Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
11-07-2015
Angela Merkel gedwongen om geheime UFO-files vrij te geven die de overheid probeerde achter te houden
Angela Merkel gedwongen om geheime UFO-files vrij te geven die de overheid probeerde achter te houden
Na jaren juridisch getouwtrek heeft de rechtbank in Leipzig de Duitse Bondsdag opdracht gegeven geheime documenten over UFO’s vrij te geven. De Bondsdag heeft een tijd lang geprobeerd de stukken verborgen te houden.
Eerder maakte het Britse ministerie van Defensie bekend in maart volgend jaar 18 geheime UFO-files te openbaren, hoewel nog niet duidelijk is wanneer het publiek toegang zal krijgen tot de informatie.
In 2008 zei toenmalig minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Wolfgang Schäuble dat de Duitse overheid nooit onderzoek heeft gedaan naar UFO’s en er geen interesse in had. Twee jaar later ontdekte Robert Fleischer van Exopolitik.org dat de wetenschappelijke dienst van het Duitse parlement een speciale afdeling had voor het onderzoek naar buitenaardse intelligenties en UFO’s.
De Duitse blogger Frank Reitemeyer sleepte de Bundestag voor de rechter, die tot op heden probeert de documenten geheim te houden. De stukken bevatten onder meer een samenvatting van feiten over UFO’s en de zoektocht naar aliens en details over een VN-resolutie over een internationaal UFO-onderzoeksagentschap.
De Lions Ground Entertainment Group zei in een videoverklaring: “Het nieuws is een doorbraak voor alle UFO-jagers en -onderzoekers.” Anderen zijn bang dat de echte, oorspronkelijke documenten nooit zullen worden overhandigd.
Schrijver Nigel Watson zei: “Soms verbergen overheden dit soort informatie om operationele procedures of andere geheimen te beschermen, zoals bijvoorbeeld namen van getuigen. In dit geval willen ze misschien niet door laten schemeren dat ze dit onderwerp serieus nemen of dat ze net zo in het duister tasten als de rest.”
“Eén ding is zeker: ze zullen geen geheimen over buitenaardse technologie of lichamen van buitenaardsen onthullen, maar we kunnen altijd blijven hopen,” besloot hij.
De Russen hebben een buitenaardse mummie ( Video )
De Russen hebben een buitenaardse mummie ( Video )
De Russische KGB ontdekte in het begin van de jaren zestig een buitenaardse mummie in één van de piramides in Giza.
Een mummie die wordt genoemd de “Godsbezoeker” en meer dan 12.000 jaar oud is.
De verhouding tussen Egypte en Rusland is zonder meer goed te noemen. Sinds de crisis rondom het Suezkanaal in 1956 heeft Rusland de kant van Egypte gekozen en dat heeft ze het op bepaalde gebieden geen windeieren gelegd.
Het volgende verhaal is ooit uitgezonden via een documentaire op het Amerikaanse netwerk Sci-Fi in 1998. De documentaire, The Secret KGB Abduction Files, is ook ooit maar eenmalig uitgezonden.
Volgens een team van experts, verbonden aan het televisiestation, zijn de opnames echt.
Het verhaal gaat als volgt:
De Russen hadden in 1961 een expeditie georganiseerd naar Egypte onder de naam ISIS (die naam blijft ook maar overal opduiken). Het team bestond uit Egyptologen en militaire experts. De bedoeling was dat men op zoek ging naar kennis die bestond in het oude Egypte en die de Russen zouden kunnen gebruiken in hun militaire toepassingen.
In diezelfde periode vindt er een vreemde toevalligheid plaats.
Twee Bedoeïenen hadden een graftombe ontdekt in één van de piramides van Giza en waren naar binnen gegaan. De twee werden ziek nadat ze de grafkamer hadden betreden en kwamen in het ziekenhuis terecht.
De twee slachtoffers werden in het ziekenhuis niet alleen door de Egyptische veiligheidsdienst ondervraagd, maar ook de Russische KGB.
De twee Bedoeïenen beweerden dat ze de “Godsbezoeker” hadden ontdekt en dit was uiteraard koren op de molen voor Project ISIS.
Het duurde dan ook niet lang voordat de Russische expeditie zich op weg begaf naar de graftombe zoals je op de volgende afbeeldingen kunt zien.
In de stenen sarcofaag bevond zich een buitenaardse mummie met een lengte van ongeveer 2 meter.
De ouderdom van de mummie werd vastgesteld op zo’n 12.000 jaar, ver voordat volgens onze geschiedenisboeken de piramides werden gebouwd.
Is dit misschien het begin geweest van de prille buitenaardse contacten van Rusland die uiteindelijk hebben geresulteerd in een door president Poetin gesloten overeenkomst met buitenaardsen?
Hieronder volgt de originele documentaire uit 1998 waar het allemaal mee begon.
Did A UFO Experience Unfortunate Event In Rendlesham Forest In 1983?
Did A UFO Experience Unfortunate Event In Rendlesham Forest In 1983?
U.S. Army personnel stationed close to Rendlesham in Suffolk spotted a mysterious metallic triangle in 1983.
Considered as one of the most unusual events in British history, the Rendlesham Forest Incident will be explored in a new film. Rendlesham UFO has been the subject of a government cover-up for two decades.
In 1983, a weird, metallic triangle, dripping molten metal with a large red eye-like light was observed by U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in 1983.
Not like most of the reported UFO sightings, it was highlighted by audio recordings from senior U.S. soldiers, who also took some photos of the object they had seen.
One witness claimed to have received a binary code through telepathy but has never been deciphered.
But despite all of these, the Ministry of Defence concluded that natural phenomena were responsible after they investigated the strange incident.
This explanation has never been accepted by some soldiers involved and UFO fans.
Researcher and film director Daniel Simpson said he did investigations regarding the voice recordings before deciding to direct his fictional take on the incident.
Simpson firmly believes that USAF saw something that was not from Earth.
Witness Lt Col Charles Halt went on record to say the same thing.
Simpson said that the Rendlesham UFO Incident is one of the biggest UFO events if not the largest ever recorded along with Roswell case. It happened for 3 consecutive nights, which Simpson has believed being amplified by USAF personnel’s statements. One of them was a lieutenant colonel, who made a voice recording on a Dictaphone as the incident happened.
Retired soldier Colonel Charles Halt said that their security team saw a light that appeared similar to a large red eye, moving through the trees. According to Halt, it started to drip after a few minutes, something analogous to molten metal.
Other witnesses claimed to have experienced losing time period, seen unusual lights and heard howling noises.
Sceptics have argued that the apparent landing marks were just rabbit holes.
Several soldiers described the craft as flying saucer.
Author of the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual, Nigel Watson, said that the Rendlesham case is one of the most fascinating UFO incidents not only in Britain but the entire world. But no one offered substantial evidence to support the apparent crashes, noted Watson. It has been suspected that debris of crashed flying saucers and their alien pilots were taken away by Government retrieval teams.
Hangar 1: The UFO Files – Cops vs. UFOs History Channel, Season 2 Episode 9 5th June 2015
MUFON investigates extraterrestrial incidents involving security officers; The U.S. government’s denial and obfuscation methods escalate from discrediting UFO witnesses to ‘transferring’ military personnel to remote regions of the world.
Majestic 12 (MJ-12) is the code name of a secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft after the Roswell, NM UFO incident.
When President Truman was informed about the crash, he authorized Defense Secretary James Forrestal to set up a committee to investigate and deal with the situation. In 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower became President-elect, he was briefed on Operation Majestic-12. The briefing paper listed a 12-man committee and gave details of the UFO crash in Roswell. The final paragraph stressed the need to ‘avoid public panic at all costs’, confirming that the government was covering up the truth about UFOs.
In 1954, in conjunction with the US military, a ship landed to recover the deceased aliens from the Roswell crash. These ET’s made a pact that assumedly still stands today.
According to the work of Dan Burisch, a treaty was created by a group of beings who stated they time traveled from 45,000 years into the future AND 52,000 years into the future in order to obtain our DNA due to a cataclysm on Earth that wiped out most of humanity. Because they were living in underground bases at the time, only some of these people survived. This treaty is known as TAU-9 and involves the exchange of advanced technology for a limited amount of abductions. As part of their agreement, any abducted person would have amnesia and would not remember any part of the abduction or being aboard any spaceship. Terms of this agreement were set to be renewed every 9 years and has been ongoing since 1958.
Because of his involvement and concern for where America was heading, President Eisenhower warned the world of the power of the military industrial complex in his exiting speech in 1961:
It is estimated that there are at least 200 deep underground bases (DUMBs) throughout the world.
According to Phil Schneider, one of these DUMBs is located in UFO hotspot, Dulce, New Mexico.
Because these bases are so secretive and information about them is hidden from the public, it is assumed that they are created for nefarious reasons, including the preservation of those who have kept us enslaved for thousands of years. Supposition has inferred that once underground, the female menstrual cycle becomes irregular and reproduction would drop off significantly. Additionally, many of these people who have been assured underground base privileges come from similar bloodlines, which would be genetically deficient through inbreeding amongst themselves.
If these are they types of beings who returned from the future to harvest our DNA, then do you really think they are benevolent people? I seriously doubt it. Chances are, THEY were the ones who were responsible for whatever cataclysm that became their demise somewhere in the future and are turning to humanity as we know it today to bail them out.
SafeFriction: Noted UFO researcher Robert Hastings discussed his investigation into a decades-long connection between UFOs and nuclear weapon activity. “You’ve got UFO activity at virtually every type of nuclear weapons site and facility,” Hastings said. To that end, he noted that documents and witness testimony reveal that these encounters happen not just where the actual missiles are housed, but even at nuclear laboratories.
While the idea of UFOs tampering with Earth’s nuclear weapons may sound troubling, Hasting was more optimistic about the trend. He mused, “if these beings are attempting to warn our government of the perils of having nuclear weapons then, to me, that’s an entirely positive development.” However, he stressed that just because UFOs have taken an interest in our nuclear weapons, it does not mean that they could, or would, prevent a nuclear war should one erupt. “What has happened so far is no predictor of future events,” he warned.
The archeologists and other workers on Easter Island have made another strange discovery. This time they have found an elongated head with almond shaped eyes. Why is there no mention of this in mainstream media? Or do we really know the answer to that?
From the article:
Heads Up! An Exciting New Discovery!
“Among the many wonderful insights we have gained during our excavations in Rano Raraku Zone, Interior Quarry Region this new head is the most exciting! Measuring 69cm tall, it is located in Square 6 at a depth of 420cm. When we discovered it the head was standing upright, propped in place with stones, close to the right side of the moai (RR-001-156). The moai, in turn, is unfinished and standing in a basin cut with great skill and care into the bedrock. There was no intention of moving this moai out of the quarry.
The rounded form of the head and its incised, almond-shaped eye is more in keeping with petroglyph styles that with the elongated, rectilinear style of themoai. However, and as the new 3D imagery created by EISP team member Greg Downing of xRES Studio clearly shows, the head style is also very similar to that of Tukuturi (RR-002-030), the famous kneeling statue uncovered by the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition, 1954-55. This incredible new find means that we will now have to reconsider our ideas of moai style.
Other finds during our 2014 seasons include a large shaped block of coral, an obsidian eye of a small carving, more pigments, basalt and obsidian tools, and a bone fishhook. To date, we have also recovered more than 6,000 stone tools (toki)! The analysis of this incredible amount of material is a huge undertaking, and we are hard at work with colleagues on laboratory studies of obsidian, basalt, wood, and carbon. We’ll keep you informed as we make, quite literally, new headway!”
A former NASA astronaut who has walked on the moon has said aliens are not only real but have visited Earth several times. Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of several UFO visits during his career, but each one had been covered up. The 77-year-old, who was a crew member of the Apollo 14 mission, said sources at the space agency had described aliens as resembling “little people who look strange to us” Dr Mitchell told Kerrang! Radio that human technology was “not nearly as sophisticated” as theirs and had they been hostile, he warned: “We would be been gone by now”.
He said: “There’s not much question at all that there’s life throughout the universe, we are not alone at all. I’m most assured about that. “Have we been able to identify where the other planets are? No, certainly not in our Solar System but we have been able to identify quite a number of planets that could be life bearing planets. “I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real. “It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it. “I’ve been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes we have been visited. “Reading the papers recently, it’s been happening quite a bit.”
Dr Mitchell, along with Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard, still holds the record for the longest ever moonwalking session at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission. Officials from NASA, were quick to play the comments down. In a statement, a spokesman said: “NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe. “Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.” NASA means Never A Straight Answer.
Black Knight Satellite Caught Creeping Up on the ISS (VIDEO)
This intriguing video was probably smuggled out of the Russian Federal Space Agency by someone who wanted the truth out there.
NASA would never have released such a video but, as we’ve all come to know, Russia has always been straightforward about the UFO phenomenon. A large number of cases take place in Russia and researchers routinely report them.
The video in question was shot by Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In the lower right of the screen we can see the Progress Cargo Ship slowly approaching the station when an unusual shape becomes visible.
As the strange object draws closer, it becomes obvious that it wasn’t made by man. We’ve never built any craft of that particular shape. It does however resemble the infamous Black Knight Satellite.
Concerned researchers have suspected the existence of an alien satellite orbiting Earth since 1954, three years before the launch of the first man made satellite, Sputnik 1. In fact, observations suggested not one, but two of these watchers were orbiting high above. By 1960, even the United States Department of Defense had recognized this presence.
During humanity’s first orbital flights, the Black Knight made its appearance and was allegedly seen by Gordon Cooper on the last day of his mission. Reports continued sporadically throughout the next decade, until Scottish astronomer and writer Duncan Lunan brought it back into attention.
He decoded an extraterrestrial signal that allegedly came from the Black Knight and translated it into a star map. The map pointed to a star in the constellation Boötes, but the constellation was depicted as it would have looked 13,000 years ago. Therefore, the extraterrestrial satellite must have been orbiting our planet for the past thirteen millennia. The prospect of having been monitored that long is a bit disturbing, to say the least.
Closer inspection reveals the object is solid and strangely-shaped
If half the rumors about the extraterrestrial space probe are true, and the object in the video is indeed the Black Knight, we might be in a tight spot. Word around the UFO community is that this satellite is a watcher tasked with monitoring our technological level. With humanity’s increased presence outside our atmosphere, the Black Knight could communicate that to its makers and draw them here. Even worse, it could take action on its own.
One thing is certain—seeing it floating slowly towards the ISS is a sign that of its interest.
On the other hand, this could be a very unusual incident involving space junk.
"Oude Chinezen ontdekten Amerika duizenden jaren eerder dan Columbus"
“Rotstekeningen bewijzen dat oude Chinezen Amerika duizenden jaren eerder hebben ontdekt dan Columbus”
Al honderden jaren wordt gedacht dat de Italiaanse ontdekkingsreiziger Christoffel Columbus Amerika heeft ontdekt, maar oude rotstekeningen die in de VS zijn gevonden zouden ervoor kunnen zorgen dat de geschiedenis moet worden herschreven.
Wetenschappers hebben oude graveringen gevonden die erop wijzen dat Chinese ontdekkingsreizigers Amerika al ver voor de Europeanen hebben ontdekt. Ze ontdekten pictogrammen die lijken op oude Chinese tekens.
De onderzoekers zeggen dat de rotstekeningen duizenden jaren geleden kunnen zijn gemaakt door Chinese ontdekkingsreizigers. John Ruskamp, een gepensioneerd scheikundige en amateur-epigraaf uit Illinois, stuitte tijdens een bezoek aan het Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico op de ongewone pictogrammen.
Positief contact
Hij claimt dat de pictogrammen erop wijzen dat oude volken uit Azië rond 1300 voor Christus al voet aan wal hebben gezet in Amerika, bijna 2800 jaar voordat de schepen van Columbus de Nieuwe Wereld bereikten.
“Deze oude Chinese tekens in Noord-Amerika kunnen niet nep zijn,” zei Ruskamp. “Ze zijn zeer oud. Deze wetenschappelijke studie bevestigt dat de oude Chinezen meer dan 2500 jaar geleden op een positieve manier contact onderhielden met de indianen en Amerika verkenden. Uit het patroon kunnen we opmaken dat het eerder om een expeditie ging dan om een nederzetting.”
Veel experts reageerden sceptisch op de uitspraken van Ruskamp vanwege het gebrek aan archeologisch bewijs voor de aanwezigheid van oude Chinezen in de Nieuwe Wereld. Ruskamp is niet de eerste die claimt dat de Chinezen Amerika als eerste ontdekten. Luitenant-commandant Gavin Menzies beweerde dat een vloot Chinese schepen in 1421, 70 jaar voor de expeditie van Columbus, naar Noord-Amerika is gevaren.
Verweerd
Ruskamp heeft 84 pictogrammen gevonden die overeenkomen met unieke Chinese vindplaatsen verspreid over de VS. Hij zegt dat veel van deze pictogrammen zijn onderzocht door experts op het gebied van oude Chinese teksten. Ze lijken op vormen van schrift die duizenden jaren geleden verloren zijn gegaan.
Pictogrammen die hij op rotsen in Albuquerque heeft gevonden lijken op een vorm van schrift die de Chinezen na het einde van de Shang-dynastie gebruikten. Ruskamp zegt onder meer Chinese tekens voor honden, bloemen en de aarde te hebben gevonden.
Ruskamp heeft een boek en een paper geschreven over het onderwerp. Hij legt daarin uit dat de graveringen duidelijk zijn verweerd, wat erop wijst dat ze lang geleden zijn gemaakt en niet in de afgelopen 150 jaar.
Enkele dagen geleden, op 6 juli 2015, vond er een vreemde gebeurtenis plaats boven de Russische stad St. Petersburg.
Een studente die brokstukken in de lucht naar beneden zag vallen, was ervan overtuigd dat ze een vliegtuigongeluk zag.
Het was toeval dat Ana Zhmaeva die dag op straat liep, in de lucht keek en daar iets zag dat verdacht veel leek op een botsing tussen twee vliegtuigen.
Het volgende is wat ze zag:
Het lijkt op de filmbeelden die je hieronder ziet of er twee objecten met elkaar in botsing komen, waarna uiteindelijk de brokstukken richting aarde vallen.
Ana Zhmaeva vertelt het volgende: “Toen ik begon met filmen verdwenen de twee UFO’s alsof ze waren geëxplodeerd of tegen elkaar gebotst”.
Vervolgens meldde ze het voorval bij de politie, in de hoop dat die meer informatie hadden. Echter, deze ontkenden dat er sprake zou zijn van een vliegtuigongeluk omdat daar bij hen geen enkele melding van was binnen gekomen. Ook waren er nergens brokstukken gevonden, volgens de politie.
Nu wil het toeval dat er ergens in de buurt die dag klaarblijkelijk wel een vliegshow was, maar ook verkeersleiders ontkennen dat er daar sprake geweest zou zijn van een ongeluk. Volgens hen was alles bij de vliegshow zonder problemen verlopen.
De politie bevestigt wel dat zij de video hebben gezien en zeggen dat ze verder onderzoek gaan doen.
Wanneer je de beelden bekijkt dan is het ook duidelijk dat er enkele objecten tegen elkaar botsen, maar wat voor objecten blijft voorlopig een raadsel.
Nu is St Petersburg ook weer één van die plekken op aarde waar regelmatig UFO’s worden waargenomen. Misschien is dat het geval omdat de Russische president Poetin daar is geboren, wie weet.
Zo waren er in begin april 2012 bijvoorbeeld talloze getuigen die een soort vloot van oranjeachtige UFO’s waarnamen boven de stad. De volgende video is gemaakt op 9 april 2012.
Twee dagen later, op 11 april van dat jaar, was het weer raak:
Wat dat betreft is het dus niet zo vreemd dat er twee van die UFO’s boven St. Petersburg tegen elkaar zouden kunnen botsen. Wat natuurlijk ook nog een mogelijkheid zou kunnen zijn, is dat het geen botsing betreft tussen verschillende UFO’s, maar dat het er één is die explodeert.
Latest Videos and Pics of the Latest Flight Test of NASA’s Flying Saucer
Latest Videos and Pics of the Latest Flight Test of NASA’s Flying Saucer
NASA’s latest test flight of its flying saucer in hopes to send humans to Mars safely and efficiently was considered as a partial success of the most ambitious project so far after its parachute failed to open properly.
NASA website statement said that its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project completed the second flight test when the large saucer-shaped craft splashed down successfully in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
But a problem was encountered during the live recorded launch when the parachute only partially opened. The parachute was intended to slow the craft in descent only.
However, the second test was an improvement on the previous one where the parachute was ripped to shreds after opening, which means that more work should be done before it can be used. The U.S. space agency has until 2035 to improve the flying saucer-shaped craft.
The latest launch has been delayed due to poor or unstable weather conditions near the surface, which prevented the launch of the balloon. The test flight used a balloon to transport the spaceship above Earth’s atmosphere, so calm conditions are needed for the test flight to go ahead.
The craft underwent preliminary tests in June 2014 when it was sent 120,000 feet above Earth, where the thin atmosphere is similar to Mars. The balloon exploded after it reaches the correct height. We’ll keep you updated with more pictures and videos of the test and other tests in the future.
Hangar 1: The UFO Files – The Smoking Gun History Channel, Season 2 Episode 8 22nd May 2015
Hangar 1 investigates the discovery of SOM1-01, a top-secret Special Operations Manual detailing government protocols for recovering extraterrestrial UFOs that have crashed on Earth. Is this the smoking gun we’ve been looking for, proving the government’s knowledge and interaction with UFOs and extraterrestrial life?
Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified by the observer. The United States Air Force, which coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though the term UFO is often used more generally to describe any sighting unidentifiable to the reporting observer(s). Popular culture frequently takes the term UFO as a synonym for alien spacecraft. Cults have become associated with UFOs, and mythology and folklore have evolved around the phenomenon. Some investigators now prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to avoid the confusion and speculative associations that have become attached to UFO. Another widely known acronym for UFO in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian is OVNI.
1) There are an average of 70,000 reported UFO sightings every year, worldwide. That’s an average of 192 per day.
2) No UFO has ever been tracked on radar entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
3) 1 in 5 Americans believe in alien abductions. Interestingly, males are more likely to believe in abductions than females.
4) 1 in 7 Americans say that they, or someone they know, have had an “encounter" with a UFO.
5) According to some UFO aficionados, the Men in Black (MIBs) really do exist, and have been hammering on the doors of alien witnesses ever since the first appearance of flying saucers in 1947.
6) Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
7) Kenneth Arnold Sighting (1947) – Washington, United States Just before 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot and a fire control equipment salesman from Boise, Idaho, was taking a flight over the Cascade Mountains looking for the remains of a lost C-46, over which there was a $5,000 reward being offered.
Arnold did not find the missing aircraft but he saw a bright flash of light and spotted nine brilliant objects, with the lead object a little higher than the rest, moving south toward Mount Rainer. He calculated their speed at 1,700 miles per hour which was an impossible speed. The main object looked like a dark crescent; the other eight objects were flat and disc-shaped. Arnold estimated their chain length to be five miles long. They disappeared soon after. A new era of unidentified flying objects began after this widely publicized sighting in the United States. In fact, it was his descriptions that gave rise to the now common terms “flying disk” and “flying saucer.”
8) No discussion on UFOs is complete without mentioning Roswell. It is considered to be the bread and butter of Ufology, and the heart of UFO studies for long. The news spread worldwide about the first alien craft crash. It was considered as the long awaited proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. The Air Force announced being in possession of the flying saucer but later denied, saying it was a weather balloon.
Years later, there was talk of military cover up of an actual UFO crash. A large area filled with debris from wreckage was discovered and the material found was unfamiliar and metallic, unlike anything seen before. Although, theories are composed of conflicting accounts, there were some facts that were clear. Something huge had crashed near Corona. Rumors had it that witnesses were threatened if they revealed what they saw. There were too many witnesses who claimed to have seen alien bodies. There is also enough evidence that autopsie were done on an alien body.
9) One of the most interesting and convincing cases is the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill. The couple was driving home at night on Interstate Route 3 in New Hampshire after a short vacation in Canada, when they noticed a while light in the sky.
Barney got out of the car to look at the object through his binoculars. The light got closer and it looked like a pancake shaped object with windows revealing occupants. They got scared and went back home and realized they had lost a couple of hours without them realizing it.
Betty started having nightmares about aliens and Barney had severe back. A respected psychiatrist in Boston, Massachusetts, felt they were suffering from anxiety syndrome and put them both under hypnosis.
He was convinced that they were abducted by the aliens. During the hypnosis sessions, both revealed separately that they were abducted by bald aliens about five feet tall, green skin and large heads. They said their skin, nail and hair samples were taken. Betty said they inserted a long needle into her naval, which they said was a pregnancy test and Barney had to provide a semen specimen.
One aspect of this investigation that cannot be explained to this day is that in 1963, Betty Hill drew a very detailed map of a star system that was only discovered later in 1969. She said she was shown this map by the aliens. Astronomers at Ohio State University compared their computer generated map with this one and both were completely alike.
Skeptics point out the inconsistencies, including the aliens speaking to Betty in English while Barney said they used some sort of telepathy.
Now, more than forty years later, it could not be proved that it was a hoax.
10) Philip Spencer, a policeman in London, moved to Ilkley Moor after leaving his job. While getting some photographs of the moor, he heard a humming sound and saw a small green creature, around four feet tall. That creature moved away quickly and when Spencer shouted, it turned and waved an arm dismissively, which is when Spencer said he took this photograph. It moved faster than a human. He followed it and saw a huge silver saucer disappear into the clouds. He realized the humming sound was from the saucer.
Later, he realized that he lost more than two hours of his time and his compass also went haywire. The picture was shown to a UFO researcher and a thorough investigation started. Wildlife photography experts and Kodak laboratories revealed that it was no animal and that the object was indeed part of the photo and not superimposed.
Spencer started having weird dreams and under hypnosis, he revealed a fascinating tale of being abducted by an alien and taken aboard the craft and given a medical examination before being released. Spencer could now remember that the picture was taken after his release from the UFO.
One thing that makes the researchers confident that Spencer may not have set the whole thing up was due to the fact that he never wanted publicity or money.
11) The Alien Named “Aleshenka” (1996) – Kashtim, Russia This is a compelling account of an Alien body from Russia. An elderly woman in the village of Kashtim saw a small creature near the Ural Mountains, and the creature was whistling to catch her attention. She took it home. The creature had skin that was gray with dark brown spots on the head. There was no hair, small holes in place of ears, small and flat nose, long fingers with sharp claws, a tiny hole in place of a mouth and no lips. The old woman nursed it back to health. After a couple of weeks, the woman was hospitalized for a psychiatric problem and left her companion at home without food.
Later, the dead body of the being that measured 8 ½ inches in length was found by the police. After testing, doctors claimed that the creature is not could not have been a child.
The body was handed over to Galina Semenkova, head of a UFO expert organization. Galina later said that aliens from a flying saucer demanded the body and she gave it to them.
However, the whereabouts of Aleshenka’s remains are a mystery to this day. Have the aliens really taken it back? Is the mummy under research in some laboratory?
There are several controversies surrounding UFOs. While proponents feel that UFOs are vehicles from other dimensions; skeptics propose the psychological-social hypothesis. There is even the man-made craft hypothesis by some who feel they are nothing but American or Russian aircraft. Fact or Fiction?
12) The first documented UFO sighting is in the Bible. The prophet Ezekiel described a “great cloud with fire enfolding itself, a wheel in the middle of a wheel that descended and fired lightning bolts into the earth.”
13) The first photograph of a UFO was taken in 1883 by astronomer Jose Bonilla in Zacatecas, Mexico.
14) Alexander Hamilton reported a cow being kidnapped by an airship in Le Roy, Kan., in April 1897.
15) Winston Churchill reported a strange airship in Kent, England, Oct. 14, 1912. It was the first case of a UFO being “officially” reported.
16) On Feb. 25, 1942, a large, dark object over the Los Angeles coastline was mistaken for a Japanese attack and drew a barrage of anti-aircraft fire. Memos to President Roosevelt confirmed the existence of unidentified aerial objects.
17) UFOs were often seen and photographed during NASA’s space missions in the 1960s.
18) UFO sightings have been claimed by former President Jimmy Carter, Clyde Tombaough (the astronomer who discovered Pluto) and William Shatner (who claims to have been rescued by aliens who pointed him in the right direction when he was lost in the Mojave Desert).
Germany's parliament has been ordered to release confidential documents about UFOs after a lengthy legal battle.
The existence of the files was disputed as recently as 2008, but a UFO enthusiast discovered evidence to the contrary and pushed for their release.
News of the impending publication has been welcomed by UFO researchers, but some fear they may not be as exciting as hoped.
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Germany's parliament has been ordered to release confidential documents about UFOs, after a lengthy legal battle. A stock image of Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel is shown
The German Supreme Administrative Court in Leipzig ordered the Bundestag to make the UFO files available.
In 2008, Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's Minister of the Interior denied that the German government had ever investigated UFOs, but in 2009, a UFO enthusiast named Robert Fleischer discovered a parliamentary department had been investigating extraterrestrial objects.
A German blogger named Frank Reitemeyer took the Bundestag to court over the secret reports and the dispute has only just been resolved,The Express reported.
No date for the release of information has yet been confirmed.
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In 2008, Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's Minister of the Interior denied that the German government had ever investigated UFOs (illustrated with a stock image), but in 2009, a UFO enthusiast named Robert Fleischer discovered a parliamentary department about extraterrestrial objects
FAMOUS UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE UK
The British version of Roswell reportedly took place over Christmas in 1980.
It occurred in Rendlesham Forest, which is next to RAF military bases.
Soldiers reportedly saw unusual lights and when they investigated, found a metal object with coloured lights.
But as they approached the 'craft', it moved away, frightening farm animals.
The incident is unexplained, but some people say the lights were reflections from a nearby lighthouse and the craft may have been a secret weapon.
On March 31, 1992, high speed white objects were spotted in the skies and an officer at RAF Cosford and Shawbury spotted a large triangular craft hovering at 200ft, which was humming and shining a spotlight.
The incident was reported to the Ministry of Defence and sceptics say it could be explained by a nearby police tracking helicopter or a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere.
UFO enthusiasts are already looking forward to March, when the UK's Ministry of Defence will make 18 confidential UFO files available in the National Archive, although there's a chance they may not be accessible by the public.
Some paranormal investigators have greeted the forthcoming German release with enthusiasm, but Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigation Manual, said: 'They won't reveal any secrets about hidden alien technology or alien bodies, but then again we can always hope!'
Mr Watson believes some governments hide UFO-related information to protect other secrets.
'Sometimes governments hide information like this to protect operational procedures or protect non-UFO related secrets, like the capabilities of early warning systems or the names and details of witnesses,' he said.
'In this case perhaps they don't want to show they have taken this subject seriously, or that they are as much in the dark as everyone else.'
It was only in 2005 that the British government admitted conducting a thorough scientific study into UFOs, after years of denial.
'It concluded that unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, do exist, but not flying saucers,' Mr Watson said.
'When, or if the German files are released, it will be interesting to see if they come to similar conclusions.
He told MailOnline: 'I doubt it [the information] will be anything related to the recovery of crashed saucers or clandestine meetings with aliens.
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Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigation Manual, said: 'Sometimes governments hide information like this to protect operational procedures or protect non-UFO related secrets, like the capabilities of early warning systems or the names and details of witnesses.' A stock image of secret documents is shown
'It looks like much of their material is related to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) and the implications of alien contact and whether this relates to UFO sightings in Germany.
'Then again there might be some surprises!'
Mr Reitemeyer told the Berlin Court in 2011: 'I want to know facts and it bothers me that in France, England, USA, Canada, the citizens can see the UFO files, and I am not informed as a German from my German government,' The Huffington Post reported.
Mr Watson said the move 'shows that public pressure, and the work of activists, does eventually work to get these UFO 'secrets' released by Governments.
'In Britain, it literally took decades for most of the UFO files to be released.
'The demand for UFO information is such that governments are forced to respond and the internet is the ideal medium for making this material available, taking pressure off civil servants who have to deal with requests on a daily basis.'
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When will we know we have found extraterrestrial life?
When will we know we have found extraterrestrial life?
This is the "South Pillar" region of the star-forming region called the Carina Nebula. Like cracking open a watermelon and finding its seeds, the infrared telescope "busted open" this murky cloud to reveal star embryos tucked inside finger-like pillars of thick dust.
Credit: NASA
(Phys.org)—As we become more advanced in astronomy, continuously searching and finding lots of potentially habitable extrasolar planets that could harbor alien life, it seems that it's not a matter of if but when we will find extraterrestrial organisms. However, the real tough problem here is: How we could determine if the alien life has really been found? "The question is not so much 'when will we find extraterrestrial life?' But 'when will we know we have found extraterrestrial life?'" Terence Kee, the President of the Astrobiology Society of Britain told Phys.org. "My feeling is that we may indeed find signs of life in a few decades, but whether we will be unambiguously able to identify it as 'extraterrestrial life' - as opposed to terrestrial contamination or abiotic far-from-equilibrium processes - in such a short time-frame, I'm not so sure."
Kee noted that we are able in any realistic sense to detect only life forms that have a terrestrial-based biochemistry, so we would probably bet on bodies that have liquid water and some form of geological free energy source. He puts his hopes on space probes looking at out-of-equilibrium gas distributions in exo-planetary atmospheres. However, any potential findings revealed by these probes would be only an indication, without the capability to definitively determine the existence of alien lifeforms.
We could also turn to meteorites in the ongoing search for E.T. and hope that these rocks came from a parent body that may have harbored life. If we're lucky, relics of life are contained within that sample and have not been destroyed. Kee surprisingly admits that luck is really the key condition here.
"As most of these relics are likely to have been fossilized in some way, we would need to cash in on some more luck so that we can demonstrate sufficient differences between such relics and potential abiotic mechanisms of formation on earth—chemical compositional differences, isotopic ratio's mineral morphologies or, most valuable perhaps, presence of specific molecules which could only be produced by biogenic processes, etcetera," he said.
The biggest challenge is to clearly identify if the life forms existed on the studied meteorites a long time prior to re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Before that is established, any new finding would be just a potential signature of extraterrestrial life. For example, in 2011, Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, claimed he had found the remains of living organisms from a parent celestial body in a rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites.
"The complex filaments found embedded in the CI1 carbonaceous meteorites represent the remains of indigenous microfossils of cyanobacteria," Hoover claimed.
His team used Environmental (ESEM) and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) to analyze the meteorite samples, studying internal surfaces. For comparison, Hoover compared the samples to those of terrestrial minerals and biological materials.
Hoover's claims sparked controversy and NASA distanced from his conclusions, pointing out his lack of expert peer reviews. The findings were soon debunked after publication.
More recently, two scientists suggested that the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is studied by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, hosts microbial alien life. The University of Buckingham's Chandra Wickramasinghe and his colleague, Max Wallis of the University of Cardiff, insist that the characteristic features on the comet, including a black, carbon-containing crust and underlying ice; large, smooth 'seas'; flat-bottomed craters and a surface peppered with mega-boulders, might only be explained by the presence of life.
But the last week's claims also sparked skepticism among other scientists specializing in the search for extraterrestrial life, debunking the newly presented hypothesis. The researchers rejecting the new findings emphasize that complex organics are generated in many places in the solar system through photochemistry and this is evidence for anything other than abiotic chemistry.
So far, we haven't found any convincing proof of alien life embedded in meteorites. However, Kee, undeterred by the long-lasting search and continuous skepticism, is looking to the future with hope.
"In order to receive Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket of Astrobiology, we would need to be ready to search as many meteorites as we can get hold of, which we already do. Overall, I reckon we would need to be lucky. But hey, many people have won the lottery. The trick is to keep buying the tickets," Kee concluded.
ET phone Earth! We could be on the verge of answering one of the essential questions of humanity that has captivated our minds for centuries. As we advance in technology the search for extraterrestrial life becomes more sophisticated and promising. But the real frosting on the cake would be finding any signs of an intelligent alien civilization. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project is looking carefully for these signs, listening to the Universe that may be full of potential ET signals. In an interview with astrowatch.net, key figures of alien life hunting discuss the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life. SETI’s Seth Shostak, Paul Shuch, Douglas Vakoch and Gerry Harp talk the odds of finding ETs, explain the famous “Wow!” signal received in 1977 and unveil the future of the search for aliens.
Astrowatch.net: When will we find extraterrestrial life? Will it take less than 20 years as some NASA scientists believe?
Seth Shostak: No one knows, obviously. But based on the speed of our SETI searches, I predicted five years ago, in a talk and a paper, that we could find a signal proving the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence within two dozen years. More recently, NASA says the same thing, but “life” not “intelligent life”. I suspect they’re betting more heavily on finding evidence of microbial life in the solar system.
Paul Shuch: I am less optimistic, short-term, though very hopeful, long-term. I believe SETI is a multigenerational enterprise. We have only had telecommunications technology and radio astronomy for less than an eye-blink, on the cosmic calendar.
Douglas Vakoch: There are three ways we could find life beyond Earth in the next twenty years. As we explore the planets and moons of our own solar system, we could find evidence of microbial life close to home. As our capabilities for detecting atmospheres of planets circling other stars improve, we might find support for life on those distant worlds. And as we use radio telescopes to look for signals from advanced civilizations through SETI, we could find the telltale signs of alien technologies. Of these three search strategies, only SETI has the potential for a discovery as early as tonight. With enough commitment and funding, any of the three approaches could succeed by 2035.
Gerry Harp: It might happen in less than 20 years. If I were to guess, I’d say there is a 50% chance that we will discover life elsewhere within 30 years from now. The first generation of planet-characterization telescopes in space may be coming on line in less than 20 years, but my guess is that life won’t be discovered until the second generation.
The other way life may be discovered is via SETI. Carl Sagan once famously estimated that there are one million transmitting civilizations in the galaxy. Taking this as a working hypothesis, we will be able to test this hypothesis within the next 10 years. I have little doubt that there are so many active civilizations in the galaxy, but again, we may need more sensitive telescopes than the ones we currently have or will have soon to find ET. So once again, I estimate that there is a 50% chance that life will be discovered via SETI in the next 30 years.
There is a substantial chance that within 30 years, we will find life by both methods.
Astrowatch.net: In your opinion, what was the famous “Wow!” signal? Was it really a signal from an alien civilization?
Shuch: That is one of two reasonable hypotheses. The other is that this was a previously undiscovered natural astrophysical phenomenon. Either possibility is exciting, but we are likely never to know which is the case.
Harp: The “Wow!” signal was almost certainly radio frequency interference. The signal failed to pass even the simplest tests to exclude interfering signals from that observation campaign. From another perspective, at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), we see dozens of signals comparable to “Wow!” every day. This is simply because we have much more computational power than they did back when “Wow!” was seen. If the “Wow!” signal were seen today, it would be a yawn. However, there is a silver lining to the “Wow!” signal. “Wow!” has inspired a lot of public interest in SETI. Despite being a not very scientific result, public awareness of “Wow”! has been beneficial to SETI. So I generally think of “Wow!” as being a good thing from that perspective.
Shostak: We cannot say that “Wow!” had anything to do with extraterrestrial intelligence. I was searched for a bit over one minute after first being found, and was not detected again. It was a one-off, and could easily have been terrestrial interference. It’s not good science to make claims that this was due to extraterrestrial beings.
Vakoch: The “Wow!” signal had all the characteristics of a real signal from ET with one critical exception – it never repeated. Without this one essential requirement of science – that observations can be replicated – we have no basis for thinking it was really from an extraterrestrial civilization.
A scan of a color copy of the original computer printout, taken several years after the 1977 arrival of the "Wow!" signal. It was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while he was working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University. The signal appears to have come from an area of the sky with no stars or planets, northwest of the globular cluster M55. Image Credit: The Ohio State University Radio Observatory and the North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).
Astrowatch.net: Why the “Wow!” signal is so special? How much it differs from the other ordinary signals we receive every day?
Vakoch: In the SETI Institute’s ongoing search for radio signals from other civilizations, we find promising signals all the time. The critical difference is that we can immediately follow-up to see whether the signal is really coming from a distant star, or whether it’s caused by a satellite in Earth’s orbit or a radio transmitter on Earth. When the “Wow!” signal was detected in 1977, such real-time follow-up was impossible.
Shostak: It’s special because the name is appealing. There were more than 100 other types of signals back then, before we had equipment able to quickly follow up on signals.
Shuch: There are about a half a dozen tests that can be run on received signals to mark them as being of possible extraterrestrial origin. Many detections pass one or a few of these tests, and remain interesting SETI candidates. The “Wow!” signal was the first detection to pass all of the tests to which it was subjected. Of course, even that is not conclusive evidence, because there was no independent confirmation, a necessary condition for certainty.
Harp: It isn’t at all special or different from signals that we observe every day at the ATA. I hope you’re not disappointed that I’m not so impressed by the “Wow!” signal. I think you will find that many professional scientists in the field do not find the “Wow!” signal very convincing. But that doesn’t mean that SETI isn’t a good thing to do. There is still a 50% chance, by my estimates, that our first discovery of life off of our planet will be a discovery of a transmitting civilization.
Astrowatch.net: Do you think that we will receive similar signals in the future?
Shuch: We will in the future; we have in the past. We continue to see a few interesting candidates every year. The “Wow!” was merely the first such phenomenon to be observed, and then extensively sought in follow-on experiments. Until such time as they can be independently verified, all signals are enigmas.
Shostak: Less probable. Many SETI experiments, including ours, have the ability to “follow up” almost immediately. When you can do that, “Wow” type signals don’t seem to occur!
Harp: We see such signals all the time. To answer a different question, we do sometimes observe signals that look even more interesting, from our perspective, than “Wow!” Sometimes the signals that repeat – “Wow!” was not repeatable – that carry on for some time and then disappear. I wish I knew more about such signals, but if we can’t prove a signal really is ET, it is our duty to not make a big deal about it.
Vakoch: We receive promising candidate signals every night, but so far, they don’t repeat, so we have to assume they’re made by humankind.
Astrowatch.net: How close is SETI today to finding signals from an extraterrestrial civilization?
Vakoch: We could find a signal from extraterrestrials any day now. And the search will get better as technology advances. In the next twenty years, we should be able to look closely at about a million stars for signs of advanced civilizations, and that’s a large enough number to have a reasonable chance of finding intelligence in the cosmos, if it’s really out there and trying to make contact.
Harp: Although I am rather conservative about when we will find ET, there is always a chance we will find it today or tomorrow. We are observing with the ATA every day, 12 hours a day. It could happen any time.
Shuch: We are in the phase of developing hardware, software, and other tools for designing and conducting our experiments. We are still in our technological infancy.
Astrowatch.net: What needs to be done to better detect potential signals from ETs?
Shuch: We need to dramatically increase our coverage of the search space, by bringing online many more observing stations, monitoring a wider portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, operating around the clock, and coordinating among themselves to provide independent verification of candidate signals.
Shostak: The real problem is lack of adequate money to do the experiments.
Vakoch: SETI searches through the cosmic static, looking for signals that stand out from the background noise as distinctly artificial, signals that nature can’t create. We need a lot of computing power to sort through all that data. The good news is that computing power increases every year, so the normal trajectory of technological progress is on SETI’s side!
Harp: We need faster signal processing. The ATA is actually not sensitivity limited. We are limited by the large amount of so-called radio frequency interference in our observations. In order to find ET faster, we need to be able to process a larger number of candidate signals and this requires a lot more computational power. If I were king, I would upgrade the electronics at the ATA with a $10 million dollar analysis system to increase our observing speed one hundred-fold. Then we’d crank through observations of the entire sky and find ET in a lot less time.
Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research. He also heads up the International Academy of Astronautics’ SETI Permanent Committee. He’s co-authored a college textbook on astrobiology, and has written three trade books on SETI. In addition, he’s published more than 400 popular articles on science – including regular contributions to both the Huffington Post and Discover Magazine blogs – gives many dozens of talks annually, and is the host of the SETI Institute’s weekly science radio show, “Big Picture Science.”
Paul Shuch is the Executive Director Emeritus of The SETI League, Inc. He is also the principal investigator for the Invitation to ETI, a web-based SETI experiment. He developed the San Marino Scale, an analytical tool for quantifying the significance of transmissions from Earth into Space. He’s the author or editor of more than 650 publications, including a dozen books and roughly 300 papers in various conference proceedings, technical, scholarly and popular journals.
Douglas Vakoch is the Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute. He leads the SETI Institute’s project to compose interstellar messages of the kind that may some day be sent in reply to a signal from extraterrestrials. As a member of the International Institute of Space Law, he examines international policy issues related to sending such responses. He serves as Chair of both the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Study Group on Interstellar Message Construction and the IAA Study Group on Active SETI: Scientific, Technical, Societal, and Legal Dimensions.
Gerry Harp is the Director of the Center for SETI Research. Most of his effort is still focused on doing SETI with the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a radio interferometer telescope owned by the SETI Institute. The technical side of this work involves automated control of the ATA and ultra-high speed digital signal processing systems to isolate weak signals potentially from outer space, from the sometimes strong human-made signals all around us.
Reposted with permission from Astrowatch.net. See the original article here.
BOOMERANG ALIEN CRAFT SPOTTED OVER NEW JERSEYMAY 12, 2015
……. BRIDGEWATER NEW JERSEY
I was driving south on Route 202/206 approaching the high voltage power lines south of I-78. I noticed a very low flying craft up ahead. It was gliding slowly eastbound and had large lights. About ten seconds later the craft came into sight again gliding westbound. I crossed paths with it. It came into view in front of me and I never took my eyes off of it as it glided by. I drove under it as it glided out of view of my windshield. It glided very slowly in my line of sight from left to right for about 4 seconds. I estimate it was about 500 ft off the ground and the “wing” span was at least 100ft. The front end was boomerang shaped. It had five large lights along the boomerang end, one at the tip, one at the center of each “wing” and one at the end of each “wing”. The lights were bright white but did not project any beam of light. I could tell that the craft was more than just a boomerang shape because it was very dark behind the white lights and there was one small blue-ish ring of light about 50ft behind the center white light. I heard no noise as it glided by. I pulled over hoping to see it in the distance but the area where I pulled over had many trees. I drew a sketch of it for my husband but have no way to scan if from home to attach.
NOTE: The above image was a rendering.
This case is under investigation by Ed Dobson of MUFON New Jersey.
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