This is an interesting excerpt from Aerospace Historian Michael Schratt's lecture at the UFO Crash Conference in Las Vegas in 2009, titled: Michael Schratt - Bombshell UFO Case Files Revealed: Excerpts from the CUFOS Archives. Michael covers dozens of UFO case files adding his own Auto-cad illustrations of the UFOs as described by first hand witnesses. You can get the DVD here

Brazil's recent steps to make all Ufo reports now available to the public is causing quite a stir in the media. This talk show report on Fox brings up the recent news:

A government decree said all military and civilian pilots as well as air traffic controllers should register any UFO sightings with the national aerospace defense command.

The information will be stored in the national archives in Rio de Janeiro.

It will be made available to researchers, including those seeking evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Anything unusual that is seen, photographed or video filmed in Brazil's air space will now have to be reported and cataloged.

But the air force said it would limit itself to collecting information, and would not be chasing UFOs.

"Air force command does not have a specialized structure to carry out scientific experiments on these phenomena and will limit itself to recording any events" the air force said in a statement.
Out there somewhere?

There have been several reports of UFOs in Brazil in recent decades.
In 1986, air force jets were scrambled to investigate unidentified objects in the skies above Sao Paulo, but the phenomenon was never fully explained.

And in 1977 the Amazon town of Vigia asked for military help after some residents said they had been attacked by extra-terrestrials.

One anonymous air traffic controller told the Brazilian newspaper O Dia that sightings had been reported at the highest level."I have heard of ministers and even a president who said they had seen a UFO", he said

This presentation focuses on a pair of reported UFO incidents that occurred in 1962 during the X-15 Rocket Plane Research Program. Both these encounters, one during an April, 1962 X-15 flight by NASA test pilot Joseph Walker and the other during a July 1962 flight by USAF test pilot Major Robert White, took place at extremely high altitudes, right on the fringe of space:


From Poster LunaCognita:
During Major White's high-altitude test flight, while at apogee he reported sighting and visually tracking an unidentified object "for a full five seconds before it moved away". Two frames of film from the X-15's rear-facing "wing and empennage" stop-motion 16mm camera appear to capture an object (or objects) that seem to match Major White's visual description of the UFO he saw.

Several months earlier, during NASA test pilot Joe Walker's X-15 high-altitude flight, cameras aboard captured what Walker later described as being "five or six disc-shaped or cylindrical objects" near his aircraft.

During a May 11th, 1962 lecture at the "Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research" in Seattle, Washington, Joe Walker also claimed that one of his mission objectives during his April 1962 flight in the X-15 was to detect and film UFOs at high altitude.

During Major White's high-altitude test flight, while at apogee he reported sighting and visually tracking an unidentified object "for a full five seconds before it moved away". Two frames of film from the X-15's rear-facing "wing and empennage" stop-motion 16mm camera appear to capture an object (or objects) that seem to match Major White's visual description of the UFO he saw.

Here is the link to the online version of the August 3, 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine that I reference in this presentation, where Major Robert White describes the UFO he saw out the window during his record-breaking July 17, 1962 high-altitude hop in X-15-3.

Amazing new book on UFOs with numerous Generals, Pilots and Government Officials giving their testimonies. These highly credible witnesses bring home the reality of the Ufo topic, bringing disclosure on step forward and to top it off former White House chief of staff John Podesta gives the book his approval. It's a must read, wow!
The author Leslie Kean interviewed the other day on RTL :


An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight becomes the subject of a secret report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.

In Belgium, an Air Force colonel investigates a series of widespread sightings of unidentified triangular objects, and he sends F-16s to attempt a closer look. Many hundreds of eyewitnesses, including on-duty police officers, file reports, and a spectacular photograph of an unidentifiable craft is retrieved and analyzed.

Here at home, a retired chief of the FAA’s Accidents and Investigations Division reveals the agency’s response to a thirty-minute encounter between an aircraft and a gigantic UFO over Alaska, which occurred during his watch and is documented on radar.

Now all three of these distinguished men have written breathtaking, firsthand accounts about these extraordinary incidents. They are joined by Air Force generals and a host of high-level sources—including Fife Symington III, former governor of Arizona, and Nick Pope, former head of the British Defence Ministry’s UFO Investigative Unit—who have agreed to write their own detailed, personal stories about UFO encounters and investigations for the first time.

They are coming forward now because of Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter who has spent the last ten years studying the still unexplained UFO phenomenon. Kean reviewed hundreds of government documents, aviation reports, radar data, and case studies with corroborating physical evidence. She carefully examined scientifically analyzed photographs and interviewed dozens of high-level officials and aviation witnesses from around the world.

With the support of former White House chief of staff John Podesta, Kean draws on her research to separate fact from fiction and to lift the veil on decades of U.S. government misinformation. Throughout, she presents irrefutable evidence that unknown flying objects—metallic, luminous, and seemingly able to maneuver in ways that defy the laws of physics—actually exist.

New crop circle at Northdowns, nr Beckhampton., Wiltshire. Reported 13th August. More on this one here

Poster comments:
filmed black triangle ufo hovering over san diego neighborhood on June 13, 2010. used sony trv-99 camcorder... sorry, no tripod. ufo hovered for 5 minutes, in complete silence, then disappeared. they're here.

Preliminary new DNA results from the 900 year old Starchild Skull, providing proof that a percentage of the DNA in the bone is not from Earth.

Yet another big Ufo movie release coming out and yet again this one is also  based in LA (I mean whats up with that?). People in the Ufo community are questioning the benefit of this new movie. It does seem very fear based indeed, especially as reiterates the recent erie warnings from physicist Steven Hawking about the hostile dangers of Ufo visitation...Long from the friendly days of ET and Encounters of the Third Kind many question if hollywood has some agenda with this new fear based approach to first contact . (see my comments below about Dr. Carol Rosin's predictions.)

The scary Hawking logic runs deep through the movie: "History shows us the more advanced Civilization always wins .. remember what happened when Christopher columbus invaded america? .. it didn't work out to good for the native's didn't it? .. well thats what's going to happen to humans when (Et's) arrive.. were done for"
Here's The trailer :

We have to remember that this is all fiction - a quick reality check here is that Mr Hawking overlooked the simple  fact that Ufos have been visiting us for hundreds of years so this means if they were hostile i can assure you that you wouldn't be reading this today!...

Skyline - Movie story..
After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the light source is drawing people outside before they suddenly vanish into the air. They soon discover an otherwordly force is swallowing the entire human population off the face of the earth. Now our band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.

Official synopsis: In the sci-fi thriller Skyline, strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Don't Look Up.

There is footage of the aliens launching their “human collecting pods” and it all seems quite grewsome. The shot of all of those people being sucked up into the alien machines screaming all the way is quite freaky. More of this trailer at the movie's official site here

The benefit from  hollywood exploring the Ufo topic again does reflect the major change in public interest towards  the subject and it does get people looking up the skies ... but does this fear based approach towards first contact outway all these benefits ? What do you think? - please make a reply to this post.

Also are these movies a sign?  ..errie reminders from Dr Rosin's speech (video here) 
Fairchild Industries Corporate Manager, Von Braun’s Spokesperson, Dr. Carol Rosin[In 1974, founder of modern rocket science Wernher] Von Braun told me that the reasons for space-based weaponry were all based on a lie. He said the strategy was to use scare tactics—that first the Russians, then terrorists are going to be considered the enemy. The next enemy was asteroids.( remember all those asteroid movies from the 90's?) and  “The last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens, and all of it is a lie.”….I was at a meeting in Fairchild Industries in the War Room. The conversation [was] about how they were going to antagonize these enemies and at some point, there was going to be a Gulf War (&this was back in 1977)...

So Steven hawking, now these new movies...  was Von Braun onto something ..?

More great progress here from brazil on ufo disclosure
The command of the Air Force published in the Official Gazette the new rules to be followed by pilots when the subject is unidentified flying objects. The records should be forwarded to the National Archives. All this so that nothing is shrouded in mystery.
Four thousand pages with numerous cases seen or investigated by the military are already in the National Archives. Are phenomena that occurred between the 1940s and 1980s.
Ufologist for Aeronautics, Fernando Ramalho, still need to send documents from the decades of 1990 and 2000. He says that more conclusive evidence has not been revealed. "Footage of flying objects, for example, 100 meters in diameter with portholes, with beings inside these watches."
Fernando is part of a committee of scholars who are helping the Ministry of Defence to ensure that by the end of this month, all UFO documents will be released for public consultation. 
UFO researcher makes a prediction about when we touch.
"I believe that in less than 50 years we can have but a meeting between advanced civilizations visiting us and humans on land. Why not?" He asks.  Article source
Note media report in portuguese - translation appreciated if anyone can post it:

The media is reporting this Original Video here is an example of ballons with lights attached - what are your thought? People in St Paul who witnessed the lights and have emailed me disagree .
I would like to hear from people in the St Paul are who actually witnessed these lights to come forward and reply to this post with your account of what you saw a few nights ago.
In St. Paul Minnesota, we saw this....... i didnt shoot this.... it was shot by a local news station. they caught different angles.... i edited out the people reactions. i did see it in person, at a different location. the weather services and authorities says they dont know wat it is.... so... its unexplained. but right now..... Norad is looking in to it.

August 10th, 2010: I was working on a project when my sister freakishly calls me to go out side to look. I didn't see anything where I was but she insisted to come and pick me up to go and look. This is what we saw along with numerous neighbors. It just looks like some lights, but it was actually pretty creepy look. I don't know if it's some kind of crazy invention or an actual UFO, I guess we will have to see.

Brazil is making great strides towards Ufo disclosure with its government recently passing a law that enforces disclosure from Airforce pilots - making all Ufo reports made by them back up to 1952 all released to the public :

A decree published today by the Air Force regulates access to government information about UFOs, unidentified flying objects.

"After due cataloging, these records should be sent to the Centre for Documentation and Historical Air Force who, in turn, will forward the documents to the collection of the National Archives, giving the company access to this documentation," the Air Force.

According to the ordinance, the accounts of users of services of air traffic control must be made on proper forms and delivered regularly to the documentation center said.

Today, the National Archives has in its custody UFO reports, photographs and drawings assembled by the government between 1952 and 1989.

In total there are 1562 pages of documents dealing with such lights and unidentified objects in the heavens.

The papers show, including the official participation of government investigations of luminous objects known.

The Folha report published last year showed excerpts of reports "confidential" the NIS (National Intelligence Service), then organ spy Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). "The shape of the object was cylindrical, almost conical," one of reporting.

"One resolution published today by the Aeronautics regulates the access to information from the government on Ufos, non-identified flying objects. "After formal cataloging, such registers must be sent to the Center of Documentation and the Aeronautic`s archives that, in turn, will direct the originals to the National Archive, offering to the society access to this documentation" , informed the Aeronautics."
Translated link

Stanton Bridge, nr Honey Street, Wiltshire. Reported 8th August - more here