Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
15-03-2013
Filer's Files #11 2013 - True Gullies on Mars, Forests to Deserts in 34 Years, Diamond UFOs - DEEL 1
I feel the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation.
Are UFOs Signaling Data? Australian Diamond UFO Sightings, Filmmakers Capture and Icebergs Melting Quickly.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.
Sightings of UFOs were also reported in: Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, South Africa, Sweden, and England in the United Kingdom.
The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research.
I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO's are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George Filer & Arie Vandenberg MUFON Conference, 2012
Hello Readers,
I was notified my daughter Elizabeth Lynn died Monday 3/11/13.
This issue is dedicated to her and 5 year old Georgie Filer V whose motto was Be Happy.
SYDNEY-- Actor Russell Crowe claims to have captured possible UFO evidence on film from a balcony in Sydney, Australia.
In a series of Twitter updates, Crowe who won the best-actor Oscar for his role in "Gladiator" and recently starred in another Oscar-nominated film, "Les Miserables" insists that the pictures are real and that they don't show reflections or lens flare. What the YouTube video does show is a series of three timed-exposure photos, with a flat red light moving across the frame. Crowe said the pictures were taken by a Canon 5D with no flash that was set up on the balcony of his office in the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo to capture pictures of fruit bats rising from the gardens. "This was a big surprise," Crowe wrote.
Some commenters quickly speculated that the UFO was nothing more than reflections from a light, perhaps from a beacon on a sailboat that was passing through nearby Woolloomooloo Bay. But Crowe defended the sighting: "The camera is on a balcony, not behind glass," he told one questioner. "Can't be a lens flare because it moves, camera is fixed," he said in another tweet.
Contacted yesterday Crowe's Aussie rep clarified the alleged UFO video, shot by acclaimed cinematographer Duane Manwiller, was actually filmed in Sydney four years ago.
Asked why Crowe chose to release it now, Vandenberg said: "I have no idea."
The decision to release the old footage came several hours after the actor made a handful of obvious digs at the studio behind his latest flick Broken City"
By examining the makeup of some of the rock formations and the many rounded pebbles nearby, the Curiosity team concluded that a fast-flowing stream once came off the crater rim and ran to the area near the rover's landing site. Unlike the megafloods, these smaller rivers or streams are believed to have run for thousands or millions of years, rather than days or months." Morgan said. "There are huge reservoirs of ice beneath the surface and we don't really know much about its relationship with the surface."
But the Marte Vallis finding makes
clear that water from deep in the planet can and has surged to the surface through rock fractures in the relatively recent past, he said. And it is within the realm of possibility that something similar could set off another megaflood in the future.
Evidence of a megaflood on Marsa surprisingly recent one that cut a 600-mile (966-kilometer) river channel into the planethas been detected by radar from an orbiting satellite.
Scientists have known for some time about the existence of the Marte Vallis channel system. But the new radar research has doubled the estimated depth of the massive flow and identified the headwaters and floodplain of the river. The megaflood and volcano are considered especially significant because they occurred so recently, in geological terms, suggesting that Mars may well remain a geologically active planet today.
Before a new picture of Mars began to emerge over the past decade, the planet was considered to have been cold, dry, and largely geologically dead for more than three billion years.
"What we've found is that the source of this megaflood was water deep underground that was delivered to the surface through tectonic fractures," said Gareth Morgan of the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum, one of several authors of the article appearing in the journal Science.
"The source of the water, and the size of the outflow, had been something of a mystery, but the radar allowed us to look below the lava flows and see what existed there before," he said.
Morgan likened the scale of the Marte Vallis flood to that of the Missoula outpourings of some 15,000 years ago what is now Washington and Oregon. After the breaking of an ice dam at glacial Lake Missoula, the water surged westward and flooded the 200-mile-long lake in 48 hours.
The power of the water dug deep channels into the hardened lava, or basalt.
True Gullies on Mars
Images like this from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show portions of the Martian surface in unprecedented detail. This one shows many channels from 1 meter to 10 meters (3 feet to 33 feet) wide on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin. On Earth we would call these gullies. Some larger channels on Mars that are sometimes called gullies are big enough to be called ravines on Earth. Thanks to JPL University of Arizona.
The radar has been used extensively to investigate the Martian poles, and only more recently have investigators focused on areas such as the equatorial Elysium Planitia, the site of Marte Vallis.
These deep river channels on Mars were formed roughly 3.7 to 3.1 billion years ago. Estimated to run for 600 miles (966 kilometers) or more, these channels are some 60 miles (97 kilometers) wide. By analyzing the characteristics of the channel, the team concluded that the water flow was 262 feet (80 meters) or deeper.
Watery Revolution
The new finding is part of a recent revolution in water discoveries on Mars. Not only have researchers identified deep river channels, but they've discovered gullies of liquid water that are still forming and streams of salty water that appear to flow down some crater walls during the Martian summer.
The Mars rover Curiosity has identified a river or streambed that once tumbled into Gale Crater.
In the Earth's past there was powerful volcanic activity which could have easily spewed dirt and rocks containing microbes into outer space which not only could have eventually reached Mars but also ended up traveling in orbit through space that we now know as meteors. A Newsweek article of September 21, 1998, p.12 mentions exactly this possibility. "We think there's about 7 million tons of earth soil sitting on Mars", says scientist and evolutionist Kenneth Nealson. "You have to consider the possibility that if we find life on Mars, it could have come from the Earth" National Geographic NewsPublished March 7, 2013.
NASA Says Mars Had Life in Past
Mars may well have been a pleasant place for tiny microbes to live, with plenty of water as well as minerals that could have served as food, NASA scientists said Tuesday at a news conference on the latest findings from their Mars rover. But they have yet to find signs that actual microbes did live in that oasis.
"That's two places in our tiny solar system where our kind of life was possible, out of the myriads of solar systems in the galaxy. The egocentric view of the universe just took another hit."
We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you would have been able to drink it, said John P. Grotzinger, the California Institute of Technology geology professor who is the principal investigator for the NASA mission.
In drilling into its first rock, a fine-grained mudstone, the scientists said, the rover Curiosity a self-contained science laboratory about the size of a Mini Cooper sent back to Earth convincing evidence that Mars was once awash in water.
Curiosity scientists identified elements in the rocks sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon that are some of the key ingredients of life, as well as minerals, like sulfates and sulfides, that primitive microbes could eat for food. Dr. Grotzinger said these minerals are effectively like batteries and can provide an energy source for life. Thanks to NASA.
From Forests to Deserts in Only 34 Years
Yesterday, NASA spread the most recent and highest resolution photo of Earth in history. Compared with the photo from 1978, it is evident that the planet has deteriorated in large amounts.
Robert M. Collins writes, The planet cannot sustain an exploding population 7 billion and growing. I predict that unless attitudes change rapidly Mother Earth will take care of the over population and it won't be very pretty. Robert M. Collins
Are UFOs Signaling Data?
Kenneth Larson writes, My current drawings concern the Columbus landing at San Salvador Island where he landed on Oct. 12, 1492. He and his assistant reportedly saw a bright light in the evening sky and they landed the next day. My drawings relate to Columbus 1492 landing and the UFOs over Gulf Breeze in 1992, or 500 years later; and also the four triangular UFOs seen in March 2012 over Jacksonville, Florida.
My drawings also concern the Maya Mesoamerica area that is Book of Mormon country and Old Jerusalem in 600 BC and Zion center or Independence , Missouri site dedicated by the prophet and seer Joseph Smith on August 3, 1831, under great hardship conditions of that era.
All that I can do is record the data as I receive it in the form of drawings and typed texts and publish some of my books. If people ignore my research discoveries that is their problem. All I can do is trust in the Lord and lean not unto my own understanding so as to be guided by the Lord and Holy Spirit. Columbus said, The Holy Spirit guided him to the New World. The equilateral triangular UFOs relate to the Earth's measured designs and units and the UFOs may have helped create and design our nine planet solar system and possibly other exoplanets under an intelligent Creator (Genesis 1:1, Job 38:4-7, Isaiah 40:12,22..
With scientists saying the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and Big Bang 13.75 billion years old no wonder we can't understand the UFOs--a thousand years to us could be 24 hours to UFOs.
Oddly, scientists say the Russian meteorite that exploded last week came from the debris field between the 4th planet Mars and the 5th planet Jupiter in our solar system--and I discovered that Kenneth Arnold said, There was a wide space between the fourth UFO four and the fifth UFO he saw near Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947.My World Atlas illustration of a side view shows a similar space between 4th planet Mars and 5th planet Jupiter in our nine planet solar system and this debris space is also where the rare and exploding Russian meteorite came from last week. Wow! Keep looking up. Thanks to Kenneth Larson kennlrs@aol.com
Australian Diamond UFO Sightings
Nancy Talbot writes, The primary story is an Australian guy's is videotaping UFOs nearly every night. Then the fact that some of his UFOs have the same diamond shape as UFOs videotaped by Megan another Aussie, when she was in England to see crop circles. Then the fact that this diamond-shaped UFO has been videotaped in several other parts of the world.
He's got a YouTube site now so that people can see some of what is going on around him. Here's the story, explaining the connection I see with other events in the UK and in Holland (which include photos never made public before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMIXuWKGBE
In July 2007, an Australian crop circle enthusiast, Megan Heazlewild, was visiting Wiltshire, England to see the crop circles. While staying in an Avebury BandB one night she watched, and then videotaped, a series of amber-colored, diamond-shaped UFOs which kept appearing in the sky not far from Silbury Hill.
The husband and wife owners of the BandB also watched the objects as Megan videotaped them over almost half an hour.
Diamonds over Avebury, England
Many of the people who have seen the video are certain the objects are military flares (there are military bases not too far from the Avebury area) and--because of both the color and some of the behavior of Megan's objects--I also have wondered if they were flares. Here are a couple of screen-shots from her video and the YouTube link.
Note: These objects do not descend like flares with parachutes.
Italy UFOs photographed.
Hope you find this of interest.....Nancy Talbott, BLT Research Team
This researcher, James Balog has been charting the melting of glaciers for the past five years with a very sophisticated multi-point camera system. His research has found that the glaciers that are 2000 feet high are residing at the rate of 1/4 mile per year!
His findings are supportive of the news story issued recently that satellite analysis of the ice melt at the North Pole is so rapid that the North Polar region will be ice free by 2016.
He was asked to comment on the new $30 to $50 Billion proposed plan to protect and save New York City with a series of levees and twin 800 foot floodgates based upon smaller models used at New Orleans as well as a storm surge wetland area and storm surge barriers. (see photo). Response to elaborate plans such as these is that the ice is melting with a greater volume and faster rate than these stop gap measures could ever accommodate. Additionally, how many decades do you think it would take to construct these blue sky protective measures?
The times they are a changing . . . .
The footage is just one part of a new documentary called Chasing Ice, by filmmaker James Balog, which was released in the U.K. and across the U.S. on Friday. An excerpt was published by The Guardian on Wednesday. The film documents in excruciating detail how the Greenland ice is melting due to climate change. Large glaciers are shown falling into the sea and rivers of melting ice.
Satellite photography taken earlier this year showed that arctic sea ice shrank this summer to less than half what it was about four decades ago, reaching a record low in August 2012. The European Space Agency said, The rate of loss is about 50 percent faster than previously forecast. Thanks to ESA.
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Filer's Files #11 2013 - True Gullies on Mars, Forests to Deserts in 34 Years, Diamond UFOs - DEEL 2
Filer's Files #11 2013 - True Gullies on Mars, Forests to Deserts in 34 Years, Diamond UFOs - DEEL 2
Sightings in the United States
Alabama Video
Wetumpka -- I pulled in my driveway when a pop of light caught my attention coming into view over our residence at 10 PM, on March 6, 2013. I went inside for 15 minutes, and when I went outside again I saw a pulsating/strobbing just above the treetops. I watched it for a minute and knew I needed to get my Sony Handy cam and began filming the object.
The object had become an "Orb" looking shape now and I filmed this for 20 minutes observing that the sky was full of twinkling stars but, on my LCD screen all I could observe was the object which made me believe that it was pretty close. I zoomed my recorder to 800X Digital Zoom and began reshooting the object. I also noticed there were now three, but difficult to get them on film. While filming my hearing was affected with a high pitched ringing tone and throughout the encounter I felt very safe and curiously loved. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Alaska Film
fairbanks On Fathers Day my family decided to go out on the lawn and play crocket so I grabbed my camera to get some pictures and saw that the clouds looked different on June 6, 1995. I snapped a photo but never saw the UFO mother ship to the extent of the photo details. I did think the clouds did look strange but never gave it a thought. I was surprised to see not just one but two ships. I did not see the 2nd ship all lit up or exploding or whatever it is doing. This is the original photo that I scanned to up on the computer. I really did catch something out of this world. All my life I have been brought up to be opened minded, that there are angels and we cant be alone in the universe. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arizona Moving Star
I thought it was a shooting star until it changed direction, brightness and distance on March 6, 2013. My neighbor saw it as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
PEOPLES VALLEY-- Little is known about this photo. It was sent by a friend of the photographer on March 9, 2013. The person who sent the photo is attempting to find out details of the photo. The photo is of low resolution and was likely taken with a cell phone and may be the photo a light pole or a reflection of a light pole off of the window glass.
Lincoln The witness reports that on March 10, 2013, going into church, a ufo flew over white house across street.Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Gray Orbs
EL DORADO HILLS -- We went to Creekside Greens Park to have a nice lunch on March 1, 2013, at 12:45 pm. We noticed 30+ grayish seagulls flying really high in a large circle. Then we noticed some were shiny and reflected the sun and I realized those were not birds! Then in a blink of an eye they were gone. Perhaps ten birds were flying in different directions, but where did the birds go? We clearly saw some planes flying lower than the birds.
Then out of nowhere, we saw three planes flying in a triangle formation, with one plane leading in front of the formation and there were two others in a pair, for a total of five objects flying like a pentagram silently. They suddenly vanished. I figure a mother ship was right above us, and the seagulls might have gone behind or inside of it. As for the planes, I think they clearly were coming from the mother ship, which was invisible. Military fighters made several passes. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
SAN DIEGO -- I was not aware that I had taken a photo of whatever this is until I posted the photos. The photo was taken from the 33rd floor of the Manchester Hyatt on March 2, 2013. It might be one of the planets that somehow were visible during the day. This photo was shot through glass, but the white object does not appear in any of the other photos I took within seconds of each other. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Light
NEW HAVEN -- I was bored one night and began flicking the back porch light on and off, when I notice what I thought was a satellite that looked like blue and orange sideways small hand weight. I went outside and it suddenly changed direction going backwards and stopping at the top middle of my house.
It transformed from a giant yellow ball with star like glistening qualities and a giant blue S right through it. It was a small Saturn disk the same color as the ball, also having blue tints. Then nearby there were two small red barbells. On either side. Note: This was Veterans Day but I dont think it matters because it was a serious ufo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Debary -- My wife and I left our house at around 9 pm, on March 9, 2013, and went up our road and saw three red orange circles. They were coming down in a staggered positions then going up in the sky so we both left the bikes and ran across us 92 to get a better look. When the first three disappeared, three more red and orange r spheres came in silently.
I took some pictures and even had a guy stop his car and ask if I saw the last one go faint and disappear. We headed home and saw a huge V shaped thing. A formation of ufos had these orange circles that lit up, then stopped, and it turned towards the objects as their
lights went out. I could still see the triangle shape with a red light in middle. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Six Orange Lights
Edwardsville -- At Dunlap Lake my friend and I viewed six suspended orbs of golden rod or orange in close proximity to each other on March 2, 2013in the southeastern sky. Suddenly four of the lights disappeared at 9:55 PM. The two remaining lights continued to sit in formation for one minute. One by one they faded out of site. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Michigan Husband and Wife's Close Encounter
SCOTTVILLE My wife and I were playing cards in the parlor, when she asked, What is that? I looked out the window we watched what we both thought was seven snowmobiles on our farm on December 22, 2012. Then the lights rose up not too high, but slowly headed toward the house. The objects were getting close as viewed from our kitchen window at 2.03 am.
The back yard is incredibly lit up as the silent object flew above our house and over our shed.
I moved away from the window due to being scared, and just like that, the light disappeared. My wife noticed 31 minutes had passed while I was in the kitchen. I could not believe it, because my wife and I figured I was in the kitchen for just a couple minutes.
My wife refuses to discuss what happened, why? This event haunts me, almost daily; and I swear to God, that this story is the absolute truth. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
New York Drones
New YORK A mystery in the sky over New York City on Monday got one commercial airline pilots attention. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a report from the pilot who claimed he saw an unmanned or remote-controlled aircraft while on his final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport. The pilot, who was at the controls of Alitalia Flight AZA 60, a Boeing 777, spotted what may have been a drone about four to five miles southeast of the airport at an altitude of 1,500 feet while on final approach to Runway 31 Right at about 1:15 PM. The pilot is heard telling air traffic controllers on radio calls recorded by the website LiveATC.net, We saw a drone, a drone aircraft.
But a man named Fyezil who drives an airport shuttle van told 1010 WINS John Montone he often sees kids flying model aircrafts in the area.
I see it many times, he said. Sometimes, I see them flying so high.
The Alitalia flight was not forced to take evasive action and landed safely minutes later, officials said. Thanks to CBS
Note: Drones can carry cameras and be outfitted to look like a UFO.
My brother and I were out-front for 30 minutes watching a helicopter fly around with a spotlight , looking for someone who fired gun shots less than a mile away from my home, the helicopter eventually left the area completely, going south towards downtown Buffalo, where it came from.
I looked up, and directly above me was a bright star like object moving slowly east.
I was trying to figure out what exactly is above me. It moved slowly and twitched like it was vibrating. I snapped a photo and it jetted north across the sky and stopped on a dime and vanished! Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Circles
Morehead City -- I received this photo from a friend in New Hanover County on January26, 2013. He stated he kept getting urges to go out and take some photos but it was overcast and he kind of shrugged it off, until the urges became so strong he got his camera and stepped outside and snapped a few photos this is what he caught.
Thanks to Jim Sutton
Paranormal Research and Investigation Society, Morehead City NC 28570
Conover -- At a carp pond in Catawba County off Claremont Road I noticed three orbs come towards the trees on March 9, 2013. It hovered over a mile above me. They looked like stars at dusk, some brighter than others. Some stayed stationary while some moved around. Some seemed to band together and some grouped with others that were a twinkly blue.
I first thought it was a possible balloon but several dozen appeared and were stationary. I was excited. They eventually went northwest and faded after I videoed and took pictures. About 20 minutes later a military C 17 aircraft flew in the distance. Thanks to MUFON CMS
TexasDisc
AUSTIN -- I took three different photos on February 8, 2013, and some kind of light would always appear. I do not have a flash on my phone so took notice to it very quickly later on when looking at the photos I took. On this particular photo I was just admiring the brightness of the sun and just snapped a picture on my way to work. Later I noticed the red light above the building.
Note: The red light highlighted in the photo is a lens flare. However, a few other objects show up in the photos which are difficult to explain.
Perhaps these other objects could be blemishes are small breaks in the windshield of the car? Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Virginia White Lights on Unique Object
Richmond I dropped my husband off and was returning home on the Richmond Airport Connector Road on March 1, 2013, when I saw what I thought was an airplane light to my right. As I continued to watch the plane I knew it was not heading for the airport so I figured that it was a private jet. As I watched the object it stopped and a light was bright shining down. So now I figured that the object must be police and they were looking for something.
As I came up on the object, I noticed that it was an object that I had never seen. The object was round as a cylinder and hovering over the trees, the inside was hollow except for two cylinders that went thru the middle. Half way thru these two cylinders split and made a "V" shape. I was near the object for about a minute as it took off to the northeast.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with this witness, and she seemed to us to be quite sincere. Her description of the object was so precise and objective; we suspect that she is a very good witness. PD)) Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Washington Triangle
Covington On March 4, 2013, at 1:17 AM, there was something due east that caught my attention high in the sky. It looked different with three red lights relatively close together. The edges of the structure were noticeable, and I saw a black triangle with red lights at each inside corner. It had a very faint glow from the widest edge of the structure. The lights had a very slow strobe action, but didnt change color; they would just turn a brighter color red for a split second, and then a steady duller red for about 10 to 15 seconds.
The lights did not chase each other like Christmas lights can. The strobbing of them was random. The triangular object was stationary and I noticed an extremely bright light like a laser. It was a white pinpoint of light moving toward the triangle. It disappeared either into the triangle or passed above it. The pinpoint did not come out the other side of the triangle. I got a strange feeling and moved back into the building, shut the door and locked it. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Everett-- I was looking out the window on March 9, 2013, when I noticed an object that appeared to be moving closer and closer. I thought it might be a helicopter but was casting a myriad of colors and changing shape and size. I grabbed my Nikon and shot a few photos. I zoomed in and to my surprise I had captured these colored photos.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide Sightings
Australia UFO
sydney Looking east over the slightly cloudy ocean around 9:45 pm, on March 8, 2013, when all of a sudden a really large flash of lighting came down in a straight line towards the ocean. Lighting flashes were emitting around the shape of the ufo, at the same time. It was about five miles up in the night sky so I could observe that it was very big about five times bigger than any 747 aircraft. I was amazed that it was very electrical in ativity. Then after a few seconds I did not see anything again like it had disappeared. This undoubtedly will remain in my thoughts and memory for the rest of my life. Thanks to MUFON CMS
wagga wagga -- Ufo craft was seen which was very bright like a star, but much bigger, and had no aviation lights that flashed. I witnessed it, but after a while it just disappeared like turning off a light switch. A minute later a comet fell a few miles back from the crafts path of travel. I observed it traveling south at a steady speed and did not vary in luminosity or shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Two Bright Orange Pulsing Lights
Vernon, BC -- I was relaxing listening to music with my two buddies and looked out the window towards Okanagan Lake, when I spotted two lights in the sky 100 meters away from each other on March 1, 2013. The two lights were orange and were growing brighter and dimmer, almost like a flickering fire in the distance at 9:30 PM. The lights hovered slowly through the valley rotating end over end and staying the same distance away from each other.
I went outside to see if I could hear helicopter blades, but there was no noise. The object or objects would move and rotate and for about 30 seconds it just stayed stationary. We watched in awe as we discussed the possibilities of a UFO sighting, and all agreed it wasn't normal. The lights continued down the valley no faster than a helicopter and no higher than the valley mountain tops until one light went out. Then 20 seconds later the second one followed. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
India Bright Cylindrical Silent Object
Varanasi -- My son and I were on the roof of our house when we saw a hovering bright cylindrical object on March 1, 2013, at 6 PM. My son pointed out the silent hovering cylindrical object that had no wings, left no trail, if it were a rocket. It was bright and shiny and quickly changed its path while maintaining the same direction. I am very sure it wasn't a conventional craft. It could be a manned/unmanned alien object just commencing its surveillance voyage before sunset. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
German Disc
Freiburg -- A silver disc appeared on January 2nd 2013 at 1:21 PM that flew in a straight line to south. Sometimes it disappeared behind some clouds, but re-appeared after some seconds. It was very slow in the beginning, but then speeded up and disappeared behind the clouds. In the first 20 seconds it flew very slowly, but then it speeded up faster than a plane. I think it was 50 to 100 feet in diameter. One witness saw it clearly with me with identical observations. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Oval
San Carlos -- On the beach I saw a flat oval shaped bright shiny UFO high in the sky which hovered, turned and disappeared after 90 seconds on February 7, 2013, at 10:30 AM. My friend and I were sitting on the beach and he asked, What is that up there? I looked and we both saw a shiny object that was like a flat oval hovering just under the suns rays. We watched for a minute or more and told my friend's husband to look. He stood up to look and the object made a dip to the left and went straight up and disappeared. My friend practices law and I am a real estate agent. There was no plausible explanation for what we saw other than it was an unidentified flying object. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
South Africa Flying Object
Cape Town, Parow East On March 10, 2013, my Mother called us to witness a strange object in the sky at 8:45 PM. At first we didnt see it, but then we saw it appear and disappear at a different location in the night sky. It had one light in the middle and others in a half circle around it, flashing at an extremely high altitude. It would flash and disappear and would appear a great distance from its original place. Even weirder was three star like lights heading south after one another at a high speed heading in the same direction. This was sighted by my Mother, brother, sister, fiancé and I. Thanks to Will Mode.
Sweden Equilateral Orange Light Triangle
Three orange lights were seen moving slowly west about one kilometer high in sky and two kilometers from our location on February 18, 2013 at 10 PM. It pivoted slowly to reveal a perfect equilateral shape and flew southwest silently at a hot air balloon speed. Its lights were about 200 meters apart and did not change distance. Light intensity was very deep orange, significantly larger than warning lights on cell phones towers. After one minute, an additional orange light rose from the northeast with about one kilometer from the triangle object. The light was slightly larger than the lights on the triangle.
It followed the triangle at the same speed and flowed as if it could be a balloon. However after rising first about two kilometers over the hill, it sank to an altitude of 500 meters for a final altitude about one kilometer. It then proceeded to follow the triangle southeast until both were out of sight. The time was about 2145 GMT +1. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
New Zealand Shape Light
Auckland -- Two units of orange to red in color both within 30 seconds both went vertical on March 1, 2013, at 7:45 PM, for 25 seconds. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
United Kingdom Sightings
53.383159N -1.476394 E -- I was out walking and saw people taking pictures and looked up and saw three big orange lights moving across the sky silently on February 18, 2013, at 9 PM. I saw three lights and a few minutes another set of lights appeared. They clearly had the shape of a triangle although two of the lights got closer to one another at one point. After four minutes, two lights of the first triangle faded away then so did the third one. And a couple of minutes later, the exact thing happened to the other triangle. It was really weird; the orange color was like a fire, actually. I wish I'd had been able to take some pictures, but I had run out of battery. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oswestry -- At the time of the event I was doing vocal preparation when my dog barked franticly at the window on February 15, 2013, and ran to the front door as if he had seen something. I got up and checked and saw nothing. My girlfriend came down complaining that she heard a rumbling noise out the bathroom window. We saw an extremely bright light outside the window that lit up our garden. We both ran to the back door and looked out, as the dog hysterically barked outside. We saw a weirdly shaped dark object hovering over the top of the street ascending higher. My phone stopped working. I haven't seen or heard of any kind of aircraft like it in my life as I used to be in the air force. It suddenly shot off at shocking speed. Within the hour our phone started to work again, and we received calls from two people down the street who had seen the same thing.
Our dog had disappeared and we searched, but he came home by himself the next day about 4 pm, and seemed depressed and made no noise. The dogs tail had been burned. My voice seems higher as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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UFO Digest Newsletter March 14, 2013 - Weekly Newsletter
Biggest news today is the election of Pope Francis to head the Roman Catholic Church. Diane Tessman takes a look at the prophecy concerning the new Pontiff. Next, Pat Regan takes a totally different view at the Pope and the Catholic Church. Then, Sean Casteel, explores the life of UFO contactee Oscar Magocsi! I published a number of reports this week: everything from UFOs over Massachusetts to Russell Crowe photographing a UFO! Doc Vega submits various articles on UFO lore. Alfred Lambremont Webre writes about Planet X/Nibiru and an alternative timeline! Roger Marsh reports on a UFO hovering over family trailer. Then, R.W. Sanders asks if there is someone willing to meet an alien? I published a report by Phil Johnson concerning a UFO over Berwickshire, UK. Louis Hart offers more of his wisdom. Floco Tausin writes more about Floaters and the I Ching. Then lastly, Lori Carter writes about a powerless electric city. Enjoy Dirk.< /font>
Pope Francis: Nostradamus and Malachy Wrong?by Diane Tessman. The easy answer is, Yes! The prophecies of Nostradamus and Saint Malachy were proven wrong yesterday as the Catholic cardinals chose Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Argentina, as the new pope. At first glance, there seems to be no connection between Pope Francis and the famous (or infamous), prophecies that Peter Romanus would be the last pope as two suns blaze in the sky (Comet ISON). More... Also read: Aliens: Is The Real Intelligence Behind These Avatars?< /font>
A New Pope, but sinister darkness resides behind the celebrations by Pat Regan. So now, in March 2013, the Catholic Church is in a jubilant state of ecstasy over its brand new Jesuit Pope Francis. Born in Argentina, Pope Francis is the first Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. Hes also the first Jesuit to hold the position. Nuns, priests and the general Catholic throng are happily exchanging greetings together about the papal news. Its all ecclesiastical joy, huge hugs and big kisses. More...
The Many Worlds And Other Dimensions Of Oscar Magocsi, UFO Contactee Extraordinaire by Sean Casteel. His is an old-fashioned UFO story in the same vein as George Adamski and Daniel Fry. He was not abducted by grey aliens, but communicated face-to-face with blonde-haired, blue-eyed Nordic types. Its a pretty much nuts-and-bolts encounter with a couple of junkets to other planets and another dimension or two. Nothing out of the ordinary. Ever heard the name Oscar Magocsi? No? Doesnt ring a bell? More...
Blue Unknown Craft Photographed Over Massachusettsby Dirk Vander Ploeg. Publisher's Note: Received an email this morning from one of our readers Diane P. She enclosed the following photograph and these facts. The photo was taken on February 21, 2013. The time was 20:21 (8:21 PM) Eastern Time. It is photographed in Massachusetts, United States. More... Also read: Australian Actor Russell Crowe Defends UFO Clip
Night Siege in Nomeby Doc Vega. In October 2000, a frightening chain of events unfolded and shed a new sinister light on the abduction syndrome. Until that time most researchers involved in that esoteric field of medical and psychological research viewed abductions as mysterious and compelling, but not necessarily monstrous and terrifying! More... Also read: Ft.Worth UFO makes national headlines Also read: Mysterious Mars and the search for life
Planet X/Nibiru event in alternate timeline?by Alfred Lambremont Webre. In this important February 16, 2013 Video update, Dr. Courtney Brown, director of the Farsight Institute discusses his interim findings on the June 1, 2008- June 1, 2013 Global Climate Change Remote-Viewing Study Multiple Realities, Timelines, and Events. In this video update, Dr. Brown concludes that 15 February 2013 meteor event over Russia, the largest since the Tunguska event, coupled with the close approach of the roughly 50 metre asteroid...More...
UFO Disc Hovers Over West Virginia Families' Trailer by Roger Marsh. West Virginia family members at Bridgeport reported what first appeared to be a plane making an emergency landing was actually a disc-shaped object hovering above a trailer about 9 p.m. on March 12, 2013, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. More...
WANTED: Someone Willing To Meet An Alienby R.W. Sanders. Never ask a question that you don't want answered. Always sage advice, but this time I actually would enjoy several of the answers I received when I authored a piece here at UFO Digest. I challenged ET and called him out rather roughly. I was simultaneously malevolent and benevolent. While letting ET know he had a public relations problem, I offered my assistance. I informed him that his reluctance to show himself was being interpreted as cowardice. More...
UFO Photographed Over Berwickshire UKby Phil Johnson. NEW pictures of the strange blue object spotted in the Berwickshire night sky last month have added another layer of intrigue to what some say is a UFO mystery. Paul Taylor was driving home from Berwick to Duns on February 1 when an unusual patch of light in the dark sky caught his attention. More...
Spirit Callsby Louis Hart. Often, early in the morning, I know from the moment I awaken that I need to travel to some physical place and make a connection there. I refer to these as spirit calls. Its as if Im being summoned. Its not that I am bound by some force to go, but I have learned that when I respond the result is often an incredible experience. More... Also read: Return Of The Mystery Planet
Floaters and the I Chingby Floco Tausin. In China, the Book of Changes (I Ching) is one of the most important books used for divination and self-realization. Its principle may have been developed from the perception of eye floaters during altered states of consciousness. Eye floaters (mouches volantes or muscae volitantes in French and German ophthalmology) is a collective term used in ophthalmology for all possible opacities in the vitreous. More...
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out in the Electric City?by Lori Carter. Sunday, March 10, 2013 and it's raining outside again. I wonder if we will experience the same thing tonight that we did last night. Butler, "The Electric City", so named for being the first city west of the Mississippi River to have electricity loses power whenever the weather changes. If it rains, if it snows, if it is hot, or if it blows you should automatically start reaching for your flashlights. They usually get it back on pretty quick, and it usually only goes out in pockets. More...
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Why Do People Believe In Aliens, Angels and Conspiracies?
Is it just us, or does it seem like everyone is turning into a conspiracy theorist these days?
Aliens, spirit guides, the Illuminati name some mysterious pocket of paranoia or eccentric belief, and there is some kind of massive online community dedicated to understanding it.
While conducting research for our recent white paper on the explosion of Conscious Media, we noticed that one particular subsegment of the Conscious Media Consumer market - the "Mystery Hunter" - is on the rise. No longer limited to a fringe subculture, we discovered that people from all walks of life - from millennials to suburban moms - are becoming fascinated by strange belief systems...
What is driving people to entertain the supernatural and outlandish? Two powerful cultural shifts are accelerating this trend:
1) Religion on the decline:
The Pew Research Center dropped a bombshell report late last year revealing that "one out of five U.S. adults do not identify with a specific religion, and the number of Protestants has for the first time dipped significantly below 50 percent." The decline of religion has created a huge vacuum. Whereas historically most people have relied on the guiding narrative of religion to inform their life decisions and moral choices, now many have withdrawn from organized religion. Yet they often still hunger for something to believe in. People want to believe because they are increasingly open-minded and there is more that is inexplicable as traditional institutions break down. This new mindset was recently highlighted in the popular Salon article Religion may not survive the Internet, which details how factors such as the proliferation of cool science media (think Neil deGrasse Tysons work) has promoted a more scientific point of view.
2) The Ubiquity of Information:
The Internet has provided a unique platform for niche interests to proliferate. And in a noisy environment, weirdness rises to the top -- content creators need fresh novelty to continually attract views. This primes the modern content consumer to entertain unusual ideas. Add this to the speed and amplification effect of the Internet, and you have a recipe for success.
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La vie microbienne a pu exister dans le passé sur la planète Mars, selon une analyse des minéraux contenus dans le premier échantillon d'une roche effectuée par des instruments du robot américain Curiosity, a annoncé
Maquettes montrant la faisabilité des anciens avions
Maquettes montrant la faisabilité des anciens avions Deux maquettes volantes basées sur les "bijoux" pré-colombiens ont leur aptitude à voler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LdOioSt6vc L'autre est plus "pénible" à regarder, mais elle montre l'intérêt des boucles sur le bord d'attaque de l'aile delta, comme générateurs de vortex. L'engin peut voler lentement avec une incidence d'environ 30° http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=kVPli_2-Qw4&feature=endscreen
Ce site à près de 12000 ans et ne ressemble à rien de connu de la même époque. Bien sûr, les interprétations néo-évhéméristes vont bon train. Peut-être à juste titre.
Göbekli Tepe
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The Birth of Religion
We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the worlds oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization.
By Charles C. Mann
Photograph by Vincent J. Musi
Every now and then the dawn of civilization is reenacted on a remote hilltop in southern Turkey.
The reenactors are busloads of touristsusually Turkish, sometimes European. The buses (white, air-conditioned, equipped with televisions) blunder over the winding, indifferently paved road to the ridge and dock like dreadnoughts before a stone portal. Visitors flood out, fumbling with water bottles and MP3 players. Guides call out instructions and explanations. Paying no attention, the visitors straggle up the hill. When they reach the top, their mouths flop open with amazement, making a line of perfect cartoon O's.
Before them are dozens of massive stone pillars arranged into a set of rings, one mashed up against the next. Known as Göbekli Tepe (pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh), the site is vaguely reminiscent of Stonehenge, except that Göbekli Tepe was built much earlier and is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas-reliefs of animalsa cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecturethe first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world.
At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelightemissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.
Archaeologists are still excavating Göbekli Tepe and debating its meaning. What they do know is that the site is the most significant in a volley of unexpected findings that have overturned earlier ideas about our species' deep past. Just 20 years ago most researchers believed they knew the time, place, and rough sequence of the Neolithic Revolutionthe critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture, taking Homo sapiens from scattered groups of hunter-gatherers to farming villages and from there to technologically sophisticated societies with great temples and towers and kings and priests who directed the labor of their subjects and recorded their feats in written form. But in recent years multiple new discoveries, Göbekli Tepe preeminent among them, have begun forcing archaeologists to reconsider.
At first the Neolithic Revolution was viewed as a single eventa sudden flash of geniusthat occurred in a single location, Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now southern Iraq, then spread to India, Europe, and beyond. Most archaeologists believed this sudden blossoming of civilization was driven largely by environmental changes: a gradual warming as the Ice Age ended that allowed some people to begin cultivating plants and herding animals in abundance. The new research suggests that the "revolution" was actually carried out by many hands across a huge area and over thousands of years. And it may have been driven not by the environment but by something else entirely.
After a moment of stunned quiet, tourists at the site busily snap pictures with cameras and cell phones. Eleven millennia ago nobody had digital imaging equipment, of course. Yet things have changed less than one might think. Most of the world's great religious centers, past and present, have been destinations for pilgrimagesthink of the Vatican, Mecca, Jerusalem, Bodh Gaya (where Buddha was enlightened), or Cahokia (the enormous Native American complex near St. Louis). They are monuments for spiritual travelers, who often came great distances, to gawk at and be stirred by. Göbekli Tepe may be the first of all of them, the beginning of a pattern. What it suggests, at least to the archaeologists working there, is that the human sense of the sacredand the human love of a good spectaclemay have given rise to civilization itself.
Klaus Schmidt knew almost instantly that he was going to be spending a lot of time at Göbekli Tepe. Now a researcher at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Schmidt had spent the autumn of 1994 trundling across southeastern Turkey. He had been working at a site there for a few years and was looking for another place to excavate. The biggest city in the area is Şanlıurfa (pronounced shan-LYOOR-fa). By the standards of a brash newcomer like London, Şanlıurfa is incredibly oldthe place where the Prophet Abraham supposedly was born. Schmidt was in the city to find a place that would help him understand the Neolithic, a place that would make Şanlıurfa look young. North of Şanlıurfa the ground ripples into the first foothills of the mountains that run across southern Turkey, source of the famous Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Nine miles outside of town is a long ridge with a rounded crest that locals call Potbelly HillGöbekli Tepe.
In the 1960s archaeologists from the University of Chicago had surveyed the region and concluded that Göbekli Tepe was of little interest. Disturbance was evident at the top of the hill, but they attributed it to the activities of a Byzantine-era military outpost. Here and there were broken pieces of limestone they thought were gravestones. Schmidt had come across the Chicago researchers' brief description of the hilltop and decided to check it out. On the ground he saw flint chipshuge numbers of them. "Within minutes of getting there," Schmidt says, he realized that he was looking at a place where scores or even hundreds of people had worked in millennia past. The limestone slabs were not Byzantine graves but something much older. In collaboration with the DAI and the Şanlıurfa Museum, he set to work the next year.
Inches below the surface the team struck an elaborately fashioned stone. Then another, and anothera ring of standing pillars. As the months and years went by, Schmidt's team, a shifting crew of German and Turkish graduate students and 50 or more local villagers, found a second circle of stones, then a third, and then more. Geomagnetic surveys in 2003 revealed at least 20 rings piled together, higgledy-piggledy, under the earth.
The pillars were bigthe tallest are 18 feet in height and weigh 16 tons. Swarming over their surfaces was a menagerie of animal bas-reliefs, each in a different style, some roughly rendered, a few as refined and symbolic as Byzantine art. Other parts of the hill were littered with the greatest store of ancient flint tools Schmidt had ever seena Neolithic warehouse of knives, choppers, and projectile points. Even though the stone had to be lugged from neighboring valleys, Schmidt says, "there were more flints in one little area here, a square meter or two, than many archaeologists find in entire sites."
The circles follow a common design. All are made from limestone pillars shaped like giant spikes or capital T's. Bladelike, the pillars are easily five times as wide as they are deep. They stand an arm span or more apart, interconnected by low stone walls. In the middle of each ring are two taller pillars, their thin ends mounted in shallow grooves cut into the floor. I asked German architect and civil engineer Eduard Knoll, who works with Schmidt to preserve the site, how well designed the mounting system was for the central pillars. "Not," he said, shaking his head. "They hadn't yet mastered engineering." Knoll speculated that the pillars may have been propped up, perhaps by wooden posts.
To Schmidt, the T-shaped pillars are stylized human beings, an idea bolstered by the carved arms that angle from the "shoulders" of some pillars, hands reaching toward their loincloth-draped bellies. The stones face the center of the circleas at "a meeting or dance," Schmidt saysa representation, perhaps, of a religious ritual. As for the prancing, leaping animals on the figures, he noted that they are mostly deadly creatures: stinging scorpions, charging boars, ferocious lions. The figures represented by the pillars may be guarded by them, or appeasing them, or incorporating them as totems.
Puzzle piled upon puzzle as the excavation continued. For reasons yet unknown, the rings at Göbekli Tepe seem to have regularly lost their power, or at least their charm. Every few decades people buried the pillars and put up new stonesa second, smaller ring, inside the first. Sometimes, later, they installed a third. Then the whole assemblage would be filled in with debris, and an entirely new circle created nearby. The site may have been built, filled in, and built again for centuries.
Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building. The earliest rings are the biggest and most sophisticated, technically and artistically. As time went by, the pillars became smaller, simpler, and were mounted with less and less care. Finally the effort seems to have petered out altogether by 8200 B.C. Göbekli Tepe was all fall and no rise.
As important as what the researchers found was what they did not find: any sign of habitation. Hundreds of people must have been required to carve and erect the pillars, but the site had no water sourcethe nearest stream was about three miles away. Those workers would have needed homes, but excavations have uncovered no sign of walls, hearths, or housesno other buildings that Schmidt has interpreted as domestic. They would have had to be fed, but there is also no trace of agriculture. For that matter, Schmidt has found no mess kitchens or cooking fires. It was purely a ceremonial center. If anyone ever lived at this site, they were less its residents than its staff. To judge by the thousands of gazelle and aurochs bones found at the site, the workers seem to have been fed by constant shipments of game, brought from faraway hunts. All of this complex endeavor must have had organizers and overseers, but there is as yet no good evidence of a social hierarchyno living area reserved for richer people, no tombs filled with elite goods, no sign of some people having better diets than others.
"These people were foragers," Schmidt says, people who gathered plants and hunted wild animals. "Our picture of foragers was always just small, mobile groups, a few dozen people. They cannot make big permanent structures, we thought, because they must move around to follow the resources. They can't maintain a separate class of priests and craft workers, because they can't carry around all the extra supplies to feed them. Then here is Göbekli Tepe, and they obviously did that."
Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife. "I, my colleagues, we all thought, What? How?" Schmidt said. Paradoxically, Göbekli Tepe appeared to be both a harbinger of the civilized world that was to come and the last, greatest emblem of a nomadic past that was already disappearing. The accomplishment was astonishing, but it was hard to understand how it had been done or what it meant. "In 10 or 15 years," Schmidt predicts, "Göbekli Tepe will be more famous than Stonehenge. And for good reason."
Hovering over Göbekli Tepe is the ghost of V. Gordon Childe. An Australian transplant to Britain, Childe was a flamboyant man, a passionate Marxist who wore plus fours and bow ties and larded his public addresses with noodle-headed paeans to Stalinism. He was also one of the most influential archaeologists of the past century. A great synthesist, Childe wove together his colleagues' disconnected facts into overarching intellectual schemes. The most famous of these arose in the 1920s, when he invented the concept of the Neolithic Revolution.
In today's terms, Childe's views could be summed up like this: Homo sapiens burst onto the scene about 200,000 years ago. For most of the millennia that followed, the species changed remarkably little, with humans living as small bands of wandering foragers. Then came the Neolithic Revolution"a radical change," Childe said, "fraught with revolutionary consequences for the whole species." In a lightning bolt of inspiration, one part of humankind turned its back on foraging and embraced agriculture. The adoption of farming, Childe argued, brought with it further transformations. To tend their fields, people had to stop wandering and move into permanent villages, where they developed new tools and created pottery. The Neolithic Revolution, in his view, was an explosively important event"the greatest in human history after the mastery of fire."
Of all the aspects of the revolution, agriculture was the most important. For thousands of years men and women with stone implements had wandered the landscape, cutting off heads of wild grain and taking them home. Even though these people may have tended and protected their grain patches, the plants they watched over were still wild. Wild wheat and barley, unlike their domesticated versions, shatter when they are ripethe kernels easily break off the plant and fall to the ground, making them next to impossible to harvest when fully ripe. Genetically speaking, true grain agriculture began only when people planted large new areas with mutated plants that did not shatter at maturity, creating fields of domesticated wheat and barley that, so to speak, waited for farmers to harvest them.
Rather than having to comb through the landscape for food, people could now grow as much as they needed and where they needed it, so they could live together in larger groups. Population soared. "It was only after the revolutionbut immediately thereafterthat our species really began to multiply at all fast," Childe wrote. In these suddenly more populous societies, ideas could be more readily exchanged, and rates of technological and social innovation soared. Religion and artthe hallmarks of civilizationflourished.
Childe, like most researchers today, believed that the revolution first occurred in the Fertile Crescent, the arc of land that curves northeast from Gaza into southern Turkey and then sweeps southeast into Iraq. Bounded on the south by the harsh Syrian Desert and on the north by the mountains of Turkey, the crescent is a band of temperate climate between inhospitable extremes. Its eastern terminus is the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraqthe site of a realm known as Sumer, which dates back to about 4000 B.C. In Childe's day most researchers agreed that Sumer represented the beginning of civilization. Archaeologist Samuel Noah Kramer summed up that view in the 1950s in his book History Begins at Sumer. Yet even before Kramer finished writing, the picture was being revised at the opposite, western end of the Fertile Crescent. In the Levantthe area that today encompasses Israel, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Jordan, and western Syriaarchaeologists had discovered settlements dating as far back as 13,000 B.C. Known as Natufian villages (the name comes from the first of these sites to be found), they sprang up across the Levant as the Ice Age was drawing to a close, ushering in a time when the region's climate became relatively warm and wet.
The discovery of the Natufians was the first rock through the window of Childe's Neolithic Revolution. Childe had thought agriculture the necessary spark that led to villages and ignited civilization. Yet although the Natufians lived in permanent settlements of up to several hundred people, they were foragers, not farmers, hunting gazelles and gathering wild rye, barley, and wheat. "It was a big sign that our ideas needed to be revised," says Harvard University archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef.
Natufian villages ran into hard times around 10,800 B.C., when regional temperatures abruptly fell some 12°F, part of a mini ice age that lasted 1,200 years and created much drier conditions across the Fertile Crescent. With animal habitat and grain patches shrinking, a number of villages suddenly became too populous for the local food supply. Many people once again became wandering foragers, searching the landscape for remaining food sources.
Some settlements tried to adjust to the more arid conditions. The village of Abu Hureyra, in what is now northern Syria, seemingly tried to cultivate local stands of rye, perhaps replanting them. After examining rye grains from the site, Gordon Hillman of University College London and Andrew Moore of the Rochester Institute of Technology argued in 2000 that some were bigger than their wild equivalentsa possible sign of domestication, because cultivation inevitably increases qualities, such as fruit and seed size, that people find valuable. Bar-Yosef and some other researchers came to believe that nearby sites like Mureybet and Tell Qaramel also had had agriculture.
If these archaeologists were correct, these protovillages provided a new explanation of how complex society began. Childe thought that agriculture came first, that it was the innovation that allowed humans to seize the opportunity of a rich new environment to extend their dominion over the natural world. The Natufian sites in the Levant suggested instead that settlement came first and that farming arose later, as a product of crisis. Confronted with a drying, cooling environment and growing populations, humans in the remaining fecund areas thought, as Bar-Yosef puts it, "If we move, these other folks will exploit our resources. The best way for us to survive is to settle down and exploit our own area." Agriculture followed.
The idea that the Neolithic Revolution was driven by climate change resonated during the 1990s, a time when people were increasingly worried about the effects of modern global warming. It was promoted in countless articles and books and ultimately enshrined in Wikipedia. Yet critics charged that the evidence was weak, not least because Abu Hureyra, Mureybet, and many other sites in northern Syria had been flooded by dams before they could be fully excavated. "You had an entire theory on the origins of human culture essentially based on a half a dozen unusually plump seeds," ancient-grain specialist George Willcox of the National Center for Scientific Research, in France, says. "Isn't it more likely that these grains were puffed during charring or that somebody at Abu Hureyra found some unusual-looking wild rye?"
As the dispute over the Natufians sharpened, Schmidt was carefully working at Göbekli Tepe. And what he was finding would, once again, force many researchers to reassess their ideas.
Anthropologists have assumed that organized religion began as a way of salving the tensions that inevitably arose when hunter-gatherers settled down, became farmers, and developed large societies. Compared to a nomadic band, the society of a village had longer term, more complex aimsstoring grain and maintaining permanent homes. Villages would be more likely to accomplish those aims if their members were committed to the collective enterprise. Though primitive religious practicesburying the dead, creating cave art and figurineshad emerged tens of thousands of years earlier, organized religion arose, in this view, only when a common vision of a celestial order was needed to bind together these big, new, fragile groups of humankind. It could also have helped justify the social hierarchy that emerged in a more complex society: Those who rose to power were seen as having a special connection with the gods. Communities of the faithful, united in a common view of the world and their place in it, were more cohesive than ordinary clumps of quarreling people.
Göbekli Tepe, to Schmidt's way of thinking, suggests a reversal of that scenario: The construction of a massive temple by a group of foragers is evidence that organized religion could have come before the rise of agriculture and other aspects of civilization. It suggests that the human impulse to gather for sacred rituals arose as humans shifted from seeing themselves as part of the natural world to seeking mastery over it. When foragers began settling down in villages, they unavoidably created a divide between the human realma fixed huddle of homes with hundreds of inhabitantsand the dangerous land beyond the campfire, populated by lethal beasts.
French archaeologist Jacques Cauvin believed this change in consciousness was a "revolution of symbols," a conceptual shift that allowed humans to imagine godssupernatural beings resembling humansthat existed in a universe beyond the physical world. Schmidt sees Göbekli Tepe as evidence for Cauvin's theory. "The animals were guardians to the spirit world," he says. "The reliefs on the T-shaped pillars illustrate that other world."
Schmidt speculates that foragers living within a hundred-mile radius of Göbekli Tepe created the temple as a holy place to gather and meet, perhaps bringing gifts and tributes to its priests and craftspeople. Some kind of social organization would have been necessary not only to build it but also to deal with the crowds it attracted. One imagines chanting and drumming, the animals on the great pillars seeming to move in flickering torchlight. Surely there were feasts; Schmidt has uncovered stone basins that could have been used for beer. The temple was a spiritual locus, but it may also have been the Neolithic version of Disneyland.
Over time, Schmidt believes, the need to acquire sufficient food for those who worked and gathered for ceremonies at Göbekli Tepe may have led to the intensive cultivation of wild cereals and the creation of some of the first domestic strains. Indeed, scientists now believe that one center of agriculture arose in southern Turkeywell within trekking distance of Göbekli Tepeat exactly the time the temple was at its height. Today the closest known wild ancestors of modern einkorn wheat are found on the slopes of Karaca Dağ, a mountain just 60 miles northeast of Göbekli Tepe. In other words, the turn to agriculture celebrated by V. Gordon Childe may have been the result of a need that runs deep in the human psyche, a hunger that still moves people today to travel the globe in search of awe-inspiring sights.
Some of the first evidence for plant domestication comes from Nevalı Çori (pronounced nuh-vah-LUH CHO-ree), a settlement in the mountains scarcely 20 miles away. Like Göbekli Tepe, Nevalı Çori came into existence right after the mini ice age, a time archaeologists describe with the unlovely term Pre-pottery Neolithic (PPN). Nevalı Çori is now inundated by a recently created lake that provides electricity and irrigation water for the region. But before the waters shut down research, archaeologists found T-shaped pillars and animal images much like those Schmidt would later uncover at Göbekli Tepe. Similar pillars and images occurred in PPN settlements up to a hundred miles from Göbekli Tepe. Much as one can surmise today that homes with images of the Virgin Mary belong to Christians, Schmidt says, the imagery in these PPN sites indicates a shared religiona community of faith that surrounded Göbekli Tepe and may have been the world's first truly large religious grouping.
Naturally, some of Schmidt's colleagues disagree with his ideas. The lack of evidence of houses, for instance, doesn't prove that nobody lived at Göbekli Tepe. And increasingly, archaeologists studying the origins of civilization in the Fertile Crescent are suspicious of any attempt to find a one-size-fits-all scenario, to single out one primary trigger. It is more as if the occupants of various archaeological sites were all playing with the building blocks of civilization, looking for combinations that worked. In one place agriculture may have been the foundation; in another, art and religion; and over there, population pressures or social organization and hierarchy. Eventually they all ended up in the same place. Perhaps there is no single path to civilization; instead it was arrived at by different means in different places.
In Schmidt's view, many of his colleagues have been as slow to appreciate Göbekli Tepe as he has been to excavate it. This summer will mark his 17th year at the site. The annals of archaeology are replete with scientists who in their hurry carelessly wrecked important finds, losing knowledge for all time. Schmidt is determined not to add his name to the list. Today less than a tenth of the 22-acre site is open to the sky.
Schmidt emphasizes that further research on Göbekli Tepe may change his current understanding of the site's importance. Even its age is not clearSchmidt is not certain he has reached the bottom layer. "We come up with two new mysteries for every one that we solve," he says. Still, he has already drawn some conclusions. "Twenty years ago everyone believed civilization was driven by ecological forces," Schmidt says. "I think what we are learning is that civilization is a product of the human mind."
Charles C. Manns new book, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, is due out in August. Vincent J. Musi photographed the domestication of animals for our March issue.
As important as what the researchers found was what they did not find: any sign of habitation. Hundreds of people must have been required to carve and erect the pillars, but the site had no water sourcethe nearest stream was about three miles away. Those workers would have needed homes, but excavations have uncovered no sign of walls, hearths, or housesno other buildings that Schmidt has interpreted as domestic. They would have had to be fed, but there is also no trace of agriculture. For that matter, Schmidt has found no mess kitchens or cooking fires. It was purely a ceremonial center. If anyone ever lived at this site, they were less its residents than its staff. To judge by the thousands of gazelle and aurochs bones found at the site, the workers seem to have been fed by constant shipments of game, brought from faraway hunts. All of this complex endeavor must have had organizers and overseers, but there is as yet no good evidence of a social hierarchyno living area reserved for richer people, no tombs filled with elite goods, no sign of some people having better diets than others.
"These people were foragers," Schmidt says, people who gathered plants and hunted wild animals. "Our picture of foragers was always just small, mobile groups, a few dozen people. They cannot make big permanent structures, we thought, because they must move around to follow the resources. They can't maintain a separate class of priests and craft workers, because they can't carry around all the extra supplies to feed them. Then here is Göbekli Tepe, and they obviously did that."
Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife. "I, my colleagues, we all thought, What? How?" Schmidt said. Paradoxically, Göbekli Tepe appeared to be both a harbinger of the civilized world that was to come and the last, greatest emblem of a nomadic past that was already disappearing. The accomplishment was astonishing, but it was hard to understand how it had been done or what it meant. "In 10 or 15 years," Schmidt predicts, "Göbekli Tepe will be more famous than Stonehenge. And for good reason."
Hovering over Göbekli Tepe is the ghost of V. Gordon Childe. An Australian transplant to Britain, Childe was a flamboyant man, a passionate Marxist who wore plus fours and bow ties and larded his public addresses with noodle-headed paeans to Stalinism. He was also one of the most influential archaeologists of the past century. A great synthesist, Childe wove together his colleagues' disconnected facts into overarching intellectual schemes. The most famous of these arose in the 1920s, when he invented the concept of the Neolithic Revolution.
In today's terms, Childe's views could be summed up like this: Homo sapiens burst onto the scene about 200,000 years ago. For most of the millennia that followed, the species changed remarkably little, with humans living as small bands of wandering foragers. Then came the Neolithic Revolution"a radical change," Childe said, "fraught with revolutionary consequences for the whole species." In a lightning bolt of inspiration, one part of humankind turned its back on foraging and embraced agriculture. The adoption of farming, Childe argued, brought with it further transformations. To tend their fields, people had to stop wandering and move into permanent villages, where they developed new tools and created pottery. The Neolithic Revolution, in his view, was an explosively important event"the greatest in human history after the mastery of fire."
Of all the aspects of the revolution, agriculture was the most important. For thousands of years men and women with stone implements had wandered the landscape, cutting off heads of wild grain and taking them home. Even though these people may have tended and protected their grain patches, the plants they watched over were still wild. Wild wheat and barley, unlike their domesticated versions, shatter when they are ripethe kernels easily break off the plant and fall to the ground, making them next to impossible to harvest when fully ripe. Genetically speaking, true grain agriculture began only when people planted large new areas with mutated plants that did not shatter at maturity, creating fields of domesticated wheat and barley that, so to speak, waited for farmers to harvest them.
Rather than having to comb through the landscape for food, people could now grow as much as they needed and where they needed it, so they could live together in larger groups. Population soared. "It was only after the revolutionbut immediately thereafterthat our species really began to multiply at all fast," Childe wrote. In these suddenly more populous societies, ideas could be more readily exchanged, and rates of technological and social innovation soared. Religion and artthe hallmarks of civilizationflourished.
Childe, like most researchers today, believed that the revolution first occurred in the Fertile Crescent, the arc of land that curves northeast from Gaza into southern Turkey and then sweeps southeast into Iraq. Bounded on the south by the harsh Syrian Desert and on the north by the mountains of Turkey, the crescent is a band of temperate climate between inhospitable extremes. Its eastern terminus is the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraqthe site of a realm known as Sumer, which dates back to about 4000 B.C. In Childe's day most researchers agreed that Sumer represented the beginning of civilization. Archaeologist Samuel Noah Kramer summed up that view in the 1950s in his book History Begins at Sumer. Yet even before Kramer finished writing, the picture was being revised at the opposite, western end of the Fertile Crescent. In the Levantthe area that today encompasses Israel, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Jordan, and western Syriaarchaeologists had discovered settlements dating as far back as 13,000 B.C. Known as Natufian villages (the name comes from the first of these sites to be found), they sprang up across the Levant as the Ice Age was drawing to a close, ushering in a time when the region's climate became relatively warm and wet.
The discovery of the Natufians was the first rock through the window of Childe's Neolithic Revolution. Childe had thought agriculture the necessary spark that led to villages and ignited civilization. Yet although the Natufians lived in permanent settlements of up to several hundred people, they were foragers, not farmers, hunting gazelles and gathering wild rye, barley, and wheat. "It was a big sign that our ideas needed to be revised," says Harvard University archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef.
Natufian villages ran into hard times around 10,800 B.C., when regional temperatures abruptly fell some 12°F, part of a mini ice age that lasted 1,200 years and created much drier conditions across the Fertile Crescent. With animal habitat and grain patches shrinking, a number of villages suddenly became too populous for the local food supply. Many people once again became wandering foragers, searching the landscape for remaining food sources.
Some settlements tried to adjust to the more arid conditions. The village of Abu Hureyra, in what is now northern Syria, seemingly tried to cultivate local stands of rye, perhaps replanting them. After examining rye grains from the site, Gordon Hillman of University College London and Andrew Moore of the Rochester Institute of Technology argued in 2000 that some were bigger than their wild equivalentsa possible sign of domestication, because cultivation inevitably increases qualities, such as fruit and seed size, that people find valuable. Bar-Yosef and some other researchers came to believe that nearby sites like Mureybet and Tell Qaramel also had had agriculture.
If these archaeologists were correct, these protovillages provided a new explanation of how complex society began. Childe thought that agriculture came first, that it was the innovation that allowed humans to seize the opportunity of a rich new environment to extend their dominion over the natural world. The Natufian sites in the Levant suggested instead that settlement came first and that farming arose later, as a product of crisis. Confronted with a drying, cooling environment and growing populations, humans in the remaining fecund areas thought, as Bar-Yosef puts it, "If we move, these other folks will exploit our resources. The best way for us to survive is to settle down and exploit our own area." Agriculture followed.
The idea that the Neolithic Revolution was driven by climate change resonated during the 1990s, a time when people were increasingly worried about the effects of modern global warming. It was promoted in countless articles and books and ultimately enshrined in Wikipedia. Yet critics charged that the evidence was weak, not least because Abu Hureyra, Mureybet, and many other sites in northern Syria had been flooded by dams before they could be fully excavated. "You had an entire theory on the origins of human culture essentially based on a half a dozen unusually plump seeds," ancient-grain specialist George Willcox of the National Center for Scientific Research, in France, says. "Isn't it more likely that these grains were puffed during charring or that somebody at Abu Hureyra found some unusual-looking wild rye?"
As the dispute over the Natufians sharpened, Schmidt was carefully working at Göbekli Tepe. And what he was finding would, once again, force many researchers to reassess their ideas.
Anthropologists have assumed that organized religion began as a way of salving the tensions that inevitably arose when hunter-gatherers settled down, became farmers, and developed large societies. Compared to a nomadic band, the society of a village had longer term, more complex aimsstoring grain and maintaining permanent homes. Villages would be more likely to accomplish those aims if their members were committed to the collective enterprise. Though primitive religious practicesburying the dead, creating cave art and figurineshad emerged tens of thousands of years earlier, organized religion arose, in this view, only when a common vision of a celestial order was needed to bind together these big, new, fragile groups of humankind. It could also have helped justify the social hierarchy that emerged in a more complex society: Those who rose to power were seen as having a special connection with the gods. Communities of the faithful, united in a common view of the world and their place in it, were more cohesive than ordinary clumps of quarreling people.
Göbekli Tepe, to Schmidt's way of thinking, suggests a reversal of that scenario: The construction of a massive temple by a group of foragers is evidence that organized religion could have come before the rise of agriculture and other aspects of civilization. It suggests that the human impulse to gather for sacred rituals arose as humans shifted from seeing themselves as part of the natural world to seeking mastery over it. When foragers began settling down in villages, they unavoidably created a divide between the human realma fixed huddle of homes with hundreds of inhabitantsand the dangerous land beyond the campfire, populated by lethal beasts.
French archaeologist Jacques Cauvin believed this change in consciousness was a "revolution of symbols," a conceptual shift that allowed humans to imagine godssupernatural beings resembling humansthat existed in a universe beyond the physical world. Schmidt sees Göbekli Tepe as evidence for Cauvin's theory. "The animals were guardians to the spirit world," he says. "The reliefs on the T-shaped pillars illustrate that other world."
Schmidt speculates that foragers living within a hundred-mile radius of Göbekli Tepe created the temple as a holy place to gather and meet, perhaps bringing gifts and tributes to its priests and craftspeople. Some kind of social organization would have been necessary not only to build it but also to deal with the crowds it attracted. One imagines chanting and drumming, the animals on the great pillars seeming to move in flickering torchlight. Surely there were feasts; Schmidt has uncovered stone basins that could have been used for beer. The temple was a spiritual locus, but it may also have been the Neolithic version of Disneyland.
Over time, Schmidt believes, the need to acquire sufficient food for those who worked and gathered for ceremonies at Göbekli Tepe may have led to the intensive cultivation of wild cereals and the creation of some of the first domestic strains. Indeed, scientists now believe that one center of agriculture arose in southern Turkeywell within trekking distance of Göbekli Tepeat exactly the time the temple was at its height. Today the closest known wild ancestors of modern einkorn wheat are found on the slopes of Karaca Dağ, a mountain just 60 miles northeast of Göbekli Tepe. In other words, the turn to agriculture celebrated by V. Gordon Childe may have been the result of a need that runs deep in the human psyche, a hunger that still moves people today to travel the globe in search of awe-inspiring sights.
Some of the first evidence for plant domestication comes from Nevalı Çori (pronounced nuh-vah-LUH CHO-ree), a settlement in the mountains scarcely 20 miles away. Like Göbekli Tepe, Nevalı Çori came into existence right after the mini ice age, a time archaeologists describe with the unlovely term Pre-pottery Neolithic (PPN). Nevalı Çori is now inundated by a recently created lake that provides electricity and irrigation water for the region. But before the waters shut down research, archaeologists found T-shaped pillars and animal images much like those Schmidt would later uncover at Göbekli Tepe. Similar pillars and images occurred in PPN settlements up to a hundred miles from Göbekli Tepe. Much as one can surmise today that homes with images of the Virgin Mary belong to Christians, Schmidt says, the imagery in these PPN sites indicates a shared religiona community of faith that surrounded Göbekli Tepe and may have been the world's first truly large religious grouping.
Naturally, some of Schmidt's colleagues disagree with his ideas. The lack of evidence of houses, for instance, doesn't prove that nobody lived at Göbekli Tepe. And increasingly, archaeologists studying the origins of civilization in the Fertile Crescent are suspicious of any attempt to find a one-size-fits-all scenario, to single out one primary trigger. It is more as if the occupants of various archaeological sites were all playing with the building blocks of civilization, looking for combinations that worked. In one place agriculture may have been the foundation; in another, art and religion; and over there, population pressures or social organization and hierarchy. Eventually they all ended up in the same place. Perhaps there is no single path to civilization; instead it was arrived at by different means in different places.
In Schmidt's view, many of his colleagues have been as slow to appreciate Göbekli Tepe as he has been to excavate it. This summer will mark his 17th year at the site. The annals of archaeology are replete with scientists who in their hurry carelessly wrecked important finds, losing knowledge for all time. Schmidt is determined not to add his name to the list. Today less than a tenth of the 22-acre site is open to the sky.
Schmidt emphasizes that further research on Göbekli Tepe may change his current understanding of the site's importance. Even its age is not clearSchmidt is not certain he has reached the bottom layer. "We come up with two new mysteries for every one that we solve," he says. Still, he has already drawn some conclusions. "Twenty years ago everyone believed civilization was driven by ecological forces," Schmidt says. "I think what we are learning is that civilization is a product of the human mind."
Charles C. Manns new book, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, is due out in August. Vincent J. Musi photographed the domestication of animals for our March issue.
"We come up with two new mysteries for every one that we solve," he says. Still, he has already drawn some conclusions. "Twenty years ago everyone believed civilization was driven by ecological forces," Schmidt says. "I think what we are learning is that civilization is a product of the human mind." ("Pour chaque énigme résolue deux nouvelles surgissent (...) Il y a vingt ans tout le monde croyait que la civilisation était soumise aux forces naturelles ; tout ici nous démontre, en fait, que la civilisation est un pur produit de l'esprit humain."
Il reste que Göbekli Tepe est antérieur de 7000 ans à Khéops et de 8500 ans à Stonehenge, ce dernier par comparaison ressemblant à un entassement de cailloux ! Abstraction faite même des théories du paléocontact, cette découverte nous enseigne au moins que les origines de nos civilisations sont bien plus anciennes qu'on le croyait. Mieux, elle nous fait découvrir des aspects inédits du mode de pensée et de la culture humaines.
I feel the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation.
In special reports, this weeks files cover:
General Twinings Air Material Command UFO Report, Stargate Chronicles, and Our Star Ancestors by Nancy Redstar.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia.
Sightings of UFOs were also reported in: Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Guyana, Puerto Rico, England in the United Kingdom, andUruguay.
The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research.
I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO's are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Clark C. McClelland writes, This is part of Chapter 13 called The Cape Kennedy-Kecksburg UFO Connection from my book The Stargate Chronicles.
Clark C. McClelland writes, On the day when the Kecksburg Incident happened, I was informed by ONI that the Soviet Union had made an earlier statement that was confirmed about its failed Venera 3 MV-4 Venus Spacecraft that was launched on November 16, 1965 from the U.S.S.R. Baikonur Launch site. They reported that their craft had experienced a damaging failure of the support Venera launch platform on orbit. It was an important mission to the planet Venus designed for a soft landing attempt on the surface of that planet. The 3 MV-4 Mission had an explosion on orbit and the interplanetary effort was lost. The mission designation was immediately changed to be called the Cosmos 96. That was the normal practice of the U.S.S.R. It was a Kremlin political order to save face and not have to admit that their rocket science was faulty and other than perfect. After all, communism from their view point was far superior to any democratic system on earth.http://www.stargate-chronicles.com/web/
It was then I heard Bean again question the crew in an uplink, GT-7, what is the estimated distance and size? Lovell replied by stressing, We also have the booster in sight! With this comment it verified UFOs were being observed, whether alien or otherwise. My reaction was WOW they are tracking the booster and other unidentified objects. I was in anticipation of other exciting comments when I heard another statement come from one of the engineers at his launch control center console, We have got some UFOs! This was not a good comment to make with USAF and NSA officers who were only a short distance away. It was then that NASA Astronaut Alan Bean muted out the open system commentary up and down link being received through the S-Band Transponder System. It originated from the Gemini 7 crew above and on orbit. I supposed Alan had received orders through his headset from NASA top management or even possibly from Colonel John Albert, USAF Chief of the Gemini Launch Vehicle USAF AerospaceDivision Wing, to immediately mute communications from being heard by all at the cape and keep it exclusively between the Geminiss crew and Cap Com. By Clark C. McClelland.
Bret Lueder reports. Is it so hard to believe that we are not alone in the Universe? Aren't tens of thousands of unexplained sightings, testimonies of close encounters in many forms, hundreds of quality photos and some film footage enough to convince a rational, reasonable person to be at least open to the possibility of the existence of and contact with an extraterrestrial species?
When you consider the breadth of scientific information and testimony collected in the Western world alone, the evidence is compelling, if not overwhelming.
But if this still isn't enough to convince a person; if your mistrust of governments and things like the Internet runs deeper still, what if it was learned that Native American history was riddled with accounts of origins from the stars? Would this, then, be convincing enough? Could you trust the Native Americans?
Well according to Native American author Nancy Red Star the information is true. And she is chronicling the word-for-word stories from the elders themselves in a new trilogy of books beginning with book one, Star Ancestors: Indian Wisdom Teachers Share The Teachings Of The Extraterrestrial Contact From Wisdom keepers Around The World (Bear & Company) [Book III Extraterrestrials (Destiny Books), and book two, Legends Of The Star Ancestors.
Further, Nancy Red Star (shown here) has recently completed a book called UFO's No Threat: Official Eyewitness Testimony, which is awaiting publication. She has also just shot a pilot for a new documentary series produced with the help and partnership of Red Star Productions, pioneer Native American director Phil Lucas (Northern Exposure, several PBS specials and feature films) and Los Angeles producer Bill Bratowski (Coppos Films). Called the Bright Ones, the series will document more official testimony from both military and indigenous sources and the "groundbreaking" connections between them.
Red Star herself is of mixed Native American descent and is currently a citizen of the Sovereign Republic of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi, St. Francis/Sokoki Band--part of a Canadian/Eastern seaboard confederation of Native American tribes called the Wabenaki Confederacy. But more importantly in terms of her books, she is also what is known in indigenous circles as a "runner." A runner is a person that walks between worlds, genders, cultures and generations, says Red Star, and she feels that it is her destiny to fulfill such a role. As a runner, she will be bringing this collective indigenous knowledge to the public for the first time. In doing so she says that she will be closing the Sacred Hoop that was broken upon conquest.
I recently had a chance to talk with Red Star via telephone from her home in New Mexico and I asked her about Native American prophecy, contact with UFO's and her latest book, Life with a Cosmos Clearance (Light Technology Publishing). Here are some select portions of our conversation.
With six decades of past UFO activity why have these elders chosen to come forward now with this knowledge? Prophecy says that it is the time for our Star Guardian's to return. The elders have told me that we have to prepare for their return in order for them to be able to help us in the coming time of transition into the Fifteenth World. My book covers many peoples in the Western Hemisphere but these histories of star ancestors are found in all indigenous cultures.
And that's why Dr. Greer and his Disclosure Project are so important because as many Native American elders are coming forward with this knowledge for the benefit of all, so are the elders of the modern, Western world. All of those Disclosure witnesses are getting closer to death and are now less afraid of any possible consequences. What is the relationship between the heartbeat of Mother Earth, modern technology, and alien interactions with Native Americans?
What is the relationship between the heartbeat of Mother Earth, modern technology, and alien interactions with Native Americans?
Every tribe that I have come in contact with has some history with and regular visitations from these "ultra-terrestrials." In 2012 the planet was totally immersed in light and we need to be able to accept the new frequency. The misuse of technology has taken Mother Earth out of her rhythm and it is only by returning to the old ways and slowing our hearts and minds down that we will be able to adapt to the coming Age. There are certain peoples that never bought into technology. I'm talking about people that walk in different worlds; they have out-of-body experiences and can heal themselves and other people. They don't need computers.
They don't need to store knowledge because they can access it at any time. They've had all the technology that they ever needed from the beginning. There are many tribes that pray virtually twenty-four hours a day in order to resettle the heartbeat. Koyaanisquatsi is a Hopi word meaning "life out of balance." Just go to any big city and sit and watch how fast everything moves. In each their own way, every one of these teachings say that we need to slow down through prayer, that we need to meditate in any form to support our Mother and prepare ourselves for the incoming frequency of light. The Kogi are one such tribe. During visitations, these beings tell us to return to the old ways; to keep singing, dancing, and praying to help our Mother. These are the teachings of our Star Guardians; that the knowledge within will provide us with the answers we need.
I notice that you are careful to not use the term abduction."
Nancy states, I say "visitations" because indigenous peoples are visited by the ancestors, not abducted by them. I believe that so-called abductions are all a big scam carried out by the United States military for disinformation purposes. Our interactions are peaceful and positive, and oftentimes they impart knowledge, prophecy, and healings of all sorts. Each one of my interviews confirms the next. It is very convincing. When you realize that visitations have been going on since the beginning and that it is normal for Native Americans to interact with these beings, fear tends to reside. And fear is the biggest obstacle blocking full government disclosure. Remove the fear and the truth will flow.
In your latest book, Life with a Cosmos Clearance, ex-government man/Comanche Daniel M. Salter corroborates your findings about abductions and other "scams." What is the connection between governments and visitations?
Nancy states, The Star Wars Program is a scam, too, because it is claimed that it is there to protect the U.S. from missile attack by another nation. But it is really set up to attack aliens when they come to help us in transition. And just like the so-called alien abductions, cattle mutilations are also a big scam. Together, the secret society conspirators use these scenarios to generate fear through the media so that when the time comes the population will see it as an alien invasion.
Werner Von Braun [ex-Nazi scientist brought to the U.S. after WWII believed this and he's the one who jump-started the whole program. Humans have never been stopped from going into space. But when we explode nuclear weapons in space, this crosses the line. This is their primary reason for making contact with the Superpowers, to warn us against this. And we haven't listened. We really have no idea what these explosions do to other realms. So they have periodically intervened in various military affairs for the good of all. But they have no interest or motive to invade this planet. It is ludicrous to think that we could militarily defend ourselves against these beings because their technology is so far advanced.
Salter claims that the Superpowers have had this technology for decades? The bottom line is that our governments are hiding what is known as Blank Slate technology or the use of particlization [turning waves into particles]. This is basically the same thing that the human pineal gland does in the brain. This technology can free our world and will also help the human race enter into the Fifteenth World. There's just so much information out there. It's all just a big crapshoot.
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Filer's Files #10 2013 - Twining's Air Material Command, Stargate Chronicles, Nancy Redstar Books - DEEL 2
Filer's Files #10 2013 - Twining's Air Material Command, Stargate Chronicles, Nancy Redstar Books - DEEL 2
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Lights
Mesa -- Sitting out back enjoying my evening on February 25, 2013, when a huge ball of light comes up over the homes facing west in my neighborhood. I have video posted of it on you tube. Object is above the bright moon light flying south. A second one comes and goes the exact same way. Its just weird the way they were moving and I can see other people on this sight have been seeing exactly what I just saw. It was too big of a ball of light to be any aircraft! Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Van nuys/ Sherman oaks -- I was driving listening to the radio when I heard a report on kfi-am 640 about calls coming in about lights in the sky. I was in a parking lot eating on February 24, 2013. I heard something about a meteor shower and when I saw the lights in the sky I assumed they were meteors. That's when I noticed they were moving slow. I grabbed my phone and began recording. There were three orbs that were a glowing red/ orange and four lights appear in the video. The light on the far left is a star. I thought I could use it as a reference. That's when one of the orbs began disappearing. Then another faded away when I heard a helicopter and looked up and saw another red glowing light. The fourth one then disappeared about two minutes later. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Pilot Reports Orbs
Miami -- It was 20:00 hours (8 PM) in Kendal, South Miami when we saw like six objects similar to helicopters. Three persons watched the objects coming from the NW to the E, then turning to the S. The size was not easy to say, but they were separate crafts. They were rounded with an orbiting light orange color and no anti collision light or green and red navigation lights or strobe lights.
I am a commercial Pilot and know what I see in the air. I have been a pilot for more than 30 years. I thought of weather balloons, but there would not have been six following one behind the other in flight controlled formation. Well I took my IPhone 4 and took a picture and 2 videos. Maybe they are top secret devices or drone recon planes. Who knows? The objects were traveling fast at estimated speeds of 300 knots and were devoid of noise. The objects were flying at an estimated 10,000 to 18,000 feet. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Georgia Multiple Sightings over the Past Year
SMARR -- My husband and I started seeing an object in the sky over a year ago and as recent as February 24, 2013, at 11:21 PM. We live in a very wooded area and there is no light pollution. Everyone who came to our home saw it. We called it our light. As time went on the object got closer. It got to the point we could see it in the scope of our gun, but the object was constantly moving.
The object is larger and is lower than the stars because when it is extremely overcast and cloudy, we can still see it. Along with the larger object, there is always three smaller UFO's that change colors very quickly. These objects move faster and in ways that our conventional aircraft simply cannot. We would love to know what these things are. There is no way these are weather balloons or objects reflecting light. We have hours of footage and pictures of the objects.
At one point they got so close to the house it scared us. We did not see the objects for quite some time after two jets flew over the house chasing it.
The fighter jets were in combat mode trying their best to keep up, but it was like the UFOs were just teasing them. Every time the aircraft got close the UFOs would just go from one point in the sky to another point in the blink of an eye. It has been in the past week that the objects have returned. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Indiana Oval
BrAZIL -- My spouse was returning to work after 11:10 AM on the 10th of September 2012. She phoned stating she had taken pictures of something rather strange she spotted while driving on State Road 59 by Forest Park. She thought it might be a blimp, but this did not look like a normal blimp. She observed the craft hovering and then moving north of the town of Brazil and took several photos. No one is sure what the object might be. You will notice the object below the traffic light and near the power lines. The object appears like a small white object with a dark bottom. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
Sullivan I watched a single prop plane fly by the west side of Hardees Restaurant at an altitude of about 150-200 feet on March 4, 2013.and most likely headed NNW for Sullivan County Airport. It appeared to be flying extremely slow. Thinking in my own mind it had a head wind while assisting in the planes lift, which I watched this plane for about 30-40 seconds.
Two minutes later I looked out the window again and caught a white glowing object
just above the tree line over a field. It was further away compared to the plane that had passed by. The object headed due west in a slow pattern and suddenly lost altitude at about a 10 degree angle and thats when I lost view of the object. It certainly did not look like a plane with it glowing like that. Thanks to MUFON CMS,
Kentucky Cylinder
Ashland -- The witness saw a bright green, metallic, cigar shaped object flying low (about 150 feet off of the ground). He only saw the object for about ten seconds on March 2, 2011, at 9:30 PM.
At the time he was in his vehicle and noticed a "hissing" on his radio and his voltmeter jumped up and down. He has a newer model General Motors Van and has never had problems with the vehicle. The interference was brief and happened only during the sighting. Metallic debris rained down from the craft onto his vehicle. He thought the object crashed. Subsequently MUFON investigators found trees that had "freshly" broken off branches towards the top of the trees. No crash debris were found. The witness said he would take photos of the damaged trees and send some of the "metallic dust" for analysis. Updates will be posted.
Note: A UFO investigator who resides in Ashland, KY took the above photo which somewhat fits the description of the object seen on March 2, 2011. Listen to Witness Interview (MP3) Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Maine Large V-Shaped Lights
Skowhegan -- Driving S-SE just before leaving town on Route 104, I saw a triangle-shaped collection of solid, non-blinking colored lights hanging in the sky on February 18, 2013, at 9:25 PM.. The craft seemed at least big enough to be a C-5 transport aircraft hovering. I could see stars around the craft, so it wasn't a blimp. Im very familiar with the area and the sky around here and the lights were very noticeable and different. I saw nothing when driving in the exact same place and in the same direction 3-4 hours later. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Michigan Disk
Rockwood -- I got a clear view of the craft on February 18, 2013, at 9:25 PM, while heading northbound on I-75. I pointed to something in the sky and said, "What is that!?" My Dad responded, "That is a water tower, son." That is not what I was pointing at. There was a blue light flying towards us at a remarkable speed. As this object became closer I got a very clear view of the shape of a disk or saucer as the object passed our car. It was a vibrant sky blue and it appeared to be glowing with black lines running perpendicular to each other around the craft.
It was traveling at a remarkable speed, quite low in the sky. Maybe it was government technology, or extraterrestrial? My Dad, who does not fully believe in flying saucers, caught a glimpse. He was quite shocked. He is 58. This is my second UFO encounter. I am 22 years old and I educate myself on UFO phenomena often. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Mississippi Alien Craft Stored at Base
GREENVILLE AIR FORCE BASE --My uncle was an electronics specialist and a civilian employee at the Air Force base on June 20, 1954. One day some military authorities escorted him and several other civilian employees into a large aircraft hangar and ordered them to stay there until they were told they could come out. None of the questions about what was going on were answered. The military men closed the hangars doors and left. The men in the hanger hung around the area where the hangars doors came together and they discovered they could peek outside and see what was going on.
A disk shaped aircraft about 40 feet in diameter descended vertically and landed on the tarmac outside the hangar. Several men with cameras filmed the entire incident from elevated scaffolding. Other cameramen stood on the ground. A door opened on the aircraft and a child-sized alien being walked down a short ramp. The alien used a hand-held computer to communicate with the military personnel. The aircraft was on tripod landing gear with wheels, and several men were ordered to push it into the hanger across the way. Once the alien aircraft was inside the hanger, the men closed its doors. Several minutes later they pushed the alien craft back outside and it soon lifted vertically and silently and quickly darted away. As soon as the alien craft was gone the civilian men were allowed to leave their hangar.
I was a teenager when I heard this story and my reaction to it was a mix of uncertainty and disbelief. My uncle didn't have any reason to lie about it, but... Years later, I was watching a program about UFOs on television, and a man who saw the same event described it exactly as my uncle had described it years earlier--in every detail. I was amazed, but while I have seen many UFO programs on television repeated several times, I never saw that particular interview again. My uncle died several years ago, and I imagine that the other witnesses are probably all dead as well. I wanted to report this information since our government isn't about to confess that it has lied to us about UFOs since 1949. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
Hattiesburg City -- On January 8th, 2008, we stopped in a Wal-Mart parking lot and saw this curious object in the sky. I said to my husband: "Take a picture of the sky. It looks very funny."
He took the picture and a few days later we noticed this strange object and remembered hearing on the radio that there was a sighting in Texas. We took the picture with a Canon Power Shot A80 at 8:56:40. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Star Moving Quickly
HIGHLAND PARK -- I went out back of my house to have a smoke with my wife on February 17, 2013, and looked up to the sky to see a star moving pretty fast across the sky. I have been seeing this for quite some time now and Im not sure what they are. Every now and again I see stars moving across the sky, as well as other things. This has been going on for years now. Lately it's been more since I've moved to New Jersey from Miami. Thanks to MUFON CMS
HAMILTON -- I was driving down a neighborhood street at night and I saw a bright light in the sky on January 13, 2013. I knew it wasn't a plane because it was too large a light and did not blink. At the traffic light I was able to get a good look at it as it flew over me.
It was flying as low as a plane that was getting near its landing destination. It had a bright white light in the front with a round blunted point. Its perimeter had a few neon red, and blue-green colored lights that were not very noticeable.
The front seemed to have lights around it. The craft abruptly turned upwards in a 90 degree angle and made a pathway of light shooting up to an opening of yellow-white light in the sky where it vanished. I zoomed in on my iPhone 4s camera. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
North Carolina Unidentified lights
Raleigh/Durham -- There were literally dozens of aircraft and unidentified lights in the night sky on February 27, 2013. Dozens of people called local news outlets to report them. My adult daughter, my sister and I saw unidentified craft that sometimes hovered, sometimes darted, and that moved at times with incredible speed. Some of the crafts had only white lights, some had only red lights, and some had only intermittent strobes and were completely dark for as much as three to five seconds at a time.
We saw three unidentified craft over the area near Six Forks Road in North Raleigh. They had white lights and moved very slowly at first. As we continued to watch them, they turned off their white lights and turned on much dimmer red lights, at the same time the middle craft became very bright white. Then they all three went almost dark, and suddenly sped toward Atlantic Avenue at an incredible rate of speed, then suddenly slowed down and resumed moving slowly, at very low altitude, and again with white lights.
Suddenly the sky was filled with 12 to 15 white strobe lights at 1000 feet altitude! The lights would go dark for as much as four seconds at a time. While viewing these, three triangular shaped craft with red lights only appeared back toward the airport, at a higher altitude. The strobe lights appeared to be hovering or moving very slowly - the red objects were moving more quickly, toward the southwest.
Soon two longer craft appeared shaped almost like long-wing gliders, with a row of white lights down the central part of the object and red flashing lights on each end. We would also see commercial airliners landing and taking off, and these were obviously not similar to these objects. At no time did we hear any noise from any of the objects. We all agreed these craft were unlike anything we had ever seen. When the news outlets contacted RDU airport, they were told that helicopters were conducting "military exercises" and that there was "no threat to public safety," and "nothing to worry, but thats not what we saw. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Oklahoma Lights
PURCEL -- We were driving south along I 35 when an object with two white lights one in front and one in the back appeared in the sky in front of our vehicle. It began performing aerial stunts and maneuvers in the sky that were a figure eight patterns. My daughter tried taking a picture but object at this point was too far away. The lights blinked out one after another as it flew east.
About 40 minutes later while still traveling south along I -35 just south of Pauls Valley, my daughter had a strange look on her face. I asked, Are you O.K.? She said, Yes, but she had rush of panic when she saw a sphere with a white light and window with a red arch hovering right alongside the car.
The moment I noticed the craft it shot out in front of our car and changed shape to a triangle with three lights. One was white, one red and one blue. It started performing aerial stunts and maneuvers before flying back east. My daughter was able to get photos as it changed again and slowed down and flew out of our sight. My daughter checked her pictures to discover that two of three photos appeared to be smiley faces in the sky while the third is two straight lines parallel to each other. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
San Antonio-- We had a sighting and took a photo on February 23, 2013, at 7:45 PM. The photo was taken on the southeast side of my house. I also have a cell video.
What my wife and I saw is like a giant Christmas tree in the sky going in formation and it disappeared in the same location in the sky. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Virginia Orbs
CharlottesvillE On February 14, 2013, around 7 pm, my neighbor calls to report an odd light hovering above our house. I ran out with my camera to look and see a disc about 21 feet long and less than 20 feet above my house. The disc blew apart before my eyes into four smaller orbs of light. Two moved toward South First Street, while the other two moved pass a neighbors house and disappeared. A bigger dark triangle was seen above my house neighbors said I called them to look with me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights Octagon
POTEET -- My uncle pointed out an object in the sky which seemed to be floating towards the northwest keeping its speed and altitude on February 23, 2013. The circular object seemed to be tilted and had a dark center, but was not transparent. There was no sound or smoke coming from object. It just continued to move till it vanished.
We know it was not a human driven craft of any kind.
Mother Faye was travelling the long, lonely stretch of highway with her sons, 24-year-old Patrick; Sean aged 21 and 18-year-old Wayne, along with their two dogs. While Sean was driving and his older brother sitting beside him, they saw on the road ahead of them a bright light. Their curiosity piqued, Sean put his foot down in order to catch up to the curious light shining on the road ahead of them. That would soon prove to be a mistake.
The Knowles car soon caught up with that curious bright light that now took the shape of an angular egg in an eggcup with a yellow centre, and estimated at about one meter wide. It appeared to be either on the road or floating just above it, and was moving back and forth. Sean swerved to avoid the object, almost colliding with a car towing a caravan travelling in the opposite direction. As they continued driving, the Knowles soon became concerned that the glowing egg-shaped object was following them and then they heard a clunk and felt the car being pushed down by a heavy weight.
Then, the car seemed to be lifted off the road. Frightened, Faye wound down her window and reached for the roof. She felt something soft and rubbery that was hot. When Faye pulled her arm back inside their vehicle, it was covered in a strange black dust. The family was terrified and they soon became disoriented and later recounted that their voices sounded slower and lower in pitch. Patrick later said that he felt like his brains were being sucked out. Meanwhile, the cars speedometer registered speeds that the small car would be highly unlikely to achieve. Then the car appeared to drop back onto the road, bursting the rear tire on the right hand side.
After pulling off the road, the Knowles jumped out of the car and hid behind some nearby bushes, shaken and scared. Eventually, they returned to the car, changed the tire and drove at speed to the nearest town. Physical traces on the car, corroborating evidence from a truck driver and the sincerity in the Knowles own testimony on national television point to something extremely out of the ordinary happening on the highway across the Nullarbor Plain in January 1988.
But was it a UFO encounter or something else? According to Jenny Randles, author of Time Storms, the Knowles encounter has more to do with a natural phenomenon in which time it is distorted rather than that of a UFO encounter. Indeed, there appear to be a number of similarities with other cases the author has investigated. But, whether the Knowles were terrorized by an unidentified flying object or inadvertently drove into a so-called time storm, there is little doubt that the family experienced something baffling, and terrifying, on that day in the summer of 1988. More on the Knowles encounter on the Nullarbor. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
BRISBANE -- I was standing on my front verandah having a coffee on Saturday the 2nd of February 2013. On Russell Island looking east towards North Stradbroke Island I was thinking what a beautiful day it was after some very heavy weather. I noticed a white craft moving very slowly north for about six seconds when it just winked out. It was flying against a very clear blue sky. I watched the same patch of sky for another 5 to 10 minutes when it re-appeared. This time it was slightly larger and above the earlier flight path but still flying at the same speed and in the same direction, again for about six seconds, but just before it winked out it seemed to bank in a left direction. Then once again it simply disappeared against a very blue sky. Ten minutes later a helicopter appeared flying in the general area of the craft and straight over my house.
I knew it was not normal. Was it a UFO? Yes. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
Costa Rica Captured Image
Turrialba -- This is a website with a government owned, fixed base volcano observation camera - camera mounted on a volcano just a couple of miles from where I live on February 21. 2013. I look at the updated images often, but had never seen anything like this. It may just be a reflection, given the location of the sun, maybe you can tell. Here is the link to the camera. I will send the captured image by e-mail.
Crabwood Creek-- We have a live video of the craft taken from a mobile phone... During the recording the phone shuts down but is able to power up normally the next day on February 21, 2013. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Puerto Rico Electrical Lights
Arecibo -- I was sitting on my front porch talking on the phone when suddenly I saw what looked like electrical currents dancing in and out between the banana tree leaves across the street from me on February 25, 2013. These activities seemed to be dancing through the trees at 6 PM...
Suddenly they changed direction and came across the street to where I was and began to dance in circles for what seemed like a minute. They then turned to the left and continued across the street in another direction. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
UK/England Bright Orange Ball
Bradford (West Yorkshire -- I was at my kitchen window when I saw a bright orange ball of light coming towards us on February 18, 2013, at 9:25. At first I got scared thinking it was a meteorite or something so I shouted my grandmother to come and look.
The object then seemed to slow down, changed direction and then continued moving. There was no noise whatsoever, so I dont believe it was an aircraft of any sort. It was very bright; it was almost difficult to see the shape properly although it did look circular.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Uruguay Triangle
Amazing Footage of UFO hovering in Uruguay on February 21, 2013.
I was sitting at my desk, pondering how I could get people interested in getting my work of the last thirteen years. I have put together a DVD of Filer's Files with hundreds of great photographs and UFO sightings.
Additionally, I have decided to include my book within the DVD that includes George Ritter's exciting abduction story by Linda Moulton Howe. Broadcaster David E. Twichell has also included much of his excellent dialog for a donation of only $50.
We also include a year's subscription. Please include your e-mail address and mailing address.
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Nick, The MOD Will Be Pleased!
Nick Pope Speaks on the importance of the Citizen Hearing
Nommée Pan-STARRS C/2011 L4, elle sera présente dans le ciel jusqu'à la fin du mois.
À vos jumelles! Dimanche, un point lumineux suivi d'un long panache blanc devrait être visible au-dessus de l'horizon ouest, juste après le coucher du soleil, entre la constellation des Poissons et le carré de Pégase.
Cette visiteuse du soir n'est autre que la comète Pan-STARRS C/2011 L4 découverte, il y a deux ans, grâce au télescope de l'université de Hawaï. Déjà observée à l'il nu dans le ciel de l'hémisphère Sud, il sera théoriquement possible de la contempler jusqu'à la fin du mois dans l'hémisphère nord.
Selon les spécialistes de l'Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, «il s'agit d'une comète nouvelle, jamais aperçue auparavant, qui ne fera qu'une seule et unique incursion dans notre ciel avant d'être éjectée dans les profondeurs de la Galaxie».
Essentiellement composées de glace et de poussières cosmiques, les comètes sont des voyageurs solitaires dont l'origine remonte à la naissance du Système solaire. Elles tournent autour du Soleil avec des fréquences très variables, de quelques années à plusieurs millions.
À l'approche du Soleil, la glace se vaporise, formant une enveloppe brillante autour du cur de la comète que les astronomes appellent «la chevelure». Cette dernière se prolonge, à l'arrière, par une traînée de gaz et de poussières qui peut s'étendre sur des millions de kilomètres pour former, sous l'effet de la lumière du Soleil, la fameuse «queue» caractéristique de cette famille d'astres.
Selon Patrick Rocher, astronome à l'Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (IMCCE), Pan-STARRS atteindra son périhélie dimanche, c'est-à-dire qu'elle passera au plus près du Soleil, à 45 millions de kilomètres de distance. «Ce coup de chaud devrait accroître son éclat, de sorte qu'il sera possible de la voir avec une bonne paire de jumelles et, normalement, à l'il nu», explique-t-il. Pour profiter au mieux du spectacle, Patrick Rocher conseille de se poster au coucher du soleil dans un lieu dépourvu de lumière artificielle avec une vue bien dégagée vers l'ouest. Si vous habitez ou êtes en vacances sur la côte Atlantique, vous bénéficierez de conditions idéales. À condition que le ciel soit dégagé
En revanche, à partir du 13 mars, Pan-STARRS commencera à grimper sur l'horizon, signe qu'elle s'éloigne du Soleil. Elle deviendra alors de moins en moins brillante au fil des jours. Selon Patrick Rocher, il est peu probable qu'elle offre un spectacle aussi féerique que la comète McNaught (C/2006 P1) lors de son passage au-dessus de l'hémisphère Sud, en janvier 2007. La queue de ce bolide céleste, plus brillant que Vénus, avait alors littéralement illuminé le ciel austral. «Pan-STARRS passe beaucoup trop loin du Soleil, note-t-il. En outre, si elle approchait plus près, il n'est pas exclu qu'elle fonde complètement.»
Une autre visite, encore plus prometteuse, est annoncée en novembre prochain, celle d'Ison C/2012 S1. Cette comète sera visible tout au long des deux derniers mois de l'année et jusqu'au début de 2014. Selon certains astronomes, elle pourrait être l'une des plus brillantes de l'histoire.
This week one of my favorite movie stars, Russell Crowe, reports photographing a UFO! Then, Mary Alice Bennett, suggests UFOs did a fly over to honor the late Philip Coppens. Chris Holly, writes about Diane's extraordinary missing time. Next, Pat Regan was contacted by a witness spotting a UFO. Diane Tessman investigates Encleadus, one of Saturn's moons, for salt water! Steve Erdmann submits part two of 'Who goes there'. Then, Alexander Popoff writes about Alien Bugs. Roger Marsh reports on UFO investigations. Next, Scott Corrales, writes more about chupacabras returning to Puerto Rico. Christian Macé finds a strange vehicle on Mars. Dennis G. Balthaser is back and writing about pyramids and the Bible. Paul Schroeder states that Darwin never met an alien and Usko Ahonen Md claims science has finally found proof of the human soul. Finally, Tony Elliott, writes about frankenfoods and aspartame. Enjoy Dirk
Do Russell Crowe's UFO photos offer 'Proof of Life' from outer space?by Jon Kelly. The Australian Associated Press reported on March 6, 2013, how Australian actor Russell Crowe photographed lights in Sydneys Botanical Gardens that the Gladiator star is at a loss to explain. Three time-lapse photographs posted to YouTube show what appear to be the motion trails of lights moving at tree-top and ground level across the image frame of a camera supported on a tripod. While the images seem to reveal the profile of a disc-shaped vehicle in flight, other photographers are identifying these forms as the artifacts of long time exposures. More... Also read: UFOs and ET messengers frequent Alabama seniors caregiver
UFOs in Florida perform for the passing of Philip Coppensby Mary Alice Bennett. The passing of Philip Coppens was accompanied by spectacular performances of UFOs in Florida. Philip was an accomplished archaeologist and author as well as the host of the "Ancient Aliens" television program. January 8, 2012 was the day that he was laid to rest in Los Angeles by his devoted wife and professional partner, author Kathleen McGowan. She has recently revealed that they were both UFO witnesses as well as researchers. They lived in the Topanga Canyon area which is a well known UFO hotspot. More...
Diane's Extraordinary Life of Missing Time!by Chris Holly. I have spent a great deal of time talking to a woman named Diane who has an extraordinary life of odd lost time experiences. Starting in her early childhood this woman has had lost time events in which she believes she has been taken by nonhuman beings who would experiment, or examine her for reasons none of us understand. She feels that sharing her lifelong encounters and extreme experiences will help bring others like her to the forefront in hopes of finding answers and closure to these events. More...
UFO seen by local mum near to RAF Woodvale, Southportby Pat Regan. I was recently contacted by a gentleman called Steve McQueen regarding a UFO sighting made by his sister Melissa in the Woodvale, Southport area of the UK. More...
ENCELADUS: Strange World with a Salty Sea, Home of Extraterrestrial Life?by Diane Tessman. Enceladus is the brightest moon of Saturns 60 moons. On this bizarre world, huge jets of powdery snow and water vapor with organic compounds vent from tiger stripes, which are warm, deep trenches in the surface. How can a body just over 500 kilometers across sustain such incredible activity constantly over the eons? More... Also read: UPDATE: Killer Asteroids, What, Us Worry?
Who goes there?- Part Twoby Steve Erdmann. Science-writer and Editor Ian Ridpath and researcher Thurkettle laid the case at the doorstep of a meteor the British Astronomical Society confirmed for December 26-27, as well as the lights from the Orford Ness light house, both supposedly synchronized with human error. Jenny Randle speculated, along with other possibilities, that the UFO could have been a crashed American stealth craft... More...
Alien Bugsby Alexander Popoff. Above, Every year hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings, abductions of people by alien crews, medical examinations of humans in nonterrestrial spaceships, sexual relations with aliens, accidents, autopsies on alien corpses, and other contacts with extraterrestrial creatures are reported. Our bodies and our environment are teeming with microorganisms. It is normal to expect that the bodies of all living alien beings are also teeming with microbes... More...
Indian Town Reports Low Flying Glowing Object by Roger Marsh. An Indiana witness at Sullivan reported watching a "white, glowing object" moving just over a nearby tree line that quickly vanished from sight about 5:30 p.m., March 4, 2013, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. More... Also read: Huge Disc-Shaped Object Hovering Over Goose Creek! Also read: Anahuac, Texas Witness Transf ixed By Disc UFO
The Chupacabras Returns To Puerto Rico Part IIby Scott Corrales. According to an article in the La Estrella newspaper, Mrs. Ugalde ran out into the darkness to save her poultry farm and face the unknown intruder. "I went to the backyard and I saw it. It was like a large bird, standing about a meter, with the bearing of a dwarf. It has feathers, wings and left footprints like those of a goat. It was looking for food, and I think it must've been hungry," she explained. More... Also read: Guayama Animal Slaughter Pinned on Strange Creature
Military Vehicle Photographed On Mars!by Christian Macé. In my article, I pointed out, surrounded and expanded this strange form, which looks like a Martian vehicle. This is the official website of NASA. On the page where the photo series SOL 2114, I red arrow to open the photos where you can see the strange vehicle. More...
The Pyramids and the Bibleby Dennis G. Balthaser .Much has been written over the years about the three large pyramids of Giza, and the Sphinx, and thousands of years later we still dont know who built them, how they were built, or for what purpose. More...
Darwin Never Met Aliensby Paul Schroeder. God is responsible for the spiritual entities within our bodies, and more likely, aliens are the most likely candidates for the geniuses behind the amazing nanotech DNA which designs our life form physical bodies; there is no argument required. More...
Science finally proving human soul?by Usko Ahonen Md. In 2004, eight neuroscientists felt it was too soon for a definition of consciousness. They wrote an apology in "Human Brain Function"(1): We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers. More...
Frankenfoods Monsanto Responsible for Push to Add Aspartame in Milkby Tony Elliott. The proposed addition of Aspartame in milk has quite a few outraged throughout the US and with good reason. The Food and Drug Administration has banned Aspartame twice in the past because of health concerns. It is a scientific fact that phenylalanine is a component of Aspartame which adversely affects children with phenylketonuria which is a genetic disorder found at birth in which the body is unable to break down the amino acid phenylalanine which limits other important chemicals from getting to the brain. More...
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La comète C/2013 A1 Siding Spring a des chances non négligeables de percuter Mars en Octobre 2014. Comme son noyau fait entre 8 et 50 km de diamètre et sa vitesse 56 km/s (202000 km/h), l'explosion résultante aurait une énergie équivalente à 2 x 10^10 Mt (20 milliards de Mt !) et creuserait un cratère de 500 km de diamètre et de 2 km de profondeur. Toutefois les mesures manquent encore de précision et la probabilité d'impact n'est pas établie. Si au moins elle pouvait tomber sur la base extraterrestre de Cydonia ! ;-)
An event of historical implications will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC from April 29 to May 3, 2013. At that time forty plus researchers and military/agency witnesses will testify for thirty hours over five days before former members of the United States Congress. The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race will attempt to accomplish what the Congress has failed to do for forty-five years - seek out the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time.
Dmitri Medvedev vient de faire une déclaration à la télévision au sujet du type d'information dont disposerait le président de la Russie au sujet des OVNI : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvqh2h_dimitry-medvedev-annonce-les-extraterrestres-7-decembre-2012_webcam#.UTcLwTeo-R0 http://www.wat.tv/video/medvedev-tente-clarifier-sa-5eegd_309yl_.html Question de la journaliste Marianna Maximovskaya :" En tant que Premier Ministre, vous avez accès à tous les secrets, alors dites-moi : avons-nous été visités par des extraterrestres ?" Réponse de Dmitri Medvedev :" Je vais vous le dire pour la première et la dernière fois. Avec la mallette des codes nucléaires, le président du pays reçoit également un dossier top secret spécial. Ce dossier dans son intégralité contient des informations au sujet des extraterrestres qui ont visité notre planète. Parallèlement à cela, on vous remet un rapport sur un service totalement secret qui s'assure du contrôle des extraterrestres sur le territoire de notre pays."
Il a ajouté :"Si vous voulez des informations plus détaillées sur ce sujet, regardez le documentaire bien connu appelé Men in black" Marianna Maximovskaya :"Combien sont-ils ?" Dmitri Medvedev :"Je ne vous dirai pas combien d'extraterrestres sont parmi nous, car ce serait la panique"
Les traductions diffèrent d'une source à l'autre. Une partie aurait été dite alors que le micro était censé être fermé. Celle-ci est extraite de Nexus mars-avril 2013.
Mon analyse : - Les tournures utilisées laissent penser qu'il s'agit d'une déclaration minutieusement préparée et non d'une réponse spontanée. Après un début en style impersonnel et officiel "le président du pays reçoit....", celui-ci devient anecdotique "on vous remet un rapport..." ce qui montrerait un passage de la récitation à l'énoncé de souvenirs... - L'ajout sur les MIB détruit toute crédibilité... On retrouve une structure (crédible + plaisanterie) qui fait penser à celle du message d'Obama à Roswell
Serait-ce un début de "révélation progressive" mondiale ? Si oui, à quand ceux de FH et de AM ?
Une expérience absolument fantastique. Au point que Nature donne accès total gratuit à ce papier en date du 28 Février 2013 (ça va intéresser Geneviève ;-) ).
A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information (Transmission à distance et en temps réel d'information sensori-motrice entre deux cerveaux)
Pour l'instant je ne l'ai parcouru qu'en diagonale mais vu que ce domaine était ma spécialité principale, je pourrai donner des explications plus détaillées à ceux que ça intéresse. Attention, article très technique ! On remarquera que la plupart des auteurs travaillent à l'université Duke de Durham (NC), laquelle est initiatrice en matière d'expérimentation dans le domaine de la transmission télépathique.
Il y a déjà longtemps que l'on pratique l'enregistrement et la stimulation intracérébrale (voir les travaux de Delgado), mais il s'agit là d'une véritable avancée qui laisse présager des applications d'un intérêt majeur dans une foule de domaines. Pour ce qui nous concerne ici, de nombreux éléments laissent à penser que certains visiteurs sont doués de capacités psioniques. Si on peut développer chez l'Homme le type d'interface décrit dans l'article, un canal de communication préférentiel pourrait être instauré en cas de contact rapproché. Toutefois il ne faut pas se cacher qu'il y a encore loin de la coupe aux lèvres.
"The event was filmed by a number of spectators with many people identifying a UFO that they say hit into the meteorite, causing it to explode." (De nombreuses vidéos de spectateurs montreraient un ovni frappant la météorite et la faisant exploser.) (...) "Mr Komanov also claims there was an upsurge of UFO sightings in the region weeks before the meteorite exploded in the earth's atmosphere." (M. Aleksandr Komanov, coordinateur de la communauté ufologique d'Ekaterinenbourg, a ajouté que la région avait connu un regain d'activité ovni dans les semaines qui ont précédé l'événement.)
Que faut-il en penser ? Des débris de la météorite ont été recueillis. Ils sont probablement très altérés par la chaleur de rentrée et la détonation ; mais un événement de cette nature laisse toujours des traces, même infimes, qu'une analyse scientifique sérieuse pourrait déceler. Dans l'affirmative, je doute fort qu'on le sache jamais.
Stanton asked: "Are We Ready for Contact with aliens?" We know that aliens exists but what are their intentions? This 75 minute presentation takes you on a journey through what might be the thought process of aliens as well as humans when contact happens.
Security Obsession Drives 100 Scientists from NASA: Top Security Clearance Needed to Help Steer the Curiosity Rover?
by:
Dave Lindorff
Up on the planet Mars, there is a complex new rover named Curiosity that is driving around looking for evidence of possible life. Its every little finding is readily broadcast around the world, as was done today at a televised conference in California, to be analyzed by scientists in the US, in Europe, in China, and even in Iran.
The scientists and engineers who are managing that remarkable vehicle, as well as the fantastically successful Cassini probe orbiting Saturn, the Kepler satellite that is discovering all those planets orbiting distant stars, and all the other various satellites and space probes launched by NASA, however, are not as free as the space probes they are running.
Thanks to the zealous wackos at the Department of Homeland Security, back in 2007 during the latter part of the Bush administration an order went out that all workers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena--an organization that is run under contract to NASA by the California Institute of Technology, had to be vetted for high security clearance in order to continue doing their jobs. Never mind that not one of them was or is engaged in secret activities (NASA is a rigorously non-military, scientific agency which not only publishes all its findings, but which invites the active participation of scientists from around the world). In order to continue working at JPL, even scientists who had been with NASA for decades were told they would need a high-level security badge just to enter the premises. To be issued that badge, they were told they would need to agree undergo an intensive FBI check that would look into their prior life history, right back to college.
Not surprisingly, many scientists and engineers at JPL took umbrage at this extreme invasion of their private lives. Neighbors and old colleagues and acquaintances, ex-spouses, etc. were going to be interrogated about their drug-use history, their drinking habits, their juvenile arrest records, their sexual orientation-all those things that prying agents like to get into when doing a security clearance background check--as if they were applying for positions in the CIA or the Secret Service.
Crazed security check requirement is driving over 100 scientists to quit NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab
Robert Nelson, an astronomer who spearheaded an effort to prevent this pointless security effort, together with 27 other angry JPL scientists, sued JPL and the federal government in federal court. They lost initially at the district court level but won a permanent injunction at the Ninth Circuit Appellate Court. That could have been the end of it, but unfortunately, the Obama administration appealed, and in 2011 when their case got to the Roberts Supreme Court, which rarely meets an invasive government security demand it doesnt like, the scientists lost.
Everyone who wanted to continue doing space science at JPL was told they had to submit to a security investigation.
The cost of this idiocy, which was aggressively pursued to a final pyrrhic victory in the High Court by the Obama Department of Justice (sic), has been grievous, as some 100 veteran scientists at JPL have quit or taken early retirement, rather than open their lives to the FBI.
Take Amanda Hendrix. She tells ThisCantBeHappening!, I left JPL after 12 years (and with a good position and lots of opportunities) because I was very unhappy about the new badging requirements, particularly since they didn't make sense to me for scientists like myself who require no access to top-secret-type materials. It was extremely disappointing to me that an institution like JPL would subject their long-time employees to such measures in order to keep their jobs.
Hendrix is now working at the Planetary Science Institute.
Dennis Byrnes, who began working at JPL in early 1977, and who beginning in 2005 was chief engineer for flight dynamics, making him the lead technical person at JPL for all things related to the flight dynamics of all JPL missions both in operations and planned, also quit his job this year rather than submit to the security investigation. He says, My job included all aspects of mission design, navigation and some aspects of guidance and control. Prior to 2005 he says he was deputy manager and briefly the manager of JPLs navigation and mission design section, and was awarded the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal (NASAs highest technical engineering award) for his work on the Galileo Project to Jupiter.
Byrnes notes that when the Supreme Court issued its ruling, it didnt mean the security checks had to go forward. It merely meant that NASA could proceed, but did not require it, Byrnes says. We urged NASA to consider other avenues similar to the Dept. of Energy, National Science Foundation and others who decided on a less restrictive implementation, but to no avail. (Note that the DOE is responsible for maintaining the nation's nuclear weapons! Evidently then there are ways that, if a particular scientist at NASA happens to be working with something that involves national security -- say nuclear rocket engine technology or something -- special clearance can be required without subjecting the personnel of a whole agency to the process.)
In late 2011, when the details of the full implementation of the security checks at JPL were announced , the 68-year-old Byrnes says, I decided to retire rather than submit to the investigations. This in no way reflected fear of discovery of anything personal (I had security clearances in the late '60's through mid-70's and have nothing to hide). Rather, it was a decision on principle. I believe the whole process to be unconstitutional and a completely unnecessary abuse of government power. He says had this new badge requirement not come along, he would have stayed on for several years longer at JPL, since I am a recognized world expert in my field and thoroughly enjoy what I do.
Not everyone who quit over this issue was a scientist. Susan Foster, a senior science writer at JPL, began her career there working as a secretary in 1968, even before the first Apollo moon landing. She says she quit solely because of the NASA requirement that she submit to a waiving of my Fourth Amendment rights or be denied access to the facility where she had worked for 44 years. She is currently unemployed and looking for work.
What upset her most, she says, was NASAs plan to use the information it obtained on its scientists and employees lives to create a suitability matrix, which would be used to see if they merited continued employment. In questioning JPL management, Foster says people learned that this suitability matrix would be considering things like whether JPL scientists had participated in political demonstrations that could qualify in NASA's scheme of things as disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, unlawful assembly -- all activities that she says many of JPLs scientists had engaged in over the years. Says Foster, Criteria such as attitude are pretty frightening in their subjectivity, and striking against the government is chilling to anyone who has supported, say, a legitimate teachers' action.
Remember, this is all in order to be allowed to work at a very open science agency that routinely publishes nearly all its findings.
Nelson, who was the point man for the JPL employee challenge to the new security requirement, also quit on principle rather than submit to the security investigation. An over 30-year veteran of JPL, and former head of the American Astronomical Association, Nelson says he decided he would not put up with that kind of intrusive invasion of his private life even in order to keep working at a job he loved, so he filed for retirement. After retiring earlier than he had planned from his position at JPL, Nelson is now also at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, AZ, where his title is senior scientist.
NASA scientist Robert Nelson led the fight against Homeland Security's demand for FBI vetting of JPL's veteran scientists
One of the big concerns expressed by the JPL scientists was that NASA would not adequately protect the incredibly personal information it was going to be gathering on its employees at JPL. NASA after all, they noted, is not the CIA or the Secret Service. It operates in the open, and doesnt have a culture of secrecy, and as a bureaucracy, is ill-equipped to manage such information securely.
Sure enough, last week NASA was forced to admit that an employee at the agencys offices in Washington DC had left a laptop computer containing all that newly acquired personal information on its employees in his car on Halloween night, and it had been stolen. Worse yet, further validating the concerns of JPL scientists, the data on the computer had not even been encrypted!
Now NASA has had to hire a contractor specializing in protecting potential victims of identity theft to help all the JPL scientists at risk to avoid having their savings pilfered, their credit cards stolen, and perhaps to protect them from being subjected to harassment or extortion because of information gleaned from their security files.
This disaster at JPL is a classic case of the US security state run amok, and provides yet another example of how the Obama administration, which came into office in 2009 promising to return the country to some kind of sanity and respect for the Constitution, has instead driven 100 invaluable scientists out of JPL, weakening the nations already struggling space program, and has put hundreds of scientists lives, and the lives of their families, at risk.
And all for nothing.
There are no secrets at JPL, except perhaps for the temporary one about what it was that the Curiosity rover discovered in its early soil sampling on Mars (and that proved to be not worth all the secrecy either!).
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