Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
26-02-2016
Find Planet Nine! NASA's Saturn Probe Helps with the Hunt
Find Planet Nine! NASA's Saturn Probe Helps with the Hunt
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
An artist's illustration of the Cassini spacecraft flying by Saturn's moon Enceladus. Data from Cassini has contributed to a new study that may narrow down the location of a ninth planet beyond Neptune.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The search for a possible ninth planet, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, is being assisted by NASA's Cassini probe, which has been exploring the Saturn system for more than a decade.
The news that a possible ninth planet with a mass 10 times that of Earth could be orbiting in the dark region beyond Neptune lit up the public's imagination in January. The prediction is still just that — a hypothesis, based on modeling, not observation. But the scientists behind the idea say telescope searches of the solar system could confirm (or deny) the prediction within five years.
Now, another group of scientists is showing how the existence of such a planet would affect the motions of the other eight planets. The work relies heavily on measurements taken by the Cassini probe, and aims to narrow down the hunting zone where scientists should point their telescopes as they search for this hidden monster. [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
The Cassini probe is a space-based workhorse. It captures breathtaking images of Saturn, makes death-defying dives toward its moons and measures the precise location of Saturn at various times during its orbits around the sun. This latter information is plugged into a model of the solar system that tracks the movement of its largest bodies.
Since the early 1800s, astronomers have tried to use the positions and motions of the known planets to infer the existence of invisible planets, according to a blog post by Mike Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, and one of the scientists who recently predicted the existence of Planet Nine.
In some cases, the influence of one massive body on other massive bodies is obvious: that if the sun were invisible, the orbit of the planets around it would be a dead giveaway that something truly massive was living at the center of the solar system. This technique helped scientists discover Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.
Brown and his colleague Konstantin Batygin, a professor of planetary science at Caltech, predicted the existence of Planet Nine by observing the peculiar orbits of six relatively large bodies in what's known as the Kuiper Belt, a loop of icy, rocky bodies that includes Pluto.
Other scientists have proposed that the peculiar orbits of these Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) could be explained another way: Perhaps there are significantly more small rocky objects orbiting the sun beyond Pluto than scientists currently estimate. In the grand scientific fashion, this trading of alternative possibilities continues. Ultimately, observational evidence should settle the debate, and Brown said that if Planet Nine is out there, scientists could reasonably detect it within five years.
The new research could potentially expedite that search by pointing out regions where Planet Nine could not be orbiting and regions where it could.
Planet X May Be Real - Evidence Mounting For 9th Planet | Video
Agnes Fienga, an astronomer at the Côte d'Azur Observatory and a lead researcher on the new work, along with her colleagues, decided to look not only at how Planet Nine might affect bodies in its immediate area, but how it might influence the motions of the other eight planets. They used a computer model of the solar system called the INPOP planetary ephemerides model, which pulls together more than 150,000 individual measurements of solar system bodies, including more than 200 measurements taken by Cassini over about 10 years, Fienga said. That long-term observation of Saturn's motion is very important in increasing the precision of the model and its ability to pick up on the subtle effect of a possible ninth planet, she said.
Brown and Batygin did not propose a specific path that Planet Nine would take through space but rather a possible range in which it could exist, about 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune is. The path of a planet around the sun includes how far it is from the sun, how oblong its orbit is (instead of a perfect circle) and how tilted its orbit is compared to the plane of the solar system.
Fienga and her colleagues selected an orbit for Planet Nine out of the range suggested by Brown and Batygin, and added it to the INPOP model of the solar system. From there, they determined that the planet could not be in certain regions, because it would have caused perturbations in the motions of the other planets that should have been detectable by observations, like those made by Cassini.
Fienga said she and her colleagues are working to perform the same analysis on more possible orbits of Planet Nine, to further narrow down regions where it could or could not be hiding.
The effect of Planet Nine on the inner planets will be subtle, which is why Fienga and her colleagues could draw conclusions about only roughly half of the planet's orbit — the portion where it would be closest to the sun and, hence, the other planets. If Planet Nine were currently somewhere on the far side of its orbit around the sun, its effect would be too small for the measurements used in the INPOP model to predict.
In the paper, the authors said their work disproves the conclusion of another paper using a similar approach, which suggests that Planet Nine could not lie within 1,000 AU of the sun. (1 AU, or astronomical unit, is the distance from the Earth to the sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Neptune is, on average, about 30 AU from the sun.)
"It's a state-of-the-art calculation and a very clever idea," Batygin told Space.com via email. "It is wonderful to see that members of the community are presenting their own proposals on how to best optimize the observational search for Planet Nine. This is exactly what Mike [Brown] and I hoped for."
Starting this year, the Cassini probe will begin a total of 22 dives through Saturn's ring system, ending with the probe intentionally plummeting into the gas giant's atmosphere in September 2017. Meanwhile, the Juno probe will arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Measurements by Juno will continue to improve the precision of the INPOP model. Fienga said she and her colleagues "expect to increase the size of the forbidden area thanks to Juno."
Nog meer ‘krankzinnige uitspraken’ van Einstein die wél klopten
Nog meer ‘krankzinnige uitspraken’ van Einstein die wél klopten
Zijn vreemde voorspellingen over hoe materie, ruimte en tijd zich gedragen, blijken steeds weer te kloppen – en dat al een eeuw lang.
Albert Einstein
Auteur
Michael Greshko
Wetenschappers hebben eindelijk het verschijnsel gemeten waarnaar ze al zo lang op zoek waren: zwaartekrachtsgolven, oftewel schokgolven die rimpels veroorzaken in het weefsel van ruimte en tijd. Het was Albert Einstein die deze golven honderd jaar geleden voorspelde, en de meting betekent de definitieve bevestiging van zijn meesterwerk, de algemene relativiteitstheorie.
Einstein werd niet altijd gezien als een groot genie. Toen hij zijn buitenissige theorieën over relativiteit voorstelde, reageerden sommige wetenschappers afwijzend. Anderen vielen hem openlijk aan op zijn ‘gevaarlijke’ ideeën en zijn joodse afkomst.
Einsteins baanbrekende studies deden de natuurkunde op haar grondvesten schudden. In zijn universum lijkt Einstein te jongleren met eenheden als positie en snelheid – maar niet met het licht, dat met de onverstoorbare snelheid van bijna 1,08 miljard kilometer per uur door de ruimte zoeft, althans in een vacuüm. Einstein zag ruimte en tijd als één dikke stroop die hij de ‘ruimtetijd’ noemde en die door massa kon worden uitgerekt en vervormd. En massa bewoog zich altijd langs de kromming van de ruimtetijd, in een verborgen structuur die wij als zwaartekracht ervaren. Het klonk destijds krankzinnig.
Maar in de afgelopen eeuw hebben experimenten telkens weer bewezen dat Einstein gelijk had. Het aantal keren dat zijn theorie is bevestigd, is te groot om op te sommen, maar de hoogtepunten zijn indrukwekkend genoeg.
Licht is een golf – én een deeltje
Einstein werd vooral beroemd vanwege de relativiteitstheorie, maar zijn (enige) Nobelprijs ontving hij voor baanbrekend werk op het gebied van het licht. In de klassieke natuurkunde werd licht als een golf beschouwd, maar die theorie kon niet verklaren hoe en waarom metalen licht uitzenden als ze aan straling (bijvoorbeeld licht) worden blootgesteld – een fenomeen dat het foto-elektrisch effect wordt genoemd.
Einstein verklaarde dit merkwaardige effect door te stellen dat licht in feite bestaat uit afzonderlijke golfpakketjes of fotonen, elk met een energie die berust op de frequentie van het licht. De ontdekking leidde tot het ontstaan van de moderne kwantummechanica, waaruit ook volgde dat alledaagse atomen zich heel vreemd en ‘golfachtig’ kunnen gedragen, een ontdekking waaraan Einstein eveneens een bijdrage leverde.
Ruimtetijd wordt vervormd
De eerste grote bevestiging van Einsteins relativiteitstheorie kwam toen hij een verklaring wist te geven voor een geheimzinnige wiebeling in de baan van de planeet Mercurius. Al in 1859 had de briljante Franse astronoom Urbain Le Verrier dat fenomeen toegeschreven aan de aantrekkingskracht die een nog onontdekte planeet – voorlopig Vulcanus genoemd – op Mercurius zou uitoefenen. Maar ondanks jarenlange pogingen werd er geen enkel geloofwaardig bewijs voor het bestaan van ‘Vulcanus’ gevonden.
Tot grote opwinding van Einstein zelf bleek dat zijn algemene relativiteitstheorie het idee van Vulcanus naar de schroothoop verwees. Zijn theorie toonde aan dat de grote massa van de zon de ruimtetijd kromt, zoals een bowlingbal het strak gespannen vel van een trampoline vervormt. En omdat Mercurius zo dicht bij de zon staat, neemt de planeet de kortste weg door die door de zon vervormde ruimtetijd. Geen verborgen planeet dus, wél een kosmische structuur die Newton zich niet had voorgesteld.
Experts van Caltech en MIT kondigden onlangs aan dat ze voor het eerst zwaartekrachtsgolven hadden gemeten, rimpels in het weefsel van ruimte en tijd die ontstaan door de beweging van enorme massa’s in de kosmos – in dit geval twee zwarte gaten die om elkaar heen draaien, zoals uitgebeeld in deze illustratie van supercomputer ‘Columbia’ in het Ames Research Center van de NASA. Illustratie: NASA
Ruimtetijd kan als lens fungeren
Tijdens een zonsverduistering in mei 1919 werd Einstein opnieuw in het gelijk gesteld. Volgens zijn relativiteitstheorie moest de kromming van de ruimtetijd als gevolg van de massa van de zon betekenen dat het op aarde waargenomen licht wordt afbogen, zoals door een lens.
De Britse astronoom Arthur Eddington nam grote foto’s van de zonsverduistering en ontdekte dat de zon inderdaad het licht van de sterren in de Hyaden-sterrenhoop uitsmeerde, met circa twee duizendste van een booggraad – in lijn met de voorspelling van Einstein, die had beweerd dat de buiging tweemaal zo groot zou zijn als werd voorspeld op basis van de wetten van Newton.
Zelfs Einstein had niet voorzien hoe bruikbaar dit fenomeen voor astronomen zou blijken te zijn: door hele sterrenstelsels als gigantische lenzen te gebruiken, kunnen ze nu verder terugkijken in de tijd, naar de vroegste periode van het universum. En wanneer astronomen dit lenseffect zónder zichtbare massa waarnemen, dan kunnen ze aan de hand van de vervorming van het licht enorme structuren van donkere materie in kaart brengen.
Roterende massa’s maken draaikolken in de ruimtetijd
Materie vervormt de ruimtetijd niet alleen als een bowlingbal op een trampoline. Ook een roterend hemellichaam (bijvoorbeeld de aarde) trekt de ruimtetijd een beetje met zich mee, als een rondgaande spaan in een vat met siroop. Hierdoor worden de ruimtecoördinaten en daarmee ook de banen van naburige satellieten vervormd, in een bizar effect dat frame dragging wordt genoemd.
Het effect werd in 1918 op basis van de relativiteitstheorie voorspeld maar pas in 2004 bevestigd toen onderzoekers ontdekten dat de banen van twee satellieten lichtjes waren verschoven door de rotatie van de aarde. In 2011 werd het fenomeen nauwkeuriger gemeten met behulp van de NASA-satelliet Gravity Probe B.
Zwaartekracht vertraagt de tijd
In Einsteins formules kan materie de tijd ook versnellen of vertragen – en de kleur van het licht veranderen.
We weten nu dat deze spookachtige voorspellingen juist waren, omdat het licht van een ster die zich ver van ons vandaan bevindt, een hogere frequentie heeft (en dus blauwer lijkt) dan wanneer we dezelfde ster van dichterbij zouden bekijken. Hoe verder een waarnemer zich van de ‘gravitatieput’ van de aarde verwijdert, des te lager is de frequentie van het licht dat van de aarde uitgaat, een verschijnsel dat ‘gravitationele roodverschuiving’ wordt genoemd.
Het gaat om extreem kleine invloeden, maar wie ze negeert, zal in de problemen komen met z’n mobieltje: zonder correcties op basis van de relativiteitstheorie zouden de klokken in onze gps-satellieten elke dag 38 microseconden voor lopen op de klokken hier op aarde. Daarmee zou het wereldwijde navigatiesysteem al na twee minuten in de war worden geschopt en zou er elke dag een afwijking van tien kilometer bijkomen.
UFO Compilation/Documentary. Includes many sightings not frequently seen. Spinning Vertical Cylinders, a UFO like no other, that seems to look like a building, 90 degree angles and all.
Many of the videos are analyzed by multiple professionals, including Bruce Maccabee, who was at the time a Optical Physicist working for the OSI (Office of Special Investigation) branch of the United States Navy. His analysis is excellent, and points out the videos that are questionable.
This event occurred to me at least twelve years ago, and I still don’t know what happened.
Driving home from a Friday night shift at the newspaper, my car’s cruise control set on 55 mph, I drove by a road sign I’ve driven by hundreds of times. It reads, “Orrick: 5 Miles.” Just as I went by, the Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” came on the radio.
Perfect. I lived in Orrick, Missouri, at the time, and “Gimme Shelter” was not only my favorite Rolling Stones tune, it was also four minutes, thirty-seven seconds long, which would last me all the way home.
Then my drive fell out of reality.
A pull on the car engine snapped me out of the road hypnosis that had overtaken me. It took me a few seconds to realize that pull was the cruise control trying to keep the speed steady up a hill. The trouble was there were no hills between that road sign and my turnoff. Looking out the window didn’t help; a thick fog had enveloped the car and I could barely see the dotted line on the road. I slowed the car and drove up two more hills before I saw a light piercing through the fog.
Turning onto a gravel road toward the light, I found myself in the parking lot of a Jehovah’s Witness church and knew where I was – five miles on the other side of my turnoff. As I sat in the parking lot, my car in park, trying to figure out how I missed the exit, I heard something I couldn’t believe. “Gimme Shelter” still played on the radio. It continued to play for another minute and a half.
After I calmed a bit, I put the car in gear, pulled back onto the highway and went home. The fog quickly dissipated. I’d driven ten miles in three minutes at 55 mph. That wasn’t possible. What happened to me?
Cases of missing time and distance are as common as they are confusing. The Internet is littered with tales of travelers entering a fog only to discover they’re suddenly 300 miles away from home, or they’ve gone nowhere, but it’s inexplicably hours later. Explanations range from time slips, to dimensional slips, to alien abduction. Whatever the case, Brandon White of Maryville, Missouri, has experienced missing time and distance; more than once. “The first time I was about ten and I was walking out in the front yard,” White said. It was just after lunch.
As White went toward a thick ring of pine trees that surrounded his family’s farmhouse, he saw something floating on the other side of the tree line. “It was pale, sort of translucent,” he said. “It was passing between our house and the neighbor’s house. I thought it was a blimp.”
His afternoon suddenly disappeared. “The next thing I remember was coming in for dinner; 5 or 5:30,” he said. “I didn’t think about it at the time. As a kid, time was nothing.”
But five hours of his life were just gone.
In his teens, his life got stranger. “At 13 or 14 I stopped sleeping. I was deathly afraid of sleep,” he said. “I would fall to sleep, get into an REM sleep, and start screaming. I would wake up in strange places. In the yard, on the porch, upside down hanging from my bunk bed.” White said he doesn’t remember when he’s been able to catch more than four hours of sleep a night. “I had very vivid nightmares,” he said. Those nightmares often included a bird. “A big black crow. It would flap over my face, trying to take my breath.”
Later in his teens when White worked at Long John Silver’s in a town 38 miles away, he experienced more missing time. “I was riding my motorcycle. I remember that night very specifically. I worked a double shift,” he said. “Before I left town, I filled up my (gas) tank.” As he pulled onto a gravel road toward his parent’s house, he saw an orange ball hanging low in the sky. “I stopped and thought, ‘the moon’s a weird color,’” he said. “Then I saw it was not the moon. The moon doesn’t block the landscape.” As he got closer, he saw this orange ball was thirty to forty feet in diameter, and hovered five or six feet off the ground.
He got off the motorcycle three hours simply disappeared. “It’s the last thing I remember,” he said. “It was 7:35 p.m. At 10:30 p.m. I pulled into Dad’s driveway and something zoomed over me and disappeared into a valley.”
He stopped the bike and got off, leaving it running as he dashed to a fence to look for the light. It had gone. When he returned to his motorcycle, it started to sputter and the engine died. It was out of gasoline. “I filled it up, drove 38 miles, and it died,” White said.
White lost three hours of time and a tank of gasoline in what should have been a 40-minute motorcycle ride. Was the light responsible?
Years later, when White worked in nearby St. Joseph, Missouri, he stopped at a gas station around 1 a.m. to buy coffee and a candy bar to help keep him awake for the 45-minute drive home. He didn’t know something strange awaited him. “I got on the highway, next thing I knew there was a thick fog,” he said. “I didn’t know where I was. I was on this nameless dirt road.” And he was moving fast.
The narrow road, sloped on each side and covered by a canopy of trees, seemed like a tunnel. He slowed and tried to figure out where he was. “I found a field where I could turn around,” White said. “The fog was so thick I had to open my door to see the side of the road. I had no idea where I was. I was really, really fuzzy and disorientated. I know I was upset about something, but I don’t know why.”
Lights eventually bit through the fog and White pulled into the parking lot of a convenience store near the highway, but things were less than convenient. The store sat at the end of an exit that consisted of two difficult turns. White said he shouldn’t have made those turns. “I would have had to, at 70 mph, gone through those 90-degree turns while I was unconscious,” he said.
When he woke, “I was pretty fuzzy headed. It was like I’d been drugged.”
Although White concedes for the skeptic it’s within the realm of possibility he could have fallen asleep at the wheel and gotten lost in the fogbank, he was miles from where he should have been, and would have had to be amazingly lucky. “I don’t know how I could have made those turns,” he said. “I lost distance and time. I don’t have the foggiest idea how I got there.”
During a budget meeting in Japan’s parliament, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani was asked a question about aliens invading his country and gave this answer:
When the Air Self Defense Force detects indications of an unidentified flying object that could violate our country’s airspace, it scrambles fighter jets if necessary and makes visual observation. They sometimes find birds or flying objects other than aircraft but I don’t know of a case of finding an unidentified flying object believed to have come over from anywhere other than Earth.
Really? Perhaps some of the people of Japan who have been seeing and recording UFOs over the past few years need to give Defense Minister Nakatani a call.
On January 23, 2014, a fleet of UFOs shaped like glowing orbs was observed over Naha, a city on the island of Okinawa. Numerous reports were made by eyewitnesses who said the maneuvers by the group of UFOs lasted for 15 minutes before they flew off.
Japan has many active volcanoes which attract UFOs and, sure enough, two UFOs were spotted two days after the deadly eruption of Mt. Ontake on September 27, 2014. They reportedly came out of the volcano and disappeared into the clouds.
UFOs over Mt. Ontake
Japan has a number of nuclear power plants which are also known to be visited by UFOs. So it’s no surprise that UFOs have been seen numerous times over the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant after the meltdown in 2011. This one was observed in April 2011.
UFO over Fukushima nuclear plant after meltdown
Going back a few years, there’s the famous incident involving a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 cargo plane traveling from Paris to Tokyo on November 17, 1986, with a load of Beaujolais wine. While flying over Alaska, the crew witnessed two UFOs whose thrusters lit up the cabin and whose heat was felt by the captain. They left quickly but a third, larger UFO showed up and the crew requested to change course, which it did. No explanation was ever given but the crew stuck by their story.
Where was the Air Self Defense Force on these occasions? Haven’t they heard the comments about UFOs from President Obama and John Podesta? Defense Minister Nakatani needs to stop denying and answer a few more questions.
“Every picture tells a story”, as the old saying goes (and yes, as Rod Stewart sang in 1971). This is especially the case when it comes to alleged photographs of unidentified flying objects, where more often than not, the pictures leave much to be desired.
However, in some cases, despite a lack of clear details of the purported craft in question, visual elements in some UFO photos still may help researchers by providing clues about the behavior of the objects they claim to document. Such was the case with a particularly unusual photo shared with me recently, taken on September 23, 1967, which appeared in one of the classic Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) Bulletin, provided to members of the group for a number of years by the husband-wife team of Jim and Coral Lorenzen.
The photograph came to my attention under rather unusual circumstances. I had been reviewing a number of the old APRO Bulletins, which have been made available online by the folks at OpenMinds here, having been obtained with the private collection of UFO researcher Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens. Having shared them with a colleague, he recalled having seen “one image in a bulletin that I always thought the neatest and most thought provoking UFO picture I had ever seen (and still do).” Upon receiving the OpenMinds link to the old Bulletins, my friend had recalled the photo from a number of years back, but was unable to recall the date of the Bulletin in which it appeared.
“So, I just randomly hit on one bulletin from the list at Openminds,” he wrote to me quickly afterward in an email. “Guess what? The one I selected and opened in PDF looked familiar. Damn if it wasn’t the EXACT bulletin!!!”
Quite a synchronicity, indeed. I was thrilled that my own honest dispatch of a quick link via email helped my friend recover a long-lost UFO photo of certain interest, but became even more fascinated at the prospect of being able to see if for myself. Scrolling through the short few pages of the newsletter, which dated from March/April 1973, I was able to locate the image quickly, which depicted the alleged “liftoff” of an object at high-speed, as it shot into the skies above Sedona, Arizona, in September 1967.
As mentioned previously of even the “best” UFO photos to have appeared over the years, this one certainly leaves quite a bit to the imagination. However, the analysis of the photograph, described in detail within the APRO Bulletin’s accompanying article, is what makes it interesting.
First, a bit of background. Mr. C. Dwight Ghormley, a retired schoolteacher from Texas, had been visiting his sister in Flagstaff, Arizona, and decided to drive down to Sedona. Just a mile outside Sedona, Ghormley observed a large, silvery object which he had believed was a commercial carrier tank, a little less than a mile from the road. The location of the object seemed inaccessible, and Ghormley, having his Kodak Holiday camera handy, decided to stop and photograph the “tank”. Just as the shutter snapped, he looked back to see that the object was gone, and only a cloud of smoke or dust remained where it had been.
Ghormley nearly forgot the entire incident, having thought he may have been “seeing things”, and thought little of the strange object until some time later, when he had the film developed. The photograph he took seemingly captured the object as it took off into the sky, leaving a long “track” indicating its directional path.
The APRO had certainly been impressed with Mr. Ghormley, whose story indicated he had maintained no interest in the subject of UFOs prior to the experience. However, the photo itself had been heralded by the Lorenzens at the time as “one of the big breakthroughs in UFO research.”
An analysis of the photo was carried out by Dr. James A. Harder, an expert in photography and APRO’s consultant in Civil Engineering at the time (Harder would also go on to become involved in APRO’s investigations of the 1973 Pascagoula abduction incident, involving coworkers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, as well as the 1975 Travis Walton abduction case). Of the “Sedona UFO Track” photo, Harder noted that, “From the standpoint of ‘proving’ the existence of UFOs [the photo] might be considered a flop, insofar as no details are seen — there is only what appears to be a sequence of spots. But from the standpoint of understanding more about UFOs it may be one of the most valuable photographs ever taken. For from it, and the data provided by the camera it was taken with, we can infer speeds, accelerations, and find even greater puzzles than we dreamed of a few short years ago.”
Without getting too heavily into the minutiae of Harder’s analysis here (more of whichcan be read in the bulletin), careful calculations based on the shutter speed and focal length of the Kodak camera Mr. Ghormley had used to capture the image led Harder to the following determinations: “At a distance of 4,000 feet from the camera, this represents a transverse distance of 700 feet traversed in approximately 29 ms. The calculated speed is thus on the order of 24,000 feet per second, or 16,000 miles per hour.”
Harder further noted that the estimated speeds of the object, while fast indeed, were nonetheless within the range of speeds which radar systems can detect, referring in his notes to the 1956 Lakenheath, England radar visual UFO case, collected by Project Blue Book. However, one curious feature about the photograph involved the multiple distinct impressions of the object in its direction of motion, rather than a simple line or “smear”. This, according to Harding’s preliminary examination, suggested one of two possibilities: that the craft in the photo had been producing a blinking or flashing illumination as it moved, or that the object was rapidly accelerating and stopping intermittently to complete its course of travel. “This is fast enough,” Harding surmised, “together with the inferred stop-and-go-character of the motion, to raise very basic questions about the mode of propulsion of these UFOs.”
(Note: I would submit that a third potential exists, pertaining to the object’s movement indicated on film: might the effect of the “blinking” have resulted from a spinning object, which, as it rotated gyroscopically, reflected — rather than emitting – light off of a highly reflective surface at various intervals as it moved?)
The questions regarding the object’s locomotion raised numerous unique questions about the mode of operation that some UFOs may utilize. Thus, the unusual, distorted appearance of the object’s flight path in the photo further lent itself, in Harder’s mind, to the photo’s (and Mr. Ghormley’s) credibility.
As a concluding observation, Harder would develop a number of different theories about the underlying mechanisms of UFO craft, based on their behavior indicated in such studies. In 1968, Harder gave a Congressional testimony on the subject, in which he speculated that magnesium, purified of any innate crystalline defects, would be an ideal metal for the construction of a craft similar to those cited in flying saucer reports (he based this on his study of samples of magnesium recovered in Brazil in 1957, purportedly discharged from a UFO that exploded in midair). Harder also studied the UFO observation of chemist Wells A. Webb, who described observing a UFO through polaroid glasses which revealed three dark circular formations that appeared in concentric fashion around the object. Harder guessed that the concentric “rings” Webb observed were evidence of the Faraday effect, which is demonstrated in the video below:
Harder guessed that these elements were evidence of a strong magnetic field produced by the object, which further suggested a gravito-magnetic effect underlying the craft’s mode of propulsion. This notion is similar, in certain regards, to an aircraft envisioned by Nikola Tesla, which he mentioned at various times throughout his life. Whether Tesla’s visions of such an aircraft were ever formalized remains unclear; at the time of Tesla’s death, assistant director of the FBI’s New York office, P. E. Foxworth, was dispatched to his room at the New Yorker Hotel to examine possessions and documents believed to be of vital importance to the U.S. military. It was, after all, 1943, and the Allies were in the heat of conflict against the Axis powers; within two days of Tesla’s passing, representatives of the Office of Alien Property went to his room, where all of his possessions were seized.
The notion that Tesla’s ideas could be somehow related to the UFO mystery has been brought up often over the years, although this concept — and its possible implications — are outside the scope of the present discussion. The question should be offered here, however, as to whether study of the UFO phenomenon, and specific instances of UFO observation such as the “Sedona Track” photo, may yield data about the operation of UFO craft that is paralleled in other literature, or evidential of characteristics that can be confirmed in the various branches of science. If so, the nature and possible mechanism of some alleged “UFOs” may indeed eventually become attainable, rather than simply remaining “mysterious” fodder for the inquisitive among us.
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Stargazer Sees Milky Way and 5 Planets Dance in the Night Sky (Photo)
Stargazer Sees Milky Way and 5 Planets Dance in the Night Sky (Photo)
By Nina Sen, Space.com Contributor
The Milky Way and five planets in one stunning image took some patience, but paid off handsomely for skywatcher Matt Smith. The image was taken from Carthage, Texas on February 10, 2016.
Credit: Matt Smith
The Milky Way and five planets in one stunning image took some patience, but paid off handsomely for skywatcher Matt Smith.
"I knew that I wanted to get the planetary alignment and try to get the Milky Way as well. I finally had my opportunity and found a location with a great view of the Southeast," Smith wrote in an email to Space.com. He took the amazing image from Carthage, Texas on Feb. 10.
On the far right in the trees you can see the bright dot of Jupiter. Further left you can make out rust colored Mars and above the core of the Milky Way you can see Saturn.
Below the core, Venus shines bright, with Mercury near the first rays of sunrise.
Milky Way Quiz: Test Your Galaxy Smarts
Dust off your spiral arms and fatten up your bulge — it's time to tap into your inner galaxy to test your smarts about the Milky Way. Our home in space is a strange and wondrous place that scientists are still trying to figure out. See what you know!
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy , meaning multiple "arms" sprout from a central region and then swirl around it, like streams of water spiraling down a drain. It stretches between 100, 000 and 120,000 light-years in diameter. It is estimated that the galaxy has approximately 400 billion stars.
To see more amazing night sky photos submitted by Space.com readers, visit our astrophotography archive.
Editor's note: If you have an amazing night sky photo you'd like to share with us and our news partners for a possible story or gallery, send images and comments in to spacephotos@space.com.
Un flash d’ondes radio venu d’une galaxie lointaine capté en Australie
Un flash d’ondes radio venu d’une galaxie lointaine capté en Australie
Des télescopes illustration
Un télescope australien situé à Parkes a réussi à capter un signal très rare venu d’une galaxie lointaine. L’origine de ces ondes spatiales, qui dégagent beaucoup d’énergie, reste encore inexpliquée.
Pour la première fois, des astronomes sont parvenus à identifier la provenance d’un « sursaut radio rapide », un phénomène cosmique très mystérieux. Ce flash très bref d’ondes radio a été repéré par un télescope. Il vient d’une galaxie située à six milliards d’années-lumière de la Terre, révèle une étude publiée ce mercredi. C’est un radiotélescope de Parkes qui a capté ce nouveau FRB (Fast Radio Burst) en avril dernier. Le signal capté en Australie est le 17ème recensé depuis la découverte du phénomène.
We've traced a mysterious fast radio burst to its home galaxy for the first time http://ow.ly/YIaVl
Des signaux extraterrestres ?
Si l’information excite autant la communauté scientifique, c’est parce que ces signaux sont très rares et très mystérieux, laissant place à de nombreuses hypothèses. Certains astronomes pensent que les FRB naissent de la fusion des étoiles à Neutron dont les ondes se propageraient dans l’espace. C’est à l’heure actuelle l’hypothèse la plus crédible et la plus privilégiée par les spécialistes. Si les FRB sont observés de près par les spécialistes de l’espace, c’est également à cause de la quantité d’énergie qu’ils émettent.
En 2007, Duncan Lorimer et ses équipes ont calculé qu’un FRB émet en une milliseconde la même quantité d’énergie que l’astre solaire en 10 000 ans.
Indian police examine the wreckage of the UFO (inset)
The balloon-like white object was intercepted by an Su-30 MKI fighter jet after it triggered a radar alert flying over Barmer, Rajistan, near the border with Pakistan, on Tuesday, as reported by Express.co.uk.
Now, officials are convinced it came across the border from Pakistan, and was not an extraterrestrial UFO as some alien investigators had suspected.
Government sources have told Indian media it was suspected it may contain a bomb, but no such device was found in the debris.
One theory is it was "a possible move by the neighbour to test India’s response" to an unexpected aircraft.
It has emerged the three-metre wide balloon appeared between 10.30am and 11am as the 67th annual Republic Day parade was happening in New Delhi.
Rounds fired at the balloon were said to be from the fighter’s 30mm GSh-301 auto cannon.
According to a Government source, the balloon had "Happy Birthday" printed on it - in an apparent reference to the anniversary.
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar said: "Our radars picked up a shiny flying object entering Indian airspace.
"A fighter jet was quickly scrambled which intercepted it and shot it down.”
ABP
Stills from Indian TV news clips showing the actual object
An IAF spokesperson said on Wednesday: “Due to heightened security alert, the balloon was shot down as it could have been carrying unknown payload.
"However, on the analysis of the debris it was established there was no dangerous payload.”
Rajasthan police said residents of Gugdi village, about 20km from Balotra town near Kishor Singh Ki Dhani area, had first reported hearing an “explosion”, followed by similar reports from Panawada village in Baitu area.
Police were sent to both areas.
Five solid metal triangles recover among the wreckage have added to the mystery.
Local speculators suggest it could have been just a meteorological weather balloon from India or Pakistan.
ABP
News channels also mocked up an image of the suspected balloon
Several books have been written about the incident.
Scott C waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, remains in the "it was an alien craft camp".
He blogged: "Its not everyday a UFO gets shot down.
This one is thought to be a balloon with a bomb tied to it.
"It looks like a giant cloud orb to me.
"Sometimes if they are struck by lightning, they can malfunction and fall to the Earth.
"It was enough of a threat that they called out fighter jets to shoot it down.
"It took 97 shots and no harmful payload was found. Why would they care about a balloon? "If balloons were a threat, Los Angeles would have a squadron of fighters jets at war in the sky over Disneyland."
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Whistleblower about to 'lift lid on 1000s of UFO files' is GENUINE, says ex-MoD man
Whistleblower about to 'lift lid on 1000s of UFO files' is GENUINE, says ex-MoD man
A FORMER US Naval officer who claims his secrecy agreement with the American Government has expired is vowing to lift the lid on thousands of top-secret UFO files he claims to have seen.
Retired Colonel Charles Halt, the most senior former US servicemen to go public about UFOs and Rendlesham
The man, who says he was a third-class petty officer at the Naval Telecommunications Center within NAS Moffett Field from February 1986 to October 1989, also claims he can shed light on the mysterious mass-UFO sighting involving military personal in 1980.
He has yet to be named, but a former British MoD UFO investigator confirmed to Express.co.uk the man is a genuine source, creatinga flurry of excitement within the UFO disclosure community.
Nick Pope, who was charged by the MoD with investigating baffling UK UFO cases, including the Rendlesham incident, said: "I've actually had some personal communication with this individual, and have no doubts about his background.
"It's clear from the language he uses and the information he has that he's a genuine insider."
But Mr Pope stopped short of encouraging the whistleblower to come outinto the open.
He added: "While my own secrecy oath means I can't encourage anyone to divulge classified information without proper authority, I'm obviously very interested in his story.
"As I conducted the MoD's cold case review of the Rendlesham Forest incident I'm particularly keen to hear about anything that would shed new light on this case."
NEWSINTERNATIONAL
News of the World reports of Rendlesham at the time
The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
It has led to several reported sightings on the night by the public and several books and conspiracies.
The man, who has not been publicly named, is claiming the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government had a going project looking at UFO sightings, including Rendlesham in the 1980s.
He has filed a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - the world's biggest official alien investigation organisation based in the US, saying he wants to help reach "disclosure".
The disclosure movement among the UFO fraternity, is calling for all world Governments to make public all their top secret files on UFO and flying saucer visitations.
In the report filed on Saturday he said: "I'm not reporting a UFO sighting rather a UFO related experience.
"I have copies of my security clearances.
"I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.
"My secrecy agreement with the US Government expired in October 2014.
I have copies of my security clearances. I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.
US Navy alleged whistleblower
"At this point in my life I would like to share my knowledge in hopes that someone will be able to use it effectively towards disclosure."
He said he was given TS SBI/ESI NATO/SIOP Compartmental Security Clearance, which is Top Secret clearance for working in Special Background Investigation, Single Integrated Operation Plan, Exceptionally Sensitive Information and with NATO.
He added: "In addition we had a GS11 employee who was transferred from a Joint US/UK communication station north of London after working at that site for a dozen years.
"He said it was an National Security Agency (NSA)/UK facility tasked with tracking UFO including Rendalsham Forest Incident.
"He said that UFO/ET were real and that hopefully disclosure would happen in my lifetime since he was in his early 60s at the time."
In the report he said: "I was required to deliver TS Code word designation COSMIC to SRI, ESL/SYLVANIA, LOCKHEED SKUNKWORKS, TRW, RATHEON, BERKELEY LABS, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABS, and other think tanks throughout Silicon valley."
JONAUSTIN
Military fencing around the former RAF Bentwaters base still said to be a UFO hotspot
"Dit is géén science fiction", zegt Philip Lubin, kosmoloog aan de University of California. De wetenschapper meent een manier gevonden te hebben die ons toelaat om in amper 30 minuten naar Mars te reizen. Dankzij lasertechnologie zouden we ook ruimtevaartuigen naar nog verder afgelegen gebieden kunnen sturen. De reistijd naar bijvoorbeeld Alpha Centauri, het dichtstbijzijnde zonnestelsel, bedraagt met Lubins theorie 'slechts' 15 jaar. En in tegenstelling tot andere ambitieuze theorieën, is de technologie hiervoor nu al beschikbaar.
Philip Lubin, die ook werkt voor het 'Innovative Advanced Concepts'-programma (IAC) van de NASA, dokterde een briljante manier uit om razendsnel door de ruimte te reizen. Dankzij 'gerichte energievoortdrijving' ligt Mars, in theorie, op slechts een halfuurtje van de aarde. Door een laser af te vuren op een klein ruimtetuig zou het met een fractie van de lichtsnelheid kunnen reizen.
"We zouden een 100 kilogram zwaar ruimtetuig naar Mars kunnen sturen. Binnen 25 lichtjaren van de aarde kunnen we ook enkele exoplaneten en mogelijke bewoonbare gebieden bezoeken. We weten uiteraard niet of ze bewoonbaar zijn, maar er zijn veel doelwitten om uit te kiezen", aldus Lubin. Het dichtste en interessantste doelwit lijkt Alpha Centauri, het dichtstbijzijnde zonnestelsel, vier lichtjaren van hier.
In een document getiteld 'A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight' legt Lubin uit hoe we met een flinterdun ruimtetuig tot 26 procent van de lichtsnelheid zouden kunnen bereiken binnen ongeveer 10 minuten. Op die manier zouden we Mars in theorie al na 3 dagen of zelfs 30 minuten kunnen bereiken, ruimtesonde Voyager 1 (in 1977 gelanceerd) al na drie dagen voorbijsteken en aankomen in het Alpha Centauri-stelsel binnen 15 jaar. Die vliegtijden waren tot nu compleet ondenkbaar.
Er zijn voorlopig geen projecten gepland om dit plan in de praktijk te brengen en het lijkt ook niet realistisch dat dat in de nabije toekomst gebeurt, laat staan een bemande vlucht. Maar het doet wetenschappers over de hele wereld wel dromen.
Dit filmpje legt Philip Lubin uit hoe we in theorie waanzinnige snelheden kunnen bereiken.
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VIDEO: Mysterieuze UFO gespot bij Jupitermaan Europa
VIDEO: Mysterieuze UFO gespot bij Jupitermaan Europa
Op internet is een video verschenen waarin volgens sommigen een ‘interstellair moederschip’ is te zien bij Jupitermaan Europa. Dat melden verschillende media.
Een Britse UFO-enthousiasteling heeft vanuit zijn achtertuin foto’s gemaakt van iets wat lijkt op een ‘structuur’ naast Europa. De persoon in kwestie heeft de beelden opgestuurd naar de mensen van SecureTeam, die ze weer op YouTube hebben gezet.
De voice-over zegt in het filmpje, dat inmiddels al meer dan een kwart miljoen keer is bekeken: “Er is hier duidelijk een glimmende UFO op camera vastgelegd. Dit is een indrukwekkende vondst omdat we hier te maken hebben met iets wat op een structuur lijkt.”
Mysterie
“Dit is zeker niet één van de manen van Jupiter,” klinkt het verder. “Het is iets wat geen onderdeel uitmaakt van het manensysteem van Jupiter. Het zouden meerdere structuren kunnen zijn, die dicht bij elkaar staan.”
Volgens de groep tonen de beelden een enorme buitenaardse structuur die in de richting van Jupiter beweegt. “Het hoort daar zeker niet te zijn en het zou me niet verbazen als het een soort buitenaards schip is,” aldus de voice-over. “Jupiter wordt al geruime tijd door mysterie omgeven, net als zijn manen, met name Europa.”
Juno
De foto’s zijn verleden week gemaakt met een Canon 650D. Rechts van Jupiter is een vreemd glimmend object te zien. Volgens de voice-over is er in ons zonnestelsel nog nooit zoiets gevonden.
Niet iedereen is ervan overtuigd dat de beelden een ruimteschip laten zien. Sommigen menen dat het gereflecteerde licht afkomstig is van de planeet Saturnus of een aantal Jupitermanen. Anderen zeggen dat de ‘UFO’ mogelijk Juno is, een ruimtesonde van NASA die in augustus 2011 is gelanceerd en onderweg is naar Jupiter.
METEOOR TER GROOTTE VRACHTWAGEN KOMT OP AARDE TERECHT ( VIDEO )
METEOOR TER GROOTTE VRACHTWAGEN KOMT OP AARDE TERECHT ( VIDEO )
Op 6 februari 2016 kwam een meteoor ter grootte van een fikse vrachtwagen de atmosfeer van de aarde binnen.
Deze kwam met een snelheid van ruim 65.000 kilometer binnen en explodeerde met een kracht gelijk aan 13.000 ton TNT.
De kracht waarmee deze meteoor ontplofte was bijna net zoveel als de Little Boy atoombom op Hiroshima in 1945 die met een kracht van 15.000 ton TNT explodeerde.
Gelukkig voor ons aardlingen kwam dit object binnen boven de oceaan, zo’n 1.000 kilometer uit de kust van Rio de Janeiro en de resulterende klap in het water was te klein om een tsunami te kunnen veroorzaken.
Niemand raakte gewond en er waren geen getuigen. Zorgwekkend is dat helemaal niemand deze meteoor zag aan komen.
Net zoals dit gebeurde in februari 2013 toen een meteoor ontplofte boven de Russische stad Chelyabinsk. Deze was nog vele malen groter dan die van enkele dagen geleden en had een kracht van ongeveer 500.000 ton TNT. De Chelyabinsk meteoor was ongeveer 40 keer krachtiger en had een doorsnede van ongeveer 19 meter. Ook deze meteoor werd door niemand opgemerkt.
Het grote probleem met meteoren rond de 10 tot 15 meter is dat ze in principe te klein zijn om te worden opgemerkt in de uitgestrekte ruimte, maar wel de mogelijkheid bezitten om een stad compleet van de kaart te vegen wanneer ze die zouden raken.
Iedere dag opnieuw wordt de aarde gebombardeerd met minimaal 100 ton ruimtepuin. Meestal zijn dit kleine stukjes rots en zand die opbranden wanneer ze de atmosfeer binnenkomen, maar er zijn uiteraard ook grotere.
De inslag van 6 februari komt ook voor op de lijst van het Near Earth Object Program van NASA. Je vindt daar de asteroïden die de aarde hebben geraakt, maar ook degene die onze planeet net hebben gemist.
Zo krijgen we begin maart 2016 een stuk rots van 30 meter dat naar verwachting net langs de aarde zal schieten.
Natuurlijk blijven we geruststellende geluiden krijgen over hoe je in de meeste gevallen dit soort meteoren pas enkele uren voor de inslag kunt waarnemen, maar dat de kans heel erg klein is dat er daadwerkelijk iets wordt geraakt.
De man in India die onlangs werd getroffen door een meteoor en stierf, zou daar ongetwijfeld anders over hebben gedacht als hij nu nog had geleefd.
Feit is, of we het nu leuk vinden of niet, dat door de nadering van de planeet Nibiru en haar metgezellen steeds meer asteroïden onze kant worden opgestuurd.
Zoals te zien op de volgende kaart van de American Meteor Society van 5 februari 2016 heeft er een enorme toename plaatsgevonden in waarnemingen van meteoren en vuurbollen in de lucht.
Op de datum van deze statistiek waren we ruim een maand in het nieuwe jaar en zien we dat het aantal waarnemingen van meteoren al ongeveer gelijkstaat aan het totaal van het hele jaar 2006. Als de huidige trend zich voortzet dan zullen we ook in dit jaar weer een hoger aantal hebben dan het jaar ervoor.
De bovenstaande statistiek toont dat het vrij rustig en stabiel blijft tot aan het einde van 2009. Daarna dat het aantal waarnemingen ieder jaar met sprongen omhoog gaat.
Eerder deze maand schreven we over hoe NASA in alle haast een nieuwe afdeling in het leven heeft geroepen.
Alhoewel NASA beweert dat we de eerste honderden jaren niets te vrezen hebben van objecten uit de ruimte bewijzen hun acties precies het tegenovergestelde.
Ze hebben een nieuwe afdeling opgericht genaamd de Planetary Defense Coordination Office dat samen met FEMA op van alles voorbereid moet zijn.
Bovengenoemd programma is niet goedkoop, wat betekent dat men zich bij NASA ernstig zorgen maakt over inkomende asteroïden op een ramkoers met de aarde.
De asteroïde die op 5 maart aanstaande rakelings langs de aarde zal scheren, zal dit doen op een afstand van minder dan 20.000 kilometer. Dit is dichtbij, heel dichtbij en zelfs dichterbij de aarde dan de omloopbaan van sommige satellieten.
Het schijnt dat we ons over deze asteroïde geen zorgen hoeven maken, maar hoeveel zijn er nog die ook niet door NASA zijn gezien. En als ze het wel gezien hadden en er zou er één op een ramkoers met de aarde liggen, zouden ze het ons dan wel vertellen?
Drone Over Area 51 Catches Great Rare View, Feb 2016, 3 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Drone Over Area 51 Catches Great Rare View, Feb 2016, 3 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of footage: February 22, 2016 Location of footage: Area 51, Nevada This amazing footage was recorded using an RC drone with a HD camera on it. Hans Faulknerof Youtube wanted to learn more about the top secret USAFB, so he took a short flight over the edges of the base. Its very brave of him to share this footage on line since it does break a few laws and endanger his security. I imagine it wont be long before the public gets robotic drones that will pass over the base and return hours later with great footage. The military will have a hard time finding these tiny drones since the newest and smallest one I saw was an inch and a half in diameter with a live cam on it. Sadly todays batteries are the last of the ancient tech to be upgraded. Imagine what a drone with a telescope lens would see. Hats off to Hans Faulkner for beautiful and rare view of Area 51. Please stop at his video and give him a thumbs up for support. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Glowing UFO Investigates Balloon As Sky Watcher Records it, Feb 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Investigates Balloon As Sky Watcher Records it, Feb 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: February 14, 2016 Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA Jump to the end of this video and you will see that this person caught an alien drone that decided to check out this balloon. Alien orbs are AI drones that record everything that passes their area. This one slowed down enough to get a fantastic capture of it. Its actually not round, but tear drop shaped with edges. A monumental catch by UFO researcher Maria Argote. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: This is my luck. This perfectly round orb came around 3 times. The final time, I decided to shut things down and an small orb came into the picture. Here is the breakdown. Amazing capture at an amazing event. This is one of several crazy things that showed up.
Orb Entity Caught On Security Cam At Russian Military Base, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orb Entity Caught On Security Cam At Russian Military Base, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 23, 2019
Location of sighting: Military base Davamti, Russia Tercer Milenio TV has recently aired a new show showing a series of films that have documented movement of balls of light around the world. One of the most interesting of these recordings took place on July 23, 2009 by an infrared camera that was placed outside a Russian secret military base. That evening at 9:39 pm a military operator safety officer was monitoring the video surveillance cameras when he noticed the presence of a bright ball of light that slowly descended from the sky. It moved over the surface of the water of the dl Moskva River, which is right at the base davamti. The camera follows the bright orb as it moves downward and then follows it as it continues moving. The glowing object seems to be searching for something at the waters surface. You can even see the orbs reflection in the water below it. The reflection is 100% proof that it is close and over the water, and not far away. Infrared cameras can see a light spectrum that is invisible to the human eye. Thats why so many sky watchers are trying to get their hands of an IR camera.
Name to be with held by request, (Mrs. G, age 44) is from Redcliffe just north of Brisbane she lives with her 2 young children a boy 3 girl 9. UFOICQ was called on the Hot Line, by Mrs. G has she was little distressed by an event that took place Wednesday 10th at her home she, asked if we could come and talk to her. Mrs. G went to bed. She said it was around 10.15pm. “I was just about to nod off when I thought I could hear the TV going.” She said, “I turned it off! I’m sure I did. I got out of bed and went to investigate. I Could see some kind of flashing light but it was a soft light and it was shining down the corridor but I thought is it the TV. As I got to the end of the corridor I turned to look right where my kitchen door was and to my surprise I saw a “very tall” man.
He was standing in the doorway and was dressed in some kind of long jacket. The colour was Tan (peanut paste colour), that kind of tan. He had long arms but I couldn’t see his face because the light was coming from behind him I wasn’t scared but I still. I wonted to scream funny ha! But the sound wouldn’t come out, Mrs. G said, I thought there was something standing beside me, but I couldn’t move to see it. Then zip, I was standing in a different position with my back to the front door. I thought there was something beside me. May be it was the dog! Then a voice said “come on, time to go to bed now.”
Then I new it wasn’t the dog. Dogs don’t talk, do they? Then I became fully awake, sitting on the side of the bed. I don’t remember getting from the lounge room to the bedroom, but I do know that I was scared to death. I heard the TV again and then it turned itself off. That was it for me. I jumped under the covers and that’s where I stayed till the sun came up. I remember looking at the clock and it was just after 2.45pm, so where was I for 3 hours. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Turn down Skywalker Way, then make a left on Warp Drive. A hangarlike facility is there, huge, as a hangar should be. Inside, a tall mustachioed gentleman in a baggy gray pinstriped suit stands idly. He owns the facility and everything around it. He also owns the Budget Suites of America a few miles away, down near the Las Vegas Strip. That’s just part of his empire, that budget hotel, along with a whole chain of others scattered across the Southwest.
But we’re not here to talk budget hotels. We’re here to talk about the future, and a different kind of accommodations entirely: one that can be folded up, bundled onto a rocket, shot into space, expanded, and lived in. We’re here because Robert Bigelow—low-key billionaire, space entrepreneur, avowed believer in extraterrestrials—has invited us into this warehouse to show off his blow-up space home. There are doughnuts and coffee. Soon, lunch will be served. But right now Bigelow is ambling up to a podium, where he begins to scold us.
“You laughed at me,” he says to the crowd in his North Las Vegas headquarters. “When we said we would build an expandable system and place it on the International Space Station in two and a half years, you laughed,” he says. “It’s been two years and a quarter.” He pauses, letting it sink in—that he’s ahead of schedule—then lets loose a smile, wide as the West. “And here we are.”
Here we are: NASA officials, JAXA officials (that’s Japan’s space agency), media, and Bigelow Aerospace employees. Before Bigelow began his speech, I’d spoken with several of those workers. Dressed in thin white jumpsuits, they stood inside a roped-off area surrounding a pedestal, on top of which sat a refrigerator-size object, swaddled in a gray Kevlar-like material and shaped like an upside-down mixing bowl. This was the BEAM—the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module—the future of space habitats.
According to the jumpsuited workers, none of whom spoke louder than a reverent whisper, the BEAM would soon travel to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where eventually—within months or perhaps a year—it would find a berth on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station. At the ISS, a robotic arm would reach into the arriving SpaceX Dragon capsule, grab the BEAM, and attach it to the station’s Tranquility node. Astronauts would then send a command releasing compressed air into the BEAM. As the BEAM becomes pressurized, it expands until the module grows to 10.5 feet wide and 565 feet cubed. Not large but not small either. Imagine an eight-person tent or a studio apartment in Manhattan. All told, the expansion will take four and a half minutes. Then, the real work begins.
For two years, the astronauts aboard the ISS will try to determine if the BEAM, or some larger version of it, could be habitable over the long term. They will determine leak rate, measure radiation, and examine the thermal control inside the empty module. They’ll see how the module’s soft walls stand up to the bumps and bruises in space. And they’ll do their best to figure out just what an expandable structure orbiting Earth at about 5 miles per second feels like— an impossible thing to know until it is up there.
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Billionaire Robert Bigelow unveils his expandable modules.
Intuitively, expandables make sense. They pack down, weigh less, and in just about every way mitigate the very high costs associated with breaking free of gravity. The BEAM cost just $25 million to develop (in part through a $17.8 million NASA contract) and could cost about $150 million to launch. Compare that with the (admittedly much more complex) ISS, which cost an estimated $100 billion, and was assembled over the course of a decade and a few dozen launches. But until the results of this test run come in, no one can say for sure if crewed expandables are indeed as good in practice as they seem to be on paper.
For argument’s sake, say the BEAM works. Say everything checks out just as Bigelow thinks it will. What then? He will possibly send a few more pods up to expand the ISS; he’s already working on a stand-alone craft. But he also has a more ambitious plan.
Once Bigelow has finished scolding the crowd and detailing the BEAM’s upcoming mission, he opens the floor to questions. Someone up front asks how Bigelow Aerospace might fit into a manned Mars mission. He’s not sure, he says. Then adds, cryptically, “We are more focused on the moon.” There is no follow-up. He just lets it lie. And so does everyone else—again dismissing what seems too fantastic to be real, though there are no chuckles this time.
As the crowd disperses, I sidle up to Bigelow. Despite the suit, he has the faintly rugged look of an old cowboy. He’s sitting slumped in a small plastic folding chair on the small stage, surrounded by a few handlers, and looking worn out. He offers his hand indifferently, but when I ask about his moon plans, he straightens in his chair and leans forward. He drops his low voice even lower, as if letting me in on a secret. The BEAM, he says, is much more than a simple proof of concept. “It’s a first step…toward a permanent settlement on the lunar surface.” He sees many similarities between the ISS test run and an eventual lunar mission. “Both would do something unique, in a unique place that has international interests, and would require a lot of partners—governmental and nongovernmental.” The BEAM launch, he says, “is not just a stunt—and neither are our moon plans.”
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Back in the mid-1980s, Bigelow noticed a change happening in the desert Southwest. The area, deemed scarcely habitable, was growing quickly. Businesses were sprouting up, and visitors needed easy, affordable places to stay. To build his empire, Bigelow bought land cheap so he could pass along any savings to customers. He also made his hotels as convenient as possible—set right off the highway. He held onto nearly everything he bought, then sold a bunch of property when everyone else was buying like crazy, just before the market imploded in 2008. His fortune, already vast, grew vaster: His real estate investments alone are estimated at about $700 million today.
Bigelow now sees a similar change happening in another scarcely inhabited and inhospitable place: space. For a decade private business has been taking over access to low-Earth orbit (LEO), shuttling cargo and soon astronauts. See SpaceX and Orbital ATK as exhibits one and two. As those launches become more frequent—and as the ISS continues to rent out berths to space travelers and bench time to private businesses for zero-gravity experiments—the competition for floor space will only increase. Eventually businesses will set up their own labs and stations, and government-backed space agencies will push beyond LEO into cislunar space, the region between Earth and the moon. The next logical stop is the moon, then perhaps Mars. And then who knows? All Bigelow can be certain of is that such development requires people, and people need places to stay.
That’s where his expandables come in. NASA had pursued a similar idea in the 1990s in a program called TransHab, for Transit Habitat. The idea was to build an inflatable craft, cheaper than the ISS, to be used en route to Mars. NASA even designed one, complete with a multilayer shell of insulation and meteoroid-debris protection, but Congress cut funding in 2000, so the program was scrapped. Developing a new space station while still running and building the current one didn’t sit well, politically. Bigelow thought he saw something they didn’t, so he bought the rights to the TransHab technology for dimes on the dollar—the craft’s design, the patents for the layered inflatable walls, everything. He then set out creating what he calls “a turnkey solution to space habitation.” Cheap and convenient, same as ever.
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Billionaire Robert Bigelow
For a hotel tycoon, new real estate often yields new opportunities. Low-Earth orbit, and all the private space habitats it could someday support, appears promising, at least in the midterm. Even so, there is no piece of real estate more compelling to Bigelow than the moon. Unlike space, the moon has resources. There are deposits of helium-3 for nuclear fusion, which the Chinese are already reportedly planning to mine. There is water in the form of ice, which can be melted and purified for drinking or broken down into hydrogen fuel. The moon is also located outside of Earth’s gravity well. For space agencies looking to make runs to Mars or elsewhere, it is an ideal departure and refueling point.
Perhaps most compelling is that Bigelow doesn’t see any real competition in building a moon base. NASA isn’t all that interested in a permanent moon colony, and it has little in the way of future moon exploration plans. Jason Crusan, who leads NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division (basically a venture-capital fund for space-focused businesses, including Bigelow Aerospace) says he can imagine a future where flights travel between Earth and the moon on a regular basis. But rather than NASA taking the lead, he expects others to. “We want to get to Mars,” he says. The moon is just a means to an end.
For Bigelow, the challenges of building a functioning base on the moon, while massive, appear far from insurmountable. A recent study, partly commissioned by NASA (put out on the 46th anniversary of the first moon landing), found that the costs associated with returning humans to the moon could be much cheaper than previously imagined—90 percent cheaper, in fact, or closer to $10 billion versus the previous estimate of about $100 billion. And setting up a moon base might run about $40 billion. Much of the savings comes from using the moon’s resources in situ. “You take what the moon gives you, and move away from things that have to be brought up from Earth: water, fuel, protection from radiation,” says George Zamka, a former astronaut and current director at Bigelow Aerospace.
A moon colony is a far cry from the BEAM. But the success of BEAM is critical if a colony is to happen. And that’s why Bigelow invited a bunch of NASA officials to his warehouse. He would need NASA’s permission if he ever planned to send further expandables to the ISS and to access its astronauts. NASA, meanwhile, needs proof that expandables are viable habitats, and that Bigelow is the guy to make them.
This is all part of the process, as Bigelow sees it. He’s smart enough to know that space habitats need to move slowly for everyone to accept them. But he doesn’t have to sit on his hands for two years to learn of BEAM’s results. Far from it.
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As Bigelow talks, I stare at the massive structure hanging beyond the stage. The prototype space station, Olympus—formerly called the BA2100—is 41 feet wide and about 60 feet long. It nearly fills a wing of the hangar: three stories, a dozen rooms, with docking bays on each end, to string multiple crafts together. On its own, the Olympus offers more than two times the interior space of the ISS, about 2,250 cubic meters when expanded.
Were it already in space, the Olympus could be docked with a propulsion unit, providing a crewed station in LEO, in lunar orbit, or a point in between. It could also provide a habitat for a trip to Mars. All of which are part of its ultimate purpose. For now, that purpose will remain unfulfilled. It is so massive that, even deflated, no rocket exists that could haul such a large payload into orbit. Bigelow keeps the Olympus front and center for inspiration, a symbol of all that’s left to be done.
What’s not on display today is Bigelow’s follow-up to BEAM, the B330, a fully livable habitat that is well underway. According to Zamka, the craft is designed to fit a crew of six comfortably, has walls about 18 inches thick, layers of insulation, and protection from micrometeorites. It boasts solar and thermal radiator arrays, semiprivate berths, a zero-G toilet, four windows, two sets of control thrusters, and will be able to link up with other spacecraft for docking, towing, or tugging. Bigelow engineers are working on avionics systems for orbit, docking, maneuvering, and boosting beyond LEO into cislunar space. This past May, the company announced it was looking to fill upwards of 100 new positions to build those systems out for a (very optimistic) launch date in 2018.
B330 is much more complex than BEAM. It’s not a demonstration pod but a full-fledged expandable spacecraft, capable of sustaining human life on its own. Many of its life-support and comfort systems will be forerunners for a lunar base.
Zamka told me many of B330’s most daunting problems have been solved, not solely by Bigelow but with help from NASA. What might still hold up the launch, he said, would be finding a crew, and a rocket capable of carrying it. At about 43,000 pounds, B330 weighs roughly twice what the Russians or SpaceX can lift. That problem might be temporary, though. Two heavy-lift rockets are coming online shortly: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, due to launch later this year, and NASA’s SLS (for Space Launch System), which will debut within the decade.
That’s not to say those rockets ensure B330’s success, or even its liftoff. As with all things in space, nothing is certain. And there is plenty of dissent. Bigelow’s critics say he’s putting the cart (the craft) before the horse (the rockets), that he’s overstepping with his lunar property plans, and that he’s letting his belief in the future and value of the moon base get the better of him.
But Bigelow, more than practically anyone, is remarkably comfortable forging ahead in the face of disbelief. He’s seen the impossible happen more than once, after all. As a boy he heard an atomic bomb rumble across the desert beyond Las Vegas. He saw the flash of light. As a man, he built his long-stay empire out on the same barren desert, deemed nearly worthless at the time.
Perhaps because of that, because he’s confirmed that the world is surprising and sometimes not what it seems, he’s willing to chase ideas that no one else does. In the 1990s, he started the National Institute of Discovery Science for investigations into the paranormal. He bought a ranch in Utah known for UFO sightings and “skinwalkers”—werewolflike creatures that were said to have attacked cattle. The ranch house featured a hallway with a closet that locked from inside. His beliefs can seem silly. But explaining them he is frank and open, as if he’s too wise and successful to feel embarrassed about much of anything anymore.
At the end of our conversation, Bigelow’s handlers close in, telling him he has more hands to shake. As he steps from the stage, a man in a tie-dye T-shirt and flip-flops, holding a video camera, corners him. “So you believe in aliens,” the man says, then launches into a monologue about the mysticism of the desert and extraterrestrial visitations. Bigelow patiently waits him out. “You simply can’t know unless you’re out there,” Bigelow says, then he tells a story he’s repeated many times. His grandparents were driving through a desert north of Las Vegas when they saw something otherworldly: a glowing ball of fire in the sky, hurtling toward them, its light taking up their whole windshield.
They told their grandson this story, and ever since he’s believed. Intelligent life is out there, he says. He is certain of it. Sure, believing in aliens feeds the doubters, leads to more criticism, makes him the butt of jokes. But Bigelow doesn’t worry about that. For him, belief in the impossible—whether aliens or hotels in space—is part of life out here in the desert, or one day out there, on the lunar surface. It always has been. To succeed, you have to prove everyone wrong. You have to get there first.
This article was originally published in the March/April 2016 issue of Popular Science, under the title “The Baron Of Low-Earth Orbit.”
The (Blow-Up) Road To A Moon Base
Sometime within the next year or so, an expandable pod built by Bigelow Aerospace will travel to the International Space Station--one small step toward the company's goal of building a base on the moon. Here's how it aims to to get there:
Moon Base
Once expandables like Olympus can regularly reach the moon's orbit, the problems remaining have largely been solved. In renderings for a moon base, the structure looks like several B330s joined together. NASA had envisioned its own space habitat in the 1990s and early 2000s. Bigelow bought the rights and developed the technology.
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BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module)
The first step is to prove an expandable pod makes sense in space, that it works better than typical, rigid space habitats. BEAM is a 13-foot-long test pod that SpaceX will haul to the ISS. Once there, it will expand and remain attached to the ISS for two years as crews test it.
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B330
The next step is an expandable, full-scale habitat. The six-person, 31-foot-long B330 (it has 330 cubic meters of internal volume) is a bigger, better BEAM. But this one features thrusters, to maneuver in orbit, and stand-alone life support systems.
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Olympus
A colossal craft, the Olympus prototype offers 2,250 cubic meters of volume when pressurized, making it twice as roomy as the ISS. In renderings, it often holds lunar landers--to ferry crew to and from the moon. The problem: No rocket yet exists to carry Olympus into space.
Physicist Brian Greene: Making sense of string theory
Physicist Brian Greene: Making sense of string theory
Brian Greene is possibly the best-known supporter of superstring theory. Physicist Brian Greene describes superstring theory, the notion that tiny components of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions generate every particle and force in the cosmos.
Do civilizations of advanced human beings exist scattered in the Galaxy?
by John Stokes
Artistic representation from Eyewitness testimony of Asket, the extraterrestrial human woman, reference: www.gaiaguys.net
A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms.
The non-coding sequences are common to all living organisms on Earth, from moulds to fish to humans. In human DNA, they constitute larger part of the total genome, says Prof. Sam Chang, the group leader. Non-coding sequences, originally known as “junk DNA”, were discovered years ago, and their function remained a mystery. The overwhelming majority of Human DNA is “Off-world” in origin. The apparent “extraterrestrial junk genes” merely “enjoy the ride” with hard working active genes, passed from generation to generation.
After comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently “junk Human DNA” was created by some kind of “extraterrestrial programmer”. The alien chunks within Human DNA, Professor Chang further observes, “have its own veins, arteries, and its own immune system that vigorously resists all our anti-cancer drugs.”
Professor Chang further stipulates that “Our hypothesis is that a higher extraterrestrial life form was engaged in creating new life and planting it on various planets. Earth is just one of them. Perhaps, after programming, our creators grow us the same way we grow bacteria in Petri dishes. We can’t know their motives – whether it was a scientific experiment, or a way of preparing new planets for colonization, or is it long time ongoing business of seedling life in the universe.”
Professor Chang further indicates that “If we think about it in our human terms, the apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” were most probably working on “one big code” consisting of several projects, and the projects should have produced various life forms for various planets. They have been also trying various solutions. They wrote “the big code”, executed it, did not like some function, changed them or added new one, executed again, made more improvements, tried again and again.”
Professor Chang’s team of researchers furthermore concludes that, “The apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” may have been ordered to cut all their idealistic plans for the future when they concentrated on the “Earth project” to meet the pressing deadline. Very likely in an apparent rush, the “extraterrestrial programmers” may have cut down drastically on big code and delivered basic program intended for Earth.”
Professor Chang is only one of many scientists and other researchers who have discovered extraterrestrial origins to Humanity.
Human Genome Project Coordinators find absolute proof of Extraterrestrial contact with ‘Earth humans’ via DNA evidence.
Professor Chang and his research colleagues show that apparent “extraterrestrial programming” gaps in DNA sequencing precipitated by a hypothesized rush to create human life on Earth presented humankind with illogical growth of mass of cells we know as cancer.”
Professor Chang further indicates that “What we see in our DNA is a program consisting of two versions, a big code and basic code.” Mr. Chang then affirms that the “First fact is, the complete ‘program’ was positively not written on Earth; that is now a verified fact. The second fact is, that genes by themselves are not enough to explain evolution; there must be something more in ‘the game’.”
“Soon or later”, Professor Chang says “we have to come to grips with the unbelievable notion that every life on Earth carries genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is not what we think it is.”
Human Genome Project Discovery Implications associated with “Human-looking Extraterrestrials”
The implications of these scientific finds would reinforce claims by other scientists and observers of having contact with ‘off-world’ human looking extraterrestrials.
The ‘off-world’ human looking extraterrestrial have been claimed to have provided some of the genetic material for human evolution, and that many of these extraterrestrials have allowed some of their personnel to incarnate as ‘starseeds’ on Earth in human families. These “star seeds”, “star children” or “star people” are described by Brad and Francie Steiger as individuals whose ‘souls’ were formerly incarnated on the worlds of other star systems and then traveled to Earth and decided to incarnate here in order to “boost” the spiritual evolutionary development of humanity. Most of humanity would consider this group of extraterrestrials to be ‘benevolent’ as described by ‘contactees’ such as George Adamski, Orfeo Angelucci, George Van Tassell, Howard Menger, Paul Villa, Billy Meier and Alex Collier who each explain the nature of their voluntary interactions with these human looking extraterrestrials. These “contactees” often provide physical evidence in the form of photographs, film and/or witnesses of their contacts with extraterrestrial races. The most extensively documented and researched contactee is Eduard ‘Billy’ Meier who provided much physical evidence for investigators.
Representations concerning ‘Ancient astronauts’
Indeed, ‘ancient astronaut’ writers believe that a race of intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited and/or colonised Earth in the remote past, whereupon they upgraded the primitive hominid Homo erectus by means of genetic engineering to create the human race as we know it: Homo sapiens.
Evidence for this idea is found (a) in the improbability of Homo sapiens emerging so suddenly, according to the principles of orthodox Darwinism; and (b) in the myths of ancient civilisations which describe human-like gods coming down from the heavens and creating mankind ‘in their own image’.Homo sapiens is thus regarded as a hybrid being, incorporating a mix of terrestrial genes from Homo erectus and extraterrestrial genes from an ascribed “race of the gods”.
Prior to the modern age of space travel and genetics, this theory for the origins of humankind could not have been conceived. And even now, in the 21st century, there are many people who would regard it as science fiction. However, in the light of the problems with the orthodox theory of human evolution, the idea of a genetic intervention by an intelligent human-like species (who themselves evolved on another planet over a more credible time frame) does require to be taken seriously as a potential solution to the mystery.
The most famous exponents of the ancient astronaut intervention are the Swiss writer Erich von Daniken and the American writer Zecharia Sitchin. The latter, in particular, has argued the case in great detail.
Representation by academics from “Exopolitics” groups
Dr. Micheal E. Salla is one of the founders of an Exopolitics movement which seeks an open and informed dialogue on, and with, Extraterrestrials, toward the affirmation of “global democracy” and the quality-of-living of humankind as socially responsible beings in the Universe. Dr. Salla indicates that “There are an extensive number of extraterrestrial races known [by various research institutions and agencies] to be currently interacting with Earth and the human population.
Dr. Salla, is also the author of Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004). He has held full time academic appointments at the Australian National University, and American University, Washington DC. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia. During his professional academic career, he was best known for organizing a series of citizen diplomacy initiatives for the East Timor conflict funded by U.S. Institute of Peace and the Ford Foundation. He is also the Founder of the Exopolitics Institute ; and Chief Editor of the ‘Exopolitics Journal’ and Convener of the “Extraterrestrial Civilizations and World Peace Conference.”
In a 1998 interview, Clifford Stone, a retired U.S. army Sergeant who served in the U.S. Army for 22 years and allegedly participated in operations to retrieve crashed extraterrestrial ships and extraterrestrial biological entities (EBE’s), revealed there were a variety of extraterrestrial races known [by various institutions and agencies]”. Dr. Salla further elaborates that “The most compelling testimonies on the different extraterrestrial races comes from ‘whistleblowers’ such as Sergeant Stone; and also ‘contactees’ who have had direct physical contact with extraterrestrials and communicated with them.”
Dr. Salla further notes that Master Sergeant Bob Dean had a twenty seven year distinguished career in very senior areas of the military indicates that among the know extraterrestrials one group “looked so much like us they could sit next to you on a plane or in a restaurant and you’d never know the difference.”
Apparently “Human extraterrestrial races can easily integrate with human society in the manner described by Dean and others where they can be indistinguishable from the rest of humanity.” Dr. Salla corroborates.
According to Alex Collier who claims to be a “contactee”, “a variety of extraterrestrial races have provided genetic material for the ‘human experiment’. ” Alex Collier indicates that “Earth humans” are “a product of extraterrestrial genetic manipulation, and are possessors of a vast gene pool consisting of many different racial memory banks, also consisting of at least 22 different races.”
Alleged Human ET efforts to promote the unity of humanity through religious spirituality
Alex Collier further claims that constituents of “Human ETs” seek to “ensure that global humanity evolves in a responsible way without endangering both itself and the greater galactic community of which it is part. ” Exopolitics groups and independent contactees also indicate that constituents of “Human ETs” seek to “uplift human consciousness and to promote the unity of religion.”
Alex Colliers alleged contact with ETs suggest that fundamentalist messages in from Christianity to Judaism to Islam, and other institutionalized religions, as well as outright apparent ‘cult’ groups, have been specifically placed by “hostile elements” to manipulate and control humankind.
Jesus, who many groups allege was a “Human ET” sought to inspire the social consciousness of humankind toward unity, and not to create a “Christian religion”, with its sexually repressive as well as homophobic undertones, which also have been used for the execution of racism, and to legitimate atrocities like the ‘slave trade’.
ETs who allegedly contacted Alex Collier, also further allegedly stipulate that Jesus did in fact live; and lived out the rest of his life in Massada; and that Jesus was only crucified through the religious doctrine, and myth-making associated with ‘the palms’.
As far as the “saviour scenario” is concerned, for example, Alex Collier was allegedly told by ETs that it has been put into our belief systems to “disempower us.” The saviour scenario within the dogma of institutionalized religions legitimate the creation of an elite-driven oppressive power structure who appoint themselves as “judgers of morality”. These religious elites have historically used their self-appointed roles to execute a comprehensive system of social controls that complement their joint pursuit of greed-oriented self-aggrandizement with other elites from government to business enterprises.
The alleged efforts of socially progressive Human ETs to inspire the affirmation of the quality-of-living of ‘Earth Humans’ through spiritual and other “emissaries”, have been undermined by the efforts of “capitalists” to exploit such alleged initiatives in the pursuit of an oppressive agenda of greed and fascistic power.
Constituents of Human ETs allegedly seek to “help humanity find freedom from oppressive structures through education and consciousness raising.”
Allegations of “Human ET” encounters on Earth
In Dr. Salla’s article “Extraterrestrials Among Us” published in October 2006, he alleges that, “There is startling evidence from a number of independent sources that ‘human looking’ extraterrestrial visitors have integrated with and lived in major population centres up until recently, and this is known by a select number of institutions.
Aside from whistleblower testimonies, like Sergeant Major Robert Dean, a number of private individuals claim to have encountered extraterrestrials posing as ordinary citizens in major cities around the planet.
George Adamski was the first to write about extraterrestrials secretly living among the human population. In his second non-fiction book describing his extraterrestrial contact experiences, “Inside the Flying Saucers”, Adamski discussed how human looking extraterrestrials had established a presence among the human population. “They apparently looked so much like us”, Dr. Salla notes “that they could get jobs, lived in neighbourhoods, drove cars, and could blend in easily with the human population.”
Dr. Salla further notes that “Adamski wrote about how they contacted him to set up meetings that led to his famous flights aboard extraterrestrial vehicles.” But as Dr. Salla explains “While controversy over Adamski’s contact experiences and his credibility continues, Adamski’s UFO sightings and contacts with extraterrestrials were supported by an impressive collection of witnesses, photographs and films that a number of independent investigators concluded were not hoaxes.”
Dr. Salla additionally stipulates that “Adamski’s testimony offers important insights into how extraterrestrials may be living incognito among the human population. After discussing the Adamski case and the strongest evidence supporting it, Dr. Salla in that article further discusses other contactees similarly claiming to have encountered extraterrestrials acting like ordinary citizens. Finally, Dr. Salla in “Extraterrestrials Among Us” examines the official testimony of a number of whistleblowers concerning knowledge that extraterrestrials live among ordinary Earth-bound individuals.
Contact Testimonies of ‘Extraterrestrials Among Us’
Adamski’s famous “Desert Center” meeting with an extraterrestrial emerging from a ‘scout ship’ on November 20, 1952 was apparently seen by six witnesses who signed affidavits confirming Adamski’s version of events in his subsequent book, The Flying Saucers have Landed (1953). In fact, four of the witnesses immediately reported what had happened to a nearby newspaper, the Phoenix Gazette,that published a story on November 24 featuring photos and sketches. The Desert Center encounter was among those of Adamski’s claims regarding extraterrestrial contact that, according to UFO researcher Timothy Good, were “accurately reported,” and “sensible and verifiable”, as footnotes by Dr. Salla. Given the clear supporting evidence supporting Adamski’s first meeting with an extraterrestrial traveling in a scout craft, it is worth examining closely his alleged subsequent meetings with extraterrestrials living on Earth.
In the first chapter of Inside the Flying Saucers, Dr. Salla re-visits Adamski’s testimony of his meeting with two extraterrestrials while he was sitting in the lobby of a Los Angeles Hotel on February 18, 1953.
“I looked at my wrist watch and saw that it said ten-thirty. The lateness of the hour, with still nothing of extraordinary significance having taken place, sent a wave of disappointment through me. And just at this moment of depression, two men approached, one of whom addressed me by name. Both were complete strangers, but there was no hesitancy in their manner as they came forward, and nothing in their appearance to indicate that they were other than average young businessmen. I noted that both men were well proportioned. One was slightly over six feet and looked to be in his early thirties. His complexion was ruddy, his eyes dark brown, with the kind of sparkle that suggests great enjoyment of life. His gaze was extraordinarily penetrating. His black hair waved and was cut according to our style. He wore a dark brown business suit but no hat. The shorter man looked younger and I judged his height to be about five feet, nine inches. He had a round boyish face, a fair complexion and eyes of grayish blue. His hair, also wavy and worn in our style, was sandy in color. He was dressed in a gray suit and was also hatless. He smiled as he addressed me by name. As I acknowledged the greeting, the speaker extended his hand and when it touched mine a great joy filled me. The signal was the same as had been given by the man I had met on the desert on that memorable November 20, 1952. (Described in the bookFlying Saucers Have Landed).”
Significant in Adamski’s description is how the two extraterrestrials could pass off as businessmen. Aside from a penetrating stare, nothing struck him as unusual in their appearance. Adamski goes on to explain how he went with them in their car to travel to a remote desert location:
“Together we left the lobby, I walking between them. About a block north of the hotel, they turned into a parking lot where they had a car waiting. They had not spoken during this short time, yet inwardly I knew that these men were true friends. I felt no urge to ask where they proposed to take me, nor did it seem odd that they had volunteered no information. An attendant brought the car around, and the younger man slid into the driver’s seat, motioning me to get in beside him. Our other companion also sat with us on the front seat. The car was a four-door black Pontiac sedan. The man who had taken the wheel seemed to know exactly where he was going and drove skillfully. I am not familiar with all the new highways leading out of Los Angeles, so I had no idea in which direction we were headed. We rode in silence and I remained entirely content to wait for my companions to identify themselves and explain the reason for our meeting.”
“What’s significant here is that the two extraterrestrials possessed a car and knew how to navigate on the newly completed Los Angeles highway system. This is no mean feat and suggests that the extraterrestrials had taken the time to learn the road traffic rules and how to navigate through Los Angeles.”
Dr. Salla indicates in “Extraterrestrials Among Us”, that Adamski further reveals:
“Lights and dwellings thinned as we left the outskirts of the city. The taller man spoke for the first time. His voice was soft and pleasant and his English perfect. I had noticed that the younger man also spoke softly, although his voice was pitched higher. I found myself wondering how and where they had learned to speak our language so well.”
“.We are what you on Earth might call ‘Contact men.’ We live and work here, because, as you know, it is necessary on Earth to earn money with which to buy clothing, food, and the many things that people must have. We have lived on your planet now for several years. At first we did have a slight accent. But that has been overcome and, as you can see, we are unrecognized as other than Earth men. “At our work and in our leisure time we mingle with people here on Earth, never betraying the secret that we are inhabitants of other worlds. That would be dangerous, as you well know. We understand you people better than most of you know yourselves and can plainly see the reasons for many of the unhappy conditions that surround you.”
Dr. Salla indicates also that, “This passage [previous] is significant since it describes how the extraterrestrials have spent years living on Earth, learning the language, getting jobs and mixing with the human population. Furthermore, it appears as though extraterrestrials living among the human population may work in pairs, a kind of buddy system that would make sense in terms of ensuring safety and communications with the home world if an emergency ever occurred. If Adamski is accurate in his recollections and the extraterrestrials are telling the truth, then it would appear that there could be a significant number of extraterrestrials who are living incognito among the normal population in many if not most major cities on the planet. Upon examining other contactee cases and the testimonies of whistleblowers, it does appear as though this is indeed the case.”
Exopolitics groups furthermore provide additional representation that Adamski was not the only one of the contactees making representation that extraterrestrials were blending in with the human population. Howard Menger, for example. also claimed to have been contacted by extraterrestrials posing as ordinary human citizens. In one case, the extraterrestrial was posing as a real estate salesperson and asked Menger to accompany him in one of the extraterrestrial vehicle.
In addition to seeking to learn about human values and civilization, it appears that “Human ET” visitors were conducting a low key education effort to promote awareness of their presence to a limited number of individual ‘contactees’.
These “Human extraterrestrial visitors” have been represented has often having as very attractive physical characteristics, with “Human extraterrestrial females” being described as among the most beautiful women that male observers have witnessed.
The “Human extraterrestrials visitors” furthermore have been represented as going to great trouble in learning the indigenous language of the culture they are immersed in, learning how to drive and navigate on highways systems, and taking innocuous jobs over several years.
Extraterrestrials living among us appear to be operating in a manner similar to a “celestial peace corps” where they try to blend in. They presumably wish to learn about Earth culture and behaviour; and to, perhaps, assist in passing on information to selected individuals.
Representation on Earth Humans relative to “non-Earthbound” humans:
Advanced Human ETs as viewing Earth Humans as barbarians and savages which are a threat to themselves
Alex Collier alleges that ET’s revealed to his that there are over 135 other billion human beings in the 8 galaxies closest to ours.
Alex Collier alleges that “The first time I walked on to one of their ships [Human ETs] , a bunch of their children started to run away from me. They knew that I was from Earth.”
“We have a very bad reputation,” Alex Collier indicates, “because we are the only human race in the galaxy that kills itself, that turns on itself. We are the only race [human] that allows itself to live in poverty. We are the only ones who allow members of our race to starve. We are the only ones that allow members of the race to be homeless. We are the only race that would sell itself into slavery. I don’t like the reflection they give me of us. It’s not that they are judging. They just don’t understand why we do it. If anyone’s got an answer for it, I’m open. Yes, we’ve been manipulated by belief systems, but why do we believe these belief systems?”
According to testimony by Alex Collier in associated with alleged ET contacts, Earth Humans “are the only race of human beings which oppresses and kills itself.”
If Human ETs do exist, as scholarly and other representation suggests, the saving of Humanity from its current apparent course of self-destruction, including on-going catastrophic Global Warming, may very well vitally rely on human governance systems placing its greed-driven bigotries aside, toward a constructive dialogue.
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