Project Blue Book Archive
The Project Blue Book Archive provides free access
to tens of thousands of official documents
related to the U.S. government's investigation
of the UFO phenomenon.
In 1977, the CNES Director General set up the Gepan* research group to pursue studies initiated by a CNES engineer as a personal project.
Its mandate was simple: conduct research into UFOs (as they are commonly called). The group’s work was overseen by a scientific advisory board.
Gepan continued its research until 1988, when it was superseded by Sepra**. As well as UAPs, the new unit also monitored artificial atmospheric re-entries, i.e. debris from space missions falling back to Earth.
In 2000, Sepra refocused on the original mission of UAP research, albeit with limited resources. In 2001, the Director General requested an audit to help decide on the future of this CNES department.
On the basis of the audit recommendations, UAP activities resumed with a
new CNES unit called Geipan, set up in 2005. This unit reports to
senior management at the Toulouse Space Centre and is overseen by an
independent external steering committee, which guides and monitors its
work.
Information is made available to the public here (in french).
Update: The tiny “alien” skeleton found in the Chilean dessert a decade ago, has human DNA. Scientists say the six-inch skeleton dubbed the “Atacama Humanoid,” is not proof that extraterrestrial life or ET exists as “Sirius” suggested. Is the South American mummified creature a mutation?
The mystery behind the mummified remains began 10 years ago when the small skeleton was found.
A word to those who have not run into Steven Greer before, have a look at this article on him Steven greer . Basically, he’s in it solely for the money and it shows quite nicely what he has been up too.
Description: Trees were knocked down and burned over hundreds of square km by the Tunguska meteoroid impact. Note: This image is public domain, from the Leonid Kulik expedition in 1927 Source: http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~jlandstr/planets/webfigs/impacts/slide1.html (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In June 1908, a mysterious blast occurred above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska, Siberia, with 1,000 times more power than the Hiroshima bomb, flattening trees over an area roughly the size of Tokyo.
The most widely accepted theory is that a huge asteroid or comet (not a UFO or chunk of antimatter) exploded as it entered Earth’s atmosphere. But with just one death, few witnesses and no fragments nor any impact craters to study, scientists have been left to puzzle over what exactly caused the so-called Tunguska event.
Two UFO witnesses about 1,200 miles apart seemed to describe the same triangle-shaped object in reports two hours and two time zones apart on April 27, 2013, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
At about 9:59 p.m. ET, a Tennessee witness driving west along Highway 70 near Pleasant Hill reported watching “a large, triangular-shaped” object hovering over power lines in MUFON Case 47032.
The witness was returning from a grocery shopping trip in Crossville when the object appeared just above the vehicle.
Around the same time, little Billy Orsmond lost grip of his prized 6ft-long helium-filled shark toy and watched it fly into the air, never to be seen again.
Billy’s dad, James, 25, of Baillieston, said last night: “I saw the Record story and just about fell over.
“The report said the object was blue and yellow and silvery. I just thought, ‘Aw naw’ because that was the colour of Billy’s remote control shark and it went missing round about the time of the incident.
“Billy only had the toy for a couple of weeks. It cost about £15 from Argos but the shark was big and would probably look bigger in the sky. We’d just had it re-filled with helium before this incident happened. At the time, I thought that was why it flew out his hands and into the sky.
A READER has reported seeing a bright orange light over the Gladstone/Tannum Sands area on Saturday night.
In a Your Story submission on The Observer’s website, the reader said it appeared as a very bright orange light moving quite fast at first, then becoming almost stationary before moving off again.
“It came back several times and moved the same way each time. We saw it three different times, as did our neighbours and some friends in Gladstone. Definitely no ordinary aircraft or satellite.
“Then it gradually faded as it moved further away. Incredible sight!”
What: Monte Shriver discusses findings from his book, “It’s About Time,” on the alleged UFO crash in Hart CanyonWhen: 6 p.m., Wednesday
Where: Bloomfield Multicultural Center, 333 S. First St.
Cost: Free
More info: Call 505-334-7136
AZTEC — Nothing otherworldly happened in Hart Canyon, says Aztec native Monte Shriver.
Shriver will present his findings on the “other Roswell” at a meeting of the San Juan County Historical Society at the Bloomfield Multicultural Center on Wednesday.
He admits there is likely something out there, but is convinced it didn’t crash land in Aztec – on March 25, 1948, or any other date.
You may have never seen an unidentified flying object over Myrtle Beach, but if you live in this area, chances are you know someone who has.
The Grand Strand has long had more than its share of UFO sightings.
The creators of Myrtle Beach’s newest attraction, “Encounters: UFO Experience”, claim there’s a good reason, besides this area’s 14 million tourists, why they decided to locate it at Broadway at the Beach.
“Myrtle Beach is a hot spot for sightings,” said Brian Bouquet of Intergalactic Brands.
NEW video footage of a strange light over Gladstone and Tannum Sands on Saturday shows the light flaring orange before returning to white.
Peter Harbrown shot the footage with his mobile phone.
He said he saw the light at 8.30pm, and “it definitely looked odd”.
A reader who also saw the light said he and his friends all tried to take pictures with their phones, but when the lights were overhead “all of our stuff just shut right off. It was bizarre to say the least!”
Vermont witnesses at St. Albans reported watching and videotaping a “bright, saucer-like object” slowly crossing overhead from south to north on May 6, 2013, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The reporting witness and other family members were outside in their yard about 10 p.m. when the object was first seen.
“My son, daughter, neighbor and husband saw it and we were able to take pictures and video,” the reporting witness stated. “The object was so slow and low and made no noise and lasted long enough that we all had enough time to get our phones on it.”
A handful of British stars are helping America’s believers mount an increasingly professional-looking search for the truth on UFOs, reports Raf Sanchez
An Italian UFO investigation group called the Centro Ufologico Mediterraneo (CUFOM) has sent us their video analysis of a UFO video from September of 2011. Their video specialist, Carmine Silestri, says “The origin of the objects cannot be explained by natural phenomenon or by human activities. “ The video was taken on September 2, 2011 in Avellino, Italy.
A dark triangular shaped object was observed flying over Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on 6 May, 2013 at 10:30 PM, as reported by an eyewitness. This report has been obtained from a testimony included in the database of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), published on 5 May, 2013. says the article.
The newspaper reports of an eyewitness account of a strange V shaped object in the night sky Monday night.
“The night of May 6th around 10:30 PM. Was outside in the back yard looking up at the clear night sky talking on the phone when I saw what appeared at first to be the V-shape of Canada Geese.”
The witness describes how he realized that the shape of the object did not change.
It’s with some relief I can say that’s not a fleet of alien spaceships bent on either enslaving the human race or possibly eating us. It’s not even a swarm of meteors: what you’re actually seeing there is a satellite dramatically breaking up as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere. And it’s even been identified: it was the Cygnus mass simulator, a payload lofted into space by the Antares rocket in April!
The release of “wish lanterns” at a birthday celebration for a Christchurch cancer sufferer may explain “strange” lights seen in the skies last night.
The lanterns were released in Fendalton last night at a gathering for Danelle Wakefield.
Wakefield has been diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma cancer, which is a rare cancer normally found in children, and not adults.
Despite aggressive chemotherapy on a tumour in her shoulder, Wakefield has been told she has between two months and two years to live.
At a birthday party held for Wakefield last night, her family let off some “wish lanterns”.
A poster on the event’s Facebook page said it was “a beautiful moment” and that attendees joked that someone would “think they are aliens as they floated around the sky”.
There are quite a few reports from the media worldwide about this event, which took place on 2nd December 2012, many of which are just repeating the same information.
Not sure what to make of this sighting, however for now it is definately a UFO (it would help if we knew what type of radar was being used though-i believe there is both primary and secondary radar). Hope certain media do not try to hype this up too much, but i will not be holding my breath.
UPDATE the daily mail has slightly more information here .
Despite an investigation, the UK Airprox Board – which examines reports of near misses – could not explain the ‘blue and yellow’ object which passed under the Airbus 320.
The incident happened on December 2 last year over Baillieston, 13 miles east of Glasgow Airport, at around 3500ft.
more information on primary and secondary radar can be found here .
Around the same time, little Billy Orsmond lost grip of his prized 6ft-long helium-filled shark toy and watched it fly into the air, never to be seen again.
Billy’s dad, James, 25, of Baillieston, said last night: “I saw the Record story and just about fell over.
“The report said the object was blue and yellow and silvery. I just thought, ‘Aw naw’ because that was the colour of Billy’s remote control shark and it went missing round about the time of the incident.
“Billy only had the toy for a couple of weeks. It cost about £15 from Argos but the shark was big and would probably look bigger in the sky. We’d just had it re-filled with helium before this incident happened. At the time, I thought that was why it flew out his hands and into the sky.
With the permission of the National Archives of Australia (on behalf of the Commonwealth Government of Australia), I’ve uploaded searchable PDF files containing over 10,000 pages of Australian UFO documents to a directory at the link below. Some highlights from that collection are given in the post below (article from IscaacKoi).
” It is now possible to download the journals published over the last few decades by several significant UFO groups (including NICAP, MUFON and APRO) and do REALLY fast searches of them ” [ extract from article].
Definately both worth checking out, as a wealth of information can be found there.
In the late 1990s, the UFO Working Group Netherlands (UWN) received an audio cassette with a recording of radio communications between three British RAF Tornado jet fighters and Dutch military air traffic control. The UWN released this recording on the previous version of this web page on December 17, 2005. In the recording, pilots of two Tornado jet fighters report to Dutch military air traffic control that they are observing a large unknown flying object. From the communications we gather that the aircrews (the Tornado is a two-seater) were unable to identify the object and that the military air traffic controller was unable to find it on radar.
If you follow UFO investigations in the media and wonder are the reports solid, well investigated and as clear as they seem then consider there may be a problem area you need to know about.
Arguably, two of the greatest problems inherent to the field of Ufology today are that approaches to studying UFOs are 1) not keeping up with available technology and 2) are perhaps, at times, being influenced negatively by technology more so than in ages past. I’ll expound further on precisely what I mean by this in a moment, but first I must pose the very necessary question: will the serious study of UFOs continue to live up to the challenges of our rate of technological growth, or will the study of more advanced intelligence than our own become hindered by these advancements?
Though he claims to be a UFO skeptic, former U.S. Senator for AlaskaMike Gravel is one of six former members of Congress scheduled to join a staged UFO investigation in a Washington D.C. at the end of the month. The event purports to be an inquiry into a vast government cover-up. The promoters have rented the ballroom at The National Press Club’s Washington D.C. headquarters for five days beginning April 29.
A witness recorded approximately three minutes of video showing multiple fireball UFOs in the sky above Cork, Ireland.
The witness, YouTube user Naktis Ireland, uploaded the video to the video sharing service on March 16, 2013. But the title of the video indicates the incident occurred in December 2012. The video shows multiple bright balls of light appearing out of nowhere, and drifting slowly through the sky. The low-quality video is extremely jittery, but the witness explains:
I am sorry for the quality, it was filmed with a mobile phone. Ironically I had a Cannon EOS 500D with 300mm lens at home that could of filmed in 3000×3000 but I was afraid that they would disappear by the time I got my camera as this is a very rare opportunity so instead, used a phone to record as much as possible.
The aliens are coming and they’ve found the perfect landing pad, nestled among the emerald hills of an Irish suburb.
That is, if you choose to believe footage made by one UFO spotter who filmed the glowing sky-balls hovering over Cork, in southern Ireland.
But rather than share his discovery with the world straight away, the bashful space twitcher chose to sit on it for four months before posting a video on YouTube.
There are possibilities this video is a fake. The lack of audio, for one, has led to doubts over how genuine the footage is. American horror writer Whitley Strieber posted a note on the video, on his Web site, and said he had the video analysed by three experts. Two of the three people consulted declared the tape was a hoax, while the third made no decision either way.
Astronauts working aboard International Space Station are claiming to have seen a blinking entity or object, which they said was a UFO activity that took place on 18 and 19 April 2013.
Similar episodes have been reported by Scott C. Waring, who edits UFO Sightings Daily. The reports are talking about recordings of multiple UFOs and their activities that took place on the 18th and 19th of April 2013 and were recorded on NASA live cameras.
A SERIES of videos recorded on a mobile phone in the sky above Mundaring has reignited the debate on UFOs.
The recording, which shows a bright orb changing colours, is the work of a York man who details his experience exclusively in the next Tuesday’s Midland-Kalamunda Reporter.
It’s not clear from the pictures what it is that might have been in the night sky.But a man from Bottesford says he noticed three objects in the sky last night (Wednesday, April 24).
He said: “The objects appeared to be on fire and were heading in an easterly direction towards Brigg.
“Are you aware if any other readers have had any similar sightings?”
The report follows a story of a possibly UFO sighting in Bottesford in March.
She proudly announces that she has seen many UFOs in her lifetime – three sightings in Noosa, one in Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, and another two in the last month on the Sunshine Coast.
“My first sighting was in 1997,” she said.
“I was travelling to Coffs Harbour on a domestic flight, looked out the window and not far from me, a UFO dashed past, heading in the opposite direction.
Rob Hartland has taken more than 20,000 photos of the day-time sky in the past six months and analysed them on his computer.
It began when he was taking photos of clouds to test out a new camera when he noticed a “smudge” that, when enlarged and enhanced, “had some structure to it, suggesting it could be some sort of craft in the sky”.
He says since then he has identified a dozen different UFOs including round, square and saucer-shaped craft, posting the photos to his website wispyclouds.net for extra-terrestrial buffs and sceptics to ponder.
It is one of the most tantalising ever official accounts of an encounter with a UFO – deemed so credible it even convinced the government minister who investigated it.
Now, for the first time, the sighting of a flying saucer by an RAF fighter pilot and the subsequent high level inquiry it prompted can be revealed.
The sighting occurred in 30 July 1952, when Flight Sergeant Roland Hughes was on a training flight over West Germany in a de Havilland Vampire FB9.
Going through a bevy of UFO magazines and reconnoitering the internet, any UFO buff can see how UFO researchers have come to be conflicted about their hobby.
There have been so many odd reports and people joining in the UFO fray that the topic has evolved into a mishmash of insane detritus.
