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Book

New book sheds light on the 1964 Socorro UFO sighting

RR
UFO Conjectures
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:51 UTC
Socorro sighting
Skimming and perusing Kevin Randle's new book about the 1964 Lonnie Zamora Socorro sighting, Encounter in the Desert: The Case for Alien Contact at Socorro, I was (and am) pleased to tell my readers here that it's a book that provides details you've never known or read about the iconic UFO "sighting" along with a slew of other sightings that may (or may not) have relevance to what Police Officer Zamora claims to have seen, in the desert outside Socorro, New Mexico in 1964.

There is little point in my reviewing the book; it's one you need for your collection and edification, and you would do well to grab a copy from Amazon or your favorite bookseller.

Kevin, in this book, like his recent Roswell update, provides everything, and I mean everything, that is known about the Socorro "encounter" - then and now.
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Sherlock

Bigfoot hunter in Canada suing local government for right to prove beast's existence


RT
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:06 UTC
bigfoot Patterson-Gimlin film
© WikipediaThis is frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film taken on October 20th, 1967, claiming to depict Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Colton
A Canadian man gathering evidence which he believes will prove the existence of Bigfoot is taking his quest to the courts in British Columbia, in an effort to compel the local government to back research into the mythical beast's habitat.

Todd Standing has been carrying out expeditions in Canada's Rocky Mountains for nearly a decade. Dubbed a 'sasquatch researcher,' Standing has previously released images which he claims provide a "crystal clear"view of the simian-like creature.

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UFO

New organization: Scientific Coalition for Ufology

Alejandro Rojas
Open Minds
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
SCU organization
© SCU
Scientific study of UFOs to be focus of new organization: An organization of scientists, former military and law enforcement officials and other professionals hope to bring science to bear in the search for answers to the UFO mystery.

The Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU) is formally launching today, and hopes to bring the discipline and rigor of scientific analysis to the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), also known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). A group of scientists, former military and law enforcement officials and other professionals, many of whom have decades of experience looking into UAPs, believe there are many unanswered questions, and that a serious examination is warranted.
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Camera

Notes on psychic photography

Mark Russell Bell
Mark Russell Bell Blog
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:23 UTC
“A Psychic Portrait”
© Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums“A Psychic Portrait”
Author/publisher/editor Maurice Barbanell reported about "extraordinary psychic phenomena" after extensive firsthand observations in Europe and North America over the course of decades. Maurice included a chapter about 'psychic photography'-or what other psychical researchers called 'spirit photography'-in his memoir Power of the Spirit (1949), considering photos showing phenomenally manifested images as "permanent records of survival." He observed: "If you receive a photograph of a loved one and you are satisfied beyond doubt that the production of this extra, as it is called, could not be explained by trickery, then you have a treasured memento."

Maurice's experiences revealed that the psychic photographers whom he encountered were unquestionably authentic. However, among a large segment of the public the anomalous photos were simply too unexpected to be considered a subject worthy of closer examination. Nonetheless, due to his own evolution from agnostic to Spiritualist, Maurice found himself able to sympathize with people who had a questioning perspective toward the photos. He acknowledged:
I do not blame inquirers for thinking that the explanation of psychic photography must be fraud. The production of successful extras is so remarkable a happening that you require incontrovertible proof before being convinced that the face of your loved one has been placed on the plate by spirit power.
The information about the subject of 'psychic photography' in Power of the Spirit offers some details about the work of three people who unexpectedly found themselves to be photographer mediums during the course of their careers: Ada Emma Deane, John Myers and William Hope. Maurice's commentary explains some of the confusion arising from the work of these three individuals. The following three photos provide examples.
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Question

Bizarre glowing light seen over Siberia


Sputnik News
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:51 UTC
Aurora borealis
© AP Photo/M. Scott MoonThe aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky early Sunday, March 17, 2013, above the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox church in Kenai, Alaska. The bright display at times filled the sky.
People in Siberia were stunned Thursday night by a one-in-a-kind spectacle: a huge glowing ball rising up in the sky. What was it? A UFO? A portal to a different dimension?

"I went out to smoke a cigarette and thought it was the end of the world," said Vasiliy Zubkov, according to the Siberian Times.

The website published spectacular photos by Sergey Anisimov, a photographer from the northernmost city of Salekhard.

"'At first I was taken aback for a few minutes, not understanding what was happening," Anisimov told the Times.

"The glowing ball rose from behind the trees and moved in my direction," he explained. "My first thought was of a very powerful searchlight, but the speed [the spectacle] changed everything around changed [my] idea."
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Rocket

The Ghost Rockets of 1946, with a humanoid encounter?


UFO Conjectures
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Saga UFO mag
© Saga
Saga's UFO magazine for Fall 1974, pictured here, has a piece by my former pal Lucius Farish [RIP] and UFO historian Jerome (Jerry) Clark: The Ghost Rockets of 1946.

The seven page article presented, as was Farish's and Clark's wont, more than a representational account of the many cigar (rocket) shaped sightings over Sweden after World War II and other countries too.

And in their article, the usually cautious writers, mention an incident that allegedly took place during the 1946 sightings. However, the supposed event wasn't published until 1971, well after many flying saucer [UFO] reports that contained ingredients that are found in the purported 1946 report.

In May 1946, just outside Angelholm, in southern Sweden, witness Gosta Carlsson, a well-know industrialist, while out walking spotted a disc-shaped object with a cupola that appeared to be a cabin with oval windows.

Above it was a mast, like a submarine periscope. Underneath the disc was "a big oblong fin which stretched from the center to the edge of the underside. There were also two metal landing legs. A small ladder reached to the ground from a door beside the fin. The object was approximately 53 feet in diameter and 13 feet from top to bottom at the middle." The witness said he knew this because he measured the marks on the following day.
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UFO

What's up with the strange orange lights over Ohio?

Ashley Bunton
The Times-Gazette
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:48 UTC
Orange light over Ohio
© YouTube/Punky DoodleOrange light filmed over Newark, OH (April 17, 2016)
During a recent trip across southern Ohio my friend and mine's phone batteries and camera died even though we had just fully charged our devices. I didn't think anything was peculiar until later that night as I drove west from the Wayne National Forest toward Dayton.

I parted ways with my friends, who were visiting from Arizona, in the Hocking Hills region, and soon after I saw eight unidentifiable flying objects in the southwest sky.

Now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so when I saw the eight objects, I told myself there are several plausible explanations for what I saw.

West of Athens, looking in the southwest sky, I saw an orange light turn on about a quarter of a mile away. Then a second orange light turned on, and then both turned off. The two lights turned on again, then abruptly off, and where the light had been, I could make out two dark elliptical shapes. Then two more orange lights appeared in another location, only to disappear again.
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Red Flag

The campaign to discredit Betty and Barney Hill and their UFO abduction experience

Kathleen Marden
Open Minds
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:04 UTC
betty and barney hill
Betty and Barney Hill are best known as the first alien abductees to garner worldwide attention and media coverage of their 1961 close encounter with a UFO and subsequent abduction by non-human beings.

Betty (1919-2004) was a social worker for the State of New Hampshire and Barney (1922-69) was a civil service worker for the U.S. Post Office. The encounter transpired when the couple were returning to their Portsmouth, New Hampshire home on September 19, 1961 from a short vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal. Hurricane Esther was whirling up the coast and threatening to strike New Hampshire's Seacoast, so the Hills decided to cut their trip short. This decision would require a nighttime drive with an expected 2:00 a.m. arrival time, but Barney was up for the challenge as he was well rested from the night before and was accustomed to working the night shift.

At the time neither had any particular interest in UFOs. Betty, however, was more open-minded about the possibility that UFOs may exist while Barney was convinced otherwise. The events of that fateful evening forever changed the couple's lives when they experienced an unknown phenomenon superior to anything known on Earth. Both made confidential reports of the event to the appropriate authorities, but were troubled by a two-hour time lapse and physical evidence that they couldn't account for. Hoping to break through the apparent amnesia, a little more than two years after the close encounter, Betty and Barney contacted renowned Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon. Both recalled the traumatic details of being seized and subjected to physical examinations by non-human beings.

Much to their dismay, a breach of confidentiality led to the public disclosure of the Hills' story in October 1965. The worst thing that could have happened to the Hills was for their story to become public knowledge because they felt they had much to lose and nothing to gain. Soon their tale emerged in popular culture as a fascinating chronicle of alien abduction; the topic of intense scientific interest; and the prime target of debunkers, who continue to attack it today.
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Cow

Cattle mutilation found in Alberta, Canada

Caley Ramsay
Global News
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:27 UTC
RCMP, Royal Canadian Mountain Police
RCMP in Goodridge, Alta. are investigating after a mutilated cow was found dead on an oil lease site.

The animal was found with three separate openings on its body, none of which were caused by animals, police said in a media release Monday morning.

Internal organs were also removed from the cow, police said.

The cow was found on Oct. 10, although it's not known how long it had been dead before it was discovered.

Goodridge is located approximately 225 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.
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Black Cat

Big house cat? Experts divided over 'gigantic cat' sighting in Mississippi


Coast to Coast AM
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:23 UTC
Big cat in MS
© David Sluder
A Mississippi man was left scratching his head when he spotted what appears to be a massive black cat walking through a field and even experts can't agree on what he saw.

The strange encounter took place as David Sluder was pulling into a Wendy's restaurant in the city of Hernando and noticed something amiss in the distance.

After initially thinking that perhaps he was watching a deer or a coyote, he realized that the creature was actually a very large cat.

Having never seen such a thing before, Sluder smartly took out his cellphone and captured some footage of the big cat stalking through some tall grass.


Comment: More from The Clarion-Ledger:
Ricky Flynt, a biologist with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, said the cat is far less sensational than some media outlets have made it out to be.

"Biologists look at it differently," Flynt said. "We look at distinguishing characteristics to identify.

"This is not a panther or cougar or mountain lion. It's a house cat. You can look at the erect ears. The position of the ears gives it away. Pointed tips; that's a house cat every time."

Then there are the black panther sightings. The only problem with those is that the only truly large, wild black cats are leopards and jaguars.

"There are no black panthers," Flynt said. "One has never been documented. Large black cats are not native and they've never been documented in North America."

Richard Rummel, an MDWFP biologist who has experience with panthers, agreed with Flynt after reviewing the video numerous times.

"It may be a pretty big one, but it's a house cat," Rummel said.


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