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...
Location. Springfield Missouri Date: March 1982 Time: night A local woman recalled that at the point where she was supposed to turn south in her car, she didn’t. She felt as if the car was being pulled by a force faster and faster toward a light at tree-level above and ahead of her. No engine sound, smooth no bumps felt like the car was floating. Then she is in a clearing in the woods with a disc-shaped craft (silver) that has three legs underneath, a light shining toward the ground, and steps that fold down. She is drawn into the craft and through several rooms to a larger room with a platform like padded white silver chrome that molds to body. She “knows” to lie down. She then sees half a dozen men about six feet one or two inches tall, good build, long blond hair, high cheekbones, blue eyes. They wore tight-fitting jumpsuits (brown) with matching shoes and belt. Pale yellow stole draped over one shoulder. Winged emblem on chest, circle with “hawk-eagle” head in center and wings on each side. The men were pleasant, caring and said they were her friends. Told her they are going to do some tests but they won’t hurt. Witness feels slight stinging in breast area, some type of injection on each side in armpit area. They want to see how earth women feed their babies and how they are shaped. They then helped her off the table (did not talk, could read their thoughts). They said she might see them again some time. The witness walked to door, down steps. All of a sudden she was back in her car. Turned and saw door closing on craft and legs going in as it took off with a whistling, whiny sound. Shot off ground and was gone.
HC addition # 1362 Source: Linda Moulton Howe Glimpses of Other Realities, Volume I
In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend’s house. Their routine journey would soon become a harrowing trip into an unknown world of strange beings that occupied space but were void of colour as we know it. The Dandenong foothills, near Belgrave, Victoria, Australia would have its location forever linked to the sighting of one of the most unusual humanoid creatures in Ufology archives. Records from the town of Leicester, England in the year of 1928 give an account of another being without color. The Cahill family would witness either more of the same, or very similar beings in the wee morning hours of August 8. After midnight the Cahills were on their journey home when they first noticed the lights of a rounded craft with windows around it. It silently hovered above the road. Different coloured lights were clearly visible on the bottom of the object. The UFO was so close to the ground that Kelly thought she could see people through the window openings. As she began screaming to her husband what she was seeing, the craft zoomed off to their left, disappearing as quickly as it had made itself known. Continuing their drive home with a renewed interest in the sky, they suddenly came upon a light… a light so bright they were practically blinded. Shading her eyes from the intense light with her hands over her eyes, Kelly begged of her husband, “What are you going to do?” Her husband now frightened to death by the glowing presence before them, replied, “I am going to keep on driving.” Within what seemed only a second or two, Kelly was now very relaxed, suddenly calmed by the disappearance of the intense, glowing light that had turned night into day for a brief few moments. The first words out of Kelly’s mouth were, “What happened, did I blackout?” Her husband said nothing, as he had no answer to give his wife. He cautiously drove his family home. Upon their safe arrival Kelly could smell a foul odour, like vomit, and she suddenly felt as though something was missing from their drive home. Something was missing… an hour or so of time had vanished from her and her family’s life. Cahill at scene of abduction That night as Kelly undressed for bed, she noticed a strange triangular mark on her navel, a mark she had never seen before. It must have been created early this every night. But how? And why? And most importantly, by whom? Kelly suffered from general malaise for the next two weeks, and was taken to the hospital on two occasions, one for severe stomach pain, and another for a uterine infection. Kelly would soon begin to remember details of that fearful night, and without any outside aid such as regressive hypnosis, or counselling. She recalled the object they had seen in a slightly different place than she first remembered. It was hovering in a gully, and the UFO was big. She estimated it at 150 feet in diameter. She could also recall that when the object was first spotted, her husband had stopped the car, and both her and her husband had gotten out of the vehicle, and walked in the direction of the massive craft, without fear. It was if they were being subconsciously drawn to the enigmatic, otherworldly creation. To their surprise, they noticed another car stopped on the side of the road. As they walked down toward the craft, they saw a creature unlike either of them had ever seen before. It was black, not a black color but black as if all matter was removed where its presence was. Kelly would later describe it as “not having a soul.” Cahill – Recent Photo Kelly’s words for the alien were “void of color,” yet its shape was clearly discernible. The black alien entity was taller than an average man, about 7 feet tall, according to Kelly, and its eyes were large like a fly’s, glowing red. After being mesmerised by the sight of the being, she saw more of them. “Heaps of them” is how Kelly described them as she stared into the open field. The aliens were out there in the field, beneath the immense flying craft. The beings seemed to congregate in small groups, and one group glided toward Kelly and her husband, covering a hundred yards in a mere few seconds. Another group was approaching the other car which sat motionless near the hovering craft. Kelly had a sense that the creatures were evil. She clung to her husband, fighting the feeling of blacking out. Her great fear and dread would cause her to scream at the alien-looking entities to leave them alone. She remembered going unconscious, and then… she was back in their car. As strange as this encounter seems, it was not without corroboration. The occupants in the other car would come forward and tell almost an exact story, a story of abduction, mind control, and embarrassing procedures. Kelly recalled through dreams the black alien stooping over her helpless, nude body like he was kissing her navel. From all indications of the descriptions of the aliens, they were intruding into our dimension, taking space in our universe, yet without solid form, though shapes, heads, eyes, and arms could be distinguished. Could these strange and eerie beings simply slip from a parallel existence into ours? Or were they from a not too distant future? The account of Kelly Cahill has been examined and reexamined by many researchers. Many theories have been put forward, but nothing new has been uncovered. Nothing has been proven, or disproved. Kelly Cahill was considered a reliable, honest person by those who knew her at the time of this strange sighting. Her case is considered legitimate by many UFO investigators.
Location. Talavera La Real AFB Badajoz Spain Date: November 12 1976 Time: 01:45 a.m. Jose Maria Trejo and Juan Carrizosa Lujan were on sentry duty when they heard a very loud, penetrating whistle that continued for 5 minutes, stopped, and then started again. As it stopped for the second time, they saw a light in the sky, “like a flare,” which lit up a wide area beneath it, in the direction of Badajoz. After 15-20 seconds this light vanished. A third sentry, Jose Hidalgo, joined them; accompanied by a guard dog, and they went to search the fuel stockpile area. They had gone about 1000 ft when they experienced a localized “whirlwind,” which alarmed them and caused them to load their rifles. Then, hearing a sound as of branches being broken in the direction of some nearby eucalyptus trees, they loosed the dog. He dashed off toward the trees, but after a few seconds staggered back, as though sick, and whimpering. 4 or 5 times they got the dog to go to the trees, but each time he came back in the same way. Then Trejo glimpsed a greenish light out of the corner of his eyes, and turning around, beheld a luminous humanoid figure at least 10 ft tall, only 50 ft away. The luminous figure seemed to consist entirely of small points of light—along its periphery; these luminous points were more intense. The small head seemed to be covered with a sort of helmet. The body was thick. The arms seemed to be crossed. Legs and feet could not be seen. Trejo tried to fire his rifle, but was unable to; he felt a sensation of weakness, and collapsed to the ground. The other two men, a little farther away, caught sight of the entity at this moment, and fired at it. Between them they fired 40-50 shots. At the moment the firing began, the apparition vanished. The other two men helped Trejo to his feet, and at this time all 3 heard the whistle again, from the direction of the eucalyptus trees; it lasted for 10-15 seconds, and then ceased. At dawn 50 men searched the area. They found nothing; in particular, they could not find a single cartridge case. Moreover, the adobe wall of the base, which was just behind the being, showed not a single bullet-pock. A few days after the incident, Trejo lost his vision, and then fell unconscious. Hospital tests showed nothing abnormal. About 2 weeks later he again lost his vision for about 15 minutes. He was hospitalized for a month and during that time suffered from severe headaches.
Humcat 1976-99 Source: Juan Jose Benitez, FSR Vol. 23 # 5
Travis Walton Of Fire In The Sky Alien Fame Sent Me This To Share. The Muddle Of Truth!
THE MUDDLE OF TRUTH by Travis Walton
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With the recent airing overseas of the canceled FOX TV show, THE MOMENT OF TRUTH, some people may have been mislead into believing that some shocking new revelation about the famous logging crew UFO case has come to light. Quite the contrary. Now that the airing of the show ends the “gag clause” in my contract (with its one million dollar penalty) I am free to reveal that MOMENT OF TRUTH has used testing methods that the producers were informed from the beginning were long ago completely discredited by every polygraph expert, lie detector school, and polygraph professional association in existence. I’ll quote here specific condemnations of the show’s methods by four of the world’s most highly respected polygraph experts who agree that “…the polygraph aspect of the show has no validity whatsoever”. I will reveal other blatant deceptions the show has committed. And I will provide details of how, after the show, I underwent two of the most rigorous new polygraph tests available anywhere in the world.
I should have seen it coming. I should have known better. But there were unique circumstances. The company where I had worked for almost a decade announced a corporate headquarters decision to downsize by permanently terminating the fifty most recently hired workers, regardless of their performance. My hire date put me on that list. I came home that day to receive a phone call inviting me to be a “contestant” on a show I’d never seen that offered the possibility of winning up to $100,000. An opportunity to solve my layoff problem? I was wary. I began taping our negotiations. I watched an episode. I knew the examiner was their man, with every incentive to keep his employers from having to pay out big prize money. I wrote emails to a few of my friends about my apprehensions. I wrestled with doubt. I learned the show specialized in setting “contestants” up for dramatically devastating revelations (a la Jerry Springer). Still, it appeared I was on the brink of financial problems and all I had to do was answer 25 questions truthfully. What could be easier than that? Impossible, I later learned. In all the show’s years almost NO contestants had ever won the top prize. But I didn’t know that yet, so I asked, does the examiner use modern accepted methodology? I was assured he did. This was a lie, as far from true as you can get. The producer telling me this untruth may have believed it simply because the higher ups said so. Or they all, producers and network, may have been deceived by the examiner, who, with his training absolutely had to know his methods were bogus. We went back and forth. I sent them my refusal. They came back and were very persuasive and said they were planning on responding to criticisms by making sure more prizes would be awarded. I so very foolishly yielded to the temptation. Even after arriving for taping I learned such disappointing details and got such bad vibes that I announced I was going home. But my objections were negotiated away. I found out a major portion of episodes already taped never aired because the “contestants” withdrew and walked out.
By then I felt trapped into something I suspected was rigged from the ground up. My confidence in the examiner (essential for proper testing) was destroyed when he he lied to me. He said he knew Arizona Department of Public Safety polygraph examiner Cy Gilson, who previously tested the woods crew, and was using the same method and equipment he did. His ancient polygraph machine was obviously NOT the state of the art compter assisted equipment Cy Gilson uses. The final nail was learning that he only goes through the questions once!! WHAT???!! Item #5 of the American Polygraph Association’s STANDARDS AND PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICE that I quoted in my 1996 book (which I had loaned the producer) specifically prohibits rendering an examiner’s conclusion on the basis of a single run of the list. Modern method requires three separate runs through the same identical list of questions, sometimes four. Without these comparison charts there is no way to discern deception from random fluctuations in the subject’s responses. For example, even though crewman Allen Dalis “basically told the truth”according to the sheriff’s files in his first test with Cy Gilson, he was given an “inconclusive” just because he only did the list twice, storming out before the third run. (Allen passed a second test with Gilson in 1993 with flying colors). And modern methods limit relevant questions to three or four per test. The show’s rogue examiner was doing over FIFTY questions!! Even more damning, the examiner had the option to PICK the 25 questions to be used in the show, further removing objective comparison.
Earlier a fake segment pretending to be my test was filmed with an actor in place of the examiner while my arm with the sensors attached rested comfortably on a table as per proper procedure. Later their actual “test” required me to hold my arm perfectly still while balancing it on a narrow one inch wide steel chair arm for the entire 50+ questions, a very long time, and excruciating. This was guaranteed to cause random stress reactions in their “contestants”, totally unrelated to deception. And of course, with no comparison charts, there could be no way to see if this “reaction” was repeated all three times at the same question. Also, the test was done, as per examiner’s instructions, with my shoes removed, with my eyes closed, with a panel of at least six strangers staring at me. This sort of distraction was never part of any test I had ever heard of. Every test I know of consisted of the examiner and the subject alone in a room without interruptions.
When the “false” verdict was announced the audience started booing. The host, Mark Walberg, turned to them and asked, “How many still believe he is telling the truth?” The audience erupted in cheering, long and loud. He asked how how many now disbelieved and got only a few scattered calls from the back. THEY CUT THIS OUT. Not long after the show I wrote one of the show staff and said, “They could edit that out or cut the volume…but that would be deceptive, wouldn’t it?” My prediction was right. They also rearranged the reaction shots of my family, even re-using some, moving them from AFTER the verdict to before, creating another false perception.
By the way, not only was I judged truthful on other questions consistent with the reality of my incident, but fellow crewman Ken Petersen was also on the show and was paid a prize for passing his test question about witnessing the incident. So of course that too was deceptively edited out.
The United States GAO (Government Accounting Office) discovered that the method upon which MOT based their method (and further degraded) yielded up to 80% false positives (truth tellers judged to be liars). This method is illegal in some states to the point of revoking the license of anyone using it. The MOT examiner regularly committed most of the 13 ACTIVITIES OF UNETHICAL EXAMINERS listed on the American Association of Police Polygraph Examiners website.
Cleve Backster is one of the pioneers in polygraph research and development, and is recognized as one of the top experts in the field. Techniques currently widely used in polygraph bear his name. He has administered hundreds of polygraph training courses and advanced seminars to law enforcement personnel at the municipal, state, and federal levels. Backster has been an interrogation instructor for the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, an interrogation specialist with the CIA and has been a guest instructor at Fort Gordon, the U.S. Department of Defense Polygraph School, the Canadian Police College Polygraph Examiner School, and the FBI Academy. He has held numerous high ranking posts in polygraph professional associations, and has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress in 1964 and 1974. Backster Associates said, “…Moment of Truth uses a technique in polygraph that was discarded years ago.”
Arizona State Police polygraph examiner Cy Gilson, who tested the entire woods crew, said, “…there can be NO validity to the test results in such a procedure. The pseudo examiner is a whore and the show’s producers is the pimp.”
Dr David Raskin has authored hundreds of scientific papers on polygraph. As a court recognized expert he has testified in cases such as the Howard Hughes will, Jeffrey (Fatal Vision) McDonald, serial killer Ted Bundy, the DeLorean affair, and the McMartin preschool case. Raskin has testified before British Parliament, the Israeli Kineset, and four times before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate with regard to Watergate and Iran/Contra. Dr David Raskin said, “…I have always thought those programs are a disgrace. They trick people into participating and then use unprofessional and innaccurate methods merely for the purpose of entertaining their audiences. Any polygraph examiner who participates in such charades should not be allowed to practice. I have been asked to be the principal in such shows and have always refused. It is unfortunate that they lured you into being abused by them. I agree with the criticisms by Mr. Martin.”
R. Michael Martin, President of Global Polygraph Network and court certified polygraph expert, created a website, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MOMENT OF TRUTH (www.polytest.org/momenttruth.html) back in 2004 when the show first aired (and of course long before my show) in the U.S., after he says, “FOX TV has intentionally blocked us from publishing this information on their public internet forum…” His site gives reasons “…the polygraph aspect of the show has no validity whatsoever.” “This test format will NOT determine truth or deception.” And in conclusion, “Due to the vague, subjective, futuristic nature, and sheer volume, of relevant questions asked on The Moment of Truth, there can be little more than chance accuracy in determining truth or deception to these questions. In other words, they could simply flip a coin and achieve the same accuracy levels.”
I came home after MOT and sought out the most rigerous new testing I could find. Polygraph evidence is admissable in court in New Mexico and so is tightly regulated by state law. I chose the firm with the highest recommendations, one that does work for the New Mexico State Prison, the Albuquerque Police Dept., even the United States Marshal’s Service. They applied the most refined and validated modern methods using state-of-the-art computer assisted, five trace equipment with digital readout. I passed two separate tests flawlessly with “…a finding of: TRUTHFUL TO THE ABOVE RELEVANT QUESTIONS.”
(Additional details in my updated edition of FIRE IN THE SKY.)
To a rational person there could be no doubt that my passing five tests from three separate examiners, each of whom have strong service in law enforcement, completely eclipses the phony pretend “test” by the rogue examiner scamming the public on MOT. I challenge skeptics to find a single legitimate polygraph examiner who will publicly stand by the methods used there. Nevertheless, bafflingly, there will be people who do some dumb thing like try to pretend that contending verdicts make it all too confusing, so we should just throw it all out and consider the case unsupported by anything. A sneaky kind of intellectual dishonesty that really means they are going against the recognized experts and essentially accepting the claim by the discredited polygraph operator. To a skeptic a failed verdict, even from the worst operators, is eagerly embraced, while passed verdicts, regardless of superior credentials, just has to be doubted. Sigh, it never ends.
This is a post from a new forum we just started on the paranormal. Come stop by and mingle with and introduce yourselves and contribute to the discussion. Here is the link below to visit..
Back when I first met Jeff it was strictly an online friendship. A while down the road he was experiencing some tough times, and not having met him in person before, I agreed to have him come move in with me and live at my apartment. It was a risk as Jeffery is pretty creepy, but it developed into one of the best friendships i’ve had in my life.
After a while of living together, getting more comfortable with eachother, I began having some strange reoccurring dreams. They were vibrant and clear, and it was the same event every time.
Jeff was sleeping in his bedroom of the apartment, and a dim light begins shining through the window. It intensifies rapidly and the room fills with a dull yellow glow. He begins to levatate, still in the laying down asleep position, and begins to turn feet first towards the window.
I could never tell if I was in the bedroom or outside of it, it reminded me of a television set watching from a reasonable distance away through a wall that isn’t really there. I couldn’t speak, I tried, but no sound would come out. It was silence during the entire experience.
He proceeds to float through the air and out of the window then it all goes dark again. He is gone, the window is closed, and everything seems normal again.
I experienced this dream about 10 times over a 3 month span, every detail was identical and the event was the same length of time each time. Myself and Jeff always found this unusual, and I felt like sharing it because it’s something about our experiences together that he tends to bring up a lot.
Bold Prediction: Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The first detection of intelligent extraterrestrial life will likely come within the next quarter-century, a prominent alien hunter predicts.
By 2040 or so, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic signals, said Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."
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Many potentially habitable worlds
Shostak's optimism is based partly on observations by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which has shown that the Milky Way galaxy likely teems with worlds capable of supporting life as we know it.
"The bottom line is, like one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up," Shostak said. "That's a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there's on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds."
Shostak and his colleagues think at least some of these worlds host intelligent aliens — beings that have developed the capability to send electromagnetic signals out into the cosmos, as human civilization does every second of every day. So they're pointing big radio dishes toward the heavens, hoping to detect something produced by living beings.
This search started in 1960, when pioneering astronomer Frank Drake scanned two sun-like stars with an 85-foot-wide (26 meters) West Virginia antenna. It has ramped up considerably over the past half-century, as astronomers have taken advantage of significant advances in electronics and digital technology.
However, getting enough funding to keep scanning the skies is a constant problem. For example, the Allen Telescope Array in northern California — which the SETI Institute uses — was designed to consist of 350 radio dishes, but just 42 have been built to date. And the array had to go into hibernation in April 2011 due to budget shortfalls. (It came back online in December of that year after more funding was found.)
The funding situation colors any discussion of SETI activities and timelines, Shostak said
The 24-year estimate, for example, "depends on continued SETI funding, which is in dire straits right now," he told Space.com after his talk at the NIAC symposium.
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A three-way race to find life in space
The search for alien life does not focus solely on technological societies, of course. Many other scientists are keying in on simple life forms, which must be distributed much more commonly throughout the universe.
The first evidence of microbial life on Earth, for instance, dates from 3.8 billion years ago — just 700 million years after our planet formed. But it took another 1.7 billion years for multicellular life to evolve. Humans didn't emerge until 200,000 years ago, and we've become a truly technological species in just the last century or so.
Shostak thus views the alien life hunt as a three-way race. The contenders are researchers looking for advanced, intelligent civilizations; scientists scouring solar-system bodies such as Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa for simple organisms; and researchers focusing on finding signs of microbial life on nearby exoplanets using future instruments such as NASA's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2018.
The race may come down to the wire, as Shostak thinks all three approaches could bear fruit in the next few decades.
"I think any of these horses has a pretty good chance of succeeding — just my opinion — a pretty good chance of succeeding in the next 20 years, say," he said during the NIAC talk.
Part of the alarming nature of the unknown is its mysterious link to the known; I awaken each night to a lewd exhibition of the merging.
I open my eyes and turn to see the digital alarm clock, sitting on the lamp table next to my bed and see: 12:12, and 1:11 am, 2:22 am and 3:33 am and 4:44 am.
This distresses me so badly, upon awakening, that I cannot think; just a wave of panic that SOMETHING is awakening me with alacrity, as the calculated odds of awakening each night precisely at those specific times is astronomically impossible.
The message intended seems designed to throw me off balance and to keep me wrapped in fearful confusion; it lets me know that I am being toyed with but yields no greater insight.
It has taught me that when I sleep I wander amongst monsters and beastly company.
Sometimes after abductions, the inter dimensional door, left open, invites the gangster fringe element of the spirit world; sometimes demons are thrown into the equation as spite work for attempts at thwarting abductions.
As my spirituality increases, it appears that I am become more an increasing beacon for dark side entities.
And NOT all of these negative, intelligent energies afoot, earthbound, are human!
Ethereal cleansing, using running shower water to help me visualize washing dark energy down the drain, is a defensive tool I use to combat the build up of static electricity, EMG connections associated with the 'touch' of stubborn, unseen and 'hungry' unseen entities.
However, an unseen entity baffled me when, rather than vanishing, it used the water's energy to partially materialize for a full moment or two to study me, an energy lunch which actually resisted and refused to be nibbled at!
It had drained energy from me, had burned my skin where connections touched, and had buzzed me within, psychically; sudden, unprovoked sexual urges and negative ideations had surfaced.
Under the shower water, a creature had semi-materialized!
It had stared me right in the eye and blinked and looked again.
It stood under five feet upright, had catlike slit eyes, and closely resembled a scaled monitor lizard, in both aspect and facial structure.
That reptilian viewed me with its head tilted, cocked sideways, birdlike; it had piercingly studied me with an alert intelligence that had radiated curiosity. After just a few seconds, the creature vanished. Still under the shower's waters, I had remained frozen, in sheer amazement, having seen a creature I had never imagined existed .
It was so very similar in construct to the velociraptor creatures, in Steven Spielberg's film, "Jurassic Park", in both a proprietary as well as a sinister demeanor.
Like those cinema raptors, this short upright reptile mirrored an intense look of saurian intellect, a precise cross between a man and a reptile.
I was horrified to see that momentary, inquisitive immature reptilian alien, because it had long had a reputation in UFO literature and research as an inter dimensional bottom feeder, a sinister common parasite of human consciousness.
These beings see us as,"containers", to quote them.
Post abduction, alien abductee predation is done both through implant energy drains and by inserting alien astral attachments, within the layered human psyche towards a goal of eventual possession.
Their possessing energies are subsequently deposited, within the multi layered human psyche/mind.
Aliens have always been here and are as native and terrestrial to our planet as are thunderstorms; they are the game wardens of this preserve that we call 'Earth' and like good game wardens, they do not let the creatures within suspect that it is indeed, a preserve.
These monitor- lizard-men use the same dimension and portals that ghosts and demons use, to enter and exit our reality.
There are many in the UFO community who echo other indigestible gleaned truths concerning us and these beings:
Human young are a preferred diet, as we never were the 'top of the food-chain'.
Suddenly these beings' silhouettes emerge: a reptilian masquerade of an ancient reptilian Mayans' 'God', a God who organized a 'religion' that provided him a delicacy he most desired, that of a still-beating human heart.
How is one to grasp any nightmarish truth?
Isn't our government suddenly seen as more-than-kind, even paternally loving, to protect and shield the barely civilized public from an ontological shock, one likely to shatter society?
What's another indigestible realization gleaned by abductees?
We are time/space woven, cocooned, within a reptilian computerized time matrix, a contrived-'loop'- dimension, elusive and revealing, far from the Universes' objective "reality".
We in "OZ", who know, must for all sanity's sake, "Pay no attention to the Reptilians, behind the curtains!"
It is not your imagination to notice unseen portals and traffic, but now take pause, when 'reality', a synthetic computer program, pixilates, for a moment.
Where's the Bible's "Genesis" tenet that we were 'ordained' for this planet?
The lower Earth animal forms on this planet, seen as reptiles, amphibians, insects, felines, are mirrored and echoed by the larger alien phenotypes, highly technological beings, seen aboard craft, by abductees, aliens who long ago lent their DNA, to create this preserve.
We , too, like the synthetic-work beings, we call, "greys", are constructs of alien creative meddling.
Imagine a cityscape of people, who have saurian parasites ethereally attached to their spinal columns.
It lends a mind-bending new meaning to the concept of a silent invasion.
Abductees, taken and wrapped in amnesia, spend a lifetime, barely recalled in tiny snippets, in the company of powerfully psychic/telepathic alien entities, to later find a developed intuitive muscle, that senses the unseen, its intelligences, a sharpened two-edged sword of a muscle, that cuts both ways in inter-dimensional bleedthroughs.
Experiences of high-strangeness occur.
Unlike the unwanted hesitant touch of a lost human spirit, felt as a hand, or gentle buzzing sensation, locally on my skin, a sensation that
I could astrally 'brush-off', this small reptilian prevailed to hurt me; I felt sharp painful burning, where connections were being , a stronger negative entity, persistent and more surely predatory, than I had ever previously encountered .
Visualize that you have large extension (imagined) arms, that lightly brush your body's skin, from top to bottom and back again; this astral exercise changes the magnetic field of your body and affects a demon like a magnet affects iron filings on a sheet of paper, dislodging EMF connections.
Worse, it now seemed stuck, like astral chewing gum, or astral dog-poo, merged with the bottom of my psychic shoe!
Morning and night, this persistent horrid entity feasted on my energies like an unerring, stubborn yellow jacket wasp,
fancying me like a can of cola at a picnic with the same insect stubbornness. .
Imposed nightmares were vivid and dazzling in the extreme.
It had certainly NOT been human but had markedly radiated a brilliance of spiteful and curious intellect.
(classic round craft, designed specifically for human abductions)
( round ufos are for human abductions and pilot predators are reptilian..)
My individual reptoid microcosm experience, surely reflects some greater global macrocosm, with these entities and larger mankind.
We are all alone, together.
I have learned that anxiety is the soul's natural reaction to psychic intrusion; something, an entity unseen, prying and opportunistic, has entered your energies to peek within.
The greater the wave of panic the more potent the intrusion and the entity.
All good psychics will experience this anxiety climb, when in the presence of a strong spirit.
But what of those who suffer, unknowingly, wrestling with horrid waves of electric anxiety?
This can be tested, simply:
With the next anxiety or panic attack onset, forcibly order it, the anxiety, away, in the name of God or Jesus or The Great Spirit, or "The One", with force and and anxiety will suddenly abate immediately .
It will resurge again, as the entity responds initially and withdraws, but since its nature is sinister, stubborn, and predatory, it will re enter.
Continue to banish it and you'll see that panic abates, and will cease temporarily with this tool, as they sit down to think this over before they again approach.
It is then that one can realize an unseen war, one spiritual and not at all one of a personality-psychological-illness-model.
Soon, one is enjoined in a healthful combat, using metaphysics tools and visualizations, to protect one from any dark force entity, and also so far down the rabbit hole, that one fears not having enough breadcrumbs to find one's way home.
But you will also have by-passed all medical psychiatrists who only would have thrown pills at the symptom, not the cause..
Protection?
Crashing tsunami panics that vanished briefly, will vanish increasingly with even more spiritual insistence and spiritual self-assertiveness..
A wave of free floating anxiety will again signal an effort to reestablish a foothold , testing your authority anew/
Panic attacks are psychic attacks by the telepathic intrusions of a hitchhiking demonic.
When they 'peek' inside our minds, the soul's reaction to such intrusion, is free-floating anxiety.
Telepathic attacks from these negative-thought-beings, at nighttime resolve into wild vivid "dreams".
Jung's UFO mandala archetypes fade and whimper at the back door, in the dace of collected evidence, photographic- military-gunship-camera- films taken of dazzling alien craft maneuvers.
Even Sigmund Freud's theories of dreams gone, like so much Austrian fog.
Dreams, when one is harassed by these beings, are recollections of snippets of psychic tampering ..
Masters of our Universe aliens, see us as a product, a crop controlled by blasting psychic images into its mind, an alien uncannily canny mental prowess.
Dreams, cannot, under these circumstances, be trusted to reveal greater Freudian or Jungian truths.
We are in a hall of mirrors with a quicksand floor, and the truth is down a long hall and somewhere else.
We are someone else's 'property' and 'creation', 'chosen people' naked apes, who knot ties and ride public conveyances, with DNA manipulations, over eons, by the masters of our universe, who created this 'preserve', that we call Earth.
Tantamount is that good gameswardens never let the animals within suspect that it is, indeed, a preserve.
Alien are our farmers in the Universe, and we, mere bovine creatures ; one does not negotiate an agreement of equanimity with cows.
Most ignore the nighttime farmer, a harvest deep in R.E.M. sleep.
But others, aware of the subtle tampering, kick the pail over and may even threaten the farmer.
For these cows , milking thwarted by resistance, the farmer no longer attends , but instead, sends in the butcher.
To the military who 'know' all of this, what's the balance, on the benefits side, to this reptilian reality behind our curtains?
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,
-weaponry sabers.
- varied nanotechnology,
-microchips,
-specialized surgical tools,
-cloning-genetic engineering and interspecies bypass techniques
-psycho-tronics
and most recently a 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.("The Day the Earth Stood Still")
He, in reptilian form and in grey form instead sees us in much the same perfunctory way, that we see chickens.
Skunkworks is merely setting deck chairs up, aboard the Titanic.
Postscript:
"For we are fighting with people not made of flesh and blood, but against persons without bodies—evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world, and against huge numbers of wicked spirits in high places.
Put on all God's armor so that you will be able to stand safe." Ephesians 6.
"I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!" --President Richard M. Nixon
"I think about how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And I ask you, does not this threat alread exsist?" --President Ronald Reagen UN address
"The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.." --President John F Kennedy
"I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject" --President Gerald Ford (1966)
"Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela." -- Monsignor Corrado Balducci As stated 5 different times on Italian TV** (Vatican theologian insider close to the Pope,Monsignor Balducci said that he is on a Vatican commission looking into extraterrestrial encounters, and how to cope with the emerging general realization of extraterrestrial contact.)
"Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone." --Albert Einstein
"The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that site. We all know that UFOs are real.All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?" --Capt. Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14 Astronaut
"In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My Career is well established. My texts books are required reading in all the major capitals on planet earth. If you want to become a physicist to learn about the unified field theory-you read my books. Therefore, I'm in a position to say: Yes- Most likely they're out their, perhaps even visited, perhaps on our moon. - ABC News Quote -- -- Professor Dr. Michio Kaku
"We must insist upon full access to disks recovered. For instance, in the La case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." --J Edgar Hoover
I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources." -- John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. January (1965)
"UFO sightings are now so common, the military doesn't have time to worry about them - so they screen them out. The major defense systems have UFO filters built into them, and when a UFO appears, they simply ignore it." --Lee Katchen (former atmospheric physicist with NASA)
"Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of the integrated circuit chip, laser and fiber optic technologies, Particle beams, Electromagnetic propulsion systems, Depleted uranium projectiles, Stealth capabilities, and many others! How do I know? I was in charge! (A matter of public record)I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it.' --Colonel Philip Corso
Army Intelligence officer, former head of the Foreign Technology at the U.S. Army's Research and Development department at the Pentagon.
Four years director of intelligence on President Eisenhower's White House National Security Staff
Bio:
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.
Er is op dit moment veel te doen rond NASA-foto’s waaruit zou blijken dat de planeet Mercurius bewoond is.
De planeet die het dichtst bij de zon staat heeft geen atmosfeer, waardoor de temperatuur er varieert van 430 graden Celsius overdag tot -170 graden Celsius gedurende de nacht.
Volgens Scott Waring van UFO Sightings Daily zijn op Mercurius bouwwerken te vinden, die schoon zijn en in de loop der tijd niet bedekt zijn geraakt door stof. Om die reden denkt Waring dat ze bewoond zijn.
Gezicht
Het bewijs van de buitenaardse bouwwerken bestaat uit uitvergrotingen van satellietfoto’s die zijn opgenomen in een interactieve kaart van het oppervlak van de planeet.
De infraroodfoto’s van Mariner 10 kijken als het ware in de schaduw. Waring zegt bewijs te hebben gevonden voor een ‘gezicht’ op Mercurius. Dit gezicht lijkt volgens hem enigszins op het ‘Gezicht op Mars’ dat door de Vikingsondes is gevonden.
In de schaduw zag Waring honingraatvormige structuren die steeds van vorm veranderen. Andere bouwwerken zijn in de buurt van heuvels en bergen geplaatst om van een afstand niet op te vallen. Daarom zijn deze bouwwerken op gewone foto’s van Mercurius niet te zien, aldus Waring.
Artefacten
Waring geeft toe dat het herkennen van buitenaardse bouwwerken niet gemakkelijk is. Dergelijke bouwwerken zien er volgens hem vaak uit als zwarte bergen of enorme witte paddenstoelen.
In sommige gevallen zijn het niet meer dan pixels of kan een waarneming worden verklaard door pareidolie, een verschijnsel waarbij iemand een zodanige interpretatie van onduidelijke of willekeurige waarnemingen heeft, dat hij hierin herkenbare dingen meent waar te nemen.
De foto’s van Mercurius zijn bovendien gemaakt op grote afstand en onder extreme omstandigheden, waardoor gemakkelijk artefacten kunnen optreden.
Is there something to be said about weirdness and volcanic mountains? Look at Mt. Fiji's “Suicide Forest” and Sakurajima in Japan is known to have weird lights and plasma balls, but perhaps the most famous of the “weird” magnets is Mt. Shasta in California.
The mountain is linked to all these oddities:
Hollow Earth and the Lemurians There is a legend that a continent exists underneath Mt. Shasta called Lemuria. This legend was begun by Natives who explained tectonic activity by supernatural means. The legend goes that Lemuria had sunk and the people had fled to the hollow earth below Mt. Shasta.
…These Lemurians supposedly live deep inside the mountain in apartments plated with gold. In this secret colony, they preserve their ancient customs. Lemurians are commonly described as graceful and tall — seven feet and up — with long, flowing hair. They dress in white robes and sandals. They are said to have long, slender necks which they adorn with beautiful decorative collars made of beads or precious stones.
Perhaps their most unusual physical characteristic is a walnut-sized organ that protrudes from the center of their foreheads. This sixth-sense enables Lemurians to communicate among themselves by extra-sensory perception.
A Dr. M. Doreal claimed years ago that he visited the Lemurians inside their mountain. “The space we came into was about two miles in height and about 20 miles long and 15 miles wide,” he wrote. “It was as light as a bright summer day because suspended almost in the center of that great cavern of space was a giant glowing mass of light.”
Another man reported that he fell asleep on Mt. Shasta, to be awakened by a Lemurian who led him inside the mountain to his “cave, which was paved with gold.” The Lemurian told the man that there were a series of tunnels left by volcanoes that were under the earth like freeways — a world within a world.
Lemurians supposedly mastered atomic energy, extra-sensory perception, electronics and science as long as 18,000 years ago. Back then, they knew how to propel boats using energy radiated from rocks. They had airships and flew them to Atlantis and other places.
Today, people report seeing strange lights on the mountain. One explanation is that they are spacecraft coming and going from a fortress deep in the mountain.
Lemurians, it is said, possess supernatural powers that enable them to disappear at will — one reason why they aren’t spotted very often. Their power also allows them to “will” an intruder away.
Bigfoot Bigfoot is often reported on the Mt. Shasta area for quite some time. (From Bigfoot Encounters) (1976 Mt. Shasta Herald) A huge, strange, bad-smelling creature that frightened a logger just south of Cascade Gulch on the lower slopes of Mt. Shasta Friday morning still has not been identified.
Virgil Larson, 47, from Salmon, ID gave sheriff¹s sergeant Walt Bullington the best description he could after seeing the ³non-human² creature near a helicopter logging operation about 8:30 a.m. Larson and his partne Pat Conway, had hiked down the steep slope to work, from their pickup, they had left on top of the hill.
They were taking a break and had separated. They could not see each other, but they were still within hearing distance. After two or three minutes, Larson said he heard someone else coming down the hill.
He was expecting someone from the US Forest Service, looked up and saw what he thought was the Forest Service man walking down the area about 15 yards east of the rough path the loggers had made.
Larson shouted to what he thought was the man, which stopped, turned its head toward Larson, but did not speak and started walking again. It went about five yards further down the hill, then came back behind a bush as if it were putting the bush between it and Larson.
Larson shouted the second time, then whatever it was put its head over the bushes. Larson said he had a view of the creature from the bust up, that was when he realized it was not a man not even human.
Larson told Bullington he could not remember the exact features, but he thought the hair started at its eyebrows and went straight back over its head. He did not know th length.
It was black, not combed, dirty, but not unduly so, he said. He could not remember what its eyes looked like or whether or not it was wearing clothing.
It just scared the hell out of him, he told Bullington. It was about 20 yards away, Larson said, and stunk like a half rotten bear hide. Larson took off.
When he and his partner came back some 30 minutes later, they could still smell it. They fashioned clubs from limbs for self protection, then went for the log landing. They contacted the sheriff¹s office and the Forest Service office through CB radio. Larson later had his partner get behind the same bush and hold his hard hat up on a stick, and then estimated what he had seen was about 7 to 7-1/2 feet tall.
UFOs/Strange Lights/inter-dimensional portal UFOs, odd lights and inter-dimensional portals are often described in association with Mt. Shasta.
Vortex The mountain is often reported to be an energy vortex, much like other areas around the world including Sedona, Arizona.
Sacred Place/Leylines/supernatural Here's an interesting insight - A long history of mythology surrounds the mountain, including legends of Lemurians, Atlanteans, Secret Commonwealth citizens, dwarfs, fairies, Bigfoot, and space beings who materialize at will. The Indians believed Mt. Shasta was a portal to other dimensions. Bigfoot of course is associated with UFOs and is considered an interdimensional being, that can walk into this reality and his own dimensional reality at will. Mt. Shasta is a very special place to say the least; it represents much more than just a mere mountain. Mt. Shasta can be considered as one of the most sacred places on this planet. The mountain is a mystic power source for this planet. Some people theorize that it is connected to a leyline, similar to Stonehenge in England. It is a focus for angels, spirit-guides, spaceships, masters from the Light Realm, Wicca and the home of the survivors of Ancient Lemuria, which sank under the waves of the Pacific Ocean a little over 12,000 years ago.
What is it about Mount Shasta that makes it so legendary? A combination perhaps of Native American legends, locals that feel its powerful volcanic splendor staring them down every day, and its natural beauty and power.
Was Water On Mars 10 Million Years Ago Enough To Support Life – New Evidence From The Nakhla Meteorite?!
A team of scientists at the University ofGlasgow and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre and the Natural History Museum (London) have discovered the first evidence of water dissolving the surface of Mars. In a paper published in the Meteoritical Society‘s journal MAPS, the research team outline the results of tests on a 1.7-gram fragment of a Martian meteorite known as Nakhla, which was provided by the Natural History Museum. Nakhla, named after the town in Egypt where it landed in 1911 after being blasted from the surface of Mars by a massive impact around 10 million years ago, has been studied for decades by scientists around the world.
Previous research on Nakhla has provided evidenceoftheexistenceof water on Mars through the presence in the meteorite of ‘secondary minerals’ – types of carbonates, hydrous silicates and sulfates most likely formed when Martian minerals reacted with liquid water. “What has been unclear in the past is exactly where the chemical elements which made up the secondary minerals within Nakhla came from,” said Martin Lee of the University’s School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, lead author of the paper. “Using a scanning electron microscope, we examined many tiny bowl-shaped depressions, known as etch pits, in grains of the minerals olivine and augite found in the meteorite.
“What we’ve found for the first time is evidence that the etch pits were created when water dissolved the olivine and augite, and that the elements released from those minerals led to the formation of t
he secondary minerals. It’s an exciting discovery and better informs of our understanding of how water affected rock on Mars.”
By examining the amount of dissolution which occurred in the etch pits (image below) formed within the minerals, the team have also been able to estimate how long the water was present within the sample. “From the amount of dissolution we observed, it’s likely that this particular piece of Mars was affected by water for only a few months and probably less than a year in total,” Lee added. “That’s certainly not long enough to sustain a life-supporting biosphere; however, the findings of our study are from a tiny piece of a very small chunk of the surface of Mars, so it’s difficult to draw any large-scale conclusions about the presence of water on the planet or its implications for life.
“Our research does raise fascinating questions about exactly how long ago the water interacted with the part of Mars which Nakhla came from and where the water might have gone. We’ll be continuing to look for clues to the answers to these questions in future research. Results from NASA‘s Curiosity rover, currently on the surface of Mars, will also help us build a clearer picture of the history of Martian water.”
For more information: The paper, entitled ‘Evidence for silicate dissolution on Mars from the Nakhla meteorite’, is published in MAPS and is available as an early view online publication at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12053/pdf
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What Might Alien Life Look Like on New Water World Planets?
What Might Alien Life Look Like on New ‘Water World’ Planets?
Two newly discovered alien planets might be water worlds whose global oceans are teeming with life, scientists say.
The existence of the distant exoplanets, called Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, was unveiled during a NASA press conference today (April 18). The two worlds are perhaps the most promising life-hosting candidates yet found beyond our solar system, their discoverers said. Computer models suggest both planets are covered by uninterrupted oceans, which could theoretically support a wealth of aquatic lifeforms.
“Look at our own ocean — it is just absolutely full of life,” said Bill Borucki of NASA‘s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., leader of the team that discovered the two exoplanets. “We think, in fact, life [on Earth] might have begun there.” [Habitable Super-Earths Ideal for Life (Gallery)]
Borucki is science principal investigator of NASA‘s Kepler spacetelescope, which spotted Kepler-62e and f. The two alien worlds are 1.6 and 1.4 times bigger than Earth, respectively, and orbit in their star’s habitable zone — the just-right range of distances that can support liquid water on a planet’s surface.
The five-planet Kepler-62 system lies 1,200 light-years away, making it much too distant for current instruments to study in detail. So any talk of potential life on Kepler-62e and f, if it exists at all, is just speculation for now, Borucki stressed.
But such speculation is hard to resist. For example, Borucki raised the possibility that the newfound “super-Earths” — worlds just slightly bigger than our own planet — could host winged organisms, even if both planets are indeed water worlds.
“At least in our ocean, we have flying fish. They ‘fly’ to get away from predators,” Borucki said.
“So we might find that they have evolved — birds — on this ocean planet,” he added, referring to Kepler-62e.
Water worlds are unlikely to host technologically advanced civilizations like our own, Borucki and other researchers said, because any lifeforms that take root there would not have easy access to electricity or fire for metallurgy.
But if Kepler-62e or f has some dry land, Borucki said, the story could be different. The relatively high gravity of both exoplanets, however, might make the evolution of large bipedal organisms such as humans unlikely.
“We might not have gotten off four legs” if our ancestors had evolved on Kepler-62e or f, Borucki said. Still, the gravity isn’t too oppressive; we’d be able to walk around on Kepler-62f’s surface if transported there today, he added.
We’d have to take some special life-support gear if we made that 1,200-light-year journey. While Kepler-62e is likely hot and muggy all the way up to the polar regions, Kepler-62f orbits a bit farther away from the host star and is probably cooler.
In fact, a thick atmosphere with lots of heat-trapping carbon dioxide may be required to keep Kepler-62f’s surface water liquid. Such an atmosphere would be tough for humans to handle.
“If you want to write a science-fiction story, and you land on both [planets], at least be sure that on f you don’t want to take your mask thingy off,” said modeling-study lead author Lisa Kaltenegger, of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Kepler-62e and f are part of a trove of seven newfound planets announced today. Kepler spotted three other planets in the Kepler-62 system as well, all of them too hot to support life. The other two worlds are in the Kepler-69 system, which lies about 2,700 light-years from Earth.
The newly discovered Kepler-69c, which is 1.7 times larger than Earth, may also be capable of supporting life, researchers said.
This is a great story, after all this time, they find this. The discovery was made during a salvage excavation ahead of a construction project that began last year; a 21-mile-long (35 kilometers) gas pipeline was supposed to run through the site, but engineering plans were revised to go around the ruins.
It was on the outskirts of Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2,300-year-old rural village that dates back to the Second Temple period, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced.
Trenches covering some 8,000 square feet (750 square meters) revealed narrow alleys and a few single-family stone houses, each containing several rooms and an open courtyard. Among the ruins, archaeologists also found dozens of coins, cooking pots, milling tools and jars for storing oil and wine.
Herod was a King who ruled Judea for the Romans until about 4 B.C. During his reign, he oversaw several majestic building project. Look how beautiful this was all built.!
On the outskirts of Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2,300-year-old rural village that dates back to the Second Temple period, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced.
Trenches covering some 8,000 square feet (750 square meters) revealed narrow alleys and a few single-family stone houses, each containing several rooms and an open courtyard. Among the ruins, archaeologists also found dozens of coins, cooking pots, milling tools and jars for storing oil and wine.
"The rooms generally served as residential and storage rooms, while domestic tasks were carried out in the courtyards," Irina Zilberbod, the excavation director for the IAA, explained in a statement. [The Holy Land: 7 Amazing Archaeological Finds]
Aerial view of ancient village unearthed on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Credit: Skyview, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Archaeologists don't know what the town would have been called in ancient times, but it sits near the legendary Burma Road, a route that allowed supplies and food to flow into Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The rural village located on a ridge with a clear view of the surrounding countryside, and people inhabiting the region during the Second Temple period likely cultivated orchards and vineyards to make a living, IAA officials said.
The Second Temple period (538 B.C. to A.D. 70) refers to the lifetime of the Jewish temple that was built on Jerusalem's Temple Mount to replace the First Temple after it was destroyed. Archaeological evidence suggests this provincial village hit its peak during the third century B.C., when Judea was under the control of the Seleucid monarchy after the breakup of Alexander the Great's empire. Residents seem to have abandoned the town at the end of the Hasmonean dynasty — when Herod the Great came into power in 37 B.C. — perhaps to chase better job opportunities in the city amid an economic downturn.
"The phenomenon of villages and farms being abandoned at the end of the Hasmonean dynasty or the beginning of Herod the Great's succeeding rule is one that we are familiar with from many rural sites in Judea," archaeologist Yuval Baruch explained in a statement. "And it may be related to Herod's massive building projects in Jerusalem, particularly the construction of the Temple Mount, and the mass migration of villagers to the capital to work on these projects."
The discovery was made during a salvage excavation ahead of a construction project that began last year; a 21-mile-long (35 kilometers) gas pipeline was supposed to run through the site, but engineering plans were revised to go around the ruins, IAA officials said. Salvage excavations are common in Israel to avoid building over ancient sites. For instance, remarkably well-preserved Byzantine church mosaics were recently revealed ahead of the construction of a park, and an ancient Roman road connecting Jerusalem to Jaffa was uncovered ahead of the installation of a drainage pipe.
Are they out there some where. Yes I really think they are. Maybe just maybe some day a UFO may crash and the government may not be able to cover up the crash. Can you imagine if a alien space craft was shown on CNN landing some where in the USA and aliens from another world were shown walking out of the craft.
It would quickly change the world as we know it. At that moment we would know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are not alone. When and if that happens the world will change in ways that you can not even imagine. World religion will really be hurt at the moment that it is proven that UFO’s and aliens are real.
I was 63 last May and I’ve always thought that at some point in time that we would know that aliens and spacecraft from other worlds were real. I thought that there would be proof in my life time and I thought it would have happened by now. I’m really surprised that it hasn’t. Who knows? Maybe tomorrow or next week. I look forward to the daywhen it is proven that we are not alone.
Here is a artist drawing of a alien grey. Why do people all over the world see these beings and almost all see the same type of beings.
Do you believe in aliens? Do you think they look like you and me or our friend up there in the photo above. I myself believe in aliens. I really do. I’ve seen space craft in my life that could not have possibly been from this planet. I think if anyone would take a good hard long look at all the information about aliens and ufo’s they would agree that its most likely that both aliens and ufo’s do exist.
I have sat on several occasins and saw UFO’s that I know for a fact did not come from this planet. There is no way they could have. They were space craft that came from either some other planet or from another dimension. Look at the history of air travel and air planes here on the planet earth. We have a very short history as far as planes or etc go. Aliens on other worlds may have had millions of years to develop their space craft.
It is likely that they are far more advanced than we are here on earth. They may very well be visiting us and they may be here looking at us and watching us. I really believe that they are out there and I believe one day maybe not so many years from now they will let us know that they are out there.
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What do you think about aliens? Do you believe that people from other worlds have visited earth?
At several points in my life I have seen alien spacecraft that I am sure were not from this earth. I have a military background and I am sure that what I was seeing was not some type of new US government airplanes.
Just south of Charleston South Carolina is Folly Beach South Carolina. It is a barrier island with miles of public beach and at the end of Folly Beach on the Charleston Harbor side once stood Fort Wagner where some of the worst fighting in the Civil War happened. Almost all of the Unions 54th Massachusetts were killed there in the assault on Fort Wagner that stood at that time on Morris Island. The ocean has slowly reclaimed Morris Island over the many years since the Civil War and there is now nothing left of Morris Island except the old lighthouse.
When I lived at Folly Beach in the late 1990's the end of Folly Beach on the Charleston Harbor side was one of mine and my friends favorite fishing spots. We went there a lot for night fishing and really enjoyed the solitude and quite of that end of the barrier island. One night in the late spring of 1999 I and my friend were out at the end of the island fishing when we had several events happen that we would not soon forget.
Just after midnight my friend pointed out what looked like red and blue lights out in Charleston Harbor under the water. We watched those lights and tried to figure out what we were seeing but we just couldn't make out anything but the lights. About thirty minutes later we watched amazed as a round disc shaped object about 75 feet across came up out of the water and went right up in the air over us. It hovered there for just a minute or two and then it flew away at a great rate of speed out to sea. I and my friend were shocked by what we had seen and my friend asked me if I had heard the water pouring off of it to. I had and I told him so.
Just a few minutes later we saw three more of the craft come out of the water and disappear out to sea. All were disc shaped with red and blue lights and when they would come up out of the water you could hear the water run off them and fall back into the ocean. The first craft had hovered up in the air over us but the other three craft flew straight out to sea. We were both amazed at what we had seen and we wished we had a camera but we did not. About 40 minutes later about a half mile out to sea we watched as three craft appeared out of no where and just appeared to fly down and go back under the water. Stunned is not even the word for how we felt about what we had just seen.
Fishing was over at that point and we reeled in our rods and walked back to our car. The next night and several nights after that we were back out there with a camera but we never saw the crafts again. Several people we knew who lived at Folly Beach told us that they had seen the same thing several times over the years. But neither I or my friend ever saw them again.
What they were and where had they came from has always puzzled me. I don't believe they were any type of experimental US aircraft. I think they were UFO's and I don't think they were of this earth.
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As early as July 1 1947 a strange object that moves at a great rate of speed is spotted on military radar in the vicinity of Roswell New Mexico. If it was a weather balloon why did the military not know it.
On July 3 the military knows the UFO is still around and that it appears to be searching the Roswell area. It moves at a great speed and people describe it as a round large disc. Many local Roswell people see it flying around the area and they know it is not a weather balloon. A radar operator is sent to White Sands to keep a eye on the radar there and see what the UFO does. Surely the US Military knew the difference between a weather balloon and a UFO that locals said flew around the Roswell area for at least four days appearing like it was searching for something.
Then on July 4th 1947 a bright flaming object is seen to fall to the ground near Roswell New Mexico. It has always been my belief that the US Military had finally after four days of trying been able to shoot down the UFO.
On July 5th the object is found by several different people and it is reported as a round disc shaped object that appears to be some type of aircraft. No one reports it as a weather balloon or any type of balloon. They report it as a round disc shaped object.We have all seen the headline of the Roswell newspaper above.
But then the military moves in and takes over. People are ordered off the site and the US Army moves in to make sure no one goes near the crash site. And here the story gets even more interesting. The local Roswell Funeral Home owner Glenn Dennis is contacted and asked many questions about how to preserve bodies and how to treat bodies that have been exposed to the sun. He is also asked for his supply of small caskets. Then a day or two later Glenn Dennis is told he better be quite about what he knows or he will be arrested. It is two US Army officers who go to see him at the Roswell Funeral Home and tell him this.
It appears that not only did the US Government recover a crashed or shot down UFO but they also recovered alien bodies that were small. I really believe that all the evidence is out there but that the US Government has covered it up all these years.
What do you think?
Please post your comments and questions below. And thanks for reading my hub page on Aliens , What do you think.
Please feel free to post comments on the below questions.
1. Were there several real live E.T.'s at Roswell New Mexico?
2. Did the U.S. Government cover up a UFO crash at Roswell New Mexico? What do you think?
3. Do you think the U.S. Government would cover up a UFO crash or the existence of extraterrestrial life?
I have been writing about UFOs for years. I have interviewed and recorded on my blog many reports given to me by wonderful people who were willing to share their sightings and encounters with UFOs.
It did not take me long to realize that many of the reports were of UFO s that were close to large areas of water. Of course there are many sightings seen over land all over the earth however realize that this planet is mainly water. It soon became obvious that as well as having the ability to maneuver easily above this planet UFO’s also have proven they can easily do so below our oceans, lakes and waterways too.
I believe that this planet is an easy place to park for our visiting advanced life forms as we offer many land areas that are remote or still untouched by humans as well as a vast water way of deep water to easily submerge and base from without interference of the little annoying top sider earthlings! We are a water planet with our mass consisting of far more water than land making us an easy target for those who travel the cosmos to stop, land and even stay awhile without disturbing the top side living humans.
Long Island New York has been a hot bed of UFO activity for a very long time. Since Long Island is a thin long island that sticks out in to the Atlantic Ocean it is a logical place for those living on the island to spot the coming and going of odd crafts that fly in from the Atlantic over the island on their way to other destinations. It is also a easy place to abduct a few innocent humans for whatever reasons they may have which is why so many people have had encounters and events with strange crafts in this part of the world. Combine this with the fact an Air Force base was once located here as well as Plum Island and Brookhaven Lab and you have a perfect storm for alien UFO activity for the poor souls who live on this island. This was especially true in the 1950s through to the late 1970s as the population in the eastern half of Long Island was far less than it is today. Rising from the Atlantic Oceans floor and heading the short distance to a sparsely populated island made abduction a piece of cake for those doing the abducting and a nightmare for the poor people being taken against their will for reasons that still remain unknown. The fact that Camp Hero and Plum Island were close at hand always was very strange in my thinking as they were both dangerous places yet located a mere one hundred or so miles from New York City. As I started on my journey of writing about the many encounters of those who live in my area I realized it was not difficult to tie the idea that the above labs ad military bases may have been involved with whatever was flying over the Island and intruding on the lives of those who lived in the less populated areas of the island often during that time period.
I always thought that the alien /human alliance was formed long ago without choice on the human side. I believe that our visitors would use our oceans, sky and be allowed a certain quota of earthly humans to abduct for what ever reasons they so desired in exchange for not being blown off the face of the earth and maybe a hand full of technology thrown our way by the technology advanced visitors. As the far weaker partners in this arrangement we really had no choice but to agree to their terms.
When I look back at the reports I have come across concerning odd crafts here where I live on Long Island I realized they always involved the Ocean. Since we are surrounded by it the ocean became a huge factor in the reports. I look back and think about the vivid descriptive sightings told to me by those in the mid 60s who encountered UFO’s flying from the Ocean along the rivers and on to the land mass of the island by people who were honest good people who were shocked by what they had seen. I think back to a woman who lived along the coast line of Long Island who had a breakdown after she and her husband and a few of her neighbors encountered a huge UFO hovering over the mouth of Great River on the south shore of Long Island. I recall the skeptic who along with his entire family reported yet another large craft lifting from the water on the Connecticut coast of the Long Island Sound while they sat shocked at what they were seeing as they sat in their car at a dock in West Haven. I could not handle the amount of Orb sightings I was receiving about two years ago all coming from the Atlantic Ocean and flying along the south shore coastline of Long Island. I can recall being told the story of a doctor and his family on a boating party trip with a group of other doctors and their families all hooked together in their cabin cruisers at the mouth of the Long Island Sound going out to Montauk Point and the great Atlantic watch as a Navy vessel , Coast Guard ship and half submerged submarine chased some type of large craft out of the sound in to the open sea. I could go on and on however I think it is clear that what we are seeing and reporting above our heads are without question linked clearly to the enormous oceans, lakes, and rivers that cover most of this planet.
I often wondered why it is we are reaching out to space when we have no idea at all what lies on the bottom or our own oceans and large water masses floors. I now think we dare not look as we may already know and have agreed to leave it alone as what we may find may be far too much for us to deal with.
I do know from living on an Island that has been plagued with UFO sightings for as long as I can remember that the ocean and the unexplained are tied together in a way we do not understand and have not yet given enough focus or investigation to.
The one thing I know as fact is that most of the history and explanations we have been offered so far concerning both history and things considered unknown are full of factual mistakes or in cases simply completely wrong. As far as UFO or USO’s are concerned we are in a constant state of being fed false information, and deception which makes the small amount of truth that may get out to us lost in the mix of the manipulated control of the facts and the tonnage of fraud and fake reports that are dumped on to the public by the public .
Not to long ago I remember a flap of news being discussed on the inter net that reported a united co operation of international war ships taking part in what was referred to as war games with multiple countries of the world including the United States, China as well as other major nations attending. This united group of military navy ships from across the world were supposedly located in the Pacific Ocean close to the North West coast of America. I could not find enough information to consider this a true report nor could I find enough to immediately toss it on the fake and false miss information pile either. I thought about this odd group of war games being reported by many in the Pacific Ocean and wondered if this could have been a meeting of the nations who knew about something that was located on the Pacific floor and were joining forces to investigate it. It then occurred to me that the reason may have been something far more sinister and the united forces were there not to investigate but to protect whatever was lurking or landed beneath the ocean floor. To date I have no idea if any of this is truthful and did take place or if it was simple internet made up trash. This is a perfect case that shows how miss informed and lost to real truth we are concerning all of these subjects leaving us completely in the dark to what really goes on in truth with the things we consider unknown and unexplained. Are there strange crafts using our oceans and waterways on this large water covered planet? I guess for now we will have no way to know for sure. I bet it that they are and have been for a very long time.
The Oceans need to be scrutinized by those who can give them serious study to figure out what truly lurks below the waters depths. We need to stay open minded and alert to the many possibilities that surround these subjects and most of all be careful out there be it by land sky or sea. It seems the unknown is simply everywhere. Until we demand to have real research and study done by organized professional universities and government agency’s we can trust ( if such a thing exists) we will never know the truth of our reality and the facts of real life living on planet earth.
Chinese Naval forces off California said to be on Joint UFO Suppression Mission
This last week, reports of Chinese naval vessels off the US coast, Northern Californian in particular, have been reported but denied. Now an Asian intelligence agency reports that a combined fleet operation between the US and China has been going on, a full combat operation against what we are told is a “highly unfriendly extra-terrestrial threat.” The verifications of the fleet operations have been many, there have been no confirmations from the US side though the ships have been seen by every vessel that makes it offshore. The true nature of both the threat and the extent of the multinational military force used is beyond any imaginable classification level. Rumors:
Extraterrestrial craft are operating from underwater bases.
Advanced US sub-orbital weapons platforms represented as “tested” have actually been deployed from Vandenburg Air Force Base. These are armed with energy weapons.
UFO tracking has been moved from conventional to nano-technology with microscopic sensors being used to detect behaviors such as dimensional rifts and distortions in time, things only discussed in TV shows like Fringe and X Files. (all Fox oddly enough)
The actual classified memo on very short distribution mentions only the following:
Opposition is extraterrestrial and extremely aggressive and unfriendly
The threat represents a “clear and present danger” and is isolated to the Pacific Basin
China is forced to carry US responsibility because our own naval capability is sitting in the Persian Gulf when America is under a very real threat.
Attempts to seek confirmations or to directly verify these operations will lead to fatal consequences.
Our confirmations limit us to this response which I have chosen to represent in a highly deniable form out of personal interest. Others in the US have better information and sources and have been silenced with warnings only. As to this being a total “hose job,” I don’t see any advantage in it. For several months earlier this year, there had been disclosures tied to the UFO issue. One real sighting had been made over South Korea. After that, the internet had been flooded, yes, Google’s “YouTube” with manufactured phony UFO videos, some of “beyond next generation” quality. All information given on how UFO video or photos are analyzed is totally false, childishly so, especially that from the UFO “networks.” They are professionally “self discrediting.” About 6 weeks ago, a “study group” was appointed out of NATO and another one in Asia to look at the pattern of UFO videos. A decision was made to aggressively investigate one or more groups. Being aggressively investigated on such an issue is not recommended. I would love to be more entertaining, invent things, speculate or, perhaps, include some fascinating videos. I either have to give this a 70% or reclassify a reliable official source as purposefully leaking something that makes no sense. My suggestion is that readers follow other stories for verifications or information that would help in some way, add it to the comment section and see if we can get a better grip on what may well be an extremely dangerous situation.
I was driving home heading east down Warwick ave. I notices lights over the field. At first I was, holy crap it’s a plane about to crash, but then as I got closer and I realized it wasn’t moving, and slowed down trying to figure out what I was looking at. I came to a complete stop and I was staring right at a large ship. I knew this was no plane or blimp or anything I have seen in my life. It was so shiny like fresh polished chrome and was triangular and had a smooth curve on the top that was shinny but very dark like black. There were red lights that stayed on and white lights that were so ultra white on the sides. It seemed like it only illuminated the craft, nothing around it was illuminated, and the reflection from the white like pulsated off the craft as well as green lights that did the same but at the bottom. When I was further up the road the lights seemed to span out in the air, when I was stopped it was just the craft pulsating, there was no noise at all. At first I was confused and when it sunk in what it was I was in awe then felt very uneasy, I got nervous. Its a very dark road and I saw headlights in both directions so keeping my eye on it constantly looking back I made u turn to go back and tape it. I looked away for a few seconds to make the turn and it vanish. I felt a little scared. I drove all the way back down the road very slowly there was nothing in the field or in the sky, not even a light in the distance. There were two people who were walking down the road who were now running. I was completely freaked out at this point and turned around and went back down the road again to go home, still not a thing in sight. There were 2 people walking and at least 3 other cars passed. There’s houses on the road and also a high school. I hope more witnesses come forward. It was truly an experience to be so close and get such a good look. I have goose bumps writing this.
Large Spheres UFO recorded over Sydney, Australia on 19th February 2014
Large Spheres UFO recorded over Sydney, Australia on 19th February 2014
New interesting UFO activity of a large sphere recorded in the sky above Sydney, Australia on 19th February 2014.
Witness said: Soon after when I filmed this large spheres object one Military chopper appeared.when I slowed down the video I saw some black object appeared above the chopper, changing the direction and disappeared high speed under the chopper.The camera was used: SONY D C R -T R V 530 Digital video camera with 850 I R Digital filter fitted. Super Night shot position on! Daylight capture.
UFO True Story chases teens in Ontario Canada Night Fright Show with Brent Holland
UFO True Story chases teens in Ontario Canada Night Fright Show with Brent Holland
Plot: Night Fright is the number #1 Canadian based radio show of its genre and is syndicated across Canada and is available for syndication. Contact us at nightfrightshow@gmail.comto have the show on your station.
UFOs make great ratings, so it isn’t surprising that NBC’S Dateline aired a special on Sunday, May 18, entitled 10 Close Encounters Caught on Tape. To its credit, the NBC program at least made an attempt to provide prosaic explanations for each of the events it presented. In most cases, those explanations were actually pretty good, and the “UFO experts” for the most part came off as yahoos.
But when I realized that they were saving “the #1 UFO event caught on tape!” for last — the lame Phoenix Lights, the 1997 event that I helped debunk years ago as a reporter in Arizona, I prepared myself for yet another time that so-called journalists wouldn’t get even the most basic facts right. I wasn’t disappointed.
For starters, there were two separate events on the night of March 13, 1997 over the skies of Arizona. The mysterious “vee” configuration of lights that so many people across the state witnessed was seen over Prescott at about 8:15 p.m. and traveled south to Phoenix at about 8:30 and then passed over Tucson at 8:45. That’s 200 miles in thirty minutes which means the vee was moving at about 400 miles per hour. Some early eyewitnesses perceived that it was high in the sky, others swore it was low and moving very slowly. (And I mention “early” purposely. As the months passed, more and more elaborate — and ridiculous — claims were made by eyewitnesses who were clearly trying to one-up each other.) As I’ve pointed out many times, the eyeball is a poor instrument for judging the altitude of point sources of light in a night sky. Simple physics, however, suggests the vee was high in the sky and moving very fast, even if it looked like it was moving slowly due to the altitude.
This kind of image is widely assumed to be the “vee” or first incident. It actually shows the later flares. (This is a digital recreation.)
The images of the Phoenix Lights presented on the web further confuse the fact that two different incidents happened. The first incident, the original “vee,” passed overhead with almost no one photographing or filming it. Only one video seems to exist, and since it was shot of an overhead object it does not show a cityscape. This film was never promoted by UFO enthusiasts, perhaps because it doesn’t show the famous optical illusion of the “dark triangle.”
Most of the photos and video of the lights were taken of the second incident — the flares — as people came out in response to the first. These images show the flares in an arc over the Phoenix cityscape, which is sometimes confused with the earlier, overhead “vee.”
As I first revealed in the Phoenix New Times, a young man with a 10-inch Dobsonian telescope, Mitch Stanley, spotted the vee from his backyard, and saw that it was a formation of airplanes. Using a magnification of 60X — which essentially put him 60 times closer to the vee than people only using their naked eyes — Stanley could see that each light in the sky was actually a double, with one light under each squarish wing. The planes still looked small in his scope — suggesting they were flying at high altitude — and he didn’t know what type they were. But there was no doubt, he told me, that they were planes.
After his sighting, Stanley tried to contact a Phoenix city councilwoman who was making noise about the event, as well as a couple of UFO flim-flam men working the local scene, but he was rebuffed. I was the first reporter to talk to him, and, as a telescope builder myself, I made a thorough examination of his instrument and his knowledge of it. (For the inexperienced: a Dobsonian telescope is much easier to move than the typical department store scope; it’s child’s play for an experienced observer like Stanley to get a good look at passing planes at altitude.) And he had a witness: he had told his mother, who was standing nearby, that the lights were planes. After my story, the Arizona Republic also found his story credible and wrote about it.
On the night of March 13, news of the 8:30 pm sighting traveled fast, so a large number of people were outside with video cameras when the second and unrelated event, at about 10 pm, happened in the sky southwest of Phoenix. A string of lights appeared in the sky, and slowly sank until they disappeared behind the nearby Estrella Mountain range. This was later shown to be a string of flares dropped by the Maryland Air National Guard over the North Tac military range. Dr. Lynne Kitei, featured prominently on the Dateline program, can repeat all she wants to NBC and other media that these lights were magical and “intelligent” and later showed up just outside her living room window, but the videotapes taken that night by many people show without a doubt that this was a string of mundane lights that fell and disappeared behind the range, exactly as a string of flares dropped by the military planes would have.
The problem developed later when people conflated reports of the two sightings. For the many people who had seen the earlier vee pass directly over their heads, the explanation of the flares made no sense whatsoever. News organizations didn’t differentiate between the two events or report on the Stanley identification — even the Republic stopped referring to its earlier solid reporting on the Lights and began promoting it as “unexplained.”
To this day, programs like Dateline invariably question people who saw the earlier “vee” event, and quote them saying that flares couldn’t possibly explain what they saw. They are right. They didn’t see flares, they saw a formation of planes. Dateline repeatedly showed people talking about their memories of the 8:30 vee while showing video of the 10 pm flares. Talk about misleading.
There was at least one person who videotaped both the 8:30 vee and the later event. I saw his tape myself. It clearly showed the five lights of the 8:30 vee moving in relation to each other, exactly as you’d expect in a formation of airplanes.
As for the people who swore they saw a black triangular shape joining the five lights of the vee, that’s a classic contrast effect of the human eye. In a very telling case, a man who swore he saw a black shape joining the lights of the vee saw it pass directly in front of the moon. At that point, he saw not a black shape but wavy lines pass over the undimmed moon. But rather than conclude that he’d seen the contrails of planes, the man, whose perception had already been heavily influenced by the UFO explanation concluded instead that the pilot of the alien craft had turned his spaceship transparent right at that moment so the man could see the moon through it. How convenient!
Part of what fueled so much confusion over the Phoenix Lights event was the input from a couple of UFO “investigators” on the scene — one of whom was literally put of business after my stories about him came out. For example, when it became obvious that the hundreds of people who saw the vee pass overhead had many different ideas about it — some said it was just over their heads, other said it was high in the sky, and no one could agree on the colors of the lights — instead of concluding that human beings naturally come up with different perceptions of the same event, these UFOlogists instead began to promote the idea that everyone had seen different vees! Again, going by the early reports, there was no doubt that a single vee crossed over the state that night in about a half-hour. But by the time the UFOlogists were through, the credulous came to believe that Phoenix was practically under attack by dozens of mile-wide triangular space-cruisers!
Also at fault was the local TV news fraternity, which not only couldn’t get the basic facts straight, but also cynically exploited the event for ratings. We’re still dealing with the misconceptions they promoted, such as…
Claim: The vee made no sound. (Not true. I talked to witnesses in Prescott, a quieter environment, who clearly heard jet noise.)
Claim: The vee didn’t show up on radar. (None of the UFO investigators bothered to ask for tapes from the FAA in Albuquerque, whose officials at the time told me they only kept tapes for 11 days. So we’ll never know what the radar picture looked like that night.)
Claim: The 10 pm lights fell in front of the mountain range, so they couldn’t be flares dropped in the distance by military planes (Videotapes taken by observers from higher elevations in the Valley saw the flares for a longer period of time than those who were in lower places, confirming that the flares dropped behind the Estrellas.)
Perhaps it’s a good thing that NBC has now declared this the numero uno UFO sighting of all time. Few sightings have been so thoroughly investigated by reporters, and so well debunked. But you won’t hear that from the networks, who can’t get enough of the ratings that come with “the unexplained.”
Reaction 1:
Hmmm… I agree on the second incident being more than likely flares — seems obvious. But what of the “vee” shaped sighting? How does one explain:
a) Why the government didn’t proffer a valid explanation for all the hysteria if it was nothing but mere planes flying in formation?
b) What the ‘orange, orbicular, swirling lights’ were and how they pertain to conventional aircraft?
c) Why these ‘lights’ did not emit glare as conventional lights tend to and why they dimmed out completely at times? (Something that navigation lights would not do).
d) The varying [perceived] duration of the event (flyby) where some assert hours while you yourself only minutes?
e) The reputable persons’ (air-traffic controllers, military personnel etc) accounts of the incident being in line with what attention-seeking, easily ridiculed ‘average Joes’ were spouting?
Moreover, seeing as how seemingly indubitable your acceptance of what that one solitary fellow (kid?) with the telescope apparently perceived the sighting as being (ie. airplanes) as fact over what hundreds of others contradict (interesting to see how a judicial system like that would work!), your skepticism* seems to err dangerously over into subjective territory. Not to mention the not so subtle sarcasm you display when referring to the the possibility of the incident being of a *gasps* extraterrestrial origin. <_<
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