Have you seen any little green
men lately?
After a recent spike of reports
of strange sightings in the skies
over Bucks County, the
Pennsylvania chapter of the
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
is to hold its next alien hunter
conference at Bucks on Jan. 24.
MUFON is an international
organization devoted to discovering
the mystery behind UFOs
by scientifically investigating
them, as stated on their website.
On average, there are about 36
reported UFO sightings over a
four-month period in
Pennsylvania, but over the summer
of 2008, there were 138
sightings from Pittsburgh to
Philadelphia, and the
Philadelphia-Bucks County area
accounted for 77 of them, according
to John Ventre, the
Pennsylvania State Director of
MUFON.
In fact, Bucks County’s “alien
scene” was put in the national
spotlight on the Discovery
Channel’s new documentary
series, “UFO’s Over Earth-The
Bucks County Flap,” which premiered
Nov. 24 and will run
again on Dec. 13 at 10 p.m.
According to Ventre, there are
typically two different types of
sighting reports.
About 60 percent of reports
describe a star-like UFO, usually
flying above cloud level.
Ventre himself reported seeing
this type of UFO on June 29.
He described the UFO as
“much larger than an airplane,
covering about one-third of the
sky [and traveling at] approximately
2,000 mph.”
About 40 percent of reports
describe a triangular or
boomerang-shaped UFO with
three or four different colored
pulsing lights.
Denise Lynch Murter, one of
the six Bucks County residents
featured on the Discovery
Channel’s documentary, claims
to have seen this type of UFO.
Murter reported seeing a
strange craft emitting a blue fog which contained metallic
sprinkles. Allegedly, the UFO
dropped the sprinkles onto one
of the trees in her backyard, and
then drew them back up to the
ship.
A laboratory tested leaf samples
from the “dusted” tree and
found that they had been subjected
to high heat or radiation.
Although this incident brought
new life to local UFO investigations,
it allegedly brought death
to the robin, which had lived in
the affected tree for four months
prior to the incident.
After watching the Discovery
Channel documentary, a
Pittsburgh man reported a sighting
to MUFON that happened
some 20 years ago.
He had only had “one beer”
the night that he said he saw
about 10 round, bright lights in
the sky, appearing to be “performing
some type of show.”
The man called an investigator
after the sighting, whose initial
impression was that the man had
“witness[ed] a light show.”
However, the man has
remained unsure of what he saw
to this day. “I have even considered
being hypnotized, just too
accurately recount the event,”
reported the man on MUFON’s
website.
With this local surge of strange
reports, Bucks County residents
should know what to do in the
event that they see a UFO.
Although nine out of 10 sightings
are scientifically explainable,
who wants to risk finding
themselves in a dangerous extraterrestrial
situation unequipped
with the right kind of information?
According to the MUFON
website, the number one thing to
do is remain calm. Bucks residents
should remember that,
“you might be witnessing the
event of a lifetime and will want
to remember every detail, and
you can’t do that if you are hysterical.”
However, it’s also important to
“protect yourself from any hazards-
real or perceived. Be prepared
to take evasive, but not
aggressive, action to get out of [a
UFO’s] way.”
More importantly, if you
encounter some type of extraterrestrial
being associated with the
craft, MUFON advises that you
“be prepared to take evasive
action to protect yourself.”
MUFON recommends concealing
yourself at a safe distance
and, if you happen to have a
camera, camcorder or tape
recorder handy, use them to
record your personal alien experience.
A n o t h e r
i m p o r t a n t
safety tip is to
avoid touching any
traces of the UFO’s presence
that it may have left
behind. Remember, “You don’t
know what you’re touching,
where it came from, or what type
of hazards might be associated
with it.”
Although all this talk of extraterrestrial
activity may be frightening,
the best thing we can do,
as a human is to stay informed.
A great way to do that would
be to attend the MUFON conference
in the Bucks Library
Auditorium on Jan. 24, 2009 from
12-5 p.m.
On the agenda is Ventre, who
will discuss the 2008
“Pennsylvania UFO wave,” and
Bill Birnes, publisher of UFO
Magazine and host of the History
Channel’s weekly series “UFO
Hunters.”
Also scheduled to speak are
local UFO personal eyewitnesses
and self-professed
abductees, including history
Professor Dr. David Jacobs of
Temple University.
Admission is $15.
For more information,
or to report a UFO
sighting, visit pamufon.
com.