Daily 2 Cents: Russia Says ‘Nyet’ To NASA — Strange Incidents at the Lake — Pope Would Baptize Aliens

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Russia Says ‘Nyet’ To NASA

Russia cast doubt on the long-term future of the International Space Station, a showcase of post-Cold War cooperation, as it retaliated on Tuesday against U.S. sanctions over Ukraine.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Moscow would reject a U.S. request to prolong the orbiting station’s use beyond 2020. It will also bar Washington from using Russian-made rocket engines to launch military satellites.

Moscow took the action, which also included suspending operation of GPS satellite navigation system sites on its territory from June, in response to U.S. plans to deny export licences for high-technology items that could help the Russian military.

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“We are very concerned about continuing to develop high-tech projects with such an unreliable partner as the United States, which politicizes everything,” Rogozin told a news conference.

Washington wants to keep the $100 billion, 15 nation space station project in use until at least 2024, four years beyond the previous target.

Moscow’s plan to part ways on a project which was supposed to end the “space race” underlines how relations between the former Cold War rivals have deteriorated since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in March.

Since the end of the U.S. Space Shuttle project, Russian Soyuz spacecraft have been the only way astronauts can get to the space station, whose crews include mostly Americans and Russians, as well as visitors from other countries.

At a time when Moscow is struggling to reform its accident-plagued space program, Rogozin said U.S. plans to deny export licences for some high-technology items were a blow to Russian industry. “These sanctions are out of place and inappropriate,” Rogozin said. “We have enough of our own problems.”

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Moscow’s response would affect NK-33 and RD-180 engines which Russia supplies to the United States, Rogozin said. “We are ready to deliver these engines but on one condition that they will not be used to launch military satellites,” he said.

RD-180 engines are used to boost Atlas 5 rockets manufactured by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing that holds a virtual monopoly on launching U.S. military satellites.

ULA on Tuesday said it was not yet aware of any restrictions and hopes talks will resolve any issues that do arise. It added that it can use other launch vehicles and has a two-year supply of engines to smooth over any transition.

“ULA and our Department of Defense customers have always prepared contingency plans in the event of a supply disruption,” ULA spokeswoman Jessica Rye said in a statement. – CNBC

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Strange Incidents at the Lake

When I was in college I worked a couple of odd jobs to help pay the bills. They were mostly mundane, but one shook me to my core. I was working for the city parks and lakes division at a local lake. It was a job that did involve some hard work, cleaning and repairing the boats and motors, but it also had more than enough down time. When ever there was no work to do my co-workers and I would sit around in the shade on the dock and talk. When I first started it was mostly the other guys telling me stories about the lake. Most of them were your run of the mill fisherman stories, but there were a few with a much darker feel. It wasn’t long before I started to have my own odd enounters in the park.

I split my time working there between the boat dock and working night security in the campgrounds. One night as I was driving the work truck around the lake into the campgrounds, part of my hourly patrol, I saw a pale blue light just above the road probably 100 feet in front of my truck. As I got close the light grew in intensity, then when I was about 30 feet away it took on a smokey appearance and dissipated in the night sky.

That incident was definitely odd, but not at all in a scary sort of way. The next two incidents I had during the night shift, which led to me refusing the work the shift anymore, were definitely more disturbing and physical. Maybe a month after I saw the floating light I was driving down the hill from the campground back to the lake when I saw a man run out of the bushes. He was dirty, terrified, and wearing only his underwear. The first thought I had was that he was on drugs. The campground was cheap so we did get our fair share of homeless drug addicts. I quickly realized that wasn’t the case, however. The second he saw my truck he came running towards me, clearly not looking to hurt me but rather for me to save him. When he was still a few yards away I was going to open my window to ask what was wrong when suddenly I saw a second person run out of the bushes. This time it was a woman. Her T-shirt was torn and dirty, her legs scratched from running through the bushes without pants on. I was confused to say the least, but the confusion quickly turned to anxiety when I saw she was carrying a large knife. Obviously this is what the man was running from. He didn’t seem to notice her at first so I motioned to the passenger door, hoping he would get it so we could drive off and call the police before she got too close. As I was motioning to him was when he spotted her. He looked me in the eyes, and I could tell he knew he should run to the truck, but I watched as the panic overtook him, and he ran. The woman chased after, both heading across the road down into the brush towards the lake. I drove off to the park ranger station and called the police. I could her the echoes of the man’s screaming and the woman’s yelling. I talked to the police after they handled the situation. The man had been stabbed, but he would live. I went home, obviously shaken.

Two months after that I was driving the truck through the campground and I saw what looked like a military style duffel bag hanging from a tree. The closer I got the more definition the shape took. By the time I was at the campsite I already had the police on the phone. I could hear the wife sleeping in the tent, but I decided I would let the police wake her and inform her that her husband had hanged himself.

I never worked the night shift again. I thought if I worked strictly during the day on the boat dock all this would stop. I was wrong. I did work an entire summer without incident, but it was in the winter that it happened. It was a cold winter, by San Diego standards at least. Many times my shift would start before the sunrise, having to get the boats ready for all the fisherman coming in the early morning hours trying for trout. On one particular morning I got to work around 5am. It was cold, in the mid 30s, with frost still on the ground. I walked straight onto the dock and into the shed we used as a workshop. Most of the mornings the only employees at the park were me, a young woman who worked the concession stand, and a park ranger. Often the park ranger would come down to the dock about 20 minutes into my shift to make sure I had everything I needed. On this morning I was inside the workshop with the door closed, space heater on, and was working on a broken motor. I could tell when another person walked onto the dock because it would make the whole dock bob slightly in the water. I felt the dock rise and fall beneath my feet and kept at my work, assuming it was just the ranger. I could tell the footsteps went up to the door, paused for a second, then continued towards the end of the dock. After about five minutes without feeling the footsteps return I opened the door to see what the ranger was up to. I looked to the end of the dock and no one was there. I assumed I must have mistaken the slight waves of the water for footsteps, but noticed the water was smooth as glass, and that all the boats were tied up. I took a step out of the shop to get a better look and could hear the crunch of frost under my feet. When I looked down I noticed that there were two sets of footprints. One was mine, going from the shore straight to the shop. The second went past the shop, down the edge of the dock, and stopped. There were no prints going off the dock. I turned and saw the ranger walked towards the dock down the shore. I quit once he got within earshot. – Reddit.com

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I-Team: Man who exposed Area 51 defends UFO information

LAS VEGAS — It has been 25 years to the day since a live interview with a shadowy guy named “Dennis” changed everything for America’s most secret military base.

“Dennis” turned out later to be a man named Bob Lazar, who claimed he worked at a secret facility built into a mountainside just south of Area 51′s main facilities.

The story started a UFO stampede that continues to this day. Lazar has tried to put the UFO tales behind him, and has been discredited in the eyes of some critics, but it is a story that simply won’t go away.

The I-Team’s George Knapp coaxed Lazar into talking about the last quarter century of UFO craziness.

The story that Bob Lazar told 25 years ago this week has gone around the world many times over, inspiring books and TV shows, and movies. Who knew that Indiana Jones’ warehouse is out at Area 51?

Another repository of Area 51 lore is the exhibit at the Atomic Testing Museum. While in town recently for the interview, Lazar took the tour. He watched tapes of the first interviews he ever gave about his time working at S-4 and plowed through boxes of paperwork about his claims. Lazar re-iterated his preference that people don’t believe his story.

“Look, I’m not out there giving UFO lectures, producing tapes. This is not a business of mine. I am trying to run a scientific business, and if I’m the UFO guy, it makes it really difficult, it is to my benefit that people don’t believe the story,” Lazar said. Read more at 8 News Now

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Pope would baptize aliens

Pope Francis has stated that he would welcome alien life forms into the open arms of the Catholic Church, should they be willing to convert. He put forward his official stance on Martians – among other intergalactic travelers – at a homily on Monday.

Francis proclaimed that the Catholic Church was one of “open doors” and it was the independent choice of each Christian to accept the Holy Spirit into their lives.

“If tomorrow an expedition of aliens from Mars arrives…and one of the green ones with long nose and big ears, like those which children draw, comes and says, ‘I want a Baptism!’ What would happen?” Francis asked rhetorically.

The Pontiff then pointed out that St. Peter himself had assuaged doubts of his critics by stating that: “If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us for believing in the Lord Jesus, who was I to hinder God?”

According to the Bible, Peter had been criticized by Christians in Jerusalem for contacting ‘unclean’ Pagans. Francis used the passage to illustrate that at the time, it had also been considered ‘unthinkable.’

“When the Lord shows us the way, who are we to say, ‘No, Lord, it is not prudent! No, let’s do it this way.’ Who are we to close doors?” Francis added.

He made the comments at a Monday morning mass at the Casa Santa Maria residence at the Vatican, according to Vatican Radio.

While the statements may seem a little far-fetched, it is not the only time the Vatican has discussed the baptism of alien life forms.

At the British Science Festival in 2010, one astronomer for former Pope Benedict XVI, Guy Consolmagno, stated that he would be prepared to baptize an alien if it asked. “Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul,” Consolmagno stated. – RT

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Une étoile sœur du Soleil identifiée par une équipe d'astronomes

Recherchés depuis longtemps dans la Galaxie, les frères et sœurs du Soleil nés voici plus de 4,5 milliards d’années ont jusqu’ici échappé aux astronomes. Une équipe de chercheurs emmenée par Ivan Ramirez assure, cependant, avoir identifié un premier cas dans la constellation d’Hercule, à quelque 110 années-lumière de nous. Débusquer ces étoiles possédant une abondance de certains éléments chimiques identique à celle du Soleil peut nous éclairer sur la genèse de notre Système solaire, voire sur l’apparition de la vie.

Décrite comme étant 15 % plus massive que le Soleil, HD 162826 est vraisemblablement née dans le même nuage moléculaire que notre étoile voilà plus de 4,5 milliards d’années. Une sœur distante de 110 années-lumière seulement, parfaitement visible (au foyer d’une paire de jumelles) dans la constellation d’Hercule, non loin de Véga. À l’orée de l’été, elle culmine dans le ciel en début de nuit. © Observatoire McDonald

Né voici plus de 4,5 milliards d’années au sein d’un vaste nuage moléculaire — vraisemblablement sous l’impulsion d’une supernova, probable génitrice baptisée Coatilcue comme la mère des dieux et déesse de la terre chez les Aztèques —, le Soleil ne fut naturellement pas la seule étoile à y voir le jour, à l’image de ce qui est observé ailleurs dans les nébuleuses de notre Galaxie. Désignés amas ouvert, ils sont nombreux dans la Voie lactée à essaimer parcimonieusement leur population de jeunes étoiles. Parmi les plus célèbres et visibles à l’oeil  nu, on peut citer les Pléiades (M45), l’amas de Ptolémée (M7) ou de la Ruche (M44). Certaine de ces fratries ne comptent que quelques centaines d’étoiles, tandis que d’autres en arborent fièrement plusieurs milliers. À plus ou moins long terme, toutes les familles se désunissent. Un sort auquel, bien sûr, notre étoile (une naine jaune ) et tous ses frères et sœurs n’ont pas échappé.

L’amas Messier6 7(M67) — cas particulier d’amas ouvert dans la constellation  du Cancer composé d’étoiles du même âge que le Soleil — a longtemps été suspecté d’abriter des congénères du Soleil. Mais de récents travaux réfutent cette hypothèse. Après des années de recherches, une équipe d’astrophysiciens apporte les preuves tangibles de l’identification d’une étoile qui serait issue du même nid que le Soleil.

Sur les traces des frères et des sœurs du Soleil

En quête des origines, les astronomes s’interrogent sur l’environnement dans lequel baignait notre jeune Soleil. Une période déterminante et très animée qui a d’abord vu naître rapidement les planètes, puis la vie apparaître à la surface de l’une d’elles. Pour Ivan Ramirez (université du Texas à Austin), astrophysicien sur les traces des étoiles issues du même nid que la nôtre, « nous voulons savoir où nous sommes nés », car « si nous pouvons comprendre dans quelle partie de la Galaxie le Soleil s’est formé, nous pouvons contraindre les conditions [qui régnaient] dans le Système solaire primitif. Cela pourrait nous aider à comprendre pourquoi nous sommes là ».

À l’image de ce qui se produit actuellement dans G15.68-0.28, surnommé la « bulle carrée » (au centre), notre étoile et ses nombreux frères et sœurs sont nés après l’explosion d’une supernova au sein du nuage moléculaire parent, lequel est recherché par les astronomes (ou du moins ce qu’il en reste). © Spitzer, Nasa, CNRS

Par ailleurs, le chercheur n’exclut pas que ces congénères aient pu, eux aussi, connaître un destin comparable à celui de notre Système solaire. « Les frères et les sœurs du Soleil sont des candidats clés à la recherche de la vie extraterrestre . » En effet, combien de ces étoiles possèdent une ou plusieurs  planètes habitables ? Y a-t-il eu des échanges entre les systèmes planétaires ? Des comètes ou météorites (parfois des morceaux arrachés à la Terre primitive) ont-elles migré d’un milieu à un autre ? Autant de questions en suspens qui intéressent les scientifiques.

Une sœur identifiée dans la constellation d’Hercule

Dans l’article à paraître dans la revue The Astrophysical Journal, l’équipe de chercheurs décline l’identité, émaillée de solides arguments, d’une étoile sœur de notre Soleil. Un premier cas débusqué dans la même province galactique que nous, à 110 années-lumière de distance. Cette recherche a nécessité des outils d’observation très sensibles, comme le spectroscope à haute résolution qui équipe le télescope Harlan J. Smith à l’observatoire McDonald (Texas). Sur les 30 candidates patiemment traquées (7 le furent dans le ciel austral avec le télescope Magellan à l’observatoire de Las Campanas, Chili), l’équipe n’en retient qu’une : HD 162826 (également HR 6669 ou SAO 47009). Observable dans une paire de jumelles en direction de l’un des bras de la constellation d’Hercule, l’étoile est décrite comme étant 15 % plus massive que le Soleil.

Pour mettre la main sur les frères de notre Soleil, charge revient aux astrophysiciens de retrouver une même abondance en éléments chimiques parmi les étoiles sélectionnées. Pour l’équipe qui signe la découverte, il est capital de « se concentrer sur certains éléments chimiques clés ». À cet égard, la variation des abondances de baryum et d’yttrium est considérée comme déterminante. Un facteur susceptible de trahir sa région d’origine, la localisation du nuage moléculaire (ou de ce qu'il en reste).

Par ailleurs, pour affiner les profils, il incombe aux chercheurs de déterminer Par ailleurs, pour affiner les profils, il incombe aux chercheurs de déterminer les routes qu’elles empruntent, leurs orbites dans la Galaxie. Aussi le satellite Gaia leur sera-t-il d’une aide précieuse dans un avenir proche pour débusquer et caractériser les mouvements de ces étoiles situées au-delà de notre voisinage (110 années-lumière de nous, cela reste assez proche), dans toutes les directions. Suivie durant 15 ans par les chasseurs d’exoplanètes, HD 162826 apparaît exempte de Jupiter chaudes, voire de planètes géantes. Mais les chercheurs estiment que cela n’enlève rien à la possibilité que des planètes rocheuses puissent y exister.

14-05-2014 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

OUR FUTURE SELVESl BEYOND INCARNATION – PART II

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14-05-2014 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

Time Travel, The 1000 Year old Ming Dynasty, Swiss made Watch Found in tomb

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Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 1000-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 600 years ago.

They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant’s funeral.

But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked ‘Swiss’ that is thought to be just a century old.

The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 am.

Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.

The archaeologists were filming a documentary with two journalists when they made the puzzling discovery.

‘When we tried to remove the soil wrapped around the coffin, suddenly a piece of rock dropped off and hit the ground with metallic sound,’ said Jiang Yanyu, former curator of the Guangxi Museum.

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Bob Lazar still defends Area 51 UFO info 25 years later

KLAS investigative reporter George Knapp introduced the world to the top secret military installation known as Area 51 when he interviewed Bob Lazar twenty-five years ago. On the anniversary of that interview, Knapp convinced Lazar to come to Las Vegas to discuss Area 51 again, and he even toured the Area 51 exhibit at the National Atomic Testing Museum.

Bob Lazar. (Credit: KLAS)

In 1989, Lazar claimed he worked on reverse-engineering alien technology at a secret facility called S-4 that was built into a mountainside just south of Area 51′s main site. He alleges he was booted from working at Area 51 after it was discovered that he had leaked information to friends, informing them of where they could watch test flights of the advanced extraterrestrial technology on which he was working. Critics dismiss his claims, citing the lack of supporting evidence, including the lack of employment and education records. But Lazar, who asserts the government erased his records, stands by his claims.

The CIA only recently declassified Area 51. NBC News contacted Lazar for a statement. But he was less than impressed with the news. He commented, “That’s a minuscule baby step forward . . . Maybe a decade from now they’ll acknowledge there’s an S-4.”

Although Lazar’s story is the same twenty-five years after his initial interview with Knapp, he really doesn’t care if anyone believe him or not. He is not trying to convince anyone, and he has tried to leave UFOs in his past. In the recent interview, he explains to Knapp:

Look, I’m not out there giving UFO lectures, producing tapes. This is not a business of mine. I am trying to run a scientific business, and if I’m the UFO guy, it makes it really difficult, it is to my benefit that people don’t believe the story.

Area 51 warning signs.

Lazar and his wife currently run a scientific equipment and supply store in Michigan called United Nuclear.

There is no questioning the extraterrestrial business at Area 51 in Lazar’s mind. As he tells Knapp, “Look, I know what happened is true. There is no doubt. Period.”

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14-05-2014 om 20:08 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: What is behind Norway's Hessdalen lights ?

The valley is home to mysterious hovering orbs of light that have been sighted for more than a century.

Particularly puzzling is the wide variety of different lights that seem to appear, including some that are the size of a car, some that flash blue and white and some that seem to zip around at high speed before fading. Some of the lights have the appearance of metallic objects, leading to speculation that they could even be extraterrestrial in nature.

A recent study in to the phenomenon however has revealed that the lights are more likely to have a geological origin. The glowing effect, far from being the product of spirits or aliens, is instead believed to be the result of air turning in to plasma. The unique properties of the valley, including copper-rich rocks on one side and iron-rich rocks on the other, provide the potential to make the whole place act like a giant battery.

With the phenomenon occurring more frequently during periods in which the Northern Lights are visible over the region, researchers have also speculated that the solar wind could be providing the necessary charge to energize the plasma.

Whether this explanation will discourage people from visiting the valley in an effort to catch a glimpse of the lights for themselves however, remains to be seen. 

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UPDATE 3-Russia targets space station project in retaliation for U.S. sanctions

* Senior official says U.S. sanctions hurt Russian space industry

* Wants guarantee Russian engine imports not be used for U.S. military

* Says it not satisfied by talks will close GPS sites in Russia (Adds comment from United Launch Alliance)

By Alissa de Carbonnel

MOSCOW, May 13 (Reuters) - Russia cast doubt on the long-term future of the International Space Station, a showcase of post-Cold War cooperation, as it retaliated on Tuesday against U.S. sanctions over Ukraine.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Moscow would reject a U.S. request to prolong the orbiting station's use beyond 2020. It will also bar Washington from using Russian-made rocket engines to launch military satellites.

Moscow took the action, which also included suspending operation of GPS satellite navigation system sites on its territory from June, in response to U.S. plans to deny export licences for high-technology items that could help the Russian military.

"We are very concerned about continuing to develop high-tech projects with such an unreliable partner as the United States, which politicises everything," Rogozin told a news conference.

Washington wants to keep the $100 billion, 15 nation space station project in use until at least 2024, four years beyond the previous target.

Moscow's plan to part ways on a project which was supposed to end the "space race" underlines how relations between the former Cold War rivals have deteriorated since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in March.

Since the end of the U.S. Space Shuttle project, Russian Soyuz spacecraft have been the only way astronauts can get to the space station, whose crews include mostly Americans and Russians, as well as visitors from other countries.

At a time when Moscow is struggling to reform its accident-plagued space programme, Rogozin said U.S. plans to deny export licences for some high-technology items were a blow to Russian industry. "These sanctions are out of place and inappropriate," Rogozin said. "We have enough of our own problems."

Moscow's response would affect NK-33 and RD-180 engines which Russia supplies to the United States, Rogozin said. "We are ready to deliver these engines but on one condition that they will not be used to launch military satellites," he said.

RD-180 engines are used to boost Atlas 5 rockets manufactured by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing that holds a virtual monopoly on launching U.S. military satellites.

ULA on Tuesday said it was not yet aware of any restrictions and hopes talks will resolve any issues that do arise. It added that it can use other launch vehicles and has a two-year supply of engines to smooth over any transition.

"ULA and our Department of Defense customers have always prepared contingency plans in the event of a supply disruption," ULA spokeswoman Jessica Rye said in a statement.

Rogozin said Moscow was planning "strategic changes" in its space industry after 2020 and aims to use money and  "intellectual resources" that now go to the space station for a "a project with more prospects".

He suggested Russia could use the station without the United States, saying: "The Russian segment can exist independently from the American one. The U.S. one cannot."

The U.S. space agency NASA is working with companies to develop space taxis with the goal of restoring U.S. transport to the station by 2017. The United States currently pays Russia more than $60 million per person to fly its astronauts up.

Rogozin said Russia will suspend the operation of 11 GPS sites on its territory from June and seek talks with Washington on opening similar sites in the United States for Russia's own satellite navigation system, Glonass.

He threatened the permanent closure of the GPS sites in Russia if that is not agreed by September. Rogozin said the suspension of the sites would not affect everyday operations of the GPS system in Russia, where it is used by millions of Russians for navigation on their smartphones and in their cars.

The upheaval in Ukraine - where the United States says Russia is backing separatists and the Kremlin accuses Washington of helping protesters to topple a Moscow-friendly president in February, has led to the worst East-West crisis since the 1991  collapse of the Soviet Union.

In addition to the high-tech sector sanctions, the United States has imposed visa bans and assets freezes on officials and lawmakers and targeted companies with links to President Vladimir Putin. The European Union has also imposed sanctions.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier on Tuesday that the latest EU measures were an "exhausted, trite approach" that would only deepen discord and hamper efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine. (Additonal reporting by Irene Klotz and Gabriela Gabriela Baczynska Writing by Steve Gutterman and Alissa de Carbonnel; Editing by David Stamp)

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Alien Abduction Memories Surface Under Medical Hypnosis

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14-05-2014 om 17:08 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: Richard French, Ex-Air Force Lt. Colonel, ‘It Was A UFO And . . . There Were Aliens...

When Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French was an alleged lead investigator of Project Blue Book in the 1950s, his job was to shoot down false reports of UFOs.

Given his job, French never dreamed he’d end up in Newfoundland one day watching what appeared to him to be two extraterrestrials performing repairs on a submerged, unknown circular craft.

In Washington, D.C., recently, the 83-year-old retired officer testified at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure panel of six former members of Congress about his work as a UFO debunker in 1952.

French recounted how the Newfoundland incident unfolded decades ago, in the early 1950s, after two UFOs were seen by many people off the coast of St. John’s. French’s superiors ordered him to look into the situation.

“They said, ‘We have a UFO report and we want you to investigate it,’ and that was standard for what I was doing,” French told The Huffington Post. “They told me there were two of them involved and that they were deep under the water, after entering the water doing roughly 100 miles an hour.

“There were a lot of people assembled on the wharf, at least 100 standing around just looking in amazement at the water, including several local policemen.”

Watch Ret. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure:

 

French recalls the water was very clear and he could see two circular craft, each one about 18 feet in diameter and approximately 3 feet thick. He said the two objects were floating below the surface of the water, a couple of feet apart, not more than 20 feet from the shore. And he saw two beings in the water near the ships.

“The first thing I saw was the UFOs, and it was apparent to me that they were doing something to the craft, and I couldn’t really tell what because they were on the bottom side of it and not visible to me except when they would occasionally get over to the side where I could see them. The water was fairly clear and I could see without any trouble. They weren’t down at the bottom of the [seabed] — they were about half way down.”

French told HuffPost that the two beings he saw “were about 2 or 3 feet tall, light grey in color, very thin, long arms with either two or three fingers. The top of their heads was much wider than their jaw line, their eyes were very slanted and you couldn’t see pupils in them. They looked the way [aliens] have been depicted in motion pictures.”

As the Air Force UFO debunker watched, he claims one of the ships began to rise out of the water.

“When it hit the [surface], it was going about 100 miles an hour. It then accelerated to somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 to 3,000 miles an hour and disappeared. It returned about 20 minutes later, slowed down to nearly a stop before it entered the water, then went down, and the two [beings] worked together.

“It took them about 20 minutes and then the two ships departed together, again slow when they exited the water, and immediately they sped up to a very high speed. I believe they were repairing [the ship] and tested that the repairs had been adequate, and then away they went.”

Watch French talk about his job as an Air Force UFO debunker:

 

 

Ironically, French’s job at the time — as a Project Blue Book investigator — was to debunk UFOs. So, what kind of report did he file with Blue Book about this case he had personally witnessed?

“Needless to say, it was a fictitious report, as all of them were. I didn’t really say that they were UFOs — I said that there was something we didn’t know — some type of foreign or unrecognizable vehicle there. In other words, I weasel-worded it.

“Oh, I think without a doubt it was a UFO and I think there were aliens aboard it. There’s no question in my mind that was exactly what it was, and my duty was to debunk the story, so I did my best to do so.”

The events of the Newfoundland UFO and alleged aliens took place some 60 years ago, in the days before everyone had a digital camera or image-capture cell phone in their pocket. Despite the fact that there are no photographs to substantiate the report, it’s still an amazing story.

So what are we to make of this? Because it’s not the first time French has stirred up the UFO-ET pot.

This article was provided by huffingtonpost.com All Credit to the authors.

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Did Aliens Leave Their Mark At A Station In The Australian Outback?

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© Herald Sun

 

Muckaty Station, 110km north of Tennant Creek, has been home to various UFO sightings over the years but now an unexplained marking has appeared on the land. Station manager Ray Aylett has said he thinks the spot is a crop circle. “There’s no other explanation,” he said.

Muckaty Station, 110km north of Tennant Creek, has been home to various UFO sightings over the years but now an unexplained marking has appeared on the land.

Station manager Ray Aylett has said he thinks the spot – pictured on our front page today – is a crop circle.

“There’s no other explanation,” he said.

“Other ground around there is rough and in the circle it’s all smooth.”

Mr Aylett said he had seen UFOs at Muckaty Station for many years but they have never bothered to visit him.

“I’ve been trying to get them to come and have a beer, a steak and a yarn, but the bastards won’t come near me.”

On the Tuesday after Easter, Mr Aylett said he saw what looked like rectangular clouds in the sky as he drove back to the station from Elliott.

Prior to the crop circle sighting, the remote station had been drenched by rain, making the road inaccessible in the wet, but once it dried out the strange shape became clear.

He said his bore runner Kym Bott didn’t notice the circle when he went out there on his motorbike but two weeks later on April 7 the crop circle was discovered when Mr Aylett went to grade the road.

When he was out mustering he flew over the area to see if there were any other circles around, but found only one.

He is not sure if the aliens are trying to make contact, but whenever he spots UFOs Mr Aylett is out with his torch waving hello.

Source: Northern Territory News

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Odd Ball Smorgasborg Alien & Bigfoot Encounter

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White Song Eagle An Extraordinary Alien Abductee

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White Song Eagle An Extraordinary Abductee

Donald Worley, Alien Abduction Researcher

This is the true story of White Song Eagle who was an extraordinary abductee. She stands rejected and ignored by today’s orthodox, materialistic society. Are we missing something of vital importance here in what we can learn from her experience?

White Song lived on a wooded hill west of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Under the trees was a large tepee. Actually my words are quite inadequate in bringing you a true picture of this woman who had done 30 parachute jumps due to her compulsion to fly.

I can never capture the drama, pathos, or the joy of it all so let me resort to White Song’s own direct words from my taped interrogations and extensive written responses.

White Song began by explaining one of the alien groups which visited her. She said, “The blue troop can telescope their heads up and down. This happened one night when they were taking my sister Nell and I out of the house and the blue troop captain heard something.”

“Everything stopped and his head rose up and down. I do not know, maybe 4 to 6 inches. Nell and I looked at each other and grinned. Later at home, we played on the floor and we pretended and tried to do it like they had. Our parents were amused at our make believe.”

This was just one of many startling utterances coming from the lips of this attractive 40 year old white American female who claims Indian ancestry. In fact it all gets even more mind boggling when we get into contact with the aliens she calls the Star People, the Sasquatch people, or things such as deceased people, a Brownie, a wood sprite, blue orbs and red monitor devices.

White Song knew she was very different from everyone else and it is only recently that some of the profound mysteries about her life began to unravel. I did not try to count all her abductions because there are so many.

One of the first abductions White Song recalled occurred as a child when a large craft stopped above the garage as she played in her sandbox near Huntington, Indiana. This abduction resulted in a straight deep cut into the muscle of her upper leg.

In later years, this scar would help stabilize the reality of this spring abduction in April. White Song could not recall what happened on board the craft, but does remember the haze shrouded bun-shaped UFO hovering out by the road. The reality of the experience was grounded in the physical evidence that remained behind.

White Song had just settled back into her featherbed happy that Zanna her Star Lady alien whom she had met many years ago as a baby, was back again. White Song’s love for Zanna and the Star People was boundless. It was an abiding, trust and faith that apparently surmounts the great difficulties that are the natural inheritance of one who encounters forces of such life changing orientation.

In the April abduction, the UFO left behind physical evidence of its presence. A short metal telephone circuit that used to stand up was smashed down. The grass turned brown and snow would immediately melt in a circular area in the spot where it hovered.

One unusual feature about this abduction was the surprise witness. It turned out a neighbor by the name of Mr. Lowery, who was recently retired and lived across the cemetery from the road site, happened to be up to go to the bathroom and was attracted by the dark low hovering oval object in the sky with lights shining down. Mr. Lowery watched the strange object for about 5 minutes and than went back to bed wondering what he had seen.

White Song described the alien visits. She said, “They would come to our farmhouse and float us down the stairs at night. Momma would not believe us and said we were just dreaming. It was real bright inside the ship you know, like operating room lights. Your eyes water and they hurt.”

White Song continued. “When I was able to see clearly, I saw the big dark eyes of the aliens. They go from the inside, and it is not a reflection. It is they just sparkle from the inside out like Christmas tree lights. Then I could slowly see their heads which were white, and I was frightened and said, ‘Take your masks off’ but they said they were not wearing masks.”

White Song said, “Then they whisked me out of my pajamas and floated my sister Nell and me up on these tables.”

White Song explained her younger sister Nell was usually taken to another room. She said Nell only had a vague recollection of UFO dreams but had mental difficulties at age 5, developed tremors, and was obsessed with fear the aliens were coming again, and received medical attention in the form of brainwave tests, etc.

I asked White Song if aliens spoke. She described alien speech this way. She said, “Their voices are slow and they speak telepathically. At first I tried to talk to them vocally but they did not like it and asked me to ‘think to them’ and I did. They told me I was a seer and they found me by my light and asked me to help them with my gift.”

The alien eyes were huge and beautiful according to White Song. She said they blinked funny in an unexpected way. She said, “The lower lid comes up halfway and meets the upper lid coming down. It gives them an insect or mechanical expression.”

White Song described her alien friends. She said, “They are a slender people with thin wispy necks. I thought she had on white gloves until she wiggled them and I got a whiff of them – whew! It smelled like dirty feet to me.”

White Song said, “When they petted my long hair it stuck to their hands and pulled out. I am not sure if they wore clothes. It seems I saw a heavy felt-like material on her shoulders sometime. I think I asked Zanna to undress like they always requested of me. I do not recall her doing so.”

The aliens breathed like people according to White Song. She explained, “Yes, I saw Zanna’s chest go up and down in breath. But I also saw the aliens zip forward then vanish, then reappear farther on, and then do it again. I couldn’t handle this and clamored to get off the table.”

I asked White Song if the aliens were transparent. She responded, “No, I don’t recall seeing through any of them. The blue troop I just know wears blue uniforms. Their skin is grey. Zanna and the others looked white. They have long slender three fingered hands that they held our hands with at times.”

“Once Zanna became excited when she found my fingernails that momma had painted red,” White Song said. “I had to explain this nail polish to her.”

White Song continued, “The aliens were about the same body proportion as the doctors on the ship only thinner. Most were about 4 feet tall. There were also some aliens about 6 feet tall and a frightening uncommunicative frog faced bunch that I think got me by mistake once.”

White Song explained more about the table on board the UFO. She said, “I was usually on the table. I was laid down for some operations. I hesitate to say all as there is so much to remember yet. I feel they held me by their will power. As long as I cooperated I was not bothered this way, but if I could not control my fear they held me by this force.”

White Song said, “When I was laying down for the first operation I was out of control and their freezing my mobility traumatized me even more so I promised not to fight them. Then they released me, but when they came at me with that nose needle, or whatever it was, I just couldn’t lay there and let them do it.”

Later on White Song also found some alien abduction books which proved helpful in her quest for information. She said, “When I saw that face on the cover of Communion by Whitley Strieber, I swept it up in my arms like a badly needed friend and took it home to devour it. I read it and gradually, page by page, the book pricked my memory. I was excited to the bone to have some answers finally.”

14-05-2014 om 16:10 geschreven door peter  

Our Peru Tour Ended Last Night at Our Farewell Dinner!

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Here are some pics!
by L. A. Marzulli

Thanks to all of you who came on The Nephilim Skulls Tour.  We will most likely be coming down to Peru again in 2015.  This time we will go to Cusco, Saqsayhuaman and the sacred valley which includes Machu Pichu, as well as Paracas and Chongos!

Puma Punku!  Stones cut how?

Large Ax Head “found” by Brian Vanderklay at a museum in Peru!

Image on Pottery – It’s never a friendly bunny rabbit!

Sr. Juan’s Musuem in Paracas!

Chongos Elongated Skull with only 1 Parietal plate!  Headboarding or something else?

 Nazca Lines!

 
Source: http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/our-peru-tour-ended-last-night-at-our-farewell-dinner/

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Complexity – A Complicated Universe – Chemistry to Biology – DNA – Part2

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Analysis of the Atacama humanoid alien

We posted earlier this week a story outlining the origin of the alleged tiny ET creature to be showcased in Dr. Steven Greer’s Sirius documentary to be released later this month. We chronicled how this creature was none other than a case known in Chile as the La Noria ET from 2003; the name comes from a ghost town of the nitrate era in this part of Chile’s northern Atacama Desert region. We left the story sort of in a cliff hanger as to what happened to it once it was acquired by a Spanish businessman from Barcelona.

We’ve discovered since a number of things, including the original 7 minute TV program about the case aired by Chile’s Megavisión Channel V shortly after the creature’s discovery was published in the local press. You can now see this program on YouTube in Spanish, and it shows exactly the location where the creature was discovered, as well as interviews with Oscar Muñoz, the man who found it, Alejandro Dávalos, the first one to photograph the being, and well known Chilean ufologist Rodrigo Fuenzalida, director of the AION UFO research group.

It’s clear that this program was done in the early stages of the La Noria case, when the little being was owned by the pub owner from the provincial capital of Iquique. He didn’t appear in the program because he probably wanted money to allow filming the creature (that was his modus operandi according to the newspaper La Estrella de Arica) and the TV channel didn’t go along with it.

More importantly, we discovered who bought the creature and what happened once it left Chile and traveled to Spain, where it has remained ever since. It turns out that its owner is Ramón Navia-Osorio, a wealthy entrepreneur from Barcelona who runs the IIEE (Spanish acronym for Institute for Exobiological Investigation and Study), a UFO organization formed in 1975. Navia-Osorio was a member for many years prior to becoming the group’s director. We found a very long report, “El Ser Antropomórfico de Atacama” (The Anthropomorphic Being from Atacama), written by Navia-Osorio himself and posted by Julio González in “Realidad OVNI” (UFO Reality), a large UFO news website from Argentina specialized in cases from Latin America, just six days ago, on April 5, 2013.

Navia-Osorio begins by recounting his trip to northern Chile ten years earlier, in late 2003, and how he met Oscar Muñoz in the ghost town of La Noria itself, and later Alejandro Dávalos, the young worker who took the first photos of the creature, and other people from the area. The contact between the Chilean and Spanish ufologists was Raúl Núñez Gálvez, a well known Chilean ufologist who lived in Spain for many years and was a member of the IIEE He, too, traveled with Navia-Osorio to La Noria. The Spanish researcher provides initially some additional historical and paranormal details about this area with ghost towns from the booming nitrate industry of the late 19th century. One curious historical detail is that Charles Darwin, the famous father of the theory of evolution, visited La Noria in 1835. We also mentioned in our previous story that paranormal activities seem to be common in this area, and the Spanish researcher mentions this fact as well. He specifically claims that one of the things seen by the locals are ghostly apparitions of 19th century funeral processions, which then vanish.

The Spanish team in La Noria in 2003. (Credit: IIEE)

Navia-Osorio also provides the name of the Iquique pub owner, Ricardo Clotet, explaining that the original transaction with Oscar Muñoz took place through his brother, Ricardo Muñoz, who in turn contacted Clotet. The details of the transaction between Clotet and Navia-Osorio are not discussed, but the rumor in Chile was that it was a fairly substantial sum, probably tens of time higher than the paltry amount of less than $100 that Clotet paid Muñoz. In any event, by 2004 the transaction took place and the creature was moved to Spain.

Inconclusive scientific backing

The Atacama humanoid’s face. (Credit: IIEE)

To his credit, Ramón Navia-Osorio made an earnest effort to have the creature analyzed by reputable scientists and medical doctors, although most of them seemed reluctant to get involved and specially to put their names in a signed report with conclusions. On July 5, 2004, the creature was presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Barcelona, where it was examined by several doctors, biologists and zoologists whose names are given in Navia-Osorio’s report. He complains about the close-minded attitude of many of the scientists from the prestigious Complutense University in Madrid and other academic institutions. He claims that some of these professors would admit off-the-record that there was something truly unique and strange about the creature, but would refuse to state the same thing in a written report or even in an audio or video recording.

Navia-Osorio provides the text of two scientific documents in his report. The first one is the “radiological” report signed by doctors E. Feijoo, C. López and J. M. Colomer. It basically consists on a detailed description of the creature itself but it obviously avoids giving any conclusion about its origin. It is clear from this report, however, that the creature is not a crude hoax as was cavalierly suggested by a Complutense scientist who suggested (while remaining anonymous) that the whole thing was a hoax made with bird bones.

The second transcribed document is a forensic medical report written by Dr. Francisco Etxeberria Gabilondo, a professor of Legal and Forensic Medicine in the Basque Country University, and specialist in Forensic Anthropology with the Complutense University, who wrote the study at the bequest of the IIEE (probably for a fee, although that is not mentioned). Dr. Etxeberria wrote that, “it’s a mummified body with all typical the characteristics of a fetus. The body has a length of 14 cm and displays all the structures and anatomical links normal for the head, trunk and extremities.” He continues with a detailed description of each part of the body and finally gives his overall view:

Atacama Alien Xray. (Credit: IIEE)

“Taken as a whole, the proportions of the anatomical structures (skeleton and softer parts), the level of development of each one of its bones and its macroscopic configuration, allow us to interpret it without any shadow of doubt as a completely normal mummified fetus…Both based on the total length of the body as well as the length of the bones, it can be estimated that it’s a fetus in an approximate gestation period close to 15 weeks.”

The next question is how did this fetus, if that’s what it is, showed up in the abandoned area near the old church of La Noria where it was found by Oscar Muñoz wrapped in a cloth. Obviously nobody knows but Dr. Etxeberria speculates that it could a bit old but probably not an ancient mummified fetus. He explains that due to their lack of “bacterial flora in the digestive tube, which is where the putrefaction of corpses begin,” and other factors, fetuses can be preserved quite well. To this we must add the environmental conditions of the Atacama region, which is the driest desert on Earth, and is perfect for the preservation of objects of various kinds. In fact, the area near the city of Arica is famous for its 10,000-year old mummies far older than those from Egypt, but Dr. Etxeberria explains that it’s unlikely to be very ancient, meaning by that hundreds of years.

Atacama humanoid’s back. (Credit: IIEE)

The Greer connection

The final part of Ramón Navia-Osorio’s long article describes briefly how Dr. Steven Greer became involved in this case. The link was made by Dr. Bravo, a female doctor from Dallas, who brought Dr. Greer to the IIEE office in Barcelona. The Spanish researcher mentions here some of the claims contained in the promotional material released by the producers of the Sirius documentary, including DNA sequencing which allegedly found the Atacama being had an “unknown classification.” Until we see the film, we can’t judge how valid is the scientific evidence presented.

That, in essence, is the saga of the little mummy from its early days in the Chilean ghost town to Spain’s scientific labs. In his final conclusions, Navia-Osorio writes that, “we are not among those who claim that it’s an ET, although morphologically speaking it really looks similar to some of them. We can’t deny that, but before asserting it we must consider other possibilities. In summary, we don’t have conclusive proof that can determine the nature of the specimen.”

Human fetal skeleton at 7 to 9 months, 15 inches tall. (Credit: Bone Clones)

UPDATE:

Sirius filmmakers release Atacama humanoid sex and age (click to see story)

Scientist says Atacama humanoid is human but still a mystery (click to see story)

Other stories on Atacama humanoid:

UFO documentary reveals “humanoid of unknown classification” (click to see story)

Background of UFO documentary’s humanoid alien revealed (click to see story)

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14-05-2014 om 11:06 geschreven door peter  

Pope says baptism for all - even Martians

                

Pope Francis during his weekly audience in St Peter's Square earlier this month. Photo: AFP

Vatican City: Pope Francis has declared everyone has the right to be baptised, even aliens should they come knocking on the church's door.

Christians cannot "close the door" to all those who seek baptism even if they are "green men, with a long nose and big ears, like children draw," the pope said at his daily mass on Monday, according to Vatican Radio.

"If tomorrow, for example, an expedition of Martians arrives and some of them come to us ... and if one of them says: 'Me, I want to be baptised!', what would happen?" Francis said in another display of his lively sense of humour.

The Argentine pontiff known for his down-to-earth style has often used colourful and humorous expressions to make his points on the direction of the Roman Catholic Church.

On baptism Francis has stressed that it should not be refused, especially to children whose parents may be breaking Church rules such as living together as an unmarried couple.

AFP

{Sydney Morning Herald}

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