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Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll

2009-07-19T15:07:00.000-07:00

Oddly enough, Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll was very nearly the original title of this blog. Ultimately, it was deemed too URL awkward, but it completely encapsulated the spirit of what I wanted to express- mashing together the wild abandon of rock and roll with a embrace of the unknown.

I started this blog about 6 years ago but eventually let it go fallow. I had recently been thinking about resurrecting it, but it took a sad headline to prompt be to get off my ass and finally do it. Billy Lee Riley is one of the founding fathers of rock and roll. One of the original Sun Recording artists, he played a wild, frantic brand of rockabilly that is still relevant 50 years later. Of course, his best known song was 1957's "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll," arguably one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. Seriously.

Anyway, Billy Lee Riley has fallen on hard times. A post by the also legendary Charlie Musselwhite has been making the rounds, I picked it up from the Anti Records blog who got it from Tom Waits, which gives you a sense of how far this guy's impact was felt. I am reprinting it as is:

Riley is one of the remaining original Sun Records artists, Is in VERY bad need of help! Billy has had his share of health problems, and is now battling Stage FOUR bone cancer. Although musicares is helping with house payment, car and such, He and Joyce are totally out of money and can barely afford to eat. This is a CALL FOR HELP to all musicians and fans. Please remember, twenty bucks from all of us would make a HUGE difference in Billy’s life! What if this was you? Let’s all get together and send something today to Billy and Joyce and show them that he means alot to us. If you have a website, a facebook or myspace, please post this need for help on it! We can’t save the world, but it will mean alot in Billy Lee’s life!

His Address is:

Billy Lee Riley
723 Crest Drive
Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401

CNN.com - Report: Child sacrifice ring feared - Jun 16, 2005

2005-06-16T19:14:00.000-07:00

CNN.com - Report: Child sacrifice ring feared - Jun 16, 2005

Would you like some jesus juice with that....?

2005-06-13T19:17:00.000-07:00

A mysterious prowling animal kills wantonly.

On a lighter note Michael Jackson does not molest children.

Don't Bogart that UFO!

2005-06-01T12:49:00.000-07:00

They don't call it DOPE for nothing!

2005-05-20T05:54:00.000-07:00

Bob Lazar Back in Spotlight

Voodoo Sex Cult

UFOs or Meteors?

2005-04-25T07:14:00.000-07:00

The Cover-up begins

Search for family who 'saw UFOs'

2005-04-14T10:49:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS | England | Derbyshire | Search for family who 'saw UFOs'

"Strong am I in the Force...but not that strong."

2005-04-06T20:40:00.000-07:00

Star Wars' fans wait at wrong theater

Colorado Enacts Tough Anti-Alien Legislation

2005-03-25T05:25:00.000-08:00

Read Here

ET Buy Home!

2005-03-15T11:25:00.000-08:00

Company offers $1 million dollar bounty on the first extraterrestrial mortgage. They could end up sorry.

Mysterious mirage appears off coast in Guangdong

2005-03-11T15:11:00.000-08:00

Mysterious mirage appears off coast in Guangdong

Just recently it was discovered that in the maritime waters of China’s Guangdong Province, a mirage was spotted. It can be seen clearly as a small islet with a number of mountains and even a structure that looks like a castle. As it mysteriously appeared, it also left the same way only to have appeared for a bit of over three hours.

Gazing out into the sea from the fishing village, far, far out in the deep blue sea is this rarely seen mirage. It’s getting dimmer by the minute and the mirage is starting to blur out of sight. But a small islet can still be clearly seen where there are a number of mountains and according to villagers, the mirage was seen for as long as three hours.

When it first appeared, a castle-like structure could be seen nestled on top of the mountains with a city wall. But as the sun was setting, the mirage faded with only faint lines discernable.

One scholar said that images seen in the air generally appear inverted, and the phenomenon is due to the reflection of light through two layers of air of different temperature. Light is reflected from far away objects and refracted into your eyes. Shen Quan Town of Guangdong is where mirages are mostly spotted. But this time, it’s these images that were captured to leave a most unforgettable experience for the people who encountered it.

Aliens not invading Australia...this time!

2005-03-11T04:20:00.000-08:00

Obvious government disinformation agents debunk Black Triangle sighting.

We're not having it.

Cost of War

2005-03-10T21:33:00.000-08:00

The Naked Chef?

2005-03-10T17:54:00.000-08:00

The Raelians lead a nude protest in defense of genetically modified food.

ET Phone Home

2005-03-10T12:59:00.000-08:00

"Hello, do you have rings around Uranus?"

Hello aliens, this is Earth calling

Talk to Aliens.com

I wonder if they can get the Yankees games on this?

Priest Convicted in Anal Probe Shocker

2005-03-09T07:17:00.000-08:00

Defense witness Dr. Neil Blumberg cited Stokes' statements in medical records that he was possessed by evil spirits, felt as though he was Jesus Christ and had been abducted by aliens as a child.

"He reported seeing dead people, hearing their voices," Blumberg testified.

The aliens at the end of my garden

2005-03-09T04:58:00.000-08:00

...Extraterrestrial visitation is the faith of rural hicks in the American Deep South or of lonely English teenage nerds who can't getgirlfriends...

Times Online - Sunday Times

Brian Appleyard offers an op-ed piece plugging his new book, which in turn seems to get good notices.

Beware the aliens beyond Kirk's ken

...Like strange objects glowing in the night sky, inexplicable events and bizarre characters throng the pages of this book.The Archangels Uriel and Raphiel, once known as Ruth and Norman, preside over an interplanetary confederation in San Diego. Herds of cattle are relocated hundreds of miles overnight.A bestselling author is given an anal probe by extraterrestrials ...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1507415,00.html

Clyde coast town is new UFO hot spot - Evening Times

2005-03-08T06:55:00.000-08:00

Clyde coast town is new UFO hot spot - Evening Times

Super Indian UFO Action

2005-03-07T07:44:00.000-08:00

I don't know what I would do without The India Daily

Advanced guidance systems from UFO flight patterns and navigation systems

Worldwide competition of Reverse Engineering Extra-terrestrial Propulsion Systems

We are visited and controlled by UFOs from the M15 Globular Star Cluster – the densest Black Hole driven “Core Cluster”

"Just in the mood to run in the nude"

2005-03-05T18:47:00.000-08:00

...The Spokeswoman of Rael,
in an interview one recent afternoon, qualified this.
''We may be hiding the nipples and genital area,''
she said.``Like with a butterfly, or with flowers.'...

Foxy UFO Cultists Plan Nude Romp...I'm cool with that.

Read more

2005-03-04T10:45:00.000-08:00

..."One thing that makes me believe in UFOs is, sometimes I lose stuff"--Steven Wright

It's Raining Cats and Dogs

2005-03-04T09:44:00.000-08:00

This may have replaced this at the top of my list of things that make me glad I am human.

Shout at the Devil

2005-03-04T07:13:00.000-08:00

This points out some things worth considering. To summarize: Superior Alien Beings Travel Millions of Light Years to Mock Christianity...oh yeah, and to stick things up our butts.

"The bizarre actions of these supposedly advanced beings need to be considered:

* They kidnap, paralyze, physically abuse and often sexually molest humans
* Often times they abduct women, and impregnate them, only to steal the child a couple months into the pregnancy
* They condemn Jesus Christ and attempt to undermine faith in God
* They promote New Age philosophy through "contactees" (channelers)

This is not exactly what we would expect from a highly evolved race of intergalactic

...there is a wealth of information that
quite clearly exposes the true nature :
of the "aliens"
they are just another satanic deception.
travelers. And there are still other factors that don't add up:

* Military radar has never recorded a UFO entering our atmosphere
* No two UFOs ever appear exactly alike, which suggests that they use their craft only once
* Some UFOs break into pieces and merge into one; others have been seen passing through physical objects and vanishing
* Most ufos emit no sound whatsoever

There really is no hard evidence that UFOs are actually physical objects, and with these factors I have just mentioned in mind, it seems even more unlikely. It seems that beings such as these who claim to be so advanced and evolved would be civilized as well. However, they are not civilized beings at all, but rather are cruel towards humans and hostile towards Christianity (which they have attempted to discredit without ceasing). And yet, to do these trivial things the aliens have supposedly traveled millions of light years.

Another curious aspect of the alien abductee phenomenon is the fact that the aliens always return their victims. These beings do not show any mercy towards our humanity in other ways, and yet, the abductees are always left to tell their story. This simply would not make sense if the beings truly were extraterrestrial.

It is improbable for these and so many other reasons that we have ever been visited by a superior race from another planet. Yet there is a wealth of information that quite clearly exposes the true nature of the "aliens": they are just another satanic deception."

Vote early, vote often

2005-03-03T14:25:00.000-08:00

This might cause me to rethink my vote for Kerry.

Rock Lobster

2005-03-03T12:41:00.000-08:00

Japan has officially entered the search for alien life. They are apparently appropriating state-run radio telescopes for the endeavour, but only allowing a week for results. All of this is very interesting but a fat lot of good it did for Bubba the lobster. The leviathan of a lobster apparently didn't survive the transition from seafood store to zoo. Speaking of food, this case certainly could explain some, if not all, of the cattle mutilations. If not, this onecertainly might.While on the subject of endangered species, Nebraska Senator Ernis Chambers has put forth a measure prohibiting the hunting of Big Foot. Apparently cheesed off about some sort of anti-hunting legislation, Chambers has filed 35 motions requesting protected status for a variety of things including Noah's Ark, the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane, the Holy Grail, and Osama Bin Laden.

HOLY COW! ABC News: The UFO Phenomenon -- Seeing Is Believing

2005-03-02T13:22:00.000-08:00

ABC News: The UFO Phenomenon -- Seeing Is Believing was a sweeps week monster, garnering over 11 million viewers.

Still a look at the ABC website revealed that their story about it was third in popularity as far as emailed links. This was number one, which says something...although I am not sure what.

Stairway to Heaven's Gate

2005-03-02T04:49:00.000-08:00

39 dead web designers all wearing matching sneakers...if that's not the making of a conspiracy theory I don't know what is!

UFOs, Comets, Castration, and Kookiness! Their website is still online...although recruitment is (presumably) slightly down.

ReadMore...

2005-03-01T21:38:00.000-08:00

Q: What do aliens wear to posh weddings?

A: Space suits

UFOs Take Off, Eh

2005-02-22T13:45:00.000-08:00

London Free Press: News Section - UFO sightings hit record pace
London Free Press: News Section - UFO sightings hit record pace

Weird Washington

2005-02-15T14:57:00.000-08:00

The nice folks over at Inteldesk.com were nice enough to send along this link.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WEBCAM PHOTOGRAPHS UNKNOWN FLYING OBJECT OVER
U.S. CAPITOL: IMAGE WAS SENT OUT OVER WEB

A webcam that sends images of the U.S. Capitol area over the Web
reportedly photographed an unusual unidentified object over the area
in the early morning hours today. The image was photographed over the
U.S. Capitol between approximately 3:15 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. EST Feb 10,
2005.

Click Here

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

2005-02-08T13:43:00.000-08:00

Air Force launches space-based war game

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. military Saturday launched a five-day war game to see how space-based assets such as satellite communications and precision bomb guidance systems would fare in a hypothetical war against terrorism in 2020.

London Calling UFOs

2005-02-05T06:27:00.000-08:00

Cor Blimey Guv'ner....UFOs a waste of time?

2005-02-04T12:31:00.000-08:00

How Britain's X-Files said that UFOs were just a waste of time
By David Charter
Secret committee dismissed reports of flying saucers more than 50 years ago

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1469190,00.html

UFO Cat Fight

2005-02-04T05:09:00.000-08:00

Alienation: UFO groups clash over credibility

Paranormal center owner files police complaint accusing rival group of watching, stalking her
By JENNIE TUNKIEICZ
jtunkieicz@journalsentinel.com

Posted: Feb. 2, 2005

Burlington - Mary Sutherland, owner of the Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center, says she is being watched.
Mary Sutherland, owner of the Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center, has complained to police that she suspects a rival UFO group is stalking her.

"I have a UFO center. Doesn't it make sense if you see a UFO to come to me? "- Mary Sutherland , UFO shop owner

But it's not by little green men or even ghosts. Those kinds of close encounters she would welcome.

Sutherland thinks a human, perhaps associated with a rival UFO group in Wisconsin, is stalking her. She reported her concerns to police this week.

Burlington police are investigating the suspicious circumstances that have nothing to do with the increased UFO activity in the area that Sutherland says she has documented. Her downtown store features everything from alien kitsch, such as inflatable green goblins to published research on UFOs and paranormal activities.

She learned of the possible stalking when someone forwarded to her a Web link to an unidentified group that is attempting to debunk Sutherland's work and the photos on her own Web site. The group questions why UFOs make nightly appearances over Sutherland's store, yet no one else reports such sightings.

What frightened Sutherland was the rival group's claim that "our group spent good money and hired a professional to do surveillance on Mary & the Burlington UFO every night (all night) from Jan. 22nd through Jan. 30th," according to the posting.

For a woman who looks for UFOs, who seeks out places where there has been paranormal activity and who goes looking for ghosts, the "stalker" crossed the line.

"When I read that they paid someone to be out there and watch me, that scared the heck out of me," Sutherland said Wednesday.

Then, just like a UFO in the night sky, the group's Web site disappeared Tuesday after Sutherland posted a message letting people know she had contacted police.

Work was criticized

Jennifer Hoppe of Sheboygan, who has been associated with UFO Wisconsin, a group interested in UFO sightings across the state, just happened to be reading Sutherland's Web site Tuesday morning when Sutherland posted the Web page that is critical of her work. Hoppe sent Sutherland an instant message suggesting she answer the group's questions. Hoppe then found her name on Sutherland's Web site.

"I had nothing to do with the accusations from the Web site," Hoppe said. "I sent her an instant message saying that those were pretty good questions and asking, 'Are you going to answer them?' Apparently, she isn't."

Hoppe and her husband ran UFO Wisconsin for three years. Part of their mission was to try to get people to take UFOs seriously, she said. But she said she can't take Sutherland's photos seriously, and she wonders why there have been no reports to police about UFO sightings. "The reason people don't take UFO research seriously is because of people like Mary," Hoppe said. "There have been legitimate cases in the world that defy logic. What responsible, respectable professional is going to research that when people like Mary are blathering this hokey-pokey crap as the truth?"

Burlington activity questioned

Pat Champeau, owner of Background Plus Detective Agency in Sheboygan, had participated in Sutherland's Web site, but recently asked for her contact information to be removed from the site.

Champeau questioned how there can be so much alleged activity in Burlington.

"It is outlandish," Champeau said. "There are five million places to land, and it's always over her business. It's nuts."

Sutherland said she has no idea who is behind the unidentified Web site, but she challenges all of her detractors to come to Burlington and do their own research.

"I welcome anyone to come down here and take pictures," Sutherland said. "Come here at 3 a.m. and see what is lighting up the sky."

There is also a legitimate reason why people have not been calling the police about UFO sightings or paranormal activity, she said.

"I have a UFO center. Doesn't it make sense if you see a UFO to come to me? If you see paranormal activity, you don't go to the police, you would go to a paranormal center, it only makes sense," Sutherland said.

Sutherland said she has been researching UFO and paranormal activities for more than 20 years. She opened a virtual UFO and paranormal center and started hosting a Web radio show in Burlington four years ago. Last spring, she turned her collectibles and doll shop into the Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center.

The bulk of the store is devoted to research on everything from ancient races and burial mounds to UFOs. She has a library and a video viewing room to watch documentaries that she has made of people who say they have seen UFOs and who claim they have been abducted by aliens. Isn't space, the final frontier, big enough for all UFO enthusiasts?

Sutherland believes it is.

"It shouldn't have to be this way," Sutherland said.

India Daily � UFO Sighting and Strange Signals reported again in Indian Ocean � sub tectonic experiment?

2005-01-24T10:15:00.000-08:00

The India Daily strikes again

India Daily � UFO Sighting and Strange Signals reported again in Indian Ocean � sub tectonic experiment?

Woman baffled by 'beam of light'

2005-01-19T09:26:00.000-08:00

"I don't usually believe in weird things but I knew it wasn't a shooting star. After talking to my colleagues we think it might have been a UFO."

ShropshireStar.com - News - Article - Woman baffled by 'beam of light'

Ufo Peach Sees Its Popularity Take Off

2005-01-16T13:33:00.000-08:00

Continuing the food theme....

It is taking what's left of my restraint to not say something cute here....

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Ufo Peach Sees Its Popularity Take Off

Billions and billions served....

2005-01-15T05:54:00.000-08:00

I wonder if it is available super-sized.

Roswell Daily Record News

Oooh Baby, Baby It's a Wild World

2005-01-13T06:14:00.000-08:00

Conspiracy theories have begun to bubble under regarding the recent tsunami, with some speculation that perhaps we were witnessing the effects of some sort of advanced weapons test. The India Daily has issued a series of articles and editorials that allege everything from willful Western negligence to Extraterrestrial orbital correction.

"Recent alien contacts have been reported with the South Asian Governments especially India. UFO sightings have been rampant over the region affected. Some in Nicobar Island say that it was an experiment conducted by the alien extra-terrestrial entities to correct the wobbly rotation of the earth. And some of the Indian scientists are actually seeing that wobbly rotation of the earth has been corrected since the massive underwater earthquake and Tsunami."

Certain quarters of the Arab world have seemingly latched onto the idea that there is something sinister afoot blaming the United States, and Israel among others. Hey, why not? We have seen stranger lately.

While we are not ones to turn our nose up at a good conspiracy, we haven't quite figured out who was responsible for the massive destruction and loss of life when Krakatoa blew in 1883. The casualty figures were comparable and the blast was seen as far away as Paris. The massive explosion, subsequent tsunami, and resulting climate change suggests powerful forces not known to man at the time, unless we consider the possible involvement of Nikolas Tesla.

Perhaps it might sense to consider the Islamic extremists themselves. We recently saw former Folk rocker turned Islamist bigwig Cat Stevens making international headlines when he was refused entry to the United States because of his inclusion on a “terrorist watch list.” Is it possible that the terrorist troubadour had already been on a different sort of Alien watch list? Was Cat Stevens abducted by Aliens? If so, do they have a hand in the current state of World affairs?

“One night I was lying back in bed," Cat Stevens once claimed, "and I saw this flying saucer shoot across the sky and stop over me. And it sucked me up into it. When it put me down, I shot up in bed. I knew it wasn't a dream. It didn't feel like a dream. It was real, I know it was real..."—Cat Stevens

Several of Cat Stevens hit albums featured lyrics about UFOs but none as prophetic as these lines from Longer Boats from 1970's multi-platinum smash Tea For the Tillerman.

"Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they'll be taking the key from the door."

After gamely trying to destroy the world through the proliferation of Soft Rock during the 1970's, could invading extraterrestrials be upping the stakes somewhat?

Russia and Iran join efforts to struggle against invasion of UFOs.

2005-01-13T04:19:00.000-08:00

I know I will rest easier now...

Russia and Iran join efforts to struggle against invasion of UFOs - PRAVDA.Ru

The Secret CIA UFO Files

2005-01-12T05:58:00.000-08:00

So get this...the CIA claims that they let the public believe in UFOs to conceal security vulnerabilities in experimental spy planes...ie. you could see them! There is almost a strange sort of logic to this...but we aren't buying it for a second.

"POPULAR MECHANICS has learned from nonclassified sources that the United States had a serious reason for wanting the public to keep believing that the strange lights in the sky were of unearthly origin. The government kept the UFO myth alive to disguise the embarrassing fact that during the hottest days of the Cold War, America's two most secret intelligence gathering assets–the A-12 and SR-71 spyplanes–flew toward hostile terrain with the equivalent of cow bells dangling from their necks."

The Secret CIA UFO Files

But do they deliver?

2005-01-11T05:42:00.000-08:00

As far as I am concerned, The India Daily is now officially "the paper of record!"

"According to the few local people on the Indian and Chinese sides, this is where the UFOs are seen coming out of the ground, According to many, the UFO underground bases are in this region and both the Indian and Chinese Government know this very well."

India Daily � China and India both know about underground UFO base in the Himalayan border area deep into the tectonic plates

All's Well That Roswells...or...Deja Vu All Over Again

2005-01-09T19:50:00.000-08:00

They could probably work out a good deal for souvenir t-shirts.

MSNBC - UFO in Roswell? Well, not that Roswell

Betty Hill, Legendary UFO Figure Dies

2004-10-22T06:44:00.000-07:00

Boston.com / News / Local / UFO figure dies: "UFO Figure Dies
By Associated Press, 10/18/2004 15:36

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) Betty Hill, who with her late husband claimed to have been abducted by UFO extraterrestrials in New Hampshire's White Mountains, has died at age 85. "

Note to Romania: Disco Didn't Suck!

2004-10-11T08:04:00.000-07:00

Residents of the Cristinesti in eastern Romania did "the Hustle" and ran for the hills after seeing bright lights in the sky. Believing an Alien invasion afoot, the village was left uninhabited for several hours until the police were able to persuade the frightened townspeople that it was indeed safe to return home. The source of the lights was not extraterrestrial, but instead apparently came from an open air discotheque in a nearby town along the Ukranian border.

ET Phone Home, YOU'RE FIRED!

2004-10-10T19:39:00.000-07:00

Live long and prosper elsewhere

The search for extraterrestrial life has ended at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in Columbus, Ohio.

The department Thursday fired a computer programmer who admitted to using a state-owned computer server to process data for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, run by the University of California at Berkeley.

Charles E. Smith, 63, told administrators he didn’t think loading the SETI software on the server was much of a problem because he ran the program only when the server wasn’t being used, according to a disciplinary report.

Department head Tom Hayes disagreed.

“I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn’t find it in the mirror in the morning,” Hayes said. “I think that people can be comfortable that security has beamed this man out of our building.”

Odds and ends
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - Oct 9, 2004
The search for extraterrestrial life has ended at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in Columbus, Ohio. The department ...

Worker's search for ET costs him any future OT
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - Oct 8, 2004
Columbus- In recent years, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has fired employees for collecting illegal unemployment benefits, downloading ...

Man Fired for Running SETI Software
7Online.com, NY - Oct 9, 2004
(Columbus, Ohio-AP, October 9, 2004) â€” The search for extraterrestrial life has ended at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. ...

State Employee Fired For Using State Property To Search For Aliens
WCPO, OH - Oct 8, 2004
The search for extraterrestrial life has ended at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The department on Thursday fired ...

Colonel Gordon Cooper, RIP

2004-10-08T19:06:00.000-07:00

Gordon Cooper was an unlikely UFO advocate. With his movie star good looks and balls bigger than the moons of Jupiter, he was the quintessential American astronaut.

Colonel Gordon Cooper’s first mission on the Mercury/ Atlas 9 on May 15, 1963 was the most extensive American journey to space to date. Cooper was in space for over 34 hours, completing 22 orbits of the Earth. Persistent reports have circulated that, during his final orbit, Cooper witnessed a green, glowing, Unidentified Flying Object. Radar tracking stations in Australia were said to have tracked the object and the sighting was supposedly reported live on network news.

Cooper returned to space in 1965 as part of a two man team piloting Gemini 5. This time, Cooper along with Charles Conrad spent a total of 8 days in space performing a series of experiments and taking photographs. When Cooper returned to Earth, the film was confiscated by the Pentagon and deemed “Classified.” In his autobiography, Cooper claimed that he was instructed by President Lyndon Johnson to say no more about the photographs.

It is all very mysterious indeed and is the subject of much speculation as to whether or not NASA has been hiding UFO information. But there is a one major problem with these theories…Gordon Cooper explicitly refuted them. In fact, he repeatedly stated that the reports of UFOs during his space missions were lies, distortions, and half-truths which were used to substantiate something that he claims. “…didn’t happen, sorry.”

Of course, denials frequently only serve to confirm the suspicion of a cover-up, but in Gordon Cooper’s case they should be looked at pretty seriously. What makes Gordon Cooper different from all the sinister government lackies alleged to be involved in covering up the existence of UFOs is that he not only believed in them…he wanted the World to know about them. In fact, Gordon Cooper went gone so far as to address the United Nations urging them to take over the study of UFOs. In 1978, Cooper issued a passionate plea:

"I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth. I feel that we need to have a top level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion. We may first have to show them that we have learned to resolve our problems by peaceful means, rather than warfare, before we are accepted as fully qualified universal team members. This acceptance would have tremendous possibilities of advancing our world in all areas. Certainly then it would seem that the UN has a vested interest in handling this subject properly and expeditiously.”

He also described his own role in the suppression of UFO evidence.

“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because the authorities are afraid that people may think of some kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means.”

Although he admits to “imposed secrecy” on astronauts, he still asserts that there were no UFO sightings during his space missions. The reported sighting in 1963 was actually a misquote regarding the appearance of the Aurora Australiasis which is similar to the Northern Lights. The confiscation of his film did actually happen, but Cooper believes it was because he had inadvertently filmed a secret military installation. While he denies his involvement with extraterrestrials while actually in outer space, he has spoken extensively about his experiences with UFOs while serving as a test pilot in the military here on Earth.

His first sighting was in 1951 when he as stationed in Germany. According to Cooper, for two days, “hundreds of UFOs” flew over his Air Force base near Munich. Describing the incident in Omni Magazine, Cooper revealed an unsuccessful attempt at military engagement.

"They were large groups of metallic saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes coming over in flier formation in various sized numbers and for the greater part of two days these kept coming by. They were in fingertip formation, flights would cross under, back and forth, just the same kind of formations we used in fighter groups. They had the capability of changing directions a little faster than a typical fighter would, stopping, rapid starting, changing directions...."

Cooper also claimed a second encounter that was even more mysterious. In 1957, while stationed at Edwards Air Force Base, Cooper allegedly handled film containing photos of a UFO that supposedly landed at the base. His orders were to develop but not print the film. Understandably curious, Cooper snuck a peak at the negatives and saw the image of the UFO. While Cooper’s version contains certain discrepancies, Project Blue Book did indeed have a report that closely matches his story.

On May 3, 1957 two military photographers working on test firing range at Edwards Air Force Base spotted an Unidentified Flying Object flying low about 500 feet away. The described it as luminous and gold colored, shaped like a saucer with a dome on top. Before the ship flew away they were able to take an estimated 30 photos. By their account they turned them in to their superiors and never saw them again. Later that day, the two were told that the object they saw was a weather balloon distorted by an optical illusion created by the desert heat. An Army spokesman was quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying, “This desert air does crazy things." The newswire story portrayed the military as even less forthcoming saying that “intelligence officers at Edwards ... would say almost nothing of the incident.”

Cooper never claimed to have actually seen anything except the photos, but, aside from minor details, his story seems to check out.

The tales of Gordon Cooper are particularly vexing to skeptics, who are forced to admit he has an impeccable record and unimpeachable credentials as military officer, pilot, astronaut, and national hero. It is hard to ascertain a motive for Cooper to lie. This is a man who has no need to link himself to obscure intergalactic conspiracies. This is a man who has actually been to outer space. As one of the earliest astronauts, Cooper was an international celebrity. He lived at the forefront of world history and his reputation could only suffer by associating with Flying Saucer buffs and conspiracy theorists. Additionally, it should be noted that he refused to endorse the one theory that his reputation would surely bolster…that UFOs were accompanying our space missions. Cooper publicly stated his views on UFOs, but never wavered on his insistence that the astronaut sightings never happened. Well, except maybe once…

In a 1980 interview with Omni Magazine Colonel Gordon Cooper once again debunked the astronaut sightings but gave at least some credence to one.

“To my knowledge, the only astronaut on any of the Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo missions who ever saw anything that might have been a UFO was Jim McDivitt, but he didn't get enough pictures to prove anything substantial. That's the only case, in spite of all the stories you hear.”

Gordon Cooper, a true American hero, explored space and is now off on an even more mysterious journey.

Martians Not Invading Missouri...THIS TIME!!!!

2004-09-02T07:17:00.000-07:00

Bursting the balloon of UFO mystery

Southeast Missourian ~ Wednesday, September 1, 2004
By Tony Rehagen

The Jackson UFO mystery is over. It can all be chalked up to a vacation Bible school game gone awry.
Just after 7 p.m. on Aug. 11, 16-year-old Zach Stanfield was videotaping a shadowy, disc-shaped object hovering in the sky above his Jackson home at 1320 Broadridge Drive. Meanwhile, just down the road outside Calvary United Pentecostal Church, Edward Moore was getting a dirty look from his wife, Cherie, as the two watched a mylar disc float into the atmosphere.

As it turns out, Zach and the Moores were looking at the same thing.

Cherie Moore had bought a pair of the $9 mylar discs for the children attending the church's vacation Bible school to play with. But one had sprung a leak, and Edward Moore was having trouble getting the other one to fly.

"It just wasn't discing right," he said. "So I got the bright idea of airing it up with some helium."
But he filled the balloon-like disc with too much helium, and it soared off into the air, drawing a big laugh from those in attendance. Everyone, that is, except the woman who paid for the toy.

But Cherie Moore got the last laugh when she looked at Tuesday's Southeast Missourian. On the front page was a picture of her lost toy and a story about an unidentified flying object hovering over Jackson.

"We were joking about it, saying that someone was going to see it and turn it in as a UFO," she said. "When I saw the paper this morning, I about died."

Upon viewing a copy of Zach's tape, chief air traffic controller Larry Davis of the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport posed the possibility of the object being a mylar disc. Now that the rest of the story has emerged, Davis says too much helium would indeed have given the disc the strange hovering effect seen in the tape, especially on a day with mild winds.

Stanfield said he wasn't convinced that what he saw and videotaped that day was anything necessarily alien to Southeast Missouri skies. In fact, he said he suspected it was just a balloon or mylar disc.

Finding out the truth gave the Notre Dame Regional High School student a sense of relief.

But still, he's a little disappointed that it was only a toy gone astray.

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