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Return to Roswell

It’s been 65 years since the ROSWELL incident; the infamous UFO crash in the little town of Roswell, New Mexico. The alleged UFO crashed at a ranch and initial reports claimed a flying saucer was acquired by the Air Force. However, later reports said the what was actually discovered was nothing more than a weather balloon.

Conspiracy theorists for years have gone back and forth on what actually happened that day. Even as recently as 1994/5 the U.S. Government came forward to “clear the air” on what actually happened that day in June of 1947. They admitted that the remains of the crash were not in fact pieces from a weather balloon, but from something dubbed Project Mogul. The project used high flying balloons with sensors to detect atomic testing being done by the Soviets. One has to remember this ROSWELL event was at the beginning of the Cold War era.

Not many bought the Project Mogul story, yet the documentaries that followed only served to further obscure the truth. In fact one such documentary sent investigators requesting for the archived files regarding the ROSWELL incident. They turned up nothing but the items used in the original cover story; tinfoil, pieces of wood, and what would later be described as a weather balloon.

The Huffington Post published an article on the ROSWELL anniversary where a former CIA officer (Chase Brandon) revealed just enough about ROSWELL to let us know there is more.

It was not a damn weather balloon — it was what it was billed when people first reported it. It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don’t doubt for a second that the use of the word ‘remains’ and ‘cadavers’ was exactly what people were talking about.

Of course BRANDON does have a book coming up and it does make you wonder if perhaps this is a publicity stunt.

A recent memo became available on the FBI’s own website as part of the Freedom of Information act that should offer some credibility to the original story.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW2FG-D6rQk

All this keeps the skeptical mind busy. A part of me will always go back and forth on the matter; is it real?

What do you think?

July 14, 2012
404: Village Not Found

Where do I start with this one?

!!!Villages are disappearing!!!

… I guess that’s a good start. A while back the following YouTube clip appeared with captions that strange flashing lights appeared over a horizon of a nearby town. In the morning people discovered that the nearby town, in the direction of the lights, had disappeared. Military blocked entry and rumors ran rampant. Check out the clip below.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjcfC2ISr4o

Weird, right? My initial thought was perhaps a power plant having difficulties. This sort of light display isn’t unusual when power plants have issues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-TsMAWn0k 20 seconds in). I don’t know about you, but either clip would have freaked me out. My first thought would be “oh, crap. We’re being bombed.”

There is a news posting online about the Qinling village incident. Chinese news article. (Translation plug-in suggested for your browser)

The events have the makings of a Hollywood film. In fact, the first thing that comes to mind is the movie The Mist–which was actually based on Stephen King’s The Mist. A group of people are stranded at a store after a heavy fog rolls over a small town, bringing with it otherworldly creatures. The story mostly revolves around how people survive under extraordinary circumstances–namely surviving one another as tensions rise. It is hinted by soldiers among the group, that the nearby military base was experimenting with “other dimensions.”

Similar story elements leads me to the Philadelphia Experiment, an alleged military experiment carried out at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1943. (also known as Project Rainbow). It is said that the USS Eldridge was cloaked, or became invisible with crew on board, then reappeared in Norfolk, Virginia. There are different versions of this story. Some say the ship was spotted by another vessel as it performed this cloaking. More dark versions say that crew members were embedded into the steal haul of the ship as a result of the cloaking.

I love how stories like this overlap one another.

So, what was this light? UFO? Military experiment gone wrong? Or, as someone suggested in the comments, perhaps someone just wasn’t close enough to last night’s rave party.

June 9, 2012
… it’s not Superman

So where do some of these crazy ideas come from? Like the prior blog, I usually find them hidden in some headline. Take this post’s featured image.

It’s a bird… it’s plane… it’s… it’s not Superman.

Back in July of 2010 there was a UFO sighting over China’s Xiaoshan Airport. It caused enough noise to actually end up on ABC News. Yeah, I was surprised. It didn’t just stay buried in the underground sites.

I think what struck me most about this sighting is that so many people saw it, in fact the airport shut down. That’s right, this goes beyond just possibly doctored photos. Air traffic control detected the object and grounded all flights.

The object does look a bit odd, similar to some of the cigar-shaped UFO’s that have been reported in the past. Certainly an odd shape to take for something man-made. I say “man-made” because it was later reported that the Chinese Military accepted responsibility for this aircraft. Unusual, no?

The initial report had no indication of a military link. Then again, isn’t this always how it is? At least they didn’t say it was a weather balloon.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QqzIvPYGa8

Another sighting, similar craft, presented itself in Mongolia. It is in this report that it mentions Chinese Military taking responsibility for the Xiaoshan incident.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8AvHDYe9bI

I can understand why a government entity would take responsibility for an event like this; appear in control, ease fears. Dare I even suggest it makes other countries nervous as China rises as a military power. Mind games? What do you think?

May 25, 2012