THIS IS WHY WE HAVEN NOT SEEN ALIENS YET & IT’S NOT GOOD ACCORDING TO BRIAN COX

In recent days, two research directions in this direction have been published. The first comes from René Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System (Germany) and Ralph Pudritz, McMaster University ( Canada). These scientists have simply reflected the way we detect exoplanets and overthrew the problem: what are the moments and the most favorable locations to detect and observe the Earth when it is far away in space?

One technique for observing planets around other stars is to use the time they spend in front of their sun. This is the so-called "transits," which could even afford to get details on the composition of the atmosphere of exoplanet studied, and thus to discover traces of life.

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Heller and Pudritz suggest to focus on the stars may be in the "gray area" in which, seen from there, the Earth would pass before the sun. If we shine our instruments on these stars, we could detect potentially habitable planets. Moreover, we could "hear" these planets, particularly with specialized radio telescopes in attempts to detect extraterrestrial intelligence, looking for signals that these "aliens" would send us after realizing that the Earth meets the conditions necessary for life and perhaps even found our electromagnetic emissions.

The second possibility, published a few months ago but back on the center stage this week, is more a hypothesis testing, one of the aliens already know about us, watching us but do not wish to contact us. This is one of the answers to the Fermi paradox, called "the zoo hypothesis ." In the style of the "prime directive "non-interventionist "Star Trek, "those brave Aliens have decided to let us live our lives peacefully watching us from afar.

Physicist and Astronomer Brian Cox was the latest to address the Fermi Paradox in a recent interview. Although his outlook is relatively pessimistic, it is still a very real possibility. Cox says, “One solution to the Fermi Paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has the power to destroy itself and that needs global collaborative solutions to prevent that.” He continues, “It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster. We could be approaching that position.”

For what reasons? There's a gaggle of possibilities. For example, they can wait until we have reached a certain level of technology required for a first contact, considering it necessary that a civilization develops by itself without outside help. Perhaps instead they look at us with bewilderment wondering when we're going to self-destruct, unwilling to get caught in such molasses. Their motivations are perhaps so foreign to our thinking that we can not imagine.

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Morgenochtend is de grootste supermaan sinds 1948 te zien (al blijkt dat vooral psychologie) - HLN.be

Bron: de Volkskrant

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Er wordt al lang over gesproken en geschreven, maar morgenochtend is het zover. Dan kan u - als de bewolking wat meezit - een supermaan zien. En die supermaan wordt niet zomaar een supermaan, het wordt de grootste sinds 1948. Bovendien krijgen we eenzelfde groot fenomeen niet meer te zien tot november 2034. En toch is de impact van het verschijnsel vooral psychologisch.

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Eerst de feiten. Morgenochtend krijgen we een zogenaamde supermaan te zien. Daarbij staat de maan ruim 48.000 kilometer dichter bij de aarde, dan op het verste punt. Bovendien gaat het om een volle maan, waardoor de maan in totaal 30 procent helderder en de maanschijf 12 procent groter zal zijn.

Een supermaan komt wel vaker voor, vorige maand op 16 oktober nog, maar een dergelijke grote en heldere maan is heel zeldzaam. Zo zeldzaam dat het sinds 1948 geleden is dat de maneschijn dergelijke proporties aannam. En de volgende keer dat het gebeurt zal pas op 25 november 2036 zijn.

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The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments

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INTRO: Super soldiers

A super soldier program produces Marvel superhero Wolverine in the movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," along with rivals Sabretooth and Weapon XI. Now LiveScience looks back on real experiments that the U.S. government ran on soldiers and citizens to advance the science of war.

The military didn't replicate Wolverine's indestructible skeleton and retractable claws. Rather, they shot accident victims up with plutonium, tested nerve gas on sailors, and tried out ESP. While some of the tests seem outlandish in hindsight, the military continues to push the envelope in seeking new warfare techniques based on cutting-edge science and technology.

"My measure of success is that the International Olympic Committee bans everything we do," said Michael Goldblatt, former head of DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, while talking with reporters. And that's not a Hollywood script.

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1. Build your inner armor

Perhaps super soldiers may not be far off after all, if efforts such as DARPA's "Inner Armor" project find success. Consider efforts to give humans the extreme abilities of some animals, such as the high-altitude conditioning of the bar-headed Goose that has been known to crash into jet aircraft at more than 34,000 feet. Scientists are also eying the Steller sea lion, which redirects blood flow away from non-critical organs during deep sea dives and reduces oxygen demand. "I do not accept that our soldiers cannot physically outperform the enemy on his home turf," said Dr. Michael Callahan, who heads the project at DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, during a 2007 presentation. The goal is to make soldiers "kill-proof" against all sorts of conditions, including infectious diseases, chemical, biological and radioactive weapons, temperature and altitude extremes, and harsh natural environments. Sounds like a certain mutant superhero.

2. 24/7 Warrior

Sleep can be a warrior's worst enemy, whether during day-long battles or long-duration missions flown from halfway around the world. But various military branches have tried to change that over the years by distributing "go pills" or stimulants such as amphetamines. More recently, the military has tested and deployed the drug modafinil – more commonly known under brands such as Provigil – which has supposedly enabled soldiers to stay awake for 40 hours straight without ill effect. And the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding even more unusual anti-sleep research, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation that zaps the brain with electromagnetism.

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3.  Psychic vision

Psychics may not hold much credibility among scientists, but the Pentagon spent roughly $20 million testing extrasensory (ESP) powers such as remote viewing from 1972 to 1996. Remote viewers would try to envision geographical locations that they had never seen before, such as nuclear facilities or bunkers in foreign lands. Mixed results led to conflicts within the intelligence agencies, even as the project continued under names such as "Grill Flame" and "Star Gate," and led to spooks finally abandoning the effort. The CIA declassified such information in files released in 2002.

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4. Nerve gas spray

Threats of chemical and biological warfare led the U.S. Department of Defense to start "Project 112" from 1963 to the early 1970s. Part of the effort involved spraying different ships and hundreds of Navy sailors with nerve agents such as sarin and VX, in order to test the effectiveness of decontamination procedures and safety measures at the time. The Pentagon revealed the details of the Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) project in 2002, and the Veterans Administration began studying possible health effects among sailors who participated in SHAD. This was just one of many chemical warfare experiments conducted by the U.S. military, starting with volunteer tests involving mustard gas in World War II.

5. Hallucinogenic Warfare

Psychoactive drugs such as marijuana, LSD and PCP don't just have street value: Researchers once hoped the drugs could become chemical weapons that disabled enemy soldiers. U.S. Army volunteers took pot, acid and angel dust at a facility in Edgewood, Md. From 1955 to 1972, although those drugs proved too mellow for weapons use. The Army did eventually develop hallucinogenic artillery rounds that could disperse powdered quinuclidinyl benzilate, which left many test subjects in a sleep-like condition for days. The National Academy of Sciences conducted a study in 1981 that found no ill effects from the testing, and Dr. James Ketchum published the first insider account of the research in his 2007 book "Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten."

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6. Falling near the speed of sound

When the U.S. Air Force wanted to find out how well pilots could survive high-altitude jumps, they turned to Captain Joseph Kittinger, Jr. The test pilot made several jumps as head of "Project Excelsior" during the 1950s. Each time involved riding high-altitude Excelsior balloons up tens of thousands of feet, before jumping, free falling and parachuting to the desert floor in New Mexico. Kittinger's third record-breaking flight on August 16, 1960 took him up to 102,800 feet, or almost 20 miles. He then leaped and freefell at speeds of up to 614 mph, not far from the speed of sound's 761 mph, and endured temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit.

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7. Pacifist guinea pigs

Most soldiers don't sign up to fight deadly viruses and bacteria, but that's what more than 2,300 young Seventh-Day Adventists did when drafted by the U.S. Army. As conscientious objectors during the Cold War who interpreted the Bible's commandment "Thou shalt not kill" very literally, many volunteered instead to serve as guinea pigs for testing vaccines against biological weapons. Volunteers recalled being miserable for several days with fever, chills and bone-deep aches from diseases such as Q fever. None died during the secretive "Operation Whitecoat," which took place at Fort Detrick, Maryland from 1954 to 1973.

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8. Rocket rider

Before man could launch into orbit and to the moon, he rode rocket sleds on the ground first. NASA scientists developed decompression sleds that could race at speeds of more than 400 mph before screeching to an abrupt halt, and early testing often had fatal results for chimpanzee subjects that suffered brain damage. Starting in 1954, Colonel John Stapp of the U.S. Air Force endured grueling tests that subjected his body to forces 35 times that of gravity, including one record-setting run of 632 miles per hour. As a flight surgeon, he voluntarily took on the risks of 29 sled runs, during which he suffered concussions, cracked ribs, a twice-fractured wrist, lost dental fillings, and burst blood vessels in both eyes.

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9. Get your plutonium shot

As the United States raced to build its first atomic bombs near the end of World War II, scientists wanted to know more about the hazards of plutonium. Testing began on April 10, 1945 with the injection of plutonium into the victim of a car accident in Oak Ridge, Tenn., to see how quickly the human body rid itself of the radioactive substance. That was just the first of over 400 human radiation experiments. Common studies included seeing the biological effects of radiation with various doses, and testing experimental treatments for cancer. Records of this research became public in 1995, after the U.S. Department of Energy published them.

Credit: Credit: U.S. Army/Sgt. Mike Alberts

10. Seeing infrared

The U.S. Navy wanted to boost sailors' night vision so they could spot infrared signal lights during World War II.However, infrared wavelengths are normally beyond the sensitivity of human eyes. Scientists knew vitamin A contained part of a specialized light-sensitive molecule in the eye's receptors, and wondered if an alternate form of vitamin A could promote different light sensitivity in the eye. They fed volunteers supplements made from the livers of walleyed pikes, and the volunteers' vision began changing over several months to extend into the infrared region. Such early success went down the drain after other researchers developed an electronic snooperscope to see infrared, and the human study was abandoned. Other nations also played with vitamin A during World War II – Japan fed its pilots a preparation that boosted vitamin A absorption, and saw their night vision improve by 100 percent in some cases.

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Filer’s Files #46 -2016 Vatican and UFOs -  PART II

 UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Object

Tucson — I was in my front yard and am always looking at the sky on November 4, 2016, and I saw a bright silver moving object. At first I didn’t know what it was but was thinking it was a missile, as it got closer than I know.
The object was moving North West from Mexico towards some strange clouds. When I seen it my first thought was a missile but then I could make out a rounder image. I lost it in the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Object

Edwards — We were driving east, passing Edwards Air Force Base and I noticed an object traveling very fast across the highway on November 4, 2016. It had a wobble to it because the suns reflection wasn’t constant and it couldn’t be seen unless it tilted. I happened to take two pictures of it while it was reflecting the sun with my Canon digital camera. I have raw images that can be examined further, but will only submit a jpeg at this time due to the size of the raw image. It was moving too fast to get a good focus. Raw image can be sent if you would like. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Connecticut Lights

Higganum — My 18 year old son went out on my porch early before work at 5:40 am on October 31, 2016, and took a picture for his girlfriend. After taking the picture my son realized there was some type of craft in the picture that was invisible to his naked eyes. The lights were directly over the church steeple across the street from our house. He looked up at the sky and still saw nothing then came inside to show me the picture. He was pretty surprised at what was in the picture. He felt it was alien and this needed to be shared with others. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Orb

Lakeland — About 2:45 pm, I had just existed off the ramp onto Kathleen Road from Interstate 4 when I noticed, an object while waiting for the light to change on September 10, 2014. As I began, to focus in on the object, it became evident that it wasn’t an aircraft rather, something entirely different. I then, used my camera phone to capture this beautiful object that was in the distance. It was there one second and gone the next.  Fortunately, I was able to get at least one picture of this tiny object, before it disappeared entirely. It was a green object the first of many to be shared. The heavens are full of life. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Georgia Object

Johns Creek — About five weeks ago while walking our dog, we were noticing a bright flashing light in the sky on October 1, 2016. It was brighter than any star and flashing, but not moving. After three nights of seeing this in the same place, we decided to observe with our telescope. The object is round, and surrounded by bright lights. The lights seem to be in rows, lining the outer edges changing color – white, red, yellow, blue and green. The object moves slowly in a diagonal track for 30 minutes at the same time each night and disappears. We have attached a 35mm digital camera to our telescope and have been able to take pictures and video. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Orb

Romeoville — I was standing outside smoking a cigarette with my friend when I looked up on October 17, 2016, and to the west I saw a green line with two pulsing red lights on each side standing still in the sky. After 20 minutes or so it slowly moved to the west and then back to the east very slowly and silently. The object was moving from side to side three times across the sky from east to west. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kansas Disc

Wichita — I was taking a photo of an awac aircraft being refueled a couple miles down range at about 9,000 feet in November 3, 2016.

When I got home and loaded film onto my computer I noticed the two objects. They were flying too high for birds. Five minutes before this an F-18 Super Hornet took off from the airport which was very weird. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Light

Brick — On Drump Point Road myself and two others were leaving work on October 24, 2016, the lady with me said, “OMG what’s that?” When I looked up I saw a fire ball, coming from roughly the NW area. First thought was a ufo. As I have seen many videos and documentaries about sightings. I immediately remembered seeing other videos about the same thing I’m witnessing. As it comes closer I grab my camera as is just above us. Watching on my phone while recording it looked more like a fiery plasma ball rotating and pulsating. The other guy came out and also saw the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Objects

 Long Beach — This is a resubmission of my past posting with editing notes for clarification on November 5, 2016. I was informed by a Mufon investigator that he was unable to see the objects I described in my photos. Driving on the Meadowbrook Parkway I saw a white orb so I took a picture. I took other pictures in different locations at various times. My pictures include sightings form the Meadowbrook Parkway, Loop Parkway and Lido Blvd. My pictures however showed a lot more detail such as multiple orbs blue and white, a white triangle, and a white curved line and a purple rectangle. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Dakota Object

Fargo – I saw these objects on November 6, 2016 of six small orange points of light passing slowly overhead in triangular formation, crossing the night sky in about 60 seconds. Then few minutes later, two strings of 8 each travelling parallel flew back across sky at much higher rate of speed, passing over in the space of few seconds. Last night, I saw 16 flying objects in a close v formation at high altitude and at high rate of speed, crossing sky in four seconds, till they were out of sight. These craft did not hold tightly to their v formation as some on the outer edges of the formation spread apart. These craft emitted steady pale orange glow, and were about the size and brightness of an average star in the night sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Pill

Fairborn — I was at Maplewood Park with my girl friend on the swings. I looked up and saw a shiny, pill shaped UFO flying overhead. It was completely silent and really high floating across the sky. So I pulled out my cell and started recording. My girl friend and I just watched it and may have been a satellite or a blimp.  I was only a couple miles away from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. I lost sight of the object when it flew away. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia Chemtrails

All I am saying is that I felt their presence and it’s possible. I did see the continuation of the chemtrails today (DSC00672A). A lot seemed to be flying into and around (unknowingly to them) what I am calling a cloaked mother ship (DSC05145A). Here’s what I wrote yesterday. “On Friday, I was at the Monroe Institute by the big crystal and I saw something similar to the photos you forwarded re: the Crystal Ship. I saw wispy clouds forming and within 5 minutes they dissipated. They would grow from nothing, and then grow a bit and eventually dissipated all within about 5 minutes. Before they did, 10 maybe more round white spheres would be left and then they dissipate like the clouds.” These white spheres looked very similar to the ones in the picture minus the huge alien spacecraft that suddenly appeared in the sky. This round anomaly showed up right next to the airplane.”Ihave a theory. Maybe the chemtrails are serving a purpose other than what the powers that were intended them to be. Maybe the chemtrails are a cloaking device that ETs use when there are no clouds. Maybe I did witness a huge mother ship today, and maybe the smaller ships were in the chemtrails where they can vacuum the chemtrails more readily.” Thanks to Dan Johnson

Washington Lights

Ellensburg — Taken by a friend I was video chatting with on Saturday night June 17, 2016, at 11:00 PM. My light was out and his was also on his side. My bathroom light was on, so I could see the computer. Whatever it is had to be right behind me. I have experienced some odd things, waking up to an old table with a 50 pound marble top moved, loud bangs, seeing shadows, and my daughter said, “She saw a tall man once in front of the fire place.”
They investigated this and concluded that it was a grey. A roommate saw a couple of UFO’s three days ago sighted towards Mt. Rainer.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington DC Object

Fort Lincoln –I was aboard Amtrak from New York to Florida when I was taking pictures but I didn’t notice the object until after I got home months later while reviewing the pictures. The picture was taken in Fort Lincoln, Washington, DC on August 2nd, 2016 at 8:51 am. I had experienced some interference with my cell phone reception but at the time I ignored it. The images before and after do not show the object. I’m just curious as to what it is above the busy bridge?

Wisconsin Orb

Burlington — I was waiting in a store parking lot, leaning against my car and looking at the cirrus cloud whips on November 6, 2016. I noticed a bright pinpoint. It went behind the high cloud but was still faintly visible. When the cloud passed, it was still there and I spotted eight other stationary lights/reflections nearby, so I grabbed my phone to take a picture so I could zoom in. I goggled iridium flare, just to try to explain. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Objects

My partner and I were lying on the hood of the vehicle looking up at the stars in the middle of nowhere on November 6, 2016, I spotted a moving object. Showing my partner I told him it was moving way to quick to be a satellite. Then we spotted two more that changed direction. They moved in near the same area like it was a road for UFOs. After they disappeared with a flash we spotted flashes around one star forming a circle. They kept flashing randomly making a circle. It looked like a big flying object that I tried to film, but it was too dark to film. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Disc

Haroldo Westendorff 20 years ago spotted a UFO from his aircraft. One of the most extraordinary sightings of a pilot in Brazil took place in Rio Grande do Sul, on the Lagoa dos Patos.

Haroldo circled the giant UFO three times with his small plane

Wednesday is a special day for the Brazilian Ufology, celebrating twenty years of one of its most impressive cases. On 5 September 1996 the pilot gaucho Haroldo Westendorff, Brazilian bi-champion of acrobatics, flying a plane near the city of São José do Norte. At 10.30 AM on a sunny day 1,800 meters above sea level, Haroldo suddenly faced with a huge object slowly flying over the region.

The UFO had a pyramid shape and base was 100 meters and its height was 50 to 60 meters. Westendorff noted that the object had eight sides and each of these there were three protruding wedges. Noting that detail, he realized that the UFO slowly rotating around its axis. In addition, the top had an oval dome and immediately contacted Harold pellets Airport. An operator of the tower was also able to observe the UFO, but the military radar did not detect any traffic.

The pilot approached the UFO cautiously and began circling it while describing everything via the radio. Suddenly, the upper dome of the object opened and a smaller UFO in the shape of two superposed plates, emerged from there upright, leaned over and fired at extremely high speed, heading for the sea. Haroldo estimated his speed at Mach 10, or ten times the sound and described what came to consider: “I thought I’d take a dip with the plane of the opening of the ship to see what was inside, but gave up when that opening came a column of reddish and undulating rays that scared me so I moved 200 meters from the ship.”

A few moments later, the giant UFO shot vertically enormous speed, causing fear in the pilot, He did not notice any wind or noise. The operator of the Pelotas tower, Airton Mendes da Silva, stated, “I saw an object in the form of a gray triangle with rounded edges.” The Case Haroldo Westendorff is one of the most impressive and emblematic Brazilian ufology, The UFO shot away at high speed after releasing a column of red rays.  Thanks to Google Translate and Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Objects

Don Mills — I was walking home from work on November 1, 2016, and noticed there were more stars than normal. At first, I thought it was the moon or a star changing into various colors but was not moving. I instantly froze and my body became cold. Then I ran pulled out my phone and began trying to get the clearest recording of it that I possibly could. The night before on my way home from work I also observed north of me that there was a huge black triangle with five lights shaped like an upside down Y. I also got really scared and ran inside. The flashing orb I saw the second time did not move but only kept changing colors. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Cypress Light

Pafos — While on holiday with my fiancée we spotted this in the sky on September25, 2016, l decided to capture a few shots to see if l could capture their emitting frequency and lights. l have zoomed into some of the pictures but have left the originals for your own experiment or perception. Although l am convinced as UFOs have followed me all my life as mufon stated in my last sighting. I look forward to your views. Hope this helps prove one more piece existence of life is not just earth and us. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Greece Sightings

Nea Moudani — My friends were going to drink coffee and having fun on October 20, 2016. It was 23:30 hours and my friends started taking selfies with their phones. I took a picture with my smart phone that look like two objects with orange lights that look like dots or missiles, also one object with three white lights that looks like a triangle shape.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Lights

Crumlin — I was on the phone in my backyard on October 13, 2016. I looked up to see a large black diamond/cone shaped object. It was about 5.30 PM, when I saw a wobbling object a few miles away. It suddenly changed direction and flew NW away from me into cloud cover which is when I managed to take a picture! It all happened so fast, suddenly it was gone. I live in the country near an airport so I’m use to seeing lights/objects in the sky. You see them all out here, 99.9% I can explain. This one I can’t. It seemed too big for a balloon and was oddly shaped for one. I saw a UFO instead of something that can be explained. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Mysterious x-rays coming from Pluto leave scientists baffled

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A space observatory has detected X-rays coming from Pluto, despite the fact that scientists believe that the dwarf planet is incapable of producing high-energy photons.

The X-rays were detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory on four separate occasions between February 2014 and August 2015.

X-rays are usually produced by the interaction of solar wind, the flow of charged particles from the sun, and the neutral gas atoms around a planet or comet.

READ MORE: NASA releases spellbinding details of Pluto’s surface (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Scientists did not think it was possible for Pluto to produce x-rays because, when the New Horizons spacecraft flew by it in 2015, it found that the dwarf planet has no measurable magnetic field and its atmosphere is a very tenuous layer of gases.  

However a new study has found that a very small amount of x-rays are still leaking from the planet.

READ MORE: Scientists reveal how Pluto got its mysterious love heart

Chandra detected 174 kiloseconds worth of X-rays ‒ amounting to just seven photons ‒ over the course of about two days’ observation time. This is a tiny amount of data, but is still considerably more than the researchers were expecting, and they are struggling to explain why the X-rays are there, as the paper The Puzzling Detection of X-rays From Pluto by Chandra outlines.

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It’s thought that the observation could lead to further discoveries. Pluto is the largest entity in the Kuiper belt, an icy disk in the solar system that is largely made up of small bodies. Scientists believe that if the X-rays coming off Pluto are also being emitted by other objects in the belt, then X-ray observations could help find them.

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12-11-2016 om 22:28 geschreven door peter  

12-11-2016 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

RUIMTESCHIP ONTDEKT OP KOMEET P67

De meest vreemde komeet in ons zonnestelsel is ongetwijfeld komeet P67. 

Hij zendt alleen radiosignalen, maar zo te zien hebben buitenaardsen het zich daar ook gemakkelijk gemaakt. 

Eerder deze week schreven wij al over deze bijzondere komeet (zie onder) en hoe uit recente NASA foto’s bleek dat er een ruimteschip/UFO boven de komeet hing. 

Het wordt nog vreemder, want nu is er op de komeet zelf een soort geparkeerd ruimteschip aangetroffen. 

Het is een ontdekking die is gedaan door ufoloog Scott Waring op een EAS (European Space Administration) foto van juli dit jaar. 

Duidelijk is dat het geen vlekje op de lens is, maar een klein soort ruimtevaartuig dat een beetje lijkt op een modern stealth gevechtsvliegtuig. 

Een UFO in een dergelijke kleur steekt ook wel mooi af tegen het donkere oppervlakte van de komeet en kan dan ook op geen enkele wijze worden afgedaan als een “natuurlijk verschijnsel”. 

Dat zal dan ook wel de achterliggende reden zijn dat alle communicatie met de Rosetta opeens is opgehouden omdat deze gecrasht zou zijn. Scott is er heilig van overtuigd dat dit een leugen is en dat de missie in het geheim gewoon doorgaat. 

Wat die missie dan is, is niet duidelijk, maar wel dat er buitenaardsen bij betrokken zijn.

De foto waar Scott dit ruimtevaartuig op heeft gevonden, is hier te bekijken.

Voor de volledigheid het eerdere artikel van deze week: 

Een komeet die radiosignalen uitzendt en waar de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA miljarden euro’s aan uitgeeft om die te onderzoeken. 

Ogenschijnlijk kwam er enkele weken geleden een einde aan de Europese ruimtemissie naar de komeet 67P

Op 30 september 2016, om 12.38 uur crashte Rosetta gecontroleerd op de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Om 13.20 uur (Nederlandse tijd), kwam de bevestiging binnen dat Rosetta gecrasht is. Deze vertraging werd veroorzaakt doordat het 40 minuten duurde voordat de data de aarde bereikte. De sonde werd in overeenstemming met internationale afspraken automatisch uitgezet vlak voor de landing, dit om te voorkomen dat de zender als een stoorzender in het zonnestelsel zou gaan werken en andere observaties zou gaan storen. De crash betekent het einde van de succesvolle missie van Rosetta. 

Echter, de dag voordat Rosetta crashte, zijn er toch nog wel een paar interessante opnames gemaakt waaruit blijkt dat die komeet toch wel even iets meer is dan men ons wil laten geloven. 

Zoals op de volgende opname te zien, hangt er een grote UFO boven de rotsmassa van komeet 67P.

Een stukje uit een eerder artikel: 

De bekende videomaker op Youtube BP Earthwatch ontving een e-mail met het volgende nogal schokkende bericht: 

Het bericht is afkomstig van iemand die werkt binnen ESA (European Space Agency). Deze zegt dat de belangstelling voor deze komeet zo’n twintig jaar geleden werd gewekt doordat NASA radiosignalen ontving, afkomstig van deze komeet. 

Dat niet alleen, maar ergens in de afgelopen twintig jaar schijnt 67P ook van koers te zijn veranderd. 

Veel wetenschappers hebben ook al hun verbazing uitgesproken over het uiterlijk van deze komeet omdat men een soort sneeuw en ijsklomp had verwacht. Iets waarbij in het geval van 67P absoluut geen sprake is. 

Besloten werd volgens de klokkenluider om deze “komeet” met een bezoek te vereren. Om de aandacht af te leiden en dit zo geruisloos mogelijk te doen, werd een samenwerking aangegaan tussen NASA en ESA, waarbij de laatste een missie zou organiseren onder de noemer van onderzoek naar een komeet. 

De klokkenluider zegt verder: "Jullie zijn toch niet zo gek om te geloven dat ze deze Rosetta missie die al in 2004 werd gelanceerd en miljarden Dollars kost, zomaar gaan doen om een stukje rots in de ruimte te onderzoeken? Nee, ze doen dit omdat er iets aan de hand is met 67P en omdat ze vandaar radiosignalen hebben opgevangen". 

Wat 67P ook moge zijn, volgens de klokkenluider is het zeker dat het geen komeet is. 

Dan, net voordat de Rosetta voor ons gewone mensen volledig uit beeld verdwijnt, een ruimteschip wat daar hangt wat minstens 100 meter lang is.

Een “komeet” waar onlangs nog antennes werden ontdekt, eerder ufo’s zijn waargenomen, vreemde constructies/gebouwen zijn ontdekt en die ook nog eens radiosignalen uitzendt. 

Waar het meer op lijkt, is dat men de verdere communicatie met buitenaardsen op komeet P67 volledig buiten het zicht van de bevolking wil houden. 

Zoals te doen gebruikelijk, zouden we daaraan toe willen voegen.

De originele NASA foto is hier te bekijken.

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12-11-2016 om 21:47 geschreven door peter  

5 mile long base on Planet Mercury With 5 Mile Tower Nearby, NASA Source, Nov 11, 2016, UFO Sighting News

Date of discovery: November 12, 2016

Location of discovery: Mercury, Basho Crater

Source photo: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16625

I found this long building on the planet Mercury today. It really stood out and it was build on the edge of the crater wall. This building could move from place to place...think motorhome style of living, but could be in this location for mining. Basho crater is 75km in diameter says NASA, so this building is 1/8 the distance across the crater, so the length of the building is 9.37km across or 5 miles long. That is big enough to hold tens of thousands of people. 

 

There is also a very large dark tower. Its on the opposite side of the crater and is as tall as the building is long...about 5 miles high. 

 

The evidence is mounting up day by day. Soon an avalanche of evidence will be falling upon NASA, forcing them to tell the truth...that intelligent extraterrestrials do exist. 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

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12-11-2016 om 21:38 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Fresno Could Be Sign Big Earth Quake Is On Its Way, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: Nov 10, 2016
Location of sighting: Fresno, California, USA
Source: MUFON #80359

It the photos above you can clearly see a flying disk over Fresno this week. The disk appears to be metallic and has a blur around it. The blur was explained long ago by Bob Lazar of Area 51, who said, the blur is associated with the propulsion of the craft. I agree, every points to this being an alien craft over Fresno, but its kind of brazen to be over such a high populate area, unless they examining the San Andreas quake line. This may be a sign of a very big earth quake coming. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states: 

I was in my backyard in Fresno,Ca. I was taking random photos of the sky just before and during sunset. The weather was warm with scattered light clouds. I did not see the object in question I only saw the object on my photo after I uploaded it to my Mac iPhoto. I was very surprised and taken back when I captured another UFO on my photos. This clearly did not look like a typical plane. This object was ovals/disc shaped and solid black with no windows, wings and not sound. It must have travelled fast since I did not see it. I was the only person in my backyard. This happened on November 11, 2016 around 6pm or so. I have over 200 photos of UFO's that I have when I take random photos of the sky. Some photos have one other may have three objects. I do not have photoshop. I own a Nikon D3300. I have also included other photos to share. 

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12-11-2016 om 21:20 geschreven door peter  

UFO Drops From Orbit Landing In Myanmar On Nov 11, 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Nov 11, 2016

Location of discovery: Kachin, Myanmar

Sourece: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37946718

This object from space fell last night and its really big. Don't let the seems fool you. I have found alien artefacts with seems before, the greatest of my finds, a face on Mercury with detail and seems similar to that of the statue of liberty but of a black man was one of my greatest finds, however, my Asus computer caught a rare black screen virus just 24 hours later, destroying all my screenshots, and links to the site, and destroying my entire computer. 

 

The object above may be an alien created fragment of an object, but it does has similarities to rocket boosters. Its not a military satellite, since its mostly an empty container, and military satellites are mostly small, compact and loaded with tech...this one is mostly empty...which means it probably held fuel. This is an old part of a rocket and could have been stuck in orbit for decades.

Scott C. Waring

 

BBC News states: 

The cylindrical object, found on Thursday in Kachin state, is 4.5m (15ft) long and 1.2m wide.

 

Another piece of metal with Chinese writing on it tore through the roof of a nearby house at about the same time, but no injuries were reported.

 

It is thought that the incident might be related to the launch of a Chinese satellite.

 

Trouble in orbit: Growing problem of space junk

A Chinese Long March 11 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on Wednesday night, carrying an experimental satellite.

 

'Houses shook'

Local residents reported hearing a loud bang before the object landed.

 

Officials from the local Defence Service said it bounced 150ft (50m) and landed in a muddy area of the mine, according to the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

 

"We were all afraid of that explosion," villager Ko Maung Myo told the Myanmar Times. "Initially, we thought it was a battle. The explosion made our houses shake. We saw the smoke from our village." (more at source)

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12-11-2016 om 21:15 geschreven door peter  

Half Of the Truth About Aliens Still Kept Secret, MoD Source Admits

The governments of this world are not telling the complete details they know about aliens, according to the founder of Strange Phenomena Investigation, Malcolm Robinson.

A source with a connection to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has revealed to Robinson that governments, including Britain, aren’t telling even 50 percent of the truth.

The MoD had operated a UFO desk for three decades but stopped in 2009 because it was allegedly not helping the country’s defence and taking away resources and staff from more important activities. The public can access the findings gathered in the last two years of MoD UFO desk’s operation in the National Archives website, which holds other UFO files that MoD has previously released.

The collection of 25 files containing 4,400 pages includes a letter written by two Staffordshire young boys. The letter includes a narration about an apparent alien with a lemon-shaped head that invited the two boys to come with them.

Also included are sketches from recorded sightings, such as the color of the lights by the unknown aircraft and its height.

Robinsons, a paranormal investigator for decades, called for the government to conduct a serious investigation on sightings, including old case police files from Bonnybridge, Scotland, which comprised of at least 300 sightings.

He said the Ministry of Defense has slowly released records from the government in the U.K.  The U.S. has also been declassified documents that clearly show NSA had connivance with governments from other nations and known exactly the truth.

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12-11-2016 om 21:00 geschreven door peter  

A UFO Tailed Donald Trump’s Chopper

As the world watched the race for the next president of the United States, it seemed that anyone else out there did the same.

UFO spotters have been left without a clue as to who or what was following the now U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s helicopter as it flew during his campaign.

The photographer, who chose not to be named, captured a blob following closely behind the business tycoon turned politician chopper as it flew a group of children above the Iowa State Fair.

According to the report of the witness to a U.S. national UFO database, Donald Trump gave children a ride in his helicopter at the Iowa State Fair.

The witness stated that they were walking down the street to the fair. They saw Trump’s helicopter flying overhead. The reporting witness decided to take a photo of the chopper using his phone camera.

When he later reviewed the picture while sitting in the shade, the witness was shocked to see the UFO in the photograph.

The Iowa Mutual UFO Network branch is reportedly investigating the report and the photo.

MUFON spokesman Roger Marsh suggested that the object could be anything from a second helicopter to a bird or perhaps a UFO. He said that picture analysis might shed some light on the object’s identity.

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12-11-2016 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Metal Fragment Recovered Near Roswell UFO Crash Site

Vital clues may be lurking around the strange fragment of metal recovered near the scene of the infamous Roswell UFO crash site.

Best-selling author Ben Mezrich discovered the scrap, which is awaiting to be tested, when he visited the site to research his new book “The 37th Parallel.” The book investigated the UFO and paranormal road of the same name. Part of the 37th north parallel in latitude has become known for UFO sightings and unexplained animal mutilation cases.

The road is also believed to house several U.S. military bases and American Indian holy sites.

The Roswell case became so famous after the military announced they had recovered the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the nearby desert. However, they retracted their statement the following day, saying it was just a damaged U.S. Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward with claims that they saw alien bodies within the crashed sites along with the wreckage, which were taken to the top-secret Area 51 in Nevada.

The book looks into the bottom of UFO sightings along the parallel, including the Roswell incident. It charts the work of UFOlogist Chuck Zukowski, who investigated various cases along the parallel, which takes in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern ridge of Colorado, for several years.

Mr. Mezrich is also the author of the best-selling book “The Accidental Billionaires,” which the film “The Social Network” is basing. He was a total skeptic before researching for his books. As from a family of scientists, he assumed before that most of the UFO community was crazy.

However, Mr. Mezrich became a believer when he met Mr. Zukowski, a former sheriff’s deputy and a part-time microchip engineer. Mr. Mezrich said that he now believes something happened at Roswell.

In 2002, Mr. Zukowski found strange triangular pieces of metal close to the 1947 Roswell crash site. However, it was just recently that he sent a fragment of it to the laboratory of Bigelow Aerospace. Conclusive results of the examination are yet to be released, according to the book

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12-11-2016 om 20:55 geschreven door peter  

London teens battle aliens that invade their neighborhood in “Attack the Block.” Courtesy photo

BY ROD POCOWATCHIT

In honor of the new Amy Adams alien flick “Arrival,” well, arriving, here are 10 essential aliens-invade Earth movies (it should be noted that not included on my list are movies where there was no actual invasion, like “E.T.” or “Starman,” who did more hanging out than invading

'Arrival' (Teaser trailer)

When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers – and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

Sony Pictures

▪  “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977)

– Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi classic follows a group of people who are psychically connected to aliens who pay Earth a friendly, colorful, tuneful visit. It’s novel, grand in scope and simply breathtaking. And I’ve never looked at mashed potatoes quite the same way after seeing Richard Dreyfuss’ mashed potato sculpture scene.

▪  “The War of the Worlds” (2005)

– Speaking of Spielberg, the director’s take on H.G. Wells’ classic tale is a visceral, scary rush, led by a hearty performance from Tom Cruise as a less-than-perfect father tasked with trying to get his kids to safety when aliens attack. The scene with Tim Robbins where we don’t see anything but know exactly what’s going on is indelible – and genius.

▪  “Signs” (2002)

– Mel Gibson stars as the father of a family that finds mysterious crop circles in farm fields that could signal an alien invasion. Director M. Night Shyamalan was at the top of his game here, including nods to Alfred Hitchcock and even Spielberg himself. Everything kind of goes haywire with a ludicrous ending (as Shyamalan’s films tend to do), but up until then it’s an eerily tense mystery.

▪  “District 9” (2009)

– While most alien invasion films tend to treat the world as U.S. territory, co-writer/director Neill Blomkamp set his tale in South Africa (where he’s from), where an extraterrestrial race has arrived seeking solace and is forced to live in slum-like conditions. The film’s parallels to apartheid and immigration are none too subtle, but it makes for topical commentary.

▪  “Independence Day” (1996)

– OK, OK, it’s not actually a good film, but it’s a great bad one and more than a guilty pleasure. Sure, there are logic and plot holes big enough to drive a spaceship through, but who can resist Bill Pullman’s president speech? “We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!” I shed a little tear just now.

▪  “They Live” (1988)

– Wrestler-turned-“actor” “Rowdy” Roddy Piper gives a monotone, wooden performance in John Carpenter’s cult classic, but that actually makes it even better. He plays a man who stumbles across a pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens in our midst and expose evil subliminal forces at work in our everyday surroundings. The film’s Big Brother-like predictions are a bit too close for comfort.

▪  “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014)

– Tom Cruise plays a soldier, but the real star is the film’s “Groundhog Day”-like premise, in which Cruise slowly figures out how to fight off aliens by having to live the same day over and over again. It’s dazzling, gripping and a lot of fun.

▪  “Starship Troopers” (1997)

– Campy as all get-out but wearing it like a badge of honor is Paul Verhoeven’s giddily violent sci-fi mash-up where aliens that look like giant bugs have invaded Earth. It’s completely ridiculous but pure adrenaline-fueled fun.

▪  “Attack the Block” (2011)

– This British import is director Joe Cornish’s under-the-radar gem, about a teen gang in South London defending their block from an alien invasion. It’s funny, creative and exciting with some sly social commentary. It also stars a newcomer who would go on to stardom in a galaxy far, far away: John Boyega, who plays Finn in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

▪  “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951)

– No, not that painfully boring 2008 Keanu Reeves remake, but the original black-and-white classic about an alien that arrives and tells the people of Earth they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. Its environmental message was light years ahead of its time. But will we ever listen?

Rod Pocowatchit: 316-268-6638, @rawd

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12-11-2016 om 00:47 geschreven door peter  

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and UFOs

12-11-2016 om 00:14 geschreven door peter  

UFO hunter reveals UK version of Area 51

365994 03: A warning sign marks the boundary of Area 51, March 12, 2000 in Rachel, Nevada. This sleepy Nevada town is located just a stone's throw from the secret U.S. military base known as Area 51. Locals claim that strange things occur around here such as the appearance of UFO's in the sky and other otherworldly oddities emanating from the military base. Due to these bizarre circumstances, the town's economy has geared up for tourism. The 'Little Ale Inn' and the 'Area 51' research center are just two of the many tourist attractions the town has to offer.

A paranormal investigator claimed that the British government is hiding the truth about UFOs and aliens.  There have been hundreds of UFO sightings across the continents and the United Kingdom is just one of the countries known as a UFO hotspot.

The founder of the Strange Phenomena Investigations that is responsible for carrying out UFO and Paranormal Research, Malcolm Robinson, has recently revealed that the former Ministry of Defense (MoD) has disclosed several cold case police files from Bonnybridge showing evidence of at least 300 UFO sightings at UK's own "Area 51".

The United Kingdom also has its own Area 51 just like in the U.S. This Area 51 is allegedly considered as a secret military base where the remains of the UFO space crafts are stored. According to a report published by TIME Magazine, UK possibly houses a top secret facility which is similar to Area 51 that stores evidences about UFO and alien sightings.

According to the reports, Malcolm has already submitted the case files about UFO sightings to the former British Prime Minister, David Cameron. He has also requested the government to launch a formal inquiry about extraterrestrial sightings.  However, the request was ignored.

The Mystery behind Area 51

In 2013, CNN reported that the Central Intelligence Agency has finally admitted that the Area 51 in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States is storing debris of extraterrestrial aircraft. And on 2014, the former Area 51 scientist, Boyd Bushman has exposed the evidence of aliens and UFOs before his last breath.

Now, it is not just the United States that stores UFO and aliens evidence. According to Robinson, the governments including Britain had covered up many sightings and files about UFOs and aliens.  He claimed that the manager of the defunct UFO desk, Nick Pope have lots of evidence, but refused to divulge half of it to the world.

UFO Department and Hotline was Shut Down

In 2009, the UFO department and hotline were closed because it no longer served its defense purpose. Documents were taken away and were later revealed from the Freedom of Information. Mr. Robinson said that the Ministry of Defence has slowly unveiled the government files about UFO sightings in the UK.

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12-11-2016 om 00:06 geschreven door peter  

An explanation for those mysterious pinging sounds in Canada’s Arctic

DAVID PUGLIESE, OTTAWA CITIZEN

The theories range from UFOs operating under the ice to the release of methane gas to Russian or U.S. submarines lurking around in Canadian waters.

But one possible explanation for the mysterious sounds seemingly coming from the ocean floor in Canada’s Arctic may be rather straightforward, suggests a U.S. scientist working on project that generates low frequency sound in the far North. It could be ice rubbing together.

Last week, acting on a request from the government of Nunavut, the Canadian military sent a CP-140 Aurora aircraft to conduct surveillance of Fury and Hecla Strait, northwest of the hamlet of Igloolik. Hunters in the area have reported hearing noises ranging from hums to pings to beeps. They say the noises are driving animals away.

Paul Quassa, a member of Nunavut’s legislative assembly, told lawmakers last month the sounds seem to be coming from the sea floor. “The sound that has been heard in the area seems to be emitted from the seabed and underwater,” Quassa said in an Oct. 25 statement.

According to Department of National Defence spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier, the Aurora’s crew conducted “various multi-sensor searches in the area, including an acoustic search for 1.5 hours, without detecting any acoustic anomalies. The crew did not detect any surface or subsurface contacts.” The Aurora crew did observe two pods of whales and six walruses in the area of interest, Le Bouthillier added.

Residents have speculated about various theories for the sounds, including that a mining company may be conducting sonar surveys or that environmentalists may be using some kind of device to scare away animals so they can’t be hunted. Others have suggested the release of methane gases from the ocean floor or clandestine visits by Russian or U.S. submarines.

One of the more prominent theories focused on the claim the sounds were being emitted by a science project in the Arctic funded by the Office of Naval Research in the U.S. That project, called the Canada Basin Acoustic Propagation Experiment or CANAPE, uses low frequency sound to determine how the ongoing changes in sea ice affect acoustics. The project could produce data for use in tracking submarines in the far North.

But Peter Worcester of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California said the sounds being generated by CANAPE are very low and too far away to be heard in the Fury and Hecla Strait. “The signals transmitted for CANAPE are only expected to be above the background ocean noise level out to a range of at most a few hundred kilometers, which is much less than the distance to Fury and Hecla Strait,” said Worcester, who heads the project. “Even if the signals were louder, any underwater sound generated north of Alaska would be blocked from reaching Fury and Hecla Strait by the many islands in the Canadian Archipelago.”

Worcester said he didn’t know what would cause the mystery sounds and is loath to speculate since he hasn’t heard them himself. But he noted much of the acoustic noise in the Arctic is caused by ice rubbing together, cracking, and moving. Early Arctic explorers called the noises the “Devil’s Symphony” with descriptions ranging from buzzing, wheezing and loud bangs.

“You can even get things where the ice hums, where you get sounds that resonate almost like an organ pipe,” Worcester explained. “There was a paper written about the notion there are various melodies associated with the sounds generated by sea ice.”

A spokesman with the DND said the department considers the issue of the mystery noises now closed and there are no plans at this time to send more aircraft to investigate.

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11-11-2016 om 23:50 geschreven door peter