Friday, March 23, 2007

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY FOR UFOLOGY!

France opens secret UFO files covering 50 years

Today France made a bold move by becoming the first country in the world to make its official UFO files available to the public. The National Space Agency noted a web site documenting more then 1,600 sightings over the past fifty years.

The online database of cases will be updated with every new case that is reported which will include catalogs of all cases and their level of importance.

I'm truly excited about this as it is a great hurdle in ufology history. UFO phenomena interests have risen over the years and over 50% of the worlds population believe we are being visited. However believers feel the governments are covering up the truth and or they feel the truth is deemed to sensitive and alarming for the public to handle.

There has been many sightings across France. Some cases you may have read about...

On January 8, 1981 outside the town of Trans-en-Provence in southern France, for example, a man working in a field reported hearing a strange whistling sound and seeing a saucer-like object about 2.5 meters (eight feet) in diameter land in his field about 50 meters (yards) away.

A dull-zinc gray, the saucer took off, he told police, almost immediately, leaving burn marks. Investigators took photos, and then collected and analyzed samples, and to this day no satisfactory explanation has been made.

The nearly 1,000 witness who said they saw flashing lights in the sky on November 5, 1990, by contrast, had simply seen a rocket fragment falling back into earth's atmosphere.

Many are eager to view the data on the sightings listed as credible, but it has been said that "ufologists will not find any scoops or unknown cases in this database." I think that is just a bunch of hogwash!

The archives are available at http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/geipan/ and currently contain 400 files, about one fourth of the approximately 1,600 UFO sightings reported in France since the 1950s.

All of the files are scheduled to be online by the end of the year.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

UFO NASA Tether Incident



The NASA STS-75 mission ran a trial experimental tether that was to be used for towing and placing satellites into orbit. During this experiment they had a problem and the 12 mile long tether snapped due to the synthetic material accumulating a critical charge.

The shuttles cameras monitored the tether and its 100 million dollar satellite it was towing just drift away. This was all video taped live, and what was captured on this video is absolutely incredible. NASA claims the objects in the footage are ice particles very close to the camera and area passing in front of the far away tether.

There has been several debates about this footage. Some say it is Airy Disks, others say it is Ice Particles, and others say it is UFO's. I myself was very curious so I searched for some information on Google, and came across a detailed analysis made by David Sereda. He provides a two part video that I found to be very informative.

To truly understand his theories you must watch the full analysis. Please do not try to debate his analysis or this incident unless you have completely reviewed his videos. I myself have considered both Davids, and the skeptics theories on the Tether Incident, and each side truly believes their accurate. I will leave what I believe set to limbo nor does this mean I agree or disagree with David.

I personally admire David Sereda. He is a sincere smart good looking man, and I trust his opinions. Yes, at times he will lose credibility because of his religious experiences, and his knowledge in several areas of the "unknown" but I do not understand why that would even matter. He is a man that has many interests, and that should not be counted against him.

Watch the videos listed above and make your own decision. Your opinions are appreciated as long as you do not bash the subject or the people involved.