Weapons of Mass Deception
Washington, 1952: How the CIA created the flying saucer craze
By Mark Pilkington
www.forteantimes.com

ARE UFOs JUST A CIA CON-TRICK? MIRAGE MEN BY MARK PILKINGTON
By Harry Ritchie
www.dailymail.co.uk

UAVs: The (formerly) Secret History – Mirage Men by Mark Pilkington
MirageMen.wordpress.com

Hat tip to Roger Marsh:

Video: Mutual UFO Network Denver symposium round-up.

www.youtube.com/user/MUFONHQ

Beyond TOP SECRET: America’s UFO Spy Game

(STARpod.org) – Imagine this: your day job requires clandestine interaction with ordinary US citizens who have reported experiences of weird, inexplicable phenomena.

And at the end of the day, you must report your findings to your boss, the Director, and to his boss, the US President.

This isn’t the premise for an “X-files” inspired sci-fi TV series. It was, more or less, the conundrum faced by a handful of US government intelligence persons who were tasked with handling alleged psychics and the scientists investigating their super-human ‘powers’ in the 1970s.

That much is known from the declassified government record.

The issue of an extraterrestrial aspect to this story remains the stuff of rumor and “on background” tales of a “core story” — a tale of government collusion with an alien presence — available in numerous versions, according to taste.

In one version of the core, the US Air Force has been intimately involved with real, flesh and blood aliens, who arrived here in fantastically advanced spacecraft. Other versions of the core are darker and more disturbing: an otherworldly intelligence has been playing mind games with human beings for nefarious purposes.

In the 1990s, Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace (best known for his “space hotels,” inflatable platforms orbiting the Earth) funded an investigation into the darker side of the core.

Bigelow tapped Dr. Kit Green — a former senior CIA officer who had solved the Bulgarian umbrella poison pellet assassination in the 1970s — for his Science Advisory Board. The core question at the heart of the core story involved the possibility that the human mind was being manipulated using advanced technology.

Read the entire article here:

[This is an article by A.J. Gevaerd, translated by Marcos Malvezzi.]

Commander of an Army installation in the Brazilian Pantanal area determined the official  investigation of spherical nocturnal objects reported to have burned vegetation. Military personnel sighted the UFO and obtained photos

Report by A. J. Gevaerd, editor of the Brazilian UFO Magazine (www.ufo.com.br)

This is the report of a new investigation and interview I just conducted with the Retired Brazilian Army Lieutenant-Coronel Leo Tércio Sperb resident in Rio dos Cedros, a small town in the state of Santa Catarina. The interview was obtained thanks to information given by former VASP Airlines commander, José Américo Medeiros, UFO Magazine contributor, and performed with UFO investigator and volunteer translator of the Brazilian UFO Magazine Luis Medeiros.

The full interview is being transcribed for complete publication on Brazilian UFO Magazine, and what can be now advanced is that the former Army military was involved in a major UFO incident in 1977, the very same year when Operation Prato occurred in the Amazon, a hot year for Brazilian Ufology. Lieutenant-Coronel Leo Tércio Sperb revealed that this new found incident took place when he held the highly important position as commander for the 2^nd Frontier Battalion, in the city Cáceres, state of Mato Grosso, West of Brazil.

The former military commander reported that in mid 1977 (he was unable to remember the date precisely) he was informed by his men that a small settlement located somewhere in the middle of the Cuiabá-Cáceres Road was highly excited about sightings of a strange and recurring luminous object that appeared predominantly at night. Having always been opened to UFO issues, and seeing the reports were significant, he sent a first man to do the preliminary investigations.

Read the entire report at UFO Digest dot com:

ANOTHER BRAZILIAN MILITARY REVEALS UFO INVESTIGATION AND OBSERVATION | UFO Digest

MAURY ISLAND NO LONGER A MYSTERY: A UFO HOAX EXPOSED!

by Anthony Bragalia

After six decades the truth has emerged about the infamous Maury Island UFO incident of 1947. It was a hoax. It finds its roots in fiction and fantasy, as revealed in candid and damning interviews with Maury Island UFO “witness” Harold Dahl’s own son and daughter. The hoax is further detailed in a careful re-examination of the “mysterious” figure Fred Crisman.

It is alleged that in June of 1947, seaman Harold Dahl was with his son scavenging for drifting logs near Maury Island in Puget Sound in Washington State when Harold sighted several “donut shaped objects” flying in formation over his boat. He claimed that one of the discs appeared to lose control after being tapped by another disc, spewing out slag and strange pieces of light metal material which hit his boat. The falling UFO debris supposedly injured Harold’s son Charles and killed the family dog. His story was reported to his co-worker Fred Crisman and was later promoted by publisher Ray Palmer.

The event -which has stirred the imaginations of many over decades- was itself born of imagination. It simply never happened. Harold Dahl’s own family and the sage perspective of history now reveal: The only reality about the “incident” was that it was conjured up in the mind of an enterprising and attention-craving 27 year-old schemer and amateur fiction writer.

Read the entire article here: Maury Island No Longer a Mystery: A UFO Hoax Exposed!

UFO News from Anomaly News Syndicate » UFO News

If someone who claimed to be in contact with space aliens could give us just a few simple numbers they’d unequivocally prove their case to skeptics. Simply send me (1) the celestial coordinates of the home star, (2) the number of planets orbiting it, (3) their distances from the parent star, (4) and their relative masses.  Then all we’d have to do is look at the star and see if the planets were there. Viola!

This has never happened in UFO history. Well, almost never.

A search on the Internet comes up with one particularly legendary place, the double star system Zeta Reticuli. It’s nearby, only 39 light-years away in the southern sky.

The naked-eye double star burst into UFO culture in the mid -1970s.  An Ohio school teacher, Marjorie Fish, claimed to have decoded a star map from a 1961 UFO abduction case. It pointed to Zeta Reticuli as the aliens’ place of origin.

The alleged extraterrestrial kidnapping, described in journalist John Fuller’s book “Incident at Exeter: The Interrupted Journey,” tells how a New England couple was taken aboard a flying saucer and medically examined. Under hypnotic regression the wife, Betty Hill, sketched a star map she said she saw while inside the spaceship. 

In the pre-home computer days of the early 1970s, Fish actually constructed a wireframe cube and positioned beads on strings for the nearby stellar neighborhood. She viewed the model from different angles until a match was found with the Hill map. It pinpointed Zeta Reticuli.

This map is legendary but meaningless. First, the Hill drawing contains 25 dots for stars. If you flew around a computer database of the local stellar neighborhood you’d come up with more than one match that roughly “looked” similar to her sketch.

Secondly, Hill described the map as showing alien exploration and trade routes to other stars. The notion of trade between extraterrestrial civilizations is patently absurd. There is nothing worth trading that would justify the transportation costs (at least nothing short of Star Trek’s Green Orion Slave Women). And, clearly the Zeta Reticulans aren’t trading with us, unless they’re getting modeling fees and a cut from Roswell UFO souvenir stands.

Finally, in the Fuller book Hill described the map as a flat pull-down chart (later she changed her account and described it vaguely to me, in a hesitant voice, as some sort of 3D display). BTW the UFO also carried paperbound books with “Chinese looking printing” according to Hill. This is as nonsensical as Neil Armstrong carrying stone tablets to the moon. Didn’t the aliens at least have something like an iPad?

Read the entire article at Discover News:

Where Would Space Aliens Come From? : Discovery News.

A European Union lawmaker called Tuesday for member governments to open their secret files on UFOs, saying people need to know about close encounters of the third kind.

Mario Borghezio, an Italian member of the European Parliament, told the Associated Press in an e-mail Tuesday that the EU needs its own “X Files” archive where anyone can see information on UFOs — including data gathered by the military. Borghezio said all European governments should go public and stop what he called a “systematic cover-up.”

Opening the files is not unprecedented: Last year, Britain published 4,000 pages online on 800 alleged encounters with aliens during the 1980s and 1990s. And over the past three years the British defense ministry has been gradually releasing previously secret UFO papers after facing Freedom of Information demands.

Borghezio also said it is essential to have a scientific center to research unidentified flying objects. Its investigations could have “major scientific and technological spinoffs,” he said.

“I think that, under the principle of transparency, the EU member states have a duty to make public and available to all scientific data on UFOs which today are partially or wholly withheld,” he wrote in the e-mail.

He is seeking the support of other lawmakers from the 736-member assembly for a statement calling on governments to act.

So far, though, he’s collected only 18 signatures.

SOURCE: The Associated Press: ET, meet the EU: Call for states to open UFO data.

News RoundUp – June / July 2010

U-F-O  N-E-W-S

• UFO shuts airport. Really.
  http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2010/201007/20100709/article_442528.htm
• Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering
  http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-07/09/content_10084698.htm
• Source in China cites ‘military connection’ for UFO sighting
  http://tucsoncitizen.com/paranormal/2010/07/08/source-in-china-cites-military-connection-for-ufo-sigthing/
• Europe’s UFO Crash
  http://www.nationalufocenter.com/artman/publish/article_339.php
• Bobby Kennedy and UFOs
  http://beforeitsnews.com/news/86/334/Bobby_Kennedy_and_UFOs.html
• Synthetic Signals Could Foster Unprecedented Life Forms
  What could the future of this technology look like? Two words: living spaceships.
  http://news.discovery.com/tech/synthetic-signals-life-spaceship.html
• ET could ‘tickle’ stars to create galactic internet
  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14687-et-could-tickle-stars-to-create-galactic-internet.html
• Out of This World, Out of Our Minds
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/weekinreview/04schwartz.html?_r=2&ref=science

Giovanni Pegna’s flying wing

• Jacques Vallee: Of Crop Circles, meme wars and web-based flypaper
  http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/21/of-crop-circles-meme.html
• Very Complex Interstellar Pre-Biotic Molecules Discovered
  http://news.discovery.com/space/very-complex-interstellar-pre-biotic-molecules-discovered.html
• Mind-blowing archive of footage showing ghosts, UFOs, and more
  http://io9.com/5570400/mind+blowing-archive-of-footage-showing-ghosts-ufos-and-more
• UFOs at the UN — A Close Encounter
  http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/lee-speigel-on-his-1978-attempt-to-convince-the-united-nations-to-study-ufos/19530404
• EU MP Mario Borghezi, Bilderberger foe, introduces EU Parliament declaration to end UFO/ET secrecy
  http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2010m6d18-EU-MP-Mario-Borghezi-Bilderberger-foe-introduces-EU-Parliament-declaration-to-end-UFOET-secrecy
• Paranormal Soldier: John Alexander
  From Special Services to spoon-benders and UFOs
  http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/3571/paranormal_soldier_john_alexander.html
• Roswell and The Reich The Nazi Connection: A Review By Stanton T Friedman
  http://www.theufochronicles.com/2010/06/roswell-and-reich-nazi-connection.html
• On shooting whatever moves
  http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/10959/on-shooting-whatever-moves/
• Dr. Ralph Metzner tells MU: “UFO/ET Situation has been Hijacked by the Amerian Military”
  http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2010/06/dr-ralph-metzner-tells-mu-ufoet-situation-has-been-hijacked-by-the-amerian-military/
• MILITARY BASE FIREMEN CLAIM: “We Retrieved ET at Roswell” by Anthony Bragalia
  http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2010/06/military-base-firemen-claim-we.html
• UFO filmed over the Vatican by U.S. ambassador security guards (Video)
  http://www.openminds.tv/vatican-ufo-film/
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtitRmqGUPo

• Scientists find a ‘hint of life’ on Saturn’s moon Titan
  http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientists-find-a-hint-of-life-on-saturns-moon-titan.html
• The Michelin UFOnauts: Extraterrestrials or Tired Ghosts?
  http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2010/05/michelin-ufonauts-extraterrestrials-or.html
• Canadian UFO Spiral hoaxer comes forward
  http://www.theweatherspace.com/tws.html
• Canada Spiral UFO a HOAX
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uicTn0av_uc
• UFO spotted in E Australia may be satellite or rocket
  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-06/06/c_13336065.htm
• Spectators Get Excited While Watching Early Morning UFO
  http://www.ecanadanow.com/curiosity/2010/06/06/spectators-get-excited-while-watching-early-morning-ufo/
• Spiral UFO over Brisbane Australia June 5th
  http://www.examiner.com/x-8698-Sacramento-UFO-Examiner~y2010m6d5-Spiral-UFO-over-Brisbane-Australia-June-5th

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