The ancient metal artifact of an alien face found on Balsam Mountain Ridge in North Carolina should get us all pondering. It’s so similar to depictions of Irish leprechauns that we have to consider that all the pointed-ear mythological creatures -- pixies, gremlins, elves, imps, brownies, leprechauns and Dr. Spock -- might be based on something real.

"Lead Head"

Irish Little People

This same artifact also may give credibility to legends of “Cherokee Little People” living in the mountains of North Carolina. I confess I thought the stories were mythology until a number of Cherokee friends told me, with absolute sincerity, that the stories were true. They said the Little People disappeared suddenly a long time ago, yet there are rumors a few remained behind in the most remote mountains. There were even claims of personal encounters with them. All these reports inspired me to investigate for myself.

In 2000, I interviewed eight people who witnessed ancient little skeletons and little tunnels being uncovered. Most helped break virgin ground for new construction projects at Western Carolina University in the 1940s and 1950s. Here are portions of testimonies from the two oldest witnesses who were well into their eighties when I interviewed them.

Eyewitness One

T. Walter Middleton is a recognized WWII hero and a former Jackson County pastor. He was one of the men who dug out a basement for the McKee Building on campus when three small, square-cut tunnels were exposed in the late 1940s.

“I was down in front of one, peeking into it,” he recalled. “The best I remember, it was about two feet wide and three feet high.” Without a flashlight, he said he could see only eight to ten feet into it.

When asked if the tunnel was geometrical in shape, he said, “Oh, yes. It wasn’t real sharp, but you could tell it had been dug by human hands, no doubt.”

Middleton also told about a child-size skull that was uncovered during an excavation on campus. “I do know that the child’s skull was used as a paperweight on one of the college teacher’s desk for a long time.”

Then one day, he explained, a high school English teacher, Winona Hooper, stopped at the desk. “She picked it up and looked at it,” he said. “Whoever was at the desk told her it was a child’s skull that came out of the mound, and she (Hooper) said that was the only child she’d ever seen that had a full set of teeth, including wisdom teeth.”

Moonshiners also discovered little skeletons at the top of Cullowhee Mountain. “They were digging where they could establish a pretty good moonshine place, and they ran into these children’s skeletons, and there were quite a few of them. They called them a pile of bones, but they were child-size bones.”

Being mostly Cherokee himself, Middleton has heard stories about the Little People all his life and later more fully researched the subject for his own book, Qualla – Home of the Middle Cherokee Settlement published by WorldComm.

“In my opinion,” he explained, “there were two different kinds of Little People. The ones I’ve been talking about were more like the Cherokee. Evidently, they were black-headed and black-eyed and had a dark complexion.

“The other Little People had come from a different source because they had reddish whiskers and they squinted their eyes as if the sun hurt their eyes.” He felt they spent a lot of time living below ground. They may have looked more like leprechauns.

“The Cherokee said they killed the red whiskered ones,” he said. “The Cherokee said they cleaned them out. I don’t know why, but the Cherokee didn’t like them from the beginning. They didn’t like the looks of them because they weren’t like us.”

“Down in the Yucatan,” he added, “there are stories about Little People there the Mayans called the Pu’us. They worked with metals. They were the first to work with metals. Something happened to them and they suddenly all left there.”

It’s interesting to note that some of the little tunnels in Jackson County, NC were found during mining operations in the 1800s and 1900s.

Eyewitness Two

John H. Clayton was a painter by trade for 60 years in Jackson County and volunteer for the Cullowhee Fire Department. He, too, saw the ancient tunnels at the McKee Building, but his personal memories of little tunnels went back further than anyone else I interviewed.

“Well, my Daddy was involved with various things, including a mica mine he had going up on Wilson Creek,” he said. “I was six or seven.” He then explained that the miners came to their house on Saturdays to pick up paychecks from his Dad.

“They told about these tunnels that they’d run into,” he said. “Everyone was excited about them. I know it excited me, too. After hearing about the tunnels on Saturday, Dad went up to the mine on Sunday and looked at the tunnels. He was very excited about them, but on Monday when he went back there, they’d fallen in.” Clayton later surmised that dynamiting the previous week had weakened the ancient little tunnels.

“Well they were talking about the Little People,” he continued, “and they were awfully excited about that and my Dad was asking a lot of questions about that. He had encountered something involving the Little People before, and he had a lot of friends that were Indian and they had told him about the Little People.”

Clayton also explained that people were “very superstitious” about the Little People and wouldn’t talk about them, but added, “When the old folks were dying, when they were sick and all, these Little People appeared before them.” He added that the old folks said the Little People were “very fair skinned and very small” and “blond-headed.”

Living near a secret underground entrance can be more than interesting according to Rebecca who lives on a mountaintop in the Hendersonville, NC area. She’s talked about unique structures and unusual human activities on her mountain in a previous article titled “Second secret underground entrance exposed.” Now she talks about the extraterrestrials (ETs) on her mountaintop.

“I’ve been coming up to this mountain since 1969,” Rebecca begins, “but I don’t remember communicating with the ETs until the early 1990s. Some are highly spiritual and come from more advanced civilizations than ours and some are mischievous and clearly on a lower level.”

Mischievous ETs

“The mischievous ones seemed to have left here about two years ago,” she says, “but before that they would play with people’s minds. Sometimes they would follow them to town when they left the mountain. They would freak people out. They especially liked to scare away anyone who was highly intuitive or psychic, probably because they might tune in to what was happening beneath the mountain. They didn’t bother those who were oblivious and unaware because those people wouldn’t have a clue about what was going on anyway.”

“In the early days,” she adds, “I think they also were trying to slow me down, interfere and keep me from accomplishing my purpose for being on Earth. Over time, though, and with Divine help, I learned to telepathically talk with the mischievous ETs and could tell them to cease and desist when they would bother me or other people - and they would stop their meddling.”

Highly spiritual ETs

There are only two things the highly spiritual ETs have in common with the mischievous ones according to Rebecca. Both communicate telepathically and both prefer to remain in a higher frequency that generally is not visible to human eyes.

“I’m an artist and I feel the highly spiritual ETs help inspire my creativity,” she says. “They also have helped me understand my Divine purpose.”

When asked what that Divine purpose might be, she says, “I came to Earth this time to get rid of all my old karma and to do something that would help humanity make the shift because we’re all here on Earth right now to make the shift. That’s what we signed on for. Because I’m an artist, and always have been an artist, that’s how I’m going to help humanity see a new way of being a human being.”

Rebecca’s World Peace Globe
displayed at the United Nations

“I was getting artwork together for a peace center and wanted to also submit my own artwork, so I asked myself ‘What could I build that would show anyone looking at it where peace on Earth is?’ I immediately had a vision of the Earth, of the globe, that was lighted from inside with a light within each country. Nations at peace were lighted, countries at war were dark and those in civil wars would flash.

“I made two globes,” she continues. “The first one was 18 inches in diameter. It’s the one that was on display at the United Nations. Then I built a larger one that was four feet in diameter for a peace center that was being built on Manger Square in Bethlehem, Palestine. I actually went to Israel with a group of Anglicans from the United States and England. Several of us met the mayor of Bethlehem, Yasser Arafat and the British envoy. I was given the go ahead for the World Peace Globe to be displayed by the center’s front door, but in the end I was told it was too controversial to display there.”

Rebecca didn’t let the large World Peace Globe go to waste. She purchased a special trailer and took it on tour for several years. Today, it’s retired next to her grand piano, but perhaps through this website it can continue its message of world peace.

Sky ships and military helicopters have been observed over a second secret entrance to the underground world of government/military Black Operations in Western North Carolina. This one is located beneath a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facility on a mountaintop in the Hendersonville area. We’ve dubbed the site “FAAT” because it’s so much more than an FAA facility.

From the air, FAAT looks like an abandoned nuclear silo, but don’t be fooled says Rebecca who lives near the facility. As if to confirm this, FAAT is “bleached out” on a Google satellite map of the area. Details clearly aren’t clear, while the adjacent map segment is “unbleached.”

Gravel road to the "FAAT" facility

Helicopters over FAAT

“There are two distinct things that happened up here that are very odd,” says Rebecca. “One was in 1969 or 1970. It was night and there were helicopters flying up at the top of the mountain. They would hover over the mountaintop and drop earthmoving equipment. They had floodlights up there and worked all night long. The shape of the mountaintop changed overnight.

“The next morning, my husband and I hiked up to the site,” she continues. “It was like walking on a fresh grave. It was like they’d dug something up, taken it out, put something else in and covered it up. I don’t have a clue what it was. It was covered with sod.”

Explosion at FAAT

“The other very strange thing that happened up there was about five years ago,” says Rebecca. “I was up here alone and heard and felt an explosion inside the mountain. It shook the entire house and the mountain. At the time, I wasn’t sure if it was an earthquake or an explosion.”

She soon knew it had been an explosion when she saw an unmarked 18-wheeler being escorted by two unmarked white pick-up trucks, one in front and one behind, and a person walking beside the 18-wheeler.

“There was something huge on the trailer that was covered with a tarp,” she says. “They all went up the mountain and stayed up there all day. Late that afternoon, the three vehicles went back down the mountain with something on the trailer covered with a tarp. I was under the assumption they’d replaced whatever had blown up.”

Tire tracks disappear into wall

As if to emphasize this part of Rebecca’s story, a white Jeep Cherokee with a governmental seal on its door went by her home very, very slowly. It turned around at the end of the road and slowly went by her house again. We all shared a knowing chuckle and Rebecca continued.

Antennas atop the "FAAT" facility

“Back in the sixties, there was a vehicle that would come up every morning with three people in it,” says Rebecca. “The same vehicle would leave that night with three different people in it. They seemed to do three day shifts at the top of the mountain.

“There are a number of structures up there,” she adds. “I once managed to peak into one. I could see tire tracks go into a wall, so obviously something happened there - maybe an elevator behind the wall.”

Sky Ships over FAAT

“Most of sky ships I’ve seen here were round with a circular top and bottom -- very much like that one,” Rebecca says while pointing to Devon Heenan’s sky ship photo.

“Now I did see one at the bottom of the mountain by the side of a dirt road that was small,” she continues. “My husband stopped the car and we looked at it for probably two minutes. It was circular, like a big metal ball. It was about two feet across and had antennas sticking out from the top going in all directions. Some had little things on the ends and some didn’t. It was raised about eight inches to a foot off the ground on four wiry little legs. There were rows of lights going around the ball. If it had an equator, then there was a row of lights above and another row below that. The lights would move around the ball. I think it was remotely controlled because it was so small.

“When I started to open the car door to get out and investigate closer, my husband reached across, closed the door and said, ‘We’re out of here!’ When we returned from town it was gone.”

This Google satellite map of the FAAT facility appears 'bleached' so details are obscured.

(click on the image to enlarge) or See map on Google - http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.406657,-82.268125&spn=0.000951,0.002586&t=h&z=19

Ben Rich - Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber

The following nuggets of information, in Rich’s own words, are from an article in the May 2010 issue of the MUFON UFO JOURNAL. The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NUGGET ONE: “Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building a small number of very technologically advanced airplanes for highly secret missions.”

NUGGET TWO: “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”

NUGGET THREE: “We now have the technology to take ET home. . . . No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. . . . First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.”

NUGGET FOUR: When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”

PUZZLE PIECE ONE - I haven’t seen the man in about six years, but he used to periodically come to where I work. Over time, he opened up about his military experiences in Vietnam and later talked about doing deep underground tunneling work in various places.

In bits and pieces he told me a secret underground facility had been created beneath Atlanta with huge tunnel boring machines. Much later, without elaboration, he said that there were extraterrestrials involved with the underground facility; that there was an entranceway from the underground facility to Emory University Hospital; and that ETs were brought into the hospital through the morgue. It was never clear if the ETs were dead or if the morgue was the least noticeable way to bring them into the hospital.

PUZZLE PIECE TWO – A Google listing titled “Some major mind-control programming sites” revealed the following:

PUZZLE PIECE THREE - Forest Park is located nine miles south of downtown Atlanta; is home of Fort Gillem, the third largest employer in Clayton County; and is known historically for having 76% more tornadoes than the overall U.S. average. This last tidbit makes one wonder if some kind of powerful energy source might help spawn tornadoes.

View of Atlanta from Kennesaw Mountain

Solitary canon at Kennesaw Mountain’s National Battlefield Park

A train track at Kennesaw Mountain

PUZZLE PIECE FIVE – In his book Underground Bases and Tunnels – What is the government trying to hide? Richard Sauder, PhD included the following paragraph:

The Air Force Times announced in 1959 that the Air Force was on the verge of agreeing with the U.S. Department of the Interior to place an underground SAGE radar facility inside Kennesaw Mountain (the mountain was, and is, a National Park owned by the Interior Department) on the outskirts of Marietta, Georgia. . . . The mountain is only a few miles from Dobbins Air Force Base, so it would have been possible to drive a tunnel the short distance from Dobbins AFB and excavate the inside of the mountain without disturbing the surface of the national park in the slightest. All of the heavy machinery required to build the facility could have entered and exited the underground construction site via Dobbins AFB.

Since it only takes a few minutes to drive from downtown Atlanta to Dobbins AFB, that base could have been used during the creation of an underground facility beneath the city.

PUZZLE PIECE SIX – When visiting Atlanta in July 2007 with a friend, we drove around the circumference of Dobbins AFB. At the completion of our “tour,” we learned Vice President Dick Cheney had been to the base the day before on an unpublicized visit.

PUZZLE PIECE SEVEN – Three photos revealed how close yet how faraway Kennesaw Mountain is from downtown Atlanta.

It is unfortunate that Stephen Hawking has added his voice to a growing chorus of xenophobia and fear regarding what he terms "Aliens."

Secondly, as a scientist, he should know better: Any interstellar civilization would possess such technologies that the meager resources of Earth would be unneeded.

If you can travel faster than the speed of light, you can manifest what is needed. Period.

Moreover, IF they were hostile- since ETs are already visiting Earth (see www.DisclosureProject.org)- this would have been made crystal clear when we detonated the first atomic weapon in 1945. To date, no place on Earth has been invaded or attacked or colonized.

Hawking should refrain from stirring the war-mongering fear pot that attends all things "alien." And one might ask: Why would he make such statements, unless he is carrying water for the military-industrial-financial complex which profiteers off of the wars that fear breeds?

Steven M. Greer MD
April 26, 2010

Sky Ships clean up nuclear spills

When I was a child in the 1950s, my dad had a very high security position with an enrichment plant that mixed together uranium and other chemicals or minerals for nuclear warheads. We couldn’t talk about his job even at home.

All the years he worked there, we had to go to meetings with the families of all the employees and we were always warned not to discuss things -- and they meant it because we saw perfectly healthy people have mysterious heart attacks and come home vegetables if they spoke out.

When they were doing something at the plant they didn’t want the public to know about, they would throw out a thick fog over the plant. It was thicker than fog. If you were on the road around the plant, you couldn’t see past the windshield of the car.

Many times the plant had toxic spills. When that happened, the creeks and rivers would have a green glow maybe six feet or more above the water. That’s when we would see a sky ship come in, hover above the water and, like a big vacuum, suck the green stuff off the water.

The sky ships that came to clean up the toxic spills each looked like a dome with a ring-like plate on the bottom. They were a dark charcoal color and huge – about the size of a large Greyhound Bus. If you put your hand out at arm’s length, you could not have covered the ship – that’s how close we would see them.

The sky ships were always around and cleaning up messes. They were there to protect the people. Around the world, even today, if there’s a big nuclear spill, they’re there to clean it up.

Balsam Mountain’s secret underground facility

There’s stuff going on within and around the Balsam Mountain Ridge that could be detrimental to the wellbeing of those living in Western North Carolina and beyond. The shadow government has a coffer there that goes six stories down into the ground. Survival supplies and equipment are stored there as well as stuff that could be harmful to the general population – and even wipe it out. They also have electromagnetic equipment that can be used to destroy human memories.
Because of all this, the Star-born ships are in the area to keep any of this from happening. To confuse matters, there also are man-made ships and ships piloted by the renegade aliens that the shadow government uses to manipulate human reactions and behavior.

Many individuals with high energy vibrations and wisdom from the future are drawn to Western North Carolina and other significant locations around the world to uplift the vibration of an area and counteract the negativity generated by the shadow government.

Why does the U.S. government resist disclosure?

We had two presidents who were approached by the Star-borns and given scientific information from the future about how to use energy from the Earth without destroying the Earth. The two chose to use the technology for war instead of for helping Earth. That’s when our renegade Star-born scientists started interacting. They deliberately began working with the shadow government which wants to keep U.S. citizens under an illusionary blanket of fear.

There should not be any fear. Our Star-born Brothers are not going to destroy this Earth nor allow humans to destroy it. If we continue to believe the fearful rhetoric about what’s out there in the universe, we will destroy ourselves but not the planet because Earth is part of something bigger than any of us can imagine.

Over the years, the Star-born messages have said in various ways to stop being so afraid about why they’re here and to stop listening to the shadow government which strives to keep people constantly in fear of something.

After decades of constant protection from my Star-born Protectors, I absolutely know they’re watching over us and will help us in any way we allow them to do. But if we put up blocks, they can’t help us get through this time of transition on the Earth.

When I was involved with a website with scientists from all around the world, it was clear they knew all this, but U.S. scientists weren’t allowed to discuss it publicly even though scientists in other countries are allowed to do so.

“Star-born Protectors” heal Marine

My husband was a Marine and he always was being sent to Vietnam to train the troops. Because of exposure to Agent Orange, he got a bleeding fungus on his hands and shoulders where the chemical interacted with the metal in his gun.

We worked with the Veterans Administration and the doctors for several years and nothing was healing. So I finally asked for help from my Star-born Protectors. After that, my husband’s condition started clearing up. First the bleeding stopped, then the fungus began receding and finally disappeared completely. To this day, he doesn’t have any trace of it.

Alien implants – good or bad?

I had an apparent alien implant that dislodged one day and moved into the lock of my jaw. It was like a good-sized pea and caused a lot of pain. Knowing what I know, I didn’t want to have surgery in any of our hospitals. Instead, I put my finger on the “pea” and told my Star-born Protectors that if it were theirs to please get it out of the lock of my jaw. If it wasn’t theirs, I requested that they remove it.

The next morning I was at the table and my husband looked over and said, “You’ve got a drop of blood right in front of your ear. What’s going on?” He didn’t know I had asked for help the night before. When I went to the mirror, I saw a line and a drop of blood right at the end of it. The “pea” was gone. The pain was gone.

The shadow government has been interested in me since my childhood -- ever since communication started between me and my Star-born Protectors. According to my Protectors, the shadow government and our renegade scientists were responsible for putting the implant into me as a tracking device. The Star-borns, who are good guys, don’t use such implants. They can tune into us simply by following our energy vibrations.

I should add that some of the grey aliens are robotic humanoid creatures that renegade human scientists have created. The shadow government uses them to generate fear in order to manipulate the masses.

If anyone is abducted or has a fearful experience with aliens, remember you have the right to say “NO.” Tell them to stop and remove themselves from your presence. Call in help from the Creator or the Star-born Protectors. You do not have to have a bad experience.

Star-borns assist with baby’s birth

The doctors and nurses weren’t the only ones in the delivery room. Four Star-born Protectors were there, too. My mom and I both saw them. They were in their energy form – four separate forms. Each one looked like heat rising up from a hot highway.

They communicated telepathically throughout the entire labor assuring me everything was going to be all right and directing me how to breathe. Whenever someone came into the room, they would rise up to the ceiling.

They were with me before that, though. Back at home I had been awakened when a terrible racket hit the roof above my room. That’s when I realized my water had broken, but there was absolutely no pain – not then nor at anytime during the birth.

On the way to the hospital, which was a 30-40 minute drive, there was a protector ship that cruised beside us the whole way. Both my mom and I saw it. She was with me because my husband was in Vietnam.

As soon as the delivery was over, the Star-born Protectors telepathically told me to wake up and get the poison out of me – telling me to throw up. I kept telling the nurse, “I’m going to be sick.” Her response was “Just go back to sleep; you shouldn’t be awake anyway.”

I couldn’t move; I had no control over my body. Then I felt the Star-borns roll me over on my side and then green stuff shot out of my mouth. I was suspicious of what I’d been given especially since my Star-borns were so anxious to get it out of me.

I had a perfectly normal baby but I can’t help but think he is part Star-born. There were times as a child he would ask me “How do I know what I know?” I also remember a night when he was eight-years-old and a light beam came through the roof and into his bedroom. When I asked if he was alright, he said “I think it’s for me.” As a very young man he developed computer technology systems that hadn’t ever been done before.

Why the Vatican is involved in Astrobiology?

JOSE FUNES, SJ: On the occasion of the International Year of Astronomy the Pontifical Academy of Sciences has organized a Study Week on Astrobiology.

This is a quite appropriate topic for the Academy which has a multi-disciplinary membership, since it is a field which combines research in many disciplines, principally: astronomy, cosmology, biology, chemistry, geology and physics. This is not the first time that such a topic is subject of interest in the Vatican. In 2005 the Vatican Observatory conducted a Summer School on this topic and brought together as a faculty some of the most important researchers in this field.

Although Astrobiology is an emerging field, and still a developing subject, the questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration. These questions offer many philosophical and theological implications, however the meeting will be focused on the scientific perspective. . . .

PROFESSOR JONATHAN LUNINE: Stimulated by new capabilities for scientific exploration on and off the Earth, astrobiology seems to be establishing itself as a distinct scientific endeavor. . . . Nowhere is this more evident than in the work being done on how life formed on the Earth and evolved with the changing environment. . . . How life has responded to this, and what the implications might be for Earth-like planets around other stars with somewhat different histories, cuts across all the disciplines of astrobiology from astronomy, to planetary and geological sciences, to biology.

PROFESSOR CHRIS IMPEY: Four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to the heavens and forever changed the way we view ourselves in relation to the universe. . . . In the past 15 years, technological breakthroughs have led to the discovery of over 400 planets beyond the Solar System. . . . It is plausibly estimated that there are hundreds of millions of habitable locations in the Milky Way, which is just one of billions of galaxies in the universe. . . .

But there is a palpable expectation that the universe harbors life and there is hope that the first discovery is only a few years away. . . . If biology is not unique to the Earth, or life elsewhere differs bio-chemically from our version, or we ever make contact with an intelligent species in the vastness of space, the implications for our self-image will be profound. It is appropriate that a meeting on this frontier topic is hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. . . .

Since 1994, I have been supportive of Dr. Steven Greer's missions which can be reduced to three words: CONTACT (http://cseti.org/), DISCLOSURE (http://disclosureproject.org/) and ENERGY (http://theorionproject.org/). To learn about his projects, click on these links.

Since Dr. Greer’s energy mission, the Orion Project, was launched in March of 2008, I have been on its e-mail list. Naturally, when a new message arrives in my inbox from the Orion Project, I expect information of a technical nature --- information that may eventually pave the way for solving the current energy crisis. So, I was quite surprised and deeply touched to read Dr. Greer's "Message of Hope" sent on November 1, 2009.

My sincere wish is the lucid dream he experienced earlier this year will inspire everyone to hope, to keep the lamp of hope burning perpetually, and to share Dr. Greer’s letter with others so hope for a positive and sustainable future can flourish.

Dr. Steven Greer’s letter
which he titled “HOPE”

A few months ago, I had a very lucid dream early one morning before rising.

Letter to MUFON UFO Journal

Dear Editor,

One can’t help but be impressed with the rapid growth of sighting reports worldwide. With each issue of our Journal, it is becoming more and more apparent.

In my community, people – when finding out that I am a MUFON investigator and researcher – are approaching me as never before and telling me of their sightings – in some cases more than one. Most of them act surprised when I tell them that their seeing a UFO is no longer unusual. Of course these are the best reports, as they are not sharing their story with any attempt to make things up. Often they act sheepish in telling me, even knowing they will not be frowned upon. Along with craft sightings, I am also having more and more persons taking pictures that have orbs in them. A lady the other day asked me what these “strange circles” were on one of her pictures. She had taken a rapid series of pictures at night of her family with a mountain in the background. It had not been raining. Of the four photos, only one had these circles. I told her they may be orbs, and that I would like to see that picture. She responded, “and what are orbs?” No fakery here!

Here in southwestern North Carolina near and around the town of Cashiers there have been a number of spectacular sightings and communications from the craft repeatedly appearing in that vicinity. This can be found on the extensive website skyshipsovercashiers.com. If our membership has not yet visited that website, they need to. Mentioned there is also an accounting of the massive sized craft identifying itself as the Blue Moon, and its messages to us.

Donald Cooper
MUFON Investigator and Researcher
Spruce Pine, NC

U.S. Scientist says scores of UFOs fly around the Sun

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina caused terrible havoc to the Gulf Coast in August 2005, U.S. meteorologist Scott Stevens declared that the natural catastrophe had been generated by Russian scientists. This time around, he accused NASA of concealing data relayed to Earth by SOHO, an orbital solar telescope.

SOHO is a joint project by NASA and the European Space Agency. It is currently at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. The orbital telescope takes pictures of the solar flares and prominences as well as comets that fly past the Sun.

Several thousand photographs have been already taken. Some are posted on the NASA website. However, a larger part of them are still unprocessed by specialists due to an immense amount of data coming from SOHO. This is hardly surprising since researchers still have not had time to study thousands of photographs of the Moon, Mars and Venus taken by the U.S. and Soviet probes.

Rumors about UFOs being photographed by SOHO have been circulating for a long while. NASA would not comment on those rumors or blame irregularities during the transmission of digital images to Earth.

Scott Steven maintains he has analyzed all photographs available in the SOHO archives. He claims to have found several perfectly identical objects on the photographs taken during a number of years. Therefore, the researcher says, it would be only logical to point out that UFOs would have never been the objects of the same size and form if stardust or residual solar plasma had really caused those “irregularities.”

“I am confident that UFOs are flying in the vicinity of our star,” says Stevens. “I am talking about a fleet of UFOs operating near the Sun. I believe that both NASA and the U.S. government are aware of the existence of a certain civilization whose spacecraft are capable of resisting extremely high temperatures. The powers that be are simply afraid to admit the fact. They haven’t yet decided on the tactics,” says Stevens.

Another Stevens’ theory has to do with extraterrestrial activity involving UFOs near the Sun. According to the theory, UFOs are usually photographed by SOHO prior to large solar flares caused by some experiments conducted by aliens. *

* The article goes on to quote Russian scientists who disagree with this theory and say the solar flare maximums and minimums are due to a 100-year cycle of the Sun that is apart from the well-known 11-year cycle.

Glynis Heenan said the reason she and her friends in the Cashiers area are shining the light on “sky ships” is to inspire others.

Heenan and others in Cashiers and the surrounding area claim in the past few months to have seen “sky ships,” or UFOs as they are more commonly referred to.

“We’re going public to give people the courage to talk about their own experiences,” Heenan said.

The sightings have inspired Heenan, who has lived in Cashiers for 10 years, to help launch a web site: skyshipsovercashiers.com.

The site includes articles, photos, witness testimonies and ways on how to report sightings.

As reported on the site, Heenan said she had her first sighting at about 2 a.m. on June 28.

While in the kitchen looking for a late night snack, Heenan said she noticed a large circular object in the sky that had rainbow colors pulsating horizontally and vertically from it.

The object made no sound and Heenan said she watched it for roughly an hour. She then noticed two other similar objects, the three of which formed a triangle.

Heenan said other residents also reported seeing the objects on June 28. Heenan has seen the “sky ships” on several other occasions, she said, including on July 5 with her 8-year-old daughter and mother.

Heenan, a quantum physics biofeedback practitioner, said she believes people are being “intuitively guided” to see the “sky ships,” which are here to help mankind.

Heenan said she has “compassion” for those who dismiss such sightings.

“I think a lot of people are awakened to the possibilities of the universe,” she said.

No sightings have been reported at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman, according to Dave Clavier, the vice president of administration and development at the site.

He was, however, keen to visit the “sky ship” web site.

Evelyn Gordon, who lives in Sylva, is helping to run the web site and said she has seen the ships for many years.

She said there is a lot of research being done on UFOs by former NASA employees and other well-qualified people.

Gordon, who describes herself as a promoter, but has also worked in education and the musical field, said it’s important to “get the information out there.”

She believes the UFOs are “crucial” to what is occurring in the world right now.

“We are the messengers,” she said.

“Look at the web.”

Reports of sightings in the greater Cashiers area may be sent to Sky Ships Over Cashiers, P.O. Box 742, Cashiers, NC 28712 or e-mail to skyshipsovercashiersnc@yahoo.com.

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Derek McKissock is the News Editor for the Transylvania Times in Brevard, N.C. This article appeared in the September 29, 2009 edition of the newspaper.

Cashiers, NC a UFO Hot Spot?
By Mary Joyce

The greater Cashiers area may be the new UFO hot spot according to Glynis Heenan, a resident of the Norton area.

"It was just by chance that I saw the first one," she says. "It was about 2 A.M. Saturday, June 28. I was going to the kitchen for a late-night snack. It was so bright outside that I stepped out on the porch to look for the moon. There was no moon and that baffled me."

Instead of the moon, Heenan saw a UFO.

"It was circular in the middle, but rainbow colors would radiate out from it," she explains. "The colors would elongate horizontally and then vertically. It would pulsate between the two – back and forth, back and forth. The colors floated in and out of each other."

"It was pretty large," she adds. "I could see it through the spindly tree tops to the west of my house. It seemed to be over the Yellow Mountain area."

Heenan didn't hear any sound from the UFO but says "there was a gusty wind that whirled the tree branches."

To her surprise the UFO didn't quickly disappear.

"It could have been an hour that I watched it," she says. "I don't know how long it had been there before I saw it. When I went upstairs to look out the window, the UFO moved. It came out of the trees and came closer to me."

Then Heenan scanned the sky beyond the rainbow-colored UFO and saw two more.

"When I looked in different directions," she says, "there were two other lights that were higher in the sky and appeared smaller – one to the north and one to the southeast. The three were in a triangle arrangement. They, too, had variations in colors."

Since this first sighting, Heenan has been looking up and has seen UFOs on June 30, July 1, 2, 3, and 4. Other Norton area residents also have reported seeing UFOs since June 28.

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Mary Joyce is a former newspaper writer, columnist and editor who has worked for The Oakland Press in suburban Detroit and The Orlando Sentinel in Orlando, Florida.

As printed in the Cashiers, NC
Crossroads Chronicle on 7-16-2008

Three Generations See UFOs Over Cashiers
By Mary Joyce

Eight-year-old Devon Heenan, along with her mother and grandmother, saw three Sky Ships (UFOs) over the old Raggedy Ann shop on Norton Road in Cashiers, NC on July 5, 2008.

"We've all been looking up in the sky a lot," says Devon's mother, Glynis Heenan, "since I first saw three Sky Ships from our porch on June 28.

"At least one of us has seen them nearly every night since then," says Grace Heenan, Devon's grandmother. "But this is the first time we've all seen them at the same time."

"We started our search at Whiteside," says Glynis, "because many of the Sky Ships we've seen from our home appear to be over that mountain. We drove on Highway 64 and pulled off at a place where we could get a good view of the mountain, but we didn't stay there long because the mosquitoes were awful. Then, just as we were leaving that spot, we looked up and there was a Sky Ship right above us."

"That's the only one we saw there," says Grace, "but we followed it north on Norton Road."

"As we came past the old Raggedy Ann shop," says Glynis "we pulled off the road and then we saw three Sky Ships. They were rainbow colored, much larger than any star, and seemed to be coming toward us from the south, or from the Whiteside area. This was the first time my eight-year-old daughter actually saw one and she was excited to finally see what I'd been talking about all week.

"Then there were some cars behind us," Glynis continues, "so we drove on toward Laurel Knob. After turning there, we pulled off the road next to an open field with a clear view of the sky. We turned all the lights off and poked our heads out the sunroof."

"Again we saw three Sky Ships" says Grace.

"At this third stop," says Glynis, "one Sky Ship was east of us, another straight above us and the third was due west. Basically, they were in a straight line. Then the clouds came and we went home."

"We got home about 10:30 P.M. after scouting for Sky Ships for about an hour," says Grace.

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Mary Joyce is a former newspaper writer, columnist and editor who has worked for The Oakland Press in suburban Detroit and The Orlando Sentinel in Orlando, Florida.

7-8-2008