Strange UFO Encounters

Treat us with respect, say several Northern Rivers residents who reckon they have had very real alien abduction experiences. Australian Close Encounter Research Network principal Mary Rodwell said her recent experience with network Ten's The Project, on December 4, had left victims of claimed experiences reluctant to talk to the media.

A qualified nurse and counsellor, Mrs Rodwell said after almost 20 years researching UFO encounters she could recall countless times that the stories of people's encounters were misrepresented in the media.

"To be quite honest some of the articles that I have read ... I have looked at my interview and I can't even see any similarity to what I actually said," she said.

"When you have had an experience that is quite profound for you and you find comments in the media that are really dismissive or making fun of it, that makes people very reluctant to talk."

Mrs Rodwell said the realisation that unidentified flying objects have been visiting Earth for at least 50 years had gained more mainstream acceptance since people like astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spoke publicly about their experiences.

"Buzz Aldrin has talked about evidence they saw on the moon and Neil Armstrong talked about actually taking film of two huge UFOs watching them when they first landed on the moon."

Beyond sightings, Mrs Rodwell said she spoke to people who recalled abduction experiences and families who told about aliens interacting with their children in their homes.

"I have had little kids, five-year-olds, talk to me about going through walls and they tell me they like going up on the craft because they learn more (there) than they do going to school.

"People of all ages have told me they have had the experience of being taken through solid walls on the way to the craft and it's like their molecules changed.

"A little kid of four told me he didn't mind little black aliens coming to play with him because they were quite friendly and their skin felt like 'dolphin skin'.

"This little eight-year-old told me that once a year he goes up with a couple of his school friends to a craft and they have their annual medical exam by aliens."

Mrs Rodwell said she had heard many people recount the notorious "probing experience" by aliens on UFOs.

"People have said a range of things happen on the craft from having DNA samples taken to having genetic samples taken including ova and sperm.

"People who have had serious illnesses have also reported healing experiences and found after an encounter their condition has disappeared."

After hearing of sightings or encounters from police, doctors, solicitors, psychologists, pilots and psychiatrists, Mrs Rodwell said this credible evidence, plus the fact 12 countries world-wide had released their UFO files, amounted to a mountain of evidence.

"Quite often the witnesses are highly credible and they inform people not because they want the exposure, they just want to say isn't this incredible."

Based on her research and counselling, Mrs Rodwell said sightings and abduction experiences were linked in a lot of cases. 

"Sometimes with a sighting may come a missing time episode or a feeling that something may have happened that they cannot recall."

She said it was impossible to discredit all these claims.

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Secret UFO files Released

It is probably the closest Australia has come to scrambling fighter jets to intercept a UFO. Documents that have just become available under the 30-year rule at the National Archives of Australia reveal how two RAAF Mirage jets were placed on the second highest level of alert to determine the cause of unidentified radar contacts seen on screens at Mascot.

The ''X Files'' viewed in Canberra also give details of other unexplained sightings, some of which are supported by witness statements to police. One caller dismissed it as a rock band's laser show.

In the Sydney alert, the papers stamped ''restricted'' tell how operation ''Close Encounter'' was launched by No.3 Control and Reporting Unit at RAAF Base Williamtown near Newcastle on June 30, 1983, after the phenomenon was first noticed earlier in the month.

Senior air controllers at Mascot said the contacts were mostly located between 70 and 150 nautical miles north of Sydney at ''alleged speeds of 1100-6500 km/h that suggested high altitude''. The papers state that no scramble was to occur in the round-the-clock operation unless confirmation of any reported tracks was made on the radar screens at RAAF Williamtown or any radar other than Sydney.

At the same time, three senior air defence controllers were dispatched to Sydney to investigate and plot every contact and ''control interceptors against these contacts if a reasonable chance of interception presented itself''. But then one of the defence controllers, a squadron leader, asked whether a comparison had been made of the contacts on the screens of Mascot's Area Approach Radar Centre and those in a ''workshop across the corridor''. Soon after, tests showed that the ''unidentified objects reported by Sydney were generated entirely by radar interference known colloquially as 'running rabbits' ''.

Squadron leader K. Keenan, in his six-page report, said operation Close Encounter cost 66½ days of overtime, 1000 kilometres was travelled by a staff car and a C130 Hercules transport aircraft ''may have been diverted to Sydney airport'' to deliver one of the defence controllers.

He wrote: ''The lines of communication, extending as they did across the width of an entire corridor, seem to have been insufficient for the purpose.''

He added rather dryly: ''Fortunately there was no temptation  to launch aircraft and add to the fuel bill occasioned by use of the RAAF Datsun.'' A cautiously worded statement was released as a result ''in a manner that would not embarrass departmental personnel'' which blamed ''random atmospheric conditions''.

Other reports in the X Files give details of an ''unidentified physical feature'' of circles on Milo Station at Adavale, Queensland, in 1982. The file refers to photographs that apparently were taken, but they were not among the papers. Constable Geoffrey Russell, from the local police station, visited the site and wrote a report for RAAF Base Amberley near Ipswich. The officer saw depressions in the ground and thought they were caused by a motorcyclist doing donuts but then dismissed the idea.

He wrote: ''I strongly feel this [is] no hoax even though I do not know the cause of this 'feature'.''He described a large circle of 2330mm in diameter with one inner circle of 2010mm which were 160mm in width and about 15-20 mm deep. The soil around the outer circle appeared to have been ''blown away'', he said.

Elsewhere in Queensland, dairy farmer Robin Priebe phoned Imbil police at 5.30am in July 1983 to report seeing a strange object in the sky to the north of the town. The papers state that a Sergeant Waterson then went to his back verandah and saw ''a large white light with several flashing lights around it'' which did not appear to be a normal aircraft.

A similar sighting was made by Constable R. Keys from a separate position. He was also of the opinion that it wasn't a normal aircraft.

Mr Priebe said both he and his wife saw a bright red glow gradually change to a white light which then started to move slowly east. Through binoculars, ''the light was disc shaped with a very bright light around the perimeter of the disc with two flashing lights in the front and one to the side'', he said.

The only photographs in the X Files were of unusual lights over Bendigo, witnessed by hundreds in May 1983. An interim report by the RAAF stated that Mike Evans, a 17-year-old disc jockey with the Bendigo radio station 3BO, received calls from listeners, then saw the lights himself and took photos. One anonymous caller to the RAAF said the lights were caused by a rock group experimenting with laser lighting. The report said they were probably caused by train headlights or lasers or from planets or stars. There had been unusual weather atmospherics on the night.

Zoe¨ D'Arcy, director of digital and online access at the National Archives, said: ''Where you and I might think UFO - a spaceship - the RAAF and other agencies were probably wondering if there was a security threat. ''Most of the files you read and you think that most probably was a meteorite, but there are ones that you read and you think - well, what could that have been? ''I can't explain that from my knowledge. ''So what was it that these people have experienced? It has that open-ended question to it that I find really intriguing.'' http://tinyurl.com/dyom5jt

'UFO' spotted over Childers

Childers woman Diane Styles has taken a series of photographs of a mysterious object she spotted in the sky near her home early one morning last month.

Mrs Styles said she went outside about 5.40am to light her incinerator. "I could see two stars, one of which was extremely bright, in a place where I hadn't seen one before," she said.

Mrs Styles said she thought at first the bright star was the light of an aircraft, but then she noticed it wasn't moving. "I went inside and got my camera and took a series of standard shots of it," she said.

"Then I zoomed in as close as I could and took some more pictures." Mrs Styles said she downloaded the photos to her computer and took a closer look at the objects.

She said over the sequence of 12 photos she could see the two stars merged into one and changed shape.

"It looks like it's got little lights all around it," she said. "Then it looks like it's opening up into a dome on a round bottom." Mrs Styles said somebody she knew suggested the object could be a comet or meteor, but it had no tail.

"I told my friend about it and she said she'd seen it early in the morning on the day before," she said.

Agnes Water UFO researcher Mary Rodwell said what Mrs Styles had described was consistent with other sightings around the world. Alloway Observatory director Mac Jonsen examined the photos yesterday

and said they looked like the camera had moved while someone was trying to take a picture of a star.

"It certainly doesn't look like an object to me," Mr Jonsen said. He said he had been in astronomy for 60 years and had never seen anything that looked like a UFO, and nor had any other astronomer he knew.

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Perth saw a UFO, but will anybody believe them?

Is it Perth Paranoia or an earnest quest for the truth? Videographers are denying everything in an effort to get to the bottom of the eternal question - are we alone?

The X-Filers are posting several videos on YouTube of recent UFOs in Perth's skies.

But is this reality or just a bunch of Fox Mulders munching on too many sunflower seeds?

One at 5am is shot from a busy freeway and shows a dark shadow hovering before scattering across the sky. Another during sunset seems to be a bird flying - before it inexplicably drops and darts across the sky at superman-like speed. http://tinyurl.com/7wejx33

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Sydney- Is it a UFO? Flying objects spotted hovering over

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Sydney's reputation for being a great place to visit has clearly spread to the stars, with four unidentified flying objects spotted hovering over the city's suburbs on Monday afternoon.

A photograph capturing the four UFO's - which witnesses said hovered in the same spot for more than 10 minutes before simply disappearing - was snapped from Tom Ugly's Bridge Marina just before 5pm.

Photographer Ivan Mikkelsen, from nearby Sylvania Waters, said he first noticed the objects through a window on his boat before stepping outside to confirm the unusual objects weren't simply a reflection or a trick of the light.

"We just looked up and they were there. They were just sort of hovering there,'' Mr Mikkelsen said.

"They were quite high in the air, which is why I thought they might be aeroplanes at first, but they weren't, they didn't move.''

He said about five people at the marina paused to watch the stationary objects as they glowed over the city's west before they simply disappeared as quickly as they came.

"They just blinked and disappeared, whooshka, they were gone,'' Mr Mikkelsen said.

"I'm a bit sceptical, but it wasn't a reflection, it wasn't laser beams, it wasn't anything else.''

A spokesman for Airservices Australia, which managed aviation traffic, said they had not had any reports of unusual objects on Monday afternoon.

"We have had no reports of any unidentified flying object activity over the greater Sydney area on Monday evening,'' he said.

"However, at just before 5pm on Monday, there were a number of commercial aircraft operating.''

New Zealand - Interview with Suzanne Hansen (UFOCUS)

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UFO Sightings Increase

Radio interview (5.32)

UFOcus New Zealand's director Suzanne Hansen talks to

Larry Williams about an increase in UFO sightings in New Zealand.

New Zealand - UFO Alarm Sounds Around North Island

There have been an "unprecedented" number of UFO sightings reported in the North Island over the past two months, UFO watchers say.

And aliens may even have visited Northland in the past five weeks, with one man reporting seeing a UFO land in the region, Suzanne Hansen, director from Ufocus NZ research network said.

She said: "He's a very credible source. He saw an object that had landed and said it was definitely not an aircraft or like anything else he had seen.

"I've got 30 (UFO/UAP) reports on my desk at the moment from the upper North Island and Northland from the past couple of weeks that we're yet to process [on top of the many others] ... It's unprecedented."

Maungakaramea resident Charles Gillard reported seeing strange lights hovering above the Tangihua ranges just after 4am yesterday.

Mr Gillard said the white and blueish lights were definitely not a helicopter or plane and darted about at speed for several minutes before simply vanishing.

"I've never seen anything like it before, but it definitely wasn't somebody with a torch or vehicles as it was above the skyline, not on the hills," he said.

Inquiries could not find any helicopters or planes operating in the area at that time yesterday morning.

Ms Hansen said Mr Gillard's sighting was similar to others reported recently in Northland and Ufocus would be looking into all such reports made to its website http://www.ufocusnz.org.nz/

"Researchers we work with in Australia have reported the same things happening there with what we call a "UFO Flap" [an outbreak of UFO sightings] there as well," Ms Hansen said.

However, the NZ Skeptics (New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) says UFO sightings can be easily explained, usually by natural phenomena.

NZ Skeptics spokeswoman Vicki Hyde said despite the "unprecedented" number of UFO sightings recently this was the first the public had heard of the situation.

"The problem with UFO sightings is that there are a such a huge number of possible explanations for them. "Something like 80-90 per cent are people mistaking things like Venus for UFOs."

UFOs On The Today Show

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Tino Pezzimenti on the Today Show reporting on recent UFO reports from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Have You Ever Seen A UFO? ABC Radio Interview

Whenever the subject of UFO's comes up, people always ask "Why don't they ever appear in front of scientists or the military?".
Well they do - and according to a report in the Huffington Post, Retired Army Colonel John Alexander, a former military insider with top secret clearance who created Advanced Theoretical Physics ( a group of top-level government officials and scientists brought together to study UFO reports) wants Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus and National Intelligence Director Gen. James Clapper to offer amnesty to anyone in the military who has been previously sworn to secrecy about UFOs.

It seems those in the military have been either sworn to secrecy about what they have seen or fear being ridiculed and damaging their careers. Have you ever seen anything you can't explain?
Afternoons presenter Kelly Higgins-Devine (who keeps an open mind on these things) spoke with Les Saunders from ACRUFO - "Australian Combined Research in UFOs", and heard some great stories from listeners. http://tinyurl.com/cxyfbhu

UFO Amnesty to be Considered by Pentagon?

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981335897Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and General David Petraeus are being asked to grant UFO amnesty to servicemen who want to speak publicly about alien visitations.

 

Retired Army Col. John Alexander is behind the effort for more UFO disclosure in the military. He is asking the Department of Defense to allow service men and women to share their paranormal experiences with the American people.

 

Transparency is always the best option. What is the government afraid of? The average person already believes in intelligent life in other places in the universe, so why all the secrecy?

 

In fact, if the Pentagon does grant UFO amnesty, it would quell some of the conspiracy theories out there. The government only creates more suspicion by hiding information.

 

Alexander may just be trying to promote his new book, but he makes some great points.

 

Many very intelligent people believe in UFOs. Gen. Douglas MacArthur warned of a future in which humans would fight a war against alien invaders. What's more, ex-NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell has said the government is actively covering up proof of extraterrestrials.

 

It's time for the government to come clean, and approve UFO Amnesty for military members seeking to share their experiences with the people they protect. http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981335897

Amamoor Sighting on the Sunrise TV Show

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Gold Coast Sun article March 14, 2012