No Funds for the MIB

New documents have been released to the public by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense concerning a government agency that was devoted to investigating UFOs.

According to an article in Monday's issue of The Guardian, the MoD made repeated attempts to cover up a government unit known as DI55. The Public Records Office recently declassified notes and internal letters that indicate multiple attempts to make files pertaining to DI55 immune from Britain's "30-year-rule.” Under this legislation any documents that were once classified are to be reviewed and released to the public after 30 years.

As stated in the article, the DI55 have been suspected by conspiracy theorists and UFO enthusiasts of being a government clean up crew for UFO activity and rampant disinformationists. DI55 has also been attributed to many of the alleged Men In Black encounters in that corner of the globe.

Unfortunately for the saucer beaters, the latest documents to be released by the Public Records Office do little to prove that aliens are visiting our planet. Despite it confirming that there was and is a military interest in UFOs, the suspense falls short when the documents reveal that the office in charged of investigating such cases was never given the ability to use public funds for proper analysis and field research.

One document described the situation and the complete uselessness of DI55 as humiliating to the MoD.

No X-files case hear boss, just plain old fashion bureaucracy at work. Paranoid folks in Great Britain can now pull more hair out knowing that if the aliens do come, there's not a damn thing their government can do about it. It's more important to keep up appearances and pay people to do nothing than do a job right.

If the conspiracy theorists have gained anything in this latest development, they can at least speculate that the official report on UFOs released in May by the MoD, which included data from DI55, was done equally half-assed.

On another note, has anyone heard any updates about British hacker Gary McKinnon? If so, please post to the comments.

Atlantis spots UFO, NASA blames trash bags

Space shuttle Atlantis was cleared to land Wednesday after delays from what NASA is describing as "space trash."

The shuttle's re-entry was initially delayed by reports of a large solid object that was flying at great speeds below the shuttle on Tuesday. NASA admitted that the object could not be identified, but quickly turned attention to the safety of the crew and said it could be part of the ship flying through space.

After finding that no pieces had fallen off Atlantis, NASA said they believed it to be trash bags that flew out of the cargo hold. After looking at the pictures NASA has released of trash bags floating through space and comparing it to the video Fox News was showing for over four hours on Tuesday, one can't help but sense that they may be grasping for straws.

To NASA's credit, they still say the object was unidentified in their Sept. 20 press release.

Pyramids?

The idea of a great civilization before known recorded history has been a popular theory for centuries. Throwing about names like Atlantis, Agharta and Thule, many have pointed to the pyramids in Egypt and Latin America as relics of the secret technologies and traditions of these alleged and forgotten civilizations.

The latest talk of where one of these unknown civilizations could have existed is in Ukraine. BBC News/Kiev is reporting that a large pyramid-like religious complex has been found in the town of Luhansk. Experts are now investigating the find.

Like many alleged archeological finds in Eastern Europe, this must be treated with caution. In June of this year, amateur archeologists with a crew of volunteers announced that they had found the remnants of a pyramid in Bosnia that would have dwarfed the pyramids of Egypt. After attracting the attention of National Geographic and a quick investigation by the European Association of Archaeologists, it was determined that the "pyramid" was nothing more than a large naturally formed hill. Despite the EAA's investigation, the team leaders at the dig site and Eastern European tabloids continued to say that it was a structure built by the Illyrians, the ancient ancestors of today's Albanians.

Fake archeological finds and occurrences of the paranormal are a dime a dozen in the former Soviet states. Due to the unstable economic climate of the region, reports are usually concocted to bring tourists and naive New Age types to a nitch of the world where few people tread.

As PT Barnum said, there is a sucker born every minute. Hopefully, the suckers that go tracking out to these alleged finds in search of Atlantis don't find themselves robbed, beaten, stabbed and passportless in the foothills of Eastern Europe.

The Triangle Question

Sightings of a strange triangular object over the skies of Hellesdon, just outside of Norwich, England, have investigators looking for more witnesses to the strange event. The United Kingdom's Evening News 24 reported that two people saw a large black three-sided object hover over neighborhood houses, emit a series of beams, and take off rapidly to the north.

One of the eyewitnesses has been identified as Austin Paxman, of Norwich. The second is said to be a civil aviation worker at Norwich Airport, who remains unidentified.

According to the Norfolk UFO Society, areas surrounding Norwich and Norfolk have been hosts to multiple sightings of strange aircraft over the past few years.

Like many other UFOs, the "black triangles" have been sighted around the world for decades. There are reports going back as far as the 1950's of strange triangular shaped objects floating through the skies.

What makes the triangle phenomenon different is the overwhelming amount of video footage and photographs that have been taken of the mystery crafts. The most notable is the March 13, 1997 sighting of a large triangular formation of lights hovering over the Phoenix, Ariz. skies. Witnessed by thousands of people, the incident attracted a large amount of media attention.

Explanations have varied from United States Air Force maneuvering drills to flairs. These attempts to discount the incident, however, do not explain the long period of time the lights were present in the sky, nor the complete lack of sound the object(s) produced while hovering over a major metropolitan area.

While reports of these aircraft appear across the globe, some investigators believe that people are witnessing top secret American test craft or misinterpreting sightings of the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, better known as the stealth bomber. No doubt in areas where military facilities are present, this is a serious possibility.

Whether it is government test craft or aliens cruising our skies, one must wonder what are these strange things.

Milk Carton Kid Conspiracy

A disturbing series of events has revived horrible conspiracy theories surrounding the 1982 disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old Des Moines, Iowa paper boy.

On Thursday, his mother, Noreen Gosch, received two photographs in the mail of her son and two other unidentified children bound and gagged. Authorities are analyzing the photographs, but believe that the prints are from 1982 and that it is Johnny in the photograph.

Many people remember Johnny Gosch as the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. Others, however, remember his disappearance as the case that started the child abduction panic of the 1980's.

Following further investigations by Ms. Gosch and private detectives, a grand conspiracy was concocted that not only was Johnny taken by child predators, but by a nationally funded satanic cult involved with child pornography and snuff films. Allegations of who was involved with this cult spread as far as Hunter S. Thompson, former president George H.W. Bush, numerous politicians and a phony journalist named Jeff Gannon.

Despite the debunking of many of these claims and the refusal of this blogger to believe such horrid accusations against the good Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the idea of a ritualistic cult involving people from all parts of society is not one of fantasy. In the spring of 1989, a cult surrounding the practices of Palo Mayombe, a form of voodoo based upon practices from the Congo, was uncovered in Matamoros, Mexico after a Texas college student went missing during spring break.

Led by a drug dealing occultist, the cult kidnapped, tortured and sacrificed hundreds of people in hopes that their gods would allow them to safely traffic drugs over the United States border. The followers included not only drug runners and thugs, but doctors, policemen and other people of respectable practices.

After an event like that, the claims of Ms. Gosch and countless others may not be that impossible after all.

The pictures Ms. Gosch received are now on her site and were shown on the Fox News Channel. Due to the disturbing nature of the photographs, the link will not be posted on this blog. With a little googling, one can find them easy enough.

At first glance, it's easy to say that Johnny Gosch was a poor kid who was abducted and his real tragedy has been thrown to the side by ridiculous theories. This may be so, but after researching the case a bit, it is hard not to be rattled by the entire incident and the series of events surrounding it.

A full explanation of the conspiracy about Johnny Gosch can be found at http://educate-yourself.org/cn/goschgannohuntertrublingtale05apr05.shtml. Try not to get a headache.