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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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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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...
02-07-2016
UFO Close Encounter at Valensole, France in 1965
UFO Close Encounter at Valensole, France in 1965
Conspiracy theories will always fascinate us for many years to come. The exciting part of Conspiracy theory is that it gives us information that not too many people know, or not everyone is going to believe. It usually connects to the UFO. In July of 1965, Maurice Masse, a farmer in In Valensole, France claimed seeing two children standing in the field. Masse noticed an unusual object close by when he approached the alleged “children.”
Maurice Masse
As described, the children have large bald heads, slanted huge eyes, and pasty faces. He added that the children wore coveralls, and one of them was carrying a tube-like tool. Masse claimed that a strange object hit him which disabled him. At first, he was reluctant to report his incident, but later on, he did. In an interview, a drawing representative of an object was submitted to Maurice. The object shows how it landed in New Mexico and was seen by policeman Lonnie Zamora, who made a sketch later.
According to the farmer, he cannot grow anything in the incident’s area for years to come. Despite the strong proof and testimony, neither the Zamora more Masse case has proven extraterrestrial being’s existence. Particularly, in the Zamora case, it is not certain that some unusual space craft with occupants did land. Dr. J. Allen Hynek offers no explanation for Zamora’s sighting, but he believes every word that he said. There is nothing wrong with believing someone else’s thoughts, but the danger is when you induce the people to believe, with all the best efforts, that the alleged sighting was indeed some extraterrestrial beings.
What if Zamora’s evidence is weak, and the phenomenon is not extraterrestrial in origin? Irrespective of the facts, we can always create a hypothesis because they were no conclusions yet.
The document discloses that part of a "vehicle from outer space" was found by a pilot.
Yesterday Express.co.uk revealed how a top UFO researcher had dared the US Government to charge him after he went public with his own Wikkileaks of 11 pages of top-secret explosive UFO files from American and Canada.
Among the papers Victor Viggiani revealed at the first Canadian National Inquiry into UFOs in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, was a confidential memo dated November 14 1968.
The Criminal Investigation Burea (CIB) F Division document was headlined "Re UFO found in Northern Saskatchewan".
The document said on October 17 the same year, a Mr J Hodges regional representative, of the associate committee on meteorites of the National Research Council of Canada, had taken a "small metal fragment" which was found by an unnamed pilot to the Crime Detection Laboratory.
It said it was found in the Wollaston Lake area, 450 miles northeast of Prince Albert, near the Manitoba border.
Examination revealed the exhibit had likely formed part of a vehicle that travelled in outer space.
CIB memo
The document said: "Examination revealed the exhibit had likely formed part of a vehicle that travelled in outer space."
It is unclear what further examination was carried out on the object, but the memo said that Mr Hodges was due to take it to the National Research Council in Ottowa.
Photographs are understood to have been taken, but have yet to resurface.
UFO investigators are treating the document as significant in the history of the quest for proof that Earth is visited by intelligent aliens.
But sceptics have argued without further information, there is nothing to suggest it may not have been part of a satellite or space rocket that had been sent into noter space by humans and then re-entered our atmosphere.
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NORAD documents reveal 75 UFO intercepts annually
NORAD documents reveal 75 UFO intercepts annually
by Roger Marsh
Victor Viggiani
North America’s Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracks an average of 1,800 UFOs annually and intercepts about 75 times each year, according to Canadian Access to Information Act (AIA) documents recently released to UFO Disclosure Advocate Victor Viggiani.
No one at NORAD is saying these were UFOs – but instead, they refer to unidentified objects as Tracks of Interest (TOI) or Unknown Tracks.
Viggiani spoke Saturday night, June 25, 2016, at the Alien Cosmic Expo in Ontario, Canada, and copied panel members on the 11 documents he is in possession of.
NORAD is the North American Aerospace Defense Command – a combined U.S. and Canada organization – that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense of North America. NORAD is located at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, CO.
In response to Viggiani’s request for documents pertaining to NORAD tracking or intercepting UFOs, a letter from NORAD Operations details how requests for information on Unknown Tracks cannot be released due to their sensitive nature due to national security. But the letter does provide a summation from the NORAD Commander.
“However, the NORAD Commander has approved the release of the following information regarding Tracks of Interest (TOI) and Unknown Tracks. The yearly average in the past five years has been 1,800 TOIs and 75 intercepts.”
In addition to this letter, Viggiani also received a six-page document as an example of a TOI.
Reached at his home in Toronto today, Viggiani said this particular document is very revealing, but also leaves a number of unanswered questions.
The document is a NORAD status report, which uses a line-item approach as details are available to be reported. Some of the lines are redacted or blocked out so that they cannot be seen. In one area they outline how an intercept was ordered on three objects.
“The missing information,” Viggiani said, “is obviously what did they see when they intercepted?”
Viggiani is the News Director of international news service Zland Communications. From his biography:
“His study of anomalous aerial phenomenon, research and analysis of Extraterrestrial issues spans over 30 years. His experience involves UFO sightings report investigation, academic and radio journalism with a primary focus on UFO/ET government Disclosure. Victor has addressed the media and audiences in Sydney and Brisbane Australia, Washington D.C., at the Washington D.C. National Press Club, CBC and CTV Toronto television news programs and at Convocation Hall University of Toronto. Victor is a co-host on the Richard Syrett Show on AM 740 Radio in Toronto.”
The 11 documents – including 15 pages – can be seen here for review.
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein had only just published his revolutionary new theory of gravity, atomic nuclei were entirely mysterious, and quantum “theory” was a tissue of guesswork. Superconductivity, the nature of the chemical bond, and the energy source of stars were riddles that baffled physics.
And then there were the unknown unknowns: Big Bang cosmology, black holes, quarks, gluons, the triumph of symmetry and its breaking, radio, television, masers, lasers, transistors, nuclear magnetic resonance, the eruption of microelectronics and telecommunications…and, of course, nuclear bombs. We’ve come a long way. It is safe to say that 100 years ago no one could remotely have anticipated modern physics, and certainly no one did.
A century ago, the Higgs field, seen here in an artist's conception, hadn't even been theorized.
Today we have much deeper understanding of the physical world, providing (I think) a much more stable platform from which to launch futuristic speculations. Indeed, a physicist transported from 50 years ago to today would not be nearly so clueless, and one transported from 25 years ago could get up to speed in short order. So today, thinking 100 years ahead may not be entirely silly.
In any case, for me, the point of thinking about the long-term future of physics is not to generate accurate predictions, as in a business plan. That’s not a realistic goal. Rather, its value is as an exercise in disciplined imagination. It leads us to questions that could be fruitful: What are the weak points in our current understanding and practices? What are the growth areas in technique and capability? And where are the sweet spots where those two meet?
These explorations will take us in two main directions. One, wherein we seek to perfect our understanding of fundamentals, is the direction of depth We will find hidden connections among aspects of the world that at present seem separate: superficially different forces—force and substance, material and spacetime, history and law, information and action, mind and matter. The other, wherein we apply our knowledge, is the direction of growth. We will vastly expand the human sensorium. We will develop self-repairing, self-assembling, and self-reproducing machines will be developed, enabling the emergence of titanic computers and engineering projects. Advanced numerical and quantum simulations, augmenting more sophisticated understanding of matter, will revolutionize chemistry, medicine, and materials science—and usher in the age of quantum intelligence. Artists and scientists will collaborate to create beauty in rich new forms.
Part 1: Unifications
In the past, many of the greatest advances have been unifications of apparently disparate subjects. Among them: Descartes linked algebra and geometry, Galileo and Newton inextricably tied celestial physics with its terrestrial counterpart, Maxwell unified electromagnetism and optics, Einstein and Hermann Minkowski unified space and time.
Less celebrated and more subtle, but especially resonant today, is William Rowan Hamilton’s mathematical unification of mechanics with optics. At its inception, in the 1830s, this was an esthetically pleasing exercise, but one that contained no new physics. Yet 50 years later, Hamilton’s ideas supplied the foundation of statistical mechanics, and 100 years later they became central to quantum theory.
In each of those historic unifications, and several others, the whole proved to be more than the sum of its parts. Unification has been a fruitful, as well as a successful, enterprise. In that spirit, I will now describe seven different sorts of unification that I expect to enrich physics over the next century.
Unification I: Forces
Imagine finding a piece of paper that’s been cut just so. Look below—it has 12 regular pentagons, suggestively connected. Obviously, you’ve stumbled across an object that is meant to be folded up into a dodecahedron.
An object that’s begging to be folded into a dodecahedron.
But suppose some evil spirit erased part of the unfolded dodecahedron to make the following mystery object.
When the preceding object is partially obscured, its meaning is less obvious.
Now it gets harder to recognize what it should be. Most people, perhaps not having thought about dodecahedra recently, wouldn’t know what to make of that peculiar thing. But if you remembered about regular solids and dodecahedra, you might say, “Well, it is very special that we have pentagons, and that they are connected in this particular way, so I guess this is meant to be a dodecahedron, but somebody has erased part of it.” Brilliant deduction! Keep that in mind.
Our Core Theory—what many call the Standard Model—contains the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces and describes an enormous wealth of facts—hard, quantitative realities about the physical world—in a compact set of equations. It would be difficult to exaggerate the precision, the power, or—when you spell it out properly—the beauty of that account. But physicists are not satisfied. Precisely because we’re getting close to nature’s last word, we should judge what we see by high standards.
Scrutinized in that spirit, the Core challenges us to do better. It contains three mathematically similar but independent forces: the strong force (which holds nuclei together), the weak force (which generally governs radioactive decay), and the electromagnetic force. Gravity is a fourth force, which is different in character from the others; we will come back to it shortly. In a coherent description of nature, we would like to have just one rule, one fundamental animating principle. Three (or four) is more than one, so we’re not there yet.
And after we organize the fundamental quarks and leptons into groups—linking those that are connected by the different forces—we get six separate groups, which is way more than we’d like. It’s as if we have been presented with that partial realization of a dodecahedron, with something erased. We would like to make it whole.
The mathematics of the possible symmetry of objects in space gives us just five distinct Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron, and of course the dodecahedron. It prompts us to infer an underlying dodecahedron from partial, distorted evidence. Can we do something similar, to fulfill hidden symmetry latent in the equations of fundamental physics?
We can indeed. There are only a few possibilities for symmetries that perfect the Core, just as there are only a few Platonic solids. We can try them out and see whether any of them fit the bill. As it happens, one candidate does stand out, unifying the known particles and forces most beautifully.¹ If we expand the equations in this way, then there is so much symmetry that all the known forces can be transformed into one other, as can all the known particles. So we really have just one force and just one substance. Awesome!
These bold ideas have already scored a successful prediction. They suggested the existence of tiny but non-zero masses for neutrinos before such masses were observed experimentally. And, as we’ll discuss momentarily, they may provide a quantitative explanation for the relative strengths of the different fundamental forces.
That trinity of success—the “derivation” of the patchwork pattern of substance particles, the prediction of small but non-zero neutrino masses, and, contingently, the quantitative explanation of the relative strengths of the different forces (strong, weak, and electromagnetic)—is, I think, extremely impressive. It is difficult to believe that it is accidental.
The proposed unification of forces, however, raises important challenges. Our unification theories predict events and particles that have not yet been observed.
That’s a good thing! It means that the theories are suggesting ways we might enrich our perception of nature. It also means that they have genuine content—they are “falsifiable”. We can look for those undiscovered particles and events. If they are observed, we will have learned something new about nature. (If not, we will have learned something about ourselves—namely, that we entertained some wrong ideas.) For many of us, this is familiar territory. Within recent memory, neutrinos, gluon jets, charmed quarks, and Higgs particles were unfulfilled promises of the Core itself. Their discovery crowned its triumph.
The missing events are decays of protons. As yet experimenters have not witnessed any, despite heroic efforts. They must, and will, try harder. Unification theory suggests that in 100 years physicists will be awash in proton decay data and theorizing over its finer points.
Unification II: Force and Substance
The unification of forces, even if it were perfected, would leave us with two great particle kingdoms. Technically, these are the fermion and boson kingdoms. More poetically, we may call them the kingdoms of substance (fermions) and of force (bosons).
By postulating that the fundamental equations enjoy the property of supersymmetry, we transcend that division. Supersymmetry postulates profound symmetry between the two kingdoms.
The mathematical transformations of supersymmetry are most vividly described as motion into strange new dimensions: the quantum dimensions of superspace. When a force particle jumps into superspace, it becomes a substance particle. Conversely, when a substance particle jumps into superspace, it becomes a force particle. While many properties, such as electric and color charges, are unaltered by the jump, its mass changes. So we will have, for example, a force (boson) version of electrons called selectrons, Similarly, there are squarks, photinos, gluinos, and so forth.
Can we peer into this superspace, and see those superpartners? Experimenters are now trying to do just that, at the LHC. So far none of those hypothetical superpartners has been observed directly, but promising efforts continue. Meanwhile, there is tantalizing indirect evidence, linked to the unification of forces. We can summarize it in a pair of iconic images:
Without supersymmetry, forces don't unify.
But with supersymmetry (also known as SUSY), forces unify at high energy
Unification of forces requires that the basic strength of those forces should be equal. As we currently observe them, they are not. But it is possible that the inequality is due to the relatively low resolution of our probes. The underlying, most basic forces are blurred by quantum fluctuations—specifically, by fluctuations in the quantum fluids that create and destroy particles. We can calculate the effects of such fluctuations. That is the sort of thing I got the Nobel Prize for. If we take into account the known particles, we find that they don’t lead to accurate force unification. But if we add in blurring due to their (hypothetical) superpartners, the forces unify beautifully.
Gravity, too, comes into focus. As it acts between elementary particles at ordinary energies, gravity is absurdly smaller than the other forces. But gravity responds directly to energy, and we find that when we extrapolate its behavior to the extreme energies where unification of the other three forces occurs, gravity has comparable strength.
This stunning success, which brings fulfillment to both of our first two unifications, cannot be coincidental. Accordingly I think that supersymmetric partners will be observed, well within 100 years. Their study will open up a new golden age for particle physics.
Unification III: Spacetime and Matter
The near-equality of gravity’s strength with the strength of the other forces powerfully suggests that there should be a unified theory including all four forces.
String theory may offer a framework in which such four-force unification can be achieved. A vast amount of work has been done in that direction, so far with inconclusive results. It would be disappointing if string theory does not, in future years, make more direct contact with the reality we observe in our experiments. There are many possibilities, including some hint of additional spatial dimensions, the discovery of fundamental strings themselves (either left over from the Big Bang or produced at accelerators), or the deduction of some known but otherwise mysterious quantity within the Core.²
With more confidence, we can anticipate an “operational” intermingling of matter and spacetime. The age of gravitational wave astronomy is just around the corner.
Because it is difficult for matter to bend space-time significantly, gravitational waves, in general, open a clear window into the most extreme and violent events in the universe. The LIGO II detector, soon to come on line, should have enough sensitivity to pick up signals from neutron star and black hole mergers. Known technology will support future generations of improved gravitational wave detectors.
I expect that gravity waves will evolve into a powerful, versatile tool for astrophysical and cosmological exploration. Many sources will be identified, and our knowledge of neutron stars and black holes will reach new levels of detail.
Unification IV: Evolution and Origin
At present our fundamental laws are dynamical laws. They describe how a given state of the world evolves, with the passage of time, into another. They can also, in principle, be used to extrapolate backward in time.
Those procedures of prediction and reconstruction may become impractical, or impossible, for several reasons. For one, we cannot observe everything in existence. Some parts of the universe are so far away that none of their light has had time to reach us, limiting our view beyond the “horizon.” Another reason, and one that’s closer to home, is that quantum mechanics is a powerful constraint: its primary description of nature, the wave function, cannot be probed without disturbing it. Lastly, small uncertainties in the initial conditions grow in time, aggravating these difficulties. This is what makes it hard to predict weather, for example.
A major part of the art of physics (notably including thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, not to mention the physical branches of engineering) consists in finding ways to work around those limitations. One identifies, amidst the inaccessible and unwieldy complexity of full state description, emergent concepts and objects that evolve in robust, comprehensible ways. With the help of computers, this art will no doubt advance dramatically over the next 100 years, as I’ll discuss further below. But horizons, quantum uncertainty, and sensitivity to small differences in initial conditions can only be finessed, not eliminated.
Practicalities aside, tension between the “God’s-eye” view of reality comprehended as a whole and the “ant’s eye” view of human consciousness, which senses a succession of events in time, is a recurrent theme in natural philosophy.
Since Newton’s time, the ant’s eye view has dominated fundamental physics. We divide the description of the world into dynamical laws that, paradoxically, live outside of time, and initial conditions upon which those laws act. The dynamical laws do not determine which initial conditions describe reality.
That division has been enormously useful and successful pragmatically. But on the other hand, it leaves us far short of a full scientific account of the world as we know it. For the answer, “Things are what they are because they were what they were,” begs the question, “Why were things that way and not any other?”
In the light of relativity theory, the God’s eye view seems, much more natural. There, we learn to consider space-time as an organic whole, whose different aspects are related by symmetries that are awkward to express when experience is carved into time-slices. Hermann Weyl expressed this memorably:
The objective world simply is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling along the lifeline of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time.
I predict that, in 100 years, Weyl’s vision—which, in essence, goes back to the Greek philosophers Parmenides and Plato—will be fully vindicated, as the fundamental laws will no longer admit arbitrary initial conditions. “What is” and “what happens” will be understood as inseparable aspects of a single, trans-temporal reality.
Unification V: Action and Information
Information plays a large and increasing role in our description of the world. Many of the terms that arise naturally in discussions of information have a distinctly physical character. For example, we commonly speak of density of information and flow of information. Yet on the face of it information is an abstract concept, not tied to specific aspects of physical reality.
Looking deeper, however, we find that there are far-reaching analogies between information and a very specific physical quantity, namely (negative) entropy. This was noted already in Claude Shannon’s original work, where he introduced the modern technical definition of information. Nowadays, many discussions of the microphysical origin of entropy—and of foundations of statistical mechanics in general—start from discussions of information and ignorance. I think it is fair to say that there has already been a unification fusing the physical quantity entropy and the conceptual quantity information.
Entropy, in turn, has mysterious connections to the basic quantity, action, that we use to formulate our most fundamental laws of physics. Very roughly speaking, action is what you get from entropy when you allow time to become animaginary number. Unfortunately, existing proofs of that connection are indirect and technically involved. In other words, we don’t yet understand it properly.
I suspect that the connection goes very deep, and that over the next century fundamental action principles, and thus the dynamical laws of physics, will be re-interpreted as statements about information and its transformations.
Unification VI: Mind and Matter
Although many details remain to be elucidated, it seems fair to say that metabolism and reproduction, two of the most characteristic features of life, are now broadly understood at the molecular level as physical processes. Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA’s structure, put forward the “astonishing hypothesis” that it will be possible to bring understanding of basic psychology, including biological cognitive processing, memory, motivation, and emotion, to a comparable level.
One might call that “reduction” of mind to matter. But mind is what it is, and what it is will not be diminished for being physically understood. I’d be thrilled to understand how I work—what a trip!
To me, it seems both prettier and more sensible to regard the astonishing hypothesis as anticipating the richness of behavior that matter can exhibit. Given the astonishing thing that physics has taught us matter is, I’m confident it is up to the job.
In 100 years, biological memory, cognitive processing, motivation, and emotion will be understood at the molecular level. And if physics evolves to describe matter in terms of information, as we discussed earlier, a circle of ideas will have closed. Mind will have become more matter-like, and matter will have become more mind-like.
Part 2: Vistas in Technology
Making Things (Micro)
The quantum revolution gave this revelation: We’ve finally learned what matter is. The Core Theory completes, for practical purposes, the analysis of matter. Using it, we can deduce what sorts of atomic nuclei, atoms, molecules—and stars—exist. And we can reliably orchestrate the behavior of larger assemblies of these elements, to make transistors, lasers, or Large Hadron Colliders. The equations of the Core Theory have been tested with far greater accuracy, and under far more extreme conditions, than are required for applications in chemistry, biology, engineering, or astrophysics. While there certainly are many things we don’t understand, we do understand the matter we’re made from and that we encounter in normal life—even if we’re chemists, engineers, or astrophysicists.
Are there materials that will support space elevators? Are there room temperature superconductors? Can we re-invigorate Moore’s Law? Those questions, and any number of others, will become accessible as computers do for chemistry what they have already done for aircraft design: supplementing and ultimately supplanting laboratory experimentation with computation. Calculation will increasingly replace experimentation in the design of useful materials, catalysts, and drugs, empowering greater efficiency and new opportunities for creativity.
As conventional chemistry becomes supercharged, the frontier of controlled miniaturization will advance by many orders of magnitude. In recent years, we have seen the beginnings of first-principles nuclear physics.³ Very recently, a major landmark was reached as the neutron-proton mass difference was calculated with decent accuracy. Calculation of many nuclear properties from fundamentals will reach < 1% accuracy, allowing much more accurate modeling of supernovae and of neutron stars. Physicists will learn to manipulate atomic nuclei dexterously, as they now manipulate atoms. This will enable, for example, ultra-dense energy storage and ultra-high energy lasers.
Making Things (Meso)
Present-day mainstream computers are essentially two-dimensional. They are based on chips that must be produced under exacting clean room conditions since any fault can be fatal to their operation. If they are damaged, their loss of function is permanent.
Human brains differ in all those respects: they are three-dimensional, they are produced in messy, loosely-controlled conditions, and they can work around faults or injuries. There are strong incentives to achieve those features in systems that retain the density, speed, and scalability of semiconductor technology, and there is no clear barrier to doing so. Thus, capable three-dimensional, fault-tolerant, self-repairing computers will be developed in the next 100 years. In engineering those features, we will also learn lessons relevant to neurobiology.
In a similar vein, we may aspire to make body-like machines as well as brain-like computers. We will develop self-assembling, self-reproducing, and autonomously creative machines. Their design will adapt both ideas and physical modules from the biological world.
Making Things (Macro)
Combining those ideas, we will enable bootstrap engineering: Machines, starting from crude raw materials—and with minimal human supervision—will build other sophisticated machines. This strategy can support exponentially ambitious projects, such as the conversion of vast deserts into titanic computers (as imagined by Olaf Stapledon) and gigantic energy collectors (as imagined by Freeman Dyson).
Freeman Dyson famously imagined “Dyson spheres,” whereby all or most of the energy of a star would be captured by a surrounding shell or a cloud of interceptors, for use by an advanced technological civilization. While that remains a distant prospect, the capture and use of a substantial part of solar energy impinging on Earth may be a necessity for human civilization as we wean ourselves from carbon fuels.
Fortunately, it seems eminently feasible that, within 100 years, we will channel a substantial fraction of the sun’s ambient energy to our own purposes.
Enhanced Sensoria
Human perception leaves a lot on the table. Consider, for example, color vision.
Whereas the electromagnetic signals arriving at our eyes contain a continuous range of frequencies, and also polarization, what we perceive as “color” is a crude hash encoding, where the power spectrum is lumped into three bins and polarization is ignored. Compared our perception of sound, where we do a proper frequency analysis and can appreciate distinct tones within chords, it is impoverished. Also, we are insensitive to frequencies outside the visible range, including ultraviolet and infrared. Many other animals do finer sampling. There is valuable information about our natural environment—not to mention possibilities for data visualization and art—to be gained by expanding color perception.
Modern microelectronics offers attractive possibilities for accessing this information. By appropriate transformations, we can encode it in our existing channels in a sort of induced synesthesia. We will vastly expand the human sensorium, opening the doors of perception.
Physicists often, and rightly, admire the beauty of their concepts and equations. On the other hand, humans are intensely visual creatures. It will be fruitful, and great fun, to use modern resources of signal processing and computer graphics to translate the beautiful concepts and equations of physics into new forms of art. Then, physicists will be able to bring their visual cortices fully to bear on them, and people in general will be able to admire and enjoy them. In the future, artists and scientists will work together more together, and create new works of extraordinary beauty.
Quantum Sensoria, Quantum Minds
Quantum mechanics reveals other unseen riches. Perhaps the most characteristic quantum effect, which expands its state space exponentially, is entanglement. But entanglement is both delicate and (since it involves correlations) subtle to observe, so our exploration of that central feature of the quantum world is only now properly commencing. New kinds of observables will open to view, and new states of matter will be revealed. Measurement of entanglement, and measurement exploiting entanglement, will become major branches of physics.
Quantum computing requires detailed control of entanglement, and the diagnostics of quantum computing will call on techniques to measure entanglement.⁴ Quantum computers supporting thousands of qubits will become real and useful.
Artificial intelligence, in general, offers strange new possibilities for the life of mind. An entity capable of accurately recording its state could purposefully enter loops to relive especially enjoyable episodes, for example. A quantum mind could experience the superposition of “mutually contradictory” states or allow different parts of its wave function to explore vastly different scenarios in parallel. Being based on reversible computation, such a mind could revisit the past at will and could be equipped to superpose past and present.
And who knows, maybe a quantum mind will even understand quantum mechanics!
This piece is adapted from a more technical presentation, “Physics in 100 Years,” which is available at the arXiv. In my forthcoming book, A Beautiful Question (Penguin), several of the ideas sketched here are considered treated more deeply and developed further.
It is based on the group SO(10) and its spinor representation. ↩
These can include the ratio of electron and muon masses, the value of the fine structure constant, or even the number—i.e., three—of different families. ↩
Based on direct numerical solution of the equations of QCD and QED. ↩
Quantum computers could be of great service in solving the equations of quantum chemistry—to me, a more inspiring prospect than factoring large numbers. ↩
Alien-like sea creature discovered 12,139-feet deep near Mariana Trench
Alien-like sea creature discovered 12,139-feet deep near Mariana Trench
Published on May 1, 2016
Alien-like jellyfish found near the Mariana Trench resembles a ghost from arcade game Pac-Man. A glowing, alien-like sea creature that slightly resembles the ghost in the arcade game Pac-Man was spotted by researchers as it floated by their underwater camera during the 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Mariana Trench this week.
The bizarre sea creature was discovered by NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer on Dive 4 at 12,139 feet on the Enigma Seamount near the Mariana Trench (known as the deepest part of the world’s oceans with a maximum depth of 36,070 feet). It is located near Guam in the western Pacific Ocean. Latest Uploads From The Cosmos News https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Juno-update: magnetisch veld bereikt, nieuwe foto & radiostilte
Juno-update: magnetisch veld bereikt, nieuwe foto & radiostilte
Tim Kraaijvanger
De Juno-ruimtesonde heeft op 24 juni de magnetosfeer van Jupiter bereikt. Binnen de magnetosfeer wordt de beweging van deeltjes in de ruimte bepaald door wat er in de kern van de gasplaneet gebeurt.
“We zijn nu op het erf van Jupiter”, zegt onderzoeker Scott Bolton. “We reizen razendsnel naar deze planeet en verzamelen nu al interessante data.”
De grens van de magnetosfeer is duidelijk terug te zien in de data. Een paar dagen geleden vloog Juno nog door een omgeving met één deeltje per kubieke centimeter. In de magnetosfeer van Jupiter zweven er honderd keer zo weinig deeltjes in de ruimte. Dit geldt overigens alleen voor het gebied kort na de grens. Dichter bij Jupiter neemt het aantal deeltjes per kubieke centimeter weer toe.
Nieuwe foto Op 28 juni maakte het ruimtevaartuig nog een schitterende foto van Jupiter en drie van de vier grootste Joviaanse manen. De Grote Rode Vlek is al duidelijk te zien op Jupiter, net als enkele donkerbruine wolkenbanden. Daarnaast zijn de manen Europa, Io en Ganymedes geen stipjes meer, maar bolletjes.
Radiostilte Gisteravond om 21:15 uur is voor het laatst een commando verzonden naar de Juno-ruimtesonde. Het ruimtevaartuig schakelde succesvol over op de automatische piloot en zal de komende dagen zelfstandig bepaalde acties uitvoeren. De belangrijkste manoeuvre is het opstarten van de stuwraket op 5 juli tijdens de aankomst bij Jupiter. Of dit lukt? Dat weten we pas dinsdag!
Een kolonie starten op Mars is geen leuk, vrijblijvend onderzoeksprojectje. Het gaat ooit gewoon gebeuren. Maar is het op korte termijn ook echt al haalbaar?
Veel mensen zijn ervan overtuigd dat onze soort uiteindelijk deze planeet in gaat ruilen voor een andere planeet, waarschijnlijk Mars. Op de vraag waarom we de aarde achter ons zouden laten, klinkt dan vaak het argument van ‘totale vernietiging’. We maken onze planeet kapot, putten deze uit en zullen uiteindelijk genoodzaakt zijn om elders onze tenten op te slaan. Maar als we de gerenommeerde journalist Stephen L. Petranek moeten geloven zal dat niet het voornaamste argument zijn om de aarde achter te laten. Nee, de voornaamste reden is geld. “We zullen gaan om dezelfde reden als Spanjaarden die naar de Nieuwe Wereld trokken en boeren die naar Sutter’s Mill in Californië gingen: om rijk te worden,” zo schrijft hij in zijn fascinerende boekje ‘Hoe we zullen leven op Mars‘. “Sommigen zullen geld verdienen door anderen erheen te brengen.” Anderen zullen het waarschijnlijk als een uitvalsbasis gebruiken voor verdere verkenning en exploitatie van planetoïden. “In de planetoïdengordel tussen Mars en Jupiter bevinden zich delfstoffen ter waarde van 100 miljard dollar voor elke huidige aardbewoner.”
Met z’n tienduizenden naar Mars Reden genoeg om naar de rode planeet te vertrekken, zou je zo denken. Maar is het starten van een kolonie op Mars wel haalbaar? Al heel wat knappe koppen hebben zich over dat vraagstuk gebogen. Elon Musk bijvoorbeeld. Oprichter van SpaceX en gespecialiseerd in het doen van het onmogelijke (bijvoorbeeld in krap tien jaar tijd een ruimteschip ontwikkelen en naar het ISS sturen). Hij ziet het werkelijk al voor zich: een kolonie op Mars. Het vervoerssysteem dat de eerste mensen daar moet brengen, zou voor 2030 klaar moeten zijn. En tussen 2030 en 2050 kunnen dan tien expedities worden georganiseerd en tienduizenden mensen op de rode planeet worden afgezet. Uiteindelijk ziet Musk zelfs een zwerm ruimtevaartuigen voor zich die in één klap 80.000 mensen op Mars afzetten. En dat om de twee jaar. Voor je het weet, is Mars een planeet met een niet gering aantal bewoners.
Een goeie manier om af te rekenen met de schadelijke straling aan het oppervlak van Mars: de Marsbasis onder de grond aanleggen!
Afbeelding: NASA.
Hindernissen Klinkt geweldig, maar natuurlijk zijn er struikelblokken. Hoe komen we daar aan water? Aan zuurstof? Aan voedsel? En hoe beschermen we ons tegen de gevaarlijke straling die – Mars heeft maar een dunne atmosfeer – het oppervlak bereikt? Dat zijn allemaal hindernissen. Maar wel hindernissen die – met de technologie van vandaag de dag – de komende tijd weggenomen kunnen worden. En mocht één van die hindernissen te hoog zijn, dan kunnen we in het uiterste geval nog overwegen niet Mars aan de mens, maar de mens aan Mars aan te passen, zo oppert Petranek. Wat sleutelen aan de genen van astronauten om te zorgen dat ze beter bestand zijn tegen straling of uit de voeten kunnen met een atmosfeer die grotendeels uit CO2 bestaat. Ingrijpend, maar volgens Petranek moeten we “die krachten aangrijpen om ons voortbestaan veilig te stellen”.
Ruimtevaartuig Dragon – eigendom van SpaceX – op Mars. Een artistieke impressie van de hand van Kevin Gill
(via Wikimedia Commons).
Geld Als we Musk moeten geloven, zijn de eerder genoemde hindernissen – gebrek aan zuurstof, beschikbaarheid van water, straling, noem maar op – niet eens de grootste struikelblokken. Het allergrootste struikelblok is geld. Want naar Mars vliegen, is zeker niet goedkoop. Musk schat dat zijn bedrijf SpaceX voorzichtig winst kan gaan maken op het aanbieden van een enkeltje Mars als een kaartje 500.000 euro kost. Een flink bedrag, maar Musk twijfelt er niet aan dat er genoeg mensen zijn die dat willen en kunnen neertellen. Hij benadrukt nog maar eens dat het om enkeltjes gaat: mensen kunnen dus rustig hun hele hebben en houden op aarde verkopen en vervolgens zo’n enkeltje aanschaffen. Het zijn van die dingen die mensen in hun midlife-crisis zomaar in hun hoofd kunnen halen. En als 1 op de 10.000 of 1 op de 100.000 aardbewoners dat doet, dan wordt het toch een lucratieve handel. Het financieren van zo’n kolonie op Mars is dus lastig, maar niet onmogelijk, zolang er maar genoeg animo is. En animo om voorgoed naar de rode planeet te gaan, is er, zo bleek in 2013. Meer dan 165.000 mensen meldden zich aan bij Mars One, een organisatie die mensen in 2025 op Mars wil zetten (maar volgens Petranek nog altijd de financiering daarvoor niet rond heeft).
Deze artistieke impressie laat zien hoe Mars One zo’n kolonie op Mars voor zich ziet.
Afbeelding: Mars One.
Terug naar de hoofdvraag: mogen we op korte termijn verwachten dat mensen op Mars gaan wonen? Petranek kan niet duidelijker zijn. “Binnen 20 jaar wonen er mensen op Mars.” Hij stelt daarbij zijn vertrouwen met name op Musk. De beste man heeft concrete plannen die weliswaar grootser zijn dan die van elke andere ruimtevaartorganisatie, maar tegelijkertijd ook aardig doordacht zijn. Bovendien moeten we niet vergeten dat Musk wel vaker grootse ideeën op indrukwekkende wijze (en snel!) werkelijkheid liet worden. Het beste voorbeeld is misschien wel zijn Tesla dat lacherig werd ontvangen, maar hard bezig is de elektrische autobranche te veroveren. Maar of het nu Musk wordt. Of Mars One. Of NASA. Naar Mars gaan we. En waarschijnlijk veel sneller dan je denkt.
Kort maar bondig stipt Petranek alle hindernissen en uitdagingen die we onderweg naar een kolonie op Mars kunnen tegenkomen, aan. Maar dat niet alleen: hij legt ook op nuchtere wijze uit dat ge }en van die hindernissen ons werkelijk tegen zullen kunnen houden. Mars, we komen eraan! Petranek is erin geslaagd op een prettig leesbare en laagdrempelige manier de toch wel vrij ingewikkelde weg naar Mars te schetsen en van commentaar te voorzien. En dat allemaal zoals gezegd kort en bondig. Hoe we zullen leven op Mars is namelijk een TED-boekje: bedoeld om in een dagdeel te verslinden. Het is lastig voor te stellen dat je na een middagje van de hoed en de rand weet als het gaat om het koloniseren van Mars, maar het kan echt, zo bewijst Petranek.
One of our favorite photographer’s of space, the Hubble Space Telescope, has just had its contract extended by NASA.
The announcement by NASA will see the Hubble Space Telescope fly for five more years, until June 30, 2021, in a move that will ultimately cost $200 million.
Interesting enough, the more powerful James Webb Space Telescope is set to launch in 2018, meaning that the two will overlap for a few years which is great news for lovers of space.
One of the most intriguing ancient texts, the Tulli Papyrus chronicles one of the earliest mass UFO sightings.
It also has an interesting backstory. In 1933, Alberto Tulli, director of the Egyptology section of the Vatican Museum, discovered a unique papyrus in one of Cairo’s antique shops. Unfortunately, it was priced too high – even for the Vatican – so Tulli resorted to copying down its contents.
When he later returned, the papyrus was gone. Two decades later, Italian Egyptologist Prince Boris de Rachewiltz announced that he had located the original papyrus “untranslated and unpublished.”
The original papyrus has been translated by Boris de Rachewiltz and several others. The content seems to revolve around “circles of fire” that flew through the sky on two separate occasions, separated by a few days.
The so-called “circles of fire” might possibly be explained by natural phenomena; however the interpretation of the text points to “fiery disks” and while incomplete, the ancient papyrus painted a pretty clear picture of mass UFO sightings.
Below Rachewiltz’s translation of the Tulli Papyrus:
In the year 22 third month of winter, sixth hour of the day the scribas of the House of Life found it was a circle of fire that was coming in the sky (Though) it had no head, the breadth of its mouth (had) a foul odour.
Its body 1 rod long (about 150 feet) and 1 rod large, It had no voice… They hearts become confused through it, then they laid themselves on the bellies
They went to the King ..?) to report it. His Majesty ordered – has been examined – as to all which is written in the papyrus-rolls of the House Of Life His Majesty was meditating upon what happened. Now, after some days had passed over these things, Lo! they were more numerous than anything. They were shining in the sky more than the sun to the limits of the four supports of heaven.
Powerful was the position of the fire circles. The army of the king looked on and His Majesty was in the midst of it. It was after supper. Thereupon, they (i.e. the fire circles) went up higher directed to South. Fishes and volatiles fell down from the sky. (It was) a marvel never occurred since the foundation of this Land! Caused His Majesty to be brought incense to pacify the hearth – to what happened in the book of the House of Life – to be remembered?) for the Eternity.
For over four years, the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library project has been photographing and digitizing the tens of thousands of tiny remnants of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scanning is finally completed and a preliminary analysis of previously illegible text has opened the scrolls to new interpretation, starting with a section that describes Noah’s Ark as being pyramid-shaped. Does someone need to notify theCreation Museum and theArk Encounter?
Dr. Alexey Yuditsky of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library project presented some of its findings at the recent Eighth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira and Related Fields. The researchers used advanced imaging technology from MegaVision to take 28 photographs of each scroll fragment, varying the wavelengths and resolution. At the near-infrared wavelength level, the camera was able to read characters that had become invisible to the naked eye.
The findings on what the newly-found text said will surely cause controversy among biblical scholars and Noah’s Ark fans. Yuditsky says a previously illegible word having to do with “the ark’s tallness” is believed to be “ne’esefet,” which means “gathered.” He believes the writer was describing how the ark’s roof beams gathered or met at a point, forming a pyramid shape. While other writings have also painted the ark as a pyramid, this would be the earliest.
Photographing the scroll fragments
Another sure-to-be controversial fragment that is now readable describes how sins might be forgiven just like monetary debts are forgiven, leading researcher Chanan Ariel to believe it refers to paying money for forgiveness, an activity similar to the medieval practice of indulgence selling, one of the targets of the Protestant Reformation. Is this proof that it may have once been biblically approved?
Before and after image of a Dead Sea Scroll fragment
The new analysis also helps clarify the meaning of vague words like “ptil.” In one of the many sex-related stories in the Old Testament, the book of Genesis tells the tale of Judah having sex with his daughter-in-law who is disguised as a prostitute. He paid her with his “ptil” and two now-legible fragments say that “ptil is his belt.” Now his wife finally knows why he came home smelling like cheap perfume with his pants falling down.
The project is ongoing as Dr. Yuditsky says only 80 percent of the fragments have been scanned for analysis and preservation.
Whatever your beliefs, analyzing and interpreting the 2,000-year-old puzzle that is the Dead Sea Scrolls can be a lot more fun and educational that arguing about whether a pyramid can float and how many dinosaurs it would hold.
“We really had a great show,” Bob told me as the three of us walked up the gravel path toward the Parkview Lodge in Linville Falls, North Carolina.
Before he took his first engineering job with Bell Laboratories decades ago, Bob had worked mostly on weekends as a professional keyboard player in a progressive rock band. However, his musical expertise had little to do with the kind of “show” he was describing for us now.
“In these pictures, you’ll see one of the lights rising steadily over the mountaintop,” Bob’s friend Bill, also a musician of many years, explained. “Bob captured the entire sequence, but in my photo, you’ll actually see where the object changed direction.”
Bob Ashmore and Bill Fox began coming down to Western North Carolina years ago, tagging along with other coworkers who spent their vacation time looking for scenic areas of the Eastern United States where weekend hiking trips were ideal. But that wasn’t all that had drawn the two engineers to the region.
Long exposure photo, taken at night, showing unidentified illumination passing above Table Rock, North Carolina. The date was June 18, at approximately 10:30 PM local time. The Camera was a Canon PowerShot (SX150 IS), with focal length 19.757, F-Stop 4.5, and an exposure setting of 8 seconds. Image by Robert Ashmore, 2016.
“One of the guys on that first trip had a Commander X book,” Bob recalled, referring to a peculiarly kooky book first published back in the 1970s called Underground Alien Bases: Flying Saucers Come From Inside The Earth! (the book can still be purchased onlinehere). “I remember reading through it, and seeing that it talked about a supposed underground base right where we were going!”
The base, as the book alleged, existed underneath Brown Mountain, North Carolina, which had already been recognized as a “UFO hotspot” for decades, due to the anomalous lights that are famously associated with the region. Needless to say, there’s no evidence that any “underground bases” exist beneath Brown Mountain — nor any other localities in the region — although such amusing rumors have been occasionally fueled by periodic Special Forces training operations carried out in the nearby Linville Gorge (a friend of mine, who had undergone training with Green Berets in the region a number of years ago, once described to me the harsh conditions the rugged Linville Gorge provided during such training excursions, which included scouring creeks for crayfish and salamanders in order to survive).
Despite all the silly talk of underground bases, it had been the kernel of possibility that a valid “earth light” phenomenon seemed to be occurring in the region that caught Fox and Ashmore’s attention, giving rise to decades of return visits to try and observe and photograph the region’s mysterious illuminations.
Much the same, it was my own interest in the subject — and one of my many personal visits to the area in search of possible causes for these alleged “earth lights” — that I met the aforementioned Pennsylvania lab workers. To this day, they continue to visit the region with hope of observing the strange nighttime “light shows”, and I often join them to compare notes about what is known, and what remains unknown, about the so-called “Brown Mountain Lights.”
Cropped image above identifies light sources ranging from stars, aircraft, and possible campfires or lanterns on Table Rock, alongside amber-colored source of illumination (see image earlier in this post for detailed camera information). Note the difference in coloration and appearance between aircraft lights and the amber colored object, with elongated appearances on film due to the camera’s 8-second exposure time. Photo by Robert Ashmore, June 18, 2016.
Briefly, to give a bit of background on the broader “earth light” phenomenon, I will cite Sean B. Palmer’s essay “Earth Lights: Spooklights and Ghost Lights“, which gives an authoritative overview of the subject. Of course, it is a theme that has been documented by many others, including physicist William R. Corliss, Paul Devereux (as outlined in the excerpt below), and my own contributions in previous articles and MU posts over the years; Palmer’s definition and brief history of the phenomenon is as follows:
“Earth lights are a rare anomalous light phenomenon, mistaken throughout history as dragons, UFOs, and ball lightning before being recognised as a separate category. One leading theory is that they are produced by tectonic strain in minor fault lines, so that they are literally generated by the earth.
In America they’ve been called “spooklights” or “ghost lights” since at least the 1950s, but Persinger and Lafrenière were the first scientists to recognise the phenomenon, in the late 1970s. The lights were renamed and brought to wider public attention by Paul Devereux in 1982 with his publication “Earth Lights”.
They appear in many colours, shapes, and sizes, though the basketball-sized globular orange variety seems most common. Most sightings occur at night, when some lights can be seen from miles around. They’re reported to be able to move against the wind and reach extraordinary speeds. Their terrestrial nature means that though many sightings are sporadic, there are some locations where they appear relatively often. It’s through studying these hotspots, such as Hessdalen in Norway and the Engligh Pennines, that their characteristics become evident.”
The assessment above is largely informed by the research by British scientists that occurred in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, during which some of the most interesting scientific work pertaining to the earth light phenomenon was undertaken.
The lights seen near Linville, North Carolina, known colloquially as “The Brown Mountain Lights” due to their prevalence near that location, have a history dating back to 1913. Some sources maintain that there are earlier legends about the lights, but despite this long-held rumor, no apparent evidence for this exists. Skeptical researcher Joe Nickel offers the following brief, but quite concise, history of scientific research into the cause of the lights, in his article from earlier this year:
The first known reference to the lights in print was in the September 13, 1913,Charlotte Daily Observer. In 1913 a U.S. Geological Survey geologist concluded the lights were those of locomotives, while a U.S. Weather Bureau report of 1919 explained the phenomenon as an electrical discharge compared to South America’s “Andes Light,” although the writer had not actually visited the site.
The careful reader will note that, while I have disagreed with some of Nickel’s conclusions in the past, I don’t disagree with him on all points. In order to lend a bit of balance to this post, I am comfortable citing Joe’s research here, and unlike many skeptics that write about this subject, Joe has taken the time to travel to Brown Mountain, and put in the hours of field research that many other “experts” on the phenomenon have not (this explains his mention of the U.S. Weather Bureau report above, which likened the Brown Mountain phenomenon to another “spook light”, though the author of that report had not witnessed it firsthand).
And, despite my own numerous visits to the region, I too am one of these individuals that has seen very little which seems to fall into the category of “undeniable proof” of some mysterious phenomena at work. What I have seen, as far as evidence, includes many photographs, and I’ve interviewed at least a dozen or more witnesses over the years who have shared detailed accounts of lights they observed there under a variety of meteorological conditions. To me, this suggests somethingrealis occurring in the region, which bears similarity to lights, similar in behavior to ball lightning, that are observed near Hessdalen, Norway, as well as mysterious illuminations seen at Marfa, Texas, and a variety of other places around the world.
However, the problem with the long-held mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights is that, as we attempt to learn “what the lights are”, we must acknowledge that we are actually dealing with a variety of different sources of illumination, the majority of which have very prosaic underlying sources.
During one of our visits to Wiseman’s View, a popular observation point for light-watchers in the Linville Gorge, Ashmore, Fox and I were accompanied by a number of area locals. At one point, someone exclaimed, “look, there’s one!” and, turning our attention toward the light in question, the object did appear rather unusual… at least while viewed with the naked eye, and at a distance.
“Here”, a voice from behind me said. “Try looking at it through these.” Chris, an off-duty fireman from the nearby Jonas Ridge community, handed me a pair of quality binoculars, and focusing on the light, the enhanced optical conditions they provided clearly revealed the flashing beacon of a small aircraft, which had been obscured by the partly cloudy conditions further away.
I stayed and spoke with Chris afterward, comparing notes about the lights that so many describe seeing. “I’m convinced that 99% of what you see up here is just locals over there on Table Rock and Hawksbill Mountain, playing the Brown Mountain Lights game,” he said. “They’ll get up there with Chinese lanterns, flashlights, Roman candles, and whatever else, just to get a rise out of people.”
Despite his skepticism, Chris was quick to assert that he had had a few of his own observations. “When things are seen, it’s never over here in the Gorge,” he told me. “But I remember a number of years ago, on Christmas Eve, I had been driving down Highway 181 toward Morganton, and as I passed Brown Mountain on my left, there was a very odd light that moved across the side of the mountain. These weren’t orbs, and they didn’t resemble headlights. They moved like blue-white electricity, crackling across the mountain at ground level. They moved too quickly to have been off-road vehicles, and I remember radioing other firefighters on duty that night, who saw them over the course of the evening as well.”
Chris further noted that the lights, whatever they had been, had appeared when it was particularly cold. “The night we observed the lights, I’ll never forget because it was on Christmas Eve, and it got unusually cold that year. I believe the temperature had been about 3 below zero.”
While noting the fact that I’ve never seen something I take to have been an anomalous occurrence in the area, there have still been instances that have caused me to wonder. On one occasion many years ago, I had traveled with two friends to the 181 Overlook, roughly the same area where Chris and the other firefighters had observed the “electric” lights on Christmas Eve several years earlier. High in the sky, I observed an amber-colored light, which was moving slowly over the mountain where we stood, which suddenly blinked out. At the time, I had guessed that a refraction might have occurred, in which I had seen the reflection of distant headlights moving up the mountain, which might explain both the color, as well as sudden “blinking out” as the light vanished. Years later, I also considered that the light might have been the International Space Station, a satellite, or possibly a bit of metallic debris in low-orbit as it entered the Earth’s shadow. However, the amber coloration seems inconsistent with my numerous other observations of the aforementioned orbital objects, which are bright white in appearance, similar to starlight.
Where the “advocates” and the “skeptics” seem to find the most common ground is that, despite the legends about the lights and their various causes, it remains clear that there is no single phenomenon that is recognized as being the “only” source of the Brown Mountain Lights. While a fairly consistent hypothesis has suggested over the years that the “real” lights may be something akin to ball lightning, the majority of the objects seen and photographed near the area likely have more prosaic origins.
Again, as skeptic Joe Nickel wrote earlier this year in his Skeptical Inquirer piece, “The evidence is clear: There is no single explanation because there is no single phenomenon(author’s emphasis). Just as we know that not all UFOs are weather balloons, not all Brown Mountain lights have a single cause.” Despite Nickel’s acceptance that there are a variety of causes underlying reports of the Brown Mountain Lights (he acknowledges the possibility that some are actually ball lightning, too), it is worth noting that the article in which he stated this had been titled, “The Brown Mountain Lights: Solved! (Again!)”. To be fair, there is actual no solution being offered here; instead, there is what I would call an instructional assertion that, while a number of things are seen at Brown Mountain and surrounding areas, no single phenomenon has been accounted for as being “the” supposed light source in question. In truth, most of us appear to agree on that point, regardless of our interpretations of the likelihood of there being a “mystery” at hand.
Image of “Brown Mountain Lights” by Bruce Roberts, circa 1962.
In the end, perhaps there are good questions that can be asked, without having to bring alien craft, ghosts of ancient Native Americans, or inter-dimensional vortexes into the equation; though I have very seldom, if ever, met anyone with a serious interest in the lights who actually asserts that such things are the underlying causes of the illuminations. Both the science-minded skeptics I’ve worked with, as well as the more open-minded amateur researchers, seem to lean toward a ball lightning or “earth light” explanation. If there are indeed any particular factors about the region that cause such illuminations to occur here, and with greater frequency than in other locations, this area may yet provide us with something unique, after all.
For my part, I think there is certainly data that warrants further consideration for the Brown Mountain and Linville light phenomena. If even a minority of the illuminations reported have something to do with environmental conditions that may cause this area to be more “active” than others, it seems it should be worth devoting time for study; whether that relates to an actual source of light, or merely the presence of meteorological conditions that cause an increased potential for refractions, mirages, etc. Either circumstance may offer new clues about our natural world, and what kinds of special conditions might contribute to the broader observation of unidentified lights in our night sky.
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“Wapens die krachtiger zijn dan kernwapens”: Er zijn meerdere ‘Area 51’s’
“Wapens die krachtiger zijn dan kernwapens”: Er zijn meerdere ‘Area 51’s’
Er wordt al tientallen jaren gediscussieerd over het bestaan van ondergrondse bases. Al in 1968 deed het Stanford Research Institute onderzoek naar de bouw van tientallen onderzeese bases.
Zijn er naast Area 51 nog andere ondergrondse bases op aarde? In 1987 zei Lloyd A. Duscha van het geniekorps van het Amerikaanse leger tijdens een conferentie: “Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog raakte het geniekorps betrokken bij het ontwerpen en de bouw van een aantal zeer complexe en interessante legerprojecten. Een aantal ondergrondse installaties die ontworpen en gebouwd zijn door het korps, zijn geheim.”
Illustratie onderzeese basis
Hij ging daarna in op de betrokkenheid van het korps bij de bouw van een grote NORAD-basis diep onder de Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado in de jaren zestig. NORAD is een organisatie die waakt over het Amerikaanse en Canadese luchtruim.
Illustraties
Walter Koerschner werkte in de jaren zestig als illustrator voor de Amerikaanse marine. In die periode had de marine al plannen voor complexe en grote bases onder de zeebodem. In het boek ‘Hidden In Plain Sight’ heeft dr. Richard Sauder een aantal illustraties opgenomen die laten zien hoe dergelijke bases eruitzien.
Ondergrondse scheepswerf
(Wikicommons)
Er zijn ook ondergrondse installaties waarvan het bestaan is bevestigd. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de ondergrondse scheepswerf in het Zweedse Muskö, die onderdeel is van het Zweedse defensiebedrijf Saab.
Dr. Sauder doet al geruime tijd onderzoek naar ondergrondse legerbases. In zijn boek deelt hij een interessant verhaal:
“Enkele jaren geleden werd ik na een lezing benaderd door een man die werkzaam was geweest voor de Amerikaanse marine. Hij zei dat hij enige tijd was gestationeerd in China Lake in Californië. Ik vroeg hem of er een ondergrondse basis was in China Lake. Hij antwoordde bevestigend en zei dat de basis zeer groot en diep is. Ik vroeg hem of hij ooit in de basis was geweest, waarop hij zei dat hij wel eens in de basis was geweest, maar nooit de diepste niveaus had bereikt. Hij zei dat de basis meer dan 1,5 kilometer diep is. Ik vroeg hem wat er in de ondergrondse basis ligt opgeslagen. Wapens, antwoordde hij. Ik vroeg hem wat voor soort wapens er liggen opgeslagen. Wapens die krachtiger zijn dan kernwapens, antwoordde hij zonder te pauzeren.”
Topgeheime memo
Er zijn documenten uit de periode rond de Koude Oorlog waarin wordt gesproken over bases onder Washington DC en China Lake. De stukken laten zien dat het leger in 1964 overwoog een enorme basis te bouwen onder China Lake.
De eerste topgeheime memo over dit onderwerp werd op 7 november 1963 geschreven door de toenmalige Amerikaanse minister van Defensie Robert McNamara.
Een tweede memo die van dezelfde dag dateert verhaalt over een Deep Underground National Command Center op meer dan een kilometer onder Washington. In de memo staat informatie over liftschachten onder het ministerie van Defensie en het Witte Huis die naar de basis leiden.
A Mississippi witness at Foxworth recalled a UFO incident from 2005 that includes a close encounter and possible abduction, according to testimony in Case 77312 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The events unfolded shortly after Hurricane Katrina moved through the area in 2005 and are best told in the witness’s own words.
“Around August 23rd through the 24th of 2005; Hurricane Katrina’s Eye came over my parent’s home,” the witness stated.“The hurricane came from the south from New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico and proceeded north going over Foxworth and Columbia, Mississippi, from which I was living at the time with my parents.”
The witness was standing in a creek in 2005 when the UFO approached. Pictured: Foxworthy, MS.
(Credit: Google)
The hurricane then moved northeast/east going over Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
“Complete devastation of trees, buildings, animal life – such as cows and deer which were thrown against and wrapped around bob-wired fences – and were later discovered dead. In addition, homes and boats completely obliterated from every angle the eye could see.”
During this time, the witness was working on a garbage truck as a hopper for the City of Columbia.
“On Monday, August 29th,2005 – after a 12-hour day hauling rotten garbage due to the electricity going out and everyone that didn’t have a generator had to throw away everything they had in their deep freezers and refrigerators – this event was causing serious smells at every home we arrived to extremely stinking garbage to be hauled away.”
Almost a week later and there was still no running water.
“So in extreme need of a bath or shower and refusing to settle washing myself down with wet rags and a bowl of water, I decided to take a ride to a creek nearby a church I use to attend. After arriving at the creek in pitch dark – so dark I couldn’t see my hand if placed on my nose – I stripped down and went skinny dipping, feeling so refreshed washing the rotten garbage smell off my body.”
Then the witness saw the UFO.
“As I was washing my cloths and scrubbing myself down with icy cold, creek water and soap, a huge, round-like airship with amber glowing orbs came heading straight towards me from the south-southwest. As I was watching this object coming towards me, completely naked while washing myself and my work cloths, I realized these three amber, yellowish lights were coming towards me at a rate of speed no greater than about 30 mph and at an altitude of about 100 to 150feet – just barely clearing the tops of pine trees.”
The witness seemed to react to the UFO.
“I could no longer move a muscle in my arms, legs, neck, fingers or shoulders – as if I were completely paralyzed or possessed as the aircraft arrived straight over my head. As the aircraft arrived straight over my body, I was completely paralyzed to any motions whatsoever, but I did feel the water moving. I am blessed that I was standing up in a shallow part of the creek that wasn’t deeper than my waist or else I believed I would have drowned if I were swimming.”
The witness continued to watch the UFO.
“The amber cloudy-like orbs with a trace of something like a reddish-yellow tint swirling inside the amber orbs had all of a sudden turned to a white-colored orb with a baby blue tint swirling inside these ivy white orbs. When the orbs of this UFO were the color of amber, and before it was coming toward me, I was extremely scared out of my wits. All I wanted to do was run away from this UFO as fast as I could.”
But now the witness’s feeling of the event changed.
“However, seconds after the orbs of this UFO turned white and then swirled the baby blue tint inside of its orb, I felt a connection somehow with this craft. I instantly went from being scared and wanting to run in the opposite direction of this UFO, to feeling at peace. I felt that whatever this object was had no intention in harming me. I still have no idea what it could have been if it was not a UFO because it had absolutely no sound while moving or hovering over my head. There was some heat to the light, but it wasn’t hot enough to burn me. It seemed as if it read my mind to determine not to burn me because as the few moments it was scanning me the lights got really hot and I asked it to not burn me in my mind and the lights started to dim to where it wasn’t hot anymore.”
The UFO continued to hover in place.
“This UFO seemed to hover over my head for about 5-10 minutes and then the ivy white, baby blue orb-like lights turned yellowish-amber again and started to fly from the southeast-east going toward Columbia and flying toward Hattiesburg, Mississippi.”
The witness described how the object approached and moved away.
“I saw the amber-colored orbs coming toward me at a distance of about 300 yards as it appeared just over the tree-tops and I lost sight of the amber-colored orb, disk-like object about 50-80 yards as it flew toward Columbia just over the tree-tops. The UFO never seemed to ascend or descend in altitude the entire time it was in my sight.”
The UFO hovered over the witness. Pictured: Foxworthy, MS.
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The witness has not seen a UFO again since this incident.
“This was the last time I have ever encountered a UFO up-close and personal. I have only encountered lights before this that would shoot across the sky like a shooting star and all of a sudden move in a completely different direction of travel like a V-shape in the sky.”
The witness described the events after the UFO encounter.
“After this encounter I raced back home and my parents asked me where have I been because about five hours had passed by on something that I felt only took a few minutes. I remember leaving right after it turned dark at about 7p.m. and got home just minutes before midnight.”
The missing time was only the first strange piece of the story.
“And a week after this encounter, I started receiving hair loss. My hair fell out and never grew back until this day. In 2004 I had an MRI to determine if I had any back problems for an interview to be a roustabout for Diamond offshore; but my father told me to stay in college and to not take the job. The MRIs taken in 2004 showed absolutely nothing wrong with me. But after this encounter in 2005 I started to get minor back pains.”
The witness moved on with his career.
“In 2007 after getting an associates degree in electronics at PRCC, I took a job with AT&T to work in New Orleans to help rebuild the damage the hurricane caused by flood waters that got so high in some areas that actually got in the cables of the telephone poles and over the peak of house roofs at a height of 25 feet.”
The witness developed a tumor.
“On September 1, 2009, I had to have a tumor removed from inside my spinal cord. The doctor wanted to remove the tumor because it got so large inside my spinal cord that it busted out of my spinal cord and was wrapping around the vertebras outside of my spinal cord. The doctor ranked in the top 10 of all surgeons in this field in the USAand wanted to remove this tumor because he was scared it was going to rupture the main artery that runs down the spinal cord. If this artery got ruptured, I would have bled to death within minutes before I could get any medical attention. And if I did get to the hospital, no doctor would be able to diagnose the problem before I bled to death internally.”
The witness seemed to connect with the UFO during the encounter. Pictured: Foxworthy, MS.
(Credit: Google)
The witness additionally suffers from nightmares.
“In addition, ever since this encounter I have been getting nightmares of being abducted and taken right outside of Earth’s orbit to a bee hive, honey cone-like mothership and not being able to move or wake up until I am returned back to my bedroom. I don’t know if I have ever been abducted or if they caused this tumor or if I have been implanted with something that hasn’t showed up on an MRI other that this tumor that was inside my spinal cord or if these nightmares that seem extremely real are an actual reality and not just dreams. But I do know for a fact I have never had any back problems since this encounter in 2005.”
The witness has been quiet about the encounter.
“I haven’t told many people about what I saw in the summer of 2005 because the people I did mention this to, including family, looked at me as if I am lying; trying to receive attention; or just simply think I am crazy for the dreams I have been receiving or the encounter I witnessed.”
The witness is curious if there may have been other witnesses.
“However, I am extremely curious if anyone in the state of Southern Mississippi saw these lights I witnessed in the summer of 2005; just days after the worst hurricane that hit in the history of United States of America – a hurricane that did the most damage, cost-wise, in United States history. I am not looking for attention. But I am curious if anyone has witnessed anything similar to the most painful and terrifying surgery I was left with after an encounter that will change my life forever.”
Mississippi MUFON is investigating. Foxworth is in Marion County, MS. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Under investigation: Two UFOs videotaped over Seattle
Under investigation: Two UFOs videotaped over Seattle
A Washington witness at Seattle reported watching and videotaping two highly reflective, “squared” UFOs, according to testimony in Case 77300 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged still frame taken from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was outside during daylight hours and noticed two stationary points of light in the sky on June 21, 2016.
“I told a co-worker to go grab my bag which I keep a camcorder in, while I kept any eye on the two objects,” the witness stated.“I don’t believe they were giving off their own light but rather reflecting the sunlight. I turned on my camcorder and attempted to zoom in on the objects, but it was difficult since they were so small and the camera had a hard time focusing in on them.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame taken from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was eventually able to zoom in on one of them and focused long enough, but still could not identify the crafts.
“When I got home and was able to view the footage, the object appeared to be a highly reflective, ‘squared’ (meaning sharp edges, not curved), capital H. It had two long, squared pillars with a short bar in the middle…like a capital H.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame taken from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness continued to videotape the objects.
“I recorded them for sometime and then they slowly went behind the building. I went to put my camcorder away only to see them again but further to the right. So either they came back almost to the point where I originally saw them or there were two more that I didn’t see when I saw the original two objects. Then those two eventually drifted behind the building as well.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame taken from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Cropped and enlarged still frame taken from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Washington State Section Director Timothy Ward is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Het is een bekend gegeven, dat wanneer er een UFO verschijnt de omgeving als gevolg daarvan te maken krijgt met stroomuitval.
Het lijkt erop dat dit op 21 juni jl ook is gebeurd in Diemen, want het antwoord op de grote stroomstoring aldaar verschijnt prominent in beeld bij niemand minder dan de NOS.
Update: 1 juli 2016
Wanneer je slimme lezers hebt zoals wij, blijven mysteries nooit erg lang onopgelost.
Zo ook de UFO in het NOS journaal vorige week.
We kregen een aantal meldingen van mensen (dank!) die zeiden dat wanneer je het beeld verder uitvergroot en/of een betere opname maakt via uitzending gemist, je duidelijk kunt zien dat je hier te maken hebt met lichten van een flatgebouw dat iets verderop staat.
Zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding:
Echter, ook bovenstaande is niet de verklaring voor de drie vreemde lichten.
Wat het wel is, wordt duidelijk op de volgende foto die wij van een andere lezer ontvingen (dank!):
Ik kijk dagelijks op jullie mooie site en zie zojuist het artikel over de UFO te Diemen tijdens het journaal bij een grote stroomuitval, en heb het is nader bekeken en de ‘’UFO’’ betreft een verlichte tramleiding of stroomleiding (zie link).
Iedereen heel hartelijk dank voor het meedenken en tot het volgende mysterie!
Origineel artikel: 30 juni 3016
Voordat we naar de UFO en NOS gaan, even iets anders, maar ook belangrijk.
Je hebt van die mensen die hun leven wijden aan het onderzoek van vreemde en onverklaarbare zaken in ons luchtruim.
Eén van die mensen is Victor Viggiani, een onlangs gepensioneerd schoolhoofd uit Toronto in Canada.
Al meer dan 30 jaar houdt Viggiani zich bezig met onderzoek en analyse van vreemde gebeurtenissen in het luchtruim.
Enkele dagen geleden, op 25 juni 2016, was er een nationale vergadering (Canadian National Inquiry into UFOs) over UFO’s in Brantford, Ontario, in Canada.
Tijdens die vergadering presenteerde Viggiani een aantal geheime documenten afkomstig van NORAD. De North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is een militaire organisatie die waakt over het luchtruim van de Verenigde Staten en Canada.
Uit die documenten blijkt dat er talloze keren zijn geweest dat er contact is geweest tussen NORAD en onbekende objecten in het luchtruim, UFO’s.
Ook blijkt uit die documenten dat dit soort waarnemingen en contacten met buitenaardsen op het allerhoogste niveau binnen de overheid en militaire instanties wordt besproken.
Tijdens de vergadering geeft Viggiani aan dat hij is bedreigt en zal worden aangeklaagd voor het in gevaar brengen van de nationale veiligheid als hij die documenten openbaar maakt.
Iets dat deze dappere ex schoolmeester desondanks toch gewoon doet. Sterker nog, hij daagt de overheid uit om hem dan maar aan te pakken.
Dan terug naar Nederland, waar ook iets merkwaardigs plaatsvond.
AMSTERDAM (AT5) In een groot deel van Diemen en een deel van Amsterdam Zuidoost zitten flink wat huishoudens zonder stroom.
Dat meldt netbeheerder Liander. Het gaat om postcodes 1000, 1001, 1018, 1096, 1098 en 1102. Sommige getuigen melden dat heel Diemen en heel Zuidoost zonder stroom zitten, maar dat kan Liander niet bevestigen. Ook de trams hebben last van de storing: Tram 9 staat midden op de Kruislaan stil. Andere trams kunnen niet doorrijden.
Op Twitter worden veel liftopsluitingen gemeld. De brandweer is bezig om die mensen te helpen. De bestuurscommissie in Zuidoost moest de vergadering schorsen vanwege de stroomuitval.
De verwachte eindtijd van de storing is inmiddels ruim drie uur verschoven. Liander meldde eerst 22.10 uur, nu duurt de stroomstoring nog tot minstens 01.00 uur.
Tijdens de nieuwsuitzending van het journaal wordt ook melding gemaakt van deze stroomstoring.
Zoals waarschijnlijk bij velen bekend, worden UFO-waarnemingen dikwijls vergezeld van stroomstoringen. Dit kan zowel betrekking hebben op auto’s, batterijen, maar ook de normale stroomvoorziening.
Laat nu datzelfde journaal een beeld tonen van een UFO in de achtergrond, tijdens de stroomuitval in Diemen.
Wij ontvingen het volgende bericht van een lezer:
Vorige week dinsdag was er in Diemen een grote stroomuitval. Dit werd op het NOS Journal bekend gemaakt. Met op de achtergrond een foto van het gebied, was daar op de achtergrond een grote UFO te zien! Heb er foto van gemaakt en een uitvergroting.
Security Officer Records UFO Mothership Making Orbs over Fairbanks, Alaska, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Security Officer Records UFO Mothership Making Orbs over Fairbanks, Alaska, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Fairbanks, Alaska, USA This eyewitness caught a glowing UFO over Fairbanks and it divided into three. This particular UFO looks a lot like a mother orb, which soul purpose it to send out smaller orbs that observe and record. Then later the mother orb will call them all back, entering it. Very interesting video, and awesome camera balance in this one. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Space Satellite Archeology Revealed The Mysteries Of Ancient Sites
Space Satellite Archeology Revealed The Mysteries Of Ancient Sites
Edgar Cayce is known as the psychic during the twentieth century. Recently, he has been featured on TV programs. His prophecies are exacting and are coming true. Amazingly, these were all done while he was asleep. This sleeping prophet has predicted that the proof of Atlantis and the innovated technology would be found beneath the Giza’s pyramids sooner or later. This will be discerned through a hidden way beneath the paw of the Sphinx. Concerned with the control of Ancient Egypt’s narrative, the investigations that were running to the narrative have been either blocked or derided by the Minister of Antiquities of Egypt named Zahi Hawass. The interview has focused so much with the two Egyptologists whose digs were sponsored by ARE (Association for Research and Enlightenment). The first one had written the book of Cayce’s readings describing how the Atlantis survivors discovered the Egypt. However, the question is, were these professionals secretly searching for the traditional Hall of Records through the Cayce’s readings while disobeying their previous sponsor publicly to keep in line with the Egyptology?
To suggest that Amun Priesthood is a hero, the story of Queen Nefertiti and Pharaoh Akhenaten was framed by the Egyptologists. It has been portrayed in a more engaging manner, and somehow it relates to the esoteric knowledge of Akhenaten towards the discovery of Egypt. But, why did the Priesthood try stripping both these two ancient and famous characters from the history? Was the Queen able to escape to remove the old understanding of Atlantean past? This story has always been the most shocking, bizarre, enlightening, strange, unnerving, and compelling. Despite the mysterious stories, there is always the truth. So far, Edgar Cayce has been right on everything. What is incredible is that he hypnotized himself and did all these readings while he was sleeping with loads of witnesses.
1965 UFO Encounter: James Flynn in Everglades Florida
1965 UFO Encounter: James Flynn in Everglades Florida
On March 12, 1965, in East Fort Myers, Florida, an experienced woodsman James Flynnheaded to the Everglades with his hunting dogs. On the 14th day of March, his hunting dogs run after a deer. Hearing a gunshot sound, Flynn started to swamp buggy and headed off to search for the dogs.
On Monday, March 15th at 1 am, Flynn has spotted a bizarre cone-shaped object hovering in the sky, with an estimated 200 feet above cypress trees. In 2 to 3 minutes, it returned and flew again for another 5 minutes. It then took off again toward the Southwest at a high speed. Soon after, it returned to the same location. At this time, the object comes down the trees on a small knoll when Flynn was about a mile away. Flynn first though it was a helicopter, but as it drew closer, he realized, it wasn’t.
According to him, the object is 25 feet high with four tiers of two-foot-square window-looking that emitted a yellowish color. The body of the object is metallic and is believed to be a product of four-by-four plates which are held with rivets. Around the base was a reddish-orange illumination that appeared to cast a glow of 75 feet around its rim. Later on, he regained consciousness and went back to his home with his dogs. As soon as he went home, he and his wife visit op an ophthalmologist and find that his vision is 20/800 in his right eye, and 20/60 in his left eye. While the left eye appeared normal, the retina is not visible in the right eye. Flynn complained of numbness in his arms and hands and hearing reduction following the encounter. On March 26, he and Dr. Stipe revisited the lace and found a burned circle 72 feet and eight scorched cypress trees.
Flynn believed that it was probably a secret aircraft, and once proven, then somebody should pay for the liability he did.
UFO investigators are looking at an image that shows a 'smoking flying saucer' which it is believed could have been falling to Earth.
The snap was caught over a forest surrounding the Yuba River, in Dobbins, California, and has been handed to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's biggest organisation dedicated to investigating such sightings.
In a report to MUFON, the unnamed witness said they did not see any craft in the sky while photographing the area.
He wrote: "I was on a boat fishing trip with my father. We were on the North Fork of the Yuba River. On this day at about 5pm (June 22) I took several pictures of the surrounding canyon and forest.
"While reviewing all the camping photos, I observed an object in the sky above the treeline in one of the pictures.
"I had taken three pictures within a few seconds of each other. The second picture has the object. The first and third picture of the same location have no object in them.
"The object looks rectangular, and shiny silver or white on one side. In the location where the photo was taken there were no aircraft in the sky and the only birds we had had seen were hawks or vultures.
While reviewing all the camping photos, I observed an object in the sky above the treeline in one of the pictures.
Unnamed witness
"The area we were in is very secluded. There were no other people around, and no noise other than the river going over a rock bed."
Scott C Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, pointed to the smoke and said it could well have landed.
He said: "UFOs often move fast, so fast that the human eye would not be able to notice it. The digital eye is more perfect and can capture most UFOs, but some are just too fast.
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Alien Abduction More Like an 'Ambulance Call'
Alien Abduction More Like an 'Ambulance Call'
Travis Walton (left) and Richard Dolan listen as Paul Hellyer speaks during the Canadian National Inquiry into UFOs on Saturday at the Alien Cosmic Expo at the Best Western Brant Park Inn. (Brian Thompson/The Expositor)
Travis Walton's story about being abducted by aliens hasn't changed in more than 40 years.
But his perception of the 1975 incident has.
He told more than 300 people at the Alien Cosmic Expo on the weekend at the Best Western Brant Park Inn that, over time, he has developed a better understanding of what happened to him in 1975 while working with a logging crew in Arizona.
"Rather than call it an abduction, you could say it was an ambulance call. I got too close, was injured and they were the only ones in position to reverse the damage."
Walton, who was 21 at the time, was working in Sitgreaves National Forest, near Heber, He said he got too close to a mysterious craft, knocked unconscious and then beamed up into the UFO. He was missing for five days.
His story was the subject of the 1993 movie, Fire in the Sky. Two years later, Walton wrote about his experiences in a book with the same title.
Walton's story, the impact it has had on his life and others involved has been made into a 90-minute documentary by filmmaker Jennifer Stein. Called The True Story of Travis Walton, the documentary was screened at the second annual expo, which began Friday and concluded Sunday.
Walton was part of session at the expo that was billed as the first public examination and investigation in Canada of the truth behind UFOs.
He said that people's reaction has changed to him and his story.
"Initially, reaction was pretty hard to endure," he said. "People were frightened by the very idea and that was the motivation, the basis, for not accepting it.
"They would rather believe that the (logging) crew had murdered me than see what they had seen."
However, over time, the reaction of people has improved because they are better educated.
Other speakers included Nick Pope, Stanton Friedman, Grant Cameron, Stephen Bassett and former federal cabinet minister Paul Hellyer.
Bob Mitchell, a Brantford resident and an organizer of the hearing, called the group of speakers a lineup of rock star researchers, authors and historians. Mitchell is the author of several books on UFOs and extraterrestrials.
One of the panelists, Richard Dolan, a UFO historian and researcher, spoke about some of the government documents he has seen on UFOs.
After the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War, the U.S. Congress passed a bill that made it easier to get documents through freedom Of information requests and a lot of UFO documents were released, he said.
"A lot of the documents were boring but quite a few were not," Dolan said. "They showed case after case of violations of sensitive air space over U.S. (military) bases."
Descriptions of the UFOs were similar in that they had flat bottoms, dome tops, were silent and had incredibly maneuverability. On top of that there were statements from military personnel about the serious nature of the air space violations, he said.
Dolan also told the audience that it is important to know the history of UFO sightings and reports.
"History is all we have and if we throw away our history we have nothing," he said. "We need to maintain our understanding of the historical record of this phenomena.
"We don't want to just jump into this in 2016 as if it hasn't existed throughout our lifetime."
He said that the historical record appears to show, that after the end of the Second World War and the advent of the nuclear age. that there was a change with respect to the UFO phenomena, which became more visible.
Dolan speculated that the change may be attributed to technological advances and humans becoming better at testing things.
And, while the U.S. government has consistently said there is nothing serious about the phenomena, it is known that at deeply classified levels the problem is being taken seriously, Dolan said.
"I would like to know why there is this discrepancy," Dolan said. "Whatever it might be, we need to know why these lies have been allowed to flourish.
"Whatever the truth is on this subject, whether its extraterrestrial and they are here to enslave us or to help us or if its something else entirely, something is going on and we need to know what it is."
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