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Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.

This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.

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    In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog. Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch... Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels. MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen. MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity... Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com. Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal. Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP. ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
    25-01-2017
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Doorbraak: menselijke huid komt nu uit 3D-printer - HLN.be

    Doorbraak: menselijke huid komt nu uit 3D-printer - HLN.be 

    Bron: The Independent

    Niet alleen bij huidtransplantaties, maar ook bij cosmetische en farmaceutische tests kan de 3D-geprinte huid gebruikt worden. Proeven op dieren kunnen zo overbodig worden. 

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    Een team biologen heeft een prototype gebouwd van een 3D-bioprinter die menselijke huid kan maken. Dat betekent niet alleen een doorbraak in de huidtransplantaties, de nieuwe techniek kan ook een einde maken aan proeven op dieren en kan gebruikt worden voor chemische, cosmetische en farmaceutische tests.

    Vorsers van de Carlos III universiteit in Madrid maakten de menselijke huid na, geheel met een opperhuid die beschermt, een dikkere laag die als eigenlijke huid dienstdoet en een laag fibroblastcellen die collageen aanmaken, het eiwit dat de huid zijn elasticiteit en sterkte verleent. Ze maken zich sterk dat hun in het labo gemaakte huid kan gebruikt worden bij transplantaties voor brandwonden en allerlei proeven.

    "Je moet weten hoe je de biologische componenten moet mengen en in welke omstandigheden je ermee moet werken opdat de cellen niet stukgaan. Ook de juiste manier om het product aan te brengen is van cruciaal belang", stelt onderzoeker Juan Francisco del Cañizo.

    3D-huid die voor transplantaties bestemd is, moet van de cellen van de patiënt gemaakt worden zodat diens lichaam de nieuwe huid niet afstoot. Voor industrieel gebruik zoals chemische proeven kan huid massaal geproduceerd worden van willekeurige cellen. 

    "Bioprinten laat ons toe op een gestandaardiseerde, geautomatiseerde manier huid te maken. Het proces is minder duur dan de manuele productie", aldus Alfredo Brisac, CEO van biotechnologiebedrijf Biodan Group dat de nieuwe techniek wil commercialiseren.

    Het onderzoek werd gepubliceerd in het vakblad Biofabrication.

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    25-01-2017 om 23:07 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO hunters claim they have spotted an 'alien ship' hidden in an Antarctic cave in Google Earth images

    • A video zooms in on the area conspiracy theorists believe there is a ship
    • They describe the footage as 'final proof of secret technology' on Antarctica
    • Earlier this month conspiracy theorists said they had found a pyramid and a staircase built by aliens in the same region

    From a pyramid created by a lost civilisation to a staircase built by aliens, Antarctica has been a hotspot for sightings by UFO hunters in recent months.

    Now, in their latest bizarre claim, alien enthusiasts claim they have spotted ET's ship hidden in a cave in the South Pole. 

    Their 'discovery', made from what they claim are Google Earth satellite images, was described as 'final proof of secret technology' on Antarctica.

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    From a pyramid created by a lost civilisation to a staircase built by aliens, Antarctica has been a hotspot for sightings by UFO hunters. Now, in their latest bizarre claim, alien enthusiasts claim they have spotted ET's ship hidden in a cave in the South Pole

    The claim has been made by a YouTube channel called Secure Team based in Cleveland, Ohio. 

    They zoomed in on a mountainous region of the South Pole and found what they believe to to be a disc in a cave. 

    'This is a bombshell discovery and one of the most obvious unnatural and anomalous structures we have found at the South Pole,' Secure Team said. 

    This follows another claim earlier this month that there is a giant staircase in Antarctica.

    Antarctic UFO Mystery deepens after researchers find tanks guarding alien crash site!
    The 'discovery', made from what they claim are Google Earth satellite images, was described as 'final proof of secret technology' on Antarctica

    The 'discovery', made from what they claim are Google Earth satellite images, was described as 'final proof of secret technology' on Antarctica

    LINKS BETWEEN CONSPIRACY, NARCISSISM AND SELF-ESTEEM 

    Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and these psychological traits.

    The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.

    However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.

    But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief. 

    An image has surfaced which is alleged  to be a satellite image of the Antarctic, and believers in extra-terrestrial life claim it could prove aliens are visiting Earth.

    The picture was posted on a UFO and conspiracy theory forum. 

    The image was posted online by an anonymous member on the forum Godlike Productions, along with a message.

    'This morning, in the work van, we were talking about conspiracies, and one of them were about so many big names going to Antarctica out of the blue,' the message read.

    'I was bored so I pulled out Google Earth for a while, just exploring, when I came across something that looked like a giant staircase.

    'Anyone have an idea what it is? Just a glitch with satellite cameras? Or something more?' 

    Others offered more logical explanations, like an anomaly with the lens or snow dunes. 

    The latest in a series of bizarre claims by conspiracy theorists says there is a giant staircase in Antarctica. An image has surfaced which is alleged to be a satellite image of the Antarctic, and believers in extra-terrestrial life claim it could prove aliens are visiting Earth
    Giant 'staircase' appears to be discovered in Antarctica

    Some doubted the origin of the image, which the poster claimed was from Google Earth, because the user did not provide co-ordinates

    A YouTube channel called SecureTeam10 found the co-ordinates of the image (pictured)

    A YouTube channel called SecureTeam10 found the co-ordinates of the image (pictured)

    Another image of a 'dome' in Antarctica sparked claims there was once a civilisation living in the frozen continent.

    The picture, which was said to be from Google Earth, showed an oval-shaped structure that is believed be 400 foot (121 metres) across.

    Some claimed the structure is 'evidence' that a human civilisation once lived in the South Pole, while others said it may be a natural phenomenon.

    A Google Earth image of Antarctica has sparked claims of evidence there was once a civilisation living in the frozen continent. The picture shows an oval-shaped structure that conspiracy theorists claim to be 400 foot (121 metres) across

    A Google Earth image of Antarctica has sparked claims of evidence there was once a civilisation living in the frozen continent. The picture shows an oval-shaped structure that conspiracy theorists claim to be 400 foot (121 metres) across

    'What if, in the distant past, when Earth –and Antarctica— was much different then today, an ancient civilization developed there, creating fascinating structures, monuments and temples there?' a post on Ancient Code says.

    The post says scientists initially thought the discovery could be a sastrugi – a natural phenomenon formed by years of battering by strong, freezing winds and heavy snowfalll. 

    The post says scientists initially thought the discovery could be a sastrugi – a natural phenomenon formed by years of battering by strong, freezing winds and heavy snowfall. Pictured are sastrugi in a radar image around the south edge of Lake Vostok in Antarctica

    The post says scientists initially thought the discovery could be a sastrugi – a natural phenomenon formed by years of battering by strong, freezing winds and heavy snowfall. Pictured are sastrugi in a radar image around the south edge of Lake Vostok in Antarctica

    Another strange theory surfaced last year, claiming that there is a mysterious pyramid in the Antarctic had emerged.

    Conspiracy theorists have posted a video on YouTube, in which they claim that US Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid.

    The video suggests that the images have been taken from Google Earth, but it is unclear whether they have been edited.

    The video was posted by Third Phase of the Moon, a YouTube channel that regularly posts conspiracy theories on aliens.

    It showed a pyramid-like structure in the snow, with a Google Earth-type label and pin.

    The label reads 'Antartica Pyramid' – a misspelling of Antarctica, which suggests that image might have been doctored.

    Responses to the video were varied, with some users backing-up the claims, such as James Jason, who commented: 'Excellent report Third Phase, I also believe things are about to get very dramatic, and that is for everyone on our planet.'

    But others dismissed it, such as Gordon Anderson, who said: 'I have spent a LOT of time on snow covered mountains- skiing down, and this looks natural to me - not man made anyway!'

    A strange theory claiming that there is a mysterious pyramid in the Antarctic emerged last year. Conspiracy theorists posted a video on YouTube, in which they claimed US Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid

    A strange theory claiming that there is a mysterious pyramid in the Antarctic emerged last year. Conspiracy theorists posted a video on YouTube, in which they claimed US Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Antarctica last week to visit an 'alien base' within the pyramid

    Others joked John Kerry was there for other reasons, such as Daniel Schultz, who commented: '#27 on his bucket list, fly to Antarctica and make 'snow angels' where no man has gone before.'

    It is unclear what the structure could be, but it looks similar to a nunatak – a natural mountain peak that juts up above glaciers.

    Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'Pictures of the pyramid structures are either photoshopped, cropped pictures to make the mountains look more like pyramids or simply pictures of natural formations called nunataks. 

    'They are mountainous formations created by shifting glaciers and erosion, not by laser zapping aliens.' 

    Pyramids are often an area of interest for conspiracy theorists. 

    It is unclear what the structure could be, but it looks similar to a nunatak – a natural mountain peak that juts up above glaciers

    It is unclear what the structure could be, but it looks similar to a nunatak – a natural mountain peak that juts up above glaciers

    It shows a pyramid-like structure in the snow, with a Google Maps-type label and pin. The label reads 'Antartica Pyramid' – a misspelling of Antarctica, which suggests that image might have been doctored

    It shows a pyramid-like structure in the snow, with a Google Maps-type label and pin. The label reads 'Antartica Pyramid' – a misspelling of Antarctica, which suggests that image might have been doctored

    In October last year, a video posted on YouTube claimed there was a crystal pyramid beneath the Bermuda Triangle, which was to blame for the disappearance of several planes and ships in the area.

    Mr Watson added: 'There is always a mystique about pyramid structures.

    'Back in the 1970s there were many claims that such objects could preserve food, generate health benefits and even keep razors sharp.' 

    NASA scientists map out Antarctica

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    UFO sightings unlikely – expert


    BY Kavindya Chris Thomas

    Despite reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) being sighted in several parts of the country there's not enough information to form a definite opinion about the phenomenon, Dr. Chandana Jayaratne said yesterday.

    Dr. Jayaratne of the Department of Physics, University of Colombo, said there was insufficient information about the sightings which after all could have merely been the appearance given by Drones passing over areas in which people have not seen Drones before.

    He added that inquiries have come to a halt as no possible conclusions could be made on the basis of studying unclear pictures of the sightings last Saturday..

    Dr. Jayaratne said that the lack of plausible information made it impossible to ascertain the nature of the object in the pictures.
    However, he added that several field studies are being conducted to collect eyewitness reports of the sightings.

    A square object radiating a bright light with a moving core was captured by telescopic lenses last Saturday as it moved over Ratnapura, Hambantota, Galle and Matara areas. Following initial reports, it was announced that the UFO sighting might be related to quadcopter drones that were commandeered in the areas.'

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.When The Mysterious And Inexplicable Happens

    When The Mysterious And Inexplicable Happens

    People deal with mysterious and inexplicable events in their lives in different ways, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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    Nearly everyone has had weird experiences, things that happen in life that seem to defy any sort of rational explanation.

    It could be strange sightings, events that apparently challenge the laws of nature, that evoke the supernatural, or feelings of being possessed by some kind of universal awe, that elicit a connectedness with something grander, timeless.

    What are these events — and what are they trying to tell us, if anything?

    For a rationalist, the usual response is one of dismissal, based on the law of large numbers: When there are billions of people experiencing billions of different events every day, chances are that some will encounter events that are so rare that they are deemed, on the surface, as unexplainable. Tanya Luhrmann, a professor of anthropology at Stanford and an expert on what could be called the experience of the sacred, has written extensively on the subject in The New York Times as an op-ed contributor, in books for the general public, and in more academic settings. When she was a graduate student in England, she had one such experience that left her wondering. She was on a train, going to interview with a group of people that practiced a form of powerful magic, when she felt strange:

    "I was reading a book by a man they called an 'adept' — someone they regarded as deeply knowledgeable and powerful... And as I strained to imagine what the author thought it would be like to be that vehicle, I began to feel power in my veins — to really feel it, not to imagine it. I grew hot. I became completely alert, more awake than I usually am, and I felt so alive. It seemed that power coursed through me like water through a chute. I wanted to sing. And then wisps of smoke came out of my backpack, in which I had tossed my bicycle lights. One of them was melting."

    She writes of the experience:

    "I walked off that train with a new respect for why people believed in magic, not a new understanding of reality. Sometimes people have remarkable experiences, and then tuck them away as events they can't explain."

    Luhrmann mentions how Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and a notable rationalist, had one such experience that defied any sense of logic and left him stunned. I know Michael and can attest to his rock-solid convictions. A few weeks before his wedding, his German bride-to-be shipped many of her belongings to their home in California. Among them was an old radio that belonged to her dear grandfather, the closest father figure she had growing up. The transistor radio had been broken for years and Shermer's attempts to fix it failed. They tucked it into a drawer in their bedroom and forgot about it. On their wedding day, they were surprised to hear music coming from upstairs. After searching for possible sources, they were amazed to see that it was the transistor radio, as if it had come back to life on its own. "My grandfather is here with us," Shermer's wife Jennifer said, tearfully. "I'm not alone." The radio stopped playing the next day, as mysteriously as it had started.

    I also have had one such experience (actually more than one), that I relate in detail in my recent book The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, under the chapter heading "The Witch of Copacabana." Here is a brief summary:

    When I was growing up in Rio, my parents loved hosting dinner parties. My father, a dentist, had welcomed to his practice many of the Portuguese immigrants that flooded Brazil after the Carnation Revolution of 1974. One day, he invited the former Minister of Justice (a sort of attorney general) and other friends to dinner. He offered the minister a whisky. After taking a sip, the minister gave my father a perplexed look. "Izaac, this is tea, not whisky." My father's mouth dropped. He ran to the closet where he stored his liquor and confirmed that the open whisky bottle had been filled with tea. The same with every open bottle with amber-colored liquid. My father ran to the kitchen to find our cook Maria, a small black lady in her 50s with pitch-dark beady eyes. We knew she was a high priestess of the Macumba, a widespread religious practice mixing elements of African black magic and fetishism with Catholicism. Maria confessed immediately, as if what she had done had been obvious. My father was furious, and fired her on the spot. Maria looked him in the eye and cursed the house: "Something bad will happen to this house." I was horrified. Maria tried to comfort me. "Don't worry, boy, you have 'corpo fechado' (closed body), and nothing will harm you."

    My father, a superstitious man, took his precautions, filling his pockets with garlic and the house with branches of rue, a plant that many in Brazil believe is a sort of chlorophyllous evil barometer that shrivels when harm is near. A month passed and nothing happened. We went back to our routines and hired a new cook. One day, as I was studying for an exam, I felt a compulsion to go to the dining room. Our rococo-style dining table was flanked on both ends by furniture containing fine crystal. Behind my father's seat at the head of the table was a closet with glass doors and three glass shelves, where my parents stored beautiful wineglasses made of Bohemian crystal. At the opposite end of the table was a brass beverage trolley, with a top glass shelf covered with crystal bottles filled with port, sherry and liqueurs of all colors, each labeled with a small silver necklace.

    I was standing by the dining table in a strange sort of daze when something, maybe a subtle noise, made me turn toward the closet. At that very moment, the top shelf broke in half, and all the heavy glasses came crashing down onto the second shelf, which in turn collapsed onto the first shelf in a horrifying waterfall of shattering crystal. Dozens of priceless antique glasses were instantly destroyed. I hardly had time to blink, when another cracking noise made me turn toward the trolley at the other end of the table. In a flash, the top shelf collapsed, taking all the crystal bottles to the floor with it. The noise was deafening. Shards of glass flew everywhere. I was paralyzed. The new cook came running from the kitchen and crossed herself. She packed her things and vanished that same night, never to be seen again.

    Shaking uncontrollably, I phoned my father at his office. "It's the curse, dad. She did it! Everything crashed, right in front of me. The closet and the trolley, practically at the same time!"

    I spent a long time trying to come up with a reasonable explanation: a supersonic boom; an earthquake; maybe I was in a hypnotic trance and did it myself. Nothing added up though. To have both events in almost synchrony was deeply perplexing. And it involved drinking, as it should. This is a mysterious event that remains unexplained.

    People react differently when faced with such situations. Some feel it as convincing evidence of the supernatural and embrace a religion (a conversion event) or a mystical practice. Others, perhaps in fear for what such event may represent to their worldview, vigorously push it aside as an odd coincidence. Or they honestly think of such stories as some of life's bizarre twists, without any opening to otherworldly dimensions.

    In my case, I remain agnostic. Being a scientist, I'm well-aware that nature tends to follow precise rules, some of which we have managed to understand and to describe. However, I'm also well-aware of our limitations, of the fact that we are surrounded by mystery and by what we don't understand.

    Science's purpose is to crack open some of these mysteries, and it does so magnificently. But science can't crack them all. And that's okay. A bit of the unexplained is good, as it keeps us a little unsettled. We must keep an open mind as we peel layer after layer of reality, prepared to be surprised at every step — and humbled by what we can't know.


    Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist and writer — and a professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is the director of the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth, co-founder of 13.7 and an active promoter of science to the general public. His latest book is The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything. You can keep up with Marcelo on Facebook and Twitter: @mgleiser

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    Leah Haley on Alien Abduction: “It Doesn't Happen”

    Former self-described alien abductee Leah Haley has revised her perspectives about her experiences of high strangeness to conclude that no alien abductions ever took place in her life. She now completely attributes her remarkable perceptions to having been an involuntary research subject. Commenting on literal alien abduction from her home in Pensacola, Florida, Haley stated, “It doesn't happen.” 

    Pensacola Beach, Florida, a short distance from massive Eglin Air Force Base.

    Haley attracted widespread attention within the UFO community in 1993 with the publication of her book, Lost Was the Key, in which she described her extraordinary experiences consisting of fragmented memories of UFOs and apparent non-human beings. She became a well known speaker and was commonly sought for interviews. Ten years later she published Unlocking Alien Closets: Abductions, Mind Control and Spirituality, further documenting her descent into an increasingly complex web of deceit, disinformation and character assassination within ufology. Sales of her books climbed well into the thousands although word of mouth was virtually the only means of marketing. 

    Haley initially thought aliens were responsible for her experiences but that changed following years of investigation. She long acknowledged military personnel were involved in her experiences to some extent, but she fully re-evaluated circumstances after viewing select Freedom of Information Act and U.S. Patent Office documents. Haley further based her revised conclusions on hundreds of interactions with abductees and researchers, as well as having mysterious individuals enter and later abruptly vanish from her life. She is now thoroughly convinced mind control experiments are responsible for what became known as the alien abduction phenomenon. 

    “I really can explain every alien abduction away using human technology,” Haley said. 

    Commenting on what she termed “legitimate” reports of abduction, she continued, “I don't know for sure, but every case that I know very, very well – every single one of them – if I probe deeply enough, I'm going to find that there were humans here and there too. That tells me that it was a human-instigated situation. I can't think of a single case, not a single one, that I've really delved into that didn't have humans in it too, so I just don't think alien abductions are happening. I don't know, but I just don't think they are.”

    Who Is Leah Haley?


    The polite yet confidently direct woman who came to be embraced - for better or worse – by the UFO community said she was born in 1951 in Decatur, Alabama. According to her books, Haley earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education from the University of Alabama, a master's degree in education from the University of North Alabama and a master's degree in business administration from Mississippi State University. She told me she is a Certified Public Accountant, currently employed in the field. 

    I first contacted Haley via email in June of 2009 due to my interest in her reported experiences which involved apparent military personnel. Our interactions led to me interviewing her over the course of a couple days in March, 2011. 

    As much an artist as she is a business administrator or anything else, Haley loves to write. She enjoys many forms of art and particularly appreciates theater. While the name Leah Ann Haley will be forever joined with the UFO phenomenon, the woman came to prioritize a healthy social life and enjoying herself, as was indicated by the presence in her den of gifts from her birthday celebration. “If I put the gifts away, I'll forget to send thank you notes,” she explained with a laugh. 

    During a drive through downtown Pensacola, she fondly pointed out locations where bands regularly perform. She enjoys concerts, and told me about attending a Lynyrd Skynyrd gig, remarking that she of course likes the band's music due to her roots in (Sweet Home) Alabama. 

    Haley developed a strong faith which she attributes in part to her traumatic experiences and the stress of going public with her story. She enjoys attending casual worship services held Sunday mornings at picnic tables on Pensacola Beach. “I think that's so cool,” she said while describing the services. 

    Her first marriage ended as she became increasingly committed to investigating her experiences and publicly sharing her findings. Was her involvement in ufology responsible for her failed marriage? “Oh, yeah,” she responded decisively, “absolutely.” Her status as a relatively high profile, controversial figure severely strained family relations, but Haley feels she picked up the pieces as well as could be expected. 

    Take her or leave her, Leah Haley is willing to be scrutinized. Other high profile members of the UFO community often hide from objective evaluation, reciting their largely unchallenged rhetoric with relentless and annoying persistence. Contrastingly, Haley at least seemingly provides us with a refreshingly transparent view of the path of an experiencer of high strangeness who embarked upon a sincere journey of investigation and self-discovery. It is only natural that such a journey included evolving perspectives, changing over time, and it appears Haley happens to be secure enough to tell us when she changes her mind. 

    “The most important thing about my case,” she said, “is that my memories were of alien abductions, and that after spending thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars and years and years and years of research trying to find evidence that alien abductions occurred, the only evidence I found is of human-instigated mind control.” 

    Circumstantial Evidence

    The UFO House of Pensacola Beach serves as an eerie reminder of the Gulf Breeze UFO craze that snowballed into a frenzy.

    Haley cited circumstances such as confirmed mind control operations and Freedom of Information Act documents, substantiating details of such black budget operations, as supporting evidence for her perspectives. Suggesting the general population lacks adequate understandings of relevant issues, such as conditioned behavior and subliminal programming, Haley stated, “Doing my lectures and radio shows I met people all over the country, and most of the alien abductees just accept what's happened at face value. What they remember - to them - is what happened. Very few of us have ever questioned it to the extent that you and I obviously have.” 

    Haley cited U.S. Patent Office documents, demonstrating evolution of electronic technology and non-lethal weapons that correlates with the time line of reports of alien abduction. Advances in technology during the 20th century included using electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) to remotely entrain brain waves, induce altered states of consciousness and transfer an otherwise inaudible voice directly into the brain. Overexposure to EMFs was documented to cause hallucinations, nausea, short term amnesia (missing time) and reddened skin, circumstances which became staples of abductee testimonies. 

    Haley has claimed to have been interrogated and tortured by military personnel, but do not expect her to name alleged perpetrators. Though much speculation has circulated about Haley's alleged abusers, she is well aware she cannot prove accusations and therefore chooses to withhold public comment on identities. 

    She also claimed to have been approached repeatedly by mysterious people interested in her experiences, and on at least one occasion such a person apparently claimed to be acting on behalf of intelligence officials. Haley believed she confirmed the claim to a reasonable extent.

    Marc Davenport

    Haley met Marc Davenport at the 1993 Ozark UFO Conference. He attended her lecture and approached her afterword, finding her presentation of interest. Like Haley, Davenport was a researcher, author and speaker.

    The two discovered many mutual interests. They eventually married and plunged ever deeper into the world of ufology. The duo spent extended periods of time conducting research and presenting their work through Greenleaf Publications, a corporation founded by Haley in 1992 and subsequently jointly operated by the couple. It was with Davenport's help as a researcher and support as a friend that Haley dissected the world of military intelligence and black budget research projects.

    She explained, “It was like a progression with me until I finally came to the conclusion that everything with me was human-instigated. That's where the evidence pointed. I didn't find any concrete evidence - no absolute concrete evidence - of aliens, but plenty of evidence of human intervention.”

    Such evidence included two events reportedly occurring the morning of June 16, 2000. Haley experienced abduction-like visions, non-ordinary states of consciousness and the sensation of hearing voices in her head. Haley was home alone during the second episode, which also included paralysis. Davenport returned unexpectedly, observing a helicopter hovering within 100 feet of their house. The helicopter soon departed, leaving Davenport to find Haley ill and disoriented inside the home.

    It was therefore not only Davenport's help as a colleague, but also his experience as a direct witness, that assisted Haley in re-evaluating her experiences. Davenport continued to report on mind control and non-lethal weapons. 

    In 2005 Davenport was diagnosed with what Haley called an unusual form of cancer. He lost his life to what proved to be the painful and disabling illness. 

    Does Haley think Davenport's cancer was intentionally induced? “I will go to my grave believing so,” she said. 

    Carpenter Affair


    Haley's experiences included missing time, disturbing body markings and a retrieved possible implant, in addition to interactions with mysterious strangers and military personnel. Her search for answers included regressive hypnosis sessions conducted by John Carpenter, a mental health counselor who served as the MUFON director of abduction research during the early 1990's. For what is in all likelihood a variety of reasons, Haley's mental imagery during the sessions included implications of aliens and emotional trauma.

    Carpenter conducted some 14 regressive hypnosis sessions with Haley, encouraging her to accept alien abduction, before selling her case file. In what became known as the Carpenter Affair, Carpenter betrayed 140 clients and alleged alien abductees when he accepted $14,000 for their case files. The purchaser was Robert Bigelow, whose activities and associates never stray far from controversy. Non-lethal weapons expert and consultant to the CIA, Colonel John B. Alexander, was termed a science advisor to Bigelow at the time.

    When asked how she now feels about Carpenter, Haley took a long breath and exhaled deliberately. She replied that she thinks Carpenter was “manipulated” into his actions, but that does not mean she completely absolves him of all responsibility.

    Haley explained it was very distressing when the names of Carpenter's clients were briefly posted on the Internet. Literally over night, anonymity was lost, family members were outed and similar such situations befell those who sought support and were assured confidentiality by Carpenter and MUFON. Haley remains uncertain exactly who was responsible for originally posting the client names on the Internet. 

    Haley said most of the 140 probably never knew Carpenter sold their files to Bigelow. About a dozen of them were aware of it and convinced Haley “to join them in the lawsuit that turned out to go nowhere,” she explained with frustration.

    Would she rather not discuss the Carpenter Affair? “I don't mind talking about it,” she said. “It's just that the statute of limitations expired.”

    “We had a clear cut case,” she continued. “The first attorneys said, 'There are no doubts.'”

    Haley explained the attorneys initially met with the plaintiffs, assuring them testimony and evidence, which they had, was all they needed. However, the first group of attorneys later turned over the case to a second group, and lines of communication declined to a non-functional mess. Haley felt certain the lawsuit fell through the cracks “because of threats.” 

    In a bit softer and more despondent voice, Haley concluded, “There's not anything that can be done about it. That whole group just got away with it.”

    Matters of Compassion and Responsibility

    Haley long since stopped fearing public criticism. Such criticism is inevitable when revising opinions destined to be as unpopular as in the case of suggesting there are no aliens in alien abduction. Rather than buckle to peer pressure, Haley appeared willing to draw on her experience as a relatively public figure - and her resulting thick skin - to set examples of honesty and realism by publicly acknowledging perspectives are simply bound to change as more information becomes available. 

    The sun sets on the waterfront in downtown Pensacola where crowds of eager skywatchers once gathered regularly.

    Haley considered sharing her story to be matters of compassion and responsibility. “It disturbs me greatly that there are people who are still being victimized by that system,” she commented. 

    Perhaps it is ultimately Haley's ability to successfully navigate the no-nonsense world of accounting that enabled her to painstakingly re-evaluate everything she thought she knew about alien abduction and her experiences. Maybe it was a genuine desire to seek truth. I really cannot say for sure, but Haley's message is certainly clear enough: A check and balance of facts versus belief systems reveals alien abduction dogma does not properly add up, particularly in her specific case.

    Haley said she periodically distanced herself from ufology and her past but kept getting “drawn back in.” She explained she was most recently drawn back in by me and what she found to be my interest in black budget operations and her case. I thanked her for her willingness to interact with me, then asked what was most important to her to ultimately accomplish.

    Without hesitation, Leah Haley leaned back in her chair, looked skyward and replied with animated emphasis, "I want mind control and other invasive experiments on unwitting U.S. citizens to be stopped. And I want the mind control perpetrators brought to justice!"

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    Review of The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community

    Review of The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community

    I’ve been intending to review Jack Brewer’s book, The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community, for some time now. I’ve linked to some of Jack’s research posted on his blog The UFO Trail before. Jack has devoted considerable effort into tracking the connections between what passes for alien abductions and documented, historical mind control programs run under the auspices of U. S. agencies since the Cold War began. Those connections are not coincidental. Whereas Jack’s blog gives readers glimpses into the tangled web that results from the intersection of the high strangeness of alien abduction reports and things like MK-ULTRA, his book delivers the motherlode and — most importantly — citations and links to the available documentation.

    If you can’t already tell, I consider this book a must-read for anyone interested in the alien abduction phenomenon. Most readers of my material will know my view of what people experience in this regard. I don’t think it has anything to do with extraterrestrials. While I leave room for certain cases that sound a lot like genuine demonization or possession, I think most of what passes for alien abduction is either natural brain function (e.g., sleep paralysis) or very human (and very sinister) intentional abuse of people. Jack’s book chronicles the latter, providing the paper trails that lead to people, events, clandestine agendas, psychological techniques, and drugs and other “technologies” for inducing such experiences and manipulating victims. And the data for all that aren’t new.

    His book goes even further in that he documents how the abuse extends to defending the extraterrestrial narrative for what experiencers report when they seek help. This doesn’t mean, of course, that the same people behind inducing experiences are the ones intentionally furthering an extraterrestrial explanation. The latter typically occurs in the office or correspondence of a therapist or researcher already convinced that the abductions are part of an alien agenda. One would hope that the factual documentation offered in this book would persuade any reader to look elsewhere for answers, but I’m not holding my breath. At the very least honesty ought to require researchers to track through Brewer’s sources and demonstrate how they fail to account for something. Sure, that takes work, but it took work to ferret out the data in this book. Is it too much to ask that those who desperately want the abduction experience to prop up an extraterrestrial visitation worldview to do the same sort of work? Frankly, instead of funding and conducting a survey about peoples’ abduction experiences, whose questions are often leading, and whose raw data is apparently off limits to the public, perhaps Edgar Mitchell’s Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) could pay for research into the truckload of material that connects these experiences to sinister human causation? Dear FREE: While trying to validate an experience through a survey, did it ever occur to you that the cause of said experience might not be what you presumed it to be when you wrote the survey? That’s called objectivity.

    I won’t survey every chapter of The Greys Have Been Framed here (there’s just too much significant material), but a few stand out in their importance, at least to my thinking.

    • Chapters 2 (“Hypnosis and Memory”) and 3 (“Go West, Trance States, Go West”) are for anyone who has ever wondered about the accuracy (and even coherence) of memories solicited under hypnosis, and whether there might be some relationship of hypnosis to known mind-control programs. I’ve wondered both, so this chapter and its sources was worth the price of the book. The presumed validity of what hypnosis yields and the notion that it is purely “recovering” memories (instead of something is) are fundamental to the alien abduction phenomenon. Both are far from being assured.
    • Chapters 4 and 5 constitute a two-part treatment of the abduction experience colorfully titled, “The Raping, Murderous, Mind-Reading, Sperm-Collecting, ET Human-Hybrid Baby Snatchers” (Acts One and Two). While the chapters naturally overview what people claim happens to them during an alien abduction, these chapters overview the now-infamous Emma Woods case that has so tarnished the reputation of David Jacobs. Chapter 7’s interview with Dr. Tyler Kokjohn (PhD in Biochemistry) is also focused on thoughts about the Emma Woods case.
    • For those who’d be inclined to trust Budd Hopkins’ work with abductees over that of David Jacobs (with or without the demolition of Jacobs in the wake of the Emma Woods testimony), Chapter 6 will cut off that retreat (“Carol Rainey and the Priests of High Strangeness”). Rainey was the wife of Budd Hopkins and assisted him in his work with abductees. The chapter isn’t filled with whining and ranting about her ex-husband. Instead it recounts her habit of asking simple questions about ethics and method that Hopkins found irritating. Point: anyone who sincerely wants to find truth won’t be threatened by calls for transparency.
    • Chapter 11 (“Betty and Barney go to Montreal”) sheds light on inconsistencies and forgotten details of the mother of all alien abduction cases, that of Betty and Barney Hill. The chapter is a combination of Brewer’s own investigation and the work of Nick Redfern, a well-known UFO researcher who is convinced the Hill case is best explained by its MK-ULTRA connections. Why is Montreal mentioned? You’ll have to read the chapter, but here’s a hint: McGill University.
    • Chapter 13 (“Leah Haley and the 139”) is a shot across the bow not just to abduction research, but ufology in general. It details MUFON complicity (and ineptitude) in regard to what has become known as the Carpenter Affair. The experiences, research, and turnabout (rejection of an ET explanation for abductions) of Leah Haley are part of the chapter. Readers will be intrigued by connections between the Carpenter affair and the emerging panopticon state glimpsed through the case of Edward Snowden.
    • Chapter 14 (“21st Century U.S. Illegal Human Experimentation”) speaks for itself. In simplistic terms, this chapter seeks to connect the modern question of torture (think Abu Ghraib) to 20th century Cold War justification of human experimentation with respect to mind control programming. (One could add things like Project Sunshine as well). I was a little dissatisfied with the analysis here because the threats are somewhat different, but it’s legitimate to say they are similar enough to avoid dismissing points of connection that are real.

    As noted above, the book is highly recommended. I can think of only one potential improvement. Jack’s resources are mostly online. That doesn’t mean the links don’t lead to solid sources. They overwhelmingly do. But the links leave me wondering if he deliberately included only those sources to make access to those sources easy for readers. I’m not sure that Jack had access to major databases that would no doubt provide more material that isn’t available for free online (like scholarly journals). Some of the links do of course lead to journal articles. I just didn’t check every link, so I’m thinking that his case could be made even more compelling.

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    NSA UFO Docs

    National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD
    Documents declassified by the NSA paint an intriguing picture of interest and activities in the UFO community. Please follow along as we cross reference files that explore UFO-related deception and establish the existence of a report on a UFO symposium authored by an NSA assignee in attendance. I'll also explain my efforts to learn more via the Freedom of Information Act. 

    "Surprise or Deceptive Data"


    The January, 1997, Volume 43 of The Skeptics UFO Newsletter is available at The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry website. Its author, the late Philip J. Klass, described a batch of docs released by the NSA due to various efforts, including a lawsuit launched by Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS). I point out the work of Klass because not only did he discuss the docs we're going to explore, but primarily because he speculated about the possible author of some of the NSA material. Klass suspected Tom Deuley, a long time MUFON director and former NSA employee, was "almost certainly" involved in compiling a portion of the information held by the NSA. I bring this up not to be overly conspiratorial, but because I find the chain of events interesting, and I suspect some of you will agree. To try to be clear, please allow me to emphasize it is not news that Deuley was employed by the NSA or that he discussed the UFO community with his employer, but it warrants mention in relation to the following material.


    A declassified doc available on the NSA site is a draft titled, UFO's and the Intelligence Community Blind Spot to Surprise or Deceptive Data. Its author is not disclosed, as is standard policy, and it is undated. However, we know it was obviously composed prior to the info release as described by Klass because he discussed it in the 1997 newsletter, and it is referenced in another NSA doc from the same era. More on that shortly, but let's consider the draft a bit.


    "The implications of the UFO phenomena go far beyond the particular phenomena itself," the 7-page doc begins. It goes on to explain that "surprise attack is such a basic ingredient of military success" because "it is able to rely on a most dependable human blind spot: The inability of most men to objectively process and evaluate highly unusual data and to react to the data in a meaningful way."


    The author then cites celebrated ufologist Dr. Jacques Vallee while establishing the human response to observations of unusual phenomena "is predictable and graphically depictable." The assault of a person's psychological structure is considered, with the emotional impact of the strangeness of a UFO sighting compared to witnessing a brutal murder, and identified as "the same."


    Conditions attributed to trauma are reviewed, including amnesia, and a chart with a "strangeness index" (see right) estimates the likelihood a person will discuss experiences with others in proportion to the perceived extent of peculiarity. It suggests the stranger the incident, the less people the witness will tell, which could also easily be interpreted as the more traumatized and mentally paralyzed they stand to become.

    The first of two redacted sections is apparently an example of how human response to perceived unusual phenomena can be detrimental, particularly from a military perspective, as the author concludes, "It is apparent that we cannot allow such a human flaw to leave us blinded to unusual or surprising material. The example indicates that some people are less affected by strange phenomena than others, though still frightened by it, they remain capable of reporting it with a fair degree of objectivity."


    It might be interesting to know more about the details of that redacted example. The second redacted section is the author's recommendations to solve the challenge.


    Seeking more information about the two redacted sections brings us to another document you've probably heard about or seen around. It's an affidavit of NSA man Eugene F. Yeates in the case of Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. National Security Agency - and there are two affidavits, one public, the other originally classified but later released. Nothing's ever simple in UFO Land.


    Fork in the Road 


    Steven Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, once said about UFOs, "Well, it turns out that the government does have something to hide, but it has nothing to do with extraterrestrials." He may very well be right, and he's certainly correct in at least most cases, yet many of us, Mr. Aftergood included, might find the circumstances quite interesting.


    CAUS sued the NSA in the early 1980's to release its UFO files. This resulted in a chain of events which included the affidavit of Eugene F. Yeates. The long and short of his statements suggest the reasons the NSA desired to selectively withhold information had nothing to do with the UFO community's popular suspicions and collective definition of UFOs. The concerns, Yeates stated, were about national security involving matters of communications intelligence (COMINT) and signals intelligence (SIGINT). 

    Did you notice that fork in the road? Some people always chase aliens, and if there aren't any around, they're not interested. Others always debunk aliens, and if they're convinced they've established there aren't any around, they're not interested anymore either. If, however, you're interested in how the intelligence and UFO communities bump into each other in dark alleys, then thanks for sticking with me and we're well on our way.


    There is a public Yeates affidavit and a formerly classified, now available affidavit. The NSA hosts a copy of the public doc, and The Black Vault provides a copy of thedeclassified doc.


    The formerly classified affidavit contains statements from Yeates on the "Blind Spot" document explored above, including comments on the two sections remaining redacted. Yeates explained:


    This document was discussed in paragraph 20b of my public affidavit. It is entitled UFO's and the Intelligence Community Blind Spot to Surprise or Deceptive Data. In this document, the author discusses what he considers to be a serious shortcoming in the Agency's COMINT interception and reporting procedures -- the inability to respond correctly to surprising information or deliberately deceptive data. He uses the UFO phenomena to illustrate his belief that the inability of the U.S. intelligence community to process this type of unusual data adversely affects U.S. intelligence gathering capabilities. Deletions in this document were made as follows:
    [...]
    (2) Paragraph three of this document uses a signals intelligence operation against [redacted] to illustrate the author's point. This paragraph contains information about SIGINT activities that is currently and properly classified... The material in this paragraph also concerns the organization and operational activities and functions of NSA directed against [redacted]...
    (3) Paragraph four of the memorandum states the conclusions and recommendations of the author. While it talks of the ability of the Agency employees to deal with unusual phenomena it is not responsive to the plaintiff's request regarding UFO or UFO phenomena. In any event, as I stated in my public affidavit (paragraph 20b), the subject matter of that paragraph is exempt from disclosure because it contains the employee's specific recommendations for addressing the problem of responding to surprise material... One specific recommendation suggests an operational approach to solving the problem which reveals NSA activities and is, therefore, exempt from disclosure...

    That sounds pretty interesting and potentially relevant to me. I'd like to know more.

    The formerly classified Yeates affidavit went on to address a document withheld, once again on the grounds it had nothing to do with actual UFO phenomena, but was instead an "account by a person assigned to NSA of his attendance at a UFO symposium":

    In processing the plaintiff's FOIA request, a total of two hundred and thirty-nine documents were located in NSA files. Seventy-nine of these documents originated with other government agencies and have been referred by NSA to those agencies for their direct response to the plaintiff. One document, which I addressed in paragraph 20c of my public affidavit, was erroneously treated as part of the subject matter of plaintiff's FOIA request. It is an account by a person assigned to NSA of his attendance at a UFO symposium and it cannot fairly be said to be a record of the kind sought by the plaintiff.
    The same circumstances described by Yeates, yet this time as he stated in the public affidavit:
    The third non-COMINT document is a memorandum for the record by an NSA assignee that was originally withheld in its entirety... In my review today I have ascertained, however, that this memorandum is neither in whole nor in part responsive to the plaintiff's request. It does not deal with UFOs or the UFO phenomena. Rather, it is a document voluntarily prepared by the assignee to report an incident that occurred during his attendance at a UFO symposium. It is the assignee's personal account of his activities and does not include reference to any UFO sighting or phenomena.
    FOIA

    It is apparently the statements about the UFO symposium that led Philip Klass to be most confident Yeates was referring to Tom Deuley, at least in that particular instance. As Klass explained in his 1997 newsletter, Deuley spoke publicly of discussing his attendance at a UFO conference with his employer, the NSA. Regardless, I identify a number of things of potential interest about the documents. I therefore filed a couple of FOIA requests.

    In the first, I requested that the declassified draft, UFO's and the Intelligence Community Blind Spot to Surprise or Deceptive Data, once again be reviewed with consideration given to releasing the two currently redacted paragraphs. If possible, it might be interesting to know more about the operations, examples and recommendations contained therein and offered by the author. 


    The second FOIA request was to review the feasibility of now releasing the previously withheld report on the UFO symposium. It could be interesting to read, whether or not composed by Deuley, and it is of potential historic value. I've got a few more requests pending to other agencies on different cases and will be sure and pass along any relevant info as it develops. 


    Last but not least, I do not consider myself experienced at wading through declassified docs, identifying the latest declassified version (sometimes a doc will be declassified and "more" declassified repeatedly over time) and similar relevant tricks to know of the FOIA trade. If you're aware of docs and material relevant to the above cases or other topics I write about, a heads up is always welcome.
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    25-01-2017 om 20:31 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO sightings & psychic powers revealed in newly released CIA docs

    There’s no shortage of intrigue amidst the CIA’s newly released archive of nearly 13 million pages of declassified records. Some of the more peculiar revelations detail the handling of UFO sightings and the potential weaponization of psychic powers.

    In this particular document concerning such reporting, a UFO is defined as “any object which, by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features, does not conform to known aircraft or missiles.”

    There are a number of documents relating to sightings in Norway,Spain and North Africa and the former USSR among the millions of pages. While many sightings feature throughout the extensive release, there have been no conclusive findings documented as of yet.

    It seems the CIA was keen to emphasize the importance of rapid but thorough reporting of any such sightings as a matter of national security, listing the four phases of air defense as: detection, identification, interception and destruction. The Unidentified Flying Object Program requires that all US Air Force (USAF) commanders adhere strictly to these guidelines.

    The procedure calls on air force commanders to report all UFO sightings including those received from other agencies, governmental bodies or civilians.

    When reporting a sighting, the document states that the following data points must be specified and explained in as much detail as possible: shape, size, color, number, formation, distinct or unique features, any tail, trail or exhaust, any sounds and any other unusual features not covered by the preceding points.

    READ MORE: ‘Full history’: Secret CIA documents now available online

    The USAF also highlights the three major reasons for taking UFO sightings so seriously: air defense and the elimination of any potential threats to the United States or its armed forces; to determine the technical or scientific characteristics of such UFOs and thus maintain military intelligence and technological dominance; to explain or identify all such instances in order to maintain strategic readiness in all eventualities.

    The CIA had also previously published its own handy set of guidelines for amateur stargazers out there to organize themselves and flood their local air force bases with sighting reports:

    In another bizarre revelation, it’s been revealed that the CIA conducted a series of experiments to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of employing psychic spies to “collect foreign intelligence information against documents shielded from normal perception,” in a project code-named ‘Stargate.’

    These efforts weren’t limited to mere mortals, however, as none other than Israeli-born, celebrity psychic Uri Geller was brought in to test his psychic mettle against the researchers.

    Geller attempted to duplicate a series of drawings produced in a nearby room without any knowledge of the topic or theme of the doodles.

    They ranged from a firecracker to a bunch of grapes and even a quick sketch of our solar system. While Geller did have some surprising success throughout the experiments, the CIA decided not to pursue the research beyond its initial stage.

    If this all sounds familiar, that’s because it is; the 2009 film starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor named ‘The men who stare at goats’ drew heavily from rumors and reports about psychic warfare research conducted by the CIA and other US intelligence agencies.

    While the release of millions of pages of documents may come as exciting news, it should be pointed out that they have been accessible since the year 2000, but only on specific computers housed in National Archives in College Park, Maryland in the United States.

    Source: RT.com

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    25-01-2017 om 18:29 geschreven door peter  

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    Men in Black-The Silencers UFO/Alien Documentary

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    25-01-2017 om 18:21 geschreven door peter  

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    Extraordinary footage shows UFOs ‘sucking up water from oceans around the globe’ via strange funnels of water

    Streams of water have been spotted funnelling up to the heavens
    (Photo: YouTube/SECURETEAM10)

    The unusual footage was recorded by a group of eyewitnesses of the coast of Algeria and is being analysed by UFO experts who see objects in the sky

    UFO experts have been analysing this remarkably clear footage of what looks like a waterspout, after eyewitnesses spotted something floating in the sky near it.

    In the unusual clip, recorded on a mobile phone, a waterspout can be seen shooting out of the water of the coast off Algeria.

    But what has caught the attention of conspiracy theorists, is the craft that is spotted going into a cloud, just before the water starts pouring.

    The witnesses sent the footage to SecureTeam10 , a group of UFO experts, who investigate the footage and share their findings online.

    UFOs Sucking Up Water From Oceans Around The Globe (Photo: YouTube/SECURETEAM10)

    Tyler from SecureTeam explained: “Some of the witnesses that saw this thing, say what to them looked like a UFO had flown up into the clouds, shortly after which we see this waterspout like formation, or what amounts to water being sucked up put of the Mediterranean ocean off the coast of Algeria.”

    He notes there are a “couple of strange things that happen in this footage”.

    He added: “Just before the waterspout dissipates we see a UFO fly out of sight, and this was said by one of the eyewitnesses to be the same UFO that flew up into the clouds just before the water began cyphering up into clouds.”

    Source: Mirror

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    25-01-2017 om 18:15 geschreven door peter  

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    UFOs Over Goodyear Are Not Blimps

    Say the words “UFO” and “Goodyear” together and it brings to mind a famous incident from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. This is not about that. Two witnesses recently reported seeing four lights above the mountains in Goodyear, Arizona. This is not the first UFO sighting of this type in Goodyear either. Are aliens looking for blimps in all the wrong places?

    According to their report on the MUFON website (case # 81684), a woman and her daughter were driving on the night of January 22, 2017, when they saw four solid white/yellow glowing lights in the sky over Goodyear. They described them as being “larger than stars” and detailed how one of them acted independent of the other three, moving around them before returning to the alignment. The witnesses had the presence of mind to record the sighting.

    They also mentioned that “our neighbors also saw them while out driving” and that this has happened before.

    We have seen them before in a dark night sky over the Estrella mountains to the East. They are common in this part of Goodyear. We see them several times a year.

    Estrella! The name conjures up tales of the so-called Estralla lights. Not to be confused with the (here comes the obligatory mention required in all UFO stories centered in Arizona) Phoenix lights, Estrella lights have been seen over these mountains frequently from Goodyear, which is close to them. One string of lights was seen in 2004 and another in 2015.

    Yes, the mountains are located between Luke Air Force Base and its favorite practice target – Barry Goldwater Range. With an ancient Native American history, the mountain range was once part of Mexico and often rumored to be hiding the gold known as Montezuma’s treasure, but it’s never been found.

    Then there’s that name … Goodyear. Until the TR-3 Black Manta is proven to exist, no manmade object has been mistaken for a UFO more often than a Goodyear blimp. Perhaps the most famous confusion came in 2012 when the Summer Olympics-watching world saw a blurred white saucer-shaped object over the Olympics opening ceremony.

    Goodyear finally admitted that it was the “Spirit of Safety” blimp flying over London without the usual “Goodyear” name on it because the company, although it was covering the ceremony for NBC, was not an official sponsor of the 2012 games.

    See how easy it is to get confused? Which brings us back to the Goodyear UFOs of 2017. Could be those pesky Chinese lanterns. Could be military flares. Could be ancient spirits. Could be aliens. Definitely not blimps. The witnesses had an interesting attitude about their sighting.

    We felt excited and in awe, and happy they would reappear so we could get good pictures and videos.

    Whatever it is you think you see in the sky, that’s a nice outlook to have.

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    25-01-2017 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

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    The Night of the Shape Shifting Humanoids (Part 2)

     Greetings, fellow Coppertops! We continue with the chronicling of the Conil close encounter, when a group of 5 local kids witnessed all sorts of otherworldly phenomena at a beach in the coast of Cádiz, which included red-glowing UFOs, orbs of light, a 10-foot-tall levitating giant, and (last but not least) two cloaked entities who transformed themselves into a human-looking couple right in front of them. So strap in, because the high strangeness surrounding this remarkable case is far from over!

    The Debunking

    As we briefly mentioned by the end of part 1, it only took a few days until the incidents occurring on the night of September 29th, 1989 became a matter of public knowledge. After El Diario de Cádiz ran a story about the case on October 5th, members of the Spanish Group of UFO Investigations (GEIFO in the Spanish acronym), a skeptically-oriented organization, visited Conil de la Frontera to conduct a field research and interview the witnesses; they asked the same local newspaper to publish their findings, which it did on October 16th.

    Cover of El Diario de Cádiz from October 16th, 1989, running the debunking explanation by the GEIFO group

    The conclusion by GEIFO’s researchers? The whole episode had been nothing but a big misidentification caused by over-excited imagination. The red UFO observed by the group of local boys and girls for the past couple of weeks —“as big as the moon” according to their testimony– had actually been a British ship in charge of laying down underwater cable for the Telefónica phone company in that area, which was near the coast of Conil during the night in question according to their findings, and used ‘light signals’ to coordinate the work with ground personnel. The ‘aliens’, according to the skeptics, were two crew members of said vessel wearing scuba-diving equipment and covering themselves with blankets or towels, and the ‘white cloud’ they had observed coming down from the sea, was nothing but the wake left by a Zodiac boat they divers had used to reach the beach. Case closed, Scooby Doo!

    “But wait!” you may be asking, “what about the trench the ‘divers’ dug out in the sand? What about the blue light they passed around each other while they were lying down on it? What about the TEN-FOOT-TALL GIANT which appeared after the couple walked to the town (leaving their ‘towels’ AND all their equipment behind?)?”

    GEIFO’s answers to all these questions –and the way they left other questions unanswered– seem to be more incredible than the testimony of the witnesses itself: The trench was built by the divers because they wanted to ‘remove their gear in privacy’ –you know, instead of doing it much more easily onboard the British ship or the Zodiac?– or maybe because after a hard night’s work laying out cable, they wanted to spend a few hours under the Cádiz’s fair weather doing *ahem* ‘other things’ *wink wink*. The ‘orb’ they had on their hands was a mere torchlight, and the black-suited giant was another diver, possibly in charge to pilot the Zodiac boat (!)

    So, in the eyes of the ‘scientifically-oriented’ investigators –the ones who think any sort of explanation, no matter how tenuous or downright improbable, is always better than entertaining the possibility of a truly anomalous event– the 5 Conil witnesses rather than being UFO hoaxers seeking publicity, were just a bunch of gullible idiots. I’ll leave you Coppertops to decide which is more insulting…

    The Counter-Debunking

    Juan José Benítez: Reporter, UFO investigator, author and globetrotter

    5 months after GEIFO’s report had ‘satisfactorily’ solved the case –and quite possibly subjected the 5 witnesses to all sorts of ridicule in the process– investigator Juan José Benítez visited Conil to make a research of his own. Benítez is one of the most famous UFO hunters in Spain and has been instrumental in coaxing his government to declassify a good number of cases which were investigated by the Spanish Air Force. He has also traveled thousands of miles all across the globe to conduct field investigations and interview hundreds of witnesses, most of them humble townsfolk living in remote villages, who had never shared their testimony outside their circle of friends and family. He is a bestselling author not only in his home country but in all of Latin America, and it was in 1990 when he described his involvement on the Conil case in his book La Quinta Columna.

    Benítez’s approach to put GEIFO’s theory to the test was simple and straightforward: The skeptics’ main argument was that the UFO observed by the witnesses had been one of two British vessels laying down underwater cable –this despite the boys’ insistence that during the night in question there was NO ship or boat on sight.

    Benítez did corroborate the existence of two oceanographic ships, the British Enterprise Two and the C.S. Monarch, which had been hired by a Spanish subcontractor to conduct work for the Telefónica phone company. According to GEIFO, the Monarch had been the one near the coast on the night of September 29th; yet their first mistake was in stating the ship was laying down the cable, whereas in fact they were conducting preliminary prospecting of the littoral.

    It took some hard work, but in the end Benítez managed to uncover 3 important pieces of the puzzle:

    • When the Monarch started working in the area (September 18) its position was 60 miles away from the coast, which was too far to have been able to be spotted from the beach (not to mention the witnesses started to observe the red UFO on the night of September 14th).
    • On the night of September 29th the meteorological report indicated the weather conditions were inadequate for any medium-to-large ship to even approach the coast, due to the strong winds winds mixed with the low tide and the littoral currents.
    • But the coup’ de grace came when Benítez was able to contact captain, J. A. B. Simkins –Chairman and Chief Executive of BT Marine, the oceanographic fleet which owned the Monarch– who on July of 1990 wrote him a letter stating the approximate position of their vessel during the night in question (36º 23′ N, 06º 44′ W), placing it 30 miles away from the Bateles beach. Consider how during the best viewing conditions, the horizon line on the sea only extends 8 miles.

    And if that is not enough, here’s a link to Benítez’s own web page describing the Conil case, where if you scroll down you can find a scanned copy of Simkins’ letter. In it one can read the final nail in GEIFO’s coffin:

    [During our operation] (W)e would not have employed frogmen.

    Check. And mate.

    As an aside note, Benítez also managed to discover (according to an article written by Bruno Cardeñosa published by the magazine Año Cero in 1996) that around the time of the incidents two individuals bearing the characteristics of the ‘changeling’ couple were lodging on a small guest house in Conil around the days of the encounter; these ‘tourists’ registered themselves using the passports of German citizens who, supposedly, hadn’t abandoned their country in those days –unfortunately, La Quinta Columna doesn’t mention this detail, nor can further information be found in Benítez’s website.

    But wait, there’s more! Benítez also uncovered another interesting part to this mystery: On the nights from Sept 27th to Sept 30th, the military radar station located in Algeciras (Cádiz) suffered an inexplicable malfunction, which rendered the whole Conil area ‘dark’ during the period in which the alleged UFO activity and close encounter took place. Coincidence, or did someone (or something) was trying to avoid detection?

    Benítez’s detective job showed GEIFO’s main argument failed to convincingly explain the events that took place at Conil. But although it proved the UFO was not a British oceanographic ship, and the humanoids were not British scuba divers, it can’t unfortunately substantiate the testimony of the witnesses and what they claimed they saw.

    Corroboration to their fantastic story did take place, though; albeit indirectly and in the typical inconclusive manner in which the phenomenon tends to conduct itself…

    The Return

    How many UFO hunters, I wonder, feel as if they are doomed to always remain 2 steps behind their ‘prey’? Always trying to document cases, interview witnesses and collect whatever evidence remains AFTER the objects and their occupants take off or leave the area; but never having the chance, just for once, of actually be able to witness the high strangeness with their own eyes.

    Well, for local UFO hunter Jesús Borrego López that was about to change when he decided to travel to Conil in search for more answers on October 15th. A police officer of 44 years old assigned to the Security and Control office of the Cádiz town hall, Borrego López easily managed to locate four of the witnesses (Loli, Isabel and the two Pedros) who politely accepted to answer his questions.

    Once they finished talking at one of the witnesses’ home, the researcher asked them to accompany him to the Bateles beach, which they accepted even though it was already late at night. Once Borrego López was satisfied with his field survey, he invited the group of boys and girls to a local bar for a refreshment, where they remained lively discussing the incident.

    It was around 10:35 pm when the group instantly fell silent, because they had all taken notice of a strange couple crossing in front of them toward the sea. Borrego López was the first to say “have you noticed the forehead of that man?”

    The youngsters said nothing and kept looking at the odd individual and each other in total amazement. Borrego López insisted: “look at his height! He measures 2 meters tall, easily!”

    The boys finally dared to open their mouth, confirming that was indeed the same ‘man’ and ‘woman’ they had observed leaving the Bateles beach after their ‘transformation’ inside the ‘sand trench’.

    The male with the prominent cranium was walking 2 steps ahead of his female partner. Like the witnesses had described in their original testimony, he had long blond hair reaching up to his shoulders, and was wearing a denim attire which looked somewhat worn out and tightly fit. The woman was way above regular height (1.90 meters) and wore similar clothes as her less-conspicuous companion.

    Borrego López and Pedro Sánchez quickly got up the table and left two of the witnesses behind, with the clear intention of intersecting the couple who were ahead of them by at least 150 meters.

    “Visibility was perfect,” Borrego López reported later to Benítez, “despite the fact the streetlights at the marine promenade were turned off  (according to town hall’s regulations). But the night was very clear. There was a full moon and also low clouds reflecting the town’s illumination and lunar light over the sea.”

    La Quinta Columna (The Fifth Column). The book where Benítez narrates (among many other encounter reports) the events surrounding the Conil case

    Yet despite these optimal viewing conditions, and the fact the two UFO hunter and his young sidekick were keeping pace with the odd couple, the individuals suddenly vanished in front of Borrego López and Pedro’s very eyes. Bewildered, the two chasers looked in all directions, but their pursuants were nowhere to be found.

    The unexpected disappearance raised goosebumps on both Pedro and the seasoned researcher, who had now become another witness of this incredible case. But the surprises were not over: When they both looked toward the east they noticed what looked like a ‘black dot’ the size of a soccer ball approaching rapidly from the sea shore.

    Meanwhile the two other kids they had left at the bar joined them in time to observe the dark ‘ball’ which kept moving toward them at a preternatural speed. As it got nearer, the witnesses saw how its shape started to change; its trajectory became more erratic, at times looking as if it was floating above the ground, and at others as if it was being ‘yanked’ or ‘dragged’ by an invisible force.

    The group continued to observe the mesmerizing vision, until they finally realized the incoming dark mass was actually a human figure; though its legs were moving so fast they were a mere blur.

    When the ‘sprinter’ was just 60 meters away from the witnesses, it stopped. It was a woman! She was standing in front of the group very close to the water age, and without any warning she removed the upper portion of her clothes to reveal her female curves, and started walking toward the Roche cape, faraway in the west. And when she had put some distance between herself and the astonished group, these observed yet another figure who joined her and watched the two individuals lose themselves in the night.

    According to their later calculations given the apparent size of the figure from their position, the strange female had managed to traverse a distance of 4 kilometers in around 45 seconds; something impossible to achieve even with a land vehicle. Not to mention the woman didn’t raise a tremendous wake of sand while racing through the beach, nor even make any discernible noise.

    Had that been the same man and woman Borrego López and Pedro had tried to pursue? Or were they an additional element to this absurd stage play, intended to distract the witnesses the same way the ten-foot-tall giant had done on the night of September 29th, when it showed itself floating inches above the ground while the couple of changelings were making their move toward the anonymity of the Conil streets?

    Whatever the case, the only thing Borrego López could do was analyze the footprints left by the (original) couple before they vanished. While the tracks made by the woman were very light and faintly discernible, the man’s were very profound; so much so that Borrego López estimated the individual had to weigh more than 100 kilograms. The size and shape were consistent with the ones found by the youngsters on the night of the 29th, not only in their unusual shape and monstrous size, but also due to the fact the researcher found tracks hinting how whomever made them, had been apparently making strange swirls as if going in circles –movements unobserved by neither Borrego López nor Pedro, the same way the original witnesses had watched the couple walk straight toward the town, yet they later found a great number of large footprints going in different directions.

    After the ‘circles´, only one set of footprints was detectable… and it went straight into the water.

    It was close to midnight when Borrego López confirmed there were no more tracks to be found in a 100-meter radius, and with that he was ready to call it a night. While he was advising his young acquaintances not to reveal to anyone what had transpired that night, Pedro suddenly yelled “here they come!”. Sure enough, the enigmatic couple was making yet another uncalled-for appearance right in front of the witnesses. One of the boys was (finally!) carrying a super-8 film camera and began recording the seemingly hurried movements of the couple as they passed by.

    The man looked straight into Borrego López’s with cold, unfriendly eyes. His face was very pale. The woman on the other hand was stunningly beautiful, and she seemed to have somewhat oriental features, with her eyes slanted slightly at the edges and glimpsing at the gathering of witnesses with an expression of animosity or nervousness. The seasoned UFO hunter noticed both their clothes were completely dry, which ran counter to the evidence of the tracks heading into the sea.

    The witnesses never dared to address the couple. They just kept staring at them until, for the second time, they reached the streets of Conil and were lost out of sight. They didn’t return that night, nor any other subsequent night.

    When they revealed the Super-8 film, nothing appeared on screen. ‘Convenient’ would say the hardcore skeptic; ‘customary’ would reply the experienced Fortean, who knows fully well these sort of things happen all the time.

    The Epilogue

    Our tale has basically come to an end, which doesn’t mean the UFO activity in the area fully ceased; Benítez reveals other interesting incidents near Conil during that time of 1989 in his book La Quinta Columna –including the observation of another giant being by a local artisan on the morning on September 22nd. Further confirming the supposition made by few people in the UFO field –including yours truly– that high strangeness events almost never happen in isolation; rather, it seems the ‘energy’ conducing to these  manifestations slowly increases, until a final dramatic ‘crisis’ unfolds.

    And if someone needs further confirmation that the year 1989 was exceptionally ‘charged’ with high strangeness, we but need to remind our dear Coppertops of another remarkable close encounter report, which happened just two days before the Conil case: I’m talking of course about the landing in the Russian city of Voronezh, where children and other witnesses interacted with giant humanoids and robotic entities.

    Which begs the question: Why does the phenomenon chooses to manifest so prominently in places like Voronezh, or in Conil de la Frontera?

    The Conclusion

    In the comic book world, the Marvels mini-series created by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross holds a prominent place because it managed to show all the familiar stories of the Marvel super-heroes from a fresh new perspective: That of the human bystanders, who are forced to observe their actions and epic battles of these god-like beings from a safe distance, not fully understanding their motives or even what’s really going on.

    When I think of the Conil case, I feel it is a similar situation. Because this amazing story is far more suggestive by what it doesn’t reveal, than by what it actually does. The testimony of the main witnesses feels like broken pieces of a larger puzzle, hinting to a bigger tapestry of events that took place covertly in that placid beach town of Cádiz, which we will probably never fully understand.

    Comparing Conil with a comic book story may look like a cheap literary trick on my behalf, yet it you think about it there are MANY aspects of this close encounter that seem almost plucked out of a pulp novel or a Sci-Fi B-movie. Forget about the grotesque appearance of the male ‘changeling’, which we already equated to that of the extraterrestrial invaders in This Island Earth (1955) or how the ten-foot-tall giant is slightly reminiscent of Gort in the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) –at least in the sense of how it seems to serve as a ‘protector’ of the couple, by distracting the attention of the witnesses away from them. Consider also how there’s this strong link between the humanoids’ ability to transform themselves into a human form, and the ability of the extraterrestrial visitor portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the 1984 movie Starman to do the same thing –and do you remember the main form of ‘technology’ shown by this alien? That’s right: small metallic spheres which glowed with a blue light. Sound familiar?

    Make no mistake, my dear Coppertops: Those who read the previous paragraph as an attempt to shoot down the case on my part, should do well to grab a copy of Jeffrey Kripal’s book Mutants & Mystics. Kripal is a scholar of comparative religious studies at Rice University, and rather than being skeptic on the subject of UFOs and paranormal phenomena –his last book was co-authored with Whitley Strieber– he points out there’s an undeniable ‘cross-pollination’ between these type of events and the pop culture we consume in our literature, television and films; to the point that trying to play ‘chicken-and-the-egg’ between fantasy tales and paranormal cases becomes a rather tricky proposition…

    Because the truth of the matter is that stories of paranormal agencies infiltrating our world in human guise have existed way before the existence of Sci-Fi movies, or even cinematography. In fact, such folklore goes back centuries –if not millennia– into the dawn of Time. Oxford scholar W.Y. Evans-Wentz managed to gather the remnants of the belief in the Fey folk in his seminal book The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (1911), and talked to a lot of honest, hard-working country folk who still believed –or had actually interacted– with these elusive beings who from time to time chose to meddle in the affairs of men:

    They are able to appear in different forms. One once appeared to me, and seemed only four feet high, and stoutly built. He said “I am bigger than I appear to you know. We can make the old young, the big small, the small big.

    The Celtic peasants also believed lakes and bodies of water acted as ‘bridges’ or conduits in which the transmutation from the human to the fairy state took place. But if that is the case… couldn’t the OPPOSITE be also possible? Could water be a medium by which liminal beings could get entrance into our world? Both Evans-Wentz and Guillermo Del Toro would probably concur…

    When you boil them down to their bare essence, and you stop the bickering caused by either trying to validate or debunk a given case, the true main difference between fictional stories and factual close encounters is that Fiction HAS TO MAKE SENSE. A novel or movie plot needs to have a core of consistency in order to make all the elements fall into place.

    Finding sense in the events that took place in Conil on the night of September 29th is practically impossible: If what Juan José Benítez reveals in La Quinta Columna concerning the military radar station which remained inoperable during those days is true, then it would hint the beings making their appearance at the Bateles Beach wanted to perform their infiltration activities covertly, away from the eyes of the Spanish government; yet if that is the case, then WHY choose a tourist town, instead of a more remote location? WHY suffer the presence of pesky human interlopers near them? WHY was Pedro González the only one in the group who could see the giant at first? WHY perform their shape-shifting spectacle lying down on a beach, instead of the safety of their own ‘craft’ (if that is what the ‘red moon’ observed by the witnesses was)? WHY the imperfect transformation, which still rendered the male with such abnormal-looking facial features? WHY the incapacity to cover the unusual shape and size of their tracks?

    …And WHY O WHY the need to reappear in front of the witnesses not once, but twice??

    These are just a few of the open questions left by the Conil case. How one chooses to approach them tells more about one’s personal opinion about the UFO phenomenon, than about what really happened on that fateful night. In a polarizing world demanding to view things as either ‘black’ or ‘white’, I personally feel this case was always meant to remain ‘gray’. I consider the actions allegedly performed by the entities manifesting at Conil de la Frontera as *deliberately* absurd; like a well-crafted act enacted for the benefit of the young witnesses, who also had a part to perform in this play, even if they didn’t know it or were capable or comprehend it. The high strangeness of this encounter is both equally suggestive of non-human intervention, while at the same time being sufficiently devoid of enough concrete evidence so that almost 30 years after the story broke, it sadly remains scarcely known outside the Spanish-speaking UFO community.

    “We want you to believe in us,” said one of the UFOnauts who abducted patrolman Herbert Schirmer in 1967, “… but not too much.” If the tall blond who left those inhuman footprints on the Bateles beach had ever opened his mouth and talked to the witnesses, he might have said similar words. Just as it was in 1989, his cold eyes remain an open question hinting at answers that could be not just incomprehensible… but also deeply unsettling.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Scientists Sustain Microbes in Simulated Martian Atmosphere

    Scientists Sustain Microbes in Simulated Martian Atmosphere

    Since the 17th century, scientists and astronomers have searched for clues of life on Mars through every method available to them. While the search for Martian life began by peering through telescopes, we now have the ability to send autonomous robotic rovers to the Martian surface to dig through the soil by hand. Creepy robotic hand, that is.

    That's some nice soil you got there. It'd be a shame if someone, I don't know, roved all over it.

    That’s some nice soil you got there. It’d be a shame if someone roved all over it.

    While concrete evidence of life on Mars has yet to be found, there have been some recent promising developments. Evidence of flowing water on Mars, including a massive underground frozen lake, has been found which gives some hope to the theory that where there is water, there is likely life. However, scientists are still uncertain if the geological and atmospheric conditions of the planet are hospitable for any forms of life. Just last year, however, a team of Dutch scientists found that Martian soil – the most abundant resource on the barren planet – is capable of sustaining plant life.

    Lead author Rebecca Mickol, left, poses with her Martian pressure chamber.

    Lead author Rebecca Mickol, left, poses with her Martian pressure chamber.

    Now, more promisingly, a new research project at the NASA-funded University of Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences have found that Mars could indeed have the necessary conditions to sustain certain microbial life forms. The study resolved one of the most enduring questions surrounding life on Mars: whether or not any life could withstand the low Martian atmospheric pressure. To test this question, researchers placed four separate species of methanogens – microbes which survive on ambient hydrogen and carbon dioxide – into a hypobaric chamber which simulated conditions on Mars. According to the published data, the microbes survived for days, meaning they could hypothetically survive the Martian climate:

    The study reported here tested the survivability of four methanogen species under low pressure conditions approaching average martian surface pressure (6 mbar – 143 mbar) in an aqueous environment. Each of the four species survived exposure of varying length (3 days – 21 days) at pressures down to 6 mbar.

    The Martian atmosphere pressure ranges anywhere from one-hundredth to one-thousandth of Earth’s. Water does not easily stay liquid at pressures so low, which could be one reason why liquid water has yet to be found on the Red Planet. Despite the lack of water, this research shows that life could exist in places we haven’t examined yet, such as deep below the Martian surface. 

    The methanogens survived for several days. If there are microbes on Mars, they are likely more adapted to the environment than Earthly microbes.

    The methanogens survived for several days. If there are microbes on Mars, they are likely more adapted to the environment than puny Earth microbes.

    In a NASA press release, lead researcher Rebecca Mickol stated that while this study gives researchers hope in the search for life on Mars,  more testing is of course needed before any firm conclusions can be drawn:

    These experiments show that for some species, low pressure may not really have any effect on the survival of the organism. The next step is to also include temperature.

    Temperatures on Mars fall far below temperatures found on Earth, meaning any potential life on Mars would have to survive an extremely inhospitable environment. However, given that microbial life has been found in some of the most inhospitable depths of our own planet, it’s not an impossibility that life might indeed be somewhere on Mars.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The inflatable Cycler spacecraft concept that could take tourists to the moon in just TWO days - but it will cost you £8 million

    The inflatable Cycler spacecraft concept that could take tourists to the moon in just TWO days - but it will cost you £8 million

    • Cycler is based on technology used by various space firms including SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace
    • The main body of the craft is made up of three inflatable capsules that could each carry 12 passengers
    • A long tail behind would carry space cargo hold, used to secure cargo brought to orbit by rockets 

    We may be able to holiday on the moon within the next decade, experts claim. 

    Now, one designed has created a novel spacecraft concept that he claims would someday ferry tourists, supplies and equipment to the lunar surface within two days - as long as you have $10 million (£8 million) to spare. 

    The concept, dubbed Cycler, is based on technology available today, and could even take people to asteroids and Mars once its reliability and safety are proven.

    If you're desperate to explore the solar system beyond our planet, there's good news – a novel spacecraft concept could soon let you go to the moon. The Cycler is a novel spacecraft that could ferry people, supplies and equipment to the lunar surface

    If you're desperate to explore the solar system beyond our planet, there's good news – a novel spacecraft concept could soon let you go to the moon. The Cycler is a novel spacecraft that could ferry people, supplies and equipment to the lunar surface

    THE CYCLER

    -  Main part is made up of three inflatable space wagons

    - Each wagon would be manned by four astronauts and could transport 12 passengers

    - Each wagon would have two modules to be used as command centres and emergency escape vehicles

    - A tail behind the main module would serve as space cargo hold

    - The Cycler will leave Earth at 40,000km/hr (25,000 mph) before slowing to an orbital speed of 8,000km/hr  (5,000 mph)

    - A master rocket at one end of the spacecraft would control most of the movements, while smaller rocket thrusters would control the direction

    The Cycler is the brainchild of Montreal-based Charles Bombardier of Imaginactive, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to 'inspire future generations to create the future of mobility'.

    Mr Bombardier said: 'I believe that a spacecraft like the Cycler could serve as a modular prototype to test multiple technologies assembled together and demonstrate on a small scale that this vision can be accomplished.

    'It would also become a way to 'kickstart' the space tourism industry and develop space travel.'

    The spacecraft concept is designed using technology from several other space firms, including Bigelow Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, and SpaceX.

    Its main body would be comprised of Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable B330 modules, which would be linked together to form a series of three space wagons.

    Each wagon would be manned by four astronauts and would each be capable of transporting up to 12 passengers, who would probably be space tourists going on the six-day trip around the moon.

    On each wagon there would be two modules based on the SpaceX Dragon, which would serve as both command centres, radiation safe havens, and emergency escape vehicles.

    The main part of The Cycler would be Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable B330 modules, which would be linked together to form a series of three space wagons. Each wagon would be manned by four astronauts and would each be capable of transporting up to 12 passengers, most of whom would probably be space tourists going on the six-day trip around the moon

    The main part of The Cycler would be Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable B330 modules, which would be linked together to form a series of three space wagons. Each wagon would be manned by four astronauts and would each be capable of transporting up to 12 passengers, most of whom would probably be space tourists going on the six-day trip around the moon

    Forming a 'tail' behind the three B3330s there would be a 100 foot (30.5 metre) long space cargo hold, used to secure cargo brought to orbit by rockets

    Forming a 'tail' behind the three B3330s there would be a 100 foot (30.5 metre) long space cargo hold, used to secure cargo brought to orbit by rockets

    The spacecraft concept is designed using technology from several other space firms, including Bigelow Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, and SpaceX. Pictured are Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable B330 modules

    The spacecraft concept is designed using technology from several other space firms, including Bigelow Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, and SpaceX. Pictured are Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable B330 modules

    The first B330 could be used as private sleeping quarters for the passengers, while the middle module could be used for daily activities, as a viewing lounge, and a dining area.

    The third one would serve as storage and the crew's sleeping quarters.

    Forming a 'tail' behind the three B3330s there would be a 100 foot (30.5 metre) long space cargo hold, used to secure cargo brought to orbit by rockets.

    When the Cycler leaves Earth, it will be going at an astounding 40,000 km/hour (25,000 mph), before slowing down to a constant orbital speed of 8,000 km/hour (5,000 mph) after leaving Earth's atmosphere.

    This means the spacecraft would need approximately two days to travel to the moon.

    A master rocket at one end of the spacecraft would control most of the movements, while smaller rocket thrusters would control the direction of the Cycler.

    To land material on the moon, a lunar landing vehicle equipped with new 'Xaxxon' rockets could be designed and built by Masten Space Systems.

    YOU COULD BOOK A HOLIDAY ON THE MOON BY 2026 

    Within the next ten years, the word 'honeymoon' might start to live up to its name.

    Newly-wed couples could celebrate their love with a trip to our satellite, according to the founder of a a space exploration company called Moon Express.

    The company wants to team up with Elon Musk's SpaceX to get humans there.

    Naveen Jain, the founder of Moon Express, has said his start-up is willing to work with Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, in a recent interview.

    'It's very complimentary as a matter of fact…Elon will build the rocket and we do the rover. 'Essentially, he lays the cables and we do the last mile,' Mr Jain told CNBC in an interview in Helsinki, Finland.

    Moon Express hopes to mine our satellite for materials like platinum-group metals, rare earth metals, helium-3 and moon rocks.

    But it now seems the company also wants to be a part of getting humans to the moon. Mr Jain said within the next ten years, the cost of going to the moon could become as cheap as $10,000 (£7,921). 

    The SpaceX Dragon
    The Masten Space Systems Xaero rocket

    The spacecraft also takes inspiration from SpaceX and Masten Space Systems. Pictured left is the SpaceX Dragon, which would serve as both command centres, radiation safe havens, and emergency escape vehicles, and pictured right is the Xaero rocket by Masten Space Systems, which would inspire the 'Xaxxon' rocket on the Cycler

    This vehicle's purpose would be to meet with the Cycler, pick up cargo ejected during a lunar fly-by, and land it safely on the moon's surface using rocket landers.

    But a trip to the moon wouldn't be cheap. 

    When asked how much a six-day trip would cost, Mr Bombardier told MailOnline: 'That is one tricky question. 

    'Probably between $5 million - $10 million (£4 million - £8 million). So it will definitely be for ultra wealthy individuals.

    'However it would be a good way to create jobs and develop the space industry because with volume the price will go down and most probably entrepreneurs will find more affordable ways to go into space over time.' 

    When the Cycler leaves Earth, it will be going at an astounding 40,000 km/hour (25,000 mph), before slowing down to a constant orbital speed of 8,000 km/hour (5,000mph) after leaving Earth's atmosphere. This means the spacecraft would need approximately two days to travel to the moon

    When the Cycler leaves Earth, it will be going at an astounding 40,000 km/hour (25,000 mph), before slowing down to a constant orbital speed of 8,000 km/hour (5,000mph) after leaving Earth's atmosphere. This means the spacecraft would need approximately two days to travel to the moon

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Here's the Declassified Protocol for Reporting UFO Sightings
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    Here's the Declassified Protocol for Reporting UFO Sightings

    The U.S. Air Force protocol for UFO sightings from 1958 has finally been declassified.

    On Tuesday, a large collection of about 930,000 CIA documents were made available online, including a file on UFOs. This file gives us insight on what steps the Air Force would take if a UFO was spotted.

    Officially, a UFO was defined as “any airborne object which, by performance, aerodynamic characteristics or unusual features, does not conform to known aircraft or missiles.”

    So let’s say it’s 1958, and you’re in the Air Force, and you spot a UFO zipping through the air. First thing’s first — you’d report all information and evidence of the sighting to your commanding officer, who would forward it to necessary personnel. Next, the Air Force would conduct a follow-up investigation on it. Then they would analyze the information and evidence from these sightings. Finally, they would release information on UFO sightings to the public and answer congressional inquiries about the UFO sighting.

    When reporting a UFO sighting, one would have to describe the UFO’s shape, size, color, number, formation, sound, and other features, as well as the time, date, location, and weather conditions of the sighting.

    If journalists, writers, publishers, or private civilians release unofficial information about a UFO sighting, the protocol says “every effort will be made to assure that these statements and theories are not associated with or represented as official information.”

    There are many conspiracy theories flying around regarding UFOs and aliens and how the government has spent more than half a century covering up their sightings. For example, last summer, NASA shut down a live-stream of the International Space Station, and conspiracy theorists believed NASA was covering up an alien invasion. And when SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launchpad on September 1, conspiracy theorists said a UFO sabotaged the test (an investigation later found that the explosion originated from the rocket’s second stage liquid oxygen fuel tank).

    But the CIA has released declassified files on UFOs before — it’s far from an unprecedented action. Last January, the agency released some documents and even photos of possible UFO sightings dated from between 1949 and 1953. And UFOs have been a political issue in the past. With an increasing number of reported UFO sightings in 1966, then-Congressman and future president Gerald Ford called upon Congress to conduct a “congressional inquiry” into these sightings.

    Why was the Air Force so interested in UFOs? The reasons are in the name — an unidentified object has no known origin or explanation, and thus poses “a possible threat” to American security. Besides clearing away fears that the UFOs were hostile, the Air Force wanted to determine the scientific or technical characteristics of UFOs in case we were looking at some kind of highly advanced or experimental technology. And finally, if UFOs weren’t super-advanced flying ships, the Air Force simply wanted to get an explanation — however boring or benign — of what was causing people to see UFOs in the sky.

    “Since the possibility cannot be ignored that UFOs reported may be hostile or new foreign air vehicles of unconventional design, it is imperative that sightings be reported rapidly, factually, and as completely as possible,” the document reads.

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    25-01-2017 om 17:28 geschreven door peter  

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    A 466 Million Year Old Collision is Pelting Earth with Space Confetti

    About 466 million years ago, before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, a giant collision broke an asteroid into pieces. These pieces were hurled to Earth as meteorites and transformed the meteorite landscape to what it is today.

    In a study published Monday in Nature Astronomy, researchers found that many types of meteorites that are currently hit Earth only on rare occasions used to slam into the planet much more frequently.

    “Looking at the kinds of meteorites that have fallen to Earth in the last hundred million years doesn’t give you a full picture,” lead author Philipp Heck of the Field Museum in Chicago said in a press release. “It would be like looking outside on a snowy winter day and concluding that every day is snowy, even though it’s not snowy in the summer.”

    The giant collision at the center of this study happened during the Middle Ordovician period, which ranges from 458 to 470 million years ago. (Dinosaurs started appearing on Earth 230 million years ago, and one theory says their extinction was caused by an asteroid hitting Earth.)

    By studying meteorites, scientists can better understand how the solar system developed. Since the meteorites and micrometeorites from over 466 million years ago are different from the ones that have fallen since then, most meteorites we see today are fragments of this collision.

    The research team analyzed micrometeorites from about 467 million years ago that they found in a river valley in northwestern Russia. They then dissolved the rocks in acid so that only chromite crystals remained. These crystals remain unchanged, even after hundreds of millions of years. Using these crystals, scientists can find out what the original meteorite was made of.

    “The conventional view is that the Solar System has been very stable over the past 500 million years,” coauthor Birger Schmitz of Sweden’s Lund University said in a press release. “So it is quite surprising that the meteorite flux at 467 million years ago was so different from the present.”

    They also found micrometeorites from Vesta, an asteroid that experienced a collision over a billion years ago, causing a 500-km crater to form and filling the inner main asteroid belt with fragments.

    Back then, up to 34 percent of meteorites before the collision are primitive achondrites, a type of meteorite. In contrast, only 0.45 percent of meteorites today are this kind.

    Going forward, the team plans to study meteorites for other periods in the Earth’s geological past.

    “Knowing more about the different kinds of meteorites that have fallen over time gives us a better understanding of how the Asteroid Belt evolved and how different collisions happened,” Heck said.

    Photos via Don Davis, Southwest Research Institute.

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    25-01-2017 om 17:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Carl Sagan's Scarily Accurate Prediction from 1995 Has People Flipping Out

    Under closer scrutiny, it's not all that noteworthy.

    Gabe Bergado

    Carl Sagan may have died back in 1996, but one of his predictions has some people a little tweaked out 21 years later.

    Making the rounds on Twitter (but not so much to warrant a “viral” label) is a passage from Sagan’s Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark in which he forecasts a future where America’s manufacturing would be totally outsourced and people would be unable to question authority among grim possibilities.

    Here’s the complete passage from Sagan’s 1995 book that has some people on edge:

    I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and whats true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

    Director of Science Friday Charles Bergquist was the first to notice Sagan’s prediction and shared on Twitter a screenshot of the passage on Sunday.

    It definitely has people talking, mesmerized by the iconic scientist’s words. Theoretical physicist Robert McNees tweeted, “Good grief, I couldn’t believe how spot-on that Carl Sagan quote was. I had to check to make sure it was accurate.”

    While it’s great that major scientists like Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye are treated like celebrities nowadays, it’s also vital to remember that these men can be wrong and sometimes their high profile ends up being detrimental to actual progress. People should probably take what these scientists say or tweet with a grain of salt.

    Dan Seitz at Uproxx observes that doomsayers tend to be wrong (looking at you, ancient Mayans who said we’d all be gone in 2012). Predicting a bleak future isn’t anything revolutionary. Somebody’s always going to be pessimistic about what’s next — that doesn’t necessarily mean that we should all lay down and let it take over.

    Sagan’s prediction holds some legitimacy, but parts of it can also be debunked. Yes, China beats out the United States when it comes to manufacturing. But the United States is still the second most competitive manufacturing economy. Also, “awesome technological powers” aren’t in the hands of “a very few.” According to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone of some kind. And the approximately 470,000 people in the women’s march just in Washington, D.C. will probably contest that they know how to “knowledgeably question those in authority.”

    Then there are those that are genuinely intrigued by Sagan’s prediction and are questioning whether or not he’s actually a time traveler.

    OK, they’re probably all joking, because you know, time travel’s practically unattainable, according to experts.

    Fittingly enough, the prediction comes from the same book that Sagan touts the “fine art of baloney detection,” also known how to recognize bullshit when it lands right on your face. While there definitely is some truth to Sagan’s prediction, it might be worth it to evaluate all parts of before choking on some fake deli meat.

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    25-01-2017 om 17:26 geschreven door peter  

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    Alien hunter claims Nasa cut its live feed from the space station yet again after another UFO is spotted

    • A 'solid' object was spotted floating above the planet on Nasa's ISS live stream
    • John Craddick who saw it said 'there's nothing human which can fly that high'
    •  It could have been reflections from the station windows or lights from Earth
    • The footage was taken on 20th January around 11:30 PM GMT, the man claims

    An object spotted flying by the International Space Station moments after its livestream went dead has conspiracy theorists claiming NASA is covering up proof of a UFO. 

    In the footage, an object seems to be floating above the planet.

    The man that spotted the object says it is definitely a UFO, but this is unlikely.

    There are many alternative explanations - like reflections from the station windows or lights from Earth - that could explain the sighting.

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    An object spotted flying by the International Space Station moments after its livestream went dead has conspiracy theorists claiming NASA is covering up proof of a UFO. The object is circled in red

    A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION

    While it is not always possible to determine exactly what these objects are during the brief period they appear in the stream, there are a number possible explanations for these types of sightings.

    In the past, a Nasa spokesperson has explained, 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artefacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.' 

    John Craddick, from Wolverhampton, told the Sun he was sitting with a friend, teaching him how to use the Nasa live feed when he spotted the object on Friday 20 January.

    'I've been watching it for years but never seen any UFOs on it before,' he said. 

    'At first it was really small and then it grew bigger, lasting for about 25 seconds.' 

    Mr Craddick said 'there's nothing human which can fly that high', which he took as evidence it was a UFO.

    While it is not always possible to determine exactly what these objects are during the brief period they appear in the stream, there are a number possible explanations for these types of sightings.

    'It is astonishing how many UFOs are seen buzzing around the ISS, but like this video there is usually a simple explanation for them,' Nigel Watson, UFO expert and author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline. 

    'This could well be a lens reflection that appears and then goes as the light changes, giving the impression of an extraterrestrial space coming into view and then cruising out of sight.

    'Many UFOs caught by the ISS's cameras can be also be explained as images of space junk or satellites in the distance, and even very small flecks of paint or particles can appear like UFOs when caught by the bright light from the sun.'

    In the past, a Nasa spokesperson has explained, 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artefacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.' 

    John Craddick, from Wolverhampton, told the Sun he was sitting with a friend, teaching him how to use the Nasa live feed when he spotted the object on Friday 20 January

    Mr Craddick said 'there's nothing human which can fly that high', which he took as evidence it was a UFO. Pictured is the mysterious object disappearing out of sight

    This is just the latest in a series of claims Nasa footage shows UFOs before cuttin out.

    In footage from the ISS channel uploaded to YouTube by user ColdPyro in November last year, a white speck can be seen emerging from the darkness just above Earth's horizon.

    Right before the 'UFO' travels out of view, the feed cuts to a grey screen, followed by a statement asking users to 'please stand by' due to technical issues. 

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    ISS feed cut off as possible UFO flies by space station
    A fast-moving object spotted flying by the International Space Station moments before its livestream went dead has conspiracy theorists claiming NASA is covering up proof of a UFO. The white speck can be seen emerging from the darkness just above Earth’s horizon

    A fast-moving object spotted flying by the International Space Station moments before its livestream went dead has conspiracy theorists claiming NASA is covering up proof of a UFO. The white speck can be seen emerging from the darkness just above Earth's horizon

    The object in question can only be seen for a moment – it emerges around the 5-second mark, just to the left of center in the frame, and then the feed cuts out to grey just two seconds later. A blue screen follows this, and then a statementWhile many viewers may not have noticed anything out of the ordinary, UFO hunters claim the ‘amazing footage’ shows the appearance of a mysterious spacecraft

    The object in question can only be seen for a moment – it emerges around the 5-second mark, just to the left of center in the frame, and then the feed cuts out to grey just two seconds later. A blue screen follows this, and then a statement

    While many viewers may not have noticed anything out of the ordinary, UFO hunters claim the 'amazing footage' shows the appearance of a mysterious spacecraft.

    'This was found on the official ISS channel it appears a UFO comes into frame and the feed it then immediately cut,' wrote YouTuber ColdPyro.

    The object in question can only be seen for a moment – it emerges around the 5-second mark, just to the left of center in the frame, and then the feed cuts out to grey just two seconds later.

    A blue screen follows this, and then a statement:

    'Please stand by. The High Definition Earth Viewing experiment is either switching cameras, or we are experiencing a temporary loss of signal with the International Space Station.'

    This isn't the first time UFO hunters have spotted something strange near the ISS.

    Just last month, alien enthusiasts claimed a strange light captured in the livestream was a glowing blue UFO hovering close to the space station.

    And in September, it was argued that footage from the ISS showed two UFOs traveling around a progress capsule, a feature that's used to supply the station. 

    BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES? YOU'RE PROBABLY A NARCISSIST 

    People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a study earlier this year.

    Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and negative psychological traits.

    Writing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the team explained: 'Previous research linked the endorsement of conspiracy theories to low self-esteem.'

    In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil.

    Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment.

    The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ }

    25-01-2017 om 16:16 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Buzz Aldrin: On the Moon we were ordered by aliens to move away

    Buzz Aldrin: On the Moon we were ordered by aliens to move away

    Buzz Aldrin: On the Moon we were ordered by aliens to move away 1

    THE FOLLOWING IS TRANSLATED:

    Here are the statements by the former astronauts:

    Professor: What really happened out of Apollo 11?

    Buzz Aldrin: An amazing thing, even though we have always known of this possibility. The fact is that they (aliens) have ordered us to turn away! .

    Professor: What do you mean “warned to move away”?

    Buzz Aldrin: I can not go into details, there are structures on the Moon, and not ours. I can only say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology. Wow if you were big! … And menacing!

    Professor: But NASA also sent to the moon missions after Apollo 11 ….

    Buzz Aldrin: Naturally, NASA had already announced at that time, and could not risk panic on Earth .

    According to the American ufologist Vladimir Azhazha, “Buzz Aldrin said to Mission Control that two large unknown objects were watching him and Aldrin after landing on the moon. But this message was never heard by the public, because NASA censored it. “But a 2006 video interview made astronaut Buzz Aldrin, it is analyzed the footage of the meeting between the Apollo 11:02 UFO. This was just one of many “encounters” with aliens, duration the journey to the moon.

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    Aleksandr Kasantesev says Buzz Aldrin made a color film of the UFO from inside the ship, and continued filming them, Buzz Aldrin and himself even when they were out. Buzz Aldrin confirmed that the story was true but refused to give more details, then admitted that the CIA wanted to hide the incident.

    It should also add that for some time circulating on the Internet an audio file that contains the conversation between the astronauts and control center in Houston, captured from various terrestrial radio stations frequency ultra-fast, before NASA suppressed in the telecast that illustrated the ‘ arrival of Apollo XI on the moon (NASA despite assertions to the contrary, there was in fact a slight shift between the real-Apollo NASA communications and those relayed to the world).

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    Here is the full text:

    Astronaut 1: But what is that?

    Astronaut 2: Do you have an explanation?

    Houston: Do not worry, stick to the program!

    Astronaut 1: My God, it’s amazing, that’s great, do not you could ever imagine!

    Houston: We know this, go to the other side!

    Astronaut 1: What the hell is that? It’s amazing …… God … but what is it? So, you tell me?

    Houston: Change frequency, use Tango, Tango!

    Astronaut 1: Then it is a form of life, that one!

    Houston: Change frequency.

    Houston: Use Tango Bravo, Bravo Tango, choose Jezebel, Jezebel!

    Astronaut: …… yes! Matutto … .. this is incredible!

    Houston: Switch on Bravo Tango, Tango Bravo!

    At this point the connection is broken. 

    Source: www.segnidalcielo.it

    {http://alien-ufo-sightings.com/ }

    25-01-2017 om 15:51 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Earth Size UFOs Visiting Our Sun On Daily Basis, NASA Ignores It, Video, January 24, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

    Earth Size UFOs Visiting Our Sun On Daily Basis, NASA Ignores It, Video, January 24, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

     
    Date of sighting: January 24, 2017
    Location of sighting: Earths Sun
    Source: NASA/SOHO images

    This video with many UFOs near our sun was made by UFOnearSun of Youtube also famously known as Myunhauzen74 among UFO researchers. I have been following his discoveries for years and every video causes me to wonder how NASA could ignore this information and not confess to the public about moon size alien craft making regular visits to our sun. The UFO in the above photo is actually 2-3 times the size of Earth itself. In the photo above, the visible part is only a section of the craft. 70% of its hidden in the shadows. 

    Scott C. Waring

    http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/ }

    25-01-2017 om 15:30 geschreven door peter  

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