“I think the worst case for sea level rise by the end of this century is up around 55 inches. And if you get an inch rise in sea level, you will displace the vegetation and animals a mile inland in those areas. Fifty five inches could displace 55 miles inland.”
– Lonnie Thompson, Ph.D., Ohio State University
“Very slow paced, like a blimp would go. Then that sphere kind of thing began to turn counterclockwise and instead of a circle in the sky, it was more disc-shaped.”
– Chicago Eyewitness “John Smith”
February 2, 2007 Chicago, Illinois – “John Smith” works as a technician in a Chicago, Illinois, data and voice communications subdivision of a major global corporation. His office is near Chicago O’Hare International Airport, but his home is about forty-five miles northwest of O’Hare.
Between 6 and 6:30 a.m. Chicago time on Tuesday morning, November 7, 2006, John was in his routine daily commute to his company on the edge of O’Hare. He was traveling as usual on I-90 East toward Chicago. Suddenly, he saw something he had never seen over O’Hare Airport before.Click for report.
© 1957 by Leonard H. Stringfield (out of print) Reprinted with permission in Earthfiles.com © 2006 by Linda Moulton Howe
"Like something out of Gulliver's Travels, the size of the Norwood, Ohio UFO was approximated to be 10,000 feet in diameter (nearly two miles)."
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January 30, 2007 Albuquerque, New Mexico -
Continuation of Norwood, Ohio, 1949 Incident
Leonard H. Stringfield: "Needless to say, I accepted Rev. Miller's offer with enthusiasm and with the least of persuasion, he got the studio's attendants to run the reel in the projection room. While Rev. Miller commented freely, Dell and I watched the screen in amazement as the giant stationary disc appeared, glowing intensely in the sweeps of searchlight's beam.
“I got the sense the craft was rotating somewhat rapidly in a counterclockwise motion. … the object looked more to me like the cell phone photograph (disc in upper right of photo and O’Hare Airport in bottom left with angled horizon).”
– Jane Doe, O’Hare UFO Eyewitness
January 27, 2007 Gary, Indiana – The Chicago O’Hare Airport disc sighting by a dozen United employees on November 7, 2006, was apparently seen and photographed by many other people. Yesterday, an Indiana resident came forward to go on the record without her real name to describe what she and a friend saw from O’Hare’s international parking lot before 5 p.m. local time. She asked to be called “Jane Doe.” Her background includes three years of college and her work has ranged from radio news reporting to culinary training and cooking in restaurants.Click for report.
“The UFO looked triangular-shaped to me and had like oval-shaped
lights on it that were real pale blue with beams shining out.”
– Evan Briese
January 26, 2007 Tappen, North Dakota – About 60 miles straight east of Bismarck, North Dakota, is the small farming community of Tappen in Kidder County. From a USGS TerraServer satellite, Tappen’s farmland looks like an odd game board because crops are planted in circles to make center pivot sprinkler irrigation easier.Click for report.
“The creatures were using those claw blades on their hands. I think they were hooking her (sow) and pulling her. … I don’t know what drove me to do it, but I jumped in there (corral) right away and shot one of them.”
– Evan Briese
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January 26, 2007 Tappen, North Dakota – Around 1:20 a.m. – according to the kitchen clock – on Monday, September 11, 2006, Evan Briese woke up to go to the bathroom and get a drink of water from the kitchen sink. The window over the sink looks out to the big corral in front of the barn.Click for report.
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January 26, 2007 Tappen, North Dakota – Five days after the traumatic encounter with non-human entities, which dragged away the dead pet sow, Evan agreed to undergo hypnosis to see if he could remember more details. The hour and nineteen minute hypnosis session at the Briese home in Tappen with Evan (E) was conducted on September 16, 2006, by Craig R. Lang, Certified Hypnotherapist from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota (H). In addition to the Briese family, others in attendance were Richard Moss and Lorna Hunter of Minnesota MUFON (Mutual UFO Network). After a long relaxation process, Mr. Lang took Evan back to the time after midnight on September 11, 2006, when he woke up and the events unfolded.Click for report.
January 26, 2007 Chicago, Illinois – At the beginning of January 2007, Peter Davenport, Director of the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) received a report about a disc-shaped aerial object seen on November 7, 2006, by several eyewitnesses at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and broke the story. Then columnist Jon Hilkevitch at the Chicago Tribune followed up with a story about a dozen or so United Airlines mechanics, pilots, baggage people and a manager who watched a silvery-grey disc hover in the sky over Chicago O’Hare’s Concourse C-17 for several minutes. [See 010207 Earthfiles.]Click for report.
"It would not surprise me if it caused the destruction of at least one working satellite and maybe a couple. I would be surprised if it was bad enough to cause the destruction of many satellites."
- Jonathan McDowell, Ph.D., Harvard Astrophysicist
January 19, 2007 Cambridge, Massachusetts - Craig Covault in Aviation Week & Space Technology online reported January 17, 2007, that "U. S. intelligence agencies believe China performed a successful anti-satellite (asat) weapons test at more than 500 miles altitude (new estimate is 530 miles up) on January 11, 2007, destroying an aging Chinese weather satellite target with a kinetic kill vehicle launched on board a ballistic missile.
“There are some genes we know a lot about, but there are many genes
we have no idea what they do. So, that’s the baffling part to me –
there is still so much work to be done just to figure out how it all works.”
– John McPherson, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
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January 18, 2007 Houston, Texas – The human body has about 100 trillion cells. Inside each of those cells is the nucleus that contains the genome—46 human chromosomes which have the blueprint for building a human body.Click for report.
