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Huge UFO Leaves Its Mark on Israeli Corn Field
On Sunday, Sept. 19, Tsafrir Meisel was descending a hill near his home in the Jezreel Valley village of Tel Adashim when he saw an unexplained clearing in a corn field below.
He investigated and discovered what he thought might have been vandalism to the corn crop. He phoned the local police station and requested to speak to his brother-in-law, officer Gedalia Reiken. He told the duty officer that hundreds of corn plants were crushed but since there were no paths to the field, the incident might be one concerning an unidentified flying object.
This phone call was apparently monitored by the radio station Reshet Aleph but since it was the first day of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, not many people heard the announcement of a possible UFO landing when it was broadcast. Tsafrir told a neighbour what he saw and she called a UFO enthusiast of her acquaintance, Oren Yosef of Tel Aviv, to inform him about the "landing." Oren called two fellow UFO investigators, Gil Bar and me and we arrived the next day with video and still cameras, nylon samples bags, and a tape measurer.
May I switch to first person? I was the first and so far, only journalist to visit the site. It was absolutely fresh and untouched when I entered it. My, in fact our, first impression was of utter awe. The corn was literally high as an elephant's eye, over eight feet tall, and it formed a daunting wall around an enormous formation, allowing us to sketch an exact impression of the site's shape. The object which made the indentation was by far the largest of the many UFO images and circles left on Israeli soil since its UFO wave began in 1987. In the middle of the formation were what we initially thought were wings, stretching an amazing forty meters from tip to tip. Above and below the wings was were quarter circle protrusions, twenty meters in length and fifteen meters distance from each other, which we assumed were images of the body of the plane. Above the wings were two symetrical protusions, about two meters in width, five meters long and situated 20 meters from each other. The overall impression was of an ellipsoid shaped object with long triagular wings ending in blunt tips and two exhaust pipes protruding just above the wings. I drew the image in my mind and it looked like a classic UFO. There was something deeply bothersome about the shape of the formation but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
After creating an impression of the site, we began our search for clues. The first thing I noticed were the corn cobs; the hair seemed burnt and when we removed the peels, the corn was dried out, covered in a pink gummy fluid and even looked partly eaten. But to cut to the chase, we later showed the many samples we had collected to local farmers and they explained that the corn was past its prime and insects and fungi had attacked it. Corn gathered from a hundred meters away had the same characteristics.
However, there was no denying that the corn stalks were bent dramatically, most right to the ground, in a north-south direction. The northern wall of the formation stood straight, while the southern side was swept dramatically downward. All other Israeli landing circles that I was aware of, were round and formed by spiral swirling. This site was formed in a one directional sweep.
Further, all previous Isaeli circles had an abundance of physical evidence within, including shards of nearly pure silicon, red oil and white powder. There wasn't an iota of physical leftovers within the Tel Adashim site. Also bothersome was the massive size of the craft. Most Israel circles were in the 4.5 meter diameter range. The largest previous landing site occurred in Kadima on January 15/95 and it was fifteen meters in length. The Tel Adashim site was a whopping forty meters in length and that didn't fit the Israeli pattern. As I stood in the deep corn canyon created by the craft, I realized that this was no landing site but I saved my opinion until we sat down in a restaurant a few hours later.
Local residents saw our car parked in the middle of nowhere and stopped to check us out. They ducked down and followed the short trail into the site. They were no less awed than we were, even though this was not everyone's first UFO encounter. Dov Nir is friends with small craft plane enthusiasts and in 1992 he had taken a series of controversial aerial photographs of a crop formation at Kibbutz Dalia. His brother-in-law Chaim related how three months before, he saw a triangular UFO hovering over the Jezreel Valley which "then took off in a flash and disappeared."
Last April, Israel's first verified crop formation occurred in a wheat field beside the Jezreel Valley town of Bet Zarzir, barely ten miles away. Materials found within this site are being investigated in the US. Prelimary findings by Dr. W.C. Levengood and Nancy Talbott have verified that a most unusual event took place there. (I digress: The Bet Zarzir incident is becoming weirder. Though the town is keeping a lid on the matter, a few residents reported seeing glowing giants in their homes on the night the formation was made.)
After we had completed our investigation, we began the drive back which was interrupted by an overwhelming sense of tiredness. Oren and Gil had fallen asleep in minutes and I was too weary to drive. So I pulled over at a restaurant and there we reflected on the day's events. We, as well as the local residents agreed, this was not caused by human intervention. There was no path of any kind for the kind of machine that would be needed to create an exact symetrical image forty meters in length out of corn. Thus, Oren and Gil assumed that a UFO landed there. I asked Gil to draw the UFO and his impression nearly matched mine. He drew the kind of classic craft seen many thousands of times worldwide. I then explained that the site could not have been created by a craft landing. It was not feasible for the underside of a UFO to be shaped so strangely. What we saw was a UFO in profile. The craft had most likely created a pictogram of itself in the corn. The wings we thought we saw, were, in fact, the middle rim of the craft. This bore the trademark of the Shikmona Beach incident of September, 1987 when a craft burned its images onto the sands below and initiated the current Israeli UFO wave.
It took a while but Oren and Gil were swayed by my logic. Oren noted, "The formation at Tel Adashim was found on Rosh Hashana day so must have been made on Rosh Hashana evening. The Shikomona Beach pictograph was made on Rosh Hashana evening as well, eleven years before to the day."
Gil added, "The Bet Zarzir formation was made last April on the first night of Passover." I noted, "All the circles in the Kadima area which led to encounters with giant beings occurred on the Sabbath."
Trying to make sense of the Israeli UFO phenomena seems to require be historical refrences. The Jezreel Valley, which has produced two crop formations this year, has its share of noted biblical sites. A few miles before Tel Adashim, we passed Mount Tabor, where Jesus spent forty days in isolation before beginning his ministry. Had we kept driving, it would have taken us ten minutes to arrive at Mount Megiddo (Har Megiddo), the biblical site of Armageddon.
Triangular UFOs Over Rishon Letzion
In early November two residents of Rishon Letzion, some fifteen miles southwest of Tel Aviv contacted me through my UFO website. Both had seen impressive triangular UFOs over the skies of the city.
Rishon Letzion has become Israel's premier UFO hotspot over the past year. Last November, 16 year old Gil Bar filmed an Israeli Air Force F-15 chasing an elliptic-shaped UFO over Rishon Letzion in broad daylight. He publicized his accomplishment and this led to his collecting of four other UFOs filmed by Rishon Letzion Residents.
On November 5 of this year, Gil and I visited the two latest witnesses. Our first stop was at Adrian Dvir's apartment. Dvir, an electrical engineer by trade, is convinced that aliens guide his hands while healing ailing patients. He has gathered around him a group of five other "alien healers" and on October 9 while they were meeting together, a UFO appeared in the sky and they filmed it.
Now I interject. Adrian tried his "alien healing" on me and, to say the least, I remain a total skeptic about his claims. Nonetheless, his film is the genuine article. It is a splendid amateur film of a craft with no shortage of background perspective backing its veracity. The finest moment on the film is a closeup of the craft revealing three beautiful balls, one orange, the others silver and white in a perfect triangular formation. This is one of the finest UFO films taken in Israel and that is saying a great deal. It has been my experience at UFO conferences on three continents that Israeli UFO footage is the most compelling and genuine in the world.
Our next stop was at the nearby home of Avishai Granot. He is a twenty year veteran of the Israeli Defence Forces who is now a computer graphic artist. He prepared a graphic of the UFOs he witnessed for us. They were two triangular craft which flew over the eastern section of Rishon Letzion on October 16. They matched Dvir's description and his film.
Granot told us, "The UFOs came from the north at lightning speed, hovered over the city for about a minute and disappeared in a flash making a suction noise as it went." When he saw Dvir's film he immediately identified the craft captured on the screen as the same ones he had seen."
Initially Granot would not say what his function was in the army. He only hinted, "I know every craft and weapon we've got and what I saw wasn't one of them." Over the evening Granot, a very intense man, warmed up enough to admit that the military and police used his parapsychological gift in many ways, including in the location of missing soldiers. He is most reluctant to detail his gifts but gave us examples of what can best be described as autokinesis. He has long given up the practise of parapsychology bcause of the strain it put on his life.
Gil and I left, perplexed to say the least. He was even more skeptical of Adrian Dvir's claims of alien healing talents than I was, and I was the one who suffered through a demonstration on his healing table. Yet both of us acknowledged that Avishai Granot was a most stable and serious witness.
And we agreed the evidence we had collected was superb. Dvir's film was beautifully corroborated by Granot's graphic. In an area of 100,000 people, the only witnesses to this most remarkable triangular UFO claimed extraordinary mental powers. Dvir and his fellow healers boasted of theirs, while Granot reluctantly admitted that his had been recognized by the Israeli military.
"What do you think it means?" asked Gil. I confidently answered, "G-d knows.
UFO Mid-Air Crash Filmed In Israel
Yet another landmark event in the eleven year long Israeli UFO wave has taken place. In what appears to be a historical first, a mid-air crash between two UFOs has been video-taped.
On 28/9/95, Spasso Maximovitch noticed an unexplainable object in the skies over Rosh Haayin in central Israel. He grabbed his video camera and captured a silvery, glowing object become, two, three and then four fiery orbs, in a near square formation, over a wide expanse of the northwestern sky. After this incident, Mr. Maximovitch became a constant skywatcher. His dilgence was rewarded on 24/6/96 when a similar silvery orb appeared in the lower western sky. He trained his video camera on the orb...
And then a glowing white oval-shaped object appeared some 20 degrees west of the object and streaked toward it at high speed. Within three seconds it struck the stationary orb, causing a huge explosion in the sky which must have destroyed both objects. Stunned, Maximovitch stopped filming immediately after capturing the explosion.
He privately turned over the two films to journalist David Ronen and I acquired copies. Ronen, who for three years had his own UFO column in a weekend magazine owned by the newspaper Maariv, got the ax two months ago.
People with UFO experiences still seek him out and he is free to utilize their material, some of it he hopes will be included in a film project he is involved with.
However, the vast bulk of the videotapes, photos and testimonies are the property of Maariv and are being stored in a safe within the newspaper's headquarters. To his utter frustration, Ronen has, so far, not been given free access to the invaluable documentation. If the Maximovitch tapes are any indication of what Maariv is holding back, the full story of Israel's UFO wave is far more dramatic than currently believed.
I have sent the two Maximovitch tapes to Union Skyline Pictures of London for examination and possible inclusion in their upcoming three part series Riddle Of The Skies, which will be broadcast by Channel Four in the UK and RTL in Germany. A stumbling block has been encountered, however: Maximovitch cannot be located for permission to release his tapes for the series.
Nonetheless, numerous Israeli videotapers of UFOs have agreed to allow their films to appear in the series.
They include, Ehud Baraban, who taped a stunning triangular formation over Tel Aviv, Adrian Gvir, who captured a colorful triangular craft over Rishon Letzion, Gil Bar, who taped an F-16 chasing a UFO over the daylight skies of Rishon Letzion, Rafi Malka, responsible for Israel's first UFO videotape in 1988, of a large craft with numerous lights over Haifa, the Shuah family, who caught a closeup of what appears to be a multi-vent UFO energy system over Kibbutz Hatzor and Nahum Shomroni, who, in November '97, recorded on tape an invasion of black, sponge-shaped craft over Tel Aviv in mid-day.
With or without the explosion over Rosh Haayin, the Israeli segment of the series will be exciting.
Whether included by Union Skyline or not, I will present the Rosh Haayin mid-air crash (or possibly deliberate destruction) of the two unidentified objects to experts in our field or at conferences. It is my opinion that this tape is an invaluable record of a most mysterious event.
Israeli Mid-Air UFO Explosion Analyzed. It's The Real Thing
Last month I reported that I had acquired a video copy of a mid-air UFO explosion over the Israeli city of Rosh Haayin. I wrote that my impression was the video captured a profoundly important moment: the first mid-air UFO collision ever recorded. I requested that experts analyze the film scientifically.
Within a day, Dwight Connelly of MUFON committed himself to having the video analyzed. The video is a compilation of two UFO events recorded by Spasso Maximovitch in 1995 and 1996. I sent Dwight both clips and he passed them on to MUFON's video expert Jeff Sanio for computer analysis. The following is his report.
I will not comment on his conclusions. Jeff has no need of my analysis of his analysis. Let's just sum matters up like this: It's The Real Thing. Added to Israel's list of UFO firsts, is the first mid-air explosion between two unexplained aerial craft ever captured on videotape or any other media.
Several film and TV producers asked me to release the clip for their programs but I had to turn them down. I am prevented by a copyright problem from reproducing the film, though I am permitted to display my copy. I am seeking a conference to premiere this remarkable event. In the meantime, I will publish MUFON's full report on http://members.tripod.com/~ufoisrael.
Text of the MUFON Report:
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:39:44 -0800
From: Jeff Sainio (jsainio @ execpc.com)
To: chamish@netvision.net.il
Subject: my report
I left out the stills from the video, as you've already seen them. The paper copy has already been sent.
Dwight Connelly
14026 Ridgelawn
Martinsville IL 62442
1-16-99
Ph:217-382-4502,4014
Videoanalysis 6/24/96
Rosh Haayin, central Israel
Spasso Maximovitch
Events as reported to me from Barry Chamish (chamish@netvision.net.il): `On 28/9/95, Spasso Maximovitch noticed an unexplainable object in the skies over Rosh Haayin in central Israel. He grabbed his video camera and captured a silvery, glowing object become, two, three and then four fiery orbs, in a near square formation, over a wide expanse of the northwestern sky. After this incident, Mr. Maximovitch became a constant skywatcher. His dilgence was rewarded on 24/6/96 when a similar silvery orb appeared in the lower western sky. He trained his video camera on the orb... And then a glowing white oval-shaped object appeared some 20 degrees west of the object and streaked toward it at high speed. Within three seconds it struck the stationary orb, causing a huge explosion in the sky which must have destroyed both objects. Stunned, Maximovitch stopped filming immediately after capturing the explosion.`
The submitted video, which was in PAL format, was converted to NTSC format. It shows several events; a group of lights, one apparently dropped from another (the dropping is seen in the stills marked 28/9/1995 and 3:27:33); a stationary light which is apparently struck by a moving light, and a triangle of lights. The group of lights is interesting, but I could find no basis for investigating any form of anomalousness. The triangle of lights has no reference objects to indicate what or where it is.
The stationary light was much more interesting. Various lights, probably streetlights, in the video were used as reference objects, and showed that the light was stationary over some 30 seconds. An approaching airplane's landing lights will appear stationary, although motionlessness over this length of time seems unusual.
A vertical tower structure, apparently made of girders, is near the light. Some horizontal structure is atop the structure. It was not sufficiently defined for continuous measurements to be made from it.
Another bright object appears to the left and slightly below the stationary object. In 2.9 seconds, it moves toward the stationary object, apparently hitting and exploding. In 1/4 second, the explosion disappears with no trace of either object. The 5-frame sequence to the right illustrates the sequence.
The bright object can be seen to move between the girders of the vertical structure. This is useful in determining the relative size of the moving light. (The size of the light as seen on the video, is misleading; it is presumably much smaller than what is seen, due to extreme overexposure and glare.) The light disappears or reappears completely 6 times; in 3, the change is abrupt; completely bright-to-dark or vice versa. In the other 3, the change is gradual, with a frame showing partial brightness. What can be learned from this? One must remember that the video is a sequence of 1/50 second time exposures. Assume the light is small, and that the moving object has only one light. If by chance, the disappearance coincides with the period between exposures, an abrupt disappearance will be seen. A large light, or several lights horizontally separated, will never disappear abruptly while moving slowly. Since 6 occurrences form a useful population of samples, the moving light can reliably be said to be quite small. This probably eliminates the flame from a missile as a source.
Although the vertical structure was not a reliable reference object, the two lights' relative position could be measured. Over 500 measurements of the two lights' position were made. The graph at right shows the distance between the 2 lights. Breaks in the data line are due to unreliable data from camera motion or the moving light going behind the girders. Reference straight lines show constant speed. The slopes of the lines show that the moving light spent about a second at some speed, then sped up about 16% before the collision. The 16% is not due to a zoom change; the tower is sufficiently visible to verify that its size does not appreciably change. Although the graph shows noise and missing data, the acceleration certainly occurred in under a second. No reasonable object I know of is capable of a 16% acceleration in a second.
When the 2 objects apparently collide and explode, the apparent size of the light expands by a factor of roughly 2.5; this does not appear to be due to overexposure, but is the real size of the object. The last 2 frames of the video are NOT overexposed, but diffuse; since overexposure is not involved, this indicates the actual size of the explosion is shown. The real increase in size of the bright area is certainly much larger than 2.5. In the video the explosion moves downward; this is probably due to camera motion of the startled videographer; the reference tower is too smeared to verify this conclusion.
The explosion is not due to any conventional method I am familiar with; conventional, large explosions require much more than 1/4 second to disappear, and usually generate flaming debris that falls from the explosion. Neither characteristic is seen here.
The acceleration, light size, and explosion are not explainable in any convention way that I know of, and this case remains unidentified.
Jeff Sainio
MUFON Staff Photoanalyst
7206 W. Wabash
Milwaukee WI 53223-2609
jsainio@qgraph.com
Proof of Surveillance
One must be most careful before accusing the powers that be of interfering with one's work lest one be accused of persecution complexes if not of paranoiac illnesses. With that in mind, and risking the consequences, I've got a strong case which I will present for your understanding.
In the past month and a half, I have released for expert eyes only, a video clip of a mid-air explosion between two unearthly craft over the city of Rosh Haayin and what appears to many eyes to be a genuine "alien" being captured on videotape in the city of Ramat Hachayal in 1996. Before doing so I was warned of the dire consequences of copyright infringement and the legal risks I took. Thus, I was careful not to reproduce the material for mass consumption.
Here are some of the events of the last two weeks that appear to be connected to the material that recently came into my possession.
- Michael Hesemann mailed me a package with two videotapes of UFOs within. It arrived with the tapes removed. When I informed him, he wrote back, "Goddam them. Look at the contents slip on the package. It reads two videos enclosed. I can't afford to Fedex you everything."
- My webmaster at http://members.tripod.com/~ufoisrael received such a vicious legal threat for alleged copyright infringement that he shut down the site for a week. He put it back up when I explained that my material had been gathered legally and there was no basis for the threats.
- Gala Carr, an assistant producer at Union Skyline Films, has been e-mailing me trying to coordinate the Israeli segment of her company's upcoming documentary series Riddle Of The Skies, which I organized. All return e-mails to her were sent back to me with the message that her address does not exist. So I resent the correspondence to her associate at Union Films, Cherry Brewer. Again, the letters were sent back to me for the same wrong reason.
- While copying films in a Jerusalem studio for Granada TV, another client warned me non-stop that I had better turn over the films to the Shabak (Israel's FBI), and if I didn't they'd come to take them. He also inquired where I was sending the tape I was preparing.
Okay, maybe all a coincidence. However, last night I was supposed to be interviewed on Scott Colborn's radio show, but he never called. Let our correspondence speak for itself.
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Chamish (chamish@netvision.net.il)
To: kcolborn@inetnebr.com (kcolborn@inetnebr.com)
Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 12:52 PM
Subject: Signed Guestbook
Saw your comment on my site. I'm sorry you didn't call for the show. I'm sure there was a good reason. I would have loved to have let your listeners know what is happening here. Frankly, I've spent the past few hours sitting by the phone and wondering what went wrong. I'd like to know. Barry
At 22:28 06/02/99 -0600, you wrote:
Hello Barry,
What a comedy of errors. We began calling you at 10:10 am Central Time, and got a busy signal. After calling continuously until 10:30 am Central Time (and getting a busy signal), we called the local phone company in Lincoln, NE, which is Aliant, and tried to get an operator to help us.
After trying the number repeatedly through the operator, she informed us that "something was wrong" with the number you had given us and she couldn't complete our call for us (she was also getting a busy signal – but if we let the "busy signal" continue for 20-30 seconds, then it ceased and we would get a pre-recorded message saying the number was incorrect).
I had e-mailed you Friday night and told you I was going to be calling, and at which time. The number you gave me in a previous e-mail was: 972 8 9720804.
According to my phone carrier, Aliant, the international access number to direct dial is: 011.
So the number we tried dialing from 10:10 until about 10:40 am, when it became evident that we weren't going to have you as a guest, was: 011-972-8-972-0---.
This was the phone number that was in my e-mail of confirmation to you Friday night. I suggest you contact your local phone company and ask for their advice or ideas on why the above phone number couldn't be accessed.
Apparently my time zone of Central Time is 8 hours different from Israel (does Israel have daylight saving and a time change – setting clocks back in the fall and forward in the spring?), so if you're on the same time differential as us, I had been trying to call you at approximately 6:10-6:40 pm Israel time today. Were you or a member of your family on the telephone during this time today continuously, so that the busy signal we were getting was your phone being in use?
I sent out an e-mail to my mailing group alerting them of this radio interview, and had publicized this program in the last several weeks live during my previous weekly interviews with other guest, so this was a frustrating experience for myself and my producer, Jan. I've been doing the weekly radio program since 1984 and have had only 5 other times I couldn't get the guest on the phone. I'm sorry to say you were number six today.
I would appreciate a response from you and your thoughts as to why we couldn't complete our call to you today. Thank you.
Walk in Beauty, Peace. Scott
Scott,
I swear to you my line wasn't busy. And if you're skeptical, I'll get my phone records. THAT IS MY NUMBER. I WAS NOT talking on the phone, I was beside the phone. An hour after, I got a local call.
Okay. you want to discuss paranoia. Michael Hesemann, the German ufologist sent me a package of two UFO tapes last week. The package arrived with the tapes removed. There is no way on G-d's earth that your phone call shouldn't have rung my phone. 972-8-9720 – IS my number. I was NOT speaking on the phone. WE WERE INTERFERED WITH.
Please phone me as soon as you can, the same way you called me yesterday. Just for a minute, it won't be costly. You'll see you get through now. I WILL NOT HAVE A RECORDING ON MY LINE.
THERE was no comedy of errors. There were no errors. You called correctly and I was beside the phone. Phone again and you'll see. Last week the man who runs my website received a threat that so startled him he shut down the site until I consoled him. My work is being "neutralized."
My opinion is we can't let it happen. Can we tape a show at a pre-determined time? If your call doesn't get through I'll go to a friend's house and I'll call you. Barry
There you have it folks. You decide if there is a pattern, or I'm just "paranoid."
For those who aren't aware of my work, I also wrote a book called Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin (Feral House), which proves beyond any doubt that the convicted assassin of Rabin could not possibly have done the deed. As a result of this research, I have become an expert on how official coverups work. To stifle public understanding of the accuracy of my case, organized riots were staged outside two of my lectures and a semi-sophisticated nation-wide smear campaign was launched against me in the Israeli media.
However, this strategy boomeranged when the publicity brought witnesses out of the dark and thousands of people accepted my proofs. So, the strategy was changed and the media was surreptiously but convincingly warned not to continue publicizing my findings. Various reporters and editors told me the threats used against them if they dared mention my name again.
Now, to my astonishment, the same tactics are being employed against my UFO research. And, as with the Rabin research, the threats are empty but effective. I will present one example. I was warned by an attorney not to publicize the videotape with the "alien" captured within because of copyright infringement. Thanks to Marilyn Ruben, I discovered that the tape had been on the Internet for a year and I was not in infringement of any known copyright laws. See for yourself at ORANGE ORBS
With that knowledge, I had no fear of Marilyn putting the filmed "alien" on her site at ALIEN PHOTO
Yes, Virginia, there is surveillance. And there is something on the latest two UFO tapes I have acquired that is stirring the authorities into action.
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