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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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09-02-2017
STRONG EVIDENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ARTIFICIAL SURFACE INTERVENTIONS FOUND ON MARS, ACCORDING TO NEW STUDY
STRONG EVIDENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ARTIFICIAL SURFACE INTERVENTIONS FOUND ON MARS, ACCORDING TO NEW STUDY
A new study published in the Journal of Space Exploration titled “The Mounds of Cydonia: Elegant Geology, or Tetrahedral Geometry and Reactions of Pythagoras and Dirac?” has added to the already robust evidence pointing to “artificial surface interventions” on Mars. The main premise of the article is that these structures, if indeed artificial, “provide an elegant and concise way for an intelligent species to transmit to another intelligence evidence that it understands the basics of tetrahedral geometry, prime numbers, and the quantum mechanics of the electrons spin, thereby giving additional evidence for the possibility of intelligent intervention.”
In 1976, the United States sent a pair of space probes, known as Viking 1 and Viking 2, to Mars. Viking 1 was launched on August 20th, 1975, and Viking 2 was launched in September of the same year. Both probes photographed the surface of Mars from orbit, and one studied the planet from the surface. Since then, more pictures have been taken, and this particular study is based on high resolution images from the ESA Mars express and NASA orbiter HiRise cameras, and deals with the structures that have been found in the Cyndonia region of Mars.
A Mathematical Mystery
An initial analysis, published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 1999, was conducted by Dr. Horace Crater, a physics professor at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), alongside Professor Stanley V. McDaniel. During this time, only the 1976 Viking photos were available, taken from many kilometres above the surface of the planet, with a resolution of 47 metres per pixel. In 2006, the European Space Agency (ESA) rephotographed the same area at a much better resolution, confirming the existence of the “mounds” as well as the tight, precise mound layout.
The recent paper, published in Space Exploration, and also authored by Horace Crater alongside Professor Stanley V. McDaniel, the Founder of The Society for Planetary SETI Research.
McDaniel and Ananda Sirisena, reinforces the strange configuration by comparing three datasets. The resolution of the ESA 2006 photos is 13.7 metres per pixel and that of NASA’s MRO HiRise 2014 images is 5 metres per pixel. This is compared to the original 47m per pixel Viking shots. Presented below are the mounds from all three spacecraft, showing clearly the parallel lines and right-angled triangles formed by their layout. Is there a message implicit in this ground plan?
Below is a set of slides sent to me by one of the authors that he commonly uses in his presentations to elaborate on the uniqueness of the layout and it implications.
Be sure to check out the details in the actual study for an in-depth analysis and more photos of why this geology and these mathematical measurements are so intriguing.
More Strange Anomalies on Mars In the Cydonia Area
As Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. A pyramid structure was also seen. This will be the main topic of this article.
As a quick side note here, for years we’ve been made to believe that Mars is a dry and arid planet, completely devoid of life, but that’s just not the case. Mars actually used to be an Earth-like planet, with giant oceans and extensive greenery. The soil is moist and wet, and there is a very high likelihood that some type of life exists within the interior of Mars today. You can watch that full press conference HERE.
The question to ask here is, did NASA know this information from the Viking data in 1976? According to multiple insiders who have worked for the agency, NASA is not always honest, and we are only being told this now because they believe we are ready to process and accept these facts. For example, Bob Dean, a retired United States Army Command Sergeant Major who also served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO as an intelligence analyst, gave a lecture on footage and photos that had been erased and kept hidden for decades:
Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.
He is one of multiple people accusing NASA of doing this. The Russian government did the same last year. You can read more about that here.
The Giant Face and Pyramid on Mars
Above, you’ll see the original picture taken by Viking which, as you can imagine, created quite the buzz when the world got to see it. To the left, you can see a closeup of the face, as well as a pyramid in close proximity, taken by Viking. To the right, you will see the original picture taken by NASA, straight from their website in 1976. Above the picture to your left and right you will see three different images which, according to NASA, are clearer versions of the pictures taken with improved instruments. In their original caption of the picture, NASA described it as a “huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth.” The authors reasoned it would be a good way to “engage the public and attract attention to Mars.”
Well, according to multiple insiders with extensive backgrounds, this is not the case, and NASA lied about the images and data they collected, as well as fudged data and images. Based on these testimonies, among others, the photos released in 1998 and 2001 were meant to debunk rumours and put the issue to rest.
The Scientists
Dr. John Brandenburg
The picture above, which includes the pyramid, was taken from a lecture given by Dr. John Brandenburg (at the 26:46 mark). Any scientist who publicly shares information that challenges commonly held belief systems, as well as what’s been put out by mainstream media, will always come under public scrutiny and ridicule. But when you have worked on space plasma technologies, nuclear fusion, and advanced space propulsion, and invented the Microwave Electro-Thermal plasma thruster using water propellant for space propulsion, you deserve to be taken seriously.
This is the case with Dr. John Brandenburg. He has also worked for the government with top-secret security clearances on various projects. He worked on the Rocket Plume Regolith Interactions on the Moon and Mars, Vortex theory of Rocket engine design, and the combined Sakharov-Kaluza-Klein theory of Field Unification for purposes of space propulsion and Mars science.
Brandenburg was also the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (Source: page 16 of 18)(source)(source)
He currently works as a consultant to Morningstar Applied Physics. Here is one of his latest research endeavours. Brandenburg also works as a part time instructor of astronomy, physics, and mathematics at Madison College, and other learning institutions in Madison, Wisconsin.
Here’s what he had to say:
“Someone complained to me, John, why do you have to bring Cydonia into this? And I said, because I can read a map. . . . Here’s what’s at Cydonia Mensa. There’s the face on Mars, there’s the D & M pyramid. . . . Here it is in a second shot, this was taken July 25th, this was taken 30 days later, the government was apparently doing a follow-up investigation. These two pictures (pictures above to your left) tell you everything you need to know about what’s at Cydonia Mensa (region of Mars). If you see on a planet that used to be Earth-like, a carved human face and a pyramid within 5 km of each other . . . it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what this all means, you can connect the dots. . . . I mean sometimes, and I can tell you as a scientist and I’ve seen other scientists do this, if you’re cornered, you’re just brazing it out, you hold up a picture of a buffalo and insist that it’s a dog.
You can watch his entire lecture, or read THIS article we recently published on it to get his main points.
Dr Brain O’Leary
Dr. Brian O’Leary was a NASA astronaut, and a member of the sixth group of astronauts selected by NASA in 1967. After this, he was recruited by Carl Sagan to teach at Cornell University in the late 1960s, where he researched and lectured in the Department of Astronomy and Physics. After Cornell, he taught physics, astronomy, and science policy assessment at various academic institutions, including the University of California Berkeley, Hampshire College, and finishing off at Princeton University from 1976 to 1981. After that, he went on to Washington, where he would become an advisor to various political leaders, presidential candidates, and the United States Congress. O’Leary was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as secretary of the American Geophysical Union’s Planetology Section. Furthermore, he was the team leader of the Asteroidal Resources Group for NASA’s Ames Summer Study on Space Settlements. He was a founding board member of the International Association for New Science as well as founding president of the New Energy Movement.
O’Leary was always skeptical about Mars, and there are several others within these circles who were as well. I will be focusing on three.
He had some interesting things to say during a live interview with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot (view full live interview here, read transcript of video here). O’Leary and Carl Sagan were close for a number of years, but had a falling out when O’Leary decided to leave Cornell.
In the interview, he remarked:
“It was… One very cold snowy day in May, I landed in Syracuse, and there was a horizontal blizzard — in May — and I said: That’s it for upstate New York. And Carl thought that was very frivolous. Because, of course, he was kind of an empire-builder kind of guy; and he also had a huge ego.”
After he left, O’Leary started to examine some of Carl’s work. He said that the famous “Face” in Cydonia on Mars — photographed by Viking in 1975, this enormous formation (about a mile across) resembled a human face and created a major buzz at the time — was tampered with by Sagan before being released to the public:
“It was very, very disappointing to me, because not only was Carl wrong, he also fudged data. He published a picture of the ‘Face’ in Parade Magazine, a popular article, saying that the ‘Face’ was just a natural formation, but he doctored the picture to make it not look like a face.”
At this time, Sagan and O’Leary were arguably the world’s two leading experts on Mars, and they entered into many disagreements over that face. This rift was made clear in O’Leary’s publication in 1998, “Carl Sagan & I: On Opposite Sides of Mars.” It can be found in The Case for the Face: Scientists Examine the Evidence for Alien Artifacts on Mars, eds. Stanley V. McDaniel and Monica Rix Paxson. Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press.
I began to realize, just directly from the scientific point of view, not only hearsay, that this man was colluding with NASA, that there might be more to this than before. . . . Carl was on a committee with a number of notable people. There was a report issued by the Brookings Institution in 1961 — and that’s about when I knew Carl, during those years; the ’60s mostly was when I worked closely with him — that he and this other group said: Well, if any ETs ever showed up on the Earth, it has to be covered up. That’s the only way we’re going to be able to manage this, because if we can’t, then it would be too much of a culture shock.
Quite a shocking statement from someone of Brian’s stature, isn’t it? In the interview, he goes on to say that Carl and his colleagues recommended that the governments cover up the UFO phenomenon, and that he believes this provided justification for the ongoing coverup.
When it comes to Mars, as mentioned earlier in the article, Sagan was a big debunker of the face, publishing multiple works stating that it was not a face, there were no pyramids, and that these are all the stuff of conspiracy theories.
What’s interesting here is that not only does O’Leary mention Sagan and his relationship with him, but so does Dr. John Brandenburg. In the lecture he gave, cited earlier in the article, Brandenburg also mentions that he was in contact with Sagan, that he sent Sagan the images of Mars with an analysis of the Face and Pyramids, and that it was clear that that’s what they were. The response from Sagan to Brandenburg? “I never received them.”
Dr. Norman Burgrun
A mechanical engineer, Dr. Bergrun has worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin. He then went on to found Bergrun Engineering and Research. Obviously, he is another qualified individual with an impressive background. You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here.
In THIS interview, Bergrun accuses that agency of “garbling” photos and fudging data, as well as the face that was found in Mars in 1976.
What Does This Tell Us and Why Is It Important?
We live in an age where more and more people are waking up to the secrecy that plagues our planet. Ten years ago, if you were to mention that we are being ‘watched’ through various high tech means, it would have been unbelievable, but thanks to people like Edward Snowden, we know this to be true.
It’s unfortunate to realize that so many facts about our world are kept hidden from us, supposedly for the sake of ‘national security,’ but it’s quite evident that there are also special interests at stake, and secrecy is used to preserve and uphold these interests, whatever they may be.
Today we have many whistleblowers with verified credentials from various agencies and branches of government who are spilling the beans on several different topics, as well as other evidence to corroborate and back up what the say. Our website is full of examples; the ones presented in this article represent just a select few.
While witness testimony is not always deemed credible, when you have up to, arguably, more than one thousand qualified people coming forward, it becomes difficult to ignore.
Today, in 2016, it’s important to keep an open mind, because information will keep emerging that threatens the belief systems of many. Too often we completely shut down any chance of even entertaining this type of information, and that’s done out of fear. When we’ve been shielded from the truth for so long it can indeed be scary, and sometimes downright unbelievable, to wake up to the truth.
Secrecy is a great way for the establishment to keep us in line and prevent the human race from growing, expanding, and exploring, but our consciousness is shifting. We are becoming more aware, more curious, and more passionate about creating a better human experience for the entire race. We are constantly distracted with our own lives, trying to put food on the table and make it through another work week, having our minds, thoughts, and wants programmed into our brains through mass marketing, but many people are no longer resonating with this type of human experience.
It’s time to start asking the bigger questions. It’s time for the human race to leave its infancy and grow into adulthood, and transparency is the first step. Proper progress cannot be made if a civilization tries to move forward blindly, unconscious of the true nature of reality.
A new study published in the Journal of Space Exploration titled “The Mounds of Cydonia: Elegant Geology, or Tetrahedral Geometry and Reactions of Pythagoras and Dirac?” has added to the already robust evidence pointing to “artificial surface interventions” on Mars. The main premise of the article is that these structures, if indeed artificial, “provide an elegant and concise way for an intelligent species to transmit to another intelligence evidence that it understands the basics of tetrahedral geometry, prime numbers, and the quantum mechanics of the electrons spin, thereby giving additional evidence for the possibility of intelligent intervention.”
In 1976, the United States sent a pair of space probes, known as Viking 1 and Viking 2, to Mars. Viking 1 was launched on August 20th, 1975, and Viking 2 was launched in September of the same year. Both probes photographed the surface of Mars from orbit, and one studied the planet from the surface. Since then, more pictures have been taken, and this particular study is based on high resolution images from the ESA Mars express and NASA orbiter HiRise cameras, and deals with the structures that have been found in the Cyndonia region of Mars.
A Mathematical Mystery
An initial analysis, published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 1999, was conducted by Dr. Horace Crater, a physics professor at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), alongside Professor Stanley V. McDaniel. During this time, only the 1976 Viking photos were available, taken from many kilometres above the surface of the planet, with a resolution of 47 metres per pixel. In 2006, the European Space Agency (ESA) rephotographed the same area at a much better resolution, confirming the existence of the “mounds” as well as the tight, precise mound layout.
The recent paper, published in Space Exploration, and also authored by Horace Crater alongside Professor Stanley V. McDaniel, the Founder of The Society for Planetary SETI Research.
McDaniel and Ananda Sirisena, reinforces the strange configuration by comparing three datasets. The resolution of the ESA 2006 photos is 13.7 metres per pixel and that of NASA’s MRO HiRise 2014 images is 5 metres per pixel. This is compared to the original 47m per pixel Viking shots. Presented below are the mounds from all three spacecraft, showing clearly the parallel lines and right-angled triangles formed by their layout. Is there a message implicit in this ground plan?
Below is a set of slides sent to me by one of the authors that he commonly uses in his presentations to elaborate on the uniqueness of the layout and it implications.
Be sure to check out the details in the actual study for an in-depth analysis and more photos of why this geology and these mathematical measurements are so intriguing.
More Strange Anomalies on Mars In the Cydonia Area
As Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. A pyramid structure was also seen. This will be the main topic of this article.
As a quick side note here, for years we’ve been made to believe that Mars is a dry and arid planet, completely devoid of life, but that’s just not the case. Mars actually used to be an Earth-like planet, with giant oceans and extensive greenery. The soil is moist and wet, and there is a very high likelihood that some type of life exists within the interior of Mars today. You can watch that full press conference HERE.
The question to ask here is, did NASA know this information from the Viking data in 1976? According to multiple insiders who have worked for the agency, NASA is not always honest, and we are only being told this now because they believe we are ready to process and accept these facts. For example, Bob Dean, a retired United States Army Command Sergeant Major who also served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO as an intelligence analyst, gave a lecture on footage and photos that had been erased and kept hidden for decades:
Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.
He is one of multiple people accusing NASA of doing this. The Russian government did the same last year. You can read more about that here.
The Giant Face and Pyramid on Mars
Above, you’ll see the original picture taken by Viking which, as you can imagine, created quite the buzz when the world got to see it. To the left, you can see a closeup of the face, as well as a pyramid in close proximity, taken by Viking. To the right, you will see the original picture taken by NASA, straight from their website in 1976. Above the picture to your left and right you will see three different images which, according to NASA, are clearer versions of the pictures taken with improved instruments. In their original caption of the picture, NASA described it as a “huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth.” The authors reasoned it would be a good way to “engage the public and attract attention to Mars.”
Well, according to multiple insiders with extensive backgrounds, this is not the case, and NASA lied about the images and data they collected, as well as fudged data and images. Based on these testimonies, among others, the photos released in 1998 and 2001 were meant to debunk rumours and put the issue to rest.
The Scientists
Dr. John Brandenburg
The picture above, which includes the pyramid, was taken from a lecture given by Dr. John Brandenburg (at the 26:46 mark). Any scientist who publicly shares information that challenges commonly held belief systems, as well as what’s been put out by mainstream media, will always come under public scrutiny and ridicule. But when you have worked on space plasma technologies, nuclear fusion, and advanced space propulsion, and invented the Microwave Electro-Thermal plasma thruster using water propellant for space propulsion, you deserve to be taken seriously.
This is the case with Dr. John Brandenburg. He has also worked for the government with top-secret security clearances on various projects. He worked on the Rocket Plume Regolith Interactions on the Moon and Mars, Vortex theory of Rocket engine design, and the combined Sakharov-Kaluza-Klein theory of Field Unification for purposes of space propulsion and Mars science.
Brandenburg was also the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (Source: page 16 of 18)(source)(source)
He currently works as a consultant to Morningstar Applied Physics. Here is one of his latest research endeavours. Brandenburg also works as a part time instructor of astronomy, physics, and mathematics at Madison College, and other learning institutions in Madison, Wisconsin.
Here’s what he had to say:
“Someone complained to me, John, why do you have to bring Cydonia into this? And I said, because I can read a map. . . . Here’s what’s at Cydonia Mensa. There’s the face on Mars, there’s the D & M pyramid. . . . Here it is in a second shot, this was taken July 25th, this was taken 30 days later, the government was apparently doing a follow-up investigation. These two pictures (pictures above to your left) tell you everything you need to know about what’s at Cydonia Mensa (region of Mars). If you see on a planet that used to be Earth-like, a carved human face and a pyramid within 5 km of each other . . . it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what this all means, you can connect the dots. . . . I mean sometimes, and I can tell you as a scientist and I’ve seen other scientists do this, if you’re cornered, you’re just brazing it out, you hold up a picture of a buffalo and insist that it’s a dog.
You can watch his entire lecture, or read THIS article we recently published on it to get his main points.
Dr Brain O’Leary
Dr. Brian O’Leary was a NASA astronaut, and a member of the sixth group of astronauts selected by NASA in 1967. After this, he was recruited by Carl Sagan to teach at Cornell University in the late 1960s, where he researched and lectured in the Department of Astronomy and Physics. After Cornell, he taught physics, astronomy, and science policy assessment at various academic institutions, including the University of California Berkeley, Hampshire College, and finishing off at Princeton University from 1976 to 1981. After that, he went on to Washington, where he would become an advisor to various political leaders, presidential candidates, and the United States Congress. O’Leary was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as secretary of the American Geophysical Union’s Planetology Section. Furthermore, he was the team leader of the Asteroidal Resources Group for NASA’s Ames Summer Study on Space Settlements. He was a founding board member of the International Association for New Science as well as founding president of the New Energy Movement.
O’Leary was always skeptical about Mars, and there are several others within these circles who were as well. I will be focusing on three.
He had some interesting things to say during a live interview with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot (view full live interview here, read transcript of video here). O’Leary and Carl Sagan were close for a number of years, but had a falling out when O’Leary decided to leave Cornell.
In the interview, he remarked:
“It was… One very cold snowy day in May, I landed in Syracuse, and there was a horizontal blizzard — in May — and I said: That’s it for upstate New York. And Carl thought that was very frivolous. Because, of course, he was kind of an empire-builder kind of guy; and he also had a huge ego.”
After he left, O’Leary started to examine some of Carl’s work. He said that the famous “Face” in Cydonia on Mars — photographed by Viking in 1975, this enormous formation (about a mile across) resembled a human face and created a major buzz at the time — was tampered with by Sagan before being released to the public:
“It was very, very disappointing to me, because not only was Carl wrong, he also fudged data. He published a picture of the ‘Face’ in Parade Magazine, a popular article, saying that the ‘Face’ was just a natural formation, but he doctored the picture to make it not look like a face.”
At this time, Sagan and O’Leary were arguably the world’s two leading experts on Mars, and they entered into many disagreements over that face. This rift was made clear in O’Leary’s publication in 1998, “Carl Sagan & I: On Opposite Sides of Mars.” It can be found in The Case for the Face: Scientists Examine the Evidence for Alien Artifacts on Mars, eds. Stanley V. McDaniel and Monica Rix Paxson. Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press.
I began to realize, just directly from the scientific point of view, not only hearsay, that this man was colluding with NASA, that there might be more to this than before. . . . Carl was on a committee with a number of notable people. There was a report issued by the Brookings Institution in 1961 — and that’s about when I knew Carl, during those years; the ’60s mostly was when I worked closely with him — that he and this other group said: Well, if any ETs ever showed up on the Earth, it has to be covered up. That’s the only way we’re going to be able to manage this, because if we can’t, then it would be too much of a culture shock.
Quite a shocking statement from someone of Brian’s stature, isn’t it? In the interview, he goes on to say that Carl and his colleagues recommended that the governments cover up the UFO phenomenon, and that he believes this provided justification for the ongoing coverup.
When it comes to Mars, as mentioned earlier in the article, Sagan was a big debunker of the face, publishing multiple works stating that it was not a face, there were no pyramids, and that these are all the stuff of conspiracy theories.
What’s interesting here is that not only does O’Leary mention Sagan and his relationship with him, but so does Dr. John Brandenburg. In the lecture he gave, cited earlier in the article, Brandenburg also mentions that he was in contact with Sagan, that he sent Sagan the images of Mars with an analysis of the Face and Pyramids, and that it was clear that that’s what they were. The response from Sagan to Brandenburg? “I never received them.”
Dr. Norman Burgrun
A mechanical engineer, Dr. Bergrun has worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin. He then went on to found Bergrun Engineering and Research. Obviously, he is another qualified individual with an impressive background. You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here.
In THIS interview, Bergrun accuses that agency of “garbling” photos and fudging data, as well as the face that was found in Mars in 1976.
What Does This Tell Us and Why Is It Important?
We live in an age where more and more people are waking up to the secrecy that plagues our planet. Ten years ago, if you were to mention that we are being ‘watched’ through various high tech means, it would have been unbelievable, but thanks to people like Edward Snowden, we know this to be true.
It’s unfortunate to realize that so many facts about our world are kept hidden from us, supposedly for the sake of ‘national security,’ but it’s quite evident that there are also special interests at stake, and secrecy is used to preserve and uphold these interests, whatever they may be.
Today we have many whistleblowers with verified credentials from various agencies and branches of government who are spilling the beans on several different topics, as well as other evidence to corroborate and back up what the say. Our website is full of examples; the ones presented in this article represent just a select few.
While witness testimony is not always deemed credible, when you have up to, arguably, more than one thousand qualified people coming forward, it becomes difficult to ignore.
Today, in 2016, it’s important to keep an open mind, because information will keep emerging that threatens the belief systems of many. Too often we completely shut down any chance of even entertaining this type of information, and that’s done out of fear. When we’ve been shielded from the truth for so long it can indeed be scary, and sometimes downright unbelievable, to wake up to the truth.
Secrecy is a great way for the establishment to keep us in line and prevent the human race from growing, expanding, and exploring, but our consciousness is shifting. We are becoming more aware, more curious, and more passionate about creating a better human experience for the entire race. We are constantly distracted with our own lives, trying to put food on the table and make it through another work week, having our minds, thoughts, and wants programmed into our brains through mass marketing, but many people are no longer resonating with this type of human experience.
It’s time to start asking the bigger questions. It’s time for the human race to leave its infancy and grow into adulthood, and transparency is the first step. Proper progress cannot be made if a civilization tries to move forward blindly, unconscious of the true nature of reality.
Sterke aanwijzingen dat ‘heuvels’ op Mars zijn achtergelaten door intelligente beschaving
Sterke aanwijzingen dat ‘heuvels’ op Mars zijn achtergelaten door intelligente beschaving
Is het gezicht op Mars een geologische formatie of achtergelaten door een intelligente beschaving?
Wetenschappers hebben de foto’s van Cydonia nog eens bestudeerd en schrijven over hun bevindingen in het Journal of Space Exploration.
De onderzoekers hebben afbeeldingen bekeken die gemaakt zijn door de Mars Express van de ESA en de HiRISE-camera aan boord van de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter van de NASA.
Kunstmatige ingrepen
Ze ontdekten een geometrisch patroon in de verspreiding van de ‘heuvels’ op het Marsoppervlak.
De wetenschappers merken op dat de foto’s die de Viking-sondes van de NASA naar de aarde stuurden al sterke aanwijzingen bevatten voor wat zij ‘kunstmatige ingrepen’ aan het oppervlak noemen.
De ‘heuvels’ zijn, indien achtergelaten door een beschaving, een elegante en beknopte manier om als intelligent ras aan een andere intelligentie kenbaar te maken dat je kennis hebt van geometrie, priemgetallen en de kwantummechanische eigenschappen van de elektronenspin, klinkt het.
Bewijs
Vorig jaar claimden onderzoekers dat de Viking-landers daadwerkelijk bewijs voor leven hebben gevonden op de rode planeet.
In het blad Astrobiology schrijven ze dat het bewijs wijst in de richting van micro-organismen die zich hebben aangepast aan de extreme omstandigheden op Mars.
Leven op Mars is een mogelijkheid die overwogen moet worden, zo concludeerden de wetenschappers.
UFO OBSERVEERT CHINESE ACTIVITEITEN OP DE MAAN ( VIDEO )
UFO OBSERVEERT CHINESE ACTIVITEITEN OP DE MAAN ( VIDEO )
Een veel voorkomend verschijnsel tijdens de Amerikaanse Apollo missies naar de maan was dat deze ruimtereizigers nooit erg lang alleen waren.
Regelmatig doken er vreemde lichten op, waarbij het leek alsof ze werden geobserveerd. Nu gebeurt hetzelfde met Chinese activiteiten op de maan.
Onze (kunstmatige) maan verbergt nog steeds veel geheimen voor ons. Astronomen houden zich druk bezig met verre planeten en zonnestelsels en van degene die zo goed als bij ons op de stoep staat, weten we eigenlijk heel weinig.
Wanneer we ervan uit gaan dat er werkelijk door NASA missies naar de maan zijn gevlogen, dan is er één aspect dat opvalt in de meeste van die Apollo trips. Het lijkt namelijk alsof bij alles wat mensen dan op de maan of in de buurt ervan doen, er iets is dat hen in de gaten houdt.
Hierna zomaar enkele voorbeelden daarvan.
De volgende opname is van de Apollo11 missie, waarbij duidelijk rechtsboven een UFO zichtbaar is.
De volgende opname is van de Apollo 12 missie en wederom is er duidelijk een UFO waar te nemen die de zaak observeert.
Bij de Apollo 16 missie van hetzelfde laken een pak.
China is op dit moment actief bezig op de maan.
Ze zijn er inmiddels in geslaagd om een onbemande ruimtesonde te laten landen op de maan en er is ook een zogenaamde rover meegekomen, vergelijkbaar met de onbemande karretjes die NASA gebruikt op Mars.
Die Chinese rover heeft nu een foto gemaakt van de sonde die daar staat, maar wanneer je goed kijkt, dan staat er nog iets op die foto.
Aan de rechterkant is, net zoals bij de Apollo missies naar de maan, duidelijk een UFO te ontdekken.
Wanneer iets meer contrast en kleur aan de drie lichten wordt toegevoegd, ontstaat het volgende beeld:
Al met al betekent dit dat wij mensen niet de enigen zijn die zich bezighouden met activiteiten op de maan.
Iemand die zeker weet dat er wel degelijk activiteiten op de maan zijn, is NASA klokkenluider Dr. Ken Johnston, waarover wij eerder het volgende schreven:
Dr. Ken Johnston heeft als consultant bij diverse afdelingen van NASA gewerkt. Zo trainde hij onder andere de astronauten die de Lunar Module moesten bedienen bij de landingen op de maan tijdens de Apollo-missies.
Johnston is getuige geweest van de manipulatie van beeldmateriaal door NASA in Houston tijdens de Apollo-reizen.
Soms komen er beelden boven water uit de privé-verzameling van Ken Johnston, zoals de volgende, waarbij duidelijk te zien is dat er zich op de maan, links van de Lunar Module, een basis bevindt.
Deze foto is gemaakt tijdens één van de Apollo missies, is door Ken onderschept bij NASA en deze foto zul je dan ook niet terugvinden in de NASA archieven. Ken heeft ook een periode gewerkt in het Lunar Receiving Lab, de plek waar de astronauten en datgene wat ze hadden meegenomen van de maan een tijdlang in quarantaine werden gehouden.
Wanneer er iets meer contrast wordt toegevoegd, wordt het beeld een stuk duidelijker en zie je ook duidelijk de structuren van gebouwen.
Enkele dagen geleden heeft Johnston Sr. op zijn website bekendgemaakt dat hij zijn complete archief met fotomateriaal zal doneren aan het UFO Museum & Research Centre in Roswell, New Mexico.
Hij doet dit omdat Ken de stad Roswell ziet als een bijzondere plek, waar heel veel mensen samen komen die belangstelling hebben voor buitenaardse zaken.
Wie belangstelling heeft voor bijzondere dingen raden wij aan te kijken naar het volgende interview dat Project Camelot aan het begin van dit jaar had met Ken Johnston Sr.
De man die zegt dat hij hele duidelijke foto’s heeft gezien van koepels en andere gebouwen op de maan en zeker weet dat er bases zijn zowel op de maan als ook op Mars.
De lucht bevat zones waar stralingsniveaus zo hoog zijn dat de straling mogelijk de gezondheid van vliegtuiginzittenden aantast. Dat publiceert een door de NASA opgezet onderzoeksteam in vakblad Space Weather. De onderzoekers stellen dat vliegtuigen deze zones in de toekomst moeten vermijden om elk gezondheidsrisico te minimaliseren.
Het was al bekend dat vliegen op grote hoogte ons blootstelt aan kosmische straling. De stralingsdosis op een vlucht van Amsterdam naar Tokio komt ongeveer overeen met die van een röntgenfoto van de borstkas.
Bij de meeste vluchten is de stralingsdosis niet veel hoger dan die van een röntgenscan. Beeld: Pixabay.
Vliegtuigen met onderzoeksapparatuur hebben nu aangetoond dat er luchtzones zijn waarin het stralingsniveau meer dan twee keer zo hoog is als gemiddeld. Het onderzoek werd verricht in het kader van het ARMAS-programma van de Amerikaanse lucht- en ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. Dit programma is gericht op de ontwikkeling van nieuwe methoden om de hoeveelheid straling op grote hoogten te meten.
Gedurende de 265 onderzoeksvluchten hielden de stralingsniveaus zich over het algemeen aan het verwachte patroon. Bij zes vluchten vertoonden de niveaus echter plotseling een enorme piek, alsof de vliegtuigen dwars door een wolk van straling vlogen.
Geomagnetische stormen
‘We hebben meerdere gevallen waargenomen waarbij de blootstelling verdubbelde tijdens het vliegen door zo’n ‘wolk’’, zegt ARMAS-hoofdonderzoeker W. Kent Tobiska. In sommige gevallen werden zelfs nog hogere waarden gemeten. Die resultaten zijn echter niet in de publicatie meegenomen, omdat de onderzoekers eerst alternatieve verklaringen voor deze extreme waarden willen uitsluiten.
De pieken traden tegelijk op met geomagnetische stormen. Dat plaatst hoogenergetische elektronen afkomstig van zonnewind in de rol van verdachte. Deze elektronen worden door het aardmagnetisch veld gevangen gehouden in de buitenste vanallengordel.
Volgens Tobiska kan een geomagnetische storm de hoogenergetische elektronen uit hun benarde positie bevrijden. ‘Deze elektronen worden dan de bovenste lagen van de atmosfeer in gedreven. Daar botsen ze met stikstof- en zuurstofatomen en -moleculen. Dat veroorzaakt een fontein van secundaire en tertiaire straling, waarschijnlijk in de vorm van gammastraling.’ Deze gammastraling is volgens Tobiska wat de ARMAS-vluchten op verschillende plekken maten.
Zwangerschap
Momenteel zijn er geen vaste standaarden voor stralingsveiligheid in de luchtvaart. Tobiska denkt dat dit de komende jaren zal veranderen. Het absolute risico is weliswaar laag – een röntgenscan van de borstkas verhoogt de kans op dodelijke kanker met slechts 0,0005 procent – maar volgens de onderzoeker moet dit worden afgewogen tegen het grote aantal vluchten en de mogelijkheid het risico te vermijden.
‘Het betreft vooral bemanningsleden,’ zegt Tobiska. ‘Maatregelen zouden echter zeker ook frequent flyers en zelfs foetussen tijdens het eerste trimester van de zwangerschap begunstigen.’
ARMAS werkt aan een methode om de stralingswolken via satellietgegevens en sensoren in de lucht te traceren. Daarmee kunnen vliegtuigen worden aangezet tot een andere koers om de gevaarlijke zones te vermijden.
Hoewel fysici al jaren tevergeefs zoeken, is er geen enkele reden om te twijfelen aan het bestaan van donkeremateriedeeltjes. Onderzoekers van de Radboud Universiteit stellen in een nieuw artikel op de voorpublicatiesite Arxiv dat supersymmetrie nog altijd een keurige verklaring biedt voor het bestaan van het mysterieuze spul.
Een samengestelde afbeelding van sterrenstelsels, gas en donkere materie. Bron: Nasa
Dat nog niemand donkeremateriedeeltjes heeft gevonden, betekent niet dat ze niet bestaan, stelt een groep deeltjesfysici van onder andere de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen. De fysici ontwikkelden een analysemethode die een bijna afgeschreven, maar elegante oplossing voor donkere materie, supersymmetrie (SUSY), nog eens tegen het licht hield. En wat bleek? De huidige detectoren zijn nog niet gevoelig genoeg om dit theoretische model te kunnen testen. Het is dus niet zo gek dat er niets gevonden is, vinden zij.
Daarmee blijft supersymmetrie overeind als mogelijke verklaring voor het raadsel van donkere materie. Maar liefst 85 procent van de materie in ons heelal lijkt te ontbreken. Het effect van de zwaartekracht van die ontbrekende massa is duidelijk te zien, maar de deeltjes waaruit die materie bestaat zijn nog nooit waargenomen. Al decennia lang wordt tevergeefs gezocht naar deze donkere materie. Het is dus niet gek dat sommige mensen op zoek gaan naar andere verklaringen. Theoretisch fysicus Erik Verlinde sprong hier eind vorig jaar bijvoorbeeld handig op in door een nieuwe verklaring te geven voor de zwaartekracht, zodat donkere materie niet langer nodig is om het raadsel van de missende massa op te lossen.
Vergeten modellen keren terug
Volgens de fysici is een dergelijke drastische aanpak echter niet nodig. Het oude idee van supersymmetrie voldoet nog altijd. ‘De allereerste SUSY-modellen zijn bijna helemaal uitgesloten’, zegt deeltjesfysicus Melissa van Beekveld van de Radboud Universiteit die bij het onderzoek betrokken is. ‘Daardoor denken veel mensen dat SUSY donkere materie niet kan verklaren. Maar die eerste modellen zijn te beperkt.’ Toen die modellen ontwikkeld werden, deden fysici allerlei aannames, omdat de computerkracht ontbrak om alle mogelijkheden te berekenen. Nu de onderzoekers toegang hebben tot betere computers kunnen zij uitgebreider uitzoeken of de meest populaire subcategorie van de supersymmetrie modellen, genaamd ‘natuurlijke’ SUSY-modellen donkere materie kunnen verklaren.
Uit de analyses van de onderzoekers kwam een elegant SUSY-model naar voren dat een specifiek supersymmetrisch deeltje als beste kandidaat voor donkere materie aanwees. De eigenschappen van dit deeltje komen verrassend goed overeen met hints uit onafhankelijke metingen van onder andere het AMS-02 experiment, dat gemonteerd is aan het internationale ruimtestation ISS, en de Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescoop, die in een baan om de aarde draait. Beide zoeken indirect naar donkere materie.
De fysici stellen bovendien dat het op dit moment bij dat soort indirecte hints zal blijven. Uit hun berekeningen blijkt namelijk dat de huidige experimenten onvoldoende gevoelig zijn voor een directe meting.
Het is, met andere woorden, niet zo verrassend dat nog niemand een dergelijk deeltje heeft gezien. ‘We hebben aangetoond dat er geen problemen zijn met SUSY’, zegt deeltjesfysicus Sascha Caron van de Radboud Universiteit. ‘SUSY werkt nog steeds fantastisch en geeft je precies het donkeremateriedeeltje dat je wilt.’
Onwaarschijnlijke massa
SUSY-modellen zijn uitbreidingen op het standaardmodel van de deeltjesfysica, dat alle bekende deeltjes en hun onderlinge interacties beschrijft. Ze werden bedacht in de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw en probeerden een simpele en elegante verklaring te geven voor donkere materie. Bovendien geven ze een verklaring voor de gemeten massa van het higgsdeeltje, die onwaarschijnlijk laag bleek. ‘De kans dat het higgsdeeltje deze massa heeft, is te vergelijken met de kans dat je vijf keer achter elkaar de Staatslotterij wint ’, zegt Van Beekveld. Daar worden natuurkundigen een beetje ongemakkelijk van. De natuurlijke SUSY-modellen geven echter een verklaring voor deze opmerkelijk lage massa, een extra reden waarom veel fysici hopen dat het SUSY-idee uiteindelijk in metingen zal worden bevestigd.
Donkere materie optimisme
Het Xenon1T experiment speurt naar donkere materie in het ondergrondse lab Gran Sasso in Italië
De bevestiging waar fysici naar zoeken is de vondst van een SUSY-deeltje in een van hun experimenten – iets dat binnenkort al mogelijk is. ‘Als donkere materie bestaat uit de deeltjes die natuurlijke SUSY-modellen voorspellen, dan zal het in de komende jaren gevonden worden door Xenon1T’, zegt Caron. Xenon1T is een experiment in Gran Sasso dat net begonnen is met meten. Ook de ATLAS-detector van de deeltjesversneller LHC gaat naar zo’n donkeremateriekandidaat zoeken. ‘De eerste studies van ATLAS kunnen we al over een paar maanden verwachten’, zegt Van Beekveld.
Theoretisch fysicus Christopher McCabe van GRAPPA (GRavitation AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam), die niet bij het onderzoek betrokken was, is niet verrast door de resultaten. ‘Maar de methode die ze ervoor gebruiken is slim bedacht’. McCabe is naar eigen zeggen ‘heel optimistisch’ over het bestaan van een SUSY-deeltje dat donkere materie verklaart. ‘Met name omdat er geweldige experimenten zijn, zoals Xenon1T en de LHC, die dit kunnen testen. Pas als er over tien jaar nog niets gevonden is, word ik pessimistischer.’
Dit soort zonnezeilen kunnen best afremmen bij Proxima Centauri. Beeld: breakthroughinitiatives.org
Rene Heller van het Max Planck Institute voor zonnestelselonderzoek bedacht samen met de onafhankelijke ruimteonderzoeker Michael Hippke een nieuw antwoord. We kunnen een schip met zonnezeil ook afremmen met behulp van sterrenkracht.
Ons buurstersysteem, Alpha Centauri, is meer dan vier lichtjaar bij ons vandaan. Technologieën op basis van chemische voortstuwing wegen teveel om dit soort enorme afstanden te overbruggen. Ze zouden er ongeveer 100.000 jaar over doen om Alpha Centauri te bereiken.
Grafeen
Een andere optie is daarom handiger. Wanneer je met een laser vanaf de aarde op een ultralicht zonnezeil gemaakt van grafeen schiet, kun je dat schip binnen een paar minuten al versnellen tot twintig procent van de lichtsnelheid. Dat betekent dat een interstellaire sonde het Alpha-Centauri-systeem, en de daarin aanwezige aarde-achtige exoplaneet Proxima b, al 20 jaar na de lancering kan bereiken.
Vorig jaar maakte miljardair Yuri Millner nog 100 miljoen dollar vrij om een project van de grond te krijgen dat kleine satellietjes naar het systeem te sturen en de eventuele bewoners van dichtbij te bekijken.
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Genieten van het uitzicht
Helaas zal een ruimteschip op een dergelijke snelheid binnen een paar uur voorbij het stersysteem schieten. ‘Dat is nauwelijks voldoende om van het uitzicht te genieten, laat staan om serieuze wetenschap over de bewoonbaarheid van een planeet te doen’, zegt Heller.
Om af te remmen, zou het ruimteschip brandstof en een remraket kunnen meenemen. En je zou het zonnezeil ook nog met lasertechnologie in z’n achteruit kunnen zetten. Maar dergelijke opties wegen wel veel, en zouden ook nog eens onderweg stuk kunnen gaan.
Daarom stellen Hippke en Heller nu een andere optie voor, waarbij ze de zwaartekracht van de sterren waar ze langs vliegen combineren met de stralingsdruk van de fotonen die ze uitzenden. Op die manier kunnen zij het ruimteschip in een stabiele baan rond een van de sterren krijgen. Stralingsdruk kan vervolgens gebruikt worden om het schip naar een baan rond Proxima b te tillen, die draait in de leefbare zone om de ster Proxima Centauri.
Gewicht beperken
Dat idee is volgens Avi Loeb van Harvard University ‘wetenschappelijk mogelijk en heel interessant’. Zijn grootste zorg is praktisch. ‘Je moet onthouden dat een zonnezeil wel elektronica nodig heeft, en die elektronica weegt ook wat’, zegt hij.
Om het gewicht tot een minimum te beperken, mag het zeil maar een paar atomen dik zijn. Dat betekent dat het verschillende ordegroottes dunner is dan de golflengtes van het licht dat het wil weerkaatsen. Daardoor zou het zonnezeil niet heel weerspiegelend zijn – een probleem, omdat het zeilschip zijn vaart juist krijgt vanwege het weerkaatsen van de fotonen die erop vallen. ‘Het lijkt niet mogelijk om het gewicht te beperken en toch een stevig en weerspiegelend zeil te maken’, zegt Loeb.
Hippke geeft toe dat dat een probleem is, maar hij ziet wel oplossingen. Een laagje siliconen van een atoom dik zou de spiegelkracht van het zonnezeil volgens hem enorm vergroten, en juist dat soort typen materialen worden op dit moment door ingenieurs ontwikkeld.
From September 14-25, 1952, theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) coordinated a huge military exercise in the North Sea and North Atlantic. Titled Mainbrace, the exercise utilized the armed forces of the UK, the United States, Norway, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. No less than 85,000 military personnel took part in the operation, the purpose of which was to demonstrate to the former Soviet Union that NATO was fully prepared to withstand, and counter, any possible Soviet attack on western Europe.
Barely one day into the exercise, at least two reports of UFO encounters were filed with authorities by naval personnel on board ships in the Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. The first such encounter involved a “blue/green triangle,” which was observed flying over the sea at a speed estimated to be around 1,500 mph. Later that same day, three unidentified objects, travelling at around the same speed, were seen flying in a triangular formation. All three craft reportedly emitted a “white light exhaust.”
As part of the British Royal Air Force’s involvement in Mainbrace, 269 Squadron – which was based at RAF Ballykelly, Ireland – was posted to RAF Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England. It was at Topcliffe, on September 19, 1952, that one of the most historically important UFO sightings was reported by serving members of the RAF. A September 20, 1952 document written and signed by Flight Lieutenant Dolphin of RAF Topcliffe – and sent to Headquarters, No. 18 Group – states: “In accordance with your instructions, herewith a report on the unidentified object which was seen over the station earlier today.”
The report referred to by Dolphin was prepared by one of the main witnesses, Flight Lieutenant John Kilburn, who revealed the following:
“Sir, I have the honour to report the following incident which I witnessed on Friday, 19th September, 1952. I was standing with four other aircrew personnel of No. 269 Squadron watching a Meteor fighter gradually descending. The Meteor was at approximately 5000 feet and approaching from the east. [Flight Officer R.N.] Paris suddenly noticed a white object in the sky at a height between ten and twenty thousand feet some five miles astern of the Meteor.”
Kilburn continued: “The object was silver in colour and circular in shape, it appeared to be travelling at a much slower speed than the Meteor but was on a similar course. It maintained the slow forward speed for a few seconds before commencing to descend, swinging in a pendular motion during descent similar to a falling sycamore leaf…After a few seconds, the object stopped its pendulous motion and its descent and began to rotate about its own axis.”
Then, Kilburn noted, something amazing happened: “Suddenly it accelerated at an incredible speed towards the west turning onto a south-easterly heading before disappearing. All this occurred in a matter of fifteen to twenty seconds. The movements of the object were not identifiable with anything I have seen in the air and the rate of acceleration was unbelievable.”
As well as the documentation filed by Kilburn (which was supported by the testimony of five of his colleagues), a number of reports from members of the public reached RAF Topcliffe too, all of which were received by Group Captain J.A.C. Stratton and forwarded to the Air Ministry at Whitehall, London for scrutiny.
The major American presence in Mainbrace was the huge aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. On September 20 (just one day after the incident at RAF Topcliffe), an American press-photographer, named Wallace Litwin, was on board the Roosevelt to photograph U.S. planes taking to the skies from the aircraft carrier.
It was while securing the pictures that Litwin sighted a circular, silver object maneuvering above the American fleet. Litwin, who was shooting with color film, managed to obtain three photos of the UFO. Significantly, all the photos had the Roosevelt in shot – something that gave the pictures depth of field and assisted in determining the size of the UFO, which, according to Litwin’s report, was considerable.
Twenty-four hours later, a similar object was seen over the North Sea. Again, it was silver in color and circular in shape. On that occasion, an interception was attempted by a number of RAF fighter aircraft engaged in the exercise. The UFO easily outdistanced itself from the planes.
Then there is the testimony of William Maguire, formerly of the RAF. During Mainbrace he was posted to RAF Sandwich, Kent, England where something seriously strange was going down. In Maguire’s own words…
“My memory was that everything was in a complete flap. Normally, in a military situation everything is ordered, regular and set out. But here was a situation that was plainly out of control. Mechanics were flying about all over the place.”
As Maguire got his bearings, and the situation was revealed to him in its starkest form, the reasons behind the blind panic became staggeringly clear: a huge, unidentified aerial object was being tracked on the radar-scopes high over the English Channel: “The mechanics were being blamed for not calibrating the instruments properly; we were being blamed for not interpreting the readings correctly. Every single instrument on the base was showing this enormous object sitting up at an unbelievable height. It was the size of a warship and it just stood there.”
Now we move on to the world of the CIA: as part of their monitoring of foreign press agencies, the CIA obtained a copy of a Norwegian newspaper clipping concerning an incident that had occurred on September 18. Published in a Harstad, Norway newspaper, a CIA translation of the article reads as follows:
“On 18 September, at 1400 hours, three forestry workers who were working right outside Kirknes, noticed a flat, round object hovering motionless at about 500 meters altitude. The object appeared to have a diameter of 15-20 meters. After the workers had observed the object for a while, it suddenly flew away at great speed in a northwesterly direction. It appears that only these workers saw the object; they swear, however, that their report is true.”
It must be said that the characteristics displayed by the UFO were very similar to those described at RAF Topcliffe just one day later.
And we’re still not done with Mainbrace. In his book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Edward J. Ruppelt – former head of the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book – revealed that a British Royal Air Force intelligence officer, on an exchange visit to the Pentagon, admitted it was the Mainbrace sightings that led the British Government to officially recognize the UFO.
Curiously, Ruppelt also stated in his book that prior to the commencement of the NATO exercise, it had been suggested by someone in the Pentagon that Naval Intelligence should “keep an eye open for UFOs” during Mainbrace.
Why someone might have had advance notice that UFOs were likely to turn up during Mainbrace remains a mystery to this day. Unless, of course, NATO knows better…
From September 14-25, 1952, theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) coordinated a huge military exercise in the North Sea and North Atlantic. Titled Mainbrace, the exercise utilized the armed forces of the UK, the United States, Norway, Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. No less than 85,000 military personnel took part in the operation, the purpose of which was to demonstrate to the former Soviet Union that NATO was fully prepared to withstand, and counter, any possible Soviet attack on western Europe.
Barely one day into the exercise, at least two reports of UFO encounters were filed with authorities by naval personnel on board ships in the Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. The first such encounter involved a “blue/green triangle,” which was observed flying over the sea at a speed estimated to be around 1,500 mph. Later that same day, three unidentified objects, travelling at around the same speed, were seen flying in a triangular formation. All three craft reportedly emitted a “white light exhaust.”
As part of the British Royal Air Force’s involvement in Mainbrace, 269 Squadron – which was based at RAF Ballykelly, Ireland – was posted to RAF Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England. It was at Topcliffe, on September 19, 1952, that one of the most historically important UFO sightings was reported by serving members of the RAF. A September 20, 1952 document written and signed by Flight Lieutenant Dolphin of RAF Topcliffe – and sent to Headquarters, No. 18 Group – states: “In accordance with your instructions, herewith a report on the unidentified object which was seen over the station earlier today.”
The report referred to by Dolphin was prepared by one of the main witnesses, Flight Lieutenant John Kilburn, who revealed the following:
“Sir, I have the honour to report the following incident which I witnessed on Friday, 19th September, 1952. I was standing with four other aircrew personnel of No. 269 Squadron watching a Meteor fighter gradually descending. The Meteor was at approximately 5000 feet and approaching from the east. [Flight Officer R.N.] Paris suddenly noticed a white object in the sky at a height between ten and twenty thousand feet some five miles astern of the Meteor.”
Kilburn continued: “The object was silver in colour and circular in shape, it appeared to be travelling at a much slower speed than the Meteor but was on a similar course. It maintained the slow forward speed for a few seconds before commencing to descend, swinging in a pendular motion during descent similar to a falling sycamore leaf…After a few seconds, the object stopped its pendulous motion and its descent and began to rotate about its own axis.”
Then, Kilburn noted, something amazing happened: “Suddenly it accelerated at an incredible speed towards the west turning onto a south-easterly heading before disappearing. All this occurred in a matter of fifteen to twenty seconds. The movements of the object were not identifiable with anything I have seen in the air and the rate of acceleration was unbelievable.”
As well as the documentation filed by Kilburn (which was supported by the testimony of five of his colleagues), a number of reports from members of the public reached RAF Topcliffe too, all of which were received by Group Captain J.A.C. Stratton and forwarded to the Air Ministry at Whitehall, London for scrutiny.
The major American presence in Mainbrace was the huge aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. On September 20 (just one day after the incident at RAF Topcliffe), an American press-photographer, named Wallace Litwin, was on board the Roosevelt to photograph U.S. planes taking to the skies from the aircraft carrier.
It was while securing the pictures that Litwin sighted a circular, silver object maneuvering above the American fleet. Litwin, who was shooting with color film, managed to obtain three photos of the UFO. Significantly, all the photos had the Roosevelt in shot – something that gave the pictures depth of field and assisted in determining the size of the UFO, which, according to Litwin’s report, was considerable.
Twenty-four hours later, a similar object was seen over the North Sea. Again, it was silver in color and circular in shape. On that occasion, an interception was attempted by a number of RAF fighter aircraft engaged in the exercise. The UFO easily outdistanced itself from the planes.
Then there is the testimony of William Maguire, formerly of the RAF. During Mainbrace he was posted to RAF Sandwich, Kent, England where something seriously strange was going down. In Maguire’s own words…
“My memory was that everything was in a complete flap. Normally, in a military situation everything is ordered, regular and set out. But here was a situation that was plainly out of control. Mechanics were flying about all over the place.”
As Maguire got his bearings, and the situation was revealed to him in its starkest form, the reasons behind the blind panic became staggeringly clear: a huge, unidentified aerial object was being tracked on the radar-scopes high over the English Channel: “The mechanics were being blamed for not calibrating the instruments properly; we were being blamed for not interpreting the readings correctly. Every single instrument on the base was showing this enormous object sitting up at an unbelievable height. It was the size of a warship and it just stood there.”
Now we move on to the world of the CIA: as part of their monitoring of foreign press agencies, the CIA obtained a copy of a Norwegian newspaper clipping concerning an incident that had occurred on September 18. Published in a Harstad, Norway newspaper, a CIA translation of the article reads as follows:
“On 18 September, at 1400 hours, three forestry workers who were working right outside Kirknes, noticed a flat, round object hovering motionless at about 500 meters altitude. The object appeared to have a diameter of 15-20 meters. After the workers had observed the object for a while, it suddenly flew away at great speed in a northwesterly direction. It appears that only these workers saw the object; they swear, however, that their report is true.”
It must be said that the characteristics displayed by the UFO were very similar to those described at RAF Topcliffe just one day later.
And we’re still not done with Mainbrace. In his book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Edward J. Ruppelt – former head of the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book – revealed that a British Royal Air Force intelligence officer, on an exchange visit to the Pentagon, admitted it was the Mainbrace sightings that led the British Government to officially recognize the UFO.
Curiously, Ruppelt also stated in his book that prior to the commencement of the NATO exercise, it had been suggested by someone in the Pentagon that Naval Intelligence should “keep an eye open for UFOs” during Mainbrace.
Why someone might have had advance notice that UFOs were likely to turn up during Mainbrace remains a mystery to this day. Unless, of course, NATO knows better…
Every so often, those of us who are invested in the serious study of alleged UFO craft hear some incredible stories, which variously involve the testimony of trained pilots and other witnesses to unusual things seen in the skies. Countless numbers of stories that involve this sort of interaction between airmen and exotic-looking aircraft can be found by performing online searches, with the occasional appearance of flight audio that recounts such events.
Recently, a story along these lines was shared with me by one of my listeners, who had recently heard this subject being discussed on the The Gralien Report Podcast. Thus, she felt compelled to share the following account with me, in hopes that somebody else may have heard about what may have been going on recently in the skies over Indiana. Was it a UFO, or something else?
Here’s the message that appeared in my inbox only a few days ago:
I heard something today and thought that with your contacts in the ufo field you might be able to find something out. My sister called me today and told me that her husbands best friend (who is a pilot) was flying in Indiana airspace last night. He received a call over his radio redirecting him from his original flight plan. He said everyone was being redirected out of the area. At the time he said he was close enough to look into this no fly zone and he saw a very bright light. He also said that F18’s were in the air. He said that the chatter over the radio from the other pilots was all about this bright light, the F18’s, and the fact that they had orders to shoot!
I did a google search to see if I could find any news reports of ufo sightings in Indiana last night but was unsuccessful.
In truth, this was indeed the very first I had heard of such an incident, and a subsequent online search seemed to turn up few further details.
In the past, various incidents that involved the appearance of UFOs in midst of Fighter Pilots have occasionally resulted in disaster. Perhaps the most infamous, taken directly from the files of Project Blue Book, dealt with the death of 25-year-old pilot named Captain Thomas F. Mantell, on January 7, 1948. Mantell, of the Kentucky Air National Guard, had been pursuing what was believed to be a “flying saucer” at a high altitude, and in attempting to reach it himself, likely passed out due to loss of oxygen or similar circumstances, thus resulting in the crash of his jet. Rather tragically, Edward Ruppelt would later surmise that the entire Mantell incident may have involved nothing more than a high-altitude weather balloon, which, from Mantell’s perspective, could certainly have resembled a huge, silvery flying disc.
So far as the more recent incident over Indiana goes, few details have been made available with regard to just what may have been going on… and fortunately, there have been no reports of ill-fated pursuits of strange UFO craft on part of the U.S. Airforce this time around, either.
UFO Disclosure lobbyist Stephen Bassett has started up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his lobbying project to bring about an announcement from the United States government that extraterrestrials are interacting with humanity and earth.
On the campaign page, he writes,
This funding effort is in service to every citizen of every nation now convinced the world should not wait one more day for confirmation we are not alone is this universe. For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government. After 20 years of engagement of the issue, I know this embargo can end this year with your help.
Bassett is the founder of the Paradigm Research Group, an activist organization that has been working since 1996 to end the “truth embargo” established by the American government in regards to an alleged ET presence on earth.
Stephen Bassett, Lobbyist and Founder of PRG
The GoFundMe campaign, which is attempting to raise $50,000, is slated for a few key projects. First, it will allow his group to “keep the pressure on the media to engage the politics of Disclosure throughout 2017” and to hire a “public relations liaison who has substantial contacts with the new Administration.” Secondly, it will be used to set up an office in Washington DC, “seek professional speaker representation,” and to begin working in European countries, as well as to develop media and revamp their current website.
Many have been critical of the Disclosure movement (myself included), and any lobbyist or movement needs to accept that. Criticism leads to a healthy democracy, which is what Bassett is essentially trying to establish by pushing for Disclosure. However, one does have to admire him for trying. It has undoubtedly not been easy to do this work, and trying to raise money for this project is similar to Atlas carrying the world upon his shoulders. Except the world is flat, at least according to Mr. Bassett; it would be more like carrying a serving tray full of water and rocks upon your shoulders like some sort of strange cosmic waiter.
All joking aside, Mr. Bassett is doing what he believes in, and pushing for more transparency in government is a noble pursuit. Perhaps the government is hiding knowledge via a “truth embargo.” Perhaps the millions of sightings, countless witnesses, and allegedly truthful testimony of dozens of high ranking politicians and military personnel actually points to one of the greatest secrets ever kept. The world may not yet be convinced, but perhaps one day that will change.
If anyone thinks that this is truly a cause worthy of their attention, one can literally put their money where their mouth is. It all depends really upon what people believe at this point…unless they believe the earth is flat. It’s not. It’s an oblate spheroid. That is a fact, a real fact, not one of those alternative ones people just make up.
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John Podesta: Pulling Back the Curtain on UFOs
John Podesta: Pulling Back the Curtain on UFOs
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Leslie Kean
Co-authored with Ralph Blumenthal
It was the tweet heard round the worlds. On John Podesta’s last day at the White House on February 13th, the longtime Presidential counselor, who is likely to chair a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, dashed off a confession that lit the blogosphere with thousands of retweets and comments: “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files.”
Along with the media, which couldn’t resist a spoof by late-night comedian Jimmy Fallon, conspiracy theorists are having a field day. Taking Podesta’s barb as confirmation of fantastic coverups by operatives with knowledge of extraterrestrials and twisted political agendas, they imagine Podesta himself holds devastating secrets. Some are claiming with bravado that their own activism is what prompted his recent lighthearted remark.
The facts hardly bear that out.
Actually, as surprising as the tweet was, Podesta’s position on the controversial issue was not exactly news. A staunch proponent of open government, he has previously called for the release of any government files on unidentified flying objects, or more broadly, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), that merit such action under existing law. As Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton, Podesta pressed for Executive Order 12958 which declassified broad categories of information formerly withheld on the grounds of national security.
In 2002, Podesta began publicly supporting what became a landmark Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the Coalition for Freedom of Information, an independent advocacy group. NASA had been stonewalling and refusing to release its records concerning a significant 1965 UFO incident in Kecksburg, PA. Many witnesses described seeing a fireball in the evening sky, followed by a controlled landing and the systematic military recovery of a spacecraft-like object, rushed away on the back of a flatbed truck. As reported by local radio and newspapers, U.S. military personnel cordoned off the area, investigated the site, and left without ever providing a full report of the incident other than to dismiss it as a meteor.
One of many witness drawings of the Kecksburg object. Cell phones were not in use then. (Credit: courtesy Stan Gordon)
During the lawsuit’s final hearing in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2007, the exasperated Presiding Judge, Emmet G. Sullivan, declared that “heads should roll” at NASA and that NASA’s case was a “ball of yarn.” He approved a settlement that required NASA to comb through hundreds of documents in specified locations, and provide them to journalist and plaintiff Leslie Kean, under the watchful eye of the court.
Success at forcing an agency to do this kind of extensive historical search under FOIA without Congressional intervention was unprecedented. Podesta called the victory “a triumph for open government and the spiritof inquiry.”
John Podesta provided public support during the FOIA lawsuit against NASA, filed by the Coalition for Freedom of Information in 2003.
(Credit: courtesy SCI FI Channel)
But - there was one problem. The resulting documents did not include one iota of information relating to the Kecksburg case, despite an earnest and thorough effort by NASA staff. Three hundred boxes were searched, on top of the hundreds of pages released during the court proceedings prior to the settlement. Yet they revealed nothing about the case at hand.
Could these be the “UFO files” that Podesta was alluding to in his tweet? Might there be others as well, stored in locations inaccessible to the FOIA in violation of the law?
Podesta has been a brave voice for sanity and objectivity on a subject that is generally considered unworthy of serious discussion. In a foreword for Kean’s 2010 book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record, Podesta wrote: “The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue.” Describing himself as “a curious skeptic” who understands the difference between fact and fiction, he said the American people “want to know, and they can handle the truth.”
Official investigations around the world have consistently found that a small but significant percentage of sightings defy conventional explanation, most of them involving police officers, military personnel, pilots and air traffic controllers. Physical evidence such as radar returns, measurable effects on the environment, or scientifically analyzed photographs accompany the best cases.
In 2011, Podesta hosted a private meeting of government officials, scientists, and military and intelligence experts, organized by Kean and her coalition, at his liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress. A panel presented expert briefings backing the establishment of a modest official project to evaluate UAP in cooperation with other countries.
“The official position of the U.S., which has denied the existence of any abnormal aerial phenomena since 1969, is a weighty handicap and has a negative influence on the attitude of many governments,” wrote Yves Sillard, former Director General of the French National Space Center, in his briefing paper. “If this position could be modified, the U.S. would probably play a leading role in this necessary international effort.”
Ricardo Bermúdez, a retired Air Force general who directs the Chilean investigative effort, agrees. “United States participation would be beneficial for all countries,” he stated.
A U.S. agency is long overdue. The Air Force’s official investigation, Project Blue Book, was terminated in 1970 after two decades, since no sightings were determined to pose a national security threat. Yet over 700 cases remained unexplained. Since then, no branch of the government has investigated UAP.
This lack of both transparency and responsive action to alarming UFO incidents undermines public trust. Some unidentified objects may be attributable to foreign military aircraft or drones, and should be of general defense interest. Other phenomena display such unusual characteristics that they are of broader scientific interest. Under certain circumstances, UAP can even raise air safety concerns. Still, the FAA discourages pilots from reporting any such incidents, in stark contrast to policy in Europe and South America.
Official agencies in France and Chile, along with other South American countries, conduct rigorous, open UAP investigations. In 2014, the heads of these offices met in Paris for the first time, to begin a cooperative venture. The U.K. spent decades collecting data, but closed down its office in 2008 due to the overwhelming stream of Freedom of Information requests besieging the staff. Interest was so great that the Ministry of Defense decided to simply release all its documents online.
Xavier Passot, director of the French UAP agency GEIPAN, and Ricardo Bermúdez of Chile’s CEFAA met on Oct. 30, 2014 to initiate a cooperative effort
(Credit: courtesy CEFAA)
Yet here at home, a 2012 poll showed that nearly 80% of Americans believe the government has concealed information about UFOs. As a result, frustrated citizens turn to fringe conspiracists seeking some way of understanding our irrational denial of this very real phenomenon.
When UFO events occur here, civilian groups do the best they can in battling the obstacles to investigating them. At Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Nov. 7, 2006, a metallic disc was observed hovering over the United Airlines terminal for at least five minutes, before shooting straight up in the sky, at great speed, cutting a hole in the cloud bank. This was not a flying machine known to any of the aviation experts who witnessed or later analyzed the event.
On March 13, 1997, hundreds if not thousands of citizens, including the governor at the time, saw massive delta-shaped objects gliding silently over Arizona. Like the Kecksburg case, this event has never been explained despite a class action lawsuit filed in 2000 by witnesses in Phoenix. A court-ordered search for information was issued to the Department of Defense, but once again, no pertinent records were obtained.
Nonetheless, much more data on UFOs has been accumulated than ever before, and files have been released around the world. The phenomenon’s physical reality is now firmly established. But its nature and origin remain a problem. Meanwhile, astronomers have reported that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in our galaxy; one out of every five sunlike stars has a planet the size of Earth orbiting it in the Goldilocks zone.
We need to join the other countries taking responsible action in addressing this persistent mystery, preferably at the White House level where The Office of Science and Technology Policy is well positioned to take on this task. John Podesta supports the effort to appoint a government staffer for this purpose - and that is no surpri
Ralph Blumenthal is a former New York Times reporter who has written on UFOs.
Leslie Kean is co-founder of the Coalition for Freedom of Information and the author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record (Crown Publishing Group, 2010).
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OBSERVATION DE JETS BLEUS DEPUIS LA STATION SPATIALE INTERNATIONALE
OBSERVATION DE JETS BLEUS DEPUIS LA STATION SPATIALE INTERNATIONALE
La question de leur existence a fait l’objet de débats pendant de nombreuses années : d’insaisissables décharges électriques dans la haute atmosphère, nommées sylphes rouges, jets bleus, farfadets ou elfes. Faisant l’objet de rapports anecdotiques par des pilotes, ces phénomènes s'avèrent difficiles à étudier car ils se produisent au-dessus des orages.
Proposée par l’Institut Spatial National du Danemark, l’expérience Thor, qui s’était déroulée pendant la mission « iriss » de 10 jours de l’astronaute de l’ESA Andreas Mogensen à bord de la Station, avait pour objet d’étudier les orages. Une liste d’endroits où des orages étaient prévus avait été communiquée à Andreas, qui a pris des photos avec l’appareil le plus sensible de la Station pour capturer ce que l’on appelle les phénomènes lumineux transitoires.
Après analyse, l’équipe à l’origine de l’expérience a publié un article scientifique confirmant la présence de nombreux jets bleus d’une envergure de l’ordre du kilomètre autour de 18km d’altitude, et même d’un jet bleu à impulsion atteignant 40km d’altitude. Une vidéo enregistrée par Andreas au-dessus du Golfe du Bengale alors qu’il volait à 28000km/h montre clairement le phénomène électrique – le premier du genre.
Tourelle nuageuse
Des satellites avaient déjà étudié le phénomène mais leur angle de vue n’est pas idéal pour rassembler des données sur l’échelle des jets bleus et des décharges bleues, qui sont de plus petite taille. La Station spatiale, placée sur une orbite relativement basse au-dessus de la Terre est au contraire idéalement située pour prendre des photos des sylphes et des jets.
Dans le cadre de Thor, Andreas avait pour consigne de viser les tourelles orageuses (des colonnes nuageuses qui s’étirent jusqu’à la haute atmosphère), et l’astronaute a filmé une vidéo de 160 secondes montrant 245 flashs de jets bleus, soit environ 90 par minute, émanant du haut d’une tourelle nuageuse qui s’écartait de l’orage au-dessus du Golfe du Bengale.
Les décharges et les jets bleus sont des exemples d’une part de notre climat que nous connaissons très peu ; en effet, comme les orages électriques atteignent la stratosphère, ils jouent un rôle dans la manière dont notre atmosphère nous protège des radiations cosmiques.
Observation permanente
Des éclairs vus depuis la Station spatiale
Cette expérience a confirmé que la Station spatiale est une plate-forme utile à l’observation de ces phénomènes. Un instrument nommé ASIM (Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor), actuellement en cours de préparation pour son lancement prévu d’ici la fin de l’année, sera installé à l’extérieur du laboratoire spatial européen Columbus.
Une fois en place, il observera de manière continue les orages pour collecter plus d’informations sur les phénomènes lumineux transitoires.
Andreas conclut : « Ce n’est pas tous les jours que l’on filme un nouveau phénomène météorologique, je suis donc très satisfait du résultat, mais encore plus satisfait à l’idée que les scientifiques auront bientôt l’opportunité d’étudier ces curieux orages plus en détail. »
VIDEO: Mystery UFO! Which flew over Ukraine and Slovakia?
VIDEO: Mystery UFO! Which flew over Ukraine and Slovakia?
Interest aliens events in Ukraine? Witnesses who filmed the video, claiming that it is a real UFO. What’s more, there have been near Chernobyl. They try to suggest us something or is it just a hoax?
Over the Ukrainian small town Korosten saw UFO-shaped cigarette. These „flying saucers“ ufologist knows very well. It is the most popular alternative to the round spacecraft. Korosten as chance is located near Chernobyl. „The easiest is select an object, which we can not explain as a result of computer editing. In this case, it looks like a foreign object in the video really is, „says former FBI special agent Ben Hansen. Everything apparently indicates that it is a fake computer.
Hansen even says that number is multiplied seen a UFO from wars and natural disasters. „It is alleged that those visitors follow our historical events or seek to do them intervened,“ interprets Hansen frequently asked ufology explanation. According to him, in this case might be a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Who knows, maybe nevertheless intervened and actually threatened to something much worse. Web BeforeItsNews argue that it is a work of the US. Supposedly created new cutting-edge military technology. Cigar-shaped ship long as three aircraft carriers allegedly flying under the anti-gravity system. Can operate in just any amount, to fly into space and return again. Americans monitor the situation in Ukraine and it was a UFO hoax?
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Alien technology in the hands of army!
Alien technology in the hands of army!
The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
1 : “Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.”
2 :“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”
3 :“We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.”
4 :When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”
Ben Rich Lockheed Former Director knew of extraterrestrial UFO visitors Lockheed „Skunk Works“ former director knew the Roswell extraterrestrial UFO influenced designs of Testor model kits for Roswell UFO models, and U.S. top secret aircraft.
Alpha Centauri is having a moment: Our mysterious neighboring star system has been seeing a surge of scientific interest lately, and for good reason.
Although space researchers have often focused on our own star system, Alpha Centauri has become a more viable option to closely study, and even potentially travel to one day. Our nearest stellar neighbor has received a lot of buzz recently due to the announcement of Breakthrough Starshot, a mission backed by famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking, Russian investor Yuri Milner and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with the goal of sending probes to Alpha Centauri someday.
Although it's the closest star system to our sun, Alpha Centauri is still 4.37 light-years (25 trillion miles, or 40 trillion kilometers) away from Earth. Because it's so far away, reaching and studying Alpha Centauri poses significant challenges. But the three-star system — comprising Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and a faint red dwarf star Proxima Centauri — also presents enormous opportunities for furthering space research, which is why it is the focus of our mission at Project Blue. [Imaging Planets Around Alpha Centauri Is Aim of New Telescope (Video)]
NASA's Kepler space telescope has found thousands of exoplanets in the universe, many of which orbit in the habitable zones of their stars and could be Earth-like. In fact, one out of every two sun-like stars has a rocky, potentially Earth-like planet in its habitable zone. At Project Blue, we are aiming to actually see one with our own eyes — and take the first photograph of a planet like Earth.
So, why focus on Alpha Centauri? In short, it gives us the best opportunity to accomplish our mission.
A large reason for this is its proximity. After Alpha Centauri, the next-closest sun-like star is 2.5 times farther away and would require a telescope roughly 2.5 times larger in order to be viewed at the same level of detail.
The system also has a unique binary structure: It contains not just one, but two stars similar to the sun, doubling our chances of finding planets in either of their habitable zones. In fact, that gives us an estimated 85 percent probability that the Alpha Centauri system harbors at least one potentially habitable planet. However, although the binary structure increases our odds, it also presents challenges. In order to take the photograph, we have to use a specialized system to efficiently suppress the light of two stars to see any potential surrounding planets.
An artist's rendition of an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A and B.
Credit: L. Calçada/Nick Risinger/ESO
Finally, the last reason our focus remains on our neighboring star system is that Alpha Centauri A is a yellow "G2"-type star that has a temperature and color that closely match the sun's, thus increasing the chances of the existence of an Earth-like planet. Alpha Centauri B, which is a bit cooler and redder than our sun, is also still a good candidate to host a rocky planet like Earth.
The image we hope to take would reveal whether the planet appears blue, as Earth does from space, which could suggest that it hosts liquid oceans or a substantial atmosphere — and, therefore, the potential to support life.
Our chances of spotting a planet successfully are high in Alpha Centauri. This is only underscored by the discovery of an Earth-like planet in the star system earlier this year. Scientists have located the planet Proxima b, with a minimum mass 1.3 times that of Earth, orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, Proxima Centauri.
This recent discovery is indeed exciting, and it sparked Breakthrough Starshot to announce that it will focus on the potential to travel to Proxima b one day, once the technology is developed. However, the planet is not a good option for Project Blue. Because Proxima b orbits so closely to its small, dim star, it would be extremely difficult to image with a telescope, and as such, our focus remains on the larger stars Alpha Centauri A and B.
Alpha Centauri's potential is exciting to not only the science community but the future of humanity, and it's clear that it will provide us with some of our most exciting space discoveries in the years to come.
Mars Was Recently Hit by a Meteorite 'Shotgun' Blast
Mars Was Recently Hit by a Meteorite 'Shotgun' Blast
By Ian O'Neill, Seeker
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
On Earth, we are blessed with a thick protective atmosphere that prevents all but the biggest space rocks from wreaking havoc on the surface. Mars, however, doesn't have that luxury, highlighting yet another deadly hazard that will threaten any future human presence on the Red Planet.
Take this recent observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for example. From afar, a small cluster of dark blemishes on an otherwise pale landscape was the only indication of a meteorite impact, but on closer inspection, we realize it wasn't a single impact — it was in fact dozens all clustering around a small area in the Tharsis region of the Red Planet.
Initially detected by the orbiter's Mars Context Camera (CTX), scientists were able to determine that the impact must have occurred some time between 2008 and 2014. That detection led to a followup on Oct. 4, 2016, by the mission's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera and the true nature of the impact became apparent. Two large impact craters accompanied by up to 30 smaller craters litter the scene, revealing that a meteoroid broke up in Mars' atmosphere, sending pieces of rock raining down onto the dusty surface.
The MRO regularly surveys for, studies and tracks long-term changes in fresh impact sites on Mars. These impacts not only tell us how frequent meteorite impacts are on Mars, they also provide a natural means to excavate material so we can see what minerals — that have not been exposed to the harsh weathering effects of being exposed on the Red Planet's surface — lie beneath. Also, by tracking long-term changes to the dusty material around the blast sites, we can learn something about surface winds and the movement of fine particles over time.
It is worth noting that the dark areas surrounding the impact sites isn't only ejecta that got blasted out of the crater. As the meteorites slammed into the ground, shocked air blew surface dust away, stripping the darker, fresh material bare around the crater. By analyzing the pattern of impact ejecta, planetary scientists are able to determine the direction from which the meteorites came from. In the above image, the meteoroid likely struck from the south (traveling from bottom to top).
Interesting science this may be, but it's also a warning. All indications are that we'll be sending a human expedition to Mars sometime around the 2030's — whether that be a NASA mission, via Elon Musk's SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System or an expedition led by another nation, like China — and if we play our cards right, we may establish a permanent human presence soon after. But Mars will be a harsh extraterrestrial home that will require a momentous effort to create sustainable habitats.
As Mars' atmosphere is approximately 100 times thinner than Earth's, more meteors that streak through the atmosphere make it to the ground as meteorites. And in many cases, the atmosphere isn't quite thick enough to burn-up incoming space rocks, but thick enough to cause them to break up into many pieces. So rather than getting hit by a single projectile, depending on the size of the meteor, many bits of projectile can blanket bomb a large area.
For our future Mars colonists living in pressurized habitats on the surface — which, for the most part, would be vulnerable to falling rocks — it would be a grim reality of taking your chances of being hit by a single meteorite or by many pieces of meteorite, the cosmic equivalent of trying to dodge a bullet or buckshot from a shotgun. Neither is a good scenario, but you're more likely to get hit by the buckshot.
Waves on Mars? Sand Ripples in Striking Red Planet Photos
Waves on Mars? Sand Ripples in Striking Red Planet Photos
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
The Mars Curiosity rover captured this image of ripples in the sand on the Red Planet. The image was taken by the rover's Navcam on Feb. 6, 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Waves of sand on the parched surface of Mars, spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover, are reminiscent of ripples on the surface of a lake.
While there may have once been lakes, rivers and oceans on the surface of Mars, today the Red Planet is more parched than the driest deserts on Earth. (However, very salty liquid water is thought to exist in a few places on Mars.)
But new images from the Curiosity rover, released today (Feb. 6), show windswept stretches of sand that look like waves cresting on a body of water. The repeating ripples create a hypnotic pattern that stretches across the baked landscape.
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Curiosity has been scuttling around on the surface of Mars since August of 2012. In that time, the little robot has explored beautiful and treacherous landscapes, and sent back images of all kinds of interesting surface features, including massive sand dunes and rocky outcrops.
Ripples of sand stretch across the Martian landscape in this image from the Navcam on the Mars Curiosity rover, taken on Feb. 6, 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The rover's primary mission is to evaluate whether Mars may have once had an environment that could support life. In Curiosity's first two years on the surface, the rover found ample evidence that Mars once supported large bodies of water, a necessary ingredient for life as we know it.
'I was abducted by aliens after breaking into Area 51' Former airforce cadet's shock claim
'I was abducted by aliens after breaking into Area 51' Former airforce cadet's shock claim
A MAN has made the astonishing claim he he was abducted by aliens after breaking into the mysterious Area 51 US Airforce (USAF) base - and lived to tell the tale.
Chris Augustin tours UFO conferences across the globe giving the shocking story amid claims he has experiences missing time due to abductions by extraterrestrials - and it all started after his misadventure at the USAF base in the Nevada desert.
Area 51 is a top-secret US military base, where UFO conspiracy theorists claim the authorities conceal evidence of aliens visiting Earth from the public, and even create new secret spacecrafts based on recovered ET technology.
The US Government only admitted it existed in 2013, and it is heavily guarded by armed private contractors known as "cammo dudes" who have been filmed pulling their weapons on people who venture near the base.
In a video just uploaded to YouTube, Mr Augustin is filmed telling a UFO conference in the US that he decided to venture into Area 51 after becoming obsessed with UFOs after seeing a mysterious black triangular craft sighting on July 17 1999 in Washington Township, New Jersey, when he was studying to go to a USAF academy.
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Chris Augustin claims to have been abducted by aliens after visiting Area 51.
He claims the interest this sparked in the phenomenon led him to try to get into Area 51 on August 15 2001.
He said: "I crossed the border and lived to tell about it."
Mr Augustin said he parked his car and climbed a hill near the site, that was not fenced off all around.
He claims a black helicopter approached as he climbed before diving towards him and showed video he took of the incident.
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Chris Augustin claims to have had an implant put in his leg after an alien abduction.
But, he claims the chopper left the area after circling him.
He said that he then crossed the border into the base and was not challenged by anyone before leaving.
Mr Augustine claims it was six months later before his first of many alien abductions that then followed.
It was at around 10pm in February 2002 when he was driving home from his girlfriend's and lost three and a half minutes while at the wheel.
He then said he had a spike in psychic experiences, suffered more abductions, would wake up with blood in his bed, and was left with a bizarre metal implant in his lower left leg that was placed there by extraterrestrials.
Mr Augustine told the conference exactly what happens before people wake up with unexplained gaps in time.
My hands are on the wheel, executing a turn – and then three-and-a-half minutes are gone. I was afraid, afraid of what I didn’t understand.
Chris Augustin
He said: "Three minutes and 40 seconds took place inside my car. I felt like I’d come aware from something – like a daze.
"My hands are on the wheel, executing a turn – and then three-and-a-half minutes are gone. I was afraid, afraid of what I didn’t understand."
He said he could feel a foreign object under his skin, and a object has shown up inside his leg on scans.
Many people claim to have been abducted by aliens, and their stories are often the same, in that they involve missing time, and dream like experiences.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual said, ‘‘American ufologist and artist Budd Hopkins categorised many of the prime elements of the abduction experience.
"He discovered that UFO witnesses, with no inclination of an abduction experience, often cannot account for a missing period, ranging from minutes to hours.
"Abductions often start in childhood, continue throughout a person’s life, and are not just isolatedincidents.
"Abductees regularly find mysterious scars on their body; they are often confused and worried by dreams or nightmares that they have had since childhood. Under hypnosis they remember being inside a flying saucer.
"Typical memories recall medical procedures that include the taking of sperm or ova.
“At times, the experience amounts to a form of ritualised rape. From his study of hundreds of reports, Hopkins believes that aliens are abducting people to create human/alien hybrids.
"As might be expected, such ideas have attracted the attention of both sceptics and believers. Sceptics regard the abduction researchers and abductees as gullible fools who do not know the difference between fact and fantasy.
"The believers regard the abductees as tortured victims who need understanding and help after the trauma of alien encounters."
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Fireball Hissing: Weird Cause of Noises Made by Meteors Found
Fireball Hissing: Weird Cause of Noises Made by Meteors Found
By Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
A fireball lit up the skies above the Czech Republic on Dec. 9, 2014.
Credit: Spalding et. al. / Scientific Reports
Bright, flaring meteors are sometimes accompanied by faint noises. What's strange about these popping, sizzling, rustling, and hissing sounds are that they reportedly occur almost instantly to earthly onlookers. This makes little sense, as meteors are as far as sixty miles away from viewers on the ground, so any sound they make should take several minutes be heard. What's going on? Do meteors somehow defy the laws of physics?
Researcher Richard Spalding and several of his colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories recently set out to study this strange phenomenon, and in a study just published to the journal Scientific Reports, they announce that the sounds are likely created through light.
Meteor fireballs sometimes pulse with light many times brighter than the full Moon, and these blasts can briefly heat the surfaces of objects many miles away. Such sudden temperature changes can actually create sound.
"We suggest that each pulse of light can heat the surfaces of natural dielectric transducers," Spalding and his colleagues write. "The surfaces rapidly warm and conduct heat into the nearby air, generating pressure waves. A succession of light-pulse-produced pressure waves can then manifest as sound to a nearby observer."
The "dielectric transducers" the researchers mention are objects that readily absorb light, have low conductivity, and heat up quickly. These include dark paint, leaves, grass, and dark clothing. Sky-watchers in close proximity to such objects are much more likely to "hear" meteors.
Another incredible transducer is hair. Previous studies have shown that people with fine and frizzy hair are more likely to hear meteors. This makes intuitive sense, the researchers write.
"Hair near the ears will create localized sound pressure, so it is likely to be heard. Also, hair has a large surface-to-volume ratio which maximizes sound creation."
The explanation Spalding and his colleagues offer is actually tied to a well-known phenomenon known as the photoacoustic effect, describing a process whereby materials absorb light energy and produce sound waves. Alexander Graham Bell originally noticed the effect in 1880, and used it to invent a device called the photophone, which transmitted speech via light.
Astronomers have previously suggested that some meteors emit very low frequency radio waves, which produce near instantaneous sounds. They dubbed such meteors "electrophonic meteors." Spalding and his team suggest their explanation is more likely, and indeed, it may be preferable to sky-watchers, as it suggests that anyone can hear a meteor provided it's bright enough and they situate themselves in a quiet area with photoacoustically-sensitive objects nearby.
Source: Spalding, R. et al. Photoacoustic Sounds from Meteors. Sci. Rep. 7, 41251; doi: 10.1038/srep41251 (2017).
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