Cryptozoology And The Paranormal

The Washington D.C. UFO Incident (1952)

From July 12th to July 29th, 1952, Washington D.C. was invaded by a fleet of UFO’s. In the beginning the object’s were spotted by the civilian population until the night of July 19th seven objects popped up on radar at Washington National Airport. Air traffic controller Edward Nugent spotted the objects 15 miles south of the city on his radar which was later corroborated by senior air traffic controller Harry Barnes. They noted the objects’ abnormal behavior of sudden turns, sudden acceleration and quick ascending/descending speeds. Two other radar technicians in a another tower spotted the objects on their radar and even saw one of the object’s with their own eyes, noting a “bright light” that moved at “incredible speed.” When the objects moved over the Capitol and White House Andrews Air Force Base was contacted who also spotted objects on their radar and saw an “orange ball of fire” that moved at “unbelievable speed.” At Washington National Airport they noticed objects on radar converging on the position of pilot S.C. Pierman on the runway who spotted 6 “white, tailless, fast moving lights.” After jets were scrambled and moved towards the objects the objects disappeared. After the jets returned to base to refuel the objects came back and were gone again at sunrise.

That wasn’t the last they were seen. The following Saturday night on July 26th the crew of a passenger plane noticed bright lights above their plane. After reporting the lights, both Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base spotted the objects on their radar all over D.C. They witnessed that the objects would move slowly, sit still, and even move up to 7,000 miles per hour. Two jets were scrambled to investigate, one of the pilots pursued four white lights but couldn’t keep up and lost them. The other pilot reported the objects were “all round me.” When more jets were scrambled one pilot saw a white light that disappeared when he moved towards it. Civilian aircraft continued to see strange glowing objects in the sky throughout the night.

Both Albert Chop and Major Dewey Fournet from Project Bluebook were on site during the events on July 26th. It was recorded that the objects seen in the sky were made of solid metal and were not weather balloons. The public was anxious for answers so the USAF’s official statement was that the objects were simply meteors and illusions, however behind closed doors officials in the USAF and from Project Blue Book knew different. It is also worth noting that some of the pilots in the skies on July 26th saw nothing unusual. So what exactly happened? What were the object’s in the skies over Washington D.C. and why did they seem to move in a way that didn’t obey our laws of physics? Did these object’s have extraterrestrial origin? Why did they leave at sunrise? The answers were in the skies of Washington D.C. in July 1952 and may never be truly known.

Men In Black Caught On Camera

The Men in Black are a mysterious group of strange men who visit witnesses of UFO’s and UFO related activity. They will often try to keep them quiet about their incident by threatening them and it often works. It’s believed that their mission is to keep as much UFO activity a secret as possible. This video was posted on YouTube on April 19th, 2012 by user StewieBlackOps. An employee at a hotel recently had a UFO sighting. Two men in black showed up to his place of employment and started questioning the employees there about the witness. They wanted to find him but fortunately he wasn’t working that day. The following day he was confronted by his coworkers who then told him about the two men, and they found them on the security footage of the hotel lobby. This video also has a voice over done by the man the men in black were looking for.

The Solway Spaceman

Jim Templeton took this photo in the Burgh Marsh in Cumbria, England one summer in 1964. Later on after the photo was developed he noticed a strange figure standing in the background. He his wife and his daughter Elizabeth, the girl in the foreground of the photo, were the only people around during the time the photo was taken. The photo has become highly questionable and has left many wondering who or what is in the background.

To some it looks like a “spaceman” wearing a spacesuit, some believe it is an alien or inter-dimensional being. Kodak offered a substantial reward to anyone who could prove the photo was a fake. Jim was later visited by men in black who asked him questions and asked to be brought to the site. In Australia a missile test was aborted because they said two figures who looked exactly like the Solway Spaceman had stumbled onto the launch site.

Nowadays the “spaceman” in the photo is assumed to be the man’s wife who walked into the shot of Elizabeth without Jim knowing. But there are some who are unsure and think that Jim would know if that happened or not. We can’t ask Jim because he unfortunately passed away in 2011. Whether the figure in the photo is Jim’s wife or not, there is no denying that this photo stirred up quite the mystery. What do you think?

More Mothman Newspapers

I’ve covered newspapers before and probably will again because I believe them to be one of the best sources of information regarding the Mothman phenomenon. The newspapers in the area were constantly reporting on the strange activity, leaving many newspapers from the era that we can still read. Here are a couple more clippings from the famous era in cryptozoology.

Colonel George P. Freeman, Pentagon spokesman for Project Bluebook

The Men In Black

Pretty much everybody knows of the film The Men In Black starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. However the real men in black are no joke. Described as men dressed in all black, driving black cars, no facial hair and emotionless faces, these men are all too real for those who have come into contact with them. When asked, they always show impressive and high ranking credentials but never share their names. Always somehow related to UFO’s these men always find out about a witness and proceed to make contact with them to interview and silence them. It is believed by many that these men aren’t actually men at all, but are actually aliens themselves working alongside government agencies to help cover up secrets.

These mysterious men are known for terrorizing and silencing those deeply involved in UFO sightings and research. They frequently show up to UFO researcher and witness’s homes and let themselves in. They will proceed to interview and then threaten and harass their victims until they believe that they will keep quiet about what they’ve seen or learned. What frequently shocks their victims is how much information these men in black know about them and their encounter. The men can easily describe exact locations and times, and know more about a person than people would like them too. Those who have encountered them claim that they’ve felt overwhelmed with fear and it is effective in making them stay quiet, for a little while at least.

Encounters with the men in black are rare and have declined in the modern day, but were very frequent during times of heavy government involvement in UFO matters. They were even said to have been constantly involved in the Mothman phenomenon during its reign in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. These mysterious and threatening men are all too real, and it makes you wonder how many UFO encounters haven’t been told to the public after a witness was visited by the men in black. If you ever encounter a UFO and come into contact with mysterious men in black it’s probably best that you still come forward about your encounter, because whatever you saw, it’s important enough that powerful people don’t want the public knowing about it.

Mothman: The Facts Behind The Legend

This book only provides factual information based around the strange events that took place in Point Pleasant, West Virginia from November 1966 to December 1967. The authors never try to press their opinions on you or try to change your own. The novel only provides facts and does so by including newspaper clippings, letters/notes from eyewitnesses, and interviews. There’s even an exclusive interview with Linda Scarberry, one of the initial eyewitnesses of the Mothman. The book documents the Mothman, UFO and Men In Black activity in the area from the beginning until the end. This is a book that I’ve had on my shelf for years and I recommend it to anyone interested in the Mothman events or coinciding phenomenon. I personally picked up my copy in Point Pleasant at the mothman museum, but it’s available online and at major book retailers. If you want to investigate the Mothman phenomenon, this book will be your best resource in your search to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Original Mothman Newspaper Articles

One of the best ways to learn about the story of the famous Mothman is to read the original newspaper articles. The media in Point Pleasant and the surrounding area almost constantly covered the odd occurrences. Everything from firsthand accounts, to speculation, to UFO sightings and Men In Black encounters was documented in the region’s newspapers. There are plenty of newspaper articles out there to read. There’s a book called Mothman: The Facts Behind The Legend by Donnie Sergent Jr. and Jeff Wamsley that includes all the original newspapers, letters, journals and interviews from the time of the sightings. All of the original newspapers are on display in Point Pleasant’s Mothman Museum.

The Alaskan Alien: 1930′s Photo of Alien in Alaskan Wilderness

The 1930′s photo of an alien in the Alaskan Wilderness is not the most popular of paranormal photos but one of the most intriguing. In the 1930′s a man’s grandfather spotted a strange creature in the woods of Alaska when he lived there. He chased the creature until he managed to capture this photo. The photo was mailed to his grandson, he died the next day leaving the photo in the hands of his grandson. The photo came along with this caption: 

“This photo was taken in the early 1930′s by my grandfather, who lived in Alaska in those days. He first saw this entity when he was in his car driving to a lake. He chased the entity up to this point where he made this picture of it. It [took] him four months to develop the picture since it wasn’t easy back in those days to develop a picture, specially in Alaska. I got this picture last week, my grandfather died the next day.”

The photo is genuine, it hasn’t been tampered with at all and it truly was taken in the early 1930′s. Whether its a small child in a costume or a genuine alien or small entity, this photo surely is mysterious. The death of his grandfather only adds to the mystery.