Skyfloating
posted on Feb, 25 2009 @ 11:14 AM link
1910, The Indianapolis Star
Excerpt:
"We have
been struck by a comet or a thunderbolt, and our ship is disabled," he
said. "We were bound from Port Talbot to Bastia with coals, leaving port
on Wednesday, and this morning we were about ten miles southwest of the
Wolf Rock when the vessel trembled violently, and there was a loud,
sharp report like the explosion of a cannon. The foremast seemed a mass
of flames, and the whole ship became aglow.
"At that moment we saw a large, fiery body, with a
tail about 30 feet to 40 feet long, strike the sea about 20 feet from
us. Its appearance was accompanied by a loud, hissing noise, and as it
disappeared, a column of water rose in the air.
"Directly after, the men came running out of the forecastle, saying it
was on fire. The whole of the interior was glowing with a brilliant
light. The effect of the phenomenon in the engine room was most
awe-inspiring, the whole place glowing in a faint, violet light from
which millions of sparks emanated. All the men rushed upon deck.
"The second mate happened to be sounding the (well)
at the time and received a violent shock from the steel rod which he
held in his hand. The phenomenon did not last many seconds. When we had
recovered from our surprise, we looked at the compasses and found them
all demagnetized and awry.
"In that predicament I decided to put back
for the nearest port, but as we were experiencing blinding snowstorms
and could get no assistance from our compasses, it was a difficult task.
At last we picked up the Lizard, and by following coasting vessels, put
into Falmouth."
Strange to say, when the compasses were taken
ashore, they resumed their normal condition and were strictly accurate.
It is feared that the ship has become highly magnetized, and experts
will go on board to decide how the problem can be solved.
1910 The Danish Meteorological Institute
The
Danish Meteorological Institute reports another instance: That, when
Capt. Breyer of the Dutch steamer Valentijn was in the South China Sea,
midnight, Aug. 12, 1910, he saw a rotation of flashes. "It looked like a
horizontal wheel, turning rapidly." This time it is said that the
appearance was above water. "The phenomenon was observed by the captain,
the first and second mates, and the first engineer, and upon all of
them it made a somewhat uncomfortable impression."
1913 London Times
Excerpt:
1913, February 28: North Sea. (ND/F)1 8:15 p.m. The captain
and crew of the steam trawler Othello returning to the port of Hull
spotted a distant airborne object with a powerful searchlight. It was a
dark night with no moon or stars visible. The object descended and
headed toward the ship, making an audible whirring sound. Within 5
minutes it was directly overhead just above the masthead, the
searchlight now dazzling. The trawler was illuminated from stem to stern
so brightly that “the men assert that it was possible to read by it."
Two body lights were visible on the aft of the object about 5 or 6 feet
apart.
Fearing a collision, the captain blew the whistle and
swung the vessel around to the west. The unidentified craft then circled
the ship twice, keeping its searchlight focused on the ship the whole
time. Then it climbed and departed toward the west. As it left, the
captain gave a parting salute with the siren, and the craft replied with
a flash from the searchlight. When they reached port, the captain and
crew filed written statements with their company. (The incident was
reported in numerous newspapers, including the London Times and the
Daily Telegraph.; cited in Watson et al., n.d.)
1927, one of Italy's most investigated USO Sightings
One morning, while a 12
year old girl was going to fetch drinking water at the river Po, she saw
a shiny and round object come from the sky. It later crashed in the
water seven meters away from her. After a couple of minutes, the witness
noticed a big bubble in the water and later the object resurfaced and
flew away disappearing in the sky. The girl had the chance to observe
the interior of the object and saw a little man who seemed to be seated
because he was only visible from the neck and above. The facial features
were human looking and he was not wearing a helmet. The object, which
emitted a hissing noise, had a diameter of 2-3 meters. For sure this is
one of the most investigated U.S.O. sightings in Italy, and only the
distance in time of the event prevents an objective evaluation of
it.
1929 Saucer-Disc
I picked this because I found it interesting that a flying saucer would be seen pre-1946.
I thought you might
like to hear a story my father told me recently (and having been in the
military was even afraid to tell me) about a sponge diver in his home
town of Tarpon Springs, Florida. It seems that an old Greek sponge diver
back in 1929 was underwater doing his sponging in his old-type sponge
diver’s suit and helmet, and as he looked up from what he was doing, he
saw a saucer-shaped silver disk fly by him under water with lights on
it, and then it flew by him again, this time in the other direction as
if to watch what he was doing. The man thought it must be something the
Americans must have made or maybe there is another ship in the area.
When he came out of the water, he told the other spongers what he saw
under water. No one believed his story. They told him no such thing
could be true, and there were no other boats in the area. For years he
stuck to his story and told everyone who would listen to him. - Patricia
Themaras
1931, Ireland
A Mr. Collins was aboard his
yacht when he saw a strange "aero-plane" like object approaching from
the sea. It suddenly ditched into the water near the shore. Collins then
approached the craft, which was now apparently at the shore. He saw
three occupants apparently working on the object. Two were tall, heavy
set, blond haired and light complexioned. Thinking they were or (sic -
of) German origin, he asked if they needed any help in German. One of
the men responded in French, claiming he could not understand, and then,
in no uncertain terms, told the witness to leave the area. Collins
quickly left and did not see the craft depart.
1934 Norway
Excerpt:
Some friends
were eating when they saw a light which appeared to be on the harbour.
Fearing sabotage, they entered their cars (3) and drove towards the
phenomenon. Some distance away the cars stopped and couldn't be started
again. They left the cars and ran towards the light, which seemed to
resemble a church bell, and were (sic-was) a hazy orange color. When
they approached it, they heard a whistling sound, like air being
released from an air compressor. A moment later the object ascended 9-18
feet above the water and took off with an enormous speed, without any
sign of acceleration. At last the object had a deep blue color as it
disappeared over Oslofjorden. As soon as it disappeared, the witnesses
(4) investigated the area and discovered a craterlike depression in the
snow about 4.5 feet in diameter and about 3 feet deep. Outside this the
snow had melted1 to a diameter of 54 feet.
1943 Persian Gulf
I'm adding this one because it is representative of a number of similar reports.
1943: Persian
Gulf—Seaman Matthew Mangle, from the bow of his ship, sighted a huge
disc beneath the surface of the water. The object, glowing with a soft,
greenish light, paced the ship at about 12 knots before speeding up and
moving out of sight. (Similar reports are on record.) This reference:
NICAP Investigator, July/August 1960, p. 7
1945, U.S. Military, Multiple Witnesses, Detailed Report
The most detailed of these cases involved a
large UFO seen in 1945 by crew members of the U.S. Army Transport
Delarof which had been hauling munitions and supplies to Alaska. The
reporting witness, recently interviewed, was Robert S. Crawford, now a
consulting geologist with the Indiana Soil Testing Laboratory, Griffith,
Ind. Crawford is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and while
at the college, he reported the sighting to Prof. N. N. Kohanowski,
Dept. of Geology, who is a NICAP adviser. In 1967, Mr. Crawford was
interviewed by Dr. James E. McDonald, a scientist at the University of
Arizona, who under a university grant has personally investigated
numerous UFO reports.
The Delarof incident occurred in the summer of 1945 while Crawford was
serving as one of the Army radiomen aboard. The ship, heading back to
Seattle, was in the open sea past Adak. It was about sunset, and
Crawford was on the port side near the radio room when he heard shouts
from some of the crew. He turned and saw a large, round object which had
just emerged from the sea. (Several crewmen saw the UFO actually appear
from underwater, an estimated mile or so from the Delarof.)
The unknown craft, showing darkly against the setting sun, climbed
almost straight up for a few moments, then it arced into level flight,
and began to circle the ship. All the observers were convinced it was a
large object. Comparing it with the width of a finger held out at arm's
length, Crawford estimated the UFO to be 150 to 250 feet in diameter.
As it circled the Delarof, the flying object was in easy range of the
ship's guns. But the gun crews held their fire, though on the alert for
any sign of hostility.
The UFO circled the vessel two or three times, moving smoothly and with
no audible sound. All the witnesses felt it was self-propelled;
otherwise, the strong winds would have visibly affected its movements.
After several minutes, the flying object disappeared to the south or
south-southwest. Suddenly the crew saw three flashes of light from the
area where it had vanished. The Delarof captain posted an extra watch as
the ship moved through that sector later, but nothing was seen.
At Seattle, 14 crewmen signed a summary of the sighting. Attempts are
being made to locate the report, mainly so as to interrogate other
witnesses and perhaps learn more details. This
reference: UFO Investigator, a NICAP publication, Vol. 4, No. 5, p. 4,
(March 1968), and various letters sent to governmental departments in
reference to the case. With thanks to the Donald E. Keyhoe Archives for
this material.
1945 U.S. Navy, Multiple Source Confirmations
Excerpt:
Suddenly during the early afternoon around 1300 hrs, the
ship was called to General Quarters. Every man ran to his battle station
thinking that this might be a Japanese suicide attack. Everyone was in
position; all guns were manned and ready. Cpl. P. at the time was a
gunner on one of the ship’s 40 mm gun mounts. All hands waited at their
battle station for something to fire at, for the sky was clear as far as
the eye could see. Inside the ship, a single distinct blip had appeared
out of nowhere on the radar scope. A few seconds later and the blip
became visible in the sky... almost directly over the battleship. There
it hovered, motionless.
By this time, the ship’s captain, Capt. K. C. Christian, was out on deck
looking at the object through binoculars. It wasn't long before most of
the ship’s two thousand personal (sic) were also observing it either
through binoculars or with the naked eye.
The object was described as being silver in color and very shiny. It was
much larger than what the brightest star would be, but smaller than a
full moon. There was no noise that anyone could detect, and it did not
change color, split up, [or] perform any erratic manauveurs (sic), but
remained above the ship, matching speed and course with it.
After about a half an hour had passed, Capt. Christian and many members
of the crew were getting a bit nerveous (sic). Was it a Japanese trick
or some new kind of weapon? Capt. Christian didn't know and wasn't going
to take any chances. Quickly, he ordered two of the ship’s 3 inch
anti-aircraft mounts to open fire on it. For about the next half hour
the 3 inch guns hammered away at the object... but to no avail. It must
have been out of their range because the shells did not seem to be
reaching it. Later it was learned that at that time, the object was at
an altitude of twenty thousand feet.
Finally, Capt. Christian ordered the guns to cease fire. The object
remained above the ship for a few more seconds, then, to everyone’s
amazement, it climbed up at a fantastic rate of speed until it was out
of sight and off the radar scope. Everyone aboard the ship was stunned
by this; they had never seen anything like it.
1945, St. Petersburg Times, U.S. Navy
Excerpt:
E. L. Wells, Magnolia Hotel, then Lt. J.G. aboard the
Salamana (sic – Salamaua) (CVE-96), an escort aircraft carrier, was
interceptor officer. Around 11 o'c1ock in the morning, while south of
Okinawa, he said he and his group were disturbed by the appearance of a
"blip" on the screen that appeared to be traveling toward them at a
terrific rate of speed.
“Of course we couldn't distinguish any shape, but the
object was estimated to be traveling at about 1,000 miles an hour,"
Wells said. “It was moving on a course of zero one zero, coming
in from the direction of Formosa and traveling toward Japan. We thought
at first it was a Baka1 bomb, but it was too fast for that.“We
just braced ourselves and waited for it to hit. Then, after tracking it
to just a few miles from the ship, as the radar made another sweep, we
lost it.
"We never heard another thing about it, but we wondered a lot what it
was. Now with all these stories about flying saucers, (it) made me think
of it again and I wondered if anybody ever had seen those saucers on a
radar screen. . . That would tell quite a lot about them."
Found this UFO over water on my computer, forget the source I have it from though:
8-23-12 REHOBOTH BEACH DELAWARE
Added by Pegasus
UFO Sighting Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
We were walking on the beach when we
happened to look up and see two large, bright orange/yellow circles in
the air. These shapes were unlike anything we had ever seen. They
hovered over the coastline for a few minutes (3-4). Then one began to
ascend, fairly slowly. The circle got smaller and smaller until it
eventually looked like a pinhead, which then disappeared out of sight.
Then the second circle did the same thing. There were no drastic
movements. The discs hovered and then ascended in a slightly angled line
straight up and out of sight. The objects stood out because of their
size and color. I felt confident that the there was no logical
explanation for the sighting except a UFO. I was not afraid at the time,
but very curious. I was so amazed I didn’t even think to pull out my
phone to record it! NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS ……… Thanks to www.mufon.com
posted on Feb, 25 2009 @ 02:01 PM link
Very interesting case because of seen "little men" running over the deck of the object.
June, 1947, Near Malta, "Little people on type of submarine."
A USO report from MUFOR on the internet as follows:
Witnesses: Pawlu Zammit and others
Location: 20 miles S of Malta
Object: Black submarine, or other type of craft?
Sound: None
Notes: Fishermen on a boat 20 miles south of Malta were raising their
nets with a catch of fish when they saw an object floating on the
water's surface that looked like a black submarine. The fishermen were
frightened because they thought it looked more like a monster than a
submarine, so they quickly pulled in their nets and started the boat's
engine.
At that moment a bright light from the "submarine" lit up the whole area
and "little men" began running over the deck of the object.
The fishermen couldn't make out much detail from their boat but whenever
the light illuminated the "little men," they could see some sort of
apparatus around their waist.
When the witness was asked how tall these men were, he replied, "About
the size of a 10 year old boy." After a few minutes, the "little men"
entered the "submarine" which began to glow so brightly that the
fishermen couldn't see the object. It then submerged.
This reference: From the Website: http://www.mufor.org/ ( Note MUFOR stands for Malta UFO Research)
Original reference: "UFOs fuq iI-Gzejjer Maltin" by David Pace
UFOCAT PRN None
Mediterranean Sea - Malta
20 miles south of Malta is Approximately Latitude 35.39 N, Longitude 14.25 E ( D-M )
Reference: Malta gazetteer, U.S. Army Topographic Command, Washington, D.C., November 1971
SOURCE: UFO Case files
Editors note: (1) Spacevisitor
is a friend and longtime member of Pegasus. (2) Pegasus has a sharing
agreement with UFO Case Files
seagull
posted on Feb, 25 2009 @ 02:28 PM link
Here's a link to my own encounter with a USO some years ago.
My own encounter with a USO ten years ago
I'm the only one who saw this "thing", though as you'll see in the thread, others have seen it, or something like it, since...
Really good thread.
posted on Feb, 25 2009 @ 02:45 PM link
Just read your post. You are the third experiencer "coming out" in this
thread. Lets hope for many more. About its speed...how much is 40 to 50
knots? (Excuse my ignorance).
posted on Feb, 25 2009 @ 02:47 PM link
Right around, just below actually, 60mph. Given the roughness of the bottom there 'bouts that's hauling it.
posted on Feb, 25 2009 @ 02:57 PM link
Great thread. I have been interested in
USO's for some time, but then I have been interested in the ocean more
than space itself This one was back in 2006 with numerous witnesses on Southern African
East coast, what we call the South Coast in South Africa, just to leave
out
confusion...strangely
Port Shepstone Incident
The thread on ATS on this one
UFO Crashes in Ocean - Port Shepstone, SA
posted on Feb, 25 2009 @ 03:03 PM link
1947 Thor Heyerdahl
Heyerdahl, a science celebrity of his days with a reputation to loose.
Excerpt:
We saw the
shine of phosphorescent eyes drifting on the surface on dark nights, and
on one single occasion, we saw the sea boil and bubble while
something like a big wheel came up and rotated in the air, while some of
our dolphins tried to escape by hurling themselves desperately through
space
1947, San Fransisco Chronicle, Police Officer Report
July 2,
San Francisco, California: Sergeant David Menary, of the State Highway
Patrol, was driving onto the Golden Gate Bridge from the Lombard Street
approach shortly after 2:15 p.m. PST, when he and passenger Walter
Castro saw six small objects plummet down past the bridge and into the
Bay.
"They were close together," Menary later reported, "about
a foot apart. They were silver and shiny, about as big as a football
but shaped round, like a basketball. They were falling, down, straight
down, I couldn't estimate how fast. They fell into the Bay, east of the
bridge. That's the last I saw of them." Castro, a San Rafael garage
owner, confirmed Menary's description. Neither had any idea what they
might be or where they may have come from.
Commenting on this report from his office in the
Presidio, Army Major Steve Monroe brushed the sighting off. "I can see
the same thing right now," he told reporters. "Friday is the Fourth of
July, in case you've forgotten, and some of the boys are down on the
waterfront trying out the fireworks." But as far as Sgt. Menary was
concerned, what he and Castro saw fall into the Bay "were no
fireworks."
1947 USS Maury Survey Ship
Excerpt:
During the trip from San Francisco,
they mapped what they thought was an underwater mountain top or a solid
object of some sort. It was very large2 and they made several passes
over it with their sonar. My father was not in the sonar department. He
was used sometimes as a helmsman and the captain’s driver in port. I am
not sure, but he may have been on watch or on the bridge―I don’t know
for sure. He says after several passes the object accelerated to a fast
speed and disappeared into the depths and they lost it. They searched
for some time and never located it again. They did not know what it was.
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Actual photo (from aged copy with leak through of ink from following page)
This strange
photograph, snapped on the Crow River in Ontario, is a mystery to
photographers. It is all that was recorded by the camera of a large
purple globe, one of a series seen submerging in the Crow River. Was it a
spaceship? p. 11
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An additional and more conclusive proof of the
unknown nature of these mysterious "meteors" can be introduced by means
of the following story from the Halifax Mail, Canadian newspaper:
Like a second
edition of the famed "flying saucers," strange meteor-like objects have
been reportedly seen flying through the sky in all parts of Nova Scotia
for the last week. Early yesterday morning one turned
up again streaking over Halifax in plain view of two policemen--Sergeant
Gerald Bishop and Constable J. Gerrard. Descriptions
furnished by those who claim to have watched the brief appearances of
the "whatizit’s" have ranged from "a blue ball of flame" to "a bright
green object," like a football trailed by a bright red tail.
The latter was how it appeared to the
Halifax policemen who watched it in its less-than-a-second-long dash
across the sky over Halifax North around 2:30 a. m. Sunday.
Cyril Kane of the National Harbours Board1 Harbormaster's office saw a
similar object, but blue in color, in the same vicinity late Thursday.
Another well-known Halifax business man who saw it or a similar object
the same day expressed the belief that it was a flare from a "Very"
pistol, used by ships and planes to send out distress signals.
But Father Burke-Gaffney of St. Mary's College, an astronomer, suggests
that the objects may be meteors or flaming pieces of molten metal from
the tail of Eneke's Comet which is reported by Australians to have
flashed across the southern skies on two or three successive nights
recently.
Perhaps Father Burke-Gaffney is correct regarding this particular series
of observations, and there is nothing in them which could not be
attributed to ordinary meteors, however, when one of them is
photographed at close range, that is a different matter!
The photograph in question, was forwarded by J. D. MacNeill, 101 Latimer
Avenue, Toronto 12, Ontario. It was taken, Mr. MacNeill reports, by his
uncle, while fishing on the Crow River in Northern Ontario. Mr.
MacNeill quotes his uncle as follows:
"Last Saturday,
August 16, 1947, when I had finished my chores, here at the camp, I
decided to go into Timmins with my friend, Roy Simpson, to see a movie.
Timmins is about 15 miles from our present location, so we decided to go
by car, instead of waiting for the company bus. We left at 8:30 and
after driving for about ten minutes the car stalled, leaving us stranded
in the middle of a deserted and open stretch of country. We tinkered
with the motor for a half-hour but couldn't get it to start again. So we
started to walk back to camp.
"It was then that we both witnessed an unusual sight in the growing
darkness that I still find hard to believe and vaguely know how to
describe. It seemed like a huge globe of purplish light that tore across
the eastern sky and disappeared into the surrounding hills. It was
followed by yet another that was much closer and travelling at a slower
speed. I could hardly make out the details, but it looked like a round
object that had a number of large portholes on its sides.
''That was all we saw but it was enough for us. We got back to camp and
arranged for a truck to tow the stalled car back to camp. Roy and I
never mentioned what we saw to anyone in case we might be called crazy.
"The next day was a Sunday [17th] and no work was to be done. So, around
three o'clock that afternoon I went down to Crow River to do some
fishing and brought my camera with me. It was then that I saw those
self-same objects circling about the lake, but travelling at a much
lower speed. I don't know how to express my feelings when I saw them
again; it struck me, somehow, as being weird and uncanny, like something
from another world. At any rate, they circled closer to the lake,
emitting a high-pitched whining noise. My senses came back to me and I
pulled out my camera and tried to take shots.
"I took numerous snaps but later these failed to turn out. Finally the
objects eased their speed and at intervals of about two minutes between
them, they hit the lake and sank about 100 yards from where I was
standing. The first snap I took failed to focus properly, but the second
one turned out excellently as the object hit the water.
"I waited for more than an hour hoping to see them again, but they
failed to make an appearance. Since then I have not seen them once, nor
have I heard comments about them from the boys here at the camp. These
enclosed photos are the only evidence I have of their existence. What
they were, I have no idea, nor can I even guess what was their reason
for appearing for such a short time.”
It is unfortunate that the shots of the globes in the air
did not turn out--or perhaps they did not turn out because they could
not be photographed by ordinary light? A glance at the photo of the
object at the moment of contact with the water reveals that there is
clarity of definition of everything except the sphere itself! There is
seen only a foggy white spot. There is a definite circle on the water,
as though the outer surface of the object produced some darkening in the
water such as an electrical effect, although no splash of water seems
to be visible. However, the statement of the witnesses includes
portholes and such mechanical attributes, impossible to understand in
the case of an electrical phenomenon. Further, these "ships" gave
evidence of some type of definite directional guidance, either from
within or by remote control. The high-pitched whine indicates electrical
apparatus of some type, possibly generators.
The size of these Crow River globes, as
determined from the photograph and from the statements of distance from
the camera, is at least 24 feet in diameter to as much as 60 feet. Once
again, we can be sure that these Canadian blue-green-purple globes are
not meteors, nor are they fragments of a comet, or Venus. What, then,
are they? Spacecraft from another world?
This reference: Fate, Vol. 1, No. 2, summer 1948, “Are Space Visitors
Here?” by Kenneth
Arnold.
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