Underwater UFOs
While a large portion of the population of the world is concentrated along waterways, lakes and the seashore, most of their attention is focused on land related concerns. Sailors, however, for reasons of survival are alert to and observant of their environment. Every nuance of the water, weather, and their vessel is critical to a safe voyage. As the old adage points out, “The Sea is a harsh mistress.” It is this writer’s opinion that serious sailors, for the most part, are dependable and believable observers; their survival is dependant on it.
Sailors’ observations of anomalous creatures and objects at sea have a long and rich history. Some of the descriptions that have come down to us seem laughable and incredible in light of modern advances in technology and knowledge, but to the ancients these “fanciful” tales were the product of their best effort to communicate their experience in terms understandable to themselves and their contemporaries. Some of these tales are, without doubt, the result of bored men on long, dangerous voyages attempting to entertain themselves at sea and awe impressionable “landlubbers” on their return to port. On the other hand, it seems reasonable, since some of the fantastic creatures ancient mariners described are acknowledged by modern science to actually exist, to suppose that modern sailors’ observations of what are apparently the same objects, couched in modern terms, are the same objects.
Although well known as having an affinity for water and there being numerous observations reported, instances of UFO’s interaction with water do not appear to be widely familiar to the UFO community at large. It is this author’s intent to attempt to bring these incidents a little closer to the forefront of the community’s attention.
Below are three examples, taken as a whole or in part, from various web sites to illustrate the variety of reports involving UFOs and water. A plethora of interesting hits will result from a quick search on the reader’s favorite search engine using “ufo underwater marine” as parameters.
A. Sighting of underwater UFO
1. "Joseph Foster writes, "In mid April of 1970, we were anchored four miles off shore on the US Coast Guard Cutter Mellon. The Captain authorized swim call in the late afternoon and I had the watch with a M-16 rifle on the flying bridge to guard for sharks. The swimming party was diving off the main deck into the water and swimming to a raft. Eight of us and the Captain were watching the 20 swimmers when our attention was drawn to a large underwater object, that slowly moved directly under the ship. The object was an elliptical shaped dark shadow, that was by our estimate was 90 feet in length and 30 feet wide. It was about 50 feet deep and moving perpendicular to the axis of our ship. The entire sighting lasted no more than 20 or 30 seconds. The men in the water had no idea that a large object cruised directly under them. We ruled out whale shark or whale because there was no gyration of a tail or any other appendages visible. Our crew also had other UFO sightings. During our July, we sere on Ocean Station Victor patrol, when we had radar contact with three targets traveling at speeds in excess of 3000 mph halfway between Midway Island and Japan. Eight crewman saw three white lights traveling southwest in a 'v' formation. A sitrep report was filed. Our second sighting took place in May of 1970 while we were 600 miles east of Guam. One of my duties as Quartermaster was celestial navigation. On the 4 - 8 shift, I had to shoot morning and evening stars. I was with the Captain 'shooting' the stars, when we noticed a bright shiny perfect sphere that seemed to have the consistency of liquid mercury. The object was traveling west southwest at 100 knots at an altitude of 2500 feet. In Honolulu, I made friends with a Fleet Intelligence Yeoman, who stated, "We receive thousands of UFO reports from US Navy ships." UFOs come in and out of the water and fly directly in front of our ships."
B. Abduction on a river
1. "The place was an abandoned shipyard along the Pascagoula River, at the South Eastern tip of Mississippi. The two men (Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker) intended to test some new fishing equipment, but had little success and were about to look for better place.
It was 7:00pm and the night was dark, when they first had their attention caught by a "loud zipping sound" coming from behind them. They turned around to see the source of the sound, and were amazed and also terrified to see a gray domed football shaped or egg-shaped object surrounded by a blue gloom hovering towards them. The object was estimated to have 30 to 40 feet of length, 8 to 10 feet high, "the size of a big truck" but "without any bolts, as if made in one piece." It had two windows and two blue lights at its fronts. It hovered just a few feet above the ground about forty feet from the river bank, on a junkyard covered with dismantled car carcasses.
As they watched, a hatchway opened, or appeared, and a brilliant light poured out. Moments later three strange entities floated out just above the water and straight to the men.
The three beings approached the men at a stunning speed, two of them grabbed Hickson and he felt a stinging sensation in his left arm. When they put their arms under both sides of his body to support him he felt paralyzed and numb. He lost all feeling, including that of weight, and quickly fainted, when the two entities carried him inside the ship. Before fainting he could see the third one grabbing Parker, and the teenager also fainting with fright brought towards the object.
He was floated to a bare, brightly-lit room in the UFO's interior. He could not see where the light came from. He still could not move, although he remained conscious.
The entities placed him in a 45 degrees reclining position, still "floating” in air, and an instrument that resembled a "big eye" appeared from the UFO's wall, floated in mid-air towards to 6 inches in front of Hickson's face and scanned back and forth across his body with thoroughness, as if it were examining or photographing him. The beings turned his body from side to side several times, as if to make sure that the scanning eye can "photograph" his body entirely. The "eye" then disappeared again in the wall, where it could not be seen anymore.
At this point Hickson could not see the beings who he thought was behind him, he could not get his mouth to function. Hickson was left floating, while the beings left the room, probably to examine Parker.
This episode lasted somewhere between 15 and 40 minutes, Hickson is not at all sure about the time. Hickson was quite convinced that they went to some other room to examine Parker. Then the beings entered Hickson's line of vision again. Two of them dragged Hickson back out of the object, with his feet dragging on the ground, to where they had picked him up on the river bank and let him fall carelessly on the ground: his legs gave out and he fell. Looking up Hickson saw Parker, who was standing motionless with his arms outstretched, as if in shock.
Parker who had lapsed in and out of consciences, remembered being taken toward the ship, hearing a whistling noise and a click, then seeing the interior lights just before he was floated outside. He was left standing not being able to move, and looking out onto the river.
Hickson crawled towards Parker, who was weeping and seemed very shocked, but then he realised that he could stand. Hickson heard the "zipping sound" again and turned to see the blue flashing lights that first caught his attention. He saw the object shoot upwards and vanish at about 50 feet "in less than a second."
Hickson and Parker sat in a car for the next 45 minutes calming their shattered nerves, trying to decide what to do next. Hickson drank whiskey during this conversation in the car. As the two men began to regain their composure, they were uncertain as to what they should do. Reluctant to report their harrowing experience, they felt obligated to tell someone: they were truly convinced that the government might want, or ought, to know about what they understood as a state of the art alien invasion of our planet. Parker suggested they contact the military. So despite fearing ridicule, Hickson located a pay phone and called Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, 30 miles west of Pascagoula. A sergeant there told him that the Airforce did not handle UFO reports, and advised them to report their problem to their local sheriff's office. Afraid of what reaction they might get from law enforcement, they opted instead to drive to their local newspaper the Mississippi Press Register. Parker who was driving got out and explained to Hickson that there was a clock in the building and he wanted to know what time it was. Finding the office closed, they decided to take their bizarre story to the sheriff after all. They called the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, led by Fred Diamond, where the deputy Captain Ryder, who took the call urged them to come in to the station and talk in person as he realised something important had happened because of the alarmed tone of their voices. They were interrogated exhaustively."
(My note: Allen Hynek investigated this case and this was his reaction:)
"Meanwhile, the eastern United States had exploded into the great fall UFO flap of 1973. Not a day went by without newspaper and television coverage of UFO sightings. An enormous and persistent high-pressure system created clear skies and balmy nights for most of the month, creating obvious opportunities for sky gazing. The two outstanding cases in the news were Pascagoula and Coyne and they vied for attention – even front-page attention – with bulletins from the Middle East. (...) I picked up Hynek and drove him to Columbus. I had never seen him in such mental distress." - Jeannie Zeidmann, Allen Hynek long time collaborator.
"One motive of distress for Dr. J. Allen Hynek was the Pascagoula abduction case. Although Allen Hynek did not like the idea that extra-terrestrial beings really abducted people, he studied this case and he could do nothing but believe in the obvious sincerity of the two witnesses."
(author’s note: I am at a loss as to the name of the web site this information came from. The author’s name is Patrick and the web site is located at the url below.)
C. Excerpt from "The Deception Of The Depths: Humanity and the Ocean of Secrecy" by Michael Mott
1. "Another "god from the sea" is described by the Dogon tribe of Mali (a people possibly of Egyptian descent), who claim that their ancestors received instruction in the arts of civilization from the NOMMOS, a scaled humanoid species which came from the sea in submersible vehicle, and told the Dogon about travelling to other stars and planets. In fact, the NOMMOS pointed out to the Dogon the existence of a dark-star companion to Sirius-B, which wasn't discovered by western astronomers until 1862. These NOMMOS are essentially identical in form to the Sumerian culture-god OANNES and his fellows, who was either an aspect of EA, or was one of his emissaries. OANNES made his home in the Persian Gulf, while EA was Lord of All Waters, with a partiality toward large freshwater bodies (according to Berossus, or Bel-Usur in Akkadian, a Chaldean priest of Bel in Babylon who wrote circa 290 B.C.)."
The Dogon people are a fascinating tribe with an indeterminate history. Their customs and rituals are rich, colorful, and somewhat puzzling, as indicated above. The reader can attain a better understanding of the enigmatic aspects of these people’s background and ceremonies by going here: http://cristalweb.com/ethno/index.php3?cat=art&id=3&lan=en
So, dear reader, enjoy. Just remember, UFOs…coming soon to a body of water near YOU!
