BY MARK RODEGHIER Mark Rodeghier, Ph.D., is scientific director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago.This article appears in the Summar 1999 issue of the International UFO Reporter. Understanding where and when UFO sightings occur is one of the core activities for UFO investigators and organizations. Without that knowledge, it is difficult to believe we will ever make any advance in our understanding of the UFO phenomenon. Although the importance of gathering statistics on the number and type of reports is considered important, doing so has been honored more often in word than indeed. There are no complete yearly statistics for the United States because there is no central authority who can get the necessary cooperation from the diverse groups […] Read More
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Hi, My name is Ginger. About 1 year ago. I experienced something that changed the way I sleep forever. 1 YEAR ago I was living at my grandmother’s house. I was 22. My grandmother didn’t like leaving the lights on and she would go to bed really early. The house had no air conditioning and it was always hot on her second-floor apartment. I had huge windows in my room. But they were old and the screens were out. So the windows were left open to get air in my room at night. One night… While I was asleep. I awoke to something so odd and scary that My mind just couldn’t figure what it was. I OPENED my eyes and my heart began […] Read More
CHAPTER FIVE- Israel Awakens To The Invasion During the spring of 1980,I was a soldier in the anti-aircraft brigade of the Israeli Air Force.My duty was to operate two types of anti-aircraft missile. My unit was on training manoevres in the bleak Sinai Desert and private Adam Reuter was on skywatch.While staring into the western skies with his binoculars,he called me over,saying,”I think I’m looking at a UFO.” He handed me the glasses and I saw a large,well lit, silvery object. Circling it were red objects that occasionally flew into the silver one,seemingly melding with it. One by one members of the unit were called to observe the sight until most had stopped digging their foxholes. Our officers intervened and everyone went back to their mundane […] Read More
CHAPTER THREE: Meetings With The Visitors Four miles southeast of Kadima is the small moshav of Burgata. If the full story of Burgata was released, Kadima would become a minor episode in recent Israeli UFO history. But the moshav has put a clamp-down on its citizens.In order to put together the events of the town I had to depend on notes taken by Doron Rotem while people were still willing to talk to outsiders, a videotape of Hanna Samech recorded by Doron and a videotape of a resident named Dorit recorded by a policeman named Yosef Sari, who filmed a short history of the area’s encounters,purportedly for private purposes. According to the sources available,in 1991 an eleven year old boy of Yemenite origin disappeared […] Read More
Chapter Four: David and the Visitors Moses is now dead and it is Joshua‘s task to conquer Canaan. It seems like a most hopeless mission. The country is dotted with strongly fortified towns and the people,experienced warriors all, greatly outnumber the Israelites. But they hadn’t counted on the God of Israel and his new-fangled weaponry. Joshua 3-…stay about a mile behind,with a clear space between you and the Ark;be sure you don’t get any closer…The Ark of God,who is Lord of the whole Earth,will lead you across the river…When the priests who are carrying the Ark touch the water with their feet,the river will stop flowing…and will pile up as though against an invisible wall. 4-and the twelve stones from the Jordan were piled […] Read More
RETURN OF THE ANGELS; UFOs in Israel, Past and Present by Barry Chamish CHAPTER ONE-The Kadima Landings In late February of 1993,a pretty woman in her early twenties,Ginat Aharoni left her home in the town of Tel Mond,some three miles from Kadima, and drove towards the coastal city of Netanya to pick her mother up at the train station. She took a dark,lonely road on this cloudless night. Near the village of Tel Yitzhak,a very bright object passed over her vehicle at a height of no more than thirty feet. Ginat was more astounded than terrified and took the trouble of making note of details. Her object was round and about forty feet in diameter. Around its rim were some twenty lights,orange and glowing, […] Read More
CHAPTER SEVEN- Signs On A Beach “FLYING SAUCER OVER HAIFA” Yesterday,a flying saucer was seen over the skies of Haifa. It flew high above Mount Carmel. Witnesses described the saucer seeing two ellipsoid objects.The mysterious objects were seen by a group of students and their teachers in Acco. The youths followed the saucers by foot for two minutes. One colonel claimed the objects flew in a flexible double-formation,one after another and then horizontally. This is the second appearance of flying saucers over the country.The first was also over Haifa. Given the complexity of other accounts,this is hardly an exciting item. Except that it was the headline story of the national daily newspaper, Maariv on Dec.25,1952. The two Haifa sightings were Israel’s first and only […] Read More
Chapter Eight: Conclusion Daniel 7-…I saw a great storm on a mighty ocean…Then four animals came up out of the water,each different from the other. The first was like a lion,but it had eagle’s wings! And as I watched,its wings were pulled off so that it could no longer fly,and it was left standing on the ground,on two feet,like a man;and a man’s mind was given to it. The second animal looked like a bear with its paws raised,ready to strike…The third of these strange animals looked like a leopard,but on its back it had wings like those of a bird and it had four heads! Then… a fourth animal rose up…too dreadful to describe and incredibly strong. It devoured some of its victims […] Read More
CHAPTER SIX: Ancient Middle Eastern UFO Tales The tenth century BCE produced some classic UFO stories. There was the well-known case of the luckless Uzza,who with the best of intentions,touched the holy Ark and was electrocuted. Lord blazed out against Uzza and killed him because he had touched the Ark. It must be recalled that God gave specific instructions that the Ark be carried on wooden poles to prevent just such an occurance. Perhaps he should have ordered Moses to place a sign on the Ark reading,Danger High Voltage. Then there is the sad but ultimately triumphant story of Job who spoke to God and who was answered “from the whirlwind.” But God was not kind to Job; While the messenger was still speaking […] Read More
by Doug Skinner Richard Sharpe Shaver died 30 years ago. He was never famous in the usual sense of the word, but the “Shaver Mystery” and the “rock books” were once hot topics in certain circles. That was a long time ago, however, and Shaver ought to be forgotten by now. Surprisingly, he has remained stubbornly alive, and in an unexpected place—the art world. Maybe it’s time to reassess him; maybe we can even clear up a few puzzles and misconceptions. Shaver’s Early Life Richard Shaver (he added the “Sharpe” himself later) was born in 1907; he was one of five children. At least two other members of his family were writers: his mother, Grace, was a published poet, and his brother Taylor contributed […] Read More
Scott Corrales original source Summary: The branch of UFO research which could rightly deserve the appellation of “paleoufology” constituted a controversial field of investigation during the 1970s, when authors like Otto Binder (Unsolved Mysteries of the Past), Richard E. Mooney (Gods of Air and Darkness), and Erich Von Daniken (Chariots of the Gods?) wrote extensively on human/alien interaction at the dawn of recorded history and even earlier. The branch of UFO research which could rightly deserve the appellation of “paleoufology” constituted a controversial field of investigation during the 1970s, when authors like Otto Binder (Unsolved Mysteries of the Past), Richard E. Mooney (Gods of Air and Darkness), and Erich Von Daniken (Chariots of the Gods?) wrote extensively on human/alien interaction at the dawn of […] Read More
Billy Cox, Floriday Today Summary: At age 62, the godfather of the Ancient Astronauts Society may seem like a flawed relic from the 1960s. But Erich Von Daniken never went away. Von Daniken has never wavered from his premise that ancient scribes contributing to holy texts (in Eastern and Western traditions) were describing contact with technologically sophisticated extraterrestrial visitors. MELBOURNE, Fla. – At age 62, the godfather of the Ancient Astronauts Society may seem like a flawed relic from the 1960s. But Erich Von Daniken never went away; two weeks ago, production crews finished filming yet another documentary on the Swiss author’s controversial research, which will air in the States on the A&E Channel late this year or early 1997. On a rain-soaked weekday […] Read More
Christy Taylor Summary: Have we been visited? Have extra-terrestrials influenced our history? If you look at mythology, it appears we have been visited! Almost all mythologies (Christian mythology included) mentions some sort of flying gods. Have we been visited? Have extra-terrestrials influenced our history? If you look at mythology, it appears we have been visited! Almost all mythologies (Christian mythology included) mentions some sort of flying gods. In the Algonquin myth (as told in J.F. Bierlein’s book “Parallel Myths”) a hunter, Algon comes upon a circle cut in the grass. Hiding in the bushes, he watches a great willow basket descend from the sky, and twelve beautiful maidens emerge. Doesn’t this description of a flying “basket” sound similar to modern reports of “flying saucers”? […] Read More
The Mike Wallace-Major Donald Keyhoe Interview Major Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC, Ret.) Director, NICAP (1957) National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena Video Courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin Transcript THE MIKE WALLACE UFO INTERVIEW With Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.) March 8th, 1957 WALLACE: Good evening, tonight we go after a fantastic story, the story that flying saucers from other worlds are visiting our planet, just as we are exploring outer space with our own rocket satellites. Our guest is Former Mariner Air Corps Major Donald Keyhoe, who has the support of scores of prominent businessmen, military men, and some scientists in his campaign to prove that flying saucers exist. If you’re curious to know why […] Read More