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Share Your Close Encounters With Spielberg's UFO and Ghost Site

by Will Safer, posted May 26th 2008 at 2:33PM

While moviegoers will be filling multiplex seats this weekend, hoping to be transported to a place of adventure and a little fantasy with the latest 'Indiana Jones' blockbuster, Steven Spielberg is busy working up another kind of transporting experience, this one more in line with themes from his sci-fi classic 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

'The Rising' (the Web site is currently just a placeholder) is the name of Spielberg's ghost and UFO social networking site. Yes, that's right, social networking for the flying object set.

The Rising will be a place for users to share experiences, detailing sightings, abductions, theories and anything else related to the topic of UFO spotting or ghost hunting. Poltergeist hunters are welcome, we assume. Original content will be hosted, too. [Source: TechCrunch.]
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British Government Releases 200 Reports of UFO 'Sightings'

by Will Safer, posted May 14th 2008 at 1:44PMBreaking News

Drawing of a supposed flying saucer sighting in the United Kingdon.

Flying saucers? Alien encounters? It may sound cliché to seriously consider visits from little green men descending from saucer-shaped spacecraft, but the British government is releasing first-person accounts from people who have claimed to see unidentified flying objects.

Among these encounters are indeed alleged visits from space dudes in green.

A spokesman for the National Archives says the government is releasing the documents in response to several Freedom of Information Act requests. About 200 files will be made available to the public during the next four years as part of an effort by the Ministry of Defence to show it is "open and transparent."

Among the first files released there are accounts of alleged sightings over the River Thames, reports by patrons at a pub who saw lights in the sky near Gatwick Airport (what were they drinking, we want to know), and even a sighting by two U.S. Air Force policemen who claimed to see unusual lights near a Royal Air Force location.

Perhaps the best of the batch is an account by a 78-year-old man who says he met an alien in 1983. After spending some time on board a UFO he was asked questions by the alleged aliens. In the end, they told him to disembark with a somewhat condescending statement: "You are too old and too infirm for our purpose."

The lesson here? If you're hoping for a more successful alien encounter, perhaps it's time to start your fitness regimen now.

Want to learn more? Go to the U.K. National Archives site. [Source: BBC News]
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Texas UFO Sighting Explained?

by Tim Stevens, posted Jan 24th 2008 at 11:40AM


You know that UFO that was spotted in Texas last week? The one that was supposedly a mile long and traveling at 3,000 miles per hour while being chased by military F-16's? Well, the military has a fairly simple explanation. It turns out it wasn't a UFO that was being chased by F-16's, it actually was F-16's -- ten in fact -- flying in formation with lights on that may have created the illusion of a large craft.

The 301st Fighter Wing at the Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base indicated that it was indeed performing some exercises that evening and that the sightings were simply its jets. Mystery solved? For most, yes, but conspiracy theorists won't be able to stop thinking about this one just yet. It seems that after the sightings last week, the 301st indicated that it didn't have any jets in the area at the time. So, was this an innocent mistake, or is this some government cover-up? You decide.

From cbs11tv.com and MSNBC

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Possible UFO Spotted Over Texas, Chased By F16s

by Tim Stevens, posted Jan 16th 2008 at 9:42AM

UFO Spotted Over Texas, Chased by F16s

Wondering how yesterday's MacBook Air got so thin? Some, of course, think it was just the result of decades of research by Apple techies. We think we have a better explanation, though: alien technology. Don't believe us? According to the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, several witnesses say they spotted something mysterious in the air over Texas last night. Said unidentified flying object (UFO) was traveling at an estimated 3,000 miles per hour while being chased by military jets!

One of the witnesses, a pilot named Steve Allen, indicated that the alleged craft was difficult to see, but based on the lights that appeared to be on the edges of the thing, Allen estimated it to be about one mile long and a half-mile wide.
The lights went from corner to corner. It was directly above Highway 67 traveling towards Stephenville at a high rate of speed - about 3,000 miles per hour is what I would estimate.
No mention of how thin this thing was, but it would have had to have been a large craft to be sure, and a fast one, something we certainly don't have in our military -- at least not that we're aware of anyhow.

No comment from Apple, for whatever that's worth.

From Stephenville Empire-Tribune (via BoingBoing)

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Wired Celebrates 60 Years of Flying Saucers

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jun 26th 2007 at 9:18AM

Wired Celebrates 60 Years of Flying Saucers
Wired is celebrating 60 years of flying saucers with an article giving a brief overview of the history of UFOs, aliens and conspiracy theories -- everything from Roswell to tales of abduction to the 1995 Fox special 'Alien Autopsy' is covered. Apparently, even the Spielberg film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' was initially subject to suspicion. UFO enthusiasts believed the film was part of a U.S. Government project to ease the public into the idea of friendly aliens.

Head on over to Wired to get your fill of little green men.

From Wired

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UFO Terrorizes Flickr Photo Site

by Terrence O'Brien, posted May 24th 2007 at 12:36PM



A user on Flickr, rajman1977, has stirred up a bit of interest with a series of photos called "Bizarre Thing in Sky".

The photos were supposedly taken by rajman while visiting his fiance's parents in California. They show what he describes as a "bizarre thing in [the] sky." It gets more interesting: Last month, someone names Chad claimed he saw a similar object while hiking near Lake Tahoe, a sighting he shared on Coast to Coast, George Noory's paranormal radio show site.

We're guessing Chad and rajman1977 are probably the same person, or they at least know one another.

Sure, it's probably a fake, but the crazy part is the photo-manipulation frenzy the image has started on Flickr from just about anybody with a decent photo-editing program like Photoshop.

To prove just how easy it is to make something fake, one user went through the trouble of recreating the "UFO" with computer-generated graphics. In an hour and a half, he had a more convincing space craft than either Chad or Rajman.The object looks to be about the size of a bicycle, is way too clear in most of the photos, and honestly looks like a prop from the '70s version of 'Battlestar Galactica.'

One dead give away is this photo, where part of the power line simply disappears making it appear as if the craft is below the power lines. The photo is likely the work of a skilled, but amateur PhotoShopper.

Several people have suggested that this is part of a viral marketing campaign for the upcoming 'Transformers' film. There is a stark similarity between the font on the craft to that of the robots in the film. However, we believe that the studio could probably afford a better fake.


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