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11-05-08 Congratulations to President Elect Barack Obama and the U.S.A.

I think that today, right now, I am prouder to be an American than I have ever have been in my entire lifetime. I have always been proud to be an American of course, but yesterday, election day and today, in the wake of it all, to finally put centuries of racism behind us, well... Al I can say is that this is a very special time for me, for Americans, and I dare say for probably most people of the world to finally put the past in the past and finally move to the future which suddenly looks bright. God's speed to you, President Elect Barack Obama.

Update 11-03-08

Well, I am guessing it is just about time,,, Hey Rick, ya think? Yea, I would say it's just about time I apologized to all my friends, readers and www surfers for the lack of updates here. I would like to tell you that, "real life" has gotten in the way, if it were true. And of course it is at least partially true. "Real life" gets in the way of fun things all the time. But frankly I just have to admit it. The biggest reason is that I am just plain, old fashioned lazy, OK? But hey, I will try to be better in the future. I know, that's what they all say. But I promise, I will at least get a new featured Rick's UFO Pick up every month or so, and maybe even more often that.

So check by once in a while, OK. But be sure to read my monthly column, Rick's UFO Picks in the great UFO Magazine. While you are at it, run over to www.UFOMag.com and get your subscription started. If you have any questions, comments or UFO sightings, please fell free to email me at rick@ufopicks.com anytime.

But briefly: There has been a whole bunch of things going on in my life since the last update to this website. One biggie is that the great Larry Dicken has left Jerry Pippin Productions as well as I. It wasn't due to any conflict at least on my part.

As far as myself, I just simply did not have enough time that I could commit to do the proper job Jerry really required. There was absolutely no hard between Jerry and myself what-so-ever.

Meanwhile, here's one of my all-time favorite UFO sighting reports which appeared in my very first Rick's UFO Picks column in UFO Magazine November of 2006 issue.

I really like this report: Not because it is within 100 miles from where I live, here in Washington State, near Seattle, but more because of the time the reporter, (who shall remain anonymous) took to carefully write down a detailed description of what took place at the time of his sighting.  

This sighting was reported in August of 2002, but it actually occurred approximately June of 1980 near a very small town, Ethel Washington. So, in his own words, here is his report in it’s entirety:

V shaped Craft Hovers Over Farm in Daylight

I recently was discussing a UFO encounter with a friend of mine, as he has significant interests and participates in research on the subject. He suggested getting online and looking for websites, (such as this one) that had listings and reports by state, region, shape, etc. I was looking thru the Washington state region, around the mid to early 1980's, to see if anyone else had ever seen what I am going to describe.

To my great surprise and genuine startled sensation, a person in Rochester Washington, (which is not too far from where my stepfather and I originally saw this UFO, in Ethel, WA) described a very similar shaped craft and an unusual time disorientation feeling both my stepfather and I had experienced after the craft departed. For whoever wrote about the V shaped craft, I want you to know, you are not alone in seeing this. Both my Stepfather and I saw it, and we saw it within very close proximity and in broad daylight.

Here is my account of the incident: My stepfather was picking me up from a friend's house at the top of the Hill on an old country road called Larmon road about 1 mile east from where the road meets into Hwy 12. I remember I had rode the school bus up to my friend's house that day to go play on his go-cart, as it meant I wouldn't have to try and ride my bike up that incredibly steep hill. We had left my friend's house and we were driving East back towards the hill, That is when my stepfather turned to me in the passenger seat and said quite casually, "Look, a UFO." My reply was "yeah, right", until I looked past him and out the driver's car door window, then I actually saw it.

My stepfather slowed down the car as we saw looked in disbelief and eventually came to a stop there on the road. There it was, this huge upside down "V" shaped, silver metallic craft. It was hovering no more than 15 feet above the grass, in an empty cow pasture, right off to the left of the road. I remember just sitting there in the front seat, looking at it, in total disbelief, as to what we were both seeing.

It was there, in a field belonging to my friend's grandparents facing North of the road. It cast a giant shadow on the ground, but I remember it looking as if it were just hanging there in the air, it was impossible for our eyes to comprehend, as it defied gravity, just hanging there. The top of the "V" was facing towards the sky. And in the center, I remember a circular domed area, and what looked like domed windows. It was not a plane, as there was no noise, and this craft was a lot larger than a regular plane, or even a jumbo jet, it was very big.

The house of my friend's grandparent's was just to the right of where it hovered, and it made the house look like a shed in comparison. We were probably no more than 150 ft from where it hovered above the pasture. I remember seeing the grass below it reflecting on the tips of both sides of the V. It had lights, green, red, and blue. I remember seeing the green light the most coming from the centermost point of the craft, where I had believed to have seen windows on the craft.

The light got intensely bright, and after that, I remember being suddenly startled and then suddenly looking out the window of my passenger window, as if something was there, I for a moment thought there was something there. It was at this time that time seems to have skipped on us. We both felt as if some serious time had passed since first encountering the craft, that we had something like a time hiccup is the best I can describe the sensation. Like we hiccupped and we moved ahead in time, like we had been gone for hours, but somehow equated out to no time loss at all.

I have no idea if we were abducted, as I have no memory past looking out my passenger door window, I just remember being very startled and was compelled to look away from the light. After I saw there wasn't anyone there, I looked back at the craft, and it was gone. Suddenly there was a noise, a very loud thunder cracking sonic boom type of noise, but when we got out of the car to see if it had made the noise, there was nothing visible in the sky. For a good five minutes, we sat on that road looking at a craft that was in no way shape or form anything I have seen before or since. It was huge, and it made no noise.

We proceeded down the hill towards home and went back into the house. When we got into the house, my mother asked quite sternly where we both had been, and we both said we just came straight down the hill. She said that it had been well over an hour when my stepfather had gone up the hill to pick me up. We lived no more than 2 miles from my friend's house.

We never reported it, but not long after that incident, My stepfather somehow developed a very serious and debilitating brain tumor and died three years later. The effects of the tumor started just a few days after we saw that craft. I do not know if this was somehow connected, but it did appear very strange when the right side of his body went dead and he started having seizures not long after our encounter.

So, to whoever saw this same shaped craft, you are not alone, My stepfather and I saw it as well. And I believe something else might have happened to us. Although I have always been very healthy, I have the feeling that something else occurred that day. For whoever wrote their encounter regarding the craft in Rochester back in 1979 - 1980, I hope that these people will share my contact info with you. It is because of what you wrote that compelled me to share my experience.

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Rick Again Appears on the UFO Files Report show - Again this past week I did appear to co-host with Larry Dicken on my favorite UFO Show, the UFO Files Report show. Jerry Pippin is going to be super busy for a time with countless interviews, so I may appear on the show a few more times yet. The following, are the sightings I read or recounted. Be sure to check often at JerryPippin.com for the latest shows that will be coming up.

This first sighting is one I had myself as a child with one of my childhood friends:

Youth Spot V-Formation

Occurred : 08/15/1963 20:00 (date and Time Approx)
Reported: 6/10/2007
Posted: 08/10/2007
Location: Wenatchee, WA
Shape: Formation
Duration: 3 Seconds

I was in the backyard of one of my childhood neighbor friends, with my friend. So this sighting was witnessed by my friend and myself. I am not positive of the exact date, this sighting occurred either in the summer of 1962 or more likely 1963. We were both standing there looking towards the East and talking at the time.

We were both shocked to see a V-formation of lights composed of 7 or 9 points or globs of light pass completely across the sky, from horizon to horizon. They came from behind the southern horizon and continued moving on a straight trajectory, all the way to the northern horizon in approximately 3 or 4 seconds.

I had never then or now seen aircraft fly at this rate of speed. An airplane would take at least a couple minutes or longer to cross from horizon to horizon depending on altitude and distance from the observer. I had the impression that their altitude was very high because there was absolutely no engine sound whatsoever, although I have no way of knowing this for sure.

They did not have the appearance of stars or meteorites. Neither were they just distinct points of light. They rather had a sort of oval or round shape, but it was hard to tell because they had the appearance of diffused white light.

At the time, we, as kids would, knew they were "space ships". There was no other explanation in my mind then or even now.

And for my second Rick's Pick:

Disk One Mile in Diameter or Larger Hovers Over Witnesses

Occurred : 6/15/1983 23:30

Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Garden City, MI
Shape: Disk
Duration: 4 Minutes

I was about 8 years old. I was living in Garden City Michigan with my parents. I don't remember a date: I can tell you that it was warm outside, at approx 11:30 pm or so. My father was a truck driver and was out of the state. I was staying with my Mother. I had a friend spending the night who went to get us some Taco Bell on his bike.

I remember that Helter Skelter was playing on TV and there was a bunch of Regan and Bush election commercials on. My friend was taking a long time to come back and my mother and I went outside to see if he was coming down the road yet.

We spotted my friend riding his bike down the road holding a Taco Bell bag. He looked up into the sky with his mouth hanging wide open. He then dropped the whole bag of tacos and fell off his bike. We looked in the sky and saw (Your going to think I'm crazy) A HUGE round craft, with lights all around it and a bright light coming out of a big hole in the center. It was kind of like a doughnut...there was a hole in the center but the light was blurred or hazy, so we couldn't see beyond the hole.

The craft was made from some metallic material and was spinning at a medium pace while hovering right above us. It looked like grey metal. The craft was so big and there was no sound at all coming from the object that I could hear. It looked like it was a lid to a cookie jar. I started running in circles crying...my mother was grabbing me trying to get me in the house. As soon as she got me into the house, she called my grandmother up on the phone.

My Grandpa and Grandma looked outside their house and saw the same craft. They said it looked like it was right above them. My mother left the phone to go see if it was still there. My mother and I went outside and it was still there. A second later it took off slowly in a diagonal direction upwards, then came to a complete stop. It then zoomed off with a flash in the opposite direction leaving our area.

My grandpa saw another small craft leaving with the main one. But I only saw the one craft myself. Concerned, my mother called The Garden City Police dept. She said "Please listen. This is not a prank. There was something over our house about 5 minutes ago" The police said "Mam, we haven't had any reports of any objects in the sky today. It was probably just a plane." My mom got really mad and hung up.

The next day I saw something on TV about sightings of a Bush election plane flying around our area. It sounded to me like they were trying to justify something. I would like to see this object again. My memory is slightly clouded due to the time passed. I can say that this was indeed a flying saucer, without a doubt. It was not little flying lights or a falling star. It was a huge grey metal disk that must have been over a mile in diameter. It was absolutely huge.

I forgot to mention, my grandma lived one mile away from us. I saw what appeared to be windows with light coming out of them. The funny thing was this thing had a lot of light coming from it, but the ground was not lit up, nor was the houses in the general area. I find it hard to believe nobody else saw the same thing, even thought it was 11:30 or later.
 

So that’s the way it was, in Garden City Michigan that evening. A circular craft a mile in diameter overhead, tacos and hot sauce spread all over the street below. What a mess!

A big thanks goes out to NUFORC for this sighting report.

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FBI Releases 1600 Pages - The FBI released some 1600 pages in recent weeks, of previously classified documents, containing accounts and investigations of animal mutilations and UFOs. For your reading and investigative enjoyment, I have made them available for here. You can download them here: You will find them in their entirety on the far Left side of this page, look towards the bottom and you will find them under the heading: F.O.I.A. PDF Docs. I will have a new "Rick's UFO Pick" posted here, within the next day or two.

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