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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Real UFO's, but no one cares

I listen to podcasts. I read any "news" on ufology. I follow some sightings. I read some blogs. I look to the so-called informed and sensible to educate me. Ufology is a strange underworld of many subsets and many different conclusions. But one thing that I NEVER hear or read about is Hessdalen. Hessdalen, Norway is where the UFO's are, for real. But it seems no one cares.

This is a place where strange unidentified lights have appeared and studied for at least 25 years. The lights are so strange that there are different categories of lights because the phenomenon seems to change it's "manifestation" from time to time. The lights appear in an assortment of different colors. Some lights morph into different shapes. The lights are mostly seen at night, but have been seen in the daylight as well. Sometimes the objects will hover only to speed up and move. Sometimes they move erratically and sometimes they drift down into the valleys.

This stuff isn't imagination. It is REAL. It has been documented. It continues to be documented by several groups of students in search of the meaning and implications of the phenomena. What is it? How could we benefit from it? How and why does the energy manifest itself? What could this tell us about the nature and interplay of environment and man? Most of all, how can we begin to understand something so enigmatic??

So why aren't we paying attention? These are true phenomena. There seems to be adequate sightings involving lights that pulse and move and hover and so on. Sounds similar to Hessdalen, a place we can actually go to and arduously and laboriously study. Yet we never hear an inkling about this phenomena. If what we are after is the truth, then why can't we begin to do just that?

I guess it isn't spectacular enough. Maybe it is too hard to sensationalize itand, well, sell it. I mean we don't have people with this universal feeling of wholeness. We don't have anyone being probed or at least communicated with. B-o-r-i-n-g, b-o-r-i-n-g. We don't have metallic craft hovering over the magnificent Swiss mountainside. Perhaps it is even mundane. But perhaps it is mundane and sublime altogether. Perhaps we are turning our investigative backs on this phenomena because it doesn't support our idea of what Ufology is all about. But what is it about?

Doesn't seem to matter. Instead we continue to have countless researchers still investigate to most mythical piece of ufology available. Roswell. At this point we can't even agree who is doing the research. And we are supposed to get at the truth of it? Are we really truthseekers? Unless there is some governmental revelation involving disclosure (um, sure) we will never know. and we will continue to grow stories out of the personality mill.

Meanwhile Hessdalen sits. Shrouded in snowy blankets. Watched by a few kids, a scientist (Erling Strand), and some photoactivated cameras. True UFO activity. It's just that maybe this is a little too close to the truth. And we certainly wouldn't want that would we?

Where is the Evidence for UFO's

Where is it??

Where are the bonafide pictures, videos, physical pieces?? Where is the data that verifies the existance and appearance of something weird?

The UFO world seems to be constructed of blurry pictures, photoshop projects, unknown metallic pieces, and testimonies numbering in the thousands. But how do we convince whoever we are trying to convince?? There never seems to be any real solid proof. And I think many ufologists would love to continue this.

As I conjure up thoughts of anything I would deem having credibility I think of cases like Iran 1976, Rendlesham, Belgium triangles, Phoenix lights, Shag harbor, Malmstrom, and on and on and on. In each of these cases the evidence is sketchy. But there is still some compelling stuff. Enough to at least try to investigate and get at what truth might be there.

Skeptics would dismiss cases based on sketchy evidence, and rightly so. But I think there may be more to this phenomenon than just pure empirical evidence. There seems to be a sort of tie in with perception and congnition with the supposed craft or encounter. We keep trying to separate belief and rational scientific proof. I wonder if belief is a part of the whole phenomenon in some way. This thought seems to sprout an tangled medusa of alternative ideas. Maybe we are indeed creating the whole phenomena. Not that the encounters aren't percieved as real, but perhaps our consciousness and psyche manifest these enigmas.

If this is the case, I don't know that we will ever gather useful evidence. Perhaps we need to undergo another or several intellectual jumps to be able to comprehend what is actually happenining. I suppose this would be evolutionary in a sense as our brain chemistry at least would change. And as we begin to merge ourselves, even biologically, with newer technologies we may become less like Dr Frankenstein and more like God.

But as this stems into another conversation we are left with little evidence. Very fragmented, unverified, undetermined, unconvincing data. It is as if it were a game. Just like when I play magician with my kids. I'm terrible but convincing to them. And perception really is reality. If I wanted to I could convince them that I am doing real magic. And never unveil my tactics. If I wanted to. And taking a closer look at genuine ufology, it seems to me that maybe something is maybe doing just that. Or perhaps they are lazily and irresponsibly meandering about their way in the multiverse and are seen. Or perhaps yada yada yada. To the rabbithole we go.

And to those that claim to have this great physical life-changing, paradigm shifting, evidence stop "saving it for the right time" and show it already. Where are the alien implants and who is testing them?? Where is the metal that reshapes itself?? And if the metal reshapes it self, why didn't the craft mend itself wholly?? Where is all the great evidence claimed???? Some one show it !!! Until that happens we will live in the same foggy underworld of charlattans and alien babies. Of reptilians and Zeta Reticuli. We may never get any where in this popular culture meets truthseekers. Not "The Truthseeker", but real truthseekers.

DENNIS KUCINICH hangs himself??

You listen to it and watch it. What do you think because everyone has an opinion. I really hate politics, but it is a neccessary evil. And much of it doesn't even seem logical. We have a potential candidate for president (well, not really, but he plays one on TV) He is asked a question and then hangs himself. It is the impossible question. Did you see a UFO? I mean are you now officially ending your politcial career by anwering this question truthfully?? Are you a quack? An imbecile? The same answer apparently answers all of these questions.

People somehow take his answer as this: I saw a UFO full of aliens that were here to give me a message. If 14% of the country saw a UFO then we have a major problem. We need to recruit mental health professionals by the bundle. Conclusions are basically put into the mouths of the truth tellers. The conclusion is that aleins are invading and that the person who "saw" it is without a doubt insane.

Did he see something unusual? Yes. Did he say they were aliens from Zeta Reticuli? No. The fact is that there are many qualified sightings of unidentified flying objects. Enough said. I'm not here to go into that just yet, but the aftermath of this is uncalled for. I guess he should have lied. Was it stupid, courageous, or just honest?

Here is the contradiction. If he was asked if he believed in an invisible man in the sky that will save us and give us eternal life, what should his answer be?? We apparently can deal with one supernatural ideology, but we can't do anything but snicker and chuckle when it comes to weird stuff in the sky.

We seem to be in this loop that when a UFO "flag" comes up we act a certain way. We are programmed to reject, make fun of, ridicule, and seek therapy. Of course we know that there certainly couldn't be life elsewhere. And God forbid, he saw a military craft or a balloon or a hoaxed UFO and actually told the truth about it( that being he didn't know what it was). But there seems to be another "flag" that goes up when we say God. God is here to help. When things go bad we pray. The president actually prays. I'm sure that does a lot of good. We seem to clearly be programmed differently for this word "God" than we are for UFO.

I think it will take the discovery of life on Mars or a solar sytem moon to change this programmed response. People are clearly uncomfortable with aliens, but are completely comfortable with God. And why shouldn't they be. It sure seems nice, heaven and all the puffy clouds and the big gate. We're not so sure about the aliens though.

Where do UFO's originate??

I'll give the quick list with a short explanation if needed. What are the possible sources of UFO's

1. Mistaken Identity- Includes lots of photos, videos, experiences. For instance look at Compeche, Mexico case.

2. Hoaxes - Need I say Billy Meier, the bearded, one armed grand master?

3. Unknown Earth energies(Non-Intelligent, well, ... maybe)

4. Military aircraft - who knows what we are really capable of

5. Private enterprise- I wonder if someone other than the government, apparently the US, could pull off a stunt as a UFO display. Could someone be so clever and cunning to outwit our military and society to use some type of craft for whatever reason?? More on this later

6. ET- Is ET responsible for any of it. We know the only way we are ever going to get off this island to to go somewhere else. And we're doing just that. Why wouldn't someone else or something else do it also? Maybe that just have a better way to get here.

7. Alternate or parallel universe or reality- We really haven't even come close to proving it, but things sure seem to get weirder the more we discover. Maybe there is a rabbit hole.

8. Crypto's. Non-humans They live here. I like it. They are perhaps a different human counterpart. Maybe there timeline was different and intelligent life spawned in the oceans. Or maybe it moved to a remote area of the globe and inhabited it. Anyway its as feasable as the others.

9. Maybe the phenomena is part of our psyche. Maybe the imagery, energy, perception, and reality is constructed by our own neuro-network of consciousness. Perhaps it is a grand woven collection of jigsawed mind pieces. Perhaps reality isn't what we think it is. It can't possibly be. Maybe energies are overlapped, interconnected, and interactive on a different level than we know.

10. Cryptos . Humans. Suppose there was a civilization that didn't need trade. They didn't need commerce and typical heirarchical things we find in our society. And suppose they were handed technology faster than other civilizations. Perhaps they were quite advanced, human, peaceful, non-warring, and integrated as a community. This may not even be possible among humans. Anyway, they get technology and continue to live in a peaceful and watchful position while maintaining a hidden society. At the same time, they are still humans. More on this later.

11. What else??

ET exists, no doubt

Really extra-terrestrials are a matter of perspective. If I am here and a spaceship lands and little greys come walking up to me, I might assume they are from another planet. Lets assume they are. Wow. ET does exist. The ET hypothesis has been proven. It IS possible for a species or some life form to travel to our planet and land. OK this is one perspective.

Lets look at some microbial life on Mars. Is it there?? More on Mars in the future, but there may be. Man would that change things I think. Anyway lets say there is life there. And we come crashing in with 2 rovers that traverse small areas of the Martian landscape. Only before that we had mettalic spacecraft circling the planet, whizzing by it, taking pictures and documenting. Now we have these wheeled droids scraping, rolling, sucking up sunlight to power themselves. Not that a microbe can think(well, to our knowledge of what thinking is, again another topic), but if it could, it's perspective and interpretation is that there is intelligent life in the universe. (Little do they know).

My point is that we are ET. If there is life out there somewhere and we bump into it, we are the aliens. We have the UFO's, not quite anti-gravity and warp-drive, but quite cumbersome hunks of metal that rely very much on Newton to get us anywhere.

Imagine this. Fast forward a few million years. If we are alive it's likely not on planet Earth, but thats irrelevant. Pioneer 10 manages to swerve and narrowly avert and major impact until Planet ZaBaDu. Planet ZaBaDu had a similar upbringing as Earth. Violent parents, early childhhod turmoil, and an amazing transformation into something wonderful. Intelligent beings arose on Planet ZaBaDu. Not so intelligent that they never had conflict. Not so intelligent that they mastered technology beyond our comprehension. But maybe similar to us, and perhaps even more archaic than us.

And down upon there world, reigns a great streaking light. Plummeting to Earth,... er sorry, Planet ZaBaDu. And in the midst of this fiery but salavgeable mess they retrieve a plaque. It happens to be the plaque from Pioneer 10. I just gotta wonder what they might be thinking. What would we be thinking?? Surely WE would probably call out much suspicion and likely hoax. On the other hand it might be something that we could study. Right, right, right. What about MJ-12??? We know where the spacecraft land and how to effectively deal with it. Plaque would be gone and witnesses would be left saying that the military figures picked up the debris. That sounds familiar, but this particular post isn't really about that.

This post is to suggest that the ET hypothesis is quite valid because we see ourselves reaching to other parts of our world. We know that our world is finite and has a limited time. Our natural tendency is to explore and go where no man has gone before. Our future is in other parts of the galaxy or galaxies depending what we learn in our quest to survive as a species.

Now whether UFO's play a part in this is another matter to be discussed. We haven't recovered any plaques with rudimentary drawings of the location and likeness of other wordly beings. Well, at least to my knowledge. We don't have obvious signs of ET's here, again, to my knowledge. Perhaps this suggests that either the UFO's represent higher evolved beings or that maybe they aren't ET's, in other words not from another physical planet.

If they are higher evolved beings this might explain the control of craft and their ability to remain enigmatically cloaked. If they are from, well, maybe another dimension or from here, or from some other wacky concoction then the same applies. They can manipulate themselves and/or our our perception of them to their advantage AND our disadvantage.

What is possible is all of the above I suppose. But I feel strongly in saying that there COULD come a day where one of Earths craft, not neccessarily Pioneer 10, could make it to and crash land on another inhabited planet. Wouldn't that be cool? And what if they picked up a signal of Elvis or I Love Lucy. It's possible, it's being broadcast at the speed of light. What if some tiny reciever, pointed in the exact right direction picked something up??

And would they be pissed if they got I Love Lucy and not Big Brother 7??