UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN

Bokslegende Muhammad Ali, die afgelopen vrijdag op 74-jarige leeftijd overleed, was er heilig van overtuigd dat UFO’s bestaan. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Express.

UFO-expert en schrijver Timothy Green Beckley had vanwege zijn fascinatie voor aliens meerdere ontmoetingen met het boksicoon. “Ali claimde zelfs een enorm UFO-moederschip te hebben gezien, dat hij in de gaten werd gehouden door aliens en dat buitenaardse bezoekers ‘van ongelooflijk groot belang zijn voor de wereld’,” zei hij.

In een ontroerend eerbetoon aan de bokser en mensenrechtenactivist haalt Green Beckley passages uit een boek aan dat hij schreef over beroemdheden die geïnteresseerd zijn in buitenaards leven.

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“Van alle beroemde mensen met wie ik heb gesproken over UFO’s en theorieën over buitenaardse beschavingen en leven in de ruimte, wist de gepensioneerde wereldkampioen in het zwaargewicht Muhammad Ali het meeste over het onderwerp,” schreef hij. Green Beckley had vier ontmoetingen met Ali waarin werd gesproken over aliens.

Ali haalde het nieuws toen hij claimde samen met zijn trainer niet één, maar twee UFO’s boven New York City te hebben gezien. Hij zei dat meerdere mensen melding hadden gemaakt van de UFO’s, waaronder een piloot die op weg was naar Newark Airport. “Dit is geen grap. Al mijn vrienden hier hebben het gezien,” vertelde hij aan Green Beckley.

Ali claimde daarop dat UFO’s hem ‘al enige tijd in de gaten hielden’. Hij zei eens een sigaarvormig schip te hebben gezien boven een auto waar hij in zat. “Wat een prachtig gezicht was dat. We konden de schaduw die de UFO op de zijkant van de weg wierp duidelijk zien.”

UFO-verkenningsschip (Timothy Green Beckley)

Zoveel andere mensen

De bokslegende maakte ook een tekening van wat volgens hem een UFO-verkenningsschip was. De drie bollen stellen het landingsgestel voor. “Deze verkenners zijn hier om hun voorraad zuurstof aan te vullen,” zei Ali. “Wijlen profeet Elijah Muhammad – mijn religieuze leider – zei dat Ezechiël’s wiel uit de Bijbel de eerste verwijzing ooit is naar UFO’s.”

Green Beckley ziet Ali als een geloofwaardige getuige. “Hij sprak eigenlijk alleen over zijn ervaringen als er iemand bij was die het verhaal kon bevestigen.”

“Ik zeg wat ik denk omdat ik heb ontdekt dat er zoveel andere mensen zijn die iets soortgelijks hebben gezien,” citeerde Green Beckley Ali. “De laatste jaren heb ik veel lezingen gegeven op universiteiten en ik merk dat studenten erg openstaan voor dit soort dingen. Ik hoop dat anderen in de toekomst gaan luisteren omdat ik ervan overtuigd ben dat UFO’s van ongelooflijk groot belang zijn voor de wereld.”

[Daily Express]

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As most credible UFOlogists readily admit, proving that extraterrestrial spacecraft have visited our planet is a maddeningly difficult chore.

“The hassle over the word 'proof' boils down to one question: What constitutes proof?” Edward J. Ruppelt, who headed the U.S Air Force’s secret investigation of UFOs in the early 1950s, once wrote. “Does a UFO have to land at the River Entrance to the Pentagon, near the Joint Chiefs of Staff offices? Or is it proof when a ground radar station detects a UFO, sends a jet to intercept it, the jet pilot sees it, and locks on with his radar, only to have the UFO streak away at a phenomenal speed? Is it proof when a jet pilot fires at a UFO and sticks to his story even under the threat of court-martial? Does this constitute proof?”

More recently, Investigative journalist Leslie Keen, author of the 2011 book “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record,” has noted that in roughly 90 to 95 percent of UFO sightings, observers turn out actually to have seen weather balloons, ball lightning, flares, aircraft, and other mundane phenomena. But another five to 10 percent of sightings are not so easily explainable, but that’s not the same as demonstrating that they are extraterrestrial in origin. Nevertheless, she argues, the hypothesis that UFOs are visitors from other worlds “is a rational one, and must be taken into account, given the data that we have.”

Here is some of the most compelling reasons that UFOs may be more than simple misidentifications of natural phenomena or terrestrial aircraft:

• The long, documented history of sightings.

UFOs were around, in fact, long before humans themselves took to the air. The first account of a UFO sighting in America was back in 1639, when Massachusetts colony governor John Winthrop noted in his journal that one James Everell, “a sober, discreet man,” and two other witnesses watched a luminous object fly up and down the Muddy River near Charlestown for two to three hours. There are documented sightings of what were then called “airships” during the 1800s as well, such as the July 1884 sighting of a Saturn-shaped UFO (a ball surrounded by a ring) in Norwood, NY, and a fast-moving object that briefly hovered over the startled townspeople of Everest, KS in 1897.

• Numerous modern sightings by credible, well-trained professional observers.

In Ruppelt’s 1955 book , “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,” he documented numerous instances of military service members, military and civilian pilots, scientists and other credible professionals who had observed UFOs. In one instance, Ruppelt describes the experience of a pilot of an Air Force F-86 fighter jet, who was scrambled to track a UFO and got to within 1,000 yards of a saucer-shaped object that abruptly flew away from him in a burst of speed after he fired upon it. He also mentions a 1948 UFO encounter in which two airline pilots got to within 700 feet of a UFO and saw two rows of windows with bright lights.

• Consistencies in the descriptions of purported alien ships.

Over the decades, witnesses who’ve seen UFOs have shown remarkable consistency in the shapes and other characteristics of the objects they’ve described. In 1949, the authors of the report for Project Sign, one of the early military investigations of UFOs, identified four main groups of objects—flying disks or saucers, cigar or torpedo-shaped craft without wings or fins, spherical or balloon-shaped objects that were capable of hovering or flying at high speed, and balls of light with no apparent physical form that were similarly maneuverable. Nearly a quarter-century later, a French government investigation headed by Claude Poher of the National Center for Space Research found similar patterns in more than 1,000 reports from France and various countries. One caveat is that in recent years, reports of wedge-shaped UFOs—which bear a similarity to the latest terrestrial military aircraft—have begun to supplant some of the traditional shapes.

• Possible physical evidence of encounters with alien spacecraft.

The 1968 University of Colorado report, compiled by a team headed by James Condon, documented numerous instances of areas where soil, grass, and other vegetation had been claimed by witnesses to have been flattened, burned, broken off, or blown away by a UFO. A report by Stanford University astrophysicist Peter Sturrock, who led a scientific study of physical evidence of UFOs in the late 1990s, describes samples of plants taken from a purported UFO landing site in France in 1981. French researchers found that the leaves had undergone unusual chemical changes of the sort that could have been caused by powerful microwave radiation—which was even more difficult to explain, considering that they found no trace of radioactivity at the site.

• Physiological effects on UFO witnesses.

The Sturrock report describes in detail various symptoms reported by individuals who had encountered UFOS, ranging from burns and temporary deafness to persistent nausea and memory loss. Among the most vivid examples: Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Landrum’s young grandson Colby, who reportedly happened upon a “large, diamond-shaped object” hovering over a Texas road in December 1980. All three became ill afterward; Cash, for example, developed large water blisters on her face and swelling that closed her eyes, in addition to severe nausea and diarrhea. The effects persisted for years, and she was hospitalized more than two dozen times.

Comment:

STEPHEN WENG

All these UFO sightings throughout history and other compelling pieces of evidence are more than enough to justify an official investigation into this phenomenon. Skeptics say "provide real evidence", but "real evidence" as in like an alien spaceship is hard to come by. What do want MUFON and every other UFOlogist to do? Try to hijack a UFO? If these are actual alien spacecrafts, then even if you have every single plane, nuke, bullet, cannon, anti-aircraft batteries, etc at your side, it would probably be totally useless. UFOs can supposedly go at tremendous speeds that could completely leave our best fighter jets in the dust. Reports say they can accelerate instantaneously. There is also some sort of bias against anyone who claims he or she has seen a UFO. Mainstream news outlets and scientists very rarely mention UFOs at all. Of course I can also look at this from the skeptics' point of view. Good evidence is almost nowhere to be found. There are too many nutcases who only disrupt credible UFOlogists and other people who genuinely want to see if there's something to this phenomenon. Frankly, the only chance I see of there being a real concern about this in mainstream news is if the aliens decide to fly their ships in broad daylight over the White House or any other famous landmark. You may think that all we can do is just wait and see, but the government is almost surely aware of the fact that UFOs are a genuine concern. We can do something about all the questions we have about these objects. Whether you want to disprove or prove that these UFOs are alien crafts or not, an official investigation should be launched.

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