Mysterious Extraterrestrial Anomaly In The Western Skies (Video)

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News lines and websites lite up as an unidentified flying objects was seen in the skies of Utah, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, California and Canada on February 24 2015.

Patrick Wiggins, NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador to Utah, said that the object was a rocket body used in the launch of Yaogan Weixing-26, a Chinese satellite, which was launched in December 2014,

It’s hard to believe the strange anomaly is the rocket body or a part of it. If you compare the Chinese rocket body entering the atmosphere with this anomaly we see two completely different objects in the sky.

See HERE the videos of the rocket body entering the atmosphere.

Could this be extraterrestrial in nature or possibly a dimensional anomaly such as a wormhole? Or is there a logical explanation? One thing is for sure, it’s not a meteor..

KSL-TV photographer Mark Wetzel captured amazing footage of the anomaly as it passed over northern Utah.

  

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26-02-2015 om 14:27 geschreven door peter  

Skyline cam catches UFO over Donetsk, Ukraine 24-Feb-2015

An unidentified light hovered over Donetsk’s skyline on Tuesday evening. Earlier in the day, anti-Kiev forces withdrew heavy artillery 50 kilometres (31 miles) away from the line of engagement in the Donetsk region, line with the latest Minsk peace agreement.

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26-02-2015 om 14:20 geschreven door peter  

Witness describes hovering cigar UFO over Olympia

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The witness first saw the UFO as he was driving near the post office along Jefferson Street, Olympia, WA, about 11 a.m. on February 23, 2015. (Credit: Google)

A Washington witness at Olympia reported watching a white, hovering, cigar-shaped craft that made sharp turns and fired bright light flashes beginning about 11 a.m. on February 23, 2015, according to testimony in Case 63541 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness spotted the hovering object with no wings, tail or rotors that made no sound and had no condensation trail behind it.

“The movement of the cigar-shaped, white object was so slow that it appeared to be simply floating along at perhaps about 30-40 mph,” the witness stated. “There’s a possibility it may have been a drone – I’ve not seen all the types of drones the military has these days, and there is a base nearby, so who knows? It could have been ours, but maybe it wasn’t.”

The witness had just pulled out of a post office parking lot on Jefferson Street and turned right heading north.

As the object moved away, it appeared to release bright flashes of light. Pictured: Olympia, WA, as seen from the International Space Station. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

“After one block Jefferson Street makes a curve to the northwest and as I was looking ahead during the curve – first gorgeous blue sky day we’ve had in a while – a white cylindrical shape in the distant sky caught my attention.”

The witness aid the object did not “look like a normal airplane.”

“It was long, cylindrical, no wings, tail or rotors, no windows as far as I could tell. It was hard to tell how far away it was – I would guess perhaps anywhere from 1.5 to 2 miles away. Elevation (guessing again) may have been ono-half to one mile high. It’s really hard to tell as there was nothing to triangulate it with.”

The witness is a pilot, but has not flown in years. He pulled over to the side of the road for a better look. The witness was able to see the object for about three to five minutes.

“From my viewpoint it was to my west-northwest, and was headed south, maybe a tweak to the southwest, moving very slowly, silently, for about one minute of my watch time, when suddenly it veered sharply to its right – due west – so now all I could see was the dot of its circumference.”

The witness then noticed flashes of light coming from the object.

“The whiteness of the object was getting dimmer as it moved further west, and suddenly I noticed a bright pomegranate-colored flash below it to the south, and then another less brilliant flash a little further away, and then a third even dimmer and further still away. They were like light flashes, nothing exploding, not flares, and were all in a single southern and lower trajectory from the craft.”

The witness continued to watch the object as he drove along Washington Street where it makes a loop in a northwest direction. (Credit: Google)

Then the craft moved again.

“A few seconds later the craft made an abrupt turn and was longwise to my view again, pointing south. It seemed to just hover there for maybe 10 seconds, and did not proceed further south. Then it abruptly turned west again and within a few seconds there was another brilliant flash off the side of the craft – a brilliant whitish-green, electric colored flash – white on the far side, greener closer to the craft. That flash was fan-shaped, different that the burst of round light previously seen. The fanned-out part of the white-green flash was away from the craft, while the narrow part of the fan-shape was right near the craft.”

The longer the witness watched at this point, the object moved further away until it was out of sight.

Olympia is the capital of the State of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County, population 46,478.

Washington is currently a UFO Alert Level 5 – with 0.87 sightings per million population based on MUFON January 2015 statistics. Washington received a total of six UFO reports in January.
The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 4.01 or higher reports per million residents are rated an Alert 1; 3.01 – 4.0 reports are an Alert 2; 2.51 – 3.0 are an Alert 3; 2.01 – 2.5 are an Alert 4; and those states with 2.0 or lower are rated an Alert 5.

Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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26-02-2015 om 01:07 geschreven door peter  

Family Alien Abduction In Massachusetts         

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FAMILY ALIEN ABDUCTION IN MASSACHUSETTS
 1966  …….   SHEFFIELD MASSACHUSETTS

 It’s 1966, and 6-year-old Thomas Reed is in his bedroom on his family’s horse farm in the Berkshires when the encounters begin.  Strange lights. Strange figures in the hallway. Suddenly, he’s in the woods near his home looking at a UFO. Then he and his younger brother, Matthew, are inside the craft. He’s shown a projection of a willow tree.  The following year, there is another incident at their home on Boardman Street in Sheffield. More strange lights. The sound of doors slamming. Then the boys are back inside the vessel. The next thing Thomas knows, he’s in his driveway being scooped up by his mother, who has been searching frantically for the boys on horseback.  Two years later, the family is driving on Route 7 when they see strange lights in the sky. Their car stalls, and then Thomas and his brother and mother and grandmother find themselves in a giant room. He is brought to meet two strange, ant-like figures, then placed in some sort of cage. Next thing, he’s back near the car.  Reed has told these stories many times, and it has not always gone well. But recently, his tale had found recognition in an unlikely place. The Great Barrington Historical Society & Museum has formally inducted the UFO story. 
 

What does that mean? “It means that we believe it is true,” said Debbie Oppermann, the director of the society.  “I know we’re going to get a lot of backlash. We’re going to get hammered,” she said. “But we have given it an awful lot of thought, and, based on the evidence we’ve been given, we believe this is a significant and true event.”  The historical society believes it is the first time a “mainstream” historical society or museum in the United States has declared a UFO encounter to be historical fact. But the decision was far from unanimous; of the nine members of the historical society’s board, three were “strongly opposed” to the decision, Oppermann said, but “it passed with consensus.”  The Reed case already has its own display in the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M.; now, it’s about to get one in Great Barrington, about 2 miles from where the alleged encounters took place.  That most interests the historical society is the 1969 encounter, because dozens of people in the area reported seeing an unidentified flying object around that time, typically described as a disk-shaped craft performing acrobatic maneuvers in the sky. Many of those eyewitnesses called the local radio station, WSBS, which covered the sightings. (The radio station has provided documentation to the historical society, which interviewed one of those eyewitnesses. They have also examined a polygraph test taken by Thomas Reed.)
Director Debbie Oppermann says the Great Barrington Historical Society believes the Reed family story of having been abducted by aliens in 1969 is true, in part because dozens of people reported seeing a UFO at that time.

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26-02-2015 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

Whitby Councillor Reveals An Alien Race Influences President Putin’s Decisions In The Ukraine Conflict

Alien race known as Nordics influences Putin, according to Councillor Simon Parkes during his talk in Wallsend.

Labour councillor Simon Parkes told a group of around 30 people in Wallsend, North Tyneside that there’s extraterrestrial intervention in Eastern Europe’s recent hostilities.

Coun Parkes, who previously made headlines after claiming that he had hundreds of alien encounters in his life, blamed a race of aliens he called the Nordics for Russia’s aggression in the Ukraine.

The North Yorkshire councillor said that Putin has gotten support from Nordics against perceived U.S. influences in the area.

He revealed that Putin had been one of those people advised by reptiles, but Nordics made a counter offer to the Russian president.

Parkes further claimed that Nordics’ technology is equal with the U.S. The Nordics, according to Parkes, told Putin that he doesn’t need to grant anymore what the Americans requested him to do.

The Whitby councillor also made another shocking claim to the audience at The Vault when he said that his legal father (in the eyes of the universal law) is a reptile.

Ahead of the session, Coun Parkes, who represents Stakesby, had made a comment about the video reportedly taken on Tyneside. It apparently shows a UFO hovering above the North Sea.

Parkes said that the video appears very genuine and the UFO looks like a diamond-shape alien craft to him.

Referring to the video, he said that it’s weird the aircraft remained there for so long. For him, the craft wanted to be seen. Looking at the video, Parkes believes it depicts alien life.

Coun Parkes also actuated controversy in 2013 when he claimed that he lost his virginity to an extraterrestrial at the age of five. But Parkes further claimed that this was not the first time he experienced alien life. The councillor said that when he was in his mother’s womb, he first experienced extraterrestrial life, and he has sexual dealings with an alien group at a maximum of four times a year.

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26-02-2015 om 00:57 geschreven door peter  

Navy Veteran Observes Large Cigar-Shaped UFO in Exeter, NH

Date: July 20, 2005

Location: Exeter, New Hampshire, United States

There was something odd in the sky last week, something that caused a Navy veteran with 10,000 hours of flight experience to have his own close encounter.   While preparing to mow his lawn, "David" saw a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky.  He said it was about the size of two USS Nimitz aircraft carriers.

                                

An artist's rendering of the reported UFO sighting in Exeter. Image courtesy of Angela Gram (printed in Exeter News-Letter)

                                  

An artist's rendering depicts what "David" saw in the sky on Wednesday, July 20, from his Exeter home. The picture shows a large object shaped like a "silver cigar," as David says it appeared just before the object vanished - twice the size at which he first viewed it, with flames billowing underneath.  Image courtesy of Angela Gram (printed in Exeter News-Letter)

Classification & Features

Type of Case/Report: PressReport        
Hynek Classification: DD        
Shape of Object(s): Cigar         
Special Features/Characteristics: Portholes/Windows         

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UFO saga continues

Exeter News-Letter (Exeter, New Hampshire), July 29, 2005

  There has been a considerable response to Tuesday’s article in the News-Letter about a recent UFO sighting. Interested local residents and skeptics joined UFO enthusiasts commenting from throughout the nation. R              

‘Odds are there’s intelligent life outside of Earth’

Exeter News-Letter (Exeter, New Hampshire), July 31, 2005

  There’s been a flurry of responses to the Exeter man who witnessed what he described as a silver-cigar shaped object in the day’s sky on July 20.  R              

Filer's Files: 'New Hampshire UFO Mother ship'

National UFO Reporting Center / Filer's Files

  An Instructor Flight Engineer on the P3 Orion and EP-3 Reconnaissance aircraft with 10,000 hours of flight time called Peter Davenport to report, "An enormous silver cigar shaped object in the sky at about a 40 degree angle above the horizon about 3:15 PM, on July 20, 2005." R              

East Kingston woman reports second UFO sighting

Adam Dolge, Exeter News-Letter (Exeter, New Hampshire, USA), August 2, 2005

  It’s happened again. An East Kingston resident said she saw a "silver-cigar" shaped object in a daytime sky last week.  This report comes about a week after a 48-year-old Navy veteran claimed to have seen a similar object. R              

Man Reports Seeing UFO Over Exeter - Artist Makes Drawing Based On Man's Description

WMUR News 9, New Hampshire

  Artist Angela Gram met with the man who said that he saw the object on a recent afternoon.  Gram created a rendering of the object based on the man's description. She said that his story was believable. R              

Original Witness report filed with National UFO Reporting Center

NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center), Peter Davenport,d Director

  "I’ve flown over the entire globe and never have I ever seen anything like I saw on the afternoon of July 20, 2005 at approximately 3:15 PM." R

Full Report / Article

Source: Exeter News-Letter (Exeter, New Hampshire), July 26, 2005       
[go to original source]                

        "UFO sighting in Exeter - again"

Exeter News-Letter, July 26, 2005
By Adam Dolge 

EXETER - There was something odd in the sky last week, something that caused a Navy veteran with 10,000 hours of flight experience to have his own close encounter. 

The former flight engineer, who wished to be identified only as "David," said of the experience, "this was like nothing I’ve ever seen before." 

What the retired Navy chief petty officer said he saw last Wednesday could only be classified as a UFO, an unidentified flying object. 

It was a bright and sunny afternoon, about 3:15 p.m., and David was outside preparing his lawnmower. He had filled the mower with gas, checked the oil, and took a sip from a glass of water he had poured. When he tilted his head back to get the final sip, through the bottom of the glass he saw a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky. 

David said windows were equally spaced around the object, however he didn’t see anyone or anything inside. The size of the object was enormous. By comparison, he said, consider what an ultralight plane would look like next to a Boeing 747. He said it was about the size of two USS Nimitz aircraft carriers. 

At first glance, through his empty glass of water he thought it could have been the Hood blimp. "But, the instant I put my glass down, I said, ‘that’s not a blimp.’" 

The object moved from west to east, very slowly for something that size, he said. His initial instinct was that the object was moving at about 100 knots, but something that big shouldn’t be able to stay in the air if it’s going that slow, he said. 

The object began changing colors from a bright silver to an orange-ish red. A strange cloud of red and orange flames began surrounding the object, and before he knew it the object stretched out like a rubber band. It grew to about twice its original size, and then it was gone. 

The entire incident lasted about 10 minutes, he recalled Monday morning, but he is unaware of the specific time because, "it felt like time stopped." 

He went into his house and first thought to call the police. He decided not to because he didn’t think they’d take him seriously. So he went on the Internet and searched for "report UFO," and found the Web site for the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center. 

Peter Davenport, director of the UFO reporting center, said David’s report was astonishing because of his history with flight. "I have no question on his reliability." 

He said he gets several accounts each year, but this one stood out. The report was well written and scientific, Davenport said. 

"In my view, that’s one of the cardinal rules of an account," he said. 

The center was founded in 1974 by UFO investigator Robert Gribble. The center’s Web site, www.nuforc.org, has a large list of UFO sightings. According to the site, the center’s primary function is to receive, record, and to the greatest degree possible, corroborate and document reports from individuals who have witnessed possible UFOs. David’s report, which will soon be on the Web site, will be among dozens of documented sightings to be formally reported to the center. 

Not the first time 

The Exeter area is no stranger to UFO sightings. In 1965, two Exeter police officers and hitchhiker Norman Muscarello, who was with them, gained national attention after seeing a UFO hovering over Route 101 in Kensington. The sighting was documented in a book called "The Incident at Exeter." 

And then there was the incident involving Barney and Betty Hill, a husband and wife from Portsmouth who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. The couple was driving from a vacation in Canada in 1961 when they saw a UFO. 

The object moved directly over their car, and before they knew it they grew drowsy. They later claimed to have been abducted by aliens and gave identical accounts while they were hypnotized. 

But for this recent sighting, David said he believes that there is life beyond Earth. He said the galaxy is so enormous, it’s hard to believe humans are the only intelligent life. 

"To the point of not being obnoxious, it’d be egocentric to think there is no other life out there." 

Case ID: 361

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26-02-2015 om 00:42 geschreven door peter  

Fort Dix / McGuire AFB Case

Date: January 18, 1978
Location: Fort Dix/McGuire AFB, New Jersey, United States

The primary eyewitness in the case, Jeffrey Morse, alleged (i) that he had been working as a security policeman at McGuire AFB when he was notified about UFO activity over Fort Dix army base. (ii) Morse alleged that he heard that a non-human entity had been shot and he later saw the dead body of the entity lying on the ground on a disused runway at McGuire AFB.

                                

Reconstruction of the Fort Dix incident. (credit: Michael Hesemann)

                                  

Eyewitness sketch of the dead extraterrestrial. (credit: Hesemann)

                                  

Eyewitness sketch of the base. (credit: Hesemann)

Classification & Features

Type of Case/Report: MajorCase        
Hynek Classification: CE3        
Special Features/Characteristics: Military, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Sketch         

More Articles on this Case

Alien Being Shot Dead by MPs - Fort Dix/McGuire Case Directory

NICAP website (Francis Ridge)

Preliminary Investigation into the Alleged Fatal Shooting of a Non-Human Entity at Fort Dix/McGuire Air Force Base

NIDS, National Institute for Discovery Science (Roger Pinson & Eric Davis)

  NIDS conducted a preliminary investigation into the alleged January 18, 1978 fatal shooting of a non-human (?alien?) entity at Fort Dix/McGuire AFB in New Jersey.               

The Fatal Encounter at Fort Dix/McGuire: A Case Study (Status Report IV)

Leonard Stringfield

  The source, a sergeant in the Air Force Security Police at McGuire AFB, adds substantive information relative to the reported fatal encounter on January 18, 1978, between an alleged alien entity and a Ft. Dix MP and relates his firsthand observation, while on duty, when the slain entity was found on an abandoned runway at McGuire AFB.               

Running Code: The Night the Alien Died

Richard Hall

  Here is the story of the incident that literally changed the life of a conscientious young air policeman who was carrying on a family tradition of police service.              

Alien Being Shot Dead by MPs

Richard Hall

  Brief overview / summary of the case.

Full Report / Article

Source: NIDS, National Institute for Discovery Science        

        The primary eyewitness in the case, Jeffrey Morse, alleged (i) that he had been working as a security policeman at McGuire AFB at 03.00 on January 18, 1978 when he was notified about UFO activity over Fort Dix army base that adjoined McGuire AFB. (ii) Morse alleged that he heard that a non-human entity had been shot and he later saw the dead body of the entity lying on the ground on a disused runway at McGuire AFB. (iii) The scene was rapidly cordoned off and the body was crated and flown to Wright-Patterson AFB (WPAFB) for examination. (iv)Morse himself, two days after the shooting incident, was allegedly summoned to WPAFB and interrogated about the event. He was warned to keep quiet and shortly thereafter was transferred to Okinawa, Japan. 

(NIDS - National Institute for Discovery Science)

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Letter from sergeant Morse summarizing his experience and the incident:

In January of 1978, I was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ. One evening, during the time frame of 0300hrs and 0500hrs., there were a number of UFO sightings in the area over the air field and Ft. Dix Army camp. I am a security policeman and was on routine patrol at the time. N.J. State Police, and Ft. Dix MPs were running code in the direction of Brownsville, NJ. A state trooper then entered gate #5 at the rear of the base requesting assistance and permission to enter. I was dispatched and the trooper wanted access to the runway area which led to the very back of the air field and connected with a heavily wooded area which is part of the Dix training area. He informed me that a Ft. Dix MP was pursueing (sic) a low flying object which then hovered over his car. He described it as oval shaped, with no details, and glowing with a blueish (sic) green color. His radio transmission was cut off. At that time in front of his police car, appeared a thing, about 4ft tall, grayish (sic), brown, fat head, long arms, and slender body. The MP panicked and fired five rounds from his .45 Cal into the thing, and one round into the object above. The object then fled straight up and joined with eleven others high in the sky. This we all saw but didn?t know the details at the time. Anyway, the thing ran into the woods towards our fenceline and they wanted to look for it. By this time several patrols were involved. 

We found the body of the thing near the runway. It had apparently climbed the fence and died while running. It was all of a sudden hush-hush and no one was allowed near the area. We roped off the area and AF OSI came out and took over. That was the last I saw of it. There was a bad stench coming from it too. Like ammonia smelling but it wasn?t constent (sic) in the air. That day, a team from Wright-Patterson AFB came in a C141 and went to the area. They crated it in a wooden box, sprayed something over it, and then put it into a bigger metal container. They loaded it in the plane and took off. That was it, nothing more was said, no report made and we were all told not to have anything to say about it or we would be court martialed. 

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Morse, in subsequent conversations, revealed that two days after the incident he and others on duty at the scene were summoned to Wright Patterson AFB for interrogation, and each was transferred promptly to a separate base overseas. 

The Fort Dix/McGuire case was also of interest because a prominent UFO investigator, George Filer, claimed to have been present at McGuire AFB on the morning of January 18, 1978. Mr. Filer told NIDS that he witnessed a commotion with red lights on one of the disused runways at McGuire when he arrived on the base at 4:00 AM. He further claimed that he heard from a Senior Master Sergeant at McGuire command post on the same morning that (i) UFO activity had been sighted by the control tower and on radar at neighboring Fort Dix and (ii) an alien had been shot that morning and that it had been found dead on the runway at McGuire.  

Case ID: 317

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26-02-2015 om 00:34 geschreven door peter  

Top 10 Ancient Gadgets! # 6 you probably already recognize

February 25, 2015 - Nowadays, we are extremely proud of the existent technology and we have come to rely on it for various things. But what was it like hundreds of years ago? What was technology for the cultures existent back then? Well, as history and archeological findings have shown us, they did have technology and, of course, ancient gadgets. Let’s check out the top 10 gadgets of the ancient world.

#1 Antikythera Mechanism

Made almost 2000 years ago, the Antikythera Mechanism is believed to be one of the oldest computers in the world. Found in the ruins of a ship, it was considered for a long time to be clock but recent discoveries have demonstrated it could do so much more. Originating from Greece, this ancient gadget had the ability to predict when a solar eclipse would happen and even could organize the calendar in cycles of four years.

#2 The Coso Artifact

The fact that you would find a spark plug is nothing special. But what happens when that spark plug is actually embedded in hard rock, one that dates from as long as 500.000 years ago? The Coso Artifact has disappeared and it is not to be studied using modern technology. There are three suppositions however when it comes to its origins: one, that it was made by an extremely intelligent ancient civilization such as Atlantis; two, that it came from the future and three, that it is of alien origin.

#3 Baigong Pipes

Located on top of Mountain Baigong, the Baigong pipes lead directly into a pyramid. The interesting thing about these rusty pipes is that no signs of civilizations in the area has ever been unearthed there. This means that the reason for which these have been made is still unknown. However, they are of an uniform size and they do have a special pattern, a salt lake being situated in their close vicinity.

#4 Ancient Sandstone Xylophone

 The link between humans and music is older than any of us can imagine. In the early 20th century, scientists have discovered these ancient sandstones and they believed them to have been used for grinding grains. It took a lot of time and a fortunate accident before their real purpose was discovered; it seems that this ancient gadget is actually a musical instrument, this being discovered by accident by an archaeologist.

#5 Roman Dodecahedra

 While there are many fascinating Roman artifacts that can easily pose as ancient gadgets, this is by far one of the best. Amazingly enough, it was found in several countries, including Germany, France and Switzerland. Even though many archaeologists have tried to study it, no clear purpose was identified. They were able to identify certain symbols on it there are related to the Zodiac but they are not certain whether it was used for surveying or it just had a decorative purpose.

#6 Mystery airplanes

 Discovered in Columbia, these figurines are believed to have been made by a tribe named Quimbaya, somewhere around 1000 CE. The resemblance to an airplane is uncanny, as they have tails, landing gears and wings just like any modern day plane. Scientists have rebuilt models after them only to prove that they worked. There are some scientists who say that these are only stylized fish or insects.

#7 The Phaistos Disc

 This ancient gadget is made from clay and it is believed to date back to the second millennium. Just like other ancient gadgets, its origin is unknown and so is the meaning or the intent purpose. The disc has been unearthed in Crete and it has a wide array of symbols imprinted on it, some of which have been identified as people, animals, tools or plants.

#8 Byzantine Tablet

While we rely on modern tablets for a lot of things, so did the people from Byzantine culture rely on their ancient gadgets. This tablet is comprised of five panels that are stacked together and each of them has a frame and a wax coating. It is believed that they were used for making note on inventories or appraisals.

#9 Baghdad Battery

Perhaps this is one of the strangest ancient gadgets to have ever been discovered. While it is clearly a battery, it does not explain why would people who lived in the ancient world need it. It was found in Iraq in 1936 and ever since then scientists have constructed replicas in order to prove that it actually works.

#10 Dropa Stones

These stones are unique ancient gadgets and many people have said they belong to an ancient or alien culture. They were discovered on a burial site in the Himalayan mountains and each of these stones is actually a one-foot wide disc, with a simple hole in the center. The interesting thing about these is that they are extremely old; scientists have placed them to have existed as far as 12.000 years ago.

Modern day gadgets are extremely useful for us. And maybe it was just like that for ancient cultures, relying on the gadgets presented above for every day living. 

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25-02-2015 om 23:32 geschreven door peter  

Demonic Alien Abductions 

              by Paul Schroeder

25-02-2015 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

Should Humanity Try to Contact Alien Civilizations?

Some researchers want to use big radio dishes like the 305-meter Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to announce our presence to intelligent aliens.

credit: Arecibo Observatory/NSF

Is it time to take the search for intelligent aliens to the next level?

For more than half a century, scientists have been scanning the heavens for signals generated by intelligent alien life. They haven't found anything conclusive yet, so some researchers are advocating adding an element called "active SETI" (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) — not just listening, but also beaming out transmissions of our own designed to catch aliens' eyes.

Active SETI "may just be the approach that lets us make contact with life beyond Earth," Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, said earlier this month during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Jose. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]

Vakoch envisions using big radio dishes such as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to blast powerful, information-laden transmissions at nearby stars, in a series of relatively cheap, small-scale projects.

"Whenever any of the planetary radar folks are doing their asteroid studies, and they have an extra half an hour before or after, there's always a target star readily available that they can shift to without a lot of extra slough time," he said.

The content of any potential active SETI message is a subject of considerable debate. If it were up to astronomer Seth Shostak, Vakoch's SETI Institute colleague, we'd beam the entire Internet out into space.

"It's like sending a lot of hieroglyphics to the 19th century — they [aliens] can figure it out based on the redundancy," Shostak said during the AAAS discussion. "So, I think in terms of messages, we should send everything."

While active SETI could help make humanity's presence known to extrasolar civilizations, the strategy could also aid the more traditional "passive" search for alien intelligence, Shostak added.

"If you're going to run SETI experiments, where you're trying to listen for a putative alien broadcast, it may be very instructive to have to construct a transmitting project," he said. "Because now, you walk a mile in the Klingons' shoes, assuming they have them." 

Cause for concern?

But active SETI is a controversial topic. Humanity has been a truly technological civilization for only a few generations; we're less than 60 years removed from launching our first satellite to Earth orbit, for example. So the chances are that any extraterrestrials who pick up our signals would be far more advanced than we are. [The Search for Intelligent Life: 4 Key Questions (Video)]

This likelihood makes some researchers nervous, including famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach," Hawking said in 2010 on an episode of "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking," a TV show that aired on the Discovery Channel. "If so, it makes sense for them to exploit each new planet for material to build more spaceships so they could move on. Who knows what the limits would be?"

Astrophysicist and science fiction author David Brin voiced similar concerns during the AAAS event, saying there's no reason to assume that intelligent aliens would be altruistic.

"This is an area in which discussion is called for," Brin said. "What are the motivations of species that they might carry with them into their advanced forms, that might color their cultures?"

Brin stressed that active SETI shouldn't be done in a piecemeal, ad hoc fashion by small groups of astronomers.

"This is something that should be discussed worldwide, and it should involve our peers in many other specialties, such as history," he said. "The historians would tell us, 'Well, gee, we have some examples of first-contact scenarios between advanced technological civilizations and not-so-advanced technological civilizations.' Gee, how did all of those turn out? Even when they were handled with goodwill, there was still pain."        

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Vakoch and Shostak agreed that international discussion and cooperation are desirable. But Shostak said that achieving any kind of consensus on the topic of active SETI may be difficult. For example, what if polling reveals that 60 percent of people on Earth are in favor of the strategy, while 40 percent are opposed?

"Do we then have license to go ahead and transmit?" Shostak said. "That's the problem, I think, with this whole 'let's have some international discussion' [idea], because I don't know what the decision metric is."

Vakoch and Shostak also said that active SETI isn't as big a leap as it may seem at first glance: Our civilization has been beaming signals out into the universe unintentionally for a century, since the radio was invented.

"The reality is that any civilization that has the ability to travel between the stars can already pick up our accidental radio and TV leakage," Vakoch said. "A civilization just 200 to 300 years more advanced than we are could pick up our leakage radiation at a distance of several hundred light-years. So there are no increased dangers of an alien invasion through active SETI."

But Brin disputed this assertion, saying the so-called "barn door excuse" is a myth.

"It is very difficult for advanced civilizations to have picked us up at our noisiest in the 1980s, when we had all these military radars and these big television antennas," he said.

Shostak countered that a fear of alien invasion, if taken too far, could hamper humanity's expansion throughout the solar system, an effort that will probably require the use of high-powered transmissions between farflung outposts.

"Do you want to hamstring all that activity — not for the weekend, not just shut down the radars next week, or active SETI this year, but shut down humanity forever?" Shostak said. "That's a price I'm not willing to pay."

So the discussion and debate continues — and may continue for quite some time.

"This is the only really important scientific field without any subject matter," Brin said. "It's an area in which opinion rules, and everybody has a very fierce opinion."

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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25-02-2015 om 23:05 geschreven door peter  

What Do Gene Sequencing, Radio Astronomy And Particle Physics Have In Common?

Modern scientific discovery is driven by one thing, without which breakthroughs like gene sequencing, the search for the Higgs boson and dark matter and huge telescope arrays wouldn’t be possible – High Performance Computing (HPC).

With the computational might to blitz through millions of bytes of data, calculations and statistical possibilities, scientists were able to posit the existence of particles like the Higgs boson and campaign for expensive projects like the Large Hadron Collider – because they could show what they were looking for.

The same kind of processing power is what’s allowing the UK’s version of the Genome Project, attempting to sequence whole genomes rather than just excerpts known as exons, to go ahead.

Cambridge University has had HPC in one form or another for 18 years, from the old 80s supercomputer sitting in the middle of a room, to its modern new server facility, which is based on a large Dell Dell server cluster made up of 9.600 cores and four petabytes of storage running on a Hadoop platform and is currently getting its finishing touches after a £20m investment.

Cambridge University’s new HPC system, used for particle physics, radio astronomy, gene sequencing and other big data, big science projects. (Credit: Cambridge University)

The university has one of the largest research and development budgets in the UK education sector, devoting 40 per cent of its £1438m annual revenue to funding advances in the fields of astronomy, genomics, medicine, physics and many more.

But its HPC time is also hired out to businesses in the nearby science and technology park, helping the university to pay for top IT support, while providing a valuable niche service to firms

Just a few years ago, that kind of commoditisation of HPC wouldn’t have been possible, Dr Paul Calleja, director of HPC Service at Cambridge, told visitors in a talk attended by Forbes.

“It used to be that a small number of users were eating up all the HPC power,” he said. “But now we have a long tail in HPC usage – modest amounts of HPC are now useful to many more people.”

That change is down to how much more computational power is available, but despite the value of Moore’s Law in increasing processor power, the growth in data volumes far outstrips it. Massive global science projects like CERN’s particle physics experiments and the Genome Project are creating a demand revolution that’s going to drive ever-increasing HPC, Dr Calleja reckons.

“I believe that the change now will be more fundamental than the change in the late 90s that ushered in the commoditisation of HPC,” he said.

Cambridge’s new data centre has 96 cabinets that can take a 1000kW to 2000kW IT load, but the university sees it as sufficient just for a two to five year growth plan. It’s going to have to be fast enough and powerful enough to process data from what is currently the world’s most ambitious IT project – the Square Kilometre Array.

This is the next generation radio telescope project to be built in Australia and South Africa, which will be 50 to 100 times more sensitive than any other radio instrument and require long-haul network links with a capacity greater than the current global Internet traffic as well as very high powered computing.

At the same time, Cambridge’s HPC Service will be catering to projects like the Bridge Genome Project, an attempt to study the gene sequencing of 10,000 people with rare genetic diseases.

According to Willem Ouwehand, professor of experimental haematology at the university, genomics medicine is a multi-disciplinary field, employing physicists and mathematicians alongside nurses and biologists. In fact, a third of the people involved in gene research are actually working on the computational side.

From left to right, the structures of A-, B- and Z-DNA – Scientists will use Cambridge University’s HPC to seqence whole genomes. (Credit: Richard Wheeler, Wikipedia)

The Bridge project is hoping to help advance the study of rare genetic diseases, which affect more than 300 million people in the world, but are extremely difficult for on-the-ground medical staff to diagnose.

Professor Ouwehand foresees a time when computers could help to support doctors’ diagnoses by holding a bank of data on diseases learned from gene sequencing. And this project can afford to sequence whole genomes instead of exons because of the commoditisation of the HPC Service at Cambridge, which has opened up the university’s budget.

And on top of that, Cambridge’s processors will also be continuing to run the mathematical models that predict the next particles that accelerators like the LHC might glimpse. Ron Horgan, professor in theoretical and mathematical physics, explained that the same sort of computational power needed to explore the far reaches of the Universe through astronomy are also needed to examine the most fundamental and smallest particles.

“The LHC has more than enough energy to prove the Standard Model of Physics and even go beyond that, but we believe there’s still more after that – that’s where HPC comes in,” he said.

Supercomputers run the mathematical models that predict where particles might appear and with enough verification, scientists can then start the search in the real world, as the LHC did with the Higgs boson.

“Understanding physics using computers is a third discipline of the scientific method in addition to theory and experiment,” Horgan added.

This is all possible using Cambridge’s HPC Service now, but even more will be done as demand drives further innovation in HPC in the future, according to Dr Calleja.

“Tomorrow there will be large public data sets in the fields of science, linked to computing power and analytical methods and open to a broad research base of experts and non-experts alike,” he said.

“This democratisation of data will be what transforms the research process and this technological wonderland is on the horizon, I think.”

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25-02-2015 om 22:48 geschreven door peter  

Russia plans to create own space station by 2024

The International Space Station from Above. (Credit: STS-130 Crew, NASA)

Russia has been looking at the possibility of creating its own space station by 2024. The country’s space agency, Roscosmos, says it is committed to the International Space Station until then, but then will unlock the modules to create its own base.

  The proposed Russian space station would give the country’s space  agency a platform to further its goals to explore the Moon, which  is a priority for Roscosmos. The agency will look to study the  Moon, using robotic equipment over the next decade with the goal  of sending manned missions to the moon by 2030, Tass news agency  reported the Science and Technology board for Roscosmos as  stating. It will be partly built from segments from the old  station, as well as adding new ones.

“Piloting cosmonauts is part of our general space strategy  and today with have decided upon our main trajectory,” said  Yury Koptev, a representative of the Science and Technology  board, Tass reported. “This is through the International  Space Station and working towards a lunar program in the Earth’s  orbit and in deep space.”

The International Space Station (Credit: STS-122 Shuttle Crew, NASA)

Koptev added that the space agency will continue its research  into the Moon and further space exploration in March, leading up  to the board’s next meeting.

“The configuration of a multi-purpose laboratory module, a  [docking] node module and a scientific power module [would]  create a promising Russian space station to meet the challenges  of providing secure access to space,” a statement from the  agency read, according to Tass.

  Roscosmos's Science and Technology board have been looking at the  possibility of piloting astronauts till 2030.

  The possibility of creating a Russian stand-alone space station  was first confirmed by Oleg Ostapenko, the head of Roscosmos, in  December.

“There is this option. We are making calculations at the  moment,” Ostapenko said, when asked about the possible  project.

The International Space Station Over Earth. (Credit: STS-128 Crew, NASA)

  He added that a national space station would be “a step  forward” for Russia and may serve “a number of different  purposes,” for instance as a transfer point for the Russian  lunar exploration program.

  Russia has had its own space station in the past. This was until  2001, when the Mir space station was deorbited, splashing down  into the Pacific Ocean after spending more than 5,500 days in  space. Russia cited the age of the station and the high  operational costs as the reasons for the decision.

Out of ISS: Russia going solo with space station?

  Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who supervises  defense-related policies, has said Moscow could discontinue its  segment of the International Space Station (ISS) after 2020. He  added that “the Russian segment [of the ISS] can exist  independently from the American one, but the American segment  cannot exist without the Russian.”

Russia’s decision to continue its cooperation with the  International Space Station will come as a relief to the other  partners involved in the program. There had been uncertainty  whether Russia would continue following western sanctions  introduced against the country. Russia is currently the only  nation capable of getting astronauts to and from the ISS,  following the disbanding of NASA’s space shuttle program.

  The US stated over a year ago that it will continue to back the  ISS and keep it operational at least until 2024, with the  possibility to extend its mission to 2028, the 30-year  anniversary of the launch of the outpost’s first module.

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25-02-2015 om 22:19 geschreven door peter  

What is this mysterious purple disc flying over Peru? TV host interrupts interview so cameras can focus on ‘UFO’ hovering over city

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Mainstream Media reporting on UFO activity? Whatever next? Reptile house at Buckingham Palace maybe.

A television crew captured this astonishing footage which appears to show a purple disc-shaped UFO hovering about a city construction site.
The production crew in Lima, Peru, were filming a programe when they interrupted it in order to focus on what appears to be a ‘UFO’ hovering over the city.
The purple-colored disc-shaped object can be seen hovering in the sky near a construction site, but so far, there has been no official explanation for the object.

 

        

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The purple-colored disc-shaped object (pictured) was spotted hovering in the sky  in the city of Lima, in Peru

 

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The unidentified purple object was seen above this construction site - it can be seen just under the crane

According to Peru This Week, television show 'Alto al Crimen' - an investigative program aimed at preventing high level crime - was shooting an episode in the upscale Miraflores district of Lima on February 10 when they spotted the unusual object.

The show's host, Lima Congressman Renzo Reggiardo, halted an interview in order to allow his camera operator to focus on the strange-looking purple object in the sky.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing the object hovering over the city for up to two hours.

Thousands of people have taken to social media to discuss what they think the mysterious purple object is and the video has already been viewed more than 100,000 times.

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The Raelian movement, a UFO religion, are delighted by the spotting and claim the UFO is somehow linked to their initiative to persuade the Peruvian government to build an extraterrestrial embassy in the country

Some suggest it is a drone or kite or a hologram projected into the sky.

Other people believe it could be proof of extraterrestrial life, while one person said that they think it is a 'plastic bag'.

Adding more mystery to the UFO sighting are claims that the UFO is somehow linked to an initiative currently underway by the Raelian movement - a UFO religion - to persuade the Peruvian government to build an extraterrestrial embassy, reports The Examiner.

Erich Rever of the Peruvian Raelian Movement said: 'This UFO appeared right when we held a press conference to present our embassy project plan, which we have submitted to the Peruvian government. 

'Peru must be dear to our extraterrestrial creators, who lived here in ancient times and left many traces, so we're asking the government for permission to build the embassy here.

'It's a wonderful opportunity for Peruvians to understand their past and, more importantly, to consider receiving our creators, the Elohim, who were taken for gods by our ancestors and now ask to be welcomed back. 

'We're hoping the Peruvian government will receive their request loud and clear!'

The Peru chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is investigating and says it is seeking more eyewitnesses who may have videotaped the purple aerial object from different vantage points. 

Source: https://consciousshift2012.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/what-is-this-mysterious-purple-disc-flying-over-peru-tv-host-interrupts-interview-so-cameras-can-focus-on-ufo-hovering-over-city/

25-02-2015 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

Fireball Over Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Washington, and Oregon – Feb 2015 (Video)

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Early AM February 24, 2015 (late pm February 23) a very large fireball meteor appeared in the skies over Montana, Idaho, Washington, Colorado, Utah, and Oregon.

The fireball spotted streaking across the night sky late on Monday in the western United States was almost certainly the body of a rocket used by

China in December to launch a satellite, an astronomer said on Tuesday.

Residents in Rocky Mountain states such as Idaho, Utah and Montana reported seeing the rocket as it disintegrated in the atmosphere about 70 miles (113 km) above Earth, said Chris Anderson, manager of the Centennial Observatory at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.

The rocket, which was orbiting Earth about every 87 minutes, made an early appearance elsewhere and in fiery fashion likely because its orientation may have changed. 

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25-02-2015 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 2/25/15

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• Battle Of L.A: UFO Diary Re-Creates Los Angeles Alien Invasion 1942 – Neon Nettle
• UFOs: Red Baron shot down ‘flying saucer’ over the trenches…and other paranormal phenomena from WWI – Mirror
• UFOs Over Paris? – Ricochet
• What It’s Like to Be at the 24th International UFO Congress – NBC News
• Guiding search for ET entities – Bangalore Mirror

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Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-22515/32305

25-02-2015 om 21:36 geschreven door peter  

Are Diamond-shaped Ufos Over New York State?

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The old saying goes “Diamond are a girl’s best friend” but the question is, what’s with the Diamond UFOs over New York?

 

It was a little after 9 p.m. on September 27th, 2014 Hank, a Buffalo, NY resident went outside for a cigarette. While gazing at the crystal clear southern sky he observed a diamond UFO traversing the sky.

  

“As I was watching the object slowly move from east to west, suddenly it stopped and appeared to hover. Then object’s five orange-ish tint lights dimmed briefly and the diamond UFO just winked out and wasn’t seen again.”

 

In another sighting on Long Island in the town of Commack, NY, a resident was watching television when he noticed a bright light out of his living room window. He tells us that he went outside to his porch to get a better look and saw a bright diamond UFO traveling from North to South.

 

“It appeared to be about 1/16 the size of the moon.”

 

While he was watching the object, he was stunned to see a second diamond UFO following the first one he had seen.

 

“Both of the objects stopped, seemed to hover then suddenly went straight up and out of sight. The whole sighting last perhaps four minutes”

 

A study of National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) data suggests that Diamond UFO sightings were really quite rare until relatively recently.

 

Records prior to 1950 report virtually no diamond UFO sightings. The decades of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s sport sighting levels with an average of about two sightings per decade. Around the year 2001, diamond UFO sightings suddenly spiked to eight and leveled off to a little under a dozen per year.

 

Then in 2009, diamond UFO sightings rose substantially; these UFOs began appearing in New York Skies at a rate of about a dozen a year, as evidenced by the following chart.

 

 

At first this reporter thought this rise in sightings might be an artifact of reporting. After a quick analysis of other classes of UFOs, I determined that a variety of other types of UFOs were relative constant in numbers from year to year except for a gradual rising trend in overall sightings. So in my opinion, this large increase of diamond UFO sightings is a relatively recent occurrence and needs to be studied.

 

World sightings for diamond shaped UFOs have obviously been on the rise. But the story gets bigger when we begin looking at the global numbers. For example, the combined diamond UFO sightings reported to both the MUFON and NUFORC for 2014 total about 234 globally; giving New York State about 3% of the world diamond UFO sightings. I hope other investigators in the UFO research community will continue to monitor these increasing numbers.

 

Article continues here: http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/diamond-ufos-new-york-state/

 

Source: http://ufodigest.com/article/diamond-shaped-0225

25-02-2015 om 21:33 geschreven door peter  

UFO Strange Light Over Dubai, Feb 25, 2015

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Watch this amazing footage of UFO strange light over dubai. A lot of people saw the UFO.

25-02-2015 om 21:29 geschreven door peter  

McMinnville, Oregon UFO Photographs

Date: May 11, 1950
Location: McMinnville, Oregon, United States

Two of the most notorious UFO photos of all time were taken on a farm near Mcminnville by a farmer named Paul A. Trent. Beyond many such cases, these two photos have withstood the test of time--through generations of researchers.

                              

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Type of Case/Report: MajorCase        
Hynek Classification: DD        
Shape of Object(s): Disc         
Special Features/Characteristics: Photo

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Source: STUDIOVNI        

        McMinnville, Oregon - May 11, 1950: Two of the most notorious UFO photos of all time were taken on a farm near Mcminnville by a farmer named Paul A. Trent. Beyond many such cases, these two photos have withstood the test of time--through generations of researchers. It could be said that this case specified the boiling point for the heated ongoing debate over what qualifies as physical evidence--at least when it comes to the subject of UFOs. 

Mrs. Trent was outside getting finished feeding her rabbits, when she noticed the large, disc-shaped object approaching from the northeast. She called out to Mr. Trent who joined her to look at the mystery device. After a few moments, he went back in the house to get his camera. He got back out and picked a spot to stand and took the first picture, then wound the film for the next picture. (That was typically a time consuming process with a 1950 box camera.) Several minutes later, he took the other. 

In the meantime, Mrs. Trent called out to her in-laws on their porch, about 400 feet away. They didn't hear her, so she ran into the house to call them on the telephone. Mrs. Trent's mother-in-law didn't get to see it because it disappeared by the time she was off of the phone, but Mrs. Trent's father-in-law did catch a glimpse of it just before it disappeared in the west. 

Mr. Trent waited to finish the roll of film before he got the pictures developed. They were displayed nearly a month later in a local bank. (The Trents' banker worked there.) A reporter named Powell, who worked for the McMinnville Telephone Register, saw the photos and convinced the Trents to let him publish their story and photographs. However, it did take a bit of coaxing because the Trent's feared they might get in some kind of trouble with the government. 

The photographs and story wound up in the June 26, 1950 issue of Life, who borrowed the negatives from Powell. The Trents didn't get the negatives back for another 17 years. They were requested for examination by the Condon investigation in the late 1960's, and after that analysis was done, they were finally sent back to Mr. Trent. 

The first people to examine the negatives found no signs of manipulation of the negative and no visible means of support for the UFO pictured, and so it has remained, for over half a century. No scientific study of this case has ever revealed anything that contradicts the witnesses or their fortunate photos. (NURMUFO)

See also the in-depth analysis, "The Trent Farm Photos", by Bruce Maccabee, available online at:
http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html 

Case ID: 258

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25-02-2015 om 17:57 geschreven door peter  

UFO crash in Bolivia witnessed by thousands of people

Date: May 6, 1978
Location: El Taire Mountain, Bolivia

On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina.  Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail.   It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away.

                                

Photograph of El Taire mountain.The crash site is marked with an arrow. (credit: Hesemann)

                                  

The UFO crash in Bolivia. Sketch according to eyewitness reports. (credit: Hesemann)

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Type of Case/Report: StandardCase        
Hynek Classification:         
Shape of Object(s): Cylinder         
# of Witnesses: Multiple  
Special Features/Characteristics: Crash/Retrieval, Mass Sighting    

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Source: Michael Hesemann, 1998

        On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away and that cracked windowpanes as far away as 30 miles in every direction. The next day, the papers were speculating on what had come down in that godforsaken place. The explanations ranged from meteorites to UFOs and belated reentry of some Apollo capsule. All of them referred to statements of eye witnesses.

Then it was announced that the Argentinian authorities had sent the 20th unit of the border police to the area in question to look for wreckage on their side of the border. The search in that mountainous country could last for weeks, so swarms of reporters went to the nearest big town, Aguas Blancas, to take up quarters there and await further developments, as well as to interview eyewitnesses in the town. And in fact, there were a number of witnesses who claimed to have seen the object. Most of them described it as oval or cylindrical and metallic. The army, too, seemed to be convinced that it was a UFO. Corporal Natalio Farfan Ruiz, the commandant of a small border police unit at the little village of La Marmora (800 inhabitants), confirmed the crash to Argentinian reporters saying: "It was about 4:30 p.m. when a cylindrical object made the earth tremble. Just imagine what would have happened if the UFO had fallen on the houses!" Policeman Juan Hurtado had also seen what had happened: "It looked like a gigantic wine container emitting a trace of white smoke. I saw it clearly. It flew directly above my head. I was on duty and at that moment was talking with three engineers from the mine in La Paz, when we saw the object crashing into the El Taire mountain. The impact was so strong that it threw me to the ground. The earth trembled at that moment."

Finally, the Bolivian Air Force sent three single-motored AT6 airplanes—a model from World War II—to the area and discovered the crash site on the southern slope of the El Taire mountain. Whereas the pilots found it impossible to land anywhere near it, the newspaper Clarin of Buenos Aires announced on May 14, that the object had been found. As proof, they quoted the police chief of Tarija: "Our men have discovered the object and inspected it, but have received no instructions for further action. It is a dull metallic cylinder twelve feet long with a few dents. No one knows what is inside it, and we are awaiting the arrival of various technical commissions. A NASA expert is also expected to arrive tomorrow morning."

As a matter of fact, no NASA expert came at Tarija.-Instead, two U.S. Air Force officers, Col. Robert Simmons and Maj. John Heise arrived. According to a newspaper, although these officers were officially on leave, they had been instructed to take the object to the United States in a Hercules C-130 transport machine, which was waiting for them at La Paz. When other newspapers made inquiries at the American Embassy regarding this secret mission of Simmons and Heise they were met with a denial. Only two years later, 5 relevant documents were released by the U.S. State Department: they revealed that Simmons and Heise had been assigned to the military attache of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz and did, in fact, fly to Tarija accompanied by an officer of the Bolivian Air Force, in connection with Project Moon Dust.

The first of these documents was a telex sent by the U.S. Ambassador in Bolivia, Paul H. Boeker, to the State Department. In that, he quoted newspaper reports and requested the department "to ask the relevant agencies whether they could explain what this object could be," adding "during the last week, more and more UFO reports are coming from this region." The answer was a telex classified "secret" dated May 18 in which the U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance personally declared: "Preliminary information has been checked with appropriate government agencies. No direct correlation with known space objects that may have reentered the earth's atmosphere near May 6 can be made. However we are continuing to examine any possibilities."

He then referred the embassy to "State aerogram A-6343" of July 26, 1973, classified 'Secret,' "which provides background information and guidance for dealing with space objects. In particular any information pertaining to the pre-impact observations, direction of trajectory, number of objects observed, time of impact and detailed description, including any markings would be helpful." The next document was a "Moon Dust Message" of the office of the U.S. military attache, dated May 24, addressed to the Division for Foreign Technologies at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon, classified as "confidential NOFORN (No Forwarding To Foreign Nationals)." Under reference Moon Dust, the military attache at La Paz reported that "they had taken pains to verify the press reports. " In addition to that, they had asked the general staff of the Bolivian Air Force and the chiefs of the Bolivian Army who had declared—apparently after a first unsuccessful attempt— "we have sent search troops to the area in question but have found nothing. " The army came to the conclusion that there could have been an object there, or maybe not, but to date they had found nothing. The attache added that he would send two officials to Tarija and promised, "We will keep you informed if anything turns up. " These "two officials," we can assume, were Simmons and Heise.

Regrettably, no further reports concerning the Simmons-Heise expedition were released and, to get a picture of what happened, we are forced to rely on reports in the Argentinian press. Apparently, however, nobody came to the conclusion that a meteorite had hit the earth. At the world-famous Smithsonian Institution there is a data bank of scientific occurrences, or an "alarm network," that keeps track of every volcanic eruption, every earthquake and every meteorite collision since 1973 with painstaking accuracy. The data bank reveals no mention of a meteorite falling during May 1978 at the Bolivian-Argentinian border. The Air Force documents reveal that the 1127th field activities group, which coordinated Project Moon Dust, was interested in another task besides the recoveiy of UFO wrecks and other space objects, represented by the code name HUMINT. This code name, short for Human Intelligence, means the collection of information from human sources through clandestine undercover methods—in contrast to interrogations, reading through files and correspondence, etc. In other words, it meant the collection of information about UFOs from reliable sources through a game of deceit. The method which was chosen to achieve HUMINTs goals was so bizarre that nobody outside the UFO community would believe it. It was the birth of the "Men In Black," subject of a Hollywood blockbuster movie in 1997. 

Case ID: 635

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25-02-2015 om 17:50 geschreven door peter