Disney's New Robot Means Big Things for Science and Medicine, Can Also Give You a Hug

The robot's arms are sensitive and responsive to its surroundings, like a human's are.

Kastalia Medrano

Disney Research is about to reinvent the hug. In a new publication titled “A Hybrid Hydrostatic Transmission and Human-Safe Haptic Telepresence Robot,”a team of four authors announced the development of a robot that has joints and can mimic human movement, even manipulating objects with an impressive degree of finesse. It can either work autonomously or be remotely operated by someone who can see everything through the robot’s “eyes.”

The project took about two years to build, according to John Peter Whitney, an Assistant Professor at Northeastern’s University’s Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and one of the publication’s authors.

Whitney is currently working with a collaborator at Stanford University to explore the practical implications. One major usage could be needle biopsies, wherein a needle is inserted into a specific location to take a tissue sample. Normally, this necessitates a clinician putting a patient in an MRI machine, scanning, taking them out, inserting the needle, putting the patient back in to scan again, and so forth. This new technology could provide the clinician with the ability to insert the needle while they’re viewing the live imaging. They’d even be able to feel the needle going in. The robotic arms could also be used in “glove box”-type applications, handling radioactive or other hazardous materials.

“If you want to build robots that interact closely with humans, [it helps to] be able to make the arms very light. In the same way that a humans have proprioception,” Whitney says. “Humans muscles have senses that inform the brain where its arms are … this [robot] can directly feel the environment in the same way. So all the fine interactions between hand and environment are well-preserved, and that allows you to perform more delicate operations, or just move faster with an equivalent level of safety.”

Whitney says that today’s robots are programmed to go from A to B and/or to stop if something gets in the way. What this new tech from Disney Research looks to do is provide more sensitivity and nuisance to robotic motion, meaning machines won’t have to choose between either aborting mission or smashing something (or someone) into pieces.

Disney's robot, threading a needle.

We might not be too far removed from a future where apps supplement much of the work therapists do. Robots and high-tech, lifelike dolls are becoming increasingly popular companions, replacing humans for those who prefer their company a little less carbon-based. And don’t forget the brief trend of businesses/safe spaces marketing just cuddles or nap-buddies. So with all that in mind — could Disney’s new robot be commissioned to give out nice, warm hugs?

“Of course,” Whitney said. “Of course … either [autonomously] or with a direct human operator, it’s reasonable to consider both forms of operation.”

Aww.

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04-02-2017 om 21:17 geschreven door peter  

Researchers Develop a Remarkable Flying "Bat Bot"

"It's like the holy grail of aerial robotics."

Cassie Kelly

A bat-like robot may soon be the superhero we’ve been waiting for.

Inspired, a team of engineers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois developed technology that mimics the bat for their “Bat Bot.” Their work was published Tuesday in the journal Science Robotics this week about the exciting new innovation in aerial technology. Bat Bot has skin-like silicone wings, carbon-fiber “bones,” and 3D-printed joints, which all give it the ability to glide through the air with precision.

The bat’s evolutionary complexities make it an awesome flying machine: With more than 40 joints and 200 bones in its tiny frame, the nocturnal mammal is both agile and wickedly fast, with some species achieving speeds of up to 60 miles per hour.

“When I see a bat flying upside down with such elegant wing movement, I get mesmerized,” Soon-Jo Chung, co-author of the research, told reporters this week in a teleconference. “It’s like the holy grail of aerial robotics.”

A GIF of Bat Bot shows its range of motion. 

Previous prototypes of this intricate skeleton incorporated every aspect of the bat, which resulted in a bulky and dense structure that could hardly get off the ground, but Bat Bot uses only the most critical components of a bat’s biology for flight. The new structure, combined with very light materials, makes for a robot that weighs in at just 93 grams (a fifth of a pound).

“It’s impractical, or impossible, to include all 40 joints in the robot design,” said Chung. “Hence, we have systematically identified nine joint movements, five of which are actively controlled. Those active joints are mainly synchronized for flapping motions and independent left and right wing folding motions for controlling direction and up-and-down movements.”

As Chung explains, the wings move independently. The tail has two sides that move asymmetrically and it’s able to fill its wings with air to rise, and expel the air to descend, a process called “dynamic soaring.” It can perform sophisticated moves like diving, cutting at sharp angles, and twisting upside down. The researchers are even programming it to hang upside down like an actual bat.

The Bat Bot was inspired by the Egyptian Fruit Bat.

Autonomy

It’s also autonomous — sort of. It is programmed to “learn” to control and regulate its flying and to sense obstacles in its path. It’s been tedious for the researchers, as even the slightest error can send Bat Bot plunging.

It’s different from drone technology in that it doesn’t use propellers, making it safer for situations when it has to work near humans. The bot has a small motor, but it is more energy-efficient because it doesn’t rely as heavily on it and uses the wind to push itself in any direction. It will also fly in very tight spots, making it ideal for disaster relief and construction sites.

So, will “B2” — its nickname — ever be able to control its own direction while in-flight?

“That’s a different level of autonomy to think about in the future,” Chung tells Inverse.

Possible Uses for Bat Bot

“You can imagine a robotic, flapping-wing system operating in tight quarters shared with human first responders and in places where humans cannot go,” says Seth Hutchinson, a study’s co-author. “An aerial robot equipped with radiation detectors, 3D cameras, and temperature and humidity sensors could be used for situations like one created by the Fukushima disaster, where ground robots cannot work effectively and you don’t want humans to be involved.”

The robot will also be able to move between floors to find survivors, deliver medicine, and even assess buildings for faults in structural integrity.

Though, with all of this wonderful innovation comes a trade-off. The more complex the technology, the more challenging the repair.

“As you increase the complexity of the vehicle or robot, you also increase the complexity of a lot of problems you have to solve,” said Hutchinson. “You gain a lot of performance abilities but you pay by having to work harder as an engineer.”

Some of those problems have been the battery in the motor, which only lasts about six minutes (though its ability to harness the wind affords it more time) and the inherent instability of the bot, being that it is so flimsy.

The researchers still have a lot of kinks to work out before the Bat Bot’s technology can be used by commercial drones, but they expect it to be marketable within a couple of years. In the meantime, those noisy hovering drones will just have to do.

Bat Bot is only the latest story of researchers looking to the animal kingdom for inspiration. The Salto jumping robot — a lightweight robot that can jump several feet in the air — was revealed in December, also by researchers from University of California, Berkeley. They were inspired by the galago: a nocturnal African primate nicknamed the “bush baby.”

Photos via Ramezani/Chung/Hutchinson, Flickr / JoyVanBuhler / Ramezani / Chung / Hutchinson, Flickr / Dasha Gaian

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04-02-2017 om 20:59 geschreven door peter  

By: Marshall Smith

Boeing

Boeing’s new Starliner spacesuits look simple, yet modern.

In fact, they look exactly like what someone ten years ago would have envisioned when making a science fiction film about 2017.

Love or hate the new spacesuits, they are built for one essential function:

“The most important part is that the suit will keep you alive,” astronaut Eric Boe said in a press release. “It is a lot lighter, more form-fitting and it’s simpler, which is always a good thing. Complicated systems have more ways they can break, so simple is better on something like this.”

Boeing

However, don’t let the sleek design of the Starliner spacesuits fool you, as they come equipped with many neat features such as:

– upgraded dome-like helmet
– touchscreen-sensitive gloves
– built-in ventilation

Boeing

“The spacesuit acts as the emergency backup to the spacecraft’s redundant life support systems,” Richard Watson, subsystem manager for spacesuits for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program said. “If everything goes perfectly on a mission, then you don’t need a spacesuit. It’s like having a fire extinguisher close by in the cockpit. You need it to be effective if it is needed.”

I for one am a fan of the new suits as they are less bulky than what we are used to seeing and offer much more mobility.

We’ll have to wait and see how the Starliner spacesuits fare when the suits face their first real test on the way to the International Space Station in 2018.

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04-02-2017 om 20:40 geschreven door peter  

These Supermassive Black Holes Have Completely Stumped Scientists

 

Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi. As matter falls toward the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center, some of it is accelerated outward at nearly the speed of light along jets pointed in opposite directions. When one of the jets happens to be aimed in the direction of Earth, as illustrated here, the galaxy appears especially bright and is classified as a blazar.

Credit: M. Weiss/CfA

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04-02-2017 om 20:26 geschreven door peter  

An Expedition Is Heading to Antarctica to Uncover How Life Started on Our Planet

 

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IN BRIEF

• A team of researchers is developing advanced metal-detecting technology to be used in the first ever UK-led Antarctic meteorite expedition in 2020.
• If successful, the expedition will help scientists decode the origins of the solar system and cement the UK as a leader in meteoritics and planetary science.

THE ORIGINS OF LIFE

A UK-led team from the University of Manchester is headed to Antartica in hopes of finding ‘lost’ meteorites that could provide clues to how life started on Earth. Meteorites give researchers an opportunity to study and understand how the solar system was formed. Iron meteorites, formed from the cores of planetesimals (small planets destroyed by planetary impact), could even give insight into how plants are created.

Because it is sheathed in snow and ice, the region provides a stark contrast for dark meteorites that end up on Earth. But to date, very few of these iron-based meteorites have been found. The team leading the expedition believes that more iron meteorites are somewhere just beneath the Antarctic surface –because of its composition, the ice melts faster around iron-rich rocks versus non-metallic meteorites, causing them to sink and get trapped under the ice.

This theory was enough to grant a team of researchers funding to develop some kind of advanced metal-detecting technology to be used in the first ever UK-led Antarctic meteorite expedition for 2020.

“[…] The continent constantly reveals so many secrets about our Earth such as our past climate from ice and sediment cores so it’s great to work with UK researchers to help them solve another puzzle about Earth’s, and our Solar System’s, formation,” said Professor David Vaughan, Director of Science at British Antarctic Survey, who will be working with the team.

CHALLENGES ABOUND

The expedition will cover three different sites across the continent. What makes it particularly difficult is the distance of each site from the nearest research stations—meaning the team will have to conduct work amid freezing temperatures, and gale-force winds on a difficult terrain.

The team however, is looking forward to the challenge. Proposals for such an expedition premised on this hypothesis has been in discussion as far back as 2012.

“We now have the opportunity to commence on a truly exciting scientific adventure. If successful, our expeditions will help scientists to decode the origins of the Solar System and cement the UK as a leader in meteoritics and planetary science,” said Dr. Geoffrey Evatt who heads the team of multidisciplinary researchers preparing for the trek.

A preliminary visit to Antarctica is scheduled for 2019 where the team can study the terrain for their 2020 main expedition. Prior to this, a smaller, test mission will be conducted on the Arctic island of Svalbard, hopefully by 2018.

References: 

• ScienceAlert - Latest, 
• University of Manchester, 
• Nature

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04-02-2017 om 20:14 geschreven door peter  

THE WORLD’S OLDEST PYRAMIDS DISCOVERED IN ALASKA

The snow and ice at the most northern and southern parts of the world are melting an alarming rate owing to the ongoing effects of climate change. Most people are aware of the terrible damage that this could pose for life on planet Earth, but few people are aware of the incredible opportunities this ecological disaster is presenting for archaeologists. In the coldest regions of the world, the receding of ice and snow is exposing extraordinary archaeological findings, including two ancient pyramids which have been discovered in Alaska.

The pyramids were first discovered by a team of geologists who were on a hiking expedition across the glorious Alaskan landscape. They found that only the upper section of the pyramid had been exposed at that time. When they investigated the rock formation, they concluded almost instantly that it was not a natural construction. They noted that the rocks had been stacked carefully on top of one another in a similar manner to other ancient megaliths such as the famed pyramids built by the Ancient Egyptians.

Following this discovery, a scheduled Chinese underground nuclear test led to more revelations about the mysterious pyramids. Scientists collated a huge amount of seismic data about the area to assure that the underground nuclear test would be safe. This led to them confirming the existence of the two pyramids buried deep beneath the Alaskan snow. They also suggested that the pyramids were larger than the towering Great Pyramid of Giza.

This discovery of the pyramids has surprised some people, but their existence came as no surprise to anthropological researchers such as Linda Moulton Howe. The indigenous people of Alaska have long spoken about the existence of pyramids in the region which play a central role in some of their ancient mythology. They describe the pyramid as a Bermuda Triangle-esque area which is controlled by an evil spirit named Kushtaka who captures lost travelers who wander too close to the pyramids. 

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04-02-2017 om 19:58 geschreven door peter  

CONTACT UNDERGROUND 

An Alternative to the “Night of Lights” Might be a “Night of Remembering” 

J. Burkes MD 

Contactees report having recurrent dreams sometimes called the "night of lights" in which the nighttime sky is full of UFOs. It is a wish dream that I must admit that I've fancied too. In my opinion however this will not likely take place anytime in the conceivable future, as such an awesome event would trigger a terribly violent human response. I suggest something very different might happen if current trends continue. 

Thirty-two years ago I met Dr John Mack in Moscow at a physicians’ peace conference. It was 1985, the year that our “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” won the Nobel Prize for educating government leaders and the public about the dangers of nuclear arms race. Later John Mack MD went on to write the important book “Abduction.” There he describes the strange way in which some contact experiencers called “abductees” suddenly recall having encounters with aliens that they believe happened decades before. 

This kind of sudden "remembering" happening initially on a small scale is less threatening than a “night of lights” with our skies full of “craft.” This is especially so for those clandestine groups that I imagine believe it is their job to keep a lid on the flying saucer situation. Such elite factions operating in secrecy are often referred to as the “control groups.” They are likely quasi-governmental quasi-corporate entities in my opinion are likely responsible for the UFO cover-up. 

THE MENTAL LINK 

Psychological and parapsychological factors play important roles in the UFO contact drama unfolding all around us. Unfortunately many so-called "mainstream" UFOlogists fail to grasp that a consciousness connection is the key to understanding the human-UFO intelligence relationship. In my opinion theirs is an uninformed and unenlightened perspective on the flying saucer phenomenon. Mainstream ufology’s approach stands in marked contrast to the contactee network that I promote and like to call the “Contact Underground.” We view the mental aspects of the phenomenon to be central to deciphering the mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects. 

SIGHTINGS ARE NOT RANDOM EVENTS 

After years of study I now believe that there is no such thing as a random sighting. I am suggesting that every true sighting of a UFO with few exceptions occurs while there is a telepathic link between the witnesses and the intelligence responsible for the phenomenon. Thus sightings should be viewed as staged events in which individuals are specifically targeted to have an encounter. 

If true then the implications of this proposition are staggering. Approximately ten percent of the world’s population admits to having a UFO sighing. On a planetary basis this translates into over 600 million people. If the consciousness connection is as widespread and robust as I suggest it is, then each of those hundreds of millions of individuals might at some time in the future start to remember in the way that Dr Mack’s patients did. 

A COLD WAR WITH UFOs 

A hidden aspect of the human UFO relationship has been a kind of secret cold war between flying saucers and terrestrial military forces. Given the extraordinary secrecy surrounding this issue it is understandable that the few reports we read about military encounters are probably the tip of the iceberg. In other words there have been many hostile engagements. 

In my judgment there have been losses of personnel and material on both sides. This is a rather dispassionate way of stating that humans and what we call “ETs” are being killed. 

Given this sorry state of affairs, “the night of lights” in which the sky is full of saucers would understandably be perceived as being an “invasion.” A less dangerous plan to help humanity understand that we are not alone in the universe might involve having increasing numbers of people gradually recalling additional encounters from their past. 

For those of us who want a peaceful outcome to the UFO situation, this “remembering of prior contacts” scenario would probably be much safer for both any extraterrestrials flying around Earth and those that might be tempted to try to shoot them down. 

About the author: Dr Burkes volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative from 1992 till 1998. He has continued to study the flying saucer phenomenon working with MUFON and the Peruvian contact network now called Rahma. Joseph Burkes MD is co-author of the book “Paths to Contact” edited by Jeff Becker. Dr Burkes retired from the Southern California Pemanente Group after thirty years service in 2008. He is a board certified internal medicine physician and is licensed to practice in California.

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04-02-2017 om 19:36 geschreven door peter  

Energy of cosmos began to operation across the Earth.

Energy to the approaching cosmic cloud.

It is well documented several incidents of unreal, the visible energy beams flashed in the sky to the space in which the foreign photon cloud.

At the same time, people began to be heard around the world and recorded scary noises – noise, which acts as the Earth would itself moaned and wailed.

All phenomena – including measurements of previously unseen never electrified turbulent sun – they seem to be centered around a deadly cloud of photon, which some have called „a potential cosmic event doomsday“.

Something very strange is going on in recent years in the atmosphere on the planet
Whether it comes to aliens, changes in the earth’s core or CHEMTRAILS, HAARP?
People all around the world take photos of this strange phenomena. Why are they appear and what is the meaning of them? What is going on? Can it affect a human evolution? What do you think about that?

Watch the video and judge for yourself.

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04-02-2017 om 19:20 geschreven door peter  

NASA's Fermi discovers the most powerful blazars so far!

The gamma rays were found to be radiated by blazars, which are very compact regions surrounding supermassive black holes detected so far.

Nupur Jha

Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi.

NASA/ M. Weiss/CfA

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently discovered strong emissions of gamma radiations from an ancient group of five galaxies.

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The gamma rays were found to be radiated by blazars, which are very compact regions surrounding supermassive black holes detected so far.

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The powerful gamma ray emissions spotted had been given off from an extremely distant object when the universe aged 1.4 billion years, which is approximately 10 percent of its present age.

The research team was led by Vaidehi Paliya and Marco Ajello at Clemson University in South Carolina and included Dario Gasparrini at the Italian Space Agency's Science Data Center in Rome along with Roopesh Ojha, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

"Despite their youth, these far-flung blazars host some of the most massive black holes known," Ojha said in a NASA statement.

"They developed so early in cosmic history challenges current ideas of how super massive black holes form and grow, and we want to find more of these objects to help us better understand the process," he added.

Giant and active elliptical galaxies possessing super massive black holes, which got a mass equivalent to one million times the Sun's mass or more, have blazars present in their core. Extremely strong tides of energy are given away by these black holes almost at the speed of light when any matter falls into it.

"The main question now is how these huge black holes could have formed in such a young universe," one of the researchers, Dario Gasparrini, from Italian Space Agency's Science Data Centre in Rome said.

"We don't know what mechanisms triggered their rapid development," he added.

The team of researchers, who carried out this discovery, is going to conduct in-depth research to find out more about it.

"We think Fermi has detected just the tip of the iceberg, the first examples of a galaxy population that previously has not been detected in gamma rays," said Marco Ajello from Clemson University in South Carolina, the US.

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04-02-2017 om 18:20 geschreven door peter  

UFO spotted? Plane forced to swerve out of way of mysterious black object mid-flight

DRAMATIC footage has emerged showing the moment a huge jet was forced to veer to the right when a mysterious black object appeared

By Simon Green 

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04-02-2017 om 18:12 geschreven door peter  

Broad Haven UFO sightings marked 40 years on

There were no alien invasions or tales of abduction, yet a UFO sighting by a group of Pembrokeshire school children remains one of the most famous cases in Wales.

It was 40 years ago when a class of pupils at Broad Haven Primary School said they spotted a UFO in a field near their playground.

It was one of a wave of sightings in the area in 1977 - dubbed the Dyfed Triangle.

David Davies was 10 at the time and heard reports of pupils seeing flying saucers throughout the day.

"I was a natural born sceptic so after the bell rang I decided to go to the area that the children said they had seen it," he told BBC Wales.

He described seeing a silver "cigar-shaped" craft with a "dome covering the middle third".

"My sighting only lasted a couple of seconds. It popped up and then went back behind a tree."

Mr Davies said he did not feel afraid, "more in awe and wonderment", although he admitted he had "a strange desire to run away".

None of the teachers believed the children and so the headmaster separated them and got them to draw what they saw. There were slight variations, but what they drew was basically the same.

Mr Davies described the days that followed as a "wild rollercoaster."

"It went crazy with the media and it was difficult to settle down and actually think about what we had seen."

Two months later, Rosa Granville, who ran the Haven Fort Hotel in nearby Little Haven, described seeing an object which looked like an "upside-down saucer" and two "faceless humanoid" creatures with pointed heads.

She said so much heat came off it, her "face felt burned".

"There was light coming from it and flames of all colours. Then [the creatures] came out of these flames, that's what I don't understand," she said.

When she visited the field she said there was "two inches of burned grounds".

Ms Granville said the incident left her "agitated and disturbed".

A number of theories have been put forward to explain the sightings.

Then-MP for Pembroke, Nicholas Edwards contacted the Ministry of Defence after being "inundated" with UFO sightings.

Flt Lt Cowan, an officer from RAF Brawdy, visited Ms Granville's hotel and examined the site, but could find no evidence of a landing.

He joked: "Should a UFO arrive at RAF Brawdy we will charge normal landing fees."

In his report, he mentioned the possibility that a "local prankster was at work" and the description of aliens "fitted exactly the type of protection suit that would have been issued in the event of a fire at one of the local oil refineries".

This fits in with the account of businessman Glyn Edwards, who in 1996 revealed he wandered around the area in a silver suit in 1977 as a prank.

The National Archives also released files which examined UFO sightings across Wales, and the officials who investigated the Broad Haven sightings suspected pranksters.

"There is general speculation in the neighbourhood that a practical joker may be at work," wrote staff at S4 - the government department that investigated sightings at the time.

It was also thought school children could have confused a sewage tank as a UFO, although many were from farming backgrounds and would have been familiar with the machinery.

More recently, a former US Navy sailor said the figure in a silver suit was in fact a member of US military personnel wearing their standard fireproof uniform and the UFOs were new Harrier jets flying over.

To mark 40 years since the sightings, a conference is being held in Broad Haven on Saturday, organised by Swansea UFO Network.

Organiser Emyln Williams said the case started "worldwide interest".

Asked if he thought it was genuine, he said: "One child can lie, but can a whole class?

"Over 40 years at least one of them might have come forward to say they made it up - but they haven't."

Mr Williams said there were several sightings the day the children claimed to have seen a UFO, including at Hubberston School in Milford Haven.

"That year there was so much happening. It is what we know as a UFO flap," he said.

Image copyrightNEIL SPRING

Eyewitness Mr Davies, who lives in Shropshire, will be a guest speaker.

He said he had always been open-minded to the theories which attempted to explain the sightings and at no time had he "ever sensationalised his story".

"So many people are ridiculed for saying they have seen a UFO," he said, describing his secondary school life as a "misery".

"I was beaten senseless purely because of what happened to me. It would have been so much easier to take back my story."

He admits UFOs has been a subject that has gone on to "dominate his life".

"At one point I must have had the largest library of books in Wales on the subject."

Attending alongside Mr Davies is Neil Spring, who wrote a book based on the Broad Haven sightings.

"The moment I heard of this small village plagued by UFO sightings, I was inspired to understand what really happened," he said.

His research uncovered a secret investigation by the military police.

"Whilst the government was telling the public they had no records of any unusual activity in the area, privately, officials were so concerned about the UFO sightings in Broad Haven that they asked the military police to conduct a 'discreet' investigation," he said.

Mr Spring believes local pranksters were behind some of the sightings, but said "people emulate what's happening around them" and the pranks were inspired by events which had been "sincerely reported".

"My research showed that there were strange occurrences in Broad Haven long before the incident at the school and for a long times afterwards.

"So you can take the children out of the story and you'll still have the story."

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04-02-2017 om 17:53 geschreven door peter  

Broad Haven hosts UFO spotters 40 years on

40 years since significant UFO sighting celebrated today

A UFO spotter on a hill overlooking West Kilbride in Ayrshire. A MOD report has announced that there have been increasing reports of UFO sightings in the area...NB The UFO spotter is actually Herald reporter Alan Laing!!.

Broad Haven pupils spotted a UFO in 1977

Sketches drawn by children who saw a UFO in Broad Haven

TODAY marks 40 years since school children in Broad Haven sparked a massive spike in interest from UFO enthusiasts after an unusual sighting.

Interest in what happened in Broad Haven in 1977 has never dwindled and will be celebrated with a special conference today.

The Swansea UFO Network is holding a Welsh Triangle 40th Anniversary Conference examining what happened on February 4 1977.

A whole class of school children from Broad Haven Primary School saw an unusual craft land in a field next to the school as well as mysterious silver figure walking about.

Their stories were dismissed as fantasy but the children were so adamant they had seen something unusual they handed in a petition to the police station. Their head teacher later asked them to draw the UFO and was amazed at how similar their pictures were.

Randall Pugh was instrumental in bringing the story to the attention of the media and it became an overnight sensation.

The case was extensively investigated at the time and first appeared in the Western Telegraph sparking world-wide interest in what turned out to be the start of a major series of sightings in the area – dubbed ‘The Welsh Triangle’.

Dubbed Called the “West Wales flap” of 1977, the incident was second only to the “Warminster Thing” in British UFO history.

According to documents released in 2005 a secret military investigation was launched into claims that alien craft and their tall humanoid occupants were taking a particular interest in the local coastline.

Organisers of next month’s conference are looking for witnesses to UFO sightings in south-west Wales during the 1977 ‘flap’ to tell people what they saw and experienced.

The conference will be held at Broad Haven Village Hall, 10am to 5pm. Speakers confirmed so far include author Neil Spring (The Watchers), David L. Richards (UFO Wales) and special video link with Peter Paget, author of the Welsh Triangle and UFO-UK.

There will also be a visit to the UFO sighting location at the exact time it happened 40 years ago.

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04-02-2017 om 17:28 geschreven door peter  

UFO CONSCIENCE avec Lynne Kitei - Les Lumières de Phoenix, un vaisseau mère au dessus de l'Arizona?

 Rédigé par Olivier de Sedona

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04-02-2017 om 17:13 geschreven door peter  

Des traces au sol dans un cas OVNI non loin d'une usine d'amiante en 1954

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Je suis en train de vous concocter une belle émission illustrée d'images et d'articles de presse et qui va sortir le vendredi 10 février sur la chaîne Youtube d'UFO Conscience.

Joël Mesnard qui sera mon invité nous parlera de rencontres du 3ème type pendant la vague d'OVNI de 1954, de RR4 et des "fameux" MIB (hommes en noir) 

Une émission qui va passionner les personnes qui veulent des faits, du concret et non de la théorie!

L'émission sera disponible sur la chaîne Youtube UFO Conscience à cette adresse:

http://www.youtube.com/c/OlivierdeSedona 

Voici un exemple de cas que nous allons aborder:

PONCEY-SUR-L'IGNON 
04.10.1954 
Observation de plusieurs phénomènes en deux jours sur une même commune

Description :    

Les 2 et 4 octobre 1954 plusieurs personnes de la commune de Poncey-sur-l'Ignon (21) vont être témoins de phénomènes qui les intriguent. Le PV de la Gendarmerie fait état des deux séries d’évènements distincts dans un même secteur traités ici chronologiquement.

Le premier évènement a lieu le 2 octobre 1954 à Poncey-sur l'Ignon. A 19h40, une cultivatrice qui vient de traire les vaches, remarque d'abord dans le ciel "un engin lumineux" "se rapportant à tout ce que l'on voit dans la presse ces jours-ci". Le témoin rapporte qu'elle a vu « comme un rayon de lune » qui "éclairait la cour". Elle pense qu'il s'agit de la Lune mais découvre que celle-ci a une forme bizarre. En fixant son attention, le témoin observe alors un cylindre vertical dont elle estime la hauteur à 1,5m et le diamètre à 80cm. Il est lumineux sur toute sa surface, de couleur orange avec un reflet vert autour et se déplace debout à faible hauteur et plutôt près des bâtiments. Convaincue qu'il ne s'agit pas de la Lune mais d'un "engin" inconnu, elle avertit son mari, son fils et une voisine. Ces derniers ont le temps de voir la lumière venant du Nord disparaître vers le Sud. La voisine décrit une boule lumineuse comme un ballon de football plus orangée qu'une ampoule électrique et se déplacant silencieusement.

La seconde série d’évènements a lieu le 4 octobre 1954 au Val d'Ignon au lieu-dit 'l'usine d'amiante" à 1km au sud du village de Poncey-sur-l'Ignon. Ce lieu-dit est composé d'un groupe de bâtiments dont une partie sert d'habitation à trois familles d'ouvriers. Il est entouré au Nord, à l'Est et à l'Ouest par des prés et au sud par un étang.
Vers 19h30, alors qu’elle ferme les volets de sa chambre, une jeune femme voit en direction du Nord, au-dessus d’un prunier situé dans la cour, une lumière assez forte de couleur jaunâtre, en forme de champignon semble-t-il, ovale à la partie supérieure et ronde à la partie inférieure, se présentant comme un globe transparent éclairé de l’intérieur. Elle estime sa hauteur à une quinzaine de mètres, sa distance à 50 m et compare sa taille à celle d’une cuisinière. Aucun bruit particulier n'est entendu. Elle ne la regarde que quelques instants et ne peut préciser son état de mouvement. Prise de panique, elle prend son enfant et va chercher refuge chez une voisine qui est seule avec sa fille. Aucun autre témoin n'observera ce phénomène.

Vers 20h30, le gendre et le fils de la voisine arrivent et trouvent les trois femmes apeurées. Ensemble ils vont dans le pré contigu à la cour à l'endroit dans la direction d'observation du phénomène. Ils constatent la présence d’une zone approximativement rectangulaire (1,50 x 0,50-0,70 m) creusée dans le sol (sur 5 cm) avec de la terre brisée aux deux extrémités et les mottes de terre et d’herbe répandues alentour dans un cercle d’environ 4 m de rayon. Les mottes de tailles inégales (en général 30 x 20 cm sauf deux de 60 cm) sont retournées herbe vers le bas. Deux témoins rapportent la présence de nombreux vers blancs vivants présents au milieu des traces.

De la droite à la gauche: Mme Fourneret montrant les étrangetés de la trace au reporter et ufologue Charles Garreau et à l'ufologue Jimmy Guieu qui sont venus interviewer les témoins et enquêter sur les lieux.

Vers 20h45, le second fils de la voisine (18 ans), revenant de son travail au village voisin distant de 1,5 km, aperçoit brièvement dans le ciel, un « engin » en forme de cigare sans aile, entièrement lumineux, de couleur « transparente » avec des reflets vert et orange qui traverse le ciel très rapidement en direction Nord-Sud. Apeuré par cette vision il rentre rapidement chez ses parents. Aucun autre témoin observera ce phénomène.

Les gendarmes sont prévenus le 5 octobre à 19h30 et constatent les traces au sol le soir même. Ils procèdent à l’enquête et constituent le dossier photographique le 6 octobre 1954. Ils examinent la possibilité d’une farce du gendre et du fils de la voisine mais, après vérification de leur emploi du temps, les gendarmes rejettent cette hypothèse. D'après un témoin qui habite le quartier aucun bétail n'est en pâture dans le pré et il n'a vu personne rôder dans cet endroit la veille.

Un enquêteur privé s'est rendu sur les lieux en août 2015 pour tenter de préciser la topographie de l'observation : les lieux ont peu changé mais les habitants de 1954 n'habitent plus sur place ou sont décédés. Le GEIPAN a tenté de joindre par téléphone et courrier une des témoins mais sans succés.
Concernant les traces au sol, l’hypothèse des sangliers ne paraît pas en très bon accord avec les descriptions faites de l’excavation : bords relativement nets, mottes déposées hors de l’excavation et plutôt régulières en taille et en position (retournée), vers blancs non consommés (les sangliers ont pu être dérangés). Les photographies des traces faites par la gendarmerie seront prises deux jours après l'observation. De plus ces traces ont été piétinées par les témoins. Cette hypothèse reste acceptable mais non confirmée.

Le phénomène lumineux peut-il être considéré comme la cause de la trace ? Les données disponibles ne fournissent aucune preuve directe d’un lien de cause à effet. On doit se contenter de la corrélation de direction d'observation des deux phénomènes (lumière et traces au sol) et corrélation relative de temps dans un intervalle d’une heure.

En résumé le cas d'observation du 4 octobre 1954 rapporte trois évènements : deux observations distinctes, courtes, par à chaque fois un seul témoin, d'un phénomène lumineux lointain. Puis des traces au sol. Ces trois évènements ne sont pas associés forcément entre eux. Pour chacun de ces évènements il existe des hypothèses fragiles qui ne peuvent être confirmées. Globalement la consistance de ce cas est moyenne car elle ne contient pas d'éléments vérifiables. Son étrangeté serait forte si on pouvait corréler de façon certaine les traces au sol et les phénomènes lumineux.

Remarques: il faut savoir que durant l'année 1954 et particulièrement en octobre, la presse nationale et locale a publié un grand nombre d'articles relatant des cas d'observation d'OVNI. 

Source GEIPAN

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04-02-2017 om 17:05 geschreven door peter  

US NAVY AND NASA HAVE A FULLY OPERATIONAL SPACE FLEET

04-02-2017 om 16:54 geschreven door peter  

CIA explored use of psychic in Lockerbie bombing probe

CIA explored use of psychic in Lockerbie bombing probe

DECLASSIFIED documents have revealed the CIA wanted to see if a psychic could replicate key aspects of the Lockerbie bombing.

Some 13 million pages of files were released online last week for the first time, including CIA interest in Edinburgh paranormal research.

Now it has emerged the 930,000 files also include asking a subject to describe a photo of the reconstructed baggage carrier that held the plane’s bomb.

“Filed under special access required”, the notes are headed: “Warning notice: Intelligence sources and methods involved.”

Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down by the device on December 21, 1988, killing all 259 people on board and a further 11 people on the ground.

The CIA’s psychic tests relating to Lockerbie were carried out on June 7, 1990 at an unknown location and filed under Project Sun Streak, successor to the controversial Stargate project.

Another released CIA document outlines Sun Streak’s mission as “dealing with the use of psychoenergetics in the collection of intelligence information”.

It describes “Psychoenergetics” as psychokinesis – physical actions performed by mental powers – and perceptions that cannot be explained by non-sensory means, such as telepathy.

Parameters of the Lockerbie test outline using “tangibles and intangibles of more than one word”, as well as “probing sketches”.

What follows is 22 pages of photocopied scrawled notes and drawings together with a typed account of the session.

The article refers to the cassette player in which Semtex explosive was hidden.

The typed notes from the session retained by the CIA say: “The stuff inside it is light, smooth, stringy, air, and it is moving down, making a ‘whoosh’ sound. It is speeding up as it goes down and out. It makes me want to throw up.”

Describing the cylindrical shape in a box, the account continues: “There is a bomb in the box and it explodes.”

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04-02-2017 om 16:34 geschreven door peter  

04-02-2017 om 16:26 geschreven door peter  

Giant Disk Seen Orbiting Earth Over Melbourne, Australia On Feb 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 3, 2017
Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia

This UFO was caught by UFO Lou of Youtube. He lives in Australia and used a night vision scope to capture this footage. At 2:49 into the footage you see a large UFO moving in Earths orbit. The UFO is too slow to be a meteor and too big to be a satellite and is shaped like a classic disk. Amazing thing to see in night vision isn't it?
Scott C. Waring

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04-02-2017 om 14:12 geschreven door peter  

Famous Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh Personal UFO Sighting, Man Who Discovered Pluto, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Tombaugh was probably the preeminent astronomer to have reported seeing Unidentified Flying Objects. On August 20, 1949, Tombaugh saw several UFOs near Las Cruces, New Mexico. He described them as six to eight rectangular lights, stating "I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment." 

Tombaugh was also later to report having seen three of the mysterious Green Fireballs, which suddenly appeared over New Mexico in late 1948 and continued at least through the early 1950s. In 1956 Tombaugh had the following to say about his various sightings: 

"I have seen three objects in the last seven years which defied any explanation of known phenomenon, such as Venus, atmospheric optic, meteors or planes. I am a professional, highly skilled, professional astronomer. In addition I have seen three green fireballs which were unusual in behavior from normal green fireballs...I think that several reputable scientists are being unscientific in refusing to entertain the possibility of extraterrestrial origin and nature." 

In 1949, Tombaugh had also told the Naval missile director at White Sands Missile Range, Commander Robert McLaughlin, that he had seen a bright flash on Mars in August 1941, which he now attributed to an atomic blast (mentioned May 12, 1949, in a letter from McLaughlin to Dr. James van Allen). [3] Tombaugh also noted that the first atomic bomb tested in New Mexico would have lit up the dark side of the Earth like a neon sign and that Mars was coincidentally quite close at the time, the implication apparently being that the atomic test would have been visible from Mars. 

In June 1952, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer acting as a scientific consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book UFO study, secretly conducted a survey of fellow astronomers on UFO sightings and attitudes while attending an astronomy convention. Tombaugh and four other astronomers told Hynek about their sightings, including Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico. Tombaugh also told Hynek that his telescopes were at the Air Force's disposal for taking photos of UFOs, if he was properly alerted.

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04-02-2017 om 14:07 geschreven door peter  

Mass UFO activity over Las Vegas, Nevada 28-Jan-2017

Another amazing footage by Youtube user Steven Barone. These sightings happened on 28th January 2017 over Las Vegas, Nevada. Check out the one at 22 minutes!

Witness report: 

I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of January 28, 2017.
They could have been brighter at times but I was very happy to see that a group of UFOs had returned to the Black Mountains in Henderson, Nevada. It has been six months or so since I last observed UFOs in groups over in this spot. I left the video running at actual speed even though it’s more than thirty minutes long because of suggestions I have been getting from viewers. It should have occurred to me to turn the night vision camera on earlier. No doubt some folks will claim that these are ATVs moving around on the mountain but they aren’t. What gives that away is the fact that the UFOs are lining up in a perfectly horizontal row on several occasions which would be nearly impossible if they were on the ground because the terrain on the mountain is so uneven. I think that there is an excellent possibility that these UFOs belong to the same group I film regularly in the Blue Diamond Hills on the west side of the valley closer to my home.

Author (Steven Barone @ youtube)

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04-02-2017 om 14:00 geschreven door peter