Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
31-05-2017
Hillary Clinton Championed UFO Disclosure, Doc Filmmakers Say
Hillary Clinton Championed UFO Disclosure, Doc Filmmakers Say
by Tatiana Siegel
Screenshot/Abundance of Energy/YouTube
'Unacknowledged'
After debuting on iTunes and digital platforms on May 9, 'Unacknowledged' shot to the No. 1 documentary spot worldwide.
For decades, Hollywood has pondered the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe? The Orchard’s new documentary Unacknowledged claims to have the answer.
Directed by Michael Mazzola and narrated by Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito, the film features the work of Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project, and is dubbed an important expose revealing covert interstellar secrets (that’s right, Hillary Clinton and other high-level public servants know all about ET visitors, says Greer).
“There's no question in my mind that Hillary’s aware of the issue,” Greer says. “Her campaign chairperson John Podesta came out in favor of disclosure and said that the government should come forward with this information. And he remained a disclosure advocate all the way through the campaign. And [former] CIA Director James Woolsey first told me that he had made specific directed inquiries into the subject but was denied access.”
What might come as a shock is how well these documentaries do on digital platforms. After debuting on iTunes on May 9, Unacknowledged shot to the No. 1 documentary spot worldwide and No. 2 in the U.S. (second only to Laura Poitras’ Julian Assange pic Risk). In fact, Unacknowledged, which debuted on VOD on May 23, is outpacing Risk in its first few weeks, despite the latter’s high-profile subject, a Cannes 2016 debut and an Oscar-winning director (Poitras won the 2015 best documentary prize for Citizenfour).
Greer, a retired emergency room doctor, raised more than $700,000 through crowdfunding to finance the film and an accompanying book, published April 25 by A&M Publishing, but he still needed to find a distributor. Enter The Orchard, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment that entered the film distribution space just two-and-a-half years ago and already has an impressive track record with docs, having shepherded Life, Animated and Cartel Land to Oscar nominations in successive years. The company acquired Unacknowledged back in September 2016, with hopes of tapping into the rabid UFO fan base. The film features ET revelations from numerous government sources including Richard Doty, a former special agent for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations and offers whistleblower testimony, documents and more UFO footage than an X-Files marathon.
Over the years, several Hollywood projects featuring Greer’s work fell apart “inexplicably,” he says, prompting him to put an unusual clause in his contract with The Orchard that if the movie wasn't released as planned, the rights would revert back to him. Among the projects he says were deep-sixed were a Fox film being developed by Arnold Kopelson (Seven) and an ABC News segment with Ira Rosen.
“What we did here was ensure that the truth about this issue could get to the public, and if there was any attempt to shelve it, we would call it back,” adds Greer.
Alas, Unacknowledged is out and doing brisk business since its debut. And given its success on streaming platforms, Greer once again has been approached by a few Hollywood producers that he declined to name about pursuing a narrative feature film based on his work. In the meantime, he and Mazzola say no one should be surprised that their film has found its audience.
"I think UFOs are totally underestimated in terms of the public interest in this,” says Mazzola. "Besides pornography it's probably the most searched topic on the Internet. And we're really excited to be the first UFO documentary to have a major distributor backing us."
A new alleged witness to the Roswell UFO crash will be revealed in book UFOs Today.
The testimony will be revealed in a new book, set to be published on Thursday, Express.co.uk can reveal.
The book, titled UFOs TODAY - 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation, and Government Cover-Up, has been penned by Dr Irena Scott, who gained a PhD in physiology from the University of Missouri.
Dr Scott said: "This book features the testimony of a former US Deputy Sheriff who was an alleged witness to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.
"This gentleman’s unique testimony will be published here for the first time."
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The new book will be released on Thursday, June 1.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
It has gone on to become the biggest UFO conspiracy theory on record.
Phillip Mantle, of publisher Flying Disk Press, said: "The UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is undoubtedly the most famous UFO event in the world.
"The new book by American academic Irena Scott PhD looks set to keep the debate surrounding this event moving.
"A new witness to the events near Roswell in 1947 is just a small part of this outstanding book.
This book features the testimony of a former US Deputy Sheriff who was an alleged witness to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.
Dr Irena Scott
"This unique books looks to answer these and many other questions."
The book also looks at Government official investigations into the UFO phenomena since before 1947.
Dr Scott, who claims to have witnessed a Government cover up over UFOS first hand, said: "Examination of government knowledge of the UFO phenomena is vital because it provides important evidence about whether the subject is taken seriously by government authorities, and can potentially provide technical information about the phenomena.
"The book also includes never-before-published first-hand interviews and correspondence with many of the most important and the initial investigators of the phenomena.
"This is significant because many of these people have died and those who are living are getting old.
"Thus, this research provides an historical record of the reasoning and opinions of those making an initial impact in this field."
Dr Scott went on to work for the Defence Intelligence Agency and the Aerospace Center in satellite photography.
She was also a volunteer astronomer at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory and has more than 30 years experience as a UFO field investigator with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Having written two articles this week on questionable and hoaxed UFO documents, I figured why not make it a “trilogy”? As with the previous articles – one on Marilyn Monroe and the other on the Rendlesham Forest UFO event of December 1980 – this one tells a very odd story. Back in 1978, Leonard Stringfield’s book, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, was published. It’s a book that includes a wealth of material on a wide variety of UFO cases – abductions, UFO crashes, radar-visual events, and much more. Also in the book, there’s a weird tale which revolves around the University of Chicago.
The story was told to Stringfield, in February 1975, by a UFO researcher named Sherman Larsen. Some months earlier, Larsen said to Stringfield, he was contacted by a Presbyterian minister from Wisconsin. The man had a strange tale to tell. He claimed that when he was a child his father – who was also a minister – took him to the Chicago-based Museum of Science and Industry. During the course of the day, father and son supposedly “strayed off into a labyrinth of corridors and became lost. Hoping to find an exit, they entered a room in which they encountered a large, glass-covered case.” Contained within the case were several, small bodies that were human-like but not human. According to Stringfield, “The minister recalled that instantly his father was grabbed by several men and forcibly taken into another room. Detained for some time, his father was forced to sign papers before they were allowed to leave the museum.”
It should be noted that within the world of Forteana (and particularly in Ufology) there are numerous tales of people wandering off when in government buildings and military installations, and going down the wrong corridor and stumbling on some terrible secret in a hidden room. The “Chicago story” may very well be just another variation on that theme. The late UFO researcher Todd Zechel took a particular interest in this story. In looking into it, he claimed to have found a connection between the strange bodies at the Chicago-based Museum of Science and Industry and certain events that supposedly occurred at the University of Chicago from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.
In 1979, Zechel quietly shared a controversial letter with Stringfield and several others, which seemed to confirm some of the tales of strange bodies in Chicago, years earlier. It was written on University of Chicago stationery and was dated May 5, 1979. The letter was supposedly written to Zechel by a professor at the university and reads as follows:
“I do not know the source of your information but after having assigned several graduate students to spend considerable time researching the University archives, I find that you are correct in your information about some very strange humanoid bodies being examined here in 1948 and again in 1952. The professors you named did indeed participate in the autopsies and studies but unfortunately, all three are deceased so we can obtain no further information from them. All results of the studies were apparently classified and removed from the university by government agents for whom the studies were performed. The only people my graduate students could locate that were even remotely connected with the studies said that they only remembered talk of four-foot-tall, sexless bodies thought to have been the product of Nazi cloning and genetic experiments and recovered from the ruins of German laboratories.”
Chicago Museum of Science and industry
When Stringfield took steps to have the doctor approached for comment on the controversial letter (and its beyond-dubious contents), the doctor replied: “The information that you have received is incorrect. As far as I know the basis for it is a letter under my name describing such a strange phenomenon. However, the letter is a forgery, the body of the letter having been inserted over a genuine letter and then xeroxed. I am somewhat concerned about this matter and would appreciate knowing where your information came from.”
If you ever come across a copy of the letter, the best thing you can do is throw it out with the garbage. That’s where it belongs.
Filer’s Files #22 – 2017 Philosophical Problems with ET Messages - PART I
Disc captured on May 17, 2017, over Toronto, Canada.
Filer’s Files #22 – 2017 Philosophical Problems with ET Messages - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan UFO Problem Is a Reality, Zecharia Sitchin Ancient Clay Tablets Describe Ancient Astronauts UFOs, Folklore and UFOs: Jacques Vallee, Philosophical and Other Problems with ET Messages, Space Aggressors’ Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict and New York Times Publishes Manchester Bombing Details
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Chile, Germany, India, Thailand, and England and Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan UFO Problem Is a Reality
First of all, I told a magazine this past January that, as an underdeveloped country with regards to the UFO problem, Japan had to take into account what should be done about the UFO question, and that we had to spend more time on these matters. In addition, I said that someone had to solve the UFO problem with far reaching vision at the same time. Secondly, I believe it is a reasonable time to take the UFO problem seriously as a reality.
I hope that this Symposium will contribute to peace on Earth from the point of view of outer space, and take the first step toward the international cooperation in the field of UFOs. Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan, in a letter to Mayor Shiotani of Hakui City, dated June 24, 1990, endorsing an upcoming Space & UFO Symposium.
Toshiki Kaifu is a Japanese politician who was the 76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.
The recent election of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of the Democratic Party of Japan was a political earthquake since the outgoing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled the country for half a century. Although the main issue was the economy, the LDP was also run by uncharismatic and dull party leaders.
It now seems that Japan’s new first couple won’t be dull. The new first lady, 66-year old Miyuki Hatoyama, is a former actress, dancer and singer in the Takarazuka Revue all-female theater group, which has some rather eclectic New Age ideas and lifestyles. Japanese and international media went abuzz with Miyuki Hatoyama’s comments about her astral trip to Venus inside a UFO 20 years ago.
“While my body was sleeping, I think my spirit flew on a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus,” she wrote in the book Most Bizarre Things I’ve Encountered, adding that “it was an extremely beautiful place and was very green.”
Zecharia Sitchin Ancient Clay Tablets Describe Ancient Astronauts UFOs
A few years ago before his death on October 9, 2010, I had dinner with Zecharia Sitchin whose work was based on clay tablets some of oldest recorded writings known to man that were found in modern day Iraq (Samaria). Sitchin’s work consists of eight books promoting an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. He explained to me that much of the ancient data is also contained in the Book of Genesis, which is the basis for many of the world’s religions including Christianity and Judaism. Basically it tells that God created the Earth and all living things. Visitors from space called the Nephilim came to Earth and mated with women. A great war occurred in the planet Heaven and a group of angels led by Satan were forced out and settled on Earth. Satan or the Devil attempts to convince mankind to follow his beliefs. The combatants are referred to in the Dead Sea Scrolls as the Sons of Light versus the Sons of Darkness. This war has continued for over 6,000 years.
We can assume the craft in our skies have a connection with these ancient writings. Genesis has more relevance to the present day than you might realize. There are two wills in the universe, God’s will and Satan’s will.
Genesis 19 is one of the most commonly cited passages in the Bible that describes the destruction of Sodom. The term “Sodomite” was originally used to refer to an inhabitant of Sodom — a city which was located in Canaan, present day Israel. It later became a legal term to refer to criminal sexual acts. God apparently had a fierce anger directed at the inhabitants of the town. He destroyed Sodom with fire and brimstone (sulfur) dumped from above. According to the story, he killed all of the inhabitants of Sodom for threatening the rape of two angels who blinded their attackers.
Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Jacques Vallee wrote a provocative book about UFO cases, folklore, and certain unexplained phenomena in Passport to Magonia, which changed our understanding of the UFO phenomenon by connecting documents and data from earlier centuries that related to incidents in the modern era. Among the numerous parallels between UFOs, folklore, and religious traditions were tales of fairies, elves, leprechauns, apparitions, and strange creatures.
In Celtic regions, witnesses described seeing fairies who were accompanied by strange oval objects from the sky, and these beings were also known for abducting people– not unlike modern reports of alien abduction, he pointed out. A ninth century account from the Archbishop of Lyon, France dealt with three people who were said to emerge from a flying ship– villagers thought they came from a magical land called Magonia. Investigators have neglected to recognize one important perspective of the phenomenon: the fact that beliefs identical to those held today have recurred throughout recorded history and under forms best adapted to the believer’s country, race, and social regime.
If we take a wide sample of this historical material, we find that it is organized around one central theme: visitation by an aerial people from one or more remote, legendary countries. The names and attributes vary, but the main idea clearly does not. Magonia, heaven, hell, – all such places have in common one characteristic: we are unable to reach them alive, except on very special occasions. Emissaries from these supernatural abodes come to earth, sometimes under human form and sometimes as monsters. They perform wonders. They serve man or fight him. Vallee spoke of how UFO phenomena seems to straddle different layers of reality, and what witnesses actually observe may be modulated by their individual consciousness. People in Asia view the phenomenon as part of nature, and the alien beings hailing from a different plane, rather than another planet, he added.
Philosophical and Other Problems with ET Messages
Many of the encounters with extraterrestrials appear to be friendly and even loving while others appear hateful and demonic. It appears we are dealing with various alien civilizations or hidden entities. Some may have been here for centuries while others may be recent arrivals with different motivations, Star Wars like encounters seem real with UFOs crashing periodically for the last seventy years. The damage to their craft appears to have been caused by advanced weapons. Either we have these weapons or the various ET civilizations are fighting one another. The Star Wars films may be closer to the truth than we realize.
There seems to be reports and research, components which parallel paranormal, psychic, and spiritistic manifestations, etc. Many UFO abductees, contactees and researchers, for instance, believe there is an interdimensional or multidimensional quality to the UFO phenomena and related experiences. Although the UFO phenomena may appear real enough, it also could be a holographic illusion or a transmogrification of matter and energy. Perhaps certain intelligences have the power to shape matter and spirit or to make our dreams so real, we believe they actually occurred.
Some UFOs and their occupants seem to have an ability to shape shift and appear and disappear.
Dr. J. Allen Hyneck suggested the phenomena appears to be more psychic than extra-terrestrial and perhaps comes from a parallel world. This also seems to be Dr. Jacque Vallee’s explanation who also notes that there are authoritarian overtones to some of the messages given to contactees i.e. Democracy is obsolete, elections should be done away with, racist ideologies are encouraged – some have more alien DNA etc., a New World Order is needed and will be set up with alien help. Once they are in charge there will be no more wars or crime. Vallee also believes that some kind of control system is being set up by the UFO phenomenon which challenges our traditions and human beliefs systems. Many abductees report implants and feel they are being manipulated for some unknown purpose that’s yet to be revealed. Much of the messages given to abductees and contactees seem to be New Age in philosophical orientation and language: there are no moral absolutes, reincarnation is taught, beliefs such as a vague “kinship with the Cosmos and it’s oneness with the Universe or the Universe as a supreme being” are common, we are being told that “we stand on the precipice of a quantum leap forward on both a biological and spiritual level.” Man is or is becoming God…etc. There are several alien types taking credit for the creation of man as outlined in the ancient Sumerian tablets.
Many alien prophesies to contactees of the 60’s or to-day have failed to come true or appear to be outright lies. Many contactees and abductees to-day are again delivering warnings of coming earth changes and disasters along with promises of help from aliens, So what are we dealing with? New Age aliens with a promise of a Golden Age or some unimaginable deception to enslave undiscerning minds. The evidence seems to point to the latter.
There have been many false messianic claims and those foolish enough to repeat history by following the voices of deceiving entities have been warned to “beware of false prophets and Christ’s who come disguised as sheep but underneath are ravenous wolves“.We should be reminded of the likes of Adolf Hitler who not long ago promised a New Age to unsuspecting Germans.
Whitley Strieber, in the MUFON Journal, states –
“I’ve come away from this experience convinced of one thing: if there aren’t demons out there, there might as well be, because these guys are indistinguishable from demons. Indistinguishable, to see them, to look into their eyes, is to be less – forever.”
Strieber seems to swing from horror to naive trust; you see this in his books and statements to the public. Perhaps, he is not so sure of the visitor’s intentions. The Reptilian aliens may be the same ones called demons or the devil by religion.
Some UFO researchers suggest that perhaps the so called ‘aliens’ aren’t much of a threat, after all if they have been around for this long and have not taken over then why should we be concerned. However, if they are not what they appear to be and the phenomena has other potentials and realities which include: deception, false messianic claims, dangerous ideologies, the formation of cults, etc., then for historical, social and political reasons we should not abandon our need for discernment and caution.
“Here are some great UFO quotes that shed light on the deceptive nature of the “alien” presence. But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.” John Ankerberg, The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena, p. 10
‘We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth.” Brad Steiger, [cited in] Blue Book Files Released in Canadian UFO Report, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1977, p. 20
“We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.” Terrence McKenna [from a lecture]
“A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing and invisible entities as well as phenomena like poltergeist [ghost] manifestation and ‘possession.’ Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic on and psychic phenomena.” -Lynn E. Catoe, UFOs and Related Subjects: USGPO, 1969
“UFO behavior is more akin to magic than to physics as we know it the modern UFOnauts and the demons of past days are probably identical.” Dr. Pierre Guerin, FSR Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 13-14
“The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon” John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 299
“Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.” Dr. Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 20
“The ‘medical examination’ to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscent of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: Any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.” Dr. Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 13
“The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past.” Dr. Jacques Vallee citing the extensive research of Bertrand Meheust in Confrontations, p. 146, 159-161
“[The occultist] is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impressions they choose to impart the demons seem permitted to do various wonders at their request.” -G.H. Pember, Earth’s Earliest Ages and Their Connection with Modern Spiritualism and Theosophy (1876), p. 254 Thanks to Noah’s Dove.
Space Aggressors’ Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict
Elite military units are specializing in mock space warfare, as Russia and China develop anti-satellite weaponry. By Greg Walters
In a large, tin-roofed warehouse near Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, members of a team of modern space warriors spend their days hatching plots to defeat the US military in extraterrestrial combat. They’re called Space Aggressors. Their job is to act like the enemy during mock space battles to help US units prepare for a conflict that may one day extend into the cosmos.
US Army Spc. Angel Mendoza, assigned as a space aggressor operator to the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron, Schreiver Air Force Base, Colorado., secures a helical antenna to a gravel pad adjacent to the flight line Aug. 8, 2016, during RED FLAG-Alaska (RF-A) 16-3, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Along with two modems and an amplifier, space aggressors at RF-A 16-3 interrupt GPS systems for navigation and weapons, which pilots use during the exercise designed to simulate the first 10 combat sorties of a surge operation or conflict. | US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel
“We play the bad guys,” said Captain Christopher Barnes, chief of training for the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron. “Our job is to not only understand the different types of threats and potential enemies, but also to be able to portray them and replicate them for the good guys, our Air Force.”
The 26th and 527th Space Aggressor Squadrons are headquartered in a two-story warehouse at Colorado’s Schriever Air Force Base, stocked with advanced radio and satellite equipment and nicknamed “the barn.” Behind the building, antenna dishes trace the sky. While attacks by the Space Aggressors are simulated, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials warn the threat in space is very real.
America relies heavily on space assets to project force around the globe, from launching missiles to directing warships across the seas. Indeed, the Global Positioning System, or GPS, is actually a group of 31 high-orbiting satellites owned by the US government and operated by the US Air Force.
The 527th Space Aggressors Squadron and 26th Space Aggressors Squadron emblems are painted side by side on doors inside the Space Aggressors’ facility at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. | US Air Force/2nd Lt. Darren Domingo
Some worry that disrupting America’s vast network of satellites and ground-based systems could send US forces back to an antiquated era of targeting, communications, and navigation systems — deeply undercutting battlefield superiority.
This spring, rhetoric from US military officials about the need to bolster American defensive position, and even offensive capabilities, in space has ratcheted up amid concern that Russia and China are rapidly developing anti-satellite weapons.µ
“While we’re not at war in space, I don’t think we could say we’re exactly at peace, either,”
Vice Admiral Charles Richard, Deputy Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, known as Stratcom, told a conference in Washington DC in March. “We must prepare for a conflict that extends into space.”
His operational assignments include command of USS Parche (SSN 683) as well as Submarine NR-1, then the U.S. Navy’s only nuclear-powered, deep-submergence submarine. Richard previously served as the director, Undersea Warfare Division (N97) in Washington, D.C., and was responsible for the planning, programming and budgeting for acquisition, operational readiness and modernization of the submarine force and its support
In his remarks, Vice Admiral Richard pointed to press reports that “China is developing an arsenal of lasers, electro-magnetic rail guns, and high-powered microwave weapons to neutralize America’s intelligence, communications, and navigations satellites.”
The US military has now opened the National Space Defense Center. Thanks to www.space.com/tech-robot
New York Times Publishes Manchester Bombing Details
As a longtime reader of The Times, I was shocked, saddened and frankly confused by the decision to publish pictures of forensic evidence gathered by the British police from the scene of the bombing in Manchester. The release of any detail from a continuing counterterrorism investigation can have a harmful effect on that investigation. In particular, in a case in which it is suspected that the bomb maker is still at large, the forensic details could provide him or her with useful damage assessment information to “improve” the next device manufactured. Against this risk, it is unclear what public interest or informational need was served by publishing these pictures of the scene of an atrocity. I expect efforts to capitalize on sensational details from my country’s tabloids, but not from The Times. Andrew Gawthorpe Leiden, the Netherlands
“The alleged leaks coming out of government agencies are deeply troubling,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “These leaks have been going on for a long time, and my administration will get to the bottom of this. The leaks of sensitive information pose a grave threat to our national security.”
Prime Minister Mrs. May’s statement followed expressions of outrage by top law enforcement officials after The New York Times published images on Wednesday of the shrapnel, backpack and battery used by Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old bomber who killed 22 people and injured scores outside the Manchester Arena as a pop concert ended Monday night. The Times did not disclose the source of its information.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council in Britain called the leaks a breach of trust, adding, “This damage is even greater when it involves unauthorized disclosure of potential evidence in the middle of a major counterterrorism investigation.” The disclosure of potential evidence “undermines our investigations and the confidence of victims, witnesses and their families,” it added.
On Thursday, Manchester’s top police official, Chief Constable Ian Hopkins, joined the chorus of criticism, saying that the disclosure “has caused much distress for families that are already suffering terribly with their loss.” Thanks to the NY Times
US Constitution Article III Section 3 — Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. The United Sates is at war with ISIS and I feel the major news media is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
Trouble in Europe
A Muslim in Germany has been caught on video saying this to a German man:”
“Islam is coming to take over Germany whether you want it or not … not through war but by the fact that Germans don’t reproduce and Muslims have seven to eight children for each wife but not only that, your daughters will marry bearded Muslims and wear the hijab; their sons will wear a beard!”The Muslims will have four wives and 27 children living on the welfare state, and what does the German man have? One child and maybe a little pet dog! The German has taken advantage of the Muslim for too long, just so he can drive his Mercedes. … “Now Islam is coming and your daughters will wear the hijab!
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Filer’s Files #22 – 2017 Philosophical Problems with ET Messages - PART II
Filer’s Files #22 – 2017 Philosophical Problems with ET Messages - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Joshua Tree — I just return from a weeklong trip for a yearly 4 day UFO/ET “Contact in the Desert” Event.
This event was well attended by over thirty world renowned UFO personages, and when event was over, as I was on Greyhound Bus back to OKC,
I took several pictures. But when I decided to review them, I noticed that two pictures had very bright light Orbs in them which I did not see when picture was taken. I have seen several other UFOs in the past, so I know them when I see then.
I am also a Zetan Contactee since 1998. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Orlando – On May 16, 2017, my dad took this picture near Epcot Center. My dad said he was at a hotel in Orlando on the 18th floor at around 8 AM in the morning. He was looking out his hotel room this past Tuesday admiring the view. He never saw any object in the sky until he got home and looked through the picture. So it could very well be a flash, but he took other photos of the same scene without the object there. My dad used his I-phone 7. I also attached the other pictures he sent me. Thanks for any information you can provide. I find this very fascinating. I hope that you can figure it out. I did some research and there were some pictures and video online of UFO’s in that area.
Note: Although the photo above is somewhat compelling it is likely a reflection of a light fixture off of the window glass and therefore is not a real object. Several other photos show the object. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Miami– I saw a triangle with orange circle lights on the corners in 2012. I was working outside and doing squats looking at the sky.
I saw it but got lost in some trees. I am blessed that someone saw it with me (my dad) otherwise I would go mad.
I told my family about it. It glided smoothly. The second I saw it, I thought it was none other than a ufo it was so distinct how it glided and the lights on it.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois “Vs” Craft
The picture was taken with one of my sister’s trail cameras on April 20, 2017 at 11:49:23 am in the southeast sky.
She leaves the cameras out for a couple of weeks and this strange picture was from one of them.
She contacted MUFON but has not received anything back. I was wondering if you know what it is and if you seen anything like it before? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Object
Annapolis — I’m traveling all over America, helping people to break the chains. I want you to know that I’m still witnessing UFOs at times during my travels, and as recent as yesterday morning May 15th, 2017 at my home at 5 am.
I was just getting into bed and turned the TV off at 4:55 Am and the only sound in the room was a fan. I had just gotten myself comfortable, when I heard a copter outside of the building. I quickly dismissed it as the fan motor and tried to go to sleep. It was getting louder and louder. Then I asked my wife if she heard it and she said yes. I jumped out of bed and went to the window to see a very large triangular UFO, slowly moving away to the Northeast. It looked more like a boomerang and it had white lights all over it, with a red light under it. The red light was flashing as it moved away and then it stopped flashing. I saw the craft wobble from side to side and the red light began flashing again as it moved towards I-97. Anyone driving on that part of I-97, at that time surely would have seen it! As you know George, I have taken hundreds and hundreds of UFO pictures since October 5, 1995 and I’m attaching a few for your review. Please feel free to add them in Filers Files if you like. I’m convinced that the UFO phenomenon is absolutely connected to paranormal/supernatural activity, (along with divine experiences as well.) Psalm 68:17 says: King James Bible the chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
In my work as a Spiritual Warrior, I have come across a few people who were under demonic possession, and had eyes that looked Reptilian. Some of these people told me of having UFO experiences as well. There’s much more that I could say, but I will stop here.
Brentwood — During the morning of May 5, 2017, I was taking pictures from across the street from the 360′ free-standing Microwave Tower at the intersection of Hanley and Manchester Roads. I wanted a good picture for a Power Point presentation and didn’t see anything. The next day I was editing the pictures and in two of the three pictures there was a star-like image. The three pictures were taken two seconds apart and the image was in the last two. Within two seconds something wasn’t there and then it was there at 10:20 am, I returned to the exact photo spot on May 7, 2017, at 10:30 am and took a series of 12 tower photos and 11 frames had 22 points of light. Two seconds later in #6 they are gone but now there are two lights considerably right of the tower. I returned on May 9 at 10:20 am and took a series of 10 pictures, 2 seconds apart. Seven of the frames had 9 lights. I have included frames 1 and 2 where the light(s) has a fuzzy quality. I returned at 10:20 AM on May 21, took 10 more pictures and caught 4 more lights. In summary, on 4 occasions I took a total of 35 pictures and zoomed into 38 points of interest. I can’t account for the now-you-see-it and now-you-don’t UFOs and two seconds later two appear somewhere else. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Disc
Las Vegas — On May 15, 2017, at 2:16 pm on Las Vegas Boulevard I was shooting the Nellis Air Force Base aircraft coming in for a landing. I have Sony a350 DSLR, shooting specs of iso 400, f8. I was looking north as some airplanes come straight down the Vegas Boulevard to make two 180 degree turns and land at Nellis. There were. At about plane 18 in a group of 22 planes, I spotted a light coming behind and out of the clouds. I began to shoot, getting 10 shots off in 12 seconds. I recorded an image on 9 out of 10. The UFO is about two miles away that was like a bright light, but when I blew it up, it looked like a descending Smokey Goldfish Cracker. The object started up at 1000 feet and pulled a 45 degree fast descent and just disappeared. The planes run north parallel to the runway, do a sharp 180 and fly south for the landing. Whatever this object was it was observing the aircraft landing?
Note: Enlargement reveals an irregularly shaped object. I don’t have any reason to believe that the object is bird or balloon. The witness saw the object and thought it was unusual and that it appeared to be observing the Nellis AFB jets landing at Las Vegas Airport. The first photo in the animation shows one of the jets landing. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Mexico Object
Albuquerque – I was hiking in Petroglyph National Monument in Piedras Marcadas Canyon on Saturday, May 20, 2017, at 4:30 pm. I was returning to the trail head when I noticed a bright pulsating light pulsating every 5-10 seconds. It was moving south of Sandia Peak and I had my camera with zoom lenses and was able to capture several photos of the object.
The object was about 10 miles from me descending below the mountain peak. It was too large to be the Sandia Peak Tram. As object pulsated I attempted to capture photos of the craft. I stopped other hikers as the object quickly ascended above the Sandia Mountains. After several minutes, its altitude lowered and it suddenly disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Light
Medina — On May 17th 2017, around 7 PM I walked outside on my deck and noticed the southeastern sky was making a twister type cloud. I went and grabbed my camera and took a few pictures and nothing was out of the ordinary. I went back to the other side of the house and looked up, and yelled to my fiancé. “Look at the sky!!” He also saw this amazing sighting for only two minutes or so, the twister had formed and a blue glowing ball was coming closer and closer. It appeared and disappeared, being closer every time. The blue glowing ball, or orb, ended up being only about 500 feet higher before it disappeared. We then watched and took more pictures because the clouds looked like they had something in them. After it all started to blow over, or break apart… there were smoke like clouds that looked different than any other we have seen, and then they were gone. We felt extremely exhilarated and excited about what we had seen. We saw these awesome glowing blue orbs in the pictures and we then decided to share the beauty. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Green Light
San Antonio – I have observed a green light arrive nightly about from 8 PM and stay until 4AM, for the last three weeks since the beginning of May.
I see it only when sitting in my entry way at a certain angle. The object is green, very bright, and has flashing lights that seems to reconfigure.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Disc
Toronto — My Mother-in-law was visiting Downtown Toronto with my wife on May 17, 2017, and took some pictures of the tall buildings on her way home.
Next day she was showing pictures of downtown buildings to her friends at the ESL program where she is studying English, and they noticed that there was a strange object flying in the sky.
The picture is really clear and you can see something flying that looks like a space ship. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Chile Lights
Santiago de Chile -After a night storm, I took two pictures of the Snow Mountains on May 18, 2017. My view of the photos shows a light ascending that I couldn’t see when I took the pictures) My position is on a little terrace of my apartment. The site is in front of San Ramon mountain in Los Andes, Santiago de Chile. I can´t see the object during the shooting of the photos; I only see it while checking the pictures. When I looked up between shots I saw the lights upper movement. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Object
Stuttgart— I was filming an American Football game in Germany on November 9, 2009, when I turned around and saw this object hovering in mid air.
I asked my camera man to film this real quickly, he filmed it sadly not long enough, after he stopped filming, and the object flew off. Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Lights
Bhopal— I was on my terrace at 5 PM, and was clicking pictures of the cloud cover using my mobile camera on May 25, 2017.
After taking 4-5 pictures and a short video when I viewed those pictures there were two pictures within an interval of a minute without turning on the camera flash. These images had a yellow color circular light which had descended down in the second image from its initial position in the first image. The other images that I have taken with the camera flash do not show that yellow circular light. I am amazed and want to know what I have clicked. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Light
Bangkok –. I looked out of my balcony and noticed an extremely bright light in the sky, quite low on May 6, 2017. I assumed it to be a star which was burning unusually bright, but on closer inspection it was below the low clouds.
This object was so bright it would leave a blind spot in my vision with tentacles of frozen/static electricity. The hovering object seemed to be a mushroom or triangle shape with a base. I observed it for almost two hours, even as the sun began to rise. It was still visible in the sunlight but slightly harder to see I became fearful as I had never seen anything like it. I went to bed around 7am and the object was still there. When I woke up a few hours later, the object had disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
United Kingdom /England Sightings
Newton Abbot Devon England — I was watching a propeller plane fly above the clouds when I spotted a black object that was emerging from the clouds.
I quickly took a photograph and watched as the object went back into the clouds from where it emerged. The Photograph was taken on the 14th of May 2017 at 12:02 PM. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Newton Abbot Devon England — I have again spotted and photographed an alien craft near a passenger plane. The photo was taken on of May 22, 2017, at 11:55 AM. It was a beautiful hot day, so I decided to go out in the hot sun and sky watch. I watched as many passenger planes passed over head, but I didn’t see anything strange so I decided to focus my attention on distant planes. I spotted a passenger plane and an alien craft that was moving up along the planes contrail towards the plane. Once the alien craft was near the plane it matched the planes air speed and began to follow the plane. These alien craft are checking out more and more passing aircraft over this airspace. It is as if they are looking for someone or something. The mind really boggles to why they are so interested with our planes? I continued to watch the plane and the alien craft as they flew across the sky. Then after a while the alien craft seemed to lose interest with the plane and broke off its pursuit and then flew off into nearby clouds. The alien craft was oval shaped and was the size of the passenger plane. There were also other smaller black spheres flying that were ejected by the larger alien craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
United Kingdom /Scotland Saucer
Blairgowrie –. The sun was out and there was far away mist like clouds on April 2, 2017. I was walking on the road not far from the standing stone and thought I saw a giant star in my peripheral vision. I looked closer to it and could see a rough outline of a shadow and seemed like something metallic and spherical. But the shadows did not show spherical but as if it was round and slim and on its side, as if it was a flying saucer.
The shadow was just on the left side of the edge so I knew it was not spherical like a weather balloon would be. It was not shiny silver but as if was similar to a shiny surface. It was stationary, and I am not too sure if it shrank as it kept fading quickly and coming back again. Then it became a small ball of light and then disappeared completely. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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An illustration of Bigelow Aerospace’s expandable spacecraft
In an eye-opening interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, aerospace mogul and entrepreneur Robert Bigelow said he was ‘absolutely convinced’ there were alien visitors to Earth.
Most of the segment focused on how NASA and the Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace are in a partnership to develop an expandable craft for humans to use in space. Bigelow’s far-reaching vision puts him right in the middle of a new privatization of space, a race that includes billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
In the following video, Bigelow describes a typical expandable system to be used on future space flights.
However, during the “60 Minutes” interview with correspondent Lara Logan, the conversation shifted to Bigelow’s reported obsession with UFOs and aliens.
Logan: “Do you believe in aliens?”
Bigelow: “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it.”
Logan: “Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?”
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.”
Logan: “Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?”
Bigelow: “I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.”
Logan: “You don’t worry that some people will say, ‘Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he’s crazy’?”
Bigelow: “I don’t care. It’s not gonna make a difference. It’s not gonna change reality of what I know.”
Bigelow wouldn’t elaborate on what kind of results he had achieved from his well-funded UFO research. When asked if he thought future space missions would result in any encounters between humans and aliens, Bigelow said, “You don’t have to go anywhere. It’s just like right under people’s noses.”
While Bigelow declined to describe his personal UFO encounters, he offered more elaborate details about UFOs, extraterrestrials and the private space industry during an interview on the national radio program, “Coast to Coast AM.”
'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 outThe Close Encounters Manby 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.
A fascinating new book seriously tackles the question of extraterrestrial life from the perspective of leading astronomers, astrophysicists, geneticists, and neuroscientists.
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 Manby Mark O'Connell will be published on June 13 by Harper Collins.
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UFO expert accuses co-author of 'deceiving' him with account of sighting during infamous Rendlesham Forest incident
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.
Larry Warren has hit back at Robbins' claims(Photo: EARTH MYSTERY NEWS/Youtube)
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."
Left At East Gate, by Warren and Robbins, is a bestseller(Photo: cascadenews)
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.
The Rendlesham Forest incident occurred near RAF Bentwaters in 1980(Photo: Vimeo)
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.
Nick Pope, who ran the MoD's 'UFO desk', is siding with Robbins(Photo: Publicity picture)
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 has engaged in a war of words with Nick Pope on Facebook(Photo: cascadenews.co.uk)
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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Spacecraft Galileo: To Jupiter and Its Moons
Spacecraft Galileo: To Jupiter and Its Moons
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
An artist's conception of the Galileo spacecraft, which was launched in 1989 for a mission to Jupiter.
Credit: NASA
Galileo was the first spacecraft to examine Jupiter and its moons for an extended period.
It launched from the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis in 1989, got some speed boosts by swinging past Earth twice and Venus once, then arrived at Jupiter at last in 1995.
Circling the solar system's most giant planet for eight years, Galileo beamed back a string of discoveries to Earth despite encountering several mechanical problems.
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 spacecraft observations: a three-color global scale view of Io obtained on 3 July 1999 (Orbit 21) with a resolution of 1.3 km per pixel is shown on the left. The corresponding infrared image on the right was taken at 4.7 μm on October 16 2001 in daytime and has a spatial resolution of 30 km/pixel obtained . The near infrared picture shows the active volcanoes glowing thermal radiation.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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.
These global views of Jupiter's icy moon Europa were captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in June 1997. The image on the left shows Europa in natural color, while the right-side image has enhanced colors to bring out subtle color differences to show differences between pure water ice (white and bluish white) and non-ice components (red, brown and yellow spots).
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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.
Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes
Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
The hexagonal vortex at Saturn's north pole changed color significantly between June 2013 (left) and April 2017 (right), as seen in views from the Cassini spacecraft. For the left image, each frame occurs approximately 130 minutes after the previous one, and for the right, each frame follows after an average of 230 minutes. Researchers combined images taken with the spacecraft's red, green and blue filters for the natural-color views.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Hampton University
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]
A giant storm passed by its own tail after circling Saturn in this true-color Cassini photo, taken Feb. 25, 2011, about 12 weeks after the storm started. Lightning deep in the planet's atmosphere produced significant radio noise during the storm. The storm formed and dispersed over the course of seven months; researchers said this type of Saturn storm happens only about every 30 Earth years.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
During the Solstice Mission, researchers watched a huge storm encircle the planet and disperse over the course of seven months. They watched the hexagonal jet stream surrounding Saturn's north pole change from blue to yellow (except for the very center) over the course of the northern hemisphere's spring.
Cassini data suggests that the increased sunlight interacts with compounds in the upper atmosphere to form particles called photochemical aerosols, which accumulate into a yellowish haze. The very center may stay blue for one of two reasons, researchers said in an image caption: it hasn't been exposed to sunlight as long as the areas around it because it's at the very top of the planet, or the circulation in the whirling vortex pulls the compounds downward.
Cassini saw the seasonal changes come over the planet suddenly based on latitude, rather than gradually, the researchers said.
"Eventually, a whole hemisphere undergoes change, but it gets there by these jumps at specific latitude bands at different times in the season," Robert West, a member of Cassini's imaging team at JPL, said in the statement.
The solstice's intense sunlight heated Saturn's rings, letting Cassini's instruments better investigate ring particles' composition and the way they clump together. The planet's orientation compared to the sun and Earth, with its rings tipped maximally toward Earth, also meant that Cassini could easily send a radio signal through the densest part of the rings to investigate, according to the statement.
Storms on Saturn's moon Titan changed as Saturn moved through equinox and toward solstice. In this 2011 image, methane clouds can be seen concentrated near the moon's equator.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
On Saturn's largest moon, Titan, methane storm clouds shifted up from the south toward the moon's equator from 2004 to 2010. Their corresponding shift northward as the solstice approached was surprisingly slow; according to the statement, cloud models had expected the activity to happen years earlier.
But some action was sudden: In 2013, haze and trace hydrocarbons formerly found only in the north suddenly built up in the Titan's south, indicating that its atmospheric circulation had changed direction due to the changing sun exposure, the statement said.
"Observations of how the locations of cloud activity change and how long such changes take give us important information about the workings of Titan's atmosphere and also its surface, as rainfall and wind patterns change with the seasons too," Elizabeth Turtle, a researcher on Cassini's imaging team at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, said in the statement.
And on Saturn's moon Enceladus, which hosts a subsurface ocean and blasts geysers of material out through its plumes, the main seasonal change was its southern hemisphere's transition to winter darkness. This change let Cassini monitor the moon's temperature more easily, to investigate the intriguing moon.
Cassini is in the middle of the "Grand Finale" phase of its mission, in which it is diving between Saturn and its rings repeatedly to investigate the planet more closely than ever before. Once it finishes seeing the planet through the change of seasons and charting its moons, rings and surface as deeply as possible, Cassini will plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15. The mission is a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
Surprise! Galaxy's Monster Black Hole Likely Has Huge Neighbor on a Crash Course
Surprise! Galaxy's Monster Black Hole Likely Has Huge Neighbor on a Crash Course
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A radio image of the galaxy Cygnus A captured by the Very Large Array (VLA) in 2015 (orange), overlaid on a photo by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The orange dot below and to the right of the larger orange circle at the galaxy's center is the suspected second supermassive black hole.
Credit: Perley, et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA
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."
This GIF shows VLA radio images (orange) of the central region of the galaxy Cygnus A from 1989 and 2015, overlaid on a Hubble Space Telescope photo.
Credit: Perley, et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA
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.
Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
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.
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 ».
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.”
The Frome resident thinks the streak of light could have been created by a drone
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.
This crop circle was spotted near Cley Hill recently
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?”
The top of Cley Hill looking towards Frome
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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Superaarde ontdekt op ‘steenworp’ afstand. Bestaat hier leven?
Superaarde ontdekt op ‘steenworp’ afstand. Bestaat hier leven?
Wetenschappers hebben op een astronomische steenworp afstand van onze planeet een superaarde ontdekt waar mogelijk leven kan bestaan.
De rotsachtige planeet is drie keer zo zwaar als de aarde en gedacht wordt dat er vloeibaar water kan voorkomen.
De planeet bevindt zich in de bewoonbare zone van een rode dwergster. Onderzoekers hopen de atmosfeer in kaart te brengen om te bepalen of de planeet daadwerkelijk leven kan herbergen.
De planeet draait in 14 dagen om zijn moederster, GJ625 (Gliese 625).
“Omdat GJ625 een relatief koele ster is, bevindt de planeet zich toch in de bewoonbare zone, waar vloeibaar water kan bestaan,” zei Alejandro Suarez Mascareno van het IAC.
Signaal
“Of er leven kan bestaan op de planeet, hangt af van het wolkendek in de atmosfeer en de rotatie,” voegde hij toe.
Aangezien de planeet zich op amper 21 lichtjaar van de aarde bevindt, zou het zelfs mogelijk zijn om er een signaal naartoe te sturen.
Er is een mogelijkheid dat er nog meer rotsachtige planeten rond GJ625 worden gevonden, aldus onderzoeker Jonay Gonzalez Hernandez.
Baanbrekende ontdekkingen
Wetenschappers hebben de laatste maanden verschillende baanbrekende ontdekkingen gedaan van planeten waar buitenaards leven weleens zou kunnen bestaan.
Vorige maand ontdekten sterrenkundigen ook al een superaarde, op 39 lichtjaar in het sterrenbeeld Cetus. Deze exoplaneet bevindt zich eveneens in de bewoonbare zone.
NIEUWE GRAANCIRKEL KONDIGT KOMST NIBIRU AAN ( VIDEO )
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.
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.
Billionaire helping develop NASA spacecraft says aliens are HERE - but it's covered up
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.
Robert Bigelow, 73, CEO of Bigelow Aerospace, appeared in the latest edition of prime time CBS current affairs show 60 Minutes.
But, during the programme, which looked at his work on developing the expandable spacecraft, which inflate in space and could one day change how humans live and work in zero gravity, he made the sensational admission.
He described a UFO encounter his grandparents had on an undisclosed date while driving on a canyon road outside Las Vegas.
He said: "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."
He told reporter Lara Logan it began an obsession with aliens and is the reason behind his "alien logo" for Bigelow Aerospace.
He said he had since had his own "close encounters", but did not go into details.
The business guru also revealed being a subscriber to a widely held conspiracy theory that the US Government, and others across the globe, know that aliens are here on Earth, and even interact with them, but it is all kept top secret from the public amid fears over the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law.
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Robert Bigelow (pictured) is convinced aliens are here on Earth.
Ms Logan described it as "the kind of conversation you don't ordinarily have with an accomplished CEO".
She asked him if he believed in aliens?
He said: "I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.
"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."
Ms Logan asked: "Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?
"You don't worry that some people will say, 'Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he's crazy?'"
I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it. There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence.
Robert Bigelow
But, he replied: "I don't give a damn. I don't care.
"It's not going to make a difference. It's not going to change the reality of what I know."
She said: "Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?"
Mr Bigelow addded: "You don't have to go anywhere.
"It's just like right under people's noses."
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed to CBS that for several years, it had referred reports of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena to a company Bigelow owns.
Ms Logan said: "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."
Stephen Bassett is the executive director of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which is campaigning for the US Government to life an alleged "truth embargo" about the existence of aliens.
He said: "Billionaire Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace spoke truth to power and finally said publicly what he and hundreds of millions of people around the world already know to be true.
"And he said it on CBS 60 Minutes Sunday night. There is an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
"How many military officers, political figures, intelligence agents, scientists, entertainers, and, yes, billionaires have to speak this truth before the investigative journalists in America figure out the biggest news story in history has been right under their noses for 70 years?
"For decades CBS 60 Minutes has avoided the ET issue with great resolve.
"It simply would not cover the subject. Better late than never.
"PRG tips its hat to Robert Bigelow. Thank you.
"So, hello Elon Musk and Richard Branson. Would you care to say what you really think about the extraterrestrial presence? Nothing invigorates like speaking truth to power."
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Is Roswell a UFO mecca? New sighting in town preparing for 'alien crash' 70th anniversary
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.
Another UFO sighting in Roswell is being investigated.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's biggest organisation dedicated to alien and UFO research, is investigating a report from a mother about a bizarre sighting in the New Mexico town.
In a report to MUFON, the unnamed mother said she was driving with her son at around 9pm.
She wrote: "Out of the corner of my my eye, I saw a stationary, white and red light, bigger than a star, appear, but I did not pay attention to it right away.
"It was off the horizon.
"I could see it easily through my vehicle windshield, then, a few seconds later, another light appeared on the left to the first.
I could see it easily through my vehicle windshield, then, a few seconds later, another light appeared on the left to the first. That's when I looked directly at them."
New witness
"I pulled over, and stayed parked on the side of the road for another five minutes or so, hoping to see them again.
"Me and my son were excited, and we were really hoping to see some more. I was hoping to be able to record them, so i can show someone what I saw. but they didn't come back when we were parked there."
The case, which happened on April 13, is being investigated locally by MUFON investigators.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
It has gone on to become the biggest UFO conspiracy theory on record.
The MUFON database holds around 50 alleged UFO sightings connected to Roswell.
The belief that aliens really are visiting Earth is strong in the West Midlands, where regional media have reported an upsurge in sightings.
A local newspaper reports that there has been 13 UFO sightings in the past four years, including four in the UK's second biggest city Birmingham.
Ten of the alerts involve objects seen in the sky, mostly at night, while the other three reported seeing lights.
But as Birmingham Mail reports: "The truth is out there – but don’t ask the police to investigate just yet."
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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.
There have been numerous sightings of a triangle-shaped UFO have been reported over Dudley, the Mail adds.
Its most recent appearance was in Quarry Bank in 2011, when a man smoking in his garden saw a mysterious object with flashing lights - which was then chased away by another strange craft.
In Tipton near Dudley in 2010, two young men saw an “amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the shape of a triangle fly across the sky at a mind-boggling speed.”
The object has also been spotted hovering over Dudley Castle and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Brierley Hill.
And in April, 2009, builders at West Midland Safari Park were stunned to see a UFO floating right above them.
Market trader Michele Bardsley filmed mysterious lights over her home in Kingshurst, Solihull in May 2014.
She said the lights were “just hanging there” as she watched from the back door of her house while having a cigarette break.
She filmed the lights on her phone and, when the footage was shown on her big TV screen, she could see much more activity among the cluster of UFOs, as some appeared, disappeared and suddenly zoomed.
And in 2012 an off-duty police officer claimed he witnessed a UFO speeding across the sky near Birmingham Airport.
The figures, from a Freedom of Information Act request, were originally published on West Midlands Police’s website and covered the years 2013 to 2016.
Asked how many were investigated, the force told the Mail: “Based on the graded response/log none of the calls were investigated."
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.
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.
"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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