How 40,000 Tons of Cosmic Dust Falling to Earth Affects You and Me

We have stardust in us as old as the universe—and some that may have landed on Earth just a hundred years ago,                                                

                                                                            

                 In this infrared image, stellar winds from a giant star cause interstellar dust to form ripples. There's a whole lot of dust—which contains oxygen, carbon, iron, nickel, and all the other elements—out there, and eventually some of it finds its way into our bodies      

Photograph by NASA, JPL-Caltech     

Simon Worrall

for National Geographic

Astrophysics and medical pathology don't, at first sight, appear to have much in common. What do sunspots have to do with liver spots? How does the big bang connect with cystic fibrosis?

Book jacket courtesy of schrijver+schrijver                

Astrophysicist Karel Schrijver, a senior fellow at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, and his wife, Iris Schrijver, professor of pathology at Stanford University, have joined the dots in a new book, Living With the Stars: How the Human Body Is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars.

Talking from their home in Palo Alto, California, they explain how everything in us originated in cosmic explosions billions of years ago, how our bodies are in a constant state of decay and regeneration, and why singer Joni Mitchell was right.

We are stardust," Joni Mitchell famously sang in "Woodstock." It turns out she was right, wasn't she?

Iris: Was she ever! Everything we are and everything in the universe and on Earth originated from stardust, and it continually floats through us even today. It directly connects us to the universe, rebuilding our bodies over and again over our lifetimes.

That was one of the biggest surprises for us in this book. We really didn't realize how impermanent we are, and that our bodies are made of remnants of stars and massive explosions in the galaxies. All the material in our bodies originates with that residual stardust, and it finds its way into plants, and from there into the nutrients that we need for everything we do—think, move, grow. And every few years the bulk of our bodies are newly created.

Can you give me some examples of how stardust formed us?

Karel: When the universe started, there was just hydrogen and a little helium and very little of anything else. Helium is not in our bodies. Hydrogen is, but that's not the bulk of our weight. Stars are like nuclear reactors. They take a fuel and convert it to something else. Hydrogen is formed into helium, and helium is built into carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, iron and sulfur—everything we're made of. When stars get to the end of their lives, they swell up and fall together again, throwing off their outer layers. If a star is heavy enough, it will explode in a supernova.

So most of the material that we're made of comes out of dying stars, or stars that died in explosions. And those stellar explosions continue. We have stuff in us as old as the universe, and then some stuff that landed here maybe only a hundred years ago. And all of that mixes in our bodies.

Stars are being born and stars are dying in this infrared snapshot of the heavens. You and I—we come from stardust.

Photograph by NASA, JPL-Caltech, University of Wisconsin

Your book yokes together two seemingly different sciences: astrophysics and human biology. Describe your individual professions and how you combined them to create this book.

Iris: I'm a physician specializing in genetics and pathology. Pathologists are the medical specialists who diagnose diseases and their causes. We also study the responses of the body to such diseases and to the treatment given. I do this at the level of the DNA, so at Stanford University I direct the diagnostic molecular pathology laboratory. I also provide patient care by diagnosing inherited diseases and also cancers, and by following therapy responses in those cancer patients based on changes that we can detect in their DNA.

Our book is based on many conversations that Karel and I had, in which we talked to each other about topics from our daily professional lives. Those areas are quite different. I look at the code of life. He's an astrophysicist who explores the secrets of the stars. But the more we followed up on our questions to each other, the more we discovered our fields have a lot more connections than we thought possible.

Karel: I'm an astrophysicist. Astrophysicists specialize in all sorts of things, from dark matter to galaxies. I picked stars because they fascinated me. But no matter how many stars you look at, you can never see any detail. They're all tiny points in the sky.

So I turned my attention to the sun, which is the only star where we can see what happens all over the universe. At some point NASA asked me to lead a summer school for beginning researchers to try to create materials to understand the things that go all the way from the sun to the Earth. I learned so many things about these connections I started to tell Iris. At some point I thought: This could be an interesting story, and it dawned on us that together we go all the way, as she said, from the smallest to the largest. And we have great fun doing this together.

We tend to think of our bodies changing only slowly once we reach adulthood. So I was fascinated to discover that, in fact, we're changing all the time and constantly rebuilding ourselves. Talk about our skin.

Iris: Most people don't even think of the skin as an organ. In fact, it's our largest one. To keep alive, our cells have to divide and grow. We're aware of that because we see children grow. But cells also age and eventually die, and the skin is a great example of this.

It's something that touches everything around us. It's also very exposed to damage and needs to constantly regenerate. It weighs around eight pounds [four kilograms] and is composed of several layers. These layers age quickly, especially the outer layer, the dermis. The cells there are replaced roughly every month or two. That means we lose approximately 30,000 cells every minute throughout our lives, and our entire external surface layer is replaced about once a year.

Very little of our physical bodies lasts for more than a few years. Of course, that's at odds with how we perceive ourselves when we look into the mirror. But we're not fixed at all. We're more like a pattern or a process. And it was the transience of the body and the flow of energy and matter needed to counter that impermanence that led us to explore our interconnectedness with the universe.

You have a fascinating discussion about age. Describe how different parts of the human body age at different speeds.

Iris: Every tissue recreates itself, but they all do it at a different rate. We know through carbon dating that cells in the adult human body have an average age of seven to ten years. That's far less than the age of the average human, but there are remarkable differences in these ages. Some cells literally exist for a few days. Those are the ones that touch the surface. The skin is a great example, but also the surfaces of our lungs and the digestive tract. The muscle cells of the heart, an organ we consider to be very permanent, typically continue to function for more than a decade. But if you look at a person who's 50, about half of their heart cells will have been replaced.

Our bodies are never static. We're dynamic beings, and we have to be dynamic to remain alive. This is not just true for us humans. It's true for all living things.

A figure that jumped out at me is that 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall on Earth every year. Where does it all come from? How does it affect us?

Karel: When the solar system formed, it started to freeze gas into ice and dust particles. They would grow and grow by colliding. Eventually gravity pulled them together to form planets. The planets are like big vacuum cleaners, sucking in everything around them. But they didn't complete the job. There's still an awful lot of dust floating around.

When we say that as an astronomer, we can mean anything from objects weighing micrograms, which you wouldn't even see unless you had a microscope, to things that weigh many tons, like comets. All that stuff is still there, being pulled around by the gravity of the planets and the sun. The Earth can't avoid running into this debris, so that dust falls onto the Earth all the time and has from the very beginning. It's why the planet was made in the first place. Nowadays, you don't even notice it. But eventually all that stuff, which contains oxygen and carbon, iron, nickel, and all the other elements, finds its way into our bodies.

When a really big piece of dust, like a giant comet or asteroid, falls onto the Earth, you get a massive explosion, which is one of the reasons we believe the dinosaurs became extinct some 70 million years ago. That fortunately doesn't happen very often. But things fall out of the sky all the time. [Laughs]

Many everyday commodities we use also began their existence in outer space. Tell us about salt.

Karel: Whatever you mention, its history began in outer space. Take salt. What we usually mean by salt is kitchen salt. It has two chemicals, sodium and chloride. Where did they come from? They were formed inside stars that exploded billions of years ago and at some point found their way onto the Earth. Stellar explosions are still going on today in the galaxy, so some of the chlorine we're eating in salt was made only recently.

You study pathology, Iris. Is physical malfunction part of the cosmic order?

Iris: Absolutely. There are healthy processes, such as growth, for which we need cell division. Then there are processes when things go wrong. We age because we lose the balance between cell deaths and regeneration. That's what we see in the mirror when we age over time. That's also what we see when diseases develop, such as cancers. Cancer is basically a mistake in the DNA, and because of that the whole system can be derailed. Aging and cancer are actually very similar processes. They both originate in the fact that there's a loss of balance between regeneration and cell loss.

Cystic fibrosis is an inherited genetic disease. You inherit an error in the DNA. Because of that, certain tissues do not have the capability to provide their normal function to the body. My work is focused on finding changes in DNA in different populations so we can understand better what kinds of mutations are the basis of that disease. Based on that, we can provide prognosis. There are now drugs that target specific mutations, as well as transplants, so these patients can have a much better life span than was possible 10 or 20 years ago.

How has writing this book changed your view of life—and your view of each other?

Karel: There are two things that struck me, one that I had no idea about. The first is what Iris described earlier—the impermanence of our bodies. As a physicist, I thought the body was built early on, that it would grow and be stable. Iris showed me, over a long series of dinner discussions, that that's not the way it works. Cells die and rebuild all the time. We're literally not what were a few years ago, and not just because of the way we think. Everything around us does this. Nature is not outside us. We are nature.

As far as our relationship is concerned, I always had a great deal of respect for Iris, and physicians in general. They have to know things that I couldn't possibly remember. And that's only grown with time.

Iris: Physics was not my favorite topic in high school. [Laughs] Through Karel and our conversations, I feel that the universe and the world around us has become much more accessible. That was our goal with the book as well. We wanted it to be accessible and understandable for anyone with a high school education. It was a challenge to write it that way, to explain things to each other in lay terms. But it has certainly changed my view of life. It's increased my sense of wonder and appreciation of life.

In terms of Karel's profession and our relationship, it has inevitably deepened. We understand much better what the other person is doing in the sandboxes we respectively play in. [Laughs]

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Ceres: The Smallest and Closest Dwarf Planet

The dwarf planet Ceres as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park), and M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI)                                           View full size image

Editor's Update for Jan. 22, 2013: Scientists have discovered definitive proof that there is water on Ceres, and that it may erupt from the surface. Read the full story here: Water Found on Dwarf Planet Ceres, May Erupt from Ice Volcanoes

Ceres is a dwarf planet, the only one located in the inner reaches of the solar system; the rest lie at the outer edges, in the Kuiper Belt. While it is the smallest of the known dwarf planets, it is the largest object in the asteroid belt.

Unlike other rocky bodies in the asteroid belt, Ceres is an oblate spheroid, rounded with a rotational bulge around its equator. Scientists think Ceres may have an ocean and possibly an atmosphere. A probe will arrive in 2015 to study the object more closely and unlock those mysteries. [See more photos of the dwarf planet Ceres]

History & discovery

Astronomers in the late 18th century mathematically predicted the presence of a planet between Mars and Jupiter, eagerly turning their telescopes to the region in search of the missing body. On Jan. 1, 1801, Sicilian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered what was then considered a planet, naming it Ceres for the Roman goddess of corn and harvests.

Within a decade, four new objects were discovered in the same region, all also considered planets. Nearly 50 years passed before more, smaller bodies were found scattered between Mars and Jupiter — the components of the asteroid belt — and Ceres was demoted to the status of an asteroid.

In 2006, Ceres was promoted to the status of a dwarf planet; it did not reach full planetary status because it failed to gravitationally clear its neighborhood of debris, though it often retains its classification as an asteroid, as well. [Infographic: Dwarf Planets in the Solar System]

The largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres makes up nearly a third of its mass. Even so, it remains the smallest known dwarf planet, only 590 miles (950 km) across — roughly the size of Texas. A day on Ceres lasts a little over 9 Earth-hours, while it takes 4.6 Earth-years to travel around the sun.

Ceres has a density of 2.09 grams per cubic centimeter, leading scientists to conclude approximately a quarter of its weight is water. This would give the dwarf planet more fresh water than Earth contains.

               Ceres is thought to contain a thin outer layer of dust and rock over an icy layer.
Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI

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With temperature highs of minus 38 degrees C (minus 37 F), water at the surface of Ceres would sublimate, potentially creating a thin atmosphere. Signs of possible sublimation were observed at the dwarf planet's north pole in the early 1990s, but were ambiguous and have not been seen again.

Instead, scientists think that water-ice serves as the mantle of the dwarf planet. The thin, dusty crust is thought to be composed of rock, while a rocky inner core lies at the center. Spectral observations of Ceres from Earth reveals that the surface contains iron-rich clays. Signs of carbonates have similarly been found, making Ceres one of the only bodies in the solar system known to contain these minerals, the other two being Earth and Mars. Formed by a process that involves heat and water, carbonates are considered good potential indicators of habitability. [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]

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Convinced? While that controversy was still raging on, a second one pops up. Images taken by the Dawn spacecraft of the dwarf planet Ceres released on January 19 show a large, flickering white spot on the surface. (image at the top of the page) What could it be? Mission director and chief engineer Marc Rayman gave this unusual statement:

“Yes, we can confirm that it is something on Ceres that reflects more sunlight, but what that is remains a mystery. We do not know what the white spot is, but it’s certainly intriguing. In fact, it makes you want to send a spacecraft there to find out, and of course that is exactly what we are doing! So as Dawn brings Ceres into sharper focus, we will be able to see with exquisite detail what [the white spot] is.”

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WOW, I wonder what NASA will say next?….. if it’s a spaceship!? Hmmm I think that would be expecting just a little too much! There is probably more chance of NASA putting it down as a ‘run away weather balloon’ from planet earth! This in our mind here at UIP HQ is a very strange yet extremely interesting answer off NASA! We just hope nobody else from NASA suddenly ‘goes missing’

In the meantime, two statements in a week from NASA on UFOs means someone is listening. While we have their attention, what do you think the objects are???

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INCROYABLE REVELATION OVNI par la CNN et militaires US

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Roswell Alien Slides To Be Unveiled in May Via a Live Streamed Event

What some say represents stunning visual evidence of a humanoid creature that was found crashed near Roswell, NM in 1947 will soon to be released in an international livestream event. Referred to by some as “the Roswell Slides,” the Kodachrome images have now been authenticated by expert scientists and their provenance has been confirmed. During that long process many have speculated about precisely what these pictures show. People will now be able to see for themselves with the public reveal of the slides on May 5th 2015.

National Auditorium,
Mexico City

The event will include presenters Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the Moon, as well as noted authors and Roswell investigators Tom Carey and Don Schmitt. Transmitted live from the 10,000 seat National Auditorium in Mexico City, the history and background context of the slides (as well as other facets of the case) will be detailed. Tom Carey, who made international news when he announced the discovery of the slides at American University in Washington, DC last month, will be providing more information and logistical details on the event shortly.

Some years ago, while an attic was being cleaned out, a chest was found containing many Kodachrome slides. Two Kodachrome slides were later found to have been
separately hidden in an envelope within the inner lining of the chest’s lid. The chest and its contents were traced and found to have belonged to an intriguing, childless couple that are now deceased.

This author made the discovery that the husband, Bernerd A. Ray, was an Oil Exploration Geologist working the fields in New Mexico and the Permian Basin (which includes the Roswell region) in the 1940s for a company that would later become part of Texaco. In 1947 he was the President of the Texas chapter of the American Institute of Petroleum Geologists, which also at that time ‘folded in’ the State of New Mexico. After 1947, Bernerd became a ‘ghost’ in his profession and did not publish nor appear to be active with the Institute ever again.

Bernerd’s wife was Hilda Blair Ray. Researchers Tom Carey and Don Schmitt and the current owner of the film learned that Hilda was a highly respected lawyer with a high-end clientele and possible intelligence connections. A private pilot, she maintained favorable relations with well-placed individuals in both the public and private sectors during the 1940s. The other slides in the chest (over 100) are often found depicting accomplished people, including Dwight Eisenhower. This is a couple who were of the highest integrity. And both had contacts and activities that could have fortuitously enabled them to obtain these slides. And neither would have been
the type to hide away hoaxed images as part of some sick prank, only to have those images found decades later by happenstance. This busy professional couple was also philanthropic with no propensity to prank.

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New footage leaked! Is This The Real Roswell Alien Footage?

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UFO sighting recorded near a Russian Jet Fighter in January 2015

Amazing video footage of an extremely fast UFO sighting recorded near a Russian jet in January 2015.

Poster said:
Russian UFO Fighter Jet Aircraft, ufo voodoo planes, At a recent airshow in Paris, Russia showed off the manoeuvrability of their latest jet fighters.

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Witte ronde UFO boven Limburg, Nederland ( Video )

Afgelopen zaterdag rond een uur of zes is er een UFO waargenomen en gefilmd in de buurt van de Limburgse plaats Echt.

Ook hier het bekende fenomeen dat een ronde en in dit geval witte UFO ongestoord ronddartelt door de lucht.

Een lezer stuurde het volgende bericht:

Vanavond rond de klok van 18.00u een vreemd licht waargenomen.

Via de skyview app gekeken of er sterren in de buurt van het licht zouden zijn, dit is niet het geval.

Het was nog redelijk licht buiten en er waren geen enkele sterren zichtbaar in mijn gehele gezichtsveld.

Ik heb dit gefilmd, helaas met de hand en door het inzoomen is het beeld erg bewegelijk.

Het waren drie afzonderlijk opnames, die wij in onderstaande video hebben samengevoegd tot één opname.

Wat belangrijk is dat mensen dit soort gebeurtenissen blijven rapporteren, fotograferen en/of filmen.

Er gebeuren steeds meer vreemde dingen in de lucht boven onze hoofden en hoe meer materiaal er beschikbaar is, des te eerder kunnen we misschien het raadsel van de vreemde ronde oranje en/of witte bollen/UFO’s oplossen.

Ook willen wij iedereen vragen alert te blijven op vreemde wolken. Zeker die waarvan het lijkt alsof ze eigenlijk niet in het landschap thuis horen. We weten dat er ook in ons land als wolken vermomde moederschepen en/of portalen naar andere dimensies actief zijn.

De gebeurtenissen in Friesland eind vorig jaar staan nog vers in ons geheugen.

Op alle fronten lijkt 2015 het jaar van verandering te gaan worden. Het zou mooi zijn wanneer we voor het einde ervan gezamenlijk erin slagen om het raadsel van de oranje/witte bollen op te lossen.

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Metallic object flying over San Antonio, Texas 27-Jan-2015

This interesting UFO video of a metallic sphere-like object was filmed over San Antonio in Texas on 27th January 2015.

Witness report: This day was clear no clouds in sight..I notice this bright glowing light traveling at high speeds..So i grabbed my camcorder for a closer observation..When zooming in a Metallic Orb can be observed to be traveling in a Southeastern direction..It appear to reflect the suns rays with a shadow underneath..When zooming out you can clearly see as it travel at high seeds.It seemed to be under some sort of controlled. .You can see it as it travels Horizontal and in a Constant Speed….I did not hear any noise coming from this U.F.O…In my opinion this is a UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT clearly no weather balloon/aircraft or satellite.

Author (SAUFOTX @ youtube)

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Triangle UFO formation over Florida 24-Jan-2015

Here another great UFO sighting from last month. This was filmed on 24th January over West Palm Beach, Florida.

Here’s the TV news report:

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Daytime UFO sighting over Memphis, Tennessee 20-Jan-2015

TV news about this interesting UFO sighting that happened on 20th January 2015. This bizarre bright flying saucer was filmed over Memphis in US state Tennessee.

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Report UFO sighting #190

Midlands, United Kingdom – 23 January 2015
Hi there I wonder if you can help me make sense of these pics i took outside my house in the Midlands, United Kingdom.. only today… it was still light, around 4pm and a little cloudy.. my ten year old daughter spotted these ‘dots’ first on our way out so it’s certainly not my eyes.. The bigger one was floating and changing shape but not traveling or moving really.. just waning and flipping aimlessly.. almost like a limp bird in zero gravity, im sorry if it sounds absurd but its the best way to describe exactly what we saw.. The other dots on the left of them were completely motionless and consistently kept in the formation they were in the pic for some 20 mins that we saw til we stopped looking and continued on our travels.. Please find enclosed the three pics I took and a couple of close ups of those pics… please note on the 3rd pic with the houses in view (from a different angle) u can see some birds just above those houses and they look nothing like those dots just above them.. Anyway thnx in advance if you’ve read this far and I hope u can find a quite logical explanation for this encounter. Also you have to zoom right in and may find in uploading these pics it impedes the quality somewhat..

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UFO mania: Controversial Footage Flying Saucer Public Reacts! Extended-Cut 2015

UFO Sightings Controversial Footage Flying Saucer Public Reacts! Extended-Cut 2015 Callers into Thirdphasefomoon share their opinion on Eds footage of what looks to be a Hostile Looking Flying Saucer. Leave your question to Ed In The Description Below!~

Alien Greys Inside [Hostile] Flying Saucer? 2015 Enhanced Footage!

UFO Sightings Alien Greys Inside [Hostile] Flying Saucer? 2015 Enhanced Footage! Ed Agrees To Take Questions From You The Public In Regards To His Encounters and Videos, Along With His Photographic Evidence. Join The Discussion and Ask Your Question To Ed In The Comments Below! Next Week We Will Submit The Most Thumbs Up Questions To Ed, And In Two Weeks We Hope To Get His Response!

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The Craziest UFO Videos Of January 2015 Watch Now! [Best UFO Footage]

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Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for January 2015

CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In January 2015 there were 721 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;

Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;

If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your  local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.

ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.

If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone.
Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.

Other interesting data points in CMS during January 2015 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;

as well as the distance from the observer;

Most impressively there were 26 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 0 Entities observed.

To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.

I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System.
For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.

Thank you!

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10 Unbelievably Insane UFO Conspiracy Theories

Thanks to never-ending reports of encounters and sightings, UFOs are easily one of the most recognized and well-known icons of modern pop culture. In fact, the fascination has even spawned whole religions with UFOs and aliens as the centerpiece. Of course, we also mustn’t forget the different UFO conspiracy theories being continuously peddled by people who either really want to know the truth or are just plain wacko. In any case, it’s certain that these conspiracy theories will never go out of style, especially when most of them are just downright insane.

10.There Is An Alien Satellite Hovering Over Earth

This conspiracy theory states that a 13,000-year-old satellite called the Black Knight is orbiting our planet. As the story goes, Nikola Tesla was the first man to discover its existence after he began receiving radio signals in 1899 which he believed came from space, a claim also made by amateur radio operators in the early 20th century. Later on, newspaper reports in the 1950s and ’60s detailing the discovery of a mysterious object in space coupled with supposed photographic evidence helped to fuel belief in the Black Knight’s existence.

If this supposed satellite really does exist, then why is it there? According to Scottish writer Duncan Lunan, the Black Knight satellite is actually a space probe that contains a map to a faraway alien planet called Epsilon Bootis, and the unidentified radio signals are in fact an attempt by those inhabitants to communicate with humans. Although skeptics have sought to debunk the alien satellite as nothing more than space junk or debris, believers have continued to insist otherwise.

9. MacArthur And Alien Warfare In The Future

Did Douglas MacArthur, the man who led the US against the Japanese and later the Koreans and Chinese, foresee a future war against aliens? According to a supposed speech he made in 1955, MacArthur warned that all countries of the Earth should unite, because the next war would involve humanity against aliens from other planets. Conspiracy theorists closely tie the general’s statements with his alleged involvement in the creation of the ambiguous Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, a government agency supposedly tasked with investigating mysterious UFO crashes in the 1950s and which was later absorbed by the Air Force. As the story goes, the IPU’s findings that UFOs constituted a threat to national and global security was what prompted MacArthur to render his speech.

MacArthur’s statements, although somewhat sensationalized later on by the media, nonetheless manifested his belief that someday in the future, all of us might experience a real-life version of Independence Day.

8. The US Government Secretly Sent Astronauts To Another Planet

According to this conspiracy theory, the administration of President JFK—and, later, Johnson—allegedly sent astronauts to a faraway planet called Serpo. The ambitious project began after the US government supposedly saved the life of an alien whose spacecraft crashed in Roswell. In return, the grateful alien established an exchange program with the government and made arrangements for two spaceships to pick it up along with a dozen specially trained astronauts in 1965. After 37 light-years, the astronauts finally reached Serpo and spent more than a decade learning about the planet and its inhabitants, a race called Ebens. 

According to them, the Ebens numbered more than 600,000 but lived in a peaceful, government-free community. After 13 years, the team finally returned to Earth four members short after two of them died and another two chose to stay on Serpo. Unfortunately, there are no surviving members of the team today, as all of them supposedly succumbed to the high radiation levels brought on by the two suns of Serpo.

7. Jesus Was An Alien

Remember the belief that the gods that ancient people worshiped and revered were actually aliens? If that theory is to be believed, then Jesus might have also been one, a fact that is supposedly being suppressed by the Church. As the theory goes, all the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ life hinted at extraterrestrial origins. His “virgin birth,” for instance, could be attributed to aliens artificially inseminating Mary, which in turn would explain why he could perform miraculous feats as well as communicate with otherworldly beings such as angels (who themselves were actually aliens).

Believers also point to Jesus’ statements that he was “not of this world” as hints of his real heritage. The theory goes on to say that after his resurrection, Jesus was beamed up into a spaceship and that the Catholic Church later suppressed the rest of the details by marking books such as the Epistles of the Apostles as apocryphal.

6. The US Battled Nazi UFOs In Antarctica And Lost

Although the official explanation for the unprecedented US expedition to Antarctica in 1946 was to map out the area and deny the Soviets a foothold at the same time, conspiracy theorists believe that the voyage itself was really a secret operation to track down a hidden Nazi base. According to them, the surviving Nazis—including Hitler, in some versions—escaped to their fortress in the frozen wasteland with the help of advanced UFO technology. The US, armed with this information, then mounted a clandestine military campaign against them but were decisively defeated and forced to retreat.

In reality, it was actually the bad weather that compelled the US expedition to leave the area. However, that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists (especially neo-Nazis) from celebrating the “victory” and continuing to hold out on the hope that a fleet of Nazi UFOs will one day come out of Antarctica and start World War II.

5. The US Has A Secret Space Fleet

Remember Gary McKinnon, the notorious Scottish hacker whom the US tried to unsuccessfully extradite after he broke into the military’s database in search of evidence of UFO activity? According to his supporters, the reason for the “extraordinary” persecution that McKinnon has been facing is because he did discover something in the US military’s files, namely a secret space program called the Solar Warden.

According to them, the US is merely using NASA as a front to maintain a fleet of spaceships secretly floating in orbit. This fleet, which is also jointly led by the United Nations and counts several nationalities among its crew, is supposedly mandated to protect the Earth and the rest of the solar system from evil local terrorists and interstellar groups. As to how the US managed to get the technology, it was supposedly provided by an age-old group of extraterrestrial civilizations called “Star Nations” who also charged the country with leading this secret fleet.

4. The 2012 Olympics Alien Invasion Conspiracy

While the rest of the world was too busy rooting for their teams during the 2012 Olympics, fringe groups everywhere were preparing for what they believed to be an impending alien invasion. In reality, however, this unexpected invasion would be nothing more than a gigantic ruse perpetrated by a super-alliance of Freemasons, Rothschilds, Illuminati, and every other shadowy group in existence. Their goal would be the establishment of the New World Order, which would be headed by none other than Prince William.

As evidence for this massive conspiracy, believers pointed to London’s two alien-like Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville, which organizers unveiled years earlier as proof that the plan had been set in motion. They also pointed to various locations in London with biblical names such as Great Eastern Road and Temple Mills Lane which would be utilized heavily by the conspirators. Although the Olympics came and went without much incident, conspiracy theorists insisted that the only reason why it didn’t happen was because the “forces of good” prevailed over the evil schemers.

3. A UFO Abducted Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

On par with some of the most eerily mysterious cases of missing planes, the baffling disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has spawned a host of conspiracy theories seeking to explain how a massive plane that was guided and tracked by modern technology could have inexplicably vanished into thin air on March 8, 2014. One of the most bizarre theories, however, is the one stating that a UFO abducted the plane in mid-flight.

According to those who advocate this theory, their claims are supported by the head of the Malaysian air force, Rodzali Daud, who reportedly stated that their radar had picked up the signal of an “unidentified flying object” near the area before the plane went missing. They also cited the virtual lack of debris as proof of the alien abduction. Even more frightening is the fact that 1 in 10 Americans apparently believe this theory, according to a survey conducted by CNN.

2. The Plan To Deceive The World With A Hologram

Remember that strange event in 2009 when a mysterious blue light formed a gigantic spiral over the night sky of Norway? Although explanations ranged from a unique version of the northern lights to a Russian missile test gone awry, conspiracy theorists held that it was yet another failed attempt at executing Project Blue Beam. According to its original proponent, the deceased conspiracy theorist Serge Monast, Project Blue Beam was a joint effort by the US military, the UN, DARPA, NASA, and the University of Alaska to develop futuristic technology that would allow them to usher in a New World Order.

The multi-step process to taking over the world would include scaring people all over the planet with a huge holographic display of an alien invasion while at the same time projecting the image of a deity who would promise salvation to them. After everyone presumably bowed and surrendered everything to this godlike figure, the conspirators—having successfully broken the will of the people to fight back—would then implement the New World Order.

1. The CIA Killed JFK To Prevent Him From Knowing The ‘Truth’

Of all the crazy conspiracy theories surrounding JFK’s death, this one takes the cake. According to this theory, Kennedy—who reportedly experienced a UFO sighting himself sometime in 1963—demanded just 10 days before his assassination that the CIA give him full disclosure in their investigations on these “unidentified flying objects” and then share all the information with NASA. The end goal for the disclosure, he envisioned, was to put Soviet fears of American espionage to rest—and perhaps even persuade them to join the US in a joint exploration program. The CIA then and there decided to have him killed off.

The conspiracy theory itself would be dismissed as wildly crazy were it not for the existence of the document known as the “burned memo.” Allegedly revealed by someone identifying himself as ex-CIA, the partially burned paper—which contains the alleged CIA instructions to assassinate Kennedy for sticking his nose where it didn’t belong—has helped to encourage the view that t{ he CIA never wanted JFK to know the truth. Of course, it’s highly likely that the burned memo is a fake, making this one of the craziest theories ever.

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02-02-2015 om 01:02 geschreven door peter  

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Ufologists say they have spotted a UFO in a NASA photo from the 1969 Apollo 10 mission. The UFO appears in the old NASA photo as a “large object” in orbit around Earth.

The Apollo 10 mission was the “dress rehearsal” for the Apollo 11 mission. The mission is best remembered in the UFO community as the one during which the crew of the Apollo Command Module captured on camera one of the most famous and mysterious UFOs in human spaceflight history — the so-called “moon pigeons” that NASA scientists and engineers remain unable to explain.

The YouTube UFO hunter Streetcap1, who made the latest Apollo 10 UFO discovery and posted images to his YouTube channel on January 31, 2015, describes the UFO as a “large object found on old NASA photo.”

UFO Sightings Daily’s Scot Waring, describes it as a “classic UFO” with a “bulging center.”

“Caught in orbit around Earth during an Apollo 10 mission, this UFO looks awfully close to the Apollo module. The photo was taken in July of 1969 and shows a solid craft in high orbit. Notice the bulging center of the craft… much like we hear about in classic UFO reports.”

The video shows the UFO as it appears in the original NASA photo and also close-ups provided by Streetcap1. The UFO appears in orbit around Earth with a distinct and translucent oval bulge in the center.

Large UFO in Apollo 10 NASA Photo

Close-up Of UFO In Apollo 10 NASA Photo

Was it a man-made satellite in orbit around Earth in 1969?

As ufologists point out, there weren’t many man-made objects in orbit around Earth in 1969, and there certainly weren’t any of that size at the time.

Close-up Of UFO In Apollo 10 NASA Photo

Is this yet another photo glitch? You may examine the photo and close-ups carefully and come to an independent conclusion.

Apollo 10 was NASA’s fourth manned mission in the Apollo program launched on May 18, 1969. The mission was designated as an “F mission,” that is, a “dress rehearsal” for a future landing on the moon.

The mission crew included Commander Thomas P. Stafford, Command Module Pilot John W. Young, and Lunar Module Pilot Eugene A. Cernan.

Flying in the Lunar Module (LM), Cernan and Young approached the lunar surface at a distance of 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km), a critical point at which powered descent to the lunar surface commences.

The close approach allowed the mission to test landing systems and procedures ahead of actual landing in the July, 1969 Apollo 11 mission. The Apollo 10 mission accomplished the task of calibrating the landing systems, ahead of the Apollo 11 mission.

The close approach also allowed the crew to map the lunar surface in search of a safe landing spot for the Apollo 11 mission.

This is not the first time that a UFO sighting has been reported in connection with the Apollo 10 mission. Probably the best known during the Apollo 10 mission was the so-called “moon pigeons” UFO sighting which occurred after the Lunar Module, carrying Stafford and Cernan, approached the lunar surface.

While trying to secure a radar lock to help the Lunar Module dock back to the Command Module, the transponders malfunctioned. During the anxious moments that followed, the Command Module’s color TV camera filming the Lunar Module’s descent from above (see video) captured a white bird-like object moving across the lunar surface. The object, with the aerodynamic shape of a flying craft with wings, was observed briefly but clearly before it disappeared.

And soon after the sighting, the computers began functioning normally again and the Lunar Module was able to dock back to the Command Module despite a moment of fright in which the module spun widely and almost crashed due to an error by the crew.

ET and UFO researchers have speculated about the “moon pigeons” sighting, with many suggesting that it was an alien UFO trying to warn humans to stay away from the moon.

The latest UFO sighting by Streetcap1 could only further establish the conviction in the UFO community that an alien civilization was monitoring humanity’s early space flights.

[Images: NASA, UFO Sightings Daily]

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02-02-2015 om 00:46 geschreven door peter  

Would ET Notice Nuke Blasts Out There? Mr. Printy Says No!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riReXFRT3Hg

02-02-2015 om 00:29 geschreven door peter