Unsolved Mysteries Part 4
Posted by FV in UFOs & ETs
By Dane Helder
MEN IN BLACK - If you ever report that you’ve seen a UFO, you may be visited by the “Men In Black”. Who are they and do they exist? These accounts by eyewitnesses are disturbing evidence that the “Men in Black” that were spoofed in the movie actually exist. And that there is nothing funny about them.
CANADIAN UFO - Shortly after a UFO sighting is reported, a mysterious videotape emerges depicting the event. Researchers believe it is the real thing, but are baffled as to who sent the tape, and where UFO is from.
WHEATFIELDS VISITATIONS - Since 1970 Southern England has been the site of more than 750 perfectly formed and unexplainable circles in fields of wheat and corn. Some believe they may be connected to nearby Stonehenge monoliths and the appearance of unexplained lights in the nighttime sky. UPDATE: Since story aired, more than 500 new circles have appeared.
LIFE ON MARS - Possible evidence of life on Mars found in a meteorite, only the 12th meteorite from Mars found on Earth. 4.5 billion years old, it predates life on earth by 1 billion years, and within it, some say, are the fossilized remains of micro-organisms.
INTERCEPTORS - Some aviation researchers believe that a new generation of sophisticated military aircraft is being developed, using mind-boggling technology. Some speculate that the technology for such an aircraft may have been come from alien technology.THE BLOB - Six times, over a three week period…blob-like droplets of strange, gelatinous goo fall on the town of Oakville, Washington, leaving dozens of residents ill with flu-like symptoms and several pets and animals dead. Noone could determinehow the goo, containing two types of bacteria and other living cells, fell from the sky.
UFO ODYSSEY - From 1987 to 1990 a wave of UFO sightings have fascinated small community of Wytheville, VA, but nearby Langley Air Force Base will not investigate. One citizen, Danny Gordon, continues researching and his life has changed because of it.
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Unsolved Mysteries Part 3
Posted by FV in UFOs & ETs
By Dane Helder
AUSTRALIAN UFO - Pilot takes off and disappears from the radar. His last transmission “It is hovering and it is not an aircraft” leads people to think he saw a UFO. Other eyewitnesses confirm the sighting of a strange airborne vehicle that looked like a UFO.
MISSING TIME - Researcher Bud Hopkins has investigated over 200 accounts of “missing time”, people who believe they were abducted by UFO’s and subjected to genetic experimentation by their abductors. Their accounts are chilling, and very believable.
SOCORRO CLOSE ENCOUNTER - Lonnie Zamora, a Socorro police officer, saw a UFO while chasing a teenager into the desert. When it was investigated, they found indentations and burn marks from the spaceship. Zamora is a respected member of the community and to this day is still convinced of what he saw.
KECKSBURG UFO - 1965, Kecksburg, PA residents observed fiery object streak through sky & fall to earth. Military investigated quarantined area while officers secretly removed the object from the earth. It was said to be 9′ long, bronze colored, shaped like an acorn with unusual symbols.
TEXAS UFO - While driving on Texas highway, three people spotted a fiery UFO. They suffered radiation burns but the military reported nothing strange in area that night, denying responsibility to any medical problems they might have suffered from the exposure. Subsequently, one of the witnesses died from cancer.
FACE ON MARS - Photographs beamed to Earth from the Voyager space probe seem to depict 3 faces & a series of pyramid?like formations on the surface of Mars.One of the faces is a match for the face on the Sphinx in Egypt. Are they natural phenomena, or the work of intelligent life forms?
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£2 Trillion Craziness & Alien Invasion
Posted by FV in Miscellaneous
Perhaps history will prove that the events of this week were all a clever plot by the world’s leaders to deter an alien invasion.
How else to comprehend the £2 trillion of craziness that swept the globe – the sort of financial caper that would have had the little green men scurrying for their spacecraft, sharpish.
It started, in Britain, with a twist on a popular TV programme. Call it “Darling’s Den” – the Chancellor’s lair to which quivering bank chiefs were hauled last weekend.
With Treasury and Financial Services Authority officials applying the thumbscrews, the bankers were shown just how much capital they needed to raise. If they had thought they might get away with offering the taxpayer, say, a 10pc stake for a £5bn cash injection, the heads of Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds TSB were swiftly disillusioned.
In what Lloyds boss Eric Daniels described as “bullet-proofing the banks against any downturn”, the trio were told they needed to pump in £37bn among them to improve their capital ratios.
When the news broke on Monday, there was only one word for it. New Labour was poised to do what Old Labour had never dared and partially “nationalise” three high-street banks serving more than 40m customers – on top of the two existing state dependants, Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley.
It was a simple question of arithmetic. Unless the trio can raise tens of billions from their own investors – a tall order, if ever, in the current crisis-torn markets – the taxpayer will wind up with a near-60pc stake in RBS and up to 43.5pc in the planned Lloyds/HBOS combo.
There was a price for tapping the taxpayer too – the scalps of Sir Fred Goodwin and Sir Tom McKillop, respectively the chief executive and chairman of RBS, and of Andy Hornby and Lord Stevenson, their counterparts at HBOS.
David Freud, the former UBS banker now advising the Government on welfare reform, characterised the taxpayer-funded bail-out as “not really nationalisation. It’s extra capital with punishment.”
Long-term, the Government does not want to own banks. But while it does, the kicking it gives them – over such things as bonuses and lending criteria – will change the face of the industry. Not least if Lord “Red Adair” Turner, the FSA chairman, gets his way.
One issue became increasingly contentious as the week wore on: the Government’s plan to compel banks that took its preference shares to suspend dividends for up to five years – a diktat, as it turned out, from Brussels. Investors responded by dumping high-yielding bank shares, threatening Lloyds’ tie-up with HBOS.
Recapitalising the banks was the final piece in Flush Gordon’s cistern-bursting £500bn bail-out plan. He also earmarked £250bn of Government guarantees to coerce banks into lending to each other again and £200bn of emergency funding from the Bank of England’s gushers.
Lampooned over here for his tardy response to the crisis, the PM suddenly found himself a hero abroad as US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson copied the Brit blueprint. He set aside $250bn (£145bn) from his $850bn rescue stash to recapitalise nine American banks.
They include such bastions of capitalism as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley – and Paulson made no secret of his misgivings. “Government owing a stake in any private US company is objectionable to most Americans – me included,” he said. “Yet the alternative of leaving businesses and consumers without access to financing is totally unacceptable.”
Europe followed suit, with six countries setting aside €1,500bn (£1,170bn) to save its banks. Both Germany’s €500bn bail-out and France’s €360bn lifebelt carried the UK imprimatur of addressing banks’ capital positions.
Tot it all up and the world’s leaders – acting in concert after last weekend’s G7 meeting – had thrown more than £2 trillion at the problem. And, for almost two days, the markets roared their approval as politicians sought to put the banking crisis behind them.
Having tanked 21pc the previous week, the FTSE-100 leapt 8.26pc on Monday and a further 3.23pc on Tuesday to stand at 4,394.21 – moves mirrored on all major markets, excepting minor wobbles in Russia and Spain.
By Tuesday night, however, the US Dow Jones was signalling the big-dipper to come. Having bounced 11.1pc on Monday, the Dow surged to a 500 point advance on Tuesday before beating a hasty retreat to close down 0.82pc.
Increasingly febrile markets had shifted their focus from the banks to the world economy. Traders were now in a right sweat over the looming global slump – their panic over the pain required to pay back a £2 trillion bail-out bill exacerbated by more specific concerns. Who, they wondered, is on the hook for $360bn of default insurance arising from the toxic dump at Lehman Brothers? What is the $2 trillion hedge fund industry sitting on? And will insurance companies become the next major casualties?
So began the rollercoaster. By Wednesday, data was coming thick and fast. None of it was pretty. On this side of the Atlantic, Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Andrew Sentance had already warned that “the risks of a bigger and more sustained downturn” were increasing. The UK unemployment figures – a lagging indicator of economic health – confirmed that. They showed the jobless total rising at the fastest rate for 17 years.
Abroad, evidence that the crisis on Wall Street had extended to Main Street came with September’s 1.2pc fall in US retail sales – far worse than the 0.7pc drop expected. Meanwhile San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank president, Janet Yellen, dared to utter the dreaded “R” word. Recession fears swept the market, puncturing the commodity bubble on the rational grounds that if the global economy goes into reverse, demand for raw materials and manufactured goods plummets.
Even China, the engine of world growth was beginning to splutter, according to Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese. “China is not completely insulated from OECD recession,” he warned.
Meanwhile, the contagion was spreading to Eastern Europe, with Ukraine, Hungary and Serbia all in emergency talks with the International Monetary Fund, while victims of Iceland’s meltdown continued to emerge in unlikely corners. Oxford University became the latest institution to admit that £30m of its money was submerged somewhere in Iceland’s Blue Lagoon.
The markets took their cue. The FTSE plunged 7.16pc, only slightly more than Germany’s DAX index and France’s CAC. And the Dow dived 7.87pc to below 9,000. A day later, the markets were out of step again, the FTSE tanking a further 5.35pc, while the Dow climbed 4.68pc after an 800-point gyration.
Its higher close, analysts said, was brought about by oil falling to just above $66. In Europe, Switzerland’s proud banking nation was forced to provide a Sfr60bn (£31bn) lifeline to UBS, while traders drove UK insurance companies shares up to 20pc lower on fears that their solvency ratios were going the same way as falling equity markets. Hedge funds became a bigger worry still, with London’s Gradient Capital the latest on the slide.
Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners, summed up the antsy atmosphere: “Market sentiment is now being completely driven by fear,” he said. By yesterday, the panic had subsidied – for now. The FTSE bounced by 5.2pc to end the week at 4063.01 points – ahead of last week’s 3932.06 close. Those two figures scarcely tell the story.
What, you wonder, could possibly top this week’s dramas? An alien invasion perhaps.
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Giant UFO Over Yukon Territory
Posted by FV in UFOs & ETs
By Tony Jackson
In December of 1996 approximately 31 people claimed to have witnessed a giant UFO along a 340 km stretch of highway in Yukon. In this clip, journalists talk to a UFOologist who investigated the event and discuss with witnesses their experiences on that evening.
Also discussed is the aboriginal historical perspective on the UFO phenomenon in Yukon with a local Elder.
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