Fatima was the first, modern UFO contact and this new book confirms this.

See also our article Fatima and Vatican Announcement Co-incidence.

The Fátima Incident of 1917 was a critical event in the history of the paranormal. Believers and skeptics have long pondered the identity of Our Lady of Fátima, the brilliant entity who appeared above Fátima. Was she the Virgin Mary, sharing divine secrets with believers? Was she an angel, bringing a message of peace to a world at war? Or was she an alien being, inspiring humanity to look up and contemplate the mystery of the Cosmos?

Now, in Fátima Revisited, an international panel of top scholars subjects the legendary apparitions of Fátima - widely regarded as a sacred religious event - to the scrutiny of modern scientific analysis; explores the connections between encounters with apparitions, angels, and aliens; and proposes a new paradigm for such unexplained phenomena.
 

!-Comment-! Firefly productions are running a series on UK UFO sightings on Channel 5 for the next few weeks. Once more the usual suspects are lined up to ensure an interestng theme becomes dull and lifeless.  The first episode covered the Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash and after viewing the program it comes as no shock to have received an email from a local, Wales based researcher describing how he was dropped in editing stage after spending a day showing documents and evidence to the TV production team.

No shock Andy Roberts gets adequate coverage to debunk the case [the program makers seemed to like challenging the UFO witnesses with debunker statements but the reverse never happened] -cont...

Summer UFOs Sightings Soar in England

Global and even financial press are reporting on the huge rate of reported UFO sightings over England and the UK mainland as a whole. In one of the more significant -  objects were sighted over a military base by a soldier who described "rotating cubes with multiple colours". 

Elsewhere the English Midlands seems to have taken the lead for the flap or hotspot area so far from previously record holding areas such as West Yorkshire and Bonnybridge, Scotland. Objects were seen and reported in Bromsgrove [Worcestershire], Shropshire, and Nottingham. These sightings follow the recent close encounter with a police helicopter in Wales.

Nick Pope claims this incident was a near collision and calls for a full investigation into the episode. 

A police helicopter crew has spotted what is described as an unusual aircraft in the Vale of Glamorgan.

The helicopter was above St Athan, which is home to an RAF base and close to Cardiff International Airport.

But three-man crew could not capture any images before the object vanished over the Bristol Channel on 8 June.

Pye from The Sky? - Further information to be added to this article soon

Wroughton Mathematicians are perplexed after a highly complex crop circle appeared in a Wiltshire field - depicting a fundamental mathematical symbol.

The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex mathematical number — the first ten digits of pi — and even astrophysicists admit they find it “mind-boggling”.

The Exopolitics Institute and other affiliates have created a symbolic date to focus awareness the right to public, open contact with 'off-world' intelligences. This process adds to UN initiatives and on-going publicity efforts in the UK by Exopolitics UK. 

NB: See comments below

"Liberty is Intervening on behalf of Gary McKinnon and have been officially given permission to do so, they have also petitioned the House of Lords on Gary's behalf as the case is now being seen as being in the Public Interest."

The UK Liberty Organisation can be contacted here. 

Gary and/or his representatives are also due to appear on several news stations over the next few days, including a prime spot on the BBC. !-Update-! See below for a recent articles...

A few biofuel hot-buttons regarding the current status of biofuel and unintended consequences -- along with some solutions.

By Robert Pritchett Pure Energy Systems News

Market Speculation: I'm of the mind that the real reason why prices are going up is because the speculators have moved their money from real estate deals to commodity futures and skewing statistics and market demand. What used to be free now has a cost and the agribusiness industry smells green gold and have adjusted their price per bushel accordingly.

Immediate Support Required - Gary McKinnon Law Lords Hearing

As a basic background to this case please see the following Exopolitics UK site resources:

1. Fair trial for Gary
   
2. Video and audio on case

In addition the Black Vault has a regularly updated Wiki entry

Gary's case is due to be heard by the House of Lords on 16th June 2008. The complexities of the British judicial and parliamentary systems needs some clarification. After British MPs voted to agree to the extradition and his failure of Appeal at the British High Court he is currently appealing to the House of Lords on a number of technicalities related to the extradition. We need people to write/email/fax those involved in the decision to re-publicise Gary's case and its links to an unfair and draconian extradition system.

!-Updated-!  The people behind this video and all the media hype around it are hoping, that by dealing with it carefully, the footage will begin a local disclosure system which may then well pan-out elsewhere.

The most interesting part of this case isn't the alien "peeper" - it's the proposals that go with it.

See: http://www.extracampaign.org - this also relates to the Exopolitics global initiative for 8/8/2008 in which prior secrecy agreements are declared void and ET contact is open and more importantly - supported.

Just who was the brilliant entity that appeared to three young children at Fátima in 1917? Was she the Virgin Mary, as the Catholic Church would have us believe, sharing divine secrets with believers? Was she an angel, bringing a message of peace to a world at war?
Or was she an alien being, inspiring humanity to look up and contemplate the mystery of the Cosmos? Believers and skeptics have long pondered the identity of Our Lady of Fátima.

!-Comment-! On a recent edition of Exopolitics Radio, Alfred Webre showed once more his ability to spot patterns few other do by pointing out that the recent Vatican announcement on ET life just happened to be released on the Fatima anniversary which appears to have been the first documented UFO event of the modern era. You can hear his discussion in full here or streamed below.