Fireball explosion over Kerala, India on 27th February 2015

New interesting video footage of a mysterious fireball explosion recorded in the sky above Kerala, India on 27th February 2015.

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04-03-2015 om 15:41 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting recorded in the space between Earth and Sun on 1st March 2015

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The Myth and Truth about the 13.000 Year - Old Alien Satellite

Some of you might have heard about the infamous Black Knight Satellite and its associated mystery. For those of our readers who haven’t, we’ve prepared this article. Enjoy!

The story begins in 1954, three years before mankind launched its first artificial satellite, the Soviet Sputnik 1. On May 14, 1954, several newspapers published articles centered on a statement belonging to retired Major D. E. Keyhoe. At the time, Keyhoe believed the Earth was circled by one — if not two artificial satellites. Scientists at the famous White Sands government facility in New Mexico were actively researching this possibility and trying to determine the purpose and origin of these objects.

Later that summer, Aviation Week magazine attempted to explain the mystery by saying the two satellites’ orbits had been mapped out at an altitude of 400, respectively 600 miles above Earth.

• Pentagon scare over the observance of two previously unobserved satellites orbiting the Earth has dissipated with the identification of the objects as natural, not artificial satellites. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, expert on extraterrestrial bodies from the University of New Mexico, headed the identification project. One satellite is orbiting about 400 miles out, while the other track is 600 miles from the Earth. Pentagon thought momentarily the Russians had beaten the U.S. to space explorations.”

Keep in mind that this was all happening during the space race, when spirits were high and tensions were higher. The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union fueled the paranoia as each nation raced towards the sky.

Many astronomers suspected a large satellite was indeed orbiting the Earth and by 1960, even the U.S. Department of Defense acknowledged this alien presence.

• WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — An unidentified, silent satellite has been discovered circling the Earth in a near-polar orbit by United States tracking stations, the Defense Department said today. The identity of the mystery satellite — which has been dubbed “the dark satellite” are not known despite nearly two weeks of tracking.”

It wasn’t long before people made the connection between the unknown object and Nikola Tesla. In 1899, he had detected a repeating radio signal and believed it originated in outer space. The enigma surrounding the black satellite was deepened by its strange behavior. Virtually all the artificial satellites had been launched on West to East orbits (following our planet’s natural rotation) while this one circled Earth on a polar orbit, from North to South. Interestingly enough, polar orbits are employed by modern observational satellites that carry out mapping missions. So, was the Black Knight Satellite an observational unit? If so, who put it there?

Some astronomers who claimed to have observed it said the object would disappear, only to reappear in a different place, traveling along a different orbit. They also reported it was moving twice as fast as any other known satellite.

The Black Knight is often mentioned in conjunction with astronaut Gordon Cooper’s historic flight. In 1963, on the last of his 22 days spent in orbit, Cooper radioed Muchea Tracking Station in Australia, telling them that he was able to see a glowing green object rapidly approaching his capsule. Although his sighting had received live coverage by the National Broadcasting Company, reporters were forbidden to question him upon his return to Earth. Although Major Cooper was a stern believer in aliens and their presence here on Earth, there is no link between his sighting and the Black Knight.

An interesting yet unverified aspect is the alleged decoding of the radio message the satellite is said to broadcast. As the story goes, ham radio operators who picked up the alien transmission managed to interpret it as a star map that pointed to Epsilon Boötis, a star in the Boötes constellation, located at a distance of 52 light years from Earth. Interestingly enough, in Babylonian mythology, the Boötes constellation was depicted as the god Enlil, the chief divinity among the Anunnaki on Earth.

Almost every article on the Black Knight Satellite mentions its age of 13,000 years without referencing the origin of this claim. In 1973, Scottish astronomer and science fiction writer Duncan Lunan said he had succeeded in decoding the message caught by two Norwegian physicists in the 1920’s. The message was said to have come from a probe orbiting the Earth in the same Lagrangian point as the Moon and that probe had been sent a long time ago by the inhabitants of a planet orbiting Epsilon Boötis. The message read:

• Start here. Our home is Epsilon Boötes , which is a double star. We live on the sixth planet of seven, coming from the sun, which is the larger of the two. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has three. Our first and third planets each have one. Our probe is in the position of Arcturus, known in our maps.”

The star Arcturus was pictured in the deciphered star map in the position it occupied 13,000 years ago, hence the supposed age of the Black Knight.

Lunan’s theory was picked up by Time magazine and included in several documentaries. However, in 1976 he acknowledged it was flawed and withdrew it, only to revise and reinterpret part of it in 1998.

There are a number of famous photos that allegedly show the alien satellite. The official explanations for the object they show is that it’s nothing more than a thermal blanket that had come off one of the many satellites we’ve put up there. While this might be the case, it only explains the photos and not the Black Knight itself, as the unknown object had been reported prior to these photos.

Another aspect is that these famous photos show an object far smaller than the one indicated in earlier reports, which was said to be as large as a city block. On a side note, the vimanas portrayed in ancient Hindu texts were of similar size. Perhaps there’s a connection between the two.

And since no one can deny the size and scope of the UFO phenomena, it stands to reason that among all reports of flying saucers in our skies and oceans we can fit one more: a huge alien satellite orbiting above our planet.

Like with most things related to the unexplained, there is an aura of misinformation surrounding the Black Knight Satellite. Keep in mind, this is the internet, the place where things come to get blown out of proportion.

One last thing, before you go. In medieval times, a black knight was one who had no allegiance or opted to hide it by covering his colors and emblems, effectively stating that he served no lord. Quite a fitting name for an enigmatic alien watcher, isn’t it?

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04-03-2015 om 15:31 geschreven door peter  

10 Famous UFO Photos and the Stories Behind Them ( Part 1 )

A large number of ‘UFO’ photos are undoubtedly the result of image manipulation due to the fact that they’re relatively easy to produce. As a matter of fact, doctoring photos is about as old as photography itself.

However, most of the following images have been analyzed by experts and deemed genuine or unaltered. Over the years, some have gathered more publicity than the others but are no less enigmatic. Here are some of them and their accompanying stories.

The 1870 Mount Washington UFO Photo

This photo dates back to 1870, long before flying saucers even became a notion. It was taken in 1870 in New Hampshire and shows a strange object in the sky over Mount Washington. It is actually a stereoscopic photograph captured with a special camera. At the time, stereo photos were appreciated due to the fact that they provided a feeling of depth that regular photos lacked.

This particular photo is one of, if not the oldest UFO photograph ever captured.

The Battle of Los Angeles

Although this photo was heavily doctored by the media at the time, we included it due to the famous event it is linked to: the Battle of Los Angeles.

The notorious event occurred just several months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when spirits were tense and nerves were strained. At 2:25 a.m. on the night of February 25, 1942 alarms were once again heard in Los Angeles, California. Unknown objects were reported flying in the sky and a blackout was declared. The terrified inhabitants of LA turned their lights off.

Searchlights revealed small red and silvery objects flying in high-speed formation at high altitude and at 3:16 a.m. the military opens fire on a large low-flying object. According to reports, over 1,400 artillery shells were fired but the object was unaffected, despite being hit multiple times.

To this day, the event remains one of the most enigmatic UFO incidents and this photo is certainly one of the most famous ever taken.

The McMinniville UFO Photographs

These photographs have been in the center of controversy since they were snapped by Paul Trent on his farm, on May 11, 1950. At around 7:30 in the evening, his wife told him she had seen a “slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object” heading their way. He grabbed his camera and took two pictures before the object disappeared.

During the summer, his photographs became famous and were reprinted in the June issue of Life Magazine. In 1967, Condon Committee investigator William K. Hartmann examined the negatives and found no evidence of tampering. He then interviewed the Trents and was impressed with their sincerity. He concluded that “this is one of the few UFO reports in which all factors investigated, geometric, psychological, and physical, appear to be consistent with the assertion that an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disk-shaped, tens of meters in diameter, and evidently artificial, flew within sight of two witnesses.”

The Trents did not receive any money for their photographs and sought neither fame nor fortune.

The Lubbock Lights

The Lubbock Lights are widely regarded as one of the first major UFO cases in the United States and refer to multiple sightings of strange lights over Lubbock, Texas in August-September 1951.

The first sighting occurred on August 25, when three professors from Texas Technological College (now called Texas Tech University) noticed a group of several dozen lights flying overhead. As they were discussing the event, a second group of lights passed above them in the same manner. After ruling out meteors, the professors reported their sighting to the local newspaper.

On September 5, they would witness the lights again and this time two more professors were present. One of them, Dr. Grayson Mead said the lights “appeared to be about the size of a dinner plate and they were greenish-blue, slightly fluorescent in color. They were smaller than the full moon at the horizon. There were about a dozen to fifteen of these lights…they were absolutely circular…it gave all of us…an extremely eerie feeling.”

Seeing as the objects had passed behind a cloud formation at an altitude of about 2,000 feet (610 meters), they calculated the objects had been traveling at a speed of over 600 mph (970 km/h).

The photo above was taken by Carl Hart, a freshman at Texas Tech on the evening of August 30. He had seen a group of 20 lights flying in a v-shaped formation and took his 35-mm Kodak camera out to his backyard to see if more would appear. Hart managed to take five photos of the objects. After developing the photographs, Hart took them to the local newspaper and received $10 in exchange.

Like the McMinniville photos, these were also featured in Life Magazine and thus widely publicized. They were analyzed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base physics laboratory and the supervisor of Project Blue Book at the time, Edwin J. Ruppelt concluded they weren’t fake but could not definitively prove they were genuine either.

To this day, Hart maintains his photographs are genuine.

The Barra da Tijuca UFO Photographs

The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) considers the Barra da Tijuca photos “one of the best (and possibly the best) on record.

The five photos were snapped on May 7, 1952 by press photographer Ed Keffel near Barra da Tijuca, Brazil. Keffel was accompanied by Joao Martins on a routine photo shoot when Martins spotted a flying object approaching at high speed. At first, they believed the object was an airplane but eventually noticed it was flying too fast and was tilted sideways. As the object approached, they realized it was not an airplane.

Keffel took five photos of the UFO before it disappeared into the distance.

An investigation conducted by the Brazilian Air Force determined the photos were genuine. Whether the object they picture was indeed a flying saucer cannot be determined.

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04-03-2015 om 15:22 geschreven door peter  

10 Famous UFO Photos and the Stories Behind Them (Part 2)

Picking up from where we left off, here are another five famous UFO photographs and their respective background stories.

The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Sightings

In July 1952, on two consecutive weekends, Washington, D.C. witnessed a series of unbelievable events that would later become one of the most discussed UFO incidents in modern history.

It all started shortly before midnight on July 19, when air traffic controller Ed Nugent noticed seven unidentified objects on his radar. More objects soon followed and nearby Andrews Air Force Base was notified. Jet fighters were scrambled from Newcastle AFB in Delaware but as they arrived over Washington, the mysterious objects vanished, a fact confirmed by radar operators. When the jet fighters ran out of fuel and had to land, the objects reappeared.

News outlets from around the world picked up on the story and the incident received global coverage. But it wasn’t over yet.

The next Saturday, the objects reappeared. This time, the jet fighters engaged in the pursuit of several “glowing orbs” that were clocked at speeds in excess of 7,000 mph (11,000 km/h). The UFOs would make impossible turns and went from being stationary to hypersonic speeds in a matter of seconds. At the break of dawn, the objects disappeared.

This controversial incident has yet to be explained.

The Salem, Massachusetts UFOs

1952 saw a significant increase in UFO activity and over the summer, a wave of sightings was reported all over the world.

The photo above was taken at 09:35 a.m. by Shell Alpert on July 16. Alpert was a Coast Guard seaman stationed at a base near Salem, MA and captured this photo through the window of his photo lab. It shows four elliptical objects flying in formation at a low altitude.

The famous photo has been republished many times and was deemed “unexplained” by Project Blue Book.

Namur, Belgium UFO

Several witnesses saw this unexplained object on the evening of June 5, 1955 in the skies over Namur, Belgium. One of them managed to take three pictures of the object before it disappeared.

According to the witnesses’ testimonies, they saw a flicker of light moving very fast and without making a sound. The flicker was caused by a disc-shaped object that left behind a white trail. The UFO lost altitude and made a sharp turn before rapidly ascending and intersecting with its trail.

The object then accelerated upwards, leaving behind a second trail of incandescent particles.

1956 Childerhose UFO

This photo was taken on August 27, 1956 by a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot while flying in formation at an altitude of 36,000 feet (11 km). He held the second position in a formation of four F-86 Sabrejets while passing over the Canadian Rockies at a speed of 460 mph (740 km/h) when he noticed a very bright and sharply-defined disc-shaped object

The pilot banked his plane and snapped this photo. Based on its position relative to the clouds, the pilot estimated the object was located at an altitude between 10,000 and 13,000 feet (3-4 km).

While some have suggested the object was nothing more than an illuminated cloud formation, this claim has been invalidated due to the object’s intense and uniform brightness. If it were a cloud that reflected sunlight, its right side should have been considerably darker, similar to the surrounding clouds. In fact, the object was “considerably brighter than sunlight” and therefore must have had a different explanation.

Spectral analysis of the photograph indicated the UFO must have radiated more than a gigawatt of power. Needless to say, there were no known aircraft capable of doing that in 1956.

Billy Meier’s 1964 New Delhi UFO Photo

Eduard Albert Meier, better known as Billy Meier is one of the most influential ufologists, whether you decide to believe his stories or not. He has been the source of many controversial UFO photographs, videos, sound recordings and metal samples.

Meier claims to have been in contact with extraterrestrials since 1942, when, at the age of five, he was contacted by a member of the Plejaren, which we all know as Pleiadians today.

His vast collection of photos includes images of disc-shaped objects in the Swiss countryside, as well as photos that appear to have been taken outside of Earth. He also has pictures that show prehistoric scenes and some that feature a devastated future. His collection was the subject of an extensive investigation whose results were met with mixed emotions.

While some believe Meier has proven beyond a doubt that alien civilizations exist and regularly visit Earth, others have blatantly dismissed his claims as carefully orchestrated hoaxes.

Despite this controversy, his photos are some of the most famous out there.

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04-03-2015 om 15:11 geschreven door peter  

Friends perplexed by green UFO in England (VIDEO)

A group of friends was fascinated and perplexed by a green UFO over the English city of Birmingham on February 14.

Media outlet Birmingham Mail reports, “One of the group steadied their mobile phone to record the luminous dot from their vantage point near a Lloyds Bank branch on the corner of Rochester Road and Bristol Road South.”

The location where the UFO sighting took place. (Credit: Google)

Witness Wayne Baylis is the one who recorded video of the green UFO with his phone’s camera. He uploaded two videos to YouTube, and provided the following description: “Me & my friends watched this green object change direction in an unusal [sic] way in the night sky then disappeared in a flash.”

The videos do show the unusual green object hovering in the sky, then moving from side to side, and eventually descending before disappearing “in a flash.”

The appearance and behavior observed in the two videos are consistent with a remote controlled drone, like a quadcopter, which have become quite common. But the low-quality videos were recorded with a phone, and were shot at distance. Without clear details of the object, it’s nearly impossible to conclusively identify the UFO.

This strange green UFO could always be something more mysterious. But, based on the available evidence, a remote-controlled craft is the likely identification.

What do you think these friends recorded over Birmingham? Share your thoughts with us by posting a comment below, or by posting on the Open Minds Facebook page.

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04-03-2015 om 14:44 geschreven door peter  

TWO DOCTORS REPORT ALIEN CRAFT OVER CALIFORNIA

TWO DOCTORS REPORT ALIEN CRAFT OVER CALIFORNIA

APRIL 25, 1952   ……..    SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA

  Dr. W (biochemist) and Dr. Y (bacteriologist), both employed by a private company, about 11:00 a.m. were driving to their office when Y saw something odd overhead that seemed to be moving against the wind.  They entered the company parking lot and got out of the car to look. Directly over a building across the street was a small, metallic-looking disc, tilted at about a 20 degree angle and rotating around a vertical axis, wobbling “like the motion of a disc in a water meter.  The distance was estimated to be about 50 ft, and the disc appeared to be 4-5 feet in diameter The wobble allowed them to judge the thickness as about 1.5 feet as the disc proceeded directly over their heads, continuing to rotate and wobble.  No sound or exhaust emission of any sort was detected. It moved in an arc about 40-50 feet overhead very slowly, perhaps 8-10 m.p.h. When it neared some railroad yards, the disc curved around and made a fairly distinct turn, heading back toward them.  At this point Dr. Y suddenly saw something else overhead, which Dr. W also then saw: a black object at high altitude hovering motionless under an overcast (later determined to be about 10,000 ft). It was round, and apparently much larger than the silvery disc, perhaps 100 ft in diameter.  As they watched, two identical objects came into position as if they had dropped out of the cloud overcast, and the three objects jittered around like boats in a stream”.  About this time the small disc had neared again, still moving slowly. Suddenly it stopped spinning, hung motionless for a moment, then rapidly climbed towards the NNE in the general direction of Mt. Hamilton. At the same time that the small disc began its climb, one of the three black objects left the formation and headed in the same general direction. The black object and the climbing disc seemed to be on a converging course, when suddenly both seemed to disappear into the overcast.

04-03-2015 om 14:38 geschreven door peter  

Alien? Anatomy Expert Believes Enigmatic Skeleton Of Peru Is Not Human

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2015 International UFO Congress Recap

The 2015 International UFO Congress was the largest ever! This video highlights some of the great speakers and events that made that happen.

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04-03-2015 om 13:41 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Sphere Caught Over South Carolina

 

A mysterious object has been photographed in the skies over Greenville County in South Carolina.

The anomaly which was snapped by local resident Stephanie Davenport appears to show a huge circular object with six possible lights attached to its body.

“I originally thought it was the moon, but when I zoomed in on my pictured it clearly wasn't. It is round and looked to have lights on it.”

Davenport said she consulted someone who might have the answer: a family member who works for NASA.

According to Davenport, this was what he wrote back, "I think those dots are just pixels in your camera CCD that are over exposed. They are too orderly to be sun spots. Nothing to get excited about."

Still, she's not quite ready to accept that explanation.

04-03-2015 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in Honduran Rain Forest

March 3, 2015 - An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with dramatic news of the discovery of a mysterious culture's lost city, never before explored. The team was led to the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors that it was the site of a storied "White City," also referred to in legend as the "City of the Monkey God."

Archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived a thousand years ago, and then vanished. The team, which returned from the site last Wednesday, also discovered a remarkable cache of stone sculptures that had lain untouched since the city was abandoned.

In contrast to the nearby Maya, this vanished culture has been scarcely studied and it remains virtually unknown. Archaeologists don't even have a name for it.

Christopher Fisher, a Mesoamerican archaeologist on the team from Colorado State University, said the pristine, unlooted condition of the site was "incredibly rare." He speculated that the cache, found at the base of the pyramid, may have been an offering.

"The undisturbed context is unique," Fisher said. "This is a powerful ritual display, to take wealth objects like this out of circulation."

The tops of 52 artifacts were peeking from the earth. Many more evidently lie below ground, with possible burials. They include stone ceremonial seats (called metates) and finely carved vessels decorated with snakes, zoomorphic figures, and vultures.

The most striking object emerging from the ground is the head of what Fisher speculated might be "a were-jaguar," possibly depicting a shaman in a transformed, spirit state. Alternatively, the artifact might be related to ritualized ball games that were a feature of pre-Columbian life in Mesoamerica.

"The figure seems to be wearing a helmet," said Fisher. Team member Oscar Neil Cruz, head archaeologist at the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH), believes the artifacts date to A.D. 1000 to 1400.

The objects were documented but left unexcavated. To protect the site from looters, its location is not being revealed.

The ruins were first identified in May 2012, during an aerial survey of a remote valley in La Mosquitia, a vast region of swamps, rivers, and mountains containing some of the last scientifically unexplored places on earth.

For a hundred years, explorers and prospectors told tales of the white ramparts of a lost city glimpsed above the jungle foliage. Indigenous stories speak of a "white house" or a "place of cacao" where Indians took refuge from Spanish conquistadores—a mystical, Eden-like paradise from which no one ever returned.

Since the 1920s, several expeditions had searched for the White City, or Ciudad Blanca. The eccentric explorer Theodore Morde mounted the most famous of these in 1940, under the aegis of the Museum of the American Indian (now part of the Smithsonian Institution).

Morde returned from Mosquitia with thousands of artifacts, claiming to have entered the City. According to Morde, the indigenous people there said it contained a giant, buried statue of a monkey god. He refused to divulge the location out of fear, he said, that the site would be looted. He later committed suicide and his site—if it existed at all—was never identified.

More recently, documentary filmmakers Steve Elkins and Bill Benenson launched a search for the lost city.

They identified a crater-shaped valley, encircled by steep mountains, as a possible location.

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04-03-2015 om 00:52 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: USAF Releases Rare 'Microfilms' of UFO, Alien Sightings from 'Project Blue Book'

There is plenty of work for amateur investigators to try to come up with explanations they never had time to consider or research,' Nigel Watson author of the UFO investigations Manual told MailOnline.
One case that Mr Watson is particularly intrigued in for historical reasons is a report filed by Kenneth Arnold which led to the popular term 'flying saucers'.

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04-03-2015 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

Declassified UFO Documents Include Intriguing Puerto Rico Cases

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Astronomers Find a Dusty Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist

An object from the very early universe is bafflingly rich with dust that theory says shouldn't have formed yet.

Astronomers have spotted a surprisingly dusty little galaxy within the cluster Abell 1689, shown here in an image by the Hubble telescope.

Photograph by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Blakeslee (NRC Herzberg Astrophysics Program, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory), and H. Ford (JHU)

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Peering back in time to find the very earliest objects in the universe, an international team of astronomers has discovered a galaxy that shouldn't be there at all.                     

The problem, the scientists report Monday in Nature, is that while the tiny galaxy dates from just 700 million years or so after the big bang, it's far more dusty than something this young and small has any right to be.

It's surprising, says Daniel Marrone, a University of Arizona expert on galaxy formation who wasn't involved in the research, because although dust is essential for the formation of planets and other solid material, the cosmos started out with no dust at all. In the aftermath of the big bang, the universe consisted only of hydrogen and helium gas (along with dark matter, but that's invisible).

The dusty galaxy is just one of the recent surprises astronomers have found. "Last week," says Marrone, "we learned of an incredibly massive black hole in the early universe. Now we have this average galaxy with significant amounts of dust. We've had this cartoon picture of the early universe, but it's clear that we really don't know what's going on."

What Astronomers Think They Know

The gas in the post-big bang universe condensed to form the first stars, which forged heavier elements, including carbon, silicon, and oxygen, then died and released those elements into space. It was from these that the first particles of dust formed.

Those first stars had already lived and died by the time this newly discovered galaxy, known as A1689-zD1, was up and running, so the universe was hardly dust free at that point. But most of the dust should have been in large, bright galaxies that formed lots of stars. A1689-zD1 is relatively small and dim—no bigger than the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

Few early galaxies have been spotted, because even the brightest among them is far away and thus relatively dim. To get around that problem, astronomers use the magnifying effect of gravity. Einstein's general theory of relativity says the gravity from an object closer to Earth can warp light rays from a more distant one. (Einstein thought we'd never actually observe this so-called gravitational lensing, but he was dead wrong about that.)

In this case, the Nature paper's lead author, Darach Watson, of the deliciously named Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen, used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert to look at a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 1689. The cluster's gravity magnified A1689-zD1 by a factor of nine, says Watson, which allowed him and several colleagues to gauge its distance from Earth and thus how long ago its light began traveling in our direction.

The VLT can see starlight but not dust, so Watson called on a colleague who was using the dust-sensitive ALMA radio telescope (see "Cosmic Dawn" in National Geographic magazine). "She had a look," says Watson, "and bingo!"

Like Marrone, Watson was taken aback by how dusty A1689-zD1 turned out to be. In bigger galaxies with more massive, short-lived stars, dust can pile up quickly since giant stars explode violently as supernovae after just a few million years. In smaller galaxies, most of the dust should emerge from the more gentle deaths of smaller stars that live for billions of years. So maybe A1689-zD1's dust comes from supernovae after all, says Watson. "But they'd have to produce the maximum possible dust," he says, to account for what ALMA sees, "and the dust can't be destroyed."

The only way to find out for sure is to uncover more galaxies like A1689-zD1. Unfortunately, they're extremely difficult to find—and the one other example astronomers have is almost entirely dust free, so it's impossible to say which type is more common. "We don't have any other candidates at this point," says Watson.

With ALMA, completed two years ago, and a new generation of giant optical telescopes now under construction, however, they're likely to find more of these galaxies before long. (See "Cosmic Vision: Telescopes.") The very early universe doesn't make a lot of sense at the moment—but that's almost certainly going to change.

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03-03-2015 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

Vet says government has acknowledged he was injured by UFO while on duty

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A U.S. Air Force veteran believes a UFO incident he experienced while on duty in 1980 is the root of his current health problems. However, initially the government denied he was on active duty at the time. With the help of a lawyer and U.S. Senator John McCain’s office, his records have been corrected and he has received his full medical disability. He and his lawyer now claim their victory represents the “U.S. government’s de facto acknowledgement of the existence of UFOs.”

John Burroughs was serving as a U.S. Air Force police officer at Royal Air Force Base (RAF) Bentwaters, near the Rendelsham forest in Suffolk, United Kingdom in December 1980 when the UFO incident took place. The base, along with its sister base, RAF Woodbridge, were on lease to the U.S.

John Burroughs accepting an award at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

Late on the night of the fateful incident, lights were seen in the forest and Burroughs and several other security personnel were sent out to investigate. They saw a bright light that grew brighter as they approached. It then flew off into the night sky.

The next night the lights were seen again. Skeptical of the whole affair, and eager to figure out what he assumed was a prosaic answer to the sightings, Deputy Base Commander Charles Halt took a group of men out again. This group included Burroughs. This time the entire group saw lights flying around the forest. Some of these orbs of light beamed rays of light on the ground near the men’s feet and on the nearby munitions storage.

Illustration simulating the UFO reported by Halt.

The event became a large story in the UK, and is still debated to this day.

Burroughs, who along with an airman named James Penniston approached closest to the object, feels his health issues stem from his proximity to the UFO. He has since found a document that was created by UK Defence Intelligence that also speculates this could be the case. A section of the report that covers UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) – another term for UFO – radiation, speculates, ”The well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods.”

Burroughs has since suffered from congestive heart failure, which he says he has been told by scientists can be caused by radiation exposure.

While living in Arizona, Burroughs sought to get his medical records from the U.S. Air Force to help his doctor diagnose his problems. However, they said he was not in the service at that time. Burroughs sought the help of a lawyer familiar with Veterans Affairs (VA) cases and U.S. Senator John McCain’s office. McCain’s office was able to get his military records corrected, but, according to Burroughs and his lawyer Pat Frascogna, McCain’s office was not confident he would ever get his medical records.

John Burroughs (right) and his lawyer Pat Frascogna presenting their case at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

In an Open Minds UFO Radio interview with Frascogna, he said it was not unusual that someone who worked on classified projects in the military would have records withheld. He said in these cases the military typically settles and grants disability. However, these are individuals who knowingly working on classified projects. Burroughs was not working on classified projects. However, the government is not required to say why military records have been classified or by whom.

Researcher Linda Howe (www.earthfiles.com) introducing Burroughs and Frascogna at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

At the recent 2015 International UFO Congress, Burroughs and Frascogna announced that, as Frascogna predicted, Burroughs was granted full medical disability. However, they say his medical records remain classified.

To Burroughs and Frascogna the granting of the benefits signifies an admission by the VA and Department of Defense (DOD) that his health issues stem from his years in the service. Furthermore, they believe it is an admission that they are a result of his close proximity to a UFO.

In a press release titled “U.S. Government’s De Facto Acknowledgement of the Existence of UFOs,” Burroughs writes:

In January of 2015, after years of exhaustive efforts the VA settled, in full, with me. I needed someone to champion my cause, someone not afraid to put themselves at risk to help me.  I was lucky.  I found two to champion my cause, my attorney Pat Frascogna, and Senator John McCain and his staff. Through their efforts, I received lifesaving heart surgery to replace a badly shredded anterior mitral valve caused by the UAP radiation, and a settlement from the DOD and VA admitting I was injured in the line of duty in December of 1980.

Although this story has a happy ending, Burroughs and Frascogna say they aren’t finished looking into what really happened in the Rendelsham Forest in 1980, and what the UK and U.S. governments know about it.

Pat Frascogna sharing information on John Burroughs’ case at the 2015 International UFO Congress. (Credit: Carlo Petrick)

Recent book on the Rendelsham Forest Incident written by former UK Ministry of Defence UFO researcher Nick Pope with witnesses John Burroughs and James Penniston.

Burroughs has submitted several Freedom of Information Act Requests in the UK and U.S. He has already been able to get the UK government to admit that they have more UFO files to release, even though they had previously claimed to have released all of their UFO files. He also says he is confident he will receive more files from the U.S. government that have not been available to the public before.

The Rendelsham Forest incident is often referred to as UK’s Roswell, and like its American counterpart, is the gift that keeps on giving with alleged new discoveries coming to light on a regular basis. Stay tuned for more revelations from Burroughs and Frasogna, and the other numerous dogged researchers out there who will undoubtedly continue their search for answers.

For his work getting the UK government to admit they had more UFO files to release, and for the discovery of the UK Defence Intelligence document speculating that the witnesses of the Rendelsham Forest Incident had been exposed to UAP (UFO) radiation, Burroughs was awarded the UFO Researcher of the Year award at the 2015 International UFO Congress. Watch the video below to view the presentation of the award.

Full text of the press release issued by Burroughs and Frascogna:

FOR RELEASE ON: February 22, 2015

U.S. Government’s De Facto Acknowledgement of the Existence of UFOs

PHOENIX, AZ — The United States Government has, for the first time ever, acknowledged by de facto the long-suspected reality of the UFO phenomenon.  John Burroughs encountered a craft of unknown origin in England’s Rendlesham Forest in December of 1980 and suffered injury there from for which the Veterans Administration has now recognized by granting him full medical disability. The December 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident in the United Kingdom is arguably the most well documented and important UFO encounter in history.  A UFO was seen over three consecutive nights by United States Air Force personnel stationed at the twin bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, near Ipswich, England — then the largest NATO air force bases at the height of the Cold War.

The UFO was tracked on radar and physical evidence was found at a site where the UFO was seen to land, including indentations in the frozen ground, scorch marks on the sides on the trees, and radiation levels subsequently assessed by the UK Ministry of Defense as “significantly higher than the average background”.

Airman First Class John Burroughs encountered the UFO at close proximity on the first night. While for many years the U.S. Government denied that this incident had even occurred, in 2006 the UK Government declassified an intelligence study on UFOs (codenamed Project Condign and classified as Secret UK Eyes Only) in which the following statement is found:

The well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon] radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting periods.

John Burroughs was one of those observers who was exposed to UAP radiation in the Rendlesham Forest in December 1980.  However, despite having been exposed to UAP radiation as postulated by the UK’s own intelligence report, the U.S. Government stonewalled John, his attorney, and two United States senators for years.  Now, after decades of persistence, the U.S. Government has finally acknowledged that John Burroughs suffered adverse health effects in the Rendlesham Forest and, therefore, has recognized the link between his health problems and the UFO he encountered.  In an interesting twist, John’s complete medical records file from that time he served in England remains classified.  In regard to the VA’s action on his case, John said:

In January of 2015, after years of exhaustive efforts the VA settled, in full, with me. I needed someone to champion my cause, someone not afraid to put themselves at risk to help me.  I was lucky.  I found two to champion my cause, my attorney Pat Frascogna, and Senator John McCain and his staff. Through their efforts, I received lifesaving heart surgery to replace a badly shredded anterior mitral valve caused by the UAP radiation, and a settlement from the DOD and VA admitting I was injured in the line of duty in December of 1980.

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