thing Project Orange learned is that there are two types of fuel cells both of which were tested by Phyllis Budinger of Frontier Analysis, Ltd. She is an Ohio analytical scientist who has unselfishly volunteered over the years her expertise, equipment and many hours to MUFON in the scientific method of solving UFO mysteries.
The first type is a 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch square of fine glass fibers about a quarter of an inch in height. The compressed fibers in the square are similar to a product called Fiberfrax which is a flexible mat product entirely composed of polycrystalline mullite fibers, making it an extremely lightweight and a highly resilient insulator. The square is coated with palmitic acid which ignites when lit. When the waxy fuel is exhausted, the glass fiber remains but becomes useless. Why glass fiber –a flame retardant material – is used becomes apparent when we look at the other popular type of fuel cell – a 2.75 inch by 2.75 inch square only about an eighth of an inch thick. It is bigger and thinner. It is cardboard coated in palmitic acid also and wrapped in a paper sheath which ignites quickly and insures the cardboard ignites. It is easier to light than the glass fiber fuel cell but burns hot and fast and inefficiently compared to the glass fiber fuel cell. The cardboard fuel cell disintegrated with glowing embers floating away in all directions strongly suggesting it was a severe fire hazard whereas the glass fiber fuel cell was far less dangerous and manufactured to be flame retardant as it descended to earth.
Project Orange performed burn tests on these two types of fuel cells. The paper covered cardboard fuel cell tested burned for 2 minutes and 58.09 seconds. The fiberglass fuel cell burned for 5 minutes and 58.88 seconds. The criteria for timing the event was that the stop watch did not begin until the fuel cell was totally engulfed by flame. This took approximately 15 seconds in each case. The stop watch was stopped when the flame was totally extinguished. The reasoning is as follows. Lift would not be achieved at the beginning of the fuel cell ignition until the accumulating heat was enough to lift the balloon. Therefore the stopwatch was not started until a reasonable amount of heat could be generated by the fuel cell. Likewise, the stop watch was stopped at the end of luminescence when the witness would lose sight of the paper balloon. Its subsequent desc ent flight in darkness is unimportant. The amount of time given for it’s being aloft was generous and at the extreme positive end of total flight duration by our test standards. Most lanterns would be aloft and luminous for probably a shorter amount of time.
What was determined was that the lantern websites overestimated the length of luminescent flight of their lanterns. A six minute maximum was achieved with the glass fiber fuel cell and only a three minute luminescence was achieved with the cardboard fuel cell.
Let’s make sense of the numbers. If you have an Orb report in excess of six minutes (as opposed to fifteen minutes) it can be reasonably assumed that what was witnessed was not a lantern. The 15 minute mark listed by the lantern vendor is simply an overestimate in order to increase sales (who wants a lantern that extinguishes within 3 minutes!). This timeframe, it should be noted, does not exclude drones, LED balloons and flares as well as Orbs as other possible explanations for the orange glowing object.
Now let’s compare it statistically to the numbers. Project Orange, to date, has analyzed over 400 Orb cases from the last seven July 4ths in the United States. Let’s look at how many of these reports exceeded six minutes in length. Specifically, 434 cases were studied so far. Of them, 217 had durations mentioned. Of 217 cases, 62 cases were in excess of six minutes. Therefore we find a robust 28.6% were probably not lanterns based on that single criteria!
Let’s approach wind now. MUFON is hampered by its inability to get current local weather. Often weather reports associated with MUFON reports are hours old and based on weather stations miles away from the sighting area. But when over 400 reports are correlated, general patterns can be discerned. The idea here is that if you have objects flying against the wind or in a cross wind they may not be Chinese lanterns or helium balloons. If you have objects hovering in any sort of wind they may not be lanterns or balloons as lanterns and balloons will constantly rise. Or if you have a zero mph wind environment and have objects travelling horizontally or hovering then they are probably not lanterns or balloons but self-propelled objects.
Project Orange’s experience is that most weather reports were within 20 minutes of the sighting and within 50 miles using www.wunderground.com. It is an imperfect source but if it is discounted totally then MUFON should remove weather data totally from the CMS reporting system as essentially useless since there is no perfect weather information source available to FIs for investigative purposes.
Also, an important consideration is as follows. Lantern websites state that lanterns should not be flown in winds in excess of 3 mph or the lantern may collapse in upon itself from the blunt force of the wind against tissue paper. When this happens air is exhausted out of the lantern suddenly and it falls to the ground fast causing a fire hazard as the paper in the collapsed lantern will ignite when contacting the flame as it falls. Therefore, any object traveling in winds in excess of 3 mph may not be a lantern.
The following wind related statistics were culled using www.wunderground.comfrom the aforementioned 434 cases. Of the 434 cases, 64 cases had unusable data so percentages are based on 370 cases:
Moving horizontally in a calm wind environment thus eliminating lanterns: 78 cases or 21%
Hovering in a calm wind environment thus eliminating lanterns: 13 cases or 3.5%
Hovering in wind thus eliminating lanterns: 45 cases or 12%
Moving in a cross wind or against the wind thus eliminating lanterns: 91 cases or 25%
Combining these figures against objects traveling with the wind we get 227 cases out of 370 not performing as lanterns are required to do by the laws of nature. This is 61.4 percent. Clearly a majority of these objects are probably not lanterns. Remember though that, as mentioned earlier, www.wunderground.com data cannot be the “end all be all” here because of its limitations.
Let’s now look at wind mph. If a wind of 3 mph can destroy a lantern, how many of the 434 sightings are in winds over 3 mph (excluding 3 mph precisely). The answer is 320 cases. This is 86.5% of cases. To be absolutely sure wind is a factor, lets only count cases where the mph is 10 mph or better to ensure it is not a Chinese Lantern. Of 370 cases, 49 (13.25%) had winds in excess of 10 mph. This surely eliminates a lantern from consideration in severe wind cases.
Again, this only eliminates lanterns from the discussion but there may be other reasons for the phenomena besides Orbs such as drones, for example. However, when taking into consideration multiple data sources, the odds increase that the object is not a lantern. FIs should therefore take into consideration multiple data points when assessing whether an object is an Orb or an IFO.
Let’s look at clusters next. Only the state of New Jersey has had a statistical study of Orbs done for the past ten years from 2006 through 2015. There were two findings out of the 136 cases studied. The first finding is that the sightings were in clusters. Four clusters to be exact.
One cluster ran like a 54 mile string of pearls from Toms River to Atlantic City; both being cities on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
The second cluster was more diffuse in northern Jersey with a focus on Linden where, interestingly, a major oil refinery resides of a strategic nature although no specific threat could be identified.
The largest cluster ran 13 miles from Cherry Hill in Camden County south to Paulsboro in Gloucester County along the coast of the Delaware River roughly across from Philadelphia. Paulsboro, by the way, is home to the other major oil refinery in New Jersey.
The forth cluster was in Monmouth County, also along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, which brings us to our second finding. In 2013 through 2014 alone, there were eight sightings in Monmouth. All those sightings were within a twelve miles radius of Earle Naval Weapons Station. Over 10 years the sightings actually encircle Earle. This was not the first time unusual levels of sightings have been seen around military bases and not just any kind of base. It seems Orbs have a preference for weapons stations, ammunition depots and munitions factories. In the seven year July 4th study on Orbs still in progress, Orbs were sighted in the vicinity of Umatilla Army Depot in Oregon, Nellis Small Arms Range in Nevada, McAlester Army Ammunitions Plant in Oklahoma, Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant in Ohio and Watervliet Arsenal in New York State. This sample represents only seven days!
An interesting theory can be developed from this information. It concerns how we perceive time. To us, there were 18 sightings in 10 years around Earle. If however, an entity or entities exist in a different time frame, those 10 years may only be several minutes of surveillance to that entity. Something to think about!
It is hard to accept that Chinese lanterns, balloons or drone launchers cluster only in four areas of the state. Why no clusters in Newark or Jersey City-by far the most populous areas in the state? Are Chinese lantern launchers only in one part of the state and not others? Not likely!
It is apparent that purported Orbs prefer southern New Jersey along the Delaware River. So a consideration in the investigation of Orbs should be a multi-year study in your preferred state to determine if clusters exist. This can be done by utilizing Google Maps to peg out cases to see where cluster areas might exist. Knowing the historical layout of cases in your state will help considerably with current cases and how they may or may not be Orbs.
Another tool to weed out lanterns is to observe the object’s color or colors. Orbs are frequently described by the witnesses as being one uniform color from center to outer rim which is usually a red-orange or an orange-yellow. Lanterns on the other hand are tri-colored and the light is irregular. This goes a long way in eliminating possible Orbs in photographs.
Since the heat source of a lantern is at its bottom where the fuel cell is, its most intense light is not in the center of the perceived circle but at the bottom and gradually diminishes the higher up you go in the circle. In lantern photographs the light at the bottom usually displays as a very bright white gradually turning yellow and then red or orange the higher up you go in the circle. This, of course, is based on the notion that the paper used in the lantern is of the most common colors used – red or orange. Lanterns can come in almost any color paper but cases of blue or green orbs/lanterns are extremely rare. So if you encounter a photograph that shows an object at a distance irregularly lit and having three shadings of color chances are it is a Chinese lantern and not an Orb. On the other hand, a uniform orange object is unlikely to be a lantern.
Perhaps the easiest sightings to dispel are road flares attached to helium balloons. There are virtually no suspected cases of this type of occurrence. The most famous case of this type of hoax occurred in the Morristown NJ area on January 5th, 2009. Wikipedia states the following: “Five flare lights attached to helium balloons were released by Joe Rudy and Chris Russo and seen in the skies above Morris County, New Jersey.”
There are five points to be made concerning flares attached to balloons.
First, unless a very long rope is used separating the flare from the balloon, the flare is so bright as to create a reflection on the surface of the balloon’s bottom. This does not correspond with the shapes of Orbs seen in the sky. This reflection makes it appear as if a round orb has above it a semi- circle shaped dimmer light. This occurs in virtually zero cases.
Secondly, having a long rope to avoid the reflection adds weight to the balloon making it harder to gain altitude successfully.
However, the best case against flares is their color. Road flares appear as brilliant pink phosphorescent glowing lights like a welder’s arc. Almost no Orbs are described this way. Pink is an unusually rare color for orbs. Out of 434 cases studied, only seven (1.5%) entailed the color pink.
Fourth, flares drip liquid residue that glows pink and looks like glowing water droplets falling from the flare. It is an obvious sign that the object seen is a road flare. Of 434 cases studied, none displayed this tendency.
Lastly, helium balloons cannot hover. They rise vertically constantly or are carried with the wind. This is contrary to Orb behavior in many cases especially when hovering is involved.
LED Balloons were also tested by the Project Orange team. These are regular rubber skinned party balloons with a small LED light inside that when activated illuminates the balloon solidly or with a blinking mode. Up to 250 feet away it is obvious they are balloons. From 251 to 500 feet in altitude, they become very faint and smaller than a penny in apparent size with their odd cluster shape and faint membranous balloon look still apparent. For the test we used three balloons inflated to approximately ten inches long and then tied together. In no way did they resemble amorphous balls of light but rather mere pinpricks of light against a faint dark background. It is Project Orange’s feeling that LED balloons are not a significant source of Orb reports.
There is also the issue of “Apparent Size” in MUFON reports that needs to be addressed. MUFON has a field in its CMS reporting system where a witness can check off if an object or light source is star-like, aspirin (aka moon) sized, penny sized, golf ball sized, basketball sized and larger than basketball sized.
If distance is known as well as the amount of degrees an object or light source occupies in the sky then it is sometimes possible to determine its actual size. For example the moon occupies .50 degrees of sky. If an object is 500 feet from the witness and it is the size of the moon we can calculate that the object is 4.36 feet in diameter.
In many cases we don’t know the distance that the object is from the witness but we do know its apparent size and we can make a few assumptions when dealing with Orbs. The most intriguing example concerns objects that seem basketball sized or larger to the witness.
A man’s basketball is approximately 9.55 inches in diameter. We need to convert this to degrees of sky. Using two fists and two thumbs side by side is a good way to estimate the degrees of sky a basketball occupies. A closed fist at arm’s length is roughly 10 degrees of sky. A thumb is roughly 2 degrees of sky. Two closed fists together are about 7 inches and 20 degrees of sky. The remaining 2.55 inches equate to approximately 5 degrees of sky. That’s a little more than two thumbs. So in total a basketball is 25 degrees of sky out of a total of 180 degrees from horizon to horizon when held at arm’s length. That is quite huge.
Project Orange performed an “apparent size” test on the large type of commonly sold Chinese lantern which was 31 inches tall with a 14 inch wide base. First, a basketball was held at arm’s length abutting the Chinese lantern which showed above and below the ball. Stepping back only 13 feet, the lantern quickly shrunk in apparent size to the size of the basketball and was effectively hidden at that point from the viewer holding the basketball.
Therefore we can assume that any object the size of a basketball or larger in apparent size must either be approximately a yard in diameter and within 13 feet of a witness making identification of a Chinese lantern a certainty or it must be an object much bigger than a 31 inch tall lantern and much further away.
So if the MUFON CMS report also has a corresponding distance that the object was from the witness an actual size can be determined ruling out many possibilities. For example, a basketball sized object occupying 25 degrees of sky at 500 feet would be 221.69 feet in diameter effectively ruling out lanterns, balloons and drones.
There is one object that is not so easy to dispel in the Orb controversy and it is a phenomenon growing in popularity in leaps and bounds. It is, of course, the drone.
They can hover far longer than 15 minutes like an Orb. They can fly into the wind like an Orb. They can glow like an Orb and strips of Orange LED lights can be purchased and attached to them mimicking Orbs. They can go from a hover to a reasonably incredible burst of speed in a second like an Orb. They even travel in formations of up to 50 drones just like Orbs. Eventually they will make the study of Orbs impossible.
There are certain differences right now that the Field Investigator has to work with however.
First, the majority of commercially bought store drones or “off the shelf” drones account for most drone sightings currently and they are limited in capability. The most common type of drone is the Quadcopter. Its main body is small enough to be held in one’s hand. It consists of a center module with four rotors surrounding it creating a square shaped vehicle. It can have perimeter LED lighting or have a single LED light source on its top or bottom contained in a globe. There are as many variations of these specifications as there are drones.
Many store bought drones are limited in altitude to a few hundred feet but their flight times can vary wildly from a few minutes of battery power to well over a half hour. Indeed, NASA has developed a solar powered drone which is capable of staying aloft indefinitely.
If a drone is limited in altitude to a few hundred feet, it surely will display its LED lights as crisp and clear which would be starkly different to the amorphous balls of light called Orbs. Also, at under 200 feet, it should be clear to the viewer that he is witnessing a remotely powered craft and not a ball of light. Over 200 feet, it becomes much harder to draw such a conclusion.
Similarly, drones are often multi-colored and multi-lit. Objects changing colors rapidly are most likely not Orbs which usually remain one color. Likewise, multiple sources of light emanating from an object such as a drone are in direct contrast to the singularly lit Orb.
Shape is important also. Strips of orange LED lights do not convey the appearance of an amorphous ball of light. Rather, they confer crisp lines of light.
While drones can execute many incredible maneuvers and go from stop to great speed in a relatively short period there are two behaviors that purported Orbs can do that leave drones in the dust. Orbs can make effortless instantaneous right angle turns and 180 degree directional changes that drones simply cannot do in zero seconds.
Finally, many witnesses define purported Orb light as being a type of light they never encountered before. While anecdotal, it suggests the light is not obviously artificial like fluorescent, incandescent or LED lights.
The phenomenon of drones flying in formation is a fascinating one. Orbs have been seen for years flying in formation in groups of 30 or more. They often create patterns in the sky like triangles and rectangles. One company in Australia is doing incredible work that puts the mysterious Orb and its alien formations to shame.
Ars Electronica Futurelab of Linz, Australia is a dedicated conclave of artists, scientists and researchers that have invited groups from all over the world to perform in its Linz Artistic Festival every year since 1979. Drone art is one of their specialties. They have achieved drone formations of up to 50 drones in synchronized displays that rival the best triangle an Orb group can do. They use a specific type of drone with a bottom lit globe that mimics Orb lighting and behavior perfectly but goes beyond by creating everyday shapes of familiar things in the sky such as tea pots or kangaroos. The specific type of drone employed is called a Spaxel (space + pixels) which is simply an LED equipped quadcopter which responds to a computer program’s commands in sync with other drones.
As can be seen by the photographs, they rival Orbs in brilliance and in formation in flight. They could be a Field Investigator’s nightmare but not just yet.
It is an expensive experiment to fly such artwork formations and the areas on earth where it happens are limited as are the events. Investigators need not worry just yet. However, the future points to widespread synchronized displays at events like fireworks shows. But even so, large Orb formations on odd days at odd hours in odd places will probably not be Spaxel displays. What is important is that drones can mimic Orbs anytime anywhere on a lesser scale.
Next, we come to natural phenomena such as St. Elmo’s Fire, ball lightning and Earth Lights.
We should immediately rule out St. Elmo’s Fire which has been described as a purple creeping lightning bolt moving like ivy along ship masts where there is some metallic contact point. Nothing suggests a free floating Orb-like shape.
More fundamental to the Orb phenomenon is ball lightning. Ball lightning is rare and probably does not account for the majority of Orb sightings. Most often it is a fist sized to foot wide white floating luminous ball near the ground that has the odd behavior of seeming to follow humans perhaps being magnetically drawn to them. It typically lasts no more than a minute before dissipating and has been deemed to be the result of lightning bolts striking the earth and interacting with silica in dirt which in turn creates the peculiar globes of light.
Then we have Earth Lights. The British author and researcher Paul Deveroux wrote two books on this phenomenon. There might certainly be a connection between some Orange Orb sightings and Earth Lights which seem to be associated with earthquakes.
In the 1950s, a French researcher found a correlation between UFO sightings and their proximity to geologic faults. Later in the 1970s it was again noticed that UFO reports corresponded to tectonic activity which is the shifting and colliding of Earth’s continental plates. The incredible pressure and energy released somehow creates luminous and sometimes orange balls of light. The duration of these earthquake lights seen for up to two hours cannot yet be explained as the Earth itself is a great dissipater of electricity.
Project Orange found that this may be the case on the west coast of the United States where the Pacific Ocean plate is crashing into North America from southern California to Washington State. Project Orange is constructing a database currently of all Orange Orb sightings on the Fourth of July in the United States over a seven day period from 2009 through 2015. Of the hundreds of cases input so far, Washington State has the most sightings with almost sixty and California is tied for third place with 44 sightings over the seven year period all clustered in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Oregon also has a significant amount of sightings. This suggests a connection to tectonic activity which runs the length of the American West Coast.
The case against earthquake lights is New Jersey which, as mentioned previously, has been studied extensively concerning Orb activity. NJ has distinct clusters of Orb Activity in four parts of the state. One cluster along the Atlantic Ocean in the extreme southeastern part of the state is almost devoid of tectonic activity going back to 1783. Likewise cluster two (the largest) in the extreme southwestern part of the state along the Delaware River across from Philadelphia sits many miles to the south of the Ramapo fault line that runs diagonally from Pennsylvania up northeast toward New York City. It was interesting that in this cluster zone the town of Runnemede, NJ has had two minor earthquakes since 2012 and those quakes were within a month of Orb sightings in the area.
Cluster three likewise centered near Linden NJ is south of NJ’s largest earthquake zone in the northern part of the state near Pompton Lakes.
Cluster four in Monouth County is also in an area devoid of tectonic activity and may have other reasons for existing.
Since 1783 there have been about 190 earthquakes in NJ. Only six minor tremors have been recorded in the heavy “cluster zone two” areas of Gloucester and Camden Counties. Yet between 2006 and 2014 there have been 21 Orange Orb reports to MUFON from those two counties alone. There seems to be no correlation between Orbs and Earth Lights in New Jersey.
Clearly, if the MUFON investigator wants to do a thorough job, looking up your state’s earthquake history and comparing it to your Orb sightings database would seem as logical as checking wind direction and velocity.
Will o’ the Wisps are another interesting phenomenon. They are luminous balls of light seen floating low over bodies of water like lakes and across fields. They are probably not the much higher flying Orbs. They are more akin to “swamp gas” igniting.
The leading theory about Wisps is that they are self-igniting balls of explosive phosphine gas. Phosphine is a chemical compound of phosphorus and hydrogen. It is heavier than air and thus it stays low to the ground rather than high in the sky like objects purported to be Orbs. It is quite flammable and easily ignites.
There are also a series of behaviors and characteristics that are peculiar to Orbs the Field Investigator should note.
As mentioned earlier, a behavior of Orbs that cannot be duplicated by lanterns, balloons, drones (as of yet) or natural phenomena is their ability to perform acute and instantaneous right angle and 180 degree turns. Of 434 cases studied, 36 cases (8.29%) were classified as having maneuvers deemed incredible in one manner or another which not only included turns but also incredible accelerations and decelerations.
In case 40256 from Forest Lake Minnesota occurring on July 4, 2012, it reads in part:
“My sister, her boyfriend, and myself witnessed an orange glowing object that was moving quickly and then stopped on a dime and ascended into the clouds out of sight just before it came back down into viewing distance.”
In case 24345 from Bullhead City, Arizona occurring on July 4,2010the witness stated:
“There was a ball that looked most like a fireball. It was moving really fast across the sky from SE to NW. It slowed down so fast it was like an instant stop. But before it stopped it had three lines behind it. They disappeared one by one. After all of them were gone a little one appeared out of nowhere. A really bright long gray light hit the tip of the mountains. The little one just stayed there. Lastly the big one shot off so fast I almost didn't see it. Then the little one zig-zagged across the sky following the bigger one.”
Other behaviors include merging and separating. In cases dating back over 100 years the behavior of Orbs coming together or separating from one into many objects is well documented. Of 434 cases studied, eleven were identified as possible merges and separations by the Project Orange team. This is only 2.5% but the results were interesting both “for and against” Orbs.
In case # 24755 from July 4, 2010 occurring in Madison Alabama, two red Orbs were seen for 15 minutes. The witness wrote:
“About 9:15 pm two red lights came in from the East at about a 100 to 150 feet in the air, no sound, circled the fireworks display to the North, the two lights maintained a set distance apart of about 50 to 75 feet; no craft was visible. The red two lights flew between us and the firework shells exploding in the background. As the two red lights turned back toward the east the two lights turned into only one and proceeded East and maintained the same altitude. “
This is an excellent case for several reasons. Merging was witnessed-something which balloons, lanterns and drones cannot do. The objects were one single deep red color not typical of lanterns. Winds were at 4.6 mph out of the South but the objects were travelling East at one point. Also, the objects were seen in excess of 15 minutes also suggesting they were not lanterns.
However, what seemed to be an extraordinary series of cases from the Commerce City area of Colorado just south of Denver quickly turned into IFOs upon closer investigation. In one of the cases (58279) from July 4th, 2014 occurring in Highlands Ranch, Colorado for 2 minutes at exactly 9:00 pm, four white orbs were seen merging and separating as they travelled in an extremely rare vertical path downward. Remember that most Orbs hover or travel horizontally. On occasions when objects travel vertically it is upwards and they turn out to be lanterns. Fast vertically downward trajectories are almost unheard of. That is unless, of course, you are a synchronized team of parachutists with white magnesium flares attached to your shoes kicking off a fireworks show as you had for the past several years at 9:00 pm precisely falling for exactly 2 minutes. Best of all, there is an excellent video associated with this case that should be mandatory viewing for all FIs!
Finally, we have two excellent cases in the merging and separating category. First, we have a very vivid report fromAugust 22, 1873 from the Endinburg Advertiser which took place in Newington Lambeth, U.K. It reads in part:
“A pellucid globe of fire, apparently about six inches in diameter (apparent size?), was seen to rise from the Thames or fields beyond Millbank, its course was in a straight line….. It emitted a light equal to the moon at full and on passing over the road from St. George’s Fields to Vauxhall it separated into several parts some of which formed small globes the size of tea cup, others were oblong…. All which followed in a direct line, till after a space of about three minutes they vanished over the fields at Kennington without either noise or smoke.”
Secondly, we have a report from the India Gazette from Delhi with sightings taking place on June 23rd, 1832 as follows:
“An extraordinary large meteor, or rather three balls of fire, at first rose out of the E.S.E. horizon on the 23RD of last month, and upon rising to the elevation of about 15 degrees, joined into one, forming a large ball of brilliant fire, nearly as big as a full moon in the meridian, and passed over an arc of the heavens of about 115 degreesbefore it vanished in the W.N.W.”
Also, Orbs have been identified in the same sighting with other bizarre objects. The occurrences of Orbs with other UFOs are many and suggest that Orbs and phenomena such as discs, cylinders and black triangles may be connected.
In Leonard Stringfield’s 1977 book “Situation Red” he relates a November 4, 1975 6:45 pm sighting from Ross, Ohio on page 38 where a tree top hovering 75 foot long cylinder shaped UFO with blue and green rotating lights ejects a three foot red luminous ball out of its bottom. Instantly, the headlights of the witnesses’ car and its engine quit suggesting a connection between Orbs and electro-magnetic disturbances. Intriguingly, when the UFOs appeared all forest noises ceased until they disappeared.
In Raymond Fowlers’ 1979 book “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors”, the author describes on page 203 a September 17, 1966 sighting from Ipswich, Massachusetts at 4:45 A.M. The witness saw a huge cylinder tilted about 60 degrees near a lake beachfront releasing luminous Orbs which went back and forth into the cylinder over a prolonged period.
On August 23, 1954, in Vernon, France we have this witness account concerning a huge cigar shaped object standing on end about 300 feet from the witness Mr. Miserey who stated ”I had been watching this amazing spectacle for a number of minutes when suddenly from the bottom of the cigar came an object like a horizontal disk, which dropped at first as if in freefall then slowed and suddenly swayed and dived horizontally across the river toward me becoming very luminous.”
Closer to our own time period, we have MUFON Case # 36612 from Northcliff, South Africa from March 20, 2012. The witness describes a close encounter with a disc shaped mothership launching red-orange Orbs. The narrative goes:
“At 10:45pm I…....looked up to see at least 5 or 6 objects in a staggered formation in the sky. They were all at various altitudes ranging from very low to horizon (from my vantage point) to very high altitude. They were glowing red to orange and each one was a different intensity and color. I noticed them as they were maneuvering around quite vigorously in the sky. I immediately ran indoors to call my housemate …. We both then went out and witnessed each of the craft move slowly up into the sky and at high altitude seemed to disappear. By 11:00pm the last of the objects faded out and we then thought they were gone. ….. Then suddenly I noticed one of the craft coming directly over our heads at height of about a 1000 meters. It was glowing white but in a very faint fashion. It was clearly a disc-shaped craft and moving as fast as a helicopter would but in COMPLETE SILENCE. As it passed over it appeared to have a smaller glowing orb (spherical shaped) craft come out of the center of the disc and drop down and move away in a westerly direction. The main (or bigger) craft continued at the same height in a south westerly direction…. Entire sighting lasted roughly 20 minutes.”
Finally, case 67344 from Perth Scotland occurring on August 15, 2009 includes a black triangle and Orbs. We read:
“It was around 1:30 am and I was sitting on the bench……… I remember hearing a faint buzzing sound which I can best describe as the sound an air conditioning system would make. This noise didn't break my train of thought as I remember hearing it and without really thinking about it, attributing it to the nearby motorway. After maybe 20-30 secs of it continuing, my thoughts changed to realizing that was not the sound of the motorway, I had never heard anything like it before or since. At this point I looked up and slightly to my right but essentially directly above me I saw three bright white lights in the shape of an equilateral triangle, upon closer inspection I could make out the body of the vehicle which joined the lights. The body was a matt black color which could be made out against the slightly lighter night sky. As the object moved it blocked out the stars that were in my line of vision. At this point I also saw two orange orbs following the triangular object, these were offset but following directly behind the triangular object, as the three objects flew directly above me the two orbs crossed over, switched position and carried on the same trajectory. I watched as the objects passed directly overhead until they went out of vision over my house. At this point I ran inside and watched from the living room window as they continued on the same flight path until they were out of sight. The whole incident was over in around 3-4 minutes.”
Very peculiar are the behaviors of shooting rays out from an Orb. Virginia STAR Team Field Investigator Norman Gagnon recently wrote up an article on case # 39830 from June 25, 2012 occurring in Berryville, Virginia. The object, whatever it was, was an orange ball of light 80 feet off the ground and approximately 700 feet in diameter according to the witnesses. This is very large. It equates to 7 Boeing 737s nose to tail in a row. What is important here is that the object, before blinking out, shot a white ray at the ground for two minutes. The entire episode lasted 12 minutes. It can be inferred by the report that the object was not a drone or a lantern.
And from Marysville, California from the Marysville Daily dated May 19, 1869, we read:
“It was immense in size….larger than the moon when full. It was of a bright, glowing red color, and at intervals of a few minutes, darted forth from every side, bright rays like the straws of a broom, and from the ends of these were sent out sparks like those from a Roman Candle”.
Another behavior of Orb-like objects is their ability to spawn smaller Orbs off of themselves. One case from July 20, 1906 written up in the Concordia, Kansas newspaper named the Daily Blade goes as follows:
“A ball of fire, apparently a bunch of electricity, floated from the direction of the First National Bank northwest, over the Sutherland Building where two pieces as large as eggs broke off and dropped, the main body continuing on over the Long-McCue lumber yard”.
Do popular Radio Shack drones have the ability to launch smaller versions of themselves? Do lanterns or balloons?
All these subtle yet apparent behaviors of objects considered to be Orbs should be identification markers for the Field Investigator. When several of these behaviors occur in a case, especially a case with good wind or apparent size evidence, then the possibilities can be narrowed down significantly to something anomalous such as an Orb.
Beginning in late 2014 a new Orb phenomenon began to emerge. Blue semi-transparent Orbs with little white Orbs either orbiting the main Orb or seemingly attached to the main Orb were observed. The most viral of the photos on the internet concerned case 63290 from Klamath Falls, Oregon which occurred on February 12, 2015.
In the four Klamath Falls photos, a blue pale blue semi-transparent Orb was seen in the foreground of a telephone pole and its associated strung wiring. Also in the photo was the bright light source of the sun and a pattern of plane contrails criss-crossing the sky.
Initially, there was much concern. Photos were coming in from as far away as Venice, Italy and at least one report a month was being filed. These orbs were often photographed in conjunction with long lasting plane contrails often referred to as Chemtrails. They appeared three dimensional on film and perfectly spherical. In all, MUFON amassed 25 photographic cases with almost identical evidence in a 14 month period.
An analysis of the photographs revealed that in each photo there was a brilliant light source. It was always the sun. That was the first clue. It seems that the reason Chemtrails were in so many photos was by association in that the witness was photographing them specifically but with the sun in the photo also which may have caused a lens flare. Therefore the Orb was simply a by-product of the sun. Chemtrails in the photos were simply a coincidence and not a cause of the Orb at all.
The second clue is that in 5 of the 25 cases the type of camera or phone was known. It always seemed to be a Samsung Galaxy. Were these blue Orb images somehow peculiar to Samsung phones and simply some sort of lens flare? It turned out that Androids and iPhones could do the same blue Orb reflection also but Samsungs were the most precise.
One witness in case 65545 from Defiance, Ohio occurring on May 12 and May 15, 2015 was so enthralled by the supposed Orb he captured in a supermarket parking lot on May 12th that he returned several days later, aimed his camera at the sun from the same location, and captured the returning UFO again!! That, of course, would be an astronomical coincidence and lent more credence to the lens flare phenomenon. Thus clue #2.
So Team Orange conducted a test. A bright light source- a flashlight in a dark room- should produce a blue Orb reflection at a distance from the light source. It did. Thus clue # 3.
We were not dealing with Orbs at all but with a lens flare showing the sun or a flashlight light as a blue orb at a distance from the sun or flashlight in a dark room in each photograph.
But there was still the perplexing and vexing problem of the white smaller Orbs seemingly attached to the sun. Were they camera “artifacts” or were they objects visible around the sun that were brought out in the secondary image of the lens flare?
For the answer we needed to go to a professional, namely Cinde Costello, one of MUFON’s premier photo analysts. She explained that “the tiny dots seen within the larger flares/ghosts reflection artifacts...when not a hoax photo, per myresearch on them, are most likely due to what is known as a "blocking artifact" due to JPEG compression.”
Blocking artifacts are a distortion that appears in compressed video material as abnormally large pixel blocks.
Further research suggests that when certain individual pixels are inundated with light, a phenomenon called saturation occurs causing a pixel to turn white.
And so we conclude blue daytime Orbs are mere IFOS. However, there was one very disconcerting point in the affair and that was that in 5 of the 25 cases, the witnesses claimed to have seen the object with the naked eye.
Next we must confront dust in photographic evidence. In the paranormal investigation field, another type of Orb is studied. They are small objects appearing in photographs usually taken in cemeteries or allegedly haunted places. The problem is that many of these New Age-type spheres are nothing more than dust particles illuminated by the camera’s flash.
Below is a composite photograph showing two objects side by side for comparison. The white object on the left appears to be a highly complex ball of light with many interesting facets surrounded by a purple aura. The gold object on the right is also complex. But they are so far removed from each other in size and source that it is amazing that they look so similar.
The white object on the left is a dust particle illuminated by a camera flash. Nothing more.
The gold object on the right is a possible Orb from MUFON report # 54104 dated February 15, 2014 from Southaven, Mississippi seen at a distance in the sky by the witness who zoomed in with his camera. Note that the right photo is crisp and probably in focus. The object is even giving off a misty halo. It is perfectly spherical unlike a lantern and one color not tri-colored like a lantern. Its shape does not resemble a drone or a balloon.
The witness account is as follows:
“I noticed an orange light peak over a distant neighbor’s house. Our first thought was a lantern and then we thought maybe it was just a plane so we just watched it float across the sky and as it neared the clouds it just vanished. It looked like a small flashing orange dot. Well we laughed it over and carried on and about 5 minutes later another one appeared from the same spot and went the same direction as the last. This time we decided to take pictures and I zoomed in and tried to use flash but it turned out looking like a white orb so I turned the flash off and captured the picture I have now.”
To the observer, both could be construed as being large sky borne objects. However, one is tiny and simply an imperfection in a photo’s foreground while the second is large and airborne. So the FI should always be suspicious of scale in a photograph and acquire as much background information about it as possible.
Finally, the Field Investigator has one more tool in his arsenal to help determine if an object is a drone, lantern or Orb. It is a very neat photo analysis trick related to me by New York State MUFON Director and photo analyst Sam Falvo. What is great about this trick is that it can be used for any UFO not just Orbs.
In a photograph, the camera mimics the human eye in that its field of vision is limited left to right to 40 degrees.
Without markers or landmarks, indeed without any frame of reference for distance, size of an object can still be calculated to a reasonable degree using mathematical principals.
One piece of information that is absolutely critical to our calculations is distance. We need to know how far the object was from the witness on the horizontal plane and then we need an altitude. Calculating these two vectors as two lines of a triangle we can arrive at the hypotenuse of the triangle which is the true distance the object was from the witness.
There is a website calledhttp://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/scol/calrtri.htmwhere you can enter a value for the horizontal and vertical sides of a triangle (distance and altitude) and get the hypotenuse which is the true distance from observer to object in the sky. Bookmark that site. It is invaluable.
After finding our distance (an example is forthcoming), we can concentrate on the photograph itself in our search for the other key number which is the number of degrees of sky the object occupied. Knowing the number of degrees an object occupies in the 40 degree field of vision and knowing its distance from the witness will give us its actual size.
Our example will be case 57710 from Modesto California occurring on July 4th, 2014. There is a relatively clear photograph and the approximate distance is known. It was an orange object that flew through a fireworks display horizontally with intermittent hovering. The case was closed out as “Unknown – Other.”
First, we must determine the width of the photograph in pixels. A good photographic software package such as IrfanView can pixelate your photograph. Count from left edge to right edge, the number of pixels in the entire photograph. In our case, it was 370 pixels.
Next, we count the number of pixels in the object’s diameter from left to right. In our case it is 36 pixels.
We then divide 36 pixels into 370 pixels which gives us a percentage of how much space the object occupies in the photo. The answer is 9.72%
We multiply .0972 by 40 degrees to get the number of degrees the object occupied in the field of vision. The answer is 3.888 degrees of sky.
The object was a minimum of 501 feet from the witness in altitude and 101-500 feet away. For this exercise we will say the object was 100 feet away from the witness and 501 feet in altitude. The size therefore calculates to a distance of 511 feet as seen in the hypotenuse of the diagram below.
Finally we calculate for size knowing that the object occupies 3.888 degrees of sky and is 511 feet away from the witness. Because the last calculations use algebraic functions we will simply bookmark another great calculator for angular size at http://www.1728.org/angsize.htm
Simply click on size and input your degrees and distance.
The resulting answer is an object of about 34.618 feet in diameter. This diameter, if accurate, precludes Chinese lanterns, drones bought in a store and flares attached to helium balloons among other objects.
In conclusion, there are literally thousands of old newspaper and historical accounts of Orbs. Old newspaper accounts are particularly important in that they rule out hoaxes and drones. MUFON and NUFORC also have a vast collection of reports waiting to be investigated. Yet definitive proof is still lacking concerning Orange Orbs and other related phenomena.
We are not trying to solve the dilemma in this article but rather to bring common sense to its investigation and offer the MUFON Field Investigator and other researchers a first step grassroots approach to investigating the phenomenon known as Orbs.
The evidence exists for Orange Orbs. Teasing out the details in an environment without funds is challenging but not impossible to the headstrong investigator. Good Luck!
Black Triangles over New Jersey
By Robert Spearing, publisher www.worldufowatch.com
February 6, 2015
So what are flying Black Triangles? Are they military black budget programs like the rumored Auroras and TR-3Bs? Supposedly, the US Government has been working on flying triangles since the 1980s. There is also evidence we’ve been engaged in anti-gravity propulsion since the 60s. However, reports go back many decades before that. Something’s not right. Are they a hostile nation’s, alien or inter-dimensional? I don’t know the answer to that but I think I just got a little closer.
I am a MUFON Field Investigator for New Jersey. I just completed a six year study of sightings in the Garden State from January 1, 2009 through January 31, 2015. In all there were 99 reports under the searchable category “triangle” in the MUFON Case Management System in that timeframe. I painstakingly went through each case weeding out hoaxes, misidentifications and such. I included reports classified as being closed out due to “insufficient data” where the accounts were otherwise credible but were closed simply due to witnesses no longer being cooperative in the interview process. I was left with 57 good cases. I pegged those cases to Google Maps. The study results were a bit unnerving if they are not our boys!
To begin with, New Jersey is a small but representative state. Much larger states like California and Texas have many more triangle sightings which should be investigated also. NJ has two Nuclear Plants, and houses several military installations including McGuire AF Base/Fort Dix, Earle Naval Weapons Station, Picatinny Arsenal and a slew of Coast Guard Bases along the Atlantic Coast and on the Delaware River near Philadelphia. So there are some potential targets here for whoever may be interested for whatever purposes they may have.
I’ll start with power plants and military bases.
Three sightings (5%) occurred within ten miles of Picatinny Arsenal. Two sightings (3%) were within ten miles of McGuire Air Force Base. One sighting (2%) was within ten miles of Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant. Three sightings (5%) were within ten miles of Oyster Creek Nuclear Facility.
All these are low percentages and prove nothing. However, next was Earle Naval Weapons Station which registered eight sightings( 14%). Something about Earle is attracting triangles. But it is our Coast Guard facilities that really raised my eyebrows. Twenty-two sightings (39%) were within ten miles of Coast Guard Bases and many of these sightings were within four miles. So there seems to be a connection with water. For what it’s worth, Earle is quite near the ocean too.
In all, thirty-nine cases (68%) were within 10 miles of sensitive NJ installations.
Another oddity on the map was that twenty-four sightings (42%) occurred in southern New Jersey in the air corridor beginning just outside the southern delineation of McGuire AF Base’s restricted air space to the northern delineation of Dover AF Base in Delaware. However, not one sighting was reported in towns within their air space jurisdiction. In other words, they hang out between both bases but not close enough to get a reaction.
Another interesting fact was that not one of the 57 cases studied elicited a military jet attempted intercept. So were these craft invisible to radar or were they a known quantity to our radar stations?
Statistically, November and August saw the highest number of sightings over six years. May saw the fewest with one. March was the only month with no sightings. Atlantic and Monmouth County had the highest amount of sightings – nine in all. Six counties had no sightings which suggests they were of no strategic importance.
Now let’s get to the triangles themselves. Here’s where it gets even more interesting.
Twenty-three cases out of fifty-seven (40%) were Close Encounters! That is a remarkable statistic for one type of UFO sighting. It is unprecedented! What would we find if we expanded our study to California and Texas?
In twenty-nine cases (51%), the witness estimated that the craft was under 500 feet in altitude. Many cases in this category actually had tree top level checked off. In 31 cases (54%) the triangle was hovering. In twenty-three of those cases ( 40%) they were hovering over roads or highways.
Let’s talk about hovering for a moment. Apart from helicopters and conventional planes with vertical capable propellers, there is no evidence that a triangle or delta winged aircraft can hover. Yet in an astounding 54% of the cases the triangle was doing just that. Way too many witnesses to be mistaken as to what they were seeing especially at close range!
In forty-seven cases (82%) the craft was silent. Most of these witnesses were close enough to know. In eight cases (14%) the witness heard a low hum and in two cases (4%) they heard a low rumble. In other words, in all 57 cases studied not one had an engine noise described in conventional terms! Is the power plant so insulated that it is stealth-like or do these triangles use a non-traditional form of getting around such as anti-gravity?
Yet another very harsh statistic was that in an astounding fifty-five cases (96%), there were no conventional red and green FAA mandated navigation lights. In only 3 other cases were anti-collision red strobes seen on the belly of the craft! That is some mighty dangerous and inconsiderate flying on the part of the military if it is them!
Another strange anomaly is that in five cases (9%) other objects accompanied the triangle. One was a green cylinder and the rest were small orbs or lights. This is reminiscent of many of the cylinder UFO cases reported in France in the 1950s where they were frequently escorted by circles of light undulating in their flight paths in pairs.
While only 3 cases (5%) in pairs. Dare I say this does not fit well with terrestrial aircraft maneuversrcles of light undulatifall into the next category it is enough to suggest there is merit to it because of its peculiar nature. Apparently, some triangles can give off a mist or cloud which can cloak it to some degree. In another two cases, electronics were affected as the triangle passed in close proximity to the witness.
Now for some mundane statistics. In 21 cases (37%) witnesses estimated the size of the craft to be between 100 and 300 feet long. A typical Boeing 737 is between 102 and 137 feet long depending on it’s class. In 22 cases (39%) the craft was of an unknown size. In 7 cases (12%) the craft was estimated at 31 to 100 ft long. In five cases, the witness estimated 11 to 30 feet long and in only 3 cases did the witness think the craft was larger than 300 feet which would be truly enormous.
In many UFO reports of triangles, witnesses report either rounded edges to the triangle’s points or they report a total absence of points as if cut off. Our study of New Jersey reveals this is not the norm. Only one report was of the tips being cut off and only 4 cases had rounded edges.
A great photo from MUFON Case # 43920 shows such a round edged triangle.
The triangle in that photo has a unique lighting pattern to it which I shall call perimeter lighting. Twelve cases (21%) had this strange lighting on either one two or all three sides of the craft. Sometimes the back line of the craft had perimeter lighting while the front displayed only a point of light at the tip of the triangle. In other cases the front two sides were illuminated.
The remaining cases had more conventional lighting at each of the triangle’s three points. In all, 38 cases (67%) had lights on each point. Most of the cases had either 3 white or three red points of light on their tips. Six cases had a combination of yellow and green lights and eight cases ( 14%) had blue lights on the points of the craft. Blue lights are not standard colors for conventional aircraft in the United States or anywhere else!
Two final remarks on lighting configurations are that seven cases (12%) had bright white center belly spotlights and in one case the spot was surrounded by five fainter white lights and another two cases had globular lights on their points.
In the attached photo from MUFON Case 35102, the triangle clearly displays unusual three dimensional globes at each point.
Finally, and perhaps most profound among the findings reach in this report is the fact that triangles are not one type of phenomenon. In all, I determined four distinct categories. Forty-seven cases (82%) fall into the Type I category of the Equilateral, Isosceles or Obtuse black craft. Two cases fell into the very interesting category of shape shifting red orb like lights. These Type II craft seem to hover, drift and gradually change shape sometimes deviating from a triangle into a straight line. In these cases, the craft is not clearly seen suggesting it may not be a triangle at all. It may also be a craft of immense size with lights moving about its belly like the Lockhheed Martin P-791 transport airship. And, for the skeptics, this may also be the sighting type most prone to hoaxers using chines lanterns and flares attached to balloons. Type III craft.(5 cases -9%) are arrow/wedge/boomerang shaped. One possibility is that a U.S. Steath F-117 Fighters may have been seen and mistaken for triangles but they do not have the ability to hover! The final category, Type IV, are pyramidal and very mysterious. They comprised only three cases.
In conclusion, I wish to reiterate that this is a small study of one U.S. State and in no way is a final truth about Black Triangle identities and behaviors in other places. However, it should be the responsibility of other researchers in other places, to attempt to correlate the results of studies they should be undertaking to ascertain a larger picture. The MUFON Case Management System and Peter Davenport’s National UFO Center (NUFORC.ORG) are vast databases that are being underemployed by UFOlogists.
Perhaps our government and other ones around the world, unbeknownst to us, are undertaking such studies. Quite frankly, for our sake, I hope they are.
Teddy Roosevelt and the Mystery of the UFO and the Split American Eagle
By Robert Spearing, publisher of www.worldufowatch.com
January 26. 2015
(this article can also be found at George Filer's weekly internet UFO newsletter athttp://nationalufocenter.com/2015/01/filers-files-04-2015-ufo-roosevelts-home/ )
When one thinks of U.S. Presidents and UFOs several of our Chief Executives come to mind. Firstly, there is President Eisenhower purportedly meeting aliens at Edwards Air Force Base in 1954. Then there is JFK’s memo to the CIA asking for disclosure on UFOs ten days before his assassination. More humorously but perhaps true is the story of Richard Nixon treating comedian Jackie Gleason to a view of dead alien Greys at Homestead Air Force Base in 1974. But what about Teddy Roosevelt!
Is anyone in the UFOlogy Community even aware of a documented UFO sighting over our 26th president’s home, Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay, N.Y. on August 1, 1907 when he was in his second term of office?
According to an old clipping found by UFOlogist Kay Massingill from a newspaper called the D.C. Evening Star dated August 2, 1907, two events of a mysterious nature occurred in the town of Oyster Bay in a twenty-four hour period and both concerned Mr. Roosevelt.
In the latter, the town librarian Miss Denton opened up the library on the morning of the 1st and discovered a beautiful mahogany chair donated by Teddy to the museum from his days as Governor of New York had split down the backside sometime the night before. More peculiar was the fact that on the reverse back of the chair was the Bald Eagle Seal of the United States of America and it was split in half! An ominous sign indeed! Was it an omen?
However, the main event occurred the evening before between the hours of 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. when a brilliant white light was seen to hang motionless over Sagamore Hill.
According to the dispatch, it was a light “considerably larger than a star” and hung about 300 feet in altitude over the house according to numerous witnesses. It was an “intense white light” and after 11 p.m. it began to fade to a spark and then extinguished. Meanwhile in the library a short distance away, a chair associated with Sagamore Hill’s occupant was coming undone in a most mysterious way.
Was Mr. Roosevelt home the night of the UFO sighting? The article doesn’t say and we’ll probably never know but it is known that Sagamore was called Roosevelt’s Summer White House and it was the middle of summer!
So the main question to ask is Why! Why would a ball of light attend to Mr. Roosevelt in the heat of 1907?
Two clues can be found concerning his agenda as President that year.
One clue was his December 3, 1907 Annual Address to Congress. The speech is mundane for the most part dealing with anti-trust actions, railroads, the Department of Agriculture, conservation, unions and such but near the end of it Roosevelt begins to lay out the groundwork for creating the world’s most dominant modern navy. It seemed Roosevelt had a great grasp of what was happening in the world concerning Japan, Germany and China and their eventual rise on the world’s stage. He specifically recommended dredging Pearl Harbor to make it a world class naval base and increasing Alaska’s defenses. Did he know something about the world no one else did? His maneuvering just months after the Sagamore Hill incident directly led to America’ emergence as the modern world’s greatest Suprerpower. Did he have help from E.T. whispering in his ear? During his tenure America’s Navy grew from 5th to 3rd in the world in size.
The second clue is the very interesting coincidence of the Second International Peace Convention held at The Hague, Netherlands that year from June 15 to October 18, 1907 which was during the Sagamore Hill sighting. That convention was the brainchild of none other than Teddy Roosevelt! It was an attempt to codify the rules of war – particularly naval warfare. More importantly, it was seen as the world’s first attempt at an international governing body – a forerunner to the League of Nations and the United Nations…. AND possibly the end of American sovereignty in a New World Order – thus the American Bald Eagle split down the middle!
So one could ask if possibly aliens (or time travelers for that matter) were attempting to lay out the groundwork for (or interfere with) the earth’s direction in the 20th and 21st centuries and might they have been in contact with our Presidents long before Mr. Eisenhower’s 1954 encounter?
To see the complete newspaper clipping go to http://www.worldufowatch.com/historical_newspaper_clippings
Review of “The Complete Story of the Worldwide Invasion of the Orange Orbs” by Terry Ray
by Bob Spearing, publisher World UFO Watch
September 28, 2014
An Army Destroyed by Birds???? by Bob Spearing
June 25, 2914
In the year 571 A.D. when the Islamic Prophet Muhammad was born, an Ethiopian army descended on Mecca to avenge the defiling of a church. In retaliation, the Christians would destroy the Arab pagan’s place of worship In pre-Islamic Arabia. The Koran tells a short tale later recounted by other Islamic traditions about the encroaching army being destroyed by birds dropping stones from their claws and beaks.
The Koran in Sura 105 states:
Have you not considered, [O Muhammad], how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
Did He not make their plan into misguidance?
And He sent against them birds in flocks,
Striking them with stones of hard clay,
And He made them like eaten straw.
While the story has all the outward appearances of religious myth, could there be a technological solution to the tale.
In todays scientific frame of reference which the ancient Arabs were not privy to, could the birds have been fighter jets and the stones they dropped cluster bombs? Think about it. Could stones from birds really defeat an army? Modern jets with cluster bombs could easily defeat and ancient land locked army.
But for what agenda? If there is a temporal war in progress for centuries between two opposing forces for whatever purpose?
Perhaps the intent was to ensure that the Prophet Muhammad was born. The destruction of Mecca in the year of his birth may have made him a casualty. Could modern machines have infiltrated the time line to change it or ensure it wasn’t changed?
Cross in The Sky Over Manhattan 1861 by Bob Spearing
June 21, 2014
Several years ago while sitting in a Mormon Genealogy Library in West Caldwell, N.J. doing research on my family tree, I was perusing a microfilm containing the baptism registers of St. Peter’s Church in Jersey City from the year 1858. That microfilm identified by the Mormon Catalog as FLS Film 1403371 contained an anomaly that can only be described as a UFO sighting.
The page began normal enough with a number of baptism entries but near the bottom there was a handwritten note presumably from the parish priest. The note read exactly as follows:
“R. Thos. Kinder baptized on the 26th(Feb 1858)<unknown> now resides 44 Baxter St, New York. Mrs. T. Healey informs me that Elizabeth wife of R.T. Kinder, at said house, looking out of (out of) a garret window at 12 o’clock at night 29th March 1861 in the direction of The Church of The Transfiguration & in the sky saw a luminous cross distinctly well formed with a glowing light above it around the head of it and <unknown> <unknown> that the sky all <unknown> <unknown> was black and dark not a star to be seen. She awoke her husband Richard and who came to the window and (and) saw it and offered the same of the appearance of the sky <cross?>.”
Additionally, besides the text, at the top of the next page of the register there was a drawing of the described object.
In the 1850s Baxter Street was in the notorious Five Points neighborhood – the most densely packed sea of humanity in Manhattan at the time and the poorest of ghettos. It was the setting for the Martin Scorsese film “Gangs of New York.” A “garret window” was the upper window of a two story frame house. Today, 44 Baxter Street remains facing east but the crowded tenements it faced are long gone replaced by Columbus Park. Five Points in now the heart of Chinatown. The Church of The Transfiguration is still there but no longer the highest structure in the neighborhood.
Little is known of the Kinders. They were from England. The father was naturalized in 1863. It can be deduced from the 1860 U.S. Census that the Healeys lived downstairs from the Kinders and that Richard, the father, was 28 when he saw the cross; Elizabeth was 23 and their children Elizabeth, Mary and Richard were 5 years, 3 years and 2 years respectively. In the 1870 Census Elizabeth is gone and presumed deceased. Richard was a salesman in both censuses.
What did they see?
An analysis of the object suggests it made no sound. It had a fuselage similar to an airplane. Light emanated from the area of a cockpit. It was travelling east towards Brooklyn and the East River. That night, in the neighborhood according to the N.Y. Times and N.Y. Herald, there were three suspicious fires (one at a laboratory, one at a bookbindery and one at an ammunition factory).
What is apparent though is that in an age without television or internet or reality shows with 15 minutes of fame for anyone and in an age of strong religious convictions, the Kinders account of a cross in the sky must be taken as a sincere description of an anomalous event over New York City.
Extraordinary Historical UFO Photos found in family album
By Bob Spearing, editor of World UFO Watch
October 21, 2014
In one of the great recent UFO finds in the past decade, a family in New Mexico has found an old photo album of their grandfather an Air Force captain stationed in Alburqueque between 1961 and 1965.
The anonymous family submitted the five extraordinary photos to the Mutual UFO Network for analysis under two MUFON Case numbers 60299 and 60482.
The best guess of the family is that the photos are from around April of 1962. The photos clearly show a disc in the sky with a domed center unlike any known terrestrial craft at the time or even now.
The object is apparently hovering and maneuvering as the photos suggest the object was remaining in a portion of the sky over a residence.
New Mexican MUFON Field Investigator Donald Burleson concluded, after photo analysis looking for possible hoax activity, that the photos appear to show a legitimate UFO.
Field Investigator Burleson concluded “The object does not answer to any conventional description, looking very much, on the contrary, like familiar notions of a flying disk.”
THE KINGDOM OF SHU AND CANCONG IT’S GOD-KING
By Bob Spearing, World UFO Watch Publisher
September 25, 2014
In Sichuan Province, China far from the Yellow River where Chinese culture was first thought to have developed, in a place called Sanxingdui, a remarkable culture, 3,000 to 5,000 years old, was discovered that turned Chinese history on its head several decades ago.
Thousands of artifacts radiocarbon dated to the 12th through 11thcenturies BC were discovered in pits including intriguing bronze masks of beings with almond shaped eyes and large ears that are very un-Asian. In one case the mask’s eyes protrude so far out and are so alien looking that they are said to belong to the culture’s first God-Man-King known as Cancong who supposedly ruled for hundreds of years!!! According to the Chronicles of Huayang compiled in the Jin Dynasty (265–420 AD), Cancong was described as having protruding eyes. As obviously abhorrent looking as he was, he was beloved by his people.
This ancient kingdom was known as Shu. Pictographs of Shu are represented by a stylized eye over an insect. Cancong was believed to have brought silkworm farming and silk production to his people. Thus the protruding eyed God and his insect technology were the defining symbols of his culture. He is often depicted as wearing green robes – the color of the silkworm.
Some of the masks of Cancong were enormous being over two feet by three feet and surely belonged covering the face of a God! Cancong reigned for several hundred years during the Xia (17th-15th cent. BC),Shang (17th-11th cent. BC) and early Zhou (11th cent.-221 BC) periods.
A sprawling city for its time to rival Yellow River Dynasties, Sanxingdui was abandoned suddenly around 1,000 BC. No one knows where they came from although some legends say they came from another place or world. As mysteriously as they came, they went.
Now who was Cancong who lived for several hundred years and who may have been much larger than mortal humans? What about his eyes? As you can see from the photo no human ever had eyes like Cancong. Are they indeed eyes or are they light rays emanating from his eyes! Or are they some sort of lenses? The pictograph rendering of the stylized eye can be interpreted as “vertical eyed man.”
Did light emanate from his eyes? Did he wear special lenses to see properly in our light spectrum? Or did he indeed have eyes that protruded out several inches from his skull in some alien fashion? Was Cancong even a human being? Could he have been at least partly an android? Certainly a robot could survive hundreds of years unlike a human being. No one has ever found Cancong’s tomb. And Cancong brought an advanced technology to the kingdom that insured their survival.
Adding to the intrigue are several totems and statues of birds that are also very un-Asian.
In one case, a representation of a bird with little to no correspondence to known Chinese Art bears an uncanny resemblance to a Thunderbird of Pacific Northwest Native American Cultures. See the photo of the side by side comparison of the wooden Thunderbird representation and the Sanxingdui bronze statue. The museum at Sanxingdui identified the bird in their totems as an Osprey which is an ocean-going bird. How does a land-locked central Asian culture come to have the symbol of the Osprey in their art even though the ocean was a thousand miles away? Was it a bird at all or some sort of aerial vehicle capable of long distance flight?
And what of the mysterious Thunderbirds? UFOlogists have theorized that perhaps they weren’t even live animals but air-going ships made of metal as some tales suggest. Other legends portray them as shape shifters capable of turning into humans – aliens perhaps? Lightning generated from a thunderbird’s eyes (a weapon?) and thunder clapped when it flapped its wings (an engine?).
Finally a word about Shu’s other legendary kings! According to Chronicles of Huayang, King Yufu symbolized the Cormorant – another ocean bird like the Osprey. King Duyu taught the people agriculture and transformed into a Cuckoo after his death – yet another bird reference. When King Bieling died in Chu Province far from Shu his body floated upriver to Shu and came back to life – not hard for an android to do.
The Papal Fleet and the UFO of 1571 by Bob Spearing
August 4, 2014
I am a huge proponent of the link between UFOs and Time Travel. I can site numerous examples of apparent timeline tampering throughout history whenever UFOs appear.
In their 2009 book, Wonders In The Sky, Jacques Vallee and Cris Aubeck describe a September 20th, 1571 flaming column of light seen over Lepanto, Italy as the Papal Fleet prepared to depart for battle with Selim II, the Sultan of Turkey off the coast of Italy.
According to Alberto Guglielmotti, the Papal Historian of the fleet, “It was a clear starry night with a cool wind coming from the north. Suddenly a colossal fire in the shape of a flaming column was seen by everyone to cross the sky over a long period of time, filling the witnesses with great admiration. .. All the witnesses regarded this as a good omen and sensed they were on the verge of a great victory. They believed the column of fire was showing them the way, guiding the Christian fleet in the same way the people of Israel were guided across the desert…”
On October 7th the Christian Fleet defeated the Muslim Fleet off the shores of Lepanto.
This is not the first time we have perceived UFO interference regarding Muslims.
In 571 AD. Just before the Prophet Mohammad was born an army of Ethiopians attacking Mecca was destroyed by an air force of birds dropping stones. A theory suggests these birds were fighter jets dropping cluster bombs.
Had the army not been defeated there existed the possibility that Mohammad’s family would have been killed in the onslaught as Mohammad’s grandfather was directly involved in the conflict.
Were UFOs sent to alter the timeline to ensure Mohammad was born? Likewise, did the Christian Fleet exactly 1000 years laterenjoy the interference of a UFO in defeating the Muslim Turkish Fleet.
One has to wonder if a power balance struggle is not ensuing across centuries.
Chemtrails and UFOS - Possible Scenarios
by Bob Spearing July 29,2014
I am a Field Investigator in New Jersey for MUFON. Recently I was given case 57295 to investigate. It was a 17 year old sighting from 1997 of a large orb interacting with a jet spraying chemtrails over Mullica Hill NJ. Two things about the report were startling. The highly polished silver sphere was the “size of a penny compared to the jet which was the size of a period” claimed the witness. One of the primary jets identified in chemtrail spraying is the Air Force’s KC- 10a with a length of 181 feet and a wingspan of 165 feet. If, as an example, a period represented the length of one KC-10a and ten periods equaled the diameter of one penny then the sphere in question would be an enormous 1,810 feet in diameter. But even more astounding in the report was the interaction the sphere had with the jet. It approached the jet from a right angle and forced the plane to divert its course a full 90 degrees in order to avoid a collision. The sphere then chased the jet until they were lost from view. This brings us to the question of what was the motive in the sphere’s intelligent, deliberate and aggressive action?
Much has been written about the link between chemtrails and UFOs since 2000 when the phenomenon became obvious to UFOlogists . Filer’s Files has approached this subject on several occasions. In FFs’ 2008 #12 issue, MUFON Case # 9971 from Huntington, West Virginia tells a similar story of an orb intercepting a chemtrail jet. The witness stated ”At one point in the beginning, I thought the object was going to crash into a jet as they approached each other from opposite directions.”
Yet not all interactions with UFOs and chemtrail jets have been violent however. There are also accounts from 2000 from investigations by former Louisiana MUFON State Director Gregg Avery of orbs and spheres seemingly dancing in and out of chemtrails in a non-aggressive manner.
So are these orbs and spheres friend or foe? For that matter, are chemtrail jets friend or foe. Let’s examine some scenarios.
The first hypothesis would make the UFOs hostile. Perhaps our government is aware of aggressive life forms in our upper atmosphere and are attempting to eradicate them by poisoning the atmosphere to a certain extent to make earth inhospitable to them. This would explain their aggressive behavior.
The second hypothesis would involve a friendly alien race or secret manmade DARPA-type military robots deriving energy or nutrition in our atmosphere from the chemtrails (more on chemtrail composition later). This would explain them dancing in and out of the aerosols ejected by the planes.
This leads us to either an extremely disconcerting or an effusively joyous revelation.
The joyous revelation would be that alien races are already here and are benevolent but cannot yet interact with us humans because their pathogens would be detrimental to our health. As a result, prior to full disclosure by our world governments, they are enhancing our immune systems with chemtrail cocktails in anticipation of First Contact!
Of course, there is another darker way to look at the last scenario also. And it is chilling.
Could our governments already have been subverted by a hostile alien race seeking to control, enslave or diminish the human race? Could our own jets be spraying chemicals into our atmosphere to make our immune system weaker so that deadly pathogens will effectively neutralize the human race prior to an advanced hostile species subjugating earth?
The chemical composition of these chemtrails is surely intriguing. They consist of heavy metals and human blood cells among other things. Food perhaps? Or poison?
One organization in pursuit of answers to these questions is the Carnicom Institute in Wallace, Idaho which has been investigating the link between chemtrail discharges and the mysterious disease known as Morgellens Syndrome. They have found causal links between the mysterious fibers growing on parts of Morgellens sufferers and chemtrail spraying. Extensive testing on these fibers has detected the presence of artificial blood in their composition. The Carnicom Institute’s position is that there is a mass poisoning of the world public by a consortium of governments for reasons unknown. Long gone are the days when chemtrails were thought to be simple weather modification techniques.
It has been close to 20 years since chemtrails have entered the public’s consciousness and we are getting no answers from our leaders. It has been even longer, much longer, that the world has sought answers to the UFO phenomenon. We will continue to wait with eyes wide open.
Suggested browsing:
http://www.carnicominstitute.org
Mars lights by Bob Spearing
July 14, 2014
OK! What’s going on on Mars! Back in April 2014 the Nasa Rover Curiosity snapped photos of a mysterious surface light. It surely looks artificial and given the increasing volume of oddities being reported from the Martian surface it is getting harder to explain Including one on June 20th I will get to later.
"One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun," Justin Maki, leader of the team that built and operates Curiosity's navigation camera, said in the statement. "When these images were taken each day, the sun was in the same direction as the bright spot, west-northwest from the rover, and relatively low in the sky."
Another possibility is that the bright spots are sunlight reaching the camera's image sensor through a vent hole in the camera housing, which has happened before with Curiosity and other Mars rovers, the agency said.
Now we have the UFO descending onto the surface of Mars.
On June 20th, Curiosity again snapped suspect photos of a light descending to the Martian surface taken by the rover's Navcam Right camera, the same camera that snapped the April photos. Thirty-one seconds separates the photos and the light clearly had descended.
There is an alternative theory however and we must report it. Justin Maki, says "This is a hot pixel that has been around since we started using the Right Navcam." He adds that the April images could be caused by something similar
"In the thousands of images we've received from Curiosity, we see ones with bright spots nearly every week. These can be caused by cosmic-ray hits or sunlight glinting from rock surfaces, as the most likely explanations."
What do you think? Disinformation? Or a logical explanation?
Moving Rocks On Mars by Bob Spearing
July 12, 2014
First reported in 2010 these amazing photos from Mars show very hard to dispute evidence that objects on Mars are moving under their own power.
Here are three photos from Mars Rover Spirit taken over 7 days that clearly show something in one place then disappearing then reappearing somewhere else.
In the above photo taken on Mars day Sol 1833 the object appears as a rock looking somewhat like a coiled snake with its head projecting up.
Three days later on Sol 1836 the objext is nowhere to be found. Notice its old position on the right of the photo and the empty yellow box on the left.
Now several days later on Sol 1843 - Viola! The rock is back.
No trick of angles at play. The rock clearly moved over the course of a week while all other rocks remained stationary.
It is getting harder and harder for NASA and World Governments to keep suppressing the truth about Mars. Something is happening there.
The obvious question is do we want to find life there or do we know it already.
What is our true agenda on Mars? Is it to find water for us and life existing there is only an obstacle to be removed? Are we the BAD GUYS????????????
The Chaldean USO by Bob Spearing
July 1, 2014
The Chaldeans were a people of Southern Babylon. Concerning the generations before the Great Flood of Noah, the Christian historian Eusebius wrote of their line of kings in the ten generations prior. He wrote:
When Alorus died, his son Alaparus became king for 3 sars.
After Alaparus, Amelon, a Chaldaean from the city of Parmibiblon, became king for 13 sars.
After Amelon, Ammenon, a Chaldaean from (?) Parmibiblon, became king for 12 sars.
- In his reign, the monster Annedotus, whose form was a mixture between a man and a fish, appeared out of the Red Sea.
Megalarus, from the city of Pautibiblon, reigned for 18 sars.
The shepherd Daonus, from the city of Pautibiblon, reigned for 10 sars.
- In this reign, again four monsters appeared out of the Red Sea, who [like Annedotus] were a mixture between a man and a fish.
Euedorachus, from the city of Pautibiblon, reigned for 18 sars.
- In this reign, another monster appeared out of the Red Sea, which also was a mixture between a man and a fish, and its name was Odacon. All these [monsters] explained in detail what Oannes had stated briefly.
Amempsinus, a Chaldaean from Larancha, reigned for 10 sars.
Otiartes, a Chaldaean from Larancha, reigned for 8 sars.
When Otiartes died, his son Xisuthrus became king, for 18 sars.
- In his reign, the great flood occurred.
Notice in the reigns of Ammenon, Daonus and Euedorachus creatures emerge from the sea who were a cross between man and fish. Could these apparitions be more than myth? Could they be Unidentified Submersible Objects of Technological design carrying humans from an advanced civilization? Perhaps the next quote will make it more plausible that that is indeed the case:
“In the first year, a horrible beast appeared out of the Red Sea in the region near Babylonia. Its name was Oannes, according to Apollodorus. It had the complete body of a fish, but underneath its head there grew another head, beneath the fish's head; and in the same way the feet of a man grew of the tail of the fish. It had the voice of a man, and its likeness has been preserved even down to the present day. He says that this beast spent the day with men, taking no food, but instructing them about writing and science and all kinds of crafts. It taught them about founding cities and establishing temples, about introducing laws and about geometry. It showed them how to sow seed and gather fruit; and in general it gave men all the skills they needed for a civilised life. Since that time, nothing additional has been discovered.
But when the sun set, this beast called Oannes went back into the sea, and spent the night in the water, because it was amphibious. Afterwards other similar beasts appeared, which he says he will mention in the list of kings. But he says that Oannes wrote about creation and about the government of states, and he passed on this message on to mankind.”
Ancient Egypt UFO Fleet Sighting 3,500 years ago by Bob Spearing
June 30, 2014
Over 3,500 years ago in ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Thothmosis III committed to papyrus an account of possible extraterrestrials in his skies as follows:
"In the year 22, of the 3rd month of winter, six hour of the day, the scribes' archivists or chronicles, or annalists, of the House of Life found that there was a circle of fire coming in the sky… (but) it had no head. From its mouth came a breath that stank. One rod long was its body and a rod wide and it was noiseless. And the hearts of the scribes became terrified and confused, and they laid themselves flat on their bellies….
They reported to the Pharaoh. His Majesty ordered… has been examined… and he was meditating on what had happened and which is recorded in papyri of the House of Life.
Now, after some days had gone by, behold, these things became more numerous in the skies than ever. They shone more than the brightness of the Sun and extended to the limits of the four supports (quarters) of the heavens…
Dominating in the sky was the station of these fiery-circles. The army of the Pharaoh looked on with him in their midst.
It was after supper. Thereupon these fire fire-circles ascended higher in the sky towards the south."
"Fishes and winged animals or bird fell from the sky. A marvel never before known since the foundation of this land! And Pharaoh caused incense to be brought to make peace on Earth… And what happened was ordered by the Pharaoh to be written in the annals of the House of Life… so that it be remembered forever."
Nuremberg april 14, 1561 - An Analysis of the Black Spear Like Object by Bob Spearing June 15, 2014
This paper aims to understand one aspect of the famous Nuremberg UF sky battle of April 14, 1561 – that of the huge black spear that followed later after the battle. Before going any further please read the description of the day while looking at the photo and pay particular attention to the last sentence.
Translation by “Stapledon”
“In the year 1561 on the 14th day of April in the morning between … [difficult special time phrase] … and … [difficult special time phrase], that is in the morning between 4 and 5 on the little clock, a very horrible vision showed at the sun when she rised and was seen at Nuremberg in the town and in front of the gate and at the countryside by alot of male and female persons. First the sun showed and was seen with twobloodcolored, halfround strokes like the diminishing moon right through the sun, and in the sun, above, under and on both sides stood bloodcolored and partly blueish or ironcolored, also blackcolored round orbs. The same on both sides and in circled plates around the sun – there were such bloodcolored and the other orbs in great numbers, standing three in a row, sometimes four in a quadruple, also alot as singles. And between such orbs alot of bloodcolored crosses have been seen, and between such crosses and orbs were bloodcolored strips, thick behind ["streyme hinden dick"] and to the front a bit smoother than … [ ? "hocken rho[?]“]. Mixed in between together with others stood two big tubes, one to the right and the other to the left [hand's side], in those little and big tubes were three, four and more orbs. This alltogether began to fight ["streyten"], the orbs first in the sun moved towards the ones standing at both sides, so the ones, which were outside, moved together with the orbs out of the small and large tubes into the sun. Also the tubes moved towards each other like the orbs and everything fought and battled ["gestritten und gefochten"] with each other nearly one hour long. And after the battle, which moved for a while into and again out of the sun from one side to the other most violently, exhausted itself by each other, everything (as drawn above) fell from the sun and the sky down to the earth like burning alltogether and vanished ["vergangen"] down on the earth gradually [? "allgemach"] in a big smoke. After such events something like a black spear, the shaft from sunrise [east] and the head towards sundawn [west], has been seen with big thickness and length. "
Everyone is familiar with this battle and the accompanying woodcut by Hans Glaser done 5 years after the event. It is clear two opposing forces did battle in the sky with casualties crashing to the ground and a clear winner.
What isn’t usually focused upon is the large spear like object that appeared later in the day after the fireworks were done. What was it and why did it appear?
My theory is that while the earlier objects were most likely extraterrestrial UFOS with opposing agendas, the black spear is most likely terrestrial in origin. It bears an uncanny resemblance to a B-1 Bomber and there may be a reason for that.
First, AND MOST OBVIOUSLY, B-1 Bombers are black and spear like.
Second, why would an advanced alien race or races cross interstellar space with a spacecraft or plane in tow that is only capable of flying in earth’s atmosphere when it’s obvious they could use their orbs and flying crosses and tubes to the same effect? Something’s not right.
Could their battle in reality be about control of the black spear like object. Could the black spear like object be from another time but terrestrial? ARE WE TALKING TIME TRAVEL? Is this an American 21st century craft and do opposing Alien forces want to impede or advance it’s mission in an all out battle earlier in the day?
Third, if you look very closely at the black spear you’ll notice cuts or canals in its fuselage Could these be the cuts of wing flaps? If so. was the plane descending for a landing? If so, to where?
Finally, if you look very very closely at the Nuremberg woodcut you will see that just behind the lower left wing of the black spear is a small rectangular protrusion. Looking at the B-1 photo, we see a similar rectangular protrusion just past the cockpit and just before the start of the upper right wing. Coincidence? Intentional attention to fine detail in the 1566 woodcut?
To conclude, is it possible that a 20th or 21st century American, Russian or Chinese vehicle travelled back in time for unknown purposes and Alien forces attempted to intercept it as opposing forces attempted to allow it’s passage?
Fifty Years Ago in UFOlogy…#5
Britian’s Roswell Incident of February 1964 by Bob Spearing
June 13, 2014
Fifty years ago in February 1964, a Soviet Military transmission concerning a UFO entering the Earth’s atmosphere and breaking up into two pieces over Europe was intercepted by a British amphibious force in the Caribbean.
One piece of the UFO crashed in Spitzburgen, West Germany and the other in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England. More intriguingly, U.S. Air force Intelligence not only helped recover the UFO but also recovered three dead crewmen according to former Command Sergeant Robert Dean.
Famous UFO AUTHOR Nick Redfern and Irene Bott interviewed a second witness named Harold South who happened upon the crash retrieval scene and snuck around the police barricades to take a few photos while police and military personnel milled about. He observed a large triangular object being loaded onto a flatbed truck. Later police seized his camera.
On the morning he was to be interviewed by Redfern and Bott, he received a call from the Ministry of Defense. The content of the call has not been made public but Refern used a reverse call trace to confirm that South indeed had been contacted by M.O.D.
As for the craft itself, it has been reported that it and the bodies were brought to Porton Down Scientific Research Establishment.
One final note. Many triangular objects were reported over Penkridge in the 1980s and 1990s. These were later identified as U.S. Stealth Bombers.
Rockets and UFO Interference by Bob Spearing June 4, 2014
Photo source: www.ocelebrity.com
On Friday May 16, 2014, a Russian Proton-M rocket with a very advanced satellite launched from Kazakhstan and blew up nine minutes later at about 150 km in altitude. Oleg Ostapenko of the Russian National Space Agency Roscosmos blamed the rocket’s destruction on “ an emergency pressure drop in a steering engine of the third stage of the rocket.”
UFOlogists beg to differ based on slow motion analysis of the flight video which clearly shows a UFO entering from the right side of the screen and intersecting with the rocket just a few seconds before it’s disintegration.
The purported purpose of the Express-AM4R satellite was to bring internet service to remote regions of Russia. Or so they say! With tensions high between Moscow and the West, could the alleged satellite have been shot down by a heat seeking missile or even by aliens intervening to stop an escalation between the world powers?
This is not the first time a rocket has been neutralized by a UFO. One particular case took place in March of 1967 at Malstrom Air Force Base in Montana. Captain Robert Salas was in charge of 10 underground nuclear tipped missiles. On March 16th, 10 Minuteman I missles shurt down as a UFO hovered above the military base. The missles needed to be reset after the incident which was confirmed by multiple military sources at the base.
Are we humans engaged in a secret hit-tech war being played out between sides or is the answer a far more intriguing theory of alien intervention stopping us perhaps from annihilating ourselves?
Fifty Years Ago in UFOlogy…#3
The Cisco Grove California Encounter of September 4th 1964 by Bob Spearing June 2, 2014
Fifty years ago on September 4th, 1964 one of the most well documented and fascinating Close Encounters of the Third Kind transpired in the Tahoe National Forest in California in a place called Cisco Grove. The report was documented in the files of Project Bluebook, investigated by NICAP and finally made into a book entitled “Aliens in the Forest” by Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte.
On a hunting trip with two buddies, Donald Schrum, aged 28, became separated. When he saw a light crisscrossing the sky he began waving and lighting fires to attract what he thought was a forest ranger’s helicopter. Realizing that the dome shaped object which landed fifty feet or so from him was not a helicopter, Donald climbed into a tree to hide utilizing his camouflage hunting gear as two living entities and a metallic robot that approached him. The entities attempted to dislodge him from the tree. A noxious vapor emanated from the robot and Schrum blacked out for a time. Upon reviving he began flicking matches at the creatures which made them back away. He shot several arrows at the robot which sparked when the arrow tips struck the robot’s metallic skin. The arrows knocked the robot back. A second robot appeared and dispensed vapor and again Schrum went unconscious but awoke to find the two entities climbing the tree for him. Donald threw pieces of his equipment down on them. Eventually dawn approached as did more entities and huge volumes of vapor rendered him unconscious a third time. Awakening that morning he was alone still in the tree.
Project Bluebook described the event as “psychological” even though one of his hunting companions also saw the UFO.
Are We Really on Mars?
By Bob Spearing May 26, 2014
I am not a member of the Flat Earth Society and I do not believe the Apollo moon missions were faked but I am starting to have some doubts about our current status on the surface of Mars.
Oh yes, I believe we’ve gone there (many times) and have some satellites in orbit around the red planet right now. However I have a few theories about why we may be faking it on the surface.
Have you noticed a lot of ”moving rock” photos from Mars lately? And remember that rock that really looked like a woman reclining with her arm resting across her bent knee? And that light from the surface recently that looked like someone’s kitchen late night from a mile or two away? A lot of anomalous stuff going on for a supposedly sterile planet if you ask me!
Are there really rock shaped aliens creeping up on our Curiosity lander? Or as NASA says, the rover’s wheels must have dislodged that doughnut shaped rock and moved it into the frame. And was the mysterious light emanating from the surface really just a lens flare or a pixel corruption?
And what about that squirrel!!! Just a rock? Looked like a squirrel to me.
I’m starting to think that Curiosity is in the badlands of Arizona somewhere. The light is from someone’s cabin. The squirrel is a squirrel. The lady rock really is a lady and a careless field technician is kicking those other rocks into and out of the field of view of Curiosity’s cameras.
Why the elaborate ruse? Before I give you my angles let’s address the elaborate ruse.
How would you explain to the American public we have suddenly stopped going to Mars. It would invite too many suspicions and conspiracy theories. Best to just leave us believing we are there now even if we are really getting photos of the Arizona desert.
Now the Whys.
Maybe we already know there is life there and we are altruistically avoiding further contaminating it with earth microbes and bacteria that could hitch a ride on our hardware.
Or maybe we found something there that is truly scary or possibly intelligent.
And maybe, just maybe, we were told to stay away by powers possibly not of our world!
Fifty Years Ago in UFOlogy…#1
The Socorro New Mexico Incident
By Bob Spearing May 26, 2014
Fifty years ago on April 24, 1964, one mile South by South West of Socorro New Mexico, Patrol Officer Lonnie Zambora had a life changing event while chasing a speeding car.
He heard a roaring sound, and going to investigate if a dynamite shack had exploded, broke off chase with the speeding vehicle to soon discover a bluish orange flame in the sky slowly descending about a mile away. Coming around a bend he observed a silvery white aluminum like egg shaped object about 12 to 15 feet tall with 4 legs protruding into the ground. He also observed two small humanoid figures dressed in white whom he apparently startled. While driving to get a closer look and while radioing his dispatcher he heard two or three loud thumping noises and then again heard the roar of a bluish orange flame as the object ascended. The thumps were evidently the closing of a hatch as the two humanoids escaped into the interior of the object. Officer Zambora then ran for cover but not before observing a red insignia on the side of the egg. After a while, the roar stopped and the egg advanced away from him south silently at a very fast pace.
What is unique about this experience is that there was trace evidence. Burning brush, fused sand and four indentations in the soil where the legs protruded into the ground were identified by investigators.
NM Highway police, the FBI and the CIA all investigated as did Professor J. Allen Hynek of the Air Force’s Project Bluebook.
As a witness, the FBI regarded Officer Zambora as “well regarded as a sober, industrious, and conscientious officer and not given to fantasy.” Officer Zambora died on November 2, 2009.
Later, debunkers asserted that the sighting was the work of several New Mexico Institute of Technology students but no students have ever identified themselves as perpetrating such an elaborate hoax.
Oddly enough, another reported incident documented by eminent UFOlogist Jacques Vallee took place earlier that day at 10 a.m. in Tioga City, N.Y. when dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox observed a shiny egg shaped object land in his field. Two occupants the size of dwarfs spoke to him in English. They wore seamless clothing and helmets and were carrying trays. The similarities to the Socorro Incident are amazing.
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