Phantoms and Monsters

Inexplicata: Alleged UFO in Entre Rios, Argentina
Wisconsin Bar Was Once the Haunt of Capone, Dillinger
Scientists Eagerly Wait In Australian Outback For Asteroid Probe Return
Increased Big Cat Sightings On Virginia's Eastern Shore

Inexplicata: Alleged UFO in Entre Rios, Argentina

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 01:21 PM PDT

This interesting case again shows the depletion of water tanks by unknown forces – a constant in Argentinean UFO cases since the cattle mutilation wave of 2002 and the research into the mysterious draining of water from swimming pools and ponds conducted by Quique Mario since the early 2000s in Santa Rosa, Argentina...Scott Corrales, Inexplicata

Source: Diario La Capital
http://www.lacapital.com.ar/contenidos/2010/06/08/noticia_0014.html
Date: June 8, 2010

Argentina: Alleged UFO in Entre Rios
By Norberto Puntonet/ La capital

A farmer from Rosario who visited a farm in the Province of Entre Rios claimed having seen a UFO while in the company of both his son and the owner of the "El Rancho" rural facility. The curious event took place last Saturday some 23 kilometers from the town of Federal and some 400 km from Rosario.

This is not the first time the witness has seen a UFO, although he acknowledges that this time he was "very scared." The man, who asked to be kept anonymous, has a potato stand at the Mercado de Concentración in Fisherton and when he has time, he visits a friend who owns a field in Entre Rios. Luis, a native of General Lagos, told La Capital: "I travel frequently to Entre Rios because of my job and I made great friends. This is the fourth time that I've seen strange lights in the skies over Entre Rios, but never so close by. To clear my head a little, I went to "El Rancho" this weekend with my son Guillermo. What we both saw, along with the field's owner, left us stunned," he admits.

Luis added that as they took some things out of their truck, the saw a light approaching in the distance. "It was nine o'clock at night and we were taking some things out of truck to go into town for fuel. We saw a light approaching us and we told the owner of the property, whose name is Guillermo Jorjato, if he was waiting for someone. He said no. The light was coming through the middle of the field and not along the road. We stood there watching, to see what it was."

"Some 300 meters away from us was a windmill and an "Australian" water tank with a capacity of 125,000 liters. When the light reached the tank, it rose and remained suspended overhead. We could clearly see that it was a vessel shaped like an inverted platter. It was twice the size of the tank. I figure some 25 or 30 meters. It had red, green and gray lights that rotated but made no sound. My son wanted to run into the house for a shotgun to fire at the vessel, but I stopped him. What good was such a weapon against that display of technology?"

At that time, the property owner told Luis that he had never seen lights nor anything similar, but that he had on several occasions found the tank empty overnight, without finding traces of tire tracks or any water spilled in the vicinity. "After a brief while suspended over the tank, the device went straight up at an impressive rate of speed. We only heard a slight sound, but a sound of friction, not of a motor, like a prolonged "Z" sound. When it reached a certain altitude that I cannot imagine, two small explosions were heard, like rockets. I suppose this happens when the sound barrier is broken," he reflects.

"The next day we went to see the tank. It was full of water. We don't know why they didn't take the water this time. They must've read my son's mind and felt afraid!" Luis said ironically, although he admits to having "trembled like a leaf" at the moment.

NOTE: Thanks to Scott Corrales...he's a great source of UFO/alien activity from Spain, South America and the Caribbean. His blog is at Scott Corrales, Inexplicata...Lon

Inexplicata: Alleged UFO in Entre Rios, Argentina

Wisconsin Bar Was Once the Haunt of Capone, Dillinger

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 01:00 PM PDT

wsaw - As we've showed you all week, Plover, WI has a rich history spanning decades. And of course that history wouldn't be complete without a good ghost story!

Notorious gangsters like Al Capone and John Dillinger considered the Club Forest Bar a favorite stop in the 1920's and 30's, and it's right in Plover. The bar is filled with stories and legends, but none of them have managed to live on quite like the story of Melvin.

Melvin was an original employee of the bar, and employees today are convinced his ghost is still there. The Club Forest Bar was used for a time by its original owners as a 'house of ill repute'. "Helen and Mac [McCabe] brought a man with them named Melvin, and they called him a coachman", said Pam Booth, who owns the bar today. "His job was to go to the train station pick up the girls bring them back and watch over them."

Legend has it melvin served as a faithful guardian to the Club Forest girls. So much so, it would cost him his life. "He fell in love with one of the girls and one night she had a customer who didnt treat her very well, and Melvin confronted him", Booth said. "The confrontation turned into an argument and then a fight and eventually his death."

When Booth's family bought the bar from the original owner decades ago, they were warned Melvin's ghost was still there. And over the years, employees say they've seen plenty of evidence. "Many times the machines would turn on and off, the jukebox would turn on and off, certain things would fall off of tables", said Karen Krings who has worked at the bar for 16 years. She and other employee say they've seen bar stools fly off of tables and into walls, seen things move, and heard footsteps right behind them when alone in the bar. The stories go on and on, and employees say melvin makes himself known on a regular basis.

The bar's owners wanted more answers, so they got in touch with the River Cities Paranormal Society. "We searched for evidence of his existence, for proof that he still lingers about", said Jonathan Wood, who founded the RCPS. He and some other researchers spent a night at the Club Forest, researching and recording their every move.

It wasn't until they reviewed their footage that they started to notice strange things, like what appears to be a face appearing in the ceiling tiles for one second, before vanishing. They also discovered a couple of E.V.P.s, which stands for electronic voice phenomenon. "We also had that chunk of audio that happened down in the basement that we couldnt for the life of us explain", Wood said. "And there was a voice of a person that was not in the building, that we didnt know, that didnt match any of the voice templates for any of the members that were investigating."

That was enough to peak the interest of the RCPS, who says they're planning to investigate the bar again. "We exhaustively try to find out a logical answer to whats causing the phenomena, and some of that we couldnt figure out, so thats why we feel this place would warrant another investigation", Wood said.

In the meanwhile, employees say it doesn't bother them. In fact, they believe Melvin is still carrying out his original job - looking out for the Club Forest girls. "Melvin's here and hes still taking care of the girls, we've never employed more than two men at a time, its basically women who have worked here for 20 years", said Booth.

"If you believe, you believe, if you don't, you don't", said Krings. "I believe."

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'The Club Forest Bar began in 1927 as a small railroad stop tavern. It was located at the railroad station on the main railway from Chicago to the Northwoods. During these early years it was known as a house of "ill-repute" and as a stopping place for famous and notorious people, like Al Capone.

A piece of this history is still with us today. Stop in and learn about "Melvin" our resident ghost from those early days.'....clubforestbar.com

Wisconsin Bar Was Once the Haunt of Capone, Dillinger

Scientists Eagerly Wait In Australian Outback For Asteroid Probe Return

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 08:19 AM PDT

AP - Scientists camping out in the Australian Outback this weekend will be eagerly scanning the night sky for the long-delayed return of the first spacecraft to complete a round-trip journey to an asteroid.

The Hayabusa capsule has traveled 1.24 billion miles (2 billion kilometers) in seven years and is expected to land in the desert of South Australia state Sunday night.

Launched by Japan in 2003, Hayabusa is expected to be carrying space material collected during its two brief landings on the asteroid, which will offer insights into the creation and makeup of the solar system.

"There's absolutely nothing like going to the source," said Trevor Ireland, associate director for Earth Chemistry at Australian National University and the only Australian on the Hayabusa team. "Hayabusa has sampled an asteroid in situ and soon we will have in hand an actual asteroid. Any sample coming back from (the asteroid) will be a major scientific prize for us."

He said scientists will learn more from studying the asteroid sample than from meteorites that are burned during their fall on Earth and become contaminated by materials here.

Hayabusa, which means 'falcon,' will re-enter Earth's atmosphere late Sunday night above the Woomera Prohibited Area, a military zone 300 miles (485 kilometers) north of the South Australian state capital of Adelaide.

The main body of the vessel will burn up on re-entry — expected to create a spectacular burst in the midnight sky — but a small container carrying the samples retrieved from the asteroid should parachute to the desert floor. The container will be taken to Japan for study.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency built and launched the asteroid explorer, which landed on its target in late 2005. Hayubasa took photo images from all angles of the 1,640-foot (500-meter) -long asteroid called Itokawa before landing. It was designed to shoot a bullet into the surface of the asteroid that would crush it and propel any material through a long tube into the sample collection container.

There is no certainty that the bullet actually fired, scientists say, but they believe that the impact of the tube's landing would have forced some material upward and into the collection chamber.

"Just the process of landing would have coated the inside with dust," said Michael Zolensky, one of two NASA scientists involved in the project. "It has the capacity to hold one-tenth of a kilogram (3.53 ounces), but we really only need less than a gram (0.04 ounce) of material. One microscopic grain can be sliced into more than 100 pieces and farmed around the world for testing and research."

The scientists hope to study how and when the asteroid was formed, its physical properties, what other bodies it may have been in contact with and how the solar wind and radiation have affected it.

The Japanese space agency said the aim of the $200 million project was to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system.

If Hayabusa is indeed carrying samples from the asteroid, it would be only the fourth sample return of space material in history — including the moon matter collected by the Apollo missions, comet matter by Stardust and solar matter in the Genesis mission.

Preliminary analysis of the samples will be carried out by the team in Japan, but after one year scientists around the world can apply for access to bits of the asteroid material for research.

For now, though, the Hayabusa scientists admitted to some sleepless nights as the arrival hour finally nears. Zolensky said the years out of sight have not erased Hayabusa from his mind.

"I have a model of it hanging in my office," he said. "We have worked 20 years on this mission. For something to go all the way out to an asteroid and come back is extremely exciting."

NOTE: here is a link to the previous post - Hayabusa Asteroid Probe Heading Back To Earth...Lon

Scientists Eagerly Wait In Australian Outback For Asteroid Probe Return
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Increased Big Cat Sightings On Virginia's Eastern Shore

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 07:26 AM PDT

delmarvanow - Raymond Gunter of Townsend is not the first person to suspect he has seen a cougar or other large cat prowling on the Eastern Shore, but he may be the latest.

"I have never seen anything like it and I have been in construction work for 38 years," Gunter said.

He's built highways all over the southeast and has seen alligators, rattlesnakes, bears and all sorts of wildlife.

"And I never heard a sound like this," he said.

Gunter's report is one of several recent large-cat sightings, many of which describe a cougar-like animal.

The animal he saw on May 28 at fairly close range fits the same description -- a rusty-tan colored, three-foot-long cat with a long tail. It was quick-footed and traveling close to the ground.

Similar sightings were reported in February a few miles north in Dalbys.

Since that incident, more sightings in Accomack and Northampton counties were reported.

Gunter was doing some tree work at a Cheapside home when he heard a loud sound coming from high up in a 50-foot-tall tree.

"It was a real scream like," Gunter said. "Like a growl that went into a scream. He did it twice, like he was warning me."

Then he heard rustling and scratching sounds as the animal made its way down the opposite side of the tree. Gunter didn't get a good look until it was on the ground.

"It was crouched, moving low to the ground, creeping like, at a pretty good rate, then crossed over the road and went into the woods," he said.

In February, Ernie and Kathleen Coulter reported hearing a loud screaming sound over a couple days in December.

"I thought it might have been a bobcat because it was loud," Kathleen Coulter said. "It was a deep scream. It was scary. I have never heard anything like that before."

The couple saw a very similar animal to Gunter's at least twice after hearing the sounds.

It is unlikely, though, to make it to this area, said Sue Rice, manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife's Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge at the time of the February sightings.

"The chances of there being a mountain lion that is a wild animal on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is extremely low," she said. "Even in the whole state of Virginia, I don't believe there are enough sightings."

A wild cat would have to come from the woodsy north. "The chances are pretty slim for them to get here without being seen or getting hit by a car if they are wild animals," Rice said, suggesting instead a pet released locally.

Cougars are solitary and nocturnal for the most part and feed on white-tail deer. Females have ranges of several square miles, but the male's home-range is much larger, which could account for reports of sightings in Melfa and Wachapreague and other parts of Accomack.

Increased Big Cat Sightings On Virginia's Eastern Shore

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