UFO Attacks on Washington D.C

(Due to the time period this happened I am not using UAP, I am using UFO)

In 1947 President Harry Truman, in front of a press conference was asked if he had ever seen any flying saucers, his response was “only in the newspapers”. In 1952 he was not planning to run for another term, probably down to low approval ratings, the Cold War, The Korean War and the 1945 bombings of Japan.  In 1952 he was president for a second term when this happened!

19^th July 1952, Washington National Airport, and Ed Nugent (air traffic controller) spotted seven lights on the screen in front of him. There were no planes scheduled, and he called his manager, Harry Barnes, “flying saucers”. In the tower another controller saw it blip, it was a bright light, and it was hovering, then it took off a high-speed using impossible angles to manoeuvre.  Harry Barnes also saw the lights were moving over the city, and a pilot waiting to take off reported seeing a strange light.

In 1947 President Harry Truman, in front of a press conference was asked if he had ever seen any flying saucers, his response was “only in the newspapers”. In 1952 he was not planning to run for another term, probably down to low approval ratings, the Cold War, The Korean War and the 1945 bombings of Japan.  In 1952 he was president for a second term when this happened!

19^th July 1952, Washington National Airport, and Ed Nugent (air traffic controller) spotted seven lights on the screen in front of him. There were no planes scheduled, and he called his manager, Harry Barnes, “flying saucers”. In the tower another controller saw it blip, it was a bright light, and it was hovering, then it took off a high-speed using impossible angles to manoeuvre.  Harry Barnes also saw the lights were moving over the city, and a pilot waiting to take off reported seeing a strange light.

Harry Barnes called Andrews Air Force base, 10 miles way who said that they had seen nothing. They then called back a short while later to confirm that they had in fact seen lights. They had moved over the city, the Whitehouse and in response two USA Air Force F-94 jets from New York Castle Air Force Base, Delaware were deployed. The reports of lights ended soon after, the last detected lights on the radar were at 05.30.

26^th July at 20:15 that night an air stewardess reported she had seen lights above her plane on a flight into Washington, before that at Andrews Air Base they had seen more of them, and some were travelling at 7,000 miles an hour!

This was all great news for the press, hot sales, and all but probably not good for the top brass handling the situation. The CIA formed a special intelligence department for the subject, and Edward Tauss reported for the group that most of the sightings could be explained. He did however recommend the agency continue to monitor the situation.

29^th July and there were not more reported sightings, the Air Force called a press conference. Air Force Major-General John Samford and Roger Ramsey stated that the visual sightings could be attributed to meteors an shooting stars, that the radar had something called temperature inversion and this was present on both evenings. Captain Ruppelt also spoke of an incident in Japan in 1950, that was put down to a flock of ducks…

So what do you think happened? I find this interesting for sure!

https://youtu.be/OKNkF34KLCk?si=a0pnmP5rFOyzIpEQ

Sources:

Wikipedia

The report on Unidentified Flying Objects – Edward J Ruppert

US Project Blue Book, UFO Investigation (Press minutes)

National Archives Museum (museum.archives.org)

Federation of American Scientists

The New York Times

BBC.com

PBS.org

Lake Nyos

21^st August, 1986 there was a strange natural disaster, it happened in the Northwest region of Cameroon, Africa at Lake Nyos which is known locally as “Bad Lake”. The local folklore spoke about an evil spirit that would come up to kill all of those that lived near it, and now the legends seem to have been part of a very real threat.

The Lake was formed in a volcanic crater, only around 400 years ago, and they have high levels of CO2 due to the volcanic activity, the gas is usually released by the natural water turning but this lake is unusually still and effectively acted like a gas storage lake, which pressured and became a time bomb.

21^st August, 1986 the something triggered off the time bomb, perhaps a landslide or something as simple as cold rain, either way a Limnic Eruption occurred, the lake literally exploded sending around 3000 feet into the air. The result of this was a tsunami but the gas was far more deadly than the water spouting up at 3000 feet into the air. A deadly gas spilled out over the area, the local villages nearby were practically wiped out, 6 of 800 of the villagers survived. CO2 settled and the fire was immediate. The spreading cloud went out around 25km away and people sleeping with no relatives to wake them would never have known what the situation was, or the death coming to them.

A total of 1,746 people were killed, the villages of Nyos, Kam, Subum and Cha were all but pretty much wiped out, along with around 3,500 livestock. It all happened in a matter of minutes and the lake turned deep reed with the change of iron churned up from the bottom of the lake.

It has been monitored since that point; a simple solution of a pipe in the lake allows gas to regularly escape. This may not be enough though, and a natural dam on the lake looks to be slowly threatening to fail: if that happens it could be a disaster of flooding and the gas escaping all at the same time.

Nearby is another concern that Lake Kivu is 1,000 times larger and in a more populated area, it has been shown to have a history of sending local creatures into extinction around every 1000 years. They believe it could be far more concerning if that volcano should go up.

Soyuz 11

The crew that went on the Russian Soyuz 11 (Союз 11) program consisted of Commander Dobrovolsky, Flight Engineer Vladislac Volkov and Test Engineer Viktor Patsayev and it launched 7th June 1971.

Soyuz 11 docked with Salyut 1 on the 7th and the cosmonauts were there for 22 days. The crew encountered a smoky and burnt atmosphere, they replaced part of the ventilation system and waited a day on Soyuz 11 for the air to clear. The Salyut 1 stay seemed to suffer from a few problems, with a fire on day 11 and then reports that using the treadmill caused the whole station to vibrate.

On 30th June 1971 the capsule seemingly came back to Earth without any incident, a normal entry meant that the recovery crew was sent out expecting to celebrate a successful landing. The recovery team opened the capsule and despite no signs of damage they found the three cosmonauts were in fact dead.

There were the three men sat in their places, they had dark-blue patches on their faces and blood came from their noses and ears. The three men had asphyxiated, the cause was a fault in the ventilation system, a valve opened at an altitude of 168km, the gradual loss of pressure in the cabin was fatal to its occupants within seconds. Patseyev’s body was over a valve and may have been trying to cover it or close it in desperate futility.

At the time of their finding the team tried CPR on the cosmonauts which was later shown in a declassified film. The American’s sent their condolences and the cosmonauts were given a state funeral.

Kazakhstan Memorial – Atlas Obsucura Link 

50 years ago – NASA link

By USSR Post – The Soviet Union 1971 CPA 4060 stamp (Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev).jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42952324

London’s Death Pyramid

Imagine a slightly different London view, The Shard is a very large building but what if there was another one on the horizon? Well there almost was another one, it was a design for London that was proposed in 1820 by Thomas Wilson and it was a large pyramid to tackle the problem of where to put London’s deceased.

The Metropolitan Sepulchre was proposed to be a rather impressive 950 feet high and 94 storeys of death housing. He proposed to build a large pyramid on Primrose Hill, it would overlook St Paul’s Cathedral and most other buildings of the time. It would be rather large and ornate with a steam powered lift to raise the dead up to their resting places.

This large structure sounds rather impressive and would have fitted in with the Egyptian craze of the time, mummy tea parties as just one example, and of course quite expensive to build. It would also bee one hell of a reminder of the inevitability of the mortal coil.

The building would not have seemed an entirely bad idea in the climate of 1820’s London, the dead and where to put them was a pretty big problem. Gatherings From Graveyards would paint the picture of the stench of death oozing from all of London’s pores, and disposal of the dead, in reality, was a growing concern.

A company called the Pyramid General Cemetery Company was set up and would have cost £2,000 to build. The profit margin potential, however, far exceed the outlay. The catacombs could each house 24 bodies, rented out at £50 per vault with the potential for the higher places costing more, well some would pay to get closer to God surely?

A random tangent to this was to have the top part as an astronomical observatory.

It would have taken up 18 acres and was “supposed to be compact, hygienic and ornamental” says Catherine Arnold, Necropolis: London and it’s dead. His idea was people could picnic at Primrose Hill and overlook it.

In reality, the design was rejected by people’s concerns about the weight of it crushing Primrose Hill and a generally unpopular reception to the thing overall.

Highgate Cemetery and the others opening soon solved the problem, and put the pyramid plans on the shelf for good.

Www.ianvisits.co.uk

BBC Magazine Article

Catherine Arnold – Necropolis: London and its dead.

Exploring-London.com

Cattle Mutilations

Cattle Mutilations are known as bovine excision, this subject refers mainly to cattle but other livestock and wild animals have been reported with similar conditions that would put them in this bracket, Often the animals put into this bracket have died with trauma that seems unusual such as missing organs or lack of blood.

In 1606 a case was recorded and is perhaps the first for this subject, it refers to sheep. It is recorded in the records of James I of England and records sheep had been slaughtered in London and around the shires nearby. It records how nothing but their tallow and some internal parts were missing, some conjecture was also made that fireworks could have been involved. Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery – Christopher O’Brien is the source, via Wikipedia it is also noted that Charles Fort collected cases between the 19^th and 20^th Century.

9^th September, 1967 saw Agnes King and her son, Harry, found their dead horse, Lady, who was only three years old. The horse had been skinned, de-fleshed and some cuts that king felt looked very precisely aimed. They noted that there was a medicinal smell, there was no blood on the scene and at the time the cause of death was not determined. “No Earthly Cause” and the press for some reason put it down as Snippy, not Lady. Snippy was a sire and you can go visit the website, snippy.com which goes into more detail. There are also comments on there about how it could be naturally explained so you can investigate a little more if you wish.

1975 saw a Democratic senator Floyd K Haskell approach the FBI to ask for help due to public concern over mutilations. His claim was that there had been 130 cases of animal mutilations in Colorado alone, there was further public concern that another 9 states reported more of them, the details can be found at the FBI Vault and again if you want to read up, you should. The FBI indicated that overall 8,000 mutilations in Colorado cost around a million dollars in damage.

In 1979, Sheriff Herb Marshall of Arkansas, USA, dealt with the event in Washington County, a little differently. Having gained a fresh cow corpse, he left it in a field and then watched it, for 48 hours he had it watched. It was observed that a series of natural events and entomology on a basic level provided them with similar results. The cow split open from gasses and flies/maggots would eat away at eyes, hips, anus and accessible soft tissue. It felt like it was case closed to Marshall. A Canadian study ten years later added natural scavengers to the list but pretty much agreed with his summons.

So, what should we be looking for in these cases? Well often it will appear that the animal has been drained of blood or there is no sign of blood in the area around their wounds. George E Onet, a doctor of veterinary microbiology, investigated and concluded that in these cases predatory animals would avoid the beast for several days after the death. He also observed that domestic animals would be ‘visibly agitated’ or even ‘fearful’ of that carcass.

Dr Howard Burgess, recorded the average ages were between four and five years old, 90% of his cases fit that range, this would put Lady out of that range.  (Alien Contact: top-secret UFO files revealed, Good Timothy).

Lady does fit the bill for the lack of tracks and any clues around the body. They noted that there were strange puncture holes in the ground and in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, 1976 found those as well. The conclusion was that the indentations came from a tripod. I found no conclusion about why these marks were involved.

Some, but not all, animals have shown either unusually high or low vitamins or minerals in their tissue samples. The samples were of chemicals not normally found in the animals either.

It seems to be that lab reports feedback some interesting points too, as an example it seems the time of death and decay were hard to pinpoint, just the knowledge of when the animal was last visibly seen then up until their discovery, again reference to this is in the FBI documents released.

1978 New Mexico, the death of an 11-month-old bill was found with what might be considered as classic signs. They sent samples off for testing and gave no conclusions or investigation why the heart was an unusual colour or texture, the second lab concluded did find the liver was devoid of copper and had four times the usual level of zing, potassium, and phosphorus but could not explain how or why it may have occurred.

In this case they had blood samples from the scene it was pink in colour and did not lot after several days. There was a note that the flesh was very brittle for an animal that had been dead around 5 hours and the flesh underneath was discoloured.

I also found a more recent case in Trinidad, Colorado, USA about cattle mutilations on Tom Millars farm and an investigator called Chuck Zukowski. Zukowski indeed the missing udders, tongue and that on one bovine the rib cage was separated from the back bone from a very serious impact. There had been two cows, one dead with the trauma already mentioned and a second one that had internal injuries, the injuries led to the animal being put down.

Both had gone missing and were then recovered in their state but the rancher noted the gully was not deep enough to have injured the animals that way, the deaths did not resemble animal attacks and could not see the dead animals condition being a result of scavengers either.

I found nearly all references related to sources for cases in the USA which makes me wonder, do aliens only want to test cows from there? Well no but it seems the phenomenon isn’t entirely all theirs and I did start with that London note.

Nick Redfern wrote a book which includes a 1985 case from Cannock Chase, it seems he found other animal mutilations I his book were quite often linked to occult sacrifice but he found one that might suggest something else. It was in the autumn that year and around 8,30pm, father and son were crossing a fairly large area of woodland to collect a motorbike. Driving along they went around a bend, coming to an area that had once been used by the military, about 100 feet away and up in the air was a large black triangular object with three lights on the underside.

The two men got out to look closer, reminder this is before smart-phones, and the object flew off without warning – prompting the man to race off and then once back in their car they raced home to Rugeley. They reported it to the police and the matter was going to rest there but then nearby in Penkridge a man was out in the early hours of the morning for a ‘duck-shoot’ and saw an object that flashed down a light beam towards a herd of cows in a nearby field.

The man was astonished to see that the beam aimed at them and he ran to his car to get his friend. The two ran back but the cows were fine and neither saw the strange object, had he witnessed and interrupted a cattle mutilation attempt?

So how/what causes this phenomenon and can it all be explained away?

The FBI had come under pressure to explain it and opened up ‘Operation Animal Mutilation’ in May, 1979. Rommel’s report was 297 pages long and cost $45,000 which centralised on the New Mexico events. It concluded that many of the results could be explained as a natural phenomenon. The report did conclude that some of the anomalies could not be concluded. Rommel conclude that the answer was down to normal predator and scavenger activity.

An ATF investigation concluded another investigation in New Mexico, they found some evidence that there were animals that had been tranquilised and treated with anti-coagulant but could not find out who was responsible or any motives.

So, if it is not natural or caused by humans who seem cruel what else can it be?

It it’s not just about cruelty but down to humans could it be cult activity? It suggests that the acts would be planned and the theory is supported by the idea that there is a lack of blood at the sites, the organs may have been removed for ritual needs and some think that they may even be aiming for some cattle with unborn they could extract.

At the height of this period during the 1970’s and 1980’s there was reason to attribute some of them to this, Jonestown and People’s Temple were in the news and TV evangelist Bob Larson spoke on his programmes to raise public awareness about it, no doubt adding fuel to the fire.

This was harder to investigate when so many animals were too far decayed to look at or had been given a natural cause of death for the cow’s demise.

There has also been rumour about government involvement with one going back to the 1985 case at Cannock Chase, already mentioned, the idea of it being that they might be testing an aircraft, or perhaps, as some might think, they may be testing diseases or viruses they might want to test about when they came into contact with human beings. I was unable to find more information that I could summarise with, there is a lot of information to wade through, can you help with anything you might know about this? Any reported illnesses or cases of this I can look at about humans getting sick after handling cattle mutilation cases?

In regards to another theory – Aliens/UFO involvement and that other worldly investigations are/have been conducted. It is the idea that they may be using them to gather information on living beings. A hypothesis exists that the UFO’s can collect the animals, investigate on their ships and then deposit the remains back down or conduct them very swiftly and leave with the parts they need for further analysis.

Other theories are that creatures like the Chupacabra might be involved. There are, simply put, a varying number of explanations and some might feel more reasonable over others but also that comes down to personal belief or experience.

Sources:

https://www.amazon.com/Stalking-Herd-Unraveling-Mutilation-mystery/dp/1939149061/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Wikipedia

Vault – FBI files archive

Skeptoid

Ufonut.com

Kdvr.com

Google

Fortean Times

 

(image – South Park Cows)