Sunday, December 27, 2009
Ufo Sighting In Markovo
We were with the car in the mountain over Plovdiv City in Bulgaria near Markovo. Was midnight. We watch the light of the city over the hill. In my backside was the upper hill. I saw lighs in the sky over me like was thunderstorm behind us. You know how the sky is glowing when thunders appears. Then I turned arround and I saw this light over the hill, like car is coming. Lighe beams from the ground behind the hill towards the sky. And then I asked my friends: "what is this... I think there is no road?" After I turned again towards the City and the lights was behind us. After couple of minutes something like presence in the sky make me to look up. And suddenly something huge fligh over us to the city (prick when I write this) I can see me in the reflection but at the same time I can see the stars in sky... and that feeling - when something huge is over you, such a power - but no sound, just silence and then breez. I was shocked! Scared! immediately got in the car. Was like elongated crescent boomerang. And we all was so scared! Only one of us missed the object. We started the engine and left the place... was amaziing but fearfully. In the all way to the city we did not say not a word...
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Quirky 1947 Roswell Rhodes Arnold And Solar Flares
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Looking for a perturbation in the "force" for 1947, I stumbled upon an internet lie by The Wanderling at the site of Anna Jones that states the Roswell "crash" was caused by solar flares:
Bang Clothed in for that site and "article."
It seems to me that solar flares are as talented of an explanation as any for the 1947 prompt in flying saucer incidents, actual and jagged.
But it is unaided one explanation for the epidemic of flying saucer sightings and hoaxes.
Like I am proposing is that the electrically charged bursts from the Sun caused quite a few relatives to conflate their annotations of usual things in the sky for sensible objects of an complex considerate.
This is what happened to Kenneth Arnold; he saw a flight of pelicans, a flight of classic Services jets, or a figment of the imagination and held it was a pile of "saucer skipping aircraft."
The Maury Isle interval was either a conclusion of a misperception or the launch of addled minds that were afflicted by the 1947 solar rush deviation. I approve the following.
William Rhodes (or Rhoades) either saw and photographed a strange object in the sky over his Phoenix house in 1947 or he contrived a photo so he was completed morally tense by the swarm of electrical impulses caused by the famous solar rush activity of 1947.
Ah, you plague, but at home are two passages on the accomplishment of sun spots and solar flares on the mental knack of humans:
Mass 43, Build 1, 31-37, DOI: 10.1007/s004840050113
The things of extra-low-frequency atmospheric intimidation oscillations on human mental activity
A. A. Delyukov and L. Didyk
Marginal atmospheric intimidation oscillations (APO) in the extra-low-frequency diversity beneath 0.1 Hz, which mostly permit fluently, can attach human mental activity. This phenomenon has been observed in experiments subsequent to a group of 12 signal volunteers unfasten to experimentally produced APO subsequent to amplitudes 30-50 Pa in the frequency band 0.011-0.17 Hz. Exposure of the subjects to APO for 15-30 min caused honest changes in discord and short-lived take back functions, examination rate, and mental direction compliance. The character of the respond depended on the APO frequency and rationality. Continuing APO promoted stanch mental activity, accompanied by an increase in breath-holding chunk and a slower epitome rate. On the other hand, quasi-chaotic APO, rigorous to the natural perturbations of atmospheric intimidation, disrupted mental activity. These annotations intend that APO might be to a degree loyal for meteorosensitivity in humans.
Feverish solar cycles temper the primacy and plainness of mental complaint
George E Davis Jr.a,,, Walter E Lowellb, 1,
Organization a Augusta Emotional Ability Host, Medical center Toll road, P.O. Box 724, Augusta, ME 04332, USA
b Fluster of Maine, Demarcation of Behavioral and Developmental Navy, Augusta, ME 04332, USA
Standard 18 Splendid 2003; Ensign 10 November 2003. Accessible online 21 January 2004.
This paper hypothesizes that the parallel of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from the Sun predisposes humans to polygenic mutation agriculture basis mental complaint (MMI) and other disorders of neurodevelopment. In further, the differentiation in the parallel of this radiation acts to stress exempt systems, possibly mediated by cytokines, ensuing in regulating clinical expressions of mental complaint and autoimmune disorders. Organisms can refashion to chronic high-intensity UVR by producing melanin and by retaining more or less pigments. We found that 28% of 11-year solar cycles imitate absolutely firm solar flares fashionable which UVR is 300% supervisor acute and correspondingly supervisor detrimental than normal. Out of a keep pace with of six firm cycles in the previous 250 living, four hold occurred in the previous 55 living, possibly explaining the outward increase in the primacy of MMI in recent decades. UVR is 10 epoch supervisor mutagenic than ionizing radiation to nuclear DNA, and all the more detrimental to mitochondrial DNA. However, regulating light as manifested by seasons stresses resourcefulness to UVR, possibly straight an exempt feature. We show that the neighborhood of the Flatten having the most UVR, appropriate to the most differentiation in that light, is at 54+/-~10^0 (N or S) room. Correspondingly, the most insinuate damage from light occurs in the middle of the Equator and the Poles, not at the Equator itself. The human brain, our most worth mentioning constituent of resourcefulness, hardship be able to come through ecological differentiation, subsequent to proud in agreement to the environment ensuing in law. Useless law to UVR (and possibly other types of radiation) consequences in mutation, which can imitate neuro-chemical abnormalities manifested by MMI. We work out that the cocktail of parallel and differentiation in UVR serves as a global modulator of MMI.
Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All citizenship distant.
Mass 62, Assignment 2, February 2004, Pages 207-214
As for Roswell, it seems that no matter which happened on the road to that town in 1947, no matter which not other-worldly very usefully, but no matter which sensible - a military idiosyncrasy of quite a few considerate - or a confluence of mental disturbances caused by solar rush activity, mental disturbances that caused quite a few Roswellians to act out and act upon the mental constructs and aberrations that were produced by solar rush activity supported by the fix of an all but neutral idiosyncrasy of quite a few considerate.
That is, quite a few Roswell looker-on, out of all proportion stimulated by solar rush activity, ended up deed things and experiencing things that were not real in any function suspicion. That, sideways subsequent to the addition hysteria or "group hallucinatory" oath, can proceedings for the extrapolation that is now familiar as The Roswell Criticism - a dubious meme based very on criminal mental configurations and disturbances, underscored by a military incident that had whoosh to do subsequent to an extraterrestrial advance or crashed flying turn.
One can instinct the data of solar rush activity for 1947 and other time-frames to see if solar flares or sun-busts influence proceedings for other hallucinated UFO episodes: The Hummock abduction, the Pascagoula merriment, or the Travis Walton kidnapping.
Moreover, intrusions of hoaxed raw materials or confabulated videos, photographs, and stories influence be traced to an swarm of solar rush activity fashionable the time such contrivances are conceived.
Two recommended reports/books on solar flares and two papers on solar flares:
Bang at home for Fashion One - a PDF
Bang at home for Fashion Two - as well a PDF
Looking for a perturbation in the "force" for 1947, I stumbled upon an internet lie by The Wanderling at the site of Anna Jones that states the Roswell "crash" was caused by solar flares:
Bang Clothed in for that site and "article."
It seems to me that solar flares are as talented of an explanation as any for the 1947 prompt in flying saucer incidents, actual and jagged.
But it is unaided one explanation for the epidemic of flying saucer sightings and hoaxes.
Like I am proposing is that the electrically charged bursts from the Sun caused quite a few relatives to conflate their annotations of usual things in the sky for sensible objects of an complex considerate.
This is what happened to Kenneth Arnold; he saw a flight of pelicans, a flight of classic Services jets, or a figment of the imagination and held it was a pile of "saucer skipping aircraft."
The Maury Isle interval was either a conclusion of a misperception or the launch of addled minds that were afflicted by the 1947 solar rush deviation. I approve the following.
William Rhodes (or Rhoades) either saw and photographed a strange object in the sky over his Phoenix house in 1947 or he contrived a photo so he was completed morally tense by the swarm of electrical impulses caused by the famous solar rush activity of 1947.
Ah, you plague, but at home are two passages on the accomplishment of sun spots and solar flares on the mental knack of humans:
Conglomerate Bulletin of Biometeorology
Mass 43, Build 1, 31-37, DOI: 10.1007/s004840050113
Essential Article
The things of extra-low-frequency atmospheric intimidation oscillations on human mental activity
A. A. Delyukov and L. Didyk
Marginal atmospheric intimidation oscillations (APO) in the extra-low-frequency diversity beneath 0.1 Hz, which mostly permit fluently, can attach human mental activity. This phenomenon has been observed in experiments subsequent to a group of 12 signal volunteers unfasten to experimentally produced APO subsequent to amplitudes 30-50 Pa in the frequency band 0.011-0.17 Hz. Exposure of the subjects to APO for 15-30 min caused honest changes in discord and short-lived take back functions, examination rate, and mental direction compliance. The character of the respond depended on the APO frequency and rationality. Continuing APO promoted stanch mental activity, accompanied by an increase in breath-holding chunk and a slower epitome rate. On the other hand, quasi-chaotic APO, rigorous to the natural perturbations of atmospheric intimidation, disrupted mental activity. These annotations intend that APO might be to a degree loyal for meteorosensitivity in humans.
Feverish solar cycles temper the primacy and plainness of mental complaint
George E Davis Jr.a,,, Walter E Lowellb, 1,
Organization a Augusta Emotional Ability Host, Medical center Toll road, P.O. Box 724, Augusta, ME 04332, USA
b Fluster of Maine, Demarcation of Behavioral and Developmental Navy, Augusta, ME 04332, USA
Standard 18 Splendid 2003; Ensign 10 November 2003. Accessible online 21 January 2004.
Abstract:
This paper hypothesizes that the parallel of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from the Sun predisposes humans to polygenic mutation agriculture basis mental complaint (MMI) and other disorders of neurodevelopment. In further, the differentiation in the parallel of this radiation acts to stress exempt systems, possibly mediated by cytokines, ensuing in regulating clinical expressions of mental complaint and autoimmune disorders. Organisms can refashion to chronic high-intensity UVR by producing melanin and by retaining more or less pigments. We found that 28% of 11-year solar cycles imitate absolutely firm solar flares fashionable which UVR is 300% supervisor acute and correspondingly supervisor detrimental than normal. Out of a keep pace with of six firm cycles in the previous 250 living, four hold occurred in the previous 55 living, possibly explaining the outward increase in the primacy of MMI in recent decades. UVR is 10 epoch supervisor mutagenic than ionizing radiation to nuclear DNA, and all the more detrimental to mitochondrial DNA. However, regulating light as manifested by seasons stresses resourcefulness to UVR, possibly straight an exempt feature. We show that the neighborhood of the Flatten having the most UVR, appropriate to the most differentiation in that light, is at 54+/-~10^0 (N or S) room. Correspondingly, the most insinuate damage from light occurs in the middle of the Equator and the Poles, not at the Equator itself. The human brain, our most worth mentioning constituent of resourcefulness, hardship be able to come through ecological differentiation, subsequent to proud in agreement to the environment ensuing in law. Useless law to UVR (and possibly other types of radiation) consequences in mutation, which can imitate neuro-chemical abnormalities manifested by MMI. We work out that the cocktail of parallel and differentiation in UVR serves as a global modulator of MMI.
Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All citizenship distant.
Therapeutic Hypotheses
Mass 62, Assignment 2, February 2004, Pages 207-214
As for Roswell, it seems that no matter which happened on the road to that town in 1947, no matter which not other-worldly very usefully, but no matter which sensible - a military idiosyncrasy of quite a few considerate - or a confluence of mental disturbances caused by solar rush activity, mental disturbances that caused quite a few Roswellians to act out and act upon the mental constructs and aberrations that were produced by solar rush activity supported by the fix of an all but neutral idiosyncrasy of quite a few considerate.
That is, quite a few Roswell looker-on, out of all proportion stimulated by solar rush activity, ended up deed things and experiencing things that were not real in any function suspicion. That, sideways subsequent to the addition hysteria or "group hallucinatory" oath, can proceedings for the extrapolation that is now familiar as The Roswell Criticism - a dubious meme based very on criminal mental configurations and disturbances, underscored by a military incident that had whoosh to do subsequent to an extraterrestrial advance or crashed flying turn.
One can instinct the data of solar rush activity for 1947 and other time-frames to see if solar flares or sun-busts influence proceedings for other hallucinated UFO episodes: The Hummock abduction, the Pascagoula merriment, or the Travis Walton kidnapping.
Moreover, intrusions of hoaxed raw materials or confabulated videos, photographs, and stories influence be traced to an swarm of solar rush activity fashionable the time such contrivances are conceived.
Two recommended reports/books on solar flares and two papers on solar flares:
Bang at home for Fashion One - a PDF
Bang at home for Fashion Two - as well a PDF
RR
Labels: aliens, reptilian, solar flare
Ufos Re Malmstrom Afb Missileufo Incident March 1967
Labels: aliens, spaceplane, warp-drive
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
There May Already Be Aliens On Mars
THE LIKELIHOOD OF CONTAMINATION FROM EARTH MAY IRONICALLY BE A BOOST TO THE SEARCH FOR MARTIAN LIFE
ALMOST everywhere you go on Earth, you encounter alien species that were introduced - often inadvertently - by humans. Now it seems possible that we have done the same to Mars. Despite stringent rules designed to prevent contamination, Earth microbes may have reached the Red Planet.That might look like a blow for efforts to detect Martian life. But, ironically, it may end up being the opposite. Some planetary scientists argue that if contamination is already likely, we should now throw caution to the wind (see "Overprotection may be hampering hunt for Mars life"). The strict rules actually hamper the search for life by adding unnecessary costs to missions, they say.Is there a case for relaxing the rules? Perhaps. If Mars has its own life, it should be different enough from Earth life for us to recognise it. If it doesn't, any bugs we find will be recognisably terrestrial. In either case, Earth life will struggle to colonise Mars. Recent arrivals are unlikely to thrive in the harsh conditions, and the possibility of them outcompeting any natives is about as likely as parrots colonising Antarctica and ousting the penguins.However, many life-detecting experiments rely on picking up whiffs of gas or traces of chemicals rather than finding life itself. Any relaxation of the laws must rule out the chances of earthly contamination leading to infuriating false positives.There's another factor too. While governments of most spacefaring nations have agreed to abide by the rules, the law is unclear on private companies such as SpaceX and Mars One, who are hoping to beat national agencies to Mars. Mars One has declared that it will play by the rules if it ever succeeds in starting the first human colony on Mars. But others may not follow suit.Elsewhere in the solar system, though, sterilisation rules remain vital - especially for icy moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Titan, which are the best hopes for finding an independent origin of life.If a spacecraft crashed or melted through Europa's shell into the ocean beneath, it could have fatal consequences for everything living there. The only thing worse than not finding life - if it is there - would be finding it after we've destroyed it.
"This article appeared in print under the headline "Is there Earth life on Mars?"
ALMOST everywhere you go on Earth, you encounter alien species that were introduced - often inadvertently - by humans. Now it seems possible that we have done the same to Mars. Despite stringent rules designed to prevent contamination, Earth microbes may have reached the Red Planet.That might look like a blow for efforts to detect Martian life. But, ironically, it may end up being the opposite. Some planetary scientists argue that if contamination is already likely, we should now throw caution to the wind (see "Overprotection may be hampering hunt for Mars life"). The strict rules actually hamper the search for life by adding unnecessary costs to missions, they say.Is there a case for relaxing the rules? Perhaps. If Mars has its own life, it should be different enough from Earth life for us to recognise it. If it doesn't, any bugs we find will be recognisably terrestrial. In either case, Earth life will struggle to colonise Mars. Recent arrivals are unlikely to thrive in the harsh conditions, and the possibility of them outcompeting any natives is about as likely as parrots colonising Antarctica and ousting the penguins.However, many life-detecting experiments rely on picking up whiffs of gas or traces of chemicals rather than finding life itself. Any relaxation of the laws must rule out the chances of earthly contamination leading to infuriating false positives.There's another factor too. While governments of most spacefaring nations have agreed to abide by the rules, the law is unclear on private companies such as SpaceX and Mars One, who are hoping to beat national agencies to Mars. Mars One has declared that it will play by the rules if it ever succeeds in starting the first human colony on Mars. But others may not follow suit.Elsewhere in the solar system, though, sterilisation rules remain vital - especially for icy moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Titan, which are the best hopes for finding an independent origin of life.If a spacecraft crashed or melted through Europa's shell into the ocean beneath, it could have fatal consequences for everything living there. The only thing worse than not finding life - if it is there - would be finding it after we've destroyed it.
"This article appeared in print under the headline "Is there Earth life on Mars?"
Sorce
Labels: aliens, astrobiology, extraterrestrial life
High Level Of Ufo Sightings Over The Uk
The British newspaper, Telegraph, reports on flagrant levels of UFO sightings in the uk."Plotted on a map of Britain, the sightings can be seen to flexible from Liverpool to Dover and from Llanelli to Derby.The come to nothing occurrence of Jest Phenomena Investigations, added: "Organize has been an underdone hand out of sightings immediately."Guaranteed experts acknowledgment it could be interrelated to transnational warming and craft from outside space are appearing when they are disturbed about what man is put it on to this planet."Stuck between charmed flying objects spotted in recent months was a baking disc spotted exceptional the M5 motorway.Kingdom Azure aircraft planner Michael Frustrate intended he watched the UFO for three account in advance it 'zoomed past its sell-by date precise Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.Previous, in Basingstoke, witnesses claimed to wave around seen a rapid of 12 ocher objects in the night sky for half an hour.And in St Athan in the Basin of Glamorgan a control helicopter hang loose gave seek to inexperienced UFO after it appeared to rotation at speed towards their aircraft."Source: British UFO sightings at 'bizarre' levels
Labels: aliens, aliens and ufo, chupacabra
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Loch Ness Case Not Closed
Not only is that but the Nessie brand recognised worldwide. I once showed a picture of a brontosaurus to a young Russian and asked them what it was (my aim was to elicit the word `dinosaur`), `Nessie` came the confident reply. The mystery is now an Octogenarian and its anniversary was recently celebrated in Drumnadrochit on the shores of the Loch. Most of those present were firm disbelievers, however.
Click here to enlarge top photo.
LOCH NESS REVISITED.
I grew up in the Nineteen Seventies. This was a time when there was an explosion of paperbacks on all sorts of paranormal questions: I was immersed in that trend. It was also the Golden Age of Loch Ness research and both Tim Dinsdale and Nicholas Witchell had books out about it. For me however, they took third place to UFOs and Ancient Astronauts and I never succumbed to `Nessiephilia`.
Several years ago, maybe just out of nostalgia, I felt some pangs of regret at this gap in my knowledge. After all, here was a world mystery on my very doorstep. So it was that I began to read up on the claims surrounding the Loch Ness story. I did so with the zeal of a Sixth Form schoolboy doing last minute swatting for the exams. I took on all comers: sceptic and believer alike. Then I visited loch Ness itself. I drew some of my own conclusions, which I will divulge later.
Ever one to buck the trend, my interest coincided with the phenomenon reaching a new low ebb. Reported sightings of the creature diminished to single figures per year. There were headlines announcing the death of the monster. Few books were published about it. There was a rearguard attempt to found a Loch Ness Fan Club, but that sank almost as soon as it emerged. It seemed that the issue had gone the way of the `Bermuda triangle`, consigned, even by paranormal enthusiasts, to having been a passing craze that could not withstand contemporary scrutiny.
DAMP SQUIB.
If you look at it squarely the loch Ness tale can indeed be seen to be -as we say in England- a whole lot of `Scotch mist`. From the get go the whole matter has been tainted by hoax after hoax after hoax. This is, in itself, is nothing new to those in paranormal investigation. However, here it is all the most spectacular evidence which has been shown to be the handiwork of tricksters. Take the most iconic picture of the Monster, the so-called `Surgeon's photo` from 1934. This is the image which has determined what we imagine the monster to look like, but has been all but proven to have been a trick since 1992. (Not that this stops the picture from being endlessly recycled!) The most recent `good photo`, taken in November of 2011 by the skipper George Edwards, has likewise been discredited. Fellow monster hunters, no less, recognised it as being a fibre glass model used in a TV documentary.
Following eight decades of research then, all we are left with is a handful of photos, the least dubious of which are inconclusive (such as the one shown above, which nobody has troubled themselves to debunk). There are many sightings, of course, but most of these revolve around nothing more than a quick glimpse of a hump in the water, or agitation on the Loch's surface. No physical evidence has been recovered, still less anything like a carcass.
It would be all too easy to conclude, then, that the whole of the phenomenon is but a bit of local folklore blown out of proportion by the press and television. It has been kept afloat by wishful thinking, and, of course, by the glee of the local tourist industry.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER.
Yet Loch Ness does not stand alone as far as rumours of aquatic monsters go. Get a marker pen and draw a band across the Northern Hemisphere stretching from Canada, through Scandinavia and then onto the Russian Federation: this is all Lake monster territory. Nor are these Nessie copy-cats, as many of them predate the fame of the Loch Ness Monster by many years. Lake Champlain, on the border of America and Canada boasts `Champ`. Lake Okanagan has `Ogopogo` which was first mentioned by the Native Americans. The Russian Federation has a monster in Lake Khaiyir in Siberia, to name but one.
Loch Ness, a gash through the Highlands twenty seven miles long and 800 feet deep, is a small lake on a global scale. The fame of Nessie must surely rest on the fact that (apart from Britain being an English speaking country) Loch Ness has a special ambience and comes complete with a Gothic-style ruined castle.
Either all of the lake monster claims worldwide equally lack substance and are the product of some kind of collective Jungian mythology, or there is a colony of undiscovered creatures in many of the fresh water lakes of the Northern climes.
What shines through, when reading Loch Ness literature, is the sensible and non-sensationalized nature of most of the eye-witness stories. I will not insult the reader by trotting out the old clich'e about how they come from `all walks of life` and how some of them are policemen, etc. This is true, but it is the consistency of the descriptions which is notable.
What colour is the Loch Ness Monster? Ask a child to draw a picture of Nessie and they will reach for the green crayon. After all, the postcard pictures of Nessie are green, as are the fluffy toys. This is probably because many people imagine the monster to be reptilian, and reptiles are green. That is not what people report though. What people report is something which is black or gun metal grey. They are not just rehashing what has been drawn from popular culture then.
Even the fact that the reported accounts of seeing the monster have gone down could be taken to indicate that the public were always reporting something they actually saw. If now they are seeing it less it might be because the phenomena itself appears less.
Many of the photos of the monster may have been debunked, but there is one piece of evidence which has not been for sure: Tim Dinsdale's minute long cine film, taken on 23rd April 1960,. This shows something crossing the water. Nobody has yet cried `hoax`, although some say it was just a motor-boat.
THE PLESIOSAUR DEAD-END.
If there is anything that has done harm to the credibility of the loch Ness monster it is the idea that it might be a relict plesiosaur. It was this paradigm which captured people's imaginations, much in the same way that the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis for UFOs has. However it is a hypothesis that has not been the front runner for some time. For one thing if Nessie were such a dinosaur it would be seen many more times than it is, as it would be having to come up for air again and again.
There have always been other contenders as to what Nessie might be. These include a long necked seal, a giant otter, a mutant fish, a brachiopod, and a species of giant salamander. As much as mainstream naturalists are loath to be seen to give any quarter to Nessie, the discovery of any of these animals would hardly shake science to its foundations. Of course, others claim Nessie is a ghost or a time traveller....
FIVE OLD CHESTNUTS (ROASTED).
In the absence of organisations like the defunct Loch Ness Investigations Bureau, and their corresponding figureheads such as Tim Dinsdale, discussion of the subject has decamped onto the internet. This does offer some advantages. It also means, however, that a lot of half-truths often get repeated. This owes to the fact that people are less liable to refer back to hard copy publications in this area and so shibboleths grow up. Here are five of such half-truths:
(i) "No-one believes in the Loch Ness monster anymore"
The grain of truth behind this is that the previous generation of Nessie hunters have died, moved on or retired. Tim Dinsdale and Sir Peter Scott are both no longer with us. Nicholas Witchell, as `Royal-Correspondent-for-the-BBC`, is something of an establishment figure, and is rather tight-lipped about Loch Ness nowadays. Adrian Shine now makes a living through being a sort of resident rent-a-quote sceptic. Rupert Rhines has announced his retirement from the field of active duty - an act which coincided with his claim that Nessie had become extinct.
There is, however a new generation of Nessie believers. Roland Watson has a brilliant website devoted to Nessie and has written on water horse myths in Scottish Lochs. Paul Harrison wrote an encyclopaedia on Nessie and is still out there. Meanwhile, Steve Plambeck proselytizes on behalf of the Monster as a Giant Salamander.
(ii) "Countless searches for the Monster have found nothing."
If you watch a few television documentaries about the search for Nessie it would be easy to gather the impression that the length and breadth of the Loch is being regularly swept using all means possible. On the other hand, if you really pay attention you will notice that it is the same initiatives that get name checked time and again. I believe that you could count the number of serious searches of the Loch on the fingers of one hand. These, too, have been lightly staffed and minimally funded. The two biggest searches have probably been operation Deepscan in 1987 where a flotilla of small boats trailed sonar equipment up and down the Loch, and Project Urquhart in 1992 where a scientific vessel was used. Both of these, incidentally, did track unknown objects in the Loch.
(iii) "The phenomenon is a creation of the Nineteen Thirties."
Yes. The term Loch Ness monster was coined in the Nineteen Thirties. The publicity machine which surrounds the issue got into gear then. The first recorded modern sightings happened in the Thirties. This may owe to the fact that a new road had been built around the loch in that decade offering new access to the area.
That said if you read and dig a little you will come across mentions of something ado in the loch prior to that period. Some of these are retrospective but some not. There had been talk of a `beast` and ` large fish` in the loch for some time and the earliest Thirties sightings were framed in this context. Also, as the writer Roland Watson has pointed out, there was a folklore tradition of Water Kelpies -horse-headed creatures -being associated with many Lochs of Scotland a long time before the Thirties.
(iv) "The whole thing is just a tourist con."
To answer this I can only refer you to my own visit to the loch in 2006, (in the winter I should admit.) I stayed in a hostel in Inverness, the nearest town to the Loch. During my time there I did not meet a single other person who had any interest in the mystery associated with the region. In fact most people I met were young Australians and Kiwis exploring the Highlands in order to get in touch with their imagined roots. A tour bus that I took around the Loch, which advertised itself as telling us the truth about the monster confined itself, for the most part, to lectures on local Scottish history. In the Inverness tourist Office I could only find one small pamphlet on the Loch Ness Monster. As for doing some monster hunting, apart from Dores and Urquhart Castle which are built up areas, I found it very difficult to gain access to the Loch at all. To do so I had to climb over barriers scramble through undergrowth like a trespasser, which I may well have been. All in all I had the impression that the Scottish tourist board is playing down the monster aspect of things in favour of it being a good area to fish, and its colourful history.
In 2004 there was jovial talk of an English rival to the Scottish monster. In Lake Windermere in the Lake District in England there were a few alleged sightings between 2004 and 2006. A questionable photograph was duly produced which looked like a caricature of early Nessie photos. The creature was even dubbed Bownessie after a region in the area. To the best of my knowledge there have been no more reported sightings since 2006. If this was an attempt to drum up tourist interest in Lake Windermere by manufacturing a monster legend, as I suspect it was, then it failed. The lesson? You cannot pull a monster out of a hat, unless there is already a core phenomenon there.
(v) "The BBC has disproved the existence of the Loch Ness monster."
This one is faintly surreal. I have heard of `trial b y television`, but the British Broadcasting Corporation is not there to hold court on the existence of unknown animals! The facts are that in 2003 they aired a programme on the Loch Ness question. Most of this was given over to disproving the notion that a plesiosaur could thrive in the Loch. As we have seen, they would not get much argument on that from many contemporary believers. They also conducted another sonar search of the Loch which was done in stages rather than in one sweep. They declared, with some triumph, that no dinosaur had been found down there.
Is sonar the magic mirror that some imagine it to be? Subsequent to that event a cruise skipper called Marcus Atkinson, in September 2011, reported a sonar reading of something large and unidentified in the Loch. If we are to take the BBC's findings seriously then surely we must take this on board too, as well as the positive results from Operation Deepscan from 1987.
A PERSONAL VIEW.
Life tells us not to swallow too much Received Wisdom. I was told at school that the giant squid was most likely just a denizen of Jules Verne's fantasy. Of late, however, the same giant squid has been feted by the marine biological establishment - photographed, interviewed and invited to staff parties.
Considering loch Ness as but a component of Lake Monster mysteries in general, I find it easy to conceive that there could be some fire behind all the smoke. First of all, nothing I have read leads me to believe that there is any psychic aspect to this affair: I think we are looking at a corporeal flesh-and-blood animal. Secondly, I would place my bet on it being either a very large eel or giant salamander: that is, not as exotic as we might want, but exotic enough. Thirdly, I think we should consider anew the possibility that it might be a solitary being that gets into the Loch from the outside.
In general I can only concur with Arthur C. Clarke: `On Tuesdays and Thursdays I believe in the Loch Ness Monster`*.
NOW OVER TO YOU.
By all means be a sceptic: but do check out the following signposts to belief first:
There are two books, written by scientists which I can, without hesitation describe as works of science too. The first by Roy P. Mackal is widely seen by believers as the best book written on the Loch Ness Monster: The Monsters of Loch Ness ( Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1976). The second by Henry Bauer, an Austrian chemist, is called The Enigma of Loch Ness (University of Illinois Press, 1986). These points out the difficulties one encounters in honestly investigating the question.
Steve Plambeck has a blog in which he examines the idea that Nessie might be a species of giant salamander. This can be found at THELOCHNESSGIANTSLALMANDER.BLOGSPOT.COM. This does show that some original thinking is still being directed at the question.
Last, but by no means least there is a must-see site by the redoubtable Glasgowboy (AKA Kevin Rowland, I believe) which sets itself out to debunk the blander Nessie debunkers and does so with genial intelligence, even if some of the arguments are a little laboured at times. This can be found at LOCHNESSMYSTERY.BLOGSPOT.COM.
[* Quoted from memory. The remark appears in his TV-tie in book Arthur C. Clarkes Mysterious World, circa 1981]
Other references.
Randles, Jenny Truly weird: Real-Life Cases of the Paranormal (London: Collins & Brown Ltd, 1998)
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Labels: aliens, cryptozoology, scottish folklore
Ufo Over Yemen Authentic Astronomer
Photographer says he captured it when object shot across his lens
By
* Staff
Published
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Picture courtesy: ajl.com.sa
A Yemeni photographer captured what he believes was an
unidentified flying object (UFO) over the mountains in northern Yemen and a picture he published showed a strange white triangular object streaming through the clouds.
Aseel Badiyan said he was using his camera to take shots of the
mountains, nearly 90 km from the capital Sanaa, when the object shot across his lens.
Commenting on the photograph, a well-known Saudi astronomer said he had checked the picture and found that it was authentic.
"I have surfed the internet for similar sightings worldwide and found that the picture I captured is the clearest so far...I believe that those who are behind such objects are advanced people who possess a very
intelligent civilization," Badiyan told Saudi and Yemeni newspapers.
Quoted by the Saudi Arabic language daily Ajel, deputy chairman of the Saudi astronomy association, Sharaf Al Sifyati, said:"There is no doubt that we are not alone in this spacious universe and that there are other
creatures which only God knows."
He added:"When this Yemeni photographer contacted me and showed me that picture, I felt that he was telling the truth..I checked the picture and
found that is authentic and does not involve any tricks or
tampering....as for that object, I believe it is strange and unfamiliar but I am not sure it is a space object because these phenomena remain a possibility rather than a reality...I think this incident has to be fully investigated."
Labels: abduction, aliens, roswell ufo crash
Friday, December 18, 2009
Edmonton Alberta Silverbluewhite Lights
Posted: January 13, 2009
Date: January 13, 2009
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Southeast.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: Cannot tell.
Full Description of event/sighting: The first UFO within 2 minutes from each other: I could not forget the first time I saw it so much so I wrote it in Vike's website (Jan 18, 2008 sighting). This sounds crazy but it is almost 1 year ago (Jan 18, 2008) that the same type of craft appeared again. While driving home, I saw very bright lights (blue, silvery white) at a far distance. Because of the distance the lights were very bright and flashing like a strobe light; it was way too bright and flashing too quickly for a plane or helicopter esp at that distance (maybe 1-2 km away). It was moving west to east then north east. It moved very, very quickly. I am not great at judging speed but for an object that far away, it moved across the sky very, very fast unlike the steady speed of a plane. If you were not paying attention, people might think it was a plane because of the similar lights but as mentioned, it was flashing too quickly and too bright for a plane. This object covered a distance est 1-2 km in about 20-35 seconds.
The second UFO (2 minutes later) When I decided to take another exit because of the slow traffic, I turned towards the west and I saw a similar object. It was flashing very quickly but only of a silvery strobe. It was not flashing in sync as the first object but 2 seconds of quick flashes then completely dark for 1 second and flashing again for another 2 seconds. It moved south west but just as quick as the first object. I could not believe what I was seeing. Two very unusual strobe lights crafts. This object when south and it was hard for me to guess the distance because of the direction and my perspective but it was very fast.
Both objects disappeared from the horizon too quickly at that distance of viewing. Ever since my first sighting in 1984 of October while on my way to Fort McMurray, AB, (and we were 4 university students as witnesses), I will never stop looking in the skies for these crafts. I wrote that experience into Vike's report log many years later. All four of us even years later would wondered what that was. I will never stop looking and hopefully in my lifetime there will be undisputable answers that we are not alone.
Thank you to the witness for their sighting report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report UFO Eyewitness radio show. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do.
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HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Date: January 13, 2009
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Location of Sighting: Southeast.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: Cannot tell.
Full Description of event/sighting: The first UFO within 2 minutes from each other: I could not forget the first time I saw it so much so I wrote it in Vike's website (Jan 18, 2008 sighting). This sounds crazy but it is almost 1 year ago (Jan 18, 2008) that the same type of craft appeared again. While driving home, I saw very bright lights (blue, silvery white) at a far distance. Because of the distance the lights were very bright and flashing like a strobe light; it was way too bright and flashing too quickly for a plane or helicopter esp at that distance (maybe 1-2 km away). It was moving west to east then north east. It moved very, very quickly. I am not great at judging speed but for an object that far away, it moved across the sky very, very fast unlike the steady speed of a plane. If you were not paying attention, people might think it was a plane because of the similar lights but as mentioned, it was flashing too quickly and too bright for a plane. This object covered a distance est 1-2 km in about 20-35 seconds.
The second UFO (2 minutes later) When I decided to take another exit because of the slow traffic, I turned towards the west and I saw a similar object. It was flashing very quickly but only of a silvery strobe. It was not flashing in sync as the first object but 2 seconds of quick flashes then completely dark for 1 second and flashing again for another 2 seconds. It moved south west but just as quick as the first object. I could not believe what I was seeing. Two very unusual strobe lights crafts. This object when south and it was hard for me to guess the distance because of the direction and my perspective but it was very fast.
Both objects disappeared from the horizon too quickly at that distance of viewing. Ever since my first sighting in 1984 of October while on my way to Fort McMurray, AB, (and we were 4 university students as witnesses), I will never stop looking in the skies for these crafts. I wrote that experience into Vike's report log many years later. All four of us even years later would wondered what that was. I will never stop looking and hopefully in my lifetime there will be undisputable answers that we are not alone.
Thank you to the witness for their sighting report.
Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report UFO Eyewitness radio show. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do.
http://thevikereport.blogspot.com/
HBCC UFO Research, Box 1091 Houston, British Columbia, Canada - VOJ 1ZO
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Black Triangle Sighting In Patricia
I was working in west Texas for a water hauler company. My night job was filling fracking tanks for energy companies to use to frack formation in drilled wells. I had to stand on top of my truck to monitor the volumne as I unloaded by pump my tanker. I would lose prime on pump if it fell to low. We had a bright light that lit the area up around the tanks being filled. I was on the fartherest row of tanks away from the light station. I had my back to the light in the west. I was facing east and looking up for meteors in th dark sky in front of me and periodicly check the volumne. As I was facing east I notice an object in my right peripheral vision that my mind was saying a flock of birds due to the size. Even as I looked directly at it for an instance my mind finally realized it was a triangle shape vessel. The bottom had 5 slightly glowing domes in the triangle shape and the light glow was in the flight pattern of geese flying as seasons change. Anyway it was silent made no sound. It moved at an angle from my right to in front of me or I turn more in the direction it was flying. When it came to my front it turned slightly and the shape changed due to the rear was now in vision. and accelerated and in less than a second speed away. The rectangle shape, or rear of vessel just grew smaller until it disappeared. The vessel moved like some low altitude jets do in flight manuvers here in Alabama where I live. The 5 Domes were surrounded by black color That I could see against the star lit sky. The sides had lower half black and upper half lighter grey color. the top was the same grey. The vessel was hard to determine how far away it was but if it was around 1/4 mile away it was about 300 to 400 feet long and the rear was about 150 to 250 feet wide. It was maybe 75 feet thick. the domes were about 20 feet in diameter with black space, color, in between them. That is the best I can describe it now. Email me if you have any questions. [Name removed/cms/tg]
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Ufo Sighting In Emmaus Pennsylvania On October 23Rd 2013 I Saw A Black Sphere Hovering Which Moved Left
I looked out of my angle bay window which faces south and saw a stationary black sphere hovering. I went outside and saw it move to the left and hover again. There were no bird wings and no fluctuation of movement. It was not a bird. It was not a balloon, helicopter, or plane. It was a hovering black sphere. I went inside and looked again and it was gone. I was quite excited at the time for it was my first UFO sighting.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Flying Saucery Cosmic Bethlehem And Midwich Cuckoos
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Alien Evidence
SHORT UFO FACT: [A sighting of a UFO was made in the 1880s by miners-turned poachers at Padeswood, near Mold, who were disturbed by a "SWIRLING BALL OF SMOKE WITH TONGUES OF FLAME". Richard Holland explains... It's a common assumption that the UFO is a modern phenomenon belonging to the Space Age, but this is not the case. Strange lights in the sky have been causing conjecture for centuries. ]
SHORT UFO FACT: [In 1896, at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire shipyard (HOME OF THE THRESHER), 2 security guards were guarding the bridge from the mainland to the dock where a navy ship was tied to a floating dock. At about 9:00 PM, an object appeared flying over the ship and over the bridge.Both men shot at it and heard the "PING" of the bullets hitting the craft. The object brightened up and took off faster then when it flew over. Remember 1896... man did not have working aircraft then. ]
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SECOND PLANE CRASH A RARE VIEW FROM INSIDE
SHORT UFO FACT: [In 1896, at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire shipyard (HOME OF THE THRESHER), 2 security guards were guarding the bridge from the mainland to the dock where a navy ship was tied to a floating dock. At about 9:00 PM, an object appeared flying over the ship and over the bridge.Both men shot at it and heard the "PING" of the bullets hitting the craft. The object brightened up and took off faster then when it flew over. Remember 1896... man did not have working aircraft then. ]
UFO LITHUANIA JULY SAME AS BRISTOL AND GERMANY
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Labels: aliens, disaster accident, paranormal
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Exopolitics And The Presidential Election
Speaking of spies, and lies -- there is another side to the extraterrestrial tales invading Washington, D.C. -- and this one involves the politics of UFO believers and the presidential election.
Dana Milbank covered the 'little green vote' for the Washington Post, at the Paradigm Research Group's X-Conference.
Apparently the CIA doesn't always tell the truth. That's not much of a surprise, but according to the PRG, it's the aliens that are spearheading the movement for disclosure:
"The truth amnesty disclosure project is reportedly recommended by the participating extraterrestrials themselves," Alfred Webre of the Institute for Cooperation in Space announced to the humans-only gathering.
Wouldn't it be easier to for the aliens to land the mothership on the White House lawn?
Anyway, here are a couple of reactions reported by Milbank to the Paradigm Research Group X-conference held at the National Press Club:
"Let me check in with the mothership," Phil Singer, a Hillary Clinton spokesman, answered when asked about the truth embargo.
"We're more focused on lifting the government-imposed truth embargo on issues like the war in Iraq," replied Bill Burton, a spokesman for Barack Obama.
Here's a link to Milbank's 'little green vote' video report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2007/09/18/VI2007091800507.html
Btw Milbank claims there were fewer than five 'real' reporters at the conference.
Dana Milbank covered the 'little green vote' for the Washington Post, at the Paradigm Research Group's X-Conference.
Apparently the CIA doesn't always tell the truth. That's not much of a surprise, but according to the PRG, it's the aliens that are spearheading the movement for disclosure:
"The truth amnesty disclosure project is reportedly recommended by the participating extraterrestrials themselves," Alfred Webre of the Institute for Cooperation in Space announced to the humans-only gathering.
Wouldn't it be easier to for the aliens to land the mothership on the White House lawn?
Anyway, here are a couple of reactions reported by Milbank to the Paradigm Research Group X-conference held at the National Press Club:
"Let me check in with the mothership," Phil Singer, a Hillary Clinton spokesman, answered when asked about the truth embargo.
"We're more focused on lifting the government-imposed truth embargo on issues like the war in Iraq," replied Bill Burton, a spokesman for Barack Obama.
Here's a link to Milbank's 'little green vote' video report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2007/09/18/VI2007091800507.html
Btw Milbank claims there were fewer than five 'real' reporters at the conference.
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