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UFOs on the Colbert Report

2010-08-26T22:02:00.001-04:00

The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Leslie Kean

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UFO Closes China Airport?

2010-08-22T15:36:00.000-04:00

The Ohio ParaCon 2010

2010-08-21T12:24:00.000-04:00

Our own Sean Feeney will be speaking tomorrow at 2:30pm at the Ohio ParaCon at Hara Arena in Dayton, OH on the topic of UFO's in the Tri-State. Adult admission is $35, more information is available at OhioParaCon.com.

UFO Caught On Video Over Downtown Cincinnati

2010-05-10T17:18:00.001-04:00

Around 11:35pm last Tuesday evening (5/4/2010), Channel 5's tower cam caught an unidentified object shooting upwards from downtown.

Wednesday's News Report About the Object

Closeup Video of the Object

The object is relatively small and appears to have propellant exhaust coming out of the rear at regular intervals. It does not appear to be related to a sighting reported to the Anomaly Response Network 24 hours prior about a triangular-shaped object flying low to the ground over Northern Kentucky. While still an unknown, nothing about the object on the tape screams otherworldly. Probably just illegal, or possibly a great stunt for the Iron Man 2 release later that week.

Mysterious Desert Lines Were Animal Traps

2010-04-20T17:32:00.007-04:00

A series of low, long walls are cleverly constructed traps that used the landscape.
Gazelle, ibexes, wild asses and other large herding animals were the targets.
No one is sure why the kites were abandoned.

Discovery - British RAF pilots in the early 20th century were the first to spot the strange kite-like lines on the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt from the air and wonder about their origins. The lines are low, stone walls, usually found as angled pairs, that begin far apart and converge at circular pits. In some places in Jordan the lines formed chains up to 40 miles long.
Were they made by some weird kind of fault? Ancient astronauts?
A new study of 16 of what are called desert kites in the eastern Sinai Desert confirms what many researchers have long suspected: The walls form large funnels to direct gazelle and other large game animals into killing pits. What's more, the kites are between 2,300 and 2,400-years-old, were abandoned about 2,200 years ago and are just the right size to have worked on local gazelles and other hooved game.
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This Week's Sightings Roundup

2010-04-11T11:27:00.000-04:00

Thanks to everyone who came out to the first Queen City ParaCon on Friday at Music Hall. It was great to hear some of the stories surrounding that place and finally experience it first hand. But the UFO reports were coming in even before Friday...

UFO Spotted 10pm Tuesday Night Over the Cincinnati Area

"...I went outside to see what my dog was barking at. On the way back into my house I noticed a light above the tree line. At first i thought it was a really bright star, but as I was looking at it, I noticed that it was sort of pulsing different colors. I came back inside and grab my camera and snapped several pictures and i shot a video a few seconds long.What had initailly appeared to be a stationary light was infact moving and i was able to capture it with my camera. It almost looks like a string of christmas lights and the color spectrum is amazing. The video shows it moving and changing colors. I have lived here for over 18 years and I have never seen anything like it before ... I went back out [Wednesday night] around the same time to see if the object appeared again, or might have been a star, it however was not there tonight. It seemed to be hovering over the power company that has been engaging in some weird activity itself in the last few years."

We have not yet received the video, but will post it when we do. Another color changing UFO was spotted by a different witness on Friday night...

"As of right now, 4/9/10, 9:19pm, there is an unidentified object just hanging in the sky. It's hanging between Oakley/Norwood (near Rookwood Commons shopping plaza). It' s been there now for almost an hour.

It's not a star because it's too big, and it's not a satellite because I've seen them, and they are smaller..

It looks like it's changing colors around the edges.

Anyway, just thought I"d report it, as I've seen the same obejct appear there in about the same spot about eight month ago."

A caller to the Cincinnati UFO Hotline (5138765UFO) on Saturday night (4/10) reported the following:

"At 11:30pm I was in my backyard in Mt. Healthy and saw what looked like two balls of fire streak through the sky, moving southwest to northeast. One burned out first, and then the other one did as well. At 11:55 I had a buddy outside with me who also witnessed 8 more of these things moving in the same direction. Then around 12:15 there were two more."

This sighting is consistent with the Virginids meteor shower which is at its peak right now. Happy sky watching everyone!

Unexplained sheep attacks 'caused by aliens in UFOs', farmers claim

2010-04-05T17:23:00.000-04:00

England -- A series of bizarre incidents involving sheep in Shropshire have led to farmers’ claims that aliens are attacking their livestock. Farmers near Shrewsbury claim to have witnessed sheep being “lasered” by unidentified light from UFOs.

They have linked the unexplained incidents, where sheep’s brains and eyes were removed, to the mysterious orange lights in the sky. They have found sheep with “neat holes” while their brains and other internal organs were removed. Other animals have lost eyes or had their flesh “carefully stripped away”, usually on the left side.

Phil Hoyle, 53, who has spent almost a decade investigating how the livestock have died, said the UFOs were found to have roamed a 50-mile "corridor" between Shrewsbury and Powys. Mr Hoyle and 15 members of the Animal Pathology Field Unit, claimed they witnessed UFOs at work last month while working during the night at a Welsh hill farm near Radnor Forest.

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Light in the Sky in Cincinnati

2010-04-02T09:38:00.000-04:00

From the Cincinnati UFO Hotline (513-876-5836): Witness watched a light in the sky blink on and off every 7-8 minutes last night around 12:12am. Approximate location was under the Little Dipper. The witness was adamant that it was not a star, and that it wasn't the first time "it's come to her."

Comment: From the right location a number of stars were visible below the Little Dipper last night including 2 Ursae Minoris and other stars in the Cepheus and Draco constellations. Atmospheric conditions often give a twinkling effect to stars.

UFOs Over Cleveland?

2010-04-01T07:45:00.000-04:00

EUCLID, Ohio -- For the sixth consecutive night, Eugene Erlikh said a bizarre series of lights flickered outside his apartment building window. "It gets bright, bright, bright," said Erlikh, 20. "Different colors and then it gets dim and as soon as it gets dim, it starts moving from there, this way."

Erlikh said the unexplained light show has appeared in the skies over Lake Erie for six nights and his friend, Nick Hausen, was also a witness. "At first, I figured it was just a star but the way it would move, it would move so fast, I've never seen anything like it."

FOX 8 checked with NASA's Glenn Research Center. A spokesperson said they have a few aircraft that perform routine testing, but those planes were not flying the past few nights.

Morse Code to Communicate with UFO's in Cincinnati

2010-03-25T10:20:00.000-04:00

Report to NUFORC:

Light in Backyard on 1/9/2010 in Cincinnati Ohio

my son and I live on two too three acres.we have lived here for all most two years.this sighting began the second week of july 2008. the first time we saw the light was around 23:00 hours. our back yard is nothing but trees, if you walk south about 6 hundred feet you will come to a drop off that is about 4 hundred feet at a 15 dregee. the light came from there. my son was the first to see it what is that he said. I look in the direction where he pointed just then a second later it was gone. i have seen lights in the sky and one night i had my lazer pointer an sent a messeage in morse code,this light answer back,then it was gone. the messeage said come on down,their answer was not now,maybe later. since then we have been seeing these light in the sky. on 01/9/2010 at 21:hours we pulled into our drive way I had my high beams on thats when I saw foot prints going from the garage doors that face the woods all the way back to the end of the woof and just stopped at the window. now I have a garage that will hold six large cars. This garage is at least 60 feet wide and as long. things have been coming to the back porch knocking on the back door,we also have come home and found things moved around in the house. my dog goes crazy barking at something in the backs woods. I have went out in the back yard to get him to stop barking and myself heard something moving around. one night I came home around 2am,parked the car,locked the door and began to walk up the long driveway when I hear something say hi to me. being very dark I walked faster up the driveway and into my house. It was at least 80 degrfees out side ,but i sat there shaking. this is a non stop going thing,maybe I should not have told then to come

Anyone with contact information for this witness is encouraged to E-mail us.

Queen City Para-Con Lowers Admission Price to $45

2010-02-12T13:57:00.000-05:00

Email from the event hosts:

After much thought, countless nights with very little sleep, and lots and lots of research; Rich and I decided that WE want to make the Queen City Para-Con an event that raises the bar and sets new standards for a field that has been plagued by scams, con artists, wheelers & dealers, and GREED!

The Paranormal Community is leary of events because people "Take the money and run" so to speak.

What we have done is structured our event where all general admission is handled in a real box office ran by the Cincinnati Arts Association!

The Paranormal Community is bored of the same old tired Lectures they see at Every Event, Every Year.

What we have done is booked speakers that do not constantly use the same material!

The Paranormal Community does not want to travel after the event in order to investigate a haunted location with their favorite celebrities.

What we have done is allegedly Cincinnati's most notorious, mysterious, haunted locations and held the event there!

The Paranormal Community is a strictly "out of pocket" community/family. After equipment, gas, and other investigation related incidentals its hard to afford to go to a lot of the bigger events.

What we have done is decided to lower our general admission to just $45.00! With over a dozen speakers we want to make this the best quality event and give you more value for your dollar!

The Paranormal Community DOES NOT want to pay extra money to have access to the Vendor area.

What we have done is made sure anyone attending can listen to speakers and go into the vendor area!

The Paranormal Community also likes to have FUN.

What we have done is added Aron Houdini (The only living Houdini) to perform a magic show at the Queen City Para-Con!

The Paranormal Community likes to get together with friends and Colleagues.

What we have done is rented the second largest space in the entire City of Cincinnati!

The Paranormal Community loves Charity and Giving! (Nicest people in the world!)

What we have done is we are donating a small amount from each ticket to the L.I.F.E. (living in fear ends) Foundation! This is an organization ran by Denice Jones that helps families going through EXTREME Haunts!

As I said above, our goal is to raise the bar on Paranormal events and make it safe and fun for everyone!

Best Wishes,

Jake & Rich

Queen City Para-Con
www.queencityparacon.com

Queen City Para-Con is still set for Friday, April 9th, 2010 from 11am 'til late in the evening.

Tonight: Sean Feeney Interviewed on "Going Beyond Radio"

2010-01-04T13:03:00.001-05:00

The hosts of Queen City ParaCon will be interviewing our founder, Sean Feeney, tonight around 9pm on Global Paranormal Network's online radio show "Going Beyond Radio." Topics will include Ufology and the ParaCon, Cincinnati's first paranormal conference (April 9th at Music Hall).

Update 1/5/10: Click here to listen to the archived podcast of the interview.

Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway

2009-12-09T15:49:00.003-05:00

December 9, 2009 - A mysterious light display appearing over Norway last night has left thousands of residents in the north of the country baffled.

Witnesses from Trøndelag to Finnmark compared the amazing sight to anything from a Russian rocket to a meteor or a shock wave - although no one appears to have mentioned UFOs yet. Russia has denied having any missile tests in the area.

The phenomenon began when what appeared to be a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain. It stopped mid-air, then began to circulate. Then a green-blue beam of light shot out from its centre - lasting for ten to twelve minutes before disappearing completely. Read more.

Update 9:54pm: A similar video has surfaced from Tomsk, Russia in 2006. Does this lend credibility to the Russian missile theory?

The Team

2009-12-06T22:02:00.000-05:00

Red Balloons, Nationwide Tomorrow

2009-12-04T09:10:00.000-05:00

On Saturday, Dec 5 at 10:00 AM (ET) the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will reveal the location of 10 8-foot balloons fixed in public locations in the continental United States.
i-Neighbors wants to be the first to report the location of all 10 8-foot balloons. Help us demonstrate how the Internet can be used to mobilize people locally to respond to a time-critical problem! If you see one of DARPA's balloons be the first to email its location to redballoon@i-neighbors.org.
If i-Neighbors is the first to report the location of all 10 balloons you will share in the $40,000 prize:

The first person to email redballoon@i-neighbors.org with the correct location of a balloon will receive a $1,000 reward (one reward for each of the 10 balloons).
All emails received at redballoon@i-neighbors.org that verify the location of a balloon that has already been reported will be entered into a random draw for a reward of $1,000.
The remaining prize money will be used to support the ongoing efforts of i-Neighbors.org.

Who is eligible to participate?
Anyone! (even if you are not an i-Neighbor user).
How do I participate?
The challenge is open from 10:00am (ET) Dec ember 5 through 12:00pm (ET) on December 14, 2009. Email the location of a DARPA balloon to redballoon@i-neighbors.org (you do not need to see the balloon in-person, you can hear about it from a friend, or even read about it online!).
What information do I need to send?
You need only send an email to redballoon@i-neighbors.org with the location of a DARPA balloon (there may also be a number on the balloon). The location of a balloon must be reported with an error of less than 1.0 mile. Street addresses, major cross-roads, or degree decimal formats are acceptable, but the preferred format is the balloon latitude and longitude coordinates in degree-minute-second (DD-MM-SS).
How will I know if it is a DARPA balloon?
DARPA officials accompanying the balloon will have credentials to verify their identities. You can see a picture of the balloons here.
How will I get updates on i-Neighbors progress in the challenge?
Updates on our progress will be made on our announcemnts page and through Twitter.
Why will i-Neighbors win?
i-Neighbors has over 70,000 users who are dedicated to their local communities. i-Neighbors is about mobilizing to solve local problems. The geographically dispersed nature of i-Neighbors makes it ideal to identify and verify the balloons that will be positioned as part of this challenge.
The fine print:
A valid email address must be used to report a balloon location to redballoon@i-neighbors.org. The email address used to report a location will be used to verify the balloon location and to contact individuals if a reward is awarded. Payment will only be made in the event that i-Neighbors is the first to report the location of all 10 balloons and DARPA awards i-Neighbors the Network Challenge prize. The terms of this contest may be modified at any time without notice (for example, if DARPA changes their rules, cancels, or postpones the challenge). More information on the DARPA Network Challenge can be found on the DARPA website.

Mysterious green lights at sea spur calls

2009-12-03T17:12:00.008-05:00

Washington State (Dec. 2) - The U.S. Coast Guard got many calls early this morning, reporting sightings of very bright green flares over the ocean.

Callers from Port Angeles, Wash., down to North Bend, saw the mysterious lights at about 3:30 a.m., which the Coast Guard later determined had been a meteor shower.

A "Beaver" moon, the first of two full moons this month, lit the night sky Tuesday evening. The clear night made the shower visible from far away, said Mark Dobney, civilian search and rescue controller for Coast Guard Group Astoria.

Skeptics

2009-11-24T16:18:00.002-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

1924: US Army and Navy Listen for Signals from Mars

2009-11-10T14:41:00.000-05:00

Amherst College professor David Todd persuaded both the US Army and Navy to listen for messages from Mars. In the telegram above, Edward W. Eberle, the Chief of US Naval Operations, informs Naval stations of the possibility of Martian communications, and instructs them to report any unusual phenomena. For three days, the stations listened for unusual transmissions, but came up empty handed. [via io9]

Breaking: UFOs over East Side of Cincinnati Tonight

2009-11-07T21:09:00.008-05:00

Cincinnati, OH - Three witnesses and two separate reports of a vertically shaped UFO over the east side of Cincinnati tonight between 7:50 and 8pm. The first caller to the Cincinnati UFO Hotline (513-876-5UFO) described five "huge" orange, oval-shaped lights stacked-up vertically over the east side of Downtown Cincinnati visible from his Ft. Wright, KY neighborhood. The lights eventually faded out, and then a sixth single light became visible.

The second caller was driving with his girlfriend on OH St. Rt. 32 when she pointed out what appeared to be an "explosion in the sky" over the Batavia / Eastgate Mall area. A string of four lights came down from it, fading in and out. The objects became solid and started zig-zagging across the sky.

Additional unverified witnesses on the KY side of the river in Newport, east of the Levee, claimed to have saw 3 lights over Cincinnati around the same time. Did you witness this UFO event? Send us your report.

Update 9:35pm: Additional witnesses have contacted us regarding their own sightings across the area tonight. One possible explanation offered by e-mailer #3 was "parachutists over Nippert Stadium for the UC football game."

E-mail Report #1: "We saw the same UFO tonight in Northern Kentucky. We were on 471 North by the Southgate/Fort Thomas exit and we saw four lights in the west part of the sky. They were semi-circular on the bottom with a lid type appearance on top. It looked as though there were four lights and then went off and came back on in random patterns. They were distinctly clear with no diffusion of light. We reported it to 700 WLW and Fox 19. Both news sources stated they had received multiple calls and WLW informed us that they had called the police and made a report. The police stated that they believed they were parachuters for the UC vs Uconn game tonight. We don’t think so! WLW radio sounded skeptical of this explanation as well and was anxiously awaiting video of the event or more detail."

E-mail Report #2: "My boyfriend and I saw them too. We were just leaving Kenwood driving down 71 south and to my right, out the passenger side window, looking over the Ridge Ave/Madisonville area were 4 glowing lights in formation. One faded in and out. The trees obscured my vision but as the 71 curved back they were visible through the windshield again, then there were only 3 lights. Then as we got off the Red Bank Rd exit the trees obscured them again. I called my mom immediately after they disappeared behind the trees the first time, my phone says I made that call at 7:51 pm.

"It was the strangest thing I've ever seen. I don't believe in stuff like this but I saw it with my own eyes. It was completely unexplainable. They weren't planes, they weren't objects WITH lights ATTACHED to them. The whole thing glowed, a warm color too, like a yellowy gold color light, whatever they were. I tried to take a picture with my cellphone but it's so grainy you can't even make it out."

Update: 10:30pm: Several more e-mail reports, one with iPhone video. Another comment about a possible skydiving team's responsibility.

"My brother in law pulled up to our house, he ran in, said he saw a comet break up in the sky. We (my wife, brother in law, and mother in law, and I) ran outside to see it. What we saw was crazy! There was four comet looking objects in the sky (head and firey tails). We still thought they were comets but then they never fell they just hovered and swirled around. One would fade out and then come back. Eventually they just descended down towards the earth and we couldn't see them anymore. I recorded it on my iphone..."

"i have a picture. my friend said it's a shooting star, then when it broke into four pieces we knew it was more than a shooting star. we continued to watch four balls of fire floating in mid air. we chased it down the block and we saw it until it faded completely..." [Ed. Note: Waiting to receive the picture.]

"My wife and I saw the lights and pulled over and tried taking a video with her digital camera in the Kenwood area. We lost them behind a building though before getting a good shot. They were clearly falling objects. It was a skydiving team, and they INTENDED for people to report a bunch of UFO sightings, especially with creating the illusion of a rapidly expanding and contracting plus disappearing and reappearing object."

Update 11:00pm: Three new callers to the hotline, one with skydiving experience who says there's "no way" what he saw could have been skydivers. One with a photo.

The first caller saw 6 bright objects in the sky, far east of Christ Hospital on the east side of Cincinnati. He and his wife witnessed the objects from their home in Price Hill. He waited to see if Fox 19 said anything about it on their 10pm news broadcast but they didn't. He has been skydiving before and says that from where he saw the object, if they were skydivers, they could not have glided far enough to hit Nippert Stadium with the object's rate of descent. They were "maintaining too well, like they were stopped. There's no way skydivers could hold that perfect." His wife chimed in, "I've never seen skydivers like that!" He tried to get a picture but the object was no longer visible by the time he had the camera ready. A small plane was seen in the area at the time of the sighting, as was a passenger jet much higher in the sky.The couple reported that police in District 2 (far eastern side of Cincinnati) were flooded with calls about strange objects in the sky.

The witness called his brother in Adams County, OH to relate the details of his sighting and his brother confirmed that it sounds highly similar to something he had seen in his secluded neck of the woods twice in the past several days. The Adams County sightings were followed by two jet fighters flying side by side, as if they had been called to investigate. When the lights there dimmed out, you'd "see a tail on them like a meteor."

The next caller saw the lights from the Crestview Hills Mall in Northern Kentucky. He saw four lights turning on and off, moving towards each other. They did not look to belong to an aircraft or some type of natural phenomenon. He noted that wcpo.com mentioned the skydivers to Nippert Stadium, and he accepted this explanation.

WCPO reports that "It was the Warren County Team Fastrax exhibition sky diving club. The four skydivers wearing bright lights jumped out of the plane together, split into two pairs, and then descended individually. Viewers as far away as Burlington, Kentucky called to report seeing the strange lights."

The latest caller also saw four lights, but they had what looked like "fire" coming off of them. She snapped a photo. "We saw these objects hovering in the sky as we were driving on Rt. 71 S (4 miles from Paul Brown stadium). "officially" called skydivers with pyro-technics?!?!"

Update 12:00am: A new caller to the hotline saw the lights from the Sharonville area on his way to work. Several new email reports.

Facing southwesterly at 7:54pm, the caller saw four lights doing the same pattern as seen in the earlier iPhone video. The lights didn't go up or down, they appeared to be stationary. Several people were standing in the Kroger parking lot watching the lights, some trying to snap cell phone photos. Eventually all of the lights blinked out. Afterwards 3-4 airplanes came to the area and could be heard from the ground, as if they were searching for the lights.

E-mail report: "Driving through Northside (Central Cincinnati) headed east on Dane, looking directly ahead (East) above the treeline of Mt. Storm, at around 7:55 PM EST, I saw four large (1/2 thumbnail at arm's length) yellow-gold lights, hovering in a loose grouping, shimmering, alternately fading and growing brighter. Stopped and got out of my car and watched for a few minutes in amazement as the lights remained suspended in their loose pattern. The shape of these lights was of an elongated tear-drop on its side, with the smaller pointed end to the left and larger round end to the right. They did not seem to move from left to right in a linear path, but more up and down, left and right, expanding and contracting the overall area of their cluster.

"While I watched, two of these lights peeled back into a sort of inverted comma-shape and with a downward twisting motion, disappeared, only to re-appear in a few seconds back to the original shape and size. After a little bit more of this (under a minute?) they all faded into dark, and then after maybe 10-15 seconds, one of the lights (at the bottom of the "cluster") re-appeared. There also appeared to be at least two conventional aircraft in the vicinity of these lights, visible by much smaller regularly blinking lights (red, green, white) that moved in the steady linear fashion typical of airplanes. The phenomena I saw looked more like four wings of flame, aqueous and glowing, related but not linked, more organic than mechanical"

E-mail report: "I was driving south on I-71 and saw lights appear out of nowhere like an explosion. At first, I thought it may have been a meteor but it was too close. Then I thought they were falling stars, but they stopped (and even shouted to my son, "Look at all those falling stars!"). For a second, I thought they were fireworks but realized very quickly that the lights, which appeared to be falling slowly a short distance, stopped falling. They hovered there in the sky and appeared to "take shape" The shape I saw was round on one end (presumably the back end because they appeared to be pointed slightly downward) and pointed on the other end. They moved into a perfect formation and faded in and out. The most I ever saw at once was 5, but most of the time when I could see them, there were only 4. I thought it must have had something to do with a game at the stadium, but as I watched, I couldn't think of anything that would have just hovered there like that. Then I thought it could have been flares but I don't think such a planned formation is possible with flares.

"As the road curved, I could no longer see them. I passed the place where I saw them and suddenly saw them reappear again in the sky. This time, because I was looking to the sky to find them, I saw that "ball" of light fall and break up again. The "ball" wasn't visible to me for a long period of time (maybe a split second) before it broke up into separate parts. This time, though, the most I saw was 4. They hovered there for quite a while, fading in and out like the last time, and were pointed slightly downward again. I think I remember a small plane flying by them, too, but I can't be positive about that. It seems like I may have seen several small planes later, or the same one multiple times.

"I'm not sure that I fully believe in this stuff, but what I saw was real. These lights were NOT skydivers. The light fully and equally emanated from each object until it faded, then was fully lit again. The light looked like a glowing yellow to me and the none of the lights appeared to turn in any direction the way you would expect skydivers to turn. These things were completely controlled. I was in shock! I tried to take a picture with my phone but with the movement of the car and the size of the lights, nothing showed on the screen, so I didn't take a picture.

Update 12:50am: E-mail report as follows.

"My daughter and I were returning from Columbus when she pointed out the lights. We were just north of exit 25 (King's Island) on I-71 headed south. When I saw the lights there were 4 of them in a large triangular pattern. One appeared to fall out the sky in pieces. We talked about it when we got home and she said that at first she thought it was fire works at Kings island (which was closed). When we reached the exit the lights were gone."

Total number of reports: 23
Total number of known witnesses: 35

UFO Frontier Now Available in Paperback

2009-10-30T16:35:00.000-04:00

Just in time for Halloween, Kenny Young's UFO Frontier has been released to paperback. The anthology chronicles his 7+ years of professional ufology across the Cincinnati region and tristate area. Pick it up today on Amazon or CreateSpace. Kindle version also available.

In UFO Frontier, Cincinnati-based Ufologist Kenny Young's body of work is revealed including his investigations into Jackie Gleason and "The Pickled Men", pre-Roswell UFO crashes, the 1997 "Phoenix Lights", phantom blasts, mystery planes, weird creatures, stealth aerospace technology, crop circles, police and government UFO incidents, and private industry involvement. No crackpot flying saucer personality or organization is safe from his level-headed criticism. Editor and fellow paranormal researcher S. Patrick Feeney merges several of Young's unpublished works into this single anthology.

Weird Ways to Search for ET

2009-09-27T23:18:00.000-04:00

It's a constant battle, as SETI scientists (and string theorists, for that matter) are often accused of falling down the wrong rabbit hole. "Why waste time looking for old-style radio signals," many people have written me, "when the aliens will be shooting neutrinos our way?" "The aliens will use entangled particles to signal us," many tell me. Luc Arnold, a French astronomer, has suggested that aliens might signal us with giant shadow puppets. Read More

The Search

2009-09-25T13:30:00.000-04:00

One step closer to Star Trek's holograms

2009-09-18T18:16:00.004-04:00

TOKYO - By using ultrasonic waves, the scientists have developed software that creates pressure when a user's hand "touches" a hologram that is projected.

In order to track a user's hand, the researchers use control sticks from Nintendo's popular Wii gaming system that are mounted above the hologram display area.

The technology has so far been tested with relatively simple objects, although the researchers have more practical plans, including virtual switches at hospitals, for example, and other places where contamination by touch is an issue.

New 'Drake equation' for alien habitats

2009-09-17T17:31:00.006-04:00

SYDNEY -- A mathematical equation that counts habitats suitable for alien life could complement the Drake equation, which estimates the probability of finding intelligent alien beings elsewhere in the galaxy. The new equation, under developed by planetary scientists at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England, aims to develop a single index for habitability based on the presence of energy, solvents such as water, raw materials like carbon and whether or no there are benign environmental conditions. Read More

"Paranormal Activity" Hits Theaters September 25th

2009-09-16T20:48:00.000-04:00

Are we in for another Blair Witch or has someone finally managed to turn Ghost Hunters into a fictional movie? Post your thoughts.