UFO SIGHTINGS: An Encounter On The Dark Side Of The Moon - "UFO" Spotted Soaring Above The Lunar Surface; Scientists, Astronauts And YouTube Users Report Strange Sightings?!

January 17, 2013 - THE MOON - People claim to videotape UFOs in the sky above Earth. They also spot unusual-looking objects in NASA camera feeds at the International Space Station. Now, a growing number of individuals insist they're using their telescopes and cameras to reveal UFOs around the moon, according to the International Business Times.

This image reportedly shows a group of UFOs heading from space toward the moon.

Many odd things have been seen by amateur and professional astronomers on the moon over decades, and YouTube affords the opportunity to look at alleged UFOs flying across, toward and away from our nearest astronomical neighbor. Part of the problem with most videos like these is the lack of specific, helpful information to accompany the visual "evidence," so it's difficult to know what's real and what was created from a clever software app. But, lunar anomalies are not new phenomena. They've been reported by astronomers going back to the 1700s. Strange things seen by the scientists of centuries past included mysterious bright lights or glowing spots on the moon. In 1869, Great Britain's Royal Astronomical Society conducted a study of unusual moving lights.

WATCH: Lights moving rapidly, slowly and changing directions - Jan. 2013.

After numerous observations of this activity, the lights just turned off. On July 29, 1953, New York Herald Tribune science editor John J. O'Neill noticed, through his telescope, a huge bridge-like object spanning 12 miles in the lunar area known as Mare Crisium. Other observers, including Hugh Percy Wilkins of the British Astronomical Association, confirmed O'Neill's sighting on the lunar surface. The object that became known as O'Neill's Bridge, was eventually thought to be nothing more than a combination of lights and shadows. The history of the Apollo flights to the moon in the late 1960s into the 1970s included countless tabloid stories of supposed UFO encounters experienced by the astronauts. - Huffington Post.

WATCH: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin describes a UFO that accompanied them en route to the moon in 1969.

UFO SIGHTINGS: Strange Objects Seen Flying Near The International Space Station?!

January 14, 2013 - SPACE - As 2012 ended and 2013 began, numerous UFOs were reported around the country -- nothing earth-shattering there -- but what about alleged unidentified objects seen in space near the International Space Station (or ISS), a couple of hundred miles above Earth? 

This composite image shows four different times that alleged UFO were photographed above Earth by either space shuttles or the International Space Station. The big question is whether or not they are truly unidentified objects or if they are more likely reflections from spacecraft windows, meteors or fast-moving spacecraft-generated debris.

Videos have cropped up on YouTube showing images taken by NASA cameras of objects of different shapes, some moving very slowly, others rapidly hurtling through space.  What, exactly, are we looking at here? Alien spacecraft dropping by for a visit with the ISS? Reflections from ISS windows? Meteors? Or various types of orbiting or fast moving spacecraft-generated debris?  On Christmas Day, YouTube poster Streetcap1 recorded video of a silvery object, moving slowly near the curvature of Earth. At :46 into the following video, the object can be seen in faraway perspective.

WATCH: Silver UFO near the ISS.

Streetcap1 also recorded the following two objects -- one circular, the other disc-shaped -- outside the ISS on New Year's Day. Could it be a mere window reflection?

WATCH: Objects seen by ISS from the outside camera.

"Spacecraft-generated 'dandruff' has been seen since the very first human spaceflights, when the non-intuitive relative motions and impossible-to-judge distances in the earthly environment of outer space tricked observers into misinterpreting visual stimuli," according to James Oberg, a former space engineer who specialized in NASA space shuttle operations and is currently the NBC News Space Consultant.  "It shouldn't be surprising that only half a century later, most folks watching YouTube videos are still totally flummoxed by what they understandably and excusably can't comprehend," Oberg told The Huffington Post in an email.  Oberg doesn't give much credence to any speculation that unidentified flying objects near the ISS originate from an alien civilization. But he also feels it's important for people to keep looking at camera feeds which may result in visual information that can help prevent potential technical problems for the ISS.  "It's good to keep scanning space video for possible anomalies and reporting them quickly," Oberg said. "The reason is, there is always a real chance that it could be a genuine anomaly, either a spacecraft malfunction or other threat, expected or unexpected. In the past, missions have failed because a clue that should have been seen out the window was overlooked." - Huffington Post.

WATCH: Here's a compilation of alleged UFOs flying around Earth as seen from space and posted by YouTube user danielofdoriaa.

UFO SIGHTINGS: UFO Mystery Talk Of The Town In Amherst, Massachusetts?!

January 13, 2013 - UNITED STATES - A "flying saucer," signs of extraterrestrial life, or an unidentified flying object; whatever you call it, some people in Amherst say they saw it.

Witnesses told the Daily Hampshire Gazette that on Tuesday night, an object the size of two or three cars was seen hovering over Belchertown Road in Amherst.  One woman said that it wasn't far from her car.
The unusual news was all the talk at the Black Sheep Deli on Main Street Thursday.

“If people saw something, they saw something. But I don't believe that an object in the sky was necessarily or was at all alien,” Amy Ware of Sunderland said. “I believe in it, because we are such a speck in the universe,” said Juliet Rose of Bernardston. “Who are we to think that we are the only ones?”

Police say they did receive one call, but didn't investigate. Westover Air Reserve Base has a radar tower in Amherst, they told the Gazette radars didn't pick up any aircrafts in the area at that time. - WWLP.

WATCH: Eye-witness report of the UFO.

UFO SIGHTINGS: Mysterious Lights Reported In Skies Over Yankton Area, South Dakota?!

January 10, 2013 - UNITED STATES - A resident just west of Yankton claims he has seen unexplained lights in the sky on multiple recent nights.  A male resident along Rainbow Street in Riverside Acres reported to the Yankton County Sheriff’s Office at 8:40 p.m. Friday that he had observed an unknown object in the sky.  Sheriff Jim Vlahakis said two of his deputies subsequently observed the light and believed it to be a satellite or, more likely, an airplane due to the flashing red light common on all aircraft.  A message was left by the Press & Dakotan at the residence of the individual who reported the light, but it was not returned by press time.  According to Jim Klancnik, the state director for the Mutual UFO Network, Inc. (MUFON) who resides in Spearfish Canyon, the same individual submitted a report to the organization’s public UFO case files Sunday. MUFON is a Greeley, Colo.-based organization dedicated to the study of unexplained flying objects.  In the report, the man said he was outside around 10:15 p.m. Jan. 3 when he noticed what looked like police lights in the sky to the south of his location.

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 “The part of the sky I was looking at is a pretty busy flight path,” the report states. “On any day at any time of the day, I see planes and, especially, helicopters flying by, usually flying (northeast). This was definitely not a plane or helicopter.”  While watching the light, the man said a smaller object appeared to fly out of and away from it in parabolic curve toward the ground.  “As soon as object #2 disappeared behind background trees and houses I heard a herd of cows about a mile away freak out briefly,” the report reads. “Nothing really happened; no cows were harmed and the diving craft didn’t crash.”  Looking around, he said about four more similar lights were observed.  On Friday night, the man said he saw about six of them. Approximately 11 lights were spotted around 1 a.m. Saturday night.  As the report was being written around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, the witness said they were directly overhead.  “I can see the shape of it (maybe triangle or stealth fighter shape),” he states.

“There are no military bases around here or anything else that should bring so much aircraft other than the usual traffic of private planes, crop duster planes and medical helicopters.”  The sheriff’s office has received no other reports of strange aerial activity.  MUFON allows photos to be attached to the reports but none were submitted.  Klancnik said it’s not the first instance of a possible UFO sighting in the region in recent times.  “I’ve had about six different reports within 100 miles of Yankton of a lot of different UFO sightings,” he stated. “Most of them have to do with orange lights.”  For example, a witness reported May 17 of last year that two sets of orange orbs were spotted in the sky at Pickstown.  “They appeared only for a few seconds then disappeared,” the Pickstown report states. “I tried to get the images on my camera and it was unsuccessful. (Fifteen minutes) later a squadron of jet fighters circled the area and looked like they were sweeping the area around the (site). At first, we thought it was military training activities with flares. The more I thought about it, flares don’t stay stationary. Or do they?”  Klancnik said he planned to conduct an interview with the witness in Yankton. During his investigation process, he attempts to gauge the reliability of the individual to make sure they aren’t just making up a story.  “For all of the reports we receive, 98 percent of them are explainable,” Klancnik added. “About 2 percent are not, and that’s the stuff that makes us wonder.”  You can follow Nathan Johnson on Twitter at twitter.com/AnInlandVoyage. - Press & Dakotan.

FRINGE: Reality Mirrors Fiction - Pentagon Working on UFO-Style Airship For "Stealthy Cargo Missions"?!

January 08, 2013 - UNITED STATES - The sci-fi TV show Fringe often shows us an alternate, more technologically advanced version of Earth where airships are, for some reason, the norm. Now reality is mirroring fiction as a new project being developed in conjunction with the Pentagon is looking to bring airships back from their spotty past and into the future.

Developed by Aeroscraft, the 230-foot-long prototype airship called the Pelican is designed to lift up to 10 tons of cargo across long distances, using a fraction of the fuel needed by an airplane. The airship, which, interestingly, looks a lot like a flying saucer, has been in the works for several years under the guidance of the Pentagon's Rapid Reaction Technology Office. In addition to cargo missions, the Pentagon also envisions the airship as a potential tool for surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

The current prototype is much smaller than the final version of the airship the company plans to build which will be 450-feet long and have the ability to carry up to 66 tons of cargo. You can see footage of the Pelican being tested, as well as a presentation video depicting military uses for the airship in the videos below. - DVICE.

WATCH: Aeroscraft Defense video.

WATCH: Aeroscraft moving.

HIGH STRANGENESS: Weird Happenings In Argentina - Cattle Mutilations and Loud Fireball Explosion In Santiago del Estero, And Strange Lights Over Carlos Paz?!

January 07, 2013 - ARGENTINA - Strange deaths were a reason for surprise and uncertainty for a family of small livestock producers in Estancia El Retiro, located some 14 kilometers to the northeast of Frías.

Cattle Mutilations Return to Santiago del Estero, Argentina.

The bones were found last Saturday by Raul Alberto Aguilera, one of the members of the family, at a small dry dam that is completely enclosed. EL LIBERAL visited the site yesterday afternoon, acting as the only news outlet in charge of documenting this strange event.  "On Thursday of last week, we left the animals in the dam because it still had a little water in it. When we went back on Saturday, we found their carcasses spread all over the place," said Raul. "What was strange was the absence of decomposing bodies, and all of their soft parts had been eating. No tracks of pumas or other predators who could've attacked the sheep were found in the area."  Only one animal is missing: a lamb. Locals say this is the first time such a thing has taken place in the area. For the moment, beyond the strangeness of the event, the event is not being ascribed to any particular real or mythical animal. Rather, they prefer to be cautious, endeavoring to determine the reasons behind what took place.

Yesterday morning, EL LIBERAL contacted Dr. Benancio Bonett, an experienced veterinarian residing in Frías for many years, offered his view from the scientific perspective. "First and foremost, a necropsy should have been performed the moment the animals were found. Secondly, if the only existing injury in in the throat, generally all predators chose that spot and particularly on lambs, because they are very helpless animals," he explained, adding: "When a perforation appears on the animals, vultures or crows devour their entrails and do it through that spot, getting inside and dragging off the soft parts, and leaving the skeleton with nothing but hide." He event went as far to suggest the possibility that these attacks were produced by dogs, since one of their traits is biting the throat. - Inexplicata.

Fireball And Explosion In The Skies Over Santiago del Estero.

The quiet of the morning was broken yesterday by a loud noise and explosion that was heard over a wide area of ​​the Alberdi department.

Some witnesses said that, previously, a fireball had streaked across the sky in a west to east direction. It is believed that it could have been a meteorite falling. - El Liberal [Translated].

Strange Light Over Carlos Paz.

Carlos Paz Vivo! (website) gained access to two videos taken onn 7 December 2012 from a residence in Barrio Becú. See images HERE. After 8:00 p.m. on that day, a woman and some children in a house of that neighborhood of western Carlos Paz saw a strange light in the sky at dusk.  They turned on their little camera and recorded two videos, one separated from the other by a few seconds difference. The first was recorded at 20:10:22 hours and the other at 20:11:32  A total of 82 seconds were recorded, showing the strange object that moves, appears and vanishes suddenly in the sky over the town of Carlos Paz. During the recording, one can hear the childrens' vocies, inquiring about the nature of the object they can see in the sky. - Inexplicata.

MASS UFO SIGHTINGS: The Symbols of an Alien Sky, Man-Made or Natural Phenomena - The Latest UFO Sightings And Aerial Anomalies Around the World?

January 06, 2013 - WORLDWIDE UFOs - Here are several of the latest unidentified flying objects (UFOs) seen recently across the globe.

Texas, United States - 30th of December, 2012.

Cardwell, Queensland, Australia - 2nd of January, 2013.

Melbourne, Australia - 4th of January, 2013.

The Sun - 5th of January, 2013.

Johannesburg, South Africa - 5th of January, 2013.

International Space Station - 1st of January, 2013.

MASS UFO SIGHTINGS: Orange Orbs Light Formation Cause UFO Buzz In South Africa?!

January 04, 2013 - SOUTH AFRICA - Reports of orange unidentified flying objects (UFOs) seen over parts of Centurion on Monday night have been flooding into the Pretoria News.  While celebrating the start of the new year and looking to the night sky, some city residents did not see fireworks but a display of another kind.  Centurion resident Louise Schoeman said she saw the first orange orbs at about 8pm, followed by dozens more through the course of the evening.

"The lights appeared in formations of two or three at a time. They glowed orange but did not twinkle or flash," she said.  "They appeared to be moving quite quickly, from the north, east and west, and would travel for a few minutes and then disappear. They were not conventional aircraft, they moved in a linear fashion and were definitely not fireworks.  "We watched one that stopped in mid-air, turned white and appeared to stay in the same spot for approximately an hour. It did not twinkle like a star. The object was gone when we looked again at 1am."  Another city resident asked: "Did the Mayans perhaps get the date wrong?" 

Twitter and Facebook were abuzz with reports of similar sightings locally - including Johannesburg and Durban - and internationally.  - UFO sighting in Elk Grove, California, on January 1, 2013 - four red-orange lights - Akashar Kentaloon  - Orange UFOs over New Port Richey, Florida. Burning orange pulsating lights moving erratically, hovering, disappearing - ufostalker.com  - happy new years everyone seen #orangelights in the sky tonight kinda freaky - Anna Peters  - Did anyone else see three consecutive orange lights in the sky? Flying too high to be planes or helicopters. Woah. Insane. - Rachael Cantu  - These 5 orange lights directly up in the sky moving around and shining then dissapearing and yes i am sober! - nuuch'  Is there a logical explanation? Were they simply Chinese lanterns or flares? Or perhaps the result of one too many festive beverages?  You be the judge. Please let us know if you saw this strange phenomenon. - IOL News.

MASS UFO SIGHTINGS: UFO Alert in Cardwell, North Queensland - Silent Lights Phenomenon Hover Over Town?!

January 03, 2013 - AUSTRALIA - A tiny town in north Queensland is on full UFO alert following sightings of strange lights in the night sky. Cardwell businessman Greg Smith said he and his son watched the lights for 15 minutes and are convinced that what they saw was some sort of UFO.

"This was a couple of months ago. I used to be the world's biggest sceptic about this stuff, but I'll tell you what, this really rattled me and my son,'' he told The Townsville Bulletin. Mr Smith said they watched the lights from the front of the Lyndoch Motel on the highway towards the northern end of the town. "There were two large orange lights. There was no beam and no noise. It was absolutely silent and they were moving slowly across the sky towards the north-west. We couldn't tell if the lights were from one or two machines. At first we thought they were over buildings between the highway and the beach, but other people said they were just out over the water,'' he said.

Mr Smith said he thought it must have been one or two helicopters, but discounted the possibility due to the fact there was no noise. Another Cardwell resident, Phil Mulley and his wife Helen saw the lights on two consecutive nights. "We thought it was a chopper coming up the channel. We watched it for a few minutes and then it disappeared in cloud. The next night my sister rang me and said to look outside. I went and looked and there were two lights. We watched them for a while until they disappeared in cloud,'' he said. Mr Mulley said he knew of at least six or seven people who saw the lights. President of UFO Research Queensland Sheryl Gottschall said she could not say what the lights were, but added she had no qualms in saying there were extraterrestrials which visited earth from time to time. "I've been with this organisation for 25 years and in that time I've spoken to 3000 people who have seen strange lights and objects and to another 600 to 700 who have had close encounters,'' she said. - Courier Mail.

WATCH: Light phenomenon over Cardwell.

MASS UFO SIGHTINGS: The Symbols of an Alien Sky, Man-Made or Natural Phenomena - The Latest UFO Sightings And Aerial Anomalies Around the World?

January 03, 2013 - WORLDWIDE UFOs - Here are several of the latest unidentified flying objects (UFOs) seen recently across the globe.

Russia - 26th of December, 2012.

New York City, United States - 31st of December, 2012.

New York City, United States - 1st of January, 2013.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States - 1st of January, 2013.

International Space Station - 1st of January, 2013.

King's Lynn, United Kingdom - 1st of January, 2013.

Elsinore, California, United States - 2nd of January, 2013.

The Sun - 2nd of January, 2013.

CLASSIFIED REVELATIONS: Project Seal - U.S. And New Zealand Secretly Tested "Tsunami Bomb" Designed To Trigger Tidal Waves And Destroy Coastal Cities In World War II!

January 02, 2013 - NEW ZEALAND - The tests were carried out in waters around New Caledonia and Auckland during the Second World War and showed that the weapon was feasible and a series of 10 large offshore blasts could potentially create a 33-foot tsunami capable of inundating a small city.

Photo: ALAMY.

The top secret operation, code-named "Project Seal", tested the doomsday device as a possible rival to the nuclear bomb. About 3,700 bombs were exploded during the tests, first in New Caledonia and later at Whangaparaoa Peninsula, near Auckland. The plans came to light during research by a New Zealand author and film-maker, Ray Waru, who examined military files buried in the national archives. "Presumably if the atomic bomb had not worked as well as it did, we might have been tsunami-ing people," said Mr Waru. "It was absolutely astonishing. First that anyone would come up with the idea of developing a weapon of mass destruction based on a tsunami ... and also that New Zealand seems to have successfully developed it to the degree that it might have worked." The project was launched in June 1944 after a US naval officer, E A Gibson, noticed that blasting operations to clear coral reefs around Pacific islands sometimes produced a large wave, raising the possibility of creating a "tsunami bomb".

Mr Waru said the initial testing was positive but the project was eventually shelved in early 1945, though New Zealand authorities continued to produce reports on the experiments into the 1950s. Experts concluded that single explosions were not powerful enough and a successful tsunami bomb would require about 2 million kilograms of explosive arrayed in a line about five miles from shore. "If you put it in a James Bond movie it would be viewed as fantasy but it was a real thing," he said. "I only came across it because they were still vetting the report, so there it was sitting on somebody's desk [in the archives]." Forty years after the joint testing, New Zealand faced a dramatic breakdown in its security ties with the US after it banned the entry of nuclear-armed ships from entering its territory during the 1980s. The dispute led to the US downgrading its relationship with New Zealand from an "ally" to a "friend". In his new book Secrets and Treasures, Mr Waru reveals other unusual findings from the archives including Defence Department records of thousands of UFO sightings by members of the public, military personnel and commercial pilots. Some of the accounts of the moving lights in the sky include drawings of flying saucers, descriptions of aliens wearing "pharaoh masks" and alleged examples of extraterrestrial writing. - Telegraph.

EXOPOLITICAL DISCLOSURE: From UFOs To "Tsunami Bomb" - New Zealand's National Archives Reveal Lots Of Secrets!

January 01, 2013 - NEW ZEALAND - A new book has revealed rare historical gems buried in New Zealand's national archives, including a bizarre WWII plan to create a "tsunami bomb" and military files detailing supposed UFO sightings.  Author Ray Waru said he wrote "Secrets and Treasures" to highlight the material publicly available at Archives New Zealand in Wellington -- where almost 100 kilometres (62 miles) of shelf space is crammed with historical artefacts.  "It was totally overwhelming at the beginning," he told AFP.  "I knew I wanted to get in the important things, the Treaty of Waitangi (New Zealand's founding document), the Declaration of Independence, the women's suffrage petition, and a few other things.  "But once you start digging, one story leads onto another and I'd just follow my nose." 

The suffrage petition Waru refers to contains 36,000 signatures and was dramatically unfurled on the floor of the New Zealand parliament in 1893 by supporters of women's right to vote.  Stretching for almost 300 metres (980 feet), the petition, currently undergoing restoration, proved successful and led New Zealand, then a British colony, to become the first country in the world to grant women the vote later that year.  Alongside notable historical documents, such as a letter written by explorer captain James Cook before his final voyage, are curiosities like "Project Seal", a top-secret US-New Zealand attempt to create a doomsday device to rival the nuclear bomb.  The project was launched in June 1944 after a US naval officer noticed that blasting operations to clear coral reefs around Pacific islands sometimes produced a large wave, raising the possibility of creating a "tsunami bomb".  Explosive tests carried out in waters north of Auckland led scientists to conclude that the weapon was feasible and a series of 10 massive blasts offshore could create a 10-metre (33-foot) tsunami capable of inundating a small coastal city. 

"It was absolutely astonishing," Waru said.  "First that anyone would come up with the idea of developing a weapon of mass destruction based on a tsunami... and also that New Zealand seems to have successfully developed it to the degree that it might have worked.  "I only came across it because they were still vetting the report, so there it was sitting on somebody's desk (in the archives)."  Waru said the project was shelved in early 1945, despite the success of initial, small-scale tests.  "If you put it in a James Bond movie it would be viewed as fantasy but it was a real thing," he said.  Among the other oddities in the archives are Defence Department records of hundreds of UFO sightings by members of the public, military personnel and commercial pilots, mostly involving moving lights in the sky.  Some of the accounts include drawings of flying saucers, descriptions of aliens wearing "pharaoh masks" and alleged examples of extra-terrestrial writing.  New Zealand's most famous close encounter was when a television crew recorded strange lights off the South Island town of Kaikoura in 1978.  However, in a disappointment for ET spotters, the military concluded the lights could be explained by natural phenomena such as lights from boats being reflected off clouds or an unusual view of the planet Venus.  Waru said it was seemingly humdrum documents, like school magazines from the early 1900s extolling the virtues of the British Empire, that provided a window into the attitudes of the past.  "There's masses of records and kilometres of important files but you realise pretty quickly that every piece of paper is related to an individual at some point in time," he said.  "So it gives the modern researcher a peek into the private lives of individuals, which I found interesting -- divorce files from Dunedin, letters a young soldier wrote home to their parents." - Terra Daily.

UFO SIGHTINGS: Man Captures Video Of Strange Explosion In The Skies Over Sacramento?!

January 01, 2013 - UNITED STATES - A Sacramento man scanning the night sky caught a sudden burst of light through his telescope. He recorded that strange sight with his smart phone.

CBS13 shared the video with experts to see if they could solve the mystery. This mysterious little tale begins earlier this week when Good Day Sacramento's Cody Stark got this message on Facebook: "I have something on video no one has ever seen. I had my telescope out, caught an explosion in space. Wanna see the video?" Cody's response? Absolutely! The video was shot with an iPhone through the eyepiece of a telescope, so CBS13 had to enlarge it to get a better look. It was shot on Dec. 20 around 5 p.m. in Sacramento by viewer Elijah Prychodzko.

"I saw something that I'd never seen before. I saw another object orbiting this - whatever it was up there, and I've never seen anything like that before," said Prychodzko. He thought it was a little strange so he put his phone down, called his nephew, and then returned to shoot a second video clip. "Oh my God, it just blew up. Something blew up," he's heard saying on the video. "As soon as I put the camera to the telescope it just blew up and I didn't know what to say," he told CBS13. So Cody sent the video off to Dr. Stephen P Maran, who wrote the book Astronomy for Dummies. Dr. Maran responded by saying he didn't recognize the "explosion" as a known astronomical phenomenon. "My personal opinion is that it is not an astronomical event," he wrote. Whatever it was, it was almost never seen by Dr. Maran or anyone else - because Prychodzko nearly sold it on Craigslist. "Almost got rid of it a week before. I was trying to sell it on Craigslist and I was getting offers and, man, you know what, at this time I'm glad I didn't sell it," he said. CBS 4 also contacted a Vatican expert who said it could be some sort of light refraction. What do you suspect the "explosion" is? - CBS13 Sacramento.

WATCH: Man Captures Video Of Strange Explosion In The Sky.

MASS UFO SIGHTINGS: Rash Of UFOs Seen Over New Zealand - More Sightings Of Lights Across Country?!

December 28, 2012 - NEW ZEALAND - The mysterious lights spotted over Taranaki have also been reported in Napier, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch, but a rational explanation has been offered. Jennie Velvin was startled by the sight of two orange orbs travelling past her house on Ngamotu Rd in close succession on Christmas night. She said the objects looked like low, fast-moving fiery suns travelling southward. Since the Taranaki Daily News reported on the sighting yesterday calls have flooded in of further sightings of unidentified flying objects. Anne Murdoch, of Oakura, said she saw three on Christmas Eve. "They seemed to be coming from Ahu Ahu Rd.

"They got about halfway through the beach then disappeared." "I saw that! I was on my way to a church type thing on Christmas day and I saw it go over Francis Douglas going southwest towards the Westown shops! I thought it was just me!" a commenter on the Daily News Facebook page offered. It appears the mysterious fiery orbs are not new on the local scene. Jacinta Lawrence, of New Plymouth, said she saw an object of the exact same description about a year ago. "It was a big orange ball, very strange." Georgina Hudson, who lives near Ngamotu Rd, said she saw similar objects that were triangular-shaped in February. Ms Hudson said she rang the police and asked them to contact the control tower at the airport to warn them, but the police did not take action. She didn't think the objects were extra-terrestrial but they were definitely some sort of craft, she said. "I don't think it's somebody from space, but probably Nasa doing checks."

But one self-described UFO fanatic from New Plymouth said there was a darker explanation for the objects. "They're coming in different shapes and forms," Shane Lowery said. "Sometimes people get hypnotised when they see them, they can't move, they are paralysed. "They are demonic, there is something going on." But there are also plenty of people offering a rational explanation for the floating fire balls. "I was drunk, saw four of them and wasn't even dumb enough to think they were UFOs. "They were lanterns as you could see them burn out and fall back down," Corey Nicolson wrote on the Daily News Facebook page. "They would have been paper lanterns. "I saw some of these being set off in Merrilands around 8:30-9pm," one stuff.co.nz commenter said. New Plymouth Astronomical Society president Rod Austin said paper lanterns were the most logical explanation for the unidentified objects. "We've had a lot of fog and they get up to a height where they appear larger than they actually are." He said the south-west direction the objects were reported as travelling in could be explained by the easterly breeze Taranaki has had in the last few days. "I don't think it's got anything to do with the Mayan end of the world," Mr Austin said. - Stuff.

MASS UFO SIGHTINGS: UFO "Nothing Like I've Seen In 30 Years" - Rash Of UFO Sightings Across New Zealand?!

December 27, 2012 - NEW ZEALAND - People who saw strange lights seen in the sky on Christmas evening insist the festive spirit had nothing to do with it.  Sightings of a "UFO" were reported in New Plymouth and Wellington, although a witness from Waikanae believes there is an earthly explanation.

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Jennie Velvin, of New Plymouth, said everyone would think she had had one too many wines when she saw a UFO.  But she was positive she had not touched the booze and that even her husband, John - normally a sceptic - could confirm there had been something strange in the sky above Ngamotu Rd, New Plymouth.  Velvin takes her dogs out the back of the house for toileting at 10pm every evening and is familiar with the night sky.  "I always look up to the sky to see what's there. Sometimes I see a satellite, like a slow-moving star, and we get a lot of helicopters."  But she said what she saw on this night was not normal.  "This was nothing like I've seen in 30 years."  She described the object as a small, fast-moving fiery sun that was heading south towards Oakura.  "It was about the size of a circle you make with your arms.  "It was really low, it looked as though I could have reached out and touched it."  She said she yelled to her husband to come outside.  "He wouldn't believe me if I told him."  The mysterious object had already disappeared into cloud by the time he got there, but a second one the same as the first travelled past soon after, and he narrowly missed capturing it with his camera.  Velvin said she could understand if people were sceptical about her sighting but declared she was "not a kook".  She did not believe in aliens but was frustrated she could not explain the sighting, she said.  "I'm sure you'll get people saying it was shaped like a space ship, but I'm just determined to find someone who saw this thing, I don't know where it came from."  She said she remained open-minded.  "I don't think it's little grey men, but I've always been a believer there's something out there."  Chris Welson said he noticed three orange lights travelling over New Plymouth on Christmas night about 10.30pm.  "They were travelling pretty fast and the first two were reasonably close together while the third was a little further behind.  "They were going in a straight line heading south or southwest by the looks of things."  But Doug Batterbee suspects three bright lights he saw in the sky at Waikanae on Christmas night were fire balloons - small hot air balloons which use a fire to warm the air inside and lift them up.

 He was puzzled when he saw the first flickery, orange light quite high up in the sky, but then he saw another two which appeared to have been launched no more than three blocks away from where he was watching.  Strange lights seen in the sky over Taranaki in February turned out to be floating lanterns.  A man said he and two other people also saw something strange in the sky above the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville around 10.30pm on Christmas night.  An orange light which appeared to be about 4500 metres above ground, and two to three times more luminous than an aircraft's navigation light, had approached fast from the northwest. Then it went to the left, returned to where he had first seen it, shimmered and disappeared.  During the 15 seconds he watched it, the light moved very fast, the man, who did not want to be named, said.  The unnamed man, who said he was a pilot with about 400 hours flying time, including night flying, he had never seen anything like it before.  Craig Henrksen posted on Stuff's Facebook page his account of a UFO, seen from his home near Wellington airport.  ''I hadn't touched a drop of alcohol either,'' he wrote. ''At 0145 on 26th Dec I saw one of these 'lights'. I thought it was a reflection of street lamps on my window but realised it was moving. I opened the door and watched this orange ball of flame move at a constant speed heading south almost as high as a plane would fly until roughly 40 secs later it was too small and far away to see. Im pretty sure it wasn't Santa.''  And this video below was posted on YouTube, showing strange lights over Paekakariki on the Kapiti Coast. - Stuff.

WATCH: Unexplained lights over New Zealand.

UFO SIGHTINGS: Mysterious Object Baffles New Plymouth Couple in New Zealand?!

December 27, 2012 - NEW ZEALAND - Jennie Velvin said everyone would think she had had one too many wines when she reported a UFO sighting on Christmas night. But she was positive she had not touched the booze and that even her husband, John - normally a sceptic - could confirm there had been something strange in the sky above Ngamotu Road, New Plymouth. Velvin takes her dogs out the back of the house for toileting at 10pm every evening and says she always look up at the sky.

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"Sometimes I see a satellite, like a slow-moving star, and we get a lot of helicopters." But what she saw on this night was no earthly craft. "This was nothing like I've seen in 30 years." She described the object as a small, fast-moving fiery sun that was heading south towards Oakura. "It was about the size of a circle you make with your arms. "It was really low, it looked as though I could have reached out and touched it." She said she yelled to her husband to come outside. "He wouldn't believe me if I told him." The mysterious object had already disappeared into cloud by the time he got there, but a second one the same as the first travelled past soon after, and he narrowly missed capturing it with his camera. Velvin said she could understand if people were sceptical about her sighting but declared she was "not a kook".

She did not believe in aliens but was frustrated she could not explain the sighting, she said. "I'm sure you'll get people saying it was shaped like a space ship, but I'm just determined to find someone who saw this thing, I don't know where it came from." She said she remained open-minded. "I don't think it's little grey men, but I've always been a believer there's something out there." The Taranaki Daily News has been informed via email of a second sighting of a very similar description. Chris Welson said he noticed three orange lights travelling over New Plymouth on Christmas night about 10.30pm. "They were travelling pretty fast and the first two were reasonably close together while the third was a little further behind. "They were going in a straight line heading south or southwest by the looks of things." In February, the Taranaki Daily News reported on sightings of strange lights in the sky that turned out to be floating lanterns. - TVNZ.

MASS UFO SIGHTINGS: The Symbols of an Alien Sky, Man-Made or Natural Phenomena - The Latest UFO Sightings And Aerial Anomalies Around the World?

December 25, 2012 - WORLDWIDE UFOs - Here are several of the latest unidentified flying objects (UFOs) seen recently across the globe.

Texas, United States - 14th of December, 2012.

Pic de Bugarach, France - 21st of December, 2012.

Kunming City, China - 21st of December, 2012.

Unknown Location - 21st of December, 2012.

Houston, United States - 23rd of December, 2012.

International Space Station - 25th of December, 2012.

UFO SIGHTINGS: Increased UFO Activity in Southeast Asia - UFOs Appear Many Times In Vietnam?!

December 24, 2012 - VIETNAM - More and more people in Vietnam have stated that they could see UFOs with their eyes, or could take picture of UFOs which they believed come from other planets. Most recently, an UFO appeared on the sky in the central province of Thanh Hoa. A picture showing a strange flying object was made public. The author of the picture was Le Khac Dat, 19, who lives in Hoang Ha Commune of Hoang Hoa district. Dat said the picture was taken at about 5 pm of December 9, 2012. Dat did not discover any strange thing when he took picture. However, later, when he reviewed the picture, he discovered an unfamiliar subject on the picture. The original picture of Dat has stirred up the public. Local people thought that this was really an UFO from another planet, who came to learn more about human beings. Meanwhile, others believed that Dat used his Photoshop skills to fabricate the story about UFO. However, the people, who saw the original picture, said they could not find any signs showing that the boy made some changes to the picture. People still have doubts about the phenomenon. The problem is that the UFO can be seen only on Dat’s picture, while no other person saw any flying object on the sky at that moment.

Strange light stain in HCM City.
On July 26, 2011, a 26 second video clip showing a light stain that moved slowly and then faded out suddenly in HCM City was posted on YouTube. A lot of people believed that this was an UFO. The author of the clip said he recorded the images at about 0 am of July 25, and the place was an apartment block in district 3 in HCM City. The video clip then raised people’s curiosity, who tried to analyze it to find out if these were “artificial images.” However, the author of the clip said he himself was not sure if this was an UFO.

WATCH: Strange light stain in HCM City in 2011.

The photogenic UFO in capital city.
At 5 pm of October 28, 2010, Nguyen Xuan Vu in Hanoi recorded the images of a flying object which created stain of light on the sky. It looked like a burning object flying from the outer space through the earth’s atmosphere. However, Nguyen Duc Phuong from the Vietnam Astronomical Universe Society said on local newspapers that this was a civil airplane.

The UFO in Dong Nai in 1991.
A blogger has affirmed that an UFO once appeared in 1991 in a small village in Thong Nhat district of Dong Nai province. The blogger affirmed that on a day of the 1991’s summer, he saw a column of red fire rising above a tree tens of years old just for several seconds before it disappeared. Scientists have not given any explanation about the UFO in Dong Nai province. There has been no proof to say that this is an “artificial” UFO. The flying object appeared in a quiet and remote area, where material facilities are very poor, and it is nearly impossible to find fuel to create such a big column of fire, like the one created from a spaceship that is leaving the launching pad. - Vietnam Net Bridge.

HIGH STRANGENESS: "Wormhole" UFO Filmed Over Ankara, Turkey?!

December 23, 2012 - TURKEY - A UFO video posted to YouTube shows what looks like a giant "wormhole" like those seen in sci-fi movies hovering in the darkening skyline over Ankara, Turkey. What is it?

The video, shows a circular, unidentified flying object, broken into several concentric rings, hovering over a high-rise building as a Turkish radio station plays in the background.

The object is filmed through a window, a feature used by hoaxers, but the object in this video stays in place as the camera moves and seems to slightly change shape and aspect to the camera.

Most comments on the sighting are in Turkish, but a quick translation on Google reveals most people believe it is an authentic sighting.

The sighting was reported to have occurred last Friday, and the radio program seems to be a Christmas carol sung in Turkish. The video has had more than 30,000 views in just two days. What do you think? Is this a UFO? Or can it be explained some other way? - Examiner.

WATCH: "Wormhole" UFO over Turkey.

MASS UFO SIGHTINGS: The Symbols of an Alien Sky, Man-Made or Natural Phenomena - The Latest UFO Sightings And Aerial Anomalies Around the World?

December 20, 2012 - WORLDWIDE UFOs - Here are several of the latest unidentified flying objects (UFOs) seen recently across the globe.

Mexico - 6th of December, 2012.

Gilbert, Arizona, United States - 8th of December, 2012.

Vancouver, Canada - 8th of December, 2012.

Midlothian, Scotland - 16th of December, 2012.

Cordillera Province, Chile - 16th of December, 2012.

Ankara, Turkey - 14th of December, 2012.

Germany - 18th of December, 2012.

Santiago, Chile - 17th to 18th of December, 2012.