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Julian Assange's bail backers will plead to keep their money
Democratic Underground Among those arguing to keep their money is Vaughan Smith, who allowed the Wikileaks founder to stay at his home in Norfolk, Ellingham Hall, for over a year whilst Mr Assange fought extradition. Mr Smith stands to lose the £20000 he put up as bail money for … |
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For approximately 20 minutes on April 6, 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at approximately 11.00 a.m., over 200 students and teachers at two Victorian state schools observed a flying disc, which hovered, then descended into a nearby open grass field. The field was near a grove of pine trees in an area known as The Grange, which is now a nature reserve. As some students raced to follow the object, it then ascended in a north-westerly direction, flying over the suburb of Clayton South, Victoria, Australia.
One student, a young girl, collapsed as she approached the landed craft. She was later whisked away from the scene, never to be seen by other students again.
After the encounter, teachers were threatened not to say anything about the “flying saucer”. There was a cover-up and the sighting was seldom mentioned, until now.
Referred to as Australia’s Roswell, The Westall UFO Encounter goes into the history books as one of the largest and most important mass sightings of our time.
This Australian documentary about the 1966 Westall UFO Encounter, stands out as one of the best I’ve ever seen.
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AMC has ordered a pilot episode for a scripted dramatic television series about the secretive military installation in Nevada known as Area 51. And the basis for this show will be Annie Jacobsen’s book Area 51, an uncensored history of America’s TOP SECRET military base.
Area 51 book cover. (Credit: Little, Brown and Company)
Jacobsen reportedly interviewed more than nineteen men who worked at Area 51 for her book that “explores the myths about the area and those who believe that region is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems and nuclear facilities, according to the Hollywood Reporter. This book, published in May 2011, met with harsh criticism because of many questionable assertions made by Jacobsen. Most notably was the inclusion of an explanation for what crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. She claims an anonymous witness informed her that the craft recovered at Roswell was actually an advanced German aircraft, and that the bodies recovered from the crash were children that had been mutilated by infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. This craft was allegedly ordered over the U.S. by Joseph Stalin, hoping to trick Americans into thinking it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft, which would result in a mass panic similar to the one caused by the 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Many doubt the veracity of this Roswell story, including ABC reporter Bill Weir. Weir also interviewed this anonymous witness, but says the witness asserts he did not make all of the claims laid out in the book. The former Area 51 employees interviewed by Jacobsen have also stated how they feel betrayed, and they feel that certain fictitious elements, including the Roswell story, were added to bolster book sales.
The controversy surrounding Jacobsen and her book doesn’t seem to bother AMC, however, and the cable network has even tapped Jacobsen to serve as a co-producer of the show. Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd will reportedly executive produce, and Todd E. Kessler (The Good Wife) will create the script.
The Hollywood Reporter describes that Area 51, the show, “will take place in the 1950s-1960s and will focus on those who work at the base and protect the country’s secrets — including the remains of the alleged alien crash at Roswell.”
Although it has been less than a decade since the government acknowledged the existence of Area 51, there is already a wealth of information provided by former base workers about the base itself, and about formerly top-secret projects that took place there. Many former workers have shared their stories with the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. With this information, the museum opened an Area 51 exhibit this year titled Area 51: Myth or Reality? Perhaps a wiser decision for AMC would have been to work with the National Atomic Testing Museum, a Smithsonian-affiliated museum, rather than with the author of such a controversial book.
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Why assign a non-believer to UFO coverage?
Washington Post Regarding John Kelly's July 22 Metro column, “The time when the city thought aliens had descended”: The Post continues to allow a columnist whose bias on unidentified flying objects has been revealed in previous articles to write on the subject. Kelly … |
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It’s interesting that most of the media coverage about the 2011 Canadian UFO Survey has been fair and unbiased. The Daily Mail story today was pretty good, all things considered.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179685/UFO-sightings-Canada-reach-record-high.html
Sure, their lead suggests that there haven’t been UFOs reported in Canada until now, but that’s about par for the course. But beyond that, there wasn’t an injection of silliness about “alien rectal probes” and things like that (as some media have done in the past). Considering we stayed away from speculation about extraterrestrials, that was good. (Although they did use stock photos of saucers, none of which were from Canada.)
But others are not so sensible.
In fact, one skeptic’s comment on a news blog noted:
Giving fancy names like “Ufologist”, “Ufology Research Centre”, etc. is just an effort to make you think these are legitimate scientists. If they want to be legitimate scientist I challenge them to follow standard scientific methodologies and PROVE that we have been visited by aliens by providing hard evidence that can be independently verified by other scientists instead of challenging real scientist to disprove their existence. You would think that with all the reported crashed UFO’s around the world that there would be some sort of physical evidence…which makes me think…these UFO’s travel billions of miles or cross inter-dimensional space to get here only to crash on the lump of rock we call home. Seems to me that either the pilots are incompetent or their crafts are pieces of junk. Lastly…why is there so much interest in “Ufology”? Just follow the money.
This is so ridiculous on so many levels, it wouldn’t normally be worth discussing at length, but it does raise an important issue about the legitimacy of UFO-related research.
What is “Ufology Research,” anyway? It’s not based at any academic institution, and not affiliated with any think tank or corporate entity such as the Bilderbergs, so does anything that Ufology Research have to say of any value? Obviously, the poster doesn’t consider us “legitimate scientists,” either, or we wouldn’t study UFO reports.
As for following “standard scientific methodologies,” the poster has likely not read the study. In fact, that’s obvious because we make it clear that we are not talking about extraterrestrials or trying to “PROVE” that aliens are visiting Earth. And we’re certainly not challenging scientists to disprove anything. We’re providing data on observations of objects.
So is the Canadian UFO Survey “legitimate?” In the sense that we have examined about 1,000 actual reports submitted in 2011 by individuals puzzled by their observations, our analyses of these reports are completely legitimate: true and accurate. We even provide the actual data so that others can check the calculations.
So, “legitimate?” Sure.
Is it worth anything? Maybe.
Does it prove UFOs and aliens are real?
Huh?
[Oh, and what's this about "follow the money?" Did NASA send me a cheque it got lost in the mail?]
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Ecuador: US WikiLeaks extradition would be "evil"
TG Daily The Ecuadorian government is reportedly attempting to prevent the "evil" extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Assange entered Ecuadorian embassy in London on June 19 after all attempts to fight extradition to Sweden … |
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