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The best way to report a UFO is to access the MUFON web site at mufon.com. You will be directed to a form. It is important to fill this out as completely as possible. All of the questions provide vital clues in the ongoing research in UFOs. If you choose to remain anonymous your identiy will be a closely guraded secret within MUFON.
For the last several years I have been a Field Investigator for The Mutual UFO Network in Indiana. In this blog I would like to present some of the more interesting cases and the phenomena that that is observed in Indiana. The UFO phenomenon is actually a variety of Phenomena some of which are understood and some that aren't. In addition to the vast number of mistaken naturally occurring events in the sky and the hoaxes there are also some things that have a natural explanation that is not yet understood. There are also intelligently controlled craft that have no conventional explanation.

Here I will discuss the cases that were easily explained, those that turned out to be hoaxes and those that remain mysterious. Occasionally I will offer my own theories.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Fiery Serpent


Serpent Mound is an impressive and massive earth sculpture of a snake biting an oval, possibly eating an egg or biting the world.  Located in Adams County, Ohio, it has been a place of controversy since it was discovered. The effigy is built on the top of a high ground referred to as a plateau by the timid. Even the early scientist in previous centuries knew it wasn't formed by the forces that shaped the rest of the Midwest. They refereed to it as a “Crypto-geologic Uplift”.   A long winded term meaning “We don't know what happened.”

The controversy was a result of the conservative scientists' determination to attribute it to vulcanism when there was no evidence of volcanic activity in the region. They couldn't accept the idea that rocks can fall from the sky , and this had to be a very big rock.

Serpent mound has been constructed on the center uplift of a very large meteor creator. It is estimated to be less than 320 million years old.

The age of the mound itself is a little contested. Originally it was believed to have been constructed by the Adena culture (We don't know what they really called themselves.) at about 1000 to 100 years BCE or about as long as 3000 years ago. Recently, improved radiocarbon dating of two samples of wood charcoal taken from undisturbed parts of Serpent Mound both yielded a date of ca. A.D.1070, about 2000 years more recent than previously believed. This makes it likely that it was built by the Fort Ancient culture. Both of these culture have been linked to the Mounds at Anderson, Indiana.

The image however, is hard to deny. An effigy that has been described as a fiery serpent taking a bite out of the Earth is sitting on top of a place where an object that would have been seen by ancient peoples as a fiery serpent did take a bite out of the Earth. Of course it did this over 300 million years before the effigy was built.

Is it possible that a precolumbian genius watched the streaks of meteors in the sky, occasionally saw them impact, and made the connection with the landscape surrounding Serpent Mound? This seems more likely than other explanations.

If you have the opportunity to visit Serpent Mound its worth the trip.  Directions can be found easily on the internet.