Meet Jaime Maussan, King of Ufologists

Maussan's El Ser de Metepec

If you are a true UFO lover, and UFO Blog knows you are, you need to get to know Jaime Maussan. Mr. Maussan does what nobody does, especially in the United States. He specifically reports on UFO and other Paranormal activity—but mostly UFOs. He’s a world renowned Reporter, Researcher and Ufologist. He has been the most serious and accurate investigator out there to date.

Mr. Maussan is from Mexico and hosts a show dedicated to UFO and other paranormal activity called Tercer Milenio or Third Millennium. Many people submit their UFO sightings directly to him. He’s a trusted repository of UFO accounts. He researches each story to weed out hoaxes and pranks, which he deplores. The fact that you haven’t heard about him should concern any serious UFO watcher or enthusiast.

Jaime Maussan

Most of the world’s UFO sightings are not reported consistently in the USA. Once in awhile there may be an episode of UFO Hunters, or some news station may report on a local unexplained sighting, but there really isn’t any serious or consistent presentation of the UFO phenomenon in the USA; a phenomenon that is worldwide.

Jaime Maussan reports on many different paranormal phenomenons, like: crop circles, USOs (Unidentified Submerged Objects), flotillas, NASA sightings, mysterious sounds, alien sightings, abductions, flying beings, American military cover-ups, imbedded objects, special accounts like the Jerusalem sightings (more on this in a later blog post) or the experiences or Stan Romanek, spirals, ebanis and good ol’ flying saucers.

The following video is new as of this date, and actually presents a conference that Mr. Maussan attends every year, mostly in the United States. The video offers English subtitles and presents what Jaime Maussan is all about. Check it out.

What distinguishes Maussan's reportage of UFOs and any other reporter, is that he provides a narrative to the UFO phenomenon. He looks at the worldwide appearance of strange paranormal activity in a more holistic context.

The scariest thing about about this is that he believes we are currently being contacted and are receiving messages or warnings, from somebody, and that it's just a matter of time before "they" reveal themselves. Hello December 21, 2012. Are you ready? Jaime is.

Mystery Missile!: "The Helicopter"

On Monday evening November 8, 2010, a strange object slowly flew into the western sky off the coast of Southern California. As it shot into the orange-sunset sky, it climbed ever higher leaving an enormous plume. The object itself seemed to pulsate and shimmer; changing from metallic silver to orange to red-hot. This ominous scene filled the sky, and was visible for miles.

Mystery Missile Videographer Gil Leyvas

Fortunately, this dramatic event was caught on tape by a local KCBS/KCAL Chopper 9 TV Cameraman, Gil Leyvas. Said Leyvas “Whatever it was, it was spinning up into the sky kind of like a spiral,” and "was easy to distinguish from condensation trails from jets". He then added “It was quite a sight to see, it was spectacular”.


Leyvas, an experienced Videographer, must have seen thousands of contrails and cloud formations of all shapes and colors. As such, consider the significance of his words: "It was spinning like a spiral" and he "can distinguish it from the contrail of a jet", then added he could do it "easily". Even the statements, "it was quite a sight to see" and "It was spectacular", indicate this event was unique.





Check out the spiral throughout this clip

But let's get back to his statements about the object being "easy to distinguish from a contrail" and "spinning". Leyvas is an eyewitness in the sky; a seasoned reporter with high-tech video equipment. His experience teaches him to carefully observe objects and events and to capture them "live" or "on-tape". Fortunately a helicopter provides an outstanding vantage point to accomplish this task. If anyone is qualified to characterize this event it's him.

His observation, that it was "easy to distinguish" the Mystery's Missile's plume from that of a jetliner, flies in the face of what is now the commonly accepted explanation that it was, in fact, the contrail of a jetliner. This is significant because the Military, who was late to the party, announced that it concluded that it was probably a contrail.


Contrailscience.com, a website dedicated to contrails (or debunking the "chem-trail" controversy), features an article entitled Los Angeles Missile Contrail Explained in Pictures. This is an exhaustive (get it?) study of the behavior of the Mystery Missile's plume, with an emphasis on debunking the idea that it's a UFO.

From Contrailscience.com

UFO Blog pronounces this evidence "inconclusive". Why? Because as far as we can tell, the Contrailscience.com presentation doesn't prove that it's not a missile or an alien craft, but rather seems only to show that the Mystery Missile's exhaust plume behaves like a contrail; "your answer is blowin' in the wind".


Also, jetliner contrails don't spin or "spiral". When you look closely at the Mystery Missile footage, you clearly see the trail left by the object is a spiral. Below it, the rest of the trail disintegrates into a cloud as it's carried away by natural forces, much like a contrail.


Furthermore, the object actually emitting the exhaust glowed continuously, unlike the normal reflection of the Sun on the body of an aircraft, which flickers and quickly ends as the plane moves on. The Mystery Missile wasn't flickering, it was glowing; pulsating various "hot" colors. It was moving so slowly, that the original tape is actually 10-minutes long!


The closer you look at this event, the stranger it becomes. After all these months, perhaps it's time to look at the evidence again and listen to the eyewitness, but also to ask "where is that 10-minute tape"?

Mystery Missile!: "This is the kind of stuff I love"

Is nothing sacred? The Mystery Missile is a dramatic warning for us to prepare for the coming cosmic alignment and global axis shift. Nothing less than the very survival of Humankind lays in the balance—right?


Meanwhile the "schmexperts" have piously weighed-in and scolded us on the question of whether the Mystery Missile is an airplane or a missile, and proclaimed it to be a contrail from a UPS cargo jet.


Say what? Oh, blah, blah, blah. They've had their say, now let the real "Messengers of Truth" to have theirs. Hey, how bout' these guys?

"Top 10 Dumb Guy Mystery Missile Explanations"

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Mystery Missile!: "Theories" II

More theories about the Mystery Missile: It was a missile fired by China: Frankly this hypothesis is weaker and sillier than any UFO-theory, because a missile launch would have been detected by radar from many military and civilian installations. Also, why? Why would China all of the sudden fire a missile at us? This would have been such a provocative act that it would have sparked a loud response from many, many quarters. Also, how could a Chinese submarine not be detected so close to a major metropolitan area lined with military bases? As much money as we owe China, we would think they would more likely to make sure we stayed in one piece, to be around to repay them.


It was a jetliner contrail: One thing is true, the most spectacular thing about this crazy "Roman Candle" is its plume. Called a Condensation Trail or a "Contrail", the vapor trail behind the object is accordingly smokey and fluffy. Virtually no one disputes the object behind the shiny thing on-top is some kind of contrail.


CBS, who has had the best reporting on this story, features Pentagon Spokesman, Col. Dave Lapan stating: "All of the [sic] factors together leave us pretty confident that this was a contrail left by an aircraft". This, apparently after checking with  the FAA, Department of Homeland Security, Navy, Air force and The North American Aerospace Defense Command  or "NORAD".

UPS MD-11

What do the real experts think? The website ContrailScience.com (I swear, UFO Blog not making this up!) provides an amazingly detailed study and analysis. Looking at every possible angle, they have determined the "Mystery Missile" phenomenon to simply be UPS902, a United Parcel Service Company MD-11, a three-engine plane "that can leave a contrail that looks like it's coming from one engine". Evidently, this airplane flies daily from Honolulu to Phoenix, on occasion scaring the hell out of everybody in L.A. 


Imagine, finally, an explanation! Wait, what about the shiny thing on top? ContrailScience.com further explains this part of the phenomenon as being the reflection of the rays of the setting sun relecting from the body of the aircraft, like the sequence to right. The Mystery Missile is no more! Right?


Continued

Mystery Missile!: "Theories" I

Yes, even though it's 6-months later, even though it was a mass sighting and even though there may be some very good theories out there, this event and the object remain a mystery—a UFO.

What do people think this was? Well, this question prompts a dialog that extends to the weird and improbable. Theories abound but breakdown to these general categories:


It was a missile: When UFO Blog first saw it on TV, it looked like a missile, especially because newscast after newscast repeated that the "missile" originated 35-miles off the coast of California, northeast of Santa Catalina Island. In fact, it looked exactly like a submarine launched ICBM. But UFO Blog was not alone; this thing was was dubbed "Mystery Missile" from the beginning by news organizations.

Delta-II rocket

The main problem with the "Missile Theory" is the object was moving slowly but missiles are fast. Also, the billowing contrail emanating from the object was voluminous. Compare the photo to the right to the image of the "Mystery Missile" above. The picture to the right is a Delta Rocket II, T+ 47-seconds. Despite the thinner contrail, the similarity to the "Mystery Missile" is striking.


Another quirk is the object on-top of the "Mystery Missile appears to glow or shimmer, similar to a missile. This phenomenon will be explained-away in the theory It was a jetliner contrail.


In the final analysis, the "Mystery Missile" appears to not be a missile at all, mainly because no one has claimed it (more on this next episode). All government military agencies immediately denied any knowledge of a launch, except for one 3-days before—a Delta II Rocket fired from Vandenberg.


Also, the Military seemed caught off-guard; if they had launched a missile, it is likely there would have been a quick cover story, Remember, they had just launched that Delta Rocket just a few days before. The Military, our protectors from goofy missiles, was clueless! If it were a missile, it would have been caught on radar. 

It was an accident: The proponents of this theory are oblivious to the fact that there is a careful protocol for initiating a military missile launch; requiring the participation of more than one individual. If it were purposely launched off the coast of Southern California in a crowded airspace next to a gigantic urban center in broad daylight, it would have been no accident. Why would an armed submarine be near Hollywood?


As Fox News put it "If a test missile or an accidental missile was launched in the region it would have either come from Naval Air Station Point Mugu or Vandenberg Air Force Base. At sea it could have come from a U.S. submarine or a surface ship." But  from the get-go all Military or Aeronautic Agencies have denied any knowledge of a missile launch—including NORAD.

Continued

Mystery Missile!: "But Nobody Could Say What it Was"

On Monday evening, November 8, 2010, a UFO was sighted in the sky off the coast of Los Angeles. The object appeared shiny and emitted what appeared to be a large condensation trail (or "contrail").

This amazing sight was caught on tape by a local KCBS News helicopter Cameraman.

The following story about this event aired November 9, 2010, and was presented by CBS News through Good Morning America's Harry Smith and reported by CBS News National Security Correspondent, David Martin. It features the actual edited footage of the event (the uncut footage is said to be 10-minutes long!).

 

Mr. Martin starts-off by making it clear the Pentagon said they "still didn't know what it was" but then said "except, it wasn't a missile fired by the U.S. or another country". Skeptically, he then remarks "the video of, what looks for all the world, like the contrail of a missile...was shot...over Los Angeles"   The story goes on: both Navy and Air force indicated they had not launched any missiles. Mr. Martin quotes the North American Air Defense Command as stating that it had not been fired by "any other military". Again, an incredulous David Martin states "but nobody could say what it was".


The North American Air Defense Command further stated the object was not a missile because it didn't "travel fast enough" nor "have a big enough exhaust plume to be a military missile".


The comparison of the object, constant in CBS News' coverage, is to a missile. In fact, the phenomenon has been dubbed "Mystery Missile". The segment ends with an interesting exchange between Harry Smith and David Martin. Martin comments "The best guess now, Harry, is that it's either an airliner or an amateur rocket, but we may never know for certain." Smith then pointed to comments indicating the importance of the "perspective" or "angle" between the helicopter and the object. (These types of arguments promote the idea the contrail is from a jetliner.) Smith then asks "is there any scuttlebutt consensus around the Pentagon"? Martin replies "scuttlebutt says airplane, but nobody is willing to make a definitive statement because they just don't have the data to prove it was an airplane.  Finally, Martin sarcastically sums it all up: "they have the data to demonstrate that it was not a missile, but they can't prove what it was". This cracks Harry up.


CBS News' tone throughout the story is, curiously, a tad derisive. The implication being: The Military should have known about this-but didn't. And if they did, they're covering it up stupidly. But the Military may be only be a bit-player in this saga. Stay tuned.

Great Ball of Fire!: Other Balls of Fire II

This continues other people's UFO reports and videos (Please see Fire in the Sky: Great Balls of Fire!).  These words capture their encounters with fireball UFOs, flaming orbs and other obnoxious burning celestial intrusions. Some of these reports reveal a tone that anyone who has seen a UFO will understand, a sort of wide-eyed nonchalance while standing in cold water, waiting to be told what to do next. In all of these accounts, you will find few where the UFO is actually within one mile of the observer; unlike our sighting. Most of the accounts you'll find reveal fireballs that are clearly in the heavens-and thusly meteors. BTW, this concludes my Fire in the Sky series. But don't think this is over.

This shows a fireball similar to our sighting, but farther away. (Not in Whittier Area.)

This next encounter is fascinating and terrifying on different levels. On one level, I could empathize with her comment about the way her encounter affected her well after the event. But this particular event may still be going on (and I strongly suspect that it is):

Occurred: 9/24/2009 22:13

Location: Norwalk, CA

Shape: Sphere

Duration: Still there

Sphere shaped firework over Norwalk

On 7/26/01 we first saw the unexplained object hovering up in the sky there were 2 I thought nothing of it until my daughter said it was freaky because it would not move so I went to look and yes for about 15 minutes they just hovered we went to the front yard to just look at them one came real close to our home after about an hour it came down hovered then soon after just shot up into the sky they both disappeared. It was so strange and scary I didn't know what to do so I called the news no answer I called the Air Force they said it was nothing but yet 2 minutes later 2 jets flew over.

I was pregnant at the time and you hear so many stories I was afraid that maybe they were here for the baby. I stayed up all night alerted by every sound not knowing what it was. By the morning no news of any sightings were on any news channels.

I did not go to work because I started having light contractions. Me and my children were the only ones out there and the next day I gave birth I was still worried about so called abductions when I was sent back to my room my baby wasn't with me I started to panic and asked the nurse said the doctor would come talk to me. I was terrified not knowing until I asked to see my baby he was in CCU he had a few medical issues water in the lungs and would need to stay a few days. I always wondered if it was because of that night. My kids tease my son that he is an alien baby or we call them our friends now. 

Tonight my dog made a weird noise

Great Ball of Fire!: Other Balls of Fire I

In my effort to find other UFO fireballs (Please refer to my first article in this series, called Great Ball of Fire) in the Whittier Narrows and surrounding area, I was stunned to find so many UFO sightings in the area—almost every month going back at least five years. What’s even more stunning; the large amount of UFO fireball sightings. It’s staggering to think, these accounts are mostly from regular people reporting to Law Enforcement, so there must be many more UFO sightings not reported. Case-in-point: we never reported our fireball to the police. For the sake of brevity I’ve selected only those accounts that most closely resembled our sighting. Also, sightings that were clearly meteors were excluded.

It’s fascinating to hear other people’s sightings. Some are scant and others rich in detail. The first one wasn’t even a month ago!

Consider!

Occurred: 7/14/2010 11:15

Location: El Monte/Monterey Park (between), CA

Shape: Teardrop

Duration: 1 minute

Gray oval teardrop shaped craft flying over LA County

I was riding on the Metro link from San Bernardino to the Cal State LA station, seated on the side of the train looking south. Listening to music and watching the scenery pass by I looked up to the sky at about a 35 to 45 degree angle and saw what at first I took to be an airliner that was traveling east to west.I quickly realized that the shape was not right and that it was not a more whitish color. It had more of a gray metallic look, and there seemed to be no wings. This happened rather fast and when I wanted to try to study it more the train passed a few buildings that blocked my view, and when the train passed the buildings, it was gone.

Great Ball of Fire!: More Fireballs?

A UFO sighting would have been unusual by its nature.  Not many people I’ve spoken to actually have seen something that couldn’t be explained as a satellite or aircraft.  Indeed, many have seen “something”, but when pressed, often explain it away themselves.  I have to admit, I've secretly hoped to meet a person who has seen a "real UFO".

The feeling

The accounts I’ve seen on TV etc., mostly show UFOs as generally in the Flying Saucer or V-shape category. I've even  read about cigar-shaped craft and metal spheres.  And all of these appear to be at least solid in appearance; could even be piloted by some alien teeny bopper clandestinely taking his father’s tube for a joyride.

Nay, what we saw was a monstrous fireball! (Please read the first article in this series Fire in the Sky for even more weirdness.)

If I didn’t have a witness to my UFO sighting, I might have doubted the event ever happened at all. I’d never heard of a "UFO Fireball”, leave alone one hovering over the ground for any prolonged period of time-especially one that “shape-shifted” from a small point of light.

After all, from the time of our sighting, I’ve only heard of one other fireball sighting, years ago, and it was moving rapidly. As I began to relive the moments and feels surrounding our close encounter, for this blog, I began to really wonder if others had seen similar objects in the same area, basically my home town area at the time.

So I began to dig, and was shocked to uncover the large number and frequency of fireball sightings in the Whittier (California) area, let alone the hundreds of other UFO sightings in the same area alone. Strangely, in reading these accounts I was overcome with a sense of relief, shock, wonder then an odd feeling that has no name. Many other people have experienced close encounters similar UFO fireballs!

Their REAL accounts in the next Fire in the Sky!

Great Ball of Fire!: The Return

Image by kurafire via Flickr

I want to see a real UFO like this.

I want to the that frightening Fireball again; or do I? No, on second thought I don't ever want to see something so frightening, so dangerous and something I may not survive "next time" again.

On the other hand, my friend, my only witness Orlando, did say that he thought this was not the last time he would see something in the sky again. He didn't seem to be impressed by what he said. I wouldn't mind seeing a "real" flying saucer, but a fire ball?

What haunts me is the orb started off looking very much like a regular street light and was moving at about 20-30 mile per hour (not really fast) horizontally across and along the river in the opposite direction (although it was difficult to tell because I was walking toward the south). How could it start off so small and end as a gigantic fireball. Here is a progression of stills I put together to study the UFO's trajectory. Note the "orangery" of the lights. This is where the UFO came from.

Below the "YouTubed" version. It's an edited version of a little bit of tape we shot at the site where I and my friend Orlando experienced our sighting. Something strange-even for a UFO! This video is us, excitedly returning to the site of our close encounter, trying to describe the object we saw; and contemplating the scene. It was eerie because we were not entirely sure if we would see the fiery orb again.

Also, I wonder, if any particles from this burning object touched our bodies. It was radiant and large. It burned for up to two minutes in front of us. Were we somehow touched by this monster?

Great Ball of Fire!: “What was it?”

February 18, 2009, 8.00 PM: At this point my friend and I are standing on the edge of a dark river together observing a light in the cold eight o’clock sky. After traveling north and ascending, the UFO began slowly approaching our direction. A minute or two later, the object stops across the river to our left about ¾ of a mile away, when it revealed itself as a fire ball, and burns up without proceeding any further or making any sound (not even a “burning” sound).  For some reason I wasn’t afraid as I observed it from being a pinpoint of orange light to the pulsating orange-white blob in the air. I began fretting when it was clear that this UFO was a fire ball and it was getting close to us. (Please refer to Fire in the Sky and Fire in the Sky: The Location)

Simulation but very close to "UFO" we saw.

The question has always been “what was it”? I have come up with two theories, one fun and the other not so. The first theory (the "not so fun") is the “fire ball UFO” was methane outburst from the landfill that for awhile the UFO passed right in front of. It's in an area where the is evidently an incinerator that burns methane on the hill. I know this because I've hiked the area and have seen the fire in the holes in the building-one night. It was impressive. It was like the “mouth of Hell”. The problem with this theory, however, is that when I first observed the object it was pretty much moving, flying or hovering close to the ground as a small bright orange light. This light appeared to come very close to the river, then ascended. We observed it for a awhile in the air before it descended and burned-up. A fire ball or flame blasted from the methane burner would have burned-up long before it had time to do anything. Even if it had mass, garbage doesn’t fly.

So that leaves us with theory number two: it was a balloon. No, not a weather balloon, but a hot air balloon-like device generally referred to as a "Sky Lantern". It can “fly” high and move around for awhile. Check out the video. I must say this comes close to what our UFO looked like at one point.

There is a  problem with this theory also ; the object we saw was enormous. At least the size of a house. Also, while the object was burning it dropped ash or what appeared to be hot molten something. Lastly, from the very beginning of my observance, it never looked like it was wavering or wafting. In fact, it appeared to be moving in straight "determined" lines. Imagine what I have just described compared to the relatively small object that the Lantern Makers are flying. Running out of theories over here anybody out there have any?

Great Ball of Fire!: The Location

If you have ever seen a UFO, you never forget it, or stop thinking about it. It isn't like any other event. Because of the implications, a UFO, especially a strange one, can haunt you; if you saw it at night, add more luminance and strangeness. If you have had an encounter, the drive to find out everything about your sighting: "who else saw it, and what did they see? What was it? Where exactly did it happen?" etc., can be compelling.

But the first thing I wanted to establish was where we sighted it, so I dialed-up Google Earth. After some triangulation, I came up with coordinates. Below is the areal map:

This image shows a bird's eye view of the area.

Notice the markings. The point near the power line tower is where we saw the fireball stop and burn up. I cannot be completely be sure that it actually stopped, but it appeared to. Why did it stop? This area is just north of the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area. As you can see, the 605 Freeway snakes down within yards of the UFO area. This is a very well traversed freeway at all hours-being part of the L.A. area freeway system. The point is, at least scores of people on the freeway would have had to have seen the fireball hovering above them. Where are these people? This was a vision from Hell that was close to the ground, close to homes and stables and close to us!

Great Ball of Fire!

On February 18, 2009, in the 8:00 PM darkness, my friend Orlando and I were hiking the bike trail along the west bank of the San Gabriel River. We started from Peck Road and proceeded north (Toward the San Gabriel Mountains). When we got to about a quarter mile passed the Pomona (60) Freeway, we decided to turn back.

First in a Series

Orlando went ahead of me, as he wanted to walk faster to exercise a bit. After several minutes I glanced across the river to observe a scene that included the shadows of trees and various lights behind them; including street lights and bill boards near the freeway about a half away—if that. As most street lights nowadays, they appeared almost amber or orange.

Suddenly I saw what at first appeared to be one of those "amber" street lights start moving toward the North (the opposite direction) along the other bank in the distance. It would have had to be very low to the ground for me to have to look twice to see if one of those street lights was somehow moving, as if I were seeing things—I was.

This light appeared to be orange and very bright, eerie and alien. As it moved it must have been ascending, but early on it was moving or floating quite parallel to ground. I realized that it was probably in front of the trees on the other bank very close—probably a little farther than a quarter mile.

I began to run down the bike path (South) toward Orlando.  I wanted him, or anybody else to see this with me. By this time very far in front of me around a bend so I couldn't see him. It seems like I ran a long time to catch up with him. As I got closer and closer to him, I yelled several times for him to stop. When he finally did I ran up to him pointing to the object that was by this time floating high in the sky, and said: “Orlando what’s that? What’s that? Is it a helicopter? A UFO? Jesus! Is that a helicopter?” He replied “no it’s not”. We both observed it for a minute; it and it appeared to be heading somewhat in our direction. He said “what is it?” I said I don’t know. It was mesmerizing.

By this time the object seemed bigger and it had no particular shape, more like a "round" but amorphous in nature. It was bright and moved through the air slowly and appeared to change from orange to white and it appeared hot. It looked like a hot blob in a lava lamp. As we observed it was definitely getting closer. I could actually see flames; it was definitely on fire. I began to get frightened because it looked like it was turning toward us.

Similar to what we saw.

But suddenly, it appeared to stop about a half mile away, on the other bank of the river near a power tower. It made no sound, it just burned. It was enormous. Then it started to burn out. The fire was ending. It was as if sections of it were burning off one by one. As it burned it was dropping what appeared to be the burnt remnants, like any other thing burning out.

As it burned away I tried to look in the area in the low sky where the UFO fireball had just been, thinking I’d see what caused the flames or if I could see anything at all. But I didn’t see anything else. Also, there were no clouds were the object burned away and no smell, like there would have been if fireworks had exploded there. But no, it simply vanished.

We couldn't stop thinking about it for days, and even now I see it, in my mind, almost every day.