Large Rotating UFO Videotaped Above Santa Monica
By Ed Sherwood
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Video Stills Copyright
2001 Kris Sherwood/Millennium Research
Aligning a palm tree to the
unidentified aerial object Kris began videotaping, at first with the camera
un-zoomed (5a). Though high up to the naked eye
the object looked ‘boomerang’ shaped.
Due to its distance from the camera
lens however, even half zoomed,
it initially recorded as a small white dot (5b).
Date of Sighting:
10/18/99
Time & Duration of Sighting:
Approximately 9:30-9:50am
Witnesses:
Ed & Kris Sherwood
Location of Observers:
A residential neighborhood of North West Santa Monica, California, USA.
Location of Object:
It was first observed in a North North Westerly direction heading South
South East,
at an angle of about 45 degrees above the horizon, South of
the Santa Monica Mountains.
Weather conditions:
Clear blue sky (very good visibility)
Details of Sighting:
I was walking ‘Bessie’, a blond Labrador, around the block Kris and I were living on, and had just turned the third corner and cleared a low shady tree when an unexpected moment of clairvoyance caused me to look up behind me and spot a very unusual object, high up in the clear blue morning sky. To the naked eye it looked like a large, long, self-luminous (casting no shadows on itself), bright white opaque ‘rod’ or ‘tube’, bent at the center, with ‘scalloped’ and diffuse edges, and rounded ‘ends’, slowly rotating clockwise like a thrown boomerang (5c – 5e). I estimated its size to be roughly the length and width of a Boeing 707, minus wings and a tail, flying at an altitude of approximately 10-15,000 feet.
I watched it for
about 3 minutes, expecting it to disappear at any moment. However,
it
didn’t disappear, so I rushed home quick, alerted my wife Kris, who then
joined me
at a street corner to view the object with a pair of binoculars
and a ‘High 8’ video camera with a x 360
Digital Zoom. We weren’t disappointed. The unidentified aerial object was
still in the sky,
rotating continuously, and traveling very slowly in a
straight line, on a course that would take it directly
over our position.
5c Frame View of ‘Boomerang’ Shaped Object
Video Still Copyright
1999 Kris Sherwood/Millennium Research
With some variations, the mysterious aerial object maintained a curved configuration throughout the sighting.
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5d-5l Cropped Video Frames of Rotating Aerial Object
Video Stills Copyright
1999 Kris Sherwood/Millennium Research
The UFO displayed some very interesting flight characteristics. While maintaining a straight and level course it slowly rotated clockwise around its own 'center' and horizontal flight path, causing the UFO to ‘corkscrew’ continuously through the sky (5d-5l).
As I viewed the
object through binoculars Kris began videotaping, succeeding to record a
minute and a half of footage. Kris then passed the camera to me and I took
over videotaping, however, at this point, in the heat of the moment, I failed
to notice that Kris had switched the cameras recording mode
to the ‘standby’ position. Thinking I was recording what was on the LCD screen,
I
discovered when viewing the footage later that unfortunately the 5-10
minutes
I thought I had
recorded wasn’t there.
To make matters
worse, after I had videotaped the object for approximately 10 minutes the
camera
suddenly and unexpectedly ‘switched off’. As I struggled to turn it
back on Kris and I saw what looked
like a Boeing 707 pass in front of the
object at a lower altitude, blocking it momentarily from sight,
while
making its descent to LAX airport. Unfortunately, we didn’t succeed to
videotape this,
or the last few minutes as it silently passed overhead, but
what we did videotape clearly shows
what passed over Santa Monica that morning.
We watched the object for about twenty minutes until it disappeared from view heading towards and above an area of Santa Monica called Venice.
ADDITIONAL
OBSERVATIONS:
Throughout the
sighting the aerial objects shape and three-dimensional form remained the same.
It made no sound and left no contrail. At no time did it
appear to be metallic or show
any reflective surfaces or attached
appendages. Also, on at least two occasions viewed through binoculars
I saw the
unknown object emit a bright burst of florescent ‘purple’ light along its length
facing the direction
it was rotating and traveling in.
The UFO’s flight characteristics: flying slowly on a straight and horizontal course, at a constant speed, while continuously rotating 360 degrees on two axis (around its own center and course of motion), were highly unusual and indicative of an intelligently controlled aerial ‘object’, in this case, not a single object but a ‘fleet’ of self-similar and self-luminous ETI aerial objects flying together in a curved configuration as ‘one’ object: a ‘UFO Fleet Container’ or ‘UFOFC’ (Ref.1-4).
A leading member
of the Orange County MUFON Chapter Jan Harzan
contacted an air traffic controller
at LAX airport a few days after the
sighting and reported that ‘nothing’ anomalous was ‘allegedly’
reported on radar, at the time of the sighting. This seems hard to
believe, since it was
a large object at relatively low
altitude flying in the direction of LAX, approximately seven miles away.
Was the object ‘cloaked’ to radar perhaps, or was a different
kind of cloaking in operation?
Just seconds before sighting the mysterious aerial object I clairvoyantly ‘remotely sensed’ an ETI aerial object’ high up in the sky behind me. In fact, had I not remotely sensed its ‘presence’ and turned around and looked up I probably wouldn’t have seen it at all with my back to it, while walking Bessie towards the last street corner before home. Since early childhood I have often spontaneously and/or willfully remotely sensed (i.e.: at a ‘distance’ in space and/or time, and beyond ‘ordinary’ conscious perception), the presence and location (etc) of an ETI aerial object before encountering it. This has often allowed me include other witnesses and when possible to photograph and/or videotape an ETI aerial object (Ref.1, 2, 3, 7 & 8). Remote sensing has also allowed me to do the same with one or more ball plasma (Ref.5 & 6).
The UFO Fleet Container encounter of 1999 was the first time I psychically sensed, and Kris and I observed, a UFOFC above NW Santa Monica. It was also the first time I facilitated videotaping a UFO above the city after sensing it clairvoyantly. Many more UFO and UFOFC encounters, including ‘self initiated’ or human initiated ‘Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind’ or ‘CE5’ type encounters, would follow, especially after beginning, on April 8, 2006, to conduct solo and small group synchronized ETI participation invited Earth Healing and World Peace meditations, and requesting before a meditation a visible sign of ETI participation, and permission to videotape anything that may appear (Ref.1, 2 & 7).
Considering all of the above and the duration of the sighting, conventional explanations such as micro-lights, balloons, parachutes, space debris and rocket stages (etc.), can be ruled out I think.
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Below is a copy of
a letter Kris and I sent to a number of local television news desks three
days
after the sighting. Although the initial response was encouraging,
each news desk quickly fell silent
and seemed to drop
the story like a ‘hot potato’, despite our making no reference to
‘alien spacecraft’
or the like:
10/21/99
Dear **********
Enclosed is a VHS
copy of the daylight UFO sighting over
Santa Monica,
(filmed earlier this week) with a brief description.
We think it would
be interesting to know if anyone else spotted
or even filmed
this object, and could offer a convincing explanation of what it was.
Bear in mind that
the objects shape and form remained the same throughout the sighting
(something I don’t think a stray balloon, and a very large
one at that, would do), while travelling
in a straight line for at least 5
miles, continuously rotating 360 degrees.
It was very
unusual, a true ‘Unidentified Flying Object’.
Look forward to
all contact,
Sincerely,
Ed & Kris
Sherwood.
1973 NASA Video Image
Recently, Kris and I came across an interesting piece of NASA footage,
of an unidentified object in space, recorded during the 1973 Apollo 12
Mission
to the Moon, that looked very similar to the UFO videotaped above Santa
Monica.
Commander Charles Conrad reported the sighting and videotaping of an
unidentified object to Mission Control:
"We have, … an object which is in the same place all the time but, …
appears to be tumbling, … ah,
we've had it ever since yesterday, and,… it seems to be tagging along with
us."
Mission Control offered several possible explanations, including
jettisoned
'SLA Panels'; the four large 'garage doors' of an area enclosing the Luna
module during launch.
When released, these would tend to continue to follow the command module,
slowly tumbling through space.
But, wouldn't Apollo astronauts recognize such a large and important piece
of Apollo 12?
Indeed, these seemed to have also been videotaped during the Apollo 12 flight.
However, a slowly turning panel bore no resemblance to the mysterious
'tubular' 'boomerang' shaped
object videotaped; 'rotating' anomalously (especially when viewed frame by
frame), flying in a straight line,
at a high rate of speed, far above the Earth.
In the case of the unidentified aerial object above Santa
Monica,
which also flew in a straight line, and continuously rotated and
'corkscrewed'
through the sky, at an altitude that would put any similar sized piece of
'space junk'
on primetime television NEWS, LAX air traffic controllers saw nothing.
References:
1) A ‘Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind’
Videotaped Above North West Santa Monica
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/ufo_sightings_p1report.html
2) UFO Sightings (Part 1)
A ‘Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind’
Videotaped Above North West Santa Monica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwcmksZu-YM&feature=channel_page
3) UFOs Videotaped in Formation Above Santa Monica
http://www.CropCircleAnswers.com/CCA-S-SM-ufo6-28-06.htm
4) UFOFC Videotaped Above Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvtcYR6ZQt4
5) ‘Ball Plasmas’ Videotaped During a Total Solar Eclipse
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/sightings_pic6.htm
6) Engaging A Dragon: Ball Plasmas’ Videotaped Interacting
with Observers Before, During, and After, a Group Meditation
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/Plasma_sightings.htm
7) ETI Invited ‘Earth Healing’ and ‘World Peace’
Meditations Attract a Positive UFO ‘Response’
http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/cca-sightings/sightings_ufo-med-response.htm
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