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Labels: 1957, Chronicle, November, Nuke, Nukes

     Look.

Up in the sky.

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, we still don’t know what the heck it is.

After a series of puzzling stories in 2010 concerning UFOs — publicized sightings from Newfoundland and Montreal to China and the U.K. — QMI Agency, in a three part series, has looked at how humans continue to contemplate mysteries in the heavens.

And in the discussion, Canadians overwhelmingly — an exclusive Leger Marketing poll revealed yesterday — believe UFOs could be connected to alien visitors. But in this final day of the series, we thought it might be worthwhile to get a grounding in facts.

So we invited renowned American skeptic and debunker Robert Sheaffer and Canadian UFO-buff Chris Rutkowski — a Winnipeg-based astronomer who helps keep track of Canadian sightings — to debate the known realities.

QMI: Do you believe aliens are visiting our world?

Labels: Chris Rutkowski, Debate, Robert Sheaffer

     It's hoped one of the greatest Suffolk mysteries of all time is about to be solved once and for all, with new evidence to be revealed on BBC Radio Suffolk.

In December 1980 something strange happened in the forest close to the giant twin US airbases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge.

Was it a UFO crash landing or was it simply the light from Orford Ness lighthouse?

Whatever it was it's caused years of debate, speculation, gossip and rumour.

Now after 30 years, I'm hoping to reveal what happened in Rendlesham Forest and have joined up with the East Anglian Daily Times to finally uncover the events of December 1980.

Labels: Charles Halt, Nuke, Nukes, Rendlesham

     A Texas Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) field investigator reports a group of five "star-like lights" in the shape of an "arrowhead" moving silently westward with a "slight shimmer or unstable look" as though they were "being viewed through water" at 8:30 p.m. on October 26, 2010, according to testimony from the MUFON witness reporting database.

"It seemed impossible to determine the precise elevation, however, I would guess that the object was between 1000 and 5000 feet from the earth," the witness stated.

The investigator is open to suggestions on what these objects might have been. The MUFON report was filed on October 26, 2010. No images or video were provided.

Labels: By Roger Marsh, MUFON, Phoenix Lights, Texas

     

Labels: 1957, Chronicle, Flying Saucer, Spencer Whedon, Wright Patterson AFB, Wright Patterson Air Force Base

     Is it a bird? A plane? Or perhaps -- gasp -- a UFO? Those are the questions being asked about an iPhone picture taken at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park.

"This photo is extremely creepy," said Ryan Boone, who claims to have snapped the shot Tuesday before 10 p.m., while waiting in line to ride the Xcelerator rollercoaster.

The 31-year-old Beverly Hills resident sent the photo (original pic) to NBCLA. The photo, which Boone claims is not doctored, shows part of the coaster and looming above it, is a glowing, triangular object in the sky.

"At first I thought it had to be a glare, but there was nothing in the sky to glare off of," said Boone.

He laughed, "I've never been a believer in UFOs until I took this photo and saw it with my own eyes."

Labels: 2010, Knotts Berry Farm, Photograph, Sighting, UFO

     I was saddened to learn yesterday that Zecharia Sitchin, one of the giants of the Ancient Astronaut or Paleocontact theory, passed away recently in New York City at the age of 90. Although he died last October 9th , his official website, www.sitchin.com, just posted this short announcement:

“We regret to inform you that Zecharia Sitchin passed away on the morning of October 9th. A small, private family funeral was held the next day.

The family asks that you respect its privacy during this difficult time and refrain from contacting family members directly. Instead, to offer tributes to Mr. Sitchin or to contact those handling his affairs, please email tributes@sitchin.com or send a letter to P.O. Box 577, New York, NY 10185.

We appreciate the support that you have given over the years. Please continue to monitor this website for further updates.”

I knew Zecharia quite well. I met him for the first time in 1986, long before he became a household name in the paleocontact and ufological fields, when my friend Marcello Galluppi, a well known astrologist and paranormal radio show host from Detroit, invited me to sit for a long radio interview he did with Sitchin at his home in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It was here that I heard for the first time Sitchin’s now famous story of how he started his lifelong quest for the Anunnaki, the gods of ancient Sumer, or the Biblical Nephilim, which in time he came to believe were real extraterrestrials from the planet Nibiru and not just mythological figures. Sitchin’s parents were Russian Jews from Azerbaijan who emigrated in the 1920s to what was then known as Palestine, present-day Israel, then under British rule. Zecharia was a 9-year-old boy attending Biblical school and the discussion focused on a cryptic passage from the Book of Genesis (6:4-1) concerning the so-called Nephilim, a Hebrew word usually translated as “giants,” who married the daughters of man and had children by them.

Labels: By Antonio Huneeus, Obit, Obituary, Zecharia Sitchin

     President Obama was briefed this morning on an engineering power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday.

The base is a main locus of the United States' strategic nuclear forces. The 90th Missile Wing, headquartered there, controls 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. They're on full-time alert and are housed in a variety of bunkers across several states.

On Saturday morning, according to people briefed on what happened, a squadron of ICBMs suddenly dropped down into what's known as "LF Down" status, meaning that the missileers in their bunkers could no longer communicate with the missiles themselves. LF Down status also means that various security protocols built into the missile delivery system, like intrusion alarms and warhead separation alarms, were offline. In LF Down status, the missiles are still technically launch-able, but they can only be controlled by an airborne command and control platform like the Boeing E-6 NAOC "Kneecap" aircraft, E-4B NAOC aircraft or perhaps the TACAMO fleet, which is primarily used to communicate with nuclear submarines. Had the country been placed on a higher state of nuclear alert, those platforms would be operating automatically because the frequencies used to transmit nuclear codes would be interfacing with separate systems, according to officials.

According to the official, engineers believe that a launch control center computer (LCC), responsible for a package of at least five missiles, usually ten of them, began to "ping" out of sequence, resulting in a surge of "noise" through the system. The LCCs interrogate each missile in sequence, so if they begin to send signals out when they're not supposed to, receivers on the missiles themselves will notice this and send out error codes.

. . . The cause of the failure remains unknown . . ..

Labels: FE Warren AFB, LF Down, Nuclear Missiles, Nuke, Nukes