We Come in Peace
mars attacks - we come in peace
- We simply do not have a clear video of a nuts a bolt machine that is totally unlike anything we have ever seen manufactured on planet earth landing on the ground with some kind of hatch sliding open and some alien beings climbing out and saying “We come in Peace, take me to your leader”.
Perhaps our Hollywood Perceptions are misguided
- The idea of intelligent life travelling across vast aeons of space and making contact with man is a widely held hope and there are plenty of people who are convinced that this is what is actually going on.
- But the strangeness of the events the lack of clarity, there is no awareness of space traffic outside our atmosphere and no great arrival in the Nevada Desert and yet something is going on that is very strange and very persistent.
- The importance of ignoring our preconceptions and examining the phenomena as something quite beyond anything we know and experience seems to be a logical way to approach it.
- Are are these events related even? Do they have commonalities that reoccur, why is it so difficult to get a clear recording of the events described?
- What is the governments role in these events? Do they know something we don’t?
- There are no lack of tantalising stories that filter out to the public that give us just enough evidence to keep the UfO story alive. . it’s actually doing much more than that
. . . in fact its burgeoning.
Cover Up?
- What of all these allegations of some kind of cover up involving top secrete military officials who seem to be determined to keep any UfO sighting firmly under wraps.
- Is it true that after a sighting of a UfO there is a sudden arrival of military personal who then confiscate all evidence and threaten and intimidate people into silence?
- This further adds to the whole mystery of the phenomenon and certainly excites even more interest that previously. If its a secret government project then why cant they say “Its a secret government project” and “we can’t tell you because we don't want bad people to have access to our development programs” or something like that.
Video UfO’s from the past
Famous Sighting
The Phoenix Lights
- The Story is one of the most well known events in UfOlogy, a good one to begin with because it is within recent memory and includes hundreds if not thousands of witnesses.
- The witnesses all stated the craft was a dull black colour and triangular in shape.
- They also stated it was gigantic in size and unlike anything they had ever seen.
- Further to this was its complete silence as it flew overhead.
- The military denied any knowledge of it and there is a debate over the possibility that it was flares dropped as part of a military exercise
- The most often shown video of the the event does appear to be flares and there is a recent video in which there is a report of the military using flares at that time.
- This does not explain the descriptions other witnesses gave of the craft flying closely overhead as a distinct boomerang triangular shape.
- But alas there is just no photograph clearly showing the shape of the object. There are simply lots of pictures of lights in various sizes and distances.
- But it is the witnesses who give the story its best credibility the two most famous are Doctor Lynne D. Kitei (who wrote and directed a documentary about the event called “the Phoenix Lights”) and Fyfe Symington the governor of Phoenix at that time.
- Frances Barwood, the 1997 Phoenix city councilwoman who launched an investigation into the event, said that of the over 700 witnesses she interviewed, "The government never interviewed even one.
There are two women are chiefly responsible for preventing the events of March 13, 1997 from fading into history without impact.
Frances Barwood
One is former Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood who risked her political career, refused to be cowered and did her job on behalf of her constituency.
Born 1944 in Ridgewood, Queens, Frances moved from Williston, Vermont to northeast Phoenix in 1980.
Frances was elected to serve her first term on the Phoenix City Council starting January 1992 and was re-elected to a second term January 1994.
She became elected vice mayor in 1997, one of her pet projects was the development of a teen centre which became widely used. Hardly somebody who would risk her promising political career with wacky stories about UfO's.
Barwood says that her inquiry about the mystery lights began innocently. On May 6, nearly two months after bizarre light formations were seen over many parts of Arizona, Barwood was preparing to attend a city council meeting when she was approached by a camera crew from the television show "Extra."
"The reporter said, 'We've tried everybody. No one will talk to us. Will you?' So I said, 'Sure. About what?' They wanted to know why no one was inquiring about the lights," Barwood told CNI News in a telephone interview.
That day's council meeting was a televised policy session where council members were permitted to raise any question they wished. Barwood asked if the city could investigate the mysterious lights. She quickly discovered it was a subject no one wanted to touch.
"One of the deputy city managers named Pat Manion told me, 'You shouldn't have asked that. You opened Pandora's Box,'" Barwood said. "I didn't realize this, but the mayor's office had been avoiding talking to the media on this, and his office issued a statement that there are no UFOs over Phoenix."
Meanwhile, the mayor mounted a campaign of ridicule aimed directly at Barwood. She says the mayor's press secretary printed up phony business cards that said, "Frances Emma Barwood from the planet Zenon." She found a picture of herself posted in the city hall lobby with the caption "From the planet Zenon."
The mayor publicly accused Barwood of seeing little green men. Her question about the lights was characterized as an inappropriate interest in UFOs.
"I never said UFOs," Barwood insists. "I just wanted to know what it was."
Well. . . politics is a dirtily game as we all know and her opponents tried to use the Phoenix lights enquiry to manoeuvre her out of office. As it turns out she still retained her office after the following elections but the point is the sighting and her subsequent involvement which was really a duty of a parliamentary representative to enquire about something her constituents were concerned about.
But once again demonstrates the ridicule and hostility that any person has to endure should they ever dare speak out on anything unusual relating to UfO's. . . is usually enough to silence most people. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to over come this wall of ignorance and prejudice.
The other is Dr. Lynne D. Kitei who risked her professional career to investigate, document and promote public awareness of what happened that evening.
Who Is Lynne D. Kitei , MD?
Has become synonymous with the Phoenix Lights since she is a prime example of somebody who initially was just another witness to a strange phenomenon over the skies of Phoenix o n Thursday, March 13, 1997.
She began phoning around to ask questions and was given the run around with very reluctant and uncooperative department officials
She already had a successful medical career and certainly did not invited this or seek some kind of attention seeking publicity. Her efforts to get to the truth of the Phoenix Lights has been a life changing career move putting her career aside to pursue a scientific study of the Phenomenon seen in Arizona in 1997
Dr. Lynne has been a keynote speaker at the University of Arizona Tucson Medical Center with Dr. John Mack, Bay Area UFO Conference, Hollywood National UFO Conference, Borders Book Tour, Barnes & Noble Book Tours, Washington D.C. X-Conference, MUFON International Symposium Denver, CO, Cosmic International Conference, Italy, Glendale, AZ City Hall, Paradise Valley Community College Performing Arts Centre, Arizona State University Physical Science Auditorium, ASU Anthropology Museum Exhibit, Atlantic Coast UFO Conference, Trump Plaza, Atlantic City , N.J., Tri-City Prep H.S., UCLA Skype interview, International Institute of Human Sciences, Montreal, Canada, CSETI Conference Rio Rico, AZ, Scottsdale's Harkins Shea Cinema - sold out screenings and presentations.
She continues to tour the US and abroad, introducing screenings of the internationally award winning "Phoenix Lights Documentary," as well as presentations for her best-selling book, "The Phoenix Lights…A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone" and riveting power point lecture, "Coincidence or Communication?"
There is much more about Lynne Kitei over here. . .
http://www.thephoenixlights.net/Documentary.htm#The_Making_Of
Fife Symington - governor of Phoenix
Privileged background: Served in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, stationed at Luke Air Force Base in Maricopa County, Arizona. He remained in Arizona and became involved in real estate development, founding his own company, the Symington Company, in 1976.
Ambitious Symington turned his considerable assets and success into a political campaign which eventually brought him to the pinnacle of success when he became Arizona's 19th Governor in March 6, 1991.
During his first term, the governor was the subject of an investigation over his involvement with Southwest Savings and Loan, a failed Phoenix thrift. He was later cleared, and won reelection in 1994.
Symington's second term was cut short when he was convicted of bank fraud, stemming from his developments, including his beloved Esplanade. He appealed against the sentence and eventually the judgement was overturned. Ne was then exonerated by then President Clinton.
This is an interesting aside, the story of the Phoenix lights took place right in the middle of his 2nd term as governor.
The top elected official of the state called a press conference and then proceeded to make a complete mockery of the whole incident having an aid walk out into the conference dressed up like an alien.
People were angry and amazed at this reaction and there was a huge out break of frustration and anger.
I witnessed a massive delta-shaped, craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned because I was turning to the west looking for the distant Phoenix Lights.
To my astonishment this apparition appeared; this dramatically large, very distinctive leading edge with some enormous lights was traveling through the Arizona sky.
As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I'd ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don't fly in formation.
The incident was witnessed by hundreds -- if not thousands -- of people in Arizona, and my office was besieged with phone calls from very concerned Arizonians.
The growing hysteria intensified when the story broke nationally. I decided to lighten the mood of the state by calling a press conference where my chief of staff arrived in an alien costume. We managed to lessen the sense of panic but, at the same time, upset many of my constituents.
I would now like to set the record straight. I never meant to ridicule anyone. My office did make inquiries as to the origin of the craft, but to this day they remain unanswered.
Eventually the Air Force claimed responsibility stating that they dropped flares.
This is indicative of the attitude from official channels. We get explanations that fly in the face of the facts. Explanations like weather balloons, swamp gas and military flares.
I was never happy with the Air Force's silly explanation. There might very well have been military flares in the sky that evening, but what I and hundreds of others saw had nothing to do with that.
I now know that I am not alone. There are many high-ranking military, aviation and government officials who share my concerns. While on active duty, they have either witnessed a UFO incident or have conducted an official investigation into UFO cases relevant to aviation safety and national security.
By speaking out with me, these people are putting their reputations on the line. They have fought in wars, guarded top secret weapons arsenals and protected our nation's skies.
We want the government to stop putting out stories that perpetuate the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth conventional terms. Investigations need to be re-opened, documents need to be unsealed and the idea of an open dialogue can no longer be shunned.
Incidents like these are not going away. About a year ago, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport experienced a UFO event that made national and international headlines.
What I saw in the Arizona sky goes beyond conventional explanations. When it comes to events of this nature that are still completely unsolved, we deserve more openness in government, especially our own.
This is an interesting aside, the story of the Phoenix lights took place right in the middle of his 2nd term as governor.
Besieged By Queries and calls
The top elected official of the state called a press conference and then proceeded to make a complete mockery of the whole incident having an aid walk out into the conference dressed up like an alien.
People were angry and amazed at this reaction and there was a huge out break of frustration and anger.
Symington's Account
(CNN) -- In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality.I witnessed a massive delta-shaped, craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned because I was turning to the west looking for the distant Phoenix Lights.
To my astonishment this apparition appeared; this dramatically large, very distinctive leading edge with some enormous lights was traveling through the Arizona sky.
As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I'd ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don't fly in formation.
The incident was witnessed by hundreds -- if not thousands -- of people in Arizona, and my office was besieged with phone calls from very concerned Arizonians.
The growing hysteria intensified when the story broke nationally. I decided to lighten the mood of the state by calling a press conference where my chief of staff arrived in an alien costume. We managed to lessen the sense of panic but, at the same time, upset many of my constituents.
I would now like to set the record straight. I never meant to ridicule anyone. My office did make inquiries as to the origin of the craft, but to this day they remain unanswered.
Eventually the Air Force claimed responsibility stating that they dropped flares.
This is indicative of the attitude from official channels. We get explanations that fly in the face of the facts. Explanations like weather balloons, swamp gas and military flares.
I was never happy with the Air Force's silly explanation. There might very well have been military flares in the sky that evening, but what I and hundreds of others saw had nothing to do with that.
I now know that I am not alone. There are many high-ranking military, aviation and government officials who share my concerns. While on active duty, they have either witnessed a UFO incident or have conducted an official investigation into UFO cases relevant to aviation safety and national security.
By speaking out with me, these people are putting their reputations on the line. They have fought in wars, guarded top secret weapons arsenals and protected our nation's skies.
We want the government to stop putting out stories that perpetuate the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth conventional terms. Investigations need to be re-opened, documents need to be unsealed and the idea of an open dialogue can no longer be shunned.
Incidents like these are not going away. About a year ago, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport experienced a UFO event that made national and international headlines.
What I saw in the Arizona sky goes beyond conventional explanations. When it comes to events of this nature that are still completely unsolved, we deserve more openness in government, especially our own.
NEXT: ARIEL SCHOOL ZIMBABWE
- let’s have a look at an incident that occurred right here in our own back yard.
- 62 Children saw what they described as a classic UfO encounter in a playground in Zimbabwe . . .
true story. . .
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