UFO sightings happened for ancient people near Eugene along coast

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UFO sightings happened for ancient people near Eugene along coast
December 12, 2010
Dave Masko
Examiner.com


PORT ORFORD, Oregon – Ancient peoples who first settled this moon-wet part of the Oregon coast described “visitors from the heavens during the winter months.” More recently there’s been a strobic play of headlights down each of the nine rock formations in the nearby Pacific. When this happens, say locals, the streets lights seem to cast an orange, shadow less glow.

At the same time, many in Eugene like to drive down the central Oregon coast to Port Orford because "'it's sort of warm and strange. It's a fun getaway, and we love the UFO stories," says Billy Murry of Eugene.

New UFO incidents open doors on lost writings

Port Orford is located at the state’s southern end in what Oregonians call “the Banana Belt,” because the weather is much warmer than other parts of the state. This fact, and a regular flock of ravens -- that only seem to come out and play when the “lights are happening” -- say local UFO experts, is why “it’s so very special here.”

There’s a plaque in Port Orford’s “Battle City Park” in memory of the “Dene Tsut Dah,” the ancient people who they first lived along this rugged stretch of the southern Oregon coast. The Dene Tsut Dah would “contact people from the heavens using the nine rocks formations that sit offshore,” states local history records.

More recently, during the months of November and December, bright, shimmering lights have been spotted over these nine rocks that the tribe once spoke of.

Unidentified-flying objects, commonly abbreviated UFO’s, were not part of the Dene Tsut Dah language back more than 300 years ago when the tribe first started making drawing on beach rocks.

“They told us about the strangers from the heavens, and we’re not alone,” says Port Orford historian Nate Braunger who also points out that this sea port is the oldest town on the Oregon coast and the most westerly in the 48 states.

“It’s a unique and special place for sure,” Braunger explains. “You sort of feel the Tututni peoples as they were called. But their world all ended in 1850 when the U.S. Congress passed the Oregon Donation Land Act that allowed white settlers to take the Native people’s land. What we lost was the legend of the ancient peoples and their myths about what we now call as UFOs.

The internattional community has listed the Port Orford area as “being suspicious” due to local UFO sightings back in the early 1950’s after this location was first noted as having UFO connections, he added.

“Ever since we made that Air Force UFO report, we’ve sort of been on the radar as a UFO center. The community embraced its UFO roots in the 1960’s but that died down in the 1970’s and later when the tourism boom happened. We’re now just getting back to the Dene Tsut Dah legends with the new interest in sightings in our southern Oregon, and northern California region,” Braunger explained.

Country ready for serious UFO discussions

UFO sightings are no longer a joke. Even the conservative TV talk show host Barbara Walters recently said “we have aliens on Earth in microscopic form,” during her “The View” program.

Walters said ongoing sightings have revived a debate about UFO’s in America and “there’s less skepticism than they’re used to be.”

In fact, there is a growing fascination with UFO’s worldwide with more and more young people wanting to know what’s real and what’s not, says Braunger who’s received numerous e-mail and phone queries about recent Port Orford UFO sightings over the local rock formations.

“Venus and Jupiter might be responsible for recent UFO sightings,” says Harold Geller, a prominent astronomer at George Mason University in Washington, D.C.

“The more reports picked up by the media, the more people reporting seeing such apparitions,” explained Geller during recent media interviews about the possibility of alien visitors.

Moreover, a 2008 Scripps Howard News Service poll of 1,003 adults found that 56 percent believe “it is very or somewhat likely that intelligent life exists in other worlds.”

Also, one out of 12 Americans said they have seen a mysterious object in the sky at some point in their lives.

In fact, the people in a town outside of Denver, Colo., recently voted on a measure to put create a UFO greeting center. The ballot measure failed but got enough votes to get people talking.

“There is an intelligence more advanced than we are,” asserts Cliff Clift, international director of the Mutual UFO Network which investigates reports of UFO and alien sightings.