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UFO Earth Base - Tracking Strange Aerial Phenomenon (2nd Issue)

Articles Collected By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: Various

China “3 suns” UFO: UFOs Or Hoax?
Ghost Theory

The news reports this morning were flooded with headlines of a new Chinese UFO photograph that has recently surfaced. Dubbed the “3 suns” UFO photo, this particular photo has been making its way though the web and people are already talking conspiracies involving the Chinese government and possible UFO invasions. Let’s pull in the reins really quick here…

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Family tells of UFOs chase
Filey Today

UFO investigator Russ Kellett has organised a sky-watch event following a number of unusual sightings in the local area.

Last Monday July 19, a bright object – possibly a piece of space debris – was seen crossing Filey Bay.

George Nash, of Flat Cliffs, said he saw a ball of red and orange with a white core and feathery tail travelling from south to north before disappearing over the Brigg.

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Flying object a mystery
Bundaberg NewsMail

IS it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it maybe a UFO?

Ben Buckley and a mate were at the southern end of Mon Repos on Friday morning checking out the surf when he took four photos on his mobile phone.

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Two UFO videos, without shakycam, are weirdly convincing
io9 (blog)





I love how this guy films the UFOs from his bathroom window. Is this the same UFO as we saw in the first video? Also, I feel like I know way too much about these guys' lives now, like how one of them likes to feed his dogs meat from the fridge, and the other hangs out a lot in his bathroom with a camera. Let's call this UFO TMI.

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Multiple witnesses see and film a UFO above Shandong China
Allnewsweb.com





Almost a year ago Shandong city in China experienced a possible UFO/extraterrestrial event few of its residents will ever forget. Large disc shaped UFOs or UFO mother-ships were seen ominously cross the skies above their homes.

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UFOs and USOs - Observations by Gerald Hausman
Stay Thirsty Media

George Bernard Shaw once said that "if a man is a deep writer all his works are confessions."

I guess I must be pretty deep because all my writing borders on the confessional. Or at least that's the way it feels to me -- a simple plea to the authorities that an exception will be made in my case: it's not madness, sir, it's just me.

That said, I have a new confession to make . . . I just saw a UFO. It happened, or the sighting did, in Sapello Canyon in Northern New Mexico. We stood on the long porch of Alice and Jim Carney's ranch house at about 11:15 a week and a half ago and a fantastic light appeared in the sky. To me, it looked like a star of Bethlehem on a Christmas card; points of light, top and bottom, long and lancing, diamond-bright. My wife Lorry said, "Oh, look, it's changing color!"

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Airline Passenger takes picture of an UFO
MINA


A Ryan Air passenger traveling from Portugal to Great Britain saw something strange outside his window and proceeded to take a picture of the object.

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Chinese astronomer predicts appearance of UFO in 2011
Economic Times

Wang Sichao, an astronomy and minor planet scholar, made the forecast under recently-heated speculations about UFOs, as some unidentified flying objects have been spotted in several Chinese regions of Zhejiang, Hunan, Chongqing and Xinjiang since last month, the China Daily reported.

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STV viewer reports strange sighting in skies over Glasgow
stv.tv

Grace Boardman was driving along Colston Road in the north of the city on Monday night at around 10.15pm when she spotted what she described as "twinkling stars moving in the sky."

She said: "When I stopped at a red light, three twinkling stars suddenly became bright orange orbs hovering low in formation above the cars.

"There was no sound and they were definitely not planes or helicopters. The man in the car next to me spoke to his passenger and pointed to them also. They then became smaller and hovered in a V shape."

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Are they really here?
Brisbane Times

As if having three aliens stand over her wasn't enough, what convinced Sheryl Gottschall something peculiar had happened was when the man beside her didn't wake up.

An insomniac, her then-husband was always woken by her slightest movement in the bed next to him.

So when she screamed at seeing three grey extraterrestrials standing next to the bed, pulled the sheet above her head and started saying the Lord's prayer, she expected a reaction.

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See Also: Terrified Passengers Photograph UFO Over Rio de Janiero / UFO Earth Base - Tracking Strange Aerial Phenomenon (1st Issue) / UFO Startles Crowd At Australian Rodeo / Spectacular UFOs Spotted Over China / A New Book That Explains How To Hunt Ghosts, Monsters And UFOs / Oh My God, I Just Saw A UFO! / Fighter Jets Scramble To Intercept UFOs Over Arizona / UFO Filmed Over UK Coast - Wind Turbine Mystery Solved? / Have You Seen A UFO In Gulf Breeze? UFO Hunters Wants You! / Is The UK Being Invaded By Aliens?......Seriously! / UFO Pilots Beware! The RAF Has Orders To Shoot To Kill! / Obama And UFOs - Here We Go! / A Squadron Of UFOs Spotted Over UK Wind Farm....No, Another One! / Is This The UK Version Of Roswell? / Was The UK Attacked By A Giant Tentacled Space Monster? / UFO Collides With Wind Turbine In Conisholme / Mystery Lights Over The UK Becoming More Frequent And Wide Spread / Surprise! More Strange Lights Over The UK / If You Spot A UFO Don't Contact Your Air Force Recruiter / UFO Cult Cancels Mass Orgy / Another UFO Photographed Over The UK / UFO Case Files - The Best Of 2007 - Archives / The Hertford Fireball - Asteroid Or UFO? / UFO Light Show Over Suffolk / Discovery To Air UFO Hunters Footage Sci Fi Found Too Shocking / Does Mars Have Wood? / Nasa Photo Shows Human-like Figure On Mars / Bloody Hell Nigel, I Think Our Sofa Is Haunted By Aliens / Ufologist Writes Letter To Obama Seeking The Truth / UFOs Blamed For UK Power Outage / Paranormal - Real Life Tales Of The Unexplained

UFO Earth Base - Tracking Strange Aerial Phenomenon (1st Issue)

Articles Collected By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: Various

Can you identify this UFO?
Bournemouth Echo

CAN you identify this flying object spotted over Bournemouth yesterday?

Reader Joe Weil saw it in the skies above Parley Manor. He says: "This object was in the sky for more than four hours.

"Although it moved up and down the object never changed position in every photo so it could not have been a balloon or any other object flying on a cord.

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UFOs: China researcher sees a pattern, predicts more sightings
Tucson Citizen

China has been the location of 8 UFO sightings over the last couple of months. One of the sightings caused the Xiaoshan Airport to be shut down for an hour on July 7th.

Some UFOs were since identified as normal earthly objects. Others remain unidentified.

If we think that the people of China have had their fair share of major sightings, we haven’t seen anything yet, according to a researcher in China.

Professor Wang of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a theory about UFO sightings. He thinks that China could bear witness even more UFO sightings over the next two years.

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MoD files on UFO expert 'blocked'
Metro

The documents will not be published because they contain personal material, the Information Commissioner’s Office said, upholding the MoD’s first refusal three years ago.

Fellow UFO researcher David Clarke, who made the initial Freedom of Information request in 2007, insisted there was a ‘clear public interest’ in the documents being made public.

But the ICO said in its ruling that ‘the commissioner does not believe that release of the information concerned would further the legitimate public interest in any significant way’.

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Answer Man: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ...
Post-Bulletin

Dear Answer Man, have you been able to find anything out about something that was flying in the sky at midnight a week ago Sunday? — Paula

OK, I've had about a half-dozen notes from readers who insist that there was something in the sky — call it a UFO, if you like — over southeastern Minnesota the night of July 18. I've checked with amateur astronomers and pros like our own Mike Lynch, who writes the Starwatch column that appears in the P-B every Monday, and I can't find anyone who's familiar with these reports.

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Infamous 'Face on Mars' gets a major makeover
Examiner.com

Back in the 1970s with the Viking Program, NASA cameras captured an image that led many UFO/alien enthusiasts to believe that an advanced civilization once flourished on the planet Mars: a giant "face" sculpted out of the planet's surface.

Needless to say, in the mid 1970s, the era of Watergate and Vietnam, trust in government was at a very low point. So, when NASA scientists stated that the "face" was merely an illusion caused by the angle of light shining on a natural formation, many people refused to buy it, especially considering the "pyramids" situated around the face in a region called Cydonia.

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Massive UFO Reported At Malaysian Resort
Technorati

According to Malaysian English language daily The Star, a large, blue disk may have been seen hovering within sight of Tuaran Beach Resort near Kota Kinabalu, capital city of the Malaysian state of Sabah on the South China Sea.

The daytime sighting, which took place July 18 and lasted only a few minutes, seems to have generated only one photo, albeit a rather impressive one, reportedly because the cell phones of most of the hotel's guests and staff who tried to photograph the object “went dead.”

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Morphing UFO emitting orbs above the Netherlands puzzles experts, video
Allnewsweb.com

The astonishing UFO video clip that can be watched below is believed to have been filmed only a few days ago on 26 July. The UFO was spotted above the city of Almere in the Netherlands. The luminous craft seen in the film changes shape and at some times a streaking tail can be seen, at other times the UFO seems to be spitting out other objects.or orbs.

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See Also: UFO Startles Crowd At Australian Rodeo / Spectacular UFOs Spotted Over China / A New Book That Explains How To Hunt Ghosts, Monsters And UFOs / Oh My God, I Just Saw A UFO! / Fighter Jets Scramble To Intercept UFOs Over Arizona / UFO Filmed Over UK Coast - Wind Turbine Mystery Solved? / Have You Seen A UFO In Gulf Breeze? UFO Hunters Wants You! / Is The UK Being Invaded By Aliens?......Seriously! / UFO Pilots Beware! The RAF Has Orders To Shoot To Kill! / Obama And UFOs - Here We Go! / A Squadron Of UFOs Spotted Over UK Wind Farm....No, Another One! / Is This The UK Version Of Roswell? / Was The UK Attacked By A Giant Tentacled Space Monster? / UFO Collides With Wind Turbine In Conisholme / Mystery Lights Over The UK Becoming More Frequent And Wide Spread / Surprise! More Strange Lights Over The UK / If You Spot A UFO Don't Contact Your Air Force Recruiter / UFO Cult Cancels Mass Orgy / Another UFO Photographed Over The UK / UFO Case Files - The Best Of 2007 - Archives / The Hertford Fireball - Asteroid Or UFO? / UFO Light Show Over Suffolk / Discovery To Air UFO Hunters Footage Sci Fi Found Too Shocking / Does Mars Have Wood? / Nasa Photo Shows Human-like Figure On Mars / Bloody Hell Nigel, I Think Our Sofa Is Haunted By Aliens / Ufologist Writes Letter To Obama Seeking The Truth / UFOs Blamed For UK Power Outage / Paranormal - Real Life Tales Of The Unexplained

Are There Trees On Mars? Scientists Say Its An Illusion

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: Fox News

Some really weird things have been seen in photos from Mars over the last few years. Everything from logs, to bunnies, to Sasquatch seem to be popping up in photos taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The latest oddity, a new photo just released by NASA seems to show 'trees' growing near the planet's polar region.

NASA scientists are quick to say 'hold on folks', stating that what is actually being seen here is some sort of an optical illusion. The objects that look very much like some sort of plant life are actually actually dark streaks of collapsed material running down sand dunes due to carbon dioxide frost evaporation.

"The Martian 'trees' are actually dark basaltic sand pushed to the surface of sand dunes by sun-heated solid carbon dioxide ice, or dry ice, sublimating directly into vapor", explains Candy Hansen, a member of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) team at the University of Arizona.

"What we think is happening is that the dark sand is sliding down the bright frosted portion of the dune," Hansen told SPACE.com.

They, 'think', but they aren't sure. So these could be 'tress' or 'plants' then.......?

"The streaks in the new image look as if they are rising up from the sand dunes, but that's an illusion, Hansen said. "You're looking at the slip face of the dune, and where the sand comes to a stop, it forms a sort of scallop-shaped edge at the bottom."

Reportedly each of these dark sand streaks can measure up to 164 feet in length.

Streaks on sand dunes? Well, if that's true, then that is one hell of an optical illusion.

Sure looks like the stuff is growing out of the sand, not running down it.

Then again, what do I know? I'm not a NASA scientist.

Unless, of course, they don't want us to know that there is life on Mars, possibly hostile life-forms........preparing for an invasion!

Aw.....that's just silly.........ha ha ha ha......ha......ha.......ulp.

See Also: Russia Is Planning To Build A Spaceship To Prevent Asteroid 'Apophis' From Hitting Earth / 40 Years Since Apollo 8 / Does Mars Have Wood? / Nasa Photo Shows Human-like Figure On Mars

Russia Is Planning To Build A Spaceship To Prevent Asteroid 'Apophis' From Hitting Earth

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: Associated Press

I was fully prepared to sit down today and write one of my typical articles about monster movies and alternate cinema. That was until I opened up my Yahoo home page and read the headline "Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid". It was at that point that my attention was diverted from my intended subject.

This one is just too good to pass up.

Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian space program, told reporters today that his agency is in the early stages of designing a spaceship to be used to alter the course of the 270-meter (885-foot) asteroid "Apophis" to prevent it from hitting the Earth in 2029.

Now, the scenario of an asteroid hitting the Earth has been used in several movies and TV shows over the past few decades including "Deep Impact", "Armageddon", "Meteor" (Okay that one is a bout a meteorite.....same difference), and even in an episode of "The Simpsons."

It seems that sci fi has become science fact.....well as far as the Russians are concerned anyway.

Back when "Apophis" was first discovered back in 2004, scientists had calculated that the chances of the big space rock hitting Earth was 1-in-37. That's a little too close for comfort.

However, those same scientists now believe that the odds of such an impact are now nil, though there are slight chances of a collision in future 'flybys' of "Apophis". Those being 1-in-250,000 in 2036 and 1-in-330,000 in 2068.

The Russians, however, didn't get the memo.

Perminov stated that he had heard from a scientist in Russia who believed that the asteroid was getting closer and would likely hit the Earth, "I don't remember exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032."

Wait....I have to stop this here. Yes, you read that last part right. The head of the Russian Space Agency thinks that he remembers a scientist saying something about an asteroid hitting the Earth, so he going forward with a project that will likely cost billions to build a spacecraft to divert it.

Okay, as long as we are clear....let's continue.

"People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow us to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people," Perminov added.

Don Yeomans, who heads NASA's Near-Earth Object Program believes that "Apophis" poses no threat to us Earthlings, but likes the Russians enthusiasm, "While Apophis is almost certainly not a problem, I am encouraged that the Russian science community is willing to study the various deflection options that would be available in the event of a future Earth threatening encounter by an asteroid."

Perminov also admitted that there wasn't a specific plan on how to divert an asteroid on the table or what kind of spacecraft would be used, "Calculations show that it's possible to create a special purpose spacecraft within the time we have, which would help avoid the collision, the threat of collision can be averted."

If you may remember, the Russians announced back in 2007 that were planning to build a base on the moon in 2027 and then were planning on a manned mission to Mars in 2035.

You have to really give them credit, there facts may be kinda mixed up, but at least they are trying.

I really haven't heard much from NASA lately.......I think that they are still around......it's hard to tell.....which is really a shame, because there are still some of us that believe that space exploration still has value.

And I don't mean just looking through telescopes and sending out probes.

Am I the only one who thinks that we should have already landed a man on Mars by now?

Of course, it all won't make a difference if we are clocked out by an asteroid in 2029.

See Also: 40 Years Since Apollo 8 / Does Mars Have Wood? / Nasa Photo Shows Human-like Figure On Mars

Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet (1965)

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
AKA: Planeta Bur (1962), Planet of the Storms (1962), Planet of Storms (1962), The Storm Planet (1962), Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968), Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet (1965)
American International

Directed By: Curtis Harrington & Pavel Klushantsev
Written By: Curtis Harrington
Executive Producer: Roger Corman

Cast:
Basil Rathbone as Prof. Hartman
Faith Domergue as Dr. Marsha Evans
Marc Shannon as Uncredited Cast
Christopher Brand as Uncredited Cast
John Bix as John the Robot
Lewis Keane as Uncredited Cast
Gennadi Vernov as Andre Ferneau
Georgi Zhzhyonov as Hans Walters
Yuri Sarantsev as Allen Sherman
Georgi Tejkh as Dr. Kern
Vladimir Yemelyanov as Cmdr. Brendan Lockhart

Runtime: 74 Minutes
Color: Color
Sound: Mono
Released: August 1, 1965 (USA)

Written By: Ken Hulsey

The film “Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet” may be the most interesting science fiction film to be produced in the 1960s’. Although the film in itself is very well done and features some excellent special effects shots, it’s the films origin and two different Americanized versions that may be of most interest to fans of this genre. You see the film was not an American product, but a film made in the former Soviet Union. Although scenes that starred Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue filmed by Roger Corman were inserted into the film for American viewers the film is still basically “Planeta Bur” (Planet of Storms – 1962) in most respects. In this version almost all Soviet references were removed from both the film and its credits, although it was hard not to notice the Russian insignias on all the spacecraft. American International must have been very nervous about releasing a Soviet sci-fi film during the middle of the “Cold War.”

The weirdest version of the film was “Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women” which was directed by Peter Bogdanovich and featured pterosaur worshiping sirens that spend endless hours lounging around on the beach in see-through togas. Not even the casting of Mamie Van Doren as Moana the leader of this blonde coven of Venusians can save these poorly intercut scenes from dragging down what is essentially “Planeta Bur” with the Corman footage removed. It can only stand to reason that Bogdanovich just needed an excuse to film attractive women on a beach. It would seem unfathomable to believe that he thought this new footage could add anything to the original material. These new scenes only make a very good sci-fi film hard to follow and effectively ruin the films pacing. Trust me even good “eye-candy” couldn’t help this one from heading straight to B-movie hell.

But I have gotten off point.

On the other hand “Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet” is a surprisingly good sci-fi film. Even with the extra American footage added it still retains the maturity and charm of the original Russian production. The acting of Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue is fairly “wooden” but those scenes are early in the film and are only used to establish an Americanized storyline. In other words they are brief enough to be ignored.
Also surprising are the quality of the films special effects. The miniature space ships and creative props are very convincing. In fact the movies human sized robot and hover-car really steal the show. It can only be fair to say that the effects are mostly on par with the quality of work seen on many American films from the same time period. Possibly better?

The story too, is very well thought out and well executed. A group of explores and scientists set out to land on Venus. A mysterious accident causes the two groups to land on two separate sides of the planet. While trying to link back up with each other they discover that Venus was once inhabited by a human-like race that destroyed itself in some form of nuclear holocaust. The planet has begun a new genesis that has reached a stage that resembles the prehistoric past of Earth complete with dinosaurs and lizard-men. All the while the adventurers are plagued by constant wails from the souls of the now extinct Venusians. Possibly trying to warn their human visitors not to follow down the same path of destruction they did. An anti-nuclear message in a Russian film in the middle of the “Cold War?” It would seem so. It would be interesting to note that fears of nuclear war were a reality on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Food for thought.