New! June 2008
On the night of Oct. 4, 1967, perhaps dozens of witnesses saw a large string of amber lights drop into Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, float on the water, and leave a thick yellow foam on the surface. Investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and other government agencies, who labeled it a "UFO" in official documents when nothing else could be found to account for it. Perhaps the best documented UFO crash. Also in the midst of many other UFO sightings in the area. Pages contain a detailed summary of case, mainly from book Dark Object. Includes maps, copies of many documents, newspaper articles, and even comic book treatment.
New! November 2004
During the 2003/2004 Democratic Presidential primaries, candidate Gen. Wesley Clark spoke of his personal belief that mankind would eventually achieve faster-than-light travel and explore space beyond our solar system. What prompted Clark's radical remarks? At a political rally for John Kerry in Reno, Nevada on Oct. 30, 2004, I asked Gen. Clark if he had ever been briefed on the subject of UFOs when he was in the military. Clark didn't deny it nor did he directly confirm it, instead dropping carefully worded hints that UFOs were real. He said that he had "heard a bit" in the military, that there were indeed "things going on," and like his earlier faster-than-light remarks, said we would have to develop our own mathematics. He even dropped a very broad hint about Roswell. Click on link for full story.
New! Added February 2005
A brilliant cigar-shaped UFO shooting red flames out the rear and leaving an enormous spiral trail was seen by hundreds of witnesses in southern California on up through northern Nevada, including many CAA ground controllers and dozens of pilots on the ground and in the air. The sighting lasted for an hour. The spiral trail and other reports of maneuvering plus the duration of the sighting rule out a meteor, and no man-made craft could replicate what was described. What was it? The incident received national press coverage after the pilots of a United Airlines flight held a press conference a few days later reporting their sighting. Includes a dozen newspaper stories on the incident plus half a dozen more describing a similar mass sighting of a fireball with trail from a day before over the southern U.S. Also includes a listing of 40 other U.S. UFO sightings during this period, including numerous high quality pilot, military, ground controller, and scientist/engineer sightings..
1994 video of an anomalous object over an Air Force fighter jet training range northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada (Nellis Range) provides some of the best evidence yet of intelligently-controlled, unknown objects invading our airspace. Includes audio with transcripts of perplexed range personnel. Tracking overlay enables precise determination of object flight characteristics. The object traveled slowly at first, then made a right angle turn and accelerated rapidly straight for the camera approaching supersonic speed, yet shows no obvious propulsion system It showed three distinct periods of rapid acceleration followed by rapid deceleration and at one point went into a steep climb.
New! Added January 2006
The first of a number of articles on the Kecksburg UFO crash. A weird unknown object came down near the hamlet of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1965, and got whisked away by the military. The Kecksburg crash was immediately preceded by a bright fireball seen by thousands that passed over the Great Lakes region. However, a 1967 astronomy article claimed the fireball trajectory was at right angles to a trajectory needed to take the fireball in the direction of Kecksburg. Some debunkers claim this "proves" that the fireball had nothing to do with Kecksburg. However, this analysis is subjected to true skeptical review here. It turns out that tiny, easily-made errors in triangulation can account for the discrepancy. Mathematical evidence from the smoke trail photos used in the original triangulation strongly suggests the proposed trajectory was probably badly in error. Includes scanned photos of the smoketrail from the article and alternate trajectory maps. (Note: the Cosmos 96 Venus probe at right, which superficially resembles what was seen at Kecksburg and has been previously offered as a skeptical explanation, was conclusively ruled out as a crash object by NASA in 2003.)
Added July 2003
Maps and photos of the of the Woodbridge air base area and surrounding Rendlesham forest where these very famous UFO sightings by U.S. airmen occurred in December 1980. Includes some links to important documents by Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt, who wrote up the incidents in a well-known memo to the British Military of Defense. And yes, the infamous skeptical explanation of a nearby lighthouse is covered.
Added July 2003
In an article by a Virginia historian, according to oral tradition, artwork in this 1858 Virginia pie safe supposedly depicts an alien visitation from earlier in the century. If true, depictions of "bug-eyed" aliens would seem to predate modern science fiction. Just to complicate things, the historian personally told me he hoaxed the story as a joke on the editors (but never corrected the story when they didn't get it?).
Added September 2003
Researcher Robert Durant takes Popular Mechanics' science editor Jim Wilson to task for his grandstanding, rumor-mongering, and many false statements in Popular Mechanics magazine and in a recent National Public Radio interview. Includes link to Durant's transcript of Wilson's July 2003 NPR interview.. For a taste of the absurdity of Wilson's Roswell assertions, he claims that both "nothing happened" or maybe it was really the crash of a super-secret, unheard-of spy craft. Thus simultaneously "nothing happened" and "something happened." Or how about Roswell being cloaked in secrecy because of a base doctor's scandalous court-martial for adultery with a nurse? Yeah, right!
