Monsters in the skies
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So in this episode, I wanted to look at how people are being taken. So when people disappear, particularly in the wilderness areas, who's taking them and why? Is it human predators? Are they abducted without being seen? Are they taken by things that are under the ground?

Are they taken by things that are in the sky? This all sounds a little bit crazy, but if we go back in time, perhaps we can see some possibilities. If we go back to Kenneth Arnold's famous UFO sighting in 1947, he estimated that what he saw had a wingspan at a minimum of 100 feet, and it was flying close to the horizon toward Mount Rainier.

for three minutes he watched this sighting and he considered them to be living organisms sort of like jellyfish he had another sighting afterwards in which he said he'd seen up to twenty-five small craft

then a third sighting in the sky above california in nineteen fifty two while flying his plane he said that he saw two craft one of which he described as as solid as a car while the other craft he said was semi-transparent the second craft was below his plane and he described that he could see through the craft to the trees below

this led him to conclude that the objects he encountered possessed the ability to alter their density and that they were actually living cells of organisms

he said the impression i had after observing these strange objects was that they were something alive rather than machines living organisms of some sort that has the ability to change its density similar to jellyfish and after years of extensive research my conclusion is that so-called unidentified flying objects

are not spaceships from another planet at all but rather are masses of living objects that are as much a part of space and the sky as the life we find in the oceans while conducting his many years of research one pilot told him that he was approached while in flight by what he called a ray fish that was larger than his airplane

The edges of its wings reportedly were described as behaving in a way like a sea ray, in that it rippled. In 1988, the Mundurabila incident occurred in Australia, and at the time it received national coverage. In 1988, a mother and her three adult sons were forced to drive desperately through the desert highway, Nullarbar Plain, late one night after a huge glowing object landed hard on the roof of their car.

with it came the most foul smell described by them as like rotting decomposing flesh of dead bodies at one point the mother said she reached her arm out of the car window and grasped hold of it touching the body which she later said felt spongy the dogs in the car were going crazy when she brought her hand back inside the car she said it was covered in a dark dust

the family became disoriented and felt that their voices had become slower and lower in pitch they believed at this point that they were going to die one of the sons patrick said that he felt that his brain was being sucked out and the mother mrs knowles likened it to having something going into our heads then whatever it was apparently suddenly lifted the entire car up off the ground

Not long after, it fortunately also dropped the car, causing one of their tyres to pop. The family left the car hurriedly and hid in some bushes by the side of the road. They remained there for 15 minutes before changing the tyre and continuing on to the nearest town. At this time, a truck driver, Graham Henley, had also seen the strange object. He described it as being like a big fried egg hung upside down.

He also confirmed there was black ash on the car. He, as well as the police, later confirmed that the indents in the car were caused by something landing on the roof. Well, 50 years after the statements from Kenneth Arnold about his sightings, a sighting was reported in Utah in 2011. From an anonymous source, the account reads as such.

it was not too far above my home it appeared to be a misty cloud shaped like a boomerang or a chevron it was moving quickly across the sky from east to west it was almost transparent and at first i thought it was mist however it was a very clear night and there was no wind and so i realized that it could not be mist nor a cloud because it didn't dissipate or change in shape but it moved incredibly fast it made no sound

i tried to get a clearer look but it seemed transparent and it was moving so quick i think it had white lights but i can't be sure a plane that had been in the sky before this was much higher up and was still in the sky after this object had gone out of sight of my range

Well, a few decades ago, in the field of ufology and cryptozoology, there began a growing field of thought that pointed to the possibility of invisible intelligences on a grand scale. These atmospheric beings were believed to be skybound entities that roamed the skies in silence, and were visible only by the use of infrared, but they were always there.

Navy veteran Trevor Constable believed that these atmospheric beings were monsters that only increased their density while in search of food, and at which time they would swoop down, and their food source was humans. He blamed the accounts of livestock disappearances, mutilations, and indeed human mutilation cases on these predatory entities, along with the constant stream of people going missing each year in the wilderness.

we know that these creatures and crafts exist in a range of forms beyond human sight that this life is invisible to human sight said constable and after having his film investigated by the pafe films of hollywood nobody could really explain what these beings were

Is it from this invisible state that creatures and monsters come into our vibration and to our realm and take a different form, a form that's quite frankly terrifying? Are there cloaked and veiled creatures and monsters that can change their vibration and change their density and then appear?

well fortie and charles ford and the explorer ivan sanderson wrote extensively about the crawford monster which apparently appeared in indiana in

The Indiana Journal, as well as the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, commented on the findings and the sightings. Contemporary journalist Vincent P. Gaddis wrote of mysterious fires and lights. Of the Crawford incident, he wrote, all the reposts point to this object being a living thing, one of the hypothetical atmospheric lifeforms of UFOs.

well the first sighting of it was at two a m on september fourth when an object was seen circling a house before flying away to the east and then returning some time later before flying out of sight two days later on september sixth it flew over the town with one hundred witnesses the description of the object was that it had glowing red eyes was a large rectangular shape was eel-like and undulating with fins

it was described as writhing or squirming as it moved and it made a wheezing sound two days after this sighting two men saw it and this time according to charles ford they described it as a seemingly headless monster or a construction about twenty feet long and eight feet wide it was moving across the sky seemingly propelled by thin like attachments it moved towards the men the men moved

it sailed forth but it made such a noise that methodist pastor rev du switzer was awoken by it and looking out from his window saw the object circling the sky for says he thought there would turn out to be no mr switzer when he read about the sightings and decided to investigate

but he was very surprised indeed to find that there was a reverend switzer in the area fort says brooklyn september eighteen seventy seven a mr w h smith saw a winged human form in chile eighteen sixty eight a construction that carried lights and was propelled by a noisy motor or a gigantic bird eyes wide open and shining like burning coals covered with immense scales clashed together with a metallic sound

In June 1873, in Bonham, Texas, Mr. Hardin, a farmer, saw an enormous flying snake with brilliant yellow stripes twisting in the sky. Then other witnesses came forward, too. The local newspaper, The Enterprise, held accounts of witnesses who saw it coil itself up and then thrust its enormous head as though striking out at something.

the new york times was of opinion that the sightings at this time were due to drinking and suggested the accounts were from witnesses suffering from delirium tremens but in bonham texas eighteen seventy three workers in a cotton field noticed an object in the sky above them

travelling at great speed the shiny silvery serpent as it appeared to them caused them all to panic and run for cover from the openness of the cotton field rushing indoors or hiding under wagons the speed of the object was such that it was almost a blur in the broad daylight sky the object apparently circled the small town twice before speeding off from view

twenty-four hours after the sighting in bonham a similar object was witnessed flying over fort scott in kansas it caused a similar panic as it had done the previous day causing soldiers to flee the parade ground and seek cover away from the strange machinery

Dr. Tom Scott, former curator of Fannin County Museum of Hostory, wrote about the strange reports in Bonham. In March 1897, a cigar-shaped object was reported, and that same month, the Dallas News and others reported similar sightings. A farmer said he was chased by the object that was dragging an anchor along the ground. The farmer said the anchor snagged his pants and raised him into the air until his pants ripped and he fell.

Two weeks later, a man traveling between Bonham and Denison also said he saw some kind of manufactured craft. Other witnesses, who said they also had seen it, said it was of a length estimated at 200 feet long, with large windows. Some people even said they heard hymns being sung as it passed overhead. According to Fortean Jerome Clark, in May 1888 in North Carolina,

three sisters out walking in the woods saw a hissing fifteen-foot serpent sailing above the tree-tops moving at the speed of a hawk other local people saw it too according to the new york times almost a decade later the charleston news and courier mentioned the most recent sighting of the flying snake

it was sighted twice on july the eleventh near newham swamp ten miles south of hartsville at six and at seven o'clock though the newspaper writer neglects to inform us if that's p m or a m but the second witness identified as henry poulsen is quoted as saying the monster was low down just above the tree-tops had its head thrown back in a position to strike and was just floating through the atmosphere lengthwise

He estimated it to be anywhere from between 25 feet to 40 feet in length. In 1882, chickens were found eaten with huge teeth marks, which could have been the result of very large dogs or something else. Two hog farmers near Salma saw the creatures under a bridge. A posse was put together for an all-night vigil in an attempt to capture or kill the monsters, but they had no luck.

in the morning ducks were found ripped apart and eaten on the near-by farm the next night two of the men j d daniels and a mr templeton dug holes to hide in near the water cries were heard in the direction of a river approximately four miles away ominous yells drew nearer then suddenly they heard the rush of wings so hideous they said that their hair almost stood on end

the two dragons came swooping down and in a few moments they said we heard the rush and roar of wings the two dragons came swooping down and circled round and round the pond in rapid whirls screaming hideously all the while their eyes were plainly visible instead of bills like birds they had snouts like alligators and their teeth could be seen as they snapped their jaws they came down with a fearful plunge into the pond and the water flew as though a tree had fallen

they dived around in the water wings folded on their backs their eyes seemed all the while wide open and staring the two men shot at them one flew off injured and the other crawled out of the water dragging itself across the field but it was moving too fast for the men to catch

So going back over 100 years, we have the dichotomy of sightings, of strange serpent creatures in the sky, but also of what appear to be manufactured crafts. Well, if we go to the present, well, 2012, a lady called Heather, who lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, filmed the sky from her car as she was driving along in a suburban area.

Now it seems that she was filming because she'd had some strange sightings, and she couldn't really understand what it was she was seeing in the sky, so she began to film. Well this day, with her camera phone tilting up towards the sky, with the tops of the trees and the roofs of the houses visible, she filmed. And when she got home, she then examined the camera footage, and began to make notes of her observations. Things had been appearing in the sky for some time. Where she lived, she said,

and on this occasion she said there was a thick low cloud coverage of about ninety five per cent with solid white almost entirely over the sky and it was as she reviewed the footage that she says watch what happens right there in the middle watch in the middle of the screen there it goes

Well, the image is on YouTube and it's a weird, narrow, rectangular, horizontal object which appears in the middle of very thick clouds, solid, solid white clouds. And it looks like a wide, rectangular box, which very bizarrely then goes downward and backward as though being pulled back into the cloud.

it almost very much looks like it's a c g i or a computer generated image or some kind of movie special effect and yet she appears to be an ordinary housewife the image doesn't appear to be altered or tampered and the car is simply moving past trees and houses in a suburban semi rural setting

And she says, as the footage is being replayed more slowly again on her YouTube channel, she says it begins rod-like. And that's true, it does. And as a long white line, like a white horizontal pole, appears in front of the thick clouds, it appears solid and rigid. It's not morphous, it's not fibrous or amoeba-like, but it looks artificial. It looks like an artificial box in the sky.

She said, I've seen many bizarre things here in the sky, but this one has alarmed me. The rod-like thing in the cloud changes suddenly into this long, narrow, rectangular, horizontal box. But it almost looks like it has teeth, like metallic teeth. And it sounds comical, but that's what it looks like, almost like a machine with a row of huge metallic teeth.

If you brighten the screen contrast, it can help you see the image more. But she says there's no doubt that this was clearly not meant to be seen in the sky. You can see a shadow of this. And she said, is this nanotechnology? Are these clouds tampered with in some way? What are the teeth?

Going from machines to monsters, there's a really strange case in MUFON, case number 68439, and it's of an object. It's an image of a dark brown or black object with what looks like two pronged tails entering clouds.

It was taken on July 30th, 2015, at 7.56pm. It looks like the tail end of either an enormous and physically impossible-sized swallow, or some type of unidentified, very sinister-looking creature, which some have said looks like it comes from hell. It appears to be a giant, dark beast with a square, solid body.

is huge only the lower end of the body is visible the rest is hidden by the low flying cloud into which it appears to have flown up into when the picture began to circulate on the internet most reports called it eerie creepy and satanic the witness took it in el paso texas

He says,

But when I took these pictures and saw that strange creature, there were no birds around. He says, I'm so baffled about what this could be in the sky. Well, there were obviously critics, and these critics pointed out that it was obviously a bird, such as a swallow. And perhaps it could be, yet the scale of the clouds are clear to see, and it appears to be absolutely huge.

So really, it's impossible to be a small bird against the clouds. Well, the only other option, of course, would be that it's been photoshopped. And that's the problem with internet pictures and YouTube videos. And yet, it doesn't appear to be a hoax. The man doesn't run a YouTube channel. He just seems to be an ordinary person.

Maybe there's an absolutely logical explanation, but it looks like an enormous flying monster. Is it some kind of interdimensional or supernatural being? I mean, many have said that it does look like Mothman, or something very similar.

well i don't know if anybody's familiar with the flatwood monster this was perhaps similar to mothman and it was repeatedly a monster that terrified and traumatized a group of both children and adults in the flatwoods area of west virginia in september nineteen fifty two

a group of children and adults were all out in the night-time in the flatwoods because they had seen what they thought was either a meteor or a ufo landing on the top of a hill near by to them and they were intent on going to find out what had happened

The incident appeared to begin early in the evening after sunset, when brothers Fred, who was 13, and Edward, May, who was 12, along with their younger friend Tommy Heyer, saw a bright object in the sky moving across it before appearing to come down in a field nearby, which was owned by the local farmer called Mr Fisher.

The boys ran home and told their mum what they'd just seen, and they told her they'd seen a UFO land in the farmer's field. Their mother Kathleen Hill, accompanied by a National Guardsman called Eugene Lemon, all went quickly on foot toward the spot the boys said the craft had landed. The Guardsman's dog also accompanied them, and as dogs tend to do, it ran ahead of them, and reached the spot before the group did.

however the dog returned very quickly to the group whimpering with its tail between its legs clearly frightened as the group on foot reached the top of the hill where the boys said the craft had landed they all later testified that they discovered an object amid a glowing pulsing ball of fire in the air there was also a mist and a strong odor that they said burnt their eyes and noses

it was the national guardsman who then also spotted something else he saw two small lights by the side of a large glowing object shining his flashlight over at them he saw something that caused his heart to pound underneath a large low-hanging tree where the small lights were was a monster it moved and began coming toward him and the rest of the group bounding toward them and from it came a shrill noise

It appeared to glide or float, but then veered off and went toward the fireball. According to the mother, Kathleen Hill, the monster was at least ten feet tall, and she believed that it appeared to be wearing a long cloak with a hood over its head, like a monk. Its face, however, was definitely not human.

she described it as a round shape and with blood-red eyes that bulged out and glowed an orange hue they all fled in absolute terror almost all of them afterwards were deemed to be incoherent with hysteria and shock and vomiting the boy's mother contacted the sheriff once they got home and the sheriff robert carr carried out questioning to find out what they said had happened up on the hill

he also went to the scene of the alleged incident accompanied by the national guard the odor was awful there it permeated the air but there was no monster nor any craft nor any fire the local newspapers went to the scene the next day but nothing of the strange orb or the monster remained all that was left were some strange tracks in the grass and a strange unfamiliar smell

local newspaper owner mr a stewart went to the site the next morning and saw strange tracks in the mud as well as an unidentified black thick liquid on the ground the tracks however were later assumed by some to have been caused by a pick-up truck of an inquisitive person who had also gone to look for the monster in the craft

Interestingly, paranormal investigators, a Mr. William and a Miss Smith, who belonged to the Civilian Sorcerer Investigation Group, based in Los Angeles, say that they interviewed a woman in her early twenties and her mother, who reported to them a very similar experience. They claimed to have had an encounter with a monster of the same appearance and accompanied by the same dreadful odour.

a few days before the Flatwoods incident. It would also appear that the young woman had to be hospitalised for 21 days due to an undefined sickness after this. Well, the original group who had their encounter on the hill were also reported as suffering from severe sickness too, particularly the guardsmen who suffered ongoing breathing problems and severe vomiting.

The others of the group also suffered swelling of their throats and difficulty swallowing. Well, the newspapers of the day reported the encounter with the entity on the hill as a 10-foot Frankenstein-like monster. However, they added, state police laughed off the reports of hysteria. They said the so-called monster had grown from 7 feet to 17 feet in 24 hours.

The guardsman, however, stuck to his account that he saw a pair of bright eyes, a creature of ten feet in height, with a blood-red face. The newspaper owner who interviewed them said, These people were the most scared people I've ever seen. People don't make up that kind of story. It looked worse than Frankenstein, the boy's mother said.

most bizarre of all one of the boys described the appearance of the monster as having a head which resembled the ace of spades and clothing which from the waist down hung in great folds

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