"We're on the inside racetrack and on Christmas Day we will lap Mars," Look near the full moon and a blazing reddish light in the night sky is the planet Mars. Flying through space at 18 miles per second, Earth is about to go between the sun and Mars. Its as bright as Sirius the brightest star. Photo was taken December 17, 2007 by Hubble telescope.
Mars Has Probable Active Glacier
BBC reports, "The icy feature has been spotted in images from the European Space Agency's (Esa) Mars Express spacecraft. The young glacier appears in the Deuteronilus Mensae region between Mars' rugged southern highlands and the flat northern lowlands. "If it was an image of Earth, I would say 'glacier' right away," Dr Gerhard Neukum, chief scientist on the spacecraft's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) told BBC News.
"We have not yet been able to see the spectral signature of water. But we will fly over it in the coming months and take measurements. On the glacial ridges we can see white tips, which can only be freshly exposed ice.
Editor's Note: Ice infers water, and water indicates life.
Mars - Humans Could Reach by 2021
Sophisticated, advanced mining technology is being developed by 4 Frontiers Corporation to play an essential role in the company’s dream to settle the first humans on the red planet. The Massachusetts-based company 4Frontiers.com, is an emerging space commerce company focused on the settlement of Mars.
The company has plans to build the first manned headquarters for humans on Mars and the plan, and if everything falls into place, would see it happen within 15 years. Mars can support life, industry and agriculture and with proper science and technology. 4Frontiers believes it can build a habitat where a dozen people can live on Mars within two decades. The initial proposed "Hillside Settlement" on Mars would include the use of nuclear reactors, mining, manufacturing, and construction equipment, control systems, robots and automation systems and greenhouses to grow food, all which would allow human habitation in a safe environment, he said. Mars already has sufficient water supplies, he said. "We believe the science and technology is there to make our dream become reality."
For more information, visit www.4Frontiers.com.
US Sees Britain as Joint Moon Partner
By John Borland The BBC reports that NASA is eagerly backing the idea of a British mission to the moon, a plan which could come together as soon as 2012. The idea circulating in English science communities is somewhat different than the orbiters recently launched by Japan and China. A spacecraft would be set into orbit, but would then fire four devices called "penetrators" at the moon's surface at high speed.
These little love-darts would dig themselves nearly 7 feet below the surface and monitor conditions there, including registering the presence and intensity of "moonquakes," the Beeb reports.
The proposed mission is part of a broader move across Europe towards individual country missions, rather than working exclusively through the European Space Agency. Germany and Italy have also discussed proposals for their own independent missions. The ESA's SMART-1, the continent's first lunar mission, reached the moon for a two year mission in late 2004.
NASA administrator Michael Griffin is quoted by the BBC as pleased by the UK proposal. Griffin, from the article:
"The time is now to decide if the UK wants to join the next phase of human space flight, which will involve a return to the Moon sometime in the next decade. "I would very much like to bring our oldest and closest ally into that partnership."
NASA's next crewed lunar mission is on track for 2020. Meanwhile, China is planning a lander for 2012 and a crewed mission within 15 years. And Russia will begin a series of uncrewed landings in 2012.
A company called Odyssey Moon based on the Isle of Man became the first entrant in the Google Lunar X prize offering $20 million dollars to land on the moon before 2012."We are challenging small private teams to do what only two governments have done before — land on the surface of the moon," said Peter Diamandis, head of the XPrize Foundation, which is administering the purse that Google offered in September. Entrants must fly a craft to the moon, operate a robotic rover and transmit data to Earth to win the $20 million first place prize.
According to Odyssey Moon’s website, the company’s goal is to "lower the price of getting to the moon by an order of magnitude and in doing so help catalyze a ‘moon rush’ to Earth’s sister world, which (Richards) describes as an eighth continent rich in energy and resources."
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary "Says UFOs Exist"
Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura was speaking to reporters in response to demands lodged by an opposition lawmaker for an inquiry into "frequent reports of UFO sightings."The government said in an official reply that it had "not confirmed sightings of unidentified flying objects believed to be from outer space." Still, "I definitely believe they exist," Machimura said.
California Flying Triangles
PALM SPRINGS -- On Sunday, November 18, 2007, my partner and I observed three UFO's flying high about 4:30 p.m. from the downtown area. I was looking up towards the moon when I spotted an elongated boomerang, or triangular shaped craft flying in a southwest direction at around 30,000 feet. It similar in size to a smaller commercial aircraft.
I noticed it slowly came to a stop, suspended in midair like a helicopter. That’s when I pointed it out to my partner, who saw the object as clearly as I had. The craft then moved around its location sluggishly and, in what appeared to be, a somewhat erratic fashion. All of the sudden, two other identical craft came into view in close relative proximity to the fist craft. The three objects began to slowly "wobble" towards a center point. For about four or five minutes they leisurely moved around and, on occasion, become completely stationary. Once the objects reached their center point destination, they vanished from sight.
Each craft was identical in size and shape to one another. Another unusual attribute of the crafts was that although they were shaped like a boomerang, they flew "sideways". Both witnesses hold advanced degrees and one is a FAA licensed pilot. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
Delaware Four White lights
LEWES -- On November 22, 2007, at 9 PM, I saw four white circular lights traveling in a circle and then all meeting in center. This has been continuing for the last hour over the skies of Lewes, DE. Lights continue to move in the same direction...meeting in center and then traveling back into a circular motion once again. I was walking outside and met others on the street. We continued to watch the lights for an hour. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
Florida - Oblong Cylinder
Drawing of Object Prepared by Peter Davenportof National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)
ORLANDO -- My two nephews called me from Jacksonville, on December 10, 2007, and told me to look straight up and slightly north. I went to the roof with binoculars and found what they were looking at. I thought at first it was Holmes Comet. It looked like a comet, fuzzy, with a pretty long tail. My nephews said they watched it for about 15 minutes before calling, stating it was much brighter when they first saw it, and that it was moving. In two minutes, I watched it move about 6 inches from the west to the east side of a constellation. It moved in the direction of its tail, fading as it went. A very small, very bright point of light flashed briefly about every 2 minutes. The flash was sort of reddish. The light stayed located near what would be the head.
Investigator's Notes: I don't think that this object was a comet because it was seen moving. The only comet visible in the northern hemisphere at this time is comet McNaught, but the magnitude of brightness is quite "faint." Apparently the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) received several reports from the east coast on December 10 starting at around 6 PM EST. Peter Davenport (Director of NUFORC) thinks that the object could have been a space vehicle venting fuel.
BOYNTON BEACH -- Bill Jones writes, "Several years ago we were fishing in the ocean off Boynton Beach in the late afternoon and spotted four very bright lights on the horizon. They stayed there for 30 minutes and took on different formations. They would align in a vertical formation and then realign in a horizontal position. The Air Force dismissed them as flares but, I know of no flare that can do what these lights did. We moved to Lake Placid, Florida and we saw a very bright light going very fast across the sky. It wasn't a plane because there was no noise. The sky was crystal clear not one cloud. This light traveled for at least five miles and then just kind of blinked out. It was like on Star Trek when a cloaking device is engaged. Thanks to Bill Jones.
ORLANDO -- My mother and I met up for lunch and said "what are those?" while looking up out the window. I looked out the window as well, which cast no reflection and the view was clear. We both could see five unidentified objects in the sky. They were all white in color cylinder shaped, and appeared to be very high in the sky and all traveling together at a consistent pace. They definitely did not have any wings, visible lights, or appear to cast any reflection. Had my cell phone had a camera. I am confident that I would have been able to capture them easily as they were clearly visible to the naked eye. Thanks to Brian Vike - Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org
Idaho – UFO with Bumper all the Way Around
NAMPA -- I was driving southeast on I-84 November 27, 2007
about 8 PM and I saw a vehicle approaching me in the opposite freeway lane (going west/north). This vehicle had many lights and I thought it was a large tractor/trailer, but then it crossed the traffic lane about 100 feet in front of my truck. It was about 20 feet in the air and moved very slowly and I could not hear noise or see any smoke or exhaust. It had no wings nor rotors. It looked like some kind of hover craft or desert assault vehicle with a "bumper" all the way around it and a canopy in the center with windows. It looked dull, maybe green or brownish. It was about 20-30 feet long and about 10 feet wide and maybe 10 feet high. I never saw anything like this in my life.
Investigator's Notes: Who knows what this low flying vehicle would be? Given the slow speed and lack of sound eliminates helicopters or low flying jets. Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB) is nearby. (See above map.) Perhaps some exercises were being conducted from the base, but one wonders what craft that they would be testing. Thanks to Bill Puckett UFOS Northwest http://ufosnw.com
Iowa Triangular Craft with Horizontal Beams
CEDAR RAPIDS --We were driving on I-380 about a mile from the airport exit on November 23, 2007, at 11:03 PM on a clear night. I looked up to see a black craft with its landing lights on and a flashing red light. I could see two distinct beams of light similar to a car's headlights in a light fog.
I realized that the plane was ascending with the beams of lights facing the opposite direction that it was traveling. It slowed down and began to hover for about 10 seconds and turned its two beams of lights towards the south and began to slowly accelerate to about 20 MPH. The craft flew almost directly overhead and I could see the crafts distinct flat perfectly triangular hull.
There seems to be no way that a fixed wing aircraft could travel that slow. My Grandpa and I, are both familiar with all types of aircraft. He exclaimed, "What the heck was that thing? If I didn't know any better . . . I would say it was a UFO!" Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
Mississippi Flying Triangle
Driving east on I-10, my son and I saw very bright lights at 8:30 PM, just west of the interstate on November 14, 2007. The lights resembled bright white stadium lights. When we came closer, the triangular shape was very visible and we could see several light blue lights along one side. The object was just hovering about 100 yards above the interstate just off the west bound lanes. I slowed my vehicle to watch it as we passed by and within 30 seconds it was gone. Other vehicles on the interstate, surely saw it. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
Nevada Gray Spheres and Flying Rod
As I was leaving my home, I walked towards my car and heard an aircraft and looked up to see four objects following the plane. At first I thought they were gray balloons. As the plane began to make a turn to the north five more objects came into view. Then the first four objects split into two pair and sped off and each pair went to opposite sides of the plane as though they were escorting it. The other five objects then formed a V Type formation behind the plane. All you could hear was the plane. Although I could make out the plane they were following by seeing the wings and body as well as the tail. There were no wings or tail section visible on the objects. Just gray spheres. Thanks to MUFON CMS
NORTHERN NEVADA -- I have had a few strange events that have happened to me during my life. I was on an airplane from Detroit to Las Vegas on September 8, 2007, about 8 PM, and looked out the window to see something next to the engine of the airplane, on the outside wing, like a secondary engine. I stared at it for ten minutes thinking, "This looks like it has a big pearl for an eye and the mouth of a clam full of pearls".
The rest of the body was red and a light blue. It had the same diameter of the engine of the plane. I thought it was a part of the airplane flying underneath the wing. I looked at it again and it slowly descended from beneath the wing of the airplane and disappeared. The best I have come up with is that it is a giant insect (ROD), it was no way an alien space craft, it was some sort of creature (Giant Insect). Have any of you heard about this? Thanks to Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research. http://www.hbccufo.org
New Jersey Discs
SEAVILLE -- Tony Fusco writes, "I asked my wife and daughters to draw a picture of the object they saw on December 3, 2007, near Ocean City. My wife and two daughters ages 53, 30, and 26 years old all agreed this type of UFO comes closest to what they saw. Their UFO was a fatter version. As they reflect on what happened more details are coming to light. Stay tuned George, this thing is getting very interesting and very disturbing. I really believe they know a lot more than they are saying. Thanks to Tony Fusco
WILDWOOD CREST -- Joseph Di Eduardo MUFON Investigator writes, "While on my lunch break I was sitting out back and looked up to see a bronze shaped disc in broad day light flying towards me at approximately 500 feet over head. The disc was about 30 to 35 feet across and made no sound and was moving from a north to south direction against the wind. The speed was best described as fluid. The December 17, 2007, sighting lasted about 40-50 seconds when it entered into a cloud and did not appear out the other side. The color was not shiny but more of a muted color. However, it should have come out of the other side of the cloud it went into. I have seen a lot of strange things in 22 years of law enforcement so I guess I was more observing than feeling anything. Thanks to Joseph Di Eduardo
North Carolina Cigar
WILMINGTON -- A white streak of light shot across the sky so fast I couldn't catch it with the camera but I snapped a shot anyway and got this cigar shaped object moving south west in the same direction as the white streak around 10:15 AM, Wednesday morning December 12, 2007. Picture taken from my yard. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Five Lights in a Row
GROVE – It was a clear night at 3:00 AM, when I got up to let my dog out on November 23, 2007, and noticed a bright light in the east over my lake. My wife was awake and when I pointed out the light, she said it was probably a planet. My binoculars are always by the large window and thru them I could see not one light, but a row of five lights with the brightest in the middle.
She saw exactly what I saw with the binoculars. The lights were stationary and over the next two hours, moved very slowly up and to the south. This had to be a very large object, because we could see the space between the lights. The sides of the object had a cone of light going out on both sides, so I believe the lights went around the object. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director http://www.ufocenter.com/
South Carolina Red Round Object Maneuvering
WESTMINSTER -- First I noticed red, bright round object making erratic movements on December 17, 2007, around 12 AM. Spiraling, zigzagging, dropping and picking back up quickly behind the trees. It pulsed red, orange, green, blue, gold and white randomly and dimmed and pulsed every once in a while. The video camera wouldn't pick it up, using my binoculars it had a spherical shape and a white light on top. After moving a lot for over thirty minutes, it stopped suddenly and dimmed to an ordinary star, but it picked back up about 25 minutes later and started moving again. We watched it until it went to the horizon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Six Lights in Formation.
HARRISBURG -- As I was driving home west bound on route 322, on December 12, 2007, at 5:15 PM., I was pulling up to the light at Homestead Road and saw these bright lights flashing the sky to my right. I was talking to my husband on the phone and quickly told him what I saw. It happened again, so I pulled over in Hershey High School parking lot where I watched the dance of lights for ten minutes.
I could see dim lights flying vertical, horizontal, diagonal, left and right. Then bright and larger lights appeared one after another until there were six of them. The lights formed a shape of a fish hook almost. I took out my camera phone and tried to capture this display, but it could only capture two of the lights at the same time because it went too fast. The lights look smeared in the picture because they were moving. Thanks to Brian Vike - Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org .
Virginia Orbs
POTOMAC RIVER -- Brandon McCain writes, "The past weeks I have been having some very lucid dreams involving strange beings. I do not know how to describe them and my left hand is missing hair and and has a circular pattern pigment in the same spot. I went for a 20 minute walk last night and saw a very white light in the sky. Five minutes later, I looked up and it was in the SAME position. An airplane was inbound to Reagan Airport, and passed not too far under this bright light. I thought, "Wow, that was reckless on both pilots' parts." I stopped, and observed the light closely. There was no red light like most helicopters have and it moved slightly, and stopped again. A second flight came close to the light but it still did not budge.
I realized I may be having my second genuine sighting so I pulled my camera out to shoot. As I did that, the bright light just disappeared but I got this photo of at least six ORBs a little to the left of where the bright light was before it disappeared; some very colorful. What is that teardrop by the power line? Happy Holidays, Thanks to Brandon McCain UFO Researcher/photographer
Australia A Black Triangular Shaped Craft
FLINDERS RANGES MOUNTAINS -- I was taking a walk at around 9 PM, on December 14, 2007, when suddenly, my dog started to bark, and I could see some flickering lights in the distant Flinders Ranges Mountains. First I thought it was an aircraft but then I realized this object was huge. There were yellow lights on the three edges of the object, the black triangular craft. It was really big..I mean I could see it hovering near the base of the mountains some 10 kilometers away and the size was just enormous.
It was about the size of a 747, and it was hovering!! I could not believe my eyes. It stood motionless for about 5 minutes, then suddenly just lifted up and shot into the sky in a vertical motion. I still cannot believe it. I have been living here for 20 years and have NEVER once seen anything like it. It was not any conventional aircraft/helicopter. Thanks to Brian Vike - Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org .
Canadian sightings so far for 2007 is 340 cases.
HBCC UFO Research, has received 340 Canadian written (and audio) UFO reports from January 1, up until December 10, 2007. Not included in the total is 41 telephone interviews which HBCC UFO Research
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- My friend and I were sledding on a small hill in a soccer field on December 10, 2007, in Beddington when we took a break about 1:15 AM, and lay in the snow to look at the stars. I began looking at a very bright light making zigzag patterns at a very high altitude but moving closer. It got close enough that I could make out lights on the side forming a disc shape. I then began watching a plane heading towards the first object. When it got close to the UFO, the object discharged something then vanished into the upper atmosphere at an incredible speed.
GRANISLE, BRITISH COLUMBIA --
Brian Vike reports that UFO sightings and more are still taking place with people seeing unusual lights, and craft of strange shapes and sizes. He is just waiting for the highways to clear to go to Granisle.
One family is having paranormal activity that started with a 17 year old boy hearing low mumbling voices so he dragged his mattress into his Mother's room, but the strange noises continued. Both had breezes blowing on them and a very strange eerie sleep. The following night was the same only more intense noises in the basement. When he went to investigate he saw a very dark figure standing there. He ran. Not only is an entire family observing these unusual craft and beings, but others are watching the same kinds of UFOs over Granisle and Babine Lake.
FALKLAND -- CBC Radio News and they have provided the following cattle mutilation information. The area where this took place was between, Falkland and the Chase area in British Columbia. Some horseback riders had found the carcass of a cow and had contacted the farmer and the RCMP. There was only one set of tracks leading to the cow, and these tracks were left behind by the farmer. No other tracks were found and there was "no" blood remaining in the animal, and no blood found around the scene. The rectal core, udder, and sexual organs were missing.
Thanks to Brian Vike - Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org
Costa Rica Disc
Malvin Badilla, a Costa Rican construction worker, managed to record a very compelling video of a disc-shaped UFO at 3:49 in the afternoon on November 22, 2007. The video was recorded on a Motorola cellphone in 3GP format for 15:06 seconds. The object remains static and later changes position, tilting toward the left and the right in fractions of a second, showing other aspects such as: the upper, lateral and lower view, respectively. This copy of the video is from researcher Richard Sandi.
Ana Luisa Cid's states," After reviewing the video several times, I believe that this could be genuine material. It should be noted that the images are the property of Teletica - Canal -7 - Costa Rica. Source: www.analuisacid.com Thanks to Scott Corrales and The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Greenland Strange 50 Mile Long Object
Don Burleson writes, "While we have to consider lens reflections as an alternative hypothesis for the Greenland "gold blade," my inclination upon reflecting (no pun intended) further on it is that I would have to call this "possible though not probable," since most of the lens reflections I've seen tend to be kind of "gossamer" or translucent or not terribly substantial-looking, whereas the "gold blade" is optically dense and of considerable hue saturation and image detail. This object is located in the middle of Greenland on Google Earth at 70 30 N. 40 05W, that is 79.83 Kilometers long, (49.61 miles long).
I've done close up work of the upper (NW) corner that appears to show some kind of damage to the regularity of the surface-- so if this were a reflection of something like a particles-collection panel on a satellite (similar to the protuberance I sent you a picture of on the TSX-5 satellite, which, however, as I mentioned is not an imaging satellite so far as I know), the "panel" or whatever would probably have to be in rather poor condition.
Altogether I'm inclined to think this is a real object of some kind only just now melting out of the Greenland ice-- the meltage in 2007 was a record annual amount after all-- but short of having someone airlifted in there on a chopper to look at the site, I'm not sure how we'll be able to know for sure.
The Greenland image appears to be still partly embedded in ice on the lower edge, and the color does match another under-the-ice swatch of color. These things tend to argue for its physical reality as an object probably newly emerged from the melting ice. I'm continuing to work on the problem and hoping to hear back from the people in Denmark. Thanks to Don Burleson
Italy Glowing and Pulsating Oval
VENICE -- We got up to leave the cafe table outside in St. Mark's Square on September 11, 2007, when my cousin said, " There is an UFO up there" I thought she was kidding me but there it was stationary, almost over the square. It was oval in shape with curved sides, orange yellow in color, glowing and pulsating and silent. The nearest side pulsed bright, alternating with the far side. No features visible, it seemed to glow.
It was about the size of a large water melon maybe a little larger and was red at the top. We had to go as we had to catch the last ferry back. We walked away from it through the square, there were many people standing looking up at it. We turned to take another look and it had turned red. Our view was blocked for three minutes and when we got into an open area it was gone. This is the first time we have seen a craft of this type. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Bright UFO Photographed
MEXICO CITY AIRPORT -- The Journal of Hispanic Ufology reports a UFO was photographed flying above a parked Mexican Airliner. I saw the object and it took several photos and video of the object." It was very bright with many colors.
See INEXPLICATA - UFOs in Latin America 2007
The annual review of the best UFO images from Latin America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQHImKhnS
Poland Malta Air show Visited by UFO
POZNAN --During an air show that took place on June 24, 2007 an unidentified aerial object in a shape of saucer can be seen. The photos were submitted to NPN organization by a witness who on that day took part in an air show held in Poznan city (Wielkopolska) district of Malta. It turns out that in the skies there were also out of ordinary objects.
The witness wrote , "I've returned from Malta where an air show was held. After viewing the photo material I saw two anomalous objects on photos (…). On the first one there is a small black dot by flying airplanes. On the second one there is a formation of some three lights. Then I began to watch the video and on one of them I saw the strange objects that fly along and disappear."