Flying Disc Paced Airliner Over Puget Sound Navy Yard

Puget Sound Navy Ship Yard near Bremerton, Washington, west of Seattle.
Puget Sound Navy Ship Yard near Bremerton, Washington, west of Seattle.

March 7, 2005  Shelton, Washington - Jim Strong's interest in unidentified flying objects began during his U. S. Air Force work from February 1964 to February 1968. He was trained at Keesler Technical Training Center in Biloxi, Mississippi, in advanced electronics and radar. Then he was stationed with the 757 Radar Squadron at Blaine AFB on the Canadian border. Once there, Jim was assigned to the Search Radar unit. [Editor's Note: In search radar, the antenna goes around in a circle and picks off the azimuth, or direction, of aircraft. In height finder radar, the antenna nods up and down.]

 

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Part 3: UFO Crash/Retrievals: Status Report III – Amassing The Evidence

"[N. J. state trooper] described aerial object as oval-shaped, with no details, and glowing with a bluish-green color. His radio transmission was cut off. At that time in front of his police car appeared a thing, about 4 feet tall, greyish-brown, fat head, long arms and slender body."

- USAF Security Policeman

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To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 3 of Status Report III, written in June 1982. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report IV begins at Earthfiles 021205. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994.


"Fred Schaefer's report on KA's aftermath:

Since 1954, when this incident allegedly occurred, KA has been having intermittent nightmares about his experience in the desert. During the year 1981, these nightmares have grown in intensity and frequency, causing KA much anguish. During the lecture at Edmund Scientific Company in March, KA saw his opportunity to reveal details of his UFO retrieval experience to someone who would lend an understanding ear; thereby helping to alleviate his mental torment. 

 

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Subterranean Life On Earth – and Mars?

"I do believe there is life inside the planet Mars, maybe 50 to 100 meters below the surface. But there is a long way to go to demonstrate that."

- Physicist Vittorio Formisano, Principal Investigator, PSF Mars Orbiter 

Microbiologist and atmospheric chemist, Penelope Boston, Ph.D., explores caves in New Mexico and Mexico looking for organisms (B&W inset is bacteria) that feed off a wide variety of minerals. Her evolving "Field Guide to Cave and Subterranean Microbes" might help in search for past, or present, life on Mars. Image © by Val Hadreth-Wether.
Microbiologist and atmospheric chemist, Penelope Boston, Ph.D., explores caves in New Mexico and Mexico looking for organisms (B&W inset is bacteria) that feed off a wide variety of minerals. Her evolving "Field Guide to Cave and Subterranean Microbes" might help in search for past, or present, life on Mars. Image © by Val Hadreth-Wether.

March 4, 2005  Socorro, New Mexico - Last week at the first European Space Agency Mars Express Orbiter conference in The Netherlands, the Italian physicist Vittorio Formisano presented data about not only methane and water vapor in the Martian atmosphere, but formaldehyde. Small amounts of formaldehyde had also been reported by NASA and attributed to the oxidation and break down of methane.

 

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What Made Five Strong Radio Bursts At the Center of Our Galaxy?

The Andromeda Galaxy is a large spiral galaxy very similar to our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. It is over 65,000 light-years in diameter and approximately 2.2 million light-years away from Earth. From Earth to the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is 8,500 parsecs ­ about 26,000 light years ­ the densest region. Andromeda image by T.A.Rector and B.A.Wolpa/NOAO/AURA/NSF.
The Andromeda Galaxy is a large spiral galaxy very similar to our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. It is over 65,000 light-years in diameter and approximately 2.2 million light-years away from Earth. From Earth to the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is 8,500 parsecs ­ about 26,000 light years ­ the densest region. Andromeda image by T.A.Rector and B.A.Wolpa/NOAO/AURA/NSF.

March 3, 2005  Sweet Briar, Virginia- The current British journal, Nature, features a report about a powerful and repeating burst of radio waves toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy that are unlike any other radio bursts ever monitored on Earth. The unique event took place the night of September 30 to October 1, 2002. It has taken three years for the data to be thoroughly analyzed, compared to archive data, and finally reported publicly as a unique and puzzling event in human study of our universe. The lead scientist on the Nature article is Scott Hyman, Professor of Physics at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, who for five years has been studying the Milky Way's galactic center for the Naval Research Laboratory.

 

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"The saucer-like object had a stationary dome in the center, but the outer rim was still spinning in a counter-clockwise direction, and the lights on this outer edge were rotating in the same direction. But what startled us more was the sight of four small bodies scattered outside the craft. They were motionless and appeared to be dead."

- USAF Search and Rescue Photographer, New Mexico, 1954

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To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 2 of Status Report III, written in June 1982. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report IV begins at Earthfiles 021205. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994.

"THE FIRST PERSON REPORT: CLASSIFIED 'A'

This paper follows the reportorial pattern established in The UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome, Status Report II, published by MUFON in January 1980. As before, case history reports are divided into two parts. Reports from first person witnesses are classified as 'A,' while 'B' reports concern secondhand or intermediary information and other relative data submitted by researchers. 

 

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"I don't know of anyone who has access to the (Pentagon) blue room, nor am I aware of its contents and I am not aware of anything having been relocated. ...this thing (UFOs) has gotten so highly classified, even though I will admit there is a lot of it that has been released, it is just impossible to get anything on it."

- Barry Goldwater, U. S. Senator, Arizona, 1981

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however, improbable, must be the truth." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however, improbable, must be the truth." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 1 of Status Report III, written in June 1982. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report IV begins at Earthfiles 021205. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994.

"PROLOGUE: THE BIGGEST STORY EVER, NEVER TOLD

"Ever since World War II when the first UFOs, dubbed 'foo fighters,' became officially recognized, the mystery of their origin and intent has haunted the minds of man. Most ponder the puzzlement skeptically amused; others want to believe and straddle a philosophic fence guessing for answers. As we head into the decade of the 1980s, serious research has not found the answer either, or the proof to qualify an answer. Officially, the mystery remains ostensibly irresolvable. To those wary and who have taken the time to probe, the official position is as mysterious as the UFO itself.

 

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Collapse of Societies: From Easter Island to Iraq – to Western World?

The statues of Rapa Nui on Easter Island are called moai in the Rapanui language. In the totem tradition of some other Polynesian cultures to honor ancestors and display strength and wealth, statues were carved from the island's lava stone between 900 A.D. and around 1500 A. D. Approximately half of the total of 887 statues documented to date still remain in the immediate vicinity of Rano Raraku, the quarry in which they were produced. The statues were transported and erected with the leverage help of the island's once abundant tall palm trees which were eventually all cut down. Photograph © Cliff Wassman.
The statues of Rapa Nui on Easter Island are called moai in the Rapanui language. In the totem tradition of some other Polynesian cultures to honor ancestors and display strength and wealth, statues were carved from the island’s lava stone between 900 A.D. and around 1500 A. D. Approximately half of the total of 887 statues documented to date still remain in the immediate vicinity of Rano Raraku, the quarry in which they were produced. The statues were transported and erected with the leverage help of the island’s once abundant tall palm trees which were eventually all cut down. Photograph © Cliff Wassman.
The west coast of Chile is 2,300 miles to the east and Polynesia's Pitcairn Islands are 1,300 miles to the west. 
The west coast of Chile is 2,300 miles to the east and Polynesia’s Pitcairn Islands are 1,300 miles to the west.
Easter Island is triangular-shaped and was created entirely from three volcanic eruptions over the past few million years. The entire island is only 9 miles long north to south, 1,670 feet high and covers only 66 square miles.
Easter Island is triangular-shaped and was created entirely from three volcanic eruptions over the past few million years. The entire island is only 9 miles long north to south, 1,670 feet high and covers only 66 square miles.

February 26, 2005  Los Angeles, California – Among earth mysteries, some of the greatest are the haunting remains of past civilizations such as the Mayan pyramids of Mexico and Central America; the elaborate, deserted temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia; and the huge and heavy stone statues on remote Easter Island, 2300 miles west of Chile’ in South America. The island and its strange statues were not discovered until Easter Day on April 5, 1722 by a Dutch explorer named Jacob Roggeveen. Like all subsequent visitors, Roggeveen was puzzled about how the natives there had erected the large lava rock statues, one as tall as 39 feet. And why?Click for report.

Mars Spirit Rover Discovered Boundary Between Gusev Lava and Older, Water-Drenched Rocks in “Columbia Hills”

"The rocks in the Columbia Hills ­ they've seen a lot of water! They've been soaked, they've been altered, there is all sort of evidence that it was a different Mars when those rocks were laid down."

- Larry Crumpler, Ph.D., Geologist

 January 18, 2004, composite image by Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) daily global images acquired at Ls 145°. Produced by NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems.
January 18, 2004, composite image by Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) daily global images acquired at Ls 145°. Produced by NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems.

February 25, 2005  Albuquerque, New Mexico - There was a discovery by the Spirit Rover on Mars which thrilled NASA scientists in the summer of 2004. Both rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been looking for hard geological evidence that Mars had a watery past. Spirit's discovery would hold up in a "court room" as solid evidence of water, one geologist told me. And if there was once a lot of water on the Martian surface, was there life in that water? If organisms did live in Martian water, could they still be frozen in surface ice - or even living today underground and in caves on Mars? Could living organisms explain methane, formaldehyde and water vapor reported in the Martian atmosphere?

 

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FINAL Part 4: UFO Crash/Retrievals: Status Report IV – Fatal Encounter At Ft. Dix-McGuire

"After the shooting of the non-human entity], taking command was a new and unfamiliar team of Blue Berets that suddenly descended onto the scene, just moments after the runway had been cordoned off. With speed and efficiency, 'they took over,' he said, 'and when asked who they were, we were told nothing and ordered to stay outside the ropes.'"

 - Source: USAF Security Policeman, McGuire AFB, New Jersey

 McGuire AFB and Fort Dix Military Reservation near Wrightstown, New Jersey, are near the U. S. Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The bases are about 45 miles east of Philadelphia, 50 miles south of New York City, 60 miles north of Atlantic City and 10 miles west of the Atlantic ocean. The Fort Dix / McGuire Air Force Base / Lakehurst Naval Air Station complex covers 42,000 acres.
McGuire AFB and Fort Dix Military Reservation near Wrightstown, New Jersey, are near the U. S. Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The bases are about 45 miles east of Philadelphia, 50 miles south of New York City, 60 miles north of Atlantic City and 10 miles west of the Atlantic ocean. The Fort Dix / McGuire Air Force Base / Lakehurst Naval Air Station complex covers 42,000 acres.

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To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 3 of Status Report IV, written for the June 28-30, 1985, MUFON 1985 UFO Symposium Proceedings in conjunction with the national MUFON conference held in Saint Louis, Missouri. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report V begins at Earthfiles 012805. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994.

 

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Frozen Sea Near Martian Equator Size of Lake Michigan

"The most interesting thing is that we might find life there (in frozen sea) because if you look at the source of the water, which has filled a huge basin, it comes out of cracks in the ground. The indication that there are warm, wet places beneath the surface of Mars as recently as 5 million years ago to me is good evidence that life might have developed on Mars."

 - John Murray, Ph.D., Open University, England

Elysium Planitia lies near the Martian equator. Map © 1998 by National Geographic Society.
Elysium Planitia lies near the Martian equator. Map © 1998 by National Geographic Society.
ESA Mars Express image of extensive fields of large fractured ice covered by red lava ash at the Cerberus Fossae fissures in eastern Elysium Planitia. Photograph © 2005 G. Neukum, ESA/D_R/FUBerlin.
ESA Mars Express image of extensive fields of large fractured ice covered by red lava ash at the Cerberus Fossae fissures in eastern Elysium Planitia. Photograph © 2005 G. Neukum, ESA/D_R/FUBerlin.

February 22, 2005  Noordwijk, The Netherlands - On Earth, pack ice is a floating mass of ice formed from seawater in the Earth's polar regions. Pack ice expands during winter to cover about 5 percent of the northern oceans and 8 percent of the southern oceans. When melting occurs in spring and summer, the margins of the pack ice retreat. 

 

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