There I Was: The X-Files Edition

PACO CHIERICI

A good buddy of mine and former squadron mate, Dave “Sex” Fravor, has one of the most bizarre aviation stories of all time.  It is a story that stretches credibility, so I’ll start off by building up Dave’s bona fides.

For what it’s worth, I know him personally — very well.  We flew A-6s together for a cruise back in the Dark Ages before he matriculated into the Hornet world.  He’s a funny guy.  Smart and sharp witted, with a typical fighter pilot’s overestimation of his skills. (He’d read the SHB article and assured me his was way better than anything Nasty could do.  I called B.S.–pretty standard.)  In the air, though, Dave was all business, as professional as it gets.

It’s easy to get a sense of who and what he is because his squadron was featured on the 10-part miniseries Carrier that aired on PBS.  You get an excellent and accurate impression of him from his screen time as Commanding Officer of VFA-41.

VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ CAG jet on its takeoff roll at MCAS Miramar, heading out to perform of the many Centennial of Naval Aviation fly-by’s.

On the morning of 14 November 2004, Dave and his WSO launched into the clear blue Southern California sky about a hundred miles southwest of San Diego.  Their Call Sign was FASTEAGLE 01.  His wingman and WSO launched just after them in FASTEAGLE 02.  They climbed overhead the ship and rendezvoused in normal fashion before setting off to their assigned work area in the open ocean south of USS Nimitz.  Normal day, normal ops for the pre-deployment work up cycle they were in the middle of.

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group had been on station for a few weeks already, working to integrate the operations of the carrier with her various support ships, including the Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser, USS Princeton.   As far as Dave was concerned, it was a standard day in a normal work up cycle.  Another step in the long journey in preparing the ships of the Strike Group and the planes of the Air Wing to work harmoniously for their upcoming combat deployment.

What Dave didn’t know was for the past several days, Princeton had been picking up some bizarre returns on their Death Star-worthy SPY-1 radar.  On several occasions beginning 10 November, the Fire Control Officer and the extremely experienced Fire Control Senior Chief had detected multiple returns descending from far above the radar’s scan volume–somewhere higher than 80,000 ft.  The targets, dubbed Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs), would drop from above 80K to hover roughly 50 feet off the water in a matter of seconds.

Always over the same spot, a Lat/Long about 30NM off the coast of Baja, roughly 70nm southwest of Tijuana.  At the time, the SPY-1 was the most sophisticated and powerful tactical radar on the planet.  With it, they were able to track these AAVs while they descended, hovered and then zipped away at speeds, turn rates and accelerations faster than any known friendly or threat aircraft.  Impossibly fast.

VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ CAG resting on the ramp after a sortie during Air Wing Fallon.

Once the Air Wing’s planes arrived aboard Nimitz, the Fire Control team on Princeton saw an opportunity to use those assets and eyeballs to help solve the AAV mystery.

At the same time FASTEAGLE flight was wrapping up its scheduled training, the CO of Marine Hornet squadron VMFA-232, Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, was completing a post-maintenance check flight not too far away.  He was the first fast-mover contacted by Princeton.  The communication was strange and intriguing.   He was asked to investigate an unidentified airborne contact.  This wasn’t a terribly unusual request while a Strike Group was in transit or deployed far from home waters, but it was more than a little strange practically in sight of the San Diego Homeport.  To add to the unusual communications, he was queried as to what ordinance he had on board.

“None.”

While Princeton was communicating with Cheeks, they were also attempting to hand off their AAV contact to the Air Wing’s E-2C Hawkeye, also airborne at the time.  The crew from VAW-117 had been providing intercept control for FASTEAGLE flight during their training.  Princeton now wanted the E-2 to guide the Super Hornets to an intercept with the AAV contact, currently hovering over their favorite spot, but now about 20,000 feet over the ocean.

The AAV returns had not been strong enough to show up on the E-2’s broad sweep, but once they focused their radar on the coordinates Princeton directed them towards, they managed a faint contact.  The radar returns from the contact weren’t enough to generate a target track however, so Princeton cut the E-2 from control and contacted FASTEAGLE directly.  Though he was unable to lock up the AAVs, the E-2 controller remained on frequency and listened to the entire ensuing evolution.

As Cheeks approached the spot he was being vectored to, Princeton advised him to stay above 10K as the section of Super Hornets were approaching the target.  His radar picked up the FASTEAGLE two-ship, but no other contacts.  A moment later Princeton directed him to “skip it” and return to the ship.  Since he was so close, he decided to fly over the action and sneak a peek.

The sea was calm, almost glassy smooth and it was late morning on a beautiful SoCal day.  Perfect conditions.  As Cheeks flew over the spot he saw a disturbance on the surface of the ocean.  A round section of turbulent water about 50-100 meters in diameter.  It was the only area and type of what he called, “whitewater” describing that it looked as if there was something below the surface like a shoal or what he’d heard a ship sinking rapidly would look like.

He overflew the disturbance and circled back in the direction of Nimitz without ever seeing what caused the water to froth.  As he turned away, which happened to be the moment the Super Hornets converged on the location, the whitewater cleared and the ocean surface returned to its smooth state.  The spot of the previous disturbance was completely indiscernible.

A few thousand feet below him, Dave had gone though the similar surreal experience of being asked by Princeton if the FASTEAGLE jets were carrying any ordnance.  Dave’s baffled WSO reported that all they had were two captive-carry training missiles.  They were given bearing and range vectors to a set of coordinates and told to investigate an unknown aerial contact over that spot.

With no further information on the contact, they descended to the low 20s and scanned with radar, picking nothing up.  Neither plane in this flight was carrying a FLIR pod, which limited the type of sensors they could search with; but, both planes were brand new–in Dave’s words, “They still had that new car smell.”  The APG-73 radars were both new and had performed perfectly during the previous hour’s training.  Yet the screens from both planes were clean all the way to the point Princeton called “Merge plot!”

A cigar-shaped UFO over Los Angeles in 2012. (Image Courtesy: YouTube.com)

All four aircrew were eyes out from this point forward.  The first unusual indication Dave picked up was the area of whitewater on the surface that Cheeks was looking at over his shoulder as he flew away.  He remembers thinking it was about the size of a 737 and maybe the contact they had been vectored on had been an airliner that had just crashed.  He maneuvered his F-18 lower to get a better look.  As he was descending through about 20K he was startled by the sight of a white object that was moving about just over the frothing water.  It was all white, featureless, oblong and making minor lateral movements while staying at a consistent low altitude over the disk of turbulent water.

Dave put FASTEAGLE 02 into high cover passing through about 15K and she and her WSO witnessed the events from a perfect vantage point.  Dave continued his dive lower towards the object, now also attempting to slave the radar through his HMCS to achieve a short range lock.  No luck.  His intention was to pass the object close aboard at about 350 kts, but as he got closer he noticed that the AAV had oriented one of its skinny ends towards him, as if, in his words, “It had just noticed us” and it was now pointing at them.

The AAV then began to rise from its hover.  The object, which he would later describe as a while tic-tac, rose in right 2-circle flow about a mile cross-circle from Dave’s Hornet.  BFM instincts took over and Dave dug nose-low to cut across the bottom of the circle.  As he was looking at the AAV and pulling his nose up to bear, the tried again to slave his radar via the HMCS.  Again, the APG-73 was unable to lock on the white, fighter-sized flying object now just a couple of thousand feet away and closing.

All through these maneuvers, Dave’s WSO was broadcasting the real-time events of the intercept to Princeton.  The radar operators in the E-2 listened on the secure net to what sounded like one of the hundreds of intercepts they had heard over the years.  With the notable exception that the aircrew’s voices were more stressed and the verbiage to ID the target was unlike anything they had heard before.

A Super Hornet from VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ sitting on the ramp at NAS Fallon.

In his debrief comments, Dave, his WSO and the two other crews stated the object had initially been hovering like a Harrier.  They described it as uniformly white, about 46  feet long (roughly fighter-sized), having a discernible midline horizontal axis (like a fuselage) but having no visible windows, nacelles, wings or propulsion systems.

As Dave was pulling for nose-on and trying to get a dogfight lock with his radar, the AAV tightened its turn, “lift vector on, then aft” as Dave described, passed behind his tail and accelerated away at multi-Mach speed.  Dave immediately queried Princeton for a snap-vector but the SPY-1 radar had also lost the contact.  The first calls from Princeton were “picture clean.”  A few moments later Princeton came back with, “You’re not going to believe this, it’s at your CAP.”  Princeton had picked up the AAV hovering at 24K at the assigned Lat/Long Dave had used earlier during training as his orbiting point.

Though low on gas, the FASTEAGLE flight swung through the CAP position to try and pick up the AAV again.  They saw nothing more on their way back to Nimitz.  Even the 100 meter circle of turbulent ocean water had disappeared.  That spot was now indistinguishable from the rest of the sea’s surface.  Asked later, Dave reported that he had not seen anything on or below the surface of the ocean that may have caused the turbulent circle of water.  It had existed when they had first visually acquired the tic-tac, then was gone when they circled back a few minutes later.

Back on Nimitz after recovery, the four crew headed down to the paraloft to remove their gear.  The next four crews from VFA-41 were getting dressed for their training mission to the same area, using the same assigned Lat/Longs as CAP points.  Dave and his crewmembers passed on what they had seen to the new guys and reminded them to get tape if they could.

By the time the new crew launched, rendezvoused and checked in with the E-2 for control, it was early afternoon; 1500.  The planes separated, with one heading to that same southern CAP location.  They were cruising along at 20K and 300kts, max endurance.  Again, the jet, radar and also, this time, the FLIR were spanking new and operating perfectly.

The WSO first picked up a contact on the radar around 30nm away while it was operating in the RWS scan mode.  He checked the coordinates and it was indeed hovering at their precise CAP point.  He attempted several STT locks, to no avail.  Later, in the debrief, he explained that he had multiple telltale cues of EA.

The target aspect on the track file was turning through 360 degrees along with some other distinct  jamming indications.  In the less precise scan mode, the return indicated that the object was, in the WSO’s words, “A few thousand feet below us.  Around 15-20K– but hovering stationary.”  The only movement was generated by the closure of the fighter to the CAP location.

The WSO resorted to the FLIR pod on board, slaving it to the weak track the RWS mode had been able to generate.  He recorded the following sequence to the on-board recorder.  Using the IR mode, he was able to lock onto the AAV.  It showed up on his screen and on tape as a white object in a black background hovering with no known means.

The IR camera did not detect roiling hot gasses blasting from below the AAV, as they would with a Harrier or a helicopter.  It was simply hanging in midair.  He switched to the TV mode and was able to again lock the FLIR onto the object while still trying, with no luck, to get a STT track on the radar.  As he watched it, the AAV moved out of his screen to the left so suddenly it almost seemed to disappear.  On the tape, when it is slowed down, the object accelerates out of the field of view with shocking speed.  The WSO was not able to reacquire the AAV either in RWS or with the FLIR.

Somehow the tape made its way to YouTube.  A few years after the incident, when first telling me the story, Dave pointed me to the link.  It was unremarkable without the background information.  But folded into context it was amazing, especially the slow-mo of the dot accelerating out of screen.  For years I told the story to friends and showed them the video as punctuation.

However last month when I called Dave to refresh my memory before sitting down to write this bizarre encounter, he informed me that the video had been removed from YouTube.  He told me that a government agency with a three letter identifier had recently conducted an investigation into the AAVs and had exhaustively interviewed all parties involved.

All of the seven flight crew, including 6 aircrew from VFA-41 and Cheeks from VMFA-232.  The Fire Control Officer and Senior Chief from Princeton, and the radar operator on the E-2.  They even queried the crew of the USS Louisville, a Los Angeles-class Fast-Attack submarine that was in the area as part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group who reported there were no unidentified sonar contacts or strange underwater noises on that day.

I’m not sure what to make of these events.  I’ve loved the story since first listening because it is so crazy.  I had never given aliens or UFOs much thought.  It was a waste of my CPU power to mull a question like that.  If they wanted to make contact, they would.  If they wanted to observe from a distance, then they would be impossible to discern given the assumed high technology required to visit.

But now I was faced with credible witnesses.  Not crackpots wearing foil hats but people I knew and people who were from my world.  There were multiple, corroborating platforms that detected the AAVs using varied sensors.  And, of course, the eight eyeballs that actually got a visual on the white tic-tac as Dave maneuvered to merge with it.  He doesn’t have to be a stranger to you either.  Watch him on the PBS series, Carrier, and generate your own opinion of his professionalism and sanity.

Then send me your best design for an aluminum foil hat…

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18-03-2017 om 18:15 geschreven door peter  

LEGENDARY BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE SHOT DOWN DURING SECRET MILITARY MISSION?

Two days ago a secret server of Wikileaks was used to upload a huge amount of data coming from an unknown source. Apparently, all the document and files were marked with metatags that contained references to the legendary Black Knight satellite.

This mysterious object was discovered by Nikola Tesla back in 1932. He was convinced that this was an alien object put in earth's orbit to monitor mankind's evolution. 

Yesterday a Youtuber's account got hacked, and this video was uploaded that contains footage of the Black Knight Satellite being shot down. The weapon that was used was an anti-matter warhead according to the Wikileaks documents.

It's unclear who gave the order to bring down this extraterrestrial craft. In the video, we also catch a glimpse of the secret aircraft that carried out the attack. After the impact, several escape pods are launched back into space.

In this stage, we can only speculate on the reason why the Black Knight Satellite was shot down.

Was it about to signal it's creators to come to earth? Was the Black Knight Satellite regarding the boundaries of space for humans that have the ambition of interplanetary traveling? 

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18-03-2017 om 17:39 geschreven door peter  

Laagvliegende meteoriet veroorzaakt paniek in noorden van Pakistan - HLN.be 

 Bron: AFP

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In de bergachtige regio in het noorden van Pakistan heeft een laagvliegende meteoriet woensdagavond voor paniek gezorgd bij de plaatselijke bevolking. Dat hebben lokale verantwoordelijken laten weten.

Het incident deed zich voor omstreeks 21 uur plaatselijke tijd (17 uur Belgische tijd). De inwoners van de stad Gilgit en de aangrenzende districten Ghizer en Diamer zagen plots een onbekend voorwerp door de lucht klieven en de hemel oplichten. Volgens een getuige liepen heel wat inwoners de straat op. De verschrikte toeschouwers zagen het object in de bergen verdwijnen en hoorden enkele seconden later ontploffingen. Op sociaalnetwerksites wemelde het al snel van getuigenissen van mensen die het object hadden gezien of er een foto van hadden genomen. 

Ook de plaatselijke autoriteiten bevestigden inmiddels dat er in de drie districten een vreemd object werd waargenomen. "Volgens ons onderzoek gaat het om een meteoriet die op lage hoogte vloog. Het vermeende geluid van een explosie is waarschijnlijk te wijten aan de meteoriet die door de geluidsmuur breekt", luidde het. Nog volgens de autoriteiten is de meteoriet niet neergekomen in het gebied, maar heeft hij verder koers gezet richting Afghaans grondgebied en de Wachan-corridor, een extreem afgelegen regio.

Meteorieten zijn brokstukken van een hemellichaam die niet volledig verpulverd werden bij het doorkruisen van de atmosfeer. Ze zijn erg gegeerd bij wetenschappers omwille van de schat aan informatie over het ontstaan van het zonnestelsel die ze mogelijk in zich dragen. Het is op dit moment niet duidelijk of de waargenomen meteoriet uiteindelijk ergens is neergekomen, dan wel volledig uiteen is gevallen alvorens de grond te bereiken.

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18-03-2017 om 17:25 geschreven door peter  

COOLBIERE PHOTOGRAPH VIA GETTY IMAGES

Have you ever spent a lazy day on a blanket in the middle of a summer meadow, staring up at the sky, watching the clouds drift by, and imagining them take the shapes of familiar things?

There’s even an organization, The Cloud Appreciation Society, devoted to the activity of cloud gazing. When their February 2017 cloud of the month turned out to be a flying saucer-shaped lenticular cloud, it absolutely inspired us to seek out more of these breathtaking images of clouds from around the world that have caused people to report seeing alien visitors. 

The Weather Channel has referred to lenticular clouds as “Mother Nature’s UFOs.” These altocumulus lenticularis clouds ― appearing to our senses as disc-shaped objects ― often form in mountainous regions where stable moist air flows upward and then, when it becomes colder, it descends, forming a disc-like cloud that can appear to hover in the air.

They’re also seen in non-mountain areas, formed by the strong winds resulting from a storm front.

We’ve gathered some remarkable images here that might make you think twice about whether people have been lucky enough to capture amazing UFO pictures, or the more credible explanation of lenticular clouds.

UFOs Or Lenticular Clouds?

Mt. Tasman, New Zealand

A brilliant, multi-tiered lenticular cloud.

Antarctic Peninsula

A lenticular cloud formation over the Lemaire Channel on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.

Iceland 

Jokulsarlon Glacial Lagoon of Vatnajokull glacier under majestic lenticular clouds, Iceland.

Mt. Rainier, Washington State

A lenticular cloud floats over Mount Rainier at sunrise. Washington, USA.

Mt. Fuji, Japan 

Fujiyoshida is a town located in the northern area of Mt. Fuji and considered as one of the best places to admire the beauty of the mountain. Fujiyoshida is the gateway for climbing Mt. Fuji via the Yoshida trail, the most popular trail to the summit

Queens, New York 

Umbria, Italy

Lenticular cloud over Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.

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18-03-2017 om 17:15 geschreven door peter  

Google balloon mistaken for UFO as it crashes in Colombia 

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Farmers living in central Tolima province in Colombia say they were terrified when an object they took to be a UFO crashed in a field on Sunday.

"It was smoking and a strange liquid was leaking from it," a resident of the small town of San Luis said.

Police have since identified the object as an internet balloon developed by X, a company founded by Google, to boost the signal in rural areas.

It is not yet clear what caused the balloon to crash.

'From outer space'

Tolima police commander Jorge Esguerra denied previous reports on Twitter and local media which had described the object as a satellite.

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"It's a technological device used by Google which moves around and is held aloft by a balloon," he explained, adding that it formed part of X's Project Loon.

X, which was formerly known as Google X, is using the devices to extend internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas by having the balloons, which travel on the edge of space, relay the signal.

Google's Project Loon superpressure balloons have already flown millions of kilometres around the

world

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But many people in the rural area near San Luis where it crashed said they were convinced it was something more sinister.

"We all thought it was a UFO or the remains of a space craft," locals told El Tiempo newspaper.

It is not the first time a Project Loon balloon has crashed.

In February 2016, one came down at a tea plantation in Sri Lanka during a test flight.

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Superpressure balloons are made out of tightly sealed plastic capable of containing highly pressurised lighter-than-air gases.

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18-03-2017 om 16:44 geschreven door peter  

They’re real and contain hidden messages, scientist says

Crop circles have been appearing around the world for centuries.

Megan Palinnews.com.au@megan_palin

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”.

Sightseers visit an incorporated oversized crop circle in a cornfield, not far from the small community of Mammendorf near Munich, southern Germany, on August 3, 2016. The crop circle had a diameter of 180 metres.

Picture: AFP / Christof StacheSource:AFP

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.

A crop circle once appeared in field of wheat at Clay Hill, Warminster, Wiltshire. The site, made famous by UFO sightings in the 60s and 70s, had crop circle experts baffled over the 200 foot design.

Source:Supplied

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.”

Scientist Dr Horace Drew said he took this photos in a “newly found crop” circle at Etchilhampton near Decizes, England in July, 2012. “About 25 per cent of fallen wheat stems inside the picture were bent by unknown energies,” he told a conference on Wednesday.

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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.

Scientist Dr Horace Drew has been researching crop circles and aliens for 20 years.

Source:Supplied

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.

An aerial view shows people strolling through a crop circle on a field near Mammendorf, southern Germany, on July 26, 2016. The pattern had a diameter of 180 meters.

Picture: AFP / Sven Hoppe.Source:AFP

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.”

megan.palin@news.com.au

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18-03-2017 om 16:26 geschreven door peter  

18-03-2017 om 16:11 geschreven door peter  

Disc UFO caught on camera moving out of bay

A Canadian witness at Port Greville reported discovering a disc-shaped object moving out of a local bay and shooting into the sky after watching video previously shot in the area, according to testimony in Case 82086 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Witness image #1.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness was at the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, staying at a friend’s beach cottage on August 6, 2016, when the incident occurred.

“I was watching a fairly intense lightning storm roll into the mouth of the bay off the Atlantic,” the witness stated. “We were waiting for our bar-b-q to finish and I began to film the storm hoping to get some good footage of the lightning as I waited.The storm was still a good 20 minutes away, but the lightning was going straight down into the water almost everytime and I continued to film for about two minutes.”

Witness image #1 closeup.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness captured nothing out of the ordinary except for one very close double flash of lightning and an immediate loud bang.

“I put my camera away,ate supper as the storm passed overhead, and thought nothing more of it until two or three days later when I was going through the video.I watched it normally and saw nothing, got to the end and hit pause during one of the lightning strikes.Took a screenshot for Facebook and continued to scroll backwards very slowly going from lightning strike to lightning strike and taking screenshots.”

Witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

But then the witness noticed something unusual.

“As I got to the very first seconds of the video, during the double lightning bolt and bang, I could see a disc-like object the size of a semi-trailer flying out of the bay on an angle at an unimaginable speed across the sky through the double flash and up into the clouds with a bang and whirly wind tunnel echo sound.”

Witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

The object was captured all within a single second on video.

“But with determination and brain surgeon fingers, I was able to get screenshots of it within that second.I have some unbelievable video and even more unbelievable pictures.I’ve spent almost eight months seeking help and getting nowhere. I pray you people take me seriously and show interest because this is real.”

Witness image.

(Credit: MUFON)

Bay of Fundy

(Credit: Google)

MUFON Canada Field Investigator David Delaney is investigating. The witness included five images with the report, which was filed on February 15, 2017. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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18-03-2017 om 16:00 geschreven door peter  

18-03-2017 om 12:24 geschreven door peter  

18-03-2017 om 12:21 geschreven door peter  

18-03-2017 om 12:17 geschreven door peter  

NASA TELESCOOP LEGT GROOT ROND OBJECT VAST NAAST DE ZON ( VIDEO )

Op beelden van de NASA ruimtetelescopen komen de laatste tijd steeds vreemdere zaken voor. 

Zo is er iets ontdekt wat lijkt op een planeet vlakbij de zon en wordt het 's avonds in de Alpen lichter in plaats van donkerder door een vreemde onbekende lichtbron.

NASA heeft verschillende telescopen die in de ruimte vliegen en van daaruit zijn veel betere beelden te maken dan dat die vanaf de aarde gemaakt zouden kunnen worden. 

Eén van die ruimtetelescopen heet SOHO. 

SOHO is een ruimtetelescoop die de Zon observeert. Het is een samenwerkingsproject van de ESA en de NASA. De afkorting SOHO staat voor Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Nederlands: "Zon- en heliosfeerobservatorium"). Toch wordt deze ruimtesonde niet alleen gebruikt om de Zon te observeren. Er zijn namelijk ook al meer dan 1000 kometen met SOHO gevonden. 

SOHO bevindt zich in een baan met een halve lange as van ongeveer 660.000 km rond het Lagrangepunt L1, dat zich op ongeveer 1,5 miljoen km van de Aarde in de richting van de Zon bevindt. Omdat hij geen baan om de Aarde of de Zon beschrijft is SOHO een ruimtesonde en geen satelliet. 

Op de volgende afbeelding is goed te zien waar dat punt L1 zich bevindt.

Deze telescoop heeft enkele dagen geleden de hiernavolgende opname gemaakt. De grote donkere cirkel in het midden is de zon en linksonder daarvan zie je in het opgelichte gedeelte duidelijke een donkere cirkelvorm. 

Wanneer je dit vergelijkt met de grootte van de zon, dan spreken we hier over een enorme planeet, dat wil zeggen, vele malen groter dan de aarde.

Dat zich daar iets bevindt is duidelijk, maar niet wat het is. In de hiernavolgende video wordt dieper ingegaan op de mogelijkheid dat het een enorm ruimteschip zou kunnen zijn die energie komt tanken bij de zon zoals we dat in het verleden al vaker hebben gezien. 

 

Anderzijds zou dit net ontdekte object ook een planeet uit het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru kunnen zijn, omdat deze ook in de buurt van de zon wordt waargenomen. 

Ongetwijfeld zullen een aantal van de volgende foto’s verklaard kunnen worden als lensflares of bijzonnen, maar er komen er steeds meer en ook steeds vaker zien mensen een tweede zon met het blote oog.

Een ander fenomeen dat zich momenteel voor doet en dat we kregen opgestuurd via een lezer (dank!) is dat het in de Alpen 's avonds lichter wordt in plaats van donkerder en dat dit wordt veroorzaakt door een andere lichtbron dan de maan.

Op de volgende afbeelding zie je de maan zoals die door een webcam ’s avonds om 21.00 uur wordt vastgelegd. Niets bijzonders, normale opname.

Dan, op dezelfde dag, dezelfde webcam, maar een half uur later. Helemaal bovenin is nog net de maan te zien, maar wat verschijnt daar in beeld: de zon? Om half tien ’s avonds nadat het al donker was?

De video die hierna volgt, staat vol met voorbeelden in de Alpen waar dingen toch niet helemaal zijn zoals ze eigenlijk horen te zijn. 

 

Misschien zullen er voor alle of enkele bovengenoemde zaken “logische verklaringen” zijn, maar het lijkt alsof er iedere week meer vreemde dingen gebeuren op onze planeet.

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18-03-2017 om 12:09 geschreven door peter  

BEWIJS IN PIRAMIDES  DAT ATLANTIS ONDER IJS VAN ANTARCTICA LIGT ( VIDEO )

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

UFO Caught During Sunset Over Fort Worth, Texas On March 17, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 17, 2017

Location of sighting: Fort worth, Texas, USA

News source: MUFON #82683

 

Sunset is the most common time of the day for UFO sightings to occur. The angle of the sun, person and UFO cause the craft to stand out remarkably well. 

Scott C. Waring

 

Eyewitness states: 

I went outside, I noticed a weird lead/gray thing spinning in sky, took pic, then noticed a big NEW PLANET in background, WTF. and another something in sky.

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18-03-2017 om 11:53 geschreven door peter  

Watch Viral Video Of Diamond UFO Hovering Over Sea

An amazing video of an apparent diamond-shaped UFO has gone viral. It shows the UFO hovering above the sea before vanishing through an alleged portal.

Section 51 2, which uploaded the footage to YouTube, claims that Danish fisherman shot the video in November 2016. It shows a capture from a distance of a massive hovering rhombus-shaped UFO with an alleged separate bright orb moving around it.

The UFO was reportedly seen rising into clouds as if vanishing through a portal to another dimension. However, the video and the uploader did not give additional details about the UFO sighting. Even the article about the incident does not include further information about the strange event. It is likely the video is a CGI hoax.

Since the video and the article about it do not discuss more details, many concluded that it is a clever hoax created using CGI technology.

However, other viewers suggested that it could be a genuine mothership appearing like the legendary mythical UFO known as the Black Knight Satellite.

Margaret Bu commented that discounting the video for the reason that no one was screaming could limit one’s possibilities of finding the facts of the matter.

Robert Kimball believes the UFO is a sampling collector that will be beamed into a mothership cloaked in the dark cloud. Kimball also thinks that the small orb is actually a sensor ship monitoring the ET beaming activity.

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18-03-2017 om 11:47 geschreven door peter  

Why THOUSANDS of people across the globe are seeing mysterious shape-shifting UFO

A BIZZARE UFO has been seen by thousands of people all over the world this month.

18-03-2017 om 11:12 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFO Seen Over Elmbridge, UK And All Around The World This Month, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 2017
Location of sighting: Elmbridge, UK
News source:

 http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/what-the-flaming-light-show-is-this-mysterious-ufo-filmed-hovering-above-gloucester/story-30200466-detail/story.html

This glowing UFO has been recorded all around the world in the last 4 weeks. I can easily post 20 videos of it in different countries. I myself recorded it just 2 weeks ago and it looks exactly the same as this here in Taiwan. I didn't bother posting it, because lately it seems people on Youtube only want to view fake UFO videos and they ignore the real ones. The difference is really obvious, but when you try to make a difference and get ignored, it cools your jets. 
Scott C. Waring

News states: 
Just what on Earth - or perhaps Mars or Jupiter - is this?

This apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester last night - and it's got us, and the cameraman, baffled.

The mysterious orb was spotted by Rob Wheatman in Elmbridge yesterday and he had a powerful enough camera to zoom right in on it.

What it shows is anyone's guess - but we'd love to hear what you think it might be. We're pinning our money on aliens. Definitely aliens.

Rob said: "I saw it as a sparkling 'star' from the garden in Elmbridge, due south. What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and travelled at speed north east.

"I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that's when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw."

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18-03-2017 om 01:27 geschreven door peter  

More UFOs Over The UK In Leicester, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 2017
Location of sighting: Hinckley and Bosworth, UK
News source: 

http://www.hinckleytimes.net/news/local-news/close-encounters-third-kind-highest-12740978

England has always been a hotspot for UFO sightings since its surrounded by ocean on all sides making it more isolated. Also the ancient culture still survives there in the art, structures and towns. Here are two glowing white orbs, which are very similar to the UFOs that are seen over the Colorado mountains in the USA. 
Scott C. Waring

News states: 
Barwell and Earl Shilton have been singled out as hotspots for UFO sightings.

Reports of strange objects in the sky, gathered by The Hinckley Times and listed on a sky-watchers’ website, suggest the two neighborhoods see the most sub-space activity of any location in Leicestershire.

A new article on history and heritage blog The Leicester Chronicle brings together a series of sightings going back to 1706.

Blogger Thomas Kirkup reckons the location of the town and village, close to one another and near to Hinckley but largely surrounded by open countryside, is the key factor in the swathe of flying object spots. (more at source).

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18-03-2017 om 01:23 geschreven door peter  

Military Police Officer Shot And Killed An Alien Being

It is revealed in a bizarre UFO case that an alien being was shot dead at a U.S. Air Force base. State Police requested entry to investigate the sighting of UFOs flying near the McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix Base in Trenton, New Jersey. A Fort Dix military police officer reportedly saw a low-flying object passing over his car as he drove.

After stepping on the brake, he allegedly saw a small being with a large head in front of his car. The big-headed alien has black eyes and a very slender body.

The police officer got panic, stepped out from the car, pulled out a .45 automatic gun, and then demanded the strange-looking being to lay on the floor.

However, his request was ignored, forcing him to fire several shots.

The creature allegedly still managed to jump a fence into the McGuire base and head down a runway. However, it eventually collapsed and died, according to the case.

Sgt. Jeff Morse, who allowed police access to the scene, is listed as a witness. However, it is possible that this was just a fictitious name to cover his true identity.

The body was reportedly recovered without any signs of life.  They were in shock, but still followed the protocol of roping off the area.

A group of military officers arrived in the area in blue berets, distancing Sgt. Morse from the area. Morse had never seen this group before, but it appeared they were taking charge of the situation.

Sgt. Morse provided more details about the incident when UFO researcher Leonard Springfield did an interview with him. Morse allegedly stated that he was never close enough to observe details of the alien, such as hands, feet, and facial features. However, he said that he saw the skin wet, shiny, and snake-like under the glare of truck headlights.

He further described the entity as around four feet in height in grayish-brown coloration with thin arms and legs, slender torso, and large head.

The remains of the alien was carefully placed on a wooden-framed platform. Then eventually transferred into a big square silver metal container with same blue markings. Morse, according to Springfield, estimated the silver container to be approximately 10 x 10 feet.

18-03-2017 om 01:14 geschreven door peter  

Documentary Video: Plans of Grey Aliens for Humans

One of the most promoted types of aliens in paranormal, New Age, and ufological communities are Grey aliens, which also referred as Grays, Greys, or Roswell Greys. Around 50 percent of alien encounters in the U.S. involve Grey aliens. The origin of the idea about the existence of Greys can be attributed to the Betty and Barney Hill abduction claim.

Greys are usually described as small humanoid beings with dark grey skin. They possess reduced or completely lack external human organs, such as sex organs, ears, or noses. They have elongated bodies with small chest without muscular definition or visible skeletal structure. Their legs are shorter than average humans, and their limbs are proportionally different from humanity. Their humerus has the same length with their forearms. The same goes with their thighs and shins when it comes to length.

Greys have large heads in proportion to their bodies. They have no visible hair anywhere on the body. Their mouths are small, but they have large opaque black eyes without discernible iris or pupil. Other witnesses reported Greys as having no nostrils or mouths. Their height could be anywhere from 2 to 4 feet.

Alien abduction claims commonly include Greys, which make up approximately 90 percent in Canada, 67 percent in Brazil, and 50 percent in Australia. Abductees typically determined leaders of their abductors by their demeanor. Some abduction researchers and ufologists suspect taller Greys are the only Grey type to be biologically alive and that the smaller ones are just robots acted as servants.

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18-03-2017 om 01:12 geschreven door peter