A Crashed UFO and Telephone Weirdness

That's the title of a new article from me, which focuses on a particularly strange UFO affair that I got caught up in, close to 20 years ago. A very, very odd saga...

Here's how it starts:

"Back in 1991, UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield published his then-latest of many reports on crashed UFOs. I had read all of Stringfield’s earlier reports, booklets and books, but this one stood out for me. The reason being that it referenced the alleged crash of a UFO, in 1964. The location was an area of woodland and fields near the Staffordshire, England market-town of Penkridge. It’s a town only a short drive from where I grew up as a kid. At the time, however, I was down in the south of England, in Harlow, Essex. But, I made a note to look into the affair next time I was back in the Staffordshire area.

"As for Stringfield’s story, it was an intriguing one. Unfortunately, and as was the case with so many of Stringfield’s informants, the name of the person who provided the story was not listed. Or, rather, it was, but in the form of a pseudonym: 'S.M. Brannigan.' According to the story, back in early 1964 'Brannigan' was serving in the US military aboard '…a specially rigged LST, a flagship that was attached to a naval amphibious force at an unspecified point in either the Caribbean or the Atlantic…'"

1947: Crashed UFOs That Weren't

"Many people within the UFO field take the view that aliens crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947. And maybe they did. Over the years I have tackled the Roswell affair from various perspectives, and, I freely admit, I still don’t know what the real story is. I’ve had people tell me it was aliens. Others have suggested highly classified military experiments of a dark and dubious nature. Some have even gone down the demonic pathway. But, there is something I’m sure of: the case didn’t involved weather-balloons, Mogul balloons or crash-test dummies.

"This brings me to one thing that often gets overlooked by the field of Ufology. Maybe it’s due to ignorance on the part of some. Perhaps others think it’s not worth focusing on. And some may assume it has no relevance to Roswell. What am I talking about? This is what I’m talking about: in the very same time-frame that the military at Roswell said they had got their hands on the remains of a crashed 'flying disc,' people were claiming to have found landed, grounded, or crashed UFOs all across other parts of the United States."

Yep, another article - right here.

MInd-Games and UFOs

Another new one from me. This one on the manipulation of UFO researchers, and of witnesses too. It begins like this...

"February 1958 was an interesting time in Ufology. It was when a Brazilian UFO researcher, Dr. Olavo Fontes, received a very strange and ominous visit. The details were spelled out in a letter that Fontes wrote to US UFO researcher, Coral Lorenzen, on February 27. According to the man himself, he had received a visit at his place of work from two men who flashed credentials that identified them as working in an intelligence arm of the Brazilian Navy. One of the men reportedly said to Fontes: 'You know too much about things you weren’t entitled to know.' And, just for good measure, the man added: 'We don’t like that.'

"The two men then proceeded to completely contradict themselves by reeling off a bunch of presumably highly classified data on UFOs! Clearly, someone was playing mind-games with Fontes. Despite having warned Fontes about the perils of possessing secret UFO material, they then went on to tell him that at the time of the meeting, February 1958, no less than six alien spacecraft had crashed to earth. Three of them had come down in the United States, an extensively damaged one had crashed somewhere in the Sahara Desert, another one was recovered at an undisclosed location in Scandinavia, and an almost pristine flying saucer was retrieved by military personnel in the UK."

A Paranormal Hot-Spot

What do (a) a controversial "crashed UFO story; (b) anomalous black cats; (c) Bigfoot; (d) a werewolf; (e) a band of occultists; and (f) weird, flying balls of light all have in common?

The answer: they have all been seen/encountered in the direct vicinity of the small Texas town of Aurora.

In other words, we're talking about one of John Keel's "window areas."

It's a story I tell over at Mysterious Universe.

Roswell Slides and Shady Characters

That's the subject of my new Mysterious Universe article, which focuses on the controversial lives of two guys who got involved in the crashed UFO controversy back in the 1940s and who are now (even after death) playing a role in the saga of the so-called Roswell Slides. Their names: Leo Gebauer and Silas Newton.

Here's the link.

Crashed UFOs...in the UK???

That's the subject of my new Mysterious Universe article, which you can find here...

Have there been actual, so-called "British Roswell's?" Well, yeah...maybe. Or, maybe not. Certainly, there is no shortage of stories suggesting exactly that.

Does that mean there is some underground "vault" filled with extraterrestrial debris and alien bodies? That's the big question, one which after years of investigating and pondering on, I'm still just not sure...

Crashed UFOs in the UK???

There's another new article from me at Mysterious Universe, this one surrounding a highly controversial issue: so-called "British Roswell"-type events. It starts like this:

"Back in 1996, I received a number of stories – some from retired, British military personnel – suggesting that if I wanted to find out what the British Government really knew about UFOs – and particularly so crashed UFOs - I would be wise to focus my attentions not so much on the work of the Ministry of Defense, but on that of the Home Office. Although the Home Office is chiefly known for its work in the fields of counter-terrorism, immigration, and crime policy, there are indications that its work delves into far deeper, and much more mysterious, areas, too.

"According to several of the accounts provided to me back in ’96, the Home Office oversaw the security surrounding a number of secret, underground bunkers located across the south and southwest of England. They were built as fortified havens for senior military and government personnel, in the event of a nuclear strike on the UK by the Soviets during the Cold War. I was advised, however, that deep within two of the bunkers were stored the remains of a number of alien bodies – all preserved in cryogenic states."

A British Roswell???

Have UFOs crashed to Earth in the UK? Well, if you interpret the term "UFO" literally - as an unidentified flying object, in other words - then the answer is an undeniable "Yes." But, if you interpret "UFO" to mean "alien spacecraft" then the jury is very much still out.

That's not to say there is a shortage of such accounts, however. And here's one, in the form of my latest Mysterious Universe article: a little-known story I uncovered back in the mid-1990s while digging into what were then-newly-declassified British Ministry of Defense files on UFOs from the 1960s.

Next year, the incident - which occurred in Walthamstow, England - will reach its half a century, so now may be the time for someone to take a new, fresh look at the case, just in time for the 50th...

Sarbacher and Saucers

 

 

Some of you who are into UFOs may know the name of Dr. Robert Sarbacher, formerly of the Research and Development Board.

 

He gained much attention in the 1980s with his claims of second-hand knowledge of crashed UFOs and dead alien bodies held by military authorities.

 

Of course, his story is as controversial now as it was when it surfaced in 1983. Well, those with an interest in the story may want to get hold of this book - a copy of which I recently bought for a very cheap price.

 

Its title: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Electronic and Nuclear Engineering. It's a book written by Sarbacher himself, dates from 1959, and runs to almost 1,500 pages.

 

Now, I know FXXX all about nuclear engineering (in fact, even less!), but since it mentions some of his colleagues and contacts, those interested in undertaking a new study of the Sarbacher claims might want to get a copy, for research purposes.

Monkeying Around...

Why were monkeys flying around the skies of the United States in 1953? And how did they become linked to a strange and controversial case of crashed UFO proportions? Well, the answers can be found in my latest Mysterious Universe post, which tells a story of truly surreal proportions...

A Crashed UFO or a Government "Plant"?

Have UFOs really crashed to earth, as per Roswell? I don't know. What I do know, however, is that the subject has been ripe, for years, for manipulation by those at an official level and for reasons that range from bizarre to obscure.

And, here's one example: my latest post at Mysterious Universe on a famous (maybe infamous would be better!) UFO crash that almost certainly was not a crash. But, it may have been even weirder...