This photograph was taken on March 12, 1967 near Las Cruces, New Mexico by a New Mexico State University that was hiking in the area around Picacho Peak in the Picaco Park. About 02:00 PM, he spotted a big round silvery object hovering over a hill about 500 yards away. The object appeared stationary or was moving very little when the photograph was taken. When the student had prepared to take a second photograph of the object, it had disappeared. He said that it made no noise and that he could smell an electric odor in the air.
One of the most haunted places in the world is the Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) in Pennsylvania. It was originally opened in 1829 and is considered to be the world’s first true penitentiary. But the prison, designed to hold just about 300 prisoners, soon became overpopulated (about 1700 were jammed into the cells) and in 1913, Eastern State officially abandoned the solitary system and operated as a congregate prison until it closed in 1970.
Image left: The Eastern State Penitentiary from the outside.
The inmates at EST had no easy life. Torture and harassments by the guards was a part of their daily living and maybe this is one of the reasons why the prison is reported to be one of the most haunted places in America. One of the most famous paranormal stories from there is about a locksmith who had an eerily encounter.
OPENED A GATE TO HELL
One day, a locksmith was doing some restoration work in Cell Block #4. According to the story, he was working to remove a 140-year-old lock from the cell door when a massive force overcame him so powerfully he was unable to move. Some believed he opened a gateway to the horrific past and the trapped spirits could now escape. All hell was now broken lose. On the cell wall, anguished faces appeared and hundreds of distorted forms swirled around the cellblock and one dominating form seemed to beckon the locksmith to him.
Image right: One of many cell blocks at Eastern State Penitentiary.
Today the penitentiary is open for the public and daily tours of the place is made. Every there are more than a two dozen paranormal groups investigating the place and in almost every case, they find evidence of paranormal activity. Probably the most famous evidence was captured by the Ghost Hunters team while doing an investigation there. A stationary camera captured a human-like figure running towards the camera, then stops and takes off in the other way.
"My son was looking for the International Space Station that night as it was supposed to be visible around dusk. He stayed out there for a while, and it got dark. He did not see the ISS, then he came in and went into his room upstairs for a while.
He glanced out the window to take one last look to see if he could see it, and instead spotted a very small light making very strange patterns and darting at great speeds horizontally and vertically. He ran downstairs and went out the front door and was screaming, "UFO."
He called me out and I was like, "Yeah... sure, it's probably an airplane." I saw it and was in shock!
I called my wife and other kids out and we were just standing there in amazement. After about 10 minutes of this, I was wondering if I could shoot this with my point and shoot still camera, then I realized that I had bought my daughter a video camera for last Christmas, which she never uses. It was still in the box (dead battery, etc, etc), so I had to plug into the outlet on our porch for power and I started shooting. I had never used that camera before, so I was figuring it out as I shot the footage.
Also my daughter had been telling me for a few months now that she had seen a strange looking object several times and would come to get me, but by the time I got there it was gone. I have tried several times to upload sample images of UFO footage that was shot during the sighting to your website, but your system is not working.
I am telling you I have some incredible footage that rivals anything I have seen anywhere. The footage, (seen below), is from the March 16, 2009, sighting showing the craft in great detail, shape shifting, and flying in very strange patterns. Also the next morning my wife was in our back yard and witnessed two (ALL BLACK NO MARKINGS) large, twin rotor helicopters flying very low right over our home. They circled what appeared just over our yard at least 5 times, then flew off towards the North.
We have kept a look out since then and have seen nothing."
Date of event: March 19, 2010 Location of event:Maryland, USA
"My friends and I were outside since it was nice out. There were seven of us. One of the little kids made two of my friends mad so I suggested we lay down in my friend's driveway and look at the stars. We were talking when I noticed the light from a star was blocked out for a moment. I had a double-take and when I looked again, I saw a triangular shaped craft with four orange lights.
Three of these four lights were located near the tips of the craft while the fourth was in the middle. I was in shock. I live in a busy area and my father and I are involved with astronomy and own two telescopes. We both look at the stars all of the time and live near an airport, so we have a VERY clear idea of what a plane looks like at night.
This object wasn't hard to see or obscured by clouds, and I could CLEARLY make out the shape and lights on it. When I saw it, I immediately stood up and shouted to everyone and pointed out the object. One of my friends saw it and kept his eye on it. The object was relatively slow and very low, moving northwest.
This friend always blew off anything about UFOs and thought the whole idea of it was bogus. That is no longer the case. Two other people caught a glance of it, but saw it just before it escaped our point of view. Of course, no one else saw it and when we talk about it they just belittle us. But my friend and I know what we saw."
Date of event: March 31, 2010 Location of event:Stow, Ohio
"At approximately 8:05 PM EST, I was traveling westbound in my car on Fishcreek Road in Stow, Ohio. I then observed the object in the sky to the Northwest, above a McDonald's restaurant. At first glance, I thought the object was someone on a motorized paraglider. Upon further viewing, it was NOT a paraglider.
The object appeared to look like a star or cross, and had a mass of something at the junction of where the vertical and horizontal parts met. The object did not appear to be powered and was simply floating northbound.
The object did not have any lights or other shiny parts. I was too far away from the object to detect if it made any sound. I am unsure of its elevation, but it was well above the tree tops.
After turning right onto Darrow Rd (Rt. 91) I still observed the object moving at a modest speed. I turned left into a McDonalds parking lot, circled the building, then got back onto Darrow Rd. to give chase (traveling northbound). I had the object in sight until I turned left onto Terex Rd. I traveled approximately 1/4 mile on Terex Rd. and then made a U-turn heading back towards Darrow Rd.
At that point I could no longer see the object. My last view of the object was at the intersection of Darrow Rd. and Terex Road."
"ATTEMPTS to tout a charcoal drawing supposedly of the Loch Ness Monster as a masterpiece by the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher have been dismissed as a 'scam' by the managing director of a company which licenses the use of copyright on all the artist's work.
An on-line campaign has been mounted to authenticate the drawing found in an attic by retired traffic cop Raffaele De Feo in Voluturara in Southern Italy. The story has hit the Italian national press and TV..."
"I was driving down US 67 into Stephenville. We were staying the night in the area to visit Tarleton State the next day. This was my first trip to the area, and I was with two passengers. I jokingly looked at the sky and said, "Of course we have to see a UFO in this one horse town."
All three of us looked up and saw 6 bright, orange lights that looked like street lamps high in the sky. The lights turned off one by one rapidly. My friend tried to get out his camera but it was too late as the last light had gone out.
The light caught our eye because it was right above us. When we noticed it, we knew it wasn't anything we had seen before. I was thinking it could be a radio antenna, but it never came back on. The object was stationary."
"I was coming out of an oilfield lease in rural Palo Pinto county, a few miles to the east of the Hohertz road area. I spotted 4 large lights pulsing in the night sky ahead of my truck.
They were about 1/4 of a mile away and maybe 300 ft. above the ground. I continued to travel in the direction of the lights, but they disappeared. There were no signs of any aircraft in the area. About a week earlier I had seen something similar, but this time the lights, whatever they were, were much closer.
I've been working nights my whole life. There is something strange going on out there lately. This is something I have never seen before until just recently. I've seen about everything you could see in the night sky and could explain most of it, but not this."
"I started to sky watch about 8:15 PM EST. I saw a lot of commercial traffic along with local aircraft. I saw 1st object that appeared as an aircraft about 8:25 PM that changed its lighting pattern while in flight, and had no detectable noise moving south to north at a very slow rate. I grabbed one of my stepson's friends to come watch, and he saw the object hovering and just blinking North from house and then disappeared.
Later we saw several other objects that had the exact same light pattern that flew over with no sound also. Flying very slow. We continued to watch the sky, and at approximately 9:30 PM, we saw an object that passed just west of the house moving south to north that looked like two small coffee cups stacked open end on each other.
It seemed to be lit up by an external light, and had one white blinking light on the upper portion. This visual was made by both of us through binoculars. It traveled at a very slow rate. We watched this for about 5 minutes.
About 9:45 we saw an object that was traveling north to south, change directiond 180 degrees and go back. We watched as it disappeared beyond the houses. We returned to house to get warm for a bit, but when returned outside we never saw anything for the rest of the night."
