Durante anos, o maior mistério OVNI da Inglaterra foi encoberto, mas um alto funcionário da Força Aérea admite que um artefato "extraterrestre" visitou a base aérea da OTAN na Floresta de Rendlesham em dezembro de 1980.
O ex-Comandante da base aérea na época, Coronel Charles Halt, alega que mesmo que o incidente tenha sido encoberto posteriormente, "extraterrestres" fizeram um contato imediato em Suffolk.
Halt e um grupo de militares viram um OVNI triângular no ar, que deixou vestígios de radioatividade.
O Coronel Halt, agora reformado, disse ao investigador Gary Heseltine : "Os discos voadores que eu vi são máquinas estruturadas que se deslocam sob controle inteligente, e funcionam além do reino de qualquer coisa que eu já vi antes ou depois.
"Eu acredito que os objectos que eu vi de perto eram de origem extra-terrestre".
Ele acrescentou que a Força Aérea depois emitiu "desinformação" para manipular a opinião pública. Seus comentários foram saudados como "sensacionais" pelo antigo investigador de OVNIS do Ministério da Defesa, Nick Pope. Pope disse: "Isso pode nos ajudar finalmente a resolver o maior mistério ufológico britânico".
Espantosos eventos estão ocorrendo ao redor do mundo e nem uma palavra sobre eles é dita ou escrita no Ocidente.
Na Arábia Saudita na semana passada, aconteceu o que poderia ser muito bem a queda de um ovni.
O evento, testemunhado por literalmente milhões de pessoas, foi documentado, e existem várias fotos do objeto.
Fóruns em língua árabe estão agitados, com cidadãos que afirmam ter testemunhado o que está mesmo sendo descrito por alguns órgãos da normalmente conservadora imprensa da Arábia Saudita, como uma possível queda de ovni, ou um ovni que simplesmente executou manobras destinadas a assustar os humanos.
Outros dizem que o objeto foi um asteróide ou um satélite. As testemunhas esperam uma explicação dos meteorologistas locais, mas não receberam nenhuma resposta ainda.
Na quarta-feira, 7 de janeiro, após uma noite de orações, um forte ruído foi ouvido no céu, seguido do avistamento de uma grande e intensa luz a partir do oeste acima de Al-Qasim, região leste da capital da Arábia Saudita, Riyadh.
Muitos habitantes locais tinham visto meteoros antes, mas este, alegaram, não cabia na descrição típica: era de cor verde e azul e disparava lasers verdes.
Uma testemunha, Khalid, comentou: "Ninguém jamais viu nada assim".
Surpreendentemente o incidente não foi notícia no Ocidente, mas o objeto foi visto tão longe quanto o Kuwait.
A ausência completa dessa história na mídia ocidental é realmente surpreendente, já que não se trata de um incidente isolado, envolvendo poucas pessoas vendo coisas estranhas no céu. A polícia da Arábia Saudita recebeu milhares de ligações sobre o ocorrido.
Também foi relatado que milhares de pessoas ficaram aterrorizadas por aquilo que viram e ouviram, e muitos começaram a rezar.
Alguns até mesmo postaram mensagens na internet avisando que isso poderia ser um sinal de Deus para o Reino silencioso sobre Gaza.
Habitantes da região em que o objeto apareceu afirmam que ouviram uma explosão e sentiram um grande tremor, que indica que o objeto caiu.
O governo saudita não liberou informações relativas ao local da queda, mas se sabe que a área foi isolada.
Uma mensagem da Federação Galáctica de Luz anunciou que durante três dias, a partir de 14 de octubro, poderá realizar-se o avistamento de uma grande nave sulcando o céu no hemisfério sul do planeta. A chegada dos alienígenas seria "para ajudar a nosso mundo" É com esta promessa que Blossom Goodchild mantém muita gente com os olhos no céu.
Segue abaixo o vídeo que trouxe à tona essa suposta invasão, tirem as vossas conclusões, será uma jogada de marketing? Será a mais verdadeira realidade? Ou será que ela não tinha mais nada para fazer e quis somente aparecer? Fica aí a dúvida, eu particulamente acredito em vida exterior à Terra, mas não nesse acontecimento que supostamente virá ocorrer dia 14 de outubro.
E pra quem quiser, o site oficial da Blossom Goodchild é:
SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS - Luzes brancas coloridas apareceram no céu do Vale do Paraíba (SP) na madrugada de 25 de Abril de 2008 por cerca de uma hora e 30 minutos. Moradores de São José dos Campos, Caçapava e Jacareí registraram o fenómeno com câmaras de filmar. O engenheiro Valdinei Costa foi um dos que filmaram os pontos luminosos. Costa e a noiva ficaram assustados com o fenômeno e decidiram captar as imagens da janela do prédio, no Jardim Satélite, em São José dos Campos.
"Eu sei bem o que vi. Era uma luz branca grande de onde saltavam outras luzes coloridas menores." No Jardim Morumbi, os pontos no céu também foram avistados. O vigilante Davi Alves Rodrigues afirmou não ter dúvidas de que viu um disco voador. "Vi sim e não foi a primeira vez. Há quatro anos, isso também ocorreu."
As imagens foram analisadas pelo pesquisador Ricardo Varela, do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe), que também é ufólogo. Especialista no assunto, Varela descartou que as luzes possam ser de balões, aviões ou helicópteros. Para ele, é um objeto voador não-identificado (OVNI) ou até mesmo "um disco voador, eu acredito nisso". As imagens continuarão sendo analisadas por Varela.
Uma luz estranha foi vista na estação de Muckaty no norte da Austrália por 6 testemunhas, três funcionários da estação e três turistas europeus. Os relatórios dizem que Ray Ayllet, Normie Hooker, e Alan "Doc" McIntosh, estavam sentados na pérgula da estação com três turistas quando avistaram acima da construção uma intensa luz brilhante. A luz seguiu em linha reta e desapareceu no leste. No dia seguinte o suposto ovni apareceu novamente, mas dessa vez seguia o sentido oeste.
Um perito da RAF (Royal Air Force), a força aérea britânica, revelou ontem como monitorou uma frota de ovnis com radares militares, e como o Ministério da Defesa Britânico exigiu silêncio.
O comandante da força aérea Alan Turner, 64 anos, observou 35 ovnis muito rápidos na tela do radar em 1971. Turner foi o principal operador do sistema de radares da RAF por 29 anos e se aposentou em 1995.
O comandante afirmou que os objectos voavam de uma altitude de 3000 pés, para 60000 pés a quase 300 milhas por hora e que de repente os ovnis sumiam da tela do radar, para momentos depois, reaparecerem.
Seis radares militares além dos operados em Heathrow avistaram os ovnis a leste da planicie de Salisbury.
Relatórios sobre o fenómeno inexplicável foram arquivados em 1971, e Turner fez até mesmo um mapa do vôo dos ovnis, incluindo os locais do aparecimento e desaparecimento dos sinais, como a base da RAF em Lynenham, Wilts, e o transmissor para navegação de aviões em Brookmans Park, Herts.
Três dias mais tarde, o Ministério da Defesa visitou a RAF, e a equipa de funcionários foi instruída a " nunca falar sobre o incidente novamente".
" Os ovnis são um facto, eu segui-os em unidades militares de radar. O que eu vi desafia a lógica, e francamente, é extraordinário. Não foi somente eu. Mais de 30 pares de olhos da equipe de operadores de radar da RAF e operadores do aeroporto de Heathrow testemunharam a mesma coisa.
É arrogante pensar que somos os únicos no universo".
" Eu soube imediatamente que não se tratava de uma esquadrilha de aviões militares, as únicas aeronaves com essa taxa de subida são os aviões supersônicos, mas eles não seriam capazes de realizar uma formação tão perfeita". Eles tambem fazem muito barulho, e ninguem ouviu nada na noite em questão".
O comandante Turner será o orador convidado na conferência Contactos Imediatos que se realizará no próximo mês em Pontfract, West Yorks.
Philip Mantle, da UFO Data Magazine, declarou: "Seu testemunho é notável".
Um grupo de objetos voadores não identificados, entre nove e onze, segundo os observadores, foram filmados por um operador de câmara amador e por um fotógrafo quando voavam em formação simétrica sobre o céu de Sibiu, (centro da Roménia), informam os jornais Tribuna e Ziua.
"Turistas Estranhos" foi o título do jornal Tribuna sobre o fenómeno ocorrido na noite de 23 para 24 de agosto, captado em uma série de nove fotografias que mostram onze pontos luminosos que mudam de posição voando em formação.
Outra testemunha do curioso fenómeno, um operador de câmara amador, filmou da varanda de seu apartamento nove objectos que se moviam da esquerda para a direita. A testemunha telefonou imediatamente para o aeroporto de Sibiu que negou a presença de qualquer vôo no espaço aéreo naquele momento.
A gravação foi analisada por peritos em aviação que descartaram a possibilidade de se tratar de aviões ou helicópteros, segundo Alexandru Ivan, ex-comandante da unidade militar de aviação de Sibiu.
Os que fizeram as imagens insólitas colocaram o material a disposição de especialistas em objectos voadores não identificados, relatam as fontes. Na Roménia frequentemente são relatadas aparições de OVNIS, mas nunca foram acompanhadas de imagens tão claras.
Numa das últimas vezes, camponeses asseguraram que haviam visto sobre o céu uma silhueta voadora parecida com o super-homem.
Um hacker britânico, Gary Mckinnon, violou os computadores da NASA e afirma ter encontrado provas sobre os UFOS e existência alienígena. A notícia foi publicada no jornal Stampa de Torino em 8 maio de 2006
"Possuem a chave da energia inexorável e muitas fotos de astronaves", declarou Mckinnon, que pode pegar 60 anos de prisão. Acusado pelos EUA de ter causado danos de 700 mil dólares, e de ter passado dois anos procurando provas da existência UFO e tecnologia alienígena. E de ter encontrado as tais provas, alegou o jornal.
"Nos arquivos existem muitas fotografias de astronaves alienígenas. Outras foram excluídas para esconder a verdade", contou Mckinnon que hoje, na véspera de sua audiência, volta a falar com o programa "CLICK" da BBC para explicar como fez e o que encontrou nos computadores da NASA.
Japan Air Self Defense Force - defending the sky and Earth
O ministro da Defesa japonês afirmou que a existência de OVNIs é plausível e que as tropas do país devem estar preparadas para reagir caso apareçam discos voadores. O número dois do Governo já havia defendido a mesma ideia.
«Nada nos permite negar a existência de objectos voadores não identificados (OVNIs) nem de uma forma de vida que os controle», declarou Shigeru Ishiba à imprensa, sublinhando que falava a título pessoal.
O ministro declarou que queria estudar como é que as Forças de Autodefesa do país podem reagir caso apareçam discos voadores. Devido à Constituição pacifista do Japão, as suas tropas só estão habilitadas a intervir no estrangeiro em operações em que um país seja invadido por outro.
«Nos filmes Godzilla, as Forças de Autodefesa estão mobilizadas», afirmou, expressando a sua surpresa pelo facto de já existir uma «estrutura legal» em caso de invasão extraterrestre.
Estes comentários do ministro surgem dois dias depois das surpreendentes palavras do número dois e porta-voz do Governo, Nobutaka Machimura, que disse estar «completamente convencido» da existência de OVNIs.
Machimura contradizia, «a título pessoal» uma resolução oficial do Conselho de Ministros que não «confirmava a existência de OVNIs», como resposta a uma pergunta de um senador.
Seis OVNIs são vistos na costa da Ilha Maury semanas antes do famoso incidente de Roswell.
Este evento aconteceu no dia 21 de junho de 1947, três dias antes da conhecida observação feita pelo piloto Kenneth Arnold, perto do monte Rainier, onde ele descreveu nove objetos estranhos como "discos voadores".
Por volta do meio-dia, quatro homens e um cachorro encontravam-se num barco, perto da costa de Tacoma, Estado de Washington. O dono do barco, Harold Dahl, e seus companheiros viram seis objetos em forma de rosquinhas pairando sobre o mar, a uma altitude de aproximadamente 650 metros. Um dos objectos parecia passar por problemas e despejava flocos prateados, semelhantes a papel de aluminio, bem como uma grande quantidade de um material comparado a "escória incandescente".
O disco aparentemente se recuperou, com a ajuda dos outros objetos, e foi embora. Dahl voltou ao caís, relatou a observação a um sujeito chamado Fred Christian, que mais tarde voltou ao local para investigar.
Depois da publicação da noticias sobre o caso na imprensa, várias pessoas demonstraram interesse pelas amostras. Dois oficiais da Força Aérea do Exército do Campo Hamilton, perto de São Francisco, interrogaram as testemunhas, recolheram amostras materiais e decolaram, rumo à base. O avião que os conduzia caiu perto de Kelson, em Washington, e os oficiais morreram no acidente.
Em termos puramente cientificos, esta cada vez mais claro que o fenómeno dos OVNIs não é apenas imaginário. Entretanto, as provas contra a teoria extraterrestre acumularam-se durante a última década. Felizmente, existe um amplo espectro de teorias alternativas que ainda não foram sériamente exploradas pelos pesquisadores dos OVNIs. Eles precisam de factos pesquisar cuidadosamente cada detalhe, para reunir os factos, é preciso voltar aos locais onde os fenómenos foram observados.
Isso o programa "UFO Hunters" (Caçadores de OVNIs) está a fazer com propriedade. Os poucos programas que tive a felicidade de assistir, foram na grande maioria, excelentes. Trata-se de uma nova série do The History Channel onde 4 especialistas de diferentes áreas, como o auxílio da mais alta tecnologia, seguem as pistas em busca da verdade. Com arquivos de vídeos inéditos, documentos secretos e testemunhos de primeira mão, separam a ficção da realidade.
Assista ao episódio "Os OVNIs antes de Roswell" para conhecer melhor este caso e sua conclusão.
Edgar Mitchell não foi o primeiro astronauta a falar abertamente sobre o assunto.
Em entrevista concedida esse mês ao radialista Nick Margerrison, o ex-astronauta da NASA Edgar Mitchell - 77 anos, participante do vôo da Apolo 14 à Lua - confirma a expectativa de toda a comunidade ufológica de que toda (ou pelo menos parte) da verdade sobre o fenômeno UFO está para ser admitida pelo governo americano e, por consegüinte, uma provável abertura dos arquivos secretos. Na entrevista ele diz que a divulgação será ainda este ano ou no ano que vem.
Mitchell afirmou "vi algumas fotos e a aparência dos extraterrestres é similar a imagem tradicional que está difundida sobre eles, que são de tamanho pequeno e grandes olhos e cabeça, estranhos para os seres humanos", e que "contam com avançada ciência e tecnologia, incomparáveis às ciências humanas". Adiantou que "se eles fossem hostis à raça humana, já teríamos desaparecido".
"Fui muito privilegiado em ter estado num grupo restrito que sabe que temos tido visitas em nosso planeta e que o fenômeno OVNI é real. Existem extraterrestre e muitos OVNIs têm visitado a Terra e realizado contatos de terceiro grau com funcionários da NASA. Estive nos círculos militares e de inteligência, que sabem mais do que o público; sim, temos sido visitados. E, lendo os arquivos recentes, vi que isso ocorreu várias vezes. É real o Caso Roswell."
"Digo que me atrevo a revelar a verdade sobre as visitas dos extraterrestres à Terra e que não temo pela minha própria segurança. Outros astronautas também o sabem, há anos. Armstrong também viu OVNIs". Segundo dizem, ao aterrissar na Lua com o módulo lunar Eagle, ele viu três OVNIs de 15 a 30 metros de diâmetro. Convém notar que Amstrong deu uma declaração bem críptica na cerimônia dos 25 anos da missão Apollo 11, onde disse aos estudantes: "Vocês estão entre os melhores da América. Pra vocês digo que só completamos o começo. Deixamos a vocês muitas coisas por fazer. Há grandes idéias não-descobertas... Avanços disponíveis para aqueles que removerem uma das camadas que protegem a Verdade".
Sem demora, autoridades da NASA se apressaram em desmentir que a agência tenha qualquer envolvimento com OVNIs e negou estar envolta em algum tipo ocultamento de informações sobre a vida extraterrestre neste planeta ou em qualquer outro lugar do universo. Segundo eles, "Edgar Michel é um grande estadunidense, mas a NASA não compartilha de suas opiniões sobre o assunto".
Mitchell não foi o primeiro astronauta a falar abertamente sobre o assunto. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr viu e filmou, junto com os colegas, um UFO que parecia acompanhar a nave. Veja a entrevista (com a filmagem) aqui:
Gordon Copper também já falou sobre OVNIs e o caso Roswell, e neste vídeo ele fala sobre um UFO que filmou POUSANDO aqui na Terra (mostrando trens de pouso e tudo) e cujo conteúdo foi confiscado pela aeronáutica:
Aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth for 60 years, the sixth man to walk on the moon has claimed.
Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA but each one was covered up.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'
He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Chillingly, he claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned 'we would be been gone by now'.
Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
'I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,' Dr Mitchell said.
'It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.
'I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it's been happening quite a bit.'
Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.
He told the astonished Kerrang! radio host Nick Margerrison: "This is really starting to open up. I think we're headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction.'
Mr Margerrison said: 'I thought I'd stumbled on some sort of astronaut humour but he was absolutely serious that aliens are definitely out there and there's no debating it.'
Officials from NASA, however, were quick to play the comments down.
In a statement, a spokesman said: "NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.
'Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.'
Versão portuguesa
O sexto homem a andar na superfície lunar disse que alienígenas já contactaram os humanos por diversas vezes mas os governos escondem a verdade por mais de 60 anos.
Edgar Mitchell foi o piloto do Módulo Lunar da Apollo 14.
O astronauta da Apollo 14, Dr. Edgard Mitchell, disse que soube de muitas visitas de OVNIs na Terra durante sua carreira na NASA, mas, que todas elas foram acobertadas.
Dr. Mitchell, 77, disse durante uma entrevista no rádio que fontes na Agência Espacial que tiveram contatos com Aliens os descreveram como sendo "pequenas pessoas que parecem estranhas para nós".
Ele disse que os ETs reais são similares a imagem tradicional que conhecemos de um corpo pequeno com olhos e cabeça grandes.
Friamente, ele disse que nossa tecnologia não "chega nem perto da deles" e se eles tivessem sido hostis "nós já não estaríamos aqui".
Dr. Mitchell, junto com o comandante da Apollo 14 detém o recorde da caminhada lunar mais longa de 9 horas e 17 minutos na missão de 1971.
Eu fui privilegiado o bastante para saber do fato de que nós já fomos visitados neste planeta e o fenômeno OVNI é real, disse o Dr. Mitchell.
"Isso foi muito bem acobertado pelos nossos governos pelos últimos 60 anos, mas, lentamente está vazando e alguns de nós fomos privilegiados em sermos informados um pouco sobre isso".
"Eu estive em círculos militares e de inteligência, que sabem além do conhecimento público e sim, nós estamos sendo visitados. Lendo os jornais recentemente, isso vem acontecendo bastante".
Dr. Mitchell, que tem Bacharelado em Engenharia Aeronáutica e Doutorado em Aeronáutica e Astronáutica disse que Roswell foi real e visitas alienígenas similares continuam a ser investigadas.
Ele disse ao assombrado radialista Nick Margerrison da rádio Kerrang!: "Isso está realmente começando a se abrir. Eu acho que estamos caminhando em direção a uma real revelação e algumas organizações sérias estão se movendo nesse sentido".
Nick Margerrison disse: "Eu achei que fosse algum tipo de humor de astronauta mas ele estava falando absolutamente sério sobre aliens estarem definitivamente lá fora e sobre não haver discussão sobre isso".
Oficiais da NASA, entretanto, foram rápidos em subestimar os comentários.
Em uma declaração, um porta-voz disse: "A NASA não rastreia OVNIs. A NASA não está envolvida em nenhum tipo de acobertamento sobre vida alienígena neste planeta ou em qualquer lugar do Universo".
The 1958 Trindade Island Brazil "saturn"-shaped UFO was photographed while being seen by more qualified observers than any other sighting.
When ufologists can't find strings, shadows or signs that a UFO photo is faked, they question the credibility of the photographer and witnesses. Trained observers -including pilots, ship captains etc- are generally considered good witnesses. It is the credibility of the 47 crew members on the deck of the Brazilian Navy ship "Almirante Saldanha" that makes the Trindade, Brazil UFO photos so interesting.
As part of its contribution to the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, the Brazilian Navy set up a weather station on the small rocky island of Trindade, in the south Atlantic Ocean. Observers began spotting unusual aerial activity visually and on radar. At noon on 16-Jan-1958, the UFO shown here appeared for a few seconds within view of the ship's company. The incident was not isolated, but at least five other sightings had occurred in the island or near the water during the end of 1957 and in January 1958.
The crew onboard saw a grey object approach the island, fly behind a mountain peak and then do a acute-angle turn around and head back the way it came, disappearing at high speed over the horizon. Among those present was civilian photographer Almiro Barauna, who snapped a series of 6 photos in intervals of ~15 seconds, of which 4 showed the UFO. After the ship returned to port, the photos, which had been developed on board in a makeshift darkroom, were turned over to the Brazilian Navy Ministry. Analysts determined the photos to be authentic and concluded they showed a diskoid object moving at 900-1000Km/hr.
According to Capt. Viegas, the object was like a flattened sphere encircled at the equator by a large ring or platform. In Barauna's words, "...it made no noise, although with the shouting of the people on the deck and the noise of the sea, I cannot be certain. It had a metallic look, of an ash color, and has like a condensation of a green vapor around the perimeter, particularly in the advancing edge. Its motion was undulating, like the flight of a bat."
The photos were later released to the Press by the President of Brazil, Mr Joscelino Kubitschek
The Dragon's Triangle is the antithesis of the Devil's Triangle or Bermuda Triangle which lies off the coast of Florida. The Dragon's Triangle is situated off the coast of Japan almost on the same parallel on exactly the opposite side of the world. Just like the Bermuda Triangle the Dragon's Triangle has generated stories for centuries of strange unworldly events. The Dragon's Triangle however has produced much richer details of highly sophisticated flying craft that enter and leave the waters just off the coast of Japan. These flying craft possess amazing capabilities, according to dozens of eyewitness that have observed the craft. These machines can fly at great speeds and maneuver in any direction with tremendous agility. Perhaps the most impressive capability of these craft are their underwater operations. The craft enter the ocean at high rates of speed and dive or skim just under the surface. The wake created when entering or leaving the water can lift a large ocean vessel dangerously high out of the water. Tales of many ships and crew being lost to these treacherous waters goes back thousands of years. More recently Japan lost five military vessels between 1952 and 1954 with combined crews of 700. Japanese Naval officials alarmed by the loss commissioned a research vessel in 1954 with 31 scientists aboard to investigate the strange disappearances. The Kaiyo Maru No. 5 was sent into the heart of the Dragon's triangle and was never heard from again. The Japanese government quickly declared the area a hazard and extremely dangerous to shipping. Japan has a rich and fascinating history with regards to UFOs. The culture has recorded many accounts of encounters with UFOs and their operators. One painting discovered on a cave wall documents two UFOs and their pilots hovering over a herd of wild game animals holding weapons that look like rifles and taking aim at the herd. This is a matter of fact illustration created by someone who most likely witnessed this event. This would seem to have very powerful ramifications. Dozens of these incredible images are known to exist, another color image from 900 A.D. clearly addresses the siting of a flying disc. The highly technical drawing features portals and what appears to be a hatch at the top of the vehicle. One myth that ties all of the recorded sitings together is the enigma of the Dogu. The Dogu figurines have been showing up for centuries, these little clay figures embody the epitome of the modern alien. Thousands have been found and they are believed to be thousands of years old many perhaps dating back 12,000 years. The detail of the figurines is stunning if looked at with modern understanding. The Dogu appear to be wearing a pressure suit. This suit is depicted with valves, gauges, vents, hoses, fittings and a very sophisticated helmet that features large goggles with articulating irises. On the surface these figures could represent the pilots of the craft that have been seen for centuries emanating from the Dragon's triangle. The suits wore by the Dogu could have been both protection from the vacuum of space and the pressures of the deep ocean. One ancient Japanese myth describes how the Dogu came from the ocean each day out onto the land to assist villagers. The Dogu gave instructions to the primitive people on virtually every subject and helped them with learning how to make everyday life easier and more enjoyable. What ever the inspiration for the Dogu figurines it was powerful. The clay spacemen have been found all over the entire country and in great numbers. It is possible that they were seen and interpreted as gods. Their popularity undoubtedly spread across the whole ancient Japanese culture and they were warmly worshiped. Is the Dragon's Triangle just an unstable geological vortex? Are the hundreds of sightings of advanced flying craft a side effect of ocean sickness? In the Atlantium continuum the answer is "NO". In a court of law an overwhelming preponderance of evidence can send a man to the gallows without one stitch of physical evidence. If this same tenant were to be applied to the mystery of the Dragon's Triangle the conclusions could be simply astonishing. ATLANTIUM. Roc Hatfield/Author
Using letters one inch high the Halifax Herald of October 7,1967 informed its readers that two days earlier a UFO had crashed into the waters of the "Sound" adjacent to Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. As those of us that live here can attest, this was a startling headline for what was and still is a very conservative, provincially circulated, daily newspaper. The Herald informed the public that Laurie Wickens, the first of eleven people, had reported to the RCMP Detachment in Barrington Passage, Shelburne County on Nova Scotia's South Shore that an airliner or airplane had crashed into the Sound next to Shag Harbour late in the evening of October 4th.
Wickens and four of his friends were driving through the village of Shag Harbour on Highway 3 at a few minutes after 11 p.m. ADT when they spotted something unusual above and in front of their car. A large object flashing four sequential lights, amber coloured descended at a modest rate of speed at an angle of approximately forty five-degrees. From their vanatage point it looked like the object was going to go down into the waters of the Harbour.
Wickens endevoured to keep the object in sight while he drove his vehicle through the village and westward to the otherside whereupon at this point the UFO dissappeared behind some trees and a small hill. It was only a matter of seconds before he rounded a turn from behind the hill which brought him to right up to the Shore of "The Sound" a body of water adjacent to Shag Harbour.
Wickens drove onto the gravelled shore-side parking lot of an Irish Moss Plant. The five witnesses sprang from their car, ran to the water's edge and stood watching a "Dark Object" floating or hovering just above the water. The flashing lights had extinguished to be replaced with one pale, constant yellow light that appeared to be on top of the object located about eight or nine hundred feet from their position and drifting with the ebbtide. Records show and the witnesses have stated that on the night of October 4,1967 the night was cool and extremely clear with no moon. The winds were calm and the sky a blanket of stars.
Laurie Wickens' friends were as excited as himself. Concerned, they debated for a moment what to do. Wickens decided finally that rather than drive ten miles back to the RCMP detachment in Barrington Passage or wake up someone in the village, he would go a short distance west to the village of Wood's Harbour and use a pay telephone at a gas station. There he contacted RCMP Corporal Werbicki and reported that he saw a big airplane or small airliner crash into the Sound next to "the Harbour". The eighteen year old fisherman was surprised when Werbicki asked him if he had been drinking. Wickens denied this and was then told to hang up but to remain by the payphone.
Werbicki had a couple of constables over in that area and was about to contact them by radio when his phone rang once more and was informed by Mary Banks on Maggie Garron's Point, an area adjoining the "Sound" and Prospect Point at the western end of Shag Harbour, that she saw an airplane crash into the "Sound". That was enough for Werbicki. He contacted his constables, Ron O'Brien and Ron Pond and ordered them back to the detachment. Two more calls came in, one from a man in nearby Bear Point and another from two women over on Cape Sable Island 13 miles away, claiming she and another woman had seen the same thing. The man in Bear Point claimed he hear a whistle and a bang. Earlier one of Wickens' companions said she heard a whistling noise and a whoose. Corporal Werebicki called Wickens back,asking him to meet himself and the other Mounties at the Moss Plant.
Shortly before Laurie Wickens and his friends pursued the object through the village of Shag Harbour, two eighteen year old fishermen a few miles to the east of Shag Harbour were returning from a date with their girfriends on Cape Sable Island. They had just entered a portion of Highway 3 that runs across the base of Bear Point when the passenger, Norman Smith, pointed out to the driver, David Kendrick, an unusual object in the night sky hanging at a 45 degree angle pointing down toward Shag Harbour. They noted four to five amber or orange coloured lights flashing sequentially and what for a moment Norm thought might be the windows of an airliner. Dave Kendricks had to satisfy himself with only occasional glimpses of the object while driving along a narrow,twisting and hilly road bordered on either side by knarled and stunted, spruce trees blasted by years of nor'easters. They soon lost sight of the object behind the treeline in the direction of Shag Harbour some two miles distant.
Minutes later Dave dropped Norm off at his house and left, eager to get home to bed because he had an early start the next morning. Norm though was walking toward the house when he spotted the object again, this time nearly down to the "Harbour". He ran inside and pulled his father Wifred out to the front yard. He was intime to observe the object drop behind a small hill a short distance away. He agreed with Norm that it must have gone down into the "Harbour" and they decided to go there to see if there was anything they could do. Both men were sure it was an airliner in distress. Wifred hurried back inside to get dressed.
The distance between Highway 3 and the shoreline of the Sound at the Irish Moss Plant is about one hundred feet and affords an unobstucted view out into the "Sound"to the south. It is bound on the left by Maggie Garron's Point and Prospect point and to right by "the Outer Island" a three mile long by quarter mile wide strip of rock and sand covered by spruce trees and marsh grass. Between the two shores is the body of water, known as the "Sound", about two miles wide and four miles long and open to the Atlantic Ocean. Drifting placidly upon the "Sound"on a gentle swell about twelve hundred feet from the Moss Plant and a quarter mile east of Outer Island, was a "Dark Object".
Laurie Wickens and his friends stood once more on the shore and watched it. Moments later two RCMP cruisers crunched onto the gravel parking lot followed shortly after by Norm and Wifred Smith in their pickup. Everyone stood and watched for a moment. Werbicki had to have the object pointed out to him by Wickens, but eventually he too spotted the pale yellow light on the craft and the dark area below it which he figured was about sixty feet wide. Norm Smith estimated the height of the object to be about ten feet by measuring it against the height of a buoy called the "Budget Light" nearby.
Now that he could see it with his own eyes, Werbicki was concerned for survivors that might either be on the object or in the water. He gave orders for Constable Pond to start taking statements and to keep an eye on the light. He ordered Constable O'Brien to go to one of the houses nearby, contact by telephone the Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, advise them of the situation and ask them to try and determine what aircraft might have gone in the waters here or if any were missing. In the meantime he was going to another house and call two of the local fishermen who had their own boats and get someone out there as soon as possible. But before they could leave one of the witnesses yelled that it was going down.
Everybody turned their attention to the "dark object". It was evident it was slipping under the waters of the Sound. The pale yellow light extinguished and the object disappeared from sight. Only five or six minutes had passed, barely enough time to react, and now there was no time left. Werbicki and O'Brien left the area to carry out their tasks.
Bradford Shand and Lawrence Smith, Norman Smith's uncle, were two of the first fishingboat owners contacted and each agreed immediatly to go to their boats berthed at the Government Wharf at the center of the village. Two of the Mounties, Werbicki and O'Brien split up, one each to a boat. Constable Pond was left to continue his interviews with the witnesses.
Young Norm Smith went out with Brad Shand while Wifred, his father, climbed aboard his brother Lawrence's boat. Within minutes they had cast off and were making to the west of the harbour, through the channel at Prospect Point and out onto the Sound.
In the lead, Lawrence Smith took a sighting on the "Budget Light" and began to run down on it. One mile out on the Sound they ran into the first evidence of the Dark Object they had watched from the shore, a 3 or 4 inch thick,glittery, yellow foam stretching down the Sound for a half mile and about two boat lengths or eighty feet wide. Bubbles roiled to the surface in places, and there was the smell of sulpher in the area.
Neither Lawrence Smith nor Bradford Shand were fussy about sailing through the stuff and expressed concerns about buoyancy. But their choices were limited. This was the area where the "airplane" went down and the most likely place for survivors. So with trepidation and a natural reluctance to finally come upon what all of them feared and believed was there, bodies and hopefully some survivors, they carried on their search. Nearly an hour later, still nothing had been found and now Coast Guard Cutter 101 arrived on site from its berth at Cape Sable Island some 15 miles away. It was nearly 12:45 A.M. Local and hope was fading fast for there being any survivors. Werbicki was called to the cabin on Shand's boat. Bradford handed him the mic from the vessel's marine band radio informing him that there was a message from the skipper of the Coast Guard Cutter, Ronnie Newell. Newell reported that he had just received a message from the Rescue Coordination Center the military manned facility in Halifax. All aircraft, both commercial and military were accounted for up and down the eastern seaboard of Atlantic Canada, and well down into New England and no private aircraft were reported missing or overdue.
Corporal Werbicki informed the others on his vessel and the word quickly spread through the now expanded flotilla of six small craft. No airplane had crashed here. That of course made the next question obvious to the searchers. If no airplane had crashed here, then what the hell were they looking for? What indeed.
The Air Desk in Ottawa, that sector of the Royal Canadian Air Force responsible for the gathering and investigation of UFO reports, tagged the sighting as the crash of a UFO and in other reports refer to it as a "dark object". The RCMP in their reports refer to the craft as a UFO. They had no choice for all other explanations for the event did not fit the scenario.
What ever crashed or "landed" in the waters near Shag Harbour was not a meteor, meteor train, space junk or any earthly vehicle. Even errant Soviet or American missile shots have been ruled out as has the possiblity of it being a dropped H-bomb as happened in the waters off Spain.
One thing is for certain. This event was probably the most documented case of a UFO crash in the history of UFO crashes and somehow got missed by UFO researchers over the years, despite the fact that as Case # 34 it was classed as one of the few unsolved cases in the infamous Condon Report. Like Roswell and the "dark object" this case sank into oblivion, not to resurface until Chris styles, later joined by myself, rediscovered it 26 years later. Now 30 years later and four years into the investigation, the evidence has grown to the point that we are certain that what happened at Shag Harbour was only the tip of the iceberg and the beginning of a seven day adventure involving two objects, the navy and airforces of two countries and NORAD.
How can we estimate the number of technological civilizations that might exist among the stars? While working as a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, Dr. Frank Drake (now Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute) conceived an approach to bound the terms involved in estimating the number of technological civilizations that may exist in our galaxy. The Drake Equation, as it has come to be known, was first presented by Drake in 1961 and identifies specific factors thought to play a role in the development of such civilizations. Although there is no unique solution to this equation, it is a generally accepted tool used by the scientific community to examine these factors.
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, made the following comment to the press in 1954:
"More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation... I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source." (Sunday Dispatch, London, July 11, 1954.)
President Jimmy Carter, during his election campaign in May 1976:
" I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one... " (The National Enquirer, June 8, 1976, "The Night I Saw a UFO." Statement confirmed by White House special assistant media liaison, Jim Purks, in an April 20, 1979 letter.)
In October of '69, Jimmy Carter witnessed a UFO. From "Above Top Secret" (book): During his election campaign of 1976 he told the following to reporters:
"It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon.. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky.”
Professor Hermann Oberth, German rocket expert
"It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries.” (Oberth H., "Flying Saucers Come From A Distant World," The American Weekly, October 24, 1954.)
"It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range scientific investigations of our earth for centuries." (UFO News, 1974.)
Gordon Cooper, Astronaut (Mercury), November 9, 1978:
"I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth.”
“Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.”
A crowd of 100 stunned stargazers brought a town centre to a standstill when five mysterious UFOs were spotted hovering in the sky.
Drinkers spilled out of pubs, motorists stopped to gawp and camera phones were aimed upwards as the five orbs, in a seeming formation, hovered above Stratford-Upon-Avon for half an hour.
The unidentified flying objects lit up the otherwise clear night sky above Shakespeare's birthplace in Warwickshire on Saturday.
The strange episode started just after 10.30pm, when the lights were seen hovering slowly over the town before three of them formed a triangular shape with one positioned just to the right.
A few minutes later a fifth came into view travelling towards the others at breakneck speed before slowing down and stopping a short distance away.
Sceptics dismissed the UFOs as nothing more than hot air balloons, fireworks or even lanterns which had broken loose from a local rugby club.
Others, however, claimed the speed and agility of the objects was unlike any known aircraft and said the odd movement, lack of noise and the length of time in the air discounted any man-made explanation.
Tom Hawkes, who captured these amazing images, spotted the lights during his girlfriend Kate Lyall's birthday at the One Elm pub.
He and the 15 other revellers were in the bar when they spotted some commotion outside.
Tom, 30, said: "We walked outside and there was at that time a growing crowd of about 60 people looking up at something in the sky.
"I saw this light appear, then three others. They came over our heads in formation but then manouvered into different positions.
"Three had formed a triangular shape and one was to the right. Then another one came hurtling towards the rest at what looked like a very fast speed. But as it neared them it suddenly slowed and stopped altogether.
"By this time more people had poured out onto the street. Two pubs had emptied, some people had come out of their houses and drivers slowed their cars.
"The objects were there for about half an hour. It was very eerie because they didn't make any sound and they stayed still before moving slowly beyond the horizon. There were no stars in the sky, just them.
"It was the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen and the way in which everyone gathered in the street to watch them reminded me of a scene from Independence Day."
The extraordinary scenes were also witnessed by some of the staff of the One Elm pub.
Chef Kern Griffiths, 26, said: "I saw five lights, we all thought they were hot air balloons at first because the glowing spheres looked like a burst of flames. But I couldn't see any outline of the balloon itself and they were travelling far too fast.
"Suddenly someone shouted 'look' and there were these bright dots fizzing across the sky.
"It was weird, they way they moved did look alien. Some people reckon they're fireworks but they were lit up in the sky for far too long, the local rugby club say they were lanterns that blew loose over the weekend but these objects were far too fast and too high up.
"They were unlike any aircraft I've seen. It's a mystery."
Hillary Potter from The British Earth Aerial Mystery Society (BEAMS) said they were being inundated with similar calls from across the country but said it was rare for such phenomena to be witnessed by so many people.
She said: "Such incidents have been on the increase recently. There are reports at the moment coming in from all over the country.
"We've had many reports of people seeing quite large unidentified objects in the skies. It's not going away, It seems these incidents are becoming more bold.
"People don't know what to do when they witness such sights and that's what we're here for. We take the reports very seriously."
A Mod Spokesman said: "The MoD does not have any expertise or role in respect of UFOs or flying saucer matters or to the question of the existence of extra terrestrial life forms, about which we remain totally open minded.
"I should add that to date the MoD knows of no evidence which substantiates the existence of these alleged phenomena. The MoD examines any reports of unidentified flying objects it receives solely to establish whether what was seen might have some defence significance.
"Namely whether there is any evidence that the UK air space might have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised foreign military activity.
"Unless there is evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom from an external military source, and to date no UFO report has revealed such evidence, we do not attempt to identify the precise nature of each sighting reported to us.
"We believe that rational explanations such as aircraft lights or natural phenomena could be found for them if resources were diverted for this purpose but its not the function of the MoD to provide this kind of aerial identification service."
Frankie Spray, from Wellesbourne Airfield, just outside Stratford, added: "The lights were nothing to do with us. None of our aircraft fly at night at this time of year.
"It's very bizarre but I've got no explanation as to what the lights were."
Birmingham Air Space which covers the skies over the town said they had not heard of any unusual activity showing up on the radar.