Ten amazing inventions from ancient times

Dating back thousands of years are numerous examples of ancient technology that leave us awe-struck at the knowledge and wisdom held by people of our past. They were the result of incredible advances in engineering and innovation as new, powerful civilizations emerged and came to dominate the ancient world.  These advances stimulated societies to adopt new ways of living and governance, as well as new ways of understanding their world. However, many ancient inventions were forgotten, lost to the pages of history, only to be re-invented millennia later. Here we feature ten of the best examples of ancient technology and inventions that demonstrate the ingenuity of our ancient ancestors.

1. The ancient invention of the steam engine by the Hero of Alexandria

Heron Alexandrinus, otherwise known as the Hero of Alexandria, was a 1^st century Greek mathematician and engineer who is known as the first inventor of the steam engine.  His steam powered device was called the aeolipile, named after Aiolos, God of the winds. The aeolipile consisted of a sphere positioned in such a way that it could rotate around its axis. Nozzles opposite each other would expel steam and both of the nozzles would generate a combined thrust resulting in torque, causing the sphere to spin around its axis. The rotation force sped up the sphere up to the point where the resistance from traction and air brought it to a stable rotation speed. The steam was created by boiling water under the sphere – the boiler was connected to the rotating sphere through a pair of pipes that at the same time served as pivots for the sphere. The replica of Heron’s machine could rotate at 1,500 rounds per minute with a very low pressure of 1.8 pounds per square inch.  The remarkable device was forgotten and never used properly until 1577, when the steam engine was ‘re-invented’ by the philosopher, astronomer and engineer, Taqu al-Din.

2. Is the Assyrian Nimrud lens the oldest telescope in the world?

The Nimrud lens is a 3,000-year-old piece of rock crystal, which was unearthed by Sir John Layard in 1850 at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq.  The Nimrud lens (also called the Layard lens) is made from natural rock crystal and is a slightly oval in shape.  It was roughly ground, perhaps on a lapidary wheel. It has a focal point about 11 centimetres from the flat side, and a focal length of about 12 cm.  This would make it equivalent to a 3× magnifying glass (combined with another lens, it could achieve much greater magnification). The surface of the lens has twelve cavities that were opened during grinding, which would have contained naptha or some other fluid trapped in the raw crystal.  Since its discovery over a century ago, scientists and historians have debated its use, with some suggesting it was used as a magnifying glass, and others maintaining it was a burning-glass used to start fires by concentrating sunlight. However, prominent Italian professor Giovanni Pettinato proposed the lens was used by the ancient Assyrians as part of a telescope, which would explain how the Assyrians knew so much about astronomy. According to conventional perspectives, the telescope was invented by Dutch spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey in 1608 AD, and Galileo was the first to point it to the sky and use it to study the cosmos. But even Galileo himself noted that the 'ancients' were aware of telescopes long before him. While lenses were around before the Nimrud lens, Pettinato believes this was one of the first to be used in a telescope. 

3. The Oldest Calendar in Scotland

Research carried out last year on an ancient site excavated by the National Trust for Scotland in 2004 revealed that it contained a sophisticated calendar system that is approximately 10,000 years old, making it the oldest calendar ever discovered in the world. The site – at Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire – contains a 50 metre long row of twelve pits which were created by Stone Age Britons and which were in use from around 8000 BC (the early Mesolithic period) to around 4,000 BC (the early Neolithic). The pits represent the months of the year as well as the lunar phases of the moon. They were formed in a complex arc design in which each lunar month was divided into three roughly ten day weeks – representing the waxing moon, the full moon and the waning moon. It also allowed the observation of the mid-winter sunrise so that the lunar calendar could be recalibrated each year to bring it back in line with the solar year. The entire arc represents a whole year and may also reflect the movements of the moon across the sky.

4. Ancient Roman Concrete was Far Superior to Our Own

Scientists studying the composition of Roman concrete, which has been submerged under the Mediterranean Sea for the last 2,000 years, discovered that it was superior to modern-day concrete in terms of durability and being less environmentally damaging. The Romans made concrete by mixing lime and volcanic rock. For underwater structures, the combination of lime and volcanic ash with seawater instantly triggered a chemical reaction in which the lime incorporated molecules into its structure and reacted with the ash to cement the whole mixture together. Analysis of the concrete found that it produces a significantly different compound to modern day cement, which is an incredibly stable binder. In addition, the ancient concrete contains the ideal crystalline structure of Tobermorite, which has a greater strength and durability than the modern equivalent. Finally, microscopic studies identified other minerals in the ancient concrete which show potential application for high-performance concretes, including the encapsulation of hazardous wastes. "In the middle 20th century, concrete structures were designed to last 50 years," said scientist Paulo Monteiro said. "Yet Roman harbour installations have survived 2,000 years of chemical attack and wave action underwater.”

5. 2000-year-old metal coatings superior to today’s standards

Research has shown that artisans and craftsmen 2,000 years ago used a form of ancient technology for applying thin films of metal to statues and other items, which was superior to today’s standards for producing DVDs, solar cells, electronic devices and other products. Fire gilding and silvering are age-old mercury-based processes used to coat the surface items such as jewels, statues and amulets with thin layers of gold or silver. From a technological point of view, what the ancient gilders achieved 2000 years ago, was to make the metal coatings incredibly thin, adherent and uniform, which saved expensive metals and improved its durability, something which has never been achieved to the same standard today.  Apparently without any knowledge about the chemical–physical processes, ancient craftsmen systematically manipulated metals to create spectacular results. They developed a variety of techniques, including using mercury like a glue to apply thin films of metals to objects. The findings demonstrate that there was a far higher level of understanding and knowledge of advanced concepts and techniques in our ancient past than what they are given credit for.

6. The incredible 2000-year-old earthquake detector

Although we still cannot accurately predict earthquakes, we have come a long way in detecting, recording, and measuring seismic shocks. Many don’t realise that this process began nearly 2000 years ago, with the invention of the first seismoscope in 132 AD by a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, engineer, and inventor called Zhang (‘Chang’) Heng.  The device was remarkably accurate in detecting earthquakes from afar, and did not rely on shaking or movement in the location where the device was situated.  Zhang's seismoscope was a giant bronze vessel, resembling a samovar almost 6 feet in diameter. Eight dragons snaked face-down along the outside of the barrel, marking the primary compass directions. In each dragon's mouth was a small bronze ball. Beneath the dragons sat eight bronze toads, with their broad mouths gaping to receive the balls. The sound of the ball striking one of the eight toads would alert observers to the earthquake and would give a rough indication of the earthquake's direction of origin.  In 2005, scientists in Zengzhou, China (which was also Zhang's hometown) managed to replicate Zhang's seismoscope and used it to detect simulated earthquakes based on waves from four different real-life earthquakes in China and Vietnam. The seismoscope detected all of them. As a matter of fact, the data gathered from the tests corresponded accurately with that gathered by modern-day seismometers!

7. Mythical sunstone used as ancient navigational device

An ancient Norse myth described a magical gem used to navigate the seas, which could reveal the position of the sun when hidden behind clouds or even before dawn or after sunset. Now it appears the myth is in fact true. In March 2013, a team of scientists announced that a unique calcite crystal, which was found in the wreck of an Elizabethan ship sunk off the Channel Islands, contains properties consistent with the legendary Viking sunstone and that shards of the crystal can indeed act as a remarkably precise navigational aid.  According to the researchers, the principle behind the sunstone relies on its unusual property of creating a double refraction of sunlight, even when it is obscured by cloud or fog. By turning the crystal in front of the human eye until the darkness of the two shadows are equal, the sun's position can be pinpointed with remarkable accuracy.

8. The Baghdad Battery

The Baghdad Battery, sometimes referred to as the Parthian Battery, is a clay pot which encapsulates a copper cylinder. Suspended in the centre of this cylinder—but not touching it—is an iron rod. Both the copper cylinder and the iron rod are held in place with an asphalt plug. These artifacts (more than one was found) were discovered during the 1936 excavations of the old village Khujut Rabu, near Baghdad. The village is considered to be about 2000 years old, and was built during the Parthian period (250BC to 224 AD). Although it is not known exactly what the use of such a device would have been, the name ‘Baghdad Battery’, comes from one of the prevailing theories established in 1938 when Wilhelm Konig, the German archaeologist who performed the excavations, examined the battery and concluded that this device was an ancient electric battery. After the Second World War, Willard Gray, an American working at the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, built replicas and, filling them with an electrolyte, found that the devices could produce 2 volts of electricity. The question remains, if it really was a battery, what was it used to power?

9. 1,600-year-old goblet shows that the Romans used nanotechnology

The Lycurgus Cup, as it is known due to its depiction of a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, is a 1,600-year-old jade green Roman chalice that changes colour depending on the direction of the light upon it. It baffled scientists ever since the glass chalice was acquired by the British Museum in the 1950s. They could not work out why the cup appeared jade green when lit from the front but blood red when lit from behind. The mystery was solved in 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: they had impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometres in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The work was so precise that there is no way that the resulting effect was an accident. In fact, the exact mixture of the metals suggests that the Romans had perfected the use of nanoparticles.  When hit with light, electrons belonging to the metal flecks vibrate in ways that alter the colour depending on the observer’s position.

10. The ancient Antikythera mechanism

The Antikythera mechanism was discovered in 1900 during the recovery of a shipwreck off of the Greek island, Antikythera, in waters 60 meters deep. It is a metallic device which consists of a complex combination of gears, and dates back to the 2nd century BCE. The Antikythera mechanism is one of the most amazing mechanical devices discovered from the ancient world.  For decades, scientists have utilized the latest technology in attempts to decipher its functionality; however, due to its complexity, its true purpose and function remained elusive. But in the last few years, a number of scientists appear to have solved the mystery as to precisely how this incredible piece of technology once worked. Peter Lynch, professor of meteorology at University College Dublin, explains: “The mechanism was driven by a handle that turned a linked system of more than 30 gear wheels…The gears were coupled to pointers on the front and back of the mechanism, showing the positions of the sun, moon and planets as they moved through the zodiac. An extendable arm with a pin followed a spiral groove, like a record player stylus. A small sphere, half white and half black, indicated the phase of the moon. Even more impressive was the prediction of solar and lunar eclipses.” Amazingly, the device even included a dial to indicate which of the pan-Hellenic games would take place each year, with the Olympics occurring every fourth year.  Just one small cog out of 30 remains a mystery and it is hoped that further research can place this last piece in the puzzle.

By April Holloway

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14-11-2014 om 20:22 geschreven door peter  

Het blijft druk in Friese luchtruim

Na de enerverende gebeurtenissen in het Friese luchtruim enkele weken geleden is het daar nu allesbehalve rustig.

We ontvingen weer een waarneming van een vreemde onweerswolk en UFO's die door de lucht schieten.

Er zijn bepaalde plekken op aarde waar meer UFO-verkeer wordt waargenomen dan op andere. Een dergelijke plek is bijvoorbeeld Mexico, waar het letterlijk krioelt van UFO's en waar ook met vrij grote zekerheid een buitenaardse basis is.

Dichterbij huis is er ook zo'n plek en dat is de provincie Friesland. Volgens ingewijden heeft dit te maken met een bepaalde energievortex die zich daar bevindt, wat in overeenstemming zou zijn met de theorie dat de vreemde wolken/moederschepen in feite dimensie/sterrenpoorten zijn naar andere dimensies.

Wij ontvingen het volgende bericht uit Friesland (dank!):

Eigenlijk is het altijd wel druk met UFO's in Friesland en is er voldoende te zien. Zo ook gisteren (10-11-2014) weer in de NoordWesthoek. 

Boven de kust boven Franeker waren wolken te zien waarin allerlei lichtflitsen als bij bliksem te zien, alleen was er geen onweer en geen bliksem waar te nemen.  Het leek wel een beetje op dat bericht van 5 november op Niburu.co.

Om de 15 tot 20 seconden waren flitsen van verschillende kleuren te zien die naar boven flitsen i.p.v. naar beneden. De waarnemingen waren op 10 november 2014 tussen 19:00 en 20:00 uur.

Na 20.00 uur zag ik een fel-rode maan die natuurlijk niet helemaal meer vol was en die was erg groot. Ik vond 'm erg mooi en ik nam toen een foto.

Toen ik later de foto bekeek, zag ik 2 gekleurde bollen die gezien de segmentatie vrij snel langs gegaan moet zijn.

De foto is nauwelijks bewogen en dat kan je je zien aan de maan die er boven hangt.

Volgens een niet nader te noemen bron waren dit inderdaad ufo's die een connectie hebben met het moederschip wat eerder in oktober in een paarse wolk boven de vliegbasis in Leeuwarden zweefde.

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14-11-2014 om 20:18 geschreven door peter  

The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965: Were UFOs Responsible?

The following narrative includes several observations from that fateful day...the official reports and the speculations. Though we were not affected in south-central Pennsylvania, the incident did create a major stir worldwide. The U.S. Government was clamoring for answers while, at the same time, people where asking the question...was UFO activity responsible for the greatest electrical blackout in U.S. history?

On November 9, 1965, the northeast power system broke up 4 seconds after the initial disturbance, and 30 million people were without electricity for as long as 13 hours. Later that day, President Lyndon Johnson wrote to the chairman of the Federal Power Commission:

"Today's failure is a dramatic reminder of the importance of the uninterrupted flow of power to the health, safety, and well being of our citizens and the defense of our country.

"This failure should be immediately and carefully investigated in order to prevent a recurrence.

"You are therefore directed to launch a thorough study of the cause of this failure. I am putting at your disposal full resources of the federal government and directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense and other agencies to support you in any way possible. You are to call upon the top experts in our nation in conducting the investigation.

"A report is expected at the earliest possible moment as to the causes of the failure and the steps you recommend to be taken to prevent a recurrence."

Signed,
Lyndon B. Johnson

The Event

The Great Northeast Blackout of November 9, 1965 began at 5:16 p.m., near the end of an otherwise typical work day.

The event started at the Ontario - New York border, near Niagara Falls.

A single transmission line from the Niagara generating station tripped (opened).

Within 2.5 seconds, five other transmission lines became overloaded and tripped, isolating 1,800 MW of generation at Niagara Station.

After their isolation, the generators became unstable and tripped off-line.

The northeast power system became unstable and separated into isolated power systems (islands) within 4 seconds.

Outages and islanding occurred throughout New York, Ontario, most of New England, and parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Most islands went black within 5 minutes, due to imbalances between generation and load (generator overspeed/underspeed tripping).

The massive blackout left 30 million people without electricity for as long as 13 hours.

This was "the big one" and it all started with the operation of a simple overcurrent relay on a transmission line. The design and operation of electric utility systems changed after that, due to the lessons that were learned from this event.

Areas of Separation
5:17 PM - November 9, 1965

Orange: Ontario Hydro System
Yellow: St. Lawrence - Oswego
Blue: Western New York
Red: Eastern New York - New England
Green: Maine and part of New Hampshire

The green area did not lose power during the blackout.

Regional Reliability Councils

The regional reliability councils were formed in the wake of the 1965 Northeast blackout:

Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) was formed in January, 1966.

Federal Power Commission's blackout report was issued June, 1967.

National Electric Reliability Council, now North American Electric Reliability Council, (NERC) was formed in June, 1968.

NPCC, our regional reliability council, was the first one. Today, there are ten regional reliability councils. (Florida is the newest, creating its own in 1996, after having been in the Southeastern Electric Reliability Council). NERC is an association of the regional reliability councils. Although the organization and workings of each regional reliability council are different, they have a common factor - each one has its own criteria, which establish minimum standards. An important aspect of assuring reliability is sharing information necessary for system analysis, and coordination of system design and operation.

Then and Today

Compared to today's system, the 1965 system was much less networked. Some areas had strong interconnections while others were weak. In fact, the State of Maine survived the 1965 blackout because of its weak ties to the rest of New England, which tripped.

System impedance (electrical "distance") between Bangor, Maine and Portland, Maine is about 8 times less today than it was in 1965. In terms of electrical distance, Bangor is as close to Tennessee or Michigan today, as it was to Portland in 1965. This is approximate, and based on broad estimates. However, it illustrates the interdependency of today's system, compared to 1965. We must be much more careful today if we are to avoid a widespread disturbance, simply because of the close ties we have with other power systems.

Today's Power System

New England now has a well-developed 345 kV network, with 345 kV ties and High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) ties to neighbors.

In northeast North America, we design to what we call "Normal Contingencies", and we use redundant, independent protection systems where required. We test system resiliency with "Extreme Contingencies". We monitor what we call Special Protection Systems (SPSs), which are fast-acting relay, communication, and control systems for generator, line, load, or other cross -tripping. There are more devices with fast controls today.

The North American Interconnected Systems today are four major independent systems, or networks:

Eastern Interconnected Network (east of the Rockies). This system is all but the ERCOT and WSCC reliability councils, and the Quebec portion of the NPCC reliability council.

Quebec. This system is part of the NPCC reliability council.

Texas. This system is the ERCOT reliability council.

Western Interconnected Network (west of the Rockies). This system is the WSCC reliability council.

These four systems are asynchronous, tied together only by DC interconnections. These systems include continental Canada, the contiguous United States, and northern Baja Mexico. Other systems are: Alaska, Mexico, and Labrador. These systems are illustrated in the following NERC map of reliability councils.

The eastern interconnected network is, arguably, the largest machine in the world. The network has thousands of sources, hundreds of millions of miles of lines, and over a billion individual loads. Despite its complexity, this network operates in continuous synchronism as a single system. The power systems are so well connected, a single disturbance can be detected thousands of miles away.

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The Great Northeast Blackout
November 9, 1965

Excerpted from:

UFO Canada
by Yurko Bondarchuk

Published by: Methuen Publications, Toronto, 1979
ISBN 0-458-94160-3 

From Chapter 9 - The E.M. Effect and Power Blackouts
(pages 130 - 137) 

On November 9, 1965 the Northeastern region of the United States and Canada was abruptly plunged into blackness. The worst blackout on record came to be known as the "Big Blackout". 

The facts are well known. At 5:16 pm, at the height of the evening rush hour, electrical power to one-sixth of the continent's population was suddenly cut off, trapping millions of people on expressways, in elevators and in office buildings. Altogether, thirty million people in eight U.S. states and in the province of Ontario were affected by the disruption (1) 

In Ontario the blackout was confined to the eastern portion of the province - from Timmins in the north, across to Cornwall in the east and south toward Sarnia. Windsor, Ottawa and Sudbury were the only eastern centres to escape the blackout.(2) Yet within three hours power was restored to most parts of the province. 

Mass media coverage naturally focussed on the human aspect of the blackout and to a lesser extent, on the delay in determining the cause of the breakdown. 

There was, however, an even more dramatic story. 

UFOs had been reported in the vicinity of strategic hydro installations at the time of the blackout. The impressive number of credible sightings led many researchers to consider the possible role these craft may have played in the power collapse. 

The researchers included the late Dr. James E. MacDonald,(3) a physicist at the University of Arizona; former NICAP director Major Donald E. Keyhoe; and astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the current director of the Centre for UFO Studies. 

Immediately following the breakdown, the U.S. Federal Power Commission and the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission launched a full-scale investigation into the cause. At first, it was reported that the trouble originated with a mechanical breakdown in a high voltage line between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. 

According to the Toronto 'Globe & Mail': 

The report turned out to be false. Then a sub-station near Syracuse was reported to be the cause of the failure, but repairmen found it in perfect condition. (4) 

Finally, six days after the blackout, Ontario Hydro engineers traced the trouble to the mammoth Sir Adam Beck No.2 Generating Station at Queenston, Ontariom north of Niagra Falls. 

It seems that just prior to the blackout, power was flowing from Sir Adam Beck No.2. into Ontario, then across the border via Cornwall into New York State. In graphic terms, power was flowing clockwise in a loop around Lake Ontario. 

At 5:16pm, a backup relay on one of the six lines linking Sir Adam Beck tothe rest of the province mysteriously tripped the line's circuit breaker, which acts much like a household fuse. 

In quick succession the cut-off power jumped to the other five lines, causing an overload that tripped the circuit breakers on these lines as well. 

A veritable tidal wave of electricity - 1.1 million kilowatts - flowed in the opposite direction into New York State. (5) Inexplicably, the relays on the New York lines failed to isolate and contain the overload. Within seconds, the entire grid of thirty-one interconnected power utilities of CANUSE (Canada-United States Eastern Grid) had broken down. 

Although experts could pinpoint the origin of the blackout, they were baffled by the cause of the relay malfunction and the failure of the protective systems to contain the overload. 

In the words of Ontario Hydro's system supervising engineer, Jim Harris: "It's incredible! I would have said this was impossible if I hadn't seen the evidence." (6) 

The mystery deepened when it was discovered that the relay had not in fact malfunctioned, but had merely reacted to a sudden surge of power from an unknown source. 

As stated in the final report of the U.S. Federal Power Commission: "The precise cause of the backup relay energization is now known." (7) Where did the unexplained surge of power come from? To this day that question has remained unanswered. 

Or has it? 

Although inconclusive, one answer might lie in the findings of the late Dr. James McDonald who contended that the magnetic fields accompanying UFOs can create sudden power surges in transmission lines as the craft flies overhead.(8) In theory, these power surges could produce blackouts of massive proportions. 

Since the 'Big Blackout', McDonald's theory has gained considerable support in the light of strong evidence confirming widespread UFO activity on that fateful evening. 

The Syracuse Herald-Journal was inundated with calls reporting more than one hundred sightings in the Syracuse area. 

One of the first came from Syracuse Deputy Aviation Commissioner, Robert C. Walsh, who was flying over Syracuse at the time of the blackout.(9) Despite the darkness, he managed to land safely at Hancock Airport. 

Standing on the runway, with some airport officials he suddenly noticed an enormous circular ball of light, drifting overhead. "It appeared to be one hundred feet in the air and fifty feet in diameter.(10) It rose for several seconds, then suddenly disappeared. Moments later, a bewildered Walsh and his companions watched an identical device ascending over the airfieldm before mysteriously 'blinking out', as did its predecessor. Unlike the known high-speed plunges of fireballs, these craft moved upward at moderate speed - clearly under some form of intelligent control. 

At the same time, the mysterious craft were also being observed overhead. Veteran flight instructor Weldon Ross and his student, James Brooking, were approaching the darkened airport when they spotted a second fiery object below. 

The Giant craft, estimated at well over one hundred feet in diameter, appeared to be positioned directly over the Clay sub-station, a strategic installation that channels power from Niagara Falls to New York City.(11) 

It was the same sub-station where hydro investigating teams had initially pinpointed the origin of the blackout. 

In a relentless pursuit of a possible UFO-blackout relationship, Herald-Journal reporters succeeded in uncovering even more explosive evidence. In a front page story seven days after the blackout, the paper carried photographs of the mysterious red craft taken by Mr. William Stillwell, a sexton at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He described what he had observed through a 117-power telescope: 

The centre was rotating, around and around and around. It came from the direction of DeWitt and shot off at an angle and then went back the way it came. (12) 

He had watched the glowing object for as long as two hours before it streaked away. 

While investigating teams continued to dig for the mysterious cause of the power failure, press coverage of a possible UFO connection gained momentum. 

In a strongly worded editorial, the Indianapolis Star urged: 

The answer is fairly obvious - unidentified flying objects! It is one angle the multi-pronged investigation should not overlook.(13) 

Support for the UFO possibility intensified as news of other sightings became known. In New York City, twenty minutes into the blackout, witnesses in the Time-Life Building spotted a peculiar glow in the sky over darkened Manhattan. According to Major Donald Keyhoe: 

It appeared to come from a round object hovering over the city. This was tewenty minutes after the lights began to go out. Several photographs were taken by a Time Magazine photographer, one of which appeared in the November 19th issue. (14) 

Although clearly visible in the photograph reproduced here, Time editors failed to make any reference in their photo-caption to the spindle-shaped craft. Journalistic oversight or deliberate omission? The only hit of any unusual aerial activity came in a facetious reference to a Soviet satellite: 

Some New Yorkers, claiming that they had seen a satellite pass over at the moment the lights failed, argued that the Russians had done it again. (15) 

But UFO investigator and author, the late Frank Edwards disagrees with both the UFO and the Soviet satellite explanations: 

The spindle-shaped thing could have been a UFO--but it certainly wasn't. It was nothing more than an optical ghost, the result of reflections between the elements of an air-spaced lens.(16) 

While disputing the validityof the Time photo, Edwards strongly supported the contention the UFOs were somehow involved in activating the blackout. In fact, while conducting his own investigation into the cause of the blackout he discovered that U.S. military authorities had been well aware of the UFO presence, at least forty-five minutes prior to the power failure.(17) 

This startling disclosure came from two commercial pilots, Jerry Whitaker and George Croninger, who were flying over Tidioute, Pennsylvania, when they spotted two disc-shaped 'shiny objects' overhead. 

Even more surprising was the sight of two military jets chasing the mysterious craft. 

Moments later, one of the discs put on a 'burst of speed' and quickly outdistanced its pursuers. While watching the fast-disappearing UFO, the dazed pilots lost sight of the other object, which had presumably departed in the same manner. 

The most spectacular UFO revelation, however, came one day prior to the release of the 'official' explanation when, speaking before a nationwide televison audience, NBC commentator Frank McGee announced that a private pilot had spotted a "round, glowing object near the Niagra Falls power plant".(18) 

Associated Press picked up the story and numerous newspapers subsequently carried it. The following morning, a well-documented article appeared in the New York Journal American blaming UFOs for the disastrous power-grid breakdown. 

Any further media focus on the UFO connection was brought to an abrupt halt, however, with the release of the 'broken relay' explanation. 

Despite mounting evidence, the Federal Power Commission had predictably chosen to side-step the possible UFO connection. This ommission was eventually confirmed by Dr. James E. McDonald who, as a respected scientist, was allowed to interview certain FPC officials. 

They admitted they had the Syracuse and Niagara Falls reports, also most of the others on that night. But they wouldn't discuss the UFO possibility....No matter what they believed, I think they were convinced the facts shouldn't be given tothe public, and that's why they agreed to the 'broken relay' story. At any rate, it was obvious they were covering up (19) 

Under the circumstances there seems to be a strong possibility that Canadian authorities were also involved in the cover-up. Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission investigators, having become aware of the UFO reports, collaborated with the FPC by exchanging information that eventually led to the 'broken relay' explanation.(20) 

Furthermore, this explanation had apparently been pre-arranged and was released simultaneously in both countries.(21) 

The Ontario Hydro press statement similarly neglected to include UFOs as the possible cause for the blackout. 

One reputable American ufologist went so far as to point an accusing finger at the late Lester B. Pearson, then prime minister. Major Donald Keyhoe contends that: 

To shift attention from the UFO explanation, the 'broken relay' story was invented. Since this could be construed as blaming Canada, the Prime Minister must have been convinced it was best for both countries not to disclose the true situation.(22) 

It that was the case, then it represents one of the most shocking deceptions ever perpetrated - leaving the heads of thirty-one utility companies and thirty million people to grope around in the dark in more ways than one! - MUFON Ontario

(1) Time Magazine (November 19, 1965) Canadian Edition, p.24.
(2) Ibid. p.23B.
(3) John G. Fuller, 'Aliens in the Skies: The New UFO Battle of the Scientists' (New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1969), p.85.
(4) Toronto Globe and Mail, November 16, 1965.
(5) Ibid.
(6) Ontario Hydro, Hydroscope, Vol. 2. No. 40 (November 19, 1965) p.2.
(7) James M. McCampbell, 'Ufology: New Insights from Science and Common Sense' (Belmont, Ca.: Jaymac Company, 1973), p. 57.
(8) James E. McDonald, Statement prepared for the Hearings before A Committee of the U.S. Federal Power Commission.
(9) Frank Edwards, 'Flying Saucers: Serious Business' (New York: Bantam Books, 1966), p. 147.
(10) Ibid.
(11) Donald E, Keyhoe, 'Aliens From Space' (Toronto: The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1973), p. 172.
(12) Frank Edwards, op. cit., p. 148.
(13) Donald E. Keyhoe, op., cit. p. 176.
(14) Ibid. p. 172.
(15) Time Magazine, op. cit., p. 28A.
(16) Frank Edwards, op. cit., p. 149.
(17) Ibid.
(18) Donald E. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 177.
(19) Ibid., p. 182.
(20) Toronto Globe and Mail, op. cit.
(21) Ibid.
(22) Donald E. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 180.

Links to sources describing the incident - Archive - 1965 Blackout

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Evidence looking at the possible UFO – New York City blackout connection was even brought in front of congress. Dr. James E. McDonald, a top Ufologist of the day and University of Arizona professor, testified on the possible UFO connection to the northeast blackout in front of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics at July 29, 1968, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Rayburn Bldg., Washington, D.C. Among the congressmen who listened in was the former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

The congressmen were impressed enough with the evidence that they questioned Dr. McDonald on his theory of UFO electromagnetic effects being able to black out huge sections of the country. One exchange occurred with Representative William F. Ryan, a Democrat from New York City.

Mr. Ryan: Let me ask a further question: In the course of your investigation and your study of UFO sightings, have you found any cases where contemporaneously with the sighting of UFO's allegedly, there were any other events which took place, which might or might not be related to the UFO's?

Dr. McDonald: Yes. Certainly there are many physical effects. For instance, in Mr. Pettis' district, several people found the fillings in their mouth hurting while this object was nearby, but there are many cases probably on record of car ignition failure. One famous case was at Levelland, Tex., in 1957. Ten vehicles were stopped within a short area, all independently in a 2-hour period, near Levelland, Tex. There was no lightning or thunder storm, and only a trace of rain.

There is another, which I don't know whether to bring to the committee's attention or not. The evidence is not as conclusive as the car stopping phenomenon, but there are too many instances for me to ignore. UFO's have often been seen hovering near power facilities. There are a small number but still a little too many to seem pure fortuitous chance, of system outages, coincident with the UFO sighting. One of the cases was Tamaroa, Ill. Another was a case in Shelbyville, Ky., early last year.

"Then there are scattered instances in which substantial power distribution systems have failed at or very near the time of observation of aerial phenomena similar, broadly speaking, to one or another UFO phenomenon. I have personally checked on several such instances and am satisfied that the coincidence of UFO observation and power outage did at least occur. Whether there is a causal connection here, and in which direction it may run, remains quite uncertain. Even during the large Northeast blackout, November 9, 1965, there were many UFO observations, several of which I have personally checked..."

"I interviewed a woman in Seacliff, N.Y. She saw a disk hovering and going up and down. And then shooting away from New York just after the power failure. I went to the FPC for data, they didn't take them seriously although they had many dozens of sighting reports for that famous evening. There were reports all over New England in the midst of that blackout, and five witnesses near Syracuse, N.Y., saw a glowing object ascending within about a minute of the blackout. First they thought it was a dump burning right at the moment the lights went out. It is rather puzzling that the pulse of current that tripped the relay at the Ontario Hydro Commission plant has never been identified, but initially the tentative suspicion was centered on the Clay Substation of the Niagara Mohawk network right there in the Syracuse area, where unidentified aerial phenomenon has been seen by some of the witnesses."

This extends down to the limit of single houses losing their power when a UFO is near. The hypothesis in the case of car stopping is that there might be high magnetic fields, d.c. fields, which saturate the [ignition system solenoid] core and thus prevent the pulses going through the system to the other side. Just how a UFO could trigger an outage on a large power network is however not yet clear. But this is a disturbing series of coincidences that I think warrant much more attention than they have so far received.

Mr. Ryan: As far as you know, has any agency investigated the New York blackout in relation to UFO?

Dr. McDonald: None at all. when I spoke to the FPC people, I was dissatisfied with the amount of information I could gain. I am saying there is a puzzling and slightly disturbing coincidence here. I'm not going on record as saying, yes, these are clear-cut cause and effect relations. I'm saying it ought to be looked at. There is no one looking at this relation between UFO's and outages.

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Although the Pentagon was reporting nothing had been seriously affected, there were facts that showed this was not true. There was secret information that indicated that the situation was much more complex than just a power blackout.

Only a couple days after the blackout a book called "Strike From Space" appeared in the bookstores. Conservative activists Phyllis Schlafly and Rear Admiral Chester Ward (Ret) authored the book. Although it dealt mostly with the growing threat of Soviet space weapons and the Johnson White House’s inability to deal with the problem, the book did describe some serious events that were never really made public.

Schlafly and Ward relied on the counsel of a cast of military advisors for their book. Some of those names that included some names that have become very prominent in the UFO community. One was General Cutis LeMay who told Senator Barry Goldwater that not only could he not see the rumored Blue Room at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, but he should never even ask about it again. The second key advisor to the book was Hoover Institution strategic theorist Dr Stefan Possony, who had been attendee at the 1953 CIA UFO Scientific Advisory Panel meetings.

The book claimed that not only had the lights gone out all over the eastern United States, in an underground command post called High Point, near Berryville, Virginia, Air Force Colonel J Leo Bourassa was picking up nuclear alerts from a national network of nuclear blast detection devices called System 210-A, or "Bomb Alarm.":

"The Bomb Alarm display board at High Point was blazing with yellow lights, indicating that communications links to the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland, as well as twenty-one other System 210-A sites, had gone down. But worse – much worse – two of the sensors, the ones for Salt Lake City and Charlotte, North Carolina, were showing red. Red for nuclear detonations. Bourassa assumed the worst – that a surgical nuclear attack was under way – and placed Mt Weather on full alert. It was the one and only time that the facility went on alert during the Cold War."

Bourassa called the full alert and called it off a couple days later. It was probably the type of action that he liked, in light of the fact that in November 1954 Bourassa quit his government job "because of not enough work to do."

Exactly one month later he would be busy again. This time it would involve the possible recovery of an object in Kecksburg Pennsylvania. - www.presidentialufo.com

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Mysterious Lights Over Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls Reporter - 10/25/2005

In a Nov. 19, 1965, Ontario Hydro Hydroscope article, system supervising engineer Jim Harris was at a loss to explain the incident.

"It's incredible! I would have said this was impossible if I hadn't seen the evidence," he said.

Just two weeks before the blackout, on Sept. 22, 1965, in an article entitled "Many report seeing two UFOs," the Gazette chronicled the activity near the power plants.

"Dozens of persons Tuesday night watched two unidentified flying objects moving and hovering over this area for more than an hour," the article stated. "The objects, bright lights which changed color, were below cloud level and remained at a fairly low level during most of the period they were observed. "Observers said the objects were not helicopters or conventional aircraft. At one point, about 8 p.m., the two objects, which had been widely separated when viewed earlier, approached each other on a collision course until they 'teamed up' and moved off close together toward Buffalo," the article added. The objects were first sighted "on the Canadian side of the river, at a point opposite Lewiston." In other words, over Queenston and the Sir Adam Beck plant.

Among the witnesses named in the article were State Trooper John Riehl, Alden residents Roselle Simon and Leonard Butler, and V.D. Price and Raymond Bright, employees of the American Standard Division in North Tonawanda.

"This was not a satellite. Satellites travel in straight lines and within a few minutes they are gone," Bright told the Gazette. "This hung in the sky for about half an hour. It would move off in one direction and then stop. Then it would change direction and move off again."

The relationship between the blackout and reported UFO activity wasn't lost on the scientific community. In a statement prepared for hearings held on the blackout by the Federal Power Commission, University of Arizona physicist Dr. James McDonald contended that magnetic fields accompanying UFOs could cause sudden power surges and could, theoretically, trigger a blackout.

Writing about the event on April 2, 1968, Gazette reporter Joe Donaldson recalled the reports on the night of the blackout.

"After the big blackout, spokesmen for the power firms denied a strange light was spotted over the Beck Station the night of Nov. 9. Since then, however, they have admitted that sightings were reported by hundreds of people," the veteran newsman wrote.

But gradually, the "broken two-dollar switch" theory as to the cause of the disaster became the accepted version of events. This would not mark the end of credible reports of UFOs in Niagara Falls, however.

On Aug. 4, 1966, the Gazette reported "Bright, high-flying, fast moving objects observed during the night and similarly described by three Niagara Falls residents."

This time the witnesses were Mrs. George Haberle of the Parkway Apartments and 91st Street residents Russell Sorenberger and Bill Nelson. Ironically, attempts by the paper to reach Capt. Harry Meir, chief of operations and training at Niagara Falls Air Base, were unsuccessful because Meir had been in Erie, Pa., investigating another UFO report.

Two Niagara Falls city policemen and a former Air Force radar chief had their own close encounters over a 48-hour period in August 1967.

According to an Aug. 25, 1967, Gazette article, the two officers, Patrolmen Anthony Caraglin and David Greene, saw a pair of UFOs while patrolling at 19th Street and Mackenna Avenue. They filed an official report of the incident.

"We saw two objects in the sky -- one object went in an easterly direction then went northeasterly. As the object went out of sight it appeared to give off different colored lights. While the object was in sight it was a solid white light and appeared to be round.

"Object Two was the same as Object One but went from south to north and went out of sight. Both objects were in view for approximately 15 minutes and appeared to be very high," the report stated. Howard Kay of Youngstown was working at DuPont that night. An eight-year Air Force radar chief, he told the Gazette the object he saw over the Niagara River near Buffalo Avenue looked like "an inverted cereal bowl and was lit up." Perhaps predictably, USAF Information Officer Thomas White said he knew nothing about the UFOs.

"I have checked with the U.S. Air Force Station in Lockport, and the 763rd Radar Squadron there reports no objects logged by their radar screens at these times," he told the Gazette.

Eight months later, on April 2, 1968, no fewer than three NFPD patrolmen reported UFOs from two separate locations.

The pulsating lights hovered for nearly an hour in the vicinity of the Beck Station, the officers said.

Patrolmen Thomas Shumway and William Wells watched the lights from Lewiston Road and Hyde Park Boulevard.

"They were like something I had never seen before," Shumway told the Gazette. "They were in formation and they were pulsating."

Shumway said the red, white and blue lights did not come from an airplane and were motionless until they suddenly shot away to the northwest at a tremendous rate of speed.

At the same time, Patrolman Richard Adkins confirmed the lights were hovering across the Niagara River from the Robert Moses Power Plant and near the Beck Station. He said the lights were about 1,000 feet in the air and that, from time to time, a red streak of light would pass through the formation. While strange lights are still occasionally reported in the Niagara skies, it appears that 1965 to 1968 represented something of a golden age for UFO sightings here.

And in the presence of so much documentation and credible testimony by trained observers, it seems difficult to deny that something was going on. What -- exactly -- the mysterious objects were will likely never be known. It is interesting to note that the Air Force employed a device to disrupt electrical power in the city of Belgrade during the Kosovo war. Could some early testing of a similar device have resulted in the 1965 blackout? - www.niagarafallsreporter.com

There were also a number of reports of anomalous lights, and speculation that the blackout may have been the related to UFO activity in some way - UFO reports on November 9, 1965

Sources:
cmpco.com
Original Life Magazine from November 19, 1965 - Manhattan power blackout, New York
virtuallystrange.net
MUFON Ontario
NICAP
Time Magazine November 19, 1965 the Biggest Blackout
blackout.gmu.edu
presidentialufo.com
When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
niagarafallsreporter.com
mt.net
coasttocoastam.com
ufocasebook.com
ufodigest.com
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? An enlightening souvenir of the big blackout, November 9, 1965

14-11-2014 om 08:38 geschreven door peter  

Daily 2 Cents: Conspiracy Theorists Calling Rosetta's Comet 'Alien Base' -- Levitating Rocks on Mars? -- 1/3 of Brits Believe Their House is Haunted

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Conspiracy Theorists Calling Rosetta's Comet 'Alien Base'

The fact that a strange ‘clicking’ radio transmission seems to be coming from inside the comet – sounding eerily like a Predator’s jaws opening and closing – has just stoked the fires of conspiracy theorists, just as the Rosetta craft’s Philae Lander touches down.

Explore the internet too long, and you’ll be firmly convinced Ming the Merciless and Darth Vader are enjoying a final Martini inside before obliterating our planet, and using us all as sex-slaves in the brothel-pits of Proxima Centauri.

Nigel Watson, author of the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual says there are five main ‘theories’ as to what the rock might REALLY be.

To any UFO enthusiast, the idea that it might just be a lump of ice is preposterous, an obvious cover-up and frankly boring. Here’s what they REALLY believe…

Read more w/ images at Metro

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One Third of Brits Believe Their House is Haunted

A third of Britons believe their house is haunted and some spooked homeowners are certain they have seen a ghost walking their corridors.

A quarter of those who feel their home has a supernatural presence were convinced a poltergeist had moved around their possessions.

And a sixth of those who thought their house was haunted said doors open or closed by themselves while a further sixth said they had even seen a ghost.

The figures come from a survey conducted Confused.com. Their head of home insurance Gareth Lane said: "Ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night are usually seen in films and TV programmes.

"But for some homeowners, they are a very real concern with three in 10 Britons saying they thought their home was haunted.

"Whilst the most common cause for people thinking their home was haunted was strange noises, more than a quarter say their belongings would disappear without explanation.

"Whilst your nightmare neighbours are more likely to be the ones causing you problems, protecting yourself from unexplained disappearances and damage is vital."

The surgery also found more than a quarter of Britons would be put off buying a house if they believed it was haunted.

Two fifths would not contemplate living in a home if they knew something bad had happened there, such as a murder.

Of those who believed their home was haunted nearly a quarter tried to research the history of their house and area.

A tenth tried to contact the spirits to get an answer while a sixth had been forced to sell up and flee. - Express

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Levitating Rocks on Mars?

Optical illusion or Martian pranksters?

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00527/opgs/edr/ncam/NRB_444283128EDR_

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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00527/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_444283159EDR_

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Filer’s Files # 45 – 2014 – ET is Real  - PART I

Sighting near Naples, Florida about noon on October 26, 2014.

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Extraterrestrial UFO Are Real: Lockheed’s Ben Rich, Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, Alcubierre space drive, The Clouds and Fire of the Bible and UFOs, The Andreasson Affair, Dracula UFO Painting, Islamic State Attacks, Steven Levy CBS Sunday Morning Commentary, UFO Similar to Crop Circle, 781 MUFON Sightings.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

Sightings of UFOs were also reported in: Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Netherlands and in England in the United Kingdom.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

George A. Filer III New Jersey State Director

MUFON Eastern Region Director

www.nationalUFOcenter.com. Now receiving 3 million hits a month

Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.

Special Reports

Extraterrestrial UFO Are Real: Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works Director

Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works director had admitted in his Deathbed Confession that Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real and the U.S. Military travel among stars.

According to article published in May 2010 issue of the MUFON UFO Journal. Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works, had once let out information about Extraterrestrial UFO Visitors Are Real and U.S. Military travel to the stars. What he said might be new to many people today, but he revealed the information before his death in January 1995. His statements helped to give credence to reports that the U.S. military has been flying vehicles that mimic alien craft.

The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

1: “Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity ), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.”

2: “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”

3: “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.”
4: When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”

Note: This information helps confirm Area 51 Scientist Boyd Bushman’s similar claims discussed last week

Don Phillips Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer USAF, and CIA Contractor says,

, “These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action”. During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, “They’re here. They are right over there and looking at the size of those ships. it is obvious they dont like us being here”. When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this. Anti-gravitational research was going on.

We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work. We knew each other from what we call an unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden. The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn`t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did.

There was no question that there were beings from outside the planet. And if alien were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago. We got these things that are handhold scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner. I can tell you personally that we’ve been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help reduce the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldUFOphotos.org

Alcubierre Space Drive

The Alcubierre drive or Alcubierre metric (referring to metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein’s field equations in general relativity as proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (i.e. negative mass) could be created. Rather than exceeding the speed of light within its local frame of reference, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel.

Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal space time; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space.^[1] Although the metric proposed by Alcubierre is mathematically valid in that it is consistent with the Einstein field equations, it may not be physically meaningful or indicate that such a drive could be constructed. The proposed mechanism of the Alcubierre drive implies a negative energy density and therefore requires exotic matter, so if exotic matter with the correct properties does not exist then it could not be constructed. However, at the close of his original paper^[2] Alcubierre argued (following an argument developed by physicists analyzing traversable wormholes^[3][4]) that the Casimir vacuum between parallel plates could fulfill the negative-energy requirement for the Alcubierre drive.

The space-time bubble created by negative energy puts the craft in a different space-time and could allow the craft to pass through solid obstacles like we see UFOs pass through mountains. Another possible issue is that although the Alcubierre metric is consistent with general relativity, general relativity does not incorporate quantum mechanics, and some physicists have presented arguments to suggest that a theory of quantum gravity, which incorporates both theories, would eliminate those solutions in general relativity that allow for backwards time travel which the Alcubierre drive is one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

The Clouds and Fire of the Bible and UFOs

The Unger Bible Dictionary is often considered the finest dictionary for ‘defining Bible and clarifying unfamiliar names, places and objects. Merrell F. Unger Th.D., PH.D., wrote, “The Bible and Torah are filled with references to clouds, angels, pillars of clouds, pillars of fire, and chariots of fire. The allusions to clouds in Scripture, as well as their use in symbolical language, can only be understood when we remember the climate, where there is hardly a trace of cloud from May to the end of September. Clouds are referred to as showing the power and wisdom of God in their formation. They are used to signify God’s presence.” Birds were virtually the only objects in the sky; therefore anything that was not a bird was a cloud. It is my personal feeling that cloud is another name for UFOs.

Symbol of God’s fury and anger are whirlwinds, chariots of fire, wheels in rotation, so that a flame starting at any point is quickly communicated to the whole. For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Note: It appears there are many references to objects in the Bible that we describe today as UFOs.

In the Book of Kings in the Bible Prophet Elijah performed stupendous miracles through the power of God, but he was human just like us. Jezebel the wife of Ahab, the king of Northern Israel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of God and encouraged the worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel sent men to destroy the prophets of God including Elijah. “King Ahab sent out a captain of fifty men with his fifty men to kill Elijah. And he went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he spake unto him, O man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, if I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. The king sent another fifty to kill Elijah. Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties.” 2 Kings 1-9

Later in the book Elijah the father and his son Elisha are walking. “And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw Elijah no more. 2 Kings 2 American Standard Version

The Andreasson Affair

The Andreasson Affair is the documented investigation of a woman’s abduction aboard a UFO. Betty Andreasson Luca is one of the great voices of the close encounter experience. Learn what happened to her,

It is being republished by New Page Books and is now available for pre-order through Amazon.

Something extraordinary happened to Betty Andreasson. Maybe she encountered non-human visitors or maybe something even more strange. Whatever the origin of her experience, her immensely powerful story awed me. Its rich and provocative imagery will remain with me forever.”

-Whitley Strieber, author of Communion http://www.andreassonaffair.com/#!

Dracula UFO Painting

Check out this amazing discovery of a UFO in a painting over the house of Dracula. This UFO does explain a lot. What if the stories of Dracula drinking blood to stay alive are true? Dracula may have been an alien? I have heard that there are a few alien species that feed off of humans. Every story has a grain of truth…especially if it stands the test of time. Thanks to ufosightingsdaily.com

Inquisitor states, A UFO appears to hover over a building that may be connected to the real-life Dracula in a recently uncovered painting from the town of Sighisoara, Romania. A photo of the mysterious painting that appears on the wall of a 700-year-old monastery was snapped this summer by tourist Catalina Borta. The bizarre painting shows what appears to be a church seemingly engulfed in flames. Over the church, a large, floating disc hovers, sending a column of smoke billowing toward the sky above.” Source article: http://www.inquisitr.com/1564936/ufo-seen-in-15th-century-painting-from-birthplace-of-dracula-vlad-tepes-what-does-this-mean/

Islamic State Attacks

About 150 Iraqi Kurdish fighters known as Peshmerga using long-range artillery joined the battle for the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani on October 31, 2014. Forces of the Islamic State, (IS) formally called ISIS are attacking Kobani. The peshmerga joined the battle and made a big difference with their artillery said Ibrahim Kurdu, a senior Kurdish official.

“We didn’t have artillery we were using mortars and other locally made weapons. So this is a good thing.”

Capitalizing on air strikes, the Kurdish fighters made some progress against the militants on the hill of Tel Shair that overlooks the town.

“Kurds have repelled counter attacks by Islamic State militants, days after Iraqi Kurdish fighters joined the battle, a senior official said. The arrival of armed with heavy weapons, helped halt the advance of Islamic State fighters,” said Ibrahim Kurdu, a senior Kurdish official. About 3,000-4,000 jihadists — backed by tanks — are fighting in Kobani against about 1,500-2,000 members of the Kurds.

Both sides are sending in reinforcements and the fighting is fluid, with both sides making gains and then retreating. Fierce clashes in and around Kobani have killed about 100 IS fighters in the past three days, according to the Britain-based monitoring group.

The Observatory said 958 people had been killed since IS launched an assault on Kobani in mid-September — 576 IS jihadists, 361 Kurdish fighters and 21 civilians. IS appeared to be making advances in at least one spot around the town, reportedly raising their flag on a building after clashes in the eastern part of Kobani. So far, the peshmerga are only playing a support role, using their heavy weapons and mortars to provide cover to the Kurdish YPG militiamen.

The US and other countries are conducting air strikes against the IS fighters shown here.

Canada’s first airstrikes against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq destroyed heavy engineering equipment used to build up group’s defenses and divert water from the Euphrates River, an official said Tuesday. By flooding specific areas, IS forced civilians and Iraqi troops to use “specific roads where they had placed improvised explosive devices or IEDs,” he explained.

Essentially we are involved in a religious war, that Muslims freely describe as Jihad their religious duty to conduct a Holy War against all non believers in Allah.

I’m haunted by thoughts of a mushroom cloud rising over an American or Western European city. I feel it is possible that a Muslim Terrorist group will attempt to attack the US with nuclear weapons. A successful attack is more likely than the public realizes. Our borders are essentially open to any well organized terrorist group. North Korea, former Russian nations, Iran, Pakistan would likely sell a nuclear weapon to anyone with a few million dollars.

They attacked us on 9/11 for a variety of reasons, but their main understanding and knowledge of the US is obtained by looking at our movies, and our moral decadence that is an affront to Islam. Probably more than any other factor is that we allow women to go to school, become educated, to drive cars and even work. Additionally, American women are not covered in veils and nudity can be seen. Our beliefs and respect of woman are alien to them. Do not fool yourself, if our forces are defeated in Iraq, the jihad will quickly spread to other nations around the world.

Islamic State militants executed at least 220 Iraqis in retaliation against a tribe’s opposition to their takeover of territory west of Baghdad, security sources and witnesses said. Two mass graves were discovered containing some of the 300 members of the tribe. The Islamic State speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents,” Mr. Obama said. “No just God would stand for what they did yesterday, and for what they do every single day. Islamic State has no ideology of any value to human beings.” Thanks to Jihad Watch Daily Digest

Steven Levy CBS Sunday Morning Commentary

Steven Levy writes, “My confession: I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat…

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school… The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Steven Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about.. And we said okay.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in. Thanks to Dick Anderson

UFO Similar to Crop Circle

Nancy Talbot writes, “I was startled to see how similar the drawing, above of October 12, 2014 , “cross-shaped” New Jersey UFO Drawing Wall Township, NJ, from Filer’s Files 44 is to a UFO-related crop circle which appeared in Sheffield, MA in 2013.”

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September 5, 2013 Sheffield, MA crop circle which witnesses say resembles a “Cross-shaped” UFO seen in the area and which one witnesses claims to have seen land in this corn-field before the crop circle was discovered (http://www.bltresearch.com/usacropcircles/?page_id=794):

Sept. 19, 2013 – A photo of the “Cross-Shaped” UFO seen and photographed in nearby western MA town of Dalton:

Thanks, also, for including the latest info about Dutch and US circles.

Thanks to Nancy Talbot http://www.bltresearch.com

MUFON Sightings

CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In October 2014 there were 781 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries; United States 642, Canada 30, UK 23, India 22, Australia 6, Germany 6, and Mexico 5.

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Filer’s Files # 45 – 2014 – ET is Real  - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Triangle

Avondale — My friend and I were traveling east on I-10 towards Phoenix when we noticed three objects to the south of us on October 10, 2014. They were white lights and moving around oddly. Then two of the objects went underneath the third object and the one object engulfed the other two.

The shape then changed to a boomerang and there was a red glow to it as it just hovered there. We then had to go north and lost light of the object. The whole process took about three minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Disc

Highland – I was off-roading with a friend and coming down some of the dirt roads from Big Bear to the 330 on October 11, 2014. We stopped in a few locations to take scenic photos. A few weeks later while editing I noticed an object in the sky. I am knowledgeable in civilian and military aviation and feel that if we had a conventional aircraft flying this close to us we would have not only heard it but noticed it visually. Neither of us saw anything even close to this for the entire day.

Under magnification the object does not look to be organic, and doesn’t fit the profile of any type of civilian or military aircraft. The photo was taken with a Canon Rebel SL1, at 18mm / 1/160th / f11 / ISO 100.
Because the shutter speed was 1/160th and there is not much motion blur this leads me to believe the object was not moving very fast when photographed. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Disc

Naples – Over the weekend my parents were out on a ranch about noon on October 26, 2014. My mom told my dad she wanted take a picture of him actually doing some man type work so she took a few burst photos of my dad. At the moment they didn’t hear any noise at all. Later when my dad reviewed the burst photos to pick the best one, he saw an unidentified object on just ONE of the frames taken at one frame per second. No one saw the object either.

Note: The above object IS NOT a model airplane. Models make a lot of noise and no one heard anything. I also don’t think that it is a drone. What the heck it could really be a UFO? Analysis does not suggest that the photo was hoaxed. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

Illinois Cylinder

Chicago — I was driving home from a pumpkin farm with my husband and two boys’ ages 2 and 9 on October 25, 2014, at 5:49 PM. My 9 year old told me to look at the sky and asked, “What was that darting all over?’.

There were 5 bright long lights. They were in a way that didn’t look like normal flight patterns. I grabbed my phone and tried getting pictures. I got two in one shot, and then I zoomed in. I don’t know what we saw.

Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

Kentucky Cylinder

Pendleton County — Glenn Pennington here with a couple pictures for you on November 1, 2014.

Still having nightly sightings here. Thanks to Glenn Pennington

Louisiana Object

Metairie — I took many flash photos of the Luna eclipse on October 8, 2014, but the UFO object only appears in one photo. It was only an instantaneous event that I did not see with my naked eyes but was only capture on one frame of my photos.

The incident occurred at distant night and I cannot say I saw the object it only appears in the photograph that I had taken. There were no sounds or any visible effects on the atmosphere, land or anything else that I could see, smell or sense.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Maryland Orb

Pikesville – On a shopping trip on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at 5 PM, I stopped for a red light and noticed some beautiful fall trees, so I took several photos with an iPhone. While looking at the trees in front of us, our conversation with the driver was about the number of wires that would detract from the photograph. We were wondering if they could be photo shopped out, but I remarked that there were far too many and decided to take photos of other trees farther to the left.
When looking at the photos I saw a LARGE object in the image between two trees that I didn’t see. Neither one of us saw or heard anything? It doesn’t look like a bird, or plane. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Massachusetts V

Haverhill – I was taking the trash out after dinner. I looked up to gaze at the stars, and saw 30 fast-moving objects at a high altitude, in a perfect V formation flying southeast. I only saw them when they moved in front of the moon, revealing the formation. This happened at about 6:50 PM.
I lost sight of them when they left the direct light of the moon. At first, I thought it was geese, but these objects were moving too fast and too high to be geese. I would say that they were either at 20,000 feet or higher. If my UFO’s and the shuttle were the same size, that would put the V formation well into space. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Lights and Disc

Camp Evans — Driving home, west on Route 33, my family and I saw four faintly lit rotating white orbs. They were hovering over Shark River. There were no lights reflecting from the ground. We pulled left off 33 to try and drive towards them, near hospital, but they stopped. This is 4th time I have seen lights like this. I was upset the lights stopped. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Waretown — While driving south on NJ Parkway when straight away as driving looked up and saw a shiny silvery shaped disk on October 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM. It was hovering with the with the sun shining and flashing off the metal. Sky blue clear but very high clouds and seemed to go behind cloud and went upward and then poof it was gone very quickly. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Brown Mountain Lights

Don Cooper is a retired Presbyterian pastor who has been observing mysterious Brown Mountain Lights (BMLs) since 2005. After observing and documenting the BMLs on more than 60 occasions, he’s become a bit of an expert on the phenomena.

“On the night of October 20, 2014, I took seven people to view the lights from Wiseman’s View near Linville Falls,” he told us. “Almost immediately, we witnessed an enormous white light that disappeared and reappeared several times over the left tip of Hawksbill Mountain. Later it slightly zigzagged in the sky and turned colors – green, yellow, red and blue.

Note: The Cherokee Indians were familiar with these lights as far back as the year 1200. According to Indian legend, a great battle was fought that year between the Cherokee and Catawba Indians near Brown Mountain. The Cherokees believed that the lights were the spirits of Indian maidens who went on searching through the centuries for their husbands. The lights may be the result underground stresses or electrical properties of certain rocks in specific settings called Earth Lights. By Mary Joyce

Ohio Craft

Dayton — Robert Morningstar reports this craft and similar ones have been photographed over North Dayton on October 24, 2014.

Similar photos were taken on the 25th and 26^th of October. Wright Patterson Air Force Base is nearby and these may be experimental aircraft. http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/video/023-ufo-dayton-10-24-2014-1.24pm.JPG

Pennsylvania Lights

Palm – A flying object was caught on my deer camera on November 4, 2014. It had spooked all the deer away and then appeared.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia Cylinder

I took this photo on Thursday, October 30, 2014. I thought maybe it was a bird or something. Now after seeing this video, I am not so sure since there are no weapons. What do you think? The first photo is what the camera saw and is its actual size. The photo is blown up a bit. Love and light, Dan

West Virginia Lights

New Milton – I had gotten out of the hot tub to take pictures of the Virgo full moon late the night of September 8, 2014 when object appeared from the west/south west. It was brighter than the moon and appeared larger by half, than the moon. I managed to catch one photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Triangle and Cloud

I was sitting in the yard on September 25, 2014, observing the sky as there has been a few strange events occurring over the last few months that we have witnessed, but this is the first that we got photographs. This is the third time we saw it and there’s been a couple of different ones since then. My family members had joined us nightly hoping they could witness the objects also. At around 10.30 pm the object appeared from the SE and is noticeably brighter than the stars and maneuvers and travels at various speeds. When looking through binoculars it looks spherical like and emits many different colors and appears to spin and turn.

The object was olive/silver and would just fade out altogether and then reappear. We watched it for two hours through binoculars. My niece, nephew and our three children were very excited and were giving us a commentary every time they got the binoculars.

We all attempted to take video footage with our phones, however they didn’t take very good pictures at all let alone footage. My daughter got her Olympus Tough model tg-820 and stabilized it on my car roof and other surfaces during the event and took multiple amazing photos of this object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Melbourne to Victoria – These UFOs hidden in the clouds of Australia were seen and photographed this week all across the country on November 3, 2014. Their outline in the cloud is proof of this. The news claims these holes in the clouds are a natural phenomenon…which is incorrect. If they had done their UFO research they would know about the 1957 Ft Belvoir case where a US solider saw a metal ring in the sky over his base and he took photos of it. However while he took photos, the UFO created a white smoke cloud around it until it was 100% hidden from view. Also the 2006 O’Hare Airport UFO, where hundreds of people saw a hovering grey disk that flew up though a overhead cloud leaving a perfect round hole in it! SCW Source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/strange-fallstreak-rainbow-cloud-hovers-over-wonthaggi-victoria/story-fn5fsgyc-1227111992091

Canada Lights

London, Ontario – On October 31^st, 2014, about 5 pm, a black, silver and white object at the corner of Pond Mills and Commissioners Road was seen. It was the size of a hot air balloon. It was an inverted triangle with a silvery long front end. It was not seem moving with the wind. Ask was overcast and windy. It spun around slowly reviewing an odd shape like an inverted pyramid. The front was silver like a jet plane. I noticed it while driving west on Commissioners Road and seeing two people on the side of the road pointing up at it. So others did see it. I thought was it was large and holding a steady position. It spun around on its axis horizontally and was gone within minutes.

Kilmarnock, Ontario — At dusk Friday, October 24, 2014, two UFO’s were sighted just a few miles above the tree line flying in a southeasterly direction. One craft had a rotating orange light and the other just one solid orange light. Thanks to Heather Ufoinfo.com

Germany Turbine

Jockgrim – My friend and I went out onto the balcony and spotted an object flying higher than a plane that flew completely different. It looked like two turbines without wings. The turbines at the rear end shone in blue / green. From the size and shape it looked like a “Podracer” from “Star Wars”, only that the turbines are located next to the “cabin”. After about 40 seconds the lights were gone but you could still see the “turbines” for another 10 minutes as they flew away. We had Internet problems with the router for the past two weeks and a reboot of the router solved the problem. Thanks to MUFON CMS

India Lights

Kochi – India Today News states: On October 16, 2014, the photo and videos were spotted in separate reports that seem related. These glowing UFOs were seen last week in India and several videos are just now being posted on the net. These videos show a beautiful glowing UFO traveling fast across the sky.

“The UFO-like lights were spotted in the sky by a group of people when it was raining. While the veracity of this claim is open to question, the photo of this alleged UFO was captured by one of them and circulated on the WhatsApp. If witnesses are to be believed, the nail-shaped UFO hovered in the sky for sometime before vanishing under the cover of rain and passing clouds.” See the photo and judge for yourself. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/is-this-an-ufo-in-the-sky-above-kochi/1/398137.html

Bangalore – I am a Doctor working in a Government Hospital in India. On 1st November 2014, my father drove me home on his bike from duty at the Hospital. After attending the patient, we headed home. My father was driving west on Cord Road and I observed three intense bright golden/amber colored lights about 10.45 PM. The object was somewhat triangular in shape and had a dark/black surface.

They were moving very slowly in a horizontal plane and had very intense oval shaped lights. Dad stopped and I started taking pictures. The surface was uneven/wrinkled and suddenly the lights shot up into the sky one at a time and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Object

Cabo San Lucas — We were on a cruise with Hurricane Simon about 250 miles away from our cruise ship and took pictures of the sun while we were in the clouds. After we passed through the clouds I took this picture of the sunset. I didn’t really notice anything until we got home and saw this object in the water. I just find what I see peculiar. You tell me if you can see something as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Netherlands Bright orange ball

Amsterdam — There was a bright orange ball lingering in the sky on October 5, 2014. The sky was slightly misty at that moment. The orange ball eventually faded away gradually. I tried to film it with my camera on the cell phone but it was not showing on it. I imagine the light was not bright enough and also, due to the strong street lamp next to where I was trying to film it. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director www.UFOCenter.com

UK/England Flying Man

Newton Abbot Devon — I just finished reading a news story of aviation experts being stumped by a f. Click here to read the news article (published by the-mind-unleashed) I managed to capture a photo of this flying man back on the ‎7th of ‎September ‎2014 at ‏‎4:15 PM. I can confirm that this was no balloon. I can also confirm that this man had no jetpack or visible wings. I looked through my binoculars and I can tell you this man had a cape and no visible means of flight.

I cannot explain this. I have had many flying humanoid sightings and my first sighting was of a Mothman Back in the summer of 1993. The Mothman I witnessed was wearing black boots with downward facing triangles on them and it had bat like wings and no visible signs of a head. I could hear a whooshing sound of the wings. After this sighting I have been encountering UFOs and other strange phenomenon on a daily basis of things that should not exist. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com

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Auto verdwijnt in parallel universum

Dat auto's van het ene op het andere moment verdwijnen in sinkholes dat is intussen bekend. Ook dat ze vedwijnen om te sterven als ze niet worden verkocht, naar giga begraafplaatsen.

Een auto die gewoon op straat rijdt en ineens spontaan verdwijnt in een andere dimensie, dát zien we zéker niet iedere dag.

Toch is dit wat er volgens veel mensen gebeurde enkele dagen geleden in het kleine plaatsje Cavalier in de Amerikaanse staat Noord Dakota.

Gedurende de nacht wordt het weinige verkeer in de hoofdstraat van het dorp gefilmd door een CCTV camera.

Zo ook deze avond en op een zeker moment zie je een auto die rustig komt aanrijden en dan van het ene op het andere moment verdwijnt in een soort verblindende lichtstraal. Het lijkt alsof de auto er compleet in verdwijnt.

De onderstaande video is op dit moment het onderwerp van een wereldwijde discussie over de vraag of de video echt is of niet. Zoals gewoonlijk zijn de meningen weer erg verdeeld.

De ene helft denkt dat er met de beelden is geknoeid en de andere is ervan overtuigd dat het echt is.

Van die laatste groep denkt een deel weer dat de auto als het ware wordt opgezogen door een UFO en een ander deel denkt dat we hier te maken hebben met een voertuig dat in een andere dimensie verdwijnt.

Ervan uitgaande dat de beelden echt zijn dan is dat laatste een aannemelijke theorie. We zien de laatste tijd diverse voorbeelden van hoe dimensies steeds dichter bijelkaar komen.

Het zou natuurlijk ook nog een geval van teleportatie kunnen zijn, maar omdat de auto tot op heden niet op een andere plaats is opgedoken lijkt dit niet waarschijnlijk.

Zo zal iedereen een eigen mening hebben. Wat deze beelden in ieder geval doen is een discussie losmaken over andere mogelijkheden dan wat we normaal gesproken gewend zijn in onze 3D wereld.

Ook daarmee is het mysterie natuurlijk niet opgelost.

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1947 "Smoking Gun" Evidence?

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=3741410&pid=0&page=1

UFO experts say 'we are not alone'

Journalist Leslie Kean showed photos taken by a government mapping plane in Costa Rica in 1971. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)

WASHINGTON -- UFOs were the topic of a panel discussion Wednesday night at American University, and one of the speakers used the occasion to reveal evidence he called a "smoking gun."

"We have come into possession of a couple of Kodachrome color slides of an alien being lying in a glass case," author and researcher Thomas Carey told the near-capacity crowd in Abramson Recital Hall. 

He's been researching the 1947 Roswell incident since 1991. 

"What's interesting is, the film is dated 1947.  We took it to the official historian of Kodak up in Rochester, New York, and he did his due diligence on it, and he said yes, this filmstrip, the slides are from 1947. It's 1947 stock. And from the emulsions on the image, it's not something that's been Photoshopped like today. It's original 1947 images, and it shows an alien who's been partially dissected lying in a case."

Carey says the being looked like what he thought an alien from the famous Roswell incident would look like. 

"3 and a half to 4 feet tall, the head is almost insect-like. The head has been severed, and there's been a partial autopsy; the innards have been removed, and we believe the cadaver has been embalmed, at least at the time this picture was taken. The owners of the slide -- it's an amazing story. The woman was a high-powered Midland, Texas, lawyer with a pilot's license.  We think she was involved in intelligence in World War II, and her husband was a field geologist for an oil company."

Carey says he plans to reveal the images early next year. 

Another panelist, Dr. Richard Haines, is a retired NASA scientist and co-founder of NARCAP (National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena), which provides pilots with an anonymous way to report sightings they can't explain.  

"We're pretty ignorant yet about what we're dealing with. And that's the birth of a science. That's how most sciences begin," he said. 

Haines says NARCAP has collected hundreds and hundreds of UFO cases. 

"Our government is not taking the subject seriously. My role, or mission, if you will, is to bring this to the attention of our aviation world, at the union level, at the airline level and at the government level. I'm finding hardly any difficulty doing that in foreign countries.  I'm having a great deal of difficulty in America, and I don't know why."

Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist, co-founder of the Coalition for Freedom of Information and author of the New York Times bestseller "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record."  

She wrote her first story about UFOs in 2000. 

"My whole life was changed at that point. I was so compelled and so interested and so curious about this UFO phenomenon, because the more I studied it, the more I realized that you couldn't write it off. … It's not like you learn ways of explaining it. You learn more and more about the mystery of it, and the incredible documentation that's out there," she said. 

During her presentation, she detailed several interesting UFO cases, and showed some photographs, including one of a shiny, circular object.

"This is an incredible photograph that was taken over Costa Rica in 1971 by a government plane, a mapping plane, that had a camera strapped underneath the aircraft.  And every 17 seconds it took a photograph of the ground. The dark area is a lake, and ... the lighter area is the land, and over that lake there's a disc-shaped object."

Kean says Chile and France have full-time government staffers who do nothing but seriously investigate UFO cases, and she thinks the same is needed in the U.S.

"I'm trying to make the point that our scientists need to get more involved. In order for that to happen, we need a government agency here that will open the doors to allowing our scientists to engage with this topic."  

The most riveting presentation of the night came from retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles Halt, one of the witnesses of a famous series of UFO sightings in England in 1980 known as the Rendlesham Forest incident.  

Halt says he went into the forest to check out a report that a UFO had landed there. He saw three indentations in the ground that were spaced evenly, and a Geiger counter showed abnormally high levels of radiation in the area.

During this investigation, Halt says, he and several other military members saw a flying, oval-shaped object that glowed bright orange and red, and seemed to be dripping like molten metal. 

"We're standing there in awe. I said, 'There's got to be an explanation. Ball lightning, or who knows what.'  It starts to move. It moves towards us.  It comes into the forest.  It's moving through the trees horizontally, bobbing up and down as necessary to miss the trees.  I'm thinking, ‘Oh boy. I wish I hadn't come out here. This is really getting beyond me.'" 

He says they watched it for a few minutes, until something happened. 

"Suddenly and silently, it explodes into five white objects like fireworks, and it's gone." 

Halt closed out his presentation this way:

"If I could leave you with one thing, I'd say keep an open mind, and we are not alone. I can assure you."

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IN THIS WEEKS NEWSLETTER, Michael Horn reports on two UFO skeptics who were abducted by aliens. Then, Sean Casteel writes about Enochian Magick and angels. Next, Brad Steiger reviews the move The Ouija Board! Scary? Edward Crabtree reviews Bret Lueder’s A UFO Hunter’s Guide. Latin American correspondent Scott Corrales reports that the Monte Grande conspiracy continues 3-years after mysterious explosion. Reader F Carlton McLean Jr has photos of UFOs docking with the ISS. Pat Regan believes the UK society is being undermined by radicals. Deanna Jaxine Stinson contributes articles about Imps, goddesses and legends of entities and the outlines the history of angels. Next, Louis Hart has a message for you and you alone. Ron Murdock believes it is time to make changes and finally, Theresa J Morris tells us about a true ALIEN ET UFO story. Enjoy Dirk

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NOTED SKEPTIC, PROFESSOR BELIEVED ABDUCTED BY ALIENS  by Michael Horn.

James McGaha (pronounced McGayHay), an astronomer from the Grasslands Observatory in Southeastern Arizona, was recently quoted as saying, "You know the whole UFO phenomenon is nothing but myth, magic and superstition, wrapped up in this idea that somehow aliens are coming here either to save us or destroy us." While not entirely incorrect, McGaha also stated that evidence in one UFO-related case was actually due to spider webs, which in fact can be the cause of such sightings, according to information from Billy Meier. More...

ENOCHIAN MAGICK AND CONVERSING WITH ANGELS by Sean Casteel. 

The following are some excerpts from Sean Casteel’s contribution to the new Global Communications book “Angel Spells – The Enochian Occult Workbook of Charms, Seals, Talismans and Ciphers.” The other contributors are Tim Beckley, William Oribello and Maria D’Andrea. The book also includes, as a bonus section, the complete text of Bishop Allen Greenfield’s “Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts.”  More.. Also read: ENOCHIAN MAGICK AND CONVERSING WITH ANGELS - Part II.

THE OUIJA BOARD: PORTAL TO THE DARK DIMENSION OF SPIRIT PARASITES  by Brad Steiger.

On October 24, the motion picture Ouija was released and swept away the box office competition. The horror film, which portrays the frightening misadventures of teenagers exploring the unknown with a Ouija board, is still Number One. More... Also read: THE OUIJA BOARD: PORTAL TO THE DARK DIMENSION OF SPIRIT PARASITES - Part II.

BRET LUEDER'S A UFO HUNTER'S GUIDE: A BOOK REVIEW by Edward Crabtree.

Doing UFOs once seemed a breeze. A Mrs L R Wentworth in Suffolk would be tending to her roses. She would look and see a floating disk -`like a big upside down cake`. This might then zoom away at `supersonic` speed in a `northeasterly direction`. Writing up the account, a gentleman in sensible rain wear and a background in drainage inspection called Nigel, would speculate: `The only explanation I can find for this is that it was an emissary from another star system`.  More.

THE MONTE GRANDE CONSPIRACY CONTINUES  by Scott Corrales.

Three years removed from the terrible explosion that caused one death and the total destruction of two dwellings, there are still too many issues regarding the causes behind the mysterious explosion whose magnitude overwhelmed all mathematical calculations. Official inquiries ascribed it to a gas leak in a domestic oven. However, many consider that the whole truth has not been told about what happened on 26 September 2011 in the 9 de Abril district of Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría prospect). More...

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HAS ALIEN CRAFT ATTACHED TO IT  by F Carlton McLean Jr.

After a yellowish looking elongated object (UFO) had attached itself onto the International Space Station (and was not fully explained)! Bill Clinton came out to announce that he thought that we humans would be seeing aliens not too far off in the future. Bill Clinton placed himself onto the UFO hero list by making this statement. More...

MIKE WOOLEY DISCUSSES BIGFOOT: AGGRESSIVE AND DANGEROUS by Chris Holly. 

I have been watching as the Bigfoot mystery continues to spread across the world with more sightings, more TV shows, and more people searching to find this elusive large hairy creature. I became friends with Mike Wooley when I interviewed him concerning a terrifying Bigfoot experience he had while deer hunting a few years ago. Mike survived a face to face encounter with two large angry Bigfoot creatures. Mike was lucky to live through that day. I wrote his story about that frightening incident and will include it with this article. More..

STREET NATIONALISM 2: 'FOLLOW US OR BE DAMNED'! OR HOW THEY ARE PULLING YOUR STRINGS  by Pat Regan.

At times society drifts back into a dangerous frame of mind that equates with... who can shout the loudest gets the most attention and support. Radicals hunting more power rely primarily on general public ignorance and fear. They are frequently rewarded well with excellent dividends for such established dependence on social unawareness.  More...

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IMPS, GODDESSES AND LEGENDS OF ENTITIES FROM THE SPIRITUAL REALMS OF EARTH  by Deanna Jaxine Stinson.

Everything about our world is magical because it still retains some form of mystery. The stories that we ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge in the Christian bible may have opened our eyes but it didn't reveal everything. There is a mystical realm attached to ours. It is the realm you played in as a child; where you saw trolls, fairies and ghosts. I have kept my psychic abilities by meditating, writing down my dreams and researching endlessly this realm of magic. I have studied many different religions and spiritual practice like yoga and ceremonies of light from all religions I am drawn to this world. More.... Also read: THE HISTORY OF ANGELS THROUGHOUT THE AGES.

YOU AND YOU ALONE  by Louis Hart.

There is a lot of moaning and groaning about the state of the world, the ineptness of the government, the crappy attitude of their employees, the unjust tax rates, police brutality, and maybe even the unreasonable price of candy bars. And on and on and on. Oh, and let’s not leave out global warming. That’s a big one and will be until the global freeze hits and catches the experts with their collective pants down. More...

WE NEED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES  by Ron Murdock.

The Lottery, written by Shirley Jackson, was a short story that involved a yearly ritual stoning that was to guarantee a good crop would be harvested later that summer. Like such a lottery really would make a difference one way or another. The main point of The Lottery is how people can be swayed so easily to be part of the herd mentality. Participants in this story did so willingly though it could be termed morally offensive and repugnant. People join in events, like the above lottery, as it could be termed essential to public order and/or as a form of community bonding. The event could be prolonged to increase the drama and group satisfaction.  More...

A TRUE ALIEN ET UFO STORY by Theresa J Morris.

As you probably already know I have a long story to tell of life on earth before and after meeting TOM my husband. Tom and I have spoken with Robert Morningstar on radio for archiving purposes.The story of him and I meeting is no accident. The question is however was it predestined by Alien ET UFO BEINGS or our GOVERNMENT for DISCLOSURE. More..

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13-11-2014 om 22:36 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: Zhitkur Underground Base, Russia’s Area 51

Kapustin Yar was the former Soviet Union’s most sensitive air base, even exceeding America’s Area 51 for the levels of secrecy that shrouded it. UFO Filesclaimed that it was to present never-before-seen footage of the base, reconnaissance photos and even a virtual tour of its hidden depths.

In 1948, less than a year after the famed Roswell Incident, the base’s radar operators picked up an unidentified object. At the same time, a fighter pilot flying close to the base had a visual sighting of a silver, cigar-shaped object. Reporting that he was being blinded by rays from the UFO, the pilot was ordered to engage with it and, after a three minute dogfight, a missile successfully brought down the object. It seems that the UFO fired some sort of energy weapon at the MiG and both craft crashed to the ground.

William J Birnes, publisher of the American UFO Magazine, believed that the alien craft fired a particle beam weapon at the Soviet fighter, but a lucky shot with the missile disrupted the UFO’s anti-gravity field, causing it to fall from the sky. Soviet recovery teams quickly gathered up all the wreckage and transported it to the underground facility at Kapustin Yar, which was ironically named Zhitkur, after the former town not far from the base.

On 15th August, 1663, a great fiery disc came down from the sky and began shooting beams of light into the Robozero Lake near Belozersk, about 250 miles east of St. Petersburg.

Most researchers outside of Russia, including Stanton Friedman, were convinced that this was a natural event and nothing to do with aliens or UFOs, but Russian ufologists, such as Nikolai Subbotin of the Russian UFO Research Station, were not so sure. Subbotin explained how the object apparently changed course twice before exploding, something a natural object such as a meteorite or comet cannot do. Then there were unexplained radiation levels in the region and the fact that plant life appears to have been altered because of this radiation.

Getting back on track, we were told that research is still ongoing at Kapustin Yar, with UFO wreckage being brought to Zhitkur quite regularly and as recently as 1997, when a craft was said to have come down in Poland.

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Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries of the World

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World’s top ten greatest unsolved mysteries 2014. The biggest unexplained phenomena & mysteries ever! 

Watch the top 10 unsolved & shocking mysteries throughout the history time. 

#10 The Impossible Row Boat in the Middle of Bouvet Island

A row boat lies frozen in the middle of a huge island 1,000 miles from any other land mass. It would have been impossible to row to the island.

#9 The Unexplained Pteranodon Photo

An old picture depicts civil war soldiers standing over the corpse of a massive bird – a bird that resembles that of a Ptereanodon…a creature that went extinct during the time of the dinosaurs.

#8 The Mystery of the Baigong Pipes 

Mysterious metal pipes that look to be manufactured are discovered in an ancient rock cave in the Qinghai province of China.

#7 Unrecovered Nazi Treasure

Did the Nazi’s hide tons of gold & countless ancient artifacts around the world in places that still haven’t been uncovered today?

#6 The strange Glozel Tablets

Thousands of mysterious ancient artifacts are discovered in a French farmer’s field. Many are inscribed with a mysterious language. Many artifacts are dated to 8000 B.C. — before any meaningful civilization could have existed.

#5 Rudolph Fentz — the man who traveled through time.

A startled man whom suddenly appears in New York is killed by a car – his belongings strongly suggest he may have been from the past.

#4 The Black Knight

An alleged 13,000 year old satellite mysteriously orbits the Earth.

#3 The Alien King – Akhenaten

An ancient egyptian Pharaoah has remarkable intellectual capacity and physical features that suggest he could be an alien hybrid – interestingly a large portion of the world can trace their ancestry to him.

#2 The Mysterious Man from Taured

A man lands in Tokyo airport with a passport from the country of Taured – but Taured doesn’t exist.

#1 The Copper Scroll Treasure Map

A copper scroll specifically outlines the location of over sixty different lost treasures around the world.

Discover more about each of these mysteries. Click on the link to each of them in the description below Subscribe for weekly updated mysteries.

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Man took photos of the UFO that abducted him

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The young man from  Puerto Rico was telling the truth!

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NASA confirms ‘fireball’ lights up Texas sky

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Scientists at NASA have confirmed that a ball of light seen streaking across the Texas skies Saturday was a meteor and one so bright they call it a “fireball.”Hundreds reported seeing the bright green ball of light crossing the night sky above San Antonio, the event was even captured on video by a Hewitt policedashboard camera.The meteor is clearly visible in that and in another video posted by a YouTube user after the sighting just before 9 p.m. Saturday.“This was definitely what we call a fireball, which by definition is a meteor brighter than the planet Venus,” Dr. Bill Cooke, head of NASA’s meteoroid environment office, told a news conference Sunday.“This event was so bright that it was picked up on a NASA meteor camera in the mountains of New Mexico over 500 miles away, which makes it extremely unusual,” he said, according to CNN reports of the news conference. “This was a very bright event.”The meteor appears for several seconds, one enormous ball of light followed by the streak of a tail.It prompted hundreds of calls to local authorities including the National Weather Service.“All of them received reports of seeing a meteor,” said Trevor Boucher, meteorologist with the NWS. Officials at the weather service also shared a video of the event on their social media pages.

NASA officials studying the sighting have estimated the metoer was at least 4 feet wide and weighed more than 4,000 pounds, according to CNN. It burned five times brighter than a full moon.Cooke told reporters it is possible that parts of the fireball hit the ground. Maverick County Sheriff’s Department reported that NWS had confirmed the ground shook at around 8:45 p.m. Saturday.“It could have been a sonic boom,” Boucher said. “We won’t know for sure if there was an impact on Mexico’s side.”

NASA is now investigating where the meteor came from. Cooke said it may be fallout from the North Taurid meteor shower, which is apparently going on right now. Other ideas suggest it was part of a piece from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, CNN said.

“A city dweller in the U.S. might expect to see events this bright once or twice per year,” Cooke said in the news conference. “This one was around 8:40, so there were a lot of people outside and those events get a lot of notice, there would have been far fewer reports if it happens around 3 a.m.”

Source: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/NASA-confirms-fireball-lights-up-Texas-sky-5882757.php

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