Meer mysterieuze signalen opgevangen uit de ruimte

Astronomen hebben een aantal mysterieuze signalen opgevangen uit andere sterrenstelsels. Naast vier gewone radioflitsen is ook voor het eerst een dubbele radioflits gedetecteerd. Het onderzoek over de flitsen is gepubliceerd op arXiv.org.

Snelle radioflitsen werden in 2007 voor het eerst opgepikt. Het zijn eenmalige uitbarstingen van radiostraling die slechts enkele milliseconden duren. Tot voor kort hadden astronomen buiten de Melkweg negen van dit soort uitbarstingen ontdekt. Met telescopen is tot dusver tevergeefs gezocht naar een verklaring voor de radioflitsen.

De vijf nieuwkomers zijn opgevangen met de Parkes-telescoop in Australië. Ze volgen hetzelfde patroon als alle eerder ontdekte uitbarstingen, met één uitzondering: eentje flitste twee keer. De dubbele flits was het gevolg van een radio-uitbarsting die negen miljard jaar geleden heeft plaatsgevonden in het sterrenbeeld Octant, aldus astronoom David Champion van het Max-Planck-Instituut voor Radioastronomie in Bonn.

Nu er voor het eerst een dubbele flits is gedetecteerd, kunnen astronomen uitsluiten dat ze worden veroorzaakt door een botsing tussen twee neutronensterren. Dergelijke sterren kunnen immers maar één keer met elkaar in botsing komen.

Sterrenkundigen weten nog altijd niet wat de herkomst is van deze snelle radioflitsen. Mogelijk worden ze geproduceerd door pulsars of soft gamma repeaters, een astronomisch object dat met onregelmatige intervallen grote uitbarstingen van röntgen- en gammastraling kent. Het is ook denkbaar dat ze het gevolg kunnen zijn van een hyperflare, een sterbeving waarbij de energie zo hoog is dat de korst van de ster knapt.

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Het Botta UFO Incident

Het verhaal van het Botta UFO Incident komt van Dr. Enrique Caretenuto Botta uit Zuid-Amerika. Botta deed zijn verhaal, samen met Horacio Gonzales G., tijdens een UFO-conferentie in 1955. De beroemde UFO-onderzoeker Leon Stringfield nam het verhaal van het Botta UFO Incident op in zijn boek ‘Situation Red’. Botta was een luchtvaarttechnicus en een ex-piloot van 40 jaar oud toen hij in 1950 in Argentinië een ontmoeting had met een UFO.

Zijn verhaal begint toen hij als supervisor van een groot bouwproject in een desolaat gebied van Bahia Blanca van de ene naar de andere stad reisde. Op ongeveer 75 kilometer van zijn hotel zag hij een metalen, schijfvormig object aan de kant van weg stilstaan. Hij parkeerde zijn auto, observeerde het object op enige beweging en om gevolg te geven aan zijn toenemende nieuwsgierigheid besloot hij het mysterieuze object nader te onderzoeken.

Aan de zijkant van het mysterieuze object ontdekt Botta een opening en aarzelt geen seconde om binnen te gaan. Binnenin het object ziet hij een kamer vol van controlepanelen, schermen en instrumenten en een rood knipperend licht in de top van de koepelvormige kamer. In drie van de vier zetels op het platform zitten kleine weze

ns van circa 130 centimeter groot die een strakke grijze overall dragen.

De buitenaardse wezens maakten geen enkel geluid en bewogen niet. Botta gaat stilletjes naar ze toe en raakt een van de aliens langs achter aan. Hij voelt een levenloze textuur. Botta schrikt als hij zich realiseert dat de drie aliens vermoedelijk dood zijn en rent terug naar zijn wagen. Aangekomen in zijn hotel vertelt hij de bizarre gebeurtenis aan twee collega’s.

Het is al laat in de avond en de mannen besluiten om pas de volgende ochtend naar het mysterieuze object te gaan kijken. Op de plaats waar Botta de vliegende schotel vond is niets meer te zien. In de omgeving ontdekken ze wel een stapel as. Eén van de mannen pakt een handvol as vast waarop zijn hand onmiddellijk paars kleurt. Na een paar dagen is de paarse kleur volledig verdwenen.

Omdat de drie mannen op de locatie waar de vliegende schotel zich bevond niets speciaals meer ontdekken besluiten ze om de omgeving grondig te onderzoeken. Op dat ogenblik ontdekken de mannen 3 UFO’s boven hen in de lucht, waarvan de grootste een sigaarvorm had en de twee kleinere UFO’s de vorm van een schijf hadden. Botta neemt 5 foto’s van de UFO’s, maar slechts 2 van hen tonen een vaag vluchttracé van de vliegende objecten.

De drie mannen zien hoe de twee kleinere objecten zich verenigen met het grotere object tot één bloedrode verschijning. Daarop verdwijnt het object plotseling. Enkele dagen na dit incident werd Botta ziek. Hij had hoge koorts, blaren en een geïrriteerde huid. Artsen waren niet in staat om zijn toestand te verklaren. Een paar weken later waren alle symptomen verdwenen.

Of dit verhaal een hoax is? Mogelijk. We weten alleen dat Botta met zijn verhaal zijn reputatie op het spel zette en dat hij geen commerciële zaak van het incident maakte. Maar het ontbreken van enig bewijs, ontbrekende basisgegevens en tegenstrijdigheden wijzen in de richting van een vindingrijke journalist met veel inspiratie die wou scoren bij zijn werkgever en zijn lezers.

Oorspronkelijke bron: http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/2009/07/general-acha-lp-un-accidentado-aterrizaje-primera-parte/
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Bizarre UFO waarneming vanuit vliegtuig ( update )

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27-11-2015 om 18:29 geschreven door peter  

Two Glowing UFOs Over Menifee, California On Nov 25, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 25, 2015
Location of sighting: Bay View Way, Menifee, California, USA
Source: MUFON #72768
HDphoto: http://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/72768_submitter_file2__image.jpeg

These two glowing UFOs were seen this week over Menifee, CA. The glowing orbs are seen only for a minute, but can be seen changing positions. Its just three segments of video, but its highly detailed and shows the movement. These UFOs are usually seen over the summer months around the world. I am surprised they are seen during winter...and two instead of just one. I recorded one once in Taiwan, it was in China a week earlier. 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states:
We were in front of the house when we viewed these 2 glowing lights at a low altitude..making absolutely no noise...hovered over the community for a couple of minutes. They moved away slowly when one of the lights disappeared while the other one kept going. I took video and picture.

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27-11-2015 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

Three Giant UFOs Over Thailand During Rush Hour, Nov 25, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 25, 2015
Location of sighting: Bangkok, Thailand

These donut shaped UFOs look solid. I see from their shadows at the point they fade in and out that the only reason they are seen is because they came to close to the lights below on the ground, which caused the bottom of the UFOs to become illuminated. Also many of the UFOs recorded observing the space station on live cam are also this exact shape and coloration. That makes me say these are real.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
Watching 3 colored circles in the form of donuts recorded in Bangkok Thailand on 25 November this year. It is estimated that each average figure about 10 meters in diameter

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27-11-2015 om 18:14 geschreven door peter  

The Great UFO Debate

by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

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The good news is that polls continue to show that between one and two-thirds of the public thinks that extraterrestrial life exists. The weird news is that a similar fraction think that some of it is visiting Earth.

Several recent television shows have soberly addressed the possibility that alien craft are violating our air space, occasionally touching down long enough to allow their crews to conduct bizarre (and, in most states, illegal) experiments on hapless citizens. While these shows tantalize viewers by suggesting that they are finally going to get to the bottom of the so-called “UFO debate”, they never do. That bottom seems perennially out of reach.

So what are the contentious issues here? First off, despite heated discussion by all concerned, let’s admit that interstellar travel doesn’t violate physics. It’s possible. After all, the Pioneer and Voyager probes are nearly three decades into an inadvertent interstellar journey right now. The kicker, of course, is that these craft will take 70,000 years to cover the distance to even the nearest stars (and they’re not aimed that way). With the physics we know, it’s extremely difficult to substantially, and safely, shorten that travel time. Sure, it might be theoretically possible to create worm holes or some other exotic facility for high-speed cosmic cruising; but that approach is entirely speculative.

And it’s not really the point. The problem I have with the claim that strange craft are prowling our planet is not with the transportation mode, but with the evidence. I’ll worry about how they got here once I’m convinced that they’ve really made the scene.

Well, have they? How good is the evidence? In the course of a recent TV broadcast in which I participated, guest experts who have long studied UFOs argued the case for their alien nature by showing photographs of putative saucers hovering at low altitudes. Some of these objects appeared as out-of-focus lights, while others resembled hubcap-shaped Frisbees caught in mid-trajectory.

Since the former are perforce ambiguous, the latter commanded more of my attention. How can we know they’re NOT hubcaps, tossed into the air by a hoaxer with a camera? The reply from one expert: “these photographs pass muster.” When quizzed on exactly which muster was mastered, the response was that “atmospheric effects give us a limit on the distance, and careful examination has ruled out photographic trickery.” Well, the former is pretty chancy, and relies on some assumption about atmospheric conditions (was it a smoggy day in Los Angeles?), and the latter proves nothing. A real shot of an airborne hubcap would, after all, be free of photographic trickery.

Additional evidence that is endlessly cited is “expert testimony.” Pilots, astronauts, and others with experienced eyes and impressive credentials have all claimed to see odd craft in the skies. It’s safe to say that these witnesses have seen something. But just because you don’t recognize an aerial phenomenon doesn’t mean that it’s an extraterrestrial visitor. That requires additional evidence that, so far, seems to be as unconvincing as the trickery-free saucer snaps.

What about those folks who have experienced alien beings first-hand? Abduction stories are an entirely separate field of study and one which I won’t address here, although I must confess that it’s intriguing to see photos of scoop marks on the flesh of human subjects, coupled with the claim that these minor disfigurements are due to alien malfeasance. But even aside from the puzzling question of why beings from distant suns would come to Earth to melon-ball the locals, this evidence is, once again, ambiguous. The scoops might be due to aliens, and then again, they could be the consequence of spousal abuse or many other causes.

When push came to shove, and when pressed as to whether there’s real proof of extraterrestrial visitation, the experts on this show backed off by saying that “well, we don’t know where they come from. But something is definitely going on.” The latter statement is hardly controversial. The former is merely goofy. If the saucers and scoopers are not from outer space, where, exactly, are they from? Belgium?

The bottom line is that the evidence for extraterrestrial visitors has not convinced many scientists. Very few academics are writing papers for refereed journals about alien craft or their occupants. Confronted with this, the UFO experts usually take refuge in two possible explanations:

(1) The material that would be convincing proof has been collected and secreted away by the U.S. government. While endlessly appealing, this is an argument from ignorance (tantamount to saying “we can’t show you good evidence because we haven’t got it”), and perforce implies that every government in the world has efficiently squirreled away all alien artifacts. Unless, of course, the extraterrestrials only visit the U.S., where retrieval of material that falls to Earth is supposedly a perfected art form.

(2) Scientists have simply refused to look carefully at this phenomenon. In other words, the scientists should blame themselves for the fact that the visitation hypothesis has failed to sway them.

This is not only unfair, it’s misguided. Sure, rather few researchers have themselves gone into the field to sift through the stories, the videos, and the odd photos that comprise the evidence for alien presence. But they don’t have to. This complaint is akin to telling movie critics that films would be better if only they would pitch in and get behind the camera. But critics can compose excellent and accurate evaluations of a movie without being participants in the business of making films.

The burden of proof is on those making the claims, not those who find the data dubious. If there are investigators who are convinced that craft from other worlds are buzzing ours, then they should present the absolute best evidence they have, and not resort to explanations that appeal to conspiratorial cover-ups or the failure of others to be open to the idea. The UFO advocates are not asking us to believe something either trivial or peripheral, for after all, there could hardly be any discovery more dramatic or important than visitors from other worlds. If we could prove that the aliens are here, I would be as awestruck as anyone. But I await a compelling Exhibit A.

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27-11-2015 om 18:07 geschreven door peter  

A Passenger Of A Plane Films At Least Eight Mysterious UFOs

A plane’s passenger claim he has captured a strange activity involving at least eight UFOs that hover below a commercial flight to Taiwan.

The witness pulled out his iPhone to document the unusual event on video. He claimed to have seen between eight and ten bright lights in the sky below the right wing of the aircraft.
But not everyone is convinced the man records something strange.

According to the witness report submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), he was onthe Eva Airlines from Vancouver to Taipei.

The report says the witness saw a bright light flying under the aircraft thirty minutes before landing. He then claims that three more UFOs appeared for several seconds. The unidentified witness believes he sees a total of at least eight bright UFOs beneath the aircraft.

The incident took place on October 16 at 5 in the morning as the plane was travellingnortheast of Taiwan.

MUFON uploaded the video to YouTube on November 25 and had thousands of views.

But some viewers are not convinced by the footage.

One YouTube user said, “Those are reflections. MUFON, please filter your sightings so we can keep the real ones from the ones we can explain.“

But another viewer disagreed and said that it’s an excellent video and those are clearly not reflections.

27-11-2015 om 18:01 geschreven door peter  

Green orbs flying over Parker, Colorado – August 2015

This UFO sighting video was just submitted to mufon. It was taken over Parker in Douglas County, Colorado on 9th August 2015.

Witness report: 4 red and 4 green orbs, changing to one, fast right angle moves
sitting on back porch just after the sun set behind mountains. noticed 4 round green lights in a line and 4 round red lights in a line. they moved away from each other at both high speeds and low speeds. they would hovers as if facing one another. One zoomed off and then stopped and appeared as just another star. The four orbs became one. one red and one green, they would fly at various speeds and angles, many miles apart from one another.
was able to get short video of one orb moving and changing from solid green to solid red. it never lost its round shape during this change or movement. the other orbs flew away at amazing speed and vanished. just simply amazing display off ability to hover, fly at light speed and turn at any angle.

Author (source: MUFON)

27-11-2015 om 12:22 geschreven door peter  

Vatican: ET Exists, But an ‘Alien Jesus’ Is Too Far

The Catholic Church discloses the possibility of alien existence but at the same time maintains its traditional beliefs. Is this really progress?

 

Pope Francis has certainly been the most open minded one yet, proving it by publicly talking about things the Vatican wouldn’t dare approach or admit no more than 10 years ago.

 

First he acknowledged gay rights and then, for the first time in any church’s history, took direct and swift actions against abusive priests. This has gained him a lot of popularity, even though less people believe in God (no matter which one) every year and more and more people believe in evolution or extraterrestrial existence.

 

This could’ve been one of the reasons for the Vatican’s disclosure about their perception of other world civilizations.

 

In an official press release, the Catholic Church declared their belief that mankind is not the only intelligent species in the Universe, but the other civilization(s) haven’t had the privilege of being guided by God or receiving Jesus’ help.

 

This statement was made by Jose Fuentes, a priest representing the Vatican, after the recent discovery of far-away planets that hold life sustainability.

 

 

The fact that, in such a small amount of time, the Vatican has not only changed its opinion on space, but also employed many leading astronomers and invested considerable amounts in telescopes and other such equipment, makes us here at UFOholic.com think that the Catholic Church has even more knowledge about space or other species than anyone could’ve ever imagined.

 

 

Maybe they just had us looking the other way the whole time by treating evolutionists and UFOlogists like heretics, while they were quietly researching and finding out a hidden and probably very uncomfortable truth.

 

Jose Fuentes, who is leading the Vatican’s astronomical research, says even though the probability of life elsewhere in the universe is great, the possibility of mankind establishing contact with it is almost nonexistent. He doesn’t think that these civilizations, if existent, were visited by a divine being similar to Jesus or God :

 

"The discovery of intelligent life does not mean that there is another Jesus. The incarnation of the Son of God is a unique event in the history of mankind and the universe.”

 

 

Father Fuentes’ public statements have been fueled by the discovery of Kepler 452B, a distant planet very similar to our own, but older. He was fascinated and described the find as very important and beneficial to mankind:  “The new planet Kepler-452b revives the idea of contact and -why not- the possibility of an encounter with an alien civilization; although, personally, I am skeptical that this event of cosmic proportions will happen soon. There is no contradiction between extraterrestrial life and the Christian faith, the search for other life in the universe helps us to understand ourselves.”

 

The leading Catholic astronomer also made a similar statement, though very short and evasive, in 2008, so the Vatican could be preparing the global population for a major announcement sometime in the near future.

 

We’ll be anxiously awaiting new such views and takes on astrology by the Vatican, because we believe religion and UFOlogy just don’t fit.

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27-11-2015 om 11:48 geschreven door peter  

This artist’s illustration shows dark matter “hairs” surrounding Earth.  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech View full size image

Earth may sport a thick coat of superlong dark matter "hairs," a new study suggests.

Astronomers think dark matter — a mysterious, invisible substance that neither emits nor absorbs light, and is about six times more common than "normal" matter — forms fine-grained but incredibly long streams throughout the universe. 

"A stream can be much larger than the solar system itself, and there are many different streams crisscrossing our galactic neighborhood," study author Gary Prézeau, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. [Gallery: Dark Matter Throughout the Universe]

Dark matter and dark energy are elusive, invisible phenomena scientists have long been hunting. Will dark matter and dark energy ever be actually seen?

Yes, it's only a matter of time and technology to see these elusive targets.

Maybe, but scientists may debate the discovery for years before it is accepted.

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Prézeau performed computer simulations that looked at what happens when such streams go through Earth and other planets in the solar system. (Dark matter doesn't interact much with normal matter, so the mysterious stuff can zoom through planets' interiors.) He found that these worlds' gravity likely bends the streams into narrow hairs, complete with dense "roots" and more diffuse "tips."

In the case of Earth, the root of such hairs would lie about 600,000 miles (1 million kilometers) from the planet's surface, while the tip would be about twice as far away — 1.2 million miles (2 million km) from Earth. (For perspective, the moon orbits Earth at an average distance of 239,000 miles, or 385,000 km).

This finding could help astronomers learn more about dark matter, whose existence has been inferred from its gravitational influence on stars and other objects composed of "normal" matter. (Dark matter is not directly detectable.)

"If we could pinpoint the location of the root of these hairs, we could potentially send a probe there and get a bonanza of data about dark matter," Prézeau said.

This artist’s illustration shows a close-up rendering of possible dark matter “hairs” surrounding Earth. 
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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The new study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, further suggests that the different layers of a planet, moon or other body should cause corresponding bends or "kinks" in these dark matter hairs, which researchers could also put to use.

"Theoretically, if it were possible to obtain this information, scientists could use hairs of cold dark matter to map out the layers of any planetary body, and even infer the depths of oceans on icy moons," NASA officials wrote inthe same statement. (Dark matter is thought to be "cold" in that it doesn't move around very much.)

While dark matter is much more abundant than regular matter, scientists think the invisible stuff makes up just 27 percent of all matter and energy in the universe. The vast majority is composed of dark energy, a mysterious force associated with the universe's accelerating expansion. "Normal" matter makes up just 5 percent of the cosmos.

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

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27-11-2015 om 11:35 geschreven door peter  

Watch the Best Collection of Skyrocketing UFOs [NIGHTVISION]

How often do we look at the sky? And how many times does the sky offer relevant sightings?

 

If you usually check for strange phenomenon in the sky and receive no feedback, it’s probably because you’re not stubborn enough. Waiting for the right sightings to appear might be tricky considering the wide expanse of the sky, but it will eventually reveal the most fascinating things.

 

From shooting stars to UFO formations, the sky can surprise even the skeptics with its fabulous appearances. Investigating on our own can bring great benefits to ourselves and to the rest of the UFO community, as is the case of UFO Lou, an UFO enthusiast and analyst. During the past few years, this guy managed to film a lot of interesting UFOs and space phenomenon using a P8079HP night vision tube.

 

As you will see in the following video, the night sky is full of activity. It reveals how different shaped UFOs fly over Earth either on their own or in full formation. Some of them have a luminous tail, while others are pulsating or performing extreme maneuvers that are impossible for our earthly crafts.

 

Even though not everything you see in the video is an actual space craft, some particularities are to be noted in order to better distinguish between the different sightings. The large group of shapes in the sky strongly resembles to a flock of birds, while the UFO with a luminous tail can be explained as a fighter jet. Apart from these distractions, the bright orbs so popular nowadays are also present in the video and also a fascinating sighting of a speeding UFO.

 

In the end of the clip, Mr. Lou highlights a few commercial planes in order to see the huge difference in shape, color and altitude between our earthly crafts and the rest of the UFOs surprised by his night vision camera. Thinking on a larger scale, the night sky is always full of such bizarre crafts.

 

 

 

They travel the world without any fear for boarders or official authorities stopping them. While it is hard to imagine that such sightings were not detected using ground radar technology by now, we tend to believe that they are intelligent and somehow manage to dodge our earthly technology.

 

 

Are these crafts coming from Earth or from outer space? From what we know, military technology is well ahead of our time, so the possibility of these coming from Earth is also considered. Do they have bases here on Earth? If we look at the vast amount of unexplored land, also desolate or hard to reach places, this idea doesn’t seem far from reality either.

 

Are we looking at physically controlled crafts or is it possible that someone is flying them using a remote? Judging by the extreme maneuvers, they could be intelligently controlled, but because we see the UFOs at a very high altitude, it’s either possible for them to be piloted or remote controlled somewhere from space or from a structure orbiting Earth.

 

The possibility for them being AI devices is also not far from reality, with the ongoing technological progress such a scenario would be quite plausible. Until we find out more details about these UFOs, we can only speculate using what we have, but each day analyzing the phenomenon is a day in the right direction. Keep your eyes on the night sky!

 

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27-11-2015 om 11:28 geschreven door peter  

Nasa : les extraterrestres auraient probablement une intelligence artificielle

A quoi pourraient ressembler ces extraterrestres tant recherchés ?
 
La science-fiction leur a souvent attribué une forme humanoïde de petits hommes verts ou d’insectes géants, mais une « étude » américaine donne une réponse bien différente.
 
Elle affirme en effet que ce ne sont pas des créatures biologiques mais bien plutôt des robots extrêmement avancés d’une intelligence infiniment supérieure à la nôtre. 

La Nasa et les extraterrestres

L’étude « Alien Minds » menée par Susan Schneider, professeur de philosophie de l’Université du Connecticut, qui devrait être publiée prochainement par la Nasa, rejoint les thèses de l’astronome Seth Shostak, directeur du Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), programme de la Nasa, de l’astrobiologiste de la Nasa Paul Davies ou encore du responsable de l’astrobiologie de la Library of Congress, Stephen Dick…
 
Tous considèrent en effet que l’intelligence dominante dans le cosmos est probablement artificielle, comme l’explique Susan Schneider : « Beaucoup de gens voient les aliens comme des icônes. Ils les imaginent comme des créatures biologiques, mais cela n’a pas de sens dans l’échelle du temps ». Seth Shostak va plus loin encore et affirme « avoir parié avec des dizaines d’astronomes que si nous recevons un signal extraterrestre, ce sera d’une vie artificielle… A partir du moment où une civilisation invente les ondes radio, elle est à 50 ans des ordinateurs et probablement ensuite à 50 ou 100 ans de l’intelligence artificielle. A ce moment-là, les cerveaux mous et spongieux deviennent un modèle obsolète ».
 
Susan Schneider précise leur pensée commune : « Je ne dis pas que nous allons rencontrer des processeurs IBM dans l’espace. En toute probabilité, cette intelligence sera bien plus sophistiquée que tout ce que comprennent les humains ».
 
Seth Shostak explique que ce raisonnement est simple « si l’on considère que tout signal radio extraterrestre que nous recevons provient d’une civilisation au moins aussi avancée que la nôtre. Disons, de façon prudente, qu’une civilisation moyenne utilise la radio pendant 10.000 ans. D’un point de vue purement statistique, la chance de rencontrer une civilisation bien plus ancienne que la nôtre est donc très élevée ».
Une belle manière de préparer les Hommes à devenir des robots, avenir présenté comme inéluctable…

L’intelligence artificielle et la fin de l’Homme

Susan Schneider pense d’ailleurs que la civilisation humaine est proche de l’étape grâce à laquelle elle va « améliorer » sa propre biologie et s’en affranchir, étape appelée laSingularité.
 
Ce rapport prépare donc les intelligences à accepter cette étape qui signe simplement la disparition de l’Homme…
 
Effectivement, pour Susan Schneider, l’Homme ne va pas simplement améliorer son cerveau grâce à la robotique mais deviendra progressivement totalement synthétique…

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27-11-2015 om 11:20 geschreven door peter  

Creepy UFO Jumps Right Out of a Lightning Storm

27-11-2015 om 11:00 geschreven door peter  

These 5 NASA Astronauts Came Together to Tell The World That We Are Not Alone

“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since.

I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Today, more so than ever, the topic of UFO’s and extraterrestrials is a very popular one. Although stories of aliens and UFOs have been the subject of ridicule, fantasy and science fiction for decades, recent revelations within the past few years from a number of high ranking military personnell, political personnell, defence intelligence agency personnel along with a number of academicians has shifting this topic from “conspiracy theory” to reality.

Not only has that helped, but the release of thousands of pages of documents from dozens of governments around the world has added more fuel to the flame, as a number of people are now demanding answers regarding a secret that’s been hushed up for a number of years.

“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of  conjecture or wistful thinking.”  - Theodor C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.

It’s also noteworthy to mention here that UFOs are commonly tracked on military radar, that’s both air and ground radar, as well as visually confirmed by the pilots who are sent out to check the objects out.

“We or at least some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” -Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defense Minister

To see an actual documented encounter, one out of thousands that have occurred, you can check out this Defense Intelligence Agency report.  To hear an actual description of what it’s like to be involved in this type of thing, here is a great video of a retired Air Force pilot with some experience.

The above information is just to let you know that we are dealing with a very real phenomenon, which is why Mike Gold, the Director of Bigelow Aerospace, said that this is a “serious issue that deserves serious attention. 

NASA Astronauts

Please keep in mind, these are five examples out of many X NASA perssonell to make such comments. 

These 5, and many more have all come together it what seems to be one common goal. Waking up the world to the fact that we are not alone, and never have been.

1. Dr. Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor

“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view.

That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.” 

2. Gordon Cooper, Former NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer and test pilot. One of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States.

 “In my opinion I think they were worried that it would panic the public so they started telling lies about it. And then I think they had to tell another lie to cover their first lie, now they don’t know how to get out of it. Now it’s going to be so embarrassing to admit that all these administrations have told so many untruths, it would be embarrassing getting out of it. There are a number of extraterrestrial vehicles out there cruising around.” 

3. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D., 6th man to walk on the moon, retired Captan in the US Navy, aeronautical engineer, founder of the Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS)

“I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real…Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.”  

4. Astronaut Eugene Cernan, Former US Navy Captain, electrical engineer and aeronautical engineer.

“I’ve been asked about UFOs and I’ve said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.” 

5. Astronaut Story Musgrave

“Statistically it’s a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they’re so advanced that they’re even doing interstellar travel. I believe it’s possible that they even came here. It’s logical to presume the universe must have other life in it and by virtue of association that we could be visited at some point.”

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Another UFO Appearance on Mars Deepens the Mystery Even More

As time passes by, planet Mars is becoming more and more intriguing. From the countless shapes that could one day prove to be real artifacts left behind by a former Martian civilization, to bizarre shapes witnessed by Curiosity rover upon the sky of the Red Planet.

 

Newly released images reveal another UFO speeding across the sky. Could this be an authentic craft, or is it just another lens artifact? At a first analysis, the object appears to be closer to the rover than the previous recorded sightings. Because of this, its shape can be observed better, however, its interior is somehow mixed with the sky contrast, thus raising some questions of it being an actual flying object or not.

 

 

If we look at the second picture taken only moments after, the strange object disappears. Could this confirm the fact that the presumed UFO is traveling at a very high speed? Or is it just another step towards the dust/ lens artifact hypothesis? Why doesn’t it appear on the second photo as well?

 

Because it’s hard to judge from only one image, here are a few similar ones which show the activity of UFOs near NASA’ rover. In the sky and on the ground, the curious phenomenon slowly dissipates the hypothesis of a mere coincidence.

 

A black dot appeared on two consecutive images captured by Curiosity this November. Its position was different in both pictures, revealing the traveling speed of the UFO. Because of the big distance between the object and the NASA rover, its shape cannot be accurately determined, but it’s likely that it was indeed a significant discovery because the Youtube account describing the event was closed after a couple of days. Fortunately for us, the pictures still remain.

 

 

Another similar case from Mars exposes several bright orbs which appear to be attracted to the Curiosity rover. Looking like a bunch of local spirits, the strange orbs can be seen in a series of eight photos. This case is even more interesting because the UFOs are really similar to the ones seen on Earth.

 

 

Is it possible that an intelligent design is spying on us? Well, if we analyze all the manned missions in space and all the different sightings from Earth, it’s always a UFO present in sight that’s spying from afar or from a close view. Are these all coincidences that can be explained by normal phenomenon occurring in space?

 

Does this image reveal further evidence of flying objects on Mars? Or is it just another camera malfunction, a bit of dust on the lens that’s clouding our judgement?

 

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Airplane Passenger Captures Several Pictures of a Huge UFO Near Area 51

While on a flight heading to Houston, TX, a nameless passenger noticed that something strange was glowing on his window. What he saw left him speechless.

 

The man’s attention was drawn by this huge round and metallic shape that was releasing bright lights from it in the middle of the day. The witness was on an American Airlines flight from San Jose, CA to Houston, TX, when he was surprised by the sighting.

 

The first thing he did was to grab his phone and take as many pictures as he could. Before the strange objects got out of sight, he managed to capture 6 pictures showing what seems to be a huge craft with other small bright orbs surrounding it.

 

 

The airline passenger claims to have captured pictures of a huge disk-craft that was somehow releasing other small UFOs. He also claims that the spot where he saw the peculiar sighting was near the top-secret Area 51 military base which, as you probably know, was publically acknowledged for the first time by the US government in 2003.

 

What seems strange based on this man’s claims, is that neither the pilot of the plane nor the other passengers noticed anything out of the ordinary. After he disembarked, the man went straight to the Mutual UFO Network which investigates the UFO phenomenon in the US. He stated that:

 

I was on an American flight from San Jose, Ca to Houston, TX on October 30, 2015 when I noticed a blinding light in the desert near Luning and Gabs, NV. I saw a large silver disc that appeared to be in the middle of the desert. This disc was shooting orb like lights into the air.

 

 

 

The disc itself had multiple lights that were blinding to the eyes. I pulled out my phone and took pictures until my phone died. No other passengers seem to notice the disc or comment on it. Upon my return home, I asked multiple Air Force employees if they have ever seen anything like this and all replied never. Initially I thought it was a satellite but now leave it up to your interpretation. What the hell did I witness?

 

This particular sighting has led some UFO analysts into believing that the huge UFO from the pictures appears to be landed on the ground. As Scott C. Waring also appreciated, the pictures might reveal a cloaked craft in the Nevada desert, only 140 miles south-west of Area 51. He considers that the UFO might be partially camouflaged to look like the surrounding area, but because of its metallic design, its cover-up is partially exposed.

 

Another explanation of this bizarre sighting comes from the Mutual UFO Network who believe this to be a huge solar power farm, more precisely the Ivanpah solar farm. Even though the pictures are somehow resembling to it, the fact that the power plant is located in California’s Mojave Desert instead of Nevada, where the sighting was witnessed leaves this case unresolved.

 

 

Are we dealing with an authentic UFO phenomenon here, or is it just a solar panel conglomeration? And even though the plane was near that area only for a short while, how come nobody else seen what was happening below?

 

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Sleep paralysis and alien abductions (part 1)

One of the new features in JAR Magazine is our 'Ask the panel' section. In it, we put one question to a handful of people with experience in the field, and ask for their feedback.

On 6 November 2015, the British Daily Mail news paper ran an article that suggested that alien abductions were 'probably' just the result of sleep paralysis. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3305792/Think-ve-abducted-aliens-probably-just-sleep-paralysis-Psychologist-attempts-logically-explain-encounters-fourth-kind.html). The author refers to an article that appeared shortly before in The Psychologist, which was written by Christopher C French, of Goldsmiths, the University of London. (https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-28/october-2015/close-encounters-psychological-kind). 

The theory that alien abductions are just sleep paralysis is an argument debunkers often come up with. It is, of course, an invalid argument, and fails to address, e.g., all the cases with multiple abductees, with witnesses, or where abductions do not happen in the bedroom. We thought it would be interesting to put the topic to our panel. For this occasion, our panel consisted of John Carpenter, Gwen Farrell, Nadine Lalich, Thomas Minderle, and Andrew Hennessey.

John Carpenter

Can Sleep Paralysis Explain Abductions?

It must first be understood that sleep paralysis is a real physiological condition that can occur in anybody.  During dreaming or REM sleep the central nervous system paralyzes the body except for the eyes.  In the reticular formation in the brain stem an inhibition is produced which affects all muscle tone except for the eyes.  This inhibition can still be in effect when our eyes open.  In other words, the mind awakens before the body does.  The mind gets confused by the unexpected sensation of paralysis.  It is true that many abductions begin in the bedroom with the participant reporting a sense of paralysis or immobilization.

Another feature of sleep paralysis is the confusing perception of an unexpected “presence” in the room.  I experienced this myself years ago when there had been many burglaries in our quiet neighborhood, and everybody was on edge.  My wife and I always slept with the bedroom door closed and the dog on the bed.  During that period of time there was an early moment of the morning when I heard my dog growling and was startled toward awakening.  I noted the bedroom door open and a feeling that a shadowy figure was standing at the side of my bed.  My heart leaped, my body could not move, my voice could not yell – and then I was suddenly fully awake and in a panic.  But there was nobody there.  The dog was growling in his sleep and my wife had forgotten to close the bedroom door.  Everything was fine.  But in those few confusing waking moments, I experienced that paralysis and those confusing misperceptions.

Research studies have shown that certain experiments with sleep paralysis have demonstrated the subjects’ reporting of strange lights, unexpected beings, feelings of immobilization, and other confusing details.  Therefore, critics get excited thinking that they have found a plausible explanation for the phenomenon of “alien abduction.”  David Hufford, author of The Terror That Comes in the Night, has researched night terrors and sleep paralysis for over 30 years.  He admits that there are far more strange and anomalous aspects to “alien abductions” than what sleep paralysis can account for.  In fact, he even goes as far as to say that aliens might be utilizing that physiological occurrence in humans to their advantage.  In other words, they could trigger that condition to persist, thereby keeping us immobilized for as long as they like.

In any case, believing that sleep paralysis can “explain everything” in reports of UFO abductions is a very naïve opinion with only a superficial understanding of the alien abduction research.  Let me give you a number of reasons why this would be a ridiculous and often an impossible explanation for abduction encounters.

First of all, many abduction encounters begin NOT in the bedroom or in any kind of a sleep state.  A person could be driving his car when he pulls over to get a better look at a strange object hovering over the trees nearby.  In no way is he about to fall asleep because he is beside himself with excitement.  Another person is swimming in the ocean when she sees a strange light overhead.  A man walking his dog through the park is getting brisk exercise when his encounter begins.  In fact, it has been shown that abduction experiences can begin anywhere at any time of day or night.  One man was abducted right out of a crowded social event when everybody else in the room appeared “frozen” or paralyzed while he and the aliens were the only ones that could move or react.  In this case, it seems obvious that the aliens are in charge of whom becomes paralyzed – and it is not always the abductee!  This “freezing of time” may be a whole different mechanism of control at the alien’s command, but it certainly shows that the abductee is not the one being paralyzed in these scenarios.

Secondly, quite a few abduction cases involve multiple participants.  Not only are they usually in a waking state, involved in some activity together, but there has never been a known case of simultaneous sleep paralysis among two or more people!  The four men canoeing and camping along a lake in Maine (The Allagash Abductions by Raymond Fowler) were panicking and paddling as fast as possible back to shore when all four lost consciousness simultaneously.  They certainly were not sleepy at that moment, yet they had hours of “missing time” and “re-awakened” at the same given moment, standing around a campfire hours later.  There are no known cases of four men entering into amnesia at the same moment – and leaving that amnestic state hours later at the same second.  Something else seems to be clearly in control of that process.  Of further significance is the fact that careful interviews and subsequent hypnosis sessions performed separately resulted in all four men seeing each other aboard an alien craft and involved in examinations with precise and correlating details reported.  There is no way that any form of sleep paralysis across four different male subjects could account for the alike reporting of precisely detailed scenarios of such bizarre and correlating information.

Likewise, another case of mine from 1989 involved two women driving home from Colorado late at night and both seeing strange lights come near their car.  One moment they are excited and panicky, the next moment (two hours later) they are tired, grumpy, and silent.  Under no circumstances did both of them fall asleep at that moment!  Despite neither woman knowinganything about UFO abductions, independent investigations with separate hypnosis sessions revealed a very detailed and classic abduction scenario with 43 specific matches of bizarre details between their recollections.  Other details matched unpublished data from other cases worldwide – none of it even possible from any sleep paralysis experience.  In fact, no sleep paralysis study has ever produced the depth, diversity, and richness of details that are collected and studied in UFO Abduction research.

Further evidence that sleep paralysis cannot account for abduction reports is when the actual abduction is observed by somebody else.  It cannot be an imagined product of the confusing sleep state if the partner is watching the abductee be removed from the bedroom and floated out the window in a blue beam of light.  It would be stranger to claim that the partner somehow linked into the mind of the abductee to perceive his sleep paralysis imagery!  What is interesting is that the partner was wide awake the whole time, yet strangely unable to move while the abductee was being escorted away.  The absence is also clearly documented by the partner.  This is reminiscent of when Travis Walton was observed struck by a blue beam of light in Arizona in 1975 and then clearly missing for five days, causing the witnesses to become suspects in his “murder” until he reappeared when the UFO released him.

The famous story of the Brooklyn Bridge case by Budd Hopkins (the book, Witnessed) involved as many as seven independent witnesses to the abduction of Linda Cortile from her twelfth floor apartment in Manhattan.  Seen in a blue beam of light accompanied by three gray little beings with big black eyes, she floated up toward a hovering craft.  All witnesses reported the same details despite being in different locations with different viewing perspectives; this was not her confused imagination from a sleep paralysis state!

Sleep paralysis cannot account for the physical cuts, bruises, surgical scars, incisions, “scoop marks,” retrieved implants, needle marks, and other effects upon the “sleeping” body.  Nor can it account for awakening without your clothes outside the locked doors of your home.  Even imagination is much more creative and diverse than the same reported, little, skinny, gray beings with big black eyes.  Is that the only image of “aliens” that our minds can manufacture in terms of sleep imagery?  True sleep imagery would be vastly diverse, creative, and more interesting!

Some notions of “feeling abducted by something” may stem from those brief and confusing moments created by sleep paralysis.  But sleep paralysis cannot even begin to logically explain all the different types of reports collected worldwide with amazingly similar details.  Most people are in a waking state; many are in groups; others are witnessed as being taken by some type of unknown entities.  Critics can offer sleep paralysis as a superficial explanation, hoping that a naïve public will not dig any deeper into the actual research information than they ever did.

John Carpenter, MSW, LCSW
Psychiatric Hypnotherapist
MUFON Director of Abduction Research 1991-2000

Thomas Minderle

Sleep paralysis involves waking from sleep and being unable to move because the body is still asleep. If symptoms only involve temporary paralysis and nothing more, then we can say with confidence it was likely a sleep paralysis episode. However, if the person also recounts hearing voices, feeling a presence in the room, or seeing entities, then two possibilities exist: either these are hallucinations, or they are perceptions of objective phenomena. They might be hallucinations if the mind was only partially awake and hence some dream processes remained active and induced hypnopompic hallucinations that overlaid upon physical perception. On the other hand, alien visitations and abductions reportedly also involve paralysis and the presence of nonhuman beings. Aliens have telepathic and telekinetic abilities and are able to modify an abductee’s nervous and subtle energy systems to induce paralysis for control and safety purposes. Superficially, these two phenomena overlap and so skeptics make the convenient but fallacious jump toward discounting alien abductions as mere sleep paralysis.

The difference between sleep paralysis and alien encounters comes down to how many elements are present in the experience for which sleep paralysis is not a fitting explanation and vice versa. If one wakes to see a parade of dancing bananas floating before one’s face, then since this has no correlate within the abduction or occult fields and is just plain ludicrous, that points toward it being a hypnopompic hallucination. But if one instead sees the ubiquitous gray aliens, humanoids in jump suits, reptilians, or shadow figures fitting the behavior and characteristics of demons, and more so if there happen to be multiple eyewitnesses, if the abduction takes place while one is driving, if there are anomalous injuries or bodily marks afterward, if pets react traumatically, etc. then sleep paralysis becomes increasingly less viable as an explanation. That skeptics want to dismiss it all with two dimensional excuses shows they are naive at best and biased sophists at worst.

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Sleep paralysis and alien abductions (part 2)

Continued from part 1: Sleep paralysis and alien abductions (part 1)

 Gwen Farrell

Having worked with many Experiencers (ET contactee/abductees), studying the functions of the human mind as a therapist and looking into ET abduction/contact as an investigator, I've come to some solid conclusions about the existence of sleep paralysis and as a component of the ET contact/abduction phenomenon.

If you are an ET Experiencer, you may be have waked suddenly from sleep and observed or felt strange things going on in the room, beings standing at your bedside, touching you and possibly even verbalizing, while you are unable to physically react. It’s one of the most common and most terrifying aspects of the ET experience. 

Science declares that such experiences are not paranormal events, but actually sleep paralysis, a fairly commonplace, physiological function that everyone with a normal brain has experienced at least once, and in some cases, chronically.

So who's right, Experiencers or science? I think the answer is both.

Sleep paralysis (REM Atonia) is a natural phenomenon in which an individual awakens from sleep and temporarily experiences an inability to move, speak or react and which is sometimes accompanied by strange and terrifying hallucinations, including sensory effects.

Sleep paralysis appears to occur at a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep that roughly corresponds to the Theta level of brainwave activity (4-7 hz). Since you pass through Theta when you fall asleep and again when you wake up, it can occur at either point. When that happens, somehow your awareness of sleeping and waking can overlap – a state in which your mind thinks you are awake and your body thinks you are asleep.  You are aware, but unable to speak or move. 

While some Experiencers report being abducted or contacted during daylight, most such events occur at night. Why? A simple explanation is that ET visitors approach the subject at night when the individual is in deep sleep and unable to resist. In most cases, this works and the nocturnal visitors go about their business and then leave their subject unaware. But if, for some reason, the subject wakes up mentally but not physically, a classic case of sleep paralysis can result. In this case the individual is still physically asleep and unable to resist, but is aware of activities going on around him or involving him. 

So yes, scientists are right – certain Experiencers are experiencing sleep paralysis. At the same time, they are being abducted or contacted by ETs. Because an individual experiences sleep paralysis doesn't mean that they are not also experiencing an ET abduction.  The existence of one does not preclude the existence of the other.

Gwen Farrell, CHt, RT, is an Experiencer therapist, UFO investigator, CE5 researcher, and intuitive counselor in Phoenix, Arizona.  www.etcontact-healing.blogspot.com 

Nadine Lalich

The following is a response to Christopher C French, of Goldsmiths, the University of London, explanation in an article for The Psychologist as to why people may be 'abducted' by aliens:

Dr. French: A rare form of the condition (sleep paralysis) which can involve hallucinations or the feeling of being dragged out of bed, may explain alien abductions that people sincerely believe happened but can't remember.

Rare: How rare is “rare?”  
In their 2011 paper Prevalence of Sleep Paralysis, Sharpless and Barber combined more than 30 studies on sleep paralysis prevalence from a variety of cultures and groups, giving them a sample size of over 36,000. They concluded that approximately 8% of ordinary people (with no extreme psychiatric illness) experience sleep paralysis. That would also conclude that approximately 8% of ordinary persons who are also ET contactees experience sleep paralysis. If, as Dr. French claims, sleep paralysis with hallucinations is rare, then the numbers of abductees that could attribute their experiences to sleep paralysis with hallucinations would be far less than 8%.

Dragged out of bed: Yes, there are some reports where experiencers may describe being “dragged out of bed,” but far more often, when it happens indoors it is a much more subtle experience, i.e., floating upward, walking out of the house, being wide awake when the event begins. Often times, an experiencer is overwhelmed with the desire to go outside or take a drive into a remote area where a contact later occurs. Contacts also happen outside in the daytime or evening, while driving a car and fully lucid, where two people are involved at the same time, and sometimes with mass sightings of the event. 

Can’t Remember: There is a large number of experiencers who DO remember an event spontaneously and immediately afterwards, without the aid of hypnosis. Certainly, as in all abduction/contact cases, whether recalled spontaneously or through hypnosis, an experiencer must always take into consideration the fact that portions of the memory could be distorted due to the fact that the abductors always attempt to mentally and emotionally subdue the abductee through unknown means. This includes stimulating false scenarios into the abductee's consciousness in order to more easily manipulate them, and also as an experimental tool to study human emotions. 

However, after repeated contact the fear level drops, allowing many abductees to retain consciousness longer after a contact begins, thus improving attention and comprehension. Many of these experiencers are quite discerning and demonstrate a high degree of intelligence and competency in the management of their ordinary lives. Certainly in such experiencers these same attributes would also come into play when reviewing anomalous events. In analyzing their experiences they recognize that a good portion of these events occur under varying degrees of altered states, yet still find that portions of these experiences remain valid and worthy of investigation. Also, over time the intelligent and discerning experiencer instincts and intuition corroborate credibility. 

Dr. French: He noted that most of the people making these claims are clinically sane, but their belief in life in outer space may influence what they see or feel in strange situations.

If that is true, then wouldn't it also be true that Dr. French’s lack of belief in life in outer space is also determining his inflexible view that all abduction claims have no basis in reality?

Dr. French: …some people suffer from rare forms, which cause them to 'feel' an evil presenceor hallucinate by seeing lights or grotesque faces, hearing voices…

Again the use of “rare.” Regarding the “evil presence,” although many contactees are initially frightened of what is happening to them, there are also many accounts of abduction where the abductees do not see the experience or the abductors as evil.  Regarding “hearing voices,” most, if not all abductees agree that ETs do not speak out loud (hear voices), but rather employ a form of telepathy for communication.

Dr. French : …hypnotic regression therapy may be responsible for planting false memories in people's brains.

Personally, having conscious recall of the many contact/abduction events that have occurred throughout my life, I have only experienced a half dozen regressions. Although the hypnotherapist in each case was unaware of my initial conscious recollections, the regressions never negated my original interpretation, but only served to expand slightly on the information. 

How can we tell sleep paralysis and abductions apart?

As a lifelong experiencer of anomalous contact, I have also experienced sleep paralysis on several occasions in my life, specifically, when I was physically ill. During those episodes my eyes were open, I was unable to move my body in any fashion, and I did feel fearful as though an unknown presence might be in the room. I had no visuals nor heard any sounds, and the feelings passed in a couple of minutes. Analyzing the two types of events, in no way did the sleep paralysis episodes mirror my experience of what I do consider ET contact.

Andrew Hennessey

A couple of initial comments need to be made.  First, the article begins with describing the stories of 'abductees' as "experiences of alien contact that people don't remember." In fact, they remember enough to tell their story and often with singular clarity and detail, sometimes with no prior belief in aliens whatsoever and with nothing to gain from telling it but possible ridicule. 

Secondly, the psychologist, a specialist in the psychology of paranormal belief and experiences, writing from the standpoint of an eminent university researcher for a prestigious magazine, has a lot more to gain in the publish-or-perish culture that exists at many universities than a traumatised abductee, namely, prestige and another publication notched up. 

Moreover, to assume that the abductees may have been influenced by a prior interest in aliens or by media stories about aliens and then build a theory around this assumption by then associating it with a known sleeping state is totally assumptive. It is not good science and should not be admissible as part of any theory that puts itself forward as 'scientific' or sound.  

It can also be said that the author needs to apply the same criteria of self-reflection on himself as he does on his subjects. He states: "their belief in life in outer space may influence what they see or feel in strange situations." One indeed needs to keep an open mind as to whether or not an individual has been influenced in some way by his or her prior belief in aliens or alien culture from the media or otherwise. At the same time, there can be no doubt whatsoever that this psychologist is strongly influenced by a strictly held positivist belief and bias within the scientific community where the ‘psyche’ is little more than some sort of chemical response to stimuli, in this case sleep phenomena. He adheres as well to a non-belief in aliens which seems simply too far-fetched given the little observable evidence. He then applies this scientific bias to one of the few remaining areas within scientific research that still carries a lot of unknowns, i.e. 'sleep'.  Whereas this move is clever, it is not clever enough. He builds a theory on a dubious assumption, i.e. that these abductees, all of them, in some way have been extraordinarily influenced by their own or others’ belief in aliens, enough to sink into their psyche to a profound degree as though hypnotised. Then, he dismisses the actual events they have relayed outright, and ties this to a bad night’s sleep, thereby creating a comfortable, and importantly, acceptable take on 'alien abduction'. 

French has no special insight here. His theory does not adequately include or even touch upon the experiences themselves of the abductees, except to dismiss them outright and then slot their thought processes and physical responses to these processes within a new theory associated with ‘sleep’ that has more unknowns and biases than the alien world that has been rejected.

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