Believing in extraterrestrial UFO's and trying to discover the truth about the phenomena does not always automatically disqualify a person from being a government employee. Wilbert Brockhouse Smith (1910-1962) was an electrical and radio engineer who served most of his life with the Canadian Department of Transport (CDOT) in a number of high level supervisory positions.

Having attained his credentials from the University of British Columbia, he acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1933 and followed that up with a Master of Arts Science degree in 1934. He proceeded to work for several commercial Canadian radio stations and co-founded the Canadian Association of Broadcast Consultants before being hired by the CDOT in 1939. By the year 1947 as a Chief Engineer for the CDOT, Smith had established stations across Canada to measure the ionosphere and its effects on communication technologies.

By the late 1940's Smith had also developed an interest in the phenomena of unidentified aerial objects. Further fueled by such literature as Maj. Donald Keyhoe's "Flying Saucers Are Real" and Frank Scully's "Behind the Flying Saucers" he arranged a meeting in 1950 with the United States Defense Department physicist Robert Sarbacher who confirmed his suspicions as to the reality of these unknown craft but also that the US government had branded with subject with higher security classification than even what was applied to the Hydrogen Bomb.

Smith immediately lobbied the Canadian Defense Research Board (DRB) and the CDOT for permission to investigate these phenomena for Canada. His conclusions were that "Such vehicles of necessity must use a technology considerably in advance of what we have. It is therefore submitted that the next step in this investigation should be a substantial effort towards the acquisition of as much as possible of this technology, which would no doubt be of great value to us." The result of his effort was the founding of Project Magnet in December of 1950.

Run under the auspices of the CDOT with assistance from the DRB Project Magnet set out with a duel mission, 1. Collection and analysis of high quality data to draw conclusions about UFOs; and 2. Application of any data recovered to practical engineering and technology. Project Magnet ultimately set up what is considered the world's first flying saucer sighting station.

Among the technology used was a gamma ray detector, a gravimeter, several radio receivers, and a magnetometer. These were set up to display their findings on a graph paper device for ease in identifying the readings of known aircraft and aerial equipment as well as an alert system for anomalous readings. While the CDOT provided the equipment, the small watch crew worked on their own time. This crew included such notables as physicist James Wait and telecommunications expert John H. Thompson of the DRB along with University of Toronto professor J.T. Wilson and Dominion Observatory scientist, G.D. Garland.

As well as measuring the readings of normal aircraft, various experiments were conducted to determine if known devices could give unexplainable readings. A weather balloon was released, complete with magnesium flare for visual brightness. It failed the test, as it were; it registered as a weather balloon. Within three years Project Magnet had accumulated a vast body of data to compare anomalous readings with.

Probably the greatest mysterious reading the station recorded occurred at 3:01 p.m. of August the 8th in 1954. "Substantial" gravimetric readings flew off the chart. The day was regrettably heavily overcast so the watch crew could not see what was causing the severe fluctuations above the clouds. They immediately publicized their finding only to realize that the CDOT had become embarrassed by the publicity for having conducted UFO research for three and a half years. Two days after the event Project Magnet was officially closed. Mr. Smith was still allowed to carry on in an "unofficial" capacity on his own time when the equipment was not being used for "other" purposes.

Despite the Department of Transport's embarrassment, Mr. Smith was not fired from his job or debunked as a "crazy.". He was still the Superintendent of Radio Regulations Engineering for the CDOT until his death in December of 1962.

In late December of 1980, what is sometimes considered the most well-known and disturbing UFO encounter in England happened in Rendlesham Forest around the duel RAF-USAF airbases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge near Ipswich in Suffolk. Christmas night, a UFO had touched down in the forest and one of the investigating military men had gotten so close as to touch the craft. Two nights later, another set of mysterious lights was seen dropping into the forest and now the Deputy Base Commander, Lt. Colonel Charles Halt, has taken personal charge to get to the bottom of these untoward events.

Gathering more security personnel and lighting equipment, he also called in Sgt. Monroe Nevilles of the Disaster Preparedness Unit who included a camera and Geiger counter in his gear while Halt picked up a tape recorder, torch, and a night vision scope. Upon arriving at the East Gate, he found confusion and chaos. The lighting equipment refused to work properly and replacements encountered the same difficulty. Lt. Commander Halt still went to investigate.

Heading out to the Eastern edge of the forest, he began working his way in. He and his team soon found an area where the trees had their branches snapped off along the sides facing inward to a small central clearing. There were once more, three triangular indentations in the ground. It was when Sgt. Nevilles' checked his Geiger counter that the site's mystery was exposed. The radiation levels in the center were very high, registering four clicks on the counter while even the back sides of the trees and the area only a few feet out from the "landing zone" only registered the normal background radiation count.

As they were examining this area, suddenly all the animals on the nearby farm began to raise a cacophony of sound as thought they had become frightened. Looking up, the soldiers saw a dark red glowing object, pulsing in the sky above them no more than a few hundred yards away. While skeptics try to say all they saw was the light from a distant lighthouse, Lt. Colonel Halt distinctly mentioned that they could also see the lighthouse beacon. After a minute or so the object then disappeared only to quickly reappear, heading out into the field beside the forest edge.

As they once more took up pursuit of the object, they noticed the farmhouse emitting a strange glow itself and the air around them again developed an uncomfortable static electrically charged feeling. This new object was described as looking somewhat like an eye, with a darker "pupil" inside the ring of dark red winking light. It also looked to the men that there was golden light "dripping" off the object as though it were molten gold, although they could find nothing on the ground to explain the effect. By now the object was surrounded by over twenty of the search crew. As they were discussing the possibility of drawing closer, the object suddenly exploded into several disparate white lights.

It was then that the most disturbing aspect of the entire encounter began. One of the bright white objects began to emit a beam of light, completely straight and undiminished by distance; like a laser light as Lt. Colonel Halt described. This light began to play across the forest and eventually into RAF Woodbridge itself, directing itself into the ordinance warehouse where the USAF had nuclear weapons stored for the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing. Later reports from the men stationed in the building indicated that the "light" actually appeared inside the building and played across some of the atomic weapons.

Radio traffic around the base was full of reports of the light beams coming down from the glowing objects in the sky. There were reports that the beams were following a search-grid pattern as thought looking for something. An unconfirmable rumor is that the beams of light that passed through the thick walls of the Weapons Storage Area had actually disabled the ordinance. Throughout the event Lt. Colonel Halt had been recording the occurrence. That the men were in a heightened state of excitement is clearly heard as the objects then began to pass quickly past them traveling North before all but one took up station some thousands of feet up. The one still off to the South was still hovering over RAF Woodbridge and emitting the white light beams into the base.

Lt. Colonel Halt decided it was time for his men to return to base as there was no more activity on the ground. By the time they got there, the objects were gone. This second night of activity was witnessed by hundreds of military personnel, not just a handful of guards. The Deputy Base Commander himself had taken part in the hunt and had audio recordings of the search through the Forest and the actions taken by the UFO's as they watched.

While it was released decades later that the Ministry of Defense had in fact investigated the men and the evidence surrounding these events, at the time they only issued the standard statement that there was no concern regarding national security and said little more. This statement was issued despite the fact that the unidentified craft seemed to be very interested in the atomic weapons stored at RAF Woodbridge.

As the sun rose on the morning of December 28, 1980, it found confusion and an enduring mystery for the military men who experienced the events. This had not been some random sighting by a single individual but a series of events both investigated and experienced by the full range of military personnel from lowly airmen to high ranking officers. To this day it is still unknown who or what controlled the craft or what they were truly looking for on the twin airbases in Suffolk, England.

Late Christmas night of 1980 had been eventful for the personnel of the twin Airbases of RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwoods, currently on loan to the United States Air Force, in Rendlesham Forest not too distant from the city of Ipswich in Suffolk. An unearthly flying craft had been spotted and tracked by the guards at RAF Woodbridge as the strange lights had dropped into the Forest. Security, including the on-duty Shift Commander had ventured into the woods and found it only to have it suddenly fly off into the sky when Staff Sargeant James Penniston actually touched the side of the craft.

The following day the Deputy Base Commander of the Woodbridge-Bentwood airbase complex, Lt. Colonel Charles Halt, was skeptical of the reports he got of the previous night's activities. It was, however, his job to know about everything that went on in the bases under his command. Despite knowing the people involved were dependable and honest soldiers, he found the entire incident hard to credit but he took the reports and interviewed the men personally. The next evening, December 27, 1980 found him in attendance at a Combat Support Group awards dinner as events conspired to shake his disbelief.

This night A1C Gregory Battram and three others were on patrol at the back gate of RAF Woodbridge when they saw lights in the sky that did not conform to any type of aircraft they were familiar with. The lights dipped into the forest and their red coloration looked like a fire among the trees. A1C Battram knew that in light of the previous incident they had to investigate. He contacted Central Security Control for permission to go into the forest and the fire department in case what they saw was a blaze.

Parking their vehicle at the edge of the forest they began to walk towards the lights. They noticed a "thrumming" sound being carried through the air and began to experience the tingling of what felt like a high electromagnetic field, the hair on their arms and heads trying to stand on end. Coming to the far edge of the Forest they witnessed the lights, orange, red, white, and blue, coning from the center of what appeared to be a circular patch of ground fog. Becoming uncharacteristically scared, the men decided to return to the airbase and report their findings.

Meanwhile another group, led by Sgt. Adrian Bustinza, had been alerted to this second UFO sighting and had headed into the forest as well. Encountering A1C Battram's group, they decided to go get the higher-ups involved in any further attempts. Lt. Bruce Englund was with Sgt. Bustinza's group and he immediately headed to the location of the awards dinner to inform his superior officers. Reporting to Base Commander Ted Conrad. Lt. Englund told him, "It's back. The UFO is back!" Commander Conrad ordered Lt. Colonel Halt to go "...put an end to this nonsense."

Heading back to the base, Lt. Colonel Halt began assembling a team to get to the bottom of all the excitement and confusion running rampant over the two airbases. Little did he know that soon the encounter would escalate dramatically.

Begun during World War II the British built an airbase in Rendlesham Forest about twelve miles outside of the city of Ipswich in Suffolk. By the time they leased RAF Bentwaters to the United States Air Force in 1951 they had another RAF Airbase beside it called Woodbridge. This twin base complex became home to the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing and the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadrons. Rendlesham Forest had been allowed to grow as an extra protective barrier for the airbases.

Near midnight of Christmas Day, December 25, 1980, the bases were still celebrating with only a skeleton crew on duty and no aircraft flying. On guard duty at the back gate, referred to as the East Gate, Airman First Class John Burroughs and Staff Sargeant Bud Steffens were on patrol duty. Airman Burroughs was the first to see strange lights appear and hover over the Forest at tree-top level near the edge of the Forest beside the Airbase. neither man having ever seen such light display from aircraft they took a jeep out of Woodbridge to investigate.

It quickly became obvious that the flickering red, yellow, and green lights were much closer to the base that they at first thought. Then a large white beam of light was emitted and began sweeping the base perimeter. The two airmen quickly decided they needed backup and sped back to the East Gate. Their call, seeming unbelievable to the recipients, was passed up the line until it reached Staff Sargeant James Penniston at Central Security Control. Believing the report indicated a crashed aircraft SSgt. Penniston was driven to the East Gate where SSgt. Steffens told him the craft, if that is what it was, had not crashed but had seemed to land in the forest.

Getting permission from the Shift Commander, the men, including two other Security officers, headed back out along a logging road toward the area where the lights were last seen. Leaving Airman First Class Edward Cabansag with the vehicle to act as radio relay, the other men entered the forest to find the lights. By this time the men knew that CSC Radar had been following an unknown radar contact which had also been confirmed with the radar at Heathrow Airport. The signal had been lost about five miles from the base, most likely due to the contact dropping below radar range.

Back in the forest the men realized something was definitely wrong. Despite the lateness at night there was a lot of animal movement. They then lost radio contact with A1C Cabansag and the base and began to experience an electrical static charge building around them. It was then they came upon the object sitting in a clearing. It was cone-shaped, about 10 foot in height and the same width at the base. It appeared to be sitting on some type of fixed legs. As SSgt. Penniston moved closer, the feel of electricity in the air grew stronger.

Standing next to the object SSgt. Penniston reported the top part was giving off a bright, white light with two other lights, red and blue seemingly molded into the side of the object on either side with the blue light fading in and out from black to grey back to blue. The exterior of the object looked like smooth, opaque, black glass. He noted that there were symbols somewhat like writing on the side, about three inches tall in a string about two foot long or more. Touching them, he noted that rather than painted on, they had the feel of etching or engraving done into the smooth exterior. At his touch, however, the white light grew instantly much brighter and the craft rose up off the ground, moving slowly up and through the branches of the surrounding trees. It took a couple of minutes to clear the trees and at about two hundred feet it paused for a moment then, in an instant, it was gone. At no time did the object make a sound.

With its departure, radio communications were again possible. The two airmen had become somewhat disoriented within the electrical static field. They seemed to see another set of similar lights about a half mile further into the forest, but after traveling about three hundred yards, turned around and rejoined A1C Cabansag and returned to the base to make their report. The shift commander told them they should stay quiet about what they had seen but then told the airmen, "you saw something, Heathrow tower confirms you saw something. Now you should go out and look for some physical proof of what happened."

SSgt. Penniston acquired the materials for making a plaster cast and he and A1C Burroughs returned that morning to the landing spot. Finding three identical equidistant shallow cone-like depressions in the soil, the casts were made as Penniston, shaken by the encounter, wanted some physical proof that he had actually experienced the event. He requested a transfer from the Airbase shortly afterward, while A1C Burroughs spend a number of nights after the encounter, waiting in the forest for the craft to reappear.

Of the many never explained observations of unidentified flying objects reported in the twentieth century, the tales of strange, glowing balls of light maneuvering around warplanes over Europe and the Pacific during the Second World War still remain a mystery. When first encountered by Allied fliers, they assumed it was some new type of weapon thrown at them by the Axis war machine despite there being no incidence of one of these objects acting in a hostile manner. Conversely, when the Axis pilots encountered what was to become popularly known as "foo fighters" they too believed them to be machinations of the enemy. To date, no one knows what they were or where they originated.

The first reported sightings began in November of 1944 by Allied airmen during nighttime bombing runs against German factories. Radar operator Donald Meiers of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron gave them the name based on the phrase, "where there's foo, there's fire" in the Bill Holman cartoon strip "Smokey Stover" because the objects first appeared to them as glowing red balls. The objects chased the Allied aircraft and easily followed through a series of high-speed maneuvers.

As the sightings increased, more pilots and airmen described the strange objects as fiery, glowing red, white, or orange. They were disturbed by the lights which they said were "toying" with them. The foo fighters could perform "wild turns before simply vanishing." Often the objects would fly in formation with the Allied bombers and acted and reacted as though intelligently controlled. While never offering hostile behavior, all attempts to force the craft were met with failure as they easily outmaneuvered pursuing fighter planes.

Reports of foo fighters quickly began coming in from the Pacific Theater of Operations as well. There were, however, some differences in the look and behavior of some of the unidentified flying objects spotted there. The "ball of fire" appeared more like a glowing, burning sphere and was often seen hovering although they occasionally followed the aircraft. This led to one reported incident where the gunner of a B-29 bomber fired upon a foo fighter that got too close to his aircraft. He reported that he managed to hit the craft that then broke into several pieces that fell to the ground. Being over enemy territory, there was no way to go back and investigate the wreckage.

Scientists and debunkers have tried to explain away the airmens' sightings in a variety of ways. Some claim that the swift moving objects were just electrostatic discharge, "St. Elmo's Fire," without taking into consideration that these experienced fliers were familiar with the electrical phenomena and would have recognized it for what it was were that the case. Some went so far as to say it was just light reflecting off ice crystals. Another ground-based theory was that the airmen were merely seeing the afterimage of flak bursts despite there having been anti-aircraft fire hurled at them long before the winter of 1944.

Even after the War was over, the glowing fireballs known as foo fighters would make occasional appearances chasing after aircraft like dogs after cars. Even when the more recognizably constructed "flying saucer" caught the public imagination and the flying cigars left observers knowing they were seeing a flying machine, the glowing spheres would still turn up and remind us that the mystery of the foo fighter has never been solved.

It is not often that the government or the scientific community take great efforts to search for the potential of intelligent alien life. Most often, these organizations tend to ridicule and debunk theories about extraterrestrial civilizations, so, when a multitude of projects are undertaken by them, it is best to look a little closer and seek ulterior motives.

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) projects consist of various methods of examining the electromagnetic frequencies seeking a patterned signal that would indicate the intelligent use of EMF for communication. This would include both what we know of as radio (both short and longwave) and television bandwidths.

The first SETI project was undertaken in 1960 by Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake. Project Ozma used a 26-meter radio telescope to scan Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani using a single channel receiver. Nothing of any great interest was picked up. With a $71,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, the "Big Ear," a flat plane radio telescope with a parabolic reflector was constructed at the Ohio State University. This listening post became the first continuous SETI project.

Throughout the 1970's other SETI projects were either planned or implemented including an attempt at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, to send a message toward the M13 star cluster twenty-five thousand light years distant. The University of California, Berkley has performed five SETI efforts beginning in 1979 and last using the Arecibo radio telescope for an all-sky survey in 2009.

Government SETI projects include the US funded program in 1992 that utilized the NASA Microwave Observing Program while Harvard University is included as another of the scholarly programs that have scanned the heavens for an extraterrestrial radio message. Even after government financing ended, SETI has grown with private funding and the development of interlinked organization.

All these searches stand on the principle that electromagnetic energy travels at the speed of light and is not impeded by distance. A popular theory is that our own radio and television transmissions are traveling out to other worlds and that alien listeners may be learning about us through such programs as Groucho Marx's "What's My Line" or being horrified by news of the Second World War.

Now comes the reality of physics as applied to such electromagnetic signals. All EM waves in free space conform to the inverse-square law. The power density of the wave is proportional to the inverse square of the distance from source. Basically doubling the distance from the transmitter will decrease the power density of the radiated wave by one fourth its previous value. As the wave travels from source, it spreads much like ripples in water until the point the density of the transmitted wave has broken down into indecipherability and ultimately to the level of background static, especially as it is acted upon by other waves such as are propagated by neutron stars and the background microwave radiation of the universe.

It has been calculated that even our strongest clear-channel transmissions are not likely to travel more than four or five light years before becoming indistinguishable from the overall background radiation. It cannot be expected that alien radio transmissions used for planetary or intrasystem communications would be any more effective over interstellar distances.

So, are the great SETI projects an expensive diversion that give "official" deniability to the potential existence of extraterrestrial life and civilizations or are they in reality listening instead for something much closer to our home planet?

Upshur County, West Virginia is a classic example of Appalachian coal country. Besides the mineral wealth of the earth, its forested hills provide an equally valuable timber industry. There is only one incorporated city, the County Seat of Buckhannon, with numerous diminutive unincorporated communities interspersed through the forest ridges and valleys. It seems an unusual place for an artifact that insinuates a prehuman civilization to have been discovered.

The Second World War was reaching its climax in 1944 when then ten year old Newton Anderson went to his home's basement for another load of locally produced coal for the family fire. One large lump falls to the floor and splits along the seam and exposes an object hidden away in the mineral that formed roughly three hundred million years ago in the Carboniferous Era. It is a brass, hand-held bell!

The most distinguishing feature of the bell is the carved figure on its top. It is of a humanoid figure which appears to be in a kneeling position with wings and a beak. There was an iron clapper still attached to the inside of the bell. The object has changed hands since Mr. Anderson found it years ago. In 2007 it came into the hands of the newly constructed Institute for Creation Research and on display at the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. According to the Institute, the bell was delivered to the University of Oklahoma for analysis by the nuclear activation method. While it is brass, it is not the brass alloy that has been used by our civilization since at least the rise of the Sumerian culture some six thousand years ago. It has an unusual mixture of copper, zinc, tin, arsenic, iodine, and selenium.

Also to help verify the story behind the bell's discovery, the Institute solicited the services of a licensed polygraph expert to test Mr. Anderson about the finding of this unusual object. The examiner, Mr. L. Stan Fulmer of Davidson, North Carolina is a trained professional with over twenty-seven years experience performing polygraph tests for both the courts and private sector businesses. His findings were that Mr. Anderson was expressing no deception when he related his story.

The figure adorning the bell is an interesting study in the possibility of either an ancient pre-Adamic race as the founders of the Creation Institute believe or evidence of an ancient alien presence on our planet long before humanity emerged. Both theories are possible and could well be one and the same. The Sumerian legends of the Annunaki say that their planet Nibiru had already been captured in orbit around our sun before the Earth had restablized from its collision with Tiamat. It is therefore possible they were traveling to and exploring this planet long before the four hundred thousand year mark that Sumerian legend says was the time of their colonization.

It is known that the astronauts that piloted the Annunaki rockets were always depicted with wings and bird-headed helmets. Couldn't it be just as likely that the image is a depiction of one of these voyagers as it might be a "demon" from a mythology millions of years younger than the geological strata the bell was buried in? That this artifact ended up in what is now West Virginia in the North American continent is not so unbelievable. A people capable of interplanetary travel would have no trouble traveling anywhere on the planet. That this out of place and time artifact was even found after its long wait in the dark is a testament to the incredible potential for the amazing, whether terrestrial or of otherworldly origin.

Of all the reports that stream in to police and UFO investigators, most end up being merely a misidentification by the witness of the various running and operational lights on conventional airplanes. While the average person can easily identify a commercial aircraft's running lights under normal circumstances, sometimes weather or an odd angle of approach will give the illusion of strangeness that is all that's needed to let the imagination of the believer run wild. It is crucial that those interested in watching the sky for intruding, possibly alien, craft educate themselves on the standard patterns of aircraft lighting to minimize the wasted time and energy of investigating cases of mistaken identity.

Many of these standard features can be easily noted when the plane is flying low, especially when nearing a runway. If you want to look for UFO's at night, a good pair of binoculars will help prevent many mistakes. The red and green wingtip flashing lights are standard on most aircraft. There are also white and red strobe lights on both the top and bottom of the craft that are supposed to stay on from engine start to chocking after it lands. These are, however, sometimes turned off in cloudy conditions as the reflection and glare off clouds can be a distraction for the pilots.

Landing lights are turned on at 10,000 feet whether it is nearing an airport or just reducing altitude for whatever reason. This can make an otherwise dim looking lighted object suddenly flare up in intensity as it is equivalent to suddenly turning on the headlights at the bright setting in an automobile. These bright lights are on during takeoff as well and are turned off when the airplane reaches the 10,000 foot mark. In foggy or dusty air this can illuminate the lights to appear the craft is shooting "beams" out in front of it. Additional taxi lights come on when the landing gear are deployed. Some commercial jetliners also have a pilot operated control that adjusts the brightness on one side or the other. Most commercial jetliners also leave the "logo" lights on the tail to clearly expose their company name for identification although some companies turn them off after takeoff.

Helicopters always carry at least one bright white light on the belly and generally the red strobe on the tail section. While many helicopters do not muffle their engine sound and can be heard for miles, this is not universal. Not only do some provide quiet running engines and wider, sound depressing rotors, many military helicopters have extra stealth approach technology to keep them unheard until they are almost on top of you. Military craft also use fewer lights during on-duty operation which makes them harder to spot. Since helicopters are, by nature, very maneuverable, they can change direction swiftly as well as hover.

Because normal aircraft are subject to the same kinds of style variations as automobiles, even the standard light placement has its variations. For a serious amateur ufologist, time spent near a busy airport at night, both commercial and as close as you can to military ones, can slowly grant you familiarity with the light patterns you can dismiss as terrestrial. This way you will be much more likely to be able to pick up on and better report those instances when the lights you see in the sky are definitely not conforming to any pattern or standard behavior.

Officially the Chinese government holds that there is no such thing as UFO's from another planet. Their stance is that the reports of such unearthly craft are the products of the fevered insane minds of Americans and other occidental sensationalism. That stance has yet to keep unidentified flying objects from showing up there, it merely means that there are fewer reports that are allowed to be made. Sometimes their problem makes itself so apparent there is little way to completely hide the issue.

On July 7, 2010, at approximately 9:00 p.m. local time, something unknown appeared on the tracking radar of the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. Handling nearly fifteen million passengers a year, Hangzhou Xiaoshan is the ninth busiest airport in all of China, serving the city of Hangzhou, the provincial capital of Zhejiang Province. When an unidentifiable craft began to hover above the airport it was necessary for the Airport's officials to act in the interest of air traveler safety. In all, eighteen incoming flights were waved off and directed to other locations as the airport suspended normal operations for four hours. With such activity occurring with an international cast of witnesses, a media storm began as this sighting could not be totally ignored.

A few days later the Xinhua News Agency, a state-run media outlet, reported that an air traffic control official stated that there were no conclusions as to the cause of the sighting. The China Daily, however, reported that "a source with knowledge of the matter" had reported that the object seen over Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport "had a military connection." The report was very ambiguous in that it was not stated anywhere what that connection was or whose military it might have belonged to. To further confuse the issue of this mysterious sighting, a number of photographs purported to be of the UFO in question quickly spread across the Internet. For the most part they were quickly debunked as tweaked airplane and helicopter photos and one old shot dug up from an archive. Even comparing them to actual photographs of the airport show that there is no resemblance to the airport and the buildings in the photographs.

To compound the problem of people reporting something that the government says does not exist, less than two weeks later, another mysterious object spent more than an hour hovering in the sky over the city of Chongqing's Shaping Park. Witnesses said it looked like four lantern-like objects that formed a diamond pattern. This was not the first time an unidentified flying object had buzzed the city of Chongqing.

On August 23, 2009 what was described as a twinkling V-shaped object spent several minutes hovering in the same spot. The lights which the hundreds of witnesses said flashed red, blue, green, and yellow, was bright white on the ends and red at the V junction. An identifiable airplane that passed near the craft was much lower than the UFO being observed.

Also coming out of China is the excellent video of a large disk making a slow passage over an apartment building in the city of Nanjing on August 17, 2006.

Flying saucer - August 17, 2006, Nanjing, China

The craft was filmed in broad daylight and is such a good capture of a flying disk it is no surprise that many debunkers and skeptics want to decry it as hoaxed. While the rest of the world doesn't get to hear too much about them, it is a sure bet that the Chinese are aware of the strange objects showing up in their skies even if the government doesn't want them to talk about it.

Television documentaries about UFO's have become popular attractions on cable TV. The quality varies, as some are generic, rehashing the same well-known photos, videos, interviews, and stories. Some are very professionally produced and offer new insights into the UFO phenomena. One in particular, while of itself was admittedly a poorly directed hodgepodge still provided a new and extremely compelling piece of evidence for the existence of "flying saucers." On September 13, 1998, TNT Network aired "The Secret KGB UFO Files."

Purportedly smuggled out of the former USSR and obtained on the black market for $10.000 was a segment that showed the recovery of a downed flying saucer by elements of the KGB and Soviet military personnel. According to a plethora of documentation that came with the film footage, the crash occurred in late 1968 with the recovery being made in March of 1969. The doomed craft was driven, on-edge, halfway into the ground at the edge of a forest tree-line.

Extensive study of both the film and the related documents has continued to withstand investigation. The vehicles and uniforms of the people in the video match what was in use in 1969. The unit patches of the military personnel are accurate and conform to the branch that would be most likely involved in such strange recovery operations. The civilian clothing of the KGB agents are consistent with that organization's operatives. The letterhead and other features of the documents prove consistent with the time period and the organizations that issued them.

The reports indicate that part of a body was also recovered from the wreckage. This was subsequently delivered to the Semashko Hospital in Moscow where it was autopsied. In the film footage of this procedure, three doctors, Kamyshov, Savitsky, and Gordeenko undertook the work with KGB stenographer O.A. Pshonkina taking notes.

During this period of Cold War history the Soviet Union took the official stance that UFO's were an American nonsense and considered belief in such as a mental disturbance worthy of institutionalizing. As a tragic footnote to this investigation of a seemingly extraterrestrial body, the Death Certificates of all three of the attending physicians showed they died in different locations around Moscow of cerebral hemorrhages on March 24, 1969, just one week after the autopsy was performed.

Despite the film becoming public through a movie studio's production, none of the debunkers have ever been able to come up with a single shred of proof that the film was anything but authentic. The cost of hoaxing the film and authenticating documents and film canister would be both prohibitive and possibly impossible. A number of film experts have verified the authenticity of the film and its terrestrial components and showed no sign of tampering of any sort.

Unlike the undocumented crash that supposedly took place in Roswell, New Mexico, the crash and recovery in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia was well documented, however secret the Soviet government kept it. The disbanding of the USSR allowed many secret things to come to light. Among them is this film which has continued to demonstrate the veracity of the event where they in fact recovered the craft and body of some alien visitor to our planet.

As they aged and their careers were less likely to be affected by revealing, even a bit, of their knowledge, a number of America's astronauts have let it be known that we are not alone in the universe. Several of these American heroes have stated that every space mission was observed either at a distance or close-up by alien craft. "Santa Claus" became the code word for the sighting of an unknown spacecraft so that the common citizens of Earth would not "panic" at the thought of superior technological entities being in our space. Even Neil Armstrong admitted that other huge vessels joined the first Earth vessel, Eagle One, while they were on the lunar surface.

Despite the sometimes obvious airbrushing of sections of the moon's surface in photographs taken by satellites and orbiting humans, it becomes a growing knowledge that our moon has been the home to an advanced alien race for a long time. Photographic evidence, especially taken from the far side of the moon has revealed geometric structures, artifacts, craft, and indications of a very long-term presence of some intelligence there. What appear to be circular transparent domes have been seen to glow with an internal light. People who have worked in and around NASA and the NSA have come forward with their stories of the insider knowledge of these bases.

There is even a series of popular video, taken during a Lunar Mission that was not supposed to have occurred, that shows we actually went back to take a close-up look at one of the ancient abandoned cities whose ruins are still standing. The skeptics say "there was no Apollo 20 flight" and it is true that NASA, the CIVILIAN SPACE PROGRAM, did not undertake this effort. However, at the end of NASA's moon missions at least two Saturn V rockets were already complete and others well into their construction. Florida is not the only place in the United States that rockets are launched. Among the many units assigned to the Vanderburg Air Force Base in California is the 30th Space Wing.

Military space launches are routine from Vandenburg as are rocket tests. It is rumored that the unused Saturn V rockets were taken there and the two missions to explore the alien ruins on the moon were launched with no publicity. The locals are used to rockets heading out from there and know better than to inquire as to the purpose. Anomalous activity on the lunar surface is not confined to the far side. Even amateur astronomers with backyard telescopes have often seen moving lights and other indications of activity on the moon. While the video from Apollo 20 is of an ancient ruin, there is rumor and indications that there are also more recent bases and mining facilities in evidence. As long as it seems some of these objects seem to have been in existence, it is no wonder they consider the moon at least to be theirs and, as Neil Armstrong put it, "the fact is, we were warned off! There was never any question then of a space station or a moon city."

Beyond a few subsequent, quick, lunar visits, humanity's journeys into space have been pretty well kept to our own planet's orbit. While unmanned robotic probes have been launched to the other planets, many have mysteriously quit working and others have seemingly been well guided to make sure nothing has been made public to "disturb" the Earth folk. But, if we have stayed out of the greater depths to our own solar system does this mean that an alien presence considers it their property and us indigenous creatures merely, as yet undomesticated, property on the planet we call home?

The vast majority of UFO reports have been reasonably concluded as misidentification of naturally occurring phenomena. That still leaves thousands of sightings that have left only mystery and inconclusive results in their wake. Some have even presented enough evidence that former skeptics have come to reassess their beliefs. One such incident heavily affected J. Allen Hynek, scientific advisor for the United States Air Force's UFO investigations, and began his change of attitude about the potential reality of some non-terrestrial cause to the sightings that poured in to their investigators. Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora near Socorro, New Mexico experienced the alien encounter on April 24, 1964.

Officer Zamora was chasing a speeding vehicle south of Socorro in the late afternoon of that day. He "heard a roar and saw a flame in the sky to southwest some distance away - possibly a 1/2 mile or a mile." Abandoning the speeder he went to investigate, as he knew a local dynamite shack was in that direction and was afraid it may have exploded. With the weather fine and only a few clouds scattered about the sky he recalled seeing a long, funnel shaped, bluish-orange flame that lasted about as long as the roaring sound he heard. He said it dropped from a high pitch to a lower one and then stopped as he approached the gravel road leading up to the shack.

Reaching the top of the rise, he saw what, at first, he mistook for an overturned white car about 150 to 200 yards away with two figures standing beside it. Turning his patrol car towards this sight, intending to offer assistance, he noted one of the figures give a start and they disappeared from his view. He said there was nothing extraordinary about them except that they were maybe the size of children or small adults.

Radioing in to his dispatcher he informed them he would be outside his vehicle checking on the "car" in the arroyo. As he exited his vehicle heard a a very loud roar begin, starting at low frequency and raising higher then a flame appeared under the object he could now see was NOT an automobile. He described the object as being white, not aluminum or chrome, and of an egg shaped oval, very smooth with no apparent windows or doors. He noted some sort of red lettering on the side and what seemed to be an "insignia" about 2x2-1/2 foot square. While the roar began while the object was on the ground, it began to slowly rise straight up into the air on the pillar of flame.

He began running, attempting to get away from the roar which he admits frightened him. When it ceased, he looked up and saw the object, now silent and flameless moving away from him, clearing the 8' shack by several feet. He regained his patrol car and radioed to the dispatcher to see if they could spot the object as it began to lift higher into the sky, soon passing over Six Mile Canyon Mountain, still silent and flameless.

He was soon joined by the dispatcher, Nep lopez, and Sergeant M.S. Chavez who helped him investigate the sight where the object had rested. There was brush burning in several places and they noted tracks left by what must have been "legs" on the object. The four indentations in the ground were deep, cutting into the subsoil to expose a deeper moisture level. The moist soil indicated that the marks were freshly made. There were also three other circular marks that only extended to about an eighth of an inch in depth. Some of the smoldering brush, while still smoking, was also cool to the touch.

As independent corroboration for Officer Zamora's story were several other sightings of the flying egg-shaped object reported round that time by others in various locations in the area, including two separate groups of tourists and an unidentified person who called the television station in Albuquerque. Other people reported hearing the roar of the object and one gas station attendant who reported in flying over his station at a very low altitude.

Several years later a former University of Arizona radiation biology doctoral student stated to UFO researcher James McDonald, who was also an atmospheric physicist, that she had been sent to collect and analyze soil and plant samples from the site. While the finished report she turned in has never resurfaced, she stated that the sand was fused, the plants were unusually dried out and that there were two undetermined "organic substances" included in the samples.

The official Air Force conclusion was blatantly riddled with errors and easily exposed misinformation. The claims that there were no other witnesses than Officer Zamora and that there was no indication of soil disturbance were easily debunked by the numerous reports as well as photographic evidence of the depressions left by the craft. This obvious falsification of the data at hand proved the insincerity and lack of integrity provided by the "official" military investigators, leading them to be increasingly held in suspicion and paving the way for their own scientific advisor to begin looking more closely and seriously at the sightings he was given to debunk.

Anyone who watches the UFO documentaries on cable television are familiar with the bearded, smiling face of Stanton Friedman, the go-to voice of positive UFO research and information. Love him or hate him, Mr. Friedman has some impressive credentials and many years of experience not only in physics but on the front line of UFO research.

Studying nuclear physics at the University of Chicago he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1955 and his Master of Science degree in 1956. Mr. Friedman went on to spend the following fourteen years working for such prestigious companies as Aerojet General Nucleonics, TRW Systems, and McDonnall Douglas, among others. At McDonnall Douglas he was employed on a number of classified projects dealing with fusion and fission engines for rocket and weapon systems along with space applications involving nuclear power plants. By the classified nature of much of his work, some debunkers claim he is a front man for government misinformation. Others feel that his work in such secret areas brought him into contact with things that could well have been what sparked his interest in the UFO phenomena to begin with.

While Mr. Friedman still serves as a consultant for various companies, including the Radon detection industry, he has, since the 1960's, devoted his time and resources to the investigation into the truth about the UFO phenomena. His investigations have taken him into seventeen different government, military, and private document archives seeking evidence for the truth or falseness of the phenomena. Mr. Friedman holds the distinction of being the first civilian investigator into the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico event, a tale in its own right of lies, misinformation, conflicting stories, and still no clear proof of what actually occurred.

Avoiding the more tabloid speculations, Mr. Friedman has delved into many highly reputable scientific studies of UFO's and the possible technology behind them. His conclusions are that these sources, less well know than the more sensationalized reports, hold a wealth of evidence, already at hand, that shows the UFO/Extra-terrestrial phenomena is real and is being consciously and sometimes ruthlessly being kept from widespread public awareness.

For over ten years now Mr. Friedman has had an unanswered standing challenge to Colonel Richard Weaver, author of the huge, but misleading book, 'The Roswell Report: Fact Vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert' and USAF Captain James McAndrew, the writer of 1997's 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed', to a formal debate to try and justify their works. Mr. Friedman has referred to both volumes as propagandist material that makes a mockery of serious investigation. The authors have spent thirteen years avoiding his desire for them to join him on live television and try to justify their selective data selection, false claims, false reasoning, and juvenile name calling.

As a scientist, Mr. Friedman attempts to utilize the scientific data he uncovers to prove his belief that at least some of the UFO's reported are indeed piloted by an intelligent extra-terrestrial presence. He is dedicated to the cause of getting people to dig into the overwhelming scientific evidence and avoid the more sensationalized tabloid views. He feels the truth is already out there if people will only dig through the ignorance and hyperbole to find it.

To say that Dr. J. Allen Hynek was a reluctant ufologist may be something of an understatement. For himself, he considered his profession as an astronomer and educator even though he is most popularly remembered for his study of unidentified flying objects. After taking his doctorate degree from Yerkes Observatory, Dr. Hynek joined with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State University, studying stellar evolution and spectroscopic binaries. He spent World War II at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as a civilian scientist developing the radio proximity fuse for the Navy.

While returning to Ohio State after the war, Dr. Hynek eventually moved on to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Being a man of science, Dr. Hynek was chosen by the United States Air Force as their scientific consultant when they began their first official investigation into the UFO phenomena with Project Sign. He continued in that position through the notorious debunking Project Grudge and into the occasionally more serious research of Project Blue Book. Being originally highly skeptical of any "flying saucer" reports he was perfect for Project Grudge. He admitted to sometimes stretching logic to the breaking point to "explain" sightings as ordinary objects that were misidentified.

Slowly Dr. Hynek's views changed. As he read more and more UFO reports he realized that the witnesses to many were not just "crackpots" but reliable observers. As well as pilots, police, and military personnel, his polling of fellow astronomers turned up 11% of them who admitted to having seen inexplicable objects in the sky and had kept quiet for fear of ridicule and loss of career. Ultimately Dr. Hynek realized that "Ridicule is not part of the scientific method, and people should not be taught that it is." He began serious work on studying the phenomena with an insistence on proper scientific methodology. One of these was the founding of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) as a means for serious scientific analysis to be done concerning sightings.

It was during his work with Project Blue Book that Dr. Hynek began to occasionally disagree with his Air Force employers. He was particularly disappointed with the handling of the Portage County UFO chase that was undertaken by a number of very credible and reliable police officers. There, too, was the encounter of Lonnie Zamora, another police officer who reported encountering two humanoid beings in an egg-shaped craft. There was some physical evidence left by its departure including tracks, strangely burnt grasses, fused sand, and "two organic substances" that analysis failed to identify. Clearly a sighting by an impeccable witness but the Air Force downplayed the event publicly and Dr. Hynek made the statement that "The AF doesn't know what science is."

While never completely convinced of an extraterrestrial origin for UFO's he did leave it as one of three major possibilities. According to him the UFO phenomena is real. The evidence he states can as easily be applied to create bias for extraterrestrial origins as they could be extradimensional. He stated that there could also be a technology existing that encompasses both the physical and psychic realms. This material and mental hypothesis, he states could be an older civilizations everyday science that we just have not caught up with as yet.

Unknown objects continue to be seen in the skies over our planet. Their origin and purpose remain a mystery that begs to be solved. As is common among humans, they turn to their governments for answers. But, despite numerous official investigations, any answers that might have been found have not been disclosed. We are left with the ubiquitous statement that, "they are no threat to national security." This answer is both devoid of factual information and frightening in its vagueness and implication. When governments fail to provide, it is left up to the individuals to seek after the knowledge that has been denied them through official channels.

As the last United States Airforce investigation, Project Blue Book, was being wound down to its conclusion in December of 1969, a civilian group in Quincy, Illinois was being formed. Such investigators as Walter Andrus, John Schuessler, and Allen Utke began the Midwest UFO Network. With a membership comprised in large part from former associates of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, they began in May of 1969 to develop a means by which they as civilians might be best able to apply scientific research to the investigation of these increasing trespasses in our airspace by these unknown craft.

As the organization grew and extended its influence across the country, it soon became known as the Mutual UFO Network to indicate its cooperation with other civilian UFO research groups. Currently consisting of nearly three thousand members worldwide. Regional directors are responsible for the investigations of reported UFO sightings in their areas to coordinate field research and interviews, and share their findings with the rest of the network. MUFON holds an annual convention where researchers can gather and discuss the best ways to investigate and report on their findings.

MUFON, while the largest civilian UFO investigation network, is part of the UFO Research Coalition which includes J. Allen Hynek's Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) and the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR). They seek to fulfil the MUFON mission statement of scientific UFO studies for the benefit of humanity through investigation, research, and education. They share funds and resources so that sighting can be as fully investigated as possible and the results known. They feel it is as important to identify and inform about misidentification of natural objects as they are to probe those sightings that cannot be fully and rationally explained.

MUFON maintains a vast quantity of information freely available online to help educate people on the UFO phenomena. It includes not only observed classifications and data on unknown objects but information on how best to identify the natural things and manmade objects that are easily misconstrued by the uninformed. They encourage the population of this planet to join in the hunt for answers and provide instruction on how best to gather all possible information on sightings and how to report them. Discussions on the possible origins and intentions of these objects are given an open-minded acceptance so that the government-influenced stigmata can be eliminated. They hope that by sharing this knowledge it may help determine just what it is that leaves us looking to the sky and wondering what it was we just saw go by.

There are reasons it takes a clear head and a tight control over one's emotions in order to accurately and successfully investigate unusual lights and objects in the sky. For the serious UFO hunter it is every bit as important to find proof of a sighting as having a normal, natural cause as it is to find proof of an extra terrestrial nature. Objectivity is the keyword to showing the skeptics that the research is sound and accurate so the investigator’s credibility becomes undeniable. A case for this is in the recent investigation of the lights over Lake Erie.

The first reports were of nightly sightings out over the Lake of lights that seemed to hover for awhile before slowly moving off. Being so close to major population centers, the media, beginning with Fox News out of Cleveland and quickly being picked up by the MSNBC Network, quickly popularized the story and spread it around the world. Despite there being no great amazing details, merely that the lights were appearing in the same places and performing the same maneuvers on a nightly basis, MUFON realized it needed to investigate since there was so much interest in the accounts. They had their suspicions from the start that what was being seen was a misidentification of normal aircraft behavior.

Ohio Mutual UFO Network investigator Tom Wertman went on the case. Beginning at the site of the initial reports he coordinated with the witness and began a mutual observation with timeframe checks and a comparison software program that kept up with commercial airplane flights into and out of the Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport in real-time updates. By the end of the night, three sets of lights, which the witness attested to were what he had been seeing nightly, had all matched up to incoming aircraft as they swung out over Lake Erie before coming in toward the landing field.

In conclusion, the report demonstrated that distance and angle of flight were responsible for the misidentification of possible UFO traffic. As the planes were moving away or toward the area they seemed to hover. As they were flying low and slow, the small variation in intensity was nearly impossible to detect. Only as the planes made their curve around to begin their landing approach would the lights seem to begin moving across the sky.

Such misidentification of ordinary aircraft is a common problem for UFO investigators, especially when the media hypes the story without investigating it first. To prevent such occurrences from diminishing the importance of real unknown sightings it is critical to educate the public to the types of behavior of lights in the sky that are explainable. However much a believer in UFO activity may want to witness a touch of the mysterious, it is necessary to be able to rule out all the mundane possibilities first. Only then can serious research be directed at the things in our sky that fail to be proven as a normal occurrence. Only then will the population at large begin to realize that ufologists are seeking the truth behind the phenomena rather than the sensationalism of the unknown.

It doesn't take much time or research into the UFO phenomena to realize that there are easily as many people trying to discredit the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors as there are those who try to prove its existence. Skeptics have always been with us and that is not entirely a bad thing. At their best, an educated and informed skeptic helps keep legitimate research from being overwhelmed by the more hysterical or emotional elements. It is necessary to look long and hard at what is being reported and shown to help determine the relative validity of any given report.

This is especially needed with what sometimes appears to be an army of hoaxers who attempt to misinform and ridicule those who have actual experiences with the unknown. The state of computer graphics has advanced to the point that a clever and talented craftsman can construct digital images that are virtually indistinguishable from an actual photograph. This makes it much harder to quickly accept a digital photograph as real without it having first been subjected to qualified scrutiny to search for any evidence of duplicity. It is almost ironic that in order to try and gain proof of a high technology, the low-tech Polaroid has less chance of being used in a successful hoax than any of a vast array of equipment that could give us greater detail and better imagery of these unknown things that fly through our skies.

Yet, for all the advantages a serious skeptic can bring to the UFO investigations, so many of them seem to become mere ridiculers of anything outside a narrow worldview. So many attack any seriously presented report or evidence presented regardless of the facts that can be gleaned from them. Even when serious scientists devote their time and skills to analyzing evidence presented as coming from a UFO, these non-scientists will so often shout down logic. It is as though the louder they ridicule, the more likely people will accept their unstudied opinion as facts, even when it is in direct conflict with discovered knowledge.

An example can be found in one of the major UFO research reports available. While the summarizing conclusion to the Condon Report was slanted to try and discredit the UFO phenomena, many of the facts revealed in the pages of the report itself were anything but discrediting. The skeptics, for the most part, seem to laud the "conclusion" while ignoring the many instances that were clearly not explainable by normally occurring causes and events.

It is necessary for the interested individual to become their own skeptic and research the UFO phenomena with as open a mind as they can. Check on both the sources of the reports and the sources of those "explaining" what the sighting was. No matter how much you wish to believe, it is necessary to develop the mindset that a sighting or report is plausibly explainable. It is also necessary for those who disbelieve to keep in mind that humans are not the possessors of all knowledge and that there could well be unknown, and even extraterrestrial, things in this universe. Only through an objective investigation can the truth of this phenomenon be uncovered and undeniable knowledge is found as to whether we are alone in the universe or not.

Despite the popular media habit of ridiculing those who have witnessed UFO's and then spoken up about it, there are some witnesses to these events that are deemed above reproach. Since the very beginning of the American space program's journeys above our Earth, our astronauts have been routine witnesses to these unidentified flying craft. In the words of Scott Carpenter, "At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs."

Major Gordon Cooper was making a 22-orbit trip around the planet on May 15, 1963 in a Mercury space capsule when he reported a glowing greenish object approaching him. It was also picked up on the Muchea (Australia) tracking radar. Despite Cooper's mention of the UFO being broadcast on the NBC television network, reporters were warned not to ask about the event when he got back to Earth.

A few years later, June 1965, and astronauts Ed White and James McDivitt were sailing far above Hawaii in their Gemini capsule when they spotted a strange looking metallic object in orbit with them. Rather than a saucer shape, this UFO had a number of long "arms" sticking out from it. Despite taking photographs and motion pictures of the object, none of these images have been released for the public to see. Later that year, in December, James Lovell and Frank Borman were aboard Gemini 7 when they reported a bogey at 10 o'clock. Gemini Control asked if they were just seeing the booster rocket. Lovell replied that, "We have several actual sightings. We also have the booster in sight."

Since first being used by Walter Schirra on his Mercury 8 flight, the code name "Santa Claus" has been used to indicate to ground control when a UFO has been spotted tracking an Earth space capsule. This was to minimize public knowledge of just what was going on in the space above our planet when we ventured outward. Knowing this code helps remove the jauntiness of James Lovell's comment when he first came out from behind the moon on his Apollo 8 fly-around and greeted the world with the words, "Please be informed that there is a Santa Claus."

The ultimate close encounter with "Santa Claus" was to be experienced by Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin made their historic moon landing in Apollo 11 in July of 1969. After reporting a "light" in or on the crater wall, Mission Control asked for more details and then the public broadcast from the astronauts was cut. Several ham radio operators with their own VHF receivers did record the following conversation, which was cut from the "official" broadcast.

NASA: "What’s there? Mission Control calling Apollo 11..."

Apollo 11: "These "Babies" are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They're on the Moon watching us!"

If we cannot believe the words of our own spacefaring heroes about the reality of extraterrestrial life and spacecraft, whom then can we believe?

A most disturbing aspect of the alien question is the ever increasing insistence of abduction and biological testing on humans by beings not of this world. Skeptics insist these reports are merely delusional folk seeking some notoriety from bizarre stories or just mentally disturbed. There is, however, one aspect of the abduction reports that has taken a physical form that can be investigated. Since the abduction phenomena began to grow in the 1960' and 70's there has also grown the matter of strange objects being implanted in the bodies of these unfortunate people.

These implants are not a fantasy. A fair number of them have been surgically removed and analyzed by reputable laboratories including the prestigious Los Alamos National Labs. Such people as the Californian podiatrist, Roger Leir, and UFO researcher Dr. John Mack have removed dozens of implants from alien abductees over the years. The objects are small and are usually inserted far up the nasal cavity but also found in other parts of the body. The material of the implants usually consists of "An interestingly twisted fiber consisting of carbon, silicon, oxygen, no nitrogen, and traces of other elements" according to Dr. Mack. As the "usually" implies, there have been several distinctively different types found and removed.

These anomalous objects are often first discovered when a person has been X-rayed, most usually during dental examinations. Not only are the objects metallic but are often surrounded by their own small electro-magnetic field. When removed, they are often found to be encased in a protective membrane and many are connected to nerve endings or nerve bundles, causing great pain upon removal even when the patient has been anesthetized. Thus far no progress has been made towards discovering how these objects may work or to what purpose they serve those who initially placed them inside their victims.

The purpose of these implants is a much-discussed topic. The most popular hypothesis is that they are merely tracking devices of some sort to make it easier for the "tagged" person to be found and their status and condition updated when desired. This may not necessarily be the case as a few people who have had their implants removed still suffer subsequent abduction events. Another possibility is that they are some form of monitoring device, much like the devices our own scientists use to keep track of the health and processes of our own planetary species. For the more paranoid, it has been suggested the implants are used to implement mind control over the victim.

There are a few certainties about these implants. They are in no way naturally occurring objects in a human body and rarely does the bearer of such a device remember the process by which it came to be in them. The phenomena came to light long before the idea of micro-chipping pets, and ultimately all humans, began to be implemented by our own scientists and government, it may in fact be what gave them the idea. To our common knowledge we have no understanding of what technology creates or manipulates these devices. All we do know for sure is that they only appear in people who also claim to be victims of alien abduction so the chances of a mundane Earthly origin is slim.

With the increased prevalence of UFO reports from around the world a person stands a chance of seeing some unusual object in the skies just about anywhere they happen to be. There are however some places that seem to draw anomalous sightings like flies to sugar. If you are tired of waiting in your own back yard for that mysterious sighting, you may want to book passage to some of the "UFO hotspots" where strange lights and objects seem to congregate.

North America has a number of these places where multiple sightings are common. Upper New York near Niagara Falls gets more than its share of unidentifiable lights in the sky. To the West, Mount Adams, Washington is host to so many unexplainable light shows that James Gilliland, founder of Enlightened Contact with Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (ECETI) has a ranch at the mountain's base where he hosts UFO seekers who are rarely disappointed. Mount Adams is also where pilot Kenneth Arnold saw the craft that first inspired the term "flying saucer" in 1947.

Mexico City, Mexico and the surrounding countryside seem to attract a number of different types of UFO. In April 2005 thousands of citizens of the city witnessed what was first a few silvery orbs floating in the sky only to be stunned as well over a hundred of these mysterious objects appeared and maneuvered through the sky. The event provided great film footage as the event was in full daylight just as so many UFO sightings in Mexico City occur.

Wiltshire, England is an area that contains not only the monolithic Stonehenge but also wide fields that continue to erupt in crop circles. For over 50 years the citizens have become almost used to the strange lights in the sky and deep booming sounds coming down from above. UFO hunters even hold an annual sky watch at Cradle Hill and are frequent observers at nearby Cley Hill.

Since the early 1990's the number of shiny metallic looking spheres appearing around San Clemente, Chile, prompted the local tourism board to dub the area the "UFO Trail" in 2008. While the terrain is rough, serious UFO hunters often travel to nearby El Enlandrillado for a chance to catch the aerial shows.

ET has not forgotten Australia either. Wycliffe Well, Northern Territory, is as well known for UFO activity as the area around Roswell, New Mexico. The Falkirk Triangle in Scotland has spent the last twenty years being presented with multiple unidentified lights and craft. Thousands of residents have reported these oft-occurring events with the small town of Bonnybridge topping the list with an average of 300 sightings a year. Falkirk was responsible for over 6,000 pages of report data recently released to the public by the Ministry of Defense.

These are not the only places for long-term multiple sightings. From the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico to Sochi, Russia, to Ladakh in the Himalayan Mountains some areas of our Earth seem to hold an especial fondness for whatever or whoever pilots these mysterious craft.

Official and government agencies of UFO study have run the gambit from absolute denial to releasing sighting reports to finally disbanding their study groups. You would think that with such powerful militaries studying the phenomena of unidentified craft in our skies they would have actually found something out but according to their own conclusions they are still clueless. There is a movement growing to turn over the study, if not full investigations, to a new set of seekers.

College students are for the most part, young, bright, and able to see without the constraint society has put on people as they grow accustomed to the status quo. The Niagara County Community College of New York, a state run school, has suggested that since their area of the country averages over fifty sighting reports a month (that's nearly two per day) that the subject should be allowed as a serious elective study course at the college. Philip Haseley, an anthropology professor at the school, feels it is a "serious area of study" and should be included as a mainstream topic. "(A sighting) happens to millions of people (around the world)," he said. "It's about time we looked into this as a worthy area of study. It's important that the whole subject be brought out in the open and investigated."

Just because Professor Haseley is also the head of the Western New York Mutual UFO Network does not diminish the validity of his call for serious study of the phenomena of UFO's by college students. His group of investigators already use the best possible scientific manner in their field investigations, including radar, meteorology, and astronomy to gather their evidence of aerial anomalies. Who better than the intelligent, knowledge seeking students of the College to analyze this data and use their fresh new insights into attempting to piece this puzzle into a scholarly conclusion.

More colleges and universities might lend their support to gaining the extra resources and minds of their young people to examine their own area's sightings. There were over four hundred sighting reports taken by the British Ministry of Defense last year alone, before they decided to quit bothering themselves with unknown objects intruding into their airspace. If the world governments and military already know what these objects are, they should come clean with that knowledge rather than try to sweep it under the rug. If they are still stumped for an explanation, why not let the youth that will make up the next generation of leaders get involved in research that has the collegiate oversight to assure good, useable data in dealing with what has become a worldwide epidemic of UFO sightings and encounters.

With the topic becoming a serious collegiate course, the era of offhand ridicule of witnesses can come to an end. By allowing serious study and investigation at the university level, there should be less hesitation on the part of witnesses to share their experience. With luck, this more serious approach should improve the process of winnowing out hoaxes and give greater credence to those events that can be labeled as real even if they are as yet unexplained.

We are used to searching the sky for signs of alien contact but that is not the only place we are able to look. Ten billion miles away, at the edges of our solar system's heliosphere, the two Voyager probes have left the planets behind and are set to pass out into interstellar space within a few years. Surprisingly these forty-year-old spacecraft are still transmitting data back to Earth about the conditions around them. At the speed of light it still takes thirteen hours to bridge the gulf.

On April 22, 2010 the transmissions from Voyager 2 changed. The data being received was suddenly in a new format, one which the scientists in charge of the data stream say they cannot understand. The official reason given to the press and public is that it is a "glitch" despite the control and diagnostics transmissions having not been affected at all.

Interestingly both Voyagers carry a copy of the Golden Record, "... a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth," along with a device that might allow any alien discoverers to play back and receive our message to them. Is it possible that some alien presence has found the message, played it, and are using our own transmitter to send back a reply about themselves? If so, they are being rudely hung up on.

Doctor Edward Stone, a project scientist who was one of those who helped construct Voyager 2, has stated that the spacecraft was ordered to halt all data stream transmissions and only transmit the engineering data about the status and condition of the craft. This information has not changed in format and reports that the spacecraft is still in fine condition and that the on-board computer is still functioning properly, aside from the change in the formatting of the scientific data stream transmissions.

It is fortunate that the "glitch" was just in the data transmissions back to Earth and not the engineering transmissions. These facts have led to massive speculation as to what is really going on and just what information might have eventually been discovered by analyzing and trying to interpret this data. We may never know since after just the one "reformatted" data transmission NASA cut it off. They do not confirm anything special about that transmission even though you would think that the very idea its formatting had been changed might be considered unusual if not special.

It should make sense that we also look to outer space for evidence of beings from outer space. Even the Hubble space telescope has imaged some unidentified objects even within the boundary of our solar system. Despite misinformation and outright debunking, information and images still leak out of artifacts scattered across the faces of various planets and our own moon. Let us hope that reality does not mimic fiction and that the one transmission NASA received before turning off the link was "Resistance is futile."

In seeking craft that may be of extra-terrestrial origin it is a common thing to watch the skies. However, these same craft that could survive the vacuum of outer space should be capable of as easily surviving the pressures of the watery depths. The idea that aliens visiting our planet have bases of operation is not a farfetched concept. Nor is it an inconceivable idea that these bases are hidden from the sight of the surface dwelling inhabitants of this planet by being constructed where we have no adequate way to discover them. The depths of the ocean would make such a safe haven.

Reports of aerial craft that have dipped into the ocean and flown out again have been in our recorded history for at least a thousand years. One of the earliest reports of a craft rising from the ocean, flying, and then returning to the depths comes from Geoffrey Gaimer's "Lestoire des Englis" written in 1067 A.D. The report states, "In this year people saw a fire that flamed and burned fiercely in the sky. It came near the earth and for a little time brilliantly lit it up. Afterwards, it revolved, ascended on high, and then descended into the sea."

The year 1580 A.D. saw the report of the Spanish Captain Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa as he passed through the Straits of Magellan. Translated from the Spanish it reads, "We saw emerge from the sea a round thing, red like fire, like a shield, that rose up on the air or on the wind. It became longer as it went over a mountain and, in the form of a lance high above the mount, its shape became like a half-moon between red and white in colour."

In the late 1960's the ex Naval Intelligence Officer William Cooper wrote of a sighting of an unidentified submersible object he spotted as a young naval officer aboard the USS Tiru. "I turned, raising my binoculars to my eyes just in time to see a huge disk rise from beneath the ocean, water streaming from the air around it, tumble lazily on its axis, and disappear into the clouds."

As sightings of UFO's increase worldwide, so to are USO's being reported in greater numbers. It stands to reason that if some unknown presence is sharing the planet with us then living in such inaccessible places would keep them much safer than if they merely tried to locate in remote locations. With technologies that preclude the need for chemical fires to propel them and hulls already made to withstand extreme pressures, the water should present no greater difficulty than air or vacuum would present.

As our own technology increases and we learn more of the topography under our oceans, many strange and seemingly non-natural formations are being found. Will it be that as we develop craft capable of descending to such depths we will find them being shadowed by alien craft just as our astronauts have reported all our space missions being monitored and observed for whatever alien end?

The reports of strange objects in the skies of our planet have been coming in for centuries. Few people anymore really doubt there is something going on but finding open and honest answers has not been at all easy to discover. Despite the many reasons we have been given to question the actions and motives of our governing agencies, people still want to believe that ultimately their leaders have their best interests at heart. In the case of unidentified flying objects and the possibility of alien contact this trust has been woefully betrayed.

One of the first big attempts at official government investigation was undertaken in the middle of the 20th century by the United States Air Force. Beginning with "Project Sign", that ended in 1948, it was officially determined that these objects were neither US or Russian in manufacture but failed to give even a hypothetical guess as to where they were from. "Project Grudge" quickly followed but was initiated as a purely debunking effort to convince the masses that they were "crazy" or "delusional" if they insisted on seeing an alien connection. This extremely cavalier attitude even angered senior military officials to the point that "Project Blue Book" was formed in an attempt to regain some sense of factual understanding of the phenomena of UFO's.

After years of investigation into nearly 13,000 UFO reports, 701 of which were never found to have even the most flimsy natural explanation, the Project was closed and the final statement issued was that "the phenomena poses no threat to national security." This was not an answer to the question but circumvention around the facts. A popular hypothesis for this is that they were quite aware of what these things were and the possibility that "deals" were in place that the common citizen was not privy to. It may not be a matter of "national security" but that still leaves the question of what it may mean to "personal security" if they are in fact alien in origin.

Other world governments have recently begun to be somewhat more forthcoming with the information they have compiled over the years about sighting made by their citizens. Beginning in 1989 the Belgian government and Air Force began an, at the time, unprecedented openness policy about the severe increase in UFO sightings happening in their country. Rather that trying to pacify the populous with pat stories of "misidentification" of mundane things, they admitted their ignorance of the cause and origins and welcomed input and information from their citizens. While a definitive conclusion was never made, the Belgian government acknowledged the phenomena and did not treat their citizens as if they were ignorant children incapable of dealing with the mystery.

May of 2008 also saw the British government and Ministry of Defense releasing thousands of pages of reports on UFO and alien sightings in their country. These reports are filled with observations from very reliable and trustworthy people including police, pilots, air traffic controllers, military personnel, and government officials themselves. It was their hope that with the release of this information, enough people could study and correlate the data to the point some idea of what is happening in our skies could be developed. We can but hope that with this new openness on the part of some of the world's governments a satisfactory answer can be gleaned before an alien craft makes a public landing and tells us what they are up to themselves.

One of the most profound mysteries involving the presence of either alien beings or humans, long before such a thing was supposed to exist, can be explored through the existence of the many artifacts discovered buried and embedded in rock strata far too old to explain. Ooparts, Out Of Place Artifacts in Relation to Time and Space, have been cropping up for centuries. They include everything from fossilized footprints to metallic objects made of non-naturally occurring alloys. Often these objects are discovered in rock formed millions of years ago when nothing even remotely human should have existed.

One such artifact that has recently gained popular notice is the "London Hammer" found in 1934 near London, Texas. Embedded in Cretaceous rock between 75 and 100 million years old is a wooden handled iron hammer. The metal was tested and found to be 96% iron with 2.6% chlorine and .74% sulfur with no carbon at all. The casting was so good that there were virtually no air bubbles in the iron, a feat that is nearly impossible even with today's technology. Although the wood of the handle has become somewhat coalified with inclusions of quartz and calcite it is still a very recognizable oval-shaped hammer handle.

Interestingly, it is also in Texas that fossilized human footprints were discovered in a layer of limestone that intersected and overlapped tracks made by a dinosaur. Such footprints have been found in other parts of North America as well. One such print, found in Antelope Springs, Utah, even had a trilobite embedded in the print which appears to be made by a shoe. This would make the print's origin over 200 million years old.

In a rare moment of semi-disclosure, the Smithsonian Magazine ran an article about anomalous footprints in their July 1992 issue. "Petrified Footprints: A Puzzling Parade of Permian Beasts" by the paleontologist Jerry MacDonald details some of his findings of fossilized tracks of birds and other beasts in stone far too old to carry such things as they had not yet emerged at that time. While acknowledging that these tracks were "problematic" in that it clearly conflicts with current evolutionary theories, the mention of the distinctive human footprints also in the rock were conveniently missing from the article's text.

Now the question must be brought forth, are humans a much older species that seems likely or possible? Were these tracks and artifacts even made and used by humans or was there someone else here long before the emergence of Cro-Magnon man onto the planet? Such objects do tend to give weight to the theory that we are somehow descended from entities that came to this planet long ago and eventually created us "in their image" as it were. According to the translated texts found in Sumarian archives, the Annunaki did come here long ago to explore and mine the planet. Did they leave behind these anomalous artifacts? Is it possible that science has everything wrong about the timeline of evolution? Or will we someday discover alien roots in our own existence as we search for the origins of these out of place objects?

On March 10, the Cleveland Fox affiliate aired a feature detailing Eugene Erlikh’s repeated UFO sightings: For six straight nights, Erlikh had seen the same cluster of lights over Lake Erie. On the last night, he had the presence of mind to videotape their appearance, capturing their pulsating beams and changing colours. Erlikh also had the good sense to enlist the support of a corroborating witness, his close friend Nick Hausen, who also saw the lights, confessing, “I have never seen anything like that.”

The Fox Cable Network picked-up the story, which spread to CNN and through the networks to hundreds of local stations. Erlikh told the Cleveland Fox-8 reporter who broke the story, “Once you see it with your own eyes, you’re gonna say ‘Wow, what’s going on here?’ And why do they keep coming back to the same spot?”

Not surprisingly, NASA, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Canadian Coast Guard said they had received no other reports of sightings. At the Cleveland Ufology Project, self-styled UFO experts scrutinized Erlikh’s video, concluding inconclusively. Richard Lee, unofficial spokesperson for the Ufology Project, said the video was too rough, grainy, and unsteady to be of any use to scientists. As the story attracted national attention, however, other UFO sighters reported similar phenomena, and observers detected hints of a trend.

Distinctive lights frequently reported nationwide, worldwide.
Three words recur in recent UFO sightings from across North America and Europe—“pulsating,” “string,” and “orange.” Many reports closely resembling Erlikh’s describe brilliant strings of lights flying in precision formations and complex patterns, and a few other videographers have captured images like those on Erlikh’s footage.

On December 15, 2009, a husband and wife in O’Fallon, Missouri, observed and documented a string of bright, pulsating lights in the western sky. Two days later, in Springerville, Arizona, near the site of some history’s most famous UFO incidents, two US Air Force veterans reported seeing a string of lights and then an exceptionally bright flash in the eastern sky. They said the flash covered at least 10% of the sky, leaving “a pronounced after-image.” On February 14, 2010, nearly twenty different witnesses spread across six British cities reported “an orange fireball travelling in a perfect line north-northeast [in] complete silence.” Later that night, several witnesses reported the same phenomenon over Dublin, Ireland.

Scientists neither confirm nor deny.
Noting the consistency among the reports, and also noting that they could see no sign of collusion among the reporters, space scientists nevertheless offered their usual response. Experts acknowledged that they cannot definitively identify or explain the phenomenon, and they agreeing that the series of reports breaks from most historical observations of unidentified spacecraft. Yet astronomers showed restraint in their comments. “We remain neutral and disinterested as we examine these phenomena,” said one southern California researcher, “and we agree that all explanations fall into the realm of plausibility. We try, however, to look at the explanations most probable and then most possible. While decidedly intriguing, none of these observations defies explanation by the capabilities of man-made aircraft.”

There are several reports of unexplained creatures being found near UFO crash sites in the Nevada desert. These creatures are reported by many to have unusual and striking resemblances to humans, but are unable to be confirmed as the photographic evidence collected by intrepid researchers is often destroyed after confiscation of the equipment by government personnel.

What these creatures may be, and where they have come from is very easy to see. The strange phenomenal that surround a UFO crash can cause major disturbances in the ecology of an area. High energy discharges of electron particles in the cloud layer can vaporise birds instantly and the radioactive material often found near a UFO crash may have a significant effect in the mutation of naturally present earth bound creatures into forms that are entirely alien to our own senses.

The fact that these creatures are unexplained, their presence at the crash site a mystery is remarkable. The huge amounts of energy that are released when a meteorite strikes the earth are equivalent to those released in the crash landing of a UFO. The energies involved are akin to those of a small scale nuclear bomb. Remembering that the dinosaurs were possibly eradicated by meteor impact is indicative of the amount of energy that a UFO crash could contain.

Creatures are still seen to be near the crash site, despite the catastrophic destruction wreaked upon the land by the impact, and the place that these creatures may have come from is from within the alien space craft. This represents a significant danger to the safety of humanity. Uncontrolled release of alien biologies into our fragile ecosystem may drive the diversification of species, possibly introducing a predator to humans. If an alien bug, bacteria or larger creature were to find the Homo sapiens to be a tasty snack then the future of our organism may be at risk.

It should be the duty of any avid UFO hunter to carry some form of armament when investigating UFO crash sites, along with their camera. The safety of the individual is paramount and by preemptively destroying any unexplained creatures before they have a chance to attack and endanger humanity.

The lives of your loved ones are at stake if you are attacked and assimilated by an alien creature, and to let the potential hazard to all human life escape and run rampant across the countryside would be a terrible thing. Carrying a shotgun or some form of automatic weapon will engender the authority required for you to make a qualified and accurate re-enactment of a work from Jackson Pollock, from the insides of the alien.

Take care when shooting at some aliens though, because they are hardy and protected from the vagaries of buckshot. The effect of ricochet may cause damage to you or the alien technologies that you should be looking to pillage from the ruins of the craft. Some new weapons technology must be developed to deal with the risk of alien invasion and the most suitable way to increase the technological advance is by using their technology to advance our own.

Here you will find some UFO latest news: Red lights bearing triangular space crafts are being reported in The Netherlands as of 09 November. Amateur footage shot by workers on their ciggarette break has added to the growing pile of evidence for the existence of UFO's. Due to the nocturnal nature of the footage, these UFO's cannot be identified as the same black triangles involved in the 'Phoenix Lights' UFO sighting, but they may well be.

This triangular type craft has also been recently witnessed over Cincinatti on 07 November. The UFO latest sight on these parts here presented a series of glowing lights in the sky, varying from two to four lights showing at any one time. The colours of these lights were white.

The recent sightings of the triangle shaped UFOs around the world has led some to postulate that there may be a larger craft orbiting the earth that we are unaware of. French speaking witnesses also managed to film a triangle shaped light form in the USA on 07 november.

As footage appears, there can be little doubt that all of these events involved a currently unexplained happening. The steadfast nature of the lights, and the erratic behaviour and movement of the lights in the sky lead to the conclusion that it certainly cannot be a result of some regular, natural occurence.

Similar lights have also been witnessed and filmed by watchers in Eastern Texas.

Astronomers witnessing another sighting in Oklahoma on October 29, armed with telescopes, star charts and a wealth of knowledge on planetary orbits were able to pinpoint a strange object that did not change its place in the sky. It was entirely stationary, unlike any star, plane, sattelite, or other heavenly body. There was little doubt in the mind of the enthusiasts watching the constant, immoving light source in the sky that this was not a phenomenon of human origin. What it was they were unable to say, but perhaps it is the same craft as the latest UFO reports indicate.

With the availability of video footage of UFO sightings, rather than hush-hush goverment coverups, more people can access the evidence for themselves, and make an informed, clear cut decision as to the origin of UFO's.

Though some footage may indeed be of classified military craft, the reasons the governments of the world would choose not to reveal these origins may be a result of their use of alien technologies. IS there be a system of trade between world government and aliens? If there is what do they trade? What does humanity have to offer to a race that can transport itself through space, and into our atmosphere? Are the UFO latest sightings and indications a sign on that we are being watched? If so, why are the watchers studying earth? What do they hope to gain?

Perhaps if the motivations of the filmers of the UFO latest lights seen above Europe, Oklahoma, Cincinatti and Texas are anything to go by, the watchers are observing us just as we are observing them. A strange fascination with a world that we cannot interact with or entirely understand may be luring these extraterrestrial visitors into dangerously low orbits just for a quick glimpse of a human.

UFO landings occur more often than established authorities would have you believe. While documented events of UFO landings often cover the incidents that occurred at Roswell, New Mexico in the 1950's. This crash landing represents a mechanical failure or pilot error.

More interesting are the several recent reports of alien space craft undergoing controlled landings and ascents. Several of these reports describe the craft in detail, providing sketches and drawings of the craft.

The 2005 landing of a craft in Sarejevo was not only filmed, but its landing site was photographed and the photos printed in a major newspaper. Several eyewitnesses were interviewed. The landing marks left by the UFO resemble three identical circles, with large black scorch marks surrounding the entirely clean stone within the circle.

UFO landings are common, but the likelihood of their being captured on film, or occurring in a place with witnesses are less common. When it does occur, these rare photographic jewels are often hushed over by government agencies.

There are occasional incidents of alien landings where an isolated individual has reported seeing a landed craft, but their stories are seldom believed by news agencies and investigators. Conclusive photographic evidence would be the ideal support for many of these events, but seldom are the witnesses able to produce more than rough sketches of the event.

Is this lack of hard evidence of UFO landings a result of alien technologies being employed to interfere with the recording equipment? Do the aliens utilise mind altering effects to induce a state of catatonic bliss in any witnesses, making them believe that its all just a dream?

Surely if this was the case, then the Rendlesham forest landings would not have been documented.

The Rendlesham UFO landings, of December 1980, occurred between Bentwaters and Woodbridge Air Bases in the United Kingdom and are documented in several places. Though there was significant activity, resulting in the mobilisation of soldiers and officers within the Rendlesham forest, there was little reporting on the incident at the time. Official papers on the events do exist, written by the officer involved with the pursuit of glowing lights through the forest. Access to these papers was limited by government agencies.

These official reports were kept out of the public sphere, until dedicated activists swung the weight of the law into motion and obtained copies of the documents through the Freedom of information act 1983.

Collusion between the governments of the UK and the USA was rife in the late cold war era, with fears of nuclear warfare and Soviet Attack pushing the ruling elite to the limits. What occurred at Rendlesham cannot be entirely understood from the available information, but it has been covered since by several newspapers and television shows.

Military men would not fabricate information, at the risk of their military career. The alien landings of Rendlesham represent something darker and more sinister occurring, that may include collusion between terrestrial governments and Extra-terrestrai beings. There can be no way of knowing without more proof. Hard evidence that links human authorities to the alien craft is needed. Somewhere, right now, an alien could be landing, but is there a camera there to record it?

UFO Documentaries provide valuable insights into a world that is seldom seen, giving the viewer contact with the dark and shadowy of night time ghosts in the sky. The footage used in these documentaries is often derived from home video with amateur video taken by people unable to expertly utilise a video camera. This means that the work of the documentarian is difficult and for those talented with editing and content appraisal there exists a possibility to make significant amounts of money.

By working with the plethora of amateur footage available, a well constructed and influential documentary can be constructed. The strong claims that will be made by a good UFO documentary can include the presence of government cover-ups and a social interaction between aliens and the top echelons of global power structures. The hierarchies that exist may in fact be controlled by aliens for no reason other than to amuse them and to test their equipment.

With good footage and editing the documentary can be made interesting and informative to even the most skeptical viewer. The power of the video media is immense and the technology for television broadcasting may have been a gift from a benevolent alien species that wished to provide humanity with a new tool and toy with which to entertain itself.

Only with the greatest of care should the documentarian embark on the potentially hazardous and life threatening pathway of filming UFO's. There have been several disappearances and accidents that can be linked to people trying to film UFO related material, and furthermore, the risk of abduction and dismemberment by aliens is drastically increased.

The worst and most dangerous part of the life of a UFO documentarian is the risk of being hassled and discredited by the majority of the television and film production industry, for chasing a marginal possiblity. Similar problems are experienced by cryptozoologists searching for the loch ness monster, the Yeti and the Sasquatch. The area of expertise required in order to become a UFO documentarian means that most UFO filmers are unable to get serious work in the film industry.

By devoting their time to chasing down imaginative and lonely witnesses in parts of the world so remote that the odds of seeing a UFO are higher than seeing another human being the UFO filmer becomes a strange and isolated figure. Being able to rejoin a culture as needed is crucial to the serious interaction with it, and to recognition and appreciation by other masters of the field.

Care should be taken not to marginalise oneself in a culture such as that of the UFO documentaries. The people encountered can be strange and bizarre, but are also often very nice and likable people with a genuine desire to show the world the truth that UFO's exist. Any good UFO hunter will make sure to provide credit where it is due, and is willing to allow others the opportunity to chase leads if they are unable to do so themselves. If the door is closed then information cannot be shared.

The star wars alien races are diverse and varied, but they all have one thing in common. They present a clear and significant danger to the likes of humanity. We have no power to defend against the mind powers of the telepathic aliens and the Sand people or the Hut are formidable traders, scavengers and power mongers.

There is no defense against the Sith and their control of the darker parts of the force, the power of evil. Humanity cannot defend itself from the worst aspects of dark life forces. There are many UFO’s in the world’s history that have done terrible things to humans and cattle. Leaving crop circles and carvings in mountain ranges for historians and enthusiasts to find, puzzle about, and develop theories over.

It is nonsensical for the hardest and sharpest of our minds to be unable to present even a tiny amount of retaliatory defense against any number of the extraterrestrial hazards we face. If we were faced with terrible destruction and painful torture at the hands of Star wars alien races then perhaps we would be motivated to develop a strong defensive capacity. Rather than using the Star Wars laser project to shoot down ICBM’s on earth, we could turn the laser beams skywards and shoot alien spaceships down. Even better we could use the laser beams to guide the ICBM’s to the alien spaceships in order to blanket the invading craft with nuclear oblivion.

Few weapons that we do have would pose any real threat to most of the aliens in the universe, with their antigravity capacity and faster than light travel. An insignificant percentage of the earthly munitions would actually allow for extra-atmospheric combat. The oldest of the minuteman missiles would suffice for near earth combat, were it not for the effect of a high altitude burst leading to massive Electromagnetic pulse and subsequent eradication of telecommunications capacity.

As it stands, our strongest defense against species like the Star Wars alien races is our atmosphere and the low technology. We have failed to even leave this little rock called Earth, and our technological capacity is sufficient only to eliminate the species present on Earth. With our little developed spaceflight technology, there is little threat that humanity can offer to any true masters of interstellar travel. In this fashion our humble little planet shall be preserved in the wake of intergalactic conflict, unless there are resources needed or stray blasts falling in our vicinity.

Even the most zealous of PhD students, working later and later, under the watchful eyes and helpful guidance of their professors cannot imagine the technologies of the UFO masters. With many years of focused research, perhaps the technology that has been deposited here by visitors can be adapted to provide Earth with defensive capabilities. We must hope for this outcome, and strive everyday for new defenses against aliens, for there are hostile alien races out there, intending no good to humanity should they land on Earth.

Are aliens really real? The answer from officials on this matter is a clear denial of their existence. The explanations they provide on each reported sighting seem to be very convenient and some times ridiculous. It is not such a far fetched idea when you consider that we exist here on this earth; why do we choose to believe we are the only form of life in a galaxy of so many planets and solar systems? Why wouldn’t Aliens drop in to see what exists on our planet when we are constantly sending space shuttles and telescopes into the atmosphere to see what exists on other planets? Wouldn’t you just assume that other life exists on other planets and they would be just as interested in us as we would be of them?

The most Famous Alien Evidence

In 1947 the famous Roswell crash occurred. It was clamed that the US Government had recovered alien bodies and debris from a Ranch located in Roswell, New Mexico. A UFO crash site had been discovered by a Farm Hand and the US Army were called by the local Sheriff to investigate.
The US military at first gave reports that they had found a UFO crash site and had collected all the debris. It was transported to three different US military sites for storage and investigation. Later that day the reports had been changed to the discovery of an experimental military weather balloon belonging to a secret operation called ‘Mongol’.

The Cover Up
The owner of the Ranch was ordered not to discuss the incident with the media. There was a recorded interview with the ranch hand that discovered the crash site; the radio station that ready to play it to the world was ordered not to play a recorded interview due to its content. The cover up was very successful and even UFO enthusiasts accepted that it was a weather balloon. The cover up was very successful. The subject was put to rest until many years later when an interview occurred with Jesse Marcel, the only person known to have accompanied the Roswell debris from where it was recovered. Over the next few years, the accounts he and others gave elevated Roswell from a forgotten incident to perhaps the most famous UFO case of all time. It is still investigated and discussed to this day. It seems that most people would prefer to believe that Aliens aren’t real but evidence seems to indicate that their existence is warranted.

This is just a glimpse of the evidence to support the existence of Aliens. I use the Roswell report as a base of hard evidence that involved an abundance of government involvement and concealment. This evidence is highly documented and confirmed and the Government stills use weak claims to discount the evidence. They claim that most reports from reputable people are disordered accounts from warped military memories; it is just mixed memories of military crash sites, trauma from viewing dead bodies and their age. They were not suggesting that they were malicious accounts purposely made up to fool the public; just the sad mind of people who had served in the military for a long time.

So are aliens really real? It is up to you to decide.

An entertainment series on science fiction in America that saw tremendous success was the Star Trek Alien Races series. The original series was made for television and Gene Roddenberry created it to be telecasted in the year 1966.

The television series worked really well and was shown for three consecutive seasons. Next came an adventure animated series for television and as many as six feature films. The adventure of Star Trek further commenced in four television series. The characters for this show were different. This program was Star Trek: The Next Generation. If the original series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager were awesome, Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: The Next Generation was equally loved by audience. The latest of all is a movie made in 2009 that features a younger crew.

Star Trek Alien Races is not limited to television and movies. The popularity of this program became so high that it started coming in video as well as computer games. Even thousands of novels came on the same concept with same characters and the Las Vegas casinos had Star Trek themed attractions for its players.

Conception: How Star Trek Came into Being?

The proposal to make this science fiction was drafted by Gene Roddenberry in the year 1960. He wanted to move on the same lines as Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. He wanted to make the show on adventure and suspense story as well as a moral story.

The basic concept of Star Trek is to offer adventures of aliens from Federation’s Starfleet and human beings. Each series presented with a dilemma and the protagonists applied to this dilemma. The series had a political dimension and cultural realities. Issues of the year 1960 were addressed in the Star Trek: The Original Series.

The major events and issues that came to light through the series included personal loyalty, imperialism, authoritarianism, warfare, racism, human rights, economics, feminism, religion and sexism other than the state of the art technology.

It was clear in the mind of Roddenberry while conceptualizing the show that he wants to show political agenda of progressive nature. Also, he wanted to show the youth movement that became a part of the present day culture. He wanted to portray what the present day world may develop into a decade from then, learning from the past and may be finding future in violence.

His ideas and conception met with bias as well as oppositions and while he was able to show a lot, there were sides he was not permitted to show on the series.

Television series
Star Trek Alien Races have their foundations in the six series created for television, namely, The Original Series, The Next Generation, The Animated Series, Deep Space Nine, The Enterprise and Voyager. Till date, as many as 726 episodes of Star Trek have been made. The television series has witnessed 30 seasons, which is remarkable.

What began from just a television series and converted into films saw a phenomenon difference in opinions. Some people loved it while some hated it and ridiculed it.

There are powerful factions within the world governments attempting to hide new alien evidence from the public, the private and the hidden individuals who would be inclined to research the facts.

It is known to the general public that the events that occurred at Roswell, New Mexico in the 20th century were covered up by the US government for many years, for the supposed purpose of public safety. It is in fact for the purposes of public safety that new alien evidence is not disclosed. There are powerful men in control of the hegemonic power structures that define the global patriarchy, in order to control and benefit from the work of millions.

Were the truth about aliens known, were it possibly apparent that aliens did in fact exist, and have regular interactions with the humans of the earth government, then there would be rapid and total transition of the worlds population from a system of oppressed poverty to one of universal harmony. It is not in the interests of the global tyrants, or their alien allies for the people of the earth to live in peace, without conflict and in total happiness.

These terrible creatures thrive on terror and suffering; merchants of death purveying not only bullets, guns and tragedy, but also selling false hopes through the idols of capitalism, mass marketing the American dream to the third world consumer. It is impossible to tell for how long these cover-ups have been going on, but it is known that they occur. The extent to which they happen to become revealed is a careful and controlled development, driven by the vicious forces in control of global power.

Truly enlightened individuals share with the aliens that are in contact with the elites some special characteristics. Often they are telepathic, able to communicate through the power of through space time bending, utilizing only the mental faculties within their brains. Though there have been technologies developed for the tyrants in control, to allow them to utilize their own mental telepathy, they do not naturally possess this as an inherent ability. It is only the luckiest, enlightened wise ones of Earth who bear the ability to communicate in thought alone.

The fact that these telepathic abilities are not more widely known of or studied is another cover up, but one that is done for the safety of the special individuals. They are especially careful with their movements and their interactions with aliens, for if they are not they face a risk of extermination and painful death at the hands of the alien torturers who would capture them for the global tyrants.

It is of the utmost importance for any mentally able individual reading this to not reveal ones abilities to the general public, at fear of exposure. There is constant development in the field of extraterrestrial research, and should a friendly alien race come to Earth in order to break the government conspiracy and initiate a new world order then all telepaths will be needed to act as interpreters and translators for a potentially fearful public.

One of the first considerations new investigators have is what equipment they will need. There are certain things that simply are understood you will need for all investigations. We will simply list them here first; the only qualification is to use good quality models where applicable. A cheap flashlight that falls apart the first time it is used does no one any good. Here is some of the most common UFO investigation equipment.

• A good, bright flashlight
• Notepad and sharpened pencils.
• Cell phone or two-way radio to keep in touch.
• Basic First Aid kit.
• Small folding knife.
• Tape measure.
• Spare Batteries
• Plaster of Paris – In order to take impressions of tracks or imprints.
• Clean/Sealable containers
• Latex surgical gloves
• Camera Audio Recorder
• Professional Contacts, who are experts in various fields you may consult as needed.

That will get you going on a basic UFO investigation. A little preparation ahead of time keeping all your equipment in one place will save a lot of time. Generally, alien and UFO sighting reports come in with no advance notice. Unlike ghost hunts, which people plan and go out looking, UFO reports come to you. It is helpful to be able to respond quickly should you receive one, since many times evidence may be lost or conditions change. If you can be on the scene promptly sometimes, you can obtain additional data that may be lost by the next day.

Related to that, there are the occasional UFO sky watches, but those are generally ineffective. Ghost hunters plan weekend investigations to see what they can capture, UFO investigators respond, generally after the fact. Consequently, any evidence obtained is often simply witness statements and related observations you may make of where the UFO was, but seldom does the UFO investigator ever see an object himself. This is the largest controlling factor in determining what specialized equipment you may need.

Cameras are one of the most important equipment in an UFO investigation. It should be noted that many of the same requirements also apply to video as well. By far the most common is to record the scene of a sighting after the fact. Generally, this is done in daylight with the witness present at the time of the initial interview. The witness simply takes you to the area where the object was seen and relates the sighting to you. The camera is used to take photos of the area. The purpose of these photos is to attempt to relate the sighting to fixed objects on the ground.

Now, instead of just reporting and collecting sighting reports, UFO research has possibly moved to another level-the ability to visit, analyze, and collect the evidence needed to prove that we are not alone.

Mayans and aliens have been the fascination of many people for hundreds of years. The stepped stone pyramids littering Mesoamerica and the South Pacific have been suggested by some as being built by the mayans and aliens together for use as star ports. Others believe that the mayans and aliens worked through telepathy to erect the massive stone monuments.

How the temples were built is not entirely known, and many theorise about construction methods. If the Mayans and Aliens worked together to build the stone pyramids, what was their intended use? Were they for mayans and aliens to communicate on, or were they for glorious sacrifices to Quetzalcoatl; the mayan bird god?

Little of the history of the Mayan empire is known, as the conquistadors looted and destroyed the majority of the mayan artifacts that could tell us more. Some pottery remains, and there are strange figures painted onto these, and carved into gold Mayan jewellery. Perhaps these strange figures are clues to the relationship between Mayans and Aliens.

Did Aliens come to earth to offer Maya assistance in developing their telepathic powers? Did the aliens use humans as slaves to erect the massive stone pyramids in the jungle? From the information on Mayans and Aliens that can be found, it cannot be known with ease.

There are several artifacts that have been found that cannot be made with current technologies. The crystal skull, with a map contained within it was found deep inside the mayan empire. Lost cities of gold, their inhabitants eradicated by the entry of the conquistador, may contain further secrets as to the relationship between mayans and aliens.

As one flies over the land from Nazca to Cusco there are significant abrasions in the land that extend for hundreds of metres in either direction. These abrasions when seen from the air show patterns that may have been left by the mayans in order to signal to the aliens that they still had faith in them. The outline of a strange humanoid form can be seen next to a dry river delta, and this is a trace of the vast heritage that culminated in the mayan capital of Cusco.

How did the mayans carve such majestic sculptures into the landform with their primitive tools? The help of aliens and their flying craft would have made the task a far simpler one, with mapping and image rendering technology readily available.

As with the masons of Cusco, the secrets that may have been traded between the mayans and aliens cannot be known beyond hypothesis. All that remains of the great trading empire are ruined stone temples, carved with phenomenal artworks, and buried artifacts. No mayans exist to be interviewed, and the few remaining natives with mayan blood are but peasants, ignorant of much of the great history of their race, and its interactions with aliens and UFO's.

What can be known is that there are clues that may inform on the existence of aliens, and if the aliens can be found then they may be able to explain the relationship between mayans and aliens. Historians and enthusiasts have tried, but few have been able to prove their case definitively.

Just found this walkthrough of the old ZX Spectrum game called Alien 8. I didn't see it through though, the video is quite loooong. MAN it Sucks!

But the name of it pretty much qualifies it for a spot on this alien website..

Produced by Century 21 Productions and created by Gerry and Silvia Anderson, UFO is a British TV science fiction series. Gerry and Silvia had previously done some very successful work with marionette-based children’s programming. After completing Thunderbirds, Stingray and Doppelganger, they felt it was time to move into adult themes and live-action.

As their first venture into live-action, UFO confounded TV executives who thought that the team that brought children’s programming was now taking the same themes into live-action; the UFO series was anything but geared toward children with its themes of divorce, drug use and adultery. Of the cast members, most were new to the studio. Ed Bishop had previously worked on another of the Andersons’ projects as a voice-over actor.

First airing in 1970 in the UK, it was soon syndicated in the United States over the following two years. There were 26 episodes in all, including the pilot episode and the entire series was filmed over one year’s time; this includes the five month break in production due to the closing of MGM-British Studios where the show was filmed initially.

A quick premise of the story line begins in the “futuristic” year of 1980. This is when a secret military organization, Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization, or SHADO, becomes operational. The purpose of SHADO is to defend Earth from Alien’s who are harvesting body parts to extend their lifespan.
The main headquarters of SHADO is well hidden beneath a film studio situated near London, England. There is also the SHADO Moonbase and a submarine fleet (Skydiver). An Earth orbiting satellite, Space Intruder Detector (SID), initially detect any UFOs. UFOs that land on Earth are tracked and dealt with by ground Mobiles.

Episodes of the show typically center on SHADO’s attempts at thwarting the Alien threats and the numerous strategies the Aliens use to disable SHADO or kill the commander. There are some recurring themes which include maintaining SHADO’s security, the effect of secrecy on the personal lives of the SHADO operatives and the problem with keeping SHADO funded properly.

As the final episodes were being filmed and finished, UFO began to air in England. Local stations were befuddled about how to place this new show into their schedules. They were expecting yet another children’s program, but what they got instead was something with a huge amount of adult content and themes. As a result of this, local stations showed it to late night, moved it around into various time slots or didn’t show it at all. As expected the ratings plummeted to almost none.

Gerry Anderson and the team working on the project began pre-production on a series sequel which would take place in 1999. In this sequel series, the Aliens battle with Earth would have escalated and the SHADO Headquarters would move to a larger Moonbase. All of the models, costumes and sets were prepared for production, but when the ratings began to fall the series was cancelled. Gerry pitched his idea for using the pre-production work in a brand new series which became SPACE: 1999.

They are black, triangular, have lights, can fly and are completely unidentifiable. This is a UFO. Many people, since the 1940’s, have witnessed the phenomenon known as the “black triangles.” So, what are they? No one knows. These black triangles have been spotted all over the world, but are more commonly reported to be seen in the skies above the Unites States and England. They are enormous and they hover, slowly cruising over cities. They are silent, usually maintain very low altitudes and make no attempt at not being detected. Running lights, either colored or white, are usually located at the triangle’s corners.
Sometimes reports tell of a red pulsating light in the center, as well. There have been no explanations of what these are, as yet and thus their origins, existence and purpose remain a mystery.

It has been speculated that these black triangles are part of an ongoing experiment by the government on hovering technologies. But, because they appear over large cities and make no efforts to conceal their presence, this is highly unlikely. Most reports of black triangles are consistent in describing their size as about 200 feet long and the width of a typical football field. They tend to appear out of nowhere, hover in place about 100 feet above the ground and sometimes even land.

A famous reporting of the black triangle UFO sightings was the “Phoenix Lights.” In addition to other UFOs, there were numerous black triangles spotted and videotaped by the people of Phoenix, Arizona and the local media. This event that spanned multiple evenings began on Thursday, March 13, 1997. Lights were seen as low as 1000 feet in the air and were moving at speeds that were far too slow to be conventional aircraft.
They produced no sound and several of them grouped into a “V” formation which lingered above the city. A lot of witnesses reported a triangle that was over a mile wide and blocked out the stars as it passed over their homes. There were other reports of similar craft sighted in the skies above Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California.

The air force officially reported the incident as a testing of flares that were launched out of conventional aircraft at the time. Witnesses did report seeing the military jets, but that they were chasing the mysterious objects and not launching flares. Over the course of the next few nights, local pilots attempted to recreate the event by flying propeller planes in “V” formation. The engine noise was easily heard.

Three years earlier near Moscow, Mach 12, 1990, there were several groupings of the UFOs in the night sky. There were some spheres and discs, as well as the triangular craft. Local people spent their nights watching from their rooftops as the silent objects darted through the sky. Several accounts of this incident were retained by the CIA, although none were released for the public.

So, what are these mysterious black triangles? Are they alien craft? Are they air force flares or the government testing of new technologies? You be the judge.

NASAs Apollo space mission were for the exploration of the moon. In 1969 Apollo 11 manned by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, was the first one that allowed a moon walk. These two men were the very first astronauts to ever set foot on the surface of the Moon. In 1972 NASA launched their final Apollo mission; Apollo 17. There were altogether 20 missions scheduled for the Apollo mission. Apollo 18, Apollo 19 and Apollo 20 were coordinated, but were scrapped due to budgeting limitations.

Although there can be found on the internet plenty of erroneous reports of an Apollo 20 mission, Apollo 20 was cancelled on January 4th, 1970. The reason for its cancellation at that time was Skylab’s need for Apollo 20’s Saturn V rocket. Because of budget restrictions the Saturn V had a limited production; only the original 15 that were created.

One such erroneous report of Apollo 20 is linked to William Rutledge who had made claims that as a former scientist for Bell Laboratories and was working for the United States Air Force he had knowledge of a secret Apollo mission which was a joint project of the Soviets and Americans. It was also purported that Apollo 20 had discovered an alien craft on the surface of the Moon.

This conspiracy theory states that Apollo 20 made its moon visit on the 16th of August, 1976. This was just about 4 years later following the final Apollo mission. An impact crater on the Moons dark side, Delporte was the intended landing site. Along with Rutledge, Crew Members of this Apollo 20 mission were said to have included Leona Snyder and Alexei Leonov. They were sent to investigate an Alien craft that was apparently detected earlier by the crew of the Apollo 15 mission crew (James Irwin, David Scott and Alfred Worden) in 1971.

Alexei Leonov was indeed an astronaut; he was the first man to walk in space on the 18th of March, 1965. Leonov commanded the Apollo-Soyuz mission, which was the first space mission involving both the USA and the Soviets, on the Soviet side. In the book 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke, Alexei Leonov the Cosmonaut was named for him. But Leonov never admitted to being a part of the Apollo 20 top-secret mission.

The astronauts visited an ancient city and an alien space craft on the Moon’s surface, if you believe Rutledge's story. The astronauts had also been able to collect some nifty alien gadgets and they even brought back one of the two deceased alien pilots to their Lunar landing module.

From analysis of the density of meteor impacts revealed the ship and ancient city were there for 1½ billion years. And the ship seemed to have been explored previously, perhaps by a different alien race.

This story probably had some inspiration from a similar story about some pictures taken while on the Apollo 15 mission. The images are genuine and can be found at the Universities Space Research Association webpage. You can see in the NASA images that there is an object that looks quite strange.

It is probably no more than optical illusion, but it’s quite interesting-looking. It’s a cigar-shaped object inside of a crater. A strange aspect is that it seems to have a shadow.

If you find yourself in the terrible situation of impending Alien abduction, how do you fend them off? Here is a helpful guide for just such a situation.

The Mental Struggle
You are paralyzed. You are helpless. You are about to be the involuntary victim of alien abduction. One great method to deter the offending Alien hunting party is to use sustained willpower. This is very simple. First, calm yourself and stop worrying about the fact that you can’t move. Second, and this is the important part, keep your mind focused on trying to move just one part of the body, like a toe or a finger.
Aliens are telepathic and empathic creatures. If you keep focused on willing your body part to move, they sense your strength and leave.

The Physical Struggle
If you get a chance to physically fend them off before they can get the chance to take control of your mind and paralyze you, set about them using your fists or a heavy object. You may also consider the use of firearms. They can be handy but they are not recommended in an urban or suburban area. Small children and/or innocents may be jeopardized

The intent in using the firearm is merely one of deterrence, not of harming or killing. The point is to inform the intruders that they are violating your right to privacy.

Use Righteous Anger
This is also a tactic that should be employed before paralysis has set in. Get very annoyed at the violation of your rights. Shout at the Aliens “Go away!” or “Leave me alone!” or some such variation of these. This may be too mild for some, but the next useful tip will allow for a broader scope of phrases.

Use Protective Rage
You can express extreme displeasure on behalf of your more helpless family members such as husbands, cats, children, guinea pigs, gerbils, etc. You can employ some well-chosen cursing and strong rejecting language as long as you also combine it with a wish that the offending Alien being might not be harmed in any way. One such statement might be: “Kindly fuck off gentle visitor; you are alarming my guinea pigs!”?

Use Your Intuition
Sometimes you may sense the impending visitation that may lead to abduction. Be mentally prepared for it and this may deter your would-be Alien abductors.

Employ Metaphysical Methods
You can envision a protective bubble in the form of a bright white light coming down from a source above to encircle and surround you with its protective power. Let its protective qualities flow through your body and envision yourself not getting abducted because they cannot reach you.

Also, you can employ and internal sound. Think of an annoying, obnoxious noise. Any being listening in with intent to abduct you will be deterred by its annoying quality.

With these helpful tricks and tactics, your abductors will have no luck in taking you to their craft for terrible experimentation. You can now rest assured that you are able to fend off and Alien abduction.

Roswell, New Mexico is one of the most famous locations with regard to UFO crash sites. Also, in the same vein, Area 51 might be the most famous military base in the world that doesn’t officially exist. Other places around the globe also have crash sites that are quite famous. One such crash site being Zhitkur, colloquially referred to as the “Russian Roswell.”

The Zhitkur crash occurred over 100 years ago. It was around 7:17 AM local time on the 30th of June in 1908. What was initially thought to be a meteor or fragment of comet entered the atmosphere in Siberia somewhere above the lower region of the Stony Tunguska River. The explosion it created was as much as 1,000 times the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; it caused trees to become laid out like matchsticks in a huge circular pattern. Where there was supposed to be a huge crater, none was found, this meant that it could not have been a meteor or comet fragment. The object, whatever it was, had to have exploded high above the ground.

A popular theory which still sparks imaginations to this day is that a UFO crash-landed in the area. Since then there have been numerous reports and claims of UFO sightings and crashes where the wreckage was secretly transported to a highly shrouded Russian air force base for reverse engineering research. This base, Kapustin Yar is the Russian equivalent of our Area 51. Because of the highly sensitive secrets that the underground Russian base was purported to research, the nearby town of Zhitkur was emptied of its population and then leveled.

Less than a year after the famed Roswell incident in 1947, radar operators at the base picked up on an unidentified object. This silver-colored, cigar-shaped object was also witnessed by a fighter pilot flying in the area. After reporting of being blinded by the UFO, the pilot was ordered to engage it. After a dogfight that lasted about three minutes, a missile brought down the unidentified craft. The UFO was reported to have been firing some kind of energy beam or weapon, and subsequently both aircraft crashed.

Soviet recovery teams are reported to have scooped up all of the wreckage and transported it to the underground military base which, ironically enough was named Zhitkur. The reason that MiGs were ordered to engage and bring down any extraterrestrial aircraft was because Russia was desperate to find any advantage over the Americans.

The Zhitkur facility is located about a quarter mile beneath the Earth’s surface. People who have been there have described in detail what can be found inside. Inside there are dark, dank corridors. Numerous offshoots lead to chambers in which there are alien craft in various stages of disassembly. There were also areas where alien autopsies would take place and other sections where unidentified objects were being built.

Ongoing research at Kapustin Yar has been reported as recently as 1997. UFO wreckage is said to be transported into Zhitkur regularly. With the new Russian freedoms, perhaps we can get to know more about Zhitkur and if the UFOs brought there for research were really extraterrestrial in origin. It sure does beg the question of what secrets the Russians may still be hiding.

The beginning of the story about Aliens and their love affair with the bovine inhabitants of Earth dates back to April 1897. The Yates Center Farmer’s Advocate in Kansas told of a local rancher, Alexander Hamilton, his hired man and his son all witnessing a giant UFO that was cigar-shaped and hovering just over the corral near their house.

It was the evening of April 19th and Hamilton claimed that there was a holding place underneath the structure containing six of the weirdest beings he ever saw. Right at that moment, a calf started bawling. It was trapped in the fence with a rope about its neck as it was being hauled upward. They attempted to free the calf of the rope off but were unsuccessful; they then cut the wire of the fence loose and watched as the ship with the calf in tow rose slowly and disappeared into the northwest.

The next day, Hamilton set off in search of the animal. The mutilated remains of his calf were discovered in his pasture by his neighbor. As Hamilton describes, the neighbor was quite confused about not finding tracks of any kind.

An affidavit signed by twelve prominent citizens soon followed Hamilton’s statement. The townspeople swore that Hamilton’s word had never been questioned. In the days following the incident, the story was published in a number of newspapers in the United States and also in Europe.

Having been rediscovered by ufologists in the 1960’s, the story found new life in books and magazine articles. But, much to the chagrin of believers, an elderly woman from Kansas came forward to tell of how she overheard Hamilton boasting to his wife of a story that he had concocted shortly before it was reported in the Farmer’s Advocate. There was a local liars’ club of which Hamilton was a member. According to the woman, the airship and cow story was the one that must have topped all the others as the club broke up soon after.

Although the validity of the initial reporting is in question, there still remains the problem of unsolved cattle mutilations and crop circles. There have been theories which suggest that these mutilations may have been the result of Alien abduction for the gathering of genetic materials for purposes unknown. Most such theories a based around conjecture that people could not have performed such clean dissections in the small amount of time necessary to do so. It is just impossible for them not to have been seen or heard or even to leave evidence behind at the mutilation site. There are also lab reports suggesting that these dissections used unconventional cutting tool among other phenomena.

Whatever the case may be, cow abduction is now synonymous with UFO sightings in our pop culture. Recently, advertisers for California dairies have been giving it attention in commercials. A recent commercial depicted the news media reporting on the story of Aliens abducting cows for their magic white serum, which was actually just milk. Are Aliens abducting cows? You can decide for yourself.

It is believed by many, and documented by them as well, that the Nazi’s were researching and developing propulsion systems that were Alien in nature during the latter part of WWII. These “flying discs” which they called “foo fighters” were not extraterrestrial in origin, but rather the work of very talented scientists.

A German inventor, Victor Schauberger was assigned the task of finding a way to use his special propulsion system theory to produce flying saucer-shaped machines. The theory was that as air or water was rotated in a twisting oscillation, a build-up of energy would result that had immense power and could cause levitation.

According to Schauberger the machine was built at the Mauhausen concentration camp by prison laborers. The craft made its debut flight on the 19th of February, 1945 where it rose to an altitude of 45,000 feet within a span of only 3 minutes. The prototype got destroyed by the Nazis before the Allies could capture it.

The Nazi project, known as Operation Paperclip, was declassified in 1973. This top secret project saw approximately 126 German scientists imported into America after the war. The CIA (formerly the OSS) cleaned up some evidence and the records because President Harry S. Truman did not wish to allow true Nazi’s into the country; not only were they allowed in, they were put on the payroll. It was either the United States Government placed these scientists on the payroll in order to learn their secrets, or allow the Russians to do so. The operation has gotten so old that now most of the secrets are no longer classified.

Surprising information surfaced after this declassification, such as the fact that the chief scientist involved with the NASA Apollo moon project was one of these former Nazi scientists. The people in charge of damage control and public relations always attest that the scientists were never really Nazi’s, merely scientists forced to work for them.
At the time of this project, the operation was very discreet. The general public might well have been outraged that in only a matter of a few months after the war had ended, these Nazi scientists were being brought into the United States. There is no amount of spin-doctoring that could have made the situation seem okay in the public eye; especially to those Americans who had lost their sons in the war fighting the German soldiers.

So, in all probability, the UFO crash-landing in Roswell, New Mexico could very well have been a secret military experimental aircraft. Given the patriotism and the overall climate of the day, what would the Government prefer they believe? Are the UFOs being covered up, or are the UFOs the cover-up?
We know that as many as three other ships that crashed are alleged to have been recovered in the New Mexican desert between the date of the initial crash and the 1950’s. Aztec, New Mexico has a budding tourism based upon the UFOs that later crashed, including reports of 16 bodies that were found intact; there is even a UFO conference that would rival the Roswell one.

The Alien Quadrilogy, 4 films that were made over a span of 18 years, horrified and delighted millions of movie-goers. In the lore of the films, the Aliens are life-forms with a defined system of hierarchy and are ruled by a queen. The life-cycle of an Alien is comprised of several different stages: the Egg, the Facehugger, the Chestburster and the adult Alien. One interesting thing about the Alien is that it will take on some of the hosts attributes such as quadrupedalism or the possession of mandibles.

The Chestburster is the result of the gestation from the embryonic stage of Alien development; this is the Alien baby. After the Facehugger has impregnated its host with the embryo by implanting its eggs in the host’s bronchial tubes, it will then hatches and burrow to find the aorta where it will begin to feed on white blood cells and absorbed nutrients. A few hours after that, it detaches from the aorta and swims around inside the body of the host. The swimming alien baby causes only mild discomfort until it finds the sternum and starts to chew. The chewing causes a lot of pain and blood loss and the victim will be in shock. The process can take considerably longer in the case of a queen birth. When it has finished chewing its way through the sternum, it will burst violently from the host’s chest cavity, killing him in the process, hence the name Chestburster.

As it is young, the Chestburster’s carapace has yet to harden; its hide is dull, gray and fleshy. The host determines much about the resulting Alien creature that is born. From the regular human host, you get the typical Xenomorph Drone with a black carapace. A Xenomorph Runner is produced when the host is any quadruped, it has a red carapace and will itself be a quadruped. The PredAlien results from a predator host.

The PredAlien is perhaps the most vicious as it will implant the Chestburster embryos straight into the host and usually the host is a pregnant woman. Several Chestbursters will feed on the unborn baby and then burst forth from the host’s abdomen, killing her in the process.

Because this was the most gruesome part of the Alien life-cycle it has generated quite a following of its own. It has been referred to in numerous television shows, books, magazines, and movies. It has become part of mainstream pop culture, even more so than the Alien movies themselves. One such referencing, which is rather comedic, is in the BBC Comedy Series Coupling (May 2000 - June 2004.) In one episode, a main character is pregnant and the father of the child refers to the impending birth as the “John Hurt moment.” And the scene is also referenced in the 1999 Film Dogma.

Not only has it been referenced, but there are a number of products that have been based on the Alien Chestburster. There are figurines, action figures, T-shirts, Lego pieces, and of course costumes! If you want a cute, friendly Facehugger or Chestburster there are plush toys.

Supposedly the result of breeding between the typical “Gray” Aliens and humans, hybrids are thought to already be in existence among us. The Grays, during the abduction of humans, will extract sperm and ova to be combined with Gray DNA to create a hybrid race that is theorized to be needed to save the Grays from extinction due to excessive use of cloning. Another theory is that the Grays are creating the hybrids in order to save the human race from extinction by transplanting us to far away planets before our society self-destructs.

According to some sources, eyewitnesses and abductees, the aliens tend to continually refer to the future. They seem to hold it true that what they are doing will be for the betterment f both of our species. When impregnating the women, the women are often told that they are carrying the future. The hybrids are referred to as the children of the future. They are always talking about a change that is coming something difficult but inevitable.

It’s a wonder that with all the knowledge abductees obtain about why they are taken, what experiments are being done and for what purposes that the abductees can handle such information. The aliens have explained on numerous occasions that the programs for creating hybrids are meant to salvage our future. The aliens have communicated that there are benefits to the change and that there is need to prevent or cope with impending mass destruction. So the new question is this: if a change is coming that the aliens are preparing for, who will benefit from the change?

Something puzzling about the phenomenon of abduction is that the aliens seen to be greatly concerned about the environment. They have been telling us that humans have been doing the planet a disservice with all the pollution. There must be some reason that they are concerned about our environment. People with positive vision of the aliens believe that the message is one of concern. But, those with a darker view have thoughts that question their motives such as whether the aliens are trying to clean up the planet before a take-over.

Hybrid fetuses are taken from the abductees and are placed in tanks of liquid nutrients. Abductees report the huge size of these rooms and the staggering number of fetuses contained within. When the hybrid newborns are taken from the tanks they do not cry, do no grasp and their bodies have a unique muscular tension. They often seem mature for their age. These hybrid babies seem to have unusual mental abilities. They seem to be using mind coupling to gain knowledge when looking at you, so it’s difficult maintain eye contact without feeling extremely uncomfortable.

Whether the purpose for these hybrids is sinister or benevolent in nature is unknown. But there is still a concern about why the Grays are creating them. If it is to propagate their own species, it would seem that they have gathered enough DNA samples to establish a hybrid race. Perhaps we will know their intentions sometime in the near future.

Ufology has a one distinctive characteristic and that is, a passion for collecting, whether it is news clippings or first day covers. From the mid-1970s onwards, many ufologists have had plenty of opportunities to combine these passions in the form of flying-saucer stamps. The understanding and knowledge of alien and UFO stamps of the past will enable stamp collectors to realize the beauty of this amazing art.

Collectors have a wide variety of alien and UFO stamps to choose from since many countries in the world issues stamps in number of different types and formats. Collectors may choose to create their collection to reflect their personal interests.

Alien and UFO stamp collecting is definitely a fun and an interesting hobby for those who get the bug. It gives you an opportunity to collect tiny pieces of extraterrestrials. You might even consider them as little artifacts that open up a new world of exploration. By following a few of these suggestions, you will be on your way to an enriching and past time.

You may want to start out by purchasing sheets of new stamps, maybe even from specific countries. You could even ask family and friends to save stamps for you from their mail. This is a good, easy way to begin your collection.

Once the word is out about your new hobby, you will probably receive gifts of aliens and UFO stamps for holidays and birthdays. This will help your collection grow, and special limited edition may be acquired too.
Gathering supplies is an important step as well. You will want to keep your alien and UFO stamps in order and in good condition. A loose-leaf binder with plastic removable pockets, small glassine envelopes and stamp tongs for gentle handling are all-important tools you should acquire. Eventually you will want to have a magnifying glass to inspect stamps closely, and stamp books or catalogue with information about stamps available.

Be careful when removing stamps from envelopes. Carefully steam the stamp off over a bowl of water, and peel off with stamp tongs. Let it dry before storing it.

The internet is the single most useful resource to get started. Alien and UFO stamp collection clubs, organizations, blogs and classifieds are all excellent places to begin.

Once you have a collection you are proud of, show it off to friends and family! Maybe one day you can even start your own website on the subject. Have your stamps displayed with stories on how you acquired them or start your own discussion board. Whatever you do, have fun and happy collecting.

Probably one of the most famous UFO sightings was the one that made Jimmy Carter become known as the “UFO President.” In Leary, Georgia, 1969, two years before he would become Governor, Carter was getting ready to give a speech for the Lion’s Club meeting. At about 7:15 PM EST a guest called his attention to the western sky. Visible at about 30 degrees above the horizon was a strange object. In his description, Carter said that the object was as bright as the Moon. The object appeared to move closer, but stop just beyond some pine trees where it changed colors before moving back into the distance. Carter felt that the object was not solid and contained a self-luminescent quality. The witness count with him that night was about ten or twelve people.

Later, in 1973, Carter was asked by the IUFOB (International Unidentified Flying Object Bureau) of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to file a report, which he did in 1973. The report is the topic of much heated debate and discussion, and has been discussed by mainstream media and Ufologists. Carter himself doubts that what he saw was an extraterrestrial craft.

Another famous incident is the Phoenix Lights, or lights over Phoenix. These lights also appeared over Nevada and Sonora, Mexico. The event began on March 13th, 1997 and there were repeated occurrences on February 6th, 2007 and April 21st, 2008. The April incident was a hoax; flares attached to helium balloons.

Between 7:30 PM and 11:30 PM MST, thousands of people reported seeing various lights in the sky in the space of about 300 miles. There were stationary lights seen in Phoenix as well as a triangular formation which passed over the state. The United States Air Force later identified the lights as testing flares dropped during training. The Governor at the time, Fife Symington, was a witness to the event.

On May 25th, 1995 a west-bound America West Boeing-757 passenger jet, identified as America West Flight 564, was flying over the panhandle of Texas when it encountered a UFO. This UFO had a row of white lights along its length which flashed from left to right. Their flying altitude was 39,000 feet and the lights seemed to be at about 30,000 feet. The pilot made contact with the Air Traffic Control Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico only to discover that there was supposedly nothing flying in that airspace.

As they moved past it, thunderclouds illuminated the object which seemed, by the pilots’ estimation, to be about 300-400 feet in length. It was not visible on the radar of the Air Traffic Control center but one of the controllers contacted NORAD and found that they had been investigating an incident which they determined to be a small plane with a faulty transponder. After checking the next day, they had discovered that NORAD had tracked another unknown target that was at first stationary and then made very quick movements which were clocked at about 1,000 and 1,400mph.

Here are just a few of the many documented incidents and reports of UFO sightings. Whether these reports are true or not, they are indeed mysterious.

There are many Alien abduction victims who believe that they were left with some kind of implanted device, these are usually small and theorized to be used for purposes of tracking and mind-control. Some allege that the implants are biological in nature and are embedded within their own DNA strands; this idea is particularly believed by a group of family members that have been abducted through several generations in connection with ongoing Alien genetic experimentation.

While having routine X-Rays and MRIs, alleged Alien abduction victims oft-times discover these unexplainable objects in their bodies. The doctors have no explanation as to how these objects came to be there. When placed under hypnosis and abductee will often describe in detail certain operations in which a needle is inserted into the brain.

Implants can be found in the brain, leg, hand or ear. Some are able to be removed with little to now resulting injury; others simply cannot due to prohibitive locations. Of course it does depend upon the location of the device in the body. Sometimes these implants can dislodge over a periods of time.

There have been numerous implants that have been removed and carefully studied. They are generally quite small, at only about 1/16 inches in thickness and up to about 1 inch long. It is usually wire-shaped and has a complex structure with many layers when examined under electron microscope. The implants, according to tests, are comprised of various metals.

The allegation of Alien implantation was first reported in 1967. Betty Andreasson from Massachusetts described a tiny ball of spikes that had been placed inside her nose after an alleged abduction by Aliens. Soon after, the claim of implantation began to proliferate.

Some of the alleged implants have been recovered by surgical means. Some look like shards of glass, others like carbon fiber. None of these were found in the nose or brain; they were usually removed from a toe, the knee, hand or shin. Some of these have been accompanied by scars and some have not.

The burden of proof lies with the advocated of the belief in Alien abduction and implantation, not on the skeptics who do not believe in it. This is a burden which they, to this day, have not met. The concept of implantation, not unlike the larger Alien abduction phenomenon, simply does not have the necessary evidence to support the theory and make it accepted as reality. It is, as evidenced, simply part of an ever-evolving mythology of UFOs. The theme is of entities having influence over humans. This is seen in many different variations that range from ancient myth to modern science fiction of today. This will undoubtedly persist in popular culture.

The concept of Aliens abducting, experimenting and implanting devices inside us is truly scary. If the Alien implants are truly of extraterrestrial origin, we can only hope that they can someday offer information and clues about what or who their creators are, and also give us an idea of their intentions.

In 1998, The UPN network presented a documentary titled Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County in which depicts the McPherson family being abducted by Aliens. This recreation of a supposed real tape was filmed using home video to give the appearance of the taping of actual events and has thus led to confusion about its validity. The question remains of where the real tape, if there is one, can be found.

The tape tells the story of the McPherson family gathered for Thanksgiving dinner. The camera is situated in Tommy’s left hand. The power goes out. Kurt and Brian go to check the fuses; Tommy follows with his camera. Brian makes attempts to open the box and gets burned. A transformer atop a pole down the road is throwing sparks. Tommy’s camera finds eerie lights in the woods. They go investigate.

They find a UFO in a field nearby. Two aliens exit the ship and zap some cows with ray guns. The boys rush back to the house. The men gather some shotguns. Suddenly, there a high-pitched noise and everyone but six-year-old Rose is affected. After strapping a flashlight to his gun barrel, Kurt grabs some keys. He is going to get the SUV and they are all going to leave.

Kurt goes outside; Tommy follows. The truck doesn’t start. They try to check the engine, but a light flashes starts smoking. He opens the hood to discover a melted battery. They return to the house. The family is gathered in the living room. Crawling sounds are head on the roof. Kurt leads the way up the stairs, where he is greeted by laser blasts and responds with shotgun blasts. He tells everyone to go downstairs.

A ball of light comes into the house and knocks Renee into a deep sleep. The men leave to find help. The tape jumps ahead an hour and they suffer some lost time. Gunshots can be heard outside and the power starts to flicker. Everyone starts feeling a burning sensation on the backs of their necks. They discover triangle-shaped burns.

Everyone is now hysterical as more shots can be heard outside. Tommy goes outside to discover a couple of mangled shotguns but not his brothers. The camera turns to the woods where we can see strange lights and two figures approaching. Everyone goes back in the house; they barricade the door. The camera is set down and the picture goes black.

Tommy then gives a tearful testimonial and wonders if he’ll live to see tomorrow. He searches all the rooms and his bedroom and then suddenly comes face-to-face with an alien. He drops and we see Tommy frozen in a trance-like state. The tape stops. The family and their guests haven’t been seen since.

The tape is a depiction of a supposedly real incident; the actors’ credits roll at the end. There are many components from pop-culture’s alien abduction scenario and that makes this tape a bit suspicious. Whatever you believe, this is an eerie and highly entertaining piece of footage.

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I always enjoy watching James Nintendo Nerd's videos on his blog Cinemassacre or on youtube. In this video he reviews some of the old classic alien invasion movies and compares them with their newer versions.

The belief that extraterrestrial beings have traveled to Earth from another planet to conduct reproductive experiments is widely held. Despite its incredible nature and the lack of supporting evidence, the belief has its believers. The believers hold as truth that there was an alien crash-landing. It is also held as fact that the alien craft recovered there along with its occupants have been hidden and the evidence covered-up.

UFO sightings have been on the rise and, as some believe, this is due to the increased number of Alien beings actively visiting the Earth for research and experimentation of the various forms of life found here. They leave their marks in the form of crop circles, they are responsible for the mutilation of cattle and they are known to provide revelations to selected individuals who are chosen as prophets. But, most importantly, they abduct human beings in order to create alien-human hybrids for purposes of preservation of their species and ours.

The initial story of alien abduction that spawned the beliefs is the Betty and Barney Hill story. They claimed to have been abducted by aliens in September of 1961. During a series of nightmares, Betty “recalled” her abduction experience and subsequently shared the information with Barney. Barney made similar claims of abduction thereafter in which he described the alien beings taking samples of his sperm. Betty recounted how they aliens had used a needle in her abdomen for purposes unknown, but though it to have been for the removal of ova. She guided curious people to the landing site where only she could see the aliens and their space craft. Under hypnosis, Barney recalled seeing an alien that had a rather unusual feature; “wraparound eyes.” Twelve days before, a similar being was featured in a televised episode of “The Outer Limits.”

Since that first accounting of the alien abduction phenomenon, there have been numerous similar reportings around the globe. The story is usually a variation on the same original accounting. Under hypnosis, counseling and psychotherapy, the “victims” can usually recount very vivid memories and detailed information about their experiences. There have been only minor changes such as scarring and device implanting. This phenomenon is most common is English speaking countries, and some of the details of the abductions will vary according to the hoe culture of the alleged abductee.

Research studies have concluded that the “victims” in these stories have similar personality traits that make them more susceptible to belief in the fantastic and surreal. Experiences where Alien abductees are held firm in their beds by some unseen force can be attributed to a condition known as sleep paralysis wherein a person is aware and awake but unable to move. Sleep paralysis can also be experienced in conjunction with hallucinations in sufferers and 40% of all people will experience this frightening ordeal at least once in their lifetime.

Are aliens abducting humans for reasons of species propagation? Or are these victims simply experiencing an occurrence with a reasonable scientific explanation? Whether or not you believe the victims or the science is up to you.

Outer space comprises the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. Outer space is used to distinguish it from airspace and terrestrial locations.

Contrary to popular understanding, outer space is not completely empty (i.e. a perfect vacuum), but contains a low density of particles, predominantly hydrogen plasma, as well as electromagnetic radiation and neutrinos. Hypothetically, it also contains dark matter and dark energy.

Outer space is the closest approximation of a perfect vacuum. It has effectively no friction, allowing stars, planets and moons to move freely along ideal gravitational trajectories. However, no vacuum is truly perfect, not even in intergalactic space where there are still a few hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter.
(For comparison, the air we breathe contains about 1019 molecules per cubic centimeter.) The deep vacuum of space could make it an attractive environment for certain industrial processes, for instance those that require ultra clean surfaces.

All of the observable universe is filled with large numbers of photons, created during the Big Bang, the so-called cosmic background radiation, and quite likely a correspondingly large number of neutrinos called the cosmic neutrino background. The current temperature of the photon radiation is about 3 K (−270.15 °C; −454.27 °F).

Many people ask that if we put a thermometer in Space with no other light or heat source around and absolutely no background radiation there, what it would read. Would the temperature be really cold or what?

Yes, it would be really cold. Temperature measures the energy per “degree of freedom” (i.e. way something can move) of whatever molecules happen to be around. So, it becomes so cold that the molecules stop all together, and then this is the “absolute zero” temperature. On the Celsius Temperature Scale (i.e. water freezes at 0, and boils at 100), this takes place at -273 degrees C.

We usually use the Kelvin temperature scale, where Zero Kelvin is this “absolute zero” temperature -- or -273 degrees C. Water freezes at +273 Kelvin and water boils at +373 Kelvin.

If we put a thermometer in darkest space, with absolutely nothing around, it would first have to cool off. This might take a very long time. Once it cooled off, it would read 2.7 Kelvin. This is because of the “3 degree microwave background radiation”. No matter where you go, you cannot escape it -- it is always there.

In 1947, in New Mexico, a radio operator receives a signal following patterns and while investigating the occurrence, he vanishes. In the present day, the same signal is transmitted from a base on the Falkland Islands to the United States, and a satellite captures images of an unknown object in Antarctica. The cryptologist Julien Rome is invited to investigate the mystery in the South Pole, and he flies to a research base. While a team tries to open a weird shell probably from outer space, Julien solves the message.
Because Sci-Fi's “Showdown at Area 51” was not enough, The Asylum brings us another exciting rip-off in anticipation of “AVP R”. Since the “Alien vs. Predator” sequel is set in a small American town, “Alien v Hunter” is set in a small American town. After some helicopter shots, we are treated to a middle-aged man jogging, completely oblivious to a huge smoking object crashing behind him. From there we are introduced to an alien and a “hunter” and people die and run around and shoot at stuff.

This particular effort is punctuated by some nice derivative designs. The alien resembles Giger's “Alien” (except for the whole spider thing) and the hunter is a safe re-imagining of the "Predator". In this respect The Asylum have really outdone themselves. This kind of production design could really have helped them on movies like “Alien Abduction”.

The characters are a real low point, though. Our heroes have a few very superficial clichés that pass for character and they are played off one another in a way that makes you wish the monsters would win. There is some solace in watching people get killed off, but it was never the ones we really wanted dead.

We are almost used to these quirks by now, even the worst one of never quite getting everything in frame. It is odd watching these because the little flashes of competence give you the feeling that it would have been a solid movie if only they bothered to get the coverage. However, down to brass tax, this thing advertises itself on its special effects and there really is not anything wrong with those. In addition, the film wisely avoids much reference to “Alien vs. Hunter” and instead liberally rips off the original “Alien”, “Predator” and “Aliens”.

Without giving anything away, the final twist is irritating. Apart from this, “Alien vs. Hunter” is an essential for any fan of The Asylum.