- During the last two and a half months I have witnessed
six daylight UFO sightings above Santa Monica, including one I managed
to film. This is almost as many as I have seen over the city since I moved
here ten years ago. Could Santa Monica be experiencing a UFO 'wave'?
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- On June 28th 2006 I experienced two different types of
UFO within twenty minutes of each other from the same street corner, and
area of sky (North to North West of Santa Monica), where the unidentified
flying 'Boomerang' and 'Flying Humanoid' (UFH) were filmed (Ref. 1 &
2).
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- The first sighting occurred at approximately 4:45pm.
I had just left the apartment to walk into town and was about to cross
the first cross street on our block. As I stopped to cross the street I
looked up and immediately spotted ahead of me, about 50 degrees above the
horizon, a very slow moving UFO.
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- With the naked eye, against a clear blue sky, the UFO
looked like a small bright white 'boomerang', or gently curved 'tube',
with 'scalloped edges'. It very closely resembled the UFO Kris (Sherwood)
filmed in 1999 from the same spot, only this time the object wasn't rotating
(Ref. 1).
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- Flying on a straight course (from my right to left),
heading from the SE to the NW, the UFO flew above NW Santa Monica at an
estimated altitude of about 10,000+ feet. About the size of a small to
medium sized aircraft it moved very slowly, producing no audible sound
and leaving no contrail.
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- With good visibility and a clear sky the UFO was easy
to spot initially, however, as I tried to view it through the monocular
I immediately lost sight of it. Moments later, I found it again, only to
lose it again as I tried a second time to look at it through the 'spotter'.
This time, I lost it for about ten minutes despite the objects slow speed
and brightness. During this time I walked the length of a street, scanning
the sky from different vantage points, but I couldn't find it.
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- Disappointed by what seemed to be a very brief sighting
I returned to where it began and was about to give up searching when I
sighted it again! Amazingly, the UFO had barely moved from its original
position, which was a surprise because I had searched the same area of
sky for almost ten minutes. (Either, I was losing my eyesight I thought
or the UFO was playing 'hide and seek'.)
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- With the UFO in sight again and moving very slowly I
decided to risk losing it altogether by running to our apartment to retrieve
our HI8 video camera.
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- Before leaving I quickly estimated the UFOs position
in the sky, using a tall palm tree on the street to compare it to, and
ran for the camera. Less than a minute later I was back outside and where
I had first noticed the UFO but I couldn't find it. I spent several minutes
searching the sky but to no avail. Frustrated, yet hopeful I might spot
it once more, I slowly walked around the city block, viewing the same area
of sky, but I didn't see it again.
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- Feeling very disappointed, even annoyed on this occasion,
to be 'teased' by the UFO, I voiced it. Approaching the street corner where
I first spotted the UFO, I said out loud "OK, I'm going inside. If
you are going to appear you better do it NOW."
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- As I said this, about to walk away from the viewing area,
I looked up, for the last time I thought, only to spot a second UFO, this
time moving faster, and flying in the opposite direction (Fig. 1-6).
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- It was about 5:10pm. I quickly powered up the camera
and proceeded to try to film the UFO, beginning with a hand held shot.
Flying on a straight and horizontal course, from my left to right, heading
approximately West to East, it was perhaps 5-10,000 feet up in the air
(a few thousand feet lower than the first UFO).
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- Fig. 1 Partial Zoom of the UFO Flying Behind a Nearby
Palm Tree
- 35mm Stills from TV/Hi8 Video " 2006 Ed Sherwood/Millennium
Research
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- Fig. 2 Partial Zoom Revealing Two,
- Possibly Three Self-Similar UFOs Flying in Close Formation
- 35mm Stills from TV/Hi8 Video " 2006 Ed Sherwood/Millennium
Research
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- Fig. 3 The UFO/s at Half Zoom
- with the Larger Object's 'Antenna Light' Off
- 35mm Stills from TV/Hi8 Video " 2006 Ed Sherwood/Millennium
Research
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- (Note: In Fig. 1-6 the UFO is moving from the left to
the right of the image.)
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- I estimated the size of the UFO to be similar to a small
to medium sized aircraft a few miles distant. With the naked eye, and through
the camera, I quickly realized what first looked like one object might
actually be two or even three self-similar UFOs flying together in a very
close yet fluid configuration (Fig. 2-5).
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- Fig. 4 The UFO/s at Two Thirds Zoom
- with the Larger Object's 'Antenna Light' On
- 35mm Still from TV/Hi8 Video " 2006 Ed Sherwood/Millennium
Research
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- Fig. 5 A Partial Zoomed View of the UFO/s
- After Emerging Behind a Second Palm Tree (not in view)
- 35mm Still from TV/Hi8 Video " 2006 Ed Sherwood/Millennium
Research
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- Flying about 35 degrees above the horizon, they were
also tightly clustered below what looked like a small 'beckon', or 'antenna'
light (or guiding 'light ball'), that illuminated occasionally (Fig. 4
& 6).
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- Fig. 6 The UFO/s Beginning to Move Further Away at Two
Thirds Zoom
- 35mm Still from TV/Hi8 Video " 2006 Ed Sherwood/Millennium
Research
- I filmed the UFO for approximately 15 seconds initially,
affirming its unusual appearance, before trying to attach a monopod to
the camera for a steadier shot.
- However, my first attempt failed, and since the object
was not slowing down, I
- resumed filming, only to find it impossible to achieve
a steady shot beyond half zoom. With one eye on the UFOs position and one
on the HI8 camera I eventually
- attached the monopod and attempted a slow zoom on the
object as it emerged from behind a palm tree trunk. This time I was able
to film the UFO for approximately 25 seconds before losing it from view,
including a two-thirds zoom on the object, as it flew over the city and
out of sight into smog and distant haze
- (Fig. 6).
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- In total, it had been a two to three minute sighting
ending at approximately 5:13pm, and I had recorded just under a minute.
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- Further Observations & Questions
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- Since my teens, in any given direction and landscape,
I have called a specific area of sky where UFOs are more likely to appear
a 'UFO window'. On June 28th 2006, a 'window' above Santa Monica was wide
open for a while and two different UFOs appeared, the first moving towards
it and the second away from it.
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- While the second UFO sighting was different from the
first, both were observed in the same area of sky as the 'Boomerang' shaped
UFO filmed flying above Santa Monica in 1999 (Ref. 1).
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- There have been at least four UFO sightings above Santa
Monica in the last two weeks. All have been sighted in the same area of
sky. All appeared to be white and moved relatively slowly, especially the
first two, which seemed to be moving at walking speed. All were silent
sightings.
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- The June 28th 2006 sighting occurred exactly nine days
after another daylight UFO sighting that I witnessed above Santa Monica
while walking a few blocks from our apartment. Synchronously, this was
also the same day Phyllis Schlemmer contacted us after many months (Ref.
3).
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- Was the second UFO sighting an interactive encounter
initiated by the human observer (myself)? Had the UFO appeared because
of my voicing great disappointment in not being able to film the first
UFO, or was I just in the right place again at the right time to observe
another UFO flying by unaware of my presence as an observer?
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- The flight characteristics of the second UFO were immediately
noticeable and noteworthy. For example, the two main 'lights' or illuminated
'objects' (one slightly higher, smaller and behind the other) altered their
position as they moved across the sky. While the UFO/s moved from left
to right on a straight course, during the first clip I shot the smaller
of the two side-by-side objects was to right of the larger one (Fig. 4).
Seconds later, during the second clip (after attaching the monopod and
attempting to film the UFO/s moving further away), the smaller of the two
objects is to the left of the larger one (Fig. 6).
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- As is often the case, it was easier to identify what
the UFO above Santa Monica was not than to say exactly what it was. However,
what it was not included an aircraft, helicopter, blimp, balloon, or any
other type of manmade object I could think of. Was it a top secret military
device and test? I don't know, but I suspect it wasn't on this occasion.
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- Ed Sherwood July 2006
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- Copyright " 2006 Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research
- All rights reserved.
- Links Permitted
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- References:
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- 1) Flying 'Boomerang' Filmed Above Santa Monica, By Ed
Sherwood, 1999.
- Posted at: http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/sightings_pic5.htm
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- 2) Unidentified Flying 'Humanoid' Filmed Above Santa
Monica?, By Ed Sherwood, 2004. Posted at: http://www.cropcircleanswers.com/FlyingHumanoid.htm
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- 3) The Only Planet of Choice, Phyllis V. Schlemmer, Gateway
Books, 1994.
- http://www.theonlyplanetofchoice.com
- Images:
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- Fig. 1-6: " 2006 Ed Sherwood/Millennium Research
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- This article is a smaller version of the same article
with twice as many images
- to be posted on our web site at: http://www.CropCircleAnswers.com
- Watch for CCA 'News', 'Articles', and the 'Sightings'
page
- for coming updates.
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- Contact: Ed & Kris Sherwood, Millennium Research,
P.O. Box 2084,
- Santa Monica, CA, 90406, USA.
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