Original Title: “INVISIBLE UFOs”: How do you spot one? I describe two cases and readers of my UFO blog supplied several more. If UAP intelligences can mask their craft in wavelengths visible to the human eye, the shadows of the objects cast on the ground might still be visible.
“INVISIBLE UFOs”: How do you spot one?
Joseph Burkes MD 2013, updated 2024
Back in the 1990s when I first became a UFO investigator, I lived in Los Angeles just east of the Santa Monica Airport. There, it was rumored that movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger piloted his very own Lear Jet. National Boulevard is a broad tree lined street that dead ends at the airport. National runs due east in such a way that as planes gain altitude during takeoff, they fly above and in in a straight line along the boulevard. Summertime under intense mid-day sun, the sharply defined shadows of ascending aircraft are readily visible moving along the street. It was fun to watch the perfect silhouette of a small plane, with wings and fuselage racing over the asphalt.
In 1992 I joined CE-5 Initiative and became a volunteer coordinator of a contact team that had limited interactions with UFO intelligence during fieldwork. As part of my “trade craft” I took a great deal of interest in anything that flies.
CIRCULAR SHADOW RACES DOWN THE PAVEMENT.
One bright summer day in 1997 I was driving away from the airport on National Boulevard. Something strange happened. A dark well-defined perfectly oval shadow was visible on the ground. Forty feet across it couldn’t be missed and it was moving at about 50 miles per hour in the same direction that I was traveling. I instinctively looked up through the windshield to see what kind of craft could make such a strange shadow on the roadway. There was nothing in sight!
From the angle of the sun making the shadow, I knew that I should have been able to see the craft. The sharp outline of the dark circle moving down the road indicated to me that the object was close to the ground, yet nothing was visible in the sky.
THE ABSENCE OF ENGINE SOUND WAS STRANGE
Then it struck me. There was no sound! Any conventional craft taking off from the Santa Monica Airport should produce a roar so loud that even with car windows up and the air conditioning on I would hear it. My windows were down that day and the radio was off. Whatever was flying over National Boulevard was relatively quiet in flight. The object could not have been a blimp or balloon. It was moving far too fast for that. Its behavior was consistent with an invisible UFO!
This incident points out some important lesions for detecting invisibility characteristics of some UFOs. Such anomalous aerial phenomenon can produce shadows indicating a structured object capable of blocking the sun's rays is present. The shadow might not be associated with sound, another feature of UFOs. The sharpness of the image as compared to conventional aircraft can give some inkling as to its apparent altitude, the higher the object is the less distinct is its outline
So “How do you detect an invisible UFO?
Answer: By its shadow!
INVISIBLE UFOs: How do you spot one? Case Report Two
The 405 Freeway in LA is one of the busiest highways on the planet. It cuts through the Santa Monica Mountains like a knife through butter. It’s a science fiction like driving experience with 11 other lanes of traffic around you. My friend Paul is an experiencer and a high school English instructor. He was also my volunteer writing coach. In 2002 while driving on the 405 near Carlson, he encountered an “invisible” UFO.
A MYSTERIOUS SHADOW APPEARED ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE 405
On a bright sunny day he was moving about 50 miles an hour on a stretch of downgrade when he saw in the distance, less than a mile away, a large perfectly defined circular shadow on the opposite side of the freeway. It was about thirty feet across, just sitting there with no blimp or balloon above the freeway that could account for it. The shadow slowly started to move to his right across the opposite side of the road. It was heading toward his side of the superhighway.
As he closed in on the shadow, he realized that he was going to pass directly under it. Knowing that something truly anomalous was going on he wondered if the other drivers were seeing the same thing that he was. No one, however, slowed down. The sharp margins of the shadow indicated to him whatever was causing it, perhaps a hovering disc, was very close to the ground.
PAUL BECAME FEARFUL AS HE APPROACHED THE SHADOW
Just before he passed into shadow, he experienced the hair on his head standing up as if he were in a powerful electrostatic field. To his right on the shoulder of the Freeway dust was swirling in a whirlwind fashion. Suddenly his visual field darkened. He was now under it and felt apprehensive. A moment later a flash of light indicated that he had passed through the shadow.
In retrospect, he wondered if he should have pulled to the side of the road to investigate. This maneuver was somewhat risky as cars were moving all around him at 50 miles per hour in the nearly bumper-to-bumper typically crazy LA driving configuration. Paul shared this story with me in 2005 when Elaine Douglas at an Annual MUFON Symposium gave a talk about contactee Billy Meier in which cases of alleged UFO invisibility were described.
Question: So “How do you detect an invisible UFO?
Answer: Same as in the first case, by its shadow.
Comments:
Very interesting!
I am sorry if I am being ignorant of science here, but if the ships are invisible to the visible spectrum of light that we see by, then how can they cast a shadow from sunlight, which in itself is partly visible light? Is the shadow therefore being cast by UV/infrared light hitting the ship instead, which it would not be invisible to and then somehow becoming imprinted on the visible light spectrum? Maybe they control this behaviour of light?
I might be talking nonsense, sorry, but it would be very cool to look into maybe!
Edit: Found this piece of information, which also touches on what you said about the shadow being very sharp, and that indeed shadows exist in infrared and UV spectrums but are normally invisible to the naked eye. (You might have actually seen a UV shadow that they then projected into our wavelength, so you would notice them! So they seem to be able to control this property of light in ways beyond we think. Wow!):
"Infrared will produce a more "fuzzy" shadow with less defined edges (and even a bright spot in the middle of the shadow) while ultraviolet will create a much sharper shadow. This is because of differences in wavelengths. The much longer wavelength of infrared will diffract around the edges of the object and even form an interference bright spot, while the short ultra violet doesn't diffract nearly as much."
Ben (first name only):Great story, thanks for sharing. One night with a group in the field the laser operator noticed the laser was being blocked by an invisible stationary object right above our circle. He demonstrated a few times the laser going far beyond to the side of the object and then shortening when hitting it. We had a lot of activity that night.
Hi there, Dr Burkes. Sorry for the delayed response. It’s been a busy day. The laser operator casually mentioned it during his pointing out of constellations as he noticed it. He pointed it out to the group. I could see it happen when he demonstrated what he noticed and I’m sure many in the group could see also. I could guesstimate it was about 400-500m directly above. This happened on a perfectly clear night up a mountain in the South Island of New Zealand on the 12th of March 2019. There was 19 people present. Members of CE5 Aotearoa and others from Japan, Canada, America and Australia. It was roughly 10:00pm. The laser was green and powerful, but I don’t know the type. Sorry, but I can ask. We had already had two craft flying over from opposite directions that signaled with bright flashes. There was also some amazing photos taken that night of a light flying in front of a mountain (not in a straight line) and about 20 orbs of light showing long wiggly trails on the long exposure shots that must have all become stationary, showing up as balls of light at the head of the wiggly trails. I won’t mention names at this stage as I haven’t asked anyone. I hope this helps
Preston Dennett: Hey, I had this same exact experience! It was 1998, 1999, around there. I was driving to work along Owensmouth in Canoga Park around 11:00 a.m. when a perfectly round shadow about thirty feet wide moved across the road in front of me. I've told only a few people about this because it was just so darn strange. Of course, I looked up. There was nothing visible in the sky. How can something invisible cast a shadow? It was very weird. I'll never forget it. I
J. Burkes MD: Thank you Preston Dennett who, as many members of this page know, is an accomplished author in the field of UFO studies. We were both in the LA based CE-5 Initiative team during the 1990s and we have recently co-authored a chapter on medical healings in FREE's upcoming book "Beyond UFOs."
In a past thread on the theme of "invisible UFOs" I wrote the following answer to your question Preston, "How can something invisible cast a shadow.
"A UFO as a physical object that possesses technology which makes it invisible in the waveleng...
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