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The other day, I wrote about my own UFO sightings in Oregon, (also posted at UFO Digest) inspired by a recent survey of the top ten states for UFO sightings. Oregon did not make that list, though California and Washington did. Interesting how Oregon, sandwiched in between those two states, did not. I wonder what the reason is for that.
Yesterday, I came across this item from Open Minds about an Oregon UFO sighting from the 20th of this month: Witness Sees UFO Reminiscent of 1997 Phoenix Lights.
And last night, a dream about a crashed UFO in one of my "dreamscapes." I have several dreamscapes; they remain the same, with slight variations. I don't often have dreams of this particular one, but when I do, it seems they're always tinged with a mystical element of some sort. This dreamscape is of a valley surrounded by huge mountains covered in snow. So huge and right there, you could almost stretch out your arms and touch them. Where we are is flat, and not full of snow, but it is dry, and quiet, somehow. Out in the open.
So in this setting:
"I'm with some others, including Jim. We're on the third floor of a hotel looking out the window. These mountains are just so huge, looming above us. Very scenic, like a postcard. Pristine little village of a town, in the valley, surrounded by snow covered mountains. All of a sudden, next time I look out the window, I see an enormous rim of a flying saucer sticking up from the ground. It's across the street, behind the buildings. (The buildings are not tall, the tallest ones are only three or four stories.) The rim of the saucer, and part of the dome, are sticking up from the ground, and just... the size is amazing. As is the color; a golden color that shimmers. It's so close! Less than a half mile away. "It is too incredible to think there is a flying saucer there! And, it doesn't make any sense. I tell everyone to come and look; we all try to explain it away. "Oh, it must be a plane," but there is no plane anywhere on this earth that is close to that size. Or, color. "It's a fire, there must be a fire..." but that's ridiculous. There is no smell of fire, or sound, or flames moving. This is a stationary object. We have to accept it: it's a flying saucer all right. "This is confusing since no one heard anything crash, or saw anything in the sky, it wasn't' there, and then, a moment later, there it was! Some of us have the feeling it was always there and we just didn't notice. Some of us have a feeling it didn't crash, but was underground for a long time and something caused it to appear... whatever the reasons behind its appearance, the reality is that it's there. "As I'm looking out the window, I see a group of about with men striding purposefully across the street. Some are wearing lab coats -- all very official. In the middle of this group is Jacque Vallee. I say to everyone that this proves it -- if Jacque Vallee is here, then there is most definitely something very important happening. Here I have a lucid moment. I tell the people I'm with that this is odd; in "real" life, Jacque Vallee looks very different than the man who's the dream Jacque Vallee. Real life Vallee is tall, thin, has hair, doesn't wear glasses, and is good looking. Dream Vallee is short, bald, wears glasses, and, while not unattractive, not George Clooney either. The only thing the two Vallees have in common is that they seem to be about the same age.
There's more, concerning military and morphing character perspectives, but overall, that's it.
By Sherry Boardman
The Joiner Report
1-22-11
Nuclear physicist, lecturer, and author Stanton T. Friedman will be featured on this week's segment of The Joiner Report for an exclusive interview regarding his participation and experiences at the Fifth Annual Global Competitiveness Forum. More than 120 panelists and speakers from around the world and 800-1000 guests attended the three-day event.
Don't miss Friedman's first interview upon returning from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he participated as one of five noted panelists including Nick Pope and Jacques Vallee. His panel's topic was "Contact: Learning from Outer Space." This was the first year anyone from the ufology field was invited.
BOOKS BY STANTON T FRIEDMAN
Friedman has lectured at more than 600 colleges and 100 professional groups in 50 U.S. states, 9 Canadian provinces, and 16 other countries. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs including Coast to Coast and Larry King Live. The physicist has authored and co-authored numerous books and in 2002 was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award in Leeds, England, by UFO Magazine of the UK. His latest book, Science Was Wrong, co-authored with Kathleen Marden,, was released in July 2010. (For additional information on his accomplishments and book offerings, see www.stantonfriedman.com or www.facebook.com/pages/Stanton-Friedman.)
A dual citizen of U.S.-Canada, Friedman currently resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Tune in for this exclusive report Thursday, Jan. 27, 7:30-9 p.m. CT (8:30-10 p.m. ET), at http://inceptionradionetwork.com. Listeners are invited to join the virtual chat room to suggest questions during the live broadcast.
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It seems as though every time that I think I've heard just about every kind of UFO encounter story that exists, a new one pops up and shows me that (much to my chagrin) I don't know everything. The following case that we will be looking at is rather famous in the annals of Ufology and certainly one of the more unique cases that I've come across. I'm sure many of you will be shocked to learn that I first heard about this from a thread on AboveTopSecret entitled "The Dechmont Woods Encounter 1979". It tells a very fascinating tale of what happened to a forestry worker by the name of Robert Taylor from Scotland. The thread lead me to find some additional sources about Taylor's account. Here it is in a nutshell (source from UFO Evidence):
On the 9th of November 1979, at around 10.30 am, Robert Taylor, a forestry worker employed by the Livingstone Development Corporation parked his pick up off a track at the bottom of Dechmont Law, just off the busy M8 motorway. He walked up the lower slope of the forested hill with his dog, and as he emerged into a clearing an amazing sight greeted him.
Before him in the clearing was a large, circular, sphere like object about twenty feet across. It appeared to be made from a dark metallic material with a rough texture like sandpaper, parts of which were transparent. A narrow flange ran around the outside of the object.
As he approached, two spheres with protruding metal spikes in the manner of old navel mines dropped from the object. They were about three feet wide and made of the same dark metallic substance as the larger object.
The two spheres rolled towards him and flanked him, each rolling at the same time to his left and right foot. With his dog now barking furiously, the spikes attached to the Bob's trousers and pulled him towards the larger sphere. Bob heard a distinct hissing sound and smelled an acrid smell that caused him to choke
The next thing he knew he was coming round lying face down on the grass with his dog nearby. The strange objects had disappeared from the clearing, his legs were aching, his trousers were torn and he found he could not speak.
At this point Taylor struggled back to his vehicle in order to radio for help. Unfortunately he still could not speak and so made the decision to walk back to his home. We'll pick the story up from About.com:
Arriving at this house, his wife was stunned to see his condition. He was covered with mud, and his pants were torn. He began to tell her the story of his experience. His wife wanted to call the police, but Taylor was against it, considering the subject of the matter. He did allow her to call his job supervisor, and the head of the forestry department, Malcom Drummond. He took a bath while she made the calls.
Drummond called a physician, and drove straight to Taylor's house. He was so anxious to find out what happened that he questioned him while he was still in the bathtub. Taylor and Drummond agreed that there must be some kind of physical evidence left on the ground by either the craft or the small spheres, and Drummond headed to the area to check it out, but he was unable to find the exact location.
Dr. Gordon Adams arrived and began to check out Taylor's condition. He found a grazed area on Taylor's left leg, and another graze under his chin. There were no apparent head injuries. At this time, anyway, Taylor's body temperature, blood pressure, and other body functions seemed normal.
Adams called in for an ambulance to transport Taylor to the hospital for a head X-ray and an interview with a counselor. Taylor refused to make the hospital visit until later.
Eventually Taylor would give in and allow the police to become involved in the case. To their credit, it would seem the police handled the whole thing quite respectably. Possible because they had never dealt with any thing like this in the past, but who's to say? The police were able to find physical evidence that something had actually landed, what that something was is (shockingly) up for debate.
Whatever Taylor may or may not have seen it would seem that everyone who knew him knew that he was a man of his word and was not prone to making up these kinds of stories. Probably not surprisingly a mundane explanation has been offered for what Taylor had encountered. Would you like to take a guess as to which astronomical body makes an appearance in the explanation? If you guessed Venus then you guessed correctly, Here from the UFO Evidence post is the explanation in full:
The main explanation given by Steuart Campbell, is that Bob witnessed a mirage of Venus, which brought on an epileptic fit and caused him to hallucinate the whole encounter. Although possible, Bob had never experienced epilepsy before or after the event, although some of his symptoms after the encounter are similar to those experienced by those with epilepsy.
Personally I'm not sure what it was that Taylor saw that November morning back in 79. I can say that I don't think the Venus explanation really fits the bill in being an adequate explanation. The last thing I will leave you with is this mini-documentary on the event in question. Featured prominently is the witness himself. I don't know what it is exactly but I enjoy hearing the witnesses themselves give descriptions of the events that transpired. I guess it's because it reminds me that at the heart of these events is a human element that can often times be overlooked. Whether something genuinely fortean or otherworldly occurred to Taylor that day it's unlikely that his like stayed the same after it was all said and done.
Additional sources:
Dechmont Woods Encounter
Unexplained-Mysteries Thread
From earthbound optical telescopes, the surface of Venus is shrouded beneath thick clouds made mostly of carbon dioxide. To penetrate this veil, probes like NASA's Magellan spacecraft use radar to reveal remarkable features of this planet, like mountains, craters, and volcanoes.
Recently, by combining the highly sensitive receiving capabilities of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the powerful radar transmitter at the NSF's Arecibo Observatory, astronomers were able to make remarkably detailed images of the surface of this planet without ever leaving Earth.
The radar signals from Arecibo passed through both our planet's atmosphere and the atmosphere of Venus, where they hit the surface and bounced back to be received by the GBT in a process known as bistatic radar.
Reference: space-wanderers.blogspot.com
Date: December 9, 2012
Time: Approx: 6:00 p.m.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Triangular.
"FULL DESCRIPTION OF EVENT/SIGHTING:" I was coming home from college of December 09, 2012. It was a cold, but still silent night when I realized earlier on that I had forgot my wallet and only had enough money for the journey there and a sandwich and I knew I'd be walking home.
As I began to set off from college near the river side stadium Middlesbrough, I looked up above the stadium to see a huge triangular shaped black craft moving silently in the silent night.
There was no noise, it hovered and then left heading east towards Europe. It had three orange/red lights in each corner.
I tried to take a picture, but all I got was black. I believe it's a government vessel, most likely created in the USA. Maybe even after recovered technology from the Germans in WW2.
If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.
Also, please feel free to send in your sightings that have happened years ago. So many of these older sightings are nothing short of amazing.
The Vike Factor (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/
The Vike Factor 2 (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal-2.blogspot.ca/
By Jose A. Martinez
1-19-08
We are continuing our report on the sightings of strange lights over the town of Guanica which have been taking place since last Friday. The sightings are ongoing. The day after having reported on the huge, classical saucer-shaped UFO, more detailed information was received from another district near the previous one (Vivones).This time the report came from Puig, near the town of Guanica. Behind this district we find the notorious Lajas Valley. Several witnesses reported seeing a strange light, bright orange in color, appear out of nowhere at low altitude close to them. This luminous phenomenon did not make any noise or perceptible sounds. This incident took place at an early time -- 8:10 p.m. -- and the objects maneuvers were a zig-zag in the same location very low altitude before taking off toward Lajas at an incredible speed. Jose Hernandez is not a believer in UFOs and says that he had never seen one in his life until that evening, and cannot explain what he saw with his own eyes. His brother in law added that he nad never seen anything like it either, and that he was impressed to see this object such a short distance away from them.
Two Police Officers from Guanica Report UFO on Guanica Back Road Toward Lajas
Two municipal policemen on their day off were spending time with their families at La Parguera, Lajas. (The officers' names will not be disclosed at their request). When both families departed the La Parguera district, they made ready to return to Guanica using a back road known as Los Hornos, a lonely road that runs from Ensenada de Guanica to Parguera -- deserted and without electric lighting except for some intersections and the odd house.
Taking advantage of the darkness, one of the officer pulled over to urinate. When this physiological imperative was nearly over, he noticed that there was on object nearby -- hovering at low altitude and perfectly dark. Frightened, he ran back to his car. The object suddenly turned on its lights and followed them all the way back to Ensenada de Guanica. The object stopped following them once they reached the area that has good public lighting.
* Source: Argus PR
* (Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Jose A. Martinez)
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Hi allI carry been permanent my plane about "contactees." I was amazed to residue certain about them in each the New Zealand and Australian government UFO files.George Adamski was a high line American contactee in the 1950's and 1960's (click at hand to door about the George Adamski Instruction. )One of the completely released New Zealand Defence Oblige UFO files, AIR 39/3/3 Mass 1-Parts 1 and 2 had a document on it about Adamski from 1955. It is fine "75 Questions and Answers asked Geo Adamski by the New Zealand "Adamski Flying Saucer Merrymaking" in Timaru. (Click at hand to door the files.)Adamski toured New Zealand in 1959 and the American task force existing, sent a "Astonishing Purpose Cheeky" to the US FBI about Adamski's goings-on in that native land. (Source: Redfern, Achieve. 2010. "Contactees." The Dash Ram. Franklin Lakes. NJ. p41.)Adamski as well toured Australia in 1959 (click at hand to door an alarm by Bill Chalker on this tour.)In the Fellow citizen Archives of Australia (NAA), I found a file belonging to the Australian Oath Way of thinking Order (ASIO), file series A6122, control symbol 2155, about the Queensland Flying Saucer Inquiry Bureau which mentioned an Australian contactee, Sonjia Ljubicin.According to the ASIO file, Ljubicin was an Australian national, previous from Yugoslavia. The file states that she "...was carried away to the scope that she whispered she had travelled in space craft to other planets." Ljubicin left Australia on 21 July 1959 "...to conclude George Adamski..." in the USA.A put on of other NAA files found precise titles about Ljubicin, among them files series BP25/1 Ljubicin, S. Surprising registration papers. Yugoslavian, during Newcastle, on the Amarapoora on 23 April 1950. Above and beyond existing was file series A12155 control symbol 528. Dept of Immigration. Ljubicin, S. Innate 15 August 1926.Regardless of this is certain conglomerate in addition to possessions way brace in the 1950's I still residue it of appeal to see what Australian and New Zealand Defence/intelligence files had on them, about the UFO phenomenon.
