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Barra da Tijuca, Brazil UFO (May 7 1952)
While covering a news event for O’Cruzeiro Magazine, reporters Ed Kessel and Joao Martins saw an unusual flying object approaching their location. Kessel snapped five black and white pictures of the object as it came right over them. The Brazilian Air Force would later find as many as 40 witnesses who saw the object.
The Skunk Ape is Florida’s answer to Bigfoot, a large primate that reportedly lives east of Interstate 75, near Myakka River State Park.
In December 2000, an anonymous writer mailed two photographs and a letter to the Sarasota sheriff’s department. “Is someone missing an orangutan?” she asked, identifying herself as a grandmother who had taken the photos when she found the beast stealing apples from her backyard. “It is hard to judge from the photos how big this orangutan really is. … I judge it as being about six and a half to seven feet tall in a kneeling position. … It had an awful smell that lasted well after it had left my yard. The orangutan was making deep ‘woomp’ noises.”
There have been other “sightings” since this one, but of course no evidence.
Los Angeles UFO (1942)
February 25, 1942: 02:25 AM: Alarm sirens installed in the event of a Japanese air raid are started, as flying objects are seen and announced in the sky off the city. A blackout is declared and the anxious and even terrified inhabitants follow the instructions by turning all the lights off. 03:16 AM: Anti-aircraft guns open fire on the unidentified flying objects coming from the ocean, and projector beams are searching the sky. Witnesses observe small objects flying at high altitude, of red or silver-plated color, moving in formation at high speed, and untouched by the AAA salvos. This large object had been hit by many AAA projectiles, according to the reports. The anti-aircraft defence continued to shoot at UFOs without results.
England UFO (1944)
This UFO was photographed over the UK in 1944
It would seem that UFOs were not
content to just explore the United
States during war-time, as this
photograph from England of a UFO
raised many questions about UFO
and military - were they government
created for and during the war?
The Curse of Giles Corey
The Salem Witch Trials will always hold a spooky part in our national hearts, but as the years go by, many have come to the conclusion that the hysteria that struck Salem Town and Salem Village (now Danvers) was more about greed than the supernatural. The accused often had trouble with their neighbors regarding property rights, livestock, and general issues of jealousy. However, the tale of Giles Corey’s death and the legacy left for the area’s law enforcement is a tale of greed with a liberal helping of the supernatural.
Giles Corey was one of six men who died during the trials that ran from May through October of 1692. He was the only one tortured; the rest were either hung or died in jail. Implicated by Abigail Hobbs, the Corey’s were brought to Ingersoll’s Tavern to be examined. Giles, who was in his 80’s at the time, had at first encouraged an accusation against his wife, Martha. Later he tried to recant when he realized just how ugly and disturbing the trials had become.
It is also believed he realized that his home, land, and all other wealth were in great danger. The sketchy laws of the time supposedly decreed that anyone found guilty of witchcraft would lose all of their holdings, leaving nothing for those who stood to inherit. Once Giles himself had been accused, he knew that pleading innocent would not only lead to his death, but would most likely lead to conviction anyway. To save his holdings for his family (two sons-in-law) to inherit, Corey refused to plea neither guilty nor innocent. In this strange legal twist his recently land could not be awarded back to the colony after his death, no matter how he died.
Although many speculated that Corey refused to stand for trial and place an appropriate plea because of what would happen to his land, it seems he may have done it out of sheer rebellion. According to some sources, neither Massachusetts law nor English law would insist on such forfeiture—the true danger came from the greedy wrangling of the sheriff himself. It appears that Corey’s less than popular stance in Salem society had caused him to create a will deeding his property to his sons-in-law, William Cleeves and John Moulton, even before his arrest. Perhaps he knew something was coming or perhaps a previous run-in with the law had caused him to grow wary. Regardless, heirs were legally able to retain lands that otherwise would have been forfeit in Massachusetts at the time due to certain criminal dealings.
The solution to Corey’s refusal to submit to the court and offer a plea, as perceived by Sheriff George Corwin, the son of Witch Trials magistrate Jonathan Corwin, was to torture him until he did plea. Corwin had been profiting from the Salem Witch Trials, as it was he who was in charge of confiscating property and dividing it among the leaders of Salem. The court ordered Corey a sentence of “peine forte et dure” even though this torture was illegal in the Massachusetts colony. In all of US history, Giles Corey is the only person who was pressed to death by the order of a court. Sheriff Corwin himself watched as Giles Corey was slowly crushed to death in a field just outside old Salem Jail, a field that is now known as Howard Cemetery.
A board was placed upon the old man’s chest and slowly loaded with more and more heavy fieldstones. According to tradition, it took him two days to die beneath the weighted board.
Folklore has it that Corey repeated, “More weight!” when asked to plea. However, there are also tales that Corey actually cursed Sheriff Corwin and the whole of Salem with his dying breath. Buried in an unmarked grave on Gallows Hill, it seems that this curse may have actually been quite effective.
According to local historian and former sheriff of Essex County, Robert Cahill, each and every sheriff starting with George Corwin to himself had either died in office or was forced into early retirement due to a heart or blood ailment. Corwin died of a heart attack in 1696; Cahill left his post after his own heart attack much more recently.
The curse goes beyond the sheriff’s post, however. Whenever a tragedy befalls Salem, people claim to see Giles Corey’s ghost soon after. Could it be that he makes occasional appearances to savoring the suffering of Salem—and the fruits of his curse? Giles Corey’s spirit was supposedly seen even before his death by accuser Anne Putnam who claimed his spectre visited her, trying to entice her into writing in “the Devil’s book.”
Phoenix, Arizona UFO (1947)
William Rhodes of Phoenix, Arizona allegedly saw a disk circling his locality during sunset and took two photographs. The resulting pictures show a disk-like object with a round front and a square tail in plane form. These photographs have been examined by experts who state they are true photographic images and do not appear to be an imperfection in the emulsion or in the lens.
Lubbock, Texas UFO (1951)
The famous photographs from the “Lubbock lights” in Texas, 31 August 1951. Years later, ignoring all testimonies and evidences, skeptics stated that these objects were birds. This most ridiculous explanation was typical of how early UFO photos were often explained away. Carl Hart Jr. an 18-year-old student took this famous picture with his Kodak camera. There were at least 100 witnesses who saw the objects.
A new viral video making the rounds on the Internet purports to show what’s been dubbed a “mothership” and at least three separate smaller alien spacecraft filmed in the skies over London.
The most famous video (which was taken anonymously and is one of two or three versions in circulation) shows a large glowing white oval moving in and out from behind clouds over the course of about 20 seconds, and then zooming off, with three white dots also making an appearance.
So what are they? The pattern of movement does not resemble any known aircraft, and some are already proclaiming the sighting as proof of aliens. While not exactly the same as landing on the proverbial White House lawn (or above 10 Downing Street), some say an appearance over London is a pretty high-profile statement that aliens are here. [Read: Astronomers: We Will Find Extraterrestrial Life in 20 Years]
Others aren’t so sure. Some believe that the videos are merely a viral marketing tool to publicize the upcoming alien sci-fi film “Iron Sky.” One argument against that explanation is that the film is not slated to be released until April 2012, though studios often begin early promotion, and these amateur UFO videos would take little time or effort for special effects professionals.
In fact, the crudeness of the London UFOs may be a sign of fakery. The spacecraft in the video resemble those in an alleged UFO video taken over Jerusalem earlier this year, and which many experts (including myself and those at MUFON, the largest pro-UFO organization in the world) concluded were faked.
The mothership and its UFO siblings videotaped over London are among the absolute easiest images to fake: glowing ovals and dots. There’s no detail, no flying saucer windows or aliens waving hello from high above. Just white moving dots that anyone with some video-editing chops could create with little effort.
Another sign that this is a fake is the way the video begins. The cameraman is apparently randomly videotaping a mundane sidewalk, and then moves quickly to a street corner, where he takes careful note of the reactions from passerby before aiming the camera up into the sky to see what, exactly, it is that has so captivated their attention. He videotapes the skies for about a minute, then once again brings the camera down to show us a small crowd of people who are also staring into the sky and getting photos. [Read: Flying Saucers Turn 64! A Look Back at the Origin of UFOs]
This is highly suspicious behavior for someone who truly believes that there are alien spacecraft in the skies above that could reappear at any moment. If you spotted what you believed to be a UFO that could zip away at any moment, wouldn’t training your camera on the spaceship be the first thing you would do? Whoever created, edited, and posted the video clearly wanted to make sure that viewers knew that others had seen, and were reacting to, the lights.
Aliens may in fact be out there, but the evidence so far suggests that the London UFO video is another hoax………?
A missile-like UFO was spotted above Roswell, New Mexico on July 17, according to footage shown by television station Estudio XN.
A small bright ball of energy appears to launch from the ground, shooting into the sky at an incredible speed.
At first it leaves a glowing red trail, which turns bright yellow after just a few seconds. As it gains velocity, the trail becomes thicker and the orb expands into a translucent globe of light.
Shortly after the globe forms, the object separates from its trail and becomes kite-shaped.
After the object itself disappears, a large mass of bright yellow light is visible in the sky with a smoky trail of reddish-yellow marking the UFO’s trajectory.
Nazi UFOs, Roswell and Mengele’s alien children
Back in 1947, a group of mutant Russian children, horribly deformed by the death camp doctor Josef Mengele, crashed their reverse-engineered Nazi flying saucer into the desert near the town of Roswell in New Mexico. The idea was Joseph Stalin’s, and it came to him after reading reports of Orson Welles’s radio broadcast, in 1938, of the sci-fi story War of the Worlds which caused widespread panic in the US.
Stalin’s idea was to see if he could spook the Americans using a REAL flying saucer piloted by ‘aliens’. So his people got hold of an experimental disc-shaped aircraft that had been built by the Germans in the War. They also persuaded the captured Dr Mengele to carry on with his grotesque experiments – to create a cadre of odd-looking humans that would make the Americans believe they were under extra-terrestrial attack. And after realising that everyone did indeed believe it was aliens, the CIA was happy to go along with this story as it helped divert attention to what the Americans were REALLY up to.
Bonkers? Probably. This is the latest theory to ‘explain’ the ‘Roswell Incident’, the lynchpin of UFO lore. So it wasn’t aliens after all, says American Journalist Annie Jacobsen, who has written an entertaining (and otherwise plausible) history of Area 51, the secret military testing ground in Nevada just up the road from Roswell.
That’s the problem with conspiracy theories; like penicillin-resistant superbugs, they constantly mutate and evolve, resisting all sensible efforts to kill them off. I do not think space aliens landed in Roswell in 1947, but I think I am more prepared to believe they did than the Mengele-Nazi-Flying saucer story. It perhaps falls into the category of ‘so extraordinary it might just be true’ but somehow I doubt it.
It is now 64 years since the ‘invention’ of the UFO, and three weeks ago we celebrated World UFO Day to mark the anniversaries not only of the Roswell Incident but also the famous sighting of crescent-shaped craft skipping through the air ‘like a stone skimming on water’ by pilot Kenneth Arnold, who was flying over Mt Rainier near Seattle.
Since then interest in UFOs has waxed and waned. It reached a high point sometime in the late 1970s, when I remember a UFO-spotting appearing almost nightly on the TV news. Then it dropped off a bit, to be revived dramatically by the advent of the television series ‘The X Files’, a drama which millions seemingly have mistaken for a documentary. Interest seems to be growing again - a few weeks ago someone spotted a triad of mysterious lights over the BBC in London.
Why do so many people believe in UFOs, specifically that we are being visited by beings from another planet/dimension/time, when the evidence is so thin? It is an odd phenomenon, and needs explaining.
For what it is worth I think that although the Nazi-saucer idea is bonkers, Ms Jacobsen is certainly on to something when it comes to deliberate disinformation. It has long been a pet theory of mine that the UFO craze has been deliberately stoked by the security agencies in the US (and elsewhere) as a smokescreen to throw spies and the simply curious off the scent of secret military experiments being performed in Area 51 and elsewhere.
We know that some pretty amazing kit has developed over the years, from the SR-71 spyplane that could cruise at THREE times the speed of sound, to the high-altitude U-2, stealth bombers and fighters (some of which look very flying-saucer like) and a new breed of unmanned robot spyplanes and drone attack aircraft that are in action over the skies of Afghanistan.
The problem with testing top-secret aeroplanes, even if you have 5000 square miles of remote, top-secret desert in which to do so, is that inevitably someone will spot them. So what better than a cover-story – aliens! – to throw people off the scent. It is interesting that immediately after Roswell the authorities did little to dissuade people that it was indeed a flying saucer that had crashed; hardly the behaviour one would expect if the Grand Conspiracists are right. If Roswell was a cover-up, it must rank as the worst cover up in history. Google ‘Roswell’ and you get 41million hits – that’s more even than you get for ‘Princess Diana’. If this is supposed to be a secret, someone should tell the men in black. And sack them forthwith.
New Hampshire — the “Live Free or Die” state — has done something that may surprise UFO believers as well as skeptics. It has just erected a historical marker commemorating the 50th anniversary close encounter of Betty and Barney Hill.
The Hills’ story is undoubtedly the most famous of all UFO experiences because (as the official plaque reads) it was “the first widely-reported UFO abduction report in the United States.”
It was also the first time that anyone in this country had reported undergoing invasive physical examinations at the hands of short, “grey” aliens.
“To tell you the truth, we were very excited about the prospect,” said Elizabeth Muzzey, director of the N.H. Division of Historical Resources, which created the new historic plaque.
“We have more than 200 markers across the state and to have a 20th Century marker topic like this, we thought, was terrific and it’s certainly a great historical challenge,” Muzzey told The Huffington Post.
Historical challenge, indeed, considering the ongoing debate over whether or not the Hills — both deceased — actually were kidnapped onto an alien spacecraft 50 years ago.
Late at night on Sept. 19, 1961, they were driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, returning from a Canadian vacation to their home in Portsmouth when they spotted an object in the sky with lights, which at first seemed like an airplane. But when the “airplane” began to rapidly descend in their direction, they quickly continued driving south along Route 3.
Just south of the Indian Head resort, the Hills stopped in the middle of the road and said the silent, cigar-shaped craft hovered above their car. Through binoculars, Barney claimed to see several “strangely not human” figures at the object’s windows. Fearing they were about to be captured, Barney quickly drove away.
The next thing the Hills remembered was that they were 35 miles farther along on their journey and approximately two hours had passed which they couldn’t account for. This amnesia continued to bother them, leading to physical and mental disorders until finally, three years after the experience, time-regression hypnosis was used to extract the lost information. Under separate hypnotic sessions, the Hills produced details of a reported kidnapping by aliens on board a spacecraft.
Among the various odd things about this case that were verified: both the Hills’ watches mysteriously stopped running on the night of their experience; the tops of Barney’s shoes somehow got severely scraped; Betty’s dress had a 2-inch tear at the top of the zipper, was also torn from the waist to the hemline and the hem was torn down on one side; and they found shiny circles on the trunk of their car which caused the needle of a compass to spin rapidly when it was brought close to the trunk.
The Hills’ encounter became the subject of many books and a 1975 TV movie, The UFO Incident, starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons.
In 2008, Kathleen Marden, the Hills’ niece, became part of a campaign trying to get New Hampshire to create a historic landmark about her aunt and uncle’s experience. She contacted the department of cultural resources at the N.H. Division of Historical Resources in Concord.
“I was told that everything I submitted had to be backed up with a bibliography, and all of the text [for the marker] had to be footnoted,” Marden told The Huffington Post. “It was a very long process to compile everything and I sent them a lot of material. The state asked me to prove every statement that I made — I had to back up everything with source materials to indicate that I was being accurate.”
Marden, co-author of Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience with nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman, says she finally received a long-awaited response this spring from the N.H. Historical Resources office.
“I had given up hope, thinking that the funding wouldn’t be allocated or that the state of New Hampshire had decided not to do this, but they told me the funding had been granted for this plaque to be erected, and they wanted some information about where I thought I would like for it to be.”
It was decided to put the historic marker at the Indian Head resort because that location had been an important part of the Hills’ original 1961 experience.
The commemorative sign, displaying the official New Hampshire state seal, and titled “Betty and Barney Hill Incident,” was unveiled on July 20 and reads:
On the night of September 19-20, 1961, Portsmouth, N.H., couple Betty and Barney Hill experienced a close encounter with an unidentified flying object and two hours of “lost” time while driving south on Rte 3 near Lincoln. They filed an official Air Force Project Blue Book report of a brightly-lit cigar-shaped craft the next day, but were not public with their story until it was leaked in the Boston Traveler in 1965. This was the first widely-reported UFO abduction report in the United States.
At the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, Muzzey described how they decided on the exact text to use for the UFO marker.
“We thought about the 1950s and ’60s in our country when there was such widespread interest in things such as space travel and space exploration. And in all the years since, there have been a great number of people who have asked whether other forms of life may exist out there in the solar system and beyond,” she said.
“Certainly, the experience of the Hills falls right at the center of that cultural and scientific experience,” Muzzey added. “So that’s what we are presenting in the marker — that this was the first widely reported UFO abduction report in the U.S., and a ton have since followed.”
Whether one believes or doubts that the Hills were kidnapped by aliens, what stands out about them is that they were highly credible, reliable people. Betty was a social worker and Barney had been appointed by the governor of New Hampshire to serve on the state advisory committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. After campaigning for Lyndon Johnson’s successful 1964 presidential run, the Hills and Marden were invited to Johnson’s 1965 inauguration.
While the Hills’ historical highway marker is now up and available for all to see, a special 50th anniversary celebration of their UFO experience will take place at the Indian Head resort on Sept. 23-25.
