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Oakensen, Elsie
Oannes
Oberg, James
Ocala
OINTS
Operation Mainbrace
Orly 1956
OSI
Orthoteny
Ouranos
Oechsler, Robert
Elsie Oakensen reported that when she was driving home from work near the village of Church Stowe, Northamptonshire, England, on November 22, 1978, she saw a bell shaped UFO hovering a 100 ft above the road. She drove underneath, and continued on, but her car lost power. She felt enveloped in a pulsating light, lost consciousness and found herself further down to the road 15 minutes later when she regain consciousness. Four woman who did not know about this reported a similar UFO seen two hours later four miles from there. The UFO paced them, their car begun to loose power, until they entered the village of Preston Cape.
Oannes is reportedly an almost god-like creature that came to Earth and educated the ancient Babylonians. Astronomer Carl Sagan, in his book with the Soviet astronomer I.S. Shklovskii "Intelligent Life in the Universe" 1966, suggested that the Babylonian Oannes myth might just perhaps recall an actual ancient extraterrestrial visit. Of course, neither the Babylonians nor Carl Sagan claimed that Oannes and his Apkallu had actually either seeded the Earth nor created Humanity. Both Sagan and the Babylonians merely portrayed Oannes as coming to teach the rudiments of civilization to an already existing human community.
A computer specialist with an MS in computing sciences from the University of New Mexico in 1972. Oberg served in the USAF from 1970 to 1978, then was a flight controller at the NASA Johnson Space Center. In 1997, he started as freelance writer for several popular science magazine such as Astronomy and OMNI, and joined the ultraskeptic association CSICOP. He says that ufology is not serious, that ufologists are not serious, and UFOs a myth and that scientists should not waste too much time with that. As of his own interest in the subject, he says that it is "just in case" there would be something in the UFO phenomenon after all.
Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range Tracking Station, a restricted facility operated by the U.S. Navy 32 miles east-southeast of Ocala, Florida, in the north central part of the state, was the site of a puzzling, still-unexplained multiple radar visual UFO incident late on the evening of Sunday, May 14, 1978.
An acronym of little success termed by anomalist Ivan T. Sanderson for "Other INTelligences." Sanderson thought that extraterrestrial, bigfoot, yetis, strange animals, poltergeists, ghost and practically anything he viewed as "paranormal" must be put under the same label as one phenomenon, and could be anything from secret non human underwater civilizations snatching boats in the "Bermuda Triangle" to "invisible dimensions of parallel worlds."
In the night between February 17 and 18, 1956, a UFO chased and circle planes at Orly airport, Paris, France, during three hours. It was followed on radar and seen by pilots.
Term created by the French pioneer of ufology Aimé Michel, in his book "Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery" in 1958, to indicate straight alignments of several places of UFO sightings in a given day. Some of these lines were joined to a central point that seemed generally to be the place of observation of a more imposing UFO, whereas the other points in straight line were speculated to be those of observations of smaller saucers that the larger one had sent in exploration. The theory lost of its weight when Jacques Vallée showed that mere chance could result in the same effect, and definitively sank when French ufologist Michel Jeantheau showed that the alignments allotted to October 24 1954 corresponded to many incorrectly dated or doubtful sightings while other sightings at that day had unwillingly not been taken into account.
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Divinized name of the sky in ancient Greece. In France in the 50's, title of the bulletin of the ufology group "Commission Internationale d'Enquêtes Scientifiques Ouranos." This group often Referred to UFO occupants as "ouraniens," that is, beings coming from the sky and by extension from space. |
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A US agency called the Office of Special Investigations, USAF.
Bob Oechsler joined the US Air Force in 1968 in the American Forces Radio and Television service filming classified prototype weapons systems during the Vietnam War. When he returned to the US, he spent eighteen months at Wright-Patterson AFB before working for NASA, specializing in missions technical analysis as a prototype designer of control and mobile surveillance systems. He gets his information from his alleged contacts in the US Intelligence Community. A controversial character, his work in ufology seems to be OK, even though he has made the odd wild claim. He claimed to have worked on a government project called 'Cosmic Journey' which was an exhibition of the various US space missions and included a section on aliens. He claims that there was going to be a UFO in the exhibition along with a cryogenically preserved alien body. This project was then shelved indefinitely due to the 1988 US presidential election. Then, in October 1993, he gave a radio interview on BBC Radio One and claimed that he had observed a UFO from 200 feet in the Nevada desert and basically hijacked Robert Lazar's story, claiming that everything Lazar heard and saw, he heard and saw too. In other words, whilst his UFO investigations work is very good (he did a very thorough and professional analysis of the Gulf Breeze photos with Bruce Maccabee), his claims of secret government projects are very suspect.
