New Info on Area 51 seems Fishy

Would you expect any military base, let alone the infamous Area 51, to be the “most boring” place you could ever work? Don’t they get to play with ET and fly spaceships? Or at least know what really happened in Roswell in 1947?

Not so much according to Thorton “T.D.” Barnes, former special-projects engineer at Area 51 in Nevada.

Actually, he says what people thought were alien-piloted UFOs in the 1960's were really spy planes being tested at over 2,000 miles per hour at altitudes of 90,000 feet, which would produce flashes of light high in the sky.

"We considered it to be a bonus. They [the UFO sightings] made it easier to conceal what we were doing," says Barnes.


While it's true that most reported UFO sightings really can be identified, I still have some questions about this random admittance of “truth:”

1. Why come out with it half a century later?


2. If the military at Area 51 was using the idea of UFOs and aliens as a cover-up for something else, how odd/questionable/bad must that something else be?


3. Is this just another cover-up?

(Image: Strangely hilarious, although I'm not sure if it's real. From GreyFalcon.us.)

UFOs over Big Ben...or Trick of Light?

A picture of 4 UFOs flying over London, published yesterday in the UK’s Telegraph, has already gotten a lot of people (meaning bloggers) talking about the photo’s authenticity.


Derek Burdon, who took the photo from the roof top of Orion House in Covent Garden, said he didn’t even notice the shapes while he was taking it. It was only after, when he was looking through his camera, that he saw them. For the skeptics, Burdon was sure to make that clear:

"I have not tampered with it and you would not be able to fake it. It was taken on my mobile and I guess I am just lucky to have it. These shapes were not visible to the naked eye so it's not as if I was looking for them."

What quite a few people – but especially UFO believers – are saying is that the “UFOs” in this photo are just reflections of the room lights against the window.

I don’t really know what to think about this one. I believe in UFOs, but I also believe in Photoshop and other possible explanations. Still, I can’t picture someone doctoring a UFO photo and giving it to a newspaper with their name unless they actually believed it was real. People do it though. Damn you photo pranksters!

But, oddly enough, London is a hotspot for UFO sightings anyway. According to the BBC, the number of reported UFO sightings in 2008 had almost doubled since the year before.

Another UFO photo (new word: UFOtograph?), this one from a year ago and published in The Sun – and referred to in my post, “There’s No Such Thing as a UFO” – is so clear that it looks like a movie still or something.


I don’t know if that makes the photo less believable or the movies more accurate.

10 Cool Crop Circles

Whether or not you believe they’re evidence of UFOs landing on Earth, geological phenomenon, or just the antics of some sneaky artists (that can somehow make concentric circles and perfect angles while on the ground without taking enough time for someone to notice, and who, for some reason, don't want any credit for making them), crop circles have to be one of the coolest things ever.

There are so many amazing images out there, so I chose 10 that just stood out to me.

Also, notice that in some there are dark specks in the middle of the circles. I think those specks are people...just to give an idea of how big these things are.

10. Looks like a sun.
(from NextNature.net)



9. Looks like a spider web.
(from NextNature.net)



8. Looks like a flower.
(from JECichon.com)



7. Looks like the Star of David in the middle.
(from WebUrbanist.com)



6. Looks like the number 8, and kind of like a snake.
(from GalacticFreedomDay.com



5. Looks like a spiral graph.
(from JesusWasNotHisName.com)



4. Almost looks like our solar system.
(from NextNature.net)



3. Just crazy. If you tilt your head to the right, that star-shaped thing looks like it has a face.
(from CropCircleConnector.com)



2. Looks like three heads with big eyes.
(from GreatDreams.com)



1. Looks ancient...like some sort of calendar.
(from LucyPringle.co.uk)

There's No Such Thing as a UFO

Naturally an article called, “UFOs Do Not Exist” caught my attention, especially when it’s in UFO Digest. But being a big believer in extra-terrestrial intelligence myself, it seems UFO’s really don’t exist. Of course! I don’t know why I didn’t realize it before.

What thousands of people report as UFOs are actually “IFOs” (Identified Flying Objects) or “IPFOs” (Intelligently Piloted Flying Objects). If they aren’t part of some sort of military project, or the creation of pranksters with lots of money and serious engineering capabilities, then we should know exactly what they are, right? What we should be doing is questioning what’s inside.

So I guess when skeptics disregard the claims of “IFO” witnesses, what they’re really unsure of is the existence of UIPIFOs (Unidentified Intelligent Pilots of Identified Flying Objects).

That was a mouthful. Maybe I’ll just stick to using “UFO.” Plus, I think I’d get more strange looks if I said, “I saw a UIPIFO,” should it ever happen.

But according to an uncovered secret Ministry of Defense report, it never will...unless I plan to visit plasma fields anytime in the future.

"Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced.”

One question: why would people hallucinate UFOs?


(Image: Daily Mail. Also check out this crazy-awesome UFO image from The Sun)