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UFO Theories
Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) is the belief that UFOs are vehicles from other planets that contain intelligent life for the purpose of visiting earth.
This being the most popular view among the public has been losing ground among those that have given Ufology serious study and thought over a long period of time. This is the perception that Hollywood has romanticized and advanced to the public but is probably the least likely. The chances of intelligent life climbing into to some type of space vehicle and visiting earth are pretty slim. Back in the 1930's this was the main theory put forward, since then physics and science have advanced to the point of making this theory almost irrelevant. It now seems that this is far too a simple explanation and in fact does not explain all the strange things reported by witnesses. The universe is not really as complex as one might think but it is full of things and knowledge that man has yet to comprehend or experience so the simple Hollywood explanation is probably far from realisti
Conspiracy Theory A UFO conspiracy theory is any one of many often overlapping conspiracy theories which argue that evidence of the reality of UFOs is being suppressed by various governments around the world. The prevailing thought is that earth governments, especially the United States and to a lesser extent Russia are in communication & cooperation with ETs and even allowing for a certain number and type of alien abductions.
Ancient Alien Theory
This theory is gaining in popularity and it proposes that extraterrestrial beings have been visiting earth since the advent of man. It puts forward that early man was in direct contact with these entities even benefiting from alien technology to build various pyramids and structures around the world. There is some strong evidence that man was much more advanced than originally thought or did have technological support from unknown resources. Proponents suggest that this contact influenced the development of human beings and that man's DNA may have an alien variant. Due to mans lack of sophistication, knowledge and technology these aliens were misidentified as religious deities or Gods and their technology were evidence of their divine status. Early writings and scriptures,such as, Vedas Scriptures, various San-script writings (from India, China, Pakistan) and even the Bible seem to confirm this hypothesis.
Year: 2012
Country: United States
Long haul trucker Scott Murray was in Michigan, when he received a panicked call from his wife at home. His wife was in a terrible state, believing that she may have been drugged and raped. After immediately driving home, Murray took his wife to the ER, where they found no signs of a rape. There was a strange burn found on her right shoulder but little else, so Murray brought his wife home under the assumption that she’d had a bad dream.
The next day, Murray went out into the garden, and discovered four bizarre burn marks in the grass, in a circular formation. After looking above, he also noticed that a nearby tree had leaves 20 feet up that were burnt black.
In the ensuing week, Murray took his wife for hypnotic regression therapy, whereupon she recalled being taken into a spaceship in which they performed increasingly intrusive acts on her. She became increasingly paranoid and terrified, and one day Murray came home to find that his wife had ended her own life.
Desperate for answers, Murray sent samples of the burnt grass to a local college, who told him that they were radiation burns. However, the college suddenly changed their mind and claimed that they weren’t radiation burns, almost as if, in Murray’s words, “they were told to say that”.
Year: 1988
Country: Australia
Peter Khoury moved to Australia in 1973, where he met his wife Vivian. In February 1988, the couple had a sighting of some strange moving lights in the sky. However, it wasn’t until July of that year when Peter underwent a truly horrific experience.
While lying in bed, Peter felt something grab his ankle. Although was quickly numb and paralysed, Peter remained conscious and saw four hooded figures next to the bed. They telepathically communicated with him, telling him to relax because “it would be like last time.” Shortly after seeing them bring a long needle to the side of his head, he passed out.
After waking up, Peter found himself still in bed, and ran to the living room. Both his brother and father were dozing, unaware of anything wrong. Although they thought they’d only been asleep for about 10 minutes, they quickly realised that over an hour had passed. A puncture mark was present on the side of Peter’s head, and he couldn’t recall what had happened after seeing the figures.
In 1992, Peter had another encounter, far more troubling than before and disturbingly sexual. Because of the sexual aspects of his story, Peter was reluctant to go into details of his encounter until he met Bill Chalker, a leading Australian researcher in 1996.
After falling asleep on his bed, Peter woke up to find two naked, humanoid females sat there. Although they looked like human in almost every way, Peter noted that their eyes were about twice as large as normal, and their faces were very long. The blonde female grabbed the back of Peter’s head, and pulled his face into her naked chest.
Be warned, this story gets weird from here, and if you’re currently eating, you might want to save the rest of this entry until later.
Finished? Good, let’s continue. The blonde female was very strong, and Peter attempted to struggle out of her grip. Then, something pretty disgusting happened. Recounting the event, Peter stated that, “she pulled me over and my mouth was basically on her nipple. And I bit.” He felt a small piece of the nipple come away into his mouth, but the blonde didn’t scream or have any indication of being in pain. Peter accidentally ingested the nipple fragment and fell into a coughing fit. After recovering, he realised that the two women had vanished.
After managing to swallow the piece of nipple, he also realised that his genitals were in severe pain, and he found that two thin strands of blond hair were wrapped tightly around his penis. He was able to unwind the hair and place it in a sealed bag.
The hairs were eventually sent off to scientists from the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group, who discovered that the hair appeared to be human. However, it featured five different DNA markers that typically only belong to members of a Mongolian racial type. Further studies discovered that only four living women had the five markers, and they were all Chinese with black hair.
Conclusive answers for the strange event were never found, and members of the Physical Evidence Group are still hunting for clues that may lead them to the identity of the myserious women.
Year: 1979
Country: Scotland
The Dechmont Woods Encounter refers to an event in which a Scottish forester named Robert Taylor reported an alien abduction. To this day, it is the only UFO encounter that has resulted in a criminal investigation in the UK.
After entering a clearing half a kilometre away from his truck, Taylor witnessed a spherical object about six metres in diameter hovering in the air. Taylor later claimed that it appeared as if the object were trying to camoflage against its surroundings. After Taylor approached the object for a closer look, two smaller spheres dropped from the large sphere and rolled towards him. The spheres had small appendages, which attached themselves to Taylor’s trousers. After choking due to a strange, acrid smell, he fell unconscious while being dragged towards the large sphere.
Upon regaining consciousness, Taylor saw that the spheres had disappeared, and he slowly made his way back to the truck. Taylor attempted to call for help on the truck’s radio, but found himself unable to speak properly and attempted to drive home. After accidentally crashing the truck into a ditch, he walked the rest of the way home.
The ensuing police investigation was neverable to come up with a solid conclusion, although most believe that Taylor was telling the truth as he saw it. The popular explanation is that Taylor experienced an epileptic fit, hallucinating the event. Taylor has claimed to never had such a fit, before or since, and believed the encounter to be real until his death in 2007.
Year: 1969
Country: United States
Two teen employees at the Buff Ledge summer camp, named in reports as “Janet” and “Michael”, were sat on the camp’s boating dock late one afternoon. The area around them was mostly empty, and as the sun began to set, a dazzling bright light appeared in the sky.
As Janet and Michael watched the light, it began to draw closer. Three smaller lights emerged from the main light, and erratically danced in the sky over the lake. Suddenly, one of the smaller lights quickly dove towards the lake, below its surface.
After a few minutes, the light resurfaced and flew towards the two teenagers. Revealing itself as some sort of craft, it began shining a bright beam of light towards them. Screaming “we don’t want to go,” Michael wrapped himself around Janet, and felt a strange floating sensation.
A moment later, the two teenagers were sat on the dock, watching the light vanish into the distance. They didn’t discuss what happened, and Michael later found out that Janet didn’t remember anything beyond the bizarre lights.
Following a decade of haunted dreams and obsessing over similar stories online, Michael sought regressive hypnosis. He recounted being taken aboard a mother ship, and having body samples taken by creatures with no ears, large eyes and hands with just three webbed fingers. The aliens told Michael that they were visiting Earth to “make life like ours… other places”.
After the hypnosis sessions, Michael was able to make contact with Janet again, and encouraged her to also try the therapy. Creepily, she recalled an almost identical story, even though she had was totally unaware of what Michael had described.
On the afternoon of June 24, 1947, amateur aviator Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mt. Rainier, Washington, when he suddenly spotted nine unusual objects on the horizon. Arnold claimed the craft flitted from side to side and flipped in unison like “the tail of a Chinese kite,” and he estimated they were moving at around 1,700 miles per hour—far faster than any known aircraft. He initially assumed the physics-defying objects must be secret military vehicles, but he later admitted the incident was “as much a mystery to me as it is to everybody else.”
Arnold’s extraordinary story soon found its way into newspapers across the country, and reporters pounced on his description of the objects as moving “like a saucer if you skip it across water.” Within days, the term “flying saucer” was born.
Coupled with the famed July 1947 incident at Roswell, New Mexico, when the Air Force claimed a military weather balloon was mistaken for an alien spacecraft, Arnold’s encounter helped spark a wave of “flying saucer” sightings across the United States. The military brushed aside most of these “close encounters” as misidentifications or mere hokum, but a few reports came from air-traffic controllers and commercial pilots—people trained to search the skies with a discerning eye. The hysteria also dovetailed with the beginning of the Cold War, leading many to speculate that the mysterious sightings might be hostile Soviet aircraft.
Thus began official government investigations into the mysterious phenomena.
First forays: Project Sign
Following an official Air Force inquiry, Lt. General Nathan Twining fired off a memo in late-1947 describing the “flying disc” phenomenon as “something real and not visionary or fictitious.” He suggested the military launch an investigation into the source of the sightings.
By 1948, the Air Force had initiated “Project Sign,” the first of three military offices tasked with collecting and analyzing reports of what were termed “Unidentified Flying Objects.” Project Sign’s investigators quickly concluded that UFOs weren’t coming from behind the Iron Curtain—their flight characteristics simply didn’t match those of any manmade aircraft—but some on the team may have embraced the idea that UFOs were not of this world.
According to Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt and others who studied UFOs for the government, Project Sign produced a report in the summer of 1948 speculating that the sightings might be evidence of “interplanetary” or extraterrestrial craft. Air Force brass supposedly rejected and destroyed the document on the grounds that there was no hard evidence for its conclusions. To this day, no copies of the report have ever been recovered.
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Whatever occurred at 2:45 a.m. on the morning of July 24, 1948 in the skies over southwest Alabama not only shocked and stymied the witnesses. It jolted the U.S. government into a top-secret investigation—the results of which were ultimately destroyed.
The skies were mostly clear and the moon was bright in the pre-dawn hours as pilot Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted flew their Eastern Air Lines DC-3, a twin-engine propeller plane, at 5,000 feet, en route from Houston to Atlanta. The aircraft had 20 passengers on board, 19 of them asleep at that hour. It was a routine domestic flight, one of many in the skies that early morning.
Until suddenly, it wasn’t. What the two pilots and their wide-awake passenger saw in the skies about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, did more than startle them. It would reportedly become the catalyst for a highly classified Air Force document suggesting that some unidentified flying objects were spaceships from other worlds—a tipping point in UFO history.
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Chiles described what he saw in an official statement about a week later: “It was clear there were no wings present, that it was powered by some jet or other type of power, shooting flame from the rear some 50 feet. There were two rows of windows, which indicated an upper and lower deck, [and] from inside these windows a very bright light was glowing. Underneath the ship there was a blue glow of light.” He estimated that he’d watched the ship for about 10 seconds before it disappeared into some light clouds and was lost from view.
Whitted offered a similar description in his official statement: “The object was cigar shaped and seemed to be about a hundred feet in length. The fuselage appeared to be about three times the circumference of a B-29 fuselage. It had two rows of windows, an upper and a lower. The windows were very large and seemed square. They were white with light which seemed to be caused by some type of combustion…. I asked Capt. Chiles what we had just seen and he said that he didn’t know.”
The passenger who was awake at the time, Clarence L. McKelvie of Columbus, Ohio, corroborated the pilots’ account that an unusually bright object had streaked past his window, but he wasn’t able to describe it beyond that.
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Both pilots also made drawings of the craft they believed they had seen and provided further details in newspaper and radio interviews, some just hours after the sighting. The Atlanta Constitution headlined its July 25 account, “Atlanta Pilots Report Wingless Sky Monster.” In that article, Chiles described what sounded like an uncomfortably close encounter, as the object appeared to be coming at them. “We veered to the left and it veered to its left, and passed us about 700 feet to our right and about 700 feet above us. Then, as if the pilot had seen us and wanted to avoid us, it pulled up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear and zoomed up into the clouds.”
Chiles and Whitted weren’t the only ones baffled by what they’d seen.
Asked for comment, William M. Allen, the president of Boeing Aircraft told the United Press he was “pretty sure” it was “not one of our planes,” adding that he knew of nothing being built in the U.S. that matched the description. General George C. Kenney, the chief of the Strategic Air Command, which was responsible for most of America’s nuclear strike forces during the Cold War, told the Associated Press: “The Army hasn’t anything like that. I wish we did.”
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Whatever Chiles and Whitted witnessed, theirs was far from an isolated incident. There had been scores of reported UFO sightings in the years just previous. But Air Force investigators took this one more seriously than most. For one thing, both men were highly regarded pilots who had served as Air Force officers during World War II. (McKelvie was also a solid citizen and an Air Force veteran, as well.) For another, the pilots had gotten what seemed to be an unusually close look at the strange object they described.
For all of those reasons, the Chiles-Whitted encounter, as it came to be known, reportedly caused the Air Technical Intelligence Center to draft a top-secret document with the deceptively bland title “Estimate of the Situation.”Edward J. Ruppelt, an Air Force officer and the first head of its famous Project Blue Bookstudy of UFO phenomena, claimed to have seen a copy. “The 'situation' was the UFOs,” he wrote, “the 'estimate' was that they were interplanetary!”
According to Ruppelt, the report traveled up the Air Force chain of command all the way to General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the chief of staff. “The general wouldn’t buy interplanetary vehicles,” Ruppelt wrote. “A group from ATIC went to the Pentagon to bolster their position but had no luck, the Chief of Staff couldn’t be convinced.”
Ruppelt continued, “The estimate died a quick death. Some months later it was completely declassified and relegated to the incinerator.”
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One reason for Vandenberg’s skepticism, apparently, was that another faction within the Air Force had a competing theory: UFOs weren’t interplanetary at all, but the handiwork of America’s Cold War nemesis, the Soviet Union. In another top-secret report dated December 1948, the Air Force suggested a variety of reasons the Soviets might be behind such a scheme, including photographic reconnaissance, testing U.S. air defenses and undermining U.S. and European ally confidence in the atom bomb as the ultimate weapon. The Soviets wouldn’t have their own atom bomb until late August 1949.
Adding to the mystery: The sighting occurred outside Montgomery, downstate from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville where a collection of rocket scientists—many former Nazis quietly spirited to the U.S. to help win the Cold War space race—were working on top-secret rocketry experiments under the guidance of brilliant and visionary rocket designer Wernher van Braun. Could the sighting have somehow been related to their experiments?
The suppression of the “Estimate of the Situation” and the rejection of any extraterrestrial explanation was the start of “a long period of unfortunate, amateurish public relations” on the part of the Air Force, astronomer J. Allen Hynek claimed in his 1972 book, The UFO Experience. Hynek, who had worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory tracking space satellites and later became a professor at Northwestern University, was the official astronomical consultant to Project Blue Book as well as the man who developed the UFO-sighting classification system that originated the phrase “Close Encounters of Third Kind.”
“The insistence on official secrecy and frequent ‘classification’ of documents was hardly needed since the Pentagon had declared that the problem really didn’t exist,” Hynek wrote.
The details are both grisly and strangely surgical: corpses found under the open sky with their eyes plucked out, tongues removed and private parts excised—all extracted with the utmost precision and leaving not a drop of blood.
Reports of such unexplained mutilations, carried out on both humans and animals, have baffled investigators for decades, leading to speculation about whether the perpetrators might be otherworldly beings conducting biological experiments on earth’s inhabitants. While scores of reports have emerged from U.S. western and midwestern states detailing mysterious bloodless animal mutilations, human cases have been far less common—and often much sketchier in their documentation.
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The enigmatic ‘Project Grudge Report No. 13’
One of the most shocking cases, the Lovette-Cunningham incident, involves an American Air Force sargeant allegedly abducted by a saucer-like aircraft, after which his cleanly mutilated body was found in the New Mexico desert. In ufology circles, reports have circulated that the case was studied by Project Grudge, one of the earliest U.S. Air Force programs tasked with investigating sightings of unidentified flying objects in the years after World War II. (Project Grudge was a short-lived precursor to the better known Project Blue Book, which ran from 1951 to 1969, many documents from which are now declassified.) The result of the Air Force investigation into the purported abduction was allegedly a 600-page document labeled “Project Grudge Report 13.”
Problem is, no official information on Report 13 exists and the U.S. government denies its very existence, so its details are known only from second-hand sources who claim to have seen and analyzed the document. One account came from controversial conspiracy theorist William Cooper (1943–2001), who asserts he was tasked with analyzing an annotated version of Grudge Report 13 in the early 1970s. The other came from William English, a former Green Beret captain who says he too was asked to analyze the document, while assigned to a U.S. security service at a former Royal Air Force base in Chicksands, England.
English dictated two audio cassettes outlining what he remembered from Report 13, and according to Military Encounters With Extraterrestrials: The Real War of the Worlds by author Frank Joseph, English also participated in a 1991 Colorado radio broadcast where he discussed his findings. Cooper’s and English’s stories echo one another closely.
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A terrifying abduction, a curious autopsy
n undated photograph outside the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, around where the incident occurred.
San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive/Flickr Creative Commons
Both recount an alleged incident of March 1956 involving Air Force sergeant Jonathan P. Lovette, who was assisting Major William Cunningham in the White Sands missile testing grounds near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. While searching for scattered debris from a recent rocket test, Cunningham was shocked when he heard a loud scream. Thinking Lovette had perhaps been bitten by a snake, English recountsCunningham crossed the dune to aid his partner when he purportedly witnessed one of the more bizarre human-extraterrestrial encounters.
Instead of finding Lovette nursing a snake bite, Cunningham, according to English, recounted seeing the soldier being dragged by a long serpentine arm, wrapped around his legs, connected to a silver disk hovering in the air 15 to 20 feet away. Cunningham watched, frozen in horror, as Lovette was pulled inside the craft, which then rose vertically into the sky. The major then stumbled toward his jeep and radioed for assistance.
Security teams arrived and the disturbed Cunningham was confined to the base hospital for observation and treatment after retelling what he believed he witnessed. According to Joseph’s Military Encounters book, base personnel did confirm an unidentified radar contact near Holloman at the time Lovette vanished. The base dispatched search parties into the desert, but it would be three days before Lovette’s nude corpse was discovered—some 10 miles from the site of the alleged abduction. From all indications the body had been exposed to the elements for 24 to 48 hours. According to English, the report offered no explanation of what might account for the missing third day, and the autopsy performed on Lovette raised more questions than delivered answers.
First question was: Why had Lovette’s corpse been so severely mutilated? His tongue had been cut from the lower portion of the jaw, his eyes gouged out and his anus removed. In the Air Force medical examination report pertaining to the incident, English alleges that the coroner remarked on the apparent surgical skill used to remove the organs—in particular that the anus and genitalia had been neatly extracted like a plug. Perhaps most puzzling was the fact that the body had been completely drained of blood, but surprisingly, there was no vascular collapse usually associated with death by bleeding.
Though Grudge Reports 1 through 12 have been declassified, along with Report 14, no official mention or accounting of Report 13 exists. The Lovette/Cunningham case remains unsubstantiated and no follow-up reports regarding the incident—if it in fact did happen—are available.
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While easily disregarded as fiction, the alleged 1956 New Mexico incident offers intriguing parallels to other reported mutilations both past and present. In 1988, a body was allegedly found at the Guarapiranga Reservoir in Brazil. According to reports, the victim had been dead for 48 to 72 hours, but there was no sign of decomposition. The eyes, ears, tongue and genitalia had been removed, as had the digestive organs. Officials were never able to identify the victim.
Widespread reports of livestock mutilation also contain similar details. Since the early 1970s, incidents of mutilated cattle, sheep, horses, rabbits, deer, bison and elk have been recorded, with the bloodless corpses often lacking jaw flesh, eyes, ears, tongue, lymph nodes and genitalia. In 2009, The Denver Post reported four calves were found mutilated in similar ways. NPR reported on a 2019 incident in Colorado in which five young purebred bulls mysteriously showed up dead, drained of blood and with body parts cleanly excised.
“A lot of people lean toward the aliens,” Harney County Sherriff’s Deputy Dan Jenkins told NPR. “One caller told us to look for basically a depression under the carcass. ‘Cause he said that the alien ships will kinda beam the cow up and do whatever they are going to do with it. Then they just drop from a great height.”
So numerous did reports of cattle mutilation become in western and midwestern states in the 1970s that the FBI was asked to step in and investigate. But according to now declassified documents, they were unable to properly perform the task due to jurisdictional issues.
No official answer has ever been given to these strange and unsettling incidents, and they remain unsolved.
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Year: 1957
Country: Brazil
Antônio Vilas-Boas, a 23-year-old Brazilian farmer, was working late at night, in an attempt to avoid the heat of the day. While ploughing fields, he noticed a bright “red star” in the sky. The star began to grow larger, until it was clear that it was flying towards his position.
Once it was close, Boas realised that it was some sort of egg-shaped craft, with a rotating dome on top. The craft landed in the field he was working in, and Boas moved to escape. He initially attempted to drive away in his tractor, but it died after only a short distance. Running on foot, Boas was grabbed by a short humanoid creature wearing a helmet and coveralls that seemed to bark instead of speak.
Three other beings with coveralls and small, blue eyes dragged Boas into the landed craft. Inside the ship, Boas was stripped naked and covered in an alien gel. Shortly afterwards, he was led through a doorway laden with red symbols that he was later able to reproduce for investigators.
After having blood samples taken, Boas was joined by another humanoid creature, though he claimed that this one was naked, clearly female, and highly attractive. The two engaged in sexual intercourse, and Boas stated that rather than kiss him, she had a tendency to lightly bite his chin. After the encounter, the female creature smiled, rubbed her belly, and pointed upwards, which Boas took to meaning that she’d raise their child in space.
Following this, Boas was given a tour of the craft, but was escorted off after he was caught attempting to take an alien device as proof of the encounter. Boas later became a successful lawyer, and swore that the abduction was true for his entire life.
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Year: 1975
Country: United States
When it comes to alien abduction stories and UFO sightings, the identity of the person telling the tale is hugely important when it comes to identifying the tale’s validity. Therefore, it was a particularly exceptional case when an Air Force Sergeant named Charles L. Moody publically claimed to have been inside an alien craft.
While observing a meteor shower in Alamogordo desert, New Mexico, Moody saw a circular metal craft floating to the ground only a few hundred metres away. While descending, the craft suddenly began to move towards him. Moody ran to his car, but the vehicle would not start. The UFO was now only around 70 feet away, and Moody could see a human shaped form observing him from a window. After hearing a high-pitched sound, Moody felt numb, then saw the craft fly away.
Shaken by the incident, Moody arrived home after a long drive, but was shocked when he saw that the time was 3AM. He worked out that he could not account for around an hour and a half. In the days following the encounter, Moody began to experience lower back pains, and a rash broke out across his entire body.
Moody tried a form of self-hypnosis in order to remember what had happened during those 90 minutes. After a few weeks, he remembered that two tall beings had approached him while he was numb. Although Moody attempted to fight them off, he fell unconscious.
Moody woke up on a table inside the craft, totally paralysed, and a shorter alien telepathically communicated with him, asking if he would cooperate. Moody agreed, and the paralysis ended. After a short tour of the ship, Moody was told that there was a large mother ship above Earth, and that the beings would return to Earth again in two decades time.
In response to Moody’s claims, Charles McQuiston subjected him to his invention, the Psychological Stress Evaluation. Supposedly able to prove whether or not someone is lying, McQuiston concluded that Moody was being totally truthful about his encounter.
Year: 1989
Country: United States
In one of the most famous UFO abduction cases ever, Linda Napolitano claimed to have been abducted from her New York apartment, late in 1989. The case is particularly remarkable thanks to the multiple eye witnesses that were also present during the incident.
The event took place on the 30th November, at about 3AM. Linda herself had almost no recollection of what had happened immediately afterwards, and the details were slowly pieced together by a combination of regressive hypnosis and her memory gradually returning.
It soon emerged that she had been taken by three alien “Grays”, who levitated Napolitano out her apartment window, and into a large, floating ship. The story was backed up by two bodyguards of the senior United Nations statesman Javier Perez de Cuellar, who they claim also witnessed the abduction.
Several other witnesses also came forwards to confirm that they saw the event, event including Jent Kimball, who had a assumed it was a movie scene being filmed. Unfortunately, neither Napolitano or UFO researcher Budd Hopkins, who was heavily involved in the case, could convince statesman Cuellar to officially go public with the story.
Reuters, November 28, 2002
The British government will publish files on reported UFO sightings as part of a shake-up of its laws on freedom of information. Among the documents to be published is the "Rendlesham File," which deals with one of the country's best known sightings of an unidentified flying object. R
The Times (London), 20 November 2002
The so-called Rendlesham File, now available for public inspection, is a fat catalogue of increasingly despairing correspondence between the Ministry of Defence and members of the public after the sighting of unexplained lights in Rendlesham Forest, near the RAF base at Woodbridge, Suffolk, in December 1980. R
Ananova News, 2nd January 2002
Official papers have revealed the Ministry of Defence set up a secret flying saucer working party in the 1950s. The papers show the group involved experts from the Directorate of Scientific Intelligence and the Joint Technical Intelligence Committee. R
Interview with Nick Pope, by Michael Lindemann
From 1991 until 1994, Nick Pope worked the "UFO desk" at Air Secretariat 2-A, British Ministry of Defense. His job was to assess UFO reports for any possible defense significance. What he learned gradually convinced him that at least some UFOs were most certainly technological objects of unknown origin, potentially of great significance to the defense of Great Britain. R
ABC News, Nov. 20, 2001
ABCNEWS’ Chris Wallace interviews Nick Pope, an official with the British Ministry of Defense, known as “the real Fox Mulder” from The X-Files, for his investigations into the UFO phenomenon in the latest edition of ABCNEWS.com’s Internet Exposé UFO2000: The Search Continues. R
Nick Pope
Nick Pope details the British Government’s policy and knowledge in relation to UFOs, and examines the evidence for a cover-up.
Nick Pope
Nick Pope details the British Government’s policy and knowledge in relation to UFOs, and examines the evidence for a cover-up.
Keith Basterfield, Oct 1997
A collection of abduction and possible abduction cases from Australia and New Zealand.
Compiled by Keith Basterfield
This catalogue brings together many of the (Australian) cases where traces have been placed in a UFO context-even if a UFO was not reported in association with the event.
Keith Basterfield, Australian Ufologist, 1998
This document integrates several previous works, and has been updated with cases reported as at 1st October 1997. It utilises the classification system outlined in 1976 by US researcher, David Webb, in ã1973-Year of the Humanoids.ä Webb currently maintains a computer listing of humanoid cases called HUMCAT.
Keith Basterfield
A particularly perplexing aspect of the UFO phenomenon is the sub-group of reports concerning effects on motor vehicles. This catalogue is intended to gather together, in summary form, those Australian cases which appear to fall in to the sub-group of interest. The search for cases involved the files of most Australian UFO research groups, books, Journals and magazine articles. However, where ever possible original investigation notes have been located and used.
Bill Chalker
The legends and lore of the indigenous aborigines also provides material suggestive of interactions with anomalous aerial phenomena. Of course, in speculation about such data, it should be realised that the accounts are of historical and anthropological nature and therefore care should be taken not to interpolate too much into them.
Compiled by Keith Basterfield
This catalogue collects, in one place, summaries of reported observations of UFOs, by aircraft crews, or passengers within or from Australia. It has been prepared by combing the files of Australian UFO research groups, their magazines and Journals.
Bill Chalker (1996)
An in-depth, multipart review of Australian military and government involvement in UFOs.
Bill Chalker
The physical trace phenomenon is an enduring aspect of the UFO mystery, having manifested for the entire duration of the modern era of the UFO controversy. And like the UFO phenomenon itself, it is global in its extent. This range of events appears to substantiate the contention that UFOs possess a physical dimension.
Diane Harrison, The Australian UFO Research Network
Australian UFO Research Networkers are to be congratulated for their contributions to Australian ufology throughout 2003. 2003 was a year filled with exciting new ufological ventures and adventures. R
Bill Chalker
Australia has a rich history of organised interest in the UFO subject. This paper provides an overview and history of Australian ufology.
Keith Basterfield
One of the most intriguing aspects of the UFO phenomenon is the photographic evidence which has been put forward for its existence. Here in Australia we have had a wealth of photographs, films and videos put forward over the years. This catalogue brings together all the instances which have come to my attention, and is drawn from books, magazines, the files of various Australian UFO research organisation and the Spanish Anomaly Foundation.
Keith Basterfield, UFO Research (NSW) UFO Reporter
Keith Basterfield, author of UFOs: the Image Hypothesis, investigated the Mundrabilla incident, and has recently provided an Australian perspective on UFO abductions.
Bill Chalker, UFOIC (1997)
A selection of early Australian UFO reports has been included here. Most of the early accounts would probably have an explanation if more information was available. A number however seem to defy easy explanation.
In 1982 Bill Chalker was the first civilian researcher to gain direct access to the previously classified RAAF UFO files during several visits to the Canberra headquarters of the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence.
Bill Chalker
A document detailing a project devoted to the preservative of Australian UFO history. This part of a much wider programme.
Australasian Ufologist
Stories of UFO crashes form a persistent part of the UFO controversy. Whether they contribute ultimately to UFO folklore or fact will be a matter for history. With the prominence given to the Roswell saga I have put this report together to encourage feedback on this colourful area. R
Paul Stonehill
Aleksandr Plaksin is a military geophysicist. He is an interesting individual in Soviet UFO history; he played a prominent role in the secret research conducted by the Soviet military. R
Paul Stonehill
The Russian Ufology Research Center has a collection of "hydrosphere aspect" sightings The secret files of the Soviet Navy contain much valuable information on UFO sightings. Soviet military researchers quite thorough. The files have been largely inaccessible, even after the fall of the USSR. But I was able to collect some interesting information. R
Anton A. Anfalov M.S. & Philip Mantle
A chronological, detailed listing of UFO crashes in the former Soviet Union, with brief descriptions of the cases.
'Sightings' TV Program
In April of 1979, Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev lifted off from Star City to dock with the Soviet Solyut 6 space station. But while en route, something strange happened. Cosmonaut Afanasyev saw an unidentified object turn toward his craft and begin tailing it through space. R
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
In the mid-1970s various government organizations involved in the study of UFOs stepped up their investigation of the alleged phenomena. As a result, public interest in the topic increased considerably. The UFO debate became a prominent social phenomenon in the country, especially among the scientific and technological intelligentsia.
Nikolai Lebedev
This article contains several different incidents and events related to recent UFO developments in the former Soviet Union. R
Clas Svahn, UFO Sweden
Two Russian scientists, professors Sergey Chernouss and Vladimir Pivovarov, both working with the Polar Geophysical Institute near Murmansk and members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have also been investigating Russian UFO-raports for several years. In an interview with UFO-Swedens magazine UFO-Aktuellt they describe their work and thoughts about the UFO phenomena.
Nick Paton Walsh, The Observer newspaper, U.K. - March 23, 2003
Yuri Andropov, the former Soviet leader and long-time head of the KGB, had an acute personal interest in UFOs and ordered a 13-year programme that required every soldier in the military to monitor sightings over Russian territory, according to new revelations. R
Pavel Poluyan, Pravda
The last issues of the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda (February 5-12) published a series of five articles under a loud headline “KGB Unveiled UFO Secrets”. These publications are based upon materials of a so-called “blue file” that the KGB once compiled concerning activity of Russian ufologists. However, the newspaper unveiled no secrets at all: the publications mentioned just several instances when UFOs were registered over Soviet military objects. What do these KGB documents testify to? Do extraterrestrials actually exist? Or, is it possible that the truth is more prosaic? Researcher from the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk Pavel Poluyan tells about it. R
Vadim K. Ilyin, MUFON Journal 2001
With the coming of "glasnost" it became known that the most formidable department of the USSR had been collecting documents concerning UFOs in the so-called "Blue Folder"-KGB documents that were taken off the security list in October 1991 upon the inquiry of Russian cosmonaut Pavel Popovitch. Many copies of such documents are kept in the archival depository of the Russian Geographical Society's Ufological Committee. The fact of UFO existence was more than once confirmed by Soviet military men. UFOs were observed from the ground and from the air, as well as registered on the radar screens.
Don Berliner, UFO Briefing Document
One of the most interesting cases in the KGB file is a multiple-witness CE-I (Close Encounter of the First Kind) at an army missile base in the district of Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Region, on the night of July 28-29, 1989. The file is surely incomplete, but still offers an interesting glimpse into the maneuverability of UFOs. R
Michael Hesemann
During his lecture at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin/NV on March 6, 2002, Michael Hesemann presented filmed interviews with four Soviet Cosmonauts and four high-ranking Soviet Generals. After he received numerous request for transcripts, here is the translation of their statements. R
Albert Rosales (source: Local Press, V Suhoveeva's testimony, Lenura Azizova)
During reconstruction work in the city of Kiev that was substantially ruined during World War II, construction workers sifting through the ruin's foundations accidentally stumbled upon an extraordinary object at the location where the Kiev conservatory was located. R
Michael Hesemann
Interview with Major-General Vasily Alexeyev of the Russian Air Force. Space Communications Centre, Moscow, 1997 R
Nikolay Subbotin, Emil Bachurin, RUFORS (Russian UFO Research Station)
On September 16, 1989 in the sky above a port the Zaostrovka, on fringe of Perm, occured something strange. Many inhabitants, open mouthes, watched unprecedented battle. Six strange silvery devices reminding combined together plates, coursed behind seventh more dark. R
Baku Sun - Azerbaijan, Aug. 16 2002
The Aug. 1-2 sighting of UFOs over Baku's oil company district, Bayil, as reported by the opposition daily Musavat raised a few eyebrows ? most of them sarcastically. Did it mean that so- called flying saucers run on petrol as well at anti-matter? According to Fuad Gasimov, academician and head of the Seismological Department of the National Aerospace Agency the often-sighted space craft have bases deep in the Caspian, one off the north part of the Absheron Peninsula, the other in the north sector of the Caspian Sea. R
Space 2001
A country with a particularly exciting number of UFO sightings is Russia, and the territories encompassed by the former Soviet Union. Even in the old communist days there was a suprising wealth of interest in the subject, though the official party line always continued to be dismissive on the matter. R
James Oberg, Space.com, August 8, 2000
In an special report obtained by SPACE.com, two of Russia's leading UFO investigators have summarized the results of the Soviet Union's official 13-year study of UFO reports. They maintain that the Western media claims of "secret KGB files" and "captured aliens" are untrue. R
Alexander Dremin, Pravda, Russia, Jan, 2004
Soviet military encountered many UFOs, maybe for this reason in the end of the 60s a secret laboratory of researching "flying objects" was created in the USSR. R
ABC News
The following is a transcript from ABC News Prime Time Live,a segment about recently released Soviet KGB UFO files. The date on the original files is October 5, 1995. R
James Oberg
It was the fall of 1967, and the Soviet Union was in the grip of its first major UFO flap. The extraordinary tales, described on Soviet television, reported in Soviet newspapers, and analyzed in a private nationwide UFO study group soon took on a life of their own. R
James Oberg, OMNI Magazine, April 1994
The Russian UFOlogists have failed. The ultimate test of the Russians' ability to perform mature, reliable UFO research is how they treat "the smoking gun" of Russian UFOlogy, the Petrozavodsk "jellyfish" UFO of 1977. The "jellyfish" was a brief wonder in the West before being quickly solved (by me) as the launch of a rocket from Plesetsk.
UFO Casebook
The Summer 1994 issue of Flying Saucer Review contains an article entitled "Soviet UFO Secrets", by Bryan Gresh. The article also appeared in the MUFON UFO Journal for October 1993. Brian Gresh is stated as being the Senior Vice-President of Altamira Communications Group and an associate of George Knapp, described as a renowned UFO researcher. The article details information obtained by both men during a 10 day visit to Russia in March 1993. R
James Easton
The Summer 1994 issue of Flying Saucer Review contains an article entitled "Soviet UFO Secrets", by Bryan Gresh. The article also appeared in the MUFON UFO Journal for October 1993. R
James E. Oberg, MUFON UFO Journal, OCTOBER 1982
UFOlogy in the Soviet Union has had its ups and downs, and it has been an enigmatic source of puzzlement to Western observers. The publication in 1979 of an official report from the USSR Academy of Sciences takes on remarkable significance, since it plainly states that the officially-denounced UFOs are "real" in a mathematically provable sense. This is exactly counter to the official government line.
By Stefan Roslund/UFO-Sweden
An ambitious ufologist in St. Petersburg by the name of Mikhail Gerstein has read a great number of newspapers from that time and has found many reports concentrated to the period March-April 1892.
Paul Stonehill, June 2001 Update, Russian Ufology Research Center, Author of The Soviet UFO Files (1988)
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Pravda, Russia, 9-16-2002 / Anomalia.ru
Eyewitnesses say that they saw an UFO hovering above the exploded reactor - some people saw a spaceship hovering above the fourth generating unit of the Chernobyl plant. Eyewitnesses say that an UFO was there for six hours and that hundreds of people saw it. R
Michael Hesemann
Only a few insiders know that MIR cosmonauts had several UFO encounters - and reported them frankly on camera. R
Graham W. Birdsall
The following extracts were transcribed from a filmed interview with Valery Uvarov, of Russia's National Security Academy, conducted by Graham W. Birdsall, Editor of the UK-based UFO Magazine. R
Nikolay Subbotin, Pravda
it is generally admitted that the UFO question has been studied for a long time by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the State Hydrometeorology Committee, and the Defense Ministry R
Paul Stonehill, X-Project
The Russian Ufology Research Center has a collection of "hydrosphere aspect" sightings. The secret files of the Soviet Navy contain much valuable information on UFO sightings. Soviet military researchers quite thorough. The files have been largely inaccessible, even after the fall of the USSR. But Iwas able to collect some interesting information.
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