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This page is very underdeveloped as of now and is even more a work in progress than the main page

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This button would take you to my main UFO/UAP page. to get back here you would have to use the drop down menu at the top of the page, or look for the button for Intro Page to the Phenomenon in that page.

Note: there are many more cases mixed into the main page, these are some I wanted to spend time to highlight for various reasons such as the recency, the level of data, the qualifications of the observers, the historical significance, the precedent, or the profundity despite it being not a well known case. Please don't forget to look into the Varginha incident, the Phoenix Lights, and of course Roswell (and more).

Section 1: The Tic Tac

Perhaps the best modern sighting of a UFO is the "tic-tac" incident off the California Coast in 2004. Commander David Fravor, an F-18 pilot of the Nimitz Carrier group, the commander officer of the Black Aces Squadron, and Top Gun graduate was sent to chase a radar contact from the USS Princeton Cruiser that it picked up using their top of the line SPY-1 radar. The Princeton had been tracking object(s) for a few days going from 80,000 feet to near sea level in under a second. They thought it might be an error and ran a diagnostic check. Later, when a fighter exercise was scheduled they sent Fravor and his wing person Lt. Alex Dietrich to investigate. They saw an object hovering over the surface of the water he described looking like a giant "tic-tac" with no control surfaces, inlets or any other surface features. He went down to investigate and the object mirrored his movements, climbing up seemingly to meet him, but then shot off reappearing 60 miles away in seconds. Fravor testified under oath to all of this in congress. Dietrich came out later and finally did some interviews, and since then both Princeton radar operators (now retired) have come out and testified to their tracking. An E-2 Hawkeye radar plane tracked the object as well, but the pilots remain silent (I think they're still active duty). More, both Fravor and Dietrich had backseat operators in their planes who saw what they saw and later, another F-18, piloted by Chad Underwood, came and took FLIR infra red video of the (or similar) object speeding along. The video to the right is the 60 Minutes segment with both Fravor and Dietrich speaking on the event. (suggest watching)

To Fravor's believability, he has never openly profited off his story, and his story is consistent over the years. However, Alex Dietrich also seems very believable and her initial reluctance and the way she comes across, along with the fact she is a formal naval aviator makes her a very believable witness and her story has also remained consistent over the years. This is a viddo of just Dietrich speaking on the event.

Just for documentation, here are both the radar operators of the USS Princeton which again uses one of the most advanced radars in the world talking about multiple contacts of objects moving in ways (acceleration and deceleration) that would tear apart any person or even materials we currently know of. Not uninteresting to me: but I just put it as documentation of them testifiying to what they saw.

Here is the famous "tic-tac" video taking by Chad Underwood from his FLIR pod.

Here is an interview of him speaking of what he encountered: https://news.sky.com/story/it-was-behaving-erratically-us-navy-pilot-speaks-out-about-ufo-sighting-15-years-on-11891191

It states: The pilot captured what Mr Fravor had described as a 40-foot long white, oblong shape on his FLIR (forward-looking infrared camera). Mr Underwood added the object was hovering somewhere between 15,000 and 24,000 feet in the air, while exhibiting no notable exhaust fumes from conventional propulsion sources...."Because, aircraft, whether they're manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000ft to, you know, 100ft in like seconds, which is not possible."

Section 2: Foo Fighters

During WWII both Allied and Axis pilots saw "balls of light" and other shiny objects fly around their planes in formation. There were no drones then. The military took the sightings seriously, suspecting that the mysterious sightings might be secret German weapons, but further investigation revealed that German and Japanese pilots had reported similar sightings.[15] (if you click on this it will take you to the Wikipedia entry on Foo Fighters and from there you can easily check primary sources used if so inclined)

Here are two other wiki articles of UFO incidents in which radar contact was made, jets scrambled, visual contact was made and then the object significantly accelerated away as speed impossible for any man-made vehicle that's ever been built. Of course you can find articles and interviews with people from these incidents: but Wikipedia is a good overall telling and a lot of the best primary sources are linked and cited from Wikipedia's article. Of note they are both well before modern drone technology was possible and we still can't make anything the can do what these radars and pilots seemingly saw, just like Cmdr Fravor years later.

Foo fighter - Wikipedia

Here is a video from the History Channel about the Foo Fighters (the phenomenon, not the band), and the Wikipedia article on them.

Section 3: The Ariel School Phenomenon: Documentary (suggest watching)

Ariel Phenomenon (2022) 1080p WEBRip x265 An0mal1.mkv

This documentary on on The Ariel School Phenomenon. It was a mass sighting by a bunch of kids in Ruwa Zimbabwe in 1994 who claimed to have seen a UFO and ETs around the craft. I would suggest you watch the documentary (it's neat to see what the kids drew). It features John Mack, the head of Harvard's Psychiatry Department at the time a who went into the subject of UFOs thinking the people were suffering from a mental condition and concluded they really were having experiences so some type... Most importantly, none of the kids, now grown, have ever recanted their story. (suggest watching but only if you're down to watch a documentary: click the black box)

Section 4: Betty and Barney Hill

Betty and Barney Hill claimed in 1961 to have been "abducted" and communicated with by apparent aliens with big eyes and black uniforms . It's a very famous case. What's interesting is that beings they claimed to have seen are similar to the ones at the rural Ariel school in Zimbabwe and by girls and others in a small town in Brazil. It's highly almost impossible to think all these people had the same pop culture influences.

Video for information purposes.

Drawing by Barney hill under hypnosis.

Drawing by a kid in Zimbabwe who has almost for sure never heard of Betty and Barney Hill and probably hasn't much knowledge of the popular cultural idea of aliens. Notice their drawing of an alien with pupils and a black suite (just like Betty and Barney Hill described them). These beings have been described by people all over the world as of today. Harvard psychiatrist, John Mack went to see what's wrong with these people but after interviewing hundered of experiencers came to the conclusion that they are not ill and are having some type of real expereince.

This is a drawing created by a sketch artist of what 3 rural girls in Brazil said they saw. Now adults they haven't recanted. Some people who have come forward saw these beings too and all described them the same including the neurosurgeon who just came out recently after having a heart-attack and saying he didn't want to take the secret to his grave.

. This if the IMDB page for the Netflix show to be put out by the Obama's production company about the Betty and Barney Hill case. It's been seemingly lagging and maybe will come out in 2026? You can click to enlarge (I think)

Section 5: The Westall Incident

The Westall Incident (a summary):

On the day of the incident some students at Westall High and the neighboring school were outside for P.E. type activities. At roughly 10am a student came into a science class to tell the teacher there's flying saucers outside. At first the students laughed but when class was soon over many students went out to see what was what. What they reported seeing was 3 dull metallic disk-shaped craft with domes on top silently moving around and jumping from place to place and sharp immediate angles. More and more students came out as word spread and witnesses, depending on their perspective,saw anywhere from 1 to 3 of the saucers.

Some students farther off at the the nearby forested area reported seeing one of the craft having landed and reported also that there was burned and depressed grass where it had done so.

Soon after reports of men wearing dark suits came on the campus and confiscated a teacher's camera she used to take pictures of the incident with. More people came later and took samples and spoke to the witnesses, but there are no clear IDs of who they were, just military and there is some thought they were Americans. Some teachers came forward later saying they were told they were weather balloons and not to talk about what they saw. In an assembly later the principal told the students they were not to talk about what they saw.

Ultimately 20-30 witness, former students, teachers, and local residents spoke to the story being true in a 2010 documentary. One teacher talked about being threatened by the military to never speak of the incident at the time.

Since then additional people have come forward bringing the count of adults who testify the the same essential story for seeing the 3 disks to about 50.

It's debated by people whether the 50 people speaking to the event all these years later and sticking to their story is a strength or a weakness as it's been a long time since the original event and maybe their memories have been contaminated. Or, is it a strength that the former teachers, students and residents years later would still talk openly about seeing the same thing. I believe if I saw what they said they saw years and years later the memory would be quite firm in my in my mind, probably the most memorable event of my life. If you watch the longer of the two videos I put in here, it's very good and you can see what seem like clearly sane credible witnesses talking about the event.

Here's a really short 2:11min video on the Westall Incident. The longer and better video with about 20-30 witnesses talking about it years later as adults or even "elders" because they were teachers at the time is below that (recommended) There might be other really good videos out there, even better ones? \

More to come: Roswell, Rendlesham Forest, Phoenix Lights, and so on...

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