tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23087263625405954522024-02-20T05:48:48.813-08:00Black TrianglesA Black Triangles compendium: The Black Triangles blog at Blogspot.Com, serves to provide the internet community with a compendium of information on the Black Triangles phenomenon, which includes data, links, photos, videos, and my own personal research.Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-66103349297249278662017-01-21T21:51:00.001-08:002017-01-21T21:51:52.723-08:00Hallelujah, Saturday morning at the Piano<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0zJGVqpMGGc" width="480"></iframe>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-68105559498857315482007-03-19T19:22:00.000-07:002008-12-11T16:06:28.925-08:00NIDS 2002 Hypothesis: It's a DoD BLIMP!<strong><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#000066;">Since they can be built, "They would have been...But ONLY as "black projects built by established DOD contractors...no matter how advanced the small companies technologies may be..."</span> - Testimony of aircraft designer in NIDS , July, 2002 report</span></em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><strong><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></strong></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044123781998082338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiswz50cas_t5O-x8u_VM8m5jK1ZeTaSa4_wy6IQ69tvcCzYz4UlgnaEXoxjxBEcAlvpLPUgiBWiE77udLZPAzRQq-z89LpBWSKoAzm5peCDO0wCwOCszieTopWZzAVRJpmdPC4nx0OxKj/s320/dynairship+2.jpg" border="0" /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Conceptual design of the Dynairship 2, at Aereon's Corporate website</span></em><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><br /><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">INTRODUCTION:<br /></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><br /><br /><div align="left"><strong>Reporter Leonard David of </strong><a href="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/black_triangle_020805.html"><strong>Space.Com </strong></a><strong>broke the story one early morning, 7:00am, August 5th, 2002:</strong><br /><br /><em>"...NIDS researchers contend that these type vehicles are lighter-than-air, blimp-style craft of the U.S. military's making. Likely powered by "electrokinetic" drive, the lifting body-shaped airships have been skirting the skies from perhaps the early to mid 1980s..."<br /></em><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">So, it's a Blimp!</span></strong> </div><br />At least, that's what NIDS thought it was, as of August of 2002. Let's take a deeper look into the NIDS 2002 hypothesis, and examine the evidence, the logic, and the final conclusion. Judge for yourself:<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">PART 1: 1-2000 ORIGINAL HOTLINE REPORT TO NIDS:</span></strong><br /><br />NIDS originally captured an official Black Triangle sighting report on their toll free UFO hotline on <a href="http://www.nidsci.org/news/il_abstract.php">January 5th, 2000</a>, involving the now famous Shiloh, Illinois Black Triangle event. An entire article can be written to cover this story, but for now, let us just acknowledge that this is the domino, which started NIDS down the path of scientific exploration into the realm of Black Triangles.<br /><br />At this juncture, the NIDS Institute was just getting started, and by no means, had they formed any formal conclusions one way or the other about the Phenomenon. That said, one of their primary areas of inquiry was on the possibility of the <strong>"Aereon Hypothesis".</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.nidsci.org/news/il_aereon.php">THE AEREON HYPOTHESIS:</a></strong><br /><br /><em><span style="color:#000066;">"..One of the police eyewitnesses testified that the craft he observed bore an unusually close resemblance to the artist's impression of a stealth blimp published in the September 1999 issue of </span></em><a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/" target="top"><em><span style="color:#000066;">Popular Mechanics</span></em></a><em><span style="color:#000066;"> magazine ("Skunk Works Magic" by Jim Wilson). Further, there was other speculation that the observed craft bore a resemblance to a revolutionary hybrid lifting body that was tested, flown, and patented by Aereon Corporation of Princeton, NJ. The story of the development of the Aereon hybrid craft is publicly available and is the subject of an engaging book called The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed by John McPhee..."</span><br /></em><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043833609712597202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkKdFt2dL-xUUr954hJkaXM_q1s_JwxZDzgACjrsH0Ozmm2Gb1Wv8RAb3SJx15u-VKfmqcvd60hUtamdTcZTjWo42GacGzh8JF9XoWmLZ4ZjvXNRVgMt5jp39mCLdCBcWiSR9Jzh4iGwEW/s320/stealth-blimp.jpg" border="0" /> <em><span style="font-size:85%;">"Stealth Blimp", Popular Mechanics, September, 1999 - "Skunk Works Magic" by Jim Wilson</span></em><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043833742856583394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmduVuGz_3N9wyUus3HzhSkdUwyfmq2D6zb81_xvw6LjySlZoUYUAa-gmkopd8zavmwtPOIJwlFOSnisAmVwgrDaAT_mlLL-ANDXm8FsGB8Ef4MFAVcTvrbPsx3xWvsWv5exoXN5L_jrdl/s320/aeron-hyp-diagram.jpg" border="0" /><em></em></p><br /><p><em></em></p><br /><p><em></em></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Diagram of Aereon-style craft, as published in NIDS original Illinois UFO Sighting report.</span></em></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></p><br /><p><em></em></p><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">PART 2: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">NIDS 2002 HYPOTHESIS:</span> </strong></p><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p><em>Let's project forward now to July of 2002, wherein NIDS produces a document entitled, </em><a href="http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/illinois_trianglehypothesis.pdf"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>"Hypothesis: The Illinois Flying Triangle is a Department of Defense, Not an ET Craft"</strong>:</span></em> </a></p><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><strong>TRIANGLE-MILITARY COMMAND CORRELATION: </strong></em></p>NIDS rendered a compelling map of the United States, blocking out red dots representing Black Triangle reported sightings, and black dots representing known existing military commands. The correlation, visually, was difficult to ignore. If any explanation was to be postulated, it would have to explain this correlation. Could these craft be military? Could these craft be ours?<br /><p><span style="color:#000066;"><em>"In the two years since the Illinois investigation, NIDS has accumulated over 150 separate reports of sightings of large triangular or deltoid shaped objects. The reports have mainly come from the United States with a small minority from Canada and Europe. Last year, NIDS noticed and published an apparent correlation between the locations of the large triangular shaped object sightings and the locations of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) and Air Mobility Command (AMC) bases throughout the United States.This correlation was checked in two other independent databases <strong>and shown to be consistent</strong>..."</em></span></p><br /><p><em></em></p><br /><br /><p><em></em></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043867673098221826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6I83ih_KOf-wocb8EctuPnKvsrbeXp-MYOhqFdkCf2ZgodExIlbhnmDqM6NeFzbTB7e10oZZ27QaJ65fkKKYF1_Vze4gj39aCKiXnZnIAWE2lBKW3O65PF569biOTu3lnqqq_kJOKsJm-/s400/ufo-map.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p><em></em></p><a href="http://www.nidsci.org/news/ufomap.php"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Red dots = Black triangle sighting locations<br />Large black dots = Air Mobility Command and other base locations</span><br /></em></a><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></p><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Big Black Deltas (BBDs): DoD, Not ET</span></strong></p><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></p><br /><br /><p>In their hypothesis, NIDS called upon an unnamed aircraft designer, to share his expertise on the subject. The designer suggested that the object reported in the 1-5-2000 Shiloh Illinois sighting, reminded him of a large, LTA (lighter than aircraft), using what he described as an electrokinetic drive. Both of these technologies existed in 2000, and the designer speculated that if the DoD were to combine them, it might closely replicate the dimensions and maneuverability as reported by the police officers in Shiloh, Illinois. He further suggested that the DoD had likely built this craft sometime in the early to mid 1980's. These craft are now commonly referred to as BBD's (Big Black Delta's).</p><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044123026083838226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMuhrKyhmtc6aHIqYP_p0cMvR8zJATmWaHWLZ7OBQtjq8gtBTNWR_MFbNuqYUumxYsXUt7XYc5FHpyOm1YV_Np3nTicJitmshwgD500Rqffe4CQh1jDAGHA0wi9zDsGTLJzgoIFjmtZ0kN/s320/bbd.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Big Black Delta, as portrayed in the NIDS 2002 Hypothesis</span></em></p><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p>Using the information gathered from the witnesses of the Shiloh, Illinois Black Triangles sighting, alongside the data of 150 other reported black triangle sightings, the aircraft designer concluded that, if it were a BBD, it would be 600 feet long, 300 feet wide, it would weigh 40 tons, have a mass of 100 tons, it's surface range would be approximately 180,000 square feet horizontal, by 94,245 square feet verticle, and it would have an approximate payload at 10,000 feet of 100 tons. </p><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">PART 3: LTA AIRSHIPS AND ELECTROKINETIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS:</span></strong></p><br /><br /><p><br /></p><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://webpages.charter.net/tesla/images/fly24.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>"Phils Lifter" - hobbyist example of Electrokinetic propulsion, courtesy of </em></span><a href="http://webpages.charter.net/tesla/index.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>"The Tesla Pod"</em></span><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><p></p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047460346801600674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGF2ldbN2PKSRaZDAefpfGLJfU6981zVSd7_ge3wViEypoCx5cioXKLdcwnHXWGpPEyoHAhF8T5LgsEkKPx09noteiOjtsT7l-kcKRS7DVxeY_IJMLN-VYqjmWXbePbCBTuzHfpKFZktPy/s400/YamatoI_d.jpg" border="0" /><br /><a href="http://www.skewsme.com/mhd.html"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">The Yamato 1</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">, running entirely on a MagnetoHydroDynamics (MHD) propulsion system</span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><strong>Why the reported huge size (football field size)?</strong></p><br /><br /><p>The short answer is payload, propulsion, and design. </p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"The BBDs are so large so they can:<br /><br />1. Carry massive payloads at low altitudes at speeds 3 to 5 times as fast as surface ships.<br /><br />2. They can use highly advanced but large and crude power and propulsion systems in early stages of development. (ie electrokinetic / Field drives or airborne nuclear power units.)<br /><br />3. They can fly at extreme altitudes, taking advantage of the LTA’s altitude ability to stay out of the range of conventional aircraft and ground based traffic control radars. "</span><br /></p></em><br /><br /><br /><p><strong>Why is it silent?</strong></p><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p>The relatively simple answer to that question, is that blimps have been silent propulsion systems since the 1880's. If you've ever been up close to a Goodyear blimp at a football game, you can attest to the virtual silence of airship propulsion technology.</p><br /><br /><p>That said, other, more exotic, more modern forms of propulsion systems were cited in the NIDS 2002 report; Propulsion systems that are not the thing of science fiction, but modern mechanics:</p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">1) "..In the late 1920s, T.T. Brown developed the electrokinetic (meaning motion from electricity) capacitor. ..</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">2) "...By the late 1950s aviation pioneer Alexander de Seversky's IONOCRAFT had demonstrated a far more advanced, fully controlled, version of such a system</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">3) " ...The electrokinetic system shows a number of the “Characteristics” of “UFO” power systems. It flies with “no visible form of support”, no propellers, jets, and in the case of a hybrid LTA craft which would NOT use thrust from the drive to hold the ship up (since it would have aerostatic, lift gas, like a balloon) no downwash like a helicopter’s. Except for “a slight humming” from high voltage control equipment and an occasional coronal discharge in the older units it makes no noise."</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><strong>How come it appears to accelerate so quickly from a hovering position?</strong></p><br /><br /><p>The short, simple answer to this somewhat complicated question, is that if a Black Triangle is a BBD airship operating with an innovative propulsion system, than it would operate essentially, like a tricked-out blimp, and not like an aircraft. </p><br /><br /><p>It would be a lighter than air airship, that utilizes it's strengths, such as bouyancy and its power to mass ratio, to achieve startling results. The airship would not maneuver like a jet. The airship would not be restricted in the same ways that a jet might be. The airship would not be constrained. It would have amazing low hovering capabilites, while at the same time be capable of high-altitude flight, far surpassing what we commonly think of as jet-like maneuverability. It would behave much differently than any plane or blimp for that matter, and almost anyone who would see it in flight, might not fully understand what it is they are looking at. NIDS explains:</p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"...an electrokinetic system combined with LTA technologies...in a way that makes the hull of such a craft the “engine” with the hull area of such a craft interacting with the “working fluid” (i.e. The surrounding air) the larger the craft, the “better.”...At low altitudes, the “working fluid” is more dense and a lot of thrust can be obtained from a fairly small area..."</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"A modern jet fighter only has a power to mass ratio of a little over 1 to 1. As reported such a craft should be able to “pull away” from any modern aircraft trying to catch it. Note that as often reported “in a climb” such a craft would add the extra buoyancy of its lift gas (assuming some sort of buoyancy control system) to the electrokinetic thrust while a jet is fighting its mass with thrust and the craft would pull away even faster.</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"After a certain altitude the jet starts to lose lift from its wings as its engine loses thrust from intake of the thinning air. A craft as described would continue to climb due to both its LTA altitude ability and the high altitude operation of the EK drive “Climbing away” is a well-known scenario when such craft are pursued by aircraft. Another side effect of such a high voltage external drive would be that if a conventional aircraft approached it too closely one would expect the electrical systems of such an aircraft to be overloaded and possible the operation of the engines and other systems stopped. This effect has frequently been reported."</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><strong>How come it can turn without banking?</strong></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"LTA craft use “static lift” not the “lift vector” of aerodynamic surfaces, i.e. “wings.” They do not normally “bank” when turning. In addition, a craft with the systems described would have omni directional thrust and in normal circumstances using the top and bottom surfaces for horizontal thrust would merely “turn” as the thrust vector is changed with the two surfaces generating equal thrust both pitch and roll motions would be prevented."</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><strong>Why is it brightly lit, sometimes blinding light?</strong></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"Besides the “coronal discharge” often seen with such craft, another reason for such light displays is the inability of aircraft power systems to rapidly change power output...If such a craft was operating at low thrust with a nuclear or other closed cycle power system, it would be best to setup such a system to produce a steady state amount of power at all times. </span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;"></span></em></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044152884696480050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgyNbOyKw6fyXVyPOY-7_rAeNhhcDl45K89irgeKdiU7eAhQPMjlSX0MOknX_NJ7Q7Q1ACmJgFtYY25s2imsuXSVN_i2t1EVQVehs3SV-B1xsv2jbPQvCQqTMboEJBXYqI5o27zHojVaa/s320/LIGHTS2.jpg" border="0" /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Reconstruction depicts lights, as described by officer Lopinot, courtesy of </span></em><a href="http://dbarkertv.com/UPDATE.htm"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">DARRYL BARKER PRODUCTIONS<br /></span></em></a><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;"></span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;"></span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"Power can be diverted from this unit to both the thrusters on onboard systems. This would also require some sort of onboard “power storage” and a method of getting rid of excess power at periods of low power demand like hovering or low speed flight. High power illumination is a simple method of doing this. Lights are fairly small, light in mass, and in a night flight craft such as this useful in landing when operating at low altitude and low speed. </span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"Such a craft using “optical camouflage” would naturally have a large number of light producing systems as part of the optical camouflage, further reducing complexity by using them to a multiple purpose, (landing, “disappearing”, and blinding pursuit).</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"One might also mention that even If the lights did attract public attention it makes little difference. Conventional aircraft cannot catch one of these craft and side effects of the drive along with the sensor transparency and active camouflage make pictures indistinct allowing deniability."</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">PART 4, TOM'S COMMENTARY:</span></strong></p><br /><br /><p>So, in July of 2002, NIDS declares that the Black Triangle mystery is solved. They gather the facts. NIDS studied 150 cases, and amassed a matrix of data concerning the physical details and behaviors of this object; They correlated the reports into a graphical map which illustrated that the sightings were taking place around military installations; They analyzed the data, using an aircraft designer who seemed to know a thing or two about LTA airships and Electrokinetic drives, and correlated that the behavior patterns and dimensions of this ship, fit suspiciously well with the dimensions, maneuvers, and characteristics of a prospective "Big Black Delta" LTA airship using Electrokinetic propulsion. They examined circumstantial evidence of historical references to such potential craft, such as Jim Wilsons' article, "Skunk Works Magic", published in the Popular Mechanics issue of 1999; John McPhee's "The Deltoid Pumpkin"; and perhaps most importantly, a study of the Aereon Corporations work on hybrid airship craft (such as the Dynairship II).</p><br /><br /><p>They gathered all of this evidence, data, and theory, and came to the solid conclusion that the Black Triangles, such as the one seen over Shiloh, Illlinois, on January 5th, 2000, are most likely DoD LTA Airships with Electrokinetic propulsion systems.</p><br /><br /><p>And why is this hypothesis likely? Why so covert? Why would a blimp be a black-ops project? NIDS aircraft designer eloquently states:</p><br /><br /><p><em><span style="color:#000066;">"An interesting sidelight to this “Deltoid airship development” is that since it has abilities far outstripping those of conventional airplanes in many military areas, no public, commercial companies have been able to acquire funding to develop such craft. (DOD and NASA funding for both the AEREON corporation and the MICROCRAFT “AEROCRAFT” were both dropped.) These military mission scenario and the military applications for the large deltoids are a prime reason that since they can be built, “They would have been.” But ONLY as “Black projects built by established DOD contractors,” as stated by DOD representatives at recent aerospace technology conferences, “no matter how advanced the small companies technologies may be.”</span></em></p><br /><br /><p><strong></strong></p><br /><br /><p>So, is that it? Is the mystery solved? Did NIDS lay out the most viable explanation in July of 2002? Has the Black Triangles mystery finally been laid to rest?</p><br /><br /><p><strong>Well, not exactly.</strong> One really difficult snag in this puzzle, lays in two somewhat disturbing, very inconvenient facts.</p><br /><br /><p><strong>Fact 1: NIDS changes their minds, and forms a DIFFERENT conclusion in August of 2004.</strong></p><br /><br /><p><strong>Fact 2: NIDS goes silent after August of 2004, on the entire Black Triangles phenomenon.</strong></p><br /><br /><br /><p>Does that mean that they are NOT LTA Airships? Does that mean that NIDS got it wrong in July of 2002. Part of me thinks that this is possible. But deep down, one can come to an entirely different conclusion. Perhaps, NIDS got it right. Perhaps, NIDS was extremely close to the mark. Why did NIDS cease and desist their invesigation into the Black Triangle Phenomenon? Where did they go? Mr. Bigelow went on to launch Genesis 1 and soon to be launched Genesis 2, his very own satellites into space via Bigelow Aerospace. Dr. Vallee is general partner for Euro-America, a funding group focused on high technology. What does all this mean? I'm not sure. I guess for me, I'm not convinced the BBD explanation is not correct, and I'm left with many more questions than answers. </p><br /><br /><p>Like everything having to do with Black Triangles, the answer is never simple. It is never straight-forward. It is always complex. At least this answer, as contained in NIDS July, 2002 Hypothesis, is thorough, solid, and based on scientific research and fact. It is a good hypothesis. It is sound, logical, and reasonable. It is the simplest explanation I've seen so far, regarding what is the most complicated of subjects. If friar William of Okham is correct, then Occam's razor might suggest that Black Triangles are, in fact, LTA airships with an Electrokinetic propulsion system.</p><br /><br /><p><br /></p><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright 2007, Tom Levine, Levicom, LLC. This article is protected by copyright, and cannot be duplicated or altered in any way, without the sole, written permission of its author. This article can be distributed as an RSS feed, providing that it is not altered, that credit is given to its author, and that a viable, hyper-link is included in the article back to the originating website. For questions and further information, the author can be contacted at </span><a href="mailto:levicom@comcast.net"><span style="font-size:85%;">levicom@comcast.net</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> or by visiting </span><a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</span></a> </p><br /><p></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Links and Thank yous:</strong><br /></span></em><br /><a href="http://dbarkertv.com/">Darryl Barker</a><br />Producer, "The Edge of Reality, Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000"<br />SkewsMe Collective of the Arcane - <a href="http://skewsme.com/">http://skewsme.com/</a><br />Leonard David, and Space.Com - <a href="http://www.space.com/">http://www.space.com/</a><br />NIDS - <a href="http://www.nidsci.org/">http://www.nidsci.org/</a><br />Jim Wilson, author of "Skunk Works Magic", and Popular Mechanics<br />John Mcphee, author of "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed"<br />The Telsa Pod - <a href="http://webpages.charter.net/tesla/index.htm">http://webpages.charter.net/tesla/index.htm</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></p>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-27501878519732101862007-03-24T09:17:00.000-07:002008-12-11T16:06:27.208-08:00PART 1 OF 4: THE BLACK TRIANGLES SIGHTINGS EVENT 2-19-07 TO 2-22-07<em></em><br /><em>"...it hovered for almost a minute or two above us. It swayed from side to side and at one point stood up and looked tall but then went back to it's triangular shape...we could see pulsating white and red lights...and it was huge!..."<br /><strong>- Gridley, Illinois NUFORC report, 2-20-07<br /></strong></em><br /><em>"What I did see was 3 white, bright circles in a triangular formation and a fading red light between the back 2..."<br /><strong>- Mequon, Wisconsin NUFORC report, 2-20-07</strong></em><strong><br /></strong><br /><em>"...What the hell is that!"<br /><strong>- Hermitage, Tennessee NUFORC report, 2-22-07</strong></em><strong><br /></strong><br /><em>"...Notice object hovering when I looked out from my deck...I have never seen anything like this before..."<br /><strong>- Kansas testimony MUFON report with Video footage, 2-22-07</strong></em><strong><br /></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">INTRODUCTION:</span></strong><br />Take a good, close look at this image.<br /><br />What you are looking at is a visual representation of all UFO sightings reported to NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) during a four day period of time, from monday, 2-19-07 through thursday, 2-22-07, most events taking place between the hours of 7:00pm and 12:00am.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045530924953401730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3OYlCtBzACmb6iOYwUcjXPfmIqQ2h9r8AVTuqTtG1fCDuQOw31iOFP42oW3zEbRC3eSjqV0epCbtz1MHfQ-JSzJyF-8OyVv_2S1C_aBt4B31J7uwG4rUDHYzqV02n-k2Uf0e1eaYhB_6/s400/4+day+black+triangle+event+2-19-07+to+2-22-07.jpg" border="0" /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">All NUFORC reported sightings from the period fo 2-19-07 through 2-22-07, layered onto Google Earth. Black Triangles depict Black Triangle Sightings; Black Rectangles depict Black Rectangular object sightings; Yellow pins indicate all other sightings including fireballs, orbs, and other anomalies. <a href="http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t75/tomlevine1/4dayblacktriangleevent2-19-07to2-22.jpg">CLICK HERE </a>for large scale viewing and further details.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></p><p></p><p><strong>Sidenote:</strong> Because of some compelling video evidence, I've also included one additional MUFON sighting into this examination. </p><p><br /><br />That's 28 reported UFOs: 6 of them were Triangular in shape; 4 of them were Rectangular in shape; The remaining reports were various lights, orbs, fireballs, and other anamolies. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>1)</strong> Notice the complete lack of activity in the Western United States?</p><p><strong>2)</strong> What's causing the high level of UFO reports to be generated mostly around the Great Lakes, and the Midwestern United States, all within 4 nights of eachother?</p><p><strong>3)</strong> 36% of these NUFORC reports are comprised of Triangular and Rectangular shaped craft, <strong><span style="color:#000066;">demonstrating consistent and unusual behavior</span></strong>, such as hovering, large size, black exterior, red and white illuminated lights, and silent propulsion. They blend in with the dark sky, they hover at slow speeds, than take off with unconventional thrust. </p><p></p><p></p><p>What could be the simplest explanation here? How can such unusual sightings, be corroborated by so many people, in the same geographic area, during the same general time, over the same 4 day period? </p><br /><p><strong>One possibility, is that something happened over the skies of the midwestern United States, on the evenings of February 19th, 2007 through February 22nd, 2007.</strong> </p><br /><br /><p>Actual witnesses will report their sightings to you in their own words, using diagrams to explain their experiences, photographs to document the objects they saw, and videotape to show the world. </p><br /><p>Join me, as we put it all together, and begin to uncover what may be one of the least reported, and possibly most compelling UFO events of 2007 so far: </p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>PART 1: THE BLACK TRIANGLES OF FEBRUARY, 2007:</strong></span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The 6 individuals you are about to meet, reported seeing triangular-shaped craft on the four evenings in question. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span class="fullpost"><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It is worth noting that there are several consistent characteristics reported about these objects: They are "huge"; They appear dark and opaque; They appear to be made of metal; They can appear with bright (and sometimes flashing) white and red lights; They can hover; They can move slowly; They are seen over populated areas, even apartment complexes and small town streets; Their propulsion system appears to be virtually silent; And, they seem to be in open deployment, without fear of being seen. </p><p>This testimony is complimented with 2 compelling diagrams from the Illinois sighting, and one piece of video footage from the Kentucky sighting. </p><p>Keep in mind that while each is reported by one individual, most of these experiences were shared alongside family members and friends. </p><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>1) Gridley, Illinois:<br />2-20-07, 9:00PM<br /></strong></span><em>Sidenote: NUFORC indicates that the event date was reported as 2-21-07 but was an estimate. This witness has indicated to me that she firmly believes 2-20-07 was the actual occurrence date. That change is noted above for this report.</em></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="color:#000066;">I was in the kitchen getting ready to feed my bunny when all of a sudden I got hot from the inside out and had to run outside because of the heat..it was pretty dark outside and around 9pm... </span></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000066;">I looked toward the North and saw two huge white lights in the sky(fairly low) through the pine trees that were coming right towards our apartment...</span> </p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/6547_submitter_file1__Gridley-IL.jpg" border="0" /> <p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Witness diagram 1 from Gridley, Ill. </span></em><a href="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/6547_submitter_file1__Gridley-IL.jpg"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">CLICK HERE </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">to explore this diagram in larger detail.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#000066;">There was no noise the whole time this was happening...I called for my 25 year old daughter to come out and look and I asked her to run and get the binoculars...After she gave it to me, it hovered for almost a minute or two above us. It swayed from side to side and at one point stood up and looked tall but then went back to it's triangular shape...we could see pulsating white and red lights...and it was huge!</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#000066;">We agreed on what we both saw...it was definitely a UFO. After we looked through the binoculars and saw details of the ship it was obviously not of our world! It was a dark gray color with odd looking squiggly like markings on it. My daughter got scared when she saw it up close with the binoculars and was trying to pull me back inside...I was pretty shook up too..I ran back out to see if it was still there and it was heading south of town. I watched it until it disappeared.</span><br /><br /></p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/6547_submitter_file2__Gridley-IL_b.jpg" border="0" /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Witness diagram 2 from Gridley, Ill. </span></em><a href="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/6547_submitter_file2__Gridley-IL_b.jpg"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">CLICK HERE </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">to explore this diagram in larger detail.</span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">My daughter got scared when she saw it up close with the binoculars and was trying to pull me back inside...I was pretty shook up too..I ran back out to see if it was still there and it was heading south of town. I watched it until it disappeared." </span></p><p><span style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></p><p></p><p><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">2) Mequon, Wisconnsin</span></strong> (note: 215 miles North of Gridley):<br /><strong>2-20-07, 7:15pm</strong><br /><em>Sidenote: This sighting may have occurred about 2 hours prior to the Gridley, Illinois sighting. The Gridley sighting noted that the craft was moving in a Southward direction. That means that this could be the same object witnessed earlier in the evening...</em><br /><br /><br /></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000066;">I didn't see any real body of the craft because it was night. What I did see was 3 white, bright circles in a triangular formation and a fading red light between the back 2. I didn't see any propulsion on the back so the white circles must have been making it hover. I also didn't see the standard flashing red and green lights on airplanes.</span></p><br /><br /><p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>3) Hermitage, Tennessee:<br />2-22-07, 7:45pm<br /></strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><span style="font-size:100%;">Sidenote: We'll now project forward 2 evenings to 2-22-07, where this witness from Tennessee reports a black, "crescent" shaped object, the size of a jet-liner, hovering 300 to 400 feet above ground, travelling at approximately 40mph. Note that this is southward from the previous sightings.</span> </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em></em><br /></p></span><span style="color:#000066;">On Feb.22 around 7:45 that evening a friend was leaving. We had just stepped out the back door. Having a few telescopes and [being an] amateur astrologer, I had looked up at Orians Belt. They were very bright.</span><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000066;">I had started to tell my friend "who is retired [from] American Air Lines" that there is a nebula there between those stars when he said, "what the hell is that!"</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000066;">I didn't see it until he pointed it out: Coming directly at us, was a craft flying about three to four hundred feet above the ground. It had no lights.</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#000066;">The only way you could tell that it was there, [was because] it was reflecting lights from the ground. The craft was a gold bronze color moving at about forty mph. It was very black, only darker than the sky. The shape was a cresent figure. The most amazing thing to me [was] that something that size, a little bigger than a jet liner, [had] not a sound [coming] from it.</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#000066;">After we had tried to figure [out] what this was, about two minutes after the sighting, there came all these geese and ducks, kind of going in the direction of the craft. We figuring that they had been scared up from Percy Preist Lake."</span> </p><p></p><p></p><br /><br /><p><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">4) Kentucky Video Footage:<br />2-22-07, Evening<br /></span><em>Sidenote:</em></strong><em> This was a MUFON report involving some compelling video-footage. This sighting is reported to have occurred on the same date, and within 200 miles, of the Hermitage, Tennessee Black Triangle report. Could these two sightings be related? Are we looking at the same craft?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><span style="color:#000066;">Notice object hovering when I look out from my deck. I started to use the video on my cell phone. Then I told my girlfriend to grab our digital camera for a better picture. I think it could be something from our military. I have never seen anything like this before.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hclMgDPxhUE" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><br />LINK TO <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hclMgDPxhUE">YOUTUBE</a> UPLOAD OF VIDEO<br /><br /><strong>THANK YOU MUFON!</strong> <a href="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/6442_submitter_file1__UFO&NewYork017.MOV">CLICK HERE </a>TO VIEW OR DOWNLOAD 45MB QUICK-TIME VIDEO IN UNCOMPRESSED FORMAT COURTESY OF MUFON.ORG<br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Video notes: The YouTube upload is a compressed version of this video, and has been presented here for ease of viewing. The actual MUFON file is a 45mb Quicktime video, it is about 2:45 in length. It has not been compressed or modified so that it's integrity can be preserved. You will need the QuickTime player in order to view it. You might want to right click and "save-as", and download it to your computer, prior to viewing.</em></span></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">5) Dorval, Quebec, Canada:<br />2-19-07, 11:00pm</span><br /></strong><em>Sidenote: This is an earlier report from Monday evening, 2-19-07, at 11:00pm, Northeast of the Great Lakes. It consists of a UfO with three lights, that stays suspended over a the Saint Laurent River for several minutes. The object hovers, and then bolts away with an amazing amount of Speed. The witness reports that a photograph might be available, although it has not yet been obtained for review.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000066;">At aprox 11pm I was looking out my bedroom window, I had just finished my homework (I'm a College Student), and I was about to go to bed. I was about to close the drapes when over the water (I live beside a large River nameed the St - Laurent), I noticed a phenomenal light formation in the air.</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#000066;">I knew right away that this was a type of craft I had never seen before in my life. It was bright and shun with three round lights. From the outline I assume it was triangular.</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#000066;">Within 5 seconds of looking at it I made no hesitation and grabbed my sony digital camera out of my desk drawer. I remembered the batteries were almost dead and hoped I had enough to snap the shot. I turned on the Camera and Snapped the picure. When I went to snap another one the camera shut off.</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#000066;">I observed it for about 15 seconds longer when all of a sudden it took off towards the left so quickly that when I turned my head to follow it, it was just as if it dissapeared out of mid air. Honestly for all I know, whatever it was, it just might have.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000066;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000066;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000066;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000066;"></span></p><p></p><p><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">6) Fort Lauderdale, Florida:<br />2-22-07, 8:25pm</span><br /></strong><em>Sidenote: This comes to us as the last reported sighting of this potential craft. It is much farther South, in Florida, and it is a day or two after the prime close encounters occurring in the midwest earlier that week.</em> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /><span style="color:#000066;">On Feb 22, 2007 at 8:25 pm on a boat in Ft.Lauderdale. Looking at the stars we saw a very dim set of lights that moved quickly across the sky. It was traveling S-Saw what looked like a dim red color. The shape was V but not in perfect form, more like a flock of birds flying. It moved from the north star to what I believe to be Venus (S of north star) and disappeared.</span> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>TOMS PART 1 COMMENTARY:</strong><br /></span><br />6 witnesses or groups of witnesses, mostly within the same region, are all reporting the same general phenomenon, between the hours of 7:00pm and 12:00am, February 19th, 2007 through February 22nd, 2007. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><br /><ul><li>On 2-19-07, a triangular shaped craft is observed over the St. Laurent River, in Canada, Northwest of the Great Lakes. </li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><ul><li>The next evening, on 2-20-07, the craft is seen south of there, hovering over Mequon, Wisconnsin. Several hours later, it is seen in Gridley, Illinois. Fairly significant diagrams and testimony shows us a triangular shaped craft, with 3 lights on each corner, and a red light in the center. The craft is reported to leave Gridley, Illinois, in a Southward direction. </li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><ul><li>On the evening of 2-22-07, in Hermitage, Tennessee, a large triangular craft is reported. That very same evening, MUFON obtains video footage from witnesses in Kentucky, approximately 200 miles northeast of Tennessee, claiming to have captured images of a large, hovering craft. </li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><ul><li>That same evening, 2-22-07, NUFORC receives a reported sighting of a triangular shaped craft off in the distance, heading in a southward direction, out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Based solely off of the NUFORC reports, and the one MUFON video-tape, <strong>I have mapped out a clear, southward trajectory of this craft:</strong></p><p></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5045564447173147026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQ8kJP3U_hWyjxBuZd0PfJqxPMRZue3fM7Hj9JZ2JFQXQES099miRksspBDz4vZAE6gxTfigPJX1FLlAVWlQBqaP_JqKirZvqtlJB21a9_xhlqUyWj6Ae8rd7n2-f9kxGXjUo1F83yQSM/s400/BLACK-TRIANGLE-PATH-2-19-07+TO+2-22-07.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p></p><strong>Visual representation of Black Triangle Craft trajectory, as per witness reports posted at NUFORC. The craft first appears in the North, on 2-19-07, and is last seen far to the South in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 2-22-07. </strong><a href="http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t75/tomlevine1/?action=view&current=BLACK-TRIANGLE-PATH-2-19-07TO2-22-0.jpg"><strong>CLICK HERE </strong></a><strong>to view this image in larger detail.<br /></strong><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A reasonable conclusion can be drawn, as to what is going on here. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>1)</strong> Six separate testimonials from completely unconnected strangers.<br /><strong>2)</strong> All reports occurring over the course of 4 nights, primarily in the midwestern United States.<br /><strong>3)</strong> A triangular shaped craft is witnessed, diagramed, and potentially videotaped.<br /><strong>4)</strong> The descriptions are consistent: It is black and opaque, with white and red lights, and it hovers.<br /><strong>5)</strong> this craft has a trajectory. It is travelling in a southward direction. It starts in the northwest above the great lakes, and it leaves in the south, below Fort Lauderdale. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p><strong><span style="color:#330033;">At the very least, a resaonable person must come to the conclusion that something happened over the skies of the midwestern United States, between the hours of 7:00pm and 12:00am, on the evenings of February 19th, 2007 through February 22nd, 2007.</span></strong> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is not a random set of sightings. It is a connected event. The testimony correlates, and the evidence establishes its reality. One or several objects were seen over the skies in February of 2007. It's not entirely accurate to call those objects "unidentified". We know that, at the very least, they are certainly identified, at least by some, as enormous black triangles.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In Part 2, I will be expanding this report to include 4 more sightings throughout the midewestern United States on the evenings of 2-19-07 through 2-22-07. In many ways, the witnesses I will share with you in the next section will further correlate the triangular shaped sightings. In other ways, these next 4 sightings are much more different, much stranger, and much more revealing about what was going on out there. Join me next time, as we review <strong>Part 2: The Black Rectangles of February, 2007,</strong> here at <a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com</a> .</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright 2007, Tom Levine, Levicom, LLC. This article is protected by copyright, and cannot be duplicated or altered in any way, without the sole, written permission of its author. This article can be distributed as an RSS feed, providing that it is not altered, that credit is given to its author, and that a viable, hyper-link is included in the article back to the originating website. For questions and further information, the author can be contacted at </span><a href="mailto:levicom@comcast.net"><span style="font-size:85%;">levicom@comcast.net</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> or by visiting </span><a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</span></a> </p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Links and Thank yous:</strong><br />MUFON: </span></em><a href="http://www.mufon.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.mufon.com/</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />NUFORC: </span></em><a href="http://www.nuforc.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nuforc.com/</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Google Earth: </span></em><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://earth.google.com/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">You Tube: </span></em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Thank you to all the witnesses who have reported their sightings to NUFORC and MUFON on this case, especially Gridley, Illinois. I appreciate the input on this report.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Some of the testimony was edited strictly for syntax. You can review the testimonials in their entirety, by conducting a simple search at the NUFORC and MUFON websites.</span></em></p><p></p></span></span>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-47779520287055051052007-03-26T20:04:00.000-07:002008-12-11T16:06:27.119-08:00PART 2 OF 4: THE BLACK TRIANGLES SIGHTING EVENT 2-19-07 TO 2-22-07<strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">THE BLACK RECTANGLES OF FEBRUARY 2007</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><em>"...to see what appeared to be a high rise building like structure hovering above him..."</em><br /><strong><em>- FORT LORAMIE, OHIO NUFORC report, 2-19-07</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><em>"...It had a rectangular shape with about 4 or 5 rows of small rectangular lights. The lights were blinking vey fast...My heart has never raced like that before."</em><br /><strong><em>- SOMERSET, PENNSYLVANIA NUFORC report 2-21-07</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><em>"[I] have seen planes, planets, meteors all the like; but this was quite unusual...Have you received any reports of a large plane (or other object?) passing over our skies @ about 1:10 a.m.Thursday morning of February 22?..."</em><br /><strong><em>- EVANSVILLE, INDIANA NUFORC report, 2-22-07</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><em>"...I noticed a rapidly moving completely silent craft. The craft was shaped roughly like a somewhat skinny axehead, with the "axe blade" in the front..."</em><br /><strong><em>- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS NUFORC report 2-22-07</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046472841346185730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVtHo4-wd4FCYoLwiOzWilwdT9VeWh2W8d4KmPNCGCzM9QpbN_fZc_f6zavonCY9Gvxh19FIBwSCAwDUW299cnWN5gKRDl5U6dvI7DnJdFkZSbrUFVX1Kzw1qF4egqUyBeFCk1VL1fLu_y/s400/kanarraville.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Artist's depiction of a black rectangular UFO sighting.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">INTRODUCTION</span></strong><br /><br />Earlier in this report, you learned that the diagram from the Black Triangle sighting in Gridley, Illinois, included a drawing of a rectangular shape. The diagram described it as follows: "...turned on side into rectangle...".<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046438653406509474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoomkvSdJe09fx-kf-yHy4AxXvlg5uHvlWbUTFMz51l3HX8ncw6-yD57e5vRrphdGjOsypdQifszFIsP-7XwrhzRWggQ8Gdz9rF66T7ah7PgRpwd9zUlesAcQTbgbvVyZDTYEEUljtmUsE/s400/RECTANGLE2.JPG" border="0" /> <span style="font-size:85%;">Close up: Drawing of rectanglular craft, from Gridley, Illinois 2-20-07 witness</span><br /><br /><br /><br />I spoke with the Gridley, Illinois witness about this observation in further detail, to gain some clarification, and this is what she had to say:<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"The ship actually changed it's shape..I saw it with my own eyes. It moved up onto it's side, the nose started turning it's front point inward and was engulfed into the bottom of the ship....I was seeing this very close up with my binoculars and the whole craft turned into a rectangle. I could tell that with and without the binoculars...</span><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046440405753166258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOlCSpQRw_I6XFMQBb0Y0kfpCkGotRB8iLmYQXUHV-VARU1y95bGQ1sslHeuID3yr1ubcaJ45qf9ZhBuOgZ3QyiSJvgWkOKX4aX7qt0gcm4SHxxl1HfHntIM7v9aNCYdjU4yAKcEaXjwO/s400/gridley-from-north.jpg" border="0" /><em> <span style="font-size:85%;">Gridley, Illinois vantage point: Craft approached from the North, hovered over these pine trees, and passed over the apartment complex. The parking lot is behind this vantage point, next to the buildings. The witness is to the left in this image, and viewed the triangle using her binoculars. Notice the close distance of the encounter.</span></em> </p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046468696702745074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO0SgGcDr3Zw5l15hRdVW_6GhrqmMhsH8fYhS5BNojEPXzwRrvuGivSLevPy96LrTlgyaFmCnf9Z-GEewso78FZxfcJouyD6p96x04AgkEsm8fz4oku7SQd-2YenO1R4fyiROFlWE2JVqo/s400/fieldnexttoapartment.jpg" border="0" /> <span style="font-size:85%;">Craft would have travelled over this field from the north.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"When we first saw the triangle shape, the bottom of the ship was facing the ground...then when it started to change, it began to rock back and forth then quickly went up onto it's side with the bottom now facing me and my daughter(still shaped like a triangle). At this time she ran into the apartment, scared out of her wits...I was beginning to get scared but stayed for a minute to see what was happening. It was obvious that it was a triangle before it changed and then it turned into a rectangle. I had a full view of what shapes it was..."</span><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046631518912936482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV5K48yg5-SXOHSBkeDC22rNYu_jsdZb6L8yd0gFd3O42zKjwuusHNYfzc2OYeCWOSJjhZgiOUbW8mYzAZODxlHx6ON8L9IN0IKiQWhrzYEgRbIc00aZAM2brmzuWJLs9tjyEmaNjqGgx_/s320/binoculars.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Craft was viewed through these binoculars</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /></span>The Gridley, Illinois close-encounter witness, provides you with compelling testimony about the very nature of this unusual craft she saw on the evening of February 20th, 2007. Somehow, from her perspective, as strange as this may sound, this craft appeared to morphologically change from the shape of a triangle, into the shape of a rectangular craft.<br /><br /><br />And with that startling testimony, I'm now going to turn your attention to four more witnesses who reported unusual, close encounters with UFO craft on the evenings of February 19th, 2007 through February 22nd, 2007, under the skies of the midwestern United States.<br /><br /><br /><p>Remember that these are actual NUFORC reports. None of these witnesses know each other, or have any knowledge of any of the other testimony given. The consistencies and differences that you are about to hear, are organic in nature, and have not been altered in any way:</p><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">THE BLACK RECTANGLES<br /></span></strong><br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">1) FORT LORAMIE, OHIO:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">2-19-07, 9:00pm to 11:00pm</span></strong><br /><em><strong>Sidenote:</strong> This witness reported observering a rectangular shaped object the size of a "hovering apartment building", over the Lake Loramie channel, in Fort Loramie, Ohio. In addition, this craft hovered at approximately 1000 feet, and then "abruptly shot out into space...", leaving a hole in the clouds. The witness reports heavy winds associated with the event. Weather conditions were reported as "calm" for this area.</em><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046466871341644242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiznPcsLZmzJ0pUcUdQ3rtJLw-ERD2PgKBTlFMEH6ZOj8mv_mB4-UACKD0EAK_JDP1-wPwWXaGnsY5gl1MAV_WglLPLB-pUn0Fn6xEE6TPDu8OazcA-S6b5vFMemrWCiUSXj2U70ykemkzb/s400/loramiemap.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Map of Lake Loramie State Park. Sighting was at the Luthman Road, Route 119 intersection in the upper right corner. Map, courtesy of </span><a href="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/lkloramie.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">Ohio Department of Natural Resources.</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"While driving home on County Rd. 78 ( Luthman Rd.) in Shelby county, said person stopped along the road near a state park area to use a blue outhouse to relieve himself. While using the facilities he had left his car door open with the radio playing loudly on a local fm station.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046467524176673250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjygx99Vl6qDLS9s_BQp1RX7S1j_ImzyC2Rrse-lJRt5yCduTcUYoJwJ6qk5s2UzWCUIr3FBNvxT8qWJtN0Hm6EcBmd-l7HjJAKMrDadxO5reA06xgU1Ywiz06y4YD4rg3rstmvaCPIjDhn/s400/lkloramiepicnic.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Tourism picture of Lake Loramie Channel, courtesy of </span><a href="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/lkloramie.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">Ohio Department of Natural Resources</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000066;"></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="color:#000066;">"Upon exiting the blue outhouse he noticed his radio went to complete static. As he attempted to take the few large steps thru the knee high snow, he for whatever reason looked out the channel and upward to see what appeared to be a high rise building like structure hovering above him in the area of Lehmkuhl Landing, near the intersection of Rte. 119 and Luthman Rd.<br /></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"The object seemed to be a kind of Black which seemed to mimic the stars around it in order to blend in. The surfaces were hard to distinguish, and not enough to discern an exact shape. Nevetheless best guesses lean towards <strong>an upright rectangular shape</strong>. </span><span style="color:#000066;"></p></span><span style="color:#000066;"><br /></span><span style="color:#000066;">"The distance between observer, the object, and the lake below was extremely hard to observe therefore the altitude of the UFO was not possible to calculate. Guesses lean towards the huge object to be approx. 1000ft in the air while the top of the object must have been approx. 30 to 60 floors high as described by the observer while comparing it to a hovering apartment building from a large city.<br /></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"While the observer was stunned and had been standing, staring in amazement for approx. 30 seconds the silence of the entire area including the object was noticed. There was no sounds except for the car and the static radio.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"The object abruptly shot off towards space with no sound and at speeds uncomprehendable to the observer. The object traveled through a cloud in the sky which left a hole that quickly refilled in the cloud. It would also be noticably important to mention that there were considerable windy conditions during this event. </span><br /><span style="color:#000066;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color:#000066;">"The following night while typing this out the weather conditions where described as winds having calmed causing freezing fog to plague the dark area."<br /></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">2) SOMERSET, PENNSYLVANIA<br />2-21-07, at 10:45PM</span></strong><br /><em><strong>Sidenote:</strong> Here is another rectangular-shaped sighting of an object hovering over Somerset, Pennsylvania. It had 4 to 5 rows of small rectangular lights, and fast, blinking lights were described.</em><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I was driving home from a friends home, and I saw bright blue lights in the sky. I pulled over because I knew it was not an airplane. I looked up at it and it was going fairly fast, sideways.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"<strong>It had a rectangular shape</strong> with about 4 or 5 rows of small rectangular lights. The lights were blinking vey fast.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"The road I was on was coming down from a ski resort and there were not many homes around, just a few farms , and lots of fields.</span><br /><br /><br /><p></p><span style="color:#000066;">"When I stopped to look at this object, it was hovered about a mile from the ground, and then it took off sideways again. I could not tell where it went because it went so fast. I have had dreams about ufos but this was the first time I ever saw any. I am sure of what i saw, my heart has never raced like that before. "</span><br /><p></p><p></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046476011032050194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP5rB_T4V5ppC8ht-PPmNCUMZlcNkW2SIS8Liti_eGG5KHWR_E1uMM7be1vrwNSqdnEGgzHGp0Hub_J9lcHf0kUYRfOYAf8XOd15S4DTsNxqBaGg5bLatgH-v4lyUQtnJPbr2sntGaieov/s400/rectangle-ufocasebook.bmp" border="0" /> <span style="font-size:85%;">Artists depiction of black rectangular UFO's, courtesy of Billy Booth at <a href="http://www.ufocasebook.com/">UFOCasebook.com</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">3) ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS<br />2-22-07, at 7:50PM</span></strong><br /><em><strong>Sidenote:</strong> An "axehead-shaped" craft was seen silently hovering overhead, while this gentleman was out walking his dog. The witness indicated it was not illuminated, and it was moving silently, and quickly, heading eastbound towards Lake Michigan.</span></em><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"While out walking the dog, I was looking at the sky. It was clear out, with a bright quarter-moon and bright stars. Looking up and in front of me, I noticed a rapidly moving completely silent craft. The craft was shaped roughly like a somewhat skinny axehead, with the "axe blade" in the front, two fluted sides forming the right and left flanks, and the smaller base of the axe in the back. The front end, perhaps half the length as the sides, may have been somewhat rounded. The back end was perhaps half the length of the front end.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Although the craft must have passed almost directly overhead just moments before, I couldn’t hear any sound from it. It was perhaps nickel-sized at arm’s length. It did not appear to be self-illuminated, but the moonshine from behind me must have been illuminating it enough for me to see it relatively clearly. There was a bit of a shimmering appearance to it. This was not an easy object to see, however. If I hadn’t been looking at almost that exact spot in the sky, and if it hadn't been moving, I wouldn’t have noticed it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"It was moving across the sky fairly quickly, directly eastbound in a straight line towards Lake Michigan, and within fifteen seconds or so passed out of sight behind the trees in my yard. I ran down the block to the next clearing, but I was unable to see it again. I was alone with my dog, and certainly there was no time to get anybody else outside to see it.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I’d like to encourage anyone reading this to watch the skies, high and low, day or night, for unusual objects. If you see something inexplicable, get somebody else as a corroborating witness if at all possible! And get photos if you can. Call the newspapers and radio stations! And at the very least, file a written report. Don't just keep it to yourself. "</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046665569413659202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw4IuCuz3Dk9KqoXfHAC-C1QHOvvyfVhzIESj7CCWKtsbcnIagl6w-cijtOV-av7Mimp3DWem73RwHamxUrunKzQKTi0GNi4w8Y9SogwcDoGK0CE-mtyulooqGuLPk0N0lujM5PBQaUSiD/s320/nuforc.jpg" border="0" /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">National UFO Reporting Center, in Davenport, Washington. Image, courtesy of Peter Davenport and </span></em><a href="http://www.nuforc.org/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">NUFORC. </span></em></a></p><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">4) EVANSVILLE, INDIANA<br />2-22-07, at 1:10AM</span></strong><br /><em><strong>Sidenote:</strong> This witness, an amateur astronomer, alongside her brother, reported a large craft passing overhead in the early morning hours of February 22nd, 2007. She sees 2 orange and 1 uncentered greyish light. She almost describes them as flickering. She could not make out a shape. She was meticulous in her honest report of this sighting to NUFORC, and she wavers back and forth in wondering if perhaps it was a misunderstood, regular plane. She states that "...[I] have seen planes, planets, meteors all the like; but this was quite unusual." She feels compelled to report it, and asks quite innocently, "Have you received any reports of a large plane (or other object?) passing over our skies @ about 1:10 a.m. thursday morning of February 22?" </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>It is fair to say that the answer to her question is emphatically, yes. A large, rectangular shaped craft was reported over the skies of Somerset, Pennsylvania, not more than 2 1/2 hours prior.</em><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Have you received any reports of a large plane (or other object?) passing over our skies @ about 1:10 a.m.Thursday morning of February 22?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I certainly saw something, raced up to tell my brother, and he saw it as well. I was peeking my head out our window to see if Sirius had set yet and to see Saturn, when I noticed what looked like two stars of equal magnitude that I didn't recognize (not that I'm knowledgeable enough to notice something out of place...it just looked odd). They were moving though, so I thought plane...which would be nothing out of the ordinary, they are always overhead, blinking away.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"These really weren't blinking...and the lights were too far apart to be from the same plane. it passed overhead slowly, couldn't have been extremely high in the sky, on account of the wingspan covering a wide field of the sky.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"There was a noise similar to the kind of noise you get as a large plane many thousands of feet in the sky passes overhead (you know, you see it and the sound is slower, so it appears that the sound of it is trailing behind)(it was very low in pitch, could be easily heard from indoors, and spooked a few of the local animals, including a cow...which I didn't know lived so close to us:).</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I could not make out a shape of the object, just its lights...three of them two on the outside being a very light orange with the third being grayish but not centered in between the two on the outside. They weren't crisply flickering, I'm not even sure you could say they flickered at all.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I wasn't sure who to contact, I looked in the phone book under Evansville Regional Airport, but the numbers were for parking employees, Security office...none of them seemed like the right contact for this type of question. Anyways, I just wondered if anyone else had seen it and reported of it, or if there was some kind of way you might forward this to anybody who would be interested or aware of what was flying overhead during that time.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I am an amateur stargazer, have seen planes, planets, meteors all the like; but this was quite unusual and worth my trouble to email you, and hopefully I wasn't to much trouble for you to hear out. Thanks."</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">TOMS PART 2 COMMENTARY:</span></strong></p><br /><br /><p><br /><strong>TEN LARGE CRAFT:<br /></strong>Four additional sightings must now be added to the previous six. Ten sightings of large craft in total, occurring between the hours of approximately 7:00am and 12:00pm, from 2-19-07 through 2-22-07. All of these sightings primarily occurred in the skies above the midwestern United States, and all of them made such a large impact on these individuals, that they felt so compelled to notify NUFORC and MUFON, and file a report.</p><br /><p></p><br /><p><strong>CHARACTERISTICS:</strong><br />Many of the characteristics of these rectangular sightings are similar to those of the black triangle reports: They are also "huge"; They are also hovering; They are also black; and They also appear to be virtually silent.</p><br /><p></p><br /><p>In addition, however, some have reported a low-pitched or static hum or sound; There are some descriptions of the object camouflaging with the dark background, blending in with the night sky, and yet blocking out stars; Some are reported with seeing rectangular-shaped lights, like windows; Some of the light colors are different as well, and include orange glow and fast blinking; Great thrust from stationary to fast speeds is also reported. The Arlington Heights report described the object he saw as an unusual "Axe-shape". </p><br /><p></p><br /><p><strong>A CONNECTED EVENT:</strong><br />It's difficult not to see a connection between these two different kinds of sightings. On the one hand, you have black triangles, and on the other hand, you have black rectangles, axe-heads, and undetermined shapes. They are all being seen in the same general area, and they are all being seen during the same general time frame. Is it possible, that at least some of these objects, might be the same objects, as the black triangles witnessed over the skies of Illinois, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Tennessee? </p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046662111964985906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QRB0qEjYHAxaG3IBybNgyY3Rl0r1qHkIL7EqpQ3_nFI548NknV-iA16nNaZvHhXX33KJZAKoGixrLmcwvb3a_jwQZJpGAcYqERKf6tPbsawllPnKmo-zWKclHZihZYcKwxvFhEulQmTE/s320/4+day+black+triangle+event+2-19-07+to+2-22-07.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p></p><br /><p><strong>"MORPHING" CRAFT?:</strong><br />Based on the "morphing" testimony of the witness in Gridley, Illinois, who claims to have seen these black triangles up close and personal, anything is possible. </p><p></p><p></p><br /><p>I must admit that the idea of a "morphing" craft, is unsettling. I don't know what to make of it. Either it is an accurate observation, or it is not. If the testimony of the witness in Gridley, Illinois, is taken out of context, alone, and without other additional information, it would be easy to dismiss this observation out of hand. </p><p></p><br /><p>But, if you want to understand something as complex and mysterious as the black triangles phenomenon, you simply cannot exclude or deny evidence that presents itself to you. I have no explanation for these facts. But, facts they are. The witness from Gridley, Illinois is adament about what she saw. She saw it up close, and she saw it through binoculars. She provided her testimony to NUFORC in February, 2007, at or around the same time that all these other individuals provided their testimony. </p><p></p><br /><p>Along with the report of a triangular shaped craft morphing into a rectangular shaped craft in Gridley, Illinois, we discover that a witness saw a black rectangle in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and black triangles and other shapes were also seen all over the midwestern United States, during the exact same time period as the Gridley, Illinois sighting. </p><br /><p></p><p></p><p><strong>UNUSUAL UNKNOWNS:</strong><br />Given all of that, you must look at this evidence with an open mind. If you are interested in getting to the truth, none of this testimony should be dismissed, simply because it is unusual. The entire phenomenon is unusual. None of us in the general public, know for sure, what these craft actually are. There are many unusual unknowns.</p><br /><p></p><p>But even with all of the questions you are ultimately left with, after examining the testimony and evidence, it is hard not to walk away without concluding that at the very least, these people witnessed and experienced something very unexplainable, and very real.</p><br /><p></p><p></p><p>Join me in the 3rd part of this report, wherein I will share with you the final NUFORC reports of these four compelling evenings. <strong>Part 3, Military activity and other anomalies of February, 2007</strong>, here at <a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/"><strong>http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</strong></a> .</p><p></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright 2007, Tom Levine, Levicom, LLC. This article is protected by copyright, and cannot be duplicated or altered in any way, without the sole, written permission of its author. 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For questions and further information, the author can be contacted at </span><a href="mailto:levicom@comcast.net"><span style="font-size:85%;">levicom@comcast.net</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> or by visiting </span><a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</span></a> </p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Links and Thank yous:</strong><br />MUFON: </span></em><a href="http://www.mufon.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.mufon.com/</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />NUFORC: </span></em><a href="http://www.nuforc.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nuforc.com/</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Google Earth: </span></em><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://earth.google.com/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">You Tube: </span></em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/</span></em></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Ohio Department of Natural Resources: </em></span><a href="http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/lkloramie.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/lkloramie.htm</em></span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Billy Booth and UFOCasebook.Com: </em></span><a href="http://www.ufocasebook.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>http://www.ufocasebook.com/</em></span></a><br /></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Thank you to all the witnesses who have reported their sightings to NUFORC and MUFON on this case, especially Gridley, Illinois. I appreciate your input on this report.</em></span></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Some of the testimony was edited strictly for syntax. You can review the testimonials in their entirety, by conducting a simple search at the NUFORC and MUFON websites.</span></em></p><p></p></span><br /></span><br /><p></span></p>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-40108250308577531982007-03-30T22:16:00.000-07:002008-12-11T16:06:24.977-08:00PART 3 OF 4: THE BLACK TRIANGLES SIGHTING EVENT 2-19-07 TO 2-22-07<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgHd_KPCJb1V6vZsax2b8xFyFaxrhCPQdpyGrtN1b7dDI8Hw4WhHfUbIZde668zh2LYNGvY1rw-higbWy8CHVQi4BHGdvrx755jBs5NTf_8SNw0X4cb4mfdU2zUYmW7jvbYe1uq-P1drZ/s1600-h/ama.bmp"></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">MILITARY ACTIVITY AND OTHER ANOMALIES OF FEBRUARY, 2007</span></strong><br /><br /><br />"<em>Something big is happening in Suffolk, Virginia!...I wonder if it's the triangle?"<br /><strong>- SUFFOLk, VA NUFORC report, 2-22-07</strong></em><br /><br /><br /><em>"Two round objects and they flashed. They WERE CHASED by MILITARY PLANES!!!"<br /><strong>- JUNEAU, WISCONSIN NUFORC report, 2-22-07</strong></em><br /><br /><br /><em>"Green, white and red mix of lights...The lights looked like they where spinning so fast it made the form of a diamond shape."<br /><strong>- WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE NUFORC report, 2-21-07</strong></em><br /><br /><br /><em>"Bright Orange sphere shape object Hovering slowly down behind the Voorhees Flyers Skate Zone."</em><br /><strong><em>- VOORHEES, NEW JERSEY NUFORC report, 2-20-07</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><em>"...When we reached our destination, It was almost right over us...the yellow light went away, and all I could see was a small black greyish round object..."</em><br /><strong><em>- CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY NUFORC report, 2-20-07</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><em>"......My dad saw it, but he doesnt belive in UFO's."</em><br /><strong><em>- CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY NUFORC report, 2-20-07</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048150436376918258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitttaHWNff-2E-0ByCZmO3-o_f36QtFFnbKahmOaAgpKpjRgd8voulzbF21Th1OPI8CO4l6yKAjmY4lK8yk7cwx6IuyVcBUiJ1yHfQ33RXcR5iBdqEdedDUIyJe0Do5B1QvgDVZvo138dA/s400/artist2-triangle.jpg" border="0" /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Artists depiction of a Black Triangle Sighting, courtesy of </span></em><a href="http://www.apra.org.uk/ufo_uk.htm" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">APRA.</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> Black and opaque craft are reported to blend in with the night sky,. Many sightings focus more on movement and lights, and less on the camoflouged craft itself.</span></em><br /><br /><br /><p><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">INTRODUCTION</span></strong><br /><br /><br />Over the States of Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, black triangles and rectangular shaped craft were seen in close, vivid detail. From up in Dorval Quebec, Canada to the north, on Feburary, 19th, 2007, then down through the south, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 22nd, 2007: Black, silent, hovering craft were witnesssed and reported by very normal people, doing very normal things.<br /><br /><br /><br />They saw them through binoculars, and over apartment buildings. They experienced them alone while out walking the dog, or together with daughters, brothers, and friends. They reported them to NUFORC, they drafted diagrams of their encounters, they videotaped these strange craft in the sky, reacting to the surrealism of the moment, much the same way that you and I probably would.<br /><br /><br /><br />But it doeesn't end there. Alongside those ten principle reports, eighteen other individuals contacted NUFORC with UFO sightings during this time frame. These UFO's were generally farther away, more obscure, and less remarkable. Most of them, could likely be explained away as fireballs, meteors, misunderstandings, or other unusual, but otherwise quite natural anomalies.<br /><br /><br /><br />But some elements of these UFOs were consistent with the events unfolding. They were also reported between 7:00pm and 12:00am. They were also witnessed between 2-19-07 and 2-22-07. They were also seen over the skies of the midwestern United States.<br /><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048272941729102098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWrV52toy3xzv2qDj6_UvfOCeDeEtWFNlKCG1rO8rJkxZeuLEibgDh-7YU9H0LGSbJ320E8DxIgeBmCk0yIa_rtr-bjsTKKgtPZMuI6FM5Gcr6uTLX6sswYNfsRMKT7mnOFTfZCvV2FckA/s400/bederpick.jpg" border="0" /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Nathan Bederdick captured video footage of orange or amber glowing lights, in slow decent, over the skies of Nufork, Virginia, in 2005. Later analysis revealed that there might be a "triangular shaped craft" behind the light. Picture courtesy of <a href="http://welcome.hamptonroads.com/vpstaff/bio.cfm?s_id=211" target="blank">Bill Tiernan </a>and The Virginian Pilot. Read the article <strong>"UFOs: Seeing is Believing"</strong> by <a href="http://welcome.hamptonroads.com/vpstaff/bio.cfm?s_id=118" target="blank">Joanne Kimberlin </a>of The Virginian-Pilot </span></em><a href="http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=98747&ran=207689" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">HERE</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">. View the complete video of Nathan Bederdick's news story courtesy of HamptonRoads.TV and Pilotonline.Com </span></em><a href="http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=98682&ran=39805" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">HERE</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />On any other evening, it might be easy to dismiss these witnesses, strictly because their reports may seem more run of the mill, and less exotic. Juxtaposed against the black triangles, however, there might be more to these sightings than just fireballs, lights in the sky, and misidentified F-22A Raptors.<br /><br /><br /><br />With that said, let's turn our attention to the last night of this event, February 22nd, 2007:<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">A: THE MILITARY COMPONENT</span></strong><br /><br /><br />As the Suffolk, Virigina NUFORC witness states: <span style="color:#000066;"><strong>"Something big is happening in Suffolk, Virginia!"</strong><br /></span><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048145617423612130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUWAxDmIg6FDSpgnNNxV0toWn1jrV8AABU2N5Le7-aN58188xVNMLOiL2BaQtRZTtDBLx_SJ67kYeozRc9yIjOdwqVuIFQJEH1E-POXBZZyI50GKJCX3j9h6SvaeLE-kWizFL7wuKF-E0/s400/langley.jpg" border="0" /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Image and subtext, courtesy of </span></em><a href="http://www.langley.af.mil/" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Langley Air Force Base</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">: "Lt. Col. Dirk Smith, 94th Fighter Squadron commander, and Maj. Kevin Dolata, 94th FS assistant director of operations, turn in on final approach to Langley Air Force Base, Va., Friday, March 3, 2006, to deliver the first F-22A Raptors assigned to the 94th Fighter Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker) "</span></em></p><p>Three key sightings were reported to NUFORC on Thursday, February 22nd, 2007, from 7:55pm to 11:30pm.<br /><br /><span class ="fullpost"><br /><br />Two of the three sightings in question, from Virginia and Wisconsin, took place within 5 minutes of each other. Both reports described one to two objects consisting of amber, orange, and blue lights. Both reports described these lights as "orbs" or "round objects". Both reports described military aircraft either circling or chasing these unknown objects. And, both sightings described the unknown object or objects as having "zoomed away fast" or "zipped away".<br /><br /><br /><br />Several hours later, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, NUFORC received another sighting. This sighting involved a "hazy light ball", at times "glowing", slowing down, speeding up, making 90 degree turns, fading in, fading out, fading back in, until eventually, it just "went out". Several minutes later, planes approached from the north and southwest. They followed the direction of the light, and then returned.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And let's not forget that on this very same evening, thursday night, February 22nd, 2007, A possible black triangle was videotaped in Kentucky; A black triangle was witnessed at 7:45pm in Hermitage, Tennessee; A black Axe-head shaped craft was seen at about 7:50pm over the skies of Arlington Heights, Illinois. All of this, while some kind of military activity was seen around orange, hovering, orb-shaped UFOs in Suffolk Virginia and Junea, Wisconsin, between the hours of 7:55pm and 8:00pm, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at 11:30pm. </p><p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048365601353546034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_hKAVEFqr0E43HvSc0A92EpMznKic-Giiwf-bXdyaNO9B0oAHXw9Y-46QF3UP1sHw_Qyn02MIWHUbXYzo2Gj0VucuDF6C9ToQ8jxOr8mbFANYPcsN4tKjugjm0Z2Aoj0Ru-VrkmT87pUa/s400/eastward2-22-07.jpg" border="0" /><br /><em><strong>Eastward direction:</strong> The Orange to Amber lights from Suffolk, Virginia, moved in an eastward direction being chased by 2 military jets; The "hazy light ball" UFO in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was seen over the ocean as the witness was facing "due east". He described the object as moving in a horizontal path across the earth. Later, he saw 2 jets coming from the north. Could they have been the same jets seen earlier in Suffolk, Virginia? The "axe-head" craft seen over Arlington Heights, Illinois, was also described as heading in an eastward direction. This graph represents all UFO activity on the evening of 2-22-07. Orange tags represent orange-colored UFO reports; The red lines serve to illustrate the possible connection between some of these events.</em><br /><br /><br />What were these people seeing? What were the military doing that evening? Are these connected events, or is it a coincidence? As our witness in Suffolk, Virginia asks: "I wonder if it's the triangle?"<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663300;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">THE MILITARY COMPONENT: NUFORC REPORTS</span></strong><br /></span><br /><strong>1) Suffolk, Virginia<br />2-22-07 at 7:55PM<br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Something big is happening in Suffolk, Virginia!<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Deja Vu. That's the only phrase i can describe at this point. Tonight was a repeat of events that took place in Suffolk, VA back in October of 2005. Those events, along with other peoples accounts captured the attention of the statewide newspaper. Tonight was a repeat. I still cant believe it. Somethings going on. Around 7:50 pm leaving my mother's home, I immediately noticed the presence of two low flying fighter jets. Fighter jets in my area are not uncommon, but the way they manuevered reminded me of fall 2005; and sure enough when I looked toward the direction they were travelling, I saw it again.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"A huge orb of light, amber maybe yellowish in color. There were about 3-4 jets doing circular maneuvers over the object before the other two joined in. I ran inside to get my mother to witness the events and she saw everything. The object, the jets overhead, everything. We watch the hovering orb for about 2 minutes before she ran inside to grab the binoculars. I continued to watch. After a couple of minutes the object started violently changing colors from red to white to blue and maybe yellow. It then started to move horizontally in a eastern direction before it either disappeared or zipped away. After it left jets followed in that direction while 2 stayed behind continuing a circular type manuever. Crazy night, I wonder if it's the triangle? "<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>2) Juneau, Wisconsin<br />2-22-07, 8:00PM</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Two round objects and they flashed. They WERE CHASED by MILITARY PLANES!!!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I watch them for about 10 seconds. One was orange and looked like a ball. The other one was blue and the same shape. They blinked several times and zoomed away fast. I also saw two military planes following it. It was outside on a farm."</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>3) Myrtle Beach, South Carolina<br />2-22-07, 11:30pm<br /><em>Sidenote:</em></strong><em> I've edited this testimony due to its length. You can view the entire transcript at NUFORC's website.<br /></em><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I saw something that was definitely not an airplane...It was just a hazy light ball and it was definitely airborne...</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"It's path, from when I first noticed it started out parallel to the earth and traveled like this for maybe 5 seconds. Then almost a 90 degree turn at what seemed to be straight up, then another sharp degree of turn up and away at an angle, then another turn at a downward angle, and yet another at a down and backwards angle, then once it reached about where it's original path was, it resumed. Half of these turns were in a span of maybe 1-2 seconds, but no more than 3 at the absolute most and the other two were really short.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Once it resumed it's "original" path it faded out after about 3 seconds. Like a lightbulb slowly going out, then instantly it began glowing again...it faded out for about a second...and then came back to full glow before it "passed" behind the light pole and remained glowing...it faded out again for the second time and that's when I never saw it again.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"About 5-7 minutes later I saw two planes coming from the north along the coastline or there abouts and heading that direction. About the time they got where it was, I noticed another plane that must've come from the southwest or that general direction. The two planes from the north went further south..., while the other plane continued north for a few minutes and returned. I wasn’t sure what I was seeing, so I just stared in disbelief. "</span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">B: UNUSUAL LIGHTS IN THE SKY</span></strong><br /></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048010094025554130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlehW0oeJoDr9XYRsbvle0r6mBDx0MjEriG8rnzc4LUoOK9TiOnsspma_refP_4N92Hq_XNFSMRV3YaFbNVzU2ockLfdP3tuhzYOApmS3Q3CfZn3esYRiVQGjZ2a5881-dBvT6TvNAxyh/s400/LIGHTS-TRIANGLE-2-20-07.jpg" border="0" /><em>New Jersey UFO sightings were reported to NUFORC on the same evening as the black triangle close encounters in Gridley, Illinois and Mequon, Wisconsin, on February 20th, 2007.<br /></em><br /><strong>Sometimes, seeing is not believing.<br /></strong><br /><br /><br />Such was the example of a young boy and his father, driving at 7:00pm in Cape May, New Jersey, on February 20th, 2007. The young boy witnessed unusual lights in the sky. He saw bright yellow lights slowing down, and speeding up faster than "<span style="color:#000066;">any plane he had ever seen</span>".<br /><br /><br /><br />More strange behavior was observed: The object extinguished its lights, and the young boy witnessed a "<span style="color:#000066;">small, black, greyish round object</span>", until 10 seconds later, the light reappeared, and the object then "<span style="color:#000066;">dissappeared into the sky</span>".<br /><br /><br />He was so compelled by this sighting, that he called NUFORC and reported his experience. He doesn't leave out that his father also witnessed the event, "<span style="color:#000066;">but he doesn't believe in UFO's</span>".<br /><br /><br /><br />I wonder how his father might feel now, if he knew that just one hour later that evening, right over his own home state of New Jersey, another witness contacted NUFORC, and reported a "<span style="color:#000066;">bright orange sphere Hovering slowly down behind the Voorhees Flyers Skate Zone</span>".<br /><br /><br />Would it make any difference to his father, if he was aware of the fact that close encounters with black trianglular craft were being reported to NUFORC, over the skies of Illinois and Wisconsin, westward of the Great Lakes, that very same evening.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048005597194795186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASZGcWi5CRphNUP9x7kBBdyIAtEKTrXT2sLM7tLD0chD1H89aC_uPtD-2kL-y1w8Jh9Y7oYgK8Yf9YVl2eGC-KGMTCA7uddEr0Y5j7eyvg3UpRlUYaRMCsHoere-sNf8LIJouDslj7epg/s400/NJ_FlyersSkateZoneVoorhees.jpg" border="0" /><em> A bright, orange "sphere" hovered below the Voorhees Flyers Skate Zone, in Voorhees, New Jersey.</em><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">UNUSUAL LIGHTS IN THE SKY: NUFORC REPORTS</span></strong><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><strong>1) Cape May, New Jersey<br />2-20-07, 7:00PM</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Me and my dad were driving in our car, when I was looking at the stars. It was a very clear night. I saw a bright yellowish light moving in the sky.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I thought it was a plane, untill I realized it was changing speeds dramatically. When we came to a stop I really noticed it. It would go slow, almost come to a stop, and then speed up. And it was moving faster than any plane I have ever seen.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"When we reached our destination, It was almost right over us. All of a sudden, the yellow light went away, and all I could see was a small black greyish round object moving through the sky. And it was way to far up for a plane to give off light like it did. Then after about 10 seconds, the light turned back on, and dissapeard into the sky. "</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">My dad saw it, but he doesnt belive in UFO's .<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>2) Voorhees, New Jersey<br />2-20-07, 8:00PM</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Bright Orange sphere shape object Hovering slowly down behind the Voorhees Flyers Skate Zone. Looked like the Phoenix lights but more solemly."<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">C: FIREBALLS?</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RrL-cWaYdno" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">This is an IDENTIFIED Flying Object. It is one of the best recorded Bolide Fireballs in history, captured during a small-town football game, over Halifax, Virginia, on October 9th, 1992. Bolide Fireballs are dramatic, rare, unusual, and frightening. They are typically reported in the news, and almost always viewed, measured, analyzed and reported into organized scientific databases by astronomers. Video courtesy of the website, <a href="http://fireball.meteorite.free.fr/index_en.html">METEORITE ACTION!</a></span></em><br /><br /><br />A fireball, otherwise known as a "bolide", is a very large meteor that explodes upon impact with the earth's atmosphere. This explosion causes a large, bright light to appear. This light is generally brighter than the planet Venus, with a -5 magnitude. It can leave very large trails, sometimes known as "glow-worms", and its impact and subsequent explosion can sometimes produce an audible sound which can be heard from stargazers on earth. It's no wonder, that the sight of this dramatic light in the sky, can cause UFO reports to be filed at NUFORC, by people like you and me, who may not have the scientific expertise to understand and identify a fireball when we see it.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://fireball.meteorite.free.fr/son.wav" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>: EXPLODING FIREBALL OVER NEW ZEALAND IN 1999 CAUSED THIS SONIC BOOM.<br /><br /><br />The International Meteor Organization, aka: <a href="http://www.imo.net/" target="blank">IMO</a>, indicates that only one in 1200 observable meteors reach the magnitude necessary for a typical bolide-like fireball, -5 magnitude. Only one in 12000 observed meteors ever reach the truly bright fireball of -8 magnitude. So, these events are fairly rare, and definitely dramatic. One would expect that if a fireball was seen by non-experts, and reported as UFOs to NUFORC, than experts would have also seen them too, and would have also reported them to various meteor astronomy societies, especially in and around the midwestern United States area.<br /><br /><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.amsmeteors.org/" target="blank">American Meteor Society </a>is located in Geneseo, New York. They have been in existence for over 90 years. One of their <a href="http://www.amsmeteors.org/about.html" target="blank">principle objectives </a>is "To observe, monitor, collect information, plot and report on meteors, meteoric fireballs, meteoric trains, and related meteoric phenomena.". The AMS has an <a href="http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/fireball_log2007.html" target="blank">online database </a>of all fireballs reported to them during the year of 2007. This database of fireballs is extensive. From 1-1-07 through 3-24-07, 109 fireball sightings, from across the United States, had been cataloged by the AMS.<br /><br /><br /><br />Between 2-13-07 and 3-1-07,<strong> zero fireballs have been cataloged</strong> (as of the date of this article.) This is odd, since fireballs have been seen and reported to the AMS on almost every other evening during the year. This means, that there were no fireballs reported to the AMS by expert and amateur astronomers and star-gazers, on February 21st, 2007. Yet, that is the very evening that 4 witnesses saw dramatic fireball-like UFO's in the skies, and reported them to NUFORC.<br /><br /><br />In addition, along with the typical fireball-like characteristics being reported, note some of the more unusual descriptions here as well: Alternating colors from red to white; Object descending over a period of 45 minutes. The Tennessee report is quite unusual, describing a fast, rotating diamond ascending slowly, and with alternating red and green lights.<br /><br /><br /><br />It might strike you as coincidental, that NUFORC received reports from these 5 witnesses just prior to receiving a close encounter report of a large, unusual rectangular craft, tilted on its side, with rows of smaller rectangular fast blinking lights, travelling over the town of Somerset, Pennsylvania , at 10:45pm.<br /><br /><br /><br />That's 5 fireball-like reports to NUFORC between 8:00pm and 10:15pm, a rectangular craft reported to NUFORC at 10:45pm, and no apparent fireballs or bolides reported to the AMS, on February, 21st, 2007.<br /><br /><br />Fireball? Coincidence? Anomalous Black, Rectangular Craft? Nothing should be ruled out.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">FIREBALLS: NUFORC REPORTS</span></strong><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>1) Terra Haute, Indiana<br />2-21-07, 8:00PM<br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Decending bright white light in the sky lasting for 45 minutes visible from the midwest USA in the PM.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Bright Light visible...between the hours of 20:00 and 20:45 descending steadily from 145 degrees elevation with respect to the earth’s horizon down to the horizon.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Bright white light alternating sporadically from white to red then back to white. 1/20th as bright as an eighth moon and 5 times brighter than an air plane landing lights. Similar in nature to a satellite in motion which are normally barely visible to the naked eye if visible at all.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"The main difference between a satellite and this is the amplitude of brightness and the alternating color. One other similarity to a satellite is the cyclical nature in which it appears. One way or another, this is an extra terrestrial object.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I have spent a reasonable amount of time tracking satellites which are tracked and publicized as visible from these coordinates. Having been unable to identify a man made object in this orbit which emits this type of light I have no choice but to classify this as a UFO sighting. "<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>2) Rome, Georgia<br />2-21-07, 9:00PM<br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"My wife and I were coming home from church, and we were driving up the street/hill to our house, when we noticed a blue-green light in the sky that was very bright and large and moved very quickly from left to right above the tree line. And, it had a trail of sparks. It looked somewhat like a meteor. "</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>3) Spruce Pine, North Carolina<br />2-21-07 9:00PM</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I was lying in bed talking with my boyfriend when I happened to glance outside. When I looked outside I suddenly saw a very large neon green ball shooting across the sky. It looked outside I suddenly saw a very large neon green ball shooting across the sky.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"It had an extended green and white tail. It was much larger than any meteor I have ever seen and seemed to be about or below cloud level. It was awesome!!! I immediately yelled at my boyfriend "look, look!" but by the time he turned around it was gone, so it only lasted about 3-5 seconds. The window looks out to the north and the object went across the sky from approximately west to east.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I am guessing this was a similar object to the sightings that were reported back on January 24th. I am an avid sky watcher and make a point of sky watching during any major predicted event such as meteor showers etc. This was unlike anything I have seen before. "</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>4) Winchester, Tennessee<br />2-21-07, 10:15pm</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"Green, white and red mix of lights started out just above tree line about 22:15 and we observed it as it moved upward without moving east or west up to around 23:00 before we went to bed. After about 45 min. it had elavated to the point of having to look almost straight up.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"The lights looked like they where spinning so fast it made the form of a diamond shape. We observed many planes during that time and compared them,no chance of a plane or helicopter or any kind of aircraft like I had ever seen before. We used Nikon spotting scope and High powered Nikon Bino...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000066;">"I'm going to look for the object again to night it should be another clear night.<br />Send feed back if anybody may have some on what me and my wife where watching. Thanks"</span></p><p><span style="color:#000066;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000066;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000066;"></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">TOMS PART 3 COMMENTARY</span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">UNUSUAL LIGHTS IN THE SKY: SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT</span></strong></p><br /><p>It's easy to classify an experience as a UFO, when seen from up close. But, what if this very same object was seen farther away, above the city lights of New Jersey, or miles into the upper atmosphere? Would you know for certain what you were looking at? Would you be able to make out features, characteristics, and details? What about everybody else around you? Would other people be able to spot what was taking place, or would it only be the few people who happened to be looking at the right place, at the right time, without prejudice and preconception?</p><br /><p><br />Instead of exotic craft, would you see unusual lights in the sky? Would you describe what you were seeing as orange to amber orbs or spheres, or perhaps a descending or ascending light? perhaps initially, you would attempt to relate what you were seeing to something common, such as the planet Venus, a helicopter, or an aircraft. </p><br /><p>But, upon further scrutiny, instinct kicks in. Something is missing. It is not obeying the rules. It is not conforming to what you know. It is misbehaving.<br /><br /><br /><br />Perhaps you soon recognize that there, staring you in the face, is something that should not be there, something that should not exist. Something is not right.</p><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">THE SHAPE OF THE BLACK TRIANGLES PUZZLE:</span></strong></p><br /><p><br />Fireballs, unusual lights in the sky, and unexplainable military activity does not, on its own, present any compelling evidence of a phenomenal event. But like a jigsaw puzzle, the pieces do, in fact, fit together. We might not be able to see the final solution, but the puzzle begins to take shape.<br /><br /><br /><strong>The shape of this puzzle, looks something like this:</strong> </p><br /><p><span style="color:#663300;">People were reporting close encounters with black triangles, at the same time that other people were reporting close encounters with rectangular shaped craft, at the same time that other people were reporting military activity around orange and amber lights in the sky, at the same time that other people were reporting strange descending orange orbs, at the same time that other people were reporting fireball-like sightings with no reported fireballs having descended to the earth.</span> </p><p><br /><strong>The shape of this puzzle has a date, a time, and a location. It has principle players, and key elements:</strong> </p><br /><p><span style="color:#663300;">The date is from 2-19-07 through 2-22-07. The time is between approximately 7:00pm and 12:00am. The location is the general midwestern United States. The principle players are normal people having close-encounters with unexplainable craft. The key elements, as you now know, are black triangles and rectangular shaped craft of unknown origin, and of unknown intent.</span><br /><br /></p><p><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">NEXT, IN PART 4:</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><br />Since the launch of this report, I've been truly overwhelmed by the amazing responses I've received all across the nation. Hundreds of you have emailed me with your thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Thousands of people have visited Black Triangles, and have chimed in on this investigative journey I started less than a month ago.<br /><br /><br />I had no idea that so many people would join in and partake in this conversation. I'm humbled by your emails, your participation in the forum, your subscriptions to the RSS feed, your sign-ups to the Black Triangles Newsletter, and of course, your emails.<br /></p><p>The experiences, wisdom, theory, and concerns raised by you, are far more fascinating than anything I could have come up with on my own. So, join me in the 4th part of this report, where YOU will be heard, and together, we will do our best to try and put some understanding on this phenomenon, in <strong>Part 4, Understanding the Black Triangles of February, 2007</strong>, here at <a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</a> .<br /><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright 2007, Tom Levine, Levicom, LLC. This article is protected by copyright, and cannot be duplicated or altered in any way, without the sole, written permission of its author. This article can be distributed as an RSS feed, providing that it is not altered, that credit is given to its author, and that a viable, hyper-link is included in the article back to the originating website. For questions and further information, the author can be contacted at </span><a href="mailto:levicom@comcast.net"><span style="font-size:85%;">levicom@comcast.net</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> or by visiting </span><a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</span></a><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><br /><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Links and Thank yous:</strong><br />MUFON: </span></em><a href="http://www.mufon.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.mufon.com/</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />NUFORC: </span></em><a href="http://www.nuforc.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nuforc.com/</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Google Earth: </span></em><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://earth.google.com/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">You Tube: </span></em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">APRA: </span></em><a href="http://www.apra.org.uk/ufo_uk.htm"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.apra.org.uk/ufo_uk.htm</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Bill Tiernan at The Virginian-Pilot: <a href="http://welcome.hamptonroads.com/vpstaff/bio.cfm?s_id=211">http://welcome.hamptonroads.com/vpstaff/bio.cfm?s_id=211</a></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Joanne Kimberlin at The Virginian-Pilot: <a href="http://welcome.hamptonroads.com/vpstaff/bio.cfm?s_id=118">http://welcome.hamptonroads.com/vpstaff/bio.cfm?s_id=118</a></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Langley Air Force Base: </span></em><a href="http://www.langley.af.mil/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.langley.af.mil/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">METEORITE ACTION!: </span></em><a href="http://fireball.meteorite.free.fr/index_en.html"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://fireball.meteorite.free.fr/index_en.html</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">International Meteor Organization: </span></em><a href="http://www.imo.net/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.imo.net/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">American Meteor Society: </span></em><a href="http://www.amsmeteors.org/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.amsmeteors.org/</span></em></a><br /><p><br /><br /><br />Thank you to all the witnesses who have reported their sightings to NUFORC and MUFON on this case, especially Gridley, Illinois. I appreciate your input on this report.<br /><br />Some of the testimony was edited strictly for syntax. You can review the testimonials in their entirety, by conducting a simple search at the NUFORC and MUFON websites.<br /><br /></span>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-3874177163656621122007-04-04T20:36:00.000-07:002008-12-11T16:06:23.962-08:00PART 4 OF 4: THE BLACK TRIANGLES SIGHTING EVENT 2-19-07 TO 2-22-07<strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">UNDERSTANDING THE BLACK TRIANGLES OF FEBRUARY, 2007</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><em>"Oh hell, Oh hell...It's spinning...it's flat with lights across it...look at it now...it's all the way across...Oh, good lord...that's a whole, big thing..."</em><br /><strong>February 22nd, 2007 - Kentuck Video Footage</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#660000;">In 1939, Winston Churchill described elements of uncertainty facing the World War II era, as a "...riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". Perhaps for us, it is the Black Triangles phenomenon.<br /></span></em></strong><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050130945553324242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG5qaAQ2tVgMyWkc59NfEy5Z_y7r6_5WvxKyslO43HjdKRxhBvosT_c6vF8P2sD6-i4btxtSiI3ZnFNIBwT-yKdPxXtSPWGjGN3ktDwLAnwBijaHZida8yNRU7qSgJ21cuH21hEgMAfk8D/s400/FINAL-FEBRUARY-07.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br />Over the last several weeks, this journal, Black Triangles, set off on an investigative journey, focused on some very specific UFO activity over the midwestern United States, in February of 2007. We've covered a lot of ground, so let's take a moment and review the facts:<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><br /><p><strong>1) 28 UFO REPORTS:</strong> 28 people reported UFO sightings to NUFORC during the period of 2-19-07 through 2-22-07. </p><br /><p><strong>2) BLACK TRIANGLES:</strong> 6 of those reports involved people who encountered large, black, triangular shaped craft. </p><br /><p><strong>3) BLACK RECTANGULAR CRAFT:</strong> 4 of those reports involved people who encountered large, black, rectangular shaped craft. </p><br /><p><strong>4) 35.7%:</strong> 35.7% of all UFO reports during this period, were of large, black triangular and rectangular shaped craft. </p><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3OYlCtBzACmb6iOYwUcjXPfmIqQ2h9r8AVTuqTtG1fCDuQOw31iOFP42oW3zEbRC3eSjqV0epCbtz1MHfQ-JSzJyF-8OyVv_2S1C_aBt4B31J7uwG4rUDHYzqV02n-k2Uf0e1eaYhB_6/s400/4+day+black+triangle+event+2-19-07+to+2-22-07.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><p><strong>5) SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS:</strong> These craft shared similar characteristics: Black to opaque, huge dimensions, unusual lights, hovering maneuvers. </p><br /><p><strong>6) OTHER ANOMALIES:</strong> The other 18 reports involved people who encountered unusual lights and other anomalies, including military jets chasing strange, orange lights. </p><br /><p><strong>7) 7:00PM-12:00AM:</strong> Almost all of these reports took place between the hours of 7:00pm and 12:00am. </p><br /><p><strong>8) MIDWESTERN US:</strong> Almost all of these reports took place over the same general area, the midwestern United States.</p><br /><p><strong>9) PRIMARY LOCATIONS:</strong> The primary encounters were in: Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. </p><br /><p><strong>10) SECONDARY LOCATIONS:</strong> Other states had activity as well, including: Quebec, Ontario, Iowa, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Florida. </p><br /><p><strong>11) MILITARY JETS:</strong> On the evening of 2-22-07, 3 NUFORC Reports shared similar time-frames and characteristics, involving military jets chasing unusual lights in the sky in Wisconsin, Virginia, and South Carolina. On the same evening of 2-22-07, a black rectangular craft was also reported, in Arlington Heights, Illinois. </p><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048145617423612130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUWAxDmIg6FDSpgnNNxV0toWn1jrV8AABU2N5Le7-aN58188xVNMLOiL2BaQtRZTtDBLx_SJ67kYeozRc9yIjOdwqVuIFQJEH1E-POXBZZyI50GKJCX3j9h6SvaeLE-kWizFL7wuKF-E0/s400/langley.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Image and subtext, courtesy of </span></em><a href="http://www.langley.af.mil/" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Langley Air Force Base</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">: "Lt. Col. Dirk Smith, 94th Fighter Squadron commander, and Maj. Kevin Dolata, 94th FS assistant director of operations, turn in on final approach to Langley Air Force Base, Va., Friday, March 3, 2006, to deliver the first F-22A Raptors assigned to the 94th Fighter Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker) "</span></em><br /><br /><br /><p><strong>13) EASTWARD DIRECTION:</strong> 3 out of 4 of these 2-22-07 reports, involved descriptions of eastward movement and direction. The last noticeable activity was over the Atlantic Ocean, from the witness facing eastward in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. </p><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_hKAVEFqr0E43HvSc0A92EpMznKic-Giiwf-bXdyaNO9B0oAHXw9Y-46QF3UP1sHw_Qyn02MIWHUbXYzo2Gj0VucuDF6C9ToQ8jxOr8mbFANYPcsN4tKjugjm0Z2Aoj0Ru-VrkmT87pUa/s400/eastward2-22-07.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><p><strong>12) ORANGE ORBS:</strong> On the evening of 2-20-07, 2 NUFORC Reports shared similar time-frames and characteristics, Orange "orbs" or "spheres" were seen descending and ascending over the New Jersey evening sky, the same evening as 2 significant black triangle sightings occurred, westward of the Great Lakes. </p><br /><p><strong>13) FIREBALLS?</strong> On the evening of 2-21-07, 4 NUFORC reports shared similar time-frames and characteristics involving fireball-like sightings, with other highly unusual elements. These were seen in Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. No fireballs were reported by astronomers, that evening. </p><br /><p><strong>14) VIDEO FOOTAGE:</strong> Video footage of the highly emotional Kentucky sighting shows what appeared to be an enormous craft with sparkling lights, making unusual maneuvers. As the witness stated, in disbelief: "Oh hell, Oh hell...It's spinning...it's flat with lights across it...look at it now...it's all the way a Fu*#*ng across...Oh, good lord...that's a whole, big thing..." </p><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hclMgDPxhUE" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">LINK TO </span></em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hclMgDPxhUE" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">YOUTUBE</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> UPLOAD OF VIDEO<br /><br /><strong>THANK YOU MUFON!</strong> </span></em><a href="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/6442_submitter_file1__UFO&NewYork017.MOV" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">CLICK HERE </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">TO VIEW OR DOWNLOAD 45MB QUICK-TIME VIDEO IN UNCOMPRESSED FORMAT COURTESY OF MUFON.ORG</span></em><br /><br /><p><strong>15) MORPHING CRAFT:</strong> Drawings, diagrams, and photographs were submitted by the Illinois witness. This sighting, seen at arms length, up close and through binoculars, showed an exotic craft, hovering over the apartment complex, into the parking lot, morphing from triangular shape to rectangular shape, before heading southward and out of view.</p><p><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOlCSpQRw_I6XFMQBb0Y0kfpCkGotRB8iLmYQXUHV-VARU1y95bGQ1sslHeuID3yr1ubcaJ45qf9ZhBuOgZ3QyiSJvgWkOKX4aX7qt0gcm4SHxxl1HfHntIM7v9aNCYdjU4yAKcEaXjwO/s400/gridley-from-north.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Gridley, Illinois vantage point: Craft approached from the North, hovered over these pine trees, and passed over the apartment complex. The parking lot is behind this vantage point, next to the buildings. The witness is to the left in this image, and viewed the triangle using her binoculars. Notice the close distance of the encounter.</span></em><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV5K48yg5-SXOHSBkeDC22rNYu_jsdZb6L8yd0gFd3O42zKjwuusHNYfzc2OYeCWOSJjhZgiOUbW8mYzAZODxlHx6ON8L9IN0IKiQWhrzYEgRbIc00aZAM2brmzuWJLs9tjyEmaNjqGgx_/s320/binoculars.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Craft was viewed through these binoculars</span><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/6547_submitter_file1__Gridley-IL.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Witness diagram 1 from Gridley, Ill. </span></em><a href="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/6547_submitter_file1__Gridley-IL.jpg" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">CLICK HERE </span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">to explore this diagram in larger detail.</span></em><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>THE FACTS:</strong> Contained in this 4 part investigative series, you now have 28 separate NUFORC UFO reports; Video footage from Kentucky; Graphic diagrams, drawings, and photographs from Illinois, and a thorough, in depth analysis by Black Triangles Journal. It is all respectfully submitted to you as evidence of this event. It is up to you to decide whether or not these facts hold water, and whether or not these events pose very deep questions, with very serious implications.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">CONCLUSION:</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><br />The black triangles phenomenon is truly one of the greatest, understated mysteries of our generation. The February 2007 sightings event, illustrates the very nature and complexity of this puzzle.<br /><br /><br />What you've read on the Black Triangles journal, over these last several weeks, is not an illusion. It is not fiction, fantasy, or whimsy. This journal simply dug up the facts, and connected the dots. It didn't start with anything other than the raw material of evidence. It did not invent this story.<br /><br /><br />And yet, here we are, weeks later, with a cohesive story unveiling itself before us. It is a story with texture, substance, and continuity. It involves real people, having real experiences, that correlate. Are they all misunderstanding the events unfolding before them? Are they all in on it together, creating a mass hallucination for the sole purpose of tricking the smart, savvy readers of this journal?<br /><br /><br />Who are they? What are they? Why are they here? What is their purpose? Are they Us or Them? Are they Military or Non-Terrestrial? Are they Friend or Foe? What is their intention? What is their plan? What are they doing? Should we be afraid? Should we feel mystified? Or, should we simply ignore them and go on about our day?<br /><br /><br />In 1939, Winston Churchill described elements of uncertainty facing the World War II era, as a "...riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". Perhaps for us, it is the Black Triangles phenomenon.<br /><br /><br />As this riddle gains its momentum, questions will need to be addressed. I'm not terribly hopeful that answers will be forthcoming. But even if they were, would they not lead to harder questions, deeper mysteries, wider concerns?<br /><br /><br />That said, perhaps we have now entered a time, in the unravelling of this mystery, where one very big question can yield a very simple answer:<br /><br /><br /><strong>Are they real?</strong><br /><br /><br />Are black triangles real? Set aside your beliefs temporarily. Hold your skepticism at bay. Look simply at the facts. What is the evidence telling you? What is the most logical conclusion that can be made? Examine all the possible explanations, and then decide which explanation is the simplest, the most reasonable. What makes the most sense?<br /><br /><br />Hundreds and hundreds of witnesses around the world, correlating descriptions, corroborating testimonies, photographs, video footage, radar detection, pilot chases, governmental acknowledgements, over 25 years of consistent encounters by normal people, political officials, police officers, pilots, military Generals, Belgium, Phoenix, Shiloh: Countless examples of evidence, mounting and building over years and decades.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Are they real?</strong><br /><br /><br />Are Black Triangles real? Do they exist? Are you convinced? It's a very big question to ask, but I think it's time that each of us ask it.<br /><br /><br />And if the answer is yes, and if the majority of us do in fact reach that understanding, then the world we thought we were living in, just changed dramatically forever.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And on that note:<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">MORE SIGHTINGS<br /></span></strong><br /><strong>TROY ILLINOIS - 2000<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hello You can put Troy ILL on that map in the summer of 2000 there was very very big black Triangle Sighting that i saw here in troy ill just setting in mid air just about 100 feet above the tree's . R.W. Troy ILL</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>USEFUL SITE FOR WISCONSIN<br /></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://ufowisconsin.com/" target="blank">http://ufowisconsin.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">this website has stories with the same dates Black Triangles Sightings: 2-19-07 through 2-22-07.<br /></span></p><p></p><p><strong>HERE IS A 2-21-07 SIGHTING INVOLVING MILITARY JETS CHASING ORANGE ORBS, THREE ORANGE ORBS, IN TRIANGULAR FORM</strong> </p><br /><p></p><p><span style="color:#663333;">Date of Incident: February 21st, 2007<br />Time of Incident: 8:50 pm<br />Location of Incident: Ripon, Fond Du Lac County<br />Source of Report: UFOwisconsin.com<br />online sightings report form by name withheld.<br />Details of Incident: </span></p><p><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Last night I couldn't help but notice the sound of jets in the area (over my house in Ripon). I went outside and saw them practicing formations from what seemed to be really low. I went back to studying me Geology when my friend called and said they had seen a ufo. </span></p><p><span style="color:#663333;"></span></p><br /><p><span style="color:#663333;">I thought he was full of it, but since I was sick of my homework I headed over to his house to take a look. On the way up the hill by the library I noticed a bright orange light in the sky (about the color of fire). While looking at it two more lights turned on, so that there were three orange lights in triangle form. </span></p><p><span style="color:#663333;"></span></p><br /><p><span style="color:#663333;">I called up my sister and told her about it, but she also didn't believe me. When I arrived at his house we went on his roof to spot them. They had moved to what seemed to be close to the moon (but a lot lower). Once again, it would start by turning one orange light on, then the other two. We saw jets flying around it, and once when it turned all three of it's lights on we saw it turn around (rotate) and head towards the Green Lake/Markesan direction. </span></p><br /><p><span style="color:#663333;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#663333;">This triangular thing was huge, and we saw other people looking at it when we passed Murray Park. We went out into the country to try and find it again, but we lost sight of it because we were driving (plus it didn't keep it's lights on constantly). I was hoping you could give me more information on what this was. </span></p><br /><p><span style="color:#663333;">I am usually not a person to believe in ufo stuff, but what I saw last night was right in front of me. My friends and I couldn't believe it. Plus, because their were so many jets around (what my friend thought were military jets) we were wondering how dangerous this thing was.</span></p><br /><p><strong>CHRISTMAS EVE, 1998, CINCINATI, OHIO<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hi, I am curious if what i and my ex wife saw in 1998 could be also colaborated. we lived near Cincinnati Ohio at the time. I would say it was about between 6-7 pm on christmas eve. I am sure it was 1998, but it also could have been 1997. Anyway we were going to her sisters to drop off christmas presents and we just turned north on Montgomery road (Off of the Fields Ertle Road exit) and just past the Meijer store and we both saw up in the sky coming from the north what appeared to be 2 black traianglur objects that were behind each other I would say maybe a good 3 minutes aprt from each other in a straight line.<br /><br /><br />I remeber asking me ex what they were as we both looked.. We could tell they were triangular from the lights at each corner and there was NO flames. I stopped my car along the side of the road and we both got out to look.. their formation path was coming towards us down the road and the first one was heading straight over us.. it STOPPED and stood in mid air..<br /><br /><br />NO engine sounds.. and we wer both WOWed at it.. it was dark out and it was one night i wish there was a full moon to see it better,but their wasnt one. anyway as we looked at it there were small lights on each corner and it seemed to have 2 others near the rear where there would be the engines like on a military type plane, and i had forgot my headlights were still on..<br /><br /><br />As it sat there it then started to drift away with NO sound, no engine flame and i immedatly looked to see the next one and wondered if it signaled we were watching.. We got back in the car and headed North on Montomery Road. the only thing i could think of was it was coming from the direction that Whright Patterson Air Force base was..<br /><br /><br />I am ex Air Force so thats what popped in my head first. I always wondered that night if we saw UFO's or a secret Gov Project that flew that night knowing it was Christmas Eve.anyway i wanted to share that with you and maybe somebody else saw soemthing that night.. I knew if we called the police, everybody in their brother would deny seeing anything.. anyway i thank you for the time to read my e-mail. Best RegardS, J.M.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>2003 SIGHTING<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">hey there. not sure exactly what your site is about (other than black triangles), but i saw one back in 03. i then proceeded to look up all black triangle sightings on nuforc that matched my sighting and i've got a list of sightings that date back to the 70s. if you want my list, let me know. not sure if you've already combed the nuforc archives or not.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN, 2005</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">you missed my 2005 sighting in north central wisconsin reported to and investigated by MUFON T.S.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>WINCHESTER TENNESSEE BIRTHDAY SIGHTING<br /></strong>Happy Birthday!<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hi, my name is P.B. and I'm from Decherd, TN which is a sister city of Winchester. On the Coast to Coast am web site you list a series of black triangle sightings. One happened in Winchester, TN. I didn't see it, but I noticed on interesting coincidence in that the sighting happened on my birthday which is 02/21/74. If I remember correctly it was a Wednesday night. Like I said I didn't see it.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>TOMKINS COVE, NEW YORK - EARLY 90'S</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">I saw one in Tomkins Cove NY. It was in the early 90's. I was working at the Lovett generating station which is right on the Hudson River. In the sky hovering betweenour plant and the Indian Point Nuclear power plant across the river directly above a 345 kv power line that crosses the river there. It was tremendous whatever it was with lights on it's edges, making no noise, (we were close to it, 300-400 yrds) and sort of pivoting, just turning on it's center. It was about 11 pm and 4 of us saw it. Thought you would like to know. KMC<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>BREWSTER, MASSACHUSSETTES - 1997<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hi Tom I saw one of these over Brewster, MA in 1997. I just pulled in and had the window down because it was the first warm night. I was looking for satellites because I'm a ham, and was thinking of getting on the ham satellites and was seeing what could be seen using the online tracking sites.<br /><br /><br />A large black triangle flew over, with white lights at the tips, and a red light at the center. It was very silent, and slow moving, but as it accelerated hummed softly. I'm to the southeast of Natick research, MITRE, and to the east of Otis AFB where recent news has shown there's training for DHS and other surveillance going on.<br /><br /><br />Subsequently, in the summer of 2004 to 2005 my father and I watched lights over Cape Cod Bay. These word appear at sundown every night. They were NOT stars. When you sat and watched, at about 8 PM there would be a "shift change". You'd see one fly out and the one that had been hovering would fly toward the west, back over land and disappear.<br /><br /><br />Every one of them was replaced by another in sequence in this manner. This led us to believe they were UAVs. Recent new articles from San Diego confirm their use out there, so... When we were bothering to watch them before it became obvious this was a nightly occurance, I reported them to Mr. Davenport and was pretty much ignored.<br /><br /><br />Whatever. These lights would turn toward you if you "played with them" and pulled into the different beach parking lots. If you shut your headlights off, theirs went off (or the craft turned around) and you were met with a shimmering multicolored light or reflection similar to the look of a FLIR at distance. If you waited, it either turned toward you or their spotlights would come back on. Several times like a wise a$$ I sent Morse Code with my headlights which caused them to shut off for up to 10 minutes on end. After that I started having computer and mail problems for the next two years. It sounds nuts but unless you want the details, I won't bother you with that part. M.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE - MARCH 22ND, 2007<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">My sighting did not occur during February, but last week on Thursday, March 22, at about 6:30 a.m. EST. It is still quite dark here (Cleveland, TN-Bradley County area) at that hour. I live in a rural area with no street lights or commercial buildings with outdoor lighting. I saw a basketball-size white light orb skimming over the tree tops on a ridge behind my home. It made no sound at all. I have lived here ten years and have never seen anything like it before. I was reading your posting on the Coast to Coast webpage and was surprised at all the east coast sightings that happened in February. Thought I would add mine for March. D.S.<br /><br /><br /></span><strong>1975 BLACK TRIANGLES OVER NUCLEAR FACILITIES</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Back in 1974 to 1975 (winter) a black triangle was seen cruising up the runway and hovering over the nuke weapons storage site at Loring AFB. Strange lights were seen around the surounding area, including New Brunswick, Canada. This was seen and related to me by the structure firechief of the base when explaining why he was forced to stay overnight after the base was locked down. seems that this may not be as new as many think.<br /><br /><br /></span><strong>HAMBURG, MICHIGAN - 9:35PM, 3-20-07<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hello...my name is "R" and I live in Hamburg Michigan. I happen to look at the Coast to Coast site tonight and was taken aback by the information you provided. I Saw something that night and checked in the papers and listen to the news for a couple of days in the hopes of hearing about...something or other being spotted. I thought some footage was going to appear showing a meteorite skipping through and burning up in the atmosephere or some such thing, but I heard nothing.<br /><br /><br />Well, I work overnight at "A STORE" in Howell Mi, and left my house in Hamburg at about 9:35 PM to go to work. At about 9:42PM on the outskirts of Hamburg I looked up and saw something large and flying in the sky just above me, it was moving in the same direction that I was going but alot faster.<br /><br /><br />I don't think it was a normal aircraft sighting because they tend to be higher in the sky and don't seem to move that quickly when observed from a long distance and if it was a low flying helicopter or light aircraft...well then it would have been flying low and I would have seen some sort of blinking lights. There were none! I saw a shape, I couldn't say that it was triangular however, I saw it as a black shape lit from underneath. It was night and dark but, I could still see a slight outline. As it went by one.....and then two small fire balls came down from the space that it had gone through and then disapeared. This later part is the reason that I was looking for reports of a meteoriote in the news. If it helps I can find out exactly which direction it was flying when it passed over head. Thank you very much. R.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>OVER THE CALIFORNIA DESERT<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">A few years back, my partner and I saw a ship just like the lady drew. It was in the California desert. It was HUGE, silent, and flew very low over our heads very slowly. I don't believe this is something our government has... it was incredible. If he hadn't been with me, I would have always doubted myself, but we BOTH saw it very clearly! D.C. - Oregon</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>NORTH CAROLINA, 2-22-07<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">My daughters and I saw the triangular ufo on February 22 around 7:30 pm, in Greenville SC. It was hard to tell how big it was, but it was close to the tree lines and appeared as large as a bus, maybe larger. It had several lights around the perimeter that were Red, yellow and green. It got above our car and to the left and just disappeared into thin air. PS, there were reports of it being seen in our area, from charlotte NC on down to the coast of SC.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>DYED IN THE WOOL SKEPTIC<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Please excuse my intrusion here, however, I feel a little critique, sometimes, can be beneficial. The path the triangles took is not a trajectory! It is a path, route, etc. Trajectory denotes an arc from departure to arrival of something. Throw a rock at a rabbit and the rock describes a trajectory. So does a bullet, missile, etc.<br /><br /><br />In 2002 I did see a cross-shaped object move across a dark sky while using night-vision equipment. Was a deputy sheriff then. The incidence was duly reported to MUFON and later had an interview with one of their investigators. Don't know what I saw, but it was real.<br /><br /><br />What is interesting to me about the triangle thing you talk about . . . is not how many people observed the triangle, but how many did not! The geographic area of the object's path is over some of the most populated parts of the U.S. If such an occurrence actually happened then many, many people would have seen it. I just happen to be a dyed in the wool skeptic. A.W.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>ALBERTA SIGHTING</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hi...I just wanted to mention a sighting of the black triangle.It was actually several years ago. Lacombe, Alberta, Canada...Sept 2002. Two friends and myself had seen some amazing, crazy northern lights, and spent the next few nights going out to this school's soccer field down the road from our apartment to see if they might come back.<br /><br /><br />And the fall evenings were still warm and dry and pleasant and so we would just lie in the grass and chat like any gals, and wait. Sadly, we didn't see the northern lights again, like we had the first night, just a green smear of shimmer.....however we did notice a strange item moving through the sky on the last night we spent out there - yep the famous black triangle.<br /><br /><br />It seemed somewhat higher up compared to a lot of the reports I've read. It was triangular, totally black, blocking out the stars, three very strong lights, on each tip of the triangle shape, and a weaker blur of light in the very centre but it wasn't consistently noticeable, and I think its because it was farther away.<br /><br /><br />It went from horizon to horizon we guess, tho we didn't notice it until it was somewhat above the west horizon. Entirely silent for the entire time. Took about 6-7 minutes to get from the point at which we noticed it, to disappearing over the Eastern horizon.<br /><br /><br />The three of us just followed it with our eyes trying to figure out what kind of thing it might be - satellite, plane...??Curious, I decided to look it up. I was looking for satellites and other man-made crafts that would fit the description and found nothing. I always wondered if it was one of many commnly seen UFOs or something, but I didn't seem to come across anything like that either at the time. (internet searching skills poor? dunno)<br /><br /><br />But..Just recently, I watched a video on ETs and such, and the US, all that jazz, that sparked my interest, and upon looking at other UFO resources, it seemed I was running into endless reports of this thing, the Belgium spell with it, now this....it blew my mind, we werent the only ones to have seen this, and apparently its no normal thing we know to be made by our own airlines/miliatary...<br /><br /><br />I'm baffled. Anyways...seems there wasn't a spell of mass sightings for 2002, but....well, we definately saw the thing.And I know any plane or anything else I've ever seen around the skies here, at that level of visibility, you could hear it. So...yeh, this was different. Alrighty...just thought you might be interesting to know where else it's been.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>BLACK TRIANGLES OVER CANADA</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Tom, I've got an interest in this phenom. It's been a few years but I've got some video that accompanies my numerous accounts of triangles, spheres and domed objects too. I'm willing to share part of one: a morphing triangle.<br /><br /><br />Even though my personal reports and whatever video I have go back to 2001 (and my first sighting around 1980ish), I still continue to witness these "things" on occasion but don't take note any longer.<br /><br /><br />Recently (I'll note ;-), in February (probably the 20th or so), I saw a group of a half dozen spheroid objects moving across the sky. They were no more that 50 feet above ground and about the same from where I stood. They had an alternating grey and black streaked surface as they strobed or blinked quickly. They were grouped and moved together in a chevron formation and there wasn't any sound.<br /><br /><br />They all turned in unison at about a 45 degree angle from course. Reminded me at first of pigeons then later, as ducks yet neither of these explanations can account for the immediate and synchronized course change not to mention other notables.<br /><br /><br />I had, at first, reported my sightings to a local UFO investigator. I had thought I was witness to something extraordinary and waited on him to interview me. He never did and showed absolutely no interested in sightings at all. I was sure I had some new information but internet research revealed a couple of other similar accounts. I then scaled back my reports to a few simple descriptive words and submitted them to any of a small number of UFO reporting sites. After a while I just stopped reporting all together.<br /><br /><br />Whatever these "things" are, I continue to see them a few times a year. I'm not phased by seeing them any more and it's gotten to be ho-hum for me when I do.<br /><br /><br />I enjoy your blog. Most interesting about the fireballs/meteoroids.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>MAYPORT BASE SIGHTING<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">seen over mayport base jacksonville fl it came in real fast and stop over the air filled</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>ABOVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS STORAGE, LORING AFB</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Back in 1974 to 1975 (winter) a black triangle was seen cruising up the runway and hovering over the nuke weapons storage site at Loring AFB. Strange lights were seen around the surounding area, including New Brunswick, Canada. This was seen and related to me by the structure firechief of the base when explaining why he was forced to stay overnight after the base was locked down. seems that this maynot be as new as many think.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>BOOMERANGS<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Don't know if you are also interested in low-flying, silent, black "boomerang" type craft, but my children and I had an "experience /sighting" of same back in 1993. It was a really peculiar situation all the way around and I've written about it <a href="http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/boom.htm" target="blank">HERE</a><br /><br /><br />Not long after the sighting - very low and right over our heads as we were swimming in our pool - our dog died mysteriously and I suffered from what seemed to be mild radiation poisoning for over 6 months. My hair fell out, skin peeled off, strange swellings etc.<br />I don't think it was a military project.<br /></span><strong></strong></p><p><strong>PENNSYLVANIA, I78, 4-5-2007<br /></strong></p><p><span style="color:#663333;">April 5th 2007 I78 west bound Pa around 9-9:15pm<br />two triangular space craft flying side by side slowly not that far off the ground, maybe a few hundred feet off the ground. Dark for the most part, except for a small green light. Is it what I thought it was.</span> </p><p></p><p><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">THEORIES<br /></span></strong><br /><br /><strong>OHIO CONNECTION?</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Another thing I noticed in the picture(s) is that the Triangular object and the Rectangular object both went right around Ohio. Why? It didn't even touch our borders? I live in Akron, OH home to Goodyear Aerospace, which is now Lockheed Martin. Could that have anything to do with this unusual pattern? Thanks. - R.L.<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br /><span style="color:#663333;">What's weird about these black triangles is that many times they follow the interstate highways. I think we are being visited by many species. This is one of them. What they want here is anybody's guess. Many of these species are not friendly. So I do not think they are going to save us. the truth is out there - J.C.</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>HISTORICAL IMPACT ZONES?<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hi I read your website on black triangles about being in eastern united states. I wonder if you guys ever notice something peculiar in all ufos sightings, regarding black triangles? As a hobby I do study about ufo reports, etc etc.. I keep noticing one issue is that these ufos keep appearing in areas where a major impact would happen. Like WTC, there was a ufo spotted a couple years before it happened, hovering above the towers. so many things happened like that, which makes me wonder... is it possible these things are from our future??? as they keep hovering or visiting a area where it had the most impact in history???? hmm just a thought to email you thanks KD<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>MILITARY CORRELATIONS<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">May I suggest that you get a military map of the US (and over seas) and a list of various government sites, and what they do at those sites. (there are any number of such sites) there is a correlation but it needs to be mapped out. From area 36 - J.B.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>HOW TO BUILD A BLACK TRIANGLE<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Dear Tom,<br /><br /><br />Thanks for your work on the cool BT Blogspot,well done !<br /><br /><br />I will post a link to you whenever I can getback on my finicky server on our BT Webpage.<br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.utopiasprings.com/bt.htm" target="blank"><span style="color:#663333;">http://www.utopiasprings.com/bt.htm</span></a><span style="color:#663333;"> Personal Size BT Builder's Buffet.</span><a href="http://www.utopiasprings.com/bt1.htm" target="blank"><span style="color:#663333;">http://www.utopiasprings.com/bt1.htm</span></a><span style="color:#663333;"> BT UAV 12ft.<br /><br /><br />If you know of anyone who wishes to build a BT please let me know. We need bucks of course, but also a long narrow greenhouse quonset style hangar,<br /><br /><br />We need some courageous partners who want to break the bonds and soar to new heights of freedom and fun. I have no doubt about our concepts, none, and once this info gets out there, the race will be on...who can fly one around the world the fastest ! ;-)<br /><br /><br />Bon VoyageSteve Davis<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>WHERE'S THE PICS? </strong><br /><strong><br /></strong><br /><span style="color:#663333;">These Black Triangles are sometimes slow, sometimes huge, airships,why no video or pics? In this day of vid phones digital recorders and the like why has'nt anyone gotten an image? Thoughts?</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>WHAT'S A BLACK TRIANGLE?</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Tommy you always surprise me. This is really cool stuff here. When I have a few minutes I am going to read everything on your site. I never heard anything about this but it’s cool. Stay in touch!!</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>BLACK TRIANGLES FOR HEAVY LIFTING<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hello Tom, Great maps and data.<br /><br /><br />I look at your maps and I see a purpose. Lighter Than Air craft are known for one major thing. That is the ability to lift heavy weights. When I see your flight path I see a craft coming in on the normal great circle route from Europe from Newfoundland then to the industrial heartland of the Midwest. I see possible pickups of war material from several points in the midwest and then a path that would take it to the approximate lattitude of the Middle East. If you are planning action in Iran for example you would want to move additional heavy equipment and supplies into the area. It's rapic deployment that avoids the slow sea lanes. Not as fast a jet cargo plane but a heck of a lot faster than by train to a port and then on a slow ship with months of travel time. I'm sure this has occured to you as well. Great data! -C<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>THE NEW MADRID FAULT ZONE<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Looks like it's following the new madrid fault zone. Perhaps an earthquake could be imminent?<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>LIGHTER THAN AIRCRAFT HYPOTHESIS</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hi Tom, I'm just a long time airplane fan with an interest in anything that flys. Here is one data point on the lifting capacity of Lighter than Air Craft, WWI and WWII German Zeppelin's could lift at least 40 to 50 tons of weight. Keep in mind that modern composite materials would make the airframe lighter with a corresponding increase in payload. Add aerodynamic lift from a flying wing shape and you could lift even more weight.<br /><br /><br />From </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin" target="blank"><span style="color:#663333;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin</span></a><span style="color:#663333;"><br /><br /><br />Technological progressStrategic issues aside, Zeppelin technology improved considerably as a result of the increasing demands of warfare. In late World War I the Zeppelin Company, having spawned several dependencies around Germany with shipyards closer to the fronts than Friedrichshafen, delivered airships of around 200m (660ft) in length (some even more) and with volumes of 56,000-69,000m³. These dirigibles could carry loads of 40-50 tonnes and reach speeds up to 100-130 km/h (60-65mph) using five or even six Maybach engines of around 260hp (195 kW) each.To avoid enemy defences such as British aircraft guns and searchlights, Zeppelins became capable of much higher altitudes (up to 7,600 m) and they also proved capable of long-range flights. For example, LZ104 "L 59", based in Yambol, Bulgaria, was sent to reinforce troops in German East Africa (today Tanzania) in November 1917. The ship did not arrive in time and had to return following reports of German defeat by British troops, but it had travelled 6,757 km in 95 hours and thus had broken a long-distance flight record. -C<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>CONGRESSIONAL HEAVY LIFT AIRSHIP ENDORSEMENT OF $12 BILLION<br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Tom, Here is another interesting web site and some cargo and cost estimates.<br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.aerosml.com/PRMarinecorpstimes.asp" target="blank"><span style="color:#663333;">http://www.aerosml.com/PRMarinecorpstimes.asp</span></a><span style="color:#663333;"><br /><br /><br />Marine Corps Times.comOctober 19, 2005<br />Report gives nod to airships for strategic lift<br /><br /><br />By Rick MazeTimes staff writerA new congressional report endorses the idea of buying heavy-lift airships instead of cargo jets to get troops and equipment to future wars. Fifteen airships could deliver 1,000 tons of cargo a day, three times as much as a fleet of 21 C-17 Globemasters, the report says. Developing and buying 14 to 16 airships and operating them for 30 years would cost about $11.3 billion, the report says.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>POPULAR MECHANICS AND OTHER CIA TOOLS<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">A Few Comments on Black Triangles<br /><br /><br />1) The editor of Popular Mechanics once told Art Bell, the late night radio host, that he wasgoing to publish an article on the amazing newproperties of materials formed in space. Asexamples, the editor cited glass formed in spacewas as hard as steel. This would mean that 40,000mph Black Triangles are able to withstand the frictionof the earth's atmosphere.<br /><br /><br />2) Black Triangles are of earthly origin. 40,000 mphwould not get you from another solar system to another.The original Black Triangles were slower. The first UFOseen after WW II was quite slow and well under a 1,000mph. The increase in speed of most UFOs and of BlackTriangles would lead me to believe that most the improvement in UFO technology is related to the growthof U.S. technology. I do believe it is possibler that there are UFOs from otherplanets, but Black Triangles are from the Pentagon.<br /><br /><br />I should point out that the Popular Mechanics article was never published. PM is a CIA tool. -D<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>KENTUCKY VIDEO - FURTHER IMAGING STUDY<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Hi Tom,<br /><br /><br />I got a link to your BT blog via the UFO UpDates - Toronto newsletter. (Great job you're doing!).<br /><br /><br />I downloaded the full video from the MUFON site, and I've been playing around with the brightness/contrast controls to try to get some definition of any structure associated with the lights. So far I've been unable to achieve this. To your knowledge has anybody been successful in doing this?<br /><br /><br />Many thanks and best regards,-- G.C.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><strong>BUILDING BLACK TRIANGLES</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Thanks Tom,<br /><br /><br />I think you can make this happen, we only need a few more people who believe and have a few bucks. A BT only costs about as much as a regular small aircraft, and once more are produced and debugged, it would definately be affordable...<br /><br /><br />Ok, are you ready to rock and roll? Here is the secret engine fuel controller we havebeen waiting for !!!! I am sooooo jazzzzzed. aaaahummmmmmmmmmmmm 130HP !!! '<br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.daytona-twintec.com/TCFI.html" target="blank"><span style="color:#663333;">http://www.daytona-twintec.com/TCFI.html</span></a><span style="color:#663333;"><br /><br />Steve.<br /><br /></span><br /><strong>OF EXOTIC ORIGIN</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Tom, I just happily chanced across your website-blog yesterday. It is a truly exceptional objective, coherent, organized, and informative of the on-line journals that I've found.<br /><br /><br />An empirical pattern of the "black triangles" is the seeming endless variable ; morphology, surface, detail, lighting structure and emission modality. This variation suggests to me, a predominantexotic origin custom specific process.<br /><br /><br />A taxonomy would be lengthy. though certain subgroups seem to exist ( the craft seen in vicinity of aerospace facilities and certain test ranges/air mobility centers----my research indicates we have field propulsion----that is layered by a less black LTA stealth rigid airframes program, which may be presented, in a temporizing gambit, to conceal the deep black gravity propelled craft. ) most AAO's are sui generis subtly or quite unique. The diverse stellar origins, manufacturing variety of a big busy galaxy likely is the source of endlessdifference, I guess that mean there are no galactic GMs, or maybe there are hundreds of them.Your thoughts?<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>IMPENDING TECTONIC EVENT</strong><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">At first glance, I immediately thought of an impending tectonic event on the New Madrid Fault. They are there because something is either about to happen, or they are trying to help us avert the intensity. Just my wacky intuition. Great article and information!!! Thank you so much!<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>SOMETHING IS HAPPENING!<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">May I say that it is high time someone began such a blog. While I cannot say that I know what is going on in our skies, it is certain that something is happening!<br /><br /><br />There is a thread on Black Triangles at anomalies.net (presently down) which you might find of interest.<br /><br /><br />In any event, congratulations; I'm glad you're here, and will return from time to time.<br />K.S. - Alaska<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><strong>MILITARY BLACK PROJECT CRAFT<br /></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">These are military black project craft that are still in the testing phase the last I heard. Many of the UFO report are coming from jokers releasing Asian hot air baloons... and there are a LOT of different contractors both private and government that have 6 ft diameter drones that are saucer shapped. Material Science and current technology developed by us humans is about 30 years ahead of what the public sees. It has been that way since WWII.<br /><br /><br />The large Triangle Craft are ligter than air craft, use helium, light weights turbons and also the electro static effect of moving air similar to the Ionic Breeze Air Purifiers. Frankly reporting these things can tip off our foes on what we have under wrapps. If someone sees a craft land and 3 ft tall grey skinned mellon shaped heads exit and take soil samples that is different. We arent the only country that has developed such devices.<br /><br /><br />If it came to a full scale world war again, you would see lots of new air craft appear like the stealth craft did. Be patient, a massive war with the middle east is unavoidable... and quite frankly has to be done sooner or later.<br /></span><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Thank you for reading Black Triangles, Parts 1 through 4, The Back Triangle Sightings Event 2-19-07 to 2-22-07. Join me for my next report, here at <a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</a> .<br /><br /></p><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright 2007, Tom Levine, Levicom, LLC. This article is protected by copyright, and cannot be duplicated or altered in any way, without the sole, written permission of its author. This article can be distributed as an RSS feed, providing that it is not altered, that credit is given to its author, and that a viable, hyper-link is included in the article back to the originating website. For questions and further information, the author can be contacted at </span><a href="mailto:levicom@comcast.net"><span style="font-size:85%;">levicom@comcast.net</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> or by visiting </span><a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</span></a><br /><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Links and Thank yous:</strong><br />MUFON: </span></em><a href="http://www.mufon.com/" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.mufon.com/</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />NUFORC: <a href="http://www.nuforc.org/" target="blank">http://www.nuforc.org/</a></span></em><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Google Earth: </span></em><a href="http://earth.google.com/" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://earth.google.com/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">You Tube: </span></em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Billy Booth and UFOCasebook.Com: <a href="http://www.ufocasebook.com/" target="blank">http://www.ufocasebook.com/</a></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Langley Air Force Base: <a href="http://www.langley.af.mil/" target="blank">http://www.langley.af.mil/</a></span></em><br /><br />Thank you to everyone who contributed their thoughts and ideas to me and Black Triangles. Please keep your emails coming. Remember to sign up for the newsletter, which will provide you with highlights and reminders each week. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed, and don't forget to sign up in the forums and participate in the ongoing black triangles discussion, taking place this very moment. Thank you again!<br /><br /><br />Thank you to all the witnesses who have reported their sightings to NUFORC and MUFON on this case, especially Gridley, Illinois. I appreciate your input on this report.<br /><br /><br />Some of the testimony was edited strictly for syntax.</p><br /><br /></span>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-7243762011802003172007-04-11T22:58:00.000-07:002008-12-11T16:06:22.587-08:00PASCOE VALE UFOS: TWIN BLACK TRIANGLES<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_HrEAHhsojtAkdTrl3rNMIXlZtNbhZa62CZD9Q9qKCc8ApDJnt0sXTjbSw3vXFc9BMWnVk7J7seYa4wfdKgQ64GSSlpC98B8yB5DZeTKn8hLtEe3QwEKH4tzQmpyknTotPiCjoOTO5SU/s1600-h/pascoe-vale-header-pic.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052421237316281362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_HrEAHhsojtAkdTrl3rNMIXlZtNbhZa62CZD9Q9qKCc8ApDJnt0sXTjbSw3vXFc9BMWnVk7J7seYa4wfdKgQ64GSSlpC98B8yB5DZeTKn8hLtEe3QwEKH4tzQmpyknTotPiCjoOTO5SU/s400/pascoe-vale-header-pic.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://praufo.bravehost.com/PRA_-_UFO_Triangle_Melbourne_23_Aug_2004.html" target="blank"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Courtesy of Phenomena Research Association</em><br /></span></a></div><p><br />One summer evening, August 23rd, 2004, something very unusual happened over the State of Victoria, near Melborne, in the southern tip of Australia.<br /><br /><br />Very strange, unexplainable lights appeared to hover low in the sky. Multiple witnesses saw the phenomenon, it was caught on camera, and it was captured on video by two separate witnesses.<br /><br /><br />It started in Strathmore, at about 8:15pm. One gentleman was out walking along the border of the Essendon Airport, enjoying the evening, and checking out the Pascoe Vale cityscape. Nothing strange was seen at first. Just aircraft moving towards Tullamarine Airport.<br /><br /><br />But then, at an elevation of about 60 degrees, in the northeastern corner of the sky, Six strange lights appeared. They were silent, "star-like", orange, and heading south. Strangest of all, though, was that these 6 lights seemed to form two triangles, in formation, travelling side by side towards Pascoe Vale.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052431081381323810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQEM0JAaEd8CV9OZ-Ncc4DnqxpynpRvsqDl26eVXu0h7ucK_Ec0SFZsr_bSymPiiMBsD9DwaP8uz27y30CGfl7h2LnC7BH7rkTV6FlromNpCcHoOZO-nVcMa2UtZsgECil0j0mOh8Y9xpz/s400/near-pascoe-vale.jpg" border="0" /> <a href="http://www.auforn.com/Victorian2.html" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Courtesy of The Australian UFO Research Network</span></em></a><br /><br /><p align="left">The Strathmore witness ran home, brought his wife outside, who confirmed the sighting. The phones started ringing, and an enormous mass UFO encounter began.<br /><br /><br />At 8:25pm, another witness reported his sighting. He too saw the very same orange lights, close together, heading in a southward direction, towards Pascoe Vale. It wasn't an airplane; It wasn't a helicopter; It wasn't anything anyone had ever seen before. Something unusual and mysterious, was hovering southward in the skies over the State of Victoria. Many people saw it, reported it, and gazed in wonder.<br /><br /><br />At approximately 8:30pm, the UFOs reached Pascoe Vale. It was then, that they appeared before the residence of Mark and Janine Blease. These witnesses were smart enough to grab their video camera. The Blease family captured one of the most mysterious pieces of UFO video evidence ever to claim the imagination of the folks from the land down under.<br /><br /><br />Imagine living in Pascoe Vale on August 23rd, 2004, at 8:30pm. Wouldn't you love to have been one of the many who had seen these UFOs up close? If only you were there, to make up your own mind, and render your own judgement.<br /><br />Well, investigator John W. Auchettl, director of <a href="http://praufo.bravehost.com/PRA_-_UFO_Triangle_Melbourne_23_Aug_2004.html" target="blank">PRA</a>, was able to obtain two different pieces of video evidence. While this video footage is short and sweet, it is vivid, clear, steady, and real.<br /><br /><br />Imagine no longer: What you are about to see, is the Blease Pascoe Vale Twin Triangles footage, courtesy of the hard work of Mr. Auchettl:<br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kHGqkJUNGbs" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed><br /><em>It's encouraged that you view this footage in full-screen format. To do so, go to </em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHGqkJUNGbs" target="blank"><em>YOUTUBE</em></a><em>, and click the icon in the bottom right corner.<br /></em><br /><br />As you can see, there appear to be 6 very bright lights in the sky, forming two triangles, in formation, travelling in a southward direction, and hovering over the city of Pascoe Vale. If you magnify this footage full-screen on your computer monitor, you may be able to detect the trees and structures in the foreground. <br /><br /><br />This foreground, visual information is useful, and in fact, very rare in typical UFO video footage. With that information, it should help you to guage the general size of the formations, their distance from the ground, their overall dimensions, and their overall speed. <br /><br /><br />As a part of Mr. Auchettl's investigation, he contacted Air Traffic Control. He determined that no aircraft were noted to be flying in the skies over Pascoe Vale at that time. No radar detected any evidence of any craft in this area.<br /><br /><br />Eleven witnesses were interviewed in total. Video footage, testimony, and photographic evidence all corroborated the sighting. In the morning, Mr. and Mrs. Blease went on "The Breakfast Show", a local AM radio talk show out of Melborne. Many people called in, further confirming and corroborating the encounter. Channel 7 Television out of Melbornr also ran a piece on the story, making it "Newsie" for Australia. By the end of the week, this was a full-blown mass UFO encounter.<br /><br /><br />Investigator Diane Harrison of <a href="http://www.auforn.com/Diane_Frola.html" target="blank">AUFORN</a> got hold of the information from the UFO hotline, along with several photographic pieces of evidence, and began conducting an in-depth study. She made several interesting observations.<br /><br /></p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052741744955778130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjar4DkvxTfQTxAhPZQTFDXQFCi56KRMtJb-IbXafvddG6dLINA9wRLUXnWfmc9Zezt_qpgF-vsrIaw7r3Z0OjZW1N7JdPR-zId6RmVUj1-LNFESur6JOPqbYs5Ldsxd8XBhbf15LK52XMN/s400/two+formations.jpg" border="0" /><br />Courtesy of <a href="http://www.auforn.com/Diane_Frola.html" target="blank">AUFORN</a>.<br /><p align="left"><br />She confirmed that these anomalous lights hovered at a consistent 300 meters above ground (about 1000 feet in the air). There were definitely 6 lights, and they definitely moved together in close formation. They were indeed moving in a southward direction, and all witnesses described the lights as yellow to orange in color.<br /><br /><br />Two other interesting observations Ms. Harrison made, was that they were not consistently spaced apart throughout the encounter, and that they were round, all the way around, or as she described it, "from front to back.".<br /><br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052740843012645954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWaR5oI0eg_uP2jDjk7ZDfKDXt8T2IsFU3K-Mc3PCQnxw3o_YLiWf82oq0F9GXnWV-rD6TtnZH7UbPV6Z9CRuZcTb406oi8wb6f21aEXbbbNCuUiajzjIiLxio1wH8Vj8kwPZ9msZaHONn/s400/pascoe-vale-triangle-lights.jpg" border="0" /> Courtesy of <a href="http://www.auforn.com/Diane_Frola.html" target="blank">AUFORN</a>.<br /><br /><p align="left"><br />Ms. Harrison took measurements of some enalarged photographic evidence. You can see here that the lights are not evenly spaced apart in this particular image. So, this triangle, for example, is not a perfect triangle shape. Furthermore, the edges do not measure up perfectly. One side of the triangle measured 4.1 centimeters, while the other side measured 4.3 centimeters.<br /><br /></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052740383451145266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOcqPU8ozOJ26TLo4H8YhmA6IxXdHsayoP3zSxyDMHANzt7KVYrrCLALlAtnhREhW6RXbNwBf_NwgcKFhcXYGNa6_-KstVLvGnVTdmkpubmwPDpXGv4VnQqgP88khlLptRah_heIYytmo7/s400/VicUFO3.jpg" border="0" /> </p><p>Courtesy of <a href="http://www.auforn.com/Diane_Frola.html" target="blank">AUFORN</a>.</p><p><br />Yet in this image, we do, in fact, have what appears to measure out to be a perfectly shaped triangle. The lights appear more white, and consistent with the video footage, and the lights do appear to be more rounded as well.<br /><br /><br />When all was said and done, no formal conclusions were made by either Auchettl or Harrison. The case remains an open mystery to this day, almost 3 years later. Mr. Auchettl and Ms. Harrison both discontinued any public investigation of this phenomenon, and eventually, everyone seemed to become disinterested, and like many UFO cases, this one simply became a lost, unanswered chapter in history.<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">TOM'S COMMENTARY:</span></strong><br /><br /><br />Could we be looking at real, live Black Triangles? Let's take a moment to compare some features of a Typical black triangle sighting: They generally involve large, black to opaque, triangular shaped craft; They generally involve bright lights on each end of the triangle, and they are generally observed to hover slowly, in an open, even brazen deployment. One could suggest that, perhaps,based on the evidence we've seen so far, this anomalous activity is very much behaving in that exact fashion.<br /><br /><br />It is certainly quite possible that Mr. and Mrs. Blease caught two black triangles on tape.<br /><br /><br />But, one final report worth noting, came to NUFORC, with a report date of 8-24-04, at approximately 10:10pm, near Melbourne, Victoria. While the date and time is not consistent with the other witnesses, I find this testimony most interesting.<br /><br /><br />The witness was having dinner, when he spotted 6 orange lights in the sky, forming the shape of two triangles, and drifting, slowly, in a southward direction. He watched this phenomenon for about 5 minutes, until the object vanished "...As if someone was dimming the lights." So, even though the date and time are slightly off, everything else seems to be consistent with the mass sighting.<br /><br /><br />If this witness did, in fact, see the same object, than it is likely he is reporting the end of the event.<br /><br />If this witness did not, in fact, see the same object, than it is likely that he observed a different event, but involving the exact same 6 orange to yellow lights forming 2 triangles, in formation.<br /><br /><br />And that made me wonder:<br /><br /><br />Is there another, more human explanation here?<br /><br /><br />When viewed from a distance, what known quantity, might slowly vanish from view, as if someone was dimming the lights?<br /><br /><br /><br />Join me next time, here at the Black Triangles Journal, <a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</a> , where this 8-23-04 event will be further analyzed, in Part 2 of the Pascoe Vale Triangles.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Copyright 2007, Tom Levine, Levicom, LLC. This article is protected by copyright, and cannot be duplicated or altered in any way, without the sole, written permission of its author. This article can be distributed as an RSS feed, providing that it is not altered, that credit is given to its author, and that a viable, hyper-link is included in the article back to the originating website. For questions and further information, the author can be contacted at </span><a href="mailto:levicom@comcast.net"><span style="font-size:85%;">levicom@comcast.net</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> or by visiting </span><a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/</span></a><br /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Links and Thank yous:</strong><br /></span></em><em><span style="font-size:85%;">NUFORC: <a href="http://www.nuforc.org/" target="blank">http://www.nuforc.org/</a></span></em><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></em><em><span style="font-size:85%;">You Tube: </span></em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.youtube.com/</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">John W. Auchettl and </span></em><a href="http://praufo.bravehost.com/PRA_-_UFO_Triangle_Melbourne_23_Aug_2004.html" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">PRA</span></em></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Dianne Harrison and </span></em><a href="http://www.auforn.com/Diane_Frola.html" target="blank"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">AUFORN</span></em></a><br /><br /></span>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-13560910394874858182007-05-09T20:20:00.000-07:002007-05-09T20:43:13.688-07:00Tom Levine discusses Black Triangles on National RadioThis sunday evening, May 13th, 2007, I will be participating in a 2 hour interview on The Paracast, a national Radio talk show hosted by Gene Steinberg and David Biedny.<br /><br />If you haven't experienced The Paracast yet, I highly recommend that you go ahead and dive on in. Gene and David are literally transforming the art of radio broadcast with synergy between national AM talk radio, online forum discussions, PODCASTING, and cutting edge Paranormal guests and material.<br /><br />If you live in Las Vegas, Nevada, then you can catch The Paracast every sunday night, on KLAV AM 1230, from 9:00PM to 11:00PM. However, The Paracast is gaining a wider international audience online, as it is broadcast via PODCAST with an online, permament archive of previous shows maintained in excess of 12 months.<br /><br />The power of Podcasting, if you have not yet experienced it, is the ability for you, the listener, to dictate what you listen to, when you listen to it, and how you enjoy the material you have selected. I download my pre-programmed podcasts, for example, every night at around 9:00pm. The next morning, I grab my MP3 player, loaded with all its new podcast content, and I hit the road. I listen to all my podcasts while driving. It's the only way to drive! Think of it as radio TIVO on steroids.<br /><br />In any event, I enjoyed the discussion with Gene, David, and Jeff Ritzmann, and I think you will find the material covered exhilerating. The subject of Black Triangles were discussed in depth. Many of the talking points raised in this journal, were addressed in the interview as well.<br /><br />In addition, however, a much wider array of viewpoints, theories and observations were addressed. We basically "got into it". Cigar shaped UFO's were covered, Inter-stellar travel was covered, the human versus non-human question was addressed as to the source of these craft, in addition to David's own, personal description of his sighting of a large craft UFO sighting. It was a tremendous roundtable discussion, and I am honored to have been asked to participate.<br /><br />You can get to The Paracast, by simply clicking the "forums" links on the left side of this blog, or head on over direct to <a href="http://www.theparacast.com/" target="blank">The Paracast </a>at http://www.theparacast.com/ .<br /><br />Sincerely, Tom LevineTom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-40983394200697598742007-03-14T21:10:00.000-07:002007-03-26T16:08:12.380-07:00Welcome to Black Triangles<div align="left"><a href="http://www.ufowijzer.nl/fotos/UFOs/belgium_ufo.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 272px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="272" alt="" src="http://www.ufowijzer.nl/fotos/UFOs/belgium_ufo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="left">Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to the Black Triangles blog on blogspot.com!<br /><br />As an avid researcher into the Black Triangle phenomenon, I hope to lay out a blog that will provide you with three basic things:<br /><br /><strong>1) An updated Journal about the subject of Black Triangles.<br />2) A compendium of data, links, photos, and other information, relating to Black Triangles.<br />3) My own, personal fact-based Research into the subject of Black Triangles.<br /></strong><span class="fullpost"><br /><br /><strong>MY OWN PERSPECTIVE:</strong></div><br /><p>Right out of the gate, let me talk for a brief moment about my perspective on the subject of black triangles.<br /><br />I'M NOT A BLIND BELIEVER -<br /><br />You should know, that I am not a blind believer in the subject. Like most of you, I have never actually witnessed this object above my head late at night; I have never been taken aboard a large alien vessel, and I have absolutely no idea what Zeta Reticuli looks like up close and personal. I was not in Phoenix on the night of March 13th, 1997, and I have never travelled to Belgium. So, I have never seen a Black Triangle. I don't know what they are, I have no personal experience that I can rely on, no dying grandpa in the CIA, no secret documents hiding in my basement. At the start of this journal, let me confess that I actually know absolutely nothing about the truth of Black Triangles.<br /><br /><strong>THE BLACK TRIANGLE PHENOMENON IS REAL:</strong><br /><br />That said, it's obvious to me, that the Black Triangle phenomenon is very real.<br /><br />It is truly the only UFO phenomenon that I am aware of, which has generated thousands of witnesses over a 25 year period; It is the only UFO phenomenon, which has generated thousands of consistent reports through official channels such as NUFORC, all descriptions very similar to one another; </p><br /><br /><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.ufocasebook.com/illinoistrianglesequence.jpg" border="0" /> </span></div><span class="fullpost"><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Image courtesy of - </span><a href="http://dbarkertv.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Darryl Barker</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> Producer, "The Edge of Reality, Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000"</span><br /></div><p align="left"><br /><br />It is ONE of the only cases that has generated actual radar evidence; It is ONE of the only UFO phenomenon that has generated official testimony from a country's air-force, as part of the public record, testifying that the country in question (Belgium), scuttled its fighters, tracked the triangle, lost the triangle, and conceded that the possibility of a non-terestrial explanation cannot be ruled out;<br /><br />It is one of the only UFO phenomenon which has generated not one, but at least TWO mass sightings in history (phoenix in 1997, and Belgium in 1989).<br /><br />We have photos, videos, radar evidence, pilot testimony, police officers testimony, Belgium air-force concessions as to the reality of the Black Triangle phenomenon, and much, much more, in terms of cold, hard evidence, all now a part of the public record.<br /><br />So, I am not a believer in the Black Triangles. I have no idea what they are. But, I am absolutely resolute in the conviction that the Black Triangle phenomenon is very, very real.<br /><br /><strong>BLACK TRIANGLES - AN INVESTIGATION</strong><br /><br />And it is with this pretext, that I move forward with the Black Triangle blog. This is not a blog about trying to convince you what my beliefs are. I am not trying to ask you to join a club, nor do I consider myself a member to any one particular school of thought on the subject.<br /><br />This blog represents my journal, into my own personal investigation of this phenomenon.<br /><br />I will be picking up many rocks on this journey, and I'm afraid that underneath those rocks, I expect to find gross, little bugs. I will uncover fakes, charlatans, hoaxers, misrepresentations of the phenomenon, and I'm afraid you might find all of that rather troubling, and discouraging.<br /><br />I will balance this investigation with a solid mix of debunking the fake, and validating the truth.<br /><br />If you stick with me on this journey, than I'm fairly certain that together, we will spot one or two kernals of truth hiding under those rocks. Truth with regard to what Black Triangles might actually be, and what they actually are not.<br /><br /><strong>BLACK TRIANGLES: WHAT ARE THEY?</strong><br /></p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.ufocasebook.com/illinoisnoll.jpg" border="0" /><p align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Image courtesy of - </span><a href="http://dbarkertv.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Darryl Barker</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> Producer, "The Edge of Reality, Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000"</span><br />We will find out, together, if they are swamp gas, the planet venus, weather anomolies, or weather balloons.<br /><br />Or, we will find out together, if perhaps they are something a little more exotic, like misunderstood airplanes, blimps, kites, plane formations, birds.<br /><br />Or, if we dig deeper, we might discover that they might be some kind of as of yet announced black-ops classified aircraft being developed by one or more nations, such as an Airship aka: a Lighter than air (LTA) Airship, or perhaps a stealth blimp, or a large drone.<br /><br />Perhaps something even more exotic, like the alleged TR-3B Aroura black-ops craft, aka: Black Astra, or some other kind of exotic anti-gravity ship.<br /><br />Or maybe, just maybe, we will, in fact discover that the Black Triangles are none other than Alien Craft of non-terestrial origin, or even perhaps Alien reverse-engineered craft of terrestrial and non-terrestrial origin.<br /><br />Or a mixture of one, or all, of the above.<br /><br /><strong>A CHARGE TO DELVE INTO THE TRUTH</strong><br /><br />Whatever we discover, I charge myself with only delving into the truth. Every angle of this phenomenon will be met by me, with an open-mind, but any conclusion formulated, will only be laid to the table after a rigorous investigation into the facts and evidence of the matter. So, I meet this subject with an open-mind, but I delve into the investigation of it with an extremely healthy dose of skeptical cynicism. That truly is the only way to approach this subject. From there, I expect to come to some kind of reliable answers.<br /><br />The Black Triangle Phenomenon is real, but I have no idea what Black Triangles really are. Join me on this journey, as we discover the evidence, and lay claim to the truth. Together, we will ask the powerful question: What are they, and where are they ultimately going to take us?<br /><br />Links and thank yous:</p><p align="center">- <a href="http://dbarkertv.com/">Darryl Barker</a><br /> Producer, "The Edge of Reality, Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000"</p></span>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-43656339910614629672007-03-16T23:45:00.000-07:002007-03-26T16:02:57.125-07:00BLACK TRIANGLES - A GOOD STARTING POINT<div align="left">Are you new to the Black Triangle phenomenon? Are you looking to get a nice snapshot or an overall view of the entire scene? Undeniably, the first place you should go, is NIDS:</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.nidsci.org/index2.html"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">NIDS - A GOOD STARTING POINT:</span></strong></a></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="left">"<a href="http://www.nidsci.org/mission.php">The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS)</a> is a privately funded science institute engaged in research of aerial phenomena, animal mutilations, and other related anomalous phenomena...NIDS maintains a large database of anomalous activity and investigates reports whenever possible, using a combination of high quality ex-law enforcement investigative teams and contract research involving nationally accredited laboratories in the veterinary, biological (including bacteriological, virological and DNA), chemical, and materials sciences. The results of these investigations are published in peer reviewed journals and on the NIDS website."</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.nidsci.org/personnel.php">WHO IS NIDS?</a></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"></div><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_there/images/launch/1-flight.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="left"></p><p align="center"><strong>Genesis I, launched July 12th, 2006</strong></p><br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><br />NIDS is comprised of well known individuals in the area of business and science. One of its most well-respected individuals is the president of the board, <a href="http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/index.php">Mr. Robert T. Bigelow</a>, president of Bigelow Aerospace, one of the first privately funded corporations to actually launch a satellite into space for the sole-purpose of furthering the advances of the private Space Tourism industry. You can actually look up in the sky on any given night, and if you know it's <a href="http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_there/wheres_genesis1_world.php">trajectory,</a> Bigelows first pet satellite, the Genesis I, will fly overhead. You can take pictures, and wish you were on good terms with Mr. Bigelow. He's one of the only men on the planet that could actually "get your stuff" into Space for a tour of big blue, as he prepares to launch his next satellite, the Genesis II. Better get your checkbook out.<br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.jacquesvallee.net/images/Vallee.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p></p><p align="center"><strong>Dr. Jacques Vallee, Ph.D.<br /></p></strong><br />Another key player at NIDS is none other than <a href="http://www.jacquesvallee.net/">Dr. Jacques Vallee, Ph.D.</a> Did you ever see the 1977 film, <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0075860/">"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"? </a>Actor François Truffaut essentially portrayed Dr. Vallee in a fictional depiction, as the character Claude LaCombe. He is well renowned in Ufology circles as one of the leading scientific researchers of our time on the subject. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vallee">Dr. Vallee </a>studied the UFO phenomenon throughout the 1960s and 1970s, alongside his mentor, Dr. J. Allen Hyneck. He's written several books on the subject, and Dr. Vallee's quite respectable list of other accomplishments includes the fields of mathematics, astrophysics, computer science, artifical intelligence, and venture capitalism. His list of previous employers include NASA, McDonald Douglas, The University of Texas at Austin, and The Paris Observatory.<br /><br /><p>But NIDS is not just Dr. Vallee and Mr. Bigelow, of course. It includes a whole host of other renowned scientists, Doctors, and Scholars in the fields of biology, astronomy, psychology, Medicine, Military Expertise, laser physics, quantum electronics, theoretical physics, aerospace consulting, Statistics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, and well, much more. Also included on the list of personnel for this institute is Dr. John Alexander, Dr. Warren Burggren, Dr. Douglas Ferraro, Dr. Albert Harrison, Dr. Edgard Mitchell, Dr. Melvin Morse, Dr. Martin Pitch, Dr. Harold Puthoff, Mr. Theodore Rockwell (of The Manhattan Project), Mr. John Schuessler, Dr. Jessica Utts, Dr. Jim Whinnery, and Dr. Colm Kelleher. </p><br /><p>And why would I select NIDS as the best starting point for learning more about Black Triangles? Well, it all began with one report. A police officer from the small town of Shiloh, Illinois, called the NIDS hotline on January 5th, 2000, and reported to them one of the best recorded, most reliable cases of the Black Triangle phenomenon, in United States history:</p>"<a href="http://www.nidsci.org/articles/8_25trireport.php">NIDS was abruptly exposed </a>to the Flying Triangle phenomenon on the morning of January 5, 2000 when a police officer called the hotline to report a close encounter with a very large, silent, brightly lit object in western Illinois. Following a high profile investigation by NIDS it emerged that five separate police officers in several different precincts and over a dozen other eyewitnesses had seen the object as it flew slowly in a southwesterly direction. "<br /><br /><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://dbarkertv.com/Images/barton_fast_depart.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><strong><a href="http://dbarkertv.com/UPDATE.htm#sequence%20of%20sightings"><span style="font-size:78%;">View of rear and underside of craft as described by Officer Barton</span> </a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">image courtesy of </span><a href="http://dbarkertv.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">dbarkertv.com</span></a></strong></p><strong><p align="left"><br /></strong><br />The officers' report was so convincing to NIDS, that they launched a full-scale investigation into the phenomenon. They studied thousands of reports, they carefully analyzed the data, and this group of well respected, highly intelligent individuals, came to some startling conclusions about what Black Triangles most likely are, and what they most likely are not. After rendering these conclusions, the word got out.<br /><br /><br /><strong>And what did Mr. Bigelow find? What conclusions did Dr. Vallee and this team of world-renowned scientists, experts, and scholars render, with respect to the Black Triangle phenomenon?</strong><br /><br /><br />Stay tuned for my next report. </p><p align="left">Links and thank yous:</p><p align="left"> <a href="http://dbarkertv.com/">Darryl Barker</a><br /> Producer, "The Edge of Reality, Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000"</p></span>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2308726362540595452.post-77110515526395942222007-03-17T18:23:00.000-07:002007-03-21T19:55:17.288-07:00FORMER ARIZONA GOVERNOR ADMITS SEEING UFO<strong>Folks, I'm proud to break the story to you first! Tell all your friends that you heard it HERE FIRST, one whole day in advance, on the </strong><a href="http://black-triangles.blogspot.com/"><strong>Black Triangles Blog</strong></a><strong>.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 159px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="304" alt="" src="http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/az/gov/azgov9a.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br />TOMMOROW, March 18th, 2007, Leslie Kean of the Coalition for Freedom of Information, will submit the following Press Release into the media. I'll post the press release here in it's entirety, with a couple follow-up comments at the end. Ready? Here we go:<br /><br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><br />***<br /><br />NEWS RELEASE<br />For Immediate Release: For further information contact:<br />Sunday, March 18, 2007 Leslie Kean 212 691 4350 415 250 9791<br /><a href="mailto:lkean@ix.netcom.com">lkean@ix.netcom.com</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>FORMER ARIZONA GOVERNOR ADMITS SEEING UFO</strong><br /><br /><br /><br />Phoenix, AZ – Ten years after the Arizona UFO incident known as the “Phoenix Lights,” former Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington, III, now says that he himself was a witness to one of the “craft of unknown origin,” even though he originally did not say so publicly.<br /><br /><br />In an exclusive interview by Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter with the Washington-based Coalition for Freedom of Information, released today in the Prescott Daily Courier, Symington now admits that he saw an enormous, inexplicable craft that evening.<br /><br /><br />On March 13, 1997, during Symington’s second term as Governor, thousands saw gigantic triangular and V-shaped unidentified objects, gliding slowly and silently across the sky. Witnesses throughout the state estimated that the eerie, lighted vehicles were bigger than many football fields, up to a mile long.<br /><br /><br />They reported that these were clearly solid, technological flying machines that blocked out the stars - not merely lights. The objects were seen earlier than the row of lights near Phoenix, videotaped and shown repeatedly on television, which were most likely flares.<br /><br /><br />Symington was well known for ridiculing the incident at a spoof press conference, so his statement marks a dramatic turnaround. According to his comments to Kean, he wants to make amends to his constituents and set the record straight.<br /><br /><br />The former Governor, a cousin of the late Missouri Senator Stuart Symington, states that the incident remains unsolved, and should be officially investigated. The U.S. Government has never acknowledged that something was in the sky that night, despite official documentation of a very similar flying craft of unknown origin investigated in the 1990’s by the governments of England and Belgium.<br /><br /><br />PRESCOTT DAILY COURIER BREAKING NEWS <a href="http://www.prescottdailycourier.com">www.prescottdailycourier.com</a><br />THERE’S MORE – SEE THE FULL STORY WITH VIDEO CLIP <a href="http://www.freedomofinfo.org">www.freedomofinfo.org</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>TOM'S COMMENTARY:</strong><br /><br /><br /><br />The story of former Governor Fife Symington coming clean on his own UFO sighting in Phoenix, and his subsequent handling of the investigation, is a result of his new interview with executive producer James Fox of "Out of the Blue". That documentary is going to be re-released at its 5 year anniversary, this Spring, 2007. Additional footage, including the Symington-Fox interview, will be added to that film. <a href="http://www.outofthebluethemovie.com/5YearAnniversary/5YAR.html" target="_blank">HERE'S A LINK TO OUT OF THE BLUE.</a><br /><br /><br /><br />Credibility will be an issue in any interview with Governer Symington. He essentially led what many feel is the debunking investigation of the Phoenix lights, back in 1997, so any turnaround on this issue should be scrutinized.<br /><br /><br /><br />He also was embroiled in a 7 year battle with the federal government with felony allegations of extortion and bank fraud. He was convicted on felony charges in 1997, which was later overturned on appeal in 1999, followed by a full presidential pardon in 2001.That said, we are talking about a State Governor.<br /><br /><br /><br />If anything, this will help re-shed light back on the 1997 Phoenix Lights flap.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>So tell all your friends that you heard it here first! Governor Symington alleges to have seen Black Triangles flying over Phoenix on the night of March 13th, 1997.</strong></span>Tom Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09496428871934713145noreply@blogger.com0