Whales In Space

2009 Texas Bigfoot Conference

The 2009 Texas Bigfoot Conference will be held in Tyler, Texas, September 26, 2009 at the Caldwell Auditorium.

An all day event, going from 8:30 A.M. to 6:30 P.M., the day is packed with great speakers: Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (TBRC) Investigators Daryl Colyer and Jerry Hestand, TBRC Wildlife Biologist Alton Higgins, artist Robert Swain, and many more, including famed anthropologist, zoologist, cryptozoologist, and author Loren Coleman with his presentation entitled CryptoConsulting: Advice on Dealing with the Media.

That evening, from 7:30 P.M to 9:30 P.M., there will be a fundraiser banquet dinner with a special presentation by wildlife author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen. The dinner will be held at the Tyler Discovery Science Place.

The TBRC is funded by membership dues, fundraisers, and the annual Texas Bigfoot Conference, in addition to donations and grants. The TBRC desires to enhance the credibility of bigfoot/sasquatch research and facilitate a greater degree of acceptance by the scientific community and other segments of society of the likelihood of a biological basis behind the sasquatch mystery.

For the complete schedule and to register online

For more information about Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (TBRC)

Its been one year since WhalesInSpace.com launched in its current format and what a year in the world of weirdness it has been.

Highlights would have to be the Tom Biscardi’s RickMat Bigfoot Press Conference and when it was revealed to be a hoax. Whales In Space was able to get a reporter to the conference and cover the event as it happened. I still think there is more to this story that was never discussed, except in the private conversations between cryptozoologists and and those who pay very close attention to these things. Also the Blossom Goodchild October 14th UFO prediction stands out as one of the most interesting stories of Whales In Space’s first year.

The February 15th Texas Fireball caught on video and the amazing number of other Fireball sightings and mysterious sonic booms before and after wards also caught the worlds attention.

Also in the first year, we saw the rise of sasquatchploitation, multiple black balloon cluster UFO sightins, two Montauk Monsters and the possible return of batsquatch or at least some clarification to the story.

And still going one, with reports still coming in, the Orange Ball of Light (ORBL) sightings over the UK. If these are just chinese lanterns, I would suggest buying some stock in a chinese lantern company, because sales are up.

A big thanks to everyone who read a post, who made a comment, who sent in photos and stories and tips. A big thanks to everyone who linked to our site.

In the first year we had 200 posts exploring the weirdness of aliens, UFOs, exopolitics, cryptozoology, other paranormal fortean phenomenon, and ultraterrestrial activities. I expect the next year to bring weirder yet stories.

Debris is being found in Texas after the fireball sighting from yesterday.

While the fireball was seen yesterday at a bit before 11am in Texas, there are reports of people in Maryland, Ohio, and as far as Ashford Kent in the UK who reported seeing fireballs last night much like those seen in the Texas video. The Maryland fireball was seen around 8pm, the Ohio fireball was reported as being greenish in color and seen not far from Athens around 10pm.

This is also posted on blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy

Hi, We were a bit bored today and we have the equipment in our lab at work, so we analyzed the video and came up with the following:

1. The composition is mixed metallic based on spectral analysis of the video we snagged and converted to avi from the tv station in Austin: iron (steel), chromium, magnesium, and titanium. All 4 spectral signatures are clearly visible as “spikes” in the analysis. There are other spikes as well for various rare earth metals. You can somewhat see this yourself as the color hue changes as the object breaks up in the atmosphere. We simply put the colours through spectral analysis and compared the spikes to known metals.

We adjusted the white balance based on objects in the foreground and came up with a base level to determine composition.

2. the object is very irregularly shaped or of mixed composition. That is, it is either spinning as it falls or it is disintegrating. This is evident in the combustion bursts as the object falls.

3. The overall density is high given the short tail combustion. Lower density objects would produce a longer combustion trail.

4. The object entered the atmosphere at a high at low velocity. This is based on known density, shape, trajectory, and burn rate.

The object is almost certainly man-made and medium sized. Based on density, trajectory, and rotational analysis, the object is approximately 5-10 meters long and cylindrical or oblong in shape. It’s composition, based on spectral analysis, is consistent with current technology.

We’re 99% sure it’s an artificial object of some type – probably a satellite or small high altitude aircraft.

If we had to guess we think it could be a high altitude reconnaissance vehicle that experienced an in-flight incident and got too close to the more dense layers of the atmosphere at the wrong angle.

Cheers!

Davis

The sonic booms and streaking fireball caught on tape on Sunday February 15th during a Texas marathon was not debris from last weeks US and Russian satellites collision according to US officials.

The U.S. Strategic Command said there was no connection to the sightings and the collision of satellites almost 500 miles over Siberia.

“There is no correlation between the debris from that collision and those reports of re-entry,” said Maj. Regina Winchester, with STRATCOM.

No crash site has been reported and additional information from the big news sources is pretty crappy.

blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy posts a link to a National Weather Service post that previously unreported fireballs were seen over Kentucky on Friday night, along with explosions or sonic boom type noises, much like the Texas incident on Sunday. Why the major news sources haven’t tied these together, I’m not sure.

blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy also has posts with more information on the sighting and some great links, check it out.

Looks like we have a genuine Texas sized UFO mystery on our hands.