Bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects, Tennesseans are reporting some unusual things overhead. Don't expect that to stop anytime soon, a local group that investigates UFO close encounters says sightings are on the rise.

For decades millions of people have reported seeing UFO's. A recent poll shows one in 12 Americans have seen a mysterious object in the sky, and that a third of adults believe it's likely aliens have visited earth. While some say the increase in volume of reports in Tennessee are enough to make any investigator sit up and take notice, others say it's all in their heads.

Published: 9/10/2010

Date: 8/29/2010

While driving to the Christiana Mall in Newark today, I noticed two metallic disks flying rather close to one another. They were absolutely silent and moved slightly sporadically. The disks were spinning, but not on a perfect axis.

They were not in sync, but they stayed relatively close to one another for the approximate two minutes in which I observed them. It seemed as though they were moving closer and they flew higher extremely fast. From my perspective, it seemed as if they flew straight up into the sky.

Reports of strange humanoids resembling the legendary "Springheel Jack" came out of Argentina in the mid-Aughts (2004-2007) and were widely circulated in the local and foreign press, as readers beyond Argentina became acquainted with all manner of "petizos" and "pomberos" and other improbable parahuman creatures.

Our friend and colleague Christian Quintero (co-founder of Planeta UFO with Guillermo Gimenez) has drawn our attention to the reappearance of one of these bizarre humanoids in the town of Calchín, Cordoba Province (pop. 2000). Sightings appear to have commenced in August 2010 and have attracted considerable attention in the print media and on Argentinean radio (Christian has kindly sent us mp3 files of local radio shows featuring witness accounts)

The first of the journalistic sources dates from August 17, 2010 and reads: "Alarm in Calchín Over the Mysterious Apparitions of a Ghost". This report, written by staff writer Ignacio Martino, notes that local residents have spoken of nothing but the "tall skinny guy" who covers his face with a balaclava and is terrorizing their communities. As occurred in Puerto Rico during the early days of the Chupacabras sightings, bands of citizens have formed to catch the mysterious personage. In the lyrics of the old song by TOTO: "You better watch out / there's a stranger in town."

This series of events constitutes one of the darkest and examined pages of Argentinean ufology. It is not my intention to clarify these points. However, as a kick-off point for a subsequent compilation, I have considered it opportune to expand on the events that occurred in those inhospitable regions of Salta in detail and in chronological order. To do this, I have employed the original articles appearing in the La Razon newspaper and some less relevant sources. Everything apparently began in 1955 when "from Tolar Grande, a community close to the El Macon mountain, a tremendous commotion was seen to occur on one of the slopes, as though an aerolith had impacted against it. This event was not investigated and there were those who said that the object that crashed against El Macon was an airship of unusual configuration, later specifying that it was cigar-shaped (1). One year later, an explorer tried to research these events and the mountain was climbed yet again in 1957: the first case involved a geologist and the second was for presumably archaeological purposes. It is curious to note that this case may have been the conclusion of a hitherto unknown wave that in a way continued the 1954 flap, which extended into the first months of 1955. But as I have said, the alleged accident at El Macon occurred at an unspecified date in 1955, and would have almost certainly been forgotten had it not been for the UFOs photographed in the vicinity of Salar de Arizaro. "According to a group of citizens from Salar de Arizaro, Department of Los Andes, strange objects were seen to cross the skies at high on the 15th of the month.

Any intelligent aliens living elsewhere in the universe should be considered God's children - no matter what they look like, the Pope's astronomer has said.

Brother Guy Consolmagno, who speaks at the British Science Festival at Aston University, Birmingham, on Saturday, said: "Going back to the Middle Ages, the definition of a soul is to have intelligence, free will, freedom to love or not to love, freedom to make decisions...

"Any entity - no matter how many tentacles it has - has a soul."

'There's no doubt that it was a person. We're 100 percent sure,' witness says

Several people in New Jersey claimed they saw a person falling from the sky with no parachute, but an extensive police search has turned up no evidence, NBC Philadelphia reported.


Witness Kelly Hale and two of her co-workers at Shore Veterinarians in Egg Harbor Township said they watched from their office windows as a human fell head-first from the sky on Tuesday.

But there were no reports of missing skydivers.

"I [saw] the guy falling, at an angle, like this," Hale told NBC Philadelphia while gesturing. "Straight down. No parachute. No paraglider."

Authorities were still investigating the incident, Egg Harbor police told msnbc.com on Thursday.

"We're not actively out there searching, but we're waiting for more information," said police Sgt. Robert Gray. He could not comment on the ongoing investigation.

Several people contacted Egg Harbor Township Police at about 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, saying that they watched a person free-falling from the sky. The witnesses described the person as falling head first, at a slight angle, toward the ground, police said.

"You could see the arms and legs flailing and his clothes were blue, a dark blue like a navy, black and gray," Hale said. "There's no doubt that it was a person. We're 100 percent sure."

It was tiny, it was bright blue, it was way high up, and it spent part of Tuesday afternoon hovering over the skies of Tucson. What was it?

Who knows?

Around 1:00 PM two KGUN9 News employees noticed a tiny but brilliant blue dot high in the sky, nearly straight up over east Tucson. It was nearly stationary, and had the shape and brightness of a star -- but the sun was shining brightly. Couldn't be that.

KGUN9 photojournalist Jim Pfalzer set up a camera and tripod, and caught the object on video. Even at full zoom, the shape of the object was not apparent. But the object could be seen through the viewfinder to be drifting slowly toward the east.

Saturday night saw the shutdown of another airport, due to another UFO.

Reports from People's Daily Online and Shanghai Daily confirm these reports from the news outlet Dbw.cn. The airport in Baotou in Inner Mongolia was forced to delay the landing of three planes originating from Shanghai and Beijing. The airport was shutdown for nearly an hour, due to the appearance of an unidentified flying object.

According to reports, the object was seen hovering about four kilometers east of the Baotou airport at around 8:00 pm, with the three planes delayed for safety reasons.

China's Xiaoshan Airport was also shutdown for about an hour earlier this year, on July 7th, due to a UFO.

Ottawa - A Swissair pilot reported his 747 jet was nearly hit by an unidentified flying object, possibly a missile, near the area off New York where a TWA airplane crashed in 1996, The Canadian Press has learned.

Swissair Flight 127 was cruising at 23,000 feet on Aug. 9, 1997, when the pilot interrupted an address to passengers to report the near-miss by a round white object, says a report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. "Sir, I don't know what it was, but it just flew like a couple of hundred feet above us," he radioed Boston air traffic control. "I don't know if it was a rocket or whatever, but incredibly fast, opposite direction." "In the opposite direction?" asked the controller. "Yes sir, and the time was 2107 (Greenwich Mean Time). It was too fast to be an airplane."

The controller asked another aircraft if its crew saw anything like a missile in the area. The reply was negative. He then asked the Swissair pilot again how far above the plane it was. "It was right over us, right above, opposite direction, and...and I don't know, two, three, four hundred feet above. All that I can tell, 127, is that (we) saw a light object, it was white, and very fast." Investigators interviewed the captain and first officer on Aug. 10, 1997. The flight engineer hadn't seen the object and was not interviewed. The report, filed under NYC97SA193, said the flight was opposite John F. Kennedy Airport at 5:07 p.m. Eastern Time - near the area where TWA Flight 800 went down July 17, 1996...

The transportation safety board report said the Swissair captain saw the cylindrical object for less than a second. He did not see any wings and was not sure it was an aircraft. "He had never been so close to other traffic before," said the report. "It passed over the cockpit, slightly right of centerline. If it had been any lower, it would have hit the aircraft.

Our colleague Esteban Coronel from Ecuador has sent us a very interesting case that relates to one of yesterday's news items: the 1999 event involving an unidentified object that apparently left an Argentinean military facility deprived of water.

This new case, from 1980, appears in Spanish researcher Juan José Benítez's website (www.planetabenitez.com) and occurred in January of that year with no exact date ever being determined. Three Argentinean youths - Daniel Crescini, 16, Federico Higa, 18 and Gustavo Moreno, 17 had embarked on a trip to the Salí River in the Province of Tucumán (northern Argentina) with a totally unexpected outcome.

Benítez's website quotes from an interview with Marcelo Eduardo Pichel, who managed to speak with the young men at the time:

Our colleague Esteban Coronel from Ecuador has sent us a very interesting case that relates to one of yesterday's news items: the 1999 event involving an unidentified object that apparently left an Argentinean military facility deprived of water.

This new case, from 1980, appears in Spanish researcher Juan José Benítez's website (www.planetabenitez.com) and occurred in January of that year with no exact date ever being determined. Three Argentinean youths - Daniel Crescini, 16, Federico Higa, 18 and Gustavo Moreno, 17 had embarked on a trip to the Salí River in the Province of Tucumán (northern Argentina) with a totally unexpected outcome.

Benítez's website quotes from an interview with Marcelo Eduardo Pichel, who managed to speak with the young men at the time:

"On the first day," said Crescini nervously, "we were rather bored. The fish weren't biting until nightfall...on the next day, we got up early and one of the fellows said that he'd had an awful nightmare and even thought the ground was shaking. We paid him no mind and went back to fishing. But still no luck. We started playing cards and almost around nightfall, we felt that the ground was in fact shaking.