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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
11-06-2014
1915 Report Of Unearthing A Giant Skeleton In Arizona
1915 Report Of Unearthing A Giant Skeleton In Arizona
El Paso Herald, April 19, 1915. A report of the unearthing of a giant skeleton from Arizona is given. “The skeleton of a giant fully eight feet tall has been found near Silver City”, said H. E. Davis. “The thigh bone of this ancient inhabitant of the southwest measures two inches more than the ordinary man and must have been a giant of great strength. The jaw bone is large enough to fit over the jaw of an ordinary man. A peculiarity of the forehead is that it recedes from the eyes like that of an ape. The similarity is still further found in the sharp bones under the eyes. The skeleton was found encased in baked mud, indicating that encasing the corpse in mud and baking them was the mode of embalming. Near the skeleton was found a stone weighing 12 pounds which, judging from its shape, must have been a club. The wooden handle has rotted away but there are marks on the stone that indicate that it had been bound to a wooden handle with tongs. It is rather peculiar that less than 30 miles from where this skeleton was found and located on the Gile river are the former houses of a tribe of small cliff dwellers. The existence of these two races so near together form an interesting topic.” These “gorilla-like” or “monkey-like” skulls have been reported in many states, several times by Smithsonian personnel. Professor Thomas Wilson the curator of Prehistoric Anthropology for the Smithsonian, said the following about the find of an eight foot one and a half inch giant skeleton in Miamisburg, Ohio in 1897, “The authenticity of the skull is beyond doubt, Its antiquity is unquestionably great. To my own personal knowledge several such crania were discovered in the Hopewell group of mounds in Ohio, exhibiting monkey-like traits.” In 1923, John Peabody Harrington working for the Smithsonian during an excavation of the Burton mound in Santa Barbara California unearthed gorilla-like skulls with 7 inch jaws and 3/4 inch skulls. Sounds like alot of monkey business has been going on that Anthropology has yet to address.
Lewiston Evening Journal, July 25, 1907 pg 2. A report of unusually large skeletons found in Maine is given. “It is likely that the visitors of the Tercentennial, either at Bath or at Popham, may have the privilege of seeing skeletons of two of the magnificent specimens of physical manhood such as the American Indian of the days Sebenio, Samoset, Nahanada and Sansoa really were. Which, being interpreted, is that when James Perkins dug the cellar of his house at Popham Beach, …on the knoll next north of the Riverside Hotel, the skeletons unearthed, who were, in life from six to seven feet in height, giants in fact.
Mr. Perkins took the jaw bone of one of these Indians and placed it on his own face. It completely encased his jaw and he is a pretty good sized man. Mr. Perkins gathered all the bones of these two skeletons together and placed them in a barrel and reinterred them so. It is proposed to dig up the barrel and have the bones set together to illustrate what manner of inhabitants Weymouth and Popham discovered in the earliest years of the 17th century when they arrived in this section of Maine.” This bio is from the Penobscot Maine Maritime Museum, “Captain James E. Perkins was born in 1867 and grew up in Popham Village, on the shore of Atkins Bay at the mouth of the Kennebec. His view of the world was shaped by the river and its bustling maritime activity. Steamboats that serviced coastal and island communities, Boston-bound vessels carrying passengers and freight, work boats and pleasure craft made the Kennebec a busy thoroughfare.
Perkins was hired at age 15 as first mate on the steam tug Adelia and in 1889, at age 22, became the youngest captain on the Kennebec when he took the helm of the Percy V. He navigated the river for more than three decades as captain of a succession of steamboats: Damarin, El Dorado, Island Belle, Winter Harbor, Islesford, and Sabino.” Perkins was also an accomplished portrait photographer and the Penobscot Museum has 530 glass plate negatives of his work. Perkins was reported to have been keenly interested n the history of Maine and had a love for his community, he passed away in 1935. I have contacted countless museums and historical societies on the trail of this mystery but the reality is that the sheer volume of reports makes it a long and painstaking process to hunt down information regarding these finds. I have been in touch with Penobscot Museum and hopefully I can learn more about this matter. Records, diaries and family accounts will eventually add to the body of evidence needed to fill in the gaps of a phenomena alarmingly ignored by those whose job it is to dig for the truth.
Google relied on UFO watchers to track rogue Loon balloon
Google claimed responsibility for a cigar-shaped UFO that was seen in multiple states in October 2012. And now the technology giant has revealed more details about the incident.
The UFO sighting generated major headlines in 2012 after amateur astronomer Allen Epling captured photos and video of a strange cigar-shaped UFO in Kentucky in October 2012. A couple weeks later, local media reported that the UFO was simply a toy solar balloon. But many doubted this identification. It wasn’t until nearly a year later that Google stepped up to announce that the UFO was theirs.
Wired reported that Epling and others witnessed “a test of Project Loon, a breathtakingly ambitious plan to bring the Internet to a huge swath of as-yet-unconnected humanity—via thousands of solar-powered, high-pressure balloons floating some 60,000 feet above Earth.” Not everyone bought Google’s story because the Project Loon balloon images released by Google looked nothing like the images captured by Epling. But now Google has an explanation for that.
On May 17 at Smithsonian magazine’s “The Future is Here” festival in Washington, DC, Google X Chief Technical Architect Rich DeVaul announced that the 2012 UFO was a 120-foot-long cylinder prototype called a Falcon 11. Subsequent Loon balloon designs reportedly took on a more conventional appearance.
Google X’s Rich DeVaul. (Credit: Google)
DeVaul also revealed that this Falcon 11 prototype was only supposed to take a brief test flight in California. But it malfunctioned, leading to its cross-country flight. In addition to losing control of the balloon, Google team members also lost the ability to track the rogue balloon. As Space.com reports, “Instead, they found themselves relying on UFO watchers across the country, tracing its trip from California to its most famous sighting in Kentucky, then on to Canada over the course of 11 days.” DeVaul adds, “If you want to start a secret stratospheric program, and one project goes rogue, you can outsource your tracking to the UFO guys.”
Google’s Project Loon had reportedly been in development for two years before it was unveiled on June 15, 2013.
Despite these latest details, there are sure to be those who still doubt that Google was truly responsible for the 2012 UFO sighting.
A New York witness at Middletown reported watching a slow moving, rectangle-shaped UFO just 20 feet from her home at the tree top level after a humming sound caused her to look out a window, according to June 10, 2014, testimony in Case 56979 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was inside watching television at 1:30 a.m. on May 5, 2014, when the humming sound caused her to investigate.
The witness remained inside the home and afraid while the object hovered just 20 feet from the home for more than five minutes. Pictured: Middletown, NY, skyline. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“I saw three orange glowing lights in a rectangle form and it was moving very slow,” the witness stated. “I watched in disbelief and I was, to be honest, very afraid.”
The object then hovered near the witnesses’ home for about four to five minutes until its lights went out suddenly.
“The lights disappeared like someone was hitting the switch.”
The witness stated that an object with the same description appeared over her previous farm house less than two years ago and that her husband saw the object with her then.
An odd humming sound sent the witness to a window where the object was seen at the tree top level just 20 feet from the home. Pictured: Middletown, NY. (Credit: Google)
Middletown is a city in Orange County, NY, population 25,388. New York MUFON is investigating. New York has a current UFO Alert Rating of 3 with a high number of recent reports nationally. New York had 31 UFO reports in May 2014 – the 3rd highest reporting state – while California had 102 reports as the highest reporting state. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
The witness and her husband saw the same UFO less than two years earlier at their previous farm house. Pictured: Street scene in Middletown, NY. (Credit: Google)
The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 150 or more reports for the month are rated an Alert 1; states with 100 or more reports are rated an Alert 2; 25 reports or more for the month are rated an Alert 3; 13 or more reports are rated an Alert 4; and those states with less than 13 reports for the month are an Alert 5.
Hsu Yun (aka Xu-Yun), famous Chan Buddhist monk, recounts a UFO sighting from 1884 in his autobiography.
Last week we received an email from Sanjin Đumišić, a Swedish writer, photographer, intermedia composer and editor-in-chief for the Swedish music site AlltFörMusik.se. He wanted us to check out his blog entry about a cool discovery he made while reading the autobiography of a famous Chan Buddhist.
Chan is often described as Chinese Zen Buddhism, of which Hsu Yun was one of the most influential Buddhist masters. He is believed to have lived for 119 years. He was born in 1840, and died in 1959. Online you can find a pictorial biography of the life on Master Hsu Yun, and also his autobiography, titled Empty Cloud(the UFO sighting is on pages 47 and 48 of this pdf).
Sanjin was surprised to discover a passage recounting Hsu Yun’s visit to Da-luo Peak in 1884, where he went to pay respects to the “wisdom lamps.” Hsu Yun writes:
I climbed the Da-luo Peak, where I paid reverence to the ‘wisdom lamps’ said to appear there. I saw nothing the first night but on the second, I saw a great ball of light flying from the Northern to the Central Peak, where it came down, splitting a short while later into over ten balls of different sizes. The same night, I saw on the Central Peak three balls of light flying up and down in the air and on the Northern Peak, four balls of light which varied in size.
This story can also be found in the pictorial biography and reads:
The Master bowed to the Wisdom Lamps on top of Ta Lo Mountain.
People often came to this spot to witness what fortune they might.
At first there was nothing unusual, but then they all appeared:
Large ones, small ones, and in between – each fireball was unique.
Hsu Yun has two Buddhist orders named after him, and although he is so famous, I could not find any more information about the “wisdom lights.” However, the area where he saw them does now have a Buddhist temple.
Sanjin was surprised to come across this UFO reference in an unrelated book. He writes in his blog, “There must be so much more of these observations hidden in books you don’t expect to find any UFO references.”
Dai Luoding Temple. (Credit: wangchao.net.cn)
Thanks to Sanjin Đumišić for the tip. You can read his blog at sanjindumisic.com.
When most people think of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, pictures of pest-hardy soya beans spring to mind, yet the true implications of this term are not widely considered.
Though the consumption of GMOs is a subject for debate in itself, there are other, less obvious areas in which other forms of genetic engineering could have - and are having - dramatic effects on our daily lives. In truth, under the umbrella of the term "genetic engineering," scientists have been given almost free rein to pursue a host of wild and weird endeavors that have resulted in some extremely questionable results.
Astonishingly, genetic engineering is a practically unregulated area of science, at least in terms of ethics. Any regulations that are currently in place primarily assess food health risks rather than ethical considerations and, consequently, chimeras, clones and human-animal hybrids and other such freakish combinations have been created over the years in the interests of science.
The "Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals" page of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website reads thus:
"Genetic engineering involves producing and introducing a piece of DNA (the rDNA construct) into an organism so new or changed traits can be given to that organism. The rDNA construct can either come from another existing organism, or be synthesized in a laboratory. Although conventional breeding methods have been used for a long time to select for desirable traits in animals, genetic engineering is a much more targeted and powerful method of actually introducing specific desirable traits into animals."
So, apparently it is ethical to pervert nature and spawn designer animals with specific traits to order, but what are the future implications of this?
If the practice of genetically engineering animals was restricted to the production of cows with higher milk yields or lower fat content, then perhaps there would be little cause for concern, but some research projects have manipulated bovine genes in order to grow human clones in cow wombs. This process, which was being carried out over a decade ago, engineered over 200 cow-human embryos. In an article dated June 19 2011, The London Telegraph announced that “scientists have found they can create chimeric animals that have organs belonging to another species by injecting stem cells into the embryo of another species.”
A Daily Mail article from 2011 described how scientists have managed to create over 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories. The top secret research was conducted by researchers looking into possible cures for a wide range of diseases, but it was labelled as "grotesque" by campaigners againstthe excesses of medical research.
The article described how the 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act had legalised the creation of a variety of hybrids, including an animal egg fertilised by a human sperm; ‘cybrids’, in which a human nucleus is implanted into an animal cell; and ‘chimeras’, in which human cells are mixed with animal embryos.
The applications of genetic engineering seem to be limitless, encompassing everything from genetically modified foods to human milk in cow's udders, and the justification for such procedures is that they will ultimately help to feed the planet or aid in disease prevention, but will "playing God" in such a way eventually have catastrophic results?
William Muir and Richard Howard of Purdue University, Indiana, warned their peers about a ‘trojan’ gene in fish which could totally wipe out other natural forms of fish if G.M. fish carriers were released into the wild or escaped from farms.
“This resembles the Trojan horse,” said Muir. “It gets into the population looking like something good and it ends up destroying the population.”
If humans are also routinely cloned in the future, could such mutant genes eventually wipe out our species? Aside from natural mutations or infections, this type of research also paves the way for privately sponsored studies to create specifically designed biological weapons that could also wipe out huge sections of the world's populations.
A sobering thought.
So, when did we begin to manipulate genes and alter the balance of Nature so radically?
The science of genetic engineering is relatively new, with the first direct transfer of DNA from one organism to another accomplished by Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen in 1973, but was their radical work inspired by alien intervention?
The answer to this may never be known, but there is mounting evidence to suggest that our human DNA already carries an extraterrestrial "stamp" embedded into our genetic code, in the form of a mathematical message that could not have evolved naturally and is therefore not explainable using the accepted Darwin's theory of biological evolution.
Physicist Vladimir I. shCherbak of al-Farabi Kazakh National University of Kazakhstan and astrobiologist Maxim A. Makukov of the Fesenkvo Astrophysical Institute suggest that an advanced alien civilization "seeded" our galaxy eons ago with an ET signal that eventually found its way to Earth, implanting a genetic code into humans, a process that they refer to as "biological SETI."
But it seems that this process could still be ongoing.
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THE Knowles family set out from Perth for Melbourne, in the hope of finding new jobs. Instead, a terrifying and violent 90-minute encounter with a UFO on the Nullarbor Plain left them so shaken they turned around and headed home.
The family claim the glowing UFO, shaped like an egg in an eggcup, chased and even lifted their car off the road, dropping it so heavily a tyre burst.
During the height of the encounter in January 1988, they said their voices became distorted and sounded like they were in slow motion.
They said they drove at speeds up to 200km/h, that the car was covered inside and out by a black ash, and that the UFO landed on the roof, leaving dents.
The incident on January 20 made world headlines, with many treating their story with scepticism — so much so that the Knowles family retreated from public view before being allegedly duped by an Adelaide marketing man, and losing the car after failing to continue its repayments.
What the family said
Here’s what the Knowles family — mother Faye, Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne, 18, (ages at the time of the incident) say happened while driving their Ford Telstar, about 40km east of Mundrabilla near the SA-WA border.
It was a little before 5am when Sean swerved to miss a huge “bright glowing” object on the road.
It was bright and white with a yellow centre, shaped like an egg in an eggcup and about a metre wide, high enough to block their view.
“It was a weird-looking thing and we stopped to go back and have a look at it,” Sean told The Advertiser.
Walking towards the object, they became frightened and ran back to the car and drove away.
“It chased us and at one stage when we were trying to get away we were doing up to 200km/h,” he said.
He said the object, which was humming like a transformer, landed on the roof with a thump, pushing down the car and then lifting it from the road.
His mother reached out the window to touch the object, which she said felt hot.
“She told me it felt like a rubber suction pad,’’ he said.
When Mrs Knowles brought her hand back inside, it was covered with a fine dust.
While suspended in the air, their voices were distorted and it appeared as though they were talking in slow motion.
“I wound down the window — it came in the car like smoke,” Mrs Knowles told Channel 7. “We thought we were going to die. We were going silly. Something was going into our heads.”
Patrick said: “Something seemed to be on top of us. We looked around but it didn’t seem to be there. It seemed to kind of grab the car.
“I wound up the windows and the car began to smoke up inside. It smelt like dead bodies or something smelt really foul, like gas or something.’’
He said he felt as though his brains were being pulled from his head.
When the car dropped to the ground it blew a tyre.
The family hid in a bush and after about 30 minutes replaced the tyre and drove to the Mundrabilla roadhouse, where truckie Graham Henley said he also had seen the bright light in the area in his rear-vision mirror.
It was hovering above The Basin on the sweeping stretch of road just flickering in and out between the trees,” he said.
He said the family was in a state of shock and even their dogs were cowering in the car.
“The whole car smelt like bakelite or just like as if you’d blown a fuse,” he said.
“A soot was all over the car and there were four dents as though the car had been picked up by a magnet.
“I cannot explain it but all I know is that I saw four very terrified people at 4.45 on Wednesday morning.”
Police investigating the incident said the car had a dented roof and was covered with an ash-like material.
Ceduna policeman Sergeant Fred Longley said Mrs Knowles and her sons were obviously distressed when they walked into the police station.
“They were in a terrible state — even though it was five hours after the incident. Something happened out there. Their car, even after being driven all that way, still had black ash — or dust — over it. Even on the inside. Where did that come from? There’s no soil like that out there, only sand.”
And Ceduna officer Sergeant Jim Furnell said the car had dents in the roof “as if something had landed on top”.
The investigation — and the theories
Two theories emerged. First, that it was debris from a meteorite, which would explain the ash and the smell. Second, light from a car beam refracted and distorted by warmer air lying over colder air.
A research physicist from the University of Wollongong, Glen Moore, told The Advertiser at the time it was probably a rare sighting of a falling, disintegrating meteorite.
The Knowles family’s description of a bright light, violent shaking, vehicle damage, smell and the deposit of powder-like material was consistent with the falling disintegration of a carbonaceous meteorite.
Bright lights spotted by tuna fishermen in the Great Australian Bight at the same time supported the theory.
Nine months later a bus driver reported a similar light near Mundrabilla. Allan Brunt, former regional director of the Bureau of Meteorology, gave a much more banal — but still fascinating — reason: weather.
He said on both nights there was warmer air overlying colder air across a wide area of the Nullarbor Plain.
Called a temperature inversion, it can refract and bends the light’s path, making it seem higher than it is. It also distorts its shape, colour, size and intensity.
Mr Brunt believes the Knowles family saw the refracted light of an approaching truck.
“It was the distorted image of its headlights which was so frightening and bizarre,” said Mr Brunt.
The rest was “their own imagination whilst in a state of fright”.
The tuna fishermen probably saw the refracted light of another ship and the bus driver, Mr Brunt believes, saw Jupiter.
He said the flat desert conditions of the Nullarbor Plain make it an almost perfect place for UFO spotting.
What about the ash and damage?
Analysis of the ash found it wasn’t extraterrestrial. It was from the interior of a burnt-out brake lining. The blown tyre was consistent with a high-speed tyre blowout.
The dents on the roof were insignificant, and it couldn’t be established if they were there before the UFO report.
Sean said he was doing 200km/h to escape from under the UFO.
According to the manufacturer, the Telstar could never reach that speed on the ground. Tests in Adelaide — conducted with the car’s wheels off the ground on jacks — took the speedo to 200km/h.
But — and here’s a big but — according to the 1990 UFO Report by Timothy Good, the “dust” was also analysed at the Philips Laboratory by Dr Richard Haines in July 1988.
He concluded the dust taken from the interior of the car was different to the dust sampled from the exterior.
And he found the interior dust was not from the brake system of the car.
Unusually, it possibly contained sodium chloride — or salt — and the atomic element astatine, which is only produced synthetically. It would have decayed by the time the Knowles arrived at Ceduna, where the samples were taken, giving just a possible reading.
It did contain oxygen, carbon, calcium, silicon, potassium — and fibres of typical pipe insulation.
An officer later said just a few specks of dust had been recovered from the car, pointing out it had been driven 500km to Ceduna after the incident and townspeople had swarmed all over it, rendering it almost valueless for forensic evidence.
Investigation of the Knowles’ story was difficult for both sceptics and UFO researchers because they were reportedly paid by a TV station, which forced people to mediate with it to speak to the family.
What happened next?
Four months after the Knowles’ encounter, they had moved out of their Perth home, saying their former friends and acquaintances thought they were crazy.
They said the incident had cost them about $18,000, and they lost the car because they couldn’t meet the repayments. The six weeks away from home took the rest of their savings.
They claim a Wes Johnstone of Multi-Level Advertising took the car and promised to make them rich with promotional appearances.
“He told us it could be used in television commercials, a documentary and taken around shopping centres where people would pay to see it,” Faye Knowles said.
“But we didn’t get a cent; we don’t even know if the car was promoted at all, and now we have lost it.”
The 1984 blue Telstar was auctioned in June 1988 for $7050 to Gary Hancock, of Southside Motors.
At the time, The Advertiser reported Mr Johnstone had stored the car for five months but hadn’t been heard of since February.
And Patrick said he was fed up with sceptics who disputed the UFO encounter.
“We are trying to forget the sharks who promised us money from our experience — they only wanted to use us,’’ he said. “We just want to get on with our lives, find jobs and settle down somewhere in Perth where people do not ridicule us in the street.”
Location: Between Dhaka India & Chittagong, Bangladesh Date: July 19 1993
Time: unknown
A passenger onboard flight TG919 from London Heathrow to Hong Kong via Bangkok witnessed a very bright object which he believed was stationary or moving slowly. Through a transparent cockpit he could see three occupants in line facing a large screen. The occupants were very tall and thin, they had no clothes on, and their bodies were red (like they were sunburned).
HC addendum… Source: MOD Files Released February 2010
Type: A Comments: Rare report of occupied UFO seen by witnesses from onboard an aircraft. (There are several of these on record).
Nitinol wire, a metal alloy made from nickel and titanium, basically has magic properties that lets it remember its 'original' shape. You can bend it over and over, twist it up, bunch it together and confuse the heck out of it however much you want but once you throw it in hot water, it'll snap back to its original shape.
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Spiders Use Chastity Belts to Protect Mates from Web-Hoppers
Spiders Use Chastity Belts to Protect Mates from Web-Hoppers
A spider who spent a lot of time spinning in a Shakespearean theater once said, “O, what a tangled web we weave when we practice to cheat on our mates.” OK, the original quote isn’t from the Bard and this one isn’t from an arachnid, but recent research has uncovered new evidence of dwarf spiders using chastity plugs to keep their mates from web-hopping.
Gabriele Uhl of the Zoological Institute and Museum in Greifswald, Germany, discovered that male dwarf spiders (Oedothorax retusus) mate with females, then fill their two copulating ducts with a liquid that hardens into plugs which will theoretically block any other males from entering – kind of an insect chastity belt. Katrin Kunz, also of the Institute, recently joined with Uhl to study the effectiveness of these plugs and publish the results in an article in Springer’s journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
They found that the liquid used needs time to harden, resulting in different sizes of plugs. After the plugs hardened, they placed the females with other males for a time, then examined the females with an electron microscope.
A female Oedothorax retusus spider with the genital region that the male plugs up highlighted by a red square,
Not surprisingly, they determined that bigger is better when it comes to chastity plugs. Smaller sizes can be removed completely by other males or shoved to the side in the heat of spider passion. The hardness of the plug also contributed to their effectiveness, so male dwarf spiders need to keep their pregnant mates pacified with dead fly candies until they’re fully protected, usually in about a day. Even if the rival male manages to force a small opening, their sperm still has a difficult time making its way down the duct that leads to the female sperm storage organ.
Kunz is impressed with the dwarf spider’s birth control device.
The mating plug in the dwarf spider clearly functions as a mechanical obstacle to rival males. Mating plugs are a powerful mechanical safeguard whose efficacy varies with plug size and age.
I wonder if a dwarf spider male ever thought about using this technique when its mate said, “We need to talk.”
I normally don’t post unattributed and/or anonymous quotes about anything but the following was sent to me by Ken Smith, a friend of the person who requested that his name and company not be published. Ken and I have been in communication since September of last year and he gave me permission to use his name. I independently verified the identity of the person quoted below and the company he now works for:
“Before I became a Rehired Annuitant agent, I was contacted by a (now former) friend of mine who became a regional director for MUFON. He and I had worked together on a project related to Area 51 and he was always asking leading questions about 51’s activities. When I retired from Federal service and before I came to (company redacted), my friend and I had lunch and he wanted to recruit me. The offer was enticing until he related that most of MUFON’s public information was intentionally bogus or redacted to the point that the common person would be interested in their reports and not challenge it. I plainly told him that I report what I see and hear and that I have never manufactured information for the sake of notoriety. He fired back that MUFON is a respected organization, which has conducted valid investigations, but the completed investigations have never been released as the U.S. State Dept. and the CIA basically control this activity. Financial connection? – You bet.”
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Is it Natural? Is it HAARP? Or is it something more Sinister???
Eerie howling continues to reverberate from the upper atmosphere. Most people who hear the haunting noises feel a sense of dread. It isn’t like anything they’ve ever experienced. Some people believe that the sounds are the result of HAARP technology being shot into the ionosphere by the government.
A New York witness at North Creek reported watching and photographing three bright spheres slowly moving at the tree level, according to June 10, 2014, testimony in Case 56984 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness noticed lights in the sky at 2:02 a.m. on June 4, 2014, and stepped outside for a better look.
“I saw movement,” the witness stated, “three bright lights in the distance coming across the mountain from the southeast.”
The witness quickly stepped inside to retrieve a cell phone, set it to record video (seen above), and moved back outside.
“The objects were now the size of basketballs and kept getting larger. I aimed the camera at the first object, could not capture all three at the same time, and was able to get five seconds, and then the recorder stopped.”
The witness stepped back inside, reset the phone to capture still images, and then stepped back outside again and was able to capture the other two objects.
Witness photo of two orbs that appeared to be the size of basketballs. (Credit: MUFON)
“I sat unbelieving and mesmerized for about 10 minutes. Then the first orb began to move closer and downward. I was convinced it was headed at me. Suddenly another dimmer, comet-like (had a tail) object streaked in near the orb towards the Earth. Both passed out of view around the edge of the house.”
The witness then began to focus on the other two orb-like objects.
“They were slowly moving down across the mountain, through the trees about 50-100 yards away. The one on the left sunk below my vision. The one on the right passed through the trees while descending. This caused it to appear to be blinking. I finally lost sight of it.”
The witness went back inside and a few minutes later sent a Facebook message to his daughters. The timestamp on that message is 2:21 a.m.
Main Street in North Creek. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
North Creek is a hamlet in the Adirondack Park, in the town of Johnsburg, in Warren County, NY. Johnsburg has a population of 2,450. New York MUFON is investigating. New York has a current UFO Alert Rating of 3 with a high number of recent reports nationally. New York had 31 UFO reports in May 2014 – the 3rd highest reporting state – while California had 102 reports as the highest reporting state. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
The objects came from the nearby mountain area and appeared to move in a controlled manner. (Credit: Google)
The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 150 or more reports for the month are rated an Alert 1; states with 100 or more reports are rated an Alert 2; 25 reports or more for the month are rated an Alert 3; 13 or more reports are rated an Alert 4; and those states with less than 13 reports for the month are an Alert 5.
Lake Chelan is 55 miles long and said to be 1,486 feet deep. It’s located in Chelan County, northern Washington. There have been many claims over the years of underwater caverns in the lake, that the lake is connected to other area lakes and some even think there is an underwater connection to the Pacific.
A lake of this size has an abundant fish population that could easily sustain such a large animal.
The Lake Chelan Dragon is thought to be related to the Loch Ness Monster who is believed to be a female. The dragon is believed to be the male, as it has the ability to fly. Local natives to the area have a long running history with encounters with the Lake Chelan Dragon. According to one legend, Native Americans discovered a devil living in its depths and tried to kill the beast by damming the lake. But, it survived.
The creature resurfaced in 1892. According to a local newspaper, an unidentified young man was bathing in the lake when some very sharp jaws locked onto his legs. The man screamed for help, and two of his friends tried to pull him out. But the hungry monster had other plans. After a life-and-death game of tug-of-war, the men dragged their friend onto the beach—with the creature still clamped onto his legs. The thing had the legs and body of an alligator, the head and eyes of a snake, a scaly tail, and bat wings. And though its skin was “soft as velvet,” the beast was impossible to kill. The men attacked the monster with knives, rocks, and sticks to no avail. The creature wasn’t letting go. Eventually, they built a fire and dragged the dragon over the flames. That got a reaction—a bad one. The dragon flapped its wings and soared into the air, with the man still in its mouth. Suddenly, it dived into the lake, disappearing along with its victim.
It had legs and body like an alligator and the head and eyes of a serpent. Between its fore and hind legs were large ribbed wings.
Many prominent locals have made claims to having seen the Lake Chelan Dragon throughout the lake recently.
The Pirate Legend
Two hundred years ago, a Scotsmen, born in Fort Augustus took a treasure chest from the Fort where his Father was a soldier, and it was assumed that the chest was filled with gold and other riches, and set out to sea on a long journey. However its true contents were discovered by the Captain and crew during a mysterious and violent storm off the coast of Washington in 1812.
Somehow the ship was transported to what is now known as Lake Chelan. The ship under great stress was tossed violently in the storm, and the chest and its contents were washed overboard into the water below. The Captain not willing to loose his mysterious prize dove into the water after it. He held on to the treasure chest and it took him quickly down to the crushing depths of the nearly 1,500 foot deep lake.
Unbeknownst to the crew, two female stowaways were on board who kept watchful eyes on the chest. Stewards to its precious contents. They too, jumped in after the chest and as they hit the water the crew watched with disbelief as it appeared that their feet transformed into fish-like fins as they breached, then dove into the angry water. Mermaids! One went after the chest the other after the Captain. The Captain was taken to the shore and the chest was taken deep, deep down into a under water cavern. Where its contents, an egg, cracked open and a hatchling emerged.
Inside the international scientific community, cryptozoology – the study of animals whose existence has not been recognized yet by zoologists – is seen as a futile hobby for naive and romantic people.
However, the simple consideration that just about 250 years ago the classified animal species amounted approximately to one thousand, should lead to a more conservative and less dogmatic approach, not forgetting that still nowadays new species are being discovered every year.
The purpose of this article is to analyze evidence and testimony concerning some peculiar animals and then, in the second part, examine reports about the alleged presence of strange beings that do not seem to be mere animals.
The Loch Ness Monster
Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle. (Credit: Asbestos/Wikimedia Commons)
The most anomalous and, at the same time, talked about animal is undoubtedly Nessie, the creature that allegedly lives in the cold waters of Loch Ness, the largest freshwater lake in Scotland, between Inverness and Fort Augustus.
Some researchers, without analyzing the vast amount of evidence, state that the whole phenomenon is nothing but a modern gimmick to boost tourism in the area. On the contrary,an examination of past works and medieval chronicles shows a totally different story. Legends abounded in the Middle Ages and one of these concerned the water horse or kelpie that would have lived in many Scottish lochs.
The first known record of a “monster” in the loch dates back to 565 a.d. St. Columba, the man who brought Christian religion to Scotland, was on his way to visit Brude, King of the Northern Picts in Inverness. His biographer, Adamnan, wrote in his Life of Saint Columba, of the “driving away of a certain water monster by the virtue of the prayer of the holy man“. Columba arrived on the banks of Loch Ness at a place where there was a ferry coble. There he found some Picts burying a man who had been bitten to death by a water monster while he was swimming. Columba ordered one of his men to swim across the water and return with the coble moored on the far side. However, the monster, saw the surface of the water disturbed by the swimmer, and suddenly came up and moved towards the man. At that point, St. Columba saw the creature coming, formed the sign of the Cross in the air and commanded the ferocious monster saying “Thou shalt go no further nor touch the man: go back with all speed“. Hearing the voice of the saint, the monster was terrified and fled quickly.
Scottish newspaper article from April 1934.
St. Columba is also credited with another brush with the animal. According to this legend, the beast towed the saint’s boat across the loch and was granted perpetual freedom of the loch as a reward.
Of course the story itself proves nothing, but it is a remarkable coincidence that, of all Scottish lochs, Adamnan should record that St. Columba encountered a water monster in Loch Ness.
Other reports concerning encounters with animals described as “leviathans”, “monsters” and “serpents” come from sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Richard Franck, a literary trooper in Cromwell’s army who had lived for some years in a garrison of English soldiers stationed in Inverness, wrote about a “floating island” that would have been allegedly present on the loch’s surface. Also the famous writer Sir Walter Scott in 1827 mentioned a “water monster” in one of his diaries. As you can see, the belief in the existence of unknown animals in Loch Ness is very old and, starting from sixth century, it accompanied the local inhabitants throughout the centuries.
It is, however, in 1933, that the monster made its newspaper headline debut. Mr. and Mrs. Mckay were driving along the northern shore of Loch Ness where the new road had been recently completed, near the town of Abriachan, when they saw, in the center of the loch, a surging mass of water out of which came an enormous animal which rolled and plunged before disappearing with a great upsurge of water.
After this report, several thousand people believed they have seen an unknown animal in Loch Ness, all coherent in describing an animal from about 5 to 8 meters long, with a dark grey elongated neck.
Time after time, the interest in Nessie grew exponentially, culminating in two underwater scans performed by using sonars (in 1972 and 1987) onboard vessels that travelled across the surface of Loch Ness. The results were extremely interesting. Something solid and quite big (10 meters) was detected deep in the lake, but it was not possible to determine with certainty whether it was actually a single animal or a group of fishes or of some trees.
This 1975 Loch Ness photograph by Charles W. Wyckoff was enhanced by computer at the Jet Propulsion Lab to better define object outlines. (Credit: JPL-enhanced photo courtesy of Robert Rines)
Several assumptions have been made as regards the possible nature of Nessie. Many pictures show a remarkable resemblance to the plesiosaur, a prehistoric animal. The presence of huge fins (photographed in 1972 with an underwater camera) and the long neck are elements that do strongly support such hypothesis. Other scholars, especially Bernard Heuvelmans, claimed that Nessie would be a still unknown animal which they renamed Megalotaria longicollis. In any case, two crucial problems arise: in order to make the existence of such a carnivorous animal possible, a huge quantity of fish should be available in the loch, a quantity that is not present there; moreover, in order to ensure the reproduction of the species, we should postulate the existence of a lot of animals of this kind.
So, what hides in the deep waters of Loch Ness? The evidence supporting the possible existence of an unknown animal in the loch are numerous, but, from the late Nineties, the testimony has significantly decreased year after year (nowadays sightings seem to have ceased), leading to one possible conclusion: the mysterious creatures that have been sighted for centuries have become extinct, in which case, the phenomenon was not a mere hoax invented for touristic reasons.
Loch Ness is not the only lake where you can find ancient traditions, modern photographic evidence and testimony regarding the presence of animals similar to plesiosaurs. There is the animal that allegedly lives in Lake Champlain in Upper New York State, the so-called Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan (Canada), the beast of Lough Earne (Ireland) and similar traditions in Argentina and Norway as well.
Yeti, Sasquatch, Bigfoot
Still image from the Patterson-Gimlin footage of 1967.
The first reference to the so-called yeti dates back to 1899 and can be found in the travel book Among the Himalayas by L.A. Waddell, who claimed of having met, during an expedition in Sikkim in 1887, many creatures of humanoid appearance, very tall, covered with thick fur. He made some casts of their giant footprints.
Three years earlier, according to the Daily British Colonist of July 3, 1884, a group of workers who were digging a tunnel near Yale (British Columbia), encountered a being that they described as “half man and half beast” and managed to capture it alive. They reported that this being was about 140 cm tall and resembled a man in its overall features, except that it had a layer of bright fur of about 3 cm which covered the whole body. What happened to the creature is not reported in the newspapers of the time.
The name can change (Yeti in the Himalayas, Sasquatch in Canada, Bigfoot in the United States), but the evidence (including the testimony given by the famous Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner), photographs, videos (the well-known Patterson-Gimlin footage of 1967), footprints tell the same story: the presence, in the thick North American undergrowth and in the Himalayan peaks, of massive furry creatures, from 120 to 300 cm tall, bipedal, not apes nor humans, but constituting some sort of tertium genus.
A lot of hypotheses have been postulated. Some scholars have suggested that these animals could be nothing more than unknown apes, while other researchers believe they might belong to the family of the Gigantopitecus.
However, the most fascinating hypothesis has been advanced by the American researcher John A.Keel. On the basis of some Native American traditions according to which the Sasquatch would be a figure belonging, at the same time, to our reality as well as to the spirits’ realm, he stated that the phenomenon is undoubtedly real, but it is the phenomenon itself – elusive by nature and whose purposes seems very obscure – to decide whether to become visible or not, at will.The key point in Keel’s hypothesis is that, if such animals really existed, then their corpses would have been found already. The fact that dead yetis and sasquatches have never been retrieved, as well as the consideration that a lot of footprints ended abruptly as if the mysterious animals had dematerialized, made Keel suggest a paraphysical interpretation to the whole phenomenon, that is to say that these creatures can move from our dimension to another one and vice versa.
In regards Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch, Keel’s theory does not seem fully convincing, because there are too many photographs, pictures and footprints which seem to indicate an actual and concrete physical nature of such animals.
However, there is a huge amount of sightings of beings which seem to have little in common with other animals, thus making the assumptions put forward by Keel particularly credible and grounded. Let’s examine some of them.
The New Jersey Devil
New Jersey Devil drawing.
The accounts relating to the so-called New Jersey Devil date back to the early nineteenth century, when Commodore Stephen Decatur, who was testing cannon balls on the firing range, saw a strange creature flying across the sky near his ship. Intrigued by this strange animal, the Commodore ordered his men to fire at it and the creature was hit, but it kept on flying without showing any problem and disappeared.
Joseph Bonaparte, former king of Spain and brother of Napoleon, said he had come across a mysterious animal near Bordertown (New Jersey) many times between 1816 and 1839 while he was hunting. Similar reports continued throughout the nineteenth century, as well as unexplainable cases of cattle mutilations made by an unidentified creature which emitted piercing screams and left strange tracks (showing amazing similarities with the modern reports of the chupacabras).
In 1903, Charles Skinner, author of American Myths and Legends, stated that the legend of the New Jersey devil had run its course and that in the new century, nobody would sight such a beast.
In 1909, however, especially in January, a real flap of sightings took place, with hundreds of reports of a flying figure with glowing eyes. The most accurate description was one made by Mr. and Mrs. Evans of Gloucester (New Jersey), who, on January 19, 1909, awakened by a strange noise at 2:30 a.m. They were able to watch the devil from the window of their house for about 10 minutes. As Mr. Evans reported, it was about three feet and a half high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, its back legs were like those of a crane, and it had horse’s hooves. It walked on its back legs and held up two short front legs with paws on them. As soon as they opened the window, the mysterious animal flew away.
Identical descriptions were made the next day by a police officer and by Reverend Pemberton who saw the strange being near Burlington. A lot of tracks were found, and they all ended abruptly. In Collingwood (New Jersey), a posse tried to catch the beast, but it took off into the air.
Sightings continued throughout 1909. A lot of highly reliable people and men of good repute saw something unusual in the sky that year, a year that has become history for the airship waves over New England, Great Britain and New Zealand as well.
The descriptions of the creature, in particular its luminescent eyes, the ability to fly, the chilling cries heard so many times, strongly resembled those of the strange being that terrorized West Virginia between 1966 and 1967: the Mothman. Could these be mere animals? I don’t think so, their elusiveness seems to point to a different explanation.
Moreover, the testimonies relating to winged creatures are too many to be dismissed as odd fancies. The New York Times of September 12, 1880 reported the sighting, made by several people in different areas of New York City, of a humanoid being with bat-like wings and froggish legs which flew in a western direction over Coney Island at about 350 meters moving amid the air as if it were a frog.We also cannot forget the so-called Spring Heeled Jack, the tall humanoid creature with glowing eyes, hooked nose, pointed ears which terrorized the London area in the Victorian Age, capable of making giant leaps impossible for any acrobat and, according to some witnesses, even capable of flying.
The explanations ventured for these types of cases (from the New Jersey Devil to the Mothman and the winged flying weirdos) are many. Some suggest they are misidentifications of common owls and other nocturnal birds, others believe that maybe pterodactyls or unknown animal of that sort do still exist.
Conclusions
In my opinion, the vast category of “mysterious animals” can be divided into two groups. The first one includes animals that science has not classified yet (the Loch Ness monster, sea serpents, Big Foot, Yeti, Sasquatch), all creatures whose behavior towards man is more or less neutral just like other common animals.
On the contrary, there is a massive amount of testimony about creatures that seem to have a different origin, beings that are certainly more sinister and often hostile, whose behavior is very different and abnormal in comparison with other known species. For the second group, which includes the New Jersey Devil, Mothman, and Spring Heeled Jack, Keel’s theory becomes more plausible. In Keel’s opinion, these weird creatures come from a parallel reality, a dimension that only in certain special circumstances is tangential to ours: creatures whose nature is not properly physical, but paraphysical. These beings appear to us according to the frame of reference that would suit best the expectations of the observer. They have different looks according to our personal beliefs and cultural views. Fairies, goblins, aliens from outer space, Mothman, according to Keel these are all manifestations of something obscure that hides behind a wall of illusion like a Trojan horse.
As Keel said, “The most frightening monsters dwell in the dark depths of our mind, waiting to take shape through our fears and personal beliefs.”
My son and I were walking Stella, our dog by the River Yare, and having sat down on the seat overlooking the river situated south of Bland Road, Norwich, Norfolk, UK, we were commenting on the fighter jets roaring above our heads at great height. They looked very small when out of the white clouds. I said they were not playing war games, but chasing a UFO radar contact for I knew from previous experiences how to tell the difference. We watched a fighter plane go into a great pulled about fluffy white cloud that was unlike the other clouds and I said to my son to watch for a UFO to come out of the other end of it. There was a short gap between that cloud and the next and as we watched it a craft of huge size materialized within the gap. It was not moving but just hovering. It was in a shape hard to describe as it seemed that the outer edge was not so visible, but it was long like a cigar and light metallic green in colour with two bars or rails running along ether side underneath that shone a brighter metallic green. After around ten seconds or so it dematerialized and a jet fighter came out of the cloud, which was tiny like a fly in comparison to the UFO. We could hear the jets after burners and see them at times going extremely fast, then slow right down and turn as if trying to find it once again. I got the impression that the UFO was kind of playing games with them. The time of the sighting was 14:20 and the craft was almost overhead and slightly to the east. I have watched something like this now three times from or near my home, and over the twenty years I have lived here I have seen a few good sightings. Once one has seen them, it becomes a habit to keep an eye on the sky and to learn how to look. I am sure the RAF would just say what they always say, that they were just playing war games or practicing. However, all three times I have seen these happenings it was over built up areas and the flying was frantic. I’m afraid that I did not have the time or togetherness to get my phone out and take a video or photo, for if I had tried to do that I would have missed the sighing. Next time perhaps!
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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