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0310C-1945 - USO - Alaska - USAT Delarof
0310C-1945 - USO - Alaska - USAT Delarof
The case of USAT Delarof, 1945
Mar., 1945 Aleutian Islands. Aboard the US attack transport "Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after circling their ship. (Evidence 30). The above entry is from the Magonia Database, compiled by scientist Dr. Jacques Vallée. One of my current acitivities is to cross check this database and get more details on its cases. This case, two years before the press termed the expression "Flying saucer", seemed interesting and I have compiled some more information here.
Short summary
A radioman named Robert S. Crawford reported years later to a NICAP consultant a UFO sighting he witnessed with 14 other crewmen aboard the US Attach Transport ship Delarof, in March 1945 or summer 1945, depending on the sources. The event took place while the ship was heading back to Seattle, and was in the open sea past Adak.
An object went out of the water at about 1 mile of the ship, flew almost straight up, then made a turn and circles the ship 2 or 3 times, and flew away and disapeared. The flashes of light were seen where it disappeared.
The object was described as "dark against the sunset", and of circular shape, with a size estimated by Crawford as of 150 to 250 feet in diameter.
Gunmen were on full alert but did not shoot. The captain of the ship maintained the alert as long as the ship was in the sector, but nothing else happened.
In addition to the report files by the NICAP consultant who heard the story from Robert S. Crawford, Dr. James E. McDonald, atmospherics physicist and well known scientist involved in UFO research, interviewed him again in 19
References
"UFO Investigator, a NICAP publication, Vol. 4, No. 5, p. 4", available from the Donald E. Keyhoe Archives, March 1968.
"UFO Evidence", by Richard Hall, published by NICAP, 1964.
"Passport to Magonia", by Jacques Vallé, page 190, 1969.
"Invisible Residents", by Ivan T. Sanderson, pp. 35-36, 1970.
"No Earthly Explanation", by John Wallace Spencer, pp. 95-96, 1974.
"Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century", by J. & C. Bord, p. 169, 1989.
0310C-2015 - USO - Russia - Lake Baikal
0310C-2015 - USO - Russia - Lake Baikal
Since ancient times, the vast Lake Baikal has been known as deeply mysterious, but in the closing years of the Soviet era, and since, it has been the location of a number of alleged sightings of aliens and UFOs. Initially these were covered-up by the authorities of the USSR, but later they were revealed by the Russian media.
Siberian Times - 'Aliens and UFOs at world's deepest lake'
In recent days there have been unconfirmed reports in Russia that American director Steven Spielberg is planning a documentary based on these weird and unexplained accounts. At the time of writing, this appeared to be a hoax, though it was unclear who planted stories in the Russian media.
True or not about Spielberg's interest, the lake is perhaps the biggest focus of UFOs in Russia.
The versions of extra-terrestrial activity at Baikal - edged by mountains and containing one-fifth of the world's unfrozen freshwater - relate to supposed aliens seen by military divers in its depth, and large 'spaceships' hovering over its grey, moody expanses. Some of the images here show what two photographers claimed were UFOs buzzing the lake, while others are mock-ups from NTV based on descriptions of an incident at Kudara-Somon, in Buryatia, exactly a quarter of a century ago. A number of sightings also indicate bright 'cigar-shaped' objects in the sky flying over Baikal, as in the top picture.
NTV channel mock-up of 'flying saucer' based on accounts by residents of Kudara-Somon village in 1990
A case for which there were no images, but an intriguing description, occurred at Kurma, Irkutsk region, in 17 April 1987. The words that follow are from Valery Rudentsov, a local resident of nearby Shida village:
'There was 13 of us. At about 12.20am, one of our guys went out into the yard, a few seconds later runs, and calls all of us out. He stood in the centre of the yard and pointed his finger at the sky.
'Diagonally from his gesture - 150 metres above us - hung a huge flying saucer. From the centre of the plate went a phosphorescent purple ray. And at the edges of the plate were yellow portholes, almost like in our rural houses. The diameter of the plate was 70 metres. We saw it so clearly and for a long time, someone even suggested he throw a stone at it ...
'The weather was amazingly quiet, no sound was heard from the hanging saucer, although behind us was the village of Kurma - there was the noise of a dog barking, the lowing of cows. We were spellbound.
'It was a full moon and the visibility was so clear that no one of us could doubt the reality of what we saw. And then the plate slid smoothly away, sailed along the shore of the bay and further slipped into the hills of Olkhon. Neither before nor after have I ever met such a thing.
'But since that time it has been a kind of sacrilege to me - not to believe in UFOs. My friend Alexander, a hunter, and his colleagues who lived there for 20 years, often see UFOs - and all is fine, he is still alive. So if to speak about glowing balls or 'cigars', we constantly see these on the shores of Lake Baikal. They exist.'
The case highlighted by NTV channel was on 16 May 1990 in the village of Kudara-Somon, in Kyakhtinsky district, some 300 km from Ulan-Ude, capital of the Republic of Buryatia.
Margarita Tsybikova recalls the UFO's visit to Kudara-Somon. Marina Zimireva shows where the 'flying saucer' landed
Olga Fedorova, a local resident, recalled: 'At some moment everything turned yellow. My daughter came home from school. I looked - her face was yellow.'
The explanation soon became clear, according to accounts from villagers. Vasily Timofeev spoke of a flying saucer. 'Its diameter was around 30 meters, it shone brightly. But I did not see a clear image of metal or something like this.'
Another resident Margarita Tsybikova said: 'From this dish came down people in shiny, shimmering costumes.' Olga explained: 'There were people, as far as I remember, three people in shining yellow suits. Seems there were people, yes.' Marina Zimireva, who also says she witnessed this extraordinary sight, said: 'It was some kind of circle, it can be said, it was like a disk. It turned on the edge and and, well, windows were visible.
'I personally decided for myself that they were people. They had some human image. They were the same - straight, slender, they had arms and legs. And their gait was the same as ours. A little lower down there were three in orange suits. They went down from the disk like a man - the steps were very visible.' Then, as they recounted the strange event, the 'aliens' saw the people watching them. They returned to their spaceship and flew away.
Nikita Tomin
A picture taken by Nikita Tomin, shows three green-shaded lights on a UFO flying above a lakeside resort in Irkutsk region
The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh
Game warden Gennady Lipinsky also recalls seeing a UFO. 'When I saw it, it was flying low. Until it disappeared over the horizon, I kept looking at it. I call it a fireball, and what it really was - I cannot know.' The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh, Ulan-Ude, was quoted about a much more recent incident, on 9 July 2009, at around 10pm. 'My son and I went out to the balcony, to see the last of the waning sunset. Suddenly there appeared these two glowing points and they hovered over the water.'
His pictures of this incident are clear yet perhaps raise as many questions as they answer. They show two glows in the night sky, featuring a yellow core with an orange-red surround. By his account, the mysterious crafts rose and rebased elsewhere on Baikal's surface. Around the same time, Anna Vinogradova, recalled a different but equally strange sight on the water. 'We were standing with tents on the beach and at night we saw orange-red flashes, as if a huge fires,' she said. At Listvyanka in July 2010, a picture taken by Nikita Tomin, shows three green-shaded lights on a UFO flying above the lakeside resort in Irkutsk region.
The chairman of the Union of Photographers of Buryatia, Sergey Konechnykh shows the pictures he made in July 2009
'It flew right above us, very low. The object was shining down on us with a green light. We were a bit scared,' he said. But the accounts also include 'aliens' in the deep waters of Baikal. Interestingly, unlike several other Siberian lakes, Baikal is not seen as home to a Loch Ness-style monster, but rather boasts space-like aliens under its murky surface.
For example, Vyacheslav Lavretevich, a rescuer, recalled an incident but did not give the date. 'We were on a yacht on Lake Baikal, and from under us flew out a huge glowing disk. It blinded us, and for a second flew into the sky. 'We did not even have time to grab any cameras, nor take video, although many of us saw it. It was a huge - and lit up all of our yacht. In diameter it was probably 500-700 metres, a huge disk. 'For three minutes it shone from below (the surface), and then abruptly departed in a second. The spectacle was huge, awesome. Beautiful, and shocking.'
Vyacheslav Lavretevich, a rescuer, recalled an incident on Baikal
Oleg Chichulin saw strange objects near Cape Svyatoi Nos
In 1977 two researchers named V Alexandrov and G Seliverstov, were in a submersible device at a depth of 1200 metres in the lake and observd strange lights
Oleg Chichulin was also on a boat, training students. Near Cape Svyatoi Nos they saw strange objects. 'There was a ball that glowed. And then this ball started to fade, fade and blush. And it turned into a red ball. This red ball for a while lay on the water, and then began to sink. And all this gradually, gradually went under the water. And it became dark.' Yet there are even more intriguing accounts of underwater aliens in the vast lake.
In 1977, when Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Kremlin, two researchers named V Alexandrov and G Seliverstov, were in a submersible device at a depth of 1200 metres in the lake. The researchers turned off their spotlights, to explore the depth of penetration of sunlight into the water. Suddenly the scientists were bathed in light from an unusual 'glow'. Aleksandrov recalled: 'It was so like if our device was lit from above and the side by two strong spotlights. Only a minute later, unknown floodlights went out, and we found ourselves in total darkness.'
'I have hundreds of drawings with these 'Sons of the Sky', told Alexey Tivanenko
In 1982, seven military divers were reported to have come across aliens under the waters of Baikal. Alexey Tivanenko, a doctor of history, said: 'At a depth of 50 metres, they met swimmers, around three metres tall, dressed in tight-fitting silvery suits. They did not have any scuba or other devices, just helmets on their heads.
'They received an order to catch the Ihtiander (half-boy, half-shark, from modern Russian folklore) - but they were immediately washed ashore with signs of decompression. 'They had two decompression devices, but one was broken. All seven people could not be put inside, so they put only four of them. And those three people, who were not put in the device, died on the beach.' Tivanenko has likened the descriptions to ancient petroglyphs seen by some as being aliens visiting Earth. 'I have hundreds of drawings with these 'Sons of the Sky',' he told NTV. 'They are united by the fact that all of them are tall, dressed in suits, all with the helmets on their heads. And there are mechanisms used by astronauts today.'
Reports surfaced several days ago in the Russian media that Spielberg was expected at Baikal in May, and that he intends to make a documentary entitled Depth 211. Citing the 'press service' of MUFON - the Mutual UFO Network, a US-based organisation that investigates UFO sightings - news source infobaikal.ru and others reported his trip. Yet there was no confirmation from the Hollywood director, who has made such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, would be arriving, nor further detail on the reported project. Later, Komsomolskaya Pravda and IA Teleinform denied the reports but without quoting any sources close to the director.
Source: https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/f0077-aliens-and-ufos-at-worlds-deepest-lake/
UFO Sverige - UFOs and Lake Baikal
What hides beneath the waves of the sea? Or under the water surface of a lake? It is usually claimed that we humans know more about the surface of the moon than about what is hidden on the bottoms of the world. It is related to what you can see with the naked eye.
By Anders Berglund
If you want to see with your own eyes what can be hidden in the depths, you have to dive. An often dangerous and expensive activity that should be left to the professionals. That lakes and seas have become places of mystery is not so strange when you think about it. Here we will take a little look at Lake Baikal - one of Russia's largest lakes where UFO phenomena have become part of the lake's mystique.
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia is the world's deepest lake. The average depth is 730 meters and the greatest depth has been measured up to 1,642 meters. Lake Baikal is also the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, around 25 percent of all fresh surface water on earth is collected here. Over the centuries, many legends and myths have arisen around Ozero Baikal, which is its Russian name.
Photograph from the ISS over Lake Baikal in 2009. Photo: NASA
View of Baikal from the ISS with visible rings on the lake's ice. Photo: NASA
According to local folklore, the lake is supposed to be bottomless and its waters are in constant connection with all the world's seas, lakes and rivers. And somewhere far down in the dark depths a silver castle gleams. According to Siberian and Mongolian mythology, it is the abode of the underground death god Erlik-Khan.
One of the "evidence" presented to show that something mysterious is happening in the lake is a picture taken from the International Space Station "ISS" on April 25, 2009. It shows a "saucer circle" in the western part of Lake Baikal and another a little further east out. In fact, they are natural phenomena that also occur on Swedish lakes from time to time.
Map of Baikal from National Geographic 1992
Aleksej Tivanenko is a Russian writer who collected historical observations of UFO phenomena in the area around Lake Baikal. Among other things, he has sought out early Russian press clippings. In "The Irkutsk Chronicles" by NS Romanov from 1886, one can read, among other things, about a giant glowing sphere that was seen over Baikal by many people. According to Romanov, the globe must have had many openings, or valves, on its surface.
From the beginning of the 20th century, when the Trans-Siberian railway was built along southern Lake Baikal, there are several UFO reports from Russian ralliers. What was seen across the lake resembled strange globes with rotating searchlights.
In the book Russia's USO Secrets by Paul Stonehill & Philip Mantle (2016) it is written about several UFO sightings over Lake Baikal. A very spectacular sighting is said to have occurred during the night between May 17 and 18, 1964. From a military installation by the lake, a flaming orange orb could be seen descending over the lake. The orb was described as being as large as the sun in the sky but not as dazzling. The sighting of the orb had been preceded by a peculiar glow at dusk. The glow was spread over a large area and was unlike any known weather phenomenon. It was thought that the taiga over the horizon was on fire.
At night, the military post was hit by electronic interference as the orb came closer. They suspected that they were under attack and ordered full combat readiness. According to the authors, the observation is still unsolved today.
Ufologist Mikhail Gehrstein on Russian TV
In the fall of 1965, a glowing cigar-shaped object, leaving behind a trail of condensation, was observed flying over Lake Baikal. Several small orbs of different colors were detached from the object, which moved away at the same speed as the object but in different directions. In Stonehill & Mantle's book, several other UFO sightings around Lake Baikal are described that one would have liked to know more about.
Lake Baikal is also said to be the site of a rather incredible story where several divers are said to have died after coming into contact with strange creatures. The story should not have involved an unidentified flying object, but rather a sudden encounter with what in the UFO context is usually described as humanoids.
In the summer of 1982 , Soviet military frogmen performed diving exercises in Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. The exercises were visited by celebrities. A major general, who was also the commander of diving units within the Soviet engineering forces, came for an inspection. He also had a warning with him. He told the officers on site what had happened during a similar exercise in Lake Baikal.
There at Baikal, the divers had come across something peculiar in the water. At a depth of 50 metres, they had met what they first thought were other divers. On closer inspection it had been seen that they were not people at all but human-like creatures. They were close to three meters tall and despite it being so cold down there, they had only been wearing thin silver tights. They also had no diving equipment as far as could be seen. On their heads they would have had globe-like helmets.
The encounter in the depths demanded an answer. A plan was drawn up. A special unit of seven divers was sent down to set a trap for the creatures. But when you tried to draw a net over a creature, it fought back. Some kind of force discharge took place and the seven divers were pushed, as if from an explosion, through the water at high speed right up to the surface. Such a rapid ascent caused decompression sickness, or so-called diver's sickness, in the divers. A condition resulting from the formation of bubbles in the body due to the drop in pressure which can lead to paralysis and death.
And the story of the divers must have ended tragically. They did not have access to more than one pressure chamber (a specially constructed chamber where pressure corresponding to a depth of 50 meters could be simulated). Four of the divers were squeezed into the chamber, which was only intended for two. The result was that three of the divers are said to have died. The fourth diver, and the three who did not get a place in the chamber, became invalids for life.
Made up history ?
The mysterious divers in Lake Baikal is an exciting story. But is it true? On the Internet, the searcher can find many different descriptions and versions of what happened. But you cannot find either the date, time or names of those who are supposed to have been there. The basic story is also retold in the third hand. For the source-critical ufologist, all of this is a sure sign that any truth content should be taken with a grain of salt.
Today we also know that the alleged tragic underwater encounter in Lake Baikal is a hoax. And we also know who invented it. The Russian ufologist Mikhail Gehrstein, who investigated the claims surrounding the divers, tells UFO-Sverige that the story originally came from journalist Mark Steinberg at the newspaper Novoe Russkoe Slovo, which is an American newspaper in Russian.
Steinberg claimed that he had been on the dives at Issyk-Kul and thus found out what had happened at Lake Baikal. In 1992, several Russian military authorities even published an official denial of Steinberg's claims in the Russian press. It simply had never happened. "I don't know why this story is still alive outside of Russia," Gehrstein writes to UFO-Sweden.
0310C-2006 - USO - USA - P. Dennett - South California
0310C-2006 - USO - USA - P. Dennett - South California
Une base extra-terrestre sous-marine au large de la Californie du sud ?
Le chercheur Preston Dennett, membre du MUFON a commencé ses investigations sur les ovnis dès les années 1980, et il a reçu assez rapidement des rapports signalant des ovnis sortant de l’océan. Plusieurs de ces rapports provenaient d’un certain endroit le long de la ligne de côte de la Californie, d’environ Santa Barbara au sud jusqu’à Long Beach. Après que plusieurs témoins lui aient dit qu’ils pensaient qu’il y avait une base sous-marine d’ovni située là, il décidait d’effectuer une enquête plus en profondeur pour déterminer la vérité.
Sa première étape a été d’examiner les recherches d’autres investigateurs importants. A sa surprise, la plupart des chercheurs locaux se rendaient déjà compte de ces signes. Ann Druffel écrit : » Ces eaux superficielles se trouvent entre le littoral dusud de la Californie et l’île Santa Catalina, à 20 miles (32 km env.) en mer vers le sud-ouest. Le secteur a pendant au moins trente années été la scène de rapports de toutes sortes – des apparitions de vaisseaux flous croisant lentement avec une belle vue des installations militaires, des sphères aériennes qui volent en oscillant, de gigantesques nuages-cigares et au moins un rapport d’un ovni sous-marin avec des occupants en uniformes « .
Un autre chercheur, Robert Stanley, éditeur du maintenant défunt magazine Unicus, écrit : » Même dans les années 1960, les familles descendaient à la plage et attendaient pour voir un ovni passer… Dans les années 1970, des familles entières descendaient à la plage au Point Dume la nuit pour voir les ovnis multicouleurs qui descendaient sous l’eau parfois. «
L’investigateur de terrain du MUFON Bill Hamilton Jr. écrit : » Pendant des années ont été vus beaucoup de types d’ovnis croisant vers la peninsule Palos Verdes au sud de la Californie. Les ovnis ont réellement été vus sortir du Canal de San Pedro. «
Il avait déjà découvert plusieurs cas de première main par lui-même. Sa nouvelle étape a été de monter une liste complète de tous les rapports de rencontres en haute mer dans ce secteur. Après avoir complété son enquête, il avait plus de cinquante signalements. Il était évident que les cas devait être catégorisés par types.
Le premier type et le plus commun sont les cas qui prennent place au-dessus du littoral. Dans ces cas, les gens voient les ovnis soit du rivage, ou alors lorsqu’ils sont en mer. Plusieurs cas typiques suivent :
1953 : L’ingénieur Frederick Hehr et plusieurs autres sont sur la plage de Santa Monica quand ils observent un « escadron de soucoupes » faire des manoeuvres dans le ciel en plein jour au-dessus de la baie. Plus tard le même jour, les objets reviennent et refont plus de manoeuvres pendant une période de plus de 10 minutes.
10 juillet 1955 : Aux alentours de 11 heures du matin, plusieurs pêcheurs de la côte de Newport Beach observent un objet en forme de cigare bleu-argenté qui vole à « allure modérée et à moyenne altitude ». Deux heures et demi plus tard, une famille de trois personnes de Washington navigue à 13 miles (21 km) des côtes de Newport Beach sur leur chemin pour l’île Catalina quand ils observent un vaisseau « parfaitement rond, gris-blanc », à 2500 pieds (750m) au-dessus de leur navire. Alors que l’objet maintient sa position au-dessus du navire, ils appellent à la radio la Garde-Côte, qui envoie un avion. L’objet file au loin avant que l’avion arrive.
Décembre 1957 : L’équipage sur le pont du paquebot Britannique S.S. Ramsey sont près de la côte de San Pedro quand ils observent un large disque gris avec des antennes comme des projections. L’un des homme d’équipage saisi son appareil photo et prend une photo trouble de l’objet avant qu’il s’éloigne au loin.
1960 : L’acteur Chad Everett et deux amis sont sur la terrasse de toit de sa maison de Beverly Hills la nuit quand ils observent un objet lumineux qui fait des va et vient à haute vitesse au-dessus de l’océan proche. Parceque l’objet bouge très rapidement et à angles droits, les témoins sont convaincus que c’est un véritable ovni.
6 novembre 1967 : Début de matinée à Playa Del Rey, trois voitures roulent le long de la voie de la Côte Pacifique quand soudainement elles calent alors qu’un grand » objet en forme d’oeuf » entouré de « brume bleue » atterrit sur la plage seulement quelques mètres plus loin. Les trois témoins, Richard Kehoe, Ronald Burke et Joe Thomas sortent de leurs voitures et observent deux hommes à l’apparence étrange sortir de l’objet. Les occupants de l’ovni ont la peau « jaune-verdâtre » et portent « des pantalons de cuir noir, des ceintures blanches et des débardeurs de couleur claire. » Ils marchent vers les témoins et commencent à poser des questions. Kehoe et les autres sont incapables de comprendre les occupants, qui semblent parler une langue étrangère. Après quelques instants, les personnages retournent à l’objet qui décolle et accélère hors de vue. Cependant, environ dix heures plus tard, à 15h50, un officier commandant et douze aviateurs du détachement de l’Air Force près de Long Beach voient six objets en forme de soucoupes bourdonner à travers le ciel. Deux heures plus tard, les officiers de la base aéronavale de Los Alamitos voient de « nombreux » objets s’entre-croiser dans le ciel. En même temps, les commissariats de police locaux à Long Beach recoivent plus de cent appels de résidents de Long Beach qui rapportent des ovnis.
1970 : A été enquêté par Bill Hamilton Jr., une communication anonyme d’une personne de l’île Catalina au Port de San Pedro qui a observé une soucoupe métallique avec 4 « pieds hémisphériques » en-dessous, qui vole à quelques centaines de mètres au-dessus de son bateau.
Mai 1973 : Le Directeur Artistique George Gray (pseudonyme) observe un objet qui émet un faisceau de lumière vers le bas alors qu’il roule le long de la voie de la Côte Pacifique à Santa Monica quelques heures avant l’aube. Gray dit : » l’ovni était au-dessus d’où était la plage… planant je pourrai dire peut-être à 100, deux cents pieds (30-60 mètres) en l’air. Il était argenté. C’était votre ovni de base… c’était définitivement completement métallique avec un dôme argenté au sommet et un dôme argenté en dessous de ça, comme deux plats mis ensemble. Et il avait de petites lumières autour de lui. » Gray peut appeler d’autres témoins avant que l’objet s’écarte au loin.
Eté 1988 : Le photographe professionnel Kim Carlsberg observe un objet semblable à une étoile scintillante alors qu’il se détend dans sa maison du front de mer à Malibu. Soudainement, l’objet comme une étoile s’oriente directement sur lui.Carlsberg dit, » le point brillant de lumière à avancé jusqu’à ce qu’il devienne une sphère lumineuse de quelque 50 pieds (15m) de diamètre. C’est sinistrement accroché en l’air à une centaine de pieds (30m) de ma fenêtre… l’apparent arrêt n’a pas duré plus d’une minute avant que la sphère reparte aussi vite qu’elle est apparue. Ca s’arrache en diagonale à travers le ciel nocturne et s’évanoui. »
Le 4 mai 1990 : C’est le début de matinée et deux surfeurs de Malibu se trouvent sur leurs planches à attendre la prochaine vague quand ils observent une » soucoupe en alluminium brossé avec une bosse au milieu qui s’est approchée du rivage en sortant de la forte brume qui stagnait à environ un mile du rivage » (1.5km). L’objet fait des va et vient vite puis s’enfonce dans la mer.
Eté 1990 : Le pilote privé Toshi Inouye et son étudiant observent un grand, rouge, objet en forme de cigare rougeoyant planant près de leur avion au-dessus de la Baie de Santa Monica dans la fin d’après-midi. Inouye dit : » Il se tenait toujours dans le ciel, flamboyant rouge. Nous étions littéralement pétrifiés. Nous n’avons pas su quoi faire. « Inouye envisage d’appeler la tour de contrôle de l’aéroport voisin quand l’objet soudainement file au loin.
1998 : Adam X (nettoyeur de piscines) et Mario X (militaire privé) sont en train de rouler le long de la voie de la Côte Pacifique à Malibu quand ils voient six objets en forme de diamant noir filer à haute vitesse à travers la côte. Les deux hommes sont si impressionnés par la brève vision qu’ils passent l’heure suivante à rouler à travers la côte dans les deux sens en espérant une répétition de l’apparition. Alors qu’ils ne voient plus d’ovnis, ils trouvent d’autres témoins des ovnis. Adam dit » Nous avons trouvé d’autres personnes qui étaient juste assises dans leurs chaises de jardin le long de la route. Je ne sais pas si ceci a quelque chose à voir avec ça, mais ils étaient juste assis là le long d’un côté de la route, à regarder seulement en l’air « .
3 janvier 2004 : Le jeune Chyren se tient le long de la côte de Santa Monica à midi quand il observe un vaisseau en forme de soucoupe métallique argentée qui plane seulement à quelque mille pieds (300m) directement au-dessus d’un petit yacht qui est à moins d’un mile (1.5km) en mer. Il saisit rapidement son appareil photo et en prend une photographie (voir la photo).
Beaucoup d’autres cas d’ovnis volant au-dessus de l’océan peuvent être cités, mais ce qui est important ici est qu’il y a une large disproportion du nombre d’apparitions régulières d’ovnis sur ce secteur, et dans la plupart des cas, ils sont seulement à quelques centaines de mètres ou moins au-dessus de la surface de la mer. Il est donc facilement possible qu’ils viennent de l’océan ou qu’ils y vont.
Et c’est ce que nous verrons dans la prochaine catégorie qui implique les ovnis qui font exactement ça. Ce sont ces cas beaucoup plus rares qui fournissent des évidences puissantes d’une base sous-marine d’ovnis au large de la côte californienne. Et également, les cas commencent au début des années 1950 et continuent de nos jours.
21 novembre 1951 : A été rapporté par le chercheur Harold Wilkins, » de nombreux témoins observent un « objet brûlant non identifié » qui descend dans l’océan, quelque part au large de la côte de Californie. »
8 août 1954 : Le paquebot japonais Aliki est près de la côte de Long Beach quand plusieurs membre d’équipage observent un ovni sous-marin. Le message radio du bateau dit : » Nous avons vu une boule de feu bouger dans et or de la mer sans être mouillée, un sillage de fumée blanche à gauche, une course érratique, qui a disparu de notre vue « .
1955 : De multiples résidents de la ville cotière de nord Californie de Santa Maria observent un « grand objet argenté » qui émerge de l’océan et part dans l’espace.
le 15 janvier 1956 (soirée) : de multiples résidents de Redondo Beach rapportent avoir vu un grand et rougeoyant objet descendre du ciel et flotter sur la surface de l’océan à environ 75 yards (69 m) du rivage. Pendant que la rencontre se répand, des douzaines de témoins convergent vers la scène, incluant un veilleur de nuit local, des maîtres-nageurs de Redondo Beach et des officiers de police de la proche Hermosa Beach. Pendant que la foule se réunit, l’eau autour de l’objet commence à « mousser » et l’ovni s’enfonce sous la surface. La lueur de l’objet, cependant, demeure si intense qu’ils peuvent toujours le voir. Les officiers de police appellent à la radio pour de l’assistance et des plongeurs sont envoyés pour investiguer. Malheureusement, pendant le temps que les plongeurs arrivaient, l’objet est parti. Un autre officier de police teste le secteur avec un compteur Geiger, qui n’enregistre aucune radiation. Un autre recherche le jour suivant ne donne aucun résultat.
9 février 1956 : du personnel militaire observe une boule de feu qui descend dans l’océan en face de la côte de Redondo Beach. Un an après, l’ufologue Leonard Stringfield obtient un rapport officiel de l’incident qui dit seulement : » un aérolithe à frappé l’eau. Il a été submergé « .
28 juillet 1962 : Le capitaine d’un bateau de pêche note quelques lumières qui flottent stationnairement dans l’eau à environ six miles (9 km) au sud de l’île Santa Catalina. Lors d’une observation plus proche, le capitaine est effrayé de voir ce qu’il pense en premier être un sous-marin Russe. Le Capitaine dit : » ça apparaissait être la poupe d’un sous-marin. Nous pouvions voir cinq hommes, deux en tenue blanche, deux avec des pantalons foncés et des chemises blanches, et un en combinaison bleu-ciel. Nous sommes passés par le travers à moins d’un quart de mile (400m) et j’étais certain que c’était un sous-marin bas sur l’eau, en acier gris, sans marques, la plate-forme presqu’inondée, montrant seulement sa queue et une arrière-structure de forme asymétrique. » Soudainement le sous-marin se dirige droit sur le bateau de pêche comme pour le percuter. Le Capitaine fait un virage d’urgence alors que le sous-marin les dépasse à haute-vitesse, sans émettre de bruit et sans laisser de sillage excepté une « bosse de bonne taille ». Le Capitaine contacte la Marine qui n’est pas capable d’identifier positivement le sous-marin. Les ufologues Coral et Jim Lorenzen entendent parler de ce cas et spéculent qu’ils pourraient avoir vu un ovni (oani) et non un sous-marin. Lorenzen dit : » La haute vitesse, le manque de sillage et de bruit et la bosse énorme font que cet objet est suspect « . On pourrait aussi mentionner la forme asymétrique du sous-marin lui-même, son manque de crainte d’être vu et sa manoeuvre agressive.
5 février 1964 : Onze passagers sont secourus par la garde côtière de leur radeau de secours après l’inexplicable naufrage de leur yacht, le Hattie D. L’équipage était en train de naviguer vers le sud de la côte de Californie, provenant de Seattle, Etat de Washington quand leur yacht a été percuté ou enfoncé par un » objet métallique » non indentifié. Le membre d’équipageCarl Jansen dit : » Je ne faits pas attention de savoir à quelle profondeur il était… ce qui nous a troué était en acier, et un gros morceau. Il n’y a aucun doute là-dessus « .
2 décembre 1965 : Mrs. Irwin Cohen et son fils observent un objet rougeoyant qui descend dans l’eau au large de San Pedro, laissant un grand nuage de vapeur. Pendant que l’objet descend, les témoins prennent quelques photos. Ils se demandent s’ils ont été témoin d’un missile de la Marine ou d’un autre objet inconnu.
Octobre 1968 : Le harponneur George Hiner est en train de pêcher sur son bateau à l’extrêmité orientale de l’île de Santa Catalina quand il repère un « objet en forme de dôme blanc » à travers ses jumelles. Pendant qu’il l’observe, l’objet monte à 10 pieds (3 m) au-dessus de la surface de l’eau, puis descend et monte encore. Il note un étrange « parachute » comme un dispositif sous l’objet, qui descend doucement et coule alors sous les vagues.
Juin 1980 : La thérapeute Linda Susan Young et un ami conduisent le long de la route de la Côte Pacifique à Santa Monica quand Young observe une inhabituelle lumière brillant stationnairement à plusieurs miles au-dessus de la mer.Young a été déconcertée par son apparence et s’est tournée vers son ami. Young dit : » Je dis au garçon avec moi : – Qu’est-ce que tu supposes que c’est ?, et il a regardé autour et l’a vu. Il l’a vu seulement une seconde au moment où il est parti étrangement dans le ciel en clignotant. Il n’a pas fait comme si il partait au loin pour disparaître de notre vue , avec la distance. C’est juste une sorte de disparition. Il a juste arrêté d’être là. J’ai toujours supposé que c’était un ovni « .
1980 : Une personne anonyme (un ingénieur électronicien expérimenté) qui navigue par un jour de brouillard entre Santa Barbara Island et Santa Cruz, observe une » lumière fluorescente corlorée de vert » devant lui dans la brume. En pensant que c’était un autre navire utilisant de brillantes lumières pour naviguer dans le brouillard, il arrête et attend qu’il passe. Alors qu’il s’approche, cependant, il est incapable de distinguer le moindre détail. Alors qu’il est à un quart de mile (400m) de distance, il se dirige directement vers lui, le témoin découvre pourquoi. Le témoin dit : » J’ai finalement réalisé que cette chose silencieuse était sous-marine… Je devine que cela avait – je ne sais pas – peut-être 300 pieds (90 m) de diamètre, mais je ne pourrai pas savoir aucune dimension verticale de ça parce que c’était sous moi dans l’eau. C’est littéralement passé directement sous moi « . Le témoin naviguait sur un voilier entièrement équipé de 38 pieds (12 m). Lorsque l’objet est passé sous lui, il prend plusieurs mesures de la sonde de profondeur, déterminant que l’objet est environ à 100 pieds (30 m) de profondeur. A ce moment, les deux sondes de profondeur arrêtent de fonctionner. Le témoin vérifie ses boussoles. Alors il dit : » toutes les trois tournaient lentement sur elles et je n’étais pas… j’ai essayé d’appeler la Garde Cotière et la radio était morte. » l’objet s’écarte et disparaît, laissant le témoin fortement effrayé. Un contrôle postérieur de son équipement révèle que tous les supports de ses boussoles sont cassés. Le témoin de l’incident dit : » c’était étrange. J’étais juste trop sacrément pétrifié pour bouger « .
1990 : Selon le chercheur Bill Hamilton, fin 1989 démarrait l’apparition de nombreux témoignages à Marina Del Rey répétant des rencontres avec » d’étranges lumières bleu-vert dans l’eau « . Ce que Hamilton écrit : » en 1989 et encore en 1990, des témoins ont vu autant d’évènements qu’une vingtaine par heure. Une large lumière paraissait avoir plus de 100 pieds (30 m) de diamètre. Cette grande lumière engendre des bébés pas plus larges que 10 à 12 pieds (3-4 m) de longueur. Ces lumières ont été vues se mouvant rapidement sous la surface de l’océan à environ 500 à 1000 pieds (150 à 300 m) du rivage de Abalone Cove… une de ces lumières a été vue émerger de l’eau « .
Printemps 1991 : Dans les premières heures matinales, Tony X. regarde à travers la fenêtre de sa maison du front de mer àMalibu et observe un objet brillamment éclairé flottant sur la surface de l’océan à environ deux miles au loin. Tony dit : » ça ressemblait à un grand prisme, avec des couleurs variées là bas. Je prenais un télescope et je l’ai regardé « . Après quelques heures, la lumière disparaît. Cependant, deux ans après, en janvier 1993, l’objet revient. Tony dit : » je prend le télescope et le regarde, et c’était la même sorte de chose… les couleurs semblaient très pures, faute d’un meilleur mot. Elles semblaient réellement cohérentes. Tony appelle les Garde cotes, mais ils nient avoir quelconque information.
5 mai 1992 : Deux amis marchant le long de la plage de Malibu observent une espèce de lumière/aérolithe » descendre du ciel et dans l’océan. Les témoins disent : » ça allait à une incroyable vitesse et était à moins d’un mile de là. Ca a semblé frapper l’océan… ensuite l’objet fait son chemin à la surface de l’océan, et ça disparaît, aussi je pense qu’il est allé sous l’eau « .
1994 : Deux hommes marchant près de la côte de Rancho Palos Verdes la nuit voient plusieurs » disques rougeoyants » flotter dans l’eau. L’un de ces témoins retourne à un date ultérieure et voit à nouveau les disques. A cette occasion, il observe plusieurs hélicoptères noirs dans le secteur. Peu après, il est confronté à des individus anonymes (agents du gouvernement, Men in Black ?) qui lui disent en termes clairs que ce secteur (de Abalone Cove) est interdit.
11 janvier 2002 : Un campeur anonyme le long de la côte à Point Mugu voit une lumière se déplacer en va et vient à 100 pieds (30 m) au-dessus de l’eau, et deux autres lumières sous la surface de la mer. Les deux objets filent en va et vient en tandem pendant 30 minutes (se déplaçant différemment de tout avion ou hélicoptère), donnant aux témoins l’impression qu’ils cherchent quelque chose. Après, la lumière dans le ciel accélère hors de vue et les deux objets s’enfoncent sous l’eau et disparaissent.
Autant d’activité d’ovnis sous-marins à un endroit est indéniablement inhabituel et indique fortement la possibilité qu’il y ait une base d’ovnis quelque part dans ce secteur. Alors que tous les rapports ci-dessus fournissent de considérables évidences, d’avantage de confirmations de cette possibilité viennent d’une autre source. Non seulement il y a un inhabituel grand nombre de visualisations, atterrissages et d’ovnis allant dans l’océan ici, il y a aussi quelques cas d’enlèvements. Normalement, quand quelqu’un rapporte avoir été enlevé par des aliens, ils prétendent avoir été enlevé à bord d’un ovni. Cependant, dans ce secteur particulier, les quelques enlevés disent qu’à la place, ils ont été emmené dans une base souterraine. Se pourrait-il que ces témoins aient été emmenés dans une base sous-marine dans le Canal de Santa Catalina ?
1967 : Deux jeunes garçons de 11 ans expérimentent un épisode de temps manquant alors qu’ils sont à bord du bateau de leurs parents à Avalon Harbor, île Santa Catalina. Des années plus tard, l’un des témoins, Paul Nelson (pseudonyme) est mis sous hypnose et se souvient que lui et son ami ont été enlevés par des extra-terrestres dans une apparente base souterraine où ils sont examinés par des aliens de type « Praying Mantis » (prêtre-insecte). Nelson dit : » j’ai été emmené dans une salle ronde murée. Cela semblait pour moi plus souterrain qu’à bord d’un navire. Les murs avaient une sorte de face en roc sur eux… des murs de roches plutôt que des murs du type usiné. cela donnait l’impression que j’étais dans une caverne (plutôt) que dans un navire… c’était plus un sentiment de souterrain, c’est vrai « . Après les examens, les garçons sont retournés sur le navire avec un temps manquant et sans mémoire consciente de l’enlèvement.
30 aôut 1992 : Comme raconté dans son livre autobiographique Beyond My Wildest Dreams, commençant au début des années 1990, Carlsberg a l’expérience d’une série d’enlèvements par un ovni de sa maison de Malibu. A chaque occasion, elle est examinée par des aliens de type « gris » ou de type « Praying Mantis ». Le 30 août 1992, Kim Carlsberg se souvient avoir été emmenée dans ce qui paraît être un vaste complexe souterrain où elle voit plusieurs autres enlevés et des aliens de différents types… » je me suis réveillée dans un couloir où beaucoup d’humains étaient installés autour. Ils me rappelaient des patients attendant d’endurer leur tour de chaise de dentiste « . Carlsberg aussi se rappelle être assise dans un large auditorium avec beaucoup d’autres enlevés où elle était désignée par les aliens qu’elle a été préparée pour quelque chose « .
Une preuve finale de l’évidence d’une base souterraine/soumarine provient de la vague de 1992-1994 à Topanga Canyon. Topanga Canyon a été un point névralgique pendant plus de 50 ans. cependant, dans la nuit du 14 juin 1992, littéralement des centaines d’ovnis ont été vus dans le canyon, qui est situé le long du rivage mentionné au-dessus. 17 adultes indépendants témoins ont rapporté avoir vu ces ovnis cette soirée. Un couple, cependant, vivait sur une arrête élevée donnant sur l’océan. Cette soirée, ils ont observé un total d’au moins 200 engins. A chaque fois, ils observaient les objets s’élever, un par un, de derrière l’arrête à l’est d’eux, et puis se déplaçaient dans divers endroits dans le canyon. Après avoir vu tant d’objets, le couple a eu une bonne idée d’où ils pouvaient provenir. L’un des témoins dit : » Savez-vous que quand vous regardez quelque chose pendant un moment… vous pouvez savoir d’où il vient ? Après les avoir vu, vous avez le sentiment qu’ils vont partout dans ce secteur, de cette tâche ici à droite « .
Cette certaine tâche est la même localisation où beaucoup d’ovnis sous-marins ont été vus. Et c’est ce qui fait l’importance de ce témoignage particulier, c’est que les objets n’ont pas été vus provenir d’en haut. au lieu de ça, ces 200 engins sont venus d’en-dessous, soit souterrain soit sous-marin. D’où auraient pu provenir autant d’ovnis, à l’exception d’une base d’un tel type ?
CONCLUSIONS
Comme on peut voir, l’évidence est très forte pour qu’il y ait en fait une base d’ovnis sous-marine dans le canal de Santa Catalina. Des centaines d’ovnis ont été vus dans le secteur. Une part significative de ces cas implique des objets dans et au-dessus de l’eau. Et il y a aussi quelques cas où des gens ont été apparemment enlevés dans ce qui pourrait être une très grand base !
Cela nous laisse avec quelques questions, comme où est cette base, combien elle est grande et quand a-t-elle été construite ?
C’est difficile de dire exactement où est cette base, mais en jugeant d’après le distribution des rencontres, la plus haute densité de cas se trouve le long du canal de Santa Catalina. Elle devrait être très profonde pour éviter toute détection, mais cela pourrait être pure spéculation.
La taille de la base est encore matière à spéculation, mais puisqu’il y a un grand nombre d’ovnis vus en une fois (environ 200) et d’après les rapports des enlevés, il semble possible d’assumer que cette base (en assumant qu’elle existe) est extrêmement grande, peut-être de la taille de plusieurs quartiers de ville ou plus ?
La question suivante est, depuis combien de temps cette base est-elle ici ? Incroyablement, nous pourrions avoir la réponse. L’âge moderne des ovnis a démarré vers 1947, quand une grande vague de témoignages traverse les Etats-Unis et le monde. C’était la même année où le maintenant célèbre Kenneth Arnold témoignait et du crash d’ovni confirmé à Roswell. Cette année-là, il y a aussi un étrange mystère qui s’est passé près des côtes de Californie.
Cela a commencé le 7 juillet 1947, peu après le crash d’ovni à Roswell. A 15H10 ce jour, deux adolescents marchent le long de la plage de San Raphael et voient un objet scintillant sortant de l’océan, voler sur une petite distance, puis rentrer à nouveau dans l’eau à 400 yards (350 m) du rivage.
Un mois plus tard, en août 1947, La garde-Côte reçoit des rapports d’un « étrange objet enflammé » aperçu chuter dans la mer.
Après cet incident, les voiliers allant dans et hors de la Baie de San Francisco rencontraient une « montagne sous-marine » qui apparaissait et disparaissait en divers endroits de la baie. Plusieurs navires ont témoigné de la mystérieuse masse, l’ont appelé « récif » ou « montagne submersible qui était apparemment apparu du jour au lendemain. Un autre navire rapportait » une grande masse sous l’eau, près du Golden Gate « . Après ça, la masse a disparu.
Ou peut-être s’est-elle juste déplacée encore. Pendant ce temps, le navire de patrouille de la Navy Maury et un autre engin sont envoyés pour enquêter sur un autre rapport d’un « récif fantôme » qui serait apparu environ à 400 miles (640 km env) des côtes de la californie du sud. Aucun diagramme ne liste une quelconque masse dans ce secteur. Et quand le Capitaine Hambling du Maury est arrivé, la « masse » était partie. Ils ont alors immédiatement surveillé les alentours du secteur et à leur étonnement, ils ont trouvé que la masse s’était déplacée encore. Le Capitaine Hambling dit : » nos sonars ont pris un étrange écho, quand nous étions à environ trois-quart de mile (1200 m env) de la location reportée du « récif ». il semblait que les sonars avaient obtenu un écho d’une masse à environ 1600 yards (1.4 km) de là. Nous avons changé de direction et démarré droit sur lui. A 400 yards (350 m) de lui, nous avons découvert qu’il s’était évanoui, et nous n’obtenions pas d’autre écho. Nous avons traqué et retraqué le secteur en utilisant des fathomètres et des sonars. Nous avons couvert cinq miles carrés (8 km²) très soigneusement, et cinq autres miles autour de l’extérieur du secteur. »
La « masse » cependant, avait disparu. Ou peut-être s’était-elle déplacée et avait trouvé une meilleure résidence permanente plus près du rivage. En considérant le nombre important de rapports d’objets sous-marins qui commence dans les années 1950, ceci peut avoir été le temps où la base supposée a été construite. En tout cas, les ovnis sous-marins ont bien été rencontrés dans ce secteur en 1947 et continuent de l’être à l’heure actuelle…
Alors qu’il peut sembler difficile de croire que des aliens vivraient sous nos océans, ce type de rencontre est indiqué tout autour du monde. Des ovnis en haute mer ont été vus sur les sept mers, depuis au moins 1000 ans et continuent au jour présent. Avec leur habilité à voyager à travers les océans et les cieux avec facilité, ces types de cas nous montrent juste combien sont avancés nos visiteurs. Et rappelez-vous, la plupart de nos océans demeurent inexplorés. Au moins par les humains.
(cet article a été adapté de » UFOs Over California : A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, publié par Schiffer Books, 2005.)
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Is There an Underwater UFO Base off the Southern California Coast ? par Preston Dennett (2006)
Sources : http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_flyingobjects54.htm
http://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1957-11-06-usa-playadelreyf.htm
Yves Herbo : ce document m’a été indiqué par John Tomlinson, qui coordonne la commission « Ufologie Internationale » et membre du conseil de l’Académie d’Ufologie fondée en 2007 par Jacky Kazan, avec comme membres fondateurs éminents Gérard Lebat, Patrick Gross, George Metz, Jean-Claude Venturini, Gerard Deforge, Christian Comtesse. Association que je présenterai plus en détail dans un prochain article.
http://www.ufolog.eu/index.php
Traduction Yves Herbo SFH 08-2012
Source: http://investigationsoanisetoceanographiee.wordpress.com/tag/preston-dennett/
0310A-2022 - USO - Unidentified Submarine Objects and Strange Cases of UFOs Entering and Exiting the Water
0310A-2022 - USO - Unidentified Submarine Objects and Strange Cases of UFOs Entering and Exiting the Water
One area of the greater UFO phenomenon that doesn’t seem to get as much attention as others is that of what are called USOs, which stands for “Unidentified Submersible Objects” or also “Unidentified Submarine Objects.” In such cases we have strange craft traveling beneath the waves through the water, and at other times seen to spectacularly enter the water or erupt from beneath, suggesting that these things are just as at home in the sea as they are in the skies above us. Here we will look at a collection of such exceptionally weird cases, pointing at an underseas dimension to the UFO phenomenon that has largely been ignored, but which has been gaining greater attention in recent years.
Our first odd report comes from 1947, off the coast of Malta. In June of that year, a fishing vessel was about 20 miles off the southern coast, engaged in the routine business of pulling in their nets. As the nets came up, one of the crew alerted the others to something strange bobbing about out on the water’s surface, which appeared to be what they described as a “black submarine” floating about in the waves. It was an unsettling enough sight that the crew finished hauling in their nets and went about starting up the engines to get out of there, and at that moment there was a bright flash of light from the anomalous black shape. This light was bright enough to illuminate the object and the surrounding vicinity, showing it to be smooth, black, and metallic, and there were also small figures now visible upon it, which seemed to be wearing some type of apparatus around their waists and were described as “little men.” As the frightened fishermen looked on, these diminutive figures, described as about the size of 10-year-old children, seemed to scramble into the craft, after which it began to glow so brightly that they could barely look directly at it. The object then quickly submerged and disappeared under the waves to not be seen again.
There are several similarly strange cases of UFOs entering or exiting the ocean from the 1970s. One of these comes from a reader submitted report to the site UFO Casebook, and apparently transpired in January of 1971 off the coast of Puerto Rico. The witness claimed that he frequently surfed, and that he and other surfers would often see strange things beneath the waves, glowing objects that would shoot about through the water at high speeds. One particularly interesting account would happen one morning, of which he says:
On one occasion, around 6.30. A.M. that is the best time to surf by the way, several silver-colored objects came out of the water about half a mile from where we were waiting to catch a wave. These objects were round and hovered in one position, then they took off straight up at a speed that I cannot explain, but they disappeared so fast it was incredible. About a half hour later, the objects came back, I think it was around 6 or 7 of them, and went into the ocean. We never reported it to anybody, we just thought it was a military practice or other things that we did not know about. This all happened in the year of 1971, January, I do not remember the exact date. I am only reporting this one event but we had many more sightings of this kind since we surfed in the west coast of Puerto Rico. By the way, this event happened in Rincon in a beach known to surfers as Tres Palmas, and there were about 8 to 10 surfers that day.
In 1973, we have the case of a UFO that seems to have come down to enter Rainbow Lake, in New Hampshire, in the United States. According to The Derry News, on October 4, 1973, several local residents saw multiple bright objects in the sky over the lake, “yellowish in color,” which hovered over the water. The size of the objects was given as several feet in diameter, and then one suddenly came down to crash into the waves while the other one shot straight up into the sky.
The East Derry Fire Rescue Squad was notified, and actually sent a boat to search the lake, but nothing could be found. Whatever the objects were, they were apparently seen by numerous witnesses throughout the area, as the police department would receive a deluge of over 40 calls about them, which were persistent enough in insisting that something had come down into the lake that a team of divers was subsequently sent in. A follow-up report would read:
At the request of Chief (redacted), two divers descended into Rainbow Lake Friday afternoon in an attempt to resolve reports of an unidentified flying object that three witnesses claim splashed into the lake on Oct. 2. The divers swept the silty lake water with powerful searchlights, but their vision was impaired by the murky water, and they could not see more than a few inches ahead at any time. Said one of the divers, “The only way they’re going to get anything out of that lake is if they drag it. Chief (redacted) said he has no plans to drag the bottom and considers the matter closed.
A very weird series of events would play out in 1977 in the vicinity of Mayaquez, Puerto Rico, the country’s third largest city, where there was much talk of two massive glowing objects that would on many occasions enter and exit the ocean. It happened in September of that year, with a report of the two UFOs passing over the city to head out about a half a mile off shore and drop down into the water in a controlled manner. These two objects would on several occasions exit and then enter the water again, all while an estimated one thousand people looked on in astonishment. Many of them were superstitious, and were overcome by an intense terror that the world was coming to an end.
One fisherman named Rafael Lopez and his half-brother, Arturo Rivera, were out in their boat that day and got a good look at the object coming down into the ocean, and he would explain:
It just appeared close to us. We didn’t see where it came from. We just all of a sudden noticed it close to us in the water, and when we first saw it, it looked small, and then it seemed to grow very large. In the beginning we weren’t afraid. We were glad because we thought there was another boat coming close to us. Then we realized it wasn’t a boat and we started to get frightened. We were hearing a sound like a cricket screeching. I had the impression it was a cricket inside the boat. I’ve had crickets in the boat before and all you have to do is pound on the sides of the boat and they usually shut up. But as much as we pounded, it didn’t quiet. It kept on making sounds.
As long as we didn’t move, the object stayed steady in the water and seemed to get smaller and then larger. And when it got larger, it got much brighter and then it would change colors. When it would grow brighter, it would get from like yellow to an orange color. Then we got frightened and decided to leave. But the boat had run out of gasoline. We had a little bit of gas in a bottle but we were really nervous by that time. We were trying to get the cap off the motor to put the gasoline in and we couldn’t because we were real nervous. And all this time the object kept getting closer and closer to us and we were getting more and more nervous. We finally got the cap off, and it finally started and we were able to start toward the beach. Once I got to the beach, I wasn’t even able to stand up at first because I was trembling. My whole body was trembling. I was pretty shook up. When I got back to my house, which is very close to the beach, I started to watch the object again. This time it was moving around real fast. It would seem to disappear and reappear again at a great distance from where it had disappeared from, darting back and forth. I’ve been a fisherman for a long time and I’ve been out on that water for a long time and I’ve never seen anything like what I saw that night. In my opinion, it was a UFO, a flying saucer.
Other witnesses were reporting the same thing, with one of the mystery objects coming down into the water. One local by the name of Luis Baez would say of what he saw:
I was playing pool and someone said, ‘Look!’ I came outside with my pool stick and I see this thing. It was something nice to see. It was round looking, like an apple. Nice, round, beautiful. It went toward the beach. I put my pool stick away and went down to the beach and looked. A friend said, ‘That thing that’s waiting over there is not a fishing boat.’ I said, ‘Sure it’s a boat’ and he said, ‘It’s not!’ So then the one that came by overhead was coming down near the other one. They stayed like that for three or four minutes maybe a thousand yards apart. The bigger one, the one that was waiting, tipped on its side and BLOOM! Into the water! The small one stayed for a while. After half an hour or so I went up to the roof of this garage and laid down and watched. I wanted to make sure if it moved or not. And I could see this thing goes up… down… this way to the right, back again and a few times it went this way into the water. You could see the water flashing. It never went all the way down in the water. It did that a few times, it goes up, comes down, moved toward the beach but not too close and it goes back. At one o’clock in the morning I went home to sleep. I have to be up early in the morning. So I slept, went to work and when I come back I asked a few friends of mine what happened to the one that was up there. Well at three o’clock in the morning it disappeared. There were about a thousand people at the beach where he was.
As all of this was going on, police were making sure that no one else headed out onto the water, prohibiting any vessels from going out to investigate. While they were doing this, there would be sightings made by police officers as well, and one of these was Mayagüez Police Lieutenant Cesar Grácia, who would say of his own sighting:
I saw something in the sky that I didn’t know what it was. It was over Highway Two about fifteen hundred feet, a large, lighted ball about six feet in diameter. It was going toward the beach very slowly. I was in the parking lot of the Hilton when they called me from the police department. They told me to go to the beach because a great many people were watching this object. When I got there, the object was already hovering over the water about two or three miles off the beach. There were about five hundred people watching. There are about four public housing areas right there and all the people from the housing areas were there. I saw one light coming down but when I got to the beach I noticed there were two objects in the water, not together but about a mile away from each other. They were hovering over the water, right about at the water level.
Because of the distance I couldn’t tell if it was a few feet over the water or if they were actually touching the water. The first object stayed about an hour but the second one lasted at least four hours. I wasn’t able to stay because I had other obligations, but I was there for quite some time. Later I returned again and it was still going on. And I left once more. When the first one disappeared, I saw it go. When the second one disappeared, I was no longer there. I stopped more than one time that evening for maybe five minutes at a time to watch. I couldn’t say exactly that it hadn’t moved but it was more or less in the same area. There were maybe five hundred people in the area where I was watching and all along the whole coast there were other people watching. A group of officers on duty that night also saw it, between five and ten. We called the Coast Guard but the Coast Guard didn’t come. The answer they gave us was that the police had to verify it first, that if there was a real emergency then the Coast Guard would be dispatched.
Other police officers would see the UFOs as well, and the whole area was experiencing a bit of a mass hysteria at the time. One Police Sergeant Ramirez would describe what he saw as follows:
I saw people gathering along the beach so I stopped my car. I was very curious, not only because there were people there but also because they were looking up. So I stopped and saw the light, which was very bright. When I got out of the car, I saw the object fall into the water, very bright and it like divided. It was pretty high, like an orange-yellow light. I don’t know exactly the size. As it came down it got larger. It was pretty good sized. First one sank into the water. About twenty seconds after, the other one went into the water also. It zigzagged a little before it went down and turned off. That was about nine thirty. I stayed around to keep traffic moving and see what the people were doing in case there was an accident or anything. Word got around and there were over a thousand people watching these things. People came out of their houses to see the view and people came in cars, parked on the side of the street and went to the beach to see what was happening. I stayed until midnight, mostly keeping an eye on the group so there wouldn’t be any problems. The police got many, many phone calls, all night. We called the Coast Guard but they didn’t come. They said it wasn’t an emergency.
There were numerous other reports along these lines, yet oddly the Coast Guard did little to act, and it seems like it was all mostly swept under the carpet. What was going on here and why were these objects repeatedly entering and leaving the ocean? We may never know. In 1990 another strange incident occurred in Turkey on the coast of the Aegean Sea. The encounter was reported by a Mr. Erol Erkmen, who was wreck diving with a friend at a site at 57 meters deep in the Saros Bay at approximately 2 PM. At one point they looked ahead to see a greenish glow in the water, which seemed to be emanating from an orb of light that appeared to be circling them and maneuvering around them. They observed it for around 3 minutes, during which time Erkmen took a photo with an underwater Kodak camera, which the object seemed to realize because it then went dark. Shortly after this, low oxygen forced the two divers to head to the surface. Upon examination, Erkmen would say that his photo had managed to capture a greenish glowing disc-shaped object, although what it is he cannot say.
Finally, we have a recent case from 2012, from Panama Beach Florida in a report filed with MUFON. On July 15 of that year, the witness says she was sitting out on the patio of her beachside residence where she was throwing a party, watching the sunset when she observed something very strange out in the water near the horizon. She explains:
I was sitting on my patio watching the sunset. On the horizon I saw this object that looked like it was coming out of the ocean. I made a comment to my customer to look. No one could figure out what it was. By now there are about 30 people outside looking. It came straight up out over the water very slowly, and made no sound. It was round looking and like it had windows with red lights in the middle and one solid white light under the bottom; they did not blink, but they were bright. When it got over the land it continued for another 7 to 10 minutes. It was almost dark. We wanted to get a picture but no one had a camera. One of my workers did take a picture with his cell phone but it just looked like a light and we could not make it out. Then the object took a right turn and flew for another 3 or 4 minutes, then in matter of seconds it was gone.
The phenomenon of these reports of UFOs entering and exiting the water are far rarer than those of the more conventional type, yet they add a layer of mystique to the lore of UFOs that is very intriguing to say the least. It hints at the possibility that these mysterious objects are not only using our skies, but also beneath the surface of our lakes and seas for inscrutable purposes we may never understand, and it all only furthers the mystery of UFOs in general, pushing it out into the far realms of the odd.
0310A-2022 - USO - Russian Navy UFO Records
0310A-2022 - USO - Russian Navy UFO Records
Russian Navy UFO Records Say Aliens Love Oceans
The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Pressa news website.
The records dating back to soviet times were compiled by a special navy group collecting reports of unexplained incidents delivered by submarines and military ships. The group was headed by deputy Navy commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov, and the documents reveal numerous cases of possible UFO encounters, the website says.
Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher, says the materials are of great value. “Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” he said.
On one occasion a nuclear submarine, which was on a combat mission in the Pacific Ocean, detected six unknown objects. After the crew failed to leave behind their pursuers by maneuvering, the captain ordered to surface. The objects followed suit, took to the air, and flew away. Many mysterious events happened in the region of Bermuda Triangle, recalls retired submarine commander Rear Admiral Yury Beketov. Instruments malfunctioned with no apparent reason or detected strong interference. The former navy officer says this could be deliberate disruption by UFOs. “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, of 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” Beketov said.
Navy intelligence veteran, Captain 1st rank Igor Barklay comments: “Ocean UFOs often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”
Another place where people often report UFO encounters is Russia’s Lake Baikal, the deepest fresh water body in the world. Fishermen tell of powerful lights coming from the deep and objects flying up from the water. In one case in 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal spotted a group of humanoid creatures dressed in silvery suits. The encounter happened at a depth of 50 meters, and the divers tried to catch the strangers. Three of the seven men died, while four others were severely injured. “I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Vladimir Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there.”
Meanwhile Russian Navy officials have denied the collection of UFO-related encounters exists. A source in the Navy’s service staff said the story may have its roots in the reports of vessel commanders, which describe locating objects of unclear but Earthly origin.“An illusion of a UFO encounter can result from large fish shoals, floating garbage or natural phenomena,” ITAR-TASS news agency cites the source.
0310A-2022 - USO - The Bizarre History of Underwater USOs
0310A-2022 - USO - The Bizarre History of Underwater USOs
In October 2019, U.S. Navy Commander David Fravor, who was the subject of a New York Times article about his 2004 UFO sighting, discussed a spooky new sighting a fellow pilot revealed to him after they were both out of the Navy.
According to Fravor, the eyewitness was a former pilot of the MH-53E Sea Dragon, the Navy version of the Marine Corps’ CH-53E Sea Stallion, based at Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, on the island of Puerto Rico. Twice while recovering spent practice munitions out of the water, the pilot spotted a weird underwater object.
In the first incident, the pilot saw a "dark mass" underwater as he and his team retrieved a flying practice drone. The pilot described the object as a “big” mass, “kinda circular,” and he was certain it wasn't a submarine. In the pilot’s second sighting, a practice torpedo that the pilot was sent to recover was “sucked down” into the depths of the ocean in the presence of a similar underwater object. The torpedo was never seen again.
Elsewhere in the interview, Fravor reveals that a 79-year-old woman contacted him after his sighting went public. The woman explained that her father, a naval officer, was at one time based at the naval station in San Francisco in the 1950s. When she was a child, her father showed her a telegram that stated unidentified objects had been sighted going in and out of the water at a now forgotten set of latitude and longitude coordinates. The woman’s father told her, “We get these all the time, and it’s always in the same area.”
These sightings are similar to Fravor’s own sighting. According to the retired Navy pilot, the only reason he had seen the now-infamous "Tic Tac" UFO was because it was hovering above a mysterious larger object that was sighted underwater. Fravor describes the object as cross shaped and approximately the size of a Boeing 737 jetliner. He has further described the water above it as though it were "boiling" or "frothing," and said the object disappeared after it caught his attention.
In 1970, biologist Ivan Sanderson published the book Invisible Residents. Sanderson, a noted student of unusual phenomena, devoted the book to sightings of what were later called Unidentified Submerged Objects, or USOs. USOs are defined as unknown craft that are sighted in the water, sighted rising up out of the water, or diving into the water. Sanderson catalogued scores of reports of USOs:
On the 19th of April, 1957, crew members aboard the Kitsukawa Maru, a Japanese fishing boat, spotted two metallic silvery objects descending from the sky into the sea (original emphasis). The objects, estimated to be ten meters long, were without wings of any kind. As the hit the water, they created a violent turbulence. The exact location was reported as 31° 15’ N and 143° 30’ E.
Sanderson also reports an incident that reportedly took place off the coast of Puerto Rico in 1963 during an anti-submarine warfare exercise.
The maneuvers were conducted off Puerto Rico in the Atlantic some 500 miles southeast of the continental United States. All reports seem to agree that there were five “small” naval vessels concerned, but in more than one account the aircraft carrier Wasp is stated to have been the command ship…
A sonar operator on one of the small vessels, otherwise listed as a destroyer, reported to his bridge that one of the submarines had broken formation and gone off in what appeared to be pursuit of some unknown object. This operator did not, of course, know if this was a “plant”, since the maneuvers they were engaged in were exercises designed to train personnel in detection of enemy craft...However, this operator’s report was not all within the limits of any such simulation,. Trouble was that said subaqueous object was traveling at “over 150 knots”!
According to Sanderson, “no less than [13] craft,” including anti-submarine warfare patrol aircraft, tracked the high-speed, unknown object. Furthermore:
It is said that technicians kept track of this object for four days, and that it maneuvered round about, and to depths of 27,000 feet.
USS Wasp was indeed an anti-submarine warfare carrier in 1963 and served in the Atlantic Fleet until decommissioning in 1972. Unfortunately, Sanderson doesn't provide any sourcing for the incident nor is there any other information about it posted on the internet. The National UFO Recording Center maintains a database of sightings reported to the NUFORC, both by email and hotline. There are many reports of UFO-type objects seen coming out of or going into the ocean.
Off the coast of Half Moon Bay, California, an eyewitness reported that in 2007 she observed three UFOs while aboard the cruise ship Dawn Princess (renamed in 2017 Pacific Explorer.)
“After about 5 minutes, three softly glowing objects came into view – three uniform, nearly spherical objects, evenly spaced in a line parallel to the ship’s hull and hovering just above the water surface… They appeared to stay in one place while the ship moved past them. They were hovering, but didn’t disturb the water below them. Just as they went out of my sight, the left one (toward the bow) splashed down into the water and disappeared."
One report logged in April 2019 states that an object resembling a “small white boat” flew up out of the water near Imperial Beach, California, “at about [500] feet.” The object promptly “flew south at a very high rate of speed.” Whatever USOs are—figments of the imagination, mechanical malfunctions, secret government craft, or even the work of extraterrestrials—there's a long history of sightings. Fravor’s anonymous helicopter pilot is just the latest in a long line of mysteries.
0310A-2022 - USO - “Tic Tac” Operating Underwater
0310A-2022 - USO - “Tic Tac” Operating Underwater
New Navy Witness Says He Saw a “Tic Tac” Operating Underwater
For almost four years now, we’ve been talking about the USS Nimitz and its encounter with “Tic Tac” type objects. Now there’s a new wrinkle. It’s a sighting of what looked like the same type of object, seen from a Nimitz class supercarrier, only this unknown object was operating underwater. The USS Carl Vinson is the United States Navy’s third Nimitz-class supercarrier. It was first commissioned in 1982, deployed in 1983, and it’s famous for being the ship from where the body of Osama bin Laden was buried at sea in 2011. Since 2009, the ship has been the flagship for Carrier Strike Group One.
E-4 Petty Officer John Baughman served in the U.S. Navy from 2008 to 2013. In January 2010, he was stationed aboard the Carl Vinson, assisting in humanitarian aid to Haiti after an earthquake had destroyed a large portion of the country. A Gunners Mate, his job description called for him to “mount, stow, and secure all weaponry, repair and calibrate defense systems, maintain guided missile launching, rocket launchers, gun mounts and all other ordnance.” In other words, the job carries serious responsibility and is only given to serious people.
Working as an E2 Blue Shirt on the flight deck one day, he was dangling his legs off the SAM Launcher Deck on the Forward Starboard side of the ship, taking a small break. He’d often look for sea life when things were at ease. “I’d often see all kinds of wild stuff swimming and floating under and on the surface,” he says. “Everything from sharks, dolphins and whales to giant squids, sea turtles, and swordfish.”
Baughman stressed that he had grown accustom to identifying what was in the ocean and at what depths. “I had a pretty good reference point on how big or deep something was in the water, especially when you can see the water line on the side of the ship.” On this day, however, something caught his attention in the calm and clear water, unlike anything he’d ever seen before.
“I was staring into the water from above when a large, fat, white ’Tic Tac’ object, approximately twenty feet in length, suddenly appeared in my view below me, moving right and darted into the depths as fast as it appeared. I couldn’t really comprehend what I saw. It was definitely a solid object, but when it descended, its forward end rapidly collapsed in on itself and disappeared.”
Baughman reacted to this moment with disbelief and excitement. Feeling that it was an important observation, he told his work center supervisor about what he’d seen. Instead of a serious debrief or an instruction to file a report, he was met by a simple shrug of the shoulders. The supervisor said simply that “everyone sees weird shit in the ocean.”
So what could it have been? With an eerily similar description of the now-famous “Tic Tac” object sighted off the Nimitz and Princeton carriers in 2004, could it have possibly been something similar? And if so, were these oblong-shaped objects originating in the ocean?
Baughman is cautious in his conclusions. “It could have been just about anything,” he says. “Rapidly moving flotsam with a keen ability to completely disappear, very large albino shark or an albino whale. Could even be an optical illusion, but it cast its own shadow and that’s how I was able to perceive it as a solid object.”
To Baughman, it was clear that reporting such an incident probably wasn’t in his best interest from the response he’d been given. He avoided talking about it for many years to come. His thinking on the subject of coming forward began to change in 2017 when the 2004 Nimitz event became public. Just like many other Navy personnel who have encountered strange objects either in the water or in the skies, that event was a pivotal moment for many to finally step forward and speak out. Baughman draws a straight line from the courage he observed to his own decision to come forward now. “Alex Dietrich and Dave Fravor were initial motivating factors in my coming out with my sighting.”
While Baughman felt empowered to finally speak out with his sighting, many active military personnel are still afraid to do so. Still, not reporting could actually pose more or a threat. If these events aren’t being reported, whatever these UAP may represent are going to continue entering our restricted air and sea space with impunity.
“It’s hard to come to grips with something like this, and I still feel somewhat insecure about it because it doesn’t make sense. But at the same time, more data points, even as basic as my story, could help solve the mystery of whether they’re foreign adversaries playing mind games, non-human entities, or the myriad of other possibilities.”
Baughman hopes that the recent UAP report and follow-up memo from the Department of Defense will force the Pentagon to be more productive in working with civilians. He wants the open source intelligence communities to get to the bottom of these sightings, because regardless of who these belong to, he believes they can pose a threat or be manipulated into subverting our signals intelligence capabilities by capitalizing on the stigma associated with them.
As the stigma and ridicule often attached to reporting these anomalous events continues to dissipate, new reports like Baughman’s are going to become more common. By coming forward now, he’s showing the way for others, and taking us one step closer to finding answers, whether we like those answers or not.
0310A-2022 - USO - Project 1947 - Catalogue
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0310X-2022 - USO - Process
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