Physical
Influences of a UFO on Water
This page is dedicated to Lucius Farish and Dale Titler who, as pioneers in this field, began to recognize the physical effects of unidentified
objects on water.
Physical
Affects on Water - Tying It Together
By Carl Feindt © 2005
The following proposes a
possible explanation for the observed interaction between unidentified flying
objects and water. Wrested from seemingly divergent eyewitness accounts, it
posits that the reaction of the water around an emerging craft implies the
existence of a displacement field, one that exhibits electromagnetic
tendencies. What at first seems like a series of unrelated accounts is shown to
illustrate consistent behavior when the distance between the object and the
body of water is considered.
My interest in
water-related UFO sightings came long ago while reading the books that have
interested all of us. However, those books usually had only one water-related
case in them. The mystery to me was: How something so profound could be
neglected? Why was there no book – or even a chapter – exploring the UFO’s
ability to operate in and out of water? As time went by, books were published
with short chapters on the subject. Finally in 1970, Ivan T. Sanderson
published Invisible Residents, which described water UFO cases from
front to back. However, the idea of how they accomplished their penetration and
emergence from water was once again overlooked in favor of the concept of
another civilization residing underwater on our planet.
Scientists use repetitive results as proof of the conclusions of their experiments. Ted Phillips’ investigation into trace cases does a similar service to UFOs. Water, unfortunately, dissipates any physical evidence due to motion of the liquid or dilution of residual traces. However, could there be solid evidence in the form of repetitive verbal testimony? On starting the collection process of UFO cases I had no concept of what I might find. I only wanted to gather all the cases I could to see if they fit any physical pattern
Scientists use repetitive results as proof of the conclusions of their experiments. Ted Phillips’ investigation into trace cases does a similar service to UFOs. Water, unfortunately, dissipates any physical evidence due to motion of the liquid or dilution of residual traces. However, could there be solid evidence in the form of repetitive verbal testimony? On starting the collection process of UFO cases I had no concept of what I might find. I only wanted to gather all the cases I could to see if they fit any physical pattern
Why should we get excited about a few
water-related reports scattered amongst our ever-popular UFO cases? Because in
these cases we can see the path of what we must accomplish in order to actually
travel to the stars. A new propulsion system… and a field surrounding the craft
protecting it from micrometeorite hits, acidic climates, hostile gunfire, and
whatever else the craft encounters. If we wanted to send men to Venus, material
would have to be developed to withstand the heat and the acidic atmosphere of
the planet. However, if we could design a vessel based on the “alien” craft we
have experienced over the past fifty-plus years, no further modifications would
be necessary.
An analogy to
a light bulb can be drawn here: If we think of the filament as the functioning
craft and the glass bulb representing the UFO field, we can see that this bulb
protects the fragile filament from atmospheric intrusion and other damage. In
the majority of UFO cases it is undoubtedly the function of the field to
protect the UFO; the speeds that are recorded would cause a tremendous heating
of the surface of the vehicle due to atmospheric friction, not to mention the
possible collision with other aerial craft or life forms. The function of the
field may not be limited to protection. The field might also be a part of the
propulsion source, although nothing has been proven or observed along this
line. Paul Hill’s book Unconventional Flying Objects just about cinched
the idea of how this craft could do what it does in water. In Chapter 13,
“Silent Supersonic Operation,” he explains that the field moves the molecules
of atmosphere it contacts to its rear. A molecule of water could be moved in
the same way; in physics, our atmosphere and water are both governed by the one
physical principal, that of “Fluid Dynamics.”
As I continued my collection of reports,
the major problem was not the lack of incidents, but the lack of text on what the
water was doing during those incidents. For the most part, the cases report
UFOs going into or coming out of water and then go into detail about the craft
or its travel. This is understandable as the craft is the unusual thing, not
the water. I eventually became frustrated that there was no clear correlation
between what was occurring with the water in the different reports and began to
think that perhaps all these disjointed cases were leading me nowhere. One
night I sat at my drafting board and decided to draw each case group as a
filament surrounded by a bulb. The resultant drafting work came as quite a
shock to me.
It should be noted that this
hypothesis is based on what could be considered a small percentage of the more
than 850 cases contained on this site, and does not take into consideration any
testimony concerning UFOs entering bodies of water.
The following
sections will illustrate the various phases of UFO reaction with water.
The drawing
at the beginning of each section represents a simplified idea of the UFO field
-- which has many times been referred to as “electromagnetic,” and to that end
I show the UFO as if a bar magnet had been inserted into its center. This
concept was inspired by a sketch of a UFO with a surrounding magnetic field
from an older addition of UFOs and Anti-Gravity by Leonard G. Cramp (See
the full case with sketch at: 04-??-1958 on this website).
(Put a bar magnet into the water and it will NOT produce the
results shown. So while it may have a similar flow of the surrounding field, it
is not a simple magnet. )
Each drawing is followed by a
description of that phase, along with a demonstrative excerpt from published
eyewitness case testimony. (Additional supportive cases are mentioned at the head
of each section; and full text can be found by clicking on the dates shown in blue.)
[Note: All of the text in green was highlighted by me for emphasis]
UFO COMING UP – “WATER BULGES”
Terms used in relevant cases:
09-LL-1954 “Elevated turmoil” and “the
water had formed into a plateau”
03-LL-1959 “Water swelled”
06-03-1961 “the surface of the sea was bulging like an
enormous ball”
09-24-1961 “The surface was rising in one spot”, “Looked
like a round hill”
08-08-1967 “Wrinkled up or stirred up”
Figure 1 (Underwater)
Notice how if this idea is correct, the
force is pushing upwards, causing a bulge.
****Description****
In this
section we should visualize ourselves in a boat, leisurely enjoying the ocean
view, when suddenly we notice a strange sight. A section of the water within
our view appears disturbed. At first it is like the water is boiling, with
bubbles coming to the surface, but within seconds the surface becomes more
agitated and appears to be rising and flowing violently. Suddenly all this
ceases as we are faced with a “craft.”
The following cases display this
scenario with greater elegance:
ENCOUNTER IN THE GULFSTREAM by Neil Deane as told to George Earley
Some morning, I’ve forgotten which one, because I have long since lost the log book, I was rudely awakened in that dark, cold hour before dawn, realizing that my forward progress had stopped and that I was taking water. Great sheets of water flung over her forward deck, screaming down the sides of her cockpit foaming, some of it coming aboard. So in under shorts and barefoot, and the rest of me bare, I came suddenly awake, went into the cockpit and discovered she was dead on course, sails drawing. But she was not making any progress while over her forward deck was considerable depth of solid water and a great thrashing up ahead.
Some morning, I’ve forgotten which one, because I have long since lost the log book, I was rudely awakened in that dark, cold hour before dawn, realizing that my forward progress had stopped and that I was taking water. Great sheets of water flung over her forward deck, screaming down the sides of her cockpit foaming, some of it coming aboard. So in under shorts and barefoot, and the rest of me bare, I came suddenly awake, went into the cockpit and discovered she was dead on course, sails drawing. But she was not making any progress while over her forward deck was considerable depth of solid water and a great thrashing up ahead.
Looking in the direction
of the thrashing, I perceived a great glow, like a big school of herring coming
near the surface and disturbing luminous bacteria . . . only it was not the
right Color. It was more deeply orange. In color it was like the annelids,
which are common off Bermuda in certain
seasons, but this was one continuous glow and not a collection of nickel-sized
blobs of light. The glow seemed to come from a
plateau of water, which was causing solid water to flow over my decks,
hence impeding my forward progress.
So, thinking I had gone ashore, even
though nothing was
grating under the keel, I charged up her
auxiliary engine, slapped in reverse gear, and backed away. In a few yards
astern I was in dead calm water so I took in her sails and when I was squared
away with power-plant running nicely, I put her into forward gear and went back
towards this plateau of glowing water and light...
On seeing this "windjammer"
apparently bearing down on me, l had gone into reverse gear again, backing off
once more into calm water . . . perhaps a hundred yards from the disturbance.
Even as I realized my "windjammer" was something else, the splashing and sloshing of water stopped, and this
vessel, or whatever it was, rose out of the water and the glow
surrounding it subsided so that her running lights were much more highly
visible. She had lifted off the water and was heading towards the now dimly
visible continent of North America in a long,
upward slant and going at what seemed to be a tremendous speed.
This reference (Original): BEYOND
REALITY #18, January 1976, “Encounter in the Gulfstream” by Neil Deane as told to George Earley.
UFO JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE – “WATER DEPRESSION”
Terms used in relevant cases:
Indentation of waters surface
06-12-1958 France “see the water being whipped up all around it”, “making waves”
09-24-1961 Poland “hole in the waves”
03-29-1974 Africa “sea not flat but dug in the form of a
depression.”
Figure 2
Notice that in this position the force
upon the water is pushing downward.
****Description*****
In these
cases the UFO is seen “just” above the water, its field acting as a plow while
it invisibly moves water in the direction of the witness. In several cases
where the UFO did not move in the direction of the witness, but simply
continued upward, we find the terms “tunnel” or “hole” used to describe what
was observed below the UFO. Indeed this tunnel idea was expressed in a story of
an abduction where the witness saw “strange walls of
the tunnel” as he traveled below an ocean (UFO Contact from Undersea by
Dr. Sanchez-Ocejo and W. Stevens).
A DEPRESSION AND A MINI-TIDAL WAVE
...They then were afraid of being dragged away in the water and not being able to regain the shore. A.W. succeeded in grabbing the trunk of a coconut palm. He held on with his right arm, holding on to the woman with the other. At their feet was now a continuous barrage of strong waves, so that one instant before the sea came within 50 m of the dune!
...They then were afraid of being dragged away in the water and not being able to regain the shore. A.W. succeeded in grabbing the trunk of a coconut palm. He held on with his right arm, holding on to the woman with the other. At their feet was now a continuous barrage of strong waves, so that one instant before the sea came within 50 m of the dune!
Suddenly, three bright lights showed on
the object blinding the witnesses. It was like three projections pointed in
their direction, other luminous beams coming from the sides of the object,
perhaps also from its upper side or from the unseen side of it. Certain of the
beams seemed oriented upward, but A.W. could not confirm this, so much did the
three beams pointed toward shore blind him. In all the light it was white that
dominated, but there was also yellow, pink and blue-green. A.W. wore glasses
that were lightly tinted. He was struck by the blue and green colors of the
waves lighted by the object. The most interesting
detail of his recount concerned the surface of the sea under the object. It was
not flat but dug in the form of a depression. A.W. estimated its depth
at a few meters, 5 or 6 perhaps. Its diameter was comparable to the length of
the object, on the order of 25-30 meters.
SEA SURFACE DISRUPTION
Two elements in the account of A.W. present an import interest for those who try to imagine the physical phenomena accompanying eventually, the UFO sightings:
SEA SURFACE DISRUPTION
Two elements in the account of A.W. present an import interest for those who try to imagine the physical phenomena accompanying eventually, the UFO sightings:
These are the descriptions he made, on one hand, the depression dug in the sea under it and on
the other hand, of the advancing waves on the beach up to the dune. It is not possible, given the condition of the
observations to obtain a very precise description of the profile of the depression (cup), in particular of the bottom of it.
This reference: Phēnomēnes
Spatiaux (Space Phenomena) a publication of GEPA,
GROUPEMENT D’ĒTUDE PHĒNOMĒNES AĒRIENS (Group for the Study
of Airborne Phenomena). Dated March 1976.
ABOVE THE SURFACE BUT CLOSE – “WATER MOUNDING”
Terms used in the text that follows:
Figure 3
Notice here the water, assuming the shape
of the upward flow of the field apparently entering the UFO.
****Description*****
This is probably the single most important
witness sighting in terms of understanding the total effect of the UFO upon
water. There have been similar descriptions in other accounts, but they are
usually tempered by terms like “upward swelling” or “raised water,” language
that does not clearly show a mounding or mountainous form. We have here a fixed
view of an effect, but also the beginning of what might occur when the craft
moves farther up vertically.
Between Maceió
and Parapueira, Brasil,
April 1958.
On the north-east Atlantic coast a business man and several fishers were witnesses of a saucer-shaped-object, which came down from the sky and hovered above the water in about 40 meters distance from them. Beneath the saucer the seawater was turned up (see picture) and bubbled, as if it was cooking or drawn up by an invisible power. The object was as big as the tent of a touring circus and was about 15 meters above the water's surface. (Cramp 1966)
This reference: Piece For a Jig-Saw, by Leonard G. Cramp, p. 133, London, 1966.
On the north-east Atlantic coast a business man and several fishers were witnesses of a saucer-shaped-object, which came down from the sky and hovered above the water in about 40 meters distance from them. Beneath the saucer the seawater was turned up (see picture) and bubbled, as if it was cooking or drawn up by an invisible power. The object was as big as the tent of a touring circus and was about 15 meters above the water's surface. (Cramp 1966)
This reference: Piece For a Jig-Saw, by Leonard G. Cramp, p. 133, London, 1966.
ABOVE THE SURFACE – “WATER SPOUT”
Terms used in relevant cases:
08-LL-1914 “then rose from the bay
surface sucking with it a heavy upsurge of water”
08-27-1917 “it was as if the water was
being drawn up to it”
09-24-1961 “a whirlpool of water rushing
upward with a loud sucking and gurgling noise”
the fact that it
was whirling so fast”
03-26-1966 “greenish volume of light,
water or vapor, extended from the underside of the
object down to
the surface of the water”
08-04-1971 “Three vortexes came out from
the sea and from inside them an object
appeared”
machine”
10-23-1978a Column of water
“hovered 100 feet high by 15 feet wide before falling fanlike
into the sea”
07-17-1992 same as 10-23-1978a “sucking up
a column of water almost as wide as the
UFO”
04-26-1994 A center
plume of water shot up to the bottom of the UFO
Figure 4
****Description*****
This type of case involves a UFO hovering over water. The
witness describes a column of fog, mist, haze or water reaching from the
surface to the object. The terminology generally used in the description is
“sucking up water”. This column, I believe, is caused by the rotation of a
field in a vertical plane that encompasses of the UFO. This is best visualized
by going back to Physics 101: Imagine a bar magnet running vertically through
the center of the UFO, iron filings sprinkled on it so as to observe the
magnetic lines of force going up from the top (North Pole), arcing to the sides
and down, then back up through the bottom (South Pole) – see figure 4. As
this field rotates it causes a friction on the abutting atmosphere, causing an
updraft at the bottom. This, in addition to an oft-observed horizontal rotation
of one part of the UFO, causes a swirling vortex to be formed below the UFO.
This can be similar to a person rotating a finger through still waters in a pot
of water at a rapid rate – eventually causing a maelstrom to occur. Could this
not be the cause of waterspouts?
Waterspout: 1. a moving, whirling column
of spray and mist, with masses of water in the lower parts, accumulated because
of a tornado at sea or on other large bodies of water.
Definition – New Illustrated Webster’s
Dictionary, 1992
In Ted Phillips’ book Delphos he presents the following from a
case from October 10, 1957:
“Witness
heard a whistling sound and saw a circular object descend to within 6 feet of
the ground. It hovered 2 minutes, sucking up leaves,
grass, and dirt. White material was found at the site, covering the grass in
the disturbed area.”
Let’s get heavier:
From IUR Winter 2002-2003, p.
9, “Timmermania: A step too far into the Timmerman
Files?” by Michael D. Swords; a case in the early 1970s:
After four or five minutes of waiting, the ball backed away. Across the
road, it began creating a vortex at the base
of the mountain.
The rocks
started rising into the air.... They would shake from side to side. There were hundreds of them [the largest about the size of
melons]. They started going around in a circle, like it had complete control
over them... Then the thing went way up in the air and it looked kind of like a
tornado and it was all red.... The only noise you could hear was this clickety-clack, clickety-clack
when the rocks hit together. Then the light blinked out, and everything crashed
down the mountainside and onto the road. The ball blinked back on again at the
top of the mountain and meandered away.
And heavier yet:
In Bob
Pratt’s book UFO Danger Zone the dresses of a few women are pulled up
and over their heads; also in another case, a man
dangles below the UFO, without the aid of the usual truncated beam of light
that is so prominent in abductee literature.
And more non-water cases:
And more non-water cases:
08-13-1947
Snake River Canyon at Twin
Falls, Idaho... On each side there was
a tubular-shaped fiery glow, like some sort
of exhaust. He said that when it went over trees, they
didn't sway back and forth but rather the treetops twisted
around, which suggests that the air under the object
was being swirled into a vortex.
This reference: UFO FBI Connection
by Bruce Maccabee, pp. 13-14, © 2000
02-01-1948
He noticed what seemed to be propeller-like
lights running around the concave bottom of the saucer.
"One detail in connection with the
silver-bottom section I noticed very clearly. There
was something whirling around the bottom section, sort of like a big propeller
or a series of propellers might do. The movement was clear; the bottom part
did not turn. Something kept whirling around the whole thing," he told, the
Circleville Herald.
This reference: MUFON Journal
#432, April 2004, “Farmer’s report of UFO hovering over buildings still
believed 56 years later” By Joel Barrett The Circleville, OH, Herald,
02/02/2004 plus many UFOCAT references.
06-??-1963
Costa Rica... The second object moved towards the
far side of the crater and, having crossed the column of ashes, performed
similar manoeuvres before disappearing behind the volcano, in full view of the
principal engineer, who was some distance away from Castillo and his colleague. Both craft seemed to induce a kind of
whirlwind effect, as though 'produced by a propeller rotating at high
speed', Castillo reported.
This reference: Unearthly Disclosure by Timothy Good,
pp. 58-59, © 2000
05-20-1967
The Steven Michalak Incident at Falcon
Lake, Manitoba, Canada.
Paragraph 6. The attached photographs were taken at the site.
No 1. Taken from approximately 12 feet up in a tree
facing in a south-westerly direction, showing the
outline of an approximate 15 foot diameter circle on the rock surface where the
moss and earth covering has been cleared to the rock surface by a force such as
made by air at very high velocity. For
comparison, the prospectors ax and Beta counter were left
in the approximate circle center.
This reference: From documents of the Canadian
Department of National Defence, Training Command Headquarters, Westwin, Manitoba. Dated: 1 Sep
1967. With Thanks to researcher Don Ledger, for forwarding to me.
09-02-1967
England. Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent,
bentilee... it flew low overhead and apparently
landed in a field about 400 yards away. No sound was heard, but one witness felt "wind" as it passed overhead.
Reference: Alien Invasion or Human Fantasy? The
1966-67 UFO Wave by Richard H Hall, p. 107 © 2004
This “suction” on the
surface of the water is exactly the same as if a tornado was to pass from land
over a body of water. The bottom part would be viewed as a mounding of water;
as we look vertically up the column, the water is more molecular and appears as
fog, mist or a continuation of the water itself. The vertical movement of this
water or water vapor gives the impression of water being sucked into the UFO.
An example of this column can be seen in a photo by Ed Walters from Gulf
Breeze, Florida,
which was published in a book by him and Dr. Bruce Maccabee,
entitled UFOs Are Real and Here’s the Proof. One has to look closely to
see the column, but it is there, silhouetted against the darker water (See 04-26-1994 on my
website for sketch and photo kindly provided by Dr. Maccabee).
As
the UFO gains altitude, the column of water is seen to collapse, or in the case
of night sightings – disappear.
Separation
of this column is almost predictable, as the height of the UFO above the water
and the size of the UFO (governing the width of the field) itself, probably
determines how much water weight the vortex can sustain. It would be
interesting to compose a table with these figures, however due to fright or awe
on the part of witnesses, most of the time these details are lost:
07-17-1992
Taking on Water
They pulled their sail down to slow their boat to avoid a collision, but when the ship approached their boat they realized it wasn't a ship. It was a UFO with a lot of lights on it. It was sucking water up into it and passed slowly within twenty meters of the boat, but the fishermen don't think the UFO saw them. It just went by them about six meters above the water, sucking up a column of water almost as wide as the UFO. The water didn't fall back into the ocean. The UFO went past them and disappeared in the distance.”
This reference: UFO Danger Zone, by Bob Pratt, Published 1996, pp. 231-232.
Taking on Water
They pulled their sail down to slow their boat to avoid a collision, but when the ship approached their boat they realized it wasn't a ship. It was a UFO with a lot of lights on it. It was sucking water up into it and passed slowly within twenty meters of the boat, but the fishermen don't think the UFO saw them. It just went by them about six meters above the water, sucking up a column of water almost as wide as the UFO. The water didn't fall back into the ocean. The UFO went past them and disappeared in the distance.”
This reference: UFO Danger Zone, by Bob Pratt, Published 1996, pp. 231-232.
UFO "TAKES A DRINK
Below the UFO the water began to chum.
Mist swirled into the air. A center
plume of water shot up to the bottom of the UFO. It was a
waterspout. The UFO moved slowly to the left and I aimed the camera and took
Photo 49. (See case 04-26-1994
–CF-) Ten to fifteen seconds passed while
I stared at this amazing scene. Suddenly the
waterspout collapsed. The UFO angled off to the left, climbed at a
sharp angle, and disappeared into the hazy sky.
This reference: UFOs Are
Real And Here's The Proof by Edward Walters and
Bruce Maccabee, Ph.D., pp 56-57, 100-105 © 1997. Reprinted on my website with Dr. Maccabee’s
permission.
A FUNCTION OF HEIGHT?
Figure 5
These cases of witnessed effects on
water inspired the idea that these effects might be tied together in relation
to each other. Some of the cases are of a UFO apparently “taking on water” not
by means of tubes, pipes or hoses (as is the case in several reports), but by a
column of water lifted by an unseen force directly to the craft. In the other
scenario the UFO causes an observed “indentation” of the water. It would appear
that these reports are contradictory of each other because of the differences in
the effects; however, I believe that the differences are only the result of
distances between the field of the UFO and the water.
In figure 5, we have what could
be an illustration of the complete steps of the UFO’s exit from a body of
water, and the water’s reaction as it does so.
These craft
operate by physical principles! Though the details behind their operations are
unknown to us, they should not be considered beyond our understanding. Excusing
the craft’s functions as paranormal, or that of holographic projections, or the
result of some other impenetrable obfuscation is not the way to understand the
physical principles governing its technology. We should concentrate on the
craft’s mechanics – because it is clearly a machine.
"One of the few individuals whose prominence is beyond question has,
however, over the past few months, dared to open his mouth and challenge
the status quo. 
Depiction of the Flying Saucer
"About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden
appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due
north and much nearer the earth than before.
The story never gained a lot of exposure at the time, but eventually it was commented on by UPI
on May 24, 1973:
For reasons unknown, the Aurora Cemetery Association fought the attempts to exhume the
alleged alien body. They were successful, and the dead alien's remains stayed a mystery.
