Over the last few days I have been talking to Derek about his sighting of a UFO. I think I have gotten
most of the major details now and wanted to share the report.

Here is the report in Derek's own words.

"In the winter of 05 or 06, I'm not really sure which, I had a sighting of something and I honestly don't know what. My wife worked nights and me days. We only had one car, so I would take her to work and pick her up. One night about 10 or 10:30 as I was about to leave, I was standing on the back porch having a smoke, we don't smoke in the house, and from left to right at about 30 or 40 feet up in the air and about 100 feet away a dark red or black flying object going slowly flew by.
It wasn't a living thing but it wasn't a air plane either. It made no sound, had no light, no nothing. The size of the thing was maybe five feet long and ten wide maybe less.

The sighting was at my home in Morristown, TN.  It was very cold that night, probably in the teens or twenties. I stepped out to smoke on my back porch there is a small park with a half court basketball court and a small softball field. There are street lights on the street that runs parallel to the park and they shine toward the park, so the small tree line that separates my yard from the park is silhouetted. 

Out of corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of something flying I looked over and up and saw whatever it was. The thing resembled a predator drone. It was flying very slowly. It made no sound or no lights of any kind.
I watched it until it went out of sight. As I said it was about ten at night and cold as crap, no one was flying a model or nothing at that time of night. I remember feeling weird like what is this thing but it didn't do anything.
Thank you, Derek"

Here is an overview of the details
Sighting date: Winter of 2005 or 2006
Description: Dark red or black in color. No sound or lights. Moving very slowly. Approximately 5 foot long by 10 foot wide.


Now, the question is ...just what was it? We may never know.

Thanks to Derek for sharing his sighting with us and corresponding back and forth with me.


Thanks
Tom


This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.


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I was talking with a friend last night on facebook and we got to taking about Pukwudgie. So I thought it might be a good idea to make a short post about this lesser known cryptid.

The Pukwudgie
 
A Pukwudgie is a 2-to-3-foot-tall (61 to 91 cm) being from the Wampanoag folklore. Pukwudgies' features resemble those of a human, but with enlarged noses, fingers and ears. Their skin is described as being a smooth grey, and at times has been known to glow.
In Native American lore, Pukwudgies have the following traits and abilities;

• they can appear and disappear at will
• they can transform into a walking porcupine (it looks like a porcupine from the back, and the front is half-troll, half-human and walks upright)
• they can attack people and lure them to their deaths
• they are able to use magic
• they have poison arrows
• they can create fire at will
• Pukwudgies control Tei-Pai-Wankas which are believed to be the souls of Native Americans they have killed.

Native Americans believed that Pukwudgies were best left alone. When you see a Pukwudgie you are not supposed to mess with them, or they will repay you by playing nasty tricks on you, or by following you and causing trouble. They were once friendly to humans, but then turned against them. They are known to kidnap people, push them off cliffs, attack their victims with short knives and spears, and to use sand to blind their victims.


"Legends of the Pukwudgie began in connection to 'Maushop', a creation giant believed by the Wampanoag to have created most of Cape Cod. He was beloved by the people, and the Pukwudgies were jealous of the affection the Natives had for him. They tried to help the Wampanoag, but their efforts always backfired, until they eventually decided to torment them instead. They became mischievous and aggravated the Natives until they asked 'Granny Squanit', Maushop’s wife, for help. Maushop collected as many as he could. He shook them until they were confused and tossed them around New England. Some died, but others landed, regained their minds and made their way back to Massachusetts.
Satisfied he had done his job and pleased his wife, Maushop went away for a while. In his absence, the Pukwudgies had returned. They again changed their relationship with the Wampanoags. They were no longer just a nuisance, but began kidnapping children, burning villages and forcing the Wampanoag deep into the woods and killing them. Squanit again stepped in, but Maushop, being very lazy, sent his five sons to fix the problem. The Pukwudgies lured them into deep grass and shot them dead with magic arrows. Enraged, Squanit and Maushop attacked as many as they could find and crushed them, but many escaped and scattered throughout New England again. The Pukwudgies regrouped and tricked Maushop into the water and shot him with their arrows. Some legends say they killed him, while others claim he became discouraged and depressed about the death of his sons, but after these events Maushop disappears from the Wampanoags' mythology."
There are reportedly encounters of the Pukwudgie in the Freetown-Fall River State Forest in Massachusetts. Ironically, part of the FFR state forest belongs to the Wampanoag Nation. There have also been several odd suicides at a ledge in the state forest. The suicides have led some to believe that the Pukwudgie pushed the people off the ledge.

Here is a video done by Animal Planet about Pukwudgie.



Some say that Pukwudgie is nothing more than a troll or a hobbit, while others say it is a jinn because it shape shifts abilities. Regardless of what you may call it or what it's appearance may be, I think we can all agree that the Pukwudgie is a scary cryptid.   


Thanks
~Tom~

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.

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Bob Lazar

Bob Lazar burst on the UFO scene in the late 1980's. He made claims of working at Area 51 and of reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology, AKA UFOs. He claimed to work in a site called S4 near Area 51. Lazar was interviews by George Knapp of KLAS TV station and this is where Lazar basically spilled the beans about UFOs and alien contact. Lazar told fascinating details of how the UFOs looked and worked. He talked about test flights and even knew dates of upcoming test flights.
Lazar also talked about Element 115. Lazar stated that Element 115 was what powered the UFOs.

The thing about element 115 (Ununpentium) at the time Lazar was talking about it, is that it didn't exist, at least not to those outside of Area 51. Element 115 was first created in 2003 by a team composed of Russian scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Element 115 was not recognized by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics until December 2015. This alone should prove that Lazar had some prior inside knowledge that scientist outside of Area 51 did not have and it adds credence to his claims. To my knowledge, he (Lazar) was the first person to ever talk about element 115.

25 years later, Bob Lazar talked once again with George Knapp. Has his story changed? will he come clean? Was any of it true? This video was originally posted in 2014 I believe but many missed it and it is well worth a watch.

Here is the video.



Of course, Lazar has always had his critics and those who doubt his claims. Some of his credentials could not be verified but it is very likely that after talking about Area 51 and UFOs, that much of his history was wiped out. Really, I'm surprised that he is even alive and that he didn't have some sort of "accident".

In the end, I will have to say that I believe Lazar, but wonder if or why they let him tell about it.

Thanks
~Tom~

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A friend alerted me to a video that was just posted a couple days ago. The video is of the river Thames in North Geenwich, London, England. For a brief moment at the first of the video you see a large creature of some sort descending back under the water. The above picture is a still frame from the video.

Here is the video.


The person who filmed this was on a cable car and seen something moving under the water. The mystery object surfaces and then goes back under the water. Some have suggested it was a whale, while others suggest it is a school of fish. I do not know what it is but it is a good capture.

Here is another picture of the creature/object, zoomed in.
  



So, what do you think it is?




Thanks
Tom

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.



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The following report happened less than a week ago. The report was not submitted through our "report a sighting" link but was instead told to us by someone we know very well.  The person who experienced this is a straight forward person, honest and not a person who makes things up. This happened here in my general area, in a place called Wallins Creek. Here is what happened.

Someone had passed away and a few people got together to take the family some food. This is a normal customary thing that people do for families that have suffered a death. Well, as they were standing outside the church, they heard this scream/howl from the side of the mountain. They told us that the scream "started off kind of human sounding" but as it went on it grew in volume and got much deeper.  Of course, after hearing what he described as "a horrifying sound" he ask the people standing with him what was making the sound. They told him they did not know but that they hear it all the time.

So, the guy who heard this got to listen to some sounds of an elk and was able to confirm that it was not an elk. This scream/howl happened in the daytime, which is kind of rare, as most howls are heard at night or early in the mornings.

As, for the area, I do know that some bigfoot tracks were found on a couple of the old strip mine roads. They were found by some ATV riders. This area and mountain range ties right into my area and an area of a few reported sightings.

With what I know of this area, and the person that told us this, I would say that the scream/howl was most likely made by a bigfoot. Of course, I did not hear the sound but the only thing we have around here that might do that type of sound, would be an elk. But elk was ruled out after he heard it. So, that would only really leave 2 possibilities, either a person or a bigfoot. So that makes it all the more interesting.

Events like this are difficult, people want to know why you didn't record it. But it happens so randomly and is so unexpected that there is just no way to get a recorder out. Now, the people who live in the area and say they heard the sound often, could possibly get a recording but I assume most are probably not interested in bigfoot so they don't even think about it.

Well, that's all I have at this time.

Have a great day and a great Easter Weekend.

Thanks
Tom

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I got this report in a couple days ago of two people who heard a very disturbing howl. The report is very detailed, I hope you take the time to read it over.

- Start Report -

Name: Russell ****

Email Address: On File

State: Kentucky

County: Kenton

Date of Sighting: Early November of 2014

Time of Day: 8:00 AM

Nearest Town: Covington

Length of Sighting: 25 Seconds

How many Witnesses: Two

Any Photos/Videos: No

Describe sighting in detail:
It was opening day of the Kentucky modern firearms season and I had to work that weekend. I went outside of the building for a smoking break and was chatting with a co-worker about nothing in particular. I am a nurse and my friend is a deputy Jailer. The sun was up and it was a calm sunny morning, no wind and a really nice day. I was wishing I was in the deerstand. Anyway, we were chatting when a sound only I can describe as a scream and roar started and lasted for a good 25 seconds. Keep in mind that there are woods in back of the building that I would say run approximately three miles. The woods are very mature with hardwoods and thick cedars and brush.

The sound startled both of us. I am originally from Utah and have spent countless hours hunting, camping, and fishing in the Wasatch and Uintah mountains and have never heard a sound like this. I have hunted, camped and fished in the state of Kentucky for twenty plus years and have never heard this sound before. This scream was a cross between an elephant in a rage, and a lion roaring. This scream launched and then climbed in pitch then came back down with the massive roar. We stood there in complete awe of the scream we heard. This came off a very steep hill and you could tell it was probably a quarter to a half mile away. The lung capacity it would have taken to do this is beyond understanding. The sound was indescribable and thunderous.I looked at my co-worker and said. "Dont say anything, and on the count of three, tell me what you think that was." I counted to three and he said "Bigfoot." And I said "Sasaquatch." We both had chills.

We stayed out there longer than usual to listen longer, but it did not do it again.My co-worker stated he also has spent alot of hours in the woods and has never heard anything even close to that roar. I have heard fox, coyote etc make some crazy sounds, but that was no fox or coyote. I always carry firearms when camping or hiking or riding my ATV. Whatever this was, would have without a doubt ran me out of the woods without a second thought. This was way too long, loud and creepy to really even describe. I thought about this incident for a couple weeks and was perplexed about it. I kept thinking about why this thing would roar like that on a quiet sunny windless day. I thought about it and the only thing I can come up with is that maybe it had run into a hunter or something and was trying to get the hunter out of the woods. If that were true, I would have loved to have talked to him, if that were the case, this man would have been in total fear for his life. because I would have been frozen in fear, high powered rifle or not!

After a couple weeks, I decided to report this anonymously to the BFRO online. I received a call from an investigator and told her of our encounter. At the end of the conversation, she told me that a sighting had occurred about a mile away, and a homeowner had called in a report of a "Hairy creature" walking on a wooded hillside behind his home, and that this had occurred about a week and a half prior to my incident. All I can say is that there is something up there. I will always be paying attention while in the woods.This has remained in the back of my mind, and I don't joke about these things any longer. When this happens to you, it will change your perceptions, trust me.

- End Report -

Now, that is very interesting and the idea that bigfoot was trying to scare off a hunter seems very plausible. While this general area would seem fairly populated, there are some pretty large wooded areas as well.
A big thanks to Russell for sharing his experience with us.


Thanks
~Tom~

This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.



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