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MEDIA "D-NOTICE" ON BLACK TRIANGLES |
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A
top BBC executive let slip recently that there is a
"D-NOTICE" on media reporting
of "black triangles".
The executive, who
cannot be named, is the former producer of a very
popular BBC science programme.
Black
triangles were first witnessed in the Hudson Valley region (USA) by
hundreds of people (mid 1980s) and have since been seen by thousands
of people in Belgium. Seemingly the craft has been heavily
"D-NOTICED" by the UK Government , restricting media
reporting regardless of how many witnesses reported sightings.
According
to the former producer the Government has informed the BBC that the
craft is a secret military project but if so why is it witnessed over residential
areas?
Nick
Pope, acknowledged UFO Investigator , maintains it is highly unlikely
to be a secret military project. Its technical capabilities and flight
behavior suggest it neither belongs to any Earthly Government o falls
within the envelope of Human Technology.
Perhaps
the UK Media are being warned away from reporting a fairly obvious
example of "alien" craft intruding with impunity into
British Airspace.
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A Black Triangle photographed over Belgium. |
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Hull’s First UFO |
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“So you think UFO reports are a recent phenomena? |
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| (Gary Anthony, delves into the EYE UFO archives and re-examines Hulls ufological past. In view of the recent ufology uk article regarding phantom airships seen in Essex in 1909, perhaps the reader may appreciate how relevant it is to document ufo sightings connected with a wave and to scrutinize them correctly. Editor EYE). | |
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During astronomical correlation research into the 1913 phantom airship sighting wave and file of Nigel Watson et al, during 1989 for BUFORA, David Clarke drew my attention to an earlier wave of phantom airships in 1909, which had reference to possibly Hull’s first recorded UFO sighting. In late 1989, I did indeed find three such references for local sightings for the week beginning Monday 10th May to Sunday 16th May 1909. These sightings occurred just before the famous
sensationalized story of Mr. G Lethbridge of Cardiff, Wales, who claimed he had encountered a strange landed airship on a lonely Welsh mountaintop. Scurrying aeronauts clambered back aboard their craft and took off towards Cardiff and later six workers at Cardiff docks subsequently saw the craft and validated Mr. Lethbridge’s account. The story swept across the nation, later featuring in many of the main newspapers of the day and caused widespread consternation, certainly it is occasionally revived in the odd UFO book and other literature. The first sighting in Hull occurred on Thursday 13 May, 1909 and was reported by Mr. A. Walker of 31 Coltman Street, (Anlaby-Hessle Road) Hull and also seen by Mr. Walker’s parents residing at same address. In his own words the young Mr. Walker stated: “At about 11 o’clock on Thursday night I was coming out of the greenhouse. I had just put out the light, when something flashed across my eyes, something like a flash of lightning.” “I looked up and there was a patch of light in the sky. It looked like a street gas lamp seen in a fog. It was working to the west, and seemed to be tacking a little as if going against the wind which was forcing it back.” “It was like a luminous body seen through the clouds—arc shaped. I heard also a peculiar whirring noise. The light was high up – about a mile up I should think. It was dark and cloudy at the time; but I had the light under my observation for about two minutes.” “I immediately called my father and my mother, who were in the house, and they also both saw the light as it traveled westward.” Mr. Walker’s father described the sighting as an amazing “light suspended in the air.” What is even stranger regarding the Walker’s sighting, has been the difficulty attributing it to any particular known airship visiting this area? Although the feeling of the event is quite evident in the description, it should be stressed that Mr. Walker only decided to report his observation in view of other newspaper reports circulating about phantom airships at the time. What is more curious, is that a mysterious airship was also reported during the same week in Hull by three other local residents. Two observant persons on the following night, Friday 14 May, 1909; reported a strange airship from the Boulevard area of the city and stated that the aerial craft they saw seemed to be directly over the River Humber. From the clouds, the witnesses say they watched a piercing searchlight emanate and focus down onto the river for a very short duration. A lady in West Hull too reported she had observed a strange light in the sky during the same week; and confirmed the aforementioned light also hovered not far from the River Humber. In view of later developments some may think the Humber a dangerous place for airships to manoeuvre, as those few who are still aware of airship transits around the River over the years can recall and tell… Twenty years after the 1909 phantom airships, the R38/ZR11 airship was flying over the Humber at 5 pm on 24th August 1921, during a test flight, when it executed a tight turn over the Humber near Hull. Tens of thousands of eyewitnesses saw the R38 dirigible ship appear to crumple in half. Subsequently the airship’s nose section exploded in two bursts killing forty four of the crew, reportedly shattering windows on the ground and leaving only five survivors in the tail section, which didn’t alight, before all the wreckage finally fell disastrously into the Humber. Disaster struck another airship, the R34 on January 28, 1921, while over the Humber and this craft also later crashed on land without loss of life. It appears strange sightings in Hull skies are not a new phenomenon, and people at the beginning of the century, as today also report UFOs in the context of current available aerial technology. Whatever the answers are to this nearly one hundred year mystery of unidentified airships, it seems firmly and deeply embedded within the annals of local history and culture; and still manages to attract a fair amount of hypothesizing and occasional surprise when rediscovered by new generations. |
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"It is my view that this (UFO) situation has possible implications for our national security which transcend the interest of a single service" |
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