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TURKISH
METEOR INCIDENT
At the International UFO Congress this January, several amazing
extraterrestrial events were reported. Among them were the many
sightings of UFOs over Turkey -- some lasting for several hours.
Turkish national television and newspapers cover these UFO
incidents.
Reports on the following incident have ranged from "It was part
of the Leonid Meteor shower" to "It was the breakup of a
Russian satellite" to "It was a UFO disintegrating a large
meteor before it could do some real damage." After some
investigation, it is our conclusion that the latter of the three is
the truth.
At the bottom left of the picture, there is clearly a collection of
objects passing through the atmosphere. Their fiery tails attest to
the fact that they are burning up. (UFOs do not leave fiery traces.)
On a video of this event, the objects are traversing across Turkey
from east to west. Note that the collection of objects is not
inclined at an angle greater than 45 degrees, which is most typical
for meteors entering our atmosphere. Rather they are more nearly
horizontal. As you can read in the following testimony, the cluster
of objects was as large as a 747. You can also read that the cluster
was recorded at an elevation of 22,00 to 36,000 feet.
In the upper right
corner of the picture is a round light. On the video it pulses at a
rate of once per second. Meteors, or fragments of meteors, do not
pulse regularly like this. It is not a star or other fixed object,
but follows the path of the disintegrating meteor. Again, this
picture, and the video from which it was taken, were published in
Turkish national media.
First, the
testimony of observers (before the video became
known):
The pilots of four
(One foreign, three Turkish) planes reported that they encountered a
UFO squadron on November 1, 2002 near Afyon, and reported the
incident to the flight safety departments of Turkey. It is recorded
that the objects had been observed at 05.30 AM, at 22-36,000 feet,
between Afyon and Yalova. The pilot of the plane which was the
closest to the UFO squadron, Ercan Eken said, "Approximately
10-15 objects (but when you calculate the distance, as big as
Boeing-747) were flying closely, 1-2 miles far from each
other." This claim caused Captain Pilot Necmi Ekinci, the
chairman of Turkey Airline Pilots Association (Talpa) to say,
"Our friends are confident people. We trust on the information
given by them".
Vedat Gürbüz
(Captain Pilot):"In the morning of November the First, we were
moving ahead to our plane at 05.40 - 05.45, in Izmir Adnan Menderes
Airport. We saw 4-5 objects in the direction to Afyon, in the sky.
They were leaving traces 10-15 times bigger than a plane's behind
themselves. Going forward and down at 7-8 times faster than a
plane."
Yilmaz Atli
(Captain Pilot): "In the morning of November the First, we have
started out to Germany from Antalya, around 05.00 in the morning.
Around Afyon, we saw a very bright light on the top-left corner. The
light was getting brighter and closer. Than it flew on us. We were
seeing it but it wasn't on the radar. Then it divided into 10-15
units and disappeared on the right-bottom corner."
Sinan Yilmaz
(Pilot): "We had started out to Salzburg from Antalya. At 15
miles ahead, northwest of Afyon, we saw a very bright light on the
north. Stable yellow and white lights continued flying to east.
There were at least 10-15 traces. It lasted for 40-45 seconds. Then
this bright light divided into 10-15 lights, they flew at the same
level and disappeared on the right. I wasn't believing in such
things so far, but it was impossible to not to believe."
Second, the
analysis of Haktan Akdogan, a Turkish UFO researcher:
The video of the
event was published and then brought to Haktan. By closely examining
the video of the incident, one can see a large meteor descending on
Turkey. (If you can imagine a meteor the size of a 747, you might
also imagine that it would cause real harm if it were to strike as a
solid mass.) The video shows the meteor being fragmented by a UFO --
the blinking light -- and guided to a splash-down in the Agean Sea,
off the western coast of Turkey. After watching the video and
viewing Haktan's recreation of the event, I am convinced his is
correct interpretation: Over Turkey, a large meteor was
intercepted by a UFO, disintegrated, and then guided into the Agean.
Third,
further confirmation:
The following day
of the IUFOC conference, Valery Uvarov, a Russian who heads their
government's UFO investigation department, and who reports to
President Putin, said that in 1984 two large balls of energy came
out of the ground in Siberia and destroyed a large meteor before it
impacted.
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British
Military 'Suppressed UFO Info'
The British
government tried to cover up one of the country's most famous
sightings of an unidentified flying object, a parliamentary watchdog
ruled Tuesday.
The "Rendlesham
Files," which were finally published on the Internet Sunday,
contain eyewitness accounts by U.S. Air Force officers at a military
base close to Rendlesham Forest, near Ipswich in eastern England,
who saw a brilliantly lit object land in the forest in December
1980.
The incident is
widely regarded as one of the most significant UFO sightings -- the
British equivalent of the 1947 incident in which a spacecraft
supposedly crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, with aliens aboard.
Several people had
complained to the British parliamentary ombudsman, Ann Abraham, that
the Ministry of Defense had refused to divulge full details of the
Rendlesham witness accounts. Abraham ruled the ministry had
"withheld three documents relating to reported sightings of
unexplained aerial phenomena in 1980 -- the Rendlesham Forest UFO
incident."
A ministry
spokeswoman said the files had not been deliberately withheld and
had always been available to anyone who asked.
In late December
1980, U.S. officers investigating what they thought must have been a
crashed plane in the forest saw a triangular "strange glowing
object" that sent farm animals into a frenzy.
"The object
was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in
shape, approximately two to three meters (seven to 10 feet) across
the base and approximately two meters (seven feet) high," reads
a report in the file by Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt.
"It
illuminated the entire forest with a white light," he added.
"The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank of
blue lights underneath. The object was hovering, or on legs."
Skeptics say the
witnesses were merely seeing the beam from a lighthouse on the
nearby coast.
But the report adds
that the next day three depressions seven feet in diameter were
found in the grass and that readings of beta and gamma radiation
were 10 times higher than normal. Disturbances were also noted on
air force radar at the time.
Later in the night,
a second UFO was seen, described as a red sun-like light. "At
one point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke
into five separate white objects," said the file.
A Ministry of
Defense memo in the file notes that: "No evidence was found of
any threat to the defense of the United Kingdom. In the absence of
any hard evidence, the MoD remains open minded."
Until last week,
only around 20 members of the public had seen the file. The
government said it would also be publishing other files on reported
UFO sightings on www.mod.uk.
The Rendlesham File
contains a Ministry of Defense memo suggesting British requests for
audiotapes made by the American officers at the time were brushed
aside by the United States. Later reports by UFO enthusiasts claimed
that photographs and tapes were taken away by senior U.S. officers.
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Britain's
UFO secrets revealed
by Antony Barnett
London Observer Service
…… On Feb. 15,
1999, an air traffic controller in Scotland noticed something
strange on his radar screen. A bright blip on his screen suggested
there was a very large object traveling at 3,000 mph over the
Scottish coastline heading southwest. The size of the blip suggested
the object was 10 miles long and two miles wide. Two minutes later,
the object disappeared from the radar screen.
Three months
earlier, British Ministry of Defense documents record that a
commercial pilot flying over the Midlands region reported an unusual
object traveling at "very high speed" with a very bright
strobe light flashing once every 20 seconds.
Although the two
incidents were unrelated, both were reported to a little-known
department in the ministry known as Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a, the
secretive section which collates reports of unidentified flying
objects that cross British airspace.
The government has
traditionally treated reports of UFO sightings as highly classified
and only released information to the public after 30 years. But the
parliamentary ombudsman insisted that the Ministry of Defense hand
this information to Colin Ridyard, a research chemist from Wales who
had been seeking information relating to UFO sightings by pilots or
radar operators between July 1998 and July 1999.
Initially, the
ministry refused on the ground it would be too expensive. But after
the intervention of the ombudsman, Michael Buckley, the ministry
agreed to release the information as a one-time exercise for $120.
The ministry handed two reports to Ridyard, yet official information
from the Civil Aviation Authority suggests there had been additional
sightings. During the same period the CAA said it reported two more
UFO sightings to the ministry, neither of which it disclosed.
According to
official CAA reports, in the same month that radar picked up an
enormous object flying across Scotland, a pilot flying over the
North Sea became startled when his aircraft became illuminated by an
"incandescent" light. Three other aircraft in the area
reported seeing a ball of light moving at high speed. Air traffic
controllers reported there were no strange aircraft in the area, but
five minutes later an operator at a weather station picked up a
fast-moving object on his radar.
The other incident
which the CAA reported to the ministry occurred in June 1999 when
the pilot of a B757 flying over the North Sea reported an
unidentified military-looking aircraft passing close by in the
opposite direction. Nothing was seen on the plane's radar or by air
traffic controllers. The ministry told the CAA there were no
military aircraft known to be in that area at the time.
Although a ministry
spokeswoman would not discuss individual sightings, she said all
these events had perfectly normal explanations.
In a letter to one
of Ridyard's local Members of Parliament, Defense Minister John
Spellar said: "My department has no interest or role with
respect to UFO/flying saucer matters or to the question of the
existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life forms - about which
we remain open-minded."
But Ridyard said:
"This is not about little green men, but about freedom of
information. It is clear there are many strange incidents that
happen in the British skies that are kept secret. There may be
issues of aircraft safety or natural phenomena, but by keeping this
information secret these incidents cannot be scrutinized by the
public or the scientific community."
One of the most
infamous incidents relating to a UFO sighting in Britain only came
to light through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. This revealed
that in December 1980 three security patrolmen investigating a
potential air crash near the U.S. Air Force base in Suffolk,
England, saw a strange glowing triangular object hovering near the
base which had a "pulsing red light on top and blue lights
underneath."
An official report
by Lt. Col. Charles Halt, the deputy base commander, included a
description of the events and stated that the next day three
depressions were found in the forest where the object was discovered
which showed radiation readings. Later that night three star-like
objects were seen in the sky moving "rapidly in sharp angular
movements."
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Kucinich
Introduces Legislation to Ban Space-Based Weapons
NEWS RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Congressman Dennis
J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduces legislation to ban space-based
weapons. Kucinich says, “We signed the ABM treaty nearly 30 years
ago; which requires a reduction in strategic arms, nuclear
disarmament and general and complete disarmament. Weaponization of
space clearly violates that treaty. My bill will call for an
immediate and permanent termination of research, testing,
manufacturing, production and deployment of all space-based weapons
systems and components by any person, agency or contractor of the
U.S. government.”
Space Preservation
Act of 2002 (H.R. 3616) — to be reintroduced in January 2003. To
read the entire bill go to: http://www.peaceinspace.com/L3-legislation-act.shtml
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OPINION POLL
A new national poll
found that more than half (56 percent) of respondents said that they
believe UFOs are real.
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Two-thirds (67
percent) responded that they believe that there are other forms
of intelligent life in the universe.
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Almost half (48
percent) of respondents believe that UFOs have visited Earth in
some form.
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More than half
(53 percent) would like to encounter extraterrestrial life forms
here on Earth.
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More than one
in three believe that humans have already interacted with
extraterrestrial life forms.
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One in seven
said that they or someone they know has had some type of
experience involving a UFO.
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For 88 percent,
an official announcement confirming the discovery of
extraterrestrial life would have no effect on their religious
beliefs.
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Almost
three-fourths (74 percent) responded that they are at least
somewhat psychologically prepared for such an announcement. More
than four in 10 (42 percent) say that they are very prepared.
RoperASW conducted
the poll of a scientific sample of 1,021 adults, aged 18 and older.
Telephone interviews were conducted from August 23-25, 2002. The
margin of error for the total sample is plus or minus 3 percent....
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From Dr. Steven Greer
of the Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of
Extraterrestrial Intelligence:
DDT
A former high
official at the NSA (National Security Agency) told me about a
protocol informally dubbed DDT - that old poisonous chemical
long-banned in much of the world. In this application, it stands for
Decoy, Distract and Trash - which is what sophisticated intelligence
operatives use to set up some person or group, take them off the
trail of something real and important, and trash the person or the
subject.
This pretty much
sums up the lion's share of all things UFOlogical, with the latest
example being the much-hyped Sci-Fi channel roll-out of Spielberg's
mini-series, 'Taken'.
Late last spring or
early summer, I was contacted by the PR firm responsible for the
ramp-up to 'Taken' and was informed that they wanted to link it to
Disclosure. I was told that those rolling out 'Taken' are
"joined at the hip with the main stream media" and that
they were going to spend a very large sum of money moving the UFO
subject front-stage and center to empower Disclosure as sort of a
sophisticated 'P and A' (entertainment industry jargon for Prints
and Advertising that promotes a film or product).
DDT. By linking
Disclosure and ensnaring Disclosure witnesses and evidence in a
commercial undertaking like 'Taken' (on the Sci-Fi channel
nonetheless) the ultimate DDT program can be achieved. It is not
just the hijacking and trashing of serious witnesses and evidence
into the
silly season of 'Honey, I just had sex with aliens' routine. It is
the association of important evidence, scientists and witnesses with
a xenophobic titled science fiction product like 'Taken' and the
entire abduction industry that can empower fear in the minds of the
masses regarding all things extraterrestrial.
You will recall
that no less a figure than Wernher Von Braun warned to his personal
spokesperson Dr. Carol Rosin in 1974 that after the cold war, those
operating behind the scenes would roll out global terrorism and
then, finally, a hoaxed alien threat from outer space. Dr. Rosin
gave this testimony before 9/11, by the way.
Why? Well, a
xenophobic and hysterical take on visitors from space (so well
represented by military hoaxed abductions made to look 'alien')
would have something for everyone who enjoy secret power and
control: For the
military-industrial-laboratory-intelligence-corporate complex, there
would be trillions of dollars in lucrative spending for Star Wars -
now with a REAL enemy to fight! As they said in the movie
Independence Day, "Lets kick alien butt..."
For schemers
wishing to unite the world in militarism and control through fear
(as opposed to our common humanity and peace...) what better way to
attain this goal than to roll out serious UFO evidence and link it
to a body of hoaxed faux-alien encounters contained within the
abduction sub-culture? People are easily herded and controlled
through fear, and can there be anything more scary than evil
'aliens' floating poor, innocent humans onto UFOs to torture and
sexually abuse them? Right. For misguided religious fanatics and
secret religious cults, who pine for the long-awaited
end-of-the-world, Armageddon scenario, what better fulfillment of
their misinterpreted prophecy than a Final Great Battle in space?
Well, there is just
something for everyone, if you can get people to buy it. But how?
All good
disinformation has some real, true information contained within it.
The mixing of truth with lies makes the lies believable. So by
hoaxing a scary alien abduction scenario with serious data,
evidence, documents and witnesses, the lie goes down so much more
smoothly... Those inside the multi-million dollar abduction industry
have for years told me of suppressed testimony from abductees who
recall human military operatives running the show - essentially
controlling the event. Dr. Helmut Lammer and others have documented
this hideous abuse of civilians by rogue covert operations. And most
importantly, we have interviewed military and corporate insiders who
have described in excruciating detail how they have hoaxed these
'alien abductions' - and why.
The truth is hidden
in plain sight, but it is wrapped in so much deception that it is
seldom seen.
One such military
operative explained to me how his team had abducted key military
people at one point so that they would "learn to hate the
aliens" and get on board the covert Star Wars juggernaut. When
you have billions of black-budget dollars at your disposal,
reverse-engineered Alien Reproduction Vehicles (see the testimony of
Mark McCandlish in the book 'Disclosure' available at http://www.DiscosureProject.org/shop.htm)
biological creatures made on Earth that look 'alien' and
sophisticated mind-altering psychotronic weapon systems, hoaxing an
'alien abduction' is like taking candy from a baby.
And you know, the
truth is so much more bizarre than fiction (even Sci-Fi channel
fiction) that who will believe it? Well, we tried. I explained all
this to Mr. Spielberg's representatives at the Sci-Fi channel and PR
firm, and that I would say as much if included in any of their
programs. An invitation has not been forthcoming. What a surprise!
By using Mr.
Podesta, President Clinton's Chief of Staff, and other notables
(including, alas, some Disclosure Project witnesses) this DDT
operation is attempting to jump start Von Braun's long-ago predicted
hoaxed alien threat. For what could be more terrifying than linking
real ET and UFO evidence and serious military and government
testimony, with a xenophobic-titled science fiction product like
'Taken', along with all the other virulent and fearsome hoaxed
experiences purveyed by the abduction industry? A great DDT it is.
I do not know if Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Podesta, the Sci-Fi executives,
George Washington University, PBS' Ray Suarez, or others know of any
of this. In most cases, most players in a DDT disinformation scheme
are unwitting victims themselves. Let's hope they are.
But with power
comes responsibility. And Mr. Spielberg et al have money and power
and need to do their due diligence lest they be used by a DDT scheme
created to ramp up Star Wars and Armageddon. Especially Mr.
Spielberg. For I have long admired his dedication to documenting the
history of the Holocaust by recording the testimony of those who
survived it. I worry now that he is, perhaps unwittingly, being used
to unleash the worst holocaust the Earth has ever seen.
Steven M. Greer MD
Director, The Disclosure Project
For more
information, please refer to Dr. Greer's paper "When Disclosure
Serves Secrecy", on the Disclosure Project web site at
http://www.disclosureproject.org/disclosureserves.htm.
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