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Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
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29-06-2017
UFO sighting in Plano that caught Neil deGrasse Tyson's attention turns out to be pyrotechnic show
UFO sighting in Plano that caught Neil deGrasse Tyson's attention turns out to be pyrotechnic show
Mars Opportunity rover photo of metallic object has internet in a UFO frenzy
Mars Opportunity rover photo of metallic object has internet in a UFO frenzy
IT’s shiny. It’s sharp. It’s on Mars. It must be aliens! What appears to be a chunk of metal photographed by the Opportunity Rover has UFO buffs in a spin.
Jamie Seidel
Composite image of the Mars Opportunity rover overlooking a canyon on Mars.
Picture: NASA.
IT’s shiny. It’s sharp. It’s on Mars. It must be aliens! What appears to be a chunk of metal photographed by the Opportunity Rover has UFO buffs in a spin.
The high contrast infra-red image, published by the Mars Exploratino Rover Mission (Opportunity: Panoramic Camera: Sol 348) was uploaded by the Opportunity Rover on March 17.
It shows an unusually shiny, and jagged, object sitting neatly on top of the grainy surface of Mars’ Meridiani Planum.
It has internet chat forum Reddit in rapture.
Mars': National Geographic Network's Moonshot
Image of a strange, metallic looking object from the Mars Opportunity rover.
But at least in this case the resolution is reasonably crisp. Not a blurry morass like most UFO ‘evidence’.
“Looks like light glimmering off of a genuine spaceship on an alien planet in outer space,” one commentator noted.
But, for that to be true, there’s the small matter of scale. At that distance from the Opportunity Rover, any inhabitants would probably have to be no larger than ants.
A more down to Earth (though admittedly this is Mars we’re talking about here) suggestion was that it could be a piece of debris from the rover itself, or a heat shield from the craft that delivered it.
Earthly trash is increasingly common on the Red Planet, especially after a string of mission failures in recent decades. Satellites have gone awry. Landers have crashed.
Debris from the Mars Opportunity Rover's lander vehicle litters the Martian landscape.
Picture: NASASource:Supplied
But even successful projects litter the landscape with debris as they plough through the thin atmosphere.
The subject of UFOs presents us with quite an enigma. It deals with ambiguities, in a world where certainties are not just the norm; they are requisite. Otherwise, there is little seriousness to be afforded something that, while seemingly tangible within the context of a body of data purporting to offer good evidence, remains so inescapably odd and downright unreal.
In the past, I have devoted a good bit of time to the assessment of “what a UFO is,” though honestly, there are times where I begin to question whether they can be easily defined at all. To illustrate this, the most common idea about UFOs present today addresses the subject through a lens of unreality, in which strange objects in the skies are taken to be alien spaceships. A host of conspiracy theories (yes, conspiracy theories) exist that offer “evidence” of this: crash landings in the American southwestern deserts, purported extraterrestrial assessment teams like the so-called “MJ-12”, and hosts of reports from proclaimed abductees who discuss their interactions with Star Guests that literally point to where in the universe they hail from.
Who knows. For all you or I may be able to discern, any (or all) of the above may be true. However, there appears to be so little hard evidence to substantiate such claims, despite years and years of collective research by the UFO community, that at times the silence begins to seem damning.
To be clear, my best assessment of the subject is that there is a phenomenon, though it remains ambiguous, and no conclusive data seems to exist that clearly, irrevocably indicates that the sole source is extraterrestrial visitation. My colleague Nick Redfern (who, as I write this, will soon be en route to the location where I’m staying here in Texas, for a coffee and a chat about all this), also wrote about this recently at MU, noting the way his ideas and attitudes have changed over the decades, carrying him along from a once-believer in ET or alien UFOs, to his present position as one who, like the late John Keel, thinks UFOs may be “something masquerading as aliens.”
Interestingly, the UFOs (or their occupants, if they have any) may not be the ones hiding behind the extraterrestrial meme at all. It very well could be that while some kind of phenomenon does exist, our perception of an “alien” origin is our very own creation, rather than something that is intentionally presented to for purpose of misdirection.
I nonetheless think Keel was fairly close with his assessment. It may be that Nick and I would agree on many points, or that we may not, as far as any “final conclusions” go. But I think that it is telling that so many researchers who have looked seriously at this phenomenon over the years begin to move further from the “extraterrestrial hypothesis” (ETH), which at one time had seemed the most likely conclusion.
Back in the mid to late 1980s, UFO researcher Jacques Vallee had begun to express serious doubts about an extraterrestrial component underlying the UFO phenomenon. His five primary arguments against the ETH were as follows:
Unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the earth
the humanoid body structure of the alleged “aliens” is not likely to have originated on another planet and is not biologically adapted to space travel
the reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race
the extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon
the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives
One may, for sake of argument, dispute Vallee’s assessments, just as I have (despite essentially sharing his views). One reason for this is because, if we are to make a scientific argument, we must be careful to check for whether it is falsifiable. While UFO incidents seem to exceed the amount required for an alien survey of our planet, who knows what kinds of scientific motivations, and hence what other requirements, an “alien survey” might call for? Also, with no comparison as far as life on other planets, can we be sure that extraterrestrials would not possess features very similar to humans? We could go on, but the fundamental point remains that virtually any argument presented about UFOs could be debated… while I could continue the exercise of deconstructing Vallee’s analysis here, seemingly lending support to the ETH, I will nonetheless point out again that the ETH can be deconstructed just as simply; we are left with nothing that is truly conclusive about the phenomenon at the end of the day.
For the modern skeptic, this lack of clarity on the subject is roughly equivalent to no subject at all, rather than an apparent phenomenon that remains ambiguous. In likelihood, if there is anything more to UFOs than a cultural belief system and/or a social movement built around the idea, the first step toward understanding what they may be is to start thinking outside the box.
Extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence, as is so often said; but maybe it’s time that a bit of ordinary thinking should be applied to the subject, rather than going to such lengths to “prove” something extraordinary, when it may be very different in the end.
Throughout the 1960s, Fortean researcher John Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies and a number of other decidedly weird, but thoughtful books on the unexplained, was almost equally renowned for his active correspondence with his contemporaries in the field. And, as expected, if the contents of the excellent John Keel blog maintained by Doug Skinner (which can be seen here) is any indication, some of Keel’s exchanges were pretty strange, too.
Like, for instance, the letter where Keel wrote a private correspondence to himself, which he refrained from sending out to anyone specific, but instead used as a sort of test to see whether a group of entities he called the “Androids” were able to read his mind. Keel was very much an open-minded adventurist, both in practice, and in thought, and his troves of letters and personal documents featured at Skinner’s site over the last few years have offered a fascinating inside-look at Keel, his beliefs, and his attitudes on various things.
Keel was often on the receiving end of messages too, a number of which were weird enough that Keel, referring to them as “crank” letters, created an entire subcategory for them in his extensive notes and documentation, dubbing them “anomalous mail.” An all-time favorite example of such unusual mail had been a letter Keel received in the fall of 1967, purporting to have been from a shadowy group of individuals identified only by the name appearing at the letter-head: “The International Bankers.”
The ominously-toned message read as follows:
It continued to say that, “Others have tried, without success, to find out things that do not concern them, such as Dr. Jessup, Al Bender and others who you do not even know about.
“Do not overstep your bounds Mr. Keel, even your own government cannot protect you from our powers.
“Remember Mr. Keel 1968 A.D. will have Black as its symbol.”
Keel noted one especially peculiar aspect of these sorts of “anomalous letters”; the fact that, in Keel’s opinion, they contained various misspellings, which at times appeared to be intentional:
“You will note that the word “comping” is misspelled. Misspellings of simple words are a common factor in mail of this sort. These often seem quite deliberate. (i.e., a witness in West Virginia received a note containing the word “want” instead of the intended “won’t”.) The vague prediction that 1968 would be a “black year” proved disturbingly accurate. 1968 proved to be a year of widespread civil disturbances and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.”
Rather obviously, someone had been pranking Keel with these dark, and at times rather elaborate letters. Commenting on the possible source of the letters, Doug Skinner notes that, “Somebody, though, went to the trouble of printing stationery and sending out crank letters. I suspect that it was Gray Barker, cooking up confusion again; although I suppose it’s unfair to blame all ufological pranks on him.” Whether or not this is indeed the case remains undetermined.
In some ways, one might argue that the tradition of “crank letters” has continued to some extent. With the recent “addenda” to the famous Majestic 12 documents that surfaced last week, we saw a similar, “traditional” pairing of absurdities (an alien purportedly sitting and having a tree-huggerish, “save your planet” moment with USAF officials, for instance) with numerous common misspellings… something my fellow Mysterious Universe blogger Nick Redfern also took issue with.
In fact, in another recent post here at Mysterious Universe, Redfern made a similar connection between the hoax-letters of yesteryear, as well as their perpetrators… some of them had been Keel’s contemporaries. Redfern notes a document that had been carefully altered by ufologists Gray Barker and Jim Moseley, which led to a convincing looking hoax letter that was sent to the alleged contactee George Adamski.
“Moseley and Barker were just having a bit of fun during a late-night drinking session,” Redfern points out. “The idea that the new MJ12 documents are the work of someone in Ufology who is desperate to see Roswell vindicated – as a UFO event, at least – is not out of the question.”
In fact, I spoke with Nick about this on a recent edition of my Gralien Report Podcast, in which the subject was raised by Race Hobbs as to whether there might be legalities concerning the alteration of real government documents, or borrowing letterhead from them in order to make bogus documents look more convincing.
“That’s an interesting sort of concept,” Nick said. “The idea that if you’ve got… let’s say legitimate, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) headed papers on, I don’t know, North Korea, and you white out certain bits and insert new material in the spaces on Roswell, then you photocopy it, and photocopy it again to make it look a bit older… is it actually a crime to do that?”
Whatever the case, with the new alleged “Majestic 12” documents that have been released, what we’re seeing is by no means anything new… in fact, it seems to be a sort of continuation of a time-honored tradition of ufological hoaxes that have surfaced over the last half century.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back a pair of very curious photos since March that have resurfaced in conspiracy circles as evidence of a “genuine spaceship” and “thigh bones” visible on Mars.
Alien hunters and UFO enthusiasts are celebrating after two photos appear to show distinct signs of life on Mars. The first photo causing jaws to drop in the reddit conspiracy theorist group Martian Archaeology shows what appears to be fossilized bones or petrified wood protruding from the red planet’s surface. The photo dates back to 2014 and NASA responded to the online uproar then by acknowledging -- but dismissing -- that the "alien thigh bone" could be linked to extraterrestrial life. The debris pile from the Curiosity’s photograph already has convinced some wishful-thinking alien enthusiasts of extraterrestrial activity on Mars.
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover found bones?
Photo: NASA
"After years of research and study, I'm convinced now, more than ever, that there is much more to Mars than what NASA admits to," a reddit user named TJ Devereaux remarked. “I'm certain life, including water, and intelligent life forms, once occupied the planet, and ... big leap here ... that both still exist, in much smaller quantities."
Images of the same bone-like object taken 10 days apart show it had grown larger, causing many to speculate it could be a fungus formed on the supposed "alien bone."
The second image from NASA’s robotic Opportunity rover, also known as MER-B or MER-1, appears to show a shiny, metallic object on Mars’ surface that provoked speculation that it is an alien spacecraft. But several commenters in reddit’s “UFO” forum point out that, like most NASA images from the Curiosity and Opportunity, it’s difficult to gauge the actual size or details from the grainy photo.
Mars Curiosity finds "spaceship?"
Photo: NASA
Curiosity Rover's Findings After Five Years On Mars:
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed in Mars’ Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, using a complex and never-before-attempted maneuver involving a giant parachute, a jet-controlled descent vehicle and a bungee-like apparatus labeled a “sky crane.” NASA says Curiosity's mission is “to determine whether the Red Planet ever was, or is, habitable to microbial life.” The rover, which is about the size of a Mini Cooper, is equipped with 17 cameras and a robotic arm that features several specialized laboratory-like tools and instruments to analyze objects on Mars’ surface.
The Curiosity mission has produced more than 4,700 usable images from Mars’ surface, including 26 new images posted Wednesday. An ancient Martian lake and other indications of Earth-like microbes are among the findings revealed by the rover.
But not everyone is convinced the photos show definitive signs of life on Mars.
“The object certainly appears to be artificial. We know that the rover was taking pictures of its own entry debris at that time. There's nothing particularly alien about the object in question — it could easily be entry debris,” Reddit user “Once Returned” suggested.
Others noted that regardless of the shiny object’s significance, it could be labeled an “Unidentified Landed Object.”
“One explanation is that the object is a piece of debris from the Mars rover itself or from its sky crane landing system,” Nigel Watson, author of "The UFO Investigations Manual," told the Daily Mail. “Unless we get more detailed information this is another case of wishful thinking.”
The year is 2030. In a high-security containment lab, scientists gathered around a towering machine, eagerly awaiting the first look at a newly discovered bacterium on Mars.
With a series of beeps, the machine—a digital-to-biological converter, or DBC—signaled that it had successfully received the bacterium’s digitized genomic file. Using a chemical cocktail comprised of the building blocks of DNA, it whirled into action, automatically reconstructing the alien organism’s genes letter-by-letter.
Within a day, scientists had an exact replica of the Martian bacterium.
To Craig Venter, the genetics maverick who created the first synthetic life form in 2016, beaming aliens back to recreate on Earth may sound like science fiction, but is “potentially real.”
Recently, working with Daniel Gibson, vice president of DNA technology at Synthetic Genomics, Venter published a prototype DBC capable of downloading digitized DNA instructions and synthesizing biomolecules from scratch.
Not only did the futuristic machine pump out functional bits of DNA, vaccines, and proteins, it also automatically synthesized viral particles from scratch.
Teleporting alien life to Earth is just one role Venter envisions for the DBC. Working the other way, we may be able to send Earth’s extremophile bacteria to a printer on Mars. If genetically enhanced to pump out oxygen, the bacteria may slowly change the Martian landscape, making it more habitable to humans before we ever set foot on the Red Planet.
More close to home, the DBC could allow instant, on-demand access to life-saving medicine or vaccines during an outbreak or finally enable access to personalized medicine.
“We are excited by the commercial prospects of this revolutionary tool, as we believe the DBC represents a major leap forward in advancing new vaccines and biologics,” says Venter in a press release.
All life is code
At the basis of Venter’s foray into “biological teleportation” is the idea that all life forms—at least on Earth—are essentially DNA software systems. DNA directs and creates the more tangible biological “hardware” made of proteins, cells, and tissues.
Because DNA contains all the necessary information to boot up a life form, by hacking its code and writing our own, we now have the power to create living organisms never before seen on Earth.
Back in 2010, Venter inserted a bacterial genome completely synthesized from chemicals in the lab into a single-cell recipient. The synthetic genome booted up the living bacterium, allowing it to replicate into a large colony of artificial organisms. Six years later, his team ventured even further into the realm of science fiction, creating a new bacteria species with just 437 genes—the absolute known minimum amount of genetic code needed to support life.
These studies and others clearly show we now have a new set of tools that allow scientists to manufacture new living species to join “our planet’s inventory of life.” But why stop there? If life is nothing but code that can be packaged, emailed, downloaded, and copied, why not use the same technology to transmit life?
Digital-to-Biological Converter
The DBC is Venter’s attempt to transfer and manufacture life.
Standing at eight feet long and six feet tall, the machine is a Frankenstein beast of mechanical blocks and wires splayed out across a double-deck table. “We’re working on the portability of the machine using new technologies such as microfluidic chips and microarrays,” explained the authors.
Equipped with an ethernet hub, the DBC downloads DNA files from the internet and prints the code using the four chemical bases of DNA—adenosine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine (A, G, T, C).
“It’s packaging complex biology that each of our tiny cells do remarkably well at a much, much smaller scale,” explains Venter.
While automated DNA printers have already hit the market, the DBC takes it one step further. The machine is capable of building proteins from the genetic code (printing biological hardware, so to speak), bringing it one step closer to building living cells from scratch.
At the heart of the system is Archetype, proprietary software that optimally breaks down the input DNA sequence into more manageable short sequences to synthesize in parallel. This massively increases efficiency and reduces sequencing errors that increase with longer DNA strands.
Once assembled, the machine scans the strands for any errors before “pasting” the bits back into complete DNA assembles. From there, a series of robotic arms transfer the DNA from module to module, automatically adding reagents that turn the synthetic genes into functional proteins.
Synthetic Medicine
In one proof-of-concept study, the machine pumped out green fluorescent protein, an algae protein that often serves as an experimental canary in the lab. Following the DBC run, the resulting product glowed bright green as expected, and subsequent analysis found that over 70 percent of all synthesized molecules were error-free.
While impressive, the team acknowledges that future models need to do better.
“All it takes is one DNA base to be incorrect for a protein not to work, or a therapeutic to not do what it’s supposed to, or for a cell to not be functional,” warns Gibson.
In another experiment, the DBC successfully produced functional flu viral particles, RNA vaccines, and bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria that can be used to combat infections or even cancer.
That’s huge. “If there is a pandemic, everyone around you is dying and you cannot go outdoors, you can download the vaccine in a couple of seconds from the internet,” says Venter. A machine like this in hospitals, homes, and remote areas could revolutionize medicine.
Venter also has his eye on personalized medicine. In the future, if you have an infection you get its genome sequenced in minutes, he says. The doctor could then cross-reference your bug with an online database, download and print the available phage treatments in office and send you on your way.
Space Travel
Venter’s ambition doesn’t stop there. He imagines combining the DBC with technologies from his synthetic organisms to construct a “blank slate” recipient cell capable of producing food, oxygen, and fuel—the perfect workhorse to send around the world or into space.
In theory, the cell would be capable of receiving any synthetic genome designed to produce life-supporting molecules. These cells have to be engineered, says Venter, but stresses that it can be done.
Having a DBC on board means a crew hurtling through space would no longer rely on supply ship rendezvous—and we’ll never have a real life Mark Watney starved and stranded on Mars.
But that’s looking way far ahead.
According to Gibson, before we get too distracted with fanciful thoughts of space, a lot more work still has to be done. For one, the DBC needs to shrink down to a more manageable size. For another, current DNA synthesis technologies are incredibly inefficient and wasteful—“about 99.999 percent of the raw materials go to waste,” he says—a problem further magnified as the team moves on to larger DNA constructs.
These aren’t small challenges, but the DBC shows that biological teleportation for biological materials is feasible. So why not aim high?
“Mine is not a fantasy look at the future,” says Venter. “The goal isn’t to imagine this stuff. We are the scientists actually doing this.”
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IT'S COMING: Shock claim that we are on the brink of being told aliens have visited Earth
IT'S COMING: Shock claim that we are on the brink of being told aliens have visited Earth
THE US Government could soon crack and admit it has secretly been hiding evidence of alien visitations of Earth for the last 70 years, it has astonishingly been claimed.
Steve Bassett is fundraising to try to force the US Government to come clean about aliens.
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which campaigns to bring an end to an alleged "truth embargo" to keep the truth from the globe, believes there will soon be no going back for government insiders.
Steve Bassett, executive director of the group is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the issue of alien disclosure.
He is convinced that the shocking secret has been withheld amid fears of the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law since a flying saucer allegedly crashed in the New Mexico desert outside Roswell in 1947.
Mr Bassett is now seeking $50,000 to help fund the campaign to pressurise the White House to roll over and say "yes, we've deceived you for the last 70 years."
He has launched an End The Truth Embargo fundraising page on gofundme.com.
Mr Bassett says on the page: "This funding effort is in service to every citizen of every nation now convinced the world should not wait one more day for confirmation we are not alone is this universe.
"For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government.
"After 20 years of engagement of the issue, I know this embargo can end soon with your help."
He says the money will be used to set up a permanent office in Washington DC for PRG to "keep the pressure on the media to engage the politics of disclosure throughout 2017."
Mr Bassett said the cash would also all PRG to: "Seek professional speaker representation, make contact with officials in European countries, develop video media for use in the disclosure advocacy movement, built up the Exopolitics World Network and United States Network, and consolidate, redesign and update PRG's many websites and Facebook pages."
PRG was bouyed on May 28 when during an interview on CBS 60 Minutes billionaire space engineer, Robert Bigelow, remarkably revealed he believed there is an "extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race."
Mr Bassett said: "He spoke truth to power. He stated unequivocally there is an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. When asked if he was concerned what people might think of that statement, he replied, 'I don't give a damn.'
This funding campaign will ensure PRG can adjust to new strategies to ultimately bring the White House and the Pentagon to the table to work out the necessary understanding allowing disclosure.
Steve Bassett
"PRG salutes Mr Bigelow and asks, 'Who will join him?'
"This funding campaign will ensure PRG can adjust to new strategies to ultimately bring the White House and the Pentagon to the table to work out the necessary understanding allowing disclosure."
The funding campaign is being conducted in conjunction with Coast to Coast AM with George Noory - described as "the most listened to late night talk program in America." Coast to Coast AM has for the past 25 years provided a platform for researchers, activists, "alien contactees", and other UFO witnesses.
So far Mr Bassett has been pledged $6,123 of his target.
It comes after fellow disclosure activist Dr Steven Greer claimed US intelligence moles were trying to break open the truth but were concerned about what will happen to them.
However, sceptics argue that Mr Bassett and Dr Greer are simply conspiracy theorists, who have got it wrong, and no aliens have ever visited Earth.
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse-Tyson has dismissed the whole UFO/alien truth seeker community as having no credible evidence.
People like Mr DeGrasse-Tyson believe anyone who donated to the fund would be wasting their cash, as there is simply nothing to disclose as no aliens have ever been here.
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NASA announcement after ‘Anonymous’ claims space agency is about to CONFIRM aliens exist
NASA announcement after ‘Anonymous’ claims space agency is about to CONFIRM aliens exist
NASA has released a statement after a video reportedly produced by hactivist group Anonymous said the US space agency was about to reveal that intelligent aliens exist.
The official comments, however, will upset alien chasers who had hoped there had been a real disclosure made by the hactivists.
Laurie Cantillo, NASA Lead Communications Specialist, said in a statement to Fox News: "While we’re excited about the latest findings from NASA’s Kepler space observatory, there’s no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life.
"For years NASA has expressed interest in searching for signs of life beyond Earth.
"We have a number of science missions that are moving forward with the goal of seeking signs of past and present life on Mars and ocean worlds in the outer solar system.
"While we do not yet have answers, we will continue to work to address the fundamental question, ‘are we alone?’”
It was reported yesterday that Anonymous had announced: "NASA says aliens are coming!"
The emergence of the video made headlines across the globe yesterday.
However, worse still, the video was a hoax, and not even a genuine Anonymous video.
The video was made by YouTube channel Anonymous Global, which has made itself look like the YouTube account of the genuine hactivist group, famed for its hacks on official authorities, and its Million Mask Marches across the globe.
Anonymous has previously said there are many other people claiming to be part of the group who are not.
The video based its assertion on a recent meeting of the US Science Space and Technology Committee.
It was there that Professor Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, said the world was "on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented, discoveries in history".
But Mr Zurbuchen's genuine remarks had been publicly made and previously reported.
He was referring to the space agency's expectations of finding simple microorganisms of alien life somewhere in the solar system over the next few decades.
After the discovery of a new “Earth-sized alien world” at the weekend, boffins have been waiting with bated breath for an update on extraterrestrial life.
But now investigators believe that the US government could be about to expose a 70-year secret and reveal that aliens have visited Earth.
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BOMBSHELL: Could the US government confirm alien life?
“For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government”
Paradigm Research Group
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which campaigns to bring an end to an alleged "truth embargo", believes there will soon be no going back for government insiders.
Steve Bassett, executive director of the group, is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the issue of alien disclosure.
He is convinced that secrets have been withheld amid fears of the impact such an announcement would have on religion and the rule of law.
He is now seeking $50,000 (£38,000) to help fund the campaign to put pressure on the White House with an “End The Truth Embargo” gofundme page.
"This funding effort is in service to every citizen of every nation now convinced the world should not wait one more day for confirmation we are not alone is this universe,” he writes.
“For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government.
"After 20 years of engagement of the issue, I know this embargo can end soon with your help."
The funding campaign is being conducted in conjunction with Coast to Coast AM with George Noory – described as "the most listened to late night talk program in America."
Coast to Coast AM has for the past 25 years provided a platform for researchers, activists, "alien contactees" and other UFO witnesses.
Photo: Black Sage TechnologiesSearching the Skies: Black Sage Technologies’ artificial-intelligence system spots flying objects and determines whether they’re a threat.
Is it a bird? A plane? Or is it a remotely operated quadrotor conducting surveillance or preparing to drop a deadly payload? Human observers won’t have to guess—or keep their eyes glued to computer monitors—now that there’s superhuman artificial intelligence capable of distinguishing drones from those other flying objects. Automated watchfulness, thanks to machine learning, has given police and other agencies tasked with maintaining security an important countermeasure to help them keep pace with swarms of new drones taking to the skies.
The security challenge has only grown over the past few years: Millions of people have bought consumer drones and sometimes flown them into offlimits areas where they pose a hazard to crowds on the ground or larger aircraft in the sky. Off-the-shelf drones have also become affordable and dangerous weapons for the Islamic State and other militant groups in war-torn regions such as Iraq and Syria.
The need to track and possibly take down these flying intruders has spawned an antidrone market projected to be worth close to US $2 billion by the mid-2020s. The lion’s share of that haul will likely go to companies that can best leverage the power of machine-learning AI based on neural networks.
But much of the antidrone industry still lags behind the rest of the tech sector in making effective use of machine learning AI, says David Romero, founder and managing partner of Black Sage Technologies, based in Boise, Idaho. “With machine learning, 90 percent of the work is figuring out how to make it so simple so that the customer doesn’t have to know how machine learning works,” says Romero. “Many companies do that well, but not in the defense community.”
He and Ross Lam, his Black Sage cofounder, are poised to take advantage of this opening for the upstarts looking to take on the defense industry’s giants. They initially collaborated on a project that trained machine-learning algorithms to automatically detect deer on highways based on radar and infrared camera data. Eventually, they realized that the same approach could help spot drones and other unidentified flying objects.
Since the self-funded startup’s launch in 2015, it has won multiple contracts from the United States government—including for U.S. military forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan—and from U.S. allies.
Romero says it’s fairly straightforward to apply machine learning to the task of automatically detecting and classifying flying objects. But because the stakes are high—mistakenly shooting down a small passenger plane or failing to take out an explosives-laden drone intruder could be equally disastrous—Black Sage puts its system through a rigorous training phase when it’s installed at a new site. The system’s radar and infrared cameras capture information about each unidentified flying object’s velocity, size, altitude, and so forth. Then a human operator helps train the machine-learning algorithms by positively identifying certain classes of drones (rotor or fixed-wing) as well as other objects such as birds or manned aircraft. For proof that it has learned its lessons well, the AI is tested against 20 percent of the positively identified data set—the part reserved specifically for cross validation.
Another company called Dedrone—originally based in Kassel, Germany, but currently headquartered in San Francisco—is taking a similar approach. When a Dedrone system is being installed at a new site, humans label unfamiliar objects as part of the training process, which also updates the company’s proprietary DroneDNA library. Since its launch in 2014, Dedrone’s machine-learning software has helped safeguard events and locations such as a Clinton-Trump presidential debate, the World Economic Forum, and CitiField, home of the New York Mets baseball team.
“Each time we update DroneDNA, we process over 250 million different images of drones, aircraft, birds, and other objects,” says Michael Dyballa, Dedrone’s director of engineering. “In the past eight months, we’ve annotated 3 million drone images.”
Though Black Sage’s and Dedrone’s automated detection systems are said to be capable of running without human assistance after their respective training phases, the companies’ clients may choose to put humans in the loop for engaging active defenses, such as jammers or lasers, to take down flying intruders. Such caution is critical at sites like airports, where drone detection accuracy greater than 90 percent still means the occasional false alarm or case of mistaken identity. Even so, a human’s interpretive ability can only supplement the ceaseless vigilance that AI systems will need to provide as the number of drones continues to rise.
Former medic Dr Steven Greer, a leading figure in the alien disclosure movement, claims to have contacts on the inside who are trying to work out how to leak the truth without putting themselves in danger.
Alien conspiracy theorists claim that a so-called "truth embargo" has been in place since the 1940s after aliens crash landed on Earth and the evidence was squirrelled away by the US Government amid fears the impact of knowing "we are not alone" would have on religion and the rule of law.
Dr Greer claims the truth is so top-secret that sub groups within government would not even confirm it to the president.
He goes one step further and alleges it is a military-industrialist cabal of semi-public/semi-private interests and has access to technology reverse-engineered from alleged crashed UFOs.
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Dr Steven Greer makes an outlandish claim in his documentary unacknowledged
He told the Toronto Star: "One of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing is that there are people within the intelligence community who don’t know how to get themselves out of that hole and yet they’re very supportive of disclosure, and they’ve told me this.
“If you read between the lines of what I just said, what I’m saying to you — and you’re welcome to print this — is that there are some very powerful interests who realise that they are stuck in this black hole and they don’t know how to get out of it because it would create a scandal thousands of times worse than Watergate or Russia-gate or whatever the latest scandal is that the Washington Post and the New York Times and perhaps your paper are obsessing on.”
So how does Dr Greer justify such outlandish claims?
He added: “Look, we stampeded into Iraq after 9/11 without there being a scintilla of evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and we know now that that was completely a hoax.
One of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing is that there are people within the intelligence community who don’t know how to get themselves out of that hole and yet they’re very supportive of disclosure, and they’ve told me this.
Dr Steven Greer
“So the question becomes how easy is it for the intelligence community using their mouthpieces in the media to put out a scenario that would scare the hell out of people so that people would give up their liberties and their finances and what have you — their blood and treasure — to stampede into the next big thing, which has been planned for 60 years and that is a conflict between humans and other planetary societies.
“Now, it’s completely nonsensical. It’s as nonsensical as going into Iraq was, but we did go into Iraq and there are hundreds of thousands of people dead as a result and now Syria has blown apart. So there are consequences to this.
“The majority of people already believe there is intelligent life out there and the last poll I saw said that 43 percent of Americans think we’re currently being visited.
"More than half the public all over the world believes that UFOs are real and that governments are hiding something. So that battle has been won, but the larger argument has to still be engaged."
Dr Greer spoke to the paper about his new film Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the Greatest Secret in Human History, ahead of its Toronto premier.
Looking at the alleged cover up over the years, it is directed by Michael Mazzola and narrated by Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito.
Dr Greer got $700,000 (£543,000) through crowd funding to make it happen, and it looks at his work with The Disclosure Project, set up to try to lift an alleged "truth embargo" on the existence of aliens.
He said: "And that’s why we made this film, in part, to expose what the secret agenda has been and the disinformation campaigns.”
On the front of the website, Waring wrote: “My last post. Thanks for the seven years of support.
“We have accomplished a lot together.”
YOUTUBE/UFOVNI DISCLOSURE
An enhanced image of the ‘spaceship’
YOUTUBE / UFOVNI2012
The photo seems to show a crashed flying saucer
Some UFOlogists were worried the site had been shut down by the authorities, with one tweeting: "Did the government or secret groups threaten Scott C. Waring?"
But far from being intimidated by a shadowy government agency, Waring claims he has quit because UFO enthusiasts are not taken seriously.
He added: "I think it's changed. It was educational before, it was enlightening before, it was even comforting somehow knowing the truth, but it seems to have taken a turn as entertainment.
"That was never my intention.
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A close-up of a strange object, which UFO believers claim resembles a petrified tree stump
Many of the UFOlogist's discoveries focused on the Red Planet
NASA/SCOTT WARING
This photo allegedly shows a carving of a woman's body on the surface of Mars
"This is serious stuff that has depths that even I can't fathom.
"It deserves serious thought and research, not contempt and ridicule."
But many in the field felt Waring contributed to the problem and cheapened the debate about extraterrestrial life.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told Express.co.uk: "I think he was genuinely trying to find and share UFO sightings and anomalies captured by the cameras of the International Space Station and other space vehicles, but the sheer quantity of his 'discoveries' undermined their quality.
"How many people really believe his photographic evidence that everything from massive skyscrapers to squirrels exist on the surface of Mars?"
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Cosmic Coincidence? Solar eclipse falls on anniversary of extraterrestrial sighting
Cosmic Coincidence? Solar eclipse falls on anniversary of extraterrestrial sighting
by Kaylin Searles
PHOTO: A composite image of the 2013 total solar eclipse, viewed from Gabon,
Photo Date: 2013 (Pasachoff / Rusin / Davis / Druckmüller via MGN Online)
KELLY, Ky. (WZTV) — Southern Kentucky will be one of the best spots for the total solar eclipse show.
But the unincorporated community of Kelly, Ky. might just take the once-in-a-lifetime experience a step further.
The community is celebrating a “cosmic coincidence” as this year’s festival marking the anniversary of the sighting of extraterrestrials coincides with the total solar eclipse.
People from across the United States flocked to Kelly, Ky. after the “Little Green Men” or “Hopkinsville Goblins” were spotted there in 1955.
Each year the community has the “Little Green Men” Days Festival to celebrate the occasion – and this year festival-goers are in for a treat as it takes place at the time same of the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21.
The festival is four days, starting the weekend before the total solar eclipse.
Are we alone in the universe? Maybe not. Do we have any evidence of aliens? Definitely not.
At least not yet.
That was NASA’s response after the hacking collective Anonymous released a video claiming that the American organization was on the brink of revealing as-yet undiscovered extraterrestrial life forms.
Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate—who was heavily quoted in the Anonymous video—spoke out on Monday to confirm that NASA isn’t sitting on what is potentially the biggest space discovery ever.
But Zurbuchen’s comments did not rule out the chance of discovering alien life forms in the future, something that NASA is actively working on.
In 2018, it will launch its James Webb Space Telescope, which will be able to observe biosignatures—water, gases and other chemical fingerprints—that could point to life on other planets.
In its video, Anonymous quoted testimony given by Zurbuchen to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in April, in which he said that the organization was “on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history.”
But Zurbuchen was clear in his written testimony to the same committee that “while we haven’t found definitive signs of life elsewhere just yet, our search is making remarkable progress and astrobiology is a focus of a growing number of NASA missions.”
So though NASA, alongside other experts, such as British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, remain optimistic of finding life on other planets, NASA is not there yet.
File photo. A UFO was spotted over Skegness in 1996 and the RAF were 'told to ignore it'
Mysterious lights were seen in the sky over Skegness for seven hours - but the RAF were ordered to ignore it, files have revealed.
The incident happened over the Skegness coast on October 5, 1996, and lights were reported in the sky for a period of seven hours - both by police and the public.
Now "Britain's X Files" show the object was spotted on a military radar but the RAF were told to ignore it after it was “overruled at the highest level”.
A report by the Sun claimed an unnamed government official criticised the former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo for the military's "absolute shambles" of a reaction.
The letter, which is typed on House of Commons headed paper, said: "I am very concerned about an incident that occurred off the Anglian Coast recently, involving a visual unidentified flying craft sighting which was correlated by various different military radar systems.”
It added that it was "incredible" that "no aircraft were scrambled when an uncorrelated target was picked up so close to the coast” and that “this raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”.
The letter also questions why RAF Coningsby was over-ruled when it wanted to scramble aircraft to the scene.
It added: "The RAF is supposed, or so I believed, to be keeping a watchful eye on activity in the UK, but seem to have no idea what is going on.
“Do they have standard procedure for these incidents? They had enough time to think about it, because the object was on our radar for upwards of seven hours!
File photo. A UFO was spotted over the Wash but the RAF were told to ignore it
“While I am interested in finding out what was seen, my primary concern stems from the absolute shambles that such events seem to cause.”
Documents outlining the investigation into the incident concluded that several phenomena were to blame for the red, white and blue flashing lights that were seen above the horizon.
They are also named in the documents as a "celestial source".
The official file on the incident said: "The prolonged sighting of stationary coloured flashing lights reported by the Skegness Police on 5 October 1996 had no significance for the integrity of UK airspace and no associated air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars.”
The documents are part of 15 files that have been published by the National Archives. Three are still yet to be published.
The documents have not been digitised and can only be viewed at the National Archives in Kew, West London.
Columnist Cheryl Costa begins a three-part series of articles on Project Blue Book.
Back on May 25 of this year, a news item in Variety magazine announced that famed director Robert Zemeckis had teamed up with A&E to produce a 10-episode drama series about Project Blue Book for the History Channel. For those unfamiliar with Blue Book, it was an Air Force’s effort from 1952 to 1969, charged with the responsibility to investigate reports of Unidentified Flying Objects. Let’s take brief a look at the convoluted origins of Project Blue Book.
PROJECT SIGN
During World War II numerous bomber crews reported seeing luminous balls and discs in their air space while flying missions. These unknown high performance flying objects became known as “foo fighters.” The Army Air Force’s investigative effort into foo fighters was very first by intelligence officers into the mysterious topic of UFOs.
In 1947, the Air Force separated from the Army and became a branch onto itself. That same year, Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Field received orders to direct the Technical Intelligence Division to conduct a classified inquiry into UFOs. The principle reason was that the Air Force had taken a keen interest in UFOs because they had been frequently observed near various sensitive military facilities in the Southwest. In addition, during June and July of that year, UFO reports came in from over 38 states and were widely reported in the press.
Under pressure to come up with answers, Major General L. C. Craigie, director of Research and Development for the Air Force, directed the establishment of a research group code named Project Sign.
After eight months of interviewing highly credible witnesses, conducting investigations and analyzing the data, it was time to report some findings. The Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in concert with personnel from Project Sign, decided to author the Estimate of the Situation document.
By all accounts the top secret document allegedly concluded that some of the UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin. These conclusions did not sit well with Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, who was reported to have rejected the Estimate of the Situation findings. It is alleged that all copies of the report were subsequently destroyed.
PROJECT GRUDGE
It’s been my observation that military generals who aren’t happy about the performance of a unit or perhaps the results of a project frequently clean house of at least key command personnel, and sometimes there’s a clean sweep within the ranks.
General Vandenberg, being less than happy or confident with the results of Project Sign, ordered a massive change in personnel. The replacement staff had a new set of operating principles; simply that all these UFO reports could be explained in realistic and conventional terms. The new unit was renamed in February of 1949 with a new code name: Project Grudge.
It was the Project Grudge team that established the cultural perspective that UFOs were:
Misinterpretations of various conventional objects.
A mild form of mass-hysteria and war nerves.
Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetuate a hoax or to seek publicity.
Psychopathological persons.
The Project Grudge team also put forth the concern that an enemy could release strange aerial objects, augmented with psychological propaganda. The effect of an enemy action like this, they proposed, could be used to generate mass hysteria. The Pentagon’s Office of Psychological Warfare confirmed this notion of psychological warfare to induce war nerves and mass fear among the civilian population.
As a secret UFO investigation military entity, Project Grudge didn’t do much better than Project Sign in getting to the bottom of the UFO phenomena. The unit only lasted about eight months. In the final report of their UFO investigations, it listed UFO sighting reports totaling 273. Despite Project Grudge’s policy that UFOs are just misidentified conventional objects, hysteria, war nerves, hoaxes and deranged persons, their final report listed 23 percent, or 63 cases, as “unidentified.”
If you are interested in joining a monthly UFO discussion group in the Onondaga County area, drop Cheryl an email at Blogger@CherylCosta.com. If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services:nuforc.org or mufon.com. Both services respect confidentiality. Follow me on Twitter @American_Skies.
Attention, Central New York residents: Join a monthly MUFON-sponsored speakers presentation and discussion group in Syracuse. Regularly held the last Saturday of the month, it runs from April 29 through October 28, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m, May Memorial, 3800 E. Genesee St. Plenty of off-street parking is available.
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Orlando witness reports object hovering over building
Orlando witness reports object hovering over building
A Florida witness at Orlando reported watching a cylinder-shaped object silently hovering over a nearby building, according to testimony in Case 84126 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was driving along Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection when the object was observed hovering over a nearby building.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was driving along Conway Road in Orlando, heading north from Tradeport Avenue at 9:12 p.m. on June 1, 2017, when the incident began.
“This is a common area that planes are landing in, so seeing lights in the sky approaching us was very normal to see,” the witness stated.“I drive down this street almost daily around the same time, so am used to seeing certain sights along the way.”
While approaching a red light at Judge Road, the witness and a sister noticed planes approaching them when one looked out of place.
“I joked about how it could be a UFO because of how odd the flight pattern and lights were. We both kept steady on it; I watching while trying to pay attention to the cars in front of me. It approached us closer and closer and we both got nervous because it was the size of a plane hovering over the building off to the right side of us, maybe 50feet or less away from where we were.”
The two watched as the object hovered over a building, with lights flashing, with no sound.
“We waited to see if we were seeing things, if it was actually moving and maybe we didn’t see the movement for whatever reason. No movement, still hovering over the building and flashing lights. About 10-15 seconds after we realized it was not a plane and that we were in fact seeing a giant object hovering over a building next to us, it disappeared.”
The witness could hear so sound coming from the object. Pictured: Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection.
(Credit: Google)
The witness pulled off to the side of the road to see if the lights appeared anywhere.
“Nothing. The area was clear, its path had no obstructions, yet it was nowhere to be seen. So where could it have possibly gone? The rest of the way home, 15 minutes total, we talked about what to do next. Tell someone? File a report? Keep it to ourselves? We are definitely sure of what we saw. This was not normal and definitely not a plane.”
Florida MUFON Field Investigator Robert Andrews investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown UAV.
“In speaking with the witness,” Andrews stated in his report,“she said the sky was clear (no low hanging clouds) and she did not observe any smoke or other anomalies in the area. She remains quite certain that she saw ‘something’ that seemed to be hovering over the buildings with white and blue lights, but has no idea of what it may have been.
“I also considered that maybe there were low clouds and the light reflecting from the ground or overhead aircraft caused an optical illusion for the witness. However, I did not find any evidence to support that theory.
“The location of these building in relation to the airport flight path and the very low altitude of planes normal landing approach would seem to rule out the likelihood of any commercial or private aircraft flying through this area except as in a landing approach.
“The only other plausible scenario is that the witness viewed reflections from street lights, landing aircraft and interior lights of her vehicle reflecting unusual images on the windows of her car. I could not duplicate this occurrence, but I believe other MUFON cases contain many instances of this occurring.
The object seemed to disappear and the witness was unable to find it again. Pictured: Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection.
(Credit: Google)
“According to FlightRadar24.com, there were five planes flying over these buildings for landing at 9:04, 9:07, 9:08, 9:09 and 9:21 p.m. This is consistent with the witness estimate of 9:12 p.m. for her sighting.
“Witness said she was fairly certain of the time – plus or minus a few minutes.While I was there, I observed the same landing pattern – planes one to two minutes apart.
“If there had been an aerial obstruction – these planes would have been directed to 17R, which is parallel and about two miles east of runway 18L. While there, I observed planes landing on both runways. Planes landing on the other runway cannot be seen except farther out on their approach because of terrain and distance.”
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
26 juin 2017 : conférence de Jacques Vallée, Paris, FRANCE
26 juin 2017 : conférence de Jacques Vallée, Paris, FRANCE
Ce lundi 26 juin 2017, Jacques Vallée donnait une conférence à l’espace 104, rue de Vaugirard à l’invitation de l’Institut Métapsychique. Près de 200 personnes étaient présentes à cet événement très attendu.
Après une brève présentation de l’invité par les organisateurs, celui-ci prend la parole et précise d’emblée le sujet de son intervention « What do we know about the material composition of UFO’s ? »("Que savons-nous sur la composition matérielle des Ovnis ? »). Résumé de cette soirée exceptionnelle, en espérant n'avoir pas dénaturé la pensée de Jacques Vallée.
D'emblée, Jacques Vallée s’excuse que les slides de sa présentation soient en anglais, mais les non-anglophones n’ont pas eu de mal à suivre ses propos malgré tout. L’objet de la conférence est en fait une étude en cours sur la composition des ovnis et prolonge un article que Vallée avait publié il y a 19 ans sur ce thème lié à la physique des matériaux.
Le conférencier commence par rappeler que dans le domaine de l’ufologie, il existe trois types de matériaux à étudier :
- les scories de métal en fusion éjectés par les ovnis qui sont comme des éjectas. Comme cela ressemble souvent à du mâchefer, les témoins n’y accordent pas d’importance et ne les ramassent hélas pas. - Les implants : ce sont de petits objets à l’usage inconnu que des témoins disent retrouver dans des parties de leurs corps (sur ce sujet, Jacques Vallée qu’il s’y intéresse davantage qu’autrefois) - des pièces structurelles récupérées sur les sites de crashes, voire des entités biologiques ! L’affaire de Roswell est le cas le plus archétypique de ce genre de récolte, même si les éléments de preuve manquent toujours et qu’un nuage de rumeurs et de faits non établis entoure le récit.
Comme il s’agit de pouvoir ramener quelque chose de tangible en laboratoire, Jacques Vallée a préféré délaisser les histoires pour se tourner vers des objets concrets. Or, les seuls disponibles, ce sont ces « éjectas » récupérés ici et là lors d’observation d’ovnis. Vallée précise qu’on ne se trouve pas dans la culture du secret, au contraire, il veut médiatiser ses recherches.
L'ufologue rappelle un point important : longtemps, on s’est limité aux analyses chimiques, désormais il faut se tourner vers l’étude des isotopes. Pour mémoire, un isotope est un atome qui possède le même nombre d’électrons et de protons (afin de rester neutre) mais un nombre différent de neutrons. Il mentionne l’exemple de l’hydrogène qui a trois isotopes : classique (pas de neutron), deutérium (1 neutron), tritium (2 neutrons). Un autre exemple bien connu : celui de l'uranium qui a 17 isotopes, tous radioactifs. Ils possèdent tous 92 protons mais ils ont entre 125 et 150 neutrons. Seulement trois sont présents naturellement sur Terre (uranium 234, 235 et 238) et surtout l’un d’eux, à plus de 99% : l’uranium 238. L’étude des isotopes sur des échantillons issus de projections d’ovnis pourrait donc permettre d'identifier des éléments qui ne sont pas terrestres.
Jacques Vallée passe en revue rapidement 15 cas connus de rejets de matériaux, depuis Aurora au Texas en 1897 jusqu’à Newark en 1996, un seul cas français : Ratheau. Et parmi ces affaires, seulement 4 donnent accès à des échantillons : Ubatuba (Brésil), Bogota (Colombie), Council Bluffs (USA) et « Sierra » (lieu secret, USA).
Vallée souligne les difficultés à mener des études poussées sur les isotopes : l’équipement coûte cher et comme il est rare, il est peu disponible. Il faut donc faire prendre son mal en patience. Le conférencier propose d’ailleurs de faire des échanges de bons procédés et de partager des échantillons avec les laboratoires français (Pierre et Marie Curie, Orsay, etc.) d’autant que certains laboratoires font déjà des tests d’isotopes sur des météorites. Grâce à la spectrométrie de masse, il est possible de détecter les isotopes. Un faisceau d'électrons de haute énergie est utilisé pour ioniser les atomes et les molécules. Les ions ainsi formés sont ensuite soumis à l’action d’un champ magnétique qui permet de les dévier et de les séparer en fonction de leur rapport masse sur charge, et donc de déterminer les différents isotopes.
Vallée a fait analyser plusieurs échantillons, a priori rien de spécial. Sauf dans le cas d’Ubatuba (Brésil, 7 septembre 1957). Il a déniché deux nouveaux échantillons dans un musée d’ufologie à Victoria en Argentine. Vallée a eu accès à ces deux échantillons, l’un étant au Dr. Olavo Fontes, l’autre ayant été apporté par un marin argentin du nom d’Hercente et témoin de l’apparition de l’OVNI en 1957.
Si le premier morceau présente des ratios isotopiques de magnésium normaux et terrestres, le second en revanche a des ratios très différents ! Non seulement ce ne sont pas des ratios que l’on observe sur Terre, mais pas non plus dans l’espace que l’on connaît. C’est comme si cet échantillon de magnésium avait été décomposé en isotopes puis « recombiné » en suite selon des proportions inédites, c’est totalement inexplicable en l’état actuel des connaissances. Qui était capable de le faire en 1957 ? D’autres analyses, plus poussées, seraient forcément nécessaires car il faut des analyses dans plusieurs laboratoires pour confirmer cette découverte mais cela nécessite des moyens et du temps.
S’en suit une séance de questions/réponses avec le public durant laquelle plusieurs hypothèses sont évoquées sur la physique des matériaux, notamment des propriétés électromagnétiques. Il est fait allusion au personnage de Spielberg joué par François Truffaut et inspiré de Jacques Vallée, mais aussi aux momies péruviennes de Thierry Jamin. Jacques Vallée ne se prononce pas mais rappelle l’affaire de l’humanoïde Ata (désert d’Atacama au Chili), une relique d’un soi-disant « alien » qui était en réalité le squelette d’un enfant de sept ans atteint, cas exceptionnel, de deux maladies génétiques rares. A l’époque, la revue Science y avait consacré un article. Parmi les autres sujets brièvement abordés, la théorie des univers gémellaires de Jean-Pierre Petit, le phénomène des vagues d’observation d’ovnis qui semble répondre à des règles cycliques, ainsi que la participation de Jacques Vallée aux travaux du SRI à Menlo Park en Californie, notamment sur Arpanet (le réseau ancêtre d’Internet) et sur la vision à distance (« remote viewing »). Jacques Vallée précise pour finir qu’on peut trouver des points communs entre le phénomène ovni et la parapsychologie, les témoins d’observations ayant souvent après coup des visions ou des facultés inhabituelles.
Mon commentaire :
- une soirée passionnante, très stimulante pour l'esprit. L'analyse des matériaux retrouvés apparait beaucoup moins spectaculaire que toutes ces news sensationnalistes dont on nous abreuve sur Internet mais il se peut qu'au final, les véritables preuves proviennent de ces analyses fastidieuses et peu "glamour".
Je me suis posé la question : si ces isotopes de magnésium d'Ubatuba ne sont pas terrestres, mais ne correspondent pas non plus à ce que l'on est en droit de s'attendre à trouver ailleurs dans le cosmos, d'où viennent-ils ?
Et en repensant à l'intérêt de Jacques Vallée pour les univers à plusieurs dimensions, j'en suis venu à imaginer (hypothèse purement théorique, cela va de soi) que ces échantillons proviendraient peut-être... d'une autre dimension ? Une autre dimension dont l'existence resterait à prouver, bien entendu, mais dont les lois de la physique seraient peut-être différentes de celles de notre univers... ?
Auquel cas ces échantillons d'apparence très ordinaire seraient porteurs d'une révélation incroyable : les ovnis existent et ils viennent non pas d'un espace lointain mais d'une autre dimension. Je le répète, c'est une hypothèse personnelle et très vraisemblablement le fruit de mon imagination d'auteur ;-)
NASA fotografeert zeer vreemd object op Mars. Wie of wat heeft dit achtergelaten?
NASA fotografeert zeer vreemd object op Mars. Wie of wat heeft dit achtergelaten?
Marsrover Curiosity van de NASA heeft een foto gemaakt van de rode planeet die een UFO lijkt te tonen. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Star.
Op de afbeelding is het rotsachtige landschap van Mars te zien. In het midden van de foto is een onbekend object te zien.
Het lijkt een glad oppervlak en lichten te hebben. In ieder geval lijkt het niet op iets wat is gemaakt door de natuur.
Niet gereageerd
Volgens UFO-jagers is de foto bewijs voor intelligent buitenaards leven. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft nog niet gereageerd op de ontdekking.
Het ruimteagentschap maakte in 2015 wel bekend dat er stromend water op Mars was gevonden en dat er mogelijk leven is.
Hackerscollectief Anonymous claimde deze week dat de NASA op het punt staat bewijzen van buitenaards leven naar buiten te brengen.
Verhullen
Complottheoretici beschuldigen de NASA er vaak van het bestaan van aliens te verhullen. Zij plaatsen geregeld foto’s van de maan of Mars waarop volgens hen aliens zijn te zien.
Meestal blijkt het te gaan om een vreemd gevormde rots, maar deze nieuwe afbeelding is niet zo gemakkelijk te verklaren, aldus de Daily Star.
“Uh, NASA? UFO vastgelegd door de Marsrover? Is dit echt?” schreef Reddit-gebruiker Daxanater bij de foto.
Photoshoppen
Mikeymike 34 zei: “Dit is geweldig!” Crazylegs99 voegde toe: “Tijdens het photoshoppen zijn ze vergeten dit eruit te halen.”
“Lijkt op glinsterend licht van een ruimteschip op een planeet in de ruimte,” schreef EdisonVonneZula.
Landingsvaartuig
Eén gebruiker suggereerde dat het mogelijk gaat om de resten van het landingsvaartuig van Curiosity.
“De rover was op die datum kennelijk in de buurt van die resten en maakte er een foto van,” aldus OnceReturned.
The existence of parallel universes within an unseen dimension has long been one of the universe's biggest 'what ifs'.
Now the European Space Agency (EA) has approved a mission that will hunt for gravitational waves - mysterious space-time disturbances that could finally prove the existence of extra dimensions.
Physicists think that unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying these gravitational waves.
Since gravity is likely to occupy all dimensions that exist, its waves are a promising way to detect unknown dimensions.
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The LISA mission (artist's impression), now scheduled for 2034, will be made up of three identical satellites separated by 2.5 million km (1.5 million miles) in a triangular formation. The craft will follow Earth in its orbit around the sun while firing lasers between one another
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
The universe is made up of a 'fabric of space-time'.
This corresponds to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, published in 1916.
Objects in the universe bend this fabric, and more massive objects bend it more.
Gravitational waves are considered ripples in this fabric.
They can be produced, for instance, when black holes orbit each other or by the merging of galaxies.
Gravitational waves are also thought to have been produced during the Big Bang.
Physicists believe the waves can offer insights into fundamental physics.
For instance, they could shed light on the idea that, at one point, most or all of the forces of nature were combined into a single force.
In search of these waves, ESA has now given its Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission (LISA) the green light for 2034 after decades of development and delays.
'I think there's a mixture of super-excitement and "at last",' Professor Mark McCaughrean, ESA's senior adviser for science & exploration, told New Scientist.
'We're finally over the starting line – it's great.'
LISA will be made up of three identical satellites, separated by 2.5 million km (1.5 million miles) in a triangular formation, that will follow Earth in its orbit around the sun.
The three craft will beam powerful lasers between one another as they search for ripples in space-time caused by gravitational waves.
The LISA satellites will read how these waves warp space by detecting tiny changes in the distances the laser beams travel.
Gravitational waves are often created by by celestial objects with very strong gravity, such as pairs of merging black holes.
The primary targets for LISA's observations will be merging supermassive black holes, Professor McCaughrean said, in a bid to better understand the powerful celestial bodies.
This is not the first time that scientists have delved into the origins of gravitational waves.
Earlier this year, researchers suggested that gravitational waves could also be evidence of an unseen, extra dimension.
The LISA satellites (artist's impression) will read how gravitational waves warp space by detecting tiny changes in the distances the laser beams travel
THE NEW SPACECRAFT
ESA has now given its Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission (LISA) the green light after decades of development and delays.
LISA will be made up of three identical satellites orbiting the sun in a wide triangular formation.
The satellites will beam lasers between one another.
The presence of gravitational waves will cause tiny changes to the distances these lasers travel.
An extra dimension would change the way gravitational waves stretch space.
If these changes can be detected, it could help discover an extra dimension.
While scientists don't yet have the technology to prove this, by 2034 LISA could provide a route to testing ripples in space-time for evidence of parallel universes.
Speaking to New Scientist last month, Gustavo Lucena Gomez, who is leading a study into extra dimensions at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, said: 'If there are extra dimensions in the universe, then gravitational waves can walk along any dimension, even the extra dimensions.'
Gravity is weaker than other fundamental forces, and experts have long wondered whether this is because some of it is escaping into an extra dimension.
The German team set out to calculate how an extra dimension would affect gravitational waves, and found two strange effects – extra waves at high frequencies, and a change in how gravitational waves stretch space.
As gravitational waves move through an extra dimension, the researchers found that they should generate a 'tower' of extra gravitational waves with higher frequencies.
But observatories are currently unable to detect frequencies that high, and instead focus on lower frequency gravitational waves.
Unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves - changes in the space-time fabric. Since gravity is likely to occupy all dimensions that exist, its waves are a promising way to detect unknown dimensions (artist's impression)
Physicists think that unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves - changes in the space-time fabric. These waves can also be triggered by two colliding planets or black holes (artist's impression)
This could make spotting the gravitational wave towers a challenge.
But detecting the change in how gravitational waves stretch space could be easier, according to the researchers.
Dr Lucena Gomez said: 'If extra dimensions are in our universe, this would stretch or shrink space-time in a different way that standard gravitational waves would never do.'
Gravitational waves stretch space as they ripple through the universe a bit like a rubber band – the ellipse gets longer in one direction and shorter in the other, before returning to its original shape.
The targets for LISA's observations will be merging supermassive black holes in a bid to better understand the powerful celestial bodies (artist's impression) but it could eventually be used to test ripples in space time for signs of an extra dimension
The existence of parallel universes within an unseen dimension has long been one of the universe's biggest 'what ifs' (stock image)
But an extra dimension could add another way for gravitational waves to stretch space, called a breathing mode.
In the same way that lungs expand as you breathe, gravitational waves cause space to expand and contract, in addition to stretching.
Dr Lucena Gomez said: 'With more detectors we will be able to see whether this breathing mode is happening.'
Dr Emilian Dudas, from the Ecole Polytechnique in France told New Scientist: 'Extra dimensions have been discussed for a long time from different points of view.
'Gravitational waves could be a new twist on looking for extra dimensions.'
HOW WOULD GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AFFECT AN EXTRA DIMENSION?
Last month, researchers at the Max Planck Institute set out to calculate how extra dimension would affect gravitational waves.
They found two strange effects – extra waves at high frequencies, and a change in how gravitational waves stretch space.
As gravitational waves move through an extra dimension, the researchers found that they should generate a 'tower' of extra gravitational waves with higher frequencies.
But observatories are currently unable to detect frequencies that high, and instead focus on lower frequency gravitational waves.
This could make spotting the gravitational wave towers a challenge.
But detecting the change in how gravitiational waves stretch space could be easier, according to the researchers.
Gravitational waves stretch space as they ripple through the universe a bit like a rubber band – the ellipse gets longer in one direction and shorter in the other, before returning to its original shape.
But an extra dimension could add another way for gravitational waves to stretch space, called a breathing mode.
In the same way that lungs expand as you breathe, gravitational waves cause space to expand and contract, in addition to stretching.
The researchers hope that this breathing space could soon be detected.
ESA's LISA satellite system, now scheduled for 2034, may offer a new way to make the necessary readings.
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