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In the video link below, you can see what clearly appears to be a UFO, partially submerged in desert sand at the site of a crash:

Not to get your hopes up, of course, but there is a terrestrial explanation for this one… Read the rest of this entry »

These days, it is becoming less likely that UFO sightings can be attributed to alien spacecraft. If anything, the saucers are government craft; but in spite of the literature having to do with “secret government aircraft” and the like, these saucers might not be as secret as you think:

http://www.freshnews.in/man-made-flying-saucers-to-support-urban-warfare-51855

A British Ministry of Defense competition designed to encourage innovative designs to aid in urban warfare has inspired designer Stellar Systems to create small flying saucers (3 feet across) equipped with optical and infra-red cameras, capable of flying over areas of interest without the need of remote-controlled operation. Read the rest of this entry »

In response to an article by Dr. N. Huntely, Ph. D. over at The Canadian, I recently suggested a few ideas about the “hollow moon” theory of my own over at the UFO Magazine Blog. I feel like this is more likely to be in the realm of science fiction, but along the lines of some of the interesting discussions about “death stars” and manned (or maybe even “aliened”) moons like Nibiru, this article may nonetheless be some food for thought:

Article: Hollow Moon Theory Rings a Bell…

Might there actually be hidden qualities we have yet to learn of Earth’s moon?

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but sometimes it seems that bizarre-looking science fiction ideals sometimes instill in the minds of engineers a desire to build foreign looking “space-age” aircraft, among other things. In keeping with man’s fascination with the classic saucer-shaped UFO design, Ananova reported today that China has designed and built a new flying saucer prototype, sporting a remote-controlled interface making it capable of hovering at up to 3200 feet:

New Chinese Flying Saucer Design

Designed by Harbin Smart Special Aerocraft Company, the craft (resembling an emergency flotation device with its cuddly, “rubber-ducky-like” yellow and red color scheme) was designed for aerial photography, geological surveys, controlling forest fires and creating emergency lighting for high-rise building rescues and other special operations.

This is merely one of two Chinese designs for conventional craft resembling UFOs which has been discussed in recent months on this blog. Click the link below to read about an earlier Chinese design, as well as a well-crafted American “flying bunt-pan”, that made recent news:

Home Grown Saucers: The Great Flying Bundt-pans of Tomorrow

I would like to wish a very happy Independence Day to everyone, both here in America and abroad, as I know we have many international regulars here at The Gralien Report. May the spirit of peace be with you, and may liberty’s little flame keep burning inside you all your days.

I woke up this morning feeling rather patriotic, for obvious reasons aforementioned, and instead of donning a star-spangled necktie or slicing into a big slice of strawberry-rhubarb pie (yet, anyway), I felt the urge to see what other Americans are doing to celebrate their independence. What I found was more than a mere hint of urgency, and maybe even a bit of a preoccupation, with economic and environmental concerns; a kind of “neo-patriotism” for the modern era. In the midst of celebrating this patriotic holiday, folks are nonetheless keeping their minds wrapped around rising fuel costs, global warming, and personal sacrifice. I’ll have to share a few of these with you, and then finally we’ll take a slightly paranormal look at the lovely lady of liberty to whom I’ve already alluded.

Always with one eye kept toward the energy crisis, and even in the “heat” of the political season, Time Magazine’s Joe Klein has decided he’ll show his patriotism by cutting off his air-conditioner. “For the good of the country, we should be sweating,” he said in an editorial this week, where he tosses attractive numbers at us like a savings of 20% on your air conditioning expenses by raising your thermostat a mere five degrees. He goes on to later describe President Bush’s failure to address energy and fuel conservation “one of the great failures of his presidency,” and notes that Barack Obama and John McCain have both addressed the matter in recent campaign stops. “I’d like to see both candidates call for an immediate 5 degree F adjustment,” Klein says, “just to get the conservation ball rolling – and because it would be a ‘personal virtue’ for each candidate to ask it of us.”

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In past Gralien Report articles, I’ve discussed some astonishing recent studies and observations in the world of the higher primates, specifically involving chimpanzees who have learned to use tools, and even swim. another reoccurring theme here has involved the concept of “Humanzees”, that is, human-ape hybrids. The fact that the small apes can display such learned “human” characteristics implies similarities between humans and chimpanzees on a genetic level which may previously have been overlooked.

CHIMPS IN SPACE: Enos, NASA’s “Space Chimp”, prior to being inserted into the Mercury-Atlas 5 in 1961, displaying typical human-like behavior among what he perceived to be “curiously chimp-like people.”

However, a new study suggests that chimpanzees also exhibit other man-like activities, including planning for the future, as well as avoiding cat-fights among females by keeping quiet about their sexual partners. Originally published in Animal Cognition, the study which resulted in a display of planning on behalf of the apes involved Linda and Maria Magdalena, a pair of female chimps, along with a male orangutan named Naong, who were shown how to sip “a yummy fruit soup using a straw-like hose.”

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In a news release issued by the Univeristy of Florida, a machanical and aerospace engineering associate professor has designed what he thinks may be a functional flying saucer, and not surprisingly, it’s proposed propulsion methods involve the use of magnetohydrodynamics, that is, passing electrical current or magnetism through a conductive fluid. What fluid do you suppose they might plan on using (and no, it’s not liquid mercury)?

Image courtesy of Danielle Zawoy and the University of Florida.

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Remember the old saying (which is scientifically accurate, if I remember correctly) stating that “if a bumblebee knew how heavy he was, he wouldn’t be flying.” Of course, the robust little pollen-gatherers are known for defying the laws of aerodynamics already, but now the little insects will invoke thrill and marvel in us all once again, in a new study which shows them to “bee” among the finest flyers the insect world has ever seen. Read the rest of this entry »

In recent months, the province of Salta in Argentina has been the source of a host of bizarre phenomena, most notably the “gnome” said to have terrorized the area beginning in March of this year. Now, a “glowing little man” has been seen stirring up trouble in the area, as reported by Scott Corrales at the Inexplicata website:

Residents of the town of San Carlos now claim seeing a strange being, standing some 40 cm tall, with a magnetic field that kept people from approaching it.

Two people, mechanics Walter Lopez and Omar Ferlatti, informed police about the sighting of the diminutibve creature whom they described in detail: the being was small, glowing and wore pants. It appeared it be protected by a magnetic field.

The magnetic field described by those who have come into close proximity with this new “being” reminded me of another offensive tactic reported in encounters with other humanoid oddities; specifically Bigfoot-type creatures. At a conference back in 2004, I discussed the subject of pheromones with Tim Cassidy, a naturalist and cryptozoologist from Maine. Tim shared with me a bizarre encounter he had with what he believed was a Bigfoot several years ago, while leading a scout troop on a camping trip out west.

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In European folklore, when one found a ring of mushrooms growing in the forest, it was believed to mark the entrance to a secret fairy realm; hence the given term for this naturally occurring ring formation, the “Fairy Ring.” Though the conditions for the formation of these rings aren’t fully understood even today, scientists presume that it is likely the result of a large, coenocytic (single-celled) fungi being present beneath the earth. Though the manifestation is understood to be one large cellular formation, it is dispersed with multiple nuclei throughout.

Fairy Rings are also often associated with the growth of necrotic circles of grass, a circular area where plant life withers or dies altogether. Especially when present in large fields, these circles have been associated with crop circle activity in the past.

SHALL WE DANCE? : A man saves his friend from mischievous little folk in the 1860 painting “Plucked from the Fairy Circle” by T.H. Thomas.

Meanwhile, a similar phenomenon has been occurring over for years in Canada, referred to as the “Forest Rings of Ontario,’ which describe the thousands of large circular formations in forested areas of the boreal landscape of northern Ontario. First photographed in the 1950s, the odd circles have been likened to crop circles in that aliens and UFOs are often called as a common culprit.

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