by Geraldo Fuentes
Petroglyphs in the Oklahoma panhandle describe them as "breast shaped". Roman records call them "flying shields". They have even been compared to huge Mexican hats and flying saucers. Disc shape UFOs have been the dominant style of sightings for a long time. It's what we typically think of when we hear the word "UFO".
In the last few decades, UFO sightings have included some huge triangles, wedges or "v" shapes, orbs and globes of light.
Now it's cylinders, tubes or "cigar" shaped UFOs that are chic and high on the Paparazzi list. This "minimalist" design makes me feel uneasy... the simplicity of a silver metal cylinder seems to contradict the complexity of interplanetary space travel -- at least as I can imagine it. But what else could they be?
The tubular type of space vehicle, if that's what it really is, has been around for a while. It has been a frequent UFO shape described by airline pilots for a couple of decades. The wingless, cigar shaped object is often described as being metallic black or a dirty silver, windowless and sometimes trailing a greenish light from its stern. Their large size seems to confine them to higher altitudes. They are seldom seen near the Earth's surface. Estimates of their length varies from a hundreds meters to over a kilometer. They can hover for hours then rapidly accelerate. These cigar shaped objects have even been observed harboring smaller, saucer shaped craft and orbs.
Here are two typical sightings of cigar shaped UFOs:
The two pilots seem to be honest, professional and give convincing testimony. What are these vehicles? Could they be interplanetary motherships, like our aircraft carriers?
Are they from another planet or do they have a terrestrial origin?
The cigar shape is not new
Designs for a cigar shaped craft were found among top secret papers of the Nazis [see top of page] at the end of WWII. Some of the engineers and scientists working on these programs were imported to America under project "Paperclip". But other scientists were unaccounted for, presumably given refuge by the Russians. Of course, there is another theory.
Some believe that the best minds working on this new technology found sanctuary in an underground world, large enough to accommodate the Third Reich, accessible through a secret opening discovered by previous expeditions to Antarctica [*] and with the help of some "other dimensional" beings who had contacted the German Thule and Vril Societies. Supposedly Admiral Byrd hunted and encountered this technology when he led the US Navy on the expedition to Antarctica (Operation Highjump) and abruptly retreated in 1947.
Safe in their own world, Nazi scientists could have thrived and their progress with anti-gravity technology could have advanced to where they can routinely move among us with amazing speed and stealth. Only when an inevitable glitche happens -- an accidental uncloaking -- do we get a glimpse of the size and complexity of their craft.
Here is a tubular UFO that glows:
Cigar Shape Lightship UFO Videotaped 2010 by ufoblogger
SEEN ALL OVER THE WORLD
One of the earliest and most spectacular reports from Africa concerns the sighting of a huge cigar-shaped UFO which hovered over famous Mt. Kilimanjaro February 19,1951. The UFO was photographed from an East African Airways plane flying in the vicinity. After remaining motionless for a considerable period of time, the object suddenly climbed steeply and disappeared. The movie film was developed and reportedly showed a clear and sizeable image of the object, according to the Natal Mercury.
The sighting was detailed in the Nairobi Sunday Post, February 25, 1951, by Capt. Jack Bicknell, pilot of the East African Airways plane. Extracts from Capt. Bicknell's report:
"The Lodestar plane left Nairobi West at 7:00 a.m. At 7:20 a.m., the radio officer (D. W. Merrifield) drew my attention to a bright object like a white star hanging motionless about 10,000 feet above Kilimanjaro. My first reaction was to say nothing. We watched it for three minutes. Then we told the passengers about it. One of them had a very powerful pair of binoculars with him and he began to study it. In the meantime, we put a radio message through to Eastleigh describing it. Eastleigh asked us to check whether it was a meteorological balloon. I then examined it for several minutes through the binoculars. . . [At this point the plane had approached to within about 50 miles of the mountain]...
We may never know their origin and agenda, but UFO enthusiasts continue to record their sightings and regularly post these images to YouTube. Below are some interesting "cigar shape" UFOs, caught on camera, starting with a very recent one (October 2012) that attracted the attention of CNN.
THE "CIGAR" SHAPE UFO OVER KENTUCKY
10-16-12 VIRGIE KENTUCKY
My neighbors small daughter noticed a very bright star that shown in the middle of the day, that didn't move, and brought it to my attention. The sky was clear, free of clouds, and blue. Visibility was unlimited. The temperature was in the upper 60s.
I used my Canon digital camera and took about 50 photos of the object through the telescope and then shot some video also. It oscillated between dim to very bright, (sunlike), on a frequency that varied but was of about 30 seconds.
[KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS - Thanks to MUFON CMS system]
A Few Days Later -- Similar Cigar Shape UFO Seen in Mexico!
The next example is from October 26, 2012 and shows a huge, cigar shape UFO entering the active Popocatepetl Volcano, the second highest peak in Mexico. The object's size is estimated at 1000 meters by 200 meters [*]. It has been suggested that it is the same object seen in the Kentucky sighting (described above) in a different configuration. The video is in Spanish but the images are self-explanatory.
HIGH FLYING TUBULAR UFO OVER CANADA
10-25-12 SCARBOROUGH ONTARIO CANADA
October 25th 9:55 pm. We were trying to take photos of Jupiter on our tripod with the self timer so there would be no shake. The first photo looked like there was a greyish bar beside the planet. I thought that perhaps my camera lense had a scratch on it so I took another photo and noticed the greyish bar was still there but had moved lower in the sky.[KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS - Thanks to MUFON CMS system]