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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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...
13-05-2016
Meteorite Impacts On Space Station Window, Almost Causing To Abandon Ship, May 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Meteorite Impacts On Space Station Window, Almost Causing To Abandon Ship, May 2016, UFO Sighting News.
This is kinda scary. We saw things like this in movies, like Gravity, but what happens when a micro meteorite hits a window of the space station? This photo is the answer to that question. Lucky for them that window held up under pressure, or they would have had to abandon the station. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Description: The European-built Cupola was added to the International Space Station in 2010 and continues to provide the best room with a view anywhere. In addition to serving as an observation and work area when the crew operates the Station’s robotic arms, it also provides excellent views of Earth, celestial objects and visiting vehicles. Its fused-silica and borosilicate-glass windows, however, sometime suffer from impacts by tiny artificial objects: space debris. ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this photo from inside Cupola last month, showing a 7 mm-diameter circular chip gouged out by the impact from a tiny piece of space debris, possibly a paint flake or small metal fragment no bigger than a few thousandths of a millimetre across. The background just shows the inky blackness of space. “I am often asked if the International Space Station is hit by space debris. Yes – this is the chip in one of our Cupola windows, glad it is quadruple glazed!” says Tim. To cater for such possibilities, the Station is provided with extensive shielding around all vital crew and technical areas, so that minor strikes, like this one, pose no threat. While a chip like the one shown here may be minor, larger debris would pose a serious threat. An object up to 1 cm in size could disable an instrument or a critical flight system on a satellite. Anything above 1 cm could penetrate the shields of the Station’s crew modules, and anything larger than 10 cm could shatter a satellite or spacecraft into pieces. “ESA is at the forefront of developing and implementing debris-mitigation guidelines, because the best way to avoid problems from orbital debris is not to cause them in the first place,” says Holger Krag, Head of ESA’s Space Debris Office. “These guidelines are applied to all new missions flown by ESA, and include dumping fuel tanks and discharging batteries at the end of a mission, to avoid explosions, and ensuring that satellites reenter the atmosphere and safely burn up within 25 years of the end of their working lives.”
SCIENTISTS CERTAIN: ADVANCED ALIEN LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS EXISTS
SCIENTISTS CERTAIN: ADVANCED ALIEN LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS EXISTS
Are we alone out there? The question of whether or not other advanced civilizations exist somewhere in the vast universe has long been one of the most perplexing uncertainties in science. But new research suggests that the odds of humans being the only intelligent species to have ever existed are next to zero.
In a recent study published in the journal Astrobiology, researchers Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan used newly obtained data to reformulate the famous Drake equation, which calculates the probability that intelligent life currently exists in the universe, to measure the probability that intelligent life has ever existed in the universe. Introduced by Dr. Frank Drake in 1961, the original Drake equation identified specific factors thought to play a role in the development of advanced civilizations in order to estimate the number of technological civilizations that may currently exist in our galaxy. Over the past half a century, it has been the most widely accepted tool in the scientific community to predict the current existence of other advanced civilizations ( via good.is ).
Yet three large uncertainties plague the original Drake equation. "We've known for a long time approximately how many stars exist,” Frank explained in a statement. “We didn't know how many of those stars had planets that could potentially harbor life, how often life might evolve and lead to intelligent beings, and how long any civilizations might last before becoming extinct… Thanks to NASA's Kepler satellite and other searches, we now know that roughly one-fifth of stars have planets in 'habitable zones,' where temperatures could support life as we know it. So one of the three big uncertainties has now been constrained."
ALIEN LIFE EXISTS ON OTHER PLANETS
Although it is still completely unknown how long other civilizations might survive, a simple change of semantics to the proposed question eliminates this issue altogether. By looking at the probability of how many times in the history of the universe life has evolved to an advanced state, Frank and Sullivan estimate a one in 10 billion trillion chance that humans are the only intelligent species to have ever existed. “One in 10 billion trillion is incredibly small,” Frank said. “To me, this implies that other intelligent, technology-producing species very likely have evolved before us.”
While the odds are extremely high that we aren’t the first intelligent civilization to have ever existed, the original question still remains: Are there any other advanced civilizations that currently exist? "The universe is more than 13 billion years old," explains Sullivan. "That means that even if there have been a thousand civilizations in our own galaxy, if they live only as long as we have been around—roughly ten thousand years—then all of them are likely already extinct. And others won't evolve until we are long gone. For us to have much chance of success in finding another "contemporary" active technological civilization, on average they must last much longer than our present lifetime."
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British Cop Witnesses TALL WHITE Aliens Inspecting Fresh Crop Circle
British Cop Witnesses TALL WHITE Aliens Inspecting Fresh Crop Circle
Not many people know this, but back in 2009 a British police officer witnessed ‘Alien Beings’ inspecting a fresh crop circle in a middle of a field!
The Police Sergeant who has not been named, witnessed the event back in 2009. The Policeman was off duty at the time when he noticed the unusual ‘Beings’ in the field.
The Police Officer pulled his car over and walked over to the field to see what was going on as he apparently had a ‘strange’ feeling about what he was seeing. However, as he approached the ‘men’ – who were all way over 6ft tall with long blond hair – he suddenly heard “the sound of static electricity” and the trio ran away ”faster than any man he had ever seen” so fast that it apparently almost seemed ‘unreal’.
Many crop circles, including this one in May 2009, have appeared near Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
Leaving the scene of the strange event the Police Officer jumped quickly back into his car and travelled back home to Marlborough, Wiltshire, and then contacted paranormal experts and told them he had spotted a UFO.
Not surprisingly the Police force that the Officer works for, refused to comment at the time and stated “That it was a personal matter!”
The unnamed Police Officer asked for support off a Gentleman called Andrew Russell who is a Crop Circle Investigator. Andrew described in detail what the Police officer saw on that unusual day:
”At first he thought they were forensic officers as they were dressed in white coveralls. He stopped his car and approached the field. ‘The figures were all over 6ft and had blond hair. They seemed to be inspecting the crop. When he got to the edge of the field he heard what he believed to be a sound not dissimilar to static electricity.
”This crackling noise seemed to be running through the field and the crop was moving gently, close to where the noise was.
”He shouted to the figures who, at first, ignored him, not glancing at him. When he tried to enter the field they looked up and began running.
”He said; ‘They ran faster than any man I have ever seen. I’m no slouch but they were moving so fast. I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone.
”I then got scared. The noise was still around but I got an uneasy feeling and headed for the car. For the rest of the day I had a pounding headache I couldn’t shift.”
This strange incident happened on July 6th as the Police Officer was driving down the road. Apparently the three very tall figures were inspecting the odd-shaped Crop Circle in the field. They all appeared deeply interested and analysing the Crop Circle – was it them who made it, or possibly was it their fellow colleagues from a far!?
The crop circle had been there in the field for a few days before this incident.
2009 was a very popular year for Crop Circles in the Wiltshire area, UK.
When the Police Officer walked over the unusual beings, they suddenly become ‘disturbed’ looking and ran off at speeds beyond the Officers belief! As soon as he looked away for a split second they were ‘gone’
A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said:
”The police officer was apparently off duty when this happened so we have no comment to make because it is a personal not a police matter.”
Another Crop Circle Expert, Colin Andrews, who investigated the incident alongside Andrew Russell, said he is ”convinced” by the police officer’s story and does not see any reason at all why the Officer would of made this story up!
”I am quite convinced the officer had an experience that day and one that we have not fully explored.”I think with the unusual movement of the being and the poltergeist experiences there is too much additional information to say that is something in nothing.” He said
Some have suspected that this was the Tall White Aliens that the Officer had witnessed. The Tall whites have even been acknowledged by Edward Snowden, who believes that they are very much in contact with Planet Earth and watching our every move.
The Tall Whites
U.I.P SUMMARY – It is very interesting that this sighting was in Wiltshire, as this is one of the key UFO/Crop Circle areas around the world .Could it possibly be that what this Police Officer saw were the Beings who are responsible for these crop circles being formed around the UK, or perhaps they are just as curious as to ‘what else’ is out there trying to communicate with Earth.
Yes Crop Circles have been deemed by many to be elaborate fakes by students or Drunk Famers at night, but when you actually look at the sheer amount of detail involved to these incredible designs, I personally feel it is impossible for any humans to create such a spectacle over night, in the pitch black of night!
Some people believe that Crop Circles were made by Orbs – please see a video below of an ‘apparent’ Orb caught on camera making a crop circle:
As far as what or WHO these Beings are, is a completely different matter altogether! The way that they have been described sounds just like the Tall White Aliens, and the way they move would kind of confirm that there were no odd-ball humans, but something else, something very unique and different!?
Is it a coincidence that one of the most unknown areas of the world, Stonehenge, is in Wiltshire, and that we have so many unusual sightings in this part of the UK……I don’t think so, and this is why this part of the world is one of THE top UFO Hotspots.
Hope to see you all at the end of August at one of the UK’s main UFO event – Warminster 2015
Stonehenge – One of the many Mysteries of Wiltshire
Scientists Grow Mini-Organs From Cells That Were Genetically Manipulated
Scientists Grow Mini-Organs From Cells That Were Genetically Manipulated
Intestinal organoid
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Scientists are currently developing methods to combine the best of both technologies, allowing them to grow organoid not only from naturally-occurring cells, but also from gene edited cells. In essence, the researchers are growing mini organs from cells that have been genetically-manipulated.
THE ERA OF GENE EDITING
The advances made in genetic engineering and gene editing in recent times have been many and amazing. Improvements to the CRISPR/Cas 9 gene editing method have allowed easy, accurate, and targeted modifications to human DNA.
Likewise, the development of a method to grow tissue-specific organoids (kinds of ‘mini-organs’) could help in modeling diseases, screening drugs, and possibly even replacing defective tissue.
What if we can combine these two?
Scientists are currently developing methods to bring together the best of both technologies, allowing them to grow organoid not only from naturally-occurring cells, but also from gene edited cells.
See the video below to learn more about how CRISPR works:
NEW EFFORTS
One such scientist working on these methods is Hans Clevers, of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is using adult gut stem cells, which are the only ones that get constantly renewed, in his technique. Ultimately, this allows him to directly grow organoids from patient tissue, without having to first convert the cells to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC).
In his 2013 study regarding cystic fibrosis, a condition caused by a gene defect that leads to thick mucus buildup in the pulmonary and gastrointestinal tract, Clevers was able to show the combination of these two technologies.
Now, there’s been a new breakthrough.
A substance called forskolin has different effects to organoids grown from healthy tissue and those cultured from tissue infected with cystic fibrosis. The problem is that healthy tissue organoids swell when exposed to forskolin, while there is no effect of infected organoids. The researchers then edited the genetic defect away using CRISPR/Cas9 and homologous recombination, and then used these cells to grow organoids. When subjected to forskolin, the genetically-modified organoids swelled up like healthy tissue would.
Clever’s techniques are not limited to simple genetic diseases. In 2015, his team used CRISPR to manipulate genes linked to colon cancer, and then used the resulting cells to grow organoids. When transplanted into mice, these organoids grew the tumors characteristic of invasive carcinoma.
But Clever’s work is not the only ones in the field. Sara Howden of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Australia is using CRISPR to develop kidney organoid models, while University of Washington’s Benjamin Freedman has developed a way to grow kidney organoids, which are used to study diseases like polycystic kidney disease (PKD).
It is truly a new age in fighting disease, and the future is looking remarkably bright.
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10 Reasons Why Aliens Are Actually Fallen Angels or Demons
10 Reasons Why Aliens Are Actually Fallen Angels or Demons
1. The aliens of our time match the demons and fallen angels mentioned in the Bible in terms of their behavior.
2. Like the Bible predicts, aliens never affirm the deity of Christ nor do they claim to come in his name.
3. Aliens change their stories to delude man into believing their lies.
One example of this is that before man had been to outer space or sent satellites there, aliens would claim to be from planets such as Jupiter in our solar system. As time went on and man learned more about our planets, we realized that no one could live on a planet like Jupiter, so aliens changed their story. Now they claim to be from other solar systems and star clusters such as Andromeda and Pleiades.
4. Though aliens are said to be advanced, it seems they need us for their survival just as fallen angels need human beings to prey on.
There are various accounts of aliens taking tissue samples from humans, probing them, or impregnating women. This is the origin of the entities known as incubus and succubus.
5. Alien abductions are stopped by invoking the name of Jesus.
6. Aliens bring ideas to earth that will help man unite worldwide for a new era of consciousnesses.
This uniting prepares the way for their leader (who is possibly the Antichrist) by making mankind forget their religion and loyalty to their countries.
7. Aliens often contact “new-agers” and occultists, as opposed to Christians.
This is not always the case since people from all walks of life have been contacted by “aliens”. However, I believe that these “space brothers” are not too interested in contacting Christians. This is because Christians will be able to see through aliens’ disguise and know them for what they are: demons.
8. Aliens are not opposed to being worshipped by humans. They also deny their creator (God), claiming instead that they are Creators. This serves to draw man away from God. 9. Aliens give man technology but these “advancements” are usually destructive.
There are secret projects that many governments have in their budget which are usually for creating new weapons of war. Much of the technology for such weaponry is said to come from extraterrestrials. Why don’t aliens ever give us life-saving technology?
10. Aliens often emit horrible odors, such as sulfur.
Some call this smell the stench of Hell since it is a sign of the eternal fire.
Video Documentary: True Story of Nephilim, Fallen Angels, and Aliens
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Malawi is Using HIV-Fighting Drones To Help Protect Infants
Malawi is Using HIV-Fighting Drones To Help Protect Infants
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The African nation of Malawi is now using drones to try and speed up the delivery of HIV tests for infants. The initiative hopes to reduce the delays associated with land transport due to poor roads and also offset the high costs.
SPEEDING UP COMBAT
Drones have seen a massive boon in many areas. Their ability to go nearly anywhere at anytime makes them very important, especially in areas that are hard to access. Moreover, since they can travel rapidly, they could be vital for medicine delivery and disaster relief.
Now, drones can take part in actual medical diagnosis. The African nation of Malawi is now testing the use of drones in speeding up the delivery of HIV testing for infants. The initiative hopes to reduce the delays associated with land transport due to poor roads and high costs.
The Government of Malawi has partnered with UNICEF in conducting the tests, including the first official test. This test was a 10 kilometer run from a community health centre to the Kamuzu Central Hospital laboratory.
EPIDEMIC
HIV is a particularly huge problem in Malawi. It has a 10% prevalence rate in the country, has infected an estimated 1 million people in 2013, and has killed 48,000 in the same year. According to UNICEF, the year 2014 saw nearly 40,000 children in Malawi born to HIV positive mothers.
While 90% of women in the country know their HIV status, there still remains a problem with testing and diagnosis in children. The obstacles to testing in Malawi’s children are summarized by Judith Shermen, UNICEF Chief, in a report:
“There are many delays in the continuum of getting HIV positive children on treatment, they need to come in early for testing, ideally before 2 months, between 6 and 8 weeks. Their tests, the dry bloodspots, need to get from the health facilities to one of the 8 laboratories nationwide.”
The UAV being used was built by US company Matternet exclusively for transportation. The tests will eventually lead to a cost comparison with road transport, and favourable reports will lead to the second phase, which will test flights from remote areas of the country.
Scientists assert that the low pressure conditions on Mars cause any water on its surface to boil at much lower temperatures, and it seems that this is what forms the dark streaks along Martian slopes.
WATER ON MARS
First, we learned that there’s strong evidence supporting the existence of liquid salt water that flows on Mars (granted, only a tiny amount, but still). Now we find out that this same water may actually be boiling.
Strange as it may seem, this actually fills in the blanks on the first discovery—the yearly appearance of huge dark streaks that appear on the planet’s surface, and which can be seen by telescopes and satellites.
You see, the issue is the streaks themselves and the supposed flowing water that causes them. These lines in the sand are far more puzzling than boiling water on the Red Planet, and it all has to do with pressure. Ultimately, the presence of these streaks has baffled scientists because the low pressure of the atmosphere in Mars should either freeze or boil water…it shouldn’t be flowing anywhere.
At least that’s how we understand things here on Earth.
NASA
To break this down a bit: The discovery of hydrated salt minerals was the first clue to the existence of liquid water on Mars. These minerals are found in the dark streaks that run down the Martian slopes every year in the summer. The streak can be seen growing in length down the slope, and this process is caused by the planet’s increasing temperatures. Then, when the world cools, this liquid flow stops, and they eventually disappear.
Susan Conway, of the University of Nantes in France, notes the problem: “The atmospheric pressure on Mars is very low compared to that on the Earth, which means that water boils at a much lower temperature than it does on Earth….on the Martian surface the pressure is 5 to 10 millibars, meaning that liquid water boils no matter what the temperature is.”
So, what is making the streaks if the water on Mars isn’t liquid?
BOILING WATER
To test this, scientists conducted an experiment that simulated the conditions on Mars to observe how water melts in such an atmosphere.
Massé et al., Nature
They found that even small amounts of water boiled in Martian conditions, and this boiling caused the formation of deep channels along the sand.
The results “show much less water is needed and that the water that is produced is very short-lived – therefore not a fabulous environment for micro-organisms,” says Conway. Their calculations even suggest that the boiling is even more intense with Mars’ gravity.
Artificially Intelligent Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm
Artificially Intelligent Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm
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Ross, the world's first artificially intelligent attorney, has its first official law firm. Baker & Hostetler announced that they will be employing Ross for its bankruptcy practice, currently comprised of almost 50 lawyers.
ROSS: A VERY SMART ARTIFICIAL CO-WORKER
Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers. According to CEO and co-founder Andrew Arruda, other firms have also signed licenses with Ross, and they will also be making announcements shortly.
Ross, “the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney” built on IBM’s cognitive computer Watson, was designed to read and understand language, postulate hypotheses when asked questions, research, and then generate responses (along with references and citations) to back up its conclusions. Ross also learns from experience, gaining speed and knowledge the more you interact with it.
“You ask your questions in plain English, as you would a colleague, and ROSS then reads through the entire body of law and returns a cited answer and topical readings from legislation, case law and secondary sources to get you up-to-speed quickly,” the website says. “In addition, ROSS monitors the law around the clock to notify you of new court decisions that can affect your case.”
Ross also minimizes the time it takes by narrowing down results from a thousand to only the most highly relevant answers, and presents the answers in a more casual, understandable language. It also keeps up-to-date with developments in the legal system, specifically those that may affect your cases.
THE LEGAL INDUSTRY ENHANCED
Baker & Hostetler chief information officer Bob Craig explains the rationale behind this latest hire: “At BakerHostetler, we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to our clients.”
“BakerHostetler has been using ROSS since the first days of its deployment, and we are proud to partner with a true leader in the industry as we continue to develop additional AI legal assistants,” he added.
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Godless Universe: A Physicist Searches for Meaning in Nature
Godless Universe: A Physicist Searches for Meaning in Nature
By Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American
The pillar in the upper left corner of the Carina Nebula (shown here) is sometimes referred to as the finger of God. The montage was snapped by NASA's Hubble Space telescope in April 1999.
Credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team and Nolan R. Walborn (STScI), Rodolfo H. Barba' (La Plata Observatory, Argentina), and Adeline Caulet (France)
It is time to face reality, California Institute of Technology theoretical physicist Sean Carroll says: There is just no such thing as God, or ghosts, or human souls that reside outside of the body. Everything in existence belongs to the natural world and is accessible to science, he argues. In his new book "The Big Picture: On the Origin of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself," out this week from Dutton, Carroll describes a guiding philosophy along these lines that he calls poetic naturalism. It excludes a supernatural or spiritual realm but still allows plenty of room for life to have a purpose.
"I think we can bring ideas like meaning and morality into our discussions of the natural world," Carroll says. "The ways that we talk about the universe are what make it meaningful." He eloquently argues that point in his far-ranging book, which takes on the origins of consciousness, the likeliness of God based on a rigorous application of Bayesian probability statistics, and many other "big" questions that scientists are often loath to tackle.
"The Big Picture" book cover by Sean Carroll.
Credit: Dutton
Scientific American spoke with Carroll about his philosophy and how we can all take a closer look at just what we truly, deeply believe. [An edited transcript of the conversation follows.]
Naturalism is the viewpoint that everything arises from natural causes and that there is no supernatural realm. You coin the term "poetic naturalism" for your own particular brand of this guiding philosophy. Why the need for a new term? Naturalism has been certainly been around for a very long time, but as more people become naturalists and talk to each other, their disagreements within naturalism are interesting. I thought there was a judicious middle ground, which I call poetic, between 'the world is just a bunch of particles," and "science can be used to discover meaning and morality."
To me the connotations of "poetic" are that there's some human choice that comes into how we talk about the world. In particular, when it comes to questions of morality and meaning, the way we go about deciding what is right and wrong, and meaningful or not, is not the same as the way we discover what is true and false.
Just because we have no evidence of another realm of reality beyond the physical world, how can we conclude it doesn't exist? It's not a matter of certainty, ever. I would make the argument that if there were a supernatural element that played a role in our everyday life in some noticeable way, it's very, very likely we would have noticed it. It just seems weird that this kind of thing would be so crucial and yet so difficult to notice in any controlled scientific way. I would make the case that it is sufficiently unlikely in a fair Bayesian accounting that we don't need to spend any time thinking about it anymore. Five hundred years ago it would have been a possibility. I think these days we're ready to move on.
All I can say at the end of the day is we should all be trying as hard as we can to guard against our individual cognitive biases, the things we want to be true. The existence of life after death, for example, I would love that to be true. My cognitive bias is in favor of that. And yet I don't think it is true. The best we can do is try to be honest.
So do you think it's impossible for a religious person to believe in poetic naturalism? Of course that depends on what you mean by religious. There's actually a movement called religious naturalism. Religion involves a whole bunch of things—practices, casts of mind, morals, etc., so you can certainly imagine calling yourself religious, reading the Bible, going to church and just not believing in God. I suspect the number of people who do that is much larger than the number of people who admit to it.
The mistake comes when we try to pretend that it doesn't matter what our view of the ontology of the world is. I think it does matter. But having made those decisions [about your worldview], there are many ways you can live a life that’s meaningful and socially relevant and familial. I think we have a misunderstanding of meaning because we relate it to something outside the natural world, when it doesn't have to be that.
This argument for naturalism feels particularly timely, when politicians and many in society are increasingly hostile to science and evidence-based thinking. How receptive to the approach of naturalism do you think most people are? I think that scientists have a sort of professional level of understanding of the universe, and scientists are overwhelmingly naturalists. Whereas people on the street, or in Washington, D.C., still don't admit to this. There aren't a lot of naturalists in Congress. The way we talk about these things in the public sphere has not caught up with the way we understand the universe as it really is.
As a physicist, what inspired you to write a book essentially on philosophy? It evolved over a very long time. I’ve always been interested in not only physics directly, but also the wider consequences. I was a philosophy minor as an undergraduate. I always have thought that doing physics was part of a larger intellectual project of trying to understand the whole world in different ways.
What do you hope readers take away from this book? I think there's a bunch of people who still, because they just haven't thought about it that much, have the informal idea that science can explain what happens when two atoms bump into each other, but it can't explain how the universe started or how life began. I hope people get the idea that we're well on our way to answering those questions. There's no obstacle in our way that says we're just not going to be able to.
La physique se trouve-t-elle à une époque charnière?
La physique se trouve-t-elle à une époque charnière?
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Un savant me disait un jour:« Lorsque la physique et la cosmologie sont en « crise » cela présage une grande avancée pour nos connaissances.«
Les grandes découvertes admises l’ont été en tant que telles après de âpres discussions et divers tests rigoureux de la part de la communauté scientifique.
Ensuite le travail continue dans l’ombre et plus grand chose ne filtre, n’en ressort pendant un long laps de temps.
Il faut dire que les recherches, les analyses et les résultats ne se font pas en un jour.
Les résultats mènent souvent à des applications à plus ou moins long terme.
La science fiction prend le risque de se tromper lourdement lorsque celle-ci prend de l’avance. Ceci dit , elle ose s’y aventurer plus ou moins habilement.
La réalité met le temps nécessaire pour la rattraper quelquefois et d’autrefois, jamais! Ci-dessous je vous partage un article ( que je ressort de mes archives ) qui définit comment l’aventure scientifique a permis aux savants d’observer des ondes gravitationnelles. Pour ma part j’ attends la suite avec une certaine impatience, car ceci débouchera sur du concret.
Découvrez la passionnante aventure scientifique qui a permis aux chercheurs d’observer les ondes gravitationnelles.
La date du 11 février 2016 rentrera dans l’histoire de la recherche scientifique. Pour la première fois, des vibrations d’une étrange nature venues de l’espace ont été détectées sur Terre, confirmant une prédiction d’Albert Einstein vieille d’un siècle. C’est un événement cataclysmique majeur qui a permis cette découverte. SooCurious vous explique comment.
« La théorie c’est quand on sait tout et que rien ne fonctionne, la pratique c’est quand tout fonctionne mais que l’on ne sait pas pourquoi », disait Albert Einstein. Ce pessimisme ne l’a nullement empêché d’échafauder des théories vertigineuses et pas toujours vérifiables dans l’immédiat faute de moyens techniques. Du point de vue mathématique, très ancré dans la théorie, la physique a un rôle pratique à jouer : à partir de l’examen de certaines équations, elle révèle de nouveaux éléments de réalité. Elle le fit déjà en prédisant, puis démontrant l’existence des photons, des antiparticules, des quarks et, plus récemment, en 2012, du boson de Higgs. Certaines théories ont mis des années pour « fonctionner », parfois même tout juste un siècle, comme la théorie des ondes gravitationnelles.
Les ondes électromagnétiques (perturbations des champs électrique et magnétique) sont produites par les particules chargées accélérées. De la même façon, les ondes gravitationnelles sont produites par des masses accélérées.
Lorsqu’un corps massif est soumis à une accélération, l’espace-temps autour de lui doit en permanence se réajuster, ce qui se traduit par de légères perturbations qui se propagent à la vitesse de la lumière. Elles sont causées par des phénomènes astrophysiques violents, comme une explosion des étoiles en supernova ou la fusion de deux trous noirs. Mais leur origine peut également remonter aux premiers instants suivant le Big Bang, événement très énergétique à l’origine de notre Univers survenu il y a plus de treize milliards d’années.
Car notre Univers est élastique : si on le secoue à une extrémité, il vibre et la secousse se propage jusqu’à l’autre bout, comme des cercles concentriques sur la surface d’un lac créés par la chute d’un caillou. Ces vibrations sont les ondes dites « gravitationnelles » car liées à la force de gravitation.
Leur existence a été pressentie dès 1905 par le mathématicien et physicien français Henri Poincaré(1854-1912). Mais c’est surtout Albert Einstein (1879-1955) qui a décrit l’existence de ces ondes en juin 1916, comme conséquence de sa théorie de la relativité générale, parue en 1915.
La gravitation étant très faible en intensité, de telles ondes sont très difficiles à détecter. Voilà pourquoi il a fallu attendre un siècle pour pouvoir élaborer des outils suffisamment précis.
Une preuve indirecte fut apportée en 1974 par les astrophysiciens américains Joseph Taylor et Russell Hulse. A cette époque, ils étudiaient le pulsar PSR1913+16, qui avait la particularité d’être membre d’un système binaire constitué de deux étoiles à neutrons. En examinant les émissions radio du pulsar, les deux astronomes furent en mesure de déterminer la période orbitale du couple. Ils se rendirent alors compte que celle-ci décroissait légèrement, d’un millième de seconde par an. La réduction mesurée correspond avec précision à celle prévue par la relativité générale dans l’hypothèse où la perte d’énergie serait due au rayonnement gravitationnel. Russell Hulse et Joseph Taylor ont été récompensés du prix Nobel de physique en 1993 pour cette découverte.
Depuis vingt ans, les observatoires construits pour détecter les ondes gravitationnelles sont des interféromètres géants. Le rayonnement provenant d’un laser est divisé en deux faisceaux. Ceux-ci sont envoyés dans des directions perpendiculaires, puis réfléchis par des miroirs et finalement recombinés. L’analyse de la lumière après recombinaison permet de dire si la durée de propagation de la lumière dans l’une des directions a été perturbée. Si tel est le cas, cela signifie que la distance parcourue par l’un des faisceaux a légèrement varié sous l’effet du passage d’une onde gravitationnelle.
Étant donné la faiblesse des effets à mesurer, ces interféromètres doivent être très sensibles. En particulier, la distance parcourue par la lumière doit être aussi grande que possible. Pour cette raison, ces détecteurs sont gigantesques, leurs bras font plusieurs kilomètres de long. Il est également important de réduire toutes les sources de bruit parasite, tout spécialement celles d’origine sismique ou thermique.
Aux Etats-Unis, l’observatoire LIGO est composé de deux interféromètres indépendants, l’un situé enLouisiane, l’autre dans l’Etat de Washington, à 3000 kilomètres de distance. LIGO a observé le ciel sans succès entre 2001 et 2010 et a été modernisé pour reprendre ses observations en septembre 2015. L’interféromètre Virgo, situé près de Pise en Italie, est une collaboration entre cinq pays européens. Sa première période d’observation s’est déroulée entre 2007 et 2011 et il est depuis dans une phase de mise à jour de sa sensibilité qui devrait s’achever en 2016.
Les efforts de la communauté scientifique ont été récompensés le 14 septembre 2015 lorsque les interféromètres de LIGO ont tous deux détecté indépendamment les distorsions de l’espace-temps provoquées par le bref passage d’ondes gravitationnelles. Ces ondes n’ont pu être détectées qu’avec la complicité d’un événement considérable qui s’est produit il y a plus d’un milliard d’années : deux trous noirs voisins ont fusionné à une vitesse égale aux deux tiers de la vitesse de la lumière ; ce phénomène hyperviolent a libéré une énergie inimaginable en seulement 20 millisecondes, et engendré un train d’ondes gravitationnelles qui ont progressivement perdu en puissance au cours de leur passage au travers de la Terre. Sans les outils aussi précis, il aurait fallu attendre qu’un événement se produise beaucoup plus près de la Terre, au risque de perdre quelques milliers d’années…
La détection fut détaillée dans la revue Physical Review Letters du 11 février par l’équipe de l’instrument LIGO. « Cette détection est le début d’une nouvelle ère, celle de l’astronomie des ondes gravitationnelles devenue désormais une réalité », affirme Gabriela Gonzalez, porte-parole de l’équipe LIGO, professeur d’astrophysique à la Louisiana State University.
Désormais les chercheurs travaillent sur un projet encore plus ambitieux. En effet, un détecteur à la surface de la Terre sera toujours très limité, contrairement à celui placé dans l’espace. Ainsi, un projet spatial de l’ESA appelé eLISA (Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) est à l’étude. Il s’agirait d’un ensemble de satellites travaillant de façon coordonnée. Au lieu de quelques kilomètres, la taille équivalente du détecteur serait alors de plusieurs millions de kilomètres. Un tel système rendrait possible l’étude d’une plus grande variété de phénomènes ainsi que la détection d’événements beaucoup plus lointains. Le lancement est prévu à l’horizon 2028.
Les nouvelles perspectives offertes par cette découverte témoignent de sa portée scientifique. Les ondes gravitationnelles sont autant de signaux porteurs de caractéristiques de la source qui les a engendrées. Elles permettent ainsi de « voir » des phénomènes astrophysiques jusqu’ici totalement invisibles car n’émettant pas de rayonnement électromagnétique, comme l’effondrement gravitationnel des étoiles massives, la fusion de deux étoiles à neutrons dans un système binaire, ou le processus en jeu au centre des galaxies.
« Cela ouvre une grande période nouvelle et excitante. L’Univers est mû par la gravité, mais on ne l’observe qu’avec la lumière. Nous verrons enfin des choses jamais vues parce qu’elles n’émettent pas de lumière, estime Pierre Binétruy, professeur à l’université Paris-VII. Nous changeons d’époque. »
L’annonce du 11 février vient donc à point nommé pour célébrer le centenaire d’une extraordinaire construction intellectuelle née un jour dans le cerveau d’un génie. Pour l’instant, il est encore difficile de mesurer son impact pratique et il est beaucoup trop tôt pour que toute spéculation sur d’éventuels engins anti-gravité sorte du cadre de la science-fiction. Mais cela peut changer très vite, comme c’était le cas du laser, également prédit par Einstein. Lorsqu’il a été créé en 1960, très peu de gens misaient sur une quelconque application pratique. Aujourd’hui, le laser est partout.
New study shows that the dating on the Sphinx shows it may have been built as far back as 800,000 B.C.!
New discoveries show Akhenaten Nefertiti period dates further back to 12,000 B.C.
A lost culture, the antediluvian civilization, in Ancient Egypt was said by the Greek Philosopher Plato and the Famous Psychic Edgar Cayce to have possessed advanced technology, air and space travel and powerful mental and spiritual abilities.
After their continent was destroyed in a massive cataclysm, they transferred their wisdom and building knowledge to Ancient Egypt and hid their history in the construction of the Great Pyramid, Sphinx and a yet to be discovered Hall of Records.
Dr Carmen Boulter explains that her new discoveries reveal that the corrupt Amun Priesthood attempted to eliminate the royal family in Egypt and killed the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his son Tutankhamun (King Tut), but that Queen Nefertiti fled to another country and escaped their vicious treachery.
She also explores the possibility that Akhenaten and Nefertiti were supernatural beings that were giving humanity a new mystical philosophy of peace and spiritual attunement.
In an even more bizarre twist the latest carbon dating on this new Nefertiti site reveals that it dates back to 12,000 B.C. opening up all kinds of questions for our chronology of Ancient Egyptian and Atlantean history!
Dr. Boulter explores why there is such a complete media and archaeological blackout around the true nature of Ancient Egyptian culture and shows that occult forces that were working in ancient times still have an eerie legacy in our own time.
She states that the secrets these powerful groups are protecting may keep modern humanity in a state of disconnected physical consciousness and submerge our spiritual understanding to leave our mind, body and spirit vulnerable to hidden, nefarious control and keep it disassociated from its star origins.
Dr. Boulter also discusses her five-part documentary series, ‘The Pyramid Code’ that explores the esoteric wisdom the Egyptians used to build the incredible monuments at Giza.
Her new documentary series called ‘The New Atlantis’ will unveil her exciting research of an Atlantean culture that existed before recorded history, which formed the basis of the Sumerian, Egyptian, Mayan, and Inca Civilizations.
She also comments on a new study that shows the dating on the Sphinx shows it may have been built as far back as 800,000 B.C.!
RENDLESHAM UFO: Startling new evidence 'could solve Britain's Roswell once and for all'
RENDLESHAM UFO: Startling new evidence 'could solve Britain's Roswell once and for all'
SHOCKING new evidence has come forward that claims to PROVE once and for all that aliens DID visit a military base in the UK when a mass sighting of UFOs allegedly took place.
Two former military technicians have claimed a UFO WAS caught on radar and seen from the control tower of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge as well as in Rendlesham Forest, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk.
The claims are made in a new documentary which tries to tie up evidence linking UFO and alien visitations with nuclear facilities on Earth.
UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, which is available to view online on Vimeo, is the culmination of years of investigation by researcher Robert Hastings, who penned the book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.
The film makes the case that alleged UFO crews have maintained a consistent interest in nuclear facilities on Earth.
There have been numerous alleged sightings by serving and former military personal and other witnesses of supposed UFOs over such installations for several decades.
The documentary says that nuclear weapons were being stored at Bentwaters at the time of the Rendlesham incident.
It has been dubbed Britain's Roswell after the mystery and infamouus UFO crash that allegedly happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA in July 1947.
The RAF bases were leased by the USAF 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.
Retired Colonel Charles Halt, 76, who was base deputy commander at the time, claimed the officers who first saw the lights, and then a UFO "on the floor", could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air".
The three officers - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston, later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.
Mr Halt then said on the evening of December 27 1980 that officers had shouted: "It's back, the UFO's back."
Mr Halt went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes," damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area.
A plaster cast was later taken of one of the holes, but mysteriously disappeared from a box it was stored in.
He said soon after they saw a mysterious object in a field between the woods and a farmhouse with "a red light moving."
He said: "It came towards us into the forest, moving, bobbing up and down in the trees. It was oval, about 100 to 150 yards away, with a dark centre and red around it."
He claimed there were "sparks" coming from it and after a minute it "exploded and disappeared."
They then spotted objects in the sky, 3,000 to 4,000ft up.
It’s not like any radar target I have ever seen. When the sweep would hit the target, you would have the entire back of it would be like a solid line.
Rendlesham witness Ike Barker
The case was later investigated by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), but it concluded there was no evidence of alien visitations or any national security risk, and the sightings were most likely the result of beams of light from a nearby coastal lighthouse.
The new claims in the film appear to back up those made by Mr Holt last July when he appeared at a Rendlesham UFO conference, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, to mark the 35th anniversary of the sighting last July.
The new documentary says, at the time, RAF Bentwaters was the "largest American tactical nuclear bomb depot in Europe".
In an interview with Open Minds UFO Radio, Mr Hastings said in 2006 he noticed there had never been any testimony from air traffic controllers at the time about anything being caught on radar.
He tracked down who was manning the radars and control tower at the time and identified them as Jim Carey and Ike Barker.
The pair reveal their testimonies in the video for the first time, claiming a UFO was caught on radar, and that they saw it.
Mr Carey described seeing an object on radar when Mr Halt was in the forest.
He said: "I was just sitting there and I happened to see a dot come on the scope, and it just went one dot in the beginning, and another dot, another dot, and it was gone.
“All of a sudden, here it come back across again.
“It went one, two and then an immediate right hand turn and came right towards the base. I just said that can’t be one of ours. No jet at that speed can make an immediate right hand turn. Just absolutely phenomenal.”
Mr Barker said: “It’s not like any radar target I have ever seen. When the sweep would hit the target, you would have the entire back of it would be like a solid line.
“Traveling at an extremely high rate of speed, it passed over the control tower and then it stopped. I’ve never seen anything in my life like the manoeuverability that happened with this object.”
He said it was “orangish”, adding: “It sort of popped into my mind at the time that somebody is flying a basketball out here.
“There were lights around the centre of it, but it wasn’t like running lights or navigational lights. It was more like portholes, and you were seeing the light from the inside coming out. It wasn’t flashing lights or anything.
“It hovered momentarily, reversed its course, and went back out at a high rate of speed.”
The documentary also reveals documents originating in the former Soviet Union that it claims show similar UFO events at nuclear bases happened there.
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Clinton and Bush insider spills beans on 'inexplicable UFOs' Government REFUSED to probe
Clinton and Bush insider spills beans on 'inexplicable UFOs' Government REFUSED to probe
A DECORATED former senior national security chief has revealed shocking new details about unexplained UFO sightings that the US Government FAILED to investigate'.
Christopher Mellon worked under the Clinton and George W Bush administrations
Christopher Mellon, who served for almost twenty years in the US federal government in a series of national security positions roles under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, has spoken publicly for the first time about his knowledge of the US Government's involvement with aliens and UFOs.
Mr Mellon, who had high-level clearance, was on a committee with oversight of all Department of Defence (DoD) special access programmes and spent a decade on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has given rare answers to detailed questions on the subject as interest in the UFO subject continues to rise globally.
Mr Mellon, who in a gamekeeper-turned-poacher move joined the board of a serious UFO investigation body six months ago, described his frustration at the government's lack of proper investigation of what he described as inexplicable UFO sightings.
And his detailed answers to a series of questions from the board of UFO Data have been made public by the organisation.
In a recent Q&A interview, published on Huff Post, Mr Mellon, who received a string of service awards, including the National Reconnaissance Office Gold Medal, told how a "breathless naval aviator" called him to report seeing a Naval jet land after it was circled by a UFO in broad daylight.
Mr Mellon said: "The Navy did not pursue the issue as far as I could tell.
"I also recall the Maui Optical Tracking Facility, which tracks satellites, recording a flight of four or five fiery UFOs traversing the night sky.
"Nobody knew what to make of it. But no government official expressed the slightest interest even after the tape was featured on ABC’s 'Nightline'.
"I found the utter lack of scientific curiosity due to political correctness highly frustrating."
He said in 2006 pilots and airport staff saw a "disc-shaped object hovering over O’Hare airport.... for over five minutes.
"Yet no government investigation was undertaken," he said in the interview.
Mr Mellon is now calling for a proper scientific investigation of the existence of UFOs and aliens.
He said: "I think we have to ask ourselves a key question, and then bring it forward. 'Are there UFO cases that are sufficiently well-documented to warrant a scientific investigation of the phenomenon?' In my view, the answer is yes.
He believes the number of credible witness reports over so long, coupled with accounts from military and police personnel and the amount of recorded footage and independent radar data correlates too closely with reported sightings to ignore.
He said: "When someone you trust and respect, like a naval aviator, looks you in the eye and tells you he saw something truly extraordinary at close range, it’s hard not to take his testimony seriously.
"It is arrogant, unreasonable and unwise to dismiss such reports. We should simply and impartially follow the trail wherever it leads."
But, despite his frustration at investigations not being conducted by the authorities into UFO sightings, he is convinced the alleged US government cover-up over UFO sightings is not happening.
For years, alien chasers have accused world leaders and space agencies like NASA of knowing aliens visit the Earth, but refusing to tell the general population for fear of the impact it may have on religion and public order.
But Mr Mellon suggested it was quite the opposite, with little or no interest in the subject from within the corridors of power.
He said: "I highly doubt DoD or any other government agency is concealing UFO information."
Conspiracists believe that a flying saucer with aliens inside crashed at Roswell in new Mexico in 1947, and it was covered up as a 'weather balloon' before the remains of the craft and bodies were taken for experimentation at the top-secret USAF bas at Area 51.
But Mr Mellon poured cold water on these theories.
He said: "I spent over a decade conducting oversight of the national foreign intelligence programme, an almost totally separate world of secrets.
"During all those years I never detected the faintest hint of government interest or involvement in UFOs."
TOMORROW: Don't miss Christopher Mellon reveal truth about the "UFO cover up and Area 51"
Mr Mellon is now calling for a proper scientific investigation of the existence of UFOs and aliens.
He said: "I think we have to ask ourselves a key question, and then bring it forward. 'Are there UFO cases that are sufficiently well-documented to warrant a scientific investigation of the phenomenon?' In my view, the answer is yes.
He believes the number of credible witness reports over so long, coupled with accounts from military and police personnel and the amount of recorded footage and independent radar data correlates too closely with reported sightings to ignore.
He said: "When someone you trust and respect, like a naval aviator, looks you in the eye and tells you he saw something truly extraordinary at close range, it’s hard not to take his testimony seriously.
"It is arrogant, unreasonable and unwise to dismiss such reports. We should simply and impartially follow the trail wherever it leads."
But, despite his frustration at investigations not being conducted by the authorities into UFO sightings, he is convinced the alleged US government cover-up over UFO sightings is not happening.
For years, alien chasers have accused world leaders and space agencies like NASA of knowing aliens visit the Earth, but refusing to tell the general population for fear of the impact it may have on religion and public order.
But Mr Mellon suggested it was quite the opposite, with little or no interest in the subject from within the corridors of power.
He said: "I highly doubt DoD or any other government agency is concealing UFO information."
Conspiracists believe that a flying saucer with aliens inside crashed at Roswell in new Mexico in 1947, and it was covered up as a 'weather balloon' before the remains of the craft and bodies were taken for experimentation at the top-secret USAF bas at Area 51.
But Mr Mellon poured cold water on these theories.
He said: "I spent over a decade conducting oversight of the national foreign intelligence programme, an almost totally separate world of secrets.
"During all those years I never detected the faintest hint of government interest or involvement in UFOs."
TOMORROW: Don't miss Christopher Mellon reveal truth about the "UFO cover up and Area 51"
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Schokkend nieuw bewijs kan ‘UFO-mysterie rond Brits Roswell voor eens en voor altijd oplossen’
Schokkend nieuw bewijs kan ‘UFO-mysterie rond Brits Roswell voor eens en voor altijd oplossen’
Hebben Britse legerbases in de jaren tachtig bezoek gehad van aliens? Twee oud-legertechnici beweren een UFO te hebben vastgelegd op de radar én te hebben gezien vanuit de radartoren op RAF Bentwaters en RAF Woodbridge. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
Ze doen deze bewering in een nieuwe documentaire waarin wordt gesteld dat UFO’s kerninstallaties nauwlettend in de gaten houden. Volgens de film zijn de bemanningen van de UFO’s zeer geïnteresseerd in de nucleaire installaties op onze planeet.
In de documentaire wordt geclaimd dat ten tijde van de waarnemingen kernwapens lagen opgeslagen op RAF Bentwaters. De legerbases werden indertijd geleased aan de Amerikaanse luchtmacht.
Hiërogliefachtige tekens
Op 26 december 1980 zagen drie Amerikaanse soldaten die gestationeerd waren op RAF Bentwaters een ‘driehoekig schip’ dat in Rendlesham Forest, een nabijgelegen bos, landde. Kolonel Charles Halt (76) was toen plaatsvervangend commandant van de basis. Hij zei dat de communicatiesystemen uitvielen toen de lichten verschenen.
De drie soldaten die de UFO als eerste zagen – John Burroughs, Bud Steffens en James Penniston – voelden naar eigen zeggen statische elektriciteit toen ze naar de knipperende lichten en de hiërogliefachtige tekens keken.
Halt stelde een team samen om onderzoek te verrichten en ontdekte gaten in de grond waar de UFO was geland, schade aan boomtoppen en hogere stralingswaarden in het landingsgebied. Van één van de gaten werd een gipsafdruk gemaakt, maar die verdween later op mysterieuze wijze.
‘Absoluut fenomenaal’
In de nieuwe documentaire wordt gesteld dat RAF Bentwaters indertijd het grootste Amerikaanse kernwapendepot in Europa was. Robert Hastings, de maker van de film, spoorde de technici op die ten tijde van het incident de radar bedienden.
De technici, Jim Carey en Ike Barker, onthullen dat er destijds een UFO is vastgelegd op radar en dat ze het object hebben gezien. Carey zag naar eigen zeggen een object op de radar toen Halt in het bos was.
“In het begin ging het om één stip, maar toen kwam er nog een stip, en nog één, tot ze plotseling verdwenen,” zei hij. “Opeens was de stip weer terug. Het object maakte een scherpe bocht naar rechts en kwam recht op de basis af. Ik zei dat dat niemand van ons kon zijn. Geen enkel vliegtuig kan met zo’n hoge snelheid zo’n scherpe bocht naar rechts maken. Absoluut fenomenaal.”
Sovjet-Unie
Barker maakte uit de radarbeelden op dat het object zich met extreem hoge snelheid voortbewoog. Het vloog over de radartoren en bleef vervolgens hangen. “Ik heb nog nooit een object zo zien manoeuvreren,” zei hij, toevoegende dat het een oranjekleurig object was.
“Rond het midden bevonden zich lichten, maar dat waren geen navigatielichten,” zei hij. “Het waren meer luiken, je zag het licht van binnen naar buiten komen. Ze knipperden niet.”
“Het bleef even hangen, keerde om en vloog met zeer hoge snelheid weer weg.”
De documentaire onthult dat er in de Sovjet-Unie soortgelijke incidenten met UFO’s zijn geweest in de buurt van nucleaire bases.
Government insider looks for UFOs, doesn’t find them at Area 51
Government insider looks for UFOs, doesn’t find them at Area 51
A man who spent 20 years working in national security for the federal government has recently joined a group of scientist searching for evidence of UFOs. In a recent interview, he says he has been interested in the topic since childhood, and in all his time in the government, he has found no evidence of a cover-up. That includes Area 51, which he has visited in an official capacity.
Warning signs at the Area 51 back entrance. (Credit: Alejandro Rojas)
The government insider’s name is Chris Mellon. An interview with Mellon by author and journalist Leslie Kean was posted as a Huffington Post blog, earlier this week. According to the blog post, Mellon worked for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other intelligence organizations, where he received a number of awards, including the National Reconnaissance Office Gold Medal and the Defense Intelligence Agency Director’s Medal.
Mellon told Kean, he has also had a lifetime interest in UFOs. His curiosity began when he saw a convincing UFO film captured by a friend of his school’s principal.
“It showed a huge, golden disc-shaped object serenely moving through sunny, blue skies, passing through cumulous clouds in a manner that would be very hard to fake,” Mellon recalled. “I have no idea what became of the movie, but it filled me with wonder and awe.”
Leslie Kean being interviewed by Chilean media during a visit in 2012. General Bermúdez stands to her right. (Credit: DGAC)
Mellon says that after seeing the movie, he began reading everything he could get his hands on about UFOs. He even did a research project on UFOs in college.
Throughout his professional career, Mellon says he kept his UFO interests to himself.
One topic Kean was interested in discussing with Mellon was the presidential election. In particular,Clinton’s comments regarding her willingness to look for UFO files if she becomes president. Mellon said he did not think Clinton would be given access to any classified programs involving UFOs, if they even exist.
“I recall instances when White House officials sought briefings on highly compartmented DoD programs and were flatly refused. Access to such programs is on a need to know basis,” explained Mellon. “In general, nobody outside DoD, including the Secretary of State, is deemed to have a need to know. Officials like John Podesta and Secretary Clinton can easily serve for years in senior positions and be avid consumers of classified intelligence analysis but never obtain access to DoD’s compartmented programs, which mostly relate to new weapons systems.”
Even if Clinton were able to gain access to information on classified programs, in all of his years working with secret programs, Mellon found nothing to convince him there is a hidden UFO project. Not even during his visits to Area 51.
Unmarked airplanes at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas used to shuttle employees to Area 51. (Credit: Alejandro Rojas)
“I highly doubt DoD or any other government agency is concealing UFO information,” Mellon told Kean. “I participated in a comprehensive review of DoD’s black programs and spent over a decade conducting oversight of the national foreign intelligence program, an almost totally separate world of secrets. I visited Area 51 and other military, intelligence and research facilities. During all those years, I never detected the faintest hint of government interest or involvement in UFOs.”
Although, Mellon was unaware of any official government UFO program, he says there are several credible incidents that, he believes, makes the UFO phenomenon worthy of scientific study. These include a UFO incident witnessed by police officers in 1989, and a wave of triangle-shaped UFOs seen over Belgium that was investigated by their military.
He also recalled an interesting UFO report he received during his career.
Mellon recounted, “Knowing of my interest in UFOs, a breathless naval aviator called me one day to report that he was present minutes earlier when a Navy jet landed after being circled by a UFO in broad daylight. The Navy did not pursue the issue as far as I could tell.”
Artist rendering of a black triangle UFO. (Credit: SkeezerPumba/Wikimedia Commons)
The obvious question is, why would the Navy not pursue such a remarkable event?
“In my experience, on those rare occasions when UFO incidents involving the government occur, they are highly inconvenient, awkward and embarrassing for the afflicted government officials who want nothing more than to put the issue behind them as quickly as possible,” Mellon explained. “The military seems generally unwilling to investigate even when UFO reports come from our own military pilots or officials in high office such as Fife Symington, the former governor of Arizona. Senior officials are so fearful of being ridiculed that they conceal any expression of interest or curiosity.”
Mellon believes that in an environment where the military is not willing to touch the topic of UFOs, it is up to the public to find answers.
“In my view, calling for the end to an alleged government UFO cover-up is almost certainly a dead end, and does not help inspire anyone in government to become more open to the topic,” says Mellon.
Instead, Mellon has joined the board of a group calling itself UFODATA. They are a group of scientists and researchers who are planning to put together UFO listening posts that can be deployed across the planet. These stations will be able to collect telemetry on unidentified objects to help determine what they are.
According to Mellon, “UFODATA’s findings, one way or another, can help us to resolve this perennial mystery and perhaps even help us to better understand the universe and mankind’s place within it.”
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British witness ties ghostly encounter to UFO sighting
British witness ties ghostly encounter to UFO sighting
A British witness at St. Just, Cornwall, recalled a UFO incident from 1993 that added to a larger puzzle suggesting a time portal opened up in the area, according to testimony in Case 75940 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness and her now-late husband had driven to their favorite spot on the cliffs at Botallack near St. Just at dinner time about 6:30 p.m. on October 23, 1993, when the first incident took place.
“We had bought fish and chips to eat in our old MG car out on the cliffs,” the witness stated. “It was a beautiful evening and we were the only people parked there. As we looked out at the view of the cliffs, old tin mines and the Atlantic Ocean crashing in, we suddenly noticed somebody walking up the cliff path.”
The two were confused as they looked at this person.
“Walking up the cliffs was an olden times smuggler from the 1700/1800’s period. The best way to describe this is if you Google ‘Poldark,’ that is the era. What we could see was a man, in a black Tri-Star hat, long black, old smuggler-type coat, a long wooden staff in his left hand and a small barrel/keg under his right arm. We both looked at each other and then back to him walking up the coast path.
The witness referenced Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark in the Masterpiece hit series, ‘Poldark.’
“Both confused at what we were looking at, I said to my husband, ‘Maybe there is a party somewhere?’ If you knew the location, you would know that was at the best a long shot.”
They continued to watch the person walk up the path.
“As he reached the adjoining path he was suddenly gone! Into thin air! We did not lose sight of him at any time. And then he was gone! All I can tell you is that what we saw was as solid, as solid as you and I, although neither of us remember seeing features on a face, or to be honest, even a face. We knew that what we had just seen was unexplainable and couldn’t get our minds around it. It wasn’t until we were driving home that I said, ‘Did we just see a ghost?’”
The two wondered about their encounter, and later questioned whether it was related to a second event at the same site.
“About a week later, there was a big storm blowing with really strong gale force ‘inland’ winds. The sea was crashing in and the wind was too strong to get out of the car as you couldn’t stand. We sat in our car when we noticed behind us a white ball, approximately 7 to 8 inches. You could see it was spinning furiously, but (the storm) was not causing it to move in the slightest.”
The witness described the object.
“It was approximately 15 feet away from us and six feet off of the ground. The strangest thing was, that the gale force inland wind was not making it move at all, yet we couldn’t even stand up in it! The ‘ball’ didn’t move for about two minutes, then it slowly moved directly upwards by about four feet, again it hovered on the spot for several minutes before moving directly down again by three or four feet where again it hovered for a time. It then rose into the air by approximately eight feet, again directly in a straight line and totally unaffected by the wind. It hovered for about three minutes before shooting inland at a 90-degree angle and out of sight.”
Porthnanven Beach, St Just, Cornwall. (Credit: UK Beach Guide)
The two were shocked by what they had seen and sat silently in their car.
“I think after what had happened the previous week, we thought it must be ‘ghost’ connected? For years the memory of what happened has never left us and I can still see the events in detail. I’ve tried to look for answers, but can’t find any. I only realized recently that ‘the ball’ was an Unidentified Flying Object of some sort. So I have decided to record this with yourselves. The whole of Cornwall is built on granite and so is extremely quartz rich. I often questioned myself as to if there could have been some kind of portal open up? I hope that this piece of my jigsaw might fit somewhere in all the other events out there. Thank you.”
United Kingdom Field Investigator Karl Webb is investigating.
This video shows an object falling from the sky slowly and at an angle that fits that of a UFO or space junk falling more than that of a meteorite, but its explosion makes me think meteor. Are aliens trying to attack ISIS to protect the world or was this a meteor? Tell us your thoughts on this one in the comments bellow. www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: Intriguing security camera footage from Turkey shows a mysterious glowing object briefly descending through the air before seemingly exploding and lighting up the night sky. The event occurred in an area of the country that is near the Syrian border and very close to a region currently controlled by ISIS. Despite what appeared to be an enormous blast, local officials claim no debris was found in the area and suggested that it was a natural event.
Brown UFO Seen On Space Station Live Cam April 8, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Brown UFO Seen On Space Station Live Cam April 8, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 8, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths Orbit This UFO was reported by SecurityTeam10 of Youtube and shows a brownish rectangle shaped disk in the distance. I added light to it to reveal its color and shape as seen in the photo above. If you want to watch the Space Station live cam, I have made it easy by placing it here on UFO Sightings Daily site. Just hit the green tab at the top of this page that says, "Space Station Cam." You may see a UFO, or even an alien life form swimming around space. We have see many such things on the cam in the past. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Senator Barry Goldwater Admits There Is A UFO Cover-Up, Interview Video, UFO Sighting News.
Senator Barry Goldwater Admits There Is A UFO Cover-Up, Interview Video, UFO Sighting News.
Above shows Senator Barry Goldwater and President Nixon.
Date of interview: 1994 Location of interview: Larry King Show This video takes me way back. This interview was taken way back in 1994, so it goes to show you how long govt officials high up have known about UFOs and how much they detest keeping a secret that is equal to a crime against humanity. Sometimes we need a reminder in life. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Video states: Goldwater had a fascination for the UFO issue, and, throughout his life and career, made more than a few notable comments and observations on the subject. The bulk of them revolved around his attempts to determine the truth about longstanding rumors that something of a UFO nature (and something of deep significance, too) was secretly held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The location of whatever this “something” may have been has variously been termed as “Hangar 18” and the “Blue Room.” On March 28, 1975, Goldwater wrote the following, highly thought-provoking, words to a UFO researcher named Shlomo Arnon: “The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.” On more than a few occasions, the subject of UFOs featured heavily on Larry King Live. On one occasion, specifically in 1994, the person that King had on his show to talk about UFOs was none other than Goldwater himself, who told King: “I think at Wright-Patterson, if you could get into certain places, you’d find out what the Air Force and the government does know about UFOs. Reportedly, a spaceship landed. It was all hushed up. I called Curtis LeMay and I said, ‘General, I know we have a room at Wright-Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Could I go in there?’ I’ve never heard General LeMay get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out, and said, ‘Don’t ever ask me that question again!’”
React: Investigating a Year of UFO Sightings Posted on Social Media
React: Investigating a Year of UFO Sightings Posted on Social Media
Do you believe in aliens?
You might not, but lots of people seem to think they’ve seen the evidence
We took a look at a year’s worth of UFO-related posts on social media and this is what we found.
Where are the aliens?
We broke down mentions by state to see which areas of the country were generating the most UFO conversation.
While California often gets the most mentions because of its large population, it’s not just down to that this time.
A huge chunk of Californian UFO sightings occurred on 7th November when a mysterious light was seen by hundreds of people. It was later confirmed as a Naval missile test but not everyone was convinced.
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We found that the gender ratio of UFO-related posts was fairly evenly split.
While they registered just a few posts each, percentage-wise it was Delaware and Connecticut that had the most UFO mentions from males while Hawaii and South Carolina had the most from females.
Shrouded in secrecy
We found a surprisingly low number of mentions that included the term “Area 51”. Perhaps that’s something we should be concerned about.
Whatever you think of UFOs and aliens, tracking social data surrounding them is a good way to crowdsource personal experiences of eerie occurrences in real time.
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