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Fish Literally Rain Down On Australian Outback...Not Once, But Twice!
British MoD Vows To Destroy / Refuse Disclosure Of All Future UFO Reports
Video: Child Apparition - RMS Queen Mary - Long Beach, CA
Photos: UFO Lights Morphing / Readers Respond to Grapevine Canyon, CA Sighting

Fish Literally Rain Down On Australian Outback...Not Once, But Twice!

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 09:38 AM PST

ntnews - While the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by torrential rains, a Territory town has had fish falling from the sky.

The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine.

Newsbreaker Christine Balmer, who took these photos of the fish on the ground and in a bucket, had to pinch herself when she was told ``hundreds and hundreds" of small white fish had fallen from the sky.

"It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night," she said, "They fell from the sky everywhere.

"Locals were picking them up off the footy oval and on the ground everywhere.

"These fish were alive when they hit the ground."

Mrs Balmer, the aged care co-ordinator at the Lajamanu Aged Care Centre, said her family interstate thought she had lost the plot when she told them about the event.

"I haven't lost my marbles," she said, reassuring herself. "Thank god it didn't rain crocodiles."

Lajamanu sits on the edge of the Tanami Desert, hundreds of kilometres from Lake Argyle and Lake Elliott and even further from the coast. But it's not the first time the remote community has been bombarded by fins from above.

In 2004, locals reported fish falling from the sky, and in 1974, a similar incident captured international headlines.

The small white fish are believed to be spangled perch, which are very common through much of northern Australia.

Weather bureau senior forecaster Ashley Patterson said the geological conditions were perfect on Friday for a tornado in the Douglas Daly region.

He said it would have been an ideal weather situation to allow the phenomena to occur - but no tornados have been reported to the authority.

"It's a very unusual event," he said. "With an updraft, (fish and water picked up) could get up high - up to 60,000 or 70,000 feet.

"Or possibly from a tornado over a large water body - but we haven't had any reports," he said.

British MoD Vows To Destroy / Refuse Disclosure Of All Future UFO Reports

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 09:11 AM PST

ukpress - The Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public, a previously secret memo reveals.

Britain's official UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed down at the start of December.

Since then reports of strange sights in the skies sent to the MoD have been kept for 30 days before being thrown out, the newly released policy document shows.

This stance was adopted so defence officials would not have to publish the information in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests or pass it to the National Archives.

The memo, dated November 11, 2009, sets out the MoD's reasons for shutting its UFO unit and ceasing to invite the public to send in details of sightings.

It notes that the number of reports the department received soared last year, taking up extra resources and diverting staff from "more valuable" defence-related activities.

The MoD recorded 634 UFO sightings in 2009, the second highest annual total after 1978, when there were 750, according to UFO expert Dr David Clarke.

This compares with an average of about 150 reports a year over the past decade.

The memo states: "The dedicated UFO hotline answer phone service and e-mail address serve no defence purpose, and merely encourage the generation of correspondence of no defence value.

"Accordingly these facilities should be withdrawn as soon as possible."

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Video: Child Apparition - RMS Queen Mary - Long Beach, CA

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 07:31 PM PST

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Description w/ video: In the winter of 2008 the American Paranormal Research Association APRA conducted an Investigation of the RMS Queen Mary's First Class Pool.

The footage you are about to see was collected during a EMF sweep of the changing stalls, the only people present where two APRA Members and a Security Guard.

You will now see the raw footage of a unaccounted for "figure" sitting in one of the right hand side changing stalls.

The "figure" was not seen by the Investigator operating the camera.... She was conducting a EMF sweep (reason for bad camera work.... the device was held at her side).

This video has been placed here because it is unexplainable. Before the video was posted it was presented to Engineers, Medical Doctors and various other professionals from technical industries. Each given the circumstance could not come up with explanations for what was presented to them.

NOTE: this video has been available for a few weeks. In that time, I've wondered what it really depicts...so I'll leave it up to you. Most of us know that the RMS Queen Mary docked in Long Beach, CA is one of the most haunted locations in the world. From first hand experience, it definitely has a multitude of lingering spirits. As far as this video and the apparition of the child...well, I have reservations. I can't remember ever confronting an entity that had eyes that reflected light...especially from an IR camera. As the camera pans away from the apparition, it does seem that it either attempts to 'stand' or simply fade off. Stop and start the slow motion portion and you'll see what I mean. The paranormal group does have an interesting website and some credible evidence APRA. There is a spirit of a girl that frequents the pool area...I just ask if this really was her...Lon

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Photos: UFO Lights Morphing / Readers Respond to Grapevine Canyon, CA Sighting

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 07:50 AM PST

MUFON witness report (unedited): 2-26-10 - Florida - i was driving to work at 5 am, when i saw 4 lights in an arrow form...2 lights on one side, 2 lights on the other. i kept driving and when i looked up again the lights were moving. interweaving as if they were raving for a few seconds, then they spread out in a straight line and disappeared one by one.
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RESPONSE: Morphing Triangular Shaped UFO - Grapevine Canyon, CA

NOTE: I received some interesting responses to the Photo: Morphing Triangular Shaped UFO - Grapevine Canyon, CA post:

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Hi Lon

I'm a big fan of your blog and read it daily. Just following up on your recent post: Photo: Morphing Triangular Shaped UFO - Grapevine Canyon, CA

I too had a similar experience in the UK around 2001. I was taking a quick trip into the countryside with my Mum, her friend and my brother to a place called Osmotherley, located in the North Yorkshire Moors in the North East of England. I cannot remember the exact date, but it was a bright warm day in June time, I remember the weather conditions were great, with very little cloud and great visibility in the sky.

I was taking a short walk by myself along a stream that flows through the area and heard the sound of military jets, I looked up and saw two of them fly-by. I ran up a short hill to get a better look, and when I looked up again the military jets had gone, but I saw a strange silver object in the sky, it was almost a sliver/line shape, as through I was looking at something very slim side-on. I could not get a reference for how far away it was as it was or size, as there was nothing around it. But I remember it being silent, as the jets noise had gone, it moved in a similar direction to the jets, at a slower pace for about 5-10 seconds, then it just disappeared instantly – whether it moved off at incredible speed or something else entirely I don't know, but it literally vanished in the blink of an eye. I remember it quite well as there was nothing to cause an optical illusion, cause a reflection or anything like that. It was in the countryside, away from any man-made buildings or vehicles and isolated in a clear blue sky.

I just thought it was worth mentioning as it seemed similar to this article.

Keep up the great work sir!

Kind regards
John

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The Grapevine Canyon Ca. triangle UFO is what we saw (myself and my husband) in the sky over Connor's Pass, Co. Kerry, Ireland on October 8Th 2009 from 7 to 7:45am. We are farmers and keep sheep on one of the mountains in this area. There were no planes in the area, as per airport's air traffic control, at the time. No planes, no helicopters.

I think the public deserves answers as to what these craft are.

I sought out your site, among others after this sighting. Jan

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Excellent photograph. I saw practically the same thing in 1989 when it was getting dark. The picture is erie similar to what I saw. While I was looking at it, the three lights (in triangle formation) 'blinked' out and there was one light in the center. Couple seconds later it reversed back to 3 lights. (Wrote about it on my blog.) EdV

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