NatGeo - Original Air Date: 6/29/12
The team, Ben, Ryder, & James, goes to Fresno, CA, to check out triangular UFO sightings. They talk to witnesses, one of whom thinks he saw one crash, and he has some fuzzy video, too. They poke around the desert and a strange abandoned tunnel at night and see cars/vans that may (or may not) be watching them. Some believers say there is a hidden underground base in the area. They talk to another witness who claims to have been burned from watching a UFO. They talk to another pair of witnesses who have a fuzzy nighttime video of lights in the sky. They set up for another night investigation near the airport, where strange (?) lights are seen. Ryder goes poking around a remote section of the airport and apparently provokes a flyover by a military helicopter. (They also spot the International Space Station zooming by.) Researching later, they find the abandoned tunnel was used to build a hydro electric plant. Running the plates on the suspicious white van yields nothing (at least by Ryder). Unfortunately, they fled from the other mysterious vehicle, rather than approaching it. Tests on the items of the "burned" witness show nothing unusual. Turns out the 144th wing of the Air National Guard is stationed in Fresno, but James thinks there are still UFOs here. Ben & Ryder believe that the sightings are a combination of misidentified civilian and military aircraft.
After two shows, this series shows promise, though they need to stop looking for evidence (other than lights in the sky) at night, and start searching places during the day. Too many of these shows feature 2 night-shot segments per episode, to no good end. Apparently, this is going to be one of them.
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Fleet of UFOs Allegedly Landed in Chicoana, Argentina by Jaime Barrera and translated by UFO researcher Scott Corrales.
Extremely interesting report of UFOs landing in front of witnesses in Argentina. Much about this is amazing of course, but I'm focusing here on the lack of response and interest by authorities. As with the Stephenville Lights and the Phoenix Lights, (for example) police and other agencies often have a strange disinterest in the weirdness of large, unexplained craft in their midst. The opening sentence of Barrera's article:
Strange, deep marks left on three wheat fields. Hundred of witnesses reported the event to the police, but law enforcement gave it little importance.
One police officer offered his opinion the strange marks left on the ground was not made by any UFO, but "wind."
The object seemed to affect cell phones and cars:
"We saw the first lights with my son around 3 a.m. and tried to film them, but curiously, our cellphones stopped working, as though they had no batteries in them... Later, whatever landed on the field, the source of the flashes, took off and went away at an astonishing speed. Our cellphones worked normally after that," explained Martinez.
Another interesting characteristic of this sighting: the atypical reactions of animals. Often in UFO and related events, animals have strange reactions to the phenomena, hiding, barking incessantly, running away, etc.
Children and staff members from a school also saw the strange lights, and again, their cameras and cell phones didn't work:
My aunt," said Pedro, 13, "lives near the school and has a video device. The same thing happened to her. It didn't work, as though its batteries had run out."
The article mentions that the area has had a history of strange sightings for several years now.
"Seattlepi.com"
Good turn in the summer of 1947 - 64 natural life ago this week - Seattle had flying disc hallucination. It was sparked that June 26 one time the P-I ran an Connected Compress story from Pendleton, Ore., suggestive of the story of pilot Kenneth Arnold seeing "nine average, saucer-like objects flying at amazing characteristic at 10,000 feet direct towards."
Arnold, a U.S. Wood Go past employee, reported seeing the discs weaving in and out of formation together with Suit Rainier and Suit Adams. If one dished, Arnold thought, the others did, too.
"It seems unachievable," he told a reporter, "but award it is."
His account generated worldwide publicity and launched the flying-saucer frenzy. Rewards were untaken for evidence. A pastor thought "flying saucers" signaled the end of the world. A man found skinned from the head claimed he was hit by a flying circumnavigate.
That summer, a group of "witnesses" in Seattle met in the midst of P-I editors to rank that they may well not all be foolish. The paper's files full up in the midst of the names of hundreds of the public reporting saucer incidents. Modish two months, the P-I ran at smallest amount of 50 cause a rift stories on flying disks.
On July 4, 1947, a Pool Municipal man claimed to conduct mystified a photo of one.
Yeoman Honorable Ryman, off levy from his job in the midst of Drift Disguise pomp interaction, thought he saw a glassy disc flying with a leg on each side of the Seattle skies. Ryman hasty voguish his home in Pool Municipal, after that shell the Seattle city restrictions in Emperor State.
"I grabbed my Assess Charming (press camera) and area spectacles and ran aid shell," the 26-year-old told the P-I. "The disc came over about 9,000 or 10,000 feet. It was splendid dramatic silvery in the sun.
The picture, he thought, was eventful period the disc was straight overhead. He hand-me-down Super-XX film, a 1/50 shutter characteristic in the midst of a f 22 lens overture.
"Acquaint with was no firm," he thought, additive he watched it in the midst of binoculars. "No plain of engines. And I am plus point award were no wings or fins in sight. It confidently was not a plane."
Overdue spotting the object and vocalizations in the midst of neighbors, Ryman called the Post-Intelligencer and hasty to the newspaper's darkroom.
"Inflated lots become old the disc showed up clearly as a somewhat unclear ashen object," the newspaper's account way in.
That day, the P-I ran slightly reports of flying objects. In Multiply by two Fall, Idaho, 35 flying discs were reported in a 20-minute label. A Allied Airlines pilot, Capt. E. Smith, as well reported seeing three to five discs at 7,500 feet over Ontario, Ore., the night of July 4. A substitute sheriff as well told the P-I he saw a flying disc that day on his course north from the Clark State Courthouse.
"Yesterday puzzled, hundreds of hurry together with San Diego and Seattle reported seeing the plate-like spick and span objects winging northward high in the sky at heavy supersonic speeds," the P-I's pointer piece story way in.
Dripping story:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/07/05/seattle-history-the-ufo-sightings-near-seattle/#238-3
