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| Los Angeles resident spot UFOs over Los Angeles with summoner Robert Bingham |
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| Shaun Ryder (Christopher Thomond/Guardian) |
Shaun Ryder on UFOs: "It's not that I want to believe -- it's impossible not to." His encounters with aliens have been turned into a
new TV show.
"All I’ll tell yous,
right, is that I’ve seen one, really close up, about 50 foot above, and
it looks like a cartoon..."
Shaun Ryder
was 15 when he first saw a UFO. He'd just started as a messenger boy at
the post office and was walking to the bus stop on Hilton Lane, Little
Hulton.
It was 6:45 am and pitch black when he looked up into the sky. "At
first it was still, and then it went, 'Voooooooom!' And then again:
'Voooooooom!' Classic zig-zag, hovered, then went off at 10,000 miles an
hour. Like Star Trek. Boom. Gone. Yeah!"
(DDSDtv) Close up examination of fresh crop circle formation
Another bus stop a few
months later in 1978. This time he's at Irlams o' Th' Height in Salford, around 5:00 pm. "Hundreds of lights going across the sky really slow,
and I'm thinking, 'God, are we being invaded?' The next day in the
papers it said: 'Mysterious lights in the sky -- lights at Salford rugby
ground have gone mad.' And that was bullsh-t because when the lights at
rugby grounds start moving around, it's nothing like these."
Ever since, Ryder has been obsessed with Ufology and extraterrestrial forms of life. The former
Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman gets narked with people who assume he was off his head when he saw his
UFOs.
Fair enough, he has spent much of his life [out of] his head, but he insists
that any time he's seen anything otherworldly he's been clean and
sober.
Reality check: Crop formations are real. How are they formed,
and what are the differences between real and manmade kinds?
Then, in 2010, he found populist redemption
in the Australian jungle with Ant and Dec and became an unlikely
national treasure. Before that, television producers were terrified of
what he might come out with before the watershed.
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UFO researcher Robert Hastings discussed declassified documents, as well as witness testimony that confirms UFO incursions at nuclear weapons sites, weapons laboratories, and bomb test sites. UFO activity accelerated after WWII, around the time that the testing and deploying of nuclear weapons began in America. Initially, the premise was that the unidentified craft were Soviet devices, though Hastings became convinced “we’re dealing with multiple races from multiple worlds.” He said he’s had contact with over 100 military employees who knew of UFO activity that occurred when they worked at various facilities between 1964 and 1996. 
