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The man who lived with an alien, UFOs over Parliament... and the little girl who wanted answers

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From cigar-shaped spacecraft in the night sky to abduction by aliens, they are the tales that have captivated the imagination of Earthlings for nearly a century.

And now the Ministry of Defence has revealed its latest batch of reports from people claiming a close encounter in the UK.

The sightings only go up to 2009, as that was the year the ‘British X-Files’ desk was closed.

Spookily, that year also saw a trebling in the frequency of UFO reports, the newly declassified files show.

This doughnut-shaped phenomenon was photographed by a retired RAF officer and sent to his old bosses tasked with investigating UFOs in 2004

Above, a UFO over Stonehenge in Wiltshire in January 2009

The Ministry of Defence has revealed its latest batch of reports from people claiming a close encounter in the UK. The sightings only go up to 2009, as that was the year the 'British X-Files' desk was closed. Above, a UFO over Stonehenge in Wiltshire in January 2009

The year 2009 saws the second highest number of reports recorded by the MoD - totalling 643 - beaten only by the 750 sightings in 1978, the year Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (pictured) was released in UK cinemas

More than 600 alien experiences were reported to the MoD’s UFO hotline, more than double the previous year and three times the usual number, according to the papers released by the National Archives.

The files from 2007 to 2009 reveal several of bizarre reports of encounters with extraterrestrials, including a man who claimed he lived with an alien, UFO sightings near the Houses of Parliament and Stonehenge, and a man whose dog and tent were abducted.

They also reveal the claim by one man to have developed a weapon to shoot down UFOs.

Some experts say there was a simple, non-sinister reason why the number of sightings soared in the hotline’s final year of operation – a rise in popularity of Chinese lanterns being released at weddings and other events.

There were 643 reports in 2009, up from around 100 to 200 a year between 2000 and 2007.

This footage was taken by a BBC cameraman in Worcestershire in 2003

It was the second highest number of reports recorded by the MoD, beaten only by the 750 sightings in 1978 – the year Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was released in UK cinemas.

Another peak had occurred in the mid-1990s, when the US TV show The X-Files was at the height of its popularity.

Dr David Clarke, author of the book The UFO Files based on earlier MoD data, said: ‘There are many reasons why the number of reports trebled in 2009.

'Many of the sighting accounts – such as formations of orange lights moving slowly across the sky – describe the appearance of Chinese lanterns even though people did not recognise them at the time.’

The newly released archives also show a UFO seen here over Duns, Scottish Borders in July 2008

The first description of a UFO was from a sighting made in US in 1947, although Met Office reports a quarter of a century earlier had included data on unexplained phenomena.

In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill took the issue so seriously that he ordered reports of sightings to be kept secret to avoid public panic.

But during its 50 years of collecting and investigating reports, the UFO desk and hotline uncovered no evidence to indicate the existence of ‘any military threat to the UK’.

Steven Spielberg's take on alien life, the film ET released in 1982

The files reveal that one person phoned the hotline to report twice seeing UFOs hovering over the Houses of Parliament in London in February 2008.

He described ‘green, red and white lights’ that remained still in the sky for an hour and a half.

Another sent an email to report seeing ‘discoid’ shapes in photographs of Stonehenge taken two years previously.

‘I didn’t see anything in the sky at the time. Upon uploading them to my computer, though, I spotted the discoid shapes in the background.’

Another email said photographs of Blackpool Pier taken in October 2008 showed aircraft that had not been visible at the time. The UFO desk investigated and an official said two of the objects ‘look like stunt kites’ and the third ‘looks like a seagull head-on’.

The MoD axed the department – which had no US equivalent and which by 2009 had only one officer – because it served ‘no defence purpose’ and was diverting resources from ‘more valuable defence-related activities’, the files reveal.

There were also fears that its existence encouraged spurious UFO reports.

When the announcement of the closure was made, MoD officials predicted a backlash from ufologists convinced that the truth was still out there.

Many wrote to the Queen, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and ministers to demand sightings were investigated.

The files are available to download at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos.

And the little girl who asked for the truth...

A young girl wrote to the UFO desk about aliens saying she had seen ‘little air crafts’ in the sky.

She continued: ‘Please tell me what the truth is I’ve a right to know’, the files reveal.

The letter the child sent included a picture of an extraterrestrial in a spaceship waving and asked whether there is life on other planets.

The MoD replied thanking the writer, from Altrincham, near Manchester, for the letter and sent some RAF ‘goodies’.

A letter from a young girl who wrote to the UFO desk

The schoolgirl’s letter reads: ‘To Mr/Mrs. Please tell me if living things live out side our planet. I would like to now [sic] because me and my father have seen little air crafted [sic] in the sky.

‘And my father have seen 2 little light dancing around each other.

‘Please send me a letter telling me the answer.’

The MoD wrote back to her saying: ‘Thank you for your letter asking if there is life outside our planet.

‘It’s an interesting question and we remain totally open-minded about it, but we don’t know of any evidence to prove life exists in outer space.

‘We do look at reports of “unidentified flying objects” but only to see if the country’s airspace might have been affected but we haven’t had any evidence of this so far.

‘I am enclosing some RAF goodies that I thought you might like.’

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Poltergeist: origins of the mysterious phenomenon

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Translated from the German, the word “poltergeist” means “noisy spirit“. Poltergeist is used to describe all sorts of noises and a spontaneous movement of objects around the house without a material cause. The poltergeist phenomenon is studied by parapsychologists. However, modern science takes parapsychology lightly.

But we should not deny that something like this happens. Many homes have their own poltergeists. It is believed that they can not cause physical harm to people, but may have quite a heavy impact on psychological health. Not everyone is ready to accept the fact that he shares his house with an unknown being or spirit that is unpredictable in its actions…

There are not many witnesses who saw poltergeist with their own eyes. Some people have seen things flying around their apartment, others have heard strange creaks and other sounds, and others have heard human speech “performed” by non-human voices. Constant flickering of light, phone calls, creaking doors are the signs of the presence of poltergeists in the house.

Poltergeists also divide into “categories”: they may be both good and bad. There are evil poltergeists which can cause physical harm, classic ones which just make sounds and drop items, and funny ones which “hide” small items such as a spoon or a fork.

Unfortunately, until now, science can not clearly explain the origin of this anomalous phenomenon. Until the twentieth century it was believed that a poltergeist is a soul that can not find peace, or a person who died in this house.

However, Frederick W. Myers (one of the first investigators of the poltergeist) stated that the poltergeist has no relation to spirits and ghosts and is a completely independent phenomenon.

There is a theory that this anomaly is nothing but the machinations of our own psyche. More precisely, it is a “mental projection” of an unhealthy, developing or teenage psyche, which expresses an intensive internal negative energy. Nandor Fodor, the author of this theory, devoted most of his life to the study of poltergeist cases and found that almost in all the houses where strange things were happening, there was an unhealthy psychological atmosphere.

Parapsychologist William G. Roll also thinks that poltergeist activity occurs in families where adolescents had an unhappy childhood.

In the middle of the XX century there was another theory, which attempts to explain the phenomenon of poltergeist from the standpoint of physics. Some scientists believe that the ball lightning and this anomaly are phenomena of the same nature. It means that the poltergeist is caused by some natural forces that are not currently understood.

Yet there are no ways to deal with poltergeist. Or better to say, there are some ways, but they do not always help. One of the classic ways is to find a priest and ask him to bless the house. But until now, many people have no choice but to share their home with a being (though it is rather a phenomenon) of unknown origin.

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Cameron Macauley, The Boy Who Lived Before

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Ever since he was two years old and first started talking, Cameron Macauley has told of his life on the island of Barra. Cameron lives with his mum, Norma, in Glasgow. They have never been to Barra. He tells of a white house, overlooking the sea and the beach, where he would play with his brothers and sisters. He tells of the airplanes that used to land on the beach. He talks about his dog, a black and white dog.

Barra lies off the western coast of Scotland, 220 miles from Glasgow. It can only be reached by a lengthy sea journey or an hour long flight. It is a, distant, outpost of the British Isles and is home to just over a thousand people. Cameron is now five, and his story has never wavered. He talks incessantly about his Barra family, his Barra mum and Barra dad. His Barra dad he explains was called Shane Robertson and he died when he was knocked down by a car.

He has become so preoccupied with Barra and is missing his Barra mum so badly that he is now suffering from genuine distress. Norma considers herself to be open-minded, and would like to find out if there is any rational explanation for Cameron’s memories and beliefs that he was previously a member of another family on Barra. Her first port of call is Dr. Chris French, a psychologist who edits The Skeptic magazine which debunks paranormal phenomena. Not surprisingly, he discounts any talk of reincarnation mooting that a child’s over-active imagination can be fed by the multitude of television programmes available and the easy access to the Web.

Norma is not convinced, she does not believe that Cameron has ever watched programmes that could have provided this information. Norma’s next step is a visit to Karen Majors, an educational psychologist whose speciality is children and their fantasy lives. She considers that Cameron’s accounts are very different to normal childhood imaginary friends.

It has become clear to Norma that there are no easy answers to the questions thrown up by Cameron’s memories. Cameron has asked, persistently, to be taken to Barra. Norma has finally decided to make that journey.

In the past 40 years there have been reports of over 2,500 children who claim to have memories of a past life. At the University of Virginia, a department has been set up to investigate these stories.

Psychiatrist, Dr. Jim Tucker, is the director of research and he says “This is a world-wide phenomenon and happens in places and families with a belief in reincarnation and in places and families without a belief in reincarnation, and in a number of the cases the child’s statements have been verified to be accurate.”. Many of the cases defy a simple, rational explanation.

Dr, Tucker has been speaking to Norma and following Cameron’s case with interest. “Well, Cameron’s case certainly sounds like a very promising one. He’s given the name of a place which, fortunately, turns out to be very small and he’s also given the name of a person. So, with all the details he’s provided, if we’re able to verify a match that would be quite intriguing”. To follow this case as it unfolds would be, for Jim, a unique opportunity. He will fly from Virginia to Glasgow to join Norma and pursue the story in person.

They took a small British Airways flight to Barra, Cameron was very excited. He claimed to recognise many parts of the island, but they were unable to locate the house. They visit the local heritage centre to look for any record of a Robertson family but Calum MacNeil, the local historian, cannot find any suh record.
Next morning they receive a telephone call from Calum, he has some new information. Calum’s records were only for properties owned by islanders, but there was a Robertson family from the mainland living in a white house, close to the sea, at the north of the island during the 60′s and 70′s.

They follow the directions to this house without telling Cameron where they are going. When they arrive at the house, the normally talkative Cameron becomes strangely quiet and subdued. They find rock-pools below the house and a gate to the beach, just as Cameron as described. They have found the house, but much of it has been modernised so is unfamiliar to Cameron.

Through a genealogist they trace a Gillian Robertson still living in Scotland. She would have been a child at the time Cameron remembers living there. She confirms that there was a black and white border collie at the house, but says that there has never been a Shane Robertson or any deaths in her family.

Much of what Cameron claims to remember, appears to be valid, but there are many more unanswered question which will remain an enigma.

Gus (August) Taylor

One of Dr. Tucker’s most celebrated cases is that of ten year old Gus Taylor from the American Mid-West who claims to have memories of being his own grandfather. His father recalls that when Gus was about one and a half years old, he was changing his diaper when, all of a sudden, Gus said “You know, when I was your age I used to change your diaper”.

On one occasion his mother asked him “When you were Grandpa Augie, did you have any brothers or sisters?” Gus replied “Yes, I had a sister, but she died”. She had been murdered, a fact that was never discussed within the family, so how could he have known about it?

For many in the West, reincarnation is an alien idea. Chris French believes that it’s simply a comforting illusion which helps some people avoid the difficult realities of death.

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Russian ‘Ghost Ship’ Vanishes Without A Trace

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Well, this is spooky. An abandoned and possibly toxic cruise ship, lost somewhere in the North Atlantic, seems to have vanished from the high seas.

The Russian-made Lyubov Orlova left Canada bound for a scrapyard in the Dominican Republic on Jan. 23, according to the Agence France-Presse. After only one day, however, a cable snapped, leaving the ship adrift. The so-called “ghost ship” was located briefly in February as it floated aimlessly about 500 miles off the coast of Ireland. Then, in March, the Canadian Coast Guard reported that one of the ship’s emergency radio beacons, which activate after hitting the water or another object, flashed a location almost 800 miles off Newfoundland, according to the Vancouver Sun.

With no further sightings, some speculate that the ship has sunk.

Canada, for its part, doesn’t seem too broken up over the loss, as the boat had been abandoned in Canadian waters in 2010 after a reported financial dispute between the owner and a charter company, per Fox News. Once the ship drifted into international waters, the Canadian government largely washed its hands of the issue. As The Globe and Mail reported back in February, Canada’s transportation department said in a statement it was “very unlikely that the vessel will re-enter waters under Canadian jurisdiction.”

The boat’s whereabouts have received a good deal of attention in the international press, and the mystery surrounding the vessel has even spawned a website, “Where is Lyubov Orlova?”

On a sobering note, however, if the boat has wrecked somewhere, it could be leaking toxic fluids into the water, according to French environmental organization Robin du Bois.

“In case of a collision or sinking or any accident, the Lyubov Orlova will immediately release fuel … other toxic liquids, asbestos … mercury and other non-degradable floating waste,” the group declared in a statement, according to LiveScience.

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Teleportation as a Way of Traveling to Parallel Worlds?

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Stories about mysterious travels to parallel worlds are not uncommon. However, these reports often make us think whether these “journeys” to another world have some substance.

It is interesting that for a long time, the scientists have been developing a theory of teleportation, the phenomenon when an object is moved from one place to another in the shortest amount of time. And in 2011, this mysterious phenomenon started manifesting itself again.

In the beginning of 2011, a French scientist Luc Montagnier, who received the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine, has shocked the scientific world. He managed to beam a DNA sample from one test tube to another. Two separate test tubes were placed next to each other. One had pure water, and the other contained a DNA molecule. The test tube containing the DNA molecule was irradiated. Incredibly, after less than a day, the DNA was found in the test tube with water! Montagnier is convinced that this is only a first step in developing the theory of teleportation.

Interestingly, in addition to radiation, a lot of stress or negative circumstances experienced by a person can have similar effect. And most stories about mysterious travels are related to these events.

One of the ancient Mexican manuscripts contains a story about a sudden appearance of an unknown soldier on October 25, 1593 in Mexico City. According to his story, it was found that his regiment was stationed in the Philippines, 9 thousand miles from Mexico! The soldier claimed that in just a few seconds before his mysterious travel he had been on guard duty at the palace of the governor of the Philippines in Manila and incidentally became a witness to the murder of the governor. The man could not explain how he ended up in Mexico. The Inquisition has sentenced the man to be burned alive. Just a few months after his execution, the soldier’s story was confirmed by merchants who arrived from the Philippines.

Another mysterious event occurred in the Belorussian Military District in 1982. During the flight of the MiG-21 aircraft which took off to monitor the weather, it disappeared from radar screens. The search for the missing aircraft produced no results. But, to the astonishment of aviators, the next morning the fighter had safely landed on the runway of the airfield. It was a complete mystery, but for the pilot the scheduled flight lasted 12 assigned minutes.

In early May of 1968, near the town of Chaskomus (Argentina) right in front of many witnesses, the car with Dr. Gerardo Vidal and his wife had vanished into thin air. Friends and relatives began searching for the car. But neither the doctor nor the car could be found. Two days later, the man made a call himself. He was calling from the Argentine Consulate in Mexico City, which is located 6,400 miles away from the place where his car had disappeared. The Vidals could not explain their mysterious disappearance. However, they recalled a very bright light flashing before their eyes and moments later discovering themselves on a completely unfamiliar route.

A similar case occurred in 1999 with a young Italian man, who was described by American police as mad, and was taken to a psychiatric hospital in New York. The young man was not dressed for the weather and “intimidated” subway passengers by talking to them in an unknown language. However, further investigation revealed that the young man was sane and healthy, but very frightened. The young man claimed that a few minutes earlier, he was coming down the trail to the Tiber River. When he looked at the water, instead of his reflection he saw a bright light, and a moment later he was lying on the cold floor of the American subway.

hese stories are not unique. People were confused and had no clue about what was going on in the past, but today many scientists are inclined to believe in involuntary teleportation. Researchers have come up with a number of theories to explain this phenomenon. The first one was created in 1899 by a science fiction writer Ambrose Bierce from the U.S.

He explains his theory by saying “our space is like a knitted sweater: it can be put on, although, when you look closer, a sweater is full of holes. Suppose, an ant has ended up on the sleeve of the sweater. When it accidentally falls in between the loops, it will find itself in a completely different world, where it is dark and stuffy, and instead of the usual fir needles there is warm, soft skin … “

The second theory, developed by Albert Einstein, relies on the existence of a fourth spatial dimension - time. According to this explanation, the space periodically opens the black holes, through which objects from other worlds can penetrate into our universe.

Einstein’s theory has long been utilized by other experts, the ufologists. They claim that this is how mysterious alien aircraft objects appear on our planet. Ufologists often associate mass human abduction and disappearance events with teleportation. Scientists believe that extraterrestrials have long mastered this technique, if not the ability to open black holes at will, or at least their detection.

According to the third theory by Ralph Harrison introduced in 1938, teleportation follows the laws of meteorology. For example, in the area of Bermuda anomalous zone, the teleportation areas move under the influence of the Gulf Stream. “These events can occur in the atmosphere. When the channels open between worlds, living beings and objects travel through them to a parallel world and come back. Imagine yourself … being a caterpillar that has fallen on a man’s shoe.

Suppose you need to get to the other shoe, a journey through the leg, pelvis, and the other leg which will last at least a day, and it is also dangerous because you can easily fall off. But here is a man who accidentally crossed his legs so that you ended up on the other shoe, having made an instant journey in a matter of a day! “- explains Ralph Harrison.

However, although it is too early to draw any conclusions, recent scientific developments have brought us considerably closer to unlocking the world of one of the greatest mysteries. Perhaps, in the near future mankind will be able to master the art of teleportation.

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