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