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...
In 1961, some rock hounds went out poking around for geodes and such in the Olancha, California. While opening up a geode, one of the rock collectors was amazed. There was a man-made object within and the geode was aged at about 500,000 years.
The find was under much criticism because it was reportedly examined by a geologist (unnamed) who proclaimed the geode was 500,000 years old (no report filed). Ron Calais, a creationist, was allowed to photograph and x-ray the item. It appeared to have a corroded piece of metal in a coil shape with a porcelain shape. Oddly, the whereabouts of the item are unknown. One of the finders has deceased, one is missing and one is still alive, but will not speak about it. Of all the talk going back and forth about this find and conjecture, an ancient spark plug seems to be the one most often bantered about. The porcelain is seen as an insulator. Porcelain Insulators
Power lines and other electrified wires transmit high-voltage electrical energy along suspended wires. While the wires themselves typically contain no insulation, certain spots along the electrified wires require insulation. For example, insulators are required in places where the live electrical wires come into contact with the poles that support them, and where they come into contact with buildings. Since insulators do not respond to electrical fields, they can go a long way in preventing fires and electrical failure.
Porcelain insulators typically contain large concentrations of some other mineral like alumina or clay. The combination of porcelain and other minerals allows electricity to pass without reacting with nearby electrical conductors. This not only ensures greater safety, but enables the electricity to pass without losing any of its charge. Since porcelain does not conduct electricity, especially when combined with other non-conductive materials, it makes the ideal material for insulators.
The coil brings to mind these numerous metal tiny spirals found in Russia.
As we have been told that man did not have knowledge of technology because he seemed to have “forgotten” the knowledge of building megaliths or making batteries, we are stuck in that rut that is, unfortunately, common beliefs in archaeology and anthropology.
Yes, man did not have that knowledge, at least not homo sapiens, but what of an earlier evolved intelligent race of humankind? They had the knowledge. They went away. Homo sapiens aped it or tried to retro-engineer or simply didn't understand its uses and did not evolve to such knowledge until thousands of years later.
Baghdad battery: The components were found in Mesopotamia dating back to about 250 BCE (before common era, or in other words, BC). Ironically, archaeologists generally dismiss this concept that these components were for a battery and many point to “Chariots of the Gods” and “pseudoarchaeology” as being incorrect. It would seem that OPART (out of place/out of time) objects are still the bane of archaeologists' existence.
These items included a terra cotta pot (remember above the underlined and bolded necessary ingredient for insulation – clay?), a copper cylinder with an iron rod inside. The jar would bulge outward toward the middle and the cylinder/rod iron would fit tightly into the opening. It would be allowed to be exposed to the elements and corrode and then an acidic component would be added to create current, such as lemon juice or vinegar.
To support this theory, gold-plated objects found in the Middle East shows signs of electroplating. This has also been disputed as being fire-plated using mercury. Around and around the concept of ancient electricity goes, always stopped at the foot of archaeologists and anthropologists who do not want to cause any disruption in commonly accepted concepts in their field.
It seems this could be cleared up neatly if one made a homemade battery as was found in the Baghdad area and try electroplating something with gold. Then, try doing it utilizing mercury and fire plating. Compare to the artifact. Hmmm
Was this (below) and Egyptian light bulb? Were the pyramids piezoelectric-creating powerhouses?
It is believed the pyramids are giant capacitors, constructed to make use of piezoelectricity in these stone buildings that come to a singular point. With a solid gold tip (conductor) at the top of the pyramid and the subsequent amplification of current through the stone to the top, a discharge would occur. Basically, the building was made to hold a charge.
I'm coming to think that Tesla's theory was put to use in HAARP experiment. HAARP was an array of antennae placed in Alaska to work on making changes in the ionosphere to see the results. Many blamed bad weather, earthquakes and bad mojo on it, but here's something telling Tesla said that might shed light onto it - After reading something Tesla said, I am looking at government actions in a new light. Tesla likened the Earth to one capacitor plate and the ionosphere as another. The volt gradient between them is measured at 400,000 volts. By using this principle, he said that he could give free easy energy to the world… I'm still of the impression that homo sapiens having and losing this knowledge is a quirky concept, as we have never been able to put the genie back in the bottle (the wheel, fire, the atomic bomb….) That would mean that we never had the knowledge, yet there is proof someone was using such knowledge long ago in fairly crude methods, but knowledge just the same, which to me points at the concept, not of aliens, but of another branch of man who had earlier evolution, the first world migration, the originators….
The next couple of years will be make or break for the next big theory in physics called supersymmetry - SUSY for short. It might make way for a rival idea which predicts the existence of a 'fifth force' of nature.
But other forms of the theory are still very much in play.
Next year will be an important year for SUSY. The LHC will be smashing atoms together at almost twice the energy it did in its first run. Even those who are still strong advocates of SUSY, such as Cern's revered professor of theoretical physics, John Ellis, agree that if LHC scientists do not find super particles in the LHC's second run, it might be time for the hospital patient to be moved to the mortuary.
"If it is not found in LHC run two then there will be relatively few corners it could hide," he told BBC News.
"I know that at that point the community may decide that the guys who predicted supersymmetry are dying off like flies and that young guys will be interested in different types of theories and supersymmetry may be forgotten. But I don't think we are at that point yet."
Engineers have spent more than a year upgrading the LHC's systems. The hope is that this will allow a new realm of physics to be opened up
One of those young guys is Thibaut Mueller, a 24-year-old PhD student at Cambridge University. He is already checking out alternatives to SUSY.
"A few years ago we thought it was a case of who will be first to find supersymmetry," he said.
"Now there is less and less focus on it and more people are starting to branch out into other models."
Mr Mueller's PhD looks at an alternative to supersymmetry called the composite Higgs model. This idea has been around for decades but is undergoing a resurgence as some researchers raise questions over supersymmetry. Physicists will be looking for evidence for it in the next run of the LHC in 2015.
Thibault's colleague Dr Ben Gripaios believes that the Composite Higgs theory is now a serious alternative to supersymmetry.
SUSY is the perfect theory. We have been looking really hard for it and we have not found it. For me the most compelling alternative is the composite Higgs”
End QuoteDr Ben GripaiosCambridge University
"SUSY was regarded by many people as the perfect theory. We have been looking really hard for it for a long time and we have not found it and so possibly there is a different explanation. For me the most compelling alternative is the Composite Higgs. It is just as plausible as supersymmetry," he told BBC News.
The current theory to explain the forces of nature was developed in the 1960s and is called the Standard Model. It elegantly explains how 13 particles, including the Higgs, interact to create three of the four forces of nature: electromagnetism, and the nuclear strong and weak forces.
But the Standard Model does not explain how gravity works, nor can it account for the matter and energy that makes up 95% of the Universe - referred to by physicists as the "Dark Universe".
Supersymmetry is an extension of the Standard Model and is an attempt toexplain some of the things the current theory can't.
The stage has been set for some years for the detection of super particles. But so far they have been a no show.
It predicts the existence of so-called superparticles which account for much of the missing mass and energy of the Universe.
Supersymmetry also neatly solves what physicists describe as the "fine tuning problem". In very crude terms, all subatomic particles can be thought to have two values for their mass: Their mass in isolation which is called their "bare" mass, and their experimental mass, which includes interactions with other sub-atomic particles.
For all particles the two masses are about the same, except for the Higgs, whose bare mass must be many times larger than its experimental mass.
Going from such a relatively big number to a small number is an unlikely occurrence, rather like a skydiver landing on the head of a pin each time they jump out of a plane. It can only happen if there is an overarching force guiding the skydiver on to the pin head - something that physicists call "fine tuning".
The existence of superparticles interacting with their normal counterparts fine tunes the Higgs's two masses perfectly. The drawback though is that there is no evidence of SUSY, at least not yet.
The composite Higgs theory also solves the fine tuning problem, albeit less elegantly and, just as with SUSY, there is no experimental evidence for it. It supposes that the Higgs is not a fundamental particle, but is instead made up of other fundamental particles bound together by a hitherto unseen fifth force of nature. This is similar to what is already known to happen with the strong nuclear force, which binds quarks together to produce nuclear particles like protons and neutrons.
Scientists at the LHC hope to detect evidence for one or other theory when they resume their experiments in April. In effect, the starting gun goes off in an invisible two-horse race where the winner emerges only at the finish line. Supersymmetry is still the favourite in the minds of most particle physicists, but Thibaut Mueller thinks that the likelihood of finding evidence for composite Higgs theory is not far behind.
Why then is this promising youngster gambling his still early career on the outsider?
High risk
"This is a high risk, high gain game," he explained. "If we find either (SUSY or the composite Higgs) this would be the biggest revolution in particle physics and possibly the whole of physics since quantum mechanics in the the 1940s.
"Even if we do not find evidence for SUSY or composite Higgs, we will still have learned important facts about the Standard Model, which will guide us to new theories".
Of course, the researchers may see neither, which raises the possibility that no fine tuning is needed to turn the big Higgs into the little Higgs.
That would mean that we live in a Universe where the dice are loaded to ensure that the Higgs experimental mass will always improbably land neatly on its bare mass each and every time.
As researchers smash particles at ever higher energies will they find a fifth force of nature that holds the Higgs together
In the absence of evidence for either theory, this anthropic principle might seem like a tempting option. But it's one that those on the front line of research vehemently resist.
According to Thibault Mueller that view is a "conversation stopper".
"It says that 'we are special because we as humans are here to observe it and so we exist'. If we accept that then we might as well give up science altogether.
"We (have established) that we as a species are not special, the Earth is not special, our Solar System is not special. Now we are saying: 'Ah! Our Universe is not that special either'."
Prof Rolf Dieter Heuer, the director-general of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) recently told researchers at the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) in Valencia, that there was "a lot at stake" for the LHC's second run starting next year.
Indeed there is: careers, reputations and deeply cherished ideas.
But whatever the outcome, physicists are preparing themselves for the ride of their lives. As Prof Heuer told the physics community: "There's much more to be discovered in the Dark Universe".
But other forms of the theory are still very much in play.
Next year will be an important year for SUSY. The LHC will be smashing atoms together at almost twice the energy it did in its first run. Even those who are still strong advocates of SUSY, such as Cern’s revered professor of theoretical physics, John Ellis, agree that if LHC scientists do not find super particles in the LHC’s second run, it might be time for the hospital patient to be moved to the mortuary.
“If it is not found in LHC run two then there will be relatively few corners it could hide,” he told BBC News.
“I know that at that point the community may decide that the guys who predicted supersymmetry are dying off like flies and that young guys will be interested in different types of theories and supersymmetry may be forgotten. But I don’t think we are at that point yet.” Read more
Giant UFO passes in front of The Moon on 13th July 2014
Giant UFO passes in front of The Moon on 13th July 2014
New amazing video footage of a giant black UFO recorded while passing in front of The Moon on 13th July 2014.
Witness said: Here is a fantastic capture of a UFO with a magnetic halo transiting the moon on the night of the super moon. I have filmed many of these objects but this is the largest to date.
UFO sightings over South Padre Island, Texas on 14th July 2014
UFO sightings over South Padre Island, Texas on 14th July 2014
New interesting video footage of a bright UFO light recorded in the night sky above South Padre Island, Texas on 14th July 2014.
Witness said: Spotted 2 UFO’s out over the Gulf Of Mexico last night. The sightings lasted for over 20 minutes. The lights just vanished. I have a video of this but can’t seem to upload it here.
A witness at Puducherry, India, reported watching a “white colored, self-revolving cone” UFO that hovered under the cloud cover less than one mile away, according to July 11, 2014, testimony in Case 896 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The object was seen for about two minutes on June 15, 2014, while the witness was waiting for a traffic signal.
“My kid wanted me to see an arrow in the sky,” the witness stated. “When I looked I found a long cockpit-type, conical flying object just self revolving and passing over a big cloud to another small cloud.”
But the object soon disappeared from sight.
“But when it crossed the second small cloud, it just disappeared. It never returned.”
Witness illustration of the object. (Credit: MUFON)
Puducherry consists of four small unconnected districts: Pondicherry, Karaikal and Yanam on the Bay of Bengal and Mahé on the Arabian Sea. Pondicherry and Karaikal have the largest areas and population, both as part of Tamil Nadu.
Map of Pondicherry Region in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
THE WAY David M. Jacobs sees it, aliens from outer space have been kidnapping humans for aeons and sexually molesting them to create human-alien hybrids that walk among us today undetected and will soon take over Earth.
He knows that sounds crazy.
But he long ago quit caring what people think of him. As director of the International Center for Abduction Research, Jacobs, 71, has made it his life's mission to investigate claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
"What I'm doing will either be an interesting but nonessential footnote to popular culture or the most important thing that's ever happened to humankind. I see it as the latter," said Jacobs, who's now working on his fifth book, tentatively titled The New People.
Do you believe aliens exist?
While most people might write off UFO believers as deluded, conspiracy-theorist kooks, Jacobs isn't your typical believer.
He was a tenured professor at Temple University, where he taught American history for 36 years before retiring in 2011. He's a married father of two who lives in a picturesque, 134-year-old Victorian just over the Philadelphia line, in Wyndmoor. He makes his case with well-reasoned, articulate explanations and applies a scholarly approach to his research, which he has shared in four books - printed by well-known and academic publishers.
Jacobs has interviewed about 150 people who say they've been abducted by aliens, the forgotten details of their cosmic kidnappings resurfacing in relaxation sessions the self-taught hypnotist does in his home.
Citing public polls, he estimates that aliens have abducted more than a million Americans.
He readily admits that the evidence of extraterrestrial life and body-snatching is "weak," muddied by an abundance of blurry photos and confabulation (phony or misinterpreted "memories").
Yet he insists evidence exists:
* Abductees independently report similar experiences and recall common details, such as the humanlike or insectlike appearance of aliens and their mission to breed.
Many abductees told Jacobs that aliens stared deeply into their eyes, sometimes touching foreheads, in a neurological scan that enabled them to harvest human sperm and eggs. Women frequently claimed that aliens impregnated them, removed the alien-human hybrid fetuses from their wombs and forced the women to nurse the hybrid babies.
* People are physically absent during the time they say they were abducted, Jacobs said. Some families even have reported loved ones missing or seen them vanish, he added.
* Abductees sometimes are taken in groups; strangers who never met on Earth recall each other from their deep-space experiences, Jacobs said.
* People return with unusual marks, injuries or scars - including scar tissue that formed overnight, "a biological impossibility that I have seen myself," he saidis iconvenient truth
For years, Jacobs shunned speaking locally about alien abductions.
"I knew that it was embarrassing to the university," he said, remembering one Temple donor who threatened to end his charity unless Jacobs quit teaching his UFO class, the only one like it in the country.
But he didn't quit. Still, his beliefs carried a cost: Tenured in 1981, he said he was twice rejected for promotion and never became a full professor at Temple.
"I was not rewarded for my views," Jacobs said. "But you do not often find yourself in the middle of a phenomenon that allows you to make a contribution to something that could be of unsurpassing importance in human history."
Jacobs is among a small but surprising array of well-known folks who reportedly believe in extraterrestrial life, including former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, former astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and celebrities Mick Jagger, Dan Aykroyd, Muhammad Ali and William Shatner.
On the skeptical side
Critics aren't swayed by the big names.
Even smart people can believe weird things, said Michael Shermer, founde rand editor of Skeptic magazine and a Scientific Americancolumnist.
Shermer interviewed Jacobs for his weekly NPR show, shortly after Jacobs' 1999 book, The Threat, was published. Shermer said Jacobs "spoke like an academic" but that his beliefs are rooted in his "circular, impenetrable argument" that sneaky aliens have lulled skeptics into disbelief and complacency.
William Hartmann, a senior scientist at the Arizona-based Planetary Science Institute, described Jacobs' methods as concerning: "Dr. Jacobs' website describes 'alien abduction' reports extracted under hypnosis, but my sense is that most of the scientific community gives little credence to reports coming from hypnosis," Hartmann said.
Hartmann said he and other scientists examined "photo evidence" of UFOs as members of the U.S. Air Force's "Condon Committee" in the late 1960s.
"I went in hoping to find real evidence of some extraordinary phenomena, but I came out feeling we had no convincing evidence we could take back to Congress or the USAF or public, and that the sociology of the UFO phenomenon was much more interesting than any actual physical evidence like the alleged photos," he said.
The SETI Institute is a private, nonprofit science group based in California that searches for signs of extraterrestrial life. But a spokesman declined to comment on Jacobs or the possibility of aliens on Earth, saying that SETI hunts for signs of alien life in deep space, not here.
No 'gee-whiz thing'
Jacobs himself says he has never seen a UFO nor been abducted by aliens. "I've never been to Japan either, but that doesn't mean Japan doesn't exist,"he said.
He remains undaunted by skeptics. He has been a believer since he first began researching extraterrestrial life in 1970.
As a college student, he read about aliens and UFOs "for R&R" - but became entranced when he thought: "This could be real," he said.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he switched his doctoral dissertation from the portrayal of women in pre-1915 films to the UFO controversy in America.
He began focusing on alien abductions in the 1980s and vows to continue that research even as it terrifies him more each day.
"I used to think it was the most amazing, wowee, gee-whiz thing," Jacobs said. "But the more I learn about it, the more I fear it, the more I don't want to have anything to do with it."-
That's because he suspects that aliens are intent upon planetary domination, as humans remain mired in ignorance and denial.
"This is a clandestine phenomenon," Jacobs said. "There is one thing that I can say for sure: They don't want us to know what they're doing - because what they're doing benefits them and not us."
The case of Eduard “Billy” Meier is one of the most famous among the UFO enthusiasts. For over 30 years, Meier has claimed to have had direct and continuous contact with extra-terrestrial beings. The case gained substantial credibility among supporters after the work done by Marcel Vogel, an IBM scientist at the time, who analyzed metal samples of alleged extra-terrestrial origin supplied by Meier. While most of the investigations in the Billy Meier case have concentrated on photographic material, not so much has been done on reviewing the scientific part of the famed metal samples.
This article concentrates on the scientific data collected by Vogel from the Meier samples. The results are presented best in the video Beamship: The Metal Analysis, which is part of a 1985 documentary with Jun-Ichi Yaoi from Japan’s Nippon Television. This video is so far the only source to my knowledge that properly displays the data obtained directly from the instruments used by Vogel. Other references, such as “UFO contact from the Pleiades: A preliminary investigation report” by Wendelle C. Stevens, do not show plots of the spectra or scanning electron micrographs and are limited to verbal descriptions of the results and conclusions reached by Vogel [1,2].
The main claims on Meier’s metal samples are the following:
1. Samples contain almost all of the elements of the periodic table.
2. Samples contain the hard to obtain element Thulium with its secondary bands missing in the EDS spectrum.
3. Inclusions in the metal sample exhibit birefringence, which is found in non-metallic or dielectric crystals.
4. Sample examined at a magnification of 500 diameters show signs of micro-manipulation or micro machining.
The claims above have direct data associated to them. Notice that many of the claims that Vogel made are secondary and derive from conclusions he reached from the propositions listed above. The intention of this article is to show that Vogel’s main claims can be scientifically verified based on his own data and that his results can be reproduced out of ordinary materials. The logical argument is that very similar results can be obtained from samples that do not possess the properties that Vogel claims. It is also the intention of this article to propose that, in light of the analysis herein presented, it is no longer necessary to analyze more samples that Meier may supply in the future.
The data from which Vogel claims to have found many elements is a spectrum obtained using Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS). This spectrum is shown in Fig.1.
Figure 1: Screen-shot of the EDS Spectrum collected by Vogel where he claims that all the elements of the periodic table are present. Spectrum collected at 20KeV acceleration voltage.
As a counter-example, Fig. 2 shows an EDS spectrum taken at 20KeV of ultra-pure nickel.
Figure 2: EDS Spectrum at 20KV of ultra-pure nickel. Spectrum captured by I. Alvarado.
Given the similarities of the two spectra above, it can be deduced that the evidence for all the elements present in the sample can be reproduced by a sample consisting of virtually a single element which, in this case, was a pellet of ultra-pure nickel.
The scientific explanation is that the bell-shaped spectrum shown in both spectra is the so-called Bremsstrahlung continuum x-ray radiation, which is produced when electrons decelerate as they pass close to the atomic nuclei of the material. This phenomenon is very well known in EDS analysis and has no bearing on the element composition of the sample [3].
Fig. 3 shows a screen-shot of Vogel’s EDS spectrum where he identifies Thulium and other elements. Here, it is pointed out that the secondary bands of Thulium are not present, which is further used to speculate that the material was put together by unknown methods (e.g. cold fusion).
Figure 3: Screen-shot of the EDS Spectrum collected by Vogel where the claim is made that the element Thulium is present in the sample. Spectrum collected at 20KeV acceleration voltage.
The spectrum shown in Fig. 4 below was produced with a sample made by manually placing a small flake of Silver on top of Aluminum.
Figure 4: EDS Spectrum at 20KV of a sample consisting of Aluminum and a flake of Silver manually placed on top. The band at 0 KeV is background noise. Spectrum captured by I. Alvarado.
The striking similarity between the two spectra in Figs. 3 and 4 is evident and, thus, what Vogel observed was not the hard-to-obtain Thulium, but rather the very-common element Aluminum with some traces of Silver [4]. The Aluminum and Silver of the sample in Fig. 4 are obviously not bonded or alloyed and yet the sample still produces an EDS spectrum identical to Vogel’s. It then follows that EDS alone cannot determine neither chemical bonding nor alloying between the elements detected. Thus, the claim that the elements found in Meier’s sample are bonded or alloyed cannot be supported by EDS analysis alone. The proposition of the missing bands is then nullified as Aluminum does not possess them.
The scientific explanation of this is that Aluminum has one strong EDS band at 1.486 KeV, which is very close to the lowest energy band produced by Thulium at 1.462 KeV. It is common for a computer analyzing EDS spectra to mistake between elements whose energy bands lie close to each other. This explains why the computer also identified Bromine and Argon in Vogel’s spectrum as they too possess energy bands close to Aluminum and Silver. The presence or absence of secondary bands then becomes important to distinguish between elements. Thus, the spectrum obtained by Vogel is best explained as that produced by a piece of Aluminum with traces of Silver that are not alloyed or chemically bonded.
Vogel claims to have detected dielectric birefringence in inclusions around the edges of the sample by means of optical microscopy with cross-polarized illumination. The sequence of his observation is shown in Fig. 5. Here, Vogel goes on to speculate that the sample exhibits a duality between being a metal and a non-metallic crystal.
Figure 5: Two optical micrographs of the same region of the sample taken by Vogel. Left shows normal illumination and Right cross-polarized illumination. The bright portions on the right are claimed to be produced by crystal birefringence.
Now, it is true that a birefringent crystal will appear bright under cross-polarized illumination, when the crystal is aligned properly in the optical setup [5]. However, such observation can also be produced by samples that have rugged topography. Fig. 6 below shows an optical micrograph of a poorly deposited metal film on silicon as it is imaged under normal illumination conditions and under cross-polarized illumination.
Figure 6: Optical micrograph of a metal film poorly deposited onto the surface of a silicon wafer. Left shows normal illumination and Right cross-polarized illumination. The bright streaks on the right are produced by the topography of the surface. Micrographs captured by I. Alvarado with a 50x optical objective.
Just like in Vogel’s micrograph sequence, bright regions are also clearly observed in Fig. 6 under cross polarized light. The difference is now that they are produced merely by the topography of the metal itself and not by non-metallic crystal birefringence. This shows that the cross-polarization method is insufficient to establish whether dielectric birefringence exists in any given sample. Since the sample analyzed by Vogel has a very clear rough surface, the bright regions he observes under cross-polarized light are best explained by the surface topography and not by the presence of non-metallic crystal inclusions in the sample. Since there is no reason to believe that there are insulating portions embedded in Vogel’s metal sample, then severe charge accumulation during SEM imaging is not expected.
Vogel claims to have found evidence of mechanical manipulation at the micro-scale level, presumably done with lasers. This is based on the SEM picture shown in Fig. 7, where the magnification is specified at 500 diameters.
Figure 7: SEM micrograph taken by Vogel showing indentations at the micro scale. The image was taken at 500 diameters magnification.
Fig. 8 shows a SEM micrograph of the surface of an aluminum plate taken at a magnification of 500 diameters as well. This plate was made by conventional metal machining and its surface shows a very clear periodic pattern with a 50 micron pitch that the cutting edge produced during the process. The structure produced was not intentional and has no functionality. Other portions of the same surface did not show this structure.
Figure 8: SEM micrograph of the surface of an Aluminum plate machined by conventional means at 500 diameters magnification, as indicated in the lower caption bar. SEM captured by I. Alvarado.
Given that patterns like this can be obtained unintentionally by ordinary metal cutting tools, it is not necessary to speculate on possible exotic micro-machining processes to produce them. Indeed, a structure imaged at 500 diameters cannot be considered micro-machined even by 1985 technology, let alone by today’s state-of-art nanofabrication techniques, which routinely produce structures that are imaged at magnifications of 100,000 diameters [6].
To summarize, all the results obtained by Marcel Vogel have been properly reproduced from common samples using equivalent equipment and techniques. The spectrum showing all the elements of the periodic table was produced by a sample that virtually contains only one element, the spectrum showing Thulium and Silver was obtained out of a sample of non-alloyed Aluminum and Silver, the cross-polarization optical micrographs that are used to show non-metallic birefringence in the sample were reproduced by a purely metallic sample. A similar micro-machined structure was found in an ordinary machined metal. In all the cases, the instruments and techniques used were equivalent to those used by Vogel.
Many of the speculations adduced by Vogel become invalid in light of the counter-examples presented in this article. For instance, the missing bands of Thulium led Vogel to speculate on cold fusion, which becomes unsustainable after showing that the spectrum obtained is that of Aluminum. Speculation of duality metal-dielectric in the sample also is not required as no valid evidence of birefringence was presented. And so on with the rest of the claims.
Furthermore, some of the claims did not have data to support them and even other claims are pure anecdotes. For example, Vogel claimed that Rhenium was found in the sample with missing EDS bands also; the spectrum was not shown in either references [1] or [2] and it could have been Zinc, as this element has some EDS bands close to that of Rhenium. I am certainly willing to analyze more EDS spectra or SEM micrographs that Vogel or the lab in Switzerland might have produced on these samples, if they are brought to my attention. What should not be done is to take Vogel’s or any other scientist’s word alone to validate any conclusions.
References: [1] Beamship: The Metal Analysis. 1985 documentary produced by Nippon Television. [2] “UFO contact from the Pleiades: A preliminary investigation report” by Wendelle C. Stevens. [3] Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis by Eric Lifshin, Joseph I. Goldstein and David C. Joy. [4] For a large collection of EDS spectra, visit www.cannonmicroprobe.com. [5] Fundamentals of Optics, F.A. Jenkins and H.E. White. [6] Nature and Science Magazines constantly show SEM micrographs of nanostructured materials.
* This is a guest post by Ivan Alvarado. Ivan is not affiliated with Open Minds, and the ideas, statements, and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Open Minds.
Very interesting and intriguing images from Google Earth, which seem to show two possible entrances to an alien base or at least an entrance to something, and a huge saucer shaped object buried in the ice. If there are Alien bases in the Antarctic it would follow that there are ET craft their also
Alien Base And Flying Saucer Found In Antarctica? 2013 HD
Depuis plusieurs décennies déjà ils sont un mystère non encore résolu. Jusqu’à ce jour. Car le voile se lève enfin sur les crop circles, ou cercles de culture. L’une des plus grandes énigmes des XXeme et XXIeme siècles. En fait l’un des plus gros canular. Révélations recueillies au sud de l’Angleterre, dans le petit village de Marlborough.
Il est 10 heures du matin. Le dimanche 25 août 2013. Un jour froid et humide, comme il y en a beaucoup au sud de la Grande Bretagne, même à cette période de l’année. Je suis venu admirer un crop circle. Un cercle de culture en français, apparu deux jours auparavant. Je suis plus attiré par la beauté de la figure dont nous avons déjà presque tous en main une photo aérienne, que véritablement convaincu de sa nature « authentique ». Bref, je suis là en curieux, pour essayer moi aussi de comprendre. Je ne vais pas être déçu.
Nous sommes à Beckhampton, non loin d’Avebury dans le Wiltshire. Les badauds se pressent pour observer de près ce message de la nature ou d’entités supérieures ? Nul ne le sait vraiment. Mais les supputations vont bon train depuis les années 60 où les premiers cercles mystérieux sont apparus dans des champs de blé, de colza ou de cultures diverses. Les tiges de blé ici sont couchées et comme tressées les unes sur les autres. Les bordures de la figure, qu’elles soient courbes ou droites, sont parfaitement tracées. Déjà au sol, l’œil n’est pas perturbé par des ratures ou des approximations. Et cette impression est encore renforcée bien sûr quand on prend de la hauteur pour regarder les figures du ciel.
Un peu à l’écart, un homme d’age mur attire mon attention. Il ne semble pas du tout intéressé par le crop circle mais plutôt excédé par l’attitude béate de certaines personnes qui ont l’air de découvrir la huitième merveille du monde, ou sont en passe d’entrer en transe ! Je m’approche prudemment de lui.
-Impressionnant, n’est-ce pas ?
-Cette foutaise ? (Crap en anglais. Jeu de mot avec crop. Ndla)
-Vous n’y croyez pas ? Demandé-je.
L’homme a un rire nerveux.
-Si vous me demandez si je crois en Dieu, je vais vous dire ceci : Les gens en parlent, il est donc dans la tête et l’imagination des gens. Il n’est donc pas inconcevable d’y « croire », même si Dieu n’est qu’une vue de l’esprit, le fruit de l’imagination de l’homme. Ça, dit-il en tendant la main vers la nouvelle figure apparue dans le champs qui nous fait face, c’est palpable, c’est là, on le voit. La question d’y « croire » ne se pose pas. La question qui se pose est celle de son origine. Et moi, je vous le dis, l’origine des crop circles n’est ni divine, ni extraterrestre, ni encore moins le fruit de quelque entité magique ou impalpable vivant sous la terre. Tout ça c’est des balivernes. Ça va trop loin. Va falloir que ça s’arrête un jour.
Il a dit ces derniers mots comme si il se parlait à lui même. J’hésite un peu :
-Vous… vous savez qui fait ça ?..
Tout à coup il se braque.
-Vous n’êtes pas une de ces saletés de journalistes au moins ? Vous êtes qui vous ? Et qu’est-ce que vous faites là ?
-Je suis Français. Je ne suis pas journaliste, je suis opticien, si ça vous intéresse… Je suis un curieux de passage, tout simplement. Mais j’ai l’impression que vous en savez plus que la plupart d’entre nous ici. Je me trompe ?
C’est à son tour d’hésiter. Après un court instant il répond :
-Y en a marre, vraiment. Si vous voulez tout savoir, retrouvez moi au Royal Oak ce soir, à Marlborough. Soyez-y à 16 h et attendez moi.
Je suis pile à l’heure. Je ne vais pas manquer l’occasion d’en savoir enfin un peu plus sur ce phénomène, même si je suis surtout convaincu que j’ai rendez-vous avec un type rondouillard et plutôt sympathique malgré son côté un peu bougon, qui va me donner une énième explication fantaisiste sur un des mystères les plus controversés de ces dernières années. Je suis loin d’imaginer ce que je vais entendre.
Je patiente plus de deux heures. L’homme m’a dit d’attendre. Je me rends compte que je ne connais même pas son nom. Je commence à me demander s’il va venir quand il entre enfin dans le pub, un peu fébrile, en tenant un énorme dossier sous le bras. Il regarde à droite, puis à gauche, derrière lui aussi et il va avoir cette attitude pendant toute la durée de notre entretien.
-Vous êtes bien assis ? Me demande-t-il tout de go en s’installant. On n’a pas de temps à perdre. Je n’en peux plus de toutes ces conneries.
L’entretien va durer plus de trois heures. Je n’en rapporte ici que les grandes lignes. Voici ce qu’il va me raconter :
-Nous sommes en 1973. J’étudie les mathématiques à Oxford. Et aussi ce qui va devenir une véritable révolution planétaire : l’informatique. Je vous passe les détails mais je suis plutôt doué. J’étudie toute sorte de langages informatiques, Basic, Cobol, Fortran, Simula, APL etc… Retenez bien que nous sommes au début des années 70. IBM va bientôt avoir le succès mondial qu’on lui connaît, puis Microsoft mais l’informatique est encore une science réservée à quelques initiés, comme moi. J’ai 21 ans à l’époque. Un jour, dans le cadre d’un voyage aux Etats Unis, je suis contacté par un ex étudiant en ingénierie et sciences appliquées de Harvard. Je vais l’appeler Clive. Je ne peux pas vous donner sa véritable identité. Il est mort en 2009. Mais je ne veux pas que sa famille ait des problèmes. Clive a travaillé pour la NASA, l’armée et le gouvernement des Etats Unis sur des dossiers très sensibles, tels que la conquête spatiale ou l’armement. Il était spécialisé dans les communications.
-Heu… ok. Et vous, comment vous appelez-vous ?
-Appelez moi John. Et évitez de m’interrompre sinon on va y passer la nuit ! Bref, à l’époque Clive a sept ans de plus que moi et il a été à la tête d’un de ces petits groupes d’étudiants potaches qui font des blagues pour passer le temps et pour sortir la tête de leurs études, nous l’appellerons le groupe Alpha. Fin 1965, alors qu’il est un jeune étudiant, il part en voyage en Australie, dans la ville de Tully, où il a de la famille. Il va passer le jour de l’an là-bas. Il va même prolonger un peu son séjour car il va tomber malade. Une curieuse maladie. Il est fatigué et a de la fièvre mais les médecins ne comprennent pas ce qu’il a jusqu’à ce qu’il se remette de lui même. Le 19 janvier 1966, un propriétaire du coin découvre dans ses marécages une sorte de nid d’oiseau géant formé par des roseaux couchés et dit avoir été témoin de phénomènes étranges comme des boules de feu et la circulation d’engins mécaniques. Le bruit commence à courir qu’il s’agit de soucoupes volantes. Clive vient de commencer ce qui va devenir l’un des plus grands canulars du XXeme siècle.
Pendant des années il s’intéresse de très près aux micro ondes. A l’époque les études portent sur les communications qu’elles permettent. De nos jours, les micro ondes servent à nos téléphones mobiles ou à chauffer nos plats. Clive lui, développe ses recherches autour des bandes de fréquences au dessus des 40 GHZ. Pendant de nombreuses années il va développer de véritables armes grâce à cette technologie en collaboration avec l’armée américaine. Certaines expériences ont eues lieu aux Etats Unis, au Texas et au Nouveau Mexique où du bétail a été retrouvé affreusement mutilé sans qu’aucune explications n’ait pu être apportée. Des vaches ou des chevaux ont été découverts avec un trou béant les traversant de part en part, comme brûlés par un énorme rayon laser. Des cadavres ont été retrouvés avec les os du crâne apparents et complètements vidés de leur substance organique par exemple, sans que le reste du corps ait subit quelque autre dommage. Clive a participé à ces expériences. Mais il va aussi poursuivre un programme très précis en secret, pour lui même, avec sa petite équipe du groupe Alpha. Tous des surdoués. C’est ce groupe qui entre en contact avec moi en 1973. A ce moment je n’ai jamais entendu parlé des crop circles. Clive me présente son projet comme une simple plaisanterie. Nous sommes à l’époque où les témoignages sur les OVNIS abondent dans le monde entier. Clive n’y croit pas. Il est convaincu que les OVNIS relèvent du fantasme des hommes et il décide de s’en amuser. Le groupe Alpha fonctionne comme une mini société secrète mais ses règles sont très strictes. Pour en devenir membre, il faut jurer fidélité à son leader, Clive, et ne jamais parler de ses activités. Aujourd’hui Clive est mort. Et les choses prennent des proportions ridicules. Vous avez peut-être entendu parlé de cette supercherie sur les Ummites. Si non, je vous invite à vous renseigner. Mais nous sommes maintenant dans la même situation que l’inventeur des Ummites, nous ne contrôlons plus rien et à travers le monde de plus en plus de gens pensent que nous sommes contactés par de extraterrestres ou je ne sais quelles créatures divines à travers les crop circles. Certains ont des illuminations, des sectes se forment. Conneries…
Il marque un temps.
-Bref. En 1973 Clive me demande d’élaborer un programme informatique qui gérerait les déplacements d’un petit véhicule qu’il me présente. Un engin radiocommandé à quatre grosses roues pas plus gros qu’un aspirateur de l’époque, affublé d’un drôle de bec de canard. Il s’agissait en fait d’un canon à micro ondes à gamme de longueur d’ondes courtes et ultra courtes. C’est avec cet engin que Clive a tracé les premiers crop circles de 1966 à la fin des années 70, en Australie, au Canada et en Angleterre. En 1978 j’entre en piste. J’ai réussi à programmer le petit véhicule pour qu’il réalise des figures d’abord simples, puis de plus en plus compliquées et ce de façon quasi autonome. Tout ce que nous avions à faire c’était d’amener le robot (car il s’agissait bien de cela) sur une zone à l’écart de toute présence humaine, en toute discrétion donc, et à le laisser faire son « travail ». Le passage successif du robot pour créer la figure finale couche les végétaux sous l’effet de la chaleur dans le sens des micro ondes, ce qui donne cet aspect tressé qui intrigue tant. Le rayon d’action des ondes peut varier de quelques centimètres à moins de deux millimètres.
John a ouvert son énorme dossier à la couverture rouge un peu passée et me tend des photos du fameux robot et de lui avec ses compagnons de l’époque.
-Là, c’est Clive, me dit-il.
L’homme est plutôt petit, il porte une chemise à manche courtes et arbore un sourire radieux, comme quelqu’un qui vient de faire une bonne plaisanterie…
Le dossier contient toutes les coordonnées de tous les lieux sur lesquels ont sévit Clive et son groupe Alpha. Et bien sûr toutes les photos correspondantes. Il y a aussi des pages entières de programmes informatiques.
John continue :
-Ainsi au fil des années des figures de plus en plus élaborées sont apparues, au rythme des progrès informatiques tout simplement. En très peu de temps j’étais capable de tracer un cercle de plusieurs dizaines de mètres de diamètre avec une précision d’un demi centimètre ! Soit même pas la distance entre deux épis de blé. Les batteries du véhicule nous ont souvent posé quelques problèmes, nous obligeant à revenir sur zone parfois pour finir un tracé. Mais là aussi tout s’est amélioré très vite. Le robot a gagné en finesse et en discrétion. Nous en avons aussi utilisé plusieurs en même temps pour certaines figures plus élaborées qui auraient nécessité trop de temps à un seul robot. Chaque fois nous choisissions des lieux symboliques ou chargés d’histoire comme le site de Stonehenge par exemple, afin de renforcer la portée mystérieuse du phénomène. Puis les sceptiques se sont demandés pourquoi les crop circles n’apparaissaient que dans le pays anglo-saxons… alors nous avons voyagé et créé d’autres groupes Alpha à travers de nouveaux pays. Nous avons même fait apparaître des cercles sur la glace ou dans la neige, ce qui est plus facile et plus rapide que dans un champs, contrairement à l’idée reçue. Désormais il est aussi possible que les groupes utilisent des drones, mais je n’en ai pas la certitude. Il semble également que les ultrasons soient employés pour diriger les micro ondes à distance, ainsi qu’on le fait déjà pour diriger des sons. Imaginez : un drone, des ultrasons pour diriger les micro ondes, un peu comme un vidéo projecteur, et vous avez une figure qui apparaît en quelques secondes. En tout cas c’est comme ça que je ferais aujourd’hui.
En ce moment les armées du monde entier, qui ont elles aussi développé des recherches dans le sens de celles de Clive, ainsi que les services secrets, s’intéressent de très près aux crop circles. Ils savent eux, comment ils sont élaborés. Et ce n’est plus qu’une question de temps pour qu’ils comprennent qui est derrière tout ça. Les micro ondes laissent des traces qui sont bien répertoriées du reste par les observateurs. Elles produisent aussi parfois de petits cercles de lumières comparables à des mini aurores boréales ou encore des petits éclairs, des étincelles. Plusieurs observations ont été faites à ce sujet. Comprenez que la technologie utilisée est classée top secret, et a été détournée dans le but de faire croire à ce canular innocent au départ mais que plus personne ne contrôle. Du moins en apparence. Car tout ceci a pris des proportions délirantes. Vous devez vous demander ce que nous en avons tiré, puisque nous sommes restés anonymes toutes ces années. D’abord ça nous a amusé. Puis l’intérêt grandissant, il y a eu des produits dérivés qui sont apparus. Posters, livres d’études, voyages de découvertes, que sais-je encore ? La portée lucrative du phénomène n’est pas à démontrer aujourd’hui hélas ! Des profits considérables sont générés, encore amplifiés par les rumeurs colportées grâce à Internet. Et les gens qui en profitent maintenant n’ont plus rien à voir avec le groupe Alpha d’origine.
Le plus délirant c’est qu’il m’a suffit d’intégrer dans mes dessins des fractales de Mandelbrot par exemple pour que la communauté scientifique se mette à s’intéresser au phénomène. Parfois mes tracés étaient purement géométriques et suivaient mon inspiration du moment. Certains y ont vu une « suite logique » et en ont déduit des équations ou des théorèmes ! Hallucinant ! Je me suis amusé un jour à construire une synthèse de mes derniers dessins, une sorte de mélange en somme. Et des mathématiciens de renom y ont vu la manifestation indiscutable d’une intelligence supérieure. J’en ai été flatté au début mais tout cela me laisse maintenant un goût amer. En vérité n’importe quel étudiant en mathématiques de niveau moyen est capable de tracer ce genre de dessin.
Même la tête d’alien de Winchester du 18 août 2002 accompagné de son fameux disque, n’a pas réussi à mettre la puce à l’oreille des observateurs qui auraient pourtant dû y voir la supercherie qui paraissait évidente ! Sur le disque « gravé » en ASCII dans les blés -et qui m’avait donné du fil à retordre croyez-moi !- nous avions écrit le message suivant :
« Méfiez-vous des porteurs de fausses nouvelles et des promesses non tenues. Beaucoup de souffrances mais il y a encore du temps. Croyez. Il y a du bon là-haut. Nous nous opposons à la tromperie. Fin de la communication ».
(Ndla : traduit par mes soins. Le texte original étant : « Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises. Much pain but still time. Believe. There is good up there. We oppose deception. Conduit closing ». Voir photo d'illustration.)
Tout ça avec une syntaxe approximative qui laissait croire à une origine « non humaine ». Message sibyllin sans grande signification et qui n’apportait en tout cas aucune explication claire ni aucun élément nouveau ou réellement constructif. Accompagné en plus d’une image parfaitement réalisable avec n’importe quel ordinateur du commerce et ne nécessitant nullement de disposer d’une technologie supérieure ! Les observateurs n’y ont pourtant vu que du feu et cela a renforcé la croyance selon laquelle ces « messages » nous étaient envoyés par des extraterrestres. C’était comme si, plus on voulait dévoiler la supercherie et plus les gens croyaient à son authenticité. Pourtant il faut noter une invraisemblance de taille. Il y a d’abord eu des cercles sans signification, puis des formules mathématiques, puis des messages écologiques, des représentations du système solaire, des têtes d’alien et même des masques Mayas ! Aujourd’hui les cercles sont très beaux mais ne veulent plus rien dire. Où est la cohérence dans tout cela ? On attribue les cercles tantôt à Dieu, puis aux extraterrestres, puis à des créatures souterraines ou encore aux Atlantes ! C’est devenu un fouillis sans nom. Croyez-vous vraiment que si des êtres intelligents voulaient entrer en contact avec nous, ils le feraient de façon aussi désordonnée ? Non, en vérité c’est juste le signe que l’idée originale s’est diluée en même temps que le premier groupe Alpha. Et je ne vous parle pas de certaines imprécisions de figures dues à des irrégularités du terrain et que personne ne relève. Je pense en particulier à cette figure de Milk Hill en 2001 composée de 409 cercles. Si vous regardez bien, sur l’une des branches, il y a des petits cercles à l’extérieur trop près les uns des autres, entre les onzième et douzième cercles en partant du centre. De même, certains treizième cercles sont plus petits que les autres. Ces « erreurs » sont toujours passées sous silence et l’on ne met en avant que le côté exceptionnellement précis des figures.
Maintenant je suis fatigué et je désire que cela cesse. C’est pour ça que je vous en parle. Je ne vous connais pas. Je ne sais pas quelles conséquences vont découler de mes révélations. Mais je suis à la fin de ma vie et il n’y a pas encore eu mort d’homme ! Tout cela est devenu ridicule mais n’a nuit à personne. Certes il y a eu des secrets militaires employés à des fins de plaisanterie et si je dois en partager la responsabilité un jour, je suis prêt à le faire. Les personnes qui sont maintenant derrière les crop circles sont plutôt puissantes. Mais je n’en connais plus aujourd’hui aucune moi même ! Le pire serait que la technologie développée par jeu ne tombe entre des mains mal intentionnées. Le monde souffre déjà de trop de misère et d’injustice pour lui infliger une nouvelle croyance imbécile et dénuée de fondement. Il y a de moins en moins de cercles qui apparaissent. Il y en aura moins cette année qu’il n’y en a eu l’année dernière. Peut-être un signe que le phénomène s’essouffle. Pourtant je crains des dérives à venir dans un monde où les gens perdent leurs repères. Je vous demande de colporter cette nouvelle par tous les moyens que vous trouverez. Je viens de faire ma part. Maintenant, faites la vôtre.
J’étais soudain investi d’une mission de la plus haute importance ! Et cet article est la première action que je mène pour la remplir. Je suis resté plusieurs jours dans le petit village de Marlborough. Et malgré de nombreux passages au pub du Royal Oak, je n’ai jamais revu John. Il a bien sûr refusé de me laisser son précieux dossier rouge. Mais il a accepté de prendre mes coordonnées et promit de me venir en aide si cela s’avérait nécessaire…
An archaeologist for the state department of Chhattisgarh state in India wants to seek help from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to help him identify what he believes to be depictions of UFOs and aliens in ancient rock paintings that are 10,000 years old.
Ancient Indian rock paintings from the state of Chhattisgarh. (Credit: Amit Bhardwaj/The Times of India)
Archaeologist JR Bhagat told The Times of India, “The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers. Extensive research is needed for further findings. Chhattisgarh presently doesn’t have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject.”
The Indian state of Chhattisgarh has an abundance of ancient rock paintings, according to their website. Many sites have painting of humans and animals in everyday scenes. However, they believe that some of these paintings may include kangaroos and giraffes, and in several sites they believe there are paintings of mermaids.
According to Bhagat, the UFO and alien paintings bear a striking resemblance to those depicted in movies. However, he says that is most likely just a coincidence. He notes, “The fan-like antenna and three legs of vehicle’s stand clearly show a similarity to UFO type craft.”
Bhagat continues, “The paintings are done in natural colors that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. Specially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits.”
A rock painting that looks similar to a UFO with three legs. (Credit: Amit Bhardwaj/The Times of India)
However, Bhagat does concede, “We can’t refute possibility of imagination by prehistoric men.”
Bhagat says there are some locals who worship the paintings, and there are also interesting local legends about the creatures depicted in the images. He says the locals’ ancestors told stories about beings called the “Rohela people,” which translated means “the small sized ones.” These people are said to come from the sky in round flying objects and take people away, never to be seen again.
The research on the rock paintings is ongoing, and Bhagat says more archaeologists will be consulted to help identify the mysterious creatures and objects in the ancient artwork.
Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have taken another step forward toward building quantum computers, demonstrating a photonic router for the first time.
Weizmann Institute scientists have demonstrated for the first time a photonic router – a quantum device based on a single atom that enables routing of single photons by single photons. This achievement, as reported in Science magazine, is another step toward overcoming the difficulties in building quantum computers.
At the core of the device is an atom that can switch between two states. The state is set just by sending a single particle of light – or photon – from the right or the left via an optical fiber. The atom, in response, then reflects or transmits the next incoming photon, accordingly. For example, in one state, a photon coming from the right continues on its path to the left, whereas a photon coming from the left is reflected backwards, causing the atomic state to flip. In this reversed state, the atom lets photons coming from the left continue in the same direction, while any photon coming from the right is reflected backwards, flipping the atomic state back again. This atom-based switch is solely operated by single photons – no additional external fields are required.
“In a sense, the device acts as the photonic equivalent to electronic transistors, which switch electric currents in response to other electric currents,” says Dr. Barak Dayan, head of the Weizmann Institute’s Quantum Optics group, including Itay Shomroni, Serge Rosenblum, Yulia Lovsky, Orel Bechler and Gabriel Guendleman of the Chemical Physics Department in the Faculty of Chemistry. The photons are not only the units comprising the flow of information, but also the ones that control the device.
This achievement was made possible by the combination of two state-of-the-art technologies. One is the laser cooling and trapping of atoms. The other is the fabrication of chip-based, ultra-high quality miniature optical resonators that couple directly to the optical fibers. Dayan’s lab at the Weizmann Institute is one of a handful worldwide that has mastered both these technologies.
The main motivation behind the effort to develop quantum computers is the quantum phenomenon of superposition, in which particles can exist in many states at once, potentially being able to process huge amounts of data in parallel. Yet superposition can only last as long as nothing observes or measures the system otherwise it collapses to a single state. Therefore, photons are the most promising candidates for communication between quantum systems as they do not interact with each other at all, and interact very weakly with other particles.
Dayan: “The road to building quantum computers is still very long, but the device we constructed demonstrates a simple and robust system, which should be applicable to any future architecture of such computers. In the current demonstration a single atom functions as a transistor – or a two-way switch – for photons, but in our future experiments, we hope to expand the kinds of devices that work solely on photons, for example new kinds of quantum memory or logic gates.”
The now missing Nanteos Cup was rumoured to have been carried over to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea after the crucifixion of Christ
A major police hunt is underway after burglars raided a Midland home and stole a priceless religious artefact – said to be the mythical Holy Grail.
The Nanteos Cup, an ancient wooden chalice, was rumoured to have been carried over to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea, years after the crucifixion of Christ.
The revered Catholic figure later founded a religious settlement at Glastonbury and legend has it that the “grail” then came into the safekeeping of monks.
Over the centuries the mysterious wooden bowl was said to have magical healing powers and in later years it came into the ownership of the Steadman family, who kept it in a bank vault in Wales.
But the Mail has discovered the cup has now been stolen by burglars after being temporarily loaned to a seriously ill woman connected to the Steadman family.
Raiders struck after she had been admitted to hospital and stole the cup – sparking a major police investigation by West Mercia Police.
It is understood burglars struck at the property in Weston under Penyard, near Ross-on-Wye, between last Monday and yesterday.
A West Mercia Police spokesman said: “The home was broken into between 9.30am on Monday 7 July and 9.30am on Monday 14 July.
“A wooden cup/chalice, known as the Nanteos cup, has been reported as stolen from the hope. It is dark wood cup and was kept in a blue velvet bag.”
The cup was previously included in a Channel Five documentary called Search for the Holy Grail. In the programme, experts claimed it was actually made at least 1,400 years after the crucifixion.
But the cup has a long held reputation for healing, with people drinking from it in the hope of curing their illnesses.
The Holy Grail has been a issue of controversy and debate amongst historians and theologians – with some religious figures claiming the grail is actually the Holy Chalice, used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper.
The search for the mythical religious artefact was the plot for one of the 1980s’ biggest blockbusters, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. – Birminghammail
Baton Rouge, LA– At home in December of 1993 with my very pregnant, almost due (now ex) wife. She was in bed reading and I was finishing up a radio show about to join her in bed. As I got up there was suddenly light everywhere and I was forced to the floor. I could hear her screaming in the next room but could not get up to get to her. The next moment I was in what seemed like a cavern made of rock with a river or something running through the middle. On the other side was one very large “blob” of energy surrounded by several smaller “energy blobs”. As I was thinking of what to ask, the larger one “spoke” (not audibly) and simply said, “You’re going back. It’s not your time yet.”
Immediately I was back on the living room floor hearing my wife screaming “Stop! Stop! Stop!” over and over. Although I was young and strong, it felt like I had several hundred pounds on my back and it took me a long while to push myself up off the floor. There was light everywhere and the radio was making strange noises. (Note – As I write this I’m getting goose bumps and feeling sick.)
I finally made it into the bedroom and ran to my wife who was still screaming and holding her forehead. The light was dissipating and I could hear the radio begin to sound normal again.
I asked my wife what happened and she just kept repeating, “They wouldn’t stop poking me in the head.” She used her index finger to demonstrate it was in between and slightly upward of her eyebrows.
We both had trouble sleeping that night but oddly never spoke of it again.
Additional comments of importance:
1. The entire time we lived there during her pregnancy small items of silver jewelry would come up missing every so often. She initially thought it was me hawking it off for pot money, but I wasn’t and I knew it. Every time something would come up missing there would also be a small, perfectly formed, conical deposit of something like soot in the bathroom on the floor. There was no vent, or pipe, or any other source for the soot. Shortly after our experience my wife went in for delivery and the next day I went home briefly to gather supplies for the hospital stay. There, on the floor was a spot of soot. I opened the cabinet to get towels and on the shelf, arranged in an intricate pattern, was every piece of silver jewelry that had ever been missing.
2. This encounter was not the first nor the last in my life. Simply the most profound as well the only one witnessed by another. Since my earliest childhood memories, I have been visited and communicated with by beings I used to think were angels. (Having grown up in a strict Catholic family and all…) The most recent time was in Seattle a few years back right in the middle of the day. Was watching t.v. in the main area of a shared apartment around noon. My roommate was not home at the time. My next conscious moment I was paralyzed in a bed in a large circular room with an observation window above me and what appeared to be an Asian woman watching me through the glass. There was someone else being moved in another bed behind me and as they passed they screamed out for help, but I remained oddly indifferent and just stayed focused on the woman watching me. Then I was back in my own bed with two “energy blobs” next to me vibrating as they seemed to dissipate leaving me barely able to move for several minutes. And after that experience, something else new occurred which was…
3. I now have two mysterious marks on my body that are triangular in shape and appear to be light surgical scars. The first appeared immediately following the Seattle event, the second appeared more recently after my current (soon-to-be-ex) wife and two kids moved to Nevada, however I have no recollection of an abduction event preceding it.
4. I rarely sleep more than a couple of hours at a time and my body is literally disintegrating. Although I am a well educated Mensan, and neither mentally ill nor addicted to drugs, I cannot seem to get my life together or form normal relationships with anyone. My life is slowly ending and I need to know why. – MUFON CMS
Police who found at least seven corpses in a building in Fort Worth, Texas, yesterday quickly determined there was no serial killer at work—but there were funeral directors who had apparently moved out with work unfinished. Police say the building’s owner evicted the Johnson Family Mortuary two weeks ago and he discovered the bodies when he went to check on the building, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The unattended bodies ranged in age from infants to adults and police say they were in “varying stages of decomposition, some quite advanced.”
The twin brothers who ran the business could face charges of abuse of a corpse, but they insist it is all a misunderstanding. “We’ve done nothing wrong,” one of the brothers tells the Dallas Morning News. “This is a funeral home. This is where we keep bodies.” The electricity and air conditioning in the building were still on, but it did not have a refrigeration system. A spokesman for the Texas Funeral Service Commission says the mortuary’s license expires this month, and the business already is the focus of five separate investigations. – Newser
Fossil of Massive Four-Winged Raptor Found in China
The fossil of a newly discovered dinosaur has been found in China. At nine pounds and four feet long, the four-winged carnivore is believed to have been three times heavier and 60 percent longer than the second biggest four-winged dinosaur.
It also had some stellar plumage and some killer teeth. According to Dr. Luis Chiappe:
The new species had long feathers not just on its wings but also on its hind legs, making it one of only a handful of “four-winged” dinosaurs. It also had big, sharp teeth and sharp claws, indicating it was carnivorous. Its exact diet is unknown, but fossils of similar dinosaurs have been found with fish and birds in their guts.”
What on earth would you name such a thing? Apparently, the answer is Changyuraptor yangi.
The first part of its name means “long-feather raptor,” and the second part honors a Chinese financial supporter.
Stony Brook’s Dr. Alan Turner believes we can divine some important things about the evolution of flight from the discovery, including a breed of bird that was more a glider than a flyer:
“The long bony tail of Changyuraptor and the foot long feathers it sported are unlike the short tails in modern birds. So how it functioned aerodynamically would have been quite different from living birds. However, this is exactly the sort of tail we see in the earliest birds and their immediate precursors, which means avian flight evolved in animals with long tails. Changyuraptor provides an excellent opportunity to investigate just what this tail might have been good for.” – TheWire
MUFON joins investigation as new “DNA” testing of 1980 photographs yields surprising results – Billy Meier UFO case proved authentic
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — In 1980, Billy Meier, the Swiss UFO contactee, took 63, clear 35mm film photographs and a five-minute video of an object dubbed the Wedding Cake UFO, or WCUFO. Skeptics immediately pounced on the photos claiming they showed a model made from a garbage can lid and Christmas tree ornaments. With MUFON, the international UFO investigating organization, lacking the technology to determine the authenticity of his UFO photos, and Meier himself not saying anything in his own defense, the matter was perceived as a hoax and became just another UFO “cold case”.
WCUFO photo, one of 63 photos of the WCUFO taken in 1981, on 35mm film, by Billy Meier (PRNewsFoto/They Fly Productions)
source The Fly Productions
Enter “CSI”
Fast forward to today where – just like in an episode of CSI – independent researcher Prof. Rhal Zahi revives the Meier cold case by taking a took a close look at the “DNA” in the WCUFO photos using PhotoShop, professional 3-D computer modeling software and actual scale models. His 74-page report, including his reproducible protocols, conclusively authenticate the photos as large, unknown objects and rules out small models or special effects.
Prof. Zahi then discovered never before seen details in a nighttime WCUFO photo that have been hidden in not so plain sight – for 34 years – revealing that the craft is hovering over a gravel road and that Meier somehow actually took the photo from…above the object.
MUFON Takes Another Look
Armed with Prof. Zahi’s authentication of the WCUFO, Meier’s American representative, Michael Horn, contacted Jan Harzan, the Executive Director of MUFON, who’s known about the Meier case for 25 years and struggled with it being simply “too good”. Harzen and Horn formed a precedent setting alliance and, for the first time in 34 years, MUFON opened the Meier case to its 3,000 members worldwide.
Staggering Implications
According to Horn, “Prof. Zahi’s work vindicates Meier of charges that he hoaxed his evidence. It also makes the SETI program unnecessary because it conclusively shows that the UFOs photographed and filmed by Billy Meier are extraterrestrial in origin. With Meier’s well documented contacts with the Plejaren extraterrestrials still ongoing for over 72 years - and so rich in scientific information - the implications are truly staggering.
“Now along with NASA aerospace engineers recognizing its significance, modern technology makes it easy enough for an eight year-old child with a computer to prove the most important discovery in all of science and human history for themselves. We are not alone, we’ve been contacted and now it’s up to us to see if we can actually recognize – and handle – the truth.”
See the new, award-winning film on the Billy Meier UFO contacts, “And Did They Listen?“
An update on the remarkable, historical developments in the Billy Meier case may be announced at the upcoming MUFON Symposium, July 17 – 20, in Pennsylvania.
Media Contact: Michael Horn, They Fly Productions, 310.876.8585, pr@theyfly.com
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NASA held a panel discussion on Monday, July 14 in which scientists discussed extraterrestrial life.
The televised discussion took place at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, and featured leading science and engineering experts who discussed the search for life beyond Earth. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden initiated the event by mentioning how he and fellow former astronaut John Grunsfeld are often asked if they have seen, or if they believe in life beyond Earth. Bolden comments, “I can’t speak for John . . . but, while I may not have actually encountered extraterrestrials . . . and I did not, as a matter of fact. Although I looked all the time. I have always been inquisitive. So I was looking really hard.”
NASA’s July 14 panel discussion. (Credit: NASA)
He continues, “I would venture to say, however, that most of my colleagues here today, as well as probably most of you in the audience, are probably convinced that it’s highly improbable that in the limitless vastness of the universe that we humans stand alone.”
The panel included:
John Grunsfeld, NASA’s associate administrator
Ellen Stofan, NASA’s chief scientist
John Mather, senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope
Dave Gallagher, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory director of astronomy and physics
Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute
These experts discussed the search for Earth-like planets, life on these planets, and the tools scientists are using in that search. Astrobiology Magazine explains, “Space missions, specialized telescopes, and unprecedented technological advances are underway at NASA to find signs of life, and eventually, extraterrestrials themselves.” Of course, the anticipated 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope was discussed. This incredible instrument will use infrared light to better detect exoplanets, and will help scientists explore the atomspheres of alien planets to see which of these worlds have the right chemical fingerprint to suggest they are home to extraterrestrial life.
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Credit: NASA)
Still, detecting new planets is a difficult task. The brightness of stars is an obstacle in the search for exoplanets. As Astrobiology Magazine explains, “Earth, for example, is 10 billion times fainter than the Sun. The reflection of light waves given off into space from the surface of the planet is so minuscule in comparison to our star’s brilliance, that it is barely detectable.” Seager explained that a potential solution to this issue called a Starshade is in development. This device, shaped like huge sunflower, would manipulate light from distant stars away from planets so only the planet would be visible to the space telescope.
A Starshade with a simple telescope could help scientists on the ground hunt for another Earth. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech)
As she has stated several times previously, Seager commented, “We believe we are very close in terms of science and technology to finding another Earth, and signs of life on another world.” NASA astronomer Keven Hand agreed, stating, “I think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe.”
The Los Angeles Times points out that a question posed to the panel via social media asked, “If scientists do find life on another planet, will the U.S. government let people know?” Stofan responded, “Of course we would! . . . That would be so amazingly exciting. We would try to get it out to the public as fast as we can. We want everyone to share in the excitement of discovery.”
10.000 jaar oude rotstekeningen van UFO's en buitenaardsen gevonden
10.000 jaar oude rotstekeningen van UFO’s en buitenaardsen gevonden
Het ministerie van Archeologie en Cultuur van de Indiase deelstaat Chhattisgarh gaat onderzoek doen naar 10.000 jaar oude rotstekeningen van buitenaardse wezens en UFO’s en heeft daarvoor de hulp ingeroepen van de NASA en de Indiase ruimtevaartorganisatie ISRO. Dat meldt The Times of India. De rotskunst is gevonden in de districten Charama en Bastar.
Volgens archeoloog J.R. Bhagat lijken de tekeningen van buitenaardsen erg op de wezens die geregeld in Hollywoodfilms voorbijkomen. “De vondst suggereert dat de prehistorische mens mogelijk wezens van andere planeten heeft gezien,” zei hij. “Er is nader onderzoek nodig. Chhattisgarh beschikt op dit moment niet over experts die hier duidelijkheid over zouden kunnen verschaffen.”
Verschillende lokale dorpelingen spreken van verhalen van hun voorouders over het zogeheten ‘rohela-volk’, kleine wezens die in cirkelvormige vliegende objecten in een dorp waren geland en één of twee mensen hadden meegenomen.
De schilderingen zijn gemaakt met natuurlijke kleuren en zijn in de loop der jaren nauwelijks verweerd. De vreemde figuren lijken een soort wapen bij zich te dragen. Het gezicht van de wezens is moeilijk te zien. Met name de neus en mond ontbreken in veel gevallen. Op enkele afbeeldingen dragen ze zelfs ruimtepakken, aldus de archeoloog.
Het is opvallend dat dergelijke oude afbeeldingen veel overeenkomsten vertonen met UFO’s die in sommige films zijn te zien. “Het vaartuig in één van de tekeningen is voorzien van een antenne en drie landingspoten, en lijkt daarmee sterk op een UFO-vaartuig,” zei Bhagat. Hij is van plan de rotstekeningen ook voor te leggen aan collega-archeologen.
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