Spielberg May Be Making Documentary About Russian Ufo Lake

There's rumors coming out of Russia that Steven Spielberg will make a documentary about Lake Baikal, the world's deepest freshwater lake and the location of numerous UFO and alien sightings. Is Spielberg finally going to have a close encounter with a real E.T.?

The Siberian Times reported this week that the world famous director would be visiting Lake Baikal in May to kick off the filming of "Depth 211," a documentary about one of Siberia's hottest hotbeds of UFO activity. Completely surrounded by mountains, the remote lake contains one-fifth of Earth's unfrozen surface fresh water (more than all the Great Lakes combined) and dates back 25 million years, making it the world's oldest lake.

While there have been many sightings of glowing objects and flying saucers over the lake, the most interesting sightings have come from divers exploring its depths. In 1977, two men in a submersible ship turned off their lights at a depth of 1200 meters and were suddenly hit by a strange glow from above and two sides. After a minute, the lights went out and they were back in darkness.

The most famous encounter was in 1982 when seven military divers came face-to-face with aliens. Historian Alexey Tivanenko describes the meeting:

At a depth of 50 meters, they met swimmers, around three meters tall, dressed in tight-fitting silvery suits. They did not have any scuba or other devices, just helmets on their heads.

The divers suddenly and mysteriously found themselves on the shore suffering from decompression and three of them died. Their descriptions of the aliens were said to resemble the beings pictured in petroglyphs found in the area.

A Lake Baikal petroglyph

Add to those the stories of large flying saucers seen by multiple witnesses in 1987 and 1990 and legends of lake monsters and it sounds like the perfect location for a Spielberg movie, fact or fiction.

So, is Steven coming? That's hard to tell. There's no word from his "people" and Siberian Times referenced a press release from MUFON that the web site appears to have no record of.

It sounds like it would be a great documentary. If Spielberg doesn't do, maybe somebody else will produce "Close Encounters of the Frigid Kind."

Ufo Sighting In Garden Grove California On June 10Th 2013 2 Unusual Impressions In My Mother Backyard

UFO SIGHTING IN GARDEN GROVE, CALIFORNIA ON JUNE 10TH 2013 - 2 UNUSUAL IMPRESSIONS IN MY MOTHER'S BACKYARD

Last year I saw a 2' impression of dead grass in my mother's backyard. My mother and I did not know what it was. I saw 2' from the impression a 3" to 4" dead grass impression near her walkway that made me think of landing gear. The bricks under her avocado tree were moved and discolored with an off yellow spray paint. Again my mother did not know who did it. The bricks were about 2' from the impression. As months went by the impression grew back normal grass to the most part. Recently I found another dead grass area exactly where the other one was. It is a little bigger than the other one, as like the other one it looks as though something heavy landed there. And like the other one the dead grass looks broken and pressed down. Both impressions share in being round with irregular edges, and the recent one also shows the same type landing gear impression(s), as the other one. On the first one I found 2 landing gear impressions, and the recent one was not investigated by me thoroughly, as I found only one. Both showed landin gear impressions in the exact same distance near the walkway.

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Crashing Ufo Spotted Ejecting Miniature Spacecraft

A mysterious glowing UFO orb has been filmed breaking away from an unidentified meteorite-like object as it streaked across the sky above California.

The unusual object can be seen moving through the sky leaving a long tail behind that is characteristic of space debris or a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere.But after a few seconds a second round object separates from the main fireball and moves off in the opposite direction.

DATE OF SIGHTING: January 2015

EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY: I was driving home after work when this UFO or whatever you call it caught my eye. I pulled over in front of somebody's house to film it. I would have got a better shot but I didn't want to jump these peoples fence. Anyway I don't know what the hell to make of it. Couldn't have been a plane cause there was no noise. And I never heard a crash after either. The Orb thing flew straight up into the sky and disappeared. Sorry I didn't film that. I didn't know what to focus my attention on.

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Ufo Over Manhattan Caught On Tape

- (CBS) A mysterious shiny, silvery object floating high over Manhattan Wednesday had even jaded New Yorkers scratching their heads. Full story:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/14/earlyshow/main6957279.shtml

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The Last Dinosaurs

Imagine, you are hiking through the undergrowth of some far distant jungle. As you concentrate on not tripping over or sinking into the mud, you nonchalantly brush aside an oversized leaf in your way and, after regaining your balance as you nearly fall over a cliff, you see there before you a valley that takes your breath away... and it's beauty is not the only thing causing you to gasp... for there rising above the trees is the long, unmistakable neck of a sauropod.Fantasy? Or could members of the superorder Dinosauria have survived into the modern day to share this world with their successors the mammals and the birds?Christian Craziness? Erm... yes. According to our current understanding of natural history the dinosaurs, along with many other orders of animals such as the pterosaurs, died out about 65 million years ago. But some claim that not only did they not die out but that they continued to live through to, at the very least, the "recent" past or even to this day. And a few even claim to have encountered creatures they have identified as dinosaurs.What's the evidence?Dragons are often proposed as incorrectly identified dinosaurs. Could our ancestors stories of giant reptilian monsters be based upon early humans encounters with the last remnants of a surviving population of dinosaurs?It wasn't an asteroid! Did St. George hunt the dinosaurs into extinction?The idea is beguiling, but there is far more evidence of a different understanding of the origins of dragons. For instance the heraldic dragon (i.e. the stereotypical dragon which could easily pass for a badly drawn dinosaur) is NOT what a dragon of British folklore was originally meant to look like. In fact almost all dragon myths were based on giant worm like creatures such as the Lambton worm. It was only later that British dragons were reimagined as having legs and appearing as we now know them. This image was aided by the use of dragon imaginary to symbolise the superiority of Christianity over pagans (dragons) by the Christian authorities in the early years of the Christian church on our islands. But the British Isles were not alone in believing in dragons, dragon myths appear from around the world. Hmm... surely if dinosaurs were so widespread within such recent times would there not be more evidence of their existence? But there are no modern bones, footprints nor any evidence whatsoever of these ancient encounters with dinosaurs.Perhaps, just perhaps, people finding fossils of dinosaurs may have been so impressed that they invented the dragons to explain these finds. But more likely the dragon was the UFO of it's day. It is known many societies considered the sighting of anything unusual (such as lights in the sky) to be indicative of the presence of dragons.Kent Hovind, a former evangelist creationist and current inmate of Federal Correctional Institution Edgefield in South Carolina, is a keen proponent of dragons. He suggests they were simply killed off by humans along with all the other megafauna whereever we settled. Hmm... but we have evidence of the other megafauna, why is there no physical evidence of dragons during that same time period? Of course that's not a problem for him, he thinks the whole world is only 6000 years old. He claims that prehistoric paintings and ancient pottery designs are evidence of dinosaur contact. This is a sort of backhanded insult towards our ancestors. Do people really not believe that they had imagination, and creativity equal to our own? Why is it we believe ourselves to be able to comprehend abstract concepts but everything our ancestors did is interpreted literally? Our ancestors were just as intelligent as we are today. That's why we are here. Plus he keeps calling pterosaurs and plesiosaurs "dinosaurs". That annoys me. It's fine to call them dinosaurs for shorthand purposes in casual conversation. But if you are going to have a lecture about dinosaurs and related prehistoric orders it'd be nice to refer to them by their "kinds" as he insists on doing for everything else, using that stupid childish term. Check out one of his lectures on dinosaurs below, for entertainment purposes only!But despite my quick dismissal of dragons, people still claim to encounter them. There's a couple of pictures here. But whether you believe those sightings or not, a flying dragon is not a dinosaur. A flying dinosaur is called something quite different, which we will come to at the end...So have there been any sightings of actual dinosaurs? Well of course there's mokele-mbembe. Reports come from western Africa of a large long necked creature whose tracks are round. What could it be? Some believe it to be a dinosaur.Whilst locals have been talking about mokele-mbembe for a long time the first European to reference it was probably a French missionary working along the Congo river named Abb'e Lievain Bonaventure. He reported that he encountered footprints which he says was created by something that "must have been monstrous: the marks of the claws were noted on the ground, and these formed a print about three feet in circumference."Other than sightings that were heard about or tracks that were seen by European adventurers the first time someone claimed first hand to have seen the mysterious creature was in 1932. Zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson claimed he observed a creature with a long neck lurch into a river and said it was dark coloured with a head the size of a hippo! That would be a very large animal indeed.Most reports place it at about 15 to 30 feet (9.1 m) long. That would probably be too small for a long necked animal to have a head the size of a hippo though...Locals claim several things about the mokele mbembe. They say it eats the flowering liana, that where it lives it clears the area of hippos and crocodiles, and that eating it is a bad idea indeed (thanks to a story of a tribe who killed and ate one and subsequently all died of poisoning).Many expeditions have been to search for the animal but most have failed either due to not seeing it at all or suffering the usual camera malfunctions.My problem with identifying mokele-mbembe as a dinosaur is that it stretches credibility too far with little evidence. Could it not just as easily be a member of the Hyracodontidae or some other extinct line? Why do people automatically assume it must be a sauropod dinosaur simply because it has a long neck and tail? Laziness? Giraffes have long necks, and they are mammals. Just because it looks like a sauropod does not a dinosaur make, has no one ever heard of convergent evolution? *Probably not, creationists who are big fans of mokele-mbembe don't believe in evolution after all* Hmm... that of course presumes that the mokele-mbembe exists at all and is not either a made up creature or a misidentified known one.There are many other African "dinosaurs" such as the chipekwe, the emela-ntouka (elephant killer), Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu (the animal with planks growing out of it's back or shorthand for creationists "stegosaurus"), the nguma-monene and the mahamba (supposedly a 50 foot long crocodilian so not really a dinosaur. If anything I've got my fingers crossed for a phobosuchus). Africa isn't the only place to have remnant dinosaurs... taken from another cryptozoological creationist siteIn 1907, British Army officer Major Percy Fawcett was commissioned to settle a dispute between Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil concerning borders. While venturing deep into Amazon jungle he encountered an animal which he called a diplodocus. Major Fawcett was regard as a honest, "meticulous recorder of facts.I desperately, desperately want there to be real live dinosaurs roaming the Earth still. But I can see no reason to accept there is when 1) there are no modern bones of dinosaurs (megalania is NOT a dinosaur, so don't try that old one on me!), 2) an ancient form of mammal (something more likely than a dinosaur to exist still, even if it's only slightly more likely) might have the same sort of skin as a stereotypical depiction of a dinosaur and look quite similar, 3) most eyewitness accounts are hearsay and many represent native folklore rather than fact and 4) the world is quite a different place now and if dinosaurs did survive past 65 million years they would look quite different...Speaking of which... there's a brilliant news story today on the evolution of dinosaurs into birds. The theory that evolution seems to have started even earlier than previously thought seems to be proven in the form of Epidexipteryx. Because bird is just another word for "flying dinosaur". They really do still walk the Earth... and sometimes grace our skies too.Much of the discussion of dinosaurs in the modern world is generated by creationists who form a significant part of the cryptozoological community. Their hope is that the existence of dinosaurs today would help support their belief in a young Earth. How it would is beyond me... the idea of dinosaurs existing today would not damage the theory of evolution. So for now I shake my head in bemusement at their lack of knowledge of what is and isn't a dinosaur (mosasaur... not a dinosaur) and head off to dream of one day encountering a herd of parasaurolophus. Now that'd be something to behold!Further Reading

Unusual Manifestation Of A Ufo Over Italy

"Superfluous one of the mountains in Lombardy was observed strang light. For now, no one can cabaret the infrequent variety of anomalies. One thing is surefire - this time they are not Chinese lanterns, kites or airplane by to land. It besides does not perform fancy either the visual pressure of light or lasers.Outer layer registered by one of the witnesses see two tragic points. When on earth the maker of the particular performs close-up,we can take prisoner that every person of them has four light elements.It isn`t well-defined why the objects brusquely used up. For a hunger time none of them perform adroit exercises. At a time to the same extent you could watch them, the sky was clear. Therefore it could not "CLOAK" at the rear the clouds.According to the commenters, unidentified flying objects could start from a restrained cloud - the unmarried one who could be seen in the cloudless sky. But it is call to cabaret what happened to them next.Unconditionally lights noticeable in the film do not belong to the plane - it can be conditional by the way they move. Several people besides points out that a bar incident flanked by a UFO was lately spotted in Scotland.Does it mean extraterrestrial try to contact us?lunar truthmoon landingExternalaliensnibiruend of the worlddoomsdayjudgement day

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Ufo Sighting In Williamsport Pennsylvania On October 6Th 2013 Outside Something Caught My Eye

UFO SIGHTING IN WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA ON OCTOBER 6TH 2013 - OUTSIDE SOMETHING CAUGHT MY EYE. IT WAS THE OUTLINE OF AN ETI was outside and something caught my eye. I walked over and in the cement that is what I saw. I went in and took some pictures with a digital camera outside it was dark by then. It was unbelievable the number of varied shapes and forms coming through the cement. The next day I continued taking pictures a short time later it started to drizzle and I took a couple of pictures. Today is the 10th of Oct. I feel everything happens for a reason, I shared these photos with over a dozen people they saw what I saw and more. One of my friends told me about this site. When looking or talking about the photos I get a tingle.4ufos.com Editor's Note: No photos or images were provided along with this post.LATEST UFO SIGHTINGSCredit: MUFON- - - People are raising thousands of dollars a day using Crowdfunding at GoFundMe.Raise Money for:Healthcare, Medical Bills - Funeral Expenses, Memorial Gifts - Crisis/Emergency Money Needed - Mission Trips, Faith, Church - Education, Tuition, Books - Vet Bills, Animals in Need - Dreams, Hopes and Wishes - Accept Charitable DonationsAny duplication, in part or in whole, is forbidden without permission of copyright holder. Email Site Admin for inquiries, comments or questions.

Ufo Sighting In California On June 28Th 2013 5 Larger Than Planes Orange Pulsating Orbs Releasing Smaller Orange

UFO SIGHTING IN CALIFORNIA ON JUNE 28TH 2013 - 5 LARGER THAN PLANES ORANGE PULSATING ORBS RELEASING SMALLER ORANGE FLICKERING ORBS

Date: Friday, June 28, 2013. Time: Between 4:30 AM & 4:45 AM. Event: 5 orange orbs witnessed in the pre-dawn eastern skies from the ground in Orange, CA as I was heading to car to leave for work. The orbs were noticeably larger than planes and at first stationary before they began to drift apart. Silent. One by one, each released 2-3 smaller orbs which descended, flickered white-orange in color before fading away below the orb that released it. After the descended orbs flickered & faded, the larger releasing orbs then flickered & faded out of sight one by one. The orbs may have been in sky longer before I exited house, but I witnessed event for at least 15 minutes. Video feature on Droid phone not sufficient to capture event, but attempted.

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Ufo Sighting In Milwaukee Wisconsin On June 22Nd 2013 Bright Orangeredyellow Ball Flew In From E Hovered 20Sec

UFO SIGHTING IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN ON JUNE 22ND 2013 - BRIGHT ORANGE/RED/YELLOW BALL FLEW IN FROM E, HOVERED 20SEC, TURNED AND ASCENDED BACK E CLIMBING AT A SLIGHT ANGLE.

I was walking N on south KK whennotice what I thought was a flare. The object was traveling W towards my direction. It slowed to a stop and hovered for 20sec. There was no sound or smoke/vapor coming from it. From the distance of around 500ft it appeared to be 200-300ft from the ground. It appeared to be searching for something. It seemed to about the size of a small van. After hovering it turned back E and slowly ascended away from me at a slight angle until it disappeared into the hazy distance. The object had a burning quality shimmering between orange/red/yellow colors. It's shape orb-like and didn't alter much except for the fire-like shimmering. I felt compelled to walk towards it. May have just been curiosity, but it's almost like it was putting a question in my mind that I can't quite remember. I took a photo with my iPhone. It's a little shaky and no ground reference is in the shot. I have enhanced slightly to make it less grainy. I have attached both copies. The coordinates for the object when it hovered are approx: 42.992439 -87.881799

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26122009 And 01012010 Chelmsley Wood Blue And Orange Orb Sightings

Birmingham UFO Group Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Date: 02/01/2010

On the first evening of 2010, my friend Miranda Morgan rang me to let me know about two recent UFO sightings she had experienced. While one can probably easily be explained away, the other is harder to explain. This report covers both of these sightings.

26th December 2009 UFO Sighting

It was 5pm on Boxing Day evening. Miranda decided to go and have a cigarette just outside the back door of her property on Roach Close, Chelmsley Wood. It was a very cold evening, but was clear and still, with the stars and moon both visible.

Aerial map of sighting location:

Miranda often likes to glance up at the stars, and did precisely this. When she did she suddenly spotted a very bright blue coloured orb of light. The light was moving extremely fast and heading towards her position from the South West. There was nothing visible other than the light, but Miranda was struck by its colour. It was hard to judge how high it was, but it was definitely not at a low altitude.

Drawing created from witness description:

Due to its speed, the orb reached her position in only several seconds. As it passed over her head she turned to watch it continue over the house and onward to the North East. The object was completely silent and Miranda found this very strange. A second after it had passed over the house, it suddenly began to rapidly decrease in speed, before vanishing without trace.

This is an interesting sighting as reports of blue orbs of light are quite rare. It seems unlikely to have been a conventional aircraft or helicopter for a number of reasons. Blue is not one of the standard lights displayed on aircraft, and there were no other lights seen in addition to it. The object was moving too fast to have been an aircraft, and was also completely silent. Also if the light was from an aircraft, why would it have suddenly switched off immediately after a reduction in speed? The witnesses house does lie under a flight path, but this flight path always heads to the South towards Birmingham International airport, where as the light was travelling to the North East towards Coleshill. Perhaps the light was coming from a model that someone was flying, but it seems too fast to have been this, and surely the propulsion system for such a model would have made considerable noise?

Could the object have been a meteorite or space debris burning up in the atmosphere? This is a possibility to consider, and what Miranda's husband believes it may have been. However, "shooting stars" are usually white-yellow or white-blue in colour, not a rich bright blue. The object appears to have been travelling too slow for this explanation, meteorites are usually only seen for a second as they cross the sky. Also they do not slow down at any point, so assuming this aspect was not an optical illusion it again does not seem to fit what was seen.

For now the source of the blue light remains a mystery. Due to the speed of the object there were probably very few, if any, other witnesses to it.

1st January 2010 UFO Sighting

At 8pm on the evening of new years day, Miranda decided to walk to the shop at the end of Roach Close to purchase some food supplies. It was a still and very cold evening with light cloud cover. While walking back down the road to her house, she looked up into the sky. To the North West she saw a glowing orange orb of light. It appeared to be constant in brightness and was quite visible against the dark sky. It was hard to judge exactly how high the object was or how far from her position.

Miranda continued to watch the orb as she walked down the road. It appeared to be slowing and speeding up in velocity on a path to the North East, and was also slowly ascending. She watched it for about 15 seconds until she reached her front door. By this time the orb had almost vanished out of sight, so she headed inside.

Unlike her previous sighting, this object has many characteristics which match Chinese lanterns, and I believe this is almost certainly what was seen. The apparent changes in speed could easily have been caused by gusts of wind, despite the fact it was still at ground level, at a higher altitude it could have been more breezy. Also the fact that the object was slowly ascending fits in with it being a lantern. At no point did it perform any manoeuvres which would suggest otherwise. Lanterns are extremely popular around Christmas and New Year, and we have received details of numerous sightings which more than likely had lanterns as the explanation. When I informed Miranda, she was satisfied that the object must have been one of these, however the sighting of the blue orb several days previously remains unexplained at present.

Copyright Dave Hodrien 2010

Models Of Earth Size Planets Preparing For An Earth Bound Asteroid And Would We Know Alien Life To Be Life At All

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:

g ABODES - U.S. scientists have developed a model of Earth-size planets that astronomers might discover in the near future. See article.

g MESSAGE - How might we detect an extraterrestrial messenger probe already in the solar system? See article. Note: This article is from 1983.

g COSMICUS - ESA is developing a new mission to study an asteroid up close, and maybe even change its trajectory. The mission could yield clues about how we could prepare for a dangerous, Earth-bound asteroid if one is ever discovered. See article.

g LEARNING - Kurt Fischer and his colleagues looked at the revolution in brain scanning, genetics, and other biological technologies and decided that most teachers and students weren't getting much benefit from them. Brain scans are now available to watch what's going on when someone is learning - or not learning. Finding genes that are involved in learning disabilities is a hot area. Why, they asked, aren't the powers of such technologies helping teachers in classrooms? See article.

g IMAGINING - The questions of what alien life will be like is a more than just an issue for science fiction enthusiasts. For those involved with the fledging science of astrobiology, this is a central issue: After all, if something is life "not as we know it," how, in fact, would we know it to be life at all? See article.

g AFTERMATH - Book alert: As many Earthlings already know -including more than 2 million computer users with firsthand experience - our best hope for finding extraterrestrial intelligence might just lie with an ingenious little screensaver. So it's not surprising that Brian McConnell's "Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations," an introduction to searching for and communicating with intelligent life, begins with some of the details behind the University of California-Berkeley's groundbreaking, massively distributed SETI@home project, which processes intergalactic noise for pennies on the teraflop. But that's just the start of the story. Inventor and software developer McConnell continues with an overview of whether and why we might find something out there, who's doing what to look for it (including the folks at Berkeley), and - once some ET picks up on the other end - what we might say and how we might say it.

Et Activity In Kc Skies Maybe They Want Barbecue

By DONALD BRADLEY

The Kansas City Star

What is it? Our celestial curb appeal?

That, or those at the helm of all these UFOs this summer may think the new Kaufmann Center for the Performing Arts is some kind of mother ship.

Whatever, the skies over Kansas City have seen a surge in mysterious sightings and strange lights.

Some of you are thinking, sure, sure, just more swamp gas. Logical explanations usually come out the next day.

There is that.

But according to the Missouri chapter of Mutual UFO Network (Mufon), witnesses reported 14 "unknown" sightings in July and August alone for Kansas City. "Unknown" means they've been investigated and the likely suspects - aircraft, meteors, satellites, balloons, blimps, spotlights hitting clouds, Army parachute teams - ruled out.

Some reports are pretty good - witnesses seeing the same thing, even close encounters in which an unidentified object hovered within 100 feet of witnesses.

"In one very odd case, several tourists were visiting the Liberty Memorial and watched a large golden ball of light being chased by a helicopter," Margie Kay, assistant director for Missouri Mufon, said Friday.

"In another case in Belton, five witnesses saw a saucer-shaped craft with blue lights hover over two nearby houses."

The latest sightings bring the year's total for the metro area to 45 compared with 103 for all of Missouri.

A website calls Kansas City "a hotbed of UFO activity."

About 1 a.m. on July 2, Ben Radatz was working late at his motion graphics company in the Crossroads District when he stepped outside for a smoke.

Ten or so bright lights were moving slow and low in a straight line over downtown.

Radatz shot video with his phone.

"I don't discount the possibility, but I'm not going around telling people I saw a UFO," he said.

Skeptics' alert: Guy who owns motion graphics company makes a video. Right.

But then there's Dennis McNerney, who lives in the Northland. He saw the same thing, and he works in pest control.

He was driving across the river into downtown about the same time Radatz stepped out for that smoke.

"The lights were glowing and pulsating," he said. "They were below the roofline of the AT&T (Town Pavilion) building. I pulled over to watch."

Unlike Radatz, McNerney is sure what he saw.

"They're extraterrestrial spacecraft," he said.

He's seen them before.

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Murrow Vs The Saucers

It's been almost 40 years now since the U.S. Air Force pulled the plug on Project Blue Book and essentially order the news media to shut up already about UFOs. And at a moment when America's dazed free press is poised to take a knee on the canvas, De Void can't help but wonder how one of journalism's 20th-century giants would've responded to the challenges.

For Edward R. Murrow, the CBS Radio lion who survived the technology transition to unmask Red-baiting demagoguery for what it was on national television, mastering a new medium was difficult. "This is an old team," he told a new class of consumers known as viewers, "trying to learn a new trade."

Inevitably, Murrow's running battles with management over commercial and entertainment compromises led to his undoing at the network. But his commitment to telling compelling stories, regardless of the medium or its constraints, never faltered.

On April 7, 1950, a year or so before his TV makeover, the man who once told listeners "If I've offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least sorry," filed a report on UFOs. His commercial-free half-hour account - available at http://tinyurl.com/ncn574 - looks relatively tame in retrospect. Especially given the magnitude of the coverup of the Roswell UFO crash not quite three years earlier.

But Murrow's gravitas helped validate as a mainstream issue what were then known as flying saucers. Not surprisingly, he played it straight, plumbing skeptics, witnesses like Kenneth Arnold, and official sources alike. Although he drew no conclusions, Murrow was clearly suspicious of military kiss-offs, grousing that "The figures just don't add up."

He reminded Americans that while the USAF's Project Saucer came up empty-handed 1949, bear in mind "the stubbornness of the saucers to accept the mantle of oblivion." Murrow quoted critics who theorized the flying discs were merely classified American programs. Then he'd come back with a Charles Zimmerman, designer of the most exotic XF5U1 "flying pancake," who countered that "this aircraft never flew."

Although journalism will find a way to morph through the latest turbulence, the star system that helped expedite the shift from radio to television is a museum piece. But we can guess with reasonable certainty how the pugnacious chain-smoker would've reacted to, say, the USAF's refusal to address FAA radar records confirming eyewitness reports of jet fighters chasing a UFO last year near President Bush's home in Texas.

It'd be the same way anyone whose intelligence is insulted might respond. That is, if anyone was paying attention.

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Ulysses Solar Mission Milestone The Great Silence And How We Can Become A Spacefaring Civilization

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; Career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:g STARS - On Friday, the Ulysses solar mission reached another important milestone on its journey: the start of the third passage over the Sun's south pole. Launched in 1990, the spacecraft is engaged in the exploration of the heliosphere, the bubble in space blown out by the solar wind. See http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0611/18ulysses/.g MESSAGE - Will universal fear doom SETI to a continuation of the Great Silence? In a response to David Brin's Zoo Hypothesis argument (see http://brinl.stockconsulting.com/downloads/silence.pdf), here's a SETI League editorial: http://www.setileague.org/editor/wimps.htm.g LEARNING - Have you ever wanted to build your own world? Now you can! Go to http://web.calstatela.edu/academic/builders/index.html. The Web site offers step-by-step information and hundreds of links to help you design your world while providing rubrics to guide projects in PowerPoint and Web page authoring programs.g IMAGINING - Looking for some classic science fiction alien movies? There's a fairly exhaustive list, with brief explanations of each, at http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms2.html. Now in how each one the aliens really are just mythical monsters that play on human psychology (specifically fear or revulsion). Such films really say less about the evolution of potential extraterrestrial lifeforms and civilizations than about the evolution of human beings and our culture. In fact, here's an essay that examines a specific detail of that notion: "An Exploration of the Relationship Between Science Fiction Film and the UFO Mythology," at http://www.hedweb.com/markp/ufofilm.htm.g AFTERMATH - Look for an intriguing book to read: "Space, the Final Frontier?" by G. Genta e M. Rycroft. Published in 2003. The book primarily examines how we can become a spacefaring civilization, but it does include an interesting chapter about life in the universe, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, the Drake Equation, intelligent lifeforms, whether other lifeforms will be more like ET or Alien, and the possible humanoid characteristics of extraterrestrials. For commentary and a table of contents, see http://www.giancarlogenta.it/frontier.htm.

Mars Salty Soils And Heading Through Saturns Rings

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g STARS - A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant cluster of red galaxies ever observed using FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Telescope. The galaxy cluster is located 10.5 billion light years away in the direction of the constellation Leo. It is made up of 30 galaxies packed closely together, forming the earliest known "galaxy city" in the universe. See article.g ABODES - A new study shows that salty soils in Antarctica suck moisture out of the atmosphere. If a similar process occurs on planets like Mars, it could have an impact on their potential habitability. See article.g MESSAGE - Before the Pioneer 11 spacecraft could venture beyond our solar system, it had to pass through the rings of Saturn. At the time, the rings were not well characterized and some thought the spacecraft could be destroyed. Whatever happened to Pioneer 11 at Saturn's rings would affect the flight plan of the Voyager spacecraft. See article.Get your SF book manuscript edited Amazon.com Widgets

Ufo Sighting In Lake Elsinore California On May 6Th 2013 Bright Flash Of Light Before Electronics Failure

My husband and I were fast asleep in bed. Our bed faces out two windows. We both felt like we were nudged awake at 12:45am and saw a huge flash of light, that made our entire bedroom light up as if it was daylight. At first, we thought it might be lightning, so we waited for the thunder. Nothing happened. Immediately, after the flash of light, all of the electronics in our house started to flicker and then immediately turn off. We were without power for about 10+ minutes before everything turned back on. Some of our electronics, continued to malfunction after the fact. There was never any thunder and no other flashes were seen. We stayed up for about 2 more hours. Our child, whose bedroom is on the opposite side of the house, also witnessed it.(via MUFON.com) Learn about: Paranormal Studies and UFO Research. Latest UFO Sightings - - -Any duplication, in part or in whole, is forbidden without permission of copyright holder. Email Site Admin for inquiries, comments or questions.

Nasa Pictures Of The Sun

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TRANSIT OF VENUS, SUN-EARTH DAY 2012

A new Sun as Art exhibit offers artistic interpretations of the Sun (with captions) based on solar images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

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NASA's recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory is returning images that confirm its unprecedented capability to help scientists better understand our sun.

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NASA - FIRST EVER STEREO IMAGES OF THE ENTIRE SUN

Four years after launch NASA's two STEREO spacecraft are now 180 degrees apart and able to image the entire Sun.

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Twitter And Facebook Flooded With Alien Theories About Google Ufo Logo

. Twitter, Facebook and the worldwide blogosphere have been flooded with alien conspiracy theories about the new Google UFO 'doodle'.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6142650/Twitter-and-Facebook-flooded-with-alien-theories-about-Google-UFO-logo.htmlThe 'doodle' (adaptation of Google's logo), showing a classic saucer-shaped spacecraft shining a light down on the search-engine's regular logo, has been the subject of much speculation.The world's internet voices want to now whether the all-powerful web giant is trying to tell us something.Google regularly changes its logo to mark important event such as the recent 40th anniversary of the moon landings.But nobody can work out why Google has chosen this date to put a UFO logo on the world's most visited web page."Does anybody know what's going on?" asks one."Aliens landed on Earth this day last year," offers another blogger by way of explanation.Some think Google's global dominance may extend beyond this planet."If Google says the aliens are coming, I'm getting out of here," says one US blogger.One of the things bothering the online community is that early on Saturday morning the new logo could be seen in some places, but not others.[This may be key in understanding this whole (for lack of a better word) 'test'.]"Am I the one that is going crazy?" asks a blogger in Arizona who can't see the logo.If you click on the alien logo you are given the results for "unexplained phenomena".In Google's top ten most searched terms "unexplained phenomena" merits two entries.It is unclear whether Google is responding to popular demand or dictating what the public should be interested in.[Source: www.telegraph.co.uk][...and Google explains... Well, not really.]Google statement on its unexplained phenomenon doodle. Google has added to the mystery surrounding the appearance of a UFO on its home page on Saturday by releasing a statement which does nothing to end the speculation surrounding it.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6145346/Google-statement-on-its-unexplained-phenomenon-doodle.htmlThe UFO, which appeared to be abducting the second O in the word Google, referred the user to the search term "unexplained phenomenon" when clicked. The term was, throughout Saturday, one of the most searched-for phrases on the search engine.Google tends to use its so-called doodles - the adaptations of its logo - to mark major calendar events or the birthdays of large organisations. But Saturday's doodle appeared to have no commemorative tie-in and the web was alive with speculation as to its purpose.During the morning, a numeric code (above) - 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19 - appeared on Google's Twitter stream. The code, which translated to the phrase "all your O are belong to us", was an echo of a famous internet meme from 2000.But late on Saturday Google released the following statement:"We consider the second 'o' critical to user recognition of our brand and pronunciation of our name. We are actively looking into the mysterious tweet that has appeared on the Google twitter stream and the disappearance of the "o" on the Google homepage. We hope to have an update in the coming weeks.".[Source: www.telegraph.co.uk]

Breaking Ufo News From Mufon

RADAR DATA SUPPORTS STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS UFO SIGHTINGS THE MUTUAL UFO NETWORK (MUFON) RELEASES ITS FULL REPORT ON THE STEPHENVILLE SIGHTINGS OF JANUARY 8TH, 2008Radar data obtained by MUFON confirms that there were Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) flying above Stephenville, Texas, January 8th, 2008, just as many eyewitnesses had reported and which made headlines worldwide. MUFON's analysis of the radar data obtained through freedom of information act (FOIA) requests to the National Weather Service and the FAA show that unknown flying objects were on a direct course to President Bush's Crawford ranch and were separate from the known F-16 jets the same radar data confirmed were flying in the area that night. The unknown radar targets, which did not have required identification transponders, exhibited strange flight characteristics beyond that of known civilian or military aircraft. A press conference to explain MUFON's findings in complete detail will be held on Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 11 am at the Double Tree Hotel in San Jose, California, in conjunction with MUFON's annual Symposium. A FULL VERSION OF MUFON'S REPORT AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM CAN BE FOUND AT THE MUFON 2008 SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION PAGE.

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Ufo News Australia Ufo Scare Above Highway

By The Katherine Times9-21-11 Another freak sighting of an unexplained light in the night sky above Katherine has been reported.David Schuman, who photographed what he believes was a UFO at the Strongbala Men's Health Centre last month, said he was washing dishes at the Centre on Thursday night, when he ran out of water and went outside to fill up the water tank."It was just on dark and I had just turned on the pump when I spotted a dullish, grey object in the sky over the highway," he said."It was there for only a few moments when all of a sudden, it glowed like the sun in its strength in a bright light.... More See Also:UFO NEWS AUSTRALIA: Adelaide Man Captures 'UFOs' On Video Camera Saucers Appear Over Australia and South Africa TodayAustralia: Coast UFO Sightings Rocketing SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCE HELP SUPPORT THIS SITE ABOUT DONATIONS Grab this Headline Animator

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New Pictures Of Ufo Over Berwickshire Add To Mystery

NEW PICTURES OF THE STRANGE BLUE OBJECT SPOTTED IN THE BERWICKSHIRE NIGHT SKY LAST MONTH HAVE ADDED ANOTHER LAYER OF INTRIGUE TO WHAT SOME SAY IS A UFO MYSTERY.PAUL TAYLOR WAS DRIVING HOME FROM BERWICK TO DUNS ON FEBRUARY 1 WHEN AN UNUSUAL PATCH OF LIGHT IN THE DARK SKY CAUGHT HIS ATTENTION.HE STOPPED NEAR EDROM TO TAKE FOUR PICTURES WITH HIS DIGITAL SLR CAMERA, BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL HE BLEW THEM UP ON HIS COMPUTER A WEEK LATER THAT THE BLUE OBJECT FRAMED BY THE PATCH OF LIGHT STOOD OUT.WHEN HE THEN READ IN 'THE BERWICKSHIRE NEWS' THAT STRANGE SIGHTINGS HAD BEEN REPORTED ON THE SAME NIGHT IN THE COLDSTREAM AND DUNS AREA, HE DECIDED TO SHARE HIS PICTURES WITH OUR READERS.HE EXPLAINED: "I HAD BEEN SHOPPING IN BERWICK AND WAS DRIVING BACK TO DUNS ON THE CHIRNSIDE ROAD. IT AT ABOUT 5.30PM WHEN I SAW A VERY UNUSUAL PATCH OF LIGHT IN THE DARK SKY. I HADN'T SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE."I ALWAYS HAVE MY CAMERA WITH ME, SO I STOPPED THE CAR AND TOOK FOUR PICTURES. I WAS POINTING THE CAMERA TOWARDS DUNS. THE BLUE OBJECT WAS IN ALL FOUR SHOTS, BUT I HADN'T NOTICED IT WHEN TAKING THE PICTURES."THERE HAS BEEN LOTS OF SPECULATION ABOUT WHAT WAS IN THE SKY THAT NIGHT, BUT NO DEFINITIVE ANSWER. JOHN ROBSON OF COLDSTREAM WAS WALKING HIS DOG UP TO COLDSTREAM MAINS FARM AT ABOUT 8.45PM WHEN HE SAW WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS "A LARGE ORB". HE SAID IT WAS A DISTINCTIVE, LIME GREEN COLOUR BUT CHANGED TO COMPLETELY WHITE BEFORE HEADING OFF SILENTLY TO THE NORTH. SEVERAL DRIVERS IN THE DUNS AREA ALSO REPORTED ODD LIGHTS IN THE SKY THAT NIGHT.SOME SAY THE SO-CALLED 'UFO' WAS ONE OF THE COLOURED LIGHTS SET UP AROUND MARCHMONT HOUSE FOR THE BERWICKSHIRE HUNT BALL. OTHERS BELIEVE IT WAS THE NORTHERN LIGHTS. PAUL WOULDN'T LIKE TO GUESS, BUT HOPES HIS PICTURE WILL HELP SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE MYSTERY.HE ADDED: "WHEN I READ IN THE PAPER THAT OTHERS HAD SPOTTED STRANGE THINGS ON THE VERY SAME NIGHT IT MADE ME EVEN MORE INTRIGUED. THE PICTURES MIGHT BE OF THE SAME OBJECT OTHERS SPOTTED THAT NIGHT. IF IT WAS A HELICOPTER YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE LIGHTS. BUT THERE ARE NO LIGHTS."I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS."SOURCEhttp://www.educatinghumanity.com/feeds/posts/default

By John Wignell

Possibly related to the same sighting above.Not long ago i took a picture of a ufo and have pictures of aliens and an encounter with them.

The story is running on my local newspaper web site as one of its top stories. I don't want to send

the pictures because of copy write and fear of them falling in to the wrong hands but you can see them on the English web site:

Derbyshire times web site. The pictures when blown up show clearly a ufo of metallic shape about as big as a house in the distance and strange emissions

and a bright light from within also there is a shadow on the clouds. The picture was took on a cell phone camera in day light also the picture of the aliens is clear.

The strange forms are clearly seen floating in the trees and can be seen with faces eyes mouths and limbs and have a a floating device with them.

You interested you should be because I personally think they are the best images ever recorded.

Contact me by email after you have looked on the web site. The pictures when blown up categorically show some thing never seen before.

I swear they are real pictures that have not been concocted by any way other than they are genuine. I have a story to tell about my encounters in

this ufo hot spot. yours John Wignell tel 07530789769. or email.john.wignell@live.co.uk

The pictures when blow up clearly shows a ufo and the alien picture took some several months ago does also. the pictures on the web site

will not magnify to clear blowups but the ones in my camera do. They are in my opinion the best clearest evidence that we are not alone.

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Black Triangle Sighting In Orion Township

BLACK TRIANGLE SIGHTING IN ORION TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN ON SEPTEMBER 8TH 2013 - MULTIPLE CRAFT / IN TRIANGLE FORMATION / EXTREME SPEED MOVEMENTS AT POINT OF LEAVING THE AREA

While laying down on a trampoline looking directly to the sky my son and I noticed the formation of the ufos. While observing they moved in a direction several times opposite the wind direction in a clear blue sky. At the point they left during the 20 minutes of hovering and movement they took off faster than we have ever seen any jet plane and in multiple directions.

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The Best Ufo Sightings Of 2014 Part 1

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Ufo Writer Nukes Chance At Smart Read

From his heated, call-to-arms language heavily laden with emotion to his utter reliance upon eye-witness testimony, author and researcher Robert Hasting's site promoting his new book, "UFOs and Nukes", left me completely unimpressed. I was even bothered by the title, but couldn't immediately articulate why.

As luck would have it, I just stumbled across the following caveat while perusing a writer's style and reference book: "If you are writing for a general audience...and you use the term "nukes", some readers...may be irritated by what they see as a frivolous reference to a dealy serious subject."

I think that is what bothered me most; it seemed a cheesy title for a book that aimed to examine intelligently these connections the author posits. His work, while often flawed, is smartly written and he certainly had done his homework. However, once more the bane of UFOlogy rears its head in an over-reliance on anecdotal "evidence" and presumption.

Hastings writes in an article entitled "A Shot Across The Bow: Another Look At The Big Sur Incident" that "Following the dramatic incident (according to witness, then Lt. Bob Jacobs) a 16-mm version of the amazing film was shown to a small, select group at Vandenberg. Immediately thereafter, the crucial frames were cut out and quickly confiscated by two "government agents"-possibly working for the CIA-who had been among those in attendance." Jacobs said that while in the meeting, his superior commanded him to keep quiet about what had been captured on the film, emphasizing that it did not happen.

Herein lie several of the pitfalls facing UFO research today. While never overbearing, words like "amazing", "select group", "immediately", "crucial", and "quickly confiscated" paint an image of a wondrous event that was capriciously snatched from humanity by sinister "government agents". This brings me to my second concern: presumption. Jacobs, according to Hastings, described these men as possible CIA agents, but provides no evidence to that effect. In fact, in Jacobs' own words (here), he left that meeting without ever knowing who those men were. He also left that meeting before they did, so how can he know they took the film-if indeed any such film existed? In point of fact, I'm not sure we can be assured any such meeting took place.

Some years later, Jacobs broke his silence and sold his story to the "National Enquirer". It is only well after the fact, that he came to several spurious conclusions, including his belief that the entire missile tracking test was a cover for UFO activity that would later evolve into the Reagan-era "Star Wars "program.

Those who criticize Jacobs' story dug deep into military archives, coming up empty-handed on any documentation to support his claims. This is easily refuted by Jacobs and proponents like Hastings as proof of a government conspiracy. But the logical fallacy this presents is too rudimentary to even examine. Suffice it to say that if a man claims to have invented water, and his skeptics say "well, we can't find any proof of that". That man would be a fool to simply blame it on a government conspiracy.

And that's the crux of the problem with work such as Hastings' books and articles. While they make for interesting, well-written, deeply-researched tales, they simply cannot hold water as compelling evidence. To his credit, Hastings admits this reliance on anecdotal evidence. Yet, he proceeds with his lectures, books, articles, and a forthcoming press conference to shout to any who will listen that the sky is falling. It is obvious that he has a deeply abiding passion and concern when it comes to the correlation between UFOs and our military installations.