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2008, Bucks County, PA : UFO 目撃事例多発

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要旨​

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バックス郡UFO事件

この動画は、ペンシルベニア州での‌‌大規模なUFO目撃事例（UFOフラップ）‌‌を調査するMUFON（相互UFOネットワーク）の活動を概説しています。

特に、複数の目撃者が報告した、‌‌異なる形状の未確認飛行物体‌‌、そのうちのいくつかには‌‌独特な動きや音がない‌‌という特徴が語られています。さらに、目撃者の一人であるデニースさんの庭から採取された葉に‌‌マイクロ波による変異‌‌が見られるという‌‌物理的証拠‌‌が提示され、これにより事件の‌‌信憑性が高まります‌‌。

しかし、この科学的分析には‌‌懐疑的な意見‌‌も存在し、写真による証拠も天体現象として‌‌説明されうる‌‌と指摘されるなど、‌‌明確な結論は出ていません‌‌。にもかかわらず、管制レーダーに‌‌トランスポンダーなしの未確認機影‌‌が記録されていたという情報が、この謎にさらなる深みを与えています。

目次​

  1. 要旨
  2. 概要
    1. 1. 異常なUFO活動の急増と「フラップ」の定義
    2. 2. 目撃されたUFOの多様な形状と特徴
    3. 3. MUFONの調査アプローチと課題
    4. 4. Deniseのケースと物理的証拠の可能性
    5. 5. 写真とレーダー記録の検証
    6. 結論
  3. Denise Murter の UFO 目撃事例
  4. Denise Murterの UFO 事例: 葉と土壌の分析結果
  5. MUFON の調査プロセス
  6. 時系列
  7. 主要関係者
  8. 情報源
  9. 文字起こし（話者識別）

概要​

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バックスカウンティUFO事件：詳細ブリーフィングドキュメント

このブリーフィングドキュメントは、ペンシルベニア州バックスカウンティで発生したUFO「フラップ」（多数の目撃情報が短期間に集中して発生する現象）に関する音源「UFOs Over Earth - The Bucks County Flap」の文字起こしに基づいています。

主なテーマと重要なアイデア/事実

バックスカウンティUFO事件は、ペンシルベニア州における過去35年間で最大のUFO波として位置づけられています。多数の目撃証言、多様なUFOの形状、および物理的証拠の可能性が、この事件をMUFON（相互UFOネットワーク）にとって極めて重要な調査対象としています。

1. 異常なUFO活動の急増と「フラップ」の定義​

  • 大規模なUFO波: 「これはペンシルベニア州で過去35年間で最大のUFO波です。」(SPEAKER_04) 通常、月8～10件の目撃情報があるのに対し、7月には63件、8月には25件、9月には32件の報告がありました。(SPEAKER_04)
  • 「フラップ」の定義: 「フラップとは、基本的に、特定の地理的地域で、比較的短期間に多数の目撃情報が発生することです。」(SPEAKER_08) フラップは稀であり、数日間、時には数ヶ月間続くことがあります。(SPEAKER_04)
  • 活動の異常性: 現在の活動レベルは「通常よりも約7倍」に達しています。(SPEAKER_15)

2. 目撃されたUFOの多様な形状と特徴​

目撃されたUFOは、その形状や特徴が多様であることが報告されています。

  • 多様な形状: 「多くの人々が異なる物体を報告しており、これらの物体が円筒形からブーメラン型、球体まで様々であることは興味深い。」(SPEAKER_15)
  • 具体的な記述:
    • 白い光の球: 「それは白い光の球でした。構造的な特徴はまったくありませんでした。」(SPEAKER_09, SPEAKER_17)
    • 多色の球体: 「ボールのような形でした。…多色？はい。最も明るく支配的な色は青とオレンジでした。」(SPEAKER_14)
    • 美しい青い球体: 「美しい青い球体が現れました。…青いバスケットボールにライトが内蔵されているようでした。」(SPEAKER_10)
    • ブーメラン型: 「ブーメランにサッカーボールを真ん中に置いたような形で、前部に赤いライトがありました。」(SPEAKER_10) 「ヘリコプターだと思いましたが、音はせず、ライトは1つではなく3つ、物体の表面にありました。ブーメランのようでした。」(SPEAKER_02)
    • 六角形（Cliffの目撃）: 「私が以前見たものは、暗く、固い六角形の物体のようでした。今回は、稲妻が物体のひび割れを照らし、ほぼ6つの等しい三角形の部分に分かれているように見えました。」(SPEER_07) Cliffは、これが「300フィートを超える」巨大な物体であると計算しました。(SPEAKER_05)
  • 無音の飛行: 多くの目撃者が、UFOが「音を立てなかった」と報告しています。(SPEAKER_07, SPEAKER_09, SPEAKER_12) これは、従来の航空機との大きな違いとして強調されています。
  • 不規則な動き: CliffとDeniseの両方が、物体が「シャッフルするようなパターン」で移動したり、「スキップする」ように見えたりしたと述べています。(SPEAKER_07, SPEAKER_02)

3. MUFONの調査アプローチと課題​

MUFONは、目撃情報を科学的、心理学的、法執行機関のツールを用いて調査しています。

  • 信頼性のある目撃者の重要性: 「80%、おそらく90%の目撃情報は実際にはIFO（既知の飛行物体）です。しかし、常に10〜5%は未解明のままです。私が追い求めているのはそれです。」(SPEAKER_15) MUFONは、警察官や航空技術者など、多様な専門知識を持つボランティア調査員によって構成されています。(SPEAKER_01)
  • 多角的な調査: 目撃者の証言の記録、アートワークによる再現、写真分析、物理的証拠の収集と分析など、多角的に調査を進めます。
  • STARチームの導入: 「STARチームは、主要なUFOイベントが発生した場合に、すぐに展開できるエリートMUFON調査員のグループで構成されています。」(SPEAKER_06) STARチームの派遣は、「単なる目撃情報の多発以上の、より異常な何か」があることを示唆しています。(SPEAKER_15)
  • 政府への不信感: 「どうすれば真実にたどり着けるのか？政府は知っているはずだ。彼らはすべてを監視している。…それは非常に苛立たしい。」(SPEAKER_04)

4. Deniseのケースと物理的証拠の可能性​

Deniseの複数回にわたる目撃情報と、それに伴う「きらめく物質」の報告は、この事件の最も重要な要素の一つです。

  • 複数回目撃: Deniseは「同じ物体を複数回目撃」しており、特定の「日付と時間枠」を記した書面報告があります。(SPEAKER_17, SPEAKER_02)

  • 「きらめく物質」の降下: 彼女は、物体から「きらめくもの」が木に降り注ぎ、再びクラフトに戻っていくのを目撃しました。「それはまるでクリスマスツリーのライトのようでした。」(SPEAKER_02)

  • 放射線と突然変異: MUFONが採取した木の葉のサンプルをLevengood教授が分析した結果、葉が「ある種の放射線」に被曝したことが示されました。(SPEAKER_04)

    • アントシアニンの生成: 葉には「赤みがかった着色」が見られ、これは通常6月や7月には起こらない現象でした。エネルギーレベルが高すぎて「アントシアニン」という色素が生成されたためとされています。(SPEAKER_11)
    • 突然変異: 葉に「ハートの形」の奇形が見られ、これは「体細胞突然変異」と呼ばれています。Levengood教授は、「マイクロ波エネルギーが葉の先端を直撃したが、細胞を殺さずに成長速度を大幅に低下させた」と推測しています。(SPEAKER_11)
    • マイクロ波との接触: 「彼が見つけたものは、マイクロ波に接触しない限り起こりえない変化でした。」(SPEAKER_17)

  • 懐疑的な意見: しかし、Salisbury博士はLevengood教授の分析に対して懐疑的な見方を示し、「結論に飛びつきすぎている」と指摘しました。アントシアニンの存在や突然変異がUFOに起因するという考えは「未知への大きな飛躍」であると述べています。(SPEAKER_13)

  • 微細な白いフレークの発見: その後、別の科学者Nickが、影響を受けた木の葉から「非常に小さな白い化合物のフレーク」を分離することに成功しました。これは対照サンプルには見られませんでした。(SPEAKER_03) これらのフレークは、明るい光源に照らされると「きらめく」可能性があり、Deniseの証言を裏付けるものとして注目されています。(SPEAKER_03, SPEAKER_06)

5. 写真とレーダー記録の検証​

  • DeniseのUFO写真の失望: Deniseが撮影した写真は、Markによって「レンズの反射、航空機のライト、または他の空の明るい光」と説明され、UFOの決定的証拠とはなりませんでした。(SPEAKER_08, SPEAKER_16)
  • Cliffの目撃とレーダー記録: Cliffの目撃時間帯に、「トランスポンダーコードなしでレーダーに映った物体」があったことがフィラデルフィア国際空港のレーダー記録から判明しました。(SPEAKER_17)
    • トランスポンダーの欠如: 「トランスポンダーは…航空管制官のレーダーにコード番号を送信する無線機器の一部」であり、これなしで混雑した空域を飛行することは、「夜間にライトなしで高速道路の逆走をするようなもの」と説明されています。(SPEAKER_08)
    • 物体の動き: この物体は「降りてきて、飛び回り、西へ向かい、Uターンして戻り、ニューヨーク方面へ向かった」と報告されています。(SPEAKER_17)

結論​

バックスカウンティUFO事件は、ペンシルベニア州における過去数十年間で最も活発なUFO活動を示しています。多数の目撃証言、詳細な物体の記述、および特にDeniseのケースにおける物理的証拠の可能性（葉の異常な変化と微細なフレークの発見）は、この事件をMUFONにとって非常に重要かつ複雑なものにしています。

写真証拠の曖昧さや科学的分析における意見の相違があるものの、Cliffの信頼性の高い証言や、レーダーに映った未確認物体の存在は、この地域で「何か本当に起こった」という強い示唆を与えています。政府の関与や情報公開への不信感も示されており、MUFONは真実を解明するために調査を続けていく方針です。

「MUFONは毎年平均5,000件のUFO目撃情報を調査していますが、約85%は自然現象の誤認、人為的な活動、または意図的なデマとして却下されます。15%は未解明のままです。」(SPEAKER_01) バックスカウンティのケースは、この15%に属する可能性を秘めた、最も説得力のある事例の一つと言えるでしょう。

Denise Murter の UFO 目撃事例​

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「主要な目撃者と証言」というより大きな文脈において、これらのソースはデニス（Denise）について、バックスカウンティUFO事件における‌‌重要な目撃者‌‌であり、‌‌複数の目撃情報‌‌と、UFOが落としたとされる‌‌「グリッター」‌‌という独特な現象の報告者であることを示しています。彼女のケースは、物理的証拠の可能性があったため、MUFON（相互UFOネットワーク）にとって「最も特別」で「非常に重要」であると見なされました。

‌‌デニスの目撃情報とその詳細‌‌

  • ‌‌複数回の遭遇‌‌: デニスは、特定の時期に数回にわたりUFOを目撃しています。特に、5月と6月には犬に起こされて裏庭に出た際、同じ木の真上に物体があるのを目撃しました。
  • ‌‌物体の描写‌‌: 彼女は、その物体について、最初は‌‌「ブーメランのような形」‌‌で「真ん中にフットボールがある」ようなものだと描写し、‌‌「前面に赤く脈動する膨らんだライト」‌‌があったと述べています。また、時には「ちらつくピンク色の光」も見えたと証言しています。MUFONが彼女の証言に基づいて作成したアニメーションを見た際、彼女はそれが非常に似ていると認めたものの、実際はもっとゆっくりと、‌‌「シャッフルするようなパターン」‌‌（ジグザグに進むような動き）で移動していたと訂正しました。彼女はまた、その物体が「巨大な航空機」であったとも述べています。肉眼で見た際には、「車の巨大なヘッドライトが3つあるような」丸い物体で、平らな表面にライトが付いているようだったと表現しています。
  • ‌‌「グリッター」現象‌‌: デニスの証言の最も独特な点は、UFOから‌‌「光の円錐」‌‌と‌‌「グリッター」（キラキラした金属の粉）‌‌が木に降り注ぎ、その後木から離れて再びUFOに戻っていくのを見たというものです。彼女はこの現象を「本当に変」だと感じ、最初は誰にも話しませんでした。グリッターは「クリスマスの飾りつけ」のように見え、全てが光っていたと描写しています。MUFONの調査員は当初この話に懐疑的でしたが、メキシコで同様の「金属の振りかけ」現象の事例があったことを知り、信憑性が増しました。

‌‌物理的証拠と分析の課題‌‌

  • ‌‌葉の異常‌‌: デニスがUFOがグリッターを落としたと指摘した木の葉は、MUFONによって採取され、レベングッド教授によって分析されました。教授の報告では、これらの葉は‌‌「何らかの放射線」‌‌に被ばくし、通常6月や7月には見られない「赤色の変色」（アントシアニン生成による）、「小さな泡」（マイクロ波による細胞質の急速加熱）、そして「珍しいハート形」の「体細胞変異」が確認されたとされました。教授は、これらの変化は「空のある領域から放出されたエネルギー」によるものだと結論付けています。
  • ‌‌反論と新たな発見‌‌: しかし、レベングッド教授の報告は別の植物生理学者であるサリスバリー博士によって「途方もない結論への飛躍」と批判されました。MUFONはこれに失望しつつも、懐疑的な意見はよくあることだと受け止めました。その後、別の専門家であるニックがデニスの木の葉と対照となる木の葉を比較分析した結果、‌‌「ホウ素」の含有量が著しく高く‌‌、また‌‌「非常に小さな白い化合物のフレーク」‌‌が影響を受けた葉からのみ分離されたことを発見しました。これらのフレークは顕微鏡レベルで珍しい形をしており、明るい光が当たれば「キラキラ光る」可能性があり、デニスが目撃した「グリッター」である可能性を示唆しました。これらのニックの発見は、デニスの話に「より大きな信憑性」を与え、「何か実際に起こった」可能性を裏付けるものとなりました。
  • ‌‌写真の分析とその困難さ‌‌: デニスは写真も提供しましたが、MUFONによる分析は困難を伴いました。彼女の写真は、UFOの「巨大な航空機」という

Denise Murterの UFO 事例: 葉と土壌の分析結果​

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「科学的証拠と分析」のより大きな文脈において、これらのソースは、バックスカウンティUFO事件、特に目撃者デニースの事例における‌‌葉と土壌の元素分析‌‌について詳細に述べています。MUFON（相互UFOネットワーク）の調査員は、UFOがホバリングし「グリッター」と呼ばれるものを落としたとされる木から採取された物理的証拠を分析しました。

MUFONは、調査プロセスの一環として、‌‌土壌サンプルや植生サンプルを収集し、専門のラボに送って分析する‌‌ことを行います。これは、単なる目撃証言だけでなく、具体的な物理的証拠を通じて真実に迫るための重要なステップです。

デニースの事例では、UFOがグリッターを落としたとされる木の葉に対して、複数の専門家による分析が行われました。

‌‌1. レベングッド教授による初期分析（放射線と変異）‌‌ MUFONは、採取した葉をUFO調査に興味を持つ退職教授である‌‌レベングッド博士‌‌のラボに送りました。彼の報告によると、これらの葉と木は‌‌何らかの形の放射線に被ばくしていた‌‌とされています。

  • ‌‌赤色の変色‌‌: 葉は通常6月や7月には起こらない‌‌赤色の変色‌‌を示していました。これは、非常に高いエネルギーレベルが原因で、植物の色素である‌‌アントシアニンの生成‌‌が促進されたためだとレベングッド博士は指摘しています。
  • ‌‌泡の発生‌‌: さらに、葉には小さな泡が見られ、これは‌‌マイクロ波が細胞質を急速に加熱した‌‌ことによるもので、レベングッド博士はこれまでに見たことがない現象だと述べています。
  • ‌‌体細胞変異‌‌: 葉には非常に珍しい‌‌ハート形‌‌のものがあり、これを体細胞変異と呼んでいます。これは、マイクロ波エネルギーが葉の先端部分に当たり、細胞を殺さずに成長速度を著しく遅らせた結果であると説明されました。レベングッド博士は、‌‌空のある領域から葉にこれらの変化を引き起こすエネルギーが放出された‌‌という事実を否定できないと結論付けています。彼は、デニースが自分でマイクロ波を使って木の枝を調理したとは考えられないと述べています。

‌‌2. サリスバリー博士による反論‌‌ レベングッド博士の分析結果は興味深いものでしたが、MUFONは第二の意見を得るため、世界クラスの植物生理学者である‌‌サリスバリー博士‌‌に彼の報告を送りました。サリスバリー博士はレベングッド博士の結論に対して懐疑的な見解を示しました。

  • ‌‌アントシアニンに関する疑問‌‌: サリスバリー博士は、レベングッド博士が褐色の斑点をアントシアニンによるものとしたのは‌‌「途方もない結論への飛躍」‌‌であると批判しました。彼は、それがアントシアニンであると正確に知るには、適切な化学検査が必要であると述べました。
  • ‌‌変異に関する疑問‌‌: ハート形の葉の変異についても、サリスバリー博士は、それが変異の結果であるという考えも‌‌「未知への大きな飛躍」‌‌だとしました。彼は、葉は茎のように先端で成長するのではなく、芽の中で形成され、細胞が膨張して葉を形成すると説明し、レベングッド博士の解釈に異議を唱えました。

MUFONの調査員は、この分野では常に懐疑的な意見や反対の見解を持つ専門家が現れることに失望しつつも、これは「よくあること」だと述べています。

‌‌3. ニックによる追加分析（ホウ素と微細なフレーク）‌‌ デニースのケースが危うくなっていた時、MUFONは、UFOがグリッターを落としたとされる「影響を受けた木」と、比較のために遠く離れた「コントロールの木」から採取したサンプルを、‌‌ニック‌‌という別の専門家に分析させました。

  • ‌‌ホウ素の検出‌‌: ニックの分析で、‌‌影響を受けた木の葉には、微量元素である「ホウ素」が数倍高く含まれている‌‌ことが判明しました。この違いは顕著であり、‌‌何らかの物質が他の供給源から葉に堆積した‌‌という仮説を裏付けるものだとされました。
  • ‌‌白いフレークの発見‌‌: ニックはさらに、影響を受けた木の葉から‌‌非常に小さな白い化合物のフレーク‌‌を分離することに成功しました。コントロールの木の葉からはこれらが見つかりませんでした。これらのフレークは顕微鏡レベルで非常に珍しい形や形状を示し、最大のものでもピンの頭ほどの大きさでした。ニックは、もし明るい光源が当たれば、これらが光ってデニースが目撃した「グリッター」のように見える可能性があると示唆しました。

これらのニックによる発見（異常なホウ素含有量と微細なフレーク）は、デニースの物語に‌‌より大きな信頼性‌‌を与えるものと見なされ、やはり何か異常な出来事が起こった可能性を示唆する結果となりました。

このように、葉と土壌の元素分析は、目撃情報に具体的な物理的証拠を裏付ける可能性をもたらし、MUFONの調査において非常に重要な役割を果たしました。しかし、科学的な解釈においては専門家間で意見の相違が生じることもあり、UFO現象の複雑さと解明の難しさを浮き彫りにしています。

MUFON の調査プロセス​

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バックスカウンティUFO事件のより大きな文脈において、これらのソースはMUFON（相互UFOネットワーク）の調査プロセスについて以下の点を明らかにしています。

‌‌1. MUFONの使命と基本的な調査アプローチ‌‌ MUFONは、空を監視し、目撃情報が発生した直後に調査を行う非営利の科学研究組織です。彼らはUFO（未確認飛行物体）の存在を認めているものの、その正体は謎であると考えています。調査員は、‌‌科学、心理学、および法執行機関のツール‌‌を駆使して、可能な限り真実に迫ろうとします。毎年約10,000件のUFO目撃情報が報告されますが、MUFONは「信頼できる」と判断したものをのみ調査します。報告された目撃情報の約85%は、自然現象、人工的な活動、または意図的なデマとして却下され、‌‌15%が未解明‌‌のまま残されます。

‌‌2. 調査のトリガーと優先順位‌‌

  • ‌‌大規模な目撃現象（フラップ）‌‌: 短期間に特定の地域で多数の目撃情報が発生することを「フラップ」と呼び、これは稀な現象であり、数日から数ヶ月続くことがあります。バックスカウンティの事案は、ペンシルベニア州で過去35年間で最大のUFOウェーブであり、通常月8～10件の目撃情報があるところ、7月には63件、8月には25件、9月には32件が報告されました。このような大規模な事案は、MUFONにとって早急に調査するべき貴重な機会と見なされます。
  • ‌‌物理的証拠の存在‌‌: MUFONは、何らかの物理的証拠に関連する事案を優先的に調査します。これは、単なる目撃情報よりも具体的な分析が可能となるためです。

‌‌3. 調査プロセスの詳細‌‌ MUFONの調査プロセスは多角的であり、以下のステップを含みます。

  • ‌‌迅速な対応‌‌: 目撃情報が発生した直後に調査を開始し、可能な限り迅速に対応します。
  • ‌‌目撃者への聞き取りと信頼性の評価‌‌:
    • 目撃者の証言から「何が起こったのか」を理解するために、詳細な聞き取りを行います。
    • 目撃者の動機を尋ねることから始めます。
    • 多数の目撃者が互いに知らない場合、それは「何か現実のことが起こった」ことを示唆すると考えます。
    • 平均的な人物（例：退職者）が理解できないものを見たという証言は、特に信頼できると見なされます。
    • 目撃者が知っている航空機（軍用機など）とUFOの違いを明確にさせる質問をします。
    • アニメーションや再構成された映像を使用して、目撃者の記憶を喚起し、証言の正確性を確認・修正します。これにより、目撃者が当初語らなかった詳細が明らかになることもあります。
    • 目撃者の感情的な反応（例：アニメーションを見た時の感情の高ぶり）も、証言の信頼性を裏付けるものと捉えられます。
  • ‌‌物理的証拠の収集と分析‌‌:
    • ‌‌土壌や植生サンプルの収集‌‌: UFOがホバリングしていたとされる場所や、落下物が確認された場所から、土壌や植生サンプルを採取します。
    • ‌‌写真・動画の分析‌‌: 目撃者が撮影した写真や動画を詳細に分析します。写真の撮影状況を再現させたり、天文学的なプログラムを用いて写真に写っている可能性のある既知の天体（月や木星など）と比較したりすることで、既知の現象でないかを徹底的に検証します。
    • ‌‌放射線量の測定‌‌: リーフにガイガーカウンターを当てて、微量の放射線量を測定することがあります。
    • ‌‌専門家によるラボ分析‌‌: 採取されたサンプルは、提携する専門家（例：レベングッド教授のような物理学者）のラボに送られ、組成や変異がないかなどを分析します。
    • ‌‌他機関との連携‌‌: 国際空港のレーダー記録などを調査し、未確認の飛行物体が記録されていないか確認します。トランスポンダーコードのない未確認物体が検出された場合、それは重要な証拠と見なされます。
  • ‌‌証拠の記録と統合‌‌: 収集したすべての情報（ケース番号、日付、場所、サンプル分析結果など）を記録し、パズルのピースを組み合わせるように全体像を構築します。
  • ‌‌再構成と可視化‌‌: グラフィックデザイナーなどの専門家が、目撃者の証言に基づいてUFOの形状をアニメーションやアートワークとして再現します。これは、目撃者がより正確な詳細を思い出すのを助け、調査員が目撃者の視点を理解する上で非常に役立ちます。

‌‌4. 課題と困難‌‌ MUFONの調査プロセスには、いくつかの課題が存在します。

  • ‌‌写真・動画の不足と不鮮明さ‌‌: 多くの目撃者がUFOを見た際に魅了されてしまい、カメラを取りに行くことを思いつかないことがあります。また、撮影された写真が不鮮明であったり、目撃者の証言と一致しないこともあります。
  • ‌‌懐疑的な意見と専門家の対立‌‌: 調査結果が「UFOの証拠」を示唆する場合でも、必ず懐疑的な意見や反対の見解を持つ専門家が現れることがあります。例えば、レベングッド教授の葉の変異に関する分析に対して、サリスバリー博士は「結論の飛躍」であると異議を唱えました。
  • ‌‌政府機関との連携の困難さ‌‌: 政府機関がUFOに関する情報（特に極秘の航空機など）を開示する可能性は低いと考えられており、真実を突き止める上でフラストレーションを感じることがあります。

‌‌5. MUFON調査員の構成‌‌ MUFONの調査員はボランティアであり、警察官、コンピューターグラフィックデザイナー、航空エンジニアなど、さまざまな専門職を持つ人々で構成されています。彼らは自身のスキルと専門知識を各調査に持ち込みます。さらに、大規模なUFOイベントが発生した際には、‌‌STARチーム‌‌と呼ばれるエリート調査員グループが派遣され、技術サポートと経験を提供します。

バックスカウンティUFO事件において、MUFONは多角的な調査手法を駆使し、多数の目撃証言、物理的証拠（葉の異常や微細なフレーク、レーダー記録）、および科学的分析を通じて、未確認飛行物体の謎に迫ろうとしました。写真の分析で既知の天体と判明した証拠があった一方で、葉の放射線や微細なフレーク、トランスポンダーなしのレーダー記録など、未解明な要素も浮上し、MUFONの調査の複雑さと粘り強さを示しています。

時系列​

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  • 1997年: アリゾナ州フェニックスで「フェニックスの光」と呼ばれる大規模なUFO目撃事件が発生し、1万人以上（アリゾナ州知事を含む）が目撃する。これは、大規模なUFO現象である「フラップ」の例として挙げられる。

  • 1999年（メキシコ）: メキシコで、デニースの目撃談と類似する、金属のきらめきが木に降り注ぐ事件が報告される。

  • 2008年4月20日: デニースが最初のUFO目撃を報告する。彼女はヘリコプターのような音のしない、3つのライトを持つブーメラン型の物体を見た。彼女はこの時に写真を撮影した。

  • 2008年5月: デニースが再びUFOを目撃する。犬に起こされ、裏口から出ると、以前と同じ木の上に物体があった。この時、物体から「キラキラした光」が木に降り注ぎ、再びクラフトに戻っていくのを目撃する。

  • 2008年6月: デニースが3度目のUFOを目撃する。これも同じ場所で起こった。

  • 不明（数か月間継続）: ペンシルベニア州バックス郡で大規模なUFOの波（フラップ）が発生する。これは過去35年間で最大規模。

    • 7月: 通常月8～10件の目撃報告がある中、63件の報告がある。
    • 8月: 25件の報告がある。
    • 9月: 32件の報告がある。
    • このフラップ期間中:クリフの最初の目撃: クリフが夜中に目が覚め、窓から固い六角形の物体を目撃する。音はせず、非常にゆっくりと動いていた。雷の閃光で、物体が6つの三角形の部品で構成されていることが明らかになる。この物体は300フィート以上と推定される巨大なクラフトであった。
    • クリフの2度目の目撃: クリフが再び同じ物体を目撃する。彼の自宅の上空を移動する際、物体が「シャッフルするようなパターン」で移動するのを見る。彼は当初、自身の正気を疑っていた。
    • 他の複数の目撃者: 他にも50人以上の目撃者がおり、互いに知らない者同士が同様の物体（白い光の球、青い球、多色の球、ブーメラン型、円筒形など）を目撃している。
    • デニースの複数回の目撃: 彼女は合計で複数回、同じ物体を目撃している。
    • フラップ期間中（デニースの調査関連）:MUFONの調査員がデニースの自宅を訪れ、彼女の目撃した「金属のきらめき」が降り注いだ木から葉のサンプルを採取する。
    • ポータブルガイガーカウンターで葉の周縁部から放射線反応が検出される。
    • MUFONはデニースの葉のサンプルをレベングッド博士の研究所に送る。
    • レベングッド博士が葉を分析し、「放射線による損傷」と「体細胞変異（ハート型に変形した葉など）」を発見。通常6月や7月には起こらない「赤みがかった着色（アントシアニンの生成）」も確認し、マイクロ波エネルギーが作用したと結論付ける。
    • デニースのケースの重要性が増し、彼女が撮影した写真も確認される。
    • MUFONの調査員はデニースの証言に基づき、アーティスト（スピーカー05）と協力してUFOのレプリカを作成し、目撃場所で再現を試みる。
    • MUFONの調査員はデニースの写真を詳しく分析する。当初、写真に写っていた明るい青い球体が興味を引くが、ズームアップして分析すると、その中には弧が見られ、明るい物体がフレームの外にある可能性が示唆される。
    • 写真専門家（スピーカー16）はデニースの写真を検証し、月と木星の配置と一致することを突き止め、UFOの写真ではないと結論付ける。これはMUFON調査員に失望をもたらす。
    • MUFONはデニースの葉のサンプルをニック（スピーカー03）という別の科学者に送る。
    • ニックが葉を分析し、影響を受けた木の葉には、対照群の木と比較して「ホウ素」が異常に高いレベルで含まれていることを発見する。
    • ニックは影響を受けた木の葉から「白い化合物の非常に小さなフレーク」を分離する。これはデニースの語る「キラキラした光」である可能性がある。
    • レベングッド博士の報告書がサリスベリー博士（世界的な植物生理学者）に送られ、第二意見が求められる。
    • サリスベリー博士はレベングッド博士の結論に対し、性急な結論であると異議を唱える。特に「アントシアニン」や「体細胞変異」の根拠を疑問視する。
    • クリフの調査関連:MUFONの調査員はクリフの証言に基づき、アニメーションを作成する。
    • クリフはそのアニメーションをレビューし、詳細な修正点（側面が滑らかすぎる、黒ではなく灰色、継ぎ目が見えない、移動パターンがシャッフルするような動き）を指摘する。
    • MUFONの調査員はフィラデルフィア国際空港のレーダー記録を調査する。
    • クリフの目撃時間と一致する時間帯に、トランスポンダーコードなしでレーダー上に物体が現れ、フィラデルフィアの混雑した空域を飛行し、Uターンしてニューヨーク方面に向かったことが判明する。

  • フラップ終了: 目撃の波は突如として止まる。

主要関係者​

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  • デニース (Denise): バックス郡UFO事件における主要な目撃者の一人。複数回にわたってUFOを目撃しており、特に「キラキラした光」が木に降り注ぎ、再びクラフトに戻るという現象を経験した。UFOの写真を撮影したと主張している。当初はUFOを信じていなかったが、自身の体験を経て信じるようになった。

  • クリフ (Cliff): バックス郡UFO事件における主要な目撃者の一人。夜中に目が覚め、自宅上空を飛行する巨大な六角形のクラフトを目撃した。2度目の目撃では、物体が「シャッフルするようなパターン」で移動するのを見た。彼は当初、自身の正気を疑っていたが、後にMUFONの調査に協力した。退職者であり、証言の信頼性が高いと見なされている。

  • レベングッド博士 (Dr. Levengood): 退職した教授で、自身の研究室を持ち、MUFONのUFO調査に協力している。デニースの木の葉のサンプルを分析し、放射線による損傷と体細胞変異、アントシアニンの生成を発見し、マイクロ波エネルギーの関与を指摘した。

  • サリスベリー博士 (Dr. Salisbury): 世界的な植物生理学者。レベングッド博士の報告書に対し、性急な結論であると異議を唱え、葉の変異に関するレベングッドの分析を疑問視した。

  • ニック (Nick) (スピーカー03): 別の科学者。デニースの木の葉のサンプルを分析し、影響を受けた葉に異常に高いホウ素含有量と、デニースの「キラキラした光」と一致する可能性のある白い化合物の小さなフレークを発見した。

  • ジェームズ・カレオン (James Carreon): MUFONの国際ディレクター。バックス郡での事件を受けて、STARチームの出動を命じた。

  • マーク (Mark) (スピーカー16): MUFONの調査員、または写真分析専門家。デニースのUFO写真の分析を担当し、その写真が月と木星の天体現象である可能性が高いと結論付けた。

  • MUFON調査員 (複数のスピーカー、特にSPEAKER_04, SPEAKER_06, SPEAKER_08, SPEAKER_15, SPEAKER_17): 相互UFOネットワーク（MUFON）のボランティア調査員たち。ペンシルベニア州でのUFOの波を調査し、目撃者の聞き取り、物理的証拠の収集（葉のサンプル、放射線測定）、レーダー記録の確認、目撃証言に基づくアニメーションの作成などを担当した。彼らは科学、心理学、法執行機関のツールを用いて真実を追究している。

  • アーティスト (SPEAKER_05): MUFONの調査に協力し、デニースやクリフの証言に基づきUFOのグラフィックやアニメーションを作成した人物。

情報源​

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UFOs Over Earth - The Bucks County Flap

文字起こし（話者識別）​

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（以下は "UFOs Over Earth - The Bucks County Flap" と題された動画の文字起こしです。）

[SPEAKER_04] : This is the largest UFO wave we've had in Pennsylvania in 35 years. (00:00:14)

[SPEAKER_15] : What's going on in Bucks County? Total mayhem. (00:00:17)

[SPEAKER_16] : If that was a plane, it would have fell right out of the sky. You want to find that wow image, the one that's going to say, look, we've got them, they're here. Did you saw a very, very unusual phenomenon? (00:00:27)

[SPEAKER_08] : If we can validate the story, what we have is an unidentified object in that airspace. (00:00:34)

[SPEAKER_01] : UFOs exist. What is not certain is what they are. The Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, watches the skies, investigating sightings soon after they occur. Their investigators use the tools of science, psychology, and law enforcement to get as close to the truth as the truth will allow. Unidentified flying objects definitely exist. Only their identity remains a mystery. The Mystery of UFOs Over Earth (00:01:26)

[SPEAKER_15] : I'm excited. I'm excited that they're coming. I'm excited they're at my back door. I am waiting to see what the culmination of all this is. It, to me, is something that is at the forefront of a breakthrough. (00:01:49)

[SPEAKER_08] : When they're talking about a flap, essentially what you have is the occurrence of a number of sightings in a fairly short period of time in a given geographic location. (00:02:03)

[SPEAKER_04] : Most UFO sightings occur with an individual. They happen, then they're gone. Once in a while, you get a mass sighting. In 1997, we had the lights over Phoenix. It was seen by 10,000 people. It was seen by the governor of Arizona. But flaps are rare because they can last for days and sometimes months. (00:02:25)

[SPEAKER_08] : And then one day, just as quick as it starts, it stops again. And nobody knows why. So you want to take advantage of it. You want to look into it as quickly as possible. (00:02:35)

[SPEAKER_04] : This is the largest UFO wave we've had in Pennsylvania in 35 years. We normally get 8 to 10 sightings a month. We get 63 reports in July. There were 25 more in August, 32 more in September. Why all of a sudden is Pennsylvania seeing all of this? (00:02:59)

[SPEAKER_06] : Something is going on. Even though there are different days and different times, we're seeing a description of some very common objects. (00:03:08)

[SPEAKER_15] : The activity that we're looking at right now is about seven times more than the usual. We've put together all our information so that we have a map of all the sightings. A lot of people have reported different objects, and it's interesting to note that these objects vary from a cylinder-shaped object to a boomerang to a sphere. (00:03:36)

[SPEAKER_09] : All it was was a white ball of light. So I ran inside, and I grabbed my astronomer binoculars, and I honed right in on that son of a gun, and there was no structural features at all. (00:03:49)

[SPEAKER_17] : It was just a white, pure ball of light. I've only been investigating for MUFON four months now. I'm out here to figure out what the hell's going on out there. (00:04:00)

[SPEAKER_14] : It was ball-shaped, kind of. It was just like... Multicolored? Yeah. The most brightest, like, dominant colors were blue and orange. (00:04:09)

[SPEAKER_10] : I was sitting out on my porch, and I just happened to look over, and there came a beautiful blue sphere. It was a beautiful blue that I'll never forget the color. Like a blue basketball with maybe a light inside of it to show the blue. You know what I'm saying? Take a boomerang and put a football in the middle, and it had red lights in the front. (00:04:30)

[SPEAKER_04] : When you look at these objects that are being reported, they're giving different descriptions to it. But you've still got this large group of people that tell a very compelling story, and they're very believable. What would you say if I told you that four other people that night had a sighting that they reported? I'm not crazy. (00:04:45)

[SPEAKER_15] : 80%, maybe 90% of these sightings are actually IFOs. But there's always that unexpected 10 to 5% that remain unexplained. And that's what I'm after. The first thing I do is to ask what would be the motive, what would be their reason for coming forward and actually saying, I'm seeing these things. (00:05:11)

[SPEAKER_07] : I realized it was, you know, a solid object. It wasn't shaped like a plane. I've never seen anything like a plane that looked like that. It didn't make any noise. It moved very slow. If that was a plane, it would have fell right out of the sky. (00:05:24)

[SPEAKER_15] : As Cliff is telling his story, I'm thinking, here's an average person, a retired person, you know, wakes up in the middle of the night and sees something he doesn't understand. (00:05:34)

[SPEAKER_04] : I think the fact that we have over 50 witnesses, they don't know each other, they don't know of each other. I think that says something about this investigation, that something real happened, that these people saw something that they can't explain, that looked unnatural to them. (00:05:55)

[SPEAKER_09] : So I happen to see four objects coming around lit balls. You know, we're looking up and they're out there, and, you know, two of them are kind of stationary. Now that they make that type of a sound? Yeah, that's the usual A-10 Warthogs flying by. That's pretty close. They usually don't fly over our house like that, but... But the sound from the UFOs, did they sound like this? Well, there was no sound whatsoever from these sites. (00:06:23)

[SPEAKER_09] : So that's unusual. How did you feel at that point? Were you afraid? Were you excited? (00:06:27)

[SPEAKER_12] : I was a little bit uneasy because they were absolutely silent. That was what struck me, was there was no sound, whatever. (00:06:36)

[SPEAKER_04] : When she gives her description of those four objects just like her husband, I mean, it was a very believable, compelling description. To speak to them, you're convinced that these people saw what they saw. (00:06:47)

[SPEAKER_12] : We live within five minutes of the airbase. So I've come to be able to identify all kinds of military aircraft, F-14s, F-18s, A-10 Warthogs, you know, the whole bit. And I immediately knew this was nothing that I could identify as either a commercial aircraft or a military aircraft. It was something, you know, totally different. (00:07:11)

[SPEAKER_04] : Could this be ours? Not unless we have some kind of blue ball ships. You know, I'm seeing a bigger story here. Clusters of people, people with good backgrounds, they're all coming forward. But people don't have evidence. Did you at any point want to take your eyes away and go get a camera? (00:07:29)

[SPEAKER_12] : I never, you know, the thought never occurred to me because I was fixated. I was just mesmerized, fixated, and I just couldn't take my eyes away. (00:07:43)

[SPEAKER_15] : You know, one of the things that I wish would happen is that someone else would see it and maybe get it on film. (00:07:49)

[SPEAKER_02] : I thought it was a helicopter, but it wasn't making any noise, and it didn't have, like, one light. It had three lights, and they were on the surface of the object. It was kind of freaky, kind of like a boomerang. (00:08:10)

[SPEAKER_17] : Okay. Now, that was in April. I'm currently working on 60 cases right now. Part of what makes Denise's sighting the most special out of them all is that she's had multiple sightings and a written report with the specific dates and the time frame. (00:08:26)

[SPEAKER_02] : In May, same thing, the dog woke me up, we came out, and as soon as I came out the back door, it was above this tree right here, directly. Then the next time, I guess it was in June, and it was the same exact spot again. It seems like it's in these two spots every time I come out. Now, I did see on your report you said there was a cone of light that came down. Yes, yes, there was. (00:08:49)

[SPEAKER_02] : I saw this glitter coming down from the object into this tree and off of this tree. It was like glitter. And I thought, oh, this is really weird. I'm not telling anybody about this, you know. And next thing I know, I saw the glitter leave both trees and go up to the craft. (00:09:05)

[SPEAKER_04] : She's telling us this situation of these metallic sprinkles that came down and landed in her backyard. But, you know, I found that a little hard to believe. Then as we researched it and got into it a little bit more, we find out that there was a case, I believe, in 1999 in Mexico, same exact thing. It was just silver, it was sparkly, and this tree was full. It almost looked like Christmas lights. (00:09:27)

[SPEAKER_04] : There's a little bit here on the outer leaves. I have a portable Geiger counter, so I said, let me see if we get any trace elements off of this. As I put it on the branches, in towards the center of the tree, we didn't get any readings. But then as you got outside to the perimeter of it on the top of the leaves, it was clicking, it was going off. (00:09:53)

[SPEAKER_17] : I'm like, wow, this is something solid that we can work with. Each case, you take through a process. You go through the whole investigative process. You gather up soil samples, you gather up vegetation samples, and then put all the pieces of the puzzle together to see what happened. Log the case number and the date, location, and we'll send it off to be analyzed. And we'll see anything that's not of this world. (00:10:19)

[SPEAKER_04] : That brought it to a different level. That brought it to a different level of expertise. Then we find out that Denise has photos. She's got pictures. Denise's case became very important to us. It was beautiful looking. (00:10:46)

[SPEAKER_07] : This thing had no lights, seemed like it wanted to be unseen. (00:10:50)

[SPEAKER_01] : An estimated 10,000 UFO sightings are reported each year. MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, chronicles these sightings, but only investigates those they consider credible. The following is an account of one such investigation. (00:11:11)

[SPEAKER_10] : Just happened to look over and there came a beautiful blue sphere. (00:11:20)

[SPEAKER_14] : We were about like right here and it was flying that way. It didn't have like one light, it had three lights and they were on the surface. (00:11:32)

[SPEAKER_04] : Denise's investigation is really what you hope for because there's a lot of evidence coming together here that says something really happened here. Hi Denise. Hi, how are you? This is Tim. Hi, nice to meet you. (00:11:46)

[SPEAKER_05] : I'm going to work on creating some artwork. We'll work together on making it look as accurate as we can to what it is that we've seen. It was just something like you weren't sure what it was, but it was beautiful looking. (00:12:03)

[SPEAKER_02] : Triangular or... Yeah, kind of like a boomerang shape. (00:12:06)

[SPEAKER_05] : Take a boomerang and put a football in the middle that had red lights in the front, bulgy red lights that were kind of pulsating. You mentioned there was before a pinkish light. (00:12:19)

[SPEAKER_02] : Right, say like if I see this in the sky, there'd be a pink light flickering. (00:12:25)

[SPEAKER_05] : First time I saw it above this house over here, the rooftop. On one of the evenings I think you said that it dropped some kind of substance that came down. It was all glitter, and then it went into this tree. So now the goal is to be able to build a craft, put it where she saw it, and recreate her sighting in the actual spot where it took place. (00:12:50)

[SPEAKER_16] : When it comes to photographs, they want to find that wow image, the one that's going to really say, look, we've got them, they're here. So this was in May. (00:13:03)

[SPEAKER_02] : What did you see with your eye? It looked like three giant headlights of a car. Three headlights? It's giant three headlights, that's what I usually see first. In any kind of pattern, configuration of any kind that you recall? No, not really, it was just the round object, the round part of it, it's like three giant headlights, just looks like a flat surface of an object with the lights. (00:13:27)

[SPEAKER_04] : As I'm looking at her pictures, the part I didn't understand was how you could look at a triangle that's got three different colored lights on it, and you're showing me a picture of something that looks like a golf ball. (00:13:43)

[SPEAKER_16] : So in this first one, this was 4-20-2008, where did you take that picture? If you could just take your camera and go right over there and go check it out. Sure. I asked Denise to recreate the manner in which she took the pictures. I want her to use the same camera. They were on top of this tree, so I just aimed it at it. (00:14:05)

[SPEAKER_04] : Mark said she held the camera at arm's length. I think what she was doing was pointing it in the direction of what she saw, snapping, almost like if you're at an event and you're snapping over the crowd, you think you're getting what's going on, but you don't really know. And I think that she may have thought she photoed what she was looking at and was off, and it might not even be in the frame. (00:14:27)

[SPEAKER_16] : I spent a good deal of time last night going over all the images. In this image that was submitted, I noticed clearly over here there's this bright blue ball. And that's interesting looking in and of itself. So to look more closely at that, I zoomed way in, brightened the image, and I looked at that object. And what I saw inside the object were arcs. So one thing you can notice is if you complete these arcs, there's a bright object just off frame, right about here. Maybe that's what she meant. (00:15:00)

[SPEAKER_16] : Maybe that's our object. Maybe that's the coolest thing in the world. But it's here. It's not there. That could be the object that she meant for us to see, and it might have been a very interesting object. But she didn't catch it. I believe that this person took something that was genuinely intriguing and interesting. But so far, and I have more analysis to do, there's quite a few pictures, so far I don't see anything that's not explainable, so far. (00:15:30)

[SPEAKER_04] : Can you show us where your second sighting took place? Yeah, it was outside, if you want to go out there. (00:15:45)

[SPEAKER_07] : Yeah, let's go out there. Okay, so here we are. It was right between those two pine trees, and then I realized it was, you know, a solid object. (00:15:53)

[SPEAKER_04] : I think one of the most compelling witnesses so far has been Cliff. I mean, there is no reason for a retiree who's had a good life and a good business to come up with this story. This is about where it happened. (00:16:06)

[SPEAKER_07] : Okay. We came out here. Of course, it was dark. It was like four o'clock or so, and it was still very dark. Okay. And about the time we got back out here, it was probably right around there, and there was a lightning flash. And when that flashed, I saw the whole object. And it wasn't what I expected, because what I saw before looked like just a hexagon, dark, solid object, I guess you could call it. This time, the lightning shone through cracks in the object, and it kind of divided it up into almost six equal, triangular-shaped things. (00:16:40)

[SPEAKER_04] : He saw the craft, and he saw the light coming through the seams, so he knew there were six different objects connected. His description was as good as it gets. How big would you say it was? (00:16:51)

[SPEAKER_07] : It was at least from where we are to the tree line, width-wise, and probably maybe even longer than that, because it seems to be, like, elongated. (00:17:01)

[SPEAKER_05] : He calculated this thing to be in excess of 300 feet, so this is an enormous craft. I mean, this is a baseball or a football stadium flying over his house. (00:17:12)

[SPEAKER_07] : I was a little upset at seeing what I saw, because I didn't expect to see that. I didn't think the lightning was going to illuminate it the way it did, and I was a little set back. (00:17:24)

[SPEAKER_04] : Do you have any concerns that this is the second time you've seen it over your property? Yeah, I just want to get on with my life. I don't want to see any more. He's a little afraid, and I think he's a little concerned. I said, why does it keep coming around his neighborhood? Why is he the one that's seeing it? Cliff and Denise, they've seen something more than once. And that becomes exciting for us, because it wasn't a one-time deal. (00:17:49)

[SPEAKER_04] : Would you take your eyes off of something like that? I wasn't moving. I didn't really believe the story of the metallic sprinkles coming down, but that's the part of the case that's actually come to fruition. (00:18:02)

[SPEAKER_10] : It got right near my house when it briefly turned red, and then, bang, it was gone. It vanished. (00:18:17)

[SPEAKER_14] : It was going very fast. It had, like I said, that motion. (00:18:20)

[SPEAKER_04] : This is such a good case. We've got so many witnesses. We've got physical evidence. So, I called James Carreon, the international director, to enact our STAR team, just because I wanted to make sure that I covered all the bases. (00:18:40)

[SPEAKER_06] : The STAR team is made up of a group of elite MUFON investigators who can be deployed at a moment's notice wherever there's a major UFO event. (00:18:50)

[SPEAKER_08] : Listen, that's the video that I told you about. This is a really incredible case. There's a number of sightings, and any of these cases that are associated with any kind of physical evidence, we're going to focus on those first. We're not here to take over the investigation. We're here to help them and provide technical support and experience. (00:19:06)

[SPEAKER_15] : When you have members of the STAR team coming down, that in itself is an indication that we've got something here that's a little bit more unusual than just a rash of sightings. (00:19:16)

[SPEAKER_06] : Denise, when you saw these flakes come down, did they reach a certain level and then get sucked back up right away? Or did any of them reach the ground and get sucked back up? (00:19:28)

[SPEAKER_02] : No, none of them reached the ground. They came down simultaneously. And it looked like Christmas lights. It looked like it was Christmas lights. They were all glowing. Well, I already knew Denise's story. She had multiple sightings of the same object. Glitter coming down from the object into this tree. Over top of this tree. (00:19:49)

[SPEAKER_06] : I knew that she had taken these photos. We had seen the photos beforehand. But we're a little at a loss to understand why is it that she saw this object five times, but didn't have a clear photo of it. Denise, you said this was a giant craft. If you were looking, just put your fingers up there and tell me how big the object would have been on the screen there. It was pretty big. (00:20:12)

[SPEAKER_06] : But in your pictures, nothing that big shows up on the pictures, which is what we find odd. I'm just trying to understand how it is you could look through the camera and you said you could see the object inside of the screen. It's being very large, but we're not seeing it show up on film. We're not seeing it actually show up in the picture. Did you look at all the pictures? (00:20:32)

[SPEAKER_06] : Yes. (00:20:32)

[SPEAKER_02] : Did you have time to put your glasses on? No, I never had time to get my glasses on, ever. So you took the picture... Because you never knew when it was going to go away, so I didn't want to go in the house and miss it or whatever, but no, I never had my glasses on. Why do you think you haven't seen it since? I really don't know why, but hopefully they're going to show themselves to somebody else that's a non-believer, maybe. But, you know, I had no idea. (00:20:59)

[SPEAKER_06] : You started off as a non-believer? Yes, I was. Okay, and now? And now I'm a believer. That's pretty cool. Denise, does this look like the object you saw? (00:21:16)

[SPEAKER_02] : Yes. Yeah, except it goes slower. And then it goes in a shuffling pattern. What do you mean by a shuffling pattern? When it's going across the sky, it kind of just shuffles along. (00:21:30)

[SPEAKER_08] : So you're saying that the way we have it illustrated here is a pretty smooth trajectory, but you're saying it's a more zigzag kind of thing? Yeah. Should we take a look at the sparkles here? (00:21:41)

[SPEAKER_05] : Let's see. Whoa. Oh, that's cool. Looks like Christmas. (00:21:52)

[SPEAKER_02] : Oh my gosh. (00:21:54)

[SPEAKER_08] : Is that what it looked like? (00:21:56)

[SPEAKER_02] : Yeah, except it was twinkling more. But other than that, just like it. (00:22:01)

[SPEAKER_08] : And they just pulled away and went up, just like that? (00:22:03)

[SPEAKER_02] : Just like that. I just can't believe someone can capture what you've seen, you know? It's like if those guys were there. (00:22:10)

[SPEAKER_16] : Do it again. (00:22:12)

[SPEAKER_08] : And when we talked about the sighting and the glitter, she seemed much more confident. She was very direct. Her answers were spontaneous. And she seemed like she was telling the truth about that. But she's alleged that that glitter had come down in the trees and illuminated the trees. And she stood there for 20 minutes and watched it and never thought to get a camera. Just like that? (00:22:30)

[SPEAKER_02] : Yeah, just like that. Now, would you take your eyes off of something like that? (00:22:35)

[SPEAKER_04] : I wasn't moving. When we showed her those metallic sparkles, sprinkles coming down onto the tree, she lit up. That hit it right on the head, that this was exactly what she saw coming into those trees. So, to me, that was confirmation that we got something good. It's always like flickering. It's like a little flicker. (00:22:56)

[SPEAKER_06] : MUFON is a non-profit scientific research organization. We work with a wide network of experts who offer their skills and expertise to MUFON. Dr. Levengood is a retired professor who is intrigued by UFO investigations. He has his own lab and will look into interesting cases for UFO researchers. (00:23:21)

[SPEAKER_04] : When we took these leaves and sent them to a lab for testing, we never thought we were going to get the type of report back that we did. Professor Levengood's report said that these leaves and this tree was hit by some form of radiation. (00:23:37)

[SPEAKER_11] : At first glance, this looked very suspicious, because the leaves had a reddish coloration. That never happens in June or July, normally. But here, the energy level was so high that it caused the production of anthocyanin, a pigment in the plant that causes the reddish color in the leaves. Now, this was a real unusual situation. The energy not only produced this cream-colored region, but you got little bubbles from when the microwave heated the cytoplasm so fast that I'd never seen before at all. This whole thing took place in a matter of microseconds. (00:24:22)

[SPEAKER_11] : Didi saw a very, very unusual phenomena. Another obvious thing that was occurring in these leaves, notice the heart shape. This is extremely unusual. This is called a somatic mutation. Here are the normal leaves down here. They come to a point. So, they're quite different, you'll notice. Why? Because these microwave energies came along and just hit that leaf bug's tip. And it didn't kill the cells, but it slowed the growth rate way down. I don't think we can escape the fact that there's some area of the sky that emitted an energy that caused these changes in the leaves. (00:25:06)

[SPEAKER_17] : He's found stuff that he's never found before. The new growth is actually mutated. Changes that wouldn't happen unless something came in contact with microwaves. I don't think Denise walked out back with her microwave and popped the tree branch from up top into it. (00:25:23)

[SPEAKER_07] : I sold the whole object. (00:25:37)

[SPEAKER_06] : I wasn't quite sure whether or not I was losing it. The guy has really nothing at all to gain by making up a story like this. (00:25:44)

[SPEAKER_01] : Our MUFON investigators are volunteers. Their full-time occupations range from police detectives to computer graphic designers to aeronautical engineers. They bring their skills to each investigation. (00:26:02)

[SPEAKER_05] : Cliff's description of the UFO, I think, is probably one of the most detailed ones I've ever gotten. (00:26:21)

[SPEAKER_07] : It didn't make any noise. It moved very slow. If that was a plane, it would have fell right out of the sky. This thing wasn't smooth or aerodynamic in any way. (00:26:32)

[SPEAKER_05] : He was very specific about the top of the craft had windows that came along the edge. The interesting thing about his description was there were no lights. So many UFO stories involve lights in the sky. This was a completely dark craft. And the only way he saw this was that the heat lightning lit up the clouds behind it. This is a very useful tool to me because it's one thing to hear a description of someone, but once you show them an animation, it's interesting how they will start to really pick out what's wrong about it and help us refine it, and we get a really good view into their mind as to what they saw. (00:27:07)

[SPEAKER_06] : Clifford, I'm going to show you the animation. Let's go ahead and play it all the way through once. And then we'll play it again, and you can stop it at certain points and then point out whether it's accurate or not. Initial impressions? (00:27:37)

[SPEAKER_07] : Very realistic looking, but it's too smooth on the sides from what I could see there. It didn't look quite like that. And if you're trying to get into the perspective of how I saw it, it wasn't going this way. It was going kind of away from me. So it looked more like a pizza. It was cut six slices. It was more consistent on the bottom here. It was still gray, like the color of the sky. (00:28:03)

[SPEAKER_07] : Here we've got it black. Yes, but no black. You can't really see the seams. (00:28:07)

[SPEAKER_15] : Was there any lighting at all in the craft itself? No. Cliff's reaction to the animation, he made elaborations on it, going back to the very first description he gave me and the first drawings that he showed me. You're seeing someone who is relying on memory rather than imagination. (00:28:28)

[SPEAKER_08] : After Cliff saw the animation, he opened up and started to tell us a lot more about what happened to him. And that's really what we were hoping for. (00:28:38)

[SPEAKER_07] : There were some things that happened during both sightings that I didn't really bring up. At that point, I know what I saw, but I wasn't quite sure whether or not I was losing it. What it was doing, as it went along, it would kind of jump. And you would see it here, and then you would see it here. (00:29:03)

[SPEAKER_02] : It kind of goes in a shuffling pattern. What do you mean by a shuffling pattern? Like, when it's going across the sky, it kind of just shuffles along. (00:29:13)

[SPEAKER_07] : So it's almost like you were filming something and that's the only object that was moving. It would look like it was here and then it skipped and it goes there. (00:29:22)

[SPEAKER_08] : The object skipping through the sky, when he got into that mode of explaining that, that's sort of what tipped me off that there might be a little more to it than was initially realized. (00:29:32)

[SPEAKER_06] : To me, Cliff seemed like an extremely credible witness. I don't see how this guy is going to at all benefit by coming forward with a story like this. He has so much more to lose than he has to gain. In terms of his standing in the community, the way his neighbors are going to view him, the guy has really nothing at all to gain by making up a story like this. It's not exactly what I saw, but it's the best I could do for it. (00:29:55)

[SPEAKER_15] : I think he's coming forward because he's seeing something that he can't explain. That he wants someone to verify it for him. And just like any kind of credible witness, they wonder about their own sanity. They wonder when no one else can validate what they've seen, whether it's something that they've made up. But his deep conviction tells me, and his stability tells me, that what he's seen must be true. (00:30:18)

[SPEAKER_03] : Very little of what he had to say makes a whole lot of sense. I managed to isolate some very small flakes of a white compound. There is something intriguing. (00:30:37)

[SPEAKER_09] : It's like a regular airplane light, but there were so many of them. They would start as balls of light, then morph into a craft. (00:30:58)

[SPEAKER_06] : When I got Lovingood's analysis, I was intrigued by the fact that something may have chemically altered these leaves or caused mutations in the growth. But I knew that I had to get a second opinion. Dr. Salisbury is a world class plant physiologist. We took Lovingood's report and we forwarded it on to Dr. Salisbury for him to just take a look at it and tell us whether he agreed with Lovingood's analysis or not. Unfortunately, he starts right off jumping to conclusions. (00:31:37)

[SPEAKER_13] : He jumps to conclusions throughout the whole analysis. Lovingood says that the brown spots were because of anthocyanins. (00:31:45)

[SPEAKER_11] : This looked very suspicious, because the leaves had a reddish coloration. (00:31:54)

[SPEAKER_13] : That never happens in June or July normally. To me, that's a tremendous conclusion jump. The only way that he really would know that they're anthocyanins would be to do the proper tests, chemical tests. No real reason to think they're anthocyanins. Then there were mutations. He finds some of the leaves have a hard shape. But the idea that they were in response to a mutation is again a huge leap into the unknown. Leaves don't particularly grow that way. (00:32:30)

[SPEAKER_13] : They don't grow at the tip like stems do. They form in the bud. And then the cells expand to make the leaves. (00:32:36)

[SPEAKER_04] : It was disappointing, but also I said to myself, isn't this typical? I mean, no matter what you do in this field, there's always a skeptic or somebody else to come back with the opposite. (00:32:48)

[SPEAKER_08] : So in this case, we have one scientist on one hand that's saying, yes, we have something here. Then we turn around and submit his report to another scientist who takes the opposing view and says he doesn't think what the first one told us was valid. There's several photos that were interesting. Let's take a look at this one. My understanding is that this is the image that she's told the investigators was a pretty direct representation of what she actually saw that night. What do you think of it? (00:33:25)

[SPEAKER_16] : When you look at this image, you see what looks like a bright, splotchy looking image. So now you have this and that. So here we see the bright image. You have to identify that and also account for what this is. What's that? I asked Denise to take me outside and show me exactly where this was. You got the coordinates and then... I did. I did a compass bearing of 220 degrees. I could then plug it into some of my astronomy programs that I have. (00:33:56)

[SPEAKER_16] : Get the celestial picture. Get a celestial picture for that exact time and date. We're looking at her backyard just like it would look. That's right. She said it was somewhere between 1 and 2 in the morning. And I have it set for 1 in the morning right now. If we move the time ahead a little bit... Now, we're around 2 in the morning. And lo and behold, here comes the moon and Jupiter. That would put you in line with the tree line. (00:34:25)

[SPEAKER_16] : Actually, it would put us right in the tree line. And the moon was full. You can actually see leaves silhouetted against the moon in this image. And that explains why the moon was round behind the trees. Gotcha. Now, when you look at the image, you see that the orientation of this moon and that Jupiter are not the same as in the photo we saw. Yeah, but you said she had the camera turned up this way too. She could very well have turned the camera vertical for that shot. (00:34:52)

[SPEAKER_16] : And that would explain exactly what we're seeing. It's amazing, isn't it? Yeah, it's a perfect correlation. (00:34:57)

[SPEAKER_08] : Mark and I went through all Denise's photos and there was really nothing there. Mark felt everything was either reflections off the lens, possible aircraft lights, and other bright lights in the sky. There was nothing there that Mark couldn't explain. And it was really disappointing. (00:35:12)

[SPEAKER_06] : Denise's case is falling apart, but we don't want to give up on it. We collected samples from the tree that the UFO was seen hovering above and dropping down this glitter into. But we also took some samples from a tree that was much further away to act as a control. What did you find different between the two samples, the affected and the control? (00:35:37)

[SPEAKER_03] : The big difference was in a very minor element, boron. It was a difference that jumped out at me because in the affected tree, that value is several times higher. And so that might let you have a stronger hypothesis that something was deposited on the leaves from some other source. (00:35:56)

[SPEAKER_06] : What Nick was able to tell us was that there is something intriguing here. That something seems to have happened to this tree that's next to Denise's home. And I think it lends a little more credibility to her story. Then Nick told me about the flakes. (00:36:11)

[SPEAKER_03] : I managed to isolate some very small flakes of a white compound that I found on a few of the leaves from the affected tree. And I did not find any amongst the leaves from the control tree. Flakes from the affected tree exhibited a really unusual series of forms or shapes at a microscopic level. The largest of which was probably about the size of a head of a pin. These white flakes, do they have any shine to them? (00:36:43)

[SPEAKER_03] : Is this possibly the glitter she's talking about? Well, if there was a shower or some kind of a cascade of flakes that would have been of the size of that one, I would say that if you had a bright light source shining on them, they probably would glitter. They would show up, I would think. (00:37:01)

[SPEAKER_06] : It's been a real rollercoaster ride with Denise's case. We thought we had this compelling evidence that just came tumbling down. But then Nick comes forward with these unusual flakes and boron content, which makes Denise's story more compelling. So maybe something happened here after all. (00:37:20)

[SPEAKER_08] : That's exactly how it was. It's eerie. If we can validate the story, what we have is an unidentified object in that airspace. (00:37:30)

[SPEAKER_01] : MUFON annually investigates an average of 5,000 reported UFO sightings. Approximately 85% are dismissed as either misidentification of natural phenomenon, man-made activity, or deliberate hoax. 15% remain unexplained. (00:37:53)

[SPEAKER_04] : This about everything in our arsenal comes off of this Willow Grove Air Force Base. We've got Harriers, they have C-130s, F-16s, Warthogs, you name it, it comes off of this base. (00:38:19)

[SPEAKER_09] : But no hexagonal aircraft that we know of. That's pretty close. They usually don't fly over our house like that. But the sound from the UFOs, did they sound like this? Well, there was no sound whatsoever. (00:38:30)

[SPEAKER_12] : I immediately knew this was nothing that I could identify as either a commercial aircraft or a military aircraft. It'd be important for us to go in and maybe interview the base commander. (00:38:41)

[SPEAKER_06] : We're trying right now to set up an interview for you guys. Do you really think they're going to tell us anything? Well, if it's an exotic, top-secret craft, I really doubt it. But I think it's worth a shot. We have to talk to them. We have to give them their opportunity. Absolutely. (00:38:54)

[SPEAKER_04] : How do you get to the truth? I mean, you know that the government knows. They have to know. They monitor everything. And we keep plugging away, you know, at this low level, trying to find out what the truth is. And it's very frustrating. (00:39:06)

[SPEAKER_08] : The photographs have really not helped her. They've hurt her more than anything. And I was really trying to, just in my own mind, clarify which one of these things she'd actually seen or not. (00:39:29)

[SPEAKER_00] : Oh, my gosh. (00:39:37)

[SPEAKER_08] : It's eerie. Now, the next one was when the lights came down and went into the tree in the backyard. (00:39:52)

[SPEAKER_02] : It's so true and exact the way I saw it that night. Does that bring back some memories? Yes, it does. It looks just like it. That's exactly how it was. (00:40:18)

[SPEAKER_08] : Good. What really got my attention, she got very emotional when she saw it. And it seemed as if that took her back to that night. And based on that, I was starting to believe what she was telling me. We tried to adjust this to make it look as close to what you saw as possible. Okay. (00:40:43)

[SPEAKER_07] : That's pretty good, but it makes it look like it's a very small object. This thing was immense. And the height of it, and as big as it was, set me back. I've gone this far with it. I'm not going to back out now, but... (00:41:26)

[SPEAKER_17] : I did manage to go down to Philly International Airport and take a look at the radar tracks. There was something that came in on the radar without a transponder code. And it had the right time setting, and the time frame and the day frame is when Cliff had his sighting. (00:41:54)

[SPEAKER_08] : The transponder is a device, it's a piece of the radio equipment on an aircraft that basically transmits a code number to the air traffic controller's radar. And when they dial that number in, that number basically lights up on that blip on the screen and identifies that blip. Going through congested airspace like Philadelphia without a transponder, it would be like driving a vehicle up the wrong side of an interstate highway at night with no lights on. (00:42:20)

[SPEAKER_17] : And this craft did come down, flew around, went west, turned around and made a U-turn and came back up and headed back towards New York. (00:42:30)

[SPEAKER_08] : If we can validate the story that we've gotten from the individual at the air traffic control center in Philadelphia, then what we have is an unidentified object in that airspace. (00:42:43)

[SPEAKER_06] : I don't remember any cases, but I'm sure we can look back through our archives and see if there's anything similar. It's a possibility. (00:43:04)

[SPEAKER_15] : Most of the witnesses I've talked to have been very convincing, very down to earth. It gives me an idea that there has to be something out there. Like they say, there's smoke, there's fire. (00:43:17)

[SPEAKER_04] : I believe that what we have to do is just keep asking these questions, doing these investigations, so that the public knows it's okay to come forward with their reports and eventually, you know, we're going to get an answer. (00:43:31)

(2025-09-14)