Source:
Daily Mail newspaper (UK)
Publication Date: November 11, 2000
Extracted
from UNEARTHLY DISCLOSURE by Timothy Good, published by Century
at 16.99. Timothy Good 2000
Forget
UFOs, something fishy is going on in the Caribbean. Are Unidentified
Submergible Objects the latest space menace? Judge the facts
for yourself.
by Timothy
Good
IT'S
THE most outlandish alien theory yet. Beings from outer space
establishing secret bases on Earth, and travelling in ships
that are just as much at home beneath the sea as they are
in the skies. Beyond belief? Perhaps. But a new book expounding
the idea is written by one of the world's most respected authorities
on UFOs, Timothy Good, and his findings are supported by one
of Britain's most senior military men, retired Admiral of
the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton. Here, in the first of two articles,
Good sets out his case. Read it, and make up your own mind...
On the
morning of September 4, 1971, four mmembers of the National
Geographic Institute of Costa Rica were flying in a twin-engined
aircraft 10,000ft above Lake Cote, near the Central American
state's forbidding Arenal volcano.
A special
map-making camera was slung underneath their plane. It was
automatic and large-format, and every 20 seconds it took another
photograph of the lake beneath.
When
the photographs were developed, one of the frames showed what
seemed to be a metallic disc about 160ft in diameter, which
had just left, or was on the point of entering, the lake.
It was giving off light, and had made a sudden manoeuvre at
the instant the photo was taken.
The object
showed up on neither the previous frame of film nor the one
afterwards. Checks on the negative eliminated tricks of the
light as an explanation.
What
the geographers had seen was an extraordinary but little-known
phenomenon - a USO. Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs,
have been reported for centuries. What few people realise
is that USOs-Unidentified Submergible Objects - have been
reported for almost as long.
Sometimes,
as in the mysterious incident at Lake Cote, a UFO can be seen
transforming itself into a USO, or vice versa.
Lake
Cote is extremely deep, and there have been numerous other
reports of unknown submergible craft entering and leaving
it. Local fishermen, out on the lake in the small hours, have
seen various objects below them, giving off coloured lights.
Sometimes
the movement of these objects has caused the men to lose their
balance and risk plunging into the water. They have also been
blamed for a reduction in the fish population.
One morning,
around 9am, two men heard a metallic noise coming from the
lake and saw an object emerge that was shaped like a submarine
with three 'domes' on its top. It hung there for a few seconds,
then shot off towards the mountains to the north.
Other
USOs have been seen in lakes and open seas around the world,
sometimes giving out light, sometimes deeply submerged, sometimes
just below the surface, sometimes skimming across it - and
sometimes, as at Lake Cote, entering or leaving.
Evidently,
many of the objects we are accustomed to call UFOs can just
as easily travel in water as in the air.
On the
night of November 6, 1973, a unique encounter with a USO occurred
off the coast of America. Fishermen in Pascagoula, Mississippi,
reported it, coastguards confirmed it. There were nine witnesses.
The object
was circular or elliptical in shape, about 12ft long, and
gave out a beam of amber light. The two fishermen who raised
the alarm said it looked like 'a mini-submarine' and hovered
about 4ft below them in the water. It was so close that they
tried to hit it with their paddles.
HOWEVER,
each time they tried to make contact, the light would go out
and reappear in another position. When coastguard officers
were summoned, they, too, tried to hit the USO. They succeeded,
and reported that the object, whatever it was, felt metallic.
The coastguards
made detailed notes. The object, they said, had a parachute-like
shape and moved at a speed of six to eight knots, making steadily
for deeper water.
The intensity
of its light varied from nothing to a glare that was sometimes
too bright to look at. When a torch was shone at it, the light
'turned off' until the beam was removed. 'The phenomena observed
were not consistent with any known fish, other marine life
or known light source,' concluded the coastguard report.
So what
was in the water- and why was it there?
THERE
is one place in the world where reports of Unidentified Submergible
Objects are particularly frequent, and particularly strange.
Puerto
Rico, the Caribbean's so called Island of Enchantment, lies
in one corner of the area that has become known as the Bermuda
Triangle, renowned for the disappearances of ships and boats,
and for sightings of 'flying saucers'. It is here, in this
former US. colony, whose politics and defence are still inextricably
bound up with America, that much of my research into the USO
phenomenon has focused.
A great
deal of the strange activity around the island has centred
on the 28,000 acres of mountainous rainforest known as El
Yunque, on the north-eastern coast.
Jose
Orlando Golis, who works for the Puerto Rican government,
lives close to El Yunque. 'Many people have seen UFOs flying
over the water close to the surface,' he told me. 'Once, at
1am, we saw one with many coloured lights flying next to the
sea just over the surface.
'At first
we thought it was a boat. It seemed to be dark underneath
and had lights - mostly red and blue at another, upper level.
Then it angled and moved upwards. It made a humming sound,
and seemed to head in the direction of El Yunque.'
Felix
Rivera is a diver with an underwater salvage company based
near the American Naval Air Station which adjoins El Yunque,
one of many U.S. bases on the island. He confirmed to me that
UFOs and USOs have frequently been observed often by American
military personnel.
'Navy
Seals - America's elite special forces - have seen USOs here,'
he revealed. 'Some have told me that these things will often
come up close to boats, then shoot off. They move too fast
underwater to be ours.'
Another
hotspot of activity is off the south-west coast. In an area
known as Cayo Margarita, 15 miles out in the Atlantic, many
fishermen, as well as commercial and private pilots, claim
to have seen USOs entering or emerging from the sea. Fisherman
Aristides Medina said: 'Once, I was fishing late at night
and two of them passed under my boat, radiating a blue light.
On other occasions, I have seen them when they emerge from
the water and fly away at great speed.'
He has
also seen them plunge into the water - and always in the same
area of the sea. It would seem these objects have definite
preferences as to which part of the ocean they choose to emerge
from and enter.
REMARKABLY
vivid sighting was reported by a diver called Inocencia Cataquet.
He was in the water off Pena Blancas in the north-east of
the island when he came across what appeared to be a disc-shaped
submersible craft, lying on the seabed.
The craft
seemed to be camouflaged with a sand-like material in order
to blend in with its surroundings. Next to it lay a rectangular
object, with a transparent cable, which was moving around
in the water.
As if
in reaction to the divers presence, the cable was suddenly
retracted. Unnerved, Cataquet raced for the surface - in time
to see the disc emerge from the water with a loud buzzing
sound and fly away.
WHAT
is going on here? If strange metallic craft are emerging from
the waters around Puerto Rico on anything like a regular basis,
it is inconceivable that the military authorities could be
unaware of it. Some of the American bases in the area have
exactly the sort of equipment that would be needed to track
an object from the unknown.
For example,
there is the huge aerostat, or tethered balloon, that flies
15,OOOft above the island's south-west coast, with radar installations
slung beneath it to monitor air traffic. A number of witnesses
claim to have seen strange flying objects in the vicinity.
Puerto
Rico is also host to the unique radio-telescope at Arecibo,
a natural crater turned into the parabolic bowl of a gigantic
receiving antenna - the largest and most sensitive radiotelescope
in the world.
ONE of
the acknowledged roles of Arecibo is as a listening post for
alien lifeforms broadcasting from outer space. The project
is known as SETI - the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
Yet,
ironically, unusual craft and beings have been reported around
the radio observatory itself. A large boomerang-shaped object
was seen `hanging' above the telescope. One night, witnesses
saw a huge disc in the sky, followed by three triangular shaped
objects.
Is the
paradoxical truth that, while SETI looks for extraterrestrial
beings light years away, they are operating on its own doorstep?
On a
visit to the site in January 1999, I interviewed the observatory's
Dr Jost, Alonso. He told me that many local people believe
the observatory is a focus for UFO activity.
`This
is a complicated issue,' he said. `Sometimes I think military
experiments are responsible for what people are seeing. There
are people who say this is a US. government cover-up.
'As to
aliens, statistically, there has to be something. There are
between 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy, and 10 pc
of them are of the same type as our sun.
`If other
life forms exist, it's only a matter of time and technology
before contact is made.'
Certainly,
the Arecibo site is a focus for strange phenomena. One of
the strangest came in March 1993, when a former British Airways
pilot, Graham Sheppard, experienced a mysterious `lateral
displacement', throwing him miles off course, as he was flying
his Cessna 172 light aircraft close to the telescope.
Sheppard,
an expert navigator whose experience in the air spans four
decades, and includes flying 747s, describes it as the most
bewildering moment of his career.
After
passing over the telescope, a feeling of unease and growing
confusion came over me,' he says. `Minutes went by with no
idea of my position, but I was confident the west coast would
soon appear at right angles to my course.
`I recall
the shock of seeing the coastline, not at right angles to
my course, but parallel. It became alarmingly clear that I
was flying along the south coast. The navigation error here
is enormous and should be impossible.'
An on-board
video camera confirms that Sheppard's gyro compass was set
to the correct bearing for his original course. It also confirms
that he was flying at 2,200ft - yet somehow he had passed
over hills up to 3,900ft high.
THE aircraft's
instruments had appeared normal, and later weather checks
ruled out a freak wind having blown him off course. None of
the pilots to whom I have sent records of this flight can
rationalise the displacement.
Sir Mark
Thomson, a former Royal Navy Jet pilot who has taken a close
interest in the strange events around Puerto Rico, is as baffled
as he is impressed.
'It is
one of the most important pieces of evidence I've seen,' he
told me. `There is no explanation in our laws of physics.'
Could
such aerial displacement be linked to the disappearances that
have made the whole area of the Bermuda Triangle so notorious
- such as the flight of Grumman Avenger torpedo-bombers that
vanished off the Florida coast just after World War II?
In Puerto
Rico, there are those who report incidents that are equally
sinister and inexplicable. I interviewed two groups of witnesses
who, on two separate occasions in 1988, claim to have watched
as U.S. Navy Grumman F-14 jets were apparently `captured or
otherwise absorbed' mid-flight by large, unknown aerial craft
they were pursuing.
Perhaps
it sounds like fantasy. But on one occasion, at least, it
seems that the object which had caused such a disappearance
may even have been captured on U.S. radar.
`MAYDAY,
Mayday. We can see a strange object in our course. We are
lost. Mayday. Mayday'
The distress-call
came at 8pm local time on June 28, 1980. Jose Luis Maldonado
Torres, a 31-year old pilot, was flying an Ercoupe 415-D aeroplane,
together with a 22-year-old student pilot, from Santo Domingo
to San Juan, Puerto Rico's main airport.
I have
listened to a tape of some of the Mayday transmissions from
the Ercoupe, leaked by a Federal Aviation Administration source,
and the pilots' anxiety is clear.
`A weird
object in our course made us change course about three different
times . . . we have something weird in front of us . . . We
are right again in the same stuff, sir. . .'
After
these words, the pilots were not heard of again. A sea and
air search revealed no trace. However, a tantalising clue
lies in the official report on the incident.
During
the Mayday alert, the American Naval Air Station at Roosevelt
Roads in Puerto Rico was in contact with air traffic controllers
at San Juan. At 8.16pm, 11 minutes after the Ercoupe's s last
communication, the Americans made an intriguing comment: `It
looks like we may see a few of them out there...'
What
did this cryptic message mean? It suggests that the air station
had made several radar contacts in the area where the plane
disappeared. One of them, of course, was the Ercoupe. But
what were the others? Might one of them have been the `weird
object', the disorienting `stuff' that aparently engulfed
the doomed plane?
One possibility
is that the US. Navy had been monitoring whatever weird phenomenon
caused the plane's disappearance.
Jorge
Martin, the island's leading UFO investigator, has an important
contact within the military, a high-ranking officer connected
to the U.S. Navy.
From
this source, we learn that the American authorities grew alarmed
after a number of military aircraft, as well as private planes,
disappeared in an area to the north-west of Puerto Rico known
as the San Juan Trench.
A steep
undersea cleft in the ocean floor, the lowest point this great
chasm lies 30,000ft deep, further below sea level than Mount
Everest is above it.
HERE
is the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean. The pressures
of sea-water there would crush any surface creature, and any
but the most specially-constructed man-made submarines.
According
to Martin's source, the Navy and Air Force found that, on
a regular basis, a huge disc-shape craft would come out of
the sea in the Trench, sometimes 'hanging stationary in the
air on a great column of water before vanishing or submerging
again'.
If this
were not outlandish enough, there is more. Pilots were reportedly
ordered to approach the object, only for their jets to 'explode
silently, to vanish into thin air'.
Can these
astonishing claims be true? And if so, what is the terrible
secret lurking beneath the ocean?
A STRETCH
of 100 miles of open water divides Puerto Rico from it neighbouring
island, the Dominican Republic. That stretch is known as the
Mona Passage.
Almost
half-way across it, some 45 miles to the west of the last
cape of Puerto Rico, lies the small roughly circular, uninhabite
Mona Island. At the time of its last communication, the lost
Ercoupa aircraft was just to the east of Mona Island.
Other
crews crossing the area have reported anomalies affecting
their positioning. One pilot in a light aircraft noted an
`an uncontrollable spin' of his compass.
Jorge
Martin's U.S. Naval office offers a remarkable explanation'
His revelations about Mona Island are bizarre, extraordinary,
and almost beyond belief.
But when
I showed my dossier of evidence was shown to Admiral of the
Fleet Lord Hill-Norton, one of Britain's most respected ilitary
figures, he had no hesitation in endorsing my findings
Unearthly
Disclosure
by: Timothy Good
Timothy
Good is one of the world's most respected UFO researchers.
The book deals with alien contacts and abductions, genetic
mutants, animal mutations and government secrecy. In this
book Timothy Good reveals information that confirms that aliens
have established subterranean and submarine bases on Earth
and are in contact with select groups in the US military and
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