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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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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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...
A strange phenomena is happening in some Russian forests. People are finding strange, deep holes.
They appear in the dense forest, in the places you can’t get on the car or truck to bring any device to drill the ground. There is no soil nearby that should be taken from such deep hole.
When people are brave enough to venture into the holes, they find that they end abruptly in the darkness. There are no any reasonable ideas on how these holes appear and what they are being used for. No one knows who or what is digging these holes or why.
This is a UFO sighting I hadn’t previously heard about, but an official investigation on the sighting has now been carried out.
On July 19th 2013, flight TCX24HX, took off from Ibiza. The plane was owned by the Thomas Cook travel company and the registration number was G-KKAZ. It was heading for Manchester airport, England.
As the aircraft was travelling over Reading, England it experienced, what has been described as a ‘near miss’. The captain physically ducked as a cigar / rugby ball shaped craft – which appeared to be silver in colour and of a metallic substance – came within feet of the Thomas Cook plane.
According to The Telegraph website: “The captain said he spotted the object travelling towards the jet out of a left hand side, cockpit window, apparently heading directly for it. He said there was no time to for the aircrew to take evasive action. He told investigators he was certain the object was going to crash into his aircraft and ducked as it headed towards him.”
A report into the incident tells of how the captain “was under the apprehension that they were on collision course with no time to react. His immediate reaction was to duck to the right and reach over to alert the FO [First Officer]; there was no time to talk to alert him … [the captain] was fully expecting to experience some kind of impact with a conflicting aircraft” and said it was “within a few feet” above the jet.
It’s worth mentioning that this near miss was at 6.35pm on a summer’s day and therefore in daylight, and at an altitude of 34,000 feet.
So, what was the conclusion of the investigation? Would you believe it “wasn’t possible to trace the object or determine the likely cause of the sighting.”
According to The Telegraph the investigation checked data recordings to establish what other aircraft were in the area at the time, but eliminated them all from its quest to find out what had been responsible. It also ruled out meteorological balloons, after checking none were released in the vicinity. Toy balloons were also discounted, as they are not large enough to reach such heights. Military radar operators were also contacted but were unable to trace the reported object.”
This wasn’t a one off incident though because in 1995, the Civil Aviation Authority conducted an intense investigation when the captain of a passenger aircraft – again coming into land at Manchester Airport – nearly collided with a dark, wedge shaped object that was so close that the first officer also instinctively ducked.
What were these ‘near misses’? Do you think the authorities really couldn’t ‘determine the likely cause of the sighting.’? Strange, when the National Air Traffic Control Services admit that staff detect around one unexplained flying object every month.
There must be something out there – even if it’s earthbound. Surely, whatever it is, isn’t being covered up? No, that’s silly …
Seems to be of foreign as people who were in moving car along an expressway, were talking in non-English.?
The ship cam out of a cloud, have some bring dots appear from the other end of the cloud, then after a bright type explosion, it shot down a double bright 2 balls going to the earth… all the while the huge ship half out of a cloud disappeared.. Amazing Video, if not doctored/edited in a computer program, who are they??
Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (Paperback)
The first English edition was in print, published in 1959.
"Flying Saucers, A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, is controversial psychoanalyst C.G. Jung's floundering attempt to somehow embrace the UFO phenomenon with a logic that simply does not exist in the UFO realm.
Like some who have actually seen UFOs and who have had bizarre alien encounters with non-human intelligences, Jung cannot wrap his mind around this widely reported worldwide experienced singularity of reality.
Reading this book, seeing his thoughts emerge on paper, one can see the real struggle that he had intellectually with indigestible experiences of high strangeness with aliens; his explanations seem stranger and weirder than some of the actual phenomenon itself!
Jung holds that alien UFO technological craft which morph into different shapes, wink out and reappear and transport human abductees are a mere projection of mankind's "collective unconscious".
He states that although secularized Western Civilization's Every Man has lost belief in any paranormal God of Christianity/ Judaism that, nonetheless, the human psyche has a religious, myth-making function which is unconscious in nature and which cannot be turned off.
Jung's seems clearly baffled when he postulates that at our core, even in especially "rational" or especially atheistic modern thinking human beings, is a deep, secret religious longing.
A "conflict occurs", he claims, because the conscious mind has rejected God; the "collective unconscious" 'compensates' for this by projecting illusions, hallucinations of UFOs as well as hallucinations of the alien beings who pilot them.
To Jung, the global phenomenon of reported UFOs and their alien beings is a mere 'projection' of our unconscious desire; we 'create' an ersatz psychological substitute for God.
We are still looking 'up'......
Jung further also goes on to connect people who see UFOs and the abduction phenomenon with the universal anxieties they have that were created by World War II and the Cold War.
Somehow, human fears are transformed, become reduced into projections of flying saucers, in his words, "a modern myth of things seen in the sky".
Had Jung meant all this on a sheer symbolic level, he would have made more innate horse sense.
UFO observations, though non-religious by nature, DO encompass a similarity to the "spiritual" or semi-religious dimension, in many tangential ways:
Part of the phenomenon does involve astral abductions; one's body is left behind in a car, or in bed, and one's spiritual essences are extracted, 'vibrated' out of one's body..
One reports seeing one's body receding below as one is ascending into an overhead craft..
One's astral essences do maintain all of one's personality traits and idiosyncratic fine judgmental qualities.
As well, some power seeking abductees do surely assume the role of purported prophets who bring messages of occult truth and shaman like salvation from the aliens, who in effect become like new gods.
There IS a strong connection between the ideas of abductees and those native to the ideas of Theosophy.
And there ARE strong similarities between the predatory spiritual treatment of abductees by aliens and the too easily dismissed ancient notions of demonic possession.
However, Jung goes much further than such symbolic associations by connecting UFOs to his personal more contentious idea about a LITERAL collective unconscious, its "projections" and its "archetypes".
To his mind, a flying saucer is an archetype, compared to the mandala, its round shape a universal symbol of' wholeness'.
Jung is always however sufficiently unclear as to whether he regards these psychic projections in some sense real, or whether they are to his thinking sheer internal, subjective illusions.
He does not elucidate whether he sees UFOs as hallucinations, or if they may then exist as physical entities
Jung leads one to believe that he sees the supernatural in a literal sense, but that he would never say this explicitly, because of his trained "scientific" pretenses.
He may have in some way seen himself as a psychological prophet of the occult's salvation or seen himself as its apologist.
The rest of the book is even more far-fetched; Jung makes more highly subjective and idiosyncratic analysis of some dreams and paintings that do in some way deal with UFOs.
Jung painfully squeezes all kinds of "mythological" symbolism from them and finally in this book goes on to
review the quasi-religious musings of an abductee, Orfeo Angelucci, whom he calls "naive".
The similarities between the messages received by Orfeo from aliens, to certain religious notions, are indeed somewhat striking.
But, The Collective Unconscious? !
A better explanation is that "naive" Orfeo had been reading Theosophical literature...
I can't say I was convinced by any of the contents.
"Flying Saucers", gives one a glimpse of how Jung approached UFO paranormal experiences as quasi-religious phenomena, as he painfully could not accept or understand these experiences at face value.
If I were able to write him an angry letter, it would say:
"Dear Carl,
You're so completely "all wet" that you may as well be a fish and not at all a thinking human being; I have for years, personally had contact, seen these entities and their craft mentioned by so many other abductees the world over, and seen them eyeball-to eyeball.
You're an educated P.H.D. trained to be simple minded, and one with gall to preach such reasonable logical nonsense and horseapples.
I know, for a certainty, having passed many psychiatric and neurological medical exams, that I am not schizophrenic, not mentally ill, hallucinating, paranoid or suffering brain lesions for having experienced these alien beings and seen their craft; without question, these encounters clearly contradict everything that you (and I )have ever learned or been told by clearly uninformed others.
You cannot see your UFO nose on your face and thus assert that it's UNIVERSALLY not there but a projected mental image from that conflict.
Others, who know better, assure you that your UFO nose, contrary to your opinion, is UNIVERSALLY, in fact, actually there.
To persist in such logical pseudo scientific assertions, to a person like me who has both seen UFOs and aliens, is an inane attempt to contradict / explain away my direct experiences of such things.
Such persistence is a waste of time and energy and one surely of disinformation; it reveals some crippled faculties of understanding for other's experiences far different from and beyond your own clearly limited experiences .
A formally trained shrink, in this realm, is as useless as teats on a bull....
Convince others who may argue whether their own UFO nose IS or ISN'T really there; I and others who are abductees, hold ourselves up as a mirror to you.
Our written accounts of our experiences demonstate how useless your pseudo logical analysis IS, in the face of these, our contrary experiences.
We hold our UFO noses high up in the air, in indignation at your clever notion that we imagined it all.
You're not a singularity of cynicism; there are also many others. According to one abductee:
" A leap in consciousness will require a dissolution and restructuring of your beliefs about the nature of reality; to live unburdened by an insatiable curiosity to comprehend the mysteries of the universe is quite an amazing thing, in itself.
The history of mankind has been punctuated by personalities who refused to be bound by the grand illusion of space and time, seekers who penetrated the limitations of space and form."
Knowing the aliens reside in a different reality explains why this whole UFO phenomenon is so slippery; "we exist within a matrix of other realities all merging in one spot: the mind."
Aliens and their craft exist.
My expanded consciousness and mental abilities are merely the outcome of my contacts with them. To quote this same author-abductee:
"Their world coexists with our own intimately intertwined and separated by the thinnest veil- our arrogant assumption that we are the sole proprietors of the only reality."
Alien technology, recovered from downed discs and other craft, has already inspired Skunkworks to give us the ability to recreate and reverse engineer: lasers, fiber optics, nuclear power, cold fusion anti gravity, microwaves, stealth technology,
nanotechnology,
microchips,
specialized surgical tools,
cloning-genetic engineering-
and most recently we scramble to deduce 'smart skins' of craft which like chameleons, alter shape and color according to environments.
All of these magical technologies were successfully studied, reverse engineered and imitated.
We have a lot to be thankful for because of Klaatu, even though he is the complete opposite of the charming, handsome gracious, elevated spirit in film and in book.
He, in reptilian form and in grey form instead sees us in much the same perfunctory way, that we see chickens, a crop to be harvested and a not a species elevated to equanimity.
Affection,
Paul Schroeder"
Director of CIA, Admiral R.H. Hillenkoetter: "It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel." p. 58, quoted from New York Times, February 28, 1960, p. L30
Abductions and their remnant elusive memories have opened all this for Paul, a confirmed atheist, UNTIL Paul saw aliens float him out of his body, in his bed, at night.
Then, he knew that they were interested in an essence that he never suspected that he had, a nonphysical soul.
Our spiritual powers that interest and addict interdimensionals are the very powers that can be used to thwart further attacks.
They infect auras with attachments to themselves and ride the reincarnation roller coaster with human beings, as a sanctuary, to avoid the death that they fear and to steal the spiritual recycling that we have.
Souls are garnered, detoured from our natural spiritual evolution in Heaven.
These joyriding grays can be sinister, discorporate alien souls, stuck to our energies, who bring a new meaning to the concept of a silent invasion.
Le robot arrivé sur la Lune en décembre 2013 connaissait des problèmes techniques depuis le 25 janvier : les ingénieurs chinois annoncent aujourd'hui qu'il ne redémarrera plus.
Le rover chinois "Lapin de Jade" photographié par la sonde après l'alunissage réussi du 14 décembre 2013. Deux mois plus tard, la Chine acte de son décès.
Mais le Lapin de Jade - aussi appelé "Yutu" - connaissait des problèmes techniques depuis le 25 janvier dernier, une "défaillance de son contrôle mécanique" selon les officiels chinois. Les ingénieurs espéraient depuis qu'ils parviendraient à le réparer ; malgré leurs efforts, ils n'y sont pas arrivés. Et ce 12 février 2014, les autorités chinoises ont pris acte du "décès" du Lapin de Jade.
“They saw strange symbols on the side of it that looked a bit like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Then it rose up above the ground very slowly, cleared the treetops, and shot away to the horizon in an instant. Two days later it came back. It didn’t land that time, but it was flying around in the area.” According to Pope, the UFO sighting has also held serious consequences for the eyewitnesses.
“The witnesses included the deputy base commander. It’s a phenomenal story. Some of the guys now have health issues. There’s talk of a federal lawsuit.”
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Need We Fear the Minds of Space Aliens?
Need We Fear the Minds of Space Aliens?
ky also wonder about these things.
However,as a psychiatrist I have an additionallist of questions. If there are other sentient beings in the universe, what do they think about? What do they do when they are disappointed? Do any go crazy? Do any have personality disorders? Do they use illicit drugs? Do they gamble? Do they tell jokes? Do they tell dirty jokes?
Chances of finding alien life improve as scientists modify life as we know it
Chances of finding alien life improve as scientists modify ‘life as we know it’
Scientists recently used data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) HARPS spectrograph in Chile to estimate the presence of tens of billions of planets in the Milky Way galaxy that are likely capable of sustaining life, dramatically increasing the odds of finding life beyond Earth. And a new discovery by scientists may further improve those odds. As the Daily Mail explains, life as we know it is made up of DNA and RNA, “molecules which can store and transmit genetic information.” But a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge has successfully manufactured synthetic XNAs (xeno-nucleic acids), confirming that at least six other types of molecules can support life.
Researchers theorize that XNA could produce lifeforms as complex as Earth life. The Daily Mail reports, “The new discovery means that it is not necessary for DNA to be present on another planet for there to be a chance of life.”
Much of the search for extraterrestrial life has been based on our understanding of life on Earth. A pair ofPrincetonscientists recently authored paper that, among other things, points out the flaw in this logic. Edwin Turner, astrophysical sciences professor and one of the paper’s authors, explained to New Jersey newspaper the Times of Trenton, “Our paper really just calls into question one of the few pieces of evidence we use for life elsewhere. The fact that life developed on Earth quickly has encouraged people to think that the probability of it happening elsewhere is quite high.” By using assumptions based on Earth life, this research team found little evidence that life exists outside of Earth.
But with the potentially billions of Earth-like planets in the galaxy, many scientists are optimistic about the odds of finding extraterrestrial life based on the notion of life as we know it. And as more discoveries are made that expand this notion, like XNA, the odds will continue to improve.
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You dont believe in aliens? Maybe youre the crazy one
You don’t believe in aliens? Maybe you’re the crazy one
WHERE is everybody?” Enrico Fermi famously asked 63 years ago. His question was cosmic: Our modest little eight-planet solar system is part of the Milky Way, which has at least 100 billion stars. The Milky Way, in turn, is one galaxy among 100 billion or more. The math suggests we should have seen signs of other civilizations by now.
What’s more, according to a study published this week, billions of those planets are potentially amenable to life as we know it. The nearest one could be just 12 light-years away.
So it’s tempting to reframe Fermi’s question slightly. Isn’t it possible, as we learn more about the cosmos, that Trekkies, alien abductees and unidentified-flying-object conspiracy theorists were right all along? Which is to say, it is more rational to believe in alien life than it is to not believe in it.
Not so fast, Mr. Spock. The new study, by astronomers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Hawaii, extrapolates from data collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kepler Space Telescope. Yet, this analysis, as exciting as it is, doesn’t mean that the existence of alien life is necessarily any more likely.
Scientists still don’t know exactly why, or by what mechanism, life arose from nonlife on Earth, or how it would do so on any other planet. Until that process is better understood, the odds of it happening more than once remain anyone’s guess, no matter how many other Earths or near-Earths we find.
Still, as the search goes on, the prospect of discovering alien life has only become more tantalizing. Only a generation ago, the scientific community was almost unanimously dismissive of the idea. Today it’s alive with theories about alien communication, alien biochemistry, alien conquest. (Really: That last theory comes from none other than Stephen Hawking.) Astronomers around the world are working on techniques to parse radio signals, light pulses, even encoded neutrinos in search of a flicker of evidence suggesting cosmic intelligence.
That’s where this new study could prove quite useful. Although no one knows how life emerges, the Earth still offers the best model we have—the only model, in fact. The astronomer Jill Tarter has compared the search for alien intelligence to dipping a water glass in the ocean looking for fish. The Kepler data can help focus that search to planets where emergent life seems most probable. And it provides a crucial variable in the Drake Equation, which astronomers have long used as a kind of shorthand to determine how many intelligent civilizations might exist elsewhere in the cosmos. In other words, it gives us a place to start.
Fermi’s question remains unanswered. But it only grows more compelling, and more perplexing, with each new discovery.
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Why Im not giving up on the search for extraterrestrial life
Why I'm not giving up on the search for extraterrestrial life
Why I’m not giving up on the search for extraterrestrial life
When you’ve spent your career chasing the ultimate, change-everything cosmic brass ring, how do you retire without feeling disappointed? I’ve been asked that question, or some variation, dozens of times in the past month, and I’ve answered it the same way I have over my many decades as a research scientist searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.
I’m not disappointed. I understand how little searching we’ve done so far, and I’m excited about how much we will do in the future. Now it is time for me to shift from looking for extraterrestrial intelligence to looking for intelligent benefactors to help support that quest. I’ve done this before, but now I have to do it with gusto. Now I’m retired.
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity’s place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales. Of particular note, the New York Sun hoaxed its eager readers in 1835 with stories about a splendid civilization of moon-men that had supposedly been revealed by observations made with a 20-foot optical telescope in South Africa. Percival Lowell opened the 20th century with a popular, but false, interpretation of canals built by thirsty Martians to save their planet.
But things got more serious in 1959, with the publication of a paper in the journal Nature marking the beginning of the modern era of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. The paper’s authors, Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison, recognized that the new science of radio astronomy offered tools — radio telescopes developed from World War II-era radars — with which these old human questions could be explored.
This is what hooked me on SETI.
As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project. I was alive at just the right time, with just the right skills.
In 1960, the pioneering astronomer Frank Drake, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va., pointed the Tatel telescope at two nearby, sun-like stars, seeking to detect any radio signals that extraterrestrials might be transmitting, whether for their own purposes or to attract our attention. Drake’s Project Ozma failed to find any engineered signals coming from the vicinity of those stars, but it did detect unanticipated emissions coming from our own technology. To this day, telling the difference between signals that might be “theirs” and those that are ours remains a major challenge.
In his book “Is Anyone Out There?,” written with Dava Sobel, Drake describes an adrenaline-charged episode when he thought he might have found what he was looking for. The SETI research community is small, but almost all of us have shared that incredible experience. As our hardware and software have evolved in sophistication, we’ve built in safeguards that filter out most human-engineered sources of interference. Most, but not all.
This happened to me in the 1990s, in the midst of a decade-long search called Project Phoenix. (It was named to commemorate rising from the ashes of congressional termination of NASA’s SETI program.) With the help of private donations, we transported a shipping container jammed with electronic gear to major observatories around the world.
We would observe simultaneously with a second, smaller telescope located hundreds of miles away. This was our main defense against confusing our signals with theirs. For any signal to be considered a valid candidate for extraterrestrial intelligence, it had to be detected at both sites and had to exhibit behavior consistent with a signal being transmitted from somewhere near the star we were targeting.
In 1997, a lightning storm in Woodbury, Ga., where our second dish was located, fried a disk drive in one of our computers and left us with only the 140-foot telescope at Green Bank for a few days. And that is when things got interesting.
Early one morning, I was preparing to end my shift babysitting the automated detection systems and pack up to head back to California when a clearly artificial signal was detected. The Phoenix system automatically did what it could without the second dish. It pointed away from the target star, and the signal disappeared, then it pointed back at the star, and there was the signal again.
I stopped thinking about packing.
I had an idea and wrote a small program to search our recent data to see if we had detected this signal before. The results revealed that we had indeed, when the telescope was pointed in other directions, and that it was our technology being picked up by the telescope’s peripheral vision. But I was so excited that I misread the numbers. My quick bit of programming, sloppy formatting and rising excitement all conspired to craft a different script.
My colleagues from the day shift arrived to join the action. I sent a quick e-mail to our administrative assistant in California asking her to help change my travel plans and to let my husband know that I would be delayed. Then the doors of the observing room at the base of the telescope swung open to admit a documentary TV crew; months earlier, we had agreed to let them film our work. Now here they were. For hours we ignored the cameras and nodded the venerable old telescope on and off the target star. The signal disappeared and reappeared as expected. We looked up the star and debated what might make it a successful host for another technological civilization.
By mid-afternoon, although the signal had never failed to show up at the right time, we reluctantly concluded that it was not, after all, evidence of a distant civilization. The way the signal’s frequency components were changing because of the Earth’s rotation was wrong. We didn’t know what it was, but we knew what it wasn’t. As I headed off to dinner, again and again I assured the TV crew that this wasn’t it after all; they were more disappointed than we were.
Remember that e-mail I sent about changing my travel plans? It turns out that innocent bit of trivial logistics was indirectly responsible for a call from the New York Times to our tired California colleagues, seeking comments on the detection. Contrary to what the screenwriters in Hollywood think, secrecy will probably not be part of any actual detection — this secret would be just too hard to keep. Conspiracy cover-up theories find no supporters among those of us who do this work.
How likely is it that someday, the signal will truly come from someone else? Nobody can answer that question. However, the original paper outlining SETI in Nature in 1959 did say something very wise in its last sentence: “The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero.”
Our 50 years of searching is equivalent to scooping a single glass of water from the Earth’s oceans to examine it for fish. It is an experiment that could work — but if it fails, the correct conclusion is that there was inadequate sampling, not that the oceans are devoid of fish.
Today, our searches are getting exponentially better. If we are looking for the right thing, it will take only a few decades to conduct a search that is comprehensive enough to be successful or to yield conclusive negative results.
Is there actually someone or something out there for us to find? This is another question without an answer, yet. In the last two decades of my career, what we’ve learned about exoplanets and extremophiles — organisms that inhabit environments once thought to be incapable of supporting life — has made the cosmos appear more friendly to living creatures.
The census of potentially habitable cosmic real estate has continued to expand. This is not the same as knowing that the real estate is inhabited, of course, though that conclusion could be part of our near future. After all, things do look good.
When I was a student, additional planets were just a good theory. Today, it’s beginning to look like almost every star hosts planets — some seem tantalizingly familiar, but some of them are unlike any in our solar system. We used to think that the limits on life were between the boiling and freezing points of water, at neutral pH values, at pressures not too different from those on the Earth’s surface. The detailed study of life in extreme environments has pushed those limits aside.
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth’s crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica.
What will my granddaughter know about the limits of life before her student days are over? It’s possible that she may learn about a second genesis of life on Mars or within the ice-covered oceans of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn; possible, that is, if we continue our exploration of the bodies of our solar system. As for intelligent life — for that we need SETI.
And what SETI needs is stable funding for the long haul. For our impatient species, even a few decades is a long time, and if we haven’t yet invented the right way to search, the endeavor could take much longer. A successful retirement for me will consist of making sure that my successor, his successor and SETI researchers elsewhere do not have to ride the funding roller coaster that has characterized the first half-century of this scientific exploration.
With no guarantee of success, it is difficult to attract the best minds to a career in SETI. While many, like me, are hooked on the importance and the potential payoff of this research, few are willing to bet their family’s livelihood on it. Some university professors have been able to develop SETI programs, but only after they achieve tenure. This isn’t conducive to determined exploration. And that is precisely what the search needs right now.
After decades of confusion with UFOs and other pseudo-science, Golden Fleece awards and congressional boasts about ending funding for the “great Martian chase,” the surprising exoplanet discoveries today legitimize this scientific exploration. We haven’t yet found Earth 2.0, but most of my planet-hunting colleagues say that it’s imminent. When we do, the next question is going to be: Does anybody live there?
Jill Tarter, an astronomer, retired in May as the director of the Center for SETI research at the SETI institute. She is Bernard M. Oliver chair for SETI at the institute. Jill Tarter – delaware online
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Space Alien Hospital Under Wright-Patterson AFB? (pictures and video)
Space Alien Hospital Under Wright-Patterson AFB? (pictures and video)
New hospitals are cropping up all over the country. Many state governments are limiting hospital expansions, claiming that increased expenitures on building new hospitals is increasing patient costs.
Putting hundreds of millions of dollars into building new hospitals, while current, if older, facilities are not fully utilized, is a massive waste of resources and finances, given that medical costs are so expensive already.
I recently visited a new medical facility, which is a state of the art breast center This facility looks more like an art gallery, with its abstract art on the walls, sculpture on low cubic tables and brightly colored walls.
I jokingly asked one of the doctors if they could draw blood from a Martian and test it. He said they could take the blood sample, but they’d have to send it to Mars for testing.
Now, I was joking—and I thought he was, but that brings us to a point: some people claim that nonhuman aliens not only exist, but they live among us. If that is the case, do these creatures become ill, and where are the facilities that treat them?
Alleged conspiracy theorists claim there is an alien base under the Phoenix airport. Still others say Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio has been using alien technology for years. There is a theory that a lot of our technology is the result of reverse engineering of alien technology.
The recent cluster of flaming space objects seemed to have a common denominator: Dayton airspace.
Red UFO lights recorded over Toddington, Bedfordshire, UK on 27th January 2014
Red UFO lights recorded over Toddington, Bedfordshire, UK on 27th January 2014
UFO photos2014 – New interesting UFO photos of a red light recorded while hovering in the night sky above Toddington, Bedfordshire, UK on 27th January 2014.
Witness said: I was travelling from Houghton Regis towards Toddington along a dark road and I saw 2 red lights in the sky, they were moving eratically, sort of dancing and appeared to be moving together, and then apart. They appeared to be very high, almost illuminating the clouds. I have 2 images taken from my camera phone which i wanted to share. No idea what they could have been!
Strange UFO lights above El Paso, Texas on 8th February 2014
Strange UFO lights above El Paso, Texas on 8th February 2014
UFO videos2014 – New amazing video footage of a triangle – formation UFO lights recorded in the night sky above El Paso, Texas on 8th February 2014.
Witness said: Would this be UFO’s? Or what? Really strange because they were just making triangles every time they appeared on the sky and then disappear all of the sudden.
UFO sighting over San Antonio, Texas on 8th February 2014
UFO sighting over San Antonio, Texas on 8th February 2014
New interesting video footage of a bright UFO or orb recorded in the sky above San Antonio, Texas on 8th February 2014.
Witness said: February-08-2014 multiple U.F.Os were captured on video traveling high in altitude over San Antonio,Texas. First U.F.O was observed as i was Skywatching using a SONY with a 950nm IR Filter. U.F.O Orb was observed Fading IN/OUT traveling overhead. When zooming in you can clearly see this U.F.O Orb traveling using the roof top as reference point..It was traveling at high altitude emitting some kind of energy,not reflect the suns rays.At one point it changes direction clearly under some sort of control. A short time later i was able to capture another U.F.O traveling overhead passing by the clouds..This other U.F.O was traveling away..These U.F.O’s was traveling at high altitude right above my house. I did not hear any noise coming from these unknown object. In my opinion these glowing objects were clearly not a weather balloon/aircraft or satellite.
RUSSIAN COSMONAUT DRAWS ALIEN CRAFT HE ENCOUNTERED
“It followed after the changes that occurred in Russia all kinds of things went on sale. The KGB files were sold in their entirety to Yale University, and two U.S. film companies bought the rights to the KGB UFO files. Soviet scientists and cosmonauts also came forward with what they knew. In 1990 Colonel Marina Popovich held a press conference in San Francisco at the Russian Consulate. During the conference she showed amazing photographs of cigar-shaped alien craft in space that were each, fifteen miles long. The photos were taken by a Russian space, probe which mysteriously stopped working, then disappeared completely, shortly after taking the photographs.] For more information on missing space probes see “Star Warsand Satellites” page.
Popovich knows her stuff. Besides being a colonel in the Soviet Armed Forces, she is also the wife of famed cosmonaut Pavel Popovich. Pavel Popovich was head of a Soviet Committee on UFOs.] During half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineered structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 25 to 29 meters away.” – Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev commenting on a UFO sighting that occurred while en route to the Solyut 6 space station in April of 1979. Cosmonaut Adanasyev made a drawing of the space ship he witnessed from aboard the Soviet orbital vessel. (shown above) Victor states, “I think we are not alone, something of extraterrestrial origin has visited Earth.” The alien craft turned toward ours, followed us and flew formation 25 to 29 meters away. We photographed the metallic engineering structure that was around 40 meters long. The film was later confiscated. Sourse: Rense.com and Filer Files NOTE: The above image is a rendering except for the drawing from the Cosmonaut.
Near Colonia Año De Juarez, Mexico – May 30, 1986 – 8:30pm
Carlos was bicycling back home after visiting family and was using a side road in order to avoid the heavy traffic. Soon about 500 meters ahead he noticed what appeared to be two large luminous eyes staring at him. As he approached the eyes the bicycle light turned off and Carlos movements seemed to become lethargic.
A short figure with large luminous eyes approached the witness and ordered Carlos to follow him. The figure remained 4 meters ahead of Carlos, who seemed unable to resist and followed the creature to a field were a large lighted object rested on the ground. A ramp descended to the ground and Carlos entered the craft, followed by two more short humanoids.
Inside he found himself in a lighted circular area with what appeared to be a square table in the middle of the room. In a corner stood a taller more heavyset figure with large luminous eyes. For some unknown reason, Carlos knew that this creature was the “leader.” He described the figure as having a huge oval shaped hairless head, with large black eyes lacking any pupils. It had two holes for ears, two holes for a nose and a slit like lipless mouth. The head was directly set on its shoulders, lacking a neck and appeared to have a hump on its back. It had dark gray skin, resembling that of an elephant, with long thin arms and legs. A bizarre feature was its hands, which ended in numerous thin filaments resembling roots. No apparent clothing was seen.
At this point the witness was very afraid but heard a mental message imploring to be calm, that they did not harm humans. A telepathic conversation ensued in which the humanoid invited the witness to come with them to their place of origin. The witness declined the invitation and was told that they understood his decision. He was then shown on a diffused screen on a wall a dry arid world apparently the humanoid’s point of origin. He was also informed that they could transform their bodies and appearance at will, and was given a brief demonstration.
Suddenly the witness was overcome by “darkness” and then passed out. When he woke up he found himself lying on the road next to his bicycle at about 2200. He suffered from severe insomnia for the next two weeks and from terrible nightmares. He found several round red marks around the belly button area and circular marks around his under arms. Later under hypnosis he was able to remember that at one point onboard the craft he was taken into a room where he saw numerous objects resembling telephone booths. He was asked to enter one of them, once inside a bright blue light covered his body. Once outside he looked inside another one of the booths and saw a figure identical in appearance to him. Before leaving he was told by the leader to keep an eye for the sign of their return by being aware of “the sounds of distant thunder.”
In 1975 or 1976 there was some commotion in Kuantan, Malaysia, when a strange encounter with a 3-inch-tall man-like creature was reported. The incident occurred about 9 miles from the town of Kuantan. The small UFO which ferried the tiny entity is said to have landed at the Royal Malaysian Air Force Base.
There were three young witnesses to the encounter. The third witness, not mentioned in the newspaper account below, is known to be still schooling in Kuantan. Attempts have been made to locate this witness. The whereabouts of the other two witnesses is not known and it is conceivable that they have moved to other Air Force installations in the country with their parents.
Below is a short account of the incident as it appeared in the local newspaper:
“Kuantan, Thursday – A 3-inch-tall creature said to resemble a human being, has become the talk of the RMAF base here since its reported sighting, by a schoolboy two days ago. The story has also spread to the town.
“Paul Lazario, 9, a pupil of the RMAF Primary School said he saw the creature two days ago near a drain at the RMAF field. It was stopping to drink water, he added. ‘I caught it but it escaped from my grip and ran into some undergrowth near the drain,’ he said.
“It had two feelers on the head and held a steel-like rod in its hand. A pistol was hanging from its waist. It was brown in colour and looked like a man,’ he added.
“Paul said he related the incident to his friends and in the evening three of them went to the spot near the field. And according to schoolboy, Neo Lee Ann, 12, all three saw the creature moving about on the area. ‘When it saw us, it ran into the undergrowth and disappeared’ he said.
“A teacher of the school, Mr. Yew Kim Guan, said when he heard the story he went to investigate. ‘There was no sign of the creature in the area, but I saw a Red Indian-like wigwam beautifully weaved out of grass. It was partly crushed,’ he said.
“He added he didn’t know whether to believe the story,”
Uniontown, Pennsylvania – August 3, 2000 – 10:00pm
Five witnesses observed what they described as an alien “glide” across a field. The witnesses described the being as about 5 feet tall with long slender extremities. It carried a brown “staff” about 5 feet long. It was observed for about a minute from a distance of about 250 feet. No apparent disturbances to the area around the being were reported. The creature appeared to glide about 6 inches above the ground, according to the witnesses. Weather conditions were cool and clear with no wind. No sounds were reported and witnesses commented on it seeming abnormally quiet at the time. Crickets and other normal background noises were absent. The witnesses lost sight of the being when they drove a short distance up the road to an area which they thought would offer a better view, only about 75 to 100 ft from where the being was seen. A small knoll obstructed their view as they drove. When they got to the closer location, the being was gone. The witnesses returned home after the encounter. They reported no serious effects from their sighting, although three of them did claim to be very tired the next day.
Source: Stan Gordon, PASU, J Brown
NOTE:another strange tale from the Laurel Highlands of Southwest, Pennsylvania. This area is one of a few that facilitates sightings of Bigfoot/UFO/cryptid cats/alien beings and everything in-between…Lon
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – August 1973 – various
An ungodly looking creature created havoc among the local god-fearing Amish community. Witnesses described the creature as following: The size of a good heifer, gray in color with a white mane. It had tiger like fangs and curved horns like a Billy goat. It ran upright on long legs, and had long grizzly claws. In one incident, the creature sent a team of horses and two brothers flying when it approached their hay wagon. The following day, a man was cutting weeds on his farm about five miles from the previous incident when he heard a fierce roar and turned to see a monster with three horns and a tail charging in his direction. He raised his scythe to defend himself, only to have the implement ripped from his hands. At that point, the man wisely decided to turn both cheeks to the monster and escaped as fast as he could run. A day later a woman was feeding poultry on a farm midway between the two earlier incidents when she heard a commotion and turned to see the creature in the act of snatching a goose in each of its hands. She bravely ran toward the thing, waving her apron. The woman managed to recover one of her geese when the creature threw it at her, knocking her to the ground in the process. The interloper then escaped with the remaining bird in hand.
Source: Phillip L Rife, America’s Nightmare Monsters
The main witness and his wife had bought a ranch in an isolated area in 1975 and for more than a year they had been experiencing strange sounds, UFO manifestations and Bigfoot sightings on the property. There were some cattle mutilations as well.
One night the man and the eldest son went up to the top of a hill to examine a burned spot from the previous year. As they sat in the car, a beam of yellow light shone on them from nearby woods. Walking towards the trees, they discovered a buzzing black box, clearly seen in the light of the full moon. As they approached, it changed tone, now sounding like a swarm of angry bees. The two retreated to the safety of the car. The witness told the young man to stay by the car and went back to the spot where the black box had been; it was now gone. He saw a light in the trees and, walking toward the light, came upon two individuals standing near the light source. As he approached, they spoke to him, saying “How nice of you to come.” Some distance away, down a slope, was a disk, illuminated, about 50 or 60 feet away. The two beings apologized for the trouble they had caused, promising a more equitable arrangement. They told him several things he was not to repeat, but which had no special meaning for him at the time. They regretted damage done to several of the cars, but they did not acknowledge responsibility for any of the local cattle mutilations. They told him he was wise to have backed off from the black box, which was nearby. They pointed in a particular direction and the tone on the box changed; as it did, a Bigfoot type creature got up off the ground and walked toward the box. The tone changed and the creature dropped. The meeting lasted five minutes.
In appearance the beings were similar, human looking about 5’6″ in height, and wearing a tight fitting outfit like a flight uniform. The suits changed colors from brown to silver. Their complexions were fair and they had blond hair, not long. The most notable features were the eyes, which were very large but otherwise normal looking. They were different in subtle ways but could pass as humans in ordinary situations. Before the witness walked away from the scene he was told by the beings that he would see them again.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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