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     CORDERO (ACS) - The lights seen by Vista Alegre residents may have formed part of a laser light show that was taking place on the other side of the river, some 600 meters from its banks. These were the words of Cordero Council President Fabian Galli, who explained: "I am not saying that the locals couldn't have seen a situation different to what they describe, nor am I saying that they are lying or anything similar: I suggest that there could have been a mistake."

     Galli insisted in that he was not "denying" the UFO sighted in the Costa de Reyes area, nor along the Vista Alegre coastal region on Monday morning. "We believe that there might have been some confusion and are therefore contributing this information toward research in order not to alarm people."

     Due to the alarm on the part of the locals, the entire coastal area became crowded with squad cars from Vista Alegre, Centeario and Neuquén, while those elements summoned in turn Air Force and aeronautical personnel.

     Galli went on to describe that at the time when the residents claimed having seen powerful lights in the sky, and which even lit up in a single go an area the size of three large willow trees in the area, there were laser beams being emitted from 21:30 hours to 01:30 hours as part of the last festivities of his community's anniversary, which was on November 15. "As from 21:30 hours we activated an electrical device that is one of a kind in the area and which was lent to us by a neighbor who owns a dance hall in Barda. It produces circular lights at high altitude with constantly gyrating laser-type beams."

     He described that the beams produced lights in eight concentric circles rotating "at high altitiude" and that the device issued these lights continuously until 1:30 a.m. when they ended with six minutes of fireworks "that produced explosions high in the air, cascading multicolored lights."

Translation (c) 2005. S. Corrales, IHU.

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     NEUQUEN (AN).- Luciano Manrique always thought that people were "talking guff" and the UFOs were bunk. As of yesterday morning, the boy and the majority of the residents of Costa de Reyes no longer think that way. "It was a bunch of lights of all colors, coming out of a circle that had at least 50 meters wide. All together they were the size of three large trees. It was over the river for a while and later ran about a kilometer over to the small farms. There were three of us and we followed it. Then it suddenly shot out something like many lights together and it looked like it was going to explode...we ran away quickly, followed it for too long." Luciano, 18, says he was scared despite the fact of being with his uncles, Carlos and Hilario. Everything began after 12 midnight, with lights that expanded to the very coast itself.

     "I went to bed early. My uncle Carlitos (34) called me by cell phone and I went out. I always thought that UFOs were guff," said the boy from Costa de Reyes, a populated corner of the locality of Vista Alegre. There, between twelve thirty and two in the morning, an enormous light like a flying saucer appeared over one of the islands of the Neuquén River amid the commotion in the neighborhood. Curiosity and intrigue even reached the Police, which appeared en masse to witness the spectacle and, of course, to determine what was going on. "I only asked the police, [they said] that what was seen were blue and yellow lines that came out of that thing," said Antonia Quialpi, a local woman who abandoned the comfort of her bed to see the "Flying Saucer".

     "I woke up on account of the squad cars. Eight patrol cars arrived in front of the race part. I looked at the commotion through the window, since when these things happen, the police can seize you as an eyewitness, and I'm not up to those transactions," said another neighbor who lives on the access road to the Costa de Reyes jockey club.

     The object's presence caused the appearence of Walter Cofre, Neuquen's chief of police, and of police personnel that reported in from the provincial capital. The Air Force Command in Neuquen was summoned from the police prefecture itself.

     "We went after two in the morning and the personnel remained until dawn. We saw nothing and stayed until dawn. People claim having seen those lights but we could not ratify it," maintained Santiago Romero, the director of the Neuquen Airport.

     Costa de Reyes is located some two kilometers from the limits of Vista Alegre and its name has nothing to do with royalty. There is a resident surnamed Reyes who occupied a good segment on the coast in a place where barricades are being built to keep the Neuquen River from causing flood damage. "Nothing like this had ever happened before," said Antonia Quilapi, the historic resident of the riverside wilderness.

     Yesterday, the talk of the town was the spectacle that everyone claimed to have seen in the sky. What was it? Many lights were coming and going to and from a round large object. "One of our cameras arived only five minutes late,according to what we were told. I don't know if there was something, but everyone was up in arms," said Lucio Piancola, a Channel 7 producer.

     Residents say that the object vanished rigth above the house of former town intendant Ernesto Meschini after having been suspended over the river. From the get-go, the possibility that it could have been a Police chopper was dismissed. Also dismissed is that any photos may have been taken from there. If the event replays itself, residents are geared up for a safari and claim that they will photograph the UFO in order to keep it from being "unidentified".

* Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU).

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     Three young men claimed having seen an unidentified flying object (UFO) this morning in a field of the small locality of Vista Alegre, some 25 km from the provincial capital.

     The strange event mobilized provincial authorities to the place and to even notify the Air Force headquarters in Neuquén to participate in the case.

     Juan Carlos Manque said that this morning, while in the company of two friends, he witnessed a strange light in the sky as they walked past an area near the Costa de Reyes neighborhood in the locality of Vista Alegre, Neuquén.

     "It was a circular light that we saw at a certain distance, as though it were losing altitude. It caught our attention and we kept walking in that direction."

     Using their cell phones, the youths notified some relatives to come out of their homes and witness the phenomenon.

     Manque noted that at a given moment "the light was much stronger, it lit up suddenly and we were able to see how it lit up some 50 meters around it. That's when we felt sort of scared, but then it vanished all of a sudden."

     Police personnel from the locality of Centenario sent out several mobile units and personnel who reached the site and spoke to the teens who claimed having witnessed "a strange light".

     Police authorities also advised the Air Force command at Neuquén, which reported to Vista Alegre. Residents of this small community are still commenting about the event.

     Unidentified flying objects have been seen in this area as well as in other parts of the country, but it has been a long time since a sighting of these characteristics was reported.

Translation (c) 2005. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to Planeta UFO.

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     It sure is, 'cos Rick's been at it again.

     Now of course, none of us really know the score with Mr. Doty's status as to his former Intelligence employment. In fact I'm sure even he doesn't. But one assumed that having helped murder Paul Bennewitz, he retired to write parking tickets and eventually to go on to become a sheister - professions he did not seem to stay at too long. But he's got to be old now and probably retired. And yet, you never know with old dogs. Because something has recently surfaced on the Net which carries the heavy and profound odour of God's Gift To The Intelligence Disinformation Community.

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     The camera of a cellular telephone caught an object in the sky of Cuesta del Totoral, in the province of Catamarca.

     Fidel Rubén Martinez was traveling in his car when he noticed a glow; while watching the sky he removed his combination cellular telephone/camera and photographed the unusual object.

     "When enlarging the image with the zoom lens I managed to see the silhouette of what we all call the flying plate", the Ancasti said to the newspaper Catamarqueño.

     The images were sent to the Astronomical observatory of Tucumán. The experts submittted an official notice and stated that "what was observed in the image corresponds to what the camera caught at level of luminous information".

     The specialists clarified that "as far as the possibility that the opaque solid body has interposed between the sun and the objective of the camera, we must practically discard it since the luminous pattern that is observed in the photo is 100% compatible with the phenomena of a reflection of luminous rays in the outer curvature of lens of the camera".

     "the dark spot, and the reflection of the straight line corresponds exactly to the center of the image. This instance is characteristic of optical effects ", they clarified.

* Roughly translated by FW

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     Maybe. From the state that gave us Roswell, the epicenter of UFO lore since 1947, comes a report from an Albuquerque TV station about its discovery of strange landscape markings in the remote desert. They're etched in New Mexico's barren northern reaches, resemble crop circles and are recognizable only from a high altitude.

     Also, they are directly connected to the Church of Scientology.

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      Having blamed him for just about everything else, some Canadian Liberals now have President George W. Bush taking pot shots at space aliens.

     Canada, whose September 11, 2001 Prime Minister blamed the west and the U.S. in particular for the terrorist attacks, is being coaxed by a former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister to protect vulnerable space aliens against the military aggression of the United States.

     Both former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and one-time Deputy Prime Minister Paul Hellyer were in the cabinet of the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

     A long line of Canadian Liberal prime ministers has been against American militarism, but Hellyer is the first to charge that Americans may drag us into an intergalactic war.

     " The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning," says Hellyer.

     Blame it all on the Bush administration, which Hellyer says has "finally agreed to build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them if they so decide."

     Not much happened when Hellyer announced in a public speech at the University of Toronto last September that "UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."

     But Since the U of T speech, Hellyer has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on a new kind of politics–Exopolitics, the kind that stars ETs.

     Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Hellyer rose to Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Trudeau.

     For those wondering why Hellyer would wait 42 years to let the world in on UFOs as "real as the airplanes that fly over your head", it was classified information.

     "The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalleled, The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in the loop," Hellyer told the Toronto audience.

     The three Non-governmental organizations that joined Hellyer’s team have already approached Canadian Parliament to get the UFO debate out into the public spectrum. They include Canada-based Toronto Exopolitics Symposium, which brought Hellyer to the U of T for his September speech.

     The Vancouver-based Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), whose International Director undertook a 1977 Extraterrestrial Communication Study for the White House when Jimmy Carter was president, is also back knocking on the door of Canadian Parliament.

     The Canadian Exopolitics Initiative, presented by the lobbying organizations to a Senate Committee panel hearing in Winnipeg last March, is proposing that the Government of Canada undertake a "Decade of Contact".

     The proposed Decade of Contact is "a 10-year process of formal, funded public education, scientific research, educational curricula development and implementation, strategic planning, community activity, and public outreach concerning our terrestrial society’s full cultural, political, social, legal and governmental communication and public interest diplomacy with advanced, ethical Off-Planet cultures now visiting Earth."

     No one is saying what the unethical Off-Planet cultures are doing.

     As far as is known neither the United Nations nor the European Union is in on the Decade of Contact act. But as both have fingers in every earthly pie, it’s only a matter of time.

     Meanwhile, there are those who find it difficult to believe that extraterrestrials exist on the basis that if they did, the Canadian Liberal government would have imported then as immigrants by now.

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     MY grandfather, a rampant atheist, liked nothing better than savaging the priests that my devout Irish Catholic grandmother invited home in the hope of saving his soul. After laying into them about the dubious credibility of immaculate conceptions and self-replicating loaves and fishes, he’d declaim, with a flourish: “And what the bloody hell is Genesis chapter six all about, eh?”

     For those not up to speed on the Old Testament, this part of the creation story deals with a category of creatures called “the Nephilim”, a non-human race that apparently inhabited the Earth around the time Adam and Eve got kicked out of the Garden of Eden. My grandfather would holler: “What are these things? Little green men from outer space?” At which point, the deflated priest would be led from the house as my grandmother crossed herself in the face of her husband’s wickedness. Even in the 1950s, priests knew that aliens and the Church didn’t compute. If there were extraterrestrials out there, their existence could effectively herald the death of God – cutting the ground from beneath key biblical truths, not least of which is the claim that humankind was made in God’s image.

     Half a century on, the Catholic Church is finally getting round to asking what it would mean for their religion if humankind were to establish the existence of intelligent aliens. The question weighs heavily on the mind of Guy Consolmagno. Sitting among his telescopes in Castel Gandolfo, the Pope’s summer palace, Consolmagno is puzzling over whether or not the Catholic Church could – or should – baptise an alien. Were such creatures discovered, ought the Pope to consider ordaining an ET? And if the human race ever masters interstellar travel, should missionaries be sent into outer space ... ?

     Consolmagno, a 53-year-old Jesuit brother from Detroit, is the Pope’s astronomer, with the run of the Vatican’s observatory here at Castel Gandolfo, in the hills outside Rome. Despite the aristocratic-sounding name and the arcane, slightly eldritch subjects he immerses himself in, Guy Consolmagno appears surprisingly Earth-bound: a self-confessed “nerd” from MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who’s into Star Trek.

     It’s his job to reconcile the wildest reaches of science fiction with the flint-eyed dogma of the Holy See. Right now, he’s off on a mental meander about “the Jesus Seed” – a brain-warping theory which speculates that, perhaps, every planet that harbours intelligent, self-aware life may also have had a Christ walk across its methane seas, just as Jesus supposedly did here on Earth in Galilee. The salvation of the Betelguesians may have happened simultaneously with the salvation of the Earthlings.

     “Is original sin something that affected all intelligent beings?” he asks. “Is there a sort of ‘cosmic’ Adam predating even life on Earth? Is Jesus Christ’s redemptive sacrifice sufficient for the whole universe? Would there be a parallel history of salvation on other planets?”

     Consolmagno’s job is to shore up the crumbling edifice of the Church against the acidic drip, drip, drip of rationality and science . “To me there is no clash between faith and science,” he says. “My religion teaches me that God created the universe, but my science teaches me how he did it. Religion doesn’t become obsolete like a science text book. In 3000 years, people will still be reading the Bible, but they will not be reading the science texts of today.”

     That tension between science and religion is the backdrop to his life’s work, and Consolmagno has been granted a special dispensation from the Church to produce a book called Intelligent Life In The Universe? Catholic Belief And The Search For Extra-Terrestrial Life. Published by the Vatican’s Catholic Truth Society, it explores an issue which could – theoretically – reduce the spires and steeples of Rome to rubble.

     The Roman Catholic Church has, in the past, been obliged to rue its mistakes: the Crusades, the Inquisition, wartime acquiescence by certain clergy with Nazism. But it was the scientific cock-ups, not the moral ones, that really threatened the institution’s authority. Having taken more than 350 years to admit its mistake in convicting Galileo of heresy for insisting that the Earth orbited the sun, the Church seems keen to demonstrate that it is no longer the natural haven for scientific dunces: hence, Consolmagno and his peculiar little book.

     It’s Consolmagno’s job to finesse any looming doctrinal difficulties that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may present for His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. For instance, if aliens were discovered, then why would the Bible – supposedly the word of God – contain no information about his non-Earthly creations? If they turn out to be green blobs or sentient gaseous spirals, what’s all that talk in the Bible of humankind being created in God’s image? What if the aliens wanted to convert us to their God? And do ETs go to heaven? Consolmagno’s role is to scientifically, metaphysically and theologically take the lethal sting out of such a debate; to marry Christian faith with the possibility of discovering a talking crab in the next galaxy.

     But how does the prospect affect other faiths? According to Dr Mona Siddiqui, senior lecturer in Islamic Studies at Glasgow University, the discovery of aliens would merely signal that the human race had learned a fraction more about the universe. “The question wouldn’t be: ‘What does this say about our relationship to God?’, but: ‘What does it say about us in the cosmos?’.

     “God would remain, but the way we think about his ‘creation’ – the universe and everything in it – would change.” Unless humankind finds a way to communicate with the creator, says Siddiqui, “then the mystery of God remains”, no matter what discoveries we make about intelligent life elsewhere in the void.

     Ephraim Borowski, former head of philosophy at Glasgow University and current director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, also remains sanguine. “My gut tells me that the discovery of alien life would have no more impact on faith than the discovery of Australia,” he says. “When that land was discovered and people of different racial characteristics were found, there was no problem in recognising them as human. If an ET was discovered, would it be that much different?

     “Even if we take Genesis literally – with the story of the creation of the sun, moon and stars – we are not told what was going on on those planets.” Although Judaism sees humans as the only creature gifted a soul, Borowski has a fanciful explanation for how humanity could reconcile something physically vastly different from ourselves – a giant self-aware spider with a gift for pottery, say – with evidence that the alien creature was just as capable of love, fear, jealousy and abstract thought as us.

     “If we came across an alien with whom we could enjoy a visit to the National Gallery,” he muses, “then we might take the view that this creature was a different shape to a human and so not biologically like us, but it functioned like us – or even better than us – and so could be seen to have a soul; to be effectively human.”

     Only the Church of Scientology waxes enthusiastic about the prospect of extra-terrestrial life. The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland refused to participate in a debate related to a Sabbath Day newspaper , and the Church of Scotland was reticent in putting forward a spokesperson on the subject.

     Dr Richard Holloway – the controversial former primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church – insists that only a faith which has embraced modernity could cope with the daisy-cutter level fire and brimstone that would rain down on organised religion in the event of a flying saucer landing on the Esplanade outside Edinburgh Castle. “Christianity has dealt with dinosaurs, Darwin and the emancipation of women,” Holloway says. “It gulped momentarily and moved on. Good religion is not hermetically sealed. A religion that is held with lightness and less intensity can adapt. It won’t be stuck in time, but move with the times.” Ultimately, he believes, the discovery of aliens would just underscore how big a mystery the universe and its creation – or creator – remain to us mortals who are just passing by.

     The central question posed by the discovery of aliens would be: “Are they fallen like us?” If so, says Holloway, did they have their own version of Adam and Eve? Did they have a saviour? If they aren’t fallen, then are they living in some pre-Edenic paradise with no need of a saviour? “The biggest fact that plays against the belief in a benign creator,” says Holloway, “is meaningless pain and suffering. If we discovered intelligent life on a planet that believed in no God and was just as brutal as our own planet, then that might be seen by some as the ultimate definition of a Godless universe.”

     For the Vatican and Consolmagno, the theological puzzle is more tricky. As a scientist, Consolmagno can’t reject the possibility of alien life. But as a theologian he has to perform an intellectual somersault in order to make sure that the chance of an ET cropping up somewhere in the universe doesn’t shunt the Christian God to the outer fringes.

     Consolmagno says he believes in ETs – and that they too are God’s creatures and no challenge to Rome’s authority. His belief is a bit like his faith: he can’t prove it, but he’s certain nonetheless. “I can’t be sure I’m right,” he says, “indeed I could well be wrong, but still, I have a hunch that sooner or later, the human race will discover that there are other intelligent creatures out there in the universe.”

     At the core of Consolmagno’s reconciliation between science and religion is an almost hippy way of thinking about spirituality and the universe. He cites the opening lines of John, Chapter One: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him was not anything.” He interprets this as meaning that the word of God – the spirit of the essence, the meaning of God – existed before anything else, and is part of everything in the natural universe: even a giant mindworm on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri.

     “After all, we are all made of stars,” Consolmagno says, quoting the US singer, Moby. His thinking is this: just as the word of God echoes from “the beginning” until now, in all of us, so the stuff that formed the first stars remains present within the minerals from which we are all made. In Consolmagno’s worldview, God and science are one. Apart from certainty in God the creator and Christ the saviour, he believes almost everything else is unknowable. It means Consolmagno can maintain his faith in God, but still believe in the Big Bang. The Lord is an infinite physicist – an all-knowing Stephen Hawking – who started the whole process of life, the universe and everything else by flicking a switch, triggering an almighty explosion some 10 billion-plus years ago and allowing his creation to unfold in accordance with his omniscient, and highly mathematical, plan.

     Consolmagno considers himself a free thinker, who wears both a dog collar and his MIT graduation ring as evidence that he can be a “fanatic and a nerd at the same time”. He’s happy to point out Biblical disparities – including the bit of Genesis about the Nephilim that vexed my grand father – and say it’s just silly fiction. Nor does the Bible’s failure to mention dinosaurs mean that Christians have to question the existence of T-Rex. “The Bible doesn’t tell you how to programme your VCR either, but you know it’s there,” he adds.

     Consolmagno’s natural audience, he says, is the devout. “They are the people who fear even thinking about science, as it might make them question their faith. But a faith that is afraid of the truth has no faith.” Part of his mission is to show the blinkered that even the most fantastical of scientific discoveries would, at least in his opinion, not trash the teachings of Christ and the prophets. “The discovery of extraterrestrial life will not destroy the Church,” insists Consolmagno. “What it might do is help us discard the bad ideas in religion – the narrow views, the hubris, the divisiveness.”

     But what about the deep-rooted paranoia evident in so many science fiction works, that alien life, if it’s out there, might one day attempt to destroy humankind? “We’ve seen when human cultures interact that nobody comes out superior,” Consolmagno says. What about the genocide of Native Americans when white Europeans “interacted” with their culture? “Hmmm,” he says, “it could happen, I suppose, but the important thing is that the Native American culture did survive.”

     Consolmagno, it seems, remains the eternal optimist. God is great. And for him, the Church, in the face of everything that we know, is safe, secure and a source of succour for the souls of us all – no matter what planet we’re on.

Intelligent Life In The Universe? (Catholic Truth Society, £1.95) is out now

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     COUNCILLORS are to look into the possibility of commemorating the 90th anniversary of the spectacular shooting down of a German airship in Cuffley during the First World War.

     A memorial stands in East Ridgeway, Cuffley, commemorating the German crew who perished when the Schutte-Lanz airship was shot down by Lieutenant Leefe Robinson of the Royal Flying Corps in his BE2C biplane on September 3, 1916.

     He was later awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) for his valour but died in 1918 from the great influenza epidemic of the time.

     The enemy craft fell to the ground in flames over Cuffley, illuminating the sky for miles around.

     The fireball missed Cuffley village and plunged into a field by the Plough Inn in East Ridgeway.

     Cllr Brent Cheetham (Third Way) brought up the idea to mark the anniversary of the event in September 2006 at last week's meeting of Northaw and Cuffley Parish Council.

     He said the incident had "put Cuffley on the map" and suggested the Daily Express newspaper could get involved in helping to fund the restoration of the stone memorial, which is 10ft tall (3m) and "moving" on its base.

     The bill for the work is put at about £10,000.

     "The whole lot will have to be taken down, underpinned and put back again," said parish council chairman Russell Thomas.

     He described the wartime incident as "Cuffley's claim to fame" and said the Daily Express, which had been "involved" in supporting the memorial in the past, might like to contribute towards the restoration.

     Cllr John Mansfield added the council could look at the possibility of rededicating the memorial.

     However, Cllr Verity Hawkins suggested: "Why don't we wait 10 years until the 100th anniversary?"

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     On Friday, November 25 of this year, I received multiple reports of probable UFO fleets that were seen at various points over the Mexican capital and the State of Mexico.

     This information has been gleaned from airport personnel, fellow researchers and the public at large. All witnesses agree that waves of brilliant spheres flying over various locations were involved.


     The Captain Pilot Aviator of the Aeromexico flight headed to Guadalajara from Mexico City reported seeing 5 unidentified spherical objects seen at 12,000 meters over the San Mateo Naucalpan area at 2 in the afternoon. According to this witness, this visual encounter was also detected by the aircraft’s radar.

     Mr. Jesus Ortega reported having seen a group of unidentified spehres flying over La Villa and in his own words, these appeared to “play” with each other because they were engaged in very strange maneuvers in the sky.

     Edgar Valdivia and Luis Armando Mercado reported a fleet of spherical UFOs over the Colonia Roma Sur district, precisely at Viaducto and Toluca streets.

     Other reports issue from the Torre Mayor district on Reforma, from Calle Morena in Narvarte and from the National Medical Center, where witnesses claim having seen over 50 spheres in the sky.

     “On Friday, November 25, 2005 , I visited the Basilica of [Our Lady of] Guadalupe in the company of my husband and daughter. When we went out to the esplanade to feed the pigeons, we realized that there were many spheres in the sky engaging in maneuvers.”

     “First, they were arrayed in a single line and then arranged themselves to form a cane-shape, and remained thus for some minutes, on the same site, perfectly static. That’s when I phoned my sister Ana Luisa to tell her about what was going on. The time was approximately 3 pm.”

     “I am certain that they were not balloons because they moved on their own and created formations. Nor were they birds, since their shape was completely spherical and very shiny. They also vanished suddenly before the eyes of over 200 people who were there at the site.”

     “This sighting reminds me greatly of the one I had in 1999 when Pope John Paul II visited Mexico, although at that time I saw them at a lower altitude.” [see above]

     Mr. Carlos Valencia reports the sighting of a flotilla of approximately 100 silver spherical objects that flew over the “Mundo E” shopping center in the State of Mexico at 14;30 hours. The spheres were headed east.

     “At approximately 3 p.m. last Friday, I saw a group of spheres heading swiftly twoard the Volcano Area. I was at my work station in the Colonia Morelos district and didn’t have my camcorder handy, but I’m certain that it was a UFO fleet.”

     “It is my belief that Mexico is experiencing an intense UFO wave and we must be alert to these developments.”

     “Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been seen once more over Mexico City. These events were reported by an air traffic controller at the Mexico City International Airport (MCIA), who asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.”

     “The first report took place at 11:30 hours last Wedenesday, when personnel from Centro Mexico observed a large, seemingly metallic spherical object some 4.5 miles from MCIA.

     “The second sighting occurred yesterday, between 14:00 and 16:00 hours, when a fleet of several objects was detected at high altitude, according to Alfonso Salazar, an aviation technician, of approximately 12,000 meters.”

     “Moreover—he said—reports were received from various parts of the capital concerning the presence of these objects, from the Viaducto in the vicinity of Puente Morena, from Paseo de la Reforma by Torre Mayor, and even from the atrium of the Basilica of Guadalupe.”

     “It was unofficially known that the 14:00 flight from the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco to Mexico City reported seeing five objects as it approached the nation’s capital.


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S. Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology
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     A former Canadian Minister of Defence has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on with Alien “ET” Civilizations. Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson, publicly stated: "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head." Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. Mr. Hellyer went on to say, "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something." “Now is the time for open disclosure that there are ethical Extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth,” a spokesperson for the Non-Governmental Organizations stated. “Our Canadian government needs to openly address these important issues of the possible deployment of weapons in outer space and war plans against ethical Extraterrestrial societies.”

     OTTAWA, CANADA (PRWEB) November 24, 2005 -- A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with “ETs.”

     By “ETs,” Mr. Hellyer and these organizations mean ethical, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth.

     On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson, publicly stated: "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."

     Mr. Hellyer went on to say, "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something."

     Hellyer revealed, "The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop."

     Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, "The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

     Hellyer’s speech ended with a standing ovation. He said, "The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today."

     Three Non-governmental organizations took Hellyer’s words to heart, and approached Canada’s Parliament in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, to hold public hearings on a possible ET presence, and what Canada should do. The Canadian Senate, which is an appointed body, has held objective, well-regarded hearings and issued reports on controversial issues such as same-sex marriage and medical marijuana,

     On October 20, 2005, the Institute for Cooperation in Space requested Canadian Senator Colin Kenny, Senator, Chair of The Senate Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, “schedule public hearings on the Canadian Exopolitics Initiative, so that witnesses such as the Hon. Paul Hellyer, and Canadian-connected high level military-intelligence, NORAD-connected, scientific, and governmental witnesses facilitated by the Disclosure Project and by the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium can present compelling evidence, testimony, and Public Policy recommendations.”

     The Non-governmental organizations seeking Parliament hearings include Canada-based Toronto Exopolitics Symposium, which organized the University of Toronto Symposium at which Mr. Hellyer spoke.

     The Disclosure Project, a U.S.– based organization that has assembled high level military-intelligence witnesses of a possible ET presence, is also one of the organizations seeking Canadian Parliament hearings.

     Vancouver-based Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), whose International Director headed a proposed 1977 Extraterrestrial Communication Study for the White House of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who himself has publicly reported a 1969 Close Encounter of the First Kind with a UFO, filed the original request for Canadian Parliament hearings.

     The Canadian Exopolitics Initiative, presented by the organizations to a Senate Committee panel hearing in Winnipeg, Canada, on March 10, 2005, proposes that the Government of Canada undertake a Decade of Contact.

     The proposed Decade of Contact is “a 10-year process of formal, funded public education, scientific research, educational curricula development and implementation, strategic planning, community activity, and public outreach concerning our terrestrial society’s full cultural, political, social, legal, and governmental communication and public interest diplomacy with advanced, ethical Off-Planet cultures now visiting Earth.”

     Canada has a long history of opposing the basing of weapons in Outer Space. On September 22, 2004 Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin declared to the U.N. General Assembly,” "Space is our final frontier. It has always captured our imagination. What a tragedy it would be if space became one big weapons arsenal and the scene of a new arms race.

     Martin stated, "In 1967, the United Nations agreed that weapons of mass
destruction must not be based in space. The time has come to extend this ban to all weapons..."

     In May, 2003, speaking before the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Lloyd Axworthy, stated “Washington's offer to Canada is not an invitation to join America under a protective shield, but it presents a global security doctrine that violates Canadian values on many levels."

     Axworthy concluded, “There should be an uncompromising commitment to preventing the placement of weapons in space.”

     On February 24, 2005, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin made official Canada's decision not to take part in the U.S government’s Ballistic Missile Defence program.

     Paul Hellyer, who now seeks Canadian Parliament hearings on relations with ETs, on May 15, 2003, stated in Toronto’s Globe & Mail newspaper, “Canada should accept the long-standing invitation of U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio to launch a conference to seek approval of an international treaty to ban weapons in space. That would be a positive Canadian contribution toward a more peaceful world.”

     In early November 2005, the Canadian Senate wrote ICIS, indicating the Senate Committee could not hold hearings on ETs in 2005, because of their already crowded schedule.

     “That does not deter us,” one spokesperson for the Non-governmental organizations said, “We are going ahead with our request to Prime Minister Paul Martin and the official opposition leaders in the House of Commons now, and we will re-apply with the Senate of Canada in early 2006.

     “Now is the time for open disclosure that there are ethical Extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth,” a spokesperson for the Non-Governmental Organizations stated. “Our Canadian government needs to openly address these important issues of the possible deployment of weapons in outer space and war plans against ethical Extraterrestrial societies.”

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     As if spotty teenagers releasing computer viruses on to the internet from darkened rooms were not enough of a headache. According to a scientific report, planet Earth's computers are wide open to a virus attack from Little Green Men.

     The concern is raised in the next issue of the journal Acta Astronautica by Richard Carrigan, a particle physicist at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. He believes scientists searching the heavens for signals from extra-terrestrial civilisations are putting Earth's security at risk, by distributing the jumble of signals they receive to computers all over the world.

     The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (Seti) project, based at the University of California in Berkeley, uses land-based telescopes to scour the universe for electromagnetic waves. Just as stray radio and TV broadcasts are now zooming away from Earth at the speed of light, the Seti scientists hope to pick up stray signals, or even intentional interplanetary broadcasts, emitted from other civilisations.

     All signals picked up by Seti are broken up and sent across the internet to a vast band of volunteers who have signed up for a Seti screensaver, which allows their computers to crunch away at the signals, when they are not at their desks.

     So far, the only signals detected are bursts of radiation from stars and a murmur of background noise left over from the big bang. But, says Dr Carrigan, improved telescopes and faster computers mean scientists are ever more likely to detect a signal from extra-terrestrials.

     In his report, entitled Do potential Seti signals need to be decontaminated?, he suggests the Seti scientists may be too blase about finding a signal. "In science fiction, all the aliens are bad, but in the world of science, they are all good and simply want to get in touch." His main concern is that, intentionally or otherwise, an extra-terrestrial signal picked up by the Seti team could cause widespread damage to computers if released on to the internet without being checked.

     Computer scientists argue that to hack a computer, or write a virus that will infect it, requires a knowledge of how the computer and the software it is running work: a computer on Earth is going to be as alien to the aliens as they would be to us. But Dr Carrigan says there is still a risk.

     Rather than dismiss his concerns, Dr Carrigan wants the Seti scientists to build safety features into their network to act as a quarantine so any potentially damaging signals can be trapped before they infect the internet.

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     Earth and outer space, home and visitors from afar, are bound to come up when friends and relatives of Robert V. Pratt come to the Dorsey-E. Earl Smith Funeral Home this afternoon from 4-6 p.m. to meet his widow, Faith, and discuss his passing.

     Mr. Pratt was an evangelist for UFOs. The Lake Worth resident wrote about them in manifold articles for The National Enquirer. He published two books about them, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil - Where Next? in 1996 and Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, in 1987.

     He traveled the world, often at his own expense, interviewing eyewitnesses to extraterrestrial objects that he described as often behaving cruelly and capriciously, dropping globes of fire, he said, on innocent farmers in Brazil.

     He never saw one single solitary UFO in his entire life, but he came to believe in them passionately. It was a belief even his own wife did not share, though she stayed married to him for 50 years.

     "The first 30 years you squabble. The 20 years after that are wonderful," Faith Pratt said Thursday, shedding tears on Thanksgiving Day. "He would leave me notes, saying things like "You are my love." '

     Mr. Pratt was a very curious man. His own self-written obituary, edited by his wife, says he died Monday, November 21, 2005, at a local hospital following a brief illness. He was 79. He worked for many newspapers for 48 years.

     But the last eight years of his professional career were the strangest. After decades in mainstream journalism, he switched to tabloid journalism and became convinced that UFOs were real.

     Interest turned to belief. Belief became obsession. Mr. Pratt ultimately claimed to have talked to more than 2,000 people who had had UFO experiences.

     During the six years he worked as a UFO reporter for the Enquirer, he traveled to Brazil four times.

     In recognition of his research in Brazil, on May 3, 2003, at a conference in the city of Curitiba in southern Brazil,