Honey Bee Collapse Now Worse on West Coast

“It's worse than last year, and last year was worse than the year before. So, it's bad. And there are a lot of good, big beekeepers that are having a lot of problems. I think we're coming in for a big train wreck.”

- Gilly Sherman, Beekeeper

Western honey bee, or European honey bee (Apis mellifera), gathering pollen from purple aster. 34% of American honey bees in commercial hives have disappeared this spring of 2008, in a persistent mystery known as “colony collapse disorder.”
Western honey bee, or European honey bee (Apis mellifera), gathering pollen from purple aster. 34% of American honey bees in commercial hives have disappeared this spring of 2008, in a persistent mystery known as “colony collapse disorder.”

April 10, 2008  Gainesville, Florida - On April 5, 2008, England's BBC News carried a report entitled, “U. S. Fears Over Honey Bee Collapse.” A California beekeeper, Gilly Sherman, was interviewed and he said sobering words:  “It's worse than last year, and last year was worse than the year before. So, it's bad. And there are a lot of good, big beekeepers that are having a lot of problems. I think we're coming in for a big train wreck.”

I took that quote to Jerry Hayes, Chief, Apiary Section, Florida Department of Agriculture, and President of the Apiary Inspectors of America in Gainesville, Florida and asked for his comment.

 

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Part 2: Bizarre Objects Caught by Illinois and Missouri Game Trail Cameras

“I don’t know what this is – but hopefully, I never have to encounter this while I’m hunting.”

- Missouri hunter and game trail camera owner

November 5, 2007, beginning at 9:34 PM Central, Sarcoxie, Missouri.  One of twelve images shown in this Earthfiles report of unknown, small,  aerial object close to ground photographed over four hour period  on Missouri hunter's Cuddeback Digital Camera. 
November 5, 2007, beginning at 9:34 PM Central, Sarcoxie, Missouri.  One of twelve images shown in this Earthfiles report of unknown, small,  aerial object close to ground photographed over four hour period  on Missouri hunter's Cuddeback Digital Camera.

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April 7, 2008  Oregon, Illinois -

More Odd November 2007 Images

Sarcoxie, Missouri, 9:34 PM, November 5, to 1:37 AM November 6, 2007

Sarcoxie, Missouri, is on Highway 44 east of Joplin.
Sarcoxie, Missouri, is on Highway 44 east of Joplin.

Bob Coine:  “When I first put my deer camera's six frames up on YouTube and Woods N Water TV (Outdoor Channel) for feedback that might help explain what my photos were, one of our viewers sent me a series of pictures that he had not shared with anybody because they were really odd. They were not even similar to the photos I had taken. These photos show what appears to be a roundish object with a series of odd, circular shapes around the outside. When you get to the far left or far right on the thing moving through the dozen photographs, the object seems to be turning.  I really see that when I bring his Missouri photos up as a series, and flip through them fast. This object appears not only to be rotating, but going up, down and right and left, as well as reflecting light on to the ground.

 

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Part 1:  Bizarre Objects Caught by Illinois and Missouri Game Trail Cameras

“It is really strange because the object itself is ghostly white against the rest of the darker digital gain camera image.”

- Bob Coine, Heartland Studios, Oregon, Illinois

 Oregon, Illinois, is southwest of Rockford, not far from both the Wisconsin and Iowa borders.
Oregon, Illinois, is southwest of Rockford, not far from both the Wisconsin and Iowa borders.

April 7, 2008  Oregon, Illinois -  Bob Coine is President and Owner of Heartland Studios, Inc., in Oregon, Illinois. Bob in an Illinois native, born there in 1959, and a successful manufacturing entrepreneur until 2000. That year, he sold several businesses with the idea of retiring to his Oregon farm to pursue his personal hobby:  protecting, improving and managing wildlife, with an emphasis on white tail deer.

 

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Wingless, “Dragonfly” Sighting On March 31, 2008

It didn’t move like a helicopter at all and there was no sound. A helicopter has a really distinctive look and they don’t have that big point coming off the front. And it didn’t have wings. It wasn’t like any kind of shaped object that I’ve ever seen.”

- Cam, Scotts Valley, California

Wingless, dragonfly aerial craft seen at 10:15 AM, Monday, March 31, 2008, in Scotts Valley, California, flying overhead, long tail leading rounded body in flight. Sketch © 2008 by Cam for Earthfiles.com.
Wingless, dragonfly aerial craft seen at 10:15 AM, Monday, March 31, 2008, in Scotts Valley, California, flying overhead, long tail leading rounded body in flight. Sketch © 2008 by Cam for Earthfiles.com.      

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April 4, 2008  Scotts Valley, California - A video has been circulating on the internet for months as “Kaptive” - a CGI rock video manipulation of the dragonfly aerial drone photographs that first emerged in May to June 2007. Not only is it a manipulation of the photographs, the CGI operator named Kris Avery took my Earthfiles podcast news reports about the dragonfly drone phenomenon and edited in my voice and voices of people I’ve interviewed without asking permission.

 

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Mysterious Aerial Spheres: Letters to Earthfiles

“One (2008) scene in particular involved a spherical craft being escorted, and ultimately fought off by, two military helicopters. ...The USAF first asked the scene be changed and the sphere eliminated. If the scene wasn't changed and the spherical craft eliminated, the USAF would withdraw their support. Basically, that's the same thing we went through on Independence Day, too, when Area 51 was referenced in that script.”

- Hollywood Feature Special Effects Pro

March 31, 2008  Albuquerque, New Mexico - During my 3-hour Coast to Coast AM with George Noory news updates on Thursday, March 27, 2008, I shared a March 20, 2008, deer mutilation in Longs, South Carolina, not far from North Myrtle Beach. A few nights before the mutilated deer was found by a retired broadcast engineer, he also saw a glowing, white sphere about 6 feet in diameter moving in the night sky between two military helicopters. [ See 032808 Earthfiles Real X-File.]  On the air, I asked listeners to email me who might have had their own glowing sphere encounters or have current knowledge about American military interaction with glowing spheres. I have received dozens of emails and share a few in this Earthfiles report for consideration and other comment.

 

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Ice Block Size of Northern Ireland Has Broken From Wilkins Ice Shelf in West Antarctic Peninsula

“The Wilkins breakout won't have any effect on sea-level because that ice is floating already, but it is another indication of the impact that climate change is having on the region. We believe the Wilkins has been in place for at least a few hundred years. But warm air and exposure to ocean waves are causing a break-up.”

- Ted Scambos, Ph.D., Glaciologist, University of Colorado

 Above and below satellite images of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic Peninsula where a huge 160-square-mile-chunk of ice disintegrated between February 28 and March 8, 2008. The ice section that broke away measured 25-miles-long (41 kilometers) by 1.5-miles-wide (2.5 kilometers). All that's holding back the rest of the Wilkins Ice Shelf is a narrow band of ice, which might also give way in the near future. Image courtesy NSIDC.
Above and below satellite images of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic Peninsula where a huge 160-square-mile-chunk of ice disintegrated between February 28 and March 8, 2008. The ice section that broke away measured 25-miles-long (41 kilometers) by 1.5-miles-wide (2.5 kilometers). All that's holding back the rest of the Wilkins Ice Shelf is a narrow band of ice, which might also give way in the near future. Image courtesy NSIDC.

Left: Red rectangle is blown up on right to show the large chunks in the disintegrated mass of Wilkins Ice Shelf the size of Northern Ireland that broke off between February 28, and March 8, 2008. Image courtesy NSIDC.
Left: Red rectangle is blown up on right to show the large chunks in the disintegrated mass of Wilkins Ice Shelf the size of Northern Ireland that broke off between February 28, and March 8, 2008. Image courtesy NSIDC.

March 27, 2008  Boulder, Colorado - In West Antarctica on March 8, 2008, at the Wilkins Ice Shelf  which floats on the Pacific Ocean not far from the southern tip of South America, a slab of ice as large as Northern Ireland broke off. The 160-square-mile ice chunk had been there for perhaps 1,500 years. But between February 28 and March 8, 2008, NASA’s Earth Observing System Aqua and Terra satellites photographed the Wilkins’ disintegration.

 

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Part 1, Dragonfly-Shaped Aerial Craft: Current Media Misinformation Versus Eyewitnesses 1987 to 2007

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March 21, 2008  Albuquerque, New Mexico - It’s ironic that in March 2008, a TV network such as FOX in New York City and the cable distributor, History Channel, would finally do reports about the strange, aerial, dragonfly-shaped craft that first showed up in 2007 photographs – a whole year after events without doing any substantive research. Their sarcastic reports have left viewers with the false impression that the photos were all from California and most likely CGI/Photoshop creations. Neither conclusion is true.

Why did FOX have a segment about the dragonfly drones? Because the Los Angeles Times on March 18, 2008, headlined: “A UFO Cold Case” with a photograph of two private investigators named Frankie Dixon and T. K. Davis. The two were hired by a European group to track down one of last year’s eyewitnesses who photographed a dragonfly machine over a power line in Capitola, California, on May 16, 2007.

Los Angeles Times photo caption: “Private eyes Frankie Dixon, left, and T.K. Davis at a park in Capitola, Calif., where they’re investigating reports that a UFO was photographed by a man with the Internet name of Raji, who later vanished into cyberspace.” Image © 2008 by Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times photo caption: “Private eyes Frankie Dixon, left, and T.K. Davis at a park in Capitola, Calif., where they’re investigating reports that a UFO was photographed by a man with the Internet name of Raji, who later vanished into cyberspace.” Image © 2008 by Los Angeles Times.

 

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Part 2, Dragonfly-Shaped Aerial Craft: Current Media Misinformation Versus Eyewitnesses 1987 to 2007

“I think the technology is definitely extraterrestrial. Nothing flies like this!”

- Infrared Technical Specialist, Montgomery, Alabama

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March 21, 2008  Albuquerque, New Mexico - After the Big Basin craft, no other photographs of the mysterious dragonfly-shaped drones emerged in 2007. But on Tuesday, June 26, 2007, the mystery of the dragonfly-shaped aerial drones took another turn with the release of an alleged secret report containing photographs of alleged extraterrestrial technologies, entitled “Commercial Applications Research for Extraterrestrial Technology” – known with the acronym CARET, which contained a “Q4-86 Research Report,” dated December 1986, Palo Alto, California, by the Palo Alto CARET Laboratory, also known as PACL (pronounced “packel”). See:  Isaac Release and 062607Earthfiles Parts 1 and 2.

 Cover of CARET Q4-86 Research Report, December 1986, Palo Alto, California, and PACL Staff, Palo Alto CARET Laboratory. Document provided by "Isaac" electronically on June 26, 2007.
Cover of CARET Q4-86 Research Report, December 1986, Palo Alto, California, and PACL Staff, Palo Alto CARET Laboratory. Document provided by "Isaac" electronically on June 26, 2007.

 

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