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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident.

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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none. Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters

A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs Some of the contents:

 The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988                                     
 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval   
 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                         
 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                               
 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                     
 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                         
 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                               
       
 Early 20^th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                       
 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      
 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                         
 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                  
 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians 
 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                             
 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                        
  
 Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                              
 Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                                 

 Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue        

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The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.

Once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?

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Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon. 

contents list: 

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality 

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig 

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect? 

3. The Moreland Incident 

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed 

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports 

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977? 

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre 

8. The Pwca 

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien 

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity 

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter 

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter 

13. Harrison Bailey 

14. Sonny DesVerger 

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers 

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note 

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs 

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure 

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into 

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report? 

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens? 

22. Clearview Ranch 

23. The Pat McGuire Case 

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta 

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter 

26. The Bridge Abduction 

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident 

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest 

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land? 

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?

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1973 –Year of the “Global UFO Wave” 

1973 –The “Year of the Humanoids” 

1973 –The year of the Pascagoula alien abduction claim 

1973 –Several witnesses observed two Unidentified Flying Objects: one temporarily landed on a US Interstate road while the other hovered close-by. An entity appeared from the landed object. A car driver approaching from the opposite direction stops, turns his/her car and races off. This is classed as a Major Incident in Ufology. 

1973 –a driver observes a landed UFO and entities and opens fire with his gun when he felt threatened. A High Strangeness account. 

Neither of these cases was investigated despite requests for local investigators to do so. Even in 2020 the idea of opening up either as a cold case was flatly Rejected by America’s ‘top UFO investigation’ group. 

Reports now probably lost to history. 

1973 –a year in which UFO reports from African-Americans were frowned upon and ignored. Nothing has changed.

Well, So It Was The Chinese All Along?

Well, I was right again.

I'm sure Elizondo will say "I never said they wuz aliens!"

LiveScience https://www.livescience.com/ufo-chinese-drones-report

Most UFOs are 'Chinese surveillance' drones and 'airborne clutter,' Pentagon officials reveal

By Brandon Specktor

 published 4 days ago

The U.S. government has officially started to explain some of the most infamous UFO encounters of the last decade, with China and weather balloons as top offenders.

Intelligence agencies in the U.S. have spent the last few years analyzing footage of hundreds of recent UFO encounters, and they want the American people to know: It's still not aliens.

According to several U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials who spoke anonymously to The New York Times last week, many recent sightings of UFOs — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), as the government prefers to call them — are likely just observations of foreign surveillance operations or airborne clutter, such as weather balloons.

Several UAP incidents have been officially identified as "relatively ordinary" Chinese surveillance drones, the anonymous officials said. China has previously stolen plans for advanced U.S. fighter planes, and is interested in how the U.S. trains its pilots, the DoD officials added.

Other UAP sightings recorded by military aircraft, which appear to show airborne objects moving in seemingly physics-defying ways, are likely the results of optical illusions. This includes the infamous video known as "GOFAST," which was recorded by a U.S. Navy aircraft and leaked to the media in 2018. (The video, along with two other leaked films of military encounters with UAPs, was eventually declassified by the government.)

While the object in the GOFAST video appears to be zooming over the water at incomprehensible speeds, this is just an optical illusion created by the angle of the recording relative to the water, the DoD officials told The Times. In reality, the object is moving at no more than 30 mph (48 km/h), the officials added.

A classified UAP report delivered to Congress this week by the DoD's intelligence agencies likely includes the findings reported by The Times. The new report adds new details to cases described in a document that officials publicly released in June 2021, describing 144 alleged UAP incidents reported by U.S. government personnel between 2004 and 2021.

The 2021 report acknowledged that, due to a lack of high-quality data, most alleged UAP encounters could not be conclusively explained. However, the report offered several blanket explanations for UAP in general, including "technologies deployed by China, Russia, another nation, or a non-governmental entity," as well as "airborne clutter" such as birds and weather balloons. 

Nowhere in the report were aliens or extraterrestrials mentioned — however, that did not stop alien conspiracy theories from arising, due in part to the government's general lack of transparency about UAP incidents.

Sue Gough, a DoD spokesperson, told The Times that the government was committed to sharing whatever UAP information it could without putting national security at risk. Government officials also tend to refrain from discussing UAP incidents publicly because there is simply not enough data to conclusively explain them, Gough added.

"In many cases, observed phenomena are classified as 'unidentified' simply because sensors were not able to collect enough information to make a positive attribution," Gough told The Times. "We are working to mitigate these shortfalls for the future and to ensure we have sufficient data for our analysis."

As the DoD continues its investigation into UAP sightings, NASA has also launched an independent UAP study team, which will operate from October 2022 to mid-2023. According to NASA, the team will focus on collecting and analyzing as much UAP data as possible, in order to develop new methods for identifying the unidentifiable objects in America's skies.

Yes, We Have Classic Encounter Cases In The UK -Ufologists Ignore Them

 If I had to look at how badly Ufology in the UK treats CE3K cases then, excluding the books by British "New Ufologists" who have really contributed nothing in almost 40 years, then there are reports such as:

the 1954 Jessie Roestenberg case which is the earliest recorded and credible observation and thanks to John Hanson and the Haunted Skies project we at least have more than was originally knopwn AND we have video footage of Mrs Roestenberg -which should be getting used in UFO documentaries.

Jessie Roestenberg (c)2022 John Hanson/HS Project

Hanson also interviewed the observers of the entity from Bradford, 1955?

There are a good few other reports that were basic book filler then dump the percipients. The Shamrock Cafe (1983) case -another that is basically ignored.

New Ufology decided from the outset that the whole business was to debunk but appear scientific and make various claims for why accounts were not real but psychological. We see cases where other percipients are ignored while one who has a history of possible "waking dreams" is concentrated on as that proves it was not real (yeah, those other percipients did not want to undergo hypnosis out of fear of what it might reveal so stuff them, right?).

The July, 1994 Silbury Hill CE3K has a numkber of elements that would see it tagged as High Strangeness yet what happened to Paul, Sonya and Rob that morning has only been covered to an extent in Andrew Collins' book Light Quest (2012).

Elsie Oakensen (c)2022 John Hanson/Haunted Skies

The 1978 Elsie Oakensen encounter which, although there was only one percipient there was independent back up of UFOs at the same time. Hanson has interviewed Oakensen and it is interesting that, again, the only thing Ufologists could come up with was that it was "a hoax" even though they can produce no evidence of this.

We have High Strangeness cases in the UK that are mainly unknown to people in Ufology in the UK let alone outside of it. This is why these cases have to be recorded and John Hanson has done a great deal to achieve this.

Perhaps it needs an independent documentary company to do a series of short films?

The (ever growing) Hooper Archives

 

In 50 years you gather a lot of books and files. Regular readers  will be familiar with the above CE3l/AE files (there are other CE3K files below that bottom row!).  Today, rather than goin g back and forth from my room to the "book room" (far too many books) I decided to put up plastic shelving and arrange all the CE3K/AE dedicated books or books with CE3K reports in them,

Here is a side shot.

Top shelf

 below: closer look for yhe nosies!

Below the shelf with the heavy stuff -note the Haunted Skies volumes which I highly recommend

Below the more intense reading

Below the more classic books on the subject

Below the books are the 150 plus files on various phenomena from lake and sea monsters. mystery hominids, The Great New England Darkness, Project Twinkle, Red Spray Events, Thunder Axes, Angel Hair, Falls of Gelatinous substances, alleged UFO crashes, UCOs (Unidentified Crashed Objects), the British Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and UFOs, Attempted communications with UFOs, Animal Disturbance cases, Military intercept attempts and a whole bunch more

Whoever gets this lot when I pop my clogs has to take the lot as a job lot and guarantee that researchers, if ever interested, will get free access to it all.  

They will also need a van to move the lot as my ghost and paranormal as well as cryptozoological books are also thrown in!

Aerial Encounters Over Austria.

  Just in case anyone thinks that I spent 50 years only looking into Close Encounters of the Third Kind here is one of the air-intercept cases I covered back in the day. Three reports were written up for Flying Saucer Review only one was printed and it was heavily edited and photographs removed. So, here is that report taken from the book Some Things Strange & Sinister.

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It has to be said that,like the Royal Air Force,the Austrian Air Force have been quite helpful in supplying information.  A captain in the air force drew my attention to this case even though it was “some time after the event” and, as it was addressed to me at the AOP Bureau address, it was looked into.

An AUA DC-9

At 19:05 hours,18^th March,1972,an Austrian United Airlines [AUA] DC-9 took off from Vienna Airport Schwechat.  On board were some 35 passengers.  The weather was clear as the aircraft flew at 6000 metres above Linz on the Vienna-Frankfurt run. The pilot was Alexander Raab and his co-pilot was a Mr Herold.

Herold was in contact with Linz Air Traffic Control when Raab looked up to see a strange object flying ahead of the DC-9.  All instruments suddenly failed and the warning lights began flickering.  Passengers also spotted the object and a certain degree of panic began.

The object was described as cone-shaped,whitish in colour with the underpart glowing an orange-reddish.  For twenty minutes the object flew along with the aircraft before moving off to the west and eventually disappearing. The instruments began working normally.

Raab reported the incident to Linz ATC as it was occurring  but their radar controllers,who also spoke to radar,got no radar contact.  Luckily,Raab also informed ATC at Munich and Vienna –both reported radar contact with the object.  There was an additional aspect to the incident as the object was sighted over Genf. The object was now undeniably real and Mirage interceptors were scrambled.

Dachstein Mts.

The Mirage jets made contact but,as they seemed to be gaining, the object vanished.  Suddenly, however,the flight commander saw the object on his radar and for several minutes the object “played with them” until it finally disappeared.

Raab landed and made his report and the passengers went on their way.  However, the Austrian writer Peter Krassa got wind of the story and, after many delays, managed to contact Raab and visit him.  It seems that, four days after the incident, the 22nd, while at home, Raab’s phone rang and he answered to receive the following message from a man who did not identify himself:

                    “Mr Raab: please take note that our organization

                     is well informed about the UFO phenomenon. I

                     should advise you not to give any statements about

                     your experience to the public –it would be better

                     for you!”

 

The man then hung up.  Raab assumed that this was an official warning and told Krassa: ”I have to say that this is what I have done since that day”.

The suggestion made by some researchers was that Raab had been threatened by the mythical “Men-in-Black”.  However, it is far more likely that the message was a friendly warning to not draw too much attention himself –some pilots reporting UFOs to news media at this time faced problems at work. 

Austrian Air Force Mirage

Certainly Raab never received an MIB visit.  The Austrian Air Force were unaware of the phone call but were at a loss as to why anyone should threaten Raab; the opinion, in 1980, was that it may have been a friendly warning or, possibly, a hoax caller.

As will be seen from the diagram provided, the object was quite large and the cone-shape could well be an optical effect of the glowing object.  The electrical effects seen when the object appeared “suddenly” are not uncommon and the engines [obviously] were unaffected.

I’d suggest that the initial AOP B/Austrian Air Force “Unidentified” tag be replaced with “UNP” [1 & 2].

It was approximately 15:50 hours, on the 7^th May, 1980, while flying a Dutch [KLM] airlines plane at 10,000 metres over the Dachstein Mountains, that Captain M spotted a grey “thing”, described as a dark grey ball, flying above him.  Shaken, the pilot reported the incident to Vienna ATC.

Vienna ATC officers decided to alert the Austrian Air Force headquarters.  Major Karl Schwarz was informed and ordered three Saab-Draken 105 to attempt an intercept in the hopes of identifying the ‘UFO’.  

Entering the area,the pilots made visual-contact with the object and two tried to get closer.  The object, however,”made some unsteady manoeuvres and made it impossible for the pilots to get closer.  During these manoeuvres, the third intercepter pilot attempted to take as many photographs as with the gun-camera.  The object suddenly took off at incredible speed.

The interceptors returned to base.  The ‘UFO’ incident was, seemingly,”over"

At approximately 18:00 hours, a Lufthansa airliner over Dachstein observed ‘the same’ object.  Vienna ATC was contacted and Major Schwarz ordered another intercept by two Saab-Draken.  Although radar-contact was not made, having entered the area, the interceptor pilots made visual-contact.  According to one of the pilots:

                 “We operated now at a height of 12000 metres.  The “thing”

                 was flying very fast,and then very slow.  It seemed to be

                 playing with us.  The UFO was flying 3000 metres over us,

                 and although we tried all possible manoeuvres,we couldn’t

                 catch it.”

On both occasions, Oberst Karl Schaffer had informed the office of the Austrian President.  It was revealed by the Austrian Air Force HQ that a “great deal of footage and many still photographs” of the object had been taken.  It was later claimed that “the films are useless”.  This seemed odd as the film and cameras used were top of the range for obvious military reasons.  The problem seems to be that what was shown was a “grey ball” which, of course, is interesting but provides no information when it comes to identifying an intruder in your air-space.  “Useless”.

After a month,it was revealed that Commander-in-Chief at military headquarters, Major Wolfgang Brauner,was of the opinion that the ‘UFO’ was “a simple balloon”.

This statement came about after Ufologists and news media demanded answers and had become,really,a nuisance.  Colonel ‘K’ told me:”It was embarrassing. Pilots,both civilian and military,had seen the ‘UFO’.  Our best aircraft could not catch it and we could not identify it.  The ‘balloon’ conclusion was a personal opinion but it calmed things down”.

The original AOP Bureau conclusion was “Unknown”.  Today,this would be changed to “UNP”.

These two cases were,in a way,outside our remit,however,they were fascinating and the camera footage convincing [3 & 4].

References.

 

[1]   UFO OVER LINZ,AUSTRIA.  AOP Bureau File ref. 180372/AF 0106

[2]   Correspondence with Rainer Scheiblberger,1981

[3]   DACHSTEIN UFO INTERCEPT.  AOP Bureau File ref. 070580/AF 0107

[4]   UFO News Bulletin,vol.2,no.4,1981:pp.1-2

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After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..  

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.  

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!  Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.  

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!   

ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst
Introduction        

de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                            
The Bristol Rocking Horse        
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn        
The Coonian Ghost        
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church        
His Luminous Chamber        
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg        
And More Ghost Stories        
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case        
The Chupacabra        
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle        
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?        
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland        
The Creature Of The Dump        
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods        
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack        
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt        
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square        
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport        
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet        
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures        
The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video        
From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs        
Aerial Encounters Over Austria        
A Crashed UFO In 1790?        
Angel Hair        
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”        
Strange Aliens From Space        
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals        
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation        
Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?        
The Venezuelan Horror

A Final Word.

Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.

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