Hello fellow Earthlings and other possible readers! It’s time for the results from the Alieneight poll that started April 13, 2011. The question was, “Do you believe that Earth has ever been visited by aliens?”

Eighty-two percent of readers said that they believe that Earth has been visited sometime in its history by aliens from another planet. Only 8 percent didn’t believe in alien visitors, and 10 percent weren’t certain.

This is the second of our polls for 2011, and more are being planned. A total of 480 readers participated in this poll question.
Every year, literally hundreds of UFO sightings are reported all over the world. Some are obvious fakes, while others leave even the experts wondering if we have indeed been visited by a close encounter of the third kind. There are many conspiracy theories that say the government is hiding the “truth” from us, but there has yet to be an undisputable evidence of either that or an actual alien visit from outer space or elsewhere.

Yet, with all the millions of stars and galaxies out there in the Milky Way and beyond, it seems realistic that there are life forms other than us out there somewhere. And if there indeed are aliens out there, it stands to reason that they would be just as curious as we are about the stars and planets around them.

So, if any of these aliens are advanced enough to travel the stars, wouldn’t they have a space program of sorts that seeks out new life and new civilizations? It would seem logical that would be true.

So, perhaps someday there will be the indisputable proof needed to show that aliens have indeed visited our great planet, Earth. Until then, at least 82 percent of our readers have already made it known that they don’t need that proof and already believe.

If UFO's truly are spacecraft from another world then one would have to realize that, like any built thing, accidents can happen. Even without knowing what makes them fly or who or how they operate, it is still a reasonable assumption that they can break or falter just as any machine can do. Undoubtedly the most famous supposed UFO crash was in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in 1947. This, however, was by no means a unique, or for that matter, rare event.

When investigating UFO crash reports from around the world, the totals are surprising. Since the middle of the 20th Century with the advent of the "foo fighters" and "ghost rockets" seen across Europe during World War II until the end of the century, there were over 200 reports of UFO's crashing here and there around the globe. This average of 4 crash reports a year has not diminished with the onset of the 21st Century either. As example let us look at the brief time period between May of 2006 and January of 2007.

On May the 20th, 2006 a large number of eyewitnesses saw a flaming object crash into the sea near Port Shepstone, South Africa. The point of impact was just beyond the breaker line offshore from Port Shepstone High School. Along with school students and teachers who were outside attending a sporting event, local fishermen and other bystanders also saw the crash. Along with flames, the witnesses reported the water "exploding" and a cloud of smoke lingering for a short time over the spot the object hit. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) responded to the reports with police, rescue boats, and aircraft and covered a 12 square mile area but found no evidence of the downed object. Further checking showed no known aircraft either missing or overdue.

A mere seven months later the villagers between the towns of Yeniseisk and Lesosibirsk in Siberia reported a "flying apparatus" plunging from the sky at about 10 a.m. on the morning of December 1st, 2006. The crash caused a forest fire according to the Krasnoyarsk Territory Directorate for Internal Affairs. The Ministry for Emergencies stated that no aircraft were moving in the area at the time and that they had no reports of missing ail vessels. Investigators from the Transport Prosecutors Service and the Aircraft safety group Rosavianadzor rushed to the area.

Strangely, later that day Siberian officials released the statement that nothing unusual had occurred. Siberian Regional Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies spokesperson, Sergey Andriyanko, stated that all of the local witnesses "had reported false information" about the crash, and that "despite previous official claims to the contrary" there was now no evidence of the reported forest fire. "We report officially it has been a false alarm," Andriyanko said.

A single month later, on the 1st day of January 2007, South Africa was again the location of a UFO crash report. The Administrative Manager of the mining town of Lephalale, Leonie Ras, made the report. She stated that on that morning she was reading her email when she heard a noise like "an Airbus aircraft starting its engines and increased rapidly until the sound was like a million turbines screaming in unison." Running to a window she stated she first the clouds take on a bright orange-red color. Suddenly "a bright object plunged from the clouds to the earth, at a terrible speed, and hit the ground with an almighty bang." Her son-in-law, Cobus Nel also heard the sound but did not make it to a window in time to see the object as it fell to Earth.

The local police station was inundated with reports and questions about the bright light, noise, and crash but could provide few additional facts as their best guess was that the actual crash site was located in a heavily forested area just across the Border in Botswana approximately 28 miles away.

Less than two weeks later, on January 10th, 2007, another UFO crash was reported. Occurring about 60 miles from the provincial capital of Kerman, Iran, eye witnesses reported the object had been flaming and putting off a thick smoke before impacting the ground. People witnessed the falling of this fiery object from the sky from several surrounding villages. The Deputy Governor General of Kerman province Abulghassem Nasrollahi, stated that while the object made a large explosion on impact that no property was damaged due to the crash. Despite rumors that the crash was of a conventional aircraft, he reported that all such vehicles were safe and accounted for.

As with all UFO reports, there is a good chance that some of these many crashes were actually something mundane that had been misidentified. There are some, however, that defies all logical explanation. Regardless, the number of unidentified crashes does lead one to realize that even highly advanced technology has the potential to fail. One can also take in to account the possibility that sometimes the militaries of the world get lucky and shoot an unidentified aircraft down. Whatever else you may want to believe about UFO's, they are as subject to accidents as any other physical construct.

December 21, 2012 has long been lauded as the end of the world as we know it. But then again so was the year 2000 and we are still here. Many say that the Mayan’s predicted the end of the world in 2012 down to the day which would fall on December 23. Scientist and other experts say otherwise.

The Mayan prediction stems from the Mayan’s long count calendar. 2012 marks the end of a 5,126 year era according to experts. While we don’t know for sure that this is the end of the world or that this is even what the Mayan’s were predicting, many people are preparing and taking the December 21 deadline as the gospel.

Scholars from many different disciplines have scoffed at the idea. They say there is no scientific proof or any indication by the Mayans that the world will end at this point. Furthermore Mainstream Mayanist scholars say that what is being predicted misrepresents Maya history. They have made it very clear that modern Mayas do not agree with this end of the world predictions.

However the Mayans aren’t the only ones that are predicting the end of the world in 2012. There are many more theories out there and all of them have the world ending in 2012. Among the most popular ways for the world to end are global war, nuclear holocaust, and disease and famine.

More scenarios that have been posed are plausible but not probable according to leading experts. The Nibiru Collision is one of the theories set forth. This involves the Earth’s colliding with a passing planet or being sucked into a black hole.

There are also rumors that an alien invasion in 2012 will end in Earth being destroyed and life as we know it ending.

One of the most popular and widespread beliefs is that Jesus will come for his believers in the Rapture. This will then throw the world into a time of tribulation. Once Satan has been defeated the world will begin again minus sin and with a fresh start. The one thing that Christian’s seem to not know is when Jesus will come again. Nowhere in the biblical predictions has it been foretold what time or year he will return. Not even the Angels in Heaven know when that time will be.

Global warming is also a major concern and many believe that in 2012 the storms will finally overtake us. Hurricanes, tornadoes and other uncontrollable forces of nature will finally destroy the planet causing survivors to start over anew.

While most Scientist and astronomers have rejected the apocalyptic forecast there are some that haven’t. There are many naysayers and just as many supporters of each and every theory that was presented here. This also covers only some of the predictions that have been made for 2012. There are many more. This just scratches the surface.

Will one of them come true? Are we truly living in the last days? Will there be no life on this planet by next year at this time? These are valid questions but completely understandable. The only way to know is to wait and see. We will all be holding our breaths on December 21, 2012 to see what if anything happens.

There are people who say they can travel out of their bodies and travel long distances to see information hidden from their view and use what they see to either confirm the existence of something or in some cases, even see remotely into the future. These people are called remote viewers.

The term remote viewing was coined by two parapsychologists, Russle Targ and Harold Puthoff in1974. Whether or not it is extra sensory perception or something more scientific, there have been experiments done on this phenomenon for several years with varying results.

In the 1990s remote viewing came into the picture again when several documents were declassified that were from the Stargate Project. Stargate Project was a $20 million research project by the U.S. to determine if they could use ESP somehow for military purposes. The papers showed that an alledged remove viewer in the Stargate Project was able to “see” more than 150 pieces of data not possible to be seen by any other source. That report gave more credence to the possible truth of remote viewing.

Some incidents that gave even more credence to the phenomenon was the description of a large crane at a Soviet nuclear research facility, the description of a new class of Soviet strategic submarine by a team of three viewers, and the pinpointed location of a downed Soviet bomber in Africa.

The eerie thing being, how could these people “see” these things thousands of miles away? It must be because ESP and remote viewing are real processes that some people are able to harness and use consciously.

Early Studies

In the early 1970s Putthoff and Targ were part of the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at the Standford Research Institute. Part of their studies were on paranormal subjects. Their beginning goal was to prove by scientific means if ESP was real and if so, how it worked.

In 1972, Puthoff did testing with a remote viewer named Ingo Swan that ended up getting the attention of the CIA due to his findings. While the findings were not released, this seemed to be evidence that remote viewing was possibly the real thing.

The CIA ended up being a strong supporter of remote viewing and was said to use it in several future missions, although many of those are still classified. By the mid to late 1970s, they were forced to drop the program after other issues such as Watergate were causing problems.

Instead, the Air Force continued the study of remote viewing beginning in 1979. Over the next 30 or so years the program developed a remote viewing unit and used it to help “see” military targets and other information as a unique spying tool. What could be better than a spy who couldn’t be caught because they were spying on you from the comfort of their own living rooms and left no evidence behind?

UK government research

In 2001–2002 the UK Government also did studies on remote viewing using 18 people who had received no training in any sort of ESP procedures. Unfortunately the experiments didn’t show much and was deemed a failure.

Opposition to Remote Viewing

Those who say remote viewing is not real say that any information gathered by the so called remote viewers is usually too vague or undetailed to use and that many of the viewers actually had some info on what they were trying to “see” and could have just been speculating on it. They cited that some stage magicians could do similar things and said that studies showed there may have been clues to what they “saw” in the experimenter’s notes to them.

Truth, Hoax or Something Else?

Remote viewing allegedly is when someone gets mental impressions like being able to hear something, taste it, smell it or in some cases even feel it. It has aspects of telepathy, astral projection, clairvoyance and other ESP type phenomenon. A person in the process of doing it is still able to tell a witness what is going on and can also draw or write about it. Those who believe in it say that the reason others say it is fake or a hoax is because they tried it with untrained people. They say that remote viewing is not so much a psychic thing as it is something that must be nurtured and trained in order to be able to do it properly.

There are even courses offered to teach people how to do remote viewing that can cost upwards of thousands of dollars. It is said to be a tool for everything from finding a missing person to exploring our galaxy.

So is it possible to remote view and see things that may occur or perhaps have already occurred? This mysterious activity called remote viewing may or may not be real. The programs studying it by the federal government are no longer going on, at least publically.

Perhaps time will tell.

If you scan through the worldwide UFO reports that come in everyday to authorities during the UFO Sightings 2011, you’ll notice that states like California and Texas were the leaders of the pack for the intensity of UFO sightings, according to the Mutual UFO Network witness reporting database.

When it comes to the types of UFOs witnessed, there are of course several varieties, but it appears that there was a large percentage of UFOs of the triangle-shaped types that showed up all around the U.S. and the world. Many of these were low-flying visits that then mysteriously disappeared very quickly. Most had a series of different colored lights on them and were soundless as they streamed through the air.

These triangular sightings appeared on the west coast in the states of California and Nevada, in the Midwest in Iowa and Texas, in the east from Indiana and Pennsylvania and from the New England area in Massachusetts. The witnesses in nearly all of these sightings reported being caught by surprise and most say the ships flew fairly low to the ground as well.
The odd thing is that not many UFOs have been spotted in West Virginia so far in the UFO Sightings 2011season. It makes one wonder if ET is skipping this state for some purpose or another that we don’t know about.

However, a UFO did show up in West Virgina after all on April 6, when a couple in Nitro witnessed a metallic oval shaped flying object that appeared in the sky and began to fade in and out of being. Finally, the object disappeared and wasn’t seen again. No explanation was given for the appearance of the mysterious sphere.

Whatever else happens this year, it’s inevitable that UFOs will continue to appear in our skies overhead in the U.S. and world-wide. Who knows what kinds of UFOs will be sighted the rest of the UFO Sightings 2011season, but whatever they are, we’ll be watching to find out.

The saying that a picture is worth a thousand words is especially true in the field of UFO investigation. Eyewitness reports can include good data and confirmation between sightings, especially when corroborating reports from unrelated people match up. A good picture or video is a thousand times better since it can provide definitive proof that something unusual was seen. But there is a vast difference between just any film of lights in the sky and good visual imagery of an unidentified flying object. Here is some common sense advice to make your sighting an important and useful contribution to the study of the UFO phenomena.

Few videos, short of blatant hoaxes, do more to diminish the serious investigation of UFO than the ubiquitous jumpy, jerky film of "lights" in the sky. These videos are virtually meaningless for serious investigation. Make sure you stabilize your camera, whether it is a video camera, camera phone, film or digital camera. A tripod is the best. Make sure that you have one with you at all times. If this does prove impossible, then set your camera on a flat, stable surface like a window ledge or car hood. At the very least, lean against a wall or tree to help provide the greatest possible stability so your focus, especially auto-focus, can hold the object clearly in the center of the frame.

Make sure to include various landmarks and visual references on the film so there is something known to relate the unknown object with. Whether you include trees, hills, or buildings make sure to include such things in your video from time to time to be used for aids in determining speed, size, altitude, or other facets of the object's behavior.

Provide an intelligent narrative with your video. Excited screams and exclamations detract from the seriousness of the overall sighting and leave a poor impression of the witness. Provide useful information. Wind direction, weather conditions, direction you are pointing the camera in are all useful data. Describe any sensations you are experiencing, especially unusual things that may provide clues about the nature or effect of the object on its surroundings. Mention what the landmarks or features are that you are filming to give physical reference to the object. The calmer and more informative you can be for your video's audience, the greater value it will be for investigators.

It is important to be consistent as well as willing to persist with the efforts to provide good film proof of UFO's. Since sighting often take place in waves and provide repeat appearances, going back to a place where previous UFO reports have been made is not a waste of time. Use your time waiting for a sighting wisely. Film a bit of the terrain under normal conditions. Make notes of the geography and do sketches and draw maps of the area under observation. This serves the purpose of keeping you alert and focused for any sighting you may experience. It also provides more detailed facts about the area that can be referenced later rather than try to remember everything during the excitement of an encounter. If you are hunting in a group, each individual's experiences can be later compared to give a more complete and detailed description of the totality of the event.

Take a clue from the Boy Scout motto and always be prepared. Make sure you have your equipment with you and maintain it with film and a full battery charge. The only thing sadder than 30 seconds of fuzzy, jumping lights all by themselves is having nothing at all to show because you had to look away and hunt for film as a UFO hovers over your head.