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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The 25th Annual UFO Congress – A Skeptical Look

UFO Congress

     Once again this year, I attended the International UFO Congress at the We-Ko-Pa Resort, Conference Center, and Casino, near Phoenix, Arizona. It looks much the same as last year, except for the really ugly bright orange bags we were all given. There are not as many plastic alien statues as last year, but there still are a few scattered about.

By Robert Sheaffer
badufos.blogspot.com
2-22-16

The very first speaker was Samuel Maranto, MUFON's Illinois State Director, to speak about "Mass Sightings" in his state. [...]

Paul Davids is a writer and producer of movies and TV shows. He was the producer and co-writer of the Showtime film Roswell in 1993. He spoke on "Marilyn Monroe, the CIA, and UFOs." He made much of the FBI Hottel Memo that talks about an alleged UFO crash [....]

Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life To Be Presented By NASA Astrobiologist (Ret)

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Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life To Be Presented By NASA Astrobiologist (Ret)

Retired NASA Astrobiologist Will Present Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life at UFO Conference

Alejandro Rojas By Alejandro Rojas
www.openminds.tv
2-4-14

     Controversial astrobiologist Richard Hoover and his colleagues at the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham have been making worldwide headlines for years due to their claims that scientist have already obtained valid evidence of extraterrestrial life. Hoover will be presenting some of this evidence at the International UFO Congress at the Fort McDowell Radisson in Fountain Hills, Arizona on Thursday, February 13.

Hoover’s controversial claims caught major media attention while he was working as the Astrobiology Group Leader at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in 2011. In March of that year Fox News ran a story about a sneak preview they received of a paper Hoover submitted to the Journal of Cosmology in which he claims to have found evidence of microfossils inside a meteorite.
Hoover told Fox News, “I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth.”

The editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cosmology, Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild, said Hoover’s paper was peer-reviewed, and said he agreed with Hoover’s conclusions. However, other NASA scientists and many mainstream astrobiologists remained skeptical. The ensuing debate on Hoover’s findings played out across international headlines.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

$100,000 Bounty Offered for the Best UFO or ET-Related Evidence (2013)



$100,000 Bounty Offered for the Best UFO or ET-Related Evidence

     Nearly every day, videos, photos and eyewitness accounts of UFOs pop up on the Internet.

Some are hoaxes. Some are quirks in the weather. Some
By Alejandro Rojas
The Huffington Post
2-21-13
sightings are never explained and forevermore remain UFOs. . . .

. . . Still, never has there been widely accepted positive proof of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, though there are those who believe various government agencies around the world have conspired to hide the truth.

Now, however, if someone can prove otherwise, they will be $100,000 richer.

Filmmaker James Fox will make this announcement as part of the promotion for his upcoming movie The 701, inspired by the Air Force's two-decade UFO study, Project Blue Book.

The massive study into 12,618 UFO sightings, which ended in 1969, was able to explain away all but 701 of these sightings.

Fox, who previously directed Out of the Blue (2002) and I Know What I Saw (2009), will reveal the $100K challenge at the 22nd International UFO Congress (IUFOC), which begins Feb. 27, in Fountain Hills, Ariz.

"One of the aspects that sets our film apart is the producers' commitment to bringing forth never-before-seen evidence. As part of this effort, we're offering a $100,000 reward for the best proof that some UFOs are alien spacecraft," Fox told The Huffington Post exclusively.

Sunday, March 04, 2012

"A Fairly Recent UFO Event Was Reportedly Documented From Seven Different Video Angles"


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CEFAA presses its challenge

Billy Cox By Billy Cox
De Void
2-28-12
     Considering how 21st century media is more into images than ideas, Open Minds magazine editor Antonio Huneeus figured last weekend’s International UFO Congress offered an irresistible hook — footage. And not the usual fabricated crud and dreck that dominates YouTube. A fairly recent UFO event was reportedly documented from seven different video angles. Its authenticity was vetted by the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA), Chile’s multi-disciplinary, government-run UFO investigations team.

The incident occurred during military ceremonies in Santiago on Nov. 4, 2010. Look for the full accounting soon on the Open Minds website. Briefly, the UFO was zipping along so quickly it wasn’t observed in real time. The thing was detected after the fact, via slo-mo replay. Its velocity was calculated against the known speeds of F-16s during the flyover. After all other suspects — balloons, birds, etc. — were eliminated, CEFAA found itself mystified by a metallic disc traveling at lethal, bone-sloshing velocities.

“This was a world exclusive that we brought to the UFO Congress,” says Huneeus of the event at Fountain Hills, Ariz. Unveiling the footage was CEFAA’s director, former Chilean air force general Ricardo Bermudez, who reviewed three of the seven videos. But as we know, the mainstream media missed the show altogether.

Curiously, the 11/4/10 incident occurred just two months after yet another sublime UFO intrusion over Santiago, a bicentennial festivities that also involved huge crowds and military planes. As before, the 9/17/10 bogey wasn’t observed in real time; the Chilean Air Force photographer who grabbed the 12-frame, 11-second sequence discovered the curiosity after reviewing the film once ceremonies ended. This object was no less exotic than the one Bermudez attempted to introduce to America last weekend. Working with CEFAA data, the non-profit National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena decided to call it — for lack of a better explanation — a “luminous contained plasma” due to its shape-shifting properties.

But the most significant pattern here is the fearless transparency of CEFAA, which operates under the Chilean equivalent of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Bermudez’s power-point presentation also included recently declassified audio recordings — with English translations — of UFO-related chatter between Chilean pilots and control-tower operators, some of it dating back to the 1970s, some including near-collision scenarios.

Bermudez reiterated how the U.S. embassy in Chile ignored his request to liaison with an American government counterpart on this incipient aviation safety issue. “His own personal idea is that this should be brought to the United Nations,” Huneeus added.

With plenty of data to work with, Chile appears to have created a framework for how science and government can partner up. Next question: Is there any reason to believe the UN would find any more spine than Uncle Sam to give CEFAA a fair hearing?

Saturday, March 03, 2012

UFO Congress Had Good Amount Of Skepticism, But More Is Needed


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By Lee Speigel
The Huffington Post
3-2-12
     There was a time when UFO conventions or seminars only drew the lunatic fringe audience -- those who believe benevolent extraterrestrial beings are watching over us, to make sure Mankind doesn't destroy itself through warfare and bad decisions affecting planetary climate.

At the recent 21st annual 2012 International UFO Congress near Scottsdale, Ariz., there was certainly some of that purchase-an-ET-trinket mentality.

But during my visit, I observed something else more telling: not everyone present was a UFO fanatic.

Under the well tuned guiding arm of Open Minds Production, the IUFOC was truly an international event as nearly 2000 folks from around the world attended the six-day festivities.

I've been to other UFO conventions that catered to the out-of-this-world element, but was impressed with several aspects of this event.

Skepticism was welcome here. There was arch skeptic Robert Sheaffer's daily critical observations as he wandered in and out of the main speakers and vendors rooms.

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Friday, January 20, 2012

UFO NEWS | Chilean Air Force General to Speak at UFO Conference


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Ricardo Bermúdez Speaker at UFO Congress

By www.ufocongress.com
1-18-2012

General (Ret.) Ricardo Bermudez will make a special announcement about official Chilean UFO Project at the 2012 International UFO Congress this February in Fountain Hills, Arizona.

    Tempe, Arizona–Chilean Air Force General (Ret.) Ricardo Bermúdez, Director of Chile’s official Committee for the Study of Aerial Anomalous Phenomena (CEFAA) will address the International UFO Congress in Scottsdale, AZ this February. This is the first time ever in the USA when a high-ranking military officer who runs an official government sponsored UFO project talks about the subject at a conference open to the general public.

“This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for us” says conference co-organizer Maureen Elsberry, “this is the first time in the U.S. that such a high-ranking government official has spoken to the public about an official government sponsored UFO project. It shows how serious other countries take the subject of UFOs. It's something they feel is worthy of official investigation."

General Bermúdez served as commander of the Third Air Brigade in southern Chile, Director of the Technical School of Aeronautics, Deputy Director of the Air Force Academy, and Air Attaché in London. He became Director of CEFAA shortly after Chile’s Directorate of Civil Aviation created this office in 1997.

CEFAA collects UFO cases mostly from commercial and military pilots. “The policy of CEFAA is to pursue solid cases with adequate scientific data,” stated Gen. Bermúdez, “but only if there is an indication that the safety of the aircraft might have been at risk.”

This was the case when a pilot from the Chilean Air Force approached a group of luminous spherical objects that were on a collision path with the aircraft. This occurred in 1965, the entire encounter was recorded on the aircrafts black box and was reportedly registered with the government agency and could not be explained by any normal standards.

Gen. Bermúdez will outline the history, methodology and some of the best cases collected by CEFAA up to now. He is also expected to make an announcement about the need for an exchange of UFO data among different countries and between official and civilian research groups, to better understand this puzzling phenomenon.

“The CEFAA’s official position has always been to recognize that something is happening in our skies, but we, as yet, do not know what it is,” he said.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

VIDEO | 2011 International UFO Congress | Stanton Friedman vs. Dr. John Alexander in UFO Debate

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Stanton Friedman vs. Dr. John Alexander in UFO Debate


By www.openminds.tv
8-30-11

     Dr. John Alexander, a retired U.S. Army Colonel and a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons faces Stanton Friedman, the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident in this heated debate. Moderated by Danny Sheehan, this deliberation quickly became a hot ticket during the 2011 International UFO Congress.

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

World's Largest UFO Conference to be Held in Laughlin, NV in February 2009

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By PRWEB
1-7-09

18th Annual International UFO Congress Convention and Film Festival Adds New Events to the Seven Day, Eight Night Conference.

     Laughlin, Nevada -- The International UFO Congress, a leading organization for the research and documentation of UFO and related information, today announced their 18th Annual UFO Conference and Film Festival. Featuring more than 30 speakers from around the globe, the conference will be held at the newly renovated Aquarius Resort and Casino in Laughlin, Nevada from February 22nd through February 28th.

New events of the convention this year include healing sessions with renowned Croatian prophet Braco, and nightly skywatch trips with night-vision equipment led by veteran UFO spotter Ed Grimsley. Convention mainstays such as the Speaker Cocktail Party, the UFO Film Festival, and the EBE Awards Banquet will also be a part of this year's conference. Experiencer sessions will be led this year by Barbara Lamb.

The IUFOC is very pleased to welcome two new speakers this year: renowned UFO researcher and author Stanton Friedman will join us for the first time ever, and Marisa Ryan is welcomed as the first Medium ever to speak at the International UFO Congress. Jim Marrs returns this year with his new book, The Rise of the Fourth Reich; and Joshua P. Warren will teach you how to tell whether a UFO photo is real or hoaxed. All in all, more than thirty researchers and authors from around the world will be here for this one amazing week to bring you the best of all the new research relating to UFOs and the paranormal.

Early registration for the All-inclusive Full Package start at only $499 (per person, double occupancy) until January 19, 2009. After that, rates will increase. This includes admission to all presentations, the EBE Awards Banquet, and Meet the Speaker Cocktail Party, Experiencer Sessions, Skywatch Trips as well as eight nights accommodations at the Aquarius Casino Resort in Laughlin, Nevada.

If you can not attend the conference for the full week, A la Carte Tickets and Hotel Room accommodations are also available.

This is the one UFO Event of the Year that you can not afford to miss!

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For More Information, Contact:
International UFO Congress
67 S. Higley Rd. #103-408
Gilbert AZ 85296

Phone (602) 889-3083
Fax (480) 632-0535
UFO Congress

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