VIDEO BREAK: THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT

THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT - PART ONE

What killed a team of nine accomplished mountain hikers? An avalanche? A UFO? Bigfoot? Military tests? Welcome to the Dyatlov Pass Incident, one of Russia’s ultimate unsolved mysteries.

Dyatlov Pass in Russia’s Ural Mountains got its name in the grisliest way possible: In 1959, Igor Dyatlov led a team of eight other hikers to their deaths under brutal winter conditions. When a rescue team finally found the group’s remains a month later, a bizarre series of clues has baffled investigators ever since.

In late January 1959, 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov was leading a team of eight other young hikers on a trek to scale Mt. Ortoten, which allegedly translates to “Don’t Go There” in the dialect of the local indigenous Mansi people. Dyatlov was one of seven men in the group of nine.

When relatives hadn’t heard from anyone in the team by February 20, search parties were sent out to look for the missing hikers. On February 26 they found their abandoned tent camp.

What researchers found at the camp scene was clear and unequivocal. It’s why it all happened that remains one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries. The hikers’ tent had been cut open from the inside, signaling that the campers had abruptly attempted to escape from the tent. Most of their belongings—including cash—were still found inside the tent, putting doubt to any speculation that they had been robbed.

Footprints in the snow revealed that several of the campers had escaped the tent either barefoot or wearing only socks. A few of them were wearing only underwear. The footprints also revealed that there were no other people or animals in the vicinity of whatever disaster befell the nine hikers.

The first two bodies that were found nearest to the camp were of two men who’d burned their hands warming it on a nearby fire. The next three bodies—of Dyatlov plus a man and a woman—were between the fire and the tent, suggesting that they’d tried getting back to the tent. All five bodies were determined to have died of hyperthermia.

The remaining four bodies weren’t found until two months later under about fifteen feet of snow in a nearby ravine. This group was more thoroughly clothed than the first five had been some of them were even wearing items of clothing that they’d apparently plucked off the corpses of those who died nearest the tent.

Three of these final four bodies were found to have died of blunt force trauma—one to the skull, two to the chest. The amount of force necessary to have caused such trauma was gauged to be equivalent to that of a car crash—in other words, a human attacker couldn’t possibly have caused such trauma. The only corpse of the four found in the ravine that showed significant external trauma was that of Ludmila Dubinina, whose eyes and tongue had been removed.

Strangely, some of the hikers’ clothing showed radiation levels far above normal.

An investigation by Soviet authorities said that the skiers had died of “an unknown compelling force.” The files were classified and the investigation was shut down.

So, what really happened? To this day, 65 years later, no one knows for sure....

DRONES AT THE PALISADES FIRE

Multiple unauthorized drones flew above the Palisades fire Friday afternoon, forcing firefighting aircraft to leave the area for safety and angering those working on the front lines, authorities said.

These sightings came just a day after a drone collided with a Super Scooper fixed-wing aircraft, grounding the plane for several days of repairs and reducing the number of aircraft available to fight the fire.

“This is not just harmless fun. This is incredibly dangerous,” said Chris Thomas, public information officer for the Palisades fire. “Seriously, what if that plane had gone down? It could have taken out a row of homes. It could have taken out a school.”

The most recent unauthorized drones were seen flying near the southeastern portion of the fire, bordering Santa Monica, around 4:40 p.m Friday, Thomas said.
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“Because of safety, we have to get all the aircraft out of the area until we know the drones are gone,” he said. “So that is very dangerous, because it takes water-dropping capability away from the fire.”

“If we have to take helicopters out of an area and the wind catches one of those cinders in that area and lifts it up, we could ignite a whole other area,” he added.

On Friday evening, there was a significant flare-up on the eastern edge of the Palisades fire, prompting new evacuation orders in Brentwood and Encino as the blaze moved northeast toward Mandeville Canyon, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Aerial footage captured by KTLA showed firefighting aircraft swooping into the area to drop water.

Thomas said that law enforcement has been informed about the drones and that the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the recent incidents.

"We take this very, very seriously," he said.

The FAA released a statement on Thursday warning drone operators that temporary flight restrictions are currently in place around all major regional fires, and that failure to obey could result in hefty fines.

"It's a federal crime, punishable by up to 12 months in prison, to interfere with firefighting efforts on public lands," the FAA said in a statement. "Additionally, the FAA can impose a civil penalty of up to $75,000 against any drone pilot who interferes with wildfire suppression, law enforcement or emergency response operations when temporary flight restrictions are in place."

The drone that collided with the Super Scooper left a "fist-sized hole" in the aircraft, which probably will not be back in the air until Monday, L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said Thursday.
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Marrone said the FBI is now planning to come to the area with what he called “aerial armor” to make sure no further drones can fly in the firefighting area....

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THE HISTORY OF SKINWALKER RANCH

Within the past year or two I was introduced to the mystery of Skinwalker Ranch. I wanted to dig into the history of the mysterious place, so I figured this entry would serve as a good introduction abd bakground to the ranch, and why it is such an amazing and mysterious place. Skinwalker Ranch, previously known as Sherman Ranch, is a property of approximately 512 acres (207 ha), located southeast of Ballard, Utah, that is reputed to be the site of paranormal and UFO-related activities. Its name is taken from the skin-walker of Navajo legend concerning vengeful shamans.

UFO reports in the Uintah Basin were publicized in the 1970s. Claims about the ranch first appeared in 1996 in the Salt Lake City, Utah, Deseret News, and later in the alternative weekly Las Vegas Mercury as a series of articles by investigative journalist George Knapp. These early stories detailed the claims of a family that allegedly experienced inexplicable and frightening events after they purchased and occupied the property.

The ranch, located in west Uintah County bordering the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, was popularly dubbed the UFO ranch due to its ostensible 50-year history of odd events said to have taken place there. According to Kelleher and Knapp, they saw or investigated evidence of close to 100 incidents that include vanishing and mutilated cattle, sightings of unidentified flying objects or orbs, large animals with piercing red eyes that they say were unscathed when struck by bullets, and invisible objects emitting destructive magnetic fields. Among those involved were retired US Army Colonel John B. Alexander, who characterized the NIDSci effort as an attempt to get hard data using a "standard scientific approach". However, the investigators admitted to "difficulty obtaining evidence consistent with scientific publication".

Cattle mutilations have been part of the folklore of the surrounding area for decades. When Robert Bigelow, founder of the National Institute for Discovery Science, purchased the ranch for $200,000 in 1996, this was reportedly the result of his having been convinced by the stories of mutilations, that included tales of strange lights and unusual impressions made in grass and soil told by the family of former ranch owner Terry Sherman.

In 2005, Colm Kelleher and co-author George Knapp published a book, Hunt for the Skinwalker, in which they describe the ranch being acquired by Bigelow to study anecdotal sightings of UFOs, bigfoot-like creatures, crop circles, glowing orbs and poltergeist activity reported by its former owners.

Kelleher and Knapp's book was read by Defense Intelligence Agency official James Lacatski, who contacted Bigelow and obtained permission to visit the ranch. Lacatski had a supernatural experience there, which Bigelow relayed to his friend Harry Reid. Reid and Ted Stevens, a UFO experiencer, quickly agreed that the ranch deserved attention and inserted a line into the Department of Defense budget appropriating $22 million to study unidentified aerial phenomena.

The ranch is now the focus of a documentary series on the History Channel, and is the subject of much lore and speculation. Has anyone visited the Ranch or have any experiences to share...

MEDIA REVIEW: INVESTIGATION ALIEN

For over four decades, George Knapp, a veteran investigative journalist, leads a complex investigation into extraterrestrial phenomena in the docuseries Investigation Alien. His method combines skepticism and curiosity, drawing viewers into a world where each episode raises more questions than answers.The importance of Investigation Alien lies in its relevance to current cultural discussions, especially in light of recent government disclosures that have elevated UFO discussions from fringe narrative to serious public debate. This series taps into societal concerns about secrecy and the unknown, offering a new angle on our place in the cosmos.

The series uses moody cinematography that helps tell the story, a lot like how a well-composed jazz song does. Each shot captures the vastness of the desert and the personal accounts of eyewitnesses, creating a rich audiovisual experience that enhances the narrative. By challenging us to engage with the mysteries it presents, Investigation Alien becomes a cultural artifact in this way.

Unidentified is the word that is key when the question of alien presence on Earth (and close to it) is brought up, as the ever-present (long before the fifties) question of what was in the post-WWII first-dubbed as flying saucers, then morphed into UFOs, and is now UAP - unidentified anomalous phenomena.

The word unidentified brings mystery in itself, so it is no wonder that both the fictional and documentary films and series on UAPs (let’s keep it current) are so popular. As could be expected, the interest value and, at the same time, the quality of those can vary wildly, all depending on the quality of the makers and the research they do when preparing their material.

Netflix is no stranger to such films and series, particularly in recent years - from William Shatner’s Unexplained (2019) to Top Secret UFO Projects Declassified (2021). Recently, Netflix presented another docuseries on this list the six-episode-long Investigation Alien.

I hope there is another season of this series, and George Knapp is one of my favorite UFOologists these days. George brings a sense of journalistic integrity to the UFO phenomenon, and I recommend this show completely...

MY RATING: 9 out of 10

THE REAL MEN IN BLACK

In popular culture, men in black (MIB) are United States federal government agents who wear black suits and prevent UFO witnesses from sharing evidence related to their encounters. MIB don't necessarily wear dark suits and work for the government — the term "men in black" can refer to any mysterious figures who appear after UFO sightings.

Some people believe that the mysterious men in black are actually aliens in disguise. The central figure in a UFO legend, Albert Bender was allegedly silenced by menacing men in black because he had discovered the answer to the UFO mystery.

While some contactees offer a rosy picture of UFO phenomena, other saucer enthusiasts believe sinister forces oppose the Space Brothers' benevolent mission. Some of these are extraterrestrial and others terrestrial, and they work together to thwart the emergence of the truth.

Among the early victims of this evil "Silence Group" was Albert K. Bender of Bridgeport, Connecticut. In 1952 Bender formed the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), which met with immediate success, but he shut it down the next year under mysterious circumstances.

Albert Bender

In due course Bender confided that three men in black had imparted to him the terrifying answer to the UFO mystery and turned his life into a nightmare. He would say no more. Three years later an IFSB associate, Gray Barker, wrote a book about the episode; the title perfectly captured the paranoia abroad in UFO-land: "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers."

Through the "Bender mystery" the legend of the men in black came into the world — even though, as Barker observed, a man in black had played a villainous role in the Maury Island Incident (read more about the Maury Island Incident). According to Barker, the MIB were ranging as far afield as Australia and New Zealand, scaring still more UFO buffs into silence.

By the late 1980s MIB tales had become sufficiently ubiquitous that "The Journal of American Folklore" took note of them in a long article. Just who the MIB were remained unclear. To saucerians enamored with conspiracy theories, they were enforcers for the Silence Group, associated with international banking interests that sought to stifle the technological advances and moral reforms the Space Brothers wanted to bestow on Earthlings.

To others, they were alien beings — perhaps, some speculated, Richard Sharpe Shaver's deros. In 1962 Bender came down on the side of the alien school. Breaking his nine-year silence in "Flying Saucers and the Three Men," which he insisted was not a science-fiction novel, Bender revealed that the men in black who drove him out of ufology were monsters from the planet Kazik.

Even Barker, the book's publisher and a relentless Bender promoter, remarked privately and out of customers' hearing, that maybe it had all been a "dream."After nine years Albert Bender broke his silence and revealed the "truth" in Flying Saucers and the Three Men. According to Bender, the men in black were monsters from the distant plant Kazik.

­Fear of the MIB was generated in part by worries about the possibly hostile motives of UFOs. A popular early book, "Flying Saucers on the Attack" by Harold T. Wilkins (1954), fretted th­at a "Cosmic General Staff could even now be plotting a real-life war of the worlds. But next to demonologist-ufologist John A. Keel, author of "UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse" (1970) and other writings, Wilkins sounded like an optimist.

In Keel's rendering UFO intelligences are not simply extraterrestrials but "ultraterrestrials"-entities from unimaginable other dimensions of reality. Worse, they definitely do not like us at all.

Human beings, Keel thunders, are "like ants, trying to view reality with very limited perceptive equipment. . . . We are biochemical robots helplessly controlled by forces that can scramble our brains, destroy our memories and use us in any way they see fit. They have been doing it to us forever."

ADMIRAL RICHARD BYRD AND THE HOLLOW EARTH

In August 1946, a remarkable and esteemed figure in American history embarked on an extraordinary expedition to the icy depths of Antarctica. Admiral Richard Byrd, a distinguished US naval officer and explorer, had already made a name for himself as one of the first pilots to soar over both the North and South Poles. His journey to the frozen southern continent, named Operation High Jump, was not only remarkable for its sheer scale but also for the mysterious and perplexing events that allegedly transpired during the mission. With 13 ships, 23 aircraft, and over 4,700 military personnel, this was the largest expedition ever to venture into Antarctica, and it carried a sense of importance that resonated far beyond its immediate goals.

Operation High Jump was launched shortly after the conclusion of World War II. Admiral Byrd was tasked with leading this significant expedition for an extended period of four months, spanning the months of December, January, February, and March. The mission was not without its specific military objectives, as there was a list of goals that they were meant to achieve. However, something peculiar occurred by the end of February, which cast a veil of secrecy over the expedition.

One of the official objectives of the mission was to investigate potential sites for establishing military bases in Antarctica. This might seem like a reasonable and practical goal given the strategic importance of the region during the war. However, as Admiral Byrd's exploration unfolded, he purportedly stumbled upon something entirely unexpected. This story, it is said, originates from his diaries, not the published account of the trip. What makes it all the more intriguing is the notion that it was suppressed by government authorities who found its content deeply unsettling.

In his diary, which was reportedly discovered by his son after his death, Admiral Byrd recorded an extraordinary tale. He described hearing about an entrance to the center of the Earth through the South Pole, a concept that has long captured the human imagination. Driven by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he led planes under the South Pole to explore this mysterious phenomenon. As he flew over the pole, he was met with an astonishing sight - a temperate and lush environment, a stark contrast to the harsh, frozen landscapes that typified Antarctica.

This, however, was merely the beginning of the mesmerizing narrative. According to Byrd's diary, he continued his journey and stumbled upon a shimmering rainbow city, constructed entirely of crystal. This city was unlike anything he had ever witnessed. To add to the enigma, his airplane suddenly came under the control of unknown forces, and he observed flying disk-shaped objects surrounding him. These objects guided him to the ground, leading him to an expansive, cavernous area, where he had an encounter with a being he referred to as "the master."

In this diary, Admiral Byrd detailed an astonishing conversation with "the master." This being conveyed deep concern about humanity's use of nuclear weapons, particularly the recent and devastating bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The master expressed a sincere apprehension about the state of affairs on the Earth's surface. They fervently hoped that humanity would put an end to its destructive tendencies.

What makes this account even more intriguing is its temporal context. The modern UFO era began shortly after World War II, coinciding with the detonation of the first atomic bombs. Additionally, there has been a notable correlation between UFO sightings and the proximity of nuclear missile silos. Reports from military officers at these silos suggest that extraterrestrial beings have disarmed nuclear weapons, further accentuating their concern regarding humanity's actions.

If we accept the authenticity of Admiral Byrd's secret diary, it unveils a compelling narrative that points to the existence of highly advanced beings residing within the Earth's depths. These beings appear to closely monitor events transpiring on the surface. In fact, after this extraordinary encounter, Admiral Byrd was eager to share his story, only to be met with strict orders to remain silent. He was ushered into a government compound, where he was sternly instructed never to disclose the events he had experienced. Everything related to his Antarctic expedition and subsequent discoveries was classified, leaving Admiral Byrd's enigmatic journey shrouded in secrecy.

This enigmatic story beckons us to explore a profound connection between ancient traditions and beliefs in mysterious beings dwelling inside the Earth and the modern-day UFO phenomenon. Ancient astronaut theorists believe that this narrative not only substantiates the existence of inner Earth beings but also suggests that they are actively engaged in monitoring surface events. As we continue to advance technologically and explore the mysteries of our planet, it raises the intriguing possibility that we may one day come face to face with these enigmatic beings from the inner Earth. This tantalizing prospect leaves us with more questions than answers, as we ponder the secrets hidden beneath the Earth's surface and the mysteries of the cosmos that may be intertwined with our own existence...

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