Post by meldrew on May 13, 2011 14:24:45 GMT 1
May 10th, 2011
by Billy Cox
In March I did a phoner with a real estate guy who sounded like he’d had his mind blown by a pair of UFOs one night near his home south of Sarasota. Most noteworthy was the eyewitness’s standing in the community; not surprisingly, he insisted on anonymity
The incident itself lasted maybe two minutes. It involved a couple of noiseless orange lights apparently descending from over the Gulf, on an easterly heading, hovering for 10-15 seconds, then accelerating rapidly, one after another. He also noticed two southbound jetliners, different flight paths, and how the UFOs “quickly traversed both airliners’ altitudes.”
The guy’s observations were precise and consistent with the jargon of the former military aviator he claimed to be. He insisted not only that the airline pilots couldn’t have missed seeing the speeding vehicles, but that the FAA must have tracked the things. He was so adamant he wrote out a detailed accounting for me to forward to the feds, so long as I kept his name out of it.
The subsequent response by the FAA regional office in Atlanta was decisive. “We checked our radar system for the time and location specified below, and we even went outside those parameters,” stated the PIO. “We found nothing in the area at that time. All flights were headed north/south, none were east/west.”
The guy was incredulous but there was nowhere else to take this story. At least, not without an ID. De Void brings it up now thanks to a recent update on the situation at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which temporarily lost control of its nuclear missiles last October. It was, to say the least, an unsettling scenario that prompted a military officer to state, “We’ve never had something as big as this happen.”
Some 50 strategic weapons went offline that day, and the official explanation was a simple hardware glitch. But UFOs and Nukes author Robert Hastings, who has chronicled repeated breaches of security around American missile fields by apparent UFOs, began digging around for alternative possibilities late last year.
On April 28, The Western Nebraska Observer, a weekly community paper in Kimball, Neb., made a game effort to follow up on Hastings’ research by interviewing local eyewitnesses to UFOs in the general vicinity, among them a sheriff’s deputy. None of those sightings appear to have any direct bearing on the nuke missile events. But what’s significant is that the witnesses declined to be identified. And that remains a problem journalistically, because it goes to America’s deep-seated fear of ridicule over what will someday emerge as the issue of the age.
One wonders how events might’ve turned in 1997, during the immediate aftermath of the “Phoenix Lights,” had then-Gov. Fife Symington of Arizona held a press conference, called for a federal investigation, and admitted what he couldn’t bring himself to confess until a full decade later. “I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality,” he finally told journo Leslie Kean in 2007. “I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigating over the Squaw Peak, Mountain Preserve in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking.”
Unfortunately, back in ’97, the governor chose to ridicule eyewitnesses by getting an aide to dress up in an ET mask.
We all run cost-benefit analyses with pretty much every decision we make. Most choices are pedestrian. But writer Miguel de Unamuno, who lost two university chairs and was exiled from Spain for defying a military dictatorship, had a lot more on his mind than UFOs when he wrote, “The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.”
Whatever else this phenomenon may be about, it forces those who’ve seen them to make choices. And life is complicated enough without having to tell the world you’ve seen funky crap in the sky. Who needs that? It’s easier to pretend.
Share and Enjoy:
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11854/were-not-off-to-see-the-wizard/?pa=all&tc=pgall&tc=ar
by Billy Cox
In March I did a phoner with a real estate guy who sounded like he’d had his mind blown by a pair of UFOs one night near his home south of Sarasota. Most noteworthy was the eyewitness’s standing in the community; not surprisingly, he insisted on anonymity
The incident itself lasted maybe two minutes. It involved a couple of noiseless orange lights apparently descending from over the Gulf, on an easterly heading, hovering for 10-15 seconds, then accelerating rapidly, one after another. He also noticed two southbound jetliners, different flight paths, and how the UFOs “quickly traversed both airliners’ altitudes.”
The guy’s observations were precise and consistent with the jargon of the former military aviator he claimed to be. He insisted not only that the airline pilots couldn’t have missed seeing the speeding vehicles, but that the FAA must have tracked the things. He was so adamant he wrote out a detailed accounting for me to forward to the feds, so long as I kept his name out of it.
The subsequent response by the FAA regional office in Atlanta was decisive. “We checked our radar system for the time and location specified below, and we even went outside those parameters,” stated the PIO. “We found nothing in the area at that time. All flights were headed north/south, none were east/west.”
The guy was incredulous but there was nowhere else to take this story. At least, not without an ID. De Void brings it up now thanks to a recent update on the situation at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which temporarily lost control of its nuclear missiles last October. It was, to say the least, an unsettling scenario that prompted a military officer to state, “We’ve never had something as big as this happen.”
Some 50 strategic weapons went offline that day, and the official explanation was a simple hardware glitch. But UFOs and Nukes author Robert Hastings, who has chronicled repeated breaches of security around American missile fields by apparent UFOs, began digging around for alternative possibilities late last year.
On April 28, The Western Nebraska Observer, a weekly community paper in Kimball, Neb., made a game effort to follow up on Hastings’ research by interviewing local eyewitnesses to UFOs in the general vicinity, among them a sheriff’s deputy. None of those sightings appear to have any direct bearing on the nuke missile events. But what’s significant is that the witnesses declined to be identified. And that remains a problem journalistically, because it goes to America’s deep-seated fear of ridicule over what will someday emerge as the issue of the age.
One wonders how events might’ve turned in 1997, during the immediate aftermath of the “Phoenix Lights,” had then-Gov. Fife Symington of Arizona held a press conference, called for a federal investigation, and admitted what he couldn’t bring himself to confess until a full decade later. “I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality,” he finally told journo Leslie Kean in 2007. “I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigating over the Squaw Peak, Mountain Preserve in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking.”
Unfortunately, back in ’97, the governor chose to ridicule eyewitnesses by getting an aide to dress up in an ET mask.
We all run cost-benefit analyses with pretty much every decision we make. Most choices are pedestrian. But writer Miguel de Unamuno, who lost two university chairs and was exiled from Spain for defying a military dictatorship, had a lot more on his mind than UFOs when he wrote, “The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.”
Whatever else this phenomenon may be about, it forces those who’ve seen them to make choices. And life is complicated enough without having to tell the world you’ve seen funky crap in the sky. Who needs that? It’s easier to pretend.
Share and Enjoy:
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11854/were-not-off-to-see-the-wizard/?pa=all&tc=pgall&tc=ar