Expert Says Ireland Is Newest Hotspot For Alien Spaceships

by Jim Dee/Special to the Herald

Monday, January 11, 1999

DUBLIN, Ireland - Last year, 4,230,000 visitors descended on the Emerald Isle - Land of a Thousand Welcomes - from the four corners of the Earth to sample Ireland's legendary hospitality.

Others - possibly from a galaxy far, far, away - hovered in the sky above without ever landing, according to self-taught UFO expert Eamon Ansbro.

Ansbro, 48, a former engineer and meteorologist, has spent much of the past decade trying to perfect a system of predicting when and where alien spacecraft will arrive.

Attention agents Mulder and Scully: Hop a flight to Ireland. Ansbro is convinced UFOs will be hovering above Dublin at 5 a.m. Jan. 30. And in February, he promised, they'll return to one of their favorite haunts, the tiny town of Boyle, County Rosscommon. It's "a UFO hotspot," he said.

Ansbro can't explain exactly why Ireland is a preferred extraterrestrial destination, but says possible reasons range from the nation's political neutrality to its Druidic past. After all, in a country renowned for its `Forty Shades of Green' and a multitude of leprechauns, little green men from outer space might fit in nicely.

And then there's Irish hospitality.

"The one thing about the Irish is that they're open to the new," Ansbro said. "Ireland isn't going to send up some fleet of F-16s and blast UFOs out - which has been done, apparently, by the Americans" in the 1950s.

Ansbro has frequently been profiled in Irish newspapers and featured on British and Irish TV and Irish radio in the last year.

He claimed he has identified "an automated surveillance" of Earth, regularly conducted by "a large craft, say at 80 to 90 thousand feet, that somehow is camouflaged." The craft periodically ejects UFOs to orbit and scan the Earth below, he believes.

Ansbro thinks alien craft use Ireland's abundant stone-age rock monuments, known as Megalithic tombs, as "vortexial energy points" - navigational beacons - to maintain their bearings.

He produces a map he and a fellow member of his group Program for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Project drew up, outlining common alien touring routes around Earth. Eighty percent of them pass over Megalithic tombs.