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Night Vision Video – UFO over New Mexico

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UFO investigators are in Socorro — and they’re not here to visit the site where an Unidentified Flying Object reportedly landed in 1964.

The Mutual UFO Network will hold a panel discussion on the UFO phenomenon on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2-5 p.m., at the Socorro Public Library. The meeting is open to the public and free of charge.

“It’ll be a panel discussion involving field workers, who will be talking about some of the cases they’ve investigated,” said Dr. Donald R. Burleson, who heads the group’s state chapter. “And we’ll get a little philosophical by asking, ‘What makes this important?’ and ‘What have we learned?’”

Burleson said the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, is an international organization dedicated to UFO research. Its mission statement is “Scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity.”

Burleson said the group takes its scientific study seriously.

“We’re very careful in trying to separate things out and we try to be as scientific as we can,” he said. “If we don’t know what it is, we say so.”

Burleson said there’s an average of about one UFO sighting per week in New Mexico. Members of the panel will discuss some of the most recent cases that appear most genuine.

“There’s a series of what appears to be a landing circles in the earth near Angel Fire,” he said. “They’re not crop circles. They’re circles in the earth that are still very visible. We don’t know what to make of them.”

Another recent case still under investigation involves an aerial sighting by law enforcement officers near Deming, Burleson said.

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Case Number: 19950
Log Number: US-10152009-0004
Submitted Date: 2009-10-15 02:05
Event Date: 2009-10-14 21:56
Status: Submitted
City: Artesia
Region: New Mexico
Country: US
Longitude: -104.33
Latitude: 32.7937
Shape: Oval
Duration: 00:00:50
Distance: Unknown
Location: Town
Visibility: Clear
Weather: None,Does Not Apply
Entity Type: None
Vallee Index: FB1
Description:

I was laying on my lawn chair as usual in my back yard looking for any unusual objects to film. I had the night scope/jvc camera next to me. From over the top of me from behind me came this HUGE oval orange object. I switched the camera on as fast as I could. By that time the object was by the trees in front of me. I was able to film some of it. It was so bright it easily shown through the trees! I jumped up from my lawn chair after a few second of taping it and tried to get a lock on it again. I was able to film it some more as it passed from the trees then in front of the house. I would of run to the front but unfortunately earlier the battery went dead and I was plugged into the power cord, or I defiantly would have. I hope someone else in this area got it on tape. It was huge, about the size of the half Moon but was oval shaped. It appeared to be a dark orange in the middle(kind of a burnt orange, I don’t think I have really seen that exact hue before) and lighter orange on the outer. It also seemed to be one craft but kind of raggedy around the edges. This I am sure would of looked great with a color camcorder. The 40 second film I shot, the object is green because it was shot with a gen 2+ ATN night scope attached to a JVC mini-dv camcorder and because of the very bright nature of it looked completely round. I feel super lucky to even get any of it! I was facing east the object flew silently over me going west. Time was approximately 21:56 hrs. I also posted this to YouTube channel ufonv. Thank you, Jim
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http://www.mufoncms.com/files/19950_submitter_file1__ufo_HUGE_orange_oval_artesia_jim_styck_10-14-2009.mpg

I had little to say since I am pretty shy without my computer. :)  As always though, we had a great time!

Two weeks ago the group, known for its 200 years of experience in the world of the paranormal, had a get-together in Albuquerque to share their last three months of research and experiences in their very strange world. MJ-7 never disappoints. The following is a brief discussion of some of the sharing. A great variety of subjects were covered.

First, there was the story from the artist in Santa Fe, which had an encounter with a Bigfoot and was inspired to paint a huge painting of that night’s event. Then there was the researcher who had been in the field in Washington State, doing vortex/dimensional photography of strange beings, including a possible Bigfoot. The same person in the last 60 days has been east of Albuquerque and working on a process for direct contact with Sasquatch people and other forest beings, and he shared some of his photos. The 2009 Dulce Base conference came up and there was talk of a possible 2010 part 2 in Dulce next year.

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – For sale, just in time for Halloween, one haunted house. Inquire within if you dare.

The owner of the haunted home in the remote town of Cuchillo in southwestern New Mexico has actually listed it on eBay.

Josh Bond said he put the home up for sale after paranormal investigation experts from West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society confirmed in May that the house is haunted.

The new owner will be getting several original furnishings that Bond believes are related to the haunting.

They include an antique wood burning stove, an antique wedding dress and a large religious shrine discovered tucked away in a back closet.

The e-Bay Auction began on October 1 and ends on Halloween, October 31.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

The Force is Disrupted
One way to raise the hackles of the UFO faithful . . . to stir the proverbial pot, is to take a well-documented case and decree it false in some form or fashion; for example, stating that Kenneth Arnold witnessed “pelicans” on that fateful day in June of ’47; or the never-ending weather balloon argument for Roswell by well known debunkers; or the infamous “swamp gas” statement uttered by Allen Hynek while investigating the notable Michigan sightings of 1966, which precipitated then Congressman Gerald Ford to formally request a congressional investigation into the mysterious UFOs. When such instances occur it sends mild shockwaves throughout the UFO community, and evokes immediate and sometimes harsh responses.

Generally when these actions take place, the names of the perpetrators are very familiar to Ufologists; their ideologies are cemented in anti-Ufology rhetoric and the behavior is a component of what I call “cognitive bias” in the best examples, and just plain ignorance in the worst-case scenarios.

In that vein, it was quite a surprise to most when an article was published—not by the usual debunkers, but from a noted Ufologist, pronouncing a very prestigious case in UFO history a hoax! The case was The Socorro Incident, and the Ufologist is Tony Bragalia, whom I not only consider a friend, but also have the highest regard for, and am grateful for his efforts in Ufology.

Bragalia has been getting much deserved attention lately for his research into Roswell; our regular readers aren’t strangers to his work as he has been kind enough to allow us to publish his articles, here at TUC. Accordingly, we’ve published the article in question entitled, “THE SOCORRO UFO HOAX EXPOSED!”

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ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) – An out of this world design has been unveiled for the proposed UFO Museum in Roswell.

Architect E. Kevin Schopfer told a gathering in Roswell earlier this week that he wanted to avoid making the design look like a spaceship. He said they came up with an alien object as opposed to an alien ship.

Schopfer said the museum will be built in phases with an estimated final price tag of $25 million.

Museum director Julie Shuster said the new building will be about 30,000 square feet with ground breaking no later than October 2010 with a July 2011 opening.

In early July 1947, a mysterious object crashed on a ranch 30 miles north of Roswell.

The Roswell Army Air Field issued a statement claiming to have recovered a crashed “flying disk.”

Later, military officials changed said the object was a weather balloon, not a flying disk as they previously reported.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)