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Army First Lieutenant Paul Byron Whipkey
However, since he is featured on this blog, you have probably already guessed that this is exactly what happened.
The young aviator and company commander was stationed at Fort Ord, California. On July 10, 1958, he told some friends at Fort Ord's bachelor officers quarters that he was going into town to "get a drink." Instead, he drove to Mojave, hundreds of miles away, and checked into a motel. The next day, he bought 14 gallons of gas.
After that, the Lieutenant was never heard from again. Five weeks after he was last seen, Whipkey's car was found in "a desolate and forbidding region" of Death Valley, about 400 miles from Fort Ord. The car appeared to be in perfect order, containing the missing man's suitcase, dog tags, and other personal belongings. There was nothing indicating what might have happened to the car's owner. Whipkey's bank accounts had not been touched immediately before he disappeared, and they had not been used since.
Vatican officials are collecting evidence to document the case for the canonization of an incorruptible and bilocating Spanish nun, Maria of Jesus of Agreda, responsible for evangelizing Native Americans in the 1600s.
Reverend Stefano Cecchin, vice postulator of the Friars Minor, spent a week in San Angelo, Texas in early August and spoke with members of the Lady in Blue Committee. Members of this group spent years documenting the testimony of the Jumanos peoples who claim to have been visited by the Lady in Blue between 1622 and 1625, bilocating from Spain to the New World.
Cecchin says her canonization would be "a significant moment for the Catholic Church, for the entire world." Approving her bilocations in the canonization process "would recognize Sr. Maria as the first woman evangelist in America," he said. Bilocation is the ability to be in two places at once.
© YOUTUBE/Third Phase of the MoonUFO watchers have been left baffled by three massive "alien portals" which mysteriously appear below the International Space Station in bizarre footage.
The video appears to show a trio of circular shapes flying across the earth's atmosphere and just below the space station.
Conspiracy theorists Blake and Brett Cousins uploaded the strange footage to their YouTube channel.
Blake says: "We've got three strange anomalies drifting downwards just above the Earth's atmosphere.
"Is this something extraterrestrial?"
The footage then zooms in on the objects which reveal they seem to be some sort of circle with a hole in the middle.
Brett adds: "They look almost like smoke rings and they seem to be drifting.
Area resident Julian Lopez filmed the weird scene early last week and his video has already amassed an astounding 250,000 views on YouTube.
In the footage, he marvels that "there's a UFO over the San Gabriel Valley" and observes that it looks like a balloon, but appears to be untethered.
While that alone would make for a fairly pedestrian UFO video, the presence of a police helicopter flying around the object adds an additional layer of strangeness to the footage.
According to Lopez, not one but two police helicopters were apparently dispatched to the area around the UFO to get a better look at it.
Unfortunately for the witness himself, Lopez had to stop watching the event because he had to get his kids ready to go to school, but he noted that the object seemed to be drifting towards the west after being stationary for quite some time.
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George Mackenzie
Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh was born in Dundee in 1635. He was the Lord Advocate under King Charles II, who denied the Convenanters to practice their religion. Any found doing so were imprisoned by George Mackenzie. He was responsible for the imprisonment of over one thousand men and woman in the world's first ever concentration camp. Following the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679, he imprisoned 1,200 Covenanters in a large field next to the famous Greyfriars graveyard. While hundreds of people died of malnutrition, more were executed at the hands of George Mackenzie, nicknamed "Bloody Mackenzie" by his victims. Following his death he was buried with his victims in Convenanters prison in a tomb called "The Black Mausoleum"
The strange behavior of Ellis' cats showed up early in the story; they were part of the very first thread Ellis tweeted about the whole thing. To recap, he began by telling us that he had first had a series of dreams: One in which a boy with a misshapen head appeared on a rocking chair in his bedroom before starting to come after him threateningly; one in which a girl shared both Dear David's name and a few rules for how to communicate with him; and one in which Ellis asked Dear David some questions and accidentally broke one of the rules. Some time went by; Ellis was unable to find out anything about Dear David via the internet, and eventually he moved to the apartment above the one he had originally been living in.
UFO HQ? This is the famed Area 51 - a detachment of California's Edwards Air Force Base - located in the Nevada desert, seen through a high-powered telescope. The base is famously barred to all without top level security clearance.
Located out in the arid Nevada desert, Area 51 - a detachment of California's Edwards Air Force Base - was founded in 1955 to test the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane.
Since then, however, it has become the subject of numerous UFO sightings and has become inextricably linked in the public's mind with captive aliens and government conspiracies.
Closed off to those without top-level security clearance, the site has largely remained a mystery - until now.
Amateur alien investigators Tim and Tracey Doyle, who run YouTube channel UFO Seekers, made the 8,000-foot-high hike to the top of Tikaboo Peak - 25 miles east of the site - and used a super-long-distance lens to record these images.
© Columbia PicturesClose Encounters of the Third Kind was plagued by production issues.
Conspiracy theories. Unusual storms. Warnings from NASA.
And in 2005, information posted to the internet by a group of US Defense Intelligence Agency insiders gave rise to the notion that Close Encounters could actually be portraying real events.
It's certainly one of those instances where the truth is just as strange, and engaging, as the fiction.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Close Encounters, the film is getting a 4K remaster re-release - so it's a good time to delve into the stories that surround it.
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An official report by the UK Airprox Board released on September 1, said investigators were unable to establish what the object, passing less than 200ft away from an Airbus A320, which was making its final approach into Glasgow Airport in Scotland, was.
As the jet was attempting to land, the pilot of the aircraft described seeing an "orange light" as they prepared to touch down at 1.50am on May 29, 2017.
He said it was probably a drone, but investigators have now confirmed it as an "unknown object."
There was no time to take any action to avoid the item, which was traveling in the opposite direction, the captain later reported.
Five days later, the pilot of an offshore helicopter was forced to take action to avoid a large helium balloon, after it unexpectedly appeared near Portsoy, Aberdeenshire.
The safety of the S92 chopper was put at risk during the incident, according to another Airprox Board report following the investigation.
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