Thursday, 14 June 2012
Did a patriotic UFO drop by for Jubilee?
LITTLE green men may have visited North Devon last weekend to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
So says a retired Lieutenant-Colonel who claims to have seen a UFO in the skies over Witheridge on Bank Holiday Monday.
Former Royal Engineer Lieutenant-Colonel John White posted on a UFO website after his wife Jean spotted an object in the sky on June 4.
Lieutenant-Colonel White, who used to be chairman of East Anstey Parish Council, said: "My wife spotted a red light in the sky at about 11pm.
"At first we thought it was Mars or another planet but because of the cloud cover it couldn't have been. there wasn't a star showing."
Once his attention had been drawn by his wife the red light started to move across the sky.
"It was moving horizontally and then seemed to fade out, as if it was disappearing into the horizon," he said.
Just seconds later another red light appeared and followed the same path as the first.
The same thing happened another two times.
Lieutenant-Colonel White said the incident, which lasted about five minutes, was seen by neighbours.
He said: "My wife goes to art classes and mentioned it on Wednesday evening. Another member of the class said they had seen the same thing and you would have to imagine there are more people who saw it."
Lieutenant-Colonel White said it was definitely not Jubilee fireworks.
He said: "We may be getting on a bit now, but we definitely weren't hallucinating. There's no way it was fireworks."
A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said they had no way of telling what had been in the sky around Witheridge at that time.
He said: "Light aircraft and helicopters don't necessarily have to talk to air traffic control so there's no record of what was in the air then."
The Ministry of Defence said they had received no reports of UFOs in the area.
Cattle Mutilations and the Government
By Nick Redfern
Mentioning to many of the leading lights in the field of so-called “Cattle Mutilations” the idea that the admittedly weird phenomenon might have far more to do with the the work of a clandestine group in government or the military than it does with black-eyed aliens from some far away galaxy, is likely to result in a response of an overwhelmingly negative and defensive nature. Belief (particularly of the Mulder-like “I want to believe” variety) is a very powerful tool when it comes to concluding this or that is linked to the UFO puzzle. And that goes for cattle-mutes, too.
But – say the full-on believers in the theory that E.T. like to chow down on a nice tasty steak now and again - if not the aliens, then who else could be responsible? For the most part, they scoff at the idea of predators, cults and the government (the latter being “them” in paranoia-land) as the culprits.
The fact of the matter, however, is that – for decades, no less – various official bodies have taken a clandestine and concerned interest in animal deaths and injuries all across the United States. But not for reasons relative to the actions of menacing, meat-loving extraterrestrials. Nope, the reasons are much different and, in many ways, far more disturbing. We’re talking about shadowy figures sabotaging the food-chain via deliberate, terrorist-style actions and officialdom’s secret and sometimes panicky attempts to stop it.
Think I’m wrong? Think the government could not keep – and still isn’t keeping – a careful and secret watch on the U.S. cattle population for reasons of a national security nature? If you do, it’s time to think again. Read on…
Bacteriological Warfare in the United States is a fascinating FBI document – declassified into the public domain via the terms of the Freedom of Information Act – that covers the years 1941 to 1950. Notably, of the file’s original 1,783 pages, no less than 1,074 have been firmly withheld from declassification by the FBI. The file reveals a wealth of illuminating and disturbing data on animal disease and death, and their potential, theoretical links to bacteriological warfare and sabotage by hostile nations and individuals.
For example, J.R. Ruggle, the FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge at the Savannah, Georgia office of the Bureau in the early-to-mid 1940s, wrote thus to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on February 3, 1943: “This office has received a copy of a communication from JOHN T. BISSELL, Colonel, General Staff, Assistant Executive Officer, Military Intelligence Service,Washington,D.C., dated December 29, 1942, to directors of intelligence in all Service commands…”
Colonel Bissel’s communication read:
“It has been brought to the attention of this division the possibility in the immediate future of an attempt on the part of the enemy to plant bombs containing germs or to endeavor to create an epidemic, such as hoof and mouth disease, among cattle and other livestock. It is requested that should any information concerning the above come to the attention of the Directors of Intelligence of the Service Commands or the A.C. of S. [Assistant Chief of Staff], G-2 [Army Intelligence], Western Defense Command, that the same be transmitted by the most expeditious means to the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 War Department.”
Evidently, such matters were of keen concern to U.S. Intelligence. And that concern did not go away any time soon. In 1944, the FBI prepared a document that dealt with the scenario of a widespread attack on the U.S. cattle herd via unconventional, bacteriological warfare. The document states:
“A review of the book entitled ‘Sabotage’ by Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn, which was published in September of 1942, discloses the following data: The complete record of sabotage carried out by Chernov, supposedly of the German Intelligence service in Russia during 1930 to 1936 is too long to put into the book according to the authors, but includes – killing off pedigree breed-stock and raising cattle mortality by artificially infecting cattle with various kinds of bacteria – effecting a shortage of serum to counteract epidemics of anthrax so that, in one instance, 25,000 horses perished as a result of Chernov’s sabotage – infecting tens of thousands of pigs with erysipelas and with certain plagues by having virulent bacteria placed in medicinal sera.
“In another point, the authors have asked the question: ‘Could such wholesale sabotage of agriculture as took place in the Soviet Union take place in the United States of America?’ They then answer the question that, regardless of how fantastic it might sound, such diabolical sabotage was actually practiced by German saboteurs in 1915 in the United States of America.”
The FBI elaborated further:
“Anton Dilger, a German-American medical graduate from John Hopkins University, was in Germany when the First World War broke out. He offered his services to the Kaiser, and was promptly detailed by Colonel Nicolai to do secret service work in the United States. Dilger returned to America with a supply of cultures of glanders and anthrax germs. Financed by von Papen, he set up a laboratory in Chevy Chase, near Washington, and started breeding germs on a large scale for infecting mules, horses, and cattle awaiting shipment to the allies.
“This man then organized a band of some twelve assistants to travel around the country, carrying Dilger’s germs in small glass phials stopped with corks through which a needle extended. This roving band jabbed their deadly needles into the livestock.
“They also spread germs by placing them in fodder and drink. Thousands of soldiers, as well as horses and cattle, died as a result of Dilger’s germs. At last Dilger revolted against his mission of silent death. He was murdered by German spies a few months before the end of the war. Could it happen here? It did happen here!”
The FBI’s declassified records from 1945 reveal that the issue of cattle being potentially affected by bacteriological warfare was a major one. A memo to Hoover dated July 6, 1945 states: “You may be interested in the following information which was reported by the SAC [Special-Agent-in-Charge] of the Norfolk Field Division following a Weekly Intelligence Conference on June 28, 1945.”
The document refers to the work of a man (whose identity is concealed to this day within the pages of the declassified documents) employed by the then-Army Air Force at Langley Field, Virginia, and who had “been assigned to handling investigations concerning the landing of Japanese balloons in the states of North and South Dakota and Nebraska.”
In a summary report, the SAC at Norfolk informed Hoover: “I was interested to learn that recently several Japanese balloons were found in that territory which were determined to have been carrying bacteria. The bacteria consisting of Anthrax, are placed in the hydrogen. I was told that such bacteria mainly affects cattle. When the bacteria lands on wheat or other types or farm land where food is being raised for the cattle, the bacteria remain in the food when it is eaten by the cattle, and upon human consumption of the milk or meat, the bacteria can be passed on.”
Particularly notable is a July 11, 1949 document that refers to the FBI’s desire to acquire “…world-wide information on animal diseases and animal population.” And, one year later, the FBI was still collecting such data. On October 19, 1950, the FBI prepared a document titled Abnormal Loss of Hogs in Nebraska and Illinois that dealt with an unusually high number of hog deaths in the aforementioned states – as a result of cholera. The files, however, make it clear that, in official, FBI quarters, the nature of the animals’ deaths had been viewed with deep suspicion.
It was concluded that the deaths were due to a “variant virus” or “atypical virus” that stemmed from “local conditions and the physical conditions of the hogs.” The important factor, however, is that this document was found within a file specifically focused upon bacteriological warfare. In other words, the FBI was still looking closely at any and all animal deaths that might not have wholly conventional explanations.
Of great significance is the fact that one of the cases that the FBI examined – and that is described in a heavily-redacted memo of May 29, 1950 – dealt with the finding of plague-infected rats at the highly sensitive Sandia Base, New Mexico, and which was viewed in some quarters as being the result of nothing less than a deliberate attempt to clandestinely introduce a widespread plague on Sandia by hostile, unknown sources.
As an example, a document prepared by the FBI’s Special-Agent-in-Charge at its Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 22, 1950, titled Bacteriological Warfare – Espionage-Sabotage (Bubonic Plague), refers to rumors then flying around the official world that an outbreak of bubonic plague in New Mexico’s rat population may have been the result of deliberate, bacteriological warfare-related activities by – once again – hostile, unknown forces.
The FBI noted with respect to its interview with a plague expert, who is identified only as a “Miss Greenfield” that: “…[She] is acquainted with the presence of the plague among wild rodents in New Mexico and in the United States for several years. It has now reached an area from the West Coast to a line running north and south at approximately the border of New Mexico.”
The FBI continued: “From August 1949 there were four cases among humans in New Mexico. Briefly, these four cases, one of which was fatal, were reported in New Mexico. Each case indicated that the victim had shortly before the illness, handled wild rodents which he had killed. The one case in New Mexico which was fatal was not diagnosed as the plague until after death.”
Notably, the FBI subsequently received from the Public Health Service two charts displaying the outbreaks of plague in both New Mexico and the continental United States during that period. And as the FBI noted with respect to the Public Health Service: “…they have found positive evidence of the plague among wild rodents in the states lying west of a line directly north of the east boundary of the state of New Mexico.”
The FBI’s Special-Agent-in-Charge at Albuquerque concluded his report thus: “Miss Greenfield has been requested to advise this office concerning any pertinent developments of the plague in New Mexico or in the United States that may come to her attention. In the event such developments are received, the Bureau will be immediately advised.”
And, in essence, those are the significant, declassified portions of the file. Taking into consideration the fact that we now know senior elements of, and agencies within, the government were taking a deep – albeit secret – interest and concern in cases of unusual disease and death in the U.S. animal population in the 1940s and 1950s, is it really out of the question to suggest they might have done exactly the same thing since the 1960s and right up to the present day?
And, that being so, what better way to hide such actions than behind a smokescreen of alien-themed “cattle mutilations”?
After all, such a smokescreen (or maybe “meme” might be better and more accurate) would keep away the “serious” media, who would lump the phenomenon in with the likes of Roswell, Nessie and Bigfoot and largely ignore it or poke fun at it. UFO researchers would be kept busy chasing non-existing alien butchers. And the debunkers – some of who are hardly strangers when it comes to acting as fawning, pathetic apologists for government – would be content to suggest it’s all the work of coyotes, mountain-lions, birds, insects, etc., etc.
Cattle mutes are real – believe it. But the culprits are not who many think they are (or so desperately want them to be)….
I’ll have much more to say on all this early next year. Much, much more…pages and pages more…
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
NatGeo sending messages to extraterrestrials (Video)
On Wednesday, June 13, the National Geographic channel (NatGeo) announced a project that will send crowdsourced messages to extraterrestrials who might be listening to Earth-based signals.
(Credit: NatGeo)
As Business Wire explains, the August 15 transmission date will be the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Wow! signal. The Wow! signal was a radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry Ehman on August 15, 1977 with Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope. This signal, named after Ehman’s reaction, was “so strong that it catapulted the Big Ear’s recording device off the chart,” according to the Big Ear’s website.
(Credit: NatGeo)
NatGeo postulates that the Wow! signal could have been “a cosmic ‘tweet’ from our nearest neighbors.” The June 29 Twitter event will essentially serve as a reply to the Wow! signal. If you want to send a message to potential extraterrestrial eavesdroppers, you can participate live, or go to the Chasing UFOs website now and schedule your tweet in advance.
The Tragedy of King Lear: John Lear and the Controversy of Conspiracy
By Micah Hanks
Among all the names widely known in conspiracy circles today, one of the most revered and, at times, oft-questioned, is that of John Lear. Lear, who bears the same family name of the producers of modern wonders of aviation (his father William founded Lear Jet corporation), is also a pilot who, over the years, has become famous for his claims of knowledge that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials, and that there are even bases situated on Earth’s moon that may house such operations.
And yet, despite the popularity of Lear’s conspiratorial rants over the years, he has managed to do relatively well at keeping out of the limelight, so to speak. There is presently no Wikipedia page for John Lear, and rumors have often stated that his unusual, often politically-driven threads were banned from the popular conspiracy website, Above Top Secret, since 2008 (this is inaccurate, actually… Lear apparently elected not to post at the site, as indicated here, while referring to himself as banned nonetheless). Yet despite his anti-heroic and, at times, reclusive nature, John Lear has still managed to intrigue the real seekers of esoteric knowledge over the years. But how much of what Lear argues–a lot of which borders on the impossible–can really be believed? Is there evidence to support ideas like bases on the moon and ET visitation?
Much is known about Lear’s background as a pilot, as well as his various jobs contracted under the CIA during his early professional career (for more on this, it’s recommended that you view this video interview with Lear “in his lair” where many of these early exploits are outlined). Eventually, after working a number of high-level secret operations with the CIA, Lear claims to have obtained knowledge regarding a number of covert elements and programs that exist well outside what we consider to be “mainstream” knowledge.
Among these, of course, are the notions that our planet is indeed presently under visitation by extraterrestrial beings, and that elaborate genetic manipulation programs are underway, as they have been for some time now. Lear claims that the famous “Grays” are really hardly anything more than advanced robots, and that these beings capture humans and examine them at around the ages of three, six and thirteen for “routine inspections” that could be likened to taking a vehicle to the dealership for a tune up every few thousand miles. But if this were indeed the case, what kinds of examinations are being performed? At least in the case with a car’s tune up, the intended goal is to keep the vehicle running properly; if this were the intention of an extraterrestrial presence, and an advanced one, no less, might they harness the ability to help prevent diseases that may afflict our youth? Claims of miraculous healing at an early age have often been cited by the likes of Dr. Stephen Greer, alleged abductee and head of the Disclosure Project. And yet, these Grays don’t seem to want to afford that luxury to everyone.
Lear has also made such claims as belief in the existence of trees and other flora on the moon, in addition to large complexes and structures that constitute secret bases. However, supporting imagery (which can be found here) seems to fall more closely in with what cryptozoologists might call “blobsquatch” phenomenon, or more commonly simple Pareidolia, in which shapes like buildings, spacecraft, and even human skulls are allegedly visible on the lunar surface, constituted instead by natural objects combined with contour and shadow. In many of the instances included on Lear’s site, “seeing” the objects in question often requires a healthy dose of imagination, if anything, as a large number of the purported “anomalies” simply do not resemble anything manufactured in the least.
Perhaps what is most promising about Lear, of all his claims, is his fundamental philosophy with regard to right action in living and toward others in life. Lear does not prescribe to belief in a conventional notion of there being a “God”, though he asserts jokingly that he believes in “The Great Pumpkin,” and that this being will greet him when he passes from the realm of the living. Again, this notion has been asserted rather tongue in cheek by Lear, though it is interesting to note that he dismisses belief in there being a creator, while apparently accepting other odd theories and their supporting “evidence” as being authentic. What cannot be disputed is Lear’s background in service and aviation, and his experience as a pilot; it’s quite obvious that this man has lived an incredible life, and that perhaps certain parts of the story that constitutes the man could be used to lend veracity to his claims. This sort of rationale, however, should probably be employed with caution and care.
Whether or not truth can be attested to when reviewing John Lear’s claims, he has, and no doubt will continue to remain an item of interest in the world of conspiracies and the unexplained. And in all truth, we might hope that he’s wrong indeed, especially when considering the rather dark nature of many of his claims. If nothing else, the kinds of scenarios Lear has outlined over the years provide a great deal of entertainment, and perhaps even a few decent clues to the enduring UFO mystery.
Monday, 11 June 2012
UFO Triangle Formation Over California (Video)
Published on 9 Jun 2012 by ufosearchparty
Witness reported hearing his dog barking and went outside to see what was going on, and noticed 3 ufos over his house. They stayed stationary and then disappeared."
Extraterrestrials Encouraged To Visit San Diego County Fair
By David Moye
Most fairs and carnivals try to attract a wide demographic: Families, singles, foodies, aspiring prize-winners, but the organizers at the San Diego Country Fair are casting their net even wider and hope to get some extraterrestrials.
The Fair opens June 8 is themed "Out Of This World," and, as such, will include exhibits dedicated to space travel done by humans and alleged trips to Earth by alien visitors.
A real American flag is hoisted up next to a fake flying saucer at the San Diego County Fair, which is focused around a UFO theme this year. The Fair runs through July 4.
"It would be so cool if some aliens decide to come," she told the Huffington Post. "I don't know if their craft would fit in the parking lot, but if they show up, we'll make room. There's plenty of room in the infield."
The infield area just happens to be where most of the alienating exhibits are located in a section called "Area Fifty Fun," that will have displays of alleged alien encounters such as Roswell and ancient Egypt, and a mock UFO crash, according to NBC San Diego, which also reports that a creature known only as "Roswell the tweeting alien" will be providing online updates throughout the Fair like this one:
Here's a little cosmic trivia to brighten up your Monday: Why did Captain Kirk go into the ladies toilet? Send those answers in!
"This may be the first UFO-themed fair ever," Podell told The Huffington Post. "Hopefully, it will bring in more members to MUFON."
Podell says San Diego is already hotbed for UFO activity, thanks, in part, to the many military bases, and because the trademark sunny skies make it easier to spot strange aircraft.
"Especially in summer," he added. "That's when people get outside to enjoy themselves and see these things." and says the area gets increased sightings in summer."
Another researcher who believes the Fair could make a serious impact on making ufology mainstream is Ed McBride, a former teacher who has organized exhibits at the fair about sightings in New Mexico and in ancient Egypt as well as in San Diego.
"The fact that they're doing this is amazing, partially because of there's so much institutional denial about UFOs, and also because they're focusing on the science aspect," McBride told The Huffington Post. "There are many sightings here in San Diego, but the ones that get the attention are all the metaphysical woo-woo stuff."
The most famous example of that may be the 1997 mass suicide by the member's of the Heaven's Gate cult that took place in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a short saucer ride away from the fairgrounds.
That event, which led to 39 deaths, is not mentioned in any of the UFO exhibits according to sources.
Zweig predicts the alien-themed fair will break attendance records, mainly because a calendar quirk gives them a couple extra days, but, to be fair, there doesn't seem to be much buzz about it among San Diego locals who claim to converse with extraterrestrials.
Eve Featherstone, an artist who says she channels her work from extraterrestrials from other dimensions including "a female reptoid goddess-like creature," was unaware about the UFO carnival until she was contacted by The Huffington Post.
Still, she thinks it sounds right up the alley of the E.T.s she knows.
"As long as it's fun and silly, they'll love it," she told The Huffington Post. "If it's fear-based, they're not interested."
Zweig admitted that not every UFO group in San Diego was contacted about the fair, which explains why the area's oldest organization, Unarius, didn't get invited.
The group, which has been around since the mid-1950s, believes that 33 alien spaceships are currently on their way to Earth to land one on top of each other in a rural area of San Diego County and start an E.T. university, but, apparently, they forgot to contact fair officials to let them know their availability.
But Unarius spokeswoman Tracey Kennedy doesn't feel alienated by the solar system snub.
"Any awareness about life on other worlds is good," she told The Huffington Post. "I do believe that people think there is life on other worlds."
McBride believes only good can come of the fair, reegardless of whether real E.T.s show up to sample the Fair's offerings -- including its newest contribution to carnival culinary delights, a two-pound turkey leg covered with a pound of bacon.
"This is a big chance to open [Ufology] up and present the facts," McBride said. "We want to give people an idea of this topic beyond 'Men In Black.'"
Rotorua UFO 'sighting' goes viral (Video)
By The Daily Post
Sightings of unidentified flying objects in Rotorua skies have sparked an online discussion about paranormal activity in the Bay of Plenty. A video uploaded to YouTube claims to have images of UFOs above Rotorua. It has had more than 131,500 hits since being uploaded by someone with the username Horsefarmer1000. The video blurb states it was taken between 2am and 4am three weeks ago.
UFO Sighting at US - Mexico Border (Video)
By Ufo Casebook
US - Mexico Border - 06-06-12
Originally published on Jun 7, 2012 by justmekkb
This sighting of an unknown flying object was captured by thermal camera. A UFO was hovering for near 7 minutes on the United States/Mexico border at approximately 10:00 PM.
The areas of the border on the Rio Grande River are constantly monitored by various types of surveillance craft, some of them quite unique, but this object appears to be something different. See if you agree. The full length video is over 7 minutes and can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZCGrRaC0bU. We are showing a version edited for content below.
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