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Tag Archives: UFO sightings
UFO Helium Balloon Boy Found Alive!
This in the New York Times about a half-hour ago: The 6-year boy, Falcon Heene, was just found alive, according to reporter Dan Frosch, who is at the boy’s house in Fort Collins, Colo. The Larimer County Sheriff, Jim Alderden, … Continue reading
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Tagged balloon boy, death, helium, life, parenting, UFO sightings, UFOs, weird things
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Ah, Gray Sunflower, Forget Me Not! The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Moscow UFO Mothership/Cloud
When looking at the above video today, I thought of Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” (in which Ginsberg eulogizes a soot covered dead sunflower). And it made me think: what makes this UFO-like cloud (seen last Wednesday over Moscow) beguiling? And … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, aliens, edmund burke, philosophy, reductionism, schopenhauer, science, sublime, the beautiful, the sublime, UFO sightings, UFOs
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Moscow’s UFO Mothership Cloud Akin to the Hexagon on Saturn?
Moscow’s recent eerie UFO “cloud and sun mothership” phenomenon (see here) reminded Jared Burton of the hexagon on Saturn—which I knew zip about. But Jared linked to this interesting article, and I found this on YouTube: And here’s the Moscow UFO … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, astronomy, Halloween, reason, saturn, skepticism, strange, UFO sightings, ufology, UFOs, weather, weird things
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UFO Mothership, or Just Sun and Clouds?
Last Wednesday there was a large UFO disk-like shape, apparently backlighted by the sun, that hung over Moscow, and the video of it has gotten a lot of YouTube attention: The Sun says this about the phenomenon: The video has appeared … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, astronomy, motherships, science, skepticism, true believers, UFO sightings, UFOs, weather, weird things
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The Morristown UFO Sightings (2009)
Something creepy in the sky akin to what people saw in the 1997 Phoenix Lights incident: The UFOs did not appear on local radar and a pilot who witnessed them insisted that they were not aircraft: But, alas, it was … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, aliens, atheist, hoaxes, reason, science, skeptic, skeptic magazine, ufo hoax, UFO sightings, UFOs, weird things
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Blogging UFOs: What Do You Make of Professor Robert Jacobs’s Bizarre UFO Testimony?
This segment of the UFO documentary, Out of the Blue , features in its first half the UFO testimony of Professor Robert Jacobs. Jacobs, in the 1960s, was in the military and he recounts an amazing UFO event that changed his … Continue reading
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Tagged abductions, aliens, are we alone?, reason, robert jacobs, rockets, scary, science, spacecraft, UFO sightings, UFOs
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Swamp Gas?
Well, no. But probably not alien spacecraft caught in passing either. What’s likely being imaged in these NASA photos are probably human-generated debris orbiting from previous space missions, but they certainly look otherworldly, don’t they? NASA has removed these pictures from its site. How … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, contact, extraterrestrials, figure ground, grays, NASA, photographic evidence, space, UFO sightings, UFOs, we are not alone
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Thinking about UFO Abductees with Harvard Psychologist John Mack
This is a segment from a documentary on Harvard pychologist John Mack and some of the UFO abductees that he has interviewed and worked with. I thought that this segment was especially interesting and informative: Hat tip: Atrueoriginall
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Blogging UFOs: Are UFO Memories Even Reliable?
In recent posts I know I’ve been raining on the UFO believers’ parade, and I’m trying to keep an open mind about what I’ve discovered after a few weeks of looking into the UFO phenomenon, but the fact that eyewitness testimony … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, memory, New Age, occult, paranormal, philosophy, psychology, religion, ufo, UFO sightings, UFOs
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In Case You Missed It: The Washington Post on France’s Opening Up of Its Previously Classified UFO Files
The Washington Post, in 2007, reported on the opening of France’s previously classified UFO files. Here’s the link to the article. The article focused on two key incidents revealed in the documents—one of children witnessing a UFO and one of an Air France encounter. … Continue reading
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Walter Cronkite Anchors a UFO Segment for CBS News, Oct. 17, 1973
Here’s how CBS News reported some UFO sightings 36 years ago, on Oct. 17, 1973. One of those who claimed at the time to witness a UFO was the governor of Ohio, and he described the UFO that he saw as amber in color. The … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, hallucination, history, perception, Phoenix lights, psychology, UFO sightings, UFOs, walter cronkite
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Iranian Air Force General and Pilot, Parviv Jafari, Offers His UFO Testimony
He told his story at a National Press Club Conference in November of 2007:
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Tagged aliens, critical thinking, eye witness testimony, parviv jafari, philosophy, psychology, reason, UFO sightings, ufology, UFOs
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The Number One Photographic Case in UFO History?
The segment below comes from a History Channel documentary titled Where are All the UFOs? (2005). The documentary itself is excellent—really a “must see” for anyone interested in critically examining UFOs as a phenomenon. The thesis of the documentary is that UFOs are … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, extraterrestrials, photography, psychology, religion, saturn, science, skeptic, ufo, UFO sightings
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President Bill Clinton on UFOs
What I find interesting in the above clip is the fact that President Clinton says he tried to find out about what the U.S. government bureaucracy knows, in detail, about UFOs, and he wasn’t able to. Isn’t that a weird … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, astronomy, Bill Clinton, CIA, government, hillary clinton, President Clinton, roswell, space, UFO sightings, UFOs
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The Hell! I Missed This Too!
Somehow I’ve been totally oblivious to all sorts of interesting UFO information through the years. I never even paid attention when this Mexico sighting of UFOs (captured by Mexican pilots using infrared camaras) made the media rounds in 2004. This whole … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, bias, bias filter, extraterrestrials, philosophy, psychology, skepticism, social psychology, UFO sightings, ufology, UFOs
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45 Second Virtual Alien Vacation: Hanging with UFOs at Scenic Tejon Ranch!
Tejon Ranch (in Southern California) is in the Tehachipi Mountain area about an hour from where I live. Late last year, it was designated a 600 square mile conservation area. Oh, and UFOlogists claim that a secret government UFO facility (akin to Area … Continue reading
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Tagged abduction narratives, fly away, tejon ranch, trip, trippy, UFO sightings, UFOs, vacation
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