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UFO DOCUMENTS
Throughout history, there have been countless documented accounts of UFO
sightings and other-worldly visitors. Often, these accounts were not recorded as
UFO's or aliens, but as strange phenomenon that occured without explanation, the
work of gods or demons, mass hallucination, mental disorder, etc...The mind-set
of the observer has often largely influenced the way such an event is relayed
and perceived by others, as with most subjects. One example might be the star or
angel that led the wisemen to Jesus's birthplace. What was this bright object in
the sky? Was it an angel, a comet, a UFO, or perhaps Venus (as many UFO
sightings today are brushed off as the planet Venus). Who can say for sure? Not
I, but this just goes to show how when one has predetermined views of what is
and what isn't, the true essence of a given event or subject may not be fully
understood, if at all. We seem to have a habit of assuming we are at the center
of the universe, we are all there is, and that our technology is the height of
scientific technology. Simply put, at times we think we know it all. This
attitude can and has lead to many misinterpretations of past events, by those
with closed minds. Ignorance in itself, is not a crime, but when one chooses to
remain ignorant, the fault falls on the individual. We have often twisted events
to fit into our own view of things, and some have even made up explanations for
things they didn't understand.
One
of the first documentations of possible UFO's, comes from Egypt more then 3000
years ago:
"In
the year twenty-two of the third month of the winter, a circle of fire appeared
in the sky. After some days, it became more numerous and shown with the
brightness of the sun, extending to the very limits of the heavens."
(Pharaoh Thutmoses III, 1480 b.c.e.)
The
1940's
The
1940's were a time of extraordinary UFO events. First off, most notable, we have
the famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947, near Mt. Rainier. While
flying a search mission over the Cascade mountain range, to look for a downed
Marine Corps. transport plane, Arnold reported seeing a series of about nine
objects flying in a "V" formation. He described these objects as
"flat like a pie pan and so shiny they reflected the sun like a
mirror," and flying like "a saucer would if you skipped it across the
water." News reports picked up on this, and thus, the term "flying
saucer" was born.
Then,
there is the famous Roswell, New Mexico crash in July of 1947. Some
believe this incident to be the trigger for the governments "denial and
cover-up" attitude towards UFO's. So many versions of this story exist,
that it's hard to separate fact from fiction. The main things that remain
constant in most of the stories are that, a UFO crashed on a ranch just outside
of Roswell, non-human bodies are discovered, the papers put out a report that
the government has captured a flying saucer, then the next day, the military
issues a report denying the claims, saying something to the effect of
,"oops...sorry, we made a mistake. Just a weather balloon folks." Many
still believe that intelligence officer, Jesse Marcel, would not have mistaken a
weather balloon for an alien craft. This is the first case to involve claims of
military threats to silence civilians who saw or knew too much. Because of the
fact that the military has changed their story several times, as to what really
occured, most feel this is evidence of a cover-up, on at least some level. What
are they hiding, if not a UFO? Their latest claim, that the bodies discovered
were just six foot crash-test dummies, is viewed as the most ridiculous yet.
Most wonder how a four foot, mutilated corpse could turn into a six foot plastic
dummy?
Five
years earlier, on February 25, 1942, an air raid was conducted over the city of
Los Angeles, which may have been in response to a giant UFO. This was just two
months after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, so the U.S. was prepared for
another attack. A black-out was ordered for the city, between the hours of 2:25
a.m. to 7:21 a.m.. Some 2000 rounds of twelve-pound high-explosive shells were
fired that night. The U.S. Army denied that any fighter planes were launched,
but reliable witnesses stated otherwise. Witnesses reported that the U.S. Army
bombarded an object with gunfire from fighter planes and ground troops, for
nearly half an hour before the object casually flew out of sight. A news
photograph showed a large, round, white object at the center of about nine
searchlight beams. The object never retaliated and seemed totally unharmed by
the attack on it. Six people died that night as a result of the raid, due to
shell fragments and such, raining down on the homes below.
On
January 7, 1948, Captain Thomas Mantell was killed while in pursuit of a UFO. Or
was he? Kentucky Highway Patrol contacted the control tower at Godman Field Air
Base, to confirm reports of a large object seen flying over Maysville. The tower
responded "negative", but then did spot something. At around the same
time, four P-51's were seen approaching the Godman Field. Mantell was the flight
leader, and decided to maneuver in for a closer look. Captain Mantell's last
words, as he was climbing to engage the object, were as follows. "It looks
metallic, and it's tremendous in size. It's above me and I'm gaining on it. I'm
going to 20,000 feet..." . Then silence. Some witnesses stated that they
saw the P-51 explode in mid-air. Some reports vary slightly, but most state that
his body was discovered in the wreckage with the cockpit hatch still locked
shut. His watch had stopped at 3:18, which is assumed to be the time of the
crash, but some speculate that his watch may have stopped due to his proximity
to the unknown object. A closed-casket funeral gave more credibility to the
rumors that no remains were ever recovered from the wreckage.
Antonio
Villas Boas
Villas Boas never changed his story and recalled all of the details without the
use of hypnosis. When examined by Dr. Olavo Fontes of APRO, he was found to be
okay mentally but seemed to suffer from weakness, nausea, and bleeding lesions,
attributed to mild radiation poisoning. At the time, many claimed that Villas
Boas was nothing short of a fraud, while others argued that he was rather poorly
educated and couldn't have fabricated all the details of his story. Antonio
Villas Boas died in 1992.
The
Barney and Betty Hill Story
Barney, a mail carrier, and Betty, a social worker, were returning home one
night from a short vacation, on September 19, 1961, when they suddenly spotted a
bright object in the sky. Barney stopped the car and used a pair of binoculars
to get a better look at the object. He could make out a disk-like object moving
strangely in the night sky. He then walked into a nearby field, for a closer
look. He could then make out small structures that looked somewhat like windows.
To his astonishment, he noticed beings looking back at him, through the windows.
This frightened him, and he ran back to his car and they proceeded to drive
away. They drove down a side road and saw five humanoid aliens blocking their
path. They were then taken from their car and led into a UFO, in a trance-like
state. Most of their encounter was uncovered while under hypnosis, for when they
arrived home, they had discovered nearly two hours had been missing, and they
remembered almost nothing from the event. They were disturbed by strange dreams
and the foreboding feeling that something extraordinary had occured during those
two hours. While under hypnosis, the Hills both told similar stories of being
taken into a craft of some kind, and subjected to several physical and mental
examinations. Betty also claimed to be shown a star map while on board. In 1964,
while under hypnosis, Betty drew a remarkable recreation of the star map that
concurred with other professionally drawn maps. She also indicated the location
of two stars called Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 Reticuli, in which she said was the aliens
home base. The amazing part is that the existence of these two stars wasn't
confirmed until 1969 and Betty had no understanding of astronomy, to make such a
map.
Bob
Lazar
Robert Scott Larar, better known to the UFO community as Bob Lazar,
claims to have worked on an alien craft for the U.S. Government at Area 51.
Lazar's story starts in June of 1982, where he claims to have met Dr. Edward
Teller, before a lecture. At this time, Lazar supposedly worked for Los Alamos
National Laboratory in New Mexico. In 1988, after leaving Los Alamos, Lazar
wrote a letter to Teller and mentioned he was job hunting. He soon received a
call from Dr. Teller, followed by a call for an interview at EG&G (Edger,
Germeshausen & Grier) Special Projects. Lazar says he was interviewed and
hired by agents from the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). He initially
believed he was hired for work on an advanced propulsion system, and later heard
that he was to replace one of three scientists who had been killed in an attempt
to cut into an alien power plant reactor. Lazar claims that he was actually
hired to study and reverse-engineer the power plant from an alien craft. The
location of his place of work was S-4, sometimes referred to as Dreamland,
the Ranch, or Skunk Works, about fifteen miles south of Area 51.
According to Lazar, S-4 consisted of a complex facility with serveral hangers
built into the side of a mountain.
To
prepare him for his new job, he says he was required to read some 200 pages of
briefing documents. Bob claims that within these blue booklets was information
regarding the aliens and their technology, along with other supposed secret
government projects. Some of these projects included the study of gravity drive,
referred to as "Galileo", looking back in time, known as "Looking
Glass", and a neutron beam weapon codenamed "Sidekick". All of
these projects were said to be under a program called "Project
Overview". According to the documents, aliens have been visiting Earth for
a millennia and they refer to it as Sol 3. They claim that man is the result of
65 genetic corrections made over thousands of years. One group of aliens,
referred to as "The Kids", came from the Zeta Reticuli star system.
The documents stated that religion was given to man so he would have rules and
regulations for the purpose of not damaging the containers. The
"container" would refer to our physical bodies, but it is uncertain
whether they referred to us as containers for the soul, or containers of DNA.
According to Bob, he worked at S-4 from December of 1988, to April of 1989. He
claims to have worked on one of nine alien crafts stored in hangers there. He
says the alien craft's power source was a matter/antimatter reactor, similar to
our nuclear reactors but about the size of a soccer ball. This reactor produced
waves that nullified gravity through the use of a super-heavy substance, he
named Element 115, after its theoretical atomic number. Lazar said that one of
the saucers looked like it had been hit by a large caliber projectile because it
had a hole that ran from the bottom, up through the top with the metal bent
outward. He claims to have also witnessed a short test flight of one of the
crafts. Lazar's clearance was supposedly denied because he was viewed as a
security risk when a tapped phoneline revealed he was having marital problems.
Prior to leaving his work at S-4, Lazar took five friends to the mountains
surrounding Area 51 to watch the lights of UFO's being flown there.
It's
hard to evaluate Lazar's incredible claims. EG&G and Los Alamos National
Laboratory have stated that they never heard of him, although a 1982 Los Alamos
laboratory internal phone book lists "Robert Lazar" along with other
scientists. Other employees have been found that have confirmed that Bob had
worked with them at Los Alamos on top-secret work, concerning the SDI Star Wars
project. Lazar has also been able to produce a W-2 Wage and Tax Statement for
1989. It shows the employer as United States Department of Naval Intelligence,
Washington D.C., and an OMB identification number listed as E-6722MAJ. Following
several death threats and a supposed shooting attempt, Lazar decided to go
public with his story, in order to protect himself. He figured that once the
information was out there, he would be left alone. He felt that they did not do
things for revenge, but only to keep the information hidden in the first place.
It would be too obvious if something were to happen to him, after he went
public. Many believe that Lazar's education and work records have been
intentionally destroyed, altered or hidden, because even the school he claims to
have attended, has no record of him. Others think that he is a total fraud who
wanted the spotlight for a time. Others think that he may have been used to leak
certain information to the public as a plan to prepare us for the truth.
Whatever the case, the only logical thing that anyone could do to Lazar after he
told his story, would be to discredit him in any way possible so no one would
believe him. Many argue that this has been accomplished.
Mexico,
1991 Eclipse
In
1991, as thousands of citizens in Mexico stared up into the sky at the eclipse,
something unusual was spotted. Countless people claim to have witnessed, for
lack of a better term, what can only be described as a UFO. Jaime Maussan was
born in Mexico City, and earned a B.A. degree in radio and television from the
Miami University in Ohio. He has had a 25 year career in the media and has
received several awards. He is now General Director and Anchorman of "60
Minutes" Mexico. After the 1991 Eclipse, he received a video tape of
the event that showed a strange, silver disk hovering over the city. Maussan
then asked his viewers to share any unusual sightings they might have had during
the eclipse. To his and everyone elses amazement, 15 different video tapes, from
different locations around the city and from different individuals, were
produced. No one was prepared for what may be considered some of the best video
evidence collected so far. Since then, Maussan has compiled over 5,000 videos
and photos from eyewitnesses. This could be one of the largest collections of
UFO videos in the world. He also produces a radio program "Jaime Maussan,
UFOs and other Mysteries", which is a very popular show in Mexico. This
story has also appeared on several U.S. programs such as SIGHTINGS. The 1991
eclipse marked one of the most intense and sustained UFO flaps on record to
date. Countless individuals have recorded the same or similar objects on video
since and the residence of Mexico (and the rest of the world for that matter)
have yet to receive an explaination as to just what these "disks" are
and what they are doing there. This remains being just one more piece of
evidence that can't be easily swept under the rug and ignored. Most
investigators agree that something is or at least was going on there, and many
demand to know what, to no avail.
Manhattan
Island Abduction
Also
known as the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction, this case has been given much
attention due to the amount of subsequent witnesses that have come forward
since. This story starts in April of 1989, with a 45 year old, New Yorker named
Linda Cortile, who contacted Bud Hopkins because she suspected that she may have
been abducted in her twenties. Then, in late November of that year, she was
apparently abducted again, this time with multiple witnesses. Linda's story is
that she had gone to bed at around 3 am, when she began to feel a paralyzing
numbness, starting at her feet, then moving up her body. The sensation was
familiar to her and she attributed it to the abduction experience. Her husband
had already been to sleep and all attempts to wake him failed. Then three or
four beings appeared in the room and she was floated through her closed, 12th
storey apartment window and into a craft hovering overhead, in a blue beam of
light. After a medical exam, she was literally dropped back into her bed, which
still did not wake her sleeping husband. A large portion of her story was
uncovered by Bud Hopkins, while under hypnosis, which causes many skeptics to
take note and try to discredit this case.
Then
there are the witnesses. First, Hopkins recieved a letter from two men claiming
to be police officers, in February of 1991. They claimed that they had witnessed
what could only be described as an alien abduction, from under the FDR Drive,
where their car had broke down. They called themselves Dan and Richard. After
she was abducted, they claimed that the UFO flew into the East River. After 45
minutes, the object had still not surfaced. Hopkins was later informed by one of
the gentlemen, that the reason they could not meet with him in person was
because the two men were actually Secret Service agents that had been taking the
then, Security General of the United Nations - Perez de Cuellar, to a heliport
when their limousine broke down. Then in November of 1991, Hopkins recieved a
letter, and drawings from a women in her sixties, he calls Janet Kimble. She
claimed that on the night of the Cortile abduction, she had been crossing the
Brooklyn Bridge when her car and all the lights on the bridge failed. She said
that she witnessed the women and a small group of beings, float up into a
brightly lit UFO. Linda's apartment can be seen from both locations and
the accounts and drawings from Dan and Richard and Janet Kimble, seemed to match
on several major and minor details. Bud Hopkins has since released a book
entitled, Witnessed-The true story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO
Abductions.
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