plane captured by ufo on video? Hmm....

It is very difficult to believe this video is not fake, but the poster has a good story behind it and I don't have the gear nor the time to examine the video in depth, but at the first few viewings it's hard to see anything obviously fake except that the content seems too good to be true. But I present it in the interests of keeping an open mind.

Pretty nifty night footage from Chile 120609

Some really amazing nighttime footage from Chile, if this was faked the photog should get an oscar, really.
Several lights, at times seeming like part of or or two larger objects, but then clearly operating independently and then combining with each other again differently before moving off, really fascinating video...

giant triangle UFO hovers over red square for hours!

This edited-down version has 3 different videos of the Moscow Triangle, along with snide British commentary and cheezy techno music...

China Spiral same as in Norway?

I was ready to believe the Russian Rocket story for the Norway Spiral, until I came across the CHINESE spirals, right around the same time, as far as I can tell -- it's all in Chinese! Some Mandarin speaker want to clue us in on what's being said?



Also, some documentary about the China Spiral, with some good spiral images though I'm not sure if they're 'reconstructions' or authentic....

And here's some interesting footage of the Norway spiral:

I have to say, the 'tail' at the lower right corner lends credence to the rocket theory, but the video says at one point in the caption that there was a similar object in January 2009! So the Russians had the same problem twice? Hmm...
Here's some more Norway spiral stuff, mostly stills.

AND, here's a spiral UFO video from Russia from 2006? Is 'spiral' a new UFO type?


Interestingly, a lot of the UFO/Conspiracy sites are claiming this is evidence of a test of Project Blue Beam, which is technology designed to project giant images into the sky to fool people into believing in the Anti-Christ or some such, pulling in HAARP and other stuff....I hadn't heard of Project Blue Beam before....

CO. Cattle mutilations

AP reporting on a string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado....

'65 photo proven authentic

one of the most convincing series of photos ever taken of a UFO was the set of 4 taken by Rex Heflin in Texas in 1965, using a Polaroid camera.

The latest analysis supports the idea that the photos were not faked in any way.

strange russian cloud ring

this could possibly be some sort of bizarre ultra-rare weather phenomenon, but it's unusual enough that I thought I'd post it....

Lonnie Zamora Socorro Sighting A Hoax?

Although extremely old news (40+ years!), the Soccorro sighting, you know, the one where the deputy saw two beings leap into a craft and take off, has always been super controversial.
Here's some evidence that it was hoaxed, supposedly. These old dudes say they did it, as part of this 'culture of pranksterism' at NM Tech. And since they're old, why would they lie?
I don't deny that Socorro was a hoax, nor do I necessarily believe that it wasn't. But whether or not these hoaxers existed, which they apparently did, and whether or not they had a fondness for hoaxing UFO's, which they also apparently did, it doesn't say how they managed to get the UFO that Zamora saw to turn green and shoot off into the sky, which is what he's always said it did.

triangle footage

I've been remiss in posting the last couple months, the recession is kicking my ass and I've been concentrating on staying afloat. But I hope to post more here in the near future, maybe even get the Drupal site up I've been threatening for ages. Drupal will let me organize the site better, so I can put some real value-add to the UFO stuff, and hopefully stand out from amidst the many many UFO blogs out there.
How you ask? By starting to draw the connections and organizing the information in a useful way, with the intent that it all get rated, connected, and contextualized, which is the only way any scientific light will ever be shed using the evidence we have so far. Skeptics will continue to argue each and every individual sighting, no matter if it's on radar or 10,000 people see it, and so trotting out sighting after sighting is pointless. What the UFO community should be going after at this point in time, after 60+ years of sightings, pix, videos, etc. is how to put all this information together in ways that will allow any patterns to emerge, and for connections to be made.
We need to put all the data we have so far in its proper place according to time and date, relevant geospatial data, the type of objects or whatever seen, and the type and number of witnesses and other evidence, so we can make correlations across the data and see if we can prove via scientific statistical means that there is something going on, or once and for all if it all is just mass hysteria, Venus, and swamp gas.

As pompous and arrogant as it may sound, I hope to start to do that with the Drupal version of Dimension22, which I hope to have time to do one of these days. I've got the site installed, I basically just need to build a nifty template for it, do the taxonomy and the rss feeds, and start the laborious process of adding the content, both from this temporary blog as well as all the on- and offline stuff I've been wanting to post.

I've got a huge backlog of stuff to put up, that I hope I can someday get to, but in the meantime, here's some interesting nighttime footage of something with non-standard blinking lights and of considerable apparent size, as far as can be ascertained.
Hard to tell what it is, but it's pretty clear what it isn't -- a helicopter or plane, unless it's one with really illegal lights!

some video evidence of crop circles in the midst of being formed?

I don't usually post stuff on crop circles, as fascinating as they are, because since so many English Tossers think it's amusing to hoax them, the field (no pun intended) is even more fraught with false leads than the rest of UFOlogy.
But this one was pretty interesting. You can see two flashes of light, and then if you look closely, some dark things of some sort moving around in the field.
The setup for filming was pretty sophisticated, using 4 IR cameras for parallax, and then another dude went and filmed the same area during the daytime to make sure that it matched up. An intricate, 'woven' crop circle was discovered in that same spot the next morning, with the wheat apparently interleaved like a basket!
Check out the videos (there are several) at the link in the title...

Mexico yellow orb releases numerous child orbs!

This recent video from Mexico is truly astounding, and I am at a loss how these could be explained away. It's got lots of reference points in continuous video, and shows multiple self-luminous objects zipping about clearly under some sort of control. Furthermore, scores of these luminous objects appear to come from the central object, and even those that don't simply appear from out of nothing! Really neat stuff. How come Mexico gets all the nifty ones? ;)

star-shaped video from Brazil

found this posted on YouTube, posted from Atibaia city in São Paulo, Brazil:

spinning triangle thingy over Amsterdam, Netherlands!

This video, if authentic -- which I doubt -- is pretty nifty. It shows some weirdo object spinning over a city (presumably Amsterdam), that then takes off amazingly quickly, doing a nice STNG flash thing. Pretty good fake though, IMHO, although I'd love to be proved wrong about this one (about the fake part)....

two similar quasi-invisible airborne circles

by themselves, neither one of these reports is all that interesting, but I find it curious that within a couple of days of each other, there are these two reports that are so similar as to be very eerie. Both are very subtle circles hanging motionless in the sky, hardly visible....
The first is the one from Kings Dominion, VA, which actually has some video to go with it.
The second, is a single photo that only showed a strange circle when the photographer was looking over his photos after uploading.
By themselves, either of these could be easily dismissed as whatever, but these are 3 days apart, this particular one from Texas. I just found that curious enough to post both of these as a potentially related phenomenon.
Also if you poke around the YouTube video some, you'll find this one, which shows some other similar rings from previous decades, with some more discussion on the 1957 sighting available at UFOCasebook.

3 crisp daytime flying triangle photos

these 3 photos are really sharp and clear; what isn't clear is whether they are something otherworldly or just really advanced military technology...
They were taken in Greenville, South Carolina

flying mexican humanoid thingy -- WTF?

ok this is totally whack. It's all in spanish so i have little enough idea of what the hell they're saying, but the video is definitely a strange one....

lots more weird stuff here too: http://www.para-tube.com

some amazing alleged NASA footage of crashed ancient spacecraft on the moon?

Part I of the footage; includes an audio overlay of the already famous interview with Apollo Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, already included in a previous post. The first 7 minutes include some of the harder-to-explain-away space shuttle footage of odd things, including my personal favorite, the one where the object makes a 270 degree turn, accelerates away, and is followed by a flash of light as if something on the ground shot at it; how exactly is that space junk or a camera flare, pray tell?

Part II is IMHO much less convincing, but equally interesting, video/audio combinations, dealing primarily with John Lear, and partly (although sadly cut off) with Richard Hoagland of Face-On-Mars fame. Hoagland is somebody who I actually met, having helped a pal videotape one of his presentations a few years back. While Hoagland has some interesting stuff to talk about, particularly regarding the supposed giant structures on the moon, he's kind of a dick as a person - or he was to me and my pal - which may not have any bearing on the validity of what he's talking about, but makes it more difficult for me to believe him. IMHO assholes are more likely to be big fat liars than non-assholes; purely an emotional bias, I freely admit. I shouldn't confuse the messenger with the message. However I always thought the Face On Mars was hokum. I don't know anything about Lear (if I'm even spelling his name correctly) though I'll try to research him some more in a future post.
part III starts out and ends with the famous Mexican Air Force IR video, which to my thinking is as solid a proof as you could possibly ask for -- objects invisible to the naked eye, captured by military-quality infrared gear, and seen by numerous qualified air force personnel. I ask you, skeptics, if that's not acceptable evidence, WTF is? What evidence would it take to convince you, if any? My guess is that most skeptics wouldn't believe it if the aliens landed on their garage.
The rest of part III deals with the supposed immanence of Disclosure by the U.S. government, which in an earlier post I expressed my doubt as to its likelihood. Governments have a singular dislike of admitting that they've been wrong, especially arrogant, conceited governments like ours. So don't hold your breath. But I'd love to be proved wrong....

Participant reports on the Dulce, NM Conference

Some fascinating reading regarding the heavily attended conference in Dulce, NM about the possibility of an underground alien base or black ops military base, or both, beneath Archuleta Mesa.
Details include multiple witness reports of UFO activity, cattle mutilations, physical evidence of military operations, and perhaps most interestingly, surveillance of conference attendees by unmarked helicopters!
Really worth a look....

Stunning Daylight Disk footage from Italy

These are some of the clearest, most detailed daylight disk videos EVER.
They don't offer a great many reference points, but there are sufficient background details in the sky (like in one instance, a far-away passenger airliner) to make some good analysis.


here's a video of some English Bloke who thinks the Urzi guy is faking the video; after watching the demo I'm not convinced the Urzi footage is faked; the whatever-it-is in the Italian videos has a lot more depth of field to it, and in one of the clips starts out from much further away than i think the Italian dude could have faked from that tiny attic window. Just MHO of course...
'hoax' demo video: compare & contrast for yourself!

objects seen in Pakistan, Turkey

the video below seems to be a composite of several different videos taken of what was described as a 'huge' object hovering and doing manoeuvres described as 'not of this planet', over Lahore, Pakistan.


Also a hexagonal orange light was filmed by a Turkish Security Guard (Those Turkish security guards have all the luck! :D ) and his on 2 coworkers on April 23 in the early AM:

At first I couldn’t understand what I was witnessing. I saw this large object rising from the sea. It definitely wasn’t a plane or balloon. It was leaving a trail and it was glowing. My hands were shaking from the excitement. As it descended towards the sea I ran to the beach but then it began to rapidly rise eventually merging with the stars. It was hexagonal, orange and fluorescent. As far as I am concerned it was a definitely UFO

some interesting sightings from southern Asia

This video from Kashgar, China is pretty interesting, though nothing as spectacular as the two videos below. The footage dates from 2/18/9 and

Some other recent Asian sightings:

• UFO 'meters away' in Himalayas


• Thailand UFO hovering over river, multiple witnesses


• UFO Videotaped in Hebei Province, China


• Mystery object videotaped in Japan

Two impressive videos of similar weird objects

Both of these videos are fairly startling, and both seem to show odd-looking objects with protrusions and no definable shape.
Both objects make no sound, and are traveling far too quickly IMHO to be 'balloons', research or otherwise. Anyone who has ever seen a balloon (and as someone 65 miles from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, I've seen more than my share) knows that balloons don't move very quickly, even in high winds. Nor do they show any sort of lifting surface such as wings or rotors.
The first and shorter vid is from Germany this year, and has the added bonus of some other, smaller spherical objects seeming to buzz the primary whatever-it-is (shown in the slo-mo):

And the second from Canada last year (language warning!): (Oakbay, Victoria, British Columbia)

New revelations reveal Roswell Debris was extraterrestrial!

Startling news, if it can be confirmed!
props to the UFO Iconoclast for bringing my attention to this amazing story! I highly recommend you read his detailed article.

A former high-level scientist employed by the involved laboratory has offered a confession that he was tasked to study the crashed UFO material. Information provided by two U.S. Air Force Generals also offers direct support for this discovery.

The article details several documents and statements (among them those of two generals) concerning some classified metallurgical studies done on the infamous 'memory metal' alleged pieces of the Roswell crash of 1947, made famous by the revelations of Jesse Marcel, Jr, the son of the famous Army Major who made the initial investigation of what has become known as the Roswell crash. Another quote from the article:

Battelle scientist Elroy John Center has stated that he analyzed metal from a crashed UFO when he was employed by the Institute. Center was a Senior Research Chemist who worked for Battelle for nearly two decades, from 1939 to 1957. This has been confirmed by both his University of Michigan alumni files and by the location of scientific papers that he authored during his employment while at Battelle.

These documents and confessions seem to confirm not only the debris themselves, but also the US military's interest in them, and even subsequent 'discoveries' made as a result of the studies of the alien material!
double wow, if these can be confirmed. I'm trolling the web now for more info....

[Update 07/05/09] the 3rd part of the series was released recently, and has some interesting additional info...

several recent reports from UFOcasebook

I'm posting these because two concern photographs of the unusual 'boomerang' type UFO, another resembles the UFO 'fleet' video of Horn Lake MS, and the last is a report of yet another triangle:

Boomerang-shaped UFO photographed in unnamed CO location

four different photos of boomerang-ish UFOs in Tamaulipas, Mexico

several self-luminous object snapped in Sedona, AZ

report of a triangle UFO doing very UFO-ish things in Lake Elsinore, CA

UFO videos over Albuquerque - How do we tell the real from the faked?

Question: isn't it time to compile at least the EASY ways to tell if footage is bogus or not? Here are two UFOs filmed over Albuquerque, NM - one quite recent, the other one pretty impressive stuff from a year ago.



Both amateur video ..yikes for the handheld camera, but the footage itself is rather impressive. Not being a photo analyst myself, it would be good to not only have some opinions, but also to start a short list of things we should all be looking for in terms of determining validity of the footage. With vid-capturing cellphones, high-res but cheap video cameras, and otherwise constant accessibility to capture unusual footage in an instant, we'll be 'seeing' more and more video, both real and fake (I have no opinion on these yet). How do separate what IS real and fake, to a first approximation? We'll be culling the best tips in the future, but feel free to post your suggestions in the comments, O great analysts!

Original story for the 2008 video is here

New UFO probe called for by pilots & ex-military officers

a multinational group of former airline pilots and government officials have gathered in the US capital this week to talk about the UFOs (unidentified flying objects) they claim to have seen over the last 30 years and to call for action from the US Government. The group alleges an international cover-up of alien sightings.

OSETI astronomers find their own 'WOW' signal

OSETI is a version of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence that is trying to find Optical signals being sent with laser pulses, figuring that an advanced intelligence will use lasers rather than old-fashioned radio for its communications. While I've had my doubts about SETI, seeing as how its rationale is not only looking for ephemeral needles in very large haystacks, but also betting that the needle owners are extraordinarily careless about their needles.
Nonetheless, these guys found something weird:

in the first week of last December (2008) Bhathal's team detected an unusual strong laser signal that could not have been identified nor did it re-occur since: "It may be a glitch in our equipment, or some astrophysical phenomena (e.g an optical pulsar) or some unknown source. We are still investigating it",

This is OSETI's equivalent to the famous 'WOW' radio signal of the 1970s.

some more sightings in the UK

a computer game developer (hmm, somebody well-versed in photoshop and CG no doubt) snapped some video of an object hovering over Bristol, UK. It's a lone-person sighting so that makes it more suspect, but some interesting video nonetheless.

Some interesting footage of two small spheres messing with a passenger jet over Gorebridge, Scotland.

And further, another object filmed over London, some glowing orbs videoed over Liverpool, and a report of a glowing orange football over Spalding.

several sightings in Wales and Bath, UK

Astronomer reports on rotating orange ball over Bath, England, 5/20/09. Says he knows what venus and lanterns look like, and this was neither. I've started including Google Maps references to sighting locations for the serious researcher. Bath is here.

Another woman in Newton shot some (crappy) video of this object:

"The white object was egg shaped and was spinning on an axis," the 17-year-old told the County Times. "The object was completely silent and was hovering like a glider. There was also a bright orange light at the back."

Another witness from the same place in Wales evening saw something different:

"There were about 20 lights going over in the same direction, they were completely silent and they didn't all go over at once they went over in small groups."

Wales is here.

UFO fleet over Mississippi with helicopters intercepting

this video was shot on 5/20/9 in Horn Lake, Mississippi.

You can see several brightly lit, predominantly stationary objects in the video, one of which appears from nowhere. At the end you can plainly see several helicopters heading towards the formation of lights.
according to a self-described marine corps vet, these aren't flares:

FLARES!?!?!?!LMFAO...I served in the Marine Corps for four years active duty and have seen plenty of flares my friend and those ARE NOT flares. For one they do not sit for that long...they move and they have a trail. You know when you see a flare or flares.

GLOBAL: UFOS we've missed: India

3/21/09.. Sticking on the radar for 15 minutes, an unidentified flying object over Kolkata (Calcutta) India had Indian officials checking with their own Air Force and worrying about terrorists or 'other' alternate flying objects crossing through Indian air space. The only other blip then on the radar was a Cathay Pacific flight - coincidentally communications with this known flight was interrupted while the 'mystery' ufo was also on the screen. An investigation has been ordered...

Personally I like this one, as long-lasting radar blips coupled to communication interference can't be attributed to photographic glitches by some idiot with a cellphone camera unaware of reflections.

Multiple sightings over Vail area, Colorado

MUFON reports from the area include : early AM encounter with craft and entities starting in late April, silvery disks, silent crafts with a photo, hovering disc-shaped crafts with flashing lights, as well as white cigar-shaped sightings...

"The disc appeared to drop a diamond-shaped object that descended to the ground, and then the disc departed at high speed to the northwest."

Overall report at vaildaily.com:

Some individual reports at:

• 5/9/09- North of Vail, CO:Security Officer Sees Cigar Shaped Object Moves Eastward Across Sky
• 5/7/09 - Eagle, CO:Woman Spots Strobe Lights That Moved Erratically in Sky
• 5/7/09- Avon, CO:Two Girls See Flying Disk & Report Sighting to Air Force Veteran
• 5/7/09 - Edwards, CO:Flying Disk With Flashing Lights Dropped Diamond Object
• 5/6/09 - Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, CO:High Flying UFO Seen From Ski Lift. Photo Taken.

From this nifty site: ufosnw

they're dropping like flies! Crashes in Kazakhstan and Needles CA

The web is abuzz with the news of 3 luminous spheres crashing to earth in Kazakhstan on 5/13/9. The news is all over Russia and The Ukraine.
The elements of the story that stand out and make it seem not just like more orbital debris are that the objects "...were emitting red and green sparks as they descended to earth." and that "...the curious villagers tried to chip the UFOs with a chisel [upon which] colourful sparks flew out but to their astonishment they were unable to mark the objects in any way." There's some lively discussion on Above Top Secret about this case. Also, an update on that case can be found here.

Searching for that led me to another story about yet another crash in in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan on 1/5/9. Apparently there, a local police chief saw a shining flying object falling into the Belaya river early on January 5. Divers found nothing after four attempts, but investigated a "15-meter air hole" whatever that is.
Are the aliens already (unsuccessfully) looking for the ET Embassy they're building there? :D

And that of course led me to more new stuff about the alleged UFO crash in Needles CA last year (2008), just a couple months before the afore-mentioned Japan crash; George Knapp, the NV TV news guy who's broken so many good UFO stories, has this piece.
Essentially the details are these:

Those who saw the object descending, claim that it was of a turquoise color. Any idea of the object being a meteorite was quickly dismissed because of the presence of a number of helicopters, which appeared to be searching for the object. Eyewitnesses claimed that the group of helicopters eventually located the object, and toted it to an unknown location.

The blogosphere is already on to that one, and some interesting commentary on it has already appeared. Some more interesting detail on the witnesses can be found in this blog post. I've give that Knapp guy credit -- he's either a top-notch BS artist, or one ballsy reporter...
The video of the news story on this site, with the full story found here.

UFO crash in Japan?

There's been some flutter on the web lately about a possible UFO crash -- and debris retrieval -- in Japan on 7/16/08.
I've been trying to find more info on this before posting, but there doesn't seem to be much. Nothing, actually! But it's so intriguing I thought I'd post it anyway.
Although in searching for corroboration, I did find this little gem -- a historical document in Japan that appears to be the story of a UFO crash in 19th century feudal Japan! Very interesting. I love the historical stuff, because that basically puts the kibosh on the skeptics who say it's all due to people being influenced by the media. Sadly, i can't seem to find the translated article that the pinktentacle post refers to @ the bottom....

Russian Farmer films luminous UFO over field

Personally I could do without the country-specific bogus background music that allnewsweb or whomever is adding to the videos they post, as it gives an unnecessary burlesque flavor to the evidence that doesn't help anybody trying to discern its authenticity. But this minute+ of video is pretty darn interesting. There was some other interesting vids filmed recently on the allnewsweb site, but the others IMHO are easier to explain away. Self-luminous objects are much harder to pass off as a kite, balloon, chinese lanterns etc. especially on what appears to be a rather dismal overcast day in rural Russia.
Another fun one which I'll just link to is this short video of an alleged UFO over a shopping mall. The problem with these Russian sightings is that the Russians are becoming renowned hoaxers.

Edgar Mitchell UFO revelations

Edgar Mitchell (former Astronaut, 6th man on the moon) in a fascinating interview about the existence of alien life and the reality of alien visitation and government coverup!

more on the turkish UFO

This is a nifty compilation of several of the most interesting Turkish UFO videos, some 20+ minutes worth.

İstanbul / Kumburgaz UFO's and ALIENS ARE BACK in 2008! from fox mulder on Vimeo.

These videos are interesting because several of them have lots of stuff that makes them easy to authenticate, like foreground stuff. They are almost too good to be true, especially the one that shows little dudes or something in the craft! I actually thought, as many people do when seeing these, that they have to be fake; but apparently they have stood up well so far to analysis. If they are authentic, they are absolutely astounding. I had no idea the greys had convertibles. :D
more on these as i have time to research them....

Brazil and Sweden release government UFO files

How come other governments are so much more reasonable than ours?
Brazil, who in the past has released large sections of their government's UFO files to public inspection, has now released another 600 pages worth.

Not to be outdone by a bunch of New World Latinos, Sweden has apparently followed suit with 18k files of their own, including a nice USO diving into a lake. Another link to that: Norrköping

Apparently, there are rumors that the Obama administration will be following suit with the US's files. Personally, i doubt this.

Here's a nice YouTube video of all that...

Engineer sighting of Huge UFO over power station

no video or pix but an interesting report nonetheless.
I like reports by engineers, pilots, policemen, military dudes etc as these are typically no-nonsense types of people who aren't going to go out on a limb and join what they often perceive as the lunatic fringe unless they really saw something that freaked them out.

here's the Google Earth/Maps image of the location; Hmmm, nuclear power station, a UFO favorite....

Kazakhstan builds world's first ET embassy

among the gems in this little piece are the assertions that
1. A UFO 'crashed' in a Kazakh river in '08
2. It's widely accepted over in former Russkyville that there is a UFO base underwater in the Caspian Sea, and
3. The USSR regularly monitored UFO comings and goings out of said base
WOW!
I never heard of any of that before just now. Gotta do some more research on those ones....

UFO on Acid

Another YouTube gem, this one looks like some stuff I saw after taking 3 tabs of Bill The Cat Blotter back in the 80s!
This is one of the strangest shape-changers I've ever seen! Unfortunately the photographer doesn't zoom out enough for us to get a frame of reference, but again, if this was done with computer graphics, somebody ought to hire that guy!

bizarro shape changing spikey daylight UFO

There are a bunch of daylight videos of bizarre shape-changing UFOs on YouTube (what did we ever do before YouTube?)
This one is obviously from South or Central America someplace, and doesn't really get interesting until about 1/2 through, when the whatever-it-is changes shape and becomes something that looks like some bizarre flying sea urchin or something.
Not being a video expert or anything, I can't say as to the validity of the footage, but if it's a fake, it's a damn good one, as the kids yelling in spanish in the background makes for a pretty real experience!javascript:void(0)

Obama UFO disclosure?

OrionSixNine has been throwing stuff my way faster than I can post it!
I've given O69 authorship access to Dimension22, so hopefully that will get used directly soon, although I can identify with the desire to remain hidden.

Regarding the news conference in the video concerning disclosure, I never know what to make of this sort of thing. My guess is the US government is in far too deep as far as the 60+ years of denial and coverup to back out now. Although it would be a hell of a distraction from Iraq, Afghanistan, TARP, and the economy in general. Not to mention climate change!

The TR3-B black Triangle

OrionSixNine wrote me this message today:

Have you read much on the TR3-B triangle?
Here is an article and a few videos on it.

I'm going to respond publicly since this is a very interesting aspect of UFOlogy and bears some thoughtful, measured response.

Regarding the "TR3-B", the term is a new one on me, but the stories associating the black triangles with Military Black Ops have been around since the mid-90's, and I've been hearing stories about the Aurora Program since then as well.

However, several aspects of the Black Triangle sighting don't make a lot of sense at first blush as military ops.
For one, in the 90's, there were several sightings, some from satellite even, of strange, corkscrew-shaped contrails. These were at the time attributed to the Aurora program and its newfangled propulsion system. Contrails of course don't make any sense given a gravity-reducing propulsion system:

mercury based [plasma],is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres,at a temperature of 150 degrees kelvin,and accelerated to 50,000 RPM to create a super conducted plasma,resulting in gravity disruption

So that's a big question mark. Also, while I am not a physicist, I'm pretty sure plasmas are a state of matter between liquid and gas, so something cooled down to 150 degrees Kelvin (about -190 Fahrenheit, or -123 celsius) is more likely to be a Bose-Einstein condensate, not a plasma.
So while that could be just a misidentification one way or the other, the fact is they can't both be the Aurora project.
Also, these triangles are usually FRIKKIN HUGE, and are often seen gliding slowly and silently near population centers. Why the hell would the military fly their secret shit over big cities in places like Belgium or over Phoenix, AZ? They wouldn't is the answer.
I personally think the triangles are something else, and all this talk of the TR3-B is disinfo to keep people from utterly freaking out. After all, a secret military craft is a lot easier on the old reality buffer than giant black alien spaceships scoping out our population centers....

fascinating nighttime footage of ring shaped UFO

Thanks to my buddy OrionSixNine for tipping me to this one!
Almost 6 minutes of nighttime footage of a bizarre ring-shaped object, clearly executing all sorts of maneuvers above somewhere near redondo beach in CA, I'm guessing, as that's what the photographer says.
There's lots of wide-angle shots giving perspective with houses and streetlights in the foreground, making this one very difficult for the skeptics to dismiss, I'd imagine. Some bonehead in the comments said "Der, looks like a streetlight!" (Ok, I added the 'der' part) but obviously he didn't watch the entire footage, 'cause streetlights don't move from one side of the sky to another, change direction and orientation and elevation, and have red lights that come on and off randomly.
Really impressive...
UPDATE: for reasons unknown, the user took down the video :(

New evidence of O'Hare UFO already debunked?

There was a bunch of new evidence that supposedly came out about the O'Hare sighting that made the news back in '07.
This UFO Casebook page shows a comparison of three images, each supposedly from a different source, all showing a similar object. Cool, I would have said.
Also there's the new video in question, which i have to say looks a little fake to me, even if I hadn't read the NARCAP analyst first.
But as the title link shows, one photographic expert at least considers them to be a hoax. But curiously, I feel forced to point out, he works for a different UFO research website, so ya never know with that sort of thing....So I keep an open mind.

duo claims they hoaxed morristown NJ UFO

The video shows these guys saying they were going to pull off the prank. They also say they were going to film the launch, but that bit is not in the video, strangely. We see them bragging, and playing with flares (again, is there some magic flare store I've just never heard of?), but I don't see them putting the balloons on the frame and launching it. I'm supposed to take their word for it? they're the skeptics, and they want me to believe them without seeing actual proof? Maybe this version of the video is just missing that bit...
Anyway, supposedly they're up on charges now. Hah! serves them right. The UFO thing is difficult enough without small minded idiots out to prove their own narrow belief system is correct by fooling people. Just because it's possible for people to be fooled doesn't necessarily mean that all UFO sightings are hoaxes or hallucinations, and it's just petty to go about hoaxing because you refuse to believe in any other possibility. I hate hoaxers, i just want to punch them in the head. Would any other science appreciate it if people went about making shit up to fool people? They didn't take kindly to that korean cloning guy, or to the cold-fusion people, so that same attitude should apply to UFOlogy. Don't be screwing with people's heads, just take your skepticism to the actual evidence. Assholes.

several new still photos of interest

these are all from UFO Casebook, which is a great resource well worth perusing.

this one is the classic little old English lady UFO skeptic who only sees the UFO when her dog starts acting scared. She takes this tourist-perfect pic of a UFO next to some famous Brit cathedral.
If not for the accompanying testimony (always suspect, but not to be disregarded completely) it seems a bit too, as the English would say 'twee' for me, but I'll defer judgment until a photo analysis.

this one is a bit interesting, even though dating from three years ago, as it's one of those where the photographer didn't even see the object when he was taking the photo. Yet object there clearly is! The wacky French 'OVNI' blog that this came from is worth checking out too, if for no other reason that to see the only French person with no taste for design, at least not web design! This has got to be the most eye-searing site I've seen since 1995...

this one is from some amateur astronomer in Illinois (again Illinois! What's going on there?) from 3.20.09, when he caught some sort of object passing in front of the sun; again, skimpy but interesting photo evidence...

some kinda weird photo of something moving pretty quickly in the evening sky. From 3.17.09
These one-off photos are so limited in what they can tell us, most of the time.
But just the sheer weight of these reports has to mean something. Even if it is just a mass psychosis, as most skeptics would have us believe, why do we have that propensity? What is the nature of the sound and unshakeable belief that many UFO witnesses have that what they saw was not part of our normal reality?

two more nightime videos

UFO Casebook has another video, this one dating from January, in which 2 valley girls hilariously describe while videoing their encounter with a glowing nighttime disk.
Just because I speak valley girl better than Ukrainian (yes, they speak Russian, I know, I just think Ukrainian is funnier-sounding) It's easier for me to make a judgement as to the authenticity of the voices behind the video, so I think this is probably authentic, although what they're actually videoing is open to question. Perhaps some detailed analysis of the video might produce something, but alas, I have no video analysis lab....

There's also this one, which except for the eyewitness account that it "rapidly ascended into the sky", looks like what I'd imagine one of those chinese lantern things to look like. The light is clearly at the bottom, illuminating a structure around it. That seems like lantern to me. Of course I did not interview the witnesses...

Alleged Ukraine UFO landing

this is one of those difficult to ascertain nighttime videos. I'm about 60% convinced it's a hoax, but I won't go so far as to say I'm certain. But it's a nighttime video of a glowing orb, that doesn't really look all that 3 dimensional, and the videographer doesn't zoom out again once he's zoomed in, so there's not much in the way of terrain reference for the entire latter part of the video. So, not much to go on for nighttime video.
And as the editor of UFO Casebook points out, this area of the world is known for actively hoaxing. See the 2nd video in the post from 3.29.09

Colorado Cattle Mutilation 3.13.09

This one has all the classic symptoms of the inexplicable cattle mutilation:
missing udders and reproductive organs, no blood, incisions that were cauterized while cut as if by laser.

According to Duran, the cattle was missing for 2 days before her remains were found. He last saw her on Friday, so he went out looking for her on Sunday.

"On Sunday, I spotted her near the (Purgatoire) river bottom and went and looked at her. She was on her side and it looked a little odd. "When I took a closer look I saw that her udders had been removed," Duran said

When the cattle was examined, it appeared as if the utters were cut off with a laser. There was no blood on or around the the carcass and the incisions were perfectly round. The incisions did not look like they were done with a knife, and it appears as if the skin was cut and sealed at the same time. To add to the mystery, no human or animal tracks were found near or around the mutilation site. -According to Mike

Conference regarding Dulce Underground Alien Base ends 3.30.09

A very detailed article on a conference held in the tiny northern New Mexican town on the contentious subject of the supposed underground Alien Base in Dulce.

Yesterday a conference was held in the small town of Dulce, New Mexico to discuss evidence of an underground extraterrestrial base at the nearby Archuleta Mesa. Organized by Norio Hayakawa, a retired funeral director now living in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, The Dulce Base: Fact or Fiction Conference brought together local and outside speakers with knowledge of events at Dulce.

The Dulce Underground Base is one of the most controversial subjects in UFOlogy, and typically provokes fierce debate among researchers, especially as this topic links Cattle Mutilations, the Grey Agenda, underground bases, and a US military/Alien consiratorial partnership all together!

Here are some other useful links on the Dulce question:

• some bio material on Wolf and a lot of what he's said, verbatim
• Long but detailed article concerning the Dulce question, with some great evidence
  
• Richard Boylan reports some news regarding Wolf's purported efforts to hasten Disclosure
  
• A giant treatise about the Dulce Base and related events and issues
  
• some competing versions of the Dulce story from other sources
  
• Richard Boylan interviews Mike Wolf
  

 

I've been meaning to make the drive up to Dulce for years, and if I'd heard about this conference before it was over, I would have tried to make it...

Another more recent blog post from someone else who attended the even

Google Street view shows UK UFOs flying in formation 3.30.09

I would have said this is some sort of visual artifact from the Google Street View's automated camera, but perhaps not! Certainly worth investigating further....

Multiple Witness UFO sighting in Ohio 3.29.09

an Ohio woman watched "unusual lights" in the sky March 28 at 3 a.m. She said the lights were rotating on a horizontal axis and were red and green. They were similar to chaser lights, she said, and blinking about 120 times per minute. While the disc-shaped object appeared to be hovering just above I-75, it then slowly descended behind some hills.

The second witness described a similar object on the same date, but between 9 and 10 p.m. - 18 hours after the first sighting. She described the object as rounded, with three lights.

The two witnesses are in different Ohio towns.

An interesting sighting because of the corroboration of an unaffiliated witness

contender for weirdest ever UFO photo

I'm making my way through Coast to Coast AM, which has an untamed wilderness of stuff on there, including quite a bit of decent UFO evidence as I'm discovering. 

This picture is easily one of the most bizarre UFO photos I've ever seen.

As evidence it's useful because of all the photographic detail the photographer, a pro, provides. 

corroborating video for the 1.5.9 NJ triangles

RealUFOs.net has both the Fox News interview with the pilot who videoed the NJ triange(s) in an earlier post, as well as another video taken the same night by what sounds like some teens, in which the (same?) triangle is much redder, clearer, and more apparently triangular...

Having two different videos of the same phenomena is pretty good evidence of something, IMHO. The teens' video doesn't look much like 'flares on a balloon' to me....

more weird stuff flying over NJ 08.28.08

I ran across this video while trying to track down the video from the last post. 

As is mentioned in the comments, the 'Radio Irish' commentary in the background is somewhat surreal, with everything from cat noises to women screaming in the background, but that thankfully fades away after about 3 minutes to some rather decent techno, which I suppose makes perfect sense and went quite well with purported footage of an alien craft. The commentary is only useful for telling us three things, we which have to take on faith (or not): that hundreds of witnesses saw this thing, that people swear up and down it was not a blimp or 'copter, and that it made some bizarre movements that proved it was no known aircraft. 

Regarding the footage itself, this is a fence sitter for me. I watched the footage four times and it sometimes looks like a blimp with writing, and other times like some weirdo object with windows. I say this is definitely worthy of further investigation

Improving the Signal to Noise Ratio

this is exactly why UFOlogy is so difficult. Not only are the phenomena extremely rare and unpredictable, but you have folks like those over at 'weirdnewsfiles.com' mixing in what is almost certainly a hoax with actual, real video footage of something weird.
Over here on their video page, they have two videos.
The first is a news report from New Jersey of a 20 year veteran pilot who took some video of what, to a trained UFOlogist, seem a lot like your classic black triangles. His whole family saw the objects, they got video (and from listening to the news report, perhaps also some stills as well, although those aren't shown), the control room at the airport saw them, as did at least 9 people who called 911.
The (CBS, mind you!) newscaster writes it off as flares tied to a balloon (Again? Where do people get all these flares and balloons? Is there like a club or something?) but the witnesses say the lights 'took off' extremely quickly, which balloon-laden flares have a difficult time doing. So I'm going to say this footage is likely authentic and worthy of investigation. This counts as actual 'signal'. 

The second video is however, complete 'noise'.  It ostensibly shows a Moldovian (WTF?) reporter who is interrupted in her report about maybe geese or whatever (sorry, I don't speak a word of Moldovian) by a mysterious brilliant light that then shoots away.
This is obviously a hoaxed video. Let me count the ways:

1. If it were real, why would they show us the nicely (edited!) preamble of the nature story presumably getting interrupted? Why not just show us the raw footage clip of the UFO? The answer is because they want us to unconsciously feel like our nature show is getting interrupted by a UFO, which is what the reporter is presumably experiencing, and so that draws us into the 'story'.
2. Related to this, there's all sorts of (Moldovian?) news commentary sandwiching the thing, and even (presumably) discussing it and showing it over again. Once again, not being terribly up on my Moldovian language lessons, I have no idea what they are saying -- for all i know they could be discussing the price of rutabegas in Minsk and it's just edited to look like they're discussing the UFO. Whatever they're actually talking about, I think it's more window dressing to make you think the 'footage' is authentic and all over the Moldovian news while we remain benightedly ignorant over here in the USA, 'cause everyone knows the cool stuff is coming from Eastern Europe these days. Barf. The attempts of these former soviet bloc hucksters to hoodwink us gullible yanks for a buck or two is painfully transparent.
   
3. The UFO makes a pretty standard sci-fi-ish sound effect, about what you'd expect a UFO to make. Any student of UFOlogy knows that UFOs either make no sound at all, or weird sounds that bear no resemblance to hollywood UFO sound effects. But for a UFO to make a cool sound is automatically suspect. Though for most ignorant folk maybe it would make it seem more real if it was just like in the movies? Are people really that dumb? That's sad. 
4. The UFO just happens to come down in the corner of the cameraman's frame, so that the reporter has to turn her back to see it. This is awfully convenient; for one, we see the UFO come down along with the cameraman, so we can share his reaction, drawing us further into the 'story'. For another, the reporter turns her back to us so we can't see where she's looking, exactly -- convenient for the purpose of, say, adding postproduction visual effects. 
5. Wouldn't a real news cameraman have automatically zoomed in on the thing to see WTF and get the best footage possible, rather than keeping the reporter nicely in the frame? He knows he can always shoot the reporter later! The only reason she stays in frame is because he wants us to see her 'reaction' to the UFO. 

5 pix of a brilliant object, Springfield Ill. 11.18.2006

Five UFO pix taken in Illinois 11 days after the O'hare cloud hole incident in '06.

I just stumbled accross a series of 5 photos that show something brilliant hovering in the sky over Springfield Illinois. The pix are ripe for analysis as they're pretty clear and there are trees and such for perspective. However the poster doesn't say much about the sighting itself.
Do yourself a favor and leave the sound off if you watch the video, which doesn't add anything other than to give you a slide show of the pix. That is unless you're a fan of cheesy soft rock music. :P