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Date: October 31, 2010
Time: Approx: 11:20 p.m.
Muggy Brian, I was browsing Sightings.com and saw your plea for constant accounts. I posted this primarily on uk-ufo.co.uk and hand over fasten been no make better postings after my description in that specialism.
Please note: Present-day were maybe 100 or director of these lights, spheres, and in the role of at token one perceive claimed they were 'Chinese lanterns' I *did* see 8-10 of them form a circle (as viewed from our sketch on the ground present Muswell Hill in London) as they aloof on heartening in their southerly caption.
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I and several other domestic witnessed an amazing plan of lights in the sky elder Muswell Hill from Victoria Send present the Alexandra Palace area of London late on in the early evening of 31. October. 2009 Halloween!
The time was credibly about 11:20 p.m. - I was walking up Victoria Send ( sharp banned from the railway station) gone a group of domestic distinction out in their head garden area at an traffic circle of a very angry highway called out to me to seem up at what was in the sky.
I turned to my authority and witnessed a sandpaper, a armada of orange/yellow lights, rounded, gliding without a sound previous, all heartening in the exceedingly caption, venerable, but not all at only the exceedingly rush. The amazing thing was the weak matter of these lights - I assess hand over must fasten been 50 - 80 or undiluted 100 of them, all upcoming overcome in groups of 2-3 or 5-10 (approx.). They entitlement aloof on coming! We watched this plan for fifteen to twenty minutes. They were not appearing in sit or heartening overcome in a straight line, free file, but all stylish what I'd predict was 5-15 degrees of arc elder or in one sundry.
I possibly will not tell for sure their flat, but I did fasten the performance that they were all stylish the exceedingly well-liked flat, and that this was not too far up in the sky, a couple of thousand feet, maybe, most likely better, maybe five thousand feet.
I was powerless to assess the boundary or diameter of these lights - But my *impression* was that if they'd been almost the boundary of a sorry for yourself passenger jet (say, a BAC 111) that would fasten been about authority.
The sky had more than a few clouds, in principle low, and the orbs or lights would in the end disappear unlikely banned on the road to the south. I couldn't say for sure if they were obsequious concealed by the clouds or entitlement "obtainable". I watched the maximum end of their line in the caption they were heartening to try to determine which case it was, and once again my *impression* was that most would seriously "star out", time I call together I witnessed more than a few of them inflowing indoors the cloud cover and obtainable that (length of track) way.
In the function of was most original to me was the reactions of the many domestic witnessing this thing. The domestic approximately me were reasonably frightened by what they were seeing - They aloof asking me what I bother we were witnessing.
"In good spirits - it looks sort they're craft of more than a few fine, either ours or 'theirs' " I thought, " and it looks sort they entitlement plead to show us that they can do this put up of thing."
One of the domestic through me asked me if I bother other domestic in London muscle each be able to see this, and as well as he phoned his brother who lived unlikely east in Upper London. He excitedly told the brother what we were seeing, and he well-defined that he knew his brother muscle uncertain he was off your rocker, but we were correctly seeing this! He accepted his arrange to me at the same time as apparently the brother was unsure, and I well-defined evenly to the man on the arrange that what the man bordering to me was slogan was suitable, we *were* all reflection this amazing plan of what appeared to be incisively guided lights (craft or doesn't matter what).
One animal walking to her car on the other side of the road watched for a few minutes and as well as called out to us as she was attainment indoors her car that they were seriously "lanterns" (Chinese lanterns) -
I looked back at these lights and I possibly will not collection subsequently her, they seemed to me to be credibly more than a few kinds of craft flying in formation, lots of craft and a few moments after this woman's comment, 8 - 10 craft went indoors a circle formation (all the in the role of stable on in the exceedingly southerly caption at their exceedingly pace) and this reminded me of the NASA video footage from one of the STS Shuttle missions gone a matter of lights pop indoors sit and form a circle elder the Burrow, and in the end one light each blinks more in the centre of that circle.
Present-day was no light in the centre of this circle I saw, but it absolutely occurred to me that if they *were* only this minute Chinese Lanterns, it would be improbable they possibly will manoeuvre themselves indoors a circle formation and clutch that mold in the role of as one heartening self-assured.
I felt no intuition of hazard, attentively from this armada, but I did good taste that doesn't matter what else muscle fasten been leave-taking on, this was a plan hypothetical to show London that doesn't matter what these were, they possibly will fly
without a sound in wonderful crowd and were really *there*.
In the function of is fine of amazing is that I fasten seen no reports of this incident of fifteen to twenty minutes expression everyplace, but hand over were more than a few lights seen in Lewisham and on view approximately London that early evening.
My son lives versatile and I phoned him as the lights were set off to thin out, excluding appearing, to tell him about this and he fixed sight of credibly the last 10 - 15 lights from the back (south-facing) porthole of his environment, but he was each of the awareness that it was credibly Chinese Lanterns. I felt that deteriorating his observing the phenomenon for a longer turn as we had done, he muscle well devoted that this was the case. But as I say, I felt that these were incisively guided lights, of more than a few put up.
If you fasten seen whatsoever sort this in the exceedingly area gratify be fine plenty to contact Brian Vike at: "sighting@telus.net" subsequently the details of your sighting. "ALL Have Tips IS Reticent Surreptitious".
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FOUNTAIN HILLS, ARIZ. -- THE VALLEY IS A CAPITOL FOR UFOS THIS WEEKEND.
NO, A FLYING SAUCER HASN'T LANDED HERE. BUT MANY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN UFOS, AND OTHER INTERESTING THINGS, HAVE.
"WE ARE HOSTING THE 2012 INTERNATIONAL UFO CONGRESS," SAYS MAUREEN ELLSBURY WITH OPEN MINDS PRODUCTIONS. "IT'S ACTUALLY THE LARGEST ANNUAL UFO CONGRESS IN THE WORLD, FULL OF SPEAKERS, VENDORS, AND OTHER EVENTS."
IT'S HAPPENING NOW THROUGH SUNDAY AT THE FORT MCDOWELL RESORT AND CASINO.
ELLSBURY SAYS THE EVENT FEATURES SEVERAL SPEAKERS.
"[WEDNESDAY] WE HAD SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT CATTLE MUTILATIONS, CROP CIRCLES, AND ABDUCTEES," SAYS ELLSBURY. "WE HAVE A GENERAL FROM CHILE COMING TO TALK ABOUT THEIR GOVERNMENT'S OFFICIAL UFO AGENCY."
ONE OF THE SPEAKERS WILL BE UFO AUTHOR STAN ROMANEK. HE USED TO BE SKEPTIC ABOUT UFO'S. THAT CHANGED IN 2001, WHEN HE THOUGHT A POLICE HELICOPTER SHINED A LIGHT ON HIS TRUCK...IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON.
"I ROLLED DOWN MY WINDOW AND LOOKED UP AND SAID...WAIT A MINUTE! THERE'S NO HELICOPTER SOUNDS," SAYS ROMANEK. "AND AS I DROVE THROUGH THE INTERSECTION, ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HAD PANICKED LOOKS ON THEIR FACES. I LOOK UP AND THERE'S THIS HUGE 40-FOOT DIAMETER SPHERE ABOVE MY CAR, FOLLOWING ME DOWN THE ROAD."
"I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF LAKEWOOD, COLORADO, DURING RUSH HOUR, WHEN A UFO BEAMED MY VAN IN FRONT OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE," ROMANEK SAYS. THE UFO DISAPPEARED AFTER FLYING OVER A PARK, WHERE SEVERAL PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPHED WHAT HAPPENED. ROMANEK SAYS THE PICTURES GAINED NATIONAL ATTENTION, AND EVEN WERE SHOWN ON THE TV SHOW "ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT."
IT ISN'T JUST UFOS THAT ARE BEING FEATURED AT THIS CONVENTION. THERE WERE A VARIETY OF BOOTHS TOUTING EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, VIDEOS AND MORE.
THEN WE CAME TO THE "SHARE INTERNATIONAL" BOOTH, WHERE WE MET MERYL TIHANYI. SHE IS HERE FROM NEW YORK TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING SPIRITUAL.
"THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHY OF THIS PLANET IS HEADED BY A GREAT TEACHER WHO GOES BY THE NAME MAITREYA," SAYS TAHANI. "HE COMES AS THE WORLD TEACHER. HE'S NOT HERE TO START A WORLD RELIGION, OR DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT. HE'S SIMPLY HERE TO TEACH AND TO GUIDE US."
TAHANI CLAIMS THAT JESUS WAS ONE OF MAITREYA'S DISCIPLES. SHE SAYS MAITREYA LIVES IN LONDON RIGHT NOW, AND HAS DONE 52 TV INTERVIEWS WITHOUT REVEALING HIS IDENTITY.
SHE CLAIMS WE WILL ALL MEET HIM SOON.
"AT SOME POINT THERE WILL BE WHAT'S CALLED THE DAY OF DECLARATION, WHERE MAITREYA WILL COME OUT INTO THE PUBLIC AND EVERYONE WILL KNOW WHO HE IS," SAYS TIHANYI. "THERE'S A VERY SPECIAL EVENT THAT WILL TAKE PLACE, BUT THERE'S NO DATE AND TIME FOR THAT. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT MITRAYA WILL KNOW WHEN THAT IS THE RIGHT TIME."
TAHANI INSISTS THAT MAITREYA IS NOT THE ANTICHRIST, AND SHE BELIEVES THAT THESE EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE WITHIN OUR LIFETIME.
STAN ROMANEK DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. HE'S AT THE CONVENTION TO SPREAD HIS OWN BELIEFS...ABOUT UFOS.
"I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS THE REAL DEAL," SAYS ROMANEK. "IT'S TIME, AND WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND, TO KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE."
BY BOB MCCLAY
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UFO SIGHTING IN BROSSARD, QUEBEC ON JULY 9TH 2006 - TWO GLOWING OBJECTS IN THE SKY THAT SEEM TO BE TRAVELING TOGETHER OVER BROSSARD, QC
July 9th 2006 8:30pm EST On this slightly cloudy summer night, my wife, son and myself were visiting our newly bought land near Quartier DIX30 in Brossard, QC. We spent a good 20 minutes walking around on our land and I took a number of pictures with my Canon Powershot A620 camera. At the time we were there, there were no sounds, no stars or planes in the sky. You could only see a blue sky with high altitude cloud levels. At 8:45pm EST I took a picture of my wife and son overlooking the land where you can see the houses being built nearby. The view also provided a clear view of the sky. At the time I took the picture there was nothing in the sky. After our visit, We left the area and headed home. It is only a number of years later that I noticed, while re-examining the pictures, that the picture I took of my wife and son was also showing 2 glowing objects in the sky that seem to be traveling together (approx 1/2 mile apart). One of these glowing objects seemed to show a small but visible trail. The object with the trail seemed to show a disc-like shape. As I explained initially, when I took this picture there was nothing in the sky. These 2 objects only appeared on camera. When I took the picture the flash was on as well as the IR (infra-red) light to help minimize rabbit eyes. I'm not sure if this somehow contributed to the appearance of these objects but when I took the picture there was nothing in the sky that was visible to the naked eye. Today I am quite certain that these are actual UFO objects which were not meant to be seen by the naked eye. The image submitted to MUFON is the original high-res picture. It has not been modified or changed in any way. It also contains the complete EXIF metadata information.
2013 SIGHTING REPORT
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Learn about: an amazing NASA UFO Sighting Video and Blatant Cover-Up.Any duplication, in part or in whole, is forbidden without permission of copyright holder. Email Site Admin for inquiries, comments or questions.
Cozy up to of sighting: February 1, 2014 but announced on April 11, 2014.
Position of sighting: Teotihuacan, Mexico
MUFON Tale #55343
This UFO report was message reported today, all the same took agree 2-1-2014. The video is 1.3 account and the UFO is at an outrageous hight causing the video to look tenancy. Zooming yet does. This is a arcane proponent of how UFOs are concerned to ancient sites. Flatly aliens be sure about about since human history. The UFO changes shape, but generally is in the shape of a climb on end, behind the Ezekiel UFO undergo. SCW
Eyewitness states:
I was lonely visiting the archeological site of Teotihuacan in Mexico on February the 1st, 2014. I was latent, sitting and on a slope by the base of one step pyramid. I turned to see on my spent side up to the sky bearing in mind I noticed a shining dot far in the sky. I without delay turned on my Nikon P500 camera and started painful some pictures and the video I am dispensing you. The brand of this video is not that virtuous, it was pretty firm to heart the object due to the salt away. The object was heartbreaking slowly in set up route, I noticed that for a few seconds the object slowed down (within reach stopping) and then continued its route slickly uncreative the intention I couldn't stretch it either between the camera or between uncovered eye, the object by a long shot consumed in the salt away. I discuss this a atypical undergo when the aim this object registered was denouement to the supersonic crafts but it did not begin any path at all and it was very round as an orb.
I have this nasty habit of perusing Above Top Secret. It's definitely a guilty pleasure of mine. Most of the time I don't really learn anything, really I just enjoy reading about how 'Disclosure is Coming'. But earlier today I came across a really informative thread from an always awesome poster at the site, IsaacKoi. He started a really awesome thread that I highly recommend that you check out.
Entitled "Massive UFO Disclosure in the USA: A challenge for ATS" (Don't let the title confuse you, it's not actually about "THAT" kind of Disclosure) the thread introduces the reader to an awesome site called Footnotes, which among other things houses literally all of the US Government UFO files from their projects. (Of course it doesn't have the secret treaties signed by our world leaders with the Gray Aliens in it, that would just be silly). Project Blue Book, Grudge, and Sign all show up at this database. As do apparently some other's that people may not be as aware of like Project Twinkle and Project Stork (which I had actually not heard of).
The database is technically searchable, but there is a lot of information to sift through. Especially in order to find the 'diamond in the rough'. So with this thread, IsaacKoi is asking for help from those who might be able to assist with the following:
So, can the mass of UFO material on Footnote.com be efficiently downloaded for research off-line? Once that is done, can some aids be developed for finding relevant material?
Is ATS (and the wider UFO community) up to this challenge?
Can the relevant technical issues be addressed here?
Over the years, I've been impressed by the technical abilities and computer savvy of members of ATS. This is an issue where ATS could get ahead of the wider UFO community.
We'll see...
So if you have the skills or are just interested in helping, head over to the ATS thread to learn more. As for me I have spent most of the day, searching Blue Book files from my state. There is, probably not surprisingly, a large amount of information to be found at the site. That's all for now, be sure to check out the sites and have some fun looking at all of the interesting sightings that had been reported.
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Disregarding the inconvenience of the existence or vacuum of Space invader entities visiting our planet, we can say that the coarse Ufology is not scarcely a Meme but a Galaxy of memes.A meme is a unit of cultural bits and pieces, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to modern made characters, screenplay, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Faction of the hint hold tight memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MemeThe original meme in the modern era, comes to life after Kenneth Arnold sighting of "flying saucers" in 1946. The end of the Show Terrain War and the Heartless War were the optimal provisions for the Ufological Meme, reinforced by films, books, presumed contactees and prodigious conspiracies.The UFO meme, grew and turn a self-replicating cultural Contraption once extra special sway. Afterward the original meme adept mutations, suitable a real galaxy of memes.I doubt that the Internet gave to the Ufological Meme a new sway and shelf it's inadequacy that was evident in the seventies.Silent, the UFO-Aliens subculture has nasty if any encouragement in the across-the-board community.UFOs do not offer Word. The Ufological Galaxy of memes exists scarcely in the Internet.Books about the presumed 2012 Disaster or the pleiadean messages of Barbara Marciniak belong to the ET meme, but Afterward to the New Age speechifying.The tidings" about ETs, gigantic messages and crucial disclosure are formed clothed in the UFO subculture.Is what I sob the "Rocket Happens Syndrome".Professionals clothed in the UFO subculture are compulsory to bank background goodbye on. They desire to bank people awake in the Factor, and waiting for no matter which to come to mind.Closely any celebration becomes attached to the theoretical Intrude on. A bother in the UN becomes a positive secret conference about Extraterrestrials.One Gurus of the Ufological subculture however, zigzag sects once an unavoidable cultist effect, and Excommunicate all populace who differ once their Orthodoxy of request Evidences. The UFO cults work made Acclaim, never Exclusive. The self-proclaimed Gigantic Scholar or Contactee is the one and scarcely who KNOWS.Science is denied, negotiations are baned."The show constraint go on" as if it stops, income afterward shelf.Now afterward firm of these pseudo-ufologist advent for alternatives feel affection for Healers, Theosophy, and Conferences about Hidden Civilizations under the Titicaca Combine in Bolivia.Possibly the Ufological Meme ghoul end in a later soul New Age,Of course your bits and pieces are welcome, even if they are antithesis. In arrears all, I call zero to bazaar.
Russia's Soyuz space ball landed confidently in Kazakhstan on Monday, recurring three astronauts and the quaint Olympic torch to Grope after its first always spacewalk. The Russian Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft landed at going on for 8:49 a.m. meet time (02:49 GMT) on the Kazakh steppe, dependable three hours after undocking from the Global Breathing space Identify amid Russia's Fyodor Yurchikhin, the US's Karen Nyberg and Italy's Luca Parmitano on administration. Soon after landing, Yurchikhin handed the torch to legislative body of the Russian Olympic ruling body. The "space torch" ghost be recycled to light the central Olympic flash during the introduction of the Sochi Freezing Olympics on February 7. A spokesman for the forecast control center rumored the get down were piercing during the stock and landing and were "in a careful setting" after using up about six months in space.
Three Trip up 37 get down members hold landed after 166 days in space, finishing a 70.3 million mile forecast straddling manager than 2,600 orbits of the Grope in the same way as their business to the Global Breathing space Identify in May.
Soyuz Boss Yurchikhin undocked the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from aft end the Zvezda roll direction at 6:26 p.m. EST Sunday as the station soared 262 miles over northeast Mongolia. The deorbit rocket at 8:55 p.m. slowed the Soyuz for its just dressed in the Earth's force and its parachute-assisted landing.
The Soyuz TMA-09M is seen moments in advance it lands in Kazakstan amid the get down of Trip up 37. Prophecy Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi
The undocking dotted the end of Trip up 37 and the nudge of Trip up 38 under the regime of Oleg Kotov. Yurchikhin passed the circle of the station over to Kotov during a alter of regime situation Sunday in advance he, Nyberg and Parmitano boarded their Soyuz and the hatches between the spacecraft were stopped up at 3:09 p.m.
The Olympic torch within at the space station Thursday aboard the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying three new get down members - Trip up 38 Recoil Engineers Mikhail Tyurin, Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata. To bear their outer shell, Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano relocated their Soyuz spacecraft on Nov. 1 from the Rassvet direction someplace it had been docked in the same way as May 28 over to Zvezda. The outer shell of Mastracchio, Wakata and Tyurin dotted the first time in the same way as October 2009 that nine workforce hold served together aboard the station weak spot the apparition of a space shuttle.
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin amid the Olympic torch in his hands after a ball of the
Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft under his regime lands in Kazakhstan. Credit: wunitv.com
Two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky, took the torch dressed in blunt space on November 9 for an hour-long photo and video imply as unfinished of an roughly six-hour normal observance spacewalk. The torch remained murky out of the flight for safety measures reasons.
Kotov and Ryazansky ghost control the ISS forecast together amid Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, who carried the torch onto the circle on November 7.
The Olympic torch has been sent dressed in space in advance - for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics and Sydney Games in 2000 - but has never in advance been busy sheath the spacecraft.
Kotov, Ryazanskiy and Recoil Hatch Mike Hopkins, who launched and docked to the station aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M way on Sept. 25, ghost reinstate to Grope on Summary 12. Their neglect ghost mean the seed of Trip up 39 under the regime of Wakata, the first Japan Aerospace Investigation Say-so astronaut entrusted amid that status.
Credit: NASA, RIA Novosti
History Channel - Original Air Date: 2005-7The Abominable Snowman is the bigfoot of the Himalayas. This show looks at whether the Yeti, the Sherpa name for the creature, could actually exist. There are other similar creatures sighted across the world: Mono Grande in South America, Almas in Russia, and of course Bigfoot. Are these the hairy giants of the Bible? Certainly hairy wild men exit in many traditions and mythologies including Gilgamesh and Beowulf. And of course there is gigantopithecus, at 10 tall, the largest of the apes and now extinct. A Tibetan book of 18th century medicine describes the medicinal properties of a creature called the man-animal. The Sherpas of Tibet and Nepal believe in the creature to this day -- and their monasteries keep relics of caps and skin of the supposed animal. Villagers and monks know many stories about the creature -- but whether it is natural or supernatural remains unclear. One woman shepherd claims to have been attacked by the creature and thrown into a stream as the monster ate her cattle. She insists the attacker wasnt a bear or a snow leopard of any known animal. Since Sir Edmund Hillary found strange tracks during his quests for Everest, western media have embraced the legend of the snowman. But scientific expeditions have returned without any evidence.Tom Slicks 1957 expedition broke into two groups, one searching the high mountains for footprints, the other searching the valley for other traces -- and supposedly finding hair samples, droppings, and a "nest" much like those made by gorillas. Slick also saw some monk yeti relics, but could not get the monks to give up the samples for scientific examination. A man called Burn stole some yeti bones from the monastery, replacing what he stole with human bones. The bones turned out to be from an unknown primate; but (according to Loren Coleman) a later expedition (with Hillary and Marlon Perkins) found the fakes and declared the relic to be a fake; a yeti scalp turned out to be from a local sheep. The H/P expedition declared all the relics to be fakes. Sadly, since then the entire hand has been stolen, so no further testing is possible. Slick was killed in a plane crash, and his evidence wasnt examined until Loren Coleman (mentioned in Uncanny Radio 027) examined the crates many years later. Some of the bacteria in the scat samples seemed to suggest an unknown primate. The show recaps the panda, the megamouth, and other creatures not known to science until recently. Vietnam is home to two such creatures, and also rumored to be home of a wild man. Richard Greenwell looked for the Chinese wild man, the yarin, and brought back hair samples to examine. The hair brought back established that the ratio of zinc to copper in the samples indicated that the hairs came from an as-yet undiscovered creature. The rest of the scientific community has yet to weigh in on whether this proves the existence of an unknown primate.Scholars contend that such wild man stories should not be taken seriously but are psychological remnants of our pre-human history and/or collective unconsciousness. Does the wild man represent our repressed desires? In 1996, the "snow walker" video claimed to capture an actual abominable snowman. It appears to show a humanoid creature waking up and moving downhill through the snow; neither the filmmakers nor the location has ever been disclosed, so the film seems likely a hoax -- though a videographer disagrees. He thinks the thing in the film is larger than 9 tall. With no indisputable solid evidence, the hunt for the yeti continues.
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Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the U.S. networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America."
Cronkite was the face of CBS News from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the John F. Kennedy assassination to the Iranian hostage crisis.
According to UFO researcher Bill Knell (more on him below), in the 1950s Cronkite was part of a pool of news reporters brought out to a small South Pacific island to watch the test of a new Air Force missile...a large disc-type UFO appeared on the scene. Cronkite guessed that the object was about 50-60 feet in diameter, a dull grey color and had no visible means of propulsion. As Air Force guards ran toward the UFO with their dogs, the disc hovered about 30 feet off of the ground.
BILL KNELL'S CLAIM: In the 1950s Cronkite was part of a pool of News Reporters brought out to a small South Pacific island to watch the test of a new Air Force missile. After a short inspection of the new system by the reporters, they were lead to an area that was a safe distance from the launch site. The missile was mounted on a specially-built launcher that was attached to a cement base. It was obvious that the area had been quickly built just for the test. The details about the missile were going to be given to the reporters in he form of hand-out sheets and press releases after the test.
Cronkite mentioned that he and the other reporters had been warned that photography of the missile test and any audio transmissions or recordings by the press were forbidden. They would have to give a written account of the event. Just as the test was ready to proceed, everyone was writing as fast as they could. As Air Force Security personnel walked around the perimeter of the test area with guard dogs and the news reporters watched, the missile was fired-up and about to be released. Just then, a large disc-type UFO appeared on the scene.
Cronkite guessed that the object was about 50-60 feet in diameter, a dull grey color and had no visible means of propulsion. Because the noise of activity around him and the missile engine was so loud, he couldn't tell whether the disc made any noise. He did not notice any coming directly from the object.
As Air Force guards ran toward the UFO with their dogs, the disc hovered about 30 feet off of the ground. It suddenly sent out a blue beam of light which struck the missile, a guard and a dog all at the same time. The missile was frozen in mid-air about 70 feet from the launcher as it had taken off. A guard was frozen in mid-step and a dog frozen in mid-air as it had jumped at the disc. Cronkite reminded me that this all happened within the space of about five minutes or less.
Suddenly, the missile exploded! After that, the disc vanished. The guard and dog looked alright, but were quickly taken away by medical personnel always present at tests in case anyone became injured. At the same time, guards rapidly ushered the reporters into a concrete observation bunker. After about thirty minutes of sitting in that hot box, they were brought out into the air again and addressed by an Air Force Colonel.
The officer told them, "It was all part of the test." Obviously making it up as he went along, the Colonel said that the event was "staged" to test media reaction to UFOs. He reinforced the usual line to the reporters that Flying Saucers were probably not extra-terrestrial, but what people were actually seeing was secret planes being tested by the Air Force. This test was designed to show the media how "shocking" it could be to suddenly view a new technology. Well, Cronkite was certain that what he viewed was a new technology, but he was also sure it was not an Earthly one! He didn't believe the Air Force explanation then, and he still didn't believe it at the time when he told me the story.
After the event, reporters were told that since it was a test of media reaction to new technology, they could not report on it! But, they would be compensated later with exclusive stories on new Air Force projects (a promise that was never kept). Being as private as he was, Cronkite never did share with me his own beliefs about UFOs beyond the story he told me. I was so happy to have heard the story that I was afraid to ask anything further!
The CBS UFO Special was filmed shortly after my meeting with Cronkite and I was included in it for just a few minutes. During the filming, I became aware that Cronkite had not shared his story with most of the other UFO investigators or witnesses. After the special aired I called one of Cronkite's staff members and asked him if he had ever heard the UFO story. He told me he had. Cronkite had only shared it with a few key people and it was NOT covered or even mentioned in the Special.
I wondered why Cronkite had chosen to tell me the story without telling everyone? The staff members told me that most of the others were so busy telling him about themselves that he just never bothered. I guess that the greatest lesson the legendary newsman taught me that day was the art of conversation, knowing when to talk and when to listen! - "Bill Knell - 4/6/2006"
FOLLOW-UP TO WALTER CRONKITE'S UFO ENCOUNTER
I originally wrote the Cronkite article in 1998 for my website, but I thought readers at Paranormal News might enjoy it as well. I met Cronkite in 1973 (as the article indicates) and that's when he told me the story.
I have repeated the story ever since during many of my seminars and found that a few others had heard the story too. Most of them had heard it second hand or said that they had read it somewhere. At the time it happened, some of his staff knew about it, so I assumed it wasn't really a big secret. He didn't tell it to me in confidence, so I felt no obligation to keep it a secret. Since publications come and go and people have short memories for news, it's possible that Cronkite had once shared it in some long-forgotten interview. But I have never seen it in print.
I feel that Cronkite's account of what happened is very credible. He seemed to be telling me the story from an honest memory of the event. When we conversed, he was very interested in the Air Force cover-up. I suspect that if he had more control over the 1973 documentary, he would have angled it in that direction. Instead, it was pretty much a neutral piece designed for ratings (from my memory). Although I have contacted CBS many times, they finally told me that any tape or film the UFO Special was on no longer exists and was probably lost in the shuffle of the news craziness surrounding Watergate (which broke big around that time).
Like many important stories, this one has been around awhile, but I think alot of people in the UFO and Paranormal research community probably were too busy chasing false starts created by government disinformation to cover it. I recall that when everyone was running to Gulf Breeze in the late 80's and early 90's, I revealed a story regarding a trip by former general Doolittle (the leader of the famous bombing raid on Japan during the early part of WWII) to Spitzbergen and his possible connection to the recovery of a UFO. He was there in 1946 and may have obtained a UFO that crashed on the island during the war. I had met some sailors from the USS Alabama in the late 80's who said the object was brought back to the USA on the battleship Alabama. I started telling this story in my seminars as early as 1990, but noticed that the ABOUT.com UFO page attributes it to some 1950s or 60's article by someone I had never heard of?
I also noticed that some of the MUFON people credited my original recording of the first radio interview given by Kenneth Arnold less then 12 hours after his 1947 sighting to some guy named Mike. I received that recording from a radio guy who had the original interview in the 70's and have been playing it in my seminars ever since. I assume that Mike lifted it off one of my audio or video sets and sent it to whoever at MUFON. No problem, just an illustration of how stuff is out there is you take some time to look at some of us little guys who aren't Richard, Budd or Whitley.
Here's one more. In 1987 I met a guy that had worked with Jesse Marcel. He told me that some of the material shown in texas that was supposed to be from the weather balloon wreckage was actually from the real object. It was some of the lighter colored, small pieces laying on top of the balloon wreckage at the bottom of the press conference photos. I told that story to Friedman and others who laughed at it. Now I see that photo examination has revealed it to be true. But that didn't surprise me. I was amused to find out that most people in the UFO community didn't know that when THE ROSWELL INCIDENT was first published, Bill Moore still had never actually visited or set foot in Roswell! He wrote the book from all of Friedman's notes and by witness interviews over the phone. Moore finally went to the place later.
Finally, I doubt that Cronkite kept the story a secret. Some of his staff knew about it and a few others I've met through the years. When he told it to me, he did it as calmly as someone reporting the weather. I think he just likes being in the driver's seat when it comes to his own life and experiences and might have even been a bit embarrassed by it all. Maybe he was just caught up in the moment and felt like getting it off his chest.
Actually, I was the only UFO researcher there who didn't have anything to promote. I was a teen with a mimeographed UFO newsletter who got invited to speak at local libraries and Kiwanis Clubs. I think he might have told the story to the others as well, but most of them were very busy blowing their own horns and promoting their stuff. Look at the depths to which I've sunk since then. Now I'm blowing MY own horn!
In case you're wondering about it, I tried getting a few more details out of Cronkite regarding the actual location of the test, but he told me that the reporters were brought to the location without being told exactly where it was. Secrecy regarding the actual location was a part of the conditions for being able to witness the test. I decided not to push the point or question him further. - "Bill Knell - UFO Researcher"
NOTE: I don't know what to think about Bill Knell's assertions...though there has been quite a bit of inquiry about him recently. Go to UFO NEWS Criminal Actions of Bill Knell (AGAIN) and make your own determination. Below are a few links:
Warning about Bill Knell
Bill Knell Internet Crook, Amazon Books, CDs, UFO LIAR, SCAM ARTIST !
Bill Knell UFO Ripoff Report Directory Complaints Reviews Scams Lawsuits Frauds Reported
Bill Knell in hot-water
Frankly, I take many of these claims (on both sides) with a grain of salt. But, as always, I leave it up to you...Lon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be swooping close to Saturn's moon Rhea on Saturday, March 9, the last close flyby of Rhea in Cassini's mission. The primary purpose will be to probe the internal structure of the moon by measuring the gravitational pull of Rhea against the spacecraft's steady radio link to NASA's Deep Space Network here on Earth. The results will help scientists understand whether the moon is homogeneous all the way through or whether it has differentiated into the layers of core, mantle and crust.
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Cassini looks over the heavily cratered surface of Rhea during the spacecraft's flyby of the moon on March 10, 2012 [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute]"
In addition, Cassini's imaging cameras will take ultraviolet, infrared and visible-light data from Rhea's surface. The cosmic dust analyzer will try to detect any dusty debris flying off the surface from tiny meteoroid bombardments to further scientists' understanding of the rate at which "foreign" objects are raining into the Saturn system.
Cassini will fly within about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) of the surface. The time of closest approach is around 10:17 a.m. PST (1:17 p.m. EST). This is Cassini's fourth close flyby of Rhea.
On Feb. 10, 2015, Cassini will pass Rhea at about 29,000 miles (47,000 kilometers), but this is not considered a targeted flyby. Cassini has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004 and is in a second mission extension, known as the Solstice mission.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of Caltech. For more information on Cassini, visit http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
"Source: NASA [March 08, 2013]"
