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Press Release Proves MUFON and Feds Connected
Video: Shimmering UFO Sighted - Izumi, Kyushu Island, Japan
Dog Survives Owl-Napping
Something is Rotten in the Northern Territory

Press Release Proves MUFON and Feds Connected

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 12:58 PM PST

Las Vegas, NV, U.S. (AHN) - The Federal Aviation Administration has designated the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.(BAASS) as one of the reporting centers for UFO sightings and unexplained phenomena.

In its Dec. 10 update to air traffic control organizations, the FAA said pilots and air traffic controllers should refer the said reports to the Las Vegas-based company that explores extremely advance aerospace technology. The BAASS can be reached at 1-877-979-7444 or reporting@baass.org.

Prior to BAASS, the National Institute for Discovery Sciences (NIDS) was the contact center for UFO concerns in the U.S. However, NIDS is now defunct.

The BAASS makes inflatable low-Earth orbiting modules, It is currently hiring astrophysics, biochemists, microbiologists, nanotechnolgists, physicists, and propulsion and stealth technology experts.
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originally post 3/7/09

MUFON Receives Major Funding / Logistics From Billionaire Entrepeneur

Billionaire real estate investor and entrepeneur Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas, Nevada is now betting his bucks on MUFON to find valuable new knowledge about alien propulsion systems.

Bigelow who has long been known to give millions of dollars to fund serious UFO research has just concluded a deal with MUFON whereby he will supply this organization with whatever it needs to be able to go out and bring back the hard evidence, not only to document the reality of UFOs interacting with us but most importantly to gather the kind of information that will truly advance scientific understanding of this phenomenon.

This may well prove to be a historical occasion for MUFON and for the science of Ufology in general. MUFON since its inception has been a volunteer effort on the part of civilians who devote whatever spare time and energies they can afford in order to fulfill MUFON's stated mission of scientifically investigating the UFO phenomenon for the benefit of humanity.

Now for the first time MUFON's members are going to be paid to do their work. MUFON's agreement with Bigelow is to train and qualify a special rapid response team of Field Investigators who can be deployed within 24 hours to the scene of a major UFO event, the kind designated as Category 2 or 3 in the classification system devised by legendary UFO researcher Jacques Vallee.

These are the rarer cases where either physical traces are left or physiological effects are caused in the witness. Bigelow has hired 50 top-flight scientists to assist MUFON in this endeavor who will function as consultants and do expensive lab analysis of alien materials gathered at the location of a UFO event.

Bigelow, who never does anything on a small scale, a few years ago founded BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies) with the incredibly ambitious goal of putting a commercial hotel up in orbit around the earth. He thinks that even one category 2 or 3 case if properly investigated can yield significant scientific paydirt.

Whatever high-tech equipment needed by the investigators on the scene will be drop-shipped to them overnight by BAASS. These high-profile cases will be investigated using the strictest methods of scientific protocol.

Bigelow, who has been known to keep his findings on the UFO subject secret, has agreed per his contract with MUFON to hold nothing back from this organization that is revealed in the BAASS lab analysis of materials supplied by MUFON.

This project, which just launched on March 1st, is code named SIP (for Star Impact Project). It is a pilot experiment and will be reviewed on June 30th to see if it has proven successful enough to warrant funding for the rest of the year.

Understandably there is a lot of excitement at MUFON Headquarters and among its membership. Now with this major infusion of funds from Bigelow, it will be better able than ever to carry out its stated mission. And Bigelow possibly will get what he wants to forward his goal.

How this will all work out is hard to guess. This is something that has never been tried before. They are moving into unchartered territory here.

In any case, Bigelow's investing so heavily in MUFON's ability to make SIP a successful search and find operation for greater knowledge about alien technology is some extremely good PR for MUFON whose credibility can be expected to take a significant leap forward in the eyes of the general public.

NOTE: well, it seems that there is now a proven connection between MUFON and the federal government...and it's MUFON's benefactor Robert Bigelow and his aerospace company BAASS. I had reported that some witnesses who reported to MUFON were getting blown off. As well, other witnesses were receiving visits from non-MUFON investigators. This press release confirms that there is a connection and that privacy can no longer be assured...Lon

Video: Shimmering UFO Sighted - Izumi, Kyushu Island, Japan

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 12:23 PM PST

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allnewsweb - UFO was seen around a month ago by multiple witnesses on 23 November at around 11:30pm. This UFO sighting took place in the locale of the regional city of Izumi, in Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu Island at the southernmost tip of Japan.

The witnesses, a group of friends, had gone out for the night and were returning home when they saw what they described as a 'beautiful glittering emerald' in the sky. The shimmering UFO was moving erratically and the witnesses felt that it did not resemble any man-made craft. One of the witnesses was able to capture the image for over a minute using a video recorder. The object eventually vanished.

Dog Survives Owl-Napping

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:58 AM PST

qctimes - Sadie, a petite-sized Pomeranian, landed next to a Davenport, IA street last weekend after surviving a flight of about two miles, clutched in the talons of a great horned owl.

As the owl flies, Sadie's flight covered between 24 to 30 city blocks. She was scruffed up, but suffered nothing worse than bruises and a broken tail.

Sadie's owl-napping saga began when her owner, Michelle McCarten, and friends were watching fireworks a week ago Saturday in the Village of East Davenport. Sadie was spooked by the booming, jumping off McCarten's porch at 2216 E. 12th St., and fleeing into a nearby woodsy area. McCarten and friends called and searched. No luck.

What they didn't realize was that a giant owl known to perch in the area had grabbed Sadie.

Sadie became the flying dog. She was soaring over east Davenport, destined to become a late-night snack for the owl. But the owl lost its grip. Sadie plunged to earth.

"I had stopped for the sign at East 29th and College when this dog came flying out of the sky right in front of my Jeep — right out of the sky," says Jamie Padden, Davenport. "It dropped out of nowhere."

The owl followed, ready to snatch back its lost snack.

Padden was horror-struck to see the little dog scrambling to get away.

"I opened my car door and ran screaming at that owl," she says. "It was after the dog.

"That owl was so big I swear that its wings spread halfway across the street. That sounds overdramatic, but it's true."

Padden shooed the owl away and scooped up the whimpering dog. She took it home, gave it a bath, and called Davenport police to report that she had just picked up a dog that had been dropped from the sky by a great horned owl.

Barb Elmore, a police service generalist who took the call from Padden, says her first thought was "That is one lucky dog."

While the police department gets lost animal calls all the time, Padden's report was the first of its kind, Elmore said.

"Í knew that no one would believe me," Padden says, "so I left my phone number, in case anyone called about a missing dog. That little dog was so scared that I took her to bed with me that night. She was frantic, shaking."

Next morning, Sadie's owner and a friend, Kris Overstreet, resumed their search. They called Davenport police and were given Padden's number.

"We called immediately," McCarten says. "It sounded like my dog. Jamie brought her to us and I cried. It was my Sadie."

McCarten pieced together the tale of Sadie's wild ride, something that is confirmed by a Quad-City ornithologist. Rick Crouch of Wild Birds Unlimited doesn't question that Sadie was grabbed by a great horned owl.

"They are big, strong birds that stand 24 inches from feet to tip of head. They have a great capacity to lift," Crouch says. "They are nocturnal, hunting by night, easily picking up rabbits, cats or small dogs. They have a strange appetite for skunks."

Sadie, still shaky, is happily home with her owner. She has bruises and tenderness around her hind quarters where her tail was broken.

"She's nervous. I'm giving her an aspirin a day. She's comfortable," McCarten says. "Getting her back is my best early Christmas present."

Something is Rotten in the Northern Territory

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:26 AM PST

ntnews - A mystery smell so powerful that it woke people up wafted across at least two Top End neighbourhoods early yesterday.

Theories about the source of the stink ranged from sewage to the exhaust fumes of an alien spaceship.

Keith Risk, 47, of Howard Springs, said the stench woke him up about 3am.

"It was overpowering," he said. "Like gas or rotten eggs. I drove around nearby streets and could still smell it.

"The stink went on for kilometres."

He said the smell could have been caused by sewage, gas or even flowering trees.

Mother-of-two Gina Francis, 41, of Marlow Lagoon, Palmerston, said her whole household was woken by the pong.

"I thought it might be a gas leak and was worried," she said. But her husband Rod thought it more likely to be a chemical spill.

Police said there had been no reports of chemical accidents.

And the firies said there had not been any reports of gas leaks.

Mr Francis telephoned police and they said there had been many calls about the strange smell.

Litchfield Shire Council president Mary Walshe suggested there had been an accident at a clandestine amphetamine laboratory.

But police said "clan labs" always smelt. "That's why they are set up in remote areas," an officer said. "But the smell only goes for a property or two."

A reader blamed the Litchfield rubbish dump, but Ms Walshe said the dump was innocent.

Independent politician Gerry Wood said the source of the smell may never be known. "We've had plenty of UFOs around here," he said. "This is a USO - Unidentified Smelly Object."

SUPER 7 THEORIES
1. Secret chemical spill
2. Clandestine drug laboratory
3. Flowering trees
4. Gas leak
5. Palmerston sewerage plant
6. Overflowing cesspits in rural area
7. Exhaust fumes from a visiting UFO

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