Silver Cylindrical UFO

I live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. My city resides across the river from Detroit, Michigan.

My first experience was a little over 10 years ago on a sunny September afternoon while I was outside on break from my place of work. I was sitting on a picnic table having a cigarette while I was on my first new cell phone, talking with my mom.

As I was talking with my mom, I noticed something coming from the North to south while looking at the west, from my point of view. It can from behind a tree, about approx. 1.5 miles from my position.

I was absolutely positive I was looking at a long cylindrical blimp. Why would I think it was anything else? I live across from Detroit and their sports teams sometimes have blimps flying around for advertising purposes, so I’m quite familiar with these flying balloons. They typically look like big footballs or long stretched out footballs. This object I saw was a very long silver cylindrical object that was shaped more like a silver test tube that was rounded at both ends.

As I was watching this “blimp”, I began to notice the object lacking things that a traditional blimp boasts as part of their usual characteristics. It was slowly cruising from my right to my left as I was continuing to converse with my mom. I noticed that it was lacking a tail for steering but didn’t think anything of it. Then I noticed it had no gondola for a pilot. Then an obvious characteristic most blimps show is advertising. This object had no such thing! I was really confused at this point. I still thought it was a blimp because I wasn’t expecting anything else. Why would I? Lol.

Then as my mom was talking to me, I noticed it came to a stop. It’s at this point, most blimps might use the wind to help push itself backwards into a turn. This cylinder just stopped dead, and stayed there for almost 10 minutes. I was almost 10 minutes over my break already. As I listened to my mom, watching this thing, something really odd happened. Something very bright and small, began zipping around the big object, like a fly. It was very fast. It was a bright white light with every colour of the rainbow flashing throughout the white as it was flying around the bigger object. It had a phosphorus glow to it. My hair stood up on ends while my mom asked me why I was so quiet. Lol. I was totally stymied as to what it was. I told my mom what I was seeing and she agreed that that was indeed very weird. I eventually went back to work while it remained stationary and forgot about it until a few years ago.

I was talking with someone when I said that I wished I could see a UFO one day because they’ve always fascinated me. I even did a presentation on the subject and the like in high-school when I was seventeen, before the modern internet. I am now 46. Anyway, the my brain lit up and remembered what I saw on that one sunny afternoon.

About 2 years after that realization, I saw a video I will post below that made my hair stand up on ends, again. There are two object around this particular cylindrical craft but the big object is pretty much exactly what I saw. The smaller object could have been around the size of the two smaller objects in this video but they’re different from the glowing ball of energy I saw ripping around the bigger object. Anyways, that’s my first experience. The two others regard orange orbs, close and at a great distance, but nonetheless very similar to each other and not as dramatic as my first sighting. I will tell you, that the orange orbs showed up as I was thinking about the cylindrical UFO. I even freaked my wife out when I told her I just witnessed the first orange orb right after we were discussing my first sighting of the cylindrical UFO. The other time was while we were in our hot tub while I was watching the Cassiopeia constellation. The video link is below.

Show #482 Notes: Dean Alioto

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
November 23, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

 

BIO: Dean Alioto is an award-winning feature filmmaker and TV documentarian who has produced numerous specials for A+E, Bravo, and Discovery, as well as consulting on the James Fox The Phenomenon. Recently, Dean was featured in the Paramount + Documentary Unknown Dimensions as the creator of the first ever found footage movie The McPherson Tape and the enigmatic Paramount TV movie Alien Abduction: Incident In Lake County. Currently Dean is finishing up a four year long 3-part limited science series looking at the UFO/alien phenomenon from a whole new point of view.

A UFO Falls to the Ground in Yorkshire, England

By Charles Lear

In 1957, the same year the Soviets launched Sputnik, British authorities, media, and citizenry had their attention drawn back down to Earth as they attempted to unravel the mystery of a flying saucer said to have been found laying in a moor. It was dismantled, studied, and opinions were divided between its having come from space and its having been manufactured right here on Earth. Over time, the saucer went missing, but the mystery as to its origin remained. Then, in 2018, pieces of the saucer and its mysterious contents were found in the archives of the Science Museum in London.

The case was first reported in the December 9, 1957 Yorkshire Post in an article headlined “Mystery Object Found on Scarborough Moors” with the sub-headline “Has Unusual Hieroglyphics.” It was written about in detail in the March-April 1958 issue of Flying Saucer Review.

According to the Flying Saucer Review article headlined “The Silpho Moor Mystery,” a man “who writes under the pen name Antony Avendel” had examined an object discovered lying in Silpho Moor near Scarborough. The object is described as being shaped like a top, weighing 35 pounds, having a diameter of 18 inches, and having hieroglyphics on its outside. It was made of a double skin of 3/16” copper. A “burnt powdery substance” was found inside along with a copper book rolled up and inserted into a coil of copper tubing. The book was made of 17 copper sheets containing over 2000 words “engraved in phonetic-type symbols.”

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UFOs Over Wytheville, Virginia

by Charles Lear

Danny Gordon

Beginning in October 1987, there was a UFO flap in Wytheville, Virginia. Thousands of people in the area reported seeing extraordinary things in the sky, but the most commonly told story that came out of the flap centers around a single witness who, it seems, was singled out for harassment by some unknown entity or organization.

On October 7, 1987, reporter Danny Gordon of radio station WYVE called the county sheriff, as he regularly did, to see if the sheriff had any news for him that day. The sheriff told Gordon that three deputies, all ex-military, had reported seeing a UFO that day. According to Gordon in the course of his appearance in a segment devoted to the Wytheville flap in Season 4, Episode 18 of Unsolved Mysteries, the story was used as what he calls a “ha-ha” piece at the end of that day’s newscast. Read more

A Country Singer, UFO Occupants, and Men in Black

By Charles Lear

One of the most famous early abduction cases is that of Travis Walton in late 1975, which received a lot of attention and still fascinates many people to this day. Walton’s case was investigated primarily by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. In the midst of that investigation, APRO was contacted by Johnny Sands, a country western singer who claimed he had encountered two humanoids in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is perhaps because of the attention given to the Walton case, that Sand’s case has all but been forgotten. I might also be because it’s seriously weird.

According to Sands, in his report to APRO and in subsequent interviews with researcher Timothy Green Beckley, he was in Vegas to promote a new record with some live shows. He had been visiting the towns surrounding Las Vegas to see how much his record was being played on local radio and how many jukeboxes it was in, and on January 29, 1976 (Sands didn’t recall the exact date with Beckley), he had been in Pahrump, Nevada.

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Show #479 Notes: Chris Pittman

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
November 02, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

 

BIO: Chris Pittman is a UFO investigator and historian. Born in Massachusetts in 1979, he began investigating local UFO sightings in the mid-1990s. His area of study widened over time, and he eventually focused on looking into historical UFO sightings in North America from early Colonial times through the mid-20th Century. In addition to this historical study, Pittman has been a primary investigator of the anomalous region in southeastern Massachusetts known to paranormal researchers as the “Bridgewater Triangle,” having created the first web site on this topic in 1999. Pittman has written and lectured on paranormal subjects and has appeared in several episodes of the television program Ancient Aliens. He was also featured in the films “The Bridgewater Triangle” (2013) and “The Phenomenon” (2020). Read more

The Kelly, Kentucky UFO Goblins

By Charles Lear (Halloween re-post)

   On August 21, 1955, there was an incident that took place on a farm located in the town of Kelly, 7 miles north of Hopkinsville, Kentucky that reads like it was straight out of a ‘50s sci-fi comic book.  The story has been recounted in many books and all over the internet but, because of its comic book nature, that it involved real people who were deeply affected and real people who did earnest and laudable investigations tends to be overlooked.

In an old farmhouse on a tobacco farm along the east side of Old Madisonville Road, a two lane gravel turnpike, eleven people, eight adults and three children were relaxing as evening set in.  The house and farm were owned by Glennie Lankford, a 50 year-old widow with children from two marriages.  Full time residents of the house were: Glennie, her three children from her second husband ages 7-12, her 21 year-old son from her first marriage, J.C (John Charley) Sutton and his 27 year-old wife, Alene.  Glennie’s 25 year-old son, Elmer “Lucky” Sutton, his 29 year-old wife, Vera, and their friends, 21 year-old Billy Ray Taylor and his 18 year-old wife June, had been staying at the house for a couple of months.  Alene’s brother, O.P. Baker, also in the house that night was in his 30’s and stayed overnight on a regular basis as it was a convenient place for him to be picked up and driven to work.  The Taylor and Sutton couples were on a break from their work with a traveling carnival.

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Show #478 Notes: Dr. Irena Scott

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
October 26th, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

Guest Dr. Irena Scott on her new book ‘BEYOND PASCAGOULA-THE REST OF THE AMAZING STORY’ where she interviews newfound witnesses and more.

BIO: Dr. Irena Scott received her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine in physiology, did post-doctoral research at Cornell University, and has had a professorship at St. Bonaventure University. Her MS was from the University of Nevada, her BS from Ohio State University in astronomy and biology, and she has done research and teaching at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and the University of Nevada. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) employed her in Ph.D. level (GS-11) research in satellite photography including in its Air Order of Battle section, which involved aircraft identification with above top-secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, clearances. She was employed in MS level work as a Physical Scientist/Cartographer in the DMA Aerospace Center using satellite photography, and she worked at Battelle Memorial Institute. She has been sent for work-related purposes to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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UFOs, NICAP, and the CIA

by Charles Lear

Of all the private organizations devoted to UFO investigation, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena was arguably the most ambitious and tenacious. This was driven in large part by its director, Donald Keyhoe. Keyhoe held the beliefs that UFOs are extraterrestrial and that the U.S. Government, particularly the Air Force, was keeping information from the public that could possibly prove the ET hypothesis. As effective as NICAP was at hounding the Air Force and convincing many in the U.S. Congress that UFOs were deserving of scientific study, there are indications that the CIA was involved in both the beginning and the end of the organization.

Todd Zechel wrote about the CIA – NICAP connection in the January 1979 issue of Just Cause, the newsletter put out by Citizens Against UFO Secrecy. NICAP was incorporated in 1956, and two men Zechel argues were covert CIA operatives were put into chair positions within the organization. One of these men was Bernard J. O. Carvalho, who was made the chairman of NICAP’s membership subcommittee According to Zechel, Carvalho worked as a “front man” for companies secretly run by the CIA. The other was “Count” Nicolas de Rochefort, who was made Vice-Chairman of NICAP. According to Zechel, de Rochefort worked with the CIA’s Psychological Warfare Staff. Zechel tells the reader “there is more than ample evidence to conclusively establish both de Rochefort and Cavalho were at least during certain periods of their lives covert employees of the Central Intelligence Agency.”

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Lights follow sister, she comes home and wakes my entire family, we all witness low hovering HUGE craft.

Hello, ever since this event happened to me at the young age of 7, I have been and forever will be certain and inquisitive of the fact we are being visited/watched. For whatever reason, this event/subject has been weighing very heavily on my mind particularly the last 6 months. Feel need to share this story. Main differences I notice between the majority of stories I hear via podcast/articles and our story is the number of people witness to it and maybe more importantly, the height at which this vehicle was hovering over us to witness it was very low and blocking out a big portion of the night sky. So here it is.

When I was 7 years old, my 17 year old sister was out past curfew with her BF and came home not very sneakily and quite as she normally would in that situation, but came in freaking out yelling at us all “get up, get up, they’ve been following us all night and follower us home! They are hovering above our back yard right now! Come look! Come look!” So my Mom, Brother, Grandma, and myself all got out of bed around midnight or 1am to follow her outside and see what she was talking about and there it was! This massive huge black square or triangle shaped craft hovering over part of our back yard and into the farmland bordering our backyard. All 5 of us walked around our fence to stand behind our shed in the strip of grass between our yard and the corn field that year. It was pretty much silent, it had 6 big lights that would eluminate one at a time and each one was to my 7 year old recollection about 6 to 8 feet in diameter and lit up in a pattern that was almost a full circle, but before it completed the circle with last light, it would light up a light in what seemed to be the center of the craft. So almost like the pattern of a “G” . I remember looking to my left seeing my mom’s ficus just glued to it with mouth half open in awe, and then looking to my right and seeing my brother, my sister, and then my Grandma with the exact same look on their face. None of us thought to go get our home video camera, I believe my brother said he should go grab one of our family hunting guns, but my mom said no. But other than that, I just remembered we were all staring up at this thing in a memorized state basically, no one saying much, after the initial shock of the sight. To my recollection it lasted about 10 to 15 min, I could very clearly see the STRAIGHT line of the craft where the sky was getting blacked out on one side of craft and only way I felt you could notice its presence other than sight was this slight feeling that there was a vibration to the air, but I sometimes wonder if thus vibration feeling was due to the shock and awe state we were all in. My mother is very very religious and told us to not tall about it to anyone, even her, and I chalk that up to her mainly wanting us to not be the weird UFO kids, AND, I don’t think she could quantify it according to her religious foundation, because that would be admitting there is possibly a higher being other than God and us, whom God created. BUT since then, she has confronted it and come to realization that “if they exist, than God created them as well” that was the first time I realized she had gotten past it, and accepted it, and found a way to cope with it. Since that moment I’ve tried to talk her and my siblings and everyone has the exact same problem with remembering that event, which is, how did they leave? My mom and I both think they just slowly ascended over the tree line behind the corn field, my brother and sister have no definitive memory though, and really, neither does my mom or myself. I di remember running scared out of my mind along with the rest of my family around to the front of our house and into front door. Where we normally would enter through back door, and I ran right out of my dad’s grilling shoes and I know they were left in the yard that night due to that frantic run.

So thats in a nutshell, my family’s experience, my dad was out of town on business at the time. My brother and I, in spite of what my mom said, asked our neighbor friends if they saw anything, they didn’t, and then asked a couple other neighborhood kids and they hadn’t either. So this event has left me stumped, not really stumped I guess, but left me wanting more, more info, more recollection, and just more answers in general.

One weird thing I’ve discovered over the years, is my brother and my brother alone, remembers everything a bit different, he remembers 3 craft with 2 lights each and that we watched them from our sunroom and not from behind the shed. This detail has also been haunting me a buy as of late, as well as none of us not remembering clearly at all, if at all, how they left.

That’s my story, I’m sure I could get my sister and brother to tell it in own words as well and pretty good chance my mom as well, as I have been telling her lately, I need to get it out there, document it, and try and figure it out a bit more.

Thanks for the platform in order to start doing this.

Dane Larsen