UFO Encounter #284

ISSUE 284 DECEMBER/JANUARY 2016 THIS ISSUE: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE FLYING SAUCER?

CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF UFO RESEARCH QUEENSLAND UFO ENCOUNTER

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UFO ENCOUNTER ISSUE 284 DECEMBER/JANUARY 2016

58 YEARS IN PUBLICATION

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from the

EDITOR

HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY UFORQ!!

As far as popular knowledge goes, the UFO phenomenon began officially on June 24 1947, when pilot Kenneth Arnold saw a formation of crescent-shaped craft flying over Mt Rainier in the USA. UFOs had been seen and reported for thousands of years before, of course, but 1947 was the moment when the term ‘UFO’ entered the world’s vocabulary, and when the very real probability of life on other planets entered the world’s psyche.

Ten short years after that fateful moment UFO Research Queensland was born.

2016 marks UFORQ’s 60th anniversary – quite a milestone by any measure, and a huge achievement in ufological terms. In those 60 years the group has seen highs and lows, and at least one close encounter with total dissolution… but the most interesting thing is what it hasn’t seen – a solution to the UFO problem.

I have no doubt that back in 1956 the founders of UFO Research Queensland – or the Queensland Flying Saucer Bureau, as it was originally called – would have had all faith that the UFO riddle would have been solved long before the end of the 20th century.

Skeptics continue to cite the fact that UFO researchers haven’t yet proven the reality of UFOs as an argument to disprove the reality of UFOs – but how can we make sense of what doesn’t make sense?

Human logic clearly doesn’t apply in this scenario, and maybe that’s part of our problem. To understand an alien we need to think like an alien… to be one with the extraterrestrial, so to speak. But as long as we stay stuck fast in our materialistic human paradigm, spending more time looking at the Kardashians than looking at the world around us, this isn’t going to happen.

Fortunately there are organisations like UFORQ dotted all over our planet, manned by men and women with their eyes wide open who are taking the world – and the universe – seriously.

Maybe one day they will get to the bottom of the phenomenon. Maybe somewhere somebody already has. But if it takes us another 60 years of looking to find it ourselves, then so be it.

Sometimes the goal isn’t the end of the journey, but what you find along the way…

lee

Vale Martin Gottschall 1938-2015

Back in the 1950s the ‘future’ seemed well within humanity’s grasp – the space race was just beginning, the world’s first computer (a processor as big as a room) was born, science and technology was on the brink of its great leap forward, and George Jetson was going to work in his flying car and telling us the world was going to run on sprockets. The sprockets never eventuated, but could anyone have imagined that man, with his enormous brain and his fabulous intellect (har har), would still be unable to figure out what a UFO is?

Well, he didn’t, he hasn’t, and he isn’t gonna. And why?

The UFO phenomenon is apparently unending in its permutations, and to make matters worse it is constantly changing. Every decade brings something new – the moment a breakthrough feels close everything changes, just like the shape-shifting UFOs that dominated the nineties and the noughties. How can we get to the heart of this phenomenon when it literally changes right before our very eyes?

To put it in the most perfunctory of nutshells, in the six decades since UFORQ was founded we’ve seen the contactee phenomenon, the Roswell crash, the abduction phenomenon, Men in Black, Belgian Triangles, jellyfish UFOs, cattle mutilations, Mexican orbs, tall blonds, reptilians, mantids, tall greys, short greys, white greys, blue greys, beige greys, grey greys, hybrids, the Zetans, Pleiadians, Arcturans, Orions… and this is only the merest tip of the UFO iceberg.

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UFO Reports. . . 4 Spaceship Earth . . . 6 From the Archives . . . 7 Whatever Happened to the Flying Saucer? . . . 10 Book Review . . . 12 NOT the Headlines . . . 13 3

UFO reports Kalbar, Qld, Monday 12 October 2015, 8pm

A farmer living on a 100 acre property became concerned when his dogs began to bark, so he walked outside his home to investigate what was disturbing them.

He looked towards a visitors car parked approximately 30 metres from where he stood but had difficulty seeing the car due to the reflection of a light on the car. He described this light as “blurring out” the car.

He initially thought he was having problems with his vision, but two seconds later he saw an object appear above the car which he described as looking just like the moon and luminous. It then moved straight up into the sky, changed course to a 45 degree angle, then ‘shot off,’ disappearing from view.

He called to his family to come outside to see the object but it had already disappeared.

He described the object as not being mechanical, perfectly round and if it didn’t move he could have sworn it was the Moon. He had not seen anything like this before. He

also said he had heard of reports of UFOs but he never thought he would see one for himself.

Albany Creek, Qld, Tuesday 13 October 2015, 9.05pm A man was looking east through a glass window in his home when he saw a blue-green object in the sky for about 3 to 4 seconds travelling north to south.

He described its location as somewhere between Albany Creek and the Brisbane Airport, approximately a 15 kilometre span in distance.

He then walked outside to get a better look at the object and found it had changed its direction of travel to the opposite direction, south to north, then turned towards the east.

He watched the object the second time for 5 to 6 seconds before it disappeared. He described the light as constant and intense with the local evening sky having light cloud cover. The witness wondered if the object was a drone which might explain its fast change of direction.

Meteor witnessed from Sunshine Coast to Gold Coast, January 11, 7.50pm The object was described by eyewitnesses as spherical, white in the middle with a green ring around it. It was reported as travelling fast and towards the earth, and flared a brilliant white before burning out -- although witnesses at the Gold Coast described it as a bright blue fireball. Images captured by the Australian Weathercam Network.

Meteor as seen over Brisbane (captured by New Farm weather cam), January 11 2016, 7.50pm

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Same meteor, same day and same time, as viewed on Kallangur weathercam

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Kin Kin, Qld, Wednesday 14 October 2015, 11.50am A man was on the deck of his house having a coffee looking at the northern sky.

Suddenly he saw a dark ,almost black, disc-shaped object shoot over his house travelling south to north. It moved much faster than a jet, had an altitude lower than the clouds and made no sound. It then moved into clouds and “hung around” the clouds darting in and out.

He watched this for a while, then at 12.07pm he saw two more disc-shaped objects, flying in unison, appear from the clouds where he was watching for the first disc. He then observed the three discs moving in and out of the clouds then they disappeared. Then at 12.13pm he saw another two discs appear and join the others moving in and out of the clouds.

The witness described the five objects as smaller than jets which commonly flew over his area and at no time did they disturb the clouds. The discs disappeared from view when two objects took off, one disappeared and he lost sight of the other two.

Biggera Waters (Gold Coast), Qld, Tuesday 22 October 2015, 3.30am A man woke up to go to the bathroom. He looked out the windows of his apartment in a multilevel building and saw a very large, extremely bright light in the eastern sky while looking from Biggera Waters.

He woke his wife and they both watched the object that they described as nearly as large as the Moon, while it hovered in the sky in the same location for 30 minutes.

They described the object as quite low in the sky, less than 1000 feet, a couple of kilometres from their location with

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a slightly salmon-pink light underneath at either side.

The witness described himself as a retired cowhand who had spent many years looking at the night sky while working in country areas. He described the object as definitely not a star nor anything else he had seen before.

After 30 minutes they stopped watching the object and returned to their bed.

Greenbank, Qld, 2010, 1.00am (reported 15 October 2015) A man was living on an acreage property and during the night he let his dog out in the yard. As soon as the dog ran outside it ran back inside frightened.

As the man took one step outside his door, to his surprise, just 60 metres from where he stood, he saw a large, deep orange, perfectly spherical object hovering just above his neighbour’s house, the size of 5 to 6 four-wheel drive vehicles.

The sphere had no illumination and he described it as looking at the sun with no glare. It remained stationery and it hovered silently in the air.

He ran inside the house to get his partner to come outside to also see the sphere, then both ran back outside, but the object had disappeared.

While this was occurring his neighbour’s alarm was activated.

The witness was very frightened by what he had seen and gathered his partner and children together in front of the fireplace. They eventually went to sleep but he remained vigilant for some time, feeling they were being watched.

At the time of the sighting it was quite dark and there were no street lights in the area.

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Department of Defence:

PASSING THE BUCK? In a letter dated January 4 1994, the Department of Defence notified all Australian civilian UFO organisations that it had recently reviewed its policy regarding Unusual Aerial Sightings or UAS (UFOs). The letter went on to say that “In future, the RAAF will not accept reports on UAS and will not attempt to assign cause or to comment on the reliability of particular sightings. Members of the public seeking to report UAS to the RAAF will be referred by the RAAF to civilian research organisations such as your own.”

This letter was accompanied by a copy of the new RAAF policy which stated the following: “For many years the RAAF has been formally responsible for handling Unusual Aerial Sightings (UAS) at the official level.

Consideration of the scientific record suggests that, whilst not all UAS have a ready explanation, there is no compelling reason for the RAAF to continue to devote resources to recording, investigating and attempting to explain UAS. The RAAF no longer accepts reports on UAS and no longer attempts assignment of cause or allocation of reliability.

Members of the community who seek to report a UAS to RAAF personnel will be referred to a civil UFO research organisation in the first instance. Some UAS may relate to events that could have a defence, security or public safety implication, such as man-made debris falling from space or a burning aircraft. Where members of the community may have witnessed an event of this type they are encouraged to contact the police or civil aviation authorities.”

So in my naivete, on the 14th February 1995, I wrote to Senator Robert Ray, Minister for Defence at the time, seeking financial assistance, as the volume of reports we were receiving from the public had increased exponentially from 87 in 1990 to 512 in 1994. As it happens one year later in 1996 we reached our highest ever number of reports received in one year, being 800, since 1956 when UFO Research Queensland was first established. We were finding it difficult to continue with investigations due to lack of people power, which we needed to increase immediately, so I was looking at employing some part-time office administrators, which never happened.

At the time of writing this column I can’t easily find the reply from the Department of Defence, but I remember it came some time later pointing me to another department.

I suspected by the tone of the letter that I was about to get the run around so I dropped the idea of seeking funding, but of course it has never left me. However, recently I was once again prompted by a journalist from ABC Radio

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Capricornia about the issue of never having enough people power, funding and the role of UFO Research Queensland, and thanks to her prompt it re-awakened all the previously mentioned issues surrounding the work of our voluntary organisation.

I’ve always felt it irresponsible for the Department of Defence to pass on UFO reports to civilian UFO organisations and expect us to handle those reports from the public without any funding. It seemed a downright stupid move to me!

Initially it seemed that the DOD was not doing its job and was unreasonable and unrealistic in its handover to civilian UFO groups. However, knowing what we know now, it’s far more likely that people in the DOD knew more at the time than we’ll ever know and years ago decided it was no longer “useful” to take reports from the public, all of which leaves me feeling profoundly concerned.

It’s old news that the DOD knows at least some of what’s going on with UFOs, but I don’t think they have all the answers either, and that should be of profound concern too considering we rely on them as protectors of planet Earth.

When there are cover-ups, corruption and agendas it’s difficult to get a clear picture of anything, so over the years my touchstone has become the first hand reports from the public. I’ve now spoken to 3000 or more people who have reported their UFO events, all of who collectively report UFOs that can travel at exotic speeds, extraterrestrial beings who can manipulate time and space, and use our own minds to make us see things and create scenarios. So I’m sure the DOD doesn’t know everything it would like to know either.

So how do I feel about that? As my late husband used to say, the bread still gets made and the milk is still delivered and we go on with our lives with the Serenity prayer in our hearts and minds….”God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

We learn to live with this cosmic knowledge and a greater awareness…pure and simple, knowing that eventually our civilization will step up and take its place among the stars.

Sheryl Gottschall is a UFO and paranormal researcher who has had her own ET contact experience and UFO sightings, as well as a near death experience and many other experiences with the paranormal. She is also the president of UFO Research Queensland Inc and you can contact her on 07 3376 1780 or info@uforq.asn.au.

You can also message her via Facebook.

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from the

archives

compiled by lee

paqui

1950-1959

In recognition of 60 years of establishment, UFO Research Queensland will be dusting off the archives and bringing a few old sightings back into the light.

This issue we will focus on the 1950s, and readers will no doubt be struck by the similarity between sightings then and now – in fact, if you didn’t know these sightings were from the 50s, you could easily believe they were sightings from more recent times. It seems the more things change the less things change, even in the field of ufology.

There were a total of 45 reports received by UFORQ during the 1950s, the earliest sighting in the files dating from 1939.

It was reported in retrospect by a resident of Rosalie and consequently has no date, apart from ‘January 1939,’ and the time given was 1.30am. The object was described as a pulsating yellowish orb that was observed for about thirty minutes.

The second oldest report in the archive, dated February 1946, was also received retrospectively from a man at Scarborough, who reported observing a ‘dark shadow’ that emitted a flame from its rear. The gentleman was flying a Beaufort bomber over Bass Strait at the time he saw the object, and he estimated its speed as around 235 miles per hour, and flying at an altitude of 4,500 feet. It flew parallel to his aircraft for 18 minutes before accelerating to three times his speed, the flame increasing when accelerating.

What follows is a selection of reports from the years 19501959. Reports prior to 1956 are patchy and cursory (not to mention difficult to read) and rarely provide for interesting reading, but they do demonstrate that the phenomenon was alive and kicking in Queensland from at least the 1950s onwards, and probably for many many years before that. Of special interest are the winter months in 1958 and 1959 – it seems Queensland was hit with a significant UFO wave in both those years, with similar objects reported from a number of locations over a period of months.

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Paddington, October or November 1950, 7.15pm A spherical green orb was observed from Paddington Fire Station at 7.15pm. It was travelling from the north-east to the south-west over the Taylor Ranges when it changed direction to move directly south at ‘terrific’ speed.

It rapidly gained height before changing direction again, moving east at ‘jet speed.’ After it changed direction, in the blink of an eye it changed shape to a thin convex lens-shape, like the pupil of a cat’s eye.

The witness added to his report ‘the rate of climb was on a par with a meteor, but who ever saw one ascending?’

Great Barrier Reef, April 1953 Two bluish-white circular lights were witnessed on the Great Barrier Reef (off Gladstone) travelling in a northerly direction.

The lights dimmed to a paler blue, at which point the witness was able to observe them through binoculars as two small blue lights.

Boonah, August 1954, 12.45am

The 1950s... simpler times!

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A reddish-blue light was observed 10 miles north-east of Boonah, travelling upwards in a south-westerly direction at terrific speed and with about ‘30-40 feet of flame behind it.’

The same object was witnessed by a Sergeant in charge of a convoy on Moreton Bay.

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Carina November 1953, 11.00am Two cigar-shaped objects with protrusions mid-way up both sides were observed from the witnesses driveway on a hot morning in late 1953. They ‘moved so rigidly together they seemed to be joined by invisible wires.’

The witness described himself as 26, ‘teetotal, and not used to having hallucinations.’

Carina, February 1956, 7.30pm On a fine clear night in February 1956 a man and his fiancée were walking along Jones Rd Carina when they heard a loud rushing noise. They looked up and saw a ‘medium white light flicking on and off racing across the sky very fast from east to west. In a few seconds the light was almost to the horizon when it suddenly dropped straight down still flashing on and off. When it was nearly at the horizon it changed course without pause and went north.’

The witnessed estimated the speed as two or three times that of a plane, and it covered a third of the sky’s arc in a few seconds.

Punch Bowl (NSW), 6 February 1957, 9.00pm A luminescent green orb was seen by gentleman putting his rubbish out one night in 1957. It passed directly overhead and was travelling parallel to the ground and below the cloud layer.

Crow’s Nest 24 September 1956, 8.00am An 18-20 feet long object with an open forepart and a rounded rear section was observed above a dam not far from the witnesses Crow’s Nest property.

‘It flew slowly up the slope between the trees (and) up the drive at a height of 10-12 feet, then flew over the gate at the top of the garden. Its movements were slow and leisurely as if the occupants, if any, were having a good look around … the manufacture appeared solid and (it) had no wings. I was so impressed that I went indoors at once and drew a sketch to show my family.’

Scott’s Point 5 September 1956, 3.00pm ‘On Wednesday 5th September 1956, about 3 p.m., I was hosing the garden and gazing around at the clouds when I saw some sort of a bright silver object travelling from the south to north, in the west/ north west. It appeared to be shaped like a hat… and it definitely did not have the appearance of a plane. It watched it for about five minutes before it disappeared into or behind a cloud.’

Hamilton, 19 January 1958, 9.42pm A discus-shaped golden orange light was witnessed from Nudgee road in Hamilton.

Inala, 17 May 1958, 12.30am A teardrop-shaped orange object with a blue under-section was observed travelling from west to north at the speed of a jet plane.

Morningside, 17 May 1958, 6.20pm An amber ball of light was observed from Balmoral State High School by a man and his wife. The object was coming directly towards them from a north-north-west direction, slowing down, stopping, and then extinguishing.

New Farm, 18 May 1958, 12.30am A light green round object with a slight tail was seen travelling in a northerly direction.

Grange, 24 May 1958, 6.30pm A round, dark red object was observed stationary from Grange before travelling in an easterly direction. It change colour from red to yellow as it diminished in size.

Slack’s Creek, 26 May 1958, 7.20pm Two objects – one white, and one reddish-orange – were observed north of the Southern Cross and appeared to be ‘rising slightly.’ They were directly overhead and twice the size of the brightest observable stars.

Maroochydore, 15 June 1958, 7.45pm An orange-red sphere was observed from the Maroochydore foreshore, travelling from the south-east to the north-west.

Kallangur 22 July 1958, 2.00pm Two women watering their lawn observed a metallic ball that was emitting light – ‘iridescent gold to silver in colour’ – as it moved. As it came nearer the women noticed it was revolving with a wobbling motion. It was first sighted in the north and came towards the onlookers before climbing straight up into the sky at terrific speed.

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West End (Brisbane) 6 February 1959, midnight ‘I was awakened from sleep at exactly midnight by my wife and asked to look at a very bright light in the sky. As I watched it appeared to rock and sway.

In doing this its light changed colour from a very pale green, through white, and on to red. At the same time there was a very fierce pulsating which lit up the sky for about 15 or 20 times the diameter of the object … as it oscillated it would throw its light into one direction. This was always to the east and was like a beam or line. ‘…The UFO remained in this position until 00.53 hours when it distinctly drew closer to my point of observation, doubling its size and increasing its brilliance considerably.

‘At 0.1.12 hours came the really unexpected. Travelling at a speed faster than any jet…came another object identical to the first…with the exception of the fact that it may have been a little larger and its colours did not change. The light passed directly in front of me and terminated its passage by merging with the original object.

‘After merging…the UFO remained hovering until 01:27 hours. Then it began rising slowly, getting dimmer as it did so until it was lost from sight.’

Brookfield, 13 August 1958 A white object the same shape as a football with a tail was seen traveling across the sky at about 30 degrees from the horizon. It passed about 1000 feet above the witness and ‘when it disappeared (it was) like a light turned out (and) the tail travelled up to the point the ball disappeared and (then) it vanished too.’

Caboolture 11 March 1959, 12.30pm ‘I and two other men…were watching the vapour trails from five jet planes for about a quarter of an hour… We were facing south when we noticed they were pursuing two disc-shaped objects. One jet plane gave up the chase and headed south. The other four were in pursuit of the discs in a northerly direction when the discs accelerated and were out of sight in a few seconds. The four jets then turned back and headed south also.

‘The discs appeared about the size of a small breadand-butter plate and the jets about the size of your finger.’

West End (Brisbane), 19 June 1959, 7.30pm A pulsating white object was seen over Mt Coot-tha from West End. Three witnesses watched as it slowly lowered down from the sky, finally disappearing behind the mountain.

Mt Gravatt Lookout, 20 July 1959, 8.30pm A round orange light was observed from the Mt Gravatt lookout for two minutes before it moved into a cloud bank, leaving a thin light trail.

Ashgrove, 15 August 1959, 7.30pm A round, deep-orange light with a pulsating glow was observed for 10 to 12 minutes moving north before disappearing.

Crow’s Nest, August 1959, 7.00am A red-gold egg-shaped object was witnessed hovering motionless over a house by 11 people. It changed colour from red to gold to yellow before it gently drifted away.

Capalaba, 26 October 1959, 9.00pm A golden star-like object was seen for twenty minutes hovering above an address on Broadwater Road, Capalaba.

Toowong, 31 August 1958

Coorparoo, 5 November 1959, 7.40pm A pulsating yellow star-like object was watched for about 10 minutes by two witnesses on the Cavendish Road tram stop.

A light was seen blinking on and off at regular intervals of oneand-a-half seconds travelling south at about 20 degrees above the horizon.

Inala, 1959, 7.30pm A light changing colour from red to green to blue was seen travelling towards the city (Brisbane).

Ipswich, 25 May 1959, 12.05am A cigar-shaped craft that was an opaque white in colour was seen travelling from the south-east to the north-west.

Beenleigh, 1959 A rotating light-blue object the size of a 20cent piece at arm’s length was observed from Beenleigh. It emitted a light so blinding the witness had to cover his eyes.

Brisbane, 29 May 1959, 8.30am A ‘bright star’ was witnessed in broad daylight from the Treasury building. It moved in a northerly direction as fast as a jet plane.

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whatever happened to the

“flying saucer” Micah Hanks with thanks to

Mysterious Universe http://mysteriousuniverse.org

Beginning in early 1951, Edward J. Ruppelt, a young, witty, and overall promising US Air Force officer, began his service as chief of the USAF’s famous Project Blue Book.

Housed within the Air Technical Intelligence Centre, Ruppelt and a handful of staff would begin fielding the most credible reports of aerial phenomena which, at the time, were considered a legitimate potential threat to national security: these were, of course, the famous “flying saucers” that had been reported since the summer of 1947.

“UFO,” Ruppelt would later affirm, “is the official term that I created to replace the words ‘flying saucers’.” The reason for this had been rather obvious: in the foreword written by Drunvalo Melchizedek, it was noted that there are a handful of “types” of UFO that the USAF documented during the Blue Book years under Ruppelt’s oversight; these were the Triangular craft, Cigars, Balls of Light, Balls of Flame, and of course, the famous “Flying Saucer”. “The Air Force’s conclusion,” Melchizedek notes, “after about four years of dramatic study was that this phenomenon was not the work of the Russians, not the United States — not anyone from this planet.”

Whether or not the non-terrestrial nature of the alleged craft can indeed be affirmed, it is clear that there had been far more occurring throughout the 1950s—and throughout the decades that would follow—than most conventional surveys of aviation history would indicate.

In equal measure, it can hardly be argued that a number of the sorts of “saucers” and other UFOs that were being reported as humankind coasted along into the Atomic Age were, in fact, of terrestrial origin. Just within the last few years, the release of previously classified documents pertaining to aircraft test flights like the Oxcart program, the CIA’s codename for its project for development of the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft, have shed

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new light on strange “saucers” seen at high altitudes above the American Southwest… saucers which, obvious though it seems to us today, bore more resemblance then to the advanced jet aircraft most of us are used to seeing today.

But that’s not to say that there haven’t been some legitimate reports of UFOs that aren’t so easily identified in retrospect, particularly those bearing the now-famous “saucer” shape. Consider the following account, once again sourced from Ruppelt’s own book on the subject: “Just before noon on March 16, Chief Petty Officer Charles Lewis saw a disk shaped UFO come streaking across the sky and buzz a high flying B-36. Lewis first saw the UFO coming in from the north, lower than the B-36; then he saw it pull up to the big bomber as it got closer.

It hovered under the B-36 for an instant, then it went speeding off and disappeared. When the press inquired about the incident, Captain M. A. Nation, commander of the air station, vouched for his chief and added that the base tower operators had seen and reported a UFO to him about ten days before.”

Similar non-air force reports have yielded fruit on occasion in the years that would follow. In my own personal research into UFOs over the last several years, a number of witnesses have described such seeminglyimpossible aircraft to me; witnesses that I have come to know quite well in many instances, and whose judgement and credibility have earned my sincerest confidence.

One such report was related to me in the summer of 2013 by an individual named “Betty”. Having formerly worked as a statistician in various branches of the U.S. government throughout the 1980s and 90s, Betty confided to me that she had never been particularly interested in UFOs, and considered herself to be a “skeptic”. This, however,

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hadn’t caused her to dismiss her own observation of a classic, saucer-shaped aircraft in the early 1970s.

As Betty describes: “I must have been about 12, my brother Billy (11 months older) was there as well. We lived in Venice, California at the time, about a mile from the beach. Anyway, one night, Billy and I were outside playing around. Suddenly we stopped at a loud engine sound and looked up to see the Goodyear Blimp flying low about a block away, heading west. We were able to clearly see the advertisement on the side of the blimp. Later, we stopped again to see the Goodyear Blimp slowly flying by to the east. Every child in Los Angeles knows the Goodyear Blimp.

“Billy and I had resumed our playing when suddenly I heard a vibrating sound coming from the right corner of the house. I looked up and hovering close to the house was some sort of craft. Because it was so close to the house I could only see about a third of its size (an estimation). I saw the lights that appeared to go around the craft. I remember red and white lights, too much time has gone by to remember for sure if there were other colours as well. As I focused in on the rest of the exposed craft, I could see what appeared to be a “classic” flying saucer of the 1960s. There were no apparent lights on the upper portion of the craft, it was grayed in its own lighting and from my house and street lamps. I glanced at Billy who was staring with his mouth open. I looked back at the craft and saw it slightly tilt downward toward us. I was so excited! Just then my brother yelled “go get mom!”

I ran inside the living room and yelled at my mother “There’s a UFO!” as she stared at me from the dining room with my oldest brother. I pivoted there and ran back outside. By the time I returned to my spot, my mom and older brother were already there.

“Where’d it go!” I demanded from Billy. Looking like he was shaken, he said that as soon as I turned to go into the house, the UFO shot out of there in a flash. It was extremely fast and shot out toward the Venice Pier.

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I looked out that way but could only see small orbs of light, much like airplanes from the airport (there are no stars in Los Angeles).

“Billy and I were scoffed at and we were left to ponder over what we saw.

“The next day my mother told me that in the paper there were reports of an unusual light seen out over the Venice pier.”

Betty’s encounter is like many that have crossed my desk over the years, supplied by clear-minded, sober individuals that, if anything, have maintained very little interest in the UFO subject. And yet, in such instances, the famed, if not archetypal “flying saucer” shape has remained, though perhaps not prevalently.

It is indeed funny, in retrospect, the way that so many things that once scared us become relegated to the lunatic fringe; like the drive-in horror movies from decades ago that scared the daylights out of us which, today, we laugh at, and point at the dangling bits of wiggling rubber that make up the monstrosities that once caused us to cower.

Maybe the UFOs are no different, in a sense: the only thing that could have actually been as scary as bug-eyed aliens in saucers from someplace else would have been the once-inevitable conclusion that the USAF had thought they might eventually determine that the “saucers” had been something of our own making, and belonging to the boys across the pond, who were now waving the bigger stick. That ended up not being the case, of course… but if not Russian, then whose were they?

Even today, the odd disc shaped aircraft are still reported.

They appear only sparingly–almost as if just to assert themselves from time to time–or maybe to be taken as some archaic reminder of the kind of weirdness that UFOs “used to be”. Or at least a reminder of how things were back in the good ol’ days, when the flying saucer craze that swept the nation in the earliest years of the Cold War was still something new, refreshing, enticing, and yes, even scary.

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BOOK REVIEW

UFOS OVER POLAND – The Land of High Strangeness Author: Piotr Cielebias

Publisher: FLYING DISK PRESS http://flyingdiskpress.blogspot.co.uk/

review by Nick Pope If you stopped a few people randomly in the street and asked them about UFOs, you'd probably find that some of them had heard about Roswell (and maybe Rendlesham Forest), but that would probably be the extent of their knowledge. With the public, there's often a (mis) perception that the UFO mystery is a peculiarly American phenomenon. Within the UFO community there's a better awareness of the true situation, but despite acknowledgement that there's a lot of activity in countries such as Mexico and Brazil, there's still a US-centric (and to a lesser extent a UK-centric) bias. Part of this is attributable to the language problem, but there's a wider cultural bias issue here too. Which brings us neatly to Piotr Cielebiaś and his thought-provoking book "UFOs over Poland".

The book certainly 'does what it says on the tin', but it's the subtitle, "The Land of High Strangeness", that's really telling, because high strangeness is exactly what we get. This is a real researcher's book, and a very honest one: instead of highlighting only those cases that fit the author's beliefs, Piotr dumps a whole bunch of raw data into the public domain as if to say "Here you go, try to

make sense of this lot." Some cases are clearly 'pure' UFO incidents, but others are more paranormal in flavour. For those who naively try to pigeonhole the UFO phenomenon (be they true believers obsessed with the ETH, or die-hard debunkers playing amateur psychologist with muddled theories about folklore, sci-fi, pop culture and Cold War paranoia) this book is a wake-up call, because it eloquently demonstrates that the UFO phenomenon is richer, more complex, more diverse, and much more difficult to define than such narrow-minded thinkers seem to understand.

Piotr's meticulously-researched, well-written and hugely entertaining book is a timely reminder that the UFO phenomenon is global. However, it's only due to the diligence of authors such as Piotr and the tenacity of publishers such as Philip Mantle that we get to hear about some of the more fascinating UFO-related material that exists outside of ufology's mainstream. Highly recommended!

Nick Pope Ministry of Defence (Retired)

UFOS OVER POLAND –The Land of High Strangeness OUT NOW ON AMAZON! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Piotr Cielebiaś is a writer, publisher and journalist dealing with fringe science and paranormal phenomena. He is a regular contributor for “Nieznany Świat” magazine and Onet.pl - the biggest Polish web portal.

With Michał Kuśnierz he runs INFRA group registering UFO reports and paranormal phenomena from Poland.

Contact: infra@epoczta.pl.

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Gold Coast now Queensland’s UFO capital with half of reports from the Glitter Strip http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/gold-coast-nowqueenslands-ufo-capital-with-half-of-reports-from-the-glitter-strip/ story-fnj94iqm-1227642195890

The Gold Coast is now Queensland’s UFO capital with about half the reports of possible extraterrestrial skulduggery coming from the Glitter Strip.

According to UFO Research Queensland President Sheryl Gottschall over the past four years activity on the Gold Coast has increased to cover about 50 per cent of all reports received from the Greater Queensland area by the group.

And, she said, many more sightings could be going unreported.

“It could be assumed this is due to the region being a popular holiday destination with many visitors enjoying the beaches into sunset hours while looking into the open sky,” she said.

“However, almost all of the reports from the area are by local residents going about their daily business and not necessarily living near the ocean.

“The Gold Coast area has a growing population and again it could be thought to be the reason why more reports are being received from the area. However there has been good coverage by Gold Coast media in recent years and this gives people ‘permission’ to come out of the closet to report their personal experiences.

“Although the ridicule factor has dropped over the last 20 years the public is still wary of reporting something they can’t explain, so the vast majority of UFO sightings still go unreported.”

Ms Gottschall said her observation was that one in 15 people had seen a UFO. “So everyone knows someone who has had a UFO sighting,” she said. “But what’s actually occurring is that certain individuals

will report seeing multiple UFOs in their lifetime, and this high incidence of multiple sightings indicates that sightings are not only a matter of chance. We’re currently trying to understand why this occurs.”

In Surfers Paradise on September 28 two men video a white dot moving across the sky.

At Ormeau on September 29 a woman witnessed strange lights out towards Jacobs Well early in the morning. She said the first light a couple of days ago was a flash of white light that came from the sky like a laser that fanned out as it got closer to the ground.

Also at Ormeau a person on September 28 reported a vertical white and blue light beam that was focused over a nearby reservoir.

At Biggera Waters on October 22 a man looked out the windows of his apartment in a multi-level building and saw a very large, extremely bright light in the eastern sky. He described the object as quite low in the sky, less a couple of kilometres from his location with a slightly salmon pink light underneath at either side.

At Broadbeach Waters on November 19 a woman observed a stationery bright star in the eastern sky at approximately 60 degrees altitude. Occasionally it flickered red but then it started “snaking and looping around” and at times would take off, only to return to its original position.

‘Alien megastructure’ star KIC 8462852 shows no sign of life http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2015/ dec/09/alien-megastructure-star-kic-8462852-shows-no-sign-of-life

The star KIC 8462852 exploded into the public consciousness in October when it was suggested that mysterious signals could be explained by a gigantic artificial structure drifting in front of the star and blocking some of its light.

Astronomer Jason Wright, from Penn State University, told the Atlantic, “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”

The signals were recorded by the Kepler space telescope in 2011. Kepler monitored 150,000 stars for more than three years. It looked for tiny dips in brightness caused when planets drift in front of their parent star. In the case of KIC 8462852, they got more than they bargained for.

Whereas a giant planet like Jupiter would drop the light by just 1%, KIC 8462852 display two huge dips. Around 800 days into the observation, the star’s light plummeted by 15%. Around the 1,500-day mark, there was a flurry of dimming with one dropping by 20%.

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“We found no evidence of an advanced civilization beaming intentional laser signals toward Earth,” said Douglas Vakoch, the president of SETI International which led the laser search, in a statement. Vakoch has submitted a paper detailing the observations to the Astrophysical Journal.

Another search of the star, this time using radio waves, also came up empty. The SETI Institute used its Allen Telescope Array to listen in to the star for more than two weeks. They detected no sign of alien signals between 1 and 10 GHz. Although the work does not completely exclude the chance of a radio signal being present, it does significantly reduce the possibility.

To fall that much, the object passing in front of the star must be almost half the diameter of the star. Yet Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is only one-10th the diameter of the sun. Clearly, there was no way that the mysterious object could be a planet. Hence the speculation about aliens building some kind of gigantic space station.

Faced with such a possibility, astronomers dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) swung into action.

Artificial signals are easily distinguished from natural signals because they can clearly be seen to carry information. Even if you do not know what that information is saying, it is obvious that the wave has been “modulated”.

On six nights between 29 October and 28 November 2015, scientists searched the star for laser pulses using the Boquete optical SETI observatory in Panama. Sensitive to pulses as short as a billionth of a second, they saw nothing out of the ordinary.

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“The history of astronomy tells us that every time we thought we had found a phenomenon due to the activities of extraterrestrials, we were wrong,” said SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak in a statement. “But although it’s quite likely this star’s strange behaviour is due to nature, not aliens, it’s only prudent to check such things out.”

The most likely natural phenomenon that could block that much light from the star is the collision of comets producing huge clouds of obscuring dust. This explanation was discussed in October but proved less attractive than the alien megastructure idea. Now, however, it may be time to spend time looking more closely at the natural explanation.

“The hypothesis of an alien megastructure around KIC 8462852 is rapidly crumbling apart,” said Vakoch.

Although this is not really a surprise, still there is a bit of me that is disappointed. In hindsight, I suppose a new Star Wars film and the detection of an alien civilisation in the same month would have been too much to hope for.

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Seti scientist: Discovery of aliens would have little impact on day to day life of humans http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/seti-scientist-discovery-aliens-wouldhave-little-impact-day-day-life-humans-1532952

If we were to discover an alien civilisation in the far-reaches of space, it would have little impact on humanity and our day-today life, a Seti scientist has said. John W Traphagan, a trustee at Seti and International and professor of religious studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, posed the question of what would happen if we did find an alien megastructure around the star KIC 8462852.

The idea of this megastructure came about because KIC 8462852 showed extremely unusual patterns of dimming – with something cutting out over 20% of its light. The biggest planets in our solar system would only block out around 1-2%, in comparison. This led some to speculate an advanced alien civilisation had built a huge structure around the star to harness its energy – a theory first proposed by theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson decades ago.

Since then, researchers have found no evidence of such a structure and NASA has said it is probably comets.

Nevertheless, Traphagan asked what would happen on Earth if they had finally found evidence of alien life.

In a blog for Seti International, he said the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be “one of the biggest discoveries in human history”, but it would probably not change humanity – at least in the short term. Traphagan said that for scientists it would be tremendously exciting, while “religious zealots”, who believe we are somehow special “because god made us”, would likely claim the data was incorrect.

“Then there’s everyone else,” he said. “Will impoverished people in Haiti or Africa be changed by this? Will those billions who simply struggle to get from one day to the next care about the fact that we are not alone in the universe? ... I’m not so sure. In fact, while discovery of an alien civilisation may, in the very long run, have a significant influence on humanity, in the short run I doubt it will have much impact at all.”

Traphagan said for most people, the discovery of alien life would not matter a great deal because this knowledge would have little impact on their lives. He said: “[The] discovery of ET may represent little more than a brief, intriguing blip on the radar as they build careers, raise families, and look at their smartphones.

“The fact is that as important the discovery of ET may be in the abstract, at the concrete level of daily life, learning that another civilisation exists/existed 1,400 light years away from us doesn’t necessarily mean much to many of Earth’s inhabitants. It’s interesting, but it may not be very relevant to life on a very self-absorbed world.”

He concludes by saying that regardless of if and when we find alien life, just considering the possibility it is there could help to make people a little less focused on themselves. Traphagan added: “Maybe thinking about others out there might get some to think more about others right here on Earth.”

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Secret Government Program Used Telepathy To Contact Aliens http://in5d.com/secret-government-program-used-telepathy-tocontact-aliens/

Military-trained psychic spies were able to view non-humans on Earth and elsewhere through remote viewing, argued Jim Marrs at this year’s Secret Space Program conference in Bastrop, Texas.

Jim Marrs is a former newspaper journalist who has written for a myriad of news outlets, including the Fort Worth StarTelegram. He is perhaps best known for his 1989 book ‘Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy’, which reached the New York Times paperback non-fiction best seller list and later served as the basis for Oliver Stone’s film JFK. SRI International developed a method of spying called “remote viewing” in the 1970s, which caught the attention of the CIA and was later passed on to the U.S. Army. Remote viewing is a form of telepathy that perceives places, persons and actions through extrasensory perception (ESP).

According to Marrs, everyone has the ability to do remote viewing. It is not limited to time and place. You can use it to look into the past and future. However, the further you look into the future, the fuzzier it gets, which suggests the future is not determined, explained Marrs.

A US military program, known as StarGate, sought to locate and map Soviet Union submarines using remote viewing. The process involved a group of individuals who attempted to visualize the coordinates on a world map, given the magnitude and longitude of the submarines. The program had apparently worked effectively for more than twenty years.

Army intelligence officer Joe McMoneagle is said to be the first man to be taught remote viewing during the StarGate project.

The original group consisted of six remote viewers. During the course of the program, there was an interest in UFOs. One of the best remote viewers, according to Marrs, went by the name of Pat Price.

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According to Price, he found four alien bases on Earth. They were located on Mount Perdido in Pyrenees, Mount Inyangani in Zimbabwe, Mount Ziel in Australia and Mount Haye’s in Alaska. The organization originally filed the report away.

According the report, the aliens could use remote viewing to manipulate their captures. Government officials couldn’t let the aliens loose. As a result, an official decision was made to execute the aliens.

In 1998, Skip Atwater, executive officer of the grill flame unit, was responsible for giving members of the group odd tasks. He recalled Price’s four alien bases and gave them the coordinates for each. All the members came back and reported that all the bases were on Earth and run by aliens.

Marrs’s claims are mind-bending and provocative. He draws upon multiple lines of evidence to support how remote viewing has substantiated the existence of UFOs.

Marrs believes that aliens have visited Earth many times throughout human history. Nevertheless, he believes the frequency of visits spiked with the rise of nuclear weapons.

Who owns space? US asteroid-mining act is dangerous and potentially illegal

Marrs also referenced the 1948 Aztec story as evidence that remote viewing has been used to communicate with aliens.

According to various reports, a UFO crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1948. Alien corpses were taken from the site by the U.S. Air Force, which many believe were dissected.

There has been a lot of controversy about the Aztec story. The reason not many people know about the Aztec story, according to Marrs, is because Aztec is near the Colorado border.

Military officials had been tracking the object prior to the crash.

When the UFO landed, military units in Colorado immediately rushed to the site and disposed the evidence before anyone had a chance to see it.

In 2009, Randy Barnes of the Aztec Library Association contracted with Problems > Solutions > Innovations, headed

by Lyn Buchanan, who was once in charge of the army’s remote viewing unit. Eleven remote viewers were summoned to take a look at Aztec to see if the incident really happened.

The remote viewers found that a large, silver object designed for transportation flew to the ground. Many people had observed the object. They found “biologicals” in the craft.

Some witnesses tried to help the creatures but couldn’t do so due to language barriers. Eventually, the army showed up. There was some sort of negotiation among the parties involved. They took the biologicals inside the craft to an undisclosed location.

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For more information check out Marrs’s book, ‘Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us.’

https://theconversation.com/who-owns-space-us-asteroid-miningact-is-dangerous-and-potentially-illegal-51073

An event of cosmic proportions occurred on November 18 when the US congress passed the Space Act of 2015 into law. The legislation will give US space firms the rights to own and sell natural resources they mine from bodies in space, including asteroids.

Although the act, passed with bipartisan support, still requires President Obama’s signature, it is already the most significant salvo that has been fired in the ideological battle over ownership of the cosmos. It goes against a number of treaties and international customary law which already apply to the entire universe.

The new law is nothing but a classic rendition of the “he who dares wins” philosophy of the Wild West. The act will also allow the private sector to make space innovations without regulatory oversight during an eight-year period and protect spaceflight participants from financial ruin. Surely, this will see private firms begin to incorporate the mining of asteroids into their investment plans.

Supporters argue that the US Space Act is a bold statement that finally sets private spaceflight free from the heavy regulation of the US government. The misdiagnosis begins here. Space exploration is a universal activity and therefore requires international regulation.

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Companies may also be allowed to extract certain resources, but the very first provision of the Outer Space Treaty (1967), to which the US is a signatory, is that such exploration and use shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries. This therefore prevents the sale of space-based minerals for profit. The treaty also states that outer space shall be the “province of all mankind … and that states shall avoid harmful contamination of space”.

The act represents a full-frontal attack on settled principles of space law which are based on two basic principles: the right of states to scientific exploration of outer space and its celestial bodies and the prevention of unilateral and unbriddled commercial exploitation of outer-space resources. These principles are found in agreements including the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and the Moon Agreement of 1979.

The US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology denies there is anything in the act which violates the US’s international obligations. According to this body, the right to extract and use resources from celestial bodies “is affirmed by State practice and by the US State Department in Congressional testimony and written correspondence”.

Meanwhile, the Moon Agreement (1979) has in effect forbidden states to conduct commercial mining on planets and asteroids until there is an international regime for such exploitation. While the US has refused to sign up to this, it is binding as customary international law.

The idea that American companies can on the basis of domestic laws alone systematically exploit mineral resources in space, despite huge environmental risks, really amounts to the audacity of greed. The Romans had this all correctly figured out in their legal maxim: “What concerns all must be decided upon by all.”

(Oops… too late. See next article – Ed)

Asteroid mining made legal after Barack Obama gives US citizens the right to own parts of celestial bodies

Crucially, there is no specific reference to international law in this statement. Simply relying on US legislation and policy statements to justify the plans is obviously insufficient.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/asteroidmining-made-legal-after-barack-obama-gives-us-citizens-theright-to-own-parts-of-celestial-a6750046.html

Ever since NASA discovered signs of liquid water on Mars, concerns have been raised about the risk of contaminating the red planet. NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team

Private companies can now mine asteroids, after Barack Obama signed a major law that reverses decades of space law. The move marks a major change in space law, which has treated space as something that belongs to everyone on Earth

So what’s at stake? We can assume that the list of states that have access to outer space – currently a dozen or so – will grow. These states may also shortly respond with mining programmes of their own. That means that the pristine conditions of the cradle of nature from which our own Earth was born may become irrevocably altered forever – making it harder to trace how we came into being. Similarly, if we started contaminating celestial bodies with microbes from Earth, it could ruin our chances of ever finding alien life there.

Mining minerals in space could also damage the environment around the Earth and eventually lead to conflict over resources. Indeed what right has the second highest polluter of the Earth’s environment got to proceed with some of the same corporations in a bid to plunder outer space?

US citizens are now able to obtain their own asteroids and mine resources out of them, and will be able to own the materials they find there. Until now, space has largely been treated as publicly-owned, meaning that nobody could claim commercial ownership of anything that was out there.

The US government has now thrown out that understanding so that it can get rid of “unnecessary regulations” and make it easier for private American companies to explore space resources commercially. While people won’t actually be able to claim the rock or “celestial body” itself, they will be able to keep everything that they mine out of it.

While we’re not there yet, developments towards actual space mining may begin to occur within a decade.

Ultimately, the US plans must be understood in the light of existing rules of space law. Money is not a dirty word in space – the total value of the satellite telecommunications industry in 2013 was more than $195bn. Free market principles also apply to the operations of the International Space Station. So, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty.

Currently corporations can exploit outer space in a number of ways, including for space tourism and scientific training.

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It is hoped that the new rules will allow people to harvest the often vast amounts of expensive resources that are inside of the asteroids that fly near our planet. In July, a rock with a platinum core passed that was worth £3.5 trillion passed by Earth.

“Basically what you see is a very symmetrical, smooth and reflective surface that appears to have his own light source,” O’Connor told Detroit Free Press. “In my opinion, even a hardened skeptic would say ‘Wow, that is what I expect a UFO would look like.’”

The new law is called the ‘U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act.’ As well as giving the right to mine asteroids, it extends America’s commitment to the International Space Station and makes it easier for to run a private space startup company.

The photos show two smooth, cylindrical objects that appear to be moving through the sky at high speed.

It also requires that US authorities specify the way that asteroid mining will be regulated and organised.

Planetary Resources, an American company that intends to make money by mining asteroids, said that the new law was the “single greatest recognition of property rights in history”, and that it “establishes the same supportive framework that created the great economies of history, and will encourage the sustained development of space”.

Much of the ownership of space is regulated by the “Outer Space Treaty”, a document that was signed by the US and Russia among other countries in the 1960s. As well as saying that the moon and other celestial objects are part of the “common heritage of mankind”, it says that exploration must be peaceful and bans countries from putting weapons on the moon and other celestial bodies.

Montana man claims he has proof that UFOs are real in photographs captured by powerful cameras http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/montana-manclaims-prove-alien-life-ufo-photos-article-1.2476615

A Montana man claims to have positive proof of alien life after capturing images of two UFOs on camera.

Dr. Richard O’Connor’s images of two unidentified flying objects were snapped on Nov. 4 with two powerful motion capture cameras he keeps pointed at the sky. The five photos show two smooth, cylindrical objects that appear to be moving through the sky at high speed.

O’Connor estimates his two Reconyx Hyperfire PC 900 Trail cameras have taken more than 280,000 photos since he installed them. When triggered by motion, the cameras shoot 20 photos at approximately one-second intervals.

Skeptics say the images are fake. But O’Connor, who worked as an anesthesiologist at St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena before retiring, insists he has no knowledge of how to digitally manipulate photos on a computer.

O’Connor, 60, has shared the pictures with the National UFO Reporting Center, who have a website listing UFO sightings by state. Dr. Richard O’Connor insists he has no knowledge of how to digitally manipulate photos on a computer.

Peter Davenport, the head of the NUFORC, sent the photos to “a skilled photo-analyst” who described the photos as “real, but remain a mystery.” “I suspect the lights in the first and last photos are sun reflections off of something rather than any propulsion system,” the photo analyst wrote. But a second analyst disagreed and declared the photos “100 percent fake.”

O’Connor maintains the photos are genuine and said “what you see there is what came off that camera.” He said his main intention is “to let people know that UFOs are real. These photographs are proof positive that UFOs are real.”

“I am interested in the truth,” he added. “If I am subject to criticism to get to the bottom of this, then I guess it’s part of the deal.”

O’Connor was friends with renowned UFO believer Jesse Marcel Jr. for more than 25 years and says his friend inspired his belief in UFOs. Marcel Jr. claimed that when he was 10 years old, his father brought home wreckage from the alleged Roswell crash in New Mexico in July 1947.

Original Montana image (above) and closeup (right)

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