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1992: EARTH LIGHTS AND THE RE-INVENTION OF UFOLOGY.

Mainstream ufology needs to re-invent itself. The concepts, beliefs and fundamental assumptions that have driven it over its first half-century of existence are due for a major overhaul. Mainstream ufology ­ espousing one or another form of the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis or ETH ­ would be wise to acknowledge its cultural and historical roots as a bit of Forties and Fifties Americana. This is currently being extended beyond its shelf-life.  One potential re-invention is “earth lights” research: the study of glowing, polymorphous forms by night ­ either stationary or aerobatic, ranging from inches to several yards across – and shiny metallic or pitch-black forms by day. (The term “earth lights” is simply a nickname to distinguish the phenomena from ideas of ET craft.) To the […] Read More

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1995: A Short Introduction to Ufology

Dennis Stacy, Editor, MUFON UFO Journal original source The acronym UFO – for Unidentified Flying Object – is so prevalent and commonplace today, that it’s easy to forget the term is not even fully fifty years old yet. There is even some dispute about the acronym’s exact origin. In his classic account of his years spent as the director of Project Blue Book – the Air Force’s official UFO “investigation” agency – Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt says unequivocally that “UFO is the official term that I created to replace the words ‘flying saucers’” (Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Doubleday, 1956, p. 6). Presumably, this would have been sometime between 1951, when Ruppelt took over Project Grudge, later renamed Blue Book, and September of 1953, […] Read More

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2000: Earthbound Hypothesis and the New Breed of Ufologist

Shane Hill, 7-21-2000 This article is part off a small series dealing with the suspected origins of UFO’s. There are three main theories the EBH or Earth Bound Theorem,. The OWH or Off World Theorem which proposes that UFO’s are from outer space. Finally the Mystic or occult theory which can be divided into two distinct areas of belief or opinion, the occult being that UFO’s are from other realms. Purveyors of this theory tend to raise numerous scientific sounding arguments for their position. Interestingly science itself is now theorizing that there are indeed other dimensions. Lastly the religious or mystical proponents who believe that UFO’s are the work of the devil himself. All three of the categories for theory have numerous sub theories […] Read More

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2001: The Case for Extraterrestrial UFOs

While most sights described as UFOs turn out to be misidentified known natural and artificial phenomena, many hundreds do not. It is these that form the core of the UFO mystery. That UFOs constitute a distinct category of describable sights is based on hundreds of highly detailed and consistent descriptions by professionals (especially airline and military pilots) of their close-up, broad daylight observations of unique flying machines. This is supported by the permanent files of the U. S. Air Force‘s Project Blue Book UFO investigation (1948-1969). Of 572 cases admittedly unidentified (and not simply lacking sufficient information), 15% (85) are from military pilots, most of them the USAF’s own. Adding to them the unexplained sightings by commercial airline and professional test pilots, the figure […] Read More

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The Case for UFO Reality

The UFO Briefing Document, Don Berliner, et. al. As long as men and women have talked about strange sights in the skies, two primary questions have been asked about what has come to be called Unidentified Flying Objects: Are they real, or are they just honest mistakes? If they are real, could they be ships from some other world? In this century, it started with the “foo fighters” of World War II: glowing balls that flew in formation or “played tag” with military airplanes over Europe and the Pacific. Suspected of being prototype enemy weapons, they never displayed hostility and when the war was over, they were all-but-forgotten. In 1946, the Scandinavian countries reported many hundreds of “ghost rockets” which flew low and silently, […] Read More

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Strange Connections

Shane Hill As with any field of study, ufology should be looked at through the eye of scientific inquiry. Regardless of how those that call themselves regular scientists see it, we must see it that way. Had we been taking the right approach since Kenneth Arnold had his sighting then perhaps ufology might not have the stigmata associated with it that it does. Gather enough facts, place them all together ask the right questions then things start to appear, small similarities, patterns, or clues start to creep out from the mountains of data that most of us seem to collect. This is one reason I recommend a database, every enthusiastic hobbyist or serious investigator will have a database. Many have designed their own, today’s […] Read More

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1997: Summary Of The UFO Phenomenon

© 1997 All Rights Reserved “UFO Report – a statement by a person or persons judged responsible and psychologically normal by commonly accepted standards, describing a personal vision or instrumentally aided perception of an object or light in the sky or on the ground and / or its assumed physical effects, that does not specify any known physical event, object, or process or any psychological event or process [even after examination by qualified persons]…” Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Northwestern University, founder of the Center for UFO Studies. If the only strange things seen in the sky were a few oddly moving lights, or some specks glinting in the sun, there would be no UFO problem. But there have been many close observations of these […] Read More

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2001: The Irrelevance of UFO Secrecy

Michael Mannion, Mindshift 2001 Do you want to know the truth about the UFO-ET phenomenon? Avoid those who claim to have access to secrets. The truth is not hidden; it is right before your eyes. Let the keepers of the UFO and ET secrets keep them. Leave them to themselves in their world of self-spun mystery. The facts about the new cosmic reality are in the open, plain for all with eyes to see. Why don’t we ignore their little game and move on to more productive pursuits? The secrets kept by the deceptive figures in the military, the intelligence community and departments of civilian government are the secrets of the past. The truth is to be found in full, living contact with the […] Read More

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2009: UFO ‘tentacles’ are propulsion plasma beams, researcher says

Steve Hammons January 12, 2009 [This article originally appeared on the Joint Recon Study Group link) site.]The “tentacle” appearance of an unidentified flying object (UFO), such as one reported over a wind turbine farm near Conisholme, England, on Jan. 4, 2009, may have been “constantly changing, torque-generating plasma beams” related to an exotic propulsion system.An experienced American scientific researcher has proposed that the “jellyfish” or “octopus” visual effect that some witnesses have reported in the UK and United States could actually be what is called a “magnetoplasmadynamic” or “magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)” field. Ray Stanford, a pioneer in studies of UFOs by use of optical and electronic instrument systems said that, “Although some UFO-generated physical phenomena may, through human mind’s ever-interpreting ‘lens,’ look ‘organic’ (as though […] Read More

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2007: U.F.O.: from Canada to Italy and return

Daniela Giordano June 19, 2007 In the year 1967, an Italian immigrant (L.R.) was living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He lived in a little room in 92nd Street, rented from a Ukraine family. The room, about mt.3 x 2,70, was beneath the roof and had a window looking towards the North-East. And it was this window that gave him the chance to witness a strange phenomenon. It was a cold Saturday of November 4th, 1967, but the weather was otherwise quite good. And it was about 11.30 p.m. when L.R. came back home after spending the evening with some Italian friends living in 95th Street. As soon as he was in his spartanly furnished room, he started to prepare a cup of coffee before […] Read More

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Underwater UFO’s

Bill Hamilton Go back to some old books like those written by Ivan Sanderson. Many reports of UFOs emerging and submerging into the ocean. We also had sightings a few years ago off the Palos Verdes peninsula where UFOs were seen traveling under water. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 10 in my book “Alien Magic” “What secrets lurk in ocean depths? Are there alien forms of intelligent life that occupy the vast volumes of water that constitute our oceans, seas, and lakes? The largest of our oceans, the Pacific, covers 64,000,000 square miles and reaches a depth of 36,198 feet, a depth that no ray of sunlight ever reaches. Could these depths hide alien submarine bases? Underwater UFOs have been sighted on many […] Read More

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1975?: UFO Symbols

The great Otto Binder addressed the meaning of alleged symbols seen on UFOs in a 1972 article for Saga’s UFO Special magazine:  Fate magazine presented, several decades ago, a piece on messages from alleged extraterrestrial beings that included this: Lucius Farish (a true UFO investigator) along with Dale M. Titler wrote about symbols for Official UFO magazine (the mid-70s) that included these representations: The above symbols were either “photographed” on the UFOs or drawn by those who saw them on a UFO. Why are there no such representations seen on UFOs purportedly flying overhead today? Either the space aliens have become illiterate or the military has wised up and removed such designations from their prototypes.

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Why Do Ufologists Largely Ignore the Most Scientific Field Study of UFOs Ever Conducted?

by Dr. Greg Little Few ufologists and even fewer people with a causal interest in the UFO phenomenon are familiar with what could have arguably been the most scientific and thorough field study of UFOs ever made. In some ways it is odd that this research is so obscure in ufology, but the reasons become increasingly clear when the findings and psychological aspects of it are understood. Even more oddly, ufologists who begin with the assumption that UFOs are extraterrestrial craft are those who have mostly ignored the findings of this extraordinary research. In fact, this amazing series of field studies could be the best evidence ever put forth that something physical (and operating outside the known laws of science) does move around in […] Read More

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1968: Why UFOs Aren’t Tracked by Radar?

James McDonald, Statement on UFOs to U.S. House Committee on Science and Aeronautics, 1968 Symposium on UFOs The skeptic who asks this question, and many do, is asking a very reasonable question. With so much radar equipment deployed all over the world, and especially within the United States, it seems sensible to expect that, if there are any airborne devices maneuvering in our airspace, they ought to show up on radars once in a while. They do indeed and have been doing so for all of the two decades that radar has been in widespread use. Here, as with so many other general misconceptions about the true state of the UFO problem, we encounter disturbingly large amounts of misinformation. As with other categories of […] Read More