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Showing posts with label ufo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ufo. Show all posts
Monday, January 06, 2014
Friday, December 13, 2013
Frank Rudolph Paul's Life On Other Planets
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
Frank Rudolph Paul (1884 – 1963) was a science fiction pulp magazine illustrator. Paul was influential in defining cover art and interior illustrations in the science fiction pulps of the 1920s.
His work is dramatic, with gigantic machines, robots, aliens, and spaceships). His work is characterized by its bright colors, and his "limited ability to draw human faces, especially females." His architectural training is clearly evident buildings and space stations. . .
Frank Rudolph Paul (1884 – 1963) was a science fiction pulp magazine illustrator. Paul was influential in defining cover art and interior illustrations in the science fiction pulps of the 1920s.
His work is dramatic, with gigantic machines, robots, aliens, and spaceships). His work is characterized by its bright colors, and his "limited ability to draw human faces, especially females." His architectural training is clearly evident buildings and space stations. . .
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Saturday, November 02, 2013
Project 1794/WS 606A, a/k/a The Avrocar: the U.S.-made UFO
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore/UFO Ed.
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The Avrocar in storage at the Smithsonian Institution in 1984.
Project Project 1794/WS 606A, a/k/a The Avrocar, never really went anywhere or got past its early test phases. In the end, it ended up being a hovercar proptotype.
The test models suffered from dangerous oil leaks that resulted in three fires, and eventually the staff were afraid of the machine, even when they were safely nestled in an observation booth of bullet-proof glass and quarter-inch-thick steel. A final, and disastrous engine test in 1956 involved a Viper jet engine "running wild" and convinced the agencies involved that a less dangerous test vehicle was necessary.
A second Avrocar logged about 75 flight hours, but was also a failure; it couldn't lift itself safely more than a few feet off the ground, and its bulbous design caused unbearable heat and screaming exhaust noise, which made it impractical for the military. One person pointed out that, although it was a technical failure, its design was a rubber water skirt shy of being the world's first hovercraft,
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Project Project 1794/WS 606A, a/k/a The Avrocar, never really went anywhere or got past its early test phases. In the end, it ended up being a hovercar proptotype.
The test models suffered from dangerous oil leaks that resulted in three fires, and eventually the staff were afraid of the machine, even when they were safely nestled in an observation booth of bullet-proof glass and quarter-inch-thick steel. A final, and disastrous engine test in 1956 involved a Viper jet engine "running wild" and convinced the agencies involved that a less dangerous test vehicle was necessary.
A second Avrocar logged about 75 flight hours, but was also a failure; it couldn't lift itself safely more than a few feet off the ground, and its bulbous design caused unbearable heat and screaming exhaust noise, which made it impractical for the military. One person pointed out that, although it was a technical failure, its design was a rubber water skirt shy of being the world's first hovercraft,
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Saturday, July 06, 2013
The Maury Island Incident film has begun shooting!
B y Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
Yesterday we posted an "ATIT Reheated" article about The Maury Island Incident:
As you know from the post yesterday, the first known UFO incidents in the U.S. did not occur at Roswell,. but in Washington state, within 60 miles of Seattle (and in the case of Maury Island, about a mile from Seattle).
Yesterday we posted an "ATIT Reheated" article about The Maury Island Incident:
Alien Lore No. 251: UFOs in Seattle - The Maury Island UFO Mystery
And, this morning, we stumbled onto the news that a film about the incident began shooting in the Burien/Des Moines/Maury Island area on June 28th.
As you know from the post yesterday, the first known UFO incidents in the U.S. did not occur at Roswell,. but in Washington state, within 60 miles of Seattle (and in the case of Maury Island, about a mile from Seattle).
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Thursday, July 04, 2013
Alien Lore No. 250 - Photographic evidence of UFOs preceding the 1947 Roswell and Mount Rainier UFO sightings
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
The most interesting information about these photos is that they were all photographed many years before The Roswell Incident, or the Mt. Rainier UFO sightings of 1947—both of which catapulted UFOs into the popular imagination.
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The anti-aircraft guns opened fire on the UFOs, and as you see in the photo, the projector beams began searching the sky. Many witnesses saw small objects flying at high altitude, of red or silver plated color. The saucers moved in formation at a high rate of speed, and the anti-aircraft artillery were useless. FDR got involved in this one. See the story in All This Is That...
In May 1932, at St. Paris, Ohio, someone took this picture of George Sutton. It was probably 1932 judging by the license plate on the car. George looks pretty calm for having a UFO hovering over his head. Nobody has been able to account for the dark object seen over Sutton's left shoulder in this photograph.
The most interesting information about these photos is that they were all photographed many years before The Roswell Incident, or the Mt. Rainier UFO sightings of 1947—both of which catapulted UFOs into the popular imagination.
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This photo was taken in 1870 at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. The photo has been called "the oldest UFO photograph ever taken." This image was the subject of spirited bidding on E-bay in 2002 and was purchased by Samuel M. Sherman, the President of Independent-International Pictures Corp.
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This image was shot in 1927 at Cave Junction, Oregon. The picture was reportedly snapped by a volunteer fireman. Click on to see full size image to really appreciate the picture.
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In 1929 at SlideWard, Colorado, a photographer captured this alleged UFO photograph. According to Hetty Pline, the photographer's daughter "This photo was taken by my father Edward Pline at the sawmill in Ward where we lived at the time, I think it was 1929. I was about six years old then. My father was there to photograph the sawmill for some reason or another, and as he was taking the photo, he described a "terrible thunderous bellow," and a large round thing as big as a very large boulder that moved through the air above them. You can see it in the picture. None of the sawmill workers saw the thing in the photo, but they all heard the sound and felt the ground shudder. Later in my life I tried researching the incident at the County Historical Society, but I did not find any references to it. My father passed on a few years after the incident, and I have not found any surving sawmill workers from that time. "
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In this image, the alarm klaxons installed in the event of a Japanese air raid began blaring, and flying objects are seen and announced in the sky off the city. I have written about this incident before. A blackout was declared and terrified Los Angelenos turned off all the lights.
The anti-aircraft guns opened fire on the UFOs, and as you see in the photo, the projector beams began searching the sky. Many witnesses saw small objects flying at high altitude, of red or silver plated color. The saucers moved in formation at a high rate of speed, and the anti-aircraft artillery were useless. FDR got involved in this one. See the story in All This Is That...
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In May 1932, at St. Paris, Ohio, someone took this picture of George Sutton. It was probably 1932 judging by the license plate on the car. George looks pretty calm for having a UFO hovering over his head. Nobody has been able to account for the dark object seen over Sutton's left shoulder in this photograph.
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Painting: The Landing
By Jack Brummet
[analog painting, scanned and lightning added in PaintShop Pro]
[analog painting, scanned and lightning added in PaintShop Pro]
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Alien Lore No. 248 - The Merge: the disappearance of Lieutenant Felix Moncla
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
US Air Force Pilot Lieutenant Felix Moncla was stationed in 1953 at Kinross Air Force Base in Michigan when an airborne object showed up on the radar.
Moncla scrambled his F-89 Scorpion interceptor to investigate. Second Lieutenant Robert L. Wilson acted as the Scorpion's radar operator. Wilson was unable to track the object on the Scorpion's radar, so ground radar operators fed the Lieutenant directions as he flew at 500 miles per hour toward the mysterious object.
Moncla eventually closed in on the UFO at about 8000 feet in altitude. As he approached the object, ground radar reported seeing his aircraft merge with the UFO.
Both objects vanished from the radar. People theorize that he had had a collision with an unreported aircraft, but Canadian aviation authorities swear there was no such aircraft in the area at the time of “the merging”.
No confirmed debris or wreckage was ever found below the merging point, and the fate of Lt. Moncla and his radio operator remain unknown.
Moncla scrambled his F-89 Scorpion interceptor to investigate. Second Lieutenant Robert L. Wilson acted as the Scorpion's radar operator. Wilson was unable to track the object on the Scorpion's radar, so ground radar operators fed the Lieutenant directions as he flew at 500 miles per hour toward the mysterious object.
Moncla eventually closed in on the UFO at about 8000 feet in altitude. As he approached the object, ground radar reported seeing his aircraft merge with the UFO.
Both objects vanished from the radar. People theorize that he had had a collision with an unreported aircraft, but Canadian aviation authorities swear there was no such aircraft in the area at the time of “the merging”. No confirmed debris or wreckage was ever found below the merging point, and the fate of Lt. Moncla and his radio operator remain unknown.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Alien Lore No. 247 - The most popular file in the FBI's digital Vault is a memo about the Roswell UFO crash
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
The FBI recently opened a digital reading room--The Vault--with thousands of documents on their most famous cases (you know, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, The Unabomber, the 9/11 conspirators, et cetera). The most downloaded document (by far)? A 1950 memo about a UFO sighting.
The memo to J. Edgar Hoover is from from Guy Hottel, the special agent in charge of the Washington, D.C. field office.
The informant, whose whose name is redacted, said that saucers had been found in New Mexico because the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area that is believed to interfere with the guidance systems of the saucers.
The town of Roswell in New Mexico became infamous after reports that a flying saucer crashed in the desert near a military base there on or around July 2, 1947. The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military. American authorities allegedly covered the incident up. We won't go into a lot of detail here, since this is one of the most well-documented UFO stories of all time.
The FBI recently opened a digital reading room--The Vault--with thousands of documents on their most famous cases (you know, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, The Unabomber, the 9/11 conspirators, et cetera). The most downloaded document (by far)? A 1950 memo about a UFO sighting.
The memo to J. Edgar Hoover is from from Guy Hottel, the special agent in charge of the Washington, D.C. field office.
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The informant, whose whose name is redacted, said that saucers had been found in New Mexico because the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area that is believed to interfere with the guidance systems of the saucers.
The town of Roswell in New Mexico became infamous after reports that a flying saucer crashed in the desert near a military base there on or around July 2, 1947. The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military. American authorities allegedly covered the incident up. We won't go into a lot of detail here, since this is one of the most well-documented UFO stories of all time.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Alien Lore No. 246 - A wave of Grey and UFO photos
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.
In recent months, a wave of "real" alien photos have appeared on various websites, blogs, Picasa, Flickr, and Tumblr.
In January, The Bangkok Post ran a photo of an alien on a beach in Thailand:
The Open Minds UFO investigation site explains that these alien photos began appearing not long after the release of the special effects app., Camera360 app for Android. phones. The app. allows users to easily incorporate lightning, UFOs, Greys, and other effects into photos.
In recent months, a wave of "real" alien photos have appeared on various websites, blogs, Picasa, Flickr, and Tumblr.
In January, The Bangkok Post ran a photo of an alien on a beach in Thailand:
The Open Minds UFO investigation site explains that these alien photos began appearing not long after the release of the special effects app., Camera360 app for Android. phones. The app. allows users to easily incorporate lightning, UFOs, Greys, and other effects into photos.
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Friday, February 01, 2013
Alien Lore - The Nation of Islam, UFOs, and The Greys
By Jack Brummet, Paranormal Editor, and
Mona Goldwater, Society Editor
A few weeks ago, the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan delivered his annual Saviours' Day speech in Rosemont, Illinois. In the speech, Farrakhan vowed that he would force the U.S. government to open all UFO files (ed's note: not unlike the governments of France and Russia have recently done).
As it turns out, UFOs are a central tenet in the teachings of the Nation of Islam. The NOI is a 50,000 person church based in America (as opposed to the Islam Religion, with almost two billion members).
An early NOI leader--Elijah Muhammad--told The Nation of a gigantic Earth-orbiting "Mother Plane" equipped with many weapons. According to an article on AOL News, "seeking the divine in the skies is one of the core beliefs of NOI leaders and followers, which explains why so much of their literature tells of UFOs, or what they prefer to call airborne 'wheels.'"
The bummer for me, and the readers of our Alien Lore series is that it is not Greys, or aliens flying these saucers around. The Nation of Islam teachings say the circular spacecraft were built by humans on Earth, many centuries ago, under the guidance of God.
NOI teachings claim that the original "wheel" was built by scientists on the islands of what is now Japan, "at a cost of $15 billion in gold." The story also says that "these original UFOs were used to create mountains on Earth."
Naturally, this is tied into Ezekiel's Wheel (ed's note: remember the song..."Ezekiel saw a wheel/Way up/In The middle of the air?"). The encounter in The Bible of the prophet Ezekiel with a wheel-like UFO, is central to the Nation of Islam religion.
Farrakhan told the group in Chicago that "Many have died or have been killed to keep from sharing what they have seen." Does this sound familiar to any Alien Lore fans? If you dig into nearly any Alien Lore story, eventually it comes down to conspiracy and cover-ups.
In his Saviour's Day speech the year before, Farrakhan said that in 1985 he himself had been taken aboard the craft. And, when he was on the flaying saucer, he heard Elijah Muhammad speak to him.
The gathering in Illinois included a group of international UFOligists. "They have in us allies. They have in us their protectors. They have in us those that will help them to gain the finance to keep up their research."
"Since the founding of the Nation of Islam, these wheel-like objects have been taught to us of their existence and their function," said Ishmael Muhammad, one of Elijah Muhammad's sons.
"The founder of the Nation of Islam, Fard Muhammad, taught us about these objects that the world calls UFOs, and he gave us great details as to the materials that they were constructed of and that most of these objects come from this planet Earth," Ishmael Muhammad told AOL News.
"He also taught us of the existence of life on other planets, as well as a highly advanced civilization on the planet Mars. He taught us about the Mother Plane (UFO) and gave us the dimensions that it was a half mile by a half mile, human-made planet, one mile in height, and that this Mother Plane carried 1,500 smaller planes."
He went on to claim that the FBI and other feds have, in their various raids, confiscated much of the evidence the NOI had collected over the years. One of the UFOlogists at the conference said "The entire discussion [with Farrakhan] was about UFOs, and it didn't deviate. He [Farrakhan] kept talking about how heroic and brave we were in the face of worldwide skepticism and the media so often treating this at such a high level of ridicule. I was pleasantly surprised when he offered both emotional and financial support for our work, and he came across as very humble in our presence."
"I believe that the recent release of UFO documents by the British government is very significant, along with other countries that have released their own," Ishmael Muhammad added. "I think it says that they know that contact is imminent."
Mona Goldwater, Society Editor
As it turns out, UFOs are a central tenet in the teachings of the Nation of Islam. The NOI is a 50,000 person church based in America (as opposed to the Islam Religion, with almost two billion members).
An early NOI leader--Elijah Muhammad--told The Nation of a gigantic Earth-orbiting "Mother Plane" equipped with many weapons. According to an article on AOL News, "seeking the divine in the skies is one of the core beliefs of NOI leaders and followers, which explains why so much of their literature tells of UFOs, or what they prefer to call airborne 'wheels.'"
NOI teachings claim that the original "wheel" was built by scientists on the islands of what is now Japan, "at a cost of $15 billion in gold." The story also says that "these original UFOs were used to create mountains on Earth."
Naturally, this is tied into Ezekiel's Wheel (ed's note: remember the song..."Ezekiel saw a wheel/Way up/In The middle of the air?"). The encounter in The Bible of the prophet Ezekiel with a wheel-like UFO, is central to the Nation of Islam religion.
Farrakhan told the group in Chicago that "Many have died or have been killed to keep from sharing what they have seen." Does this sound familiar to any Alien Lore fans? If you dig into nearly any Alien Lore story, eventually it comes down to conspiracy and cover-ups.
In his Saviour's Day speech the year before, Farrakhan said that in 1985 he himself had been taken aboard the craft. And, when he was on the flaying saucer, he heard Elijah Muhammad speak to him.
The gathering in Illinois included a group of international UFOligists. "They have in us allies. They have in us their protectors. They have in us those that will help them to gain the finance to keep up their research."
"Since the founding of the Nation of Islam, these wheel-like objects have been taught to us of their existence and their function," said Ishmael Muhammad, one of Elijah Muhammad's sons.
"The founder of the Nation of Islam, Fard Muhammad, taught us about these objects that the world calls UFOs, and he gave us great details as to the materials that they were constructed of and that most of these objects come from this planet Earth," Ishmael Muhammad told AOL News.
"He also taught us of the existence of life on other planets, as well as a highly advanced civilization on the planet Mars. He taught us about the Mother Plane (UFO) and gave us the dimensions that it was a half mile by a half mile, human-made planet, one mile in height, and that this Mother Plane carried 1,500 smaller planes."
He went on to claim that the FBI and other feds have, in their various raids, confiscated much of the evidence the NOI had collected over the years. One of the UFOlogists at the conference said "The entire discussion [with Farrakhan] was about UFOs, and it didn't deviate. He [Farrakhan] kept talking about how heroic and brave we were in the face of worldwide skepticism and the media so often treating this at such a high level of ridicule. I was pleasantly surprised when he offered both emotional and financial support for our work, and he came across as very humble in our presence."
Ishmael Muhammad, Nation of Islam's national assistant minister, spoke to AOL News about NOI's fascination with UFOs and their fervent hope that they will somehow unite all the religions of Earth."
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