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- Recent UFO / Close Encounter Reports - 11/1/2010
- Fortean / Oddball News: Paranormal Warfare, NYC ET Commission and Russian Sorcerers
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| Bigfoot Sighting Reignites Past Claims In Calhoun County, WV Posted: 01 Nov 2010 07:03 PM PDT  Summers claims he saw an ape-like creature Tuesday afternoon walking down an electric right-of-way, a short distance from Arnoldsburg along State Rt. 16. "Everybody is laughing at me, but I saw it. I swear to God," Summers said. Summers (shown right) was traveling south in a car, looking out a passenger side window when he claims he spotted the Big Foot or Sasquatch-like creature on a hillside across the West Fork of the Little Kanawha. "It was tall, about nine feet, hairy and the prettiest black I've ever laid my eyes on. I could see between its' legs. Its' legs looked as big as five-gallon buckets," Summers said. Summers said the driver of the vehicle couldn't stop because a car was "on his tail," indicating the driver and a passenger didn't see the creature, "But they believe I saw it." "I've been in the woods all my life. I wasn't drunk," he said, again proclaiming, "God in heaven, be my witness, I saw it. I'll take it to my grave." Summers said he had heard about other sighting in the Arnoldsburg area a few years ago. "I know a lot of people won't believe me, but I wanted them to know anyway," he concluded.  ********** From 3/17/2008 BIGFOOT RESEARCHERS COMING TO WV - Arnoldsburg Sighting Reported To Group hurherald - Bigfoot researchers are coming to West Virginia for a three-day exploratory in April. Efforts by the Herald to find out if the 18 researchers might visit Calhoun County, have not proved successful. A Calhoun sighting was posted on the organizations website, saying a Bigfoot was sighted near Arnoldsburg. The infamous 1967 "Patterson movie" showed a tall, furry, long-limbed, human-like creature quickly looking back toward the camera before lumbering away. Millions have been fascinated with the legend. The creature has often been reported to be about nine feet tall. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, an Internet-based community of scientists and journalists, have compiled the world's most extensive database of Bigfoot encounters and reports. BFRO investigator Stephen Willis, a retired U.S. Army first sergeant and Webster County native, said, "A lot of people have this impression that Sasquatch only exists in the Northwest, but they are everywhere that you can imagine as long as there is a deer population for food and shelter to protect them from severe winter weather." Willis said his group will not disclose the exact location of this year's search for fear that curiosity seekers and media could mess-up the search. ********** From 5/14/2008 "DON'T DISCOUNT BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS" SAYS FIRST-PERSON WITNESS hurherald - A Buckhannon woman who has been living in Calhoun, says "Don't be too quick to discount Big Foot sightings," recalling her close encounter with the creature in 1978, while she was living in Iowa. Her comments came following an alleged sighting in Calhoun County. Anna Dodrill froze with fear when she looked up from a load of dishes into the "burning red eyes" of a big-nosed, black-faced, hairy-headed creature staring at her through a window a few feet away. A newspaper account of the incident said "Terror tied her tongue," after seeing the creature through the window, unable to scream. The "big foot" then fled into the darkness. Bigfoot sightings had plagued Humboldt and Kossuth counties during the 1970s, according to the sheriffs department. Doddrill said rumors spread that the beast was responsible for eerie night sounds, broken fences, stampeded cattle, chewed-up cats, mangled rabbits and the death of a dog. A day after Dodrill saw the creature, 18-year-old Robert Newell was dressing for work, heard a noise and looked out his window, spotting a hunchbacked creature go into a barn. Newell said the creature appeared to be looking for food, and eventually walked into a cornfield. Doddrill, who is living with relatives at Arnoldsburg, is still convinced about the creature's sighting, saying "It was the first time in my life I couldn't move."  |
| Recent UFO / Close Encounter Reports - 11/1/2010 Posted: 01 Nov 2010 09:51 AM PDT    Click for video Louisiana - 10/28/2010 - no other information available **********  Click for video **********   ********** MUFON CMS - Taylor, Texas - 12/15/1951 - unedited: My grandfather, my father, and I were returning to Taylor, from our farm between Round Rock, and Hutto. My grandfather, driving, and my father were in the front seat. I was in the back seat trying to sleep. When we turned onto Hwy 95 (N), from Lake drive, we had driven about 1 mile when my grandfather said, "What the hell is that?", and started slowing down. He came to a full stop, and up ahead of us, directly over the road, about 100 yards ahead, were two silver discs hovering about 3-4 feet over the road. We watched them for about one minute, then they proceeded to the left, over some stalks of either corn, or maise. They were only about one foot above the stalks, but there was no deflection, or sound. They proceeded down the row of maise/corn for about 300 yards. There they stopped, then pivoted 90 degrees, to present a full, top view, and they both shot up into the air, and were out of sight in about 3 or 4 seconds. Grandfather is dead, father is dead, and I'm 72, and dying. Just thought someone should know about this, in case it ties in with any other reports. All dates, and times are approximate. I do remember it was a Saturday, or a Sunday morning, and the sun was only up for a little while and reflected off of the discs when they tilted up, and shot out of sight in the west. I still live on the farm we we tending that morning, and remember almost the exact spot where we saw them. Plus this is all true. I even tried to tell the newspaper in Taylor, and Houston, when dad and I returned to Houston, but they wouldn't believe me, and didn't investigate. If they had, my grandfather, and my father could have corroborated the event, but they didn't, and now there is only me. ********** MUFON CMS - near Kingman, Arizona - 6/1/1995 - unedited: This happened many years ago, and I have always felt I should have reported the sighting then, but I have always tried to convince myself that what I witnessed was not unique. I was a Greyhound bus driver back then. This happened about 1993-1995. I was on a latenight run between Phoenix and Las Vegas. As i recall I had left Kingman and was travelling across the desert on a 2-lane highway that is very remote, thin, and a very windy roadway. My wife was on this trip with me and she was aleep in the seat behind me. It was about 4am. I thought that all the passengers behind me were asleep. On these nighttime runs they usually are. As i came up over a rise in the highway and began coming down the other side, I noticed up ahead and on the right side of the road 3 amber lights in a triangular shape. 2 lower and 1 about 15 feet above centered between the other two, like a pyramid (larger at the base). The object(s) were hovering approx. 15' above the right side of the road. As I approached with the bus, I knew that the sight and configuration was unusual, but I kept approaching, trying to convince myself that I was seeing the rear end of a helicopter (that is the only way I could explain what I was seeing) As we were about 30' from the object, it suddenly shot across the road in front of us and flew over next to a mountain, on the left. The object(s) accellerated from 0 to hundreds (perhaps thousands) of mph in a fraction of a second. I estimate the mountain that it shot over to to be 15 miles away and yet the object traversed the distance in (as I recall) a matter of 1 or 2 seconds. I have never seen anything accelerate like this object did. As I said previously, I was trying to believe I was seeing a helicopter. The triangular lights did not turn, as a helicopter would, when they shot over next to the mountain. Then the lights just hovered over there! I heard a voice from the front right seat. A passenger was awake and witnessed the same sight that I just had. He said. "What do you think we just saw? All I could say was, "I don't know!" Neither of us mentioned our sighting again. I never thought to get his name. As I say, I never expected to see a UFO, I spent the subsequent hours trying to convince myself it was conventional! Although it could not have been. I find it very strange to this day that I did not wake my wife up. I will always chastise myself for not stopping that bus and waking my passengers to experience the UFO. I chastise myself for not talking further with the passenger that saw the UFO with me. I should have at least got his name. Even stranger, we just kept on driving. The object(s) were still in sight, hovering next to that mountain until we drove out of sight. I like to think that if I ever have a similar experience that I will investigate further. Subsequent to this trip, about a year and a half later, I was pulling the same duty from Phoenix to Las Vegas. Same roads, I knew them well. When I arrived in Las Vegas and reported to dispatch, they asked why I was so late. Somehow the trip had taken a 1 1/2 hours longer than usual. I can't explain it. And furthermore, I remember not being too concerned about it. **********  Click for video Comments: Strange unidentified flying object/s (UFOs) seen in the western part of Singapore sky last night on 31.10.10 at about 8.20pm Singapore time. I took my Sony cam to capture this strange unidentified flying object or objects. It lasted for nearly about an hour plus. I believe it was a triangular shape because there were lights at the end of the object which changed their colors from blue to red vise versa.  |
| Fortean / Oddball News: Paranormal Warfare, NYC ET Commission and Russian Sorcerers Posted: 01 Nov 2010 08:28 AM PDT  How Ghosts, Superstitions, and Vampires Are Used For PsyOps Warfare io9 - Military psy ops aren't limited to leaflets, propaganda broadcasts, and Korean pop music. In the past, the US military has played on their opponent superstitions of vampires, ghosts, and astrology. Here are some strange examples. In World War II, US forces exploited the Nazi's predilection to put stock in superstitions and the occult. The Rand Corporation's 1950 memorandum "The Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare" details how pseudoscience connoisseur Joseph Goebbels counteracted Allied attempts to strike fear into the superstitious strata of the German population. Another curious incident noted in the Rand document occurs in Italy, where British military created a giant manikin to scare rural residents. A large, shambling creature was assembled to freak out superstitious locals. It is worth noting that Jasper Maskelyne did have a penchant for embellishment. The US military however pulled a similar tactic in the 1950s, when Major General Edward G. Lansdale spearheaded the rumor that an asuwang was loose in the Philippines. In Filipino mythology, the asuwang is a winged, vampiric witch that has a hankering for unborn fetuses. The US military was battling Communist Huk rebels and concocted possibly the only covert operation in human history to stage a vampiric attack. Lansdale recalls: To the superstitious, the Huk battleground was a haunted place filled with ghosts and eerie creatures. A combat psy-war squad was brought in. It planted stories among town residents of an Asuang living on the hill where the Huks were based. Two nights later, after giving the stories time to make their way up to the hill camp, the psywar squad set up an ambush along the trail used by the Huks [...] When a Huk patrol came along the trail, the ambushers silently snatched the last man of the patrol, their move unseen in the dark night. They punctured his neck with two holes, vampire-fashion, held the body up by the heels, drained it of blood, and put the corpse back on the trail. When the Huks returned to look for the missing man and found their bloodless comrade, every member of the patrol believed that the Asuang had got him and that one of them would be next if they remained on that hill. When daylight came, the whole Huk squadron moved out of the vicinity. Similarly, the US military imitated ghosts when fighting the Vietcong. Operation Wandering Soul was an attempt to rattle Vietcong by playing tapes of "ghost" soldiers who had fallen in battle. This propaganda campaign relied on the Vietnamese belief that if a body isn't interred near its corporeal home, the soul will wander the earth. US forces blasted eerie recordings of disembodied souls on the ground and air. A February 1970 account in The Tropic Lightning News described the recording as an effective means to shake up Vietcong forces: If you were a Wolfhound of the First Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, and were at Fire Support Base Chamberlain on the night of February 10 you might have sworn the place was being haunted by poltergeists, ghosts that is. The moans, groans and weird sounds began at eight that night, a likely time for the cloudlike forms to reveal themselves. Of course, ghosts are nonexistent, or are they? In this case the ghosts and weird sounds were furnished by the Sixth PSYOP Team and the S-5 Section of the 1/27th Wolfhounds who were conducting a night mission at Chamberlain. With the help of loud speakers and a tape of 'The Wandering Soul,' a mythical tale of a Viet Cong gone to Buddha, the mission was a success. The Wandering Soul is a tape about the soul of a dead Viet Cong. It describes the wandering of this soul about the countryside. The dead VC tells his comrades to look at what has happened to his soul and that he will never be at rest, always wandering,' said Captain William Goodman of Philadelphia, the battalion S-5. 'Buddhists believe very strongly that if they aren't properly buried and properly mourned, their soul will wander through eternity,' added First Lieutenant Peter Boni of Boston, the officer in charge of the Sixth PSYOP Team. 'We play upon the psychological superstitions and fears of the enemy. The method is very effective," Boni said. Those actually playing the tape were less sanguine about its efficacy. In fact, helicopter crews reported receiving heavier fire when playing the Wandering Soul tape and would even use it goad Vietcong ground troops on. One swiftboat reserve lieutenant even recalls how the Wandering Soul tape got their boat pelted with rockets, so they opted to blast Tina Turner instead — their boat didn't take fire when blaring The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll in the middle of the night. For a fascinating history of the Wandering Soul initiative, check out Sergeant Major Herbert A. Friedman's article on Psy Warrior. ********** NYC ET Commission? aolnews - New York City is home to practically every ethnic group under the sun, and if one UFO researcher gets his way, it will soon be host to every extraterrestrial species in the universe. Michael Luckman, author of "Alien Rock," has shifted his time from writing books to writing ballot initiatives -- specifically one that, if passed, would create an ET Affairs Commission. The panel would consist of seven volunteers who would meet twice a year to gather the most compelling evidence regarding the existence of extraterrestrials and UFOs and post it on the city's website. The initiative is almost identical to one being considered by Denver voters, but while that city's altitude makes it closer to outer space than New York, Luckman believes there's no contest as to which burg ETs should visit first. "New York is the media capital of the world," Luckman told AOL News. "UFOs don't visit that often, but there have been some extraordinary sightings. Muhammad Ali was training for a fight with George Foreman and running in Central Park when he saw a UFO. It was a mother ship and out of that came a smaller ship. "John Lennon saw one as well. He was with May Pang, his girlfriend at the time, and yelled at it, 'Stop! Take me with you!' " Getting signatures for any ballot initiative isn't easy, but Luckman believes New York's large size will actually make it easier to collect enough to make an impact. "Because New York is larger than Denver, I think it's an easier task to get signatures," he said. "The news media is extremely interested in this. Nothing says it better than the reaction to the recent UFO sightings in the Big Apple. Some may have been balloons set off by schoolkids, but there is something going on." Assuming the initiative passes and a commission is formed, Luckman says one of the first duties will be considering sites where alien spacecraft might land. Although the New York Jets and the New York Giants both play in New Jersey, he doesn't think having ET go there is a good idea. "It has to be in New York. If they landed in New Jersey, it would be like 'War of the Worlds,' " he said with a laugh. "I think Central Park is the most natural spot and I'd like to see space set aside as a landing site." Luckman says another duty of the proposed commission would be appointing a liaison to act as go-between for the city and visitors from other worlds. To that end, Luckman is concurrently working on another project called the Committee of 1,000 Humans to Welcome Extraterrestrials to Earth ("I know. It's long," he said). The world leaders Luckman would like to serve on that committee include Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, but he also has other folks in mind. "Muhammad Ali has had 22 sightings and is the most recognized person on the planet," he said. "Also, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Steven Spielberg, Larry King and [British pop star] Robbie Williams." If Michael Jackson were still alive, he would presumably be on Luckman's short list. The author says the King of Pop once asked him to serve as a consultant on a project to build a high-tech alien landing pad in the Nevada desert. Although the Denver initiative would require its commission to be funded by private sources, Luckman hasn't made a decision on how the New York panel would be funded. But he is still confident his initiative will pass muster in the Big Apple. However, political experts familiar with the ways things are done in New York City are skeptical about the chances of the initiative ever getting to the voters. Republican consultant Gerry O'Brien says the truth is, Gotham is "as unfriendly to its own constituents as they are to ETs." "Unlike Western states, where voters can get initiatives on the ballot if they collect enough signatures, the only way that initiative could make on the New York ballot is if the mayor or a commission who answers to him places it there," O'Brien said. Luckman isn't worried, possibly because Mayor Michael Bloomberg is already on his list of 1,000 people who should meet the ETs first when they land. "The campaign will initially seek the support of the mayor," he said. "I have people inside City Hall who have expressed serious interest in the Extraterrestrial Ballot Initiative, but, right now, I can't comment more specifically. I wouldn't attempt this if I didn't think it was feasible. "However, this is an opportunity for Mayor Bloomberg to promote extraterrestrial tourism in the Big Apple." ********** Russia Has 800,000 Non-Traditional Healers UPI - Russia has more occult healers, sorcerers and wizards than it does professional doctors, an official said. World Health Organization data indicate there are some 800,000 alternative healers in Russia, RIA Novosti reported Monday. Andrei Yurevich, a spokesman for the Russian Academy of Sciences, said Russia has about 640,000 professional doctors. The independent polling agency Levada said an August poll discovered about 20 percent of Russians use the services of non-traditional healers. Russia saw an explosion in the belief of the paranormal and occult in the 1980s, with psychic healers Anatoly Kashpirovsky and Allan Chumak drawing audiences of millions, the report said. ********** Police Given Advice on Witches and Pagans telegraph - It is Hallowe'en and the witching hour is drawing nearer, but don't be alarmed – police officers are on the case, having been issued with official guidance on how to deal with witches. The advice is contained in a 300-page "diversity handbook" which gives officers a range of "dos and don'ts" when approaching followers of a range of religions and other beliefs, from atheism to Zoroastrianism. Instructions include avoid touching a witch's "Book of Shadows", which contains their spells, or handling their ceremonial dagger. The online handbook also advises officers not to jump to conclusions if they encounter a situation where a blindfolded, naked person is tied by their hands – they could merely have stumbled upon a pagan ritual, where such activities are normal practice. "Witches have a Book of Shadows, which contains a handwritten record or diary of their personal progress as a witch," says the guide. "Often the books have ornate covers, some have the title Book of Shadows on the cover, some don't. "Any book can be used, but this book is regarded as private and special and should not be touched by anyone but the author. If it is possible to avoid touching this book then it is best to do so." The guide, drawn up by the Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, warns against interrupting a pagan ceremony. It adds: "Some ceremonies include a blindfolded, naked participant, whose hands may be bound. This is in accordance with ritual and has the full consent of the participant." Officers are also given advice on the ceremonial dagger, known as an athame, carried by witches and some other categories of pagan. "When entering a witch's home do not touch an athame without the owner's permission," it says. "During the Beltane Bash that celebrates the festival of Beltane (around the end of April), it has become a custom for some to wear athames in various sizes, sometimes sword size, on a belt, as a visible symbol of their pagan faith and to wear them in the streets. "These are not intended to be used as an offensive weapon but might be misinterpreted as such." Also provided is a glossary of pagan terms including the traditional greeting of "Merry Meet" and an explanation of a "wickening", or child naming ceremony. It explains the dates and significance of pagan festivals such as Imbolc, Lughnasadh and Samhain – also known as Halloween. The handbook also states: "Pagans have no religious dietary laws. However, many, though not all, witches are vegetarians." In nine pages relating to atheists, the handbook gives advice on places of worship, Holy texts and prayer, stating: "There are no designated places of worship. "There are no prescribed texts. Atheists have no prayers." It adds: "Atheists have no dietary requirements other than those of the individual." It also gives officers a handy guide to key atheist philosophers, and famous agnostic thinkers such as Bertrand Russell, Robert G. Ingersoll and Thomas Henry Huxley. It warns: "Be aware that Atheists might feel offended by an assumption of faith," it warns. As well as religions and beliefs, the book gives officers advice on dealing with teenagers, including a guide on "teen speak", to allow officers to communicate with younger members of the population. The guide explains that "Talk to the hand 'cos the face is in Spain" means "I am not listening", while "Da bomb" means "great" or "excellent". ********** Witch's Hat Halts London Underground on Halloween telegraph - Tube passengers had to walk through tunnels in the early hours of Sunday morning after the hat, which contained metal, was thrown on to the line at Chalk Farm, in North London. A passenger is thought to have thrown the hat which cut out the power, halting four trains. Hundreds of passengers were stuck on the trains for more than an hour before they were allowed to walk along tunnels to the nearest stations, London Underground said. The four trains, three heading north between Camden and Belsize Park, and one northbound between Camden and Kentish Town, were stopped at 0040 BST. "We apologise to passengers who were inconvenienced as a result of this incident, and would urge customers to exercise care and not to discard items on the railway," a spokesman for the company said. "The metal part of a hat thrown on to the rails at Chalk Farm caused power interruption," London Underground said. London Underground estimated that there were up to 90 passengers on each train trapped for between an hour and an hour-and-a-half.  |
| Photo: Unknown Creature - Upstate New York Posted: 01 Nov 2010 02:37 PM PDT  We are in upstate NY. I purchased the camera in 2006 for my husband for X-mas. We put it on the trees to catch wildlife in our woods. We are surrounded by farmland. We put the camera back there and got many pics that were very normal. This was the only strange one we got on it. There were a few at nighttime with colored orbs, (most probably dust or bugs). We did not download this pic from the camera until November. It is a Moultrie game camera, if that helps. It is not my husband or myself. It is interesting at the very least and I am trying to find out WHAT it is. Have you ever seen anything like it?? The foot and sloping forehead is what creeps me out...I hope you can help me figure it out. Thank you.    Send us an email   New Items - Strickler's Celebrity Autographs  ANOMALIST BOOKS Works on maverick science, unexplained mysteries, unorthodox theories, strange talents, and unexpected discoveries. Please check out their excellent and diverse catalog  The 'C' Influence Actualizing Esoteric Discussion   "The latest news from beyond the mainstream" Join Ben & Aaron for their weekly podcast! Check out Mysterious Universe Plus+ all access format!  Spirit Rescue International Providing no cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind SPIRIT RESCUE INTERNATIONAL - HAUNTED HELP Spiritual, paranormal and supernatural guidance and support using remote viewing and other complementary therapies - all are welcome Phantoms & Monsters Wiki A NETWORK OF INVESTIGATORS, ENTHUSIASTS AND THOSE SEEKING THE TRUTH THROUGH PARANORMAL EDUCATION AND DISCUSSION  Astral Perceptions - Discussion of interterrestrial and multidimensional phenomena including conversations on the proficiency of remote viewing SUPPLY BASE Buy alternative supplies and gifts CLICK HERE!   |
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