The Boy Who Cried UFO.

[BIAD]

The Boy Who Cried UFO.

Leonard Cramp, on the Birch photo in Flying Saucer Review.
“...There is no doubt that the photographs are completely authentic.
It is inconceivable that the youngster or parent could have perpetrated a hoax.”

In the days of smog being the main resident of London and the Beatles being just a group of young men with a name to make,
1962 in Great Britain plodded on just like many of the years before. Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins accepted their Nobel
Prize for some complicated stuff connected to DNA and 'Dr. No' reveals to the world a horny spy called Sean Connery.

In America, there were growlings regarding Cuba and the pilot Francis Gary Powers was reacquired from the Russians.
President Kennedy announced that the USA should go to the moon and Marilyn Monroe is alleged to have popped one-too many
pills and called it a day.

But on the outskirts of the English industrial town of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, young Alex Birch focused on his year-old box
Brownie 127 camera and decided to go outside for a while. It was just another grey Sunday in March when the fourteen year-old
Alex, Stuart Dixon (16) and David Brownlow (12) trotted down to a field near The British Oak pub in order to practice Alex's hobby
of photography.

With a shot of passing dog and his friends cavorting in front of the camera, Alex snapped away until something caught his eye
through the viewfinder. Clustering together, five strange craft hovered high up and in plain daylight. With quick fingers and a calm
nerve, Alex took a picture of the saucer-shaped objects just before they sped off towards Sheffield.



As the newspapers got wind of the encounter just as summer came around, Alex and his two chums faded into the background
as his father and a teacher-friend Colin Brook, took control, pushed the story and the single photograph as an offering to what
they believed in.
Alien visitation.

In a letter to Flying Saucer Review published in 1963, Birch senior wrote: “...I myself was a non-believer in these objects..
[but now] I am firmly convinced that we are being visited by flying saucers of other planets.”

UFO societies and the British tabloids jostled for Mr. Birch's attention and access to his son. Alex told the account over and over,
even agreeing to a daunting visit to London in order to address the inaugural meeting of the British UFO Research Association
(BUFORA) in Kensington.

Standing on the stage in front of two hundred members of different UFO groups from around the country, fourteen year-old Alex
Birch spoke faultlessly regarding the unusual observation for four minutes. The audience was enthralled with the small boy's story
that rivalled the American UFO sighting claims and felt it would put Britain firmly on the map of Ufology.

BUFORA agreed with their so-called expert Alan Watts that the shapes in the photograph were typical fairly normal Adamski-type
saucers and the editor of Flying Saucer Review, Waveney Girvan proposed the theory that if the occupants of flying saucers required
water to sustain themselves, then Sheffield's multitude of reservoirs was the obvious reason for the galactic forays.

1962 trundled on, with others claiming the skies above the city of steel cutlery was littered with out-of-this-world visitors.
Mr. Birch answered questions and Colin Brook eagerly confirmed the narrative. It would only be a matter of time before Alex's father
felt that the 'Big-Guns' should know what was going on in South Yorkshire.

The Air Ministry was contacted by Mr. Birch with the revelation of the photograph and assured them that he was 'awaiting instructions'.
Those of bowler hats and pin-striped suits in Whitehall London rolled their eyes at the suggestion of a field investigation, but eventually,
the Ministry reluctantly agreed to take a look at the boy's snapshot.

Accepting the sponsorship by The Yorkshire Post newspaper, Birch senior and his son -accompanied by a Journalist, followed the
path of Dick Whittington and went to the capital city. At the doors of the auspicious Ministry building in London, the Birch males were
welcomed and the Journalist was pulled aside to inspect the Ministry's Public Relations office.

In 1998, Alex recalled walking up the steps of Whitehall with his father where the pair were “met a man in a tweed jacket, flannels
and a Dickie bow. We went down long corridors into a room where there were some men and a doctor."

The questioning started almost immediately. Alex told his story to Flight Lieutenant R.H. White of S6 (an administrative office that
collated such information) and Flight Lieutenant Anthony Bardsley who was introduced as a 'consultant' with the Air Intelligence
department.

Depending on which account is used, Alex and his father were interviewed between two hours and seven! Mr. Birch claimed
later in a UFO magazine that his son was 'sick with fear' and he recognised a type of brainwashing taking place. It seemed the
Ministry-men had doubts regarding the whole incident and Mr. Birch felt that he and his son were getting the runaround.

Alex confirmed this as an adult, when he also said they took the negative and the camera for analysis, assuring the boy that what
he saw wasn't flying saucers -but Russians.

Perusing the Air Ministry file which was released in 1993 under the 30 year rule, researchers discovered that Lieutenant White
-writing to a department colleague, said "...it is a relatively simple task to reproduce an identical photograph to the one
we were shown... the sequence of exposures on the two strips of negatives we saw do not exactly fit the boy’s story.” 

Flight Lieutenant Bardsley warned in a memo "...perhaps this brief outline of these doubts will assist you in deciding what
on earth you can write to Mr Birch.” The Ministry felt that it was obvious that little Alex's account didn't add-up, but the two officials
seemed reluctant to counter his father's enthusiasm of spacemen encounters.

Presumably in the spirit of fair-play and conservative control, the Air Ministry sent Mr. Birch a letter that his family were only too
pleased to quickly release to the Press. In the letter, the Ministry suggested that what young Alex had actually photographed were
ice particles in the atmosphere, an explanation that was rejected by just about everyone including Charles Bowen, the editor of
Flying Saucer Review.
Mr. Bowen questioned the Ministry whether they actually believed such an outlandish claim and enjoyed the confident feeling
with Mr. Birch that in reality, they were dealing with a cover-up.
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1972.
After a decade had passed and Alex's fifteen minutes of fame had waned, the Sunday visitation of off-worlders in their flying
machines remained in the 'Unexplained' basket. But the now-grown Alex Birch had grown weary of the occasional dogged
devotee with their questions who caused him to resort to moving home with his wife and child a couple of times to find some
obscurity.

Alex had had enough and explaining to The Daily Express newspaper via the telephone, he'd realised that the ridicule would
not go away and so, he had decided to confess what really happened back in 1962.

The article stated that Alex simply cut out 'flying saucer' shapes, pasted them on a sheet of glass and then photographed them.
Mr. Birch Snr. was said to have only learned of the the trickery a day before The Yorkshire Post were about to run the story and
pleaded with his son not to continue the scam.
A bit strange considering his verve back then!



As the seventies story blossomed, The Sheffield Telegraph quickly tracked down David Brownlow, who admitted that the whole
thing was a joke which just got out of control. Alex's guilt was over, his Ministry-fooling chicanery had no potency now and any
serious interest in the phenomena was tossed back into the 'silly season' basket.
Story over.
............................................

But... as the popular X-Files series entertained millions with its conspiratorial episodes and sightings of triangular-shaped craft
flitted across the British Isles, the fifty year-old Alex Birch stepped forward once more.
Now a successful antiques dealer, Alex announced to Pete Moxon of Sheffield-based White’s News-agency that in order to ease
the pressure from UFO-buffs, he'd said his photograph was fake... when really it was genuine.



Wanting the public to know that is important that the truth is out there, Alex assured the wary media that this time he was on
the level.
However, The Sheffield Star newspaper wasn't so sure, so contacted the only two other witnesses, David Brownlow and Stuart
Dixon. Both men independently dismissed Alex’s new claim, although it was said that Stuart Dixon later retracted his original
statement due to meeting Alex for the first time since 1962.

Brownlow maintained his narrative, "We painted them on glass. We were just messing around in Alex’s dad's greenhouse
when we had the idea to do it...". He also stated: "...It was Alex’s idea to take the photo but then his dad and a teacher
at the school got hold of it and we all got swept along with the hoax which just snowballed."

Alex Birch's U-turn enjoyed a small flurry of interest by the media along with some UFOlogical interest and then once again,
the story was over.
............................................

But... Tuesday evening, 27 January 2004.
The now-grandfather was settled in his armchair in his bungalow and enjoying the television with his wife. Alex still enjoyed his
hobby of photography and had joined a local photographic society. Glancing out of the window, he recalled the club were having
a competition.
It was snowing heavily outside and appreciating the atmospherics of a snow-covered market at night, Alex pondered whether
capturing such a scene would grab first prize.

Alex made the decision and without telling his wife, left the comfort of his warm home just after 9.00.pm and drove to the
Nottinghamshire market town of Retford. Arriving in the quiet town square, the man who'd fooled the world twice snapped-off
images of snow-laden street lamps and the old architecture of the buildings that surrounded the Chesterfield canal.

Alex wasn't a fan of digital photography and so with his trusty 35mm Fujia Sensia 200ASA reversal film -a type used for slides,
looked for the shot that would win him the competition. After using-up the roll of thirty-six frames, he decided to call it a night.
The snow had stopped, but the clock on the centuries-old Town Hall told him it was late.

When the slides came back from processing, Alex examined them through a small battery operated viewer with an eye on the
prize from his photograph club's competition. Deciding on three shots that he hoped would make the judges ponder, he glanced
again at the night-time image of Retford's old Town Hall.

As the clock tower in the image shows the time at 23.08.pm, Alex looked to the right-side of the town hall slide and there just
where the street-lights lose their potency, was the same phenomena that had tracked his growing up . A strange craft.
Alex had been through the gauntlet of the media and the UFO societies, he was seen as a bilker, a deceiver in the subject and
he knew this latest piece of evidence would just be ignored.



It wasn't long before Mr. Birch began his own investigation and his first stop, Sheffield's University’s Department of Physics and
Astronomy. After examining the photograph, the University boffins ruled out any astronomical phenomena and after receiving
information from local airfields that no aircraft flew over Retford on that Tuesday evening, Alex wondered if the famous Kodak
company could regain him the credibility he'd left in the seventies.

Kodak Laboratories in Lincolnshire agreed to analyze the slide. Their technical experts ruled out a double exposure, a lens flare
and other reactions that involve chemicals exposed to light. Kodak placed its usual emphasis on re-touching and deliberate
chicanery, but found nothing ambiguous.

The unknown object in the slide had the same density pattern, colour and grain as the surrounding picture. The Kodak analysts
agreed that whatever was this 'thing' was, it was in the sky when photographed. Robert Smith of Kodak’s laboratories went so far
as to write on the back of Alex's photo, ‘This image has not been altered or manipulated in any way.’

Feeling that an established company had backed his claim, Alex decided to vindicate the fourteen year-old boy who'd been doubted
by another member of that same establishment. So he contacted the Ministry of Defence.
Again.
Not taking a 'no thank you' for an answer, Alex made several phone calls to the MoD’s Whitehall building and eventually made an
appointment to see the UFO desk officer, Linda Unwin.

Ms. Erwin arranged to hold a meeting with Mr. Birch on 9th March 2004 and suggested that Alex certain ‘defence experts’ would be
interested in viewing the unusual slide. Accompanied by his friend Andy Roberts and son-in-law, Alex repeated a task that had only
been done once before.
The only other time a UFO witness had been interviewed by MoD personnel -and actually visit the MoD Main Building, was way back
in 1962 and that was a kid called Alex and his zealous father!
A book-end of time.

However, the paragraph above isn't exactly true and the meeting didn't go to plan. Linda Erwin and a colleague did meet Alex and his
guests in the reception area, but she was unaware of an arranged meeting with any defence experts. But in an effort to keep the
appointment jovial, Linda said she'd be happy to take a copy of the slide for analysis.
Feeling crestfallen, Alex agreed to allow the MoD a reproduction of his image to be taken and left without an interview. A hearing -he
believed that was cancelled because of bringing his two friends.

The Graphics and Digital Imaging Section completed their assessment on 2nd August 2004.
A scan at 2,400dpi allowed them to investigate ‘at greater magnification the structure of the anomaly’
but found no indication of reflections or lens flares.

The brief report ends with these words:
‘No definitive conclusions can be gathered from evidence submitted, however, it  may be coincidental that
the illuminated plane of the object passes through the centre of the frame, indicating a possible lens anomaly
e.g. a droplet of moisture.’
............................................

Story definitely over.

[guohua]

So,,,,,,, Alex let me ask you,,,,,,, did you actually cut those images out and glue them to glass and take a picture or did you see UFO's?

I'm going to say YOU actually seen the UFO's.
But I have to mention that in my experience with UFO's I've seen, one was a smooth saucer and the other was a cigar shape.

JMHO

[OmegaLogos]

Explanation: I once saw a PINK boomerang UFO ... no joke!

Picture recreated in MSpaint using a google earth screen grab of the location I was in on the ground when I saw the UFO/UAP etc.




Personal Disclosure: But who would believe that?

[Ninurta]

In the first photo, the "UFOs" are pretty clearly on a different focal plane than the trees in the background. It looks like the camera is focused "far" for the trees, and the objects are blurred as they would be if closer to the lens than the trees, rather than beyond them. The "we cut them out and place them on glass" explanation holds water then, and the "nope, they wuz UFOs!" claim does not.

In the second, a droplet of water (as in a melted snowflake) would explain it. Notice how the bright spot on the edge of the anomaly lines up with the lights on the building along the axis of the droplet. That wouldn't happen if the anomaly was above and BEHIND the building. It indicates to me that it is therefore closer to the camera than the building, not farther away. The lens is pretty close to the camera, certainly closer than the building. Furthermore, the object is, again, not on the same focal plane as the building, and appears to be closer than the building.

My money says melted snowflake on the camera lens.


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[727Sky]

There is a whole boat load of people who cried UFO... I started to do a thread but this will do.. New footage and explanation (I had not seen or heard) and new witnesses  

[BIAD]

...My money says melted snowflake on the camera lens.

'Melted Snowflake' -as in a college kid who couldn't handle all the cruel acts of the oppressive white man
and his rapist Klan-friends that his nerdy teacher told him/her about...?

Or bad weather and a guy who sees Ufos everywhere?!!

[guohua]

They are Starting The Old Swamp Gas and Venus Rising Excuses Again!! 

That's right, our commercial and military pilots can't tell the difference between between a light reflected off of clouds or an actual UFO!   Why do we spend so much money training people who can't tell the difference between a cloud or haze and why don't our Very Expensive Radar Work?

The Navy tracks UFO sightings. Scientists explain what's really going on.

 
Sure, a Scientist who has never been in a fighter jet or manned the combat and control radar of our fighting machines is going to say, You're All Mistaken, it's Clouds or Swamp Gas or a Full Moon! 

(Tribune News Service) — The Navy caused a bit of a sensation this spring when it implemented a formal process for pilots to report unexplained aerial phenomena – what most people call UFOs – after being accused in the past of not taking such reports seriously.


Alas for those who might be tempted to make the leap, such sightings are not evidence of life on other planets.

No one doubts that the pilots are seeing something, but psychologists and specialists in aviation medicine say there are plenty of reasonable explanations for such sightings other than extraterrestrial beings.

Earthly sources of light reflected by clouds or haze, for example, or optical illusions wrought by fatigue after staring through a cockpit window for hours on end.

Another possibility is that the pilots were seeing some sort of experimental drone or other advanced technology about which they had not been briefed.
Or, the objects were simply satellites, such as those launched in May by the Elon Musk-founded company SpaceX, which prompted a flurry of UFO reports from puzzled observers, the news agency AFP reported.

Source
OK, the SpaceX craft looked like a Tic-Tac and submerged it's self under the ocean and then Zoomed at Ultra High Speeds Out Of Our Atmosphere in less than a Second! 
This is a long article in the Stars & Stripes and I think it is worth reading, this Female Scientist and others gives all kinds of reasons the pilots aren't seeing what they are reporting.
YES, it sounds like a coverup.

[BIAD]

It's all about the Benjamins and control.

Wikileaks Document Suggest That Wernher Von Braun Tried to Warn Us About a Fake Alien Invasion.



'Dr Wernher Von Braun was a Nazi rocket scientist in the secret spacecraft development plant at Peenemünde
during World War II , then through Operation Paperclip recruited as a high-level NASA aeronautical engineer
during the 1960’s and early 70’s.

One of Von Braun’s mentors, a founding father of rocketry and astronautics, Herman Oberth said, “It is my thesis
that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.
I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been
investigating our Earth for centuries.”

• Below is an excerpt from a video interview of Carol Rosin speaking about her mentor, Dr Wernher Von Braun.

“I met the late Dr Wernher Von Braun in early ’74, at that time Von Braun was dying of cancer, but he assured
me that he would live a few more years in order to tell me about the game that was being played, that game
being the effort to weaponize space, to control Earth from space and space itself.”

“What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again… that was,
the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers, and the scare tactics, the spin that
was being put on (as justification for our advanced) weapons system... (was based upon)... how we identify an
enemy.”

“The enemy at first, (Von Braun) said, (to justify our) …space based weapons system… first the Russians are going
to be considered the enemy... then terrorists would be identified... then we were going to identify third world crazies…
The next enemy was asteroids… [and] against asteroids we’re going to build space based weapons.”

“And the funniest one of all was against what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final card.
And over, and over, and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving his speeches for him, he would bring
up that last card.

‘And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We’re going to have to build space based weapons against aliens.’
And all of it, he said, is a lie.”

• Is there a possibility that powerful groups that control governments will use the extraterrestrial phenomenon to deceive
the masses? Given everything we’ve seen with false flag terrorism so far, it certainly seems plausible.

• [Editor’s Note]
The article’s writer then asks “Why do we always wait until the government or the media verifies something in order to believe
it’s true? Why do we assume that anyone without these official credentials is lying, or crazy, or both?

If we simply did our own research, we could come to our own conclusions and we wouldn’t be so easily fooled when these official
sources lie to us. There is so much information out there and so much evidence to support not only the existence of UFOs but of
extraterrestrials as well.

We don’t need the government to tell us what is already apparent. We just need to do independent research and think for ourselves.”
Why? It is becoming apparent that the negative extraterrestrials that have been manipulating humanity on Earth (ie” Anunnaki, Draco
Reptilians, negative Nordics, and their small Greys), have subjected the planet to mass mind controlled agenda, inducing our top
leaders to do their bidding and instilling an apathy and cognitive dissonance in the collective minds of the populace.

As you’ve probably already heard, a while ago Wikileaks released the Podesta emails.
As with previous leaks, they expose massive amounts of corruption within the U.S. political system.
Some of the Podesta leaks include information about UFOs and extraterrestrials in the form of private emails.

One in particular was from Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, and it reads as follows:

Dear John,
Because the War in Space race is heating up, I felt you should be aware of several factors as you and I schedule our Skype talk.
Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth.
They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.

The following information in italics was shared with me by my colleague Carol Rosin, who worked closely for several years with
Wernher von Braun before his death.
Carol and I have worked on the Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, attached for your convenience.

In the email, he mentions Carol Rosin, who was the first female corporate manager of Fairchild Industries.
A space and missile defence consultant who has worked with various corporations, government departments, and intelligence communities,
she worked closely with Wernher Von Braun shortly before his death, specifically on the subject of space-based weapons.
She also founded the Institute for Security Cooperation in Outer Space.

Below is a very telling interview with Carol that was conducted by Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project.
Greer accompanied Dr. Edgar Mitchell in all his communications and meetings with the Pentagon and has been instrumental in bringing
forth hundreds of military whistle-blowers of all ranks, with verified credentials and backgrounds, to share what they’ve learned about
this phenomenon through their work.

In the interview, she brings up the idea of a false flag alien threat.
The term ‘false flag’ describes covert operations that are designed to be misleading, to make it appear as though events are being
carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them.

“I met the late Dr Wernher Von Braun in early 74, at that time Von Braun was dying of cancer, but he assured me that he would live a
few more years in order to tell me about the game that was being played, that game being the effort to weaponize space, to control
Earth from space and space itself.”

“He asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak, and I did.
And what he asked me to do was to educate decision makers and the public about why we shouldn’t be putting weapons into space...
and what the alternatives are, how we could be building a cooperative space system.”

“What was most interesting to me, was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again... And that was the strategy that
was being used to educate the public and decision makers, and the scare tactics, the spin that was being put on the weapons system.
And that was how we identify an enemy.”

“The enemy at first he said, the enemy against whom we’re going to build a space based weapons system...
First the Russians are going to be considered the enemy... then terrorists would be identified and that was soon to follow... then we were
going to identify third world crazies, we now call them nations of concern...
The next enemy was asteroids... [and] against asteroids we’re going to build space based weapons.”

“And the funniest one of all, was against what he called aliens, extraterrestrials, that would be the final card.
And over, and over, and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving his speeches for him, he would bring up that last card.

‘And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card.
We’re going to have to build space based weapons against aliens,’ and all of it, he said, is a lie.”...'

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