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Travis Walton Speaks: 50 Years After His UFO Abduction Experience

1977 HARRAH, WASHINGTON -A Child's Imagination?

 "Harrah Youth Reports UFOs With 'Greenish Creatures'", article in the  newspaper Toppenish Review, Toppenish, Washington, USA, on January 26, 1977.

Harrah youth reports UFOs with 'greenish creatures'

By Frances Story

Martha Cantu of Harrah said if her son ever tells her again to "come and look," she'll be sure to do it.

Last Wednesday when her agitated nine-year-old son Jose woke his mother up at about 6:30 a.m. asking her to explain the little "man" he saw outside she discounted his story and settled down to catch up on the sleep she'd lost the night before with a fussy baby.

Jose, who had been in the middle of preparing his breakfast, wasn't put off so easily.

He went outside to check for himself and came back with an amazing story.

He told his mother he had seen two greenish creatures about three feet tall, who rotated on a base instead of having feet, and two "steely" crafts in which 2 other creatures were sitting.

He claimed that one craft rested in the back yard and the other on a flat section of the roof of the house. He told her he had hidden behind a washing machine stored outside next to a shed.

From that vantage point, he said he saw the two creatures join the other two in the crafts. He added that the crafts were brilliantly lighted inside, had "straight stairs" (much like a ramp) and a door that opened in "two parts, like a cross" to reveal the interior which contained two chairs with very tail bases. Jose said the craft in the yard rose from the ground and disappeared into something that resembled a cloud, steam or smoke.

When she heard the story, Jose's mother did what any mother might do in the same circumstances. She sent him to school.

At the Harrah Grade School, Jose repeated the story to Diane Gomez, an aide. "Jose is a serious boy. He's not one that tells stories or lies. What he told me, I took very seriously," Gomez said.

At 10:10, recess time, Gomez and another aide accompanied Jose to his home. There he showed them the places where he said the two creatures had been standing. In one location, where Jose said one creature had rotated on his base, Gomez said she saw two round marks in the gravel. At another place, where the creatures allegedly stood, there were two sets of three indentations.

After Mrs. Cantu spoke to the teacher's aides and they had returned to school with Jose, she called her neighbor, Irene Sanchez, to come to her home. Sanchez said they examined the back yard and found in the long grass a circular impression about 10 feet in diameter in which the grass in the middle was whirled up, and also observed the marks the aides had seen. The circle was easily visible from the window of the house next door, Gomez said, and added that her brother, who lives there, had seen it from that distance. The circle was still clearly visible when Mr. Cantu arrived home that evening from work, he said.

On Thursday afternoon, when Bill Vogel of Toppenish and David Akers of Seattle, who is affiliated with the Center for UFO Studies, visited the Cantu home, the perfectly shaped circle and "footsteps" were still discernible. Akers examined the area with a Geiger counter and got no reaction.

On Saturday when this reporter visited the Cantu home only one set of "foot" marks could still be seen and only a faint trace of the circle remained.

Because the Cantu family is more at home with the Spanish language, this reporter took along a skeptical translator. After he questioned Jose, who answered his questions seriously and respectfully but asked to be allowed to return to his play, the skeptic concluded that "I believe he saw what he said he saw."

Vogel said he and Akers thought that Jose had "definitely" had an experience with a UFO.

If Jose did, he is in good company.

Barbara Brost, co-owner with her husband Earl of the Huba Huba Cafe in Toppenish, had a similar experience 20 years ago in southern Idaho on a ranch east of Blackfoot.

On a summer morning about 6 a.m. Barbara and her uncle were saddling horses and, as they left the barn by a rear door, they spotted an object "greyish white and as big as a boxcar" about half a mile away. Stunned, they watched it for about a minute. Barbara's aunt and Earl rushed from the house when the two called to them, but Earl was too late to see the cigar-shaped object which seemed to lift from the ground with a noise "like the transference of air," Barbara said. It disappeared so rapidly she couldn't tell which way it went, she said.

"When I see those rockets lift off now, on t.v., I just say to myself 'this thing was something else!'"

Another Toppenish resident, a man who prefers not to be identified, made a similar sighting eight years ago over a cornfield in Toppenish. The object that he, his wife, son and daughter saw from a distance of a quarter of a mile or less from their home was "not large. It was huge."

When asked to equate it to the size of a boxcar, he estimated it would be the length of three such train cars. He has described the object, which was off the ground and periodically beaming a light so brilliant that he was unable to look at it without squinting, to a Boeing employee who did his best to convince him that he had not seen the object and, if he had, that it was a helicopter. "I know what I saw," was his answer to that.

At the time he had a loaded Polaroid camera in his home but didn't even think of it, he said. The incident raised the "hair on the back of my neck," he said.

A more recent sighting happened in the late fall of 1958 or 1959, about 9 p.m. when Toppenish resident Ron Gardner was living in a rural area.

Gardner was about 14 years old at the time. He said he was watching television in the family's long and narrow living room with his back to a picture window in the room. A brilliant, bluish-violet light filled the room, he said. At first he thought it was "an electric arc light."

Turning to the window he saw the yard bathed in the purplish light and an object passing about 10 feet from the window.

The object, he said, was off the ground about three feet, was about seven feet high "tapering to real thin at the bottom," was engulfed in the light and the last four foot of "whatever it was" was disappearing behind a building.

Gardner said his father accused him of watching too many Flash Gordon pictures and he never talked about it very much to anyone but "I know what I saw and I've never seen anything like it since."

Vogel, who seems to be the man in Toppenish to whom all the UFO reports are given, said that there has been many reports of brilliant lights over the Harrah area in the past six to eight months.

He said reports of a bright light over Harrah were made by many CBers the Tuesday night before Jose Cantu claimed to have seen the men and crafts.

A bright light has also been spotted over Toppenish Ridge by Mrs. Stan Johnson of Toppenish, who was Toppenish's Woman of the Year three years ago. She shared the experience with a friend, Judi Farquharson of Toppenish. They reported the lights to the Toppenish Police, who notified Vogel, who watched the light until it disappeared over Union Gap.

The Johnsons, who are area farmers, have seen the light often  and are still trying to explain how three holes, about four feet deep and six feet wide, appeared all in a row in a field in which they were growing sugar beets just south of Harrah.

Those who have seen the lights and mysterious objects all agree that they "know what they saw" but they aren't betting on convincing anyone else of it.

Carl Higdon Abduction, 1974

The 'Big' Question

 

"So why don't they land and make open contact?"

I wouldn't.

Look at the number of incidents in which an object lands and entities are seen and the human reaction? Get the gun and start blasting away. Just an object in close proximity -shoot at it.

Humans are destroying their own planet willingly for gain or simply because they do not care. Polluting land, sea and air as well as killing species to the point of or into extinction without caring. Hit an animal on the road and drive on -so what. Hundreds of thousands of animals and birds killed that way every year on roads. Many thousands of animals killed simply for 'fun'.

Thousands a week killed in some conflicts and what does the collective world do? Nothing other than just watch or spout a few words for publicity. Slaughtering babies, children, women, men and anything else DAILY.

Believe me I might try the odd landing for some necessary reason but would I want to have open contact with humans or allow them to start a war over who gets to steal the alien tech first? Would I want humans in space contaminating it?

There are no Captain Kirk or Captain Piccard speeches about how humans have so much potential and that we are "getting there" -that is pure fantasy because humans have killed since before they found they could dress in animal hides and they continue to kill because they like to.

No, I can see no reason for any alien civilisation to do anything but observe.

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Planetary Life May Be Common also Intelligent Life -So Why Are UFO Reports Still Mocked?

 One has to ask why, if it is far more likely that there is intelligent life in the universe -something many scientists who do not suffer Fear of Alien Reality (FAR) syndrome are now claiming- are reports of UFOs ignored openly or laughed at?

I would like a genuine and open conversation with these scientists to ask why they are ruling out testimony from people in all walks of life including scientists?

The Independent Story by Andrew Griffin

Life might be much more likely than we realised, scientists say – and it could help us find aliens

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/life-might-be-much-more-likely-than-we-realised-scientists-say-and-it-could-help-us-find-aliens/ar-AA1zedI0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b2a65c10e2cf4db1dd656001c804aa11&ei=76

Life on Earth might be a lot less unusual than we thought, according to a new study.

For decades, researchers have believed in the “hard steps” theory of life, which suggests that we needed to go through a whole set of very unlikely events to get to the intelligent life that surrounds us today.

But the new study suggests it was not that unlikely or hard in the first place. In fact, it might have been relatively straightforward.

If so, that has important effects for life throughout the universe. It suggests that life might have been likely to form elsewhere, too – and that alien life could be waiting in more places than we thought.

The “hard steps” theory had suggested that life was probably rare: it would need a whole host of things to go right to begin.

“This is a significant shift in how we think about the history of life,” said Jennifer Macalady, professor of geosciences at Penn State and co-author on the paper. “It suggests that the evolution of complex life may be less about luck and more about the interplay between life and its environment, opening up exciting new avenues of research in our quest to understand our origins and our place in the universe.”

In contrast with the traditional view, researchers suggest that life formed when it was able to because of the global environment. It might be a relatively predictable process that happens as the planet goes on, the researchers suggest.

“We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist,” said Mills, who worked in Professor Macalady’s astrobiology lab at Penn State, in a statement. “Humans didn't evolve ‘early’ or ‘late’ in Earth’s history, but ‘on time,’ when the conditions were in place. Perhaps it’s only a matter of time, and maybe other planets are able to achieve these conditions more rapidly than Earth did, while other planets might take even longer.”

The researchers behind the new study propose a number of ways to test their belief. That includes looking for other planets and understanding whether those supposed hard steps are unique to our planet, for instance – or even looking at our own planet, to see whether they might have happened more than once here.

The work is described in a paper, ‘A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life’, published in the journal Science Advances.

Proximity Volume 1

 

John Hanson and Shirley Edwards

 236pp

Paperback

Black and White/ colour images profusely illustrated

£18.22

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The UFO books by John Hanson delves into the historical and paranormal aspects of the topic, published by Haunted Skies. The paperback books offer an intriguing narrative in English, focusing on real-life stories and encounters related to UFO sightings and alien phenomena. Perfect for those interested in the mysteries of the unknown, this book series explores the fascinating world of non-fiction storytelling in the genre of the paranormal.

Very few UFO books impress me these days as they are usually the same old-same old and usually leave me asking why I spent my valuable money on them.  There are the exceptions such as John Hanson's Haunted Skies UFO Encyclopedia series which is not as boring as "encyclopedia" may make it seem. Those are thoroughly researched books and many cases often left "hanging" have been looked into revealing factors that previous Ufologists never asked about or bothered with.

It cost me a fair amount but I at least have a full set of HS and every single volume is full of post-it notes and the more post-it notes shows how valuable a reference a book can be.  Having specialised in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity reports since 1974 I have to admit that Haunted Skies as a series turned up a good few UK reports that I had never heard of -because they were reported to and investigated by Hanson.

HS as a series does not just focus on the UK as anyone who has ever read a volume will know. The in depth work on the Rendlesham Forest Incident  -The Halt Perspective for instance are valuable sources for serious researchers.

So what does Proximity Volume 1 have going for it?  Firstly, it brings together some of the best cases from the HS series (which are hard to come by volumes now).  There is a look at some of the personalities involved in Ufology from J Allen Hynek, Trevor James Constable, Dr Condon, the now sadly forgotten Arthur Constance and many others including astronauts.  There is a look at UFO Disclosure but the main "meat" of the bookare the actual witness/percipient accounts.

There are reports beginning in 1870, through the early 1900s and 1920s through to the 1960s; everything from missing time incidents to recalled abductions and close proximity sightings that caused physiological effects in the observers. There are the claims of sightings and then threats and intimidation of observers to keep them quiet. Enough is presented here to make you ask "What is going on?"

But there is more. There are features within the book such as a large section on the Betty and Barney Hill case and one asking whether Morris K Jessup was murdered for getting too close to the truth.  There is a look at the claims of George Adamski and correlations from other UFO reports. One thing that stands out are the stories of the people who became involved in Ufology and how they set up groups or investigated personally reports as they came in (such as Gavin Gibbons who looked into the 1954 Jessie Roestenberg CE3).

The volume is not just a boring citation of report after report but fills in many things that people want to know such as "Who was this person? Were they a loony?" or even "Has anyone else ever reported what that person saw or says happened to them?" You will find those questions answered where ever possible in this book -Shirley Edwards adding notes where necessary.  And on top of everything else the book is full of photographs and illustrations many of which have not seen print before -some in colour and some in black and white. The last chapter of the book looks at some cases from the 1970s on that will no doubt get fuller treatment in the next volume.

If you are looking for a book that genuinely looks at the phenomena involved then this has to be it whether you are just curious or trying to learn more to become active in Ufology. The book is highly recommended.

Note: John is also interviewed and looks at his work on the Haunted Skies Project here: https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2024/09/john-hanson-haunted-skies-and-british.html

You Look At The UFOs and I'll Stick With The Entities

 

There is a reason why I stepped away from simple UFO reports and it has become a greater problem in the last 20 years.  

Online reporting.

Or, more accurately, anonymous online reporting. MUFON and other groups allow this "to get to the truth. About a year ago I did what these organisations do not do: I fact checked reports. I know, how naughty of me.

Firstly, in one case an alleged witness could not have observed a "UFO formation" fly over hills to the West of where he claimed to have been standing because west is out over the sea but the fella checked a compass.  Out of a selected twenty reports made anonymously online njot one managed to get through a basic fact check.  I found the UK MUFON rep had scored 100 out of 100 UFO reports as "unidentified". There were obvious aircraft, a satellite and so on. Those reports if they ever get tallied up will 'prove' massive UFO activity.

Claims of alien abduction were accepted yet some were almost quoting from a specific source. Of course, anonymous with no contact details (in two cases the emails didn't exist who can tell hoaxer from someone with a psychological condition or a genuine percipient? But this all gets taken by the organisations and added to the mess they make - look at Stoner and Marsden's book The Abduction Files: a debunkers delight!

https://terryhooper.blogspot.com/2019/11/review-alien-abduction-files-just.html

If I went online and reported encountering a UFO and an entity that was 7 feet tall, had four arms and spindly legs and looked like a giant carrot and I get friends to report a UFO at the same time  -that is in the data base. One supposes that no one really checks these reports because they cannot. 

With any work I have carried out I never accepted an anonymous report because if the person(s) contacting me felt it that important then they give their names. Incidentally, in 50 years no one who requested anonymity has ever been openly identified -unlike in Ufology where confidential information is sold on or given out to news media for the publicity and TV appearances. 

 If someone claims they were lifelong abductees and "it was the Greys" no one checks. Again; added to the data base because details match up (because all those details are online).

Faking a report of a UFO sighting is easier by far and does not take much imagination. A regular aircraft becomes a "mystery (possibly alien) drone" in a mass panic. In other cases the aircraft become "mysterious black triangular craft". In the old days when some actually did investigate reports LITS (Lights In The Sky) were low priority although I know of US investigators who spent a couple years looking into one such report -with no conclusion as a pin  point of light is a pin point of light. Daylight Discs (DD) -basically day time sightings of any object were more of a priority. A DD and physical traces was a priority. A CE3K..."We'll ignore that one".

Today the CGI/AI generated UFO fakes are going out daily on You Tube and blogs as well as Tik-Tok -views and money and 'celebrity' status are far more important than the truth.  And when we see the utter mess the US has become with whistle blower after whistle blower revealing nothing but making money from TV and fakery on a weekly basis and when caught out "I never checked the source" but another fake item iss on its way the next week and then next month and you have to ask how many times someone can be caught out lying before  people realise?

So I stick to the CE3K/AE reports. 

It's An Unusual Comet or Alien Probe -Which are you betting your money on?

 

Four Telescopes Confirm There's Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

Victor Tangermann

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/four-telescopes-confirm-theres-something-100023490.html

see also

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-object-headed-toward-mars-180524354.html

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By definition, scientists don't know what to expect as they inspect the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, since it's only the third object detected from beyond the solar system in human history.

But the surprises just keep coming. The mysterious entity, which was first spotted hurtling towards the Sun from far beyond in early July, has fascinated researchers ever since. As Science Alert points out, a quartet of powerful telescopes — NASA's Hubble, SPHEREx,  Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and James Webb Space Telescope — have now turned their powerful gazes to observe 3I/ATLAS.

And while there's a broad consensus among experts that the object is a comet — a small, icy body that releases gases as it passes by the Sun — the data tells a strikingly more nuanced story, making clear that the object is deeply strange in ways that will make it a topic of study and comparison for many years.

For one, SPHEREx and James Webb observations have both shown that its coma, which a large atmosphere of gas and dust that surrounds a comet's nucleus, bears a much higher proportion of carbon dioxide gas than expected. In fact, scientists found it to have the highest carbon dioxide to water ratio ever observed in a comet.

TESS, which had technically already spotted the object months ahead of its July discovery that were later found in its archived observations, showed the object was already bright and active when it was six astronomical units from the Sun, well past the orbit of Jupiter, far more distant to be showing activity than most comets.

NASA's Hubble revealed a "teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off of the comet's solid, icy nucleus," yet it "does not feature a distinct cometary tail," according to Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb (who has colorfully suggested that the object could have been sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization.)

The object's origins remain as elusive as ever. In a preprint paper, an international team of researchers posited that 3I/ATLAS may contain "ices exposed to higher levels of radiation than Solar System comets," or it could've "formed close to the CO2 ice line in its parent protoplanetary disk."

For now, we'll have to be patient until the findings — as well as any future observations before it screams back out of the solar system's other side — undergo further analysis and peer review.

By the time the object makes its departure, it will have made relatively close flybys of Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. Loeb has proposed that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter should have a closer look, as the object comes within less than two million miles of the Red Planet.

And roughly five months later, NASA's Juno probe could intercept it as it approaches Jupiter. Perhaps then, we could finally get a better sense of its peculiar nature.