FORT WORTH - An enormous aircraft without transponders traveling up to 2,100 mph - at one time zooming towards President Bush's Crawford ranch - is similar to the mysterious object dozens reported seeing, according to radar documents examined by a group that studies unidentified flying objects.
"This shows ample evidence of UFO activity," said Kenneth Cherry, Texas director of the Mutual UFO Network, which has been studying phenomenon earlier this year in Stephenville and Dublin, about 75 miles southwest of Fort Worth. "They were turning at angles not possible by military aircraft."
His organization, called MUFON, requested documents from the Federal Aviation Administration, nearby military bases and other agencies under the Freedom of Information Act.
FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said Monday that he had not seen the radar information provided to MUFON and could not comment on it or the group's interpretation of the data.
MUFON requested reports from the night of Jan. 8, when several dozen people in Texas dairy country - including a pilot, county constable, business owners and former air traffic controller - reported seeing a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast.
Some folks reported seeing military jets chasing it, which also was confirmed in the FAA radar documents.
After talking to witnesses, MUFON investigators ended up looking into 300 reported UFO sightings spanning several weeks and said most were probably planets, cloud formations or stars.
But Cherry said the FAA radar data, which was examined by a radar expert and an engineer who works with MUFON, indicates that some reports do not have logical explanations.
"When you look at that, combined with the witness reports -- that's as close to evidence of UFOs as I've seen," he said.
The object was between 524 feet and 1,000 feet long, according to a MUFON report released earlier this month. It's unclear if radar picked up the same object at different times or more than one object, Cherry said.
The object was within 10 miles of Bush's ranch about 8 p.m., but the president was not there that night. MUFON only requested information until 8 p.m. that night, so it's unclear where the object went after that.
At times when radar picked up a slow-moving object and fast-moving object, it was at the same time and place as witnesses' accounts, according to the report. At one time, the object accelerated to 532 mph in about 30 seconds and decelerated to 49 mph in 10 seconds, the report stated, based on radar information.
"The authors cannot comment on the source or origin of this object, but it is clear to the authors that the unknown object was real and not imaginary," they said in the MUFON report.
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Some folks reported seeing military jets chasing it, which also was confirmed in the FAA radar document
This doesn't make sense. It has been stated that extra-terrestrials are collaborating with the governments, notably Bush. So then why are military jets chasing them?
And another thought, if the ETs are so intelligent wouldn't they have known that Bush wasn't at his ranch? There is something very wrong with the idea that entities can travel through the universe but can't figure out if someone is home or not.
Must be Karma. Maybe they were only doing domestic spying on him (like he does to the American people), and lying to him as well.
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LOL, if would serve him right if it were true. So far though, I've studied material about this ET thing and I haven't yet read anything that has any real substance behind it. Please don't misunderstand me, I do believe many of the stories from supposed abductees, but none of them are due to real ETs from 'out there'. However, we have some really 'freaky' people on this planet and most of them belong to the governments and there 'secret' agencies.
Oh i don't trust are government or King George at all and yes i to feel the government is behind a lot that go's on . But i also feel they are working with some of the ET i sure wish they would had beam King George up Hazel
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We've been listening for the signs of extraterrestrial civilizations for nearly 50 years - and if E.T.s are out there, they just might have picked up on the radio signals that we've been transmitting for even longer. More recently, some broadcasters have been sending intentional shout-outs to the aliens. Is that so wrong? Yes, in the opinion of physicist-novelist David Brin and other scientists who say such transmissions could bring unwelcome consequences. For years, Brin has been concerned about the idea of phoning E.T. - a practice he calls METI. That stands for "messages to extraterrestrial intelligence," as opposed to SETI, or the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In an essay titled "Shouting at the Cosmos," written for the Lifeboat Foundation, Brin said the idea of sending high-powered messages to E.T. represented a worrisome turn in the SETI search: "If aliens are so advanced and altruistic ... and yet are choosing to remain silent ... should we not consider following their example and doing likewise? At least for a little while? Is it possible that they are silent because they know something we don't know?" One worry might be that the aliens who respond to the phone call won't look like the cute little fellow in the movie "E.T.," but more like the villains of "Independence Day" or "War of the Worlds." (Or, for that matter, "The X-Files," which returns to the big screen next week.) Brin doesn't explicitly mention an alien invasion, but he does voice deep concern about "shouting into an unknown jungle that we do not understand.
" Over the past couple of years, there's been a good deal of cosmic shouting - or, more accurately, singing and shilling: Signals ranging from whale songs to Craigslist classifieds have been sent upward via TV transmission dishes. In February, NASA used its Deep Space Network to send a Beatles tune toward Polaris. Just last month, a Doritos commercial was beamed to Ursa Major.
Tree Man who grew 'roots' offered hope of new life by doctor
Above: Dr Anthony Gaspari believes that he has diagnosed Dede's rare condition. Below: Dede with his teenage daughter. He fears that his children may also become infected
An Indonesian fisherman who is "half man half tree" has been offered new hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.
32-year-old Dede, who lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, feared that he would be killed by the tree-like growths that cover his body.
Known locally as 'Tree Man' his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years.
He has root like structures growing out of his body - branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.
In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in 'freak' shows.
The former fisherman was the subject of a documentary "Half Man Half Tree", part of the "My Shocking Story" series on Discovery Channel TV.
Dede's story began when wart-like "roots" started growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident. The medical world was completely baffled.
The welts spread rapidly across his body and soon he was not able to carry out ordinary household tasks.
Dede was sacked from his job and deserted by his wife. He has been raising two children, now in their late teens, in poverty. He is resigned to the fact that local doctors have no cure for his condition.
To try to support his family he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience along with victims of other peculiar diseases.
While he has the support of his extended family, he has frequently been a target of ridicule and abuse in rural fishing village where he lives.
But now new hope has emerged for Dede after an American dermatology expert flew out to his home village south of the capital Jakarta.
Dr. Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland claims to have identified Dede's condition, and has proposed a treatment that could completely change his life.
Following the testing of samples of the lesions and Dede's blood, Dr. Gaspari says his condition is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). This is a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers.
Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system. This means his body is unable to contain the warts.
According to Dr. Gaspari, the virus was able to "hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells", instructing them to produce huge amounts of the substance that caused the tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns" on both his hands and feet.
The doctor became involved in the case through the Discovery Channel documentary, and he is convinced that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by a daily doses of a synthetic form of Vitamin A, which has been demonstrated to stop the growth of warts in severe cases of HPV.
Dr. Gaspari said that Dede's warts should reduce in size to the point where he can use his hands. He said he had never seen anything like this in his entire career.