Ufo Picks Up Laconia Nh Car And Drops 180 Feet Away

by Roger Marsh

"PHOTO: Windshield cracked and air bag deployed. MUFON image."

Two New Hampshire teenagers sitting in a parked car were approached by a black-colored UFO in Laconia on March 20, 2010, lifted into the air and then dropped back onto pavement 180 feet away, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

MUFON New England State Director Steve Firmani confirmed his investigation of the case today by telephone and said witness interviews had been completed.

The 18-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy both offer testimony about their encounter.

The two used the girl's mother's car and went to a Laconia destination that has not been released.

"We were just sitting there and I looked up at the moon," the female witness stated. "I saw this weird black-shaped object. And then, I said to my boyfriend, 'What was that?'"

Both accounts describe the same events. They saw an object coming toward them from the sky and began to panic. When they attempted to drive away, the car they were operating was lifted up off the ground. Both describe an odd smell during the incident.

When the car hit the pavement 180 feet away, the windshield cracked and the air bags deployed.

"Photo: Asphalt impact area. MUFON image."

Firmani said there was no damage to the body of the car, but that there was about 5,000 damage to the underside of the car.

The male witness descibed the UFO.

"I don't know how to explain this but it turns into a ball when it wants to slow down and move around quickly and when it wants to go fast, straight, it turns into a flat plate with maze box-shaped lined lights. These were on all the time."

He describes attempting to drive away.

"The front end got picked up and the car could not move. We steered left and right but the car just kept on going up into the air."

When the car hit the ground, they drove quickly away to the girl's home where her mother called the police.

Firmani said there were three-inch divets in the curbing at the impact point where the car hit the ground. He said further study would be made to the under carriage body parts, which MUFON has retained from the body shop.

Laconia is a city in Belknap County, New Hampshire, population 16,411,

This case was originally reported to Peter Davenport at the National UFO Reporting Center. Davenport referred the case to Firmani. The following is the witness testimony from this case.

NH, MARCH 20, 2010 - 2 WITNESS ACCOUNTS (CREDIT: PETER DAVENPORT - NUFORC). MUFON CASE # 22880.

"My name is E and I'm eighteen years old. I live in Laconia. Last Saturday night, my boyfriend D came up to see me and we went out. When we got to (edited), in Laconia, we parked in the back in the separate parking lot. We turned off the car and it was totally silent.

"Photo: Asphalt impact area and tire marks in the grass. MUFON image."

We were just sitting there and I looked up at the moon. I saw this weird black-shaped object. And then, I said to my boyfriend, "What was that?"

He looked up at it and he said, "If it gets any closer, we need to leave."

I kept staring at the moon to see if it was just a plane or something. It moved back across the moon. It was huge and it looked like it was zig-zagging or changing shape. I couldn't tell.

He said, "I think it's coming closer." It flew so fast over the trees getting closer to where we were. It felt like it was zeroing in on us. It blocked the moon. And then, we started panicking and driving away.

I thought were were going to hit the Bingo building. We turned left but it felt like we went off of a jump - you know that feeling? like we were on a rollercoaster? And we were in the air. I was trying to pay attention to everything that was going on but it felt like I couldn't. When I looked up, everything was black. The smell was not nice but it was like something you could stand. It was an odor I've never smelled before. I heard absolutely nothing - it was silent. I felt immobilized like I had no control over what I was doing or over my body. I could see nothing. It was like opening your eyes in a pitch black room.

I felt really nervous and scared. I don't remember crying or screaming. I held on to the center console because I felt like I was lifted. I was holding on so tight that my thumbprint is imprinted on the center console.

And then, when I finally realized what was happening, I was so close to the windshield that my body was going forward with my arms behind me. Everything was black. I heard a loud noise like a horn. Once. And then, the car just dropped.

I hit my eye on the dashboard and the airbags came out. I couldn't believe what had just happened. I held my face and I looked over at my boyfriend. I saw that his left arm had blood. I said, "Are you OK?" I looked at the windshield and it was cracked, totally, but only on the passenger side.

I could see D but I couldn't see anything outside. The only thing that made the car drop was the sound of the loud horn. When the car dropped, there was a loud boom. After that, we just drove so fast out of there. The smell went away after we drove away. And I started crying. And I said, "What the h-l just happened?" My boyfriend said, "I don't know, I don't know." I didn't feel like they were following us.

When we got home, my Mom said that she could hear me from the outside while I was freaking out. I couldn't stop crying. My Mom said, "Calm down and tell me what happened." I said, "You're never going to believe me. Is it my car?" she asked.

And I said, "Let me explain," because I felt that if I didn't explain it fast enough, it was just going to go away from my mind.

At about 12:15 am, a cop arrived. I told him what had happened while I was sitting down at the dinner table. My boyfriend was sitting next to me - it was then that I noticed that there was no more blood on his arm or his clothing. The cop didn't believe me at first until he finished looking at the car. He told my Mom that there was no reason for the air bags to come out because nothing else on the car was damaged. He didn't check underneath the car but we found out later that the underside was totaled. The cop said that he was going to the place where we had been.

I just felt thankful that we'd gotten out of there. But I couldn't stop crying for more than 2 hours afterwards. My Mom said, "You should go take a shower and get the airbag dust off of you." But I didn't want to be alone at all. I felt lucky. And there were no scratches or anything anywhere on my body.

The first night, my dream was that I was a little girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, in an Elementary School classroom. I was looking at myself as a little girl. And then it was like the teacher called me up and I couldn't talk or say anything - but everybody else seemed to say something for me. Like everything I wanted to say, everybody else was saying it except for me. They were saying exactly what I wanted say. I have never had a dream like this before - where I am a little girl and see anything about the past. I did not feel right at all.

I am better now. I still worry about seeing this thing again and I pay attention to the sky at night. I really don't go out at night, anymore, because I'm scared. "

2ND WITNESS ACCOUNT:

My name is D. I am sixteen years old and I live in New Hampshire. Last Saturday night I went out with my girlfriend, who lives in Laconia, when we had the following experience:

I was with her around 11. We wanted to take her Mom's car because it was nicer and we wanted to go look at the stars. We went to (edited) at the back parking lot in Laconia. There were 8 cars already there when we arrived. Little by little, the cars started leaving one by one. We were the last car in the parking lot. Then the lights of the parking lot and the lights of the houses around us and the lights of the houses down the street started to go out one by one.

Then my girlfriend noticed something blocking the moon and asked, "What was that?" I knew it wasn't a cloud because it moved back against the wind and blocked the moon again. I don't know how to explain this but it turns into a ball when it wants to slow down and move around quickly and when it wants to go fast, straight, it turns into a flat plate with maze box-shaped lined lights. These were on all the time.

The colors were dim yellowish white and did not change. I cannot tell whether these were part of the bottom or not. It flipped a lot. I did not know which side was right or up on it. It was doing this over the trees across the street from the parking lot. It suddenly crossed the street towards our car. Its size was as big as 14 houses. It was really quiet. That's when we had to leave. But I did not have time to turn on the headlights.

We put the clutch in to start the car and jammed it into 1st and floored it. The front end got picked up and the car could not move. We steered left and right but the car just kept on going up into the air. My girlfriend was scared and she had boogers coming out of her nose while I was cursing. The car was going up and the back wheels were off of the ground. Then I looked out of my window and saw that the parking lot park lines started getting smaller. Both our windows were down this whole time. The front windshield started to crack and shake and the cracks spread from the passenger side to the driver's side. It popped outwards like it was pulled out.

Something yanked my wrist. Not aggressively. And the whole time in my head something was telling me "Don't panic," or "Don't be scared." And it wasn't in English in my head but I got the meaning. It wasn't a language - I don't know how to explain it. And on my girlfriend's side, it had her half-way out of the window. Her butt was off of her seat, maybe one-and-a-half or two feet? and the car was pointed almost completely straight up at the stars - yet I saw no stars.

Every time I tried looking at it, in front, a white film went over my eyes. It was kind of like staring at the sun with your eyelids closed. I could not hear her screaming but I know that she was screaming. My ears felt like they kept on popping from the altitude. I couldn't hear. The smell was like unbearable, like you want to close your nose. It was spicy, like pepper-sprayish, and clean at the same time - it was a smell that you could stand but you would close your nostrils because it still smells bad.

When I tried to fight and get my wrist back in the car, that's when the grip got stronger. It was pulling my left arm up out of the window - there was no pain but it was strong -.... I was trying to fight off the grip on my wrist. My tongue was numb. The horn beeped by accident and the grip got a little loose. It beeped again in the struggle and my arm flopped down in the car. My girlfriend also fell back in her seat and we realized we were still up in the air. !

It took 2 seconds for the car to drop. When we dropped, the air bags came out. We floored it as fast as we could through the town. It was almost a straightaway to go to my girlfriend's house with very few turns to take. During this time, both of us couldn't stop crying. We arrived at her house and her Mom asked, "What happened?" All this took place from 11pm to 12:30 am. It seemed like we were in the air for 10 minutes and it felt like it was forever. Her Mom called the police, and a policeman came.

The policeman did not believe us when we first told him what had happened until he looked at the vehicle. There were no scratches or dents or anything. He said that there was no reason for this to have happened to the car when there are no dents or scratches and no reason for the windshield to shatter and pop out the way it did. He had no explanation for why the windshield popped outwards. Also, when I went to open my cell phone in front of the policemen, I got shocked by it.

On Monday, I went to my doctor to get a whole physical to make sure I was OK. My wrist had a puncture wound while my forearm has a cut that is semi-circular and there's blood on it. I do remember that when I first looked at my arm after I got it back in the car, it was red with blood. But by the time we got to my girlfriend's house, there was no blood anywhere. On the center consul of the car, there is an imprint of her hand. I don't quite understand what the policeman said but it was something about the skin of her hand leaving an impression.

Now, I don't like to feel bumps in the car, or feel anything that trembles like a boombox. I don't want to be out in dark areas at night. I also don't like to walk out to my Mom's car, anymore, outside. "

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Lo Mejor De La Dcada Ao 2002 Crop Circle En Crabwood Winchester

El tema de los circulos del maiz es, sin ninguna duda, una de las vertientes mas activas y creibles del fen'omeno OVNI desde los 'ultimos 20 a~nos. Les hablamos de estos misteriosos dise~nos, que aparecen de la noche a la ma~nana, que abarcan extensiones de hasta 200 o 300 metros de di'ametro, ocupando miles y miles de metros cuadrados de extension principalmente en las regiones del suroeste de Inglaterra.

La evolucion de este fen'omeno ha variado desde las lineas y circulos b'asicos que se presentaban en los a~nos 80 y principios de los a~nos 90 hasta los actuales dise~nos que incluyen geometrias fractales, teoremas de la matem'atica euclidiana, ecuaciones de hiperbolas, elipses, y representaciones tridimensionales con un nivel de complejidad tan dificil incluso en su propia concepcion que ningun supuesto bromista ha podido nunca replicar este tipo de dise~nos.

Unas muestras del impresionante fenomeno de los crop circles reales.

Este fen'omeno trae consigo un enigma muy complicado de analizar porque resulta que los circulos son absolutamente perfectos. La teor'ia del fraude se diluye viendo que la desviaci'on de un milimetro en la realizacion de un supuesto agujero para clavar un compas gigante (unica manera de hacer una curva o circunferencia), produce una desviacion de mas de 3 metros en el resultado final de la misma.

Adem'as, la presencia de radiacion en las plantas, y la confirmacion de que los tallos no est'an rotos (yo mismo pude comprobarlo en Inglaterra en mis ultimas investigaciones), exponen una base cient'ifica de la que podr'iamos estar horas y horas hablando. El fen'omeno es real, y aparece todos los a~nos en diferentes vertientes y tem'aticas. Una de ellas hablar'ia de un contacto con una civilizacion extraterrestre de una forma directa...

JUGANDO A COMUNICARNOS.

"Mensaje enviado en binario desde el radiotelescopio de Arecibo en 1974 hacia el c'umulo de estrellas M13. Consta de 1679 bits (unos y ceros). Fue emitido a 126 mm de Longitud de onda, en la frecuencia del hidr'ogeno."

Viajemos ahora en el tiempo, hasta el a~no 1974. En aquel entonces la situaci'on de la NASA era dif'icil de asimilar por la opini'on p'ublica americana. Vietnam y la NASA se beneficiaban de grandes partidas de presupuestos mientras que el paro y la inflaci'on amenazaban el estilo de vida de la clase media americana. Carl Sagan y Frank Drake, dos de los mas conocidos astr'onomos de todos los tiempos, decidieron usar la nueva antena construida en Arecibo (Puerto Rico) para transmitir por radio un mensaje de comunicaci'on hacia otras civilizaciones. La respuesta era esperada para dentro de 50.000 a~nos, dada la gran distancia de ida y vuelta a recorrer por la se~nal emitida y la se~nal de respuesta.

El mensaje encriptado enviado el 16 de noviembre de 1974, estaba formado por 1679 cifras, constando solo de unos y ceros. Un n'umero de cifras (bits), con la caracter'istica de ser producto de dos n'umeros primos: 23 y 73.

En ella aparec'ia informacion sobre nuestro sistema decimal, los atomos de la vida (Hidrogeno, Carbono, Nitr'ogeno, F'osforo,y Ox'igeno), nuestro ADN, la poblacion del planeta tierra, nuestra fisionom'ia, nuestra altura, el planeta que habitamos, y la antena de emision.

?Por qu'e 1679? Si exist'ia una civilizaci'on capaz de recibir y comprender la se~nal, sin duda sabr'ia que 1679 es producto de 23 y 73. La clave del mensaje es que 23 y 73 son exactamente el n'umero de filas y columnas del cajet'in. Al organizarlo en 23 columnas y 73 filas quedaba un mensaje en forma de rect'angulo, con los datos m'as importantes que resumen qui'enes somos los seres humanos.

La distancia al c'umulo de estrellas M13 y la velocidad de transmisi'on a trav'es de la frecuencia del hidr'ogeno, hac'ia imposible que cualquier civilizaci'on recibiese la se~nal en un corto espacio de tiempo...a no ser que esa civilizaci'on pudiese recibir la transmisi'on desde mucho mas cerca de lo que Drake, Sagan, y toda la humanidad pudiesen imaginar...

LLAMANDO A LA TIERRA.

Y lo que nadie se pensaba que ocurrir'ia, ocurri'o.

El 13 de agosto del a~no 2000 apareci'o una extra~na figura cerca del radiotelescopio de Chilbolton, en Inglaterra. Su geometr'ia matem'atica era de tipo fractal, y no se parec'ia a ninguna otra figura aparecida en a~nos anteriores. Ten'ia la peculiaridad de haberse presentado en terrenos que pertenec'ian al ej'ercito brit'anico, con lo que quedaba rapidamente descartada la intrusi'on de bromistas o aficionados.

"En el a~no 2000, una figura compleja de c'irculos con geometr'ia fractal apareci'o a unos metros del radiotelescopio de Chilbolton,Inglaterra, una instalaci'on asociada al complejo de Arecibo cuando se emiti'o el mensaje de 1974."

No fue hasta el a~no siguiente, 2001, cuando todo encaj'o. Otra vez a principios de agosto, y otra vez en la zona del radiotelescopio de Chilbolton, aparecieron estas dos extra~nas figuras; ninguna ten'ia parang'on con lo anteriormente visto. Eran figurativas, ilustrativas. Por tanto eran espec'ificas. Nos encontramos ante la respuesta de la inteligencia que realiza los circulos del ma'iz a la se~nal emitida desde Arecibo en 1974."

" Vista a'erea general de la respuesta de la se~nal de Arecibo, en 1974, en forma de figuras del maiz. Su trazo perfecto, y el an'alisis de su contenido, que mostraban c'alculos en binario, son imposibles de reproducir a tal exactitud en un campo de maiz a oscuras. "

"La primera era un extra~no rostro, con rasgos aparentemente humanos, el cual da la impresi'on de ser pr'acticamente una fotograf'ia impresa en el campo. De entre las m'ultiples lecturas que se podr'ian hacer, destacamos cuatro opciones:"1. "Representa un ser humano con los ojos cegados, met'afora de nuestro proceder ante la presencia de los OVNIS."2. "Representa un ser que no procede del planeta tierra y que manda una fotograf'ia de s'i mismo para concienciarnos de su existencia."3. "Representa algo importante para la civilizaci'on que lo escribe: su firma, o en lo que ellos creen. Su representaci'on de poder, o su Dios."4. "Representa una cara humana retratada desde muy cerca, demostrando "que nos conocen perfectamente, tanto como para escribirnos nuestro rostro en un campo."

La segunda figura representaba exactamente el mismo cajet'in enviado por los cient'ificos Frank Drake y Carl Sagan en 1974, con las modificaciones que tendr'ia una respuesta del mismo tipo, indicando los datos de otra civilizaci'on:

B'asicamente las diferencias eran las siguientes: inclusi'on del silicio entre sus 'atomos de vida, una triple cadena de ADN, una fisionom'ia parecida a la de los grises tantas veces estudiados en la ufolog'ia, una poblaci'on de mas de 25000 millones de seres, una altura de 1.26 m, y una antena que ven'ia representado en el dibujo que ve'iamos en el a~no 2000.

En el a~no 2002, la secuencia de comunicacion se complet'o con la famosa figura de Winchester:

Para una mejor informacion, ser'ia necesario ver este video de jaime Maussan:

CONCLUSI'oNNo es posible que un hecho de la magnitud que estamos relatando, sea realizado por manos humanas sin romper ni una sola espiga de ma'iz y sin un solo error de c'alculo en figuras de mas de 300 metros de di'ametro, dominando comunicaciones en lenguaje binario sobre temas gen'eticos y matem'aticos. Si eso est'a claro, entonces, ?c'omo es posible que ante tal demostraci'on de poder y de deseo de comunicaci'on, la opini'on p'ublica no tenga en cuenta estos hechos, no pida explicaciones a los gobiernos y no pida m'as estudios cient'ificos del tema?

Quiz'a el hecho de que la casualidad en el tema de los OVNIS no exista, nos pueda guiar a una respuesta. Si existe un plan de concienciaci'on, en primer lugar habr'a un periodo de tiempo en el que una civilizaci'on contacte con otra de una manera progresiva, y suave, para no alterar su funcionamiento, ni sus sistemas de valores de una manera radical. Posiblemente la inteligencia que est'a detr'as del fen'omeno, sabe que los humanos podr'iamos entrar en un estado de miedo ante una revelaci'on de tal calibre, y su plan conlleva una llamada de atenci'on progresiva al fen'omeno. Esto se demuestra con que, cada d'ia son m'as los avistamientos aut'enticos de OVNIS alrededor del mundo, y cada a~no son m'as los pa'ises en los que va apareciendo el fen'omeno de los c'irculos del ma'iz.

El fen'omeno crece, pero nuestra conciencia a'un no alcanza al fen'omeno. S'olo el tiempo nos dir'a si seremos nosotros los que nos acerquemos al fen'omeno, o ser'a el fen'omeno el que se acerque cada vez mas a nosotros. Realmente el hombre envi'o el mensaje de Arecibo, pensando en que nunca llegar'ia una respuesta. Pero si la civilizaci'on que respondi'o estuviese mucho m'as cerca de lo que nos pens'abamos, es l'ogico pensar que contestasen a nuestro grito al universo.

!Estamos aqu'i! Grit'o nuestro radiotelescopio. Con la seguridad de los confiados. Pero ahora que la respuesta ha llegado, el hombre tiene miedo, no lo acepta, y lo esconde y lo manipula. La vieja historia de la humanidad pero, esta vez, con un vestido espacial.

Origin: aquarius-project.blogspot.com

Skyrocketing Inflation Russia Now Charging Nasa 70 Million Per Seat To Fly Us Astronauts

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA is paying 424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense.

NASA announced its latest contract with the Russian Space Agency on Tuesday. The 424 million represents flights to and from the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft, as well as training, for six astronauts in 2016 and the first half of 2017.

That's 70.6 million per seat -- well above the previous price tag of about 65 million.

Russia currently provides the only means of getting people to and from the space station, and its ticket prices have soared with each new contract.

Several U.S. companies are working on rockets and spacecraft to launch Americans from U.S. soil. But that's still a few years away. The ability to launch crews into orbit from America ended with NASA's shuttle program in 2011. Even before the shuttles retired, the U.S. had been relying on Russia to transport long-term residents to the space station.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said if Congress had approved the space agency's request for more funding for its commercial space effort, the latest contract would have been unnecessary. He is urging full funding of the Obama administration's 2014 budget request of 821 million in seed money for the commercial crew program.

"Because the funding for the President's plan has been significantly reduced, we now won't be able to support American launches until 2017," Bolden, a former shuttle commander, wrote in a NASA blog.

It could take longer if Congress does not fully support the 2014 request, he said.

"Further delays in our Commercial Crew Program and its impact on our human spaceflight program are unacceptable," Bolden said.

The California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, already is making cargo shipments to the space station. Its founder and chief designer, billionaire Elon Musk, previously has said his company could be ferrying astronauts aboard beefed-up versions of its Dragon capsules by 2015.

Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia completed a successful test launch 1 1/2 weeks ago. It plans to start sending supplies to the space station this summer, but has no interest in carrying passengers.

The six seats included in the latest Russian contract covers not only Americans, but European, Canadian or Japanese astronauts under barter agreements between NASA and those countries.

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China Discloses Ufo Reality Aliens Are Sending Ufo Probes Here

source: disclose.tvDramatic events have taken place in China over the last few days and that nations thousands of UFO researchers and enthusiasts are reeling in shock.One of the heads of Chinas famous Purple Mountain Astronomical Observatory, Professor Wang Sichao, has gone public admitting the UFOs are real and aliens are visiting Earth and that the observatory has observed their craft many times. The admittance of UFO reality was made yesterday within a official speech entitled tellingly China's UFO truth. This news has been extensively reported in China.The key points that Wang Sichao have disclosed are that;- Aliens are visiting Earth on R ">- These UFOs are probes manned by robots.- These craft travel at eighty percent the speed of light.- These craft have been seen by the observatory many times at between 150 and 1500 kilometers above Earth.- The aliens might use Nuclear fusion to propel their craft- 39 years of work at Purple Mountain Observatory has led Wang to believe these craft use Earth's gravity to manouvre and stay aloft- Wang Sichao also said he disagreed with Stephen Hawkings recent comments and declared that these aliens appear peaceful and require nothing materially from us as they can create their own materials using advanced technology.In the event that these aliens do not come in peace, he stressed they are not gods and have flaws and thus we can possibly defend ourselves.So it it time to start running around like headless chickens and eat each-others brains? Or have the UFO people been right all along?

Are Archons Greys

Photo/Text Credits: Regan Lee

Very much a must read:Are Archons Greys? by Regan Lee.

The following quote resonated with me. However, the article is primarily about the Gnostics and the Archons.

"To the horrified astonishment of Dr. Castaneda, the elder sorcerer Don Juan explained how the human mind has been infiltrated by an alien intelligence: "We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile and helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don't do so."The late Harvard professor John Mack wrote that "a number of shamans with whom I have spoken, from native cultures of North and South America, Africa, and Australia, know of, or have had encounters with, beings that have properties much like the grey aliens that visit abductees in the United States and other Western societies. Each culture has its own name for them. According to these shamans, beings of this sort have been around for thousands of years and seem to have a great interest in the face of Earth, functioning as its scavengers or protectors depending on the particular shaman's experience or point of view."

The above reminded me of two experiences I had several years ago. One, involving a green reptilian type entity (though not the typical alien-reptilian often portrayed as "the Reptilians") and the other, a cape used by a Central American shaman.

Author: Regan Lee

Bright Red Ufo Spotted

GLADSTONE is being visited by UFOs, according to a Gladstone local.The local listed sighting a strange, bright red object Monday morning on a UFO sighting website.The website, The UFO Clearinghouse, accepts reports from people who have seen something they can't explain, hence, an unidentified flying object (UFO)."While at work in the state forest north of Gladstone, I noticed to my left a bright red light," the local who remained anonymous said."Thinking I might have a car coming through the bush towards me, I moved out of the donga I was in and waited for the car to arrive."I went outside and noticed that the light was above the tree line above the north end of Mount Larcom.However, the witness couldn't work out if it was round or any other shape."There were times the light hurt my eyes but not enough for me to look away. I noted that it was slowly moving downwards on the other side of the Mount Larcom range"There were no other light sources located outside the donga, and no other reason what this red light might have been caused from."UFO Research Queensland chair Sheryl Gottschall told The Observer this year alone they have had 123 reported sightings from the public."What we find is that the reports come from a broad cross section of society," Ms Gottschall said."We have people from small business owners to professional people like lawyers, teachers and pilots. We get reports from basically everybody," she said.

You Oughta Not Be In Pictures

Over at the Virtually Strange Network (see link), Errol Bruce-Knapp's "UFO Updates" section offers a daily sequence of messages from veteran UFO researchers and serious individuals, and if you haven't made "UFO Updates" a part of your daily Internet life, I encourage you to do so (check out the pod casts conducted by Errol, too).Last week, "UFO Updates" contributor Kentaro Mori initiated a literary firestorm of responses when he reported that the Brazilian TV program, "Fantastico" revealed that the famous series of Saturn-like UFO photos allegedly taken in the Trindade Isle by Almiro Barauna were faked. Barauna's niece would not be interviewed herself, but supposedly confirmed through a friend that Barauna assured her long ago that he joined two spoons together and photographed the "UFO" using his refrigerator as a background.The Trindade photos have been controversial for years but, yes, there was a floating consensus among some that they provided good photographic UFO evidence. This may still be the case, because we really don't yet have the definitive proof of a hoax -- but proof may be coming soon, if there hasn't already been further information released. We'll have to wait and see. Perhaps nothing will be settled at all.The stories behind still photographs of purported UFOs have a history of collapsing months or years after their appearance -- all the more reason to crave military photographic evidence and photos or films confiscated from trusting private individuals and never returned.I'll certainly be disappointed if the Trindade photos are hoaxes, because I gladly used one of the series as a visual in my first magazine article in 1967. Actually, lots of people depended upon these particular Brazilian photos to enhance their books and articles. But you never know in these matters what may transpire as the future unfolds like a spider's web of deceit.Apparently, the critics are already out there condemning the praise that the (former) Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) and other organizations and researchers lavished upon the Trindade photos after their own analyses. I consider this most unfair because investigators could only rely upon the analytic means available at the time years ago, and in addition to methods we only have witness accounts to mull over when all is said and done. Among honorable investigators, photos were always a thorny issue, but somebody had to perform the arduous work and they did their best. That is to say, when one acts on a "good faith" basis, conclusions should be respected on the basis of their veracity until further information arises. This is a far cry from some known members of the UFO "community" in the past who went out of their way to "confirm" the authenticity of obviously ridiculous photographic images on every possible occasion.For better or worse, real or fake, the Trindade photos won't be the last, joined as they are by films, videotapes -- and the terror of digital images that anybody can fake with total confidence any morning of the week, and happily pile upon world Internet gullibility long before breakfast is ready.