UFOS: THE STIFF REALITY OF A FLEXIBLE PHENOMENON

by: Ryan Spragu

When facing the UFO phenomenon head on, the most problematic question one may ask is actually the most simple: Are UFOs real?

The answer is yes. The answer is always yes. In fact, it’s literally right there in the letters; UFO. It is, in essence, an object in flight that is unidentified. Perhaps the most common place definition comes from the late astronomer,  J. Allen Hynek. In his book, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, Hynek dryly, yet appropriately describes a UFO as being:

“… the reported perception of an object or light seen in the sky or upon the land. The appearance, trajectory, and general dynamic and luminescent behavior of which do not suggest a logical, conventional explanation and which is not only mystifying to the original percipients but remains unidentified after close scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making a common sense identification, if one is possible.”

( J. Allen Hynek)

It doesn’t get much more self-explanatory than that. But where did this painfully obvious term stem from? And why, throughout the past sixty years or so, has it become not so obvious? The acronym was coined by Captain Edward Ruppelt, who in 1953, led the official investigation into aerial phenomena through the channels of the U.S. Air Force. To further the public from any notion that these objects were extraterrestrial, Ruppelt , serving as a catch-all for the mysterious objects appearing, flying, and sometimes floating through the skies. The acronym stuck, remaining the go-to letters for almost every media outlet known to man.

(Edward J. Ruppelt)

Thousands and thousands of declassified documents by intelligence agencies around the world can be found in reference to UFOs. These documents boast reports from the simply mundane misidentifications and natural phenomena, to the most intriguing and perplexing, begging more questions on just exactly what these UFOs are and are not. Here, in the United States, we left it up to the military to investigate what could potentially be a threat to our own safety on the hard ground below and the cushioned security of our skies above. Let’s take a look at how it all began.

The Official Study of the Phenomenon Begins… and Ends

The U.S. Air Force first attempted to decipher the enigmatic code behind these aerial phenomena back in 1947 with Project Sign. As the project’s personnel compiled case after case of sightings, they argued that what they seemed to be dealing with was in fact something of extraterrestrial intelligence. However, this notion was quickly swept under the rug, and replaced in 1949 by Project Grudge. Headed by aeronautical engineer, Edward J Ruppelt, Project Grudge was in essence, a continuation of looking into these phenomena with a much more objective eye, dismantling the possibility that UFO activity was caused by anything but natural and/or manmade anomalies and intervention.

The study of UFOs continued in its final iteration, Project Blue Book, in 1952. This was the longest, and most well publicized Air Force study, compiling over 12,000 reports of sightings in the western world alone. Project Blue Book continued until 1968, when the Air Force-funded Condon Committee was created to draft a final report on their findings. Physicist, Edward U. Condon, and an investigative group out of the University of Colorado, used files from Project Blue Book and several independent UFO research organizations to determine that, first and foremost, UFOs caused no threat to national security. They also concluded that there was absolutely no scientific evidence proving that UFOs were extraterrestrial in origin. And with that, the official American study of the phenomenon came to a whimpering end. But that didn’t stop certain members of these projects from looking further into the phenomenon and case reports.

Civilian Research Organizations

Many individuals within the government sphere were involved in the study of UFOs. Most notably of these individuals was none other than the aforementioned J. Allen Hynek. Hynek, having been a lead investigator all throughout Project Grudge and Project Blue Book, was first hired to explain away each and every UFO report as natural or manmade phenomena. But after seeing Blue Book out until the very end, he simply couldn’t accept that that was a conventional explanation for every sighting or incident. His skeptical view slowly tilted to a more open-minded approach, favoring the idea that some of the UFOs being seen could in fact be of an extraterrestrial or non-human intelligence. And in 1973, he would found the Chicago-based Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). This organization consisted of many credible scientists and researchers who evaluated UFO reports in a careful and thorough way. To this day, a large archive of the work done by Hynek and CUFOS can be found through various online outlets and through the publication of Hynek’s definitive book, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry.

While many other organizations came and went, perhaps the most visible and well known would have to be the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Originally founded by Walt Andrus, a technology manager and educator, and John Schuessler, a retired aerospace engineer, the two would invite many of their colleagues to join the organization, such as notable nuclear physicist, Stanton Friedman and optical physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee. Using their technical and analytical skills in many different arenas throughout the years, MUFON now boasts chapters in every single state, investigating cases of aerial phenomena, close encounters, and in its most modern iteration, even supposed alien abduction cases. Investigators bring their reports and data to the state directors who then follow up on many of the cases with an objective and critical approach. MUFON remains active today, hosting several large conferences throughout the year and an annual journal of case reports.

Unlike the investigative organizations above, there is another ambitious undertaking that consists of compilation of UFO reports by the public. The National UFO Reporting Center, (NUFORC) founded in 1974 by Robert J. Gribble, the center has catalogued a staggering 90,000 reports in its history. Aside from its cataloguing endeavors, the center also provides regional statistics to assist specific geographical needs of those who seek information about local sightings and reports. The center remains active as this book is being published, having been taken over in 1994 by Peter Davenport, a former MUFON member, and professor of genetics and biochemistry. Davenport sing-handily runs the center from his home, and updates case reports on a weekly basis.

(Peter Davenport)

While many other civilian organizations have come and gone, the challenge for each seemed to be that of funding. Each organization held highly esteemed scientists and every facet, yet very little money had ever been set into place to provide any substantial sustainability. This is something the scientific community, UFOs aside, have always wrestled with. How does one fund their research when theory is their only means in which to progress? Perhaps this may be why scientific study into the UFO phenomenon lay deep on the fringe, splintering off into the above organizations in all their ambitious efforts. Perhaps by looking closer at the relationship between mainstream science and the UFO phenomenon, we can begin to narrow in on the phenomenon’s deeply embedded, and often ridiculed reputation.

Mainstream Science and UFOs

After the sobering determination made by the Condon Committee’s report, all hope of a possible intelligent extraterrestrial presence seemed to dissipate. But a small shred of debate by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) cracked open the possibility that the scientific community wasn’t completely against the notion of a possible alien phenomenon. In response to the Condon Report, the AIAA noted that at least thirty percent of cases studied remained unexplained by conventional and natural science, and that scientific benefit could still be gained by further study of the phenomenon.

Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine and contributor to Scientific American, once stated that:

“In all fields of science there is a residue of anomalies unexplained by the dominant theory. That does not mean the prevailing theory is wrong or that alternative theories are right. It just means that more work needs to be done to bring those anomalies into the accepted paradigm. In the meantime, it is okay to live with the uncertainty that not everything has an explanation.”

While Shermer accepts living in this uncertainty, many scientists keep the current paradigm in a stagnant purgatory, not only by ignoring the UFO phenomenon entirely, but refusing to even acknowledge the potential of such technologies and how they could ultimately benefit both science and on a greater scale, humanity. But the dark cloud looking above has always been that of pure ridicule, a festering specter whispering in the collective scientific ear that UFOs are simply bunk, and not worth the time, talents, or intelligence of some of the greatest thinkers in history. In a field where thought reigns supreme, and reputations hang on the threads of governmental influence, far-out theories on exotic aircraft of potentially non-human intelligence could completely overshadow even the most influential of scientists and the contributions they have made to their respective fields. But there are those who are willing to put their thoughts in the face of ridicule and speak publicly about such fringe topics, and are willing to call others out for their woeful ignorance to the topic in general.

Of those who reject it right out, “They’re wrong, naive, stubborn, narrow-minded, afraid and fearful,” says Eric Davis, an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics award winning- propulsion physicist at the Institute of Advanced Studies. In an interview with Lee Spiegel of the Huffington Post, Davis would elaborate:

“It’s a dirty word (UFOs) and a forbidden topic. Science is about open-minded inquiry. You shouldn’t be laughing off people. You should show more deference and respect to them. Scientists need to get back to using the scientific method to study things that are unknown and unusual, and the UFO subject is one of them.”

While such accusations can seem generalized, Davis also admits that there are many scientists who do study the phenomenon, if even from the peripheral.

“There are those who are aware of evidence and observational data that is irrefutable. It is absolutely corroborated, using forensic techniques and methodology. But they won’t come out and publicize that because they fear it. Not the subject, but the backlash from their professional colleagues.”

Davis goes on to admit that this topic isn’t just meant to be studied by the scientific community.

“It’s the domain of military intelligence,” he suggests. “The fact that [unknown] craft are flying around Earth is not a subject for science, it’s a subject for intelligence-gathering, collection and analysis. That’s because UFOs are not a natural phenomenon, and that’s what science studies.”

(Eric Davis)

Whatever these UFOs may or may not be, they seem to defy most conventional propulsion theories that we readily know of here on our planet. But therein lay the limitations scientific methodology. For instance, why do UFOs, making the most dramatic and unconventional maneuvers, need to be piloted by some sort of biological entity? Why is this the reason that some scientists dismiss the objects being piloted craft whose said pilots could not conceivably survive such speeds, velocity, or maneuvers? We send hundreds of unmanned spacecraft out into the heavens constantly for this very reason. What if the objects we witness, racing, floating, and suddenly appearing and disappearing in our skies are nothing more than highly advance drones from somewhere off-planet? Perhaps it could be best summarized by theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku. He once remarked:

“Some scientists have scoffed at UFOs because they don’t fit any of the gigantic propulsion designs being considered by engineers today, such as ramjet fusion engines, huge laser-powered sails and nuclear pulsed engines, which might be miles across. But UFOs can be as small as a jet airplane, and can refuel from a nearby moon base. So sightings may correspond to unmanned reconnaissance ships.”

(Michio Kaku)

So if we are dealing with potential craft (some being unmanned perhaps, some not) entering our atmosphere from space, who better to carry the proverbial weight of UFO observation and possible investigation than those who study celestial bodies and space itself? With the most powerful telescopes observing objects of great distance, and individuals with vast knowledge of what could potentially lay within and beyond earth’s atmosphere, it would be more than appropriate for astronomers to play a large role in the search for truth behind these elusive anomalies.

In 2010, a barrage of UFO sightings saturated the headlines of Chinese newspapers, reports coming in almost on a daily basis. As strange lights and solid objects plagued the skies of China, local airports were temporarily shut down until the objects could no longer be observed as a potential threat for landings and takeoff. Clearly, this was turning into more than just a simple misidentification by civilians.

Planetary astronomer, Wang Sichao, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, investigated many of these sightings throughout the years, taking a keen interest in the phenomenon as it hit closer and closer to home at the Purple Mountain Observatory where he worked. In at interview with the Beijing Review, Sichao would comment on the UFO reports as “events of credible facts backed by observation. But these facts cannot yet be explained by existing scientific knowledge or natural phenomena.” And while Sichao took on the bulk of UFO sightings in China for self interest and curiosity, he would go on to explain why astronomers are not primarily in the business of searching for or investigating UFO reports: “The reason is that a UFO only appears randomly and often disappears rapidly in a few minutes,” he would continue. “By the time large professional telescopes are started up, it has already disappeared. So, we can only rely on information from occasional sightings or encounters by observers.”

(Purple Mountain Observatory)

In his book, The UFO Phenomenon: Should I Believe?, author and scientist, Dr. Robert Davis points out that:

“Evidence within Ufology is largely based on such anecdotal claims, it is very difficult to build testable hypotheses to either reject or confirm through a validation process, such as, testing predictions against observations to confirm a hypothesis…. ufology would greatly benefit from collaborative research efforts with the scientific community, but instead, have often alienated (no pun intended) them.”

It would seem that with the amount of dedicated scientists connected to the study of UFOs in its sordid independent organizational past, that rigorous scientific method and mainstream acceptance would gradually become inevitable. But with such a complex and frustrating phenomenon taunting us from the corner, it just doesn’t seem to be moving as swiftly as we may have hoped it would. To further the point that science and UFO studies are not exactly in synch, Richard Hall, assistant director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) once stated:

“Although the ranks of Ufology contain the seeds of science, it should not now pretend to be a science, but a popular movement advocating scientific investigation. It should (and could) clarify and present the factual evidence in a manner designed to encourage a true scientific investigation, which would make use of all the techniques and facilities available to science today.”

The Journey Begins

So while we seem to have varying opinions on a governmental, scientific, and civilian level, one factor remains constant: UFOs are on the mind of individuals in every walk of life, from the simple observer on the side of the road, to the most forward-thinking (and sometimes skeptical) scientists of yesterday and today. So again, we are faced with many dilemmas of how to move forward. These phenomena are far more complex than a singular non-human intelligence pulling the proverbial strings of mystery. A fellow colleague of mine, author and researcher, Micah Hanks, suggested the following in his book, The UFO Singularity:

“The mere proof of official interest in he UFO presence throughout the years cannot by itself make concrete the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, nor can it prove that any single phenomenon can be attributed solely to the identity of the kinds of unidentifiable aircraft in our skies…probing even deeper into the mystery, there could yet be stranger solutions to the enigma that exists somewhere in our midst.”

(Micah Hanks)

Conclusions

While we continue to search for these strange answers in our midst, we also continue to question the approaches we take in that search. Whether it be from the anecdotal evidence of eyewitnesses or the analytical eye of scientists throughout the world, the phenomenon remains as elusive as ever. So in all its enigmatic glory, all we can truly do is continue to search somewhere in the skies for the answers we seek, and the questions we crave. Will we be satisfied with the answers science eventually gives us? Or will we deny it, leading us back down the path of the illogical and immeasurable? Only time will truly tell. And in that telling, we can be certain of one thing: the UFO phenomenon isn’t going to ever leave us. In fact, it seems that it has only begun its invasion on our curious, and ever-expanding minds.

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04-01-2016 om 18:26 geschreven door peter  

UFOs, Kennedy, Nixon, and the Alien Presence

04-01-2016 om 18:08 geschreven door peter  

Vier nieuwe elementen in de tabel van Mendelejev: "Belangrijker dan Olympisch goud" - HLN.be

Bron: The Guardian, ScienceAlert

De nieuwe elementen in de tabel van Mendelejev. Elementen 114 en 116 werden toegevoegd in 2011.© rv.

WETENSCHAP Alle chemiehandboeken zijn vanaf vandaag in een klap gedateerd, nu er vier nieuwe elementen zijn toegevoegd aan de tabel van Mendelejev. De vier vervolledigen de zevende rij van het periodieke systeem. "Dit is veel belangrijker dan Olympisch Goud", luidt het in de chemiewereld.

Botsingen

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Hun ontdekkers zullen de vier elementen de komende maanden een officiële naam geven. Het eerste element dat benoemd wordt, is element 113, dat voorlopig nog ununtrium (Uut) heet. Het werd ontdekt door een team onder leiding van Kosuke Morita aan het Japanse instituut Riken.

Details van de ontdekking van element 113 werden gepubliceerd in het vakblad Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. De queeste van de onderzoekers begon in 2003, toen ze zinkionen lieten botsen op een laagje bismut. Als reactie ontstond er occasioneel een atoom van het element 113. Het duurde tot 2012 voor het team voldoende bewijs kon leveren van het bestaan van het element, in gelijkaardige experimenten met natrium en curium.

04-01-2016 om 17:59 geschreven door peter  

Belg zag vorig jaar meer ufo’s vliegen - STANDAARD.be

04-01-2016 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

Hillary Clinton: “Ik zal de waarheid over UFO’s en Area 51 onthullen als ik de volgende president van Amerika word”

04-01-2016 om 13:38 geschreven door peter  

The Man Who Shoots At A UFO

Three and a half decades ago, fighter pilot Oscar Santa Maria Huerta had an Independence Day-like experience when he tried to shoot down a bizarre light-bulb craft. Until today, the incident is the only documented case of a military plane firing on an unidentified flying object (UFO).

On the early morning of April 11, 1980, the 23-year-old Lieutenant of the Peruvian Air Force was about to join around 1,800 military personnel and civilians for daily exercises at the La Joya Air Force Base, 1,000 km south of the Peruvian capital.

A pilot who had been flying combat missions since he was 19, Lt Huerta was ordered to take off in his Sukhoi-22 fighter to intercept the unknown silver object that had been observed hovering near the end of the runway.

The strange object was 5 km away, hovering around 600 metres off the ground, and was not responding to any communications. It was in restricted airspace without authorisation, posing a significantthreatto national sovereignty, according to the now-retired Colonel.

Colonel Huerta was among of several former military officers, researchers and others who provided evidence at a big event at the National Press Club in Washington in 2013, in hopes to give pressure to the U.S. government about opening its files on UFO encounters.

Colonel Huerta flew to 2,500 metres and shot a burst of 64 30mm shells when he reached the right distance. Even one of those shells would wipe out a car, but all of them had no effect on the object. It then shot rapidly skywards away from the base and Colonel Huerta activated the aircraft’s afterburner to chase it. As they reached 84 km from the base, in the city of Camana, the UFO came to a sudden stop, prompting him to veer to the side.

After turning up and to the right, Huerta tried to position for another shot. He locked on the target and ready to shoot, but the object made another fast climb that appeared to evade an attack. He tried the same thing two more times, but the object kept shooting upwards seconds before he could shoot.

When the object reached 14,000 metres above the ground, Colonel Huerta attempted to attack from above, but the UFO shadowed him all the way up to 19,200 metres, way beyond the specifications of his aircraft.

He realised he was running low on fuel, losing his capability to attack, so he decided just to flynear the object to get a better look. When he reached 100 metres away, he started to see an object that measured around 10 metres in diameter with ashinycream-colored dome on top, similar to a light bulb cut in half.

The bottom was a wide silver circular base that looked like a metal. It had no antennae, windows, exhausts, propulsion jets, wings, and other components of a typical aircraft. At that moment, the pilot realised it wasn’t a spying device but a UFO, something entirely unknown.

Having not enough fuel, he could not attack, manoeuvre his plane, or make a quick escape. He was afraid as he made his return, gliding part way and zigzagging to make his plane harder to hit. After he had landed, the object stayed in the place he left it for another two hours, visible to people on the base while it reflected in the sun.

In a June 1980 document from the United States Department of Defence titled “UFO Sighted in Peru,” it was revealed that the object remained of unknown origin.

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04-01-2016 om 13:33 geschreven door peter  

03-01-2016 om 22:26 geschreven door peter  

Une importante cité oubliée découverte en Égypte

Une incroyable découverte a été faite par des archéologues britanniques dans le delta du Nil, en Égypte. La cité marchande grecque de Naukratis a été mise au jour après être tombée dans l’oubli durant des siècles. La ville avait été redécouverte par un égyptologue anglais en 1884 mais les scientifiques pensaient que le site n’était pas très important. En réalité, les archéologues viennent de prouver que la superficie des ruines est deux fois plus grande que ce que l’on pensait et que des milliers de vestiges sont à portée de main.

Un patrimoine historique précieux

Près de 10 000 objets anciens viennent d’être sortis des flots, dont des débris d’épaves, des ruines de temples sacrés, mais aussi des figurines dédiées au « festival de l’ivresse ». De plus, la découverte de cette cité implique beaucoup de choses pour les scientifiques : « jusqu'à maintenant, nous pensions que les vaisseaux s'arrêtaient sur la côte méditerranéenne et qu'ils étaient déchargés par des barges », a témoigné le conservateur du British Museum et directeur des fouilles Ross Thomas au Guardian. « Maintenant, on peut assurer que des bateaux de haute mer pouvaient s'aventurer aussi profondément en Égypte ».

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03-01-2016 om 21:45 geschreven door peter  

It's Almost 2016, Dammit, And We're Still Waiting For ET To Land

The year 2015 in UFOs

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03-01-2016 om 21:35 geschreven door peter  

There is something on the Moon that is watching "over" Earth

Earths moon should be without a doubt, the number one priority for Earth's Space Agencies, yet, for some reason, no one seems to be talking about going back to the moon. The question is why? What is up there that is keeping us from coming back? Is there anything at all on the moon, other than the equipment left behind by astronauts and a couple of strange rocks?

 

The Apollo 17 was the final mission of the United States' Apollo program, and was the last time humans walked on the moon. Numerous mysteries have surrounded the Apollo missions and specially the Apollo 17 mission, whose crew consisted of commander and veteran of the mission Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 Eugene A. Cernan, the lunar module pilot and geologist Harrison H. Schmitt called "Jack" and command module pilot Ronald E. Evans. The names of the ships, privilege of the commander, was Challenger and America for the lunar module to the command module.

 

Commander Gene Cernan was the last man to walk on the surface of the Moon in the Taurus Mountains, near the crater Littrow, on the border between the Mare Mare Tranquillitatis and Serenitatis.

 

The "Challenger" module landed on the moon at the following coordinates: 21,2ºN 30,6ºE which is the Taurus Littrow area. Commander Gene Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt were aboard the descent module. 

Harrison had a very interesting idea before the mission began, he actually proposed landing on the "Far side" of the moon, specifically at the Tsiolkovsky crater but his proposition was rejected as NASA considered it to be "too dangerous." But Harrison did not only propose the far side of the moon because he thought it was a good idea, it is believed that there was something important on the far side that the astronauts wanted to investigate.

 

 

The exact reasons why NASA did not allow the landing to take place at the Tsiolkovsky crater were never made public. Curiously, Harrison H. Schmitt designed the insignia of the mission which had, for some mysterious reason a drawing of Stonehenge. This insignia was later replaced by the one we all saw, that of Greek god Apollo.

 

Schmitt never really answered why he had chosen Stonehenge for the flight insignia and has kept the design and the "why" behind it in the shadows. But lets face it, NASA's Apollo program is anything but normal, the abrupt suspension of the Apollo program is something that many people today do not understand completely. Even though Apollo was planned all the way up to the Apollo XX mission, when the crew from Apollo XVII returned to Earth, NASA reported that the Apollo program had "expired" since the mission objectives had been reached."

 

Many believe this wasn't the reason why NASA opted out of the Apollo program, and many historians and researchers believe that it wasn't because of funding either. So what was the real reason? Why have we not returned to the moon?

 

There are some believe that the reason why NASA opted out of the Apollo program has a sinister extraterrestrial background, one that has kept mankind from going back to the moon.

 

The reason why many people believe that there is "something" on the moon that is keeping a close watch on our planet are the countless images of the Apollo missions, and the curiosities behind the missions itself.

 

Reviewing some of the more interesting images from the Apollo program has given us quite a lot to talk about.

 

Obviously the first image of interest would be the mysterious pyramid on the moon which has caused great debate between ufologists and skeptics.

 

 

One of my favorite images is the one below. There appears to be some sort of "rock," that eerily resembles a skull. This "lunar rock" seems to give us the impression it has eyes, a mouth and a nose, it's very creepy

 

 

 

The next image is incredible. Many people believe that what we are seeing in this image is some sort of "tube" sticking out of the lunar surface (look at the center of the image). Mysteriously, this tube shaped object doesn't look anything like the other rocks seen in the surrounding landscape, and its shape clearly resembles some sort of tubery.

 

 

 

What are your thoughts? Is there really something on the moon that has kept us from returning? And what about the images provided above, do they seem like "ordinary" objects on the moon?

 

It seems that in the end, however you put it, there is something mysterious surrounding NASA and its Apollo program, and the images and videos filmed on the moon, are the perfect evidence to support all of those who agree that the Apollo astronauts must have found something mysterious, previously unknown and dangerous on Earths natural satellite. The question that remains is, what was it?

 

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03-01-2016 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

AREA 51: THE MOST SURPRISING THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW

1- IT’S NOTHING LIKE IN THE MOVIES

We’ve all seen inside Area 51—in the movies. Independence Day (1996), Paul (2011), and that awful Area 51 (2014), and on The X-Files, it’s shown as super-high-tech and otherworldly. Of course it would look like that! They have UFO technology. The base is guarded by huge fences and helicopter patrol, right?

There is no fence around it! We at Area51.org have personally been to the border of the base, and can tell you that there’s no fence to hop—just signs with warnings like “lethal force authorized”. We saw and heard no helicopters, although we did spot the legendary “cammo dudes”, the private security guards hired to protect the base. They drive around in ordinary jeeps.

Area 51 may well have alien tech hidden underground, but according to insiders who have spilled the beans, the inside of the real Area 51 looks old and run down.

Area 51 from the air

Bob Lazar, the guy who says he worked there in the ’80s reverse-engineering UFO technology, describes the interior of the underground base as plain and ordinary, much like an old office building with cubicles and meeting rooms. There’s a lot of dust and rust, and not much in the way of neon-cyber whiz-bang technology. That is why it’s so striking, according to witnesses, when you see the alien spacecraft housed there underground—it’s all being held in such a drab, unremarkable place.

No word on what the alien visitors think of these digs, but insiders do claim to have sighted them there, lurking underground.

2- IT DOESN’T EXIST

At least it didn’t until 2013, when the US government finally declassified a CIA document that admitted that a secret base exists out in the Nevada desert. Up until that point, the government absolutely denied that any such base existed, even though it’s surrounded by warning signs authorizing “the use of deadly force” if you enter, and despite the fact that unfortunate pilots who wandered into the base’s airspace were either forced down by Air Force jets or, in some cases, shot down. Later in 2013, Barack Obama became the first president to mention Area 51 by name in public.

Neither the CIA report nor the president mentioned aliens, but, well, that’s not surprising. This is the government we’re talking about.

All that official silence didn’t stop Nevada governor Bob Miller, though. In 1996, he officially declared nearby Highway 375 to be Nevada’s “Extraterrestrial Highway”—a publicity stunt tied in with the movie Independence Day.

3- IT GOT BIGGER—FOR A SURPRISING REASON

Things were great for Glenn Campbell—an Area 51 researcher, not the singer—until 1995. Glenn, who was living in nearby Rachel, Nevada, had discovered a peak not far from Area 51, and it was high enough that he could see the whole base. The peak didn’t appear to have a name, so Glenn dubbed it “Freedom Ridge”. The name stuck.

Vantage points for Area 51 (some forbidden)

He brought others out to Freedom Ridge, too—including professional journalists, who’d become fascinated with Glenn’s adventures as a self-styled investigator of Area 51. A film crew from ABC News were out at Freedom Ridge with Glenn when they were arrested, and their cameras confiscated by Area 51 guards. That may have been the last straw.

In 1995, the US government seized the land around Freedom Ridge and another vantage point, Whitesides Mountain. It increased the size of Area 51 only somewhat, but it made it darn near impossible to get a view of the base from the ground without telescopes or binoculars.

The base is 60 square miles now—and growing. How long until the government seizes additional land? It’s only a matter of time.

4- AREA 51 IS NOT ITS REAL NAME

The government and the military have a lot of nicknames for the base, and they usually don’t call it “Area 51”. Instead, they’ve referred to it as Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Homey Airport, or as just Groom Lake (after the dry lake bed the base is built on). Its first official name was Watertown when it opened in 1956. We get the name “Area 51” from old military maps of the area from the 1950s.

Today the official name is said to be Air Force Flight Test Center Detachment 3—catchy, isn’t it?

5- THERE’S NIGHTCLUB ON BASE

A baseball field at Area 51

No kidding; former employees have said that Area 51 has its own extravagant disco right in the heart of the facility, where employees blow off steam at night after working on ultra-secret projects all day. (Obviously, reverse-engineering UFO technology can take a lot out of you.) We wonder: is the club called Dreamland?

That’s not all: it also has a baseball field (above-ground, see the photo), tennis courts, and a large personal gym. When it first opened, the only amenities were a single tennis court and a bowling alley, but obviously they’ve been expanding. Maybe they even have Wi-Fi.

6- YOU CAN SEE THE BASE FOR YOURSELF—IF YOU’RE WILLING TO TAKE A DIFFICULT HIKE

As we mentioned before, until 1995, you could make an easy hike to mountain peaks near the base called Freedom Ridge and White Sides. From those vantage points, you could get a pretty good look at the distant base, even without binoculars. So, of course, word got out. When the government realized that people were spying on the base, it seized the land.

Today, we’re left with one vantage point: a place called Tikaboo Peak.

It’s not an easy hike, but it’s only a little over a mile. Being remote desert land, this is dangerous, so we’re not recommending it. But it is possible. If you did go, you’d want to bring high-powered binoculars, or maybe a telescope.

Bird and Hike, a hiking website, has the exact info—look for the keyword “Tikaboo” to find the hike. And do not, under any circumstances, venture past the border into Area 51!

7- YOU CAN TAKE A TOUR—SORT OF

Take a tour near Area 51

If you dream of a guided tour of the actual Area 51 base, well, no, they don’t do that. Surprisingly, though, the US Department of Energy does give weekday tours of areas in the Nevada Test Site—think nuclear testing. The tours take all day and require government background checks. They don’t venture into Area 51, but reports say they get pretty darned close, ending up just a bit to the west of the secret base. The tour is free but there are restrictions:

There are strict rules in order to take this tour including proper dress code (no shorts/sandals), age-limit of 14+ years old; no cell phones, cameras or computers, firearms, and a background check is required. You MUST arrange tours months in advance and be cleared by background investigators before taking this tour.

{ http://www.area51.org/ }

03-01-2016 om 20:39 geschreven door peter  

I WILL INVESTIGATE UFOS — CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON

WILL “GET TO THE BOTTOM” OF UFOS

You may love her or hate her, but if you’re interested in UFOs, you probably want Hillary Clinton to be elected president in 2016.

While on a campaign stop in Conway, New Hampshire, Clinton told a reporter that she definitely intends to investigate UFOs and alien visitation as president. “I’m going to get to the bottom of it,” said Clinton, according to the Conway Sun. The newspaper reported that she answered “with enthusiasm”.

Hillary whisked away by a UFO (photo by Mother Jones)

“I think we may have been [visited by aliens],” she told the reporter. “We don’t know for sure.” Evidently, she intends to find out.

Hillary told the Conway Sun that she was also interested in further investigation into Area 51.

BILL HAS INVESTIGATED

Husband and former president Bill Clinton has previously weighed in on the subject of UFOs and aliens. “First I had people go looking for records on Area 51,” he said on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “[I also] had all the Roswell papers reviewed.”

If Bill discovered anything significant in his records search, he isn’t admitting it publicly—but he did drop a hint. “If we were visited someday,” he told Kimmel, “I wouldn’t be surprised … think about how all the differences among people on Earth would seem small if we felt threatened by a space invader.”

CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN JOHN PODESTA: UFOS ARE REAL

Clinton noted that her campaign manager, John Podesta, is outspoken about his conviction about extraterrestrial visits to Earth. One of Podesta’s last messages as an outgoing senior advisor to president Barack Obama was this tweet: “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the disclosure of the UFO files.” Podesta, a UFO enthusiast, insisted that the tweet was serious.

It seems quite likely that Hillary has been influenced by Podesta’s stance on the subject. “He (Podesta) has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out,” Clinton told the Conway Sun. “One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.”

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03-01-2016 om 20:31 geschreven door peter  

DID HILLARY CLINTON JUST PLEDGE TO INVESTIGATE UFOS?

Former First Lady and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reportedly plans to follow in her husband’s footsteps and probe the UFO issue if she becomes president.

On Tuesday, December 29, the former New York senator and former secretary of state visited the office of The Conway Daily Sun, a free daily newspaper in New Hampshire. GOP candidates Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush also paid visits to the paper’s office recently. Clinton discussed foreign policy and the economy with Conway Daily Sunreporters during her visit. But she also reportedly discussed UFOs.

According to reporter Daymond Steer, when he asked her about UFOs, Clinton responded, “Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it.”

Her husband, Bill, made attempts to uncover UFO secrets while he was president. He specifically did some digging related to the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident, as well as the mysterious military installation Area 51. In 2014, Bill Clinton appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and, when asked about his research, he said he didn’t find any evidence of extraterrestrials. But when Kimmel asked Clinton if he would inform the public if he had, Clinton said he would, then added:

What do we know now? We know we live in an ever expanding universe. We know that there are billions of stars and planets, literally, out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside of our solar system that seem to be far away enough from their suns and dense enough that they might be able to support some form of life. So, it makes it increasingly less likely that we are alone.

Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff, John Podesta, is currently Hillary’s campaign chairman. This former Counselor to President Obama is a strong advocate for government transparency when it comes to knowledge of UFOs and files related to UFO phenomena. When Podesta left the White House to begin working on Clinton’s campaign, he publicly voiced regret over not being able to get government UFO files released to the public.

In late 2015, following the publication of an interview with Hillary Clinton, conducted by actor Lena Dunham, Podesta posted to Twitter:

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John PodestaVerified account‏@johnpodesta

Great interview, @lenadunham. But Lena, ask her about aliens next time!! #TheTruthIsOutThere http://hrc.io/1jusxfk  cc: @HillaryClinton

When asked about Podesta during her recent visit to The Conway Daily Sun, Clinton stated, “He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out.” She continued, “One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.”

Clinton also reportedly told Steer, “I think we may have been (visited already). We don’t know for sure.”

If the conversation between Clinton and Steer went down as reported, it’s pretty interesting to see her speaking publicly about the topic. Then again, she may have assumed she was having an “off the record” conversation.

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03-01-2016 om 19:03 geschreven door peter  

Universe Had No Beginning And No Big Bang, Scientists Say

Physicists have announced that the universe may have existed forever, and that the Big Bang may never have occurred, according to a new quantum model of the Universe. 

The new model applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and accounts for dark matter and dark energy.

Phys.org reports:

The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a “Big Bang” did the universe officially begin.

Although the Big Bang singularity arises directly and unavoidably from the mathematics of general relativity, some scientists see it as problematic because the math can explain only what happened immediately after—not at or before—the singularity.

“The Big Bang singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws of physics appear to break down there,” Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha University and the Zewail City of Science and Technology, both in Egypt, told Phys.org.

Ali and coauthor Saurya Das at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, have shown in a paper published in Physics Letters B that the Big Bang singularity can be resolved by their new model in which the universe has no beginning and no end.

Old ideas revisited

The physicists emphasize that their quantum correction terms are not applied ad hoc in an attempt to specifically eliminate the Big Bang singularity. Their work is based on ideas by the theoretical physicist David Bohm, who is also known for his contributions to the philosophy of physics. Starting in the 1950s, Bohm explored replacing classical geodesics (the shortest path between two points on a curved surface) with quantum trajectories.

In their paper, Ali and Das applied these Bohmian trajectories to an equation developed in the 1950s by physicist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri at Presidency University in Kolkata, India. Raychaudhuri was also Das’s teacher when he was an undergraduate student of that institution in the ’90s.

Using the quantum-corrected Raychaudhuri equation, Ali and Das derived quantum-corrected Friedmann equations, which describe the expansion and evolution of universe (including the Big Bang) within the context of general relativity. Although it’s not a true theory of quantum gravity, the model does contain elements from both quantum theory and general relativity. Ali and Das also expect their results to hold even if and when a full theory of quantum gravity is formulated.

No singularities nor dark stuff

In addition to not predicting a Big Bang singularity, the new model does not predict a “big crunch” singularity, either. In general relativity, one possible fate of the universe is that it starts to shrink until it collapses in on itself in a big crunch and becomes an infinitely dense point once again.

Ali and Das explain in their paper that their model avoids singularities because of a key difference between classical geodesics and Bohmian trajectories. Classical geodesics eventually cross each other, and the points at which they converge are singularities. In contrast, Bohmian trajectories never cross each other, so singularities do not appear in the equations.

In cosmological terms, the scientists explain that the quantum corrections can be thought of as a cosmological constant term (without the need for dark energy) and a radiation term. These terms keep the universe at a finite size, and therefore give it an infinite age. The terms also make predictions that agree closely with current observations of the cosmological constant and density of the universe.

New gravity particle

In physical terms, the model describes the universe as being filled with a quantum fluid. The scientists propose that this fluid might be composed of gravitons—hypothetical massless particles that mediate the force of gravity. If they exist, gravitons are thought to play a key role in a theory of quantum gravity.

In a related paper, Das and another collaborator, Rajat Bhaduri of McMaster University, Canada, have lent further credence to this model. They show that gravitons can form a Bose-Einstein condensate (named after Einstein and another Indian physicist, Satyendranath Bose) at temperatures that were present in the universe at all epochs.

Motivated by the model’s potential to resolve the Big Bang singularity and account for dark matter and dark energy, the physicists plan to analyze their model more rigorously in the future. Their future work includes redoing their study while taking into account small inhomogeneous and anisotropic perturbations, but they do not expect small perturbations to significantly affect the results.

“It is satisfying to note that such straightforward corrections can potentially resolve so many issues at once,” Das said.

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03-01-2016 om 18:42 geschreven door peter  

Unexplained Spiral Vortex Appears on Mexican Weather Radar

•  Paul Seaburn

Weather radar pictures have emerged of what appears to be a huge spiral vortex covering the entire country of Mexico on December 26th. Could it be a ghost of some hurricane past or worse – a ghostly prediction of a hurricane future? Is it related to other strange spirals seen on radar displays around the world?

The video posted on the Internet shows a series of radar images of the spiral. It reportedly began on December 26th and was still there as of this writing on December 31st. It strangely appears only on National Weather Service radar centered in Mexico City (named Catedral for the Metropolitan Cathedral – Catedral Metropolitana). If it’s a malfunction, there’s no mention of it on the display nor anywhere else. Could it be something else?

This isn’t the first time a mysterious spiral has appeared on Mexican weather radar. This spiral was seen on October 28th, 2012, and a similar one was reported in 2014, both appearing to have no official or unofficial explanations.

Another strange circle reportedly appeared on Australian weather radar on January 15th, 2010. This nearly-perfect circle covered hundreds of square miles yet there was no mention of any unusual weather that could have caused it.

Strange circle on weather radar over Australia

In 2009, a famous spiral anomaly was seen and photographed over many parts of Norway and Sweden on December 8th. The spiral was blue and grey, lasted nearly 3 minutes and was similar to a previous (but not as bright) spiral a month before.

Mysterious spiral over Norway in 2009

Thousands reported the spiral to various agencies with no explanations … until the following day when the Russian Defense Ministry admitted it was a failed test of a SLBM RSM-56 Bulava missile, one that had already failed in 6 out of 13 prior launches.

Since there appear to no eyewitness accounts of the mysterious spiral on Mexican radar, it has some other cause. But what? Malfunction? Secret government test? HAARP? UFO interference? Something else?

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03-01-2016 om 18:27 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFO Caught Flying Around Volcano On Christmas Day, Dec 25, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: December 25, 2015
Location of sighting: Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico
Source cam: http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/popo/UltimaImagenVolcanI.html

This glowing UFO was caught on the volcano live cam on Christmas day. The UFO is very similar to other past videos of a glowing object actually entering the mouth of the volcano. I've been looking at this live cam over the last 3 years and have caught dozens of UFOs around this volcano. The UFO activity and the Aztec stories about the gods of Popocatepetl, both indicate that there is an alien base 5km below the volcano. 

This one came very close to the local population this time. It curious about them. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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03-01-2016 om 18:06 geschreven door peter  

Curiosity Rover Finds A Mineral On Mars That Usually Deposited By Water On Earth

NASA’s Curiosity has recently come across some interesting discoveries that could solve the mystery of the presence of water on Mars.

Christian Science Monitor noted that the robot had found an abundance of the rock-forming chemical silica for the first time. Silica is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen, which on Earth often deposited by water.

According to NASA, Curiosity has discovered much higher concentrations of silica at several sites it has investigated in the past seven months than it has first visited since landing on the Red Planet 40 months ago.

In a video that featured astrogeologist Jens Frydenvang of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, he said that they don’t have a full understanding yet of its meaning. He added that this kind of silica require some water activity here on Earth, and often, it’s also a very nice environment to discover microbial life.

NASA further shared the Curiosity drilled some silica at one rock called Buckskin is in tridymite, a mineral rare on Earth and never seen before on Mars.

On Earth, tridymite can be found in volcanic deposits with rich silica content. So, scientists suspect volcanic evolutions on Mars. But, it is also possible that mineral tridymite has formed by other processes.

A planetary geologist at Johnson Space Center of NASA in Houston, Elizabeth Rampe, said they could solve this by knowing whether the mineral in the sediment comes from a volcanic source or another origin. Rampe added that they were in their labs to see if there was a way to make this mineral without such a high temperature.

Geophysicist Ashwin Vasavada shared at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union that scientists have observed signs of the building blocks of life on the Red Planet. So, it is interesting to find out how the mystery unfolds.

03-01-2016 om 17:58 geschreven door peter  

Mystery Ball of Light Filmed Hovering Over Hessdalen, Norway On New Year’s Day 2016 (Video)

(Before It's News)

Hessdalen is a very remote area in Norway with a long history of UFO sightings. On January 1, 2016 at about 1.00 am local time, StreetCap1 noticed a slight flashing on Hessdalen’s cam so he started recording.

At first StreetCap1 thought it maybe fireworks being the New Year, but as the ball of light suddenly appears and continues its speed over the terrain until it disappears into thin air towards a flashing light in the top right of the picture frame it cannot be fireworks.
 

Video: The ball of light appears at about the 1.29 mark.

  

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03-01-2016 om 01:05 geschreven door peter  

Top 5 Texas UFO Sightings of 2015

(Before It's News)

1. Cube HOvers Over El Paso

2. Dozens of Lights Flash Over Cedar Park

3. Triangle Over Houston

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4. Sparkling Lights Migrate Over TExas

5. Strange Lights Wander Over Conroe

03-01-2016 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

Top 5 Texas UFO Sightings of 2015

(Before It's News)

1. Cube HOvers Over El Paso

2. Dozens of Lights Flash Over Cedar Park

3. Triangle Over Houston

Up close

4. Sparkling Lights Migrate Over TExas

5. Strange Lights Wander Over Conroe

03-01-2016 om 00:53 geschreven door peter