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South African Ham Radio UFO Interest Group. Known as (SAHRUIG).
NEWS Volume 1 News letter No.234
Don't forget to "LOOK UP TO THE SKIES" you may see something exiting.
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Posted to BBS : 20/01/2009
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Huge UFO Hovers At 100 Feet At The South End Of Marsh Airforce Base California
Date: 1985 - Approx:
Time: Approx: 11:00 p.m.
Message: Regarding one of your sightings Murrieta, California UFO Flat/Square
Or Possibly
Triangular' Posted: February 9, 2008; occurred on date: February 7, 2008 Time:
2:15 a.m.
I am from Moreno Valley, CA. (15 miles from Murrieta and host to Marsh
Airforce Base). I am writing because for the first time after years of
casually reading about UFO's, I saw this article and besides the proximity of
our cities. I also saw a similar object in 1985 approx:, I regrettably did not
take note of the particulars of the incident, probably as a form of denial.
This happened at night around 11pm. I have not read or heard of the
description of the rectangle or pizza box
shape object before this article.
I was driving a back road (Oleander Ave) that cuts right along side the south
end of Marsh Airforce Base, between the 215 Freeway and Perris Blvd. I saw a
huge object, hovering about 100 feet above and moving at an exceedingly slow
pace. I stopped my car, step out to get a better look. It was rectangle shape
(approx 20 x 50 yards) with small lights through out sporadically; along its
side and bottom. It had a distinctive almost helicopter propeller blade hum,
though more rhythmic and shallow. The object came to a standstill in front of
where I was parked and a flood light came on and shown brightly in front of
where I was parked, onto a
building. After a few seconds it went off and the object proceeded directly
onto March Airforce base and slowly hovered above it then turned left and went
across the 215 Freeway heading west and it disappeared past some hills.
I assumed that it was some sort of military aircraft, though I have never seen
anything like that before or since. The two thing I recall that were
interestingly different were that I kept wanting other cars to happen by and
no one drove through the road I was in during all the 5 plus minutes
that this was happening. When the object banked left and over the reeway, I
kept looking at the freeway for cars traveling north or south. During the
whole incident no cars drove past the visible stretch of at least 1/2 mile of
freeway. It was as if time had stood still. Not one car drove past on this
relatively busy freeway. The other thing I found odd was thinking that this
would generate some calls, or commotion that did not happen, apparently no
one else saw this.
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Are We Alone? - UFO Sightings Defy Explanation
By Mark Pavilons
Perspectives
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. Long before humankind
read the Scriptures, we glanced skyward, wondering if we were alone in the
cosmos.
Unexplained sightings for literally thousands of years have culminated in a
modern pastime and, for some, a lifelong search for extraterrestrials. Google
“UFOsö on the Internet and you’ll find more than eight million references.
A spokesman for the Vatican said May 13 there could be life forms beyond
Earth, even intelligent ones. “How can we rule out that life may have
developed elsewhere?ö asked The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, Jesuit director of
the Vatican Observatory. “Just as we consider earthly creatures as ‘brother’
and ‘sister,’ why should we not talk about an
‘extraterrestrial brother’?ö Funes added astronomy doesn’t contradict religion
and the Bible is not a book of science. He conceded the big bang theory is a
“reasonableö explanation for the creation of the universe and science has
vindicated astronomer Galileo. This latest revelation softens centuries of
division between the church and the famed astronomer, who was deemed a heretic
and forced to recant his theory that the earth revolved around the sun. Pope
John Paul publicly admitted in 1992 the ruling against Galileo was a tragic
error.
While science has since proven him correct, and uncovered many galactic
mysteries, hard evidence of alien life and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)
remains elusive. But that hasn’t curbed a belief held by millions of people
around the globe – that aliens do exist and do visit earth.
This past Jan. 2, two people travelling along Highway 50 and then east on
Rutherford through Vaughan saw static lights in the sky. “They did not move
and made a weird shape in the sky,ö according to the report posted on Canada’s
largest website dedicated to UFOs – HBCC UFO Research.
Reports like this are common, according to Brian Vike, director of HBCC
Houston,
British Columbia, Canada) UFO.
“I honestly wish I knew what some of the strange craft folks report were,ö he
said. “The majority of UFO reported sightings are explainable. A small
percentage remains unknown. What these unknown craft are, this is the tough
part of the UFO business.ö Vike believes we are not alone and that life exists
elsewhere in the vastness of space.
“Do I have actual fact that we are being visited, no,ö he admits. “But I am
open and listen to what folks relate to me.ö
The reports continue. In fact, 2007 was a record year for sightings, Vike
said. A boomerang-shaped object was reported in Bolton July 31, 2007. While
stargazing, the resident said the object was “white and grey in appearance and
it had a boomerang shape to it. Almost like a banana shape … it was quite
fast.ö
Numerous photos were taken of a UFO Aug. 2, 2006 shortly after 9:45 p.m. The
man who reported the sighting was at the Caledon Badlands near Inglewood
taking photos of the moon when there was “all kinds of commotion in the trees
and bushes. I got really spooked, and I don’t spook easily.ö The camera kept
snapping and apparently captured 15
photos of a UFO – “one just starting to break the atmosphere, two fully
engulfed in the atmosphere, three cooling down; four sitting still; five
leaving going back to space …ö
Government secrets?
Aside from sporadic individual reports, Britain’s National Archives released
1,000 pages of formerly secret UFO documents May 14. The documents contain UFO
sightings from the 1970s through 2002 and several remain unexplained. However,
Britain’s defence ministry did not find
any evidence of alien activity or alien spacecraft. The archives are releasing
files in light of numerous freedom of information requests about government
UFO reports. Defence officials noted the reports were only investigated to
ensure there were no enemy aircraft over British
airspace, and never attempted to solve the UFO riddle. Vike said the official
Canadian government stance is they are not hiding anything from
the public and they are not investigating UFOs. However, Vike said from his
sources in both the Canadian and U.S. military, “we as the general public
haven’t a clue as to what is really going on at times. Yet the military is,
from time to time, scrambling aircraft to intercept, or in hopes of
intercepting, craft of unknown origin.ö
The official roadblocks are evident. Vike said any time he goes through
official channels in search of information, “it seems no one knows anything.ö
The Library and Archives Canada has a collection of government records on
UFOs, gathered from the Department of National Defence, Department of
Transport, National Research Council and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The
documents were accumulated between 1947 and the early 1980s and consist of
some 9,500 digitized documents. The National Research Council began collecting
reports of UFO sightings in 1968. The NRC stopped collecting reports in 1995.
There is no department in Ottawa dedicated to investigating UFOs, according to
a spokesman from Dufferin-Caledon MP David Tilson’s office. The North American
Aerospace Defense
Command (NORAD), a Canada-U.S. partnership, tracks all aircraft, ncluding
those of unknown origin, within Canadian airspace, with a view to identifying
them. All aircraft require proper clearance and identification, according to
military or International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agreements.
Federal cabinet documents from the 1960s reveal former prime minister Lester
Pearson was intrigued by reports of UFOs in the night skies over southern
Ontario and Great Lake states.
One of the most infamous UFO stories of the century – The Roswell Incident –
involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, on July 7, 1947.
The U.S. military maintains it was a top-secret research balloon that crashed,
but there has been intense speculation and
questioning ever since, giving birth the UFO phenomenon. UFO proponents
believe an alien craft crashed; bodies were recovered and the military covered
up the incident. Some recognition of the UFO phenomenon came from a top-level
source. “If I become president, I'll make every piece of information this
country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists. I am
convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one,ö
said former U.S. president Jimmy Carter.
Fast-forward to Sept. 21, 2006 when a Caledon family of five saw strange,
flashing lights outside their window. “Before this light descended behind our
tree line, the light changed to what looked like a flashing white strobe
light. It stopped its descent and started to move very quickly horizontally
right and then left about three or four times … a second red light started
descending in the same path the first one took. Again the light turned white
and flashing …ö
One of the most well known sightings in Vaughan occurred July 13, 2005 at
about 11:30 p.m. Several people reported seeing a disc-like object with an
orange glow to it. The light faded in and out and other lights moved across
the object. It occurred on Highway 7 above the Ikea store.
These stories, and others that come to HBCC UFO on a daily basis, fuel the
fire for Vike.
He said he’s personally had three UFO sightings, mostly in 2002 outside of
Vancouver, “when our area went through a major UFO flap.ö
An avid UFO buff since 2000, Vike said his fascination with anything of
unknown nature led him to create HBCC UFO, now a major Canadian website with a
worldwide following. Vike, 57, has been a science fiction fan since childhood.
He was a consultant for the American History Channel and its UFO Hunter series
and he said he’s waiting to hear back from another film company interested in
putting together a UFO-related program.
An object with an aura around it was seen in Caledon Sept. 11, 2004. “I looked
to the west sky and there it was … it got brighter and gave off some type of
aura … it was zigzagging and doing circular movements.ö
Skeptics
What about the skeptics and naysayers?
Vike said those who are adamant that we are, in fact alone in the cosmos, are
not open-minded enough to at least consider the idea of earth being visited by
other life forms. World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking upset the UFO
community with some comments made during an April lecture at George Washington
University in Washington, D.C.
“We don’t appear to have been visited by aliens,ö Hawking said. “Why would
they only appear to cranks and weirdoes?ö
In a previous lecture entitled Life in the Universe, Hawking touched on the
chances that humans would encounter alien life as we explore the galaxy. While
he conceded many planets could have life on them, considering many were formed
billions of years before our earth, he wondered why the galaxy isn’t filled
with activity.
“So why is the galaxy not crawling with self-designing mechanical or
biological life forms? Why hasn't the Earth been visited, and even colonized.
I discount suggestions that UFOs contain beings from outer space. I think any
visits by aliens, would be much more obvious, and probably also, much more
unpleasant.ö
Renowned astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake created the Drake equation
in 1961 that estimates the number of “communicating civilizationsö in our
Milky Way galaxy. Using his formula, current conservative estimates put that
number at 1,000 (planets with intelligent life) in our galaxy alone.
Astronomers estimated there are 80 to 100 billion galaxies in the observable
universe. Drake was the founder of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial
Intelligence) and the SETI
Institute, founded in 1984, has a mandate to “explore, understand and explain
the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.ö
Down to earth, Caledon’s clay hills, which resemble a Martian landscape, seem
to draw visitors of both the earthly and extraterrestrial kinds.
One person saw different objects in the sky Sept. 22, 2004 on visit to the
Badlands. “The first one was in the northwest and it was very bright with
almost a strobe light effect – white, green and red lights. It moved very fast
up and down like the (amusement park ride) Drop Zone.
Then we looked to the east and there was another one, again it moved and
turned in the same way.ö
Believers seen undaunted by a lack of evidence or criticism in their cosmic
fascination.
“I know from my experiences they visit throughout the winter … I’ll keep
watching,ö
said a Caledon resident who saw rapidly flashing lights in November of 2004.
“If you can get people to stay long enough to witness it once, you pretty much
have a new believer,ö wrote another.
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FAIR USE NOTICE:If This page contains copyrighted material the use of which
has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. SAHRUIG
distributes this material without profit to those who have expressed a prior
interest in receiving the included information for research and educational
purposes. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted
material as provided for in 17 U.S.C § 107.
This document is shared information that is intended to assist anyone and
everyone with a further understanding of UFO information from around the
world.
Our usual thanks go to Brian Vike for his Canadian contribution.
73's and Bye from Peter ZS2ABF - East London, South Africa.
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