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May 17 2007

UFO, Plasma, Or…?

Here’s a link to an interesting story sent to me that concerns a late 1960s UFO event that involved the British military and the Ministry of Defense. Genuine UFO, plasma, false-alarm? Dunno. But it’s an intriguing one and can be found within the official records of the MoD.

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5 Comments to “UFO, Plasma, Or…?”

  1. uv777bk Says:

    My Grandmother once told me a story from when she was much younger. She explained that these were the days when you could have the doors unlocked and no one would care.

    Anyway, she believed that if you left the front and back doors open during a thunderstorm, the house wouldn’t get hit by lightening. So, this is what she did. Much to her surprise, what comes flying through the front door and out the back door but ball lightening! At the time she described it as looking more like a firey object. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the object hit a cow out back and killed it outright!

    So, I guess these were the days when such weather/plasma related phenomenon at least had the common decency to be spherical… now it seems they can be what ever shape the government wants them to be ;)

  2. Nick Redfern Says:

    Very interesting, thanks! I have a similar case from the UK: a newspaper clipping on an old case (I think 1800s, I’ll check) where a couple of farm animals had been killed by what sounds like ball-lightning.

    I’ll dig it out and post here.

  3. uv777bk Says:

    Thanks, Nick! I think this would have been in Crewe, Cheshire in the 1940’s. My mother claims to have seen the same kind of thing take out a chimney stack at what used to be Crewe’s old Isolation Hospital.

    See…
    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2083&page=14

    BTW, I was a friend of Tracie Austin - another one who moved to the US and got married :)

  4. Nick Redfern Says:

    I saw Tracie at the UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada in March. That was the first time I’d seen her for about 5 years.

  5. drew hempel Says:

    Hey Nick — maybe this was just a “vintage technology” problem. The below covers the later WIMEX satellite errors…I know lots of people still protesting Honeywell’s military kin — Alliant Tech, headquartered here in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. I got arrested there… they’ve been the largest producer of land mines and depleted uranium. Anyway even the “smart missiles” of the Iraq war, using the theory of relativity for GPS, missed their supposed precision targets.

    http://www.army.mil/CMH/books/DAHSUM/1980/ch04.htm

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