The Roswell Incident: 60 Years Later
The Roswell Incident: 60 Years Later
Whatever you may think or believe about flying saucers visiting our planet on a regular basis, this July 4th marks an important, no, a LANDMARK day in the field of ufology. Sixty years ago today, a craft of unknown origin crashed in the high desert region of southeastern New Mexico near the small town […]
Whatever you may think or believe about flying saucers visiting our planet on a regular basis, this July 4th marks an important, no, a LANDMARK day in the field of ufology. Sixty years ago today, a craft of unknown origin crashed in the high desert region of southeastern New Mexico near the small town of Corona, and we’re still trying to sort out fact from fiction.
On that day a local sheep rancher found the craft’s debris and drove it to show to civilian and military authorities in Roswell. The “Roswell Daily Record” ran a front page article a few days later stating that a “flying saucer” had been captured by the Army Air Force near Roswell, thus “the Roswell Incident” was born. The Air Force initially declared that they had recovered this flying saucer and were sending it to “higher headquarters” for examination. Several hours later the Air Force had changed its tune and declared the object a “weather balloon” and the debris merely rubber and a tin foil radar target.
Since then, the Air Force has admitted to lying back in 1947 and now says the debris was from a then Top Secret project called ‘Project Mogul’ which was trying to detect Soviet nuclear detonations from high altitudes.
Recently a book has come on the market called “Witness to Roswell” which discusses the eyewitness testimony of a high ranking Air Force Officer that came to light in a signed affidavit written while on his deathbed! I find it incredible that even to this day, 60 years later, new evidence is still coming to light in this high profile case. This story bears watching in the next few months as I fully expect even more evidence and documents surfacing all culminating, finally, in a public admission that a craft from “somewhere else” has visited our planet at least once in the last century.
UK UFOlogists Nick Pope & Joe McGonagle on The Sun Newspaper And UFOs
Manchester RadioOnline has a regular Friday night show called, “Exploring The Unexplained.” On Saturday 05th July (2008) it had a surprise guest in the shape of Nick Pope as well as Joe McGonagle owner of UK-UFO.org website and mailing list, Joe is a regular on the show and is on every week covering the recent events regarding UFOs in the UK.
Not surprisingly Nick waxed lyrical (as he’s involved with The Sun and their recent efforts) on, ‘The Sun’ newspapers attempts to turn the UFO subject not only into revenue for themselves but they are also reminding the nation why they are held in such a low regard as they continue to turn the UFO subject into a joke, and as always the joke is at at the expense of serious UFO research.
The Suns insistence in publishing mediocre UFO reports contrary to what they know to be the truth should come as no surprise to anyone, it’s just not that often that their failings are exposed and their complete disregard of any and all facts is as evident as it has been recently. Joe McGonagle highlights this with one of their recent stories when The Sun approached UK UFOlogist Jenny Randles about one of these sightings. It’s explained in Joes interview and I’ll (hopefully) be able to write more about Jenny and her dealings with The Sun in my next post.
Source: Manchester RadioOnline
Report on Aerial Phenomena observed near the Channel Islands, UK (April 23 2007)
Independent UFO Researchers Release Report On Guernsey UFO
(April 23rd 2007)
Jean-Francois Baure, David Clarke, Paul Fuller & Martin Shough released their findings on the UFO that pilot Ray Bowyer witnessed on a routine flight in April 2007.
The file is being hosted at UK-UFO.org and is available to download as a (.pdf) document at: http://www.guernsey.uk-ufo.org/
It’s a thorough and detailed report presented in a methodical and scientific manner, I also believe it’s a report that certainly warrants investing some of your time in reading it.
I think the bar has just been raised for serious UFO researchers as this report undoubtedly shows how it can, and should be done. Also, don’t forget it’s all done by independent researchers. Hopefully one day all serious investigations into UFO reports will be as well presented, disciplined and meticulous as this one is.
Due to a few people experiencing difficulties accessing the document from locations in South America, Kentaro Mori in Brazil is also hosting the report at the following webpage.
http://forgetomori.com:80/2008/ufos/uk-channel-islands-ufo-report/
Mori also provides a commentary on the report which is worth reading.
Ray Bowyer - Guernsey UFO (April 2007)
Ray Bowyer on Richard And Judy (UK)
The release of this research coincided nicely with a Channel 5 programme which concentrated on the UFO witnessed over the Channel Islands. The most recent episode of, “Britain ’s Closest Encounters” was shown on Channel 5 (UK) on Wednesday July 30 th (2008). It’s a four-part documentary series claiming to, ‘examine the most astonishing and baffling UFO stories from around the UK.’
The latest instalment looked at the case of pilot Captain Ray Bowyer, who reported seeing two enormous disc-shaped objects in the sky over the Channel Islands on 23 April 2007. The sighting was further confirmed by passengers on the Aurigny Airlines flight, and by another pilot who was in the area at the time. As they neared the UFOs he could see a second disc beyond the first.
Captain Bowyer dismissed the chance of the objects being lenticular cloud formations as well as the reflection from one of the many winery greenhouses, Ray discounted both as has always maintained that what he witnessed emanating from the object/s was most definitely an emission of light and not a reflection of any description, as well as stating that both of the objects had sharp, defined edges.
Finally, here’s a quick recap of the incident in question, on the 25th April 2007 the BBC News website ran the following story:
Pilot spots ‘UFO’ over Guernsey
Pilots have reported unusual foreign objects since the 1940s. A commercial airline pilot has reported seeing two unidentified flying objects in the sky near Guernsey. The bright yellow flat disc shapes, estimated to be twice the size of a Boeing 737, were spotted on Monday, 12 to 15 miles north east of the island. Captain Ray Bowyer was flying an Aurigny plane from Southampton to Alderney when he saw the objects through binoculars. Mr Bowyer said he was “pretty shook-up” by the sighting.
“This is not something you see every day of the week - it was pretty scary.”
At first he thought it was the sun reflecting from greenhouses in Guernsey . He said the objects were bright like the sun, but did not hurt his eyes when he looked at them. The stationary objects were also observed by other aircraft and the passengers on the plane.
John Spencer, deputy chairman of the British UFO Research Association, said: “These types of sightings have been reported by pilots - generally accepted to be reliable and sensible observers - since the 1940s and they have excited attention to this day…..Such light effects are often popularly thought to represent alien visitors but many UFO researchers believe they more likely represent natural, atmospheric, phenomena not yet fully understood by science…..However, a similar encounter in 1978 over the Bass Straits in Australia, where the pilot was in radio contact with the ground throughout, resulted in the pilot never being heard from again, so these phenomena are important to study.”
Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs for the Ministry of Defence said: “While no witnesses are infallible, pilots are trained observers and less likely than most people to misidentify something mundane…..The MoD’s UFO case files contain several reports from civil and military pilots, some of which were correlated by radar. This is the sort of sighting that is taken seriously and should be investigated thoroughly…..While most UFOs can be explained as misidentifications of aircraft, weather balloons, satellites and suchlike, a small percentage are more difficult to explain. This is one of the most intriguing sightings I’ve heard about in recent years.”
A current spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence, said that while it does monitor air space for any unusual foreign objects which might pose a threat, they would not be carrying out an investigation in this instance. Source
To see earlier posts relating to Ray Bowyer and The Channel Islands UFO then visit here.
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