historic site: Kinniside stone circle on Cold Fell (Whitehaven News)

GEOFF was happy to pass on tips to anyone who might be interested in life as a researcher of the paranormal.

IT doesn’t seem to matter that we have entered the digital age, that there’s wireless broadband almost everywhere, Sellafield on our doorstep and the Energy Coast shouting “Science is King”. Ghosts, boggles, UFOs and all-things strange refuse to lie down and die!

No amount of scientific explanation or computer analysis seems able to rid this (or any other) part of the world of those figures in the shadows; those phenomena which seem to defy explanation and convince at a stroke even the most sceptical of witnesses.
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Lonnie Zamora (1933 - 2009)

Lonnie Zamora (1933 – 2009) was a New Mexico police officer who reported a close encounter of the first, second and third kinds on Friday, April 24, 1964, near Socorro, New Mexico.

Zamora’s account received considerable coverage in the mass media, and is sometimes regarded as one of the best documented, yet most perplexing UFO reports. It was one of the accounts that helped persuade astronomer J. Allen Hynek that some UFO reports represent an intriguing, unsolved mystery.

Read complete article here. {via Twilight Language}

I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and I just heard the sad news of the passing of Mac Tonnies. I had only recently become familiar with his work but in that short time became completely hooked. He served up some really intriguing, and uniquely thought out theories on the ufo and alien phenomenon, as well as many other esoteric subjects. So please, do yourself a favor and go check out his work. I assure you, even if you don’t agree with him, you’ll be sure to be looking at things a little differently.

Mac’s blog: Posthuman Blues

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Mills hall, home to many possible ghosts. (Lisa Berguist)

Imagine it’s a cold, gray night. The moon has cast a pale glow on the tree-lined paths of the Mills College campus, and you’re walking alone. As you walk, you go over the events of the day: that midterm you aced, the homework you didn’t do, your cute new crush.

All of a sudden, you see a glimpse of something out of the corner of your eye that interrupts you. It might be a shadowy figure, a mysterious woman in a red nightgown, or a horse-drawn carriage disappearing into the night.

You wouldn’t be the first to see or hear things on campus that you cannot explain. With buildings like Mills Hall as much as 140 years old, it is no surprise that Mills has collected a bevy of spooky legends over the years that even the bravest student might find unsettling.

Read complete article here. {via The Campanil}

Above is the image (still from film below) smuggled out of Russia from Berezovsky crash, in the region of Sverdlovsk in 1968

On November 29, 1968 the newspaper Sverdlovsk reported, “Berezovsky Dreams” with the account of Flying Lightning Balls, one of which crashed near Berezovsky. This Opinion article reveals never before seen images of a UFO Crashed Disk. I would like to thank Ron Stewart for the many long hours of research and development of the images, without people like Ron this would never make the light of day.

The Soviet Defense Ministry wrote in March 1969, Order No. 481 addressed to the Commander of the Air Defense Forces in the Sverdlosvsk Military Region Lieutenant General A.G. Ponomarenko. He was ordered to assist in every way the local KGB authorities in the operation “Sverdlovsk Midget” (small aliens), signed by the Deputy Commander in Chief of the USSR Air Defense Forces, Colonel General S.D. Lebedey, Seal stated, General Staff of the USSR Defense Ministry.
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Many crop circles, including this one in May 2009, have appeared near Silbury Hill, Wiltshire Photo: APEX

A police officer contacted British UFO experts after seeing three aliens examining a freshly made crop circle near Avebury, Wiltshire.

The sergeant, who has not been named, was off-duty when he saw the figures standing in a field near Silbury Hill, and stopped his car to investigate.

However, as he approached the ‘men’ – all over 6ft tall with blond hair – he heard “the sound of static electricity” and the trio ran away ”faster than any man he had ever seen”.

Read complete article here. {via telegraph}

Ann Eller reveals some interesting insight into the later years of J. Allen Hynek.

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The Spectral Sock Swiper (credit: Fortean Times)

Fortean Times has posted three creepy excerpts from Volume Two of their It Happened To Me! True-life Encounters with the Paranormal series. Check out the Spectral Sock Swiper below. Definitely sounds like a great Halloween read.

In 1959, when I was 19 years old, I visited Alnwick in Northumberland to see a friend. One afternoon, at about 2.00pm, I was waiting for a bus in very bad weather, with thick snow everywhere. Standing to my right was an elderly lady. She wore a long black dress and shawl around her shoulders, her hair pulled back in a bun, her face very thin with deep, tired and sunken eyes.

She commented on the cold day and then asked me if she could have a couple of pairs of socks. It was only then that I noticed that her feet were bare. I took off my socks and handed them to her. She thanked me, put them on and as I stood there watching she simply vanished into thin air! Needless to say, my socks went with her. I presumed she had died in or near that spot and that other people had seen her; perhaps many pairs of socks were now in her spirit possession. I was glad to help this poor unfortunate lady and maybe ease the pain of this earthbound soul. Throughout the encounter, she looked as real and as solid as a living human being.

Mrs VA Martin, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 1998 {source: Fortean Times}

Read Water Plant Ghost and Night Bombers. {via Fortean Times}

The declassified files have revealed many previously unknown cases (dw-world.de)

In the two years since the French made their top-secret UFO files public, more European nations have declassified documents. But the majority remain tight-lipped with a few refusing to even acknowledge the phenomenon.

On August 4, 1990, an unidentified flying object was seen hovering in daylight near the town of Pitlochry in Scotland. Eyewitnesses stated that the diamond shaped object hung in the sky for about 10 minutes as two military aircraft made a series of low-level passes near it.
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I recently heard Nick Pope discuss the case of Milton Torres and it’s got to be one of the more compelling pilot/UFO encounters I’ve heard of. You don’t usually hear of the pilots being ordered to intercept and shoot UFOs down. See for yourself in this emotional video from the Disclosure Press Conference held at the National Press Club on April 20th, 2009.

Torres and his fellow pilot were in the “alert shack” at RAF Manston when they received instructions to take to the air. The two pilots raced to their respective F-86Ds and took off well within the allotted five minutes. “As soon as my wheels were in the well, I received a call from the Ground-controlled interception (GCI) station at RAF Metropolitan (Met) Sector informing me that this would be a fire mission and that I would be selecting all 24 of my rockets,” Torres remembers.^[3]

“The very first thing they told me was that I was to fire my rockets at the object,” Torres said in a 2009 interview. “The message from GCI was clear. Someone had made the decision to shoot at the UFO even before I took to the air.”^[4] {source: wikipedia}

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