Top Secret Nazi maps and documents confirm the existence of Agartha — a subterranean civilization inside our planet

Many researchers have also published material about Operation Highjump and Admiral Byrd’s journeys where extremely advanced airships (disc shaped UFOs) were seen flying around and even engaging him militarily. Not long ago, a Top Secret map belonging to the Third Reich was recovered in which there are several secret passages depicted which were used by German U-Boats to access mysterious underground regions, as well as a complete map of both hemispheres and the mysterious kingdom of Agartha.

The possibility that the earth is hollow, and that it can be accessed through the North and/or South poles, and that ancient secret breakaway civilizations flourish within it, has spurred the imagination of people through centuries.  These declassified maps have added fuel to the existing speculation.

It might just turn out to be true after all, that somehow, and somewhere, there is an access which leads to a completely different world, one that has been kept in secrecy for years by our world leaders and post WWII governments.

We have also come across a letter, supposedly written by Karl Unger, who was aboard the German U-Boat 209, commanded by Heinrich Brodda, in which he states that the crew had reached the interior of the Earth and that they did not consider coming back.

The official Nazi instructions to reach Agartha:

And here is the translation in English:

 

 

 

The stories above are backed up by maps made by famous cartographer and artist Heinrich C. Berann for the National Geographic Society in 1966. In this map, the Antarctic continent can be observed without its thick layer of ice.

 

But the most intriguing detail are the presence of underwater passages spanning across the entire continent and seem to converge at the exact location which is identified as the opening towards the Hollow Earth or Inner Earth. Here are the official Nazi maps of the inner world:

 

Hitler was obsessed with mysticism and the inexplicable, he was very interested in UFO’s and ancient history, and many of his followers knew that and supported him. The possibility that the earth is at least partially hollow, and that it can be accessed through the North and South poles, and that secret civilizations flourish within it, has gained popularity in recent years. It might just turn out to be true after all, that somehow, and somewhere, there is an access which leads to a completely different world, one that has been kept in secrecy for reasons that are just now coming to light.

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17-09-2015 om 21:22 geschreven door peter  

Australian Alien Abductions Are On The Rise

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17-09-2015 om 21:00 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Discover Alien Creature Near Major Nuclear Power Plant

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Scientists Discover Alien Creature Near Major Nuclear Power Plant

17-09-2015 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

Insider verklapt wat er werkelijk op de maan gebeurt

Onlangs liet Rusland weten een onderzoek te willen instellen naar de Amerikaanse maanlandingen. De Russische krant Izvestia meldde dat het onderzoek moet onthullen waarom opnames van de landingen en een steen van de eerste maanlanding in 1969 zijn verdwenen.

De Amerikaanse plasmafysicus John Brandenburg werkte in 1994 mee aan de maanmissie met ruimtesonde Clementine (pdf, pagina 16). Tijdens de missie werd water gevonden bij de polen van de maan.

Brandenburg heeft een aantal opmerkelijke uitspraken gedaan. “Het ging om een verkenningsmissie waarbij moest worden achterhaald of iemand zonder ons medeweten bases op de maan bouwde,” zei hij. “Werden deze bases uitgebreid?”

Na de missie werden de foto’s geanalyseerd door een team van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie. “Ze hielden zich afzijdig en deden hun werk. Wij kregen te horen dat we ze niet mochten storen,” aldus Brandenburg.

Toen ruimtesonde Clementine het maanoppervlak in kaart bracht, vermoedde hij dat er een buitenaardse aanwezigheid was op de maan. “Van alle foto’s van de maan die mogelijke structuren laten zien, vind ik een foto met een rechtlijnige structuur met een doorsnee van enkele kilometers nog het meest indrukwekkend,” aldus Brandenburg. “Het leek om een bouwwerk te gaan en hoorde daar niet te zijn. Ik kom uit de wereld van de ruimtedefensie en om zulke structuren op de maan maak ik me zorgen omdat ze niet van ons zijn. Het is niet mogelijk dat wij zoiets hebben gebouwd. Het betekent dat daar iemand anders bezig is.”

De fysicus zei verder:

• We wisten dat het mogelijk was dat er een bepaalde buitenaardse aanwezigheid was bij de aarde. Ik zat in een ruimte met gepensioneerde generaals en admiraals en we keken naar iets wat op een vuurgevecht in de ruimte leek. De hoogste generaal keek me aan en zei: “Waar komen ze vandaan denk je?” Ik zei daarop: “Geen idee, ik heb gehoord dat ze van een plek op 40 lichtjaar komen.”

[Collective-evolution]

17-09-2015 om 20:49 geschreven door peter  

17-09-2015 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

Alien Civilizations Are Rare Or Absent, Scientists Say

This is what a Kardashev Type III civilization might look like, and the waste heat products produced could be detectable by today’s telescopes. (Photo : ASTRON/Danielle Futselaar)

All this time, science enthusiasts lived in hope. Hope of finding extraterrestrial life. But all such notions have been put to rest with a recent study that has shown that advanced alien civilizations are probably absent or extremely rare in our universe.

Scientists had thought that such advanced alien civilizations could have been detected by waste heat, as these civilizations would have harnessed enormous energies on the scale of the stellar output of their own galaxy. These civilizations and their energies, calculated on a galactic scale, called the Kardashev Type III civilisations, were to be to be detectable in the mid-infrared part of the spectrum due to the waste heat.

But now professor Michael Garrett (ASTRON & University of Leiden) says that most of these systems present emission that is best explained by natural astrophysical processes. Garrett used radio measurements of the galaxies to come to this conclusion

"The original research at Penn State has already told us that such systems are very rare but the new analysis suggests that this is probably an understatement, and that advanced Kardashev Type III civilizations basically don't exist in the local Universe. In my view, it means we can all sleep safely in our beds tonight - an alien invasion doesn't seem at all likely!" said Garrett, according to ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.

"Some of these systems definitely demand further investigation but those already studied in detail turn out to have a natural astrophysical explanation too. It's very likely that the remaining systems also fall into this category but of course it's worth checking just in case!" said Garrett while continuing to explore a few galaxies that lie off of the astrophysical correlation, reports Astro Biology Magazine.

"It's a bit worrying that Type III civilizations don't seem to exist. It's not what we would predict from the physical laws that explain so well the rest of the physical universe. We're missing an important part of the jigsaw puzzle here. Perhaps advanced civilizations are so energy efficient that they produce very low waste heat emission products - our current understanding of physics makes that a difficult thing to do. What's important is to keep on searching for the signatures of extra-terrestrial intelligence until we fully understand just what is going on," said Garrett while disclosing his plans to look for these less advanced civilizations, according to Space Daily.

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17-09-2015 om 11:46 geschreven door peter  

Meet the Lobbyist Pressuring the US Government to Disclose Extraterrestrial Activity.

Lobbyist and Paradigm Research Group Founder, Stephen Bassett (Wikimedia)

Based in the nation’s capitol, Stephen Bassett is a lobbyist working tirelessly for a single, unusual cause: confronting the US Government on the existence of extraterrestrials and their presence here on Earth.

As a political activist and executive director of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), Basset aims to end the 68-year embargo of classified information relating to alien activity while pressuring President Obama and the Executive Branch to disclose these findings to the public.

Following the statements made to me by Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell on government cover ups and claims of nuclear weapons tampering by extraterrestrials, I was contacted by an associate of Stephen Bassett who expressed gratitude on his behalf for covering those stories.

Seeing an opportunity to dig deeper into these claims, I decided to interview this unique D.C. lobbyist about his beliefs and mission.

Why did you decide to take up this fight and how did you get started?

I made an intellectual decision to engage the extraterrestrial phenomenon field in the winter of 1995 because I believed I could make a difference. My journey began in January of 1996 as a volunteer for the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research founded by Dr. John E. Mack in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While in Cambridge it became clear to me that the extraterrestrial issue could only be resolved by political means.

The government imposed policy of Truth Embargo had to end. In July of 1996 I relocated to the Washington, D.C., area and registered as a lobbyist on the extraterrestrial topic—the first person to do so.

Why? the presence of extraterrestrials is the most important truth in the world today with the greatest potential to alter the present course of human affairs – a course badly in need of a new destination.

What do you see as the ultimate goal?

The Disclosure advocacy movement has a very clear goal: formal acknowledgement by world governments of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. At this time the focus of the movement is on the United States and President Obama.

Why is it important that the government fully disclose the existence of extraterrestrials?

It would take a book to properly answer this question but here are some talking points: 1) trust in government has collapsed 2) truth is the antidote to fear 3) a vast military/intelligence/industrial complex has been created that threatens the Republic and this complex is partially a result of government’s desire to secretly address the extraterrestrial reality 4) extraterrestrial derived technologies are being withheld under the embargo that are badly needed to address the human condition 5) the executive and legislative branches of government are being weakened by the policy of embargo 6) a number of other heads of state could end the truth embargo at any time, and this would have serious geopolitical consequences for the United States.

How do you think the public will react to full disclosure?

Public response to disclosure will be overwhelmingly positive. For many, such an announcement will be anticlimactic. Over time, as the complex history of the extraterrestrial engagement emerges, some concerns will be raised. The Internet will provide the means for the human race to quickly arrive at consensus regarding these concerns and direct their governments accordingly.

There will be some negative response and perhaps acting out, but that will not be unusual. The idea that disclosure would disrupt economies, religion, governments, etc. is a concept put forward by the managers of the Extraterrestrial Truth Embargo. It is mostly propaganda.

Which branch of government is privy to the information regarding the presence of extraterrestrials?

The extraterrestrial history and engagement is most likely managed by cross-agency committees within the military/intelligence complex and working under the highest of security classifications. Each committee would address a major aspect of the issue and comprised of representatives from the appropriate agencies and services for that issue. In many or all cases the agency represented may not know of this committee. The committee may not know of other committees involved. Compartmentalization.

This approach is likely quite satisfactory for the military/intelligence community. The problem is politics. The executive and legislative branches of government have certain responsibilities regarding national security matters.

Beginning with the Johnson administration, the decision was made to remove these branches of government over time from the equation. By the time Clinton takes office, the president and the appropriate congressional committees no longer had access. They did not have a need to know and were shut out. Efforts to get information were stonewalled. Efforts to get congressional hearings were blocked. This, of course, raises serious constitutional questions.

What is the Rockefeller initiative and how are the Clintons involved?

The Rockefeller Initiative refers to the formal effort by billionaire Laurance Rockefeller to persuade the Clinton administration to release all documents in government files and grant amnesty to government witnesses who might come forward. This effort began on March 29,1996 and ended in October of 1996. Over 1000 pages of documents were obtained in 2000 by researcher Grant Cameron under the Freedom of Information Act confirming the Rockefeller Initiative.

These documents have been posted on the Internet for the past 15 years. President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Dr. John Gibbons and Webster Hubbell were directly involved in the Initiative. Others either directly involved or aware of the Initiative include Clinton’s Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, Clinton’s Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, Vice President Al Gore and Clinton’s Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson.

During the 25 years since the beginning of the Rockefeller Initiative none of these individuals has ever spoken publicly about it in service to their personal and political aspirations. No member of the media has ever posed a single question to any of them about it until April of this year. Since then, several queries have been put to John Podesta and Secretary Clinton by reporters. Neither have responded.

The Clinton connection to the extraterrestrial issue via the Rockefeller Initiative will be the trigger that sets the media free to finally engage and investigate the most important news story in history.

If Secretary Clinton is elected president, would that increase the chances of full disclosure?

Yes, but the Disclosure advocacy movement has no intention of waiting for that uncertain outcome. Barack Obama will be the Disclosure president.

You mentioned Nuclear Weapons tampering as the catalyst for a “media storm.” Is there hard evidence of this phenomenon?

Over the past 15 years considerable evidence has been amassed confirming incidents in which extraterrestrial craft have tampered with nuclear weapons in both the United States and the Soviet Union. The bulk of that evidence has been compiled in the book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites – by Robert Hastings. At the center of this evidence is first hand testimony by Air Force officers who were present during these incidents. One such officer, Capt. Robert Salas wrote a book about his experience—Faded Giant. More than a dozen such officers are prepared to testify before Congress under oath.

The fact that this evidence has been out in the public domain for fifteen years and no congressional committee has engaged the issue and no media venue has challenged the Air Force, the Pentagon or the White House to respond is both a disgrace and a symptom of major dysfunction.

Why do you think the term “UFO” is unacceptable when discussing full disclosure?

“UFO” is an anachronistic non-sequitur pushed forward early on by the skeptics and the government. It is as ludicrous as stating the focus of atomic physics is “ITPs”—unidentified tiny particles. The primary technique behind the Truth Embargo is the intellectual ghettoization of the phenomenon and the people who address it. “UFO” is part of the language of that ghetto designed to keep the public, the press, academics and political leaders at bay.

What has been some of the major obstacles in your mission?

The principal obstacle for the Disclosure advocacy moment is the Truth Embargo. Beginning with the early 1950s enormous time and money was invested by the government to create and maintain this embargo, which by the end of the Cold War was thoroughly entrenched. Another major obstacle is the lack of funding for advocacy projects, which is a direct result of the Truth Embargo.

Who are your most important allies?

Important allies of this movement include a growing list of intrepid reporters and editors willing to challenge the Truth Embargo, a number of countries that have proactively released tens of thousands of extraterrestrial phenomenon related files to the public domain, and some former member of Congress,  The most important ally is the Internet and the access it provides to the entire world to build awareness and consensus.

Can you describe the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure and why it was so important?

The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure or CHD was an event in which 42 military/agency/political witnesses of rank testified for 30 hours over five days before six former members of Congress regarding events and evidence confirming an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

It had never been done before and it was filmed in high definition and webcast worldwide. It was a mock congressional hearing held in the main ballroom of the National Press Club two blocks from the White House and a dozen blocks from the Capitol. It was extensively covered by the media.

The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure was the key that could unlock the Truth Embargo. As planned it was the platform upon which to launch PRG’s Congressional Hearing Initiative. So on November 5, 2014, 10-disk DVD sets with the full video record of the CHD were shipped to every congressional office—535. What viewers of the Citizen Hearing Disclosure would see is very much how a real congressional hearing would play out. The kinds of witnesses, the quality of their testimony, how the committee members would react and what questions would be ask. In short, the CHD took most of the political risk out of a decision by a congressional committee to hold hearings. It has made possible all that was to come.

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Robin Seemangal focuses on NASA and advocacy for space exploration. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he currently resides. Find him on Instagram for more space-related content: @not_gatsby

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17-09-2015 om 11:40 geschreven door peter  

Daily UFO Headlines 9/16/2015

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• WATCH: “Come and get me”: Woman narrates her own UFO encounter above Twickenham – Your Local Guardian
• Meet the Lobbyist Pressuring the US Government to Disclose Extraterrestrial Activity – Observer
• Alien Civilizations Are Rare Or Absent, Scientists Say – HNGN
• State Theater resurrected for Mothman Festival – Point Pleasant Daily Register
• Google UFO lands in front yard of SoCal home – SFGate

17-09-2015 om 11:33 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Hsinchu, Taiwan On Sept 15, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 15, 2015
Location of sighting: Hsinchu, Taiwan

This UFO was seen in a city just 20 minutes away from me here in Taiwan. They caught a glowing orb moving about over the rooftops. It probably investigating the neighborhood. Cool capture and surprised someone saw it. Usually here in Taiwan, people don't look up. Its a big city thing. Very exciting that someone did. 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states: 
9/15 Location in Hsinchu Oh ~ friends should shoot again asked her to give me fill information.

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17-09-2015 om 11:19 geschreven door peter  

Cigar UFO Seen Over Freeway At Louisville, Kentucky On Sept 14, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Sept 14, 2015

Location of sighting: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

 

Here is another UFO caught over Louisville. This is the second time this week that this person caught UFOs over the city, both times from their car. This UFO clearly is not a plane, drone, or helicopter. It looks like Louisville is a hotspot for UFOs. 

Scott C. Waring

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17-09-2015 om 11:16 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Bangkok,Thailand Might Be Ezekiel's Wheel, Sept 14, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: September 14, 2015
Location of sighting: Bangkok, Thailand

This UFO orb was captured by DT Smile Love of Youtube. This type of UFO is often seen, but mistaken and dismissed as stars and planets. The UFO is not a sphere, but a disk, tilted on end like a wheel. Similar to the Biblical Ezekiel's wheel at 593BC. This way, the UFO can allow itself to be seen as it...studies...you from a distance. 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states:
Strange but very beautiful star or UFO. It is still, looks like a star. There are many of them and all are changing colours. We saw them all around the world. 

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17-09-2015 om 11:13 geschreven door peter  

UFO sighting filmed over Commerce City, Colorado 16-Sep-2015

These orbs were seen and filmed in the daytime sky above Commerce City in US state Colorado. Witness reports that they first moved irradical then it disappeared. This happened on 16th September 2015.

17-09-2015 om 11:08 geschreven door peter  

17-09-2015 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

Filer’s Files # 37 – 2015 Aliens Visited for Centuries - PART II

Sightings of UFOs in the United States

California Strange Lights

Corte Madera — I was driving over the Richmond San Rafael Bridge from work on September 1, 2015 at 3 pm and saw this extremely bright almost chrome-like sphere hovering over San Quentin prison. It had a little bit of a blue hue to it and looked like it was rotating or pulsing. I was sure I would catch it in the pass between the Bridge and Larkspur Landing, so much, so I got out of my car at the shooting range there and was perplexed that it wasn’t there. I got back in my car hoping to see it again near Corte Madera. I was looking all over and when I was passing the Ferry Parking lot, I saw it over the marsh by the Village shopping center South of the 101. I lost sight of it at the hill next to the parking lot because it was heading towards Mt. Tam. I glanced to my right to turn off the freeway and spotted it on the opposite side on my far right on north hill of Corte Madera. I pulled over and used my IPad to quickly snap 5 pictures in rapid succession. After 30 seconds, it appeared to almost fade into itself and disappeared. The pictures do not show how bright this thing truly was. It was like looking into the sun. Thanks to MUFON CMS

My friend and I had just finished running at 8:05 pm on September 3, 2015. My friend pointed out 4 lights in the distance moving together like a group. I thought maybe it was an airplane or helicopter but they were flying way to close together to be that. I got my phone and took pictures and video. The objects had stopped moving and now were just there in the sky still close together. Then finally, one by one they stared disappearing clockwise. I kept recording until they all disappeared and even waited a couple of seconds after just in case anything else happened. This all happened in 2-3 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Colorado Sphere

Denver — I was vacationing on May 16, of last year. I decided to take a picture of the scenery. Three weeks later, I started browsing through my photos and noticed what seemed to be an object in the sky. I tried listing off the possibilities of what it might have been.

My assumption was that it could have been an air balloon. However, to me it just didn’t fit the characteristic. I am truly lost on what this might be. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS

Connecticut Triangle

Milford — On Wednesday July 7, 2008 early morning at around 2:45 am, because I could not sleep, I saw a huge triangular object gliding very low over my house in the harbor of the Housatonic River. The object was the size of a large department store and had a green hue, and was flaming in the back, the flames were wild like a bon fire, and as long as a football field, but cast no light. The flames were so large that the sky should have been lit as it was day. This ship made no noise and glided so smooth. The object was so large that it should have fallen from the sky at the speed it was going. I have had many responses from people who saw the same object that night. I have attached a picture that I made. I have been in contact with Jan C. Harzan, and he is the person who suggested I report this sighting. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Strange Lights

Miami Beach — My daughter was getting on the school bus this morning around 6 am on September 2, 2015, and took a few pictures of this weird “orb” above our condo in Biscayne point.

She watched it for about 10 minutes and had a hard time explaining what it was as the light was reflecting off the clouds? Thanks to MUFON CMS

Miami Beach — I was sitting in my patrol car, looked north, and noticed an unusually bright small cloud in dark surroundings on September 2, 2015. Soon after I observed a bright light flying a slow path east with bright white smoke billowing from its left and right position. (not from behind like a rocket). It was slowing into a hover. I served 11 years in Naval Aviation and never witnessed anything like this. I also noticed two smaller flashing lights trailing that seemed to be flying with it. I quickly grabbed my cell phone and began to record as it disappeared behind a small cloud, then reappeared at the other end. It produced a small ring of smoke and flew behind more clouds in its path. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kansas Triangle

Kansas City — The day after the Perseid meteor shower on August 14, 2015, my Dad and I were outside and I caught sight of the object in the distance. The object was still when I first glanced up, and then nearly instantly zipped across about one fourth of the visible sky. It flew south before disappearing leaving only a blue white trail. It was a bright metallic acute triangle with a convex rear like a half moon. It had some sort of ridge near the center of the object. I tried to replicate a very crude drawing of what I saw in MS Paint. The actual trail was maybe 30% wider than the object itself and took around 10 seconds to dissipate. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Minnesota Ring of Lights

Minneapolis – On Sunday, August 9^th, 2015, at 11:30 PM, multiple witnesses observed a peculiar ring of lights hovering in the nighttime sky for an hour. We wondered if it might be advertising lights. Some witnesses reported that some of the lights disappeared before the rest of them did, which seems to us to militate against their being part of an advertising display. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director NUFORC

Bemidji – I was photographing our full, August moon on the 30th experimenting with various distances and exposures. I took 35 pictures, reviewed them, and saw a disc in one photo. I did not see the object. While I do not believe I saw a UFO, I assume this would be the organization most likely to tell me what I am seeing in the photo. Note: The light in the lower right is likely a camera lien’s reflection.

Nevada Disc

Black Rock Desert — I was cutting a movie GoFast 2014 HD OnBoard Cameras for my YouTube video and recognized that something strange appeared in front of the rocket and suddenly I saw, that a disk passed the rocket on July 14, 2015.

The GoFast 2014 rocket officially set a new world record on July 14, 2014 at 7:32am as the highest and fastest amateur rocket ever launched that reached 385,800 feet above mean sea level (73.1 miles) and hit a top speed of 3,580 miles per hour.

Reno — I was driving to the Sparks Marina with my family on July 24, 2015. We had just received a new Go Pro Type camera and wanted to try it out. We had attached it to the window of our car and set it to take a photo every three seconds. Upon returning home and going through the photos is when we came across the ufo. It is only in one picture, meaning it had appeared in the frame of view for less than three seconds. Never saw it with the naked eye .Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Hampshire Cylinder

Somersworth — My son and I were playing catch in our backyard on my son noticed this object coming toward us from behind me. He said, “What the heck is that?” I was taken aback when I noticed this object. I have been in the Air Force for 16 years working aircraft maintenance (avionics). I walked toward the object trying to get a better angle under it because I could not make out any wings. The object didn’t make any noise. It was metallic color like a Delorian and the glow is the Sunlight reflecting off its surface. I rushed to get out my iPhone and take the picture, and chalked it up to a UFO. I recently made a connection to an old video of Bob Lazar and how he illustrates the propulsion system and the “gravity wave” that surrounds a ship. I then noticed the same magnetic field or gravity wave shape can be seen coming off this object in the picture. It looks as if the reflected light is being bent around a magnetic field! I do have an open mind and watch plenty shows and documentaries on this topic. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Alien

Little Egg Harbor — My husband and I were sleeping in our bedroom. I woke up and saw this creature standing next to my husband. It was dark with just enough light coming in so I could see it. I immediately knew it was not something human and likely an alien. The creature was about 4 foot tall and I could only see its head because it was standing on the other side of the bed next to my husband’s head. It had a large head, large eyes and it was grey in color. It just stood there. I sat up and tried to warn my husband to get away from it. I tried to yell and tried to shake him. I could not move, and could not speak.

Then there was a bright light outside, the whole area was lit up like daylight, and my husband was outside, floating limply up into the sky. He looked like he was still sleeping. I really do not know how long he was gone. I’m assuming it put me back to sleep because I have no memory of what happened next until I woke up later in the night and my husband was there sleeping again. I was really scared and crying. I woke him up and he had no memory of this. A couple of weeks later, he woke up with this wound on his arm in the morning. He saw it on his arm. When he first got up and showed it to me. He said, “There was no pain.”It was not there when he went to sleep the night before. It is a row of puncture wounds. I was telling this to a friend of ours and he suggested I tell you. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Lights

Weaverville — Driving near Weaverville I saw what I thought was four hot air balloons.

However, as I got closer I stopped my truck and took a picture just before the one on the right shot up and to the right.

It is gone in seconds too fast to be an airplane or helicopter.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oklahoma Lights

Altus — On August 29, 2015, my parents, three-year-old daughter and I took two vehicles to take my mother out for her birthday. I drove my own car and they followed me home. Later that night, I was looking in my phone and came across some pictures that astounded me. My three-year-old daughter loves taking pictures and took several of glowing objects. The shot #4 shows a cylindrical glowing object.

The fifth shot shows two red streaks that appear as a tail of residual energy. I did not see anything but I was driving. I am astonished my toddler took them at 9:05 PM; orientation:90º; resolution: 3264×2448; 2.6; exposure: 1/30; ISO: 1600. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Tennessee Light

Watertown — Upon returning from shopping and eating I noticed a very bright star in the sky, after further observance I realized it was moving on September 5, 2015. It was not in a path of normal aircraft so I called my husband over who has served in the military. I began recording on my Samsung S6 showed him the video and he was speechless, I recorded the object in what seemed like an erratic dancing pattern across the night sky, getting brighter then dimmer and disappearing for 4 minutes. Watching the video on my phone, you can clearly see the stars vs. the object). Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas UFO Spotted by Military Guards

Fort Hood — My subordinate and I were on guard duty on August 5, 2015 at midnight and saw an object heading toward our direction. I wish and I had a specialized camera to have a close-up of this object. It was 16-20 miles from our location: We saw it for 75 minutes, spinning, zig zagging across the sky, changing its color and traveling in a west direction slowly away from the Fort Hood. The lights were impressive as it was very bright too bright to be an aircraft. There is a continuing trend of sightings for the whole summer. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ worldUFOphotos

Worldwide UFO Reports

Australia Disc

Manunda, Queensland.— Rear Patio of Apartment at a Birch street while observing satellites as we often do, my partner and I witnessed what looked like two satellites travelling along side each-other. They were of a magnitude – 4 or brighter heading north direction at a typical Satellite altitude. These two objects blinked on with intensity that caused us both to let out a gasp. We watched the objects get brighter as they moved, and had a connecting tube like structure between them that emanated a milky glow. The objects travelled side by side as a single unit for up to 20 seconds before blinking out simultaneously, and not seen again. This observation took place at 18:44 Local Time GMT +10 and left us both in awe. We watch Satellites most evenings, and are, but this was a stirring observation. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Huge UFO

Scarborough, Ontario — Paul Shishis writes, “Here is another bizarre sighting taken on August 14, 2015 at 10:10 am. While on morning break outside work I witnessed three strange objects flying east a quarter mile south about a thousand feet. The trio moved together with two higher than one”. Due to shape and color really makes one wonder. They were sighted for five minutes until they headed out of sight. I snapped pictures and video at a long distance away and I continued to take pictures until it flew east over my roof. It was not a balloon. Thanks to Paul Shishis

Hungry Circle of Lights

Budapest – I took pictures from Hilton Hotel’s sixth floor room on July 6, 2015. There were no lights on in my room and I did not use a flash.

I noticed Orb circle like image when we reviewed pictures when we got home.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kazakhstan Spaceships

May-June 2015
It is well known to the Kazakhstan government that aliens are making use of an underwater base in the Caspian Sea which Kazakhstan boarders. The Head of Azerbaijan’s National Aerospace Agency has confirmed this allegation when he stated bluntly that the old USSR constantly monitored alien spaceships that were frequently recorded entering the water, but due to security concerns, kept this a secret. This Antelope mass death was an experiment by aliens

I do not believe that the aliens in the base care about the people of Kazakhstan, but the opposite. Back inMay 14, 2014, I watched a video of a rocket living off in Kazakhstan, and caught a UFO that flew at and hit the rocket on video! The collision with the UFO resulted seconds later in a massive explosion of the rocket. This is proof that the aliens in the Caspian Sea base actually dislike everything about the country…including its wildlife. This experiment could be the first step into aliens creating a similar bacteria/virus that will wipe out humanity, leaving the rest of the planet untouched. Scott C. Waringufosightingsdaily

News states:
It started in late May. When geoecologist Steffen Zuther and his colleagues arrived in central Kazakhstan to monitor the calving of one herd of saigas, a critically endangered, steppe-dwelling antelope, veterinarians in the area had already reported dead animals on the ground. ” Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, told Live Science the entire herd — 60,000 saiga — had died. As veterinarians and conservationists tried to stem the die-off, they also got word of similar population crashes in other herds across Kazakhstan.
News Article

Kenya Object

Kisumu Mountains — I am in Kenya taking pictures in mass quantity of landscapes. I took multiple pictures right after another on June 15, 2015. Reviewing my photos, there was a saucer like object in the far distance.

President Obama was making his trip to Nigeria soon so there were no aircraft seen in the sky during my vacation. I still question the objects existence but proof of my before and after photos immediately make me question such existence. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Orb

Boca del Rio, Veracruz – Three to five of us were at the rooftop watching ufos, on July 27, 2015 at 11:11 PM. We watch for UFOs every single night, and most of the time they head to the ocean or come from it. This time it was a disc with white and red lights. It flew in zigzag and random path, hovering then continued flying to the ocean, and that is when we lost sighting them! Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJworldUFOphotos

Puerto Rico Cylinder

Santurce – I was on the balcony of my penthouse in Condominium Torrecielo in taking a rest on August 18, 2015. I raised my head when I saw the object and started to analyze what it was. Every night, I look at the sky and thought the object was a military flying saucer. I called my wife and recorded the object flying north toward the Muñoz Marin San Juan Airport. It has white rectangular lights, and turned as my wife spotted it and asked, “Is that what we saw?” It was nearby us and inside bottom was a circular cavity with lights. The object was flying very slowly besides our building, so I climbed on the roof but it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Spain Orb

Torrevieja — I was on holiday last week with my grandchildren in Torrevieja. I took them to the salt lake in the early morning to take pictures on September 3, 2015. My Grandson noticed a tiny green orb on his photo taken with his phone. I took a sequence of photos on my phone where he had seen it across the lake. I have a sequence of five photos with the orb in different positions. Enlarging the orb it is very clear and the same as your green orb photos with the smaller white orbs. Would you be interested in seeing them? Thanks to Olga.

UK/England Lights

Investigating the site of a UFO landing/encounter on Google Maps on August 27, 2015, I dragged the man to street view & looked up. There were two “objects” in the sky.

It could be artifacts from the image processing but I think 85% they are spaceships. Mainly due to the reason I was there looking in the first place. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Toton, Nottingham — Here is a daytime UFO sighting that I documented 9 March 2014 in Toton, Nottingham. I have sent you the original picture taken on my iPhone and then a zoomed in version of the original picture.

There is a lot of Black Helicopter activity in this area. This particular UFO was only there for a second or two long enough to capture this picture, but not a second. It was egg shaped/spherical and seemed to change shape as it moved in the air as if it was in a slipstream. However, it had that dull grey metallic appearance like MANY UFO’s I have seen before. Thanks to Sacha Taylor-Jobbins

UK/Wales

Abersoch — On the evening of August 13, 2015 at 10:30 PM, my wife and I were looking at the meteor shower when we saw a ten Orange/yellow bright circular objects. They were tennis ball size flying in two half moon formations one under the other. They were travelling east to south, not the same way as the shower.hey appeared over Harlech and went out of sight over Abersoch. They were very high without sound or fire trails. They were traveling fast and took only about 15 seconds to go out of sight. As the objects passed in front of us they changed to a ” W ” shape. Sighting report via UFOINFO

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NASA Telescopes Find Galaxy Cluster with Vibrant Heart

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The 140,000 Year Old UFO Crash Site In The Baltic Sea - The Baltic Sea Anomaly

17-09-2015 om 00:34 geschreven door peter  

The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos is Probably Super intelligent Robots

If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won’t look like little green men, or spiny insectoids. It’s likely they won’t be biological creatures at all, but rather, advanced robots that outstrip our intelligence in every conceivable way. While scores of philosophers, scientists and futurists have prophesied the rise of artificial intelligence and the impending singularity, most have restricted their predictions to Earth. Fewer thinkers—outside the realm of science fiction, that is—have considered the notion that artificial intelligence is already out there, and has been for eons.

 

Susan Schneider, a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, is one who has. She joins a handful of astronomers, including Seth Shostak, director of NASA’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, program, NASA Astrobiologist Paul Davies, and Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology Stephen Dick in espousing the view that the dominant intelligence in the cosmos is probably artificial. In her paper “Alien Minds,” written for a forthcoming NASA publication, Schneider describes why alien life forms are likely to be synthetic, and how such creatures might think.

 

“Most people have an iconic idea of aliens as these biological creatures, but that doesn’t make any sense from a timescale argument,” Shostak told me. “I’ve bet dozens of astronomers coffee that if we pick up an alien signal, it’ll be artificial life.”

 

With the latest updates from NASA’s Kepler mission showing potentially habitable worlds strewn across the galaxy, it’s becoming harder and harder to assert that we’re alone in the universe. And if and when we do encounter intelligent life forms, we’ll want to communicate with them, which means we’ll need some basis for understanding their cognition. But for the vast majority of astrobiologists who study single-celled life, alien intelligence isn’t on the radar.

 

“If you asked me to bring together a panel of folks who have given the subject much thought, I would be hard pressed,” said Shostak. “Some think about communication strategies, of course. But few consider the nature of alien intelligence.”

 

Schneider’s paper is among the first to tackle the subject.

 

 

“Everything about their cognition—how their brains receive and process information, what their goals and incentives are—could be vastly different from our own,” Schneider told me. “Astrobiologists need to start thinking about the possibility of very different modes of cognition.” To wit, the case of artificial super intelligence. “There’s an important distinction here from just ‘artificial intelligence’,” Schneider told me. “I’m not saying that we’re going to be running into IBM processors in outer space. In all likelihood, this intelligence will be way more sophisticated than anything humans can understand.”

 

The reason for all this has to do, primarily, with timescales. For starters, when it comes to alien intelligence, there’s what Schneider calls the “short window observation”—the notion that, by the time any society learns to transmit radio signals, they’re probably a hop-skip away from upgrading their own biology. It’s a twist on the belief popularized by Ray Kurzweil that humanity’s own post-biological future is near at hand.

 

“As soon as a civilization invents radio, they’re within fifty years of computers, then, probably, only another fifty to a hundred years from inventing AI,” Shostak said. “At that point, soft, squishy brains become an outdated model.”

 

Schneider points to the nascent but rapidly expanding world of brain computer interface technology, including DARPA’s latest ElectRX neural implant program, as evidence that our own singularity is close. Eventually, Schneider predicts, we’ll not only upgrade our minds with technology, we’ll make a wholesale switch to synthetic hardware.

 

 

“It could be that by the time we actually encounter other intelligences, most humans will have substantially enhanced their brains,” Schneider said.

Which speaks to Schneider’s second line of reasoning for super intelligent AI: Most of the radio-hot civilizations out there are probably thousands to millions of years older than us. That’s according to the astronomers who ruminate on such matters.

 

“The way you reach this conclusion is very straightforward,” said Shostak. “Consider the fact that any signal we pick up has to come from a civilization at least as advanced as we are. Now, let’s say, conservatively, the average civilization will use radio for 10,000 years. From a purely probabilistic point of view, the chance of encountering a society far older than ourselves is quite high.”

 

It’s certainly humbling to consider that we may be galactic infants of beetle-like intelligence compared with our cosmic brethren. But despite their superior processing power, there’s a fundamental aspect of cognition our interstellar neighbours may lack: Consciousness.

 

It sounds bizarre, but, Schneider writes, the jury’s still out on whether any artificial intelligence is capable of self-awareness. Simply put, we know so little about the neurological basis for consciousness; it’s almost impossible to predict what ingredients might go into replicating it artificially.

 

“I don’t see any good reason to believe an artificial super intelligence couldn’t possess consciousness, but it’s important to identify the possibility,” said Schneider.

 

Still, Schneider feels the assertion that artificial life simply can’t possess consciousness is losing ground.

 

“I believe the brain is inherently computational—we already have computational theories that describe aspects of consciousness, including working memory and attention,” Schneider said. “Given a computational brain, I don’t see any good argument that silicon, instead of carbon, can’t be a excellent medium for experience.”

 

I hope she’s right. Somehow, the notion of a galaxy teeming with soulless supercomputers is way creepier than introspective, WALL-E-like beings, or dry, sardonic Qs.

 

“It’s super creepy,” Schneider agrees. Indeed, Schneider, who has written extensively on the subject of brain uploading, urges that humans should reflect deeply on this potential consequence of cognitive enhancement.

 

The concept of super intelligent alien AI still sounds very speculative. And it is. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth consideration. Indeed, expanding our purview of alien intelligence may help us identify life’s fingerprints in the cosmos. “So far, we’ve pointed antennas at stars that might have planets that might have breathable atmospheres and oceans and so forth,” Shostak told me. “But if we’re correct that the dominant intelligence in the cosmos is artificial, then does it have to live on a planet with an ocean?”

 

It’s a bit of a mind-bender to think that habitable worlds may hold false promise when it comes to advanced alien life, but that seems to be Shostak’s conclusion.

 

“All artificial life forms would need is raw materials,” he said. “They might be in deep space, hovering around a star, or feeding off a black hole’s energy at the centre of the galaxy.” (That last idea has seen its way into a number of science fiction novels, including works by Greg Bear and Gregory Benford).

 

Which is to say, they could be, essentially, anywhere.

 

Begging a final question: How might super intelligent aliens view us? Will our cosmic cousins see us as nothing more than convenient biofuel, a la the Matrix? Or do they study us quietly from afar, abiding by a Star Trek-esque maxim of non-interference? Schneider doubts either. In fact, she reckons super intelligent aliens couldn’t really care less about us.

 

“If they were interested in us, we probably wouldn’t be here,” said Schneider. “My gut feeling is their goals and incentives are so different from ours, they’re not going to want to contact us.”

 

That’s a welcome divergence from Steven Hawking’s claim that advanced aliens might be nomads, looking to strip resources from whatever planets they can, and that all efforts to contact said aliens may end in our own demise.

 

“I’d have to agree with Susan on them not being interested in us at all,” Shostak said. We’re just too simplistic, too irrelevant. “You don’t spend a whole lot of time hanging out reading books with your goldfish. On the other hand, you don’t really want to kill the goldfish, either.”

 

So, if we want to meet our galactic peers, it looks like we’ll probably have to keep seeking them out. That may take thousands or millions of years, but in the meanwhile, perhaps we’ll upgrade our own intelligence enough to level the playing field. And as an early Christmas present, it seems we can all tick alien robots juicing us for energy off the list of likely apocalypses.

 

 

http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/

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Ex Defence Minister: YOUR Leaders Are Lying To You ALL About UFO’s

The Man in the know Paul Hellyer, who previously served in the 1960s Canadian Government, is leading a touring seminar calling on all Governments across the world to release every single bit of UFO data that they have on record, Canadian news network CTV has recently reported.

 

Mr Hellyer, who is now 91 years old, has already recently addressed a crowd of over 500 people in Calgary as part of the Disclosure Canada Tour, which he has helped set up to raise awareness about our Alien Visitors!

 

The ‘Brave’ Canadian ex-civil servant first came out as a UFO believer ten years ago aged when he was 81 years old.

 

Paul is a great ‘determined’ man and he is NOT senile no matter what the Vile/Disgusting media make up about him! He is so very committed to this truth seeking cause, Paul believes has famously stated that the “UFOs are as common in our skies as aeroplanes” and aliens may already live among us on Earth!

 

Paul very rightly so launched a vicious attack on the mainstream media for ignoring his beliefs and thoughts on Aliens and UFO’s.

 

Pauls demands came following a series of recent reported sightings worldwide, these include a glowing disc UFO apparently filmed by number of people from differing angles over Tijuana in Mexico. Please see video of this intriguing incident below:

 

 

Earlier this month (April 2015) Richard Emblin, editor of The City Paper, an English speaking title in Colombian capital Bogotá, published on its website blurry images of a “shape-changing figure of eight UFO” he snapped pictures of from his balcony there.

 

A shape-changing UFO photographed by newspaper editor Richard Emblin this month

 

Richard Emblin

 

Clear UFO’s are being seen all over the world building up an even stronger case for People like Paul Hellyer! Yet another “glowing UFO” was filmed by a large number of people in Bakersfield, California, this month and posted on facebook and to local news channels in April 2015!

 

Reports also of mysterious blue lights over the same area made the news headlines back in February and March (2015).

 

Back in late March, the local residents in the southern Russian city of Stavropol caught on camera a noiseless, blinding light sweep across the night sky at 9.30pm before disappearing. Some residents even stated that there was a strange ‘groaning’ noise at the same time of the odd bright light in the sky!

 

One of Russia’s leading newspapers ‘The Moscow Times’ speculated that it was either connected to the Northern Lights (??) military action (???) a solar eclipse (????), a cloud-measuring device (getting silly now!) or aliens……!!!

 

Please see the odd event that happened in Russia in the video below:

 

 

Paul told CTV:

 

•   “Much of the media won’t touch it. “So you just have to keep working away and hope that someday you get a critical mass, and they will say, in one way or another, ‘Mr President or Mr Prime Minister, we want the truth and we want it now because it affects our lives.”

 

According to Mr Hellyer there are at least 80 different species of extra-terrestrials, but sceptics have labelled him deluded and crazy….a hate campaign led by the puppets on a string media!!

 

Speaking to Russian television last year, Paul said some of them “look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one”.

 

Mr Hellyer has claimed that most aliens are harmless but a handful have ulterior motives….yet to be revealed!

 

Mr Hellyer is part of an increasing number of ex-officials, including former NASA employees, military officers, or scientists, coming forward to claim to have seen UFOs which were covered up by Governments….and U.I.P salutes these brave men!

 

U.I.P Summary

Paul Hellyer has put his whole reputation at risk after coming out with his knowledge on Aliens about ten years ago! Paul has been ridiculed continuously by the press and the governments of this world, making him out to be some crazy person!

 

For a man to hold such a senior rank in the Canadian Government is NOT going to want to make a fool of himself with this talk of Aliens and UFO’s….U.I.P and MANY others out there feel that Paul is a brave man for airing his thoughts and knowledge in public!

 

Clearly Paul is a determined man to get the TRUTH out and he should NEVER be disrespected for that….Hopefully soon Paul will have the last laugh and like the rest of us get the chance to turn around and say “told you so!”

 

http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/

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3000th comet discovered by Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Press Release

The dot in the cross-hairs is a comet streaming toward the Sun, as seen on 14 September 2015, by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). This is the 3,000th comet discovered in the data from that space telescope since it launched in 1995. Image credits: ESA/NASA/SOHO.

The 3,000th comet was originally spotted in the data by Worachate Boonplod, of Samut Songkhram, Thailand. “I am very happy to be part of a great milestone for SOHO’s comet project,” said Boonplod. “I would like to thank SOHO, ESA and NASA for making this opportunity possible, including other fellow comet hunters who I have learned a lot from.”

SOHO’s mission is to observe the Sun and interplanetary space, above Earth’s atmosphere that blocks so much of the Sun’s radiation. From there, SOHO watches the solar disc itself and its surrounding environment, tracking the constant outward flow of particles known as the solar wind, as well as giant explosions of escaping gas called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. In its two decades in orbit, SOHO has opened up a new era of solar observations, dramatically extending our understanding of the star we live with.

The telescope’s comet prowess, however, was unplanned and has turned out to be an unexpected benefit. With its clear view of the Sun’s surroundings, SOHO can easily spot a special kind of comet called a sungrazer, because of its close approach to the Sun.

“SOHO has a view of about 12-and-a-half million miles beyond the Sun,” said Joe Gurman, mission scientist for SOHO at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “So we expected it might from time to time see a bright comet near the Sun. But nobody dreamed we’d approach 200 a year.”

SOHO’s great success as a comet finder is dependent on the people who sift through its data — a task open to the world as the data is publicly available online in near-real time. A cadre of volunteer amateur astronomers dedicate themselves to searching the data via the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project. While scientists often search SOHO imagery for very specific events, various members of the astronomy community choose to comb through all the imagery in fine detail. The result: 95 percent of SOHO comets have been found by these citizen scientists.

“The people who have found comets represent a very broad cross section as the program is open to anyone who has interest,” said Karl Battams, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Battams has been charged with running the SOHO comet-sighting website since 2003. “There are scientists, teachers, writers. We have even had two 13-year-olds.”

More than just a celebrated bright vision in the night sky, comets can tell scientists a great deal about the place and time where they originated. Comets are essentially a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. They are often pristine relics that can hold clues about the very formation of our solar system. On the other hand, if they have made previous trips around the Sun, they can hold information about the distant reaches of the solar system through which they’ve traveled.

Watching these sungrazing comets also help us learn about our Sun. Their tails of ionised gas illuminate magnetic fields around the Sun, so they can act as a tracer that helps scientists observe these invisible fields. Such fields have even ripped off comet tails allowing astronomers to watch the lost tails blowing in the steady outpouring of solar particles streaming off our closest star. The tails act as giant windsocks in this solar wind, showing researchers the details of the wind’s movement.

At almost 20 years old, the SOHO mission is a respected elder in NASA’s Heliophysics System Observatory — the fleet of spacecraft that both watches the Sun and measure its effects near Earth and throughout the solar system. SOHO is a cooperative effort between ESA and NASA.

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