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20 of the world's leading UFOlogists establish that humans have
done battle with aliens over and over again, shooting at them,
molesting them, hitting them, running them over, unleashing dogs
upon them, and injuring -- and even killing them -- though any means
possible, as humans try to combat their fear of the unknown. In
many instances the aliens have fought back. They have sought revenge,
and more often than not, gotten it. Here are over a hundred
reports of the strangest close encounters with humanoids who use force
to defend themselves -- such as the case of the NY hunter whose rifle
was ripped from his hands, the shotgun barrel twisted, and than handed
back to him. There is also the crash landing of a UFO in Kingman, AZ
which involved 8 UFOs positioning themselves in the sky in combat
position, apparently returning to find any survivors of their
doomed craft, and to protect themselves in doing so. IS THERE A BLACK UFO EXPERIENCE?
The
second part of the book's "mission," is to disprove the concept held
by many that African Americans are not prone to have UFO
experiences or to hold a belief or interest in the subject. One
contributor, Prof. Stephen Finley of the University of Louisiana,
explains how UFOs are part of the overall "Black experience" of many
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- WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT DEPARTMENT -
Airliner Encountered Strange Cylindrical Object Over New Mexico
By Tyler Rogoway

American Airlines Flight 2292, an Airbus A320 flying between Cincinnati
and Phoenix on February 21st, 2021, had a bizarre close encounter with
what its crew described as a "long cylindrical object that almost
looked like a cruise missile" moving extremely fast over the top of
their aircraft as it cruised along at 36,000 feet and 400 knots. The
incident occurred over the remote northeast corner of New Mexico, to
the west of the tiny town of Des Moines.
Steve Douglass, an experienced radio interceptor and the proprietor of
Deep Black Horizon, told The War Zone that he was recording from his
arsenal of scanners when he heard the strange transmission. The War
Zone has reviewed over an hour of audio that Douglass has provided to
us from before and after the strange radio call. We are working to
authenticate it from the FAA and get further information and comment
from the agency on the event. We have also reached out to American
Airlines for any additional details they can provide.
From Steve's blog on the encounter:
At approximately 1:19 CST on the Albuquerque Center
frequency of 127.850 MHz or 134.750 MHz (recording wasn't frequency
stamped) the pilot reported: "Do you have any targets up here? We
just had something go right over the top of us - I hate to say this but
it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a
cruise missile type of thing - moving really fast right over the top of
us."
According to Flight 24 and Flight Aware AAL 2292 was
over the northeast corner of New Mexico west of Clayton, New Mexico. No
reply was monitored by Albuquerque Center because local (Amarillo) air
traffic walked on top of it. AAL 2292 was near flight level 370 (37k)
at the time of the report.
No significant military aircraft presence was noted on ADS-B logs.
The aircraft flew on to land in Phoenix, AZ.
Steve has provided the radio clip for download, you can listen to it here.
The incident is very similar to one that occurred in the same region almost exactly three years ago, which The War Zone was the first to report on.
During that event, a Learjet and an Airbus both had consecutive close
encounters with an unidentified object that flew over the top of them
while cruising at around 37,000 feet over eastern Arizona. Later, the
highly experienced Learjet pilot, which was flying for military
contractor Phoenix Air, described to local news outlets just how
strange the encounter was. His description is somewhat similar to the
one from another odd encounter we reported on that occurred off of Long
Island.
The description of a missile-like object also fits with some of the
documented encounters U.S. Navy fighter pilots had with anomalous
objects off the eastern seaboard throughout the last decade. The War
Zone published official reports that we obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) as a result of our deeper investigation into
seemingly unexplained encounters between U.S. Navy fighter crews and
strange objects during that same period of time that mentions similar
descriptions.
American Airlines has confirmed that the event in question, stating:
"Following a debrief with our Flight Crew and additional information
received, we can confirm this radio transmission was from American
Airlines Flight 2292 on Feb. 21. For any additional questions on this,
we encourage you to reach out to the FBI."
The FAA has released a short statement, which reads:
"A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico
shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic
controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes."
While very little detail is provided in this official message, we know
now that this was not a case of mistaken identity with another normal
aircraft that was operating in the vicinity of Flight 2292.
There had been some speculation, and rightfully so, that what the
pilots may have seen was a Learjet 60 that passed at an angle in front
of and above Flight 2292 during this portion of its flight.
One major issue with this theory was that this occurred about nine
minutes before the radio call was supposedly made. In addition, the
Learjet was traveling 5,000 feet above the Airbus and passed in front
of it at an angle about eight miles in distance. This is not something
out of the ordinary that the pilots should have reacted to in such a
puzzled fashion.
Source: The Drive
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39367/airbus-encountered-unidentified-fast
-moving-cylindrical-object-over-new-mexico
- CRASH GO THE SAUCERS DEPARTMENT -
The Kingman, Arizona UFO Crash Case
By Timothy Green Beckley and Sean Casteel

With a population hovering
around 20,000 today, Kingman is well-known for its location as a Route
66 gateway. Western star Andy Devine was born and raised in the town,
and Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married at the rectory of Saint
John’s Methodist Episcopal Church, during a break in the shooting of
“Gone with the Wind.” Pamela Anderson did one of her 1992 Playboy photo
shoots at the corner of 4th Street and Andy Devine Avenue (US Route
66), and was brought in by the Kingman Police Department for indecent
exposure. She was not charged, but was asked to write a letter of
apology. (The town should apologize to her!)
It’s one of the most intriguing UFO “crash” cases of all time, which
actually involves three separate episodes, starting in 1947 and
continuing until today, but having its biggest impact in 1953. It even
involves surviving human-alien occupants, gigantic forest fires which
the ETs were thought to have been responsible for with the crash of
their craft, and their escape from a guarded underground jail cell.
This has to be one of the greatest UFO mysteries of all time, but it is
a case that has been pooh-poohed by skeptics who have never even
checked into this intriguing tale. So it pretty much went by the
wayside until historian Harry Drew stepped in and took matters into his
own hands. His investigation has lasted over six years and is still
ongoing.
The story of Kingman’s incredible UFO incident is a long and winding
one, and is told in all its glorious detail in the massive, 538-page,
oversized book, “ Alien Lives Matter – It’s OK To Be Grey.”
with its twenty odd contributors, including the authors of this
article. Weighing in at 3.5 pounds, this is not a coffee table book –
this is the coffee table!
The book is broken into two parts: Some call these cases mere “Urban
Legends,” but, in shocking contrast, they are “all too real!” Over 20
of the world’s leading UFOlogists establish that humans have done
battle with aliens over and over again, shooting at them, molesting
them, hitting them, running them over, unleashing dogs upon them, and
injuring — even killing them — through any means possible, as humans
try to combat their fear of the unknown. In multiple instances, the
aliens have fought back on land, in the air and in the seas. They have
sought revenge, and, more often than not, gotten it, as these
documented cases illustrate.
IS THERE A BLACK UFO EXPERIENCE?
The second part of the book’s “mission” is to dispel the concept held
by many that African-Americans are not prone to have UFO experiences or
to hold a belief or interest in the subject. Prof. Stephen Finley, of
the University of Louisiana, explains how UFOs are part of the overall
“Black experience.” Ours is a salute to the unsung “patriots of
UFOlogy,” who have not been given the credit they deserve for their
work in this field. We will cover this topic thoroughly in another
piece.
KINGMAN WAS ONCE A GHOST OF A TOWN
Back when all the UFO activity got started, Kingman, AZ, was a “ghost
of a town,” with about 3000 residents and a military base that had been
closed for a while.
Of all the alleged UFO retrieval cases that have come to my attention,
one incident – which is actually several incidents rolled up into one
dynamic case – stands out, at least to us, above the rest.
This is a five star ***** case in anybody’s book – especially in ours!
It contains so many riveting elements that it’s hard to believe all
these events took place over a period stretching from the late 1940s to
1953, but still continue in the area to this day for those “insiders”
who are willing to persist in their investigations.
These “riveting elements” include:
** – An aerial overflight with a squadron of eight UFOs in fight formation.
** – At least one “UFO crash,” and two other “soft landings,” all documented and verified.
** – The connection between not one but two fierce forest fires and arson possibly caused by the arrival of “outside agitators.”
** – An incident in which human-looking Ultra-terrestrials were sighted
in the area and taken into “protective custody,” only to have them
vanish under the strangest of circumstances.
** – The disembarking in a “peculiar vehicle” to points unknown by unknown alien allies.
* * * * * * * * * *
AN ATOMIC BOMB TEST
No one can be a hundred percent certain why Kingman attracted so much –
almost maniacal – attention from the “sky people,” though an atomic
bomb test in a neighboring state may have drawn them to the area.
One witness, Judith Ann Wolcott, has gone on record with the following
proclamation concerning an atomic bomb test and the sighting of a UFO
in close proximity.
“On May 19, 1953, at 05:05 AM local time, at Yucca Flat, Nevada, around
175 miles north of Kingman, one of a series of nuclear tests under the
umbrella code-named Upshot-Knothole was set off. Sunrise that day was
around 6:21, so, at the time of the blast the whole of the night sky
was dark except for a slight pre-dawn glow along the eastern horizon.
Within seconds of the blast some sort of a dark airborne object moving
at an ultra-high rate of speed swept past to the east, traveling in a
southerly direction almost as though it came from the test site
tracking on a slightly downward trajectory and headed toward the
mountains to the south.
“As the object lost altitude, suddenly a huge flash of light lit up the
sky in the nearby mountains forward of the southern horizon. All along
the object appeared to be unsteady, fairly thin, and possibly
flat-circular. Although the sun was below the horizon the object was
still high enough that it was able to catch the direct rays of the sun,
wobbling enough that it was able to throw off a brilliant glint of
sunlight from some portion of its underside as it tipped upward only to
disappear as it tipped back. The flash of light near the base of the
mountains was soon followed by a sound like a single clap of thunder.”
One individual has gone a long way in convincing me that that a series
of UFO “crashes” outside the town of Kingman, AZ, might well be the
most important UFO recovery case of all time, far surpassing even
Roswell in notoriety and documentation.
We shall hear from historian Harry Drew as we continue down one long
sandy desert road to find out the truth about the UFO retrieval at
Kingman.
* * * * * * * * * *
Turning back the clock to Friday, May, 22, 1953, the headline on the front page of the “ Prescott Courier” cried out –
“DON’T LOOK NOW, BUT FLYING SAUCERS RETURN”
While the header just over the story itself reads: – “ OBJECTS NOTED IN FORMATION FOR FULL HOUR”
FULL TEXT RELATED TO THE KINGMAN INCIDENT
“Return of Flying Saucers over Prescott with graphic accounts of their
capers in the skies were reported here Friday to give credence to the
stories of spaceships possibly from the outer world.
“Three reliable Prescott residents, one of whom previously scoffed at
the stories of flying saucers and spaceships, were a bit reluctant
Friday to tell of their witnessing the acrobatics of a ‘herd’ of these
mysterious objects.
“The men, Bill Beers, president of the Prescott Sportsmen’s Club, Ray
Temple, a post office employee, and O. Ed Olson, told of watching eight
disc-like objects in the sky Thursday morning.
“The three had gone to Del Rio Springs Creek, some thirty miles north
of the city, to check for trout placed in the stream for this week’s
children’s fishing derby when they noticed the objects. They couldn’t
believe what they saw: eight flying saucers appearing simultaneously.
“Temple was first to see the saucers and called them to the attention
of his companions. Temple and Beers both gave a description of the
objects and their activity to a Courier reporter.
“Beer, who has flown planes in the past 20 years, said the objects
could not possibly have been planes, birds or balloons. He said that
until yesterday he had pooh-poohed reports on flying saucers, but he
was ‘no longer a skeptic.’
As it turns out, the Kingman incident is a touchy subject indeed, as it
has long been covered up to a large degree by a cloak of disinformation
and deception, due to a large degree of ignorance on the part of those
who have not bothered to check the “facts” on their own, but have
simply relied upon the negative reports issued by others who have never
been to the scene or looked into the history of the case. Truly, it is
a an incident – actually, a series of incidents – with many layers, a
mystery inside a riddle, that has remained for the most part hidden
under the desert sands of Arizona for generations, but thanks to one
individual the Kingman retrieval is now about to be revealed in a new
light.
If it wasn’t for an article published more than halfway across the
country twenty years after the incident is said to have taken place, we
probably would never have had the opportunity to learn about the
incident in question. The original reference comes from an article that
appeared in the Farmington, Massachusetts, edition of the “Middlesex
News,” published on April 23, 1973. It came to light because a young
man was planning to do a science project for school. The article came
to the attention of longtime UFO researcher Raymond Fowler, who
followed up on the case and was able to locate the key witness to the
retrieval who maintains that he was in the military and assigned to the
scene for recovery purposes.
The man, first identified as Fritz Werner for “security purposes,” was
later revealed as being Arthur Stansel. Meeting with Werner/Stansel,
Raymond Fowler was able to get the witness to this incredible event to
sign an affidavit swearing to his role in the Kingman incident. It is
part of a 95-page report prepared by Fowler at the time for the
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
“Beers said the objects appeared to be about 10,000 feet in the air, but it was hard to judge not knowing the size of the craft.
“Both Beers and Temple said two of the discs remained alone and
stationary during the hour as they were observed around 10 AM yesterday
morning. The two stationary objects swooped around in formation, broke
formation, ‘peeled-off’ and shot directly up and down in a manner that
could not be duplicated by a plane. When the (eight crafts) moved, they
varied from very slow to speeds faster than a jet plane, the observers
reported.
“After performing these aerial acrobatics for an hour, all eight of the craft then sped off together toward Prescott.
“The day previous, March 20th, a woman and her granddaughter saw a ‘glowing object’ drifting over Copper Basin Road.”
THE EARLY ELEMENTS OF THE STORY
As it turns out, the Kingman incident is a touchy subject indeed, as it
has long been covered up to a large degree by a cloak of disinformation
and deception, due to a large degree of ignorance on the part of those
who have not bothered to check the “facts” on their own, but have
simply relied upon the negative reports issued by others who have never
been to the scene or looked into the history of the case. Truly, it is
a an incident – actually, a series of incidents – with many layers, a
mystery inside a riddle, that has remained for the most part hidden
under the desert sands of Arizona for generations, but thanks to one
individual the Kingman retrieval is now about to be revealed in a new
light.
If it wasn’t for an article published more than halfway across the
country twenty years after the incident is said to have taken place, we
probably would never have had the opportunity to learn about the
incident in question. The original reference comes from an article that
appeared in the Farmington, Massachusetts, edition of the “Middlesex
News,” published on April 23, 1973. It came to light because a young
man was planning to do a science project for school. The article came
to the attention of longtime UFO researcher Raymond Fowler, who
followed up on the case and was able to locate the key witness to the
retrieval who maintains that he was in the military and assigned to the
scene for recovery purposes.
The man, first identified as Fritz Werner for “security purposes,” was
later revealed as being Arthur Stansel. Meeting with Werner/Stansel,
Raymond Fowler was able to get the witness to this incredible event to
sign an affidavit swearing to his role in the Kingman incident. It is
part of a 95-page report prepared by Fowler at the time for the
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
Read the rest of the story at Spectral Vision.
- OPENING THE FILES DEPARTMENT -
Brazilian Military Investigates Dramatic UFO Incidents
By George Knapp

For more than 40 years, UFO sightings and encounters in Brazil have been investigated by the country’s leading UFOlogist.
The researcher is A.J. Gevaerd. Gevaerd has also been publishing an
international UFO journal for more than 40 years and recalls how the
Air Force responded to a dramatic increase in UFO sightings years ago.
Some of the sightings were similar to the recent UFO sighting by the crew of an American Airlines jet over New Mexico.
American government officials haven’t had much to say about this
near-miss UFO case. But in radio traffic the pilot says an unknown
cylindrical object zoomed over their flight Sunday afternoon.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are both said to be investigating.
This type of sighting is not unique to the United States. In Brazil,
the fifth largest country on Earth, by both population and geographical
area, there is one man who is considered the top UFO investigator in
the country.
Brazil, like the U.S., has a long history of UFO incidents, but
according to the nation’s leading civilian researcher, the Brazilian
Air Force decided years ago to be more transparent with its
investigations.
“They assembled a team of men, 30 to 40 men heavily equipped to
investigate those lights,” Gevaerd told George Knapp on Mystery Wire in
a recent interview. “It was called Operation Saucer,
which is the largest military mission that we have knowledge (of) in
the world to investigate those things. Operation Saucer men stayed at
their location for four months from September to December 1977. And
they were able to make over 500 photos of the objects, 500 photos and
16 hours of film.”
Gevaerd has shared thousands of pages of documents released by the air force related to Operation Saucer.
George Knapp
Can you sort of introduce yourself to our audiences who are not
familiar with your work, how long you’ve been involved in UFO research
and how the different ways that it manifests itself, your magazines and
conferences, things like that?
A. J. Gevaerd
Well, I’m involved with the UFO since my childhood. The first book I
ever read was Erich von Däniken’s first one, the Chariots of the Gods
in the 70s. When I was seven years old, then I then I started
investigating you for this as early as when I was 12 years old. My
first lecture was on four when I was 14 years old. And I never stopped
I do all the things that can be done in the UFO segment. If I heard of
a case, if I have a report, I investigate, I write about I share with
my colleagues in Brazil, and abroad. And I published the magazine, the
Brazilian UFO magazine, which is about to be 40 years old, the longest
leaving UFO magazine in the world is still in print. We have a version
of digital version as well. But we are still in print. And among all
that. I do lectures, I’ve been to over 60 countries in 180
international trips to lecture. Only in the United States have been 70
times lecturing all over. So is that life dedicated to the UFO
phenomenon.
George Knapp
Well, your magazine is terrific. It’s high quality. It’s read all over
the world. Can you give me a sense of what the level of public interest
is in this topic in your country right now? Has it gone up during the
quarantine? Or is it about the same?
A. J. Gevaerd
It has been going up since the last 20 years and the quarantine make it
a little higher. The interest of population like 20 years ago, only one
third of the population believed that we were being visited by other
forms of life, intelligent live from outside Earth. Now it’s the
opposite. It’s two thirds of the society of the Brazilian population
that believes that we are being visited by other forms of life, and
that the government knows about it. But this is because like 15 years
ago, we started a movement, a very strong movement, to ask our military
to come clean about the UFOs, to declassify their documents, and
something some people thought it was a childish idea that the
government, that the military would come straight about it, would come
clean about it. But they did. And they released over 20 pages of UFO
official documentation that was classified as secret before. And it can
be read by anybody in the National Archives, which is a national
National Public Library. So Brazil has the most well succeeded,
movement coming from people coming from the society because either for
researchers or for society, to make a government to release its papers.
George Knapp
You know, the US government, we’ve learned so much about secret
programs in the last three years, programs that existed that they would
never admit. Can you describe the relationship that you have with your
government and military? And how long that’s been going on where they
have been more open than our government has been?
A. J. Gevaerd
It has, our government is more open. For instance, well, first of all,
we were the first country to ever admit that UFOs exist. That was 1954.
I mean, publicly. It was made by a military captain, called Manuel, I
don’t remember … I’m sorry. And he said, in a public hearing that UFOs
exists in the Brazilian Air Force knows about it and will investigate
it. And it actually did during several several times in history. We
investigated UFOs officially, like 1968 and 69 on the operation or
Project Bluebook in the United States to cover up the thing, cover up
the whole thing. We in Brazil had a huge structure within the walls of
the Brazilian Air Force, General headquarters to investigate your
(inaudible) was called system of investigation for evidence by
flying objects. And it resulted in 1000s of pages of reports of UFOs
made by population, which was where some of them were selected, to be
investigated by the military. So the military will go to farmers who go
to the land or go to the field to talk to people about UFOs. Then in
their results, there are even cases in which UFOs landed we cruise, so
we check the lands on outside being reported by the military, Brazil
military. Now, 10 years ago, the former commander of the Brazilian Air
Force issued a document that they’re mining, that all units of the
Brazilian information that had reports of UFOs or received reports of
UFOs should send them out to Brazil, the federal capital, where is the
Brazilian commander of airspace in space Aerospace Defense Command over
there to be scrutinized and then sent to the National Archives. It was
an official thing published in the official journal of Brazil, where
all the the acts from the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary
are published.

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Sea Serpent Photographed
Off Coast of Devon

An unidentified sea creature with a long neck and small
head has been photographed stalking a shoal of fish - just yards off
the British coast.
The fish were so terrified they beached themselves just seconds later.
The strange "sea-serpent" creature was spotted just 30 yards off the
Devon coast by locals who reported a sighting of what they first
thought was a turtle.
But pictures taken by one of the baffled witnesses reveal its neck is
far too long for any known sea turtle. Experts are scratching their
heads and are totally baffled by the sighting.
Gill Pearce photographed the creature following a shoal of fish at
Saltern Cove in Paignton, Devon, on July 27.
She at first thought it was a large sea turtle but baffled experts say
it doesn't fit the description because the greenish- brown beast with a
small reptile head has too long a neck.
Mrs Pearce reported her sighting to the Marine Conservation Society
where it was studied by sea life experts.
"Gill Pearce spotted the creature about 20 metres from the bay at
Saltern Cove, near Goodrington," said Clare Fischer from the MCS.
"It was observed at about 15.30 on 27 July but by the time she had got
her camera it had moved further out.
"She spotted it following a shoal of fish which beached themselves in
Saltern Cove.
"The creature remained in the sea, then went out again and followed the
shoal - this indicates it's not a turtle as they only eat jellyfish.
"We would love to know if other people have seen anything like this in
the same area and can help clear up the mystery."
Some people think the sea sighting could be linked to that of a sperm
whale sighted off south Devon recently but Clare thinks not.
"They [sperm whales] wouldn't come that close inshore and the
reptilian-like head counts that out - at least that's what the experts
are saying!"
The sighting has caused a stir on the MCS website too where theories
range from sea serpent to salt water crocodile.
An MCS spokesman said: "It was reported as a turtle as it had large
front flippers and small back flippers and what appeared to be a shell
but was also said to have a small head on a thin neck about two-feet
long which craned above the surface like a Plesiosaur.
"It's described as being as long as a sea lion with a long neck which
floated at the same height in the water all the time."
"This is not a fake.
"The problem is the distance and clarity from which the photos were
taken.
"The lady thought it may have been a turtle - but turtles don't chase
fish
"It was reported as a turtle as it had large front flippers and small
back flippers and what appeared to be a shell.
"But it was also said to have a small head on a thin neck about two
feet long, which craned above the surface like a Plesiosaur.
"No sea turtles do that with their heads and we do not know of
similarly described freshwater turtles that grow so big.
"So at the moment it is 'unidentified' - the person who reported it has
trawled the internet and says the closest ID fit is a giant green sea
turtle - but the description of the head doesn't add up."
The organisation has now asked for people to keep a keen watch on the
seas off South Devon and appealed for more photos to be taken., adding:
"If you live or are visiting down near Saltern Cove Goodrington, near
Paignton please keep your eyes on the sea and let us know if you see
anything - and keep your camera by your side just in case."
Peter Richardson, MCS biodiversity programme manager, said: "It might
be a green turtle but they are usually the size of a dinner plate.
"It could be another Lock Ness monster or a number of things.
"At the moment it's an unidentified mystery creature and we don't know
what it is.
"Two people have reported seeing a creature about three metres long
with a small head on a two-and-a-half foot neck which came out of the
water to look around.
"From the photographs it looks like it could be a basking shark and the
tail fin could have been mistaken for a head but the people who saw it
said it had large flippers and was about the size of a sea lion.
"It could be a crocodile but they are not seen very often and I called
the local zoo to ask if anything had escaped but they said they didn't
know what it was.
"It would be great to find out what it is so we are asking people in
the area to look out for it."
Source: This is Plymouth (UK)
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Mystery-ancient-sea-creature-stalks-
fish-death-coast-Devon/article-2474888-detail/article.html
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CENTURY
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Nikola Tesla Predicted Text
Messages in 1909

Texting may be a boon in today's world, but the concept was visualised
more than a century ago.
And, it was a pioneering American physicist who had predicted about the
portable messaging service, like the SMS, via a hand-held device in the
'Popular Mechanics' magazine in 1909, its Technology Editor Seth Porges
has claimed.
Nikola Tesla, the physicist and a mechanical engineer, whose name lives
on at the electric car maker Tesla Motors saw wireless energy as the
only way to make electricity thrive, according to Porges.
Tesla wrote in the magazine that one day it'd be possible to transmit
"wireless messages" all over the world and imagined that such a
hand-held device would be simple to use and one day everyone in the
world would communicate to friends using it, Porges said.
This would usher in a new era of technology, Telsa wrote in the
publication.
"Nikola Tesla was able to predict technology which is still in its
nascent forms a hundred years later. He talked a lot about his other
great passion, which was wireless power.
"It has taken a little longer to get off the ground, but work on
fascinating wireless conductive transmission is going on right now in
research centres at MIT and Intel and other places," Porges said.
Porges disclosed Tesla's prediction at a presentation, '108 years of
futurism' to industry figures in New York.
The magazine, which has nine international editions that is read by
millions, has been trying to imagine how the world will look in future
years since it was first published in January 1902.
Source: Yahoo News
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20100504/1243/ttc-tesla-predicted-sms-in1909.html
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Chupacabra Lives in San Antonio's Latino lore
By René A. Guzman

The chupacabra has been called
the Bigfoot of Latino culture, an urban legend said to drain the blood
of goats and other farm animals from South America to south Texas. It’s
name is Spanish for “goat sucker.” And like Bigfoot, the chupacabra
also has eluded capture and provided no credible evidence that it
exists.
Still, at least one citizen scientist sees the chupacabra as both a
cultural phenomenon and a modern spin on the world’s most storied
bloodsucker.
“It’s basically a vampire or a small, evil, fairy-type creature, which
are popular archetypes in Latino culture,” said Ken Gerhard, a docent
at the San Antonio Zoo and a widely recognized cryptozoologist.
Cryptozoology is the study and search for so-called “cryptids,” hidden
animals whose existence defies scientific evidence or substantiation,
such as Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster, bizarre beasts that live
on in alleged sightings and indecipherable photos and videos.
Gerhard has traveled the world in search of such “X-Files” fare,
skeptical as Dana Scully yet still wanting to believe like Fox Mulder.
“I’ve never found one yet,” Gerhard said. “But I still look.”
When it comes to chupacabras, Gerhard said they just aren’t the most
credible cryptids. He noted there’s neither physical evidence a
chupacabra exists nor any sort of biological reality or animal group
that a chupacabra would fit in to.
“It’s almost a little bit too weird,” Gerhard said.
On ExpressNews.com: Meet the T. rex of Texas that prowled the San Antonio area more than 100 million years ago
Yet more than 25 years since its first alleged sighting, Gerhard said
the chupacabra remains a quirky cucuy or boogeyman that fits well into
pop culture and especially Latin culture.
So much so that the San Antonio Zoo the zoo opened the first-ever
chupacabra exhibit at a zoological facility in September. Located by
the zoo’s bat habitat, a replica of the fabled creature greets patrons
with a face full of fangs and a back full of quills.
“We’re excited to educate the public and our visitors about the elusive
and legendary chupacabra,” San Antonio Zoo President and CEO Tim Morrow
said in a statement at the time. “This new one-of-a-kind habitat is
sure to spark both the imagination of what wildlife exists that we
haven’t yet discovered and the desire to conserve species, both known
and unknown.”
Just days after that zoo debut, an anonymous rancher on San Antonio’s
South Side reportedly killed a strange creature that was stalking his
livestock. His first guess: “Chupacabra!”Rob Coke, director of
veterinary care at the San Antonio Zoo, reportedly looked at photos of
the carcass and deemed it a coyote with mange.
Which is it? chupa-fact or chupa-fiction? Or maybe it’s both? Here’s
what we know about the chupacabra. At least, what they want us to know.
A Puerto Rican export. The chupacabra, or “Venator nocturnus” according
to the San Antonio Zoo exhibit, stalks most of South and Central
America as well as northern Mexico and the southern United States. That
is, according to reports of livestock deaths attributed to the creature.
The first chupacabra sightings date back to March 1995 in Puerto Rico,
where reports circulated of several sheep found dead with puncture
wounds in their chest and purportedly drained of their blood.
A comedian came up with the name. Puerto Rican comedian Silverio Pérez
coined the term “chupacabra” in 1995 while discussing the creature’s
attacks. The Spanish word literally translates to “goat-sucker,” as in
“chupa” (“to suck”) and “cabra” (“goat”). The name comes from the
creature’s purported habit of sucking the blood of goats and other
livestock.
An urban legend with different legs. The chupacabra often is described
as a hairless reptilian creature around 3 feet tall with gray-green
skin and spines or quills down its back. But how it walks depends on
where it’s spotted.
South and Central America sightings describe the chupacabra as a
goblinlike humanoid that walks upright on two legs, while sightings in
Mexico and the US describe the chupacabra as a canine or doglike
creature that walks on all fours.
Gerhard was not involved in the chupacabra exhibit at the San Antonio
Zoo, but said its canine-leaning depiction of the cryptid is “a
wonderful synthesis” of the varying chupacabra descriptions.
On ExpressNews.com: Yep, San Antonio gets its share of wild alligators. On guard, Fluffy!
H.R. Giger may have inspired the first description. The first
eyewitness account of the chupacabra likens its appearance to Sil, a
sinewy alien-human hybrid with spines down her back in the 1995 sci-fi
horror film, “Species.” Sil was designed by H.R. Giger, the Swiss
artist famous for the title terror of the “Alien” films.
In August 1995, Madelyne Tolentino in Puerto Rico alleged she saw a
chupacabra in the municipality of Canóvanas. Researcher and skeptic
Benjamin Radford interviewed Tolentino for his 2011 book, “Tracking the
Chupacabra.” He concluded her description was based on the creature
from “Species,” which Tolentino had seen just the week before her
report.
Gerhard believes the internet popularized Tolentino’s description and variations spun from there.
Then again, it’s likely a mangy coyote. As Coke with the San Antonio
Zoo noted, most chupacabra sightings in Mexico and the United States
are debunked as coyotes with severe mange. Likewise, stray Mexican
hairless dogs get mistaken for chupacabras.
Gerhard has examined half a dozen animal carcasses referred to as
chupacabras. He said DNA testing and bone and skull analysis revealed
all of them were dogs or coyotes with some sort of mange or genetic
deformity.
They don’t really suck blood, either. Dead livestock attributed to
chupacabra attacks may bear puncture wounds, but those holes tend to
correspond to bites made by canine teeth. There also are no reported
autopsies that confirm the dead animals were drained of their blood.
So why do so many accounts mention bloodless victims? Gerhard noted
when an animal dies, its body goes into rigor mortis and its blood
drains to the lowest part of the body where it coagulates. This gives
the carcass a gaunt, drained appearance.
On ExpressNews.com: Ringtails, a catlike creature with the head of a fox, on the rise in San Antonio’s Stone Oak
A ufologist put San Antonio on the map for chupacabra investigation.
Horror writer and San Antonio native Whitley Strieber is perhaps best
known for “Communion,” his 1987 account of alleged experiences with
aliens. But Gerhard noted Strieber also was instrumental in a
chupacabra investigation.
In 2004, a rancher killed and buried the so-called “Elmendorf Beast,”
an alleged chupacabra blamed for livestock attacks in South Bexar
County. Strieber had the animal exhumed for analysis at the San Antonio
Zoo. Later DNA analysis at the University of California, Davis
concluded it was a coyote with mange.
Barely a blip on TV series. Guess Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster get
all the plumb roles. About the only major TV series time dedicated to
the chupacabra is a 1997 monster-of-the-week episode of “The X-Files”
and a 2014 episode of “Grimm.”
But oh what a TV movie. Eat your heart out, “Sharknado.” In the 2013 TV
movie “Chupacabra vs. The Alamo,” Erik Estrada plays Carlos Seguin, a
tough DEA agent who discovers a that bunch of doglike chupacabras have
been making mincemeat of drug cartel members. Seguin and his band of
desperate heroes make a last stand against the mythical blood-hounds
at, of course, the Alamo.
Source:
https://www.expressnews.com/lifestyle/article/The-chupacabra-lives-on-in-San-Antonio
-s-Latino-15975631.php
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