My wife and I were sightseeing in Colorado, when we came across this beautiful pot of flowers at a ski resort.It was in July, so nobody skiing.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
A POT of FLOWERS
My wife and I were sightseeing in Colorado, when we came across this beautiful pot of flowers at a ski resort.It was in July, so nobody skiing.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
N.Y. FIREFIGHTERS
This painting was inspired by a photo I took while watching a fire being put out by New York Firemen on a cold winter day.
MY PAINTINGS
Since my retirement from business I started painting. Most of my paintings are done with acrylic paint. I take great pains to put realism into my work.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
AIR FORCE LIES CAUSES THEM EMBARRASSMENT
To follow up on my previous post, government lies to explain away UFO sightings has caused the Air Force (which had the responibility of investigating UFOs) great embarrassment. If an explanation is challenged, a second explanation is all ready, and sometimes a third.
The summer of 1965 saw one of the biggest waves of UFO sightings in history. Thousands of people in the mid-west saw them. They were picked up on radar. They were photographed. They were even chased by Air Force jets. They were seen to hover and speed away at fantastic speeds. They zig-zaged and changed colors. They flew singley and in formation.
At first, the Air Force explanation for the mid-west sightings were as follows:
"The observations were astronomical in nature. The objects may have been the planet Jupiter or the stars Rigel, Capella, Betelgeuse or Aldeberan, all of which were visible." The Air Force said it's "conclusion" was supported by the time, the azimuth and elevation of the reported sightings.
To the average layman, this sounds very impressive and was probably accepted by most people. However, Robert Risser, director of the Oklahoma Planetarium knows about these matters.
"That's as far from the truth as you can get", Risser said. "Somebody has made a mistake. These stars and planets are on the opposite side of the earth from Oklahoma City at this time of the year."
An apparently embarrassed spokesman for the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base quickly corrected his story: "We didn't mean the Oklahoma sightings were those stars, we meant that the Montana state reports were stars."
The revision failed to soothe astronomer Risser. "What's the difference", he asked, "Those stars are no more visible from Montana than from Oklahoma City." Although Risser's reply was carried in newspapers all over the country and never publicly challenged by the Air Force, the records of these sightings at Wright-Patterson A.F. Base contain the official conclusion, "stars, misidentified." As far as the Air Force was concerned, the big wave of UFO reports is solved, and I defy anyone to get them to change their official evaluation. They also failed to explain why their jets were trying to catch those stars.
The summer of 1965 saw one of the biggest waves of UFO sightings in history. Thousands of people in the mid-west saw them. They were picked up on radar. They were photographed. They were even chased by Air Force jets. They were seen to hover and speed away at fantastic speeds. They zig-zaged and changed colors. They flew singley and in formation.
At first, the Air Force explanation for the mid-west sightings were as follows:
"The observations were astronomical in nature. The objects may have been the planet Jupiter or the stars Rigel, Capella, Betelgeuse or Aldeberan, all of which were visible." The Air Force said it's "conclusion" was supported by the time, the azimuth and elevation of the reported sightings.
To the average layman, this sounds very impressive and was probably accepted by most people. However, Robert Risser, director of the Oklahoma Planetarium knows about these matters.
"That's as far from the truth as you can get", Risser said. "Somebody has made a mistake. These stars and planets are on the opposite side of the earth from Oklahoma City at this time of the year."
An apparently embarrassed spokesman for the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base quickly corrected his story: "We didn't mean the Oklahoma sightings were those stars, we meant that the Montana state reports were stars."
The revision failed to soothe astronomer Risser. "What's the difference", he asked, "Those stars are no more visible from Montana than from Oklahoma City." Although Risser's reply was carried in newspapers all over the country and never publicly challenged by the Air Force, the records of these sightings at Wright-Patterson A.F. Base contain the official conclusion, "stars, misidentified." As far as the Air Force was concerned, the big wave of UFO reports is solved, and I defy anyone to get them to change their official evaluation. They also failed to explain why their jets were trying to catch those stars.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
UFOs and Government Secrecy
I've been active in UFO research for many years. At one time I was the Photographic Adviser to a private organization (NICAP) which investigated reports of UFOs. I found many photos which turned out to be fake. Some people seemed to get their kicks out of sending in phoney pictures, claiming it was a UFO that they had seen and photographed. However there were many more photos and reports given by reliable people (astronauts, police officers, pilots, etc.) who reported seeing, and sometimes photographing these unknown objects.
It amazes me that there are still people who can doubt the reality of these objects. The reason most of the doubters give is that scientists say we can never live long enough to go from this planet to some other planet which is beyond our solar system and then return. This may be true considering our present level of knowledge about our universe. When it comes to space travel we are in the embryonic stage. Can you imagine what a cave man would have said if he saw a jet plane zoom over his head? He would have denied he had seen it and said it was impossible for a bird to fly so fast.
In our present embryonic stage of space travel it is not realistic for us to deny a reality we see, photograph, track on radar, just because we can't duplicate the event ourselves. The expanations that our government gives to explain away these sightings is harder to believe than the reports themselves.
FOR EXAMPLE: On April 30, 1962, America's ace test pilot, Major Joe Walker was behind the controls of the famed X-15. He was flying in excess of 2,000 miles per hour in the earth's upper atmosphere. After the flight, the film from his rear-view movie camera revealed that he had been followed by a group of five disc-shaped or cylindrical objects. Most of the time they were flying in echelon formation.
Major Walker mentioned this strange incident on an NBC broadcast from Seattle. The films were shown at a news conference there, however, no prints were released and Walker has not made any further public statements on the objects.
The official explanation which followed the broadcast was that the objects which had followed the X-15 at 2,000 M.P.H. and flew in formation were...
"ice flakes!"
The unbelievable nature of this official explanation is one of the things which has been causing UFO skeptics to take another look at Flying Saucers. One reporter shook his head incredulously upon learning of a recent official explanation for a UFO sighting. "If there's nothing to these UFO reports", he asked, "why do they issue such obviously impossible explanations?"
I welcome any resonse from people regarding this blog. I have many more examples I could give you which are even more outlandish.
It amazes me that there are still people who can doubt the reality of these objects. The reason most of the doubters give is that scientists say we can never live long enough to go from this planet to some other planet which is beyond our solar system and then return. This may be true considering our present level of knowledge about our universe. When it comes to space travel we are in the embryonic stage. Can you imagine what a cave man would have said if he saw a jet plane zoom over his head? He would have denied he had seen it and said it was impossible for a bird to fly so fast.
In our present embryonic stage of space travel it is not realistic for us to deny a reality we see, photograph, track on radar, just because we can't duplicate the event ourselves. The expanations that our government gives to explain away these sightings is harder to believe than the reports themselves.
FOR EXAMPLE: On April 30, 1962, America's ace test pilot, Major Joe Walker was behind the controls of the famed X-15. He was flying in excess of 2,000 miles per hour in the earth's upper atmosphere. After the flight, the film from his rear-view movie camera revealed that he had been followed by a group of five disc-shaped or cylindrical objects. Most of the time they were flying in echelon formation.
Major Walker mentioned this strange incident on an NBC broadcast from Seattle. The films were shown at a news conference there, however, no prints were released and Walker has not made any further public statements on the objects.
The official explanation which followed the broadcast was that the objects which had followed the X-15 at 2,000 M.P.H. and flew in formation were...
"ice flakes!"
The unbelievable nature of this official explanation is one of the things which has been causing UFO skeptics to take another look at Flying Saucers. One reporter shook his head incredulously upon learning of a recent official explanation for a UFO sighting. "If there's nothing to these UFO reports", he asked, "why do they issue such obviously impossible explanations?"
I welcome any resonse from people regarding this blog. I have many more examples I could give you which are even more outlandish.
ABOUT ME
I'm a retired Commercial Photographer, with a lust for writing. Perhaps I can use these pages to satisfy my need to express myself.
I encourage those who want to disagree with anything I say to answer my blogs, as long as you understand that my words come with the experience of age. I will not intentionally lie to make a point.
MY HISTORY
I served in WWII as a U.S. Navy Seabee. I was a member of the 109th Seabee Battalion. Our area of action was in the Pacific. We helped to liberate Guam and the islands of Roi-Namur in the Marshal Islands.
After the war I met my future wife. We are still married after 59 years! After I retired from business in New York we moved to Florida, where we've been for over 32 years. We love it down here, except for the occasional hurricanes.
I encourage those who want to disagree with anything I say to answer my blogs, as long as you understand that my words come with the experience of age. I will not intentionally lie to make a point.
MY HISTORY
I served in WWII as a U.S. Navy Seabee. I was a member of the 109th Seabee Battalion. Our area of action was in the Pacific. We helped to liberate Guam and the islands of Roi-Namur in the Marshal Islands.
After the war I met my future wife. We are still married after 59 years! After I retired from business in New York we moved to Florida, where we've been for over 32 years. We love it down here, except for the occasional hurricanes.
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