26-03-2014 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

What Is the Big Bang Theory?

A 2013 map of the background radiation left over from the Big Bang, taken by the ESA's Planck spacecraft, captured the oldest light in the universe. This information helps astronomers determine the age of the universe.

Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration

The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At its simplest, it talks about the universe as we know it starting with a small singularity, then inflating over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today.

Because current instruments don't allow astronomers to peer back at the universe's birth, much of what we understand about the Big Bang Theory comes from mathematical theory and models. Astronomers can, however, see the "echo" of the expansion through a phenomenon known as the cosmic microwave background.

The phrase "Big Bang Theory" has been popular among astrophysicists for decades, but it hit the mainstream in 2007 when a comedy show with the same name premiered on CBS. The show follows the home and academic life of several researchers (including an astrophysicist).

The first second, and the birth of light

In the first second after the universe began, the surrounding temperature was about 10 billion degrees Fahrenheit (5.5 billion Celsius), according to NASA. The cosmos contained a vast array of fundamental particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons. These decayed or combined as the universe got cooler.

This early soup would have been impossible to look at, because light could not carry inside of it. "The free electrons would have caused light (photons) to scatter the way sunlight scatters from the water droplets in clouds," NASA stated. Over time, however, the free electrons met up with nuclei and created neutral atoms. This allowed light to shine through about 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

This early light — sometimes called the "afterglow" of the Big Bang — is more properly known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). It was first predicted by Ralph Alpher and other scientists in 1948, but was found only by accident almost 20 years later. [Images: Peering Back to the Big Bang & Early Universe]

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, both of Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, were building a radio receiver in 1965 and picking up higher-than-expected temperatures, according to NASA. At first, they thought the anomaly was due to pigeons and their dung, but even after cleaning up the mess and killing pigeons that tried to roost inside the antenna, the anomaly persisted.

Simultaneously, a Princeton University team (led by Robert Dicke) was trying to find evidence of the CMB, and realized that Penzias and Wilson had stumbled upon it. The teams each published papers in the Astrophysical Journal in 1965.

Determining the age of the universe

The cosmic microwave background has been observed on many missions. One of the most famous space-faring missions was NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which mapped the sky in the 1990s.

Several other missions have followed in COBE's footsteps, such as the BOOMERanG experiment (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics), NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite.

Planck's observations, released in 2013, mapped the background in unprecedented detail and revealed that the universe was older than previously thought: 13.82 billion years old, rather than 13.7 billion years old. [Related: How Old is the Universe?]

The maps give rise to new mysteries, however, such as why the Southern Hemisphere appears slightly redder (warmer) than the Northern Hemisphere. The Big Bang Theory says that the CMB would be mostly the same, no matter where you look.

Examining the CMB also gives astronomers clues as to the composition of the universe. Researchers think most of the cosmos is made up of matter and energy that cannot be "sensed" with conventional instruments, leading to the names dark matter and dark energy. Only 5 percent of the universe is made up of matter such as planets, stars and galaxies.

This graphic shows a timeline of the universe based on the Big Bang theory and inflation models.

CREDIT :  NASA/WMAP

Gravitational waves spotted?

While astronomers could see the universe's beginnings, they've also been seeking out proof of its rapid inflation. Theory says that in the first second after the universe was born, our cosmos ballooned faster than the speed of light. That, by the way, does not violate Albert Einstein's speed limit since he said that light is the maximum anything can travel within the universe. That did not apply to the inflation of the universe itself.

In 2014, astronomers said they had found evidence in the CMB concerning "B-modes", a sort of polarization generated as the universe got bigger and created gravitational waves. The team spotted evidence of this using an Antarctic telescope called "Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization", or BICEP2.

While the finding has to be scrutinized by independent researchers, the researchers told Space.com that they are confident it will be confirmed. They spent several years examining the information to make sure that the telescope did not generate a false signal.

"We're very confident that the signal that we're seeing is real, and it's on the sky," lead researcher John Kovac, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Space.com in March 2014.

"It's going to be controversial," he added. "We can expect that people will try to shoot at it from every direction, and we invite that — that's the scientific process, and it'll be fun and interesting."

Faster inflation, multiverses and charting the start

The universe is not only expanding, but getting faster as it inflates. This means that with time, nobody will be able to spot other galaxies from Earth, or any other vantage point within our galaxy.

"We will see distant galaxies moving away from us, but their speed is increasing with time," Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb said in a March 2014 Space.com article.

"So, if you wait long enough, eventually, a distant galaxy will reach the speed of light. What that means is that even light won't be able to bridge the gap that's being opened between that galaxy and us. There's no way for extraterrestrials on that galaxy to communicate with us, to send any signals that will reach us, once their galaxy is moving faster than light relative to us."

Some physicists also suggest that the universe we experience is just one of many. In the "multiverse" model, different universes would coexist with each other like bubbles lying side by side. The theory suggests that in that first big push of inflation, different parts of space-time grew at different rates. This could have carved off different sections — different universes — with potentially different laws of physics.

"It's hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse," Alan Guth, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said during a news conference in March 2014 concerning the gravitational waves discovery. (Guth is not affiliated with that study.)

"It's not impossible, so I think there's still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously."

While we can understand how the universe we see came to be, it's possible that the Big Bang was not the first inflationary period the universe experienced. Some scientists believe we live in a cosmos that goes through regular cycles of inflation and deflation, and that we just happen to be living in one of these phases.

Correction: This article was updated on March 25, 2014, to correct a reference to when light began to shine.

EDITOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS

26-03-2014 om 20:20 geschreven door peter  

Drake Equation: Estimating the Odds of Finding E.T.

26-03-2014 om 20:08 geschreven door peter  

U.S. President Jimmy Carter Really Did See A UFO, Technically

by Kirk Hamilton

U.S. President Jimmy Carter has talked about his 1969 encounter with an unidentified flying object several times over the years. He’s never really been of the opinion that what he saw was an alien spacecraft, but maintains that he doesn’t quite know what it was, either.

On the latest episode of The Brian Lehrer Show, Carter again explains his experience, breaking it down in a straightforward fashion: “I don’t claim that it came from outer space,” he tells Lehrer, “But it was unidentified, it was flying, and it was an object.”

Carter was on the show promoting his new book A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power, which focuses on gender inequality around the world. The UFO thing was more of a sidebar.

One of the more recent times Carter has discussed the UFO incident was in a 2005 interview in GQ, in which he said:

I saw an unidentified flying object. I’ve never believed that it came from Mars. I know enough physics to know that you can’t have vehicles that are tangible in nature flying from Mars, looking around, and then flying back. But I saw an object one night when I was preparing to give a speech to a Lions Club. There were about twenty-five of us men standing around. It was almost time for the Lions Club supper to start, which I would eat and then I would give a speech. I was in charge of fifty-six Lions Clubs in southwest Georgia back in the late ’60s. And all of a sudden, one of the men looked up and said, “Look, over in the west!” And there was a bright light in the sky. We all saw it. And then the light, it got closer and closer to us. And then it stopped, I don’t know how far away, but it stopped beyond the pine trees. And all of a sudden it changed colour to blue, and then it changed to red, then back to white. And we were trying to figure out what in the world it could be, and then it receded into the distance. I had a tape recorder — because as I met with members of Lions Clubs, I would dictate their names on the tapes so I could remember them — and I dictated my observations. And when I got home, I wrote them down. So that’s an accurate description of what I saw. It was a flying object that was unidentified. But I have never thought that it was from outer space.

You know, I still think it could’ve been an alien ship. But then, I want to believe.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter Really Did See A UFO, Technically – Kotaku Australia

26-03-2014 om 19:55 geschreven door peter  

UFO Researcher and Journalist Jaime Maussan says: 'They are announcing that they are coming'

Jaime Maussan is a leading journalist in covering the phenomenon of UFO sightings in Mexico and around the world. During his hour-long presentation at the Open Minds 23rd International UFO Convention, the audience was spellbound by audio and video footage presented by Mr. Maussan, including a portion described as “The Hum” which are ominous sounds described by eyewitnesses as accompanying sightings and being emitted from the UFOs.

Jaime Maussan

Ashahed Muhammad, The Final Call (FCN): Mr. Maussan, I want to ask you a question about the sounds. That was really captivating; the sounds of the UFOs, or The Wheels. Could you just tell us a little bit more about that?

Jaime Maussan (JM): Since 2011, we have been hearing these kind of sounds; and they haven’t stopped—everywhere in the world! I think they are, somehow, announcing that they are coming—they are [makes a knocking sound with hands] “knocking at our door.” That’s what I think, because they continue. But I believe it’s very important! It’s exactly like the crop circles, which are—that’s for the eyes, and this [the sounds] is for our ears. They’re both for the brain! But they are trying to connect to us; that’s what I think.

FCN: Now it sounded kind of like an “air raid,” sort of. What are the people hearing this describing? The people who say that they’ve heard these sounds? What do they feel? Do they feel scared?

JM: No, they feel—they feel impressed; they feel impressed, like, ‘What is this? What is this?’—they feel nervous. Not as scared, not as scared, but nervous? Yes. Because, when you don’t know where that is coming from, you have to be nervous. That is all. But I think it’s a connection. Something is going to happen, soon. Sooner than later.

FCN: Now my last question: Since 2011 when you were with us in Chicago, have there been any new developments? Has anything changed, has anything happened that we can update the readers and listeners with?

JM: Uh, well, so many things! I mean, not just the sounds, The Motherships. Now we have so many sightings of The Motherships. We have so many invisible UFOs—now we know there are things that are probably—we have something there, but If we don’t use the special equipment*, we won’t see it. It’s very diffi cult for us to understand, but there is something going on—you know?

FCN: Yes.

JM: It’s so much! I mean, we would be scared if we knew how many are there, outside, watching us. And I think the new equipment— and I tell Minister Farrakhan— that I recommend to get this equipment, and be watching constantly! Because he is going to have the answers he is looking for—very soon!

(*Mr. Maussan is referring to infrared and night vision military grade goggles and scopes which were on display and available for purchase during the conference.)

FC: All right.

JM: Okay? Tell him: I really like him, and my blessings to him! Okay?

FC: Thank you. I will.

(At last year’s IUFOC Jaime Maussan, played video footage taken by people all over the world of sounds given off by UFOs.

A link to that presentation is available at

http://www. disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/141788/JAIME_MAUSSAN__UFO_CONGRES_2013_Video/) Forward to the 36:42 mark where “The Hum” Presentation begins.

26-03-2014 om 19:50 geschreven door peter  

CRAZY! UFO or Mysterious Planet Sized ‘Death Star’ Appears to ‘Refuel’ at the Surface of the Sun (Video) Wait … WHAT?

(Before It's News)

Mysterious Planet Sized ‘Death Star’ Appears to ‘Refuel’ at the Surface of the Sun

Watch and see a PROBE go into the sun to ?refuel? this craft in space! An orbiting Nasa space telescope captured a dark, planet-sized object near the sun and extending what looks like a refueling tube into the star’s surface.  

Are you prepared?

26-03-2014 om 19:43 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 3/26/14

(Before It's News)

• Mysterious ‘flying saucer’ spotted hovering over Guernsey college – Daily Star
• UFO Researcher and Journalist Jaime Maussan says: ‘They are announcing that they are coming’ – The Final Call
• U.S. President Jimmy Carter Really Did See A UFO, Technically – Kotaku Australia
• Flying saucer motel cleared for touchdown in Baker – San Bernardino Sun
• Drake Equation: Estimating the Odds of Finding E.T. – Space.com

The post Daily UFO Headlines 3/26/14 appeared first on Openminds.tv.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-32614/26672

26-03-2014 om 19:39 geschreven door peter  

NAVY TRANSPORT CREW REPORTED A GIANT ALIEN DISC OVER THE ATLANTIC

(Before It's News)

Commander Benton reached for his microphone, called Gander Airport and identified himself. “You show any other traffic out here?” he asked the tower. “We had something on the scope near you,” Gander told him. “But we couldn’t get an answer.”  “We saw it,” Benton said grimly. “It was no aircraft.” He gave the tower a concise report, and back at Gander teletype messages were rushed to the U.S. Air Defense Command, the Commanding Officer, Eastern Sea Frontier, the Director of Air Force Intelligence and the Air Technical Intelligence Center.  When the Constellation landed at Gander, Air Force intelligence officers met the transport. From the start, it was plain they accepted the giant disc sighting as fact.

For two hours, Benton and the rest were carefully interrogated[debriefed], separately and together: How close did the object come? What was its size… estimated rate of climb… any electrical interference noted… what happened to the other luminous rings?  From the answers to scores of questions, the majority opinion emerged. The flying disc was between 350 and 400 feet in diameter, and apparently metallic. No interference with ignition noted; instruments not observed and radio not operating during this brief period.  Time for the giant disc to climb to the transport’s altitude, between five and eight seconds, indicated speed between 1,400 and 2,200 knots; the disc had accelerated above this speed on departure.  Not all the men in the cabin had seen the luminous rings. Of those who had, most were watching the huge disc approach and did not see the “rings” disappear. If they, too, were flying discs, in a rendezvous as some suggested, they apparently had raced off while the other one was checking on the Constellation.  At one point, an Intelligence captain asked Benton if he had seen any indication of life abroad the disc.   Intelligently Controlled  “No, but it was intelligently controlled, that’s certain. Benton looked at him closely. “That size, it would hardly be remote-controlled, would it?” “I couldn’t say,” replied the Air Force man.  Nor would he tell what the Gander Airport radar had shown about the disc’s speed and maneuvers. “What’s behind all this?” demanded Mooney. “Up to now, I believed the Air Force. You people say there aren’t any flying saucer…”  “Sorry, I can’t answer any questions,” said the captain. “Why not? After a scare like that, we’ve got a right to know what’s going on.”

 The Intelligence officer shook his head. “I can’t answer any questions,” he repeated.  As quickly as possible, intelligence reports with full details were flashed to the four Defense commanders already notified, with an extra message for the Director of Naval Intelligence.  After the Constellation reached Patuxent, the air crews were interviewed [debriefed] again, by Navy order. Each man made a written report, with his opinion of what he had seen.   Five days later, Commander Benton had a phone call from a scientist in a high government agency. “I’m informed you had a close-up UFO sighting. I’d like to see you.”  Benton checked, found the man was cleared by the Navy. Next day, the scientist appeared, showed his credential, listened intently to Benton’s report. Then he unlocked a dispatch case and took out some photographs.  “Was it like any of these?” At the third picture, Benton stopped him. “That’s it!” He looked sharply at the scientist. “Somebody must know the answers, if you’ve got photographs of the things.”  The other man took the pictures. “I’m sorry, Commander.” He closed his dispatch case and left.  At the time when I (Donald Keyhoe) learned of this case, I had served for two years as Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.  source:  Flying Saucer Review, Volume 49/2, Summer 2004, pp. 21-23  From the NICAP records, by Major Donald E. Keyhoe

NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

 KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS AND NEWS.ORG

WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOSANDNEWS.ORG

WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOS.ORG

THANKS TO WWW.UFOCASEBOOK.COM  

Source: http://worldufophotosandnews.org/?p=7054

26-03-2014 om 19:35 geschreven door peter  

26-03-2014 om 13:50 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: UFO SIGHTING: Mysterious 'flying saucer' spotted hovering over Guernsey college

A MUM has been left baffled after spotting a flying saucer-shaped object hovering over a nearby college on a live weather webcam feed.

Denise Poole, 52, said she thought she was seeing things after spotting the flying object in her daily weather check of her home island of Guernsey.

26-03-2014 om 13:46 geschreven door peter  

OVNIS : une réalité (Evénement INREES)

L'INREES n'a pas tardé a diffuser la vidéo entière de cette conférence-événement qui s'est déroulée le 18 mars 2014 à Paris, ce dont nous les en remercions.

Produit par Stéphane Allix et Sébastien Lilli
Pour aller plus loin : http://www.inrees.com

" En présence du Général de division Wilfried De Brouwer, ancien Chef des opérations à l’Etat-major de l'air belge, et de Jean-François Clervoy, astronaute de l’Agence spatiale européenne, l'INREES a proposé une conférence exceptionnelle avec la journaliste Leslie Kean...

La journaliste d’investigation Leslie Kean, soutenue dans son enquête par les plus hautes autorités jamais encore impliquées sur le dossier, nous livre ce soir le fruit de 10 ans d'enquête à l’occasion de la publication en France de son livre événement : OVNIS - Des généraux, des pilotes et des officiels parlent.

Leur origine demeure encore une énigme mais ce que l’on appelle des OVNIS n’en est pas moins une réalité. On parle d’ailleurs officiellement de P.A.N. pour phénomènes aérospatiaux non-identifiés. En effet, chaque année, à travers le monde entier, des dizaines de milliers de personnes disent avoir observé des phénomènes aérospatiaux non-identifiés. Un pourcentage important de ces observations reçoit après enquête une explication conventionnelle. Il peut s’agir d’avions, de débris de satellite, de météorites, de montgolfières ou de ballons, de planètes, ou encore de phénomènes atmosphériques, etc. Les possibilités de méprise sont nombreuses, notamment de la part de témoins peu ou pas habitués à identifier tous les types de phénomènes pouvant être rencontrés ou se produire dans l’atmosphère. Mais au-delà de ces cas expliqués, une part significative des témoignages collectés ne reçoit aucune explication connue. Cette réalité résulte de décennies d’observations et d’investigations de la part de pilotes, de hauts responsables militaires, et de chercheurs. Ce fait, mis en évidence à travers le monde entier par les différents organes ou chercheurs s’étant penchés sur la question, a incité la journaliste d’investigation américaine Leslie Kean, à se lancer dans l'une des plus ambitieuses enquêtes jamais réalisées sur la question OVNI. Le fruit de ce travail est aujourd’hui publié en France sous le titre : OVNIS - Des généraux, des pilotes et des officiels parlent. C’est un livre événement, salué pour son impartialité et son sérieux. Leslie Kean présentera lors de cette conférence exceptionnelle des indices incontestables sur la présence réelle d’objets volants non identifiés — métalliques, lumineux, et capables de manœuvres qui défient les lois de la physique — dans l’atmosphère terrestre. Elle partagera avec nous le fruit de dix ans d’une enquête acharnée durant laquelle elle a rencontré et interviewé des dizaines d’officiers d’aviation de haut niveau et de témoins à travers le monde, passé en revue des centaines de documents gouvernementaux, de rapports d’aviation, de données radar, et d’études de cas corroborés par des indices matériels.

L’astronaute français Jean-François Clervoy qui a déjà participé à trois missions spatiales, et qui préface l’ouvrage de Leslie Kean sera présent à ses côtés. Il livrera pourquoi selon lui « il est temps de chercher, avec des moyens adéquats, à comprendre ce que sont ces objets ou phénomènes apparemment intelligents surgissant dans notre ciel, dont la réalité est confirmée par de multiples sources. Nous ne savons pas ce que nous trouverons, mais l’ignorance est assurée si nous ne faisons rien. »

Autre invité de marque présent lors de cette grande soirée : le Général de division Wilfried De Brouwer, ancien Chef des opérations à l’Etat-major de l’air belge, en activité au début des années 90 en Belgique alors que le pays était survolé par de mystérieux objets. Ce sujet — des objets au comportement intelligent et à l’origine inconnue évoluant dans l’atmosphère terrestre — est potentiellement l’un des plus importants auquel l’humanité puisse être confrontée. S’y pencher requiert une indispensable ouverture d’esprit, et un solide bon sens journalistique, deux qualités que possède Leslie Kean. Son enquête magistrale permet enfin de séparer les faits de la fiction. "

http://www.inrees.com/videos/571/

Yves Herbo, Sciences-F-H, 26-03-2014

26-03-2014 om 11:57 geschreven door peter  

26-03-2014 om 10:30 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting above Euboia, Greece on 21st March 2014

New interesting video footage of two glowing UFO lights recorded in the night sky above Euboia, Greece on 21st March 2014.

Witness said:
Guys hallo im new here and i like very much the job it has been done here ! I immediatelly searched about a website of the kind because yesterday at 20 March 2014 and at 9 o clock in the evening me and a friend where walking and suddenly we looked at the sky and we managed to capture this video of two blue/purple lighted objects performing maneuvers over Chalkis sky !!! All the passing bys where frozen at the view and were discussing !!! Please see for yourself and tell me your opinion.

26-03-2014 om 10:22 geschreven door peter  

Daytime UFO activity recorded over Boynton Beach, Florida on 21st March 2014

New interesting video footage of a daytime UFO sighting recorded in the sky above Boynton Beach, Florida on 21st March 2014.

Witness said:
Believe it or not, but I spotted this earlier today (3/21/14) in Boynton Beach, FL area. Went out to relax by the water, looked up, noticed it slowly moving, took out my phone and hit record.

26-03-2014 om 10:18 geschreven door peter  

THE DYATLOV UFO INCIDENT – A CASE OF PREDATORY UFO MASS MURDER IN RUSSIA'S URAL MOUNTAINS – 1959

(Before It's News)

The Dyatlov UFO Incident

                                                           

A Case of Predatory UFO Mass Murder

In Russia's Ural Mountains – 1959

By Robert D. Morningstar

(Copyright 2014, R.D. Morningstar – All Rights Reserved)

Preface

“ In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.
I occasionally think 'how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.' And yet, I ask is not an alien force ALREADY among us?” “

President Ronald Reagan
Speech to the United Nations General Assembly

42^nd General Assembly

September 21, 1987

The Victims

The 9 Victims of a UFO Mass Murder

Igor Dyatlov (center) and the other Members of his Ural Mountain Expedition 

This article is based on the video book documentary made by D. Romahlko in tribute to 

Dyatlov Ural Mountain Expedition – February 2nd 1959

This article presents the story of the Dyatlov Ural Mountain Expedition of 1959 during which all 9 members of the expedition died under the most mysterious of circumstances, with  of the 9 victims suffering harrowing injuries that could not be explained satisfactorily or attributable to natural causes.  Based on the video linked below (“The Dyatlov Inceidend – Mountain of the Dead”, compiled by D. Romahlko), this article will detail the very compelling story of the tragic loss of the Dyatlov Expedition to Kholat Syaskhl,  a region called “The Mountain of the Dead”.

Nine adult hikers were lost and all later found dead under extremely mysterious circumstances, including independent UFO eyewitnesses who saw lights maneuvering in the area around the time the hikers were lost.

This documentary is very unusual, being a tribute to the memory of the Dyatlov Ural Mountain expedition and, most importantly, based on official government documents, investigation findings, notes and photos from Yuri Gagarin's UFO files and his collection of photos, investigative reports, with diary notes and the last picture taken by a member of the party, along with information from the KGB's “Alien Races Book.”   

Editor's note:

The “Alien Races Book” was one of 2 briefing books alluded to several years ago by then President Dimitri Medvedev in an off-the-cuff remark to a post-press conference question from a reporter that was caught on camera.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Says Aliens Have Visited In TV Interview   http://www.inquisitr.com/429460/russian-prime-minister-dmitry-medvedev-says-aliens-have-visited-in-tv-interview/

Excerpt below from Inquisitr article linked above:

When one journalist asked whether Putin was given secret files about aliens along with the codes needed to activate Russia’s nuclear arsenal, Medvedev replied:

“Along with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the president of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet.”

…: “Along with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country … more detailed information on this topic you can get from a well-known movie called Men In Black … I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic.”

As we will see in reviewing the history of the lost Dyatlov Expedition, President Medvedev was speaking very candidly of what he knows to be the Truth in Russia in regard to UFOs when he stated:->

 ”I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic.”  

Editor's Note:

We shall find in our investigation of the Dyatlov Incident that President Medvedev's comment was NOT an understatement.

 

 

The Role of Yuri Gagarin in the KGB Investigation of the Dyatlov UFO Incident.

Colonel Yuri Gagarin, born in Smolensk, was the 1st human in space.  Smolensk is a northwestern Russian city, which lies not far from the Kholat Syalkyl region where the Dyatlev party was lost.  While all of Russia was stunned by the case of the missing hikers, Gagarin took a specail interest in the events surrounding the mysterious and grusome deaths of the 9 hikers near Kholat Syalkyl and Mount Oroten, deep in the Ural Mountain.  

Gagarin's interest in the mystery of the Dyatlov Expedition was so great that apparently a certain “HIigh Priority” was assigned, either officially or personally, for Gagarin actually took photographs of the Kholat Syakhl region as he overflew it in orbiting the Earth.  The documents and photos revealed in Romahlko's video book were. released to the investigator/producer (Romajlko). by the family of Yuri Gagarin, and by the official KGB Criminal Prosecutor, Lev Ivanov (in 1991).

At the time  that he made his disclosure, Lev Ivanov stated that he had hidden the UFO presence from the his fianl public report, and that he had removed evidence that clearly showed that UFOs had somehow been involved in the deaths and mutilations of the bodies.  Ivanov admits that the word came down from the highest leels of govermn.

 The photo of Mt. Ortoten taken by Yuri Gagari from orbit is contained in this documentary, which is actually a video book, entitled “The Dyatlov Incident – The Mountain of death,” and is meant to be read on screen.   I found the story of Igor Dyatlov intriguing and the text, derived from the unclassified KGB report will leave no doubt as to the extraterrestrial cause of these UFO murders.  As Robby the Robot used to say:

“Danger, Will Robinson! … Danger!”

 

Beware of UFOs.
 

This article is based on the personal UFO Files of Soviet Cosmonaut Col. Yuri Gagarin  

and  ”The KGB Alien Races Book” given by the Gagarin Family to Mr. Romahlko to memorialize the Dyatlov Expedition members.

RDM*

 

The Dyatlov Incident – The Mountain of Death
By D. Romahlko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VtYQzMvSio

Editor's note issued March 25th, 2014 

Since we first published this article on March 17th, 2014, thousands of people have viewed the video linked above.  

We find it very curious that the video upon which this article is and subsequent chapters are to be based has been removed completely from YouTube.  

However, all the pertinent documents contained therein have been preserved for publication in UFO Digest in coming weeks.

“я орел”

ya orel

Given below is the official Soviet Medical – Psychological Profile 

of Soviet Colonel Yuri Gagarin – The First Human in Outer Space

Wiki Bio: -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin#Career_in_the_Soviet_Air_Force

In August 1960, when Gagarin was one of 20 possible candidates, an Air Force doctor evaluated his personality as follows:^[11]

“Modest; embarrasses when his humor gets a little too racy; high degree of intellectual development evident in Yuriy; fantastic memory; distinguishes himself from his colleagues by his sharp and far-ranging sense of attention to his surroundings; a well-developed imagination; quick reactions; persevering, prepares himself painstakingly for his activities and training exercises, handles celestial mechanics and mathematical formulae with ease as well as excels in higher mathematics; does not feel constrained when he has to defend his point of view if he considers himself right; appears that he understands life better than a lot of his friends. — Soviet Air Force Doctor  ”

When Yuri Gagarin reached Earth orbit, he shouted out in elation:

 

“я орел”

ya orel

​”I am an Eagle.”

 

Later, during his 108 minute long space flight, as his Vostok I spacecraft flew high over the mountainous region of the Urals known as Kholat Syakhl (Холат-Cяхыл)  a Mansi name, meaning Dead Mountain. 

 

Military Surveillance – Vostok 1 in Orbit 

VOSTOK: More than Marxist Propaganda  …

Humanity's First Manned, Military Surveillance Mission to Outer Space

At some time during his short, 1-orbit space flight, Yuri Gagarin took the photo shown below of the mountain pass where the Dyatlov Incident had occurred shortly before his spaceflight.  The photo enhancement by this writer brings out details not visible in the stark black 7 white original.Note below the unique landmarks of the region when seen from outer space.  Note the “Cross-in-a-Circle” shown in the upper right quadrant.

Take note also of the unique mountain tops, which might appear to someone with  ”a sharp and far-ranging sense of attention to his surroundings; a well-developed imagination; quick reactions;…  as well as excels in higher mathematics” might consider to be ice-walled enclaves of some intelligent design, with distinct structural features such as the fortress-like double circle that can be seen within the central “footprint.”  

Next (assuming top is North) , we cannot help but see that directly East of the “double walled figure-8 fortress, there appears to be a mountain top with a turret-like formation (set on a plain) that also appears to be topped by a dome.   As we contemplate the local legends of Ural Mountain versions of Sasquatch seen and photographed

The Kholat Syakhl Mountain – Dyatlov Pass Photographed by Yuri Gagarin

From Outer Space

 

Aside from the global propaganda value of the first human space flight, could it be that this photo taken by Yuri Gagarin during the very first human space flight (April 12th 1961), was actually the primary (military) reason for his space flight?

The significance of this photograph cannot be understated when we consider that Yuri Gagarin's flight in Vostok I lasted for only 1 single orbit of the Earth, enduring for only 1 hour 48 minutes.   Therefore, this writer believes that the short duration of the flight elevates the importance of the photograph in the large scheme of the mission profile, among the many tasks, scientific and military, that were assigned to Yuri Gagarin during that short and historic space flight.

The reader will have to excuse my own “well-developed imagination,” but should I believe my eyes as they tell me that I see a giant “Sasquatch” footprint atop that mountain, on the plateaul-like summited directly North of the “Figure-8 Fortress”?

I ask the reader to consider this:->  If you were a space-faring extraterrestrial, can you think of a more significant group of landmarks to follow to a UFO Landing Zone?

1. The “Cross-in-a-Cirle”  seen in relief to the Northwest;

2. The “Figure-8 Fortress” in the center dominating the region;

3. A Domed Tower to the East;

4. A mountainous plateau with a “Big Foot Print,” recognizable ONLY from outer space or extremely high altitude aircraft (for example, in those days, the U-2 or the SR-71 Blackbird or Corona Satellite).; 

The area shown above where this tragedy occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов).  Kholat Syakhl is still called “The Mountain of Death” by the local Mansi tribe.

As we explore the circumstances of their killings, the many mysteries surrounding the disappearance and grusome deaths of the Dyatlov Expedition deepen in Part II, as we study the forensic evidence released by the KGB investigator in charge in 1990.  

We will consider the injuries they suffered while fleeing  as the KGB report stated, from “an elemental force over which they had no control,” as well as the remarkable photos that were found in their cameras months later when their remains were recovered.

Stay tuned to UFO Digest for

The Dyatlov UFO Incident - Part II

For further research:

More details, including latitude/longitude coordinates and maps of the Dyatlov Pass are provided at the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass 

“The 33rd Frame”

of Yuri Krivonischenko's Camera

We can see below the very last photo, called “The 33rd Frame,” taken by Yuri Krivonischenko, one of the members of the Dyatllov party.  This amazing photo shows of multiple images of a streaking luminexcent cloud with extrenely bright anomalous lights apparently descending quickly from the sky, while rapidly approaching the camp site of the 9 young hikers who would all perished shortly after this photo was taken.

In Part 2,  UFO investigator, Robert D. Morningstar, will reveal many details that still remain hidden within this final photo taken by Yuri Krivonischenko before he perished on  Kholat SyaKhl – “The Mountain of the Dead.” 

Robert D. Morningstar

March 17th, 2014

St. Patrick's Day

New York City 

Editor's Note: 

“Flying Saucers are Serious Business”

Admiral Roscoe H. Hillencotter (USN) - First  CIA Director

NY Times February 27th, 1960  

In Washington, DC – Senator John F. Kennedy was questioning the US Air Force UFO

and preparing to announce his candidacy for President of the United States.

In Moscow – Premier Nikita Khruschev was reading the findings and official KGB report on the Diatlov Incident

and pondering the UFO problem exactly 1 year after the tragic deaths of the 9 members of the Diatlov Ural Expedition

 

And in New York City …

The 1st Director of the CIA issued a serious warnng to the American people through the New York Times.

Categories: 

Aliens and UFOs

Space

NASA

Science

Source: http://ufodigest.com/article/dyatlov-0325

26-03-2014 om 01:19 geschreven door peter  

UFO lectures from academics and government officials available

(Before It's News)

In late June of last year, an important UFO symposium took place in North Carolina. An international group of scientists, government officials, military personnel, and UFO researchers gathered to discuss unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). DVDs of the lectures are now available.

Among the international speakers were representatives from several official government sponsored UFO investigation organizations. The most prominent is GEIPAN in France. This group investigates UFOs and is part of France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), the equivalent to NASA here in the United States. The head of GEIPAN, Xavier Passot, was one of the speakers, and he reviewed their methodologies for investigation. He also shared their statistics and some of their best cases.

Another official UFO research group that was represented was Chile’s Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA). This organization is a branch of the General Administration of Civil Aeronautics, which is similar to our FAA. Jose Lay, CEFAA’s director of international affairs, spoke on how their organization works, and also shared information on some of their best cases.

Xavier Passot of GEIPAN (left) and Jose Lay of CEFAA. (Credit: Alejandro Rojas)

Another international presenter was retired Major General Wilfried De Brouwer of the Belgian Air Force. He was not representing an official UFO organization. However, he was presenting the details of an official UFO investigation. He presided over the official investigation of 2000 reports of triangular shaped UFOs over Belgium from 1989 to 1991. He says the witnesses included highly credible individuals including pilots and police officials.

Major General Wilfried De Brouwer (Credit: Alejandro Rojas)

Another unique aspect of the conference was the participation of scientists and other members of academia. Alexander Wendt, professor of international security, spoke on the UFO taboo. Similarly, emeritus professor of sociology Ron Westrum spoke on how society deals with controversial discoveries. Astronomer and author Jeffrey Bennett presented on the scientific search for extraterrestrial life, and Dr. Richard Haines presented UFO investigations of reports from pilots.

UFO lecturers Dr. Richard Haines (left) and Dr. Ron Westrum. (Credit: Alejandro Rojas)

There were a number of other great researchers who can often be found presenting at UFO conferences, but these international and academic presentations are unique and rare.

The event was financed and organized by Kent Senter, who has researched the UFO phenomena for over 25 years. He was one of the founding members of the North Carolina chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Senter is battling an incurable cancer, and wanted to put together a credible conference as part of his “bucket list.” Early on his cancer was misdiagnosed, and with some of the money he was awarded in a settlement, he was able to bring in the best people from all over the world to accomplish his goal of elevating the credibility of UFO research.

From left: Leslie Kean, Kent Senter and his wife Patty. (Credit: Alejandro Rojas)

In order to help him gather the most credible international group, he enlisted the help of Leslie Kean. Her book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record, was a New York Times best-seller, and has garnered positive attention from mainstream media and scientists.

She also lectured at the conference, and her presentation is also available. You can find out more information, and order some of these rare and important lectures at: www.cufornc.com/buy-dvds.html.

The post UFO lectures from academics and government officials available appeared first on Openminds.tv.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-lectures-academics-government-officials-available/26676

26-03-2014 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

25-03-2014 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

John Lennon’s UFO doodle auctioned off

(Before It's News)

A doodle of a UFO made by John Lennon in 1974 was auctioned off last week and it went for nearly 10 times more than expected. The UFO drawing by Lennon fits the description of a UFO he says he saw in New York with his then girlfriend May Pang that same year.

Lennon’s UFO sighting is legendary in UFO lore. It took place in New York, during his self described “Lost Weekend,” which was actually not a weekend at all. This was the period from the summer of 1973 to early 1975, which he spent with Pang and separated from his wife Yoko Ono.

John Lennon doodles auctioned off on March 21, 2014. (Credit: liveauctioneers.com)

During that time Lennon completed several albums, including “Walls and Bridges.” It is a on an acetate album sleeve for “Walls and Bridges” that Lennon doodled, among other things, a UFO with the letters “UFOer” written on it. The sleeve, along with more of Lennon’s original artwork is on display this month. The sleeve was auctioned this past Friday, March 21. It was expected to fetch between £1,000 and £1,500 (around $1600 to $2500), but in the end it went for £10,000 (currently $16,530).

In the liner notes to “Walls and Bridges,” if one looks closely, they will find a cryptic little note that reads: “On the 23^rd Aug. 1974 at 9 o’clock I saw a U.F.O. J.L.”

Walls and Brdiges UFO liner note. (Credit: Hymie’s Vintage Records)

This note is a reference to Lennon’s UFO sighting. He says that the sighting took place at his apartment on 52^nd street in New York City. He says it was a clear summer night when he spotted the object hovering only 100 yards away. He said in a radio interview, “I could have hit it with a brick if I would have thrown a stone at it.”

UFO side of the album sleeve doodles. (Credit: liveauctioneers.com)

He says the object was round, and “around the bottom was ordinary looking electric light bulbs blinking on and off alternatively like on a billboard or something. On the top of it was a red light. The thing I noticed was that there was no noise, and I could hear the freeway down below – all of the cars going.”

He says he knew it wasn’t a helicopter because it made no noise. His next thought was that it was perhaps a balloon, but he felt it was too close to the rooftops and “maneuvered too well” to be a balloon. He said the object was there for 5 to 20 minutes before it moved away along the east river.

Pang was also present during the sighting and wrote about it in her book Loving John. She says, “I had just stepped out of the shower one Friday night toward the end of August when I heard John shout. ‘Fung Yee, come here!’”

She says he sounded panicked, so she ran outside to find out what was going on. She says Lennon pointed to the sky and said, “Look up there. Tell me what you see.”

She was “astonished” to see “a saucer shaped object surrounded by blinking white lights gliding through the sky.”

She said she was not really into the topic of UFOs, but that Lennon was. He even subscribed to a British UFO journal called the Flying Saucer Review. However, she was convinced that what she was looking at was a UFO.

She then began laughing. Confused, Lennon asked what she was laughing about. Pang says she laughed because they were both naked. She told him, “Suppose it’s looking at us. Maybe they think that everyone who lives on the East Side wanders around naked on their balconies on Friday evenings. We look like Adam and Eve.”

John Lennon and May Pang. (Credit: Daily Mail)

Pang says they then went inside to see if they could see the UFO better on their telescope.

Although Pang had been skeptical of UFOs, she said after the sighting, “Now I’ve seen it I do believe it.”

Even though Lennon, according to Pang’s account, was excited during the sighting, he says in the 1984 song Nobody Told Me, “There’s UFOs over New York and I ain’t too surprised.”

Lennon may not have found UFOs over New York very surprising, but the auctioneers must have been surprised at the price his UFO doodle fetched. Being a John Lennon fan, and an obvious UFO enthusiast, I personally find the doodle and the story of his sighting to be priceless.

The post John Lennon’s UFO doodle auctioned off appeared first on Openminds.tv.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/john-lennons-ufo-doodle-auctioned/26659

25-03-2014 om 23:48 geschreven door peter  

UFO Incident: SAC RB-47H Electronic Reconnaissance

(Before It's News)

On July 17, 1957 over the Gulf Coast area of the United States, an USAF RB-47, equipped with electronic countermeasures (ECM) gear and manned by six officers, was followed by an unidentified object for a distance of well over 700 mi. and for a time period of 1.5 hr., as it flew from Mississippi, through Louisiana and Texas and into Oklahoma. The object was, at various times, seen visually by the cockpit crew as an intensely luminous light, followed by ground-radar and detected on ECM monitoring gear aboard the RB-47:

The Report

On board an RB-47H aircraft equipped with sophisticated electronic countermeasures equipment, over the Gulf of Mexico.

The crew consisted of:

Lewis D. Chase, pilot, Spokane, WA
James H. McCoid, copilot, Offutt AFB
Thomas H. Hanley, navigator, Vandenberg AFB
John J. Provenzano, No. 1 monitor, Wichita, KS
Frank B. McClure, No. 2 monitor, Offutt AFB
Walter A. Tuchscherer, No. 3 monitor, Topeka, KS

These six men were on a training/test exercise in an RB-47H electronic countermeasures reconnaissance aircraft. The RB-47, while originally developed as a bomber, was also used extensively as a reconnaissance aircraft. One was shot down by the Soviet Union while on such a mission in 1960.

This particular mission began at Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas as an exercise including gunnery exercises over the Texas-Gulf area, navigation exercises over the open Gulf, and Electronic CounterMeasures exercises on the return trip across the south-central U.S.

The men participating were soon to depart for Germany and duty there. It should be noted that the ECM equipment was not radar. It did not emit a signal and then pick up reflected echoes off of an object. Rather, it detected electromagnetic signals that were actually emitted by an object itself. The purpose of this was to detect and locate enemy radar installations. On this aircraft, the #2 monitor consisted of a direction finder with antenna on the lower rear of the aircraft, and the #1 monitor consisted of a direction finder with antennas on each wingtip of the aircraft. The #3 monitor was not involved in the events of July 17, because its range did not include the frequencies involved. The first contact with the unknown object was before 4:00 AM CST. The first two parts of the mission had been completed, and the aircraft was just leaving the airspace over the Gulf of Mexico near Gulfport, Mississippi, when Frank McClure, on the #2 ECM monitor, detected an airborne signal to the right rear of the aircraft, out over the Gulf of Mexico. The signal was of a type usually confined to ground-based radar installations. It was at 2800 megacycles, a common frequency for S-band search radar. McClure at first thought that his scope must be 180° out of alignment and that he must be picking up a ground-based radar station in Louisiana, which would actually be to the left front of the aircraft. As he watched, the signal moved up the scope, as it would if the scope was 180° out of alignment. However, he was amazed to see that, after it had moved up the scope on the right-hand side of the aircraft, it then crossed the path of the RB-47 and proceeded to move down the scope on the left-hand side. In other words, whatever was emitting the signal flew a ring around the RB-47, which was flying at approximately 500 mph. Even if the scope was 180° out of alignment, the signal source still moved completely around the aircraft, which no ground radar could do. McClure said and did nothing at this time, not mentioning the signal to the other crew members. The signal faded as they flew north.

The RB-47 made a scheduled turn to the west over Jackson, Mississippi and the crew was preparing to begin a series of simulated ECM operations against Air Force ground radar units, when suddenly the pilot, Lewis Chase, saw a light coming in from the left, at approximately the same altitude as the RB-47. At first he thought it was another plane, but it was only a single white light, closing fast. He gave the command to prepare for evasive maneuvers, but the light flashed across from left to right so fast that no such action could have been taken. It then blinked out at a point to the right front of the aircraft. Both Chase and Copilot James McCoid observed this. At this point, approximately 4:10 AM CST, they were approximately over Winnsboro, Louisiana.

Chase told the other crewmembers what he had seen, and McClure now told him about his earlier signal reading. At 4:30 AM, McClure set his scope to detect signals near 3000 mcs again, and he detected a strong signal at the same location in relation to the RB-47 that Chase had last seen the light. He and Provenzano checked the alignment of the #2 monitor by tuning in on known ground radar installations and found it to be in perfect working order. At 4:30 AM, Provenzano tuned his own monitor, #1, to 3000 mcs, and found that his equipment detected a signal at the same location. What’s more, he and McClure found that the signal was staying in the same position, keeping pace with the RB-47, which was still flying at 500 mph. This meant that it was not a signal from a ground-based radar.

The Unknown Companion

By this time they had reached the Duncanville, Texas area. At 4:39, Chase spotted a huge light to the right front of the RB-47 an about 5,000 feet below the aircraft’s 34,500 feet altitude. The weather was perfectly clear. At 4:40, McClure reported two signals, at 40° and 70°. Chase and McCoid reported seeing red lights at those locations. Chase contacted radar Station Utah at Duncanville, Texas and requested permission to abandon his flight plan and pursue the lights, which he received. At 4:48 AM, radar station Utah requested the position of the signals that McClure was receiving, and they immediately confirmed that their radar had detected the objects at the same location. As the RB-47 attempted to pursue, the object appeared to stop suddenly. Chase could see that they were gaining on it, and they over shot it.

At 4:52 it blinked out, and simultaneously vanished from McClure’s scope and the ground radar! Chase put the aircraft into a port turn, and the object suddenly blinked on again, simultaneously reappearing on McClure’s scope and the ground radar at 4:52! They began to close to within 5 miles of the object, when it suddenly dropped to 15,000 feet and then blinked out again, once again vanishing from the scopes and ground radar. At 4:55, Chase radioed Utah radar station that they had to break of pursuit and continue with their scheduled flight plan due to low fuel. At 4:57 McClure picked up the signal again, and at 4:58 Chase made visual contact again. As they headed into Oklahoma, McClure continued to receive a signal, now from the rear of the aircraft, until it finally faded as they neared Oklahoma City. The Director of Intelligence, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, stated in his report that he had: …no doubt the electronic D/F’s coincided exactly with visual observations by aircraft cmdr numerous times, thus indicating positively the object being the signal source.

What can be detected on ECM direction finding devices, can be seen visually, and can be detected on ordinary ground-based radar all at the same time? What can be detected by all the sensors and can also fly rings around a jet travelling at 500 mph?

Project Bluebook said that the sightings in Dallas – Fort Worth area were an ordinary jet airliner. They couldn’t explain the abrupt, simultaneous disappearance and reappearance of the object from radar screens, ECM scopes, and visual detection. They also couldn’t explain the events that occurred over Mississippi and Louisiana. It’s odd that the Utah radar station couldn’t tell an airliner from an unknown.

The Condon Committee toyed with several explanations, but found none to be satisfactory, finally classifying this case as unknown.

*********************************************************************************************

Condon Report Case Study: RB-47

Abstract:

The crew of a B-47 aircraft described an encounter with a large ball of light which was also displayed for a sustained time for both airborne radar monitoring receivers and on ground radar units. The encounter had occurred ten years prior to this study. Project Blue Book had no record of it. Attempts to locate any records of the event, in an effort to learn the identity of the encountered phenomenon, failed to produce any information. The phenomenon remains unidentified.

Background:

At a project-sponsored conference for air base UFO officers, held in Boulder in June 1967, one of the officers revealed that he personally had experienced a puzzling UFO encounter some ten years previously. According to the officer, a Major at the time of the encounter, he was piloting a B-47 on a gunnery and electronic counter-measures training mission from an AFB. The mission had taken the crew over the gulf of Mexico, and back over South Central United States where they encountered a glowing source of both visual and 2,800 mHz. electromagnetic radiation of startling intensity, which, during part of the encounter, held a constant position relative to the B-47 for an extended period. Ground flight control radar also received a return from the “object,” and reported its range to the B-47 crew, at a position in agreement with radar and visual observations from the aircraft.

According to the officer, upon return to the AFB electronic counter-measures, graphic data, and radar scope pictures which had been taken during the flight were removed from the plane by Intelligence personnel. He recalled that an Intelligence questionnaire regarding the experience had later been completed by the B-47 crew; however, the “security lid” shut off further information regarding the encounter. The crew learned nothing more regarding the incident, and the pilot occasionally had wondered about the identity of the phenomena encountered ever since his experience.

Investigation:

When no report of this incident was found in Blue Book or Air Defense Command records, this project undertook to obtain leads to the location of data recorded during the event through detailed interview of all available members of the B-47 crew. Of the six crew members, the three most closely involved in the encounter were the pilot, co-pilot, and the officer who had been in charge of the most involved radar-monitoring unit.

Details of the encounter, as best they could be recalled, were obtained by interview with the pilot and, later, with the two other officers at another air base. A11 remained deeply impressed by the experience, and were surprised that a report of it was not part of Blue Book files. Their descriptions of the experience were generally consistent, although the pilot did not mention that the navigator also had received a radar return from the object in question, as was recalled by the other officers. (The navigator, on duty in Vietnam, was not available for interview). The two other crew members, each of whom had operated a radar monitoring unit in the B-47 during the UFO event, were involved to a lesser extent in the incident, and were not located for interview.

The crew’s description of the experience follows:

Time: Early morning, Fall 1957.
Place: Over South Central United States
Plane’s altitude: About 30,000 ft. during the first part of the encounter.
Nature of Mission: (Pilot): Combined navigation, gunnery, and electronic counter-measure training mission. (Other Crew): Check-out of plane and equipment, including electronic counter-measures equipment, prior to European assignment.
Weather: Witnesses recalled seeing, from 30,000 ft. altitude, lights of cities and burn-off flames at gas and oil refineries below. They have no recollection of other than clear weather.

Radar monitoring unit number two, in the back end of the B-47, picked up a strong signal, at a frequency of about 2,800 mHz., which moved up-scope while the plane was in straight flight. (A signal from a ground station necessarily moves down-scope under these conditions, because of forward motion of the airplane). This was noted, but not reported immediately to the rest of the crew. The officer operating this unit suspected equipment malfunction, and switched to a different monitoring frequency range. The pilot saw a white light ahead and warned the crew to be prepared for a sudden maneuver. Before any evasive action could be taken, the light crossed in front of the plane, moving to the right, at a velocity far higher than airplane speeds. The light was seen by pilot and co-pilot, and appeared to the pilot to be a glowing body as big as a barn. The light disappeared visually, but number two monitor was returned to the frequency at which the signal was noted a few moments earlier and again showed a target, now holding at the “two-o’clock” position. The pilot varied the plane’s speed, but the radar source stayed at two o’clock. The pilot then requested and received permission to switch to ground interceptor control radar and check out the unidentified companion. Ground Control in the area informed the pilot that both his plane and the other target showed on their radar, the other target holding a range of ten miles from him.

After the UFO had held the two o’clock position and ten-mile range through various test changes in aircraft speed, the number two monitoring officer informed the pilot that the target was starting to move up-scope. It moved to a position dead ahead of the plane, holding a ten-mile range, and again became visible to the eye as a huge, steady, red glow. The pilot went to maximum speed. The target appeared to stop, and as the plane got close to it and flew over it, the target disappeared from visual observation, from monitor number two, and from ground radar. (The operator of monitor number two also recalled the B-47 navigator’s having this target on his radar, and the target’s disappearing from his radar scope at the same time). The pilot began to turn back. About half way around the turn, the target reappeared on both the monitor and ground radar scopes and visually at an estimated altitude of 15,000 ft. The pilot received permission from Ground Control to change altitude, and dove the plane at the target, which appeared stationary. As the plane approached to an estimated distance of five miles the target vanished again from both visual observation and radar. Limited fuel caused the pilot to abandon the chase at this point and head for his base. As the pilot leveled off at 20,000 ft. a target again appeared on number two monitor, this time behind the B-47. The officer operating the number two monitoring unit, however, believes that he may have been picking up the ground radar signal at this point. The signal faded out as the B-47 continued flight.

The co-pilot and number two monitoring officer were most impressed by the sudden disappearance of the target and its reappearance at a new location. As they recalled the event, the target could be tracked part of the time on the radar monitoring screen, as described above, but, at least once, disappeared from the right side of the plane, appeared on their left, then suddenly on their right again, with no “trail” on the radar scope to indicate movement of the target between successive positions.

The monitoring officer recalled that the navigator, who reported receiving his own transmitted radar signals reflected from the target, not only had a target on his screen, but reported target bearings which coincided exactly with the bearings to the source on the monitoring scope. He also indicated that the officer Operating the number one radar monitoring unit, which was of a different type, having a fixed APD-4 antenna instead of a spinning antenna as used with the number two unit, and covering all radar ranges, also observed the same display he observed on unit two. The sixth crew member, operating number three radar monitor, which covered a lower frequency range, was searching for something to tie in with the signals being observed on the other scopes, but found nothing.

The following questions are raised by this information:

1. Could the number two monitoring unit have received either direct or reflected ground radar signals which had no relation to the visual sighting?

The fact that the frequency received on number two, about 2,800 mHz., was one of the frequencies emitted from ground radar stations (CPS6B type antennas) at an airport and other airports near by, makes one suspect this possibility. The number two monitoring officer felt that after the B-47 arrived over South Central U. S., signals from GCA sets were received, and this confused the question of whether an unidentified source which emitted or reflected this wave length was present. On original approach to the area, however, a direct ground signal could not have moved up-scope. Up-scope movement could not have been due to broken rotor leads or other equipment malfunction, for all other ground signals observed that night moved down-scope. A reflected signal would require a moving reflector in the region serving as apparent source, the movement being coordinated with the motion of the aircraft, particularly during periods when the UFO held constant position relative to the moving aircraft. Since the monitor scans 360o, if a reflected beam were displayed on the scope, the direct radar beam also would be displayed, unless the transmitter were below the horizon. As the event was recalled by the witnesses, only one signal was present during initial observations. If the UFO actually reflected radar signals transmitted from the B-47, and appeared in the same position on the navigator’s scope as one, the number two monitoring scope, reflection of 2,800 mHz. ground signals from these same positions seems extremely unlikely.

2. Could the visual observations have been misinterpreted airplane lights, airplane afterburners, or meteors?

The persistence of the phenomenon rules out meteors. Observed speeds, plus instant re-position and hovering capabilities are not consistent with the aircraft hypothesis.

3. Were the visual observations necessarily of the same phenomenon as the radar observations?

Coincidence of disappearances, appearances, and indicated positions suggest a common cause.

3. If the reported observations are factual and accurate, what capabilities and properties were possessed by the UFO?

a. Rapid motion, hovering, and instant relocation.

b. Emission of electromagnetic radiation in the visible region and possibly in the 2,800 mHz. region.

c. Reflection of radar waves of various frequencies. (From airborne radar units as well as 2,800 mHz. ground units). Failure to transmit at the frequency of the number three radar monitor.

d. Ability to hold a constant position relative to an aircraft.

4. Could the observed phenomenon be explained as a plasma?

Ten scientists who specialize in plasma research, at our October 1967 plasma conference regarded an explanation of this experience in terms of known properties of a plasma as not tenable.

Further investigation of this case centered around efforts to trace reports of this event submitted by the crew after the B-47 returned to the AFB. Recollections of the nature and manner of submission of such reports or records were in sharp divergence. As the pilot recalled the incident, the landing plane was met by their Wing Intelligence personnel, who took all filmed and wire-recorded data from the “back-end” crew. The crew was never extensively questioned about the incident. Days or weeks later, however, the crew did receive from Air Defense Command, a lengthy questionnaire which they completed including sketches of what they had seen and narrative descriptions of the event. The questionnaire also had a section to be completed by the ground radar (GCI) personnel. The pilot could not recall where or exactly when the completed questionnaire had been sent.

In contrast with this recollection, the co-pilot and number two monitoring officer said that no data whatsoever had been recorded during the flight. The #1 monitoring unit was equipped for movie filming of its display, and #2 was equipped for wire recording of data. Since the flight had been merely for the purpose of checking equipment, however, neither film nor recording wire was taken aboard. Both these officers recalled intensive interrogation by their Intelligence personnel immediately after their return to the AFB. They did not recall writing anything about the event that day or later. According to their account, the B-47 crew left for England the following day, and heard nothing more of the incident.

Since it appeared that the filmed and recorded data we were seeking had never existed, we renewed the effort to locate any special intelligence reports of the incident that might have failed to reach Project Blue Book. A report form of the type described by the pilot could not be identified or located. The Public Information Officer at ADC Headquarters checked intelligence files and operations records, but found no record of this incident. The Deputy Commander for Operations of the particular SAC Air Wing in which the B-47 crew served in 1957 informed us that a thorough review of the Wing history failed to disclose any reference to an UFO incident in Fall 1957.

Conclusion:

If a report of this incident, written either by the B-47 crew or by Wing Intelligence personnel, was submitted in 1957, it apparently is no longer in existence. Moving pictures of radar scope displays and other data said to have been recorded during the incident apparently never existed. Evaluation of the experience must, therefore, rest entirely on the recollection of crew members ten years after the event. These descriptions are not adequate to allow identification of the phenomenon encountered (cf. Section III Chapters 2 & 6, and Appendix Q). Report: Roy Craig, in the Condon Report, 1968

Click for video – The RB-47 UFO Incident, Duncanville, 1957 The Story and Analysis

********************************************************************************************

About the RB-47

The B-47 “Stratojet” was the first all-jet operational bomber in the Air Force and was the backbone of the Strategic Air Command bomber fleet in the 1950s. It was a medium range bomber that could be refueled in flight manufactured by Boeing Aircraft Company (primary), Douglas and Lockheed. It had 6 General Electric J-47-GE-25 turbojet engines, a maximum speed of 600 miles per hour, and a range of 4000 miles.

The RB-47E was the photomapping, weather and electronic reconnaissance version of the B-47 and was also one of its best versions; it first flew July 1953. It was designed to check weather along projected bombing routes, photograph enemy installations and monitor defensive radar systems during the period 1954 to 1964. It was used in missions above North Korea, China, and also over the Soviet Union for the most sensitive reconnaissance missions of the Cold War.

NOTE: One of the most documented (though classified) UFO encounter cases…though little has been reported to the public previous to the internet age. I’d be interested in some commentary from the readers…Lon

Sources:
ufoevidence.org
Project Blue Book case file #10073, National Archives and Record Administration (NARA, www.nara.gov), Washington D.C., files of 1957
ncas.sawco.com
The Other Side of Truth: The Paranormal, The Art of the Imagination, and the Human Condition
ufologie.net
ufocasebook.com
Ufos Explained
realityuncovered.net
“Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations” American Association for the Advancement of Science, 134th Meeting, General Symposium, Unidentified Flying Objects, by James E. McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, December 27, 1969
cohenufo.org
The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial
unexplained-mysteries.com
The Other Roswell: Ufo Crash On The Texas-Mexico Border
ufoevolution.com
UFO’s: A Scientific Debate

Source: http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/03/ufo-incident-sac-rb-47h-electronic.html

25-03-2014 om 23:37 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sighting & Moped Chase in Hawaii

(Before It's News)

(Oahu, HI) This UFO chase footage was captured by Honolulu resident J. Smith, who witnessed a UFO hovering over the Kaimuki residential neighborhood on March 4th, 2014. The footage was just submitted to KRG last night and permission was given to post it on our website.

Mr. Smith, who was on a moped at the time, gave chase to the UFO for nearly seven minutes, capturing the following video:

(WARNING: This is unedited footage and contains language not suitable for children. Click here to see video which is not embeddable on Before Its News.)

From Witness: ” 9pm 3/4/14 first noticed the UFO hovering above George St Kaimuki was completely quiet. excuse the foul language. this ship as you will observe is making maneuvers that are considered impossible! I was on a scooter and had to kinda chase it down 3 0f the 4 times I caught it on my cell cam on the fourth time I was unable to locate it. the Red and green lights are not visible through the eye of this cheap android, object appears as a bright orb..”

At the beginning of the footage, the UFO can be seen descending rapidly before coming to a complete stop, and then doing a right-angled maneuver back to the left — an unusual, if not impossible, maneuver for a plane or helicopter to make. And according to the witness, the object had red and green lights flashing as well.

So far in 2014, KRG has received more than a dozen reports of UFO sightings from here in Hawai’i, almost always without footage of any sort.

If you have witnessed a UFO sighting and you would like to report it to Kahuna Research Group, you can do so on our Submit a Sighting page.

Originally posted at http://www.kahunaresearchgroup.org/1/post/2014/03/ufo-sighting-moped-chase-kaimuki-hi.html by Zach Royer, Director, Kahuna Research Group

25-03-2014 om 23:24 geschreven door peter