Jacques Vallee, UFO expert, now sometimes blogger

It’s always seemed a little ironic to me that Dr Jacques Vallee has not taken to blogging his thoughts on a regular basis. Ironic because the legendary ufologist is also a distinguished computer scientist, and was heavily involved in the development of the ARPANET back in the 70s. [Messengers of Deception] On top of that, Jacques is one of the most original, provocative and eloquent thinkers around – his books on the UFO phenomena such as Passport to Magonia and Messengers of Deception fly in the face of popular and ufological opinion, making him somewhat of a ‘heretic among heretics’. With his long history in the field of anomalies, in addition to his involvement with the development and financing of emerging technologies, there aren’t too many people that I’d rather listen to.I’ve been lucky enough to be involved with Jacques in reprinting his classic book Messengers of Deception through Daily Grail Publishing available from Amazon US and Amazon UK. I’ve also interviewed Jacques on a couple of occasions, including one I did a few years back for Issue 4 of Sub Rosa titled “Jacques Vallee: A Man of Many Dimensions”, and more recently about the aforementioned Messengers of Deception reprint. However, I’ve always wanted to see Jacques have a more regular voice online including contemplating offering a blog on TDG for his use. But today, a lovely surprise – because Jacques Vallee is now an occasional blogger on Boing Boing.

via Daily Grail Frontpage | TDG – Science, Magick, Myth and History.

UFO spotted over Coggeshall

An ex-military man, who was trained in aircraft recognition, claims he saw a UFO while out walking his dog in Coggeshall.

Richard Gogin was with his dog, Rommel, in the grounds of Marks Hall, Coggeshall, when he saw a shape in the sky.

He said: “I was calling my dog and just above him, I saw a white-hot triangular shape.

“It was moving extremely fast.

“I tracked it for about four seconds and it disappeared as if someone had turned off a light switch.

“I have never seen an aircraft move like that.”

The 35-year-old, who lives in Hawkwood Road, Sible Hedingham, spent about a decade in the Army Air Corps.

Mr Gogin estimates the UFO was about 3,000 meters from him about 2,000 feet up and, traveling horizontally.

Mr Gogin, who is now an IT company director, said: “The only other thing it could be is a firework, but fireworks don’t travel in straight lines and fireworks become dull.

“It was quite funny, but just because we don’t know what it is, it doesn’t mean it was a flying saucer.

“I take an interest in these things and in the past couple of years I have seen a couple of other things moving in the sky very very fast between Sible Hedingham and Haverhill.”

A spokesman for the nearest airfield, the Anglian Flight Centre, based at Earls Colne Airfield, said: “We weren’t flying at that time. The last flight was at 4.20pm. We have had lots of these sightings – there must be a lot of Martians out there!”

Source: Daily Gazette

Lies and Deception: UFO’s and the Secret Agenda

Apparently there was a UFO crash in the 1940s that put Roswell to shame. At last you can hear about it! Put out by Reality Films and Edge Media in the UK, this documentary has it all: Hastily-assembled CGI illustrations of aliens, talking heads whose British accents will convince you of anything, and fun factoids from the secret history of UFOlogy. Items covered that you won’t want to miss include the “war” between humans and aliens, as well as the idea that the aliens are slowly evolving to survive in Earth’s atmosphere. Exciting! – io9

Join Timothy Good and Nick Pope on a journey into the world of Aliens and UFO’s, as they explore the latest evidence for extraterrestrial contact.

As Timothy Good states, “Contact has been established” and in this film we discover the truth that “they” don’t want you to know. Black technology developed from crashed alien craft. On-going hybridization of the human race. How President Kennedy insisted on seeing the Roswell alien bodies. The release of classified top secret UK documents. Who is keeping the secret files? When will full disclosure come? The evidence is REAL and mounting! A film in partnership with Edge Media TV in the UK and Reality Films.

via YouTube – Lies and Deception: UFO’s and the Secret Agenda.

Claims are interesting but I’m still waiting for real evidence.

The Socorro UFO Incident: Eyewitness ‘Lonnie Zamora’ Passes Away

Veteran researcher, and lead investigator of the Socorro Incident, Ray Stanford has informed The UFO Chronicles, that former Socorro, New Mexico police officer and preeminent eyewitness to one of the most well-known UFO cases in history, “Lonnie Zamora” died Monday night of heart failure.

Ray received direct confirmation from the Socorro Police Department.

“Very sadly, and in highly respectful memory of the finest witness (of the hundreds) I’ve ever interviewed”–Ray Stanford

via The Socorro UFO Incident:
Eyewitness ‘Lonnie Zamora’ Passes Away.

I saw UFO beam up a “buffalo” ( Watch the video here. )

STUNNED Derek Bridges has revealed how he shot extraordinary footage which UFO experts say shows aliens beaming a BUFFALO into their spaceship.

Pensioner Derek filmed the eerie scene from his window after spotting pulsating glowing orbs hovering over a neighbouring farm late at night.

The two bright lights hover high over fields, while an animal appears to dangle below before vanishing into them.

A high-pitched screeching noise can be heard before the UFOs finally disappear into the night.

Grandfather Derek, 69, said: “I couldn’t believe my eyes. I’m convinced it is the real thing.”

He told how he spotted the bizarre lights over a neighbouring farm as he looked out of his window while getting ready for bed at his house near Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Quick-thinking Derek grabbed his camcorder and began filming the incident above 2,500-acre Laverstoke Park Farm in Overton village at about 10.30pm.

It has one of the country’s biggest herds of water buffalo and is close to a military base used by special forces.

Derek said: “I just looked out of the window before going to bed. I wasn’t sure what I was seeing at the time.

“I have a keen eye and I could see something glowing which looked dark red about half a mile away.

“I kept looking at it for about 20 minutes and then suddenly a bright white light appeared which was very powerful.

“At that point I picked up my video camera and filmed what I saw. I saw two white lights lifting up and I just kept filming. The lights were high in the sky. They couldn’t have been anything on the ground.

“I did not realise at the time that something was dangling beneath but when I played it back the next day on a big screen I could see it there.

“I believe it’s a UFO and this animal, which could be a bison or a horse, seems to be being beamed up.

“As far as I know, this is the first time anyone in the world has filmed animal abduction….

via I saw UFO beam up a buffalo | The Sun |News.

Looks like lights and a string, probably a couple sky lanterns with something tied to them.   The “buffalo” never gets any closer to the “ship” so the beam wasn’t working very well.

‘UFO cloud formation’ filmed in Romania

If viewed from a distance the disc cloud, which is outlined by a ring of sunlight, appears to resemble an alien craft.

Meteorologists explained that the phenomenon witnessed in Moscow was just an optical effect produced by rare weather conditions, but the latest clip – apparently filmed at the end of last week – has again set tongues wagging.

“How come I have never seen clouds that look like that. Now we get two in a matter of weeks in different places,” wrote one user of the video-sharing website Live Leak where the clip was first posted. Others speculated – with tongues firmly in cheeks – that the twin formations could herald an alien invasion.

“Run the two videos and put them beside each other… It’s very strange… are they here?” commented a user named Raginswirler.

The two clips appear to show a formation known as a “fallstreak hole”, which occurs when moisture in the air cools below 0C but is unable to turn into ice. While most of the “supercooled” water remains suspended in the sky, rings of ice do form and plunge to earth, leaving doughnut-shaped holes in the cloud layer. The luminous effect visible in the Russian and Romanian videos is due to the the sun being low in the sky.

via ‘UFO cloud formation’ filmed in Romania – Telegraph.

I wonder if this speedy cylinder filmed over Romania was caused by ice rings as well…

Found: Entrace to underground caves on the moon

A deep hole on the moon that could open into a vast underground tunnel has been found for the first time. The discovery strengthens evidence for subsurface, lava-carved channels that could shield future human colonists from space radiation and other hazards.

The moon seems to possess long, winding tunnels called lava tubes that are similar to structures seen on Earth. They are created when the top of a stream of molten rock solidifies and the lava inside drains away, leaving a hollow tube of rock.

Their existence on the moon is hinted at based on observations of sinuous rilles – long, winding depressions carved into the lunar surface by the flow of lava. Some sections of the rilles have collapsed, suggesting that hollow lava tubes hide beneath at least some of the rilles.

But until now, no one has found an opening into what appears to be an intact tube. “There’s sort of a chicken-and-egg problem,” says Carolyn van der Bogert of the University of Münster in Germany. “If it’s intact, you can’t see it.”

Finding a hole in a rille could suggest that an intact tube lies beneath. So a group led by Junichi Haruyama of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency searched for these “skylights” in images taken by Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft, which orbited the moon for almost two years before ending its mission in June…

The team found the first candidate skylight in a volcanic area on the moon’s near side called Marius Hills. “This is the first time that anybody’s actually identified a skylight in a possible lava tube” on the moon, van der Bogert, who helped analyse the feature, told New Scientist.

The hole measures 65 metres across, and based on images taken at a variety of sun angles, the the hole is thought to extend down at least 80 metres. It sits in the middle of a rille, suggesting the hole leads into a lava tube as wide as 370 metres across.

It is not clear exactly how the hole formed. A meteorite impact, moonquakes, or pressure created by gravitational tugs from the Earth could be to blame. Alternatively, part of the lava tube’s ceiling could have been pulled off as lava in the tube drained away billions of years ago.

Finding such an opening could be a boon for possible human exploration of the moon (see What NASA’s return to the moon may look like).

Since the tubes may be hundreds of metres wide, they could provide plenty of space for an underground lunar outpost. The tubes’ ceilings could protect astronauts from space radiation, meteoroid impacts and wild temperature fluctuations (see Can high-tech cavemen live on the moon?).

“I think it’s really exciting,” says Penny Boston of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. “Basalt is an extremely good material for radiation protection. It’s free real estate ready to be exploited and modified for human use.”

But even if astronauts were to rappel into the hole, they might not be able to travel far into the tube it appears to lead into. “I would bet a lot of money that there’s a tube there, but I would not bet nearly so much that we could gain access to the tube,” says Ray Hawke of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who has also hunted for lunar lava tubes.

Rubble or solidified lava might block up the tube. “It could be closed up and inaccessible,” Hawke told New Scientist.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which should be able to snap images of the area that are at least 10 times as sharp, could help reveal more about the hole. And more lava tube openings may be found.

The Kaguya team is still combing over images of other areas in search of additional skylights. And Hawke says a proposal is in the works to use LRO’s main camera to snap oblique shots of the lunar surface. This could help reveal cave entrances that are not visible in a bird’s-eye view.

via Found: first ’skylight’ on the moon – space – 22 October 2009 – New Scientist.

Opening to an underground UFO base?

When I was a teenager, I had a very vivid dream. I woke up and looked out my window quickly and unexpectedly. What I saw was an opening in the sky and a man in a white lab coat was watching me. He said “close it, he’s awake!” I woke up to a real huge booming crash, which I think was a garbage truck. Since the sound only happened once in real life, and since the sound was telegraphed by at least 6 seconds of dream dialogue, I have long wondered about ripples from the future entering my dreams.

This early experience also led me to wonder about secret bases on the moon.

The thermal behaviour of these objects is consistent with deep holes underground, according to Glen Cuching of the U.S. geological survey’s astrology team. These are the first extraterrestrial caves to be discovered. Extraterrestrial caves!!!!!!! – virtuousphan

Stealthy wind turbines aim to disappear from radar screens

For all their environmental appeal, wind turbines have few fans in the military or among air traffic controllers. Strange as it might seem, radar systems easily confuse the turbines’ rotating blades with passing aircraft. Now a company has developed a “stealthy”, radar-invisible blade that could see many more wind farms springing up across the UK and elsewhere.

The concern over wind turbines is delaying their deployment. According to the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, plans for over 5 gigawatts of wind power are currently stalled by aviators’ objections .

It is no less of an issue elsewhere: last month the German army blocked investment in some new wind power projects because of radar interference concerns. Even in the US, where the population density is lower, the Department of Defense is investigating whether turbines could weaken radar defences.

At the root of the problem is the fact that traditional radar sweeps across an area, scanning a particular location only once every few seconds. It detects moving objects by looking for a Doppler shift in the reflected radar signals. If an aircraft flies low over a wind farm, it becomes difficult to distinguish whether those shifts have come from the aircraft’s movement or the rotating turbine blades. …

One solution would be to require all aircraft that fly over wind farms to carry transponders to identify themselves, says Nicola Vaughan, head of aviation at the British Wind Energy Association. Indeed, she says transponder-mandatory zones already operate over two offshore wind farms in UK waters. However, this is more problematic for land-based farms as large numbers of light aircraft, which generally don’t have transponders, fly over them.

Vestas, a wind turbine manufacturer, may have a better answer. Last week it carried out the first test of a “stealthy” turbine blade, built in collaboration with defence technology company Qinetiq.

It is relatively easy to hide objects from radar by applying an absorbent coating – an approach used to disguise vehicles. This is no good for wind turbines, though. “The mass of the blade is critical,” says Steve Appleton of Vestas. Blades can be up to 45 metres long, so slapping on a thick, radar-absorbent coating of paint would add substantial extra weight. “The blades flex in the wind too,” Appleton adds, so any coating is likely to crack and flake off.

Instead, a radar-absorbing blade has been designed from scratch, and in such a way that Vestas’ existing manufacturing process isn’t significantly altered – so it doesn’t push up costs. Although Vestas is not releasing details of the design as yet, Appleton says the blade behaves like a Salisbury screen – incoming radar waves bounce off two surfaces that are precisely spaced so that the reflections interfere and cancel each other out.

via Stealthy wind turbines aim to disappear from radar screens – tech – 23 October 2009 – New Scientist.

Ah, this may be the reason for UFO sightings around windmills.

Pentagon hacker wins a US extradition delay for psychiatric review

Lawyers for the Home Secretary have agreed to delay moves to extradite Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker, pending a review of fresh psychiatric evidence.

Last week Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was refused permission to take his case to the Supreme Court and faced 14 days to make representations. But government lawyers have now said that they will set aside the 14-day deadline to take time for consideration of the evidence.

Karen Todner, Mr McKinnon’s lawyer, said: “We do take some hope from this. It is the first time that Alan Johnson will have a proper opportunity to consider the reports in this case and it shows that he is taking it seriously. In the meantime we don’t want to be hammering on his door.”

Mr McKinnon, 43, from North London, is wanted by US prosecutors for what they have called the “biggest military computer hack of all time”. He faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted.

Two High Court judges last week refused him leave to appeal to the United Kingdom’s highest court.

Lord Justice Stanley Burnton said: “His extradition is a lawful and proportionate response to his alleged offending.”

The US authorities claim that he hacked into 97 military computers and caused £487,000 in damage. Mr McKinnon admits hacking into Pentagon computers but denies that it was malicious. He argues that the case should be tried in Britain.

His lawyers claim that the authorities have not given sufficient consideration that Mr McKinnon’s Asperger’s syndrome could have “disastrous consequences” if he was extradited.

Janis Sharp, his mother, said last week that he was suicidal. His actions had been born of “compulsive and obsessive behaviour” and did not justify extradition, she added.

The US Government alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002 the computer enthusiast hacked into dozens of US Army, Navy, Air Force and Department of Defence computers and 16 at Nasa.

They claim that he altered and deleted files at a US Naval Air Station soon after the September 11 terrorist attacks and rendered critical systems inoperable.

At one point, he took down an entire network of US army computers with the aim, they allege, of accessing classified information.

Mr McKinnon describes himself as a “bumbling computer nerd.” He says his aim was to find evidence of a UFO cover-up and expose it.

via Pentagon hacker wins a US extradition delay for psychiatric review – Times Online.

Evidence Cow Was Abducted by UFO?

Inexplicata has the full story. A woman was traveling in the Rosario region of Argentina, when suddenly the cow incident occurred. She told Telenoche:

We went to have some mate with the kids, we were looking at the island and we were surprised to see some strange white thing flying. It was large. We made a close up with the camera and it was a cow flying, and above it, there was something like a flying saucer suspended in the air. It wasn’t a helicopter or an airplane. It seemed as if the cow was being sucked up by the flying saucer. Then they both vanished. I want to believe that’s what it was. To me, it was a UFO. I experienced it.

via Utterly Compelling Evidence That A Cow Was Abducted By A UFO – pseudo science – io9.

More here: http://io9.com/5379999/more-proof-that-aliens-want-our-beef

Still photo looks like a white bird turning and a blurred insect above right. Anyone find the video of this?