Coast to Coast AM - Repeatability

 One thing that we all look for in the world of the UFO is some kind of repeatability. That means, simply, that people in other locations and other times report a craft that is similar those reported earlier. One of the problems in the UFO field is the wide variety of craft that are reported with very few cases in which a similar craft is seen somewhere else at some other time. An example of this are the photographs taken first in McMinnville, Oregon, in 1950 and later in Rouen, France in 1954. A similar object seen and photographed at widely separated locations.

The top photo is from McMinnville and the bottom from Rouen, France. I am
making no claims about the authenticity of either picture. I'm only pointing
out that the images are a match for one another.

Fran Ridge, of the NICAP website and the MADAR program, alerted me to a sighting that has some aspect of repeatability. He posted about a sighting he sent to the National UFO Reporting Center last year. According to him, on September 3, 2021, he, and 14 others were in The Poconos, when they watched a lighted object for five minutes.

According to his report, they were doing what he termed as a sky watch event in Blooming Grove Pennsylvania. At 9:44 p.m. two of them saw three lights slowly moving away from them around the Sterling, Pennsylvania area heading towards Scranton, Pennsylvania. They used high power binoculars to watch the craft. To the unaided eye it was three yellowish-pinkish lights in a row. The color reminded Fran Ridge of mercury vapor lights. The lights were about the size of a pencil eraser held at arm’s length. The lights were arranged in a horizontal pattern. When Fran and the others looked through the binoculars, they began to suspect they might be seeing the back of a craft that was very large. It moved very slowly and they watched it for about five minutes, until they lost sight of it behind the tree line. Fran said it was too slow to be an airplane.

What Fran found particularly odd was that through the binoculars, he could see that under the three yellow lights there were three tiny red lights that blinked randomly and not sequentially. One would blink once and then a second later another would blink. They thought they might be looking at the back of a large black triangle. He also noted that they didn’t take a photo of the UFO.

That was one sighting of a craft with a specific set of lights. The MUFON Case Management System, had a report from December 14, 2021, from a witness, in West Dundee, Illinois, who saw an object that Fran believed was similar to the one he had seen in September. Although there wasn’t a photograph, the drawing submitted by the witness looked like the object Fran and the others had seen.

There were two additional sightings made in Illinois, and all three took place in December, within a day or two of each other. All three were of triangular-shaped objects. Importantly, in the case from Macomb, Illinois, the witness made a video with a cell phone.

Fran posted a photograph of an object taken on the night of January 31, 2008 in Indiana. This too, reminded him of the object he had seen and it seemed to be related to the Illinois sightings as well.

Photograph supplied by Fran Ridge of an object that resembled the one he saw.

In all of the cases reported here, the object had a line of lights on what seemed to be the rear, and in all the cases, it seemed that the UFO was triangular shaped. This does suggest the note of repeatability that I mentioned earlier.

I’ll say here that the December Illinois sightings are part of the MUFON Case Management System and are still under investigation. If I find additional information about them, I’ll post it.

Coast to Coast AM - Christopher Mellon and Cigar Shaped UFO Sightings

 

Christopher Mellon, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton  and George W. Bush Administrations and a the Staff Director of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, published a long article about the Air Force lack of transparency in the current crop of UAP sightings.

Christopher Mellon

I mention this because, in his analysis, he failed to mention the deceit of the Condon Committee. That was the University of Colorado study, funded by the Air Force, in which the conclusions were written before the study was conducted. A letter from an Air Force officer told the Committee members what the conclusions were to be and those were the conclusions reached. This alleged scientific study is often cited by skeptics as evidence that there is no alien visitation. This is why I’m somewhat critical of the renewed efforts to resolve the UFO situation. You can see the Hippler letter here:

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2007/03/hippler-letter.html

And you can read the entire Mellon article here:

https://thedebrief.org/why-is-the-air-force-awol-on-the-uap-issue/

There is another aspect to this that worries me and it had to do with a quote from Mellon. Leslie Kean reported Mellon said:

I highly doubt DoD or any other government agency is concealing UFO information. I participated in a comprehensive review of DoD's black programs and spent over a decade conducting oversight of the national foreign intelligence program, an almost totally separate world of secrets. I visited Area 51 and other military, intelligence and research facilities. During all those years, I never detected the faintest hint of government interest or involvement in UFOs. ... While a few new, previously overlooked documents might turn up (the bureaucracy is never perfect), I do not believe they would resolve the UFO issue or provide significant new insights. I can think of one lengthy UFO report that is classified only due to concerns over sources and methods. In fact, it identified a convincing conventional explanation for the pilot sightings in this particular case. There are lots of classified documents related to activities at Area 51, where high security is needed. But this is all legitimate stuff the American people would support. They have nothing to do with UFOs, to the best of my knowledge.

While I understand that people can modify an opinion based on new and additional information, it is disturbing to read that Mellon said he was involved in reviewing black projects and found the least interest in UFOs by the government. This statement is inaccurate because government interest in UFOs transcended the end of the Condon Committee, transcended the end of Project Blue Book and survived the compromise of Moon Dust. In other words, those of us on the outside of these inner government circles can point to government interest. And I haven’t even mentioned the poor explanations for some very puzzling cases.

Since you asked, I will point to the Levelland sightings of November 1957. No matter what you think about alien visitation, you must admit that ball lightning does not explain the stalling of car engines over a period of two hours and at multiple locations. I just published a comprehensive look at the Levelland sightings.

All this does suggest the latest trend in the UFO field, which is a renewed, official interest in UFOs, even if we can see the government playing fast and loose with the facts. How else to explain the continual delay in providing the proper and accurate information to Congress and to those of us outside of Washington, D.C.

 Another trend is the  increased sightings of cigar-shaped craft, many of them reported to MUFON. On December 12, 2021, the witness, in Titlow Hill, California, saw a dark object with a cigar shape. It moved at a constant speed and made no noise. The witness watched the UFO through a finder scope attached to a larger telescope. He said that the UFO was barely visible against a very dark gray sky. There was a pair of lights on the front end, one on the nose and the other lower on the leading edge. There was a line of rectangular lights along the center of the craft.

He watched as the object changed direction and moved closer. It then disappeared behind a tree line to the east. When the object disappeared, he grabbed his binoculars. He did run across the road in an attempt to spot the object again, but it was gone.

Also on December 12, of last year, the witness, in Rancho Mirage, California, saw several lights moving slowly. The craft was cigar shaped. It moved from south to north and then seemed to dissolve. There were no clouds where it disappeared and he could see stars in the area. He spotted several private planes but they were not flying as high as the UFO. Instead, it seemed to be at the same level as commercial aircraft, and was about the size of four of them put together. He did say that he had seen the Star Link Satellites before and that this was nothing like that.

On December 3, the witness, on the way to his girlfriend’s house in Chesterfield, Virginia, spotted something strange off to the left. He thought it might be a reflection or some other rather mundane object but then realized this was a massive craft. He said that it was cigar shaped, seemed somewhat bulky, and that it had a large light that looked like windows that were sectioned off.

Finally, on December 3, 2021, the witness saw a distant object hover for about twenty minutes. It flashed two red lights and one gold light sequentially and it had two other white lights on it. The UFO moved slowly to the north and then did a circular loop. He said that it was big and cigar like. He said that hovered after the loop and then sped away.

As I say, each of the sightings lasted much more than a minute and several of them were accompanied with video, which was reported to MUFON and are now part of their Case Management System.

There is one additional case to be mentioned because there is some interesting video that goes with it. This was an object reported over Norway. It might be returning space debris, and at one point, the first video goes out of focus so that the object looks like a fuzzy orb. I mention this case, only because of the videos that go with it. You can see the video here:

https://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2022/02/really-fast-ufo-sighting-over-northern-parts-of-norway-2022-norwegian-mainstream-medias-reports.html 

As always, I’ll keep my eyes open and if there is additional information about any of the cases mentioned here, I’ll publish it as well.