Fake News About a Secret Nazi UFO Base In Antarctica Refuses to Die

DANIEL OBERHAUS

 

This researcher at Cambridge has a PhD and still had to take time to prove why the Nazi Antarctic UFO base is a hoax.

Before we get into this let's make one thing clear: the secret Nazi UFO base in Antarctica doesn't exist. The Nazis did go to Antarctica, but they didn't stash priceless European art in a subterranean Antarctic lair where they also happened to be developing flying saucers. That would be a totally insane thing to believe.

But as recently as 2016, articles mentioning the possible existence of this very thing can be found in tabloids like The Mirror, which reported on a possible Nazi UFO under Antarctic ice, as well as The Daily Star, which suggested that the Nazi UFO base may have ties to the giant alien ice pyramids under Antarctica.

In the age of Fake News and flat earthers, it's not hard to see how an outlandish idea could retain currency. But it's remarkable persistence over the half century prompted Colin Summerhayes, a prominent marine geologist and oceanographer at Cambridge, to write a 21-page, peer-reviewed paper outlining all the reasons why the Nazis totally didn't build a secret Antarctic base. Published a little over a decade ago in the quarterly academic journal Polar Review, Summerhayes' paper is an interesting survey of the paranoid conspiracy theories that began with a secret Nazi mission to Antarctica in January, 1939.

Seal of the Nazi Antarctic expedition. Image: Summerhayes, et al.

Months before the outbreak of World War II, Nazi Germany sent a small expedition to Antarctica aboard a vessel called the Schwabenland. According to Summerhayes, the expedition was prompted by German fears about being cut out of the whaling industry by Norway and Britain, which made large claims to portions of the Antarctic continent. So the Nazis launched their own expedition to Antarctica with the intention of claiming some of the seventh continent for themselves and establishing a base for the German whaling fleet there.

Read More: Why is the Flat-Earth Conspiracy Still a Thing?

Although this would end up being the Nazi's only visit to Antarctica, rumors of a secret Nazi base harboring Hitler and his inner circle near the South Pole began to spread immediately after the end of the war. The occasion of these rumors was the arrival of a German U-boat at an Argentine naval base in July, 1945, two months after the Nazis surrendered. Newspapers around the world picked up a fallacious Argentine news report that the U-boat had carried Hitler and other ranking Nazis out of Germany to the secret base on Antarctica.

Unrecognized Nazi claim on Antarctica, known as New Swabia. Image: Wikimedia Commons

The initial report of this rumor, spread by a Hungarian exile Ladislas Szabo who was living in Argentina at the time, was propped up by a book published by Szabo two years later titled (based on, it seems that even the bureau had its suspicions about the escape of the Nazi leader). Szabo's rumors only continued to pick up steam, and eventually in which Hitler did in fact die in a Berlin bunker, but his ashes and other Nazis treasures had been transported to Antarctica where they were stashed in a "very special natural ice cave in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains."Hitler is Still Alive recently declassified FBI files warped into a story

Despite the fact that many captured Nazis offered irrefutable evidence to the contrary of these claims, the rumor of Hitler's Antarctic base persisted. This was, in part, due to a covert Antarctic mission carried out by the US military in 1947 called Operation Highjump, as well as the well-documented British military presence in Antarctica throughout the war. According to conspiracy theorists, both the United States and Britain unsuccessfully attacked the secret Nazi base multiple times in the late 40s, but only succeeded in destroying it by dropping three atomic bombs above the base in 1958.

Ultimately, however, Summerhayes isn't convinced. Although he does acknowledge that "there is an element of truth in all these tales," the evidence doesn't seem to add up to a secret Nazi base in Antarctica.

In the first place, there is a pretty exhaustive recap in both German scientific literature and recovered wartime documents of the 1939 expedition to Antarctica. While these documents do outline the marine science and mapping efforts of the mission, there is no indication at all that the Nazis had ever decided on a fitting location for an Antarctic base, much less had begun to build one. As Summerhayes points out, when Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen built a small hut in Antarctica in 1911, it took them 14 days and required the use of 80 dogs.

By contrast, the German expedition was only in Antarctica for a month, and spent most of its time going up and down the coast collecting marine samples and launching planes to do surveying work. There is also no evidence that the ship had motorized equipment or dogs on board, which would've made the task of ferrying supplies around the Antarctic nearly impossible, especially to build a massive underground complex where there were "hangars for strange planes" and bunkers for the development of advanced weaponry.

A (non-Nazi) research outpost in Antarctica. Image: Daniel Oberhaus

And what about Operation Highjump, the secret mission launched by the US in Antarctica, supposedly to take out the Nazi base? The largest expedition to ever go to Antarctica, Operation Highjump consisted of 4700 men, 33 aircraft, and 13 ships—which certainly sounds like an invasion of sorts. While this was undoubtedly a military exercise, its stated purpose was to train the US Navy to operate in freezing, polar conditions in preparation for a possible war with the Soviet Union in the Arctic

Okay, Summerhayes, but how do you explain the Nazi UFOs in Antarctica, huh? These claims, first advanced in UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon, a 1975 book published by a Canadian neo-nazi publishing house, are derived from baseless reports that four American aircraft were shot down by Nazis during Operation Highjump. This tied in with an esoteric, post-war Nazism described in the 2002 history of occult Nazism, Black Sun, in which "flying saucers were in fact German super-weapons that had been developed and tested during the Third Reich."

According to Black Sun, this technology which was "supposedly shipped to safety in the Arctic, South America, and Antarctica" and "by the late 1970s, neo-Nazi writers were claiming that the 'Last Battalion,' a massive Nazi military force of highly advanced UFOs, was in possession of a vast tract of Antarctica." Despite the claims made in the neo-Nazi tract that American planes were shot down over Antarctica by Nazi flying saucers, Summerhayes concludes "that the idea that Germans defended themselves with flying saucers from a secret base" to be "pure fantasy," if for no other reason than the only plane lost during the American expedition to Antarctica crashed on the other side of the continent from the location of the supposed Nazi base.

Sure, fine. But why drop three atomic bombs on Antarctica if there wasn't Nazis there? 
Although there were three atmospheric nuclear explosions in the Southern hemisphere 1958, they were not over Antarctica—in fact, they were about 1500 miles north of the continent.

Summerhayes was able to thoroughly debunk the existence of an Antarctic Nazi UFO base, but the fact that the rumor persists a decade later should come as no surprise. In the era of pizzagate and fake news, we know all too well that the seduction of conspiracy will always trap at least a few believers who are willing to accept the apparent absurdity of a story, so long as it means that all the dots are connected.

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12-03-2017 om 18:12 geschreven door peter  

12-03-2017 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

• Westall ‘UFO’ truth finally revealed
• The truth behind our UFO mysteries
• ‘We are closer to getting answers’

MEET the people whose lives were forever changed when they encountered what they believe was an alien spacecraft.

At 6am on April 6, 1966, Clayton South became host to one of Australia’s most intriguing mysteries when more than 200 school students witnessed an unidentified flying object.

It was Australia’s largest mass UFO sighting.

More than half a century later and a select group of witnesses will share their story at Victorian UFO Action’s event Westall — The Witnesses Speak.

Sue Savage, who now lives in Springvale North, was 13 at the time of the encounter; she was in science class at Westall High School when a fellow student ran into the class room shouting “there is a flying saucer outside”.

Mrs Savage said she and her classmates went out to the corner of the schoolyard and looked up in awe.

“(The UFO) was like two saucers … one on the bottom and one turned upside down on the top,” Mrs Savage said.

“Some people say there was just one but I reckon there were three.

“They were hovering over the trees and then went down into the trees and disappeared for a minute or two then rose back up, sort of banked on its side and then took off at a 1000 miles per hour.”

Mrs Savage said the encounter left a lasting impression on her.

Since then she has had a keen interest in astrology and UFOs and has had to deal with many sceptics.

“We were too young to be sceptics — we know what we saw,” she said.

“It really makes me very angry to hear people say there’s nothing else out there and I know there is.

“Even mum and dad both said it was a load of rubbish and I told my children years later and they thought I was crazy until the first reunion was held and they realised (how many witnesses there were).”

Kevin Hurley was 21 at the time of the incident and rode his bike to the school from Murrumbeena after being alerted to the UFO sighting.

Mr Hurley never saw a UFO but he walked through tall grass to the spot behind the trees where the students said the UFO touched down for a couple of minutes.

“I saw a whole lot of people in a group huddle, they were all looking at the ground and there in 2ft high grass was a big perfect circle of absolutely flattened and twisted grass,” Mr Hurley said.

“In that circle there were three distinct impressions where the grass has been penetrated down to the dirt.”

Mr Hurley returned to the site the next day with a group of friends but said it was cordoned off and a military officer ordered him off the area.

James Rigney from Victoria UFO action said these first-hand accounts were what people who came to the event could expect to hear.

DID YOU KNOW?

The Dandenong Journal ran with coverage of the incident on its front page for consecutive issues and Nine News also reported the story on its 6pm bulletin.

The film canister containing the Channel 9 footage from the incident has since been found empty in the station archives.

Witnesses believe there has been a cover-up.

In 2013, the UFO returned to Westall in the form of a playground build by Kingston Council.

DETAILS

Westall — The Witnesses Speak will include the showing of documentary, Westall ’66: A Suburban UFO Mystery, a presentation from amateur investigator Shane Ryan and a Q and A panel with up to 12 witnesses.

It will take place at Kingston Arts Centre, 64 Parkers Rd, Parkdale, on April 2 from 12pm-5.30pm.

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12-03-2017 om 17:44 geschreven door peter  

Three Glowing Lights Seen Over Ontario, Canada On Feb 27, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 27, 2017
Location of sighting: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Source: MUFON #82604

This UFO was seen over Ontario last week. It does have three lights which could mean its a TR3B military craft, but its hard to tell at night. Sometimes similar UFOs have been reported to suddenly split up and shoot away in opposite directions. I wonder if this would have happened if the eyewitness had watched longer?
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

I pulled onto my street heading home and i noticed 3 bright lights in the sky. 2 red and one white flashing very fast. I recorded it for a few seconds from my car, until the video went out of focus, then pulled into my driveway and went inside to tell people to come look. My borther in law came outside and seen it as well. I started to record again and as i did it changed its white light to red and began pulsating slowly with the other 2 lights now turned off. It then flickered its lights and changed the red pulsating light back to white, continued to pulsate, and then went back to flashing again for the remainder of the time i watched. It eventually vanished.

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12-03-2017 om 16:49 geschreven door peter  

UFO Over Mount Shasta Is Supply Ship For 12,000 Year Old Alien Base! March 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 2017

Location of sighting:  Mount Shasta, California, USA

Source: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9924729/Winners-of-Nasas-Let-It-Snow-photography-contest.html?frame=2507016

This UFO showed up over Mount Shasta, a famous religious mountain where many have claimed to see people surrounded by an aura around there body. Many who have climbed the mountain trails have said they encounter beings along the way that claimed to be from an underground city below the mountain that is over 12,000 years old! One appeared to be Saint Germain. (click here on more info on that encounter). This UFO over the mountain was there to pick up and deliver goods, supplies and passengers to this ancient city. I am sure you have heard of these stories before. I myself first heard about them over 35 years ago. 

Scott C. Waring

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12-03-2017 om 15:22 geschreven door peter  

NASA offers glimpse into newly discovered 'second Earth' offering hope of alien life

NASA has revealed first pictures of the newly discovered star system where a group of new planets could harbour alien life.

By Jess Bell 

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12-03-2017 om 01:43 geschreven door peter  

Did an extraterrestrial object wipe out Paleo-Americans? Traces of platinum at US archaeological sites suggest an asteroid or comet might have caused disappearance of Clovis people

• Researchers analyzed 11 archaeological sites associated with Clovis peoples
• The Clovis peoples arrived in Americas more than 13,000 years ago and mysteriously disappeared 12,800 years ago
• Around the same time, more than 35 ice-age animals went extinct 
• Scientists found traces of platinum from California to the Carolinas and Virginia
• Platinum is common in extraterrestrial objects such as asteroids and comets
• North America experienced mini ice-age called 'Younger Dryas' around this time
• Evidence suggests Clovis people were maybe wiped out by comet-like object

By Forrest Hanson For Dailymail.com

Traces of platinum discovered at archaeological sites across the US may help scientists determine why the Clovis people disappeared thousands of years ago.

Platinum is found in asteroids and comets, which has led researchers to speculate that an extraterrestrial object could explain the disappearance.

The Clovis people, who inhabited the modern-day contiguous United States more than 13,000 years ago along with beasts such as the mastodon and mammoth, disappeared 12,800 years ago. More than 35 ice-age animals also went extinct.

An extraterrestrial object such as an asteroid (pictured) or comet could have struck North America around 12,800 years ago, when the Clovis peoples disappeared and 35 ice age animals went extinct

The contiguous United States had been inhabited by the Clovis people, pictured in a drawing battling a woolly mammoth, more than 13,000 years ago

Researchers from the University of South Carolina, whose work was published in Scientific Reports, found 11 Clovis sites from California to the Carolinas and Virginia had platinum, which was previously found in Greenland in 2013.

Archaeologist Albert C. Goodyear told WLTX: 'We found in our study from California to the Savannah River, higher than ordinary concentrations of platinum.'

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While no impact site has been found, platinum's dating coincided with the 'Younger-Dryas' period, a sort of mini ice-age lasting 1,400 years that began 12,800 years ago, Science Daily reported.

The study's lead author, Christopher Moore, said: 'Platinum is very rare in Earth's crust, but it is common in asteroids and comets.'

Moore added: 'The presence of elevated platinum in archaeological sites is a confirmation of data previously reported for the Younger-Dryas onset several years ago in a Greenland ice-core.'

Clovis sites from California (pictured as 1) to the Carolinas and Virginia (pictured 5-11) yielded traces of platinum

The Clovis peoples were known for the fine-fluted stone points they made for weapons, pictured. For a time, they were believed to be the first peoples in the Americas

He said that unlike the dinosaur extinction 65million years ago which was caused by a large extraterrestrial object impact, the Younger-Dryas impact would have been caused by a smaller one.

Questions such as how exactly peoples and animals would have been affected by such an environmental change remain, and the study concludes that more research into the theoretical impact is necessary.

The Clovis people were a prehistoric Native American group of hunter-gatherers who, for 40 years, were assumed to have been the first people to arrive in the Americas.

An archaeologist at the El Fin del Mundo Clovis site in northwestern Mexico excavates the culture which mysteriously disappeared 12,800 years ago

The Clovis people shared the land with ice-age animals such as the woolly mammoth, pictured, and the mastodon. Such animals are now extinct

These early humans were distinguished by the fine-fluted stone points they made for weapons.

But in early 2016, anthropologists in Southern Chile discovered a completely different type of a much older stone tool technology believed to be up to 19,000 years old.

David Meltzer, a Southern Methodist University archaeologist, said: 'There is compelling evidence that Clovis was preceded by an earlier and possibly separate population.'

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12-03-2017 om 01:33 geschreven door peter  

Crop circles: They're real and contain hidden messages, scientist says

By Megan Palin

It all started with a UFO sighting.

Dr Horace Drew, 61, was just 10 years old when he allegedly saw an unidentified, silver, windowless craft hovering in the sky near his suburban home, in Jacksonville, Florida. The encounter lasted only moments but led to a lifelong fascination with the extraterrestrial.

"I saw a UFO, so I knew they were real from an early age," Dr Drew told news.com.au.

The scientist, who holds a PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, and worked for CSIRO as a molecular biologist, has been researching crop circles and aliens for 20 years. Dr Drew relocated to Australia in the 1980s but most of his work has taken him overseas, predominantly to Europe.

"They're quite rare in Australia," he said.

He, along with many conspiracy theorists, believe crop circles are the work of aliens or human time travellers. Sceptics say most are probably man-made.

A crop circle is typically defined by standing wheat stems that have been flattened in the shape of a circle or more complex pattern. They tend to appear mainly in developed Western or secularised countries - including Japan.

The cause of many of the circles is unknown despite various natural and unorthodox explanations having been put forward. Some crop circles have been proven to be hoaxes.

But according to Dr Drew, a number are legitimate and contain puzzles that can be decoded and linked to time travel and alien life.

He told news.com.au he had visited about "two dozen crop circles" around the globe in his career. Typically, they were between 50-500m in length, he said.

"For the past 20 years I have been studying UFOs or crop circles. Just as other mainstream scientists study conventional subjects," Dr Drew told guests at the March UFO & Paranormal Research Society of Australia (UFO-PRSA) seminar in Sydney on Wednesday night.

"This has led to at least one major breakthrough the discovery of a more advanced binary code than our computers currently use."

Dr Drew claimed that aliens or human time travellers have been leaving the crop circles on Earth as messages to "us or themselves".

WHY ARE THERE CROP CIRCLES?

Dr Drew said he was one of a handful of scientists around the world who had worked to successfully decode some of the messages in crop circles.

According to him, some crop circles provide general descriptions of the future.

"Other crop (circles) show schematic images of the future for astronomical or human events," he said.

He said some of the decoded messages read: 'Much pain but still time. Believe. There is good out there'; 'Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises'; 'We oppose deception. Conduit closing'.

Dr Drew has developed at least two theories as to the purpose of the circles by reading their "advanced (version of) binary codes".

"One theory is that they are trying to introduce themselves to us peacefully, like we do using bubbles with dolphins," he said.

"When (humans) want to talk with dolphins we put little bubble circles under the ocean with a generator. We watch the dolphins come up and play and investigate, and we study them.

"This is called the 'dolphin communication project'."

He said the dynamic between the way humans interact with dolphins and whales was likely comparable to how extraterrestrials communicate with us.

"Barack or Trump have never said to a dolphin: 'take me to your leader I want to sign a treaty with you'," he said.

"And (the extraterrestrials are) not interested in making a treaty with us.

"They are ahead of us like we are ahead of the dolphins and the whales."

His second theory was that the messages "are not even for us".

Dr Drew said human time travellers from the distant future could be creating the circles as directional markers, to help them navigate "in their distant past, which is our present".

"There are definitely humans living there in about 5000 years with time travel capability," he said.

"They're coming back and flying all over Earth.

"They seem to just say 'this is a certain day' and mark it.

"So the trouble is we don't know space time physics enough to understand what's happening. It's beyond our knowledge.

"Maybe they don't want us to know about it. It might be just for them."

It's a theory shared by many in his field of work.

HOW ARE THEY MADE?

Dr Drew said the circles appeared to be created by an "unknown energy that heats the crops up".

"It's like microwave energy but is something beyond earth's science," he said.

"It can pattern the wheat.

"No one sees or hears anything and that's why its so hard to prove. If there's a craft, it's silent, noiseless."

But there's nothing to fear, according to him.

"Don't be afraid," he said.

REAL OR A HOAX?

Telling the difference between a real crop circle and a hoax is like differentiating between an original painting and a fake, according to Dr Drew.

"There are some things to look for," he said.

Crops that are bent "halfway up" their stems, rather than on the ground ,is one telltale sign "cereologists", or someone that advocates paranormal explanations of crop circles, look for to determine that it's not a hoax.

"You can't absolutely prove a crop circle wasn't a hoax but you can give a high probability and judgment," he said.

"If there's a hoax the word of it gets around very fast, people are aware, people are not that easily fooled."

In 1991, English pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley took credit for most of the crop circles across southern England made since 1978. They were inspired by the Tully "saucer nest" case in Australia, where a farmer found a flattened circle of swamp reeds after observing a UFO.

Using basic tools including a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line, they said they made complex crop circles in England - which others then copied all over the world into the 1980s.

They made a circle for journalists, which was later declared authentic by a cereologist.

They then revealed their hoax to the world, spurring on even more copycats.

Dr Drew said there was a lot of scientific evidence to show that some crop circles were made by human time travellers or extraterrestrial beings. "Laboratory results on plant or soil samples taken from a crop circle in Brazil in October of 2016 show that it was formed by unknown sterilising images," he said.

The earliest mention of a crop circle dates back to the 1500s. A woodcut from the time showed a "mowing devil" making the pattern.

GOVERNMENT SECRETS?

Earlier this month, US TV host Jimmy Kimmel asked former US President George Bush if he went through "secret files, the UFO documents" when he was in office.

But instead of laughing off the question, the former commander in chief replied: "Maybe."

Mr Kimmel then asked him if there were "any great secrets you know that you can't share with people?"

"Yeah, there are," Mr Bush said. "But I'm not telling you."

Many conspiracy theorists and some scientists, including Dr Drew, argued that Mr Bush's comments indicated the US government knows much more about extraterrestrial life than it has publicly revealed.

"The politicians are scared they'll lose votes if they talk about it," Dr Drew said.

He said international media had also played a part in causing the public to doubt the legitimacy of crop circles and aliens.

But according to him, its important for humans to keep seeking answers.

"The ET visitors have technologies which would benefit us greatly, for example, how to make safe, clean energy without burning oil, coal or gas," Dr Drew said.

"Ultra-fast propulsion systems, based on gravity and inertia, could carry us safely to distant planets or stars.

"We may also need to upgrade our planetary defences soon, to protect against ET's who may not be friendly."

There's still a lot more to be understood but Dr Drew's hope is that he one day gets a closer look at what was inside the UFO he believes he saw as a child.

"I'd like to meet (the extraterrestrials or human time travellers) in person," he said.

"But I don't think they're going to do that.

"Whichever scientific team is doing this I don't think we're supposed to have full knowledge of it because it will interrupt their program, whatever they're doing."

- news.com.au

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12-03-2017 om 01:23 geschreven door peter  

Saturn's Tiny Moon Pan Looks Like A UFO, A Ravioli, An Empanada - But It's Not Weird At All In Space

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12-03-2017 om 01:12 geschreven door peter  

What is the bizarre UFO which is appearing above cities ALL ACROSS Europe?

A SPATE of similar UFO sightings at different locations across the UK and Europe has convinced some that aliens really ARE visiting Earth.

12-03-2017 om 00:56 geschreven door peter  

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12-03-2017 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Alien Footacge & UFO Sightings with Alien Craft In NASA Footage - Docum...

This Short yet Amazing documentary really got my imagination flowing.


Loads of great footage and an in-depth presentation towards the end exploring key Alien

Questions like:

I was fascinated with some of the Genuine UFO Footage most of which I had NEVER

even seen before!!

Make some quality time, relax and enjoy!!

11-03-2017 om 17:59 geschreven door peter  

Aardappelen kweken op Mars zoals in de film? Moet kunnen, denken wetenschappers - HLN.be

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Aardappelen kweken om te overleven op Mars: Matt Damon deed het ons al voor in 'The Martian'. Maar mogelijk kan het ook in werkelijkheid, zo concludeert een onderzoek van het International Potato Center in Peru na een jaar experimenteren.

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11-03-2017 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

Konijnenhol op Engelse platteland leidt naar eeuwenoud gangenstelsel - HLN.be

 Bron: AD.nl

Archeologen denken dat de grot werd gebruikt door late volgers van de Orde van de Tempeliers.

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Een konijnenhol op het Engelse platteland heeft geleid naar een eeuwenoud gangenstelsel. De grot werd door fotograaf Michael Scott op camera vastgelegd.

Het bewuste konijnenhol. 

© Michael Scott / Caters News.

Het ondergrondse stelsel werd ontdekt door een boer vlakbij het dorpje Shifnal, in de buurt van de stad Birmingham. Archeologen denken dat de grot werd gebruikt door late volgers van de Orde van de Tempeliers, een christelijke kruisridderorde die vocht ten tijde van de kruistochten in het Midden-Oosten in de 12de eeuw.

Het stelsel ligt amper één meter onder de grond en bestaat uit tientallen smalle gangetjes. Bogen die zijn uitgehouwen uit zandsteen houden de boel overeind. De enige manier om toegang te krijgen tot de grot is via het konijnenhol. Het gangenstelsel lijkt volledig intact.

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• De wereldkaart van de grootste verborgen schatten

Zwarte magie

Waarvoor de grot werd gebruikt en hoe oud het stelsel precies is, is nog onduidelijk. Archeologen van Historic England beschrijven de ondergrondse ruimte als een zogenoemde 'grotto': een natuurlijke of aangelegde grot die wordt of werd gebruikt door de mens. Ook denken ze dat de grot werd gebruikt voor het uitvoeren van rituelen van zwarte magie.

© Michael Scott / Caters News.

© Michael Scott / Caters News.

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11-03-2017 om 17:39 geschreven door peter  

11-03-2017 om 17:28 geschreven door peter  

MYSTERIEUZE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLIET DUIKT WEER OP ( VIDEO )

In 1960 verschenen er diverse nieuwsberichten in kranten en ook een artikel in Time waarin bekend werd gemaakt dat een mysterieuze “donkere” satelliet was ontdekt in een baan om de aarde. 

De Amerikanen werden nerveus omdat ze dachten dat het een nieuwe Russische spionagesatelliet was en de bevolking kreeg de indruk dat de leiding geen idee had over wat er nu eigenlijk boven hun hoofden gebeurde. 

Het wordt wel eens het best bewaarde geheim van onze tijd genoemd. Een mysterieuze 12.000 jaar oude satelliet die ergens in een baan om de aarde zweeft en zo af en toe weer eens ergens op duikt. 

Voor mensen die niets weten over de achtergrond van de Black Knight Satelliet eerst en deel uit een eerder artikel: 

In 1960 verschenen er diverse nieuwsberichten in kranten en ook een artikel in Time waarin bekend werd gemaakt dat een mysterieuze “donkere” satelliet was ontdekt in een baan om de aarde. 

De Amerikanen werden nerveus omdat ze dachten dat het een nieuwe Russische spionagesatelliet was en de bevolking kreeg de indruk dat de leiding geen idee had over wat er nu eigenlijk boven hun hoofden gebeurde.

Deze verwarring duurde ongeveer drie weken, totdat het Ministerie van Defensie plotsklaps met een verklaring kwam: het waren de overblijfselen van een satelliet die ze al een tijdje kwijt waren. 

In die tijd geloofde men nog wat overheden vertelden dus ging iedereen weer rustig slapen. Maar, verhalen over deze vreemde satelliet gaan al veel verder terug dan de jaren zestig. Er zijn berichten dat het in de jaren twintig en dertig van de vorige eeuw al ouderwetse radiogolven uitzond op de korte golf. 

Deze berichten werden in die tijd opgevangen door een groep Noorse en Nederlandse onderzoekers die bezig waren met een onderzoek naar het effect van echo’s. Eén van de berichten waar zij niets mee gedaan hadden, werd later ontdekt door de Schotse auteur en astronoom Duncan Lunan. Hij wist dit bericht te ontcijferen en er kwam uit dat de satelliet toebehoorde aan buitenaardsen uit het sterrenstelsel Epsilon Boötes, dat ze op de zesde planeet in hun stelsel woonden en dat die één maan had. Er gaan ook verhalen dat dit weer ontkend zou zijn, maar het werd wel gepubliceerd in 1973 in het tijdschrift Spaceflight. 

Volgens de auteur John Keel, die het boek Disneyland of the Gods heeft geschreven, was het object vele malen groter dan wat Amerika of Rusland in de ruimte zou kunnen brengen. 

En toen op 3 september 1960, zeven maanden nadat de satelliet voor het eerst door de radar was ontdekt, werd het vastgelegd op de gevoelige plaat door een camera die stond opgesteld bij de Grunman Aircraft Corporation. Mensen op de grond hadden het af en aan gezien gedurende enkele weken. Ze beschreven het object als rood gloeiend en in een baan van oost naar west rond aarde. De weinige satellieten die toen in de ruimte waren, bewogen echter in een baan van west naar oost. 

De snelheid van het apparaat was ook drie keer groter dan die van een normale satelliet. Er werd een comité opgericht om er onderzoek naar te doen, maar de resultaten daarvan zijn nooit bekend gemaakt. 

Toen de satelliet werd ontdekt in 1960 vond men het belangrijk genoeg om de toenmalige president Eisenhower midden in de nacht wakker te maken. Een satelliet waarvan de leeftijd wordt geschat op minimaal 12.000 jaar, op een hoogte van bijna 40.000 kilometer, net onder de Van Allen Gordel. 

De Black Knight satelliet is één van de best bewaarde geheimen van de tegenwoordige tijd. 

Is deze Black Night Satelliet misschien iets meer dan alleen maar een satelliet. Is het een soort moederschip die in een baan om de aarde draait en af en toe verkenners op pad stuurt? 

Enkele dagen geleden werd er door de bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan bij het ISS, International Space Station. 

Vlakbij het ISS werd door hem een onbekend donker object waargenomen:

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Misschien is de Black Knight een soort ruimteschip van onze verre voorouders de Anunnaki die het destijds in een baan om de aarde hebben “geparkeerd”. 

Hebben ze dit schip nu weer geactiveerd en fungeert het als een soort verkenningsobject om te zien wat ze straks bij hun terugkeer kunnen verwachten? 

 

Er zijn zelfs de afgelopen jaren aanwijzingen dat het Vaticaan zich voorbereidt op de komst van een buitenaards ras, dus wie weet. 

Los van wie of wat daar bij het ISS rondhangt, opmerkelijk is natuurlijk wel dat ook al die vreemde objecten die in de loop der tijd bij het ISS zijn gesignaleerd, volkomen worden genegeerd. 

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11-03-2017 om 17:20 geschreven door peter  

White UFO Over Istanbul, Turkey On March 5, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 5, 2017
Location of sighting: Istanbul, Turkey

This UFO is a cloud orb, but it was caught at a rare time when it was a clear sky. When there are no clouds in the sky and the sky is blue, it makes the cloud orbs stand out. This is a great video from Turkey this week that demonstrates such an occurrence. 
Scott C. Waring

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11-03-2017 om 17:11 geschreven door peter  

Close Up Of Croissant Shaped UFO Over Island Nation Of Malta, 5-10-2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 5-10-2016 but reported today.
Location of sighting:  Marsaskala, Malta
Source: MUFON #82593

This croissant-shaped UFO was spotted over the island of Malta last year, but reported today on MUFON. The area is very secluded since its surrounded by ocean on all sides and its clear skies make it perfect for spotting UFOs. Most of the alien bases are below the ocean. I assume this since the ocean covers 75% of the Earths surface, that means 75% of the earths surface is mostly unwatched because there are few humans out there except on a few ships and boats. Since aliens can build bases in space that are air tight, and below the surface of Venus (says Val Thor) its just logical that aliens would utilise the untaped resource of our oceans to build bases. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

It was a sunny day and I was taking photos of the view and in 3 photos the object appeared and started noticing it for 15 mins or so then disappeared over the sea.

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11-03-2017 om 17:09 geschreven door peter  

5 Meter UFO Lands In Forest Field Of Grass Caught On Animal Cam, Feb 15, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 15, 2017, 07:35AM
Location of sighting: Smithfield, Virginia, USA
Source: MUFON #82587

This animal cam caught a cylinder UFO hovering over the field for almost 30 minutes. The camera is a special infrared camera which is capable of seeing light that the human eye cannot. It will see any cloaked craft immediately. The UFO is not close, but on the other side of the field, making it about 4-5 meters high and 1 meter wide. Since the UFO does settle on the ground as you can see for yourself, its logical that someone probably exited and walked around to analyse the plant and animal life for a few moments. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

Was seen on game cam hovering over a deer.

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11-03-2017 om 17:02 geschreven door peter  

Humanity's first look at TRAPPIST-1: Kepler images revealed as NASA sets its sights on seven alien worlds that could contain life

• Raw data from Kepler space telescope released this week show look at Trappist-1
• The pixelated view comes from 74 days of observations of the nearby system
• Blips in brightness indicate presence of transiting planets passing in front of star

By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com

Since NASA first announced the discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a dwarf star just 39 light-years away, imaginations have run wild as to what these mysterious worlds might look like.

Now, the space agency has revealed the much-awaited first glimpse at the Trappist-1 system – but, it might not be the alien landscape you’re hoping for.

Raw data from the Kepler space telescope released this week show a pixelated first look at our ‘ultra-cool neighbour,’ with tiny blips in brightness indicating the presence of transiting planets passing in front of the star. 

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The space agency has revealed the much-awaited first glimpse at the Trappist-1 system – but, it might not be the alien landscape you’re hoping for. Kepler has been observing Trappist-1 since December, and the newly released dataset accounts for 74 days of monitoring

Breathtaking illustrations from artists in recent weeks have painted a captivating picture of these mysterious planets.

While the new view might not satisfy our imaginations just yet, these observations are of great value to the scientific community.

Kepler has been observing Trappist-1 since December, and the newly released dataset accounts for 74 days of monitoring, from Dec 15 to March 4.

The system was first spotted by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in combination with ground-based telescopes.

Raw data from the Kepler space telescope released this week show a pixelated first look at our ‘ultra-cool neighbour,’ with tiny blips in brightness indicating the presence of transiting planets passing in front of the star

And, with these additional observations, scientists can refine their existing measurements of six of the planets in the system, and get a better understanding of the orbital period and mass of the seventh.

It could also reveal more information on the host star’s magnetic activity.

‘Scientists and enthusiasts around the world are invested in learning everything they can about these Earth-size worlds,’ said Geert Barentsen, K2 research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

‘Providing the K2 raw data as quickly as possible was a priority to give investigators an early look so they could best define their follow-up research plans.

Breathtaking illustrations from artists in recent weeks have painted a captivating picture of these mysterious planets. While the new view might not satisfy our imaginations just yet, these observations are of great value to the scientific community

‘We’re thrilled that this will also allow the public to witness the process of discovery.’

The dataset represents the longest, nearly continuous study yet of this newly-discovered system, and will allow researchers to study the gravitational interactions of the planets within.

And, it will allow them to search for any planets that may have so far evaded discovery.

If Kepler had followed its initial coordinates set in October 2015, defined as Campaign 12, it would have missed the planets.

But, after the discovery of three of the planets in the system was announced in May, researchers reworked the calculations.

This chart shows, on the top row, artist impressions of the seven planets of Trappist-1 with their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii and masses as compared to those of Earth. The bottom row shows data about Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The seven planets' orbits are closer to their star than Venus, Earth or Mars, and are therefore significantly shorter

Not only will these observations be of use to scientists working to refine their measurements now, but NASA says the mission could help plan future studies with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.

‘We were lucky that the K2 mission was able to observe Trappist-1,’ said Michael Haas, science office director for the Kepler and K2 missions at Ames.

‘The observing field for Campaign 12 was set when the discovery of the first planets orbiting Trappist-1 was announced, and the science community has already submitted proposals for specific targets of interest in the field.

‘The unexpected opportunity to further study the Trappist-1 system was quickly recognized the agility of the K2 team and science community prevailed once again.’ 

THE TRAPPIST-1 SOLAR SYSTEM 

The newly discovered star system is just 39 light years from Earth.

- Seven Earth-sized worlds are orbiting a dwarf star known as Trappist-1

- Six inner planets lie in a temperate zone where surface temperatures range from 0-100°C (32-212°F)

- Of these, at least three are thought to be capable of having oceans, increasing the likelihood of life

 The Trappist-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. This graphic shows how the outer orbiting 1h is an icy planet, while inner orbiting 1b, 1c and 1d are likely to be hot and dry. An artist's concept is pictured

- Scientists say life may have already evolved on at least three of the planets

- No other star system known contains such a large number of Earth-sized and probably rocky planets

- They were found using the 'transit' method that looks for tiny amounts of dimming caused by a world blocking light from its star 

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11-03-2017 om 01:53 geschreven door peter