"Witnesses are notorious for getting it wrong because witness testimony is fallible in a plethora of ways."
What's in the sky? Some skeptics, like McGaha, believe that the Stephenville, Phoenix, and many other sightings can be attributed to military aircraft and evasion or illumination flares. Flares have a long association with UFO sightings. One night in late February 1942, the sky over Southern California lit up with strange blinking lights near various defense plants. In what has become known as the Battle of Los Angeles, the Navy unloaded four batteries of antiaircraft artillery at what turned out to be a balloon carrying a red flare.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- British military investigators interviewed a woman who claimed to have met a man from another planet while she was walking her dog, newly released Ministry of Defence files have revealed. The woman said she had been approached by a man with a "Scandinavian-type accent" dressed in a flying suit-style outfit while out walking on a sports field near Norwich, eastern England, in 1989. She claimed to have been "completely terrified" during the 10-minute encounter. Running home, she said she had then seen a large glowing object rising vertically from behind some nearby trees.
The woman called a local military base to report the encounter the following day. A cover note on the file of the incident describes it as "one of our more unusual UFO reports." The incident is just one of around 1,200 sightings recorded by investigators between 1987 and 1993, according to the files released by the National Archives on Sunday. On another occasion, military officials took the unusual step of briefing ministers about an unidentified flying object photographed in the sky over Scotland alongside an RAF fighter jet. Witnesses claimed to have seen the large diamond-shaped object hanging in the air for about 10 minutes before it ascended vertically at high speed. Fearing intense media interest, investigators also commissioned detailed drawings of the object. The files also reveal that the Ministry of Defence abandoned plans to build a computer database of sightings out of fears of a public relations disaster should details of its existence ever be revealed. "I personally doubt that the the MoD would lose much if we filed UFO reports in 'WPD' (the waste paper basket)," one unnamed official wrote of the project.
Australia, 1954. This very compelling photograph of a clearly defined round UFO with top and antenna was taken by sheep farmer W. C. Hall in 1954. If you look real closely, you might see another unknown object in the distance just above a mountain. An excellent photo, and for a newspaper clipping, it is in excellent condition.
Frame of a faked movie by Gray Barker, Jim Moseley and John Sheets
Some of his later published descriptions sound distinctly sexual in nature, although he carefully couched them in language that could be construed as platonic.
Many investigators visited the Menger home and interviewed witnesses whose stories varied with the telling or did not match each other.
Fortean writer Ivan Sanderson arrived at the Menger residence..... Jim Moseley recalled that Menger....
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty to operating a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is worth up to $826 million, according to a document filed with a federal court on Friday. Madoff values his business -- Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, which is currently being liquidated -- at $700 million, said the document, which estimated his wealth totals at least $823 million.
Real estate from around the world worth $22 million is listed, including a New York City apartment valued at $7 million and a home in Palm Beach, Florida, worth $11 million, another in Montauk, New York, worth $3 million and one in Cap d'Antibe, France, worth $1 million. All of the residences except for the Montauk home are listed as being bought by his wife, Ruth Madoff. Listings of other nonbusiness assets paint a luxurious picture of Madoff's life: a 50 percent stake in a charter aircraft worth $12 million, a $7 million yacht in France, and more than $2 million in jewelry. The latter two, along with approximately $17 million in cash and three cars -- a 1999 and 2001 Mercedes and 2004 Volkswagen -- are listed under Ruth Madoff's name.
The document was posted Saturday on the Web site of the Wall Street Journal.Madoff was ordered to jail Thursday after pleading guilty to all 11 criminal counts in one of Wall Street's biggest swindles ever. The Ponzi scheme is estimated to have bilked thousands of investors out of billions of dollars. The document was included in a filing Friday in connection with an appeal to have Madoff freed from jail until his sentencing, which is set for June 16. Madoff faces up to 150 years in prison.
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A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"[1] a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.
February 24, 11:19 PM
by Patricia Ress, Omaha Paranormal Examiner
If you have lived in Omaha, Nebraska long enough and have an interest in UFOs, you are certain to have heard about Dr. John C. Kasher. He is a professor of physics at UNO and has said that he is very much convinced now that earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.
"However, I am unsure about interdimensional visits-although that could certainly could be part of the picture," he told me several years ago in an interview for the Omaha Metro Update.
Dr. Kasher has won numerous awards for his teaching and has also been a consultant and summer employee at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for over 30 years and is considered an academic specialist in electromagnetic theory and the propogation of electromagnetic waves.
And he has also done consulting for NASA. Since the early 1970s he has been a consultant for MUFON(Mutual UFO Network).
"I frequently talk to people who have seen spacecraft of lights in the sky or sincerely feel that they have been abducted," he told me.
I asked him whether some of these people were unbalanced. He said,"I suppose there is some of that, but not the ones I've dealt with. I have personal friends who have told me about their experiences.
I have one friend who appears to have been abducted on several occasions. This is a very intelligent person not at all prone to telling stories. In fact, as a general rule, people with this kind of experience are reluctant to talk about it.
"Often they are afraid that people will think they are crazy or fabricating a story. For this reason I believe that they are telling the truth as they believe it." Dr. Kasher spoke of Budd Hopkins, a UFO investigator who has hypnotized many people around the world and subsequently believes that the worldwide number of abductions is in the hundreds of thousands.
He pointed out that hypnosis may be needed because extraterrestrials have a way of blotting out human memory.
"I want to be a cautious scientist in approaching this matter," Dr. Kasher said.
"Some scientists are too restrictive in exploring what's possible. And this stuff isn't repeatable and verifiable. You cannot summon a flying saucer to run tests on it. Yet scientists must be open to the possibility of a truth that we may not be capable of capturing with our science at its present state of development.
The big question is 'are they here?' And if they are here, then we will have to concede a lot of science we don't understand. And we need to also ask 'why' they are here," he said.
Dr. Kasher has explored numerous UFO cases over the phone, visiting sites and taking samples, interviewing people who claim to have seen things. He is frequently asked to look at evidence in the field such as circular burn marks in fields, balls of light, and things cut out of the soil and left on the ground in geometric forms-to name a few.
On February 20th, Dr. Kasher gave a speech and presentation entitled "UFOs are real".
He reiterated much of the information he gave me in our interview from years ago and also had some striking new information!
A few months ago, a B-17 over O'Hare Airport near Chicago actually saw a UFO! Clouds were at a 2,000 ft cover and the UFO hovered slightly below that at around 1900 ft.
4 United Airlines Mechanics also saw the UFO and reported that it had burned a hole through the cloud cover up to 6,000 ft. which allowed them to see the blue sky above!
After showing 30-40 snapshots of different crafts, Dr. Kasher told of how, after a Russian missle silo had turned the missles off-UFOs flew over it and turned them back on!
On the other side of the world in Montana, UFOs flying over a whole series of 21 silos managed to turn 19 of them off.
He felt that Russians were open about UFOs and that they had told pilots to shoot at them if they saw them(UFOs). And last of all he admitted that he still was not sure why they were here.
permanent link: http://www.ufocasebook.com/2009/kasher.html
In mathematics, the Mandelbrot set, named after Benoît Mandelbrot, is a set of points in the complex plane, the boundary of which forms a fractal. Mathematically, the Mandelbrot set can be defined as the set of complex values of c for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the complex quadratic polynomial zn+1 = zn2 + c remains bounded.[1] That is, a complex number, c, is in the Mandelbrot set if, when starting with z0=0 and applying the iteration repeatedly, the absolute value of zn never exceeds a certain number (that number depends on c) however large n gets.
