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O filmare care arata cadavrul unui extraterestru in Siberia a fost postata pe internet, fiind accesata de peste un milion de ori.
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Back in the 1940s, the United States government was heavily into UFO research. The U.S. Air Force began investigating UFOs in 1948 under a program called Project Sign. The name was later changed toProject Blue Book, and between 1948 and 1969, the government investigated more than 12,000 UFO sightings. Of these, 11,917 were discovered to be terrestrial objects such as weather balloons andsatellites; weather phenomena such as lightning and reflections; astronomical occurrences; or hoaxes. The remaining 701 cases were unexplained.
In 1969, the Air Force shut down Project Blue Book, citing a lack of conclusive evidence. Project Blue Book concluded that:
No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.
There has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge.
There has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles.
Source: U.S. Department of Defense
UFO research continues in the private sector. The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute regularly monitors the skies, searching for signals from faraway planets. In the late 1990s, they picked up on something -- a repeated pattern coming from about 1 million miles away. But within a few hours, SETI scientists had identified the pattern as a signal from a sun-watching observatory called SOHO, which is in orbit about 1 million miles from Earth. (To learn more about SETI, its projects and how you can be a part of the search, see How SETI Works.)
Alien Autopsy
An English businessman named Ray Santilli claims that while researching film footage for a music video, he stumbled upon footage of an alien autopsy from the 1947 Roswell, N.M., UFO crash. The footage subsequently aired on a 1995 Fox TV special, "Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?" Fox later came out and admitted that the footage was a hoax, shot in 1994 with actors.
Although Project Blue Book ended the official government investigation into UFOs, there are those who believe the government is hiding something.
On a summer evening in 1947, residents just outside of Roswell, N.M., saw strange lights in the sky and then heard a loud crash. In the morning after a rash of severe thunderstorms, a ranch foreman named Mac Brazel was out checking his sheep when he found strange debris. He contacted his local sheriff, who notified the government. The debris was taken to Roswell Army Air Field and eventually flown to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. On July 8, 1947, Colonel William Blanchard of the 509th Bomb Group in Roswell issued a press release stating that the military had recovered the wreckage of a "crashed disc." A few hours later, General Roger Ramey, Commander of the Eighth Air Force at Fort Worth Army Air Field in Texas, issued a second press release repudiating the first. According to Ramey, the debris Blanchard's men had recovered was nothing more than a weather balloon and its radar detector.
Which press release was true? UFO believers say the first one was true, and the second was part of an elaborate cover-up that has stretched on for more than a half-century.
They believe that the government actually recovered a craft and its alien crew. Eyewitnesses report having seen covered bodies being carried away by the military. A few people said they were present at an alien autopsy. Roswell theorists say the government has been secretly meeting with aliens since the crash at a place called Area 51 in a remote part of Nevada.
Photo courtesy Amazon.com The Men in Black first appeared in Gray Barker's 1956 book, "They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers," and were the topic of the popular 1997 movie "Men in Black."
Another theory relating to the government's supposed cover-up involves the silencing of witnesses. A number of UFO witnesses report having been visited by men in black suits who tried to intimidate them into silence. These so-called "Men in Black," who came to the public's attention in Gray Barker's 1956 book, "They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers," are thought to be either aliens hiding their own evidence or government agents trying to cover up alien landings. According to most sources, Barker's book is a work of fiction. The mythology surrounding the Men in Black has spawned two popular movies, a TV series and a video game.
While the government denies any involvement in UFO cover-ups, another group of people claim very intimate involvement with UFOs: alien abductees.
(Nov. 22) -- Flying saucers are one thing, but flying snack chips? England appears to be the latest hot spot for UFOs shaped like triangles or, if you will, Doritos.
Several sightings of a chip-shaped object have occurred over the U.K. in the past few years, the Daily Mail reports.
The latest report emerged last week when a quality inspector, Munesh Mistry, witnessed a triangular object -- dubbed locally as the "Dudley Dorito" from the British town of Dudley -- in the sky near his Tipton, West Midlands, home.
Mistry said he and a friend saw "an amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the shape of a triangle made up of what appeared to be three lights fly across the sky at a mind-boggling speed."
This sighting took place two weeks after a huge, chip-shaped UFO was reported in the skies over Boldmere.
Triangular-shaped UFOs have been seen over different regions of the U.K. since 2007.
In August, the National Archives of England released UFO-related documents, including some that revealed how former Prime MinisterWinston Churchill reportedly covered up wartime accounts of UFO sightings because he feared they might create a panic among the population.
In 2008, when Britain's Ministry of Defense began releasing UFO files dating back 40 years, it indicated that many reports of unidentified objects had been initially kept secret while the government determined if enemy aircraft was the cause of the sightings.
"The Ministry of Defense has no other interest or role regarding UFO matters and does not consider questions regarding the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life forms," the ministry said in a 2008 statement.
In recent years, there have been a lot of UFO sightings. We know that. But a question I've wondered about for a long time is this: What's up with all the triangle-shaped UFOs?
From the U.S. to Belgium, France, Australia and even a reported flying "Dorito" in the U.K., these aerial triangles seem to enjoy our friendly skies.
One of the most recent reports comes from the files of the Mutual UFO Network, where a witness described a huge triangular UFO that made a loud, hissing noise as it moved over his Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, neighborhood Tuesday morning.
If there really are aliens visiting Earth, have they come up with a new craft that fits their interplanetary travel needs more efficiently than the tried and true flying saucer?
Or are the mysterious flying, silent, hovering triangles the product of a top-secret military project reportedly called the Tactical Reconnaissance TR-3B aircraft, code-named Astra, as many people have speculated all over the Internet?
Whatever these things are, they've been seen, photographed and videotaped by lots of people around the world, so it doesn't seem likely that everybody's lying or confusing these crafts with the planet Venus or meteors streaking in the sky.
I called on retired Army Col. John Alexander to give some much-needed insight into all of this. For six decades, he's been involved in national security affairs, holding key positions in special operations, intelligence, and research and development.
"A few of these sightings can be attributed to development of secret aircraft, such as stealth vehicles, including Have Blue -- which was the prototype for the F-117 Nighthawk," Alexander told me.
"While there continue to be rumors of more modern experimental craft, they would certainly not display the characteristics reported by observers.
"Specifically, many of these UFOs are illuminated and appear in highly visible venues. Unlike any secret aircraft, they do not make any attempt to remain hidden," said Alexander, author of "UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities" (Thomas Dunne Books).
Whenever I either see a new picture or video or read a report about one of these triangular UFOs, it transports me back to 1975 when I had a close encounter with one of these objects. And it was the kind of experience that solidified my interest in this subject, because it was so personal.
I was producing a documentary record album, "UFOs: The Credibility Factor," for CBS Inc. when I got a call from my friend, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, the former scientific adviser on UFOs to the U.S. Air Force and the man who coined the expression "close encounters of the first, second and third kinds."
Hynek asked me to go to Lumberton, N.C., and investigate reports he'd received from several law enforcement agencies about a strange triangular-shaped craft that people had seen a few nights in a row.
Within hours of my arrival in the county sheriff's office, calls started coming in about the return of the UFO. A short time later, I, along with sheriff's deputies and police officers, converged at the side of a big field. It was a starry, moonless evening, and across the far side of the field, moving slowly above a line of trees from our left to right, was an object giving off a red-white appearance.
As we watched, the object stopped moving to the right and instead began to cross the field in our direction. When it got to the point where it was directly above us, we all noticed the same things (and not in any particular order of importance, since it all happened so fast):
Courtesy of Lee Speigel
This illustration shows a triangular UFO seen over North Carolina in 1975, witnessed by AOL News writer Lee Speigel and several law enforcement officers.
It was about the size of two police cars.
It made absolutely no sound.
It was V-shaped or triangular-shaped.
It had a row of red lights up one side and white lights up the other side, with a larger, single white light at the apex. (See my illustration.)
At one point, the singular white light suddenly became very bright and shined down directly where we were all standing. It was so intense we had to cover our eyes and not look directly at it. After a few seconds of this, the light instantly turned off, the entire object turned a reddish color and, as it began pulsating in this red hue, it started slowly moving off in another direction away from us.
Staying in touch with one another on the car radios, we tracked the thing through a few counties, stopping along the way to talk to other law enforcement officers who told us of their own encounters with the object.
Subsequent calls to Pope Air Force Base in nearby Fayetteville yielded no explanation for what we had all experienced that night.
And ever since then, I've noticed an upswing in the number of worldwide reports of triangle UFOs.
"The dramatic increase in development of remotely piloted vehicles will undoubtedly bring about an increase in UFO sightings," Alexander said.
"In the early 1990s, while working on several NATO studies regarding nonlethal weapons, I was queried by European officers about the UFOs that were seen frequently over Belgium and France. I assured them they were not American military aircraft, and certainly did not behave in a manner consistent with military operations," he added.
It's not surprising that there are ongoing projects with the goal of improving upon our military capabilities. But as Alexander notes, in some triangular UFO reports, the speed of the object varies from very slow to instantaneous accelerations.
"These observations by multiple, competent witnesses are inconsistent with any known aircraft."
Do you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here's one for you. And it's ongoing, so we don't yet know the ending. It involves President John F. Kennedy's interest in UFOs shortly before his death and an allegation that he may have angered officials in his administration when he asked for information on the subject.
Recently, the FBI opened a new website, "The Vault," that lets you view a variety of documents, including those regarding UFOs. I looked into one document that appears to include a phony UFO story and mentioned how important it is to be extremely careful when looking at UFO documents and how it's critical to know the background of this information.
The cover of a lengthy 1954 MJ-12 special operations manual, which contains detailed information about "extraterrestrial entities and technology, recovery and disposal." Use the navigation bar to scan through the document or enlarge this 13-page document for a full reading.
Two of them were written by Kennedy on the same date, Nov. 12, 1963 -- 10 days before his assassination. One was to the CIA director, asking for UFO files; the other was to the NASA administrator, with Kennedy expressing a desire for cooperation with the former Soviet Union on mutual outer space activities.
"One of his concerns was that a lot of these UFOs were being seen over the Soviet Union and he was very concerned that the Soviets might misinterpret these UFOs as U.S. aggression, believing that it was some of our technology," Lester told AOL News.
"I think this is one of the reasons why he wanted to get his hands on this information and get it away from the jurisdiction of NASA so he could say to the Soviets, 'Look, that's not us, we're not doing it, we're not being provocative. In fact, just to show you that it's not us, what do you think about us working together on the exploration of space?'" Lester added.
Also in his book, Lester reprints an intriguing letter written by Maxwell W. Hunter of the National Aeronautics and Space Council (from the executive office of the president) to Robert F. Packard of the Office of International Scientific Affairs.
This is not the first time these and more provocative UFO-related documents have surfaced over the last several decades. Many files point to earlier presidents, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, as also being interested in the UFO subject.
Perhaps the most intensely scrutinized documents ever to emerge on UFOs have come to be known as the Majestic 12 or MJ-12. This was a reference to a top-secret group of military officials and scientists allegedly appointed by Truman in 1947 to keep close tabs on the activities of alien beings on Earth after a reported UFO crash near Roswell, N.M.
Let's try to sort out the facts.
In 1984, the MJ-12 documents first appeared when a UFO researcher, Jaime Shandera, received a plain brown envelope that contained a roll of 35mm black-and-white film that developed into a multipage 1952 document -- presumably created for Eisenhower -- regarding something called "Operation Majestic 12."
When the MJ-12 documents were eventually made public around 1987, skeptics poured out of the woodwork, condemning the documents as fraudulent and totally dismissing them.
"It's the Catch-22 circle that counter-intel is so good at and they depend on it to divert 99 1/2 percent of the public and the media. And that is, you just put out the word 'This is a hoax' and the population accepts it, and they know that, and they have done this," said Linda Moulton Howe, a multiple Emmy Award-winning TV producer, critically acclaimed investigative reporter and author of numerous books, including "Glimpses of Other Realities, Volumes I and II" (Linda Moulton Howe Productions).
"So, whether it's swamp gas, weather balloons, hoaxes of hubcaps being thrown up into the air -- the government's efforts back in the late '40s and early '50s became preposterous and cartoonish to try to get control of a subject that they knew was absolutely critical," Howe told AOL News.
1963 memo written by JFK to the CIA director asking for a report on UFOs to be shared with NASA.
An excellent, in-depth series of reports on her efforts to uncover the truth of the MJ-12 story can be found at Howe'sEarthfiles website.
The controversy surrounding MJ-12 is a prime example of the age-old "he said, she said" battle in the universe of UFO believers and skeptics.
But MJ-12 has taken on a life of its own because of the large volume of documents and the attention to detail within, including the verification process conducted by serious researchers into specific files that suggest government officials were unhappy with Kennedy's interest in UFOs.
I contacted the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, searching for information about JFK's UFO interest. I was told they didn't catalogue that kind of thing there, but they gave me the names of five Kennedy biographer/historians -- Robert Dallek, James Giglio, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael O'Brien and Laurence Leamer.
When I reached out to them for any information they might provide, the responses ranged from "I can't help you," "I had not uncovered any information relating to JFK's interest in UFOs" and "I'm afraid I know nothing about JFK's interest in UFOs" to "I don't know anything about it. Maybe when he heard 'unidentified foreign objects,' he thought they were European women."
So, I kept digging.
And a conversation I had with physicist/aeronautical engineer Robert Wood, former deputy director of McDonnell Douglas -- the major aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor -- really opened my eyes.
In the 1960s, Wood led a McDonnell Douglas team to study UFOs and he's put a huge amount of investigative work into the MJ-12 documents. His website offers a stunning display of MJ-12 items, complete with individual document analysis, and he's collaborated with Howe to piece together and authenticate these eye-opening files.
After a 43-year career with McDonnell Douglas, Wood retired in 1993. That, coupled with more than three decades of investigating UFOs, makes him a highly credible voice about the phenomenon.
A second memo written by JFK on the same day as the previous one (Nov. 12, 1963), this one sent to the NASA administrator referring to cooperation with the Soviet Union on outer space matters. Both memos were written by Kennedy 10 days before his assassination. (This is a 2-pager)
At McDonnell Douglas, "We had authority to look at how UFOs might work, with gravity-controlled devices. And I hired (nuclear physicist) Stanton Friedman -- it was the first job he ever had that paid him to study UFOs," Wood said about the man widely considered the hardest-working UFO investigatortoday, who offers his own critique of MJ-12skepticism and debunkers.
"There are those who believe (despite evidence to the contrary) that no alien spacecraft have ever visited Earth. Therefore, any documents saying that they have must be false," Friedman pointed out. "No need to do a detailed investigation, to spend time in archives, research the people involved, etc. They must be fraudulent!"
Under the auspices of McDonnell Douglas, Friedman worked closely with Wood looking into reports, including stories told by alleged UFO abductees. "We didn't get any breakthroughs and our report was never submitted to the government -- it was a McDonnell Douglas project -- and so we never told the government about it," Wood said.
In the 1990s, Wood obtained a series of the MJ-12 documents, including something known as the "burned" memo -- believed to have been written in the early 1960s -- that was reportedly saved from being burned, presumably to forever hide important UFO information, including parts that referred to Kennedy.
The memo contains a reference to "Lancer," which was John F. Kennedy's Secret Service code name.
The first page of the now-infamous burned memo, reportedly written by the director of Central Intelligence, said:
"As you must know, Lancer has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow. Please submit your views no later than October. Your action to this matter is critical to the continuance of the group."
To authenticate the documents, Wood turned to forensics and linguistics specialists who carefully looked at things like the paper they were printed on, ink age, watermarks, font types and other markings.
"I hired a forensics company to check the age of the ink and to check several other things that you can date, using the same techniques you'd use in a court of law," Wood explained. "And all the critics who wave their arms and say, 'Well, you can duplicate anything,' they forget about the fact that these documents actually showed up in the public domain long before our sophisticated techniques got on the market.
"I never figured out who the original document leaker was or what they thought I would do with it, other than what I've done, which has been to discuss it professionally, ethically and from a point of view of intellectual curiosity."
After gathering all their information, Wood and his son, Ryan, produced a 2008 television documentary, "The Secret," shown on the then Sci Fi Channel.
After exhaustive hands-on analysis of the MJ-12 documents, including the volatile burned memo, Wood came to some striking conclusions:
"I think the most important set of documents are the ones that show that we started this program in 1942, after recovering the first craft in 1941 -- at the beginning of the war, just a few days after Pearl Harbor.
"The second most important set of documents, I think, is the one that links this to the JFK assassination, and that's the burned memo.
"And the third most important documents were the ones that deal with what we were doing about it in the '50s, how we were going to absorb the technology and reverse-engineer it, and how it would affect our entire structure of technology.
Part of the "burned" memo, stamped Top Secret/MJ-12, rescued from a fire before it was destroyed. The memo is written by the director of Central Intelligence (circa early 1960s) and refers to Lancer (Secret Service code word for JFK), and states that he has made inquiries about their activities "which we cannot allow." (This is a 2-pager)
"That's my assessment of its relative importance. The most important idea that people have not grasped at all is that this program started in early 1942. The second most important idea is that the program is not under the control of the president and when the president was about to leak it, they bumped him off."
Wood's implication that JFK was killed because of his interest in UFOs is startling, to say the least. But he's not the only person who considers this a possibility.
"I think Kennedy was very interested in UFOs on several fronts," Lester suggested after finishing his book on Kennedy's life.
"There seemed to be kind of an idealistic scientific angle to it, but there was also this hardcore tactical angle that he was trying to successfully play, in what were very volatile times.
"It's almost impossible for me to believe that there's no connection. Now I couldn't go into a courtroom and prove that there was a direct correlation, but I find it hard to believe that there's no connection there."
If this is all true, then it opens the biggest can of worms ever. And yet, Wood's background and integrity shouldn't be taken lightly.
"People always ask me, 'How would the government keep a secret,' because everybody knows that governments don't keep secrets," Wood said.
"As I got involved in classified work, I concluded a couple of things: the higher your clearance level and the more sophisticated the program was, the smarter the people were in the room, almost without exception.
"These guys get smarter and smarter the more complex it is or the more secret it is, and therefore, they are very clever and have a lot of enjoyment in figuring out how to accomplish their missions, which is to keep the public in the dark."
Certainly Wood's career achievements are not in dispute, so there doesn't seem to be a reason for him to be lying or making this stuff up. And, by the way, he doesn't think there's just one group of ETs visiting us.
"There's another dimension here that people don't always integrate and that is, what's the aliens' role in this matter? I'm satisfied there's at least six kinds and they each have their own agendas. It seems like the only thing that's the same is that none of them really want to come out and openly admit that they're here."
Are the MJ-12 documents real or phony? So much mystery still swirls around the assassination of JFK. For conspiracy theorists this is only more fuel on the fire. To be sure, the debate will continue. But for now, with the information presented here, you can make up your own mind.
At the very least, it'll give you something to wonder about.
