Strange Orbs Caught on Film Set

I never noticed these strange orbs until the editing process of my independent film, "Boy Minus Girl." What makes this extra creepy for me is the fact that I shot this scene not only in my own house, but in my 7-year-old daughter's bedroom.

http://youtu.be/sWH9-fVt6vs

I was amazed when I cropped the images to see exactly how many orbs there were, and in how many direction directions they were traveling.

We shot four takes in all, and it appears that there were more orbs in every take. The activity seemed to escalate with each shot.

CIA acknowledges Area 51, but not UFOs or aliens

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File - A car moves along the Extraterrestrial Highway near Rachel, Nevada, in this Wednesday, April 10, 2002 file photo. The CIA is acknowledging the existence of Area 51 in newly declassified documents. George Washington University's National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records request and released it Thursday Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Laura Rauch, File)

 
LAS VEGAS (AP) — UFO buffs and believers in space aliens are celebrating the CIA's clearest acknowledgement yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades.

The recently declassified documents have set the tinfoil-hat contingent abuzz on the Internet, though there's no mention in the papers of UFO crashes, black-eyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings.

"I'm thinking that they're probably testing the waters now to see how mad people get about the big lie and cover-up," said Audrey Hewins, an Oxford, Maine, woman who runs a support group for people like her who believe they have been contacted by extraterrestrials. "We're hoping the CIA is leading up to disclosure" of the existence of space aliens on Earth.

"It's not something you can look at us and lie about, because we know that they're here and have been here for a long time," she said.

The CIA history released Thursday not only refers to Area 51 by name and describes some of the activities that took place there, but places the Air Force base on a map, along the dry Groom Lake bed.

It also describes some cool planes, though none of them are saucer-shaped.

George Washington University's National Security Archive used a public records request to obtain the CIA history of one of Area 51's most secret Cold War projects, the U-2 spy plane program.

National Security Archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson first reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of the country's most mysterious military base had been redacted. So he requested the history again in 2005, hoping for more information. Sure enough, he received a version a few weeks ago with the mentions of Area 51 restored.

The report is unlikely to stop the conspiracy theories. The 407-page document still contains many redactions, and who's to say those missing sections don't involve little green men?

Some UFO buffs and others believe the most earthshattering revelations will come from Area 51 workers, not an official document.

"The government probably will not release what it knows," UFO researcher Robert Hastings said. "My opinion is that whoever is flying these craft will break the story and will reveal themselves at some point in the future. The CIA is not going to release anything they don't want to talk about."

It's not the first time the government has acknowledged the existence of the super-secret, 8,000-square-mile installation. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush referred to the "location near Groom Lake" in insisting on continued secrecy, and other government references date to the 1960s.

But Richelson as well as those who are convinced "the truth is out there" are taking the document as a sign of loosening secrecy about the government's activities in the Nevada desert.

The site is known as Area 51 among UFO aficionados because that was the base's designation on old Nevada test site maps. The CIA history reveals that officials renamed it "Paradise Ranch" to try to lure skilled workers, who can still be seen over Las Vegas flying to and from the site on unmarked planes.

Beginning with the U-2 in the 1950s, the base has been the testing ground for a host of top-secret aircraft, including the SR-71 Blackbird, F-117A stealth fighter and B-2 stealth bomber. Some believe the base's Strangelovian hangars also store alien vehicles, evidence from the "Roswell incident" — the alleged 1947 crash of a UFO in New Mexico — and extraterrestrial corpses.

The CIA history mentions an "unexpected side effect" of the high-flying planes: "a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects." The U-2 and Oxcart planes, which flew higher than civilians believed possible, accounted for half of UFO sightings during the 1950s and '60s, according to the report.

Even for those who do not believe, the mystery surrounding the site — situated about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, across miles of empty desert speckled with Joshua trees and sagebrush — has been a boon.

One Nevada bicycle event company produces an "X Rides" event that incorporates mountain and road biking near a certain heavily guarded patch of Nevada desert. Las Vegas' minor league baseball team is called "the 51s."

Small-town restaurants along State Route 375, officially designated the Extraterrestrial Highway, sell souvenir T-shirts to tourists making their way to the boundary of Area 51, which consists of a no-trespassing sign, a surveillance camera and an armed guard on a hill.

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Hannah Dreier can be reached at http://twitter.com/hannahdreier.

Britain makes last of secret UFO files public

Photograph apparently showing a 'UFO' over Stonehenge, Wiltshire, in January 2009. (The National Archives)



Photograph of a 'UFO' in view of Blackpool Pier, Lancashire, in October 2008. (The National Archives)

The truth is finally out there.

The U.K. government has released the final batch of secret files related to a decades long hunt for little green men -- and revealed that the hunt for aliens was detracting from “more valuable defense-related activities.”

The Ministry of Defense in 2009 closed its UFO desk and hotline, the go-to spot for anyone wishing to warn the government about a recent alien abduction, sighting or any sort of close encounter. The government spent years detailing the accounts from ordinary citizens of such reports, including one from a person who claimed to have been living with an alien.

But despite years or work collecting this information, Carl Mantell of the Royal Air Force's Air Command said that in more than 50 years, "no UFO sighting reported … has ever revealed anything to suggest an extra-terrestrial presence or military threat to the U.K."

According to Sky News, The memo said there was "no defense benefit" in the recording, collating, analysis or investigation of the sightings, adding: "The level of resources diverted to this task is increasing in response to a recent upsurge in reported sightings, diverting staff from more valuable defence-related activities."

Officials predicted a backlash from "ufologists" to the decision to close the UFO desk, Sky News said, and also noted that they had "deliberately avoided formal approaches to other governments on the issue" amid fears of "international collaboration and conspiracy."

The files reveal countless reports, ranging from the banal to the intriguing, that the government had collected between 2007 and 2009:

:: A letter from a school child to the Ministry of Defense asking for the truth about UFOs after she had seen some strange lights, and including a drawing of an alien in a UFO waving.

:: A report received via the UFO hotline by someone who had been "living with an alien" in Carlisle for some time, and one from a man from Cardiff who claimed a UFO abducted his dog, car and tent while he was camping with friends in 2007.

:: Sightings of UFOs over the Houses of Parliament, Stonehenge and Blackpool Pier.

The files also revealed campaigns by ufologists for the Government to investigate sightings more thoroughly, with letters sent to senior ministers, former prime minister Gordon Brown and even the Queen, calling for more action.

Read more/Source: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/21/real-x-files-britain-makes-last-secret-ufo-files-public/#ixzz2WsiqAze3

Other names for Bigfoot

It's amazing to me that there are so many different names for roughly the cryptid seen all around the world. In North America, just some of the names for him is Sasquatch and Bigfoot, but check out this comprehensive list of names for the 8 foot hairy beast across the planet Earth:

Sasquatch~Suhsq'uhtch (NW US), Maricoxi (South America), Maeroero (Maori), Almas (Mongolian), Meshe-Adam (Azerbaijan~Russia), Agach-Kishi (Karachai~Russia), Tkiskasti/Shaitan (Georgia/Caucasia), Mazyl/Almasti (Kabardinia (North Caucasus~Russia), Yerin (China), Hibagon (Japan), Oh-mahs (California), OhOhmah (Yurok & Hoopa), tinta-k-iwungxoya'n~hair covered boss of the mountain (Hoopa), Sesx-ech (Coast Salish), Kushtakaa (SE Alaska), Gagiit (Prince of Wales Island, Haida), Ba'oosh or Ba'wis (Tsimshean), D'sonoqui (Kwakwaka'wakw), Sne nah (Okanogan), Rugaru (Turtle Mt Ojibway), Chiye tanka (Lakota (West)/Sioux), Neginla eh(Alutiiq/Yuko), Nantiinaq (Kenai Peninsula), Nant'ina (Dena'ina), Urayuli (SW Alaskan), Get'qun (Lake Lliamna), A hoo la huk (Yup'ik), Gilyuk (Nelchina Plateau), Lariyin (Hare), Tah tah kle' ah (Yakama/Shasta), Sasahevas (Salish), Xi'lgo(Nehalem/Tillamook), So'yoko (Hopi), Ot ne yar heh (Iroquois), Ge no sqwa(Iroquois/Seneca), Miitiipi (Kawaiisu), Yahyahaas (Modoc), Tso apittse (Shoshone), Toylona(Taos), Atahsaia (Zuni), Yé'iitsoh (Dine'), El-Ish-kas (Makah), Sc'wen'ey'ti (Spokane), Skanicum (Colville), Choanito (Wenatchee), Ste ye mah (Yakama), Yeti (Tibetan), Seatco (Yakama/Klickitat/Puyallup), Seat ka (Yakama), See'atco (Coast Salish), Tsiatko (Puyallup/Nisqually), Steta'l (Puyallup/Nisqually), Abominable Snowman, Bukw's, Boq's, Pukw's (Bella Coola), Pkw's (Bella Bella), Mai-a-tlatl (Comox), Matlox (Nootka), Yi'dyi'ta(Nehalem/Tillamook), Sesq'ec~male, Qelqelitl~female (Musqueam), C'amek'wes (Lummi), C'iatqo (Twana), Skunk Ape (SE US), Yowi(Australia), Almas(Asia), Barmanus (NW Pakistan), Kakundakári (Africa), Gugu(Sumatra), Gin-sung(Asia), Mo Mo (Missouri), Wookie (Louisiana), Grassman (Ohio), Toké-Mussi (Oregon), Arulataq (Alaska), Nuk-luk, Nakani (North West Territories), Nguoi rung (Asia), Nuk-Luk (North America, Nyalmo (Asia), Orang-Pendek (Oceania), Tano Giant (Africa). Teh-Ima (Asia), Ucumar (Latin America), Yeren (Asia), Ye-Ti/Metch-Kangmi (Himalayas).

They are real and they have a name.

Cryptozoology Museum quickly becoming hot spot

Here's a place I have to go: http://cryptozoologymuseum.com.

My wife lived in Portland, Maine for many years and I've been looking for an excuse to get there myself.

Richard French, Ex-Air Force Lt. Colonel, 'It Was A UFO And . . . There Were Aliens Aboard It'

Here's an amazing story from Lee Speigel at Huffington Post!





When Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French was an alleged lead investigator of Project Blue Book in the 1950s, his job was to shoot down false reports of UFOs.

Given his job, French never dreamed he'd end up in Newfoundland one day watching what appeared to him to be two extraterrestrials performing repairs on a submerged, unknown circular craft.

In Washington, D.C., recently, the 83-year-old retired officer testified at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure panel of six former members of Congress about his work as a UFO debunker in 1952.

French recounted how the Newfoundland incident unfolded decades ago, in the early 1950s, after two UFOs were seen by many people off the coast of St. John's. French's superiors ordered him to look into the situation.

"They said, 'We have a UFO report and we want you to investigate it,' and that was standard for what I was doing," French told The Huffington Post. "They told me there were two of them involved and that they were deep under the water, after entering the water doing roughly 100 miles an hour.

"There were a lot of people assembled on the wharf, at least 100 standing around just looking in amazement at the water, including several local policemen."

Watch Ret. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure:

French recalls the water was very clear and he could see two circular craft, each one about 18 feet in diameter and approximately 3 feet thick. He said the two objects were floating below the surface of the water, a couple of feet apart, not more than 20 feet from the shore. And he saw two beings in the water near the ships.

"The first thing I saw was the UFOs, and it was apparent to me that they were doing something to the craft, and I couldn't really tell what because they were on the bottom side of it and not visible to me except when they would occasionally get over to the side where I could see them. The water was fairly clear and I could see without any trouble. They weren't down at the bottom of the [seabed] -- they were about half way down."

French told HuffPost that the two beings he saw "were about 2 or 3 feet tall, light grey in color, very thin, long arms with either two or three fingers. The top of their heads was much wider than their jaw line, their eyes were very slanted and you couldn't see pupils in them. They looked the way [aliens] have been depicted in motion pictures."

As the Air Force UFO debunker watched, he claims one of the ships began to rise out of the water.

"When it hit the [surface], it was going about 100 miles an hour. It then accelerated to somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 to 3,000 miles an hour and disappeared. It returned about 20 minutes later, slowed down to nearly a stop before it entered the water, then went down, and the two [beings] worked together.

"It took them about 20 minutes and then the two ships departed together, again slow when they exited the water, and immediately they sped up to a very high speed. I believe they were repairing [the ship] and tested that the repairs had been adequate, and then away they went."

Watch French talk about his job as an Air Force UFO debunker:

Ironically, French's job at the time -- as a Project Blue Book investigator -- was to debunk UFOs. So, what kind of report did he file with Blue Book about this case he had personally witnessed?

"Needless to say, it was a fictitious report, as all of them were. I didn't really say that they were UFOs -- I said that there was something we didn't know -- some type of foreign or unrecognizable vehicle there. In other words, I weasel-worded it.

"Oh, I think without a doubt it was a UFO and I think there were aliens aboard it. There's no question in my mind that was exactly what it was, and my duty was to debunk the story, so I did my best to do so."

The events of the Newfoundland UFO and alleged aliens took place some 60 years ago, in the days before everyone had a digital camera or image-capture cell phone in their pocket. Despite the fact that there are no photographs to substantiate the report, it's still an amazing story.

So what are we to make of this? Because it's not the first time French has stirred up the UFO-ET pot.

Last year, he told HuffPost exclusively that there wasn't just one UFO crash near Roswell, N.M., in 1947 -- he said there were two.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/alien-beings-repaired-und_n_3240437.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Haunted Highway returns July 24th

The SyFy series, Haunted Highway was trashed by a lot of reviews and even a lot of viewers for being too much like Blair Witch Project, but I really liked the concept, the investigators, and the mysteries they explored.

All the original members are coming back. Jack Osbourne, Dana Workman, Devin Marble, and (my favorite) Jael de Pardo will take up 12 more mysteries in six new episodes beginning July 24th on SyFy Channel. Marble and de Pardo also teamed up in "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files." De Pardo first came to my attention in "Destination Truth."

The series premiered July 3, 2012 and included such mysteries as the Louisiana Swamp Monster, Utah Skinwalker, and the Bear Lake Beast.

I look forward to seeing which mysteries they will find out there.