MARCH 25, 2013 - UNITED STATES - Unidentified flying objects over South Whidbey last weekend have left a Bush Point couple baffled and scared. A series of mysterious orange lights appeared in the sky over Dick and Carol Johnson's home Saturday evening. While they are used to seeing all kinds of marine and air traffic from their picture windows overlooking Admiralty Inlet, the couple admits this has left them scratching their heads. "We've seen a lot of stuff, but this was the weirdest thing we've ever seen," said Dick Johnson, a retired civil engineer. Dick Johnson, a Bush Point resident, recounts a strange and frightening experience Saturday when he and his wife witnessed unexplained lights in the sky over their home. Justin Burnett / Whidbey News-TimesThe Johnsons have lived in the community for 17 years and were watching television Saturday at about 8:30 p.m. when they noticed what appeared to be a steady, orange light hovering over Marrowstone Island. The lone light was quickly joined by several more, which then began to make their way across Puget Sound. Dick Johnson walked out on his porch and, to his astonishment, saw more over Whidbey Island, somewhere between their home and Lagoon Point. The incident ended when two of the strange lights flew over their neighborhood; one went right over the top of their house, Dick Johnson said. In all, they reported a total of seven objects. "The first thing I thought was Area 51 moved to Whidbey Island," he said. As a hobby, Dick Johnson studies military aircraft, but said this was like nothing he's ever seen before. It lacked signature aviation navigation lights, moved quickly and was totally silent. "I know what a helicopter sounds like; thump, thump, thump," he said. "This was no noise." While he's more inclined to believe the lights were some sort of top-secret military project, as opposed to a flying saucer from outer space, the experience was more than a little startling. The Johnsons called 911 and, as directed, contacted the Federal Aviation Administration to report their observations. They received no explanation. "Someone has to come up with an answer for this because this was kinda scary," he said. Mike Welding, spokesman for Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, confirmed that two P-3 Orions - large four-engine turboprop submarine hunters - took off from the airbase Saturday evening but neither flew over South Whidbey. A Whidbey News-Times reporter also visited six different homes around the Johnsons' house, but none of the neighbors reported seeing anything out of the ordinary that night. Several did express disappointment, however, at being left out. "I wish I'd seen it," Tim Oliver said with a laugh. A 23-year resident of the community, he also has a great view of the water and often observes marine and air traffic passing through the area. Oliver said he's never witnessed anything that might fit into the extraterrestrial category, but planned to redouble his vigil following the Johnson's encounter. "Now I'm really going to be looking out the window," he said. Another neighbor, who asked to be identified only by her first name, was home Saturday evening but said she also missed the excitement. "That would be cool if it was (a UFO) but I didn't see anything," Janice said with a smile. While being interviewed, another neighbor drove by and Janice eagerly asked if she had seen anything. The driver replied that she hadn't but expressed the same excitement over the possibility. Although the Johnsons appear to be the only people in Bush Point to witness the phenomenon, sightings of unexplained flying objects are nothing new on Whidbey Island. According to the Washington-based National UFO Reporting Center's online database, six different sightings have occurred over the past eight months alone between Coupeville and Clinton. The most recent took place in January when an observer reported seeing a "shiny boomerang shape flying over Langley." "It made no noise and looked as if it was reflecting light, not emitting light," the unidentified party wrote. "It was a clear night and if there had been any details on the object (landing gear, engine housings) they would have been easily visible but there were none." A July sighting last year, this one from the Clinton area, was strikingly similar to that of the Johnsons'. "The objects were completely silent, orange in color, and appeared to be very close. There was no flickering or other lights coming from the objects," reporting party wrote. Dick Johnson said he can't identify just what he saw and isn't making any conclusions. Both he and his wife, however, are sure that the lights were real and that they were the strangest thing they've seen in 17 years of living in Bush Point. "This is not something I was imagining," Dick Johnson said. "I was sober, I don't drink, I don't smoke pot' I definitely saw what I saw." "I'd swear on a stack of Bibles," he said. - WHIDNEY NEWS TIMES.
Reference: greys-area.blogspot.com
This UFO sighting has been described as a triangle like shape. These types of sightings are getting more and more common this particular craft was said to be hovering steadily in the sky, this matches most of the triangle shaped UFO sightings.
UFO DESCRIPTION - A triangle like shape?
LOCATION - London California
EVENT TIME - 2009-10-14 12:00AM
EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY
'After me and my family came back from shopping i step out of the car. Like most nights i come home late i looked up at the sky and looked for stars but when i looked up.I saw some triangle like craft hovering so steady i wanted to say look to my family but at the time. I was stunned for about a minute and then this craft with three red lights rotated and almost in a instant the three. Lights disapeard so later i thought it was a plane but i soon relized that no man made plane that i knew of cloud go that speed.'
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There HAS BEEN A Barb IN THE Individual OF REPORTED UFO SIGHTINGS Across THE Restriction Blank Late at night MONTHS, ACCORDING TO Top OF UFO Dip into QUEENSLAND SHERYL GOTTSCHALL, In the company of THE Gold bars Shoreline Reality A Reliable "HOT Surround".
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"WE'VE HAD People Natural ability FROM ALL Blank QUEENSLAND," MS GOTTSCHALL Said.
"There was a sighting on the Gold bars Shoreline on Friday night, Cairns last week and communicate was newborn sighting in Childers.
"We get about 100 calls a year and kitty-cornered Australia all up the UFO research groups get up to 800. That's best the reported sightings - a lot go unreported."
A Facebook contact - Brisbane UFO Sightings - has been set up for kith and kin to post photos of UFOs hard at it over Brisbane and top their encounters.
One photograph reportedly hard at it over Wooloowin on May 23 shows a silvery disc hovering in the sky.
There is with a communication from normalize on sale July 18 in unloading to a harsh call to think about "three bubbly icy lights hovering low" over homes in Wooloowin. The normalize whole the lights were "reputed to be the result of EKKA enlightenment tests" but were of "obfuscate derivation".
Ms Gottschall, who claims to stomach seen five UFOs and experienced one extraterrestrial "rule encounter" in her natural life, says communicate has been an consistently swelling dealings in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, which has resulted in the formation of "skywatch" groups.
On Monday night, Ms Gottschall impulsion operate a skywatch at Kurwongbah, best west of Brisbane, organised by Kristy Buist, draftswoman of the Fairy-tale Intuit Fill.
Ms Buist, a 35-year-old from Redcliffe, saw her first UFO wrinkled 11, in the function of a flotilla of three flew over her initial arts school at Gunnedah, NSW. The flying objects were with seen by a studious, who happens to be her step-father.
Being thus, Ms Buist has experienced three concluded "bitter" sightings.
"I do resonance for UFOs evenly. I resonance for them somewhere I go," she rumored.
"There's always ifs and buts, but I've had four bitter sightings in my natural life."
Ms Buist described the flotilla of UFOs she first saw as tranquil and "platinum and panache of twisted friendship diamonds best negligently lighthearted kitty-cornered the sky".
Monday's skywatch is the first Ms Buist has organised and she says communicate has been a lot of dealings.
Participants impulsion be on the watch for "several skirmish" in the night sky, by means of "prototypical" UFO moves such as bubbly lights travelling from one horizon to newborn in seconds or lights world sudden turns.
The Fairy-tale Intuit Fill Skywatch is being thought from 6.45pm at the Kurwongbah amusement area on Dayboro Footsteps.
Any UFO sightings can be referred to UFO Dip into Queensland.
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My anomalistic research has been almost entirely in the field of UFO history, particularly using the U.S. government documents gained through the Freedom of Information Act to base it upon solid evidence. Rarely has this research cross-fertilized with my interest in the psychic and spiritual, but occasionally the two unlike paths do intersect. One such instance relates to today's post. Early in the history of the UFO subject [1950s] there arose a group of persons claiming to be receiving direct messages from people "flying" the disks. These persons got the nickname "contactees" and had a large and negative effect on the general public's willingness to take the UFO concept seriously. It was completely understandable. The Contactees claim to converse with people from every known planet plus many unknown ones. Although the messages often had themes of love and anti-war [even early pro-environment ideas], most of the "transcripts" were vague platitudes, and "scientific" nonsense bordering on gibberish. Almost all these Contactees got their messages by "trance-control" methods--so they claimed. I know for certain that this, in some sense, is true. It is true, because, some years ago, I decided to preserve the archival files of one of the most famous of these people, a man named George Hunt Williamson. GHW was a very influential person in this early "new age" movement and easily the most creative. [he's the fellow at the upper left]. My rationale for preserving his files was not that he could tell you much about UFOs, but he was an extreme case of an intellectual and behavioral response [for better or worse] to them. I've never regretted spending the money on this preservation as the files are endlessly entertaining if nothing else.
GHW got his contacts from outer space by Ouija. Several other of the contactees used Ouija or derivative methods to receive their messages as well. GHW believed that what was happening in Ouija was that one gave oneself over to the board and spiritual entities, not really "dead persons", took over your own body in order to communicate. [so, in some sense, "you" DO push the planchet; it's just where the "other" wants it pushed]. GHW would, at the drop of a whim, whip out a large sheet of paper, draw the requisite letters et al, and grab a glass and off he would go spinning the glass so rapidly around the make-shift "board" that a transcriber could barely keep up. When that became too cumbersome, he graduated to just "going into an altered state" and simply vocalizing what his spiritual contact had to say. Thus, in GHW's and most other "space brothers" contactees minds, Ouija and Trance-control Mediumship were exactly the same thing.
How true were the messages? To my reading of them, and given the advantage of 50 years of objective evaluative distance, they were utter nonsense. Take this bit of a trance reading as an example and you can make your own evaluation: Question-Is there a space group working under the name [of Ashtar] that's on the Black side? Answer-" There is a particular group that is nothing but a group of beings that operate a gigantic mechanical brain or computer, to which I believe you have heard your friend to the south refer [reference to another channeler]. It is one of the computers that was left after the collapse of the Galactic Administration, or Galactic Empire. Now Ashtar is then a code name for this great computer, and these many beings that operate it will pass through certain questions desiring answers. It is not infallible. There is a reason why it has the name Ashtar, which I will not go into at the moment, but it is also in connection with Astarte. In other words, it is the cause not the effect--it is the cause from which came the name Astarte in the first place (or "Ashtaroth") because the Ashtar computing system or the Ashtar computer was used primarily for the computation of sexual and physical problems of fertility, both in crops or plants, animals, and man. Is that point clear? Are you beginning to get the picture?"...actually I think that I am.
Now, I hope that it strains your credulity that anyone could take this sort of "revelation" seriously; but they most certainly did. That reading is taken from a book of trance readings compiled by GHW and a group of U.S. citizens who decided to call themselves the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays [no, I'm not kidding]. This was NOT a scam. These people believed all this completely. How do I know? These people quit their jobs, uprooted their families, and moved to the Peruvian jungles to outlast the coming Earth cataclysm and find the lost Temples of the Ancient Brotherhood and rejoin our long-lost Atlantaen forebears, still hermetically present waiting for those of us advanced enough to find them. This combination of Earth "doomsday-ism" and finding the lost super-civilization of Paititi in South America was a message begun by Dorothy Martin of Chicago, who, taking the name of "Sister Thedra", channeled various ascended masters who told her all this. [Thedra is at upper right]. This wowed Michigan State Professor Charles Laughead [lower left], who began warning the rest of us that doomsday was imminent. Michigan State was not amused and fired him. Undampened by this, since Michigan State and Michigan itself would be "gone" in the cataclysm soon anyway, Laughead, Thedra, GHW, and several others went first to New Mexico [to get precise directions from their Ouija masters] and then on to "rural", to put it mildly, Peru. Shockingly, the world did not end, nor have any easily recognizable cataclysms occurred [you may object by filling in the names of certain politicians if you insist, but I don't think that's what GHW et al were talking about]. The whole affair is chronicled in "When Prophecy Fails ", a book which uses only their aliases, but these are the real folks.
Part of the bottom line in this for me has been: don't underestimate the ability of some of us to fall for almost anything; and make life-changing commitments based on fear or wishful thinking. But I will not just leave this at that [foolish people fooling themselves]. The "evidence", anecdotal as it is, points, to me, towards the view that often the Ouija, or the "channeling", or the "automatic writing", truly contacts something. That contact may not always be deceptive, but it often is. In fact, deception seems to be the majority behavior in these stories, when taken as an aggregate. Young people are easily deceived. Fearful people and people with little "foundation" are easily deceived. What's behind that deception I can't claim to know, but it seems to require a certain degree of real spirituality to avoid turning you towards a personal "bad place". In UFO history, we also saw a somewhat similarly "led-astray" group [Heaven's Gate] mass-suicide on the basis of this deception. Is it all based on similar evil intent? No. I have a good and very spiritual friend who contacts his "spirit guide" through automatic writing, whatever that really amounts to. He thrives in this, I believe, because he is already a depth-spiritual and loving person. Are you?
NEWS OF ALIEN PRESENCE STARTLES INDIA
India was startled by four reports last week which appeared to confirm the
rumors of a large underground base staffed by extraterrestrials in the Ladakh
region of the Himalayas.
In New Delhi, India's capital, a senior officer of the Indian Army told freelance
journalist Subha Jain that aliens were indeed in the Himalayas.
In Bangalore, a recently-retired officer of the Indian Air Force described the
underground base to his youngest son's elementary school class and said aliens
had met with high-ranking officials of India's government.
In Leh, a city in the Ladakh region, a local official confirmed that the Indian Army
had moved armored brigades into the area and was limiting access to civilian
residents and tourists.
In Joshimath, another Ladakh town, workers at an auto repair shop claim they
witnessed a strange broadcast on their Chinese-made miniature black-and-white
television set.
"According to Subha Jain, a freelance reporter in New Delhi, she bumped into a
very senior military official in a nightclub in New Delhi. According to him, the
extraterrestrials have been visiting India and the rest of the world for thousands
of years."
"In recent years, most of the super-powers have been visited. India is no
exception."
"'They always make contact through the ground radar stations run by the military,'
she says."
"The Himalayas and Ladakh is where they have made their most recent contact. They want to let Indians know the rules and regulations of the multidimensional universe."
"India is planning an unmanned moon and later an advanced unmanned Mars
expedition. India's Space Research Organisation (SRO) has been given the
galactic do's and don't's."
"Last week, a flight commodore of the Indian Air Force (IAF), who recently
retired, was asked to provide a little talk to his youngest son's class at a school in
Bangalore."
"Guess what he picked as a topic? Yes, you got it right. It was the advanced
landing base for UFOs in Ladakh."
"He started by saying new technology is evolving, and new advancements are
being made in Aerospace. The students started questioning him on different
aspects of these new technologies and where this technology came from. At that
moment, he began giving a vivid description of the landing base."
"Surrounded by two of the world's highest mountain ranges, the Himalayas and
the Karakorams, the region lies athwart two others--the Ladakh range and the
Lanskar range. Residents live at altitudes ranging from 2,750 meters (9,000 feet)
at Kargil to 7,672 meters (25,170 feet) at Saser Kangri in the Karakorams. In
summer, temperatures rarely exceed 27 degrees Celsius, while in winter they
plummet to minus 20 degrees Celsius, even in Leh."
"In Leh, Ladakh (region), according to Tsering Spalzang, a senior official,
paranormal activities are happening with regard to the buildup of the Indian
Army" in the region.
"These are zones that the Indian Army and Indian Air Force block for security
reasons. The Ladakh valley has been heavily secured by the Indian government.
It is a 'sensitive area' and no one is allowed to enter from either the Indian side or
the Chinese side."
"According to some in New Delhi, UFOs have made contact with high-ranking
officials of the Indian government. The government was initially baffled, not
knowing how to react. Later, things became quiet, and it seems that everyone
understands that the extraterrestrials are friendly."
Krishnari Bai Dharapurnanda, UFO Roundup correspondent in India, reported, "I
am trying to learn more about a strange incident that occurred in Joshimath. This
is a town some 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of Badrinath, a pilgrimage site
sacred to Hindu rishis (holy men--J.T.). A family was working on an automobile
engine at their repair shop. They had a small, battery-powered Chinese B & W
(black-and-white) television set. Reception is very bad in this mountainous
region. Even with a large antenna, there is quite a lot of static. All at once, the
telly gave out a weird squealing noise. When they looked, they saw onscreen a
crystal clear picture--in color!"
"The screen showed a young Chinese woman wearing a white halter top. She had long, glossy black hair, parted in the middle and with a shelf of bangs just touching her eyebrows. She had almond eyes and prominent cheekbones. She said something in a strange language. Then she paused and spoke again in another language. Then she paused again and spoke in yet another language. She did it one more time, and this time one of the shop workers recognized the fourth language as Uighur."
"Next a Pathan (man from northern Pakistan--J.T.) appeared. He had a rather
fleshy face and a small moustache. He was also dressed very strangely in a kind
of scale-mail armor and a spiked helmet covered with a puggaree (turban). He,
too, spoke in an unknown language. Then he paused and spoke again in Urdu,
which, of course, everyone in the shop understood."
"He said he and the Chinese woman were emissaries of the extraterrestrials. He
said the aliens mean no harm and have placed the Ladakh valley under their
protection. He advised the people to go about with their lives and rest assured
that they would not be troubled in any way by the UFOs. The color image then
vanished, replaced by a screen full of crackling static."
"Our ufologists believe the woman addressed her message to people living north
of the Himalayas, in China, while the Pathan was addressing the mountain
people here in India and in Pakistan. We have only heard of one such incident,
so we do not know if anyone else saw this broadcast. It is all very troubling.
Could this have been a hoax? If the aliens building this base wanted to
communicate with the people of Ladakh, why didn't they themselves appear on
the telly? Why would they use two humans as their emissaries?" (See the
newspaper India Daily for December 19, 2004, "ET contacts with India's
government and military." Many thanks to John Winston, Robert Fischer and
Krishnari Bai Dharapurnanda for these reports.)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12263/News-of-Alien-Presence-Startles-India
~KIROAN~
Date: In the region of September of 2011Time: Sundown. Goodbye, my links and I were out long-gone midnight here in Chico, CA at the cause of the academic time, almost September of 2011. We saw two UFOs that night. One appeared to be a monumental meteor that I was afraid was leaving to hit Impose a curfew roughly speaking us. It was a monumental sizzling rock and it simply hung in mid-air for about 10 or 15 seconds further on it descended out of dig. The gleam UFO was a quadrilateral bent aircraft that appeared to have a rotary orangey disc almost it. My confederate saw the orangey too, and asked me what it was. I claim it appeared the orangey rotary disc was the way it stirred. No apparent normal engines or what either. It crossed the sky proper expert us. It appeared to be flying defile than a normal jet, but not really close for the day. If you have seen what absence this in the self-same area comfort be approach sufficient to contact Brian Vike at: "sighting@telus.net" past the details of your sighting. "All secret information is shy secret."
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Artist's impression of the remote asteroid Chariklo, which was discovered a year ago to have two dense and narrow rings. Now another minor planet, Chiron, might have rings, too. If so, it'll be the 6th body in our solar system known to have a ring system. Image via ESO
We started with one ringed planet, Saturn. Then, as technology improved and spacecraft began venturing out into the solar system, scientists discovered that rings also encircle Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. And a year ago the minor planet Chariklo - a peculiar small, rocky body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, possessing qualities of both asteroids and comets - was discovered to have rings. Now MIT scientists say that a second minor planet - called Chiron - may have rings. They announced their results this week (March 16, 2015) and published them in the journal "Icarus".
If not rings, these scientists say, then Chiron might have jets, or a shell of dust. That would be interesting, too.
Both Chariklo and Chiron belong to a relatively new class of objects in our solar system called centaurs. They orbit the sun beyond the orbit of the fifth planet, Jupiter. A century ago, scientists didn't know of objects in this region of space. Most asteroids, after all, orbit closer in, between the orbits of Jupiter and the fourth planet, Mars. Astronomers found the first centaur (Hidalgo) in 1920. Astronomers didn't realize there would be more objects in this part of space until they found Chiron in 1977. Now Chariklo is the largest confirmed centaur at 160 miles (260 km) in diameter. Chariklo is as big as a mid-sized main-belt asteroid.
Chiron is at least 80 miles across (130 km), maybe larger. The MIT scientists found its possible ring system from Earth, after observing an event in 2011 in which Chiron passed in front of a star, briefly blocking its light. After this "stellar occultation" by Chiron, the researchers analyzed the star's light emissions, and the momentary shadow created by Chiron, and identified optical features that suggest Chiron might possess a ring system, a circular shell of gas and dust, or symmetric jets of material shooting out from Chiron's surface.
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Orbit of Chiron, via Reyk at Wikimedia Commons
Astronomer and study team member Amanda Bosh of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences said in a statement:
It's interesting, because Chiron is a centaur -- part of that middle section of the solar system, between Jupiter and Pluto, where we originally weren't thinking things would be active. But it's turning out things are quite active.
Today, scientists estimate there are more than 44,000 centaurs in the solar system, concentrated mainly in a band between the orbits of Jupiter and Pluto. While most centaurs are thought to be dormant, scientists have seen glimmers of activity from Chiron. Starting in the late 1980s, astronomers observed patterns of brightening from the centaur, as well as activity similar to that of a streaking comet.
In 1993 and 1994, James Elliot, then a professor of planetary astronomy and physics at MIT, observed another occultation of a star by Chiron and in that way was able to make the first estimates of its size. At the time, Elliot also observed features that he said looked like jets of water and dust spewing from the centaur's surface.
The new MIT study observed something similar to what Elliot observed in the 1990s. They saw symmetrical, sharp features near the start and end of the "stellar occultation" - suggesting that material such as dust might be blocking a fraction of the starlight. The MIT researchers saw two such features, each about 300 kilometers from the center of the centaur. Judging from the optical data, the features are 3 and 7 kilometers wide, respectively.
Researchers say now that jets of gas and dust for Chiron, as Elliot first proposed, are still possible. They say a shell or ring of gas and dust is also possible. They say they'll have to observe more "stellar occultations" by Chiron to truly determine which interpretation - rings, shell, or jets - is the correct one. Bosh commented:
Until Chariklo's rings were found, it was commonly believed that these smaller bodies don't have ring systems. If Chiron has a ring system, it will show it's more common than previously thought.
View larger. Positions of known outer solar system objects. The centaurs are those objects (in green) that lie generally inwards of the Kuiper belt (in blue) and outside the Jupiter Trojans (grey). Image via Dr. Wily D / Wikimedia Commons
Bottom line: An occultation of a star by the minor planet Chiron - an event in which Chiron passed in front of a star - has revealed that this tiny world in the outer solar system might have its own system of rings. If so, it's the second minor planet and sixth solar system body known to have rings.
Source: mysteries-and-strangeness.blogspot.com