Video of UFO Over China Soccer Game, Feb 2011

This is a very interesting UFO video, taken from the stands of a soccer game in China. The good part of the 1:18 video (below) comes in at the 29-second mark. As the camera holder records the action of the game, someone apparently taps him/her on the shoulder to make them aware of a strange hovering object in the sky. The camera swerves to the UFO, then back to the game, then back for a rather good view of something that hovers unlike any airplane, and with a profile like no helicopter. Not as spectacular as the China Spiral UFO, but interesting. Michael Cohen at allnewsweb.com wrote about this today. "The UFO clip below is making the rounds of the Chinese Internet and the massive online community of UFO enthusiasts in that part of the world." Read more about this UFO at allnewsweb.com... "UFO," by the way, simply means "unidentified flying object," not necessarily a spaceship from another planet. It would seem that UFOs like soccer fields. Be sure to watch the second video below, with a UFO buzzing Green Point Soccer Stadium in Cape Town.

Video of Triangle UFO in Russia

What was it? We don't know, and that's why they call these things "unidentified" flying objects. It was flying. It is still unidentified. More from Phantoms and Monsters: At least one witness managed to film the UFO with a camera phone. The UFO appeared to be triangular in shape with three glowing blue lights arranged at sixty degree angles. The craft appeared out of nowhere and floated above the city before vanishing into the night sky. The two unnamed witnesses interviewed in this clip are certain that what they saw and recorded was not of earthly origin. Full Post, with Video.... Was the object from another planet, another dimension, another reality? Or was it simply an unknown craft from right here on Earth? Dunno. You decide. Hat tip: Strange & Unknown Conservative Caps, Shirt and more! Leave a Comment - Chicago News Bench RSS Feed Visit us on Twitter!

Humansville UFO, 2009

I thought this might be a joke at first. "Humansville" seemed to be the giveaway, but a quick search shows that there really is a place in Missouri with that name. I mean, today is, after all, the birthday of H.G. Wells (Sept. 21). Did they have mysterious visitors on September 17? MUFON Log Number: US-09212009-0002 Submitted Date: 2009-09-21 00:33 "...it appeared to be a triangular shaped black craft with 3 white lights, one near each corner. The lights slowly pulsated simaltaneously, dim and then bright. The craft seemed as if it could be a mile to 1/2 mile a way and appeared to be about the size of a football field." Full report at UFO Stalker.) This is not the first time that a UFO report has come out of Humansville. RELATED, SORTA: Humansville, Missouri, Lies Humansville Missouri Addiction Resources Humansville, Missouri, Ghost Sightings I’m Off to Humansville! Real-time reports of UFO sightings Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Cool Hats & Shirts for Cool Conservatives Leave a Comment... Chicago News Bench RSS Feed We're on Twitter...

UK's UFO Hotline Buzzing

Okay, so, you're somewhere in the United Kingdom. You see something weird in the sky, something that doesn't look... like... it's... from this world. A UFO? Marsh gas? A weather balloon? Too much to drink? Somebody wants to hear from you, and they're manning a phone at the Swindon UFO Research and Wiltshire Phenomena Research response centre. Now West researchers dealing with UFOs and the paranormal, have joined forces to launch a new hotline for people to report intriguing sightings or occurrences. The 24 hour response line has been set-up by the Swindon UFO Research and Wiltshire Phenomena Research to cope with the enquiries and reports from the public. From UFOs to spirits that apparently don't just come out of a bottle down at the local pub, they want to hear from anyone who has witnessed such happenings. Full Article at Western Daily Press... RELATED NEWS: Swindon UFO Research (official website) Strange lights seen in skies over Swindon Bizarre lights seen in skies UFOs witnessed over four [US] states Water link to Rossendale UFO sightings Chesham UFO riddle solved 'Sprites' May Explain UFO Sightings Robbie Williams Moves To "UFO Hotspot" Chicago News Bench RSS Feed Cool Stuff...

UPDATED: Readers React to Chicago UFO Photos

A number of readers wrote to us with reactions to the photos of possible UFOs over Chicago. B Prulhiere wrote in the other day with a logical explanation that we rejected. However, we were wrong, and with sincere apologies to BP, we print this correction. It must be said that BP helped put the element of doubt in our minds, which helped lead us to go the train station from where the photos were taken (see Chicago UFO Mystery Solved) Today, BP wrote: I was very disappointed in the way you handled your response in your article towards me. I am a true researcher. The duty of any researcher or reporter is to eliminate any and all other possibilities. If I sent you a picture of me drinking a pop from inside the jaws of a live dinosaur, and then said "I don't own Photo shop, so it means it is real", would you stop there and say "well then, I know this must be real." Of course you would not. The reference at the end of my statement about the vanishing point is an art, or drafting term about how drawings or photos follow a line to the horizon. These follow a perfect line, but do not match the one in the background. I would love for these to be real, but let's at least prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are possibly real..... To which we responded: Dear BP: You are correct, and we apologize. No offense meant, really, and you are now proven to be right. See http://rogersparkbench.blogspot.com/2009/02/chicago-ufo-mystery-solved.html. I will subsequently publish both you note below and this response to it. However, another reader wrote the following compelling letter which tells of a sighting that she feels she had recently: From: [Name withheld] To: Chicago News Bench Subject: UFO's I came across your site after checking on the MUFON website for over a week. I was hoping other people saw what my husband , 21 year old daughter and I saw at about 6:30pm on Saturday January 31st. FINALLY! We were driving in Roselle. We live in the Northwest Suburbs. As I drove heading east, I noticed a set of many super bight, non-blinking lights that seemed to just hang in the sky. They appeared to make a "V" shaped pattern. I grew up in the flight paths of O'Hare airports and never saw any airplanes in such a pattern that hung motionless in the sky without blinking lights. I asked my husband and daughter if they knew what the lights were. At first, my husband thought they were lights from a baseball field or park. We got closer and could clearly tell that was not what they were. Then my husband thought they were lights from a tall building off of Route 53. We [got] close to the building, and the lights were not from there. I began to get scared. We drove in the direction of the lights for a good 10 minutes. If they were planes landing at O'Hare, after that amount of time, they would have been out of sight or changed their pattern. They stayed the same. I could not believe that other drivers were not seeing this. We became so concerned over what they were, we turned on news radio to see if other people were reporting this. I became too stressed out to continue to watch and follow them so we went home. I can tell you that from the photos on your site, if you took those objects and lit them up at night, that is what we saw. Thanks for posting those photos. RESPONSE: You're entirely welcome. CNB RSS Feed

Chicago UFO Mystery Solved

Were those UFOs over Chicago's northside? We were all excited about the possibility that a fleet of UFOs had been accidentally photographed from the Howard Street CTA train platform in Rogers Park. Readers wrote in. Some disputed it, and said that the "UFOs" in the photo were just reflections of ceiling lights in a window. One reader wrote in and emphatically said they looked just like a sighting that she, her husband and daughter saw recently. One way to solve it: Go to the scene and see it for ourselves. So we did, and here are the photos we took. (Click on images to enlarge them.) First, take a look at the original photos that were taken on Feb. 8, and posted on Flickr by "Quality": http://www.flickr.com/photos/79822180@N00/3264107213/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/79822180@N00/3264932544/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/79822180@N00/3264933262/ The photos below prove that the "UFOs" were indeed reflections in a glass window. The top shows reflections: Ceileng lamps and a trash can. The photos posted by "Quality" did not make it clear that the photos were taken from an enclosed pedestrian overpass, which goes over the tracks in the station. The second photo, however, shows where the photographer must have been standing. Here, we see the trash can reflected in the top photo. The third photo gives a fuller view of the enclosed pedestrian overpass where "Quality" took his/her photos. No doubt about it: The hanging ceiling lamps were reflected in the window. In the fourth photo, we can see the pedestrian overpass. In the fifth photo, another view of the inside of the overpass. Notice the ceiling lamps and trash can. So, no UFO sighting after all. Nevertheless, it was worth pursuing. Plus, we love to prove ourselves wrong. When we're wrong, that is. CNB RSS Feed

New Photos in Chicago UFO Mystery

Were those UFOs in the sky? Or just reflections in a window? As promised earlier today, Chicago News Bench paid a visit to the scene this afternoon where pictures that started a little UFO controversy were taken on Feb. 8. CNB captured some of our own photos, and we're examining them right now. We think we have some answers, but we don't want to rush to judgement before we finish examining our photos. We'll give you a full and final report either tonight or tomorrow morning. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, consider this: UFO videotaped over Chicago near O'Hare airport , February 10, 2009. Watch the incredible video there! CNB RSS Feed

Chicago UFOs Reflections? Maybe, Maybe Not...

Readers keep writing in about those Flickr photos taken from the Howard CTA Station's elevated train platform in Chicago. They appear to show objects in the sky. UFOs? Unidentified flying objects? Any kind of flying objects? Or just reflections? The mystery just becomes more mysterious. So, I am now en route to the scene of the mystery to view it myself and take my own photos. "Greg" writes in to cause more confusion: I was referred to your site by a posting at the MUFON site. I am a master electrician and an electrical contractor in Minneapolis, MN, and I can say with out a doubt that those objects are a reflection of high bay light fixtures that are used in warehouses. If you go to flicker and click on the enlarge button, look at the right side of the picture and you will be able to see other faint reflections of the space the photographer was in. Also, if you click to see the whole series of pictures, the 2 previous ones labled, "Lerner building hole", you can see faint reflections from a window in those too. I hope this helps. It only raises more questions. Greg is right about the reflections, but there is still some uncertainty. In the "Lerner Building Hole" photo (see it here), you can see the reflection of a white trash can in the lower left. However, it is not clear whether that can is being reflected from a window fixed to the platform, or a window on a train car. Could the photographer (who remains anonymous) have taken the photos from inside a train? An example of that can be found in a photo by "Ericka," which was taken from within a train car and shows the reflection of the interior of that car. Or, could the photo have been taken from within a structure similar to the one in a photo that "Zol87" has posted? Thanks again to Greg for writing. His thoughtful note gives us pause, and we will investigate further. There's only one way to be sure, and that's to go there myself. I will now leave my warm desk chair and venture out to take photos of the scene of the mystery myself. Stand by... RELATED: Readers React to Chicago UFO Photos Updated: UFO Fleet Over Chicago? CNB RSS Feed

UPDATED X2: UFO FLEET OVER CHICAGO? FEB 8, 2009!

UPDATE 2/13/2009: Chicago UFO Mystery Solved WERE THOSE UFO'S OVER CHICAGO? Photographs taken during broad daylight show what look like saucer shaped objects in the blue sky. At least 19 of the objects can be seen in one of three photos posted on Flickr. The pix were taken on February 8, 2009 from the elevated train platform at the Howard Street CTA Station, on the far northeast side of Chicago, on the Evanston border, looking south-southeast. I am very familiar with that train platform, and looking at the photos I am confident that the white objects in the sky cannot be reflections. The images above are cropped excerpts from one of the photos. I enhanced color and contrast on the left image (color); the right image is black and white with a red filter applied. The photographer would have been standing on an open platform, not in any enclosure, so there would have been no window between the camera and the sky. In other words, the white objects are not reflections. I first became aware of the photos today on a friend's blog. She posted the photos, but for some reason chose to use the possible UFOs as a humorous point in an unrelated story. The photos, linked to Flickr, are attributed only to "Quality," who has no profile posted. The links to the photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79822180@N00/3264107213/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/79822180@N00/3264932544/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/79822180@N00/3264933262/ POSTSCRIPT: A reader wrote the following note, followed by my reply. Hi Tom, I guess my skepticism always comes to the fore, when it comes to UFO's :) I know the military always experiment with new types of aircraft, and undetectable secret 'things'!! There just has to be a rational explanation!!! It would be interesting to find out what 'they' are, though. More for curiosity, than a belief in aliens :) Dear Reader: I mean, you could be right that they are not what they appear to be. They might be specks of dust or something on the lense. As for a "rational explanation," what is irrational about the possibility of extraterrestrial beings? Very rational scientists agree on the possibility (probability, really); SETI spends millions of dollars every year listening for intelligent signals from other worlds. A possible rational explanation is alien craft. But then, another rational explanation could be dust specks. We don't know, and that's what the "Unidentified" part of "UFO" means. MORE REACTIONS HERE: Readers React to Chicago UFO Photos CNB RSS Feed

BRIT GOVT TO RELEASE UFO FILES

"MORE than 11,000 UFOs have been sighted in the past 30 years," says The Sun (U.K.). The Sun reports that British government will begine to release its top-secret UFO-related documents and files gradually, over the next four years. Contrast that to the still-tight manner that the U.S. Government treats its UFO files. FULL STORY... RELATED: AIR FORCE: ROSWELL UFO CASE CLOSED

AIR FORCE: ROSWELL UFO CASE CLOSED

The Air Force Times has a great article today about one of the greatest stories in modern American folklore: The Roswell UFOs. Now, whether it really happened or not, and whether or not you're a believer, the Roswell story is fascinating. Fascinating because, well, what if it's true? And if it's not, it's still fascinating to ponder how such a story originated, and then become known by virtually every American and tens of millions worldwide. The report from Air Times begins: June 24, 2008 - Eleven years ago, today, the following story appeared in Air Force Times. For years, people had wondered if U.S. government, and specifically, the Air Force had hidden secrets of a UFO crash in New Mexico. What, the Government hiding secrets? Oh, come now. The article continues: The Air Force wants its June 24 report disproving UFO sightings in Roswell, N.M., to clear up any possible mystery on the subject: The 231-page “Roswell Report” is subtitled “Case Closed.”

Fun stuff, whether you believe or not. FULL ARTICLE...

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Be Prepared, Denver!

You don't have to have been a Boy Scout to know that being prepared is a good idea. Jeff Peckman wants to be prepared. Really, really, really prepared... Whether they come in peace or to destroy us, Jeff Peckman said the aliens are on their way and we need to be ready. "If some of these human beings become traumatized especially in any significant numbers, local authorities, emergency responders are just not prepared to deal with that, it's a unique situation." FULL STORY... RELATED: Denver man seeks support for citywide panel on space aliens Man asks Denver to prepare for Aliens

Interstellar Frat Boy Pranks

Worth reading: A wonderful, funny and thought provoking piece by J. Scott Wilson , Staff Writer at WXII-2.

"Maybe the thousands of lights, shapes and shadows seen by millions of people in the skies all over the world over the last century or so have all been weather balloons, swamp gas, pranks, hallucinations and/or cloud formations. "Maybe."

READ the full article...

Comment on UFOs in Texas

Another high-quality comment, this one on the UFOs in Texas. Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:00:07 -0800 (PST) From: "The North Coast" To: rogersparkbench@yahoo.com Subject: The North Coast has left a new comment on your post "Texas UFOs Leave Little Room For Doubt": Are there really that many "rational" folks in Texas? Who was throwing those frisbees so high? Or was it a military base with laser lights, or something? One guy I worked with many years ago used to create a minor stir in his Lincoln Park neighborhood during summer months. Late at night, he would take a frisbee lit up with one of the neon necklaces you buy at carnivals and streetfares, attached to it, and send the thing flying off the roof deck of his highrise. There were lots of "sightings" around those parts when he did this. I believe this UFO thing is a form of worship, of craving for wise, benevolent, and infinately superior beings to offer guidance- pretty much what religion has always been.

Conspiracy?

I'm sure none of the readers of this blog believe that the U.S. Government could possibly be involved in a massive coverup of military information. Nah, not our trusty gummint. None of you has ever accused Uncle Sam of being tight with his secrets, not you. Just because you can believe that the federal government deliberately blew up the World Trade Center doesn't mean you are open minded to the possibility that one or two of the trillions of stars in the universe could produce a spacefaring culture. Right? Well, here's an alleged conspiracy that may interest you either because you find it hysterically ridiculous or because you are open to the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial visitors. Carl Sagan was, why not you? In "The Real X Files," John Greenewald Jr. is interviewd about his lifelong fascination with UFOs and aliens. "His online 'Black Vault' may be the biggest UFO database in the world." Perhaps. Let's find out....

Nuke Physicist Discusses Roswell, UFOs

Sorry, this is NOT about the Planet Muon. But it is about the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life visiting Earth. A fascinating article titled "On the Road to Roswell: A Discussion with Nuclear Physicist Stanton Friedman" explores the controversy of the July 1947 "Roswell incident," in which UFOs were spotted over the area in New Mexico and, most importantly, one was shot down and recovered. Maybe. Maybe not. While some mechanics liens attorneys are quick to mock and poke fun at the notion of intelligence from other planets, nuclear physicists like Dr. Friedman give it careful and serious consideration (not to mention the tens of thousands of people from around the world, including the late Carl Sagan, miliary pilots, top government ministers, former governors, countless police officers, etc.). Raiders News Network has a series of interviews that focus on the 60th Anniversary of the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, UFO Incident. Here is an excerpt form the first: STAN FRIEDMAN: I first heard of Roswell in the early 1970s from a woman named Lydia Sleppy whose son was a forest ranger in California. He had had a good sighting. My associate (Bobbi Ann Slate Gironda , long deceased) and I spoke with him and he suggested we talk to his mother who had had a good sighting near Albuquerque. We did speak to her and after she told us about the sighting, she mentioned that when she had been working at an Albuquerque Radio Station in the late 1940s, she was asked to type the story coming in from a broadcaster at their Roswell affiliate station for a newswire. He dictated how a flying saucer had been recovered and was being sent to Wright Field. Part way through the story the bell went off on the machine she was using to put the story on the news wire. The FBI instructed her not to continue the transmission. She remembered the names of some of the people and I located several, but came to a dead end. I should stress that New Mexico was a hotbed of classified Research and Development activities and certainly it was expected that there would be spies and counter intelligence concerns. READ THE FULL INTERVIEW...

Roswell 60 Years On

Whether you take extraterrestrials straight or with a grain of salt, it's fun. The town of Roswell has taken lemons and, over 60 years, turned it into very profitable lemonade. About 50,000 people are expected to show up for this year's UFO festivities. Roswell plans 60th anniversary UFO fest The 60th anniversary of the so-called "Roswell Incident" will be marked July 5-8 at the city's annual UFO festival. FULL STORY...

Intergalactic Warfare?

Holy Mackerel. Watch this video.

U.K. to Open UFO Files

The French did it. The Chileans did it. Now the British have also opened up secret files about UFOs for public scrutiny. When with the U.S. government come clean on this? Bombarded by requests to see the evidence, the Ministry of Defence is to release Britain's official documents of UFO sightings, so the public can judge for themselves whether we are being visited by alien life forms. A spokeswoman for the MoD said: "We are receiving a lot of requests at the moment to see this information so we have decided to put the reports on our website. But to give this some sort of context we have only ever been interested in reports that have a defence perspective." FULL STORY...

UFO "twice the size of a Boeing 737"

Pilot Sees Large UFO Over the UK (25 April 2007) - Captain Ray Bowyer, a commercial airline pilot, has reported spotting a stationary UFO "twice the size of a Boeing 737" while en route from Southampton to Alderney. Passengers on the plane and other aircraft also witnessed the phenomenon. The pilot said the objects were "bright like the sun" but didn't cause any eye pain when he looked at them. A former UFO investigator for the MoD said that pilots are less likely to misidentify ordinary objects as UFOs.... Full Story at BBC Hat tip: ShortNews