Daily UFO Headlines 4/23/14

(Before It's News)

• Eerie UFO Conference 2014 – Go Erie
• The Future of Unmanned Flight – Aviation Today
• MH370: Radar Detected UFO Before Jet Goes Missing – International Business Times AU
• Habitable exoplanets are bad news for humanity – The Conversation
• UK’s first support group founded for people who believe they have had contact with extra-terrestrials – Mirror

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23-04-2014 om 19:53 geschreven door peter  

Triangle Craft Hovering Over Crowd in Austin, TX

(Before It's News)

• When: April 18th, 2014
• Where: East Austin
• What: Triangle craft or orbs in triangle formation

A few videos were posted to the Texas UFO Sightings Facebook page by Cesar A., a reader – they feature three white orbs hovering in a triangle formation with onlookers gathered below. These are definitely not Chinese lanterns or flares or your typical helicopter or plane. This “triangle craft” (or whatever it is!) is eerily similar to the one spotted in Austin during ACL last year.

Here’s a screen shot from the video, you can see a crowd below:

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Check out the actual videos posted to Facebook below:

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Have you seen any triangle crafts in Texas or Austin recently? Report it!

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Are You An Alien Abductee? Alien Abductee Assessment Checklist Questions

                  by Paul Schroeder

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Nibiru – The Wondering Planet – Age of Secrets

(Before It's News)

A lot of you who were visitors to my old site know that the site mainly revolved around Zecharia’s Sitchin’s theory. For those people who don’t know, Sitchin is among very few people today who’s able to read some of the oldest written languages from our earliest civilizations. He has devoted his life to not only the study of ancient languages, but also their art, their culture, their beliefs, and the knowledge that they had. In 1976 he wrote a book called The 12th Planet, the first in a series of books he called The Earth Chronicles. His basic conclusions were that our planet has been visited by a race of beings in the past, which the Ancient Sumerians called Anunnaki (translated: Those Who From Heaven to Earth Came) and that these beings came from a planet the Sumerians called Nibiru (translated: Planet of the Crossing); a planet which, according to Sitchin, has a very long elliptical orbit and comes into our Solar System every 3600 years.

Is Sitchin Wrong?
I know there are a lot of people out there who are very skeptical of Sitchin’s theories and I am also aware of the several videos that are on the web debunking his claims. So is Sitchin right or is he wrong? I have learned a lot since I wrote those articles on my last site and I can tell you that although Zecharia Sitchin does an amazing job researching our ancient history, I do believe that his theories are flawed. However, I do not believe that he is out there making all this stuff up just to sell books, as some people would have you believe. I don’t think that he is intentionally lying to people and I think that whatever he claims on his books, that’s what he believes. Just to be clear, I do not think that Sitchin is necessarily wrong with his theory of a tenth planet (Planet X/Nibiru) coming into our Solar System every 3600 years (contrary to what other people say this is actually possible), all I’m saying is that his overall theory does have some flaws.

Why I Think Sitchin’s Theory is Plausible and Why I’m Skeptical
We’ve all heard of the ancient myths and folklores, these seemingly unworldy stories which originated from our ancient ancestors. Sitchin suggests that these stories, which scholars dismiss as imagined myths, were actually retained memories of actual events that happened a long time ago in our ancient past and I agree with him on this (I will have more on this topic later).

Sitchin claims that the Ancient Sumerians knew of a tenth planet (Planet X) that enters our solar system every 3600 years. People say that this is impossible with any planet but consider this, our sun will eventually burn out, it won’t happen anytime soon, in fact they say it’ll take millions of years before our sun expands into a Red Giant and millions more years and it becomes a White Dwarf. After that then the sun shuts off, when that happens, the planets revolving around the sun including Earth will go flying off into space because the only thing keeping the planets in orbit around the sun is the gravitional pull of the sun. So the planets go flying off into space and eventually, if they come close to another star or another solar system then they would get sucked in because of the gravitational pull of that solar system. On its way into this new solar system, since it doesn’t have a set orbit, this planet could possibly collide with another planet and cause some damage and maybe break it into pieces (like the Asteroid Belt?) and on its way in it might even graze some planets in that solar system causing it to have a retrograde rotation (like Uranus?). It is very likely that this was the case with our own solar system, that some intruder planet who got thrown off from its own solar system got sucked into ours and caused all these anomalies to our solar system. Our moon has thousands of impact craters that were caused by asteroids, comets, and meteors, and the moon is a relatively small celestial body and asteroids and meteors only caused impact craters on it, now imagine the size of the object that caused the Asteroid Belt to break into pieces; it could not have been an asteroid, a comet or a meteor, it must have been something a lot bigger – like a planet. This is basically what Sitchin’s theory is.

A common question that arises is that how can the beings on that planet survive this long eliptical orbit that takes several thousand years, wouldn’t they die from the lack of sunlight since they spend an extended period of time far away from the sun? According to Sitchin, one of the main reasons that the Anunnaki had colonized Earth was so that they could mine gold which they would use to repair their atmosphere. Apparently what they did was that they put gold particles in their atmosphere to prevent the loss of heat due to their dwindling atmosphere. It is very interesting to see an article like this on telegraph.co.uk website:link to article that talks about the Obama administration’s science adviser putting forth some ideas to to cool the Earth’s air. This is a quote from the article:

John Holdren said that the idea of geo-engineering the climate is being discussed. Options include cloud-seeding and shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays.

Keep in mind that it was in the 70′s that Sitchin wrote in his book about this race of beings that shot gold particles up in their atmosphere as a solution to some of the climate problems they were facing in their home planet, and just now, during the Obama administration are they discussing shooting pollution particles into our own atmosphere to deal with climate change. Are we headed towards the technology of the Ancient Sumerian gods, the Anunnaki? If this is indeed what we end up doing with our atmosphere in the future then this seems to support what Sitchin has been saying in his books, that an advanced civilization did in fact experience a problem with their planet that we as a civilization are just starting to see ourselves today, and that their solution was to tinker with their atmosphere ultimately utilizing gold, which maybe in the future we, too, might do?

binary starAlso, a lot of people don’t know this, but the majority of the stars in our galaxy are binary stars and some even have more than two stars which are called multiple star systems.
A binary star system means that there are two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. Hypothetically, if both those stars had a planet which had life in it, then that means that those two planets harboring life only saw each other every several thousand years. This of course depends on the size of the orbits of their suns, which presumably would be at least thousands of years. So the idea of the Anunnaki, coming back to our planet every 3600 years is not that wild of an idea if you consider this. There are actually some people who are suggesting that our Solar System might actually be a part of a binary star system. Andy Lloyd wrote a book called The Dark Star, and in it he puts forward the idea of our Sun possibly having a companion star that is a brown dwarf star. He says that this brown dwarf could be Nibiru, or that maybe Nibiru could be orbiting around this brown dwarf. In his books, Sitchin says that the Babylonians changed Nibiru’s name to Marduk in the Ancient Babylonian texts, could it be that the Babylonians never really changed Nibiru’s name but instead was referring to the star as Marduk and Nibiru was the planet orbitting this brown dwarf star? Andy Lloyd’s theory is very interesting and he has done a great job researching this topic, and if you think about it, his theory is actually more plausible than Sitchin’s. He recently did an interview with Project Camelot and you can watch it on youtube. Click here to see the interview. To anyone interested in the whole Planet X topic, you definitely need to check out that Project Camelot interview with Andy Lloyd.

As you can see, it is not at all beyond the realms of possiblity that Sitchin’s interpretation of the ancient texts could be right, it is certainly plausible. So why am I skeptical? I have learned a lot since I’ve read Sitchin’s books. I have been researching other people’s work other than Sitchin’s and the problem I have with Sitchin is that he has this narrative and whatever he discovers in his research he sort of tries to fit it with his narrative about the Anunnaki and planet Nibiru. One of the main pillars of his theory is that he claims that the seven planets found in several ancient cuneiform tablets represents our planet Earth. He claims that is how the Anunnaki viewed our planet as their planet came in from outside our solar system so they saw us as the seventh planet from the outermost planet (Pluto) and therefore, he says that the seven circles symbolized Earth. This is one of the main pillars of his theory and I found out that this is not true. The seven planets is not a symbol for Earth instead it symbolizes another group of seven celestial objects. And this is probably the most important symbol in the ancient world as I have found out, and if you do not understand this and you don’t know about this, then you are missing a crucial piece to the whole Ancient puzzle.

23-04-2014 om 14:26 geschreven door peter  

Man Claims Contact By A Variety Of Beings For 6 Months Including Giants

(Before It's News)

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Injured Alien Asks For Water

(Before It's News)

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Hunt for alien spacecraft begins, as planet-spotting scientist Geoff Marcy gets funding

Artist rendering of alien spaceship

In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the first 100 planets discovered outside our solar system. But with the hobbled planet-hunting Kepler telescope having just about reached the end of its useful life and reams of data from the mission still left uninvestigated, Marcy began looking in June for more than just new planets. He's sifting through the data to find alien spacecraft passing in front of distant stars.

He's not kidding - and now he has the funding to do it.

Last fall, the Templeton Foundation, a philanthropic organisation dedicated to investigating what it calls the "big questions" - which, unsurprisingly, include "Are we alone?" - awarded Marcy $US200,000 to pursue his search for alien civilisations.

                                    What astronomer Geoff Marcy doesn't hope to find: A Death Star

As far as Marcy, an official NASA researcher for the Kepler mission, is concerned, that question has a clear answer: "The universe is simply too large for there not to be another intelligent civilisation out there. Really, the proper question is: 'How far away is our nearest intelligent neighbour?' They could be 10 light-years, 100 light-years, a million light-years or more. We have no idea."

Launched in 2009, Kepler was designed as a four-year mission to detect planets - habitable or otherwise - around distant stars by measuring the dimming of those stars as orbiting bodies pass in front of them. In May, a component of the spacecraft designed to keep it pointing precisely failed, dealing a crushing blow to Marcy and his colleagues who last year convinced NASA to extend funding for the mission into 2016, which Marcy says would have allowed researchers to further refine the number of known Earthlike planets in our galactic neighbourhood.

"It's a heartbreaker," he says. "People are reacting a little bit as if a close family member died. There's this combination of severe depression and confusion, coupled with denial."

Successful so far

Kepler has been wildly successful in its four years. To date, it has found 132 exoplanets - that is, planets outside our solar system - and possibly 3216 more that await confirmation. Researchers have extrapolated from Kepler data that our Milky Way galaxy alone contains at least 100 billion exoplanets, as many planets as there are stars. Still, with the telescope - which is 40 million miles from Earth - having collected data on 150,000 star systems, researchers are only beginning to pick through all the information.

Marcy hopes that hiding within it will be hints about intelligent life abroad. What if, say, the dimming of a star that Kepler observes is caused by something even more fanciful than the passage of extrasolar planets? Something synthetic, perhaps? Marcy admits that even he's not certain what he's looking for.

"I do know that if I saw a star that winked out, then at some point it winked back on again, then winked out for a long, long time and then blinked on again, that that would be so weird," he says. "Obviously that wouldn't constitute the detection of an advanced civilisation yet, but it would at least alert us that follow-up observations are warranted."

Such an irregular pattern might signal the leisurely and unpredictable passage of massive spacecraft in front of the star. But, perhaps more likely, it might indicate the presence of a Dyson sphere, a mainstay of science fiction first proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960.

The concept is simple. The energy needs of a civilisation a thousand or a million years more advanced than our own would probably be vastly greater than those of even the most profligate earthlings. The greatest source of energy in a solar system is its star, and that energy could be captured by building a massive structure tiled with solar panels enveloping the star - the ultimate green jobs initiative.

Under the second law of thermodynamics, the structure would produce incredible amounts of waste heat in the form of infrared radiation. In September, a Penn State team led by astrophysics professor Jason Wright began searching the sky for just that by combing through data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The Penn State work is also being funded by Templeton.

If Dyson spheres pop up in the data, Marcy thinks they would more likely appear as a patchwork of solar panels rather than a solid sphere. Perhaps the dimming of a star would be erratic or quasi-periodic, unlike the regular transit of planets.

To detect such aberrant dimming patterns, Marcy's Templeton grant is funding the salary of a Berkeley student to write software that will chew through the Kepler data."Writing the computer code is not easy," Marcy says. "There's no prescription in any computer science book about how to search for aliens."

Galactic laser internet

The rest of the $200,000 grant is buying Marcy time on the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the largest telescope in the world, to search for - what else? - a galactic laser internet.

While the movie Contact, based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name, popularised the idea of aliens dozens of light-years away picking up an old telecast of the 1936 Berlin Olympics that was unintentionally transmitted into space, our civilisation has become quieter to any outside observers in recent decades. As our civilisation makes the jump from analog to digital, communication is increasingly carried by fibre-optic cables and relatively weak mobile phone repeaters rather than powerful broadcast transmitters. Rather than spilling out messy radio transmissions, Marcy posits that alien civilisations would use something much more precise and efficient than radio waves to stay connected, and lasers fit the bill. At the Keck Observatory, he hopes to spy an errant beam flashing from a distant star system, an observation that would be strikingly obvious on a spectrum.

This shift to new ways for finding E.T. is in part due to the failure of traditional SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) to pick up radio signals from deep space. Federal funding for SETI projects ended in 1995, but private benefactors have stepped up to support the search for alien radio transmissions, including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who has sunk more than $US30 million into a giant radio telescope array now under construction northeast of San Francisco.

Nevertheless, the silence underscores the question once posed by Nobel prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi: If intelligent life is common in the galaxy, "where is everybody?"

Marcy admits that this so-called "Fermi paradox" poses a powerful counterargument to the prospect of success for any search for extraterrestrial intelligence. But what if, even if the chances are vanishingly remote, he is successful? More disturbingly, what if (as some respected physicists fear) he finds a Death Star?

"The first thing we do is transmit a message to them that says, 'We taste bad.' "

Brannen is a freelance science writer.

Washington Post

Brannen is a freelance science writer - Washington Post

23-04-2014 om 12:01 geschreven door peter  

Alien Life? Astronomers Predict Contact by 2025

Earthlings could make contact with extraterrestrial beings by the year 2025, two astronomers predict in a new book.

The authors say it's unlikely space aliens look like Hollywood's ET—little, green, and hairless—and that while aliens are highly unlikely to pay Earth a visit, they may be sending radio signals across space to let us know they exi

The book, Cosmic Company, "is an explication of why we think they're out there, how we're looking for them, what they must be like, and a little bit of what it might mean" to find life on other planets, said co-author Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) in Mountain View, California. 

The institute conducts research in astronomy, the planetary sciences, and evolution. Past research projects have been funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and numerous universities and foundations. 

Beyond Our Galaxy

Shostak and co-author Alexandra Barnett, an astronomer and executive director of the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California, base their predictions on a number of factors.

They include the billions of years in which extraterrestrial life could have evolved and the abundance of planets and stars elsewhere in the universe that are likely to mimic environmental conditions found on Earth.

"It's a matter of statistics, really," said Barnett. "Depending on who you talk to, the universe is 12 to 15 billion years old. Humans have only been around for 40,000 years. We really are the new kids on the block. It would just be too tough a pill to swallow to believe that nothing else has evolved in all that time and space."

The universe is indeed vast. In 1924 astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that there are galaxies beyond our own. "More than a half century later, the Hubble telescope has shown that there are at least 100 billion such galaxies," said Shostak. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is home to at least 100 billion stars.

Planets are also plentiful. Since 1995, when the first Jupiter-sized planet outside of our solar system was found, astronomers have been able to identify about 100 more planets, all of them around 300 times more massive than Earth.

"Planets really are as common as phone poles," said Shostak. "Right now, we know that there are planets out there [orbiting] ten or twenty percent of the stars we look at. So far, only huge planets have been found, but it would be a big surprise if there were only big ones. I don't think anyone expects that to be the case."

Until now, the search for intelligent life has been somewhat hampered by inadequate technology—too few stars surveyed at too low a sensitivity by Earth and space-based telescopes.

But in 2007, NASA will launch the Kepler Mission, a satellite probe able to detect smaller planets the size of Mercury, Mars, or the Earth. The mission is specifically designed to look for planets in what scientists consider the habitable zone: the distance from a star where liquid water can exist on the planet's surface.

Projects like the Kepler Mission and the new Allen Telescope Array, located near Mount Lassen, California, which will enable astronomers to survey 100,000 stars by 2015, should increase the odds of finding a radio signal broadcast by alien life, say the astronomer

"The bottom line is that there is an enormous amount of real estate, and there doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about our neighborhood. The star that's our sun is nothing special. The Earth is just a rock," said Shostak. "To think anything else is to once again put ourselves at the center of the universe, and scientists are very [wary] of doing that. We've done it before and been proven wrong."

Searching for Intelligent Life

The building blocks of life on Earth—complex organic compounds and amino acids—are abundant in the universe and can be found in meteorites, comets, and interstellar gas and dust.

"There's a growing realization that there may be some other biology in our solar system," said Shostak. "There are deep oceans on the moons of Jupiter, and some evidence that Mars in its early days really should have had some life. So if there are two or maybe even three instances in this solar system alone, where life could have emerged, it's not unreasonable to consider that similar situations arose in other solar systems."

Of course, there is a difference between life and intelligent life, and scientists disagree about the likelihood of intelligence evolving on another planet.

Some believe that it takes very special conditions for intelligence to evolve. The late Stephen Jay Gould, the preeminent Harvard University evolutionary biologist and paleontologist, wrote that the creation of intelligence was a freak occurrence, requiring a number of specific events to occur that could never be replicated again.

Shostak and Barnett believe differently. They argue that there are evolutionary mechanisms that encourage intelligence, particularly among social beings.

"For instance, if you can intuit the actions of the males next to you—they're about to steal your food or your mate, say—then you're going to have increased breeding success, so the next generation is going to have more ability to live in a social environment," said Shostak. "This is very general behavior—it's not miraculous—you see it in the great apes, of course, but you also see it in dolphins, whales."

"JO Alien"

As to what an intelligent alien life-form might look like should such a thing exist, it's anyone's guess. Shostak and Barnett created "JO Alien," an animated character for a planetarium show at the National Space Centre in Leicester, England, to explore the question.

"It's the poster child of aliens," said Shostak. "A very conventional kind of alien—grey and smooth and humanoid—very anthropomorphic. Not what we really expect."

However, the genderless JO does demonstrate some of the basic principles of physics and engineering that might dictate what another life-form might look like.

"An alien would probably have to be bigger than a rat because rats have quite small brains, and an intelligent life-form would need a bigger brain," said Barnett. "So bigger than a cat, but not bigger than an elephant because there are limitations on how much weight a body can support."

JO Alien has two eyes, based on the assumption that an alien life-form would be found on a planet circling a star. Everything on Earth that lives in light has developed eyes. Why two instead of one? Two gives you the evolutionary advantage of being better able to catch your next meal, said Barnett. Why not ten eyes? It would take an enormous amount of brain-power to process all the signals, she said, with little or no extra benefit.

As far as limbs are concerned, the pair speculate that an extraterrestrial would have more than one, particularly if it's building radio telescopes, but a score would be a stretch. Again, it would require a great deal of brain-power to coordinate all 20, Barnett said.

Given the enormous distances between the stars, measured in terms of trillions of miles, Shostak doesn't expect a visit.

"There's a tremendous amount of interest in alien life, mostly from the point of view that we've been visited," he said. "I don't believe that, and I don't think most scientists do. What we'd most like to convey is that there's a possibility they exist even if they haven't visited, and we're searching for them."

• Aliens "Absolutely" Exist, SETI Astronomer Believes
• New Technologies Emerge in Search for Alien Life
• Did Comets Make Life on Earth Possible?

. Hillary Mayell - National Geographic News

23-04-2014 om 11:52 geschreven door peter  

Could we find alien civilizations using infrared light?

Instead of listening for radio signals, a group of astronomers is proposing that we search for extraterrestrials by detecting their planet’s exaggerated heat signatures — signatures that could be detected in the infrared. But to do so, we’d have to build the largest telescope this world has ever seen.

Writing in Astronomy Magazine, a team of astronomers, engineers, and physicists from the University of Hawaii, the University of Freiburg, and elsewhere is making the case for infrared SETI. The basic idea is that a sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial civilization will produce more power on its planet than it receives from its parent star. This delta in energy could indicate the presence of an alien civilization.

"The energy footprint of life and civilization appears as infrared heat radiation," says Jeff Kuhn, the project's lead scientist. "A convenient way to describe the strength of this signal is in terms of total stellar power that is incident on the host planet."

Thus, given a large enough telescope — and one that’s designed specifically for infrared detection — astronomers could scan the heavens for planets within a 60 light-year radius.

And indeed, there is already a proposal on the table for one such telescope: The Colossus.

SExpandSpace Daily describes the telescope:

The quest for direct infrared detection of extraterrestrial civilizations, along with many other research possibilities, has led the team to the funding and building of a giant telescope. Currently planned large infrared telescopes, the Giant Magellan Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope, and the European Extremely Large Telescope, would not be large enough.

Instead, a telescope (dubbed Colossus) with a primary mirror about 250 feet (77 meters) in diameter could find hundreds of Earth-sized or larger planets in habitable zones, and perhaps dozens of extraterrestrial civilizations, by using a sensitive coronagraph — and the technology to build such an instrument exists.

The international team thus seeks funding to build a 77-m telescope, which would be constructed from revolutionary thin-mirror slumping and polishing technologies developed by the Innovative Optics team. The telescope would consist of approximately sixty 8-m mirror segments, and would operate at a high-altitude site.

In addition, the telescope could be used to study stellar surfaces, black holes, and quasars.

Read the entire report at Astronomy: “How to find ET with infrared light.”

Image by NASA/JPL. Telescope via Innovative Optics.

George Dvorsky - IO9

23-04-2014 om 11:45 geschreven door peter  

ET Calls, Then What?

by Dr Morris Jones for SpaceDaily
Sydney, Australia (SPX)

The discovery of a real transmission would probably provide no immediate answers to one of the most frequently asked questions about SETI: What do the aliens look like? The SETI community is usually reluctant to speculate on this issue, but this won't stop the public from using their own imagination.

23-04-2014 om 11:39 geschreven door peter  

Close encounters with UFO airheads

July 2013 was a big month for UFO fans. No, not the metalhead followers of the English hard rock group of the same acronym. One’s talking here about the airheads who believe in Unidentified Flying Objects.

First, July 2 was International UFO day. Then Google released a doodle to mark the 66th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, in which aliens were supposedly killed in a spacecraft crash outside the New Mexico town of Roswell. Finally, the British National Archives has released the final tranche of all Ministry of Defence (MOD) documents dealing with UFOs.

There are now some 52 000 pages accessible online, running from 1967 when ‘defence’ reasons the military’s UFO Desk was established, through to 2009 when it was shut down. The final tranche is free for download until the end of the month.

The reason for the release of the policy documents, sightings reports, official investigations, and public correspondence is simply that while not every UFO sighting can be disproved, the MOD had concluded after almost 50 years that there was not a shred of evidence of close encounters of the alien kind. The UFO Desk was simply a waste of manpower and money.

As an MOD official in 2008 wrote in reply to yet another conspiracy theorist: ‘There has been speculation that the decision to release the [MOD’s] UFO files is part of an international agreement to prepare the world’s population for the news that aliens are amongst us. I am afraid [this] is pure fantasy.’

The picture that emerges from the reams of documents is certainly not of a secretive government desperately hushing up the arrival ot ET. Rather, it’s of a military bureaucracy at great pains to be punctiliously correct towards inquirers who are gullible and nutty in equal measure.

This often included having to obtain from air bases all around Britain voluminous amounts of detail of scheduled military flights, interceptor scramblings and radar sightings, at a substantial cost in time and manpower.

Among the correspondence:

‘Does the MOD believe that aliens exist have made contact with our planet?’ MOD reply: ‘The MOD does not have any expertise in respect of … extra-terrestrial life forms, about which it remains totally open minded. I should add that to date the MOD knows of no evidence which substantiates the existence of these alleged phenomena.’

‘Is the MOD in possession of any non-man made flying machine?’ MOD reply: ‘The answer is no.’

In reply to another: ‘Thank you for your request [regarding] any UFOs or extra-terrestrial designed craft controlled by Homo Sapiens over Grimsby on December 2, 1997 between 01h00 and 05h00. We have no such reports. In addition, we have no knowledge of the existence of any craft of alien design…’

There is enough material in these files to keep world government conspiracists, flying saucer spotters and the I-was-abducted-by-aliens-and-made-to-do-nasty-sexual-stuff happy for ages. None of the trawling scientists, though, have yet alighted on anything that credibly suggests alien civilisations are taking a close-up squizz at humanity’s pathetic attempts at the same.

In fact, every MOD reply to a sighting claim contains the common sense mantra: ‘Unless there is evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom, and to date no “UFO” has revealed such evidence, we do not attempt to identify the precise nature of each sighting. We believe that rational explanations such as aircraft lights or natural phenomena could be found if resources were diverted for this purpose [but] it is not the function of the MOD to provide an aerial identification service.’

And as scientists have pointed out, these UFO sightings show telltale peaks. The highest number of reports was in 1978, the year that Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released in UK cinemas. Another peak was in the mid-1990s when the US television show The X-Files was at the height of its popularity.

And second highest peak, which was in 2009 when the UFO Desk was finally shut down? Well, that was when releasing Chinese Lanterns at weddings became fashionable.

   by William Saunderson-Meyer

23-04-2014 om 11:33 geschreven door peter  

The Green Skinned Children Who Appeared In An English Village

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Woolpit, Suffolk, England

While reaping the harvest in the village of Woolpit, England a strange discovery was made. Within a hole in the ground, used to trap wolves, were two children and both – a boy and a girl – were green in colour and spoke an unknown language.

The strange story from the 12th century remains a mystery today.

The children were taken to the home of Richard de Calne, a Knight living at Wikes, where at first they refused all food until they discovered bean stalks, which they were happy to devour. The restricted diet obviously wasn’t too healthy and the boy became sickly and soon died.

The girl, however, gradually adjusted to her new life and extended the range of foods she would eat. She lived a reasonably normal life, learned to speak English, but was described as being rather loose and wanton in her conduct.

Gradually the girl was persuaded to tell her story of how she came to be found in Woolpit. 

Ralph of Coggeshall, an English chronicler, recorded her explanation:

Many explanations have been given but a hidden world within the earth is the most common. Somehow the children had perhaps stepped through a door from a parallel dimension. The Scottish astronomer, Duncan Lunan, has suggested something completely different and puts forward the theory that the children were transported to Earth from another planet in error by a malfunctioning matter transmitter.  

Today’s Woolpit Village website keeps their version of the story very  simple:

“One prominent feature of the village sign is two small children. They depict a story that goes back to the 12th century and tells the legend of The Green Children of Woolpit. 

This curious tale is recorded as taking place at about the same time as Sampson’s journey to Rome. 

Very briefly, reapers were astonished at the discovery of a boy and a girl in a hole in the ground. The children were green, and spoke no recognisable language. The boy, who was sickly, soon died, but the girl grew up in Woolpit, and is said to have married a man from King’s Lynn. This story has been re-enacted on many occasions and has appeared on children’s television.”

Wikipedia gives a rather more mundane explanation:

But there is another tale of green children being found, this time in Spain.

“… fom Banjos, Spain in August of 1887. A boy and a girl of greenish color were found abandoned near a cave. They did not speak Spanish and wore unfamiliar clothing.

Their eyes were described as Oriental in appearance … both children refused to eat at first. The boy grew weak and died, but the girl survived, learned Spanish, and explained that she and her companion came from a sunless land …  the girl is reported to have claimed they had been caught up in a whirlwind and found themselves in the cave. The girl died in 1892.” Sourcer

From where the children from Woolpit and Banjos originated is anyone’s guess: an underground world, from another planet or dimension? Or maybe there is a more simple, Earthly explanation.

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Source: http://www.67notout.com/2014/04/the-green-skinned-children-who-appeared.html

23-04-2014 om 10:38 geschreven door peter  

Nearly half of Estonians believe aliens have visited Earth

(Before It's News)

According to a recent poll, many Estonians believe ETs not only exist, but they have civilizations and have visited Earth. Many also believe humans were seeded on Earth by aliens, and that some governments are hiding their secret interactions with extraterrestrial civilizations.

The poll was conducted by the Tartu University department of religion, according to the online magazine, The Baltic Course. 1,100 people were polled, and 43% said they believed in the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, the representatives of which occasionally visit our planet.

22% said they believed humans were brought here by extraterrestrials, and 16% believe that some of the larger governments are cooperating with extraterrestrials and hiding it from everyone else.

The poll showed that Estonians have a very new-age outlook. 70% said they believed in spiritual development that includes mental practices such as meditation. 61% believe that “natural religion is the true religion of the Estonian people.” However, only 4% claimed to be natural religion believers.

Only a fifth said they were Christian, but instead most of them, 58%, felt “they have their own religion, which is independent of different churches and religions.” 49% said they “don’t consider themselves religious but they have high interest towards different religions and mental teachings.”

Although Estonians are very independent when it comes to religious affiliations, many do appreciate Christian doctrine. 55% said “Christian doctrine is the basis of growing to be a moral person.”

However, many also have reservations about religious institutions. 28% said “religion is an obstacle for the free mental development of a person” and 35% agreed that “church is meant to manipulate masses of people and keep them under control.”

One tenth claimed to be atheist. Previous surveys have found Estonia to be one of the least religious countries in the world.

Estonians’ independent outlook on religion could be related to why so many believe in aliens. Last year a poll done by a company called Survata found that atheists and agnostics are 76% more likely than Christians to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life.

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/nearly-half-estonians-believe-aliens-visited-earth/27116

23-04-2014 om 10:31 geschreven door peter  

Indigenous People Prove Ancient Giants?

(Before It's News)

(Stone Mother outcropping at Pyramid Lake, Nevada)

I spoke in a prior post about the kernel of truth in legends. Let's discuss these kernels. I will bold and underline things that are based on actual historic or verifiable details. 

Stone Mother (Paiute Legend)

Thousands of years ago, the father of all Indians, “The Wolf” came to live on a mountain near Stillwater (a real place located in the Lohantan Valley). The Great Father was a wise and good ruler.

 

A woman, who lived with her husband in another part of Nevada, had heard about the great father. The woman became infatuated with him, and thought of nothing except to meet him someday. This made her husband very jealous and led them to fighting all the time. One day, while they were having another fight, the woman, in a rage, killed her husband. She began searching for the Great Father.

During her journey she had many adventures. One, while walking on the Shore of Mono Lake (actual lake in California near Nevada), a giant creature tried to eat her, but she was able to kill the giant and escape (in keeping with Lake Lohantan red-haired cannibalistic giants and skeletons found in Lovelock Cave and giants reported in Death Valley, CA)

She continued on her quest to find the Great Father. Until finally her journey brought her to Stillwater. Just as she arrived, she caught a glimpse of the Great Father. The woman couldn’t believe her eyes. She couldn’t believe how handsome he was.
 
The woman tried to hide from him for a time, but The Great Father noticed her tracks and called out to her and let her know that he knew she was there. He asked her to come out of hiding. The woman was scared and embarrassed but finally came out to meet him.

The Great Father knew she had traveled a long way and he took her to his camp. He fed her good food, and asked her to stay the night and she agreed with no hesitation.

After a few days together they fell in love with each other and they married on the eighth day. Soon afterwards they had children. The first child was a son, their second another son, and later several daughters. The oldest son was mean, troublesome and always fought with the other children, especially his brother. The fighting and bickering continued for many years.

The Great Father grew tired of all the fighting and had a meeting with all of his children to try to stop the fighting once and for all. He began by telling them that if they did not stop fighting, he would separate all of them. But before he could finish what he had to say, the children started fighting again.
The Great Father had had enough, and decided to separate all of them. He sent his oldest son and a girl to the west. They in turn became the Pit River Tribe  (real tribe in Nevada). He sent his younger son with a girl to the east. They in turn became the Bannock Tribe (another great basin tribe). The other children remained at home and they became the Paiute Tribe (it might be interesting to test today whether these tribes are genetically related to secure yet another part of the tale as fact).

After shunning his children the Great Father was so distraught that he went to his home in the sky.

After a time, both brothers returned home, and the brothers brought many warriors for battle. They began fighting in a valley. When the mother saw her sons fighting she was so sad, it broke her heart. The mother climbed until she got to the top of a hill and sat there as she watched her sons fight. She soon started to cry. The sons continued to fight and the mother cried faster and harder. She cried so hard and for so long that her tears filled the land below. From her tears a lake started to form. After many moons her tears created a great lake, this lake is now called Pyramid Lake.

 
The mother stayed on the hill crying for so long that she turned into stone and remains there to this day.

 
You can see the Stone Mother (there is, in fact, a stone that looks like a woman-photo above) sitting on the east Shore of Pyramid Lake with her basket by her side. Of course, this is not say the woman actually became a stone, but that the legend tries to explain an actual feature that does exist.

**I highly recommend the book “Stone Age In the Great Basin” by Emory Strong that gives lots of info on these tribes where the red-haired giants lived including stories of the giants. This region of the Great Basin was filled with waterways and lots of ancient tribes and much of Giant Territory. You will find many kernels in this book that will amaze!**

Supporting That Giants Existed:  This legend supports the ancient giants of the Great Basin, including a Paiute legend of their ancestors fighting off cannibalistic red-haired giants and trapping them in a cave to burn them to death; a cave that as later found to hold the bones of ancient tall ones with red hair and a tale of giant skeleton finds in Death Valley caves.

Sami-Lapland, Scandinavia

“According to a local legend, the stone pillars were once an entourage of Samoyeds giants walking through the mountains to Siberia in order to destroy the  Mansi people. However, upon seeing the holy Mansi mountains, the shaman  of the giants dropped his drum and the entire team froze into the stone  pillars.”

A very high altitude lake in in the Himalayas called “Mystery Lake” had the remains of hundreds of bones surfacing in the early 1900s.  

Guess what? For 60 years the skeletal remains of more than 200 people,  discovered in 1942 close to the glacial Roopkund Lake in the remote  Himalayan Gahrwal region, have puzzled historians, scientists and  archaeologists. Were they soldiers killed in battle, royal pilgrims who  lost their way and succumbed to hypothermia, or Tibetan traders who died  of a mysterious illness?  Now, the first forensic investigation of one of the area's  most enduring mysteries has concluded that hundreds of nomads – whose  frozen corpses are being disgorged from ice high in the mountain – were  killed by one of the most lethal hailstorms in history.

Yet another legend proven to be true! 

Want more mysteries of the Himalayas – you have to check out one of the most intriguing and amazing archaeological finds ever at this link.

 

Aborigines, Australia 

 

Thardid Jimbo (incidentally, present-day Yowie Territory) 

A cannibal giant, ultimately defeated by the resourcefulness of the family of a hunter he killed.   

 

A sinister  Giant from the tales of the Native Australians. One day a man named  Mummulbery hunted and caught a kangaroo. As he was taking this back to  his two wives in his camp for dinner, Thardid Jimbo stepped in his way.  He demanded to see the carcass that Mummulbery was holding. As  Mummelbery turned round to show the kangaroo, Thardid Jimbo tore his  head off. He then severed and ate the limbs carrying the head and torso  back to Mumelbery’s camp (another cannibalistic giant) by following the footprints. When he got to the  hut, he threw down to corpse he had carried and demanded that the two  wives cook it for supper. The wives had been taught to be kind and  resourceful so they took the body to cook. However instead of cooking  they devised a plan to kill Thardid Jimbo. They told the Giant that a  body of a man was not great enough for a magnificent Giant such as him.  They told him to catch a female dingo that could be located in a cave.  Thardid Jimbo took his nullanulla (club) *and ventured in to the far end  of the cave. Whilst in there, the wives took some scrub at the entrance  and set light to it. The fire spread inside the cave and Thardid Jimbo  was caught in the flames (almost identical story to Paiutes at Lovelock Cave in Nevada). He tried to jump over the flames but being so  big he hit his head against the ceiling an fell unconscious into the  raging fire. Later the wives met with a wirinun (shaman) who used his  powers to talk to Mummelbery. Mummelbery told his wives not to be sad  and that if they missed him so much they could join him in the after  life. The wives agreed and they hugged the golden light spirit of  Mummelbery. They too turned into light and went into the after life.

Supporting That Giants Existed: Today's giant in Australia is the Yowie.  Reportedly giant skeleton finds and giant footprints have been discovered here. More mythical support can be found in the Bible - 

“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof [13 to 14 feet], and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.”

Holy Bible, Deuteronomy 3:11 

And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six  toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.

These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Holy Bible, 2 Samuel 21:20-22

It is rather interesting that this 6-toes/6-fingers/double rows of teeth are repeatedly described from dig site finds and yet there are legends thousands of years ago that speak of these same traits which are odd features to elaborate a story upon. 

 

PERU

 

Flesh-eating giants (incidentally, today the site of supposed hunchbacked red-haired giants reported by villagers and site of mummies of giant size with elongated skulls)  

From Pedro de Cieza de Leon:

 

As there is in Peru a story of some giants who landed on the coast at the point of Santa Elena, in the vicinity of the city of Puerto Viejo, I have resolved to mention what I was told about them,as I understood it, without taking into account the opinions of the common people and their various anecdotes, for they usually magnify events larger than life. The natives, repeating a story received from their forefathers from very remote times, say that there came from across the sea on reed rafts that were as large as big ships some men that were so big that an ordinary man of good size scarcely reached up to their knees: their members were in proportion to the size of their bodies, and it a monstrous thing to see their enormous heads and their hair hanging down about their shoulders. Their eyes were as large as small plates.They say they had no beards and that some of them were clad in the skins of animals, and others only in the dress nature gave them. There were no women with them. (This red-haired population of giants were reported around the world, showing a tendency to be sea-based people who traveled, seashells were prominent in the dig sites of giants as ornamental and reed boats were described by the Paiutes of the red-haired giants in the Great Basin in Nevada. Interestingly, I will be talking more about them arriving without mates next Wednesday – harkens to the Biblical Nephilim)

On reaching this point, they set up their camp like a village (and even in these times there is a memory of the site of their houses). As they found no supply of water they remedied the lack by making some very deep wells, a labor certiinly worthy of record, being undertaken by such strong men as these must have been, to judge by their size. They dug these wells in the living rock until they came to the water, and afterwards they built the wells in stone from the water line upwards so that they would last for ages. In these wells the water is excellent and it is always so cold that it is very pleasant to drink.  “When these great men or giants had thus made their settlement and dug these wells or cisterns, they destroyed and ate all the supplies they could find in the neighborhood. It is said that one of them ate more than fifty of the natives of the land; and as the supply of food was not sufficient for them to maintain themselves, they caught much fish with nets and gear that they had. They lived in continuous hostility with the natives, because they slew the latter's women in order to have them, and they also slew the men for other reasons. (yet more talk of mating up with local women and eating the Native People). But the Indians were not numerous enough to kill these newcomers who occupied their land and lorded it over them; and although they held great discussions about this, they never dared attack them.

“After some years the giants were still in this region, and as they had no women of their own and the Indian women of the neighborhood were too small for them, or else because the vice was habitual to them and inspired by the demon, they practised the unspeakable  and horrible sin of sodomy, committing it openly and in public without fear of God or personal shame. The natives say that our Lord God, unwilling to conceal so wicked a sin, sent them a punishment suited to the beastliness of the crime, and when all the giants  were together engaged in this accursed practice there came a fearful  fire from heaven to the accompaniment of a great noise, in the midst of which a shining angel appeared holding a sharp, bright sword with which he slew them all at a single stroke, and the  fire consumed them leaving only a few bones and skulls, which God allowed to remain unconsumed as a token of the punishment.  This is the account they give of the giants, and we believe that  it happened, for it is said that very large bones have been found and still are found thereabouts and I have heard Spaniards say they have seen pieces of teeth which they thought must have weighed  half a pound when whole, and who had also seen a piece of a shin-bone of wonderful size, all of which bears witness to the truth of the incident. In addition to this one can see the places where the sites of their villages were, and also the wells or cisterns they made. I cannot state whence or how these giants came there.

“In the present year of 1550 when in the city of Lima, I heard that when his excellency Don Antonio de Mendoza was viceroy and governor of New Spain, certain bones of men as big as these giants, and even bigger, were found there. I have heard too that in an ancient sepulcher in the city of Mexico or somewhere else in that kingdom certain bones of giants have been found. Since so many people saw them and attest having done so, it can therefore be credited that such giants did exist and indeed they may all have been of the same race.  “Atthis point of Santa Elena, which is as I have said on the coast,of Peru and in the district of the city of Puerto Viejo, there is a remarkable phenomenon: the existence of certain wells or seams of pitch of such excellent quality that it would be possible to tar all the ships one wished with it, since it flows from the earth. This pitch must be from some seam passing through that place: it comes out very hot,etc. (more support of possible outsiders with advanced capabilities) “Thus far Pedro de Cieza, whose history we have followed to show the Indian tradition about the giants, and the well of pitch at the same place, for it too is remarkable.

Supporting That Giants Existed:  The Peruvian legend is in great detail and the finding of the skulls, bones, and wells all support this. As well, on Lake Titecaca, there is a tribe that lives on reed constructed islands and uses reed boats since long ago and still today. On Lake Lohantan in Nevada where Lovelock Cave is located – the site of the Paiute battle, these giants were reportedly using reed boats. In fact, in Lovelock Cave they unearthed amazing tightly woven reed containers that could hold water and duck decoys made of tule. The very name for the red-haired giants translated to “tule eaters.” The giants of the Upper Midwest lived on lakes and waterways and coveted shells. 

It would appear that cannibals with advanced technology took the world thousands of years ago and settled in where Natives were forced to deal with this race of troublemakers and try to kill them off once and for all. Nearly every indigenous culture around the world tells of slewing these giants and their bones are still found today to support that these fair-haired/fair-eyed monstrous beings could not survive the unwelcoming by Natives. 

**Interestingly, the Yaghan Tribe from the tip of Argentina on DNA showed no halotype A or B that is shared with all natives in the Americas. What exactly did they mate with? And the tribes of Florida and Texas Coast that were unusually tall – might they have been the product of a giant and a Native woman? Well, these mysteries continue and hopefully we get off our collective butts, find more skeletons and get the proper DNA screening to learn the place of their origin and if they show up in modern day people.**  

Are you still wanting more cool and amazing discoveries? You know how much I love to stimulate your brain cells – check out this video below and ponder….

These spirals were supposedly found in the Ural Mountains – area of those supposed Samoyed Giants in the legend of the “7 Giants.” 

  

 

***Tomorrow's post is a hugely interesting one about how the children of the 1970s got to be the way they are today – a comprehensive and really nostalgic look and explanation for why we do what we do and like what we like and think what we think. I love this post!***

Source: http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2014/04/indigenous-people-prove-ancient-giants.html

23-04-2014 om 10:25 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Dinosaur Discovery Or Thunderbird? 

(Before It's News)

This bird-like/dinosaur-like skeleton was found in a Western US cave in 2006.  It was about a half mile into the cave within a very small crawlspace opening. They had some cans and bottles with them that they put out and proceeded to take photos. There was no way they were leaving the cave with this item. It had mineralized, part of the trachea was there and very brittle, some hide on it appears to still be on it. The finders did not really understand what they had found, but shared it with someone who recognized it was very unusual, MK Davis. MK was kind enough to share this with me to put out there for the public to puzzle over and see if anyone can identify what this was.

It was a large - what at the time looked like an ostrich sitting on its haunches, head missing, tail missing, upper arms missing (notice the cross bone over the ribs where a velociraptor would have attachment of the forearms) and lower part of the hind leg articulation is missing. When compared to a velociraptor skeleton (below) it looks pretty damn close.

This is one of those mysteries that we hope to settle and I would seriously appreciate any input into what this was.

Thank you Jim Heater, host of Paranormal Geeks Radio, for cleaning up the pics with this clearer version above.

A thank you to Bruce Hoch, who mentioned the lower legs and skull might have been taken by a shaman or tribe member long ago as trophies for the skull and claws or for powerful symbols. Very good. Keep the theories coming --

In fact, this might be an explanation for the legend of Thunderbirds and the kernel of truth it could be based upon if such finds as these talons and skulls were found and sought after, they might make stories of what the origins of these strange things were. Hmmmm 


One more possibility

Source: http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2014/04/ancient-dinosaur-discovery-or.html

23-04-2014 om 10:00 geschreven door peter  

23-04-2014 om 09:51 geschreven door peter  

UFO over Australia taken by a commercial pilot in April 2014

New amazing UFO sighting photo taken by a commercial pilot while flying over Australia in April 2014.

News said:
A commercial pilot with more than 30 years’ experience has been left scratching his head over mysterious lights he saw over Caloundra on Good Friday. The pilot, who does not want to be identified, said he had never seen anything through the cockpit window that compared to the experience. It has the self-confessed “world’s greatest sceptic” questioning everything he believes about UFOs. The Pelican Waters man was admiring the sky with friends about 8pm last Friday when they first saw two coloured lights in the sky. He said they reminded him of Chinese lanterns, rising high into the sky and heading south and then east. Then a third warm-orange glow appeared and suddenly changed direction, tracked north-east and quickly disappeared. “We were looking for an identifier; a beacon or strobe light but there wasn’t any,” he said. “I thought it had the characteristics of an object that could fly and I was curious as to what the lights were.”

Source: http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/self-confessed-sceptic-snaps-photo-of-ufo-over-cal/2234704/

23-04-2014 om 09:40 geschreven door peter