UFO spotted at the royal wedding venue, as predicted.

Looks like Prince William and fiancée Kate Middleton will have some unexpected guests at their royal wedding.

A tourist has reportedly filmed a UFO hovering over Westminster Abbey - the venue for Friday's Royal Wedding.

The two-and-a half-minute video footage shows a shimmering white object in a cloudless blue sky near Big Ben.

It seems to move and shift shape - but to have three sections, like the starship USS Enterprise from TV's Star Trek.

"First we thought it was a parachute but it was way too high up," the Sun quoted the tourist as posting it on the Internet.

"It changed shape but stayed there for at least 30 minutes. Then I lost sight of it," the tourist added."

The sighting emerged shortly after retired US Air Force major predicted extra-terrestrials would visit Earth to see William and Middleton tie the knot.

Source: times of india

Older post: Prediction from US Airforce officer, here.

UFO sightings rising phenomenally offlate : A video that sums it up!

FBI releases fresh UFO document

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released documents which could prove aliens landed in New Mexico more than sixty years ago.

The FBI has recently launched a new online resource called The Vault on its official website, and it contains documents on Roswell UFO sightings, as well as hundreds of pages of information on UFO sightings in general.

Among the thousands of files published in The Vault is a memo that appears to prove aliens in flying saucers did land in New Mexico prior to 1950.

The memo was written to the FBI director from Guy Hottel, the special agent in charge of the Washington field office in 1950.

In the memo, whose subject line is “Flying Saucers,” Agent Hottel reveals that an Air Force investigator had stated that “Three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico.”

The investigator gave the information to a special agent, he went on to say.

The FBI has censored both the agent and the investigator's identity.

“They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter,” Agent Hottel went on to write.

The bodies were “dressed in a metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.”

He pointed out that the informant, whose identity was censored in the memo, claimed the saucers had been found in New Mexico “due to the fact that the government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers.”

He then stated that the special agent did not attempt to investigate further.

The town of Roswell in New Mexico became infamous after reports that a flying saucer had crashed there in 1947.

The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the US military, but American authorities allegedly covered the incident up.

Another memo published in The Vault from 1947 claimed that an object “purporting to be a flying disc” had been recovered near Roswell.


Source: OpEdNews

Second Cigar shaped UFO reported over Texas skies

A Cypress, TX, witness reports a white or silver "thin object" hovering 1,000 feet over US 290 that quickly disappeared from view on April 5, 2011, according to April 9, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

This is the second cigar-shaped report from Texas in a two-day period. We recently covered a similar shape UFO in the story: Illuminated cigar UFO reported over Texas - a sighting that occurred one day later, on April 6, 2011. In the first case, the witness was able to provide an image of the object, although no town name was mentioned in the public portion of the MUFON report.

"It seemed to be moving to moving parallel to the highway, and as I turned left onto Spring Cypress Road," the witness stated. "The object stopped, then hovered over the freeway, sort of in the upper horizon behind it."

The witness lost sight of the object while driving under the freeway.

"It was gone and nowhere to be found."

Cypress is an unincorporated area in Harris County, located inside the city of Houston, along US 290.The area ranks 50th in the top 100-income areas in the U.S. No images or videos were included with the MUFON report.

The cigar-shaped UFO is not the most common UFO shape, but is frequently spotted across the U.S. Some of the Pcigar-shaped UFO stories we covered here include:

Tennessee witnesses describe cigar-shaped UFO

Low flying cigar UFO moves over Austell, Georgia highway

Pennsylvania witness photographs cigar-shaped UFO

Cigar UFO follows orange spheres over Florida

Cigar-shaped UFO 50 feet over Blue Lake, CA home emits buzzing noise

Cigar-shaped UFO hovers low over Phoenix, Arizona highway

Texas is a current UFO ALERT 3 rating, with a high number of UFO sightings nationally. Texas had 39 UFO reports in March 2011 - the second highest reporting state - while California had 45 sightings, the highest reporting state in the nation.

You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page. The most up-to-date UFO information can be heard at web radio show UFO Traffic Report every Wednesday, 9 - 10:30 p.m. EST, which includes a UFO Witness Testimony Program segment, and an update of the UFO ALERT national rating system. Past shows are available at the Archive page.

UFO mystery in Kolkata air

Prasanta Paul, Kolkata, Feb 1, DH News Service :

A glowing round object making a speedy descent near the West Bengal-Bihar border early on January 26 left pilots of five aircraft baffled, triggering widespread speculation about unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

The first person to sight the object was a senior Air India pilot who was navigating the aircraft at a height of 34,000 ft during its flight from Kolkata to New Delhi.

“The plane was just entering the airspace of Gaya, close to Bengal-Bihar border, when I first noticed the glowing object, below the aircraft, hurtling down at a very high speed,” Captain Rishi was quoted as saying by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower here at Dum Dum International Airport.

The Air India pilot initially didn’t pay much attention as it is customary for the pilots to notice several such things midair. But when the aircraft was close to Varanasi, the object was still brightly visible.

Without wasting time, he informed the Varanasi Air Traffic Control from where ATC, Kolkata, was alerted.

The officials at ATC pondered over whether pilots of other international flights that might have crossed the Kolkata-Bihar-Varanasi route, had also observed the glowing object reported by Capt Rishi.

Accordingly, the ATC, Kolkata, beamed asking signals for other international flights that flew the same airspace during the period concerned.

Foreign pilots confirm

To their utter surprise, the air traffic control officials were told by as many as four foreign airlines flight pilots that they had seen the same object and all of them reiterated that it was falling down at a great speed!

FinAir of Finland and Novou Air of Sweden were flying from the West to East while a couple of flights of Cathay Pacific and Dynasty Airways of China were moving in the opposite direction at an altitude between 34,000 and 37,000 ft over the airspace supposed to be in the trajectory of the object.

Once the foreign airlines pilots radioed back the ATC tower here, confirming their sighting of the object, ATC engineers immediately got in touch with the Indian Air Force. However, the IAF engineers pointed out that their powerful radar had failed to track or notice any unusual object.

“It could be a shooting star or part of a meteor or a metal that had a sudden entry into the earth’s atmosphere as a result of which it turned into a burning object and appeared glowing from a distance,” explained Positional Astronomy Centre director Sanjib Sen.

“There is no denying the fact of its existence as so many pilots having seen it.”
But when everyone had seen it falling at a high speed, where and when the object had hit the earth? There is apparently no answer to this question so far.

Source: DeccanHerald

Orb-of-light UFO spotted over Dome of Rock, Jerusalem

It could be dismissed as a hoax, except, the same footage was shot in two different angles by two different unrelated people. The first thing that comes to my mind is, what are these "orbs" made of? Surely, this one is not the first of its kind. I've previously linked a video of it titled "Milkhill UFO incident" followed by another one seemingly making crop circles over a field.

"Orb" UFO's have also made an appearance in the famous Rendlesham (England) incident in 1980.

Source :ITN

UFO drops flare like objects over Utah

An unidentified flying object was filmed dropping flare-like objects over Utah last week, leaving locals to wonder if they had experienced a close encounter with alien spacecrafts.

“They looked like they were flying in formation perfectly together and then whatever was dropping looked like it was burning real bright,” witness Mike Galbraith told Utah’s ABC 4. An Air Force veteran, Galbraith says that the trails of white lights falling from the objects were not military flares. “They usually shoot out the sides, or they shoot down, and there are a lot of them and you could definitely hear them.” Galbraith said the UFOs were silent.

According to AOL News, local airports and military installations have offered no explanation for the lights.

“I don’t believe in extraterrestrials,” said local resident Lynette Chidester. “I noticed over the roof of the garage a red light and a white light, and the red light isn’t flashing like an airplane light does — that’s what drew my attention to it.”

She then saw the streaks of white, glittering light reported by other witnesses like Galbraith. “Out of the red light comes, like, a firework — the phosphorescent silver — it’s coming down out of it and I thought, ‘OK, I’ve never seen that before.”

Residents reported seeing the lights for 15 minutes before they flew away.

WATCH:

Source: Dailycaller.com

Spaceships landed of Anglesey coast, claims UFO expert

ALIEN spaceships under the sea might sound like the stuff of fiction, but a UFO researcher claims that an incident off the shores of Anglesey could be the best evidence yet of an infamous North Wales close encounter.

However, UFO expert Russ Kellett said that a coastguard document backed his theory that one of three alien craft found off the coast of Anglesey crashed into Lake Bala and caused the Berwyn Mountain incident January 23 1974.

He said: “This information that I have unleashed is a sort of Holy Grail. The Ministry of Defence released documents a year ago and there was nothing about military activity.”

The researcher, who has investigated the UFOs for 23 years, said that the Marine Coastguard document revealed that a military exercise called Operation Photoflash was underway from Liverpool Bay to the North Wales coast on the night of the Berwyn Incident.

Russ believes that the operation used depth charges to locate one alien craft at Puffin Island, another off the Anglesey coast and a further ship near Bangor.

The spaceships then shot out of the sea and into the air.

Russ said that a group of men discovered one of the silver flying saucers while the aliens emerged from one of the crashed ships on a roadside near Llandrillo.

He said: “They were slim humanoid creatures, about five ft six inches tall, with grey skin and wore jumpsuits with belt kits on them.”

Russ added that the men watched the soliders load the aliens into a vehicle and drive away.

The researched believed that the MoD had not released the information to prevent public panic.

He said: “You’ve got something that travels about under the sea without detection and can fly. What a piece of engineering that is.

“People are going to get really worried, because this is what I call super technology.”

Russ also claims to have several fragments of one of the craft.

Documents released by the MoD last year support the theory that a meteor shower caused the bright lights and earthqauke experienced by residents near the Berwyn Incident’s epicentre at Bala Lake.

Source: northwaleschronicle.co.uk

UFO sightings spawn COMETA report, fear of world crisis

Submitted by Dave Masko on 2011-01-29

EUGENE, Ore. – Confirmed UFO sightings over Cairo and the port city of Suez in Egypt early Saturday morning comes at a time when the United Nations is reviewing the French government produced COMETA Report that states “about five percent of UFO sightings defy conventional explanation” and often occur at a time of world crisis; while, also stating that UFOs “constitute a real phenomenon warranting immediate international attention.”

Foreign exchange students at Eugene’s Lane Community College told local media today that while there’s a news blackout in Egypt. But, there’s also reports of UFOs. Moreover, there have been BBC and other international media confirmations; news of lights and UFO sightings in skies over this ancient land.

Information about the COMETA Report and the photo that accompanies this story was researched in part by a review of National Archives and the Division of Special Collections and University Archives, at the University of Oregon here in Eugene.

In addition, British and French government freedom of information act type files about UFOs are also available to the general public, and contain details about the COMETA Report and various proposals for making first contact with ETs.

The COMETA Report is a kin to the Air Force Blue Book reports on UFOs, states a French government information source. Moreover, COMETA’s history is tied to senior French government officials who, after World War II, decided it was time to investigate and prove UFO sightings were real.

Thus, COMETA is the French government’s official document stating that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are real.

At the same time, members of the United Nations scientific committee are said to be reviewing proposals for the United Nations to set-up a UFO task force that will coordinate any direct contact with aliens.

Moreover, it’s believed that the United Nations would serve as the center communications with alien civilizations. With that in mind, sources say COMETA is being reviewed because UFO and alien contact “would impact world security.”

Any alien contact means it is superior coming here to Earth.

The 1971 UFO photo (accompanying this story) helped make the COMETA Report an already historic document, say those who study UFO phenomenon.

“The COMETA Report photo is proof that UFOs exist because after 40 years nobody can prove it’s not a UFO. It’s real. It happened. The COMETA Report will be remembered because it begins the conversation about making contact.

In addition, a British government document titled “How to Report a UFO Sighting,” in the Freedom of Information Section of the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) website.

The National Archives also includes information about UFO sightings over the Caribbean during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the Sixties; and, UFO sightings were reported in the Middle East during the Gulf War. For instance, the first group of 160 U.S. government UFO files were released on May 14, 2008 on the National Archives website. The files are said to have “more than enough evidence to confirm UFO existence.”

Crisis in Egypt and the region’s UFO connection

“An ancient civilization exists in Egypt, and it’s always been known as a center for UFO sightings and UFO history,” says Lyle Thorpe who’s a member of the Oregon UFO “watchers” group that meets monthly at Stonefield Beach, along Oregon’s central coast.

Thorpe points to the recent tour of Egyptian King Tut and the “Golden Age of the Pharaohs Exhibition” that recently ended a long U.S. tour. The King Tut exhibition is said to “bring the golden age of the Pharaohs to life with 130 ancient Egyptian artifacts and treasures uncovered by the explorer Harry Burton in 1922.”

What the Tut exhibit does not detail is many of the artifacts include unusual graphics that point to UFO craft, alien life and out-of-this -world points of view that are expressed in these personal items of King Tut.

Still, even with King Tut’s collection of UFO art in gold, etched in jewelry and used in design, there’s nobody of international stature, who’s still alive, that will come forward and lead the United Nations in establishing a UFO Center, as the COMETA Report advises.

Not surprising, Thorpe noted that according to the United Kingdom’s Freedom of Information Act “few UFO sightings in England and Europe were investigated in any meaningful sense of the word.”

The COMETA Report also states that a UFO crisis is possible because “there are so many unknowns.”

Also, the COMETA Report states that because there’s no scientific or world government consensus on how to best communicate or investigate UFOs and alien life on Earth, it will remain in the status quo until a world doctrine on the existence of UFOs is ratified by members of the United Nations.

The report says there’s proof that UFO civilizations have roots here on Earth and, thus, a vested interest in Earth and its people.

Source: huliq.com

Interview with an ET!

Before you watch this video, please note that there is a good chance for it to be an elaborate hoax.



He does speak sense, regardless of whether he's an ET or not!

‘Crop circle’ in Indonesian rice paddy field

Thousands of curious onlookers are flocking to central Indonesia to look at a crop circle in a rice field following rumors it was formed by a UFO.

Though clearly sculptured by humans - it looks like an intricately designed flower - the 70-yard-wide (70-meter-wide) circle has drawn so much attention that police have blocked off the area with yellow tape.

Villagers have started charging entrance fees.

Guntur Purwanto, chief of Jogotirto village in Sleman district, said the circle appeared in the middle of the green rice paddies over the weekend.

Among those turning out and offering opinions were officials from Indonesia’s space agency, well-respected astronomers and nuclear agency officials. All agree it was not left by an UFO.

Source: The Hindu

A fresh sighting of a triangular UFO dubbed the “Dudley Dorito” racing through the skies has been reported in the Black Country – and this time it seemed to bring a friend.

Security officer Glyn Richards was having a cigarette in the garden of his home in Coppice Lane, Quarry Bank, when he saw a mysterious object with flashing lights in the sky, appearing to travel towards Dudley from Halesowen.

Moments later, he said, another UFO with a steady white light appeared and seemed to chase it off.

“I never really believed in anything like that, but it was no helicopter or plane that I’ve ever seen,” said father-of-two Mr Richards, aged 33. “I had a perfect view of it for around 20 seconds. It had flashing red lights in the centre and white lights at the end. Then another thing with just a bright white light appeared and it looked like it scared it away as it shot off in a perfectly straight line.”

It is the third reported sighting of the Dorito in as many years.

Mr Richards said he had called his nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son out of the house to see the objects, and following the sighting, which happened at around 7.45pm on Monday, they logged on to the internet and discovered previous sightings of the UFO on the Express & Star website — along with its own entry on Wikipedia.

“I was shocked but it was quite exciting as well — it was probably just a military plane or something but it’s interesting to think it could be something else,” he said.

In November, quality inspector Munesh Mistry reported seeing the triangular-shaped object in the skies near his home in Andrew Road, Tipton.

The object has also been spotted hovering over the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Brierley Hill — and in February last year a UFO sighting was recorded by Sean Gibbs-Percival over the skies of Oldbury. On April 16, 2009, builders working at West Midland Safari Park were shocked to see a flying saucer-shaped object soaring above them.

Source: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/01/19/new-sighting-of-dudley-dorito-ufo/#ixzz1BU9kfz9u

'Pear-shaped' UFO spotted in East Kilbride

A motorist on the East Kilbride Expressway has reported spotting a mysterious object in the sky.

George King reported the mystery on the UK UFO Sightings website, following his unexplained sighting on Sunday, January 2 at around 8pm.

He said: "I was sitting in my car, facing west, when I noticed two orange lights - one smaller than the other - flying low.

"I thought it was a police helicopter but it kept coming with no noise and suddenly shot up skywards right in front of me.

"I jumped out of car to phone my son and to the left of me I saw a large, pear-shaped, bubble type thing heading towards Hamilton/Strathaven."

UFO expert and author Ron Halliday said: "There have been a number of sightings in the East Kilbride area, certainly since the beginning of this Millennium. It is somewhat of a hotspot for UFO activity, with a regular series of sightings.

"It is an intriguing sighting. There have been a number of odd objects seen in that area, strange things such as a coffin shaped UFO. Lights in the sky and moving off at a high speed both fit the patterns of a typical UFO report.

"Pear shaped is a new one to me, although ‘bubble’ shaped things are often described as looking like space crafts."

Source: news.stv.tv

California psychologist: Humanity ready for aliens

"A California psychologist says human beings may be ready to accept evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence without widespread panic.

Dr. Albert Harrison of the University of California's Davis campus said such a discovery 'may be far less startling for generations that have been brought up with word processors, electronic calculators, avatars and cell phones as compared with earlier generations,' The Scotsman reported Tuesday.'" UPI

A hundred years ago computers, smartphones, space stations, and other technological wonders existed only in the realm of science fiction. If a UFO had landed on the grounds of the White House back then, most people would have turned to religion for an explanation. The public would have been convinced that the extraterrestrials were demons with malevolent intentions. There would have been widespread panic, and society would be in an upheaval.

Today we live in a high-tech world and the idea that extraterrestrials might visit the Earth isn't so alarming. Decades of science fiction movies about UFO's and alien beings have psychologically prepared us for the arrival of visitors from a galaxy far, far away.

Most Americans have a rudimentary knowledge of quantum physics. We are familiar with the counterintuitive concepts of entanglement, the multi-verse theory, and string theory which posits the existence of 11 dimensions.

If physics makes time travel and the idea of an infinite number of universes seem possible, it's not too much of a stretch for us to believe there's intelligent life forms in the universe.

If the US government has proof that we aren't alone in the universe, I hope they will share that information with the public. Christian fundamentalists will panic, but the vast majority of Americans will make peace with the reality that we are not alone.

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Source: The american chronicle

Tenessee witnesses describe cigar shaped UFO

Tennessee witnesses had a good view of a white cigar-shaped UFO for a minute and-a-half beginning at 9:52 a.m. on January 8, 2011, that they note had no visible tail, wings, windows, or markings, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

While no city was mentioned in the public portion of the MUFON report, the driver and two children were traveling west on Union Avenue at Cooper Avenue when the “large, white, non-reflective, cigar shaped object” moved overhead.

“This object was a long cylinder-shaped (cigar) and rounded on both ends,” the reporting witness stated. “It was white, but not reflecting the sun at all. It moved at a steady pace toward the south and slowly began ascending and turning slightly to the south west. We continued to watch this object, discussing it the entire time, looking for anything that could identify it (ie wings, tail, propeller, windows, colors or markings).”

No images or video were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on January 11, 2011.

Tennessee is a current UFO ALERT 5 rating, with a lower number of UFO sightings nationally. Tennessee had 7 UFO reports in December 2011. California led the nation with 45 sighting reports.

You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page. The most up-to-date UFO information can be heard at web radio show UFO Traffic Report every Wednesday, 9 – 10:30 p.m. EST, which includes a UFO Witness Testimony Program segment, and an update of the UFO ALERT national rating system. Past shows are available at the Archive page.

The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Tennessee MUFON State Director Eddie Middleton investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

TN, January 8, 2011 - Large white cigar shaped object moving from north to south, ascending and turning to the southwest. MUFON Case # 27357.

January 8, 2011, Saturday morning at 9:52am, bright blue sky, no clouds. I was driving west on Union Avenue and had crossed Cooper Avenue when I saw overhead a large, white, non-reflective, cigar shaped object moving to the south. There were 2 youths in my back seat and I asked them if they could see it, too. They could view the object from the back seat, initially leaning forward and looking out the windshield and then looking out the side passenger window behind me (the driver).

At first glance I thought it to be a commercial jet, however, when I took a second look and asked my passengers to look, we saw there was no tail, no wings, no windows, no markings. This object was a long cylinder-shaped (cigar) and rounded on both ends. It was white, but not reflecting the sun at all. It moved at a steady pace toward the south and slowly began ascending and turning slightly to the south west. We continued to watch this object, discussing it the entire time, looking for anything that could identify it (ie wings, tail, propeller, windows, colors or markings). We watched it literally as far as we could see it.

When we could no longer see the white cigar shaped object we saw in that same area a jet-liner (in the vicinity of the Memphis International Airport) which showed up black against the blue sky and the wings and tail were quite visible even from the long distance. I asked my passengers if that looked like the object we all saw and they agreed that the object we saw and discussed was NOT an airplane.

I turned off Union Avenue at Willett and arrived at my destination. I estimate that we saw and observed this object for approximately 1 minute to 1 1/2 minutes and the only time we could not see it was when a building obstructed our view.

Source : lecanadian.com

UFO darts across Oklahoma and Arkansas skies

UFO darted across the Oklahoma skies in a bluish-green glow. Authorities don't know what it was. People in Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma both saw the bright light passing over the area. The light was seen as far away as Florida.

Everyone is guessing what it may have been. Officials think that the object may have broken up and some pieces are on the ground in Oklahoma. According to KFOR, "Sheriff's dispatchers on both sides of the border say they received calls about the light Tuesday night."

The sky just lit up, and there is a picture of the object that someone in Oklahoma took, so your guess is as good as the next guy's. Residents of both states would like a definitive answer though. Oklahoma residents are being told that there may be debris in the state from the eerie light that appeared and disappeared just as quickly.

What it was is any one's guess, but there have certainly been some strange things in the sky and on the Earth lately. Rumors are flying about the bluish-green glowing light. Whatever it was, it was big and flashy.

Source: Gather news

UFOs spotted over Maloneys

They came from outer space ... or maybe just Batehaven.

It appears that the impressive spotlight at the Bells Carnival at Batehaven has triggered a UFO sighting in Maloneys Beach.

Last Thursday, a Maloneys Beach resident, who will remain anonymous, saw strange lights in the size and shape of hula hoops from his yard, around 9.30pm.

“They were like smoke rings, one after the other, coming from the south-west to the north-east, and they would reach a point and disappear,” he said.

“I didn’t expect little green men to come out of them, but it was quite unusual.”

The resident did consider the carnival.

“But I thought that they weren’t coming from the right direction,” he said.

“I accept that the carnival is the best answer. They must have a clever machine.”

Bells Carnival’s Elwin Bell thought the lights probably came from one of the spotlights on his no-limit rides.

“Even as far as Maloneys Beach, it would explain the sightings,” he said.

Canberra-based cryptonaturalist Tim the Yowie Man gave a possible explanation for the lights appearing to be coming from a different direction than the carnival.

“You only need one cloud in the sky to create refraction of lights,” he said.

“It used to happen a lot a couple of years ago in Canberra when the Hellenic Club had their big light on when they held their disco. People would report UFOs on the nights the disco was held.”

Source: Batemansbaypost.com

Experts Call On UN To Prepare For Extraterrestrials

The United Nations (UN) should prepare a course of action, just in case the Earth should ever be contacted by extraterrestrials, scientists say in a new, extraterrestrial focused edition of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

The special issue, according to Guardian Science Correspondent Alok Jha, focuses on "all aspects of the search for extraterrestrial life, from astronomy and biology to the political and religious fallout that would result from alien contact."

The issue is currently available online and is dated February 13, 2011.

In one article, Professor John Zarnecki of the Open University and Dr Martin Dominik of the University of St. Andrews say that "a lack of co-ordination can be avoided by creating an overarching framework in a truly global effort governed by an international politically legitimated body." The UN's Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) is ready made for the task, they argue.

According to the organization's official website, COPUOS was established by the UN General Assembly in 1959 in order to "review the scope of international cooperation in peaceful uses of outer space, to devise programs in this field to be undertaken under United Nations auspices, to encourage continued research and the dissemination of information on outer space matters, and to study legal problems arising from the exploration of outer space."

In their paper, Zarnecki and Dominik assert that COPUOS member states should begin focusing on potential extraterrestrial affairs as well, following a format similar to their subcommittees already focused on dealing with threats from asteroids and outer space objects, according to Jha.

Other studies included in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A include a paper by Cambridge University Evolutionary Paleobiology Professor Simon Conway Morris advising those preparing for alien contact to prepare for a species that shares human-like tendencies "towards violence and exploitation," and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Professor Ted Peter reflecting upon the impact of extraterrestrial contact on the world's religions.

"Because our religious traditions formulated their key beliefs within an ancient world view now out of date, would shocking new knowledge dislodge our pre-modern dogmas? Are religious believers Earth-centric, so that contact with ET would de-centre and marginalize our sense of self-importance?" Peters, a professor of systematic theology, wrote, according to the Guardian.

"Do our traditional religions rank us human beings on top of life's hierarchy, so if we meet ETI who are smarter than us will we lose our superior rank? If we are created in God's image, as the biblical traditions teach, will we have to share that divine image with our new neighbors?" he adds, noting that he believed traditional theologians would evolve into "astrotheologians" and that "contact with extraterrestrial intelligence will expand the existing religious vision that all of creation… is the gift of a loving and gracious God."

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Image Caption: This shows Kenneth Arnold holding a picture of a drawing of the crescent shaped UFO he saw in 1947.

Source: redorbit.com

UFO sighting in Córdoba

Argentina, January 8, 2011

The incident happened in Villa Carlos Paz. A Youtube user identified as Alberto, uploaded a video he shot with his own camera, where you can see a strange flying object going from left to right and disappearing in less than a second at high speed.

It is known the Uritorco for the stories told not only by the inhabitants of the surrounding areas, but also by students of this phenomenon, who claim to have seen UFOs.

The two videos are of the same situation, however the first record shows the raw version, unedited, where you see a small black spot flying over the sky. The second allows you, thanks to the zoom, to see the object moving and fading in just a moment.

Source: momento24.com

Wikileaks cable confirms extensive Soviet UFO investigations

The first Wikileaks U.S. diplomatic cable that mentions UFOs has just been released. It is based on comments by Yuriy Zhadobin, chairman of the intelligence service of the former Soviet Republic of Belarus. In the cable prepared by the U.S. Embassy in Minsk, Zhadobin is reported to have said that during the time of the Soviet Union, there were almost unlimited funds for investigating the UFO phenomenon. He laments that after the Soviet break up, Belarus no longer has the funds to investigate UFOs to the extent it once had.

This is what Zhadobin said in the cable just released by the Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten:

Unlike during the USSR, the department is not engaged in studying paranormal phenomena. [Back then,] we had greater means and opportunities which we could spend on anything and everything. Today the situation is different. Then, when society was excited by something, it entered our sphere of interest. But when it comes to healers, UFOs and such, we just can´t deal with them any more.

Wikileaks has so far only released 2000 of approximately 250,000 diplomatic cables, less than one percent. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper in December 2010, Julian Assange confirmed that some of the unreleased cables do concern UFOs. Those yet to be released cables may reveal the extent to which the U.S. and other countries have investigated, and publicly covered up the UFO phenomenon and its relationship to extraterrestrial life.

Source: exopoliticsinstitute.org