Or at least, that's what a new press release from UFO guru Luke Fortune claims. Fortune, an inventor, has put the plans and patents to allow you to build your own laser-fusion-powered UFO online for free. The prototype will cost $60,000 for you to build, but don't worry — soon, building your own UFO will be dirt cheap, and everybody on the planet will be flying them, according to Fortune's press release. And this will transform the world's economy:

The government approved public charity to develop UFO technology is underway.

Imagine a tomorrow where instead of your usual humdrum job, you, and the Average Joe, were flying about the planet at thousands of miles per hour without danger, hauling cargo or people. The Average Joe can build a flying craft for about the cost of a car. Instead of driving a taxi, Average Joe flies people all over the planet, all over the solar system. The cruise industries find great profits in tours around the moon and the outer giants. Resources need no longer be in short supply as mining the asteroid belt becomes a commonplace event. Shooting galleries can be opened in the Kuiper Belt. Oil prospecting on Jupiter's moons could likewise easily be achieved. The open use of these technologies will repair the global economy by opening the next great economic growth. Space tourism can become a reality in a much shorter time, as people who aren't millionaires realize they can build these devices and cash in on the space tourism trade. You can become wealthy by taking part in the next great economic expansion.

For you, for all of us, science fiction will become science fact.

Current, and retired, aerospace engineers, some involved with "black operations" have been consulted for this project. It is acknowledged by these engineers that a repository of over 50 years of research data was their source material database of knowledge in UFO research and development in their employ with their respective aerospace companies.

Technology exists that can repair and rebuild the economy on both the national (United States) and global scales. Exotic Propulsion Systems are methods of transport that far exceed the abilities of the currently used methods of travel and transport. For the last century, these methods have been available, but have been hidden beneath a mountain of paperwork and filing numbers.

George Noory called them "very interesting stuff. There is a ton of material."

Michael Knight of Earth Change Report said "They are fascinating... You might be surprised to learn that many of the drawings ... depict craft that you would think come straight out of movies like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind. However, unlike Hollywood, we are not mixing fact and fiction here."

6,500 pages of complete patents of these craft have been compiled by Luke Fortune and made available in book format at www.ufohowto.com. Come to the website and see the free E-book. Come to www.ufohowto.com and see explanatory videos. Come to the website and see the other free downloads available at the site, including interviews, patents and more.

Exotic Propulsion craft (formerly called "UFO's") are capable of speeds of thousands of miles per hour. Pilots and cargo are shielded from gravity and inertia. Right angle or sharper maneuvers are can be made without danger of damage to cargo or pilot by the exposure to G-forces. This is a patented fact that has been scientifically proven since the early 1970s. G-forces are simply not a factor with this shielding.

Since these craft are capable of circling the globe in under an hour, of hovering, and landing anywhere [whether air strips are present or not], the ability to transport needed supplies, people, and/or cargo instantly to anywhere upon the globe becomes a reality.

Fresh foods can be brought anywhere on the globe in mere minutes. Imagine eating a meal with lobster from Maine, caught fresh that morning, with Irish potatoes, not 120 minutes out of the earth from Ireland, with pineapple from Hawaii, picked not an hour before, and drinking coffee from Ethiopia, picked, roasted and delivered within two hours. This could be the reality of today, with technology that we've had for many yesterdays.

Starvation can be eliminated, as food and clean water can be transported anywhere.

The threat of overpopulation can be stopped, as the technology to create lunar bases and settlements in other locations of the solar system, technology already in our possession, can be manufactured. Transport and shipment of supplies between these settlements and the Earth will be possible because the speeds achieved are far in excess of rocket technologies.

So what are you waiting for? Why haven't you built your UFO yet? The world is waiting! [UFOHowTo via Australia.To World News]

Peckman made headlines last year by claiming to have footage of a living alien (the video, as might be guessed, isn't especially conclusive one way or the other), and later by imploring then-candidate Barack Obama to sit down and chat about what the shadow government might or might not know about extraterrestrials. Now, Peckman has found another route into the political process, having gathered the 4,000 signatures he needs to put a proposal for an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission on Denver's August 2010 primary ballot.

The full text of Peckman's ordinance, which will be written into Denver's municipal code if it passes a vote, is available online. It calls for a council of seven volunteer members who could then select an additional four from the Denver population, and notes that "Members who are not Denver residents may participate from anywhere in the universe by any means available."

By Peckman's design, the commission would include at least one Ph.D. each in the "natural sciences" and "social sciences," as well as a medical doctor and various experts in witness testimony and extraterrestrial investigation. Among their responsibilities:

To obtain and provide the most accurate, complete, credible, and relevant information available to city government personnel and residents about extraterrestrial intelligent beings on Earth [...]

To assist residents and visitors in reporting sightings of, or interactions with, extraterrestrial intelligent beings or their vehicles, and refer them to the proper and most appropriate public or private service agencies [...]

To develop protocols for peaceful and diplomatic contact with extraterrestrial beings in the event of contact.

For someone so committed to inter-species diplomacy, though, Peckman has had no trouble making enemies — his campaign to be included on Denver's ballot has occasioned all kinds of opposition. Some Denver residents are worried about how Peckman's proposal will reflect on the city, while serious-minded groups like the Mutual UFO Network and Roswell's International UFO Museum and Research Center feel that Peckman's efforts make them all look silly.

For his part, Peckman seems to be in dead earnest about the need for a state apparatus devoted to alien visitations, a goal he's been seeking for over a year. It's hard to tell how many people agree with him; the campaign actually submitted ten thousand signatures to election officials, but six thousand of them were found to be invalid, according to city records [opens in PDF]. This doesn't necessarily mean anything, although it suggests that Peckman doesn't have much of a mandate. Still, if Denver-area cattle keep turning up with oddly precise mutilations, he may end up with more people in his corner than he expected.

The magazine quotes Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who identifies it as the failure-prone Bulava ballistic missile, launched from a submarine. McDowell said the Russian Navy is in the right geographical position to launch it. He added that Russia has denied that it was their missile, but "this could be because another Bulava failure is a huge and embarrassing setback for their programme."

As for why the perfect spiral shape was created:

McDowell says the shape suggests the failure occurred well above the atmosphere. If it had occurred at lower altitudes, atmospheric drag would have caused the missile to fall quickly to Earth, creating a downward-pointing corkscrew pattern whose contrails would have been blown "this way and that" by wind, he told New Scientist.

The Bulava missile has three stages that fire in succession as it climbs up in altitude. "Probably what happened is that stages 1 and 2 did just fine and were discarded in turn, and then stage 3 started burning and almost immediately went wrong," McDowell says.

He says the third stage's nozzle, which directs the rocket's exhaust plume, may have fallen off or been punctured, causing the exhaust to come out sideways instead of out the back. "The sideways thrust sends the rocket into a spin, spewing flame as it goes," he says.

"If thrust was terminated right away, then you wouldn't see the spiral," he continues. "The unusual thing this time is that the missile was allowed to carry on firing for a bit after it went wrong."

UPDATE: Jonathan McDowell writes in to say:

The Russians did send out a 'notice to mariners' in advance warning of a rocket launch, and they have now (Dec 10) admitted that there was a launch of the Bulava and that the third stage failed. Hope that answers some of the comments on your page.

via New Scientist

Witnesses throughout Northern Norway reported seeing a bright object spinning through the sky this morning, forming a brilliant spiral. According to air traffic reports, the phenomenon lasted for two minutes, too long to be an astronomical event, and it doesn't resemble any previously reported aurora.

So what caused the mysterious spiral? No one is sure, but the prevailing theory is fairly mundane. Several astronomers are speculating that an errant, spiraling rocket is responsible. Since no rockets were fired from the local Andøya Rocket Range this morning, the hypothetical rocket may have come from Russia.

Or, as one poster on Reddit suggests, it could just be the Sliders breaking into our universe:

[VG Nett (Translated) via Reddit]

The ship is of the same type people have been seeing since the 1950s, like the one pictured here. According to my favorite UFO blog, Inexplicata, the incident occurred earlier this week:

The entire town – or at least those who were awake at 0200 yesterday – agree that it was hot, an unbearable heat that kept people from getting a good night's sleep, their eyes wide open under treacherous, menacing and stormy skies. Outside, people drank cool drinks or ate ice cream hurriedly, before these were reduced to sticky confections.

This was the fate of many residents of Joaquin V. Gonzalez, engulfed by nearly 300,000 hectares of soybeans, when at 2:00 a.m., with heat still burning under their skins, they saw a strange, gigantic luminous creature, elongated and weightless, heading southeast to El Tunal, some 35 kilometers from the town. It plowed the dark skies, lighting everything around it, visible to everyone.

The "cigar-shaped UFO" (as it is known to specialists) crossed the Saltan night suspended under a spongy ceiling of clouds, and according to some of the numerous witnesses, "with intermittent, flashing lights and a fixed red beacon". As the object disappeared from view, those who watched the sky as though expecting something more, saw it disappear into the darkness toward El Tunal. Minutes later (some say 5, others 15), all of Joaquin V. Gonzalez experienced an electrical blackout that submerged a 200-kilometer area in the deepest darkness possible.

"It was terribly hot. Some people were eating ice cream while others sat around the outdoor tables of local restaurants," said one witness to Salta's El Tribuno. "Suddenly everyone saw a strange vehicle plow across the sky, completely illuminated, and a little bit later, there was a power failure. The phone lines were also rendered inoperative," said the excited witness. "Things went back to normal at 11:30 a.m., nine hours later."

The power failure was confirmed by the EDESA Company, which confirmed the lack of electricity only minutes after the blackout, adding that it was impossible to find the failure, which had occurred at the main power station located at El Tunal. The problem? "A burned-out generator"

UFO expert Luis Burgos told DIARIO POPULAR that "the blackout occurred some fifteen or twenty minutes after the object was sighted over Joaquin V. Gonzalez, and right when it hovered over the generating plant at El Tunal." To Burgos, the protagonist of yesterday's episode was "what we call a mothership, a sort of space aircraft carrier measuring no less than 200-300 meters long, and which usually issues smaller UFOs measuring between 8 and 10 meters in size, which later return to the [mothership]."

via Inexplicata

Thanks to Bonnie from StarWars.com and Peter from Slashfilm for both suggesting Fire in the Sky. Vote on which movie listed below you think is the most scary, or suggest other ideas in comments.

Conceived by concept designer Lasse Klein two years ago, the cow abduction lamp is finally a limited-edition reality. At $100 a pop, the lamp isn't cheap, but it's so awesome and well-made that I think it's worth it for anybody who needs the perfect cow abduction scene glowing in the window (or on the mantel, or next to your bed, or in the barn). Klein manufactured only a couple thousand of these babies, so get 'em while you can!

via Lasse Klein or Alien Abduction Lamp

Early concept design.

The first design for the lamp that Klein posted in 2007.



Glowing aliens!

First the evidence:

I'm loving the "scientist" excuse, come on people that's the oldest trick in the book. If I saw this this report in NYC I'm pretty sure I'd recognize it as code for "get the hell out, run run run." But what if it's not just a mere alien ship? Taking a cue from last week's FlashForward, don't the two illusions appear slightly similar?

This strange figure in the sky appeared at the end of the episode when the little town in Africa was subjected to a flash forward. Did the tower induce the incident? We don't know just yet, but the people of Moscow should head outside and check for odd buildings under the optical illusion...or flee.

[via NY Daily News]

UFO blog Inexplicata has followed up on last week's report that a cow was spotted flying above Rosario, Argentina, until it was swallowed up by a flying saucer. The photo witnesses captured was a bit on the blurry side:

So Silvia Pérez Simondini and the UFO researchers at Visión Ovni have taken it upon themselves to analyze the photos further:

THE BOVINE
1) Objects shown in the images do not display digital manipulation in the adjoining pixels.
2) There is a correspondence between brilliance and angle regarding the light source (the sun)
3) In non-destructive super-resolution processes applied to the image, the animal turned out to be a bovine with its right side toward the camera, its head hanging to the left.
4) It can be deduced that the animal photographed in the air was either lifeless or in a deep stupor, judging from its observed condition.
5) We have managed to see its hooves, tail and head.
6) The 3d analysis is self-evident.

THE OBJECT:
1) In the opinion of this analyst, it had a diameter of between 8 to 10 meters and perhaps some 2.40 to 3 meters tall.
2) Some sort of beam was captured by the camera, and we perhaps cannot appreciate it in its entirety due to some sort of camouflage, subsequently corroborate by the account.
3) Applying filters, we can see that the UFO emitted perhaps high-ionization heat in its upper and lower sections.
4) Volumetric analysis shows that it was a disk-shaped object whose brilliance corresponded to that of the sun.
5) It is surrounded by some sort of triangular element and another circular one, or otherwise, plasma that the camera did not record in another shape.
6) I highlight that the resolution of the images generates a lot of noise in the captures and implies a greater processing time.
7) Insects were present in the photo shoot, but not in these 4 main ones.

There you have it. There's no sense in denying it any longer. Time to go home and lock up the cattle.

Argentina: Cow Abducted by UFO - An Analysis [Inexplicata]

Inexplicata has the full story. A woman was traveling in the Rosario region of Argentina, when suddenly the cow incident occurred. She told Telenoche:

We went to have some mate with the kids, we were looking at the island and we were surprised to see some strange white thing flying. It was large. We made a close up with the camera and it was a cow flying, and above it, there was something like a flying saucer suspended in the air. It wasn't a helicopter or an airplane. It seemed as if the cow was being sucked up by the flying saucer. Then they both vanished. I want to believe that's what it was. To me, it was a UFO. I experienced it.

The evidence is incontrovertible.

via Inexplicata

According to the folks over at Inexplicata:

The witness happened to be taking photos of aircraft taking off from the Juan Santamaría Airport in Alajuela, Costa Rica. When he downloaded the files to his computer, he noticed an interesting object among the clouds.

OK, so we have an "interesting object" that demonstrates the requisite blur of alienness. Also, that giant red circle around it also makes it seem totally Venusian or whatever.

Yup, I think the aliens are landing, and they're respecting our human custom of dropping down into airports rather than British grain fields.

via Inexplicata

Well, first off, it looks as though people in the early 1990s mostly saw UFOs in major metropolitan areas — although it looks like there were a lot in Hull. Also — and this might just be obsessive fandom speaking –- but doesn't it look like there's a correlation between the number of UFO sightings per year, and the popularity of homegrown science fiction classic Doctor Who? You'll notice the sightings drop off almost completely after Who gets canceled in the late 1980s.

Head over to the Guardian for the nifty interactive version of the map. [Guardian]

Over at Earthfiles, Linda Moulton reports that investigators Paul Jones and Andrew Pyrka were checking out a bird-shaped crop circle in June. When an angry farmer kicked them out of his fields, they started to drive away. But then they saw this shiny, orb-like thing floating in a nearby field. Could it have been the author of the crop circle they'd just been investigating? Jones wanted to find out, so he started filming it.

It looks sort of like a mini-helicopter, but matched reports they'd heard from locals about "orbs" that seemed to hang around areas where circles had been laid down. When the shiny thing continued to float in the field, Jones sent Pyrka out to pursue it. But when Pyrka got to the orb he couldn't see it anymore. Was it just a trick of the light. Staying in cell phone contact with Pyrka, Jones was able to guide him until he was standing precisely under the glowy thing Jones was filming.

Moulton writes:

Andrew Pyrka was very confused. He was looking all around him, but could not see anything in the sky in any direction! So, Paul began trying to guide Andrew by phone closer and closer to the silver craft above him. At one point, Paul yells in the phone, "Andrew, you're so close, put your arm up and see if you can feel anything."

Andrew Pyrka lifted his left arm straight up toward the sky. "Instantly, when I put my arm up, there was a huge jolt of electrical current that went down my raised arm. I don't think I touched anything solid," he told me, "but I definitely interacted with some kind of strong field the UFO must have been giving off. But why couldn't I see it where I was, while Paul could not only see it, he videotaped it for another fifteen minutes?"

Why indeed? And why was Pyrka able to withstand a "huge jolt of electrical current"? It's just another one of those UFO mysteries.

via Earthfiles

Central Argentina is full of people who tell stories of strange lights that accompany outbreaks of cattle mutilations. In the past, scientists have blamed the mutilations on rats or downed power lines. But local UFO researchers say that this latest rash of mutilations are clearly not caused by animals.

According to UFOlogist Quique Mario:

A veteran farmer stated, "The lacerations are not normal. There are no signs that the animal even tried to fend off an assailant. Rather, it appears to have fallen asleep on the ground." . . . [The definitive scientific] report, which was not circulated at all, was the one furnished to CEUFO by an official with the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of La Pampa. After a year of experiments and comparisons, they ruled that THE INCISIONS WERE MECHANICAL – that is to say, produced by an element having nothing to do with the teeth of rodents or carrion animals.

For a long time, report the researchers, animals would steer clear of the bodies of mutilated cattle. But now the mechanically-altered cows are starting to look tasty to animals again, and ranchers report that carrion-eaters will go after the corpses of mutilated cows that have been sitting out for a week or more.

Could this be the work of aliens? Perhaps aliens who are learning to make their mutilated cows tasty for everybody again? No one can say for sure. But now that cattle mutilations are on the rise again, Central Argentinians are coming forward with stories. A rancher from Embajador Martini, Province of La Pampa, recalled an incident from 2007:

At 14:00 hours, I witnessed a stampede produced by a circular beam of light, measuring 2 meters in diameter approximately, issued by an object that traveled at a normal altitude and speed, shaped like two soup-bowls joined at their edges.

Looks like our floating soup bowls are back. So if you're in Central Argentina, please keep your cows in the barn tonight.

via Inexplicata

Let's start with some plain facts. A commenter named Harold Stryderight on Cropcircleconnector.com explains it all to you:

Whenever a severe solar storm impacts directly on Earth, then our planetary magnetic field or "magnetosphere" changes into the general shape of a "jellyfish". That seems to be what those crop artists were telling us at Wayland's Smithy on May 29, 2009.

When looking at this lovely crop circle of a jellyfish, this does seem to be the obvious conclusion to reach. If it's a jellyfish, it must be the magnetosphere. I mean that's just common sense. Also, we have a helpful diagram showing how similar the jellyfish really is to this atmospheric phenomenon.

But who would be satisfied with just figuring out the jellyfish/magnetosphere correlation? Nobody, that's who. So Stryderight has delved deeper, analyzing every aspect of the jellyfish to determine what the exact date will be of the solar storm bent on destroying our atmosphere. He explains:

The new crop picture shows also seven "eclipse" symbols in its central tail (white numbers 1 to 7), as well as seven streamers hanging off below (yellow numbers 1 to 7). Both of those features suggest that a solar storm may impact Earth on July 7, 2009, as has already been suggested by several other crop pictures from April or May. The new crop picture also shows a small, horizontal, four-circle band just between its head and its long tail (blue arrows, left or right above). That feature closely resembles a crop picture from July 20, 2008 which told us about eclipses. Indeed, the suggested date of July 7, 2009 for an upcoming solar storm will be a penumbral lunar eclipse.

So true. Why didn't I think of that? Because I am not a trained crop circle analyst. I just don't have the background. Here is another helpful diagram to make this all clear.

There is apparently a third possibility for what this crop circle means, and I'm really confused about how it relates to the sun and our atmosphere and stuff like that. I mean, I get that the human body is like the solar system in miniature. Maybe our expert can enlighten me. Another crop circle analyst named Sol Ar writes:

The tentacles are non-symmetrical and seem to depict an organic, moving layer or sheath around the jellyfish. Their purpose is protection. Once activated the 12-point chakra system, through the crown ‘doorway', will open human Beings to multi-dimensionality and envelop the physical body in an ethereal, protective shell. The tentacles also seem to suggest our awareness or consciousness flowing freely into the unified field. We are on a wondrous journey of self-discovery as we awaken to our essence and full potential.

I see. So basically after we recover from a massive solar storm that destroys our atmosphere, kills all our communications satellites, and takes down the power grid, we're going to awaken our potential. Because we're all going to be protected by an ethereal shell, which is like +10 armor that protects against photonic incursion.

You know what I love about crop circles? They always make me feel great.

via CropCircleConnector Comments and AboveTopSecret

Crop circle photograph by Olivier Morel.

George, a bank manager in Sydney, Australia, told a reporter:

I had the window wide open and was lying in my bed next to it trying to get a cool breeze happening. I was drowsy but definitely not asleep. Then I began floating out my window and over Sydney. I wasn't nervous but felt a bit surprised, like what the hell was happening. It was as if I had been sedated, thinking back. I saw the city pass by under or at least felt as if it was and then thought I might have been going over some bush or mountains.

I was on a platform and then on some kind of operating table in a chamber within a UFO, I think. I noticed odd ‘furniture' in the room: if you could call it that- unusual spheres and pyramids. There were beings over me. They appeared to be wearing white robes or togas of some sort. I could not see their faces or any bodily features. Nothing in this UFO chamber looked human. What looked somewhat like a dental or baking instrument was then inserted into my backside and pulled out and put away.

UFOlogist Michael Cohen says that he is confident that the people making these kinds of reports are telling the truth. He says many of them include similar details in their stories, and few of them have had any interest in UFOs before their abduction experience. They are just "regular people" according to him. It may not be clear what's causing the sudden interest in Australians on the part of aliens, but Cohen does have a few words of advice if you want to avoid having baking instruments put into your backside by aliens in togas. He writes:

I make a point of driving past the homes of abductees that contact me. I have noticed other common factors that in no way can correspond to the psychology of the abductees. Usually abductees will live on wide open, boulevard type streets and the window they floated through will face this street. There are never any bars on their bedroom windows. A large percentage of abductees are single men who won't be missed for a few minutes of absence at 3am.

This tells us a few things. The aliens doing the abducting are advanced: but they can't float people through walls. They like to make things easy for themselves. Many ufologists equate the ability to travel faster than the speed of light with the ability to do anything. This might not be the case.

More than anything else the aliens doing the abducting don't want any corroborative witnesses. They don't mind the abductees knowing what occurred but they want to keep their activities otherwise secret. They go to extra-ordinary lengths to this end.

It appears that cloaking technology is used to disguise any bodies floating through the sky and abductions are done in the dead of the night. it is also believed that the entire abduction process is completed within minutes.
Sydney UFO abduction accounts indicate that if you really don't want to be abducted invest in an air-conditioner or a fan. Avoid sleeping with an open-window if possible or install bars. Most abductions occur during Australia's hot summer.

Okay, Australians and tourists, you heard it here first: if you are in Australia in summer, please run the air conditioning as much as possible. Also, avoid proximity to cloaking technology and try not to be a single male at 3 AM. I think that's just plain good advice.

via All News Web

Dr. Bill Doleman, along with researchers Chuck Zukowski, and Debbie Ziegelmeier were part of the Sci Fi Channel documentary series The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence, which was canceled after NBC bought the channel. As part of the documentary, the channel and the researchers set up an archaeological dig designed to unearth debris not from the reported crash, but from the military crews allegedly sent to clean it up. Explains the Denver Examiner:

At the site, they put together a professional archeological dig aimed at finding debris left behind by the alleged military clean-up crews that whisked away any evidence of a crash. The show periodically caught up with the dig site workers, making you think that they would reveal a "startling" find. In the end they did find some small items that the show of course made a big deal about, but the show ended without any real analysis of the items, promising that it would be included in the next exciting episode.

But the next exciting episode never came. The items unearthed as part of the dig were cataloged and put into storage awaiting analysis - and the permission from the Bureau of Land Management, which owned the land the dig was on, to perform it. Having gotten the permission, Doleman, Zukowski and Ziegelmeier are now seeking donations to fund it.

Some people question the virtue of analyzing that which was recovered from the reputed crash site, given the mundane nature of the items.

Among the items are: rubber from the sole of a shoe, shoe leather, unidentified fibers, clothing thread, burnt rock some with fibers on them, plastic tube, a piece of gray material that is possibly from tape or a trash bag, translucent white plastic, and some orange plastic like material.

Doleman says just because it looks boring, doesn't necessarily mean it is.

For one thing, it's by no means clear that those items are of terrestrial origin, despite their seeming ordinariness. Also, he says even if the items are all from Earth, their dates and origins may give clues to the events of 1947. Why won't the Syfy Channel pitch in, to discover the truth once and for all?

The Sci Fi channel's Roswell Dig findings finally come to light [Denver Examiner]

Real UFOs, the blog whose title says it all, has uncovered a treasure trove of videos from NASA which include UFOs. You can see one right here, and there are at least a dozen more on Martyn Stubbs' YouTube channel. While you ponder that, just remember that the UFO lobby working in Washington thinks that the Obama Administration is the most likely to admit to the alien coverup. The New York Times recently profiled a DC lobbyist whose entire job is trying to get government officials to admit alien technologies exist that could rescue the environment.