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Saturday, December 06, 2003
Sci Fi Channel-backed researcher sues NASA over UFO files
A researcher backed by cable television's Sci Fi Channel plans to sue NASA for records she contends the agency has of a UFO that reportedly crash landed and was recovered by government workers in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1965.
The Associated Press obtained an advance copy of the lawsuit to be filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Leslie Kean, a San Rafael, Calif., investigative reporter backed by the cable channel and a group called the Coalition for Freedom of Information.
"Our lawsuit is aimed at getting NASA to tell the public what it knew and when it knew it," said Ed Rothschild, a lobbyist the Sci Fi Channel hired from the Washington firm PodestaMattoon, who is also identified as CFI's executive director. Former President Bill Clinton's one-time chief of staff John Podesta is a principle in the lobbying firm and has supported the cable channel's effort to declassify the documents.
Tuesday's filing will mark the 38th anniversary of the Kecksburg UFO incident, which occurred Dec. 9, 1965, in the unincorporated hamlet about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Witnesses described a "fireball" in the evening sky, and a metallic, acorn-shaped object about 12 to 15 feet high and 8 to 12 feet in diameter that landed in the woods, according to media accounts in the Tribune-Review of Greensburg and other outlets at the time.
Military personnel quickly surrounded the site, removed the object, threatened residents who tried to inquire about it, and left _ later calling the object a "meteor," according to media accounts.
James Romansky, 57, of Derry Township, was then a 19-year-old volunteer firefighter. He told The Associated Press on Friday that he was among those who drove to the landing site.
"Now, I'm prepared for a smashed-up airplane ... and I'm thinking, 'What in the hell is this?' I'm looking for wings, propellers, motors, a fuselage _ but there's none of that," Romansky said. "There's no rivet marks on it, no weld marks on it, no windows, no doors _ no possible way of getting in and out of this thing that I seen.
"There was writing on it, but not writing that you or I could understand. I always referred to it as something like the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. There was dots and dashes and circles," Romansky said.
"This should have been done a long time ago," Romansky said. "The United States government has given us a snow job for the last God knows when. I can't understand it for the life of me. They can't come out and say it's nothing because I was 10, 20 feet away from it."
The lawsuit contends NASA has thwarted Kean's efforts to retrieve official files on the incident by sending her irrelevant information or nothing in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
"Despite our serious effort to uncover the facts, NASA still refuses to provide the public with any information," said Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer. "We are hopeful that our legal system will help us find out what really happened in the woods outside Kecksburg."
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Friday, December 05, 2003
Man Reports Streak Of Light ; Strange Sights Nothing New In Area Skies
Augusta - Bobby Copeland is convinced that what he saw over his home wasn't an airplane. It must have been something else - something unknown to him.
"It disappeared into the horizon in a twinkle of an eye," said the 64-year-old Augusta resident, referring to a streak of light that he says he recently saw shoot across the sky near Bobby Jones Expressway and U.S. Highway 25.
"I would stake my life on it that it wasn't an airplane that we know of," he said.
According to the National UFO Reporting Center, UFO sightings have been reported throughout the Augusta area since 1965. Of the 13 Augusta-area reports in that time, 10 have occurred since 1999.
The most recent report, made anonymously Oct. 29 to the reporting center by a Thomson resident, alerted officials to "a flash of bright white/blue light all around me." The person said he had seen the flash of light three times while driving in a truck near a pump station at Thurmond Lake.
Still, as far as Mr. Copeland is concerned, what he saw was unlike anything experts can explain.
"It came into view and it was out of view just like that," he said. "It was an eerie feeling."
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SCI FI Supports New Scientific Initiative to Investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the need to establish the scientific legitimacy of investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), SCI FI Channel today announced a new initiative that brings together the major organizations investigating this still mysterious phenomenon and establishes a multi-group effort to study the physical evidence associated with UAP reports.
This unprecedented initiative, supported by the SCI FI Channel, joins together all of the major organizations that study the phenomenon -- the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the National Aviation Center for Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
The goal of the effort is to engage the interest of the broader scientific community with cases featuring trace physical evidence. The cooperative will spearhead thorough scientific investigations of these cases with the intent to publish results in mainstream scientific journals. The groups have created a joint website where members of the public, as well as scientists, can report current UFO sightings (www.ufoscience.org).
"For nearly 50 years, numerous organizations and individuals have reported on and studied the UFO phenomenon," said Dr. Mark Rodeghier, Scientific Director of CUFOS. "Until now, these organizations have not combined their accumulated knowledge, expertise, and resources to establish and oversee a systematic, rigorous effort to investigate scientifically promising UAP cases."
At an organizing meeting held this past June in Washington, D.C., leaders of these organizations agreed to develop a framework and protocols to conduct rapid investigation and analysis of cases with physical evidence. "Obtaining and analyzing physical evidence is the best way to determine the validity, and potential causes, of the UAP phenomenon," said John Schuessler, International Director of MUFON.
"It is our hope that by working with scientists who can subject this phenomenon to rigorous investigation and laboratory study, we can understand more about the likely causes of UAP, whether it occurs with discernible patterns or trends, whether existing knowledge is adequate to provide explanations, or whether the phenomenon represents something truly unexplained," said Don Berliner, Chairman of FUFOR.
In addition to landmark documentary programming, last year SCI FI launched a Washington, D.C. based public advocacy initiative to draw greater attention to the UFO phenomenon by the media, scientists and opinion leaders. Those interested in more information on SCI FI's supported public advocacy initiative can log on to www.freedomofinfo.org. On December 12 the channel will premiere UFO INVASION AT RENDLESHAM, a new two-hour special hosted by Bryant Gumbel, exposing what has come to be regarded as the most significant military-UFO incident in history (www.scifi.com/rendlesham).
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Study Suggests Energy, Not Teens, Made Crop Circles
FAIRFIELD, CA - A five-month study has concluded that the mysterious crop circles that appeared in a Solano County wheat field in June were not the work of four teenage boys who claimed they made them as a hoax.
Steve Moreno of Psi Applications, a group that describes itself as researchers of paranormal, UFO and metaphysical phenomena, will discuss the results of the group's investigation at a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Fairfield.
The investigation concludes the 'hoax was a hoax.'
'We've concluded that it's highly unlikely that four teenage boys could have made the large, complex crop circle that appeared on June 28 in Larry Balestra's field. The scientific data, and our ongoing investigation, tend to point towards some other, perhaps anomalous, unknown source,' founder and director Moreno said on Psi Applications' Web site.
'The physical changes in the wheat stalks can't be duplicated. It's a phenomenon,' Moreno said Tuesday evening. He suggested a form of energy, possibly plasma energy, caused the crop circle formations.
The four teenagers allegedly claimed they made the circles but could not take responsibility for them because three of them are on probation and didn't want to get in trouble with police.
They also reportedly said they made the circles using boards and rope on a moonlit night, but there was a new moon on June 29, meaning there would have been virtually no moonlight on June 27.
Psi Applications investigators also claim local law enforcement officers did not give much credence to the boys' story.
The investigation found statistically significant differences in the elongation of growth nodes of wheat samples taken within and without the crop circle formations.
'Only microwave energies have duplicated the effects shown in the growth nodes of formation samples,' Moreno said.
A ball of light also was reported above the main formation on June 27. Balls of light have previously been reported, photographed and videotaped hovering over crop circles elsewhere, investigators say.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Nearby Star Has Similar Solar System - Vega
Carl Sagan may have been right: A solar system similar to Earth's appears to orbit the star of his popular book and movie Contact.
The star, Vega, has been scrutinized by researchers at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh.
They say that its solar system is more similar to ours than any yet discovered.
Vega is the third brightest star in the Northern sky and is easily viewed with the naked eye.
Bluish-white in color, it is just 25 light-years away from the Sun.
Three times the size of the Sun and 58 times brighter, Vega was the first star ever photographed, a feat that occurred in July 1850 at Harvard Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Vega planetary system gained notoriety in Sagan's book and movie Contact, in which it is the source of signals from extraterrestrial intelligence and ultimately the destination of protagonist Ellie Arroway.
Astronomers haven't found extraterrestrial signals from Vega, but using new computer modeling techniques they have increased the likelihood of life in the star's solar system.
The model shows that a faint dust disk around the star is best explained by a Neptune-like planet orbiting at a similar distance to Neptune in our own solar system.
The planet's wide orbit means that there is room within for small rocky planets similar to Earth.
"The irregular shape of the disk is the clue that it is likely to contain planets," says astronomer Mark Wyatt, author of the study. "Although we can't directly observe the planets, they have created clumps in the disk of dust around the star."
The model uses observations from SCUBA, a submillimeter camera operated on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii.
Observations from the camera show a disk of -180°C dust in orbit around Vega.
The computer model suggests that the Neptune-like planet formed closer to Vega and then moved out to its current orbit over a period of 56 million years, sweeping comets with it and causing the clumpy dust disk.
"Exactly the same process is thought to have happened in our solar system," says Wyatt. "Neptune was 'pushed' away from the Sun because of the presence of Jupiter orbiting inside it."
This suggests that besides having a Neptune-like planet, Vega may also have a Jupiter-like planet.
The model can be tested in two ways, according to Wayne Holland, who made the original observations.
First, it predicts that the clumps in the disk will rotate around Vega once every 300 years, and observations taken a few years from now should show this movement.
Second, it predicts finer detail of the disk's clumpiness that can be confirmed with future telescopes and cameras.
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