Case · UFO Afrinews No 15, January 1997
Quite a Big Bit of Astronomy: Bergrun's cylindrical object in Saturn's rings
1995 ยท Rings of Saturn (Voyager and Hubble imagery), claim made on the Alan Handlemann radio programme, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Passed on by Dr Diana Cammack from the internet: in a January 1996 radio interview, former NASA engineer Dr Norman Bergrun claimed that Voyager images of Saturn's rings show a cylindrical object with streamers, perhaps exhaust ports, which he believes is an intelligently controlled vehicle some 7000 miles long, seen in May and August 1995 and gone by November. He cited Science News on a Hubble photograph of a non-satellite in the rings that vanished in a follow-up image, argued that the objects hide in their own exhaust, and said the 1958 Space Act allows withholding information constituting a threat. His book Ringmakers of Saturn holds the rings are pollution left by such craft, which have also visited the Moon and possibly Earth, and may cause Tunguska-type explosions.
What Hind made of it
Hind reports it as 'really interesting news' and sums up Bergrun's message as asking whether we are really alone; she notes his Cornell, LaSalle and Stanford background and awards.
Explanation offered
conventional view that the rings are primordial matter or broken moons, which Bergrun rejects
In their words
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'they' had a tendency to hide in their own exhaust.
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What Dr Bergrun seems to be saying is, 'ARE WE REALLY ALONE?'
Cross references
- Ringmakers of Saturn (1996)
- Science News, February 1996 (Hubble non-satellite)
- 1958 Space Act
- Tunguska explosion, 1908
- Dr Diana Cammack