It is a Blessing and a Curse: Starlink and UAP Research (2023)

Modern life demands easy, cheap, and reliable internet connectivity. Realities of terrain limitations, company infrastructures, and financial demands have created dead zones. The modern attitude has moved away from being chained to a desk with a computer screen, cpu, and accessories to being mobile and immediate. The STARLINK system has been the solution - involving the launching of at least 12,000 small satellite units to form grids around the globe to support the need for strong, reliable and immediate connectivity.

On the pro side is that it should be more reliable, immediate, accessible and inexpensive.  The negative side is that it will limit the natural resource of the dark sky, weave a web of artificial communication systems around the planet, and have the potential to be the next "coal mines" "oil rigs", "toxic waste", and "wind farm" environmental disasters. Plus, anyone who ever saw the movie "Terminator" with its underlying story of a satellites and AI eliminating humanity....has to get a chill with the running amuck of a grid of satellites and an evolving AI already in existence that lacks any ethical or moral guidelines.

Now, with the increased interest in sky watching to see UAPs the fact that people are not as engaged with real time events as they might be is clearly evident. Lacking the authoritative forces of past generations - (1) a vetted, balanced, and researched newspaper or news source, (2) quality, current, and accessible local library resources and professionals, and (3) a trustworthy, public good focused, government, the results are dismaying.  Information is found via asking friends or group members which often results in the blind leading the blind. Information searching is avoided in favor of disseminated information (I won't read about it - just tell me). Deep complexities are avoided and the demand is for a simple, easy answer that requires no thought, evidence comparison, or hearing opposing views.

Thus - 

People keep reporting these strange strings of lights in the sky. What are they? Even when they are explained away there is often something that they refuse to accept.

Tracking apps are being reported as not reporting sightings in an area. Not all apps are equal and they might be  overwhelmed by the sheer number of objects being launched. The sats are a money-making component of the companies' broader plans after all.                                                                                                                                              

• As of February 2023, there are over 3,580 Starlink satellites in orbit. 
• Of these, 3,236 are operational. 
• SpaceX has launched over 4,000 Starlink satellites into space. 
• Nearly 12,000 satellites are planned to be deployed, with a possible later extension to 42,000.

More information:

How to Spot SpaceX's 60 New Starlink Satellites in the Night Sky | Space

What was the "LA" in the FBI Memo of 1947?

The days preceding and following what is coyly referred to as "The Roswell Incident" the military (apparently led in part by Schulgen) were covertly investigating the many reports of odd things in the skies. The FBI, because of the real threat of Soviet covert operations, was equally curious. Since no one seemed to know what they were....the curiosity intensified. 

Schulgen, already involved in some top secret work related to some special projects, was selected to follow up on an idea.  The FBI had the "legs" in the form of field investigators and the military did not have a wide scale investigative element capable at the time of the type of vetting required to sort the wheat from the chaff of all those reports. Could perhaps the FBI lend the military a hand?  J. Edgar Hoover and his directors had been burned before through military stonewalling...he was therefore cautious and agreed on specific grounds.

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There is one telling line that has raised questions for decades. 

"For instance in the La case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it..."

Since a little earlier in the month there had been a deliberate hoax in Shreveport, Louisiana, many assume that is the case referred to by JEH. Although the "La" was a traditional abbreviation for Louisiana in the time, might it be something else? JEH was inconsistent in many of his shortcuts in his notes. For one thing, the FBI did, apparently, get information about the Shreveport "disc" - made as a practical joker there. Similarly, other similar hoaxes had been accessible to them as well from numerous records. 

Could it be that the "La" referred not to a recent case but from nearly six years previously?  The Battle of Los Angeles on 25 February 1942.

The event was classified as "war nerves": that did not say much about the 12,000 air raid wardens, the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade antiaircraft batteries, and the 4th Interceptor Command, as well as local law enforcement and many others. Over 1,430 rounds of antiaircraft shells were expended, including 12 8-pound shells.  Reports from the field by Herald Express newspaper staff indicated they had eyewitnesses among the reporters of shells hitting the "object" directly - but nothing was shot down.  The image below shows the familiar image from the newspaper. Searchlights are focused on the strong light mass in the center. Above it shells are exploding. Darkened, the image highlights the sense of a "something" in the core heart of the beams.

In 1974 under provisions of a FOIA request a 1942 memo came to light. Written by George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, and sent to President Roosevelt on 26 February 1942, there were some fascinating facts...

Unidentified airplanes were "probably" fired upon over Los Angeles (LA), This statement verifies the number of rounds fired and by what Brigade,

As many as "fifteen" of those unidentified (they were not Army or Navy planes) may have been involved flying at various speeds (slow to 200 mph) and altitudes of 9,000 to 10,000 feet.

*No bombs were dropped.

*No causalities among US troops

*No planes were shot down

*No American Army or Navy planes were in action

A note on the speed estimate indicates that the report may have ignored an eyewitness driving near Douglas Aircraft Company near Pasadena and ordered to park and douse his lights by an Air Raid Warden. He observed "bright red spots of lights" low on the horizon to the south - moving in an odd manner. The lights were zig-zagging low to the ground at about 10,000 feet. The witness, Paul T Collins, indicated he could see different batteries firing and the red objects caught in the process - moving in and around the bursting shells at incredible speed. He estimates about "five miles per second."   He noted from the position he and others were, they could not see the "enormous UFO" because it was probably below their horizon, but they did see the fast paced, and mobile, red lights objects.

"Prior to the release of the Marshall memorandum, the Department of Defense state that they had no record of the event."  The contradictions of timelines, descriptions, the insulting classification of serious and trained military and civilians as frightened and trigger-happy causes one to consider that there was a coverup involved.... (See Timothy Good's ABOVE TOP SECRET for more of the early events of the modern era). 

So- was JEH referring to a Louisiana case of a prankster?  Or, was he referring to perhaps some still concealed event of that earlier Battle of Los Angeles?

Interview

Yesterday I was interviewed by an ABC news affiliate in Oklahoma (KOCO) about my UFO books, research, and the stories I uncovered. The setting could not have been better, the "Office of Clark Kent" in the Spirit of America Route 66 Museum in Stroud, Oklahoma. Thanks to Museum owner and director, Steve Brant. 

The modern moment of UFO/UAP activities and study needs the "truth and justice" of America's "favorite alien"....and his alter ego of Clark Kent. As an ex- newspaper stringer....and a small part of a larger disclosure process...I felt right at home. 

 

 https://animoto.com/play/J1b7Yk0d9ZKHP1Lp3gQ0XQ

Evidence Ignored: The South American Roswell of 1957

The year that saw a man-made satellite launched was also a strange year with vast areas of the planet reporting a) UFOS over military installations, b) interference with electrical systems of cars, planes, and other equipment and c) wide spread reports from several countries in the same windows of time. It was also, by the way, the 10 ear anniversary of the "non-event" at Roswell.  The one where paper thin and harder than metal debris were held and collected.

Oddly, in 1957 the big complaint was the lack of hard physical evidence to support the theory of interplanetary visitors. 

Into that void stepped a medical doctor from Brazil, Dr. Olavo T Frontes, who followed up on a snippet of story concerning a UFO, an explosion, and falling debris. The debris site was near Ubotuba, San Paulo, Brazil. Two men out fishing in the daytime saw a glowing disc appear to crash-diving into the water. At the last minute, it nosed straight up and exploded. Raining down were bits of debris.  The men gathered some of this: metallic looking but so lightweight it was amazing. 

Read the technical report of analysis done of the debris : ubatubatd (nicap.org).  Also, The Ubatuba Incident - A UFO Exploded in 1957 with Fragments? - Strange Strange Strange AND the Condon Report of their exploration at Ubatuba Incident - Condon (nicap.org).  The case still has many fascinating aspects and many unanswered questions.

The men notified a well-known radio personality who then in turn made contact with Dr. Fontes. He was a growing name in the study if UFOs in Brazil at the time. A member of A.P.R.O. he published several major studies in their newsletter. The purity levels of some materials found in the debris was troubling and apparently eliminated the idea of earth made objects or satellites as well as mere meteorite materials.

Fontes died in 1969 but left a legacy often ignored.  Here, ten years later, there was evidence and it matched in some descriptive elements that reported by witnesses at Roswell. A small sample sent to the Air Force was destroyed before testing was completed and APRO was reluctant to give them more and offered to co-study the material but never received a response to their offer.

Fontes, in taking charge and arranging the analysis and then publishing the results was a true scientific pioneer stepping where few had been willing to venture. 

'THE THING' from Another World: What Was that in the Ice?

 The two versions of the movie THE THING were inspired by a short story by Who Goes There? a 1938 novella by American author John W. Campbell, written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. 

The 1951 movie version The Thing: From Another World, was directed by Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks, screenplay written by Charles Lederer, John W. Campbell Jr., Howard Hawks.   The stars included Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness (as the creature). The release date was April 7 1951. A later remake by John Carpenter will align itself more with the original story by Campbell and will be more dark and nihilistic in nature.

The original movie is a favorite for many based on its close ensemble cast of characters, the fast talking and natural patter between them, and the pace and dramatis evoked through film and soundtrack. For this writer. it was also the ending scene were the newspaper man is radioing back his story of the fight for humanity at the North Pole.  He urged people to "watch the skies."

Re-watching the film recently it was noticed that the head of the creature, the thing, varied from the way it looks in other scenes in the film.  Arness' makeup later in the film will be more reflective of the influence of "Frankenstein" than anything else.

The THING in the frozen slab of ice:

Note the large dark eyes - far more reflective of the image on the cover the novel Communion decades later!

The THING in a publicity still from 1951, aka James Arness:

Note the absence of the large dark eyes...

The question for this writer was - where did that image of large dark eyes originate?

This writer suspects that the concept was influenced by the rumors of just that type of creature from Roswell in 1947. Just prior to the film's release what was in the news was has come to be known as The Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax  of a flying saucer's crash alleged to have happened in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico. The story was first published in 1949 by author Frank Scully in his Variety magazine columns, and later in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers.  There are many who believe in this crash and one at Kingman, Arizona. This author, however, feels that they were the result of an attempt to clamp down the lid over the events of Roswell.

At decade's end, many military and civilians may have begun to feel free to discuss events related to the Roswell Incident. Leaks and loose lips.  How to make dure those people were not believed?

The big gun in debunking has always been ridicule. The events of Aztec, so close but so incredibly contrived, too large, and just "off", coupled with shady con-men, insured that the story would not be believed and further call into question anyone who thought it was real.

So....the use of what would later be called "stereotypical abduction era" depiction of a big headed, big eyed alien, could be due to the influence of someone who knew...someone who had talked with someone at a cocktail party or over a meal of something they saw "once upon a time"...in the desert of New Mexico.

Decades later, before the book Communion, there will be witnesses who share images of big headed, large eyed creatures seen in connection with "flying saucers", "discs", and "UFOs."

So...the big eyed creature in the ice...where did that image come from and what was it intended to say?

OKC UFO JUNE 30-JULY 1 (2023)

A man I will call Anonymous "E" contacted UFO Skies. He had a report and a video.  His report was fascinating: "I saw a super bright orb Friday night, in the southeast Oklahoma City sky, throwing lasers with other orbs , with color red and green on each end of the lasers. The lasers seemed attached to the main orb. Freaking weird.  Then there were black helicopters in the sky. I was looking towards downtown and  the building with the triangle but the object was to the left. I'm originally from New Jersey and when I was 11, I saw a UFO on top of the Hudson River. "  

He was asked if he might have seen fireworks, but he was certain what he saw were not fireworks. Then he said he had seen an object he saw "when I was on southwest 74st Street. It was daytime aa shiny silver. It stand still in the sky then just speed off super fast." Last, he sent a short video clip of an orb he had observed... Thank you Anonymous "E".  

If you see something I encourage you to report to the MUFON webpage. They are busy collecting information to help prove the reality of what is being seen across the globe.