September 2014 ~ World Wide UFO Sighting and Reports

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

New York Family Shocked By Low Altitude, Very Close UFO

Posted on 6:34 AM by jumba

New York Family Shocked By Low Altitude, Very Close UFO

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:02 AM PDT

UFO behind tree - artist impression

A family from Williamson New York was caught off guard by the blinding lights of a nearby UFO. The family was having a campfire when the UFO first appeared. The light from the object was exceptionally bright.

"I was having a camp fire with my family in Williamson, NY. My brother in law first noticed an extremely bright white light through the trees 100 yards away east of us. The light was blinding and we could not make out the shape."

At first they thought the object might have been a helicopter but the absence of any sound and the way the craft moved ruled out that possibility.

"When we first noticed it we thought maybe it was a helicopter search light but there was no sound and the object moved in ways I have never seen."

The object was extremely close and moved out to a clearing.

"The object started from behind the trees then moved out into a clearing before accelerating at great speed up in the air and out of view.It started northeast in the tree line slowly moved south as it came out of the trees then shot up and away in the east."

The family was in shock at the sudden events and watched until the UFO was no longer visible.

"We were dumb founded and could not believe what we saw. We lost sight of the object after it climbed so much altitude it was no longer visible."

Williamson New York is very close to Niagara Falls and Buffalo and has a population of almost 7000.

Source

I was having a camp fire with my family in Williamson, NY. My brother in law first noticed an extremely bright white light through the trees 100 yds away east of us. The light was blinding and we could not make out the shape. When we first noticed it we thought maybe it was a helicopter search light but there was no sound and the object moved in ways I have never seen. The object started from behind the trees then moved out into a clearing before accelerating at great speed up in the air and out of view.It started northeast in the tree line slowly moved south as it came out of the trees then shot up and away in the east. We were dumb founded and could not believe what we saw. We lost sight of the object after it climbed so much altitude it was no longer visible.

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New Top Ten UFO Sighting List

Posted on 6:28 AM by jumba

New Top Ten UFO Sighting List

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 05:41 AM PDT

This is an interesting top 10 Video. It is a bit different than the normal top list. There are more recent sightings and some of the video clips are actually quite good.

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Monday, September 29, 2014

Circular UFO Filmed Over Shanghai China Financial District

Posted on 8:08 AM by jumba

Circular UFO Filmed Over Shanghai China Financial District

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT

UFO Disc Over Shanghai Financial Center

Multiple people witnessed a stunning UFO over the financial district of Shanghai, China. This UFO appears to be similar to the one filmed in Houston one week ago.

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New Film to Center Around UFO Sightings In Scarborough, UK

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New Film to Center Around UFO Sightings In Scarborough, UK

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Scarborough Named UFO Capital Boosting 'Extraterrestrial Tourism'

Mysterious craft photographed over Scarborough - 2014

Now the resort is aiming to cash in on close encounters of a different kind after being named the UFO capital of Britain.

Tourism chiefs hope ET could do for the resort what the Loch Ness monster has done for the Scottish holiday trade.

A film company is making a documentary about the area following a spate of strange sightings over the North Sea.

UFO watchers report seeing a flying saucer landing on a hill near Scarborough’s former football ground before taking off again and disappearing into nearby woods.

There are also claims that “a ball of light” was involved in an aerial dogfight with “black flying triangles”.

A red light was also observed hovering over the sea before splitting into smaller fiery shapes. A Flying Saucers Have Landed conference is now a regular event in the tourist calendar and traders are planning a giant fireworks display on the beach.

John Senior, chairman of South Bay Traders, said: “We are all for the idea of extraterrestrial tourism.

“We have been assured our fireworks displays called Starfire will be visible from space.

“We hope there will be someone up there watching. We would welcome all life forms here in Scarborough and are very happy to accommodate UFO spotters and cater for their needs. There is no question there is other life out there.”

There is already talk of people doing UFO tours and documentary makers are queueing up to get here

Russ Kellett

Jody Doherty-Cove, boss of LUX Films, based in Brighton and London, is making a TV documentary centred on Scarborough.

He said: “We are going to attempt to answer the question whether we are alone in this universe.

“All these alien reports seem to be coming from up near Scarborough so we thought it was the best place to look.”

UFO hunter Russ Kellett said: “If someone was running the UFO tourism industry right, the sky would be the limit. There is already talk of people doing UFO tours and documentary makers are queueing up to get here after seeing the video evidence we have collected.

“Scarborough is the UFO capital of Britain. We would not want to get rid of the donkeys but we need to start looking outside the box.”

Scarborough vicar turned best-selling author Graham Taylor said: “Tourism bosses need to wake up and realise that Scarborough is one of the best UFO areas in the country.

"My uncle was a fisherman and swears they used to see things flying about over the sea.”

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Ten UFO Incidents Confirmed By Radar - Photos, Video

Posted on 8:08 AM by jumba

Ten UFO Incidents Confirmed By Radar - Photos, Video

Posted: 28 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT

10 Mysterious UFO Incidents Confirmed By Radar

Whether you are a believer or not, it is a fact that Unidentified Objects or Anomalous Aerial Phenomena, are seen and have been seen since ancient times in the earth’s atmosphere. When it comes to sightings of UFO’s, pilots and other aviation professionals are partial to using less stigma-inducing words like “balloon, unknown traffic, unidentified object, traffic, or unknown aircraft” when they are interviewed after having seen something odd during a flight. The most mysterious and thought provoking UFO sightings, are those not only witnessed by several people, but also confirmed by radar. These accounts can never fully be explained and they continue to be real for all the witnesses involved.

Washington, DC Sightings - 1952

From 12 to 29 July 1952, a series of sightings took place in Washington. One of the most publicized events took place on the 19th. On that evening, an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport detected seven unidentified objects on his radar screen. His superior immediately verified that the instrumentation wasn’t faulty. Moments later a controller at another facility also confirmed the objects, but he also saw “a bright orange light”, while yet another controller confirmed an orange disc hovering above the airport. At that point the radarscope lit up with even more objects and the controllers phoned Andrews Air Force Base. Tracked by the air force as well as the other radar centers fighter jets was scrambled. Some fighters reported that they saw “white glows” or lights (one even engaged them) while others reported nothing unusual. The Air Force’s “false radar readings caused by a temperature inversion” excuse failed to impress as the objects were also seen by hundreds of eyewitnesses and as such, speculation continues to this day.

Campeche Sighting - Mexico

In March 2004, the crew of a military surveillance plane busy with a routine anti-drug trafficking surveillance flight caught sight of three unidentified objects on their radar. As they couldn’t see anything with the naked eye in the area where the objects were supposed to be, they turned on their infra-red camera to track them. For the next 30 minutes, they recorded 11 unidentified objects moving through the sky at a very high pace. One of the objects also seemed to divide or separate into two different objects. After chasing them, there were a few tense moments when the radar confirmed the objects had surrounded them. In a completely uncharacteristic move, the Mexican government released all the details of the event and they provided the crew, footage and the Head of the Mexican Air Force for examination and questioning by the world’s media.

Sergeant Roland Hughes, Saucer Sam -UK

In 1952, Flight Sergeant Roland Hughes was returning to his base from a training mission in Germany when a “gleaming silver, metallic disc” started following him. The Sergeant later described the disc to be shiny, highly reflective and about the size of a Lancaster bomber. The disc descended towards him and even traveled alongside him before it sped off at an incredible speed. The object was caught by the RAF radars; the controllers confirmed that the object traveled at speeds impossible for any of the aircraft of the time. Six days later, Hughes was sent to West Germany to give his official account of what happened to senior RAF officers and the aviation Minister. The minister was so convinced, that he briefed civil servants on the matter. After the sighting, Hughes was nicknamed “Saucer Sam” and his colleagues decorated his jet with a painted flying saucer. According to his family, Hughes never spoke about the incident unless he was asked to do so.

The Washington, D.C. Jet Chase - 2002

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDZ3hHJHtzE

In an incident that is awash with conspiracy theories; NORAD and the Air National Guard picked up an unknown object that entered Washington’s restricted flying zone on 26 July 2002. As the object’s track caused concern, F-16’s were scrambled to intercept the object but the pilots claimed that they saw nothing when they arrived on the scene—the object also disappeared from radar. At the same time in Maryland several witnesses saw a fast-moving bright blue light in the sky; the witnesses also said they saw jets pursuing it at high speed. According to NORAD, that was all that transpired and they view the matter as closed. But, according to the witnesses more than 2 jets were in the air which indicated that the scramble was unique; one dipped its wings on approach as if to communicate with the unknown object and they also claim that the jets trailed the unknown object but the object flew too fast for the jets to keep up. The event featured on FOX news as well as the Washington Post.

America West Flight 564 Sighting

On the evening of May 25, 1995 America West Flight 564 was flying at an altitude of about 39,000 ft close to Bovina, Texas. While observing lightning outside the plane, the attendant noticed a peculiar set of flickering lights a little bit below the 757. The First Officer was alerted to the phenomena, he immediately saw the lights which he described as eight bright blue strobes. As the rest of the flight crew watched the flashing lights, they could discern the object as being cigar-shaped. The pilots estimated it to be between 300 and 400 ft long. The object could not be seen on the FAA’s radar. The following day the controllers checked with NORAD and discovered that they tracked an unknown object the previous evening that appeared to be stationary, but would accelerate and stop time and time again at high speeds. These quick sprints were estimated between 1,000 and 1,400 mph. The object was also seen by a US Air Force pilot manning an EF 111A. To date, the incident remains unsolved.

The Kaikoura Lights - New Zealand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh45k2cREew

A series of sightings occurred in 1978 above the Kaikoura Mountain Ranges of New Zealand. On the 21st of December, a flight crew observed strange lights around their aircraft which appeared to be tracking them, the objects were picked up by air traffic control in Wellington and Christchurch as well as the aircraft’s on-board radar. On the 30th, a television crew from Australia filmed the mysterious objects on their way to Christchurch; once again the objects were tracked by radar in both Christchurch and Wellington. They also encountered a massive lighted orb which tracked them for almost 15 minutes. The orb was filmed, watched and tracked by radar. After the sightings, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, police and Carter Observatory joined forces in the investigation of the matter—its results were lodged in Wellington’s national Archives. The Ministry of Defense claimed the lights were unburned meteors, squid boat lights or the planet Venus.

Mysteriously, and creepily, two months earlier Frederick Valentich was flying a light aircraft off the coast of Australia when he reported seeing lights of a similar nature and ultimately—via radio—said: “It is hovering and it’s not an aircraft . . . ” After seventeen seconds of a metallic scraping sound the radio went dead. Valentich and his aircraft vanished into thin air. A time lapse camera was running 20 minutes earlier on a nearby beach to photograph the sunset. When the film was developed it captured a large object rapidly exiting the sea and moving into the sky at a rapid pace.

Japan Air Lines Flight 1628

On the 17th of November 1986 the entire crew of a Japanese cargo plane noticed two unidentified objects to their left in the air above Alaska. The two objects followed the cargo plane so closely that the crew at one stage even felt the warmth of the objects’ light on their faces. The first two objects dropped away when a third, larger unidentified object arrived; at which point in time the pilots requested a change of course. The FAA noticed the objects on their radar and gave the crew a directive to evade the unidentified crafts, but even after making many distinct turns and dropping over 4,000 feet the object continued to trail the cargo plane for 400 miles. On the 19th of November the crew was interviewed by the FAA who concluded that the crew was rational, normal and professional. During the same year, the pilot was grounded and moved to a desk job after he confirmed the crew saw UFO’s during a press interview. The unidentified object was also seen by a US Air Force jet on January 30th, 1987.

Stephenville, Texas Lights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbhTqGr2Vk

On January 8, 2008, dozens of residents in Stephenville saw a massive object in the sky above their town. Some said it was a big as a football field, while others said it was nearly a mile long, very similar to the mass sighting in Phoenix during 1997. Several witnesses claimed that the object moved extremely fast. Some of the witnesses (of which one is a private pilot) believed that military aircraft chased the object and that it turned around and traveled back to the direction where it originally appeared from as they spotted F-16’s in pursuit. The story was covered by CNN’s Larry King in the days after the event. After almost two weeks, after denying any aircraft were operational in the area, The US Air Force did an 180? and now claimed they were conducting training flights in the area that involved 10 fighter jets. That might have been the end of the rumors had it not been for the very detailed radar report obtained from the FAA which clearly showed a very large object in the sky tailed by the jets at the exact time witnesses claimed they were seeing the unidentified object.

Belgian UFO Wave

On the evening of the 30th and 31st of March 1990, the Control Reporting Center (CRC) at Glons radar-confirmed triangular objects in the sky aboveBelgium after having received various reports of unusual lights as bright as stars that changed color. After receiving a second radar confirmation, two F-16 jets were scrambled to intercept. For more than an hour the F-16’s tried to intercept; on three occasions they even obtained radar lock but every time the objects would change their position or accelerate so fast that the locks were broken. During the first radar-lock, the object accelerated from 150 m p/h to more than 1 100 m p/h while changing altitude from 9,000 ft to 5,000 ft and back up to 11,000 ft in less than 2 seconds. These changes in altitude at the speeds reported would have been fatal to any human pilot. During the whole time, more than 13,000 people witnessed the unfolding drama from the ground. After a little more than an hour, the objects disappeared from the various radar screens and the F-16’s returned to base.

Lakenheath-Bentwaters Incident, UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44OugX9fmgQ

In August 1956, radar at Bentwaters and Lakenheath Air Force Base picked up targets that displayed erratic behavior. Individual and groupings of objects moved across the skies above. Some performed amazing aerobatic feats – displaying capabilities beyond that of any known aircraft. The radar images were corroborated by sightings from the ground and the air, even by a pilot in a C-47 who saw an object passing directly underneath his plane. As Lakenheath informed the RAF Station at Wimbledon fighters were sent up. As amazed personnel watched their radar screens, one pilot tried to engage an object and somehow got outmaneuvered—with the object ending up behind it. The pilot attempted to shake the unidentified object by every means possible but it stayed on his tail. The event is unique as it was witnessed by military personnel and corroborated by several military radar stations. The conclusion of the Condon Committee (who usually concluded that UFO’s were mere natural phenomena) stating that “the probability that at least one genuine UFO was involved appears to be fairly high” have added fuel to the fire through the decades, making it one of the most compelling incidents in our history.

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

The 'Sea Fury' Incident

Posted on 1:05 PM by jumba

The 'Sea Fury' Incident

Date: August 31, 1954

Location: Nowra, Australia

Source: Bill Chalker

One of the most controversial radar visual reports of the fifties occurred on August 31st, 1954. The story leaked out in December, 1954, and made front page headlines. The official navy file on the event remained classified until the Directorate of Naval Intelligence released a copy upon my request in 1982. During his 1973 visit to Australia, Dr. Hynek was able to interview the pilot involved in this famous incident, which became known as the "Sea Fury" encounter.

Dr. Hynek made his notes on this interview available to me during my 1984 visit to the Chicago headquarters of his organisation, the Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS). I, in turn, provided Dr. Hynek with a copy of the official file on the incident.

Lieutenant J.A. O'Farrell was returning to Royal Australian Navy Air Station Nowra after a night cross country in a Sea Fury aircraft. After contacting Nowra at about 1910 hours, O'Farrell saw a very bright light closing fast at one o'clock. It crossed in front of his aircraft taking up position on his port beam, where it appeared to orbit. A second and similar light was observed at nine o'clock. It passed about a mile in from of the Sea Fury and then turned in the position where the first light was observed.

According to O'Farrell, the apparent crossing speeds of the lights were the fastest he had ever encountered. He had been flying at 220 knots. O'Farrell contacted Nowra who in turn confirmed that they had two radar "paints" in company with him. The radar operator, Petty Officer Keith Jessop, confirmed the presence of 2 objects near the Sea Fury on the G.C.I. remote display. The two lights reformed at nine o'clock and then disappeared on a north easterly heading. O'Farrell could only make out "a vague shape with the white light situated centrally on top."

The Directorate of Naval Intelligence at the time wrote that O'Farrell was "an entirely credible witness" and that he "was visibly 'shaken' by his experience, but remains adamant that he saw these objects"

In a recent interview, "Shamus" O'Farrell described the incident:

"I said, "Nowra, this is 921. Do you have me on radar." "And a few seconds later they came back and said, "Affirmative 921. We have you coming in from the west. We have another two contacts as well. Which one are you." "I said, "I think I'm the central one." And so they said, "Do a 180...for identification." So I did a quick 180 and then continued on around and made it a 360 back to where I was going.

"They said, "Yes, we've got you. You're the centre aircraft." I said that's correct. They then said to me, "Who are the other two aircraft," and I said, "I don't know. I was hoping you would tell me, because I didn't think there was anyone up here. "They said, "Well there shouldn't be, and they certainly shouldn't be that close to you."

"So the conversation went on like this and I was very pleased to be talking to somebody because it gave me a lot of reassurance. With that these two aircraft came in quite close to me and I could really see the dark mass and that they were quite big, but I couldn't make out any other lights or any other form of an aircraft. With that they took off and headed off to the north east at great speed.

"I was about to press the button and tell them at Nowra that the two aircraft were departing when Nowra called me up and said, "The other two aircraft appear to be departing at high speed to the north east. Is that correct?" and I said, "Yes!". And they said, "Roger, we'll see if we can track them." They tracked them for a while and then lost them. "I came in and landed at 7.30 (1930) and when I got there there were quite a few people waiting for me. I thought it was a bit strange and so they came over, and they said, "You sure you had aircraft out there!", and I said yes.

The Surgeon Commander came over and spoke to me. He said did I feel sick, or was I upset. I said no. He ran his hand over my head to see whether I had any bumps. He had a look at me and decided I was okay. So then he said, "Perhaps you'd like to come to the sick bay after you've changed and we'll do an examination." So after I was finished I went up to sick bay and he gave me a more thorough medical, and said, no, I appeared to be alright. I found out later, that at the same time, they checked to make sure I hadn't been drinking before I took off and all that sort of thing."

During this interview, Dr. Hynek's involvement came up:

"This man (Hynek) - a professor - had made a study of thousands of sightings all around the world and he had decided my sighting was one of those that he had not been able to explain away by other means. Any way I had a talk with him. He was a very interesting chap and he made the comment that there were about 13 or 15, I don't remember, sightings that he was aware of over the years that were like mine and could not be explained away. The interesting thing he said was that all of these sightings had been made by professional people in aviation.

By that he meant they were military pilots, military air crew, civil aviation operators, air traffic controllers, and the like, or airline pilots. These were the ones he was now (1973) going around meeting the people themselves and investigating. All the others he had written off and had been able to explain down to some other phenomena. It came to the point where he said, "Your sighting cannot be explained away." And he left it at that. To this day I wouldn't know where it came from or where it went."

I have had the opportunity to talk extensively with Shamus O'Farrell. I was particularly interested in how the interview with Dr. Hynek in 1973 came about:

"It was done through Sir Arthur Tange, who was secretary of the Department of Defence at the time. Hynek contacted him direct.... Sir Arthur Tange contacted me and said Hynek was coming out. He had written to him, through the US Embassy, to set up a meeting.... And the next thing I knew I had a telephone call one day from Sir Arthur Tange saying that Hynek was coming and he would like me to met him. I said, well, I haven't got all the facts, there all a bit hazy. So he sent me the two Defence Department files over to read, to refresh it all."

Bill Chalker: "That seems to indicate a high level of interest in Hynek's visit at the time?"

"Yes, well, I don't think so. All that happened was that it was more of a courtesy because he was a very important guy, Hynek, and they wanted to show him the courtesies etc. As far as Defence was concern it was dead and forgotten but they had not got rid of the files. They kept them. Normally when files like that are written off they are either decided they'll put them in Archives or dispose of them and destroy them. But they had done neither. They had remained in the JIO. They'd kept them. I don't know what they had in mind about it, I never questioned it. I just used them as a means to refresh my memory.

"Later the guy who became the chief Defence scientist, John Farrands, was very interested in it too, and he had done a lot of early investigations in most of the reports when he was chief defence scientist and in the period just before he became chief defence scientist. He had a talk with me. I was a friend of his. I use to meet with him at lunch. He went over it in great detail. He knew it all. He agreed it was something that couldn't be refuted. No matter how hard they tried, and they tried very hard to knock it all back. They checked everything from medical, down to when was the last time I had had a drink..."

Bill Chalker: "That must have been a bit of a concern to you?"

"Well, I wanted to hush it all up. That sort of investigation made me look a bit of a fool. I was worried it wasn't going to do my career any good. "(Apart from the radar witness) it locked in a sighting over the NDB (non directional beacon) at Narulan, at the same time. There happened to be a guy working on the NDB. It was down at the time. He had gone to repair it. He happened to look up at the time because he saw these lights fly overhead. Also the air traffice control officer in the tower at Mascot saw them approaching him. "It was all investigated by the then RAAF guy who did it and later it was also investigated by the Joint Intelligence Bureau."

In 1993 I assisted The Extraordinary television programme with a recreation of the Sea Fury incident. Shamus O'Farrell, Keith Jessop and I were interviewed on the show. The case stands as one of the best unexplained radar visual UFO cases on record in Australia.