Show Notes for July 23rd, (Show 108.) Ray Stanford
Shows are recorded live on the Dark Matter Radio Network every Wednesday at 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, GMT/01:00 UTC and podcasts of the live shows posted the following day, Thursday. You can join the Chat Room on right sidebar of our home page and interact live each week.
We are very happy to announce Alejandro Rojas will be joining us each week from OpenMinds to fill us in on the latest UFO news starting next week!
First crop circle of the year appears overnight in Dorset wheat field sparking new interest in who or what has made it!
Covering an enormous stretch of wheat field, the 400ft pattern, which is made up of geometric lines and circles, emerged overnight.
While many believe crop circles are created by local pranksters, some think the mysterious shapes are evidence of aliens, including amateur pilot and crop circle enthusiast Matthew Williams, 43, who said: ‘Whoever, or whatever, created the shape must have been there all night – you have to really admire their handiwork.’
‘NASA’s New Horizons nears Pluto’
by Andy Fleming
In July next year NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will make a flyby of dwarf planet Pluto. Being so far from the Sun, alien life isn’t particularly on the spacecraft’s agenda but this little world will no doubt provide some fantastic surprises nonetheless.
Pluto has never been visited by a spacecraft, and New Horizons will revolutionize our knowledge of a world that is up to 7.4 billion kilometres from the Sun. Infact it’s so far away, that even the Hubble Space Telescope’s best images only show it as a sphere and is reddish. Colour changes hint at a dynamic world but with no clues as to what’s actually happening.
However, by next April the spacecraft that was launched in 2006 will be close enough to Pluto to provide images exceeding Hubble’s quality. At closest approach in July 2015, New Horizons will only be 10,000 kilometres above the surface. At this altitude, if it flew over Earth, it could detect individual buildings.
However, spaceflight is risky and this fly-by will be no exception. Of interest to astronomers are Pluto’s five known moons: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. However, computer simulations show that meteoroids striking them could eject debris into orbit around Pluto. NASA will have to guide the spacecraft away from such danger.
No one knows what New Horizons will discover at Pluto, but whether it’s icy geysers, towering mountains, deep valleys, or even planetary rings, it’s going to be a thrilling fly-by.
Our Guest Ray Stanford author of The Socorro “Saucer” in a Pentagon Pantry talks about the Socorro Saucer/Lonnie Zamora Incident, which occurred on Friday, April 24, 1964, at about 5:50 p.m., on the southern outskirts of Socorro, New Mexico
(1) The northwest landing gear imprint with the landing-gear-damaged rock in-place, before I removed it for close examination. Photo was taken April 29, 1964, shortly after Hynek’s media conference at the Socorro motel was over, when I had returned to the landing site, alone, because of what Zamora had pointed out. Weather was about to start a light misting locally, but a break in the clouds allowed me a quick moment to snap a well-lighted photo before clouds came between the sun and my location.:
____________________________________________________________________
The Latest Blogs
1941 Cape Girardeau, Missouri UFO Crash
Guest blog
In 1941, 7 years before the Roswell, New Mexico Crash in 1947, a similar UFO incident happened in the woods outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
A story told by a woman named Charlette Mann reveals a long family secret of an alien encounter and mysterious UFO crash. The story was about Charlette’s grandfather Reverend William Huffman. Huffman was the pastor of the Red Star Baptist Church.
According to her grandmother’s deathbed confession, her grandfather was summoned around 9-10 PM to pray over victims of a wreckage in the woods outside town. Reverend Huffman is taken on a 10-15 mile trip and arrived at the scene which appeared to be a plane crash site already surrounded by policemen, fire department personnel, FBI agents, photographers and Military.
He was shocked to see not an airplane crash, but a scene of a strange disc-shaped object with strange markings that looked like hieroglyphic-like writings that he could not understand.
Even stranger were the bodies of small humanoids of very large heads and large black shiny eyes. Nearly visible ears and mouths and totally without hair. Reverend Huffman was soon asked to come and pray over the dead bodies at the scene. After performing his Christian duties, a military personnel at the scene made Huffman swore into secrecy whatever he found out during that night. But Huffman could not hide the strange and baffling scene that he saw from his wife. The secret was kept by the family until Charlette’s grandmother told the story to her in 1984 as she was dying of cancer.
The seemingly Sci-Fi script UFO case was brought to public by Leo Stringfield in his book, “UFO Crash/Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum” with all the details of the Crash that Charlette gave him. Charlette believed that the story was authentic but still more details would be needed to put the UFO crash of Cape Girardeau in the authentic category.
http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net
Will Our Fate Be That of the Dinosaurs?
February 20, 2014
by Andy FlemingIn the 1970s Walter Alvarez, a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley started to form a hypothesis connecting an asteroid impact, the presence of its global Iridium layer in the rock strata, and the loss of the dinosaurs in what has become known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (or K-T) mass extinction event.
Verified by geological dating, the location of the asteroid’s impact crater was eventually discovered at Chicxulub, in the Yucatán Peninsula. The now confirmed scientific theory made truly shocking reading. It stated that 66 million years ago, our planet was hit by a space rock 10kms in diameter traveling at 40,000kph. Taking two seconds to traverse the atmosphere it buried itself kilometres deep in the Earth’s crust, with resultant molten ejecta traversing the entire globe. Worldwide cataclysmic fires created dense and choking dust and smoke that blocked out most sunlight for years. Temperatures plummeted, and 75% of all species on Earth, including dinosaurs became extinct. In this epic catastrophe, small dinosaurs capable of flight survived to become modern day birds. Tiny underground shrew-like animals that lived on roots also survived.
In terms of longevity of their reign of over 150 million years, the dinosaurs are to this day the most successful creatures ever to walk the Earth. Their sudden demise however, ushered in the age of the mammals that would one day evolve into us. Without the Chicxulub impact, debatably the most intelligent species ever seen on Earth i.e. ‘us’ simply wouldn’t exist. Mammals truly did inherit the Earth.
Donald Keyhoe
by Michael Lauck
Well known in the UFO community as an author and as the director of NICAP, Major Donald Keyhoe was a Marine pilot and established author well before the flying saucer craze of the late 1940s. He authored several books on unidentified flying objects, including the classic Flying Saucers Are Real. Although his experience in the aviation field and Pentagon contacts gave him a certain amount of authority, his detractors pointed to some of his other writings to discredit his work.
UFOs & Faith
by Michael Lauck
Faith is an integral part of daily life. Although the word is commonly used in regards to religion, faith is not exclusively connected to one’s religious belief. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary website does offer both “belief in the existence of God” and “a system of religious beliefs” as definitions for faith but the very first definition is merely “strong belief or trust in someone or something.” When one uses this definition, it is easy to find examples of faith in daily life. Most people, for example, start their day thanks to the faith they have placed in an alarm clock.
Another Giant Leap for Mankind
by Michael Lauck
Why would an extraterrestrial civilization come here of all places in the universe? This is a commonly asked question by the UFO skeptics and debunkers. Personally, I think this is a rather unimportant question. I really honestly do not expect to understand the motivations of an alien species. Some may consider this taking the easy way out, but our own history is full of examples where cultures misunderstand each other’s motivations and desires. If American Indians did not understand what drove the Europeans, how are we to understand the thought process of an entirely different life form? As of this week, though, the question can be laid to rest.
The Search For Spock: A Call To Action
by Michael Lauck
One of the common arguments used by skeptics and debunkers is that UFO witnesses are actually inserting pop culture imagery into their memories or interpretations of an event. For example, they will state that abductees see “Greys” because the Grey alien archetype was prominently featured on book covers and in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Of course this argument completely (and conveniently) overlooks the fact that the creatures depicted on these book covers and in the film were based on descriptions of experiencers who had not seen the movie or books. Nonetheless, the argument is still put forth confidently and is often not even questioned. How can this assertion be derailed?