Case Report: Milwaukie Amoeba UFOs

Details

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 11:12

Written by Keith Rowell

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Thanks to the help of an Internet oregonmufon.com reader and the Oregon MUFON State Director and others in addition to my own test demonstrations, I now believe that we have a plausible ID for this UFO case study. The UFO evidence leads to the probable conclusion that the two UFOs in this case study are two separate light-weight plastic bags at very high altitudes of around 3000 to 5000 feet. Air currents, perhaps summer thermal air currents in one of the UFOs, were fortuitous enough to carry these plastic bags high into the air and over Don Andersberg’s Milwaukie home. He is well aware of balloons traveling at high and low altitudes over his home, but these are the first instances of plastic bags that we know of. Ironically, after this case study was published, he video-recorded a low altitude plastic bag for the first time. It was clearly identifiable as a Subway plastic sandwich bag. See the Updated Milwaukie Amoeba UFOs case report for the full particulars.

UFO Description: One person in his backyard video-recorded from his backyard in blue sky daylight on two separate dates ten months apart two separate UFOs that looked and behaved very similarly. They were both small, somewhat transforming, mostly whitish, oddly-shaped objects. They both showed a pinkish area: one more prominent than the other. One of the UFOs showed two ragged "arms" that divided up into two parts at the tip at different points in the video. The witness first saw the UFOs and then began video-recording them as they moved along slowly in the sky.

Witness: Don Andersberg (pseudonym).

Date and Time: Amoeba UFO #1: August 10, 2012, at 1:38 to 1:40 PM. Amoeba UFO #2: April 15, 2013, at 2:00 to 2:03 PM.

Duration: Amoeba UFO #1: Two minutes and 4 seconds total of video plus probably about 10 seconds before video started. Amoeba UFO #2: Three minutes and 37 seconds total of video plus probably about 10 seconds before video started.

Place: Milwaukie, Oregon.

Weather: Amoeba UFO #1: Temperature 75º F; winds variable at 4.6 mph; partly cloudy; visibility 10 miles. Amoeba UFO #2: Temperature 54º F; winds were WNW at 11.5 mph; mostly cloudy; visibility 10 miles.

Case Report: Updated Milwaukie Amoeba UFOs. Investigated by Keith Rowell, OM Assistant State Director, and Don Andersberg, UFO witness and video-recorder.

Brief Narrative

This is another case from Don Andersberg (pseudonym), who keeps producing videos of interesting things that shouldn't be in our skies according to conventional thinking. Yet here it is for your perusal. I've named this the "Amoeba" UFOs case because especially Amoeba UFO #1 reminds me a little of the classic microscopic protozoan.

I've decided to bring together two separate cases from about ten months apart because the appearance of the two UFOs is similar. They have behaviors, colors, and surface textures more or less in common and their complexity of structure and the detail available made this an attractive couple of cases to highlight together.

Don has video-recorded a number of white orbs, for example, or even white orbs with flashing behavior with "tails."  But until now I just treated his better UFOs separately.  

Don has certainly video-recorded more compellingly unusual UFOs in Milwaukie's skies (see his other Milwaukie UFOs documented on oregonmufon.com), but I think you'll find these two UFOs as fascinating as I did.  As with so many of Don's UFOs so far, these are reminiscent of some kind of exotic balloons, but see what you think as you read through the case study.

Four Still Frames of Amoeba UFO #1

Four Still Photographs of Amoeba UFO #2

Safeway Plastic Bag Test Shots

Local Author Seeking UFO Abduction Accounts

Details

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 16:27

Written by Keith Rowell

Local, soon-to-be published UFO researcher/writer Jordan Hofer sent your Assistant State Director an email recently and he is looking for material for a second book. He wants to contact people who believe they have had genuine, on-going contact with the UFO phenomenon as deep experiencers or "alien abductees."  

When Jordan asked me last year, I was happy to offer comments on a draft of Jordan's soon-be-published Evolutionary Ufology. Jordan has used his training and expertise in anthropology and biology to theorize about what might be behind the UFO phenomenon. His is a decidedly different take on the possible origins of the UFO beings. Be sure to look for his book in the coming months.

Here is Jordan's email request to the Oregon MUFON public:

I am looking for people who have had alien abduction experiences in Oregon or the Pacific Northwest. I would like to tell your story in a published book. I am a MUFON Research Specialist and author of the upcoming book Evolutionary Ufology. I have confidence that my current publisher, Schiffer Books, would be very interested in such a volume. Proposed title would be either Oregon Alien Abductions or Alien Abductions in the Pacific Northwest. Total anonymity is assured unless otherwise desired. Please contact me, Jordan Hofer, at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Contact Jordan if you are interested in having your UFO abduction experiences documented. We need more people like Jordan doing this valuable work of documentation and we need more people to come forward to tell their stories. The more this happens, the more UFOs and alien abduction will come out of the closet. When more and more UFO-involved people step forward, the various establishment powers in our society will find it more and more difficult to behave as if nothing is happening.

New UFO Reports Feed from MUFON Added

Details

Last Updated on Friday, 22 March 2013 17:35

Written by Keith Rowell

We've added a new feature to the OM website: you can now see the latest MUFON headquarters UFO reports for Oregon at Latest Oregon Reports.

Please note that these reports directly from the public are the ones that our OM field investigators are assigned as cases. We OM field investigators then do our best to figure out what stimulus caused the reporting person to think their sighting might be of a genuine UFO. Sometimes we find that they've seen Venus or Sirius or Jupiter, or a train of Chinese sky lanterns, or an airplane under odd circumstances, or that the "witness" is perpetrating a hoax. We repeat: these are just "raw" reports from people in Oregon who think they've seen a genuine UFO.

But here's the good news: over the years, we have come to believe that something like as many as 40% or so of these reports from the Oregon public are actually of genuine UFOs the best that we can determine after our investigations are complete.

Anyway, have fun with this new addition to our website. Be aware that the text of the report and also any attached photos or even videos will download on this page. Photos and videos will greatly slow the download, so be patient. If you want to do your own searching of the MUFON HQ UFO report database you can.

OM at 14th McMinnville UFO Festival

Details

Last Updated on Friday, 22 March 2013 08:25

Written by Keith Rowell

Set aside this May 17 (Friday in the evening) and 18 (all day Saturday), 2013, and join us in McMinnville, Oregon, at the 14th Annual UFO Festival.

As we've done in years past, we'll be at this year's festival with a table of information. Stop by and tell us your UFO story or view our UFO case files, presentations, photos, videos, etc. Got questions? We've got the answers—at least what is publicly available and not misinformation or disinformation! You can count on MUFON to give you the straight story—just the facts and informed speculation at our table.

While you're visiting, sign up for membership and get the MUFON Journal sent to your mail box or email account. And don't forget to ask about becoming an Oregon MUFON field investigator. We need you!  

Come enjoy the speakers and the other festivities. This year the speakers are great as usual.

• Nike Pope, who worked for Britain's MoD on the UFO Desk and has written a number of UFO books, will provide informed perspective on the UFO scene. He's articulate and knowledgeable. No woo woo stuff with him!
• George Knapp has unparalleled background as an award winning TV journalist covering UFOs in a serious way. He'll bring us up to date on his latest research. Ask him about his detour into strictly paranormal research at the "Skinwalker Ranch."
• Jim Sparks is a UFO abductee with extensive memories of his experiences. He's documented his experiences in his autobiographical book: The Keepers.
• Linda Howe, who has spoken more than once at the McMinnville UFO festival, will speak this year on archeology and ETs. Specifically, she'll present some of the amazing Gobekli Tepe archeological site's details and speculate on how this possibly oldest known archeological site may be related to the ET phenomenon. She's always a winner. You won't be disappointed!

Be sure to drop by and see us at our table. We hope to see you!

OM Investigator Doug Helbling Presents UFOCAT Talk

Details

Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 10:39

Written by Keith Rowell

Doug Helbling, Oregon MUFON Field Investigator, presented a talk on the UFOCAT database at the February 2013 meeting of Oregon MUFON. The UFOCAT database had its start with the 3000 cases collected by ufologist Jacques Vallee. He gave his cases to David Saunders, who at the time was a co-principal investigator for the infamous University of Colorado UFO Project. The database was intended for the scientific examination of cases that the UFO Project was charged to do. However, things went awry with the Project.  

UFOCAT and the Infamous Condon Committee UFO Project

Saunders was fired after he helped make the notorious "trick" memo of Project Administrator Robert J. Low available to the public. The "trick" memo made it clear from the beginning that the UFO Project was to be a fake scientific evaluation of the UFO evidence, which it lived up to after a near mutiny by all the scientific investigators involved. From the beginning, the Project administrators intended the UFO Project to be essentially a public relations effort aimed at keeping the public and the academic establishment itself ignorant of UFO reality.

Read the Summary and Conclusions written solely by debunker Edward U. Condon, head of the Project, and then read the descriptions of the actual UFO cases included in the Project. There is a big mismatch! Did Condon even read through the majority of the UFO case studies? Apparently not! (Condon actually delivered debunking UFO speeches in public before the Project was concluded!)

CUFOS Augments UFOCAT

UFOCAT was eventually handed over to J. Allen Hynek's Center for UFO Studies where Fred Merritt added new cases. From 1980 to 1990 not much was done to add new cases, but then in 1990, Donald A. Johnson took up UFOCAT again, added new cases, and converted it to an easily accessible UFO database for the public.

Today you can buy a copy of UFOCAT on a CD-ROM from the Center for UFO Studies and run its Microsoft Access formatted and organized data on your PC. Be your own UFO investigator of historical cases and get a copy of UFOCAT today. It contains over 200,000 cases from 700 sources! When the establishment elites fail in their duties, the public must do the work for them.  Download Doug's presentation to get started with UFOCAT.

About Oregon MUFON

Details

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 January 2013 17:24

Written by Keith Rowell

At Oregon MUFON, we investigate UFOs and related phenomena and do our best to help people understand what we have learned. Oregon MUFON is affiliated with the Mutual UFO Network, Inc., which is the largest UFO investigative organization in the United States. It was formed in 1969 by UFO-interested citizens because it was felt that our government and the scientific establishment were not doing enough to find answers to this on-going mystery in our skies.

Meetings

We have monthly meetings if you'd like to attend. We work to have interesting programs each meeting.  Sometimes we prepare them ourselves and sometimes we find speakers. If you'd like to speak at a MUFON meeting, contact us and we'll see what we can arrange.

At each of our meetings, we try to make time for people to speak their minds on UFOs in formal "five minutes per person" sessions. Join us and tell us about your experiences or opinions about UFOs.
You don't have to be a member of MUFON to come. But we'd certainly like you to join eventually. By joining MUFON you can do your part to help solve the UFO puzzle by promoting investigation of UFOs and public education about them.

Investigations

We don't just talk about UFOs. We actually do investigation of UFO incidents at Oregon MUFON. Our team has over 60 years of experience.  Become part of our team. You'll receive education and training in how to do investigation in a professional way. We present the results of our investigations at our meetings, especially when events are more than "lights in the sky," of which we've had a few over the months and years we've been doing investigation. There is no better way to get into UFOs and understand them from the ground up than investigating them "on the ground."