Washington DC April 2011 the FBI releases thousands of files as part of its online FBI Vault one particular file draws the attention of the media and independent research the memo dated March 22nd 1950 is a briefing to FBI director J Edgar Hoover regarding informant information about three flying saucers that were recovered in … Read more
Beautiful, Ageless Visitors Who Share the Wisdom of the Universe As saucer sightings became more common in the late 1940s, alien visitors grew bolder—or human eyewitnesses became more imaginative. Soon, some people did not simply see flying saucers, but received friendly greetings from the crafts’ occupants and were sometimes invited inside. A lucky few enjoyed … Read more
Intelligence, SETI, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations Given the distances between stars, and thus between us and extra-solar planets, we can hardly be surprised not to have received indisputable knowledge of another intelligent civilization. Besides distance, other factors may militate against “us and them” getting together. Because animal species—and we are one —come … Read more
Beyond Our Sun The possibility of life of any sort appears more promising when we venture beyond our solar system. But consider: our galaxy is 100,000 light years across. A light year connotes distance: how far light travels in a year. As far as is known, nothing in the natural world is faster than light. … Read more
NASA Modern Thoughts About Intelligent Life in Our Solar System In order for life to establish itself and thrive, three things are necessary: free liquid (water is best); organic compounds; and energy, to build organic compounds from present molecules. Water (or water vapor) is a vehicle. Key organic compounds, and those that define all life … Read more
Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life All Shapes, Colors, and Sizes Among the most frequently reported alien types are grays (short, spindly, big- eyed creatures that have been the dominant ET form for some seventy years); insectoids (fictionalized most famously in the novel/film Starship Troopers); reptilians (an intimidating, shape-shifting form also called draconians, saurians, lizard people, and, less … Read more
Possible Shapes and Forms of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life In 1951, the brilliant science fiction illustrator Edd Cartier created a remarkable gallery of extraterrestrials for presentation as color plates in a hardcover, multiauthor story collection called Travelers of Space. The anthology came from Gnome Press, one of the legendary postwar publishers of high-quality science fiction. The … Read more
A MUTILATION WITNESSED At about 02.15 on 12 January 1997, Piedro Viera (pseudonym), a former police officer, was driving from Caguas to Humacao, on Route 30, which adjoins the southern borders of the El Yunque National Forest, when suddenly he saw a light in the sky, coming from the direction of El Yunque, growing larger … Read more
CHASING THE CHUPACABRAS Late 1994 saw a proliferation of mutilations in Puerto Rico, involving hundreds of animals. These mutilations were attributed to the chupacabras ‘goat- sucker’ and what Jorge Martin calls Anomalous Biological Entities (ABEs). Typically, the animals were found with small circular holes about a quarter-to a half-inch wide, though sometimes larger, arranged in … Read more
THE SPECIMEN In 1979 or 1980, a creature resembling some of those sighted in Puerto Rico, though smaller, was allegedly killed by a youth, José Luis ‘Chino’ Zayas, in a cave near a mountain behind the National Guard’s Santiago Camp. ‘We don’t really know if it’s alien-related,’ Jorge Martin emphasized to me. ‘We only know … Read more
