From: Ralph O. Howard <rhjr.nul>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:28:54 +0000
Archived: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:52:42 -0500
Subject: Videos From Turkey 2008


Fellow List-folk,

Our MUFON State Director (Georgia) was made aware of some
interesting apparent video footage from - post says - near
Istanbul, Turkey, taken between May and Sept. 2008. The website
hosting it is the Sirius UFO Space Science Research Center,
whatever that is. As I always do I visited UpDates to see if
there's been discussion and unless my search capabilities have
gone AWOL, I find no discussions whatsoever. From the
Archives I searched using keywords "Turkey video Sirius 2008,"
finding zero hits. Hmmm.

MUFON-Sacramento (CA) has a video and link posted at:

http://www.mufonsacramento.info

that takes you to where the footage is posted, at Vimeo.
There, where posted by Sirius

http://vimeo.com/1928279

one finds the usual vague off-the-cuff reviews present anywhere
videos are posted. Text at upper left suggests this has all been
sitting here some 4 months.

Is anyone aware of this footage and has anyone reviewed it?
There's like 17 minutes of it (spliced together) making for an
interesting watch. To me it falls well short of being what the
site rhetoric claims it is; the hyperbole itself is a hoot and
makes the Vimeo site well worth a visit. For example, "The
images captured are expected to have a tremendous impact
throughout the world and be listed as 'the most important UFO/
extraterrestrial images ever filmed in the all World'" and
"these amazing UFO video footages which would likely have major
repercussions around the world and be listed as =E2=80=9Cthe most
significant UFO videos ever.=E2=80=9D

Assuming just as a starting-point this is faked, how difficult
would this be? The reflections over water are interesting.
A couple of the commenters do make good points about possible
oil-well-burnoff or oil-refinery reflections and questioning why
the videographer didn't get other people to also video the
phenomena. The text of the post implies there is more footage
in Sirius' possession.

I'd be interested in what others think of the footage. Or, if
I missed it and all of you have seen this, please enlighten me
as to when those discussions took place in UFO-Updates so I can
have a look in the archives. Thanks.-


Ralph O. Howard, Jr.
Asst State Director MUFON of Georgia