October 27, 2005 Calhan, Colorado – Since October 11, 2005, I have received reports of unusual animal deaths in San Antonio, Texas; Dartmoor, England; and Calhan, Colorado. The San Antonio case is another bloodless half cat. In England, six sheep were found with classic mutilation excisions without blood or signs of struggle. And in Calhan, Colorado, six horses and a burro were found dead on October 11. Then, eleven days later on October 22, sixteen more horses were found dead not far from the first unusual animal deaths. Click for report.
“According to recent work that was published in Science two weeks ago, it’s very clear that the 1918 virus was a pure avian strain that probably mutated and directly infected humans. And it’s very similar potentially to the current avian flu.”
– Ira Longini, Ph.D., Emory University, Biostatistics
Updated October 26, 2005 Atlanta, Georgia – The lethal H5N1 avian influenza virus has been making headlines nearly every day the past four weeks:Click for report.
“The invasion of non-local animals, such as the Asian Burmese python beginning now to populate the Florida Everglades, is one of the greatest environmental threats in the United States.”
– Steven Williams, Director, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Yellow spot marks the site in the Shark Slough about 3 to 4 miles NNW of Pay-hay-okee Overlook in Everglades National Park where a partly digested 6.5-foot-long American alligator was found on September 26, 2005, hanging out of a headless, 13-foot-long Burmese python’s belly.American alligators in the Everglades National Park (ENP) can grow ten to fifteen feet long. Photograph courtesy ENP.
October 21, 2005 Homestead, Florida – Until recently, the top predator in the Florida Everglades has been the American alligator. The males can grow to nearly fifteen feet long and a couple of feet wide. The females are a little smaller, around ten feet. Their long teeth and claws are lethal weapons and their jaws are like steel traps. Nothing wanted to take them on until people started throwing their unwanted adult Burmese python “pet” snakes in the Everglades to get rid of the uncontrollable monsters which can grow to twenty feet long, or more. The python has a hinged jaw that allows it to swallow large prey after it has squeezed its victim to death. A small child is as vulnerable as a house cat. Click for report.
"Dione reveals a wonderful variety of surface features that are simultaneously familiar and unlike any other place in the solar system."
- NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
October 11, 2005, image of Saturn's icy moon, Dione, above the planet's thin rings. Behind Dione are the shadows of Saturn's B and C rings. Image from the Cassini spacecraft at 24,200 miles (39,000 kilometers) distance. Image courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
October 19, 2005 Pasadena, California - NASA reports that "speeding toward pale, icy Dione, Cassini's view is enriched by the tranquil gold and blue hues of Saturn in the distance. The horizontal stripes near the bottom of the image are Saturn's rings. The spacecraft was nearly in the plane of the rings when the images were taken, thinning them by perspective and masking their awesome scale. The thin, curving shadows of the C ring and part of the B ring adorn the northern latitudes visible here, a reminder of the rings' grandeur."
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Left: red maple; Right: Oak. The red colors are produced by anthocyanin molecules. Research shows red maple anthocyanin can destroy other plant seeds.
October 10, 2005 Hamilton, New York - Colgate University biology professor, Frank Frey, and graduate student, Maggie Eldridge, report new research about trees that produce red leaves, such as maples and oaks, that might be trying to destroy all other tree seeds in the area.
"Foliage changes color in autumn when chlorophyll in leaf cells (green color) breaks down and exposes the pigments that remain, such as carotenoid pigments which appear yellow or orange. But the story is different for maples and a handful of other trees whose leaves turn scarlet. The anthocyanin pigments in maple foliage are actually manufactured by the trees - rather than simply revealed - at a time of year when the organisms can't afford to use up a lot of metabolic energy for such a complex process."
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April 1974, Ft. Stewart, Hinesville, Georgia – Body Lifted In Light Beam
DS: “I think it was April 1974.”
Howe: “So several months later.”
DS: “Yes. This was in Hinesville, Georgia after I had been reassigned to Fort Stewart. My wife and I would usually go out to a drive-in on the weekend and take our baby. I don’t even remember what the movie was, but I noticed a bright light in the sky about three or four times the size of Venus. It was a very clear night and this bright light seemed to be moving slowly downward and eventually went behind the movie screen. Then my wife said, ‘Are you looking at that light, too?’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ She said, ‘I’ve been watching it and it doesn’t seem right.’
The object that Derek Smith and his wife saw at the drive-in movie theater in Hinesville, Georgia, near Fort Stewart in April 1974. First it appeared as a bright white light high in the night sky. Then it slowly descended over trees to an altitude of approximately 300 to 400 feet. Drawings by Derek Smith for Howe.
“Then it started going through colors from white to red to orange to yellow – like going through multiple shades of each color, stepping through the color spectrum. Then it turned white again and made a clockwise square. It looked like it was drawing a square in the sky. And it made this square three or four times.
Derek Smith described this drawing: “The object then began to glow in a violet color that quickly made a color transition through all of the colors in the visible light spectrum. Then the object began a clockwise flight maneuver which looked as though the object was tracing a large square in the sky. Three of these ‘squares’ were ‘drawn’ each in the same position in the sky. Then the object stopped and remained motionless.”
“Then it just stopped like it was hovering above the trees. And then this blue light about the color of a police car’s blue emergency light came from underneath in a beam. The beam descended toward the ground slowly like a well-defined column of light.”
Howe: “Sort of like the way an old-fashioned telescope would extend?”
DS: “Yes, like it would telescope out as a solid beam all the way down, but you could see it moving.”
Howe: “In other words, it looked like light, but it had a solid, cylindrical shape to it that maintained structure and seemed to move out as if it were some kind of solid body that was moving?”
DS: “Right. And it looked like a spotlight in fog. You could see that beam – it had definition. The blue edge of the ‘cylinder’ didn’t diffuse out. It looked solid.”
Howe: “And did that strike you at the time, not knowing anything else about it, as being like anything you had ever seen light do before?”
DS: “No! No! That was pretty marvelous. I told my wife, ‘That is neat – shooting down a beam like that!’ The beam went down toward the ground and the bottom of the beam disappeared below the tree line. Then within a couple of seconds, the top of the beam that came out of the craft or whatever – it started descending toward the ground also. I thought that was really strange because you can’t take a flashlight and shine a beam and detach the beam from the flashlight.”
Smith wrote about this drawing: “After the disc remained motionless for approximately two to three minutes, it shot a blue ‘light beam’ from under its center. The blue beam slowly descended to the ground like an elevator. Then the top of the beam detached itself from the round object and also slowly descended to the ground. When the top of the blue beam apparently reached the ground, a pure white light beam shot up rapidly to the disc. Once the top of the white beam touched the disc, the bottom began to ascend upward again like an elevator.”
Howe: “So it was almost as if a cone of light literally detached itself from the bright light?”
DS: “Yes. That cylindrical beam actually detached itself from the craft out there and went down toward the ground behind the trees.
“Then within a few seconds, a very bright, pure white light beam shot up from the ground to the bottom center of the craft. It had the same shape and dimensions as the blue beam and it moved the same way, only in reverse and much faster. Once the top of the white beam made contact with the bottom of the craft, it began to telescope toward the craft becoming shorter and shorter.
“While my wife and I were watching the white beam go up to the craft, we saw something inside the beam that reminded me of a person with arms and legs spread-eagled, tumbling and turning slowly inside that light. Have you ever seen a laser show?”
Howe: “Yes.”
DS: “And when the laser beam hits something, it sparkles?”
Howe: “Right.”
About this drawing, Smith said, “There was something floating upward in the beam of light. My first impression was that it was a person because I could clearly see four long appendages (like arms and legs) and one short appendage (like a head). Approximately one and a half hours later, a smaller craft (Frame 25) raced toward the larger object. We thought it was a jet interceptor. However, as it approached on a collision course with the larger object, it slowed and then merged with the larger object. A few minutes later the large object descended to almost treetop level and slowly meandered off to the northeast until it was out of our view.”
DS: “Well, this thing that was tumbling inside that white beam was also sparkling like when a laser sparkles off something. And as this person or thing was tumbling and rotating inside the light beam, the beam which had a distinct bottom to it continued upward until it disappeared inside the craft. Then the object just stayed there hovering, motionless and silent.
“My wife and I left the theater to get a closer look. That day I had been working on an Escape and Survival Course for my soldiers and had maps and compasses in the trunk of my car. We drove to seventeen different locations where I shot direction azimuths to the object and entered the information on my map. All the lines converged at a point on the ground. So, I knew we weren’t looking at a star. It had to be something that was near the earth.”
Howe: “How far do you think it was from you at the movie theater to have seen this object tumbling upward in the light?”
DS: “Half a mile or less. …I was close enough that I could distinguish appendages on the thing that was inside the beam. I saw at least four. I’m not absolutely certain it was a person, but it reminded me of an asterisk. I could clearly see separate appendages and I could clearly see that this tumbling thing was positioned in the center of the beam.”
Howe: “And how long was the beam compared to your fingers at arm’s length distance?”
DS: “Well, the craft was above the trees, so I would say that the beam was probably somewhere around 200 feet long.”
Howe: “And in that area where the light was hovering, what kind of land is it?”
DS: “It’s a mixture of swamp, bog and pasture-type land with heavy trees in the middle where the light beam would have been. Half a mile from there, the trees would have thinned out pretty much.”Howe: Were there any people living where that beam of light seemed to be?”
DS: “On the PICTO map that I used to plot azimuths to the object, there was a farm indicated about half a mile away. I remember specifically thinking about people and wondering if that was a person in the beam.”
Howe: “Were you able, using your 17 different azimuth locations, to drive to exactly the spot where you thought this occurred?”
DS: “I couldn’t drive right to it because of the trees I told you about.”
Howe: “Did your wife say anything that night about seeing anything in the beam?”
DS: “Yes, she saw something peculiar in the beam. I had a very intense interest in the object and I wanted to keep looking at it and observing it and trying to get closer to it. However, the closer we got to the object, the more frightened my wife became. She told me that her intuition was telling her not to get any closer to the object and that it was very bad. And she wanted to go home.
“I talked her into going to one last location for a final azimuth reading at the Fort Stewart Ammunition Storage Area. Almost as soon as we arrived, a Military Police Unit pulled up, put a spotlight on us and ordered us out of our car with our hands up! When I got out, one of the MPs recognized me and asked what I was doing. I said, ‘Me and my wife and my little baby are here and we’re looking at the light up there. We’ve been watching it do strange stuff.’
“At this point, one of the MPs became afraid or concerned. He said he didn’t want to be around there because he had had an experience before with a light that interfered with his 2-way radio and made his car quit. And he said, ‘I know who you are now and I’m getting out of here.’
“And just before they left, I saw a smaller light that I thought was a NORAD interceptor go check out that craft. And as we watched, it came fast like a fighter jet and as it got closer, I said, ‘Oh, man, it’s headed right for it. Maybe it’s going to shoot at him!’ It got real close to the light and slowed down and merged with the big light. And I said, ‘Oops, look at that!’ And the MP said, ‘Yeah, we’re definitely getting out of here!’ And the four MPs got in their car and left.”
Howe: “So four MPs, you and your wife with the baby – six adults watched the smaller white light that might be a NORAD interceptor merge with the large light?”
DS: “Right.”
Howe: “And the four MPs – all they wanted to do was leave the scene?”
DS: “Right.”
Howe: “This is a military base and these are four MPs and you are in Special Operations Group – would not the normal, logical thing have been to want to identify what it was that had happened and to report to the highest authority possible?”
DS: “Well, that’s what I wanted to do. In fact, I did report it. I went to talk with someone at the Fort Stewart Headquarters Staff. I was relating the story to them and they were kind of like, ‘Yeah, well, sure, thanks, see you later.’ I also remember them saying, ‘It was probably swamp gas. It was probably a balloon.’ And I told them, ‘Look, I’m a pilot. I have over a thousand hours in combat flying. I’ve seen just about everything there is to see in the air. I can tell you that it wasn’t a balloon, it wasn’t swamp gas. I can tell you everything that it was not, but I can’t tell you what it was.’ It was clear they wanted me out of the office, so my wife and I left.
“The next thing was that I went to the NORAD site at Hunter Army Air Field.”
Howe: “What was your intent in going there?”
DS: “Two things. I wanted to report it, but I was also curious what was going on because of the way people were reacting.”
Howe: “Like it was nothing.”
DS: “Yeah!”
Howe: “This is a NORAD facility that has an underground installation and you knew its business was to track objects with special radar equipment?”
DS: “Yeah. NORAD is supposed to be a radar network that provides advance warning in the event that our air space is intruded upon by any unknown or hostile force. NORAD has very powerful radar, and if something is in the air, they see it. If they detect some unknown object, they will scramble interceptors to take a closer look and engage with weapons, if necessary.”
Howe: “And did anyone, including your wife, know that you were going to that NORAD office?”
DS: “No.”
Howe: “You just decided to do this on the spur of the moment?”
DS: “Yes.”
Howe: “You drive up and what happened?”DS: “I drove up into the parking lot and got out of the car. I’d never been there before. There were three buildings and I didn’t know where to go. Then this Air Force Colonel came out of one of the buildings, walked right over to me and introduced himself. He had come out in such a hurry that he left his hat inside. He was smiling and extended his hand for a handshake. He said, ‘What can we do for you?’ That really took me back because he was a Colonel and I was a junior officer. He was acting like he wanted to be buddy buddy. And I told him about the thing I saw in the sky near Ft. Stewart, the area it was in and the direction it moved off to.”
Howe: “Did you describe the beams and the object in it and everything?”
DS: “Yes. And the Colonel said, ‘That’s pretty interesting. Let’s go see what we’ve got.’ So he takes me inside that Top Secret facility and he doesn’t know me from Adam. I’ve never met him before and I wasn’t cleared for any of that stuff. No one asked me for my ID which was highly unusual. He just walked in with me past the special security officer to a large work area with a lot of people sitting at work stations. Then the Colonel said, ‘Hey, gang, this is Chief Smith here – he’s interested in something that he saw the other night.’
“We went from that room into a back room that was blacked out. There were large Plexiglas type screens with glowing symbols on them. Another group of people were working in this room. The Colonel again introduced me, ‘This is Chief Smith and he wants to know about the thing the other night. So, run the tape.’ They ran a tape for me. When it finished, the Colonel said, ‘See there was nothing there.’ Course, I wouldn’t have known what I was looking at anyway because that wasn’t my job and I didn’t know anything about it.
“Then he escorted me back outside and said, ‘Appreciate your coming down and glad we could be of service.’ Small talk.
“The Colonel went back inside the building and I was very puzzled about what had just transpired. Then a guy I knew from the bowling league came out. He was some kind of Sergeant. He had a lot of stripes. He said, ‘Hey, I need to tell you something but we can’t talk now. Leave and come back to this parking lot after you see fifteen cars leave. Come back. It’s important!’
“So I did what he told me to and when I came back, he came out to my car looking all around as if he thought he might be watched. He said, ‘Look, I can’t really talk out here. You need to get going before someone comes back and sees us talking. It’s not good for you to be here. I just wanted you to know because I know you’re from the league and you look like a nice guy. What you saw the other night was real. You really saw that and I wanted you to know so you wouldn’t think you’re going nuts or something. I can’t tell you anything more about it. And don’t come back here anymore.’ It wasn’t like he didn’t have the information. I realized he wasn’t allowed to tell me. I thanked him and left.”
Howe: “And no other follow up from anybody? No one else came to debrief you? No one else came to warn you?”
DS: “No. In fact I called an Air Force office in a last effort to communicate. I told them I wanted to report an unidentified flying object. The guy on the phone said, ‘I really don’t have time for this.’ I asked, ‘Don’t you guys care about this? I thought you were required to take reports.’
“Then he said, ‘OK, give me the information.’ So I told him and it was like I was really bothering him and he was doing me a big favor to listen. I don’t know what they did with it. I never had anyone else talk to me.”
Howe: “Do you personally have any doubt that we’re dealing with a non-human intelligence?”
DS: “No.”
More Information:
For further information, please see my books: An Alien Harvest; the 2-volume Glimpses of Other Realities; and my documentaries A Strange Harvest and Strange Harvests 1993 now available in DVD format in the Earthfiles Shop.
Also, see Earthfiles Archivefor beam technology and other high strangeness reports such as those listed below:
02/02/2010 —Part 3: Highest Strangeness – Body Containers
01/30/2010 —Letters to Editor About High Strangeness Phenomena
01/28/2010 —Part 1: Highest Strangeness UFO Cases in Scotland
01/28/2010 —Part 2: Highest Strangeness UFO Cases in Scotland
07/12/2009 —Mysterious Aerial Lights Mimicking Stars in Texas and Oregon
06/09/2009 —Update Podcast: Aerial Lights That Mimic Stars, Helicopters and Airplanes
05/26/2009 —Part 9: High Strangeness Files about EBENs
