UFO News: Japan's Extraterrestrial Activity

In summary, UFO activity is increasing in Japan, with reports of a luminous object trailing white smoke and an F16 plane on standby.
  • #36
Flashing lights hover over Darwin [Australia]

December 06, 2004
EVEN the sceptics are questioning the origins of a strange light that hovered over Darwin on Saturday night.

Several readers phoned the Northern Territory News late on Saturday night to describe the unidentified flying object that captured their attention.

But neither the RAAF or the airport were able to shed any light on the flashing green, blue and red lights witnesses saw.

Laboratory technician Julie Lynn was relaxing on the balcony with husband Nigel at their Leanyer home when they noticed the UFO about 8.30pm.

A self-described sceptic, Mrs Lynn believes there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the UFO hovered above Darwin - she just has no idea what it could be. [continued]
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11599504%5E421,00.html
 
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  • #37
More on Darwin

The appearance of hovering, flashing lights in the Australian sky last night has residents Down Under wondering what could have been the source. [continued with links to other stories]
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41782
 
  • #38
Officer recalls mystery light: Ohio 1994

...It was about midnight, and everything went silent. The police cruiser turned off, and his radio was no longer connected to the switchboard. Meloro got out of his vehicle, shielded his eyes and stared up at the "blinding light.''

"I saw something strange. I have never seen anything like it before,'' Meloro said. "I'm not saying it was a UFO, well, it was an unidentified foreign object, but I'm not saying it was aliens from another planet.''

Meloro said the light lingered about 100 feet above the trees for about 15 to 20 seconds and then it was gone, his vehicle turned back on and within minutes the radios were up and running. [continued]
http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/news/story/125202004_new05officer05.asp
 
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  • #39
...The people are led by a man named James Gilliland who owns a retreat at the base of the mountain and has spent years capturing his encounters on video. [continued]
http://www.katu.com/team2/story.asp?ID=73105

I have corresponded with Mr. Gilliland and told him that I would be glad to come up and collect evidence for review. After all, he's right in the neighborhood. From these discussions I have a long standing invitation to "the ranch" which for some reason never seems to happen, in fact.

The last that I heard is that he is also selling Magic Water of some kind in Eugene.

I think there may be occasional phenomena in the Mt. Addams area since the light legends go back several centuries. I don't think the chanting really matters much. :biggrin:
 
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  • #40
LUV that UFO stuff! :-p :-p :-p

Keep it coming IVAN. And let us all know when there is something that is beyond a reasonable doubt that UFO's are real. Until then I will be ordering my tin foil beanie for protection.:biggrin: :biggrin:
 
  • #41
You may want to check the Napster. There are a few events declared by US intelligence to be credible.
 
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  • #42
I have been going through it a little but it still does not "prove" beyond a resonable doubt that UFOs are real. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence but until there is that "proof" it is always regulated to the wacky corner. I consider that unfortunate because there is phenomena that merits some attention and investigation regardless.

I have not really concluded anything either way because I have no way to objectivily conclude. Though if I were an alien, I certainly would keep my distance from this planet of warlike apes, we're dangerous monkeys!

Keep up the good work, I still dig the whole thing!
 
  • #43
Thanks. Just one comment: I don't necessarily agree with any particular explanation for what I post. In spite of the impassioned beliefs of many, I work under the assumption that ET is not here. I try to keep it all about the facts and not about the interpretation of those facts. I'll leave the interpreations up to you. :smile:

After learning about all of this and trying to make sense of it all for the last 20 years or so, I honestly don't know what to think except that there is a mystery; probably several. I don't think that it can all be dismissed as nonsense.
 
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  • #44
Good to see you're not off your rocker!
 
  • #45
well...I don't know if we want to open that can of worms. :biggrin:
 
  • #46
New Zealand

25 December 2004

Police report it has been a busy night across New Zealand.

Shortly after midnight they received several calls about a fast-moving object traveling erratically from one house to another. [continued]

http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=46158&c=w
 
  • #47
Huntington, Indiana

Cops baffled after sighting UFO
Circular object changes shapes, colors while hovering over church
Posted: January 7, 2004
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Three police officers in Huntington, Ind., claim to have seen an Unidentified Flying Object the day after Christmas hovering over a Catholic church, and UFO investigators now are looking into the incident.

Officer Chip Olinger was warming up his car Dec. 26 about 2:30 p.m [continued]
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36499
 
  • #48
A brief comment here: Over the years it seems that I have noticed a disproportionately large number of reports like this, seemingly credible, that involve UFOs hovering over churches. If we assume that these UFOs are not the Holy Spirit, or God, then perhaps the high steeples play some role?
 
  • #49
India Daily

I have been avoiding this source since, although this paper seems to be otherwise reasonably reputable, they are reporting all sorts of wild UFO stories and conspiracy stuff. Since the hits keep coming and coming I decided to post one story. Unless they have broken the story of the millennium, I won't be posting any more reports from this source.

All reports mentioned come from this ongoing saga. :wink:
China and India both know about underground UFO base in the Himalayan border area deep into the tectonic plates
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-09a-05.asp
 
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  • #50
Does science make room for aliens?
Researchers argue that new theories better the odds
Now scientists note that recent astrophysical discoveries suggest we should find ourselves in the midst of one or more extraterrestrial civilizations. Moreover, they argue it is a mistake to reject all UFO reports because some evidence for the theoretically predicted extraterrestrial visitors might just be found there.

The researchers make their proposal in the January/February 2005 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. [continued]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6826412/
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/et_betterodds_050114.html


'Dog' days of January
Folks who spend time outdoors during an early January evening often notice a brilliantly sparkling "diamond" in the southeastern sky - one that appears to shimmer, dance and dramatically change colors.

I've had people ask if it was a UFO, experimental aircraft, fireworks or even the International Space Station - even though it doesn't move. What people are seeing is the brilliant Sirius, the "Dog Star." [continued]
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hssky154116010jan15,0,3773375.story?coll=ny-health-headlines


Seemingly an ongoing saga... Normally I would ignore this but there have been a large number of similar reports from all over the world; ever since about mid December, it seems. Not a theory, but I do find the timing interesting -the 9.0 subduction zone event [earthquake]. So many of these meteor-like reports is also rather unusual. Of course, it could all mean nothing.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - An unidentified flying object was seen hurtling toward Earth Sunday morning close to Jakarta, witnesses told a local radio station[continued]
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/12/18/ufo-indonesia041218.html

"I saw a huge ball of fire in the air," farmhouse caretaker told the Mumbai Mid Day. "It raced down to the Earth so fast that before I could do anything, my house shook and all my utensils came crashing down."

More than half a dozen villages near the towns of Khopoli, Uran and Panvel felt the impact. Locals were said to run out of their homes and remain outside for fear of them collapsing. [continued]
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15061.shtml
http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2639483,00.html

This just in! It was aliens
Military has `reason' for that boom, but we know better

Unexplained events, such as the loud noise heard in half of Horry County last week, that shook homes and had entire neighborhoods looking skyward, always open the door for all sorts of theories. Some thought it was a plane crash or a bomb or an earthquake. Some saw five blinking lights; others saw two large fireballs. My 3-year-old said the clouds were talking too loud. Others took the opportunity to make snide jokes about UFOs. But I won't. [continued]
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/states/south_carolina/counties/york/10452277.htm
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/10428436.htm

UFO rattles China province
December 15, 2004 10:54 IST

Hundreds of people in northwest China's Gansu Province witnessed an unidentified flying object (UFO), and local police are searching for what may have dropped in the area, reports Xinhua [continued]
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/dec/15china.htm
 
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  • #51
RAF Boulmer, 1977

...the objects parted, with one going west and changing shape as it went. The objects, with one then looking body shaped, were watched by the three men for one hour and 40 minutes. A radar station at the base also picked up the objects in the same position before they vanished. Checks were made to RAF West Drayton to see if it had spotted them. Flt Lt Wood is described as “reliable and sober” in the report, which adds that radar staff at RAF Staxton Wold also picked up the strange objects. The RAF Boulmer report was deemed so sensitive that instead of being released to the public 25 years later as normal a further three-year ban was imposed. It is only because of the FOI Act, which came into force on January 1 [continued]
http://www.northumberlandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1117&ArticleID=930633
 
  • #52
Centuries' Old UFO Coin Remains Mystery

Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) January 28, 2005 -- After decades of seeking possible answers about a mysterious UFO-like design on a 17th century French copper coin, a prominent numismatic expert says it remains just that: an unidentified flying object. After a half-century of research, the design has defied positive identification by the numismatic community.

"It was made in the 1680s in France and the design on one side certainly looks like it could be a flying saucer in the clouds over the countryside," said Kenneth E. Bressett of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a former President of the 32,000-member American Numismatic Association and owner of the curious coin. [continued]
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prwebxml202359.php
 
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  • #53
Declassified reports of UFO sightings reveal 88 sightings last year

Details of Britain's most recent UFO sightings are revealed in previously secret documents disclosed to The Independent .

The files, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that, last year, the Ministry of Defence's UFO unit received 88 reports from military staff and members of the public worried about unexplained objects in our skies.

The classified files help to complete a picture of the scale of UFO sightings first revealed by this paper last month. These updated "X-files" show the most recent observations were made on 15 January this year following two separate reports from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, and Whitstable, Kent. The reports refer to "strange lights seen in the sky". [continued]
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=607253
 
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  • #54
With Canadians reporting a record number of UFO sightings last year — 30 per cent more than in 2003 — it's natural to wonder why... Most UFOs turn out to be satellites, meteors, airplanes, or have some other conventional cause.

But (cue theme music for The Twilight Zone) about 15 per cent of last year's sightings remain unexplained. [continued]
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1109113847492&call_pageid=970599119419
 
  • #55
Dubbo Australia

"A black triangular object that made a number of movements and then speared off out of sight behind the trees."

That's how police have described footage claimed to be of an unidentified flying object (UFO) that was reported to police, and shot on a video camera, by a Dubbo family last Sunday night.

"I've never seen anything like it," Suzanne Fuller said.

"It was hovering there for five hours, and it was completely silent."

The police arrived to the scene at 8pm, viewed the videotape, and filed an official report to Air Services Australia (ASA), a federal airways monitoring bureau. [continued]
http://dubbo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=377437&y=2005&m=3
 
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  • #57
Ivan Seeking said:
http://dubbo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=377437&y=2005&m=3

It seems the article has been removed.

This was the full story, i found it on another forum (it also had a dead link)


UFO captured on film hovering high in city sky

By LINTON BESSER - The Daily Liberal

Thursday, 10 March 2005

DUBBO, Australia - "A black triangular object that made a number of movements and then speared off out of sight behind the trees."

That's how police have described footage claimed to be of an unidentified flying object (UFO) that was reported to police, and shot on a video camera, by a Dubbo family last Sunday night.

"I've never seen anything like it," Suzanne Fuller said.

"It was hovering there for five hours, and it was completely silent."

The police arrived to the scene at 8pm, viewed the videotape, and filed an official report to Air Services Australia (ASA), a federal airways monitoring bureau.

"It looked like a bird, but much larger, the size of a car, with a flat top and a deeper shape at the bottom."

Mrs Fuller also put a call into the UFO Researchers Independent Network, and described what they had seen to Moira McGhee.

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Heres a link to the full story:

http://www.ufoalert.com/cgi-bin/freeit.cgi?read=70509
 
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  • #58
Thanks Pit2. If you have the link handy could you post it? I had to delete part of your post due to copyright concerns. We can only post excerpts of published materials.
 
  • #59
I put the link in my previous post.

But it seems the UFO has been identified:

http://dubbo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=377880&y=2005&m=3

A father, son and their 'UFO'
LINTON BESSER
Friday, 11 March 2005

It was independence day for Dubbo, and Paul Cremin didn't even know.

It wasn't until his friends showed him the photograph in yesterday's Daily Liberal of an unidentified flying object that he realized he had spooked all of the city.

"My neighbour came over laughing with the newspaper," he said, blushing.

Mr Cremin and his 13-year-old son Aidan fly kites and model aeroplanes as a hobby.
 
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  • #60
Ivan Seeking said:
I have been avoiding this source since, although this paper seems to be otherwise reasonably reputable, they are reporting all sorts of wild UFO stories and conspiracy stuff. Since the hits keep coming and coming I decided to post one story. Unless they have broken the story of the millennium, I won't be posting any more reports from this source.

All reports mentioned come from this ongoing saga. :wink:
China and India both know about underground UFO base in the Himalayan border area deep into the tectonic plates
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-09a-05.asp

Right. if the thickness of the tectonic plates in unstable areas of mountain building, the presence of unmined granite and a no-go area along a disputed border (shock-horror!) is the best evidence they can find to suggest an underground base of some kind, frankly they need to get their acts together before they write an article.
 
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  • #61
PIT2 said:
I put the link in my previous post.

But it seems the UFO has been identified:

http://dubbo.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=377880&y=2005&m=3

Sure enough, it just came up on my RADAR as well. Just another one of the 90-95% of sightings that can be explained.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43278
 
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  • #62
For some reason, aliens seem to have an interest in the nuclear weapons of the United States.

So says Robert Hastings, an independent expert on unidentified flying objects who will be speaking at Northern State University next week. His 90-minute presentation will begin at 9 p.m. Monday in Room 127 of the Johnson Fine Arts Center.

Hastings said the declassified documents and on-the-record comments he will share will prove to those willing to listen that UFOs do exist. Most of the documents and comments come from former federal government and military officials.

After a 30-minute video, Hastings will lecture for an hour. [continued]
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/11401586.htm
 
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  • #63
Huntsville Alabama; Jan 12th, 1910

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The truth is out there: A UFO sighting is reported in Huntsville, Chattanooga and much of northeastern Alabama and southeastern Tennessee. The Huntsville Mercury-Banner reports "a strange airship" passing directly over Huntsville at 4:15 on the afternoon of Jan. 12, 1910. The newspaper says the airship moved over the crest of Chapman Mountain "before many people on the streets had the opportunity of seeing it." The airship moved at a speed that "appeared to be greater than any wind short of a hurricane would travel," the newspaper says.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1114334889292320.xml
 
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  • #64
South Bend, Indiana; 2004

South Bend Tribune

UFO tales unite the curious
Rochester sightings recalled a year ago at state investigators' session
ROCHESTER -- It's been a year since Bev Carpenter saw her first UFO hovering over her rural Fulton County farm, and she says her life hasn't changed all that much despite the fact that she's appeared on several national radio programs.

Still, she was among the couple dozen people who gathered in Rochester Saturday for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) to learn more about the phenomena, and to share encounters with the unexplained. [continued]
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/04/24/local.20050424-sbt-MARS-A1-UFO_tales_unite_the.sto
 
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  • #65
UFO sightings sparked MoD probe

prompted a secret Ministry of Defence investigation, newly-released information has revealed.

The clamour around the possibility of "little green men" visiting Pembrokeshire forced Government officials to look into the situation in the late 1970s.

There were numerous tabloid reports, including one of an entire class of schoolchildren claiming to have seen a UFO landing.

Many others reported being petrified by a strange silver alien.

It all happened in what became known as the Broad Haven Triangle. [continued]
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100...style-secret-mod-investigation-name_page.html
 
  • #66
Deer Lodge Montana: The Secret of Redgate

I had never even heard of this one.

DEER LODGE — Stories in this dusty cow town come a dime a dozen, hardly a surprise given its hold on the old prison, the new state prison, its historic cattle ranch, and its fabled car museum. But here, 50 miles southwest of Helena, stories of a different sort have become the talk of the town — stories exposed by a former Deer Lodge resident and her new docudrama, "The Secret of Redgate."

"We went back to Deer Lodge for two weeks and found out there were a lot of people with this experience, all the way from young high-school kids to people in their 80s," Cowen said. "No one ever talked about this stuff growing up."

Throughout the Deer Lodge Valley, stories of close encounters aren't hard to come by. Over the last 20 years, Cowen said, there have been hundreds of sightings within a 150-mile radius of the town. [continued]
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/04/14/top/a01041405_01.txt
 
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  • #67
Also, an interesting account.

Strange happenings all around us
By Pat López/For The Daily Times
Apr 2, 2005, 08:37 pm

...“He told me that it was true, but not to tell anybody. It happened a long time ago, in the early 1930s, when he was still a young man. They didn’t have power lines in Trujillo back then and the horse wasn’t Chíspas. And he didn’t just see a blue light”

“What else did he see?” I asked, trying hard not to lean towards the steering wheel to look up at the stars in the sky.

For a while, it was quiet again.

I wondered if she would tell me more or start talking about something else. I could feel her hesitation; it felt heavy, like the weight of old memories best forgotten.

After a few miles, she turned towards me... [continued]
http://www.daily-times.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=50&num=17740
 
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  • #68
UFO groups closing shop

Links will be posted later when time allows, but over the last week or two I have seen at least four or five reports of Canadian, US, and British UFO groups closing shop due to a lack of reported activity.
 
  • #69
When the USAF Was in the UFO Business

WASHINGTON -- "Rumors about the saucer mystery fly almost as fast as the strange sights themselves," pronounced the narrator of a 1952 Paramount newsreel, commenting on a rash of UFO sightings from New York to Washington.

He added ominously: "With this evidence, the mystery thickens."

And so it seemed.

A comic book narrative of the time came down on the side of believers. "SAUCERS OVER WASHINGTON, D.C.," blared its bold black headline. It dismissed the military's "glib" explanation of radar blips seen that July by National Airport flight controllers. Simply a case of temperature inversion or reflections of ground objects, insisted the Air Force brass. But what about the pilot, the cartoonist countered, who described "a bright light moving faster, at times, than a shooting star"?

Well, what about it? [continued]
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/Rios081705.html

Note that the entire USAF history includes first, project Sign, which concluded that the ET Hypothesis may be correct. This conclusion was rejected by General Vandenberg who demanded absolute proof of such an Earth shaking revelation. Then came project Grudge, and finally, Bluebook. The chief scientists for Bluebook, Dr. Allen Hynek - the originator the famous swamp gas UFO explanations - became the father of modern Ufology and rejected the conclusions referenced in the linked article [which resulted from the summary of the controversial Condon Report].
 
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  • #70
Hellyer takes up the cause of believers in UFOs

...organizers are making much of his credentials as a former defence minister in the Pearson administration 40 years ago...

Hellyer was once a political star. He was first elected to the Commons in 1949 at the age of 25, at that time the youngest person ever to win a seat.

He went on to become a cabinet minister, ran for the Liberal leadership against Pierre Trudeau, switched parties to the Conservatives and ran for that party's leadership, too. He eventually founded two other political parties, Action Canada in 1971 and the Canadian Action party in 1997.

He says his conviction that UFOs are real arose from reading in recent years, not from anything gleaned from secret archives during his time in office.

"I've been a skeptic for quite a while but I've been exposed to more and more information recently and have just decided to take a stand," he said. [continued]
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/09/11/1212477-cp.html

Interestingly, some of the biggest UFO conspiracy theorists were once high ranking officials for either intelligence and or the military.
 
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