Historical Sightings 1942 - 1946 - The Bible UFO Connection

Historical Sightings
1942 - 1946

1942

• Japan: An Imperial Japanese Sally bomber aircraft, on a mission over the Sea of Japan, was approached by a small dark spherical object which flew around and between the aircraft in the formation. An alert gun-cameraman snapped one photograph.
• Solomon Islands: While in the Solomon Islands US Marine Corp Sgt. Stephen J. Brickner sighted a staggering number of UFOs, laid out in virtually an enormous rectangle. They were in rows of 15 objects long by ten objects deep. The formation was 15 craft long and 10 deep. Formation sightings have been reported before but the rectangle shape is unique.
• Timor Sea: The cruiser Tromp was approached by a large aluminum disc that flew at tremendous speed. It then circled the Dutch vessel for about three to four hours. Finally, it flew off at an estimated speed of 3,000-3,500 mph.
• USA, California, Los Angeles: A gigantic black-out, covering the area from Bakersfield south to San Diego and eastward to Boulder City and Las Vegas, Nev., went into effect shortly after 8 o’clock last night on orders from the Army Fourth Interceptor Command. It continued until 11:03 p.m. As Los Angeles went dark amongst considerable confusion and uncertainty, The Interceptor Command announced, “this is not a practice black-out.” A yellow signal, indicating the approach of enemy air raiders, was flashed on the state-wide teletype at 7:35p.m.. Police said the signal indicated the presence of unidentified airplanes approaching Los Angeles from the sea but did not necessarily mean they were enemy. Anti-aircraft and machine gunners scrambled to their weapons at Ft. Mac Arthur, which was promptly placed on alert basis. Reports that the sound of gunfire could be heard could not be verified from listening posts at the beach or at the harbor. Definite indication that the Interceptor Command meant business by calling for the black-out was contained in a statement from a spokesman who said: “There are planes over the south of Los Angeles that are unidentified. The area will be blacked out until we can identify them.” When asked if Army planes had been sent aloft to contact these aircraft the spokesman said: “You can assume there have been.” Thousands of Angelinos, listening for straining ears for sounds of aircraft, were unable to distinguish sounds of motors, however. A few minutes after the black-out was ordered, the flashing of what appeared to be Army searchlights was visible in the higher portions of Los Angeles, 25 miles from the water front. Headquarters of the Fourth Interceptor Command, calling the blackout a success, said they had a report that unidentified planes were in the vicinity of Los Angeles.
  

1943

• Burma: US bomber pilots flying missions from Burma to China reported being buzzed and circled by 'glittering' objects. Instruments failed to operate until the objects flew off.
• China, Qing Xian, Hebet Province: A domed UFO that emitted a white light was seen flying less than 20 feet above the ground.
• Germany, Schweinfurt: On October 14, 1943, US B-17s of the 348th Bomb Group had started a bombing run over Schweinfurt, Germany, when they ran into a formation of 'scores' of small, silvery disks, about one inch thick and four inches in diameter, flying toward the bombers. Major E.R.T. Holmes reported that one struck the tail of one aircraft, but without effect.
• Russia, Pushkino: Soldiers saw a disc-shaped object hovering high in the air above aircraft.
  

1944

• Austria, Klagenfurt: Major Leet, a bomber pilot, saw a luminous disc follow his plane and its maneuvers.
• Germany, Hagenau: On December 22, 1944, Lt. David McFalls of the US 415 th night fighter squadron was over Hagenau, Germany. At 6:00 am, he saw two 'hug, bright orange lights' climbing toward the plane. McFalls dived, banked and turned his plane, but the UFOs stuck with him for two minutes, then peeled off and blinked out.
• India, Kharagapur: On August 10, 1944, Captain Alvah M. Reida was piloting a B-29 bomber based at Kharagapur, India, on a mission over Palembang, Sumatra, when his right gunner and co-pilot noticed a sphere 'probably five or six feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color' that constantly throbbed, about 12,500 ft off the starboard wing. It kept up with the B-29, then flying at 210 mph. Reida tried to shake it off his plane, but it stayed in the same relative position until , after eight minutes, it 'made an abrupt 90 degree turn and accelerated rapidly, disappearing in the overcast.'
• USA, Washington, DC. On February 22, Franklin D. Roosevelt writes a Top Secret memo on White House stationary for "The special committee on non-terrestrial science and technology." Both the title and the content clearly allude to extraterrestrial life, the former using the word "non-terrestrial" and the latter talks about "coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.
• World War II pilots on both sides of the conflict reported, "Foo fighters," bright, unidentified flying objects that move in the sky in a strange manner.
  

1945

• North Korea, Wonsan: Three Japanese Zeroes engage two daylight discs in a dogfight. One Zero is shot down, and the UFOs flee into space.
• USA, Alaska, Aleutian Islands: Fourteen men on the USAT Delarof saw a dark spherical object rise out of the water, circle their ship and fly off to the south.
  

1946

• Sweden: The well-documented 'Ghost Rocket' invasion of Sweden took place as cigar-shaped objects rained down on land and lake in this area of northern Europe.
• USA, Florida: Pilot and crew of a C-47 aircraft 30 miles north-east of Tampa, saw a cigar-shaped object with luminous portholes hurtle towards them in horizontal flight at the same altitude of 4,000ft. At 1,000 yards distant it swerved to avoid them. Estimated size of object was twice that of a B-29 bomber.
  

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Kronologi Peristiwa Paranormal dan Seminormal - The Unexplained World

Catatan: Berikut ini catatan kronologis peristiwa paranormal dan seminormal (termasuk kejadian-kejadian terkait Ufologi), yang cukup lengkap dan menarik untuk dipelajari dan dijadikan quick reference.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PARANORMAL AND SEMINORMAL
Version 2.1 (English edition)
Edited by J. Peter Lassila
Owner of PSI Research Group

This chronology includes events, which are counted most notable and relevant for the paranormal and seminormal research, from the early history to present days. If you have a significant events on your mind, which are not yet in this chronology, or you notice incorrect
information and/or grammatical errors, please take contact to editor (jplassila@psilab.info). Aims of this document is to give a chronological survey for anyone who are interested in this area, but don't have enough personal knowledge to reach general view in quality of various claims about paranormal and seminormal.

From prehistory to the middle age:

• 120.000 BCE: Animistic faith rose among of Homo Neanderthal.
• 75.000 BCE: First signs from animal cults, where animals were perhaps represented some kind of divinity.
• 25.000 BCE: Human culture and religions got started. Yet cave art of this time covered the signs of primitive religions, especially animal myths related to half-humans and monsters.
• 3.000 BCE: Astrology evolving in the ancient Sumer.
• 1.470 BCE: Centre of the ancient Thera (the present Santorini) island exploded when the local volcano erupted, which produce Atlantis-myth or at least had strong influence to it, if we believe in present general appreciation.
• 1.300 BCE: Moses, well known as religious prophet and miracle maker, born in the Egypt.
• 600 BCE: Scientific way to thinking began among of Jonian philosophers, who discuss also characters of the human soul and what happened in miracles. First discuss about "extrasensory abilities" happened among Plato's followers.
• 600 BCE: Well-known eastern philosopher and mystic Laotse born. He was claimed to live exceptional longevity, like many others who are well know from their wisdom and long-sighted mind.
• 546 BCE: Croesus, the king of ancient Lydia, tested skills of oracles and convinced that Delphoi oracle really had paranormal ability to make prediction from the future.
• 200 BCE. First known research about acupuncture published in the China.
• 6 BCE: Famous miracle maker and mythical prophet of Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth born. The Roman Empire crucified him 39 years later because of his religious power.
• 100: Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus described first known poltergeist-like events.
• 150: Claudios Ptolemy published his famous treatise about astrology to make it more coherent instead of various different schools. Also majority of the present (orthodox) astrologists founded their astrological thinking on this study.
• 312: Constantine the Great saw shining cross in the sky, which had drastic influence in the prevalence of Christianity.
• 371: Spiritists used ouija-board first time in the history, although not in that name.
• 452: According to Damascus, after Attila lost fight in the Rome, there were unexplained apparitions of solders and noises of fighting around the town in couple of days. Similar events are told to happen also in other crisis situations.
• 565: First registered sighting of Loch Ness monster happened when Saint Columbia had the lake monster encounter in the beach of Ness river at his trip in the Scotland.
• 988: Witnesses told that Jesus statue of the Puceller's priory began surprisingly crying just few moments before fire destroyed the city. Similar miracles had told everywhere in the world from the early history.
• 1136: The treatise about wizard Merlin's prophecies published. Few years later published also Merlin's biography.
• 1179: Almost mythological clairvoyant and healer Hildegard died. 24. 9.
• 1235: Probably first carefully studied UFO case in the history happened when Japanese general Yoritsume's army observed unexplained light phenomena in the sky. General set research group to study this case and it offered the conclusion that they were only stars, which sway in the wind. 10. 11.
• 1407: French queen Isabeau gave birth to illegitimate child, which claimed to be well-known Jeanne d'Arc, the virgin of Orleans. The history told that she did many claimed miracles in the fights that ended victory because of mysterious events and she got lot of publicity in the opposition because of those occasions. Later she caught and burned as the witch, although the Vatican canonizes her 500 years later.
  

Beginning of modern history:

• 1503: Well-known astrologer and fortune-teller, Michel de Nostradame born.
• 1510: Saint Katarina died to loss of blood when her body temperature began surprisingly grow and finally her blood, which was leaked from her body, told to be so hot that anyone couldn't touch it. That description has some connections with spontaneous human combustion (SHC).
• 1513: Piri Reis created his famous map, which include many areas of the Antarctica and America, whose were unknown in his lifetime.
• 1561: One of most famous early UFO case, where the citizens of the Nürnberg got into abashed witnesses of strange phenomena above the city. Strangeness of this phenomenon meant lot of cross and saucer like flying objects. Case had noticed by the local media and artist.
• 1571: Pope Pius V gets strong vision from victorious sea fight of Lepanto, which had epochal influence to western culture. First messengers bring the message after two weeks from the event and they describe events just like pope Pius V.
• 1593: First known teleportation case was claimed to happened when Gil Perez, the guard of Manila's governor palace's appeared among the day to the Mexico's Plaza Mayor. Description from the case told that Perez says he was just moment before of the event in the Philippines and he reported newest occasions in that area. He was taken in the local prison, but he get free later when his information can be ensured and Mexican inquisition reach also witnesses, whose witnessed that he really was in his workplace just moment before he appeared to the Mexico. In spite of the wide prevalence of the story, newest information tells that case might be only the urban legend, although parapsychologists know also other claimed teleportation cases like this.
• 1603: Joseph of Cupertino born. His claimed psychical gifts, especially ability to levitation, confirmed after carefully investigations by inquisition court, which accused he was guilty to fraudulent plotting.
• 1608: Citizen in the Nizza, and few days later in the Genova, Italy and Marseille, France told to be witnesses of the bright, oval objects with the humanoid-alike occupants. In the Genova local military unit try to shoot those objects with their cannons, but objects had not even damage. Historical sources told also that some of witnesses died when witnesses got into panic.
• 1609: Samuel de Champlain was first noted witness, who made some entries about strange trembling Indian tent, which are connected to prediction rituals. After few months he was also first observer who noticed a strange "monster" in the local lake, which would later nominate according to him.
• 1612: First carefully studied poltergeist case begin in the Burgundy, France. Disturbances last about three months and those events include for example transition of the various objects, rain of the rocks and discussions with strange visitor.
• 1681: "Father" of modern parapsychology and one of the founders of the Royal Society, Joseph Glanvill publish his investigations about possible consciousness related anomalies. Central place in his study had a Tidworth poltergeist, which was happened a few years before. Glanvill also declare his notion, that existence of the God could be proof for study occasions like this.
• 1690: Acupuncture appeared to western country.
• 1710: Thomas Fuller – probably first individual who reached publicity by the "autistic savant" – born in the Africa and sold in 14 year old as a slave in the America. Like many other savants of that kind, Fuller managed amazing calculation, but he didn't surmount even a modest tasks, which were connected to outside mathematics.
• 1729: First noted "wild child", Wild-Peter, found at the forest near Hanover, where he was survived by eating various plant from the nature. Almost all cultures know cases where kids had grow up with wild animals, especially with wolves.
• 1743: Probably most notable occultist of the all time, count Alessandro di Cagliostro born.
• 1770: Franz Anton Mesmer discovered a suggestion method, which he named as animal magnetism because of his belief that human body have a magnetic liquid that could cause various health problems when it get into unbalance – and in his belief that method can fix that unbalance. Later his method rose well-known as hypnosis. Although Mesmer usually called as a father of hypnosis, similar methods had used by many others before him.
• 1772: Well-known philosopher, mystic and claimed clairvoyant Emmanuel Swedenborg died.
• 1776: First report about unknown animals in the central Africa published, including claim that local natives and some of the missionaries were detect dinosaur-alike animals in the jungles of Congo. First expeditions to find living dinosaur from Congo travelled to country for two hundred years later when those observations are taken more seriously because of fresh findings of "living fossils". The same report had also a description about "giraffe of jungles" that actually found from the jungles of Congo in 1976 and named as Okapi.
• 1784: Mythological count of Saint-Germain died.
• 1790: Probably first known claimed UFO-contact happened near the city of Alecon.
  

1800-1849

• 1807: Concept of clairvoyance rise to public knowledge when so called mesmerists (or hypnologists) notice that some persons who are in "somnambulistic dream" or hypnosis has ability to make extrasensory perceptions and some of them can do it also in the normal state of consciousness. At the same time one of Mesmer's followers, Hector Durville, make first carefully experiments about out of body experiences those he carry out when his patient were in the hypnosis, and he reported also so called silver rope, which was perceived by his volunteer clairvoyant when his patients experienced OOBE.
• 1810: Samuel Hahnemann published the basic concept of homeopathy. Later it noticed as pseudoscience in the science, but it reached also very wide popularity.
• 1815: Probably the greatest claimed miracle maker of 1800-ies, Giovanni Bosco born.
• 1817: John and Lucy Bell's house is in the focus of strong poltergeist phenomena almost three years. This was one of those cases that slowly activate wide interest to parapsychology.
• 1821: Mary Baker Eddy born. Later she rose to publicity as famous faith healer and founder of the Christian Science.
• 1826: Central founder of spiritualistic movement, Andrew Davis born.
• 1828: Kaspar Hauser appeared from the nowhere to the Nürnberg and reached the World wide publicity because of his strange life story and exceptional abilities. He dies five years later by unknown murderer in the mysterious circumstance.
• 1831: Well-known psychic and the founder of theosophy, HP Blavatsky born.
• 1837: Andrew Crosse begin his enigmatic experiments in his test-tube, where he could create a punks-alike life-forms in the few weeks from the crystal, which include certain minerals and various chemical liquids, where conducted also weak current. About decade later his experiments repeated by Michael Faraday and some other scientist, but Crosse himself was however despised in the end of his life. People didn't simply believe those claim or if they did, they thought that Crosse (and his colleagues) was take up a position of the God, which was totally intolerant in his time.
• 1841: Psychometry discovered by Joseph Buchanan.
• 1845: Teacher Emilie Sagée make a wide fuss among of Neuwelk's resident when many of her school students and other resident in the region witnessed for her sightings in the two places at the same time. Later this phenomenon was named as bilocation.
• 1846: French girl Angelique Cottin rose first carefully studied individual, whose body had tend to draw on and move furniture and other things without any rational explanation. Almost a century later one "magnetic" woman applied to test of New York skeptics to winning their open challenge, but they refused without any reason. In some level, phenomenon has obvious connections to poltergeist, which have a many similar quality like the duration and characters of the "focus" person.
• 1846: One of the most famous fortean rain in the history happened at the Paris when one local house, that were ordered to pull down, destroyed when huge rocks seems to crash down from the sky without any natural explanation in spite of careful investigation. Sources of time tells that phenomenon were witnessed by big guard and a number of curious people, and its duration was three weeks at all, including almost fifty of that rocks. Later similar phenomena all over the world grew more famous by Charles Fort.
• 1848: Margaret and Kate Fox activated the great wave of spiritism by their claimed communication with a ghost on their house. In spite of impressively of events, those get into new light when sisters confess that they produced lot of phenomena by fraud.
  

1849-1899

• June 1851: French scientists had first carefully examined (fourteen) case where living animal been found inside of the rock, at this case it was a toad inside of flint. Similar cases are regularly reported all over the World, and two years later other early case reached publicity via Scientific American magazine.
• 1852 – 1886: Physical medium Daniel Dunglas Home amazed the World by levitation, lengthen of his body and other paranormal abilities. Even many hard core skeptics confess that Home is one of those rare mediums who didn't get caught from fraud despite of many extra careful study with most famous scientist.
• 1854: American professor Robert Hare, who was well know as opponent of spiritism, reverse his attitude and anticipated instrumental transcommunication by building the machine to trying communication between death and living. Year before there was produced also system called psychograph, which was simple like a pen with mount and cycle and it was used before ouija-board rose more common.
• 1854: Well-known physical medium at the end of 1800-ies, Eusapia Palladino born.
• 1854: Famous physicist Michael Faraday begin to study spiritistic phenomena and make clear observation with his clever experimental measures, that all so called table dance –phenomena, at least in those cases which he studied, could be explained by ideomotorical movements of the participant's hands.
• 1855: Devil himself has claimed to walk in Devonshire, England when there appeared almost two hundred kilometres trace of hoof in the snow during only one night.
• 1858: Lourdes in France Pyrenes rise famous pilgrimage place when claimed that Virgin Mary was point this place to Bernadette Soubirou.
• 1861: William Mumler makes history by his ghost photos – first ones in the world. He reached lot of publicity, but researchers didn't get any of negatives related those photos and in the World of parapsychology they reached publicity only as first possible photographic hoax.
• 1861: Philosopher, founder of anthroposophy and occultist Rudolf Steiner born.
• 1863: Borley's parsonage built and later it rose famous as a greatest haunted house in the England.
• 1865: President Lincoln reported to his friends about terrible dream, where he was in his own funeral and participants answer to his question that what is happened, that the president was get into focus of assassination. A few days later Lincoln's dream really comes true. After a century some people also notice, that president Lincoln's and President Kennedy's murders and life stories had many conspicuous similarities, which rose one popular example of claimed synchronicity- phenomenon.
• 1868: Well-known astrologer Evangeline Adams born.
• 1869: From farm of William Newell found amazing giant's mummy, which proved as a fraud after few months and public show, which was built from plaster.
• 1871: Sir William Crookes publishes his revolutionary study from abilities of Daniel Dunglas Home in the Quarterly Journal of Science. This was only one, but probably most remarkable study on Home's abilities.
• 1874: Pioneer of paranormal research, Charles Fort born.
• 1877: Well-known "sleeping prophet" or Edgar Cayce born.
• 1877: Friedrich Zöllner, German professor of astrophysics, believes that phenomena in physical mediumship are involved with invisible dimesions and he choice to test his hypotheses with medium Henry Slade. Zöllner make his task to tie a closed loop, what is impossible without paranormal intervention, probably with extra dimensions. In spite of tight experimental circumstances Slade succeed several this kind of experiments and Zöllner thought that his view has a strong position.
• 1877: Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed some kind of channels on the surface of Mars. Issue rose public when well-known astronomer Percival Lowell continues Schiaparelli's work in 1894 and he convinced that the "channels" must be synthetic.
• 1878: Term "flying saucer" was used first time about UFO's.
• 1878-1879: One of the famous and most carefully studied poltergeists in 1800-ies happened in Amherst, Canada, when a nineteen year old Esther Cox overwhelm to focus in strong and violent ghostly disturbances.
• 1878: Thirteen year old Lurancy Vennum's case grow the World's first noticed event related to claimed walk-in phenomenon when her body capture person who called herself as spirit of Mary Roff. Doctor E.W. Stewens identify Mary Roff his girl who was previously died. After that, "Mary Roff" lived with her "family" till Lurancy's person return as predominant in half year later.
• 1882: Well-known medium Gladys Osborne Leonard born. In the light of the evidence and the scientific progress, she was probably best volunteer in the psychical research, which began in her case almost the begin of her active mediumship and ended to her death. This kind of intensive research proved also that the many claimed mediums are not want to be tested, although they used claimed powers to commercial purpose – or if they want, many of them actually have not any exceptional abilities or they are reach those only by fraud.
• 1882: F.W.H. Myers created the term "telepathy".
• 1882: The Society for Psychical Research founded in England as the World's first research organisation in parapsychology. Presidents of this authoritative society were included ministers, Nobelists and members of Royal Society.
• 1883: First official report about a strange light phenomenon in the Marfa, Texas.
• 1883: First photo from claimed UFO was taken in Mexico when director of Zacatecas observatory get a photo one of the strange object, whose go over the Sun when he was study sunspot. In spite of cases like this many of skeptics believe there is not any UFO-reports by professional astronomer.
• 1883: Strongest volcanic eruption of the modern history happened in the island of Krakatau. Several days before that behaviour of local animals was very exceptional, like in panic, and lot of animals tried to go out of that area in any price at all. Animals' possible ability to reach knowledge about catastrophic events before they happened has tried to use, and in some cases is claimed to get positive results.
• 1887-1889: Well-known skeptic, Richard Hodgson, who was investigated also claimed medium Madame Blavatsky and reported he was catch from the fraud, study well-known medium Leonore Piper in extremely tight controlled experiments and evaluated that he had strong evidence for genuine psychic ability of miss Piper and even evidence for life after death as a result of his experiments. Other Piper-studies had also similar conclusions.
• 1889: Term "parapsychology" created by Max Dessoir.
• 1896: Modern cryptozoology got started when someone found bulk of huge sea animal with some tentacle (modern language call them as a globster) in St. Augustine Beach, Florida. At the first it was classified as a whale by the incredulous researchers, but few decade later researchers noted in the tissue study that it really is a huge octopus.
• Spring 1897: First noted UFO-wave happened (mostly) in the USA.
• 1899: One of most famous "psi-stars" in our time, Wolf Messing born in little village near to Warsaw. Later his psychic abilities are tested by Einstein, Freud and other well-known scientists, and his claimed ability to give telepathic suggestions lead him to front of Stalin from Nazi-Germany where he had huge reward on his head by Hitler because of public prediction about dead of Führer.
  

1900-1929

• 1900: Archaeologist found so called Antikythera's mechanism from the sunken ship near the island of Antikythera. It was from year 80 BC, but it had so complex technical construction that official appreciation of history suppose that should be possible only after 1500 AC.
• 1901: So-called cross-correspondence experiment began when various mediums claimed to receive messages from the famous dead parapsychologist, like Frederich Myers, Henry Sidwick and Edmund Gurney and those messages got a sense only when they read as a hole, not like a different messages. This strange experiment last for years and real starting point was a promise of late parapsychologists, who declare that they try to communicate with living persons after they death if it seems possible.
• 1901-1904: Numerate horse named Wise Hans amazing the World, although soon researchers proved, that it can calculated only if it got some visual tips from his owner or somebody else, as the case were been also in other similar cases.
• 1908: Huge explosion in the Tunguska, Siperia fell lot of wood, which generate later many UFO theories about incident. After few decades research scientist believed that explosion caused from explosion of little comet.
• 1916: Sir Oliver Lodge published his famous book about evidence of life after death including discussions with his son via various mediums, who was died in the first world war.
• 1916: Well-known prophet and healer Grigori Rasputin had a violent death, after many attempt to murder him, which were all mysteriously failed.
• 1917: Series of mysterious events, called Fatima's miracle, happened in Fatima, Portugal with over hundred thousand of witnesses at all.
• 1920: Reinhold Ebert created cosmobiology, his research method for astrology. General opinion is however that the method is not valid or it is a pseudo-science.
• July 1920: Marinus Dykshoorn, only medium in the World, whose abilities are confessed even governmental level, born in the Holland.
  
• 1922: Mathematician S. G. Soal get convinced about reality of psi when he get into Gordon-Davis case as a witness.
• November 1922: Archaeologist found Pharao Tutankhamen's tomb. Exceptional many of them, who were opened the grave died soon after that and there happened also other mysterious coincidence, which makes curse of Pharao very popular topic.
• 1926: Shanti Devi born in India. Her claimed reincarnation memories were first ones who got into focus of wide scientific study when Gandhi set professional research group, which had a conclusion that the memories are not result of any kind of the normal information sources. Almost half a century after that Ian Stevenson began his systematic research with possible reincarnation cases in University of Virginia.
• 1926: Sathya Narayana Raju, known as Sri Sathya Sai Baba, born.
• 1928: Two years after Harry Houdin's death began most extraordinary series of events in the history of psychical research. First Houdin's widow got the messages from claimed Houdin's mother via medium Arthur Ford, which include code word that she were left to Houdin and her wife only (as the evidence of life after death, if there is anything) – and that code word was right one. Later she received famous code from person, who claimed to be Houdin himself, via also medium Arthur Ford. It was complex wholeness of words, whose also produce one word via certain algorithm and this was all right. Houdin's widow and her witnesses testify released, which was in general opinion a strong evidence for paranormal phenomena and survival after death. At the moment the World was amazed this conclusion, but soon after Houdin's widow released his news began the intense emphasis against her, and finally she was compelled to withdraw her testify and also isolated to any publicity in this issue. Other skeptics and parapsychologists were also left codes like this, but after Houdin's case the enthusiasm about "final evidence" has gone, probably for ever, and someone could even fear, for good reason of coarse, the destiny of Houdin's widow.
• 1929: Gilbert Murray, a well-known professor from the Oxford University become famous proponent of the parapsychology when he publish his successful experiments with telepathy. Public interest to telepathy rises.
  

1930-1949

• 1931: Japanese Tomokichi Fukurai carry out first noted experiment with so called thoughtography or psychical photography. Well-known Japanese clairvoyant Koichi Mita produce picture on the film, which is claimed to represent reverse side of the moon, and he can make also new similar photo in the repeat experiment. When photos later compared with the moon-photos by NASA, researchers found lot of similarity.
• 1932: Parapsychology rise to academically admissible when J.B. Rhine get permission to associate his parapsychology lab under William McDougall's department of psychology in the Duke university.
• 1936: Cryptoarchaeology or study of exceptional findings in history found new kind of enthusiasm via so-called Baghdad battery, which origin is from 1800 years before Volta created his battery – officially first time in the history. This discovery and the phenomenon called electrolysis might be also the solution for the problem of ancient gilt in certain problematical case.
• 1937: Journal of Parapsychology founded.
• 1939: Semyon Kirlian observe that certain electrical process can make visible via film that later called as Kirlian photography and some parapsychologists are interested use the method like this in their research because of claimed (consciousness related) anomalies within certain Kirlian-photos.
• 1942: Claimed sheep-goat-affect rose to publicity in the World of parapsychology when Gertrude Scmeidler discovered it in his research and created the term for it. Later that topic is extensive investigated by John Palmer.
• 1942: Term "psi" created to describe physical mechanism of possible parapsychological phenomena or anomalistic cognition by Richard H. Thouless and C. Weisner.
• 1943: USS Eldenridge disappeared during so-called Philadelphia experiment. Main part of claims about this experiments are later proven as urban legend, but they had certain basis in circumstances of world war two – like experiments on technology, which get ships "invisible" to torpedoes and water mines. It is also known that USS Eldenridge actually was disappeared in that certain day of experiments, but not because of dematerialization. It was on the trip at this day and as one of the faster ships in this time it was back in the starting point during the same day.
• 1944: Many people report so called foo-fighters which buzzing and flying formation with Allied combat aeroplanes in European and Pacific Theatres of War. Suggestions that they were Axis air weapons were found unconvincing. Wave of similar phenomena was also in Finland at 1930-ies and continued in whole Scandinavia after WW2 as "ghost rockets".
• 1945: Flight number nineteen disappeared in the area, which had later called as Bermuda's triangle and present Bermuda-myth begins, although planes found in the bottom of sea at the several decides later. According to recent research, there isn't exceptional number of disappearing in this area.
• June 1947: Physicians in the Zurich, Switzerland study famous fakir Mirin Dajo, claimed survivor from various deadly situations. He was put under several unconventional experiments, which one he got a sword through his body, including several important organs as roentgen photo shows. After the experiment he seems to recover almost deadly organic damage. Various similar abilities had also observed on mediums and religious saints.
• 1947: Kenneth Arnold witnessed saucer-alike flying objects above of Mount Ranier when he was flying in the area. Because of his descriptions from that incident, term "flying saucer" began its conquest in the World media.
• 1947: Most famous UFO crash in the history happened in the Roswell, although it was probably some kind of secret military device.
• 1948: First official UFO research project, Project Sign, begin by the motion of General C. Craigie. Later it changes to Project Grudge and after that to Project Blue Book. Career of famous UFO investigator J. Allen Hynek begins also from this project.
  
• 1949: Marcello Bacci makes some experiments with his tube-radio and found inexplicable sounds and words in the recording, which seems to be messages from individuals who were already dead or tell something about life after death. Phenomena got name instrumental transcommunication (ITC) when it came more popular via experiments of Friedrich Jürgenson and Konstantin Raudive. Bacci himself work later as famous physical medium in the Italy.
  

1950-1959

• 1951: Healing became more popular around the World when it changed legal in the USA and some other country.
• 1951: International Parapsychology Foundation founded.
• 1952: Famous psychiatrist CG Jung and Nobel-rewarded physicist Wolfgang Pauli published they hypotheses, that some "unknown power" force events sometimes differ to normal causality and leaded them to meaningful coincidence. They named phenomena as a synchronicity.
• 1952: CIA started own research program to study extrasensory perception (ESP).
• July 1952: France Air Forces found official UFO investigation committee, which replaced later as department of Defence Forces, GEPAN, which co-ordinated network of officers, whose had a duty to report any possible UFO-cases to them.
• Autumn 1952: Coral and Jim Lorenzen founded in the Tucson the World's oldest private UFO organization (APRO).
• 1953: American inventor T. T. Brown observes that certain system can be levitated by conduct high-voltage to the device. Phenomenon could explain mainly by ionisation, but evidently this is not whole truth. Similar devices had later built also Professor John Searl.
• 1953: Robertson's UFO panel meets to make sure, that all UFO reports really are various misunderstanding. In spite of Robertson's committee opinions and CIA's authority, many open-minded scientists hadn't been so sure for that.
• 1953: Defence Force of United States of America publish guides named JANAP 146, which define punishment to the military personnel and authorities, who disclose their information about foreign devices and other exceptional objects. Guides specify also UFOs.
• July 1953: Albert K. Bender claim that he encountered two men in black, who warned him to disclose his knowledge about "flying saucer". Story started the modern MIB-myth.
• 1954: Freiburg's University in Germany opened the chair of parapsychology, which received well-known parapsychologist Hans Bender.
• 1954: Parapsychology laboratory at University of Duke began significant series of experiments with possible animal-psi (ANPSI). Experimental animal was the dog named Chris, which had an ability to guess senders thought clearly above the pure change without any possibility of normal tips.
• 1955: Michael Gauquelin published first articles his wide statistical research on astrology, where he found the little correlation between planets and some human groups. Especially so-called Mars-effect is well known related to his study.
• Spring 1955: The World's first UFO research journal, Flying Saucer Review starts to come out.
• 1956: Matthew Manning born. He awake the wide interest in parapsychology circles about ten years old when he get into focus of poltergeist's and had a ability of spoon bending. In the present day he worked as healer.
• 1956: UFO research organization NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) founded.
• 1956: One of most significant visual-/radar case in the UFO history happened between Lakenheath and Bentwaters in the England.
• 1957: Parapsychological Association founded. It associated to AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) member in year 1969 and after that it rose probably most significant organization in parapsychology at international level, like the Society for Psychical Research.
• 1957: Professor of parapsychology W. H. F. Tenhaeff began his notable precognition experiments with well-known medium, or "paragnost", Gerard Croiset.
• 1958: 450 pilot in the US air force, who have seen UFOs one time or more, protested via collective appeal against JANAP 146 guides and politics which understate the UFO and related phenomenon.
  

1960-1969

• 1960: To resolves the mystery of Snowman, World Book Encyclopedia financed expedition to Himalayas, which had directed by Desmond Doig and Sir Edmund Hillary, who is well-known as first human who conquered Mount Everest.
• 1960: Czechoslovakia rises to focus of the world of parapsychology for almost decide because of local "psi-star", Pavel Stepanek.
• 1960: Term "paranormal" used first time by French philosopher, CJ Ducasse.
• 1960: Loch Ness monster rise to legendary name when Tim Dinsdale got it his famous film and lake grow to continuous interest of research in cryptozoology, where also Dinsdale himself is in central position after he renounced his job as aeroplane engineer to became full-time cryptozoologist in the Loch Ness. As his first job he founded an office for investigation of Loch Ness monster, which collected and study the monster reports.
• 1962: Thomas Kuhn published his famous book (Structure of Scientific Revolutions) about scientific paradigms.
• 1963: Dermo-optical perception or "sight without eyes" rose to interest of science when researchers published investigations of Rosa Kulesova's case. Although phenomenon had reached wide publicity before, for example via case of Benito Paz in year 1937.
• 1963: Jeane Dixon became famous via public prediction in 13.5.1956, where she told that the next president will be democratic, who murdered before the end of his presidency. Prediction seems to be real when John F. Kennedy murdered and Dixon rose to most famous fortune-teller in the United States, where even many fails in the public predictions didn't dim her star. Murder of the Kennedy generated also lot of conspiracy theories – and surprisingly evidences really are behalf of some kind of conspiracy, which certainly can't tell all of the conspiracy theories.
• 1964: First experiment about possible telepathy during sleep begins in New York.
• 1964: Russian psychic Nina Kulagina rose to focus of parapsychology and also foreign researchers, like Finnish Jarl Fahler, get at Soviet Union to test her claimed psychokinetic abilities. Decade later, when Kulagina's abilities were weakened, researchers studied similar abilities of Boris V. Ermolaev, but then interest of western countries concerned mainly to their own psychics, like Uri Geller.
• 1964: NICAP's report "The UFO evidence" is first wide scientific study about UFOs.
• 1964: Claimed roentgen sight of Vera Petrovnas produced great public interest all over the World. Forty years later also other similar cases from Russia reach also wide publicity.
• 1965: Joseph Rhine retire and his parapsychology lab moved outside of University.
• 1966: Cleve Backster began his first experiments with plant's psi.
• 1966: Karl Nikolajev participated to famous telepathic experiment, where the "sender" located in Moskova when Nikolajev himself was as "receiver" in Novosibirsk, almost three thousand kilometres from Moskova. This started the series of telepathic experiments where the distance of sender and receiver was between few kilometres and thousands of kilometres, and which generated one of greatest parapsychology-boom in our time at Soviet Union, although it was still very authoritarian country. Nikolajev himself was powerful psychic, who claimed to get his special abilities only from very rigorous training.
• 1967: First study about the power of prayer published. According to researcher Robert Miller, praying accelerated grow of ryegrass.
• 1967: Jule Eisenbud published his study about abilities of Ted Serios, who claimed to generate various photos in the film by power of his mind, even from so called Faraday's cage. However, soon after when few expert of photography technology publish their conclusions, that in circumstances of Eisenbud's experiments photos could be produced by the fraud, Eisenbud declared that Serios lost his abilities.
• 1967-68: One of most famous and most investigated poltergeist case raged in the city of Rosenheim, West Germany in local lawyer's office. Investigations were mainly co-ordinated by few physicists of Max Planck Institute and parapsychology department of Freiburg's University. Almost the same time happened also in Miami, where one also very famous poltergeist case rose wide interest all over the World.
• 1967: Bigfoot hunters Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin got ape-alike animal to film in the Northern California. Later this film rose most famous, even might not to better, evidence for the existence of so called bigfoot.
• 1968: Roger Nelson founded his famous central premonitions registry, which received reports of possible precognitive dreams.
• 1968: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) asked two its technical committee to establish sub-committee for investigation of UFO phenomenon. Later committee, including eleven well-known scientists, opened conclusions of Condon's committee to question.
• 1969: Physician Helmut Schmidt publishes his first wide experiments with micro-psychokinesis, where are used computers and random event generators. Results, where probability of pure chance was on average in one to millions, are estimated most remarkable in the history of parapsychology.
• 1969: Condon's committee publish report on UFO phenomenon, named The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, after work of two years. Report includes only few cases in the UFO history and 30% of them stay without acceptable explanation and investigation of the phenomena don't need any more recourse.
• 1969: Project Blue Book closed.
• 1969: AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Sciences) organised general UFO symposium in the Boston.
  

1970-1979

• 1970: Charles Honorton developed ganzfeld-method to his study for the extrasensory perception (ESP). Later Honorton and his colleagues got a noticeable results when they used ganzfeld, but other hand skeptics had criticized that there is also many researchers who try to repeat the ganzfeld-experiments without any noticeable results. Honorton himself died tragically in 1992 when he was prepare his doctoral dissertation.
• January 1971: UFO wave in the Pudasjärvi, Finland. Events had many similarities with events in Hessdalen at decade later.
• 1972: Concept of channelling rose well-known when Jane Roberts and Robert Butss publish they book, Seth Speaks. Channelling is new form of mediumism, where person claimed to be contact with "highest entities".
• 1973: Astronaut Edgar Mitchell takes a part in the experiment, where was purposing to test telepathy between the Earth and space.
• 1973: Psychic surgery or logurgy got the world wide publicity, but in the exact study many of claimed healer got caught in the fraud. Later proved that Tony Agpaoa, who grew very prosperous, used many tricks in his "surgery". For example, blood-like red liquid wasn't blood at all, "kidney stones" were actually volcanic stones and "fresh" tissues were actually almost decaying.
• 1973: UFO organization NICAP closed and ownership of they archives transfer to Center for UFO Studies, founded by J. Allen Hynek in December 1973.
• January 1973: American Society for Psychical Research carries out the study about out of body experiences (OOBE). Research director Karlis Osis find almost hundred volunteer who had OOBE almost every month and ask them to try make perceptions from certain place in possible ecsomatic state. Many of them had OOBE in research period and they descriptions from this place become noticeable proof for hypotheses that person really can make extrasensory perceptions in the OOBE state.
• Spring 1973: Members of parapsychological society of Toronto claimed to make a first successful experiment to create an artificial ghost like phenomenon.
• 1974: Uri Geller visiting around the World. In spite of his wide reputation, researchers didn't take Geller case so serious because of his refuses from most of well-controlled experiments and he had to confess also got caught in fraud. At the same time scientists like John Hasted and C. Crussard leave Geller among his own media circus and focusing to study other spoon benders, especially children, in the tight controlled experiments and got lot of noticeable results.
• 1974: Stanford Research Institute (SRI) began experimental research program for parapsychology with financial support from the Pentagon.
• 1974: Terribly burnt Jack Angel awoke in his house trailer at Savannah, Georgia and had to go hospital for two month. Seems like he was burst into flames from inside his body without any outside damage, even for near fire sensitive objects. Event rose most famous case around so-called spontaneous human combustion phenomenon.
• 1975: One of most famous UFO-swindler Eduard "Billy" Meier comes public as claimed extraterrestrial contacteer. Especially his claimed UFO photos are well-known, but many of them are very obvious forgeries.
• 1975: 186 prestigious scientists around the World take the astrology as total flim-flam and just to make sure they disapprove it in their shared statement
• Summer 1975: Ralph Wetzel generated the real scientific sensation by his observation, that one peccary species is life and well in the Paraguay and it was locals greatest delicacy, which had sold also to markets of US and Europe, even although that it was believed to deceased about eight thousands year before. This observation was one especial case that proved we do not know very much life in the outlying areas, which also decreases the disdain of cryptozoology.
• 1976: Famous healer Harry Edwards dies.
• 1976: Skeptical organization CSICOP (Committee for Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal) founded in United States. Later this organization expanded the World wide and after that founded also many local skeptical organizations, like Finnish Skepsis in 1987.
• 1977: Betty and Barney Hill's claimed UFO abduction from year 1961 come public.
• 1977: Prestigious Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases publish two Ian Stevenson's research article in same year, which were an evaluation of evidence for so called reincarnation hypotheses. Later many people and scientists saw this hypotheses as proved because of Stevenson's work, although Stevenson himself is more cautious and describe his work "only" remarkable.
• 1977: Michael Persinger released his well-known hypotheses, that unexplained aerial lights are piezo-eletrical phenomena from geophysical process. This kind of phenomena is more typical in the areas within strong geological tension.
• 1977: Great UFO discussion in United Nations general meeting by initiative of Grenada's Prime Minister. Meeting suggests that member states should take phenomena more serious and reported they possible measures to UN.
• November-December 1978: Many remarkable close encounters to unexplained light phenomena that happened in Australia and New Zealand. One veteran pilot disappears in the area after his radio message about real time UFO encounter. In New Year's Eve one TV-group among passengers of freight aeroplane above of New-Zealand got in the film two of those light when also flight control follow them with radar.
• 1979: Professor Robert Jahn, director of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering's department in the University of Princeton, opens famous PEAR lab (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research) to his department for study of possible psychokinetic effect in electrical and mechanical machines, or so called human/machine anomalies (HMA).
• 1979: Offices in United States had to publish many UFO related secret documents because of new Freedom of Information Act from year 1976.
• 1979: House of Lords in UK parliament discussed UFO question for three hours.
  

1980-1989

• 1980: Well-known Dutch medium Gerard Croiset dies.
• July 1980: France UFO Research Centre GEPAN published report, which prove that UFO phenomena is part of technological, and its characters seems to be exceed level of our highest technology. In year later also NATO publish report with same kind of conclusions.
• August 1980: First conspicuous crop circles appear in Wiltshire, England.
• 1980: Famous Rendlesham UFO case in Great Britain, where witnesses were military officers. Two days later happened also United States in so called Cash-Landrum case, where independent witnesses saw unidentified flying object, which get into surrounded by military helicopters and escape. Three individuals who were nearest from it, or other words experienced close encounter of third degree, got later similar symptoms than burn cases.
• 1981: Dutch professor emeritus of parapsychology, W. H. C Tenhaeff dies. His follower in Ütrecht parapsychology unit was from year 1974 Martin Johnson and later his chair received parapsychologist Dick Bierman.
• 1982: International society of cryptozoology founded. Cryptozoologists study claimed observations about unidentified animals and species that is believed to disappear from the Earth. Earned income for cryptozoologists could list lot of discoveries and classifications related to this kind of species. Although famous Loch Ness monster is almost a modern myth for many cryptozoologists, it isn't situation in case of many other claimed animals, like Yeti or Bigfoot.
• 1982: Centre for UFO studies (CUFOS) had 70.000 UFO reports in its computer registers and 20% of them need to additional study. At same time organization has collected to databases the tens of thousands newspaper articles from all over the World. By millennium UFO investigators has total over half million UFO reports.
• 1983: Communist party of China begins to use services of "qiqong master" Zhang Baosheng when marshal Ye Jianyingin got sick. Baosheng is China's most famous psychic and his claimed abilities covered also some kind of "roentgen sight" and ability to move objects by the power of his mind, which called psychokinesis and teleportation in Western Countries. Baosheng lives luxuriously at expense of Communist Party because he has made an agreement that he and his abilities are loyal only for interest of China. In practice qi-term mean same as western countries "psi".
• 1984: Psychology department of the Edinburgh University founded parapsychology research unit and declares to open the chair of parapsychology. Parapsychologist Robert Morris receive the office in 1985 and he worked as professor of parapsychology until his death in august 2004.
• From 1984: Project Hessdalen began three year after that local began saw strange light phenomena. Seems probably that observations related to piezo-electrical phenomena. At present there is multifaceted measuring station in the area.
• February 1984: Soviet Union set national commission to study UFO phenomena.
• October 1984: Huge hole appear to the ground in the State of Washington and huge piece of ground from the hole was about twenty meter from the hole itself like it would be tore up from the ground. Although they are relatively rare, similar events are reported all over the World.
• 1986: Famous and best documented claimed "UFO crash" happened near Vladivostok in Russia, but results of study are mainly in secret for an indefinite period.
• 1986: Famous UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek dies.
• 1987: Whitley Strieber began UFO abduction boom and one kind of person cult by his books.
• 1988: William H. Spaulding from Ground Saucer Watch organisation analyzed about one thousand claimed UFO photos by computer. His opinion was that 605 of theme were a fake and about 350 were misunderstanded phenomena.
• 1988: One of prominent UFO investigators in the World, Jacques Vallee, got conclusion that UFO phenomena probably related to multiversum and parallel dimensions.
• 1988: Coral Lorenzen dies and the World oldest UFO organization, APRO ends its activities.
• 1989: Foundantions of Physics -journal published wide analyses from over eight hundred experiments related to claimed anomalous intentional effect in microlevel physical systems (micro psychokinesis). Conclusion of article is that there is quite obvious evidence for some kind of anomaly related to micro-psychokinesis.
• 1989: News agency TASS releases, that UFO landed to the park in city of Voronesh, but later study seems to proved that claimed event is probably a fraud.
• 1989: Belgian's UFO wave, where thousands of people saw triangle-like object flying on the area. Some of them got also photos from the object, Belgian fighters took after it and it observed also in the radar.
• From 1989: Crop circles grow to publicity for their full power. Greatest number of the crop circles appeared in the Wiltshire, England, what is also one of the World New Age -center, which is coincidence that grow suspicions in many researchers.
• 1989: Jose Pilon's research group got various proves from paranormal phenomena when they study claimed haunted palace of Linares near Madrid.
  

1990-1999

• 1990: Famous parapsychologist Scott Rogo murdered at his home. At his last years he was focused to study about claimed phone calls from the death, so called electronic voice phenomena (EVP).
• 1991-1993: UFO wave of Mexico, where researchers got data that probably hundred of thousands people has make observations and related to events they collected hundreds of claimed UFO photos and films. UFO wave continuing also later years and in the may 2004 Air Forces of Mexico makes radar detections from the strange, unidentified objects and they got them also to the infra red film.
• 1992: Michael Persinger published his magnetic helmet, which can produce various anomalistic experiences, for example feeling of presence, kind of the out of body experience, abduction like experiences and other strange feelings and hallucinations. Helmet produces also religious experiences to some person. Persinger's opinion is that piezo-electrical fields produces lot of UFO and related experiences.
• October 1993: Famous parapsychologist Dean Radin founded Consciousness Research Division to the University of Nevada to practice basic- and application research of claimed psi.
• December 1993: Energy-, research- and technology commission of European Parliament discussed about motion, that EU should give financial support to pan-European UFO centre, SEPRA.
• 1994: Paranormal research and related activity move slowly to Internet age as other aspect of the Society and public interest to physical activity turn to downwards. Some organizations, which can't adapt to new environment, even close they activities.
• 1995: Senate of United States closed Project StarGate, the CIA's 24 year-old research program of psychic spying.
• 1995: Well-known skeptic Richard Wiseman starts the psi research program at department of psychology in the University of Hertfordshire, England. At same time Susan Blackmore, who is also famous skeptic, start similar research in Bristol. Both of them got financial support from new Perrot-Warric fund that was obviously end up to control of devoted skeptics.
• 1996: Albert Budden state, that various UFO experiences are side effect of electro-magnetic pollution in the brain. He has similar opinions than famous neuroscientist Michael Persinger.
• 1996: News agency told over the World that unidentified flying object has crash in Varginha, Brasilia. Locals claimed that strange incident started when they had to witness running humanoids in the area and mysterious military operation where they seemed to hunt something.
• 1997: MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) grew to world widest UFO organization. It has over five thousand UFO investigators around the World.
• 1997: Dean Radin published most comprehensive meta-analysis in parapsychology, which proves that psi seems to be exist. Even prestigious journal Nature published book-review about Radin's study, where was also noted the dangers of meta-analysis.
• December 1997: Internationally most interesting project in the World of parapsychology was getting started from general discussion in the Freiburg's conference of information sciences. That was study of possible psi effect related to global situation, especially emotionally remarkable events, which was began at 1998 as Global Consciousness Project in the University of Princeton, where working also Robert Jahn's PEAR lab.
• 1997: Society for Scientific Exploration assembles the panel of prestigious scientist to evaluating UFO phenomena. Chairman of panel was famous astrophysicist Peter Sturrock and it had financial support from the Laurance S. Rockefeller fund. Society published panel's work in the June 1998, where it recommended that any self-respectful scientists should take a more serious attitude to UFO phenomena.
• June 1999: Julie Milton and Richard Wiseman published meta-analysis that covered thirty newest Ganzfeld-study, which were done by ten different researchers because of earlier remarkable results in the Ganzfeld studies. However meta-analysis show, that there is not any kind of sign that earlier positive results would repeated in the newest research. Sceptics saw this proved that psi doesn't exist and earlier studies had some unidentified methodological weakness. Others saw that so called failings in the study can be due to insufficient measures in those research and if psi exist also researchers mind must take into consideration as part of circumstances. Although both sides had an opinion that Ganzfeld has most remarkable method in the parapsychology and many saw also that additional research needed.
• 1999: French general's COMETA-report published. It concentrated to UFO phenomena relations to national defence. Report was result of the work of prestigious COMETA-group, nominated by defence forces in 1995. Report's conclusion is that the extraterrestrial (ET) hypothesis is in some UFO cases only sensible explanation and it evaluated, what kind of things human kind should be prepared in the future related to UFO phenomena.
• November 1999: Montague Keen, David Fontana and Arthur Ellison published report from they and their colleagues studies in Scole, England, where happened most remarkable events of modern physical mediumship.
  

From year 2000

• February 2001: Sam Parnia's study about near death experiences (NDE) published in prestigious Resuscitation journal, where Parnia proved that hypothesis of real ecsomatic state need to be taked seriously and research should to be continued. Over two years later Peter Fenwick started NDE research, which have – because of its clever measures – chance to decisive prove related to this hypothesis.
• May 2001: Philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom published his famous simulation-argument and its basic idea released at same time also in the Finland. As a result of this discovery, hypothesis that we actually live in the simulation had giving totally new standpoint to research of paranormal phenomena.
• 2003: University of Lund in Sweden released to open the Chair of parapsychology and hypnology.
• August 2003: Scientist in United States noticed that they can't find a match to any identified animal when they study DNA in the furs of Yeti kind animal, which locals claimed to saw in the Sumatra.
• 2003: Group called Yellow Bamboo released to pass preliminary test of the million dollar challenge of James Randi by prove they claimed paranormal abilities to deputy of Randi's fund in the Philippines. After the sensational news Randi plead to little technical weaknesses in the film from the event and disqualify the result. However Randi released that group is welcomed to actual test to the Florida, unlike in 1999 when he hadn't want to test claimed noneating man. If Yellow Bamboo got the moneys for the Florida's trip, it is sure that many are interested to follow if group beats Randi himself.
• 2003: In the Hampton Court Palace, which is claimed to be haunted, security camera got a film from the strange human form who opened the closed side door and then vanish without any trace, in spite of the local security guard's work.
• January 2004: The 1977 opened UFO Research Centre GEPAN, which was replaced for the wider department SEPRA (Service d' Expertise des Phénomenes de Rentrées Atmosphériques) in 1988, ordered to close. At the same finished also activities of UFO research network, which was covered the French police forces. Similar destiny had to undergo also other governmental UFO research projects in the USA and UK.
• 2004: SETI@home –project (Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) told to find possible signal from extraterrestrial intelligence. News grows into World media, which rose many speculations where ET-contact has told almost sure. Enthusiasm decrease soon when researchers noticed that the "signal" was only thing what was got into manual check from the computer sieve, not absolutely sure ET-contact. Signal don't get any sure explanation in the manual examinations, but seems probably that it isn't ET-contact or if it was, that hadn't very good quality for that. Scientists think this relatively short signal was probably an accidental pulse of information, whose are very likely in great mass of random data. Modern SETI-research had been done from 1960-ies to present days and SETI-projects are sometimes received similar unexplained signals, whose don't be repeated. This wasn't first, and it will probably be also last time when those signal candidates rose in the World media as false report.
• 2004: Researchers found new human species named Homo Floriensis from Flories-island in Indonesia. Discovery proves that our species were lived with other human species only in 18.000 years ago or maybe less, because cryptozoologists know relatively new descriptions from mysterious dwarf-man, which seems had much similarity to this human species.
  

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Berita: UFO Sighting di Petukangan Selatan, Jakarta

Baru saja tayang di RCTI sekitar jam 00.00 tadi.

Saksi mata bernama Jufri, bersama seorang temannya pada hari Senin malam sekitar pukul 8:30 malam melihat formasi cahaya aneka warna di langit diatas rumahnya. Formasi tersebut berupa tujuh titik cahaya aneka warna yang kerlap-kerlip, bergerak pelan kemudian melayang stasioner. Setelah dua-tiga menit formasi cahaya lalu menjauh dan menghilang.

Tak berapa lama kemudian formasi cahaya tersebut kembali muncul, kali ini berupa delapan titik cahaya.

Ada rekaman video nya, tujuh titik sinar dengan formasi belah ketupat (empat dan tiga) berwarna oranye, putih, dll. Sekilas terlihat mirip sighting UFO diatas Bandara Surabaya yang kemudian dinyatakan sebagai cahaya LED dari layang-layang. Analisis untuk sighting kali inipun tidak jauh berbeda: balon udara!

Any comments? (bay)

Berita: UFO Terekam di Foto -- Dago Atas, Bandung

Source: DetikBandung

04/04/2008 11:55 WIB

Berfoto Bersama Alien di Bandung Utara

Baban Gandapurnama - detikBandung

Bandung - Tidak hanya rekaman UFO yang tersebar secara luas, salah seorang warga yang sedang berkunjung ke Bandung Utara mengaku tidak sengaja memotret sosok yang tampak seperti alien.

Darmawan (25) mengungkapkan hal ini ketika ditemui detikbandung di kediamannya di Jalan Pasirluyu 292 RT 05 RW 05 Kelurahan Pasirluyu Kecamatan Regol, Jumat (4/4/2008). Menurut Darmawan, ada sosok yang mirip alien terpotret ketika dirinya berkunjung ke Dago Atas. Pada Sabtu malam (22/3/2008) Darmawan bersama kakaknya, Warman (34) dan 5 orang teman kakaknya mengunjungi salah satu restoran di Dago Atas.

Seusai bersantap sekitar pukul 22.00 WIB, mereka berfoto di pelataran parkir restoran tersebut. Darmawan menuturkan kamera yang digunakan adalah milik teman kakaknya bernama Amir, jenis kameranya Nikon D80. Setelah memotret beberapa kali, mereka kembali ke penginapan di Padalarang, tiba pukul 24.00 WIB.

"Di penginapan, Amir mentransfer foto ke laptop. Beberapa foto diamati bersama. Ada salah satu foto yang mengejutkan, yaitu foto yang memuat mereka berenam, dan di belakangnya ada satu benda berbentuk lancip menyerupai pesawat. Di ujung lancipnya mengeluarkan sinar warna merah," tutur Darmawan.

Posisi benda itu, lanjut Darmawan, seperti sedang bergerak menembus langit, mengarah ke satu titik cahaya. Beberapa foto lain juga menangkap hal serupa. Bahkan salah satu foto, ada bayangan merah di sebelah kiri. Setelah diperbesar, ada sosok kepala sedikit panjang.

"Sosok itu mirip alien yang sering digambarkan di media," jelasnya.

Meski memiliki bukti otentik, Darmawan mengaku sedikit ragu dengan keberadaan UFO. Dirinya mengungkapkan sudah sering mendengar isu tentang penampakan UFO di Bandung Utara. Namun Darmawan belum yakin sampai ada pakar yang membenarkan keberadaan UFO.

"Saya sudah mengirimkan foto ini ke beberapa pakar, termasuk juga ke Beta-UFO. Namun belum ada tanggapan. Saya sih berharap secepatnya, karena saya juga penasaran," jelasnya. ( twi / ern ) 

Berita: UFO Terlihat di Buahbatu Bandung

Catatan: Cerita pendukung untuk video sighting ogiefreak yang ini:
http://ufosiana.multiply.com/video/item/5/UFO_di_Bandung_Selatan_0108
Source: DetikBandung

04/04/2008 09:51 WIB

Penampakan UFO di Buahbatu Bandung

Baban Gandapurnama - detikBandung

Bandung - The truth is out there. Tagline ini menjadi pembuka serial TV The X Files, tentang keberadaan dunia asing di angkasa. Tidak harus menjadi Mulder dan Scully untuk bisa melihat keanehan-keanehan angkasa. Belum lama ini warga Ciburial, Ogi Taryadi melihat penampakan UFO (unidentified flying object) di kawasan Buahbatu.

Ogi menuturkan penampakan tersebut terjadi pada Januari lalu, Sabtu siang (19/1/2008) di Jalan Gurame, Buahbatu. Awalnya yang melihat penampakan tersebut adalah tiga orang teman Ogi yakni, Agung Priyatna (26), Angga dan Wail. Ketiga temannya ini sedang berada di kosan di Jalan Bali, melihat benda berwarna hitam yang terbang memutar dan bergerak ke atas.

"Kata Agung bergeraknya seperti balon, ke atas. Dia juga yakin kalau itu bukan helikopter," ujar Ogi kepada detikbandung ketika ditemui di kantornya di Jalan Gurame, Kamis (3/4/2008).

Menurut Ogi, Agung mengamati benda tersebut sekitar 10 menit. Tak lama, lanjut Ogi, sekitar pukul 12.00 WIB, Agung menghubungi untuk memberitahukan tentang penampakan yang dilihatnya.

"Saya langsung melihat ke langit, mencari-cari kalau-kalau masih ada, karena Jalan Bali dan Jalan Gurame kan jauh. Eh tak lama baru benda itu muncul lagi, saya langsung lihat pakai teropong," tuturnya.

Ogi meyakini benda yang dia lihat melalui teropong tersebut merupakan UFO. Diungkapkannya bahwa bentuk benda tersebut seperti piringan, berbeda dengan bentuk pesawat pada umumnya.

"Saya melihat benda itu sekitar 10 menit. Baru kemudian saya teringat untuk merekamnya dengan handycam," kata Ogi.

Meski berhasil merekam, Ogi menyayangkan rekamannya hanya berdurasi lima menit. Selain itu hasil rekamannya kurang memuaskan karena penampakan UFO terlihat jauh.

"Saya sedikit terlambat, harusnya saya rekam ketika benda itu terlihat jelas," ungkapnya.

Video penampakan UFO tersebut telah disebarkan Ogi di internet melalui situs YouTube. Penampakan pada 19 Januari 2008 bukanlah yang pertama kali bagi Ogi. Tahun lalu, tepatnya 12 Agustus 2007, dirinya mengaku pernah melihat penampakan UFO dan sempat merekamnya juga.
( twi / ern )

Berita: Ciburial, Bandung -- UFO Hotspot

Source: DetikBandung

04/04/2008 10:28 WIB

Ciburial Langganan Dikunjungi UFO

Baban Gandapurnama - detikBandung


Bandung - Saksi hidup penampakan UFO ternyata bukan hanya satu dua orang. Salah satu saksi, Ogi Taryadi (29) menuturkan bahwa di kawasan Ciburial tempat tinggalnya, merupakan langganan penampakan UFO atau benda asing luar angkasa.

Hal ini dikemukakan Ogi kepada detikbandung, ketika ditemui di kantornya di Jalan Gurame, Kamis (3/4/2008). Ogi menuturkan bahwa sejak kecil dirinya sering melihat UFO dari rumahnya di Jalan Bukit Pakar Timur Ciburial.

"Sejak SMP saya sudah sering melihat UFO, tapi dulu saya tidak tahu apa-apa. Saya pikir itu pesawatnya pemerintah," jelas Ogi.

Kala itu Ogi melihat benda besar menukik dari langit ke bawah, warnanya terang dan setelah itu terbang kembali. Tidak hanya Ogi, keluarga dan tetangga yang bermukim di kawasan Ciburial juga sudah sering melihat fenomena ini.

"Keluarga saya pernah melihat UFO yang besar dari jarak yang sangat dekat. Sekitar 100 meter dari atap rumah. Waktu itu saya sedang tidak di rumah. Kata keluarga saya, ada pesawat-pesawat kecil yang masuk ke pesawat itu," ungkapnya.

Tahun 2003 lalu, kata Ogi, hampir setiap hari ada penampakan UFO di kawasan Ciburial. Bentuk yang sering dia lihat seperti cerutu, sampai yang berbentuk scoutship atau segitiga. "Jadi warga mencurigai keberadaan UFO di kawasan itu," jelasnya.

Ogi juga menambahkan, Ciburial memang sudah dikenal oleh para pemburu UFO. Orang-orang yang penasaran ingin melihat penampakan UFO secara langsung, sering datang ke kawasan tempat tinggalnya.

Berita: UFO Terlihat di Jl. Pajajaran, Bandung

Sumber: DetikBandung

04/04/2008 13:15 WIB

UFO di Bandung

Hari Ini Pukul 07.40 WIB, UFO Terlihat di Jalan Pajajaran
Erna Mardiana - detikBandung

Bandung - Keberadaan Unidentified flying object (UFO) hingga kini masih disangsikan. Namun kesaksian penampakan UFO makin gencar. Hari ini (4/4/2008) sekitar pukul 07.40 WIB, seorang warga Bandung menyaksikan munculnya UFO di Jalan Pajajaran.

Berdasarkan penuturan Boby Hendrawan (35), pegawai salah satu agen perjalanan di daerah Surya Sumantri, kepada detikbandung, seperti biasa dia bersama sang istri keluar rumah di Ciganitri, Bojongsoang, Buahbatu, sekitar pukul 07.00 WIB

"Saya mau mengantar istri saya dulu yang kerja di daerah Ciroyom," ujarnya.

Rute jalan yang diambil melalui Jalan Pasirkaliki lalu belok kiri menuju Jalan Pajajaran. Tepat di dekat taman Jalan Arjuna atau persisnya di depan STM Penerbangan, Boby melihat di atas langit ada benda aneh.

"Saat itu langit cerah sekali, berwarna biru. Saya melihat benda berwarna putih seperti lampu tangan sebesar kepalangan tangan. Benda itu tidak bergerak sama sekali," tuturnya yang mengaku menghentikan kendarannya.

Melihat hal itu, Boby langsung mengabadikannya dengan kamera handphonenya. "Namun sayang pas dilihat di HP, engga terlihat. Mungkin karena pixel kamera saya kecil," ujarnya.

Menurutnya saat itu waktu menunjukkan pukuln 07.40 WIB. Boby mengaku memang sudah sejak lama tertarik dengan fenomena UFO, sehingga secara refleks dia pasti melihat jam saat melihat benda aneh di langit. Dia mengaku ini kejadian kedua kalinya setelah 2004 silam.

"Saya melihat benda itu hingga 15 menit. Nah benda itu sempat bergeser ke kiri, lalu diam lagi. Trus dia bergeser ke atas, dan di atas benda itu keluar cahaya merah, mirip bintang," tutur Boby.

Karena diburu waktu, akhirnya Boby melanjutkan perjalanan sebelum benda itu hilang. "Pas saya pergi pun saya sempat melihat ke atas dan benda itu masih ada. Saya sempat lambaikan tangan, hehe kali saja ada respon," ujar Boby sambil tertawa.

Dia mengaku banyak orang yang menyangsikannya. Hal itu menurutnya sangat wajar. "Saya terima konsekuensinya. Kalau bagi saya yang melihat langsung, sulit untuk tidak percaya," pungkasnya. ( ern / ern )

Guide: Cloud Chart

Salahsatu tools untuk memperkirakan ketinggian UFO yang tertangkap dalam rekaman video, adalah dengan membandingkan posisinya relatif terhadap ketinggian awan. Mengapa awan? Karena walaupun telihat sama saja dimata pengamat awam, awan sebenarnya terdiri dari beragam jenis berbeda dan masing-masing menempati ketinggian yang pasti, tidak pernah keliru. Masing-masing jenis awan ini bisa dikenali dari bentukan khasnya serta karakter-karakter fisik lainnya yang bisa diamati secara visual.

Secara penggolongan, awan terbagi menjadi tiga kelompok berdasarkan ketinggian sebagai berikut:

1. Awan Tinggi, terletak antara 6.000 m hingga 13.000 m:
• Cirrus
• Cirrocumulus
• Cirrostratus
2. Awan Sedang, terletak antara 2.000 m hingga 6.000 m:
• Altocumulus
• Altostratus
3. Awan Rendah, terletak dibawah 2.000 m:
• Stratus
• Stratocumulus
• Nimbostratus
4. Awan Vertikal, dengan ketinggian antara 0 m hingga 13.000 m:
• Cumulus
• Cumulonimbus
• Contrails; jejak awan akibat semburan gas dari pesawat jet
5. Lainnya:
• Lenticular; bentuk awan mirip lensa yang terbentuk karena angin turun di sisi gunung, sering disangka sebagai UFO.
• Billow / Kelvin-Helmholtz; awan yang terbentuk karena gesekan antara dua lapisan udara paralel yang berbeda arah.
• Mammatus; bentuk2 menggantung mirip kantung2 payudara pada bagian bawah awan Cumulonimbus
• Orographic Stratus / Banner Clouds; awan yang terbentuk karena desakan dari contour permukaan bumi
• Pilleus; smooth capping clouds
6. Khusus daerah Kutub:
• Polar Stratospheric / Nacreous
• Polar Mesospheric / Noctilucent
7. Kejadian khusus:
• Pyrocumulus; awan yang terbentuk karena api, lazim ditemui di lokasi-lokasi kebakaran hutan.

Untuk gambar lebih jelasnya, silakan browse ke image gallery berikut ini: http://ufosiana.multiply.com/photos/album/4/Jenis-Jenis_Awan, sedangkan untuk penjelasan lebih mendetail silakan mampir ke Wikipedia. (bay)

Majalah INFO-UFO Indonesia (Gratis)

Link: http://www.betaufo.org/majalah.html

Bagi yang pernah jadi pembaca setia majalah Info-UFO, sekarang bisa mengobati kerinduannya atas satu-satunya majalah Indonesia yang mengulas khusus mengenai Ufologi ini.

Setelah lama tidak terbit, maka sejak Ferbuari 2008 ini Info-UFO telah kembali terbit! Dan lebih bagusnya lagi, bisa anda dapatkan secara GRATIS.

Anda tinggal arahkan browser anda ke link yang termuat di bagian awal tulisan ini, dan masuk ke bagian "majalah" dari homepage, atau "Download" dari menu.

Majalah dalam bentuk eZine ini dibuat dalam format PDF sehingga relatif mudah untuk diakses. Bagi yang hari gini masih belum punya PDF reader, silakan mampir ke Adobe.com untuk mendownload PDF reared (Adobe Reader) versi terbaru, gratis juga.

Semoga penerbitan ulang majalah Info-UFO ini bisa membantu meningkatkan perhatian masyarakat umumnya, dan mereka yang tertarik pada materi UFO khususnya. (bay)

Arsip: BETA-UFO di HU Kompas, 20/01/08

Kebenaran Ada di Luar Sana...

Kompas/Priyambodo/Kompas Images

Komunitas BETA-UFO Indonesia.

Minggu, 20 januari 2008 | 10:51 WIB
DAHONO FITRIANTO

Pernah melihat UFO? Atau diculik ”alien”? Tapi Anda kemudian diolok-olok saat menceritakan hal itu? Jangan khawatir, Anda tidak sendiri....

Sebaris kalimat itu menjadi semacam semboyan atau tag line di brosur komunitas BETA-UFO, sebuah komunitas pengamat fenomena benda terbang tak dikenal (disingkat UFO-unidentified flying object atau benda terbang aneh—BETA—dalam bahasa Indonesia). Tanpa banyak diketahui orang, komunitas tersebut telah aktif mengamati fenomena UFO selama sepuluh tahun belakangan ini.

Nur Agustinus (41), salah seorang pendiri komunitas ini pada 26 Oktober 1997, mengatakan, BETA-UFO adalah komunitas yang serius mengamati fenomena UFO dengan mencatat, menyelidiki, dan menyusun laporan penampakan atau pengalaman yang berhubungan dengan UFO di seluruh Indonesia. ”Tujuannya adalah untuk edukasi publik. Jadi kami bukan kelompok pemuja UFO atau UFO cult,” kata Nur, yang sehari-hari berprofesi sebagai psikolog di Surabaya ini.

Komunitas tersebut saat ini memiliki dua ajang komunikasi, yakni melalui laman mereka di www.betaufo.org dan milis yang beralamat di beta-ufo@yahoogroups.com. Hingga hari Sabtu (19/1), anggota milis tersebut telah mencapai 596 orang dan bertambah terus tiap hari.

Nur dan BETA-UFO sempat menerbitkan majalah INFO UFO, tetapi tak bertahan lama karena kekurangan tenaga redaksi dan dana. Untuk memperingati ulang tahun ke-10 komunitas BETA-UFO, akhir tahun lalu, mereka juga menerbitkan buku berjudul Satu Dekade Perjalanan Komunitas BETA-UFO Indonesia Melacak Fenomena UFO.

Buku yang ditulis Nur dan rekannya sesama anggota BETA-UFO, Gatot Tri R (31), itu diterbitkan sendiri dengan dana patungan dari anggota lain.

Laporan UFO

Segala informasi berkaitan dengan UFO dapat ditemukan pada laman, milis, dan buku tersebut, mulai dari laporan-laporan penampakan UFO, jenis-jenis UFO, sampai usaha untuk menjelaskan apa sebenarnya UFO dan dari mana dia berasal. Di www.betaufo.org, misalnya, orang dapat melihat berbagai foto dan laporan penampakan UFO terbaru dari seluruh Indonesia.

Dalam situs tersebut juga disediakan formulir khusus untuk melaporkan penampakan UFO. ”Sebenarnya, banyak penampakan UFO di Indonesia tetapi tidak tercatat karena selama ini tak ada komunitas atau lembaga yang benar-benar serius mengamati UFO,” ungkap Nur.

Karena dianggap sebagai kelompok yang paling mengetahui soal UFO, BETA-UFO saat ini sering menjadi narasumber di berbagai media atau seminar. Bahkan sebuah iklan antena televisi produksi lokal yang berbentuk seperti piring terbang mengutip penjelasan BETA-UFO tentang definisi UFO untuk menarik perhatian.

Tak dibatasi

Nur mengatakan, keanggotaan komunitas ini sangat terbuka. Siapa pun yang merasa punya pengalaman langsung terkait dengan UFO atau sekadar berminat tentang per-UFO-an dipersilakan bergabung. Alhasil, anggota milis BETA-UFO sangat bervariasi dan dari berbagai latar belakang, mulai dari anak SMA sampai ilmuwan bertitel doktor dan pilot Angkatan Udara.

Risiko komunitas yang terbuka seperti ini, tak jarang diganggu atau diisengi orang. ”Kami memang tak bisa membatasi apakah informasi yang masuk itu sungguhan atau sekadar hoax, bualan,” ujarnya.
Info atau laporan yang masuk kemudian didiskusikan bersama di milis atau secara langsung saat kegiatan ”kopi darat”. Setiap info diperlakukan sama, tidak langsung diterima mentah-mentah sebagai kebenaran, tetapi juga tidak diolok-olok seolah-olah itu bualan. ”Pertama kali kita harus skeptis, karena banyak penampakan yang dikira UFO sebenarnya cuma balon atau cahaya lain. Setiap ada laporan masuk, kami selalu berusaha mengarahkan si pelapor pada penjelasan-penjelasan normal,” papar Nur.

Tempat berbagi

Dengan cara itu, BETA-UFO kemudian menjadi tempat berbagi yang aman. Orang yang selama ini takut diolok-olok saat menceritakan pengalamannya tentang UFO menjadi memiliki tempat untuk bercerita. ”Salah satu tujuan kami memang menciptakan lingkungan kondusif agar masyarakat mau berpartisipasi dan secara sukarela mengkomunikasikan fenomena UFO,” imbuh Gatot Tri, yang mengaku pernah didatangi dan bahkan diculik makhluk alien.

Meski bersifat terbuka, komunitas tersebut membatasi diskusi pada hal-hal yang bersifat ilmiah. Menurut Nur, masih banyak orang Indonesia yang menganggap UFO sebagai bagian dari klenik, seperti jin atau santet. ”Begitu diskusinya mulai masuk ke wilayah klenik atau malah jadi perdebatan keagamaan, langsung kami cut,” tandasnya.

Komunitas BETA-UFO berawal dari bertemunya para peminat UFO di sebuah milis pertengahan 1997. Waktu itu internet masih belum terlalu populer di Indonesia, dan para pengguna internet sering berinteraksi di sebuah milis pertemanan bernama Friendship. ”Itu eranya booming film X-Files di TV. Dan ternyata beberapa orang di milis sangat berminat tentang UFO,” kenang Bayu Yunantias (33), seorang desainer TI di Bandung, yang turut mendirikan BETA-UFO.

Bayu, yang saat itu masih kuliah di ITB, kemudian membuat milis tersendiri khusus peminat UFO dalam laman milik ITB yang beralamat di beta-ufo@itb.ac.id. Saat bersamaan, Nur menjadikan rumahnya di Surabaya menjadi sekretariat resmi BETA-UFO hingga sekarang.

Nur berharap, lima tahun ke depan, komunitas ini bisa menyelenggarakan berbagai acara penting yang berkaitan dengan UFO kepada masyarakat umum dan bisa menyajikan sejumlah bukti mengenai fenomena UFO.

Soal kebenaran tentang apa dan siapa UFO itu sendiri? Seperti sering disebut dalam film X-Files: the truth is out there. Kebenaran sejati ada di luar sana....

[Source: Kompas Online]

Arsip: On air di FeMale Radio Jakarta, 28/08/03

FAG : Circle F - Beta UFO : Ada 123 Kasus Penampakan UFO di Indonesia!
August 26, 2003

FAG : Circle F - "Beta UFO" : Ada 123 Kasus Penampakan UFO di Indonesia !

[femaleradio.com-26/8] Bagi sebagian orang, keberadaan UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) hanyalah isapan jempol belaka. Tapi bagi sekelompok orang yang menamakan diri mereka Beta UFO, keberadaan UFO dapat dipercaya. Bahkan ada di antara mereka pernah melihat langsung UFO ! Hingga kini, Beta UFO -komunitas pemerhati UFO di Indonesia- mencatat terdapat 123 kasus penampakan UFO yang terjadi di Indonesia !

Seperti Ikan Pari

Bagi David kecil, melihat benda-benda terbang seperti pesawat berbagai jenis dan helikopter bukanlah hal asing baginya. Tetapi jika benda terbang itu berbentuk seperti ikan pari, itu adalah pengalaman pertama yang berkesan sekali untuknya. "Saya pernah sekali melihat UFO sewaktu masih kelas 3 SD," ujar David, salah anggota "Beta UFO". Menurut David, kejadian tersebut terjadi pada tahun 1983, sewaktu ia masih tinggal di Irian. "Bentuknya seperti ikan pari dan penampakannya sebentar banget. Jarak UFO itu jauh banget dari saya. Kecil sekali tampaknya, seperti uang logam," tutur David kepada Koespramanto dan Iwan Purwanto dalam acara "Circle F" yang setiap minggunya menghadirkan komunitas-komunitas dari berbagai kalangan.

Pengalaman berkesan itu, disimpan David bertahun-tahun lamanya. Hingga suatu ketika, dia bertemu dengan Bayu dan Lutfi lewat sebuah komunitas online (mailing list) di internet. Ngobrol punya ngobrol, ternyata mereka bertiga memiliki minat yang sama terhadap UFO. Berbeda dengan David yang mengaku sudah pernah melihat langsung UFO, Bayu dan Lutfi mengaku belum pernah melihatnya. Meski begitu, Bayu dan Lutfi percaya akan keberadaan UFO. "Awalnya karena imajinasi saya tentang alam semesta yang luas ini, segala possibilities ada di sana. Gue berimajinasi mestinya juga ada makhluk beradab di situ," ungkap Lutfi.

Walaupun, berawal dari sebuah milis yang tidak mengkhususkan diri pada UFO, tapi dari obrolan online tersebut, cukup banyak orang yang berminat pada UFO. Kebetulan pada tahun 1997 itu, para pemerhati UFO belum ada wadahnya. Sehingga, mereka pun akhirnya berkumpul dan memutuskan untuk membentuk komunitas pemerhati UFO yang dinamakan "Beta UFO".

Kini "Beta UFO" telah berdiri selama 5 tahun. Anggota milis mereka kini juga telah mencapai 300 orang. Mereka pun tidak hanya aktif sekedar berdiskusi tentang UFO, tetapi juga mengumpulkan data kesaksian dari kliping dan orang-orang yang pernah menyaksikan UFO secara langsung, terutama peristiwa yang terjadi di Indonesia. Kesaksian tersebut mereka publikasikan dalam sebuah majalah yang mereka terbitkan sendiri bernama Info UFO dan dalam website "Beta UFO".

123 Kasus !

Dari data yang telah mereka kumpulkan selama periode 1883-2001, tercatat 123 kasus penampakan UFO, untuk di Indonesia saja ! Tiga dari 123 kasus tersebut dapat dibuktikan dengan foto.

Peristiwa penampakan UFO paling tua, terjadi pada tahun 1883 sewaktu gunung berapi Krakatau meletus. Ketika itu, orang-orang yang tengah berada di sana, melihat benda-benda di langit yang bercahaya. Sedangkan penampakan UFO di Indonesia yang paling populer terjadi pada tanggal 22 September 1973 di kawasan pantai Cilamaya, Karawang, Jawa Barat. Peristiwa ini dipotret dan disaksikan secara langsung oleh Ir. Tony Hartono Rusman, yang bekerja di sebuah perusahaan minyak.

Waktu itu, sekitar pukul 15.00 Tony sedang melepas lelah, sehabis makan siang di Quarters Platform pada lantai III kompleks menara pengeboran minyak lepas pantai di ladang minyak Arjuna, 83 km dari pantai Cilamaya, Karawang, Jawa Barat. Tiba-tiba perhatian Tony tertarik pada titik hitam di atas cakrawala yang menuju ke arah ladang minyak dengan bentuk lonjong dan berwarna merah tua. Pada jarak sekitar 10 km, benda tersebut membelok dengan tajam dan menjauh lagi, sehingga membuat lintasan seperti bumerang. Di kejauhan, benda itu naik vertikal ke atas dan hilang dari pemandangan. Kebetulan saat itu, Tony sedang menyandang kamera Olympus, maka dengan segera ia menyetel dan membidikkannya ke arah benda yang muncul tidak lebih dari satu menit itu. Semula Tony tidak sadar bahwa benda yang diabadikannya itu adalah sebuah UFO. Setelah film itu dicuci, tampaklah UFO di atas tanker minyak Arco Arjuna, yang kini sudah menjadi terkenal di seluruh dunia.

Kejadian penampakan UFO lainnya di Indonesia yang sempat difoto adalah kejadian pada tanggal 22 Juni 1977 yang sempat disaksikan oleh Dr. Ir. Aryono Abdul Kadir dan dua rekannya, Ir. Rudianto Ramelan dan Ir. Ananda Soeyoso. Pada waktu itu, mereka tengah melakukan perjalanan dari Surabaya ke arah Malang. Tiba-tiba di suatu tempat, di antara Gempol Porong, salah seorang di antaranya melihat benda langit yang menarik perhatian di sebelah barat jalan raya. Dr. Ariono yang pada dasarnya senang mengamati gejala seperti itu, mengira benda langit itu adalah meteor. Segera ia keluar dari mobil dan memotretnya. Tetapi tiba-tiba terjadi lagi hal yang mengejutkan. Benda langit tadi membelok tajam hampir 90° ke arah selatan dan meninggalkan ekor yang tampak seperti bunga api.

Selain itu, penampakan UFO di atas Gunung Agung Bali, juga sempat difoto oleh turis Jepang yang tengah berlibur. Peristiwa yang disaksikan Ryo Terumato tersebut terjadi pada tanggal 1973.

"Beta UFO" mencatat kejadian penampakan UFO yang paling akhir di Indonesia terjadi pada tahun 2001 lalu. "Penampakannya ada di atas lapangan Ros, Jakarta. Tapi waktu manggil TV, benda itu sudah tidak ada," ungkap Lutfi.

Makhluk Foton

Gejala penampakan UFO dipandang oleh Juhana, pendiri dan penasehat Himpunan Astronomi Amatir Indonesia, dapat dibuktikan melalui koridor astronomi. "Pandangan saya pribadi, saya percaya bahwa UFO itu benar ada. Saya melihat itu dari koridor astronomi dan agama," ungkap Juhana yang memiliki latar belakang pendidikan mechanical engineering ini.

Menurut Juhana, logikanya di alam semesta ini terdapat satu sistem bintang yang terdiri dari bintang yang sejenis dan satu ukuran dengan matahari. Sistem bintang tersebut juga mempunyai planet-planet, sebagai syarat-syarat yang bisa mendukung kondisi seperti bumi. "Jadi why not, kalau dikatakan bahwa UFO itu ada," ujar Juhana kepada Koespramanto dan Iwan Purwanto dalam wawancaranya melalui sambungan telepon.

Juhana menambahkan, hingga saat ini telah ditemukan 50 bintang yang sejenis dan seukuran dengan matahari. Dari 50 bintang itu, sudah ditemukan 100 planet. "Tapi satu dari 100 planet itu belum ada yang memenuhi syarat untuk menyerupai kondisi bumi, karena planetnya itu terdiri dari gas. Jaraknya juga jauh lebih dekat dari jarak matahari kita ke planet Merkurius," tutur Juhana.

Juhana kemudian mengutip buku berjudul "Cosmos" yang ditulis oleh ahli astronomi, Prof. Carl Sagan. "Carl Sagan mengatakan kalau mau bertemu dengan UFO dan alien itu, saatnya sekarang ini, milenium ini," tegas Juhana. Logikanya jika diselidiki, galaksi Bima Sakti ini dihuni oleh 100 milyar sampai 200 milyar bintang salah satunya adalah matahari. Sedangkan, jarak matahari - yang terletak di lengan Orion galaksi Bima Sakti- dengan pusat Bima Sakti adalah sekitar 30 ribu tahun cahaya. Asumsinya jika UFO dan alien ini dianggap makhluk ciptaan Tuhan, maka tubuhnya terdiri dari molekuler atomik seperti kita. "Artinya makhluk demikian selalu tunduk pada hukum gravitasi. Tetapi dari temuan selama ini, dari foto-foto yang ada, sekian persen adalah cahaya-cahaya yang palsu. Tapi kemungkinan itu tetap ada," ujar Juhana. Sementara, UFO itu menurut Prof. Carl Sagan adanya tidak lebih jauh dari 200 tahun cahaya, dari tempat kita ini. "Jadi kalau diperhitungkan dari peradaban alam semesta ini, maka sekarang waktu yang pas untuk berkomunikasi. Tapi nyatanya, kok engga ada satupun yang berkomunikasi dengan UFO dengan menggunakan gelombang radio, seperti yang kita lihat dalam film 'Contact'," ungkap Juhana lagi.

Maka, menurut Juhana, berdasarkan penelitian terakhir tentang ini, barangkali 'mereka' ini lebih maju dari kita. 'Mereka' tidak lagi berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan gelombang radio, melainkan sudah meningkat ke gelombang laser. Karena itu, sekarang ini pada ilmuwan sedang giat melakukan penelitian terhadap gelombang laser tersebut.

Selain itu, Juhana juga memaparkan sebuah teori menarik tentang alien dan UFO. "Jika dilihat dari penampakan UFO yang sifatnya mampu berbelok dengan tajam, artinya mereka mampu merubah dirinya menjadi gelombang sinar, jadi ada vibratornya. Jadi mereka ini dapat berubah dari tubuh molekul atomik menjadi foton," tutur Juhana. "Di Houston, Amerika Serikat, kabarnya ada alien yang tertangkap. Tapi demi keamanan, maka keberadaan alien itu dirahasiakan," kata Juhana lagi.

Diakui Dunia

Untuk menjaring laporan-laporan dari masyarakat mengenai penampakan UFO, Nur Agustinus -salah satu pendiri Beta UFO- sempat memasang iklan pengumuman di harian Jawa Pos. Isi iklan tersebut meminta masyarakat yang mempunyai informasi tentang UFO untuk menyampaikannya kepada Beta UFO. "Selain ada juga data-data yang dikumpulkan sendiri," ungkap Bayu.

Dari laporan-laporan yang masuk ke Beta UFO tersebut, dilakukan penyaringan data untuk menghindari kesaksian yang tidak benar. "Kita punya daftar pertanyaan bagi yang melaporkan penampakan UFO. Jadi, untuk mengetahui apakah benda yang dilihat itu benar-benar UFO atau sekedar burung, misalnya," ujar Bayu. Sebagai organisasi pemerhati UFO, menurut Lutfi, kini keberadaan "Beta UFO" telah diakui sebagai salah satu organisasi di dunia untuk pemerhati UFO dari Indonesia.

Kalaupun, anggota Beta UFO ataupun orang yang mengamati UFO dianggap aneh atau 'nyeleneh', bagi para anggota Beta UFO ini, itu sudah resikonya. Tapi hal tersebut tetap saja tak mempengaruhi keyakinan mereka bahwa manusia tidak sendirian di alam semesta ini dan tidak juga menyurutkan keinginan mereka untuk mencari bukti keberadaan UFO.

UFO, dari dulu hingga kini selalu mengundang pro dan kontra. Ada yang percaya, ada pula yang tidak. Well, the truth is out there

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[Source: http://femaleradio.net/2006/index.php?pg=2&nid=436&ct=cari]