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Gone with the wind – balloons and UAP

April 27th, 2013 |

Hi all,

Introduction:

Balloons of all kinds can cause reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP.) Long term readers of this blog may recall that I wrote a series of posts about the stratospheric balloon program known as HIBAL. In Australia, HIBAL was a joint program between the US Atomic Energy Commission and the Australian Department of Supply, launching large balloons from Mildura, Victoria. For newer blog readers, you might wish to take a look at these posts, click here; here ; here ; here and here

Early reports:

In June 1948, US pilot Captain Thomas Mantell died while attempting to intercept a UAP. However, later data suggested that the UAP was most likely a US Navy Skyhook balloon (click here.) Writing about James E McDonald, in her 2003 book “Firestorm” Ann Druffel wrote “McDonald was satisfied that Moore’s balloon-flight data explained the Mantell incident…” (Druffel. Wild Flower Press. p.72.)

Another US Skyhook balloon, in October 1953, crossed from the US to the United Kingdom (UK) and on 3 Nov 1953 was spotted near London by a Royal Air Force aircraft. However, it wasn’t until “2004 that British Intelligence concluded this UFO was a Skyhook balloon.” (Clarke, D. 2012. “The UFO Files.” Bloomsbury. London. pp 57 and 163.)

A team from Bristol University in the UK launched 300-400 foot diameter balloons, in a cosmic ray research program which landed in such diverse places as Ireland and France. In July 1954 one balloon flew over London and caused flying saucer reports. (Clarke p.63.)

In February 1956 reports of a flying saucer flooded in from South Wales and England. A naval aircraft took off to investigate and flew to 35,000 feet. However, the object ws still higher than this. The pilot’s log book notes that the object was “…probably a cosmic ray research balloon.” (Clarke pp64-65.)

Russian balloon:

Sometime in the 1960′s US Oxcart (click here) aircraft pilot Ken Collins was sent on a mission to locate “…a Russian reconnaissance balloon was flying across the United States, floating with the prevailing winds in a westerly direction…on direct orders by the Pentagon to ‘hunt and find’ the Soviet weather balloon visually and using radar…flying somewhere over the middle of the continent, Collins briefly identified an object on radar about 350 miles away…he never saw the balloon with his own eyes.” (Jacobsen, A. 2011. “Area 51.” Orion. London.)

Madrid:

In 1968 Madrid was the scene of report by hundreds of people who saw tetrahedron shaped UAP crossing the sky. Photographs (for one click here) were taken of the object. Research later determined that the object(s) were French research balloons (click here.)

Australia:

Here in Australia, also in 1968, persons in Sydney reported a UAP in the northern sky, travelling along at a rapid pace. It turned out that the University of Adelaide had launched a balloon with a telescope attached, launched from Mildura in Victoria. (McCraken. K. 2008. “Blast Off.” New Holland Publishers. Sydney.)

The following year, numerous reports were received from people around Amberley, Queensland, on 29 August. Witnesses stated that they saw a “balloon-like” object to the south. A RAAF Canberra aircraft located the cause of the sightings as a balloon over Milmerran at 6,000 feet. Later it was revealed that the balloon launching station at Mildura had launched a balloon on 25 August which failed to self-destruct and floated over south-eastern Queensland. (National Archives of Australia (NAA) file series A703 control symbol 580/1/1.)

On 19 May 1988, a witness was travelling by car near Bandendone, Queensland and at 1.25pm saw an object in the sky, reflecting “metal-like” in the sunlight. There was no associated sound. It appeared to be hovering before rising steadily as it travelled east. An Excite x-ray telescope had been launched by a balloon from Alice Springs, NT that day and appears to have caused the report. (NAA file series A703 control symbol 580/1/1.)

Smaller balloons:

Thousands of meteorological balloons are launched from airports and other sites every day to obtain details of the atmospheric conditions. If you live near one of these sites you may, from time to time, see these balloons and their associated equipment ascending into the sky, or the equipment descending if the balloon itself has burst.

Since the mid 1990′s hundreds of reports have been received by Australian UAP research groups, which describe either single, or multiple in formation, orange coloured lights travelling across the night sky. These observations have come from most Australian capital cities and many regional centres.

Investigation of thes reports indicate that the source are hot air filled garbage bags launched by individuals trying to cause UAP reports. The reports tend to come in clusters, e.g. around the Narre Warren area of Melbourne, Victoria in June 1996 ; Townsville, Queensland in July 1998. People have been seen launching these bags; and remains of bags have been found. These kind of UAP continue to be reported today. The latest known to me was observed from Mawson Lakes, a northern Adelaide suburb in early March 2013.

In the UK hundreds of UAP reports are believed to have been due to Chinese lanterns being launched into the skies, in recent years (for video click here.)

In conclusion:

When analysing UAP reports, the possibility that the cause might be a hot air garbage bag; a meteorological weather balloon or a stratospheric large diameter research balloon should always be considered.

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It’s Friday! I’m gone!

April 20th, 2013 |

Author: Seraphin

The quest for standup witnesses to and images of the famous 2006 O’Hair International Airport UFO incident most recently led De Void into one of the most shameful and ignominious dead ends in the history of American UFO journalism. The devil horns were what really stomped my face. Anyhow, the goods are still out there, somewhere, so try to imagine Robert Sarmiento’s sudden euphoria when he thought he’d stumbled upon the holy grail. He’s a “closet X-Files fan” who also… Read More »
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Forget WikiLeaks: Manning Should Have Gone to NYT – Newser

March 11th, 2013 |

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Forget WikiLeaks: Manning Should Have Gone to NYT
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(Newser) – Bradley Manning told a military court that he'd tried to contact the New York Times with the host of diplomatic cables that ended up hitting WikiLeaks. Things might have been different if he'd succeeded, speculates Bill Keller in the Times. Private …

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A missed chance, gone forever

April 27th, 2012 |

Author: Seraphin

Earlier this month, as NASA began to disperse its space shuttle fleet to museums across the country, someone posted a video of the STS-115 mission as proof that Atlantis had encountered UFOs. Others ran with the 9.5-minute snippet as well; one blogger based in (gulp) Nigeria tacked on the headline “Did NASA Cover Up a UFO Sighting on Space Shuttle Atlantis?” Actually, the chatter between Atlantis Cdr. Brent Jett and mission control in Houston was pretty interesting, but there was nothing… Read More »
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This a Real Alien Footage (1990) No BS

December 15th, 2011 |

Author: Seraphin

=====================================================FAIR USE- “Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.” =====================================================

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iOS Apps Gone Free: PuzzleGo, Yapa, Perfect Captions, And Hipsta Chez – AppAdvice

October 17th, 2011 |

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iOS Apps Gone Free: PuzzleGo, Yapa, Perfect Captions, And Hipsta Chez
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If that weren't enough head scratching, we have a physics puzzler where you must maneuver a UFO to solve baffling mazes of obstacles. Come across a real UFO? Add that perfect caption and share those photos quickly with a fun, free photo app. …

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Where Have the UFOs Gone?

October 1st, 2011 |

Author: Seraphin

The late Karl Pflock and I used to talk about why there were no more really good UFO sightings. We weren’t getting the kind of reports that had been so prevalent at the beginning of the modern era. Nothing as robust or as interesting as those over Washington, D.C., or at Levelland, Texas. In today’s world, it seem as if the UFOs stayed up in the air, usually away from the witnesses, and did nothing other than cross the sky in a straight line.? ?

Karl Pflock (right) and me.

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We can point to all sorts of interesting sightings in the past, some of which had mundane answers and some of which are still puzzling today. There was, of course, the Arnold sighting. He believed he saw a number of objects that he timed as traveling at 1800 miles an hour, or much faster than anything flying at the time, other than rockets and missiles, and they didn’t fly in formation.

There is a possibility that another man, Fred Johnson, saw the same objects about the time that Arnold lost sight of them. He reported that his compass spun wildly while the objects were overhead, but when they disappeared, the compass settled down. You can argue, and I’m sure some will, that the Johnson sighting isn’t related to that of Arnold, or that it is a hoax based on the Arnold sighting, or if related, doesn’t really add much to our overall knowledge.

But the point is that there are two sightings that seem to go together to create a nice little anomaly. Arnold might have been fooled. Johnson might have been inventing the tale. Or maybe they both witnessed something unusual that provided interesting descriptions and even one of the first cases with electro-magnetic effects.

Or take the Washington Nationals from late July 1952. Here was a series of sightings spread over two Saturday nights in which airline pilots, jet interceptor pilots, people on the ground, and radar operators reported strange lights and strange blips over Washington, D.C.

I talked to both Al Chop and Major Dewey Fournet, both associated with the official UFO investigation in 1952, and who had been in the radar room on that second Saturday. They told me there had been one intercept that had gotten “hairy,” meaning dangerous. According to them, and they were watching in the radar rooms at Washington National and listening to the interceptor pilots talking to one another, as they Air Force attempted to catch the UFOs the interceptor pilot found himself surrounded by the lights. It was all tracked on radar. What the pilot, William Patterson said over the radio, the men in the radar center could see on the scope. Patterson decided to break off the intercept at that point.

It doesn’t matter here if you believe that Patterson intercepted and the radar showed alien craft. What matters here is the nature of the sighting, meaning it was robust. There were those in radar centers who watched it all on the scopes, there were the pilots seeing the objects where the radar said they were. The sightings lasted for hours, though not continuously, and there were many witnesses.

True, the Air Force eventually wrote the sightings off as temperature inversions, and it does seem that temperature inversion was responsible for some of the radar returns, but that doesn’t explain the lights in the sky and it doesn’t square with what the controllers, who saw the blips, said. They told investigators that they were familiar with the way weather phenomena were displayed on the radar scopes and these blips didn’t look like that.

In today’s world, we get nothing as interesting. Nothing with multiple chains of evidence, with literally dozens of witnesses. We have one or two people seeing a light, or we get a cell phone video that doesn’t do much to increase our knowledge. Just some image that could be almost anything but that has fooled the person who recorded it.

Karl and I tried to figure this out. I suppose you could say that people today don’t have the imagination of those fifty years ago. I suppose you could say that people today are more familiar with what is in the sky around them. I suppose you could say that we are all more in tune with our environment.

Or maybe you could say that the aliens, from wherever they came, have now gone home to study the data they collected. Think of it as our exploration of the moon. In 1969, and for the next couple of years, if you were living on the moon, you would have had lots of UFO sightings, including landings. But, since 1972, there hasn’t been a whole lot of activity. We gathered our samples and went home.

Oh, sure, the analogy breaks down when you say, “But we left physical evidence behind to prove we were there… and it was only the landings of astronauts that have ended. Other moon missions have been lost.”

But then I say, “Yeah, but the robust sightings have ended.”

Yes, there have been some interesting sightings. There are those from Bentwaters and, of course Belgium, but these are the exceptions. The older sightings have more witnesses, more data, more evidence than those of today, with rare exception.

Karl and I never really came to a conclusion about this, other than collecting more sighting reports wouldn’t expand our knowledge much. We never really found a satisfactory answer for the change. We agreed that older cases were more interesting than newer case but we didn’t really know why.

Oh, Karl believed that the Hills had been abducted, but I disagreed. I believed the answer would be found in the terrestrial. Neither of us thought much of the widespread claims of abduction, though it might have supplied part of the answer. Too many research assets were diverted into abduction research without much in the way of tangible results.

I suppose I could say the same thing about crop circles. These had once been called UFO landing sites, or UFO nests, but evolved into crop circles, which were another subset of the UFO phenomenon.

And I know the number of sightings has increased recently, but these are sightings, often with pictures that don’t add much to the case. Sometimes it’s clear that the pictures are lens flares, clouds, or other natural phenomena, and some times the cases are simple hoaxes.

The point, again, is that the sightings aren’t nearly as exciting as they were forty or fifty years ago, and I have no explanation for that. Maybe it’s all just a matter of perspective.

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A Bigfoot Story Gone Mad – The Movie

September 25th, 2011 |

Author: Seraphin

	A Bigfoot Story Gone Mad – The Movie "Two Bloody Thumbs Up!" – Cult Movies Magazine – Take a wild ride deep into the remote Appalachian mountains of North Carolina in search of Bigfoot. DJ Galloway, journalist and former Miami Herald reporter, leads an investigation of a serge of Bigfoot sightings and animal killings that are being reported throughout the community of Transylvania County, North Carolina. This investigation and the trail of discovery that follow, provides positive proof that something strange is happening in this remote region. WINNER! New York International Film Festival – Best Narrative Feature "Deliverance Meets the Blair Witch Project" – Assemblyman Joe Neal, Hopkins, SC "This ain't no hoax, I've seen the beast!" – Sheriff Big Jake Galloway "It was tall, wooly, black and big!" – Romane Johnson, Indian Camp Mountain Resident NOW Available on DVD – The Long way Home: A Bigfoot Story – LOADED with Bonus Features, Cat#U669, Go to www.UFOTV.com.	From: UFOTVstudios Views: 8160 105 ratings
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Where have New Brunswick’s UFOs gone? The truth is out there – Yahoo! News Canada (blog)

August 31st, 2011 |

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Where have New Brunswick's UFOs gone? The truth is out there
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Apparently UFO sightings are down in the Atlantic province, the Moncton Times&Transcript reports. It may be that residents just aren't watching the skies, but for whatever reason there are fewer reports coming from the province, says Chris Rutkowski of …
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