New Hampshire UFO Research Radio Interview Monday June 10th 6-7pm EST WOON 1240 am

I will be doing a radio interview on June 10th 6-7pm EST with Paul Eno & Ben Eno from CBS's Behind The Paranormal on Woon 1240 am.

We will be discussing my research into New Hampshire UFO history, the Incident at Exeter, as well as other amazing NH UFO cases from the last 60 years, and the upcoming 2013 Exeter UFO Festival.

You can listen on 1240 am in the Boston/Worcester/Providence triangle, or listen online at: http://www.onworldwide.com/

Show website: BehindtheParanormal.com 
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UFO's, Owls, and The Black Lodge: The Esoteric Elements of Twin Peaks

Here is my article on the esoteric elements of Twin Peaks that I did for
World of Lynch.com
  
UFO's, Owls, and The Black Lodge: The Esoteric Elements of Twin Peaks

No mention of UFO's or Disclosure In Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's World Economic Forum Address

This past Tuesday, The European Union Times online newspaper posted an article claiming that a report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's agenda for the 2013 World Economic Forum (WEF) states that he will demand that President Obama tell the world about aliens or the Kremlin tell the world on it's own.

Medvedev delivered the opening address to the forum on Wednesday January, 23rd in Davos, Switzerland. There was no mention of  UFO's in the address, which largely dealt with Russian politics and world economics. At the close of his address, Medvedev informed the forum that he would have to return to Moscow immediately after his address, and thanked them for their understanding.

A search of the keyword "UFO" on The World Economic Forum's website turned up no reports on Medvedev's agenda that contain anything pertaining to UFO's, nor is there anything UFO related in a news release summarizing Medvedev's address written by the (WFE) Managing Director, and Head of Communications  Adrian Monck.

After looking at all the information available, there is no documentation to corroborate the claim of UFO's and disclosure in Prime Minister Medvedev's World Economic forum agenda.

UPDATE: Within hours of my article being posted, the European Union Times has removed the article "Russia Orders Obama: Tell World about Aliens, Or We Will" and their website is down.

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Sources:

"Russia Orders Obama: Tell World about Aliens, Or We Will" http://www.eutimes.net [cited 2013]
URL: http://www.eutimes.net/2013/01/russia-orders-obama-tell-world-about-aliens-or-we-will/

Dmitry Medvedev's Opening Address at the World Economic Forum (WEF) http://www.weforum.org
[cited 2013] URL: http://www.weforum.org/videos/opening-address

"Medvedev calls for greater Competition In Russian Politics, Business, and Social Service"

 Monck, Adrian, http://www.weforum.org [cited 2013] URL: http://www.weforum.org/news/medvedev-calls-greater-competition-russian-politics-business-and-social-services

Source of the 1896 Portsmouth Naval Yard UFO Encounter Called Into Question

One of the most fascinating New Hampshire UFO cases I have come across in my research is the 1896 close encounter that two Naval officers reportedly had with a luminous UFO while guarding ships on the docks of the Portsmouth Naval yard.

The article, "Navy Shot at UFO in 1896" , was written by Art Champoux, and appeared on the UFO Digest website in March of 2007. According his account, after being approached by the UFO, the Naval officers shot at the glowing craft with their rifles as the object flew overhead. They heard the sound of their bullets hitting the object before it increased in brightness and flew out to sea.

In an attempt to obtain documentation of the original source of the article, it appears I have stumbled upon a major discrepancy in what is purported to be the original source of the story.

Champoux references the Portsmouth Herald newspaper as being his source for his article, saying: " I read the report of this sighting in the archives of the Portsmouth Herald Newspaper dated November of 1896."

I began my inquiries by contacting the Portsmouth Library regarding the Portsmouth Herald archive and was referred to special collections librarian, Nicole Cloutier.

In speaking with Ms.Cloutier, she informed me that the known archives of the Portsmouth Herald only went back as far as 1898, and that there is a local mystery surrounding the birth date of the newspaper. She also mentioned a  recent Seacoast Online article "Portsmouth Herald Seeks Its Own Birth Date" , which delves into the murky beginnings of the Portsmouth Herald and the hunt for the first issues, and the newspaper's accurate birth date.

In addition, Ms.Cloutier reviewed the microfilms for the November 1896 issues of both the Portsmouth Gazette and Portsmouth Journal in the event that the author had mistaken his source, but she was unable to find any articles pertaining to the UFO sighting.

Considering all these facts, this leads us to two possible conclusions: Either a.) author Art Champoux was mistaken about the date or which newspaper was his source. This is quite possible, but seems unlikely. The date is in the title of the article and is mentioned more than once in the body of the article, so one would think the author would be sure of this important detail of the story, and his source. Or b.) the source and story were fabricated, and the encounter never happened.

I contacted the editor of UFO Digest, Robert D. Morningstar regarding the discrepancy of Champoux's source for his article, and was told that they were unable to contact Champoux. It was also suggested by Mr. Morningstar that I address the discrepancy with Champoux myself. This I declined, because I feel it is an editor's responsibility to handle issues regarding the credibility of any articles they publish. Follow up emails sent to UFO Digest have gone unanswered.

Since my correspondence with UFO Digest, Champoux has published additional articles on UFO Digest.com, and "Navy Shot at UFO in 1896" remains on UFO Digest's website.

If true, this UFO encounter is an incredible part of New Hampshire's UFO history. If the source discrepancy is an honest mistake, it is an opportunity for Champoux to provide the correct source, and allow for further research into the case. Until proper documentation of the source is provided for this case, the credibility is greatly diminished and will weigh heavily in my gray basket.

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Sources:

Champoux, Art. ""Navy Shot at UFO in 1896", UFO Digest [cited 2012] URL: http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0307/portsmouthufo.html

Robinson, J. Dennis. "Portsmouth Herald Seeks Its Own Birth Date" Seacoast NH.com [cited 2012] URL: http://www.seacoastnh.com/History/History_Matters/Portsmouth_Herald_Seeks_Its_Own_Birth_Date/

Serious Doubts In the Laconia Abduction Case

A little over a year and a half ago, on March 20, 2010, two Laconia, NH
teenagers claimed that their car was lifted off the ground by a UFO, and then subsequently dropped when one of the teens sounded the car horn. After careful examination of both witness reports, and statements made by the police, it is clear that there are some serious discrepancies and red flags in this case. It appears things are being overlooked or ignored by MUFON and those that are touting the Laconia case as legitimate.

The case which was reported to the National UFO Reporting Center and investigated by MUFON New England, received considerable attention on the web and received over 20,000 views on the Examiner website. It has also appeared on many other UFO websites and forums around the world. The case was also the focus of New England MUFON Director Steve Firmani's recent lecture at the 2011 Exeter UFO Festival.

Discrepancies in the case are immediately apparent when comparing the witness testimony with the statements made by the investigating officers in the Laconia Citizen article, "Youths Claim UFO Lifted them."

The first issue that arises is that the witnesses gave conflicting reports to the Laconia Police and MUFON as to where the alleged abduction attempt took place. The police were told by the witnesses that the incident occurred at Opechee Park, but in their account submitted to NUFORC and MUFON, the witnesses claim the incident occurred at The Fun Spot, a local arcade.

According to Chief Michael Moyer "As of Friday evening, however, the case remains uncleared because of a discrepancy between where Moore told Batstone the incident allegedly occurred and where she and her boyfriend later told UFO investigators it happened — namely the parking lot at Funspot — said Laconia Police Chief Mike Moyer."

"'The long and short,' said Moyer,' is that we got this call to Opechee Park and the officer basically closed the case because there was nothing for us to do; and then I got a call from the UFO guys and they came and took statements and I didn't realize until yesterday in reading the statement they [Moore and her boyfriend] gave the UFO people the discrepancy in what they told the police.'" Chief Moyer also notes that there was no mention of a UFO until MUFON contacted him.

Looking at the testimony of the male witness, when describing the damage to the windshield of the car he claims "It popped outwards like it was pulled out." The male witness also goes on to say "He [Officer Batstone] said that there was no reason for this to have happened to the car when there are no dents or scratches and no reason for the windshield to shatter and pop out the way it did. He had no explanation for why the windshield popped outwards."

This statement is in direct conflict with what officer Batstone says in the Laconia Citizen article, Officer Batstone clearly states that the damage on the windshield was "consistent with the cover to the air bag being launched into the windshield when the passenger side air bag had deployed." You can also plainly see in the photos taken of the interior of the vehicle by MUFON investigators that the airbag has clearly deployed, and caused the windshield to shatter.

During his examination of the vehicle, Officer Batstone also noted that dirt on the car was undisturbed, and that the inside of the vehicle showed "no indications that any sort of impact had happened." After interviewing the witness and examining the vehicle at her house, Officer Batstone went to Opechee Park to search the site of the alleged incident and found that there was nothing "to indicate that a collision had occurred."

There is also the issue of the actual sight of the event, The Fun Spot arcade. The Fun Spot parking lot is known in the area as a place where teens go hang out and jump their cars off a curb in the parking lot. The damage done to the undercarriage of the vehicle and the deployment of an airbag could be consistent with this sort of jumping of a vehicle.

The evidence that New England MUFON Director Steve Firmani has referenced in different lectures, podcasts, and articles consists of: the testimony of the witnesses, marks in the curb at Fun Spot that he claims he was able to match up with parts of the undercarriage of the witness vehicle, and the claim that both witness cell phones ceased functioning after the incident. There was also a mechanic's report of the damage done to the vehicle that supposedly states electrical damage occurred to the vehicle that wasn't consistent with a typical airbag deployment. Pictures of the vehicle and the alleged abduction site can be viewed online at Examiner.com, "UFO picks up Laconia, NH car with teens and drops 180 feet away."

It is unclear to what extent MUFON has analyzed this evidence, but one can only hope that the cell phones and unusual electrical damage to the vehicle were further examined and corroborated, not taken at face value given the problems with the witness testimony. It would be very easy to test the cell phones and request phone records from both witnesses to prove that their phones were functional up until the event, and ceased due to the incident. It would also be very easy to seek out a second opinion on the mechanic's report.

While this is not an all-out debunking of this case, what I have laid out here are some serious reasons to doubt the credibility of the "Laconia Abduction Case." My hope is that by bringing attention to the discrepancies in this case, it will help encourage people to re-examine the facts and evidence involved, and inspire a fresh look at the case.

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Sources:

"Youths claim UFO lifted them", Koziol, John. Laconia Citizen. April 24, 2010 [cited 29 December 2011] URL:http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100424/GJNEWS02/704249930

Davenport,Peter."National UFO Reporting Center Sighting report from male witness" [cited 29 December 2011] URL:http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/074/S74787.html

Davenport,Peter."National UFO Reporting Center Sighting report from female witness" [cited 29 December 2011] URL:http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/074/S74788.html

Marsh,Roger."UFO picks up Laconia, NH car with teens and drops 180 feet away" April 18,2010 [cited 29 December 2011]URL:http://www.examiner.com/ufo-in-national/ufo-picks-up-laconia-nh-car-with-teens-and-drops-180-feet-away

Raymond Fowler,The Exeter Investigation, And The 1966 Congressional Hearing On UFO's

When discussing the historic 1965 UFO case the "Incident At Exeter", a majority of the credit often goes to John.G Fuller for investigating the landmark case which he introduced to the world in his New York Times bestseller "Incident At Exeter: UFO's Over America Now." However, an often unsung hero of the Exeter case is Ufologist Raymond Fowler.

It was Fowler's impeccable investigation of the Exeter case that became the foundation of Fuller's book "Incident At Exeter". It also led Fowler into a battle with the Pentagon, found the case highlighted as one of the key Project Blue Book cases at the first-ever Congressional hearing on UFO's, and landed Fowler's report in the Congressional record.

The New York writer and New England UFO investigator became acquainted after Fowler was referred to Fuller by Richard Hall. Hall was a fellow NICAP member and author of "The UFO Evidence". Fuller contacted Fowler by phone and told him of his plan to re-investigate the case before he started to write about it. Fowler agreed to meet with Fuller and provide a copy of his initial report, and any follow up data.

The following weekend, the author arrived for dinner at Fowler's house. Fuller explained that he had been reading about the increase in UFO sightings and that curiosity prompted his desire to document a specific case, though he still remained skeptical. The two men discussed the case in great detail, and Fuller left for Exeter with Fowler's extensive notes and report.

Fuller talked with the Exeter witnesses, local newspapers, and Air Force officers from Pease AFB, and later phoned Fowler to tell him that he was thoroughly convinced that the people had really seen something.

Fuller's first article about the case appeared in the October 2, 1965 issue of the Saturday Review's Trade Winds column. Due to its success he was then asked to expand the article for a piece in Look magazine, which was edited and reprinted in Reader's Digest, and later expanded for his best selling book "Incident At Exeter".

Meanwhile, across the country UFO sightings were becoming an almost daily occurrence, and there was growing criticism among the public and the media of the Air Force's handling of the Project Blue Book UFO study. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford shared the public's discontent, and after a series of credible UFO sightings witnessed by police and tracked on radar in his Congressional district in the winter of 1966, Congressman Ford demanded a Congressional hearing and investigation into UFO's.

The House Armed Services committee convened for the first-ever formal hearing on UFO's on April 5, 1966. Among the witnesses were Dr. Carl Sagan, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and Dr. James E. McDonald. Statements were submitted by nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, and Dr. Donald Menzel of the Harvard College Observatory, as well as many other respected scientists and academics.

The committee heard testimony from Project Blue Book witnesses, and the Exeter case was one of the highlighted cases along with Fowler's report. It was also at this hearing that the Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Brown, announced the intent to conduct an outside review of Project Blue Book. This review became the University of Colorado's "Scientific Study of UFOs", which later became known as "The Condon Report", named after the project's director, physicist Edward Condon.

Along with Fowler's meticulous report on the Exeter case, also entered into Congressional record was an account of the exchange between Fowler, Officers Betrand and Hunt, and the Pentagon. Numerous letters were written by the officers to the Pentagon expressing their discontent with Blue Book's evaluation of the case.

In the months following the Exeter UFO incident the Pentagon offered a number of explanations as to what Norman Muscarello and the two police officers saw in the field that night, including a banner plane, "stars and planets in unusual formations", and a Strategic Air Command exercise. It was only due to Fowler's unrelenting investigation that these explanations were all proven to be false, maintaining the case as a true unknown.

Despite the various attempts by Project Blue Book and the Pentagon to prescribe explanations to Muscarello and the officers' sighting, ultimately the Air Force was forced to back down and admit that the Exeter case was in fact an unknown. In direct conflict with the evaluations that Blue Book had made on the case, scientific consultant to Blue Book, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, admitted when asked by Congressman William H. Bates "This one is still unidentified?" Hynek replied "Yes, Sir".

Raymond Fowler's contributions to the Exeter case should not go unrecognized. His investigation of the Exeter case was the foundation for both Fuller's book and the Congressional examination of the case. Very few UFO investigators have had their reports entered into Congressional record. This is a rare achievement and a testament to the credibility of the witnesses in the Exeter case, and the quality of the investigation done by Fowler.

For additional perspective on the Exeter sightings, I highly recommend Fowler's books "Casebook Of A UFO Investigator" and "UFO Testament", both contain a wealth of information on this captivating New Hampshire UFO case.

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Fowler, Raymond. Casebook of a UFO Investigator. Prentice-Hall Books, 1981.

Fowler, Raymond. UFO Testament: Anatomy of an Abductee. iUniverse, 2002.

Fuller, John G. Incident at Exeter: Unidentified Flying Objects Over America
Now. New York Putnam, 1966.

The 1966 House Armed Services Committee Hearing on Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document.

Berliner, Don. "Congressional Hearings on UFOs", UFO Briefing Document,UFO Evidence.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1981.htm (Dec 10,2011).

Hall, Richard. "Michigan Sheriffs Watch High-Performance Discs". http://www.nicap.org/660314rep.htm (Dec 10,2011).

The 3rd Annual Exeter UFO Festival

UFO enthusiasts from all over the country will be descending on Exeter New Hampshire next weekend for it's 3rd Annual Exeter UFO festival on Saturday September 3rd,2011.

The festival which was created by local Writer and UFO Researcher Dean Merchant is a free, non-profit community event that celebrates Exeter's UFO heritage, specifically the legendary "Incident At Exeter" UFO encounters, as well as the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case.

Returning as the M.C. of the festival will be Tim Binall, host of the award-winning Esoteric Podcast Binall Of America. He will be presenting some of the best authors, researchers, and investigators in the field, who will be speaking about the UFO phenomenon and NH UFO cases. The list of speakers this year includes Stanton Friedman, Richard Dolan, and Kathleen Marden.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Betty and Barney Hill's abduction in the White Mountains of NH, and they will be posthumously inducted into the Exeter UFO Festival Hall Of Fame. Both Friedman and Marden's lectures will discuss the Hills' abduction case.

There will also be a world premiere of the new independent documentary film "Strange Septembers", directed by Jeff and Jess Finn, which examines the Exeter and Hill cases and includes interviews with family members of Muscarello, the Hills, and the investigators that worked on the cases.

In addition to the lectures and film premiere there will also be plenty of activities for kids in Founders park, including a Story Circle,face painting, crafts, games, buckets of chalk throughout the city for kids to draw ET and UFO pictures, and building a UFO out of recyclables in the "Alien crash site and debris field". There is also a self-guided UFO safari, and the popular Alien Pet Costume Contest will also be returning.

The entire festival is free, funded by donations and the sale of souvenir t-shirts. All the proceeds of the t-shirts after festival expenses go to local charities. Last year's proceeds went to Big Brothers Big Sisters, The New Outlook Teen Center, and to local families in need.

Whether you're a UFO buff or new to the subject,the Exeter UFO festival is a great event to learn more about the UFO phenomenon and New Hampshire's place in UFO history.

For more information on the festival check out Exeter UFO Festival.com or check out the events Exeter UFO Festival facebook page.

Official trailer for "Strange Septembers"

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New Hampshire's July 1947 UFO Wave

In the first week of July, 1947, just days before the 509th Bomb Group issued a press release reporting that they had recovered a crashed "flying disk" from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, North America was experiencing a inexplicable UFO wave and the State of New Hampshire was host to a number of UFO sightings.

On July 5th Thomas Dale, the son of NH Governor Charles M. Dale, and a experienced pilot with over eight years flying experience was flying a plane from Laconia to Portsmouth in the company of his friend Jere Stetson. At 4:26pm as they were flying southwestward over Alton, Dale and his companion spotted a strange object that was approximately two miles east of the plane, and approximately 1500ft. below their plane. It approached the plane at a great speed and then veered north over Alton Bay and Lake Winnipesaukee were they lost view of it.

Dale later told reporters "I’m not saying it was a flying saucer or disc,but whatever it was, it wasn’t a conventional plane." Dale was a ATC pilot during World War II and was very familiar with all types of conventional aircraft. They observers described the object as metal in construction, around twenty feet long, and not totally round in shape.Both witnesses said they had never seen anything like it in the air before and were completely blown away.

Two days later on July 7th, another pilot flying over Alton Bay spotted a long, thin, solid metal object at approximately one thousand feet and traveling about seven hundred miles an hour.

In West Rindge that same day retired New England Telephone Vice President Charles N. Tasker reported that him and several people sitting on a porch observed plumes of smoke, and upon investigation they discovered small burnt spots on the lawn, and In the dry grass on both sides of the road they observed a two hundred foot diameter circle with several little fires. The fires seemed to be caused by metal fragments that apparently fell from the sky.

The metallic fragments recovered were turned over to Professor Renteges of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent a memo to the Air Force regarding the incident, and it became part of the Air Force's Project Blue Book.The document was classified until it was later released as part of the Freedom of Information Act.

That same evening at 9:00pm in Manchester, two men made very similar reports of three disc like UFO's flying in a V formation northwest of the city at a high rate of speed.Both witnesses agreed that the objects were high in the sky, very bright, and appeared to be egg shaped.

On July 9th, Mrs. Earl O.Anderson of Manchester was awakened at 3:50am by the barking dogs in her neighborhood. Looking out her bedroom window to investigate she spotted a saucer shaped light, just north of the Derryfield Resevoir. The object was "whirling" at a fast pace and continued this motion for several minutes until passed beyond the view of her window.

The following day a witness reported a sighting of three flying discs over Lake Winnnipesauke, heading in the direction of Alton. He was able to take pictures of the objects that were at a height of about five thousand feet.

July,1947 was inundated with UFO sightings from all over North America,including reports from Maine,Idaho,Oregon,Washington,Florida,Arizona,Virginia,
New Mexico,Alaska,and Canada.

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www.nhufo.org Archives: 1900-1949
http://www.nhufo.org/Archives/archives%201900_1949.htm

NICAP Chronology 1947
http://www.nicap.org/waves/1947fullrep.htm

Project Blue Book Archive,USAF-SIGN7-4599
http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=USAF-SIGN7-459

Manchester Union Leader, July 7, 1947

Manchester Morning Union, July 8, 1947

Manchester Morning Union, July 9, 1947

Boston Globe, July 9, 1947

Manchester Morning Union, July 10, 1947

The Laconia Evening Citizen Newspaper, July 10, 1947

Commercial Pilot Reports Near Collision With UFO Near Portsmouth NH

A Canadian commercial pilot flying a Cessna twin engine jet has reported a near collision with a UFO in the Eastern US skies.

The 9 passenger Corporate jet departed from White plains New York on Wednesday May 15, 2011, and was en route to Canada cruising at 41000ft in the vicinity of Portsmouth,NH when at approximately 5:10 PM, a white colored UFO passed the right side of the aircraft at a high rate of speed, and what seemed to be less than 1000ft. vertical separation. No warning was registered on the jets TCAS (traffic, collision,and avoidance system).

Boston air traffic control was contacted to see if there was any other opposite direction traffic, to which they reported there was none, but they noted a primary radar target at the jet's six o'clock position and 8 miles. An official report was filed with air traffic control,at which time he was informed that another aircraft had reported a similar sighting.

The pilot, a professional with 22 years of flying noted that this was the first
time witnessing an event like this, and does not believe it was another conventional aircraft, due to the high rate of speed that it passed his aircraft, so fast that the shape of the UFO was unidentifiable.

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Source:

Davenport, Peter. The National UFO Reporting Center [Cited 2011] URL: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/081/S81281.html