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Weird Metal Boxes Appear on OR Beaches

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By Dave Masko
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BRAY’S POINT, Ore. – They can’t be moved; even when yanked by a four-wheel drive truck pulling on heavy chains tied around these humming metal boxes that are still appearing as of Feb. 8 up and down West Coast beaches.

As of late afternoon Feb. 8, Bill Hanshumaker, a public marine specialist and (Ph.D) doctor of marine science at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in nearby Newport, told Huliq in an interview that, “I don’t know what they are.” In turn, Doctor Hanshumaker said he’s advised “surf monitoring” about these strange metal boxes that suddenly appeared along local beaches Feb. 6, and now seem to be multiplying like Star Trek “Tribbles.” The photograph that accompanies this report – taken during the afternoon of Feb. 8 near Bray’s Point -- of yet another strange metal box stuck in the surf up is one of a possible group of a dozen or more that have been sited up and down West Coast beaches. Meanwhile, the British government also photographed similar huge metal boxes on beaches in Sri Lanka in the late 1990’s and in early 2004 and 2005. The discovery of the boxes is detailed in updated previously classified reports from the British government that document sightings of unidentified flying objects by both the military and the general public dating back to the 1950s.
UFO history filled with “mystery boxes”
Thus, within these British government UFO files, available via the Internet, are the Sri Lanka beach boxes that are similar in both size, coloring and shape; with locals all along Sri Lanka’s beaches – located in the blue waters of the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal – stating in the recently released British UFO documents that “the strange metal boxes appeared suddenly, and after numerous reported UFO sightings.”
In turn, the metal boxes along Oregon, Washington State and Northern California beaches are now being photographed, documented and examined by local experts.
Also, due to recent storms out in the Pacific Ocean, the “boxes” are being more or less ignored; with passing comments in local coastal newspaper,” state Errol, a Bray’s Point local and a member of the Oregon UFO “watchers” group that gathers both here and at nearby Stonefield Beach to scan the sky for flying objects in much the same way bird lovers use binoculars for birth watching.
Science is slow in reacting to UFO related objects
Errol notes that it’s always a sort of “communication breakdown” that always seems to go the same way; be it a UFO sighting or even something like “these humming metal boxes.”
However, Errol said it’s a good thing “when something like this becomes interesting to the Oregon State University Research Agenda.” For instance, Doctor Hanshumaker works for this OSU research enterprise at the nearby Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon. Whenever there’s some dead sea life – such as a beach whale or other something along the lines of massive dead sea birds – the experts at the Hatfield are called in to investigate.
When asked if he’s ever heard of anything like these huge metal boxes, with no opening or seam, Doctor Hanshumaker would not comment or speculate on the record. Instead, this marine science expert has for photos of the boxes and size and coloring details.
In turn, Doctor Hanshumaker would not speculate about various rumors regarding the boxes; but said that an alert has gone out and the boxes are being investigated. Of course, Huliq will continue to monitor this breaking story that has local coastal residents and visitors scratching their heads about the boxes.
Bray’s Point monitored by the Hatfield
An hour's drive from Corvallis, the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport is OSU's coastal campus for research and investigation of marine biological and geochemical aspects of tidal, estuarine, and near shore ocean environments. According to it's fact sheet, "research programs at HMSC advance scientific understanding of marine and coastal ecosystems, with an emphasis on collaboration across disciplinary and institutional affiliations of the more than 300 personnel onsite."
In turn, marine science experts are tasked by both the state and federal government to monitor the Oregon coastal beaches even more so today after the Japan earthquake last March that sent Tsunami waves racing across the Pacific Ocean that slammed into the West Coast causing destruction and creating a massive amount of debris that seems to be growing daily as beach trekkers find “all sorts of things” along the coast.
While these strange metal boxes have been examined for any lettering or symbols that they may be from last year’s earthquake in Japan, Errol and other Bray’s Point locals say “all we know is there’s been a lot of action in the sky as of late with UFO sightings that seem to be increasing. The boxes were found the day after several sightings and bright lights over Bray’s Point. The boxes have no identification at all.”
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What is and what should never be with UFOs
According to now de-classified once top secret UFO reports – that were under lock and key by the British government since the end of World War II – there’s good reason to keep the public in the dark when it comes to such things as UFO sightings, strange occurrences, first contact with aliens and more in detailed reports that point to senior British Ministry of Defense officials stating to the prime minister in now declassified memos that “if we said to you, Sir, that we have reason to believe the UFOs are real, than what would the British people think of us?”
As for this link between the Sri Lanka beach boxes and the ones now showing up in the surf up and down the West Coast – based on local media reports of “strange metal boxes” – the British Ministry of Defense photos of the Sri Lanka “boxes” are still marked “classified.”
However, there are detailed statements – that cover the period from 1997 to 2005 and include photographs, drawings and “descriptions of flying saucer sightings, as well as letters that the Ministry of Defense sent eyewitnesses in response to their accounts of the metal boxes.”
Of course, both local police here along the coast and back in the day when the Sri Lanka boxes were discovered, state that “they are probably from a container ship,” that theory doesn’t hold water since both the central Oregon coast and the coast of Sri Lanka are not accessible to container ships.
Boxes on the beach called “projectiles”
In one account – featured in the now released British government UFO documents -- a man said he believed he had been "abducted" by aliens in October 1998 after seeing an unidentified craft hover over his coastal home and finding that he had gained an hour of time in the process. The man went on to describe seeing “projectiles” all along the beach “that were here on day, and gone the next.”
However, the metal boxes that suddenly appeared along West Coast beaches – beginning Feb. 6 at nearby Stonefield Beach after local UFO “watchers” reported a weekend filled with what locals call intense UFO sightings.
“These metal looking boxes, that are about 20 inches in height and are a complete square of five foot by five foot are sunk deep in the surf” both here at Stonefield Beach – a popular Oregon coastal beach lookout for UFOs – and down the coast as far as we know “with yet more of these square metal containers that have no opening and are sealed all around,” explains Oregon UFO “watcher” Errol who lives nearby at Bray’s Point.
In turn, these boxes are “not moveable,” and they are solid and metallic and seem to have this keening wail coming from both the boxes and the atmosphere around them,” adds Errol who’s been called in to “see what’s up” by locals thinking it “has something to do with UFOs” quipped a local senior named Doris who said she heard “a miaowing wail come from the boxes Sunday evening.”
Strange beach boxes cause a stir
It’s as if an alarm went off, when a “high, shrill, piercing, frightening ring caught our attention Sunday evening,” explained Doris, a local senior whose retired and lives nearby Stonefield Beach. “I know crazy things happen over at Stonefield, but when you walk down and see that metal box sort of glowing in the surf it gets your attention real quick.”
At the same time, Doris said this area around Stonefield Beach is a very “quiet place,” where “nothing but seagulls and the Pacific Ocean waves to break the quiet.”
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Did anyone read any of the comments posted with the article?
Along with the usual asses and knotheads, there were some interesting theories about this.
1. Made up hoax.
2. It's a publicity stunt for some upcoming movie (remember the remote controlled flying "humanoids" in New York last week? )
3. Why would the Gov ignore something that would be potentially a terrorist device, or radioactive debris from Fukajima's melted nuke plants?
4. Some kind of newly installed military equipment.
5. If the boxes were SO heavy how did they get there without the beach getting torn up by heavy trucks/cranes? So what if an ATV couldn't move it? Most ATV's only weigh a few hundred pounds anyway.

It's definatly worth looking into, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
 
All fair enough points.
Regarding the weight though, surely any tracks left by a vehicle big enough to dump them would be washed away by the tide anyway?
It would be interesting to find out what eventually happened to the ones found in Sri Lanka, which incidentally was the last home of the scientist/novelist/interested guy Sir Arthur C Clarke. I wonder what he may have made of them.

It would be great if someone had some sort of portable X-ray device to see if they are solid hunks of metal (and what metal?) or if there is some structure inside.
Also, I would be interested to hear if the boxes are still there in a week, month, year etc?
 
I think exo_doc is probably right - I reckon it's a publicity stunt.

Too heavy to pull/lift away? Then they presumably didn't get washed there by the tide. But if they did, and "they may be from last year’s earthquake in Japan" and floated thousands of miles, they could just have easily come from a ship - couldn't they?

How many have actually been reported? Any local TV/radio/press coverage? Nothing found in any main-stream news in a Google news search except the story quoted from HULIQ: First in Current News. (Oh yes, the rest must have been told to "keep it quiet"...)

Any recordings of the sounds - do they ALL make a noise?

Nahhh... Hoax (but I hope not!)

Ian
 
Ian - some good points.

We need to know a few things to make sense of this.
1. Exactly what are these made of and how much do they weigh?
2. What would be involved in creating and transporting these objects?
3. If part of a publicity stunt - what for and why those locations?
4. Who exactly first reported them? (was it an anonymous tip-off or member of the public?).

If we find out what they are made of and what it would take to make and transport them (I imagine they must have been placed quickly at night to lessen chances of someone seeing their placement) then we could estimate how much it would cost to do so and what would need to be involved (metal foundries, heavy-lift transportation, vehicles capable of working on sand etc).

Once we have an idea of how much it would cost then it would be possible to compare the cost to say, an advertising campaign for a movie. If it is an expensive process then that will narrow down the list of possible perpetrators - no-one on tight finances is going to pay out for this?

As I posted earlier, If indeed similar objects were found in Sri Lanka, then what happened to them ultimately?
With the price of many metals as high as ever, these objects may be worth a fair deal. Although difficult to move, there may be some real value to them. In the UK just now we are having lots of problems with metals being stolen from churches and railway lines - the profits are high enough to tempt criminals to break their backs in an effort to get to a scrap metal dealer. The problem is so bad, new legislation has been introduced for the specific purpose of preventing metal theft.

Back to a regular Paracast theme - What is the motivation? This stunt, if it is one, took money, skill, planning and time, and for what ultimate aim? I really doubt it was just a prank. Marketing campaign maybe, but if so, you can expect to hear about whatever it is promoting pretty soon, while the interest is still there?

Any metallurgists in the forums who can at least take an educated guess as to the type of metal, cost, manufacturing involved, transportation etc? Answer these questions and I think we may get an answer.
Of all the weird high-strangeness happenings I've read about, this one score pretty high in the useless stakes! What is the point?
 
If it's a stunt, there don't have to be any boxes, just reports and a couple of photos!

There are so many holes in this story. Why no local media coverage? Why no officials carrying out safety checks? Where did the report originally come from?

I had a quick Google for the Sri Lanka version (I admit I didn't do an exhaustive search!), but again nothing except back to the quoted version above. Probably just an example of spurious "facts" giving the story "texture".

I think the recent "strange noises" story/videos are another example; just make up a couple of reports - for whatever reason. Other hoaxers will join in for the hell of it. Then the "hard of thinking" will record thunder, planes, wind, etc., suddenly, inexplicably, misidentifying it as The Noise. This all gets posted on to the internet and, hey presto, a growing phenomenon with "proof" is conjured up out of nothing.

Absolutely brilliant exploitation of human psychology and the internet.

And eventually, a long way down the line, someone says: "Where did all this originate?" When you scrape away there's nothing there...

Oh - it's so DULL being a sceptic...

Ian

PS: Is that one of the UK's Alien Big Cats in the first photo?
 
Ian, you may well be right. The old 'simplest explanation is usually the actual explanation' comes to mind.
Of course the web makes hoaxes on a worldwide scale easily possible.
So back to: Why?
Maybe you are right, it certainly fits the pattern of the 'sky sounds' rubbish. Though I think this hoax, if it is, is a little better than the sounds one. It is a novel idea, and it grabbed my attention immediately, which would be the intention of course. If really loud sounds were really being heard worldwide, then it follows a very loud sound would be heard over a large area. It then follows that many people would have to hear it. It is the actual lack of reporting on the topic that tipped me off to it being a hoax.

Could it be that the type of people who get a buzz out of performing hoaxes are just cottoning on to the fact you can do pretty much anything several times and post it on youtube and at least some people will buy it?

Personally, if this metal box one is a hoax, I have to admit I quite like the flavour of it. It's quite unique and mysterious - perfect fodder for anyone interested in out-of-the-ordinary events.

It is quite interesting even to think of the logistics of these hoaxes. Taking the 'sky sounds' one, well it looks like videos were indeed taken, probably on camera phones, in several locations worldwide, with whatever sounds being either dubbed onto the video recording or being played on a loudspeaker in the vicinity of the cameraman. The latter would give a better effect because the local audio ambience is recorded along with the 'sounds' and no doubt make a more 'authentic' recording.

My point is, is there an international brotherhood of like-minded hoaxers, all willing to heed the call and go out and do their little bit for the overall hoax, or is only one person doing the original hoax with the speed of dissemination of the internet allowing copy-cats to quickly join in the 'glory' of the internet response to the hoax?

At the very least, if there is no truth at all to these stories, it is still interesting if only from the way the hoax is perpetrated, copied and spread round the net.

I readily confess that hoax did not spring to mind until I read your last post Ian, I was thinking it was most likely something unknown but mundane, certainly not anything to do with UFOs or Japanese Nuclear plants. But now you've put the idea out there, it does seem to be a likely explanation. As more time goes on and there is nothing more to the story, it will be more likely in my estimation that it is indeed a hoax.
Is there a secret website where would-be hoaxers are recruited? Or is it just a collection of like-minded people who no doubt only know eachother online?

I await any further developments but alas, it is likely to go exactly the way of the 'sky sounds'; down the pan.

Good call Ian.

ps It is not boring to be skeptical, the Sherlock Holmes character was supremely skeptical but I contend he had as much fun disproving silly notions as the other characters had perpetuation them! And, as skeptical as I sometimes can be about UFOs there is just too much evidence to dismiss them outright and of all the 'good character' UFO witnesses on record, if even only 5% of those are telling the truth, or actually saw what they thought they saw, that still leave an awful lot of compelling cases. And it only takes one......
 
Ian, you may well be right. The old 'simplest explanation is usually the actual explanation' comes to mind.
Of course the web makes hoaxes on a worldwide scale easily possible.
So back to: Why?
Maybe you are right, it certainly fits the pattern of the 'sky sounds' rubbish. Though I think this hoax, if it is, is a little better than the sounds one. It is a novel idea, and it grabbed my attention immediately, which would be the intention of course. If really loud sounds were really being heard worldwide, then it follows a very loud sound would be heard over a large area. It then follows that many people would have to hear it. It is the actual lack of reporting on the topic that tipped me off to it being a hoax.

Could it be that the type of people who get a buzz out of performing hoaxes are just cottoning on to the fact you can do pretty much anything several times and post it on youtube and at least some people will buy it?

Personally, if this metal box one is a hoax, I have to admit I quite like the flavour of it. It's quite unique and mysterious - perfect fodder for anyone interested in out-of-the-ordinary events.

It is quite interesting even to think of the logistics of these hoaxes. Taking the 'sky sounds' one, well it looks like videos were indeed taken, probably on camera phones, in several locations worldwide, with whatever sounds being either dubbed onto the video recording or being played on a loudspeaker in the vicinity of the cameraman. The latter would give a better effect because the local audio ambience is recorded along with the 'sounds' and no doubt make a more 'authentic' recording.

My point is, is there an international brotherhood of like-minded hoaxers, all willing to heed the call and go out and do their little bit for the overall hoax, or is only one person doing the original hoax with the speed of dissemination of the internet allowing copy-cats to quickly join in the 'glory' of the internet response to the hoax?

At the very least, if there is no truth at all to these stories, it is still interesting if only from the way the hoax is perpetrated, copied and spread round the net.

I readily confess that hoax did not spring to mind until I read your last post Ian, I was thinking it was most likely something unknown but mundane, certainly not anything to do with UFOs or Japanese Nuclear plants. But now you've put the idea out there, it does seem to be a likely explanation. As more time goes on and there is nothing more to the story, it will be more likely in my estimation that it is indeed a hoax.
Is there a secret website where would-be hoaxers are recruited? Or is it just a collection of like-minded people who no doubt only know eachother online?

I await any further developments but alas, it is likely to go exactly the way of the 'sky sounds'; down the pan.

Good call Ian.

ps It is not boring to be skeptical, the Sherlock Holmes character was supremely skeptical but I contend he had as much fun disproving silly notions as the other characters had perpetuation them! And, as skeptical as I sometimes can be about UFOs there is just too much evidence to dismiss them outright and of all the 'good character' UFO witnesses on record, if even only 5% of those are telling the truth, or actually saw what they thought they saw, that still leave an awful lot of compelling cases. And it only takes one......
 
Did you mention that these boxes are humming? any recordings been made of the sound? Also if they are really heavy and made of metal, I'd get a crane in and take them to the nearest scrap metal dealer and make a fortune!
 
Did you mention that these boxes are humming? any recordings been made of the sound? Also if they are really heavy and made of metal, I'd get a crane in and take them to the nearest scrap metal dealer and make a fortune!
Good point..... btw, welcome aboard the Paracast Forum Starship! Uhh what pray tell is a "googecheape," and what the heck is that in your avatar's mouth/shit-eatin grin??? lol
 
If there any truth to this at all I would suspect drug smugglers over UFOs. They may be full of contraband of some kind that was either jettisoned or otherwise lost.
 
T.O - I'm not seeing the drug smuggler connection. The only reason to put anything in something so heavy would be to sink it! Even though nature/the tides/oceans can alter rock and move heavy objects over time, I cannot see a mechanism that would deliver several boxes so heavy along a beach. These objects, if they exist, have been deposited where they sit.

Does anyone in the forums actually live near to one of these sights so they can go and have a look to see if it is true and if so, how many boxes are still there?
If any box is there someone could take some basic measurements and record any sounds emanating from the boxes.
I said before that if this story is true the thing I would like see done the most would be for one of the boxes to be X-rayed.
 
Anything that shows up on The Examiner is highly suspect. You have to realize that writers for the Examiner get paid for traffic they bring to the site. I have no doubt that there is just a tremendous amount of trash that gets thrown up there with no other goal than to coax a look. There is just a tremendous amount of recycled UFO B.S. that gets put up there by various dubious sources. I think this is a picture of a mattress on the beach and not a metal box.
 
weird world. :p I tried to put the link here but it wouldn't let me. She had a link from her earth files site to a academic or somebody who actually went out to the beach in Oregon. Interviewed locals and found nothing. Anyway, ya never know maybe she's not as lame as some on here think she is. On the other hand I honestly don't know. Don't really follow her "work."
 
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