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Sirotnikov
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<--- Yes, It's a "kitty" in a boot.
Feb 2000
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In the same light:
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Space centre to screen 'proof of UFOs' (ananova)
Images claiming to be proof of alien UFOs will be shown to members of the public at the National Space Centre later this month.
Hundreds of the objects were captured on film by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Soho), a spacecraft a million miles from Earth observing the sun.
The glowing, saucer-shaped "craft" were apparently moving in a way that suggested intelligent control.
Nasa originally dismissed the images as being the result of a camera fault, and will not now comment on them.
But UFO investigators are convinced they are spacecraft flown by aliens.
Mike Murray, 54, a founder of the UFO group Euroseti, which is holding the exhibition at the Space Centre in Leicester, said: "Some of the pictures are real crackers. They are the archetypal flying saucers - disc-shaped objects with some kind of glow around them. Many have a pulsing light and leave a trail behind them."
Mr Murray, who has been interested in UFOs for 30 years, obtained the images from a Spanish businessmen who picked them up from Soho using a giant satellite dish at his home outside Barcelona.
Mr Murray said: "The first thing we did when we got the images was to speak to Nasa, who said it was a camera fault. But by enhancing the images we proved this wasn't the case."
He said Nasa then suggested the objects could be asteroids or comets - but this did not explain the way they appeared to move independently and make turns.
The images will be screened at the National Space Centre on the evenings of January 24, 25 and 26.
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Sirotnikov
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<--- Yes, It's a "kitty" in a boot.
Feb 2000
time: 07:25
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And the final nail in the cauffin
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Clinton aide slams Pentagon's UFO secrecy
By Richard Stenger
CNN
Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Posted: 3:09 PM EDT (1909 GMT)
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Amateur video of glowing orbs in a strange formation over Arizona in 1997. Thousands of witnesses saw the so-called Phoenix Lights.
FACT BOX
President Jimmy Carter said he was among a group that saw a UFO in 1969. The object seemed as bright as the moon and changed colors, he said.
(CNN) -- One winter night in 1965, eyewitnesses saw a fireball streak over North America, bank, turn and appear to crash in western Pennsylvania. Then swarms of military personnel combed the area and a tarp-covered flatbed truck rumbled out of the woods.
Now a former White House chief of staff and an international investigative journalist want to know what the Pentagon knows, calling on it to release classified files about that and other incidents involving unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
"It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon," ex-Clinton aide John Podesta said Tuesday.
A Pentagon spokesperson could not be reached for comment regarding the requests for information.
Despite earning little credence, cases of strange aerial phenomena that defy explanation abound -- whether witnessed by thousands of Arizona residents, commercial airline pilots or a U.S. president.
The new initiative is not setting out to prove the existence of aliens. Rather the group wants to legitimize the scientific investigation of unexplained aerial phenomena.
Podesta was one of numerous political and media heavyweights on hand in Washington, D.C., to announce a new group to gain access to secret government records about UFOs.
Specifically, the Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFI) is pressing the Air Force for documents involving Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly, clandestine operations reported to have existed decades ago to investigate UFOs and retrieve objects of unknown origins.
Mysterious case?
One of the most mysterious cases, the Kecksburg, Pennsylvania incident of December 5, 1965, is the first cited in the group's request for records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Despite an official government story that the object was a meteorite, some eyewitnesses claimed that a military truck took an acorn-shaped object the size of a small car from the rural Pennsylvania crash site to an Air Force base in Ohio.
"We can't come up with a reason why this information is being withheld. The government won't even acknowledge that the incident took place but we know that it did," said Leslie Kean, a California-based freelance reporter who drafted the FOIA request.
In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, the government did take the UFO search seriously and top generals considered the pros and cons of informing the U.S. public, Kean said, citing top secret memos.
In 1969, however, the Air Force terminated Project Blue Book, concluding that no reported UFOs were threats to national security.
Paradoxically, Kean notes, the military continues to deny some requests for UFO information by citing national security concerns.
Trying to stamp out ridicule
Backed by the Sci-Fi channel, the CFI hopes to reduce the scientific ridicule factor in this country when the topic is UFOs.
"There's definitely evidence of strange phenomenon in the world. These are well documented," said Kean, who has written for The Nation, the Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune.
"Most people don't think that there is evidence because they haven't look for it. There's such a little green men mindset in this culture. It's hard to work your way through that."
The CFI director Ed Rothschild also works for Podesta's public relations firm, PodestaMattoon, which is coordinating the new group at the behest of the Sci- Fi channel. He said the initiative was a call for serious investigation, not a publicity stunt for the cable network.
"The Sci-Fi channel has had an interest in [UFOs] for some time. The difference here is that they are focusing attention on the serious, factual side of the issue, and that scientists have not had a chance to thoroughly examine it," Rothschild said.
"Of course it could help programming. But Sci-Fi thought they had some resources they could bring to the table."
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Ozz
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Canada
Mar 2002
time: 05:25
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Bush is right,
What is an alien? Could be just some fungus growing
on a rock. As long as it's growing on off earth it
qualifies. It could even be originally from earth, if found
anywhere in the sol system.
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