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National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 9/2/2005 17:00 (Entered as : 09/02/2005 17:00)
Reported: 9/2/2005 7:39:37 PM 19:39
Posted: 9/15/2005
Location: Temple, TX
Shape: Light
Duration:4 seconds
screaming whistle with bright light hit windshield with a shocking vibrating noise and disappeared.

Sitting at a stop light I heard a loud whistle, like something I’ve heard in a fireworks display, at the same time a round light hit my windshield and fluttered really loud like a shock sound. I thought my convertible top was fried, so I pulled over to the nearest parking lot. My top was untouched and my windshield was clean.

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/045/S45990.html

Found Via UFO Maps
http://www.ufomaps.com

Question: At 8:50 pm on July 5, it still was at least twilight; I’m guessing it wasn’t “dark” ’til almost 9:20-9:30. Can the witness address this?
thanx

Expert Says East Texas Is Hotbed For UFO Sightings, Has Video To Prove It

For as long as there have been cameras, folks have captured on film what they say might be from another world.

Or, they say the UFOs might be a secret aircraft the government doesn’t want us to know about.

Despite the true answer, the fascination with the strange objects in the sky is stronger than ever, mainly because of the internet.

B.J. Booth says it’s just a great mystery.

What is this in the East Texas sky?

“We know there are many objects that are seen, photographed, and videotaped by reputable individuals.”

Booth speaks for a man in Kaufman County — a man named Larry who doesn’t want the spotlight. He just took these pictures, and video.

“To be honest, I don’t even know his name. Just Larry,” Booth says.

Over the past few years, Booth says his video shows objects that defy explanation. Like a strange white object moving toward a low flying plane.

“He was picking up some objects in his camera that he wasn’t really seeing or didn’t notice when he was taking his film.”

Some of the video and pictures are just of strange lights in the night sky — moving quickly. But some of the pictures Larry has sent to Booth’s website, www.ufocasebook.com are jaw-dropping.

“We haven’t been able to supply a lot of answers, and no one has because these objects have not been able to be identified,” Booth says.

Take for instance a bronze colored shape. It doesn’t look to be a plane.

Neither does a spectacular beacon of light moving within the clouds in the daytime.

“They cannot be explained by anything that we know of, or anything that’s flying today in our skies,” Booth proclaims.

He says he’s never seen a UFO himself, but believes the photos and video from Kaufman County are authentic.

There was something up there.

And he wants an answer from someone.

“There are so many of them that there aren’t really the resources or personnel to actually go out and further investigate these things,” he says.

There’s no shortage of people who might say this activity is military.

Strange reddish lights in a triangular pattern might be some experimental aircraft.

Some others might say they’re spacecraft.

Booth says the government is mum about these pictures, that his source, Larry doesn’t have a clue, and that he hopes someone has an idea.

“What is it? [Larry's] asking us. I don’t have an answer for him,” Booth says.

Every day studying these pictures and others from East Texas skies just deepens the mystery.

What might be looking on us from above?

5/13/05-East Texas-VIDEO INCLUDED

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3320269

Time and again By TOM MAST Star-Tribune staff writer

Psychologist Leo Sprinkle, shown in his office in Laramie on Friday, has worked with many Wyoming people who report experiences suggestive of reincarnation. Photo by Sarah Beth Barnett/Casper Star-Tribune.

LARAMIE — It seemed absurd.

A young man in the late 1960s asked University of Wyoming psychologist Leo Sprinkle for help with a phobia about dogs. Sprinkle thought perhaps a childhood memory would shed light on his fears. So Sprinkle hypnotized the man; but no such early memories emerged.

Sprinkle then asked the man to go back to the earliest memory associated with his fear of dogs. He landed in what seemed to be a life as a medieval woodsman who was attacked by wolves. Upon returning to the normal state, he shook Sprinkle’s hand and remarked, “Now I know why I’m afraid of dogs.”

“This is nonsense,” Sprinkle told himself. “But it’s helpful nonsense.”

A few days later, a 30-year-old woman asked Sprinkle to help her with an irrational fear of drowning. Again, under hypnosis, no childhood trauma was identified. She, too, was asked to recall her earliest memory related to a fear of drowning. She reported the experience of what seemed to be a pirate.

“The pirate was so obnoxious that his buddies keel-hauled him,” Sprinkle says.

Despite her obvious discomfort, the woman resisted returning to the normal state because she indicated she was learning something important. When the session ended, she thanked Sprinkle for helping her resolve her fear of drowning. In a later follow-up interview, the woman said she no longer feared drowning and had even taken swimming lessons.

Now the psychologist was intrigued. Maybe — just maybe — this wasn’t such nonsense after all.

“Intrigued” is a word Leo Sprinkle uses frequently. In some ways, he has built his career upon it. And at times, the subjects that have intrigued him have been unorthodox. His curiosity has taken him into such realms of inquiry as UFOs and reincarnation.

His interests in the offbeat also have cost him. As a professor at the University of Wyoming, Sprinkle says his colleagues thought he was “not only on the wrong path professionally, but also on the wrong path so far as the university was concerned.” So in 1989, after 25 years with UW, he left for private practice.

Sprinkle’s demeanor is friendly and his manner gentle. As he responds to questions, he frequently pops up from his chair to sort through reference books in order to correctly reflect the findings of Helen Wambach or Ian Stevenson and other reincarnation researchers. His laugh comes easily.

One model of reincarnation, Sprinkle says, suggests that the Creator is a huge ball of energy, out of which come the archangels, out of which come the angels, out of which come human beings. And Creation is expanding, learning and growing as a result of what we do.

“Some people say human souls are a spark of the divine flame,” Sprinkle says. “I like that kind of comment. It makes sense to me.”

The model also suggests the conditions for a life are set before birth, depending upon what tasks we need to learn, the projects we’ll be involved with and the causes to which we will be devoted.

What has been described variously as a chamber of beings, or a committee or council, helps create the conditions for a life, not in a punitive fashion, but after the manner of a exploration, or a questioning: “Are you going to be taking on too much by being a crippled, little old black lady — who’s a Jew,” Sprinkle laughs. “Maybe that’s more than you want to handle in one lifetime. Maybe you could take that on in two or three lifetimes.”

Of course, there are critics who believe the notion of reincarnation is ridiculous, perhaps even dangerous.

Past life experiences might be nothing more than products of an overactive imagination, they argue, forgotten influences from the past, simple lies or even memories not of one’s own past lives but from the lives of people now deceased. Some Christian denominations hold that brushes with “past lives” are the work of Satan.

“You haven’t been there,” counters Henrietta Songer of Sheridan. “You don’t know the experience.”

Songer seems to be a level-headed, 81-year-old great-grandmother who worked in the electronics industry in California and later was the controller of a road construction firm, where she was employed for over 20 years.

On her first trip to the Yucatan area of Mexico, while visiting Kabah, as she walked across a field and viewed a white archway, Songer says she got a powerful sense that she had been there before.

Subsequently, during her first regression session, Songer says instead of finding herself in New England or in Wales where her ancestors hailed from, she landed in Kabah, where she appeared to be a priest — “I mean, I was a hunk. Wow!” she laughs. She was clothed in sandals and a white garment, and was being transported on the shoulders of four men to the city of Tulum.

When asked to experience the end of that life, Songer says she saw herself inside a temple in Tulum, a shriveled little man hunched over in a corner.

“The best way I can describe it, it’s like a dream,” she says. “You’re seeing all these things, and it’s in technicolor. It’s like you were there and you’re in this other body.”

In another experience, Songer says she found herself in a setting previous to birth. There was a gathering of what she describes as “sort of gauzy” figures.

“I didn’t have anything to say about it,” she says, “and I didn’t want to come down and relive a life down here again. I was angry, I was frustrated, but there was nothing I could do about it.”

She says she has not experienced death during a regression. “At times, when I’ve been hurting pretty good, I feel like, man, let me go,” she says. “I don’t think I would ever take my life — it’s not my decision. Some of these guys who decided I needed to come down this time will tell me when I leave.”

In the Sheridan area, Songer says she personally knows 30 to 40 people who are interested in reincarnation, but due a fear of ridicule, “A lot of them don’t want to admit it.”

While belief in reincarnation might seem strange in Wyoming, for the entirety of mankind, it is anything but uncommon, spanning cultures from the Buddhists of Tibet to Indians of the Northwest Coast. Some argue a belief in reincarnation can even be found in early Christianity.

And contrary to a popular misconception, not everyone who reports evidence for a past life claims they were once Queen Cleopatra or Napoleon Bonaparte. In fact, according to Sprinkle, the research of Helen Wambach and others indicates most people, depending upon the time period, report living lower-class lives in villages under rather harsh conditions.

In addition, even though most participants in reincarnation sessions are women — Sprinkle’s figures show that of those who participate in workshops, two-thirds are female — Wambach found on average a nearly even split of male and female lifetimes reported.

Sprinkle also speculates that this life and reincarnation might not be part of a closed system; in other words, life could be present in many places throughout the universe and take many forms. On planet Earth, we are of a basic mammalian stock, but other places the intelligent species may be of insect, reptilian or even robotic in origin.

Over the years, Sprinkle and his wife, Marilyn, have worked with thousands of people in private sessions and in reincarnation workshops, not for the purpose of persuading, but for the purpose of seeking.

“I don’t try to convince people that what I know is true,” he says. “What I try to convince people is that I’m exploring and that I want to find out, and I want to be helpful to people who want to find out. And to me, that’s a pretty good motive.”

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/06/27/news/wyoming/750a6d0f6edd0c1487256ebf0071932c.txt