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