Just what are UFOs? Who is Bigfoot? What are ghosts? A new website, OddEncounters.com, hopes to answer these questions by publishing eye-witnessed accounts of paranormal activity.
For centuries, people from all walks of life have had experiences that defy explanation—strange lights in the night sky, ghostly apparitions, brushes with bizarre creatures. Tales of alien encounters, Bigfoot sightings and other paranormal activity have long been the fodder of Hollywood blockbusters, but thousands of people have had real-life experiences that can't be easily explained. Odd Encounters delves into the unknown to explore this unexplained phenomena, publishing real-life accounts of the strangest of the strange, from every day people across the United States and beyond.
Odd Encounters is currently seeking accounts of sightings of UFOs; brushes with strange creatures such as Bigfoot, El Chupacabra and the Loch Ness Monster; and first-hand accounts of ghostly apparitions and mysterious orbs.
Along with the stories themselves, users are able to upload supporting media files, such as videos of UFOs, ghost photographs and EVP audio recordings (voices from the afterlife caught on tape). A discussion area will be established for visitors to comment on each story, and a podcast featuring the Odd Encounter of the Week will be featured on the site. Stories are currently being compiled and are scheduled to be published on the website by the end of Summer 2011.
If you've had a real paranormal experience, submit your story to Odd Encounters today at www.oddencounters.com. You may remain anonymous if you prefer.
The truth is out there. Help bring it into the light.
I think that everyone has probably seen the popular series "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files" on the SyFy Channel by now. To make a long story short (in case you haven't seen the show) the series revolves around a group of investigators who find UFO, paranormal and crytozoology based videos online then go out and try to stage the events depicted in them to prove if they are real or BS.
Over the past couple of days I have been posting videos from Youtube on my Facebook page and asking my friends to rate them as "Fact or Faked?"
Most of these get a lot of "faked" votes, but there have been a few that left people scratching their heads. Either people really captured the "real deal" or they have a future in the movie industry.
I thought it would be fun to move the subject off of Facebook to Monster Island News where more people could enjoy these videos and respond with their own two cents about whether the videos contain something paranormal or are just the work of bored people with cinematic talent.
To keep the legal eagles out there happy I have changed the name of this feature from "Fact or Faked" to "Real or Hoax".
Here are the videos with their descriptions from Youtube:
Outstanding UFO Sighting Alien Encounter Caught On Tape 2011
Outstanding UFO Sighting Alien Encounter Caught On Tape 2011 A Closer Look of what apears to be an ALIEN or TROLL Caught on tape you decide?
Note: It has been pointed out that the people who made this one run a movie production company .... so it is a hoax. Regardless .... it freaked the shit out of me!
While hiking, we accidentally caught an image of bigfoot walking through the woods. I didn't even notice until I got home and saw it on the computer! This scarred the crap out of us!
UFO's making Crop Circle
Daytime Gold Sphere UFO Over Chicago 27 May 2011
Uploaded by guttergawker on May 28, 2011
I saw this gold shape shifting UFO sphere flying over Chicago May 27, 2011. This is the 3rd time this year I have seen it. It also flew over on 4/29 and 5/22. It appeared as a point of light looking East towards the Downtown. It was a gold sphere then a diamond shape back to a sphere it seemed to flicker and change from copper to burnt orange back to gold color. I saw to seperate MUFON reports of this being seen over Chicago I will include the links to those sightings and my own here in the description.
UFO Japan May 28, 2011
Something Big (and blurry) On Security Cam
Uploaded by lucysandini on May 26, 2011
This is security video captured on 5/25/11 at my house. Keep your eye on the tree next to the vehicle across the street. Watch as the blurry object descends the tree, seems to attack something in the driveway and then climbs back up the trees actually going from tree to tree.
Tatra Mountain Yeti
The Tatra Mountains are a range of mountains that form a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. They are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains. In the summer of 2009, a rock climber named Piotr Kowalski captured an unexplained humanoid creature in the Tatra Mountains. Piotr is quoted as saying, "I saw the huge ape-like form hiding behind the rocks. When I saw it, it was like being struck with a thunderbolt." The footage is shocking and confirms a Sasquatch on multiple levels.
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Did the Israeli Air Force really shoot down an alien space craft Negev Desert on Friday?
Well, that is what is being reported out of the Middle East.
Details are, of course sketchy at best, but from what we know for sure is that the Israeli Air Force scrambled several fighter jets after a "unidentified" object was reported in the sky in the area of the Dimona Nuclear Power Plant. After the fighters came into range of the craft they opened fire on it, and shot it down.
Only question now is, what was it?
As of this moment, no one knows ........ and no debris has been found of whatever it was that the Israeli Air Force shot down.
As to be expected, the Israeli government is reporting that the object may have been a "weather or party balloon". They always say UFOs are balloons, don't they.
I think that anyone with half a mind would have a hard time believing that one of the best trained Air Forces in the world would identify and shoot down your average party balloon.
Seems like a good waste of ammo to me.
So if the story is some sort of cover-up, did they shoot down a UFO? ...... an alien space craft I mean.
Well, with no debris to analyze and a government who isn't likely to come forward and admit that they downed a ship from another realm it isn't likely that we will ever find out for sure. That is, unless the Israeli's have their own version of Mulder and Scully on the case.
See Also: More Info On The Indie UFO Horror UNAWARE
It seems that after I posted the trailer for the indie UFO horror movie "Unaware" last week that several other websites picked up on the story and now the makers of the film have sent out a press release.
This is what just hit the wire:
Indie Flick ‘Unaware’ Snags Awards and Stirs Controversy -- Possibly Heading for a Theater Near You
"Unaware" is an award-winning feature compiled by Dallas producers Sean Bardin and Robert Cooley, developed under Cooley Productions. It follows a vacationing couple who discovered something disturbing on a rural Texas ranch during July 2010.
A controversial new feature entitled "Unaware" has emerged from hiding, catching movie fans and Hollywood studios off-guard. Although the official trailer was unveiled in October, publicity did not accelerate until earlier last week, when movie sites like Dread Central and Bloody-Disgusting energetically identified the project in the latest “found-footage” trend.
The indie project has already been compared to other popular flicks of the genre; however, its producers are vehemently refuting claims that it is just another “mockumentary,” referring to box office champions "The Blair Witch Project" and Oren Peli’s "Paranormal Activity". Others speculate if this is similar in theme to Steven Spielberg’s extraterrestrial and UFO films of the 1970s and 80s, but the producers have not commented on that idea.
"Unaware" is the first collaborative effort between Sean Bardin and Robert Cooley, who previously met through eBay. The film was produced under Cooley Productions, Inc., a production company that was founded by Mr. Cooley in 2000.
Mr. Bardin and Mr. Cooley recently announced that several major motion picture companies had contacted them with interests to market and distribute the film, indicating that a theatrical release may be coming soon. Since its completion in August 2010, "Unaware" has already grabbed awards in the Accolade Competition, California Film Awards, and Los Angeles Movie Awards, respectively. It also premiered at a film festival in November, where it received critical acclaim from the panel of judges and the audience. It is expected to enter more festivals throughout 2011. When asked about a timeline for the theatrical release, the producers replied, "As soon as possible." Fans have been buzzing with excitement in anticipation for this feature film.
According to the official IMDb page, the film is an edited version of uncensored footage that was captured during a young couple’s vacation to rural Texas in July 2010. The producers have neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the footage, citing intentions to let the audience decide. Additional production details of this horror/sci-fi project have also yet to be released.
The feature is currently in the film festival circuit through May 2011, though the producers have stated that it may be pulled sooner, in the event that they strike a deal with a major distributor. Both producers have expressed optimism about securing a contract. Among high-concept films like TWC’s "Apollo 18" and Paramount’s "Area 51", the theatrical market is ripe for this kind of project.
"Unaware" now has official profiles on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Eventful, and even MySpace. Interested readers can find out more information at http://www.unawarefootage.com. The website can also be accessed from most mobile devices, including the Android, iPad, and iPhone. The production team welcomes any feedback or inquiries, but email contact is preferred.
Looks like the film makers are stil sticking with the "We found the footage, and edited it into a movie" bit, hoping that fans will somehow believe that the events in the flick "realy happened", kinda like the the makers of "Blair Witch" and the "Fourth Kind" tried to do. Of course, later on we all learned that those movies were just that, movies, thought up and filmed by a Hollywood studio.
In honor of Cinema Insomnia's pending 10 year anniversary, I thought it would be cool to post this classic clip from the episode "In Search of Ancient Astronauts".
The show, as you have probably already rationalized, centers around the famed 1973 NBC documentary "In Search of Ancient Astronauts" which was hosted by "Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling. The movie is kind of a poor man's version of the major motion picture "Chariots of the Gods" which is based on the novel by Swiss researcher Erich von Däniken who believes that mankind's origins may have come from outer space and that there is plenty of archaeological evidence in existence to prove it.
The film would also serve as the pilot episode for Serling's famed television series "In Search Of", which also dealt with subjects from the realm of the unexplained like UFOs, Bigfoot, Easter Island and spontaneous human combustion.
In this classic episode of "Cinema Insomnia" every ones favorite horror movie host, Mr. Lobo, sets out to find the truth about all of this alien visitation mumbo-jumbo by traveling across the globe to many of the locations featured in the film including the infamous "Area 51". Much to Lobo's surprise, finding the exact location of one our countries most top-secret instillation's isn't as difficult as one would expect, thanks in part to the 'Freedom of Information Act.' All anyone needs to do is simply call information (411) and ask for the number.
Simple right?
Well, as Lobo soon discovers, he has been given the number of "Area 51 Auto Salvage" not the "Area 51" where all the UFOs are kept.
Best line: "You'll never get Blue Book for a fixer-upper Yugo (UFO) no matter how many parts you buy from us."
In his quest for the truth Mr. Lobo also manages to get abducted by actual aliens, who intern do some rather intrusive testing on him, for which he earns $20 for his services.
In the end (no pun intended there) Lobo, like Fox Mulder before him, finds the truth on the subject of aliens and UFOs just outside his reach. It seems that there are just some things man was never meant to know.
Here is a quick update on Mr. Lobo's progress on raising $10,000 to produce a brand-new 26 episode 10 the anniversary season of "Cinema Insomnia". As of today, the fund-raising effort through Kickstarter has raised $3,086.
This is what the world famous horror host had to say in gratitude to everyone who has donated so far:
"Mr. Lobo is very thankful for the wonderful people who have pledged toward making the CINEMA ISOMNIA 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY the best season yet! That’s right, 44 total both on the grid and in the real world gave some of their hard earned cash for the cause of late night slumber party silliness.
There are certainly a lot of worthy causes asking for donations this Holiday season—but I hope you know how important some silliness on a Saturday night can be. Horror Hosts are not cancer scientists or missionaries or doctors but if you could read some of the letters I have received over the years…
CINEMA INSOMNIA has been a comfort people who can’t sleep because of illness or mothers up late with their babies, It has helped estranged fathers and sons come together, it was a sign of normalcy to families just getting regular TV signals again after a regional disaster, it has been the date night or family night for the very poor, a companion for the alienated and clinically depressed, the show has thwarted suicides and has brightened the life of severely disabled, and been a source of entertainment for so many more.
CINEMA INSOMNIA has giving me personally so very much. It has been a wonderful creative outlet and the process is very therapeutic. It’s how I get back what the real world beats out of me and I have had so many adventures and have got to know so many fantastic human specimens. As a look over my bounty I am very grateful to have such generous and supportive people in my life. Here are some folks I am particularly thankful for right now…I hope I won't let you down..."
Do you believe with the existence of UFO? Indeed, the emerging of UFO becomes hot news today. Moreover, it also becomes a big homework for the researchers whether it is truly UFO or not. UFO or we usually called as “Unidentified Flying Object” believed as alien’s plane that can disappear fast. However, it becomes a hot news and big question to the researchers, further people around the world; some of people believe that there is UFO in this earth. In contrast, there some people do not believe with that Unidentified Flying Object. Now, you have heard about the hot news in China. Actually, in October 6, 2010, UFO reported emerges in Chinese airport. UFO over China is not new news anymore. The reason is that it has emerged in China for eight times since June 2010.
The early emerging on September 11, 2010, UFO also emerged in the airport at Baotou in Inner Mongolia. This emerging reported that has duration of appearance for about an hour. If you use your logic, you are able to see the real UFO because an hour is long enough to someone or somebody to see and analyze whether the UFO is real or not. In addition, the Chinese government add by claimed that the emerging of UFO over Chinese airport on September 11, 2010 as UFO’s military exercises, but those exercises have no incident.
STRANGE LIGHTS OVER THE SKIES OF TEXAS Similar to daylight sighting in Manhattan recently Sky Valley Chronicle
Visitors from outer space? A prank perhaps? A news photographer for a local El Paso, Texas TV station took this footage of some mysterious lights in the skies over east Texas in mid October.
The event caused a big buzz in the UFO community because the lights are eerily similar to the pattern of strange lights seen in broad daylight in Manhattan in New York City not long before this incident.
Below is the TV news report in Texas that first broadcast the story:
World leaders briefed on UFO battle near Earth Allnewsweb.com
World leaders have been briefed on a devastating UFO battle between Zetan 'Grey' And Sirian aliens on the fringes of the Zeta Reticuli around 39 light years away that has claimed the lives of over for hundred thousand alien beings. Most of the casualties were Zetan Aliens known colloquially on Earth as 'Greys'. A few hundred casualties were of the highly advanced Sirians whose consciousnesses are able to be placed in new bodies.
Frantic communications between the US President and alien groups such as Andromedans who are friendly to Earth, have assured our leaders that the incident poses no threat to Earth.
The conflict began when bandit Greys threatened Sirian power in the region which includes our solar system. Greys are seen by many as a potential threat to Earth and hostile to humanity. The 'Grey' bandit leader, Ru-Illiar was killed in the event which saw seven hundred mostly Zetan UFO craft destroyed in a dramatic space battle and a Zetan lunar colony in Zeta Reticuli obliterated.
California driver reports triangle UFO at 300 feet Examiner.com
I was driving from santa barbara to my home in santa maria i was at a friends house and left his house around 3:30 am nov 3 2010 taking the 101 highway heading north just past the highway that leads to san marcos pass and the michael jackson neverland ranch i hit a stretch of highway where it was pitch black and i was thinking i hope i dont hit a dear at that moment something in the sky to my right caught my eye hovering in the sky very low maybe a hundred yards up was a triangular craft making no sound i slowed and blinked to double check my vision and it was still there i kept my eyes on it as much as i could to be safe maybe after around two minutes it rotating clockwise very slowly then it climbed and made a gradule right turn and got smaller and smaller until it left my sight. when i was positive i was witnessing this i felt a chill from the tips of my fingers to my toes one last strange detail i made out was it looked liquidy i could see little ripples like wakes on water.kind of like it was transparent.
UFO Over New Jersey: Boomerang UFO Sighting Reported By Witnesses NYNewsPost
UFO Over New Jersey: Boomerang UFO Sighting Reported By Witnesses. The reports of UFO were aplenty in the month of October and they came rushing in from all quarters of the United States of America. And it was not just the US of A that had been in the vigilant eyes of some alien planets either; apparently, they had a close eye on China as well as far as the rest of the world were concerned.
But as the last month bid adieu to us, we were expecting that the reports of the sightings of the unidentified flying objects would dwindle away into the depths of oblivion with the passing of the month. However, now we see that it was not to be as new UFO stories climb the mountain of fame and attract our attention.
If previously it was the places like Richmond, Illinois or Louisiana that were reporting such stories only to be nullified at a later stage, they now have got back up and support in the form of New Jersey. Previously, most of the sightings that were made were linked to some flickering lights that formed together to take any or every geometric shape.
Archeology Team Digs for UFO Evidence in New Mexico Knowelty
Every UFO true believer has their own theory about the 1947 Roswell UFO incident. This month an archeology team from the University of New Mexico is using modern technology to find solid evidence to prove what really happened.
“We engaged in a highly credible standard archeological investigation of a piece of landscape that has been warranted to be the location of a flying-saucer event,” said Dick Chapman, director of UNM’s Office of Contract Archeology.
Sponsored by the Sci-Fi Channel, his team has so far spent $26,000 digging up a nine acre area of ground northwest of Roswell. Their bid to investigate the alleged Roswell UFO crash is being filmed by Sci-Fi for an upcoming documentary.
“The summed evidence from the hearsay-level knowledge really points to this [nine-acre sector] as being a recognized potential crash site (of) a UFO,” he added.
Strange Light Seen in Virginia Night Sky MyFox Detroit
A light that was lurking in the Virginia night sky has grabbed some attention. Some people who saw it think it was a UFO.
"The lights – it was so bring at nighttime," said Brian Fains. "I thought it was a UFO."
It was in the night sky just above Lee Highway when shoppers looked up and saw something weird in Centreville, Virginia on Wednesday night.
Fains quickly grabbed his phone, turned on the camera and recorded the erratic blue light in the night sky. He said it flew around for about ten minutes.
"It was just a distinct blue light, it never like flashed or blinked or (anything)," Fains said.
"It's weird," he added. "You normally see this type of stuff in movies, but just as long as we're here, I'm pretty sure there (are) other people or other things somewhere."
By now every one has heard the terrifying tales of Alien abductees who have either been taken from their home, or possibly from their car, by beings from another world who perform sometimes painful experiments on them against their will, only to be returned without any knowledge of the event.
In the case of young Brazilian student Antonio Villas Boas, however, his abduction event would turn out to be like non other, and probably one any warm-blooded male would probably volunteer for if he had the chance.
Let me explain.
On a night in 1957 young Antonio was plowing his father's field, as he often did, when a egg-shaped UFO landed some fifteen feet in front of him. At that moment the tractor stalled, and four strange looking 'people' emerged from the craft. Terrified, he tried to flee to no avail, as the four beings quickly overtook him and dragged him back to the craft.
Once inside, the beings removed his clothes and took a blood sample.
After that Antonio's captors began to argue with one another, in a language he later described as sounding like 'barking', then mysteriously left the room. Moments later, to his astonishment, Boas was joined by what he says was a small, sexy, naked blond woman.
The woman made no sound, but Villa Boas felt an overwhelming urge to have intercourse with her, which he did.
After they had finished, the woman pointed at her stomach, then at the sky, which Villa Boas believed was her way of telling him that she was going to have their baby.
The woman left, and the other beings returned and allowed the young man to dress. After being satisfied that Villa Boas and the female had "done the deed" they gave him a tour of their craft, then returned him to the field with all of his memories in tact.
In the weeks after the 'union' Villa Boas began to exhibit the signs of radiation poisoning and developed strange wounds all over his body, which left the local medical community baffled.
Due to the young man's reputation for honesty, local officials had no choice but to believe his story, no matter how incredible it was.
When it came to explaining away UFO reports there were two things that government sponsored programs like Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book could use to convince the public that the whole mess (UFO sightings) was nothing more than simple misidentification of known celestial objects, namely the planet Venus and weather balloons from the Navy's Project Skyhook.
The later was used rather frequently to explain such famous UFO events as the alleged Roswell crash and the death of Air Force pilot Thomas Mantell, who the government insisted was chasing a balloon, not a craft of unearthly origin, when his P-51 plummeted to the ground.
Yet all that seemed to unravel on April 24, 1949 when several members of Skyhook's crew saw a UFO of their own.
The unit that witnessed the strange craft was under the command of Robert B. McLaughlin, a veteran Navel officer and expert on guided-missiles, at White Sands Proving Grounds in the New Mexico desert. Just after launching a test balloon to establish wind patterns for weather experiments, that were to take place later that day, a strange flying object appeared on their tracking equipment.
As McLaughlin reported in an article he wrote for True (magazine) entitled "Flying Saucers Are Real", the object was elliptical, flat white in color and roughly 105 feet in diameter. Engineers on hand for the sighting calculated that the UFO was at an altitude of 56 miles and was traveling at 18,000 miles per hour. The event only lasted about a minute, but in the minds of all of the eyewitnesses, what they saw was indeed a flying saucer, and not one of their balloons.
After the sighting the unit continued on with their high-altitude experiments noting that at no time did their balloon either look, or act like, the object that they had seen earlier.
McLaughlin's article caused a major uproar amongst agencies in the government who wanted nothing more than to debunk every single UFO report that came their way, and the growing number of UFO enthusiasts who wanted some sort of answer to just what was going on in the skies over America.
Here was a case that Project Grudge could not just merely sweep under the rug, this time the witnesses were US military personnel and trained engineers with high-tech research and tracking equipment. Adding fuel to the fire was the fact that the Navy itself had cleared McLaughlin's article for publication without clearing it through Grudge first, a sign to many that the Navy was in some way trying to provide proof of UFOs to the general populace.
It should also be noted that McLaughlin's article just didn't mention his own personal sighting of a UFO, but also reports by other servicemen from the other branches of the military that seemed to suggest that 'beings' unknown to us were monitoring atomic testing and bases throughout the American southwest.
That is, unless, it was simply just the planet Venus?
Was Air Force pilot Thomas Mantell the first casualty of a US war against beings from another world?
In the late 1940s reports of UFO sightings across the United States were at an all-time high after the reported sighting of nine flying saucers over the Cascade Mountains of Washington and the reported crash of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico.
Though UFO reports from that era were rather benign, simply sightings of strange objects in the sky, on the afternoon of January 7th, 1948, things would take a possibly sinister, and fatal turn.
Shortly after noon on that fateful afternoon many witnesses in western Kentucky sighted a large unidentified craft, between 250 and 300 feet in diameter souring above them at a fantastic speed.
Moments later the object's flight path took it into the view of the tower crew at Godman Air Force Base, near Fort Knox.
As fate would have it, at precisely that moment a group of four Air National Guard P-51 Mustangs were circling the field preparing to land. The tower radioed the planes to abort their landing and pursue the object that had just flown past the tower.
One of the planes was dangerously low on fuel, and had no choice but to land, but the other three prop-driven-fighters peeled off in a high-speed pursuit of the strange object.
Initially the group, which was under the command of Captain Thomas Mantell, got a good, close look at the UFO. One of the pilots confirmed that the craft was "of tremendous size", while yet another described it as "round like a teardrop, and at times almost fluid."
Whether spooked or running low on fuel themselves, two of the fighters broke off the chase leaving Mantell as the lone pursuer of the object.
At 3:15 pm the Air Force Captain radioed back to Godman that he was going to try and move in closer to the UFO to get a better look at it.
Mantell's last words were, "I'm going to 20,000 feet and if I'm no closer then, I'll abandon chase."
Several hours later the wreckage of the P-51, along with Mantell's remains, were discovered in the woods close to Fort Knox.
Though no one knows for sure just what exactly happened to the Air Force Captain and his plane after his last message, many have speculated that it was either forced to crash or even shot down by the UFO. The Air Force, officially, reported that Mantell had 'blacked-out' at 20,000 feet due to lack of oxygen and crashed.
As for the gigantic UFO, the Air Force initially reported that the object Mantell and his squadron had been chasing was the planet Venus. Later reports indicated that it was a weather balloon from the US Navy's infamous 'Project Skyhook', which was also reported to be what was recovered in Roswell almost a year to the day prior.
For civilian investigators, the Venus explanation made little to no sense, due to the fact that the incident occurred during daytime hours and also because the planet, if it were visible, would not have been directly in Mantell's flight path.
Speculation has persisted that Mantell may have been the first casualty in a secret war, or number of violent confrontations between the US military and UFOs. The government's obvious cover up of the incident has done nothing but fuel these rumors.
Despite whether Mantell was shot down, or merely crashed due to a 'black-out', the incident prompted the US military to begin to look at UFO cases more seriously. Soon after reported sighting Ohio State scholar J. Allen Hyneck was put in charge of Project Sign a military office assigned to investigate UFOs.
Articles Collected By: Ken Hulsey Sources: Various
More St Albans UFO sightings Herts Advertiser
Phonecalls and emails flooded into the Herts Advertiser news desk after we revealed last week that a man in London Colney had seen some peculiar lights in the sky above St Albans at around 10.15pm on Sunday, August 29.
He saw more than 10 of the objects over a short space of time and did not believe they were Chinese lanterns – which can often explain such UFO sightings – as they were travelling very fast and in a straight line.
Rob Stichbury, who lives in the Roundwood Park area of Harpenden, saw something similar at around the same time that night. He said: “The bright object was travelling extremely fast coming from the St Albans/Redbourn area. It seemed to be following the path of the Nicky Line and took less than 15 seconds to cover the horizon.
“I only saw one and didn’t have time to get to the camera. Being a clear night it was instantly visible but certainly not a commercial plane as it was too large, bright and moving quite low and much faster than any other traffic. It disappeared in the direction of Luton Airport. Very strange indeed!”
Ken Collins, of Salisbury Avenue, also reports seeing something strange in the sky travelling faster than the speed of aircraft heading towards Clarence Park that night.
Liz Gurgur, who lives in the Marshalswick area, said she saw exactly the same thing as the London Colney man earlier this summer as she was driving home one night. She said: “I thought it was unusual as they were all in a straight line, spaced apart equally and high up. I was amazed, especially since I was once watching this programme which said there was going to be a lot more UFO sightings and I laughed at it.
Oklahoma triangle UFO returns as second witness watches Examiner.com
An Oklahoma man watched a triangle-shaped UFO on September 15, 2010, and was there with a witness when it returned 30 minutes later, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The object was described as having three red lights and two white lights.
"The white lights would flash as if it were at a slow pulse but had no particular rhythm to it. Every couple of minutes we would see multiple lights light up in a circular pattern that formed the shape of the craft and lit it up. Its motions were not big strides, but small pacing horizontally from left to right. We could most definitely tell that it was no plane. It was more stationary rather than constant movement like a plane would do. It was as if it were hovering and trying to hide itself."
No town name was mentioned in the public portion of the MUFON report. The couple was unable to capture either video or still images of the object
Texas father-son get up close look at triangle UFO Examiner.com
A Texas father and son got an up-close look at a triangle-shaped UFO on September 15, 2010, as they drove along Route 87/97 outside of Pandora after 8:30 p.m., according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The two were out looking for more witnesses to a UFO they sighted on September 14, 2010, in a case the UFO Examiner covered as, Wingless, burning object falls from cloud near La Vernia, Texas.
The son asked his father to pull over to the side of the road after observing a light in the distance “zigzagging” between three stars.
The object soon appeared to be between 1,000 and 2,000 feet off of the ground.
“As it moved closer to us, a few more cars and trucks pass us on the road but nobody stopped,” the reporting witness stated. “At first it was a solid light but as it flew closer I can see three separate lights in a tight triangle formation with a huge light at each corner.”
'UFO' sightings a mirage created by Air Force, 'UFO fanatics' have been duped? Tucson Citizen
In interesting interview posted by U.S. News & World Report, author Mark Pilkington asserts that UFOs were created by the Air Force to keep aircraft projects secret. This is not a new assertion by any means. It is just one that has resurfaced in a new book. It is an assertion that is called “a persuasive case” by the interviewer.
Plinkington is a British journalist and filmmaker who weighs in on his view of UFOs as a cover for Cold War military projects.
In a discussion regarding his book, Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare and UFOs, Plinkington covers everything from the Washington Flap of 1952 to “UFO fanatics” being duped.
The article is an interesting read for skeptics, conspiracy theorists, and “UFO fanatics” alike. Enjoy!
Triangle UFO moves within 100 yards of Oregon witness Examiner.com
An Oregon witness was startled while riding a scooter just after 10 p.m. on September 13, 2010, when a triangle-shaped craft with rounded edges was spotted just 100 yards away, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The object had a light in front that the witness said appeared to be guiding it somehow.
"What made the light unique was that it was circular in shape and moving back and forth across the front of the craft," the witness stated. "It reminded me of the car 'Kit' from the television show 'Knight Rider' except for the fact the light was white and round. Now the most incredible part of this experience was that the light seemed to help determine the direction the craft would head. The light stopped pacing back and forth and was stuck on one end for about 20 seconds. The craft started heading in the direction the light was facing, and soon the craft stopped and tilted forward as if the lights were this crafts eyes."
As the craft moved closer, the witness offers a description.
"As it drew near (roughly 100 yards away), I could see the underneath of the craft. It seemed to have a triangular shape but rounded (basically there seemed to be no straight lines). The craft was also a silver color and absolutely had no visible means of propulsion. I didn't see any propellers or jet engines."
The witness then nearly lost control of the scooter while attempting to watch the object, and looked away for 30 to 45 seconds. When the witness looked back, the object was gone.
Hundreds of residents of Vladivostok have reported seeing a bizarre UFO hover over their city on the easternmost edge of Russia. The UFO event took place on the evening of September 14. Russian media has reported extensively on the event.
The triangular shaped UFO consisting of four golden colored lights was seen for a few hours and at least two witnesses managed to get photos of the object as it hovered overhead
UFO interferes with TV signal in Brazil, video Allnewsweb.com
Before we go into the details of this UFO event it should be noted that the video below is not the most convincing one we have seen. However the witness is adamant about its genuineness and the story surrounding it is interesting.
The witness who lives in the Amazon region of Brazil, a well known UFO hot spot in general, claims that a UFO has been bothering him for over a week and hovering above his house. The witness who managed to film the UFO (which looks to me like little more than a reflection of a light) claims that the UFO has been interfering with his TV reception.
UFO sighting on Sand Mountain? Sand Mountain Reporter
A Las Vegas-based organization is seeking witnesses to an unconfirmed sighting of an unidentified flying object reported above Sand Mountain on Monday evening.
Colm Kelleher, of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, said his organization received an anonymous e-mail reporting a “multiple witness sighting.”
“We are trying to locate eyewitnesses,” he said.
Kelleher said the unconfirmed report detailed “a multiple witness sighting of a large unidentified object about 5,000 feet over Sand Mountain on Monday evening.”
KGUN 9 employees in Tucson capture 'UFO' image Tucson Citizen
It was tiny, it was bright blue, it was way high up, and it spent part of Tuesday afternoon hovering over the skies of Tucson. What was it?
Who knows?
Around 1:00 PM two KGUN9 News employees noticed a tiny but brilliant blue dot high in the sky, nearly straight up over east Tucson. It was nearly stationary, and had the shape and brightness of a star -- but the sun was shining brightly. Couldn't be that.
KGUN9 photojournalist Jim Pfalzer set up a camera and tripod, and caught the object on video. Even at full zoom, the shape of the object was not apparent. But the object could be seen through the viewfinder to be drifting slowly toward the east.
As it drifted, its intensity changed slowly, suggesting a small irregularly shaped object tumbling or twirling.
By 1:50 PM, it was gone.
Was it a UFO? By definition, yes. It was an object. It was flying. And it certainly was unidentified. Probably a balloon of some sort, right?
Of course.
Sometime after the object appeared, KGUN9's Internet access went down for a few minutes -- long enough to delay the posting of this story until after the object had disappeared.
Reader photos: The Residents' Beach UFO Marco Island Sun Times
Marco artist Anthony Dallmann-Jones posted this blog about the UFO seen in the Gulf Tuesday night.
I am sure you have heard from people about “The strange lights” off the Marco Island Resident’s Beach last night.
We first noticed them at 8:35PM – They were there, in various formats until 9:15PM and were seen no more (by my wife and me). Neither of us drinks. ;-) We are also both professors of higher education so we are not totally unable to make intelligent judgments. Nuff on that.
We DO have pictures that my wife took…IF you are interested. MOSTLY, I am hoping you can just tell me what we saw. I was a science major and this one baffled me in terms of a logical understanding.
Description. I do believe these were near the horizon line, although they started off closer. I believe they were receding to the West. I have some very powerful binoculars and probably saw things most did not.
WHAT were they? They were “hot” in the sense that they were glowing orange-yellow balls. Some might say they were lights on a UFO, and I can see how some of the angles would give that notion.
Several residents reported seeing some strange yellow lights off Southwest Florida's coast Tuesday evening.
Wednesday, we've learned the Homestead Air Force Reserve Base out of Miami was performing flare training exercises in the Gulf of Mexico. According to USAF Senior Airman Katie Spencer, they were flying in a specific military-defined airspace. The exercises are required quarterly by the Air Force.
The U.S. Coast Guard says they were notified after-the-fact that the Air Force was conducting a "flare exercise" offshore. Spencer says they typically notify the Coast Guard of any exercises.
Rusty Parham, who witnessed the light show over Fort Myers Beach, says he believes there might be more to it than flare exercises.
"I don't understand why you'd be in that formation doing drills, and another thing I don't understand is why you'd be doing that off the coast, where everybody could see you in South Florida," he said. "Listen, I'm not nuts. I've lived here my whole life. I've never seen anything like this."
"When it came back in the circular motion, I was like, 'What could this be?'" Rusty's wife Jennifer Parham said.
Witnesses said the lights lasted for several minutes, until about 9:20 p.m.
Intrigue after couple capture UFO on film Forres Gazette
A FORRES couple have been sitting at their window looking into space and wondering, ever since they spotted an unidentified bright light in the skies above Forres.
And after speaking publicly about the UFO (unidentified flying object) mystery, they received an alarming phone call warning them off speaking about the incident.
Don and Pat MacArthur were at home at 2 Nelson Road, watching the TV on Friday, September 3, shortly after 8.45pm when they both spotted a strange light in the skies above the town.
"We both spotted a bright light at the living-room window above the trees on the other side of the road," said Don, who works for Moray Council's lands and park crew. "I thought it was a helicopter searchlight, and was waiting for the aircraft, but it wasn't that.
"My wife just ran to the window to see closer," he added. "I knew it wasn't a helicopter and I ran into the other room to get my cine camera."
The couple's living room window looks out over the houses on the opposite side of the road, and they both spotted the object above the chimney pots and tops of trees coming from the rough direction of Forres High Street.
"I don't know what it was, but I managed to capture a few seconds of it on camera," said Mr MacArthur. "I ran out the door in my socks and zoomed in full to try and get a better picture."
The images show a bright, pink, largish, diamond-like object in the sky and then just disappearing. Moments later, a black object appears in the corner of the screen, appearing to come from roughly the same direction, but much higher in the sky with a small trailing light at the top of the screen.
While spending my formative teenage years in Albuquerque, NM, I, along with almost all of my close friends, experienced many strange, and unexplainable events.
On several occasions I, either alone or with my peers, witnessed strange objects in the sky, came in contact with unseen forces, felt unexplained paranoia while in the woods and had other strange experiences that could be considered to be of a paranormal origin.
Teenagers ....... paranoia? Okay, maybe we can write that one off, but believe you me, New Mexico was, possibly still is, the weirdest place that I have ever lived.
There, of course, are many logical reasons for The Land of Enchantment being a vortex of the unexplained. First off, the government does all kinds of top secret work there and secondly, the state is home to large groups of cults, satanists, and other 'new age' religions. All of these groups 'love' New Mexico for the same reason. Privacy. Per capita New Mexico has the smallest population, per square mile, of any state in the union. The reason for this is simple, the state is mostly covered with military land, state parks, and Indian reservations. In Albuquerque for example, the city can no longer expand to the south, because of Kirkland Air Force Base, it can't expand any further east because of the Sandia mountains and likewise north and west because of Indian reservations.
A great area to either conduct secret tests or worship pagan gods.
Either way it is a formula for the weird.
Here are few instances where either my friends or I saw something strange in the sky. In the summer of 1979, while lying in my front yard, I witnessed an object flying at an extreme altitude, far higher than any conventional airplane would fly. I couldn't make out the shape at that distance, but there was something moving up there traveling slowly across the heavens.
What was it? Well, I have always contended that it was some sort of satellite or possibly a Russian spy plane (no doubt taking a peak at Kirtland AFB)........ not a UFO ........ though it could have been, I just can't say.
Later that summer I emerged from my house after dinner to find my friends staring blankly at the Sandia mountains. I asked what was up? and my pals excitedly replied "Didn't you see that?" Of course I hadn't, so they proceeded to tell me that, what they described as a "spinning disk of fire", just flew past the mountain.
Again, I had no explanation for this, but the truly terrified looks on my friends faces told me that what they saw was indeed 'real' and not some product of a overactive boyhood imagination.
This leads me to the case that I wanted to focus on today, an event that I call "The Albuquerque Mystery Light" for lack of a better name.
In the summer following the two prior events, that being the summer of 1980, August to be precise, for a one week period a strange bright light appeared directly over the city. When my mother, my best friend and his father, and myself, first noticed the light we believed that it was a helicopter hovering over the center of town. Only one problem though, it made no noise, and stayed in that exact spot for over an hour without moving.
Being the curious type, I ran to the garage and retrieved my father's army issue binoculars to get a better look. By this time the adults had seem enough and retreated back to their respective homes for an evening of prime-time television.
Upon viewing the object that was hovering over our city, my best friend and I discovered that the 'light' was not a single illumination, but a honey-comb collection of lights.
When my mother came back outside to check on us boys, and the strange object, she confirmed our observation, and became very puzzled by what she saw.
As a side note, she still recalls the event to this day.
Being young adults amped on Coke and Doritos like we were prone to be, we soon grew tired of looking at a light just sitting there, so my friend and I also soon retreated inside for some quality time in front of the TV.
After about an hour or so, I returned to my backyard to once again view the object, but found that it had vanished.
Of course, my family and neighbors were not the only people in Albuquerque who witnessed the object that night and you would expect, the local police department, and the air force base received a mass of phone calls about it that evening.
The event also made the newspaper the next day, with an 'official' explanation for just what was shining so bright in the sky the previous night. The official word from the scientists at Kirtland was that the object was actually the planet Jupiter, which was unusually close to Earth.
Most people bought the explanation, but my buddy and I did not.
Here is the strange part, a few days later, the object appeared again, this time in a different area of the sky, this time over Kirtland.
Once again my best friend and mother were there with me to witness the event. We all took a good long long look through my father's binoculars and saw the same strange honey-comb formation of lights.
If this was indeed Jupiter, then how did it appear and disappear, and switch positions in the sky?
After that none of us ever saw the light again during the next decade.
That would seem to be the end of the story, just another strange light in the sky, just like the ones seen over Lubbock, Texas, or Phoenix, Arizona, nothing more that just that.
However, while trying to search for the original newspaper report about the event online I stumbled across something else even more interesting that may be connected to the story.
It seems that at about the same time as our 'mystery light' was observed, several military personnel at Kirtland reported that a glowing UFO actually landed at the base near a restricted area where nuclear weapons were housed (we always heard that there were nukes stored at the base, and I guess this confirms it).
Here are three separate reports from around the same time:
Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico 8 August 1980 2350 MST
Three Security Policemen on duty in Charlie Sector, East Side of Manzano Weapons Storage Area, observed a very bright light that traveled with great speed and stopped suddenly in the sky over Coyote Canyon. They at first thought the object was a helicopter, but after observing the object perform unusual aerial maneuvers, they felt it could not be a helicopter. The light was observed to land in the Coyote Canyon area. Sometime later they observed the light take off again and proceed straight up at a high speed until it was no longer visible.
9 August, 1980 0020 MST
A Sandia Security Guard was driving east on the Coyote Canyon access road on a routine building check of an alarmed structure. As he approached the structure, he observed a bright light near the ground behind the structure. He also observed an object that he at first thought was a helicopter. As he came closer, he observed that it was not a helicopter, but a round disk shaped object. When he attempted to radio for backup, he found that his radio was not functioning. He approached the object on foot armed with a shotgun, and the object thereupon took off in a vertical direction at high speed.
22 August, 1980
Three other unnamed Security Guards observed a light over Coyote Canyon that behaved in a similar manner as the one seen on 8 August. Coyote Canyon is part of a large restricted test range used by the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Sandia Laboratories
I can't say that those were the exact dates that we witnessed the strange lights over Albuquerque, but they sound about right. If they are the same dates then it should be noted that the UFO reports listed here all happened later the same nights, after the objects were no longer hovering over the city.
Did that mean that the craft in question simply moved from their observation spot over Albuquerque and landed somewhere on the base?
It would seem so, though I have no evidence to prove that is the case here. For now it is just a strange coincidence. The events may be connected, maybe not.
It does seem that if you connect the dots, my little UFO story from 1980 may have had more to it then I ever realised, that is if you believe that the stories coming out of Kirtland at around that time are truthful.
Source: PR.com
