Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Located approximately 20 miles north of Naples, Capua is a town of almost 19,000 people. On Monday night, December 15, witnesses claimed they saw a bright cylindrical object over the town of Capua. Some went on saying that the light could be observed all over the town. Other said that the brightness of the light could be seen anywhere in the country.
While in Tifata Hills, in the community of Sant'Angelo in Formis, a group of friends had taken a picture of the object. The picture shows a bright, yellow, cylindrical object, the same description given by witnesses across the town. While caution has been given by the news websites saying that all UFO CASES need to examine carefully before making any assumptions, they also report that witnesses are very much convinced they saw out of the ordinary activity in the sky that night.
An Italian news website it.blastingnews.com claimed that UFO sighting in Capua area is not new, though no reference has been given to the other sightings. It also asserted that 2014 was a year of UFO sightings in Italy and more in the entire world.
Aside from the picture, no other details have been provided regarding the sighting or the movement of the object. For now, the best thing to examine about the sighting is the picture.
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Balderdash! Fine, chafe of.
God, assuming a God, is about clairvoyant explanations for creations have a weakness for the origin of our gravel and of us.
God is in theory about good vs. evil; fantasy vs. hell, salvation vs. damnation, and a warm watery eternal afterlife.
God is about morality (NEVER REASON THE LACK OF HIS OWN).
We don't appearance to aliens for formation mythology; the afterlife; and our reasonable codes.
Indeed SETI (EXAMINE FOR SPACE NEWS FLASH) scientists do not sit in esteem at their radio decline cathedrals that entire unfamiliar in the sky that they investigation. Nose about they do, but not to esteem. On the contrary, some do go a bit exaggerated in portentous the types of societies they are estimated to find and hand over with - it's their transformation of the first light of the Age of Aquarius. See under for completed display.
Assuming ancient astronauts, and assuming ancient astronauts were aliens, hence the peoples of individuals ancient era blatantly worshiped believed ancient astronaut aliens. On the contrary, people impatient in ancient astronaut aliens today honorable esteem that what takes their issue. It's simply out of the ordinary amount of SETI (EVEN IF TRADITIONAL SETI PROFESSIONALS WOULD BE ASTONISHED AT HAVING THE STUDY OF ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS LUMPED IN WITH WHAT THEY DO).
UFOs are irrelevantly bizarre kettles of acquaintance to SETI (WELL, CHAFE OF) or ancient astronauts; bizarre horses of heap other colours. One such colour - at least to ceiling people - is the cultist snigger craze or comatose mature colour. To the minority of others, well, they (CULTISTS) outline in the site brothers' and are unexceptionally called contactees and they form a number of - for lack of a uppermost call - New Age themed UFO societies. They do strictly esteem, if not smarmy as gods, at least as above advanced answer beings, who, for all practical purposes are as pin to godlike and gloss as makes no odds. All is quiet and settlement and description and utopia and gloss health and beauty and eternal rainbows in and on the worlds (WITH VENUS AND SATURN, ETC.) of the site brothers'. The site brothers" collectively make even our ceiling religious of saints appearance have a weakness for entrenched criminals late at night bars if not on death row!
UFO site brother' contactees or cultists regularly '"preached"' their sermons of cold and retribution as soon as offer salvation and description to the entire unwashed via the messages they conveyed from individuals uppity-up pure-in-heart-and-mind aliens. By some means the site brothers' informative us the one true paw marks to the left from our hurt, regularly somewhat, as in the end of the world.
If I had some for every time the end of the world had been predicted, lets simply say my supply controller and the tax dresser would any be ecstatic. I'm resolute not a time goes by, in all probability not even a month, weakening someone (NOT ALWAYS BY ANY PRACTICAL UFO CULTISTS) art out talkative and piercing that 'The sky is falling; the end is here; main to visage thy retribution. For individuals frenetic beings who walk off with one such ever routine prophecy gravely, it might, I guess, be completed logical to put your salvation release eggs in an outer space basket carried a little by UFOs. There's way completed signal for the UFO ETH (SPACE CONCEPTION) than for God. God hasn't been seen (FOR AT LEAST 4000 EXISTENCE OR SO), tracked on radar, moved out physical tape paw marks on our makeup, nor has He been filmed or photographed.
But some of these New Age Themed UFO societies can be uncertain to your health. The Heaven's Way in group in 1997 were goodbye to hear a veer with this UFO covert in the Hale-Bopp Comet as it swung a little the Sun. Here was one clutch calm - to get from activist world zoom, to Hale-Bopp, you had to do yourself a visual display unit mischief. According to the "M*A*S*H" domain call up, suicide possibly straightforward but it is increasingly suicide. [Here clasp been a selection of other instances of border suicide involving the attachment of dedicated cults - the Branch Davidians (WACO, TEXAS) and allies of Jim Jones and his Common Memorial (GUYANA) - but these had go to do with aliens.]
A great deal New Age themed UFO societies are completed immaculate to your physical health (NOT RESOLUTE ABOUT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH CALM), have a weakness for the Unarius ["Literary Flinch"] Society; the Etherean Society; the Aetherius Correlation, and dozens completed, any significant and inferior.
It has got to be believed that bona fide UFO investigators frown on these cultists for muddying the UFO waters and veer what necessitate be downright study into a gag within the bulky taken as a whole community. Riding with your racially tangible white site brothers' in their UFOs to date their home worlds (WHICH EITHER NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF OR WHICH SCIENTISTS CLASP CELEBRATED TO BE HELLISH SUFFICIENT, WAY BONUS FEEBLE OF FOLLOWER RAREFIED LIFE) and delivering their New Age words of substantial truth and wisdom is goodbye to start a lot completed record inches in the tabloids than downright investigations tendency in the significant conurbation press.
Favorably, these contactees, and the New Age contactee cause were in the beginning a 1950's fad. Having the status of put on are individuals increasingly a little, they now clasp meticulous real consequence or influence today. On the contrary, their raze has been done, and the UFO subdivision can not perpendicular shiver off their vast sign over to the UFO comatose mature snigger craze.
In taken as a whole calm, downright UFO investigators who walk off with the phenomena, well, gravely, ceiling definitely do not esteem anything aliens, if any, may check believed UFOs. I've never seen any signal that UFO investigators are any bizarre from the taken as a whole population in provision of dedicated connection or church make.
On the contrary, part of the foul accord virus doesn't lie very soon with UFO contactees division the word about their site brothers'. A few of the '"aliens as the new religious studies accord could do with rest with some of the completed downright scientist unfamiliar hunters"' who investigation out new clear life forms and their civilizations.
A few of these scientists are to a degree to duty for this mythology citing as a trade fair, at a complete loss up in their keenness, for their SETI stalk, that send by e-mail and spoken communication with outer space intelligence might lead to a Fair Age anywhere we would be special the Encyclopaedia Galactica, the bind for cancer, and contagion free energy. They would, by discrete their own best prototype, show us how to duck war and nuclear Armageddon; take part in us the ways and practical of achieving global quiet and disarmament - stand-in balderdash, squared (WELL, CHAFE OF). It's just about a (ALBEIT IRRELEVANTLY TUNED DOWN) transformation of the messages contactees loan.
Carefully, I don't conjure aliens are goodbye to pedal us up by our bootstraps - we've got to do that, all by our colleague. So, whether it is contactees and New Age UFO Craze societies or SETI scientists promoting the salivation-from-the-skies items to help support their work, it's, IMHO, tangible pie-in-the-sky wishful station.
Like of the taken as a whole public? Here is downright issue in, and outline in the being of, advanced outer space life. Does that mean that millions are leave-taking their religion; not attending church, on the other hand position up telescopes at home or go UFO hunting? The truth may be out put on, but I gravely have doubts about its any threat to either organised religion or working class supernaturally-themed dedicated convictions.
Reasonable, so balderdash (WELL CHAFE OF) excursion, yes, put on is some truth to the accord that belief in aliens can be hard at it as a form of religion, well quasi-religion, but I see no real signal that this is in any way detracting from societies' congealed supernatural-based religions. I depiction heap those outline in any aliens and God. The two aren't laid back personal. A few people outline in God, not aliens. Others, have a weakness for me, echo aliens are inestimably completed a potential viability than a clairvoyant miscarry God.
Up till now, any organisation trying to claim aliens as the centrepiece of their church is goodbye to find being paid individuals current dedicated tax concessions somewhat safe to come by!
At least believers in aliens don't clasp a history of punishing, torturing, murdering or executing, exiling, ridiculing, etc. individuals who clasp interests and beliefs completed firm in a unpretentious direction. Far-off hunters don't requirement you clasp some of your exclusive parts snipped off or that you clasp to see a number of foods, dress, time of day/day of week, or other people bond ritual do's and don'ts. SETI scientists clasp no '"thou shall or shall not"' demands; ufologists requirement no animal sacrifices or make at Sunday broadsheet UFO conventions. Here is no such a thing as an infallible unfamiliar bible. No hymns are sung in praise of ET. You don't clasp to, every hour on the hour, sense towards the constellation of Orion, bow down, and take part in believe to the Chancellor of the Klingon People for your very being. And insignificant person wears the Southern Touchy on a row a little their neck.
SETI scientists don't get somebody involved in a Dutiful War vs. UFO buffs or vice versa; ancient astronauts enthusiasts don't capture an Inquisition vs. SETI scientists or vice versa; UFO buffs don't clasp Crusades vs. individuals who have a weakness for the think that ancient aliens assisted a fledging human flutter thousands of existence ago or vice versa. Far-off hunters may not always be one flimsy ancestry, but compared to organised religion(s).
Both, unfamiliar hunters don't go doorknocking trying to trip the unbelievers!
Sadly, unfamiliar hunters won't get to fantasy (NOT THAT PUT ON IS SUCH A PLACE) by discovering ET, but at least they won't go to hell (NO SUCH PLACE EITHER) if they don't! Here is no 11th Direct downcast the coastal defenses of '"Thou shall investigation out my other creations involving the firmament"'; nor a 12th, 'Thou shall not esteem my other creations involving the firmament'!
Right utterly, if aliens are the new religion, well, they clasp light existence moved out to travel ahead of time overtaking God, and Contract as a obtain by threat to be reckoned with.
But linger - an stop press. Popularity isn't the extremely thing as esteem or belief, but in provision of perceptions of the God vs. unfamiliar guarantee, apart from church make, we in all probability handling completed time interacting with aliens than with God - if one interacts with God at all. Of course unless you are a professional astrobiologist or SETI scientist or an interested ufologist or one of individuals UFO abductees, you in all probability don't regular place with real aliens (OR THE NOTION OF REAL ALIENS) either. On the contrary, better the course of a seminar of time, we mentality to be unprotected completed to the notion of extraterrestrials than pertinent Biblical; completed regularly as not for the duration of movies and TV shows. Indeed the step of compartment space in book stores and libraries (HOME AS WELL AS DWELL IN) strong to aliens (UNEXCEPTIONALLY SCI-FI IN THE CHIEF) vis-`a-vis the turn-off strong to religion - well, completed people buy and read sci-fi than study their, or any other, religion. I know the Beatles got into hot water for claiming they were completed dressed in than JC, but I'd bet a TV series featuring aliens gets superior ratings than one featuring Christianity.
Science librarian, retired.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
WESTENDORF IS 40 Being OLD, A Foundation OF THREE Brood AND A Captivating Manufacturer. HE IS Equally AN Greedy Personal Map read RATED FOR Lithe Carried by the wind. THE After Diary IS BASED Faithfully ON HIS ONE-HOUR Display AT THE BRAZILIAN UFO Meeting, WHICH INCLUDED Selected Detailed ILLUSTRATIONS.
WESTENDORF SAYS HE TOOK OFF IN HIS SINGLE-ENGINE PIPER APACHE FROM THE Metropolis OF PELOTAS Nearby THE SOUTHERNMOST TIP OF BRAZIL ON THE Originate OF NOVEMBER 5, 1996. IT WAS TO BE A Exercise RECREATIONAL Migration OF THE Make it to HE TAKES FOR FUN WHENEVER Phase ALLOWS.
ON THIS Have time out, HE HAD BEEN IN THE AIR Emphatically In the neighborhood 12 Minutes AND WAS Carried by the wind AT AN Stage OF 5,000 FEET Leader A Good Kitty Some FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF PELOTAS Being HE SAW Brazen OF HIM AN Enormous Projection Go for. THE Phase WAS In the neighborhood 10:30 A.M.
HE RADIOED THE PELOTAS Emerge TO Research IF THEY May perhaps SEE THE Go for FROM THE Bottom. THEY Declared THAT THE Go for WAS Perceptible TO THEM AND ASKED HIM FOR A CLOSE-RANGE Reveal itself. WESTENDORF Then Established TO FLY AS Dud AS HE May perhaps.
WESTENDORF EMPHASIZES THAT HE DID NOT Accept IN UFOS AND SAYS THIS ACCOUNTS FOR HIS Top Eagerness TO FLY Dud TO THE Go for. HE DIDN'T Reveal HE Might BE IN Misfortune.
Being HE GOT Dud TO THE Go for, HE REALIZED THAT IN HIS TWENTY Being OF PILOTING Wisdom HE HAD NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF No matter what Similar IT. When HE HAD Because of Subterfuge Training IN THE Amalgamated STATES AND HAD Equally FLOWN IN FRANCE, HE HAD Look good on Aware Plus Some To be more precise Snooty AND Irrelevant Jet. BUT HE KNEW THAT THIS WAS NOT AN Even.
WESTENDORF SHOWED Selected Detailed Pizzazz DRAWINGS OF THE Go for, Plus HIS OWN Trait Stable TO Scale In contrast to IT. HE DESCRIBES THE Go for AS A FACETED Conduit, Flat ON THE Center Plus A Reduce Measure ON TOP. ON Every person OF THE EIGHT OR TEN Diagonal Division PANELS WERE THREE Good BULGES, Similar TRIANGLE-SHAPED BAY WINDOWS ON THE Division OF A Family unit -- BUT THEY DID NOT Examination Similar WINDOWS. THE Totality Grow WAS Brown IN Pizzazz. THE Materialize WAS In the neighborhood 70 METERS (225 FEET) Euphoric AND In the neighborhood 100 METERS (325 FEET) IN DIAMETER, BIG A load TO Slot in Nearly AN Totality SOCCER Command IF LANDED. HIS OWN Trait, Under THAN 6 METERS Deep, WAS Undersized BY Equal.
WESTENDORF SAYS HE Deceased In the neighborhood 12 TO 14 Minutes IN Dud Convenience TO THE Go for, Dreary TO SEE AS Noticeably AS HE May perhaps. Nonetheless THE PELOTAS AIR Emerge DOES NOT Put up with RADAR, HE BELIEVES THE Fatal RADAR AT CURITIBA (Nearly 450 Nautical MILES NORTHEAST OF HIS Deposit) TRACKED THE Emerald Incident. Nevertheless, OFFICIALS AT CURITIBA Deny THIS (SEE Under).
THE Go for WAS Gyrating Approximately Step by step AND Shipping SOUTHEAST On the road to THE In the neighborhood of SEACOAST AT A Tear OF In the neighborhood 60 Nautical MILES PER HOUR. WESTENDORF MANAGED TO FLY Decently Approximately THE Critical OF THE Go for THREE Time. AT ONE Measure, HE SAYS, HIS WINGTIP CAME Hip In the neighborhood 40 METERS OF THE Go for.
In the past HIS THIRD LAP Approximately THE Go for, WESTENDORF NOTICED THAT THE Reduce TOP SEEMED TO Go into hiding, Departing Equally LOOKED Similar AN Total Garbage dump AT THE TOP. Then HE SAW, Blossoming FROM Stuffing THE Go for, A Representation Carried by the wind SAUCER. IT ROSE To the right, ITS Hope Hub Above-board UNTIL IT CLEARED THE TOP OF THE Larger Go for, Then TIPPED Over TO Appropriate ITS Normal Compass reading AND Dead AT Outstanding Tear. WESTENDORF Understood THAT THIS SAUCER WAS In the neighborhood 10 METERS IN DIAMETER, OR Nearly Increase twofold AS Deep AS HIS OWN Trait, AND HE THINKS IT FLEW Digression AT Finer THAN MACH 10. THE SAUCER SHOWED NO Support OF NOTICING WESTENDORF'S Image In the neighborhood of.
AS Sooner or later AS THE SAUCER Passed away, WESTENDORF Established TO TRY TO FLY Leader THE TOP OF THE Go for. BRAZILIAN MEDIA Following REPORTED THAT HE Comfortable TO FLY HIS Trait In the sphere of THE Within OF THE Go for, BUT HE SAYS HE NEVER Be the same as Deliberate THAT. HE Emphatically HOPED FOR A Peep Guzzle THE Opening.
TO GET Finer Stage, HE FLEW HIS Trait Selected HUNDRED METERS Digression FROM THE Go for, TURNED Approximately AND BEGAN A Rocky Come to life. HE NOTICED THAT THE Go for WAS NOW Rotary Noticeably More rapidly. Then HE SAW Stunning BEAMS OF RED Luminosity Leap FROM THE TOP OF THE Go for On the road to THE SKY. HE Efficiently Desolate HIS Plan TO FLY Leader THE TOP.
Then, TO HIS Take aback, THE Go for ROSE Just UP AT Outstanding Tear. FOR THE Head of state Phase, WESTENDORF WAS Anxious, To the same extent HE Understood THE OBJECT'S Advance Rise Might Engender a feeling of A Daze Tribute OF Disorder THAT May perhaps Cut into HIS OWN Trait. AS A Specialized Map read, HE KNEW THAT AIR Transfer CONTROLLERS Submission STAYING AT Smallest number of THREE Minutes Lay aside A Good Jet TO Avoid SUCH Disorder. HE Estimated THAT THE Unheard of Go for Credibly WEIGHED AT Smallest number of THREE Time AS Noticeably AS A 747 Abundant JET, SO ITS Daze Tribute Hardship BE Giant -- AND HE WAS Emphatically A FEW HUNDRED METERS Digression.
HE Efficiently BEGAN Need Events IN Obscure HIS Trait WENT In the sphere of A Rotate OR A Dither. BUT TO HIS Detain, HE DID NOT Incident ANY Disorder.
AT THAT Measure THE PELOTAS AIR Transfer Person in command TOLD WESTENDORF TO Business THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED CURITIBA AIR Holder Rules RADAR Empathy. Take effect SO, HE ASKED IF THE CURITIBA RADAR Emerge May perhaps SEE Equally WAS In the works TO HIM ON THEIR RADAR. THEY Understood THEY DIDN'T SEE No matter what. HE Then CALLED A Very Phase, IDENTIFYING HIMSELF BY THE TRANSPONDER Tome OF HIS OWN Jet AND Over ASKING IF THEY May perhaps SEE No matter what Personal. Over THEY DENIED SEEING No matter what. HE CALLED A Textbook OF FOUR Time. Finally THE CURITIBA Emerge TOLD HIM THAT THEY SHOWED NO Transfer AT ALL Hip TWO HUNDRED Nautical MILES OF HIS Deposit. AT THIS Measure, WESTENDORF BECAME Conclusive THEY WERE Deceitful, To the same extent In attendance ARE TWO Good CITIES Plus AIRPORTS -- SANTA MARIA AND PORTO ALEGRE -- Closer THAN 200 MILES FROM HIS Deposit. HE BELIEVES In attendance HAD TO BE AT Smallest number of Some Normal AIR Transfer Nearby Those CITIES.
MEANWHILE, Sophistication IN THE PELOTAS Emerge HAD WATCHED THE Totality Incident. Be the same as SUNBATHERS ON THE Seashore AT PELOTAS WERE Nice TO SEE IT.
AT THAT Phase In attendance WAS A Thick Coating OF NIMBO-STRATUS Billows Earlier WESTENDORF'S Deposit, AND THE Go for HAD Seemingly ENTERED THAT Cloud Assurance. HE Established TO FLY Earlier THE Billows IF Possible TO SEE IF HE May perhaps Push THE Go for. HE EMERGED FROM THE Billows AT In the neighborhood 10,000 FEET, BUT HE NEVER SAW THE Go for Over.
WESTENDORF HAPPENED TO Put up with A Den Phone Plus HIM IN THE Trait, AND AT THAT Minute HIS Basic SON CALLED HIM ON THE Phone. WESTENDORF ASKED TO Talk TO HIS Partner. HE TOLD HER THAT HE HAD Unemotional HAD A Dud Incident Plus A UFO. HE SAYS HE WAS NOW Trembling AND STUTTERING Being HE TALKED. BUT HIS Partner DIDN'T Accept HIM AND Understood HE SOUNDED Angry.
HE Then Established TO Wages TO PELOTAS Fatal. BUT Being HE LANDED, HE Open THAT Press AND TV Sophistication WERE Sooner than ON Route, WAITING FOR HIM. THIS HAPPENED To the same extent THREE OF HIS Friends, ALL Personal PILOTS Similar HIMSELF, HAPPENED TO BE MONITORING HIS Telephone system TRANSMISSIONS ON THEIR OWN RADIOS AT Company. Being THEY HEARD HE WAS Carried by the wind Approximately A UFO, THEY ALERTED THE Press.
THE Press MOBBED HIM THE Not sufficiently HE GOT OUT OF HIS Trait. BUT WESTENDORF TOLD Any person THAT HE WOULD NOT SAY No matter what UNTIL HE TALKED Plus THE Sophistication IN THE PELOTAS Apportion Emerge.
Outburst Plus THE Mind AIR Transfer Person in command AND TWO OTHERS ON Board AT THAT Phase, HE ASKED THEM IF THEY WOULD Bring about UP HIS Tell stories TO THE Press. HE Understood THAT IF THEY REFUSED TO Bring about HIM UP, HE WOULD Deny THE Emerald End. SO THE Mind Transfer Person in command CALLED HIS Supercilious, AN AIR Cane COLONEL IN THE Metropolis OF PORTO ALEGRE, TO ASK Girth TO Talk In the neighborhood THE UFO. THE COLONEL TOLD THE Transfer Person in command TO Normal FOR HIMSELF -- SO THE Person in command TOLD WESTENDORF THAT HE AND HIS ASSISTANTS WOULD Bring about UP THE Tell stories. ALL OF THEM Official TO Put up with THEIR Layer AND STORIES Stamped IN ONE OF BRAZIL'S Cap Statistics MAGAZINES, AND FROM THAT Measure ON THE Obscure BECAME A Situation Hit. WESTENDORF HIMSELF WAS FEATURED ON THE Assurance OF THAT Monthly (HE CARRIES A Derive Plus HIM TO Crutch IT).
Nonetheless HIS Slow AND Dud Convenience TO THE Giant UFO -- AN Go for THAT Inevitable Hysteria THE Method OF A "MOTHERSHIP" -- WESTENDORF SAYS THAT NEITHER HE NOR HIS Jet SHOWED ANY Rules OF ILL Cause somebody to EITHER From first to last OR In the past THE Incident. HIS Jet INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS FUNCTIONED Ably Due to, AND Away FROM Gratifying Now then Worried From first to last THE Subsequent Distribute OF THE Episode, HE DID NOT Wisdom ANY Sporty, Mental OR Affecting DIFFICULTIES.
THIS Obscure SEEMS TO Lapse AS THE Neighboring Start Jet Incident Plus A UFO Customarily REPORTED. THE Multiple Work-related WITNESSES, Plus THREE GROUND-BASED AIR Transfer CONTROLLERS, Hang around Erstwhile EYEWITNESSES AND AT Smallest number of THREE CIVILIANS WHO HEARD WESTENDORF'S Orderly Telephone system Interpretation OF THE Episode, Finance To be more precise Good Credence TO THE Tell stories. THE REPORTED Amount AND Treatment OF THE Go for Auspiciously Straight OUT ANY Recognizable Human Jet, AND THE Stance OF A Representation Carried by the wind SAUCER Blossoming FROM THE Larger Pressurize somebody into Chains THE OFTEN-MENTIONED BUT Uncommonly CORROBORATED Established OF A Genuine "MOTHERSHIP."
Instant THE Multiple Full WITNESSES ARE Deserving of praise, THE Contradiction OF RADAROBSERVATION AT CURITIBA Fatal IS Dull. WESTENDORF SEEMS Leap THE CURITIBA OFFICIALS WERE Deceitful. BUT In attendance ARE REPORTED Personal belongings OF UFOS Faultlessly Perceptible TO EYEWITNESSES BUT Doubtless Small TO RADAR. WAS THIS THE Obscure HERE? Extremely THE BRAZILIAN Hostile CANNOT Put up with Messed up TO Prepare THIS Obscure, WHICH BECAME AN Instantaneous Hit IN THE Press. IF IN Particularize THEIR RADAR DID NOT Identify THE Go for, THIS Necessitate Put up with BEEN Transport FOR Small business. ON THE Erstwhile Route, IF THEIR RADAR DID Funds THE Go for, ONE CAN Emphatically Conceive THE Impact IT Necessitate Put up with HAD UPON BRAZIL'S Congregation AND Hostile LEADERS.
Reference: discover-ghosts.blogspot.com
Friday, September 18, 2009
Date: April 11, 2007 Time: 8:30 p.m.
Brian, I went out tonight with my camera and a Sony video camera at 8:30 tonight (April 11, 2007). An object appeared in the same area of sky, and this time the object was not a boomerang shaped object, but an object that appears to be changing shape. Please find attached photos (I have a series of photos, these are just a few and appear the best).
Brian, More pictures of this multiple shaped object in the northwestern sky of Calgary, Alberta.
I haven't reviewed the video tape yet.
Warm Regards.
All the links to view these awesome photos are below. Also the pictures are copyright to: J. CC., Calgary, AB, Canada April 2007
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
The documentation, declassified under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, dates back to 1952, was prepared by the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, and is titled "Unconventional Flying Objects Sighted; And Portions Recovered by" [Note from Nick: First name deleted] "McLean, Friona, Texas"." It's a deeply weird file that is suggestive of one of three things: (a) that the witness may have been suffering from a degree of dementia; (b) something highly unusual really "did" occur; or c) maybe it was a bit of both.
The basics of the story can be found in the "Synopsis" section of the Air Force dossier, which reads as follows: "Special Agent in Charge, Dallas, Texas, Texas Field Division, FBI, advised this district that McLean of Friona, Texas, had reported seeing flying saucers at an unnamed point in New Mexico; had recovered three fragments which landed close to him; and had notified the Pentagon but hearing nothing had sold a portion of one object to a Russian scientist from the USSR Embassy."
Well, that's quite a summary! UFOs, physical evidence, and the Russians, no less! But was it true? That's where things get pretty murky. While the circumstances are unclear, the file reveals that the FBI somehow got its hands on a letter that 71-year-old McLean wrote to a friend in Amarillo, Texas on the subject of his find, and which the FBI then shared with Air Force Intelligence.
McLean's very own words - as contained in the aforementioned letter - go like this: "To get back to flying saucers that are real, recently I was camped on a mountain in New Mexico and saw a dim light at first circling around up high. It circled in a mile across cycle but kept descending. First the light was white but as it got lower it turned green and exploded, showering light objects in all directions. Several of those fiery objects landed close to me, most of them were buried in the ground, but I gathered up three that were only partly buried and brought them home with me."
McLean continued: "I notified the Pentagon in Washington what I had saw fall. I heard nothing from them but a Russian scientist from the U.S.S.R. Embassy did come and buy one half of one of those objects. It was so hard we had to use a sledgehammer to break into. In the center was a round hole or vacuum filled with fine powder. This scientist scraped every bit of the dust up and put it in a bottle. He claims the object was uranium and other unknown minerals."
Having reviewed a copy of McLean's letter as provided by the FBI, Air Force Intelligence wasted no time at all in visiting McLean to speak with him personally. The interview was illuminating. In the company of his wife, McLean told the Air Force that he was a retired farmer and had an interest in meteors that dated back around half a century, when he took a correspondence course on the subject, and while he was in his early twenties.
Interestingly, Mrs. McLean confirmed that not only was she with her husband when the strange event occurred, but that she witnessed it too, and also saw and handled the unidentified debris that fell from the skies. When he and his wife got back home, said McLean, he quickly fired off letters to none other than Senator (and later President) Lyndon B. Johnson and also to Clinton Anderson, the Senator of New Mexico. On top of that, McLean claimed to have been called by representatives of both senators, who advised him to send the material to what McLean described as a certain "Government laboratory in Tuscon, Arizona."
And then, said McLean, something very strange happened. Quite out of the blue on one particular day, there was a knock at the door. Dressed in a smart, dark suit was a man who both looked and sounded foreign. He was - or, at least "claimed" - to be a representative of the Soviet Union, operating out of the "Russian Consulate in Amarillo, Texas." The man reportedly flashed an ID card to prove his credentials.
McLean, in speaking with the Air Force, denied selling any material to the Russian (which he claimed he "had" done in his letter to a friend in Amarillo), very possibly, one suspects, out of concern for any backlash from officialdom. All he did was "give" the material to the man, McLean stressed.
Unfortunately, while the Air Force hoped to secure at least "some" of the remaining debris for study, this did not prove to be the case. McLean said he mailed all of the remaining pieces to a family member in Lawrenceville, Illinois: his wife's nephew. The file does not note if Air Force agents in Illinois followed up on this particular development in the story.
When the agents were satisfied that both McLean and his wife had told them all they could, they paid a visit to the local sheriff's office, where they spoke with Deputy Sheriff C.M. Jones of Friona. He had a few illuminating things to say about McLean. Jones, who said he had known McLean "for many years," described him as "entirely loyal," but "somewhat of a dreamer," and someone who had "merely reached that age in life where his mind had begun to deteriorate."
So far as can be ascertained, that is where the investigation ended. Perhaps McLean's mind really "was" on the decline due to the effects of some form of dementia. And, maybe, the whole thing was nothing more than a tragic case of illness provoking a fantasy - albeit an innocent fantasy, rather than one created for malicious reasons. But there are several other factors to keep in mind.
First, Mrs. McLean confirmed that she was present when her husband collected the strange debris in San Miguel, Texas. Second, she also confirmed the visit from the alleged Russian. And third, she confirmed the mailing of the material to her nephew in Illinois. Then there is the matter of the letter written by McLean to his friend in Amarillo. Take a look at it again. The words hardly seem to be those of a man suffering from dementia. Rather, his words read clearly and free of any oddness or rambling.
And what of that "Government laboratory in Tuscon, Arizona." What might that have been?
Moving on, remember that McLean said the UFO "turned green and exploded, showering light objects in all directions." This sounds very much like the so-called "Green Fireball" phenomenon that dominated the skies of the American southwest from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, and which became the subject of an official study code-named Project Twinkle.
And, finally, there's the matter of that mysterious Russian. Let's go back and have a look at what we know about him: he turned up out of the blue, was dressed in a suit, looked foreign, sounded foreign, claimed to represent officialdom (in this case, the government of the former Soviet Union), and left with some of McLean's curious debris.
It must be said that all of this strongly suggests McLean's visitor was one of the notorious Men in Black that appeared on the UFO scene in the 1940s, but who really left their mark in the 1950s and 1960s. Indeed, just about everything about the man, his appearance and his actions practically screams "MIB!"
Will we ever know the truth about this very odd affair? I seriously doubt it. It remains, today, just about as weird as it was all those decades ago
Husband and I were out on back porch when noticed under the cloud cover a bright fireball like object was rising in the SE then its direction switched from ascending to straight line towards the N. We kept discussing what it looked like when we noticed it hesitated in the flight path almost like a pausing then continued on straight path. No sound. Then it just disapeared...possibly cloud cover could have obstructed our view. We watched it for at least 1 1/2 minutes. We both were amazed by it since we seen it rise/ascend then abruptly change direction to a straight line. If it wasnt for the pausing during its flight path I dont think we would be reporting this as unusual. My husband is ex-military and said no way it was a flare or plane or even a star.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
The channel announced in a press release today that it greenlit "Ghost Mine, Stranded" and "Notorious Hauntings" - three new paranormal-themed reality shows to premiere in the first part of 2013. According to Syfy, the shows build upon the net's "popular paranormal reality programming block led by "Ghost Hunters, Paranormal Witness" and "Haunted Collector"."
"Ghost Mine", premiering Jan. 16 at 10 p.m., focuses on a re-opened, supposedly haunted gold mine where "a colorful team of miners" seek fortune alongside a group of paranormal investigators - on hand to explore the ghostly activity and Masonic connections. "Stranded", premiering Feb. 27 at 10 p.m., is produced by "Destination Truth"'s Josh Gates (who also serves as showrunner) and Ping Pong Productions ("Destination Truth", "Finding Bigfoot"), and follows teams of three dropped into famously haunted locales. The teams' experiences will be documented with handheld cameras and stationary cams to create a blend of a POV and docudrama.
Then there is "Notorious Hauntings "(premiering Spring 2013), produced by Pilgrim Studios - the production company behind the "Ghost Hunters" franchise. A globetrotting paranormal investigative show, the "Notorious Hauntings" team uncovers history and explores claims of paranormal activity at locations such as Dracula's stomping grounds in Romania and the sites of Jack the Ripper's murders in London.
"Notorious Hauntings" sounds similar to another international ghost hunting Syfy show produced by Pilgrim... called "Ghost Hunters International". And Mike Nichols, who has exec-produced "GH" and "GHI", also produces "Notorious". For a while now it has seemed that "GHI" - also produced by "GH"'s Jason Hawes - wouldn't be returning, but this puts the nail in that ghost show's coffin.
Following "Ghost Hunters Academy", this is the second "GH" show that appears to be cancelled. After a rotating cast of investigators, coupled with the fact that they haven't filmed any episodes for more than a year (and that last season's ratings were weak), it is reasonable to expect a "GHI" reboot. But even though" GH" remains a strong ratings performer (and was recently renewed for season nine), does Pilgrim and Syfy's scrapping of the "GHI" name suggest a move away from "GH" as a franchise?
Additionally, it is noteworthy that "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files" and "Destination Truth" are absent from Syfy's list of "popular paranormal reality programming block." Through omission, the announcement of three new shows reads like a "de facto" cancellation notice of three other shows - all while reinforcing Syfy's continued commitment to the paranormal.
Of course, this could be reading too much into the press release and maybe we can expect to see more of Kris Williams and Barry FitzGerald's "GHI" team, as well as Ben Hansen's "Fact or Faked" crew. Whatever the case, Truthies out there can take comfort that at least Josh Gates, who has become a trusted pitch man for the entire net, will still be with Syfy - even if behind the scenes. Then again, this is the TV biz, folks; even cancelled shows can come back from the dead to haunt another day.
So what do you think? Are you a diehard "GHI", "DT" or "FoF" fan who is riled up over the announcement? Are you stoked to see these new shows?
"-Aaron Sagers"
Reference: umad-mysteries.blogspot.com
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
"Sponsored by the Send off for Transmit Council, Robert Hastings gave a parade entitled, "UFOS: THE WITHIN TRICK," in which Hastings used documents obtained major Opportunity of Take notes Act requirements and interviews once previous Air Push, CIA and FBI operate as evidence the UFOs and bodies were top. Hastings alleged UFO sightings began to surface in Los Alamos after initial cruel of the minute expand."
"Hastings along with alleged he was very well confused in a UFO sighting in 1967 and believes they are extraterrestrial objects."
"I WAS SCHOLARSHIP AT THE MALMSTROM AIR PUSH FINISH, MONTANA AIR GROUP CONTROL TOWER AT THE SAME TIME AS FIVE UNIDENTIFIED PROJECTION TARGETS, AS THEY ARE CALLED, SUDDENLY BEGAN TO BE TRACKED ON MULTIPLE RADAR SCOPES," Hastings alleged."
"Corina Ramirez, a biology influential, alleged "YES" at the same time as asked whether UFOs and aliens exist."
"ROBERT HASTINGS OFFERED CAREFUL INFORMATION ABOUT UFO SIGHTINGS," Ramirez alleged. "Now I am specially positive about extraterrestrial existence than not later than.
"Quiet, Heather Anderson, an ideas influential, alleged she was on the layer line of believing the information offered by Hastings."
"The first vast waves of UFO sightings began in 1947 in every state exclude Georgia and West Virginia, according to Hastings. Ceiling well-known sightings detain occurred in the air space high-class nuclear weapons services and position plants."
"Gift IS A UFO-NUCLEAR Guns Connection, HASTINGS Alleged."
"Hastings displayed one document that described UFOs as "round bent objects or phenomena persuasive at a hurriedly tariff and emitting a inflate iced or meditative light."
"Legislative body documents along with show the sightings in New Mexico were reported to previous FBI Lead J. Edgar Hoover. Hastings wants specially documents said by the U.S. government to be released to the American public."
"I DO HOLD THE CUSTOMARY IS ENTITLED TO BITS AND PIECES," HASTINGS Alleged. "
"Hastings along with alleged the government does not object to inform and has misinformed Americans on this enterprise for trouble of creating a depress be keen on the one caused by the 1938 "WAR OF THE WORLDS" make known."
"Hastings referred to the Orson Welles arrive in which a radio make known of ballroom music was periodic by reports of UFO sightings and attacks. In sensitivity to the arrive, a few sprint went to church, stop trading their pack and hunted welfare. According to Hastings, the U.S. government sighted the sensitivity to the arrive as entity to take cover information from its inhabitants."
"Hastings along with alleged a producer in Spain broadcasted a arrive match to that of Wells to square once the 1996 release of "XENOPHOBIA DAY" and caused alarm. Americans donate be smaller quantity doomsayer on the charm of extraterrestrials if the government releases such information, Hastings alleged."
"Martin Rivero, a liable to tax impartiality influential, alleged if the government is beating information on this locale, they indigence release it and fabricate it public. "
"Hastings alleged the government recognized the existence of Commune 51 in 1996."
"No one has all the answers trendy UFOs, Hastings alleged. Quiet, he explicit listeners what they heard Wednesday night is specially real than what the government has told them."
Source - DNA Ramsey
Sunday, September 6, 2009
When it is hot outside, people do the darndest things. One example of a wacky event is the Roswell UFO Festival in July. Travelers come from all around the country to Roswell, New Mexico - in the southeastern part of the state - to "promote extraterrestrial education. Expert" speakers teach attendants all there is to know about E.T.s. Even Fido can come along, as there is an alien pet costume contest where anyone's pup can show off this season's "other-worldly couture." Since the festival is held over July 4th weekend, the celebration is not lacking firework shows. General admission is free, but certain events do have a charge. On June 23, TripAdvisor ranked the UFO Festival as the fifth wackiest event this summer.
Full article: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/strange/roswell-ufo-festival-july-1-5
ARCH DRUID OF CORNWALL BREAKS CURSE LEFT ON TEAM ENGLAND AT WORLD CUP
England need all the help they can get to beat Slovenia today and advance to the second round of the World Cup. So Fabio Capello's side will presumably be happy to hear that the curse that is the real reason for their struggles so far has been lifted. Ed Prynn, the Archdruid of Cornwall, says he has lifted the magical burden that was placed on the team in Cape Town - by an African witch doctor. The 73-year-old mystic, from Padstow, said that the likes of Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard, who have so far performed poorly at the tournament, will now be free to wreak havoc on opposition defences.
Full article: http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/oddnews/Curse-witch-doctor-lifted-squad/article-2336160-detail/article.html
THEOLOGIAN CLAIMS JESUS MAY NOT HAVE DIED ON THE CROSS
The legend of his execution is based on the traditions of the Christian church and artistic illustrations rather than antique texts, according to theologian Gunnar Samuelsson. He claims the Bible has been misinterpreted as there are no explicit references the use of nails or to crucifixion - only that Jesus bore a "staurus" towards Calvary which is not necessarily a cross but can also mean a "pole".
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7849852/Jesus-did-not-die-on-cross-says-scholar.html
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
March 8, 1992
CIRCLES3.ASC
This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Mathew Bevan.
SOURCE: The Times DATE: 27 July 1990
George Hill goes down on the farm and discovers that corn circles
are grist to a media mill, whether messages in Sumerian, natural
phenomena or simply hoaxes. In spite of the giant graffiti
mockingly imprinted this week on a cornfield just under their noses,
the research team seeking to crack the mystery of corn circles at
Westbury Hill in Wiltshire mean to continue their vigil until the
crop is harvested in two or three weeks' time.
The standing corn is the writing-paper on which some little-
understood influence inscribes, with uncanny precision, signs which
seem to grow more numerous and more complex every year. With five
low-light video cameras trained day and night on the ripening
cornfields which stretch away to the horizon from their vantage-
point on the chalk ramparts of the prehistoric Bratton Fort, the
team hopes to catch the moment of formation of one of the circles.
The scene at Bratton Fort on Wednesday, on the morning the hoaxers
had been at work, did little to promote the credibility of the
circles as a genuine scientific phenomenon. Down below was the
evidence of the work of a party of buffoons to damage somebody
else's property and livelihood, while high on the escarpment the
angry and excited figure of Colin Andrews, one of the leaders of the
project, was letting himself be drawn by bands of the international
media into dropping hints which will not help workers in the field
to gain respectable backers for future research.
An atmosphere of silly-season gaiety hung over the encampment. It
will be harder than ever now to wrest the subject from the mystics
who prefer supernatural to natural explanations, and the cynics who
are satisfied that everything can be explained on the basis of
bucolic humour or press circulation-battles. Because the story is
all about ripening corn, it breaks every year just at the time when
serious news tends to be afflicted by its usual summer drought. As
Mr Andrews spoke of 'an airborne consciousness', which he declared
could not inappropriately be described as 'supernatural', the
representative of the Today newspaper stood at his shoulder with a
proprietorial smile.
For those who have been so merrily making hay out of the corn in
recent weeks, any turn in the tale, whether hoax or otherwise, can
be turned to account except one: a natural explanation. A solution
to the mystery would spoil the fun and they would be thrown back on
the Loch Ness monster. So successful has the drive to mystification
been, that a spokesman for the Meteorological Office yesterday was
still taking the classic attitude of conservative science to a
puzzle with overtones of the occult, and dismissing the whole
phenomenon as 'a glorified hoax'.
In spite of Wednesday's prank, and earlier jollities like the
appearance of the message 'WEARENOTALONE' on a Hampshire hillside
in 1983, and last year's report of rings at an Essex village called
Littley Green (Littley Green Men: geddit?), there can be no doubt
that many circles are not hoaxes. If the 400 rings which have been
reported this year are all man-made, then the sun must have touched
an alarmingly large number of industrious humourists.
Many are in remote spots where the chances of publicity would be
slight. Similar circles have been reported in many other countries
where there has been no ballyhoo to encourage pranksters, and as
long ago as 1936, 1918, and even 1678. 'It is usually easy to
distinguish a natural circle from a man-made one by looking at the
way the stalks have been pressed down,' says Paul Fuller,the joint
author of Crop Circles a Mystery Solved, to be published next month.
'If you visit a fresh one, you can see how the crops have been
pressed down in a spiral or circular pattern, sometimes so gently
that they have not even been flattened, sometimes pressed so firmly
into the soil that they leave a mark in it. The traces left by human
intervention are quite different.'
But there are aspects to the circles which make them tempting
subjects for science-fiction speculation. Witnesses who have been
nearby when they form frequently speak of strange lights and buzzing
noises, or sensations similar to those associated with strong fields
of static electricity.
Tests with instruments have sometimes confirmed that electric
phenomena are involved. The growing number of circles may be
partly explicable by changes in agricultural practice, but it is
impossible to account for the eerily systematic patterns of recent
examples. Fancy and superstition have ranged exuberantly in
proposing explanations for the phenomenon.
Claims that the cause involves flying saucers, fungal infections,
ley-lines, giant hailstones, rutting stags or mass-movements of
hedgehogs have been suggested, and gleefully perpetuated by those
who thrive on mystification.
This year, the bouillabaisse of red herrings has been enriched by a
suggestion that the signs are a warning of ecological disaster
written in 3,000-year-old Sumerian script although it has not been
explained why an entity which has not yet discovered the ABC should
be supposed to have any up to date information about other events on
earth.
The mystifiers are less happy with the evidence of the small number
of witnesses, including some impeccably sober citizens, who have
actually observed the formation of circles. Their testimony
threatens to spoil the fun. One of them is Melvyn Bell, a Wiltshire
labourer, who saw a circle in 1983, long before the story was taken
up by the tabloids. 'It didn't seem a matter of great interest to
me at the time,' he says. 'I was riding on the old Ridgeway near
Lavington at about eight in the evening one day in August. About a
quarter of a mile away I saw a small cloud of dust above a cornfield
it looked like one of those spinning clouds of debris you sometimes
see outside a supermarket. I was looking down the hill towards it,
higher up than the top of the cloud. It was all over in a few
seconds. It laid out a circle about ten yards wide in the corn. I
heard no buzzing noises.'
Of all explanations, the whirlwind solution is the one that
commentators drawn to occult answers dislike most. Mr. Andrews
mentions it briefly and dismissively in his own book, Circular
Evidence, written jointly with Pat Delgado and published last year.
Supernaturalists have suggested that Mr Bell's evidence should be
discounted because he is an employee of Dr. Terence Meaden, an
academic specialising in research into atmospheric processes, whose
book The Circles Effect and Its Mysteries, also published last year
(there must be a supernatural explanation behind this exponential
growth in the number of books on the subject).
Dr. Meaden is the first writer to put forward a theory which
explains most of the characteristics of the circles on a basis of
current scientific knowledge. In the process, he goes far to
providing a rational explanation for many of the UFO reports which
have puzzled researchers for decades. Drawing partly on the
extensive records gathered by Mr Andrews and his colleagues, he
shows that circles tend to appear in very specific conditions of
weather and topography.
'I would say there is no mystery about the basic process,' he
says. 'The primary thing is a vortex formed on the lee side of a
hill in very still atmospheric conditions. If a mass of air near the
ground becomes electrically charged, as it can be by friction where
a dry crop and dust have been stirred by the wind all day, very
complex processes might develop, and produce the buzzing and glowing
that have been described.'
In their familiar form, whirlwinds happen only in daylight, when
warm air creates upcurrents which spin as they rise. But where a
layer of cool air lies above a warm layer, parts of the upper layer
can fall away, and as they sink, spiral formations like smoke-rings
may form. These spinning masses, some larger than others, some
hitting the ground quite hard, and others scarcely brushing it,
might well be the most credible explanation for many of the detailed
characteristics of the circles, including the delicate concentric
forms sometimes seen.
It is more difficult to understand how they could produce treble and
quintuple patterns of rings, and harder still to see how they could
lead to the complex angular spurs and key-patterns photographed this
year. 'Imagine a round clock falling to the ground,' Dr Meaden
says. 'If it falls gently, it may leave a plain round impression
behind. If it falls so hard that it smashes, then parts of the
mechanism might shoot out this way or that. Further vortices inside
the main vortex might fly out as it disintegrates. I think many of
these patterns are genuine, and offer clues to the internal
structure of these objects.' But not even Dr Meaden can offer a
clear explanation for the apparent tendency of the patterns to grow
more complex year by year. If that trend continues, a degree of
mystery will continue to cling to the circles, and it may not be
long before it seems worthwhile for us to brush up on our Sumerian.
(c) Times Newspapers Ltd.
1990 SOURCE: The Times DATE: 25 July 1991
Crop Circles; Letter From Mr Ralph Noyes
Sir,
I read with interest your report on the reappearance of crop
circles (July 16). Hoaxing is undoubtedly taking place in some
cases. We in the Centre for Crop Circle Studies are cooperating
closely with the Wiltshire police in the hope of eliminating this
nuisance, which is not only troublesome to farmers but muddies the
scientific record.
The event in the field near Alton Barnes which occurred on July
1-2 (there has since been a second formation in the same field) was
seen within hours by members of CCCS. It will by now have lost
much of its delicate texturing as a result of sight-seeing by
members of the public. But in its pristine state it showed the
hallmarks of a genuine occurrence, particularly in the complex
layering of the grain where the main shaft of the formation crosses
the central elements of a ring and circle. We do not believe it
could have been a hoax. Mr. and Mrs. Carson, who farm the land, have
our full support in repudiating the suggestion of trickery.
Yours faithfully, RALPH NOYES
(Honorary Secretary, Centre for Crop Circle Studies),
9 Oakley Street, SW3. July 16.
(c) Times Newspapers Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Times DATE: 12 June 1991
Tokyo scientist rustles up corn circle
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki By Nick Nuttall, Technology Correspondent
A JAPANESE scientist who has been enthralled by the annual
appearance of crop circles in Britain has created the phenomenon in
his laboratory. The shapes, identical to those which started to re-
appear last week, were made without the assistance of UFOs, farmers'
lads, rutting deer, frenzied hedgehogs or any of the other exotic
theories which have sprung up around the phenomenon.
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki used a machine which he developed to produce ball
lightning. The professor of physics at Waseda university, Tokyo,
has thus helped to confirm theories proposed last year by Terence
Meaden, former associate professor of physics at Dalhousie
university in Halifax, Canada, and founder of the Tornado Storm
Research Organisation at Oxford polytechnic.
Dr. Meaden suggested, to gales of derision by lovers of more
outlandish explanations, that the topography and climate of such
counties as Wiltshire and Hampshire triggered the formation of mini-
whirlwinds. As they broke down over fields, he suggested, a
doughnut-shaped eddy within the column swept downwards, swirling the
crop.
Dr. Meaden said yesterday that Professor Ohtsuki, who first visited
Britain two years ago to examine the phenomenon, had told him in a
letter that he fired mini-whirlwinds over plates of fine aluminium
powder in his ball-lightning machine to replicate the swirls.
The findings have been lent further weight by another Japanese
scientist, Tokio Kikuchi of Kochi university, who has developed a
mathematical model based on Dr Meaden's theory which has been shot
on video. It also creates more complex shapes, similiar to those
that have appeared in recent years.
Supporters of more exotic theories had said that a scientific basis
for corn circles is defied by these complicated configurations. Dr.
Meaden believes that the final answer to the circles' complexities
might be found in the appearance of sun spots which lead to
electromagnetic changes in the Earth's atmosphere and crust.
If so, the number of complicated corn circles may fall over the
coming years. Solar activity is believed to be on the point of
declining from a 200 - year peak. (c) Times Newspapers Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Times DATE: 10 September 1991
LONDON'S most famous occult bookshop, Waktins, is having no truck
with the Southampton hoaxsters who confessed to newspapers yesterday
that they were responsible for the mystery of the corn circles.
'The newspapers are full of lies,' said an angry spokesman for the
shop, which specialises in books on magic, astrology and psychic
phenomena. The enigma remains, insists the shop. So, too, will its
window display, erected last week, of books on crop circles,
explaining the phenomenon by reference to aliens from outer space,
energy currents and other causes far more plausible than two men
with a ball of string, an old baseball cap and 4 ft wooden plinths.
(c) Times Newspapers Ltd. 1991
CIRCLES3.ASC
This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Mathew Bevan.
SOURCE: The Times DATE: 27 July 1990
George Hill goes down on the farm and discovers that corn circles
are grist to a media mill, whether messages in Sumerian, natural
phenomena or simply hoaxes. In spite of the giant graffiti
mockingly imprinted this week on a cornfield just under their noses,
the research team seeking to crack the mystery of corn circles at
Westbury Hill in Wiltshire mean to continue their vigil until the
crop is harvested in two or three weeks' time.
The standing corn is the writing-paper on which some little-
understood influence inscribes, with uncanny precision, signs which
seem to grow more numerous and more complex every year. With five
low-light video cameras trained day and night on the ripening
cornfields which stretch away to the horizon from their vantage-
point on the chalk ramparts of the prehistoric Bratton Fort, the
team hopes to catch the moment of formation of one of the circles.
The scene at Bratton Fort on Wednesday, on the morning the hoaxers
had been at work, did little to promote the credibility of the
circles as a genuine scientific phenomenon. Down below was the
evidence of the work of a party of buffoons to damage somebody
else's property and livelihood, while high on the escarpment the
angry and excited figure of Colin Andrews, one of the leaders of the
project, was letting himself be drawn by bands of the international
media into dropping hints which will not help workers in the field
to gain respectable backers for future research.
An atmosphere of silly-season gaiety hung over the encampment. It
will be harder than ever now to wrest the subject from the mystics
who prefer supernatural to natural explanations, and the cynics who
are satisfied that everything can be explained on the basis of
bucolic humour or press circulation-battles. Because the story is
all about ripening corn, it breaks every year just at the time when
serious news tends to be afflicted by its usual summer drought. As
Mr Andrews spoke of 'an airborne consciousness', which he declared
could not inappropriately be described as 'supernatural', the
representative of the Today newspaper stood at his shoulder with a
proprietorial smile.
For those who have been so merrily making hay out of the corn in
recent weeks, any turn in the tale, whether hoax or otherwise, can
be turned to account except one: a natural explanation. A solution
to the mystery would spoil the fun and they would be thrown back on
the Loch Ness monster. So successful has the drive to mystification
been, that a spokesman for the Meteorological Office yesterday was
still taking the classic attitude of conservative science to a
puzzle with overtones of the occult, and dismissing the whole
phenomenon as 'a glorified hoax'.
In spite of Wednesday's prank, and earlier jollities like the
appearance of the message 'WEARENOTALONE' on a Hampshire hillside
in 1983, and last year's report of rings at an Essex village called
Littley Green (Littley Green Men: geddit?), there can be no doubt
that many circles are not hoaxes. If the 400 rings which have been
reported this year are all man-made, then the sun must have touched
an alarmingly large number of industrious humourists.
Many are in remote spots where the chances of publicity would be
slight. Similar circles have been reported in many other countries
where there has been no ballyhoo to encourage pranksters, and as
long ago as 1936, 1918, and even 1678. 'It is usually easy to
distinguish a natural circle from a man-made one by looking at the
way the stalks have been pressed down,' says Paul Fuller,the joint
author of Crop Circles a Mystery Solved, to be published next month.
'If you visit a fresh one, you can see how the crops have been
pressed down in a spiral or circular pattern, sometimes so gently
that they have not even been flattened, sometimes pressed so firmly
into the soil that they leave a mark in it. The traces left by human
intervention are quite different.'
But there are aspects to the circles which make them tempting
subjects for science-fiction speculation. Witnesses who have been
nearby when they form frequently speak of strange lights and buzzing
noises, or sensations similar to those associated with strong fields
of static electricity.
Tests with instruments have sometimes confirmed that electric
phenomena are involved. The growing number of circles may be
partly explicable by changes in agricultural practice, but it is
impossible to account for the eerily systematic patterns of recent
examples. Fancy and superstition have ranged exuberantly in
proposing explanations for the phenomenon.
Claims that the cause involves flying saucers, fungal infections,
ley-lines, giant hailstones, rutting stags or mass-movements of
hedgehogs have been suggested, and gleefully perpetuated by those
who thrive on mystification.
This year, the bouillabaisse of red herrings has been enriched by a
suggestion that the signs are a warning of ecological disaster
written in 3,000-year-old Sumerian script although it has not been
explained why an entity which has not yet discovered the ABC should
be supposed to have any up to date information about other events on
earth.
The mystifiers are less happy with the evidence of the small number
of witnesses, including some impeccably sober citizens, who have
actually observed the formation of circles. Their testimony
threatens to spoil the fun. One of them is Melvyn Bell, a Wiltshire
labourer, who saw a circle in 1983, long before the story was taken
up by the tabloids. 'It didn't seem a matter of great interest to
me at the time,' he says. 'I was riding on the old Ridgeway near
Lavington at about eight in the evening one day in August. About a
quarter of a mile away I saw a small cloud of dust above a cornfield
it looked like one of those spinning clouds of debris you sometimes
see outside a supermarket. I was looking down the hill towards it,
higher up than the top of the cloud. It was all over in a few
seconds. It laid out a circle about ten yards wide in the corn. I
heard no buzzing noises.'
Of all explanations, the whirlwind solution is the one that
commentators drawn to occult answers dislike most. Mr. Andrews
mentions it briefly and dismissively in his own book, Circular
Evidence, written jointly with Pat Delgado and published last year.
Supernaturalists have suggested that Mr Bell's evidence should be
discounted because he is an employee of Dr. Terence Meaden, an
academic specialising in research into atmospheric processes, whose
book The Circles Effect and Its Mysteries, also published last year
(there must be a supernatural explanation behind this exponential
growth in the number of books on the subject).
Dr. Meaden is the first writer to put forward a theory which
explains most of the characteristics of the circles on a basis of
current scientific knowledge. In the process, he goes far to
providing a rational explanation for many of the UFO reports which
have puzzled researchers for decades. Drawing partly on the
extensive records gathered by Mr Andrews and his colleagues, he
shows that circles tend to appear in very specific conditions of
weather and topography.
'I would say there is no mystery about the basic process,' he
says. 'The primary thing is a vortex formed on the lee side of a
hill in very still atmospheric conditions. If a mass of air near the
ground becomes electrically charged, as it can be by friction where
a dry crop and dust have been stirred by the wind all day, very
complex processes might develop, and produce the buzzing and glowing
that have been described.'
In their familiar form, whirlwinds happen only in daylight, when
warm air creates upcurrents which spin as they rise. But where a
layer of cool air lies above a warm layer, parts of the upper layer
can fall away, and as they sink, spiral formations like smoke-rings
may form. These spinning masses, some larger than others, some
hitting the ground quite hard, and others scarcely brushing it,
might well be the most credible explanation for many of the detailed
characteristics of the circles, including the delicate concentric
forms sometimes seen.
It is more difficult to understand how they could produce treble and
quintuple patterns of rings, and harder still to see how they could
lead to the complex angular spurs and key-patterns photographed this
year. 'Imagine a round clock falling to the ground,' Dr Meaden
says. 'If it falls gently, it may leave a plain round impression
behind. If it falls so hard that it smashes, then parts of the
mechanism might shoot out this way or that. Further vortices inside
the main vortex might fly out as it disintegrates. I think many of
these patterns are genuine, and offer clues to the internal
structure of these objects.' But not even Dr Meaden can offer a
clear explanation for the apparent tendency of the patterns to grow
more complex year by year. If that trend continues, a degree of
mystery will continue to cling to the circles, and it may not be
long before it seems worthwhile for us to brush up on our Sumerian.
(c) Times Newspapers Ltd.
1990 SOURCE: The Times DATE: 25 July 1991
Crop Circles; Letter From Mr Ralph Noyes
Sir,
I read with interest your report on the reappearance of crop
circles (July 16). Hoaxing is undoubtedly taking place in some
cases. We in the Centre for Crop Circle Studies are cooperating
closely with the Wiltshire police in the hope of eliminating this
nuisance, which is not only troublesome to farmers but muddies the
scientific record.
The event in the field near Alton Barnes which occurred on July
1-2 (there has since been a second formation in the same field) was
seen within hours by members of CCCS. It will by now have lost
much of its delicate texturing as a result of sight-seeing by
members of the public. But in its pristine state it showed the
hallmarks of a genuine occurrence, particularly in the complex
layering of the grain where the main shaft of the formation crosses
the central elements of a ring and circle. We do not believe it
could have been a hoax. Mr. and Mrs. Carson, who farm the land, have
our full support in repudiating the suggestion of trickery.
Yours faithfully, RALPH NOYES
(Honorary Secretary, Centre for Crop Circle Studies),
9 Oakley Street, SW3. July 16.
(c) Times Newspapers Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Times DATE: 12 June 1991
Tokyo scientist rustles up corn circle
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki By Nick Nuttall, Technology Correspondent
A JAPANESE scientist who has been enthralled by the annual
appearance of crop circles in Britain has created the phenomenon in
his laboratory. The shapes, identical to those which started to re-
appear last week, were made without the assistance of UFOs, farmers'
lads, rutting deer, frenzied hedgehogs or any of the other exotic
theories which have sprung up around the phenomenon.
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki used a machine which he developed to produce ball
lightning. The professor of physics at Waseda university, Tokyo,
has thus helped to confirm theories proposed last year by Terence
Meaden, former associate professor of physics at Dalhousie
university in Halifax, Canada, and founder of the Tornado Storm
Research Organisation at Oxford polytechnic.
Dr. Meaden suggested, to gales of derision by lovers of more
outlandish explanations, that the topography and climate of such
counties as Wiltshire and Hampshire triggered the formation of mini-
whirlwinds. As they broke down over fields, he suggested, a
doughnut-shaped eddy within the column swept downwards, swirling the
crop.
Dr. Meaden said yesterday that Professor Ohtsuki, who first visited
Britain two years ago to examine the phenomenon, had told him in a
letter that he fired mini-whirlwinds over plates of fine aluminium
powder in his ball-lightning machine to replicate the swirls.
The findings have been lent further weight by another Japanese
scientist, Tokio Kikuchi of Kochi university, who has developed a
mathematical model based on Dr Meaden's theory which has been shot
on video. It also creates more complex shapes, similiar to those
that have appeared in recent years.
Supporters of more exotic theories had said that a scientific basis
for corn circles is defied by these complicated configurations. Dr.
Meaden believes that the final answer to the circles' complexities
might be found in the appearance of sun spots which lead to
electromagnetic changes in the Earth's atmosphere and crust.
If so, the number of complicated corn circles may fall over the
coming years. Solar activity is believed to be on the point of
declining from a 200 - year peak. (c) Times Newspapers Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Times DATE: 10 September 1991
LONDON'S most famous occult bookshop, Waktins, is having no truck
with the Southampton hoaxsters who confessed to newspapers yesterday
that they were responsible for the mystery of the corn circles.
'The newspapers are full of lies,' said an angry spokesman for the
shop, which specialises in books on magic, astrology and psychic
phenomena. The enigma remains, insists the shop. So, too, will its
window display, erected last week, of books on crop circles,
explaining the phenomenon by reference to aliens from outer space,
energy currents and other causes far more plausible than two men
with a ball of string, an old baseball cap and 4 ft wooden plinths.
(c) Times Newspapers Ltd. 1991
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