ARE YOU ADDICTED TO SMARTPHONES, OTHER AMAZING TECHNOLOGIES?

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A dear friend of mine, a physicist by profession and I had a very strange conversation a few years ago that stayed with me and makes me consider what we talked about often as the world seems to spin out of control in so many ways.

I sit and watch as we all seem to be on a course that on so many levels can only end in a dim and cold manner. 
 

My friend and I were talking about UFO’s the day he told me his theories. I think about what he told me often. During our conversation my friend turned to me and asked me questions I still think about all the time, He turned to me that day and said: 

 

“What if our very existence, our everyday life, is a false reality provided for us by a supernatural, alternate dimensional, or alien group that controls us with the help of our governments?  Of course my response was – “What do you mean?” 
 

He continued,” What if it is not our governments denial of what is going on with these subjects, but our government trying to protect us from who or what really is running the show? What if we are like a big Disney land. The surface is a fabulous place to bring the kids and have a great vacation, however the underground working of the park is actually a dark mechanical greasy horror being worked by people you would never want near your kids or family? On the surface it is one thing. The truth found underneath, however, is a completely different story.”

 

I thought for a moment about this awful idea and then asked “But what about all the war and savage areas on this earth. Why would they allow that to go on?” My friend said, “Maybe they are the haunted house areas of this planets purpose.” That idea made me feel extremely uneasy.

 

Could we be a huge experiment, or a form of entertainment for another species? Could we be a biology farm for creatures more advanced yet lacking emotion? Are we a huge laboratory, where other beings conduct tests until they produce of find what they are looking for? Are we living false realities controlled by the beings flying the crafts so many of us see? Has the control over us dramatically increased with the fast induction of all our technology that now seems to control society?

 

I could not help think about the report I wrote about when a group of electric company employees discovered a huge black UFO hovering silently with beams attached to all the different wires and towers in a grove of high tension electric wires next to a cell phone tower and radio station transmission center in a remote area of Long Island New York. Could all of these things be falling in place and are we all at the mercy and control of things we could not ever imagine much less consider?

 

Years later I still remember this conversation however now have to also increase this theory to include the unexplained chem trail spraying across the planet as a possible link to my friend’s strange ideas. 
 

Adding fuel to this fire was yet another conversation I had with another scientist pal of mine this past Easter weekend.
 

We were discussing the holiday and sharing what happened during our visits with our family when he made a comment that really hit home. He told me how annoyed he was at his family for allowing the ridiculous actions of half the family at the Easter gathering who ignored their family members as they frantically sat deeply engaged with some type of form of technology.

He told me how angry he was that many of them did not say one word to the family members around them. He explained that he was the one who would be holding the next family event and he was going to place a box at the front door that all guests would be required to leave their gadgets and socialize while a guest at his house or could leave with their gadgets and sit alone like a robot while the rest of the family visited and enjoyed a dinner together.
 

I had to laugh as my husband and I had the same experience during our Easter Sunday. What made it especially annoying was that a few of the guests had traveled a good distance to attend the Easter family celebration and instead took to a chair or corner of the room where they had no interaction at all with one another and instead sat in silence in a trance looking at the hand held gadget. In one word it was ridiculous.

 

My husband also told me as we drove home that he too would be collecting these things at the door next time we hosted a family gathering forcing conversation and human contact between the family members.
 

I have written about all of this before. Those attempts of waking you all up to what may be a horror with this sudden addictive techy stuff was greeted with annoyance and a few nasty emails.

I will try to tell you one more time that this attachment you all have with your phones and computers of whatever shape or form you have chosen as your poison is addiction and may be on purpose and end up in  your destruction. 

Society is losing the ability to communicate face to face or form close warm loving relationships due to this population over powering addiction to technology hand held crap that you have all decided are more important than the people you live with, work with, and walk next to on the street, you know those other creatures you share this earth with.
 

You have  become rude, selfish and boring as you sit staring at the little machines in your hands like a bunch of programed dimwits. You have a difficult time holding a normal conversation and sit as if you are in some type of drugged state unable to maintain your self-composure more than a few moments without looking at your phone or whatever the hell it is you are addicted to. 
 

Good God people you have not only lost your way – you  have given over your free will and have allowed your mind to be controlled by who knows what as you continue and willingly give your brain over to the technology grid. You all could be , if not actually are,  easily brainwashed subliminally by way of these gadgets which from the looks of things actually is what has happened.

 

I do not have a cell phone. I only watch movies or about an hour of TV per day. I use the computers I have to write, shop and cannot wait to shut them off and go do something else with my time. The seasons are changing the weather is going to be warm and being outside without these damn mind controlling addicted items is what you really need to do.  If you do not stop this you will very quickly find you may end up controlled as my physicist friend feared we would be and your humanity lost along with your freedom and ability to think. 

 

I give up warning people of the horror which may be lurking behind your hand held addiction. I fear the strange anger I see that rises from you  when these concepts are brought forward by those who try to warn you. I fear that far sooner than I ever wanted to know , I may find out why all of this is happening and why so many of you were so easily taken over and controlled by simply handing you a shiny object that addicted and controlled all of you in no time at all. You’re not cool my friend you are just another controlled fool.

 

I did not think I would find out in my life time who was pushing all the buttons to what really controls life on this planet but I now fear after I sit and watch you all acting like robots lost to real communication and dull as hell to be around just about where those controlling you want you to be.

Oh boy look at the time, it must be a few minutes now that you have been reading so  I better end now as I am sure you need to look at your phone for the 80^th time today , or email or Facebook or whatever else that has broken your relationship from the human race as it seems losing your attachment to mankind is the only thing that really interests you. Only if we could figure out technology is a tool to use to work and advance but not a replacement for living a human life.
 

A good friend of mine and well known author sent me these images today and that got me to sit here at this stupid desk instead of sitting on my wonderful deck with a glass of wine with the one I love in an attempt to reach you all one last time to the very danger I bet you have in your hands at this very moment.  Me. I am off to my deck.

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WEDDING DRONE MISTAKEN FOR UFO

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Time Traveler – The Philadelphia Experiment – With Full Military Interview

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“Survivor Interview, He claims to have spent 2 Years in the Future as part of the Philadelphia Experiments”

Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Records in the Operational Archives Branch of the Naval Historical Center have been repeatedly searched, but no documents have been located which confirm the event, or any interest by the Navy in attempting such an achievement.

The ship involved in the experiment was supposedly the USS Eldridge. Operational Archives has reviewed the deck log and war diary from Eldridge’s commissioning on 27 August 1943 at the New York Navy Yard through December 1943. The following description of Eldridge’s activities are summarized from the ship’s war diary. After commissioning, Eldridge remained in New York and in the Long Island Sound until 16 September when it sailed to Bermuda. From 18 September, the ship was in the vicinity of Bermuda undergoing training and sea trials until 15 October when Eldridge left in a convoy for New York where the convoy entered on 18 October. Eldridge remained in New York harbor until 1 November when it was part of the escort for Convoy UGS-23 (New York Section). On 2 November the convoy entered Naval Operating Base, Norfolk. On 3 November, Eldridge and Convoy UGS-23 left for Casablanca where it arrived on 22 November. On 29 November, Eldridge left as one of escorts for Convoy GUS-22 and arrived with the convoy on 17 December at New York harbor. Eldridge remained in New York on availability training and in Block Island Sound until 31 December when it steamed to Norfolk with four other ships. During this time frame, Eldridge was never in Philadelphia.

Supposedly, the crew of the civilian merchant ship SS Andrew Furuseth observed the arrival via teleportation of the Eldridge into the Norfolk area. Andrew Furuseth’s movement report cards are in the Tenth Fleet records in the custody of the Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Admnistration, (8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001), which also has custody of the action reports, war diaries and deck logs of all World War II Navy ships, including Eldridge. The movement report cards list the merchant ship’s ports of call, the dates of the visit, and convoy designation, if any. The movement report card shows that Andrew Furuseth left Norfolk with Convoy UGS-15 on 16 August 1943 and arrived at Casablanca on 2 September. The ship left Casablanca on 19 September and arrived off Cape Henry on 4 October. Andrew Furuseth left Norfolk with Convoy UGS-22 on 25 October and arrived at Oran on 12 November. The ship remained in the Mediterranean until it returned with Convoy GUS-25 to Hampton Roads on 17 January 1944. The Archives has a letter from Lieutenant Junior Grade William S. Dodge, USNR, (Ret.), the Master of Andrew Furuseth in 1943, categorically denying that he or his crew observed any unusual event while in Norfolk. Eldridge and Andrew Furuseth were not even in Norfolk at the same time.

The Philadelphia Experiment is an alleged military experiment that is said to have been carried out by the U.S. Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania some time around October 28, 1943. The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was claimed to be rendered invisible (or “cloaked”) to enemy devices.

The story is thought to be a hoax. The U.S. Navy maintains that no such experiment was ever conducted, and details of the story contradict well-established facts about the Eldridge itself, as well as commonly accepted physics.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has stated that the use of force fields to make a ship and her crew invisible does not conform to known physical laws. ONR also claims that Dr. Albert Einstein’s Unified Field Theory was never completed. During 1943-1944, Einstein was a part-time consultant with the Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance, undertaking theoretical research on explosives and explosions. There is no indication that Einstein was involved in research relevant to invisibility or to teleportation. ONR’s information sheet on the Philadelphia Experiment is attached.

The Philadelphia Experiment has also been called “Project Rainbow.” A comprehensive search of the Archives has failed to identify records of a Project Rainbow relating to teleportation or making a ship disappear. In the 1940s, the code name RAINBOW was used to refer to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis. The RAINBOW plans were the war plans to defeat Italy, Germany and Japan. RAINBOW V, the plan in effect on 7 December 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, was the plan the U.S. used to fight the Axis powers.

Some researchers have erroneously concluded that degaussing has a connection with making an object invisible. Degaussing is a process in which a system of electrical cables are installed around the circumference of ship’s hull, running from bow to stern on both sides. A measured electrical current is passed through these cables to cancel out the ship’s magnetic field. Degaussing equipment was installed in the hull of Navy ships and could be turned on whenever the ship was in waters that might contain magnetic mines, usually shallow waters in combat areas. It could be said that degaussing, correctly done, makes a ship “invisible” to the sensors of magnetic mines, but the ship remains visible to the human eye, radar, and underwater listening devices.

In 1955, Morris K. Jessup, an astronomer and former graduate-level researcher, published The Case for the UFO, a book about unidentified flying objects that contains some theories about the different means of propulsion that flying-saucer-style UFOs might use. Jessup speculated that antigravity, or the manipulation of electromagnetism, might be responsible for the observed flight behavior of UFOs. He lamented, both in the book and during the publicity tour that followed, that space flight research was concentrated in the area of rocketry, and that little attention had been paid to other theoretical means of flight, which he felt might ultimately be more fruitful. Jessup emphasized that a breakthrough revision of Albert Einstein’s “Unified Field Theory” would be critical in powering a future generation of spacecraft.

On January 13, 1955, Jessup received a letter from a man who identified himself as one “Carlos Allende.” In the letter, Allende informed Jessup of the “Philadelphia Experiment,” alluding to two poorly sourced contemporary newspaper articles as proof. Allende directly responded to Jessup’s call for research on the “Unified Field Theory,” which he referred to as “UFT.” According to Allende, Einstein had developed the theory, but had suppressed it, since mankind was not ready for it—a confession that the scientist allegedly shared with the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. Allende also said that he had witnessed the Eldridge appear and disappear while serving aboard the SS Andrew Furuseth, a nearby merchant ship. Allende named other crew members with whom he served aboard the Andrew Furuseth, and claimed to know the fate of some of the crew members of the Eldridge after the experiment, including one whom he witnessed disappearing during a chaotic fight in a bar. Although Allende claimed to have observed the experiment while on the Andrew Furuseth, he provided no substantiation of his other claims linking the experiment with the Unified Field Theory, no evidence of Einstein’s alleged theory, and no proof of Einstein’s alleged private confession to Russell.

Jessup replied to Allende by a postcard, asking for further evidence and corroboration. The reply arrived months later, with the correspondent identifying himself as “Carl M. Allen.” Allen said that he could not provide the details for which Jessup was asking, but he implied that he might be able to recall some by means of hypnosis. Suspecting that Allende/Allen might be an impostor, Jessup discontinued the correspondence.

The Office of Naval Research and the Varo annotation
According to a 2002 book by the popular writers James Moseley and Karl Pflock, in early 1957, Jessup was contacted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Washington, D.C., and was asked to study the contents of a parcel that it had received. Upon his arrival, Jessup was surprised to learn that a paperback copy of his UFO book had been mailed to the ONR in a manila envelope marked “Happy Easter.” The book had been extensively annotated in its margins, and an ONR officer asked Jessup if he had any idea as to who had done so.

Moseley and Pflock claim that the lengthy annotations were written with three different shades of pink ink, and they appeared to detail a correspondence among three individuals, only one of which is given a name: “Jemi.” The ONR labelled the other two “Mr A.” and “Mr B.” The annotators refer to each other as “Gypsies,” and discuss two different types of “people” living in outer space. Their text contained non-standard use of capitalization and punctuation, and detailed a lengthy discussion of the merits of various elements of Jessup’s assumptions in the book. Their oblique references to the Philadelphia Experiment suggested prior or superior knowledge. (One example is that “Mr B.” reassures his fellow annotators who have highlighted a certain theory which Jessup advanced.

Based on the handwriting style and subject matter, Jessup identified “Mr A.” as Allende / Allen. Others have suggested that the three annotations are from the same person, using three pens.The annotated book supposedly sparked sufficient interest for the ONR to fund a small printing of the volume by the Texas-based Varo Manufacturing Company.A 2003 transcription of the annotated “Varo edition” is available online, complete with three-color notes.

Later, the ONR contacted Jessup, claiming that the return address on Allende’s letter to Jessup was an abandoned farmhouse. They also informed Jessup that the Varo Corporation, a research firm, was preparing a print copy of the annotated version of The Case for the UFO, complete with both letters he had received. About a hundred copies of the Varo Edition were printed and distributed within the Navy. Jessup was also sent three for his own use.

Jessup attempted to make a living writing on the topic, but his follow-up book did not sell well. His publisher rejected several other manuscripts. In 1958, his wife left him, and his friends described him as being depressed and somewhat unstable when he traveled to New York. After returning to Florida, he was involved in a serious car accident and was slow to recover, which added to his depression. He was found dead on April 20, 1959, and the death was ruled a suicide.

Misunderstanding of documented naval experiments
While personnel at the Fourth Naval District have suggested that the questions surrounding the alleged event arise from routine research which was performed during the Second World War at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, it was previously believed “that the foundation for the apocryphal stories arose from degaussing experiments which have the effect of making a ship undetectable or ‘invisible’ to magnetic mines.” Another possible genesis of the stories about levitation, teleportation and effects on human crew might be attributed to experiments with the generating plant of the destroyer USS Timmerman, whereby a higher-frequency generator produced corona discharges, though none of the crew reported suffering effects from the experiment

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DISCOVERING THE TRUE NATURE OF UFOS AND THE JINN

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Weird Russian & Cuban Military Involvement With UFO Attack Case

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Location: Near Cabañas, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba
Date: June 14 1968 Time: after midnight

Shortly after midnight several bursts of machine gun fire were heard coming from a location in the vicinity where militia member Isidro Puentes Ventura was on guard duty. At dawn, Puentes was found unconscious by an Army patrol and taken to a hospital in Pinar Del Rio, where he remained in shock and unable to speak for six days. Removed to the neurological ward at the Naval Hospital in Havana, Puentes was diagnosed to be suffering from emotional trauma, remaining in shock for another week. At the site where Puentes had been posted, Cuban and Soviet intelligence investigators found forty-eight spent cartridges and fourteen bullets apparently flattened by impact, as well as equally spaced indentations in the ground, indicating that a heavy device had landed. Tests revealed that the soil had been exposed to a high degree of heat. When Puentes recovered consciousness he reported that he had come to within 150 feet of a brilliant round object on the ground, with a dome and several antennas on top. Convinced that the device was an American helicopter, Puentes fired about forty rounds at it. The craft turned orange and emitted a strong whistling sound—Puentes last recollection before losing consciousness. Soviet intelligence specialists subjected Puentes to a fifty-hour interrogation after which he was examined by a team of psychiatrists and put through fifteen hypnosis sessions. No contradictions were found in his story.
 

HC addendum
Source: Timothy Good, “Beyond Top Secret” quoting Jacques Vallee

Type: G?
High Strangeness Index: 8
Reliability of Source: 9
Comments: This if probably an abduction event that apparently the Soviet investigators failed to uncover, or if they did they kept it under wraps.

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Encounter With An Evil Cowboy Horse Rider On An Indian Reservation

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Evil entity?

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Location: Thermopolis, Wyoming
Date: August 1976 Time: afternoon

The 12-year old witness and a friend were riding on a Honda minibike on a dirt-road adjacent to the Wind River Indian Reservation. It occurred to the main witness that he had never been on this particular road and had never heard of anyone mention it being in the area. They had gone at least 2 or 3 miles along the dirt-bike when the motor on the minibike suddenly died. Due to the way it quit the first thing they checked was to see if the spark plug wire was connected, to their consternation the spark plug appeared to be fine. As the two young witnesses were scratching their heads they suddenly felt the scariest sensation they had ever experienced, they felt sheer terror as the hair all over their body stood up on end. At the same time they both looked up and saw what they were certain was pure evil. They were looking at a “man” dressed all in black, with a black cowboy hat on, riding a black horse, with all black gear. No face was visible at all. If it were a human with a cowboy hat on, even with the shadow from the hat, some detail would have been visible, but there was none on his face, clothing, the horse, nothing. He was approximately 50 feet from the witnesses, and was heading directly toward the witness through the sagebrush. The witness noted that the sagebrush all around this area grows to 2.5 to 3 ft high is very thick, and people and people and animals need to jump over it, or go around it. The horse was somehow walking directly through it. After staring in total shock for several seconds at this entity, they wordlessly spun the minibike around, and one of them jumped on it and began kicking the starter pedal as if their “lives” depended on it. The witness was somehow convinced that his life did. Thankfully after several kicks the minibike fired up. They both jumped on it and got out of there as quickly as possible. After many minutes of this breakneck getaway, during which we never once looked back, the main witness no longer had the feeling of impending doom, and they slowed to a gradual stop to catch their breath. They had been stopped for less than a minute when the feeling of dread returned, stronger than ever. Simultaneously, slowly, they both looked back over their right shoulders, and there was the man in black in exactly the same position he when they saw him last. It was as if they had been looking at a movie screen, and the film had stopped when they had looked away, and started again when they had looked back, even though they were more than a mile down the road from where they saw the strange entity. Needless to say they turned the throttle on high and didn’t slow down or look back or lose the feeling of evil until we had the main road in sight.

HC addendum
Source: http://www.hbccufo.org Type: E
Comments: We must ask ourselves if the witnesses lives were really in danger, why the feeling of utter dread? Did a primeval instinct take over the witnesses that somehow warned them that they were dealing with something out of this plane of existence and it had the power to kill them?

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Those Seafaring Copper-Mining Ancient Giants!

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Apparently, one instance of identification by silver inclusion has occurred overseas: In this letter of December 1^st, 1995, Palden Jenkins, a historian from Glastonbury, writes, “I met the farmer who owns the land on which a megalithic stone circle is, called Merry Maidens, in far west Cornwall. While clearing hedges, he discovered an arrowhead, which was sent to the British Museum for identification. The answer returned: ‘5,000 years old; source, Michigan, USA’.” (Ref.76). 

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Best UFO Worldwide in April 2014

Interesting video footage of the Best UFO sightings recorded Worldwide in April 2014.

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UFO lights seen above Stuttgart, Germany on 22nd April 2014

New amazing video footage of a strange UFO light recorded in the night sky above Stuttgart, Germany on 22nd April 2014.

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Triangle UFO or TR3B seen from ISS webcam on 23rd April 2014

New amazing video footage of a triangle – shaped UFO recorded from ISS webcam on 23rd April 2014.

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UFO fleet over Mexico City on 12th April 2014

New interesting video footage of a fleet of UFOs recorded in the night sky above Mexico City on 12th April 2014.

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New NASA mission advancing the search for extraterrestrial life

Artist's concept of the JWST. (Credit: ESA)

A new space-based tool is launching in five years that will search for extraterrestrial life.

A new study suggests that white dwarf stars can support habitable planets. RedOrbit explains that researchers demonstrated that “it should be possible to detect biomarkers surrounding these habitable planets – including methane and oxygen – that indicate the presence of life using advanced technology that will become available in the next decade.”

Artist’s concept of the JWST. (Credit: NASA)

This advanced technology will be aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that is scheduled to launch in 2018.  According to the Daily Galaxy, Professor Avi Loeb, director of Harvard University’s Institute for Theory and Computation, who led the recent study, explains, “In the quest for extraterrestrial biological signatures, the first stars we study should be white dwarfs.” Professor Dan Maoz of Tel Aviv University, who was part of the research team, agrees with Loeb. He states that, by using the JWST to examine planets orbiting white dwarf stars, if “all the conditions are right, we’ll be able to detect signs of life.”

RedOrbit explains:

JWST is designed to look into the infrared region of the light spectrum where such biomarkers are prominent, making it an ideal instrument for hunting out signs of life on exoplanets. JWST will also be able to analyze the atmosphere of Earth-like planets without weeding out the similar signatures of Earth’s own atmosphere because it will be space-based and not ground-based.

The team’s study was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Video: Former Peruvian Air Force Researcher Confirms Extraterrestrial Existence

Former researcher at the Air Force in Peru confirmed that extraterrestrials are no joke and that they are just hovering somewhere on Earth. Dr. Anthony Choy believes that aliens and UFOs are real and that there are strong proofs showing their existence on the planet.

Dr. Choy, also an attorney, spearheaded the investigation of “The Chulucanas Incident,” in which luminous red-orange ships were reportedly flying over the city of Chulucanas in northern Peru for approximately two and half hours on October 13, 2001. These ships, which were claimed as ufos, were said to be making strange geometric formations in the sky. Starting that day, lights of unknown origin were noticed for 2 days and many have witnessed the events to the point that they used video recordings to document what they saw. Dr. Choy was one of the first who took video of the strange sightings.

The appearance of luminous lights continued on October 25th which was observed over the city’s countryside and in the woods. But on November 15th on that same year marked the sudden panic of population when one of the so called ufos appeared in the city sky.

The investigation into the incident reached its climax when the Peruvian Air Force decided to collaborate with Univision, a popular television channel in the United States of America, to record a distant strange object moving at a tremendous speed in the sky.

Dr. Choy was one of the founders of Ufo Office of the Peruvian Air Force (OIFAA) and the author of the study called “Project 33,” which is all about UFO phenomenon in the country.

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TWO FRIENDS SPOT A TRIANGLE OVER HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO

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Will nuclear-powered spaceships take us to the stars?

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Osnet Daily

In the 1950s, rocket scientists dreamed of atomic-powered spaceships. Now these far-fetched designs might help a new generation explore the cosmos.

Project Orion has to be the most audacious, dangerous and downright absurd space programme ever funded by the US taxpayer. This 1950s design involved exploding nuclear bombs behind a spacecraft the size of the Empire State Building to propel it through space. The Orion’s engine would generate enormous amounts of energy – and with it lethal doses of radiation.

Plans suggested the spacecraft could take off from Earth and travel to Mars and back in just three months. The quickest flight using conventional rockets and the right planetary alignment is 18 months.

There were obvious challenges – from irradiating the crew and the launch site, to the disruption caused by the electromagnetic pulse, plus the dangers of a catastrophic nuclear accident taking out a sizable portion of the US. But the plan was, nevertheless, given serious consideration. Project Orion was conceived when atmospheric nuclear tests were commonplace and the power of the atom promised us all a bright new tomorrow. Or oblivion. Life was simpler then.

In the early 1960s, common sense prevailed and the project was abandoned, but the idea of nuclear-powered spaceships has never gone away. In fact there are several in the cold depths of space right now.

The Voyager space probes, currently heading beyond the bounds of the Solar System, and the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn are fitted with nuclear power plants. These Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) rely on the natural decay of plutonium to generate heat, which is then converted into electricity.

With no moving parts, RTGs are not nuclear reactors and can only generate a few hundred watts of power (the equivalent of a bright lightbulb). But as ambitions for missions deeper into our solar system grow, much larger spaceships propelled by more powerful nuclear generators are back on the agenda.

“Orion was a visionary project,” says Kelvin Long, physicist, engineer and head of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. “People who are excited about this stuff don’t live in the present, we live in the future.”

Long’s immediate future involves helping to design a starship – a robotic craft that could travel at high speed beyond our Solar System to other nearby stars. A starship travelling at thousands of kilometres per second could reach Mars in weeks, the outer solar system in months and other star systems in years. Long is not alone. There are several other programmes underway, including the 100 Year Starship project backed by the US military research agency, Darpa.

To achieve this goal, the ships will need much more powerful propulsion systems than conventional chemical rockets or solar-powered probes. “It’s all about generating enormous amounts of energy,” says Long. “You can get much more efficient power generation from nuclear systems, such as fission or fusion.”

Fission involves splitting atomic nuclei in a controlled chain reaction to produce energy. Conventional nuclear power stations and the generating plants on nuclear submarines and ships use the technique to make electricity. It is a well established, but not incident-free, science. In the fusion process, on the other hand, the nuclei of atoms are forced together to release energy. It is what powers the Sun, and the hydrogen bomb.

“Fusion produces much more energy, in terms of bang for your buck, compared to fission-based systems,” says Long, explaining why his group’s starship designers favour fusion propulsion. “We know it’s a very efficient process. If you can do it you can produce a power generation system which will move you outside the Solar System and you don’t have to come back for more rocket fuel.”

Power challenge

However, as anyone who has followed the field knows, despite the multi-billion-dollar global effort that has gone into fusion research over the past half century, no one has yet built a fusion reactor that produces more energy then you put in. There is an in-joke among fusion engineers (and their journalist followers) that a viable fusion power plant is always 30 years away.

Undeterred, various concepts for fusion engines have been proposed. One, funded by Nasa, involves a contained atomic reaction that generates a focused beam of charged particles to push the starship along. Apart from the enormous thrust such a system could generate – well in excess of conventional rockets – as you travel around the cosmos you could tap into a ready supply of suitable fuel, such as helium 3.

“There’s helium 3 in the gas giants like Jupiter, absolutely loads of it,” says Long. “You could mine it with huge balloons that you drop into the atmosphere, separate out the helium, load it into your starship and away you go.” It seems that no problem is too big for those who live in the future.

Most 21st-Century starship designs owe a great deal to the Daedalus interstellar craft, conceived by members of the British Interplanetary Society in the 1970s. Assembled in orbit, like the International Space Station (ISS), and a similar size to Orion, the concept starship was powered by a fusion engine surrounded by bulbous tanks of helium fuel.

But even assuming all this is doable, there remains one particularly sticky problem. It’s the same issue that faced the designers of Project Orion back in the 1950s. You can build and power-up your fusion engine in space to avoid nuclear fallout, but how do you protect your astronauts from dying of radiation sickness?

The Orion solution was to put thick metal or liquid shielding between crew and nuclear material. The latest concepts suggest a better idea might be to build long thin ships, where the engine is several hundred metres away from the habitation modules. Not unlike the spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

If a viable fusion reactor can be developed, Long reckons we could we see a nuclear-powered ship heading out of our immediate cosmic neighbourhood to the stars and planets beyond within the next century. “We would like to see humanity moving outwards and following the pioneers and dreams of the past,” he says. “We feel we’re working towards a future that’s good for humanity.”

Project Orion may have been ill-conceived, foolhardy and environmentally irresponsible, but nuclear power could yet be a tool to take humans to the stars.

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25-04-2014 om 23:47 geschreven door peter