A FOREIGN WOMAN IN THE HOLLOW BOAT

Tokagawa Shogunate, Japan - February 22, 1803

Possibly the first written account referencing alien symbols and a possible humanoid encounter is a story in Japanese folklore. The story takes place on February 22nd in the spring of 1803. Offshore from a beach called Hara-yadori in the territory of Ogasawara Etchuu-no-kami (4000 koku'), who occupied a position named "Yoriai-seki" of Tokagawa shogunate at that time, a kind of boat was observed from the beach. People approached this boat using their small boats and eventually caught it. They towed it to the beach.

The boat was round and resembled a kind of kou-hako (a box used to burn incense). Its diameter was more than 3 ken (5.45 in). On the upper part of the boat, there were glass-fitted shoji (windows with lattice) and they were shielded by chan (a kind of waterproofed putty made from pine-tree gum). The bottom of this ship was reinforced by separated iron plates. This structure may protect the boat from destruction by sunken rocks. Since the glass-fitted shoji was transparent, the people could see the inside the boat, where they found a woman with strange features. Her hair and eyebrows were red, and her face was pink. It seemed that long white hair was added to her original hair.

This foreign woman held one square box whose size was about two shaku (60 cm) in her hands. It seemed that this box was very important to her because she held this box constantly, and she prohibited anyone from approaching it.

The objects found in this boat were investigated by the people. There was about two shou (3.6 liters) of water in the small bottle. There were two pieces of carpet, cake-like food, and kneaded meat. While people discussed what to do about this boat, the woman observed them peacefully.

Another similar description of an incident was found:

On March 24, 1803, a strange boat drifted ashore on a beach named Haratono-hama in Hitachi state in Japan. The boat was hollow and its shape was similar to a rice-cooking pot. It had a kind of rimmed-edge at the center-level part of the boat. In the part above this edge, the boat was painted in black and had four small windows on four sides. All shoji (windows with lattice) were shielded by chan (a kind of waterproof putty made from pine-tree gum). The lower part of the boat was reinforced by steel bars. These bars looked to be made of Western-made iron of the highest quality. The height of the boat was one jyou, two shaku (3.64m) and its diameter was one jyou, eight shaku (5.45m).

A woman (or girl) was found inside this boat and her age appeared around twenty. She was about five shaku (1.5m) tall and her skin was white as snow. Her long hair vividly hung on her back. Her facial features were incomparably beautiful. Her clothes were strange and unrecognizable and her language was not understood by anyone. She held a small box in her hands and prohibited anyone from approaching this box.

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JAPANESE CRYPTID WOLVES

Reports of small wolf-like canids came out of the Chichibu district of Japan in 1998. At least seventy people reported wolf howls in 1994, and there have been at least twenty-six claims of wolves seen from 1908 to 1978, all in the Aomori and Oita regions in northernmost Japan, not to mention prints, howls and scat. Several sightings have also been made on the Kii peninsula. In 1936a man in Hongu supposedly captured a wolf pup, but released it in case a parent attempted to retrieve it. The Honshu wolf (Canis lupus hodophylax) a dwarf subspecies of wolf just over a foot tall and deemed extinct since 1905 due to a rabies epidemic, fits the general description. Attempts to record wolves howling, by playing wolf howls to prompt them in 1995 were unsuccessful. Possibly these sightings are just misidentification of feral dogs. However, though Japan is heavily populated, its mountainous terrain would make it possible for a hidden population of wolves – in this case, small wolves - to survive without public acknowledgment. - Cryptid Canids

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THE KAPPAS

SLIMY FOOTPRINTS

At around 11 PM on August 1, 1984 in the town of Tsushima in Nagasaki prefecture, a squid fisherman named Ryu Shirozaki was walking home from the local pier after work. As he passed near the Kuta river, he came upon a small group of children playing at the water's edge. While it was not entirely uncommon to encounter people fishing in the river at night, it was rather surprising to see youngsters there.

As Shirozaki approached the children, he was struck by how bizarre they appeared in the moonlight. He could make out swarthy faces, unusually spindly arms and legs, and glistening skin. Suspicious, Shirozaki called out to them as he neared, but they seemed startled and quickly disappeared into the water.

The next morning when he returned to the same spot, Shirozaki discovered a set of moist, teardrop-shaped footprints on the nearby pavement. The prints, which appeared to consist of a slimy substance that had begun to coagulate under the hot morning sun, stretched for about 20 meters. Each footprint measured 22 centimeters (about 10 in) long and 12 centimeters (5 in) wide, and they were spaced about 50 to 60 centimeters (about 2 ft) apart.

Shirozaki and a few curious onlookers immediately suspected the footprints belonged to a kappa. People began to gather around as the news spread quickly through town, and all agreed the prints belonged to a kappa. In the minds of many residents, the footprints confirmed the existence of the river imps they knew through local legends.

When police forensic investigators arrived on the scene, they determined that the slimy footprints consisted of an unknown secretion. They took a sample to the lab for analysis, but the results unfortunately turned out to be inconclusive because the sample was too small. The police eventually dropped their investigation, and the mystery of the slimy footprints was never solved.

THE UNCLEAN GUEST

Another recent kappa encounter occurred on June 30, 1991 in the town of Saito in Miyazaki prefecture, when an office worker named Mitsugu Matsumoto and his wife Junko returned home for the evening. Upon opening the front door, the Matsumotos were confronted with a strange smell inside their home. Inside, they found dozens of small, wet footprints around the front door and in the hallway, bathroom, and two tatami rooms. At first they suspected a burglar, but they soon realized nothing had been stolen.

The police briefly surveyed the house, but found nothing except a floor soiled by 30 footprints, each measuring about 7 centimeters long and 6 centimeters wide, and having 4 or 5 toes. To Matsumoto, the footprints did not look human, nor did they appear to belong to any animal he could imagine.

Later that night, as Mrs. Matsumoto was putting laundry away, she discovered an unusual orange stain on some clothing. The next morning, as Matsumoto inspected the house more closely, he discovered a deposit of orange liquid on the portable stereo in the tatami room. He took a sample to the local public health center for analysis, and the results indicated the liquid had an extremely high iron content and a chemical composition resembling spring water.

Troubled by the incident, Matsumoto decided to visit a shaman. After listening to Matsumoto's story, the shaman encouraged him not to worry, explaining that the kappa indigenous to the nearby swamp enjoyed playing the occasional prank on local residents. The kappa were harmless, the shaman told him.

Harmless, perhaps, but Matsumoto found the kappa difficult to clean up after. He tried using detergent, paint thinner and gasoline to remove the footprints and orange stains, but nothing seemed to work.

Sources: Shin-ichiro Namiki, "Nippon No Kaiki Hyaku", 2007

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TSUCHINOKO - THE CRYPTID SERPENT

In 2000, Yoshii, Okayama, Japan was in the news, as people were flocking to the region to hunt for the tsuchinoko, a chirping reptile-like cryptid bearing at least some resemblance to a snake or a long, thick lizard. A 20 million yen reward from the Yoshii Municipal Government was the source of all the excitement.

Tsuchinoko fever hit Yoshii on May 21 after a farmer cutting grass swore he saw a snake-like creature with a face resembling the cartoon cat Doraemon slither across his field. The farmer slashed the creature with his weed whipper, but it fled into a nearby stream and escaped. Four days later, 72-year-old Hideko Takashima was talking with a couple of friends in Yoshii when she found what she thought was one of the creatures lying dead next to the stream a tsuchinoko reportedly had dived into to escape from the farmer. She picked it up and buried it.

Yoshii Municipal Government officials heard the rumors of a tsuchinoko and headed out to look over the local woman’s find. They exhumed the body and forwarded it to Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare to be examined. Kuniyasu Sato, the professor who analyzed the reptile, said that the animal may indeed have been the tsuchinoko, but “scientifically speaking, it was a kind of snake.”

Meanwhile, Mitsuko Arima, an 82-year-old from Yoshii, says she saw a Tsuchinoko swimming along a river on the morning of June 15.

“I was surprised. I just pointed at it and asked ‘Who are you? Who are you?’ It didn’t answer me, but just stared. It had a round face and didn’t take its eyes off me. I can still see the eyes now. They were big and round and it looked like they were floating on the water,” Arima says. “I’ve lived over 80 years, but I’d never seen anything like that in my life.” - The Top Cryptozoology Stories of 2000

NOTE: there are a few links that may also be of interest Zuiyo Maru Cryptid and The Yamapikarya – Japan’s Mystery Cat Also, below is an interesting humanoid report that I thought I'd throw in here...Lon

THE FANGED HUMANOID

Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan - February 23, 1975

Between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., two seven-year-old boys named Kono and Yamahata watched a luminous orange UFO approach Kofu, Japan while making a "ticking" sound. It landed on three ball-shaped legs in a nearby vineyard. The object was a domed disc, five meters in diameter and six feet high. The boys got very close to it, and discovered the surface of the object was silver colored and had strange characters embossed on its surface.

A ladder extended out of the craft down to the ground, and a humanoid creature slightly over four feet tall disembarked. It wore a silver uniform and carried something that looked like a gun. His skin was dark brown and he had large pointed ears, but his large head had no facial features: no eyes, nose or mouth. It merely had wrinkles on the "face" and three silvery two-inch long "fangs" where the mouth should be. Both boys could see one more smaller humanoid in the cockpit. The being that had emerged reached out and touched one of the boys, patting him twice on the shoulder and uttering words "like a tape recorder running backwards." The boy who had been touched sat down, paralyzed either by the touch or fear, but his companion took him on his back and carried him from the vineyard. They then ran to one of the boy's homes and informed their parents, who could at first see the orange light pulsating in the vineyard. Then it disappeared as they watched. Two concrete posts were found pushed over at the landing site.

Sources: CUFOS files; APRO Bulletin; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-10 (A1391), citing Hayashi Ichinan and Yoshihiko Honda



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1st 3D Transparent Skull Implanted

Three months ago, surgeons in Holland implanted a transparent plastic skull in a woman whose skull has never stopped growing. Incredibly, the rare bone disease that was wrecking her vision and destroying her life has been been bested by a simple 3D printer. The team of surgeons, led by Dr. Bon Verweij at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, expect her new skull to last indefinitely, opening up new vistas for cranial transformation.

The precursor to this achievement was a similar patching done last year, where 75% of a patient’s skull was replaced with a 3D-printed implant made of polyetherketoneketone (PEKK, a thermoplastic). While the cost and man-hours required to bulk-machine a skull would have been prohibitive, printing to exact specification is now routine. PEKK and its larger family of related plastics are extremely strong and temperature resistant (for sterilization), however, this new implant appears to be made from some new, and rather mysterious material.

The skull, made by an Australian firm, is actually fairly transparent. Lots of plastics can be transparent — acrylics, polycarbonates, etc. — but the stringent medical requirements, and also print requirements, place limits on the possible. While the transparency may be incidental, the picture above shows the clear advantage of such transparency: one can see the underlying brain and vasculature. Not only is this a nice feedback to see how things are going macroscopically, it also entices with potential to optically image activity in the brain like never before.

The 22-year-old woman patient may not have such things immediately in mind, and is probably just thankful to have a normal cranium. Her disorder had caused overgrowth of her old skull from a normal thickness of 1.5 centimeters to a battle-axe busting 5cm (2 inches). While the new skull appears permanent, details of attachment and integration to protective layer just beneath (known as the dura, for hard layer) are not yet publicly available. The two halves appear to be attached with standard titanium clasps which one finds in a typical “internal fixation” kit. These kits are simple erector sets from which the surgeon can select the right pieces, and then bend and shape to fit unto broken bones.

The potential to further customize these printings is huge. As a start, simple features to capture and mate the two halves against sliding motion may be of immediate advantage. Also, a more scalloped interface edge to the existing skull could be built in to later models. We previously discussed the possibility of adding provision for the kinds of implants that are now used to augment or restore hearing into replacement skulls. In particular, variant on the “BAHA” style implant system which uses bone conduction like Google Glass might be directly incorporated.

We’ll be sure to update you on this story when more information is made available — this is a big one. - ExtremeTech

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Ancient Egyptian Glyphs Found in Australia

Until receiving a phone call from Nina Angelo (OAM), I knew nothing of neither the struggles involved in protecting the land around Kariong (near Gosford) nor that part of this land was now on the market. When on-site I had seen a lot of tagged trees, and a for sale sign somewhere along a main road, but being unfamiliar with the whole region, nothing registered.

The land for sale contains the Gosford Glyphs, located near Kariong, about 60 km north of Sydney. This site features little known carved ‘ancient Egyptian’ hieroglyphs that were brought to light by various researchers in past decades.

We are convinced that close to this site, and never before seen by non-Aboriginals until discovered very recently, is a rock platform covered with a set of sacred engravings of considerable significance. On this large platform we saw a fish, serpent, massive dolphin or whale, circles and a variety of shapes and symbols.

Without doubt, it is an impressive gallery of ancient Aboriginal rock art deserving of protection. There is one life-sized engraving of Durramullan (son of Creation Spirit Biamie) that is so unique, utterly unexpected, and obviously sacred, decisions had to be made as to how it can be publicly described. Read more at HumansAreFree

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Former World Bank Senior Council Says A 'Second Species' On Earth Controls Money & Religion

Former World Bank Senior Council, Karen Hudes has been making a lot of noise lately, and she recently said something she’s never said before. She said that a second species on Earth controls money and religion. Many people who have held positions to know things that the rest of us might not know have made some very shocking statements lately. For example, Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of National Defence recently said that there are at least “4 known alien species that have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.” You can read more about that here.

I am aware that just because somebody says something does not mean that it’s true, no matter what their background. At the same time, what she says corroborates with a lot of ancient historical facts, and modern day disclosures of other strange phenomenon, like UFOs, secret societies and more. For someone like this to gain credibility as a World Bank whistle-blower and then all of a sudden make a comment like this is quite shocking.

Although, in her interview she did discredit the idea of extraterrestrials on the planet, which I definitely disagree with. There is an enormous amount of evidence out there to suggest we are not alone, and we have indeed been visited. Read more at HigherPrespective

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Rhodesia UFO Experience

Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) 1975 - unedited: When I lived in Rhodesia before the independence, it was still British colony and if I recall correctly the last Prime Minister of Rhodesia was Ian Smith. I lived on a farm with my parents and my brother and sister.

There were no schools around there so my parents put me in a Fort Victoria Junior Primary Boarding School, which I recently learned the name was Andrew Louw School. It was located in a rural area on the outskirts of Fort Victoria City, The school was surrounded by a high electrical fence because of terrorism. In Fort Victoria they have Fort Victoria falls which is one of the tallest falls in the world. I was about 8 or 9 years old, mind you I stayed at this boarding school for 3 months time before seeing my family again. Sometimes my parents would pick me up and sometimes I would have to go by 2 propeller plane from Fort Victoria to Buffalo Range and my parents would pick me up at Buffalo Range airport, which was a small airport still far from the farm where we lived. I remember the journey being very far from our farm to Fort Victoria and most of the times we would have to go on a military convoy of about 30 to 35 cars because of terrorism.

On the weekends kids that lived close by had their family members pick them up or somebody sign for them and kids that lived far away would only see their family members once every 12 weeks, which seemed forever. I remember at the age of 8 or 9, I was very possessed with a children's bible which belonged to my teacher called Mrs. Brooks which she read in class twice a week during bible study. Her husband, Mr Brooks, was a teacher there as well. They were originally from England. While these teachers worked in this boarding school and lived there, they were both very Catholic and they treated me like a son, and I know they had grown-up children which lived and studied in England. They allowed me to play with their children s toys which they had outgrown. I was so possessed with this Bible, it had pictures, and I asked Mrs. Brooks if she could get me one right away. She mentioned it was quite a lot of money for a bible like that at the time. I didn't have pocket money and I know my parents wouldn't give me the money for that. I went to bed thinking about this bible, I woke up thinking about it and went to every class thinking about having this bible. It was a common thing for us kids at boarding school to read the version of the new testament, it was then I think Giddeons version, to each other before the bell went for lights out. It came to a point that these two teachers were going to go to England and the day they were to leave they said they would give me the bible because they knew I wanted it so badly and couldn't afford it. I finally got the bible. I was so obsessed with this bible that I don't know how to explain what got into me.

I'm not exactly sure of the month and day of this event but I remember one of the weekends that I stayed, one afternoon which I think was a Saturday afternoon after lunch, mind you I had never heard of a UFO in my life. We had never talked about them, nothing. This fine afternoon was just like all the other weekends, supervised by 4 teachers, we were about 9-12 kids that stayed that weekend. Normally us kids would play with action men , dinky cars, marbles, cowboys and indians, cards, and a game called skietboard and we read a lot of magazines called Look and Learn. 4 kids out of the 12 were playing cowboys and Indians with me. We made forts, and pistols out of branches, knives out of branches and I had made a bow and arrow out of a branch and a bicycle tube, and I made the arrows out of a thin bamboo that grew there. We were playing about 100 meters from where the teachers were standing and talking around the other kids. We were at the back of the boarding school and mind you every time I would shoot this bow and arrow it would go very far, normally I would shoot at trees, leaves, insects and so on. If the teachers knew I had this bow and arrow I'd get caned and they would break it in front of me. Everything was very strict in those days. That's why I played at the back and when the bell rang for us to go shower or go have dinner I would hide this bow and arrow by the trees where only I would know. So that fine afternoon at about 3 or 4 o'clock, me and the kids were playing cowboys and indians and I shot my bow and arrow about 20 or 30 times at trees and bugs and stuff. There was a point I started shooting at the sky because this arrow really shot far. After my 3rd , 4th or 5th shot at the sky in different directions I noticed an aluminum coloured object, not stainless steel coloured, just hovering in the sky at about 9-10 km height above tree level but below cloud level. I observed it for probably about 5 minutes on and off. There was no noise, I could see no windows,no lights, no smoke , no fire, no aliens just and aluminum disc shaped object hanging upon nothing as a full stop. After a couple of minutes I started saying in my head that's not a plane or a helicopter. I started to say to myself why is it still in that same spot. I told one of the kids that was closest playing with me but he ignored it. I hid my bow and arrow and ran to the teachers. When I got to them they were talking to each other. I mentioned to the teachers what is that up in the sky, they were still kind of talking and I repeated myself again to get their attention . Suddenly they started looking toward where I was aiming at the disc shaped object. They didn't say a word for about 30 seconds while looking at this object, eventually one of the teachers saying it was a spaceship, one of the other teachers saying it may be a satellite. They were looking at it as if it was a thing they never saw in their life. I was very observant and the teachers kept on with their conversation and I went back to play with the kids I was playing with earlier but every 5-10 minutes I'd look up at the object and it would still be there, no movement or noise parked as a full stop, just hovering. After 3 or 4 hours the bell rang for us to go take our shower so all us kids ran inside to our rooms to get our stuff to shower. I looked up at it one more time and it was still there before I went for my shower. The shower period probably took us 15 to 30 minutes more or less. When I was done my shower and combing my hair I decided to run down the corridor so I could take a glimpse of the object one more time. Once I turned around the corner where I could see the playground it had vanished without a trace, never heard a noise or anything out of the unusual as if it didn't even exist. I never saw it again. I remember the next day waking up with a huge boil on my right leg which they sent me to sick bay. For 2 days and nights I was isolated from the rest of the kids.

That has lived in my memory until today. I'm 42 years old now I've been drawing pictures of the UFO I saw since the day I saw it, I've even created an aluminum sculpture of it, I've gathered so much information from UFO's all over the world and any mysterious thing known to man and out of every picture I've seen and researched there is only one which was taken in Belgium or France which is the same design of the one I saw except the one in Belgium or France glowed like the sun. I have researched all my life as much as I could by myself and the only things I know to hover for periods of time is the British Harrier, the mig fulcrum cobra , but these things have to move. I know no satellite can hover , no comet can hover, no falling star. Out of my conclusion and belief throughout all my studies all these years, it goes back to the bible. There is good and evil. Everything known to man was created by God. We all know there was a great war in heaven and evil was expelled to Earth to a certain realm, and the bible mentions when the devil was asked what he is doing he said he was roaming the earth, this includes all the evil spirits that were expelled from Heaven and followed him down to earth. We all know that these evil spirits in the time of Noah came down to earth and had intercourse with women and the breed were called Nephlims which were monstrous trouble makers and were all destroyed in the flood. So my belief in a lot of people that say they have been abducted the first thing that comes to mind is these evil spirits are still doing it with our women today to try and improve the size of their creation to mingle with mankind so they are not visible. God mentions in the bible "don't fear what you can see, fear what you can't see". I believe these creatures dwell in human life form which is blood. Blood is life, and is sacred to God, it's mentioned in the Bible and they are all preparing themselves for the great battle which is soon coming and I believe they are living among men already especially in high ruling government authorities such as the black project areas where there is no proof of anything, it is an untouchable dwelling, man is a puppet, an instrument of things yet to come. I truly respect any person that has encountered one of these things and I hope people don't pollute this and use it for misleading people. Everything I say I believe in, I don't ask anybody to believe it if they don't want to. The only thing I can guarantee people that is true is the UFO that I saw. The other things are just my beliefs .

Two more things I've got to mention. One of the things is one night in between 12 and 1 in the morning, I grabbed a coffee and parked my car facing lake Ontario in a parking lot. I was there for a couple of minutes having my coffee, and people, you know exactly if you are facing the lake and you look on the right hand side of the sky to the furthest part where you can see no more to the left side of the lake where you can see no more either, I saw the whitest , brightest light you could imagine show up at the right side of the sky as far as you could see go right across the lake to the US side in 4 to 6 seconds until I could not see it anymore. And I can guarantee it is not any black project from any government source because anything going at that speed would disintegrate into a pile of dung. It was about 15 to 18 kilometers high.

The other thing my grandparents lived in Mozambique which was a Portuguese colony long before I was born. I come from hunting families in Mozambique and Rhodesia. When I say hunting my dad and my dad's father were professional hunters, they would shoot things such as lions, leopards, crocodiles, buffalo, zebra, baboons, kudu, impala, gazelles, elephants etc. They would go into the bush with 15 black hunters they entrusted for a month at a time without coming home. When I'm talking bush I'm talking totally with no civilization., and this was in the time before the big game hunting ban, such as elephants etc.My grandfather mentioned that where he lived, a rural area where the only lights in the skies were the stars and the moon, He mentioned there was a year that a whole bunch of lights in the sky kept coming and going for about a week in a row. It looked like they were searching for something. There were no helicopters or planes flying around that area or anything that you would know today. The other thing I have to say is my grandmother in Mozambique and my great grandmother on my mothers side, they had a farm house too, in a different town and they had pigs, chickens and 50 white female sheep and one male goat, which stayed in a barn at night. Every night the black people that worked for us would put them in the barn because of predators such as lions, leopards etc. One morning they woke up to find all the white female sheep dead, with a hole the diameter of a cigarette in their throat. There was no blood anywhere to be found. All the organs were intact. It looked like something drained the blood of all 50 sheep. The only thing alive in the shed was the male goat. It was in a state of shock and trembling. My grandmother back in those days believed that it was the work of a leopard until this day. My research and belief to this matter that I've debated with her is something with a probe that sucked the blood of all 50 sheep. And my belief once again is that blood is life and sacred and these evil spirits dwell in it.
I have a lot more to mention but it is too much to write so I'll leave it as is.

If there is anybody that has more information on any of these things please feel free to comment.

I have recently made a page on Facebook called [Title removed/cms/tg]. [Link moved to FI section/cms/tg]

I have a picture of an exact replica I made in solid aluminum of exactly what I saw in the sky at Fort Victoria. - MUFON CMS

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Dinosaur Cloning Hoax

The prank news item claimed that British scientists had managed to clone a live dinosaur called 'Spot'.

Despite appearing several days before April 1st, the imaginative piece published on controversial website 'News Hound' announced that scientists at Liverpool's John Moores University had successfully produced a baby Apatosaurus and were incubating it at their lab.

The story soon went viral, with links appearing all over social media. The 'news' was met with both excitement and dismay, with some commenters likening the ethics of the event to those explored in Steven Spielberg's classic movie "Jurassic Park".

As it turned out however the story was, unsurprisingly, a complete hoax. An image of the alleged dinosaur included with the piece was actually that of a baby kangaroo and the quotes from the scientists involved were bogus.

While it isn't outside the realm of possibility that we may one day be able to bring dinosaurs back from extinction, there's still a long way to go before such an outcome becomes a reality. Read more at Independent

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By Chris Holly - I have written about this subject many times before. My words were received with yawns and boredom by a public living in denial and delusion which keeps them deaf dumb and blind to the harsh facts of life that are the realty of living on this planet at this point in time.

The advent and now addiction to cell phones, computers and hand held gadgets of every shape and form have transformed us into a society of detached humans controlled by the gadgets that addict us and keep us lost to the real world around us. I watch as the people in my community walk through their day’s heads down absorbed in their cell phones or hand held (whatever it is) that consume their attention and time. Rarely do they look up or at one another which I might add is developing a new rude behavior by mankind as well.

As I watch this take place I can see a new way of life evolving where a sort of invisible bubble surrounds the people as they become locked in their little world of cell phones, twitter, texting, face book consuming attention sucking devices that divide them from the very people and real world that surround them.

People do not look at each other, talk to each other face to face or look around them when they are out and about in the world. I am amazed there are not far more accidents or incidents occurring routinely due to this technology bubble of this new distracted society. We are without question addicted to these devices. I feel we have been pushed purposely to these new addictions as an easy form of society control. It is clear that we have given up smelling the roses along the way, in fact we rarely notice if there are roses unless it is a screen saver image!

All of this frightens me as I feel that although the new world of technology is great when used as tools that when applied save us time and help advance our species. I do however fear it when it is used in place of human contact and as a method to control and brainwash us in to controllable robotic like slaves addicted to our gadgets. The proof of this can be found in our nonchalant avoidance and denial of the massive changes and manipulation of what goes on constantly above our heads.

I understand that we tend to stay indoors during the cold winter months far more and do spend more time outside when the weather is nice however we all do still leave our homes and enter the world usually on a daily basis which is why I am so upset at our lack of interest in the world around and above us.

Thankfully there are people who do pay attention to what is happening on this earth and have been trying desperately to shake the rest of the population awake to what is taking place to them and above them constantly now for years. This article is my plea to all who may read it to please pull your heads out of your gadgets and bubble of oblivion and give your head a good shake and start to pay attention to the real world that you may be on the brink of losing.

Have you been watching the sky? Or have you become so use to massive spraying of chemicals over your head that they are now normal to you? Do you know what geo engineering is and that your sky has been and still is being sprayed with massive amounts of chemicals changing a beautiful clear cloudless day into a mass of explosive crisscrossing lines of sprayed chemicals which result in changing a clear blue sky into a thick covered white mass of fake clouds. How is it that it has not occurred to you that this is not normal or natural. If you have noticed this taking place how it is that it does not frighten the living hell right out of you?

Have you noticed strange weather patterns developing all over the world? Do you simply yawn and not give them a thought until it is you who is dealing with some type of massive storm or huge amounts of snow or flooding rain?

Look, I understand we all have our plates full with hard times, family obligations and pressures from work or the difficulties of routine life that seems to become more stressful by the day. I get it that you have your job to contend with while trying to keep tabs on your kids while figuring out how to stretch your paycheck to feed your family and pay the bills. I also know what it is like to be young and want to be connected to your pals and girl or boy friend. I watch as the world around me runs about like rats on a wheel chasing after one of these scenarios as we all try to live life in a busy difficult world. I get it, I have a life partner, family friends and do all that you do each and every day. I get it all but for one big difference. I know it could end in a snap if we all continue in our little bubbles ignoring the very air we breathe and world we live on.

This is where I stop and turn to you and say, - What the hell are we all thinking? Look up and tell me what the hell is it that they have been spraying all over us for the past decade without any of us demanding to know why and what is going on. Are we all crazy? Have we all been dosed with some type of dummy juice that prevents us from questioning these things or maybe a substance that has made us so completely self-involved that we cannot see a huge white hanging forest for the heavily cloud covered trees? People we have a problem here and it long overdue for us to shake our heads, get off our addicted texting knees and stand up and ask” What the Hell is Going on Here?”

I did a bit of research on this issue and became so upset and disgusted that I just do not know what to do or what to say to get the humans around me to question and fear what I consider a huge strange dangerous on going attack on mankind.

I have heard all types of theories. Some feel it is an attempt to kill off part of the population as a form of population control. Others think it is a form of cloaking so we here on earth cannot see what is going on out in space and on the moon that would be visible without this dimming of the atmosphere. Still other people believe it is a reflection event saving earth from what the sun is throwing at our planet. Other people think it is a defense against either other earth powers attacking us or aliens from another place in the cosmos. The list goes on and on including the spraying is part of the use of the HAARP machines that are being used to manipulate the worlds weather.

I do know this. The spraying of the chem-trails is being done all over the world in a massive organized effort by what appears to be every country in the world. It is the only project of this size by so many nations that has ever taken place. That fact tells me something very big and very serious is taking place and with that said I think we deserve to know what is going on.

I have found information in my research that was overwhelming for me to discover however all I can do is provide it for you to decide if it is worth your time and effort to start to get off your knees, look around and start to do something about it.

I will include the articles I found as well as my latest radio show where my co-host Randy Maugans and I discuss in detail the seriousness of this issue. I also have posted other videos and images to help you decide what you want to do about this awful issue.

I think at least you need to write at least a sentence of two to your elected officials and send them an email demanding to know what the hell is going on with this chem-trail issue

I have added a great deal more material on this issue that I feel may be extremely important to not only your well being but your survival including my recent radio show concerning this topic with Randy Maugans, articles by other experts warning you about the seriousness of this issue, tips on how to survive as well as other videos on the issue .

Please make the effort to listen and explore for your own safety the material I have gathered on this subject. It may be an issue of life and death for us all. You can find it all at the link below. I can only hope this will one day be found to be part of a world wide massive effort for the welfare of mankind and planet earth. Until we know what is going on I will tell you all I am deeply concerned over this issue. I hope you will be too!

♥ Copyright © 2014 Chris Holly all Rights Reserved
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INEXPLICATA: Chronicles of the Paranormal

After many delays, INEXPLICATA: Chronicles of the Paranormal is finally complete. Older readers may be familiar with the information presented here, but it will be of interest to our newer readers who may have missed out. Go to http://www.scribd.com/doc/214826822/INEXPLICATA-Chronicles-of-the-Paranormal and download. Check out Scott Corrales' work...you'll definitely enjoy it!

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Saucer Craft Used Light Beam

Oxnard, CA - 1979 - unedited: I was sitting on a bench over looking the beach (waves breaking 10 feet in front of us)at Point Magu with two friends, one male and one female. Across the cove, maybe 200 feet away was a group of 10 to 12 people enjoying a camp fire on the beach. Suddenly we saw an object about a half mile to a mile out over the water, about 100 feet high. This was the classic flying saucer shape, with lights around the diameter of the craft. At first it just hovered there for about a minute and then a VERY bright light about 10 foot diameter shown on us for 30 seconds or so. The light went off, the craft flew at a high speed to the left - it moved what looked like about 1 mile in a blink of an eye, then to the right just as fast back in front of us, then flew up at about a 45 degree angle at an unbelievable speed, and was GONE.

We looked at the group of people at the camp fire around the cove and they were yelling "it had the light on you"! They all ran to their cars and drove away very quickly! This craft made no sound, and moved in a stealth way. If we (humans) have this type of technology, all of us should know. Some of my friends that I have told this to think it was probably a military proto-type -- not a chance. Nothing we know of could move like this craft. To this day, my friend's wife (one of us three witnesses) refuses to talk about it with my friend and I, or anyone. I truly feel privileged to have witnessed this amazing event that was seen by at least 12 people. - MUFON CMS

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Possible Classified Aircraft Seen Over Texas

Grainy images showed a triangular blob with a long vapour trail flying through the clear blue skies above Amarillo, Texas next to another contrail left before it.

Defence technology blog Ares claimed this could be one of the rare times that a classified military plane has been photographed.

‘As far as I know, this sort of thing has happened only once since 1956,’ explained blogger Bill Sweetman.

Mr Sweetman went on to say that the photographer, Steve Douglass, spends a lot of time looking for unusual flying objects and listening out for them on radio.

Douglass claims to have picked up related radio communication between the aircraft - suggesting it must have been manned as opposed to remotely-controlled.

Blog comments are speculating about the type of aircraft and suggestions are ranging from a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to a Boeing Phantom.

As the US Air Force are unlikely to be forthcoming with information, the flying objects will almost certainly remain ‘unidentified’

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The hunt for child sorcerers in Congo

Inside a small concrete church, lit by a few tungsten bulbs hanging from exposed wires, hundreds of people stood packed together in stifling heat, repeating the words their pastor bellowed into a microphone.

"On va tuer les demons" – "We will kill the demons."

It was after midnight in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the service was just getting under way. The pastor, Pierre Pinda Buana, wore a simple, blue button-down shirt. Its acrylic shimmered as he moved around the center of the room – smooth, practiced, confident. For almost an hour, Pinda led his congregation through songs and chants, the fervor in the church mounting. Then he preached about the main event they had all come to witness: exorcism.

Charles, a Congolese friend of mine, who asked that I not use his real name, translated Pinda's words from Lingala, a local language, to French. But the cries, clapping, and ululations of the crowd often drowned out his voice.

Pinda began describing a demon that was living in the body of a woman who stood before him, almost entirely blocked from my sight by the crowd: "It's attacking the heart. It's attacking the stomach. It strikes faster than an arrow." He called out to the demon, asking why it wanted to kill the woman.

Electrical contacts crackled – I glimpsed a church assistant crouched over a fuse box in the rear doorway – and the bulb dangling above Pinda went dark. Light fell inward from the corners of the room, yellow and angular. Suddenly, the woman collapsed onto the ground and began shouting. The crowd pressed in around her as she writhed and arched her back.

"Elle dit" – Charles told me – "she is saying the spirit wanted to kill her in her sleep because she had a good future. The spirit wanted to destroy the hope in her."

Pinda spoke in a commanding voice, and the woman replied, every word staccato, like a glottal stop. The demon was speaking through the woman, Charles said, and resisting the exorcism. Pinda repeated "deliverance" again and again, his voice echoing in the church's speakers. The center bulb flared back on as he pointed down at the woman and cried out for the demon to leave. The people in the crowd pressed in even more tightly, lifting their arms. Each time the demon told Pinda it would not go, the pastor raised his voice and the crowd clamored, calling out to Jesus.

Suddenly, the people fell silent. The woman had closed her eyes. Those nearest to her hunched down, touching her as they prayed. In the background, a keyboardist in the church's band played a few soothing chords on a synthesizer.

The exorcism was surreal to an outsider standing in the clutch of believers – a startling glimpse into what, for most people in the room, was a typical church service. Yet the most striking thing about the scene was that, despite the alleged cries of a demon, the professed presence of evil, the crowd never appeared scared of the exorcism – only impassioned. Read more at Helsinki Times

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According to a few sources, Ricky D has once again packed up 'Hank' and is heading back home. It seems like his attempt to exhibit the 'furry fraud', this time in Florida, has ended in failure.

Rick D told his dwindling group of fans that he was taking a three-month hiatus from his nationwide tour after he failed to bring in anywhere near the $200,000 he planned to make by setting up at Daytona's Bike Week festivities. Seems the motorcycle enthusiasts weren't in the mood for the carnival act.

This most-recent misstep came on the heels of the revelation that the BBC film featuring Dyer, Shooting Bigfoot, was actually a hoax after all. In the film, Dyer and filmmaker Morgan Matthews were supposedly 'attacked' by a hairy hominid in the San Antonio, TX suburbs. An odd freeze-frame of the beast has become well-publicized over the internet, even though a source who was present during the filming has come out to claim that the entire attack was rehearsed.

Fortunately for those you still want to observe a fake Bigfoot, the well-known fake dead Bigfoot, The Minnesota Ice Man, now resides in the Museum of the Weird in Austin, Texas. The legendary sideshow attraction went missing for decades, only to reappear in a storage shed last year, prompting the museum to snatch it up and reintroduce to curious onlookers.

When the Minnesota Ice Man was created, someone actually took great pains to exhibit detail. It truly is a magnificent display. Ricky D could learn a lesson from his latest boondoggle...you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.


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On 11/2/1971 in Delphos, Kansas, 16 year old Ronald Johnson was tending the sheep, accompanies by his dog, when the sighting happened. What he suddenly saw was a mushroom shaped object, illuminated by multicolored lights over its entire surface and hovering 25 yards away. Johnson and his family went around the house to the site of the near landing and were surprised to observe a glowing ring in the ground. This is considered as one of the very best physical trace cases involving a UFO landing:

ORIGINAL REPORT: On the evening of November 2, 1971 sixteen-year-old Ronald Johnson was tending the sheep on his father's farm ear the small town of Delphos, Kansas. At about 7:00 p.m. Ronald and his dog Snowball were suddenly surprised to see an object hovering about two feet off the ground in a grove of trees some twenty-five yards from where he stood. The object, which he later estimated to be about nine feet in diameter and ten feet tall, was shaped like a mushroom with a short stem and was covered with multi-colored lights. It made a sound that Ronald described as like that of an old washing machine which vibrates. As he watched, it suddenly became very bright at the base and then it took off at an angle, temporarily blinding him. Ronald would later say that the dog was noticeably "very quiet", but that the sheep were bleating nervously.

Some minutes later, as Ronald's eyes once more adjusted to the light, he went into the house and told his parents, Durel and Erma Johnson, what he had seen. They got outside in time to see the object, which was now about half the full moon in size, before it vanished into the sky to the south.

Ronald and his parents then went to examine the place at which the object had been first seen. They were astonished to find a glowing ring on the ground, and some sort of glowing material on nearby trees. When Mrs. Johnson touched the glowing area, which had a crust-like texture, she found that her fingers went numb. She tried to wipe the substance off onto her leg, and her leg became numb where the material touched it. Her fingers reportedly remained slightly numb for about two weeks, although she never sought medical attention for the problem. Mr. Johnson fetched his camera and took a photo of the ring and then phoned the local newspaper, The Delphos Republican.

The next day, Durel and Ronald drove into town and spoke to a Delphos Republican reporter, Thaddia Smith. Mrs. Smith, her husband, and her son-in-law then accompanied the Johnsons back to their farm, where she found:

The circle was still very distinct and plain to see. the soil was dried and crusted. The circle or ring was approximately 8 feet across, the center of the ring and the outside area were still muddy from recent rains. The area of the ring that was dried was about a foot across and was very light in color.

MUFON sketch showing sideview of the encounter. (credit: MUFON / Connelly)

The object had crushed a dead tree to the ground either when it landed or took off, and from appearance had broken a limb of a live tree when it landed. the broken limb was most unusual, it would snap and break as though it had been dead for quite some time, yet it was green under the bark, and the upper area still had green leaves clinging to its branches. However the lower area looked as though it had been blistered and had a whitish cast.

That afternoon, Sheriff Enlow, Undersheriff Harlan Enlow, and Kansas State Highway Patrolman Kenneth Yager investigated the ring after being called by Thaddia Smith. Harlan Enlow's report of the investigation stated:

...we observed a ring shaped somewhat like a doughnut with a hole in the middle. The ring was completely dry with a hole in the middle and outside of the ring mud. There were limbs broken from a tree and a dead tree broken off, there. There was a slight discoloration on the trees.

The soil sample taken was almost white in color and very dry.

Enlow's report also stated that:

On 11-03-71 Mr. Lester Ensbarger of 416 Argyle St. in Minneapolis advised Deputy Sheriff Leonard Simpson that at approx. 7:30 p.m. 11-02-71 he had observed a bright light descending in the sky in the Delphos area.

The ring was still clearly visible thirty-two days later when examined by a UFO investigator named Ted Phillips, who specializes in physical-trace cases. The soil in the ring itself was still dry to a depth of at least twelve inches even though at this time it was covered by snow, whereas the soil outside the ring was wet and black. Phillips took several photos of the ring and collected soil samples from the ring and from the ground outside the ring.

A number of analyses were done of soil samples taken from the ring and from the surrounding soil. The ring soil was found to be resistant to water, to contain more calcium and more soluble salts, and to be more acidic than soil from outside the ring. In addition, the soil from the ring was found to contain an unidentified hydrocarbon and an organic material composed of white, crystal-like fibers.

According to Jacques Vallee, in his book DIMENSIONS: A Casebook of Alien Contact a French biologist identified the white fibers as a fungus-like organism of the order Actinomycetales, whose growth can cause a circular pattern to form on the ground. In addition, this biologist, who asked not to be identified, stated that this fungus is often found growing with another fungus of the order Basidiomysetes, which may fluoresce under some conditions.

So...does that wrap the Delphos Ring up in a neat little package labeled "solved?"

Only if you're one of those debunkers who thinks that if you find an explanation for part of an incident, then you have "debunked" the entire incident. Remember, three witnesses saw a UFO, not just the ring, and their sighting was at least partly corroborated by a fourth witness eleven miles away in Minneapolis. The ring itself may not be directly related to the UFO sighting, and the presence of a fungus in the soil does not explain how the fluorescent material got onto the surrounding trees, nor how the branches got broken and the dead Chinese elm tree knocked down.

Both Thaddia Smith and Sheriff Enlow told Ted Phillips in 1972 that the Johnsons were well respected in the area and that they did not believe that it was possible that the family could be perpetrating a hoax.

The dog would furiously try to get into the house at nightfall.

The day after the incident, Ronald's eyes became red and watered as though from irritation. For a week after the incident he had nightmares from which he awoke screaming.

Even the animals were traumatized by the sighting. Vallee says:

For about two weeks, every evening at sunset, the sheep would jump out of the pen and run wildly. The dog would furiously try to get into the house at nightfall. He practically destroyed the screen door, and the only way to keep him outside was to replace it with a stronger metal door.

An adequate explanation for the Delphos incident has never been found.

Photograph of the landing ring left by the object

SOIL ANALYSIS: The famous Delphos, Kansas CE2 encounter occurred at approximately 7:00 in the evening on November 2, 1971. 16 year-old Ron Johnson was tending sheep when he saw a mushroom-shaped object approximately nine feet in diameter with multicolored lights covering its surface. The object, about 25 yards away, was hovering about two feet off the ground. The UFO sounded like "an old washing machine which vibrates." When it took off it temporarily blinded Ronald with a bright light from its base. Ron went to get his family, and when they returned the entire family saw the object in the sky.

At the site where the UFO had hovered witnesses saw "a glowing ring on the ground" and luminescence on nearby trees. Ron’s parents experienced numbing effects on touching the ring. One investigator said that the soil "felt strange, like a slick crust, as if the soil was crystallized." On examination the soil was found to be impermeable to water and "dry to a depth of at least one foot". A foul odor has also been reported by some investigators .

The objective of this analysis was to build on the initial analysis done by Erol Faruk on the Delphos ring soils in the 1970s . At the very least it is hoped this investigation will be a base case for reference to future analyses. Erol Faruk developed his analytical approach based on his experience as an Organic Chemist. He analyzed these materials using 1970’s technology which has advanced dramatically in 20 years. Computerization, new techniques, and instrumentation have advanced the field of analytical sciences to previously unachievable heights. Yet, Faruk’s work was outstanding and provided preliminary observations and conjectures regarding unknown residues extracted from the ring soils. My approach to the analysis, as an Analytical Chemist, is different; and there is nothing to contradict his initial observations.

Both ring and control soil samples from this event were located on Thanksgiving Day 1998, and received for analyses on December 7th. Thanks to the wisdom of John Timmerman, the samples were preserved in his attic for many years after closure of the CUFOS Chicago office. Documentation/sample labeling existed attesting to their authenticity, and they were encased in their original tightly closed film containers with no sign of tampering. - Analysis of Soil Samples Related to the Delphos, Kansas November 2, 1971 CE2 Event - PDF

Click for video - UFO Landing Ring In Delphos, Kansas

Delphos, Kansas (1971) trace case: (from top to bottom) The glowing ring taken 10 minutes after ascent, the site as it was photographed 16 hours after the event by Sheriff, the site as it appeared 3 years, 6 months after the event. - Coast to Coast AM Archive

NOTE: Later in 1974, there were a series of strange sightings of a small hairy “wolf girl” darting through the trees and brush surrounding the community.

Authorities later declared it all a hoax perpetrated by some very bored and creative teenagers with time on their hands during the summer of 1974. Yet to this day, internet searches for the Delphos Wolf Girl or just Feral Children will turn up articles that declare the Delphos Wolf Girl among the great unsolved mysteries of human history. Read more at Delphos 'Wolf Girl' Hoax.

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