24-01-2017 om 00:17 geschreven door peter  

The Real Science Behind Supposed Alien Communications

 

Robin Van Schaik

IN BRIEF

• Throughout the history of humanity, we have received mysterious signals from unknown sources and our knee-jerk reactions tend to scream: ALIENS!
• The "Wow! Signal" from 1977 – a 72-second anomalous transmission in the 1,420 MHz range – is just one such example, but has never been seen again.

A LONG HISTORY OF MYSTERIOUS DETECTIONS

Every so often, we hear about a strange radio signal winging its way Earthward from the cold, lifeless depths of outer space. Suddenly, bored news personnel around the world come alive and begin churning out sensational stories with lurid headlines promising that this is really it—our first contact with alien minds.

In fact, radio astronomers have a long history of detecting mysterious signals that just don’t seem to fit into their carefully ordered vision of the universe. For instance, pulsars were initially thought to be intelligent signals from beyond the solar system. When discovered by astronomers in Cambridge, England, the first pulsar signals were dubbed “LGM”—that’s “little green men,” in case you didn’t know.

And who could forget the famous “Wow!” signal of 1977, detected by astronomer Jerry Ehrman at Ohio State University’s “Big Ear” radio telescope. It was a 72-second anomalous transmission in the 1,420 MHz range—the natural frequency of neutral hydrogen emissions, which physicists Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi speculated might be the medium of ET communications, given its cosmic ubiquity. The “Wow!” signal is still unexplained, and its like has never been seen again.

These instances were hardly the first—Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi, those indefatigable pioneers of technology and radio, claimed to have heard interplanetary transmissions in the early years of the 20th Century.

“The changes I noted were taking place periodically,” Tesla wrote of the “signals” he detected during his work in Colorado Springs, “and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they were not traceable to any cause then known to me…The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”

Alas, we are still awaiting that momentous day when the announcement of such a communication will be verified as true.

IT AIN’T ALIENS, FOLKS

The alien “signal” in question needn’t be restricted to radio or other electromagnetic transmissions encoding deliberate messages; it could be something as innocuous as the absence of a signal—repeated or arranged so as to arouse a suspicion of intelligent origin. For instance, there’s the controversy surrounding the mysterious “Tabby’s Star” (KIC 8462852), which has been amply reported in Futurism. Scuttlebutt has it that Tabby’s Star might be surrounded by some sort of alien megastructure that’s causing the astonishing dips in the star’s bolometric luminosity—at least, that’s what some astronomers have suggested, with tongues at least partially planted in cheek.

But let’s not deceive ourselves. Invoking extraterrestrial intelligence to explain a mystery that, for the moment, confounds us to no end and monkeys up our cherished understanding of things is a bit of a deus ex machina—like the god swinging down from on high in the old Greek plays, happily arrived at just the right time to resolve all the unspliced threads of the plot.

The truth is, a mysterious signal is just that—and nothing more. To say it must be of extraterrestrial origin is to say precisely nothing at all; sure, it could be an alien signal, because intelligence could be responsible for virtually anything. In a universe that doubtless has many more surprises in store for us, it’s safer to search for alternative explanations.

As for Tabby’s Star? It’s probably just surrounded by a swarm of comets, asteroids, and planetary debris—that, or some equally prosaic and entirely dull explanation.

Now, if a giant alien mothership lands atop Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, pukes out some abducted WWII airmen, and beings playing strange musical tones, well that’s probably an extraterrestrial signal…

References: 

• Space.com, 
• The Atlantic

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24-01-2017 om 00:09 geschreven door peter  

‘Google Earth has evidence of ALIENS ABDUCTING me’ Shock claims over satellite images

GOOGLE Earth images appear to show the exact moment a bloke was plucked off the Earth by aliens, according to shocking claims.

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23-01-2017 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

Massive UFO spotted hovering over Mexico by stunned locals

A HUGE unidentified flying object has been spotted lurking in the skies over Mexico – with shocked locals taking photos of the incredible sight.

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23-01-2017 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

Beyond Fermi's Paradox--Where Did All the Aliens Go?" --Today's "Galaxy" Stream (VIDEO)

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23-01-2017 om 23:40 geschreven door peter  

UFO spotted again and governments are still not revealing

A CNN poll taken in 1997 showed 72 percent of the American public believes the U.S. government knows more about aliens and UFOs than they are telling us. 

Conspiracy theorists have claimed for decades that the U.S. government has been hiding evidence that extraterrestrials (E.T.s) and their vehicles have been visiting Earth and partaking in other dubious acts. However, many Presidents themselves may have been believers in E.T.s and believers that there is more to the unidentified flying object (UFO) phenomenon than just cases of mistaken identity.

Former President Bill Clinton has openly spoken out about extraterrestrial life and UFOs and has been very forthcoming about his belief that E.T.s exist.

The following video was captured by the public recently  and that went viral over the internet. Is this a hoax or we are not alone? Leave us your feedback and comments.

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23-01-2017 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

The Disclosure We Received

 

Columnist Cheryl Costa discusses the CIA’s latest release of UFO information.

We had hoped for a crisp informative presidential news conference with a big extraterrestrial reveal. It just didn’t happen that way; a website was the disclosure we got.

I guess some conservative heads reigned. So instead of an ice bucket splash of information about UFOs and the extraterrestrial presence, we were given disclosure in the form of a well-curated website with declassified CIA material of about 930,000 documents.

Yes, there were many pages of UFO-related material spanning decades. It is a website with documents from the 1940s through the 1990s. This material clearly illustrated the fact that UFO reports from foreign countries were being seriously tracked by the CIA for decades.

In one sense this is very validating for those of us in the UFO research community. Why? We in the civilian community have toiled away at data gathering and researching for years and were ridiculed for our efforts. We’ve been labeled UFO buffs, true believers, conspiracy theorists and the ever popular, crackpot. Now we find out on the front page of the New York Times that our government has been doing very much the same thing on a much larger scale and very clandestinely.

Researcher Nick Pope pointed out that many of the documents have been known about, but only those who had physical access to the national archives in College Park, Maryland, could do serious research. Now this information is freely available to all citizens with internet connectivity.

As well I must compliment the library staff who created the website. It is well organized and professionally presented. Hail to the librarians!

Perhaps having our president come out to the national press corps and say that extraterrestrials are here and that our government has contact with various species from across the galaxy would be an exercise in having the public drinking from an information fire hose. In that context this modest disclosure effort has been the proverbial 32 ounce drink for most people.

I am personally impressed that the newspaper of record for breaking the story was the New York Times. In 70 years they have been less than friendly to the UFO topic matter and the UFO research community. My compliments to the New York Times.

Hopefully we, as a free people, will get regular installments of disclosure information as time goes on.

Here is a couple of links to the disclosure website:

• UFOs: Fact or Fiction
• A Sneak Peek at the CIA X-files

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23-01-2017 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

14 Q&As w/ Alien Abduction researcher Professor David Jacobs #AlienAbductions

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23-01-2017 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

"Breakthrough?" --Magnetic Fields May Reveal Evidence of Dark Matter

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23-01-2017 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

“Wat getuigen van de Roswell-crash zeggen doet je de rillingen over de rug lopen”

In 1947 kwam er een UFO neer bij het plaatsje Roswell in New Mexico. Was er sprake van een cover-up? MUFON-directeur Jan Harzan laat in een gesprek met zakenblad Forbes zijn licht over de zaak schijnen.

Op de vraag waarom overheden zo geheimzinnig doen over de mogelijkheid van buitenaards bezoek antwoordt Harzan:

“Eén mogelijke reden is dat ze geloven dat de wereldbevolking niet klaar is voor een dergelijke onthulling. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat zoiets zou leiden tot grootschalige paniek, een beurscrash en het einde van religie.”

Tijdreizen

“Er wordt ook gezegd dat de technologieën waarover deze wezens beschikken zo geavanceerd zijn – denk aan sneller reizen dan het licht of tijdreizen – dat ze een bedreiging vormen voor de nationale veiligheid, helemaal als ze in vijandige handen vallen,” voegde hij toe.

Volgens Harzan is het Roswellincident geen hoax. “UFO-onderzoeker Stanton Friedman interviewde 30 getuigen van Roswell,” zei hij.

Jan Harzan (MUFON)

“Wat zij vertellen in Recollections of Roswell doet je de rillingen over de rug lopen,” ging hij verder. “Ik kan je vertellen dat het geen weerballon was.”

Landingsgestel

Harzan zag naar eigen zeggen als kind zelf een UFO. “Ik was 10 jaar oud en zag met mijn jongere broer Jeff een vaartuig landen in onze achtertuin,” zei hij.

“Het bevond zich op 10 meter afstand van ons en hing slechts een paar meter boven de grond,” ging hij verder.

“Het maakte een zoemend geluid en bevatte een landingsgestel met vier poten,” aldus Harzan. “Het was een levensveranderende ervaring.”

Uniek

Volgens hem laten de ruim 100.000 dossiers op de website van MUFON zien dat we worden bezocht door aliens.

“Waarom weten we niet,” zei hij. “Misschien omdat onze planeet uniek is in ons zonnestelsel omdat zij voor drie kwart uit water bestaat.”

“Daarnaast hebben we veel zeldzame metalen,” zei Harzan. “Wellicht zien ze onze planeet als een vakantiebestemming. Of ze willen ons gewoon observeren.”

[Forbes]

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23-01-2017 om 22:45 geschreven door peter  

NASA Spotted 70 Mile Long Crack Splitting Antarctica – Edgar Cayce Predictions Coming True?

A massive crack in the Antarctic ice shelf could be the first sign that the predictions of Edgar Cayce are starting to come true.

You can’t deny climate change unless you’re a fan of ignoring the thawing elephant in the room holding a ticking time bomb in its trunk. For decades, scientists have known about what’s coming, their voices silenced and drowned out by money and the true rulers of this world. But if we’re to give credence to the predictions of Edgar Cayce, the signs might have come even earlier.

At the beginning of the last century, American mystic Edgar Cayce began using his clairvoyant powers to uncover details about our planet’s hidden past. But the controversial personality also claimed to be able to peer int the future and what he saw did not bode well for mankind. He claimed that in a relatively short period of time, our world will change, ultimately ending up as a place beyond recognition. He wrote:

“The earth will be broken up in many places. The early portion will see a change in the physical aspect of the west coast of America. There will appear open waters in the northern portions of Greenland.

There will be seen new lands of the Caribbean Sea. South America will be shaken from the uppermost portion to the end; and in the Antarctic off Tierra del Fuego there will be land, and a strait with rushing waters.”

Is this giant crack proof of the predictions of Edgar Cayce? Are they finally coming true?

Recently, NASA spotted a crack in the frozen continent.

The fracture was photographed on November 10 as part of Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of Antarctic ice. The survey has been tracking the change in the South Pole due to the devastating effects of global warming.

Related: Stunning! Mysterious Pyramid Discovered In Antarctica Could Rewrite History As We Know It!

Located in the Larsen C region, the crevasse now measures 70 miles in length and is slowly extending. The fragmentation of the Antarctic is obvious in satellite imagery and data shows large chunks of ice constantly breaking up and drifting away. If this new crack will reach the ocean and separate Larsen C from the rest of the ice shelf, a new iceberg with a surface area of over 6,500 square miles will have formed. When this melts, global ocean levels could see a raise of 0.8 to 2 meters (2.6-6.5 feet).

When there is first the breaking up of some conditions in the South Sea and those as apparent as the sinking or rising of that which is almost opposite it, or in the Mediterranean, and the Aetna area, then we may know it has begun.

– Edgar Cayce

This is yet another sign that the antarctic ice is melting and sea levels will undoubtedly rise, wreaking havoc on coastal regions. Weather patterns are going to get more unpredictable and freaky. Considering the current state our world is in, just imagine what global hurricanes and severe storms would do…

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Originally published on UFOholic

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23-01-2017 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

Eerie UFO Puzzles Residents of Segovia, Columbia

Source: RCN Radio (Colombia) and Planeta UFO
Date: 01.20.2017

Colombia: Mysterious Phenomenon in the Skies Northeast of Antioquía

Residents of Segovia and Remedios were bewildered around 9 o'clock in the evening by a phenomenon looking like a static red fireball in the middle of the dark sky.

This region of Northeastern Antioquía is rich not only in gold, but also in stories of witchcraft and sorcerers, so local residents would find nothing odd in having a "supernatural" force making itself visible.

Yen Milea Bran, who took photos and made cellphone recordings like many others, said that her family and neighbors took to the streets - in the La Cruzada district in Remedios - to see a sort of "very bright star" that hung in the heavens for some three minutes before disappearing,.

"It looked like a very large, shining star, lighting everything around it. But when recorded with the cellphone, it wasn't captured the way one's eyes perceived it. It looked like a fireball and in some images it displayed hypnotic circles," added the young woman.

Many hypotheses have been put forth about the phenomenon, which had never been seen in the skies of northeastern Antioquía.

"Many say it could be a UFO. Others say it could be a portal to another world. Others say it is surely a sign that the end is near and that we should repent, and others say that it has something to do with astronomy, that a star had surely exploded into a fireball," Yen Milenia explained.

The images have already been inspected in the Planetarium of Antioquía’s capital city, and have yet to ascertain its true nature. Angela Perez, the astronomical coordinator, noted that the possibilities range from unidentified flying objects, to an optic phenomenon with the lens or a fire balloon.

"Objects that cannot be identified are UFOs. However, the term is generally associated with spaceships and other things, but this cannot be said to be the answer until any other possibility has been discarded. Let's say that given the image's brightness, it could be one of those little balloons that get sent aloft with a candle inside," Pérez explained.

The fact of the matter is that some residents intend to be vigilant these days to see if the mysterious phenomenon stages a return.

[Translation (c) 2017 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO]

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23-01-2017 om 17:36 geschreven door peter  

Drone Tests New Tech to Help FAA Track Commercial Spacecraft

A drone that drops into flight from a high-altitude balloon is helping the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to test new technologies for surveillance of commercial spacecraft in national airspace.

Near Space Corporation (NSC), a private spaceflight company that operates at the Tillamook Naval Air Station in Oregon, sent its High Altitude Shuttle System (HASS) into flight using a stratospheric balloon on Oct. 3. The unmanned drone, which regularly carries new technologies for in-flight testing, brought along a payload of equipment designed to help the FAA detect and track commercial spacecraft.

The stratospheric balloon lifted HASS to an altitude of 70,000 feet (21,336 meters) before releasing it for a semiautonomous glide flight that simulated how a winged spacecraft would enter Class A-controlled airspace, which includes altitudes over 18,000 feet (5,486 m) and up to 60,000 feet (18,288 m).

It took about 30 minutes for the drone to return to its launch site. During that time, the FAA tracked the drone to test its new surveillance technology. Although the results of this flight test are still being analyzed, plans for similar experiment are underway.

This flight test made NSC the first commercial suborbital space company to fly under the FAA's new Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) rules that went into effect in August. Regulations now require drone pilots to have a special Certificate of Authorization (COA) for flying at high altitudes.

"It was great to get this first flight with the new COA under our belt," Near Space CEO Tim Lachenmeier said in a statement. "It took a long time, and a lot of dedicated support from the FAA to get this accomplished.  NSC is very excited about the opportunities this high-altitude UAS COA provides, and the unprecedented ability to support testing of technologies for the commercial space industry." 

NASA funded the balloon-aided drone flight through its Flight Opportunities Program, which supports the use of commercial suborbital vehicles to test new technologies.

"Flight testing and advancing technologies needed by the FAA to allow detection and surveillance of future spacecraft while entering the national airspace is crucial for the Flight Opportunities program," Paul De Leon, NASA'S Flight Opportunities campaign manager, said in the statement. "The program is continuing to grow by adding new commercial suborbital launch vehicles as they become viable, which can increase opportunities for maturing technologies much needed for future space exploration."

Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookand Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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23-01-2017 om 16:58 geschreven door peter  

23-01-2017 om 16:53 geschreven door peter  

Did a UFO give Uri Geller magical powers when he was three years old? It sounds crazy but in fact, an air force captain saw it all - and confirmed every detail

By Jonathan Margolis For The Daily Mail

On Saturday, in our exclusive serialisation of Uri Geller's biography, we told how the CIA's bid to turn him into a psychic weapon backfired because he was such a show-off. Today, in the final part, we reveal how a UFO unlocked his talents...

When freelance CIA investigator Dr Andrija Puharich met Uri Geller in 1971, the young Israeli psychic had one driving ambition.

And it had nothing to do with spies or science.

‘I want to be famous,’ insisted Uri, who had grown up in poverty in the backstreets of Tel Aviv. 

‘I want to be successful. If you want to work with me, you will have to deal with my need for fame and fortune.’

Contacts in the Israeli military told Puharich that this ‘unabashed egomaniac’ was not worth his trouble. 

Uri Geller, pictured, had a 'need for fame and fortune' which ended any real chance of working for the CIA, a biography has revealed

Geller, pictured as a child, centre, with his mother Manzy, left, and dog Joker, right, in Nicosia, Cyrpus

Uri had been a celebrity in his home country, after prime minister Golda Meir joked on the radio about his talent for predicting the future.

But his fame was already on the wane and he was reduced to bending spoons and reading minds on stage in tawdry nightclubs.

‘You know, we have a word for a kid like Uri — putz, a punk,’ one friend told Puharich. ‘He really is insufferable.’

But early tests left Puharich convinced there was far more to the young man than his outrageous ego.

At the sixth-floor apartment that the eccentric Serbian-American scientist had rented, close to the Mediterranean coast north of Tel Aviv, he conducted basic paranormal exercises. The results stunned him.

Uri could accurately pick up three-digit numbers from Puharich’s mind when the men were in different rooms. And he could deflect a compass needle by thought.

For some reason, they discovered, this effect was strongest when Uri wrapped a rubber band tightly around his wrist as a tourniquet.

One result that fascinated Puharich was Uri’s ability to bend a thin stream of water from a tap, by holding his hand a few centimetres away. 

This is easily done with an electrically charged piece of plastic, such as a comb, but with just a finger it was unprecedented.

They noted this effect failed when his finger was wet.

Another test Puharich devised was to see if Uri could direct a beam of energy narrowly or if he produced a random, scattergun effect.

He laid out five matchsticks in a row on a glass plate monitored by a film camera. 

Using psychokinesis —purely mindpower, without physical contact — Uri was able to move whichever matchstick he chose by up to an inch and a quarter. But after a few weeks of this, Uri was getting bored.

In his early days Geller, pictured, was described as arrogant

One night after dinner at a restaurant, and despite Puharich’s protests, he gave a reckless display of driving blindfolded — three miles on hilly roads, at speeds of 50 mph.

At one point, behind the wheel and apparently unable to see anything, Uri announced that a red Peugeot was approaching on the other side of the road. 

Moments later, from around a sharp bend, a red Peugeot appeared.

Perplexed and shaken, Puharich tried to persuade Uri to demonstrate his powers in less flamboyant, self-destructive ways. 

He urged the arrogant young psychic to go under hypnotism and try talking about his gifts and how they worked.

It was Uri’s turn to be sceptical. He was immune to hypnotism, he said. But on November 30, 1971, after a late-night cabaret performance at a tatty club called Zorba’s, he agreed to lie down on Puharich’s living-room sofa and close his eyes, while the scientist counted backwards from 25.

By the time the count reached 18, Uri was in a deep trance. He began to talk of fragmented childhood memories. 

And what he described was stranger than any Hollywood movie.

Uri Geller was born in a Tel Aviv hospital on December 20, 1946. His mother Margaret had already been pregnant eight times and on each occasion had an abortion.

Her husband Tibor, a soldier, was adamant that he did not want children. He was from Hungarian Jewish and gypsy stock, Margaret from the well-to-do Freud family of Vienna: the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud was a distant cousin.

Defying her husband, Margaret kept their ninth child, though her decision nearly broke up the marriage. 

Tibor was a philanderer and often left his wife and son for long periods to fend for themselves.

Devastatingly handsome and impeccably uniformed, Tibor paraded with a series of girlfriends while his wife worked long hours as a seamstress to pay the bills.

As a baby, Uri was almost killed by stray bullets during the street fighting in Tel Aviv that preceded Israeli independence in 1948.

Though he was only a few months old, in his pram next to the living room window of his parents’ flat, Uri recalled it vividly: ‘I remember the glass falling almost in slow motion.

Geller, pictured during his early career, claims to have been hit by a 'beam of light' when he was growing up in Israel aged three

‘My mother had put a little teddy bear next to me in the pram, and somehow it rolled over my face and saved me.’

As a toddler, he spent most of each day outside on the street without any supervision. 

When he was barely three, on Christmas Day 1949, he had an extraordinary encounter that he would remember vividly for the rest of his life.

Opposite the Geller flat there was an old Arabic house on the corner of Yehuda Halevi Boulevard. 

It was surrounded by a rusty iron fence and, attracted by the sound of kittens mewing, the young Uri slipped inside. The tall grass towered over him.

Telling the story to friends over the years, his account never varied: ‘I felt something above me and looked up. I saw a ball of light.

‘It wasn’t the sun — it was something more massive, something that you could touch.

‘It was really weird, like a sphere, just hanging there, shining and strobing, and then it gently and silently drifted down towards the ground.

‘Then something struck me. It was like a beam or ray of light. It really hit my forehead and knocked me back into the grass.’ 

Picking himself up, he ran home and tried to tell his mother what had happened. She refused to believe him.

But when he recounted the adventure under hypnosis on Andrija Puharich’s couch in 1971, an incredible new detail emerged.

This time, he described the light as a large, shining bowl from which a figure appeared — faceless, but exuding what Uri said was a ‘general radiance’.

The figure raised its arms above its head so it appeared to be holding the sun and then became so bright that Uri passed out.

When he came out of his hypnotic trance, Uri listened to the recording of his session with Puharich.

The entertainer said the moment he was struck by the beam of light was 'the moment his powers were activated'

He claimed not to remember anything he had said — and when his voice on the tape began to describe the events in the Arabic garden, he became frightened and agitated.

Ejecting the cassette, he rushed out of the apartment. It was half an hour before Puharich found him, dazed and motionless ‘like a standing mummy’. 

To Uri Geller, the moment he was struck by the beam of light was the moment his powers were activated.

Whether the phenomenon was purely physical (ball lightning, for example) or something paranormal and even extraterrestrial, it changed his life forever.

But bizarre and unique as it was, the story was unverified. Even the account he gave under hypnosis proved nothing.

That was to change more than 35 years later when a credible witness came forward, out of the blue, to say he had witnessed what happened.

In 2007, having seen a TV documentary about the star that talked about his strange childhood experience, retired Israeli reserve air force captain Ya’akov Avrahami contacted Uri to tell him he had been walking to the bus stop on Yehuda Halevi Boulevard on Christmas Day 1949.

‘Suddenly, I saw a powerful light, a sphere-shaped light, a metre in diameter, bright and dazzling,’ he said.

‘At the same moment, I noticed from the building on the left a small child coming out, dressed in a white shirt and black trousers. 

'The light halted again and, as if it had senses, it suddenly turned around and approached the child. The light embraced him.’

Then, he said, the boy ran to an apartment building, with the light following him.

When he went through the door, the light apparently exploded on the side of the building, leaving a black residue.

‘After being told all these years that it was my imagination or that I was hallucinating, for this man to come forward was a very emotional thing for me,’ says Uri.

‘The way he described me as a little boy, with the white shirt and black trousers, which is how my mother always dressed me — that convinced me he was not lying.’

A few days after the strange encounter with sphere of light in the Arabic garden, Uri and his mother were eating soup at their kitchen table when the stem of his spoon suddenly drooped and deposited a splash of hot liquid in his lap. Margaret inspected the spoon.

‘It must be loose,’ she decided. Even at the age of three, Uri thought that was odd — spoons don’t get ‘loose’.

Geller, pictured, joined up with the Israeli Army paratroopers but was wounded in action during the Six Day War of 1967

After he started school, his father gave him a watch. Bored in class, he would stare at the hands. One day, he saw them leap forward, whirling round on their own.

He shouted out ‘Look at this watch!’ and learned his first hard lesson about sceptics — his classmates refused to believe him and laughed at his claim.

Angry and embarrassed, young Uri decided he must have a ‘weird watch’ and refused to wear it.

Saving her pennies from her work as a needlewoman, his mother bought him another watch, a better one. 

This time when he stared at it, the hands bent upwards and hit the glass cover.

His father was angry, but Margaret was not: she had seen metal bend in the presence of her son and decided to regard it as a special talent, not a curse. 

The marriage was disintegrating, and aged ten, Uri was sent to live on a kibbutz near Ashdod, which specialised in children from broken homes.

Friends from those days remember his eerie ability to foretell the future.

One day he announced in class that ‘something terrible’ was going to happen in the wheat fields. 

The next day, a military jet missed the runway of the neighbouring airbase and crash-landed in the corn.

When Margaret remarried, to a former concert pianist called Ladislas, she reclaimed her son from the kibbutz and they moved to Cyprus to run a motel in Nicosia.

The Pension Ritz catered to actors and nightclub performers, and Uri was attracted to their lifestyle. 

He discovered that by bending spoons and moving the hands of watches, he could win their applause.

But within a year his stepfather died and, with civil war on the island, Uri was sent to a school in the hills run by monks. 

At this Christian establishment, he was known as George Geller.

Teachers started to notice his abilities. He never seemed to work hard, but he got consistently high marks in exams, even in subjects that he didn’t appear to understand. 

Oddly, his exam papers often mirrored those of the top students — even mimicking their mistakes.

Accused of copying, Uri denied cheating, but admitted that he could look at the back of a classmate’s head and see what they were writing.

He didn’t mean to do it, he said — the words appeared, as if on a TV screen in his mind. 

He also revealed a talent on the basketball court. When he threw the ball, it would swerve in mid air and the hoop seemed almost to lean towards it.

Teacher Joy Philipou said: ‘He could shoot from almost anywhere. He never missed the basket.

'I thought it must be my imagination, but several people began to talk about it. In truth, it was scary.’

By the time he was 18, Uri was eager for army service and was desperate to make his soldier father proud. 

Volunteering for the paratroops, he began basic training and dreamed that one day, if he became an officer, he could join the secret services and use his telepathic gifts as a spy.

The Six Day War put an end to his fantasies. In June 1967, 18 months after he joined up, his unit was ordered into action to cut off enemy supply lines to Jerusalem.

Caught in an ambush by Jordanian tanks, he and his comrades took shelter in a graveyard, and Uri was hit in the left elbow by a bullet.

He staunched the blood with bandages. Minutes later, he saw his best friend Avram killed by a tank shell. 

After predicting the death of the Egyptian president in 1970, Geller, left in 1974 and right in 2008, became an overnight star who would go on to achieve fame for decades

Pinned down by fire from a pillbox above them, Uri led a party to knock it out. As they worked their way up, a Jordanian soldier leapt out from behind a rock and fired twice, missing from just a few yards away.

With his gun at waist level, Uri returned fire. He said he was looking the soldier in the face as he killed him. A few moments later, he was hit himself — either by a ricochet or by a stray bullet.

Wounded in the head and right arm, he passed out.

Weeks later, he was discharged from hospital — badly scarred on both arms and unable to fully straighten his left elbow, but alive.

With his hopes of a military career wrecked, but still a serving soldier, he was given an assignment where he could recuperate, and sent to organise a government summer camp for children.

Tasked with entertaining them, Uri showed the youngsters his abilities to read minds and bend metal. 

Word got around and before long he was invited on national TV. At that point, the security services started taking an interest.

Prime minister Golda Meir invited him to a party and quizzed him on his vision of Israel’s future. 

Defence minister Moshe Dayan, a war hero famous for his black eyepatch, took a less esoteric interest — he wanted to know if Uri could locate buried archaeological treasures.

The turning point came in September 1970, when Uri was performing at the Tzavta theatre in Tel Aviv. 

He suddenly stopped in mid-act, looked ill, sat down and asked if there was a doctor in the house. Then he started to ramble — he said an enormous event with a massive significance for Israel was about to occur.

Suddenly, he became specific. President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s hardline dictator, was dead, he announced. He was certain of it.

The show was halted and the audience filed out. One journalist in the auditorium rushed to a phone, called the newsdesk to check and reported http://www.dailymail.co.uk/back that there were no rumours that Nasser was dead or even ill.

It was not until the next day that the news became public: the Egyptian leader had died of a heart attack, the night that Uri broke the news from the stage.

That striking incident made him a national celebrity. Prime minister Meir joked on the radio: ‘They say there’s a young man who can foresee exactly what will happen. I can’t!’

And across the Atlantic, the CIA began to take an interest. Fame and fortune...Uri Geller was about to get his heart’s desire.

• Adapted from The Secret Life Of Uri Geller by Jonathan Margolis (Watkins, £8.99). To order a copy for £6.74 (25 per cent discount), visitmailbookshop.co.uk or call 0844 571 0640. P&P free on orders over £15. Offer valid until January 30, 2017.

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23-01-2017 om 16:43 geschreven door peter  

Mystery deepens over world's biggest explosion 110 years ago in Russia as experts 'debunk proof' that blast the size of 185 Hiroshima bombs felt in the UK and US was caused by a meteorite

• Blast over Siberia flattened 80 million trees and left charred reindeer carcases
• Explosion on June 20, 1908 was felt in Britain and lit up sky in Europe and the US
• Italian scientists initially thought Lake Cheko filled a 'missing' meteorite crater
• But Russian experts say it is 'not young enough' to be a crater lake caused by the explosion

By Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline

The world's biggest explosion - a blast in Russia the size of 185 Hiroshima bombs that was felt as far away as Britain and the US - remains a mystery after experts debunked 'proof' it was a meteorite.

A large fireball was seen crossing the Siberian sky on June 20, 1908 before an eruption six miles above ground flattened 80 million trees and left charred reindeer carcases.

Italian scientists spent 21 years researching the so-called Tunguska event, claiming the blue-water Lake Cheko filled a 'missing' impact crater - giving rise to the theory that the phenomenon was caused by a meteorite.

But a new study by Russian geologists suggests the idea is flawed, meaning the huge blast - which lit up the night sky in Europe and even America - is still a mystery, according to reports in Moscow. 

While they have not put forward an alternative explanation for the explosion, outlandish theories in the past have included a massive volcanic eruption, a comet mainly composed of ice not solid space rock, a black hole colliding with Earth and even aliens shooting down a meteor from a UFO in order to save Earth.

Local Evanki people believed it was a visitation by an angry god called Ogdy.

The world's biggest explosion in Russia in 1908 was initially thought to have been the result of a meteorite that created Lake Cheko (pictured) in Siberia

A large fireball was seen crossing the Siberian sky on June 20, 1908 before an eruption six miles above ground flattened 80 million trees and left charred reindeer carcases

A study by Russian geologists (pictured) suggests early theories about the explosion are flawed, meaning the huge blast - which lit up the night sky in Europe and even America - is still a mystery, according to reports in Moscow

 There were reports at the time that the blast was felt as far away as Britain while the explosion lit up the sky in the US

The biggest-ever documented explosion was the size of 185 Hiroshima nuclear bombs - yet there was no evidence of human fatalities.

'There was a bang in the sky and a mighty crash. The crash was followed by a noise like stones falling from the sky, or of guns firing. The earth trembled,' said a native Siberian some 40 miles from the epicentre.

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It appeared to be Armageddon. 'I became so hot I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was on fire,' said another account.

'I wanted to tear off my shirt and throw it down, and then the sky slammed shut. A strong thump sounded and I was thrown a few yards.'

It caused shockwaves as far away as Britain and dust from the explosion lit up the night sky in its wake in Europe and even America.

From the first Soviet expeditions to this remote region of Siberia, the puzzling aspect was a lack of debris, for example craters caused by fragments of a meteorite, on the surface.

Italian scientist Luca Gasperini, from the University of Bologna, has long believed crater-shaped Lake Cheko (pictured), some five miles from the epicentre, to be the missing link in the Tunguska mystery

Italian scientist Luca Gasperini, from the University of Bologna, has long believed crater-shaped Lake Cheko, some five miles from the epicentre, to be the missing link in the Tunguska mystery.

It was not marked on tsarist-era maps of Siberia, and his team's seismic measurements of its bottom indicated sediment had been building for around a century.

They concluded that dense stony matter lies beneath the lake's floor and is the 'remnant' of the exploding meteorite.

The Italian theory based on the pattern of tree destruction is that two bodies entered the atmosphere. One exploded about five miles above ground, and the other hit the Earth forming Lake Cheko.

TUNGUSKA THEORIES: WHAT COULD HAVE 'SPLIT THE SKY IN TWO' IN 1908

More than 110 years ago, a massive explosion ripped through the sky over the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening trees nearly 31 miles around.

The blast is thought to have been produced by a comet or asteroid hurtling through Earth's atmosphere at over 33,500 miles per hour, resulting in an explosion equal to 185 Hiroshima bombs as pressure and heat rapidly increased.

But, with no definitive impact crater and little evidence of such an object ever found, scientists remain perplexed as to what truly caused the event in which 'the sky was split in two'.

Numerous studies have attempted to make sense of what happened on June 30, 1908 at Tunguska.

The biggest-ever documented explosion was the size of 185 Hiroshima nuclear bombs - yet there was no evidence of human fatalities. Pictures show trees flattened by the blast

From UFO theories to speculation about the supernatural, the mysterious event has spurred explanations of all kinds, many of them lacking scientific basis.

Some scientists even suggested a black hole had collided with Earth – but other experts quickly shot down the idea.

In a review published in 2016 in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Natalia Artemieva of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona explains that the event followed a clear course.

Whatever caused the event likely entered the atmosphere at 9-19 miles per second, and would have been extremely fragile, destroying itself roughly six miles above Earth.

The possibility of an asteroid explosion was first proposed in 1927 by Leonid Kulik, 20 years after the event.

Others suggested the space-object may instead have been a comet, made up of ice rather than rock, meaning it would have evaporated as it entered Earth's atmosphere.

But, some scientists warn that these findings do not definitively explain the bizarre explosion – with meteor showers being a frequent occurrence, these samples could be the remnants of a much smaller, unnoticed event.

To some degree, the Tunguska event still remains a mystery, which scientists are continually working to solve – but, whether it be from a comet or asteroid, most agree that the explosion was caused by a large cosmic body slamming into Earth's atmosphere.

The blast led to a host of theories on the cause apart from a meteorite: from a massive volcanic eruption, to comet mainly composed of ice not solid space rock, to a black hole colliding with Earth, to aliens shooting down a meteor from a UFO in order to save Earth. Fallen trees could still be found at the site in the 1990s (pictured)

Italian scientists  (pictured in 1999) spent 21 years researching the so-called Tunguska event, claiming the blue-water Lake Cheko filled a 'missing' impact crater - giving rise to the theory that the phenomenon was caused by a meteorite

The explosion - the force iof 185 Hiroshima bombs - was recorded over Siberia but was felt as far away as Britain

Now Russian researchers have examined the sediment from the deepest part of the lake, some 50 metres below the surface, and undertaken geochemical and biochemical analysis.

The study indicates that the deepest sample they obtained is about 280 years old, which means that the lake is probably even older, because the researchers did not manage to obtain samples from the very bottom of the sediment layer.

'Besides, there are other deep, practically round lakes in the Tunguska reserve, which look like Lake Cheko and probably have the same geological origin,' said a statement from the expedition centre of the Russian Geographical Society in the Siberian Federal District.

According to local reports, traces of the mysterious Tunguska event can be seen even now

An aerial photograph of the Lake Cheko was obtained by an earlier Italian survey of the area

Aerial images show the pattern of trees flattened after the 1908 explosion and the inferred epicentre

'Geologically the lake appears young. But not young enough to be a crater lake caused by Tunguska,' reported The Siberian Times, which also said the reason for its formation remains a mystery.

So the puzzle over Tunguska remains, but the answer could be that it was a meteorite and that it exploded in the air.

In 2013 rock samples of meteoric origin with traces of a carbon mineral called lonsdaleite were found in this part of Siberia.

These are known to form when meteorites crash to Earth but could have been from other unrelated meteor showers. 

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23-01-2017 om 16:05 geschreven door peter  

Another spaceship is spotted over Devon as ‘alien invasion looms’

Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk

It’s one of the big, important questions facing mankind today – why are visitors from beyond the stars so interested in Devon?

This week, dedicated UFO spotter John Mooner saw yet another hi-tech spacecraft over the county.

Mooner – who has previously spotted several other aliens – says, ‘I was stargazing looking at different astronomical bodies and taking photographs of the moon when I just happened to notice a very bright star like object to the left of me. I knew that it could not be a star because it was moving.

‘I zoomed in on the bright object which then to my surprise started to move anticlockwise in a semi circle. The bright object then shot towards my direction and then just disappeared.

But UFO investigator Mooner says he saw eight UFOs in just three months – including a close-up encounter with aliens in a Newton Abbot car park, chronicled on his site World UFO Photos and News.

But he’s not the only one.

In recent months, triangular spacecraft, bright lights, and strange long-tongued creatures have shown up in Devon – leading to fears that a full-blown invasion force is on its way.

Either that, or it could be evidence that people from Devon are just really, really weird.

On 12 September, 2016, a man reported triangular spacecraft flying over the county – and others spotted them, too, according to the London Economic.

That very same month, a family saw strange bright lights over the area.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, says, ‘Devon has had a long history of UFO visitations, that have ranged from sightings of lights in the sky to close encounters with UFO craft. Triangular UFOs seem to be in vogue at the moment, plus interest in looking to the skies of Devon has been encouraged by postings of UFO videos and picture that show unusual aerial activity over the county. For believersthis shows ‘they’ are on the verge of publicly revealing themselves, to sceptics it highlights the folly of internet rumours and human perception.’

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23-01-2017 om 15:41 geschreven door peter  

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