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April 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 22/04/2010 11:26 PM Page 12 12 From The ‘X’ Zone Newsroom UFO Cult Awaits Doomsday For 15th Time universe, but it was definitely not from around antenna array to detect a signal from another these parts,” Allen told a reporter from the planet and want to seek out your own proof? Empire-Tribune after the sighting on Jan. 8, We’ve identified active places across the globe 2008. Similar reports poured in from across where UFOs like to show themselves. J.R. `Bob' Dobbs, shown here, is said to Erath County. Mexico City, for example, has been a have founded the weird UFO cult known as The Stephenville Lights incident wasn’t near-constant sky-watch since the solar eclipse the Church of the Subgenius. a onetime event—another mass sighting of 1991, when a UFO was captured on video followed in October 2008, and individual among the cloud shadows. Since then, whole CLEVELAND (Wireless Flash - FlashNews) – reports from the area still trickle in. This corner fleets—literally hundreds of unexplained A Cleveland-based UFO cult claims Doomsday of Texas along with the eastern Nevada desert lights—have appeared over the world’s largest is finally coming after years of false alarms. are fast emerging as the U.S.’s newest UFO “hot city. Or take Warminster, England, near The Church of the Subgenius is a satirical spots”—places with the best odds of a spotting. Stonehenge, where for the past 50 years “church” supposedly founded by a man named Similarly active places exist around the globe, nighttime overhead visitations and mysterious J.R. “Bob” Dobbs in 1953. with some even attracting a new kind of tourist booming noises have been considered ho-hum Today, Rev. Ivan Stang runs the parody These days, it seems people can’t get normal. cult, which has thousands of members who pay enough of the UFO phenomena. Television And with earthling tourists on the verge $30 to get in and receive “important-looking shows such as the History Channel’s UFO of travel into the Milky Way, thanks to Sir documents filled with made-up words.” Hunters and alternative radio programs like Richard Branson’s soon-to-be-introduced On July 5, Subgenius will host “X-Day” Coast to Coast AM—where an estimated three Virgin Galactic vehicle, perhaps UFO hunters in New York, a bizarre ceremony to celebrate million listeners tune in each night to hear from will soon be able to explore the ultimate hot the end of the world. hardworking UFO investigators, among other spot of all—space. [] Each year, they predict that Armageddon thought-provoking interviewees—are more will come on July 5 and members will be saved popular than ever.. Simple explanation for UFO by flying saucers carrying “alien sex Sightings, too, are on the rise, according sightings? goddesses.” to MUFON, or the Mutual UFO Network, These aliens will pleasure members for which has more than 3,000 members in 25 Highland News eternity, or Stang says they get triple their countries and 750 trained field investigators Church dues back. worldwide. The 41-year-old organization is one MYSTERY sightings of UFOs recently He calls the party one last hurrah among of the go-to places to report a sighting; it reported in the Highland News have attracted “nerdy boys” and “weirdos,” though he’d be receives some 400 a month in the U.S. alone. attention from a national strange phenomena surprised if UFOs actually came. “Of course, 80 percent of these sightings magazine. The Fortean Times' UFO They’ve been waiting for the aliens for can be explained. But 20 percent are truly "investigators" have reviewed the case of the 15 years straight, disappointing those who unidentified objects, and those are the ones that "mystery orange fireball" which was spotted in “truly believe” time after time. [] will make your hair curl,” says MUFON’s the nightsky above Inverness and Nairn four international director, Clifford Clift. times in the last month by Rob Jackson. It Believing the time is right, even the claims the fireball mystery, which was first seen Best places to spot UFOs famed SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial on Valentine's Day and reported in the HN on Intelligence) Institute is conducting its first-ever February 27, was in fact a Bolide meteor. These Go beyond Area 51: UFO- public conference this year devoted to the age- are, apparently, "comparatively rare, but spotting hotbeds around the old question: are we alone? SETIcon, slated for visually stunning and often generate UFO globe Aug. 13–15, in Santa Clara, Calif., will also reports". Andy Roberts and Dr David Clarke, unveil the institute’s newest scientific advances who write the monthly UFO feature in the By Adrien Glover in its ongoing search for intelligent life from magazine, claim similar sightings were reported other planets. on February 14 in other areas of Scotland as It was just another winter night in “Using radio telescopes, we hope to trip well as Manchester, Nottingham and Stephenville, Texas, when Steve Allen, a 30- across a planet with inhabitants clever enough Northhamtonshire, which would therefore year aviation veteran, saw something that defied to build radio transmitters,” says senior SETI "indicate the direction the bolide was all logic—an eerily silent, mile-wide craft astronomer Seth Shostak. “If we do so, then the travelling." And the UFO "investigators" ringed in lights that would “rearrange proof won’t be limited to fuzzy photos, secret add: "A trawl through ufology's back pages themselves” racing across the sky at what he government documents, or personal anecdotes. reveals numerous instances of bolides being estimated to be 3,000 miles per hour. It will be up in the sky—where anyone can completely misperceived as 'real' UFOs, and a “I don’t know if it was a biblical check it out.” wide selection of film footage of the amazing experience or somebody from a different But what if you can’t wait for SETI’s phenomena can be seen on Youtube.” []