'UFO' photo takes internet by storm

From: Daily Mail February 23, 2012

GLIDING slowly against a backdrop of a rain-sodden sky, it looks completely at odds with its surroundings.

Footage of a 'flying saucer' approaching and then landing at an industrial estate - supposedly near to the infamous Roswell alien landing site in New Mexico - has taken the Internet by storm.


It was recorded by a passenger in a car driving along a motorway. The exact location and time of the extra-terrestrial event is unknown.

However, all may not be as it seems, with many online conspiracy theorists claiming the landing is nothing more than an elaborate hoax.

The video was uploaded to YouTube by Stephen Hannard of Alien Disclosure Group UK.

He commented: 'Possible leaked footage of a UFO arriving then landing at an unknown location in New Mexico.

'Could be one of ours, CGI, or could be the real deal. As always you decide.'

The chief complaint from YouTube users unconvinced by the footage is that the terrain the UFO is hovering over looks distinctly like northern Europe, and nothing like the parched deserts of New Mexico.

The vehicles glimpsed in the footage also appear to be small European cars and lorries, as opposed to their larger American equivalents.

One viewer, 3492crusherdestroyer, writes: 'Can tell this is in the UK, British road signs on the road, European models of cars and trucks in the car park.

'So it's fake but it's well done and still cool.'


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/ufo-photo-takes-internet-by-storm/story-e6frev20-1226278993495

I have a crappy UFO story, When I was coming back from school, I saw a clear, UFO shaped thing in the sky, scared the crap out of me and I ran like nuts to the police :D

You're right, that was a crappy story.

UFO sucking energy from the sun

From: The Daily Telegraph March 15, 2012 6:14PM

ALIENS have finally arrived in our solar system and they're using our sun as a kind of celestial 7-Eleven, well ... not really.

In fact not at all.

But that was the conclusion many YouTubers came to after watching this viral video.

It appears to show a huge unidentified object with a kind of umbilical tether reaching out to connecting to the sun.

But there is a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation for the phenomena - and in a fight between YouTube and science you always bet on science.

The video is showing a structure which is part of a solar prominence.

"The structure appears dark because it is much cooler (10's of 1000's of degrees) and so is absorbing the UV emission coming from hotter material behind," Associate Professor from the University of Sydney's Physics department Mike Wheatland said.

"The structure must be held up by the magnetic field .

"It's a beautiful movie, illustrating again the quality of SDO observations, but it doesn't require a conspiracy (UFOs) for explanation."

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/video-ufo-sucking-energy-from-the-sun/story-e6frev20-1226300779759

Security camera footage shows supermarket ghost has a penchant for sweets

by: Tessa Akerman From: The Advertiser March 19, 2012 10:17AM

A few unusual occurences have happened since Mr Hurst bought the IGA a few months ago, but it wasn't until last week when he found a box of Roll-ups on the floor of another aisle, that he suspected something out of the ordinary.

"I don't believe in ghosts but I have the evidence that something has happened," he said.

"I'll have to look into the history of the store and see if something has happened here."

Mr Hurst says the ghost appears to have a sweet tooth with the Roll-ups and some cookie dough being targeted.

"I think it's pretty cool actually, it hasn't done anything nasty," he said.

"We've had a few people in who think they can sense a ghostly presence and want to walk up to where it happened."

Watch the video and decide for yourself.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/supermarket-ghosts-has-a-sweet-tooth/story-e6frea83-1226303715526

Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship
Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December's apocalypse

Oliver Pickup Sunday 25 March 2012

A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah's Ark when doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now.

A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach. They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age.

As the cataclysmic date – which, according to eschatological beliefs and predicted astrological alignments, concludes a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar – nears, the goings-on around the peak have become more bizarre and ritualistic.

For decades, there has been a belief that Pic de Bugarach, which, at 1,230 metres, is the highest in the Corbières mountain range, possesses an eery power. Often called the "upside-down mountain" – geologists think that it exploded after its formation and the top landed the wrong way up – it is thought to have inspired Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Since the 1960s, it has attracted New Agers, who insist that it emits special magnetic waves.

Further, rumours persist that the country's late president François Mitterrand was transported by helicopter on to the peak, while the Nazis, and, later, Israel's Mossad, performed mysterious digs there. Now the nearby village is awash with New Agers, who have boosted the local economy, though their naked group climbs up to the peak have raised concerns as well as eyebrows. Among other oddities, some hikers have been spotted scaling the mountain carrying a ball with a golden ring, strung together by a single thread.

A grizzled man wearing a white linen smock, who calls himself Jean, set up a yurt in the forest a couple of years ago to prepare for the earth's demise. "The apocalypse we believe in is the end of a certain world and the beginning of another," he offers. "A new spiritual world. The year 2012 is the end of a cycle of suffering. Bugarach is one of the major chakras of the earth, a place devoted to welcoming the energies of tomorrow."

Upwards of 100,000 people are thought to be planning a trip to the mountain, 30 miles west of Perpignan, in time for 21 December, and opportunistic entrepreneurs are shamelessly cashing in on the phenomenon. While American travel agents have been offering special, one-way deals to witness the end of the world, a neighbouring village, Saint-Paul de Fenouillet, has produced a wine to celebrate the occasion.

Jean-Pierre Delord, the perplexed mayor of Bugarach, has flagged up the situation to the French authorities, requesting they scramble the army to the tiny village for fear of a mass suicide. It has also caught the attention of France's sect watchdog, Miviludes.

A genial sexagenarian, Mr Delord says: "We've seen a huge rise in visitors. Already this year more than 20,000 people have climbed right to the top, and last year we had 10,000 hikers, which was a significant rise on the previous 12 months. They think Pic de Bugarach is 'un garage à ovnis' [an alien garage]. The villagers are exasperated: the exaggerated importance of something which they see as completely removed from reality is bewildering. After 21 December, this will surely return to normal."

Masking his fears of what might happen on 21 December, Mr Delord jokes that he will throw a party and supply vin chaud and cheese. "I'm sure we'll have a little fete to celebrate that we're still alive," he smiles. "I suppose it's up to each of us to find our own way."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hippies-head-for-noahs-ark-queue-here-for-rescue-aboard-alien-spaceship-7584492.html

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Panthers, yowie men and a headless roo, the real X-files of New South Wales

by: PATRICK LION POLITICAL REPORTER From: The Daily Telegraph June 04, 2012

IT is normally home to the mythical Penrith Panther but secret state government files have revealed a yowie man was recently sighted in the Blue Mountains.

The case emerged among almost 60 suspected panther, leopard and big cat sightings from the past decade sitting in the bowels of the government archives and obtained under freedom of information laws.

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After an overseas TV crew last week claimed it had recorded audio of a yowie man in a remote region on the NSW-Queensland border, documents show the Australian version of Bigfoot was also allegedly sighted last year far closer to metropolitan areas at Springwood, west of Sydney.

In an email to National Parks and Wildlife Service rangers, the witness said he had filmed the creature in March last year and taken photos of footprints. He even drew the yowie man's head, pecs, arms and feet on the picture to make it clearer.

"I have had a seven-year history with this creature," the witness wrote.Canberra crypto-naturalist Tim The Yowie Man, who claims to have seen a yowie in the Brindabella Ranges in 1994, said he was interested in the latest sighting.

"The Blue Mountains has been a common spot for big cats, obviously, but it is not unusual for yowies either," he said. "I have no doubt people believe they are seeing something unusual but many can be cases of mistaken identity."

The NSW Environment Department declined to comment last week. Three years after a government study found there was no evidence of the Blue Mountains Panther - aka the Hawkesbury Big Cat and the Penrith Panther - rangers are still receiving sightings of the creatures.

In an unsolved attack last summer, a Bilpin family's pet alpaca was mauled to death by a suspected big cat that later gutted a kangaroo.

"'Big cat' kill report," Hawkesbury area ranger David Monahan wrote in an email to his boss a few days after the attack.

"Victim was a large alpaca, head crushed, 7cm puncture wounds in skull, adult animal, hairs left on wire fence to be brought in today."

In June 2010, a witness claimed to have seen a cat the size of a german shepherd with yellow eyes beside a "roo on side of the road with head missing", a report said.

On July 13 last year, a man wrote to another ranger after spotting "the panther" on a trip home from Singleton a few days earlier.

There are 400-odd claimed big cat cases in recent decades.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/panthers-yowie-men-and-a-headless-roo-states-real-x-files/story-e6freuy9-1226381978142

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The Knowles Family

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January 20 1988 was the day that the Knowles family and their two dogs had an unexplainable experience whilst travelling across the Nullarbor Plain in the early hours of the morning.

At about 4.00am, Faye Knowles and her sons Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne 18 were between Madura and Mundrabilla with Sean driving and Patrick next to him in the front seat when a bright light was seen ahead of them. Sean thought the light strange and asked his brother if he thought it was a spaceship. This idea was rejected by his brother, but Sean’s interest was piqued and he sped the car up in order to catch up to the object and get a closer look. At about 20 metres from the object the family say they were confronted with a white blinding light that moved along in front of their moving vehicle. It was about 1 metre wide and described as a slightly angular egg in an egg-cup shape with a yellow centre. The object, which at first appeared to be either on the ground or immediately above it then began to move back and forth. Sean swerved the car to the opposite side of the road to avoid a collision with the object, but then nearly collided with a station wagon towing a caravan coming in the other direction. (The occupants of this second car have never come forward) The object then circled around to the right side of their car and appeared to give chase to the second vehicle towing the caravan. The Knowles made at 2 u-turns at this point, the first to give chase to the object, and the second to abandon this idea as they had grown frightened. They had at this point gained the idea that the object was after them.

At some point the family felt that the UFO had returned and had landed on their vehicle. They heard a clunking sound and felt that the car was being pushed down by a weight that rested on top of it.

By now the family was understandably frightened, and the following events are difficult to unravel in retrospect. The family believed that the car was lifted above the road, though none of them were able to estimate for how long or how high. Mrs Knowles wound down a rear window and reached for the roof. She felt something soft and rubbery that was hot but did not burn her hand, and when she brought her hand back into the car she found it covered in a blackish dust. This event caused a panic in the rest of the family. Patrick wound down his window, only to be covered in the fine dust, which was accompanied by a foul smell that was likened to dead bodies. A high-pitched sound was then heard, which sent the dogs into a frenzy. The family became disoriented and felt that their voices had become slower, and lower in pitch. They believed at this point that they were going to die. Patrick said that he felt that his ‘brain was being sucked out’, and Mrs Knowles likened it to having something ‘going into our heads’.

A while later, the family felt the car forced back down onto the road, bursting the rear right tyre. Sean brought the car to a sudden stop and then blacked out. The family left the car hurriedly and hid in some bushes by the side of the road. They remained there for 15 minutes before changing the tyre and continuing on to the nearest town.

Unknown to the Knowles’, a truck driver, Mr Graham Henley also saw, at the same time and in the same area, a strange light in his rear view mirror. He described as being like a strong spotlight and like a ‘big fried egg hung upside down”. He kept the object in view for 5 minutes and did not see any car headlights beneath it. Shortly after Henley pulled into Mundrabilla, he saw the Knowles’ car arrive, and was confronted by the frightened family all trying to describe their experience. He looked over their car and confirmed the presence of black ash in various areas, both inside and on the exterior of the vehicle, and likened it to fine silicon sand with a burnt odour to it. He also noted four indents in the roof of the car and the damaged tyre. Henley and two of his friends also surveyed the scene of the incident, finding skid marks, footprints and tread tracks that they felt confirmed the Knowles account of their incident.

The family had by this time arrived at Ceduna and been interviewed by the police there, who confirmed that the family were visibly shaken. They also reconfirmed the presence of the four dents and the fine dust. UFO Research South Australia was contacted and arrangements were made for the Knowles’ to continue to Adelaide for further investigation. Keith Basterfield was at this stage brought into the investigation, and he stated that it “appeared to be an extraordinary example of a close encounter that had left physical traces.” However, owing to the story reaching the media, serious investigation became obstructed by chequebook journalism, with investigators needing to mediate with a television station to be able to talk to the Knowles’. The TV station did, however, commission a laboratory investigation of the vehicle, which concluded that ‘no significant dust was observed on the vehicle as presented for inspection’. UFO researchers did manage to obtain samples themselves, which they forwarded to Dr Richard Haines, a NASA scientist at the time, who concluded that the dust taken from the interior of the car was different to the dust sampled from the exterior. Further tests by different analysts have provided no evidence of it being alien or unusual.

Unfortunately none of this is conclusive. There were other UFO reports in the same area at the same time, which tends to imply that something unusual occurred. The only conclusion we can safely come to though, is that something happened, and that the family witnessed an unusual light and were extremely frightened by its effects. All we have is an interesting story, and still no clear idea of exactly what happened.

http://www.uforq.asn.au/casefiles/knowles.html

Obama better equipped to handle aliens, says poll From: AFP June 28, 2012

NEARLY two in three Americans think President Barack Obama is better suited than Republican rival Mitt Romney to deal with an alien invasion, according to a survey.

National Geographic Channel contacted 1,114 adults across the United States last month for its fanciful opinion poll ahead of its new cable television documentary series "Chasing UFOs."

Thirty-six percent of respondents said they were certain that unidentified flying objects exist. Eleven percent were confident they had spotted a UFO, and 20 percent said they knew someone who claimed to have seen one.

With Obama facing re-election in November, 65 percent said Obama would be more adept than Romney to respond to an alien invasion, with women and younger Americans more likely than men and over-65s to agree with that prospect.

National Geographic Channel said the results of the email and online "Aliens Among Us" survey dovetailed with the research underpinning "Chasing UFOs" which premieres Friday with Texas and Colorado residents describing their encounters with mysterious flying objects.

The poll had a margin of error of 2.9 percent.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/obama-better-equipped-to-handle-aliens-says-poll/story-e6freuy9-1226410809398

'Truth' was out there after all

by: Miles Kemp
From: The Advertiser
July 06, 2012 11:00PM
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AN accidental discovery sheds new light on the mysterious disappearance of a pilot in 1978, writes Miles Kemp.

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Unlike a myriad other UFO sightings at the time, the claims of 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich could not easily be dismissed as a hoax.

Unlike others who said they had seen strange lights or craft in the sky, Valentich was mid-way through a detailed and recorded description of his sighting when he disappeared forever over Bass Strait.

"It is not an aircraft it is . . . ," an air-traffic control transcript records Valentich as saying at 7.09 and 28 seconds on the evening of 21 October 1978.

Valentich was part-way through a seven-minute conversation with Melbourne air traffic control about the craft.

At 7.10pm and 20 seconds, Valentich said: "What I am doing right now is orbiting and the thing is just orbiting on top of me also it has a green light and sort of metallic, it's all shiny (on) the outside."

A long metallic clanging sound marked the end of the transmission and the beginning of a long battle to have all records of the disappearance made public.

Now a chance discovery of the official file on the disappearance appears to have eliminated the popular theory at the time that Valentich had staged an elaborate hoax disappearance of his single-engine aircraft.

For 34 years, the Valentich family, friends, UFO theorists and the media succeeded only in having a brief summary of the investigation and a transcript of the air-traffic control conversation released. An audio recording of the conversation was released to Valentich's father so he could hear his son's last words - but only on strict instructions it go no further.

Adelaide researcher Keith Basterfield has been following the case since the disappearance in 1978, but had been told by the Government in 2004 the official file had been lost or destroyed. He "found" it when searching through an online National Archives index on an unrelated topic. The file has since been digitised and uploaded on the archive's website.

Mr Basterfield and others had known the 315-page file - the holy grail in the mystery - existed. It had been seen by one researcher on the desk of a Transport Department official in 1982, as he lobbied him for its release. Since then, many have sought it doggedly to see which of the many theories on the mystery - hoax, suicide, staged disappearance, drug-induced hallucination or actual UFO sighting - was given credence by investigators.

What is significant about the file, Mr Basterfield argues, is that for the first time it is revealed that parts of aircraft wreckage with partial serial numbers were found in Bass Strait five years after the disappearance.

Mr Basterfield says Valentich's aircraft serial numbers fell within the range of those found on the wreckage, almost eliminating the theory that the pilot staged his disappearance on the way to King Island.

"There was a lot of public speculation at the time of a hoax disappearance but there is nothing in the 315 pages that even suggests that," he says.

He says transcripts and notes of extensive interviews with those who knew or were related to Valentich, doctors and colleagues virtually eliminate the possibility of suicide.

Most significantly, investigators leave the possibility of a UFO encounter open. Mr Basterfield points out it was investigators, not Valentich or the media, who took the pilot's description of the object and labelled it an Unidentified Flying Object.

UFO theorists also will take heart in one document on the file, which shows that for the first time the head of the Transport Department took the possibility of a UFO encounter so seriously, he suggested his Minister ask the Defence Minister to launch an investigation into the possibility.

"I have read about 20,000 pages of government reports on UFO files and I have never seen such a suggestion," Mr Basterfield says.

In 2004, Mr Basterfield admits to putting the Valentich search on the backburner after a Freedom of Information request was refused because the file had been lost.

He has now discovered the file remains open, long after it had been thought closed in 1983, and the Federal Government has given a commitment to release it to him.

Mr Basterfield, an expert researcher of public documents, says he does not believe in UFOs, nor does he believe the file was covered up. Instead, he says that when asked to choose between a public service stuff-up or a conspiracy, people should opt for the stuff-up. "Put simply, many people within a department will have no idea how their filing system works and where files end up," he says.

Those interested in reading the 315-page official file still need to go out of their way to find it, however, via a seven-step process outlined by Mr Basterfield, which he perhaps charitably denies is another attempt to hide information. He says: 1. Go to http://www.naa.gov.au/ 2. Click on search the collection 3. Click on Begin your search 4. Up comes RecordSearch 5. In the keywords box type VH-DSJ 6. Up comes this file 7. Click on the View digital copy icon.

"The only thing we can say for sure is that the plane and pilot disappeared while he was describing a UFO - which is one of those things that just makes people wonder," Mr Basterfield says.
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/truth-was-out-there-after-all/story-e6frea6u-1226419389593

The truth IS out there with rise in UFO sightings in Australia

by: Neil Keene From: The Daily Telegraph July 23, 2012

mission involves not just finding the evidence but getting others to take them seriously.
UFO sightings in Australia are on the rise, according to people who track such phenomena, and international studies indicate a growing number of "closet believers" of extraterrestrial life.

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But people who come forward to report sightings are still pilloried by much of society.The issue emerged again last week after a video of an alleged UFO sighting over the NSW south coast was posted on YouTube and raised a few sceptics' eyebrows.

It was no surprise to UFO investigator Doug Moffett, who has been delving into the authenticity of sightings across Australia for more than 20 years."That's the way it is usually treated in the media - like this fun topic to laugh at, rather than being treated as a scientific possibility," he said.

Mr Moffett, part of the UFO Research NSW group, pointed to the fact that there were an estimated 100 billion stars in our galaxy and planets that were billions of years older than ours as reason enough to validate the search for extraterrestrial life."What I'm trying to achieve is for people to not knee-jerk dismiss things," he said.

Central Coast grandmother Jane Pooley hardly fits the stereotype of a UFO believer. But the 51-year-old says she saw one last week.

She described watching a craft with rotating lights moving silently above Brisbane Water, near where she lives - an area recognised as one of Australia's UFO hotspots.

"I'm a conservative, Catholic, middle-aged, registered nurse and I've worked in an emergency department, so I've seen some pretty weird things. Nothing seems to surprise me much any more," she said.

"I believe in the Christian faith but I don't think it negates it (the possibility of ET life)."It is the quest for indisputable evidence which drives Dr Ragbir Bhathal, director of the Australian Optical SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) project. Night after night for the past 10 years, the University of Western Sydney engineering lecturer has peered through a powerful telescope on the university's campus, looking for flashes of light from alien civilisations.

Other SETI projects search for radio transmissions but Dr Bhathal believes such technology could be obsolete for extraterrestrial intelligence.

"We think if the ET are so much more advanced than us, they wouldn't be sending signals by radio waves but by using laser beams," he said, explaining that lasers carry more than a million times more information than a radio wave.A decade of searching has proved fruitless but Dr Bhathal said astronomical discoveries over the past 20 years suggest a breakthrough could be close.

"If you go back 50 years we didn't know there were planets going around other suns," he said.

"In 1995, Swiss astronomers found the first and to date astronomers have found more than 700 using earth-based telescopes. So it's a very exciting time."

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/the-truth-is-out-there/story-e6freuy9-1226432245211

Secret UFO files released

DateAugust 5, 2012

It is probably the closest Australia has come to scrambling fighter jets to intercept a UFO.

Documents that have just become available under the 30-year rule at the National Archives of Australia reveal how two RAAF Mirage jets were placed on the second highest level of alert to determine the cause of unidentified radar contacts seen on screens at Mascot.

The ''X Files'' viewed in Canberra also give details of other unexplained sightings, some of which are supported by witness statements to police.


In the Sydney alert, the papers stamped ''restricted'' tell how operation ''Close Encounter'' was launched by No.3 Control and Reporting Unit at RAAF Base Williamtown near Newcastle on June 30, 1983, after the phenomenon was first noticed earlier in the month.

Senior air controllers at Mascot said the contacts were mostly located between 70 and 150 nautical miles north of Sydney at ''alleged speeds of 1100-6500 km/h that suggested high altitude''.

The papers state that no scramble was to occur in the round-the-clock operation unless confirmation of any reported tracks was made on the radar screens at RAAF Williamtown or any radar other than Sydney.

At the same time, three senior air defence controllers were dispatched to Sydney to investigate and plot every contact and ''control interceptors against these contacts if a reasonable chance of interception presented itself''. But then one of the defence controllers, a squadron leader, asked whether a comparison had been made of the contacts on the screens of Mascot's Area Approach Radar Centre and those in a ''workshop across the corridor''. Soon after, tests showed that the ''unidentified objects reported by Sydney were generated entirely by radar interference known colloquially as 'running rabbits' ''.

Squadron leader K. Keenan, in his six-page report, said operation Close Encounter cost 66½ days of overtime, 1000 kilometres was travelled by a staff car and a C130 Hercules transport aircraft ''may have been diverted to Sydney airport'' to deliver one of the defence controllers.

He wrote: ''The lines of communication, extending as they did across the width of an entire corridor, seem to have been insufficient for the purpose.''

He added rather dryly: ''Fortunately there was no temptation to launch aircraft and add to the fuel bill occasioned by use of the RAAF Datsun.'' A cautiously worded statement was released as a result ''in a manner that would not embarrass departmental personnel'' which blamed ''random atmospheric conditions''. Other reports in the X Files give details of an ''unidentified physical feature'' of circles on Milo Station at Adavale, Queensland, in 1982. The file refers to photographs that apparently were taken, but they were not among the papers.

Constable Geoffrey Russell, from the local police station, visited the site and wrote a report for RAAF Base Amberley near Ipswich. The officer saw depressions in the ground and thought they were caused by a motorcyclist doing donuts but then dismissed the idea.

He wrote: ''I strongly feel this [is] no hoax even though I do not know the cause of this 'feature'.''

He described a large circle of 2330mm in diameter with one inner circle of 2010mm which were 160mm in width and about 15-20 mm deep. The soil around the outer circle appeared to have been ''blown away'', he said.

Elsewhere in Queensland, dairy farmer Robin Priebe phoned Imbil police at 5.30am in July 1983 to report seeing a strange object in the sky to the north of the town. The papers state that a Sergeant Waterson then went to his back verandah and saw ''a large white light with several flashing lights around it'' which did not appear to be a normal aircraft.

A similar sighting was made by Constable R. Keys from a separate position. He was also of the opinion that it wasn't a normal aircraft.

Mr Priebe said both he and his wife saw a bright red glow gradually change to a white light which then started to move slowly east. Through binoculars, ''the light was disc shaped with a very bright light around the perimeter of the disc with two flashing lights in the front and one to the side'', he said.

The only photographs in the X Files were of unusual lights over Bendigo, witnessed by hundreds in May 1983. An interim report by the RAAF stated that Mike Evans, a 17-year-old disc jockey with the Bendigo radio station 3BO, received calls from listeners, then saw the lights himself and took photos.

One anonymous caller to the RAAF said the lights were caused by a rock group experimenting with laser lighting. The report said they were probably caused by train headlights or lasers or from planets or stars. There had been unusual weather atmospherics on the night.

Zoe¨ D'Arcy, director of digital and online access at the National Archives, said: ''Where you and I might think UFO - a spaceship - the RAAF and other agencies were probably wondering if there was a security threat.

''Most of the files you read and you think that most probably was a meteorite, but there are ones that you read and you think - well, what could that have been?

''I can't explain that from my knowledge.

''So what was it that these people have experienced? It has that open-ended question to it that I find really intriguing.''



Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/secret-ufo-files-released-20120804-23mhq.html#ixzz22eiJwc5D

White House Petition asks for new Roswell UFO crash investigation
UFO & ETSeptember 12, 2012
By: Michael SallaSubscribe

The White House has once again launched “We the People,” an online platform designed to hear from the American public about their key issues. In the midst of a highly competitive election season, President Obama is once more reaching out to the public to show he cares about their issues. The White House website declares: “We the People provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. We created We the People because we want to hear from you. If a petition gets enough support, White House staff will review it, ensure it’s sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response.” Among the many petitions being launched, and hoping to pass the lofty 25,000 threshold, is one dealing with the famous Roswell UFO incident and the possibility that it was extraterrestrial in origin.

Steve Bassett from the Paradigm Research Group (PRG) has formally petitioned the Obama Administration to: “reinvestigate an alleged extraterrestrial vehicle crash near Roswell, NM in 1947 and an Air Force cover-up of the facts.” In support of his petition, which he titled, “Disclosure Petition V – Roswell,” Bassett cites a former astronaut, military officers and a retired CIA officer who all believe that something out of this world really did happen at Roswell:

Lt Col. Philip Corso (USA) "I came into possession of the Roswell File. This file contained field reports, medical autopsy reports and technological debris from the crash of an extraterrestrial vehicle."

Capt. Edgar Mitchell (USAF/NASA) "Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site."

Chase Brandon (CIA) "It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet."

Lt. Col. Richard French (USAF) "There were actually two crashes at Roswell."

Bassett even cites Gov. Bill Richardson to support his petition for a new investigation: "The mystery surrounding this crash has never been adequately explained – not by independent investigators, and not by the U.S. government."

I contacted Steve Bassett and asked him a few questions about his current petition which is the fifth in a series of White House petitions launched by him

Q1. Why is this petition important?

Disclosure Petition V focuses on Roswell and is aimed to point back to the White House response to Disclosure Petition – I claiming there was no evidence for extraterrestrial engagement of the human race or for government suppression of any evidence for such.

The immediate effect of the White House "We the People" project was to permit the ET issue to be posted to the White House website for the first time. This was a milestone. As it happened the first Disclosure petition received the necessary 5,000 signatures triggering a formal written response from the Obama administration – also a first. It remained up on the White House website for two months. The subsequent Disclosure petitions were posted for 30 days each. This is not just any website, it is the Internet presence for the President of the United States, and since September 22, 2011 the ET issue has been addressed on that website with regularity.

I expect the "We the People" section to be closed after the election, regardless of the outcome. Until then, PRG will continue to post Disclosure petitions to the site.

Q2. What was the White House response to your earlier petitions on UFO disclosure? Do you expect a different response this time? Why?

There will be no White House response to Disclosure Petition V – Roswell as there is little chance it will acquire the necessary 25,000 signatures. The "We the People" project is fading out, largely due to actions by the White House. There is an upside as the number of posted petitions has shrunk to about 30 providing the Disclosure petitions more visibility.

Q3. What do you think will happen if you achieve the 25,000 threshold?

Under their own rules 25,000 signatures would generate a White House response. It would be quite interesting to see how the White House would maneuver around the statements of Col. Corso, Capt. Mitchell, Gov. Richardson, Agent Brandon and Col. French. Essentially, these men have called the U. S. Air Force a liar. Awkward. Such contradictions are rife throughout the truth embargo. However, as long as the public and the media are willing to live with these contradictions, the truth embargo will continue.

After the first successful petition, Phil Larson from the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, officially responded:

The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye. However, that doesn't mean the subject of life outside our planet isn't being discussed or explored. In fact, there are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth.

Larson went on to discuss the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Initiative (SETI); the Kepler Space Telescope seeking Earth-like exoplanets; and the Mars Science Laboratory, as examples of government projects focused on possible extraterrestrial life.

If “Disclosure Petition V – Roswell” does reach the 25,000 threshold it would be helpful to know if Mr Larson or the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy could give a different response this time. The official Obama Presidential Campaign slogan is Forward – it would be good if we could move forward on a genuine investigation of the Roswell UFO Crash and possible cover up of extraterrestrial life.

http://www.examiner.com/article/white-house-petition-asks-for-new-roswell-ufo-crash-investigation

UFO files of close encounters in Aussie airspace

by: LINDA SILMALIS From: The Sunday Telegraph September 16, 2012 12:00AM

The government certainly thinks so after it released a batch of UFO files from sightings in Aussie airspace.

Burn marks on golf courses, "silvery" airborne objects and white moving lights are among the more unusual sightings reported to The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which examines near misses or unidentified objects that could interfere with transport safety.

The most recent log with the ATSB was of a "bright orange light" seen shortly after midnight in Mackay on January 25 last year. "Reported seeing a bright orange light with a dark centre appearing from the horizon, turning 90 degrees and took off into the distance at high velocity with no sound," the report said.

"The object was captured on iPhone. I referred him to the UFO hotline."

Among the more notable sightings was an incident on November 8, 1998, when a pilot flying out of Perth reported seeing "an unidentified flying object" in "bright red/orange" about 30m below his aircraft. The pilot described the object as about 2m wide and "travelling very fast".

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ufo-files-of-close-encounters-in-aussie-airspace/story-e6freuy9-1226474734743

Grave fears as vampire on the loose

From: The Daily Telegraph November 24, 2012 9:12AM

A VAMPIRE on the loose in Serbia, the country’s residents are being warned.

Garlic sales in the region of Bajina Basta are booming after a local council issued the warning of a possible escaped vampire.

Sava Savanovic, the country’s most famous monster, is feared to be roaming the area following the collapse of his old watermill home.

Local mayor, Miodrag Vujetic said: “People are worried. Everybody knows the legend of this vampire and the thought that he is now homeless and looking for somewhere else and possibly other victims is terrifying people. We are all frightened.”


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/grave-fears-as-vampire-on-the-loose/story-e6freuy9-1226523242347

Bigfoot boffin to build a blimp

By 3 News online staff

An Idaho scientist is planning to build a remote-controlled helium blimp armed with thermal-imaging cameras to settle one of the northwest United States' most enduring mysteries: does Bigfoot actually exist?

Professor Jeffrey Meldrum has been given the go-ahead by Idaho State University to start raising funds to build the blimp, codenamed the Falcon Project, which will cost around US$300,000.

"The challenge with any animal that is rare, solitary, nocturnal and far-ranging in habitat is to find them and observe them in the wild," says Prof Meldrum. "This technology provides for that."

Prof Meldrum is the author of a book called Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, and has teamed up with William Barnes, a man from Utah who claims he saw Bigfoot in 1997.

It was Barnes' idea to launch a blimp, and the pair hope to raise the money in time to launch the hunt next year. According to Reuters, they are yet to raise a single dollar, but Prof Meldrum says he has been in talks with a couple of cable channels interested in producing a weekly TV series following the Falcon Project.

The most famous Bigfoot sighting occurred in 1967, when Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin allegedly filmed a female member of the species in a forest in California (pictured above).


Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Bigfoot-boffin-to-build-a-blimp/tabid/1160/articleID/275763/Default.aspx#ixzz2FOjNJdo7

Tau Ceti, closest Sun-like star, revealed to have planet in habitable zone

From: News Limited Network December 20, 2012 6:43AM

An archaeological dig in Mexico has found alien like skulls


FORGET the Mayan apocalypse and little green men from Mars: Alien invaders may be living as little as 12 light years away - and they may have already visited.

Tau Ceti - the closest star of a type similar to our own Sun - has been found to have at least five planets orbiting it. Scientists say one of those planets sits neatly in the "goldilocks" habitable zone.

And if you think the name sounds familiar, you're right. The star features in many works of science fiction, from the movie Barbarella to episodes of Star Trek and novels from Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein.

The announcement comes as archaeologists announce the discovery of "alien" skulls - right at the height of the Mayan apocalypse and Starchild conspiracy theory frenzies.

The skulls, actually from humans belonging to a culture which deliberately distorted the shapes of heads from birth, are being exhumed near a village called Onavas in Mexico.

Dated as about 1000 years old, one skull in particular has the elongated cone shape which features so often in science fiction depictions of alien life.

Director of the research project Cristina Moreno of Arizona State University says, "Cranial deformation in Mesoamerican cultures was used to differentiate one social group from another and for ritual purposes."


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So are we at risk from invasion from Tau Ceti?

No. And there's evidence to back it up.

In the 1960s, the budding SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) program monitored the star closely for artificial radio signals.

It came up blank.
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But the finding published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics does have extraordinary implications for the search for life in space, and, perhaps, even interstellar space travel.

Tau Ceti is not a bright star, but it is close enough to be seen at night with the naked eye. At 12 light years, it's virtually around the corner in celestial terms.

Tau Ceti's five planets are also more like our own system than most other solar systems discovered so far: Their sizes are on the smaller end of the scale - between two and six times bigger than the Earth. The goldilocks planet is about four times bigger than Earth and orbits its star in a 168-day year.
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It implies our local neighbourhood is full of low-mass rocky planets, and potentially full of other Earths, co-author of the study James Jenkins of the University of Chile said.

"Tau Ceti is one of our nearest cosmic neighbours and so bright that we may be able to study the atmospheres of these planets in the not-too-distant future."

The significance of the find is that it dramatically boosts the chance that, with 100 thousand million stars in our galaxy alone, there is life "out there".

But it's not all good news. Co-author astronomer Steve Vogt points out most goldilocks planets discovered so far have a much faster orbit than our 365 days, "so our solar system is, in some sense, a bit of a freak and not the most typical kind of system that Nature cooks up."

More than 800 planets have now been found orbiting distant stars since the technology became available for the search in the 1990s.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/sci-tech/tau-ceti-closest-sun-like-star-revealed-to-have-planet-in-habitable-zone/story-fn5iztw3-1226540805051

UFO caught on video at Cardwell in north Queensland

by:
John Anderson From:
Townsville Bulletin January 03, 2013
8:29AM

A TINY town in north Queensland is on full UFO alert following sightings of strange lights in the night sky.

Cardwell businessman Greg Smith said he and his son watched the lights for 15 minutes and are convinced that what they saw was some sort of UFO.

"This was a couple of months ago. I used to be the world's biggest sceptic about this stuff, but I'll tell you what, this really rattled me and my son,'' he told The Townsville Bulletin.

Mr Smith said they watched the lights from the front of the Lyndoch Motel on the highway towards the northern end of the town.

"There were two large orange lights. There was no beam and no noise. It was absolutely silent and they were moving slowly across the sky towards the north-west. We couldn't tell if the lights were from one or two machines. At first we thought they were over buildings between the highway and the beach, but other people said they were just out over the water,'' he said.

. Mr Smith said he thought it must have been one or two helicopters, but discounted the possibility due to the fact there was no noise.

Another Cardwell resident, Phil Mulley and his wife Helen saw the lights on two consecutive nights.

"We thought it was a chopper coming up the channel. We watched it for a few minutes and then it disappeared in cloud. The next night my sister rang me and said to look outside. I went and looked and there were two lights. We watched them for a while until they disappeared in cloud,'' he said.

Mr Mulley said he knew of at least six or seven people who saw the lights.

President of UFO Research Queensland Sheryl Gottschall said she could not say what the lights were, but added she had no qualms in saying there were extraterrestrials which visited earth from time to time.

"I've been with this organisation for 25 years and in that time I've spoken to 3000 people who have seen strange lights and objects and to another 600 to 700 who have had close encounters,'' she said.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/ufo-caught-on-video-at-cardwell-in-north-queensland/story-fndo48ca-1226546907760

Spooky amateur photo raises new questions about life after death

by: RICHARD NOONE From: The Daily Telegraph February 18, 2013 12:00AM



AN innocent reflection or a window to a poltergeist?

That has been the question gnawing at an amateur photographer who uploaded some pictures she took of a landscape photograph framed in an old window, only to be stunned to discover what looks like the ghost of a small boy staring back at her.

"I said 'Oh my God, what is that?"' the photographer, who wishes to remain anonymous, said.

But what really raised the hairs on the back of her neck was the realisation the old window she used for the frame was from a boarding school in western NSW that dates back to 1886.

She took the original landscape shot at the Old Errowanbang Historic Wool Shed, west of Blayney, before printing and framing it in a window her husband, a builder, sourced from a boarding school where he worked.

The woman took the framed artwork out to her back yard to get some photographs with the view of selling the frame online as an artwork.

She took several pictures, mostly from the same angle, but the ghostly figure that looks as if it's riding on the back of the dilapidated horse-drawn carriage only appeared in one frame. "I waited for the clouds to come over so there was no reflection because it was (framed) behind the original glass of the window," she said.

The photographer declined to be named for fear of being accused of trying to use the eerie photo to court publicity and help sell her artwork. "I don't mind if my family thinks I'm crazy but I don't want the world to know," she said yesterday.

Despite being a sceptic to all things paranormal, the woman said the photo later strangely left her with a sense of "calm".

She took the unexplained picture on a small Lumix digital camera and maintains it has not been doctored or manipulated in any way.

"I wouldn't even know how to put something in a photo," she said.

"It's got to be a reflection but it's just weird. I think it's a reflection, but how romantic would it be if it was something other than that?

"But it's an amazing reflection if it is."

The window frame she used was originally from a private boarding school for boys, which first opened in 1886 and was later expanded in 1893 before it was taken over by the Methodist Church in 1925.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/spooky-amateur-photo-raises-new-questions-about-life-after-death/story-e6freuy9-1226579865520