Feb 11 2021 - Those UFO Sightings

 

Remember last year when the CIA released thousands of UFO documents online - under the new title Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).  They did another "dump" or release in the middle of January.  The documents were put on a website named the Black Vault.  This is a private site by John Greenewald, Jr who has pursued interest in this area for decades.  He has organized and made documents as searchable as feasible.  He obtained them through Freedom of Information Act submissions.  There are almost 2.2 million pages obtained through approximately 10,000 FOIA requests.  Greenewold disputes that number.   He has written a few books on the Black Vault available on Amazon.  It looks like he has a radio show as well.  Last year's excitement in April was the release of 3 videos that showed training pilots following an unidentified phenomenon. Late last year, Israel’s former head of space security claimed there was a “Galactic Federation” of aliens who didn’t want humans in their club. He also claimed that the heads of the U.S. and Israel were in touch with the aliens, and that the extraterrestrials had helped set up human bases on Mars. The Smithsonian article about the Black Vault is HERE.  The article also indicates that recently the CIA has separately uploaded UFO sightings and other inexplicable events to its FOIA Electronic Reading Room.  The history of UFO sightings is recent:  Businessman Kenneth Arnold made the first widely recognized UFO sighting in 1947, when he claimed he’d seen nine objects flying through the air “like saucers skipping on water.”  On the other hand, if you read New England Living today, their articles says the first sighting was in 1639 over Boston, then 1808 in Maine, and then 1961 in Vermont for the first alien abduction. There are some websites that get one's attention on both sides of the UFO debate: begin.newmessage.org/ufo/sightings www.wanttoknow.info www.skeptic.com/phoenix-lights/ufo-arizona This last site is the Skeptics Society and debunks the Phoenix Lights (again).  It is an interesting read about the event known as the vee event. https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-05-21/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAyJOBBhDCARIsAJG2h5ezuMsmWjYv3bCfVpDRcEqNXIGPGLOOj716I8G4BdM5FSMNHQp5BTIaAmQ0EALw_wcB#feature Isn't a mystery so enticing?  We enjoy the unanswerable and the difficult to answer.   I found this picture yesterday - it definitely matches the topic.  The second one is strange too. Both are Toronto Yonge Street scenes. Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

May 4 2020 - UFOs on May the Force be with you Day

What happened last week on the UFO front?  The Pentagon declassified three well-known UFO videos and acknowledged their existence as interactions with UFOs. Did you know that those who think that UFOs are proof of extraterrestrial life are known as 'believers'.  Tom DeLong, former guitarist and singer for Blink-182 is likely the best known believer -  he founded a private company that collects and researches the area.  He weighed in on the release of the information last week as monumental. I listed to the Matt Galloway interviews on the CBC radio as I travelled around taking pictures of orchards.  I probably haven't thought about UFOs since Close Encounters and ET.  I decided this was a wonderful hopeful topic, compared to our current crisis. So here's the believers 'sub channel' on  redit at https://www.reddit.com/r/UFObelievers/ with this mission: 🛸r/UFOBelievers👽 is a community made up of Ufologists, Astronomers, Researchers and other professionals from Europe, Canada and the United States. UFOB has a single goal in mind - to provide information and educate individuals who have an interest in the subject of Ufology but cannot fulfill it on the mainstream / establishment media. Our mission is to make disclosure a reality. Our Discord - https://discord.gg/Pa7SGQm Our Subreddits - r/UFODisinformation r/UFOAstronomy  The Washington Post's article is titled UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact and looks at the issues involved in treating UFOs as meaning extraterrestial life in comparison to being security  and safety questions/issues. "The question with the announcement is why official organs of the state are now acknowledging that UFOs exist. They are doing so because enough pilots are reporting UFOs and near-air collisions so as to warrant better record-keeping. They are not saying that these UFOs are extraterrestrials, but they are trying to destigmatize the reporting of a UFO." The Navy has retitled UFOs to UAPs - unidentified aerial phenomena.   I don't know the significance of this - it makes me think the 'things' may not be 'flying' - scientifically curious. Likely it signifies that the sightings don't involved any objects. The press thinks this announcement lacks newsworthiness and that it provides a distraction  to current problems.  The 'threat' of extraterrestrials seems to be considered a low security risk.   The skeptics and others alike are fascinated by the possibilities.  Being able to explore these phenomena as signs of extraterrestrial life is to explore "bigger, more philosophical questions". Nick Pope who spent years investigating UFOs for the U.K. ends the Matt Galloway interview with: "Let's have that conversation. It would be interesting and it would be fun." Here's a section of Stewart Road at Seaway Nurseries with its peach trees blooming as far as you can see in both directions.  And then a closer view of a John Street orchard's very old trees.

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