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What Will NASA Announce On Monday…. Disclosure?

John D — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:36:27 +0000

March 7th, 2009 NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope as part of a mission to detect Earth sized planets orbiting their parent stars in the “sweet spot” that allows a planet to be habitable. At 11am EST on Monday NASA will hold a Press Conference at the Ames Research Center to discuss new findings made by the Kepler Space Telescope. Nearly a year ago NASA held a similar press conference and announced the discovery of over 1,200 alien planet candidates. According to NASA officials, Monday’s conference will provide an update to statistical findings made by the Kepler mission. It will also “introduce a new confirmed planetary discovery”.

So far Kepler has discovered a confirmed 27 planets. Without detracting from the scientific importance of the Kepler discoveries, their announcement could hardly be called “disclosure”. Why then did I bandy about the D-word in the post title? The answer to that is buried in Space.com’s article announcing the conference. According to the article one of the participants in the press briefing will be Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute. From my brief research this is the first time that a representative of SETI has been included in a Kepler mission press conference (please correct me in the comments if I am wrong). To me, at least, this would seem to indicate that there may be more to the “new confirmed planetary discovery” than a simple “yup, we found another planet”.

This press conference may be the first step toward disclosing the truth about the UFO phenomenon and life outside of our planet. It is widely believed by many (myself included) that if the government were to come out and say that UFOs are real and they are not from our planet, there would be widespread panic that could have lasting negative effects on the entire planet. If instead, NASA were to announce that they have identified a planet that may contain intelligent life that is so far away travel would not be possible (as long as faster than light travel can’t happen) it would be a shock, but nothing that would have a direct impact on day-to-day Earth life and would be much easier news to hear. This would give us time to come to grips with the idea we are not alone before having to deal with more shocking truths. In the end, though, this is all just wild speculation and we will have to wait until Monday to find out what NASA has up their sleeves.

Triangle UFO Spotted Hovering Near Ohio Shopping Center – November 27, 2011

John D — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:23:02 +0000

According to the video’s description, a couple noticed this triangular UFO/light formation while leaving a shopping center somewhere in Ohio on November 27th. The report goes on to say that the object held its position for at least an hour before disappearing. Even without any more background information, this video is still interesting. First, we have what appears to be the original audio track and it does not seem to contain any aircraft-type noises. Also, there is plenty of “framing” footage that gives us a good frame of reference and clearly shows that the object is in the sky. Additionally, there is none of the telltale flicker of a Chinese lantern visible. At the end of the clip, we are presented with a zoomed in view of the craft. Here, we can just make out some sort of strobe like flashes present in the lights, which might indicate a terrestrial aircraft, however the light configuration/color scheme doesn’t seem to indicate an aircraft following FAA regulations. This combined with the audio evidence would lead me to believe that this at least not a “normal” aircraft. What then could it be, a UFO, a TR-3b type secret aircraft, or something else? What do you think?

Triangle UFO Sighting over Ohio – Nov 28 2011

UFO Formation Filmed Over Bergen, Fyllingsdalen, Norway

John D — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:07:36 +0000

This interesting piece of UFO evidence comes to us from Bergen, Fyllingsdalen in Norway. Unfortunately we don’t have a date the sighting took place, but it is probably safe to assume this footage was taken sometime near November 14th, 2011 (the date it was posted to YouTube). While there isn’t a great framing shot to give us a clear point of reference, there is a moment where the witness fumbles with the camera and we can see that the objects being filmed are indeed in the sky. Also there doesn’t appear to be any of the tell-tale flashing (or multi-colored lights) that would indicate that the object is aircraft. Additionally, the color of the objects is too light for them to be Chinese lanterns (and again, no flickering). What do you think was in the skies over Bergen?

Triangle UFO Filmed Flying Silently Over Virginia – November 13, 2011

John D — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:10:04 +0000

Here is a really interesting video that was taken Sunday, November 13, 2011 somewhere in the state of Virginia. According to the witness, he had just returned from grocery shopping and was unloading his car when his wife noticed something streak across the sky. This is when he started filming in the direction of the streak, capturing the triangle-shaped craft we see in the video. Now, from the audio track we can infer that the witness had a pre-existing interest in the UFO phenomenon. Sometimes, this sort of pre-existing interest can lead a witness jump to conclusions about what they are seeing. (Just search UFO on YouTube. You will become an expert in aircraft navigation lights in no time.) However, I don’t think this is the case with this video. There are just too many factors that seem to indicate that this is a legitimate UFO sighting.

First, we have the video footage itself. The recording appears to have started mid sighting, which matches the statement the witness submitted to MUFON and is what you would expect in a sighting where the witness was caught off guard by the appearance of a UFO. Also, we can see buildings and lights, so we have a frame of reference to judge the object by. Not only does this give us an idea of orientation and position, it also lets us make assumptions about the true color of the lights on the object. Because the other lights in the footage appear “normal” (i.e. how you would expect exterior lights to look if you were sanding outside at night), we can safely assume that color of the lights on the object is true. Since the object is moving towards the camera, if it were an airplane or a helicopter, we would expect to see the red and green marker lights that are required by FAA regulations. In this footage we merely have a triangular array of white lights. Additionally, the audio track is also telling. In it, we can literally hear everything from crickets chirping to the breeze passing over the microphone. What we don’t hear is any engine noise or rotor chop as the UFO passes overhead. Taking all of this into consideration, it would seem that this is legitimate UFO footage.

Strange UFO Lights Caught On Film Over Carp, Ontario – August 19, 2011

John D — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:05:17 +0000

Filmed in Carp, Ontario this past August, this video shows a triangular formation of flashing lights. What particularly drew me to this footage is that despite how incredibly close the object or objects seem, you cannot hear anything other than the witness and passing traffic. Had this been an airplane or helicopter, there should have been some sort of familiar sound audible. Also, the lights all appear to be white. Since the object appears to be traveling toward the camera, we would expect red and green marker lights to be visible on an airplane. Additionally, all three white lights appear to be flashing. On an airplane, we would only expect 2 white flashing lights and maybe one or two red flashing beacons. This all seems to lend some credibility to the statement made by the witness in the video that he checked the “radar” and there is nothing nearby. What could have been in the Canadian skies this August night?

Another UFO Sighting Reported In Lee’s Summit, MO – October 31, 2011

John D — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:58:05 +0000

Slow-motion Footage:

Just barely a month ago the first reports of UFOs over Lee’s Summit, Missouri started to pour in. Now we have another report from Lee’s Summit of a UFO spotted on Halloween. The witnesses report seeing the craft while out trick-or-treating, and followed it. Above it the best version of the video available on YouTube. In it we can see a ring of lights moving overhead. In the original version of the clip (embedded bellow), we can hear what sounds like aircraft. Could this footage possibly show the KC Flight Formation Team that claimed responsibility for the first Lee’s Summit sighting?

KC Flight Formation Team over the stadium

Unless there is a conspiracy at work to cover up the Lee’s Summit UFO activity using the flight team as a “scapegoat”, I believe the answer to be yes. According this post on the team’s Facebook page, they were performing a flyover at Arrowhead Stadium for the Chief’s game. In fact, the post made Monday morning specifically said, “Monday Night Football, KC Flight will be generating UFO reports as we hold over the Lee’s Summit area, waiting for the run in on Arrowhead for the National Anthem.” Additionally, this photo which was taken at the game shows the flight team passing over the stadium looking a lot like the UFO in the video. Given the preponderance of evidence, it would seem that this UFO sighting can safely be reclassified as an IFO sighting.

While I would have loved this to have been the “smoking gun”, I am still happy with the outcome in this case. Every time the Ufology community is able to find a solid explanation for a sighting, it lends all that more credibility to the sightings we cannot explain. Unfortunately, the opposite is true when we are too quick to jump on an explainable sighting as UFO evidence. In the end, that sort of rash sensationalism ends up hurting the community. Take for example this sighting, a number of large UFO sites were more than happy to just regurgitate a MUFON report, embed a YouTube video and slap the UFO evidence label on the event. It took me maybe 30 minutes to research this sighting and fact check my conclusions. Now, not every UFO sighting is this cut and dry, but as a community we need to look at what we are posting as “evidence” with a critical eye if we want any chance of being taken seriously when we do finally uncover the “smoking gun” that proves beyond any doubt what we all believe.

Original Footage:

UFOs recorded over Lee’s Summit, Missouri 31-Oct-2011

UFO Orbs In The Sky Over Merced, California – September 24, 2007

John D — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:26:23 +0000

All too often when we see a UFO video posted to YouTube, there are “issues”. Either the clip is too short and barely shows the UFO, there is no wide shot to give us a frame of reference or any number of other factors that make the video worthless as evidence of the UFO phenomena. This is not the case with this series of video posted by YouTube user PSYLEOEIGHT. All total we have nearly 27 minutes of footage showing a group of UFO orbs in the skies above Merced, California on the morning of September 24, 2007. Other than being a prime example of shaky-cam and one other issue that I will discuss later, this is incredible footage. Of the three clips, I find the first the most interesting since the orbs/UFOs appear to be flying in triangle-shaped clusters of 3. While it may be an optical illusion, they appear to remain at a fixed distance from each other. This would seem to indicate that what we are seeing is not a series of balloons released into the sky (which one might be led to believe from the other two videos).

This brings us to the one issue I do have with the videos. All three videos have the unmistakable green tint of a camcorder’s IR/night vision mode, however in the description of the second video the witness claims the sighting occurred between 10 and 11 AM. This would have been in broad daylight. Why would he have needed to shoot in IR mode? The skeptic in me wants to say that it is to make something identifiable and ordinary look out of this world. Meanwhile, the believer in me wants to give the witness the benefit of the doubt and say that either the AM is a typo or that the camera had been permanently converted for IR filming. I have reached out to PSYLEOEIGHT to find out and will post his answer if he replies.

Nighttime UFO Sighting over Merced, California

The Mystery Continues: Abductee Symbol Still Unidentified

John D — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:00:46 +0000

Unidentified symbol related to abductions

Nearly two years ago a strange symbol was brought to my attention by paranormal researcher Chris Holly. She encountered the bizarre glyph while investigating UFO abductions and turned to the internet to aid in identifying its origin. Like many other people she had spoken to, I recognized the symbol, but could not seem to recall from where. This bothered me, so I began my own investigation into the symbols origin. After spending countless hour searching through UFO and abduction reports over the past months, Ms. Holly and myself are no closer to determining the symbols meaning or origin than we were at the beginning of our search.

As part of my investigation, I used Google’s “Search By Image” functionality to try to see if anyone else had posted a similar image online. While the search has continually failed to produce any direct image matches, it has however yielded interesting results. When I searched using a version of the symbol drawn in black, the top similar results were all diagrams of molecules. This has led me to think that the symbol may not actually be a symbol per say, but instead some sort of diagram. Unfortunately, without labels the diagram’s meaning is not immediately apparent. Quite often, abductees under hypnosis recall being shown images by their captors almost as if they were being instructed. I can’t help but wonder if this diagram is part of some such “lesson”. What then could the “lesson” be? Is the symbol a constellation, some sort of chemical or biological structure, or even a road map identifying an important location? Hopefully someone will recognize this series of lines as something familiar. So once again, I would ask that if you happen to have ever seen or are familiar with the symbol/diagram at the top of this post in ANY context, please contact me at john@meetstheweird.com. Any information you could provide is appreciated. Hopefully together we can finally solve this mystery.

UFO Spotted Shadowing Chemtrail Plane – San Jose, CA [October 23, 2011]

John D — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:08:43 +0000

Here we have an interesting video that comes to us via Youtube user “controlfreakssuckass“. Recorded Sunday, October 23rd, the video shows an object that appears to be flying near or in the spray of a chemtrail plane. Judging from the video, the object appears to pass over the chemtrail which gives us an idea of its altitude. What is extremely interesting about this video is that the object appears to change course as the spray plane passes by. It is hard to tell from the video, but the object may have even passed through the trail of “yuck” (to quote the videographer). Because of the near 180 degree shift in the object’s heading, I feel comfortable ruling out a balloon. Also, since we can infer that the object is traveling at high altitude, we can also rule out the object being a bird. This leaves us to ponder exactly what the object might be.

If we look at the context of the sighting, it would almost seem as the object purposefully intercepted the chemtrail plane. Assuming the object passed through the spray (and this is, given the evidence we have, a rather large assumption), it would also seem to reason that the object was “sampling” the chemtrail. While I have my own (wildly unfounded) theories on why this would happen that range from corporate espionage to quality control for a global conspiracy preparing the Earth for an alien invasion, I am interested in hearing what you think is going on here. Let us know your theories in the comments.

UFO OVER SAN JOSE CA. 10/23/11

Two Glowing UFOs Spotted Hovering Over Utrecht, Netherlands [October 19, 2011]

John D — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:40:04 +0000

Normally, I am not one to post videos or pictures of single points of light in the distance, but for some reason this video of two glowing UFOs hovering in the sky that was shot yesterday in Utrecht, Netherlands just seemed to stick out. For one, the person filming seems to be genuinely surprised by what he is seeing. Also, the objects themselves seem to behave in an interesting manner. In most “single point of light” footage there is some apparent movement, here there is none. The objects also disappear and reappear in the exact same position. Normally in “single point of light” videos we see a constant or flickering light. Additionally, the objects remain at the same point in the sky despite lateral camera movement. If we were looking at reflections in the window (which is a common technique in hoax videos) they would have moved with the camera. Ultimately though, we can only speculate on what the two glowing objects really are.