Friday, March 11, 2011

Fortean / Alternative News: Is This A Bigfoot? Southeast Texas UFO/Alien Investigation Proceeds

Is this a Bigfoot?



Click for video - Shotgun Startles Bigfoot

Statement with video: My husband and I took our kids target shooting. A helicopter was over our heads the entire time annoying us. We thought at first they were curious of why and what we were shooting. Later when we watched the video we noticed something that looked like Bigfoot running in the trees. We assume now the helicopter was hunting the Bigfoot. Scary


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Uruguay: The Salto UFO was "Space Junk"

Thanks to Scott Corrales at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology

Source: El Pais Digital (Uruguay)
Date: 03.09.2011

Uruguay: The Salto UFO Was “Space Junk”
By Luis A. Perez – Salto

Explanation given: NASA states debris was the remains of a U.S. rocket launched in 2003

“A luminous fleet” is how some witnesses described it. The photo was published in El Pueblo de Salto newspaper, where the reporter who took it is employed. The Uruguayan Air Force dispelled the mystery – it was “space junk”, the remains of a U.S. rocket.

“Remains of one of the stages of a Delta II rocket launched in 2003 from Cape Canaveral.” That was the explanation given by the Uruguayan Air Force after a quick investigation of the phenomenon’s visual record, which was made known in Salto on Sunday.

The image of an unidentified flying object - captured by a photojournalist at 23:00 hours in the vicinity of Zanja Gorda – became an element for study by the members of the ComisiĆ³n Receptora e Investigadora de Denuncias de Objetos Voladores No Identificados (CRIDOVNI – Uruguay’s sanctioned UFO research body). The author of the photo, Luis Massarino, was also brought in for questioning. But NASA’s information was the key: the sighting’s narrative coincides with the official data furnished by the United States space agency: on that day, at that time, latitude and altitude, the re-entry of fragments of a Delta II rocket launched 8 years ago was anticipated.

Massarino, linked to Diario El Pueblo and whose work has sometimes been featured in EL PAIS, mainly in its sports pages, took the photo in an entirely fortuitous manner. He happened to be fishing at night in Zanja Honda, 50 kilometers north of the city. He was only able to press the shutter once to capture the movement of a “luminous fleet’ moving from West to East.

“There were five of us at the campsite. Suddenly, the site’s owner and one of my kids looked skyward, shouting for me to look at those lights in the sky. I looked up and saw what looked like a train pulling railcars, with more lights of an intense violet hue. I ran to the pickup truck to grab my camera and document the image,” Massarino told EL PAIS. At that time they were getting ready to roast a dorado (fish) over the coals.

He notes that the urgency and prevailing darkness kept him from noticing that the equipment was on automatic and he could therefore not focus. “When I realized this, I switched to manual and 3200 ASA, causing me to lose an tremendous amount of time. I was able to take a single photo, which was the one at the exact moment, because it truly did startle me.”

He told EL PAIS that in spite of having covered numerous stories involving spacecraft landings or fly-overs at Establecimiento La Aurora in Salto, he never thought that he’d have an experience like the one on Wednesday.

Another eyewitness account, from a reader of El Pueblo, describes the phenomenon as: “Aligned luminous objects. The brightest of them looked broken and in flames, and the ones at the head of the caravan weren’t so bright, but they seemed to be smaller in size.”

“A 100% conventional phenomenon” - the report issued by the Uruguayan Air Force’s ComisiĆ³n Receptora e Investigadora de Denuncias sobre Objetos Voladores No Identificados reads thus: “This Commission, after having analyzed the main witness’s story, the photograph presented and the information regarding space junk, concludes that the lights seen in flight by various witnesses from the Department of Salto on the evening of Wednesday, March 2 (2011) correspond to the re-entry of the remains of one of the stages of the Delta II booster launched in 2003 by the United States from Cape Canaveral. Therefore, there exists the 100% likelihood that it is a conventional phenomenon.”

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Will March 19 'Supermoon' Trigger Natural Disasters?

On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years, lighting up the night sky from just 221,567 miles (356,577 kilometers) away. On top of that, it will be full. And one astrologer believes it could inflict massive damage on the planet.

Richard Nolle, a noted astrologer who runs the website astropro.com, has famously termed the upcoming full moon at lunar perigee (the closest approach during its orbit) an "extreme supermoon."

When the moon goes super-extreme, Nolle says, chaos will ensue: Huge storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters can be expected to wreak havoc on Earth. (It should be noted that astrology is not a real science, but merely makes connections between astronomical and mystical events.) Continue reading at Will March 19 'Supermoon' Trigger Natural Disasters?

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Man arrested for hosting 'satellite laser beam' healing scheme

kimt - We're learning more about a Southern Minnesota man who police say tricked an elderly couple into believing laser beams from satellites could cure disease.

The Mower County Sheriff's Office arrested Ronald Renken on Monday.

Sheriff Terese Amazi says in her 25 years in law enforcement, she's never seen anything like it.

She says Ronald Renken who's accused of swindling an elderly county couple out of more than $6,000 dollars, is lucky he's not facing more serious charges.

A criminal complaint suggests Renken claimed laser beams from a satellite could cure the man's diabetes at price of more than $2,300.

"I've never heard of this one before obviously, it's just unfortunate that people believed him," Amazi said.

Amazi says Renken, met the couple after selling them a water softener several years ago.

"The elderly man said he had a lot of health problems and they got to talking and the the water conditioning person said he would sell them supplements that would cure them as well as this satellite that would beam from outer space being tweaked in Germany," she said.

Investigators later learned disease isn't the only problem Renken claimed laser beams could cure.

He runs a business out of his home in Stewartville called Care Free Water Products, according to the criminal complaint he told the couple that a laser beam could be sent down from a satellite and clean their well of lead and iron.

He charged the couple more than $4,000 for that service.

We tried talking to Renken who posted bail, but no one answered the door at his home.

Amazi says the result of Renken's scheme could have turned out much worse.

"The real tragic part is he also told this man to quit using his medications that he was cured and that obviously wasn't the case," she said.

Amazi says Renken also told the man's wife she had cancer all over her body and offered her the same treatment at a discounted rate.

The couple then contacted their daughter who works at an area hospital.

"It definitely alarmed her and she brought her parents in to make this report," Amazi said.

Amazi says if the man with diabetes had been hospitalized or even died because of going off of his medications Renken would be facing additional charges.

They are looking for more people who may have fallen victim to his satellite scheme.

Amazi says several people have already contacted her office. She says if you think you were affected, you should contact your local law enforcement agency.

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