tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68484383427175476732024-03-13T22:15:09.422+10:00UFO RESEARCH QUEENSLAND INCThe interface between UFORQ and youUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-72455418310278218872012-12-30T09:47:00.000+10:002012-12-30T09:49:09.567+10:00Strange UFO Encounters<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Treat us with respect, say several Northern Rivers residents who r</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">eckon </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">they have had very real alien abduction experiences.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Australian Close Encounter Research Network principal Mary Rodwell </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">said her recent experience with network Ten's The Project, on </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">December 4, had left victims of claimed experiences reluctant to </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">talk to the media.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A qualified nurse and counsellor, Mrs Rodwell said after almost 20 ye</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">ars researching UFO encounters she could recall countless times </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">that the stories of people's encounters were misrepresented in </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">the media.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"To be quite honest some of the articles that I have read ... I have </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">looked at my interview and I can't even see any similarity to what </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I actually said," she said.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"When you have had an experience that is quite profound for you </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and you find comments in the media that are really dismissive </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">or making fun of it, that makes people very reluctant to talk."</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mrs Rodwell said the realisation that unidentified flying objects </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">have been visiting Earth for at least 50 years had gained more </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">mainstream acceptance since people like astronauts Neil Armstrong </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and Buzz Aldrin spoke publicly about their experiences.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"Buzz Aldrin has talked about evidence they saw on the moon </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and Neil Armstrong talked about actually taking film of two huge </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">UFOs watching them when they first landed on the moon."</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Beyond sightings, Mrs Rodwell said she spoke to people who </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">recalled abduction experiences and families who told about </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">aliens interacting with their children in their homes.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"I have had little kids, five-year-olds, talk to me about going </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">through walls and they tell me they like going up on the craft </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">because they learn more (there) than they do going to school.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"People of all ages have told me they have had the experience </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">of being taken through solid walls on the way to the craft and </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">it's like their molecules changed.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"A little kid of four told me he didn't mind little black aliens coming </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">to play with him because they were quite friendly and their skin </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">felt like 'dolphin skin'.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"This little eight-year-old told me that once a year he goes up </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">with a couple of his school friends to a craft and they have their </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">annual medical exam by aliens."</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mrs Rodwell said she had heard many people recount the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">notorious "probing experience" by aliens on UFOs.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"People have said a range of things happen on the craft from </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">having DNA samples taken to having genetic samples taken </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">including ova and sperm.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"People who have had serious illnesses have also reported </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">healing experiences and found after an encounter their condition </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">has disappeared."</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After hearing of sightings or encounters from police, doctors, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">solicitors, psychologists, pilots and psychiatrists, Mrs Rodwell </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">said this credible evidence, plus the fact 12 countries world-wide </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">had released their UFO files, amounted to a mountain of evidence.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"Quite often the witnesses are highly credible and they inform </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">people not because they want the exposure, they just want </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">to say isn't this incredible."</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Based on her research and counselling, Mrs Rodwell said </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">sightings and abduction experiences were linked in a lot of cases.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"Sometimes with a sighting may come a missing time episode </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">or a feeling that something may have happened that they </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">cannot recall."</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">She said it was impossible to discredit all these claims.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/coxf763"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://tinyurl.com/coxf763</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is probably the closest Australia has come to scrambling fighter jets to intercept a UFO. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ''X Files'' viewed in Canberra also give details of other unexplained sightings, some of which are supported by witness </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">statements to police. One caller dismissed it as a rock band's laser show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Sydney alert, the papers stamped ''restricted'' tell how operation ''Close Encounter'' was launched by No.3 Control </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and Reporting Unit at RAAF Base Williamtown near Newcastle on June 30, 1983, after the phenomenon was first noticed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">earlier in the month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Senior air controllers at Mascot said the contacts were mostly located between 70 and 150 nautical miles north of Sydney </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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' ''.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He wrote: ''The lines of communication, extending as they did across the width of an entire corridor, seem to have been </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">insufficient for the purpose.''</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He added rather dryly: ''Fortunately there was no temptation to launch aircraft and add to the fuel bill occasioned by use </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the RAAF Datsun.'' A cautiously worded statement was released as a result ''in a manner that would not embarrass </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">departmental personnel'' which blamed ''random atmospheric conditions''. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Constable Geoffrey Russell, from the local police station, visited the site and wrote a report for RAAF Base Amberley </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">near Ipswich. The officer saw depressions in the ground and thought they were caused by a motorcyclist doing donuts b</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ut then dismissed the idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elsewhere in Queensland, dairy farmer Robin Priebe phoned Imbil police at 5.30am in July 1983 to report seeing a strange </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Priebe said both he and his wife saw a bright red glow gradually change to a white light which then started to move </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">slowly east. Through binoculars, ''the light was disc shaped with a very bright light around the perimeter of the disc with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two flashing lights in the front and one to the side'', he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only photographs in the X Files were of unusual lights over Bendigo, witnessed by hundreds in May 1983. An interim </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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 </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">open-ended question to it that I find really intriguing.''</span> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/dyom5jt">http://tinyurl.com/dyom5jt</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-88813275578934375712012-08-06T09:37:00.000+10:002012-08-06T09:38:24.880+10:00'UFO' spotted over Childers<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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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?<br /><br />The X-Filers are posting several videos on YouTube of recent UFOs in Perth's skies.<br /><br />But is this reality or just a bunch of Fox Mulders munching on too many sunflower seeds?<br /><br />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. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/7wejx33">http://tinyurl.com/7wejx33</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sydney's reputation for being a great place to visit has clearly s</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">pread to the stars, with four unidentified flying objects spotted </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">hovering over the city's suburbs on Monday afternoon.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A photograph capturing the four UFO's - which witnesses said </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">hovered in the same spot for more than 10 minutes before simply </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">disappearing - was snapped from Tom Ugly's Bridge Marina just </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">before 5pm.<br /><br />Photographer Ivan Mikkelsen, from nearby Sylvania Waters, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">said he first noticed the objects through a window on his boat </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">before stepping outside to confirm the unusual objects weren't s</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">imply a reflection or a trick of the light.<br /><br />"We just looked up and they were there. They were just sort </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">of hovering there,'' Mr Mikkelsen said.<br /><br />"They were quite high in the air, which is why I thought they </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">might be aeroplanes at first, but they weren't, they didn't move.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He said about five people at the marina paused to watch the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">stationary objects as they glowed over the city's west before </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">they simply disappeared as quickly as they came.<br /><br />"They just blinked and disappeared, whooshka, they were gone,'' </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mr Mikkelsen said.<br /><br />"I'm a bit sceptical, but it wasn't a reflection, it wasn't laser beams, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">it wasn't anything else.''<br /><br />A spokesman for Airservices Australia, which managed aviation traffic, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">said they had not had any reports of unusual objects on Monday </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">afternoon.<br /><br />"We have had no reports of any unidentified flying object activity </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">over the greater Sydney area on Monday evening,'' he said.<br /><br />"However, at just before 5pm on Monday, there were a number </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">of commercial aircraft operating.''</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-21348382022142873792012-05-21T21:33:00.001+10:002012-05-21T21:33:21.503+10:00New Zealand - Interview with Suzanne Hansen (UFOCUS)<br />
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There have been an "unprecedented" number of UFO sightings reported in the North Island over the past two months, UFO watchers say.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"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."<br /><br />Maungakaramea resident Charles Gillard reported seeing strange lights hovering above the Tangihua ranges just after 4am yesterday.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />Inquiries could not find any helicopters or planes operating in the area at that time yesterday morning.<br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.ufocusnz.org.nz/">http://www.ufocusnz.org.nz/</a></div>
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Whenever the subject of UFO's comes up, people always ask "Why don't they ever appear in front of scientists or the military?".<br />
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.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. <a href="http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981335897">http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981335897</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-13983514552327949712012-05-21T17:50:00.001+10:002012-05-21T17:56:14.880+10:00Amamoor Sighting on the Sunrise TV Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IT'S light Jim, but not as we know it. The Gold Coast Hinterland this month was the setting for what the state's premier alien hunters are calling one of the strangest UFO sightings on record. </span><br />
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They do not want us to make too much progress too fast because it would leave a lot of people frustrated."<br /><br />The latest reported sighting in the region occurred at Murwillumbah at the beginning of this month when nine residents saw between three and six objects perform manoeuvres while emitting pulsating lights.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-18204154402198841582011-02-15T19:10:00.002+10:002011-02-15T19:14:01.098+10:00UFO Watchers Are Not Alone<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9M7WkRPlrOCj7oN3hPKrDieUsuf3aMjUyvXUX2HJ12k6MyyuzAIW3WgqZM4H1kthniuHIwKn1_YYDOJkPJamdM4NFN_iHDg2lYrRjBBhFPhsPhRGwwwRThfnpijswk9s0D_me880JUZ8/s1600/Karen+Carruthers.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573841995510720210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9M7WkRPlrOCj7oN3hPKrDieUsuf3aMjUyvXUX2HJ12k6MyyuzAIW3WgqZM4H1kthniuHIwKn1_YYDOJkPJamdM4NFN_iHDg2lYrRjBBhFPhsPhRGwwwRThfnpijswk9s0D_me880JUZ8/s320/Karen+Carruthers.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Karen Carruthers is convinced of the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial life. And she is not alone.<br />In May last year, she helped establish the Byron UFO Research Group, which attracts up to 50 people to its monthly meetings.<br /><br />The gatherings feature guest speakers – many of whom claim to have had an alien contact – and allow people a “safe space” to discuss UFO and alien encounters.<br /><br />“If you’ve never told anyone about your experience, it’s a lot to carry around. There is a fear of ridicule,” said Ms Carruthers, who is a former family therapist.<br />People at the meeting come from all walks of life, she said. Many have had a lifelong interest in UFOs or had “seen something” and had no outlet for it.<br /><br />“We had a woman at our last meeting who had experienced a sighting 36 years ago.”<br /><br />Mrs Carruthers started seeing UFOs in the 1990s and recollects being taken on a spacecraft in 2003.<br /><br />She says her daughter, who lives in Sunrise, saw a UFO just last Sunday morning.<br /><br />“There was no sound, it was a round object and it hovered over the house and didn’t move. She watched it for half an hour.”<br /><br />Mrs Carruthers said there was a lot of fear surrounding alien life and UFOs, but the more you knew, the less scary it became.<br /><br />She said aliens were a force for good: “To want to help us to help the planet and each other.”<br /><br />As part of her work with the group, Ms Carruthers is compiling a database of UFO sightings from Byron and surrounding areas. She plans to conduct interviews, collating the information to create an historical record and to help demystify the subject.<br /><br />“The more it gets out into the open, the more accepted it becomes,” she said.<br /><br />“We want to give it some credibility and respectability.”<br /><br />She said interest in UFOs was growing worldwide and becoming more accepted and mainstream.</span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-79596844789474453922010-12-27T10:11:00.000+10:002010-12-27T10:16:52.231+10:00'Flying Object' Followed Family<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0mVeRPrif3Uz9zZMIRTDplGglrlj9IBuKA0yNADGHuf8jV4AeHvRFLrySlGK4oupz__XHReJsh4vuLhdvpOM96rjUSlMgEJJwAKfLoowcHiUr17uCi5igLw8YQhsH-AqC8wO9O5LeC0/s1600/NZ+encounter.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 266px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555149283811126674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP0mVeRPrif3Uz9zZMIRTDplGglrlj9IBuKA0yNADGHuf8jV4AeHvRFLrySlGK4oupz__XHReJsh4vuLhdvpOM96rjUSlMgEJJwAKfLoowcHiUr17uCi5igLw8YQhsH-AqC8wO9O5LeC0/s320/NZ+encounter.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Nearly 30 years after a late-night encounter with a UFO, Temuka man Ken Thew remains convinced he saw something extraordinary on Waitohi Rd.<br /><br />Yesterday, after authorisation from the Defence Force, more than 2000 pages of secret files held by Archives New Zealand were released. The files are said to include every witness account of unidentified flying objects reported to authorities since the 1950s and Mr Thew said he would be interested in reading the files.<br /><br />The now-retired mechanic said he did not think about the encounter unless other people brought it up in conversation, but he had spoken to others who had seen UFOs.<br /><br />"What they have seen is different compared to what we have seen but that's apparently the way it is."<br /><br />The memory of the large, bright object which accompanied Mr Thew,his wife, and their three young daughters home from Pleasant Point to Temuka on July 12, 1981 was still vivid, Mr Thew said.<br /><br />"My thoughts are the same: what you see is what you see. "It was a bit frightening for a start. We were just travelling home from a night at me cobber's place. The oldest girl said, `what's that over there?' and I said I had no idea."<br /><br />The couple described to the Temuka Herald in 1981 how a multi-coloured flying object paced them along the road, approaching to within 110 metres of their car and changing colours as it went. They knew by the hour of the night, the manoeuvres and closeness of the object that it was not an aeroplane.<br /><br />Yesterday, Mr Thew said the size and the brilliance of the object, which was shaped like a football, told him it was unusual. However, while the encounter was reported in media, they kept a second part of the story to themselves and close friends – several visits by a man to their home and workplace shortly after seeing the object.<br /><br />Introducing himself as Mr Wright, an "investigator" from Christchurch and dressed in a musty suit, he warned them not to contact or approach the object, Mr Thew said.<br /><br />The man's behaviour was peculiar: he drank a cup of boiling tea in one gulp, read a page by scanning from bottom to top and knew the name of their pet dog before it could be told to him. Before the encounter with the object, Mr Thew said he had a<br />divided opinion on UFOs.<br /><br />"If somebody had told me what I had seen myself I would sort of look at them and think, `well, okay'."<br /><br />The object was something he was not familiar with and had never seen the likes of before, he said. He did not rule out a natural explanation but said the speed at which it travelled and the intensity of its light were unusual.<br /><br />The Thews' account garnered media attention in 1981 and they were visited unexpectedly by a television crew.<br /><br />"They got the kids to draw pictures of what they saw," Mr Thew said.<br /><br />Most of the responses they got were positive; people called them to ask them about the incident, and later a Polish professor visited them to learn more about their experience. Their story attracted a small negative response, with about five calls from people suggesting they were mad, he said. However, Mr Thew stands by what he saw. "I had my faculties; I know what I saw."<br /><br />CENTRAL SOUTH ISLAND UFO REPORTS<br />Local sightings reported on ufoinfo.com:<br />September 26, 2009: Two Timaru witnesses report seeing about 10 bright orange, moving objects at 8.15pm, which suddenly veered sideways.<br /><br />November 27, 2006: A witness reports seeing a silvery white and cylindrical object taking off from the Richard Pearse Airport about 7.30am.<br /><br />June 30, 2006: A witness took two photos. One showed a mysterious object over Oamaru between 1pm and 3pm.<br /><br />February, 2006: Two adults and a boy, 11, report seeing a slow-moving object in the sky between Pleasant Point and State Highway 1 about 4pm.<br /><br />August 5, 2005: Two witnesses travelling between Kurow and Omarama between 8pm and 9pm report seeing a slow-moving, orange, pulsating object "far bigger than any stars".<br /><br />July 20, 1996: Five people at Rosewell near Timaru report seeing a triangular shape, with three lights, in the night sky.<br /><br />August 15, 1990: One witness reports seeing an orange glow appear in a rear-view mirror about 1am. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-71310228435669130042010-12-23T06:57:00.002+10:002010-12-23T07:01:12.693+10:00New Zealand Releases UFO Government Files<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6OfJbwL-mu426bRwKmX-_NxrLGusw4ikprn8sJUTy-bjIelRE5MupbuMUwT5gCshwG_W9umyoM9cQZRszYvEXJqzAXk6NwKCnSVHi-AUFRiEf-c7nQwg-McQ49EdzN_7cUkjmFFHcqcs/s1600/NZ+UFOs.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 304px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 171px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553614605680427634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6OfJbwL-mu426bRwKmX-_NxrLGusw4ikprn8sJUTy-bjIelRE5MupbuMUwT5gCshwG_W9umyoM9cQZRszYvEXJqzAXk6NwKCnSVHi-AUFRiEf-c7nQwg-McQ49EdzN_7cUkjmFFHcqcs/s320/NZ+UFOs.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">New Zealand's military has released hundreds of documents detailing claims of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).<br /><br />The files, dating from 1954 to 2009, include drawings of flying saucers and alleged samples of alien writing.<br /><br />The files include details of New Zealand's most famous UFO sighting when strange lights were filmed off the South Island town of Kaikoura in 1978.<br /><br />An official report from the time said natural phenomenon could explain it.<br /><br />Although the incident made international headlines at the time, the military report suggested it could be lights from boats reflected in clouds or an unusual view of the planet Venus.<br /><br />Following the release of the files, New Zealand Air Force spokesman Kavae Tamariki said the military did not have the resources to investigate UFO sightings and would not be commenting on the documents' contents.<br /><br />"We have just been a collection point for the information. We don't investigate or make reports, we haven't substantiated anything in them," he told the Dominion Post newspaper.<br /><br />The reports have been released under freedom of information laws after officials removed names and other identifying material.<br /><br />The files - which run to about 2,000 pages - include accounts by members of the public, military personnel and commercial airline pilots describing close encounters, mostly involving moving lights in the sky.<br /><br />All the original documents on which the reports were based are to remain sealed in the national archive. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-44560059381727314042010-12-23T06:53:00.001+10:002010-12-23T06:56:59.121+10:00Bright Red UFO Spotted<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCjRx1sLwy24qFSwvmgMqD1kFfeghRwx6nJ3vesHZiY0AZ0cV1M95zIBPuRdTp75YOuJDmoxQuIpr6ooYEljJFOf7025idFzf4RcbU3670uTLMvyZ-w0PhfTyLjdkDUf7uqPT9Ve2nJfQ/s1600/UFO+question+marks.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 254px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553613410791377218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCjRx1sLwy24qFSwvmgMqD1kFfeghRwx6nJ3vesHZiY0AZ0cV1M95zIBPuRdTp75YOuJDmoxQuIpr6ooYEljJFOf7025idFzf4RcbU3670uTLMvyZ-w0PhfTyLjdkDUf7uqPT9Ve2nJfQ/s320/UFO+question+marks.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">GLADSTONE is being visited by UFOs, according to a Gladstone local.<br />The local listed sighting a strange, bright red object Monday morning on a UFO sighting website.<br /><br />The website, The UFO Clearinghouse, accepts reports from people who have seen something they can’t explain, hence, an unidentified flying object (UFO).<br /><br />“While at work in the state forest north of Gladstone, I noticed to my left a bright red light,” the local who remained anonymous said.<br /><br />“Thinking I might have a car coming through the bush towards me, I moved out of the donga I was in and waited for the car to arrive.<br /><br />“I went outside and noticed that the light was above the tree line above the north end of Mount Larcom.<br /><br />However, the witness couldn’t work out if it was round or any other shape.<br /><br />“There were times the light hurt my eyes but not enough for me to look away. I noted that it was slowly moving downwards on the other side of the Mount Larcom range<br /><br />“There were no other light sources located outside the donga, and no other reason what this red light might have been caused from.”<br /><br />UFO Research Queensland chair Sheryl Gottschall told The Observer this year alone they have had 123 reported sightings from the public.<br /><br />“What we find is that the reports come from a broad cross section of society,” Ms Gottschall said.<br /><br />“We have people from small business owners to professional people like lawyers, teachers and pilots. We get reports from basically everybody,” she said. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-17960035824003747972010-11-20T15:43:00.002+10:002010-11-20T15:46:56.789+10:00Close UFO Encounters On The Coast<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieN2wGPgxUjgifCvct_M4HG0Kikd3K4ataqKN5RsRDT0VgGatnlZk2JZPt7A8-nKkc_0uHVhPU2vhel5jP4IrMP3wJdAGw12gCJq4gUMdwQWH8ScKMloAYMWp3MrOwlG1F3YjYWEmj2B0/s1600/sunshine+coast+UFO.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 312px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 208px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541504160282169810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieN2wGPgxUjgifCvct_M4HG0Kikd3K4ataqKN5RsRDT0VgGatnlZk2JZPt7A8-nKkc_0uHVhPU2vhel5jP4IrMP3wJdAGw12gCJq4gUMdwQWH8ScKMloAYMWp3MrOwlG1F3YjYWEmj2B0/s320/sunshine+coast+UFO.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">They're perhaps not the kind of visitor tourism bodies are looking to attract to the region – they don’t come through customs, they arrive in non-regulation aircraft and never spend any money in the local economy. But if the many reported sightings of their visits are to be believed, UFOs are making regular visits to the Sunshine Coast.<br /><br />UFO Research Queensland has been compiling data related to sightings throughout Queensland since 1956, and Lee Paqui from the organisation confirmed to Finda that the Sunshine Coast and Glasshouse Mountains area receives a lot of reports.<br /><br />“Balls of orange or white light are the most frequently reported UFO in the area. These balls of light usually appear singly, but also in triangular, boomerang or straight-line formations, and occasionally they’re seen travelling in clusters of up to 20 or more objects. But while glowing balls of light dominate, there have been a number of far more unusual objects and phenomena sighted as well,” Lee said.<br /><br /><strong>Reported Sightings</strong><br />According to UFO Research Queensland in 1999, campers on Bribie Island witnessed a glowing green object at midnight that “turned the night into day.” The object was circular, hovered just above the ocean and lit up the sea and the nearby town of Caloundra with a green light for about eight seconds.<br /><br />In 2004, a group was out four-wheel-driving in the Glasshouse Mountains. They drove along a fire road when one of them screamed. Hovering just above the trees, was a capsule shaped object roughly the size of a petrol tanker truck's trailer. It was emitting a low humming noise and glowing like a dull fluorescent light just above the trees. It was “close enough to throw a rock and hit it”. After a few minutes it tilted forward and drifted west like a balloon down into a ridge. They followed in their car and got out to look for it but it was gone and so was the humming sound.<br /><br />In 2001 a woman travelling at night towards Bli Bli pulled off the road to allow what she thought was a brightly lit car behind her to overtake. However, instead of overtaking, the lights behind her moved backwards and changed into a crescent shape before disappearing into the sky.<br /><br />In early 2000 a Caloundra resident reported an object in the sky that looked like “castles joined together,” and estimated it to be about the size of four football fields.<br /><br />In 2007 a couple witnessed an oval object the size of a football field hovering over Burpengary. It was brightly lit, red on the bottom and white on top, and tilted itself on an angle before disappearing.<br /><br />(Reported sighting information provided by UFO Research Queensland).<br /><br /><strong>Advice<br /></strong>We asked Lee at UFO Research Queensland what advice he would give to people if they spot something.<br /><br />“The first thing is to not panic. Our experience has shown that people are not harmed by their encounters with UFOs, in fact, they can come away with a feeling of elation. So, don't panic, don't run, simply stand and watch and observe.<br /><br />“Try and work out how large the object might be, and how far away it is from you. Hold your arm out and see how big it is compared to your thumb. Notice any discernible markings, what the shape is, if it is glowing or not, what colour it is, does it change colour or shape while you're watching.<br /><br />“Try to time how long the object is visible for, and how does it disappear. Does it simply vanish like a light going off or does it take off in a particular direction? Try and see what is happening to the world around you - is the sky cloudy or clear, are dogs barking, or have the birds stopped singing? Is there anybody nearby that you could point the object out to? And, most importantly, does anybody have a camera?”<br /><br />"Of course, expecting people to do all this when they have only a few seconds to think about it could be asking a bit much, but if they can let us know as much as they can about their experience that’s the main thing,” Lee said.<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-73652325484163539132010-11-20T15:10:00.001+10:002010-11-20T15:11:52.787+10:00My Mum Talks To Aliens<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA572t-SeLJgS_sAJQhF8qozqM24yRjR_StxlKhGtn63_vBcj-crpeROoCx_aBY0Wy5v9g-8GGNUwzBjXR1SFKrErqaZ1zoODZTtgYfl4mleQ_PwA2Sv37Ksjcgg29QoPWc-cgc1fPdHU/s1600/Mary+Rodwell+doco.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 290px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541495224751163378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA572t-SeLJgS_sAJQhF8qozqM24yRjR_StxlKhGtn63_vBcj-crpeROoCx_aBY0Wy5v9g-8GGNUwzBjXR1SFKrErqaZ1zoODZTtgYfl4mleQ_PwA2Sv37Ksjcgg29QoPWc-cgc1fPdHU/s320/Mary+Rodwell+doco.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Later this month SBS screens a documentary that follows the work and personal life of one of the world’s leading authorities on extraterrestrial life, Mary Rodwell (not to be confused with Roswell!).<br /><br />This Australian woman works in this field all over the world, counselling people who have experience an alien encounter. She has worked in the US, Canada, Asian, European, Russia and other countries but her son is a sceptic. A mother and son Scully and Mulder?<br /><br />My Mum Talks to Aliens is an intriguing documentary that follows a mother and son on a journey of discovery, as they travel the country in pursuit of solid evidence of an alien presence here on Earth.<br /><br />There is one issue that is driving a wedge between mother and son – Mary and Chris Rodwell – the existence of extraterrestrial life. Chris is a self-confessed alien sceptic, whilst his mum Mary is a leading global authority on the subject. But her beliefs have come at a cost, her husband left and it is now impacting on her relationship with Chris.<br /><br />Mary attempts to convince and educate her son, and thus the world about aliens. She introduces her son to her clients who have had first-hand alien abduction experiences, as well as revealing clear, never before- seen footage of UFO’s.<br /><br />She also visits acclaimed Astrophysicist, Ragbir Bhatal from the University of Western Sydney. Bhatal is one of only three people in the world whose job it is to scan the skies for alien communications.<br /><br />Mary may be one of the world’s leading alien abduction councillors, and she may be in demand all over the world for her expert extraterrestrial advice, but can she convince her own son about her out-of-this-world beliefs, and save her most precious relationship of all?<br /><br />My Mum Talks to Aliens airs 8:30pm Tuesday November 30th on SBS ONE.<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-15928609175064536842010-11-03T16:41:00.007+10:002010-11-03T16:47:44.149+10:0040 Convincing Blogs About UFOs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6sq3besj-muLmUcVu3UzQ3mt1C6j5ZKrA2hxuIjHVOw4SzChuiCArECCUesdMUNUiW0u_3-L2_W631-wJoLDhZ9_nYO0xDCoWsuhvYbhR8DA01fN9whp-npY30hlt1EbQEakLvYduCjE/s1600/40+UFO+blogs.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 258px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535210868578787090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6sq3besj-muLmUcVu3UzQ3mt1C6j5ZKrA2hxuIjHVOw4SzChuiCArECCUesdMUNUiW0u_3-L2_W631-wJoLDhZ9_nYO0xDCoWsuhvYbhR8DA01fN9whp-npY30hlt1EbQEakLvYduCjE/s320/40+UFO+blogs.jpg" /></a><br /><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">We received this blog link via our web site. Hope you find something of interest there. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2cjysdq">http://tinyurl.com/2cjysdq</a><br /></div></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-90185195545240626362010-10-20T13:22:00.002+10:002010-10-20T13:25:08.954+10:00UFO cut off my car<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtVDPDCXdXAUpEKjTWsvB77xE446-s2nxEXCEgvBPmNlwjH614_Nsoa59uSuJNT4CaeKyQ_wZqSMnwI_tsZ8K_91Y-9jG3fywSF2IsCXSru1uFnAFf2tiEw-iCxUji5wvBRgX-bGJfuZM/s1600/ABC+announcer.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529964073736379218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtVDPDCXdXAUpEKjTWsvB77xE446-s2nxEXCEgvBPmNlwjH614_Nsoa59uSuJNT4CaeKyQ_wZqSMnwI_tsZ8K_91Y-9jG3fywSF2IsCXSru1uFnAFf2tiEw-iCxUji5wvBRgX-bGJfuZM/s320/ABC+announcer.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">A woman claims she was cut off by two alien beings in a spaceship shaped like a Ford station wagon - before it took off surrounded by green, blue and red flames.<br /><br />It was just one of the stories to come out after ABC morning show presenter Leon Compton opened up the airwaves to UFO believers.<br /><br />Betty from Alice Springs said her close encounter occurred in 1969. She was driving 20km south of Aileron towards Alice Springs at 4am with her six year old daughter when they saw the vehicle "flying alongside us". "We saw these two figures inside this thing. It looked like a Ford station wagon, with the windows. It came in front of us really quickly."<br /><br />Her daughter then said, "There's nothing to be afraid of."<br /><br />"I said, 'Why did you say that?' She said, 'I don't know, it just came out of my mouth'.<br /><br />"And as I was talking, the whole think took off like a shot out of a gun ... And then there was all this green and blue and red flames or lights all around it.<br /><br />"I'll never forget it."<br /><br />Other callers gave reasons why they believed in visitors from other planets - with one even quoting the Bible.<br /><br />Dennis from Batchelor said his sighting was shared by a crowd of people on the Dripstone Cliffs at sunset.<br /><br />"A mate and I were looking down the beach and saw this orangey-pink light progressing towards us. No sound at all," he said.<br /><br />"We just watched it in silence as it cruised on past the casino."<br /><br />And Cameron from Alice Springs said he was visiting a water hole in 1983 when he saw a flying saucer land 700m away.<br /><br />"It was half the size of a football field," he said.<br /><br />Source :www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/09/11/178671_ntnews.html</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-86595523175476613342010-10-19T14:08:00.003+10:002010-10-19T14:30:09.244+10:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYVToNvO0YFOeU2VsuBZvE5kFQ_SoDsFrJwO67MFVug6aPSBB_9wnw_eJyy-0E_bn1wu0YqzhWjpCEO2BAbvkvYPjTbowi7bGCwVUKq4flP_OfidVbvYcujM88hgck2CD8zoih7WuVZQ/s1600/ET.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 189px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529609738822947026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCYVToNvO0YFOeU2VsuBZvE5kFQ_SoDsFrJwO67MFVug6aPSBB_9wnw_eJyy-0E_bn1wu0YqzhWjpCEO2BAbvkvYPjTbowi7bGCwVUKq4flP_OfidVbvYcujM88hgck2CD8zoih7WuVZQ/s320/ET.jpg" /></a><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">Something surprising happened while we weren’t looking. The last few months have seen a rash of very public speculation about the nature of extraterrestrial life from the most unexpected places – places and people from whom the UFO community has so far received only ridicule.<br /><br />Ever since Stephen Hawking planted his robust seed of fear into the world’s minds, all anybody can talk about is not whether ET exists, but what ET will do with us when he gets here. Thanks to Hawking (who has either lost his mind or is working covertly for the New World Order), the discussion in high places now centres around what ET could possibly want with, shudder, us! So far there’s been no mention of the old schlock standby ‘they want to suck our blood’, but amazingly denial of the ET reality has joined the discussion.<br /><br />But while Hawking argues that visitors to Earth will see us only as a mineral resource, and in order to rape and pillage the planet, will need to strip-mine us out of existence, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for SETI (whose very name conjures intimations of evil), poo-poos that notion, arguing that Earth is simply too far away to come for gold and tin. Maybe.<br /><br />However, just in case ET does decide to pop in for a visit, media reports pronounce that the UN has actually ‘appointed a space ambassador for extraterrestrial contact affairs.’ Even stranger, a group of scientists is preparing a demo-tape to keep them entertained while they’re here (they think ET will like Bach, although we roundly disagree). And, not to be outdone, the Pope is preparing to baptize any ETs that might drop into the Vatican. (Sure. That’s the first place they’ll go.)<br /><br />Now, we don’t know about you, but given that just a few short months ago the existence of Et was still being hotly denied, this turnaround is, to put it mildly, somewhat startling. And in a somewhat more sinister vein – do these people know something that we don’t know?<br /><br />Like…. Could open contact be imminent? Or…has the Hubble telescope spotted a big alien wrecking ball headed our way? </span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-63302492778287531522010-05-18T16:59:00.005+10:002010-05-18T17:05:26.239+10:00The Australian Westall UFO Incident of 1966<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPemoVt0yq9CLW6BW19ZnUIOp4o2n4WwpbjcmM-oy2WRCo7ey5OqRLka5ho9kyyZhV8Csr6spHPK6MpQAOnIzRO03Y3Q4WnkLjtmXuYfx5LGXfznVzlu5gkBxdKRbGk9rUK0DhLWIWgJA/s1600/Shane+Ryan.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 303px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 242px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472502625186582274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPemoVt0yq9CLW6BW19ZnUIOp4o2n4WwpbjcmM-oy2WRCo7ey5OqRLka5ho9kyyZhV8Csr6spHPK6MpQAOnIzRO03Y3Q4WnkLjtmXuYfx5LGXfznVzlu5gkBxdKRbGk9rUK0DhLWIWgJA/s320/Shane+Ryan.jpg" /></a><br /><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">The mystery surrounding the famous Westall UFO incident of 1966 has been put up in lights with a documentary exploring the event set to air on Foxtel's Sci Fi channel next month.<br /><br />The event, broken by The Journal in 1966, involved 200 Westall High School and Westall State School students, staff and local residents watching as a strange object hovered overhead for several minutes, landing briefly at Grange Reserve, before lifting off and vanishing.<br /><br />Witnesses described it as a low-flying, silver-grey and shiny craft, shaped like a cup turned upside down on a saucer, accompanied by five light aircraft.<br /><br />The new film focuses on former Mulgrave resident Shane Ryan tracking down former students and staff and searching for authorities who presided over the day.<br /><br />"We hope the airing of the documentary will help us flush out the people who were in uniform from some sort of government authority and who so many remember investigating the scene and coming to the school to talk to kids," Mr Ryan said.<br /><br />"Many witnesses remember police officers and soldiers being involved in the examining of the site and that's been an important focus for me to try and make contact with those people.<br /><br />"It would seem that whatever they were doing, they would have a great knowledge of what happened."<br /><br />Mr Ryan said he had contacted about 265 people who were connected with the story in one way or another.<br /><br />"The stories were remarkably similar and every witness was extremely happy to talk to me. They were gobsmacked someone was showing an interest after all these years.<br /><br />"They were still passionate about what they had experienced and that no one really believed them at the time - for some of them there was a deliberate and obvious push from certain people not to talk about what they had seen."<br /><br />Westall ' 66: A Suburban UFO Mystery will screen on Australia's Foxtel Sci Fi Channel at 8.30pm on Friday, June 4.<br /><br />Source: http://tinyurl.com/2cxu9lu </span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848438342717547673.post-82938677971311445942010-04-30T10:52:00.002+10:002010-04-30T10:55:51.313+10:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeVJ3s-6O3gFbMFgToZuwNBua0ld8M_ZYQH9ggStHqmVikB_6wab0JV6S_htCwBMIuTlNEoSXPpJXDXf2Qg3lGID0C2iRWjT6FJ10j2M-7emWrZoTcifFGhnPRDLr8jWClpqb1Vm-zhRQ/s1600/NASA.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 136px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 99px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465727445053682898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeVJ3s-6O3gFbMFgToZuwNBua0ld8M_ZYQH9ggStHqmVikB_6wab0JV6S_htCwBMIuTlNEoSXPpJXDXf2Qg3lGID0C2iRWjT6FJ10j2M-7emWrZoTcifFGhnPRDLr8jWClpqb1Vm-zhRQ/s320/NASA.JPG" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-size:85%;">NASA scientists last night unveiled compelling evidence of life on Mars.<br /><br />A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum - the building blocks of life<br />as we know it.<br /><br />NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent millions of miles through the solar system to discover signs of extraterrestrial life. The results are so promising boffins have already planned a host of other missions to discover whether there is extraterrestrial life in the universe.<br /><br />The recent missions have gathered evidence of sulphates on Mars, a strong indication there is water on the planet and therefore life. Previous missions to Mars have concluded there is probably water on the planet. But the NASA boffins said the recent missions have gone further than any others in proving there is life on Mars. They were particularly excited about the discovery of a sulphate called gypsum which, it has emerged recently, is found in large quantities among fossils in the Mediterranean.<br /><br />Jack Farmer, researcher at the Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona, said he was "optimistic" there was - or had been - life on Mars. Another of the scientists Bill Schopf, researcher at the University of California in Los Angeles, added: "One, thanks to Opportunity and the rovers and orbital imaging it is clear that there are literally vast areas of Mars that are carpeted with various sorts of sulphates, including gypsum.<br /><br />"Two, it turns out on earth there just hasn't been hardly any work done at all to show whether gypsum ever includes within it preserved evidence of former life. "The age doesn't matter. We just didn't know that fossils and organic matter and things like that were well preserved within gypsum.<br /><br />"So, three, it turns out that now we have made that first step we are going to find out how widespread it is in other sulphate deposits on earth. "And those lines of evidence will then give us a way to justify going to Mars and looking at gypsum because it looks as though based on these findings that is going to turn out to be a really excellent place to find evidence of ancient life, regardless of age, if in fact it is there."<br /><br />Five experts took part in last night's press conference to celebrate 50 years of astrobiology research. Dr Steve Squyres, of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, said the only way of being sure there is life on Mars was to bring back a sample of Mars rock. He also said that the detection of methane in the martian atmosphere - as revealed exclusively by The Sun - raised the possibility that there was still life on Mars today.<br /><br />"Methane is a molecule that should go away very quickly. We need to send a mission to find out if the source is biological. "We also need to send a mission to return samples from Mars. That would enable scientists to find out whether Mars might ever have harboured life. "If we are ever going to show if there was ever life on Mars, I think we're going to have to study samples back on Earth."<br /><br />Almost 30 other NASA missions to discover life in space - including one to bring back rocks from Mars - have already been planned. There are also plans to visit Jupiter's moon Europa to explore its deep underground ocean and a moon of Saturn, Enceladus, which spouted ice volcanoes. Long-term missions will also return to Saturn's biggest moon Titan, sending a balloon flying through its atmosphere and landing a probe in its surface lakes. Future missions would also visit comets.<br /><br />NASA scientists have been searching for extraterrestrial life on other planets for some time. Last November the space organisation launched the Kepler space telescope to look for Earth-size planets in this galaxy. The telescope is on a three-and-a-half-year mission to find planets. NASA has so far been able to download data - but many believe there are aliens out there.<br /><br />British physicist Stephen Hawking said this week aliens might be traveling through the cosmos right now - but he warned they might have evil intentions.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;">Source: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/37n2jax">http://tinyurl.com/37n2jax</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0