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3/04/2010
My girlfriend and I were driving North on Bolsa Chica street from Warner in Huntington Beach. In the sky above us, also traveling North, were two fighter Jets flying in a tight formation. We watched them as we drove, I really enjoy the sight of jets.

As we got to the cross street Heil, they broke formation and one flew west of the Naval weapons base and the other flew on the east side. I watch the jet that flew west and noticed there was a small, lone cloud just above the Navel base. Watching the jet and the cloud in my peripherals, this bright ball caught my attention flying directly in front of the jet. The jet, appeared to be on its pursuit. Within a few seconds, the ball flashed super bright and just disappeared. I think the expression of confusion lite-up on my face. My girlfriend asked me what was wrong, and to not alarm her, I just said "nothing." She then said, "I know, I saw it too".

I also wanted to note that we were driving to Target, spend 30 minutes there, and upon driving home in the same area, that same lone cloud was still hovering in the same spot over the weapons base. It just didn't feel right, not another cloud in the sky let alone this cloud hadn't moved for about 40 minutes.

3/12/2010
Today is 3/12/2010. At around 8:10am, Myself and about everyone driving East on Warner passing Springdale, in Huntington Beach, saw this wierd, what appeared almost as a rocket, descending down from about 400-500 ft to the ground. First thought that came to mind is that this was a big nuke that was going to wipe us out. After about 10-20 seconds, I noticed it just appeared to be falling by the trails behind it but it was in fact not moving.

Two minutes later, it then turned into a oval and appeared to be spinning, looked like spinning smoke. I tried blinking or moving my head around incase it was something on my windsheild. However, I could tell I wasn't the only one seeing it as the head's of everyone driving were looking up to the sky and many people were grabbing their phones to take pictures. After another minute, it became a spiral and was spinning into the center, much like a vortex still appearing to be a whitish/gray smoke color. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It did this for about another minute and shot off at an amazing speed, est. to covering a mile per second. After about twenty seconds, it disappeared into the distance, much to far to see with the human eye.

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SHOW AIRS TONIGHT, FRIDAY MARCH 26, 2010 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Pacific 10:00 - 12:00 Eastern at THE UFO PARANORMAL RADIO NETWORK

Good friend and colleague Scotty Littleton joins me, Frank Warren this coming Friday night on The Joiner Report. Although no one can better describe Scotty's experience as a witness to one of the most significant UFO events in history then himself (obviously), former student Caitlin Hammer is a close second. Here is an excerpt of an article The UFO Chronicles published on her behalf back in 2006:

"Scotty Littleton awoke to his parents’ whispers in the hall. He peeked out and saw his father’s pale face. As an air raid warden for his beachfront neighborhood, Scotty’s dad had to leave his family and enforce the blackout outside. The shells weren’t exploding over the ocean this time, so it couldn’t be a drill. But neither could he confirm his fears of a real enemy attack –nobody answered the phone at the Civil Defense Headquarters. Only after he walked into the street for a better view did the air raid siren start up.

Mrs. Littleton’s father was staying with the family, and he was slow to get out of bed. Slow to do everything actually. But when Scotty’s dad shouted from the doorway, “Mr. Hotchkiss, I think this may be the real thing,” the old widower bolted down the basement steps.

Scotty and his mom were too curious to remain underground. Besides, the old man’s morning breath is deadlier than falling shells, they thought, and ran back up the stairs to the beach at their back door. The two of them stood side by side, clinging together for warmth, their eyes on the sky. Searchlights focused on what appeared to Scotty’s mother as a silvery, lozenge-shaped bug, seemingly paralyzed by the lights, hanging directly over Hermosa Beach.

Glowing shrapnel fell on the beach in front of them, sending the pair back under the eaves for protection. Scotty was so close he could smell the acrid smoke as the shells exploded. His eyes refused to blink and his lower lip dangled. Were the neighbor kids seeing this?

Not far from Strand Street, another air raid warden left his family in the backyard staring skyward. The thing they watched so raptly reminded him of the Graf Zeppelin he’d seen land at Los Angeles’ Mines Field in ‘29, only wider and flatter. He and some neighbors jumped into their cars, tossing a couple of shotguns into the backseat. The object picked up speed and vaulted into the night sky as they followed it, racing down Sepulveda. As it moved away, the warden got one last look at the rectangular silhouette. Three narrow slits, like the gills of a shark, stood out, glow an angry orange-red. And then it was out of range . . .."

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C. Scott Littleton Bio
Professor C. Scott Littleton was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1933 and grew up in Hermosa Beach, CA. He attended Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, CA (1946-50), served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea (1950-52), and attended El Camino College in Torrance, CA (1952-54), before enrolling at UCLA in 1955, where he received his B.A. (1957), M.A. (1962), and Ph.D. (1965). He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at UCLA in 1957.

An internationally recognized expert in comparative Indo-European mythology and folklore, as well as Japanese religion, Professor Littleton has published extensively on Japanese myth and religion, the origin and distribution of the Arthurian and Holy Grail legends, and the theories of the late French mythologist Georges Dumézil. He is the author of The New Comparative Mythology (3rd Edition, University of California Press, 1982) and, with Linda A. Malcor, co-author of From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail (Garland, 1994; a revised, paperback edition appeared in 2000). He is the editor of Eastern Wisdom (Henry Holt, 1996), a book surveying the major Asian religions, as well as the author of the chapter on Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan, and has contributed chapters on Japanese mythology and religion to several other anthologies, including Roy Willis, ed., World Mythology: The Illustrated Guide (Simon & Schuster, 1993), Michael Coogan, ed., World Religion: The Illustrated Guide (Oxford University Press, 1998), and Raymond Scupin, ed., Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Focus (Prentice Hall, 2000). A semi-popular book, Shinto: Origins, Rituals, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places, was recently published by Oxford University Press (2002). He is the general editor of Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth & Storytelling by (Duncan Baird Publishers, 2002), as well as of Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology (Marshall-Cavendish, 2004).

Littleton has done extensive field work in a Tokyo neighborhood, focusing on its annual matsuri, or Shinto shrine festival, an account of which appeared in an article entitled “The Organization and Management of a Tokyo Shinto Shrine Festival” (Ethnology 25:195﷓202, 1986). He has also studied contemporary Japanese popular culture, focusing on the teenage dancers and rock bands that perform on Sunday afternoons in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park (e.g., “Rituals of Rebellion among Contemporary Japanese Youth: The Outdoor Disco at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park,” Religion 17:119﷓131, 1987), and is currently researching the possibility that elements of the Arthurian tradition diffused to China and Japan as well as to Europe from its point of origin in the Trans-Caucasian steppes (e.g., “Yamato-takeru: An ‘Arthurian’ Hero in Japanese Tradition,” Asian Folklore Studies 54:259-274, 1995). He has also researched the extent to which the hallucinogen cannabis sativa played a role at the Oracles of Delphi and Dodona (e.g., "The Pneuma Enthusiastikon: On the Possibility of Hallucinogenic 'Vapors' at Delphi and Dodona." Ethos 14:76-91, 1986).

Littleton’s other research interests include nineteenth-century travel accounts—with Horace L. Hotchkiss, he is co-editor of The Diaries of Blakely Wilson: An American Traveler in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 1874-1876 (Mellen Press, 1998)—and occult and paranormal phenomena, with emphasis upon the UFO phenomenon and alien abductions. The latter interest is reflected in his science fiction novel, Phase Two (Red Pill Press, 2009), which concerns alien abductions, and an article entitled, "Divine Rebels, Alien Dissidents: Does the Mythology Surrounding Lucifer, Prometheus, and the Ancient Mesoamerican Deity Quétzalcoatl Reflect a Pro-Human Faction in the 'Alien Raj?'" (UFO Magazine 17, No. 2:48-51 & 80, 2002), as well as his participation in the annual Aztec UFO Symposium, Aztec, NM (2006), where he discussed the mysterious object that flew over Southern California in the early morning hours of February 25, 1942, and precipitated the so-called “Battle of Los Angeles,” to which Littleton was an eye-witness. He is also the author of a memoir, 2500 Strand: Growing up in Hermosa Beach, California, During World War II (Red Pill Press, 2008), which includes a chapter devoted to the “Battle of Los Angeles.”

Littleton’s articles and reviews have appeared in American Anthropologist, Ethnology, Ethos, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Asian Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, Journal of Folklore Research, Western Folklore, Asian Folklore Studies, Religion, History of Religions, Natural History, Journal of the Classical Tradition, Cosmos, and The Journal of Indo-European Studies, where he also serves as mythology co-editor. In addition to major essays on Indo-European mythology and the theories of the late Georges Dumézil in Mircea Eliade, et al. eds., The Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 1987, 2004) and Simon Glendinning, ed., The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 1999) he has contributed articles on a variety of subjects to The Encyclopedia of Religion and War (Routledge, 2004), The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004), and several other scholarly encyclopedias and compendia. He is also the author of the basic article on “Mythology” in The World Book Encyclopedia (Scott Fetzer, 1991), as well as over fifty short articles on various mythological subjects in both The World Book Encyclopedia and the Academic American Encyclopedia.

He has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (twice), the American Philosophical Society, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and has served as a Visiting Fulbright Lecturer at The University of Tokyo and Waseda University (1980-81), Tokyo, Japan, and as a Senior Fulbright Researcher at Waseda University (1994). In 1991 he received The Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award, given annually to a distinguished member of the Occidental College faculty.

Littleton retired from full-time teaching at Occidental, after forty years, in May of 2002, and lives with his wife, Mary Ann, in Pasadena, CA. His e-mail address is: sarmatiandude@charter.net. His personal website is http://faculty.oxy.edu/yokatta/, and he also has accounts on Facebook and Twitter.

Labels: Battle of LA, Battle of Los Angeles, BOLA, Frank Warren, Interview, Scotty Littleton, The Joiner Report

     In August 1994 I was newly divorced and living alone with my dog in a rural area of Clear Lake, California. My place was on a small mountain top with no neighbors and a very good view of all the surrounding countryside. One night I stepped to my back porch for a smoke and for a look at the stars, which were very bright in that rural setting. Suddenly I saw a very bright light coming straight at me from the northwest over a low hill.

I knew that I was on the path of a military fly zone that went from one Northern California air force base to another. We knew this because military helicopters, transports and fighter jets were often seen going back and forth in this air corridor.

I figured it was the headlight of a helicopter since it seemed to be moving relatively slow and low. The light got brighter and brighter as the craft approached my position. Suddenly the light changed and I saw three red running lights in a rough triangle as it passed over me. I did not recognize the shape. I'd never seen anything like it.

I was looking at it and trying to see what kind of craft it might be when suddenly I noticed with a start that there was absolutely no noise. Now I was intrigued! I stepped out into my backyard away from the lights of my house and watched this craft as it flew slowly over my position. I realized that I could hear the air rushing past this craft but other than that it was totally silent. I watched it as it kept on going on the corridor until it was out of sight.

It was like nothing I had ever seen before. The total silence and triangle shape was unnerving. I thought it might have been some US military craft of some kind or though less likely, perhaps a UFO using that flight corridor for some reason. I could not really say how big it was because there were no reference points. I knew it was something unusual because I heard the air rushing past the craft as it went overhead.

Doing research in the years afterwards I saw some of the photos of triangular craft that people have taken and it looked exactly like that. I have come to the conclusion that it was a secret US Military craft, flying at night in an area where it was unlikely to be seen, but that is just my best guess.

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     Just what - or who - propelled the strange flying disc across Sydney's skyline may never be known.

But while the close encounter was over in seconds, it was enough to convince mother-of-two Fiona Hartigan that she'd just seen a UFO.

And she has the photos to prove it.

Ms Hartigan yesterday said she had just got out of her car on Sunday evening to snap a few sunset photos when the amazing events began.

"As I was about to take the picture this black object appeared and then it started to move," she said.

"It started off about 800m away but it came closer - to about 400m - and then two other little round things appeared from this bright orange light above.

"There was no noise. It was calm and peaceful but it was very weird."

Ms Hartigan said the main UFO then shot off above Governor Macquarie Drive at Chipping Norton, with the smaller UFOs zipping away in the opposite direction.

"I don't know how to explain it - I'm still totally bewildered," she said.

To the sceptic, Ms Hartigan's photo might show a speck of dust on the lens or something small floating in the air close to the camera.

But close encounters like Ms Hartigan's came as no surprise to UFO Research NSW spokesman Doug Moffett: "It could be some electrical anomaly that no one has ever seen, it could be an extra-terrestrial craft, it could be something else.

"There does appear to be a blur around the image, which could just be the way it's shaped, or - and this is pure speculation - it could be due to its propulsion system.

"Whatever the case, it's an opportunity to learn something new."

Mr Moffett said there were between 1000 and 1500 UFO sightings in Australia every year, "but that is just the tip of the iceberg".

"Why would anyone make these stories up? They are setting themselves up for ridicule," he said.

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Editor's Note-March 13th was the anniversary of one of the most significant UFO events in history; The UFO Chronicles will underscore the event with various articles both past & present, throughout the month-FW

     PHOENIX (CNN) -- When it appeared in the Arizona sky on the night of March 13, it was witnessed by hundreds of people. Neither researchers nor witnesses have yet figured out what Arizonans saw in the event now dubbed "the Phoenix Lights." But that hasn't stopped them from trying to puzzle it out.

Tim Ley and his family are among the hundreds of witnesses who have come forward to talk about the Phoenix Lights. They first saw the lights while looking north from their Phoenix home.

Now, their recollections of what they saw have been transformed into computer images, using a combination of digital photos of the landscape taken by Ley and computer drawings of the objects his family saw in the sky.

"When it finally got here and we realized this thing was coming right over us, we really started getting antsy," Ley said. Then, said he and his son Hal, it went directly overhead in complete silence.

Tim Ley said that when the right side of what appeared to be a giant V-shaped craft passed directly over him, the left side was a couple of blocks away.

His wife, Bobbi, who also saw the aerial light show, said the size of the craft they saw was overwhelming. But, she said, "It didn't seem threatening. ... When it was right overhead and we couldn't hear a sound, it was like you're just awestruck."

Jim Dilettoso of Village Labs, who has been researching UFOs for 20 years, is in the process of reconstructing the incident with a virtual reality model.

The Leys are among the hundreds of witnesses he interviewed about the Phoenix Lights. He said he considers the family to be "very reliable," and their data "very important," because by their account they were so close to the craft.

While nobody knows for sure what the Leys and hundreds of others saw, Tim Ley is sure his family will never forget that night. He said it has changed his outlook on the UFO movement, turning him from a "polite skeptic" to someone quite open to the experiences of UFO believers.

"We just re-experience it every time we tell it," said his wife. "It's like it was just yesterday. We've never seen anything like it."

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Labels: Stanton Friedman, Vidcast, Video

     This month marks the 13th anniversary of what has erroneously been labeled The Phoenix Lights. The name in part stuck because the media feels the need to use “visual aids” at any opportunity; henceforth the lights that were captured on video at around 10:00 pm were melded together with eyewitness accounts of a large craft(s) seen in the eight o’clock hour.

Unfortunately, while the video images were gaining traction, and became a media frenzy, the official reports (MUFON), which determined that the 10:00 pm videos were in fact flares—got thrown by the way-side.

It was MUFON investigator, Richard Motzer who not only was the recipient of the flare videos early on, it was he that initially discovered the discrepancy between the witnesses to the 10:00 pm flare shots and the accounts in the eight o’clock hour. Point of fact is there were thousands of witnesses to the huge craft in the eight o’clock hour and only a handful at 10:00 pm (who happened to capture the lights [flares] on video).

This precipitated an investigation by Motzer, which would entail going to the locations of the videographers and triangulating all the pertinent videos. Stills were shot during the day at each relevant location and he determined that the lights were above and beyond the “Estrellas,” in the airspace of the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range—not over South Mountain as initially thought. He then ascertained the time and days of military exercises, which included flare drops and discovered that the days and times corresponded to previous video and or witness accounts of “orange lights” in that vicinity. His report was completed by mid May of ’97, just two months after the events of March 13th. This clearly explained why people on the valley floor didn’t see the flares, as it was impossible, unless you were at a higher elevation, like the videographers.

Not long after that report was made, the Air Force came clean and made an official statement admitting that the visiting Maryland Air National Guard (MANG) did eject their remaining flares before returning to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Regrettably, this has been a bone of contention and source of confusion ever since!

In part, because the media often interviewed eight o’clock witnesses, while showing the 10:00 pm flare videos the former was adamant that “flares” is not what they witnessed—and this of course is correct. Separating, and being cognizant of the two (and other) events is in fact the actual problem.

As time went by there would be other investigations and scientific analyses confirming Motzer’s conclusions. One of the most in-depth analyses done, was performed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee; recently retired as an optical physicist from the Naval Surface Warfare Center and long time respected Ufologist.

Dr. Maccabee, along with direct eyewitness Mike Fortson and former Phoenix city council member, Frances Emma Barwood will join me, Frank Warren when I guest host for this Friday’s Joiner Report.

Together, we will sort out the events of March 13th 1997, which includes one of the most significant events in UFO history as well as the distraction caused by the flare footage.

Show time: Friday, March 19, 9-11 p.m. CST
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Labels: Angelia Joiner, Bruce Maccabee, By Frank Warren, Frances Emma Barwood, Mike Fortson, The Joiner Report