UFO Over Bahrain?

Gulf Daily News
8-9-06

      MANAMA: A Sri Lankan couple snapped this picture of what they claim to be a UFO that flew over their car as they were driving along the Sitra Causeway on Monday night.

Engineer Omerdeen Hamad Idrees, 35, said he was on his way to Sitra Mall with his wife, Shiyara, and four-year-old son, Imran, at around 9pm when he saw the object moving very slowly in the sky and making circular movements over Tubli Bay.

"Since I always carry my digital camera with me when we go out, I immediately asked my wife to take pictures," he told the GDN yesterday.

"She could actually take three or four shots before the object came right over the car and seemed to cross the bridge.

"Initially I thought this was just my imagination, but when I downloaded the pictures I thought it was something very strange.

"I have never ever seen anything like it."

Mr Idrees, who works for Products for Projects, was on his way to the mall from his home in Juffair when the pictures were taken.

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POLAND: Military Aircraft Chased UFO Over Slupsk

By Piotr Cielebias
"NOL - Eastern European UFO Journal" ©
8-1-06-06

     Slupsk Military Airport, July 6th 1983, 11:26 am. The Radar localized an UFO object that had transgressed Polish airspace. Mr. Stanislaw Z. noticed the officials. Shortly then alert was announced. In the following minutes captain Praszczalek would go in the direct contact with the UFO.

It is often that military services maintain that they don't register similar events but it was always clear that also Polish army deals with pilots' UFO encounters. There are many similar reports and the following one occurred in 1983 in Slupsk. The information was obtained from Mr. Marcin Wawrzak, an UFO enthusiast from Slupsk. It is a relation of a navigator, Mr. Stanislaw Z.

"On July 6th 1983 I was on commanding duty as a navigator. We received information that some Unidentified Flying Object appeared over an airport in Darlowo." Slupsk Military Airport, July 6th 1983, 11:26 am. The Radar localized an UFO object that had transgressed Polish airspace. Mr. Stanislaw Z. noticed the officials. Shortly then alert was announced. In the following minutes Cpt. Praszczalek would go in the direct contact with the UFO.

After several minutes, the pilot replied:

"I can see the target. It is steel in color, rotating around its axe, 'throwing' as a boomerang, without any exploratory marks, without any engines nor markings" - Stanislaw Z. told.

Cpt. Praszczalek's report baffled the airport command. It was decided to notify the General Command of Air Forces in Warsaw.

"In 20 minutes the decision came ordering the pilot to use fire. When I passed the command: "Fire!" to the pilot and I deliver limitations, he told: "The object made a sharp turn and disappeared!"

In the following moments chaos reigned onto military radars screens. Navigators began registering thousands of unknown signals. For the next 10 hours military aircrafts were unsuccessfully searching the entire area.

On the next day the Military Special Service members appeared in the base and began their investigation but its final verdict isn't known. Stanislaw Z. refused to talk about the investigation.

* Source: NPN © - http://www.npn.ehost.pl/, 31/07/06

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". . . Canadians - Some Three Million of Us Have Seen a UFO"

Alberta: 1 Canadian in 10 saw a UFO

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The Montreal Gazette
8-8-06

     Chris Rutkowski, co-author with Geoff Dittman of the new book The Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases Revealed, says opinion polls suggest one in 10 Canadians - some three million of us - have seen a UFO. From 1994 to 2004, official Canadian UFO accounts more than quadrupled, from 189 to 882, as sighters took advantage of the convenience and anonymity afforded by the growing number of UFO reporting sites on the Internet. Examples include a report from the prime minister's plane to Edmonton International Airport a few years ago.

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"From The Jesuits To The PM's Pilot, Canada Has Proven Fertile Ground For Mysterious UFO Sightings"

'We saw fiery Serpents through mid-air, borne on wings of flame'

By Shawn Ohler
The Ottawa Citizen
8-6-06

     They were likely too busy cowering in terror to appreciate the milestone at the time, but Jesuit missionaries living in 17th-century New France recorded Canada's first -- and, perhaps, most lyrical -- UFO sighting.

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". . . The Co-Author of The Canadian UFO Report Says He Knows UFOs Are Out There"

Something's out there: Rutkowski

By BRENDA BOONSTRA
The Winnipeg Sun
8-8-06

      The truth is out there.

Though Chris Rutkowski has never seen a UFO himself, the co-author of The Canadian UFO Report says he knows UFOs are out there.

"I have spoken to many astronomers, pilots, and air traffic controllers who have seen things that can not be explained," said Rutkowski, "so I know these objects exist. Whether or not they are from outer space is another question."

Rutkowski maintains a national database, started in 1989, which stores more than 5,000 Canadian UFO sighting reports dating back to 1663 when missionaries saw fiery serpents in the sky over what is now Montreal. Despite these testimonials, Rutkowski admits there is no hard evidence of aliens visiting Earth from other planets.

Rutkowski receives hundreds of reports each year. In 2005 alone there were 763 reported UFO sightings from across the country.

Rutkowski's interest in UFOs began while he was studying astronomy in university in the 1970s. In 1975, a red fiery ball dubbed Charlie Redstar was reportedly seen flying over Carman, Man., every single night throughout that summer. Since no one seemed interested in studying the phenomenon, Rutkowski became involved.

"Something about it intrigued me," said Rutkowski.

Rutkowski claims one of the most intriguing cases in Canadian UFO history happened right here in Manitoba.

INCIDENT NEVER EXPLAINED

On May 20, 1967, Stephan Michalak reportedly took a walk in the bush near Falcon Lake where he encountered two unidentified flying objects which changed both in form and colour.

One of the objects landed nearby and Michalak said he approached it hearing voices coming from inside.

Michalak said he moved close enough to the object to touch it when it abruptly rotated, leaving Michalak face to face with some kind of exhaust system which blew hot air out, setting Michalak's shirt and undershirt on fire.

Michalak immediately returned home to Winnipeg and checked into Misericordia Hospital suffering from burns and severe headaches and nausea. Reports say some radiation contamination was found at the site but the incident has never been explained.

Believing the truth may be out there, Rutkowski continues to gather UFO information on a volunteer basis.

He and his co-author, Geoff Dittman, have gleaned more than 50 of the best stories from the database for their book, which they released on Aug 1.

Anyone looking to report their own sightings can contact them at canadianuforeports@hotmail.com.

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'Saucer Shaped Airships' Making a Comeback

Military Blimps Report for Duty

By Renae Merle
Washington Post
8-7-06

     In the era of $300 million fighter jets, satellite-guided rockets and complicated battlefield computer networks, Multimax Inc. is trying to revive an old-fashioned technology to thrust the information technology firm onto the front line. The Largo company has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this new project, the design looks like an elliptical UFO, but the result will be familiar: It's a blimp.

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POLAND: Triangular UFO Photographed in Torun

By Piotr Cielebias
"NOL - Eastern European UFO Journal" Š
8-6-06

     The photo was taken on May 20th 2006 at 13:39 on a certain Torun housing estate. The anonymous witness didn't see the UFO taking the photo. As he wrote, he was going to took photos of some products to a catalog, setting the balance of white and snapping some random photos. No sounds accompanied the alleged UFO manifestation.

Searching through the photos he noticed a strange, triangular object that appeared in the sky over the estate at 13:39:25. On the next photo taken on 13:39:27, there is no trace of it. The witness didn't agree to publish the whole photo, being afraid that someone may recognize the estate he live and subsequently localize him.

The witness applied SONY DSC-H1 camera.

The more recent photo presenting a triangular UFO craft was taken over Szprotawa [woj.Lubuskie] on July 18th 2006 by Dariusz W.



* Source: NPN Š - http://www.npn.ehost.pl/

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Couple Film UFOs Over Sunderland - MoD To Investigate

Ministry to investigate UFO light sightings

Sunderland Today
8-5-06

THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to probe UFO sightings over Sunderland and Seaham after mysterious lights appeared in the night sky.

     Since the Echo reported the mysterious activity earlier this week we have been contacted by more than 20 readers who witnessed the lights.
They all reported seeing bright, orange-coloured orbs floating over East Durham residents and parts of Sunderland.

Now, after being contacted by someone who saw nine UFOs in the sky, the MoD is to investigate.

An MoD spokeswoman said: "We examine any UFO sighting reports to establish whether there is any evidence to suggest that UK airspace has been compromised by hostile or unauthorised air activity."

The probe is under way after Seaham couple Harry and Elizabeth McCall filmed the orbs flying over the town last Saturday night.

Mr McCall, 67, told the Echo: "They were silent, as if they were floating. There was no noise.

"It was unbelievaable and until someone convinces me otherwise, they were UFOs."
Since then Echo readers from Westlea, Eastlea, Northlea, Deneside, Dalton-le-Dale, and Hollycarrside, in Sunderland, have reported seeing the lights.

UFO Hunters, a national organisation which researches and compiles information about sightings internationally, has also appealed for witnesses to get in touch.

Its leader, Russ Kellett, wants any UFO spotters to file reports on its website, www.ufo-paranormal.co.uk, or call him on 01723 514700 so he can start his own investigation.

North East-based UFO expert Alfred Dodds receives an average of three reports a year of sightings in the region.

Mr Dodds, 68, who runs the Northumberland UFO Research Centre, has been interested in the subject since the age of 10 and has never heard of any local sightings like those made last weekend.

He said: "There have been similar sightings, but mainly abroad.
"The problem is you see is that we don't know what is being developed in technology and who is developing it.

"It's mainly America, which we have seen recently in the press.
"There are a lot of triangle sightings, with three lights and then a larger central light. This doesn't sound like that at all.

"There is usually an explanation for most things, but there is about five per cent that are unexplained."

lReports to the MOD can be sent to the Directorate of Air Staff – Freedom of Information, 5th Floor, Zone H, Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB.
A 24-hour answerphone, where people can leave a name and contact details, can also be reached at 020 7218 2140 or people can email das-ufo-office@mod.uk.

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Reports Come in of UFO Over Manawatu

Newstalk Zb
8-4-06

     Mystery surrounds a number of strange sightings in the Manawatu skies last night.

Several people have contacted Newstalk ZB claiming to have spotted a UFO after seeing lights darting around at speed.

One informant lives in Feilding and says he saw lights doing strange manoeuvres which seemed to violate the law of physics.

Police are at a loss to explain what the lights may have been.

The Wellington Observatory says while a possible explanation could be a bright star low on the horizon, that does not account for the strange movements the lights were making.

Staff at Palmerston North's control tower offered the strongest explanation saying a couple of air force planes were flying around the area before 8 PM.

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UFOs Spotted Near Macachín

7-31-06

[The following message was received this morning from Argentinean journalist and UFO researcher Quique Mario, director of the Centro de Estudios UFO (CEUFO) group and one of his country's foremost experts in cattle mutilations and the enigmatic disappearance of large quantities of water from pools, water towers and other locations during "saucer flaps". We hope you'll find this of interest--Ed.]

     
Greetings - I'm bringing to your attention two episodes that took place in La Pampa this weekend.

The first one was recorded at 19:10 hrs. and was witnessed by a resident from the locality of Macachín who was traveling toward Carhué, Province of Buenos Aires. He was driving his vehicle in a west to east direction when he saw a "strange flash" through the rear view mirror. At first he thought it was another vehicle but when he lost it from sight, he pulled over and got out of the car. On doing so, he saw an astonishing sight: heading in a N-S direction at 30º was a white-colored object having the relative size of "a tennis ball." Seconds later, the strange light divided into three spheres--two of them reddish--which continued along the same trajectory until they vanished altogether.

The second episode: Yesterday, Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 20:05, after putting my car in the garage, I was walking in a S-N direction toward my house when I saw a strange sphere that suddenly "blazed" in the sky at 45 degrees to my left. The sky was clear in advance of the tremendous ice storm that fell in early hours of the morning (temperatures recorded at -10 Centigrade). The sighting lasted only a few seconds; I had barely recovered from the surprise when it repeated once more for another few seconds. I asked a neighbor walking along the path if he'd seen anything, but he replied no. Evidently, my penchant for looking skyward rewarded me in this case.

* (translation (c) 2006, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Quique Mario, CEUFO)

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"NASA is Covering Up UFO Evidence"

By Aaron Rispo
Coast To Coast
7-31-06

     . . . From what I gather, George’s job was to oversee the camera equipment and recover the photography from various space missions. It was his duty to sort the photography into categorical stacks back at his office. Many of these stacks were classified with "UFO" labels. Routinely, George would be ordered to pack up these "UFO" photos and make the trip from Florida to Washington DC to meet with his DOD contact at the Pentagon. The UFO photos were handed over to the Pentagon official…never to be seen by the public. (One of George’s children interned as a secretary in George’s office, and can confirm all these facts as a witness. Besides the immediate family leaks, George kept everything tight-lipped and sealed. He never officially disclosed anything or went public as a whistleblower.) . . .

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Divers Find Hitler's Aircraft Carrier

By By Roger Boyes
Timesonline
7-27-06

The location of the wreck of the Graf Zeppelin had been a mystery for more than half a century

     POLISH divers have discovered the rusting wreckage of Nazi Germany’s only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, solving one of the most enduring maritime riddles of the Second World War.

For more than half a century the location of the huge vessel was kept secret by the Soviet authorities. Even the opening of the Moscow archives in the 1990s failed to produce a precise bearing. The once-proud ship was simply one of dozens of wrecks that littered the bed of the Baltic Sea near the Bay of Gdansk.

“We were carrying out soundings for possible oil exploration,” Krzysztof Grabowski, of the Petrobaltic exploration group, said. “Then we stumbled across a vessel that was over 260 metres (850ft) long at a depth of 250 metres.”

Divers confirmed this week that it was the German ship, though who owns her and what — if anything — will happen to her remains unclear.

When the Graf Zeppelin was launched in 1938, Adolf Hitler raised his right arm in salute to a warship that was supposed to help Germany to become master of the northern seas. But, when fleeing German troops scuttled her in April 1945, she had never seen service — a casualty of infighting within the Nazi elite and the changing tide of war.

The Graf Zeppelin was scuttled in shallow water near Szczecin and it proved easy for the Red Army to recover her after marching into the Polish port. According to an agreement with the Allies, German and Japanese warships should have been sunk in deep water or destroyed. The Russians repaired the ship, then used her to carry looted factory equipment back to the Soviet Union. In August 1947 Allied spies observed her being towed back to the Polish Baltic coast and then used for target practice at Leba by Soviet dive bombers. It appeared that the Russians were preparing for possible action against US aircraft carriers.

The Graf Zeppelin sank a second time, and remained undetected until now.

Lukasz Orlicki, a Polish maritime historian, said: “It is difficult to say why the Russians have always been so stubbornly reluctant to talk about the location of the wreck. Perhaps it was the usual obsession with secrecy, or perhaps there was some kind of suspect cargo.”

At 262 metres, the Graf Zeppelin was comparable to the biggest of the US carriers that played such a significant role in the Pacific. She had a range of 8,000 nautical miles, meaning that she could easily have reached the North Sea.

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"Don't Dismiss All Those Flying Saucer Stories . . ."

USAF 'secrets' revealed

By Patricia Wolff
The Northwestern
7-31-06

     Don't dismiss all those flying saucer stories you've read in the tabloids until you hear what military aerospace historian Michael Schratt has to say.

He addressed a small audience Sunday at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture museum to discuss the United States' long-running classified military aircraft programs.

Schratt of Illinois passed out a postcard depicting a curious-looking U.S. Air Force circular-wing jet aircraft that had supposedly been spotted by a jet pilot and later photographed outside the MacDill AFB salvage yard in 1967. They measured 20, 40, 70 and 116 feet in diameter and all had tricycle landing gear with control surfaces running along the circumference of the disc.

Schratt said some aircraft projects are so top secret that not event the President knows about them. He suggested the Air Force was able to finance these programs by siphoning money from other documented programs throughout the years.

It's high time for the Air Force to declassify information on this aircraft and others, he said. It would not be a threat to public safety to do so, and could improve life on this planet by furthering a better understanding of space flight, he said.

Jim Upton of California had seen Schratt's website, www.usafflyingsaucers.com, and wanted to hear him speak. When he finished listening to Schratt's hour-long talk Upton wasn't so sure he bought it all.

"He gave a good survey of various (Air Force) programs over time, but some of that stuff is just way out there," Upton said.

Upton questioned the authenticity of the photo of the circular aircraft on the postcard Schratt handed out.

Schratt spoke about various secret aircraft programs and the costs for some of them. He said each B-2 stealth bomber costs $2.3 billion or "more than its own weight in gold."

Upton had no quibble with some of Schratt's observations.

"The second half of his talk was just a whole lot of speculation," Upton said.

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Greeer Says SETI Has Received Numerour Signals From ET

SETI urged to fess up over alien signals

By Ashlee Vance
The Register
7-31-06

     Alien hunters today pounded the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute here with e-mails and phone calls, following claims made this weekend that the organization has covered up the detection of signals from space.

Allegations of a SETI cover up were made last night on the fringe-friendly Coast to Coast radio show hosted by Art Bell. During the broadcast, professional SETI watcher Steven Greer, the CEO of Space Energy Access Systems, claimed that insiders told him that SETI discovered a high concentration of signals from space, and that another organization stepped in to block those signals. SETI, however, maintains that it has not seen any signals of note.

According to Greer, the space communications have caused a major stir at SETI, which hunts for intelligent life in outer space.

"They have had numerous extraterrestrial signals," Greer said, during the radio broadcast. "They were apparently searching in a spectrum or in an area . . . where they hit the mother lode. The signals were so numerous that they began to have their systems externally jammed by some sort of human agency that did not want them to continue receiving those signals."

And where did Greer get this fantastic information? Apparently, from a well-known source within SETI.

"This person, if I were to say who he is, almost every one your listeners would probably known the name," Greer said.

Bell's Coast to Coast show is famed for dealing with matters that many would consider far from reality. The radio host has enjoyed a phenomenal career discussing ghosts, UFOs and things that go berserk in the night with an eclectic set of guests. But it's worth noting that Bell, who only hosts the show on the weekends now, and regular host George Noory often break stories such as the Dubai ports deal well before the national media.

That's not the case this time around, according to SETI.

"There's been nothing like that at all," said a spokesman, who described Greer, as "the bane of SETI's existence."

Greer runs a SETI rival, if you will, called CSETI and often claims that SETI is withholding evidence of alien life from the public. His comments triggered a torrent of e-mails and phone calls to hit SETI today, according to the SETI spokesman.

In this particular instance, the fine people at SETI seem a bit more tethered to the reality spectrum. Greer, after all, relied almost exclusively on hearsay in his discussion with Art Bell. In addition, Greer claimed that members of SETI were in on some type of conspiracy to keep alien life secret while at the same time being attacked by a third party trying to block alien signals from SETI. That's an awful lot of maneuvering - most of which makes little sense.

That said, technophiles should enjoy guessing who Greer's secret source might be.

Back in the day, SETI had serious backing from one of HP's early employees - Bernard Oliver. Over the years, the organization has received funds from such Silicon Valley institutions as NASA Ames, HP, Sun Microsystems, and the Gordon and Betty Moore foundation. Microsoft co-founder and space buff Paul Allen is also a major SETI backer.

Sun's CTO Greg Papadopoulos is the current Chairman of SETI. Could aliens be responsible for Sun's recent sales spike? Let us know.

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