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By KEVIN BURWICK
The Mutual UFO Network says that UFO sightings have gone up considerably in 2020, but why has this occurred?
UFO sightings have surged in 2020, leaving many to wonder if the year will end with an alien invasion. 2020 has kept the world on its toes since January. The pandemic has claimed over a million lives globally, and forced people to stay home. Which leaves more time for staring up at the sky. The 5G conspiracy theories popped up shortly after the pandemic set in, along with a crop of Japanese Murder Hornets and Soviet nuclear cannibal ants. Would aliens really be out of the question for 2020?
MUFON, aka the Mutual UFO Network, which is run by 4,000 volunteers around the world, has been investigating UFO sightings for decades. Tom Maher is the Minnesota Director of MUFON and he claims that there have been 99 UFO sightings this year in Minnesota alone, which doesn't seem like much. However, when compared to the 1,226 sightings in the past 20 years, that number looks a lot more significant. Maher had this to say.
"Whenever we get a case that is reported, we are always kind of looking at that, is there a nuts and bolts phenomenon here or is it something else... We have people with a scientific background, people with a military background, and your average person who has their daily job."
In the last two decades, 2015 had the most sightings at 114 in Minnesota. "A couple months back we peaked at 18 to 20 a month but that was Elon Musk and he was lunching the SpaceX satellites," Tom Maher says. But, why are all of these sightings happening in 2020? As it turns out, the pandemic may play a huge role in the recent uptick of UFO sightings.
Thaddeus LaCoursiere, a Planetarium Educator at the Bell Museum in St Paul believes that quarantine is to blame for all of the 2020 UFO sightings. "Sorry to say I don't think its aliens," he said. "The most solid answer is; for the last few months we've been stuck at home, we've been spending more time outside, we've been seeing things you don't see if you are stuck inside an office all day." LaCoursiere continued, "As long as people have been around looking at the sky trying to understand what we are seeing, we've been cataloging it, we've been telling stories and it's such a powerful thing to see. It connects us to something so much more."
As a whole, UFO sightings are up 51% globally in 2020 when compared to 2019. Many of the sightings end up being drones, planes, or satellites, which are quickly proven. However, the United States government recently declassified videos which showed military pilots coming into contact with UFOs and having no idea what they saw. In August of this year, the Pentagon announced a task force to study "unexplained aerial phenomena," aka UAP. In New York, UFO sightings are also up from 2019 and some are claiming that they have been feeling weird heat sensations when observing these UFOs. Will 2020 be the year that the aliens finally reveal themselves? We only have a few more weeks of the year to find out. Fox 9 News was the first to report on the uptick in UFO sightings.
By EDWARD BROWNE
PRINCE PHILIP is so interested in UFO sightings and alien theories that he has collected books on the subject for decades, according to reports.
It has been revealed the Duke spent last summer reading The Halt Perspective – a 2016 book by retired US Air Force Colonel Charles Halt and ex-West Midlands detective John Hanson. It details British UFO sightings including the Rendlesham Forest incident.
The Sun claims Prince Philip's private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote a letter to Mr Hanson, in which he stated the book would be “read with close interest over the summer”.
The secretary also referenced another book called ‘Haunted Skies: The Encyclopaedia of British UFOs’ also by Mr Hanson.
Brigadier Miller-Bakewell reportedly said that book would “make a most welcome addition to his library”.
The ‘Rendlesham Forest incident’ to which The Halt Perspective makes reference is considered to be one of the most famous UFO sightings in Britain.
A documentary on it, titled Codename Rendlesham, investigates reports by US airmen who claimed to have seen a UFO in the Suffolk forest in December of 1980.
The story goes that multiple US Air Force personnel, based at RAF Woodbridge at the time, decided to investigate “lights” they spotted in the trees nearby.
According to reports, officers claims to have spotted a triangular spacecraft there.
A website dedicated to the incident states Col. Halt’s team also took radiation readings at the site of the supposed UFO landing.
Ian Ridpath, an astronomer, claims to have had telephone discussions with the UK’s National Radiological Protection Board.
He said that the figures cited by Col. Halt in a memo of 0.05 to 0.1 milliroentgens were “simply background levels of radiation”.
Colonel Halt even told the BBC in 2015 that he had obtained new statements from radar operators at RAF Bentwaters that corroborate his claims.
Colonel Halt, then 75, said radar staff spotted an object pass through their 60-mile radar scope within “two or three seconds”, suggesting it was travelling at “thousands of miles an hour”.
He said it then headed to the forest where he and his colleagues were.
The Government, however, suggested at the time that reported light sightings were simply due to witnesses seeing light shining from the nearby Orfordness lighthouse.
The Ministry of Defence told the BBC it no longer dealt with reports of UFOs.
In other news, Prince Philip and the Queen marked their 73rd wedding anniversary last week.
To celebrate the occasion, the two royals released a photograph of the two of them opening up a card sent to them by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s children.
The Queen married Prince Philip on November 20 1947. The Queen, now 94, was 21 at the time.
By Bianca Myrtil
We can’t get over the fact the U.S. government had to change UFO to UAP. UFOs gained too much of a joke connotation from pop culture. Instead of calling those mysterious spaceship-looking things in the sky unidentified flying objects, the government refers to them as unidentified aerial phenomena. (Unmanned aerial vehicles is another terminology used for UFOs, although it can also refer to things like drones.)
As recently as this August, the Department of Defense (DoD) approved the creation of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) whose primary objective is to investigate sightings of UAPs. That’s right. Better think twice about jokingly claiming you’ve sighted a UFO. You might end up with Big Brother on your tail.
At the moment, President Donald Trump is threatening to veto a bill that would give the public more access to government information about UFOs. Many are wondering what the deal is. Is Trump potentially leaving us hanging about UFOs in order to protect national security, or is he in cahoots with the aliens to keep their secrets?
Trump & UFO info: Does he not want us to know?
UFO enthusiasts everywhere have their panties in a wad because of Trump’s threat to veto the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This move would prevent them from learning some long sought-after information about the mysterious visitors in our sky.
The truth is, Trump’s threat to veto the bill has nothing to do with withholding top secret UFO information. At the very least, that’s not what his administration says it’s about. The National Defense Authorization Act is a bill that’s passed annually in the U.S. to set the policies and budget of the U.S. Military.
As many know, Trump is all about strengthening the U.S. Military. What he’s not about is renaming every single military base named after a Confederate leader. Controversy over the tearing down of monuments and name changes of schools and streets has been going on for a while.
Many feel it’s inappropriate to honor those who were in favor of slavery by allowing any tributes to them to remain. Others, like Trump, feel it’s unreasonable to tear down every vestige of confederate residue because large portions of the country’s history would be torn down with it.
In an attempt to take a stand regarding this matter, Trump has delivered the ultimatum that unless lawmakers remove the amendment that includes renaming military bases he will veto the entire NDAA bill. Of course, with it would go the appropriations for the UAPTF. Thus, bye-bye UFO info, we’ll see you in a couple years maybe.
The Pentagon’s loose lips about UFOs
Essentially, June’s Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) allocated some funds toward the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) for 2021. This language was included in the NDAA that Trump is threatening to veto. If Trump does indeed end up vetoing the bill, Congress won’t be able to produce a new version before the deadline. This move would stall the act that has made so many UFO buffs hopeful.
You may be wondering why the potential NDAA would even make people hopeful the government will disclose intelligence on UFOs or aliens to the public. The feds have a history of being pretty tight-lipped about the matter. What makes people think they’ll be disclosing information all of a sudden?
Well, in April of 2020 the Pentagon released coveted footage of UFO activity to the public. Videos leaked in 2004 and 2015 were finally confirmed to be true. One of them had footage of a Navy pilot exclaiming as they caught sight of a UFO while flying.
The DoD explained they were “releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified’.”
In truth, the government sees UAP as much more likely to be the intelligence-seeking devices of hostile nations than evidence of strange green men. It seems the Pentagon has chosen to be more transparent about UFOs to downplay the alien life aspect and instead encourage the public to think of it as their duty to report any sightings for national security purposes.
Acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Marco Rubio, had this to say about the government’s mission to investigate UFOs: “The bottom line is that if there are things flying over your military bases and you don’t know what they are because they’re not yours, and they exhibit – potentially – technologies that you don’t have at your own disposal, that to me is a national security risk and one we should be looking into.”
Government operations concerning UFOs used to be very covert operations, but Big Brother is clearly trying a new tact. The re-establishment of an organization devoted to “detect, analyze, and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security”, combined with their recent divulgence of UAP intel, shows we could be in for a few surprises.
Hopefully, Trump’s ultimatum doesn’t get in the way of any planned UFO reveals. For now, all we can do is dream about alien life with movies like Proximity and speculate about their existence with documentaries like The Phenomenon. Oh yeah, and you should probably hope no foreign government is planning the demise of your country by spying on it with aerial vehicles.
By Dean Wilkins
SCRAMBLING for a pen and paper, PC Alan Godfrey desperately tried to sketch out the vast, hulking vessel that loomed in front of him - until he was suddenly engulfed by a dazzling white light.
When he came to, the young policeman found himself 100 yards down the Yorkshire country lane in his patrol car as the mysterious object vanished in his rear view mirror.
The incredible story, which made headlines around the world 40 years ago, earned the small market town of Todmorden the title of Britain’s UFO hotspot and continues to obsess investigators to this day.
“I have never claimed that I was abducted,” PC Godfrey, now 73, tells Sun Online from his home in Todmorden.
“But everything up until the bright white light and afterwards, when I was on the other side, I’ll believe it until the end.”
Here, we step inside the bizarre saga of the UK’s most famous UFO case and talk to some of the world’s leading investigators about what really might have happened that fateful day.
A sketch of the UFO which PC Godfrey drew at the time
From 'marauding cows' to UFO horror
During the early hours of November 29, 1980, PC Godfrey was out patrolling the Pennines in the pouring rain following reports that a herd of cows was on the loose.
By 5am, with no sight of the marauding group, PC Godfrey headed into Todmorden town centre for one last sweep before clocking off.
He passed a bus shuttling morning workers, saw no sign of trouble and decided to go for one last look for “those bloody cows”.
PC Godfrey passed another bobby on foot patrol, who declined his offer of a lift.
“How I wish he would’ve said yes, it would’ve been priceless to have another officer witness what was about to happen,” he says.
He then drove past his police station and was about to turn right on to the estate when something caught his eye several hundred yards up the road.
“If only I’d had a mobile phone on me at the time so I could record what I saw, it would’ve been a lot easier than 40 years of trying to explain it," recalls PC Godfrey.
“I thought it was a bus at first, but I remembered I’d already passed the early morning service, and as I got nearer it very clearly looked nothing like a bus.
“It was completely blocking the main road. A huge metal object hanging in the air about five feet off the ground.
“It was diamond shaped, about 20ft wide and 14ft high with what appeared to be dark paneling across the upper top third - my headlights were shining off the side and if I’d gotten out of the car and thrown a brick at it, it would’ve gone 'bang'.
“The whole bottom half was spinning in an anti-clockwise direction, which was kicking up leaves and dirt beneath it.
“I just sat there in awe, staring at it.
“Next, my training and five years on the force kicked in.
“I put my blue flashing lights on, flipped on the hazards and attempted to radio the control room.”
Both PC Godfrey’s personal and in-car radio sets could not establish contact, so he pulled out a sketchpad and pencil, a common practice for officers used to responding to traffic collisions at the time.
But as he drew the remarkable object, a brilliant white light suddenly flashed, blinding him in an instant.
As the flash gradually subsided, he realised he was no longer sat sketching the object. Instead, he was back driving along Burnley Road.
'Tickly electric' feeling
“I was about 100 yards on the other side of where the thing had been hovering,” he claims.
“There was a strange tickly electric feeling about the place.
“I turned around and went back to the spot the object was hovering. The road surface beneath it was bone dry - everything else was glistening from the earlier downpour.
“In the dry patch, leaves, twigs and small branches lay in a swirled pattern. It was very peculiar.”
Terrified and shocked, the copper rushed back to the station to seek help.
Initially, PC Godfrey’s encounter became an in-joke within the station as gossiping bobbies made sniggering remarks such as ‘Captain Kirk’.
One even made a prank report to the local newspaper reporter who rang up to check if any serious incidents had been reported.
Other strange sightings
During his next shift, PC Godfrey was called in to see his inspector, who remarkably revealed three officers from the Halifax division also reported seeing strange “steel blue lights” at 4.49am.
Initially, it was believed to have happened on the same night as PC Godfrey’s case - it was only decades later it turned out to have happened several days earlier.
“But I was just so relieved that I wasn’t the only bobby to report strange sightings on the tops - I wasn’t going mad on my own,” he explains.
“I was delighted to have corroboration and thought ‘no more p***-taking from that lot’.”
Soon after, PC Godfrey tracked down another witness Leonard Smith, a former copper, who also reported seeing a “large sphere object rise into the sky”.
And in 2014, Bob Coates, a bus driver who passed the same spot as PC Godfrey at 4.55am on the same night, shared a similar story of leaves and twigs circling in a “whirlwind”.
PC Godfrey's superiors gave the green light to an interview with the local reporter and it appeared in the Hebden Bridge Times on December 5, 1980.
“I treated it as a bit of a laugh, I thought it could do no harm,” said PC Godfrey.
That was until the report was picked up by one of the UK’s top UFO academics, Jenny Randles.
Miner's murder
Ms Randles, a scientist and former director of the British UFO Research Association, read PC Godfrey’s story in the local paper and immediately launched an investigation.
And in an article she later wrote for a UFO magazine, she unwittingly linked the mystery murder of Zygmund Adamski - which PC Godfrey had helped investigate months earlier - with his encounter.
Mr Adamski was a 56-year-old miner who went missing five months earlier.
His body was found dumped on top of a 15ft-high coal pile in Todmorden by PC Godfrey, then a 33-year-old policeman with two commendations to his name.
His death was never solved, but speculation remained rife around the circumstances.
In his report PC Godfrey told of the frightening expression of “fear and pain” on Zygmund’s face as well as weeping burns on the back of his head, neck and shoulders that had been treated with a peculiar ointment.
His hair had been messily cut short, he was wearing a jacket but no shirt and there was no sign of coal dirt or dust on his hands, face or front - leading investigators to believe his body had been dumped there.
Despite exhaustive police investigations and medical tests, his death was never explained and the strange liquid was never identified.
In the wake of Ms Randles's article, PC Godfrey’s encounter eventually appeared on the front page of the Sunday Mirror and became worldwide news - with the copper appearing on chat shows, TV documentaries and radio programmes, and giving interviews to dozens of media outlets.
But their quest for the truth paled compared to that of PC Godfrey, who had been encouraged to undertake several hypnotic regression sessions in a bid to piece together the moments after the burst of white light.
Professor Robert Blair and Dr Joseph Jaffee were both experts in the field and treated PC Godfrey on three occasions from their practices in Manchester.
He met Dr Jaffee for two sessions, both of which were filmed.
And what PC Godfrey described while under hypnosis was astonishing.
During one, he revealed: “I just started shouting ‘Jesus the light… the light’. I’d been blinded.”
Child-sized 'creatures'
In the recording, PC Godfrey described being carried inside the object where he met a strange “Biblical” man.
He told how he was carried, or “floated”, into the object, adding: “With him was a group of child-sized, large-headed ‘creatures’ working alongside the bearded ‘human’.”
PC Godfrey was pulled out of the regression over fears for his safety and the recordings gobsmacked him.
But, unlike his versions of events up until the bright white light, PC Godfrey is sceptical even of his own accounts during those sessions.
He added: “I have absolutely no idea what I was saying, if they are true, if they are a fabricated memory or if they are a collection of stories all muddled together as a result of hypnosis."
Scientists' struggles
Since first investigating UFOs in the 1970s, Jenny has been one of many scientists trying to find a middle ground theory that accepts the reality of the UFO phenomenon but does not go to the extreme of alien contact.
“Anyone who investigates UFO experiences and accounts thoroughly will know that there are too many genuine cases from very sincere and honest people like Alan, a distinguished policeman and father, for it to all be made up," she tells Sun Online.
“Scientists talk about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) instead of UFOs.
“It’s a way of disassociating actual scientific research from the little green men and flying saucers stigma attached to UFOs.”
Jenny points to work conducted by academics across Norway and the US as well as the Ministry of Defence.
The UK’s Condign Report, released under a Freedom of Information request in 2006, confirmed “unquestionable atmospheric events occur that are not yet fully understood by modern science”, events that some believe could be what witnesses like PC Godfrey have experienced.
“We need to properly study if natural phenomena in the ground can push waves of energy into the atmosphere, which then creates physical phenomena that can be seen and can be felt," Jenny adds.
“And, that also creates energy that can stall car engines, interfere with radio transmissions and potentially triggers physiological actions in those that get too close to it.
“People could suffer a terrifying experience which is in an altered state of consciousness where perceiving what they’re really seeing but also having a stimulated hallucination that is packed onto the top of that.”
Hundreds of sightings have been recorded in Todmorden and the surrounding Pennines.
Jenny claims it is one of the world’s best examples of a “window area”, a place where concentrated forces trigger forces such as lights and “alien contacts” like PC Godfrey’s.
The surrounding 20 miles of Todmorden have had more UFO sightings than any other part of the UK, with up to 100 sightings a year according to some experts.
Did PC Godfrey have an out-of-body experience?
Neuro-scientist Dr Michael Persinger investigated the effects pulses of energy, magnetism and electricity can have on humans - including the out-of-body experiences many UFO encounters centre around.
He created an electromagnetic helmet for participants to put on, dubbed the God machine.
Of the 900 people he tested in the 1990s, many had interactions with religious figures including the Virgin Mary, the Prophet Mohammed and Jesus.
Others who did not follow any religion gave accounts comparable with alien abductions such as PC Godfrey under hypnosis.
Professor Sue Blackmore, who underwent Dr Persinger’s test while exploring alien abduction accounts for the BBC’s Horizon show in 1994, explained: “Some abductees recall their experiences in full detail, but for many the ‘memories’ emerge only when they take themselves to a therapist for hypnotic regression.”
While PC Godfrey has always admitted he did not fully believe his regression tapes, he has always strenuously stuck to his version of events up until that point.
And Professor Blackmore - a respected lecturer and expert in out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, lucid dreams and sleep paralysis - said his description is to be believed.
She added: “My attitude to all that is: I believe your description of what happened. They might be making it up, in my experience very few are.
“There’s been a huge resistance to this because the initial response from most people is either it’s all true and it proves aliens are coming or it’s all a lie.
“No one really will ever know how tired Alan was, but if you’re doing shift work you’re much more likely to suffer sleep paralysis.
“I think his description is a very good one of what happened at the time and he dropped into this microsleep and probably one or two seconds later the car’s moved on and the memory that’s created feels more real than what’s created during ‘normal’ life.
“This is very important because people who dismiss these experiences don’t take into account how absolutely real it seems.”
Unsolved mystery
While Alan insists he won’t be gazing into the night sky to mark the 40 years since his encounter, many remain keen to solve the mystery of UFOs and UAPs.
Philippe Ailleris, a project controller at the European Space Agency, is calling on scientists to come together to investigate UAP events.
He runs the UAP Reporting Scheme to track and monitor natural phenomena linked to UFO sightings.
“There are still many truly puzzling cases that need investigating and moving on from the taboo that surrounds UAP would help,” he explains.
“We still cannot predict when and where such astronomical events will occur in the sky.
“But we understand to an extent the nature of supernovae and gravitational waves because scientists have collected and shared data.
“We do not know what UAP are, and this is precisely the reason that we as scientists should study them.”
Whatever scientists find, and as time only continues to move on from PC Godfrey’s encounter, exactly what happened may always remain a mystery.
However, he remains adamant: “I know what I saw, I’ll never forget it.”