3.5 "Thank God for FOXNEWS - UFOS ON VIDEO HIGH QUALITY NASA
VID"
The sixth video clip in our UFOs Collation involves at least two, if not three,
UFOs — in outer space and near a US Space Shuttle, to boot! The clip is
entitled "Thank God for FOXNEWS - UFOS ON VIDEO HIGH QUALITY NASA VID" ... this
kind of video evidence is interesting in that it's definitely HIGH QUALITY in
several ways ... but it is still subject to interpretation ... unless you
dispute the meaning of "UFO" as being an UNIDENTIFIED flying object ... what?
YouTube summary of the video clip:
"Thank God for FOXNEWS - UFOS ON VIDEO HIGH QUALITY NASA VID"
From: usanewsnetwork
Added: September 25, 2006
Info: I CANT BELIEVE I'M SAYING THIS: THANK GOD FOR FOXNEWS. THIS VIDEO IS VERY
REVEALING. Pay close attention first of all at 00:56-01:40 (2 objects,
pulsating, changing directions, then Nasa guy saying: "over the years we have
chased many, many, many of these things" and always finding that they didnt
post us any answer." PAY CLOSE ATTENTION AT 2:00 and 2:30. "ASK THE QUESTION,
ASK THE QUESTION" "NO" and then the woman in the background appears to be
laughing! at 2:30 she says "WHAT COULD THESE THINGS POSSIBLY BE, I MEAN, ALOT
OF PEOPLE ARE WRITING AND SAYING" then the other guy comes and goes
"SATTELITES!" she acts surprised: "SATTELITES? COULD THEY BE SATTELITES?" the
chick again is asking questions: "But I dont recall seeing this in recent
missions, is this just something that happens frequently and is not reported"
the NASA astronaut says "occasionally, on my second mission one of these
floated by" and he holds up a little tiny wrench...This is beyond ridiculous
Tags: nasa ovni ufo coverup fox news ron paul peter schiff jim rogers
2012 collapse atlantis space revealing conspiracy niburu
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmbSupnmK8k&feature=related |
I guess that's why these "flying objects" are called UNIDENTIFIED for a good reason ... meaning they are of an unknown origin, right? Right! So,
a UFO is a UFO, right? Right again!
Oh yes ... the reporter is kinda cute-looking ... no, make that VERY GOOD LOOKING! I am referring to that lady with the Scottish name ... KIM MCINTYRE ... wonder
if she's related to that famous Thai singer in Thailand? You know? ... Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre ... born Albert Thongchai McIntyre ... who — according to Wikipedia — "is also sometimes known as Bird Thongchai, Thongchai McIntyre ..., Pi Bird (elder brother Bird) or (Daddy Bird) or simply Bird The Superstar No.1 of Thailand. The artist singing the most successful in
Thailand .Sales of albums from more than 20 million copies." (sic; direct quotation from Wikipedia) Oh well ... both KIM and Bird Thongchai are
equally good-looking and talented! Kudos to them! Let's have more video clips
of them! Especially of KIM — with more UFOs videos to include into our
UFOs Collation.
3.6 "Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Recounts Apollo 11 UFO Encounter"
The seventh item in our UFOs Collation is entitled "Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Recounts Apollo 11 UFO Encounter" ... Now, this is quality material in our UFOs
Collation ... i.e., the UFO sighting was made in outer space by the Apollo
space crew, including or involving the US astronaut, the famous Buzz Aldrin.
YouTube summary of the video clip:
"Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Recounts Apollo 11 UFO Encounter"
From: iwanttobelievexfiles
Added: August 09, 2006
Info: Buzz Aldrin talks about the 'UFO' which the Apollo 11 crew saw on their way to
the moon.
Tags: Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11 UFO Encounter moon alien xfiles
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlkV1ybBnHI&feature=related |
NASA's fear of public ridicule is understandable, so that any admission by any
NASA employee or member, even by an ex-employee or ex-member, takes on a new
significance ... Hurrah for Buzz Aldrin, both for his fierce loyalty to NASA
... and an even greater loyalty to The Truth ... which is certainly OUT THERE
... somewhere ... and may have already reached Planet Earth, if we are to
believe in these UFO sightings, including the serious ones in our UFOs
Collation.
For my money, whenever someone as serious and possessing a certain celebrity
status of the serious kind (or RIGHT STUFF) as Buzz Aldrin comes forward with
anything about UFOs, it is certainly useful to pay close attention ... so check
out Aldrin's revelation, not only in this UFOs Collation but elsewhere as well.
3.7 "Buzz Aldrin Talks w/ Jim Clash about UFO Sighting"
The eighth item in our UFOs Collation is entitled "Buzz Aldrin Talks w/ Jim
Clash about UFO Sighting" ... It is a television talk show involving US
astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
YouTube summary of the video clip:
"Buzz Aldrin Talks w/ Jim Clash about UFO Sighting"
From: jimclash
Added: July 12, 2007
Info: Did the Apollo 11 crew see a UFO on its historic trip to the moon in 1969?
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin sets the record straight once and for all.
Tags: James Jim Clash Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11 1969 Eagle UFO Adventurer
Forbes aviation space travel Neil Armstrong
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK5xgEJpBKM&feature=related |
There you have it ... NASA astronaut (retired) Buzz Aldrin saying that the
"flying object" was not only artificial ("manmade" he calls it), but it was
definitely UNDIENTIFIED ... As we Chinese say, eighth is the lucky number ... and this particular
video, our eighth video in our UFOs Collation, is our lucky video! UFOs did
exist back in the Apollo days ... UFOs probably continue to exist today ... I
wonder what it all mean?! (You tell me!)
3.8 "Ancient Structure On The Moon Filmed By Armstrong, 1969"
Our ninth item in our UFOs Collation is provocatively entitled "Ancient
Structure On The Moon Filmed By Armstrong, 1969" ... This clip was uploaded to
YouTube back in March 2007 ... but I still have no real 100% confirmation as to
whether the clip is a hoax or not. Do you?
YouTube summary of the video clip:
"Ancient Structure On The Moon Filmed By Armstrong, 1969"
From: NAlexo
Added: March 02, 2007
Info: Normally it lasts 14min. What you see is the reason behind all this rush to
land on the moon before USSR. It was bombed a few years later by those who
decide for us.
Tags: ufo aliens extraterrestrial base moon Apollo Armstrong space NASA
URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK5xgEJpBKM&feature=related |
The "Info" provided by "NAlexo" is a little cryptic, to say the least ... Does
anyone really understand it fully? This ninth video clip in our UFOs Collation
is certainly intriguing ... and mysterious!
All of the (above) video clips in this UFOs Collation were selected to give an
idea that, while it is certainly possible to construct realistic-looking video
clips of UFOs (as the first item in our UFOs Collation shows), there are
certainly intriguing pointers that SOMETHINGS ARE OUT THERE ... and those things are both flying and unidentified!
4.0 Unidentified flying object — Adapted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keywords:
"Unidentified flying object, Articles with unsourced statements since August
2008, Articles with unsourced statements since June 2008, Unidentified
flying object, Wikinewshas / Unidentified flying object,
1561,1870,1878,1882,1904,1926"
An Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, is the popular term for any aerial
phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified.
Some definitions, such as the one used by the USAF, define a UFO as an object
unable to be identified after scrutiny.
Other definitions define an object as being a UFO from the time it is first
reported as being unidentified, even though most subsequently become IFOs,
Identified Flying Objects.
Reports of unidentified aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but modern
reports and the first official investigations began during World War II with
sightings of so-called foo fighters by Allied airplane crews, and in 1946 with
widespread sightings of European "ghost rockets".
UFO reports became even more common after the first widely publicized United
States UFO sighting, by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in mid 1947.
Hundreds of thousands of UFO reports have since been made worldwide.
Since its introduction the term [UFO] has become heavily associated with flying
saucers and alien spacecraft, though an object may be classified as a UFO
independently of opinion as to its origins.
The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) is the hypothesis that some UFOs are best explained as being creatures or
space aliens from other planets occupying physical spacecraft visiting Earth. A
number of organizations such as NICAP and the Condon Committee have been set up
to actively study UFO sightings and abductions reports in relation to ETH.
Most military and civilian UFO investigations concluded that the majority of
objects can be identified either directly, or by applying Occam's Razor.
Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan
friar, William of Ockham.
The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few
assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the
observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.
Ufology
Ufology is a neologism describing the collective efforts of those who study UFO
reports and associated evidence. While not all UFO researchers believe that all
UFOs are necessarily extraterrestrial spacecraft, they do believe the area
merits research and that the possibility of extraterrestrial spacecraft should
be taken seriously.
Conspiracy theories
UFOs are sometimes an element of elaborate conspiracy theories in which
governments are said to be intentionally covering up the existence of aliens,
or sometimes collaborating with them. There are many versions of this story;
some are exclusive, while others overlap with various other conspiracy theories.
In the U.S., opinion polls again indicate that a strong majority of people
believe the U.S. government is withholding such information. Various notables
have also expressed such views. Some examples are astronauts Gordon Cooper and
Edgar Mitchell, Senator Barry Goldwater, Vice Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
(the first CIA director), Lord Hill-Norton (former British Chief of Defense
Staff and NATO head), the 1999 high-level French COMETA report by various
French generals and aerospace experts, and Yves Sillard (former director of the
French space agency CNES, new director of French UFO research organization
GEIPAN).
There is also speculation that UFO phenomena are tests of experimental aircraft
or advanced weapons.[citation needed] In this case UFOs are viewed as failures
to retain secrecy, or deliberate attempts at misinformation: to deride the
phenomenon so that it can be pursued unhindered. This explanation may or may
not feed back into the previous one, where current advanced military technology
is considered to be adapted alien technology (see also: skunk works and Area
51).
Skunk Works is a term first coined in 1943 by Lockheed, currently trademarked by Lockheed
Martin and widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to
describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and
unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects.
***
Area 51 is a remote tract of land in the southwestern portion of southern Nevada in
the western United States. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of
Groom Lake, a dry lakebed (salt lake), is a large military airfield and one of
the most secretive places in the world. The base's primary purpose is to
support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons
systems.
The base lies within the United States Air Force's vast Nevada Test and
Training Range. ...
Other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home
Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake and most recently Homey Airport. The
area is part of the Nellis Military Operations Area, and military pilots refer
to the forbidden airspace around it (R-4808N) as The Box.
The intense secrecy surrounding the base, the very existence of which the U.S.
government barely acknowledges, has led it to become the frequent subject of
conspiracy theories and UFO folklore. It has also been suggested by a few paranormal authors that all or most human
technology and culture is based on extraterrestrial contact. See also ancient
astronauts.
Ancient astronaut theories or paleocontact are various proposals that intelligent extraterrestrial beings have visited
Earth and that this contact is linked to the origins or development of human
cultures, technologies and/or religions.
Some of these theories suggests that the deities from most — if not all —
religions are actually extraterrestrial beings, and their technologies were
taken as evidence of their divine status.
Ancient astronaut theories have not received support within the scientific
community, and have garnered little or no attention in peer-reviewed studies
from scientific journals. These theories have been popularized, particularly in
the latter half of the 20th century, by writers Erich von Däniken, Zecharia
Sitchin and others.
Ancient astronaut theories have been widely used in science fiction.
UFOs in popular culture
UFOs constitute a widespread international cultural phenomenon of the last
half-century.
Gallup polls rank UFOs near the top of lists for subjects of widespread
recognition.
In 1973, a survey found that 95 percent of the public reported having heard of
UFOs, whereas only 92 percent had heard of US President Gerald Ford in a 1977
poll taken just nine months after he left the White House. (Bullard, 141)
A 1996 Gallup poll reported that 71 percent of the United States population
believed that the government was covering up information regarding UFOs.
A 2002 Roper poll for the Sci Fi channel found similar results, but with more
people believing UFOs were extraterrestrial craft. In that latest poll, 56
percent thought UFOs were real craft and 48 percent that aliens had visited the
Earth. Again, about 70 percent felt the government was not sharing everything
it knew about UFOs or extraterrestrial life.
Another effect of the flying saucer type of UFO sightings has been Earth-made
flying saucer craft in space fiction, for example the Earth-made craft Starship
C-57D in
Forbidden Planet, and the saucer part of the USS Enterprise in
Star Trek.
5.0 "UFOs and Aliens — Famous Cases" — From About.com (Billy Booth)
The About.com pages carries the following description: "Your source for
information on UFOs and Aliens. Includes the early history of UFOs, classic UFO
case studies, and current, breaking UFO sighting reports".
Keywords:
"UFOs Aliens UFO History UFO Case Files Alien Abduction UFO Sighting Reports
Search Extraterrestrial Life"
There are certain cases that stand out more than others... those that had an
impact on the world, and are still are being researched and investigated today.
Here are those cases.
Milestone UFO Cases:
- The Roswell Crash
- The Rendlesham Forest Landings
- The Phoenix Lights
Billy's UFOs / Aliens BlogThe Commercialization of Shag HarborWednesday September 10, 2008
In 1967, one of the most intriguing cases of a UFO crash occurred in the small
fishing village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. This small village has followed
suit with other well know UFO locations in making the most of their notoriety.
A number of people find this monetization disgusting, feeding off of what they
consider a case that is not noteworthy. Yet, the Shag Harbor event has stood
the test of time as well as any other, and there are some aspects of it that
set it above many of the other "set in stone" UFO events.
After an identified object crashed into the icy Atlantic waters, a number of
local fishermen rushed their boats into the ocean, thinking they would find a
crashed plane, and possibly survivors. What they found was something entirely
different — a trail of foamy, yellow water, and no visible
wreckage of a plane, or any other object. The Royal Canadian Air Force soon was
on the scene, and conducted a well documented investigation. Their documents
actually proclaimed the object as a UFO, a rarity in UFO case files.
[...]
Nova Scotia village uses UFO sighting to lure tourists
Allison Hanes, National Post
www.canada.com/topics/travel/story.html?id=a8ebf9b2-ba6f-4ee8-8b77-2b1de28f1612
SHAG HARBOUR, N.S. — Like all the picturesque fishing villages
strung along Nova Scotia's breathtaking south shore, Shag Harbour is a place of
weathered cottages perched atop rocky cliffs offering vistas of the Atlantic.
But what sets it apart from other seaside hamlets (other than its frequent
inclusion on lists of funny place names) are the little green men.
There is a little green man standing guard outside the post office named Alvin.
And there is a three-foot-tall green man at the side of the highway -- a
plywood cut-out that beckons travellers to stop in at the Shag Harbour Incident
Museum and Research Centre.
"The Incident" as it is referred to in these parts, is the strange occurrence
of Oct. 4, 1967, when locals witnessed strange lights hovering in the sky
before a dark object appeared to plunge into the ocean.
Shag Harbour residents were convinced a plane had crashed and they jumped into
their fishing boats to search for survivors.
But all the fishermen found was a strange fluorescent foam floating on the
water that evaporated when they tried to collect it.
The navy, air force, Coast Guard and RCMP continued the search in the morning
and for days to come before calling it off, saying they came up empty-handed.
"At least that was their story," said Cindy Nickerson, chairwoman of Shag
Harbour Incident Society, chuckling.
Today the mystery of the Unidentified Flying Object endures -- in both the
literal and mythological sense -- as Canada's Roswell.
[...]
Don Ledger, a Nova Scotia writer who co-authored a book about The Incident a
number of years ago, said two things set the Shag Harbour event apart from many
other UFO reports.
"First, it was the RCAF [Royal Canadian Air Force] documents that had margin
notes designating the incident as a UFO sighting -- underlined three times. In
other words, it was a reversal of the normal process of the civilian witnesses
reporting a UFO and the authorities claiming a prosaic explanation," Mr. Ledger
said. "Secondly, unlike all other UFO cases I've come in contact with, this
case was heavily government documented."
Among locals -- both those who saw the lights in the sky that night and those
who have heard the tale, Ms. Nickerson said opinion about the incident varies.
But perhaps all the little green men about town offer a hint.
6.0 "UFO Mysteries" — From Space.com
The description about the website Space.com says "Space.com explains UFO, UFOs,
UFO pictures, UFO sightings and UFO video".
Keywords:
"UFO, UFOs, UFO pictures, UFO sightings, UFO video, UFO videos, UFO
phenomenon, UFO sighting, UFO photo, UFO photos, UFO sitings, UFO alien, UFO
pics, alien UFO, UFOs aliens, UFO footage, UFO image, UFO picture, UFO aliens,
UFO encounter"
A UFO is a general term used for any “unidentified flying object” in the sky
which cannot be discerned by an observer . Most UFOs remain classified as so
even after they have been investigated. The UFO phenomenon dates back as far as
the beginning of recorded history, but UFO sightings have significantly
increased since the mid 1940s.
From UFO videos to UFO pictures, stories and other real life accounts,
thousands of people from all walks of life claim to have seen these mysterious
aerial phantoms. Many UFO sightings turn out to be nothing at all, mere
airplanes, meteors or comets; however, many sightings have gone unsolved for
decades or even centuries.
The term “flying saucer” came into popular use after American Kenneth Arnold
claimed a UFO sighting on June 24, 1947 near Mount Rainier, Washington. Arnold
claimed to have seen as many as nine brightly lit objects soaring across the
sky at speeds he estimated as up to 1200 miles per hour. Arnold also reported
that the objects appeared to have a disc or “saucer” appearance. No final
conclusion has ever been reached in the case.
One of the most famous UFO incidents to date also occurred in 1947 in Roswell,
New Mexico. After unidentified debris was recovered from the property of a
Roswell ranch, the Roswell Army Airfield issued a statement saying that a
“flying disk” had been discovered. The airfield retracted the statement just
hours later, claiming it was just a weather balloon. This sparked local and
nation-wide rumors of an alleged government cover-up of an alien UFO that had
crashed in the New Mexico desert. No definitive proof has been produced to this
day to support that theory.
7.0 Epilog
This webpage is a collation of (what I think are interesting) stuff about UFOs
and aliens (or ETs) ...
'Nuff said!
Cheers!
Paul Quek
Webmeister
Woodlands, Singapore
| Incept Date: | | 10 September 2008 |
| Rev'd Date: | | 26 August 2010 |
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fall for anything bogus or nonsensical or farcical, such as falling for stuff
like "Astrology" or "I-ching" or some such similar garbage ... including
falling for anything that is featured, as a warning, in our public service webpages — our entire Mysteries of the
World / MOTW Website is geared to warn readers and viewers of
these scams, hoaxes, frauds and tricks, in other words, we are asking you to
beware and be aware!
It is intellectually dishonest to believe in something that is not true, even
if it is profitable (that is, even if it makes you a lot of mullah, money,
cash, whatever); surely, you are not chained to the "bean-counter" mentality,
are you? Because if you are, that is really, really sad!
If you want to be liberated or if you want to awaken, then walk away from that which is not the truth! ("The truth shall make you
free", says the Bible, right? Yes!) Especially, don't be so chained to the
money, that you become "richly asleep", unable to awaken from the nightmare of
your own making that has ensnared you!
As Stephen Batchelor
[Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening;
see also Living with the Devil
aka ego or Mara]
puts it:
"A person who is asleep is either lost in deep unconsciousness or absorbed in a
dream [or nightmare! — Paul Quek]. ... An unawakened existence,
in which we drift unaware on a surge of habitual impulses, is both ignoble and
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The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it
has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and
then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that
doubt, after all,
was safe — that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his
power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It
is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
— H.L. Mencken
Science & Our Beliefs
We are living in an age in which religion has lost its power, in an age where
scientific belief reigns supreme. In this situation, the rational explanations
that scientific research provide for the phenomena around us are convincing,
and we can no longer feel satisfied with the spiritual explanations that had
such a powerful role in the development of western civilization up to the
eighteenth century.
Science has illuminated so many of the corners which were unknown to our
ancestors that we have come to accept scientific explanations in preference to
religious explanations.
But belief in science, that is materialism, cannot satisfy us as a full
explanation of reality because it is a one-sided view. Science can explain how,
but it cannot explain why. Science cannot provide us with an ethical or moral
basis for living our daily lives.
In this situation many people feel a loss of direction. They cannot find a
belief system to follow. Science does not satisfy their need for moral
guidance. Traditional religions are not believable in the face of scientific
discovery. They can see no pattern in the way that life unfolds, and things
seem hopeless.
In Japan today, most people have no religion. This may seems strange to people
of other countries but it is true. The national religion of
"Tennosei" or Emperor worship, a religion which was part political
manipulation and part fanaticism, perished with Japan's defeat in World War II,
and since that time most Japanese have followed the path of materialism in
their efforts to rebuild an abundant and comfortable society. This lack of
religious belief is increasingly troubling the young people of Japan.
[The same lack is obviously present in most countries. - Paul Quek][ ... ]
— From "Foreward" by Gudo Wafu Nishijima
Tokyo (1999)
in Eido Michael Luetchford's
Introduction to Buddhism & the Practice of Zazen:
The Teachings of Gudo Nishijima Roshi
 |  |  |  | This website is predicated on the basis of the following categorization of the
Sciences ... Four Categories of Science By Stanton T. Friedman (Former Nuclear Physicist)Some people have insisted that if I can't provide a piece of a [flying] saucer
or an alien body, there is nothing to support my claims. I was quite surprised
during my last visit with Carl Sagan in December 1992, when he claimed that the
essence of the scientific method was reproducibility. In actuality, as I wrote
Sagan later on, there are at least four different kinds of science: - [Category-1 Science] Yes, there is a lot of excellent science done by people who set up
an experiment in which they can control all the variables and equipment. They
make measurements and then publish their results, after peer review, and
describe their equipment, instruments, and activity in detail so that others
can duplicate the work and, presumably, come to the same conclusions. Such
science can be very satisfying, and certainly can contribute to the advancement
of knowledge. However, it is not the only kind of science.
- [Category-2 Science] A second kind of science involves situations in which one cannot
control all the variables, but can predict some. For example, I cannot prove
that on occasion the moon comes directly between the sun and the Earth and
casts a shadow of darkness on the Earth, because I cannot control the positions
of the Earth, moon, or sun. What can be done is predicting the times when such
eclipses will happen and being ready to make observations when they occur.
Hopefully the weather where I have my instruments will allow me to make lots of
measurements.
- [Category-3 Science] A third kind of science involves events that can neither be
predicted nor controlled, but one can be ready to make measurements if
something does happen. For example, an array of seismographs can be established
to allow measurements to be made at several locations in the event of an
earthquake. When I was at the University of Chicago, a block of nuclear
emulsion was attached to a large balloon that would be released when a
radiation detector indicated that a solar storm had occurred (something we
could neither produce nor predict). Somebody would rush to Stagg Field and
release the balloon. When the balloon was
retrieved, the emulsion would be carefully examined to measure the number,
direction, velocity, and mass characteristics of particles unleashed by the sun.
- [Category-4 Science] Finally, there is a fourth kind of science, still using the rules
to attack difficult problems. These are the events that involve intelligence,
such as airplane crashes, murders, rapes, and automobile accidents. We do not
know when or where they will occur, but we do know they will. In a typical year
more than 40,000 Americans will be killed in automobile accidents. We don't
know where or when, so rarely are TV cameras whirling when these events take
place. But we can, after the fact, collect and evaluate evidence. We can
determine if the driver had high levels of alcohol in his or her blood, whether
the brakes failed, whether the visibility was poor, where a skid started, and
so on. Observations of strange phenomena in the sky come under this last
category.
In all the category-4 events, we must obtain as much testimony from witnesses
as possible. Some testimony is worth more than other testimony, perhaps because
of the duration of observation, the nearness of the witnesses to the event, the
specialized training of the observer, the availability of corroborative
evidence such as videos and still photos, or the consistency of evidence when
there is testimony from more than one witness. Our entire legal system is based
on testimony — rarely is there conclusive proof such as DNA
matching. Judges and juries must decide, with appropriate cross-examination,
who is telling the truth. In some states, testimony from one witness can lead
to the death penalty
for the accused. We should take note of the fact that even instrument data is dependent on
testimony from the observer of the instruments, and on appropriate calibration
and validation under standardized circumstances. Also, our courts place limits
on requirements for testimony, such as that against one spouse by the other.
Furthermore, there are rules about hearsay testimony, and rules regarding legal
evidence are complex and detailed. When it comes to flying saucers, we must remember that the reason most
sightings can be determined to be relatively conventional phenomena, often seen
under unusual circumstances, is that most people are relatively good observers.
The problem comes with the interpretation of what was observed. People watching
the sky late at night may get excited about a very bright light that moved very
slowly. Checking on the position of the planets at that time may reveal that
that light was Venus, because we have good information as to the angle of
observation, the direction of the light from the observer, the relatively slow
rate of motion, the location of Venus at that time, and so on. On three
occasions, when living in Southern California, I was called by people who
described an unusual object moving rapidly. I tried to make sure that I
analyzed their observations, such as, what time was it? In what direction were
you looking? In what direction did it seem to be moving? Was there any sound?
What was its apparent size, say, as compared to the moon (just covered by an
aspirin held at arm's length)? Two of the people wanted to tell me that the object was just over the next
hill. I stressed that this was an interpretation, because even huge objects far
away can seem to be small objects nearby. In all three cases, I felt that what
was being described sounded similar to a rocket launched down the California
Coast when the sun had gone down, but while the object was high enough to still
be in sunlight. I had seen such a spectacular case once myself. I checked, in
all three cases, with Vandenberg Air Force Base, which launches many rockets
down the U.S. West Coast. Indeed, there had been a launch at the right time in
each case. One case was especially intriguing, because several witnesses were
looking out across the ocean from a beach area and described the thing they saw
as similar to a string of popcorn. It turned out to be the launch of a special
weather satellite with extra solid boosters being dropped off multiple times. The people were good observers. To say the least, it would be irrational to say
that people are good observers when their input allows us to identify the
object being observed, and yet poor observers if we can't identify the UFO as
something conventional. — Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist)
Flying Saucers and Science
Subtitle — A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes,
and Government Cover-Ups
(Chapter 1 - "The Case for the ET Origin of Flying Saucers")
(Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2008)   |  |  |  |  |
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Warning to the unthinking (and to the control freaks and power junkies) ... You probably won't like the following 'thinking' observation ... But it's
an important part of any exploration, investigation, study, etc. of the Mysteries of the World ... SEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT- Accept the statement of Eminent Authority without basis, without question.
- Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general contrariness.
- Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it isn't? How then to account for
the phenomenon?
- How much of the statement rationalizes to suit man's purpose that he and his
shall be ascendant at the centre of things?
- What if the minor should become major, the recessive dominant, the obscure
prevalent?
- What if the statement were reversible, that which is considered effect is
really cause?
- What if the natural law perceived in one field also operates unperceived in all
other phases of science? What if there be only one natural law manifesting
itself, as yet, to us in many facets because we cannot apperceive the whole, of
which we have gained only the most elementary glimpses, with which we can cope
only at the crudest level?
And are those still other doors, yet undefined, on down the corridor? |
- Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in
the form of textual notes, pictures/stills, and audio and video
clips) — as well as many advertisements, some by me and some
automatically by Google Adsense and Amazon — on this website,
it does not
mean that I am in agreement with or that I believe in the views and/or ads
offered-proferred ... That would be displaying such a parochial and provincial
attitude, towards this website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course. Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe
in. In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak — we have to remove our humongous
ego! — else we will never ever really have gotten started in
our journey of exploration and discovery of the Mysteries of the World. Furthermore, similarly and additionally, as a "Charismatic Christian", there
are lots of stuff presented in this website that I do not believe in ... which
had even led some to label me as "Fundamentalist"! ... Whatever! Matthew 7 1Judge not, that ye be not judged.2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. — Jesus the Christ
(Yahoshua ha Mashiach;
Yeshua/Yesua; Ieosus; Joshua),
"Sermon on the Mount"
If you want to hear the NIV — specifically, from The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993) — please click the audio player below:
In short, in this website, I present many things that, I am hopeful, would be
of interest to a student, explorer and investigator of the Mysteries of the World ... but this doesn't mean that I believe in any of the stuff presented. ... Got it? ... Right! - Here is a purpose that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
[Mysteries, Monsters, Mutants, Myths, Miracles & Much More ...]Our purpose ... is to describe the rich variety of anomalous, unexplained,
sometimes totally bizarre phenomena that people have experienced in all times
and places and that are still occurring today. ... the nature of the world and
of our existence are quite different from that which we were taught at school.
The reality is far more interesting, humorous and expansive than any religious
or rational, scientific world-view can possibly accommodate. It is not our intention here to dispute anyone's beliefs or
theories — but we should like to point out their limitations.
There are things that happen in this world - and have occurred throughout the
whole of human experience - for which there has never been a lasting
explanation. Explanations are temporary products, coming and going in response
to fashions. Meanwhile, the happenings they are supposed to explain carry on as
mysteriously as ever. — John Michell and Bob Rickard
The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena (Rough Guide Reference)
(New York, NY: Rough Guides Ltd, 2007) - Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden." Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe. So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond. [...] — Katya Walter, Tao of Chaos
Sub-title: Merging East and West
(1994, 1996) - Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge. The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms. This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". [...] — Christian von Nidda, Our Secret Planet
(2005) - Here is an observation about UFO-Aliens cover-up or conspiracy that may be of
general interest, although some readers would not agree with the observation
(e.g., they may say that some whistleblowers, such as Bob Lazar on the
Roswell-type flying saucers in secret Area-51 labs, have already come forward)
...
If any long-term coherent cover up of UFO information does exist, however, then
it must operate at all levels of government and the media. It must encompass
all the relevant written materials, from the briefest handwritten note in
government files to entries in squadron log books to letters in the personal
papers of members of the Establishment. Hundreds of politicians, service
personnel, police officers, clerks and officials, over half a century, would be
required to excise any reference to the reality of UFOs from official documents
and the media. The number of people who would have taken part in this cover up
would be vast, yet not one person has broken ranks to 'blow the whistle' on the
greatest story ever told. Meantime, millions of dollars are being spent every
day on space probes and radio telescopes that are searching for evidence of
alien life. Would there be any reason for a conspiracy of silence if that
evidence already existed? — Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows
(2002) - Even though I am a "Charismatic Christian", the views presented herewith, in
this Mysteries of the World Website, will NOT be colored by this fact of being a Charismatic Christian. Rather, where and
when I find it necessary (and usually, I would NOT find it necessary, since I find it tiresome to repeat myself, again and again
and again ..., ad infinitum ..., but if I should find it necessary to repeat myself), I will then state
what my Charismatic Christian beliefs lead me to believe
in — even though I am aware that my own Charismatic Christian
beliefs may or may not be the same as, or in accord with, those beliefs of
others who also may want to regard themselves as Charismatic Christians
(nb/note well: there appears to be so many varieties of Charismatic Christian
beliefs, including from those who are simultaneously of the
traditional-historical denominations — such as the Roman
Catholics, with their purgatories, mortal and venial sins, and their Mother
this and Mother that. Shudder! Shudder! Shudder!).
Thus, for example, I do not necessarily "believe" in "ghosts", even as I (will
later) examine the entire gamut of so-called "paranormal events or phenomena",
especially of those with a psychic bent (truly, these are bent!, as in
less-than-straight, aka "crooked", thinking variety). Many so-called "ghosts"
are probably some form of "fallen angels" or "demons" of the Biblical kind,
masquerading as either gods, demons, spirits, ghosts, or even "angels of light"
(when they are obviously "fallen" and are "angels of darkness", or "sons of
darkness" as used in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e. The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness). Anyway, the author of 1 John, gave us a simple test against any "spirit" to see
whether that spirit is of light (God; Christ/Son of God; Holy Spirit of
God/Comforter/Advocate/Paraclete/The One; Jehovah/Yahveh/Yahweh/God the Father)
or of darkness (Satan, Lucifer, the Devil; the Anti-Christ; the False Prophet;
the Beast): 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the
spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is
already in the world. — First Epistle of John
(1 John 4:2-3; New
International Version/NIV)
(Note: many Catholics like NIV
and dislike KJV! Tough!) Whatever the case may be about "ghosts" and other "apparitions", in this
website, I have stated that we will be truth-based and science-based. Despite
this, definitely, I will not be ashamed of being a Charismatic Christian or of
God's Word:If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him
when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy
angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Luke 9:26; NIV)If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's
glory with the holy angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Mark 8:38; NIV) I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the
salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. (Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans; Romans 1:16; NIV)
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