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UFO's are back in the news with these comments by a former Astronaut putting his two cents in!

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Moonwalker reopens UFO files

Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:02 AM by Alan Boyle



It sounds like a publicity stunt for the "X-Files" sequel: A real-life moonwalker, Apollo 14's Edgar Mitchell, says he was told that powerful alien beings have been among us for 60 years and that government officials have been carefully covering up that fact.

Mitchell's claims have caused a huge stir in the week since they were aired on a British radio show. But upon closer inspection, what the retired astronaut said was not all that earth-shattering - or even all that new.

"I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it's been covered up by governments for quite a long time," Mitchell told Kerrang Radio host Nick Margerrison.

The way Mitchell told it, the aliens look much like the little gray men depicted in most sci-fi sagas and possess technology far superior to ours - so superior that they could have wiped us out if they chose to.

That's a view held by millions of people who believe extraterrestrials are piloting at least some of the unidentified flying objects that have been reported over the past 60 years. But the fact that the view is coming from a celebrity spaceman, who has talked with military sources supposedly in the know, invests Mitchell's pronouncements with greater authority.

Or does it?

As astronomer Phil Plait points out on his Bad Astronomy blog, just because you're a moonwalker (or a military officer, for that matter) doesn't mean you're entitled to a "get out of reality free" card. And in follow-up interviews with Discovery.com and BlogTalkRadio, Mitchell acknowledged that his evidence is essentially hearsay.

Mitchell emphasized that his UFO views are not based upon his personal experience as a NASA astronaut, but rather upon unofficial talks he's had with witnesses involved in the 1947 Roswell incident and other sightings. He put a lot of weight on the experience of a Navy admiral who tried to follow up on the witnesses' claims but found himself shut out from the top-secret stuff.

It's well-known that some military officials suspected there was something spooky about Roswell, even after the U.S. Air Force announced in 1997 that it had fully explained the UFO reports and was closing out its file on the subject.

The best-known believer with Pentagon credentials was retired Air Force Col. Philip Corso, who spilled what he knew (and heard from others) about the alien conspiracy in a book titled "The Day After Roswell." In a 1997 interview, Corso told me he wrote the book because one of his key sources had passed away, releasing him from a vow of silence.

Corso himself passed away a year after that interview took place, but there are surely other military sources holding onto secondhand or thirdhand secrets. So it's not so surprising that Mitchell was "privileged enough" to hear some of those secrets - and it's not so new that he's bringing them to public attention.

In the Discovery.com Q&A, Mitchell acknowledged that he's been trying to spread the word about UFOs for more than a decade. At one time, he was working with The Disclosure Project, but in this 2001 interview with physicist-ufologist Jack Sarfatti, Mitchell complained that the project was improperly describing him as a UFO "witness." The moonwalker said he had heard disclosures from other seemingly knowledgeable individuals, "mostly of yesteryear," but had no firsthand knowledge himself.

Mitchell stuck to that story in a Fourth of July interview with CNN's Larry King - on a UFO-themed show that made less of a splash than last week's Kerrang interview.

So why did the more recent interview spark more of a buzz?

For one thing, Mitchell played up the references to advanced technology, as well as the idea that "we would be gone by now" if the aliens had been hostile. That added some extra color to Mitchell's oft-told tales about the little gray men. For another thing, he had a bigger piece of the spotlight on Kerrang - as well as an interviewer who was deeply impressed by what the astronaut had to say. ("Wow! This is big!" Margerrison told Mitchell.)

Finally Found!

Hi everyone!

This post is basically for my family but anyone interested in the Motsinger's past might find it interesting. By the way before reading the below you do need to know that Motsinger was originally spelled Matzinger (before it was americanized).

As for some preliminary background, I had found out some years ago that our great, great, ... , great grandfather Matzinger came from Marthalen, Switzerland but wasn't able to track down exactly where that was. This time,though, when I decided to try again, I was more successful!

Check out the images (click to enlarge), link, and other information below to see more information about the Motsinger family's history...

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Motsinger History Link
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Photo of the Historic Village of Marthalen (I think the 'historic' really means 'tiny' {wink}!)







Motsinger History
By Durward B. Allaman

Our emigrant ancestor was Jacob Matzinger (Motsinger) who was born in Marthalen, Switzerland in 1698. His wife, Magdelina, was born in 1707. They came with their son Felix (born 1727) on the ship "Mercury," landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1735. The passenger list is headed: "Van de Switzers soo op scholp genent de Mercurius, Van d"heer Capitain William Wilson, in Philadelphia arriveert." Translated it reads "List of Switsers who arrived in Philadelphia on the ship called "Mercury," captain William Wilson.

Listed were Jacob Matzinger age 37, Felix Matzinger 8, Magdelena, age 28. "At court house of Philadelphia, May 29, 1735, 54 Palatines and Switzers, who with their families, making 174 persons in all, were imported here in the ship "Mercury" of London, William Wilson, Master from Rotterdam, but 1st from Crowles, as by clearance from thence were this day qualified as usual".

Another passage from the minutes of the Provincial Council, printed in Colonial Records, Vol. 3, page 593. From Vol. 2 page 138, German Pioneers, has this account:

"The Palatines whose names are under written imported in the ship Mercury of London, Master, from Rotterdam last from Cowes, did this day take oaths to the Goverment," signed personally by Jacob Matzinger. The emigrants, Jacob and Magdelana Matzinger settled in Mancugy, corrupted from "Machsitunschi," translated from Indian, "The feeding place of bears."

In 1752 it was then located in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, but formerly in Bucks county Pennsylvania. The Lehigh County Historical Society says that no Motsinger records existed except that in 1745 Jonas (Jacob) Matzinger gave generously to the building of two churches. He was a member of the Lutheran Congregation at Mancugy. The name was poorly translated and should have been Jacob Matzinger.

This area became Heidelberg Twp. and on page 724 of Vol-2 "History of Lehigh County Pa.," it states: between the year of 1735 to 1740, there came to Heidelberg Twp, Palatines, and Wertembergers who strengthened the colony.

The Indian massacres, which arose from 1755-1758 devastated all the settlements across the Lehigh at Gnadenhutten, now Lehighton, and in Lyin, both on the right and left of the Heidelberg settlement, passed by the congregation almost without a trace.

The records of Egypts Reformed Church, have been fully indexed, were searched, including burial records. No Matzinger or Motsinger was found on these records. The records of old Rowan county, North Carolina and Davidson were searched also, but Jacob and Magdelan Matzinger were not found.

When the history of the area was written in 1881, Mr. Hunsicker, then in his 90's stated his father told him the original church records at Macungy and its church burned. The Lutheran records started over 1768. It is too late to ever determine whether there were other children born to Jacob and wife or who Felix's first wife and mother of three sons and one daughter was. It seems time has erased all records of the emigrants but their descendents number in the many thousands and are located all over the U.S.

The family as recorded came to this country as Lutherans. The Rev. War caused decay
in the Lutheran church in the south. King George second of England was wlector of Palatine and also head of the Lutheran Church. He caused funds to be cut from Lutheran Universities. The last three ministers in the south eventually died, taking the impoverished remains of the Lutheran church with them. The Baptists came to Virginia as early as 1765. A group from the Episcopal Church left for North Carolina and established a new religion known as the "Primitive Baptist Church." The group settled in Rowan County, N.C. and the Motsingers joined this new church. Many are buried in Davidson county, once part of Rowan county Baptist cemeteries.
The English Wright family, linked to the Motsingers through marriage, carried to Kentucky land the new religion where the old Rev. Soldier, Amos Wright, began preaching the gospel in the late 1700's in Wayne, county, Ky and
the surronding counties. Amos Wright was part of the 200 wagon train that reached the Northwest Territory (now Washington county, Indiana). He founded the Church of Christ, in reality Baptist minded church. He had five sons
and son-in-law in the ministry, as well as nephews and grandsons. As Motsingers married into the Wright family, they joined the Church of Christ.
A historical fact of the Germans is that they are farmers and engineers. When they came to America, they searched out land that was heavily wooded. They knew the soil would be black loam produced from decaying leaves and fallen trees. They made the Palatine bloom as they did with finest horses and homes.

Our ancestors accumulated the best of land in pioneer times across the Northwest territory. This they later divided among their children, as was a German custom for centuries. Ministers in the family are numerous too. They carried their faith wherever the family moved. I would suggest members of the family read records of the Baptist Church, and the book, "Lutheran Church of North and South Carolina and the Settlements of Germans." It can be located in almost every library collection.
From such records it can be determined that Jacob and Magdalena Matzinger died before 1762 of natural causes. Their names to not appear on tax list after this date in Pennsylvania. Their son, Felix, is on the 1762 tax list, Heidelberg Twp, Northampton Co, Pa., owning 34 acres and was listed as Felix Mantisinger. In 1762 paid 6 pounds tax to John Huntzinger, being the tax collector.

In 1765 Felix Matzinger moved to North Carolina where a deed record shows a purchase of 360 acres in Saint Luke's Parish (Sept-16-1765). The land on both sides of Abbett's Creek, was purchased from Joshua and Dorothy Teague for 19 pounds, five shillings. Two other parcels of land were purchased by Felix according to deed records. Felix Motsinger, knowing only the German language and customs, accumulated 1100 acres of well improved land and became wealthy without owning slaves.

As was the custom, the Germans kept to themselves and married only those of their nationality. During the Am. Rev, they began associating with other patriots in back country of North Carolina and following generations married outside the German Nationality.

Hmmmm.... Yummy or Yech?

Click on the title to see a report on how "licking" a wound speeds healing! Looks like what some kids do naturally is the best thing for it...

Who would have guessed? And the good news? They think they can make a cream with the same healing substance found in the saliva if you're squeamish! ;-)

Film at 11... or not!

Elly's Trip to the Zoo

Click on the title to see some photos from our recent trip to the zoo! Boy, was it HOT! Summer finally got to Cincinnati. Since then we've had lots of thunderstorms and heat but a cool front is supposed to go through tonight so here's hoping for a little cooler weather!

Echoes of Silent Spring and Rachel Carson...

This one has to make you think. Years and years ago, Rachel Carson wrote a book called Silent Spring warning of the imminent danger pesticides were to humans and the environment. Regulation of pesticides were increased thanks to her and other's efforts but looks like the threats she talked about may still be with us although in different form, at least as far as pesticides go.

This report on insecticides being the real culprit in obesity related type II is pretty alarming.

Makes you wonder...

Check on the title of this post to link to the web page for more information (or type in the url listed below).

http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2008/07/10/5825.html