Annette Van Zetten was at home entertaining friends around 5:30 pm, Wednesday evening, when she saw a bright orange object moving across the sky.
Greg Swaney, Mrs. Zetten’s friend, called police, fearing that a plane was in trouble. An RACQ CareFlight helicopter and ground crews were sent to investigate his report, but turned up empty handed.
“It just sort of looked like an orange glow,” she said. “The shape of it was like a flying saucer.
“It didn’t look like a plane. It was definitely going down and then we saw black smoke so that’s when we thought perhaps a plane was on fire.”
Mrs. Zetten said that she couldn’t judge the size of the object, but she did offer that it may have been as close as 10km from her residence, very close to Cabarita, a neighboring town.
Police say that while witness reports such as these add some credibility to cases similar to these, in all likelihood the object was only a bolide.
Consider what happens, mentally, when you buy a new car. You pick out this unique model with brilliant colors and feel there is something really special about it. In fact, you picked it out precisely because it was special. After signing some contract for payment, you leave the dealership and are driving down the highway, a flurry of other cars whip by you, but the ones that you notice are now the exact car and model that you just bought!
Is it possible that a Bigfoot or related hominoid was found many years ago and remains hidden away from the public? Cryptomundo.com reported that near the end of the overnight appearance of Jeff Meldrum’s and John Bindernagel’s discussion of Bigfoot on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, September 21-22, 2006, an American, who claimed to be living in the Ukraine, telephoned into the talk-radio program. The credible-sounding individual had an intriguing account…
Which is more likely, traversing the vast stellar distances between stars hoping for a ‘hit” or, navigating the ocean floor? The classic alleged phantasm or sentient humanoid irritatingly nicknamed The Grey, has always been an object of speculation in terms of sensate anatomy inasmuch as hearing or receiving sound in an atmosphere would require some sort of ear.
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Yet, they are absent, or are they?…
Mystery astronaut carving in ancient temples in Salamanca, SpainRelax: no one is reading your mind
At first, scientists from Harvard, a college in Massachusetts, were trying to randomize a medical study so God wouldn’t know. Now a group of venerable academic psychologists under Dr. Stephen Kosslyn from the same institution reports developing a methodology to study extrasensory perception (ESP), and obtaining the “strongest evidence” yet against the existence of ESP…
Insect attack may have finished off dinosaurs
Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new book argues that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been brought down by a tiny, much less dramatic force – biting, disease-carrying insects…
Mind trip: A complex in Tidewater Virginia is the hub of psychic exploration
Driving north from the tourist beaches on U.S. 60, the streetscape turns suburban. Houses keep the ocean out of view. On the higher ground to the left, you come to a starkly modern building that could pass for a university research library. It’s all the world headquarters and offshoots of Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment, and whether you spend a few minutes or days here hinges on your view of Cayce…
Kucinich’s UFO sighting: What he really saw
Dennis Kucinich has taken a lot of flak for saying that he once saw an unidentified flying object near Shirley MacLaine’s house back in 1982. The Wall Street Journal just did a front-page story on it, adding to the Kucinich-as-silly-person storyline. But what if he really did see something—just not an alien spaceship?..
David Kingston: I have been researching the Crop Circle phenomena since I saw my first one in 1976. I had been on a “night watch” for UFO’s on Clay Hill in Warminster. Three separate orbs of approximately six feet in diameter of coloured light had been weaving around and above us for some three hours on the top of Clay Hill, merging at times into a single globe and then separating again above us, suddenly one of the orbs descended to some thirty feet above us and then flew down into a field at the base of Clay Hill…
The Center for Bigfoot Studies, like the creature itself, is not easy to find. It hides amid the forest of homes on a quiet Riverside street. No signs or monster-size tracks point the way, but those in the know can pin it down to an upper floor of one unassuming house. There, jammed inside a few small rooms, is one of the nation’s largest repositories of Bigfoot lore…
The conversation recorded in the YouTube video referenced in the story below is in a Brazilian Portuguese dialect, probably from the southeastern state of Minas Gerais. The taping is being done by an adult. The children shout about a UFO, and then there is a question about whether or not the object is a hot air balloon…
Year of the Yeti begins now!
This Friday will be the official launch of the new publication of the reasonably-priced hardback edition of Ivan T. Sanderson’s classic book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, from Cosimo Classics. This new printing contains a new preface I’ve written, and I will have a few copies, hot off the press, literally, for sale at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City…
(Get the book: Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life)The best damned data of 2007
Happy New Year one and all and while our thoughts turn to the potential the next year will have (those of us not lying on the couch feeling sorry for themselves after over indulging last night, best not to mention piercing headaches!!) but to round things off nicely we’ll look back on the stories we blogged up last year, which, we hope, have gone some way to reflecting the interesting stories of the year, as well as our own peculiar obsessions…
Bigfoot, you’re invited to breakfast
A few years before the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, I worked on a timber-cruising crew near that mountain. We stayed in a barn-like lodge and ate at a nearby diner. During breakfast one morning, Harry R. Truman, who owned Harmony Falls Lodge on Spirit Lake, came in. He was wearing an ancient raincoat and the same wrinkled cap he wore years later when he told a cameraman, a helicopter pilot and the world that he’d never leave his mountain. Days later, it blew…Mystery space machines – part 3Truth is stranger than science fiction
A brief historical overview concerning the significance of flying saucers, Planet X, and little green men from Mars in American pop culture. Most notably, comic books…
If you haven’t heard of the Trent/McMinnville UFO sighting, this is a good read. I will add that “skeptics” should be replaced with “debunkers”. Make sure to click on the source button for the full two-page article!
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One of the classic UFO cases is the Trent/McMinnville UFO sighting. On May 11, 1950, approximately 7:00 pm, Evelyn Trent was outside feeding their rabbits when she spotted a flying saucer, or UFO, above their tiny farm in McMinnville, Oregon. She ran and called to her husband Paul, who came out, armed with his camera. He managed to take two photos of the object before it sped off.
This event made news around the world. Popular Mechanics determined the photos appeared genuine, as did the local newspaper, the Telephone Register’s Bill Powell, who did his own analysis of the photos. Years later, Dr. Bruce Maccacbee, well known in the UFO field as an investigator who analyzes photos and images of UFOs, has also determined the event to be genuine.
More than fifty years after this UFO event, the Trents stick to their story, despite the usual efforts by the skeptics to disprove or debunk the photos. There is a good DVD about this case. It’s entitled, simply, The Trent Photos, and includes interviews with Mrs. Trent. It is clear that Evelyn Trent saw something unusual that day, and the memory of that event has stayed with her all these years.
Sloping slightly sideways on the grassy hills beneath the Ranu Raraku volcano, a giant stone head known as a moai shows the wear and tear of time on this triangular 64-square-mile island. On the right side of the oblong rectangular face with male features, the rock is lighter in color and its long, carefully sculpted ear and nostril are clearly visible. But on the statue’s left side, the sun and wind have eroded the nose, lip and ear. “The moai are dying by natural causes,” said archaeologist Sergio Rapu, a lifelong researcher of this isolated South Pacific island of hills and extinct volcanoes also known as Rapa Nui. “The prehistoric Rapa Nui people noted it would take 300 to 400 years for the statues to become completely eroded.” Such predictions loom bleak for the island’s nearly 1,000 signature moai statues, as the constant battering of erosion and rain is slowly eating away at the island’s porous volcanic stone. Easter Island is among the world’s most isolated inhabited islands with about 4,000 inhabitants. It lies 2,237 miles west of Chile, which annexed the island in 1888. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Rapu said erosion can be stopped by using chemical resins that seal the stone, as well as stabilizing the ahu, or altar platforms that support some of the moai, many of which are slowly falling into the ocean. But that would be costly, he said. Archaeologists had hoped this summer’s New Seven Wonders of the World contest – organized by Swiss film producer and philanthropist Bernard Weber – would spark the release of funds to restore the moai. The statues were carved between 1200 and 1550 to honor the gods.
After placing in the top 10 favorite sites during preliminary results, the island failed to make the final seven, chosen by 100 million people in a popular vote by Internet, phone and mail. When the moais finished eighth, Weber sent Chile a letter saying the statues were “morally” one of the New Seven Wonders, according to the local press. In the meantime, Jose Antonio Viera, minister of the presidency, said it is urgent for the Chilean government and the international community to come to the rescue.
A team of paranormal investigators from Lancashire got more than they bargained for on their second visit to an Inn in Leyland.
During the investigation the team undertook an experiment where they asked the spirits to move a table.
The table moved suddenly and violently, then spun around several times, nearly knocking one team member off her feet.
Other strange phenomena included all of the group hearing a low pitch groan at exactly the same time, lights flickering, and unexplained sensations felt by a member of the group.
Team member Andy Proctor, from Blackburn, describes events on the night of the visit as “the most amazing night of phenomena we have ever witnessed”.
The Ley Inn, in Chorley, is subject to many rumours of a hanging in the late 18th century.
During the Ouija experiment a former Inn owner Robert O’Neil and his employee James Silcock came forward.
Andy said: “Robert informed us that he once owned the land which the Ley Inn now stands on, and that he accidentally killed James Silcock, who it seems was making advances towards Robert’s daughter.
“We were informed, that Robert tied up a rope and wrapped it around James’ neck, in order to scare him in to leaving his daughter alone, however, these actions resulted in James’ death.
“Whether or not these stories are connected to the original claims of the hanging which took place here, we are not sure.”
Fellow team member Victoria Taylor said: “We made contact with a spirit called Arabelle, who we think was Robert O’Neil’s daughter.
“She was born in 1746 and died at the age of 17. She said she’d been strangled by James Silcock, which would explain her father’s actions.
“We think we’ve solved a mystery dating back nearly 250 years.”
After I listened to the last episode of The Paracast, I was, I guess you could say, disappointed. I know many people (including Mr. Biedny) would like to think of the dying field of UFOlogy as a valid topic for discussion, but quite frankly, I think that those who share this opinion may be falling victim to their own criticism. It’s true, what they say, UFOlogy has seen better days, but to think that “complaining” about will make any amount of difference is just simply not acceptable to me.
Frank Warren recently posted his thoughts on the subject, and I agree with him:
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Along with many of my colleagues, I routinely make the trek over to the Paracast to listen to the latest guest of interest (to me); recently the one closest to the top of the “archives” that met that criteria was author, “Rich Dolan.”
As usual I clicked on the link to start the podcast; was finishing some writing chores simultaneously, got about two minutes into the program, quickly paused it, then restarted it from the beginning; again, I got about two minutes into the program, stopped it, and started over again; about that time, the phone rang, and I wasn’t able to finish listening, and still haven’t as of yet.
The reason I repeated the first two minutes of Dolan’s interview, is because he articulated some of the most accurate, portentous and perceptive analysis of Ufology that I have heard in a long time, if ever!
David Biedny began the interview recalling previous discourse and reiterating his notion about the “terrible state of Ufology,” and the need for a restructuring; to that Dolan replied, “What is the structure . . . I really don’t perceive much of a structure.”
No truer words have ever been said in my view; pundits often criticize what they deem to be Ufology, and or it’s condition, good or bad, but what are they really impugning? They’re condemning the “state of Ufology” when they should be asking, “Where is the state located?
Barring individual research and study, and some small organizations, e.g., MUFON to name one, as Dolan correctly points out—“there is no structure!”
There are many “individuals” past and present who are more “visible” (and vocal to which I am one) via public speaking, and or that participate in various media venues, i.e., “TV interviews,” symposiums and conventions etc.; however, although these folks are the most prominent, this doesn’t mean that their respective ideologies are the “central theme” of Ufology.
Quite frankly it’s impracticable to criticize the “state of Ufology” as given the fact that a “governed body” doesn’t exist, one can’t offer a cure for an ailment to a patient that one can’t find!
Consequently, condemnation or praise for that matter (of Ufology) should be as individualistic as the field is at present; or, perhaps rather then criticize the “periphery of the problem” why not address the gist of it—that is the lack of any type of consortium period!
If the rest of the interview with Dolan is as worthy as the first two minutes, then I highly recommend a visit to the Paracast to check out the rest of the exchange.
This is just less than a week old, but an interesting story nonetheless.
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A “spooky” image of a priest executed for treason over the Gunpowder Plot has appeared on a 17th century book thought to be bound in his skin, it is claimed.Auctioneers said the face of Father Henry Garnet could be seen peering from the cover of the “rare and macabre” book about the Jesuit priest’s death.
The item will go under the hammer at Wilkinson’s Auctioneers in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, on Sunday.Garnet, was hanged in May 1606 for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.
Sid Wilkinson, from Wilkinson’s Auctioneers, said: “It’s a little bit spooky because the front of the book looks like it has the face of a man on it, which is presumed to be the victim’s face.”
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The book, called A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet, a Jesuit and his Confederates, was published in 1606 just after his execution.
The lot is considered so unusual there is no reserve price attached to it.
Garnet’s involvement in the plot to kill King James I was controversial. He claimed he knew about the conspiracy but was not involved.
Some scholars now believe he had been trying to prevent the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament rather than conspiring to kill the King.
According to legend, a piece of bloodstained straw found at the scene of his execution started to develop an exact image of the priest’s face.
This is indeed paranormal, if you take the word literally. What this group found blows me away. Sure, I have heard of a fossilized dinosaur, but a mummified one is a completely different thing.
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A high school student hunting fossils in the badlands of his native North Dakota discovered an extremely rare mummified dinosaur that includes not just bones but also seldom seen fossilized soft tissue such as skin and muscles, scientists will announce today.
KATHMANDU (AFP) — Mountaineering and wildlife officials in Nepal said Monday they doubted whether footprints found by a United States team from a science fiction programme were those of a Yeti.
The host and crew from “Destination Truth” spent around a week in the foothills of Mount Everest and returned to the capital Kathmandu last week with claims that they had found footprints belonging to the legendary creature.
“The footprints may be from a Himalayan bear,” Ang Tshering Sherpa, the president of Nepal Mountaineering Association told AFP after looking at pictures of the prints.
“It is believed that Yetis have only four toes but the footprints recorded by the US team have five toes,” said Sherpa, whose father went unsuccessfully looking for the legendary beast in the 1950s.
The Yeti — described as massive half-human, half-ape-like creature — has captured the imagination of explorers and climbers in the Himalayas for generations.
Dozens of costly expeditions have taken place, none of which have proved the existence of the beast.
After seeing what he thought was a fleeting glimpse of a Yeti in 1986, climbing legend Reinhold Messner began investigating the myths and stories that surround it.
In his 1998 book “My Quest for the Yeti,” Messner concludes that it only exists in peoples’ imaginations and the Himalayan black bear was probably behind most sightings.
“Destination Truth” — which investigates the existence of mythical creatures — is being made for an American science fiction channel.
Host Joshua Gates told AFP Saturday that the programme would further investigate the footprints, which were found last week on the bank of the Manju River, 150 kilometres (94 miles) northeast of Kathmandu.
“The footprint is 13 inches (33 centimetres) long and the toes span nine inches (23 centimetres) across,” Gates told AFP at a hotel in Kathmandu.
“This is really an intriguing piece of evidence and we all feel a little bit unable to explain what we saw,” he said.
But Laxmi Manandhar, a spokesman at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, told AFP: “People living in the high Himalayas believe in this strange creature called a Yeti but nobody has actually seen it.
“The footprint castings brought by the US television crew are strange, but there is no supporting evidence to back up the claim that these are footprints of the Yeti.”
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A “spooky” image of a priest executed for treason over the Gunpowder Plot has appeared on a 17th century book thought to be bound in his skin, it is claimed.Auctioneers said the face of Father Henry Garnet could be seen peering from the cover of the “rare and macabre” book about the Jesuit priest’s death.
KATHMANDU (AFP) — Mountaineering and wildlife officials in Nepal said Monday they doubted whether footprints found by a United States team from a science fiction programme were those of a Yeti.
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