A sampling of the stuff you can find in the AlienZoo Research Center
6/12/2000
AlienZoo resident ufologist Jim Dilettoso's article Mission Control explores UFO research, ET technologies, and moments in ufology's past.
Editor's Note: This article originally ran in June of 2000. It mentions an AlienZoo Research Center that was being developed, but is no longer in use due to technical issues.
I love raw UFO data. Raw unadulterated, unfiltered, un-interpreted UFO witness stories.
I am interested in direct experiences, especially from people who were just minding their own business, then WHAM, something extraordinary happened. It happens all the time - a giant UFO flies directly overhead, close enough to read the galactic license plate number, and sometimes, they even get a picture.
I have been told many, many stories over the years. I have seen many pictures too, and some of them are quite remarkable. But pictures can be "faked" or "mistaken." They can also be very cold and impersonal. I like the energy of a human being telling me about their encounter with a non-human. I can feel the moment. I like it when a reliable, sensible investigator reports a good case to me. It trips my trigger when some new shred of evidence or scientific breakthrough vindicates the now haggard, discredited story teller. It was just this week that a noted physicist demonstrated that light can travel up to 300 times faster than previously known (see story below). This means that the debunkers who say that aliens couldn't travel to Earth in any reasonable period of time now have to eat Spock.
It's like weaving a tapestry or rug. My grandmother taught shuttle-loom weaving at a university in West Virginia. She had looms everywhere at her farm. Inside, outside, everywhere- rugs in motion. I loved seeing how little bits of cloth strips evolved into a complex pattern of symmetry and stimulating images.
I have been in the UFO field, collecting data, since 1977. I'd like to take you through a guided tour of how I collect my strips of cloth (the raw data), and stories. Like colored yarn and rug-rags, little pieces saved and set aside until needed later. AlienZoo recently initiated an on-line database and research center. You can see the 'research center' button at the top of this screen (on the menu bar). Have you ever clicked on that button? If you have, then you have seen the tapestry that the AlienZoo team has been weaving. We have had it operating for about a month now. Currently we are testing the AlienZoo search engine, loading data and cases, and building a user-friendly interface.
AlienZoo has some excellent news feeds and human editors. In addition, I do at least 3-4 hours a day on the phone with investigators who I network with; and 3-4 hours a day on the net. I subscribe to CAUS, SKYWATCH, Louise Lowrey's World of the Strange, Bufo Calvin, George Filers Files, Mitch Batros EC/TV, and Joe Trainor's UFO RoundUp. I visit at least 100 websites a day.
Our Search Engine is located in the upper left corner. You can find topics on every story we have in our archive, as well as reviews and ratings on the hundreds of UFO related Websites that we have reviewed. It takes some experimenting to find the right process, but you'll get the hang of it. UFO research is certainly not a one button operation.
Below are some of the reports I have encountered. They've been put through the AlienZoo sorting and saving process to become either a tagged and filed raw report, or been made into a feature story. By using the Alien Zoo Research Center and Search Engine, like I do, you can find hundreds of strings and bits of information that will help you formulate your own version of the truth, or at least a weird story.
Wisconsin UFO stops car
MILLSTON - The witness reports, "I was traveling down US Highway 12. . . on May 14, 2000, at 5:00 PM when my car's engine suddenly was killed and I had to coast to a stop. My car refused to start. I got out to lift up the hood. I heard a humming sound coming down the road from the east. I looked and it was a disk shape object that looked like a huge top, spinning on the road. I ran inside my car and looked at it and it suddenly became airborne. It shot straight up about 75 yards from my car. It scared the living hell out of me. I did not tell anyone because they would not believe me. I will never travel this road again. I had to report this to someone." (Thanks to NUFORC -- National UFO Reporting Center)
North Dakota disc formations
DICKINSON, ND -- "On March 3, 2000, I again saw the discs traveling north a little to the west of me. I saw five out front with 25 to 30 UFOs flying in a straight line formation at perfectly spaced intervals. This is when I became really alarmed because there were so many. I counted to five and they were gone. The first time I had time to count to eight seconds and the second time seven seconds before they just got too away far to see. They must be traveling around 10,000 miles per hour."
"In the summer of 1985, my girlfriend and I had a campfire going at Cedar Dam when a weird lightning formation lit up the sky for 10 to 15 seconds going east and west. There were no clouds. A half hour later an object from the same direction started coming towards us. It had no lights and was silhouetted in the glow from the full moonlight. It was glass like in appearance and had the shape of a sphere, but the light made it look like it was five or eight sided like an octagon. It flew directly over us at low altitude, so slow that I thought it would fall out of the sky. I tried to walk with it until it got out in front of us and disapeared." (Thanks to Dave Fugere)
New Jersey cigar-shaped craft spotted
"On May, 15, 2000, I was taking a break from mowing the lawn to grab myself a beer, and just take a look at the full moon. It was still daylight outside at 7: 30 PM, when out of nowhere a cigar shaped craft appeared. It was fully lit up like a piece of the sun flying high up above the moon. Never in my life have I seen a craft completely bright from distance. It looked like the sun itself. I ran into house to find camera and went back outside to see craft fade into the sky. Minutes later the craft reappeared moving slowly, and again faded away. A few minutes later, a single engine dark green plane was chasing the craft. This was for real." (Thanks to NUFORC Director)
Scientists break speed of light
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY - Jonathan Leake, Science Editor writes, "Scientists claim they have broken the ultimate speed barrier: the speed of light. In research carried out at Princeton, particle physicists have shown that light pulses can be accelerated to up to 300 times their normal velocity of 186,000 miles per second. The implications, like the speed, are mind-boggling. On one interpretation it means that light will arrive at its destination almost before it has started its journey. In effect, it is leaping forward in time.
Exact details of the findings remain confidential because they have been submitted to Nature, the international scientific journal, for review prior to possible publication.
The work was carried out by DR Lijun Wang, of the NEC research institute in Princeton, who transmitted a pulse of light towards a chamber filled with specially treated Caesium gas. Before the pulse had fully entered the chamber it had gone right through it and traveled a further 60 feet across the laboratory. In effect it existed in two places at once, a phenomenon that Wang explains by saying it traveled 300 times faster than light."
The research is already causing controversy among physicists. What bothers them is that if light could travel forward in time it could carry information. This would breach one of the basic principles in physics - causality, which says that a cause must come before an effect. It would also shatter Einstein's theory of relativity, since it depends in part on the speed of light being "un-breachable."
Wang said, "Our light pulses did indeed travel faster than the accepted speed of light. I hope it will give us a much better understanding of the nature of light and how it behaves."
Wang emphasizes that his experiments are relevant only to light and may not apply to other physical entities. But scientists are beginning to accept that man may eventually exploit some of these characteristics for interstellar space travel. June 4, 2000. GFs Note: If speeds greater than the speed of light are possible, then flight to the 43 planets already located is not as time consuming as once thought.
(From George Filer's Files)
UFOs might be real, French say, military leaders finish 3-year study
May 27, 2000 - High-level French military officials, including retired generals from the French Institute of Higher Studies for National Defense, a government financed strategic planning agency, recently took a giant step, openly challenging skepticism about unidentified flying objects.
This report takes an important position in stating that aggression from UFOs may be real.
(By Leslie Kean The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
New Crop Circle photos from Peter Sorensen
Peter Sorensen is the worlds leading videographer of Crop Circles. He is a maverick researcher who has gained the respect of the entire research community. He takes photos and videos from a helicopter. AlienZoo posts his photos as they come in, which is usually the day after the circle is discovered. See the amazing Crop Circle images in our gallery, and check back often for the latest images.
New UFO Photos from the Billy Meier Case
The Billy Meier Case is the most controversial UFO case in history. These photos are from the 1976 sightings in Switzerland. Although the book Contact from the Pleiades released many photographs, these three have never been seen before. The pictures are raw, but soon-to-be-tested. They look like an Aladin's lamp UFO from a 1950 science fiction movie, but the earlier photographs that I examined actually test out as a 21-foot diameter beamship, which can time travel. The one that I find most interesting has the camera tripod in the frame and three UFOs hovering above.
AlienZoo is currently adding more photos and UFO sighting reports to the research center. Be sure to check out these and many other UFO cases, and remember to make regular visits to see the updates and new additions to the UFO files!