US Air Force veteran's UFO video sent to NASA for analysis after supersonic object filmed

NASA has been sent a video of a speeding UFO for analysis after experts were unable to conclude what it was.

21-11-2016 om 21:39 geschreven door peter  

1946 - ‘Ghost rockets’ over Scandinavia

 

In 1946 just one year after the Second World War ended another wave of UFO sightings was witnessed, this time in Europe over the Scandinavian countries where they were called Ghost Rockets.

The UFO sightings did not start in America with the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold. A year earlier, waves and wave of UFOs were seen in the Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. But they were not referred to as Flying Saucers or UFOs because the terms came into existence only in 1947 and the latter in 1952 respectively, courtesy, the American Air Force.

During the Second World War, UFOs were seen all over the world, especially over the European and Far East theatre, where they were referred to by the allied pilots as Foo Fighters.

In 1946 just one year after the Second World War ended another wave of UFO sightings was witnessed, this time in Europe over the Scandinavian countries where they were called Ghost Rockets.

The Swedish government covered up the entire incident and started releasing information only 40 years later. One interesting incident happened on the night of June 9, 1946. A brilliant light streaked over Helsinki, Finland, with a smoke trail and the sound of thunder; its luminous trail persisted for ten minutes and the same incident repeated the next night, except in this case the Ghost Rocket turned and went back in the direction from which it had come which certainly ruled out the possibility of it being a natural phenomenon like meteor or asteroid.

The "classic" 1946 photo of a "ghost rocket" in Sweden

A ghost rocket or a meteor. Photographer Erik Reuterswärd suspected a meteor was depicted in his widely circulated photo. The Swedish Army, who released the picture, was less certain.

On June 12, the Swedish Defense Staff asked military personnel to report their sightings through official channels, admitting that they had been aware of the phenomenon since May. On July 9 alone, more than 200 Ghost Rocket sightings were reported, many of them being described as tubular or spindle shaped objects flying low and slowly, with little or no sound. Soon the Swedish government established a special "ghost rocket" committee to look into the matter. A week later American Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, travelled to Stockholm to meet with the Swedish Secretary of War.

On August 11, 1946 more than 300 reports of strange sightings were observed in just the Stockholm area alone. Soon the Swedish newspapers started censoring most reports of ghost rockets. However, reports continued to come in from other Scandinavian countries like Norway which provided some of the best reports.

In 1984, when the Swedish Government finally opened its "ghost rocket" files, UFO researchers found more than 1,500 reports had been secretly collected during this period.

Common characteristics of these Ghost Rockets as described by both military and civilian eye witnesses were great speed, intense light frequently associated with missile, lack of sound, and approximate horizontal flight and none of these fit with any flying objects of natural origin like meteors, asteroids or comets. The interesting part was the Swedish government tried to blame the UFO sightings on Soviet Union accusing the Soviets of testing the captured German V 2 rockets. A good diversionary tactic that many people believed, but years later it came out that the Soviets had immediately moved the captured German V2 rockets to Poland.

Forty years later Swedish Air Engineer Eric Malmberg who was the secretary of Sweden's Defense Staff committee that dealt with this matter during 1946 stated that everyone on the committee including the chairman knew that these Ghost Rockets did not originate from the Soviet Union. No evidence pointed towards that. On the other hand, based on the reports acquired it appeared that some kind of a cruise missile was fired on Sweden. But the problem was no nation had sophisticated cruise missile technology in 1946. By the end of 1946 as reports of Ghost Rockets from Scandinavia began to diminish but reports of similar sightings from Hungary, Greece, Morocco and Portugal started coming in, making this a truly global phenomenon.

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21-11-2016 om 20:56 geschreven door peter  

Heretic Among Heretics: Jacques Vallee Interview

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Summary: In-depth interview with leading UFO researcher, Jacques Vallee.

PART 1 

Jacques Vallee hesitated before agreeing to be interviewed about the subject for which he's most famous: UFOs. It's not that he's reluctant to discuss the topic, or tussle with the skeptics. After all, he's written close to a dozen books on UFOs, several of them best-sellers, analyzing a notoriously ethereal subject as a hard-headed physical scientist, folklorist, and sociologist. He believes there is more than enough solid evidence to make a compelling case for the existence of UFOs, and he doesn't shy away from an honest debate. 

It's the hard-core believers who give Vallee pause. Anyone who has observed the semi-academic cockpit known as "UFOlogy" knows that close encounters of the UFO expert kind shed little light and much heat, dogma and territorial sniping. Vallee's views about UFOs are far more exotic and far stranger than what he calls the reigning "nuts and bolts" approach to the subject. Consequently, he's been attacked by believers so often that he jokingly refers to himself a "heretic among heretics." As Vallee puts it, "I will be disappointed if UFOs turn out to be nothing more than spaceships." 

In his recent autobiographical book, Forbidden Science, Vallee summed up his views about the provenance of UFOs, a viewpoint that he's developed through decades of research: "The UFO Phenomenon exists. It has been with us throughout history. It is physical in nature and it remains unexplained in terms of contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness that we have not yet recognized, and which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them." So much for anti-gravity-powered starships ferrying Big Brothers from outer space. Vallee thinks UFOs are likely "windows" to other dimensions manipulated by intelligent, often mischievous, always enigmatic beings we have yet to understand. (60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time covers Vallee's theories in detail.) 

No other UFO researcher has contributed more to an admittedly controversial field. But Vallee commands a measure of respect that must leave his colleagues feeling a bit envious. Even Philip Klass, the avionics expert and the media's favorite UFO-debunker, calls Vallee "one of the more distinguished members of the pro-UFO community." Vallee, he adds, "is one of the brighter physical scientists who believes in UFOs." 

Vallee moved to America from his native France in the early 1960s, as young astronomer-turned-computer scientist. Vallee pioneered the use of computers to analyze and categorize the UFO phenomenon, and his 1965 book, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, is still considered one of the most scholarly books on UFOs ever written. At Northwestern University, Vallee assisted Prof. J. Allen Hynek, the academic consultant on the Air Force's infamous Project Bluebook, now seen by most saucer students as either a half-hearted government effort to address the UFO craze of the 1950s and 1960s or a full-blown coverup. While working with Hynek, Vallee and his wife, Janine, compiled the first-ever computer database of UFO sightings. 

In 1969, Vallee published another groundbreaking book, Passport to Magonia, in which he collected a body of folkloric "myths" that read remarkably like modern UFO encounters, from Celtic tales of fairyland abductions to Biblical passages and medieval chronicles of "visitors" from beyond. Building on Carl Jung's thesis that UFOs are a sociological phenomenon, a product of the collective unconscious, Vallee forever left behind the space-bound E.T. theorists. But his folklorist's approach to the problem would influence a number of later researchers and writers who continue to echo his ideas about other-dimensional forms of consciousness. Best-selling author Whitley Strieber, Harvard "abductee psychologist" John Mack, and journalist Keith Thompson (author of Angels and Aliens all owe a debt to Vallee. Stephen Spielberg paid homage to Vallee in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, basing his French scientist character (played by Francois Truffaut) on the real French UFO theorist. 

We recently had lunch with Vallee in San Francisco at restaurant around the corner from the offices of his high-technology venture capital firm. Part 1 of that interview covers Vallee's theories about UFOs and his belief that science can penetrate mystery of flying disks and alien beings. In Part 2, which we'll publish later this month, Vallee discusses the second sphere of his researches: The connection between the UFO phenomenon and the religious impulse. Vallee believes that the intelligence guiding UFOs is a kind of control mechanism, an invisible hand shaping the development of human consciousness over a period of eons. In the second installment he also talks about the theory that from time to time governments have manipulated public opinion through UFO mythology--in some instances constructing elaborate hoaxes for propagandistic purposes. 

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60GCAT: Why are Americans obsessed with the idea that outer space aliens are the pilots of UFOs? 

Vallee: I think Americans, if they are interested in the subject, are very literal. They want to kick the tires, which is a good American thing to do. They want to do reverse engineering on the propulsion system. And when I tell them, "Look, maybe those things don't have a propulsion system," you get a strange reaction. Just like, if you remember, in Close Encounters, the Truffaut character keeps going around saying this is a sociological phenomenon, not just physical. And he has a lot of trouble getting that idea across. 

60GCAT: At one point you subscribed to the theory that UFOs might be extraterrestrial in origin. . . . 

Vallee: When I met Stephen Spielberg, I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, "You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting--this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect." Which is fair. 

60GCAT: So what do we know for sure about the nature of UFOs? 

Vallee: There is a phenomenon. We don't know where it comes from. It's characterized by its physical [traces]. Eighty percent of all the cases have trivial explanations. But I'm talking about the core phenomena. It seems to involve a lot of energy in a small space; it seems to involve pulsed microwaves, among other things. There isn't much that is known about the effect of pulsed microwaves on the brain, so it's quite possible that some of the stories that you get from people are essentially induced hallucinations in sincere witnesses--the witnesses are not lying. They really have been exposed to something genuine but there is no way to go back to what that thing was, based on their description, because their brain has been affected by proximity to that energy. 

Having said that, I have plenty of colleagues in science and technology I respect who tell me this could be a natural phenomenon--this could be an undiscovered form of energy in the atmosphere. We don't know much about the effect of electromagnetic fields on the nervous system. We're going to be discovering that as we go. So, it's quite possible that there could be a phenomenon like that, a very spontaneous thing. Or it could be artificial. If it's artificial it could come from another form of consciousness, which may or may not be extraterrestrial. It's a big universe out there. Who are we to say where it comes from? We can only speculate on that point. 

60GCAT: How can we use our own comparatively backward technology to investigate this mystery? 

Vallee: Where I think that technology can be of help is in looking for patterns. And I did as much of that as anybody else. I built, with my wife, the first computer database of UFO sightings. But where I think computers could be used much better is in applying artificial intelligence, reason, and inference to eliminating the reports that have natural causes. I developed a software prototype of that, which was called OVNIBASE, which I turned over to the French CNES; presumably they are developing a next version of it, and running it on their database. 

60GCAT: What about other technologies that can help us analyze evidence better than we could, say, 10 years ago? 

Vallee: Digital enhancement of photographs is very useful. In my book, Confrontations, I mention the photograph that I brought back from Costa Rica, which was unusual because the object was over a lake [Lago de Cote], so there was a uniform black background. Everything is known about the aircraft that took the photo. At the time the picture was taken [in 1971], nobody on the plane had seen the object. It was only after the film was developed that the object was discovered. The camera used was exceptional: It produced a very large negative--ten inches, very detailed. You can see cows in the field. The time is known; the latitude, longitude and attitude of the aircraft is known. So we spent a lot of time analyzing that photograph, without being able to find any obvious natural answer to the object. It seems to be a very large, solid thing. 

I obtained the negative from the government of Costa Rica--if you don't have the negative, analysis is a waste of time. I also obtained the negative of the picture taken before and the picture after, all uncut. I took negatives to a friend of mine in France who works for a firm that digitally analyzes satellite photographs. They digitized the entire thing, and then analyzed it to the extent that they could, and could not find an explanation for the object. 

60GCAT: It's hard for Americans to grasp the idea that UFOs might be a manifestation the other-dimensional. . . . 

Vallee: You have to keep an open mind. What I try to do is what any cop would do: I try to listen to the witnesses instead of printing my own theories. Theories are a dime a dozen. They don't do any good. It's much more useful, I think, just to listen to what people are telling you, and I've been trying to do that not just in the U.S., but also in Europe and other places I've visited, like Brazil and Argentina, and try to look for patterns. 

60GCAT: You're a bit of a controversial figure among UFO researchers, mainly because you entertain theories more exotic than the UFOs-are-from-outer-space paradigm. 

Vallee: I've antagonized a number of the believers in UFOs. Number one, because I'm not ready to jump to any conclusion that it's necessarily extraterrestrial--we're not smart enough to know what they are at this point. And the research has not been done. I certainly remember enough of my training in astronomy to tell you that the universe is big enough to have other forms of life than us; at least we hope that it does. But so far we cannot prove it. So we cannot see how they would come here--they probably would be much advanced with respect to our physics, and they would have found a way to do it. But that does not explain UFOs. 

I've also antagonized a lot of people because I think that the way abductions are being handled is wrong. It's not only wrong scientifically, it's wrong morally and ethically. I've been telling people, don't let anyone hypnotize you if you've seen a strange light in the sky. I think a lot of those people prominent in the press and in the National Enquirer and in the talk shows and so on are creating abductees under hypnosis. They are hypnotizing everybody who's ever had a strange experience and telling them they are abductees by suggestion. And they are doing that in good faith. They don't realize what they are doing. But to my way of thinking, that's unethical. 

60GCAT: What do you think of John Mack, the Harvard psychologist who believes that alien abductions are a real phenomenon? Of course, he uses hypnosis on his patients to liberate "repressed memories" of those abductions. 

Vallee: I respect him for his courage in addressing the issue, but I don't agree with his methods. 

I've taken some witnesses who wanted to be hypnotized, taken them to specialists in two cases out of maybe 70 cases of abductions that I've studied. And usually the specialists tell me that hypnosis is not necessarily the best way of helping these people. Nor is it the best way to recover memories. It may help in very specific cases. But I've never hypnotized anybody--I'm not qualified to do it. 

60GCAT: How did you first become interested in UFOs and paranormal phenomena? 

Vallee: I started out wanting to do astronomy and I ruined essentially a perfectly good career in science by becoming interested in computers. This was in France in the early days of computing and the earliest days of satellites and space exploration. So I took some of the earliest computer courses at French universities. 

My first job was at Paris observatory, tracking satellites. And we started tracking objects that were not satellites, were fairly elusive, and so we decided that we would pay attention to those objects even though they were not on the schedule of normal satellites. And one night we got eleven data points on one of these objects--it was very bright. It was also retrograde. This was at a time when there was no rocket powerful enough to launch a retrograde satellite, a satellite that goes around opposite to the rotation of the earth, where you obviously need to overcome the earth's gravity going the other direction. You have to reach escape velocity in the direction opposite the rotation of the earth, which takes a lot more energy than the direct direction. And the man in charge of the project confiscated the tape and erased it the next morning. 

So that's really what got me interested. Because up to then I thought, Scientists don't seem to be interested in UFOs, astronomers don't report anything unusual in the sky, so there probably isn't anything to it. Effectively, I was in the same position that most scientists are in today--you trust your colleagues, and because you don't see any reports from credible, technical witnesses, you assume that there is nothing. And there I was with a technical report--I don't know what it was. It wasn't a flying saucer--it didn't land close to the observatory. But still, it was a mystery. And instead of looking at the data and preserving the data, we were destroying it. 

60GCAT: Why did he destroy it? 

Vallee: Just fear of ridicule. He thought that the Americans would laugh at us, if we sent it--all of the data on satellites was being concentrated in the U.S. And we were exchanging our data with international bodies. And he just didn't want Paris observatory to look silly by reporting some thing that he could not identify in the sky. [This was in] 1961. Later I found out that other observatories had made exactly the same observation, and that in fact American tracking stations had photographed the same thing and could not identify it either. It was a first magnitude object: it was as bright as [the star] Sirius. You couldn't miss it. It didn't reappear in successive weeks. It's just a little anecdote, but to me that fact that we destroyed it was more important than what we saw. And that reopened the whole question for me: Are there things that scientists are observing and not talking about? And then I started extending a small network of scientists, which is still active, and found that there was a lot of data that was never published. In fact, the best data has never been published. I think a great deal of the misunderstanding about UFOs among scientists is that the scientists have never had access to the best data. 

60GCAT: Why has the best data never been published? 

Vallee: I talk to a lot of technical companies where the executives are aware of my interests, and I've had a lot of reports under seal of confidentiality from people in science and in business who had seen things. About a year ago, a vice president at IBM took me aside after a conference and said, "Are you the same Jacques Vallee who is interested in UFOs?" And he described a perfectly classic UFO close encounter story that he and his family had in upstate New York. This is not something that is going to be in the National Enquirer. 

I met a man who is president of a technical company in Silicon Valley; he wanted to tell me about his experiences. He had been a very-high ranking naval officer in command of a large ship, and he had three experiences with UFOs, two of them in the service in very sensitive positions--and at one time when he was a test pilot. He has never reported any of the encounters, even when he was a pilot. I said, "Weren't you under obligation to report it?" And he said, "Maybe I was, but if they have the slightest doubt about what you are seeing up there, you are [considered to be] crazy--they won't let you near the cockpit of an experimental plane." And he said, "If you're a pilot, you want to fly. You don't want to spend the next month filling out forms for a bunch of psychiatrics." Which is what will happen. I think any pilot will tell you the same thing, you know, over a beer. So those are the cases that I'm interested in. The cases that have not been reported in the press, haven't been distorted in the retelling. When I have time, I follow up on those cases with my own resources basically out of curiosity, with no preconceived idea. 

60GCAT: But skeptics always argue that even though there may be anecdotal evidence, there's no hard scientific data. . . . 

Vallee: There is plenty of data--and it should be analyzed further. But I do not think it's going to be a propeller from a flying saucer. I think it is going to be things that would be interesting if you could find a pattern to the material. I'm skeptical about stories of crashed saucers; I have an open mind about it, but I've heard those stories for so many years and they never really amount to anything tangible. Also, I am skeptical for another reason: We build technologies now that are extremely reliable where there is the need. How often does your hard disk crash? I mean, if you keep your computer for 15 years, eventually the hard disk is going to crash. But you don't expect that to happen. If you were going to build a technology that takes you across interstellar space, it would have to be extremely reliable. 

60GCAT: In your books, you detail the hard data turned up in European investigations. 

Vallee: There is a small unit of the CNES, which is the French equivalent of NASA, that has permission to investigate any cases of UFOs. They were set up in the mid-'70s and they've been going ever since. They found a number of cases that couldn't be explained, and some cases were never published with all the data. Cases where there were traces on the ground, where there was evidence of heat, evidence of radiation, including pulsed microwave radiation, and evidence of plants being affected. Again, that doesn't prove anything. It just proves that there was something there. It doesn't tell you what it was. But it certainly is a valid technical issue. 

This data doesn't tell you if the phenomenon is natural or not, because it doesn't tell you enough about the conditions where that happened. And that's where I think a lot more research should be done. People have come to me saying, "Look, I was a pilot or in a radar station in Alaska, and we were tracking UFOs--we recorded the data, and I was a pilot and followed one of those things and got gun camera footage of it. When I landed there was a guy waiting for me, in blue jeans and a sweater, who said, 'You didn't see anything up there.'" Meanwhile, a guy with a screwdriver is unhooking the camera from the fuselage. Usually witnesses have no idea where those guys come from. But somebody has a lot of data; and I think that this hard data should be turned over to science, certainly the stuff from 20 years ago--I mean, how classified can it be? By now, we should have known if it was an enemy, so we should turn over the data to the scientific community. Let the skeptics analyze it from their point of view and let anyone else analyze it from their point of view. That's the way science should be done. 

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PART 2 


EDITOR'S REVELATION: In Part 1 of our interview with UFO sleuth/computer conferencing pioneer Jacques Vallee, we looked at some of the scientific evidence bolstering the contention that UFOs are a real, measurable phenomenon. In Part 2, below, Vallee continues this theme as he talks about his samples of "liquid sky"--the metallic debris occasionally seen ejected from flying disks. 
Then hold on to your propeller beanie as we depart four-dimensional time space and look at some of Vallee's more exotic theories about the origin of UFOs. As Vallee puts it, "The UFO phenomenon exists. It has been with us throughout history. It is physical in nature and it remains unexplained in terms of contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness that we have not yet recognized, and which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them. It affects our own consciousness in ways that we do not grasp fully, and it generally behaves as a control system." 

Vallee refers to this complex system of control--which is shaping human society over the course of thousands of years--as an "interface of reality with consciousness." It sounds a lot like Arthur C. Clarke's science fictional theme in 2001: A Space Odyssey--an alien intelligence subtly directing the course of human development, toward mysterious ends. Talk about your cosmic conspiracies! 

But Vallee also has controversial ideas about human-made UFO conspiracies. "I was investigating some cases that were physically real," he says, "but they were hoaxes--yet not hoaxes on the part of the witnesses." 

The two most stunning cases of faked UFO events that Vallee has uncovered occurred rather recently in the history of saucer sightings. In 1980, a strange object purportedly "crashed" in England's Rendlesham Forest, a few miles away from an American Air Force Base. Dozens of military personnel were dispatched into the forest, without weapons, before the supposed crash of a luminous object. After the incident conflicting stories leaked to the press and to civilian investigators, some of the leaks apparently originating from the front office of the military base. Vallee's conclusion--controversial among UFO believers who insist that aliens touched down in Rendlesham Forest--is that "the event had all the earmarks of being staged for the benefit of the witnesses, perhaps so that their psychological reactions could be studied." 

Even more bizarre is the information turned up by French investigators in the wake of a bizarre 1979 abduction case. An unemployed young man named Franck Fontaine disappeared outside of his apartment one morning, reportedly after his friends saw him enveloped in a luminous fog. After a week of frenzied press coverage and a fruitless search by the authorities, Fontaine turned up in a field outside the apartment--with no memory of his unusual experience. His friends insisted he had been abducted by a UFO, and police investigators, though they doubted that claim, found no other satisfactory explanation. 

But as Vallee reports, investigators from GEPAN, the French government's aerial phenomena study group, were led to an official in the French Ministry of Defense who willingly described the so-called UFO abduction as an "Exercise of General Synthesis." What happened to Fontaine? "We put him to sleep and he was put under an altered state of high suggestibility," replied the official. When asked if the "exercise" was intended to test the investigative abilities of local law enforcement agencies, the official said, "That would be a fair way to describe it." Then he added, ominously, "If this operation had been completed, the next phase would have been far worse." As Vallee notes in his best-selling book, Revelations, "It would be fair to assume that the [Fontaine] operation could have been a test, perhaps a prelude to an experiment of wider scope." 

Vallee says he knows the name of the French official, an Air Force officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 

So what on earth--to pick an appropriate planet--is going on? Vallee has several theories that might explain such UFO flimflam. The military may be experimenting with psychological warfare techniques, as the Germans did in World War I, when they projected images of the Virgin Mary on banks of smoke in an effort to spook the French into saying their Rosaries instead of killing Germans. Vallee also thinks that sham UFO reports might be used as cover for tests of new military stealth technology. 

But the most troubling "deception theory" Vallee poses is that from time to time, the target of UFO hoaxes might be the general public, or a segment thereof. 

"In some cases," he says, "the community of ufologists may simply be used in a sociological experiment because they are a convenient group of people to test, to see how they react to different rumors." 

Sounds a bit improbable, but Vallee's research into the growth of UFO "contactee" cults is suggests that such manipulation occurs. In his book, Messengers of Deception, Vallee explored the rise of a new kind of religious movement throughout the world: the UFO Messiah cults, in which believers await the coming of bubble-headed saviors in saucers. You can find these groups in Europe and the Americas, in increasing numbers. Want a glimpse of this otherworldly subculture? Just buzz into any of the alt.alien Usenet groups or enter the magic word "UFO" into any World Wide Web search engine and see how fast you're channeled into one of the most heavily trodden alternate dimensions of online obsession since Big Brother went digital. 

Listen to "Seth," the channeled alien being from beyond; hear the Venusian commander known as Val Thor, who parks his spaceship on Lake Mead near Las Vegas as if it were an extraterrestrial houseboat (when he's not advising the Pentagon); heed the warnings of the well-heeled "Rael," who speaks through a French contactee and runs a worldwide organization. 

According to Vallee, the French press has recently reported that the notorious Order of the Solar Temple--in the news last year after 53 members committed suicide in Switzerland and Canada--told its followers that the highest levels of initiation involved meetings with extraterrestrial beings. The cult used holographic projectors purchased in the United States to fool its members. "As you may recall," says Vallee, "members of the cult were educated people and professionals--not crazy kids on drugs." 

So without further ado, we present Part 2 of the Jacques Vallee interview: 


Liquid Sky 

60GCAT: Let's talk about some of the other forms of hard evidence that scientists can look at when studying the UFO problem. For instance, chunks of molten metal, the so-called "liquid sky" samples. 

Vallee: On their own, these metal samples are not compelling evidence. But the existence of this material does show that there is data that scientists can look at. When we received the Bogota, Columbia, sample [supposedly the remnants of a plume of liquid slag ejected from a flying disk over the University of Bogota in the mid-1970s] we sawed off one little corner for analysis. It turned out to be mostly aluminum. Again, this doesn't prove anything: you could make a hunk of this stuff in your backyard by pouring molten metal into a pool of water. Metallurgically, the Bogota sample is not that unusual--except that it has gone through a violent heating, not just up to a boiling point, but beyond. My point has always been that it is interesting to see what patterns emerge from analysis of enough of these samples. If you kept picking up specimens like that, it might move your research into a particular direction. 

60GCAT: One theory is that this liquid metal is part of the UFOs' propulsion system. 

Vallee: There are [man-made] motors that use liquid metal--usually mercury--for liquid contact. But the temperatures necessary for molten aluminum and other metals would have to be quite extreme. 

60GCAT: What about liquid sky samples that are of a slightly more exotic makeup than the aluminum slag? 

Vallee: The only one that's unusual is the one that Prof. Peter Sturrock (a plasma physicist at Stanford University) has. It comes from Ubatuba, Brazil. In the early 1930s, an object exploded over a beach in Ubatuba. [In 1957, an alleged fragment from the explosion turned up; its precise origin is uncertain.] Subsequent analysis at the University and Colorado and Stanford confirmed that the material was magnesium and magnesium oxide, with a very minute amount of impurities. If the metal really did originate in the 1930s, it would be very unusual because given the technology of the day, someone would have had to go to a lot of trouble to get it that pure. 

The Cosmic Database 

60GCAT: Let's talk about some of the implications of your research. If the UFO phenomenon is real, but is not aliens from outer space, we're talking about new ways of thinking about reality and cosmology, aren't we? 

Vallee: Yes. In that sense, phenomenon is much more important than visitors from another planet would be. Because it fundamentally challenges the nature of reality. If UFOs are a physical reality, they certainly violate everything we think we know about reality. There are reliable reports of material UFOs that become immaterial and disappear on the spot. 

60GCAT: Your theories about UFOs and other "paranormal" phenomena involve your metaphor of the "informational universe," where time and space and whatever other dimensions there might be act as a kind of cosmic computer database. What do you mean by that? 

Vallee: You can get a consistent representation of reality if you look at the world as a collection of events, or 'instances' (as the philosophy of Occasionalism did in the eleventh century), rather than as a collection of material objects moving in 3-dimensional space as time flows. In virtual reality, of course, you can't tell the difference. In the real world information and energy are actually the same physical quantity. In a universe viewed as 'informational events' you should expect coincidences, telepathy, time travel, multiple realities--all those things that seem impossible in the 4-D energy universe. To me that's why puzzles like UFOs are interesting. I don't have a personal theory to "explain" them, but I see them as an opportunity to pose new questions. If it's true that information resides in the questions we ask, coming up with novel problems may be more important than having answers, at this stage of our very limited understanding of the universe. 

60GCAT: So reality is like a computer database in that the right search word or "incantation" might cause a piece of information--a UFO or ghost or other anomaly--to materialize. 

Vallee: If you think of [reality] as the software for the universe, all it would take is for someone to change a comma in the program and the chair you are sitting in wouldn't be a chair at all. The major benefit from this model is that it handles anomalies very well. Coincidences would be a normal expectation. If you address a database with a request for anything with the word "pool" you will get ads for sunscreen, lotions, billiard balls and an investment prospectus or two. In parapsychology gifted subjects may be forcing similar coincidences between separate locations or separate minds. One way of testing the theory, by the way, is to create massive informational anomalies and see what happens when they collapse. You could enhance remote viewing experiments, for instance, by loading the site with large quantities of data about highly unlikely events or situations, then quickly erase that data to collapse the singularity. 

60GCAT: Of course, now we're talking about the intersection of science and mysticism. Do you consider yourself a mystical person? 

Vallee: I have never been comfortable with an arbitrary separation of the world into the physical universe (which is presumably what science studies) and the psychological, social and psychic side of life. To me that arbitrary separation is the major weakness of our intellectual system. 

Most scientists who decide to study astronomy at an early age, as I did, are probably motivated by something akin to a mystical desire to understand the night sky and to embrace the larger issues. As time goes on, of course, that desire gets eroded and trivialized. In my case I managed to keep that curiosity fresh because although I haven't had a "mystical" experience in a religious sense, I have always suspected that there was another level of consciousness and that it was accessible to the human mind. I have found similar feelings among many Net programmers, who were drawn to networking by the impression of operating outside the normal constraints of time and space, something akin to what mystics describe, although of course much more mundane. 

The Controllers 

60GCAT: You've said that UFOs represent a form of alien intelligence that is actively manipulating human society. How and toward what end? 

Vallee: A new computer analysis of historical trends, compiled in the 1970s, led me to plot a striking graph of "waves" of UFO activity that was anything but periodic. Fred Beckman and Dr. Price Williams of UCLA pointed out that it resembled a schedule of reinforcement typical of a learning or training process: the phenomenon was more akin to a control system than to an exploratory task force of alien travelers. There are many control systems around us, and some are a part of nature: ecology, climate, etc. Some are man-made: the process of education, the thermostat in your home. If the UFO phenomenon represents a control system, can we test it to determine if it is natural or artificial, open or closed? This is one of the interesting questions about the phenomenon that has never been answered. 

Chariots of the Frauds 

60GCAT: Speaking of control systems, some of your other avenues of UFO research have led you to suggest that from time to time human agencies--governments, cults, and other groups interested in manipulating people's beliefs--have engineered UFO deceptions and hoaxes. Now we're really getting conspiratorial. . . . 

Vallee: I think the place where ufology--the way it has developed today--meets with my interest in communications, and my interest in networks is in deception and manipulation. I think that is an area of which people should be aware. Because I think a lot of the things that are being discussed today, among people who believe in UFOs, are either mythical or a part of manipulation of some sort, which could include the stories of little aliens and the hybrids and abductions and so forth. A lot of that may be either material that cults have injected into the culture because it suits their own fantasy about the end of the world or the millennium and all that. 

Or, in a more sinister sense, in some of the cases I've investigated, the deception hides a mind-control experiment. Anybody who is aware of technology today should know that we have much more than a stealth fighter flying around. We have capabilities, theoretical or practical, to make all types of things. There is a massive development of nonlethal platforms going on that those platforms have to be tested somewhere, they have to be disguised as something else from time to time. There has been massive development of RPVs--remotely piloted vehicles--some of which are disk-shaped. There is massive development of low observable technologies that are used for reconnaissance and can be used for all sorts of other things. And in many cases, the UFO stories are not simply fantasies in the minds of a few witnesses, but may have been planted as part of a cover for some very terrestrial technologies that we are developing. 

'Messengers of Deception?' 

60GCAT: The UMMO cult, which you discuss at length in your books, Revelations and Messengers of Deception, has an impressive history of elaborate deception. Tell us about it. 

Vallee: I think that the UMMO myth was started by a small group of people, essentially cultists. What was intriguing about UMMO was all its pseudo-scientific revelations [supposedly handed down to earthling scientists like Vallee from UMMO-ites, beings who hail from a planet 14.6 light years away from our sun]. But these supposed revelations were not within the state of the art. They didn't come up with proof of Fermat's theorem or something like that, it was just perfectly good science fiction. 

60GCAT: What about the French theory that UMMO was a psychological experiment? 

Vallee: Yeah, they thought that the cult had been used or was manipulated by the KGB. Because for one thing, some of their ideas--some of the data that was supposedly channeled from the UMMO organization in the sky was very advanced cosmology. Very advanced cosmology about twin universes involving some data that was not stupid--it came straight out of the notes of Andre Sakarav, including some of the unpublished notes of Sakarav, some things that Sakarav was known to have worked on, but had not published. And so some people--and I don't know who's right--felt that somebody had to have access to those notes, to inspire those messages, perhaps the KGB. It wasn't just ordinary science fiction; it was somebody who knew what some of the more advanced cosmologists were thinking. 

60GCAT: Why would the KGB or any intelligence agency perpetrate such an arcane hoax? 

Vallee: Well, let me tell you a little story. About fifteen years ago there was a group that suddenly appeared in San Francisco. They had a big party downtown. And they invited everybody who was anybody in parapsychology. And they made a little speech saying, "We have all this money from somebody who wants to do good and help research, we know that there isn't much money in parapsychology; we will entertain proposals for research, give us your best ideas; we will send it to a panel who will review it and we will fund the best research." After the party, a lot of people rushed home to their computers and typed in all their best ideas, sent it on--but the organization never existed, was never heard from again. Somebody was fishing. 

So having a cover as a group sometimes, a completely weird group, can be a convenient way of getting technical intelligence. It's a good way of doing technological assessment. So some of those weird groups could be used for that. Now, that doesn't explain why they would do it for ten years. In the case of UMMO, why would you go on? I think that UMMO became sort of a goal in itself. It became self-propagating. because so many people got drawn to it, psychologically. They started writing things about each other and it became a self-sustaining myth. They're still sending me stuff. There is an index, catalogs; for some people it's become their entire life. Increasingly, we're seeing those kinds of cults appearing in net space, cyberspace. 

60GCAT: Is there something about online communications that helps foster myths and deceptions? 

Vallee: Because we live in a world where with communications media based on digital networks, a small group of people can have a tremendous impact on the belief of the masses. And we also live in a world where the belief of the masses is a strategic weapon. We have H-bombs but we can't use them. We have neutron bombs, but we can't use them. But if we found a way of influencing the beliefs of masses of people, that would have great strategic impact. The big problems in the world are the problems of fundamentalism and religion--whether it's Islamic or in other forms of religion. Those are the great destabilizing forces in the world today. Well, belief in Extraterrestrials coming here to save us can be induced in large masses of people with the technical means that exist today. 

The potential for contagion of absurd beliefs is a real one. In the hands of people who might deliberately use the Internet to create an epidemic of irrationalism we might see the emergence of a whole new class of very dangerous, powerful cults with all the trappings of high technology. 

And I think somebody has to pay attention to that angle. So I was led to that by finding-- I was investigating some cases that were physically real, but were hoaxes--but not hoaxes on the part of the witnesses. And the story about the object had in fact been planted. 

The Bentwaters case [in which American servicemen at an Air Force base in England observed a disk-shaped craft land in the forest] is a classic. At the landing site, they had a mix of ordinary guards, officers, sentries and so on--they all had orders to go to the site under a scenario. And that's not what would of happened if the encounter were real--if a strange object landed on the base you wouldn't be sending out a hundred people without weapons. The thing has all the earmarks of being staged for the benefit of the witnesses, so that they could be studied and the reactions of the different psychological types and of different ranks could be studied. And when you think about it, it's not that weird. If you were in charge of a project like that, you'd have to test it in conditions where nobody is danger and you can get the data you need. In cases like this one--not many but a few of them--that I investigated, I had to conclude that these were tests of virtual reality projectors. 

Psy-Ops from 'Beyond' 

60GCAT: So there might be military applications for this technology of deception? 

Vallee: Our gods have always come from the sky. And how would a god come from the sky today? He would come down in some kind of space ship. He couldn't just appear out of the clouds, I mean, that won't work. Although in World War I the Germans were using psychological warfare by projecting photographs, slides, along French lines. And I'm sure the French were doing the same thing to the Germans. And there are very sophisticated devices now being used in psychological warfare to create holograms, to create visions to influence people. It might not work with you and me today if we go out today and see something in the skies, it might not destabilize us. But if we were under a lot of stress--if you've been fighting for a month on some little island, and all of the sudden something like that happens-- 

I remember seeing a letter to the U.S. Air Force from a man who was finally reporting something he had seen during World War II in the Pacific. He said he was on top of a little island lookout point. They were expecting a Japanese attack. They had been fighting intensely on and off for several weeks. They were fairly isolated. They saw an object in the sky that was absolutely physical, that circled the island, was a disk, no means of propulsion, no noise. It circled the island and went off. And he said he had never reported it, not even to his wife. The reason he didn't report it at the time was that his men were under such stress that he wouldn't want them to think that their commander might be flipping. So the same kind of psychological means that won't work with ordinary people and ordinary things might work in exceptional cases. 

60GCAT: And therefore cultists and UFO true believers--who are under a kind of ideological stress--might be seen as ideal targets for such manipulation. 

Vallee: In some cases the UFO community may be simply used in a sociological experiment because they are a convenient group of people to see how they would react to different rumors. [Suppose the government loses a nuclear weapon over a foreign country.] You still have to go and recover that thing. And you can't tell people what you're doing, so you have to be able to very quickly plant a story. You might plant a story that this was a flying saucer from Venus. That would be so ridiculous that scientists wouldn't go check. You might have a few journalists there, but you can tell them whatever you want, and you can give them photographs of whatever. And so all you need is to distract everybody for two or three days, time to bring the equipment, get everything out, recover whatever was scattered and go away. I think there are cases where exactly that has happened. And those are sort of the great UFO stories that people still tell around campfire. 

But I think there was no UFO there. I think the UFO story was invented-- I was saying earlier it's healthy to be skeptical. I respect people who have a skeptical argument there. Jim Oberg, who is a specialist in the Russian space program, pointed out to me that some of the sightings that I published from the Soviet Union--a strange yellowish crescent seen going through the sky by many people in the Soviet Union--that those were rocket tests that were illegal under the Salt agreement; and obviously, they couldn't hide it in the sky. . . so the government planted the story that there was a flying saucer, and that got into the newspapers. 

Again, the UFO research community is a useful laboratory in which to observe the effects of propaganda and disinformation, since it is driven in large part by an intent to expose "the coverup." This creates an opportunity for people to masquerade as good guys and "reveal" all sorts of unverifiable rumors. They meet with a receptive audience because the context is one of "independent inquiry of original, bold, nonconformist ideas. Does that mean we should necessarily believe the man who claims he was in NATO intelligence and saw a classified document about the four humanoid races that live on the moon? I don't think so. 

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21-11-2016 om 20:41 geschreven door peter  

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and new research: Q & A with Diana Walsh Pasulka and Jacques Vallee 

By Diana Walsh Pasulka

Unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly referred to as UFOs, has been the focus of research by sociologists, scholars of religion, anthropologists, philosophers, and astronomers. The information age now offers new and innovative ways to study the phenomena, and author Diana Walsh Pasulka sat down with astronomer and computer scientist Jacques Vallee to discuss how “big data” and information processing will influence the field of study.

Diana:

In a recent presentation you delivered in California in 2016, you described methods that you used to identify historical cases of sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena. Your methods were similar to those used by scholars of religion in that you locate primary sources and elaborate their historical contexts. You also utilized new research methods involving technology. You have been at the forefront of computer innovation since the 1960s, so I am intrigued on how you integrate historical research with digital technology. Can you discuss your methods and how they obtained the results that were eventually included in your book?

Dr. J. Allen Hynek (left) and Dr. Jacques Vallée (right).

Jacques:

The study we just concluded is the product of a group of specialists (scholars, historians, researchers of ufology, archivists) linked through the Internet in an exchange managed by my colleague Chris Aubeck. The work builds on the intersection of classical scholarship and modern computer media to assess historical cases of extraordinary phenomena. In that sense the process is very similar to research in the history of religions, with the added benefit that the emerging patterns of ancient UFO sightings can be compared to modern reports.

This is very much a work in progress: future versions may focus on a nucleus of only 100 cases rather than 400 or 500; or they may expand to over 1,000 if we can get better access to data from Middle-eastern or Asian records.

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21-11-2016 om 20:14 geschreven door peter  

NASA Specialist Discovered Weird Object On Mars Surface.. What Is It? Alien Craft? (Video)

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The Medusae Fossae Formation is a large geological unit of uncertain origin on the planet Mars. It is named for the Medusa of Greek mythology. “Fossae” is Latin for “trenches”. Like many others throughout the Medusae Fossae Formation, the surface has been eroded by the wind.
 

In 2000 the Mars Global Surveyor captured many images of the Medusae Fossae formation and it was Steve Wingate, a NASA image specialist who discovered a very unusual object half buried in the martian soil what appears to be a crashed alien craft.

Despite frantic efforts to make his amazing finding public the image mysteriously disappeared several times from his site, but surprisingly the image (MOC narrow-angle image M11-01534) released on October 16, 2000 remained on the NASA servers till now.

If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO, which is approximately 190 meters wide, impacted the surface at a low angle ending up half buried in the Martian soil.

It seems the Medusae Fossae formation is a danger area for spacecraft as an image taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft on 2005 shows another possible crashed UFO.

The UFO which looks like a Stealth craft is located on another part of the Medusae Fossae formation.
 

An interesting detail is the fact that this mysterious area gives almost no radar return, for this reason it has been called a “stealth” region.

Link image Mars Global Surveyor:

 http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M11/M1101534.html

Link image ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft: 

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/The_Medusa_Fossae_formation_on_Mars

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21-11-2016 om 18:54 geschreven door peter  

Former Apollo Astronaut claims: ‘Their Ships Were Far Superior To Ours – Boy, Were They Big! [Video]

21-11-2016 om 18:42 geschreven door peter  

NAZI VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL GECRASHT OP MARS? ( VIDEO )

Dat de Duitsers heel ver gevorderd waren met hun techniek om daadwerkelijk “vliegende schotels” de lucht in te krijgen, is een bekend feit. 

Er zijn nu aanwijzingen dat ze zelfs zover gevorderd waren dat ze naar Mars konden reizen, alleen beperkte zich het tot een enkele reis. 

Het probleem met verhalen over wat de Duitsers nu wel of niet daadwerkelijk hebben weten te bereiken tijdens of vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog is gebrek aan bewijsmateriaal. 

Verhalen zijn er genoeg, maar bewijs is een andere zaak. Het beste waar we dan ook vaak op kunnen hopen, is wat men in Amerika “circumstantial evidence” noemt. Indirect bewijs zoals een vingerafdruk op de plaats van een misdrijf. 

Het verhaal gaat dat de Duitsers aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog zóver waren met het ontwikkelen van hun “vliegende schotels” dat ze daarmee zelfs een reis naar Mars zouden kunnen maken. 

Er waren verschillende types vliegende schotels ontwikkeld die bekendstaan onder de naam Haunebu en worden aangeduid met een Romeins cijfer. Zo was er als eerste prototype de Haunebu I, gevolgd door de Haunebu II wat een productiemodel zou worden, maar die vanwege het naderende einde van de oorlog nooit is gebouwd en je had aan het einde van die oorlog de Haunebu III, waarvan er ooit maar één prototype is gebouwd.

Het was een indrukwekkend schip met een diameter van 71 meter en het had een 32-koppige bemanning, kon snelheden bereiken van tussen de 7.000 en 40.000 kilometer per uur en wekenlang in de lucht blijven.

Nu zijn er onbevestigde verhalen dat er aan het einde van de oorlog, toen de vooruitzichten hopeloos was, een vlucht is gemaakt met dit schip naar Mars. Technisch gezien was dit haalbaar, maar dan alleen voor een enkele reis met de hoop dat er leven op Mars zou zijn, zodat de inzittenden daar een nieuw bestaan konden opbouwen. 

De volgende video start op het punt (01:04:20) vanaf waar je het verhaal kunt horen over hoe misschien toch die Haunebu III de planeet Mars heeft weten te bereiken. 

 

Misschien zou het ook wel een vaag verhaal gebleven zijn als niet iemand met een heel bijzonder opname naar voren zou zijn gekomen. 

Diegene zegt het volgende: 

Inderdaad een zeer opmerkelijk verhaal, zou dit hem zijn? 

Deze foto is echt en stamt van Mars, de grootte komt overeen.

De bronfoto is hier te vinden:

 http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M11/M1101534.html 

Hebben we hier te maken met het prototype van de Haunebu III die naar Mars vloog in de wetenschap dat ze nimmer met dit schip terug konden keren naar de aarde? 

Zijn ze daar omgekomen of hebben ze contact weten te maken met een aldaar wonende beschaving en is er misschien zo een link ontstaan met de maan en Antarctica? 

Fascinerende vragen waar deze afbeelding ook geen antwoord op kan geven, maar duidelijk is wel dat dit nooit of te nimmer natuurlijk gevormd kan zijn.

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21-11-2016 om 14:30 geschreven door peter  

White Structure On Dwarf Planet Ceres Comes Into Focus...Its A Giant Base! Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Nov 21, 2016, photo taken Nov 15, 2016

Location of discovery: Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA Source photo: 

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA21227.jpg

This is the dwarf planet Ceres and this photo was released by NASA just this week, so its as fresh as it gets. I noticed they had a great shot of the white spots on Ceres, so I decided to have a go at it. 

 

I only added shadow to the photo to bring it into focus. The white ceramic-like surface of the building is difficult to see unless its darker...so I made it darker. 

 

As you can see, the largest of the white spots came into focus and is really a massive building complex. There is a tall main part of the building that is like a mountain at its center. Around that building, there are a lot of small vining out buildings surrounding it. 

 

This is what NASA didn't want you to see. 

 

As I have said before, there are three main types of buildings on planets, moons and asteroids. The black non-reflective chaotic structures...appear to be grown instead of made. The smaller white ceramic bright white structures, clearly not grown, but made. And then the smallest of all the buildings, the grey metal structures which are often seen surrounding the edges of the tall black buildings. 

 

Ceres is controlled by a species that only uses the white ceramic structures...which means one main species is in control of it. Its my guess that the Tall White alien species who were given a small part of Nellis AFB to live, also are the inventors of this white ceramic material used for many structures. It just makes sense. 

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21-11-2016 om 14:21 geschreven door peter  

UFO Fleet Easily Seen On Moons Horizon With Camera, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 13, 2016
Location of sighting: Earths moon

Its been known by a lot of astronomers that if the edge of the moon is observers well enough, you will see fleets of UFOs in orbit move around the moons horizon. These objects are clearly in orbit around the moon and may be there to protect the moon from humanity. 

We haven't been back to the moon since the Apollo missions, and there is no intention of going back. Many Apollo astronauts have stated that they saw UFOs near on and near the moon, so maybe these objects are a form of protection from future Apollo missions landing on the moon. It may be owned by a species thats not so friendly about sharing. 

The video was recorded by Geril Vigil of Youtube, but brought to my attention by Mister Enigma of Youtube. 
Scott C. Waring

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21-11-2016 om 13:37 geschreven door peter  

Case 74282 Update: the Canadian Barbell UFOs

In all due respect, what is looking at video wave form's telling us about the case. I was hoping to see the Barbell UFO's ?!!

Case 74282 - Witness full video - Ontario, Canada

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21-11-2016 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

Revelation: New documentary explores the unknown

This full-length documentary was created by U.K. Assistant National Director Jack Turnbull. 

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21-11-2016 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

Een enorm cluster met meer dan duizenden sterrenstelsels die elk weer miljarden sterren bevatten. Je zou zeggen dat je zoiets niet zomaar over het hoofd ziet. Toch is dit supercluster pas net ontdekt door een internationale onderzoeksgroep van astronomen.

De wetenschappers uit Zuid-Afrika, Polen, Australië, Duitsland en Nederland ontdekten in eerste instantie acht kleine clusters in het sterrenbeeld Vela met de Southern African Large Telescope. Toen ze deze beter wilden bekijken met de Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australië, vonden ze duizenden andere sterrenstelsels die samen een gigantische structuur vormen. Dit is het nieuw ontdekte Vela Supercluster.

Verborgen structuur

Ons zonnestelsel behoort tot de Melkweg, die zelf deel uitmaakt van de Lokale groep. Die bestaat uit tientallen sterrenstelsels. Deze groep behoort weer tot Canes Venaticiwolk die een tiental van die groepen bevat. Tenslotte vormt de Canes Venatici wolk samen met het nog veel grotere Virgocluster de Lokale Supercluster. Die bevat meer dan tienduizend sterrenstelsels. Superclusters behoren tot de grootste en zwaarste bekende structuren van het heelal.

‘Toen ik de metingen zag binnenkomen, kon ik eerst niet geloven dat zo’n grote structuur tot nu toe verborgen kon blijven’, zegt onderzoeksleider Renée Kraan-Korteweg  van de universiteit van Kaapstad in een persbericht. Het Vela Supercluster bleef zo lang verborgen doordat het schuil ging achter stofwolken en wolken van sterren uit de Melkweg.

Supercluster en de Melkweg

Het Vela Supercluster staat op 800 miljoen lichtjaar afstand. Dat is zelfs voor sterrenkundige begrippen behoorlijke ver weg. Toch kan het invloed hebben op de beweging van de Melkweg waar ons zonnestelsel zich in bevindt. Dat komt doordat het zo enorm groot en zwaar is.

De bevindingen van de onderzoeksgroep verschijnen binnenkort in het wetenschappelijke blad Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

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Lees verder:

• Nieuw sterrenstelsel ontdekt rond de Melkweg
• Botsende clusters veroorzaken babyboom in inactieve sterrenstelsels
• Buursterrenstelsel heeft gigantische halo van gas

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20-11-2016 om 23:54 geschreven door peter  

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s Admission To Aliens

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ASTRONAUT EDGAR MITCHEL’S ADMISSION TO ALIENS

Mitchell has gone on record about his controversial belief in extraterrestrial UFOs, and of a possible government cover-up.  Dr. Herman Oberth, the father of astronautics and rocketry stated, “The Earth is being visited by aliens.”  Edgar stated, “Recently, I appeared on television in New York with the Astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary who feels as I do that we must research the subject of UFOs with greater emphasis.” Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and Buzz Aldrin have talked privately to friends, but all agree there is somebody out there.  Gordon Cooper’s article entitled “Aliens Are Here” tells about his letter to the United Nations that stated in part, “I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.”  .

Edgar told me, “He signed a contract with NASA not to reveal anything he saw regarding aliens and UFOs. However, all of his friends had seen them.” Edgar stated, “After my space flight, I was contacted by descendants of the original Roswell observers where he grew up, including the person who delivered the child-sized coffins to the Air Force to contain alien bodies. Another was one of the children of the deputy sheriff who was patrolling traffic around the site. They all seemed credible with their stories that the bodies found were alien.” 

. Edgar felt, “White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons – and that’s what the extraterrestrials were interested in. “They wanted to know about our military capabilities of the nuclear bomb wing at Roswell. My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to nuclear war and help create peace on Earth.” He said, “I have spoken to many Air Force officers who worked at these silos during the Cold War,” he continued. “They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their missiles.  ”Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft. “There was a lot of activity in those days.”  .  Ben Rich, Former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works stated, “Everything you can imagine we already know how to do, but these technologies are so locked up in black projects it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. We can even take ET home.” 

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20-11-2016 om 23:45 geschreven door peter  

Arrival: 6 Scenarios That Could Happen if Aliens Arrived on Earth

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It is conceivable that humans could someday discover aliens. We scour the cosmos looking for their radio signals, and though we’re not capable of interstellar space travel, it is remotely possible that we could find what we’re looking for at any moment.

Hey guys, what exactly would we do if Aliens arrived either on Earth or parked in our Orbit. 

You may be aware that many people believe that we have actually had these sort of visitations in the distant past and those type of encounters sparked religion and the idea to worship gods who descend from the Heavens. 

Most of you think it is a wild idea but the evidence for this theory is absolutely everywhere around the Earth, in fact, it appears this was on an epic scale thousands of years ago.

Anyway guys, with the release of the new film ‘arrival’, this is sure to spark the imagination of many, are we in fact being slowly prepped for disclosure? We wonder if Mr Trump would answer that question if asked, he tells it like it is after all, RIGHT? 

These are our 6 Scenarios of how Humanity would react if Aliens made contact or landed on Earth. 
Just wait until you hear this.

At 6) – Panic! Retaliate first.

How exactly would we strike at an Alien race that has spanned the cosmos to get to Earth? 

Maybe this would be our undoing, if China or Russia or worst still, North Korea, decided to fire a Nuclear weapon at the interstellar travellers mothership, would the Aliens already be prepared for that scenario?  

Of course they would, but the question is, Would they then show us how powerful they are in turn? How would they interpret our actions? Would they be understanding or feel in danger? Do they even have emotions the same as we do? 

Panic-ing is just about the worst thing we could do in this scenario. 

There would surely be anarchy in most countries anyway and it would possibly be our own people who would need to be brought under control before we could establish anything else.

In at 5) – Communication

Attempting to communicate with the ETs is of course the natural thing to do, but would there be a global effort to do this? Would each region try to set up their own methods of communication? How confusing could that get?

Just think of how many languages there are on this Planet, How exactly would we do it? You would think that the Aliens would have a universal way of communicating with each other, so we earthlings would have to establish if we use imagery, sign, speech and what one of our languages to use the communication in.

It could get very confusing very quickly.

And at 4 on our list) – Alien Invasion

OK so they arrive and it is the War of the Worlds scenario. Are we ready? 

Do we use biological weapons on the aliens, do we release a Plague on Earth to kill an Alien invasion force that is far superior than all the Army’s combined and risk killing ourselves anyway? 

Surely Guerrilla tactics would not work? Would they? What other option would we have? 

We would have to let most humans on Earth die in order for the Human race to survive as a whole. 
The Human race would have to go underground and pick of an invading force one by one. 

Only the strongest would survive.

Number 3) – Technological advancement of the Human race in exchange for Earths resources

We often wonder how ancient Humans on Earth managed to transport and build megastructures on Earth thousands of years ago? Could it be that the Aliens are actually regular visitors to our World at 10 thousand year intervals?

They could be stopping of to stock up on valuable resources in exchange for technology, but just like in the distant past, the technology gets broken and we eventually lose the knowledge or abandon it.

And who gets the trading agreement? All Human kind? How would that work?

So in short, we would need to establish long term goals for technological advancement with the visiting beings.

At 2) – We are the Aliens

Imagine that for a second, What if Noah’s ark was in fact some sort of massive Space ship to cradle all life in, until the Earth was safe enough to inhabit again after the great Cataclysm of 12 thousand years ago, we all know there was a great flood that spanned the Earth, surely a huge Ocean going vessel could not have withstood such an event. 

If the Ark was indeed a Space Ship with life from our Planet locked in hibernation in Space for thousands of years, what would we make of that when it arrived home? Imagine what we could learn? 

What great secrets we could uncover about all the massive Ancient Structures still here on Earth from a forgotten Civilization that apparently abandoned their dwellings thousands of years ago.

We have got you thinking now, Right.

We know that is a crazy theory guys but it just might be crazy enough to be true.

And number 1 our list) – We do nothing because we don’t recognize Alien Life

In a 1967 episode of Star Trek, Captain Kirk and crew investigated the mysterious murders of miners on the planet Janus VI. The killer, it turned out, was a rock monster called the Horta. But the Enterprise’s sensors hadn’t registered any signs of life in the creature. The Horta was a silicon-based life-form, rather than carbon-based like living things on Earth.

Recognizing life from different worlds isn’t likely to be simple, especially if the recipe for life elsewhere doesn’t use familiar ingredients. There may even be things alive on Earth that have been overlooked because they don’t fit standard definitions of life.

Does that not blow your mind or what,

And of course we already may have already had Alien contact, Remember the WOW signal? 

What do you guys think would happen in the event of Alien life forms making their presence known publicly on Earth? 

Will they Protect us or Destroy us? Would they want to collaborate or just trade briefly for our resources? Would we even recognize them?

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Military Fighter Fires on an Alien Craft

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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles around, here are 10 of the coolest stories in Science this week.

Mysterious Unidentified Object Crashes in Myanmar: A strange metal object that looks like it may have come from an aircraft or rocket launcher has landed in Myanmar. [Full Story]

It's Just a Phase: The Supermoon Won't Drive You Mad: The moon holds a mystical place in the history of human culture, so it's no wonder that many myths exist. [Full Story]

New Record! Robot Solves Rubik's Cube in Less Than a Second: It achieved the best time in the approximately 30 years that have passed since the cube was invented. [Full Story]

What Will a Trump Presidency Mean for Science? President-elect Donald Trump is likely to affect science when he comes into office next year, with the potential to change everything from climate change action and the Keystone pipeline to sex education and fetal tissue research. [Full Story]

Diver Finds Long-Lost Nuke While Hunting Sea Cucumbers: A diver hunting for sea cucumbers in British Columbia, Canada, came across what may be the United States' first lost nuclear weapon, or 'broken arrow.' [Full Story]

Oldest Beer Brewed from Shipwreck's 220-Year-Old Yeast Microbes: Yeast microbes from the world's oldest bottle of beer — a 220-year-old bottle found in one of Australia's earliest shipwrecks — are being used to create a new, modern beer with the characteristic taste of the 18th-century brew. [Full Story]

3 More States Legalize Recreational Use of Marijuana: How the Map Looks Now: Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada decided yesterday (Nov. 8) to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in their states. [Full Report]

Newfound Ancient 'Sea Monster' Is Largest Yet from Antarctica:About 66 million years ago, an ancient sea monster the height of a five-story office building once gnashed its sharp teeth as it swam around the dark waters of Antarctica, a new study finds. [Full Story]

Breast Cancer: The First Sign Isn't Always a Lump: Women with breast cancer that shows up with symptoms other than a breast lump delay seeing a doctor. [Full Story]

Stranger Pings: Weird Noise Coming from Arctic Seafloor: The Canadian Department of National Defence was informed of the strange noises and investigated the ping's origin, to no avail. [Full Story]

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20-11-2016 om 22:59 geschreven door peter  

NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA's Dawn probe is snapping stunning new views of the dwarf planet Ceres as the spacecraft pushes ever higher above the small world.

In one image, Ceres' huge Occator Crater shows its central bright region, the brightest on Ceres. The crater itself is 57 miles wide (92 kilometers), and 2.5 miles deep (4 km). That makes it 77 times larger than the Barringer Crater in Arizona. Dawn took the picture when it was about 920 miles (1,480 km) above the surface, in early October. [Check out more amazing Ceres photos by Dawn]

Planetary scientists think the bright spots might be from briny material bubbling up during geologic activity; the liquid would sublimate away leaving the salts behind. Another asteroid slamming into Ceres could also cause upwelling, which is what some think happened at Occator Crater.

Scientists also released an image that gives an idea of what Ceres would look like if humans could see it with their own eyes, close up.

Dawn's new orbit will be 4,500 miles (7,242 km) from Ceres. NASA is sending the probe to higher altitudes where it can make additional measurements. For example, the spacecraft will use its gamma ray and neutron spectrometer to look at the cosmic rays that suffuse the space around the asteroid, to compare them with readings closer in. The background "noise" can then be separated from the signal, allowing more scrutiny of Ceres' composition.

Ceres started working its way to the new orbit on Nov. 4. While the primary mission was completed in July, NASA extended the mission as the probe was still functioning.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft launched in 2007 and first journeyed to Vesta, entering orbit in July 2011. In September 2012 it left orbit to go to Ceres, where it arrived in March 2015.

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20-11-2016 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

Supermoon and Pluto's Secretive Heart: Week's Top Space Stories

Skywatchers captured stunning images of the supermoon, Pluto may have a hidden ocean, and crowdfunding aids the search for life in Earth's stellar neighborhood. Here are our favorite space stories of the week.

Spectacular supermoon photos

Skywatchers around the world snapped amazing photographs of Monday's supermoon (a full moon that takes place at the natural satellite's closest point to Earth in the lunar orbit). This is the closest full moon until 2034. [Full Story: 'Supermoon' Photos: The Closest Full Moon Until 2034 in Pictures]

Saturn's strange storm

A stunning new photograph from NASA's Cassini probe fully displays the strange, hexagonal-shaped vortex that swirls around Saturn's northern hemisphere. [Full Story: Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn Shines in Spectacular NASA Photo]

Is E.T. a robot?

In the new movie "Arrival," an alien species makes first contact with humans, and like many science fiction stories, the movie features aliens that are biological creatures. But experts we talked to said it's more likely that aliens advanced enough to accomplish interstellar travel will have shed their biological bodies in favor of robotic ones. (We also asked some scientists whether humans are ready for contact with an intelligent alien civilization.) [Full Story: Electronic E.T.: Intelligent Aliens Are Likely Machines]

Rocket engine burns blue

The RL10 rocket engine that will power NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is undergoing testing, and a photo released by NASA captures the brilliant blue flame erupting out of the engine during a test. [Full Story: Awesome NASA Megarocket Engine Test Burns Blue (Photo)]

Avoiding asteroid Armageddon

A group of planetary scientists and space experts is pushing for the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to pursue a program that could save Earth from a major asteroid impact. ESA is set to decide in the near future whether to invest in a program to build a spacecraft that could nudge a threatening asteroid off course. [Full Story: Space Scientists Rally Support for 2020 Asteroid-Deflection Mission]

Looking for life nearby

Project Blue is an initiative that aims to look for habitable planets around the star system nearest to Earth's sun. Leaders of the initiative launched a crowdfunding campaign this week to lay the groundwork for the space-based telescope they hope to launch in 2019. [Full Story: 'Project Blue' Space Telescope Launches Crowdfunding Campaign]

Pluto's underground ocean

Pluto's "heart" — a large, smooth section of the dwarf planet's surface — may have moved relative to Pluto's axis. That shift indicates there may be an ocean sloshing around beneath the dwarf planet's icy surface. [Full Story: Pluto's Wandering Heart Hints at Subsurface Ocean]

A space-waste challenge

NASA has put out a call for innovators to submit designs for a spacesuit with built-in waste-disposal systems that would allow astronauts to remain in their suits for hours at a time. Right now, astronauts wear diapers during spacewalks or while traveling to and from space. [Full Story: Space Poop Challenge: NASA Calls for Better Spacesuit Potty Systems]

Chinese astronauts back on Earth

Two Chinese astronauts returned safety to Earth on Friday (Nov. 18) after spending a month in space. Their trip into orbit set a new record for the Chinese human spaceflight program, and set the stage for the country's plans to build its own large space station. [Full Story: China's Shenzhou 11 Crew Lands on Earth After Month-Long Space Lab Mission]

New map of the Milky Way

The European Gaia space observatory released a brand-new virtual map of the Milky Way galaxy. The spacecraft was launched in 2010 to map the location of the stars in the Milky Way at unprecedented precision. [Full Story: See a Virtual Milky Way Map from Europe's Gaia Spacecraft]

Documenting a death-defying dive

A new documentary "14 Minutes from Earth" tells the story of Alan Eustace's record-breaking, death-defying sky dive from an altitude of more than 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth. [Full Story: '14 Minutes from Earth' Highlights Perils of Death-Defying Skydive]

NASA brings Mars to the Super Bowl

Houston will host the 2017 Super Bowl, and NASA is getting in on the action. The space agency, along with various spaceflight companies, will host a Mars-themed exhibit in Houston leading up to the game. The attraction will feature, among other things, a drop tower that takes riders on a virtual trip to Mars. [Full Story: NASA-Inspired 'Future Flight' Ride to 'Drop' Super Bowl Fans on Trip to Mars]

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20-11-2016 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

The Physics Defying EmDrive Just Passed Peer Review. Here’s What You Need to Know

 

NASA

IN BRIEF

• The controversial NASA study of the EmDrive (which was previously leaked) has finally been released, and it shows that EmDrive may work.
• There are various ways that the study could prove to be erroneous, but the peer-review process will allow other scientists to seek to confirm or debunk the findings.

A CONTENTIOUS TECHNOLOGY

Documents were leaked earlier this month about NASA’s study of a proposed EmDrive. It generated the usual host of reactions, ranging from “it totally works” hype to outright dismissal. It’s rare for a piece of technology to inspire such polarizing reactions; however, these reactions are rather understandable.

The EmDrive, otherwise known as a radio frequency resonant cavity thruster, makes use of microwaves that are bounced around inside an asymmetrical-shaped cavity. To break this down a bit more, the claim is, you bounce microwaves back and forth inside a truncated cone, and the result will be a thrust toward the narrow end of the cone.

That seems simple enough, yes? After all, you are just converting kinetic energy into another form of energy. Well, here is the kicker: The total momentum increases as the device begins to move. That is like placing yourself inside a box, pushing on the side, and generating thrust.

In short, it provides thrust without the need for a propellant, which at face value, violates Newton’s Third Law of Motion. This means that, based on the current laws of physics, it’s not supposed to work. Yet, that leaked paper from NASA was just peer-reviewed and published; its results suggest that it does work, barring other possible explanations.

The relation of thrust to power for the EM Drive.

Credit: Smith, et al.

Commenting on the work, astrophysicist Brian Koberlein states, “I’ve been pretty critical of this experiment from the get go, and I remain highly skeptical. However, even as a skeptic I have to admit the work is valid research. This is how science is done if you want to get it right. Do experiments, submit them to peer review, get feedback, and reevaluate.”

In a paper published in the Journal of Propulsion and Power, Scientists from NASA Johnson Space Center constructed their own EmDrive and tested it in near-vacuum. Their results show that the system was able to produce a thrust-to-power ratio of 1.2 ± 0.1 millinewtons per kilowatt (mN/kW).

A CHANCE TO EXPLORE THE TECH FURTHER

It should be noted, though, that a peer-reviewed paper means that the methodology is sound, but the results (the conclusions) could still be invalid. Indeed, the authors of the paper do list some error sources for their results, error sources which could potentially invalidate their findings—like a thermal expansion of the device that could lead to a false positive.

Still, having a peer-reviewed paper on EmDrives is a significant development, as it is now open for more scientists to test the device and explain how it can (or could) produce thrust. As Koberlein states, “It doesn’t guarantee that the results are valid, as we’ve seen with other peer-reviewed research such as BICEP2. But this milestone shouldn’t be downplayed either. With this new paper we now have a clear overview of the experimental setup and its results. This is a big step toward determining whether the effect is real or an odd set of secondary effects.”

So it seems that it may be a little early to assert that we have figured out how EmDrive really works. As Koberlein concludes, “The biggest challenge they still have is that these results are so extraordinarily small that lots of things can explain them. They aren’t there yet, though.”

Will the EmDrive be just a glorified microwave oven or the next step in interstellar travel? For now, we just have to wait and see. But, we should take the next few developments on this technology with both an open mind and a healthy bit of skepticism.

References: 

• Forbes ,
• Journal of Propulsion and Power

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20-11-2016 om 20:28 geschreven door peter  

This Is the World’s First 3D-Printed “Supercar”

 

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IN BRIEF

• Divergent 3D has shown off the Blade Supercar, the first-ever 3D-printed sports car capable of reaching 97 km (60 mph) in 2.2 seconds.
• The car is made from a more sustainable approach to materials that, if widely adopted, could help alleviate the carbon footprint of automakers.

LEGO BLOCK “SUPERCAR”

At the Los Angeles Auto Show, automaker Divergent 3D showed off their 3D-printed Blade Supercar. The 635 kilogram (1,400 pound) car is made of a combination of aluminum and carbon fiber; accelerates to 97 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour) in 2.2 seconds with its 700 hp engine; and can use either gasoline or compressed natural gas as fuel.

The Blade Supercar debuted last year in June, heralding the company’s radical, environmentally-sustainable approach to manufacturing. Divergent calls the manufacturing approach NODE, where they 3D print aluminum nodes joined together by carbon fiber tubing.

The process, which is similar to using Lego blocks, requires less capital and uses up fewer materials. The ease of assembly means that even semi-skilled workers can run the process.

As an added bonus, Divergent 3D’s cars are 90 percent lighter and more durable than cars built with traditional techniques.

Divergent 3D's printed supercar greets visitors in the atrium of the LA Convention Center at the LA Auto Show.

The rear of the Blade 3D printed supercar Wednesday Nov. 16, 2016 at the LA Auto Show.

MANUFACTURING THE FUTURE CAR

Divergent 3D aims to manufacture competitive automobiles while radicalizing the usual car manufacturing process that can be taxing on the environment.

Making a car can be just as polluting as driving one. Metals, rubbers, plastics, paints, and more are extracted from nature and synthesized through a long process where resources are shipped from all across the world. As The Guardian reported in 2010, producing a medium-sized car like a Ford Mondeo could generate more than 17,000 kilograms (17 tonnes) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

But more industries today are taking a global shift into sustainability. Divergent, together with its partner companies, are helping take the lead in changing auto manufacturing for the better.

References:

•  NBC Southern California, 
• Rapid Ready Tech, 
• 3D Print

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