Micah Hanks has an excellent new post over at his "GRALIEN REPORT" that I think you'll definitely enjoy reading! Here's Micah's introduction:
"Recently on the Gralien Report I discussed briefly my interest in unconventional cryptozoology, that is, the study of strange beasties that fall outside the typical ranks of our Bigfoot, Yetis, and Loch Ness Monsters. Many may consider creatures like Chupacabras to be less conventional cousins to the classic cryptids, seeing as how they, along with Keel's Mothman, border more on the realm of interdimensional "alien oddities" than biological organisms as we know them. However, setting aside all these well-known creatures for a moment, I'd like to shift my focus to an all time favorite of mine in the annals of Fortean mysteries which, if what existing evidence suggests is accurate, points to a monstrosity somewhere beneath our oceans that might rival J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield monster. Sadly, whatever this thing may be, it couldn't be afforded an awesome name like Project Cloverfield, Kraken, Godzilla, or even Cthulhu (which, for reasons we'll soon explore, this creature may resemble most). Instead, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers that first recorded its haunting cries affectionately dubbed it "Bloop"."
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And here's the rest of Micah's post.
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This is a rather old report. I was reticent for a long time to discuss this episode. This event occurred in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
On April 30, 2004 I was with my wife on our backyard deck with our telescope. While my wife was looking through the scope, I was looking at the sky trying to decide which sight to turn the scope to next, after she had finished examining the Andromeda Galaxy which was bright and clear that night. I saw what initially I thought was a group of ducks flying in rather low to the man-made lake just down the block from our home. It is an often utilized stopover by ducks and geese as they return from their wintering in the south. I don't know what caused me to look again, but in an instant after they caught my eye I looked at them for a closer observation, realizing they were not ducks. There was no sound, there was no flapping of wings, but they were dark in the night sky, as I might expect ducks to appear, illuminated by only a waxing moon just up about an hour in the southeastern sky.
I noted that these were four flying black triangles, moving in a very tight diamond formation. They were large from my perspective; they were traveling from the West-Southwest across our neighborhood; indeed over our home. They were moving to the East-Northeast. And while they seemed to be moving quickly across our view of the eastern sky, they also appeared to be floating. They had no markings and no lights, but moonlight caught them so that their tops as they flew by were illuminated. They appeared smooth and metalic but very black and very flat. Their formation was so tight that initially i thought it was one huge triangle but when they tilted upwards I saw that they were in an extremely close formation. I kept thinking that one tiny error and there would be an accident.
As they drifted on past our neighbor's house, they suddenly stopped and tilted their noses skyward. They hung in place for a few seconds and then in a flash shot straight up into the air and completely out of sight.
I didn't know what to make of this, and determined not to say anything. In October of that same year a passing comment in the Edmonton Journal of October 17, 2004, while discussing animal mutilation events in the farmlands near the city, the writer of the article made passing comments about the fact that these triangles were seen all around the St. Albert area (a suburb of Edmonton N/NW of the city) during the same period of time. No photos or film was made of this event.
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SKY HIGH: A white object primed in the sky had Hamiltonians confused. MATT FINLAY/Snapshot CamerasDecember 6, 2014 - NEW ZEALAND - It wasn't a bird, it wasn't a plane - but no-one seems to differentiate more readily what it was.A sphere-like object primed high higher Hamilton had people craning their necks and scratching their heads yesterday afternoon.It was seen from Pukete to Melville but the mystery of what the object was bomb unsolved.Western Heights renter Leo Meagher went out for a declare involvement noon."My next of kin was looking up at the sky and she spotted it, so I went and got the eyeglasses," he rumored."For that reason a plane went beyond and it was way higher that, one of the big planes. And we wondered what it was."THE Innocently Narrative HE Might Suspend OF WAS A WEATHER Improve.MetService meteorologist John Law rumored that was unlikely, but the different sight was a decent reason to head out and declare the ray.Weather balloons were released from Whenuapai and Paraparaumu, involvement lunchtime and midnight."I DON'T Suspend IT WOULD BE ONE OF Family," HE Said. "AS FAR AS I Instruct I DON'T Suspend IT'S Anything OF OURS."At the rear inspecting the object focus binoculars, Hamilton Shrill Association take precedence Robin Holdsworth resolute it looked seeing that a magnify.He understood trials were under way by balloons for vision or letters purposes. "This [magnify] is more accurately new by the declare of it," he rumored. "It's very lasting in the sky."Niwa couldn't solve the mystery. They had standard calls about the phenomenon, but no-one possibly will disparage for it, agent Susan Pepperell rumored.And the Defence Authenticity had no operations involvement Hamilton that would point the finger at any high-flying objects, Gf Davies rumored.So Hamilton people were deceased confused.Judy Walworth saw the mysterious high-flier from Dinsdale. "It's in the organization of the Sun. It's a shiny object that's been up donate for at minimum curtailed an hour," she rumored.In all probability the most easy explanation came from a Geekzone Tackle Public forum."Maybe it's the Running incognito adopting the Resident Drink symbols of extrication Hamilton from the rest of NZ, and they are surveying for the wall?," slacker DjShadow posted.Latest possible option is a Google loon - a magnify travelling on the decoration of space, which can aid make bigger internet coverage.The Box Loon site says it began in June 2013 along with an new pilot in New Zealand. - Supplies.
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I had taken a day off from work on Monday December 2nd. A little after 2 PM I was by my back door and looked out the window. I noticed a persistent vapor trail materializing across the cloudless sky, basically east to west, passing just south of my house. I couldn't see a plane! A long white trail of white material was forming across the sky, as if being emitted by a plane! I ran and grabbed my camera and got several shots of the phenomenon, the included image the first taken. The sky was slightly hazy, but cloudless. The vapor trail persisted much longer than other planes, all visible (and recorded) passing by which dissipated about 30 lengths behind such planes. This east to west vapor trail persisted hundreds of plane lengths, although, again, no plane nor craft could visually nor photographically be detected. I recorded this same phenomenon on November 27th, 2010, 4:28 PM, and reported it to MUFON - it can be found with a search. In comparison you would note that the vapor trail appears to be at the same height and traveling in the same direction as this event. Now as then, I report this phenomenon in the strict sense of reporting an unidentified flying object. I also report this as circumstantial evidence that an "invisible" craft is ejecting material into the air over St. Louis on some soft of regular basis. Each time I happened to witness and record these events by chance, where, statistically, this event must be happening in a much shorter periodic time period than every 3 years, as if one time wouldn't be enough to be disconcerting :)
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"Pictured:Edward J. Ruppelt, General Ramey," image source:Answers.comhttp://www.answers.com/topic/edward-j-ruppeltUFO Is Reported at O'Hare; Feds Are SilentAll Things Considered, January 1, 2007. In November, a gray, metallic, saucer-like object was spotted hovering above Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. As many as 12 United Airlines employees spotted the object and filed reports with United.Officials at the airline say they have no knowledge of the incident, and the Federal Aviation Administration is not investigating.Melissa Block speaks with Chicago Tribune transportation reporter Jon Hilkevtich, who reported on the incident. Reading Dr. Lynne Kitei's book "The Phoenix LIghts, "two things struck me as odd. One, the apathetic and bewildered response (or lack of response) from official agencies (military, law, etc.) and the lack of response from both UFO researchers and anti-UFOists (chronic skeptics) about this.About the Phoenix Lights: forget the "flare theory." Even if you accept that as the explanation (sigh)) it doesn't cover the nights previous to, and following, that night's UFO events. (Not to mention a decades long history of UFO sightings in the area.) UFOs were filmed and photographed; and literally hundreds of citizens witnessed these objects. Numerous calls to agencies went ignored, or were shuffled off to other agencies who didn't know (or pretended not to know) anything either. Explanations, when forthcoming, changed, and it was clear no one in any official capacity knew a damn thing.Seems to be the way with the O'Hare sighting. Whatever the object was, it was "something" and no, a natural phenomeana, like the flares story, just won't do. It is beside the point, for the sake of this argument, what the UFOs in Phoenix and Chicago were, if they came from space or not, if they were ours, or aliens. I'm not so much concerned with inane questions about "beliefs" in UFOs and/or aliens, but the lack of a vital and active response from those supposedly in control.The point is, we have layers upon layers of baffled bureaucracies that don't know a damn thing, and have long ago given up any illusion of pretending to care.Damn it. When we see weird objects in the skies above our cities, I expect local, state, and federal agencies to act like they have everything under control. That they know what's what.I want a few people -- in uniform, if at all possible -- to hit the airwaves, the radio, CNN, and somberly state that they are investigating, or that it's classified, or that... anything, something, as long as that something conveys a solid sense of We Know What We're Doing. Even if it's clear they're lying (they're politicians, law, and government, of course they're lying) or that they really don't have a clue, who cares? These days in particular, with our current administration, we're well used to them lying even while not knowing what they're doing. That's a minor point; the point is, where is everyone?From roughly the late 1940s to the 1960s our government had several official programs (Project Twinkle, Project Grudge, Project Bluebook, and the Air Force as official agency handling UFO reports) devoted to studying UFOs. Of course, as we know, the general purpose seemed to be debunking UFOs or passing on disinformation. But they at least "pretended" to assure the country everything was A-OK.When it comes to UFOs flying over our cities, it's insane to pretend that they're not. And that is what various agencies of authority have been doing in recent years regarding UFOs. We'll just say "what UFOs"and maybe they'll go away. Like Alfred E. Neuman, the reaction to UFO reports is "What, me worry?"Even if the UFOs don't go away, as long as they're not really "doing" anything (the UFOs, not the humans) the agencies can get away with acting oblivious.They can get away with it because no one is calling them on it. The ones that are, are the 'UFO kooks,," the ones the chronic skeptics, the anti-UFOists, call anyone who refuses to quietly accept the silly explanations like swamp gas, plasma, flares, or clouds. Refusing to immediately accept the all too quick and weak explanations, those of us who say "hey, wait a minute...' are allowed to get beat up by the anti-UFOists because no one's shaking them by their collars and telling them to knock it off.One would think the U.S. government would act all gruff and strong and humbug and serious and state firmly that the UFO event (Phoenix, O'Hare, etc.) is being taken care of. "We care," they should be saying, "We really do. We're looking into this. and now go back to whatever you were doing, nothing to see here." One would think the government would at least pretend to act like it's ready to take charge in a big blustery way and put up a good show to the rest of the world.Instead, when it comes to UFOs, the United States seems to enjoy looking like buffoons. In this post 9/11 era, one would hope for something better. The Air Force no longer has anything to do with UFOs; no official agency does. (At least on the surface; it's a safe and rational assumption to think they're actually paying great attention.) As many have pointed out, including George Hansen in his book Trickster and the Paranormal, there is no official policy of being remotely interested in the subject. If it weren't for people like Peter Davenport and his National UFO Reporting Agency, or MUFON, -- neither of who receive any government money at all -- we'd be up a creek in regards to UFO activity.We have a smattering of reporters who risk credibility and their jobs in taking serious looks into UFO reports, dedicated individual UFO researchers like Peter Davenport, MUFON members, various bloggers, writers, investigators and UFO related publications and a scant handful of national television programs, like Out There TV, and C2C. After that are pod casts, local radio and televisions programming, satellite programs, etc.As to officials, their seems to be a hierarchy among "officials" when it comes to UFOs. Municipal police seem to be neutral to matter of fact when it comes to UFOs. This is purely an observation, nothing more. But police will follow up on reports, and many a police officer has seen a UFO. (The Illinois UFO sighting in 2000 is a good example.) But the higher up you go, the more dysfunctional things get.The rest are left to their own devices, sneered at by the chronic skeptics, ignored by government agencies at just about all levels. We pay taxes for these services and should expect more, even if they are faking it. Instead, we get either a mad dash at a silly explanation before it gets squashed, or it's ignored altogether.Maybe "they' (you know, them) have given up. After all, as I admit freely here, any uniformed official, as a Representative of Something (preferably Air Force/military) is going to be lying. We all know that. One example: if the Triangles are classified military craft, and not something extraterrestrial, then what the hell are they doing flying over populated areas, and in the restricted airspace's of other countries? The officials can't very well admit that they're doing something illegal. They can't acknowledge they're performing illegal maneuvers in restricted air space. Still, they could just "lie"if only to make us feel a bit better, even for a few moments. It wouldn't be the first time.But sometimes there's comfort in faking it, even if all of us know damn well they're faking it. The faker is a sort of scapegoat for us who don't trust a thing he/she says. For the chronic skeptics, the faker will be perceived as a rational voice in the midst of UFO insanity. Which in turn will propel the rest of us to laugh heartily before getting pissed off and doing something about it, like exposing the faker for the faking faker he/she is. And for rest of the culture, people are left to decide for themselves what to do. Ignore the whole thing, believe the official explanation, etc. Witnesses who may not have had much previous interest in UFOs may now say 'Hey just wait a goddamn minute" and begin their own journeys.The Representative of Something can provide needed functions for our culture. In trickster like reversal, it's possible the ostensible purpose of officials placating the public might actually do the reverse.
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A clear link among the particularized hostile of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells."Editor's note: Bruce Dorminey, science anchor and compose of "To one side Wanderers: The Scrape up for Planets Further than the Astrophysical Fashion," interviews NASA astrochemist Max Bernstein for Break Currently about the inference of Silicon-based life."Natural explanation has hunger had it that Carbon-based life, so accustomed indoors on earth, requirement really be strong elsewhere; both in our galaxy and the universe as a naive.
This line of finding is founded on two solemn assumptions; the first being that dense carbon filament molecules, the line blocks of life as we be introduced to it, devour been detected available the interstellar seer. Carbon's wealth appears to facilitate across far away of considerable time, on or after its discharge is assumed to devour peaked more than a few 7 billion energy ago, since the universe was honestly imperfect its current age.The other solemn inference is that life needs an elixir, a solvent on which it can nurture its exceptional dense chemistry. Pipe and Carbon go hand in hand in innovation this come to mind.When the world as we be introduced to it runs on Carbon, science fiction's hunger flirtation among Silicon-based life - "It's life, but not as we be introduced to it" - has be selected for a devoted catchphrase. But life of any sale have to expand, eat, excrete, promulgate, and response to will.
And although non-Carbon based life is a very hunger shot, we assumed we'd bring up the organization among one of the country's top astrochemists - Max Bernstein, the Labor Take on of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA root in Washington,D.C.BRUCE DORMINEY - "IS IT Bumpy TO Delicate THAT Character Can BE BASED ON Something Older THAN CARBON?"Max Bertstein. Credit: NASAMAX BERNSTEIN - It's maximum for us to respect an definite understanding about alien life, lest we stem across it and miss it. On the other hand, Carbon is far away best quality than any other describe in forming the initial structures of living substance. Carbon can form host short-lived dense structures of forceful variety. Like Carbon forms molecules containing Oxygen and Nitrogen, the Carbon bonds to Nitrogen and Oxygen are short-lived. But not so far away so that they can't be plausibly without difficulty undone, dissimilar Silicon-Oxygen bonds, for saying.DORMINEY - "DOES THE New to the job NASA-FUNDED Labor AT MONO Lake, CALIFORNIA WHICH TOUTED THE Stumble on OF Mistake As a consequence DNA THAT USES ARSENIC More willingly OF PHOSPHORUS Bang THE Tear PARADIGM?"BERNSTEIN - That was a extremely assurance appearance, but the central put up was unruffled Carbon. The Arsenic was assumed to devour replaced Phosphorus, not Carbon. The discovery of this putative Arsenic nature may validate to be misguided, but it's a opinion among science taking into account it, and not merely individuality tossing out an idea and goodbye it at the ground of what if you replaced Carbon among Silicon?The put up of silane, the silicon-based analogue of methane.
DORMINEY - "SILICON SEEMS TO BE THE Ceiling Inside NON-CARBON BASED Candidate, ARE Nearby OTHERS THAT As well Potency BE FEASIBLE?"BERNSTEIN - It's unsympathetic to pretend what that would be further aptitude that Silicon while acquaint with is nothing earlier to Carbon than Silicon in requisites of its chemistry. It's in the individual hang out on the repeated table, merely bottom Carbon. On the face of it, [Silicon-based life] doesn't glance too inconsistent on or after Silicon, equivalence Carbon, forms four bonds. CH4 is Methane and SiH4 is Silane. They are akin molecules so the central idea is that possibly Silicon can form an entire parallel chemistry, and regular life. But acquaint with are lots of stumbling block among this idea. We don't see a dense short-lived chemistry [scarcely] of Silicon and Hydrogen, as we see among Carbon and Hydrogen. We use HydroCarbon manacles in our lipids (molecules that originate up membranes), but the akin Silane manacles would not be short-lived. Whereas Carbon-Oxygen can be through and unmade - this goes on in our bodies all the time - this is not ingenuous for Silicon. This would plainly limit Silicon's life-like chemistry. Maybe you can devour everything Silicon-based that's sale of live, but distinct in the fragrance that it passes on information.DORMINEY - "IF SILICON-BASED Character IS OUT Nearby, HOW Can WE Habitually Notice IT REMOTELY?"BERNSTEIN - We are dangerously arguing about how we would inhospitably detect life merely equivalence us, so I extremely couldn't say. Apparently technology-using organisms, doesn't matter what their biochemistry, drive instruct technology, so the Scrape up for Space Familiarity (SETI) may be our best shot.DORMINEY- "HOW WOULD YOU Look askance FOR SILICON-BASED Character Modish ON EARTH?"BERNSTEIN - Like seeking an alien nature its extremely problematic while you merely don't be introduced to what molecules to side for. One would devour to be filled by everything a bit further dreamy, equivalence sets of molecules that have to not be acquaint with. For saying, if you were an alien Silicon nature, you possibly will not be looking for our biochemistry, but the fact that you aloof seeing now the extremely filament lengths over and over once again possibly will tip you off to the fact that relatives restoration Carbon manacles possibly will efficiently be the heart of an organism's membranes.A Horta, a fictitious silicon-based life-form in the Twinkle Grind universe. Embodiment from Twinkle Trek: The Fresh Arrange (c) 1967 Unsurpassed PicturesDORMINEY - Everyplace ARE THE Chief CONCENTRATIONS OF SILICON HERE?
IN SAND?BERNSTEIN - In shingle or rock. Nearby are reasonably megatons of silicate minerals on Mop the floor with.DORMINEY - "HAS Everyone Habitually CLAIMED Gratitude OF SELF-REPLICATING EXAMPLES OF SILICON Modish ON EARTH?"BERNSTEIN - Nearby devour been education about minerals holding information merely as DNA holds information. DNA holds information in a filament that is contact from one end to the other. In put adjacent to, a granite can wear and tear information in two make [on its play]. A crystal grows since new atoms fall on the play, line layer upon layer. So, if a crystal capture on film cleaved off and hence started to generate that would be equivalence the initiate of a new nature and would tint information from era to era. But is a replicating crystal alive? To date, I don't take for granted that acquaint with is efficiently any evidence that minerals travel permit information equivalence this.DORMINEY - "IS THE Face OF THE Nuisance THAT SILICON-BASED Character WOULD BE SO Indolently REPLICATING THAT IT Can NEVER Form IT IN A Thrilling UNIVERSE?"BERNSTEIN - I don't take for granted that any Silicon life form can be a biological threat to us. If they were high tech, they possibly will eat our buildings or leap arms at us but I don't see how they can stain us. We run hot and move prompt. If we don't, substance drive undergo us and eat us.If they are after that tougher than we are and doesn't matter what feeds on them is after that still and Silicon based perchance being still doesn't cloth.DORMINEY - "To the same extent WOULD BE THE SIGNATURES OF SILICON-BASED LIFE?"BERNSTEIN - If they are not scientific, they would be very problematic to detect. We can side for quaking, startling Silicon molecules; more than a few high dash molecule that have to not be acquaint with, or molecular manacles of all the extremely length.DORMINEY - "DO YOU Spell THAT SILICON-BASED Character Potency Situate Wherever OUT THERE?"BERNSTEIN - Maybe profound bottom the play of a planet in more than a few very hot hydrogen-rich, Oxygen-poor zone, you would devour this dense Silane chemistry. Nearby, perchance Silanes would form reversible Silicon bonds among Selenium or Tellurium.DORMINEY - "IF SUCH SILICON-BASED Character DID Yield UP, To the same extent WOULD BE ITS EVOLUTIONARY ENDGAME?"BERNSTEIN - If it can expand taking into consideration the protist [virus] remain standing, hence I take for granted it can expand intelligence. I devour no idea how aptitude it is for intelligence to expand, but I can cost in Silicon crystals brief information from layer to layer or in Silicon misleading intelligence, but I don't raise to see Silicon apes playing their be level with of "Victimized Birds" on their Silicon-Phones.DORMINEY - "IF SILICON-LIFE DID Evolution, WOULD ITS LIFESPAN BE Extensively LONGER THAN ITS CARBON-BASED ANALOGUES?"BERNSTEIN - The replicating granite that I described previous would be living very, very idly on Earth's play. But perchance wherever very far away hotter, its lifespan would be shorter. That's while seemingly lifespan is related to the pace of your chemistry, which depends on warmth.DORMINEY - "Sooner or later, To the same extent WOULD Peril NON-CARBON-BASED LIFE?"BERNSTEIN - Actual abuse for sure. Apparently you can keep a jackhammer to it?But our biochemistry would not be pathogens to it; we can not "stain" them as was the case in "War of the Worlds."http://www.universetoday.com/91449/why-silicon-based-aliens-would-rather-eat-our-cities-than-us-thoughts-on-non-carbon-astrobiology/
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In 1993, Steven M. Greer founded the Bolt from the blue Be notable, presenting impressive evidence of extraterrestrial visits to Secure, and a rise in conspiracy by governments in the Attached States and other nations to cover up evidence of these visits. Greer also states that these groups surround unsure extraterrestrial technologies and our own professional technology from the civilization of the world, as well as free drive. One of the Bolt from the blue Project's most famous presentations was at the Majestic Motivation Stick in 2001, someplace Greer and a character of nation came means along with a huge fine of evidence supporter the existences of UFO's and Extraterrestrial beings. These included hundreds of eye witness testimonies from official people either from the military, airlines or legalize force. The illegal goverments of the world luggage compartment to retreat this technology so of avariciousness and ego have to do with, because the Secure is corrupted and millions starve to departing in grill surroundings. The Emblematic media is being stubborn by the covetous corporations and banking piece. You ain't gonna capture the truth on state. Beyond measure Website on UFO's and the Conceal Up at www.disclosureproject.org
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