UFO movie news round-up (18 April, 2012)

By Robbie Graham

Silver Screen Saucers

Alter

Voltage Pictures has secured the rights to a sci-fi project called Alter, ComingSoon.net reports. No director or stars are yet attached. The script has been written by newcomers John and Thomas Sonntag.

According to ComingSoon:

“The plot for the movie is said to deal with a crew of scientists monitoring a black hole. Their research takes a terrifying turn when they receive a transmission from what appears to be the near future, showing a deadly attack from an alien force and their own deaths at the hands of the extraterrestrials.”

Silver Screen Saucers will report more details on this movie as they emerge.

Guardians of the Galaxy

In an interview with Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige about Joss Whedon’s upcoming Avengers movie, CraveOnline learned that Marvel’s big screen adaptation of Guardians of the Galaxy – which is currently in the early stages of development – will be about the modern version of the team, as opposed to the old version.

When asked to confirm that the movie would focus on the new team, Feige said: "Yeah. It's more Star-Lord and Drax and Gamora, and less Vance Astro and that team."

Originally created in 1969 and resurrected in 2008, Guardians of the Galaxy begins as a far-future story revolving around a group of alien beings – each the last of their kind – who eventually travel back in time to protect the earth from alien invasion.

Guardians of the Galaxy is unlikely to hit cinemas before 2014.

Avatar sequels delayed

Empire reports that James Cameron’s two Avatar sequels have been delayed. In a recent interview with the UK movie magazine, Avatar producer Jon Landau said of the first sequel: "We're not naming dates, but I think 2014 will be a tough date for us to make. It's about getting it right," pointing out that “movies make release dates; release dates don't make movies."

Based on Landau’s comments, Empire says “it’s safe to say that we won't be heading back to Pandora until 2015 at the earliest, with the third instalment likely in 2016 or 2017.

 

 

 

Prometheus

The Guardian’s Paul MacInnes was one of several European journalists invited to London's Leicester Square last week to watch approximately five minutes of new material from Ridley Scott’s upcoming Alien prequel, Prometheus.

 

MacInnes notes that the footage included “what may be the entirety of the opening scene in which archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her lover and colleague Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) uncover a pictogram that Shaw sees as confirmation that aliens visited Earth in pre-history and invited humans back to theirs.”

 

“Next,” continues MacInnes, “we were whisked straight off into space and the exploratory vehicle Prometheus. We are introduced to the crew, from push-up loving suit Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) to disgruntled staffer Fifield (Sean Harris). There's an on-ship briefing, a bit of truculent banter and the judicious use of technology which, it's fair to say, is far more sophisticated than that in the Nostromo, despite it taking to the skies decades later (in Alien time). From there the descent begins to planet LV223 and, one suspects, the trouble starts.”

 

MacInnes goes on to say that he learned five distinct things about Prometheus. To find out what those things are, check out The Guardian’s article.

 

Last week, Empire’s Chris Hewitt hosted a Prometheus Q&A in London with Ridley Scott, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron. You can read the Q&A (which includes minor spoilers) here.

 

Meanwhile, Twentieth Century Fox’s viral campaign for Prometheus continues to evolve with a new ad for "David," the latest generation android from the Weyland Corporation played by Michael Fassbender...

 

 

Will you be ordering a “David”?

 

Finally on the subject of Prometheus, have a ganders at these new pics from the movie, which come via ComingSoon.net...

 

 

 

 

 

 

UFO Sighting Filmed from Plane, London-NY Flight (Video)

By UFO Casebook

London to New York flight, 04-07-12
Uploaded by SecretScienceTV on Apr 8, 2012
This UFO was filmed on the flight from London to New York, 04/07/2012 / 07.04.2012. Filmed in the vicinity of New York. It was later discovered on the video.
video copyright: SecretScienceTV


The video has been edited/enhanced by www.ufocasebook.com
(Editor's Note: If you watch the close up, slow motion portion, you will see that the object makes a couple of complete turnovers as it moves along. Can't be sure, but I don't recall another video that shows an object making these types of movements.)

Gary Heseltine On 'This Morning' 17/04/12 (Video)

UFO's & Spectrographic Analysis

By Mac

Years ago whilst field investigating for the British U.F.O. Research Association I had the following idea:

If astronomers can tell the atomic elements present within a star or planet with spectrographic analysis of the light wavelengths; why couldn't a large group of better funded ufologists do the same with U.F.O.

If a spectrograph was set up in an active flap area ufologists may get some ideas about composition and power.  I do not know what sizes these devices come in or how portable they are. I also don't have the resources or contacts to persue this avenue of investigation.

If any of you have some close University pals maybe you could investigate the idea further?  Anyway the idea is now out there, maybe one of you will be able to run with it.

Kind regards to you all.

UFO Seen from Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand (Video)

By UFO Casebook

Mt. Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand - April, 2012
Clare Bridges
My girlfriend and I were taking our regular walk on Saturday up the Mount, enjoying the wonderful weather, and I had my camera with me to take some photos.
We were about one third of the way up the path, looking out over the main Mt Maunganui beach, when we overheard some people talking about a saucer one of them claimed to have seen in the sky just prior to us arriving there.

Everyone was looking at the sky and it seemed like more than one person had seen something, although everyone was calm and not excited about it. We had not seen anything, however, and I thought nothing of it until one person saw it again, or perhaps it was a different one, and so I switched my camera onto video mode hoping to record something.
As I am not familiar with my camera, and did not see what the others saw at the time, I did capture something noteworthy while I was focusing on the group of hikers in front of me, which does indeed show a saucer or something like that clearly in the sky before it departed.
When I recorded this I could not see into the eyepiece clearly enough to know what was right in front of us all, but afterwards I spoke to more people who had seen the first object, but had not seen this one.
Only a couple of people there had seen what my camera caught, despite it being clearly visible. At the time, I didn't check the footage as I didn't know even if the camera was recording properly, as I use it mostly for photography.
My partner saw another video taken at the Mount on youtube about the same time we were there yesterday and said I should upload this too.
UPDATE: I have now seen the other video and the objects on that video, while demonstrably further away, appear to be following the same path, which is south across the main Tauranga region.
We continued our walk to the top of the Mount, and did not see anything else during our time there, and we were there from about midday until about half past one or two. No one else we spoke to on the way up or down reported seeing anything unusual.
(Editor's Note: This video is hard to figure. The object is so far away, and when I slowed it down to a crawl, it looked like a bird with its wings flapping. But, if the original video was submitted at the proper speed, well... we don't have birds that can fly that fast in Texas. Maybe they do in New Zealand.) What do you think?

UFO Over Russia April 13, 2012 (Video)

UFO's OVER CHAMPAIGN, IL (Video)

Published on 4 Apr 2012 by RikkAngelus66

These lights hovered over the Market Street Apartments, moving in differnet formation till they were in the formation you see now on the video. Then in a very low, deep hum, the lights started to move very slowly north to Rantoul while flashes in different patterns and colors.

The Terror of the Men in Black

By Nick Redfern

I was eleven years old when I was introduced to the menacing and macabre world of the enigmatic Men in Black. It was a typically bleak and windswept English evening in the late autumn of 1976 when they first darkened my door. On the night in question – wide of eye and full of youthful excitement and anticipation – I eagerly began reading the disturbing pages of John Keel’s classic title, The Mothman Prophecies, which told of distinctly strange goings-on at Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the mid-to-late 1960s. Strange goings-on? Hell, outright supernatural foulness and malignancy would be far more apt terminology!
A glowing-eyed, winged-monster, surreal reports of contact with enigmatic alien intelligences on lonely, moonlit, tree-shrouded roads, occult phenomena plaguing the town, and lives manipulated and transformed in ways near-unimaginable were the order of the day – as was the brooding, predatory, and repeated manifestation of the dreaded MIB.
For reasons that I have never truly been able to fathom, from that very day onwards I became particularly fascinated by the Men in Black, their silencing of UFO witnesses, their near-ethereal presence in our world, and, of course, their overwhelming and mysterious elusiveness. Who, or what, were they? From where did they originate? What did they want of us? Why were they so deeply intent on preventing Flying Saucer-seekers from learning the truth about UFOs?

Even as a child, such questions plagued and tormented my mind. And, the further and deeper I dug into the world of Forteana, the more I found myself attempting to penetrate the veil of unsettling darkness and hostility that seemed to forever surround the MIB.

In the immediate years that followed my reading of John Keel’s legendary study of Mothman, I sought out just about as many works on the MIB as was conceivably possible. And, at the absolute top of my list – in joint first-place – were Gray Barker’s 1956 title They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers and a small, overwhelmingly bizarre book titled Flying Saucers and the Three Men. It was penned in 1962 by a curious and undeniably paranoid character named Albert Bender, without who there simply would be no MIB puzzle – period.
Barker, a skilled, atmospheric writer with a flair for all-things dramatic, Gothic, dark and stormy, was the perfect person to address the MIB mystery. But, he would never have been in a position to do so had it not been for the eccentric Bender – who, in 1953, was allegedly silenced by a trio of black-garbed, glowing-eyed entities from some strange netherworld after getting too close to the truth about Flying Saucers.
For someone now just barely in their teens, I found both Barker’s and Bender’s books and tales to be even more captivating than those of Keel. Of course, as my teens became my twenties, and then my thirties, my views on the MIB phenomenon changed, in some ways subtly, but in other ways far less so. But there was one thing that never did alter: My earnest wish to solve the puzzle of the true nature, origin and intent of the Men in Black.

Since those now-gone days of my childhood, I have pursued the MIB on a scale that has far exceeded my quests for Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, and the truth about Roswell combined. My first book, A Covert Agenda, which was published in 1997, detailed a number of curious MIB-style encounters in the British Isles from the 1950s onwards. My 2003 title, Strange Secrets, included a chapter on the little-known issue of government files on the Men in Black. Three years later, I penned On the Trail of the Saucer Spies, which was a full-length study of the secret surveillance of certain elements of the UFO research community by MIB-type characters in government. Then, in 2011, my The Real Men in Black hit the bookshelves.
This latter title specifically addressed the paranormal side of the MIB phenomenon, with a great deal of page-space focused upon the possibility that the darkly-clad ones might be time-travelers, energy-sucking vampires, Tulpas, Trickster-style entities, or even demons from Hell – or maybe all of the above! And, in that same year, I was very pleased to be asked to write a new Foreword to an updated edition of Gray Barker’s 1983 book: M.I.B.: The Secret Terror Among Us.
In other words, while I have never been fortunate enough to have received a late-night visit from the MIB (Yes, I would consider such a visit to be fortunate, as I might then be able to finally answer the riddle of who they really are!), they have certainly got their grips into me in other ways.
Having written about, and pondered so extensively on, the Men in Black, would I consider my research in this area to be a full-blown obsession? Maybe so; I can’t really deny such a possibility, as much as I would dearly prefer to. But, if an obsession it is, then I’m certainly not the first – nor will I probably be the last – to be pulled, magnet-like, into the eye of the MIB hurricane.
Bender, Barker, Keel: they all came before me, and all three became truly enveloped by MIB high-strangeness. And doubtless there will be those Men in Black seekers who will follow me. Maybe you will be one of them. You have been warned!!!

Fireproof UFO Spotted Near the Sun (Video)

By Tom Rose

A gigantic UFO, seemingly impervious to the blazing heat of the Sun, was spotted on a NASA image of solar flare activity. What is it?

The unidentified flying object, when magnified, appears to be solid and circular. But what could withstand the Sun's heat so close to the solar surface?

It's difficult to gauge the actual dimensions of the object, but it must be bigger than the Earth. A trail of vapor appears to be coming off its leeward edge. But the object itself is whitish in color.

From the angle this photo was taken, it seems the object is flying toward the Sun. How can that be possible?

Recent news stories have claimed that UFO activity has been detected near the sun, with one video report going so far as to claim an alien mothership was siphoning energy from the star before detaching a tether and flying away. Can this be related? Here's the video:

UFO Newspaper Clipping - The Times 23.3.1966