Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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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...
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The Best recent UFO sightings – June 2014
The Best recent UFO sightings – June 2014
Video collection of The Best UFO sightings reported all over the World in June 2014.
This week Brad and Sherry Steiger have written the article “UFO CONTACT THROUGH THE MIND” exclusively for UFO Digest. Great read! Next, Pat Regan sees Orbs maybe as a spiritual contact medium, a psychic warrior. Then, Scott Corrales reports on another strange object near the Popocatepetl Volcano and more. Roger Marsh writes about a Canadian’s experience with a hovering egg-shaped UFO. Alfred Lambremont Webre interviews independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD ABD, about Fukushima radiation on ExopoliticsTV. Next, Cheryl Costa claims that Pine Bush is New York’s UFO capital! Paul Schroeder contributes an article about ghost hunters and the real places monsters dwell. Reporter Mary-Ann Russo explains how real Australian UFO Hunters train their investigators. Next, Gavin Davies reports on a UFO making nightly visits over a house in Cofax, California. Finally, Warwick Associates, promotes a new book that they claim has startling new discoveries concerning ancient astronauts, secret cults and lost civilizations. Enjoy Dirk Vander Ploeg
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UFO CONTACT THROUGH THE MINDBy Brad and Sherry Steiger.
Some of the most controversial aspects of our recent book Real Encounters, Different Dimensions, and Otherworldy Beings dealt with contactees, abductees, and others who claim that their encounters with alien beings were achieved through dreams, astral projections, near-death experiences, and past life memories. After our more than 50 years researching accounts of UFO contact, it has become clear to us that thousands of experiencers have met UFO intelligences through the mind, spirit, or nonphysical self and that consciousness offers a valid tool for exploring the UFO phenomenon. More... Also read: UFO CONTACT THROUGH THE MIND - PART II
ORBS AS A SPIRITUAL CONTACT MEDIUM AND THE WAY OF THE PSYCHIC WARRIORby Pat Regan.
I was recently chasing local bats with my camera and got more than I had bargained for. The bats were extremely fast and remained elusive but I managed to get some rather interesting shots of floating orbs. Of course many theories exist about orbs from the mundane to the paranormal. Moreover, there is probably truth in both ends of the belief spectrum concerning this fascinating phenomenon. Yes, they may indeed be reflected dust particles, rain droplets, etc – but ‘not’ always! More Also read: THE RUFFORD TWISTER UFO: 5 YEARS ON AND STILL A ‘TW-YSTERY”!
STRANGE OBJECT IN THE VACINITY OF THE POPOCATEPETL VOLCANO, MEXICOby Scott Corrales.
Users of Twitter reported having seen a UFO in the vicinity of Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano on Monday morning. In recent days, the government of that country has reported an increase in the stratovolcano's activity, recording up to 430 emanations in 24 hours with outbursts of incandescent material. Following a photograph of volcanic activity this morning by @webcamsdemexico, taken from the popular SkyAlert, Twitter users highlighted the presence of an unusual dark spot in the images.More... Also read: UNIDENTIFIED LIGHT VIDEOTAPED OVER LA SERENA, CHILE
RECOLLECTIONS OF A HOVERING EGG-SHAPED UFOby Roger Marsh.
A Canadian witness at Abbotsford, British Columbia, recalled a frightening experience with a silent, egg-shaped object that hovered nearby for three minutes before moving away at “warp drive,” according to June 6, 2014, testimony in Case 56883 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. More...
FUKUSHIMA RADIATION - INTENTIONAL EXTERMINATION, ECOCIDEby Alfred Lambremont Webre.
In an ExopoliticsTV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD ABD, detailed how the Fukushima site have now, through the Wigner effect, become breeder reactors, furthering an intentional global depopulation and extermination of the human (and animal species) population. Ms. Moret reveals how the HAARP Tesla technology can be used to reverse the radiation now present in the Earth’s atmospheric column, its oceans and land masses, and terminate the intentional extermination program. More..
NEW YORK’S UFO CAPITAL IS PINE BUSH! by Cheryl Costa.
Pine Bush – New York’s UFO Capital, that’s what people were telling back in April. They all said I should go to the Pine Bush UFO Fair. To be honest with you I had not heard of Pine Bush, New York prior to that. Then my editor mentions Pine Bush to me as well. Unfortunately by the time I got around to researching it, the one-day festival had come and gone. The claim to fame is that Pine Bush is New York’s UFO Capital. This point is proclaimed in the book “Weird New York.” More...
GHOST HUNTERS AND BEYOND THIS PLACE WHERE MONSTERS DWELL!by Paul Schroeder.
What dangers exist for the uninitiated amateurs who go "ghost-hunting"? A "ghost box', however fascinating as a doorway to the unseen, offers a dangerous opportunity for a masquerading evil one to enter to feast on your energies. What if powerful demonics are infesting a presumed 'haunted house'? More.
HOW REAL AUSTRALIAN UFO HUNTERS TRAIN THEIR INVESTIGATORSby Mary-Ann Russon.
An Australian group of UFO hunters has introduced in-house training and an examination, to ensure that its members know how to deal with the public properly, but the exam will not be added to the TAFE curriculum in the near future, as reported by the Australian media. "Our first test was held on Sunday but its still in its infancy," Ivan Rigoni, Victorian UFO Action's (VUFOA's) investigations case coordinator tells IBTimes UK. More....
COFAX CA RECEIVES UFO VISITS NIGHTLYby Paul Dale Roberts.
The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race.In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye. Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life. More...
WAS THERE A UFO OVER CYPRUS? by Gavin Davies.
What do you believe was behind this report and photograph? I have noticed a white bright round object in the sky on 6/6/2014 at 16:20 (Local Cyprus time), 14:20 GMT,at the following approximate position. latitude 35° 3’17.44″N, longitude 33°26’32.30″E More...
STARTLING NEW DISCOVERIES: ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, SECRET CULTS AND LOST CIVILIZATIONSfrom Warwick Associates.
Michael Pye and Kirsten Dalley have gathered together the world’s most adventurous and knowledgeable researchers and bestselling authors to expound on subjects relating to the ancient world. For their new anthology, Lost Secrets of the Gods: The Latest Evidence and Revelations on Ancient Astronauts, Precursor Cultures, and Secret Societies, original essays––revealing “white paper” treatises––were contributed by such luminaries as: More...
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Ape Canyon is actually a gorge along the northeast shoulder of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. Of course, the name “Ape Canyon” didn’t come from just anywhere. The name refers to a supposed encounter between a group of miners and several ‘apemen’ in 1924, an event eventually integrated into Bigfoot folklore.
Fred Beck, one of the miners, claimed they shot and possibly killed at least one of the creatures. The death resulted in an attack on the miners’ cabin. According to Beck, the men had just settled down to sleep for the night when they were awakened by an attack on their cabin, during which the creatures bombarded it with rocks and tried to break in. The fighting continued all night long, but none of the men were seriously hurt. By morning, an eerie quiet had entered the camp and as the men cautiously exited the cabin, they saw an ape-man in the distance. They shot at the beast several times and it finally fell over the cliff into the canyon. It was the only one of their attackers they would see. The men packed their belongings in a hurry, leaving most things behind, and made their way home, promising each other not to speak of the incident to anyone. The pact didn’t last long because the story was leaked and within a few weeks it was reported in the July 16, 1924 issue of The Oregonian, which dubbed the beasts the ‘Ape-Men of Mount St. Helens.’
There was another mysterious incident in Ape Canyon that took place in 1950. It involved world ski champion Jim Carter, who disappeared while on a ski trip in the Canyon. He was with some companions and then went off by himself to take some photos. But only his camera case was found. Searchers later reported finding his ski tracks in the snow. Carter had apparently taken off at an incredible rate of speed performing jumps and maneuvers that no skier would have taken unless he was very frightened or being pursued. One of the searchers reported an eerie feeling that he was being ‘watched’ the whole time. Carter’s disappearance remains a mystery.
In the June 27-28, 1964 editions of the Longview Daily News, the following article appeared:
Legendary Mt. St. Helens Apemen Called Legitimate
The legend of the apemen of Mt. St. Helens returns, like hay fever, with summer weather.
The story of the apemen of the beautiful conical mountain situated in the Cascade Range of Southwest Washington, is a favorite in the area, but it just may have some basis in fact.
There is more basis to support it than Nepal’s Yeti or northern California’s “Big Foot” and probably as much as Loch Ness’ monster.
Last summer, two different Portland groups who visited the region reported sighting the monsters, usually described as from 7 to 10 feet tall, hairy and either white or beige-colored.
Three persons in a car on a lonely forest road said they saw one of the creatures when it flashed across the headlight beams of their car near the wilderness area which includes such places as “Ape Canyon.”
A Portland couple fishing on the Lewis River south of the mountain saw a huge beige figure “bigger than any human” amble off into the brush.
Old timers aren’t surprised, just amused. The apeman legend actually is older than the white man’s habitation of the Pacific Northwest.
Indian Legend
Forestry employes have investigated many reports of the strange creatures. According to Indian legend, the “apes” were the ferocious Selahtik Indians, a band of renegades much like giant apes in appearance who lived like wild animals in the secluded caves of the Cascades.
The first recorded encounter of the apes with white men was in 1924. A group of five prospectors rushed into Kelso to report that a group of great, ape-like creatures had attacked them in the middle of the night.
The miners said they had been working a mine on the east slopes of Mt. St. Helens. During the daytime, they saw some of the apes and fired at them to halt an apparent attack. One of the apes appeared to have been hit and rolled into a deep ravine. That night, according to the account, the apemen hurled rocks onto the cabin and “danced and screamed until daylight.”
Then came the “great ape hunt 0f 1924.” Law enforcement officers and a flock of newspapermen made up a posse that went into the area. The armed searchers fired at anything that moved, so the report went. They returned to tell of finding huge footprints, but no apes.
The legend grew from that point for several years, then subsided with only sporadic reports of traces of the apes. Responsible persons, experienced mountaineers and skiers, have given credence to the story.
Bob Lee of Portland, a leader of the 1961 Himalayan expedition and adviser to last year’s Himalayan expedition, said last year he had a strange experience. Lee has never claimed to have seen the apes, but said “there was something strange on the high slopes of the mountain.”
He was a member of a party that searched for Jim Carter, an experienced skier and mountaineer, who vanished on the mountain in 1950. His disappearance remains a mystery.
Somebody Watched
At the time, Lee was a member of the Seattle Mountain Search and Rescue unit. He described the search for Carter as “the most eerie experience I ever had.” He said that every time he was cut off from the rest of the search party he felt “somebody was watching me.”
Carter, he said, had climbed the mountain with some companions on a warm, clear Sunday. He left the group to take a picture and said he would ski to the left of the group. He was never seen again.
His tracks, however, indicated that he suddenly took off down the mountain in a wild, death-defying run that no experienced skier would make — unless he was pursued, Lee said.
The track went in the direction of Ape Canyon. But no trace of Carter or his equipment was found although the area was combed for two weeks. Lee recalled stories of about 25 persons who claim they had encountered the monsters during a 20 year period.
The canyon named for the apes, is a lonely, ominous spot in a wild area. It extends to a point near Ape Cave, thought to be the longest unitary lava tube in the world.
There have been many reports of footprints in the area. Some are described as being about 18 inches long and seemingly human.
Unless the creatures are really fuzzy throwbacks, the lost Indian tribe theory seems most likely to some of the fans of the mystery. It has given rise to some suggestions, one of which is to leave well enough alone. The government might take over and shove benefits and subsidies at them — retroactive to the Ice Age.
And that, as well as costing a lot of money, would ruin a very good legend.
Beck detailed his claims in a 22-page book written in 1967 titled I Fought The Apemen of Mt. St. Helens, in which he identified the creatures as ‘mystical beings from another dimension’. Beck explained that he had experienced psychic premonitions and visions his entire life of which the apemen were only one component.
William Halliday, director of the Western Speleological Survey, claimed in his 1983 pamphlet Ape Cave and the Mount St. Helens Apes that the miner’s assailants were actually local youths throwing rocks, which camp counselors bringing kids on hiking trips to the Canyon also tried to impart.
In July 2013, the Dark Waters Paranormal Group claimed on their Facebook page that Ape Canyon and remnants of the original cabin had been found. They held back directions to the location:
All surface evidence of the cabin is gone. A 1936 trail map told us that one could see the cabin from the trail. But that was only 12 years after the incident. In 1968, Fred Beck had heard that the cabin had burnt to the ground. In 1972, hikers told Peter Byrne that they had visited the cabin. Today, it’s rock, steep slope and trees.
The nature of the site carries a high probability of very little human impact. The area has never been commercially logged as there are so few trees and these are very difficult to get out. The danger of traversing the area makes a high rate of human camp sites unlikely..
..the excitement began with the discovery of the wire, about 16″ long with a coiled loop at one end, like for a bailing or a handle, sticking vertically in the ground.. The excitement grew with a nail, a shank nail about 4 inches long.. jumping up and down and yelling and vigorous hand shaking ensued with the spoon. A single spoon. Just an old spoon. About 6″ underground…
But this was the clincher. We started finding more and more nails and finally got to a rotten horizontal log, again about 6″ underground WITH THE NAILS DRIVEN IN TO IT. As best we can tell, we probably found the long, 20 foot side of the cabin, guessing the uphill side.
On September 30th 2009, General-Major of Aviation, Pilot-Cosmonaut Pavel Romanovich Popovich, the first Ukrainian cosmonaut in history, passed away. Always proud of his ethnicity, twice Hero of the Soviet Union award, he had many other awards and medals.
Pavel Popovich was greatly respected; a kind, nice and decent person, always ready to help others. His life was intertwined with the turbulent history of UFO research in the Soviet Union after 1978.
Popovich was born in Soviet Ukraine on October 5, 1929. A young engineer and amateur pilot, Popovich joined the Soviet Air Force; in 1960 he was enrolled in the first team of cosmonauts. Popovich was the Number “Four” Cosmonaut in the history of manned spaceflights. He underwent a full course of training for space flights on board “Vostok” spacecraft.
Pavel Popovich (as a boy) lived under the Nazi occupation for several years, and this fact could sink his chances to become a Soviet cosmonaut. The KGB took several months to study biographies of each of the future cosmonauts; someone must have had the courage to overlook that fact, and let him continue his training.
His first spaceflight was aboard the “Vostok-4″ spaceship in 1962. Later, Pavel Popovich was trained for the Soviet Moon research program. After the program was cancelled, Popovich underwent training for flights aboard “Soyuz” spaceships. His second mission into space was as the chief pilot of the Soyuz-14 spaceship in 1974. The flight was part of the Soviet program of military use of space exploration technology. Popovich’s call name was Berkut-1 (Golden Eagle). Having docked with the Salyut 3 orbital station (this was a cover name for the secret battle station Almaz-2), Popovich and his engineer, had conducted military intelligence operations. They had infrared and powerful optical equipment, 14 special cameras, and even one thirty millimeter cannon. One of the tasks was to capture the American Skylab station with three astronauts aboard. The Americans had a special nickname for Popovich: “Aggressor”. But the program later was shut down.
Between the years 1980 to 1989 he served as the Deputy Chief of the Y. Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center.
The Salyut 3 (Almaz-2 orbital battle station) during construction.
President of the UFO Association
In 1990, OYUZUFOTSENTR, the very first official public UFO research organization of the Soviet Union was formed. Its director was V. Ajaja, a former naval officer, a submariner, a long-suffering independent UFO researcher and lecturer. Its president, Pavel Popovich clearly stated in interviews that he headed SOYUZUFOTSENTR on behest of his friends, UFO researchers. Popovich never considered himself to be an expert in the field of ufology. He did help those who tried to research it independently, or as part of the secret Soviet program. His authority and reputation had greatly helped Ajaja’s efforts to keep his organization viable in post-1991 Russia.
Popovich floats a pen to demonstrate weightlessness aboard the Vostok-4.
Popovich and Setka: A Secret Soviet UFO Research Program
In 1978, the powerful Military-Industrial Commission created two UFO research centers, one in the USSR Academy of Sciences, the other in the USSR Defense Ministry. The anomalous phenomena research in the USSR Academy of Sciences became the subject of a special scientific research program designated as SETKA-AN. The Soviet Ministry of Defense embarked on a similar program, the secret SETKA-MO. Both centers aided each other’s UFO research and exchanged information. The first act of the SETKA-AN resulted in official sanction of “anomalous atmospheric phenomena” as a descriptive term, instead of the forbidden “UFO.”
The SETKA-AN debunkers did its best to prove there are no UFOs, only errors in observation of rocket launches, or at the very least, ball lightning. But there had been occasions when “anomalous phenomena” had led to the unauthorized launches of mobile missiles, and on other occasions, the appearance of UFOs during military training exercises had resulted in the breakdown of radio communications and equipment malfunctions.
The program ended in 1991, but a group of experts remained in the Department of General Physics and Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences where they analyzed incoming reports until 1996.
Scientific arguments regarding the nature of UFOs had been the least of the military researchers’ concerns; they did, however, pay close attention to the hypothesis that UFOs are manifestations of an ET civilization. They had been concerned with UFOs’ quite unpredictable impact on military technology and on personnel. They wanted to know how they could use UFO properties for their own pragmatic military needs.
In 1984, by the decision of VSNTO (All-Union Council of Scientific Technical Societies), a Central Commission for Anomalous Phenomena in the Environment was created. Its Chairman was Soviet academician V. Troitsky, one of his deputies was General-Major of Aviation, Pilot-Cosmonaut P. Popovich.
The Commission was born because those in charge of the academic research of the SETKA program basically got rid of independent UFO researchers, leaving only the debunkers together with military specialists from secret military institutes in the program.
The building of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg on Universitetskaya Embankment. (Credit: Alex Florstein)
Independent Soviet ufologists did not take the continuous scorn from debunkers lying down, and basically moved the Academy of Sciences aside, by directly approaching military coordinators of the secret program. The initiative to create the Commission was supported by military researchers, who were tired of fruitless activities of the academic debunkers. The Commission included also those who served the Ministry of Defense research. Pavel Popovich played a role in its workings, although due to the secrecy and his oath, he had not revealed all he knew.
According to Popovich, most of the information about anomalous phenomena came from military and pilots, trusted, sane and healthy people. Among the reports many were nonsensical, but some were historically important. UFO data started being reported from the days of W.W.II. During the Kursk Battle, Soviet aviators and witnesses on the ground observed mysterious objects in the sky. He revealed this in the April, 2009 interview to the Ukrainian web portal DonbassUA. The Kursk episode is described in detail in Mysterious Sky: Soviet UFO Phenomenon.
On May 29 1984, Trud newspaper published an article where Popovich told the author about a case that took place on March 27, 1983, in Gorky (and investigated by the Commission’s Gorky section). It was an object that flew in the area of the city’s airport. The airport’s radars registered but could not identify the object. The object flew at the altitude of no more than one kilometer, and the speed approximately 180-200 kilometers per hour. The witness (Flight Controller A. Shushkin) who had observed the object said that the object’s size was similar to that of the IL-14 aircraft fuselage. But there were no wings. It was a “cigar”. Its color light gray, steely, and it moved slowly across the sky. The phenomenon lasted around forty minutes. At the distance of 30 to 40 kilometers NE from the airport the radars lost it. Shushkin later corrected Pavel Popovich and said the UFO actually appeared over the city on March 28, 1983; flew at an altitude of 400-600 meters, and disappeared ten seconds after it was sighted.
A more dramatic, episode took place in January of 1978, and Popovich described it to Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya newspaper on August 6, 1984.
During the flight of a YAK-40 over the area between two settlements Medvezhye and Nadim, the crew noticed something round; a very bright foreign body that approached rapidly and sometime later appeared straight in front of the aircraft. Every minute the size of this body increased. When the crash appeared to be imminent, the object soared right in front of the aircraft’s nose, not causing any harm.
Yakovlev Yak-40 landing in Moscow, Russia. (Credit: Eddie Heisterkamp/Airliners.net)
The KGB UFO Files
In 1991, a file of KGB documents was provided to Pavel Popovich (he had urged them to release the information). It was the Second Chief Directorate of the KGB (Counterintelligence), or rather the Tenth Department within the Directorate (Control of the defense facilities) that had received UFO information. The file (124 pages of printed text) contained copies of UFO reports: handwritten reports, typed testimonies, and notes from KGB informers, crude drawings and eyewitness reports of UFOs. An accompanying letter was written by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee for State Security USSR, N.A. Sham. This cooperation between UFO researchers and the KGB was unprecedented and was a landmark in UFO research in the Soviet Union and possibly the world.
Years later Sham stated that the KGB was not engaged in research of anomalous phenomena (he pointed to the SETKA program as the responsible entity for such research).
Roswell
In 1992, on behest of UFO researchers, Pavel Popovich had contacted two Russian ministries, to find out whether the Soviet-era archives contained documents pertaining to the Roswell Crash. The reply from the Ministry of Defense stated that the officials of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense had conducted search of the materials of interest to Popovich. They did not find any Roswell materials. The second reply came from the Ministry of Security of the Russian federation. No documentary materials about the case of the “flying saucer” crash in the area of Roswell, USA in the year 1947 were discovered, it stated.
Soviet intelligence, quite active in the United States in 1940s, would not miss the Roswell Crash controversy.
From left: Andriyan Nikolayev, Yuri Gagarin, Pavel Popovich, his wife Marina Popovich and their daughter vacationing in the Crimea (1967).
Revelations
Marina Popovich is a retired Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer, and legendary Soviet test pilot who holds 107 aviation world records set on over 40 types of aircraft. She is one of the most famous pilots in Russian history. She also speaks about her experiences with UFOs in her book titled UFO Glasnost (published in 2003 in Germany) and in public lectures and interviews. She claims that the Soviet military and civilian pilots have confirmed 3000 UFO sightings and that the Soviet Air Force and KGB have fragments of five crashed UFOs.
After every interview Pavel Popovich had to sign a special document stating that he did not reveal any state secrets. He never did tell all he knew, a military person loyal to his oath.
In 2006, Pavel Popovich gave an interview to Bul’var Gordona, a Ukrainian magazine. (Issue 31[67]). He said that the inhabitants of Phaeton or Moonah (an ancient planet with advanced civilization, believed to exist next to Earth ages ago, but perished due to nuclear explosions) probably visit Earth from time to time.
The visitors’ intermediate base is located in the area of Saturn, and they have three bases on Earth. One of them is in the Andes, the other in the Indian Ocean trench, and the third one is located in the Himalayas, the famous Shambala. The base in the Andes they liquidated because human civilization came too close. But they do have an underwater base at the bottom of the Indian Ocean trench.
Then Pavel Popovich recalled his UFO sighting in 1978, while aboard an airplane flying from Washington to Moscow returning from Pittsburgh, where academicians attended the international Gagarin Readings conference (they had also observed the strange object).
The altitude was 10,500 meters. Popovich recalled that something urged him to keep looking (he was sitting by the window). He noticed about a white, isosceles triangle about a kilometer and a half from the plane and some ten degrees higher (as he and others had estimated). The cosmonaut shouted, ran to the crew. The onboard radar did not register anything, and nothing was registered on the ground.
The crew also observed the object, and they determined that its side was about 100 meters. The object did not resemble any known aircraft. It moved rapidly; the airplane flew at the speed of one thousand kilometers per hour, while the object traveled about time and a half faster. This flying object easily overtook them, and flew forth, but they stayed within the range of vision for a minute. They, the professionals, could not determine what the object was.
Popovich could not state that his sighting was really a secret weapon being tested, although in 90 percent of such observations this is so.
Pavel Popovich said that he did not believe any of the contactees. In the 2001 FAKTY interview Popovich said that 95 percent of everything written about UFOs should be discarded as nonsense.
In the same interview with Bul’var Gordona Popovich was asked whether he, a pilot and cosmonaut who grew up in the atheistic (sometimes, militantly so) society, believed in God.
He replied that he was baptized. And in 1974, during his spaceflight he understood that there is someone who had created stars outside the spacecraft’s porthole, the Moon, and other planets. When one sees this, one understands how infinite everything is. Popovich recalled thinking: “someone had created it, and someone directs it all”. Who has created the laws of celestial mechanics? All we did was to use them, to discern them, to explain them. That is why he thought about God. No matter what one calls him, there is the Creator who has created everything.
From left: Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valery Bykovsky, Andriyan Nikolayev and Gherman Titov at a TV studio (1963).
Conclusion
Popovich lived his final years in a settlement near Moscow, dubbed Star Village because 36 former cosmonauts reside there. He had a dream to be able to fly the spacecraft into space again, to look at Earth from above. The name of Pavel Popovich was given to a mountain ridge in Antarctica and a minor planet.
This story was sent to us by Paul Stonehill and was co-written by Phillip Mantle. It was originally posted on the Russian news website, Pravda.
I have been recently looking at the Portage County, Ohio, UFO chase, which I think of as the Close Encounters chase. You know, the police cars chasing a UFO across the countryside, through a toll booth and beyond. It was featured at the beginning of the 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is not to say that the real event perfectly matched the movie version (such as the toll booth, which didn’t happen and which I mention now so that I don’t hear about this later).
Anyway, I noticed something about this case, other than the ridiculous Air Force explanation and Hector Quintanilla’s attempt to browbeat the police officer witnesses into this way of thinking. Quintanilla, after demanding respect because he was an Air Force officer, tried to convince Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff, the sheriff’s deputies, that they had seen a satellite and Venus. Given the testimony of these men, not to mention the other police officers involved at various stages, it was a ridiculous explanation. In statements taken within days of the events, they talked about the object being low enough that it lit up the surrounding fields as it passed over them.
But that’s not my point today. It was the aftermath of the sighting that is interesting. Within six months, Spaur had left law enforcement and became a painter. H. Wayne Huston, who had joined the chase later and described for the Air Force what he had seen, resigned from the police force and moved to Seattle to drive a bus. Neff seemed to suffer from PTSD, and his wife said that he had been “through the ringer.” He had changed after the sighting. Neff, by the way, was an auxiliary deputy rather than a full-time officer.
This sort of thing isn’t found just in his case. Herbert Schirmer, who reported to have seen a landed UFO near Ashland, Nebraska (and who, under hypnotic regression reported an abduction), left police work not long after the event. Jeffrey Greenhaw, who photographed an alien (which many believe was a man in a fire retardant suit) said that his employers had attempted to get him to deny the report and was then harassed when he insisted that he had photographed something alien.
And such treatment extends beyond law enforcement. Captain Kenju Terauchi, of JAL Flight No. 1628, lost his flying job after the sighting was reported. Richard Haines and others managed to get him reinstated, but the point is he did nothing other than report he had watched strange objects from the cockpit of his aircraft.
Charles Halt, of Rendlesham Forest fame, also noted that he feared the UFO sighting would damage his career. He was quite leery of getting more deeply involved than he was for that reason. His perception might have been in error, meaning the UFO sighting didn’t seem hurt his career, but that was what he believed.
I could go on, with others who have seen their careers negatively affected by brushes with UFOs. Yes, I know the argument that if they’re seeing something that isn’t real, maybe we shouldn’t trust them in jobs that could jeopardize innocents. But I could argue they are seeing something real, it might be the interpretation that is in error, and sometimes that interpretation is made by others.
At any rate, the point here was simply to point out that there are many instances in which those who have reported strange things in the skies have seen their lives radically altered. They have been forced out of jobs, had their careers derailed, or been forced to change their stories (and yes, there are examples of this scattered throughout the UFO literature). I’m merely suggesting that this might create a situation in which those who do see something strange opt not to tell anyone about it. This is a sort of suppression of information (and again, yes, I chose that word carefully) that we don’t see in many other arenas (and yes, I can think of examples outside of the UFO field where that happens). I just thought that I’d mention it.
The doll was found beside a busy street in Singapore. The Arabic word on the cloth is translated as ‘Allah’. Stories from twitter revealed that the doll is possessed and has been moving around on its own when the original owner isn’t home. She binded the eyes and left it far away from home so it wouldn’t follow her back.
Some say the doll can be heard talking when it’s left alone in a room and is found with its head turned in a different direction. It is said that it spoke in a Malay language and sound like an adult female.
Original owner found that the only way to get rid of it and make sure it won’t come back is to cover it’s eyesight. The curse is probably passed on to someone else who found it and untied the cloth unknowingly.
Edit: turns out it the Arabic thing meant “bismillah”. I think it’s to trap whatever jinn or curse is inside from coming out or following the owner back home. Others speculate it’s a product of black magic.
The doll has been missing since. On the very day the locals started trending a freaky suicide (guy hanging beside an apartment block) and murder case which is highly unusual in Singapore but is most probably a coincidence and not related. It’s irrelevant but you don’t see multiple creepy images start appearing on the same day in a small country like Singapore so many assumed they were all linked though obviously it’s not. – Reddit.com
-subject was 13 in 1965 and was staying with grandparents in Oak Cliff Texas -she woke up sick and felt she had been abducted and had been gone an hour -she vomited a strange chemical smelling substance three times -when she stood up she passed a large blood clot which was unusual for a child who had only had one or two periods previously -she hemorrhaged for five and six hours but her grandmother did not take her to the doctor -she felt weak after the experience and felt different and knew she could never give birth to a child -when the subject was in her twenties she noticed a chip in her sore right shoulder the doctor said it was unidentified and she has the xray -she doesn’t think she she was abducted again but not sure -she is now 61 -subject has heard of other abductions in that area in that time period and would like to talk to someone about getting more information about abductions and what happened in Oak Cliff Texas in the 60′s – MUFON CMS
Another Possible Abduction
Front Royal, VA – 1/2/11 – unedited:It as during the night, after midnight. I was asleep. I woke up but could not open my eyes. I could smell rain, and felt my legs/feet being set down. there was some sort of cloth covering me and I could feel the edge of it across my lower neck. A voice in my head, coming from my right, informed me that I could open my eyes by saying,”Now you can look.” I became fearful, but turned my head to the left and opened my eyes. All I saw in a split second were two large almond shaped eyes. I felt an incredible amount of love, then I blanked out immediately and fell back asleep. When I woke up that morning, I found out it had rained during the night, and I did not have my window open due to it being January. – MUFON CMS
In addition to recognising sweet, sour, salty, savory (umami), and bitter tastes, your tongue has a sixth taste sense – the “sense of carbs” – that allows you to perceive carbohydrates — the nutrients that break down into sugar and form the main source of energy.
The “sense of carbs” also triggers the pleasure centre of the brain and could explain why people often find diet foods unsatisfying, a research shows.
“The mouth is a more capable sensory organ than we currently appreciate, able to distinguish carbohydrates from artificial sweeteners when both taste identical,” said Nicholas Gant from University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Carbohydrates are extremely powerful stimuli that have profound and immediate effects on the brain and the systems it controls, Gant added.
For the study, researchers asked participants to squeeze a sensor held between their right index finger and thumb when shown a visual cue.
At the same time, the participants’ tongues were rinsed with one of three different fluids.
The first two were artificially sweetened – to identical tastes – but with only one containing carbohydrate. The third, a control, was neither sweet nor carb-loaded.
When the carbohydrate solution was used, the researchers observed a 30 percent increase in activity for the brain areas that control movement and vision.
This reaction, they propose, is caused by our mouths reporting that additional energy in the form of carbohydrates is coming.
“This ‘sixth taste sense’ for carbohydrate is likely one of many additional food qualities that are detectable by receptors in the mouth,” Gant was quoted as saying in media reports. – IBN Live
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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. 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. he 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”.
Flying Into Oblivion, an excerpt from Nick Redfern’s new book
Everyone has heard of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But what about close encounters of the fatal kind? The field of UFO is rife with unsettling examples of suspicious deaths. Accounts of accidents that might have been accidents after all, abound. Researchers and witnesses have vanished, never to be seen again. Here we share an excerpt from Chapter 6: Flying Into Oblivion from author Nick Redfern’s new release.
Mysterious Skies
At about 9:30 a.m. on November 10, 1953, Karl Hunrath and Wilbur Wilkinson, two friends originally from Wisconsin but at the time living in California, hired a small airplane and took to the skies of Los Angeles. It was the last time either man was seen alive. It was the last time the aircraft was seen, too. Maybe they crashed shortly after takeoff and died fiery deaths. If so, where was the wreckage? Where were the bodies? No one, including the emergency services that launched a hasty search and rescue operation when it became apparent that something was awry, could find a single piece of telltale evidence of such an accident anywhere. It was almost as if Hunrath and Wilkinson had been abducted by aliens. In fact, that may have been precisely what happened to them.
When news of the pair’s vanishing act surfaced, many of California’s UFO researchers voiced their suspicions that Hunrath and Wilkinson had been whisked away to a faraway world by benevolent aliens—the so-called Space Brothers that dominated so much of the West Coast world of Ufology in the 1950s. Others researchers took a far bleaker approach to the whole thing and pondered the possibility that deadly aliens had lured the pair to their deaths somewhere in the mountains of California. Such thoughts were not at all unreasonable ones. Hunrath and Wilkinson were big players on the Los Angeles UFO scene at the time and, in the weeks and months leading up to their disappearances, were making it widely and loudly known that they had made contacts with at least two races of extraterrestrials—via ESP, drugs, and Ouija boards, no less. But how had the two men become embroiled in the UFO controversy in the first place? The answer is a strange one.
Hunrath, Adamski, and the FBI
The deeply curious saga all began when Hunrath—a man with a violent, hair-trigger temper, a dislike of women, and a flair for creating all manner of electronic gadgets and gizmos—decided to get hot on the flying saucer trail. That meant heading out to where most of the alien action was taking place: California. In late 1952, Hunrath quit his job in Wisconsin, left his rental house firmly behind, and took a one-way flight to Los Angeles. After quickly establishing new roots in L.A., Hunrath wasted no time at all in hooking up with the major UFO players in and around town. That included George Hunt Williamson, George Adamski, and George Van Tassel—three of the most famous, but undeniably controversial, UFO contactees of all time. As well as the three Georges, Hunrath also spent much time getting to know Frank Scully, the author of the very first book on crashed UFO incidents, Behind the Flying Saucers, which Scully cranked out in just six weeks in 1950. But, it was on January 12, 1953 that matters really began to develop.
On the morning of the day in question, Hunrath was hanging out at the home of George Adamski—on Palomar Mountain, California—along with Jerrold Baker, one of Adamski’s faithful followers. Quite out of the blue, Hunrath boasted loudly that only a few days earlier he had met with a group of long-haired, human-like aliens in a desert area on the outskirts of Joshua Tree, California. Not only that, the hippy-like ETs had supposedly given Hunrath a fantastically advanced weapon that had the ability to destroy aircraft in flight. Rather oddly, Hunrath gave the deadly device its very own name: Bosco. Having no love for his own government, or even for his fellow citizens, Hunrath practically bellowed to Adamski that he might even test the weapon on an aircraft or several of the U.S. military, just to see how powerful it really was. An outraged and worried Adamski immediately ordered Hunrath off his property. And that’s when the problems began.
Unknown to Hunrath, Adamski, and Baker, Adamski’s secretary, Lucy McGinnis, overheard Hunrath’s less-than-patriotic rant and was quite understandably unnerved by the whole situation. As a result, she chose to quietly phone the soon-to-be wife of Jerrold Baker, whose name was Irma, to let her know that her fiancé was mixing with distinctly disturbing company, namely Hunrath. Irma utterly freaked out when the details of the aircraft-destroying technology were outlined to her, petrified that her beloved Jerrold might be hauled off to jail by the Feds. So, Irma took her own course of action: She quickly called the FBI.
Within just a few hours, two unsmiling special agents of J. Edgar Hoover’s crime-fighting agency were sitting on Adamski’s couch, grilling him all about Bosco and Uncle Sam’s aircraft, and specifically the potential threat the former posed to the latter. The pair told Adamski they had heard rumors that he, Adamski “had in his possession a machine which could draw ‘flying saucers’ and airplanes down from the sky” (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1953). Although this was completely untrue, Adamski realized immediately that the FBI agents were actually talking about Hunrath—who, up until the bust-up earlier on that very same day that led to the FBI arriving, had been fairly chummy with Adamski for two months or so.
Hardly impressed by Adamski’s tales of the alien variety, but finally satisfied that it was Hunrath, and not Adamski, that they needed to focus on, the G-Men left, but not before giving the petrified Adamski a stern order to keep away from Hunrath from now on. Adamski didn’t need telling twice. His path never again crossed with that of Hunrath.
For the next few months, the FBI kept a careful, secret watch on just about every move that Hunrath made, just in case he really was in possession of advanced technology—whether of extraterrestrial or human origin—that could bring down military aircraft, or UFOs, in fatal fashion. Another reason for such intense surveillance of Hunrath was the fact that the FBI uncovered never-substantiated rumors that he was working for the Russians, trying to find out the truth about UFOs for Kremlin paymasters! During this same period, Hunrath convinced Wilbur Wilkinson, an old friend from Wisconsin, to join him in Los Angeles in his quest for the truth about UFOs. Given that Hunrath was very much a crazed Dr. Frankenstein–type to Wilkinson’s meek and subservient Igor, it didn’t take much to persuade Wilkinson to make the move, which occurred in March 1953.
Seeking Out the Saucer People
When Wilkinson and his wife reached Los Angeles, they found themselves a pleasant home, settled into their new lives, and became more and more immersed in the UFO issue. Whereas Wilkinson’s wife was content to remain an interested, but somewhat detached and slightly cynical, observer of the phenomenon, Wilkinson himself became overwhelmingly obsessed by all things of a flying saucer nature. On several occasions in the months that followed, Hunrath and Wilkinson traveled to the Prescott, Arizona, home of George Hunt Williamson to further their UFO pursuits.
The three spent hours engaged in nighttime experimentation—under the stars—trying to contact extraterrestrial entities on a telepathic-style basis. Reportedly, this was achieved by taking hits of mescaline and plunging their minds into decidedly altered states. Supposedly, such experimentation worked all too well. On one particular night during the first week of November 1953, Hunrath and Wilkinson received the mind-to-mind invite from their disembodied contacts from above that ultimately relegated them to oblivion, and provoked wild rumors that the pair had been kidnapped, or even killed, by alien entities. With matters having now reached their peak, the two said their goodbyes to Williamson—who was the very last person in the flying saucer field to ever see them—and planned the final countdown to cosmic contact. As to what happened next, it’s still a matter of conjecture, six decades later.
Ten days after the two disappeared, the Los Angeles Mirror newspaper highlighted the mystifying affair in its pages—as well as the attendant theory that their vanishing act was the work of aliens, good, evil, or indifferent. Suddenly, and hardly surprisingly, pretty much the entirety of the rest of the city’s media descended upon the Wilkinson home. When the press arrived they found that the walls of Wilkinson’s den were covered—from almost floor to ceiling—with photos, drawings, press clippings, and more, all on the subject of UFOs.
On top of that, what the Los Angeles Mirror described as strange signs and formulas—but which Mrs. Wilkinson said was actually an interplanetary language—were scrawled on numerous sheets of paper that lay in haphazard, discarded-looking fashion on the floor. When questioned about all of this, Mrs. Wilkinson stated that although she was not overly into the subject of UFOs, her husband certainly was, chiefly as a result of Hunrath’s bullying encouragement. She added—in a fashion that only increased the weirdness—the two men had recently been in contact with an alien name Regga, from the planet Masar. Quite what the Los Angeles media thought of that is anyone’s guess. (“Saucer Investigators in Strange Disappearance,” 1953)
Was it true? Were Hunrath and Wilkinson invited to take a one-way trip to another, faraway world by benevolent aliens? Or was the whole thing a fatal ruse—a terrible ploy engineered by deadly extraterrestrials, as some of their friends and family members suspected? Others speculated that the whole affair could be explained away as mere accident and offered that nothing stranger than engine trouble had probably led to terrible tragedy and death on the mountains of California. Some, however, weren’t quite so sure that the baffling disappearance of Hunrath and Wilkinson was just due to careless pilot error or mechanical malfunction. But those same souls weren’t looking to ET for the answers, either. They were looking across the border or to the government. And not just the U.S. government.
George Hunt Williamson, who, as we have seen, spent considerable time with Hunrath and Wilkinson, was one of the more vocal ones on this matter:
Some people think the two men went to Mexico, but they didn’t have enough fuel for the trip. It has also been reported that Karl is in England and will reappear shortly and also that he has been seen recently in Los Angeles with his hair dyed. He has been called a spaceman, a man possessed of evil spirits, an angel, a member of the F.B.I., and a Russian spy. What he really was no-one [sic] knows (Williamson, 1953).
Despite having occurred more than 60 years ago, the story of the baffling disappearance of Hunrath and Wilkinson refuses to fully roll over and die. Shortly before his death in November 2012, at the age of 81, longtime UFO researcher Jim Moseley shared with me his decades-old notes on the Hunrath-Wilkinson affair, compiled as part of a plan to write an ultimately aborted book on the 1950s-era UFO scene.
In part, Moseley’s December 1953 notes state that certain, pertinent information was brought to his attention by Manon Darlaine, a rich, elderly woman who worked with French Intelligence during the First World War and who later moved to Los Angeles to follow her passion for UFOs. In Moseley’s own words, and according to Darlaine, the aircraft in which Hunrath and Wilkinson vanished “has been found, but the men have not. The plane was dismantled, i.e., taken apart carefully and willfully, but not destroyed or damaged as it would be in a crash. This fact serves to deepen the mystery” (Moseley, 1953).
It certainly does deepen the puzzle. With Darlaine, Williamson, Adamski, Hunrath, and Wilkinson all long gone, and Moseley having now passed on, too, it seems that whatever really led to the disappearance of that curious pair of UFO researchers in the November 1953 skies of California is something destined to remain a mystery.
A Plane Crashes; Two Men Die
Despite the long and winding nature of the story, and its undeniable links to the UFO phenomenon, one has to wonder if Karl Hunrath and Wilbur Wilkinson really were taken out of circulation by extraterrestrials or if their vanishing act was carefully staged. There’s a very good reason for that speculation. It revolves around two things in particular. Recall that Hunrath was (a) originally from Racine, Wisconsin and (b) had supposedly been given an advanced alien weapon that could disable and destroy U.S. military aircraft. This was the oddly named Bosco, you will recall. Under very weird circumstances, less than two weeks after Hunrath and Wilkinson went missing, and only a short distance from Racine, two baffling and deadly events occurred, both involving military jets, one of which crashed and the other vanished, never to be seen again.
It all began on the afternoon of November 23, 1953, when a Northrop F-89 Scorpion aircraft, flying out of Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin, plunged from the skies and slammed into the swampy shores of Lake Wingra, a small body of water, also in Madison. On board were pilot First Lieutenant John W. Schmidt and radar operator Captain Glen E. Collins. The story was big news for the people of Madison. It was tragic news, too, because both men were killed in the crash.
Madison’s local newspaper, the Capital Times, on November 24, 1953, noted that one Colonel Shoup, a spokesperson for Truax Field, was “convinced that the men had stuck with their plane in an attempt to keep it from crashing into densely-occupied areas of Madison. He praised the cooperation of police, fireman, members of the press and radio and others in trying to find the men” (“Second Truax Jet, 2 Fliers Missing,” 1953). The newspaper added that a “sudden mechanical failure” caused the crash—a “failure” that occurred so quickly neither Schmidt nor Collins had time to bail out or make a distress call (Ibid.). Significantly, when Major Donald E. Keyhoe—a noted UFO investigator from the 1950s to the 1980s—looked into the matter, he learned from a colleague, Frank Edwards, that “several witnesses said a saucer flew near the plane, just before it dived into a swamp” (Ibid.).
The distance from Karl Hunrath’s hometown of Racine, Wisconsin, to Madison, Wisconsin, was just 104 miles by road, which would have presented no problems in transporting the allegedly shoebox-sized Bosco and deploying it somewhere in the vicinity of Madison.
HAARP granted last-minute reprieve as Air Force considers handoff
The HAARP element array in Gakona, Alaska. The Air Force said Wednesday that it will delay a planned dismantling of the site in hopes that it might transfer operating authority to another agency. HAARP photo
The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday it will give research institutions and other agencies more time to try to save the $290 million HAARP research facility in Gakona, Alaska.
An Air Force spokesman said the process of closing the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, which had been slated to begin this week, will be delayed for at least several weeks and perhaps longer.
The agency said it may put off dismantling the site for up to 10 months to allow a transfer to another agency, an option that has been promoted by scientists from the University of Alaska and around the world.
HAARP, backed by the late Sen. Ted Stevens when he wielded great power over the defense budget, has been used both for basic research of the ionosphere and for investigation of communications and satellite technology.
“We will proceed with removal of government property not essential to operations and will seek to reduce maintenance costs through additional storage of equipment and winterization,” Air Force spokesperson Ed Gulick said. “Air Force leadership is currently considering the option of deferring the dismantling for up to 10 months to allow time for a potential transfer to another entity.”
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has pressed the Pentagon to consider the transfer option instead of taking the site apart.
In May, University of Alaska President Pat Gamble wrote that the university could take ownership of the facility directly or through a lease, or it could work with others in the research community to develop options for covering operational costs.
He said that the main purpose of HAARP is to study techniques through which the U.S. could use “high power radio transmissions to manipulate Earth’s ionosphere for its strategic advantage.”
“The ionosphere is an integral part of the modern battlefield — it affects GPS navigation, satellite communication, missile tracking radars, orbital surveillance and submarine communication, to name just a few applications,” he said.
“I am convinced that with a little more time and broader range of discussions within the U.S. and internationally, we can develop a pay-for-use business plan to ensure the long-term availability of this laboratory,” Gamble said.
HAARP directs electric power generated on the site to 180 antennas spread across 30 acres. The transmissions heat electrons in the ionosphere, creating changes that are monitored back on Earth.
Astrobiologists are excited about the possibility of extraterrestrial life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Evidence suggests this icy moon is home to a vast subsurface ocean. But until tools land on the moon to drill through the ice, ice-penetrating radar is the best method researchers have to confirm the existence of an ocean below the moon’s surface. Unfortunately, Jupiter’s own radio waves interfere with this process. But researchers believe they can use these radio waves to their advantage.
Jupiter and its moon Europa. (Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser)
Phys.org explains that Jupiter’s radio waves come from clouds of electrically charged particles trapped in the planet’s magnetic field. In order to cut through the interference from Jupiter’s loud radio signals, “a mission probing Jupiter’s moons would need a relatively strong transmitter, a massive device that might be difficult to power and fit aboard the limited confines of a spacecraft.”
But rather than putting a transmitter on a spacecraft to fight against Jupiter’s radio signals, a new study suggests harnessing these radio waves to scan the planet’s moons, including Europa. The study’s lead author, Andrew Romero-Wolf at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains, “The technique we are developing could not only provide a solution to that problem, it could turn it into a strength.” He continues,
The great strength of this technique is that it doesn’t need a transmitter, just a receiver . . . A scanning system for subsurface oceans in icy moons potentially already exists. All we have to do is go there and listen.
As Phys.org describes, this process, known as interferometric reflectometry, would work by positioning a spacecraft between Jupiter and one of its icy moons, which would monitor decametric emissions from Jupiter and echoes of signals reflected off the moon. This process would enable researchers to determine the thickness of the moon’s ice shell and its ocean’s depth.
Artist’s depiction of Europa’s subsurface ocean. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Experts believe Europa has two-to-three times the volume of all the liquid water on Earth, so Europa’s ocean is likely to have a wide variety of ecosystems. And a recent study suggests that the building blocks for life are common on this icy moon.
Romero-Wolf is excited about the information that can be acquired by utilizing interferometric reflectometry. But he cautions, “”Unambiguous observation of a subsurface ocean or liquids in the ice of Europa is only the first step towards identifying the possibility for life . . . What we are proposing will not be able to tell us whether there are living organisms in Europa, but it could provide strong evidence for that possibility.”
This new study will be published in the journal Icarus.
In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune are said to be an ancient race of people small in stature, who lived in Hawaii before settlers arrived from Polynesia. Many scholars attribute ancient structures found on the Hawaiian Islands to the Menehune. However, others have argued that the legends of the Menehune are a post-European contact mythology and that no such race existed.
The mythology of the Menehune is as old as the beginnings of Polynesian history. When the first Polynesians arrived in Hawaii, they found dams, fish-ponds, roads, and even temples, all said to have been built by the Menehune who were superb craftspeople. Some of these structures still exist, and the highly-skilled craftsmanship is evident. According to legend, each Menehune was a master of a certain craft and had one special function they accomplished with great precision and expertise. They would set out at dusk to build something in one night, and if this was not achieved, it would be abandoned.
Some scholars, such as folklorist Katharine Luomala, theorize that the Menehune were the first settlers of Hawaii, descendants of the Marquesas islanders who were believed to have first occupied the Hawaiian Islands from around 0 to 350 AD. When the Tahitian invasion occurred in about 1100 AD, the first settlers were subdued by the Tahitians, who referred to the inhabitants as ‘manahune’ (which means ‘lowly people’ or ‘low social status’ and not diminutive in stature). They fled to the mountains and later came to be called ‘Menehune’. Proponents of this theory point to an 1820 census which listed 65 people as Menehune.
Luomala claims that the Menehune are not mentioned in pre-contact mythology and therefore the name does not refer to an ancient race of people. However, this argument holds little weight as most accounts of the past were passed down through word-of-mouth from one generation to the next.
If Luomala, and other scholars in her camp, is correct, and there was no ancient race of skilled craftspeople that predated the Polynesians, then there must be an alternative explanation for the ancient constructions of advanced design, which predated any known population in Hawaii. However, no alternative explanations exist and most history books still maintain that the Polynesians were the first inhabitants of Hawaii, some 1,500 years ago. So let’s examine some of the ancient constructions that have been attributed to the Menehune in the mythology of the region.
The Alekoko Fishpond, sometimes called the Menhune Fishpond, is one of the finest examples of ancient Hawaiian aquaculture. A lava rock wall between the pond and the Hulei’a River, which is 900 feet (274 m) long and 5 feet (1.5 m) high, was built to create a dam across a portion of the river in order to trap young fish until they grew large enough to consume. The stones that were used come from Makaweli village, some 25 miles (40 km) away. It is considered to be an unexplained engineering achievement and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Hawaiian legend states that the pond was built in one night by the Menehune, who formed an assembly line from the fishpond location to Makaweli, passing stones one-by-one from start to end point.
The Ceremonial Site of Necker Island
Heiau at Mokumanamana (Necker Island). Photo source.
Necker Island is part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Few signs of long-term human habitation have been found. However, the island contains 52 archaeological site with 33 ceremonial heiau (basalt upright stones), believed to be celestially oriented, and stone artifacts much like those found in the main Hawaiian Islands. The heiau vary only slightly in design, but generally feature rectangular platforms, courts and upright stones. One of the largest of these ceremonial sites measures 18.6 meters by 8.2 meters. Eleven upright stones, of what are believed to be the original 19, are still standing.
Many anthropologists believe that the island was a ceremonial and religious site. According to the myths and legends of the people of Kauai, which lies to the southeast, Necker Island was the last known refuge for the Menehune. According to the legend, the Menehune settled on Necker after being chased off Kaua’i by the stronger Polynesians and subsequently built the various stone structures there. Visits to the island are said to have started a few hundred years after the main Hawaiian Islands were inhabited, and ended a few hundred years before European contact.
Kīkīaola is a historic irrigation ditch located near Waimea on the island of Kauai. Also known as the Menehune Ditch, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1984. Hawaiians built many stone-lined ditches to irrigate ponds for growing taro (kalo), but very rarely employed dressed stone to line ditches. The 120 finely cut basalt blocks that line about 200 feet of the outer wall of the Menehune Ditch make it not just exceptional, but “the acme of stone-faced ditches” in the words of archaeologist Wendell C. Bennett. It is purported to have been built by the Menehune.
To date, no human skeletal remains of a physically small race of people have ever been found on Kaua’I or on any other Hawaiian islands. While this does not disprove that a race of small people existed, it does draw the truth behind the legend into question. Nevertheless, there is compelling evidence, both archaeological and in the numerous legends passed down over generations, that suggests that there was indeed an ancient race of highly skilled people who inhabited the Hawaiian islands long before the Polynesians arrived
A resting banshee, from Thomas Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1834). Flying around people’s houses and screaming at all hours of the night, it turns out, is hard work. And that castle over there has a ridiculous perimeter to cover. Source
In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, the Grim Reaper visits a lovely little dinner party to inform the guests that unfortunately they’re dead. After refusing wine and poking a man in the eye, he leads them to heaven, where there is, of course, a nice musical number.
Conspicuously absent for a British production, though, is the banshee of Irish and Scottish mythology, an ugly, nasty hag clad either in white or gray. A kind of fairy, she’s said to soar around your house, screaming like a manic demon to not so subtly let you know you’re about to die, usually in a violent manner. But unlike the Grim Reaper, this lady doesn’t murder you herself. She’s more of a hands-off type of death omen.
A fixture in U.K. myth-telling for some 1,000 years, particularly among elite families with a penchant for making death particularly dramatic, the banshee can also take the form of a beautiful woman weeping instead of wailing, all upset about your looming death. Also known as the Washer of the Ford, she can sometimes be seen scrubbing her bloodied robe in a river and preening her long hair with a silver comb.
Have you seen this woman? Do you suspect she’s been buzzing your house? Here’s how to prove it.
Wait until night falls, then put a caged rat in your front yard (stick with me here). When you hear that banshee come screaming and rattling that cage, hit the lights. You’ll find one of the night’s most majestic creatures, the barn owl, probably looking a bit pissed off about its rudely inaccessible dinner.
This ghostly creature has gorgeously white underparts and a scream like you wouldn’t believe (have a listen below), and has for centuries served as the likely source of the banshee myth. Far from the legend, though, this is an exceedingly graceful critter whose wails echo across every continent save for Antarctica.
Hunting primarily at night, the barn owl gathers the scant light with its large eyes and uses its entire heart-shaped face to funnel the waves to ears right next to its peepers. Its ears are actually shaped and oriented differently, with one pointing down and the other pointing up, like sloth from The Goonies.
With each ear processing sounds quite differently, the owl’s brain analyzes the variations between the ears to pinpoint prey. It’s so effective that the owl can hunt with sound alone, homing in on rodents rummaging around in the grass below. Once it locks on, it dives and pounces with its unusually long legs—an adaptation to hunting in tall grasses.
Barn owls are most charismatic when you can’t hear them screaming your ear off.Image: Phil Haynes/Flickr
As for that beautiful plumage, it might seem odd for a nocturnal hunter to be clad in white. It’s likely a measure, though, to break up its silhouette. This is known as countershading. If moonlight hits, say, a uniformly brown owl, it creates a gradient of a lighter top side and darker bottom side, manifesting as a silhouette for potential prey on the ground. With its bright white underbelly, the barn owl counteracts this shadowing effect, thus breaking up its profile. And the owl’s brownish top side helps it blend with the foliage below, masking it from its own predators above, such as eagles.
The feathers are also highly adapted for silent flight, with extremely fine fringes that reduce turbulence, and therefore noise. The owls are positively packed with these soft, velvety feathers that help absorb sounds, far more than most birds their size (the critters are positively scrawny without their feathers on—like, hilariously so). And the intense curvature of their wings boosts lift, so the owls can cut down on the number of wing beats required to stay aloft, yet another way to reduce noises that potentially scare off prey.
Such does the critter stalk the night in total silence, save for screaming its head off now and then. But at least it isn’t bloodying up our rivers with its dirty laundry.
References: Rosen, B. (2008) The Mythical Creatures Bible. Sterling Publishing
Leach, M. (1949) Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend. Harper & Row
Scientists suspect that a 3m long great white shark was eaten whole by a mystery monster.
The shark had been tagged with a heat and GPS recording device that told scientists of the female shark’s steep ocean descent and of the sudden dramatic rise in temperature of the sea dweller.
The sharked reacted well to the tagging and was observed to be very healthy without any scars or marks on her.
This female Great White was named ‘Shark Alpha’ (Picture: YouTube/Smithsonian Channel)
Shark Alpha, as the beast was named, nearly reached 2000ft (609m) before her body temperature zoomed from just over 40 degrees to 78 degrees.
Marine biologists have stated that such a temperature rise can only be due to the huge predator being eaten by a bigger beast.
This graphic is based on data retrieved from the device tagged to Shark Alpha (Picture:YouTube/Smithsonian Channel)
While killer whales have been known to attack and kill great white sharks, what sort of sea creature could ingest a whole shark?
Orbs – A digital camera anomaly or something paranormal?
After taking several hundred photos while on my holiday trip to Malta I got to thinking about orbs. I usually capture a few amongst my pictures or even aghost! This time though nothing unusual or out of this world.
Of course many will say that the likes of orbs or globes are down to the digital cameras we now use. The usual explanation is that orbs are caused by light bouncing back from a shiny or reflective surface, which the human eye doesn’t notice. And yet, there does seem to be true orbs caught on camera – but what are they?
Reading opinions of paranormal orbs they seem to fall into several categories. You take your pick as to which one might be true. Here are five popular suggestions:
Orbs are the souls of spirits manifesting as a circle or ball of energy.
They are energy emitted by objects and/or people which a spirit can then use for its own energy.
Orbs are similar to ghosts in that they are energy from a past event that has somehow been captured within the atmosphere of a place or building. The stronger the emotional event, the brighter the orb. A bitter conflict would register high on such a scale.
Orbs are a method by which spirits make themselves known.
They are viewing instruments for spirits in another dimension.
There is another alternative mentioned by the writer Theresa Cheung:
“The theory goes along the lines of orbs being natural energy structures that are a normal part of the physical world but have gone undetected until recently. The orb is an electrical object – a plasma – which for some reason holds together in a spherical shape, so is considered a stable plasma ; something which physics cannot reproduce of explain.”
I guess we all believe in want we want to believe.
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Katie Real 11 year old, saw a blazing light outside bedroom window in Northampton, She Used laptop to film it dance in the sky for 39 seconds before it disappeared Her mother, Fiona Fearon, 30, said: ‘It looked like a ball of fire – it was weird’, She called local airfield the next day but they said they knew nothing about it
NASA GRAIL Mission– Did our planet once have two moons? Some researchers say so. Moreover, the missing satellite might still be up there–splattered across the far side of the Moon. NASA’s GRAIL mission could help confirm or refute the “two moon” hypothesis.
Ancient mounds are found around the world. Similar construction. Their purpose is sometimes burial and other times for some sort of supposed sacrifice or storage, living quarters or the like.
Tumulus: A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, Hügelgräber or kurgans, and can be found throughout much of the world. A cairn (a mound of stones built for various purposes), might also be originally a tumulus. A long barrow is a long tumulus, usually for numbers of burials. The method of inhumation may involve a dolmen, a cist, a mortuary enclosure, a mortuary house or a chamber tomb.
Mounds:In the archaeology of the United States and Canada, the term "moun
d" has specific and technical connotations. In this sense, a mound is a deliberately constructed elevated earthen structure or earthwork, intended for a range of potential uses. In European and Asian archaeology, the word "tumulus" may be used as a synonym for an artificial hill, particularly if the hill is related to particular burial customs.
While the term "mound" may be applied to historic constructions, most mounds in the United States are pre-Columbian earthworks, built by Native American peoples. Native Americans built a variety of mounds, including flat-topped pyramids or cones known as platform mounds, rounded cones, and ridge or loaf-shaped mounds. Some mounds took on unusual shapes, such as the outline of cosmologically significant animals. These are known as effigy mounds. Some mounds, such as a few in Wisconsin, have rock formations, or petroforms within them, on them, or near them. (***Wisconsin is signficant as local tribes ancestors reported that they were not the ones mining copper there, but the "white men" who were there first*** See my post on copper mining giants)
How do you suppose man around the world was designing the same structures over and over again and again before their cross-ocean seafaring days, hmm??
(Bahrain, 4000-year-old burial mounds) In fact, these mounds were found on an island with people who lived off the sea - classic "originator" characteristic.
Above - This Russian mound skull from a 2500-year-old mound had a necklace they call the "Cleopatra Necklace" because it looked "Egyptian" (remember the finds in America believed to have Egyptian looking heiroglyphs and art? The signature of the "Originators" art and language seen around the world and influencing others?)
Does she kind of look like the Humboldt Sink "robust otamid" (Sloped-forehead skull) found in Oregon that I wrote about? *Notice the thrusting carnivorous robust jaw on the Russian mound skull and this Humboldt Sink one compared to the "homo sapiens" one below -
The interesting thing about all these mounds found around the world (besides the fact they were constructed nearly identically and shaped alike) is the very real fact that, if man was circumventing the globe and influencing each other's building in the BCE (before common era or what was known as Before Christ) era, they were not leaving their other cultural attributes. There should be Mesopotamian writings in Siberia and the Americas and pottery designs and such that are equivalent, as well as the skulls of those other culture people who do not belong there.
What we are left with is the possibility that such structures were being built around the world by a singular group that influenced incoming homo sapiens to imitate and initiate their own builds. The universal language of these "Originators" allowed similarities in early cuneiform writing around the world simultaneously. In fact, in Africa, they found that Heidelbergensis and Neanderthal, who came before homo sapiens in the continent, left tools behind that the homo sapiens borrowed and used. Those two originators also left the continent of Africa about 700,000 years before homo sapiens emerged from Africa to explore the world. What did they do for those 700,000 years??? How about build more knowledge and world exploration that we would cobble onto at a later date? In other words, they did all the hard early learning for us in the evolutionary process.
Source:It is generally agreed that true writing of language (not only numbers) was invented independently in at least two places: Mesopotamia (3200 BCE) and Mesoamerica around 600 BCE... It is debated whether writing systems were developed completely independently in Egypt around 3200 BCE and China around 1200 BCE or whether the appearance of writing in either or both places was due to culture diffusion.... brought by traders or an already-literate civilization!!!! (DING! DING! DING!)
What we are left with is a universal glue that holds all cultures together even when homo sapiens were not circumventing the globe in ships thousands of years BC. What was the giver of the Bronze age and the launcher of our great and fast knowledge? The influences we had since 80,000 years ago when leaving Africa - those who were the Originators.
Let's end this on a very very weird note - the Mima Mounds -
These mounds are still a mystery as to how they were formed, though it is believed to have been an act of nature.
VIDEO: Warp-ruimteschip brengt ons in 2 weken naar Alpha Centauri
VIDEO: Warp-ruimteschip brengt ons in 2 weken naar Alpha Centauri
In 2012 onthulde NASA dat een zogeheten warp, waarmee een ruimteschip sneller dan het licht kan worden aangedreven, in theorie mogelijk is. Nu heeft NASA-wetenschapper Harold White samen met de Nederlander Mark Rademaker ontwerpen gemaakt waarmee de organisatie een idee geeft hoe dit ruimteschip eruit zal komen te zien. De IXS Enterprise is een vroeg concept van de eerste echte warpdrive, aldus Rademaker. Het maken van de beelden kostte hem ruim 1600 uur.
White onderzoekt samen met zijn collega Mike Okuda de mogelijkheid om met ‘warpsnelheden’ door de ruimte te reizen. Het probleem voor toekomstige interstellaire ruimtevaarders is dat ze niet sneller kunnen dan het licht. En zelfs als dat wel zou kunnen is het nog te langzaam.
De warpdrive verbuigt de ruimte zodat de af te leggen afstand kleiner wordt. Volgens de relativiteitstheorie van Einstein is het mogelijk. NASA spendeert elk jaar 50.000 dollar aan het onderzoek naar de futuristische ruimtemotor.
In de televisieserie Star Trek wordt gesuggereerd dat de warpaandrijving is gebaseerd op de theorie van Einstein. Achter het ruimteschip wordt de ruimte uit elkaar getrokken met behulp van botsingen van antimaterie en materie en ervoor wordt hij samengetrokken, zodat de feitelijk af te leggen afstand kleiner wordt en je een effectieve verplaatsing hebt die sneller is dan de lichtsnelheid, zonder dat je de wetten van de relativiteitstheorie overtreedt.
De afgebeelde warpdrive is qua grootte en vorm gebaseerd op wiskundige en natuurkundige principes. De onderzoekers richten zich momenteel op laboratoriumexperimenten om te kijken of een zogenaamde ‘warpbubbel’ op nanoschaal echt bestaat.
De verwachte hoeveelheid brandstof voor een warpdrive is veel kleiner dan aanvankelijk gedacht. Een tank van enkele honderden meters lengte zou genoeg moeten zijn. Het moet mogelijk zijn om met de warpdrive in twee weken naar de ster Alpha Centauri te reizen.
VIDEO: Warp-ruimteschip brengt ons in 2 weken naar Alpha Centauri
VIDEO: Warp-ruimteschip brengt ons in 2 weken naar Alpha Centauri
In 2012 onthulde NASA dat een zogeheten warp, waarmee een ruimteschip sneller dan het licht kan worden aangedreven, in theorie mogelijk is. Nu heeft NASA-wetenschapper Harold White samen met de Nederlander Mark Rademaker ontwerpen gemaakt waarmee de organisatie een idee geeft hoe dit ruimteschip eruit zal komen te zien. De IXS Enterprise is een vroeg concept van de eerste echte warpdrive, aldus Rademaker. Het maken van de beelden kostte hem ruim 1600 uur.
White onderzoekt samen met zijn collega Mike Okuda de mogelijkheid om met ‘warpsnelheden’ door de ruimte te reizen. Het probleem voor toekomstige interstellaire ruimtevaarders is dat ze niet sneller kunnen dan het licht. En zelfs als dat wel zou kunnen is het nog te langzaam.
De warpdrive verbuigt de ruimte zodat de af te leggen afstand kleiner wordt. Volgens de relativiteitstheorie van Einstein is het mogelijk. NASA spendeert elk jaar 50.000 dollar aan het onderzoek naar de futuristische ruimtemotor.
In de televisieserie Star Trek wordt gesuggereerd dat de warpaandrijving is gebaseerd op de theorie van Einstein. Achter het ruimteschip wordt de ruimte uit elkaar getrokken met behulp van botsingen van antimaterie en materie en ervoor wordt hij samengetrokken, zodat de feitelijk af te leggen afstand kleiner wordt en je een effectieve verplaatsing hebt die sneller is dan de lichtsnelheid, zonder dat je de wetten van de relativiteitstheorie overtreedt.
De afgebeelde warpdrive is qua grootte en vorm gebaseerd op wiskundige en natuurkundige principes. De onderzoekers richten zich momenteel op laboratoriumexperimenten om te kijken of een zogenaamde ‘warpbubbel’ op nanoschaal echt bestaat.
De verwachte hoeveelheid brandstof voor een warpdrive is veel kleiner dan aanvankelijk gedacht. Een tank van enkele honderden meters lengte zou genoeg moeten zijn. Het moet mogelijk zijn om met de warpdrive in twee weken naar de ster Alpha Centauri te reizen.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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that the miner’s assailants were actually local youths throwing rocks, which camp counselors bringing kids on hiking trips to the Canyon also tried to impart.
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