UFO in Kansas still Unsolved

Many stories of UFO's and apparent entities exist throughout the literature of ufology. But of all the stories about UFO's, many of them, certainly a majority, exhibit no evidence other than the recounting of the event by the witnesses. While this can still be interesting and can still be indicative of something anomalous, there is nothing like physical evidence. Physical evidence is something that can be collected, tested, and analyzed. Even so, much of the physical evidence doesn't shed much light on the provenance of UFO's. This is likely due, in part, that UFO's are of various unrelated phenomenon. Perhaps some are Earth energies such as ball lightning. Some of crashed meteorites. Some of military experiments. Some of hoaxers attempts to confuse and/or entertain. And on and on.

But one such case with substantial physical evidence is the case in Delphos, Kansas in the early 1970's. You may not have heard of this case, but the aftermath and the soil samples taken, along with testimony, pictures, and investigation leave this case one of the still few that are not only unsolved, but not even adequately explained.



While UFO cases are probably more interesting if they contain notions of alien beings and crafts that have manuevered great distances, this case is quite anomalous nonetheless. But it doesn't contain messages to save our planet or stop using nukes. It is pretty simple. An apparently metallic UFO was seen by Ronald Johnson. The UFO was encompassed by numerous lights so bright that they temporarily impaired his vision. It sounded like "an old washing machine" in Ronalds words. The UFO left marks, or residue, on the ground and disturbed the nearby trees by breaking branches. The whole family viewed the "craft" at one time or another. The ring that was left still exists today and is still hydrophillic. It was said to "glow" when it first happened.

Mrs Johnson touched the glowing ring left by the UFO and her hand went numb as if she had been anesthetized. Rubbing it off on her leg prompted her leg to go numb as well. The encounter was first investigated by the Delphos Republican, a local newspaper. Subsequently it was investigated by Sherriff Enlow and another Highway Patrolman from the State. Later it was investigated by Ted Phillips. All indications are that the encounter happened the way it was described. Debunkers have attempted to explain it by saying the ring is a fairy ring left by certain phosphorescent mushrooms. While this phenomenon is a real one, it is a dismal explanation for the Delphos ring.

So, .. what was it?? A hoax seems very unlikely. If it were a hoax, I think we would have known by now. But the family didn't want fame or money or a cult following. They reported it, they experienced it, and one was affected by it physically. It still remains today a mystery. The fact that it isn't accompanied by the usual alien overtones probably keeps it away from the mainstream "wanto-to-believe" crowd. But I would submit that this case is as good as it gets. Reliable witnesses with nothing to gain, physical evidence that remains to this day, heavily investigated, physical reponses to the leftover remains of the craft. We really do have a genuine mystery on our hands here in Kansas.

Are We Building the Saucers??

http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=SP_090729_LightCraft

A lot of this future technology looks very familiar. Disc like craft. Metallic. Emitting light from the bottom. Sometimes spinning on its axis. Creating a bubble of space in front of the craft. Enough to just puch right through the atmosphere (think O'Hare).

"This is all based on real physics, not imagination".

I'm not throwing out any type of blanket here dismissing UFO's. I'm just wondering what the limits of out own ingenuity and technology actually are. Might I be amazed at what we have already developed?? Might a lot of UFO's become IFO's if we were aware of these technologies?? Might the intermingling of UFO's and military witnesses be an orchestrated effort to use UFO's as a cover for their own projects?? Is sensitive leaking and disinformation a tactic used by the government to garner favor for "alien" UFO's?? Because this would take the emphasis off of the miltary's involvement in making these if everyone else thought they were unknowns. All right, I'm getting ahead of myself.

Let me just ask then. Are we making saucers(at least some of them)??

Crop Circles and UFO's : At least One Example

While I've been quite entertained by the repeated claims of UFO's making crop circles, I am at the same time intrigued by a report from 1974 in Canada. And it seems to serve as, so far as I can tell, a genuine UFO encounter that left behind,.. you guessed it, crop circles. Not an intricate fancy one of the DNA molecule, but just a plain circle. Well, .. actually 5 of them.

Edwin Fuhr, a farmer in Saskatchewan, was out working his rapeseed fields. He saw an object from his swather and got closer to take a look. Thinking it was some junk deposited there or some kind of joke, he was astounded to encounter a metallic looking object hovering and spinning in front of him. He dismounted to get closer. He got within 15 feet of the thing before a realization of something very odd indeed turned to fear. Scared of what he was witnessing he backed away towards his swather. He noticed that the spinning of the thing was also affecting the grass beneath it. As he retreated, still facing the object, he noticed to his side that there were four more objects nearby doing the same thing.

Ted Phillips later became involved and in an interview Edwin described what happened:

They were all revolving, all four of them. I sat there like I was frozen, I couldn't move nothing....I sat there for, it could have been fifteen or twenty minutes, I don't know. From one of them, something was probing around the grass....It was like, oh, I would say, the size of a fifty-cent piece, it looked like a probe, and the grass was all twisted and you could see marks like something had jumped here and there, all over. Then, they all went up, straight up, to I would say about two hundred feet and they stopped at that distance. When they hit the two hundred foot mark, they stopped spinning and a vapour floated out, an exhaust. The exhaust was only about six feet long, like a vapour, it was two ports at the bottom of it.

You could see they were about twelve-inch diameter ports and they were all like that. They were in a step-like formation, the lower was the last to go up... And after that, I would say only a second, there was a downward wind, a pressure that flattened the rape that was standing and I thought, "Oh, here goes my crop." It just took seconds to get to that height (two hundred feet) and then they were just standing and after that, into the clouds and they were gone.

Constable Morier mas the first on the scene to hear the story, see the circles left behind, and talk with Fuhr. He was convinced Fuhr was not lying.

He says : There is no way that this is a hoax...I think that there is no way that anything was wheeled in and out of that field because there had to be some trace...whatever was in there, it came out of the air and departed the same way, as far as I could tell.

Once I saw the rings, and how genuinely scared Mr. Fuhr was, it was most definite something had landed. Nothing could have been brought into that area. There were no tracks. It came out of the sky and went back to the sky.

"Mr. Fuhr is very sincere and a responsible member of the community that members of the force have known for the past four years."

I have seen this episode depicted on a television show at one time. I believe it was UFO Files featuring Ted Phillips and some of the cases he had been involved with. I haven't been able to find that video, but will post it if and when I encounter it. A few posts ago I embedded a video that contains some pictures of the rings that were left from the apparent UFO's. Check it out.

And while I usually dismiss the UFO / Crop Circle connection, well, ..... it has happened at least once if this case is legit.

Aha!! I found the video I was looking for. First it features this case in Saskatchewan.

Original Newspaper Account

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Elongated Nodes in Crop Circles: Explained??

I have, in the past, been quite intrigued by the crop circle phenomenon for no other reason than the depth and originality of the "art". Is it a crypted depiction from other intelligences?? Is it ET's calling card?? Are they the result of terrestrial physics that are poorly understood or not understood at all??

Many questions remain about the circles, but one piece of evidence cited often times, particularly by BLT Research, is the presence of abnormalities in the apical nodes of the bent crops. The apical nodes are the plant nodes near the top of the plant but below the newest growth at the very tippy top.











And while this evidence of elongated nodes certainly seems strange and physically present, I've wondered why no one has commented on such evidence. BLT Research seems to have substantial data representing these elongated and sometimes bent nodes. What could be the reason for such an anomaly?? BLT says that these elongated nodes are the most evident and consistent piece of data supporting the formation of non-human made crop circles.( I have paraphrased this and will look for the supporting quotations)

So, whats up with this?? Here is a picture of the type of bent and elongated nodes (not from BLT). And here is another. And another. You can clearly see the difference between normal grains and those that are elongated and/or bent.

I've recently noticed the position and growth of sunflowers in my backyard. Some of the flowers have drooped greatly down to the ground and are continuing to grow towards the sun. This natural tropism of sunflowers prompted me to think about how these nodes in crop circles might form. And I have a hunch they might be formed by negative gravitropism. Plants naturally have certain predisposed tropisms towards or away from gravitational forces (postive and negative).

Now lets see. A person bends down some crops. The crops, depending on what stage they are in, will either die, continue to grow, or a mixture of both. It has occured to me that if the crops are still growing, they would continue their natural tropism, bending up away from gravity and towards sunlight. It may lend some explanatory power to the nature of these apparent "abnormalities". Whats is abnormal is for the crops to get bent over. I don't know that certain "energies" are responsible for such elongating and bending. It may just be a natural way for plants to stretch themselves back into position for optimal growth.

I'm certainly not on any debunker trip, just trying to offer explanations for such behaviors in these plants. But in doing this, I need more data. I have some questions that might be useful in helping to see if what I have just offered up has any merit. These plant "abnormalities"are not present all the time. And that makes me wonder if the conditions of the plants, the growth cycle, the type of plant, and so on have anything to do with this. And I think they might.

A chemical (auxin) called indoleacetic acid (IAA) is responsible for the regulation of many plant activities. As far as tropism is concerned:

"IAA is produced in the meristems of the stem. The auxin diffuses down the shady side of a stem and not the sunny side. As a result, the cells on the shady side elongate more than the sunny side and the stem bends toward the sun. " (http://leavingbio.net/Plant%20Responses.htm)

So,.... elongation is possible when factors present themselves to a plant that needs to stretch out to the sun for growth. Now I would be remiss if I didn't point out that most of this elongation is apparent in the internode, and not the node proper. However, I have read some reports that state node elongation has occured, usually involving the upper node as opposed to the lower nodes. So while this isn't often occuring, it does occur. And quite simply, I doubt if sufficient testing has been done simulating crop circles and their apparent anomalies.

How fast this elongation can happen depends on plant specifics and environmental conditions, but I have read that it can happen in a matter of hours (ever seen how some plants grow before your eyes??). I speculate it could fit the bill for some of these crop circles. Alas, more data (and testing) is needed in order to confirm it. But this phenomenon leaves us with some questions.

So one question I'd like to see answered is:
How long has it taken from the "formation" to the collection and analysis of the grains?? If ample time has passed, we might expect some growth from the plants. And this growth from a sideways position up towards the sun might leave such an effect. If the grains are collected in a timely manner then potentially such effects might be absent. Again it depends on the type of plant, growth stage, susceptibility to node elongation, angle of crops in relation to angle of the sun, and so on. But to put it in a nutshell, perhaps this node elongation and bending is a natural result of a plant that has been pushed down which is trying desparately to regain it's "feet", not some unknown "energy" pulling the plant apart. But, ... I could be wrong.

As far as the other anomalies, well..... that's another post. One possibility at a time. And while some may think I am offering up the "truth" behind these crop circle anomalies, I'll say I'm just offering a possibility. Physical testing and verification will decide what is truth and what is fantasy.

The Way, Way Back Machine

I'll have more to say about a particular case in Canada where a photo is briefly shown. As I was doing some researching on this particular case though, I found this little clip. Wow. Ted Phillips looks pretty darn young, but amazingly he sounds exactly the same. I've lstened to him a few times and I think that he is one of the most level-headed, objective researchers that I've seen. He doesn't rush to drastic "the sky is falling" conclusions, but collects the hard data in an effort to show that something weird indeed is happening. What it is exactly is another story entirely.

Tehran, Iran 1976

One of the classic cases in ufology. I find it interesting for a number of reasons. It is one of those cases that is outside of the US. It is very well documented. As far as I can tell, the events that transpired seem to have actually happened (as opposed to "may" have happened). There is much corroboration from radar, multiple witnesses, and credible military witnesses all first hand.

The CIA took an immediate interest in this case. Now as some ufologists would say, the CIA involvement in this particular case is proof that the United States was still tracking and studying UFO's well after the offical close of Project Blue Book. But it may not have been such an interest in ET/UFO's so much as an interest in foreign weaponry and the potential for attacks against our country. They are after all an organization designed to collect and interpret sensitive information. It is understandible that the CIA had an interest in this case even apart from any UFO connection. If the events are indeed true and accurate then it was a strange and awesome moment in time in Iran.

Anyway,.. here is some more about it.



Official CIA Memo ala John Greenwald

The lowdown on this case

UFO Experience versus Evidence

The skeptical arguments against intelligently controlled UFO's, wherever they may be from, are quite valid. Nothing in all the evidence available is sure to verify the existence of aliens. It is possible that such undeniable material exists I suppose, but the skeptical argument is sound enough. There are any number of reasons why scuff marks (landing marks) may be left on the ground. Or why and how radiation has affected people. And how the desert ground and surrounding scrub brush was burnt. Again, evidence is available.

But as we get further down the rabbit hole to the so-called experiencers or contactees there is even less evidence, much less. In fact there is nothing except the accounts of the people with these claims. So it is an unusually easy task to dismiss them as sad delusions or hoaxes of the claimants. But, in all fairness, a few distinctions need to be made.

As far as evidential cases go, there is evidence. There is some physicality to some of these cases. Soccoro did have burnt marks. Delphos did leave a strange and long lasting ring for decades. Cash Landrum did appear to include physical human harm . And so on. While skeptics like to announce the lack of evidence, this is contrary to what we actually see after some sightings. Were the "landing marks" in Rendlesham just that, or were they the result of a scratching hare? The skeptics say that the evidence is not all that compelling regarding the potential non-human intelligent visitation. Fair enough, but this is far cry from saying there is NO evidence. Evidence exists as Ted Phillips would convincingly tell you. What that evidence means may be another story altogether.

So what about the high strangeness?? Of course there is no evidence in these types of cases. So it may be even simpler to debunk if that is the objective. But I am puzzled by a few things in regards to these types of claims. And while I can certainly write off many of these due to glaring lies or perhaps even delusions, some of them are puzzling. Whether everything that happens in human experience is a result of physical activity is debateable. Human experience encompasses more than a reductionist can account for. Can it actually be known in a reductionist way what a dream entails?? At this point in the course of history I would say absolutely not. Yet dreams can and do have a significant impact on individuals. Religion does have an impact on the experience of being a conscious human whether it is "real" or not. The question might be what is real to human beings?

So, now to the experiencers. I cannot dismiss all claims based on the lack of evidence, which sounds rather unwilling to investigate the truth of the matter. But what I have noticed is that experience is a reality, if even only in the brain. The fact remains that people have these experiences whether we choose to believe them or not. Normal, non-deluded, rational people have had these strange experiences. And while the experience is drastically different then anything with evidential leftovers, they still remain real to the person.

And the fact that these experiences are real in some sense leads me to believe that discovering the truth to these experiences is worthwhile. But to dismiss these rational people because of their experience is doing a great disservice to the spectrum of human possibility and the pursuit of understanding them. Is something actually happening whereby contact with other intelligences is being made?? Or is there some middle ground between experience and dreamland that accounts for these?? Or, as skeptics might add, is the whole thing a complete neurological misfire mixed with cultural viruses that conjures up alien figures?? I would submit that it doesn't matter. Any of them is of scientific and/or psychological importance.

We like to adorn, or at least scientists and skeptics like to, ourselves with the veil of knowledge and self pride. But that veil is thin and represents, in my opinion, a very shell of true understanding. Human vanity may be an integral deterrant into discovering what is going on here. If we can let go of our prejudices and biases and admit our ignorance then perhaps we can begin to unravel this mystery. At least this would be a start as I don't know what kind of methodology would be sufficient at this point to get at any part of the truth. And if we can be justly confident that these people are not lying then we should be able to at least attempt to comprehend what the limits of human experience are and more importantly, why they are.