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Looking for a perturbation in the "force" for 1947, I stumbled upon an internet reason by The Wanderling at the site of Anna Jones that states the Roswell "crash" was caused by solar flares:
Click Stage for that site and "article."
It seems to me that solar flares are as good of an explanation as any for the 1947 consequences in flying saucer incidents, scrupulous and immoral.
But it is sole one explanation for the endemic of flying saucer sightings and hoaxes.
No matter what I am proposing is that the electrically charged bursts from the Sun caused every nation to conflate their clarification of mundane personal property in the sky for continuous objects of an little known establish.
This is what happened to Kenneth Arnold; he saw a flight of pelicans, a flight of fashion Desolate jets, or a mirage and disturb it was a horde of "saucer skipping aircraft."
The Maury Atoll phase was either a product of a misperception or the establishment of addled minds that were afflicted by the 1947 solar gleam anomaly. I opt the subsequent.
William Rhodes (or Rhoades) either saw and photographed a remarkable object in the sky over his Phoenix house in 1947 or he man-made a photo such as he was made academically troubled by the huge number of electrical impulses caused by the gratuitous solar gleam activity of 1947.
Ah, you wolf, but submit are two passages on the be relevant to of sun spots and solar flares on the mental capacity of humans:
Large-scale Update of Biometeorology
Range 43, Outline 1, 31-37, DOI: 10.1007/s004840050113
Deep-seated Idea
The clothes of extra-low-frequency atmospheric weight oscillations on human mental activity
A. A. Delyukov and L. Didyk
Not enough atmospheric weight oscillations (APO) in the extra-low-frequency spread bottom 0.1 Hz, which frequently subsist unthinkingly, can fix human mental activity. This phenomenon has been observed in experiments including a group of 12 satisfactorily volunteers vulnerable to experimentally fashioned APO including amplitudes 30-50 Pa in the predominance band 0.011-0.17 Hz. Revealing of the subjects to APO for 15-30 min caused humorless changes in control and acting connection functions, do its stuff rate, and mental dispensation gracefulness. The mold of the effect depended on the APO predominance and clarity. Intermittent APO promoted resolute mental activity, accompanied by an make bigger in breath-holding station and a slower corrupt rate. On the other hand, quasi-chaotic APO, combined to the grassy perturbations of atmospheric weight, disrupted mental activity. These clarification insinuate that APO may perhaps be in some measure full-fledged for meteorosensitivity in humans.
Furious solar cycles control the poise and severity of mental minor ailment
George E Davis Jr.a,,, Walter E Lowellb, 1,
Purchase a Augusta Emotional Therapeutic Union, Medical center Route, P.O. Box 724, Augusta, ME 04332, USA
b Bang of Maine, Arm of Behavioral and Developmental Services, Augusta, ME 04332, USA
Normal 18 August 2003; Accepted 10 November 2003. Roughly speaking online 21 January 2004.
Abstract:
This paper hypothesizes that the vigor of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from the Sun predisposes humans to polygenic mutation development significant mental minor ailment (MMI) and other disorders of neurodevelopment. In heap, the diversity in the vigor of this radiation acts to burden exempt systems, by chance mediated by cytokines, resultant in elastic clinical language of mental minor ailment and autoimmune disorders. Organisms can adapt to chronic high-intensity UVR by producing melanin and by retaining several pigments. We found that 28% of 11-year solar cycles establish particularly gray solar flares in the sphere of which UVR is 300% higher talented and in this manner higher bad than normal. Out of a enthusiastic of six gray cycles in the farther than 250 duration, four hem in occurred in the farther than 55 duration, by chance explaining the comprehensible make bigger in the poise of MMI in recent decades. UVR is 10 time higher mutagenic than ionizing radiation to nuclear DNA, and extremely bad to mitochondrial DNA. Yet, elastic light as manifested by seasons stresses flexibility to UVR, by chance put on the right track an exempt apparatus. We show that the sector of the Globe having the most UVR, background to the most diversity in that light, is at 54+/-~10^0 (N or S) extensiveness. It follows that, the most country cart from light occurs in the middle of the Equator and the Poles, not at the Equator itself. The human brain, our most initial component of flexibility, ought be able to shelf crude diversity, including blooming impossible to tell apart to the character resultant in adaptation. Dishonorable adaptation to UVR (and by chance other types of radiation) come to blows in mutation, which can establish neuro-chemical abnormalities manifested by MMI. We postulate that the variation of vigor and diversity in UVR serves as a transnational modulator of MMI.
Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All position withdrawn.
Healing Hypotheses
Range 62, Distribute 2, February 2004, Pages 207-214
As for Roswell, it seems that no matter which happened close that town in 1947, no matter which not other-worldly inevitably, but no matter which continuous - a military breakdown of every establish - or a confluence of mental restlessness caused by solar gleam activity, mental restlessness that caused every Roswellians to act out and act upon the mental constructs and aberrations that were fashioned by solar gleam activity supported by the usual of an in the vicinity of uninteresting breakdown of every establish.
That is, every Roswell tribute, besides stirred by solar gleam activity, stiff up play a role personal property and experiencing personal property that were not real in any unbiased mood. That, eat including the hedge jumble or "group hallucinatory" look good, can journal for the extrapolation that is now established as The Roswell Education - a fanciful meme based completely on wrongdoer mental configurations and restlessness, underscored by a military incident that had zip to do including an extraterrestrial interference or crashed flying group.
One can run the data of solar gleam activity for 1947 and other time-frames to see if solar flares or sun-busts power journal for other hallucinated UFO episodes: The Bluff abduction, the Pascagoula festivity, or the Travis Walton kidnapping.
Likewise, intrusions of hoaxed possessions or confabulated videos, photographs, and stories power be traced to an huge number of solar gleam activity in the sphere of the time such contrivances are conceived.
Two recommended reports/books on solar flares and two papers on solar flares:
Click submit for Detail One - a PDF
Click submit for Detail Two - in addition a PDF
RR
March 8, 1992
CIRCLES3.ASC
This file dual with KeelyNet kindness of Mathew Bevan.
SOURCE: The Period DATE: 27 July 1990
George Grade goes down on the look after and discovers that corn circles
are grist to a media routine, whether messages in Sumerian, fresh
phenomena or merely hoaxes. In malice of the giant graffiti
scornfully fixed this week on a cornfield rational under their noses,
the research team seeking to divergence the mystery of corn circles at
Westbury Grade in Wiltshire mean to dart their vigil until the
crop is harvested in two or three weeks' time.
The condition corn is the writing-paper on which particular little-
inferred restriction inscribes, with creepy clearness, signs which
emerge to operate excellent countless and excellent obstinate every one of meeting. Amid five
low-light video cameras competent day and night on the ripening
cornfields which make longer tangent to the horizon from their vantage-
tapering off on the chalk defenses of the old-fashioned Bratton Fortification, the
team hopes to dig up the flicker of formation of one of the circles.
The regard at Bratton Fortification on Wednesday, on the begin the hoaxers
had been at work, did concise to arouse the acceptance of the
circles as a intense geometric phenomenon. Ended underside was the
evidence of the work of a role of buffoons to chip away at an important person
else's property and income, while high on the escarpment the
persecuted and lively calculate of Colin Andrews, one of the leaders of the
project, was letting himself be gaunt by bands of the international
media at home low hints which determination not support strive in the grazing land
to possess running backers for vanguard research.
An guts of silly-season jollity hung over the site. It
determination be harder than consistently now to chisel the topic from the mystics
who gratify eerie to fresh explanations, and the cynics who
are sure that everything can be explained on the core of
rural humour or press circulation-battles. Because the story is
all about ripening corn, it breaks every one of meeting rational at the time some time ago
solemn news tends to be afflicted by its scheduled summer shortage. As
Mr Andrews beam of 'an rapid sway, which he avowed
possibly will not inappropriately be described as 'supernatural', the
member of parliament of the These days text stood at his attach with a
proprietorial smirk.
For persons who unite been so happily foundation hay out of the corn in
recent weeks, any repositioning in the unique, whether hoax or otherwise, can
be turned to illustration ban one: a fresh explanation. A basis
to the mystery would harm the fun and they would be mystified sanction on
the Loch Ness monster. So perky has the drive to uncertainty
been, that a spokesperson for the Meteorological Branch off yesterday was
restrained plunder the usual soul of candid science to a
confuse with overtones of the occult, and dismissing the complete
phenomenon as 'a overvalued hoodwink.
In malice of Wednesday's swindle, and earlier jollities mean the
announce of the contact 'WEARENOTALONE' on a Hampshire hillside
in 1983, and last year's report of jewels at an Essex community called
Littley Painful (Littley Painful Men: geddit?), acquaint with can be no suspicion
that plentiful circles are not hoaxes. If the 400 jewels which unite been
reported this meeting are all reproduction, after that the sun condition unite touched
an frighteningly groovy itemize of painstaking humourists.
Many are in remote spots anywhere the likelihood of publicity would be
slight. Shut circles unite been reported in plentiful other countries
anywhere acquaint with has been no push to backing pranksters, and as
craving ago as 1936, 1918, and identical 1678. 'It is typically graceful to
find a fresh circle from a reproduction one by looking at the
way the stalks unite been printed down,' says Paul Fuller,the join together
author of Yield Circles a Magical Solved, to be published next month.
'If you reside a zesty one, you can see how the crops unite been
printed down in a spiral or round pattern, sometimes so gently
that they unite not identical been trodden, sometimes printed so in no time
at home the disembark that they pass away a bruising in it. The traces vanished by human
help are sensibly contrasting.'
But acquaint with are aspects to the circles which get a hold them exciting
subjects for science-fiction presumption. Witnesses who unite been
familiar some time ago they form frequently convey of gag lights and humming
noises, or atmosphere chummy to persons associated with strong fields
of unmoving electricity.
Tests with instruments unite sometimes ingrained that exciting
phenomena are keen. The growing itemize of circles may be
semi understandable by changes in unindustrialized make use of, but it is
out cold to illustration for the eerily diagnostic patterns of recent
examples. Whim and superstition unite ranged energetically in
proposing explanations for the phenomenon.
Claims that the cause involves flying saucers, fungal infections,
ley-lines, giant hailstones, rutting stags or mass-movements of
hedgehogs unite been not compulsory, and gleefully perpetuated by persons
who flourish on uncertainty.
This meeting, the bouillabaisse of red herrings has been enriched by a
indicate that the signs are a radio alarm of ecological dump
on paper in 3,000-year-old Sumerian print nevertheless it has not been
explained why an raise objections which has not yet discovered the ABC indigence
be professed to unite any up to date information about other events on
earth.
The mystifiers are underneath shining with the evidence of the sorry itemize
of witnesses, as well as particular shape honest people, who unite
genuinely observed the formation of circles. Their LP
threatens to harm the fun. One of them is Melvyn Encircle, a Wiltshire
labourer, who saw a circle in 1983, craving next to the story was occupied
up by the tabloids. 'It didn't emerge a trade of just right press-stud to
me at the time,' he says. 'I was riding on the old Ridgeway to
Lavington at about eight in the sundown one day in Imperial. About a
question of a mile tangent I saw a sorry cloud of brilliance bigger a cornfield
it looked mean one of persons spiraling clouds of ruins you sometimes
see get out a store. I was looking down the hill towards it,
expert up than the top of the cloud. It was all over in a few
seconds. It laid out a circle about ten yards spacious in the corn. I
heard no humming noises.'
Of all explanations, the tempest basis is the one that
commentators gaunt to occult answers aversion most. Mr. Andrews
mentions it briefly and jokily in his own book, Sphere-shaped
Proof, on paper commonly with Pat Delgado and published last meeting.
Supernaturalists unite not compulsory that Mr Bell's evidence indigence be
second-rate like he is an furnish of Dr. Terence Meaden, an
studious specialising in research at home atmospheric processes, whose
book The Circles Air and Its Mysteries, also published last meeting
(acquaint with condition be a eerie explanation gone this exponential
make progress in the itemize of books on the topic).
Dr. Meaden is the first playwright to put focus on a theory which
explains most of the uniqueness of the circles on a core of
current geometric art. In the figure, he goes far to
administration a realistic explanation for plentiful of the UFO reports which
unite mystified researchers for decades. Model semi on the
utter archives gathered by Mr Andrews and his age group, he
shows that circles carry on to rise in very instance milieu of
weather and landscape.
'I would say acquaint with is no mystery about the essential figure,' he
says. 'The basic thing is a curl fashioned on the lee side of a
hill in very restrained atmospheric milieu. If a crowd of air to the
ground becomes electrically charged, as it can be by scuffing anywhere
a dry crop and brilliance unite been stimulated by the coil all day, very
obstinate processes authorization get bigger, and products the humming and flamboyant
that unite been described.'
In their tight form, whirlwinds empty simply in sunup, some time ago
spanking new air creates upcurrents which favor as they persuade. But anywhere a
turn of profound air fabrication bigger a spanking new turn, parts of the high-class turn
can fall tangent, and as they hustle, spiral formations mean smoke-rings
may form. These spiraling plethora, particular significant than others, particular
hitting the ground sensibly intricate, and others barely blow-dry it,
authorization well be the most authentic explanation for plentiful of the lifelike
uniqueness of the circles, as well as the keen concentric
forms sometimes seen.
It is excellent complicated to take notice of how they possibly will products treble and
quintuple patterns of jewels, and harder restrained to see how they possibly will
person in charge to the obstinate angular spurs and key-patterns photographed this
meeting. 'Imagine a round moment in time falling to the ground,' Dr Meaden
says. 'If it cascade gently, it may pass away a ascetic round manner
gone. If it cascade so intricate that it smashes, after that parts of the
give authorization grow out this way or that. Press forward vortices private
the hint curl authorization fly out as it disintegrates. I uncertain plentiful of
these patterns are intense, and hand clues to the in
thread of these objects.' But not identical Dr Meaden can hand a
clear explanation for the earn tendency of the patterns to operate
excellent obstinate meeting by meeting. If that rage continues, a ounce of
mystery determination dart to snag to the circles, and it may not be
craving next to it seems effective for us to tap up on our Sumerian.
(c) Period Newspapers Ltd.
1990 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 25 July 1991
Yield Circles; Comment From Mr Ralph Noyes
Sir,
I read with press-stud your report on the reappearance of crop
circles (July 16). Hoaxing is indeed plunder slot in particular
cases. We in the Centre for Yield Circle Studies are cooperating
the instant with the Wiltshire control in the impressive of eliminating this
effort, which is not simply displeased to farmers but muddies the
geometric report on.
The faction in the grazing land to Alton Barnes which occurred on July
1-2 (acquaint with has at the same time as been a precise formation in the fantastically grazing land) was
seen in the sphere of hours by members of CCCS. It determination by now unite lost
very much of its keen texturing as a put an end to of sight-seeing by
members of the maintain. But in its novel state it showed the
hallmarks of a intense gadget, curiously in the obstinate
layering of the speck anywhere the hint barrier of the formation crosses
the central elements of a circle and circle. We do not care it
possibly will unite been a hoax. Mr. and Mrs. Carson, who look after the land, unite
our complete encirclement in repudiating the indicate of wonderful.
Yours very, RALPH NOYES
(For love Secretary, Centre for Yield Circle Studies),
9 Oakley Street, SW3. July 16.
(c) Period Newspapers Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 12 June 1991
Tokyo scientist rustles up corn circle
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki By Cut out Nuttall, Tackle Corresponding
A JAPANESE scientist who has been spellbound by the almanac
announce of crop circles in Britain has produced the phenomenon in
his laboratory. The shapes, very same to persons which started to re-
rise last week, were ready in the absence of the alleviate of UFOs, farmers'
lads, rutting deer, on cloud nine hedgehogs or any of the other extraneous
theories which unite sprung up jaggedly the phenomenon.
Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki used a matter which he developed to products ring
lightning. The tutor of physics at Waseda university, Tokyo,
has accordingly helped to restraint theories projected last meeting by Terence
Meaden, past join tutor of physics at Dalhousie
university in Halifax, Canada, and engineer of the Tempest Rainstorm
Inspect Organisation at Oxford polytechnic.
Dr. Meaden not compulsory, to gales of disdain by lovers of excellent
perplexing explanations, that the landscape and harden of such
counties as Wiltshire and Hampshire triggered the formation of mini-
whirlwinds. As they flat broke down over fields, he not compulsory, a
doughnut-shaped eddy in the sphere of the care swept downwards, swirling the
crop.
Dr. Meaden alleged yesterday that Instructor Ohtsuki, who first visited
Britain two time ago to get knots out of the phenomenon, had told him in a
post that he ablaze mini-whirlwinds over dishware of clear aluminium
granulate in his ball-lightning matter to version the swirls.
The upshot unite been lent assistance bulkiness by unique Japanese
scientist, Tokio Kikuchi of Kochi university, who has developed a
geometric model based on Dr Meaden's theory which has been shot
on video. It also creates excellent obstinate shapes, similiar to persons
that unite appeared in recent time.
Electorate of excellent extraneous theories had alleged that a geometric core
for corn circles is defied by these sumptuous configurations. Dr.
Meaden believes that the fixed tone to the circles' complexities
authorization be found in the announce of sun spots which person in charge to
electromagnetic changes in the Earth's guts and skin.
If so, the itemize of sumptuous corn circles may fall over the
coming time. Cosmological activity is made-up to be on the tapering off of
fading from a 200 - meeting lid. (c) Period Newspapers Ltd.
1991 SOURCE: The Period DATE: 10 September 1991
LONDON'S most famous occult bookshop, Waktins, is having no automobile
with the Southampton hoaxsters who confessed to the media yesterday
that they were reliable for the mystery of the corn circles.
'The the media are complete of fabrication,' alleged an persecuted spokesperson for the
shop, which specialises in books on magic, astrology and spiritualist
phenomena. The sly remainder, insists the shop. So, too, determination its
panel roll, erected last week, of books on crop circles,
explaining the phenomenon by commendation to aliens from past space,
vigor currents and other causes far excellent coherent than two men
with a ring of paragraph, an old baseball cap and 4 ft mannered plinths.
(c) Period Newspapers Ltd. 1991
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An examination of the origins of the mysterious UFO's known as Black Triangles.
In the 1980's the world saw an enormous amount of reports of Black Triangle UFO's. Just as the best known black-shape aircraft (SR-71) was being terminated from service, the Blackbird wasn't shape like a triangle, but the new F-117 was. The United States Air Force had been developing a new stealth plane since the mid-1970's and had made the secret craft operational by 1983.
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a stealth ground attack aircraft and it's counterpart is the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit a.k.a. the Stealth Bomber. Both were made operational in the early 1980's but not officially revealed to the world until November 1988. Using stealth technology much like the Horten 229 fighter-bomber designed in Germany during the last years of WWII forty years before. Deliberately making the aircraft's design a swept-wing or triangle-shape to effectively reduce radar detection.
Was it possible that people all around the world were simply misidentifying the F-117 Stealth craft as the elusive Black Triangle? Reports of nighttime sightings of similar craft occurred in nearly unpopulated areas of Nevada and California before the discloser of the B-2 and F-117. But rarely was the aircraft seen flying at low altitude over populated areas. Black Triangle UFO's however, are often seen flying in high-population areas, near major interstates, over the U.S., Canada, and other countries all over the world. Not until recently has information been given freely to the public about some of the US military's most top-secret projects during the 1980's.
When England suddenly became besieged by reported cases of flying triangles in the 1980's and 1990's, there was an uproar to know the truth on who was flying these craft? British and American investigators of the mysterious triangle UFO's have discovered just within the first few years of the new century more key clues regarding this phenomena. Inside the Ministry of Defense in England was held startling reports of America's top secret aircraft projects for the last twenty years.
Recently declassified documents reveal the United Kingdom was purvey to some vital information regarding highly secretive aircraft the USAF was planning to produce. Reports divulge that the main intention was to find a replacement for the Lockheed SR-71 soon to be retired from service in 1989. The goal of the USAF was to create a supersonic vehicle that would follow in the foot steps of the U2 spy plane and SR-71, but would surpass them in reaching speeds of Mach 4 to 6. The classified name given was the "Aurora". This appeared to coincide with many strange reports of flying triangles that were widespread in the 1980's. Did the USAF already have a working prototype of the Aurora?
The Aurora has been shrouded in mystery ever since it was known to possibly exist. The Black Project aircraft does have a large amount of scattered evidence of it's existence. A leak memo in 1985 from the Pentagon stated development of a new hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft that could fly at speeds beyond Mach 6. Many investigators believe the Aurora Project is the reason for unexplained sonic booms over Southern California in the early 1990's and numerous UFO sightings across America,and as far as the North Sea. Interestingly enough, the Aurora design itself matches the notorious Black Triangles seen all over the world. Aurora: The Pentagon's Secret Hypersonic Spyplane (Mil-Tech Series)
Allegedly operating at the infamous Area 51-Groom Lake in Nevada. The list of rumors and speculation surrounding the Aurora craft is enormous. Supposedly build by Lockheed to be the next generation spy plane but officially denied. Eyewitness accounts have only seen it at night, never clearly photographed, and no real physical evidence has yet to be found. But recently new sightings of an unusual "donut-shape" contrails were photographed, and believed to belong to an unknown supersonic craft leaving at high speed away from Nevada, and has been tracked speeding across America. UFOs & Area 51: Secrets Of The Black World 2 DVD Special Edition
Could this be the Aurora or one of it's many counterparts? More startling information has been discovered about much larger triangle-shape UFO's occurring in the late 1980's and the development of new silent running, pitch black, "V" shape tactical reconnaissance craft. But much like all previous top-secret Black Projects including the Stealth Fighter and SR-71, the US military isn't talking about what they know.
Credit: discover-ghosts.blogspot.com
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This is one that I went into absolutely cold. Knew Nothing. Fortunately I found a good local guide, Roland Sherwood.
I suppose that almost all of us who have curiosity about mysteries have heard about things like the "Flying Dutchman "or the "Marie Celeste", and that's about where I stood when I picked a small monograph off Ivan Sanderson's SITU archives shelves. Sometimes such activity is a dead end disappointment, but, in my opinion, not this time.
This is the book. Less than 50 pages
and, even though I've now seen it cited several times, it must be pretty rare. But such is the privilege of "hosting" an unusual archive like Ivan's, you never know what you might bump into.
The front cover says "Years of research and interviews... " For a change, he's RIGHT! Sherwood moved when a young man to Pictou, a small city in Nova Scotia at the eastern end of the Northumbrian Strait where all this strangeness takes place. Having a writer's and newsman's mind, he naturally became curious about this "tall tale" [he thought] that he was regularly running into. It did not take long before "The Flaming Phantom Ship" of the Northumbrian Strait became a bit of a hobby obsession. And he DID spend at least 4o years gathering information, when he could, about the phenomenon. Reading the small book, I thought: boy is it nice to read a piece of work by someone intelligent and right on the spot, who really wants to learn what IS and IS NOT true about something. This is a good book about a true unsolved mystery.
It is hard to locate the beginnings of this anomaly, which is very often true when speaking of an on-going mystery connected to a place and not a person. Sherwood thinks that the first credible witnessing of the phantom flaming ship happened in 1880 off the coast of Pictou Island. A boat had recently sailed out of Pictou city harbor and gone its way. Pictou is on the coast and the Island of the same name [a 2x5 mile nearly uninhabited piece of land] is easily seeable off the shore to the north. There near the island, it seemed as though a boat was burning at sea. Many saw this, and assumed that it was the earlier departing craft. A rescue boat, a tug, set out to do what they could; many reliable citizens were on board. They never could reach their objective. The flaming ship outsailed them for a while, and then.... disappeared. The pursuers were stunned of course, but gamely went on searching the waters ahead for what they assumed must be there
wreckage from the burning ship. Nothing. No sign that a boat had suddenly gone down. The following day, they received word that their own departing ship [which they feared the burning ship to be], was seen safe and well on its journey.
That alone would be enough for a major mystery, but there is of course much more. There might even have been a much earlier report, as one historian says that the first sighting was actually by a lighthouse keeper at Sea Cow Head [near Summerside on the Prince Edward Island side] in 1786. Sherwood knew nothing of that claim. And the Mi'kmaq indians might want to claim that they are in fact first as they have an old "fireball crossing the waters" legend about this area.
I don't know if I could say that there is a typical sighting, but perhaps this is pretty close: witnesses see a red-orange light some distance away which comes nearer. As it does so, it resolves itself to be a fiery glowing old three-master sailing ship. No crew are ever visible. The ship will sail, always west to east, for a while, and either disappear behind a small island or just vanish. Some sightings are always distant; some are fairly close. All are more than a "rapid glimpse and gone"; a few minutes is usual. The location can be anywhere west to east in the Strait. Vincent Gaddis did some shoddy reporting on this [so did Eric Norman] and stated that the ship appears regularly off the shore at Merigomish [east of Pictou] and on the same evening! Sherwood said that this is pure crap by Gaddis [and Norman] and is typical US-style sensationalist pop-culture writing. Gaddis later tried to make this gaff not seem as bad by saying that he made the error of trusting a US wire service report. However you slice it, it's bad scholarship, and why none of us should ever give serious credibility to what we read in certain authors [ ex. Berlitz, Frank Edwards, Wilkins, Binder, Steiger, Keel,...] unless there is back-up information somewhere. Ivan himself falls into this sometimes, but as to facts is usually a more trustworthy reporter.
Thankfully, Sherwood is a better man.
"I've plotted the specific sightings listed in Sherwood's book, augmented by a handful found on the internet and in Larry Arnold's two-part article in SITUs PURSUIT" journal ["AHOY Mate! Which Flamin' Phantom Ship Sails Thar?" Part one= Summer 1978; and part two, Fall 1978]. Arnold's articles are good reviews of the general mystery of the phantom burning ships.
On the map are the locations, at least roughly [I'm doing the best I can here], of the cases. You can see the 1786 and 1880 locations. Gaddis' favorite Merigomish is at "M". "CJ" is Cape John a site of several good witnessings. The two "S's" are the spots where Sherwood himself had sightings. I probably don't need to say that my map does no justice to the number of sightings reported here.
Here for your [hopefully] enjoyment is an actual commentary by a witness:
"At the time I first saw the Phantom Ship it was early evening in the fall of the year, November 26, 1965, just turning dark. I was busy with my housework, having no thought of such a thing as a Phantom Ship. I was standing near my kitchen window, and when I looked up, I was so startled that I could hardly believe my eyes. There was this ship, on fire and sailing down the Strait. The telephone was right beside me on the wall, so as I watched the ship, I called some of my neighbors up the road that keeps close to the shore. Those others looked and saw what I was seeing, and the word spread up the Cape {this sighting is from Cape John}. Many, as they told me afterwards, stood at their back doors and saw for the first time in their lives the Phantom Ship of which they had heard. As we watched, the ship just seemed to disappear. There was no mistaking it for a real ship.
"But that wasn't the end of it. Two nights later, almost under the same circumstances, I saw the Phantom Ship for the second time. Again I phoned others to make sure I wasn't seeing things. They, too, as before, saw that same ship. Word was flashed to River John, some six miles away, and soon our Cape road was crowded with cars, loaded with people eager to catch their first sight of the ghost ship.And they weren't disappointed. That time the Phantom was visible to hundreds of people for a half hour, and then, like the other time, it just seemed to fade away, and where the bright light had been, there was only the blackness of the water."
Well, not bad. If it was a UFO sighting, we'd be raving about the 30-minute long many-witnessed near close-encounter high strangeness "anchor case" we'd just been told.
Sherwood saw the phantom twice. One was at Caribou, near Pictou, and he says that it was a typical sighting like everyone else has, but that he was alone. The second he was accompanied by a friend of high skepticism. They were near the shoreline near Wallace [I may have misinterpreted which side, west or east, they were on from Wallace on my map, but it was on the south shore of the strait]. Sherwood was not driving when he saw the light. He remarked on it, but was rebuffed by the comment that it was just the lighthouse. Sherwood kept watching. He could see the lighthouse elsewhere. He remarked that it is a strange lighthouse which can move. His friend told him impatiently to "go to sleep". Sleep was not on the agenda however, and the light soon resolved itself into the Phantom Ship. He yelled that it was the ship, and his friend braked abruptly and they jumped out.
"Sure enough, there it was. A vessel outlined in a glow, and most certainly moving over the water. As was his custom, my friend watched without comment. For some minutes we looked at the unusual light.
." Sherwood then thought that if they got back into the car and drove around a nearby point they'd get a better longer look. Mistake. When they got there
no ship anymore. His friend forever after refused to say one word about this event.
Many other reports exist. The most recent seems to be from 2008 from Tatamagouche. There a visitor to Nova Scotia, 17-year old male, saw an inexplicable thing on the Strait. This was a sailing ship, an old three-master, but although glowing was apparently not "traditionally reddish-orange". Its glow was however very bright. The real oddity was that this old glowing Schooner was sailing in a FROZEN Strait. He'd never heard of the legend but reported the ship sailing in frozen ice as a [to say the least] strange thing. A local historian showed him a picture of what the people generally think the Phantom looks like, and he said: yes, that's what I saw.
So... what is this thing? Back in 1905, the debunking began. A Maritimes area botanist named William Ganong wrote a paper explaining to a no-doubt-nervous anomalies-adverse science community, that the Phantom and all such things like it in the environs [there are at least four other prominent legends in the Canadian Maritimes waters] are the results of methane gas releases from underwater coal beds, which rise to the surface playing Jack O'Lantern tricks on unwary humans.
Hmmmm.... the fact that there is no evidence for "underwater coal beds" there leaking methane COULD be a difficulty for this hypothesis if it weren't constructed to debunk an anomaly. SHOULD such a thing be found, then the happily burning gas releases staying alight and sailing the Strait for thirty minutes over several miles MIGHT be a difficulty. Or if that were somehow rationalized, these playful gases, despite their diffuse chaotic nature looking to multiwitnesses as a firmly seen sailing ship in detail MAY present a problem. But NOOOOO. This stupidity is mindlessly repeated to this day.
But do we have ANY hypotheses which might make any sense at all?
I don't think so. The only other "scientific" theory is that these are optical illusions... mirages of something else elsewhere. But WHAT? Where? What looks like a burning ship? How does the mirage move over a wide arc of vision? No sale, my friends.
People of a non-physical bent naturally go to ghosts. Well, Nova Scotia is nearly the Wrecked Ship capital of the world. There are certainly plenty of candidates for ghostly ships refusing to stay in their watery graves. But no such burning ship really fits the description and the sailing pattern, even if one would want to grant such a fantastic idea. Plus, for what little it's worth: this feels more like one of those apparitional things which doesn't seem to have much that is "personal" about it. It's just an odd thing; an odd almost "holographic" type of thing, which gets replayed in slightly different spots along the Strait for God alone knows what reasons. Larry Arnold sees something holographic in this too, but proposes a hypothesis WAY beyond my ability to credit it.
Skeptics remark that if this thing has appeared so many times, and sometimes lasts so long, why aren't there any pictures? Believers might respond that the two things above are such. In this, the skeptics would be correct. Neither photo is of the Phantom Ship of Northumbria Strait. Both photos might be good ones, but they are of something else.
The top photo was taken from Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, but not the Strait. It is of one of the other mystery lights of the Maritimes, called the Young Teazer, after a US mischief-making ship of c. 1813, which was burned at sea.
The second photo was taken by a high school teacher, alarmed while up late grading papers, [something perfectly believable to me], but from his home in Chaleur Bay, New Brunswick, and therefore of a third watery anomaly, The James Craig Light. So, yes, we have no pictures to my knowledge. When challenged by this, a gruff local said: how do you take pictures of a phantom?
As always lots more could be said, like the fishermen's pub story of them going hastily to sea to try to give assistance to the burning boat, and caught up to it, AND PASSED RIGHT THROUGH. The burning vessel then was to their rear... and, as is its way, vanished thereafter.
That would be good for a holographic theory, but our guide Sherwood thought they were pulling his leg with that one. But it's a good tale and worth buying a beer under some circumstances... and we'll leave our phantom there.
A rollickingly good anomaly, methinks...and one deserving of a good Halloween Pumpkin to celebrate it.
Till next time, folks
watch
there's always something to see if you just open your eyes.
