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( "E'=6.:482 > 862: ;?><;? 'UFO Triangle' Is Alien Hotspot, Believers Claim Discovery News On July 8, 1947, a crash in Roswell, N.M. described by local papers as a "flying saucer" lit a fire in America: UFO fever. And today, just over 65 years later, some Central Californians believe their region remains a UFO hotspot, the bottom leg of a "UFO triangle" as mysterious as Bermuda's. Jeffrey Gonzalez is one of such, the founder of Sanger Paranormal Society and a UFO-chaser for the past four years. He even runs a 24-hour UFO hotline: people call and he investigates claims of UFO sightings. “No, I’m not crazy. It’s an obsession, it’s a hobby,” Gonzalez told FoxNews.com hours watching the sky for anything out of the But Gerstein explains that the strangest He works as a phone company ordinary. discovery during the investigation of this case technician during the day and solves mysteries Sky watcher Robert Dorson saw his first was “mysterious balls which were so light that of the unknown during his time off. He says his UFO 25 years ago, and today he loves watching they could float on water surface. They had very background in electronics helps him use the for UFOs from his roof where he captures video complicated chemical structure. After their tools to investigate the paranormal. on his camera. analysis an assumption was made that they were “I go out to the location to where these “I’ve got the best footage. I got the close formed during a high temperature process, a events happen, I’ll talk to the witnesses I will and the best footage. All hours of the night and kind of welding.” Researchers have also noted take reference points and I will make sure it’s day I’m out here watching,” Dorson told unusually extensive plant growth on the lake’s real,” he said. FoxNews.com. floor where the object crashed. Gonzalez drives a research vehicle or Are you a believer, or still just a skeptic? Despite the conducted investigations “Paranormal Ambulance” equipped with the Start being more observant and perhaps you and the collected evidence, the identity of what requisite gear necessary to investigate UFOs: a might see something unusual, they explained. crashed into Korb Lake in 1961 remains an Geiger counter, an EMF scanner, infrared “It’s turned out to be more than a hobby enigma. The mystery surrounding this case is cameras, and of course, a Sony HandyCam now it’s a passion of mine to find out what are what officials are hoping will appeal to tourists, camcorder with night vision. these things flying over Fresno. Are they drawing visitors to the region. [] “If a witness reports a sighting more military or are they something else? And I think than one time or says something crashed then I’m getting pretty darn close,” Gonzalez said. [] we’ll go out and stake out the area in case the POWER craft comes back. Because if it does come back Russian Radio Using then we’ll be ready,” he told FoxNews.com. The Geiger counter tests for radiation UFOs to boost tourism AND and the electromagnetic frequency (EMF) reader monitors different types of energy. Infrared cameras are very helpful during Jason McClellan GREED stakeouts, he said; they can see up to 300 feet in pure darkness. Russian radio station The Voice of Russia “We’ll usually park outside from about 9 reports that plans are underway to utilize UFO p.m. to 5 a.m. in the morning,” he said. tourism to draw visitors to the Leningrad region Gonzalez is part of a new National of the country. A new tourist route will take Geographic series called Chasing UFOs. A visitors through the Vespian forests, and will recent survey conducted by National visit the site of a 1961 UFO incident where a Geographic finds that 80 million Americans massive, cylindrical object fell into Korb Lake. believe in UFOs. This UFO incident reportedly occurred “I have witnesses calling me -- law the night of April 27, 1961. Divers explored the enforcement, doctors, lawyers, and military lake and, although they did not find the personnel that have pictures that they have cylindrical object that fell from the sky, they did captured over Fresno,” Gonzalez said. discover evidence indicating that an object Fresno lies at the bottom of the "Nevada impacted with the lake’s floor, and then Triangle" a region that includes Area-51 and advanced approximately sixty-five feet after China Lake. Gonzalez says this area is similar to impact. Researchers indicated that the UFO the Bermuda Triangle where many planes have broke through ice when it entered the lake, disappeared without a trace over the last 50 suggesting the lake was frozen over at the time years. of the incident. Mikhail Gerstein, chairman of “There’s a lot of military presence and the ufologists’ commission of the Russian there could possible be a lot of top secret Geographic Society, told The Voice of Russia, military craft flying over our skies,” Gonzalez “The ice pieces which were knocked out by that said. body were floating in an ice-hole and had an AVAILABLE AT According to the non-profit National intensively green color. The researchers took ice UFO Reporting Center there are roughly 5,000 samples but failed to find the causes of such a strange coloring.” Gerstein says samples from UFO sightings reported each year. Gonzalez has the lake’s floor were also collected and tested, AMAZON.COM people throughout the city of Fresno who serve as sky watchers. These people sit outside for but nothing unusual was detected.