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...
03-09-2015
Flaming Orange UFO Hiding In Cloud, Causes Lightning On Aug 31, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Flaming Orange UFO Hiding In Cloud, Causes Lightning On Aug 31, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 31, 2015
Location of sighting: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
This is a great example of a giant UFO (orange) caught during sunset and its making the white cloud below it to hide over. At the 45 second mark a small aircraft exits the lower part of the cloud on the left side of the screen. It has plane lights on, but it could also be a small UFO. I doubt that a pilot would fly into a cloud like this on purpose.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Eyewitness states:
A crazy looking cloud appeared in the sky near Phoenix, Arizona on August 31st displaying what looked like a glowing , fire orange gaseous haze above a large cloud giving it the appearance of being on fire. It was atmospheric optics at work courtesy of the sunset but it was definitely a "Kodak Moment"! However, I have never seen such a display, very unique (to me).
Spotters Seen ‘Reptilian Shape-Shifting Alien Ship’ Over Russia
Spotters Seen ‘Reptilian Shape-Shifting Alien Ship’ Over Russia
In most cases, the Unidentified Flying Objects are linked to hoaxes, not because they are a product of imagination, but because the sighting being reported are too incredible to be true. Among the objects seen by different witnesses throughout the world are a triangular-shaped object, extraterrestrial craft, strange lights, and a shadow of humanoid or alien-like creature and objects of a different shape. In Russia, it sounds like there will be another object that is being added. After the sighting, a group of sky gazers released a film that shows a strange object trying to hide the clouds. The question is, is it an alien craft or more than that?
This extraordinary video shows a weird “shapeshifting reptilian” vessel whizzing through the skies over Russia. The description was from those who firmly believe in aliens. It was the SecureTeam10 who released the striking phone-filmed footage. They are a group that specializes in revealing “damning” facts of creature from outer space visitations. This indistinct community of alien spotters released footage recently of a strange Black Knight strange object as well as other mysterious craft zooming past the International Station. The other object is in a “warp speed”.
According to the SecureTeam10, the filmmaker saw the object when the break in the clouds happened. Afterward, he decided to use his phone and start filming and focusing on the cloud in the desire to document the viewed object. Extraterrestrial believers see the footage as evidence that there is a strange alien creature visiting the Earth. While some observers said it was similar to a mystery machine that followed a young child, the craft was believed to be “reptilian” in origin. Others also suggested that the strange object on the footage was being edited through computer graphics by a person who wants to get some attention. However, the most favourite explanation is from one YouTube user named Ruckus Bird, describing it as a Batman.
Really strange sighting over Hollywood, Florida 2-Sep-2015
Really strange sighting over Hollywood, Florida 2-Sep-2015
Check out this interesting footage taken by a security guard. This happened in Hollywood in Florida on Wednesday, 2nd September 2015. What do you think about this phenomena?
Witness report:solid white ball of light, had no physical qualities, had no shadow of solid object Overnight Security at a construction site. Sitting in the NE corner of the property with a female security guard. We both look up and see it, I immediately record the object moving and take pictures of it. After it was gone I took pictures and video of the flight trail. The ufo was white and very bright. It appeared as a solid ball of light showing no shadow of a solid object like a plane or rocket. It flew into the sunrise and was no longer visible after flying behind a cloud, even though the trail was still visible up until the point it disappeared at. To travel from the coast to thay point of about 1.5 miles, it took a solid 2 minutes.
Alien sightings should not be new to most of the people because there are so many strangeextraterrestrial creatures and crafts available by some witnesses who experienced, whether directly or indirectly, such unusual occurrence. The battle of the story is whether or not it is a factual event or just a made-up story from people seeking attention. As a matter of fact, it’d be difficult to tell apart from a genuine footage and pictures from hoaxes. In determining which claim is real, the task is for the experts to study.
When NASA is being involved, is it an exception to the general principle? Recently, there are questions surrounding the internet if aliens are truly keeping an extraterrestrial eye on the International Space Station of NASA. Footage of an orb hovering in a new clip has convinced people that humans are being watched. According to the live feed on August 23, it is claimed that it may be a UFO. The light that appears to be a flicker on the horizon keeps rapidity and swiftness with the space station that travelled at 17,000 mph. The space station saw weeks after a single pink orb; it created a huge headline in the world. Seattle PI witnessed the second ‘UFO.’ As for the images, they posted it along with a comment that comes to ask if they are aliens or not. Alternatively, the sunlight light reflects a bit of satellite or space junk.
As with all things in life, those things are unexplainable by ordinary senses are considered to be strange and weird. It is significant to record that while we ought to proceed with intelligence to ensure that we do not fall victim to some man-made hoaxes, there are also sightings that are genuine and can be explained. Whatever it is, the objects are already seen by thousands of people throughout the world.
*AMAZING* UFO sighting filmed over Hahira, Georgia 31-Aug-2015
*AMAZING* UFO sighting filmed over Hahira, Georgia 31-Aug-2015
Georgia UFO sighting
Here’s one really interesting footage that was filmed by night vision webcam in Hahira in Georgia. This happened on 31st August 2015 at 11:26 pm.
Witness report: 6 light objects in straight line formation moving forward past camera video found on webcam this morning. Six objects appearing bright in straight line formation moving through the woods at night toward our webcam and passing by. this wildlife webcam is stationary to a pine tree approximately 4 foot off the ground. Video does not have the best clarity. not sure if it could possibly be some type of night birds. the deer in the video appears to look nervous after passing. there is no sound available on the video camera. also the direction the lights come from are thick brushy woods.
Source: MUFON
*Update: I just noticed that I received a report 4 years ago about the similar sighting over Georgia. You can check out out at this link, it happened on 25th July 2010.
Mississippi: Triangular-Shaped Object Hovering In Sky
Mississippi: Triangular-Shaped Object Hovering In Sky
Triangle UFO
On February 26, 2015, a Mississippi witness at Lewisburg captured and recorded what appears to be a triangular-shaped strange object hovering in the sky. The witness happens to be a fifteen-year-old girl who had been seeing bright lights for one week in the same location. The case was being filed as 63598 by Mutual UFO Network as reporting database.
According to the witness, it made her easier to see the strange object because it snowed during that time, and the craft was closer, brighter and more visible. At 12:46 in the morning, the witness ran outside and began recording the object. At first she noticed that the object is in a lower area in corn fields, and it remained there for twenty minutes. Afterwards, the odd object disappeared, and the path of flight is not traceable anymore. When asked about the lights, she admitted seeing pulsating lights with a red glow at times. As it appears closer, it looks like a large triangular aircraft with bright lights pulsating. The case was being investigated by Mark Bort, the Mississippi Field Investigator.
Bort stated in his report; the witness claimed seeing an object approximately 400-500 yards away over the treetops at 80 feet from the ground. Furthermore, she said seeing outside in uncovering feet to obtain a record of the object nearby. She was able to capture the object for a moment or two since there was snow on the ground. Once shooting the video, she came home and continued to observe the object for approximately twenty minutes.
Many people labelled Unidentified Flying Objects to aliens and strange humanoid creatures when in fact, it could be other things. Of course, no one can say who made it or who built it. That is why in every strange sighting, people connect those things to aliens. Are these extraterrestrial creatures harmful? Area 51 is a place known for its high secrecy and security. Visitors can see the white trucks going on the hills while watching and observing the human movement. A former Area 51 researcher named Glenn Campbell, decided to visit the area for old time memories. Upon deciding to visit, it ended up playing a little mouse and cat game along with the security guards of Area 51, often labelled as “Cammo Dudes.” They are such terms because they wear camouflage.
As posted in his recent encounter, the exact location was not mentioned. In the video, Campbell stated that the footage is like an old time happenings. He admitted going out for research together with the Area 51’s border. The activity is something that he has not done in decades now. He was just south of Nevada, and North on Nellis Range line. Within public land, the so-called Cammo Dudes started following me. He describes the dudes as a team in a white pickup truck. However, they are quite shy. Whenever he pointed his camera towards them, they back-up in the bush. The only time he got close was when they shouted to get to their border. Shepherd Johnson, an occasional contributor to the prominent website, posted the video. Since this part of the video is incredibly comical, it reminds him of a traditional Looney Tunes cartoon.
As you can perceive in the video, there is a truck backing up. The scenario reminds him of a little cat hiding its head. Unfortunately, it becomes invisible now. Needless to say, their effort to hide was not sufficient. Since it gets funnier, Campbell decided to have more fun. As seen in the video, Campbell sneaks up to film the whole time. He concluded that they were not government employees. Instead, they work for a private contractor that possibly works for the government.
NASA conceives Comet Hitchhiker spacecraft for exploring Asteroids and Comets
NASA conceives Comet Hitchhiker spacecraft for exploring Asteroids and Comets
Written by Elizabeth Landau NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA – Catching a ride from one solar system body to another isn’t easy. You have to figure out how to land your spacecraft safely and then get it on its way to the next destination. The landing part is especially tricky for asteroids and comets, which have low gravitational pull.
A concept called Comet Hitchhiker, developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, puts forth a new way to get into orbit and land on comets and asteroids, using the kinetic energy — the energy of motion — of these small bodies. Masahiro Ono, the principal investigator based at JPL, had “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in mind when dreaming up the idea.
This artist concept shows Comet Hitchhiker, an idea for traveling between asteroids and comets using a harpoon and tether system. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornelius Dammrich)
“Hitchhiking a celestial body is not as simple as sticking out your thumb, because it flies at an astronomical speed and it won’t stop to pick you up. Instead of a thumb, our idea is to use a harpoon and a tether,” Ono said. Ono is presenting results about the concept at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SPACE conference on September 1st.
A reusable tether system would replace the need for propellant for entering orbit and landing, so running out wouldn’t be an issue, according to the concept design.
While closely flying by the target, a spacecraft would first cast an extendable tether toward the asteroid or comet and attach itself using a harpoon attached to the tether. Next, the spacecraft would reel out the tether while applying a brake that harvests energy while the spacecraft accelerates.
Comet Hitchhiker, shown in this artist rendering, is a concept for orbiting and landing on small bodies. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornelius Dammrich)
This technique is analogous to fishing on Earth. Imagine you’re on a boat on a lake with a fishing pole, and want to catch a big fish. Once the fish bites, you would release more of the line with a moderate tension, rather than holding it tightly. With a long enough line, the boat will eventually catch up with the fish.
Once the spacecraft matches its velocity to the “fish” — the comet or asteroid in this case — it is ready to land by simply reeling in the tether and descending gently. When it’s time to move on to another celestial target, the spacecraft would use the harvested energy to quickly retrieve the tether, which accelerates the spacecraft away from the body.
“This kind of hitchhiking could be used for multiple targets in the main asteroid belt or the Kuiper Belt, even five to 10 in a single mission,” Ono said.
Ono and colleagues have been studying whether a harpoon could tolerate an impact of this magnitude, and whether a tether could be created strong enough to support this kind of maneuver. They used supercomputer simulations and other analyses to figure out what it would take.
Researchers have come up with what they call the Space Hitchhike Equation, which relates the specific strength of the tether, the mass ratio between the spacecraft and the tether, and the change in velocity needed to accomplish the maneuver.
In missions that use conventional propellant, spacecraft use a lot of fuel just to accelerate enough to get into orbit.
“In Comet Hitchhiker, accelerating and decelerating do not require propellant because the spacecraft is harvesting kinetic energy from the target,” Ono said.
For any spacecraft landing on a comet or asteroid, being able to slow down enough to arrive safely is critical. Comet Hitchhiker requires a tether made from a material that can withstand the enormous tension and heat generated by a rapid decrease in speed for getting into orbit and landing.
Ono and colleagues calculated that a velocity change of about 0.9 miles (1.5 kilometers) per second is possible with some materials that already exist: Zylon and Kevlar.
“That’s like going from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under seven minutes,” Ono said.
But the bigger the velocity change required for orbit insertion, the shorter the flight time needed to get from Earth to the target — so if you want to get to a comet or asteroid faster, you need even stronger materials. A 6.2 mile-per-second (10 kilometer-per-second) velocity change is possible, but would require more advanced technologies such as a carbon nanotube tether and a diamond harpoon.
Researchers also estimated that the tether would need to be about 62 to 620 miles long (100 to 1,000 kilometers) for the hitchhiking maneuver to work. It would also need to be extendable, and capable of absorbing jerks on it, while avoiding being damaged or cut by small meteorites.
The next steps for studying the concept would be to do more high-fidelity simulations and try casting a mini-harpoon at a target that mimics the material found on a comet or asteroid.
Comet Hitchhiker is in Phase I study through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program. NIAC is a program of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, located at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. Professor David Jewitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, partnered in this research. JPL is managed by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena for NASA.
For a complete list of the selected proposals and more information about NIAC, visit:
‘Bizarre’ giant sea scorpion may have been the world’s first big predator
‘Bizarre’ giant sea scorpion may have been the world’s first big predator
The fossil of a previously unknown species of 'sea scorpion' has been discovered in Iowa. (PATRICK LYNCH - YALE UNIVERSITY)
Two words you probably don't want to hear in one sentence? Sea scorpion. Well, happy Tuesday.
Scientists have discovered the world's oldest specimen of (yikes) sea scorpion in an ancient meteor impact crater in Iowa, and it's a real doozy.
About 460 million years ago (back when Iowa was an ocean, naturally) the creature Pentecopterus decorahensis skittered about on the ocean floor. Described in a study published Monday in BMC Evolutionary Biology, the sea scorpion is 10 million years older than any previously discovered member of its group. And, at an estimated 5.5 feet long, it's one of the biggest, too.
“This is the first real big predator,” lead study author and Yale University researcher James Lamsdell told the Associated Press.
Fossilized remains of the Pentecopterus’s many limbs. (James Lamsdell)
"The new species is incredibly bizarre. The shape of the paddle -- the leg which it would use to swim -- is unique, as is the shape of the head. [The scorpion is] also big -- over a meter and a half long," Lamsdell said in a statement.
The new species -- named for an ancient Greek warship called the penteconter, which it loosely resembles in body shape -- was most likely a fierce predator, based on its large front arms covered in long spines, similar to ones that horseshoe crabs use to handle their food. Meanwhile other, rear-facing legs covered in tiny hairs for sensing the environment would have helped it move about the sea.
Pentecopterus decorahensis. (James Lamsdell)
The creatures’ fossilized exoskeletons (the hard outer shell like those of cockroaches and crabs) were incredibly well-preserved, Lamsdell said in a statement. Scientists could basically peel them off of the rock and study them under a microscope, revealing details about what the animals looked like and how they moved.
“At times it seems like you are studying the shed skin of a modern animal,” he said, “an incredibly exciting opportunity for any paleontologist.”
A cool find to be sure, but we're glad that sea scorpions had their heyday half a billion years ago.
Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In Space)
Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In Space)
Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or in the hard vacuum of deep space.
Unlike humans, with our pesky need for things like oxygen and sugar, some creatures are more flexible in the habitats where they feel comfortable. Here are five lifeforms who are prepared to live on other planets right now.
The discovery of dense colonies of these one-to-two-inch-long, flat, pinkish worms burrowing into a mushroom-shaped mound of methane seeping up from the sea floor raises speculation that the worms may be a new species with a pervasive and as yet unknown influence on these energy-rich gas deposits . . . "It's very cool that while we're busy speculating about life on other planets we continue to discover new forms of life in the most unlikely habitats on Earth," commented Erin McMullin, a Penn State graduate student and a member of the research expedition that discovered the methane-ice worms. Methane ice, a gas hydrate, forms naturally at the high pressure and low temperature of the deep sea, but is usually buried deep in marine sediment. The Gulf of Mexico is one of the few places where hydrate can be found exposed on the ocean bottom. Occasionally this seeping, solid methane bursts through in mounds, often six to eight feet across.
What does this tell us about life on other planets? On Saturn's moon Titan, there are seas of methane gently lapping at the gorgeous beaches, lit by Saturn's glowing bands. If the proposed mission to sail Titan's seas ever gets underway, it's possible we may find creatures very similar to the ice worms living there.
Sea creatures who can live in hard vacuum Tardigrades, also known as water bears, look like cute little sea caterpillars with eight legs. But these half-millimeter-long, transparent little guys are among the hardiest creatures on Earth.
Native to icy regions, the tardigrade has one superpower: It can go into a suspended animation state called tun, during which it completely dries out and can withstand extreme temperature fluctuations. It can even withstand the vacuum of space, as researchers discovered when some tardigrades were sent on a space mission in 2008.
What does that tell us about life on other planets? Now that the tardigrade genome is being sequenced and analyzed, we may learn how these creatures finesse suspended animation. And perhaps we can modify our own genomes to do the same thing for long space journeys. Plus the fact that they can exist in vacuum means that other organisms might have a tun-like state, drifting through space in search of new worlds to thrive on.
Giant sulfur-eaters of the deep
They live at the edges of molten-hot volcanic vents deep beneath the ocean, and they feed on sulfides delivered to them by local bacteria. These giant tube worms, which can reach 7 feet in length, live a mile below the ocean surface under extreme pressure. Their tips are bright red because they're filled with blood - these worms are seriously packed with blood vessels. And they prefer live at the edge of "black smokers," volcanic vents where temperatures can be extremely hot.
What does this tell us about life on other planets? The interesting thing about giant tube worms isn't that they can withstand extreme heat, but that they can gain nourishment in an environment with chemistry radically different from our atmosphere. They're basically eating sulfides, which are abundant on planets like Venus, whereit occasionally snows iron sulfide. Could tube worms thrive on Venus, with its heat and high pressures and sulfide weather?
The iron-eating microbes of blood falls
In Antarctica, a pool of seawater trapped beneath the ice is packed with microbes that have evolved to live without light or oxygen.
The liquid, which comes from a pool of seawater that has been trapped inside the glacier for at least 1.5 million years, is alive with around 30 different types of bacteria with some unique chemical moves.
The microbes have cycled through a million generations since being cut off, and live by slowly nibbling away at organic material trapped with them - likely to be "a mishmash of old 'skeletons'", according to Mikucki.
To get energy from organic matter, living things break molecules' high-energy bonds. This releases high-energy electrons, which are passed down a chain of molecules, releasing manageable chunks of energy at each step.
In humans and many other large organisms, oxygen is the final acceptor in this electron transport chain. But in the subglacial pool studied by Mikucki and her team, as well as in other extreme environments, there is no free oxygen to use for this purpose. Many microbes use sulphate as their final electron acceptor, producing hydrogen sulphide in the process. But Mikucki and her co-workers found no evidence that this was happening in the mysterious Antarctic pool.
When the team looked at sulphate in their samples, however, they found evidence that the microbes had put the sulphate through chemical reactions. The researchers believe that the microbes are using sulphate as a catalyst in a complex chain of reactions in which the final electron acceptor is iron. "We think they are using it to get at the iron oxides," says Mikucki.
Using iron as a final electron acceptor is not unprecedented. But using sulphate to do it is. In fact, many biogeochemists thought it unlikely that any organism could use iron in this way in the presence of a lot of sulphate, because iron and sulphate would just react together to make pyrite. And yet these Antarctic microbes are using iron as the final step in their electron transport chain not only in the presence of a lot of sulphate, but with its assistance.
"This is how an ecosystem has sustained itself despite being covered by lots of ice in cold and darkness," says Mikucki. "Life finds a way."
What does this tell us about life on other planets? Like the tube worms, these microbes are able to gain energy and thrive on chemical compounds totally alien to typical Earth creatures. A creature that eats iron oxides, instead of photosynthesizing light or chomping on organic compounds like we do? It could possibly thrive in the salty, iron-rich seas beneath the thick layer of ice that covers Jupiter's moon Europa.
The bacteria who survive lethal radiation doses
D. radiodurans is a bacteria that can endure a thousand times more radiation than a person can, largely because of its amazing DNA repair system. People die of radiation sickness because tiny radioactive particles literally rip our DNA apart, which means (among other things) that our cells can no longer reproduce and basic body regulation systems are halted. But this bacteria is brilliant at reassembling shattered DNA.
"The organism can put its genome back together with absolute fidelity," says Claire M. Fraser, of The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland. This characteristic is what makes D. radiodurans so great, because even when radiation shatters DNA, it can be repaired by the bacterium proteins. Additionally, the microbe has between four and ten copies of its DNA, rather than the usual single copy. The additional genomes may allow the bacterium to recover at least one complete copy of its genome after exposure to radiation.
What does this tell us about life on other planets? One of the main problems with building a human outpost on the Moon or Mars is that we would be exposed to dramatically more radiation than we are on Earth (a lot of radiation from space bounces off our atmosphere and magnetosphere). What these microbes prove is that there's a way to harden DNA against radiation damage. So creatures on a planet with thinner atmosphere and weak magnetospheres could survive - or maybe, if we reengineered our DNA to be more like D. radiodurans, we could survive too.
Blood falls image by Benjamin Urmston. Thanks to Marilyn Terrell for the inspiration!
What are the Vimana? Are they ancient flying machines? We have been told that the Wright brothers were the first to fly in 1903. Was it the Wright brothers who managed to turn dream into reality? Or is it possible that the dream of flight, was something present in ancient India, thousands of years ago? Today, Vimana is the name attributed to a flying machine used by the gods of ancient India. The earliest accounts of this amazing civilization are written in Sanskrit thousands of years ago, where different types of Vimanas are referred to. These strange flying machines were used in incredible battles, battles resembling modern-day jet panes engaging into action, but only hundreds of years before Christ. In the Mahabharata, these incredible battles are described. The Vimanas are mentioned forty-one times with sophisticated combat weapons that shoot beams of light.
The ancient texts refer to King Salva attacks against the city of Dwaraka, where the God Krishna lived. Salva leads a flying Vimana called Saubha that has the power to become invisible. Krishna returns the attack with lightning that locates and destroys his enemies through sound.
The Ramayana also makes reference to incredible flying machines, telling the adventures of Princess Sita, kidnapped by the evil Ravana, where a Vimana called Puspaka is mentioned.
According to Dr. V. Raghavan, former professor of Sanskrit at the University of Madras, there are countless documents in Sanskrit, dating back thousands of years, that proved that extraterrestrial beings were in ancient India thousands of years ago. There extraterrestrial visitors were referred to as Gods. And these gods had numerous weapons and technologies that were interpreted by ancient people as heavenly.
But not only due to ancient text have the aerodynamic qualities of these Vimana but there are also texts that talk about how these flying machines can be built. The Ramayana indicates that 16 types of metals are needed to build a Viana, here on Earth we only have three of the metals mentioned in the sacred texts.
According to researchers, these ancient texts also refer to incredible technologies like anti gravity. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University of Chandrigarh managed to translate some of the texts written in Sanskrit that make reference to “anti-gravitational” forces. Technology that the Yogis developed to “levitate”. According to research, the same anti-gravitational force is what allowed the Vimana to move freely through space.
The Viana are mentioned in several other texts, apart from Hindu mythology, indicating that these flying machines of the gods were a possibility thousands of years ago. Doctor Raghavan says that the technology was brought by beings from other planets thousands of years ago at a time when the Anunnaki lived among people and the Sumeria culture flushed in ancient Mesopotamia. Many Ufologists believe that the Vimana are what we today refer to as “flying saucers”. These mysterious vehicles are piloted by otherworldly beings and we can find proof of them in ancient texts across the globe, like the Sanskrit where the flying machines are mentioned in detail. Researchers believe that there are many other texts that have not been translated yet, and hold important details regarding otherworldly visitations and their technology thousands of years ago.
“Those who came from above” is, in Sumerian language, Anunnaki. Ancient Astronaut theorists believe that the Anunnaki showed the Sumerians, then the Babylonians, how to build and manage these sophisticated machines. Some believe that his knowledge extended all the way to ancient India pointing towards the iconography of some Hindu gods and some mythological accounts as being evidence of a possible connection to the ancient Anunnaki.
And if ancient texts don’t convince you about ancient flying machines, then check out the incredible similarities between NASA’s new Orion capsule and the ancient Indian Vimanas.
Below, the image of the Orion Capsule.
Featured image credit: www.oddx.com Image Credit: geocities.jp / NASA
Aboriginal legends reveal ancient secrets to science
Aboriginal legends reveal ancient secrets to science
Scientists are beginning to tap into a wellspring of knowledge buried in the ancient stories of Australia’s Aboriginal peoples. But the loss of indigenous languages could mean it is too late to learn from them.
The Luritja people, native to the remote deserts of central Australia, once told stories about a fire devil coming down from the Sun, crashing into Earth and killing everything in the vicinity.
The Luritja lands include areas to the west and south of Alice Springs, extending around the edge of Arrernte country.
The local people feared if they strayed too close to this land they might reignite some otherworldly creature.
The legend describes the landing of a meteor in Australia’s Central Desert about 4,700 years ago, says University of New South Wales (UNSW) astrophysicist Duane Hamacher.
It would have been a dramatic and fiery event, with the meteor blazing across the sky. As it broke apart, large fragments of metal-rich rock would have crashed to Earth with explosive force, creating a dozen giant craters.
The Northern Territory site, which was discovered in the 1930s by white prospectors with the help of Luritja guides, is today known as the Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve. Gigantic wave
Mr Hamacher, who runs an Indigenous astronomy program at UNSW, says evidence is mounting that Aboriginal stories hold clues about events from Australia’s ancient past.
Last year, he travelled to Victoria with tsunami expert James Goff, also from UNSW, to visit members of the Gunditjmara people.
“They describe this gigantic wave coming very far inland and killing everybody except those who were up on the mountaintops, and they actually name all the different locations where people survived,” says Mr Hamacher.
He and Mr Goff took core samples from locations between 500m and 1km (0.6 miles) inland, and at each spot, they found a layer of ocean sediment, about 2m down, indicating that a tsunami likely washed over the area hundreds, or possibly thousands, of years ago.
The samples need further analysis but Mr Hamacher says it is a “very exciting” result that suggests the legend could be true.
Earlier this year, another team of researchers presented a paper arguing that stories from Australia’s coastal Aboriginal communities might “represent genuine and unique observations” of sea level rises that occurred between 7,000 and 11,000 years ago.
The crash landing of a meteor in the Central Desert would have been a fiery affair. Thousands of iron-based meteorite fragments have been found in the vicinity, validating its classification as an impact crater.
Nick Reid, a linguistics expert from the University of New England in Australia, co-authored the paper with marine geographer Patrick Nunn from the University of the Sunshine Coast. Fact checking
The stories they analysed, which had been documented in colonial times, referred to water levels rising over coastal areas that were once dry.
By looking at historical records of sea level rise following the last glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, they were able to match the stories to coinciding dates.
Mr Reid says the relative isolation of Australia’s indigenous people – living for 50,000 years more or less free from cultural disruptions – and the conservative nature of their culture could help explain why there is so much detail in their stories. Secret knowledge
“Aboriginal people have very particular beliefs about the importance of telling stories properly, and about stories being told by the right people,” he says.
They also employ a rigid kin-based, cross-generational system of fact-checking stories, involving grandchildren, parents, and elders, which Mr Reid says doesn’t seem to be used by other cultures.
This extreme conservatism and adherence to accuracy can also be seen in rock paintings, drawings and engravings, which were often used to support oral legends, says Les Bursill, an anthropologist and member of Sydney’s Dharawal people.
But there is a problem – Indigenous languages are dying off at an alarming rate, making it increasingly difficult for scientists and other experts to benefit from such knowledge. More than 100 languages have already become extinct since white settlement.
About 145 Indigenous languages are still spoken in Australia by at least one person but a 2014 report by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies found that 75% of these were considered “critically endangered”.
7 Irregularities that suggest Earth's Moon was engineered
7 Irregularities that suggest Earth's Moon was engineered
Even though the Apollo missions brought back to Earth huge amounts of data about the moon, it has remained an enigma for astronomers and scientists alike. Dr. Robert Jastrow, the first president of NASA’s Commission of Lunar Exploration called the moon “the Rosetta Stone of the planets.”
But what is it about the moon that fascinates everyone? Well there are many people who firmly believe that Earth's moon is actually a terraformed and engineer piece of hardware that has a 3 mile thick outer layer of dust and rocks. Beneath this layer it is believed that the moon has a solid shell of around 20 miles made of highly resistant materials such as titanium , uranium 236, mica, neptunium 237. Definitely elements that you would not expect to find "inside" the moon.
There are many UFOlogists around the world who speculate that the moon is actually a giant base where extraterrestrials survey mankind's progress.
There are so many mysteries surrounding Earth's moon that there are those who have proposed that the moon could be something entirely different.
Robin Brett, a scientists from NASA stated, "It seems easier to explain the non existence of the Moon than its existence."
Here are 7 Irregularities that suggest Earth's Moon was engineered and might be a giant hollow base:
1) The Moon seems engineered. On November of 1969, NASA intentionally crashed a lunar module that caused an impact equivalent to one ton of TNT on the Moon. The shock waves built up and NASA scientists listed to what was happening on the Moon. Strangely, after impact, NASA scientists said that the Moon rang like a bell and the reverberation continue for thirty minutes. According to Ken Johnson, supervisor of the data and photo control department, the Moon not only rang like a bell, but the whole Moon "wobbled" in such a precise way that it was "almost as though it had a gigantic hydraulic damper struts inside it.
2) The Moon has elements it should not have. In the 1970's Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcerbakov from the Soviet Academy of science wrote an article called: "Is the Moon the creation of Alien Intelligence?" It was a very interesting article that asked some important questions. How is it possible that the surface of the moon is so hard and why does it contain minerals like Titanium? Mysteriously, there are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain PROCESSED METALS, such as Brass, Mica and the elements of Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237 that have NEVER been found to occur naturally. Yet there are traces of them on the Moon. Uranium 236 is a radioactive nuclear waste which is found in spent nuclear and reprocessed Uranium. More interestingly, Neptunium 237 is a radioactive metallic element and a by-product of nuclear reactors and the production of Plutonium. You have to ask the question: What is happening on Earth's Moon? From where are these elements and minerals coming from?
3) Earth's Moon does not have a solid core like every other planetary object. Researchers are nearly 100 percent sure that the Moon is in fact hollow or has a very low intensity interior. Strangely, the Moon's concentrations of mass is located at a series of points just below the surface.
4) The Moon is older than Earth. Our Moon is unlike any other satellite discovered in the known universe. Researchers know the Moon is 4.6 billion years old and that raises a lot of questions. This means that te moon is older than the Earth by nearly 800,000 years according to scientists.
5) Incredible orbit. Earth's moon is the only moon in the solar system that has a stationary, nearly "perfect" circular orbit. It's a fact that the Moon does not spin like a natural celestial body. In other words, our Moon does not share any characteristics with other moons found in our Solar System. If it wasn't strange enough, from any point on the surface of our planet, only one side of the Moon is visible. What is the moon hiding?
6) Lunar rocks and titanium. There are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain ten times more titanium that "titanium rich" rocks on planet Earth. Here on Earth we use Titanium in supersonic jets, deep diving submarines and spacecraft. Its unexplainable. Dr Harold Urey, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry said he was "terribly puzzled by the rocks astronauts found on the moon and their Titanium content. The samples were unimaginable and mind-blowing since researchers could not account for the presence of Titanium.
7) Precise position. If all of the above points did not get you to think differently about the Earth's moon here are some more interesting things about the Moon. What is keeping the moon in its nearly perfect position? the moon has a precise altitude, course and speed, allowing it to "function" properly in regards of planet Earth.
Simply put the Moon should not be where it is currently. Everything points to the possibility that Earth's moon was in fact placed into its current position in the distant past. The Moon's unnatural orbit and irregular composition raises hundreds of questions that neither NASA scientists, astronomers or geologists are able to answer today. Despite all efforts to understand Earth's "natural" satellite, the truth is that we have very little information about the Moon's origin and purpose. What do you think the moon is? A nearly perfect natural occurrence? Or do the Moon's origins surpass human understanding?
Une carte interactive recense toutes les apparitions d'ovnis dans le monde
Une carte interactive recense toutes les apparitions d'ovnis dans le monde
Des nuages en forme d'ovnis observés en Croatie, le 9 février 2015. - Ivo Ravlic/CROPIX/SIPA
Voyez-vous des objets dans le ciel? Vous n’êtes pas seul. Le monde entier est témoin de ces apparition d’objets volants, qui sont parfois non identifiés. En fait, le Centre national de signalement des ovnis recense plus de 60.000 de ces apparitions, observées depuis 76 ans. Et pour se rendre compte à quel point le phénomène est mondial, un homme a créé à partir de ces données une carte interactive, qui laisse songeur.
«On a observé des choses étranges dans le ciel depuis des centaines d’années, explique Nigel Watson, auteur d’un Manuel d’investigation des ovnis, au Daily Mail. Mais ce n’est que depuis qu’on les appelle soucoupes volantes ou ovnis que les gens se rendent compte que c’est un phénomène mondial.»
La CIA, plus grand fournisseur d'ovnis
Certaines zones, explique-t-il, sont plus propices à l’apparition d’ovnis. On les appelle des «zones de fenêtres d’ovnis» ou des «portails à ovnis». Ainsi, Bonnybridge, une ville écossaise de 6.000 habitants, connue comme la capitale des ovnis dans le pays, est témoin de 300 apparitions chaque année.
Les sceptiques expliqueront ces apparitions par des activités militaires. La CIA a affirmé en décembre dernier que la moitié des ovnis observés dans les années 1950 et 1960 correspondaient à ses tests d’avions espions U2, volant à plus de 18.000 mètres d’altitude.
La multiplication des drones ces dernières années, ou la facilité qu’offre internet pour signaler une apparition d’objet volant, pourraient expliquer l’augmentation des signalements ces dernières années. «Avec ou sans internet, conclut Nigel Watson, les ufologues estiment que 5 à 10% seulement des apparitions signalées sont réellement surnaturelles et méritent une enquête plus poussée.»
UFOs and extraterrestrials have long been treated as the ultimate conspiracy theory by the establishment. Therefore, the growing chatter of mainstream news stories about UFOs and aliens seems very peculiar. Why the attention all of a sudden? Is the establishment conditioning us for the arrival of extraterrestrials? Could they have an agenda for doing so?
Quick story: when I was a 21-year-old carefree hippie, a friend and I jumped in my Volkswagen Westfalia camper and headed west for a mountain-biking road trip. One of our destinations was Roswell, New Mexico to see what remained of the UFO hype from the famed encounter in the late ’40s. We had a guidebook which mentioned a UFO museum that we were getting more excited to see by the mile marker.
We arrived in the seedy little town of Roswell in the morning, passing many buildings with alien and UFO likenesses painted on them. We found the museum without too much trouble and stretched our legs to the entrance. After I had paid my admission and walked in, I suddenly realized that there weren’t going to be any artifacts there. I felt sort of like a fool for being excited in the first place. Instead, there were grainy photos blown up of famous UFO images and a recreation of the “alien autopsy” using mannequins. Needless to say, we left the museum disappointed — mostly at ourselves.
We sought hard evidence to confirm our suspicions about the existence of intelligent alien life . . . and found none. In the book Probability 1, mathematician Amir Aczel used all known data, such as similar stars to the sun, and similar planets, to calculate the probability of intelligent life outside our solar system. As the book title says, it is mathematically certain that we are not alone. However, this was just another theory, which is similar to government documents or photos about UFOs, in my view — neither one has the credibility of an artifact that would prove alien life beyond the shadow of a doubt.
I imagine that most rational people have considered the possibility of life beyond Earth, but are still waiting for concrete evidence before committing to that reality. An apparently undeniable event must occur for the masses to fully “believe” the new nature of reality. Should extraterrestrials actually exist, there is certainly enough motivation by the controllers to keep them under wraps, as their existence dramatically threatens their earthly power structure — especially the integrity of powerful religious institutions — unless of course they co-opt the event for their own gain.
The skeptic in me found one curious sign that this imminent arrival might indeed be orchestrated from this world: these “visitors” are apparently concerned primarily with CO2 levels. No matter which side you are on in the climate debate, I have to think that entities making such a long journey, and which presumably possess a higher intelligence, might look first at freeing Humanity of the global tyranny and war-like tendencies it lives under (and the tendency for our leaders to spread both), rather than arrive with the very mundane plan to address a political issue of non-galactic consequence. But that is exactly what a new book by a retired NORAD officer predicts for the grand arrival on October 13th of this year according to Yahoo News:
Author says the event to be the first in a series intended to avert a planetary catastrophe resulting from increasing levels of carbon-dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere dangerously approaching a ‘critical mass.’
A newly-published 352-page book (Challenges of Change) by a retired Air Force officer, Stanley A. Fulham, tentatively predicts October 13, 2010 as the date for a massive UFO display over the world’s principal cities. According to the author, the aliens will neither land nor communicate on that date; they are aware from eons of experience with other planets in similar conditions their sudden intervention would cause fear and panic.
This press release would have been absolutely laughed off by anything resembling mainstream media just a short time ago.
Bill Cooper’s 1991 book, Behold A Pale Horse,describes a different agenda: the Elite’s plans tofake an alien invasion in order to unite humanity under a one world government against a common enemy. But he explains that the timing hasn’t been right because:
A major finding of the alien study was that the public could not be told. It was believed that this would most certainly lead to economic collapse, collapse of the religious structure, and national panic, which could lead to anarchy. Secrecy thus continued. An offshoot of this finding was that if the public could not be told, Congress could not be told.
Cooper even issued an attempt at a life-saving disclaimer to this revelation: “If they kill me, you’ll know everything I said was true.” Bill Cooper was murdered by a “SWAT raid” shortly after 9-11.
NASA’s declassified Project Blue Beam proves that the Elite maintain highly developed plans to fabricate an alien invasion event for the end game of global control. “In principle, it will make use of the skies as a movie screen (on the sodium layer at about 60 miles) as space-based laser-generating satellites project simultaneous images to the four corners of the planet in every language and dialect according to the region. It deals with the religious aspect of the new world order and is deception and seduction on a massive scale.” (Source) Advanced holographic technology now makes such a “movie” entirely plausible. In fact, it already has been researched by the U.S. Air Force to use in war, as wasreported 11 years ago in The Washington Post.
The general public will likely be terrified and unite behind our leaders’ manufactured storyline to confront and protect us from the aliens. Therein lies the motivation for the Globalists to engineer such an event. Simply by being aware that such a plan has been thought up by the controllers will make us less susceptible to potential fear tactics and propaganda should such an event occur.
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Two Million Years Old Footprint Discovered In 1912
Two Million Years Old Footprint Discovered In 1912
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ARTICLE--EDIT FOOT PRINT KEN PFEIFER EDIT 9-2-15 TWO MILLION YEARS OLD GIANT FOOTPRINT DISCOVERED 1912
Location of discovery: Mpaluzi, South Africa
Did a giant alien race come down to live on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago? The evidence around the world says yes, giants existed. This footprint is massive in scale, about a meter and a half. Thats not human. Thats an alien species. Scott C. Waring
News states: Michael Tellinger shows off what could be one of the best pieces of evidence that there were giants on Earth a long, long time ago. Geologists have marvelled at this giant foot print in rough granite, about 4 feet long. Some still say that it is a natural erosion pattern. Personally I find that suggestion highy improbable for various reasons that I will not go into here. Prof. Pieter Wagener from UPE, suggests that “there is a higher probability of little green men arriving from space and licking it out with their tongues, than being created by natural erosion”. It is located in South Africa, near the town of Mpaluzi, close to the Swaziland border. It is estimated to be between 200 million and 3 Billion years old because of our current understanding of the formation of granites in Earth’s history.
This dating immediately causes great debate and argument – so I urge you to keep your mind open and focused on the evidence. This amazing footprint in granite was discovered in 1912 by a hunter called Stoffel Coetzee, while hunting in the remote area. At the time this was a deeply remote part of South Africa known as the Eastern Transvaal, teeming with wild life, including antelope and lions. It remains in the same condition as it was when first discovered and the possibility that this was a carved hoax is extremely low because of its remote location. Even today, it is difficult to find.
The real mystery is how this amazing phenomenon occured – I have no idea – but here it is and we cannot wish it away. YES – It is granite – it is a well recognised geological part of South Africa and recorded on all geological maps – that is why this footprint is such an incredible mystery. It can be desribed as a “phenocrystic” granite, OR coarse porphyritic granite, that underwent several different stages of cooling. The result being an interesting mixture of large and small granules. This is why granite companies are keen to mine this area for granite because it will look really “pretty” when polished. In the official Geology Of South Africa, this outcrop is called Mpuluzi Batholith (Granite) and the official dating of this rock produced dates of around 3,1 billion years. A real mystery that needs close scientific examination.
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One thing that strikes me about claims of alien visitation is that so much of the evidence is musty and fusty.
Every day, I get stories and articles from people around the world who aggregate UFO news. But much of it is not news -- it's olds. The folks who think there's good proof that Earth is a stomping ground for extraterrestrials are still hung up on the Roswell incident of 1947 or its British opposite number, the Rendlesham Forest event of 1980. They're still citing the testimony of aging politicians, defense establishment types and Apollo astronauts who "know something."
The few alternatives to this vintage archive are contemporary photos and videos of vague lights in the sky, low-resolution and low-confidence material that isn't likely to sway many scientists. The good stuff seems to be the old stuff.
To better judge if this is really true, I trawled the web for listings of "the best UFO cases." I quickly collected nearly 100 events that were considered worthy, of which 60 were unique, in the sense of not being repeats (e.g., the Roswell incident appears on most of these lists).
I then plotted up the year in which each of these unique events took place, virtually all since 1940. And guess what? By far the majority occurred in the first half of the last 76 years.
The quality UFO evidence is getting long in the tooth.
So what's going on? Our technology for documenting alien spacecraft -- if you assume they're real -- is substantially better than even a few decades ago. An Apple iPhone's camera now boasts 8 megapixels, which I reckon is a hundred times as many as the 8 millimeter movie film we had in the 1960s. These fabulous cameras are in the hands of nearly two billion smartphone users world-wide. And yet the UFO photos are as blurry and muddy as ever. You'd think at least a few people could make snaps that aren't ambiguous or hoaxed. And I haven't mentioned the surveillance provided by the 1,100 active satellites in orbit above our heads.
Now, some people deflect these puzzling facts by stating that excellent evidence for cosmic visitors really exists, but is kept under wraps by the government. This may be reassuring to some, but it's utterly goofy. Can anyone explain how beings from other worlds have managed to arrange their itineraries so that only governments are solidly aware of their presence?
Still, this idea seems to have a lot of appeal, even though it has led to a truly risible tactic by groups petitioning for "disclosure" -- a maneuver that twists the burden of proof 180 degrees. These folks hope the government will make their case for them, urging the feds to come clean about what they supposedly know. "We can't prove UFOs are alien craft, but you can!" Imagine if astronomers used this scheme to verify the existence of black holes.
But hold on: Maybe there are other explanations for why the so-called good evidence for visiting aliens is as stale as Gothic croutons.
One obvious possibility is that the extraterrestrials are just plain done with us. They've abducted enough folks to satisfy their curiosity about our anatomies. The Cold War has ended, and so has their fascination with our nuclear missile silos. They've tried visiting New Mexico, but that didn't work out.
So maybe they've just declared "mission accomplished," and gone away. That would be analogous to Charles Darwin's visit to the Galapagos Islands -- after he probed, bottled and cataloged some of the natives, he weighed anchor and withdrew.
But here's another possibility drawn from a similar experience with SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). In the early days of SETI, scientists would record cosmic static on computer tape or even paper. They would then look at these recordings at leisure. In the 1970s, this ex post facto observing scheme produced many "candidate signals" -- hits that looked good at first, and that might have been alien transmissions. (A famous example is the "Wow" signal, found at Ohio State in 1977.) However, none of these candidates could be found a second time. Consequently, they don't qualify as solid detections. They're ambiguous, at best.
However, many of today's SETI experiments can weed out interference and other causes of false alarms immediately. And that has led to an interesting situation: When you have real-time ability to verify signals, you don't end up with a drawer-full of "interesting" cases.
In other words, as technology improved, the number of enticing candidate signals went down. In science-speak, the false alarm rate decreased. It wasn't because any aliens stopped broadcasting; it was because we stopped being fooled.
Maybe this phenomenon explains why, as our cameras have gotten better, the number of interesting UFO cases has lessened.
For SETI, the really compelling detection is still to come. One good signal detection could easily surpass the credibility of dozens of intriguing candidates from four decades ago.
The same should apply to the folks who argue that some UFOs are actually alien craft. They should come forward with a truly great piece of evidence, a trump card that would allow them to stop playing the weak hand of the past.
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UK town 'invaded by UFOs and eerie noises that killed flocks of birds and stopped cars'
UK town 'invaded by UFOs and eerie noises that killed flocks of birds and stopped cars'
IT STOPPED cars in their tracks, killed birds, terrified children and sparked reports of strange humming noises, tremors, lights, crop circles, UFOs, and even alien abductions - so just what did happen in a small leafy Wiltshire town?
The mysterious "Thing" stopped cars and killed birds
They flew over the top of the hill and Battlesbury Barracks where they stopped and hung there for about a minute. Then one shot out of the sky at a 90 degree angle at great speed before it was followed a minute or two later by the other three.
Warminster UFO author Kevin Goodman
Fifty years on and the people of Warminster still want answers over the mysterious outbreak of UFO sightings that propelled the country town in the south-west of England onto the national stage in the 1960s.
The Warminster case is one of the strangest cases of mass paranormal sightings cases registered in the UK.
Although strange phenomena were recorded in the area prior to 1965, it was in that year that the frequency of reports of mystery noises and sightings intensified.
On August 17, 1965, a "detonation noise" rocked houses on the town's Boreham Field housing estate before a "monstrous orange flame was seen in the sky, crackling and hissing".
There were also reports of strange sounds killing flocks of pigeons that year, as had also been claimed 12 months previously in 1964.
The phenomena then became known as the 'Warminster Thing' after scores of townspeople reported in late 1965 seeing an array of inexplicable sights in the sky, accompanies by noises and odd occurrences.
Most of the sightings were around the Cradle Hill and Clay Hill areas surrounding the town next to military land on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
Claims of paranormal activities in Warminster go as far back as the 1950s, but it was the sudden flood of reports around Christmas 1965 that a led to a public meeting being held in the town hall.
It was hoped the meeting would lead to answers from authorities about what was happening in the local area, but no explanation was forthcoming and the case remains unresolved today.
After the 1965 public meeting received national then international media interest the town became a gathering point for UFO hunters and investigators, with a series of books also written about the mystery.
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Matt Lyons speaks at the conference
MATTLYONS
An artist impression of "the Thing" stalking cars done for Matt Lyons
The interest - and mass sightings - continued into the 1970s and up to 1980.
They included metallic orbs, lights, cigar and saucer-shaped UFOs, plus droning and whizzing noises.
Half-a-century on from the bizarre year of 1965, a conference was held in Warminster on Saturday at the Old Bell Hotel to mark 50 years of the mystery.
Several seasoned UFO researchers, who descended on Warminster throughout the 1960s and 70s, spoke at the conference.
UFO investigator Matt Lyons described how many motorists in the Warminster area had reported their cars failing following a UFO sighting or hearing strange noises.
He claimed that evidence of unexplained noises, particularly if caught on tape or camera, were as important as the UFO sightings themselves in solving the Warminster riddle.
Mr Lyons claimed ultrasound and infrared sounds may not be audible to all humans, but could cause animals to react oddly.
HAUNTEDSKIES
A "strange orb" on a photograph taken at Cradle HIll by researchers
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The town marked the anniversary with this mural
He revealed previously unseen files documenting the accounts of witnesses whose cars were affected in and around Warminster.
These included:
*August 20 1965: A couple on a motorcycle felt it stall as two white spheres of light hovered overhead, changing colour
*Oct 8, 1965, 12.25am; A woman driving towards Warminster felt her car lose power after seeing a bright orange ball before the vehicle stopped. She then saw a dark object rise from a nearby field, sparking red and blue, before the engine started up again.
*September 7 1965, 8pm: Major William Hill's car cut out and was "shaken by air vibrations". He got out and heard a whining, crackling noise.
*Approx. 1967: A businessman driving past Clay Hill felt his car become hot and heard a high-pitched noise before the engine failed. He got out and saw a glowing white disc overhead before it sped off.
*August 25 1975: A serviceman driving near Warminster reported to a police patrol that his car malfunctioned after seeing a bright-red light in the sky
JONAUSTIN
Kevin Goodman shows image of orbs taken at Cradle Hill, Warminster
Kevin Goodman, another UFO enthusiast who spent prolonged periods in the 1970s investigating the Warminster mystery, later wrote the book 'Cradle of Contact' about his and other researchers' experiences.
At Cradle Hill in Easter 1977 he saw something that left his jaw hanging.
He said: "These four red lights, evenly spaced apart.
“They flew over the top of the hill and Battlesbury Barracks where they stopped and hung there for about a minute.
“Then one shot out of the sky at a 90 degree angle at great speed before it was followed a minute or two later by the other three."
He also described recording noises like a "thudding heartbeat" on tapes, although they have since been lost.
Tape recordings made at Cradle Hill picked up the noise, which some later dismissed as just electromagnetic energy being caught.
But he told the conference the same noise was recorded inside a 16-feet deep concrete grain silo nearby, which had concrete walls of three-feet deep, meaning "such energies would not have been able to penetrate it."
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It came from the skies: Roy Stewart described his sighting 40 years later
JONAUSTIN
Even the local library has joined in with the theme
Another of those hoping they would finally get an answer for the outbreak of unexplained events in Warminster was army veteran Roy Stewart.
Breaking his near 40-year silence on the matter, he produced a painting at the conference that he claims records his UFO experience in the town in the mid-1970s.
He said: "I had been working nights and was coming home about 2am when there was this bright sphere almost above my head and it moved with me."
Mr Stewart said he ran to get his wife so she could also see the object that he claimed moved with him, but it was gone by the time he got her.
He added: "I told my colleagues at work and they just laughed at me, so I never told anyone else and I was never interviewed about it."
Whatever happened, the conference revealed there is still interest within Warminster over solving the mystery.
A group are now planning more "sky watches" from Cradle Hill in the hope of finally discovering the identity of the 'Warminster Thing'.
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