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  1. Paul_Exeter

    The Schoolboy & The UFO That Melted, Wykin (1979)

    A true high-strangeness account: http://luforsarchive.awardspace.co.uk/page_2.html Don't think I had heard of this case before, a classic Oz Factor case and so I wonder if Jenny Randles ever wrote about it?
  2. ramonmercado

    UFO Sightings: Public Attention, Economics & Class

    It's the economy stupid! December 19, 2024 Editors' notes How UFO sightings can help measure public attention and economic patterns by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, unveils a novel...
  3. Paul_Exeter

    Professor Jeffrey J Kripal: ‘Thinking About A UFO As Some Kind Of Extraterrestrial Spaceship Is Naïve

    We often find ourselves speculating if some - if not most - high strangeness Fortean experience are all in the mind, perhaps not What I’m trying to say in the book is that a lot of people have these strange experiences, but nobody really has a model of the imagination that can explain them. I’m...
  4. sherbetbizarre

    Documentary: The King Of UFOs

    Now streaming on Amazon Prime: Prince Philip was ‘meant to meet an alien called Janus in a Chelsea flat’ https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/12/prince-philip-meant-meet-alien-called-janus-a-flat-21592325/
  5. maximus otter

    Police Across US Given New UFO Handbook As They Warn Craft 'Pose Significant Safety Risks'

    Police chiefs of America's largest cities have published the first guide about UAPs, which details chilling encounters and how officers can report such incidents. The 11-page document warned that unidentified flying objects 'pose significant safety risks to law enforcement air support units,'...
  6. A

    (Not) A UFO Sighting On The A68 To Edinburgh In 1994

    I used to live in Nottingham in the 1990s. But I come from a family of London shopfitters, a company that has roots in 18th century East End, London. Back then though, I was kind of drifting. Working temporary jobs or minicabbing etc, whilst attending free parties in Nottinghamshire and...
  7. Tanglebones

    The Perm Anomalous Zone: Russia's 'M-Triangle'

    Russian UFOs And Close Encounters Inside The M-Triangle BY DANIEL BRETT Until the late 1980s, any Soviet reporter who touched on the topic of Russian UFOs would immediately wind up in hot water with the hard-line Soviet government. When the Soviet Republic crumbled, the ban was removed, and...
  8. Paul_Exeter

    The 1987 Thieves' Wood, Nottingham UFO Crash

    Have to admit this was a new one on me: "The crash took place in Cookbury in Ashfield on the night of 12 November 1987. In the small hours of the morning, the peace was suddenly shattered when a “thunderball” came crashing through the houses. The windows of 13 houses were entirely blown out and...
  9. lordmongrove

    The Flying Saucer Cyclops

    The flying saucer cyclops
  10. taras

    West Lothian Man Spotted UFO Above Farm But Kept It Secret Until Now

    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/west-lothian-man-spotted-ufo-33414353 Sighting in 1974 on the road connecting Kirknewton and East Calder. "a brown metallic conical structure that was the size of a caravan floating around 100ft above his head and travelling silently towards...
  11. Paul_Exeter

    An Essay On The Oz Factor By Jenny Randles

    As Jenny is a past member of this forum I have taken the liberty of pasting the whole article: Essay on the Oz Factor and the Strange Sensations of Altered Reality Reported by UFO Witnesses By Jenny Randles Strangers in Oz One of the things I get asked the most is to explain why I came up...
  12. sherbetbizarre

    Jeff Simmonds 1974 Cigar-Shaped UFO Sighting

    A bit more than just a lights-in-the-sky sighting.
  13. taras

    UFO Exhibition At The Folklore Centre (Todmorden) Until 11 Aug

    Haven't been, just spotted it, on for another couple of weeks, might be worth a visit if you're in the area.
  14. Paul_Exeter

    Wycliffe Well: From Australia's UFO Capital To Abandoned Motel

    Not really a UFO story (although they saw strange lights in the sky) but I found this to be a fascinating tale of boom and bust: "Along the 3,000 kilometre highway that connects the northern and southern tip of Australia sits a site once deemed the nation's UFO capital. Now it resembles a...
  15. Paul_Exeter

    The Unsolved 1978 'Manta Ray' UFOs (UK)

    Cracking classic case form Jenny Randles: In 1978 there was a spate of unusual reports - many in the north Midlands - of what was often described by witnesses as resembling a ‘manta ray’ in the sky. We never resolved the cause. This one occurred on 28 November at 4 am. The witness was a...
  16. Lord Lucan

    Grant Cameron's UFO Archives Now Online

    Posted On Twitter/X by Isaac Koi @isaackoi Grant Cameron's UFO archives now online + Tests of "Grant" AI chatbot with 30,000+ pages With thanks to Grant Cameron, I have now uploaded over 1,400 searchable PDFs (containing over 30,000 pages of documentation) from Grant's UFO archives - which I...
  17. maximus otter

    UFOs & Nuclear Weapons: Aliens Are Trying To Stop Humanity Annihilating Itself

    A new, decades-long study has analyzed over 500 of the best supported UFO cases from the heights of the Cold War and hauntingly concluded: 'This intelligence understands atomics, and they understand atomic weaponry.' UFO reports over America's nuclear arsenal appeared to shift from sites where...
  18. BS3

    Tehran, September 1976

    I'm sure most of you will have heard of the UFO incident over Tehran in 1976 involving two F-4 jets. I'm sure a few will also have seen the interviews given by Gen. Pervez Jafari, who was pilot of the second F-4 that night. Some of the other people involved, such as the air traffic controller...
  19. Paul_Exeter

    Help with Haunted Skies 7 By Hanson & Holloway

    If you do, please could you look up the January 1978 Frodsham UFO case (teenage poachers, humanoids and cows) for me and see if the hoax scenario is mentioned? I'm asking as researcher David Sankey contacted Jenny Randles with his doubts on this case and was also involved in this book, providing...
  20. Sid Boggle

    A 'Classic' UFO Photo That I Can't Find

    Hello. Can anybody help with this? There is a photo that I'd like to see again but just cannot find. I must have seen it in a book several years ago. I'd say it was taken in probably the 1940s or 50s and shows some kind of UFO in the distance, whilst in the foreground - just in front of the...
  21. S

    Expedition X [Season 3, Episode 6]: Aliens Of The Deep

    Watched this interesting ("if factual") TV programme last night, was impressed in particular with the static video view of the night sky - which supposedly caught a UFO doing some crazy stuff above them. The main gist of this it was catching a supersonic craft flying above the waters off...
  22. Paul_Exeter

    The Scottish A70 UFO & Alleged Abductions Of Gary Wood & Colin Wright

    Have been meaning to post about the case for some time. In represents one of the last great British 20th Century UFO cases (sadly thus far the 21st Century has yet to provide with another such 'classic' multiple-witness UFO and abduction incident). This event took place on the night of 17th...
  23. taras

    Abbey Clancy: I Saw 3 UFOs On The A3

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/abbey-clancy-horrified-shes-stalked-32094562
  24. Spring Heeled Spud

    Huge Triangular UFO Over Seville

    Had a week in Seville (lovely city) and was reviewing photos on my phone when I saw this. Didn’t see anything at the time and it isn’t a reflection as we were sat outside. Must be some kind of lens flare but looks great
  25. Paul_Exeter

    Dan Aykroyd Describes ‘Spectacular, Gray UFO’ Just Feet From Hotel

    "The most spectacular one that I saw was bout 50 feet away from me and on the 23rd floor of a hotel in Montreal," he explained. "There were no lights at all, it was just a big, grey object that looked like a Macy's Day Parade balloon."...
  26. BS3

    Coastguard Sighting, Berry Head, Brixham, 28 April 1967

    Here's a sighting that made newspaper headlines at the time, but is now little remembered. However I think it might have some interesting implications. Around midday on 28 April 1967 a number of members of the public reported a bright, reflective object moving over Torbay. The sighting...
  27. Paul_Exeter

    BBC World Service 1996: UFO—Fact, Fiction, Or Fantasy?

    This is definitely worth a listen. Narrated by Anthony Grey, three 30 minute episodes feature Jenny Randles, John Mack, Stanton Friedman and many others: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p033f98v?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
  28. Paul_Exeter

    "My Dad Was A Famous Alien Abductee. I Thought He Was A Joke—Now I'm Not So Sure"

    A rather sad and thought-provoking read: "My father saw UFOs. Not one, once, like a dinner guest might claim after a few glasses of wine, but many times. Numerous UFOs all at once, up close, lingering in the western Wyoming sky like a nightmare that refused to dissipate come sunrise. In 1981...
  29. Paul_Exeter

    The 1991 Volga, Russia UFO Photos

    Two schoolboys took eleven photos of a UFO that landed near a small town on the Volga in Russia and the military conducted an investigation: Does anyone have anymore information on this case? The subtitles have spelt the town's name incorrectly.
  30. Paul_Exeter

    Free PDF: The Reliability Of UFO Witnesses (57 Chapters!)

    Major new work featuring a re-analysis of Pascagoula, Cash-Landrum, Betty and Barney Hill and more: "The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony is a new book edited by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Richard W. Heiden, "the first major book to comprehensively focus on the discussion and current...
  31. SimonBurchell

    NASA UFO Team Public Meeting

    Just posted on the BBC, currently live news feed: NASA UFO team holds public meeting ahead of report Is the truth out there? Do aliens exist? It’s a question that’s been asked by millions of people for thousands of years. Are we about to get a bit closer to the answer? Maybe. Last year Nasa...
  32. Paul_Exeter

    It's Time To Rethink Some Common Assumptions About UFOs

    Excellent article in my opinion: "Sightings of UFOs may challenge our entire worldview, but the facts are too compelling to ignore, and they’re not going away. So, it’s time to wash off the sticky stigma and engage in serious discussion about the evidence, and its implications. Most UFO...
  33. Comfortably Numb

    The 18 Oct 1973, Mansfield, Ohio, 'Coyne' Helicopter Case

    Although I can't locate an existing thread, please obviously redirect as necessary. I wondered if my recent musings on this case, might be of interest and any feedback would be most welcome. In summary, although familiar with the background, I have never studied it in any great depth, until...
  34. maximus otter

    Mystery Emerges As ‘UFO Is Spotted’ On The Other Side Of The Moon In Wild Video

    UNIDENTIFIED flying objects have been spotted floating near the moon in footage posted to TikTok. At least two white aircraft, one of which was notably smaller than the other, can apparently be seen in the video. Although one object remains static, another appears to disappear behind the...
  35. RaM

    Malmstrom Base Montana UFO Case

    A US Air Force captain has recalled a terrifying moment in which his nuclear base came "under attack from a UFO". He described how guards were left "frightened", "screaming" and "babbling" by the bizarre sighting, which has been covered up for more than 50 years. Robert Salas, a retired US Air...
  36. Herr Cloaca

    UFOs In Poland

    Why don’t UFOs come to Poland as much as they did in the last decades of the 20th century? How does folklore help expose contemporary conspiracy theories? We spoke about aliens in Polish culture, the explosion of paranormal phenomena around the time of the transformation, and urban legends with...
  37. BS3

    Fenny Compton Lights, Warwickshire, 1922-1923

    I've mentioned this one previously, but thought I would open a separate thread as I find this a particularly interesting set of 'sightings', sitting as it does in the grey area between ufology and other types of Fortean phenomena. Also it took place almost exactly a hundred years ago, around the...
  38. maximus otter

    Model In UFO Mystery As Bizarre Craft Flies Past Her Plane At 20,000’

    A MODEL has spurred a UFO probe as a bizarre craft was seen flying past her airplane at 20,000ft in crystal-clear footage. Valentina Rueda Velez from Colombia captured the moment the object zoomed past her cockpit window. Footage showed the plane flying in perfect conditions with blue skies...
  39. Paul_Exeter

    UK UFO Report 2022

    Lots of information presented here and can be downloaded as a PDF: https://ufoidentified.co.uk/ufo-report-2022 Alas, no CE3s reported :(
  40. Paul_Exeter

    Guardian (UK) Article On The Popularity Of UFO Podcasts

    "In the last five years, the number of podcasts investigating aliens, UFOs, the esoteric and the inexplicable has exploded on to the internet like a meteor shower" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/07/ufo-podcasts-thunderbeat-johnny-vaughan-high-strange-chinwag-paul-giamatti
  41. Paul_Exeter

    Noddle Hill UFO: Any Forum Members From Hull?

    If so, could you shed any light on this report? "Location: Hull (Yorkshire) - Noddle Hill Playing Fields Type: UFO Date / Time: 1992 Further Comments: At least four people watched a fast moving ball, around the size of a car, pass overhead. After the object moved away, the witnesses were left...
  42. Paul_Exeter

    Kevin Randle: Why We Should Continue To Investigate Old UFO Encounters

    Rendlesham was 43 years ago, the Calvine photo was taken back in the 90's, yet Kevin Randle argues that we should keep digging: "Several years ago, I learned about Rich Reynolds when he suggested it was time for we geezers to get out of the way and allow the youngsters to solve the mystery of...
  43. lordmongrove

    UFO Wave: A New UFOlogy Card Game

    UFO Wave, new UFO based card game.
  44. maximus otter

    Congressman Says Alien UFO Tech Is Being 'Reverse Engineered' in Secret

    Recovered UFO technology may be "being reverse-engineered right now," but we "don't understand" how it functions, according to a U.S. Representative. Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett told Newsweek that he believed "we have recovered a craft at some point, and possible beings." "I think that...
  45. MrRING

    Jimmy Carter Says Yes To UFOs

    I ran across this short then-contemporary article in Marvel Comic's one-shot UFO Connection magazine covering Jimmy Carter's UFO encounter that I thought some here might like to read.
  46. MrRING

    Scott Gearen UFO Images

    I was listening to the Obscurities podcast, hosted by b-movie queen Debbie Rochon, and came across her episode on Scott, who I hadn't heard of. https://www.debbierochon.com/obscurities-podcast This is the description of the episode: His first eperinece was as part of an elite paracute team in...
  47. Paul_Exeter

    Heather Dixon Of Bufora In The Guardian

    "Most UFOs – like the Chinese spy balloon – can be explained away. But what about the other 2%?" "As the head of national investigations for the British UFO Research Association (Bufora), I’m one of a team of people who investigate such sightings, which are sent to us by the public at a rate of...
  48. RaM

    UAPs Over North America (February 2023)

    The US are saying they have shot another object down over Alaska
  49. MrRING

    The UFO Chronicles: A.I. Created UFO 'Documentary'

    I'm not sure why they are calling it a documentary...
  50. Paul_Exeter

    Interview: Pilot David Hastings's Mojave UFO Photo [1985]

    Definitely one of the better photographic evidence cases:
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