Dr. J. Allen Hynek holds a photograph of a reported UFO in 1966. Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images

UFOS

J. W. MCCORMACK

'The Close Encounters Man' tells the unlikely story of how the government's astrophysicist debunker became the phenomenon's most expert defender.

If you're jonesing for an extraterrestrial, you should check out The Close Encounters Man by Mark O'Connell. O'Connell, a writer for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and founder of the UFO blog High Strangeness, set out to write "a UFO book people wouldn't need to hide from other people." He found his ideal subject in J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer hired by the United States Air Force in 1948 to debunk the reports of strange objects in the sky flooding in from across the country. Eventually Hynek broke with his handlers and became the first scientist to lend credence to the UFO phenomenon. The author of 1972's The UFO Experience: A Scientific Study, he would go on to found the Center for UFO Studies in 1973, present a speech on flying saucers to the United Nations in 1978, and develop the "close encounter" scale that would inspire Steven Spielberg's popular Close Encounters of the Third Kind ("a huge boon to his work," O'Connell told me. "They shot a scene where the little aliens grab Hynek's pipe from him and stick it up their noses, but it was cut down to a six-second cameo.")

In telling the life story of Hynek, the "astro-beatnik," O'Connell winds up with a stunning panorama of the UFO movement—from fringe conspiracy theorists to amateur astronomers to agnostic scientists—as well as its colossal impact on pop culture and modern science. I recently spoke with O'Connell over the phone about Hynek's unique story of skeptic turned believer, the scientific study of the inexplicable, and what makes a good UFO witness.

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VICE: What had to happen for a scientist as disciplined as Hynek to reach an epiphany and come around to a belief in flying saucers?

Mark O'Connell: It was a gradual process punctuated by traumatic moments. He had been involved in the Air Force's first UFO study, Project Sign, where he simply looked over the collected UFO reports and classified as many as he could as misidentified astrological objects like comets or meteorological phenomena like strange clouds, or normal things like aircraft or weather balloons. At the end, there were about 20 percent of the cases left unsolved. He just put those aside, thinking with enough time and resources we could probably explain those away as well. So he filed the report, went back to teach at Ohio State and Wesleyan Universities.

What led to Hynek getting involved with UFOs again?

Three years later, the Air Force's UFO studies were reinvigorated under a new commander who wanted to take a fresh look at things. When he discovered Hynek was still teaching about 90 miles up the road, he paid him a visit to hear more about the work he'd done. And Hynek was shocked to discover it hadn't faded away. People were still seeing and reporting close encounters and there remained a consistent 20 percent that couldn't be explained. The numbers never changed, but his thinking changed.

How did Hynek's thoughts on UFOs change?

Shortly after that he gave an address to the Optical Society of America in Boston in 1952. He said, "Look, this is something we need to study that could represent an entirely unknown realm of nature, and as scientists we ought to be curious enough to want to study it." And that was earthshaking. But he often outraged the other side too, like in the infamous swamp gas case in Michigan of 1966. Over a hundred witnesses had seen floating lights in the nighttime and it caused huge national furor, made headlines all over the country. So the Air Force sent Hynek in to investigate. After three days of intense investigations, Hynek—a guy who went where the facts lead him and nowhere else—concluded that these people had quite possibly seen swamp gas. Everyone in Michigan was deeply offended to be shown up nationally as crackpots. So Hynek said, "You know, I'm not going to carry water for the Air Force any more," and went his own way and decided to begin conducting his own research. And, by the way, one of the things he said to the Optical Society was something that's always stuck in my mind: "Ridicule is not part of the scientific method, and the American public should not be taught that it is."

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Where's the line between a conspiracy theorist and a fact-based skeptic who becomes skeptical even of other skeptics?

I don't think we've found that line and that was one of the frustrations of Hynek's career. There was a brief period in the early 1980s when his Center for UFO Studies was really thriving. They had money coming in—they had a lot of support from the scientific establishment and were able to dedicate resources to investigating UFO cases. But over time they became less exciting to other UFO people. They were grabbing fewer headlines; financing fell apart; and the Center wasn't able to do nearly as much. So I think Hynek's efforts to bring the phenomenon into the sunlight and devote scientific study to it never had the opportunity to fully blossom. His goal was to cross that line and bring those two sides together. He came close, but I think he never quite achieved it.

What were Hynek's chief takeaways about the study of UFOs?

Hynek observed that a meteorologist can't study a tornado in a lab, only the results. He thought the same thing about UFOs: You have to get a little creative when you're researching something as off-the-wall as UFOs, which do seem to deliberately make it hard for us to understand them. I compare it to the "Confuse-a-Cat" sketch from Monty Python. We're the confused cat and we need to be shocked out of our stupor by something that seems to have little to do with our version of reality. And so many of us who write and think about UFOs have to reach for new frameworks to define the issue and then study it.

How has our relationship with UFOs changed in the present time as compared to Hynek's heyday?

It's changed quite a bit. One of the sad things about my book—and maybe this makes a case for writing a sequel—is that Hynek passed away in 1986, and it was exactly a year later that the entire UFO field went through a complete paradigm shift with the publication of Whitley Strieber's Communion [which was later made into a movie starring Christopher Walken]. Strieber was already a successful horror writer at the time, right up there with Stephen King and Peter Straub. In Communion, he tells the true—according to him!—story of his alien abduction while he and his family were staying at their cottage in upstate New York. So all of a sudden, the alien encounter narrative was flipped on its head. Up to that point, close encounters, when they were reported, generally took place in isolated locales—a lonely country highway or a deserted farm out in the boonies where there would be very few people to see what was happening. Now, after Communion, the aliens are appearing in your bedroom at night, a scenario Budd Hopkins and several other researchers confirmed. Now whether that shift is conscious or whether it points to some change in how we see ourselves, who knows?

If on one side of the spectrum we have Carl Sagan and on the other, say, ErichVon Däniken, who theorized that ancient culture and religion was created by alien astronauts, where do we place Hynek?

I would put him maybe close to the center, but more on the Sagan side. They both had a lot of contempt for UFO charlatans. So yeah, he would definitely put himself far from the Von Däniken side, but he also would have thought Sagan was being closed-minded and intellectually dishonest to a degree.

What can ufology bring to modern science?

The ability to use imagination as part of the scientific process. We hear all the time from NASA how, just recently, we've discovered a planet that has five or six other planets in its orbit or how the Tabby Star dims in such a way as to suggest an alien megastructure. We have all these wild, seemingly impossible things that are now proving to be true. At the same time, we have people—and I'm not knocking them because I love and respect the work they do—like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye the Science Guy, who're crusading for scientific education, but will draw the curtain on UFO stuff because it "makes us look silly." I think we need to get past that, because it doesn't make you look silly, it makes you look like someone who is interested in learning more about the world around us and finding the borderline of science and studying the things that science could not explain. And I think that's a pretty good approach for any scientist.

What makes for a good UFO eyewitness?

A keen sense of observation is key. A strong linguistic capability is very helpful because people who see UFOs are trying to describe something unheard of in human experience and need to be able to develop a new language. Too often you see people unable to describe what they've seen and experienced simply because there are no words for it, at least not yet.

I've been haunted by the fear that there is no vast conspiracy guiding the government, only stupidity and bungling. To what extent are you able to believe in the military's ability to orchestrate certain cover-ups, as opposed to just lose things or mishandle data? 

Hynek made a good distinction: "You can cover up knowing something or you can cover not knowing something." I think government obfuscation is a big part of the story, but for many people that translates into "Oh, they're hiding something from us." One of the first important UFO writers, Donald Keyhoe, was provoked by the fact that nobody in the Air Force would return his calls. His reaction was, "Ah ha, they're covering something up!" Well, no, they just didn't want to talk to you.

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

Recent work by J.W. McCormack appears in Conjunctions, the Culture Trip, the New York Times, and the New Republic.

Close Encounters Man by Mark O'Connell will be published on June 13 by Harper Collins.

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30-05-2017 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO expert accuses co-author of 'deceiving' him with account of sighting during infamous Rendlesham Forest incident

Peter Robbins has sparked a war of words after revealing he now believes that former US airman Larry Warren's account of the incident near RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, in 1980, was "not true"

BY JOHN JEFFAY

Peter Robbins has accused Larry Warren of 'deceiving' him 

(Photo: Facebook/Peter Robbins)

A UFO expert has become embroiled in a bitter feud with his co-author and one-time friend after accusing him of 'deceiving' him with his 'false' account of the infamous Rendlesham Forest incident.

Peter Robbins and Larry Warren co-authored 'Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwater-Woodbridge UFO Incident, its Cover-Up, and Investigation' 30 years ago, but are now at loggerheads.

US researcher Robbins sparked the row when he accused Warren, a former member of the US Air Force Security Police who now lives in Liverpool, of 'deceiving' him during a radio interview.

Warren, in turn, blasted Nick Pope, former head of the British government's 'UFO desk', for siding with Robbins. He hit back Pope on Facebook for branding him a liar in an online rant.

American Warren claims he witnessed a UFO land near RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, while stationed there with the US Air Force in December 1980.

He blew the whistle on the so-called Rendlesham Forest incident in 1983 in a News of the World interview and went on to co-write the best-selling book with Robbins, which was published in 1997.

However, Robbins has now cast serious doubts over the validity of Warren's account.

Speaking on the Inception Radio Network, Robbins said: "Over the past year, even a bit more, highly specific information has been brought to my attention that has disturbed me tremendously.

"The encompassed picture is the subjective account of my co-author's story of the events that he was involved in, the events surrounding him, things that don't directly relate to the story but to his life, were not only not accurate but that they were not true.

"Having worked with him for decades, for having spent several intense years at the beginning we're talking 30 years ago next month when we shook hands, that I would assist him in writing this book. I have a long history with Larry Warren and I felt that after doing the research that he was absolutely good on his word."

He added: "I felt I had proved enough to myself of Larry's account and details surrounding it that he was telling the truth. And I feel now that in part that was not the case and there was an intent to deceive. To say this has tore me up over the last year is an understatement."

The Rendlesham incident took place in December 1980 over a series of three nights.

On December 26, 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases.

Three airmen were sent out to investigate where two of them encountered a small, triangular shaped craft.

One of them, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object. He and another of the airmen present, John Burroughs, made sketches of the craft for witness statements.

Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team then encountered the UFO.

He said later: "Here I am, a senior official who routinely denies this sort of thing and diligently works to debunk them, and I'm involved in the middle of something I can't explain."

Despite an MOD investigation the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained, despite theories it was a lighthouse, a meteor shower or a satellite re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and burning up.

Warren's account differs as he maintains the UFO landed in a farmer's field and was seen by dozens of military personnel including the Base Commander General Gordon Williams.

He also claims small entities could be seen floating underneath the strange craft, which shone beams of light into the nuclear bunkers at the NATO base at the height of the Cold War.

Nick Pope, who ran the Ministry of Defence's Secretariat (Airstaff) 2a - dubbed the 'UFO desk', which investigated military sightings but was closed in 2009 due to budget cuts - has backed Robbins' claims.

In a post to his 4,980 friends and 13, 852 followers on Facebook, he praised Robbins for "having the courage and integrity to make what was clearly a difficult and painful admission that he'd been taken in by Warren's lies."

He ended his post by saying: "The verdict from the wider UFO community is clear: the Larry Warren story is officially dead."

But Warren slammed the ex-MOD man, who now lives in Tucson, Arizona, for "whoring himself out" in a 20-minute Facebook rant.

He fumed: "I'm aware of your posts on your page, your slander, defamation, whatever you want to call it. You've been out of the UK a long time, you're not really respected here brother. You don't speak for Ufology brother, I can tell you that, you just whore yourself out for just about whatever you can do, that's fine. Works for you."

He added: "I wrote all my parts in my book and I remain proud of them. I stand by them."

Warren also accuses Pope of "abject jealousy" and offers to hand over a UFO courage award he received from UFO Truth Magazine, edited by former police detective Gary Heseltine, at a conference in Holmfirth,Yorkshire, last September.

He tells Pope: "Your books tanked after months, my book's been in print 20 years and will be print another 100 probably. I've been around longer than you in this and I've seen it all for years."

Warren challenges Pope to take it off him, saying: "You can have it if you can take it from me. I'll even bring the gift box. You seem to want it because I don't deserve it.

"You stuck your nose into Rendlesham years ago to the point some morons out there think you were working the MOD desk when they happened - I think you were being beat up on the school yard at that time. So that's impossible but you don't stop that myth."

He ends his video by saying: "The book is my story, 100 per cent. I've done stuff that you could never do and seen things you'll never see and I'll still be standing tall when you go cock a doodle do ... You were never in the military, you wore a tie somewhere."

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30-05-2017 om 22:26 geschreven door peter  

Spacecraft Galileo: To Jupiter and Its Moons

It discovered evidence of saltwater below the surfaces of three moons – Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – and also got close to the infamous "pizza moon" Io as its volcanoes belched into the atmosphere.

When Galileo was almost out of fuel, NASA deliberately sent the spacecraft on a suicide plunge into Jupiter on Sept. 21, 2003. The sacrifice, the agency said, was necessary to protect Europa – which likely has a subsurface ocean that could contain life.

Galileo's legacy

Studying Jupiter from Earth is easier than ever thanks to improvements in imaging technology, making it easier for even amateur astronomers to watch Jupiter's weather and periodic cometary impacts. Along with Galileo's data, this is helping professional astronomers gather data on how gas giants change on the scale of a few years, or decades.

Still, wider mysteries about Jupiter remain – even as NASA returned to the planet in 2016 with the Juno mission. Some missions are being considered for Jupiter's icy moons in the 2030s, such as NASA's Europa Clipper and the European Space Agency's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE). Open questions concerning Jupiter include the global abundance of water in Jupiter, how deep storm features go and where Jupiter's magnetic field comes from.

Galileo's work at Jupiter has gained even wider implications in the years afterward, because scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanet candidates. Studying Jupiter in our own solar system gives us a window into the formation of these planets outside of our solar system. 

It's not clear if the solar system shares all of the same "life history" characteristics of other solar systems. For example, some Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets are very close to their parent star, and as such as are called "hot Jupiters." It's possible these planets migrated, but the processes are poorly understood.

The case for Jupiter

Jupiter was a target of interest for NASA for decades before Galileo's launch. Four spacecraft had flown by the giant planet before – Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, and Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

Pioneer 10, when it zoomed by the planet in 1973, discovered Jupiter's radiation was far less than scientists had anticipated. This made a long-term mission to Jupiter more feasible, since the spacecraft wouldn't need to be as heavily shielded (making it more expensive to launch.)

NASA was intrigued by the thought of a Jupiter mission, but the idea went through years of budgetary discussions and management changes, as well as machinations in Congress.

By 1977, NASA was far enough in its planning to propose a "Jupiter orbiting probe" in its budget, but the idea was thrown out by a congressional appropriations subcommittee with oversight of the agency. That decision was reversed after a massive lobbying effort by the scientific community, and Congress approved the project later that year.

It would take another 12 years to get Galileo off the ground. There were continual government funding threats to the mission and even the existence of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where it was being built. Debates also arose about Galileo's planned launch vehicle. Then, just as the probe was readying for a space shuttle mission, Challenger exploded and killed seven astronauts in 1986, grounding the fleet for two years.

Named for astronomer Galileo Galilei, the spacecraft launched at last on Oct. 18, 1989, from the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis. To save on fuel, the probe whipped by Venus once and Earth twice to pick up speed, with the aim to reach Jupiter in 1995.

Solving problems in space

Operating missions for the long duration can be a marathon for both humans and spacecraft alike. As components on the spacecraft break down, it's up to the people on the ground to figure out how to resurrect them – or do without them.

Galileo's most prominent failures were a high-gain antenna that failed to open – threatening the transmissions of data back to Earth – and a data tape recorder that temporarily jammed during the final approach to Jupiter.

The sticky antenna, shaped somewhat like an umbrella, lay stowed on the spacecraft for nearly two years after launch. NASA determined it might be risky to set it free when Galileo was closer to the sun during its gravity assist by Venus.

On April 11, 1991, controllers sent a command for Galileo to unfurl the antenna. The motors ran for eight minutes at higher power levels than expected, which indicated there might be a problem. The spacecraft then failed to send a signal to Earth saying the antenna had opened.

A fault analysis determined that some of the antenna's "ribs" got stuck. Managers did everything from rapidly spinning the spacecraft to exposing the antenna to sunlight, with no luck.

To get around the problem, they came up with ways to compress data so that Galileo could send back more information to Earth, which helped save the crippled mission.

NASA now relied on Galileo's on-board data recorder and low-gain transmission antennas to bring information back to Earth. That worked well until the recorder jammed for 15 hours while rewinding on Oct. 11, 1995 – just as the spacecraft was finally closing in on Jupiter.

Fortunately, NASA found a work-around and was able to resume work a few weeks later. The tape recorder acted up in future years, though, necessitating more fixes.

"Among the Galileo mission's memorable achievements were the repeated successes of its staff in solving serious technical problems," wrote Michael Meltzer in the NASA publication Mission to Jupiter: A History of the Galileo Project.

"In each instance, the team attacked potentially mission-ending problems and found ingenious ways to keep the spacecraft operational and productive.

Entering Jupiter's system

One of Galileo's first science targets was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Jupiter's gravity had pulled the comet towards the planet and broken it up into more than 20 pieces. When the shards slammed into Jupiter in July 1994, the astronomical community eagerly watched. Galileo was en route to Jupiter at that time and snapped some shots of the hits.

The spacecraft encountered "interplanetary dust storms" on its way to Jupiter, possibly from particles coming from within the Jovian system. At one point, Galileo was tracking 20,000 dust particles a day, compared to a typical one particle every three days.

Galileo was still flying at Jupiter when in July 1995, it released a probe to smack the planet's atmosphere in December. When the probe finished its descent, NASA was surprised at its measurements of helium – half of what they expected – and the dryness of the region in which the probe flew.

"These initial findings are encouraging scientists to rethink their theories of Jupiter's formation and the nature of planetary evolution processes," wrote NASA in a January 1996 press release.

Planetary, moon and asteroid science

Galileo itself reached Jupiter on Dec. 7, 1995, beginning its years of circling the planet and its moons.

In the early days, Galileo took a close look at the faint rings of Jupiter to find out how they formed. Data from the spacecraft determined that meteoroids, crashing into small moons around Jupiter, were sending dust up around the planet. Over time, the dust coalesced into rings.

While Galileo was often called a mission to Jupiter, the spacecraft also made extensive observations of the planet's largest moons.

It found evidence of a liquid ocean underneath Europa's surface, sparking questions about what sort of life could lie underneath. From watching volcanoes at Io, Galileo's data showed the moon's volcanic activity could be as much as 100 times more than what is seen on Earth. And at Ganymede, Galileo found the first magnetic field around a moon.

Galileo even made a few side discoveries. When taking pictures of the asteroid Ida, it discovered there was a smaller object orbiting around it. Later called Dactyl, this was the first confirmed satellite of an asteroid.

In 2003, the aging spacecraft – battling radiation problems and other mechanical issues – was running low on fuel. NASA chose to send Galileo straight into Jupiter rather than leave it in orbit, just in case the spacecraft accidentally crashed into Europa and disrupted possible life there.

Galileo broke up in Jupiter's atmosphere on Sept. 21, 2003.

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30-05-2017 om 21:57 geschreven door peter  

Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes

The Cassini spacecraft at Saturn watched over the ringed planet's solstice Wednesday (May 24), accomplishing the main goal of its second extended mission. A solstice occurs on Saturn roughly every 15 Earth years as its seasons change.

Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, and the spacecraft completed its primary mission to study the planet, its rings and its moons by 2008. Its first extended mission, which lasted until 2010, was to observe the system during the planet's equinox, when the sun strikes the rings edge-on and the days are of equal length on the north and south poles. The goal of its second extended mission — a seven-year plan called the Solstice Mission — was to observe all the way up to the north pole's summer solstice (when the days are longest at Saturn's north pole, and shortest at the planet's south pole) and investigate the system's seasonal changes. 

"During Cassini's Solstice Mission, we have witnessed — up close for the first time — an entire season at Saturn," Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, said in a statement. "The Saturn system undergoes dramatic transitions from winter to summer, and thanks to Cassini, we had a ringside seat." [Epic Cassini Mission to Saturn Gets Awesome Video Treatment]

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30-05-2017 om 21:42 geschreven door peter  

Surprise! Galaxy's Monster Black Hole Likely Has Huge Neighbor on a Crash Course

Two monster black holes are apparently on a collision course near the heart of a nearby galaxy, a new study reports.

Astronomers have spotted an extremely bright object located about 1,500 light-years from the supermassive black hole known to occupy the heart of Cygnus A, an oft-studied galaxy that lies about 800 million light-years from Earth. 

"We think we've found a second supermassive black hole in this galaxy, indicating that it [the galaxy] has merged with another galaxy in the astronomically recent past," study co-author Chris Carilli, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in New Mexico, said in a statement. [Images: Black Holes of the Universe]

"These two would be one of the closest pairs of supermassive black holes ever discovered, likely themselves to merge in the future," Carilli added.

The researchers studied Cygnus A in 2015 and 2016 using the Very Large Array (VLA), a system of radio telescopes in New Mexico. These observations revealed the mysterious bright object, which had not appeared in earlier VLA images of Cygnus A from the 1980s and 1990s.

The completion of a VLA upgrade in 2012 motivated the new imaging campaign, study team members said. 

"To our surprise, we found a prominent new feature near the galaxy's nucleus that did not appear in any previous published images. This new feature is bright enough that we definitely would have seen it in the earlier images if nothing had changed," co-author Rick Perley, also of the NRAO, said in the same statement. "That means it must have turned on sometime between 1996 and now."

Additional observations made in 2016 by the radio telescopes of the Very Long Baseline Array, which is also located in New Mexico, detected the object as well. 

Infrared images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Hawaii's Keck Observatory between 1994 and 2002 show a faint object in the same spot within Cygnus A. This mysterious body had originally been interpreted as a clump of stars, but the recent and dramatic brightening is forcing a rethink, study team members said.

There are only two viable possibilities that could explain the new observations, the researchers added: The object is either a supernova or a supermassive black hole in outburst mode.

Artist's illustration of a newly discovered secondary supermassive black hole orbiting the main, central supermassive black hole of the galaxy Cygnus A.

The team favors the black-hole hypothesis, because no known type of supernova could stay so bright for so long, the researchers said. The second supermassive black hole probably became so active after stumbling onto a lot of material to gobble up — perhaps a star that strayed too close, or gas stirred up by the galaxy merger, the researchers said.

"Further observations will help us resolve some of these questions," said study lead author Daniel Perley, of the Astrophysics Research Institute of Liverpool John Moores University in England (and Rick Perley's son). "In addition, if this is a secondary black hole, we may be able to find others in similar galaxies."

The new study has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 

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30-05-2017 om 21:33 geschreven door peter  

Les lignes de Nazca, située au Pérou actuel, sont des géoglyphes mondialement célèbres. On peut les observer du ciel à plusieurs centaines de mètres de la terre ferme. Si elles sont si spectaculaires, c’est que les civilisations pré-Incas n’avaient ni avions, ni satellites à l’époque où elles ont été tracées. Motherboard rapporte une étude de leur structure en spirale qui permet enfin d’expliquer comment elles ont été construites, et pourquoi. Les scientifiques affirment aujourd’hui qu’elles étaient liées à la ressource la plus précieuse du désert, l’eau.

Rosa Lasaponara, chercheuse au Conseil National de Recherche de Rome, estime que la civilisation nazca « utilisait l’eau souterraine pour le système d’irrigation de leurs activités agricoles. En ce sens, les Nazcas pensaient pouvoir transformer le désert en jardin ».

La scientifique a utilisé l’an dernier la technique d’imagerie satellite pour étudier les structures trouvées près des lignes de Nazca : des trous en forme de spirale appelés « puquios ». Grâce à ces images, les chercheurs ont pu observer sous la surface du sol et identifier des canaux souterrains d’eau connectés à ces trous en spirale. Ils se sont ensuite aperçus qu’ils faisaient partie d’un ancien système d’aqueducs.

Si ces structures appartenaient à un système d’eau aussi sophistiqué, il apparaît évident que les dessins – araignées, lamas, fleurs – étaient tracés près des sources pour remercier les dieux de ce cadeau inestimable. « Il est clair que les puquios et les lignes de Nazca ont la même signification, car l’eau était le seul moyen de survivre dans cet environnement désertique. Les lignes de Nazca sont sûrement un moyen de remercier les dieux pour cela ».

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30-05-2017 om 21:19 geschreven door peter  

UFO spotted hovering over Cley Hill near Frome

The video, taken by a Frome resident, shows a streak of light circling over the National Trust owned land in Corsley

BY JAMES WOOD

A UFO has been videoed hovering over Cley Hill near Frome.

The video, taken by a Frome resident, shows a streak of light circling over the National Trust owned land in Corsley.

Located at the edge of the Longleat Estate in Warminster, Cley Hill has long been thought of as a hot spot for UFOs.

The resident who took this video believes this streak of light could be one such UFO – although he is a little sceptical.

Speaking to Somerset Live, he said: “I took this video from my house in Frome last night. It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs”

“Probably a drone with a fancy flame effect tail or something. It's been spotted a few times locally.”

For more than 40 years, this lofty hilltop has been a meeting place for UFO spotters, all drawn by talk of lights, flying objects and what have been described as ‘other unidentifiable oddities’.

Nigel Vile, a local rambler, regularly goes on walks around the area.

Speaking of the hill, he said: “Some experts have gone as far as to describe the nearby town of Warminster as Britain’s UFO capital on account of a phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s that became known as the ‘Warminster Thing’.

“Strange noises were heard in the skies above the town, and an equally strange shimmering light was observed in the vicinity.”

It’s not just in Warminster that these UFOs are spotted, however. There are many towns around Frome that have similar experiences.

Nigel said: “More recently, a report in the local press recorded the experiences of a number of people who witnessed a UFO in the skies in June 2001.

“A slow-moving bright light was spotted at Semington which was buzzed by an aircraft. Later, a number of people in Trowbridge saw an object comprised of three lights in a triangular formation heading west towards Warminster.

“As one critic noted, however, considering the proximity of the military training area on Salisbury Plain, was it not more likely that the UFOs people have been seeing during the past 50 years or so are more attributable to military activity rather than visits by alien life forms?”

Cley Hill can be found just off the A36 heading towards Longleat. It is more than 800ft in height and is surrounded by relatively flat agricultural land. At the top of the hill are the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort that encloses two round barrows.

Have you seen UFOs in the Frome and Warminster area? Get in touch using james.wood@westgaz.co.uk

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30-05-2017 om 21:09 geschreven door peter  

30-05-2017 om 20:54 geschreven door peter  

NIEUWE GRAANCIRKEL KONDIGT KOMST NIBIRU AAN ( VIDEO )

We zitten midden in het seizoen voor de graancirkels en vooral in Engeland duiken weer talrijke nieuwe en vooral ook hele interessante graancirkels op. 

Via een lezer werden wij opmerkzaam gemaakt op een bijzondere nieuwe cirkel, op ook nog eens op een bijzondere locatie. 

Gisteren schreven wij een artikel over een Braziliaanse politicus die het parlement waarschuwde over de komst van de planeet Nibiru en daarnaast een deel uit de voorspellingen betreffende 23 september 2017. 

Een datum die zonder enige twijfel wordt voorspeld in het Bijbelse boek Openbaringen die verwijst naar een unieke stand aan de hemel die maar eens in de 7.000 jaar voor komt. 

In dat artikel kwam ook de volgende afbeelding voor:

Naar aanleiding van dat artikelen bovenstaande afbeelding ontvingen wij het volgende bericht (dank!). 

In jullie stuk tonen jullie een foto van het Nibiru stelsel (met dat kruis er in), vinden jullie ook niet dat dit op de nieuwe graancirkel lijkt van 25 mei 2017? 

Dan gaat het om de volgende graancirkel die op 25 mei 2017 is ontdekt in het Engelse plaatsje Alton Barnes in Wiltshire.

De afbeelding in het artikel van gisteren laat een afbeelding zien van het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru zoals dat eruit zag in 2008, toen deze foto naar verluid werd genomen op Antarctica. 

 

Net zoals er aan de linkerkant zeven halve bollen voorkomen in de graancirkel, zo komen er op de afbeelding in totaal ook zeven planeten voor en net zoals in de afbeelding vormen deze planeten samen een kruis. 

Een kruis wordt ook in verband gebracht met Nibiru en het in Engels is de betekenis van dit woord dan ook: Planet of the Crossing. 

We kunnen bovenstaande graancirkel dan ook absoluut zien als aankondiging van de planeet Nibiru en misschien is er nog een tweede aanwijzing die tot nu toe, bij ons weten, door niemand is opgemerkt. 

En dat is wanneer we kijken naar de locatie van de graancirkel, dan ligt deze pal naast het witte paard van Alton Barnes.

En het witte paard is weer bekend uit hetzelfde boek uit de bijbel, Openbaringen waar het voor komt als het eerste paard van de vier ruiters van de Apocalyps. 

Dat witte paard staat volgens de Wikipedia voor het volgende:

Het lijkt er hier dan ook op dat we met een dubbele aanwijzing hebben te maken: de komst van de planeet Nibiru en de Antichrist die er binnenkort winnend op uit zal trekken in een tijd van valse vrede.

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30-05-2017 om 20:44 geschreven door peter  

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

© Johns Hopkins University.

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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© NASA.

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.

© NASA.

"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."

© Planetary Society.

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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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memo-finally-prove-ufo-crash-roswell/

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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