THE GREAT CANADIAN PHYSICIST UFOLOGIST STANTON T. FRIEDMAN

Stanton Friedman - Physicist, Lecturer, UFO Researcher

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Official Home Page of Stanton Friedman -- Physicist, Lecturer, UFO Researcher.

FOLLOWED J. ALLEN HYNEK IN PROMOTING THE PHYSICS OF UFO'S

HE PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR.

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Oct 29, 2019 - Stanton Friedman in his office surrounded by files. ... spent 60 years studying the UFO phenomena and who suddenly died earlier this year.

Stanton T. Friedman, Scientist Who Tracked U.F.O.s, Dies at ...

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May 21, 2019 - Stanton T. Friedman in 1978 holding a photograph of a sculpture of ... His family said he died of a heart attack at Toronto Pearson Airport on his ...

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Died, 13 May 2019(2019-05-13) (aged 84). Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Education, University of Chicago (M.S.). Occupation, Ufologist, physicist. Known for, Roswell UFO incident. Website, www.stantonfriedman.com. Stanton Terry Friedman (July 29, 1934 – May 13, 2019) was a nuclear physicist and ...

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Education‎: ‎University of Chicago‎ (‎M.S.‎)

Known for‎: ‎Roswell UFO incident

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UFO hunter Stanton Friedman dies at the age of 84 at ...

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May 18, 2019 - The world's top UFO hunter - who never saw a flying saucer in 62 years of research - has died aged 84. Stanton Friedman was worshipped by ..

UFO researcher Stanton Friedman dies after half-century effort ...

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May 14, 2019 - FREDERICTON—Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist, lecturer and world-renowned devotee of extraterrestrial existence, has died at the age ...

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May 14, 2019 - Stanton Friedman, the famed UFO researcher based in Fredericton, has died. Friedman was returning from a speaking engagement in ...

Renowned UFO Scientist Stanton Friedman, Who Told ...

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May 20, 2019 - One of the world's most prominent UFO researchers, Stanton Friedman, died on Monday at the age of 84. Friedman died at Pearson ...

Death of a UFO research legend: All hail Stanton Friedman

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Jul 11, 2019 - The world lost one of its greats this week. Renowned UFO investigator Stanton Friedman died Monday at the ripe old age of 84 at Pearson ...

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May 14, 2019 - FREDERICTON — Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist, lecturer and world-renowned devotee of extraterrestrial existence, has died at the ...

Portland
Antifa response to rumored KKK rally turns into ‘dance party’; police arrest 3, look for vandalism suspect


Portland protest, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020

Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive and Andrew Theen | The Oregonian/OregonLive

Three people were arrested following a lengthy demonstration in downtown Portland’s Lownsdale Square park Saturday afternoon, and police are searching for another individual who is believed to have vandalized a war memorial in an adjacent park.

Saturday’s demonstration came in response to a previous social media rumor that the Ku Klux Klan was organizing a white supremacy rally at or around the downtown Portland park Saturday.

No Klan rally took place. It’s not clear if an actual event had been organized.

Shortly after 8 a.m., Portland police tweeted, “The organizer for the [Klan] rally in front of the Multnomah County Courthouse has communicated to PPB he has cancelled the event planned for this morning and does not intend to show up. PPB continues to monitor the situation.”

Counter-protesters showed up regardless, including antifascist activists, or antifa.

According to police, officers attended the event and stayed away while it was peaceful, but officers intervened when “some people in the group began acting in a violent, threatening manner against attendees who were legally capturing photos and videos.”

Heaven Davis, 19, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief.

Brandon Farley, 31, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

Willy Cannon, 25, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and abuse of a memorial to the dead.

“I want to acknowledge the community members who came down to peacefully assemble and exercise their freedom of speech rights,” Police Chief Jami Resch said in a statement. “Unfortunately, a group of people chose to engage in dangerous, illegal behavior. I appreciate the thoughtful, measured response by our officers and law enforcement partners.”

Resch said the rally meant that other areas of the city were “negatively impacted” because officers were downtown for the event.

A driver struck a pedestrian at Southwest 2nd Avenue and Madison, but it’s not clear whether that was related to the demonstration. The pedestrian suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Three people were treated for pepper spray exposure, which police said was deployed by “community members.” The police agency said in a statement that officers “did not use force against anyone during this event.”

But officers said demonstrators had weapons. Some used “Metal-tipped umbrellas” to “jab people," police said, and “chase them down the street."

Cops said that rocks, concrete, batons, food and cans were thrown at officers and other attendees during the four-hour event.

Police also circulated a photo of a person clad in all black spray-painting the war memorial.

But those attendees were not the bulk of the demonstrators Saturday.

Most of the 200 or so mask-wearing people at downtown Portland’s Lownsdale Square late Saturday morning were there to tap their feet to the live band that was playing. And to eat pizza, boxes of which were delivered shortly after police made an arrest of someone "engaging in criminal activity.”


“Criminals!” screamed a man wearing a bandana over his face.

“Fascists!” yelled another.

“I just came for the dance party,” said a third, quietly, before he laughed uproariously.

Pointing weapons at a group of people on the sidewalk is NOT de-escalating the situation.
The Portland Police are intentionally provoking a fight.
It's time to go home and declare today a win. There's SO MUCH more work to be done together. https://t.co/zrRD69oKcY— PopMob (Popular Mobilization) (@PopMobPDX) February 8, 2020



A band plays at an anti fascist gathering in downtown #Portland pic.twitter.com/p6VnlUqnYq— Douglas Perry (@douglasmperry) February 8, 2020

Portland police reported that some of the partiers, before they started partying, used pepper spray on others at the park and, when the police arrived, threw “objects” at the officers.

“Some demonstrators possess weapons, including bats and pepper spray,” Portland police tweeted as the event got underway. “Criminal activity will not be tolerated.”

The march was supposed to disband around noon. Shortly before 1 p.m., police tweeted that what appeared to be lit flares were being thrown into the roadway near Lownsdale Square. Shortly after, officials said people were seen “actively defacing” a monument within Chapman Square Park with what appeared to be spray paint, leading to more arrests. By the time the crowds disbanded, at least three people had been arrested.

- Douglas Perry and Andrew Theen

A band plays at an anti fascist gathering in downtown #Portland

Man who fractured transgender woman’s skull for using public restroom sentenced to nearly 6 years

Updated Feb 07, 2020

Lauren Jackson.


By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The Oregonian/OregonLive

An Idaho man who brutally beat a transgender woman after she used a women’s bathroom at an Oregon coast park was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison.

Fred Costanza, 37, was was convicted by a Lincoln County jury last month of second-degree assault and harassment in the Aug. 24 attack that shattered Lauren Jackson’s jaw and fractured her skull, court records show.


The jury also found Costanza guilty of a first-degree bias crime under Oregon’s newly overhauled hate crime law, which includes protections for those who identify as transgender.



Transgender woman beaten over bathroom use on Oregon coast is healing, flourishing

“I’m in the best place in my life, even after this attack,” Lauren Jackson told The Oregonian/OregonLive. Seth Costanza, her suspected attacker, faces a felony hate crime.

Circuit Judge Sheryl Bachart handed Costanza a 70-month sentence, the mandatory minimum for second-degree assault, a Measure 11 crime, and ordered the defendant pay restitution for the injuries Jackson suffered.

“I feel so supported and validated," Jackson told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “This kind of behavior isn’t OK."

Fred Joseph Costanza (Lincoln County Sheriff's Office)

According to witnesses, Costanza walked over 100 yards across Agate Beach State Recreation Site in Newport to confront Jackson, 29, after she used the women’s public restroom at the park.

The man pulled Jackson by the hair and struck her more than 10 times before leaving the park with his wife, witnesses told police.

Jackson, who was visiting Oregon for the first time, spent the next week in the hospital. She has since settled in the Portland area.

In an interview Friday, Jackson said she hopes to use her experience to “make the world a safer place for transgender people.”

“We all deserve to be able to exist, and to be happy,” she said.

Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn’s new book examines a nationwide crisis unfolding in Yamhill, Oregon: 

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Nicholas Kristof didn’t have to escape Yamhill, Oregon, on his way to some of the world’s most prestigious universities and eventually a vaunted columnist gig at the New York Times.

Kristof came from a family with tons of human capital – parents with good jobs, who instilled the importance of education in him from an early age.

But many of his friends and classmates weren’t so lucky.

“Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,” a new book by Kristof and his wife, fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sheryl WuDunn, describes the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yamhill and elsewhere in the United States -- one not so different from those the journalistic power couple have covered internationally.

On the latest episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian, Kristof and WuDunn explain why they decided to focus on Kristof’s childhood town and why they still have hope for an American revival despite the abundant evidence of societal strife they documented.

Many of the dozens of kids who rode his Number 6 school bus to the rural country school Kristof attended, are gone. And the blame for their deaths of despair – by drugs, depression, suicide or obesity, Kristof and WuDunn argue –should be shared by the country of their birth.

Their parents lost blue collar jobs amid an ever-changing economy. A toxic combination of drugs and alcohol, domestic violence, school dropouts and unexpected children led to what amounts in some cases to generational family tragedies. In their book, they argue that the social safety net has failed generations of Americans and that society has turned its back on millions, casting blame at their feet.

We also talked about The Oregonian’s Samantha Swindler’s coverage of a U.S. Bank employee, and her supervisor, who were fired for helping a customer who was waiting on funds to become available by bringing him $20 hours before Christmas.

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-- Andrew Theen; atheen@oregonian.com; 503-294-4026; @andrewtheen

See Mount St. Helens erupt through art, at new Portland Art Museum exhibition

Posted Feb 09, 2020 By Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/OregonLive


Lucinda Parker, courtesy of the artist and Russo Lee Gallery

You've seen Mount St. Helens from afar, or maybe on a trail up close. You may have seen it before it erupted or long after its north face exploded.

But you've never seen Mount St. Helens quite like this.

On Feb. 8, the Portland Art Museum will open a new exhibition called "Volcano!" dedicated to the southwest Washington mountain that erupted in dramatic fashion 40 years ago this spring.

With modern art, photography and some of the oldest surveyor sketches around, the exhibition puts a broad spotlight on St. Helens – before, during and after its famous eruption on May 18, 1980.

"Basically, the exhibition is a survey of images of Mount St. Helens in art," curator Dawson Carr said. "The exhibition is going to take people through one big cycle in the life of a volcano."

Carr usually curates exhibitions of European art before 1900, but as a self-professed volcano nut he couldn't pass up the chance to dig into the art portraying one of the biggest eruptions in modern history.



Albert Bierstadt, courtesy of The L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection

An 1889 painting of Mount St. Helens by Albert Bierstadt.



Emmet Gowin, Courtesy of Pace/MacGill

A 1983 photograph by Emmet Gowin titled "Debris Flow at the Northern Base of Mount St. Helens, Looking South" that will appear in "Volcano!"



Henk Pander, City of Portland Public Art Collection, courtesy of the Regional Arts and Culture Council

This 1981 painting of the Mount St. Helens eruption by Henk Pander belongs to the City of Portland.


While initially conceived as a more general exhibition of volcanic imagery from across time and around the world, the museum quickly settled on the idea of focusing on a single local volcano instead, and one that Pacific Northwest residents know particularly well.

Both images and ash from the erupting volcano spread around the world in 1980, making St. Helens a household name globally. In the decades since, those who live near the mountain have grown to know its new, flatter profile and the desolate flanks still recovering from disaster.

The three faces of the mountain – before, during and after the eruption – have offered a wide variety of artistic inspiration. In the "Volcano!" exhibit, you'll find dreamy paintings made in the 19th century, when newly arrived white settlers captured its perfectly conical peak, as well as paintings made in recent years that take a more modern and sometimes abstract approach.

That variety of styles also demonstrates the broad appeal of volcanoes, which have captivated artists for hundreds of years, Carr said.

"They're so beyond human power and imagination," he said of volcanic eruptions. "They're threatening, but at the same time they're so awesome and visually impressive that you have fear mixed with a kind of pleasurable terror."

That mixed emotion was once referred to as "the sublime," Carr said, and was applied to the famously dark and dramatic paintings of the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius by artists like Joseph Wright and Pierre-Jacques Volaire.

Some of the Mount St. Helens art in the exhibition shares a similar darkness, but many paintings are done in bright, vibrant colors instead, some even reflecting the urban environments that were so close to (though never truly threatened by) the eruption.


The exhibition primarily features work from Pacific Northwest artists, including painters Lucinda Parker, Henk Pander and George Johanson.






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Inside the new "Volcano!" exhibition at the Portland Art Museum.



Emmet Gowin, Courtesy of Pace/MacGill

A 1983 photograph titled "Ash over New Snow, The South Flank of Mount St. Helens, Washington" by Emmet Gowin.



George Johanson, courtesy of the artist

This colorful 1984 painting of the Mount St. Helens eruption by George Johanson will appear in "Volcano!" at the Portland Art Museum.


Those paintings stand in stark contrast to some of the fine art photography in the exhibit, including work by Emmett Gowin, Frank Gohlke and Marilyn Bridges, much of which shows the volcano in the years immediately following its eruption. Apocalyptic imagery fills the frames, which highlight debris flows, a smoking crater and ash-covered snow. Rich textures draw the eye to what is ultimately a scene of utter destruction.

"These photographs of the aftermath are just as apocalyptic as the eruption itself," Carr said.

It can be easy to get sucked into images of destruction, but in the end "Volcano!" showcases the mountain's present and future – particularly the astonishingly fast return of life that has surprised even the researchers tasked with studying it.

Mount St. Helens has undergone many transformations in a short time, and continues to change before our eyes. That's exactly what makes it such a captivating artistic subject, said Ian Gillingham, spokesman for the Portland Art Museum.

"The way that the mountain has regenerated itself has been shocking," Gillingham said. "I'm hoping through these different artistic views you get an idea of what's happening through the changes in the biology and morphology of the mountain."

It may ultimately be a story of regrowth, but it's the art inspired by the mountain's eruption that remains the most powerful.

People are just drawn to images of catastrophe, and to erupting volcanoes in particular. There's a reason the new exhibit isn't built around any of the other volcanoes nearby, say, Mount Hood or the Three Sisters.

Volcanic eruptions are simply "stupendous events" to depict, Carr said. "They're really beyond the shadow of any doubt the most visually spectacular of nature's displays of power."


“Volcano!” will be on display from Feb. 8 to May 17, 2020, at the Portland Art Museum. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $20 for adults, $17 for students and seniors and free for kids. The museum is located at 1219 S.W. Park Ave., Portland. Get more information online at portlandartmuseum.org or call 503-226-2811.

--Jamie Hale | jhale@oregonian.com | @HaleJamesB

UFO briefings for Trump, senators followed Navy’s 2019 ‘Tic Tac’ statement

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by: Greg Haas

Posted: Feb 8, 2020 / 06:44 AM PST / Updated: Feb 7, 2020 / 01:56 PM PST

MYSTERY WIRE — The US Navy announcement in May, 2019, that the UFO video of the “Tic Tac” was authentic was received many different ways.

There was an element of “I told you so” among the UFO community.

Tom DeLonge, who had some influence in the 2017 release of that video, was quoted by the New York Times as saying it was “long overdue.”

And in official government circles, things began to move in ways that the public had never seen before. Among the biggest steps: The president and several senators were briefed by the Pentagon.

Trump acknowledged the briefing when asked about it by ABC News. “I did have one very brief meeting on it,” he said. “But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly.”

Among the senators who were briefed: Mark Warner of Virginia, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Politico and many other national news organizations reported the story:

READ: Senators get classified briefing on UFO sightings

That report indicates high interest among members of Congress.

There are people coming out of the woodwork.

FORMER GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL QUOTED BY POLITICO

Another intelligence official told Politico, “More requests for briefings are coming in.”

In a recent interview, UFO historian Richard Dolan said that the briefings would have been “the story of the decade” in years past. But it came amid a flurry of information following the Navy’s announcement in May.

CNN also reported the story, and provided background on more military sightings of UFOs.

“It’s easy to laugh at this, easy to think it’s silly, or it’s just a bunch of hokum out there. But Senator Mark Warner, who is the vice chair of the intelligence committee, said, “Look, I think it’s important,” he told us just this afternoon. “I think it’s important that the military is taking this more seriously now than they did in the past.”

CNN’S TOM FOREMAN

Lt. Danny Aucoin, a Navy pilot, described to CNN what he saw during one of the sightings off the East Coast. “No distinct wings, no distinct tail.” No distinct exhaust. Seemed like they were aware of our presence, because they would actively move around us.”