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UFO-spotting Turkish night-watchman regards aliens as 'the world's policemen'
irishtimes ^ | June 22, 2009 | NICHOLAS BIRCH

Posted on 06/22/2009 4:35:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono

WITH HIS neatly clipped moustache and checked shirt buttoned up to his neck, 51-year-old Yalcin Yalman doesn’t look like a typical trendsetter.

But the images he has filmed since 2007 from the suburban Istanbul holiday village where he works as a night-watchman have helped turn UFO-spotting, once the object of scorn, into a popular pastime among educated Turks.

“For me it’s just a hobby, a way of passing the night,” Yalman shrugged outside an Istanbul conference centre where more than 1,000 people had paid 35 lira (€16), a handsome sum by local standards, to listen to him and ufologists from around the world reveal their latest findings.

Holding cups of watery coffee selling at an extortionate three lira, elegantly dressed Turkish ladies with word-perfect English peppered speakers from as far afield as Mexico with questions about 2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar.

Former head of the UK defence ministry’s UFO desk and a well-known ufologist, Nick Pope, one of the speakers at the conference, confessed himself amazed at the turnout.

“Ufology has a bit of an image problem back home – computer nerds, trainspotters, you know,” he said. “But that is not the sense I get here at all. And there seems to be an equal balance between men and women.”

Haktan Akdogan, the organiser of last weekend’s International UFO and New Age Congress, the fourth of its kind in Turkey, put growing domestic interest in UFO sightings down to the increasingly receptive Turkish media, “more sympathetic than the media in the West”.

But he described Yalman’s films of bright crescent-shaped objects hovering over the Marmara sea, some of them apparently with humanoid figures inside them, as “a turning point for Turkish UFO studies”.

“These are the most remarkable images taken in Turkish history,” he said, sitting in the central Istanbul office of the Sirius UFO Space Science Studies Centre, which he set up in 1997.

“The authorities can no longer turn a blind eye to this phenomenon.”....


TOPICS: UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ajntsa; jpb; ufo
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1 posted on 06/22/2009 4:35:40 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: Quix

ping


2 posted on 06/22/2009 4:48:57 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: JoeProBono

Your graphic looks like the old Bragg Road in Southeast Texas (Hardin County) where mysterious lights have been seen for decades.


3 posted on 06/22/2009 4:49:03 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: JoeProBono
Turkish coffee? Watery? If that shit doesn't come out of the pot like axle grease, it ain't Turkish coffee.


4 posted on 06/22/2009 4:49:18 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
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To: JoeProBono
Yeah, sure. And like most policemen they are never around when you need them.

They must be heavily patrolling a donut shop in Alpha Centarii Beta.

5 posted on 06/22/2009 4:51:59 PM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: BnBlFlag
the old Bragg Road in Southeast Texas (Hardin County)

Wow. Somebody actually mentioned the old Bragg Road in Southeast Texas. I grew up in the Big Thicket (Warren). We used to take our dates parking down there on moonless nights to see the Bragg Light. Scared 'em all. (Including us, I recall) LOL!

6 posted on 06/22/2009 4:54:45 PM PDT by Ranger Drew
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To: Viking2002

Real Turkish coffee is “Black as Hell ... sweet as love.”


7 posted on 06/22/2009 5:04:49 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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To: JoeProBono
If the aliens are the cops they have failed miserably.
8 posted on 06/22/2009 5:06:16 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: JoeProBono

looks like a bunch of blurry videos that could be anything to me.


9 posted on 06/22/2009 5:12:12 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Viking2002

Sorry ... I messed that up ......”Coffee should be as black as hell, as strong as death, and as sweet as love.” ;D


10 posted on 06/22/2009 5:13:00 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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To: JoeProBono

The Turk, with policeman and Michael.....Try the veal...its the best in the city...

11 posted on 06/22/2009 5:19:46 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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12 posted on 06/22/2009 5:19:51 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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13 posted on 06/22/2009 5:22:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Ranger Drew; BnBlFlag

Bragg Road Ghost Light Texas


14 posted on 06/22/2009 5:26:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Daffynition
There ya go. Real Turkish coffee will eat the enamel off your teeth.


15 posted on 06/22/2009 5:33:59 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
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16 posted on 06/22/2009 5:40:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Viking2002

....and hair on your chest!


17 posted on 06/22/2009 6:00:50 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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To: Ranger Drew

I grew up in the same area - Beaumont. Most of my faily lived in Hardin County - Lumberton area. My brother is getting ready to retire back to that area.
My Grandfather was born in Warren and spent most of his life in Woodville and Beaumont. He and my Grandmother are buried in Magnolia Cemetary in Woodville. I had planned on retiring in Woodville but with kids and Grandkids here it changed my plans.
We used to take dates to find the lights too. But usually we ended up too busy parking to find any lights! LOL!
The big thicket! Used fish and camp all over Village Creek, Pine Island Bayou and the Neches River. Most of the time on the Neches was spent water skiing though. Those were the days.
I couldn’t handle Idaho. Too cold and too many Yankee accents. My grandkids have Texas accents. I like that.
Cheers!


18 posted on 06/22/2009 6:05:28 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: JoeProBono; SunkenCiv
UFO-spotting Turkish night-watchman regards aliens as 'the world's policemen'

Makes sense, I guess.

They don't prevent anything evil; they get downright snarky with anyone questioning their affairs/prerogatives; they only observe, without interfering, then write a report that we never get to see; they make sure they're busy giving Elvis a lift or something over there, when they are really needed over here.

19 posted on 06/22/2009 6:10:35 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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Turks are a hairy lot, aren't they? I married one. If she used my shaving razor on her person, the cartridge was immediately and thereafter rendered inert.


20 posted on 06/22/2009 6:11:26 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
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