r/ufo

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I hope you like this post and If you want me every week to translate one chapter from every book, I shall do it for cultural enrichment then tell me in the comments, My regards from Egypt ..

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About the author (whom I call the Egyptian Graham Hancock) :

Anis Mansour was born in the Mansoura city, Egypt, in 1924. He memorized the Quran at the age of nine, then joined Cairo University, where he studied philosophy and graduated in 1947. He was appointed as a lecturer in modern philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, but soon left teaching to devote himself to journalism. He worked at the Rose al-Yusuf magazine, then became editor-in-chief of Sabah al-Khair magazine, and wrote his articles for Al-Ahram newspaper for decades. He travelled the world on extensive journeys, which he documented in his books, and mastered several languages that enabled him to explore different cultures. He published nearly two hundred books covering philosophy, literature, travel, and the paranormal. His style was marked by a blend of simplicity and depth, combining journalistic flair with a philosophical outlook, which made him one of the most widely read Arab writers of the twentieth century. He died in 2011 in Cairo.

His most notable books (beside the two books we are gonna talk about now) :

1- Around the World in 200 Days

His most famous and widely read work, documenting his actual journey around the world in the early 1960s.

2- Spirits and Ghosts

A collection of 35 articles exploring mysterious paranormal phenomena, ghost stories, and unsolved enigmas

3- The Pharaohs' Curse

A famous book in his "beyond nature" series, delving into the mysteries and curses associated with ancient Egypt.

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The first book: Those Who Descended from the Sky

This book was first published in 1971, followed by many editions from different publishers. The book is built on a core hypothesis: that intelligent beings from other planets visited Earth in ancient times and left their marks on monuments and religious texts. Anis Mansour presents archaeological evidence from the Giza Plateau, Baalbek, and the Tassili caves in the Sahara, where strange rock paintings and enormous stone blocks defy conventional explanation. He reads the sacred texts – the Quran, the Torah, and the Gospel – as investigative historical documents that preserve the memory of encounters between humans and these visitors from the sky. In his engaging style, he takes the reader on a journey of inquiry into the origins of humanity and the truth of early civilisations.

Index of the book :

1. These Words Which Survived for Thousands of Years
2. Man, the Great Unknown
3. We Are Not Alone in This Universe, and Our Ancestors Were Not Monkeys
4. Until a New Noah Appears
5. The Spaceship That Landed in Baghdad 25 Centuries Ago
6. These Strange and Mysterious Things!
7. The Blue-Skinned People Who Ruled Pharaonic Egypt
8. A Girl Who Slept in the Light of a Lamp for 1,500 Years!
9. What Are These Magical Words on a Wall in Upper Egypt?
10. Help Me Solve These Thirty Mysteries
11. And the Stones of the Pyramid Used to Fly Through the Sky
12. They Came Out of a Flying Saucer and Asked to Meet Eisenhower
13. By Order of Her Majesty the Pharaoh, Migration Begins from Spain to Africa
14. The Greatest Secrets of the Universe Are Hidden in Our Smallest Cells
15. This Black Knight Who Circles the Earth
16. A French Priest Came to Egypt and Burned the Papyrus Documents
17. Giants, Airplanes, and Blondes in the Libyan Desert
18. O Other Human, We Hear You, But We Cannot See You!

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The second book: Those Who Returned to the Sky

This book was first published in 1983, and later reprinted in several editions. It serves as a continuation of the previous book’s ideas, but broadens its scope to ask new questions about the fate of the ancient visitors after they left Earth. In its pages, Anis Mansour discusses the sunken continent of Atlantis, reflects on the mysteries of pyramid construction as possible beacons or gates to the sky, and surveys the myths of ancient peoples that speak with remarkable consistency about gods who departed the earth and promised to return. In this work, the author draws on a wider range of sources, citing the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other foundational texts. The book suggests that the “descenders” may not have entirely left, or may have returned in another form.

I've been going through old UFO reports from Argentina, and I think I've found one of the strangest humanoid descriptions I've ever encountered: in August 1987, a 12-year-old boy was fishing with friends near a creek outside Viale (Entre Ríos, Argentina) when he reportedly noticed a tiny humanoid figure only about 20 inches tall.

According to his later description, it had:

• A completely red, skin-tight body covering
• A massively oversized, oval-shaped head
• Huge eyes
• No hair
• A normal-looking nose
• A tiny mouth
• And, weirdly, no clearly-visible arms

Apparently, the boy was fishing with friends near a creek, when he reportedly noticed this tiny humanoid figure. He watched it from only a few meters away before it suddenly disappeared into the vegetation. Then another one appeared. What happened next involved his friends, an old railway bridge, UFOs, and eventually the police.

I’m currently collaborating with the guys behind Proyecto Viale Desconocido, an archive documenting unusual cases from this region, and we put together an article with the full account.

Read the full report here: https://proyectovialedesconocido.substack.com/p/seres-humanoides-arroyo-prati-viale-1987

What the hell do you think these things could have been?

Brussels and UFOs in the same sentence may sound like a ready-made recipe for clickbait. This time, however, the story is backed by genuine European Commission documents, official correspondence, and 37 photographs of unidentified objects submitted by two amateur astronomers from Malaysia.

Euronews reported on the case today, revealing that the subject of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, had appeared within the structures of the European Commission. What makes the story even more interesting is that the documents connected to the case had already been released under public access-to-documents procedures and can now be examined firsthand.

It all began with a father and son from Malaysia who were involved in amateur astronomy and sky photography. On 17 October 2022, they sent a message to the European Commission, which was subsequently also forwarded to then-European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel. The correspondence was titled: “UAP captures in the Airspace and in Deep space using our UV infrared telescope.”

The authors claimed that, using smartphones, tablets, and their own UV and infrared lens setups, they had recorded objects in Malaysian airspace and against the night sky that they were unable to identify. They submitted 37 photographs to the European Commission. Alongside meteors and other objects, some of the images were described by the authors as UAP. Euronews confirms both the number of photographs and the fact that the report was submitted directly to the Commission.

Some of those photographs are included in the released documentation. They mainly show small bright or elongated objects against the sky. Some are simply labelled “UAP,” while others include the dates on which the photographs were taken. One image was described by the authors as “Dual UAP.” The same documentation also contains a photograph labelled “Large Meteor.”

In their letter, the Malaysians asked whether the objects they had observed might pose a threat and why information about similar phenomena was not more widely available in public materials. They also claimed to have observed UAP near aircraft and important sites, including military and nuclear facilities.

The European Commission was also provided with earlier correspondence between the Malaysians and various institutions and individuals.

Among the documents is a response from the British Air Command Secretariat dated December 2021. In it, the UK Ministry of Defence explained that it held no position on the existence of extraterrestrial life and had not investigated UFO/UAP reports since 2009. According to the Ministry, more than 50 years of examining such reports had produced no sighting that indicated a military threat to the United Kingdom.

The authors had also contacted NASA. However, the response included in the documentation did not address the identification of the objects shown in their photographs. Instead, it encouraged the young space enthusiast to continue his education and pursue his interest in space science.

Canadian Member of Parliament Larry Maguire responded more positively to their activities. In his message, he wrote that as more people around the world turn their attention to the skies, increasing amounts of data and recordings are likely to be collected, potentially leading to greater public awareness of the UAP issue. His response, however, was not an expert assessment or confirmation of the nature of the photographed objects.

The documentation also includes a response from Malaysia’s Civil Aviation Authority, CAAM, which briefly stated that it would look into the matter.

The most important part of the story, however, is not the photographs themselves, but the response issued by the European Commission.

The official reply was prepared by the Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space, DG DEFIS. The Commission noted that because the observations had taken place over Malaysia, it did not have the authority to conduct an investigation into the specific case.

The response could have ended there.

But it did not.

The Commission went on to state that technological developments were improving the ability to detect and identify such phenomena, while adding that these capabilities still needed to be developed further. It also referred to plans for EU Member States to strengthen their ability to detect objects in the space environment surrounding Earth.

And this is where the most interesting part appears.

The Commission explained that developing such capabilities could, among other things, help to better identify UAP similar to those reported by the Malaysian observers, while also improving the detection of space debris that could pose a threat to human activities in space. At the same time, it acknowledged that improved observation capabilities would probably not explain every reported case, but could help resolve at least some of them.

UAP were therefore treated as a genuine category of unidentified objects whose detection and identification could form part of the development of Europe’s observational capabilities. And this did not appear in a politician’s public statement or in media speculation, but in official correspondence from the European Commission department responsible for defence industry and space.

Importantly, the document dates back to 2022. In 2023, the materials were subsequently released following a request for access to European Commission documents. The AskTheEU database includes, among other things, two relevant files: the broader UFO/UAP correspondence and a separate official reply from the European Commission. The Commission released the documents in September 2023, with some personal information redacted.

Today’s Euronews report goes further, indicating that the UAP issue continues to surface within European institutions. At the same time, the Commission currently stresses that the investigation of such phenomena remains primarily the responsibility of individual EU Member States.

What is perhaps most interesting is the part of this story that requires no sensationalism at all: several years ago, unidentified aerial phenomena reached the desks of the European Commission, were answered by the department responsible for defence and space, and an official document explicitly referred to the need to develop capabilities that could help better identify UAP.

And it all began with two amateur astronomers from Malaysia and 37 unusual photographs of the sky.

I’ll leave the full released European Commission correspondence, including the photographs, in the comments.

Correspondence from the amateur astronomers in Malaysia: https://www.asktheeu.org/request/ufouapuctunknown_unidentified_cr_3/response/48762/attach/4/UFO%20UAP%20correspondence%20document.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

Link to the Euronews article:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/17/exclusive-brussels-keen-to-monitor-ufos-under-the-radar

The video has been made private/removed from YouTube. I know there was some questioning about the camera used and that it came out 2 years after the video was supposedly recorded.

Should I move this to my possibly real folder?

On the evening of November 17, 1892, an egg-shaped red fireball was observed moving much slower than a typical natural fireball from west to east, south of Jinling / Nanjing City, China. The hundreds of observers were obviously very familiar with the appearance of sky lanterns, and this appeared to not travel with the wind. Acting like an early field investigator, the artist Wu Youru ( 吴友如 ) interviewed many witnesses and documented the sighting in a painting, "Soaring Scarlet Flame in the Sky" ( 赤焰騰空 ), complete with notes on why it was not a natural fireball or sky lantern: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E8%B5%A4%E7%84%B0%E9%A8%B0%E7%A9%BA%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6

"On September 28th, at eight o'clock in the evening, south of Jinling city, a fireball suddenly appeared, moving from west to east, shaped like a giant egg, red in color and without luster, drifting in midair, moving very slowly. At that time, floating clouds covered the sky, and the sky grew dark. Looking up, it was very clear: standing atop the Vermilion Bird Bridge, there were no fewer than several hundred people craned their heads and tiptoed on tiptoe. After about the time it takes to cook a meal, gradually fading away, the distance gradually diminishes. Some say that a shooting star passes through the realm, but when the star travels swiftly, it vanishes in an instant. This sphere moves from near to far, exists on its own yet is absent, and is quite damp and stagnant, so it cannot be known by the speed of a star. Some say that when children release sky lanterns, that night a storm blew northward, causing the ball to turn eastward, so it is clear it is not a sky lantern. Voices of the crowd were at a loss, exhausted in speculation. An old man said, when this creature first arose, he faintly sensed a sound, but it was not something one could hear quietly; it was connected to the Yue River outside the South Gate. Ah, how strange!" Wu Youru, "The Record of the Red Flame Soaring into the Sky"

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​Desmontando otra narrativa sensacionalista: Análisis de "Alien Archivist" y el caso Killmer

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​Hola a todos.

​Últimamente he visto circular este enlace de Substack ([alienarchivist.substack.com/p/killmer](https://alienarchivist.substack.com/p/killmer)) y creo que es fundamental hacer un control de calidad y desenmascarar el patrón que sigue este tipo de publicaciones antes de que se venda como "evidencia" o "revelación exclusiva".

​Aquí detallo los puntos débiles y las banderas rojas (red flags) de este texto:

​1. Falta de fuentes primarias y verificables

​El artículo recurre a la clásica táctica del storytelling conspirativo: nombres de supuestos testigos, agencias de inteligencia o archivos "clasificados" de los que curiosamente no existe un solo registro oficial, documento desclasificado mediante FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) ni rastro académico/periodístico independiente.

​2. Formato Substack y monetización del sensacionalismo

​Substack es una plataforma excelente para blogs independientes, pero carece de revisión por pares (peer-review) o control editorial. Muchos creadores de contenido crean narrativas ficticias o exageran historias del fenómeno UAP/extraterrestre para construir una audiencia cautiva, ganar suscriptores de pago o generar tráfico a través de teorías de conspiración.

​3. Estructura narrativa cliché (El patrón del fraude)

​El héroe/informante incomprendido: Presentan la historia de "Killmer" bajo el tropo del científico, militar o investigador que descubrió la "verdad" y fue silenciado o ignorado por el establishment.

​Datos técnicos imprecisos: Se utilizan pseudotérminos científicos o jerga militar vaga para dar una falsa sensación de rigurosidad, sin aportar ecuaciones, análisis espectrográficos ni metodologías replicables.

​Efecto "La prueba definitiva está por llegar": Prometen revelaciones o continuación de los datos, pero nunca entregan evidencia dura (imágenes en alta resolución, muestras físicas analizadas por laboratorios independientes, etc.).

​4. Incoherencias históricas y de contexto

​Al contrastar la cronología planteada en el texto con registros históricos o eventos conocidos del fenómeno UAP, la narrativa se cae por su propio peso o recicla mitos urbanos ya desmentidos en los años 80 y 90, adaptándolos con nombres nuevos para una audiencia moderna.

​Conclusión

​Debemos aprender a separar la investigación seria del fenómeno de los blogs que lucran con la credulidad. Si un post de Substack no ofrece documentos cotejables, cadenas de custodia claras para sus afirmaciones o respaldo de investigadores reconocidos, no es más que ficción especulativa disfrazada de investigación.