“It looked like a military formation of three groups of shiny silver flying saucers. The three groups of 13 silver saucers each, totaling 39, were arranged in respective diamond formations.”
- Frank, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Japanese katakana symbols similar to what Frank in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, saw written by tall, auburn-haired female aboard silver saucer craft. Graphic source Wikipedia.
March 17, 2009 Albuquerque, New Mexico - In one of my 1988 correspondence files about high strangeness, I have a report from a man named Frank that is nine, typed pages about his eyewitness sighting of thirty-nine saucer-shaped craft divided into three groups over Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, when he was 14-years-old. In a separate note, he explained he wrote up his experience for a book he hoped to write some day, but “you may use this data in the hope that perhaps others who might have had a similar experience will know that they are not alone, and perhaps with your reporter's experience, might somehow formulate what I and others experienced.” The purpose of Earthfiles Real X-Files is to share the strangest phenomena described by civilians, military and intelligence, even if events cannot be proved.
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Updated March 16 of original report March 14, 2009 Perris, California - A year ago on May 14, 2008, at 3 AM Pacific south of Needles, California, on the Colorado River near Topock, Arizona, a long-time houseboat resident calling himself River Bob was stunned to see a large, bright “fiery object” hurtling from the sky toward him. From the upper deck on his houseboat, he was puzzled by the vivid turquoise blue-green amid other more fiery red, yellow and orange colors. Despite the strange blue-green color, River Bob thought perhaps he was watching a plane about to crash. Whatever hit the ground was picked up within fifteen minutes by a large sky crane helicopter and carried away.
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March 12, 2009 Beavercreek, Oregon - On January 29, 2009, I filed a 2-part Earthfiles report about more mysterious, multi-colored aerial light patterns photographed over Reno, Nevada, and Empire, Ohio. A week later, I received an email from a retired Wisconsin businessman in rural Elmwood, Wisconsin, who has taken more than one hundred digital still frames of a reappearing bright, aerial object. His images like all the others appear to be 3-dimensional, multi-colored patterns in the sky, changing shape every second or two.
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“I do remember reading a CIA file on Harry Truman in which he was talking about the Cold War starting and that there were aliens from outer space and some looked like little humans and some looked like insects.”
- “Stein,” Former Army/CIA UFO Analyst
First Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal from September 17, 1947, to March 28, 1949, with U. S. President Harry S. Truman, undated.
March 8, 2009 Albuquerque, New Mexico - The previous Part 19 was my August 7, 1998, phone call with Stein about the two men who stopped him in a supermarket parking lot, showed Stein photographs of himself from the 1950s southeastern base period as well as 1998 photos of Stein's only son at work and home, and told Stein that if he continued to work with me, his son would come to harm. But Stein agreed to consider my traveling to his home again with a small videotape crew to record his whole CIA Project Blue Book story, to be held by me until after his death before public distribution. Through the U. S. mail, I sent him a letter with proposed details for the taping and a non-disclosure letter signed and dated by me that confirmed I would not use the videotape until after his death. Our goal was for me to arrive at his home with a crew in mid-September 1998.
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“An effort was made in the large King Island stranding to return the animals to deeper water, but in some cases, the animal turned around from deeper water and went straight back to the beach.”
- Scott Baker, Ph.D., OSU Marine Mammal Institute
“It is pretty darn sad, you can hear them crying.”
200 pilot whales (species of dolphin) and a few bottle-nosed dolphins began mass stranding on Sunday, night, March 1, 2009, at a King Island beach above. On March 2, 2009, about 50 animals were saved by human volunteers (below) and the rest died. King Island is in the Bass Strait between northern Tasmania, an Australian state, and Melbourne, Australia. Image courtesy Liz Wren, Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.On March 2, 2009, volunteers saved about fifty of the 200 pilot whales (dolphins) and bottle-nosed dolphins that beached on King Island north of Tasmania beginning on March 1, 2009. An unusual series of strandings has occurred since early Nov. 2008, when 60 pilot whales were stranded not far from King Island; on Nov. 29, 2008, 150 pilot whales and dolphins stranded and all died near King Island; in January 2009, 50 sperm whales stranded and all died near King Island. Scientists are puzzled by the the unexplained series of cetacean beachings. Image courtesy Liz Wren, Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.
March 2, 2009
“One of the biggest mass beachings in Australia, 200 pilot whales came ashore on King Island on Sunday evening, March 1, only 54 of which are still alive. Among the whales are a number of dolphins, according to Chris Arthur, from Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife. Around 150 local people are helping parks officials in trying to refloat the whales from a Naracoopa beach and shepherd them back to sea, where a large number of whales were still milling in a pod.”
March 6, 2009 Newport, Oregon - Scientists who study whales and dolphins are puzzled about repeated strandings of large numbers of pilot whales – which are actually large dolphins – and other dolphins and sperm whales on or around King Island north of the Australian state, Tasmania. There was also highly strange – perhaps unprecedented behavior – in Manila Bay, Philippines, last month on February 10, 2009, when 500 melon-headed dolphins filled Manila Bay and swam back and forth as if completely disoriented.
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“To be honest, what would surprise me the most would be if life never was on the planet Mars. That would be surprising and give us all some pause and make us wonder – why?”
- Dorothy Z. Oehler, Ph.D, NASA Johnson Space Center
Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.
February 27, 2009 Houston, Texas - Other scientists studying a completely different part of Mars in Arabia Terra have also discovered features they think are the residue of hot springs, largely based on the tell-tale oval rings that closely resemble hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and Dalhousie, Australia. In a recent issue of Astrobiology, NASA Johnson Space Center planetary geologists described one mound on Mars named Vernal crater that could be a dried up hot springs?
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“People are starting to comb through old historic records to see,
but there is no evidence that I know of anywhere in the fossil record,
or in recent recorded history, of a die-off of this nature in bats.”
February 26, 2009 Vicksburg, Mississippi and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania - One year ago in February 2008, I reported at my news website, Earthfiles.com, about thousands of sick and dead cave-dwelling bats in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. [ See 022908 Earthfiles.]
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February 24, 2009 Albuquerque, New Mexico - At the end of Part 18, of my June 29, 1998, interview with Stein at his Florida home, he was talking about the Wackenhut security firm that worked with the CIA in the 1950s. It was also Wackenhut in Coral Gables, Florida, that his phone manager friend told him [ See Stein Earthfiles Part ] was the source of the first call to Stein warning him not to talk with me further about the name of the southeastern military base or its activities during the Cuba stand-off with the Soviet Union or its alleged assassin squad assigned to termination missions. During his work for the Army/CIA unit that studied real UFO Blue Book cases, Stein said, “We could call Wackenhut for background checks on civilians coming to do work. Wackenhut is a worldwide security firm with offices in Europe.”
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“On Earth, hydrothermal deposits [hot springs] teem with life and the associated silica deposits typically contain fossil remains of microbes.”
- Jack Farmer, Ph.D., Astrobiology, Arizona State Univ.
Dark “horse head” of Syrtis Major Planum rises at center of this Hubble telescope image of Mars. On the right side of that darkness is Elysium Planitia; on the left is Arabia Terra. Image courtesy Hubble.
February 21, 2009 Albuquerque, New Mexico - NASA landed the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, near the Martian equator on opposite sides of the red planet in January 2004. The goal was to look for evidence of water. Spirit and Opportunity recently came out of 2008 winter hibernation and started their fifth Martian spring of exploring.
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March 2, 2009
