December 7, 1997: Greenhouse Gases, Hidden Files - Sue Kovach & Linda Moulton Howe
In the second half, Kovach discusses her book "Hidden Files," a collection of true paranormal encounters reported by law enforcement officers. She shares accounts of police helicopter pilots chased by unidentified orange objects in Kentucky, a Florida officer who witnessed a massive black triangular craft, and a Hawaiian homicide case where luminol revealed a murder scene at the exact location where employees sensed a ghost.
Art opens the phone lines exclusively to law enforcement and military callers. Officers from across the country respond with their own accounts of unexplained encounters, including a Florida officer who fired two rounds at a brown figure that vanished without a trace, and a Marine who describes radar contacts at 29 Palms that were invisible through night vision equipment.
Key Moments
Kyoto talks and Lunar Prospector launch: Howe opens her Dreamland report covering the Kyoto greenhouse gas negotiations among 150 nations and NASA's January 5, 1998 Lunar Prospector launch into a polar lunar orbit.
Malin reverses on Cydonia face photo: Howe reports that Mars Global Surveyor camera lead Dr. Michael Malin told the Philadelphia Inquirer NASA now plans to image the Cydonia face - a reversal of his earlier refusal - quoting him saying 'the taxpayers are footing the bill... if they want the face, NASA should try to give them the face.'
Carlotto: 100,000-to-1 odds Cydonia is artificial: Dr. Mark Carlotto explains his fractal-analysis-based Bayesian estimate: starting from a million-to-one prior against artificiality, accumulated evidence yields odds 'between 100 and 100,000 to one in favor of the hypothesis' that the Cydonia objects are not natural.
33,000-year Cydonia solstice alignment: Carlotto reports the average orientation of Cydonia objects differs by about one degree from the current Martian summer-solstice sunrise - translating, via Mars's axial wobble, to roughly 33,000 years ago, the same window in which Neanderthals died out and modern humans emerged.
Kentucky helicopter chase: orange UFO in plastic casing: Kovach details a 1993 case in which two Kentucky police helicopter patrolmen, on a burglary call, were chased at 120-130 mph by a bright orange light 'encased in some kind of a plastic covering,' confirmed by ground units; the object emitted orange fireballs that left no trace in fresh snow.