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Here is the little from the UFO*BC website on this.
Leonard Lamoureux, age 21 was on leave from the Army
when he visited Vancouver City Hall to view and
photograph the Christmas light display. Along with him
was his brother Wilfred.
The two were suddenly astounded to see a "bright bright
blue light" drop straight down from the sky. It became
larger as it did so and they were able to observe the
source of the light as an object that Leonard described as
"two saucers" open ends facing each other, glowing
bright blue. The object then moved "dead straight"
horizontally across the sky. When it just appeared to
clear the flagpole on the roof of the City Hall it came to
an almost dead stop and Leonard clicked the shutter on
the camera. The object then shot straight back up into
the sky. "They never seen anything fly so fast!" This
scared them to death and they ran from the scene. The
object made no sound.
Leonard's daughter, Debra DeCamillis who still lives in
the Vancouver Lower Mainland area related this account
to us. She remarked how vivid and excited
her father sounded each time he described the sighting.
Leonard Lamoureux passed away in 1992 and his
brother Wilfred in 1955. Misfortune has it that the
negative is no longer around as some UFO researchers
have suggested that this image is nothing but a
watermark defect that appeared during the development
of the print. Debra has this to add regarding this
assertion: "I know for fact there was no bubbles on the
film, or watermarks because I was
facinated by negatives as a child and saw that negative
many many times. On the rest of the pictures there was
nothing but pictures of lights, so I know it had no
bubbles or watermarks on it."
Deborah provided the following additional details: "The
camera was on a tri-pod of sorts because Dad was trying
to take sequential shots of the courthouse to capture all
the lights. But he was not using a timed exposure,
his camera was not sophisticated enough. He did say
that he could actually see the bubble or tail as he called it
that the object was encapsulated in."
Information provided by HBCCUFO.ORG
Here is the little from the UFO*BC website on this.
Leonard Lamoureux, age 21 was on leave from the Army
when he visited Vancouver City Hall to view and
photograph the Christmas light display. Along with him
was his brother Wilfred.
The two were suddenly astounded to see a "bright bright
blue light" drop straight down from the sky. It became
larger as it did so and they were able to observe the
source of the light as an object that Leonard described as
"two saucers" open ends facing each other, glowing
bright blue. The object then moved "dead straight"
horizontally across the sky. When it just appeared to
clear the flagpole on the roof of the City Hall it came to
an almost dead stop and Leonard clicked the shutter on
the camera. The object then shot straight back up into
the sky. "They never seen anything fly so fast!" This
scared them to death and they ran from the scene. The
object made no sound.
Leonard's daughter, Debra DeCamillis who still lives in
the Vancouver Lower Mainland area related this account
to us. She remarked how vivid and excited
her father sounded each time he described the sighting.
Leonard Lamoureux passed away in 1992 and his
brother Wilfred in 1955. Misfortune has it that the
negative is no longer around as some UFO researchers
have suggested that this image is nothing but a
watermark defect that appeared during the development
of the print. Debra has this to add regarding this
assertion: "I know for fact there was no bubbles on the
film, or watermarks because I was
facinated by negatives as a child and saw that negative
many many times. On the rest of the pictures there was
nothing but pictures of lights, so I know it had no
bubbles or watermarks on it."
Deborah provided the following additional details: "The
camera was on a tri-pod of sorts because Dad was trying
to take sequential shots of the courthouse to capture all
the lights. But he was not using a timed exposure,
his camera was not sophisticated enough. He did say
that he could actually see the bubble or tail as he called it
that the object was encapsulated in."
Incident at North Berwick
By Jeff Nisbet
Click Here for Full Story and Photos
(Originally published in Atlantis Rising #49â
€”January/February, 2005—under the title
"Incident at North Berwick: The Skies Are
Buzzing over Bonnie Scotland")
A picturesque coastal town about 20 miles to
the east of Edinburgh. The views of the
offshore islands are glorious. The gulls cry,
the waves lap, and it's a great place to sample
some of the fine local seafood. It is also one
of the strangest places on the face of the
planet.
I had known for some time that the area from
North Berwick west to the town of
Bonnybridge is considered to be a UFO
"hotspot" which, considering the population,
has had more sightings than anywhere else on
Earth. In Canada, the ratio of sightings to
inhabitants is one per 61,200, and one per
136,450 in the United States. There are 300
registered sightings in Scotland each year,
which translates into one per 17,000
inhabitants. Skeptics have blamed the whisky.
If you had asked me just a few months ago
how much thought I had given to the
phenomenon, I would have said "not much."
But that was then …
I made two trips to Scotland in 2004, and on
the second trip I was accompanied for the
first time by all of my immediate family and
their respective spouses. On Sunday morning,
July 4, I naturally dragged them all out to
North Berwick. We had a nice stroll about the
town, visited the new Seabird Center beside
the harbor, took photographs of the glorious
views, and sampled some of the fine local
seafood before heading back to Edinburgh in
the late afternoon. It was a grand day for all.
A few weekends after returning home to the
U.S., I was reviewing my vacation photos
while my daughter was visiting. With the
above photograph on my computer screen, I
pointed to an object in the sky and said,
"Look, Sarah, a UFO!" Well of course she
thought I was either playing a prank on her or
that there had been dirt on my lens. But a few
hours later she emailed me a photo, taken that
same day on her own camera, which showed a
similar object. Needless to say, my photo had
suddenly gained many points in my
daughter's credibility department.
Here is her photo.
my last three visits to Scotland and, though
none were as spectacular as the two shown
above, several of them were extremely
interesting.
I list three of them here:
• A sunset view of three "objects"
photographed from my Newhaven hotel room
in May 2003. Two of the objects appear to
the west above the world-famous Firth of
Forth Rail Bridge. The third object appears
more in the direction of Bonnybridge, the
official Scottish UFO capitol.
• A shot of Newhaven harbor, looking
northwest, which shows an airplane on its
approach to Edinburgh airport. There is also a
seagull flying in the photo, and some other
object, high in the clouds, that looks like
neither.
• A photograph taken from Edinburgh's
Calton Hill of Arthur's Seat, an ancient and
extinct volcano, with two objects in it—one
in the sky above the summit, and one
silhouetted against the hill below. It is the
only photograph in my collection that shows
the objects in a setting that gives a measurable
idea of the distances involved, and therefore a
fair shot at estimating the actual size of the
object that flew between Arthur's Seat and me.
But none of these photos, even the two
shown here, would have compelled me to
write an article about a subject that I've been
advised to avoid.
It was my "movies" that did it.
After I had found the "still" photos
mentioned above, I decided to look more
closely at my movies, too.
My Nikon digital camera has the ability to
shoot 35-second "QuickTime" movies. The
QuickTime technology is relatively new, but
it is not exclusive to Nikon. In fact, many
other cameras that have entered the consumer
market over the past couple of years share
the same technology. And the fact that digital
cameras topped the 2003 Christmas gift
"wish list" means that there are now scads of
QuickTime-enabled cameras hanging from the
necks of tourists pretty much everywhere.
But if they have used their cameras to shoot
QuickTime movies yet, it's unlikely that
many would have bothered to click through
them frame-by-frame.
I have.
During my first 2004 trip to Scotland, in
April, I shot two of those 35-second movies
from the same vantage point as the photos
my daughter and I shot later in July. The first
was a slow pan from North Berwick out to
Bass Rock Island, and the second panned
from Craigleith Island back to North Berwick.
While the first of these movies is by far the
more spectacular, with several of the
aforementioned objects appearing in the same
frame, I have chosen to publish just four
frames from each in this article.
It is due to these eight frames, which
combined amount to a mere half-a-second of
"real time," that I have been able to calculate
the objects' minimum airspeed, as well as
discover where these objects come from. And
so I feel that these eight brief moments in
time will be the most interesting to the
readers of this magazine.
Look at the following four-frame composite,
which you can click on to enlarge in a new
window, and then read on.
By Jeff Nisbet
Click Here for Full Story and Photos
(Originally published in Atlantis Rising #49â
€”January/February, 2005—under the title
"Incident at North Berwick: The Skies Are
Buzzing over Bonnie Scotland")
A picturesque coastal town about 20 miles to
the east of Edinburgh. The views of the
offshore islands are glorious. The gulls cry,
the waves lap, and it's a great place to sample
some of the fine local seafood. It is also one
of the strangest places on the face of the
planet.
I had known for some time that the area from
North Berwick west to the town of
Bonnybridge is considered to be a UFO
"hotspot" which, considering the population,
has had more sightings than anywhere else on
Earth. In Canada, the ratio of sightings to
inhabitants is one per 61,200, and one per
136,450 in the United States. There are 300
registered sightings in Scotland each year,
which translates into one per 17,000
inhabitants. Skeptics have blamed the whisky.
If you had asked me just a few months ago
how much thought I had given to the
phenomenon, I would have said "not much."
But that was then …
I made two trips to Scotland in 2004, and on
the second trip I was accompanied for the
first time by all of my immediate family and
their respective spouses. On Sunday morning,
July 4, I naturally dragged them all out to
North Berwick. We had a nice stroll about the
town, visited the new Seabird Center beside
the harbor, took photographs of the glorious
views, and sampled some of the fine local
seafood before heading back to Edinburgh in
the late afternoon. It was a grand day for all.
A few weekends after returning home to the
U.S., I was reviewing my vacation photos
while my daughter was visiting. With the
above photograph on my computer screen, I
pointed to an object in the sky and said,
"Look, Sarah, a UFO!" Well of course she
thought I was either playing a prank on her or
that there had been dirt on my lens. But a few
hours later she emailed me a photo, taken that
same day on her own camera, which showed a
similar object. Needless to say, my photo had
suddenly gained many points in my
daughter's credibility department.
Here is her photo.
my last three visits to Scotland and, though
none were as spectacular as the two shown
above, several of them were extremely
interesting.
I list three of them here:
• A sunset view of three "objects"
photographed from my Newhaven hotel room
in May 2003. Two of the objects appear to
the west above the world-famous Firth of
Forth Rail Bridge. The third object appears
more in the direction of Bonnybridge, the
official Scottish UFO capitol.
• A shot of Newhaven harbor, looking
northwest, which shows an airplane on its
approach to Edinburgh airport. There is also a
seagull flying in the photo, and some other
object, high in the clouds, that looks like
neither.
• A photograph taken from Edinburgh's
Calton Hill of Arthur's Seat, an ancient and
extinct volcano, with two objects in it—one
in the sky above the summit, and one
silhouetted against the hill below. It is the
only photograph in my collection that shows
the objects in a setting that gives a measurable
idea of the distances involved, and therefore a
fair shot at estimating the actual size of the
object that flew between Arthur's Seat and me.
But none of these photos, even the two
shown here, would have compelled me to
write an article about a subject that I've been
advised to avoid.
It was my "movies" that did it.
After I had found the "still" photos
mentioned above, I decided to look more
closely at my movies, too.
My Nikon digital camera has the ability to
shoot 35-second "QuickTime" movies. The
QuickTime technology is relatively new, but
it is not exclusive to Nikon. In fact, many
other cameras that have entered the consumer
market over the past couple of years share
the same technology. And the fact that digital
cameras topped the 2003 Christmas gift
"wish list" means that there are now scads of
QuickTime-enabled cameras hanging from the
necks of tourists pretty much everywhere.
But if they have used their cameras to shoot
QuickTime movies yet, it's unlikely that
many would have bothered to click through
them frame-by-frame.
I have.
During my first 2004 trip to Scotland, in
April, I shot two of those 35-second movies
from the same vantage point as the photos
my daughter and I shot later in July. The first
was a slow pan from North Berwick out to
Bass Rock Island, and the second panned
from Craigleith Island back to North Berwick.
While the first of these movies is by far the
more spectacular, with several of the
aforementioned objects appearing in the same
frame, I have chosen to publish just four
frames from each in this article.
It is due to these eight frames, which
combined amount to a mere half-a-second of
"real time," that I have been able to calculate
the objects' minimum airspeed, as well as
discover where these objects come from. And
so I feel that these eight brief moments in
time will be the most interesting to the
readers of this magazine.
Look at the following four-frame composite,
which you can click on to enlarge in a new
window, and then read on.
quantity—the fact that Craigleith is a quarter-
mile long. The object first appeared about three
seconds into the movie, and remained visible in
the next two frames. Although the object appears
three times in the movie, the QuickTime imaging
technology only captures an image once every
one-fifteenth of a second (as opposed to video,
at 24 fps, and film, at 35 fps), so the duration of
time the object is actually visible in the movie
covers a period of just two-fifteenths of a
second—less than the blink of an eye.
Using Craigleith's quarter-mile length as a
"benchmark" of distance, I was able to calculate
that the object was traveling at an astonishing
1.25 miles per second—if it was flying directly
over the island. But since it is traveling on an
oblique angle, and may also be a considerable
distance beyond Craigleith, that calculation may
actually be quite conservative.
Conservative or not, 1.25 miles per second
translates to a blistering 4,500 miles per hour,
which is 6.6 times the speed of sound—Mach
6.6 in air-force jargon. Chicago to Vienna in just
under an hour, think of it! Imagine flying over the
Atlantic in less time than it took to check your
luggage.
It is indeed a sobering thought that the official
aircraft world speed record is held by the
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird that, on July 28,
1978, clocked in at just half that speed, or Mach
3.3. In the meantime there are objects that are
moving at twice that speed in the lower-
atmosphere skies above North Berwick, too fast
for the naked eye to catch. And, as my movies
show, they are not always flying in a straight
line. A particularly memorable sequence shows
one following a S-curved path across the sky in
just 14 frames—less than a second—and
another performing a graceful loop-de-loop!
They are quite the aerial hot-rods.
All that said, there is no reason to believe that
my Mach 6.6 airspeed estimate proves that their
pedals have been pushed anywhere near the
metal.
So what are these objects? Who or what might be
in them? And where did they come from?
There are many diverse theories held by as many
diverse groups, none of which has ever managed
to slip past the ever-vigilant guardians of
acceptable mainstream thought.
The skeptics are able to shake off most reported
sightings by trotting out, often with a chuckle,
one or more of the following time-honored
explanations: weather balloons; swamp gas; earth
lights; reflections in a window; experimental
aircraft; the whisky.
And the list goes on.
True believers have their own unique set of
problems when it comes to putting forth their
theories. They do not constitute a unified front,
and have little or no power over the mainstream
press, which tends to report the few sightings
that make it past the news desk with a wink-and-
grin delivery. Disappointing, but hardly
surprising considering the disparate theories held
by the believers.
Some believers tend to focus less on the
extraterrestrial vehicles than on their pilots. And
since none of those vehicles has ever been
officially found, there is an additional layer of
mystery added to their speculations that is not
likely to be penetrated anytime soon.
The few Christian Fundamentalists who also
happen to believe in extraterrestrial vehicles quite
understandably believe that Satan and his band of
fallen angels pilot the craft. What other
explanation could they allow themselves to have?
Those who believe that Earth's human
population did not spring from the loins of the
biblical Adam and Eve, but instead came from the
stars, have their own set of insurmountable
problems to contend with—as you might well
imagine.
There are also those who feel that
extraterrestrials may have actually been the Gods
mentioned in the world's various mythologies,
which came down to Earth and took the
daughters of men as their wives—which would
understandably be a very unpopular theory,
indeed.
The incomprehensibly vast distances of space
throw yet another spanner in the works, and
have spawned the theories that either the
vehicles have the ability to enter a "portal" or
"wormhole" that immediately transports them to
star systems that would otherwise take many
light years to get to, or that they have in fact
always been with us, and actually exist below the
surface of the earth, from whence they come and
go at will. Hmm …
Let's take one of these two theories at a time, and
think how easy it would be to fit my little
QuickTime movie into either scenario.
• The "Beam me UP, Scotty" scenario: A few
frames of my first movie actually show objects
that appear to have expanded, and so it doesn't
take too great a leap of the imagination, if you
have one, to speculate that they may actually be
in the process of atomically dematerializing in
order to rematerialize someplace else—perhaps
at some far-flung point in the universe.
• The "Beam me DOWN, Scotty" scenario:
Let's consider that from the Bass Rock westward
to Edinburgh's Castle Rock there are no fewer
than six "extinct" volcanic plugs. As most of us
here know, live volcanoes are ever connected to
the molten core of the earth by a tube. Is it
possible that these ancient tubes have become
flyways of sorts, and is that where the
"expanded" objects are heading?
I will consider, for now, the second scenario.
As I have toggled back and forth along several
microsecond sequences in my movies, it has
become apparent that these objects are not
coming down to us from above, but are instead
emerging from below. At least three sequences in
my movies show that these objects are rising out
of the sea, one of which is shown below. You
will notice that, perhaps most amazingly, the
object shows no sign of having to visibly
accelerate from the surface of the water in order
to reach its cruising speed in the air. Instead, it
appears to be operating at top speed from its
first appearance!
mile long. The object first appeared about three
seconds into the movie, and remained visible in
the next two frames. Although the object appears
three times in the movie, the QuickTime imaging
technology only captures an image once every
one-fifteenth of a second (as opposed to video,
at 24 fps, and film, at 35 fps), so the duration of
time the object is actually visible in the movie
covers a period of just two-fifteenths of a
second—less than the blink of an eye.
Using Craigleith's quarter-mile length as a
"benchmark" of distance, I was able to calculate
that the object was traveling at an astonishing
1.25 miles per second—if it was flying directly
over the island. But since it is traveling on an
oblique angle, and may also be a considerable
distance beyond Craigleith, that calculation may
actually be quite conservative.
Conservative or not, 1.25 miles per second
translates to a blistering 4,500 miles per hour,
which is 6.6 times the speed of sound—Mach
6.6 in air-force jargon. Chicago to Vienna in just
under an hour, think of it! Imagine flying over the
Atlantic in less time than it took to check your
luggage.
It is indeed a sobering thought that the official
aircraft world speed record is held by the
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird that, on July 28,
1978, clocked in at just half that speed, or Mach
3.3. In the meantime there are objects that are
moving at twice that speed in the lower-
atmosphere skies above North Berwick, too fast
for the naked eye to catch. And, as my movies
show, they are not always flying in a straight
line. A particularly memorable sequence shows
one following a S-curved path across the sky in
just 14 frames—less than a second—and
another performing a graceful loop-de-loop!
They are quite the aerial hot-rods.
All that said, there is no reason to believe that
my Mach 6.6 airspeed estimate proves that their
pedals have been pushed anywhere near the
metal.
So what are these objects? Who or what might be
in them? And where did they come from?
There are many diverse theories held by as many
diverse groups, none of which has ever managed
to slip past the ever-vigilant guardians of
acceptable mainstream thought.
The skeptics are able to shake off most reported
sightings by trotting out, often with a chuckle,
one or more of the following time-honored
explanations: weather balloons; swamp gas; earth
lights; reflections in a window; experimental
aircraft; the whisky.
And the list goes on.
True believers have their own unique set of
problems when it comes to putting forth their
theories. They do not constitute a unified front,
and have little or no power over the mainstream
press, which tends to report the few sightings
that make it past the news desk with a wink-and-
grin delivery. Disappointing, but hardly
surprising considering the disparate theories held
by the believers.
Some believers tend to focus less on the
extraterrestrial vehicles than on their pilots. And
since none of those vehicles has ever been
officially found, there is an additional layer of
mystery added to their speculations that is not
likely to be penetrated anytime soon.
The few Christian Fundamentalists who also
happen to believe in extraterrestrial vehicles quite
understandably believe that Satan and his band of
fallen angels pilot the craft. What other
explanation could they allow themselves to have?
Those who believe that Earth's human
population did not spring from the loins of the
biblical Adam and Eve, but instead came from the
stars, have their own set of insurmountable
problems to contend with—as you might well
imagine.
There are also those who feel that
extraterrestrials may have actually been the Gods
mentioned in the world's various mythologies,
which came down to Earth and took the
daughters of men as their wives—which would
understandably be a very unpopular theory,
indeed.
The incomprehensibly vast distances of space
throw yet another spanner in the works, and
have spawned the theories that either the
vehicles have the ability to enter a "portal" or
"wormhole" that immediately transports them to
star systems that would otherwise take many
light years to get to, or that they have in fact
always been with us, and actually exist below the
surface of the earth, from whence they come and
go at will. Hmm …
Let's take one of these two theories at a time, and
think how easy it would be to fit my little
QuickTime movie into either scenario.
• The "Beam me UP, Scotty" scenario: A few
frames of my first movie actually show objects
that appear to have expanded, and so it doesn't
take too great a leap of the imagination, if you
have one, to speculate that they may actually be
in the process of atomically dematerializing in
order to rematerialize someplace else—perhaps
at some far-flung point in the universe.
• The "Beam me DOWN, Scotty" scenario:
Let's consider that from the Bass Rock westward
to Edinburgh's Castle Rock there are no fewer
than six "extinct" volcanic plugs. As most of us
here know, live volcanoes are ever connected to
the molten core of the earth by a tube. Is it
possible that these ancient tubes have become
flyways of sorts, and is that where the
"expanded" objects are heading?
I will consider, for now, the second scenario.
As I have toggled back and forth along several
microsecond sequences in my movies, it has
become apparent that these objects are not
coming down to us from above, but are instead
emerging from below. At least three sequences in
my movies show that these objects are rising out
of the sea, one of which is shown below. You
will notice that, perhaps most amazingly, the
object shows no sign of having to visibly
accelerate from the surface of the water in order
to reach its cruising speed in the air. Instead, it
appears to be operating at top speed from its
first appearance!
far from Puerto Rico. Suddenly, the
training session had to be stopped.
Sonar operators determined that one
of the submarines was changing its
coordinates and was following a
strange object. The object was moving
at an incredible speed: 150 knots. No
modern submarine is capable of
traveling at such rapid speed. (On
average, subs cannot exceed 45
knots)."
The article goes on to say that
"American scientist A. Sanderson,
who devoted many years of his life to
studying ocean depths, writes the
following about a mysterious
occurrence which he observed from
the deck of an ice-breaker in the
Atlantic: 'Suddenly, something
emerged from the waters, breaking
thick ice; the huge silver object
disappeared in the sky.'"
Let's assume it is unlikely that I, with
my 4.2-megapixel camera, have been
the first to discover the origin of these
objects—or to calculate their speed.
While non-traditional investigators
such as myself would dearly love to
have made such discoveries, I find it
inconceivable that the top
governments in the world, with their
ultra-high-tech hardware and
software, would be utterly in the dark
about these objects, and so I think it's
fair to assume they are not.
Most disturbingly, the claim has been
made that the memberships of certain
"shadow governments" have been in
touch with diverse extraterrestrial life
forms for quite a while—some
benevolent and some considerably
less so—while the rest of us have
been allowed to toddle on in ignorance.
The eminently credentialed Dr.
Michael E. Salla has published an
extensive and highly interesting paper
on this subject at www.exopolitics.
org.
While available editorial space forbids
me to excerpt too much of Salla's
data, I can do no less than to say that
two of the extraterrestrial races he
mentions are thought to live below
the surface of the Earth, and have
done so for many millennia. If one
considers that humankind has always
set its sights on the stars, and that it
took us millennia to break out of the
thin pocket of atmosphere that
surrounds our planet, one might also
begin to consider, with newfound
wonder, the mysteries that have ever
lain beneath our feet.
Now, how does the idea of
extraterrestrial life square with the
idea of a God? It should come as a
comfort to many of you that the two
are not mutually exclusive.
On more than one occasion
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a
Vatican demonologist, has stated his
belief in the existence of
extraterrestrial life. Here is what he
said in an interview with Zecharia
Sitchin:
" That life may exist on other planets
is certainly possible. The Bible does
not rule out that possibility. On the
basis of scripture and on the basis of
our knowledge of God's omnipotence,
His wisdom being limitless, we must
affirm that life on other planets is
possible, credible, and even probable."
On February 17, 1600, the Inquisition
burned Giordano Bruno to death in
the center of Rome for having the
temerity to suggest, among other
"heresies," the very same thing,
having first taken the final precaution
of driving a nail through Bruno's
tongue to stop it from blaspheming
further.
The times do change.
So, you ever-growing legions of
amateur QuickTime cinematographers
out there: Why not put my claims to
the test?
Just pick up your cameras, head on
over to the UFO hotspot nearest you,
and let 'em roll!
It's time to meet the neighbors…
training session had to be stopped.
Sonar operators determined that one
of the submarines was changing its
coordinates and was following a
strange object. The object was moving
at an incredible speed: 150 knots. No
modern submarine is capable of
traveling at such rapid speed. (On
average, subs cannot exceed 45
knots)."
The article goes on to say that
"American scientist A. Sanderson,
who devoted many years of his life to
studying ocean depths, writes the
following about a mysterious
occurrence which he observed from
the deck of an ice-breaker in the
Atlantic: 'Suddenly, something
emerged from the waters, breaking
thick ice; the huge silver object
disappeared in the sky.'"
Let's assume it is unlikely that I, with
my 4.2-megapixel camera, have been
the first to discover the origin of these
objects—or to calculate their speed.
While non-traditional investigators
such as myself would dearly love to
have made such discoveries, I find it
inconceivable that the top
governments in the world, with their
ultra-high-tech hardware and
software, would be utterly in the dark
about these objects, and so I think it's
fair to assume they are not.
Most disturbingly, the claim has been
made that the memberships of certain
"shadow governments" have been in
touch with diverse extraterrestrial life
forms for quite a while—some
benevolent and some considerably
less so—while the rest of us have
been allowed to toddle on in ignorance.
The eminently credentialed Dr.
Michael E. Salla has published an
extensive and highly interesting paper
on this subject at www.exopolitics.
org.
While available editorial space forbids
me to excerpt too much of Salla's
data, I can do no less than to say that
two of the extraterrestrial races he
mentions are thought to live below
the surface of the Earth, and have
done so for many millennia. If one
considers that humankind has always
set its sights on the stars, and that it
took us millennia to break out of the
thin pocket of atmosphere that
surrounds our planet, one might also
begin to consider, with newfound
wonder, the mysteries that have ever
lain beneath our feet.
Now, how does the idea of
extraterrestrial life square with the
idea of a God? It should come as a
comfort to many of you that the two
are not mutually exclusive.
On more than one occasion
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a
Vatican demonologist, has stated his
belief in the existence of
extraterrestrial life. Here is what he
said in an interview with Zecharia
Sitchin:
" That life may exist on other planets
is certainly possible. The Bible does
not rule out that possibility. On the
basis of scripture and on the basis of
our knowledge of God's omnipotence,
His wisdom being limitless, we must
affirm that life on other planets is
possible, credible, and even probable."
On February 17, 1600, the Inquisition
burned Giordano Bruno to death in
the center of Rome for having the
temerity to suggest, among other
"heresies," the very same thing,
having first taken the final precaution
of driving a nail through Bruno's
tongue to stop it from blaspheming
further.
The times do change.
So, you ever-growing legions of
amateur QuickTime cinematographers
out there: Why not put my claims to
the test?
Just pick up your cameras, head on
over to the UFO hotspot nearest you,
and let 'em roll!
It's time to meet the neighbors…
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