Analysis of the Jerusalem videos is also emerging, claiming a hoax. If so, it's very elaborate since multiple sources and videos are employed. For example:
http://wn.com/ufo_jerusalem_fake
There are further links from there continuing the story.
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Some Latest News
Around about on this site - http://www.realufos.net/search/label/ufos - find a video taken just yesterday in Moscow of an alleged UFO. Also the news reported in many places yesterday that a scientist, a meteorologist, believes he's found fossils of microbes from outer space in a meteorite, which if true would be evidence of life beyond Earth.
Last Thursday papers reported the largest release yet under the Freedom of Information Act of National Archives information on UFO sightings and high-level UFO discussions. For example, see The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/close-encounter-files-released-2230828.html
From the paper:
[COLOR="Blue"]Military sightings of UFOs, an "alien abduction" in London and an unidentified aircraft shadowing a Lancaster bomber feature among thousands of close-encounter documents released by the National Archives today.
The extra-terrestrial files reveal how the phenomenon was discussed at the highest level of government and security services worldwide, including at the United Nations (UN), the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was even the subject of a debate in the House of Lords.
The previously-classified records show that in January 1979 - during the peak of the "Winter of Discontent" - in addition to discussions on trade union strikes, the House of Lords held a debate of the subject of UFOs - the only full debate on UFOs ever held in British Parliament.
The files reveal that in December 1977 the government used its influence to talk down a call by Grenada president, Sir Eric Gairy, for a UN agency to conduct research into UFO sightings.
Gairy eventually withdrew his proposal but continued his campaign for a full UN debate on UFOs - calling on the UN General Assembly to make 1978 "the year of the UFO".
One of the 35 newly-released files shows 15 unidentified aircraft were detected on radar approaching the UK between January and July 2001 in the months leading up to 9/11.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) received just one UFO report (with no radar corroboration) on September 11 itself.
Other highlights include:
* Claims that the Home Office had emergency procedures for dealing with landed and crashed satellites and UFOs.
(etc, etc...)
[Edit to add: It's a bit rich or melodramatic BTW to say the 1979 House of Lords debate was "classified". Maybe some report on it was. But I was keenly interested in Ufology in those days, and the debate was reported in UFO media at the time. The debate originated from a Lord who was himself a long-time Ufologist. There's nothing secret about the fact that the debate happened.]
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Difficult to tell much from that video, although interesting how one of the lights is much brighter than the other three.
Regarding the file releases...
“Officials found a ‘huge’ gap where Defence Intelligence files
relating to the (Dec. 1980) Rendlesham Forest/RAF Bentwaters case should be.”
- BBC News
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Yes, as I've often written, videos on YouTube are interesting to look at but always inconclusive.
Regarding the file releases...
Officials found a huge gap where Defence Intelligence files
relating to the (Dec. 1980) Rendlesham Forest/RAF Bentwaters case should be.
- BBC News
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That IS significant. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12613690
The files are missing for what's generally said to be the UK's most important UFO incident, which involved US and UK military personnel, public viewings, and police sightings over at least two nights - outside a base where nuclear arms were kept. It was a close encounter, not just "lights", panicked the US guards, and the Deputy Base Commander himself went out and viewed the multiple objects.
It's a complex case and there's much evidence of cover-up even at the time. The US military guards who were involved seemed to have been quickly split up and sent to widely-separated locations around the world: they were later hard to track down. It's never really come to light just how spectacular the close encounter(s) were. (At least one guard involved is on record as saying a strange craft landed and was surrounded by many from the US military and some UK police, with videos and photos taken, and one man touching it. Also that entities communicated with the base commander who was present: but this is all unsubstantiated.)
There's no doubt however that on more than one night, unidentified flying objects (using the phrase technically) were near the base and even in the trees nearby, approaching guards and the Deputy Commander (this part was audio-taped live at the time). Outside a nuclear arms facility, it has to be considered a disturbing and important case, even from the little we do know.
The case has been discussed on this thread (?) before, or at least on HP.
From the BBC now:
[COLOR="Blue"]The files reveal that key documentation relating to the Rendlesham Forest incident has disappeared.
Some UFO researchers believe the episode, which happened over two nights in 1980 is a classic example of a "close encounter".
The incident took place near the fence of RAF Woodbridge - at that time being used by the US Air Force. A group of servicemen reported seeing strange lights in the trees near the base and after investigating found marks on the ground and damage to vegetation.
The files reveal the MoD received a request for its own records of the incident in 2000, but when officials looked they discovered a "huge" gap where defence intelligence files relating to it should be.
The hunt generated a series of notes, with one official speculating that the files could have been taken home by someone and another remarking that "it could be interpreted to mean that a deliberate attempt had been made to eradicate the records covering this incident".
However, among intelligence papers released in 2009, it was revealed that former Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton wrote to the defence secretary about the incident in 1985, speculating that an unauthorised aircraft may have entered and left UK airspace at the time.
So the files of the UK's most important (and military-oriented) UFO incident are gone.....
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Catalogue of Close Encounters in 2009
I've only today become aware that a fairly comprehensive catalogue of "humanoid" encounters, and encounters like it, is being compiled by Albert S Rosales online. He goes right back to an incident in Japan in 2357 BC, involving what sounds like a being descending from a UFO. But from 1947 on, with the exception of 1949, he has an entire page for each year up to 2009.
Like me, Mr Rosales seems to have been inspired by a pathbreaking book published in 1966 by multiple authors which summarised the best and most evidentiary alleged encounters with "humanoid" UFO occupants up to that time. The book was called, "The Humanoids". By no means all are so-called 'greys'. There are no end of different descriptions.
Rosales writes:
Having been involved in UFO research one way or another since the early 70s, my fascination has always been with the UFO "occupant encounters. I read such groundbreaking works as:
The Humanoids. Edited by Charles Bowen. It featured articles on humanoids by Aimé Michel, Jacques Vallée, Gordon Creighton, Coral Lorenzen etc. Passport to Magonia by Dr. Jacques Vallée, and of course David Webbs interesting study, 1973-Year of the Humanoids* (released in 1976). These all mainly dealt with encounters with entities of numerous types.
I always felt that the study of the "humanoid itself was more important than any other study. For example CEIs or Trace cases (excluding humanoids) or the FT study, etc.
I am currently engaged in attempting to catalog most reported encounters with humanoids, entities, beings, little men, giants, MIB, creatures, amphibians, reptilians, grays etc. So far I have over 10000 cases in my files, many known, many not so well known. I have translated many from all corners of the globe . I think this study is vital for future researchers and for UFO historians.
I obviously do not believe every single story, but I believe all stories must be told.
The home page for all years is http://www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/index.shtml
But we tend to be more interested in the more recent at times, so here's his list so far for 2009: http://www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid2009.shtml
HP forums tend not to be read by those with a major interest in UFOs, but in a way I like that. UFO buffs do enough talking to other UFO buffs. But I don't think people realise how frequently even spectacular sightings, including occupants, occur or are said to have. In this typical year of 2009 you'll find:
* There are 127 for 2009 "in" so far. Maybe too much to read, but get a 'taste' by skimming through. This catalogue just summarises. The original sources usually give much more detail, and the witnesses' names if known.
* Single-witness accounts with no evidence to back them up quite often. But why would the witnesses come forward with these stories anyway? Invariably there's no money in it for them; they are often people of respectable standing: doctors, pilots, police officers. There's often not even the proverbial 15 minutes of fame, as some want their stories told anonymously. Some were only tracked down by researchers because they'd told a friend or family member.
* Many stories are bizarre. Be prepared for this. Actual accounts of close encounters don't in fact conform to what the lay-person with little UFO knowledge expects. The incidents may make no sense; nevertheless they are reports given.
* These are by no means all what skeptics might call 'lone nut' stories. A high proportion of them are multiple-witness accounts. In some cases the witnesses have been ill after the encounter. There's a report of one suicide after an encounter.
* I was just looking at no. 95 of the 127 accounts. A family of three saw a -- flying cow. But then they saw a saucer hovering above it. The cow appeared to be getting absorbed into the UFO. Cattle mutilations had been reported in the area.
* Number 67: Aliens are crop circle tourists too? By Silbury Hill a crop circle had appeared on July 5. Two days later a police officer saw three exceptionally tall blonde beings in white suits examining it. When he called they ran off at "incredible" speed and then vanished.
Etc, etc. I think the point is that the average person has no idea that so many close encounters are reported each year. (And we must assume most are unreported, especially from outside of Western nations.) Many involve multiple witnesses. I think skeptics tend to think there's only the odd report now and then. In fact there's a vast wealth. As Rosales says, he's collected about 10,000 reports so far - not mere UFO reports and 'lights in the night', but usually of encounters with creatures.
The interested can take a perusal, for interest or even entertainment; or choose any year you like. 🙂
Again, for 2009 it's: http://www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid2009.shtml
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