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UFO researcher Stanton Friedman stuns Canadian UFO audience

  Quite a few people filed into the Mae Wilson Theatre on Saturday night for “An Evening With Stanton T. Friedman”, a nuclear physyicist delivering his lecture “Flying Saucers ARE Real”.
    “There’s no way to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about flying saucers in one lecture or ten lectures,” Friedman began.
    Friedman is a self-described UFologist. For all the time he has spent researching flying saucers, he has spent almost as much in battle with the “noisy negativists” who dismiss everything out of hand.
    He spent the bulk of his presentation on the famous Roswell crash.
    A rancher found wreckage of an unidentifiable craft in his field. The military swiftly sent in men to retrieve the wreckage. Maj. Jesse Marcel investigated the site, and described metals that were unheard of: small beams that were incredibly light but couldn’t be broken by hand, and metal that could be bent and then reform into its original shape. Marcel and the others who recovered the wreckage were silenced by their general.
    The wreckage was explained as a weather balloon, which contains nothing similar to the wreckage nor any flight patterns similar to what was witnessed before the crash.
    There were two reports of bodies found: small, grey, with spindly limbs. These were explained as crash-test dummies (which are made to look human).
    He discussed another incident where a small craft was seen landing. The soil that it imprinted was studied, and discovered to be sterile and non-absorbant.
    Many studies have been done into flying saucers. The largest ever was Project Blue Book. It concluded that there were only 3 per cent of UFO sightings that were not identified, and only because of insufficient data. However, within the actual report, the figures put unknown sightings at 21.3 per cent, and list insufficient data in another category.
    Friedman sought after the hundreds of UFO documents in the possession of the CIA and NSA, and had to take them to court before they would admit they had them. He eventually go the documents, though … 90 per cent whited out.
    He also talked about the elusive Operation Majestic 12, a top secret group reporting to President Truman, which remains as mysterious today as in 1947.
    There are many remaining mysteries, but Stanton Friedman shows no signs of slowing down.

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UFO researcher Stanton Friedman visits Canadian UFO Hotspot

Nuclear physicist and renowned UFO researcher Stanton Friedman brought his lecture Flying Saucers ARE Real to Moose Jaw and Regina on the weekend.

Friedman is not interested in all UFO sightings — simple reports of lights in the sky don’t really rate — only the minority that quite clearly defy any other explanation.

Friedman has passed his 72 years on Earth without ever having seen a UFO. But he has seen enough documents and photographs and talked to enough people willing to share their close encounters that he believes even without first-hand experience. He insists he’s interested in “real science,” not science fiction.

In an interview, Friedman recalled how someone recently scoffed at him about the implausibility of alien visits.

“All new discoveries are unlikely, or they would have been discovered before,” said the physicist, who points to nuclear fission and fusion as examples of the once inconceivable becoming reality.

“Absence of evidence is not evidence for absence,” added Friedman, who has little patience with “nasty, noisy negativists” who haven’t read the material he has.

Friedman speaks not with the blind faith of a zealot, but the careful conviction of a scientist who bases his opinion on 49 years of research. He relies, primarily, on what he calls “five large-scale scientific studies.” While he now resides in New Brunswick, the New Jersey-born Friedman’s interest was sparked in 1958.

He was working on nuclear airplanes for General Electric when he needed one more book to fill out a mail order. That’s how he ended up reading a report on unidentified flying objects by U.S. air force Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt.

“It intrigued me. It didn’t convince me.” Friedman dug a little deeper, including taking a look at Project Blue Book, a 1955 study by the U.S. air force detailing UFO sightings. “It shook me up,” he said.

His quest to learn more took him to Roswell, N. M., where he became the first civilian to document the controversial site where some believe an alien spacecraft crashed in July 1947.

While Friedman is eager to speak about his convictions and theories — having done hundreds of lectures across Canada and the U.S. and 16 other countries since first going public in 1967 — he still finds most people are not. Often he’ll ask his audiences who has seen a flying saucer, and about 10 per cent of the hands in the room will go up. When he asks how many reported their sighting, 90 per cent of the hands go down. “They’d think I was some kind of a nut,” is the usual explanation given, Friedman said.

Clearly, some people in this province have overcome their reluctance. The Winnipeg-based Ufology Research Institute recently reported its third-largest number of UFO sightings last year at 736. Saskatchewan placed third among the provinces, with a record 98 sightings.

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Was it a UFO in Illinois?

Bloomington, Illinois - An object that smashed through a window on its way to landing in a Bloomington home could be a meteorite, experts say.

The grayish, metallic object, which is about the size of a deck of cards, crashed into a computer table in the home of a surprised Dee Riddle. She said she came to investigate after she heard something smash through a bedroom window on Monday morning.

Intrigued scientists from nearby Illinois State University said it was likely a meteorite.

“In my 36 years of investigating meteorite calls, this looks like the real thing,” said Robert Nelson, a geology professor at ISU. The last confirmed meteorite to strike Bloomington was in the 1930s, he said.

Nelson and other experts ruled out the possibility that it had been thrown by someone near the house, and they said it was not likely to have been space junk from a satellite or spacecraft.

The US Geological Survey’s meteorite centre in Flagstaff, Arizona, will help in trying to identify the object, Nelson said.

“We were just lucky no one was sitting at the computer when it happened,” she said.

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