Left: Tropical storm Rita quickly became Cat 1 hurricane by Tuesday morning, September 20, 2005, from a tropical depression on Saturday. Right: Then intensified rapidly to a Category 5 on Wednesday, September 21, 2005. Satellite images courtesy NOAA.
September 23, 2005 Miami, Florida – The United States mainland has never been hit by both Category 4 and Category 5 hurricanes in the same season. But 2005 looked like it might happen after catastrophic Katrina hit the Gulf Coast as a Cat 4 on August 29, and was followed three weeks later by the ferocious Cat 5 Rita aimed at Texas with 170 mph sustained winds. By Thursday evening, September 22, Rita’s winds had slowed to 145 mph as a still-dangerous Category 4 headed north toward Port Arthur, Texas.Click for report.
"Why is such a wimpy Solar Minimum cycle, with only a few sunspots, so strong when it comes to making flares?"
- David Hathaway, Ph.D., NASA Solar Physicist
September 23, 2005 Huntsville, Alabama - The sun in our solar system is a big ball of hydrogen and helium gas that's 107 times larger than the Earth. The sun is like a big nuclear fusion reactor that gives light and heat to the planets. Even at 93 million miles from the sun, the temperatures can support life from the icy poles to the hot equator. Scientists who have studied ice cores report that long before the current Industrial Age's emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming, there have been many cycles of heating and cooling on the planet. Could it be that the so-called Solar Constant is not so constant? Could cycles in the sun ranging from lots of sunspots and big solar flares to few sunspots and small solar flares have more to do with Earth temperatures than originally thought?
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September 21, 2005 Fairborn, Ohio – On Monday night September 19, 2005, around 10:30 p.m. in Ohio, Michael Johnson and his wife heard a surprising and unexpected deep rumble of thunder. Both are radio ham operators and members of the Dayton Sky Warn group which watches the sky for unusual weather and sends out alerts. No thunderstorm was expected as far as they knew. But Mike grabbed his digital camera as he usually does in storms to photograph unusual lightning or other notable storm features.Click for report.
"An alleged violent incident occurred in the Spring of 1977 in southwestern Ohio which involved an encounter between a landed or disabled alien craft and its crew and a U. S. military detachment dispatched to the site."
To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 9 of Status Report II, written in January 1980. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report III begins at Earthfiles. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994. For all the previous status reports, see Earthfiles Archives.
Leonard H. Stringfield:
"ITEM B-13
In my first UFO crash/retrieval paper I made brief reference to an alleged violent incident occurred in the Spring of 1977 in southwestern Ohio which involved an encounter between a landed or disabled alien craft and its crew and a U. S. military detachment dispatched to the site. Since it made news and drew inquiry, the town nearest the site has been identified as Lumberton, on Highway 68, southeast of Xenia, Ohio and Wright-Patterson AFB.
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"Although I've read accounts of reputable pilots who have seen what they described as UFOs... I made an effort to get in the room at Wright-Patterson Field where the information was stored and I was denied this request..."
To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 8 of Status Report II, written in January 1980. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report III begins at Earthfiles. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994. For all the previous status reports, see Earthfiles Archives.
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“Ten cats have been chopped in half or into three pieces and posed in the front yards of neighbors in this area since July.”
– Brenda Carey, Bureau of Humane Law Enforcement , Los Angeles
Since early August 2005, at least 47 animals have been found dead and mutilated in Switzerland, ranging from the provinces of Neuchatel, Jura and Basel provinces to Solothurn and Aargau.
September 14, 2005 Solothurn (Soleure), Switzerland – Beginning in late May 2005, police in northwest Switzerland in a triangular region located between Basel (Basle), Solothurn (Soleure) and Aarau began receiving reports about cows, sheep, horses, cats and rabbits found dead with precise, surgical excisions of tissues, especially the sexual organs. Between August 8 and August 26, 2005, as the number of dead animals climbed to at least 47, there were half a dozen newspaper articles about the disturbing mutilations. Earthfiles viewer, Jeanne Guillou of Paris, France, saw Swiss television and newspaper reports about the dead animals and translated several articles for this Earthfiles report.Click for report.
"Instead of Pluto being a unique object that's difficult to understand (has frozen methane crust), we now see it as part of a family of objects (Xena, Sedna and Easterbunny that also have frozen methane crusts). We can try to understand the entire family, with Pluto being the middle sized member of the three. That's very exciting to us."
- Michael E. Brown, Astronomer
Planet X, or Xena, or 2003 UB313, illustrated as red in color because it has a surface of frozen methane similar to Pluto, "Easterbunny," and Sedna. Nine billion miles from the sun, Xena is 20 to 30 percent larger than Pluto. Illustration by Cal Tech.
September 15, 2005 Pasadena, California - A couple of months ago in late July, astronomer Michael Brown and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology, announced their discovery of "Planet X." It's a big chunk of rock and ice nine billion miles from the sun. It's actually bigger than Pluto - and far beyond Pluto in what is known as the Kuiper Belt that circles our solar system. Now, almost two months later, the International Astronomical Union still has not decided if the exciting discovery should be classified a planet or what it's official name should be.
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"It is common knowledge by those experienced in aerospace science and rocket development that no spacecraft or nose cone in 1965 had the capability of a 25-degree adjustmentin flight direction during earth re-entry."
To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 7 of Status Report II, written in January 1980. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report III begins at Earthfiles. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994. For all the previous status reports, see Earthfiles Archives.
Leonard H. Stringfield:"PART II: NEW SUPPORT DATA I, or any of my research contemporaries, might never live to see the day when all the facts are bared to either verify or completely quash the story of UFO crashes, retrievals, and of the little nondescript bipeds that are kept under official wraps in cryogenic catacombs. The whole truth is beyond my meager range of inquiry. The data I present here are hardly sufficient to change the hard crust of our scientific community. And, if everything I know is true, then perhaps it is also true that other information unknown to me would 'blow the mind,' as the former C.I.aA. employee once commented on tape. If, then, the real facts are so unsettling, is it socially wise to hide the truth until the day may come when disaster strikes or a docile segment of our humanity is converted to fear or worship a fetish that does not even exist? In the meantime, until the official facts can be bared of what I have revealed can be believed, then UFOlogy must continue to live with the UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome until its frustrations can be relieved by seeing a humanoid like King Tut on exhibition. But my story is not yet finished. It is not all dominated by anonymous firsthand informants whose reports of a UFO crash/retrieval might be diagnosed as syndrome of a sick mind. There are others of a growing legion of credible people who have provided valuable data. Consider the following:
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September 9, 2005 New York, New York – The American government has worked so hard to convince the media and public that there is no substance to reports of unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrials, that even famous rock stars have tried to hide their own encounters with non-human entities and craft. But now there is a new book recently published by VH1 and Pocket Books entitled Alien Rock: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Extraterrestrial Connection by Michael Luckman. Mr. Luckman grew up in New York and in the early 1970s was Director of Publications for the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. He also taught a college level course there about rock music and edited a newspaper called The New York Daily Planet. The 1970s were full of UFO and human abduction stories and Michael Luckman started collecting reports including insider tales about the link between some of the greatest rock stars and UFOs. Now he is Director of the New York Center for Extraterrestrial Research.Click for report.
“You’re not going anywhere today. You’ve been rejected from entering the United States.’
– U. S. Homeland Security Agent, September 2, 2005, Vancouver, B. C. Int’l. Airport
September 8, 2005 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – Last weekend I was in Los Angeles for the National UFO Conference (NUFOC) to speak about “UFO Crash Retrievals and the American Government’s Policy of Denial in the Interest of National Security.” One of my colleagues from Canada, Grant Cameron, was going to speak at the conference about the “64 Reasons Why The U. S. Government Can’t Tell the Truth About UFOs.” [See Earthfiles 12-21-04] Grant’s research the past few years has been physically traveling in the United States to American National Archives and Presidential libraries looking for time and date links between White House meetings and alleged UFO crash retrieval events. Grant’s work has strongly contributed to the emerging Big Picture of American presidents as far back as Franklin Delano Roosevelt having knowledge about UFO crash retrievals and cover-ups.Click for report.
