Billionaire helping develop NASA spacecraft says aliens are HERE - but it's covered up

A US billionaire entrepreneur, who is working with NASA to create a new expandable spacecraft, has said he believes that intelligent aliens are secretly living on Earth.

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30-05-2017 om 19:30 geschreven door peter  

Is Roswell a UFO mecca? New sighting in town preparing for 'alien crash' 70th anniversary

EXCLUSIVE: A new 'UFO sighting' in the 'alien mecca' Roswell is being investigated as the remote US town gears up to mark the 70th anniversary of the alleged crash of a flying saucer there in 1947.

30-05-2017 om 19:19 geschreven door peter  

UK alien invasion? Upsurge in UFO sightings rocks THIS county

A SPATE of UFO sightings is giving a British county a new name for itself – being one of the best places to spot an "alien".

By Nicholas Bieber 

The belief that aliens really are visiting Earth is strong in the West Midlands, where regional media have reported an upsurge in sightings.

The publication adds: "Because, perhaps unsurprisingly, none of the calls were investigated by officers."

Four of the 13 calls came from Birmingham, and the rest from Sandwell, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull and Walsall.

One sighting came in January 2015, when a mum from Selly Oak, near Birmingham, rushed into her three-year-old son’s bedroom to find him screaming “spaceman” repeatedly.

She recalls that when later shown a picture of an alien with grey skin, a bulbous head and large eyes – known by researchers as a Grey – her son immediately repeated the same word and began crying.

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30-05-2017 om 19:09 geschreven door peter  

NASA kondigt morgen spectaculaire nieuwe missie aan: ze wil de zon aanraken - HLN.be

 Bron: NASA, ScienceAlert

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De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA gaat morgen een indrukwekkende nieuwe missie voorstellen. Ze wil in de zomer van volgend jaar een sonde lanceren met onze zon als bestemming. Doel is voor de allereerste keer "de zon aan te raken".

Het is niet de eerste keer dat de NASA een sonde richting zon stuurt. In 1976 werd al eens een toestel gelanceerd dat onze zon tot 43 miljoen kilometer naderde: de Helios 2. Die had voor 370 kilogram aan instrumenten mee en moest zonnewinden en kosmische straling bestuderen. 

Temperaturen
De nieuwe missie is nog een flink stuk ambitieuzer. De Solar Probe Plus zal voor de eerste keer in de atmosfeer van de zon binnendringen en de oppervlakte van de zon naderen tot op 6,4 miljoen kilometer. Dat lijkt misschien nog ver, maar op amper negen keer de radius van de zon zal de sonde temperaturen van 1.400 graden moeten weerstaan, terwijl ze haar lading op kamertemperatuur houdt. En dat is goed voor een temperatuur en straling die nog geen enkel ruimtetuig ooit heeft doorstaan.

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Tegelijk moet het toestel de buitenste atmosfeer van de zon bestuderen en antwoorden bieden op enkele eeuwenoude vragen over hoe een ster precies werkt. Met die data hoopt de NASA betere voorspellingen te kunnen maken over zonnestormen, die een impact hebben op het leven op aarde, het werk van astronauten in de ruimte en satellieten. 

Overleven
Want we zijn alsmaar meer afhankelijk van technologie en die kan enorme schade oplopen door extreme zonnestormen. Mensen die misschien ooit buiten onze atmosfeer zullen moeten overleven, zullen ook bescherming nodig hebben van zonnestormen en straling. 

Lancering
De lancering zal vermoedelijk plaatsvinden in augustus volgend jaar. De sonde zal over een periode van zeven jaar in totaal zeven keer rond de planeet Venus cirkelen, tot ze in een perfecte baan is om de zon zo dicht te naderen als we nooit eerder hebben gedaan.

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"Het technologische pronkstuk van de missie is het hitteschild", aldus Brad Tucker van de Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics aan de Australian National University. "Dat is een plaat van 11,5 centimeter dik die bestaat uit koolstof en temperaturen van 1.400 graden aankan." 

De binnenkant van de sonde - die 1.34 miljard euro kost - zal een speciaal systeem van watercirculatie gebruiken om de instrumenten te beschermen die onder meer de elektrische en magnetische velden van de zon moeten bestuderen, foto's van de zon moet nemen en zonnepartikels moet vangen. 

Mars
"De activiteit van de zon begrijpen en het zonneweer voorspellen zijn cruciaal als we de ruimte verder in willen met mensen, denk maar aan bemande missies naar Mars", aldus nog Tucker. "Een beter begrip van hoe zonnepartikels een hoge snelheid krijgen, zal ons ook een beter beeld geven van hoe objecten zich door de ruimte bewegen. En kan ons helpen om ruimtetuigen een hogere snelheid te geven. Zoals het Light Sail-project van de vzw Planetary Society, dat de energie van de zon opvangt met grote reflecterende zeilen en wil gebruiken om snelheid te maken."

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30-05-2017 om 18:53 geschreven door peter  

ARE WE JUST AN EXHIBIT IN AN ALIEN ZOO?!

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30-05-2017 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

NASA WANTS TO TOUCH THE SUN - BIG ANNOUNCEMENT AHEAD

NASA is getting ready to make a huge announcement about their first mission to touch the sun.

ASTRONAUTS WOULD FACE EXTREME TEMPERATURES AND RADIATION LEVELS

The agency is intending to send a spacecraft much closer to the sun than they have been able to do before. Astronauts will have to face radiation levels along with temperatures that are far more extreme than ever before.

During the press conference, which NASA is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, they will talk about the Solar Probe Plus; the conference will be streamed live on NASA Television along with shown on the website from 4 pm BST.

 MISSION TO THE SUN BEGINS IN 2018 COLLECTING MECHANISM DATA OF CORONA

NASA have revealed that the spacecraft is going to set off for the sun during the summer of 2018 and it is going to collect data about the mechanisms that heat up the sun's corona, which is the outermost part of the atmosphere of the sun.

The corona is said to be many hundreds of times hotter than the surface of the sun, but no one knows why. The temperatures are said to reach around 500,000 degrees Celsius or even higher. It also lies behind the solar wind, which is a stream of constantly charged particles that impact the life on Earth.

SPACECRAFT WILL BE AROUND FOUR MILLION MILES FROM SUN SURFACE

NASA said that the spacecraft they are sending up would be placed in orbit around four million miles from the surface of the sun and it is going to have to deal with radiation and heat that no other spacecraft throughout history has had to deal with. It is going to be exploring the outer atmosphere of the sun along with making critical observations that should give some answers to question that are decades old about just how the physics of stars really work.

The data that comes from the exploration should be able to help with forecasting of big space weather events that may have an impact on life down on Earth along with astronauts and satellites out in space.

ASTRONAUTS PROTECTED BY CARBON COMPOSITE SHIELD

The spacecraft is going to have to be able to deal with temperatures that are about 1,400 degrees Celsius and NASA are planning to deal with these temperatures thanks to a carbon composite shield of 11.5cm in thickness.

The Solar Probe Plus conference is going to be held at the University of Chicago William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium.

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30-05-2017 om 17:45 geschreven door peter  

THIS DECIPHERED MEMO IS THE FINAL PROOF FOR THE ROSWELL ALIEN CRASH

Ufologists have said that deciphering a top secret memo that was captured in a photograph following the Roswell crash almost 70 years ago, may finally prove that an alien UFO did crash at the site and put an end to one of the most enigmatic mysteries surround UFOs.  

They say that a part of the memo says ““…And the victims of the wreck…in the ‘Disc’… they will ship…”

In July 1947 it was alleged that a UFO had crashed in New Roswell Mexico and since this time many theories have come out as what the military attending the crash site actually found.  

FOR 70 YEARS QUESTIONS HAVE REMAINED UNANSWERED

Countless questions have been floating around, such as whether they found alien bodies in the wreck, or if it was an actual UFO that had crashed and the government had covered up the whole thing. These are questions that are have been circling around for almost 70 years and up to now have remained unanswered.

Not analysis has been made of a top secret memo and this may be able to shed some light on what has become one of the biggest and most interesting UFO cases to have ever come out. 

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The crash in Roswell had great weight among popular culture for many decades and it has been the subject in many fiction books along with documentaries. Everything began when many farmers in Roswell New Mexico reported that they had heard loud explosions during the night on July 4 1947.

PEOPLE OUT WALKING SEE OBJECT WITH LIGHT REFLECTING OFF IT IN DISTANCE

The following day Gerald Anderson, a father, and his five-year-old son, his brother, and cousin had been walking in a relatively deserted region with the name of Plains of St. Augustine. They saw an object that was in the distance and which had light reflecting off it. This was said to be the alleged UFO that had crashed.

The book “A History of UFO Crashes” by Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, said that they researched and during this they found out that military radar had tracked a UFO in the sky over southern New Mexico for four days. On July 4, 1947, the radar suggested that the object had crashed about 30 to 40 miles to the northwest of Roswell.

Eyewitness William Woody lived to the east of Roswell and he said that he was outside the house along with his father on that night when they saw a brilliant object just plummet to the ground and crash.  

On 8 July a press release was issued and this was picked up the many news outlets.

It said that there had been lots of rumors about a flying disc and that the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force Roswell Army Air Field had gained possession of a disc thanks to the cooperation between the Sheriff of Chaves County and local ranchers.

It went on to say that a flying object had crashed close to Roswell on a ranch and the rancher stored the disc until he could get in contact with the Sheriff, as he did not have a telephone. On doing so the Sheriff notified Major Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office and the disc was picked up from the home of the rancher.

The photograph that has been of interest to ufologists was taken of a secret memo that is said to show General Roger Ramey at Fort Worth Army Air Field, holding a memo whilst crouching over debris that was said to have been taken from the crash site. This was later said to have been identified by the military as being nothing more than a weather balloon.

DOCUMENT MAY LEAD TO ANSWERS ABOUT ROSWELL CRASH

Ufologists think that to solve the long-standing mystery behind the crash at Roswell, people need to get a better look at that document that is being held by General Ramey. Experts have said that the barely readable memo may be proof, finally, that the military did recover a UFO that had crashed in Roswell along with the bodies of aliens.

The intelligence officer, Jesse Marcel, who was given the job of inspecting and collecting the material, said that he, was told to go along with the story and not to ask any questions.

It was also claimed later that the debris in the photos taken was a part of the cover-up and that the material from the weather balloon had been used to trick members of the public. The explanation was then accepted by members of the press and public. It was not until the 80s when Marcel came forward that the Roswell incident caught the attention of the public.

MODERN TECHNOLOGY ALLOWED DECIPHERING OF MEMO

Thanks to the modern technology of today the experts have managed to decipher some of the Roswell memo that was said to have been seen in the hands of General Ramey. David Rudial said that using technology he managed to zoom in on the memo and this allowed him to decipher around 80% of it.

It was said that there is a reference to a disc and that part of the memo says ‘and the victims of the wreck’.” It is said that this is finally proof that a disc-shaped UFO crashed at Roswell and was recovered. What happens to be more startling is the fact that it seems to corroborate alien bodies were also found in the wreck.

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30-05-2017 om 17:33 geschreven door peter  

Nick Whigham@NWWHIGHAM

THE United States is shoring up its missile defence system in the face of an increasingly belligerent and dangerous North Korea.

The US government awarded Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, $1.48 billion for the development of a “Redesigned Kill Vehicle”, the Pentagon said in a statement last week.

The extra money brings the total publicly known value of the US government contract with Boeing to a whopping $7.78 billion.

The White House wants to upgrade the system before Kim Jong-un develops the capabilities to strike the continental US.

So what is a kill vehicle? Simply put, kill vehicles intercept and destroy long-range ballistic missiles. Launched atop missiles of their own, they use sensors, lenses and rocket thrusters to pick out ballistic warheads and steer into their path.

When it comes to shooting down ballistic missiles “there is a fundamental difference in the technology — whether you want it to do that inside the atmosphere or in space,” says Dr Stephan Fruehling from the ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

In the case of medium and long range missiles coming from North Korea, an Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) which intercepts the missile in space would be the technology of choice.

If a threat is detected by a system of sensors based on land or on warships at sea, then a Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) will be launched into space using a rocket booster. Once outside the Earth’s atmosphere, operating at the edge of space at hypersonic speeds, the kill vehicle is deployed.

It seeks out the target using sensors, a sophisticated on-board computer and a rocket motor used for steering in space. It hones in on the missile and destroys it using nothing more than the force of a massive collision.

Simple, right?

An illustration of a kill vehicle designed by US defence contractor Raytheon.

Source:Supplied

MULTIPLE FAILURES

The technology has been around for more than two decades but it hasn’t always worked as intended. In fact it’s been hugely problematic.

In 2010 a meticulously controlled test of its missile defence technology at a site in Alaska ended in embarrassment for the US military. Despite knowing the exact speed and coordinates of the target, the intercepting kill vehicle completely missed the fake warhead.

Eleven months later, when the US Missile Defense Agency staged a repeat of the test, it again failed. During a test in July 2013 success once again proved elusive, raising serious questions over missile defence system the Pentagon had poured more than $US40 billion ($A53 billion) dollars into.

A test conducted last year was announced as a success but it was later revealed that one of the thrusters malfunctioned, causing the interceptor to fly offcourse.

Dr Stephan Fruehling is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council’s project on nuclear deterrence and was a member of the Australian Government’s external panel of experts on the 2016 Defence White Paper. He says the latest contract awarded to Boeing by the US military is about reinventing a kill vehicle that isn’t wedded to ageing technology.

The United States deployed an operational GBI system in California and Alaska which was rushed into the field after September 11 under the George W. Bush administration. Essentially the system is situated to intercept missiles from rogue states like North Korean or Iran during their trajectory to the continental United States.

But much of the system was based on technology from the previous decade, which has been plagued with issued since testing began in 1999.

“It has a lot of limitations,” Dr Fruehling told news.com.au. “And essentially what the US is stuck with is evolutions of a kill vehicle that remains based on this technology from the 1990s ... and that’s caused a lot of problems that they’ve had with that system.”

WHY ARE THEY INVESTING IN NEW TECHNOLOGY NOW?

With North Korea continuing to test nuclear warheads at a feverish pace, the Pentagon is racing to improve its kill vehicle technology.

“What this is about now is taking a step back and developing a interceptor that addresses those issues,” Dr Fruehling said.

The National Missile Defence launch of an EKV (Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle) sensor at US Army's Kwajalein Missile Range in central Pacific Ocean in January 1998.

Source:News Corp Australia

CALLS FOR AUSTRALIA TO DEVELOP MISSILE SHIELD

Advances in missile technology made by North Korea — as well as China — in the past few years have taken some western analysts by surprise. And the situation has led to growing calls for Australia to develop its own missile shield.

Defence specialist Andrew Shearer who previously worked as a national security adviser to Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott is among those who believe Australia needs to invest in this area.

He wants the government to examine systems “to defend the continent against the new and growing threat posed by long-range ballistic missiles that could be used to strike or intimidate future Australian governments”.

“The cumulative effective of these capabilities is to increase the missile threat to ADF forces deployed forward in the (Asia) region, whether independently or as part of an allied coalition,” he told Fairfax Media last month.

He also warned that over time such weapons could be used to “reduce Australia’s strategic depth and put Australian and allied forces operating from rear bases on the mainland at greater risk.

“The latter is a new threat but one that will become very real over the next decade,” he said.

According to Dr Fruehling “there has been an ongoing debate about whether Australia should actually acquire interceptors. But so far that’s not been done.” Largely because it’s not really a threat Australia could thwart on its own with current technology.

“If you look at the threat to Australia from intercontinental ballistic missile, there’s little that Australia could do to address that on its own,” he said. “If you look at North Korean missiles, for example, you’d have to have a ship with SM3 (a ship-based missile interception system) off the North Korean coast. Or you would have to base ground based interceptors in northern Australia but you would be looking at sensor infrastructure and an investment cost that runs into the dozens of billions, so it’s not really feasible.”

But that certainly doesn’t mean Australia isn’t engaged in aspects of missile defence systems on the research and development side of things.

“There’s been some technology co-operation, even going back to the 1990s” with our US ally but these experiments have been “largely in the sensor space in terms of looking at the overall horizon radar and how that could be to detect missiles,” Dr Fruehling said.

“There is some scope for integrating some Australian sensors into missile defence systems,” he said.

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30-05-2017 om 17:14 geschreven door peter  

CROWD GOES SILENT AS ACTOR KURT RUSSELL SHARES HIS UFO EXPERIENCE FROM PHOENIX IN 1997

ARJUN WALIA

Everybody always says, “if they’re here then why don’t they just show up.” “They” is referring to extraterrestrials of course, and there are probably a million reasons as to why a more intelligent race from the “outside” looking in would not want to interact with us on such an open level just yet. To an outsider, we might not look the most attractive. The planet is plagued with war, poverty, diseases, greed, and secrecy. Environmentally it’s a disaster, and despite the fact that our potential is literally limitless, we choose to live in a way that is not really harmonious with the planet and all life on it. These are just a few of many reasons. Not to mention the fact that full blown contact might be a little more than our minds can handle, but perhaps not?

All of the theories surrounding the “alien takeover” agenda fail to account for the evidence that points to the fact that they’re already here, and that they’ve been visiting us for a very very long period of time.

That being said, sightings of unidentified objects, even ones performing physics-defying maneuvers have been documented by military authorities via visual and radar confirmation for decades, but whether or not these craft are ‘ET’ is an entirely different question. We do have, however, statements from hundreds of credible witnesses alluding to the fact that yes, some of them are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.

Was this the case with what happened in Phoenix Arizona in March of 1997? On this day, something extraordinary happened that, as Kurt mentions in the video below, was witnessed by 20,000 people, recorded by multiple cameras, which was then in-turn witnessed by millions.

Kurt Russell, a well known American actor is also a pilot, and on that day he was flying into the city and witnessed this phenomenon first hand. Listen to him share his story in the interview below.

“We’re on approach and I saw 6 lights over the airport in absolute uniform, in a V shape…It’s unidentified, it is flying and it’s 6 objects….That was the most viewed UFO event, over 20,000 people saw that.”

What Actually Happened? 

It began with Luke Air Force Base, the media, the National UFO Reporting Center, the Governor’s office, and the police receiving a number of reports from people in Nevada of a very large craft hovering in the sky. Some people were reporting it as a boomerang formation of lights, just as Kurt describes in the video above.

The object (or objects) began moving south towards Arizona where even more people would see it. Again, people were not reporting just lights hovering in the sky, they were reporting an actual solid object, a craft of some sort, spanning the size of one or two football fields. The witness reports detail lights, sometimes multiple lights, in a pattern that ranged from a few all the way up to a dozen, all in some sort of organized formation. Witnesses reported them as white, and in some cases they were orange, red, or yellow. Reports indicate that at some point, the lights moved at very rapid speeds, while at others, they moved slowly and were also reported to hover. Some people described it as a huge, wedge-shaped craft with five lights on it. Some people claim that it passed directly over their heads and even hovered there for extended periods of time. People reported seeing, again, a large solid object, even going into detail about certain features they could spot on the craft.

“It was a giant V, and the right side of the V went over us, the left side was a couple blocks over.”        – One (out of thousands) of the witnesses (source)

Again, this object has been described as massive, the size of one to two football fields.

There were a number of these types of descriptions from people who witnessed the object.

These types of reports came in at a time where it was much easier to make out the object or objects that were in the sky, as there was still some daylight. It was not until later that evening at approximately 10 pm when people in Arizona witnessed something truly spectacular. As UFO researcher Richard Dolan describes it:

“People in Phoenix were treated to an amazing display of hovering lights over the city. These lights appeared to be motionless and in perfect formation. They were truly an astounding sight to behold: an enormous semi-circular string of lights in the night sky.” (source)

The event received massive amounts of media attention.

Fife Symington, the Governor of Arizona at the time, even held a press conference that featured a large and costumed alien mocking all of the UFO enthusiasts, but it seemed goodhearted in nature and, according to him, was done to lighten the mood.

What is interesting to note, however, is that Fife was keeping something to himself – he actually witnessed the event, and the former Air Force veteran spoke out years after the event (when his stint as governor ended) saying:

“If you had been here 10 years ago, standing out here and looking out there at the lights, you would have been astounded, you would have been amazed. I suspect that unless the Department of Defense can prove otherwise, then it was probably some form of alien spacecraft. It was enormous and it just felt otherworldly, in your gut you could just tell it was otherworldly.” (source)

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30-05-2017 om 16:56 geschreven door peter  

Famous Hollywood Actor Kurt Russell Admits Witnessing Phoenix Lights UFOs

Actor Kurt Russell and Chris Prat recently visited the BBC’s The One Show to promote the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 movie. When the host cites a news story involving a pilot’s report of spotting UFOs while on approach at an Arizona airport, Russell comes in and admits that he was indeed that pilot.  Interestingly, the event happened on the same night when mass UFO sightings took place, which is now known as The Phoenix Lights.

Russel recalled seeing six lights over the airport while on the approach. He said that the lights were on an absolute uniform in a V-shaped. Russell stated that the lights were unidentified and they are six objects, which he reported on his log.

Since then he never thought about the experience anymore. Two years later, he saw in a television show about UFOs. It was not clear to him at first why he seemed to know the story of Phoenix Lights. The show also mentioned an aviation pilot who reported seeing strange lights on landing. Later, he realised that the pilot was him. He then went to his log books and saw the flight at that time and confirmed it. However, he did not mention anything about UFOs. He just said that they are lights or objects and are unidentified.

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30-05-2017 om 16:41 geschreven door peter  

Dozen of UFO Sightings Reported To West Midlands Force

The truth may be out there, but worried callers may have to wait longer to find out if humans are alone in the universe. The police may not be the right group to call if you happen to experience a UFO sighting.

In the past four years, twelve UFO sightings have been reported to the West Midlands force. However, the officers investigated none of the calls.

Ten of the reported sightings involve objects spotted in the sky, mostly at night. Others reported seeing lights.

The figures were published on the website of West Midlands Police. They are covered from years 2013 to 2016. The data was released through Freedom of Information Act request.

Four of the calls were from Birmingham, and the rest were from Walsall, Solihull, Dudley, Coventry, and Sandwell.

When asked the number of investigated reports, the force answered that none of the calls had been studied based on the graded response or log.

No other details available on the figures, but the Midlands has been a hotspot of possible unidentified flying object sightings over the past years.

The Birmingham UFO Group spoke to a mother from Selly Oak in January 2015. The mother recalled having rushed into the bedroom of her three-year-old son after he was screaming, “Spaceman” repeatedly.

Later, when her son was shown off a picture of a typical Grey alien with grey skin, large eyes, and bulbous head, he immediately repeated the same word and started crying.

Several sightings of a triangular UFO have been reported over Dudley in the Black Country. In 2011, a man saw a mysterious object with flashing lights while smoking in his garden. The object was then reportedly chased away by another strange craft.

In 2010 in Tipton, two young men spotted a fast moving but silent triangle-shaped craft flying across the sky at a tremendous speed. The triangle UFO has also been reported hovering above Dudley Castle and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Brierley Hill.

Builders at West Midland Safari Park also claimed to have seen a UFO floating above them in April 2009.

Mysterious lights were filmed over market trader Michele Bradsley’s home in May 2014 in Kingshurst, Solihull. According to Michele, the lights were hovering as she watched them from the back door while having a cigarette break.

An off-duty police officer reportedly spotted a UFO speeding across the sky near Birmingham Airport in 2012.

And in 2010, two fighter jets were recorded on video whizzing above the M5 in the West Midlands, reportedly chasing a UFO.

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30-05-2017 om 16:38 geschreven door peter  

Australian Government Investigates Taxpayer Funding of UFO Group

An urgent investigation was launched by social services minister in Australia to determine how a UFO group get thousands of dollars in funds from taxpayers. Christian Porter described being in a “beam me up, Scotty” moment after discovering that his department approved nearly 6,000 Australian dollars or around £3,400 of grants for the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group in the New South Wales central coast since 2013.

Mr Porter said that there’s no doubt they are very nice people, and lots of volunteers are getting something out of it, but it did not seem to pass a common sense test looking it from his perspective, representing taxpayers.

Mr Porter revealed that he asked the department to hold the fund transmission until they could give him a little more information on what the group is all about or what the group does specifically.

The Labour government initially provided the funding to assist with the cost of transporting volunteers with a disability.

According to the official records, the department approved AUD 2,645 in the 2017 volunteer grant program for the UFO group.

Under Labour government, Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group got AUD 2,994 in 2013.

The UFO group’s Facebook has over a thousand followers. According to their Facebook, the group wants to share information on UFO and related topics, support and encourage like-minded people and promote disclosure on UFO.

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30-05-2017 om 16:34 geschreven door peter  

BY BEN BURRESS, KQED  

Close-up image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft of a portion of Europa’s icy surface, cracked in patterns suggesting floating sea ice.

Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute

NASA is setting its sights on getting a much closer, deeper look at Jupiter’s tantalizing moon, Europa, and the mysterious ocean hidden beneath its icy crust. With two orbital missions already in the works, by NASA and the European Space Agency, NASA is looking further into the future toward a possible mission to put a robot on the surface.

Europa’s ocean, which may lie under only a few miles of ice—perhaps only a few hundred feet in some places—may be as deep as 30 miles, and contains more water than in all of Earth’s oceans. With the possibility of some form of hydrothermal vents supplying heat and life-supporting chemicals on the ocean’s floor, like those on Earth, the tiny moon has become one of the hottest subjects in the search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system.

Artist illustration showing speculations on the conditions in Europa’s ocean based on observed evidence on and above its surface.

Photo by NASA

In advance of issuing a call for formal proposals, NASA is priming the scientific community to begin thinking about what set of scientific instruments should be included on a lander. Ultimately, ten proposals will be selected to proceed to a competitive concept study, which carries funding of $1.5 million for each selected group, who will have a year to submit their technical proposals.

Europa’s ocean

Past spacecraft, including NASA’s Voyager and Galileo, gathered the first evidence leading to the discovery of Europa’s ocean: patterns in the cracks of the moon’s icy crust interpreted as ice sheets floating on water, as well as disturbances in Jupiter’s magnetic field in Europa’s vicinity that can be explained by the presence of a salty ocean.

Fractures and lines in Europa’s icy surface, one of the first pieces of evidence for the existence of the moon’s ocean hidden beneath.

Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute

Most recently, the Hubble Space Telescope detected plumes of water vapor erupting from Europa’s surface, further wetting scientists’ appetites to explore the liquid realm beneath.

Europa was discovered by Galileo in January 1610, along with three other large moons, the “Galileans.” Through a small telescope like Galileo’s, they appear as mere star-like dots, and for over 300 years that’s about all that humans could see of them. Only when the first robotic probe, Pioneer 10, passed through the Jupiter system did we get a closer picture.

Our first close-up look at Europa, through Pioneer 10 in 1973. Photo by Pioneer 10/NASA

Envisioning the lander

How would you design a robot to probe Europa’s deep dark waters from a landing site on the icy surface above? That’s the primary framing question for any competitive design concept. NASA will only select proposals that address specific scientific goals—namely, to look for evidence of life and a habitable environment in Europa’s ocean.

What instruments would you include? Ground-penetrating radar to survey structures in the moon’s crust? Chemical detectors to sniff for water vapor and other volatiles that may seep up from the ocean? Motion sensors to measure the movements of floating ice? Sensitive microphones to listen for any sounds penetrating the ice from below? NASA has issued just the right challenge to get imaginations churning….

Artist concept of a possible future landing mission to the surface of Jupiter’s ocean-bearing moon, Europa.

Photo by NASA

It’s not technically feasible at present to deliver a probe directly to the waters under Europa’s ice crust—let alone to the ocean floor tens of miles below that—so a lander will need to do its job without direct visual inspection. Pictures of Europan jellyfish swimming around would be nice—but we can’t get a camera down there yet. It’s difficult enough exploring the depths of Earth’s oceans….

What else does the lander need?

The final design of the lander ultimately will comprise more than the scientific instruments it carries. There will be plenty of engineering challenges and considerations further along in the design process.

Simply landing the probe will require some serious thought. Unlike landings on Venus, Mars, and Saturn’s moon Titan, parachutes are not an option since Europa has no atmosphere to help slow a lander down. Some form of rocket-powered descent and soft touchdown might work.

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Deciding where to land requires planning as well. A landing site where the ice is thin and the waters relatively near the surface could make it easier for the lander to measure properties of the ocean, but we know very little about the nature of Europa’s surface terrain. Other than a few pictures taken by passing spacecraft, Europa is mostly unexplored. Planners should get some guidance from surveys by upcoming missions–NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s “JUICE“—but right now the icy moon is terra incognita.

Another design consideration is a lander’s end-of-mission disposition. The nuclear-powered Galileo spacecraft was deliberately incinerated in Jupiter’s atmosphere at the close of its mission, to prevent it from crashing into a moon like Europa and contaminating a potentially life-bearing environment. Even if the lander doesn’t carry nuclear power cells, an outer space version of environmental “green” responsibility is a requirement.

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30-05-2017 om 00:41 geschreven door peter  

There's a new space race and it's not between the U.S. and Russia. It's between private companies and it's attracted multimillionaires and billionaires, like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. A less likely player is Las Vegas real-estate tycoon, Robert Bigelow, who, at 73, is making the biggest gamble of his life -- not on rockets -- but on expandable spacecraft, large, lightweight structures that inflate in space, a technology that could dramatically change how humans live and work in zero gravity.  

NASA has partnered with Robert Bigelow, who's an unconventional figure in the aerospace world. He's more at home on the Vegas strip than at America's space agency, and he's obsessed with aliens and UFOs. In the spring of last year, he and NASA carried out an historic test to prove his high-flying technology is ready to support humans in space.

When Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket roared into the skies above Cape Canaveral, it was on a mission for NASA, carrying nearly 7,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station -- food, supplies and Robert Bigelow's expandable spacecraft.

Robert Bigelow: Flying to the International Space Station is a really big deal. It's an experimental spacecraft, which is a big deal. We don't know how it's gonna behave for sure.

Lara Logan: Does that make you nervous?

Robert Bigelow: I'm nervous because I'm a nervous person, I think, and I don't necessarily always expect things to go right.

Bigelow's inflatable was packed inside the rocket's cargo capsule, known as Dragon, which you see here making it's way to the space station. We sped up this video from NASA because it took two days to get there.

It was moved into place, then just over a month later, we joined Bigelow at Houston Mission Control to see it inflate, the last critical step. If it worked, it would make history, the first expandable structure for humans in space.

Lara Logan: So what is it like for you this moment watching this happen?

Robert Bigelow: Severe curiosity as to what's gonna happen next.

Some 250 miles above the Earth, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams injected air. It was supposed to last about an hour. But took two tries over two days.

Finally, it worked. In this time-lapse video, you're seeing it expand in seconds. Close to $300 million and 16 years to get here. But for Bigelow, it was just a beginning.  

Under 80-foot ceilings at his company in Las Vegas, he showed us his next generation plans for outer space. He calls this the Olympus, a mansion for the skies. It's so large the rocket powerful enough to launch it is still years away.

Lara Logan: Is there anything this big that astronauts are working in today?

Robert Bigelow: No, nothing even remotely close.

Bigelow said he can turn this into anything a client wants -- a first-ever orbiting hotel, hospital or inflatable research facility. The B330 is smaller than the Olympus. This is what it would look like if it were used as a space station.

Lara Logan: This can function on its own?

Robert Bigelow: Well, it can function as a standalone destination because it has all the facilities that it would take to keep people alive.

For countries hoping to make their mark in space, Bigelow said this offers an affordable way in. Private industry, he believes, is becoming more dominant in developing space.

Robert Bigelow: NASA and government still has a role because it is still in a sort of embryonic stage. And there will come a time when it's not necessary at all.  And the commercial world will absolutely be the leader for everything in space.

Lara Logan: What about the idea of national pride and what we do as nations. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. He didn't do that for a private company. He did that for the United States of America and it meant something.

"...the commercial world will absolutely be the leader for everything in space."

Robert Bigelow: You bet it did. And that created a period of inspiration that hasn't been matched ever since. So now we're looking for a new era that says, "All right, how can we now shape this to where it's more accessible for a lot more folks at a lot less cost and still have safety and reliability at the same time?"

With no formal training in science or engineering, Robert Bigelow created an aerospace company with scientists and engineers that's achieved what no one else in the industry has done. His expandable spacecraft are the first and only alternative to the metal structures that have housed every astronaut in space for over half a century.

For Bigelow, it all began with growing up in a time of nuclear tests. As a young boy, he would watch the skies over Nevada light up with the bursts of atomic bombs.

Robert Bigelow: Witnessing those explosions in the 50s and 60s, you weren't aware of the ultimate ramifications of those kinds of things but there was a real strong feeling of energy and a secretiveness and so forth and it was cool.

Armstrong: "That's one small step for man…"

Later, he watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon, a moment in history he said still inspires him.

Robert Bigelow: The approach wasn't lightening fast…

But on this canyon road just outside Las Vegas, Robert Bigelow's story takes a turn that some may find, to put it lightly, improbable. He told us this is where his grandparents had a close encounter with a UFO.

Robert Bigelow: It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car. And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance.

The story sparked his obsession, and explains the alien looking out from the side of Bigelow Aerospace.  And it made for the kind of conversation you don't ordinarily have with an accomplished CEO.

Lara Logan: Do you believe in aliens?

Robert Bigelow: I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.

Lara Logan: Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?

Robert Bigelow: There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions -- I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.  

Lara Logan: Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?

Robert Bigelow: I don't give a damn. I don't care.

Lara Logan: You don't worry that some people will say, "Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he's crazy"?

Robert Bigelow: I don't care.

Lara Logan: Why not?

Robert Bigelow: It's not gonna make a difference. It's not gonna change reality of what I know.

Lara Logan: Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?

Robert Bigelow: You don't have to go anywhere.

Lara Logan: You can find it here? Where exactly?

Robert Bigelow: It's just like right under people's noses. Oh my gosh. Wow.

The FAA confirmed to us that for years, it referred reports of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena to a company Bigelow owns. He told us he's had his own close encounters, but declined to go into detail.   

Robert Bigelow's quirky and he knows it, but when you have as much money as he does, no one -- not even NASA -- seems to care.

He bought the idea for his inflatable technology from the space agency. NASA had been working on this since the early 1960s -- but when Congress killed its program in 2000, Bigelow seized the opportunity and invested tens of millions of dollars to advance NASA's original idea.

It took him just six years to launch the first expandable spacecraft into orbit. His second followed a year later. But those were never meant for humans.

At that time, Bigelow was still trying to prove his inflatable structures would survive in space. A decade later, with both still circling the Earth intact, NASA felt the technology was ready to be tested for humans. Bigelow still monitors these spacecraft from his own mission control in Las Vegas.

Robert Bigelow didn't start out a rich man. He made his fortune not far from the Vegas strip, with this -- a chain of low budget, long-stay rental apartments called Budget Suites of America. In a time of glitzy high rises, he focused on creating homes for the city's temporary workers. And it paid off. Today, he has 19 of these across three states.

Lara Logan: And made you how much money?

Robert Bigelow: Enough to support the aerospace indulgence and Bigelow Aerospace.

Lara Logan: Well, "aerospace indulgence" is a big term. So do you want to put a figure on that?

Robert Bigelow: We're approaching 290 million.

Lara Logan: Of your own money?

Robert Bigelow: Oh, yea yea.

Lara Logan: So for a man who has had extraordinary success in the business world--

Robert Bigelow: Some some.

Lara Logan: This space business is financially the worst investment you've ever made?

Robert Bigelow: It's atrocious. I mean, we are not in control of our own destiny.

Lara Logan: Who is in control of your destiny?

Robert Bigelow: We're hostage to what happens with transportation, space transportation.

Thanks to innovators like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Bigelow told us reusable rockets -- like this one you see sticking a perfect landing after launching his inflatable -- are making routine transportation a real possibility in the next decade.

When Robert Bigelow's inflatable structure was added by NASA to the International Space Station, humans had never been inside one in space. This test would be the first time. And astronaut Jeff Williams, the first American to experience it.

The interior only has sensors, and for two years, NASA will use them to monitor how this holds up to solar radiation and extreme temperatures.

Lara Logan: How far are you from us right now?

Jeff Williams: Well currently we're over Libya as I recall, but when we started this conversation, I think we were probably over the Atlantic Ocean.

From Bigelow's Mission Control, NASA connected us with Jeff Williams on the space station. As we spoke to him about Bigelow's inflatable room, he was orbiting the Earth at nearly five miles a second.

Jeff Williams: I was very excited to be part of it and to be part of something new.

Lara Logan: And how is it holding up?

Jeff Williams: Oh, it's holding up well. It was a little bit cool, and that was expected. Cooler than the air here, but not overly cold, and had that new car smell that you would expect. And it was very quiet, too.

Lara Logan: What do you think about men like Mr. Bigelow, people with deep pockets, private citizens getting involved in your world, in the world of space?

Jeff Williams: Oh, I'd say anybody that has the means to do exploration and is willing to jump in the game, more power to them. Private enterprise is trying to open up economic doors to space exploration and everybody will benefit from that.

Produced by Max McClellan. Lani Levine and Lejla Radoncic, associate producers.

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30-05-2017 om 00:33 geschreven door peter  

The Coventry UFO 'sightings' reported to police - from bright lights to glowing rockets

Coventry has been a hotbed of potential UFO sightings over the years

BY JAMES RODGERCATHRINA HULSE-BM

Twelve UFO sightings have been reported to West Midlands Police in the past four years, new figures show.

But the worried callers will have to wait a while longer to find out if we really are alone in the universe because none of the calls were investigated by officers.

Ten of the alerts involved objects seen in the sky, mostly at night, the Birmingham Mail reports.

Three reported seeing lights.

The figures, from a Freedom of Information Act request, were published on West Midlands Police’s website and covered the years 2013 to 2016.

Four calls came from Birmingham, and the rest from Sandwell, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull and Walsall.

Asked how many were investigated, the force said: “Based on the graded response/log none of the calls were investigated”.

No other details were available but Coventry has been a hotbed of potential UFO sightings over the years.

They range from a sighting of a massive tin-can shaped object with gold round the middle, to a glowing rocket steering upwards into the sky.

Many of the sightings come with video and pictures taken at the time.

And while they may not provide CONCLUSIVE proof of extraterrestrial intelligence targeting, the descriptions are certainly intriguing.

The most recent ‘close encounter’ came on August 22 at the University of Warwick.

The witness said: “I went for a short walk around 8.15pm behind my accommodation, i.e. Heronbank West, Heronbank, University of Warwick.

“While coming back, I happened to look at this glowing (because of the flame) cylindrical type object in the sky, steering upwards in a somewhat fast motion.

“I was able to take a picture of it. But when I started taking a video, my phones battery died. My first reaction to that was ‘clearly it’s not a shooting star’.

“It could be a rocket launch though. After gazing at it for about a minute, I walked inside my accommodation building.”

On May 13, another spotter saw seven circular objects above the city through binoculars - they then drew them out for Mufon.

Another sighting - again in Coventry - on March 15 involved ‘two bright lights which were ellipses initially but became circles’.

The witness reported: “I was standing outside work having just finished a shift. A storm had just passed over and a beautiful rainbow was showing. I was taking photos of the rainbow and didn’t actually notice the lights in the frame.

“I took a series of photos to catch as much of the rainbow as I could but after transferring to a memory chip I put them away and forgot about them. I was sorting through old memory chips a few days ago when I found these photos.

“The first one showed a couple of ellipses with what appeared to be a solid centre. This was at 15.24 GMT. The next photo showed two large balls of light low to the ground and apparently in front of the lamp post.

“The time of the photo was also 15.24 so the lights had moved very quickly.”

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30-05-2017 om 00:17 geschreven door peter  

Unexplained Roaring Noises Terrify Nottingham, England

 Brett Tingley

Residents of Nottingham, England were awoken over the weekend to a mysterious noise which seemed to emanate directly from the sky. The sound occurred throughout the night and early morning hours on May 27 and 28 and could be heard throughout the city center and surrounding suburbs. Mystified townsfolk described the sound as a “roaring” or “whooshing” sound and took to Twitter to express their shock and awe:

It sounds like the war of the worlds in Nottingham at the moment. Unknown catastrophically loud noise every two minutes.

Nottingham local Hayley Compton told the BBC that the noise was similar to a giant flame in the sky:

For the last two mornings, I’ve heard a series of noises outside my house in Wollaton which sounds like a giant blowtorch. We went outside and it was really loud, I looked up into the sky expecting either to see flames or a very close aircraft of some sort.

Nottingham police received dozens of similar reports about the noises but have yet to identify their source. On Reddit’s Nottingham subreddit, users began speculating what the source of the sound might be. Some of the more popular theories included UFOs, (naturally), noises generated by industrial machines at nearby factories, or even a hot air balloon. However, the frequency of the noise and timing would suggest that it’s probably not the latter.

There are a few factories nearby, but so far none have come forward as the source of the sounds.

Meanwhile, similar noises were heard around the same time in nearby Derbyshire. With all of the unexplained and strange aerial phenomena being reported in the UK lately, these noises shouldn’t be taken lightly. Sure, there’s likely a prosaic origin of these sightings and sounds involving heavy industry, military testing or the like, but for now, these occurrences all add up to one big English mystery.

 TAGS: anomalous noise, England, mystery booms, mystery noise, Nottingham

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29-05-2017 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

UP CLOSE HD DRONE FOOTAGE OF FOUR NEW CROP CIRCLES THAT JUST APPEARED IN THE UK

29-05-2017 om 23:36 geschreven door peter  

29-05-2017 om 18:19 geschreven door peter  

Mysterieuze planeet TRAPPIST-1 onthult wat van zijn geheimen - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

Wetenschappers wisten tot voor kort weinig over de exoplaneet TRAPPIST-1. 

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De buitenste planeet van het stelsel TRAPPIST-1, dat mogelijk leven kan herbergen, draait in negentien dagen rond haar moederster. Dit heeft een internationaal team van wetenschappers, ook van de Luikse universiteit, berekend.

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29-05-2017 om 18:13 geschreven door peter