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University Prof Calls for Congressional UFO Hearing
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsCongress has a full plate of hearings coming up. Everything from medical liability reform, creating and promoting jobs and investigating Internet child pornography to assessing China's behavior and making immigration work for American minorities. Do you think the House or Senate will have any extra time to discuss UFOs? While it sometimes might seem as though our lawmakers are from outer space, this hasn't stopped one college professor from urging Congress to take a serious look at unidentified flying objects. Citing findings from a 12-year-old groundbreaking French UFO study, University of ...
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Took UFOs Seriously, Documents Suggest
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsSeveral UFO stories appeared in the news this week, many miles and years apart. Yet they share a possible similar explanation: Earth-based remote-controlled devices. Earlier this month, the FBI created a new website, "The Vault," which offers the public an opportunity to view documents in an online "electronic reading room." Some of the 2,000-plus documents are about UFOs, including several from 1947 -- right around the time of the famously reported UFO crash near Roswell, N.M. FBI This 1947 document was sent by a Milwaukee, Wis., FBI agent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ...
The JFK-UFO Connection: Bogus Documents or Unanswered Questions?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsDo you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here's one for you. And it's ongoing, so we don't yet know the ending. It involves President John F. Kennedy's interest in UFOs shortly before his death and an allegation that he may have angered officials in his administration when he asked for information on the subject. Recently, the FBI opened a new website, "The Vault," that lets you view a variety of documents, including those regarding UFOs. I looked into one document that appears to include a phony UFO story and mentioned how important it is to be extremely careful when looking at UFO ...
FBI's UFO Doc From 'The Vault' Most Likely a Hoax
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIn the past few days a story has come out about a new FBI site called "The Vault" that allows history buffs and Web surfers the chance to check out a variety of documents, including some about UFOs. One particular 1950 document seems to be taking on a viral life of its own. Written by FBI agent Guy Hottel and sent to the bureau's director, J. Edgar Hoover, it relates how "flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. "Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet ...
UFO Motel Soon to Be Landing in California Desert
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsHow do you stand out in a tiny desert town that boasts the World's Largest Thermometer? Easy. Open a UFO-themed beef jerky store. "The Gateway to Death Valley" -- as blistering Baker, Calif., is known -- is also where Argentina-born Luis Ramallo parked his now-famous Alien Fresh Jerky store several years. Ramallo, a deeply serious believer in extra-terrestrials, had first opened a jerky stand near infamous Area 51 (the Air Force base central to many UFO conspiracy theories), out along the Extraterrestrial Highway in Rachel, Nev. Chris Epting for AOL News One of the displays ...
ET? Phone Here! NYC Man Launches UFO Hotline
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsWhen New Yorkers see something unusual on the street, they can call 911. When they see something unusual in the sky, they can call Joseph Capp. Capp, a 68-year-old retiree in Brooklyn, has launched what appears to be New York City's first UFO hotline, offering a sympathetic ear to those who have just witnessed an unexplained phenomenon. "When some people see UFOs, it changes them. It alters their belief system, it challenges a lot of what they believe," he told AOL News. "That can affect someone." But when witnesses try to explain the strange things they've seen, they face intense scrutiny ...
Triangular UFOs: Close Encounters With Unidentified Dorito-Shaped Objects
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIn recent years, there have been a lot of UFO sightings. We know that. But a question I've wondered about for a long time is this: What's up with all the triangle-shaped UFOs? From the U.S. to Belgium, France, Australia and even a reported flying "Dorito" in the U.K., these aerial triangles seem to enjoy our friendly skies. One of the most recent reports comes from the files of the Mutual UFO Network, where a witness described a huge triangular UFO that made a loud, hissing noise as it moved over his Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, neighborhood Tuesday morning. If there really are aliens ...
Chicago UFO Mystery Solved: They Were Sky Lanterns in Honor of Child Abuse Victims
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsHere's a perfect example of not jumping to conclusions when you see mysterious lights in the night sky. Over the weekend, Chicago residents thought they witnessed UFOs slowly moving in the sky above the Windy City's South Side. Nicole Dragozetich was driving along 35th Street and Western Avenue around 8 p.m. on Saturday when she saw nearly a dozen people looking up at the sky. When she then spotted a line of orange-colored blinking lights moving in the sky, Dragozetich caught them on her cellphone camera, WLS-TV reports. One person on the video can be heard saying, "They came from ...
Doughnut-Shaped UFOs Most Likely Weather Formations
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsUFOs come in all shapes and sizes, but have you ever heard of a doughnut-shaped aerial phenomenon? Unusual weather-radar images have shown up on viewing screens in several countries, with one ring-like object appearing to be larger than Belgium. Though these formations may look out of this world -- leading some to speculate they are UFOs "cloaking" and "uncloaking" themselves over Earth -- the odd shapes have more to do with meteorology than mother ships, according to experts. In this first video, a very large, doughnut-shaped "thing" appears and disappears over Europe on a radar ...
Were Colorado UFOs Simply Road Flares Tied to Balloons?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsEver since three red lights in a triangular formation were seen and videotaped over Lafayette, Colo., there's been a flurry of online sparring between skeptics and ufologists over what was in the sky on the evening of March 20. First the background: A formation of three red lights was observed over Colorado. They were caught on video by Lafayette resident Leroy Vandervegt after his son Nick spotted them in the sky. The lights were described as continuous, unblinking, hovering silently in the air and moving together in the same triangular pattern until they faded away. Vandervegt never ...
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