Do you believe that something “alien” occurred in 1947 at Roswell, NM; or not? Do you believe extraterrestrial life exists? Have you had anything strange ever happen to you that you could not explain? Something so outlandish that you were afraid to tell someone for fear that you would be classified as crazy?
So many people deny the existence of other life in the universe. Our government in the US denies any encounters as do other governments around the world. We are it we are told. I would like to ask why the human race, in all of its inevitable wisdom, or lack thereof, is arrogant enough to believe that we are the only beings that exist in the entire universe? A universe which we are also told is limitless? Why? What is the probability, I ask, of us being the only life in all the galaxies that we know of or are not yet aware of? How can we possibly be alone in a limitless universe?
There are many shows today on cable television that are about alien experience. Claims are made by many. Not only current experiences, but those of the past as well. There are historic references not only in the Bible, but also recorded by the ancients in the form of hieroglyphics and petroglyphs. Clearly there is human curiosity and experience, which has enough of a following for there to be shows today about these curiosities and experience. And clearly there is a recorded history.
I have had experiences that are not easily explained. Have you? In all seriousness have you had an experience that you cannot easily explain?
My first UFO sighting was back in 1979. I was with a group of people on a trip back from Mammoth Mountain traveling to San Diego on Highway 395. There were four of us in the car. We had just left the town of Bishop, CA. I was in the back seat with my boyfriend, and Annie and George were in the front seats and George driving.
Jim shouted for everyone to look at the western side of the car towards the mountain range that was quite a way distant from us. It was the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada range. What I saw: I saw a beam of light shining down towards the earth as it moved down the mountain. It slowed and then moved parallel to the base of the mountain range for what seemed like two inches from our perspective, and then made a 90 degree turn up and out of the atmosphere and was gone in a matter of seconds. As it left the atmosphere it appeared to me to spiral upwards with lights rotating around and around. George was driving and we were all yelling about what we saw. He thought that we were pulling his leg. Many years later on a trip back down to San Diego I ran into Annie whom I had not seen for years, and her first comment to me was “You were with me when we saw the UFO!”
I have had others, but the next one that I would like to tell you about happened in October 2010 up here in the Sierra Foothills – in the area known as the Sierra Triangle. I was on the cell phone with my husband and out on our back deck. I spend a lot of time in the evening on this back deck and this night I saw two “stars” which resembled a binary star system. One of the stars was very bright and big, while the other was smaller and less bright. While speaking with my husband, one of the “stars,” the brighter one, all of a sudden moved away from me towards the south and shortly after the second one moved the same direction in the same method and manner as the first. It took about five minutes for them both to disappear. The best part about this story is that one of my neighbors saw the same thing at the same time that I did!
Hollywood tries to portray alien life in terms of human physiology. Why? Is this human arrogance as well? Why would we think that they would look anything like us? Why could they not appear to us as a ball of light? And the the term “Anthropomorphize” comes to mind. This is defined as “to attribute or ascribe human form or behavior to (a god, animal, object, etc.).” How can we possibly think that anything out there in the limitless universe would look like us? You know about the missing link don’t you? Well is it possible that the missing link has something to do with alien intervention? Many believe that it does…
Would we know an alien creature if we saw one? How do we know that creatures that are around us today are not alien creatures. Could they not resemble a giraffe? Or, an elephant? Or what about the Praying Mantis? I heard a story once that cats are really alien creatures who like to lay on whatever you are looking at so that they could raise their tails and send the information back through their tail to the mother ship. While I do not personally believe this, why could it not be true?
Are we really alone in this wide infinite universe? Or, do we share it with others? What do you believe?
The Nevada Triangle: What Really Happened to Steve Fossett?
Much less famous than its Bermuda counterpart, a wide area in the state of Nevada (and remote parts of its neighbor California) seems to have had more than its fair share of planes crashing or going missing. It’s known as the Nevada Triangle. An estimated 2,000 planes have crashed in the area in the last 60 years — an average of three a month!
Much of Nevada is uninhabited, and parts are virtually inaccessible by helicopter or truck. This doesn’t completely explain why the planes crashed, and so an explanation is needed for many of the incidents.
Some who study the Triangle include the mysterious Area 51 within the confines of the Triangle, which adds to the allure of the mystery.
Arguably the most famous incident involving the Triangle concerns the adventurer Steve Fossett’s episode from the autumn of 2007.
Fossett had logged countless hours in numerous airplanes. He held multiple records for journeys involving planes and hot air balloons — including being the first person to make a solo trip around the world in a balloon.
He was no novice.
On September 3, 2007, Steve
Fossett set out for a flight that would take him across the Nevada Triangle. He
was to return to the same airport he started from — a quick round-trip
flight.
He never arrived back at his home base, the Flying-M Ranch.
An intensive search across Nevada and in the Sierra Nevada mountains found no trace of Fossett or of his plane. After searching for almost a month, the official search was called off.
In September of 2008, a backpacker hiking in the mountains that separate Nevada from California came across identification papers belonging to Fossett. Another search, several days later, yielded the remains of his plane. There was no log or “black box” to give information about the last moments of the plane’s flight. Fossett’s whole body was never found, although two small bones near the crash site were a match to his DNA.
Explanations for Fossett’s doomed flight ranged from freakish meteorological conditions to the old stand-by of outer-space aliens.
But, in the end, nobody knows what caused an expert pilot to crash into the deserted mountains. And there are only guesses as to the causes of so many other crashed planes throughout history.
The Triangle keeps its secrets. – The Daily Mail – 1/3/2010
Mystery of the Nevada Triangle
A MYSTERIOUS area of Nevada where thousands of planes have disappeared without trace may finally have given up its secret.
No one knows exactly how many flights have vanished inside the Nevada Triangle over the past 60 years.
Crash sites are seldom discovered in the remote wasteland of desert and mountain, which stretches across more than 25,000 square miles of virtually-uninhabited country.
But speculation is that the total is more than 2,000.
Conspiracy theorists have long claimed the reason so many flights have disappeared is connected to the presence in the area of America’s most guarded tract of landscape – Area 51, the top secret air base where it has been claimed the bodies of alien pilots from crashed UFOs are kept in deep-frozen storage.
The US Air Force also tests its most secret prototype aircraft, including the mysterious superfast Aurora, inside Area 51 protected by squadrons of fighter aircraft primed to shoot down any suspicious intruders.
The truth about the crashes however is far more prosaic.Record-breaking aviator Steve Fossett vanished inside the Nevada Triangle in September, 2007.
At first, theories surrounding millionaire Fossett’s disappearance included the idea that he had faked his own death, the suggestion that he had been shot down by top secret aircraft inside Area 51 or even the claim he had been abducted by aliens.
But when Fossett’s aircraft was eventually discovered more than a year after it disappeared, experts were able to piece together the most likely reason for the crash.
A new Channel Four documentary explores what apparently happened to the pilot after he set off on in a single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon on what friends thought was a short joy flight. He was never seen alive again. Far from being the victim of aliens or super-secret aircraft, the cause of his death and of the inordinate number of crashes in the area was simply freak weather.
The Triangle’s strange geography and climate create unique atmospheric conditions which can rip aircraft from the skies.
A combination of fast-moving Pacific winds and steep mountainsides produces a phenomenon called the Mountain Wave, a roller-coaster effect that can send aircraft soaring up and then bring it crashing down to earth.
With much of the Sierra Nevada over 5,000ft and some peaks reaching 14,000ft, air-fuel mixture can also become so thin that engine power fails even in low-level flight.
In Fossett’s case it is thought climatic conditions had created a 400mph downdraft. His aircraft could climb at a maximum speed of only 300mph. The difference meant he was doomed.
Air accident expert Craig Fuller says besides hundreds of vanished light aircraft, the area has also seen crashes involving many military warplanes like B-24 Liberators, B-17 Flying Fortresses and P-38 Lightnings.
Fuller, who works for the voluntary Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research group, cannot say how many aircraft have gone missing while flying over the area.
“I cannot give you exact numbers. No one knows, not even the government agencies,” he said.
But he has visited more than 75 crash sites and with the help of air historian John Lopez he has been able to study many of flights that went missing in the same area as Fossett’s plane.
One of the stories regarding the Triangle dates back to 1943 when a B-24 bomber crashed in the mountains. Co-pilot Lieutenant Robert Hester’s father, Clinton, was determined to find the plane.
“He basically spent every summer in the Sierras looking for his son,” Fuller said.
Clinton died without having found any trace. But in 1960, a year later, a survey team found the bomber in a remote lake. It’s now known as Hester Lake.
Fuller cited another example, that of Lt Leonard C Lydon who parachuted to safety in 1941 after his Army fighter squadron got lost over the mountains.
He saw his P-40 fall within a mile of where he landed in the remote Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks.
But to this day the wreckage has never been found.
The Mystery of the Nevada Triangle (Channel Four, tomorrow at 8pm).
Search for Fossett turns up wrecks of 8 other small planes
Steve Friess, Special to The Chronicle
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, September 9, 2007
An experienced pilot takes off in a single-engine plane on a clear day for a short flight to the Sierra Nevada and is never heard from again. Officials search for him without success, and his family is tormented by questions about his fate that nobody can answer.
It's a familiar story, of course, because the headlines have been flooded with the so-far-unsuccessful search for millionaire aviator Steve Fossett, who took to the air Sept. 1 and remains missing in northern Nevada.
But this one isn't a week old; it happened 43 years ago. And the massive hunt for Fossett may help resolve the enduring mystery surrounding Charles Ogle, then 41, who lifted off from Oakland in August 1964 but vanished en route to Reno.
The search for Fossett across a 17,000-square-mile swath of the Sierra Nevada has revealed the wreckage of eight other small planes that had never, until now, been discovered. And each of those crash sites holds clues to the fates of other fliers who went missing in what is starting to look like the Bermuda Triangle of the western United States.
When they learned of the other wrecks, Ogle's survivors immediately thought their own decades-long search might be over. Based on what the family has learned of his flight path, they advised the Civil Air Patrol Nevada Wing that one of them might be the debris of Ogle's plane.
It's too soon to determine the identity of those wrecks, as rescuers are focused on finding Fossett, holder of more than 110 world records of land, sea and air, who took off for what was to be a brief jaunt from a ranch 90 miles southeast of Reno and never returned.
But relatives of Ogle are hoping that when crews return to those newly found sites and examine them for clues, they may yield the answers that they've sought since Lyndon Johnson was president.
"This has hung over me my whole life," said William Ogle, 47, of Gainesville, Fla., who was 4 when his father disappeared. "I don't remember the emotional impact because I was too young, but my teachers would complain to my mother because I would look out the windows all the time looking for his plane. I just thought he didn't come down yet."
It was as good a guess as any. Charles "Chazzie" Ogle, who learned to fly while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, departed without a flight plan from what was then known as Metropolitan Oakland International Airport on Aug. 12, 1964, in his four-seat Cessna 210, according to the account in the Oakland Tribune a month later. The article referred to Ogle as "a land investor with a Midas touch" who was involved in more than $12 million - in 1964 dollars - worth of construction of four nursing homes and a high-rise condo in the Bay Area.
When he wasn't heard from, the Western Air Rescue Center at the now-defunct Hamilton Air Force Base in Novato searched for 60 hours before giving up.
For decades, Ogle's family didn't even know where he was heading. In 1985, William Ogle tracked down a woman seen near the plane before his father departed who turned out to be his father's then-pregnant mistress. The elder Ogle, who was in the process of divorcing his wife, told the woman he was heading to Reno for a business meeting and invited her to go along. She declined.
Little is known about the eight crashes spotted in the past week, because searchers have swooped in only long enough to ascertain they were not Fossett's plane, said Civil Air Patrol spokeswoman Maj. Cynthia Ryan. The Fossett mission involves dozens of planes including state and federal aircraft as well as some owned by private volunteers, hundreds of ground searchers and new technology that can scan the rough, dense terrain with more than 15 times the detail of the naked eye.
"Yeah, there are special resources being devoted to this because of who he is," Ryan said at a news briefing last week. "We wouldn't have a Cessna Citation at our disposal unless it came from (hotel magnate) Barron Hilton's ranch. So yeah, there are some differences, let's not be coy about that. But the basics of what you see here today is what we devote to every search."
If it helps clear up Ogle's mysterious disappearance, his now-83-year-old sister Marian Brumett of Dale, Ind., is relieved. For more than half her life, she's wondered every time she heard about a small-plane crash in the news what happened to her brother. She recalls that her father, a cattle farmer, made his first trip to California in the days after Ogle's disappearance and hired private investigators who turned up nothing.
"There were a lot of theories at the time," Brumett said. "Maybe he just wanted to start over and flew down to Mexico? They simply didn't know. He left two young children. My father knew if he was still alive, Chazzie would have contacted him. They were so close."
It took 11 years to get Charles Ogle legally declared dead, and in the meantime the family moved from a suburban home into an apartment paid for by welfare. His wife, Violette, 82, who never remarried and today lives in Mill Valley, eventually became a school secretary in Castro Valley. Her son said she would not comment for this report.
The disappearance also left many in the family with a fear of flying. William Ogle, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida, says that fear intensified when he had a son, now 7.
There was never a funeral or memorial for Charles Ogle, so the closure provided if one of those Nevada wrecks is his would be welcome. But even if not, the fact that Fossett crashed and has not been found despite all his expertise and all the effort also provides a strange comfort to the family.
"The Fossett thing sort of brings it home - the difficulty of finding someone when they go down on a small plane," Ogle said. "If this could happen to him, it sort of makes me feel better about what happened to my father. It happened to a super pilot, not just a weekend pilot like my dad."
'UFO triangle' in California is alien hotspot, believers claim
FRESNO, Calif. – On July 8, 1947, a crash in Roswell, N.M. described by local papers as a "flying saucer" lit a fire in America: UFO fever. And today, just over 65 years later, some Central Californians believe the region remains a UFO hotspot, the bottom leg of a "UFO triangle" as mysterious as Bermuda's.
Jeffrey Gonzalez is one of such, the founder of Sanger Paranormal Society and a UFO chaser for the past four years. He even runs a 24-hour UFO hotline: people call and he investigates claims of UFO sightings.
“No, I’m not crazy. It’s an obsession, it’s a hobby,” Gonzalez told FoxNews.com.
He works as a phone company technician during the day and solves mysteries of the unknown during his time off. He says his background in electronics helps him use the tools to investigate the paranormal.
“I go out to the location to where these events happen, I’ll talk to the witnesses I will take reference points and I will make sure it’s real,” he said.
Gonzalez drives a research vehicle or “Paranormal Ambulance” equipped with the requisite gear necessary to investigate UFOs: a Geiger counter, an EMF scanner, infrared cameras, and of course, a Sony HandyCam camcorder with night vision.
'I have witnesses calling me -- law enforcement, doctors, lawyers, and military personnel that have pictures that they have captured over Fresno.'
- Jeffrey Gonzalez
“If a witness reports a sighting more than one time or says something crashed then we’ll go out and stake out the area in case the craft comes back. Because if it does come back then we’ll be ready,” he told FoxNews.com.
The Geiger counter tests for radiation and the electromagnetic frequency (EMF) reader monitors different types of energy. Infrared cameras are very helpful during stakeouts, he said; they can see up to 300 feet in pure darkness.
“We’ll usually park outside from about 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. in the morning,” he said.
Gonzalez is part of a new National Geographic series called Chasing UFOs. A recent survey conducted by National Geographic finds that 80 million Americans believe in UFOs.
“I have witnesses calling me -- law enforcement, doctors, lawyers, and military personnel that have pictures that they have captured over Fresno,” Gonzalez said.
Fresno lies at the bottom of the "Nevada Triangle" a region that includes Area-51 and China Lake. Gonzalez says this area is similar to the Bermuda Triangle where many planes have disappeared without a trace over the last 50 years.
“There’s a lot of military presence and there could possible be a lot of top secret military craft flying over our skies,” Gonzalez said.
According to the non-profit National UFO Reporting Center there are roughly 5,000 UFO sightings reported each year. Gonzalez has people throughout the city of Fresno who serve as sky watchers. These people sit outside for hours watching the sky for anything out of the ordinary.
Sky watcher Robert Thorson saw his first UFO 25 years ago, and today he loves watching for UFOs from his roof where he captures video on his camera.
“I’ve got the best footage. I got the close and the best footage. All hours of the night and day I’m out here watching,” Thorson told FoxNews.com.
Are you a believer, or still just a skeptic? Start being more observant and perhaps you might see something unusual, they explained.
“It’s turned out to be more than a hobby now it’s a passion of mine to find out what are these things flying over Fresno. Are they military or are they something else? And I think I’m getting pretty darn close,” Gonzalez said.
Michelle Macaluso is part of the Junior Reporter program at Fox News. Get more information on the program here.
Nevada 375 - The Extraterrestrial Highway
Published: 10:50 AM - 06-15-11
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permanent link: http://www.mysterycasebook.com/2011/nevadatriangle.html
The Mutual UFO Network recently received a report from a family travelling north through central Nevada. The driver noticed a “steady stream of red lights” travel in front of their car, just above the ground. The objects were traveling very fast, and were completely silent.
Moments later another set of lights zoomed across the highway, again moving very fast and just above ground level.
“There is not a question in my mind about what I saw. I saw a UFO,” said the witness.
This type of mysterious sighting is not uncommon in the desert north of Las Vegas. The area is infamous for mysterious UFO sightings and mysterious aircraft disappearances. Thousands of planes have disappeared over an enigmatic area of Nevada – so many that that it has been nicknamed the Nevada Triangle.
At least 2000 planes have been lost in the last 60 years, yet no one really knows exactly how many have disappeared. The remote wasteland of mountain and desert rarely gives up its secrets; searches are often foiled by the 25,000 square miles of uninhabited country.
Many have long claimed the problem is rooted in the infamous Area 51, which is located within the Triangle. It has been rumored that the heavily guarded, top-secret airbase is charged with guarding bodies of alien pilots from crashed UFOs. The Air Force also tests it’s most secret prototypes in this area. The Stealth program was headquartered here during development, and now the mysterious ultra fast Aurora is being tested. Squadrons of jetfighters are standing by 24/7 to shoot down any suspicious intruders.
The last high profile plane known to have been lost in this area was record breaking aviator Steve Fossett, who dissapeared inside the Nevada Triangle in September, 2007. It took more than a year of searching before the wreckage was uncovered.
Besides hundreds of vanished light aircraft, the area has also seen crashes involving many military warplanes, such as B-24 Liberators, B-17 Flying Fortresses and P-38 Lightnings.
A recent theory proposes that the mysterious disappearances can be attributed to the areas geography and atmospheric conditions. While this theory may account for a portion of the disappearances during certain seasons, it fails to explain most reported vanishings.
One of the most interesting stories in this history of the Triangle happened in 1943 when a massive US Air Force B-24 bomber disappeared without warning. An official investifation and area search was conducted but was unable to find the plane, wreckage, or the pilots.
One of the co-pilot’s fathers never gave up trying to find his son’s ill-fated aircraft. He searched for over 10 years before he passed away, never knowing what happened to his son. It was just a year later, however, when a survey team found the plane accident in a remote mountain lake.
Weather, radioactivity, military actions, UFOs, and a weak spot between dimensions are the prevalent theories, but no one theory accounts for but a small portion of the missing aircraft.
The Nevada Triangle
After millionaire adventurer and record-setting pilot Steve Fossett took off in a small plane from a Nevada airstrip in September 2007 and vanished, rescue teams searching a 17,000-square-mile swath of the Sierra Nevada mountains for him made a grisly discovery. They found wreckage of eight other small planes that had similarly disappeared over the years. To believers in paranormal phenomena, that debris helped fuel belief in what British tabloids and cable newscasters had dubbed the Nevada Triangle, a supposedly lethal zone akin to the more famous mythical Bermuda Triangle.
The eventual discovery a little more than a year later of the wreckage of Fossett’s plane and the pilot’s remains resolved his fate. But it didn’t resolve the enigma of the Nevada Triangle, which stretches from Las Vegas in the southeast to Fresno in the west, with Reno at the top. Is some mysterious force or unknown hazard causing planes to vanish there? Or is it the Nevada Triangle just more fodder for sensationalist paperback authors and UFO enthusiasts’ Internet discussion boards?
As often is the case
with purported zones of paranormal activity, hard data is difficult to come by.
In the wake of Fossett’s disappearance, various news media outlets claimed that
anywhere from 300 to more than 2,000 aircraft have crashed in the triangle over
the past 50 years. However, the National Transportation Safety Board’s database lists a total of
only 1,998 civilian aviation mishaps in the entire state of Nevada between 1960
and 2010. Most were nonlethal, and in almost all of them, the probable cause —
from mechanical failure to a pilot who suffered a fatal heart attack at the
controls — has been established. There also have been at least 200 military
crashes, according to the web site of Aviation Archaeological
Investigation and Research, an
organization that amasses documentation on crashes. When AAIR also searched
records of missing civilian aircraft, it identified just 13 that may possibly
have disappeared in the triangle since 1962.
Even so, there has been at least one mysterious disappearance in the vicinity of the triangle. Prior to Fossett’s crash, the most celebrated case of a missing aviator was that of Charles Ogle, a wealthy real estate developer who lifted off from Oakland in August 1964 but vanished en route to Reno. The discovery of the eight crashed planes in 2007 raised hopes that Ogle’s fate finally might be resolved, but none of the wrecks were identified as his.
Is there anything in the triangle which makes it particularly hazardous to aircraft? Some suggest the disappearances in the triangle are somehow related to the presence of Area 51, a secret military aviation test range that has long been an object of fascination for UFOologists, who’ve speculated that everything from captured flying saucers to the bodies of alien pilots are stored at the site. Though the U.S. government has long refused to acknowledge Area 51, former military aviators recently have confirmed its existence. In a 2009 Los Angeles Times article, Kenneth Collins, a former Central Intelligence Agency test pilot recounted his own crash inside the Triangle.
Almost 46 years later, in late fall of 2008, sitting in a coffee shop in the San Fernando Valley, Collins remembers that day with the kind of clarity the threat of a national security breach evokes: “Three guys came driving toward me in a pickup. I saw they had the aircraft canopy in the back. They offered to take me to my plane.” Until that moment, no civilian without a top-secret security clearance had ever laid eyes on the airplane Collins was flying. “I told them not to go near the aircraft. I said it had a nuclear weapon on-board.” The story fit right into the Cold War backdrop of the day, as many atomic tests took place in Nevada. Spooked, the men drove Collins to the local highway patrol. The CIA disguised the accident as involving a generic Air Force plane, the F-105, which is how the event is still listed in official records.
As for the guys who picked him up, they were tracked down and told to sign national security nondisclosures. As part of Collins’ own debriefing, the CIA asked the decorated pilot to take truth serum. “They wanted to see if there was anything I’d forgotten about the events leading up to the crash.”
As this January 2010 article from the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper, details, the explanation for the Nevada Triangle’s lethality may be a non-paranormal one.
The documentarians believe that the dangerous wind effect may have been what caused Fossett’s fatal crash. The downdraft’s speed of 400 miles per hour theoretically would have overwhelmed his single engine Bellanca Super Decathlon, which had a maximum speed of just 300 mph.
“The Truth Behind the Bermuda Triangle” airs Friday July 16 at 10P et/pt.
