According to the pro-ET lobbying group Paradigm Research Group,
An event with historical implications will be held at the
National Press Club in Washington, DC from April 29 to May 3, 2013.
At that time as many as forty researchers and military/agency
witnesses will testify for thirty hours over five days before
former members of the United States Congress... The Citizen Hearing
on Disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human
race will attempt to accomplish what the Congress has failed to do
for forty-five years - seek out the facts surrounding the most
important issue of this or any other time.
But of course, to lobby for "disclosure" implies that there is
something to "disclose," which is highly dubious. And to hold a
valid "hearing" implies that witnesses are queried under oath,
which of course will not be the case, leaving them free to
fabricate as much as they please without fear of repercussions. The
five former members of Congress are being paid a reported $20,000
each by Paradigm to participate in this circus.
As for those giving "testimony," it's mostly the usual suspects
whose stories we've heard over and over.
Sgt. Jim Penniston (USAF-Ret) claims to have not only seen a
UFO land at Rendlesham, UK, but to have received a binary message
from it, telepathically, that is now being deciphered. Although the
incident occurred in 1980, these details were just revealed (or,
more likely, just made up) in 2010.
Dr. Steven Greer, whose new documentary movie Sirius promises
Free Energy and a Dead Alien. "The Earth has been visited by
advanced Inter-Stellar Civilizations that can travel through other
dimensions faster than the speed of light," according to Greer.
Nick Pope, who worked, part time, on the U.K.'s Ministry of
Defense UFO investigations twenty years ago, and has been making a
career as a UFO celebrity from it since. Pope has spent the last
year or so denying his own statements made about forthcoming 'alien
invasions.'
Richard Dolan, whose most recent talk at the International UFO
Congress was about 'mysteries' of ancient pyramids, UFO crash
retrievals, reverse-engineeered alien technology, a "secret space
program," human-alien hybrids, telepathic alien contact, and mind
control.
Linda Moulton Howe, who routinely makes all kinds of wild
claims, such as that aliens are using lasers to remove body parts
from dead cows.
Actually, there is nothing "historic" about this farcical
"hearing." Every couple of years, something like this comes down
the pike, and impresses nobody.
18 April 2013
That "Citizen Hearing" on UFO "Disclosure"
15 November 2011
Foo fighter
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World
War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen
in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theater of
Operations.
Though "foo fighter" initially described a type of UFO reported and
named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, the term was also
commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period.
Formally reported from November 1944 onwards, witnesses often
assumed that the foo fighters were secret weapons employed by the
enemy, but they remained unidentified post-war and were reported by
both Allied and Axis forces.
The first sightings occurred in November 1944, when pilots flying
over Germany by night reported seeing fast-moving round glowing
objects following their aircraft. The objects were variously
described as fiery, and glowing red, white, or orange. Some pilots
described them as resembling Christmas tree lights and reported
that they seemed to toy with the aircraft, making wild turns before
simply vanishing. Pilots and aircrew reported that the objects flew
formation with their aircraft and behaved as if under intelligent
control, but never displayed hostile behavior. However, they could
not be outmaneuvered or shot down. The phenomenon was so widespread
that the lights earned a name - in the European Theater of
Operations they were often called "kraut fireballs" but for the
most part called "foo-fighters". The military took the sightings
seriously, suspecting that the mysterious sightings might be secret
German weapons, but further investigation revealed that German and
Japanese pilots had reported similar sightings.
In its 15 January 1945 edition Time magazine carried a story
entitled "Foo-Fighter", in which it reported that the "balls of
fire" had been following USAAF night fighters for over a month, and
that the pilots had named it the "foo-fighter". According to Time,
descriptions of the phenomena varied, but the pilots agreed that
the mysterious lights followed their aircraft closely at high
speed. Some scientists at the time rationalized the sightings as an
illusion probably caused by afterimages of dazzle caused by flak
bursts, while others suggested St. Elmo's Fire as an explanation.
The "balls of fire" phenomenon reported from the Pacific Theater of
Operations differed somewhat from the foo fighters reported from
Europe; the "ball of fire" resembled a large burning sphere which
"just hung in the sky", though it was reported to sometimes follow
aircraft. On one occasion, the gunner of a B-29 aircraft managed to
hit one with gunfire, causing it to break up into several large
pieces which fell on buildings below and set them on fire. As with
the European foo fighters, no aircraft was reported as having been
attacked by a "ball of fire"
The postwar Robertson Panel cited foo fighter reports, noting that
their behavior did not appear to be threatening, and mentioned
possible explanations, for instance that they were electrostatic
phenomena similar to St. Elmo's fire, electromagnetic phenomena, or
simply reflections of light from ice crystals. The Panel's report
suggested that "If the term "flying saucers" had been popular in
1943-1945, these objects would have been so labeled."
13 November 2011
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a
region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a
number of aircraft and surface vessels allegedly disappeared under
mysterious circumstances.
Popular culture has attributed these disappearances to the
paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Documented
evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents
were inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and
numerous official agencies have stated that the number and nature
of disappearances in the region is similar to that in any other
area of ocean.
The boundaries of the triangle cover the Straits of Florida, the
Bahamas and the entire Caribbean island area and the Atlantic east
to the Azores. The more familiar triangular boundary in most
written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of
Miami; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island of
Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern
boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.
The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the
world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the
Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are also
plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between
Florida and the islands. It is also a heavily flown route for
commercial and private aircraft heading towards Florida, the
Caribbean, and South America from points north.
Mary Celeste
The Mary Celeste (or Marie Céleste as it is fictionally referred to
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others after him) was an American
brigantine merchant ship famous for having been discovered on 4
December 1872, in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently
abandoned (one lifeboat was missing), despite the fact that the
weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen.
The Mary Celeste was in seaworthy condition and still under sail
heading toward the Strait of Gibraltar. She had been at sea for a
month and had over six months' worth of food and water on board.
Her cargo was virtually untouched and the personal belongings of
passengers and crew were still in place, including valuables. The
crew was never seen or heard from again. Their disappearance is
often cited as the greatest maritime mystery of all time.
The fate of her crew has been the subject of much speculation.
Theories range from alcoholic fumes, to underwater earthquakes, to
waterspouts, to paranormal explanations involving extraterrestrial
life, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), sea monsters, and the
phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle, although the Mary Celeste is
not known to have sailed through the Bermuda Triangle area. The
Mary Celeste is often described as the archetypal ghost ship, since
she was discovered derelict without any apparent explanation, and
her name has become a synonym for similar occurrences.
17 March 2011
Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Redfern Hypothesis
Redfern came up with an interesting and plausible explanation
for the tedious Roswell myth. His research indicated the incident
was a post WWII aviation experiment that went wrong. A balloon
carrying a lifting body aircraft ran into a storm, disintigrated,
and crashed into the desert. The crew of the aircraft were
killed.
The flying saucer story was used by the military to hide the
facts and avoid a messy investigation.
That's it really.
Hard core Roswell believers of course, reject any explanation
that contradicts the ETH. For them, Roswell is about aliens
and nothing else. Amen.
11 October 2009
You Eff Ohh
Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term
for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified. The
United States Air Force, which coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as
those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators,[1]
though the term UFO is often used more generally to describe any sighting
unidentifiable to the reporting observer(s). Popular culture frequently takes the term
UFO as a synonym for alien spacecraft. Cults have become associated with UFOs, and
mythology and folklore have evolved around the phenomenon.[2] Some investigators now
prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to avoid the
confusion and speculative associations that have become attached to UFO.[3] Another
widely known acronym for UFO in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian is OVNI.
Studies have established that the majority of UFOs are observations of some real but
conventional object—most commonly aircraft, balloons, or astronomical objects such as
meteors or bright planets—that have been misidentified by the observer as anomalies
while a small percentage of reported UFOs are hoaxes.[4] Only a small percentage of
reported sightings (usually 5 to 20%) can be classified as unidentified flying objects
in the strictest sense (see below for some studies).
Some scientists have argued that all UFO sightings are misidentifications of natural
phenomena[5] and historically, there was debate among some scientists about whether
scientific investigation was warranted given available empirical data.[6][7][8][9][10]
Very little peer-reviewed literature has been published in which scientists have
proposed, studied or supported non-prosaic explanations for UFOs. Allen Hynek was a
trained astronomer who participated in Project Bluebook after doing research as a
federal government employee. He formed the opinion that some UFO reports could not be
scientifically explained. Through his founding of the Center for UFO Studies and
participation at CUFOs he spent the rest of his life researching and documenting UFOs.
The movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind had a character loosely based on Hynek.
Another group studying UFOs is Mutual UFO Network. MUFON is a grass roots based
organization known for publishing one of the first UFO investigators handbooks. This
handbook went into great detail on how to document alleged UFO sightings.
UFO reports became frequent after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting, reported
by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947, that gave rise to the popular terms "flying
saucer" and "flying disc." Since then, millions of people have reported that they have
seen UFOs.[11]
Ufo
UFO Hypotheses:
UFO hypotheses
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To account for unsolved UFO cases, several hypotheses have been proposed.
* The Extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), defined by Edward U. Condon in the 1968 Condon Report as "The idea that some UFOs may be spacecraft sent to Earth from another civilization, or on a planet associated with a more distant star", further attributing the popularity of the idea to Donald Keyhoe's UFO book from 1950,[63] though the idea clearly predated Keyhoe, appearing in newspapers and various government documents (see immediately below). This is probably the most popular theory among Ufologists. Some private or governmental studies, some secret, have concluded in favor of the Extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), or have had members who disagreed with official conclusions against the conclusion by committees and agencies to which they belonged.[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71]
* The Interdimensional hypothesis, that UFOs are objects crossing over from other dimensions or parallel universe, popularly proposed by Jacques Vallée,[72] though also predating him.
* The paranormal/occult hypothesis; A variant of the Interdimensional Hypothesis, invoked to explain so-called paranormal aspects sometimes associated with UFO reports
* The psychosocial hypothesis, that what people report as UFO experiences is the result of psychological misperception mechanisms and is strongly influenced by popular culture.
* That UFOs represent poorly understood or still unknown natural phenomena, such as ball lightning or sprites.[73]
* The Earthquake lights/Tectonic Strain hypothesis: UFOs are caused by strains in Earth's crust near earthquake faults, which can also supposedly induce hallucinations.
* That UFOs are military flying saucers; top secret or experimental aircraft unfamiliar to most people.[74]
