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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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...
04-07-2017
Who can you thank for ‘flying saucers’?
Who can you thank for ‘flying saucers’?
Idaho pilot Kenneth Arnold who saw 'Supersonic Flying Saucers'
Before June 24, 1947, terms such as UFOs and flying saucers had not entered popular vocabulary.
Then, on that afternoon 70 years ago, it all changed because of Kenneth Arnold: “Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted by Idaho Pilot.”
Arnold reported seeing near Mount Rainier nine “circular-type” objects flying in formation at more than twice the speed of sound.
His was the first widely reported UFO sighting in this country, and it set off a wave of other reported sightings.
In a now-declassified document, the Air Force Materiel Command wrote it off: “The report cannot bear even superficial examination, therefore, must be disregarded.”
Another Air Force document concluded, “It is the Air Force conclusion that the objects of this sighting were due to a mirage.”
For Arnold, it stung.
He didn’t consider himself some kind of kook. He had more than 4,000 hours of mountain high-altitude pilot time; he was in the Idaho search and rescue.
“I have been subjected to ridicule, much loss of time and money, newspaper notoriety, magazine stories, reflections on my honesty, my character, my business dealings,” Arnold wrote in his 1952 book, Coming of the Saucers.
A long time ago, in 1977, I interviewed Arnold after reaching him by phone.
He died in 1984 at age 68, and in all those years, and with me, he never wavered in his descriptions.
“I made my report because I thought it was my duty. It was the only proper and American thing to do. I saw what I saw,” he said.
You can draw a direct line between what Arnold repeatedly recounted in detail to FBI and military investigators and our collective fascination with the possibility that aliens have visited us.
That direct connection goes from Area 51 allegedly hiding an alien craft, to the Roswell UFO Incident; and from movies such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to the TV series The X-Files.
It’s become so much a part of our culture that even the CIA website has a section titled “Take a Peek Into Our “X-Files” that is chock-full of declassified files.
Interested in a 1952 drawing of “flying saucers over Belgian Congo uranium mines?” It’s in the CIA files.
Unassuming salesman
Arnold was an unlikely candidate to become embroiled in such a controversy.
He lived in Meridian, Idaho, and sold fire-extinguishing equipment. About as unusual as his life got was that he piloted a small airplane to get to his clients around the Northwest.
A month after Arnold was in the news, a now-declassified report made in July 1947 by Army Air Force Counter-Intelligence Corps Officer Frank M. Brown said, “Mr. Arnold is a man of 32 years of age, being married and the father of two children. It is the personal opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Arnold actually saw what he saw. To go further, if Mr. Arnold can write a report of the character that he did while not having seen the objects that he claimed he saw, it is the opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Arnold is in the wrong business, that he should be writing Buck Rogers fiction.”
That was one of the few sympathetic portrayals in government documents of Arnold’s sighting.
In another declassified intelligence report in July 1947, First Lt. Hal L. Eustace of the Army Air Corps put Arnold’s report as part of “silly-season episodes.”
The lieutenant wrote that Arnold “seems to be reasonably well balanced, although excitable, and has no apparent ulterior motive. other than to prove he is not ‘nuts.’?”
The lieutenant wrote that Arnold revealed “an antagonistic attitude toward the Army” by stating, “Well, if the Army doesn’t know what they are, it sure ought to be trying to find out!”
Bright flash lit the sky
Arnold’s sighting of the craft was the 1947 version of a story going viral.
“It was a beautiful day. Just as clear as a bell,” Arnold said. He was flying from Chehalis to Yakima and decided to spend an hour or so searching for a downed C-46 Marine transport that had crashed into the southwest side of Mount Rainier.
There was a $5,000 reward for finding it.
It was at 3 p.m., he remembered, “when a very bright flash lit up the plane and the sky around me.”
At first, Arnold thought it was the sun reflecting off another plane.
“But the flash happened again, and that’s when I saw where it was coming from. It came spasmodically from a chain of nine circular-type aircraft way up from the vicinity of Mount Rainier,” said Arnold.
“I could not find any tails on these things. They didn’t leave a jet trail behind them. I judged their size to be at least 100 feet in widespan. I thought it was a new type of missile.”
His plane had a big sweep 24-hour clock on the instrument panel. Arnold measured that the craft covered the distance between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams in 1 minute 42 seconds.
“That figured out to something like 1,760 miles an hour, which I could hardly believe. I knew that figure couldn’t be entirely accurate, but I’d say it was within a couple of hundred miles accurate,” he said.
From Yakima, Arnold then flew to an air show in Pendleton, Oregon. The next day, on June 25, he stopped by the local newspaper, the East Oregonian. He wanted to know if the military had been testing secret warplanes in the area.
He ended up talking to reporter Bill Bequette, who, in subsequent years, remembered that Arnold “came off as honest, level headed and credible,” said a story in the East Oregonian.
So Bequette wrote a brief story about what Arnold said he witnessed.
But the brief also went out to The Associated Press, got picked up by numerous newspapers, and the furor began. For the first time, a mass-media story and subsequent headlines used the term, “flying saucers.”
There were no reported riches for Arnold because of his notoriety. Instead, he complained to Frank Brown, the Air Force investigator, “that his business had suffered greatly . at every stop in his business routes, large groups of people were waiting to question him .”
Brown concluded his report, “Mr. Arnold stated further that if he, at any time in the future, saw anything in the sky, to quote Mr. Arnold . ‘If I ever saw a ten story building flying through the air I would never say a word about it,’ due to the fact that he has been ridiculed by the press to such an extent that he is practically a moron in the eye of the majority of the population of the United States.”
A mystery to this day
Despite that statement to Brown, in the coming years Arnold was driven to prove he was right.
There were “many long hours of fruitless flying with a camera, trying and failing to find anything like his saucers again,” says Martin Shough, a well-regarded researcher of the UFO phenomena who has written a detailed analysis of Arnold’s account.
In an email, Shough, who lives in the Highlands of Scotland, says, “I am resigned to never knowing what Arnold saw.”
He concludes, “Seventy years on, when so much of the flying saucer mythology that Kenneth Arnold triggered has been explained away, it is somewhat embarrassing that Arnold’s own sighting remains obstinately resistant.
PLATO Deep-Space Observatory Will Search for Exoplanets and Alien Life
PLATO Deep-Space Observatory Will Search for Exoplanets and Alien Life
File: French astronaut Thomas Pesquet speaks at an ESA press conference on June 6, 2017, after spending 196 days on the International Space Station. ESA approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to seek out habitable planets in other star systems. Photo: Roberto Pfeil / afp
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IN BRIEF
PLATO, a deep-space observatory designed to search for exoplanets, has been approved for construction by the European Space Agency. Researchers aim to launch PLATO in 2026 and are particular interested in using it to discover potentially habitable worlds.
SEARCHING THE STARS
The European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee has approved the Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission to move into the construction phase. They aim to launch this deep-space observatory in 2026 with the goal of “discovering and characterizing Earth-sized planets and super-Earths orbiting Sun-like stars in the habitable zone” — although it “could eventually lead to the detection of extraterrestrial life,” according to a University of Warwick press release.
The observatory will have 26 telescopes on board and will be launched 1.5 million km (932,000 miles) into space, where, according to a mission summary, it will conduct “Ultra-high precision, long (up to several years), uninterrupted photometric monitoring in the visible band of very large samples of bright (mV ≤11) stars.” This will provide unprecedented data on distant planets.
Image Credit: C. Carreau / European Space Agency
The project will be undertaken by the University of Warwick, England, and includes an important follow-up aspect for verifying PLATO’s data. PLATO’s resolution will not be high enough to tell conclusively when it is detecting an exoplanet, so researchers will need to check the readings to be sure they are not indicating noise or a different spacial anomaly before more resources are committed to investigating that part of space.
THE PANTHEON PLATO WILL JOIN
PLATO will be one of two missions that explicitly seek habitable planets in the galaxy — the other being Kepler, which worryingly went into emergency mode in 2015. Kepler has now detected 4,034 planets, of which 2,335 have been verified as exoplanets. Of the roughly 50 candidates that are near-Earth size and orbit in habitable zones, more than 30 have been verified as capable of supporting life.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has also been detecting hospitable worlds, but this was not its primary function — instead its aim, as stated on the NASA website, is to “observe astronomical objects and phenomena more consistently and with better detail than generally attainable from ground-based observatories,” which can include nebula, galaxies, and black holes.
The U.S. Airforce's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 after landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 7, 2017. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTS15M9K
Members of Congress have laid the groundwork for the U.S Air Force to establish a new branch of the military, known as a Space Corps, by January of 2019.
The proposal came from Congressmen Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Jim Cooper. D-Tenn., the top representatives of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, which oversees military space operations. They introduced the legislation into the House Armed Services Committee National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday.
According to a joint statement by Rogers and Cooper, the Space Corps would reorganize the national security space enterprise “to ensure prioritization of the space domain by creating a U.S. Space Corps as a separate military service within the Department of the Air Force and under the civilian leadership of the Secretary of the Air Force.”
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The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia (above) was designed so a person to walk between any two points in the Pentagon in less than seven minutes. The Shanghai Pentagonal Mart by comparison has been called confusing and too large to navigate. (AP)
"There is bipartisan acknowledgement that the strategic advantages we derive from our national security space systems are eroding," the statement said, "We are convinced that the Department of Defense is unable to take the measures necessary to address these challenges effectively and decisively, or even recognize the nature and scale of its problems."
Rogers told Space News “As I’ve been chairing this subcommittee for the last four years, we have seen time and again that our ability to meet new challenges in space is lethargic at best.”
Space would fall under the command of its own chief, equal in rank to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, who would sit on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and answer to the Secretary of the Air Force.
But Air Force leaders are rejecting the plan. “The Pentagon is complicated enough,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters following her testimony in front of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. “This will make it more complex, add more boxes to the organization chart and cost more money. If I had more money, I would put it into lethality, not bureaucracy.”
An Air Force statement, sent to Fox News on Wilson’s behalf, said, "I could not agree more that now is the time to address the threats our nation faces in space, which is why the Air Force has proposed a 20 percent increase in space funding in this year's budget, and announced last week a reorganization that integrates, elevates and normalizes space."
When Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein was asked at a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces hearing, “some space advocates these days are calling for space corps, something like the structure of the Marines within the Navy. Do you support that, or do you think we should take a pass?” he responded “Sir, I do not support it at this time in our history” and went on to say “Whether there is a time in our future when we want to take a look at this again, I would say that we probably ought to keep that dialogue open. But right now, I think it would actually move us in the wrong direction and slow us down from where we need to go.”
Fox News went back to Rogers and Cooper about the Air Force opposition to their legislation. Cooper did not return a request for comment and Rogers sent a statement saying:
“My subcommittee has studied this issue for months. Congressman Cooper and I have met with space experts and space leaders and have concluded that Congress must intervene to help address the significant flaws in the organization and management of our national security space. I am outraged by the response from the Air Force leadership – I know creating the Space Corps will take work, but they are completely out of touch if they truly believe the U.S. can keep up with China or Russia if we do not do move forward with Space Corps. In fact, China and Russia are also ahead of us in terms of reorganizing their military space capabilities. The United States will fall further behind because space is the future for warfare.”
The Air Force already has a Space Command, but if this new legislation makes it through votes in the House and Senate, and is signed into law by the president, then the U.S. will have “a separate military service responsible for national security space programs for which the Air Force is today responsible.”
VS stuurt leger de ruimte in. Waar zijn ze bang voor?
VS stuurt leger de ruimte in. Waar zijn ze bang voor?
Het Amerikaanse Congres heeft het fundament gelegd voor een nieuwe legerafdeling die ‘de ruimte moet gaan beschermen’. Tegen januari 2019 moet de afdeling, die Space Corps zal heten, operationeel zijn.
Congresleden Mike Rogers en Jim Cooper, die militaire ruimteoperaties overzien, hebben inmiddels een wetsvoorstel over het Space Corps ingediend.
Uit het wetsvoorstel blijkt dat het korps zal vallen onder de Amerikaanse luchtmacht en wordt geleid door het hoofd van de luchtmacht.
Ingewikkeld genoeg
Rogers vertelde aan SpaceNews dat keer op keer is gebleken dat de VS niet goed in staat is om ‘het hoofd te bieden aan nieuwe uitdagingen in de ruimte’.
De luchtmachttop is niet erg te spreken over het nieuwe plan. “Het Pentagon is al ingewikkeld genoeg,” zei luchtmachtbaas Heather Wilson tegen journalisten.
“Dit zal het nog complexer maken,” voegde ze toe. “Hierdoor zal de organisatie nog groter worden en meer geld kosten.”
Bedreigingen
Wilson zei dat het nu de tijd is om het hoofd te bieden aan bedreigingen in de ruimte en dat de luchtmacht om die reden het ruimtebudget vergroot met 20 procent.
Cooper reageerde woedend op de uitspraken van de top. “De ruimte is de toekomst van oorlogsvoering,” zei hij.
Von Braun
Dr. Carol Rosin verklaarde dat raketgeleerde Wernher von Braun in de jaren zeventig al tegen haar had gezegd dat eerst de Russen en later de terroristen als vijand zouden worden aangewezen.
Vervolgens zouden mensen bang worden gemaakt voor aliens en zouden er wapens in de ruimte worden gebracht. Krijgt Rosin nu gelijk?
Veel vliegtuigen en schepen verdwenen in Bermudadriehoek. Maar nu is er ook iets verschenen
Veel vliegtuigen en schepen verdwenen in Bermudadriehoek. Maar nu is er ook iets verschenen
In de Bermudadriehoek is een eiland ontstaan. Het was in april niet meer dan een kleine zandbank en is inmiddels al meer dan 1,5 kilometer lang en ruim 100 meter breed.
Het mysterieuze eiland wordt door lokale bewoners Shelly Island genoemd vanwege het grote aantal schelpen dat er is aangespoeld.
Het eiland bevindt zich in de buurt van Buxton in North Carolina. Nieuwsgierigen zijn massaal afgereisd naar het bijzondere eiland, maar dat is niet zonder gevaar.
Stroming
In de wateren rond het eiland zijn namelijk metersgrote haaien en pijlstaartroggen waargenomen.
Daarnaast is de stroming tussen het eiland en het vasteland zo sterk dat zwemmen er sterk afgeraden wordt.
Janice Regan bezocht het eiland in april met haar 11-jarige kleinzoon, toen het niet veel meer was dan een kleine zandbank.
“Is dit niet gek?” vroeg ze. “In april was er slechts een kleine bult te zien.”
Verdwijning
Het eiland verscheen in de wateren rond de beruchte Bermudadriehoek, die zich in de Atlantische Oceaan bevindt.
De Bermudadriehoek kan volgens sommigen worden gelinkt aan de verdwijning van tientallen vliegtuigen en schepen.
Onduidelijk
Gemiddeld verdwijnen er in het gebied vier vliegtuigen en 20 jachten per jaar.
Het is onduidelijk wat er met het nieuwe eiland gaat gebeuren. Het kan volgend jaar weer gaan krimpen en verdwijnen, of groter worden.
MIMIC reveals huge unknown anomaly above the Earth flying towards Antarctica
MIMIC reveals huge unknown anomaly above the Earth flying towards Antarctica
A huge anomaly that looks nearly exactly like that of a large asteroid or possibly an enormous piece of space debris has shown up on the MIMIC map of July 4, 2017 first appearing at just below the equator.
The anomaly appears to originate at a steep incline off of the west coast of Africa flying all the way across the South Atlantic Ocean.
Although this anomaly is different from the waves/anomalies which have been caught in the past, it clearly makes a ‘bee-line’ towards Antarctica like all the waves/anomalies before.
Incredible images of transparent vehicle in the sky over Kaufman, Texas
Incredible images of transparent vehicle in the sky over Kaufman, Texas
While driving on the Highway 175 near Kaufman in Texas the witness noticed a shiny object in the sky. At first he thought it was a plane but there was no sound and strange enough the object did not move.
He quickly took two repeat images of the shiny object before it suddenly was gone.
After looking the images he was shocked at what appeared in the images what looks like a transparent vehicle. The images were taken last year, July 19, 2016 and submitted to Mufon, case 84792.
Note:It reminds me the stunning image captured by a resident of Vienna in Austria in 2014 of a huge transparent vehicle floating above the clouds for 2 minutes before it was gone.
Some time ago, Airbus has unveiled its vision for flight in 40 years' time that includes see-through walls, holographic gaming and morphing seats but in this case it seems unlikely that the photographer captured images of such a transparent plane of the future or it must be the transparent vehicle still is in its development phase.
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE REVEALED ON RUSSIAN DECLASSIFIED SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS OF VENUS
EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE REVEALED ON RUSSIAN DECLASSIFIED SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS OF VENUS
A series of photographs have been released by the Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. The images had been captured by the Venera probe and they allegedly reveal evidence that there are organisms that are alive on Venus.
Venus is thought to be among the most inhospitable places in the solar system for human beings and is the second planet from the sun and the most similar of planets in the solar system in regards to size along with structure to Earth. However, the structure of it is not anything at all like that of Earth.
VENUS HAS TEMPERATURE OF 480 CELSIUS
Venus is the hottest of planets in the solar system and this is down to the atmosphere, which has a greenhouse gas that traps heat which is about 97% carbon dioxide. The temperature is said to be about 480 degrees Celsius, constantly, and this has heat enough to be able to melt lead and is hotter than Mercury, which is the closest planet to the Sun.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti, the doctor of physical and mathematical science from the Institute for Space Research, said that the photographs had been captured about 30 years ago and they show movement on the surface of Venus of objects that are very strange.
Of course, NASA 'debunked' the discovery of what might be proof of life on Venus. They said that the creature that Ksanfomaliti said was like a scorpion, was, in fact, nothing more than noise in a second-hand photograph, which had not been seen in the original photograph. They also said that the disc that had been seen moving over the surface of Venus was a lens cap.
This has not stopped Ksanfomaliti believing that in the photographs there is a disk, along with what was described as being a black flap, and a creature that has the shape of a scorpion, moving in the images and moving directly in front of the camera that is onboard Venera 13.
OBJECTS ON SURFACE OF VENUS WERE SAID TO EMERGE, FLUCTUATE AND DISAPPEAR
Reports from a news agency in Russia said that Ksanfomaliti had told a magazine in Russia that they had all emerged and then fluctuated and finally disappeared. He went on to say that if people forgot about the theories that life cannot exist on Venus, then the morphological features of the objects lead people to believe that they are actually living forms.
NASA photo analyst disagrees with Ksanfomaliti and he said that what Ksanfomaliti saw on the photographs is more than likely nothing more than a disc that would have come from the spacecraft. He went on to say that there were two cameras on Venera-13, one of which was situated on the back and the other one to the front. One image showed the lens cap from the camera at the back, not a lens cap that had moved.
NASA CLAIMS NOTHING COULD SURVIVE ON SURFACE OF VENUS
NASA went on to say that there was absolutely no way that anything would be able to survive on the surface of Venus. Scientists have said that perhaps once in the very distant past, Venus may have been able to support life and this would have been during a time when the planet had giant oceans. This would be well before the greenhouse effect and the creation of the high temperatures that exist over Venus today.
There are theories that perhaps Earth and Venus may both have started out very similar. It has been suggested that perhaps there might have been plenty of water on the planet Venus and it may have been possible that there was a large amount of carbon dioxide on Earth. This came from a paper that was published in2004 by Professor Andrew Ingersoll from Caltech.
PERHAPS THERE ARE ALIEN BEINGS WHO LIKE HIGH TEMPERATURES
One of the biggest issues with scholars and scientists who are looking for extra-terrestrial life in the universe and solar system is that for life to have been able to exist, the planet would have to have a climate along with conditions that are very similar to those on Earth.
However, it has been suggested that it may be possible that on Venus, or perhaps elsewhere, there are beings living who do actually need temperatures that are scorching, in order to be able to survive. Perhaps they are beings that are able to breathe carbon dioxide and do not rely on oxygen or water in order to be able to survive. Perhaps if people want to be successful in searching for aliens then they need to alter the patterns and conditions of the search.
In 2011, Denise Stoner and I met to discuss the commonalities that alien abduction experiencers share. As longtime abduction investigators/researchers, we were aware of certain repeating patterns of information and characteristics. The pertinent literature, the academic social science studies and the works of David Jacobs, PhD, Thomas Bullard, PhD, and the late Budd Hopkins, John Mack, MD, and others had identified several commonalities among abduction experiencers. But we had not been able to locate an academic study that was specific to our particular interests. I earned a B.A. degree in social work from the University of New Hampshire in 1971, and participated in graduate studies in education at the University of Cincinnati and U.N.H., while working as a teacher and education services coordinator. My primary academic interest has been in social research and psychology. I left my job in 1990 to pursue a career as a UFO investigator, researcher and writer. As the niece of Betty and Barney Hill and witness to the primary evidence and aftermath of their alien abduction in 1961, I had been aware of the UFO phenomenon for more than fifty years. My book (with nuclear physicist/scientific ufologist Stanton T. Friedman), Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience was published in 2007 and our second book Science Was Wrong was published in 2010. I had surveyed the psychological studies on self identified abduction experiencers for a chapter on alien abduction in SWW and a research paper I prepared for the MUFON 2010 International UFO Symposium Proceedings. In addition to my independent research, I am also Florida MUFON’s Director of Abduction Studies and the National Director of the Abduction Research Team.
Denise has an educational background in business and psychology, and is a certified hypnotist specializing in regressive hypnosis. For 12 years Denise did background investigations for the military on recruits seeking highly classified clearances for work on nuclear submarines. Prior to retirement, Denise moved to a military research facility where she was the training coordinator for several hundred military and civilian employees. For the past several years, Denise has expanded her work with UFO research and investigation. She is an independent abduction researcher and hosts a study group for abduction experiencers and public interest meetings on the UFO phenomenon in general. She is Florida MUFON’s Asst. Director of Abduction Studies and the former Chief Investigator for the state.
At our study’s inception our stated goals were to benefit abduction experiencers by identifying specific traits that they have in common with other experiencers, and to expand the UFO research community’s knowledge of alien abduction phenomena. The most efficient scientific method for obtaining this information, in our opinion, was through the use of simple straightforward questionnaires, designed to identify commonalities among the UFO abduction experiencers. Each of us brought to the table knowledge of several unique, unpublicized characteristics of the alien abduction experience. The commonalities study would ascertain how widespread these commonalities are across the abduction experiencer population. We developed three questionnaires: The “UFO Abduction Experiencer Questionnaire” listed 45 multiple choice questions pertaining to experiencer’s demographics, abduction memories, emotional responses, physiological responses, and psychic phenomena. The second questionnaire, the “Abduction Experiencer E.T. Technology Questionnaire” would increase our knowledge of E.T. technology. The third, “Commonalities among Non-Abductees Questionnaire” queried individuals who denied having been abducted by aliens. It was developed after the first two questionnaires had been available for several months, and a commonalities trend had emerged. The 16 multiple choice questions would determine whether or not some of the commonalities among abduction experiencers are common across the general population. We established a minimum sample size of 50 completed questionnaires for abduction experiencers (AE) and 25 for non-abduction experiencers (NAE). There were 54 participants in the “UFO Abduction Experiencer Questionnaire”, but 4 questionnaires could not be tallied because they were too incomplete.
The “Abduction Experiencer E.T. Technology Questionnaire” study is not yet complete, as there have been only 24 responses to date. This can be attributed to the fact that a much smaller percentage of experiencers have clear recall of the craft’s interior and the technology observed. This part of the study is ongoing. Participants for our study were solicited via the MUFON UFO Journal and several alien abduction and UFO oriented websites. We also appeared on several radio shows and invited listeners to participate. Last, there were questionnaires at my vendor table at several UFO conferences and at Denise’s meetings. I posted the questionnaires, a letter of explanation, and an informed consent notice on my website at www.kathleen-marden.com. We communicated to participants that all questionnaires would be kept in a locked and secure location and destroyed at the end of the study. All personal identifying information that was volunteered would remain confidential. As a cautionary measure, we advised all potential participants that they should only complete the questionnaire if they could do so without feeling uncomfortable.
Demographics
Nearly twice as many women (32), as men (18) completed the “Abduction Experiencer Questionnaire”. Does this indicate that abduction is far more prevalent among women? Not necessarily so. Statistical evidence indicates that men are less likely than women to answer surveys of any kind. But this trend was not supported when we tallied the results of the “Commonalities among Non-Abductees Questionnaire”. The majority of respondents were men (15) as opposed to women (9). If trends in human behavior have not skewed the results, it suggests that more women than men have been abducted by aliens. This finding has been widely reported by other researchers. We were interested in identifying possible trends among age groups, partly due to the fact that a significant number of abduction experiencers in the 50+ age group had reported their experiences to us within recent months. Our intuition was correct. 44% of the AE Group participants were born in the 1950’s, although only 20% of the NAE Group was in the same age group. This figure drops dramatically for those born in the 1940’s (18%) and the 1960’s (26%). Could these statistics indicate that the human abduction program began slowly, perhaps during the 1950’s and 60’s, and was in full swing beginning in the 1970’s? Could this signify that the alien abduction program is winding down? Or could it be that younger people are less likely to fill out questionnaires? Only 12% of the AE Group respondents were under age 40. Yet 24% of the NAE Group was under 40.
We asked each group to identify the size of their area of residence. A survey of the relevant literature indicated that more UFOs were sighted in less populated areas than in large cities in the 1960’s and 70’s. Also, the majority of well investigated, famous abduction cases (Villas Boas, Hill, Walton, Buff Ledge, Casey CO., etc.), took place in rural areas. Yet the late Budd Hopkins wrote of alien abduction in New York City. We wanted to test whether or not a trend could be established. . AE Group—Area of Residence: Rural (15), Small Town (13), Suburban (13 ), Urban (9) . NAE Group—Area of Residence: Rural (3), Small Town (5), Suburban (12), Urban (5) The AE participants’ area of residence was fairly evenly divided among abduction experiencers, with 30% residing in a rural area, 26% in small towns, 26% in suburbs, and 18% in an urban area. 12% of the NAE group resides in a rural area, 20% in a small town, 48% in the suburbs and 20% in an urban area. These statistics indicate that no trend could be established. Slightly more experiencers (12%) are taken from a rural environment than from an urban area. But the difference is not statistically significant.
We wanted to determine if alien abduction is more prevalent one area of the US than another. . AE Group—Time Zone: Eastern (33), Central (10), Mountain (2), Pacific (4), Eastern Australia (1) . NAE Group—Time Zone: Eastern (20), Central (4), Mountain (0), Pacific (0), British (1) 66% of the AE group resides in the Eastern Time Zone, 20% Central, 4% Mountain, 8% Pacific, and 2% in foreign countries. These statistics are a bit perplexing. We asked, “Are there more abduction experiencers living in the Eastern US than in all other regions combined? Or did more people in the Eastern US listen to our radio interviews?” The NAE questionnaire answered this question. 80% reside in the Eastern Time Zone, 16% Central, 0% Mountain, 0% Pacific, and 4% in Great Britain. The majority of participants in both groups reside in the Eastern US. Therefore, the AE group presents no valid evidence that more experiencers reside in the Eastern US than elsewhere. The majority of abduction experiencers believe that they have been taken repeatedly over a number of years or throughout their lifetime.
We wanted to determine how frequently contact occurs. How many times do you think you’ve been taken?
*1 time only (2), 2-5 (8), 6-10 (4), More than 10 (25), Not certain (8), no answer (3) 64%
25 of 39 of those who could quantify their abductions stated that they have been taken more than 10 times.The next largest group was those who could not state a specific number, followed by the 2-5 range. This is a significant finding because the majority of abduction experiencers believe that their alien contact occurs periodically throughout their lifetime. Only two participants stated that they had been taken only one time. This is interesting because their answers on the questionnaire revealed that they had little in common with multiple abduction experiencers. Many experiencers believe that they have been taken since they were small children. We asked for this information.
* Age when first abduction occurred? Under 5 (18), 5-9 (10), 10-19 (7), Over 20 (7), Not sure (8) 83%
35 of 42 of the respondents who could qualify their age at the time of their first abduction indicated that they were under age 20 when their first abduction occurred. 51% (18 of 35) were under 5. In another question we asked how frequently their visitations had occurred. 68% stated that their abductions occurred most frequently when they were under age 30. However, a surprising 21% of the over 40 group stated that their contacts are still frequent. A clear pattern of frequency across all age groups could not be established. Only 20% stated that they had been taken more than one time per month. An equal number are not sure how often they’ve been visited by ETs. Others replied from one time per month to 2-3 times per year.
Abduction Memories
This section of the questionnaire is divided into four parts with subcategories. 1. Conscious recall 2. Emotional responses 3. Physiological responses 4. Psi phenomena
Conscious recall
* 88% stated that their abduction memories were consciously recalled; 56% through dreams; 36% through hypnosis; 16% through other means such as flashbacks.
* 67% stated that they consciously recalled (not with hypnosis), the observation of an unconventional craft at less than 1000 feet prior to an abduction. . 56% stated that they consciously recalled (not with hypnosis), the observation of non-human entities immediately prior to an abduction while they were outside their home. 76% indicated that they were not alone when they were taken.
* 62% of the witnesses had conscious recall for at least part of the experience.
* 43% stated that witnesses reported the observation of a UFO near their house, vehicle, tent, etc. prior to or during their abduction.
* 58% stated that they are aware of having been examined on an alien craft.
These highly significant statistics reveal that the majority of the respondents had conscious recall of at least one abduction experience and were not alone when it occurred. More than half remembered observing a craft at less than 1000 feet and non-human entities prior to at least one abduction experience. We are often led by media sources to believe that the majority of abduction experiencers are procured exclusively from their bedrooms and have no witnesses. The Marden-Stoner study indicates that this perception is false.
Emotional Responses
(These open ended questions were not conducive to statistical analysis.)
* We asked, “What is your typical response to abduction?” More than one response was permitted. The most predominant reply was fear (26), followed by curiosity (23). 12 indicated that they felt despair and 11 felt pleasure. (More than one response was permitted.)
*We asked, “How did you feel after an abduction experience?” 15 stated that they felt angry. 15 felt tired, exhausted or physically drained and unwell. 11 were fearful. Only 3 felt peaceful.
We wanted to test several hypotheses pertaining to emotional stability as a factor in alien abduction experiences. Is there an increased sense of sadness among experiencers? Are there more mood swings among this group? Is there mood consistency throughout one’s lifetime? Respondents were permitted to check more than one answer.
* AE Group—On a daily basis, how would you describe your mood? Happy (15), Sad (7), Frequent mood swings (6), Without unusual highs and lows (25)
* NAE Group –On a daily basis, how would you describe your mood? Happy (15), Sad (0), Frequent mood swings (4), Without unusual highs and lows (6).
* AE Group—As a child, how would you describe your mood? Happy (13), Sad (13), Frequent mood swings (5), Without unusual highs and lows (14), Anxious (7).
* NAE Group—As a child, how would you describe your mood? Happy (10), Sad (0), Frequent mood swings (4), Without unusual highs and lows (10), Anxious (2).
The majority of respondents in both groups stated that they are happy or do not have unusual highs or lows. It is interesting that a higher percentage of the NAE group reported frequent mood swings on a daily basis than the AE group. But a small percentage of the the AE group reported that they experienced more sadness as adults. Several of the “sad” and “frequent mood swings” AE respondents reported that they had been the victims of childhood abuse. Their feelings of sadness and their mood swings have persisted throughout their lifetime. This group was more likely to report abuse by their ET captors. Additionally, those who reported traumatic memories of being abused by ETs are more likely to feel sad as adults. The majority of respondents reported that they used one or more coping mechanisms to deal with their fear or anxiety due to their abduction experiences. Only 3 reported that they have no fear. Coping mechanisms that give relief to experiencers include talking with a supportive, non- judgmental person, meditation or relaxation exercises, prayer and writing about their experiences.
We were interested in the sleep patterns of abduction experiencers. Did they have difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep? Could this be related to a fear of abduction? Or were other factors involved?
* Do you have difficulty falling asleep? Yes (37) No (13) . Staying asleep? Yes (35), No (14). (1 respondent did not answer the second part of the question.)
74% of the AE group had difficulty falling asleep and 71% had difficulty staying asleep. 7 of the 8 people (16%) who indicated that they sleep well throughout the night attributed it to overcoming their fear of abduction. This is a very small percentage, but it might be an indicator that the loss of fear improves sleep quality. Only 1 person who reported the absence of fear has difficulty falling and staying asleep and that person is in the 60+ group. We speculated that since 44% of the respondents are in the 50-59 group, and since older people tend to experience more sleep problems, that the results might have been skewed by this factor. The evidence did not bear this out. In fact, 5 of the restful sleepers are in the 50-59 age range. It is interesting, however, that all but one person in the over 60 group reported sleep problems regardless of whether or not they were fearful. 2 individuals in the under 40 group reported that they do not have sleep difficulties, and neither has a fear of abduction. The remaining 4 had difficulty falling asleep, but once they were asleep they were able to sleep through the night. (These questions were not on the NAE questionnaire.)
Physiological Responses
Alien implants have been widely reported in UFO abduction literature thanks to the work of Dr. Roger Leir and Derrel Sims. We wanted to ascertain the percentage of experiencers that suspected they have a palpable alien implant. It was also important to us to ask where the implants are located in the human body. 40 of the 50 respondents replied to this question. . We asked, “Can you feel a foreign object in your body that you suspect is an alien implant?” Yes (21), No (19). If yes, where is it located? 53% believe that they can feel an alien implant in their body. The majority of participants indicated that it is located in their head, including the following: temple, eye, nose, behind ear, inside ear, groin, and eyebrow. Other areas mentioned are in the spine, lower leg, hand, chest and vagina. Unexplained marks, such as patterned bruises, scoop marks, puncture wounds, and rashes are commonly reported by abduction experiencers. (I am collecting and cataloguing experiencers’ photographic evidence.)
* AE Group—Have you awoken with unexplained marks on your body?” Yes (40), No (8), No answer (2)
* NAE Group—Have you awoken with unexplained marks on your body? Yes (5), No (20).
A highly significant 83% of the AE Group stated that they had awoken with unexplained marks on their bodies, whereas only 20% of the NAE group replied in the affirmative. Long, thin bruises were most often found on women’s calves, thighs or buttocks, suggesting finger marks. Patterned bruises were found on the upper arm. Scoop marks were reported on arms, ankles, behind knees, or on feet. Puncture wounds were found on hands and rib cages, although one woman reported a vaginal puncture wound. Burn marks were on upper backs and sunburn like rashes were reported, sometimes on the entire body.
Several participants mentioned plastic-like filaments, the size of a strand of hair, coming from various locations on their bodies.
* We asked,” Has your nose bled immediately following an abduction? Yes (26 ), No (23), not sure (1) A significant 52% replied in the affirmative. Several mentioned significant scarring in their nasal cavity that had been of concern to their physicians. One mentioned that his physician found a strange metal object high in the respondent’s nasal passage.
* We asked, “Have you noticed strange skin rashes immediately following an abduction?” Yes (17), No (29), Not sure (4)
37% of those who answered yes or no have noticed rashes on their body following an encounter. Earlier in the history of alien abduction, burns on one’s neck or upper back, hair loss and conjunctivitis were reported. An example of this is the 1976 Casey County, KY abduction of Elaine Thomas, Louise Smith and Mona Stafford. We wanted to know if these problems have persisted.
* We asked, “Have you ever suffered burns, hair loss, or conjunctivitis following an abduction?” Yes (11), No (34), Not sure (4)
22% of the respondents stated that they had suffered burns, hair loss or conjunctivitis following an abduction experience. One participant stated that her sunburn-like rash was accompanied by a pins and needles tingling sensation after an abduction in 1978. She and several others reported that one or both eyes were red and swollen following a contact experience. One participant stated that she suffered a combination of all three physical affects in 1988. We were interested in determining whether or not participants had undergone changes in their blood chemistry or bleeding disorders after an abduction experience.
* We asked, “Has your doctor noted changes in your blood chemistry, blood clotting easily, or bleeding too freely after an abduction?” Yes (9), No (41)
One respondent was diagnosed with a clotting disorder. Another mentioned problems with vitamin D and iron absorption. Others mentioned consistently high white blood cell counts.
Our next question did not pertain specifically to our research findings and we did not anticipate the result.
* AE Group—Do you crave excessive amounts of salt? Yes (29), No (18), No answer (3)
* NAE Group—Do you crave excessive amounts of salt? Yes (3), No (22)
62% of the AE Group craves salt, whereas only 12% of the NAE Group does. Dehydration is the most common cause of salt cravings. Although rare, Addison’s disease is caused when the adrenal gland does not produce enough of the hormone cortisol. One might speculate that if the adrenal glands are continually tapped by ongoing stress due to alien abduction, it could lead to adrenal distress that is characterized by symptoms of fatigue, insomnia and salt cravings. However, this is another condition that is best studied by the medical community.
The following questions regarding physical affects were on the questionnaire. The answers are self explanatory.
* After your abduction did you notice any of the following? 1.More acute hearing? Yes 28% 2.More sensitive to light? Yes 56% 3.More allergies? Yes 36% 4.More fluctuation in your mood? Yes 34%
* Has your doctor noted changes in your blood chemistry, such as blood clotting easily, or bleeding too freely after an abduction? Yes 18%, No 82%
The following questions were asked of the AE and NAE Groups:
* AE Group—Do you suffer from migraine headaches? Yes (20), No (26), No reply (4)
* NAE Group—Do you suffer from migraine headaches? Yes (2), No (23) 43%
20 of 46 of the AE Group suffers from migraine headaches (moderate to severe pulsing headaches that last 4-72 hours and worsen with physical activity, whereas only 8% of the NAE Group does. Medical studies indicate that only 10-12% of the general population suffers from migraines. This is a highly significant finding indicating that abduction experiencers suffer from migraine headaches at a considerably higher rate than the non-abduction experiencers that participated in our study, and the general population.
Gynecological problems among female abduction experiencers have been widely reported in UFO abduction literature. We wanted to obtain statistics on the prevalence of these disorders.
* AE Group—If you are a female, have you experienced gynecological problems? Yes (22), No (10)
* NAE Group—If you are a female, have you experienced gynecological problems? Yes (3 ), No (6)
A significant 69% of the AE Group reported that they had experienced gynecological problems, whereas 33% of the NAE Group made the same report. Two respondents from the AE Group mentioned that they had tested positive for pregnancy, but then were not pregnant, and there was no cramping or bleeding. The sample size in the NAE Group is too small to draw an acceptable comparison. We found it interesting, however, that three of the women in this group that answered “yes” had more in common with the AE group than the NAE group on all of the questions.
Several years ago, a study revealed that a high percentage of abduction experiencers suffer from Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, sometimes called Chronic or Reactivating Mononucleosis. Affecting less than 1% of the US population, CFIDS can be a devastating disorder. 2.5% of the US population has the symptoms, but no formal diagnosis. These include debilitating fatigue that is not improved by bed rest; problems with concentration and short term memory; flu-like symptoms; word finding problems; reading retention difficulties; and ambulation difficulties due to balance problems. It is not a depressive disorder. Medical researchers have noted immune, neurological, and endocrine abnormalities in CFIDS sufferers. 25% of sufferers are bedridden and 50% cannot work during flare-ups. We decided to revisit this question when we asked the following:
* Have you been diagnosed as having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Reactivated Mononucleosis? Yes (18), No (30).
2 respondents stated that they CFIDS symptoms but no formal diagnosis. 38% of the participants in our study have a CFIDS or RM diagnosis, whereas less than 1% of the US population has this diagnosis. This is a highly significant finding. Reports of such a high rate of CFIDS among abduction experiencers should be taken seriously by the medical community. One has to wonder if the alien environment is causing illness among humans. Are the ET’s experiments passing this syndrome to experiencers? Could it be caused by the alien technology that allows the transfer of a human body through a solid structure? Is it an adrenal response caused by one’s persistent fear of abduction? Is it the result of a sleep disorder? Is it a retrovirus created by ETs?
Psi Phenomena
Psi phenomena, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, out of body experiences, etc. have long been associated with the alien abduction phenomenon. It is both perplexing and troubling to investigators. Many are not inclined to investigate reports of events that seem more like imagination than reality. Some consider it an embarrassment to the scientific study of UFOs and would prefer to sweep it under the rug. Others feel that they are not equipped to investigate psi phenomena. Yet, abduction experiencers consistently report being transported through solid surfaces, telepathic communication, light orbs that expand into non-human entities, poltergeist activity in their homes (soon after a contact experience), and new psychic abilities. In an attempt not to lead the participants to specific information we referred to these phenomena as “paranormal” rather than ghost related, mystical or psychic. The Free Dictionary defines paranormal as “Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.” We developed 7 questions pertaining to these phenomena.
* AE Group—Have you witnessed paranormal activity in your home? Yes (43), No (6), No answer (1). If so, please describe it.
* NAE Group—Have you witnessed paranormal activity in your home? Yes (11) 44%, No (14) 56%. If so, please describe it.
88% of the abduction experiencers reported that they had witnessed paranormal activity in their homes, including light orbs that dart or float through the air. Sometimes the orbs pop like a bubble into 1-3 ETs. Many reported poltergeist activity such as household items flying through the air, pictures flying off walls, lights turning off and on, windows opening and closing, doors opening and closing and toilets flushing on their own. 44% of the NAE Group reported paranormal activities in their homes, but there was a slight variation between the AE and the NAE Groups. They reported ghosts, shadow people, spirits, mist clouds, strange sounds, strange odors, and cold spots. One respondent reported light orbs, but she had all of the characteristics of an abduction experiencer. A small percentage (4%) of the AE group reported ghost-like activity such as invisible beings that had weight in their beds and temperature changes in their home environment. For example, a room was 56 degrees although the thermostat was set at 83 degrees. We were struck by and hadn’t anticipated the high percentage (44%) of paranormal activity reports by the NAE Group, as early on in this part of the study only a tiny percentage of the NAE group had reported paranormal activity. This increased dramatically following my interview on a popular paranormal radio show. In order to determine whether or not the paranormal activity is directly tied to the alien abduction experience, we asked:
* Did it begin prior to or after your first abduction? Prior to (13), After (22), Not sure (3), no answer (5)
It is significant that 51% of the participants reported that their paranormal activity began after their first abduction experience. Many commented that this activity is not ongoing, but occurs immediately prior to or after a contact event.
The next question pertains to telepathic communication. We were interested in determining whether or not all communication between the “visitors” and the experiencers was telepathic.
* AE Group—Have you ever received telepathic messages from your visitors? Yes (44), No (6)
* NAE Group—Have you ever received telepathic messages? Yes (8), No (17 )
A statistically significant 88% of the AE Group reported telepathic communication with their visitors, whereas only 32% of the non-experiencers reported telepathic communication. Many experiencers reported that they “sensed” a contact experience was about to occur or received a telepathic message prior to its onset. It is interesting to note that 2 of those who answered “No” reported having only one abduction experience.
* We asked those who answered yes, “Was the telepathic communication related to an abduction experience? Yes (30), No (2), not sure (1), No answer (11).
91% of those in the EA Group that answered the question replied in the affirmative. The next two questions are closely related.
* Are you more or less “sensitive” or intuitive than you were prior to your abduction experience? More (36 ), Less (0), about the same (8), Not sure (6)
*. Did you develop new psychic abilities after your abduction experience? Yes (26), No (7), Maybe (2), No answer (15)
72% stated that they are more sensitive or intuitive than they were prior to contact. 79% stated that they developed new psychic abilities after a contact experience. One person reported that they have always been psychic and another noted that his or her psychic abilities increased. The following question was worded to ask whether or not abduction experiencers discovered that they had the ability to heal others following an abduction experience.
* Do you feel you have been given a gift of healing following an abduction experience? Yes (25), No (18), Don’t know (5), No answer (1)
50% stated that noted that they were able to heal others for at least a short period following an abduction experience. This gift persisted for an extended period of time for some of the participants, but not for others. 2% mentioned that they had always been healers.
Miscellaneous
Kay Wilson, a well-known abduction experiencer, had written about her “invisibility” experience in an airport and two additional abduction experiencers reported to us that they, at times, felt literally invisible. We decided to determine whether or not others have experienced this sensation by asking, “Do you ever feel that you are literally invisible and others can’t see you? It is interesting that 25% answered in the affirmative.
Blood types, Rh factors, and ancestral genetic links have long been of interest to alien abduction researchers. We decided to inquire about blood types. . AE Group—What is your blood type? A (17), B (1), O (10), AB (1) Positive? (15) Negative? (8 ) . NAE Group—What is your blood type? A (9), B (1), O (6), AB (2). Positive? (10) Negative? (2 ) 29 AE Group participants responded to the question. Of these 59% is type A and 34% is type O. Because 66% of the respondents reside in the Eastern Time Zone, we researched the distribution of blood types throughout the US. It is estimated that 20-25% of the US population residing in the Northeast and East-Central has type A blood and 70-80% are type O. Does this indicate that there is an elevated percentage of A blood types among abduction experiencers? We compared our statistics to the NAE Group and found that 50% are type A and 33% type O. This indicates that the majority of participants in both groups are type A regardless of whether or not they have experienced alien abduction. We then evaluated the Rh factor knowing that 85% of all humans have Rh+ blood types. We found an elevated percentage of Rh- Factor (35%) among abduction experiencers. The Stanford School of Medicine Blood Center reports that 6.3% of their collected blood types are A negative and 6.6% are O negative. This elevated percentage among abduction experiencers could be significant. Among the NAE Group 83% had a positive Rh factor and 17% were negative indicating that both groups had elevated Rh negative blood types. It is interesting that a significantly higher percentage (18%) of AE Group reported a negative RH factor than in the NAE Group. However, many participants did not know their blood type, so the sample size is too small to be considered statistically reliable.
Throughout the history of alien abduction electrical malfunctions have been widely reported. We decided to address this issue in our questionnaire.
* AE Group—Following an abduction, did you ever experience malfunctions of electrical equipment such as lights, digital watches, computers, etc? Yes (34), No (16)
* NAE Group—Have you ever experienced malfunctions of electrical equipment such as lights, digital watches, computers, etc. for no obvious reason? Yes (8), No (17)
68% of the AE Group reported experiencing malfunctions of electrical equipment, whereas only 32% of the NAE Group had the same experience. The AE Group reported malfunctioning computers, watches, appliances, radios, televisions, cameras and compasses. Some reported that light bulbs blow out or blink off and on and the hands on their watches spin. One participant stated that the time clock at his place of employment malfunctions only for him. The NAE group mentioned that street lights blink out when they drive or walk under them. This has also been reported to me by abduction experiencers. Another stated that when she became emotionally upset light bulbs would “shoot in the room I was standing in.” Both groups reported that televisions, appliances and computers would automatically switch themselves off and on.
Conclusion and Discussion
After we had excluded the demographic information and the open ended questions, we were left with 37 questions that could be analyzed for correlating information. Of these we found 23 positive, statistically significant correlations among abduction experiencers. A pattern emerged indicating that the majority of abduction experiencers had conscious recall of at least one event and were with a witness who also recalled the experience. They had a close encounter with an unconventional craft and sometimes observed its occupants. They are aware of having been examined aboard a craft and were left with perplexing, unexplained marks on their bodies. Slightly more than half had a nose bleed immediately after an experience. Women reported an elevated percentage of gynecological problems that appear to be related to reproductive procedures performed by alien entities. The vast majority was revisited—some more than 10 times—and was taken from their homes to an alien craft. Often the abduction experiencers sensed an impending visitation by alien entities before it occurred. The mode of communication between alien entities and humans is almost entirely telepathic. A new psychic awareness has emerged in the majority of experiencers and about half have found that they now have new healing abilities. Immediately before or soon after a visitation they become aware of paranormal activity in their homes, such as light orbs, objects flying through the air or from walls, doors opening and closing without assistance, etc. The majority noticed malfunctioning electrical equipment, appliances, watches, computers, TVs, radios, cameras, etc. Slightly more than half developed a new sensitivity to light and now crave salt. They feel a foreign object in their body and are fearful of being abducted again. Most have difficulty falling asleep and remaining asleep throughout the night. Those who have resolved their fearfulness are more likely to sleep restfully.
Finally, we want to express our sincere gratitude to those who participated in this study. It wasn’t an easy task. We asked them to visit my website and copy the 45 question or 16 question form. Then we requested that they fill in the multiple choice questions and add their comments and accounts of their personal experiences that would elucidate us regarding their specific information. They were then asked to mail their questionnaires to me or to return them via email. Although it required some effort on their part, it reduced the possibility that hoaxers would intentionally sabotage the study. In the end, we were very pleased with the knowledge we gained and the opportunity it gave us to support abduction experiencers and expand the UFO research community’s knowledge of the alien abduction phenomenon.
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Faces On Mars, Alien Satellites and Moon Bases: 5 ‘Unexplained’ NASA Photos Explained
Faces On Mars, Alien Satellites and Moon Bases: 5 ‘Unexplained’ NASA Photos Explained
Space is filled with many strange and wondrous things, some of which are currently not fully understood by modern science. Space is also filled with many mundane and simple things, some of which are also not fully understood by the people of Earth who are desperate to find something else out there.
This is where alien sightings, UFOs and other associated conspiracy theories come in. The often grainy nature of space photography means it is not hard to find flying saucers, little green men and more in NASA pictures. Let’s take a look at some of them and try to figure out what they really are.
1. The Face of Cydonia
Space is filled with many strange and wondrous things, some of which are currently not fully understood by modern science. Space is also filled with many mundane and simple things, some of which are also not fully understood by the people of Earth who are desperate to find something else out there.
This is where alien sightings, UFOs and other associated conspiracy theories come in. The often grainy nature of space photography means it is not hard to find flying saucers, little green men and more in NASA pictures. Let’s take a look at some of them and try to figure out what they really are.
The Face of Cydonia
When NASA’s Viking 1 was circling Mars in 1976 it sent back some extraordinary photos of the Red Planet’s surface. On of them in particular appeared to show an eerie face looking right back at the camera.
The photo was a huge sensation, and NASA hoped it would inspire interest in its Mars missions. It certainly grabbed the public’s attention and it wasn’t long before people were talking about ancient alien structures, pyramids and ancestors on Mars.
What Is It Really?
The face is merely a large mesa rock formation that doesn’t even particularly look much like a face. Admittedly the original image does resemble a face, but this is due to the low quality of the early camera. Its ‘eyes’ and ‘mouth’ are merely shadows, while the nostril is merely a black spot caused by limitations in transferring photos at the time (you can see hundreds of them spread throughout the photo).
Subsequent missions to Mars made it a priority to photograph Cydonia. With every mission came improvements with camera technology as well as pictures which debunked the ‘alien face monument’ theory. One of the most recent photos shows quite clearly it is simply a geographic formation.
2. The Black Knight Satellite
Another well-known space conspiracy theory concerns a supposed alien satellite which is orbiting the polar regions of Earth and broadcasting a strange message. Some claim it has been there for 13,000 years and constitutes a welcome invitation from an advanced alien race.
Known as the Black Knight, it is claimed that it has been photograpged several times, such as the examples below:
What Is It Really?
These photos are often captioned as ‘unexplained’, but that’s a blatant fallacy. NASA know exactly what it is. It’s a thermal blanket which became detached during an EVA aboard Endeavor’s STS-88 mission. There’s even a video of NASA’s personnel aboard the Endeavor filming it float away. Watch that below:
Despite this explanation, the claims these pictures are an ancient alien satellite persist. In reality, all the claims regarding the Black Knight have been categorically debunked.
3. Apollo 16 UFO
When returning from the moon on April 27, 1972, the Apollo 16 crew filmed a few seconds of film from the window of their spacecraft. The 16 mm film was later described as containing “a saucer-shaped object with a dome on top.” None of the crew reported seeing a UFO at the time, but this hasn’t stopped UFO experts from claiming they were being shadowed by an alien craft. Watch the video below:
What Is It Really?
The interest surrounding the video was so great, NASA conducted an investigation into the object. After digitally improving the picture and conducting frame by frame analysis, they discovered the object had a “linear feature” attached to one side (above). Eventually, they deduced it was nothing more than the floodlight boom used for EVA missions.
4. The Woman on Mars
When NASA’s Spirit Rover was trundling around Mars looking for signs of water, it seemed to have found something much more spectacular – a Martian woman.
The image, sent back from Mars, appears to show a figure just chilling out on a rock and seemingly unaware of the massive NASA rover only a few meters away. Of course, many saw this as proof of life on Mars.
What Is It Really?
This one probably isn’t that surprising, but the Martian Woman is in fact just a rock – and not even a particularly big one. Astronomer Phil Plait explained:
Talk about a tempest in a teacup! The rock on Mars is actually just a few inches high and a few yards from the camera. A few million years of Martian winds sculpted it into an odd shape, which happens to look like, well, a Bigfoot! It’s just our natural tendency to see familiar shapes in random objects.
Plait is referring to a well-known psychological phenomenon known as pareidolia, which causes humans to often find familiar things (such as faces and bodies) in random shapes. This woman isn’t the only example of pareidolia on Mars – in fact they are dozens of them, including rats, dragon skulls and alien skulls.
5. Buildings On The Moon
A Youtube video claiming to feature dozens of leaked images from NASA included this curious picture which it says shows buildings on the surface of the moon.
What Is Really Going On Here?
Of course, there’s a lot in this picture which doesn’t make sense, like for example, why does the moon appears to have foliage and a pond nearby. But, more importantly, many people have seen that building before – and not on the moon.
The building is in fact a photoshopped image of Iran’s Ardeshir Palace, one of the oldest and best known Sassanid palaces. It’s notable domes as well as its nearby road and domes are all clearly visible in the picture above.
Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) have designed a new simulation model to help better our understanding of the Moon soon after its formation. Their work could increase our knowledge of exoplanets, which may be humanity's best hope of finding extraterrestrial life.
Most researchers believe the Moon formed when a Mars-sized object collided with the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, forming a cloud of molten material that was later coagulated into the Moon by gravitational forces. Existing models suggest that the Moon would have had its own atmosphere soon after this formation, but the team from GSFC actually did the math to reach a more precise understanding of this atmosphere and how it reacted with the Moon’s surface.
The researchers added up the radiation the young satellite would have felt from the magma covering its surface, the Earth, and the Sun. According to their model, supersonic winds would have blown across the surface of the side of the Moon facing the Earth, causing waves in the magma ocean covering it. After about a thousand years of cooling, the surface of the ocean would have been covered by floating rocks, at which point the atmosphere would have collapsed.
“The Moon’s atmosphere was like a hard-partying rock star,” Prabel Saxena, one of the researchers involved in the study, told Science News. “It had a really violent, heavy metal existence, but it rapidly just fell apart.”
EXPLAINING EXOPLANETS
This new model is particularly exciting because the greater our understanding of our Moon’s formation, the greater our understanding of how other space objects form. Exoplanets currently orbiting Red Dwarfs, for example, should in some ways be comparable to our Moon in its early years. “If we can characterize what the early Moon looked like, it can tell us about the physical mechanisms that are operating on these close-in extreme exoplanets,” explains Saxena.
Exoplanets are perhaps humanity’s best bet for finding extraterrestrial life, and in just a short amount of time, we have discovered thousands of them. A model like that created by the team at GSFC could help us narrow down the list to those most likely to harbor life, which could then be studied further using tools like the James Webb Space Telescope.
Truly, thanks to the work of researchers like those at GSFC, we have never been closer to answering humanity’s greatest questions: Where did we come from, and are we alone?
Hundreds of boats and planes have been lost to the mysterious triangle
The disappearances in the infamous region has repeatedly been blamed on the paranormal - with suggestions it could be a vortex to another dimension which has transported the poor souls on board away from our universe.
But now scientists believe there could be a much more Earthly, and provable explanation, for the legend also known as the Devil's Triangle.
Researchers have found huge undersea craters which could be tell-tale signs on why vessels went missing and were possible blown to smithereens, to end up at the bottom of the sea.
The up to half-mile-wide and 150ft deep craters in the Barents Sea are thought to have been caused by a build-up of methane.
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This graphic shows the vast extent of the triangle
They are just off the Norweaigan coast - a country rich in natural gas reserves.
Methane is likely to have leaked from deposits of natural gas deeper below the sea bed, then created cavities which eventually burst, once the pressure gets too high, the scientists said.
This would lead to a massive blow up of gas, which could cause a boat or ship to fail if it was passing at the height of the explosion.
Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov, deputy head of the Trofimuk Institute, said: "There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions.
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"They start to actively decompose with methane ice turning into gas.
"It happens in an avalanche-like way, like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas.
"That makes the ocean heat up and ships sink in its waters mixed with a huge proportion of gas.
"The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the Arctic."
Hundreds of boats and planes have been lost within and just outside the triangle since Christopher Columbus was the first to record its existence, noting his ship's compass stopped working and he saw a fireball in the sky.
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Crew of Torpedo Bomber28, lead plane of Flight 19 which vanished in December 1945
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The the first reported ship with a radio lost in the triangle was the USS Cyclops ship in 1918
An average of four planes and 20 boats have been reported lost a year, with no trace of any debris, due to the Gulf Stream being believed to move them away.
Disappearances have been blamed on UFOs, strange mists, and even time travel.
The biggest recorded loss was in 1945 when five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers flying from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Bimini Island never showed up after a radio call from the 14 men on board that their compasses stopped working.
Three rescue planes also disappeared.
The Bermuda Triangle covers 440,000 square miles of sea - from the British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean, to the Florida coast and on to Puerto Rico.
Crew of US Air Force Cold War spy plane saw 'large UFO with flashing lights' - UK X-Files
Crew of US Air Force Cold War spy plane saw 'large UFO with flashing lights' - UK X-Files
NEWLY-released formerly top-secret British Ministry of Defence (MoD) 'UFO X-Files' have detailed a fascinating encounter between the crew of a US Air Force (USAF) spy plane and a large bizarre UFO with flashing lights over the Mediterranean Sea.
The case was released in the latest batch of MoD UFO files released in the UK.
The MoD last month made 15 of 18 remaining classified UFO investigation files public through the National Archives.
Most can only be viewed by visiting the National Archives in London, but details are starting to emerge after UFO investigators visited the records office.
The files include a detailed report on a UFO incident on October 19, 1982, at around 4pm local time.
A a USAF RC-135 plane, which was monitoring Soviet military activity as part of the Cold War, came across ‘a big object’ over the Eastern Mediterranean at around 35,000 feet.
Details of the file show that British RAF personnel at RAF Troodos, on Cyprus, listened in shock to the encounter unfold through the radio calls of the American crew.
No details of this case have previously been released, according to Dr David Clarke, a UFO and folklore journalist, who revealed details of the encounter. The results of the investigation are not in the file.
But, one explanation was offered that it was just a mirage.
A senior RAF official wrote: "We have a strong suspicion that the 'UFO' was a mirage effect from lights on the coast of Israel or Lebanon."
The RAF signal who reported the encounter said the object was first spotted: “…initially about two miles from wing of RC-135…moved position around aircraft and closed…object tailed Beano 73 for 90 mins on its northeast/southwest race track….”
According to scientists from the European Space Agency, an asteroid will impact Earth ‘sooner or later’ and it could wipe out mankind.
Image Credit: Barcroft Productions
Scientists from the (ESA) spoke about the risks our species faces as the world ‘celebrates’ International Asteroid Day. According to experts, our planet is at a very ‘high’ risk of being impacted by an asteroid which could bring upon us devastating effects.
Interestingly, throughout our planet’s long—4.5 billion-year—history, Earth has been repeatedly impacted by asteroids and comets which have triggered many extinction events on Earth.
Even though astronomers have positively identified most of the 1km-size asteroids that are a threat to Earth, they currently are hunting for those with an average size of 150 meters since those space rocks too could cause catastrophic damage if they impact Earth.
“Sooner or later we will get… a minor or major impact,” warned Rolf Densing, head of the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
Densing said that “the risk that Earth will get hit in a devastating event one day is very high,” even though such an event might not occur in our lifetime.
However, experts warned that mankind is “not ready to defend ourselves” against an Earth-bound object. “We have no active planetary defense measures,” he added.
And while the threat IS out there, experts have already begun cooking up with plans on how we could defend our planet against such potential collisions. The options are a few and vary from blowing up space rocks with NUKES—Armaggeddon-movie style—to vaporizing them with lasers of pulling them off course with space-tractor technology.
However, for us to save humanity from asteroids and comets we must first find them. Obviously.
Astronomers are on the lookout for space rocks which are classified into several different sizes ranging from a few centimeters to those with a diameter of more than 10 kilometers—average size of the comet that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
Experts warn we are not read to defend ourselves against dinosaur-killing asteroids.
The largest impacts tend to occur every 100 million years or so, and the next impact could spell catastrophe for the human civilization.
Recent studies have also looked into why some extinction event seem to repeat themselves.
Experts believe that our solar system has a missing—rogue star—which they dubbed Nemesis, which could be responsible for hurling objects from the outer solar system towards our planet. In fact, NEMESIS may even have been responsible for mass extinctions that have rocked Earth for millions of years.
So far astronomers have managed to trace more than 90% of asteroids that are in the dinosaur-killing range, discovering that so far, none of them pose an immediate threat.
However, the dinosaur-killing asteroids aren’t what worries experts as a much bigger concern is the hiding place of millions of space rocks that range from 15 to 150 meters in diameter.
An asteroid of around 40 meters in diameter caused the largest impact in modern history when it exploded over Tunguska, Siberia, on June 30, 1908.
The Tunguska impact destroyed 80 million trees over 2,000 square kilometers.
According to experts, Tunguska-type impacts tend to occur every 300 years or so.
Nicolas Bobrinsky, program manager of the European Space Agency’s Space Situational Awareness project, which surveys asteroids said: “Imagine that this type of asteroid would fall in a very populated area like… Paris or Germany, I mean this is something that would be really, really a catastrophe.”
Rol de planeet op zijn zij en daar verschijnt een heuse smiley!
Dat blijkt uit deze prachtige foto die ruimtesonde Juno van de gasreus heeft gemaakt. Twee ovaalvormige, witte stormen vormen de ogen van Jupiter. En schuin daaronder bevinden zich – in de vorm van een gigantische oranjekleurige verstoring van de atmosfeer – Jupiters opgespoten lippen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Jason Major.
De foto Juno maakte de foto – die voor de gelegenheid dus wel geroteerd moest worden – halverwege mei. De sonde was op het moment dat deze de foto maakte zo’n 19.433 kilometer van Jupiter verwijderd.
WIST JE DAT…
…onderzoekers onlangs de eerste onderzoeksresultaten van de Juno-missie bekend hebben gemaakt? Lees hier wat ze allemaal ontdekt hebben!
Wetenschap Juno arriveerde halverwege 2016 bij Jupiter en heeft al verschillende adembenemende foto’s gemaakt (bijvoorbeeld van de noordpool van Jupiter). Maar het maken van foto’s is niet Juno’s kernactiviteit. De sonde is met name naar Jupiter afgereisd om de geheimen van de gasreus te ontrafelen en onder meer de volgende vragen te beantwoorden: hoe steekt de atmosfeer van de gasreus in elkaar, wat gaat er onder het wolkendek van Jupiter schuil en hoe is de gasreus ontstaan?
Om een antwoord op die vragen te vinden, scheert Juno elke 53 dagen rakelings langs Jupiter. De eerstvolgende scheervlucht staat gepland voor 10 juli. Dan zal Juno over misschien wel één van de bekendste fenomenen op Jupiter scheren: Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek. Het levert naar verwachting mooie foto’s op van deze reusachtige storm die al zeker 300 jaar actief is. Daarnaast hopen onderzoekers eindelijk te weten te komen tot hoe diep in de atmosfeer de storm reikt en hoe de storm werkt en stand weet te houden.
No, NASA isn’t running a child trafficking ring on Mars
No, NASA isn’t running a child trafficking ring on Mars
by Chuck Bednar
Another day, another batshit crazy theory involving NASA: days after rumors that the US space agency has evidence proving the existence of extraterrestrial life from humanity were debunked, a new and possibly even more ludicrous accusation has been leveled against the organization.
Never mind the fact that, as the Washington Post pointed out, the atmosphere on the Red Planet is comprised primarily of carbon dioxide and the average temperature on the planet is 81 degrees below zero – NASA has somehow found a way to establish a child-trafficking ring on Mars.
At least that’s what activist and former Reform Party presidential candidate Robert David Steele said Thursday during an interview on Alex Jones’ radio show, the newspaper reported Saturday. The children involved in the interplanetary trafficking ring, Steele claimed, “were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride” and had “no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony.”
Why smuggling the abducted youngsters to Mars would have taken two decades is unclear, for as Space.com explained, the 33.9-million-mile voyage to the Red Planet takes just 6-9 months using modern-day propulsion technology. Nonetheless, Steele – a “CIA insider,” according to the show – seemed convinced of his claim’s validity, and Jones was not dismissive of the accusations.
“Look, I know that 90 percent of the NASA missions are secret, and I've been told by high-level NASA engineers that you have no idea,” the host, who has claimed that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax and who helped spread false allegations that the Clinton campaign had been linked to a child-sex ring at a Washington DC pizzeria, responded. “There is so much stuff going on... clearly, they don’t want us looking into what is happening.”
‘No humans on Mars,’ according to NASA spokesperson
Despite the seemingly ludicrous nature of these claims, Guy Webster, a spokesperson for Mars exploration at the agency, took the time to issue a formal denial, telling the Daily Beast, “There are no humans on Mars. There are active rovers on Mars... but there are no humans.”
As Space.com pointed out, this is not the first Mars-related conspiracy theory to make the rounds on the Internet – though it may very well be the most unusual. An unusual landform discovered by the Viking 1 mission in 1976 garnered attention due to its resemblance to a face, and images that were recently captured by the Curiosity rover have been said to depict various animals, including crabs, lizards, rats and squirrels, the website added.
The alleged child-trafficking ring is the second wild accusation to be leveled against NASA over the last few weeks. Late last month, a YouTube video posted by an individual claiming to be part of Anonymous accused the agency of hiding evidence proving the existence of alien life.
The video, however, featured out-of-context comments made by NASA science director Thomas Zurbuchen back in April during a public congressional hearing. While Zurbuchen did say that the agency was “on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history” during that hearing, he was actually discussing the recent discovery of distant planets and organic chemicals on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, not extraterrestrial life.
The Washington Post reached out to NASA following the posting of the video, and was told via email that there was “no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life.” Similarly, they reached out to the agency for comment on the Martian child-trafficking ring accusations but had not received a response as of press time.
The search for life, as we know it, beyond Earth has been one of the scientific endeavors of mankind since the dawn of space travel. But given the numerous problems inherent in that effort, its twin search has been for other habitable planetary bodies where life could potentially thrive.
Relatively close by, within our solar system, ancient Mars was a possible candidate but it is now an arid wasteland. Moons of Jupiter and Saturn, such as Europa and Enceladus, are also thought to harbor conditions that could perhaps be habitable for life. However, as human technology has advanced and we have found exoplanets — planets outside the solar system — the possibility of finding suitable conditions for life has jumped manifold.
Those searching for exoplanets in the so-called “Goldilocks zone” of other stars often focus on cool stars and look for Earth-like planetary bodies orbiting them. This is so because if a star is relatively cooler, there are higher chances for planets around it to have liquid water — a prerequisite for life as we know it. New research presented Monday applied models of massive stellar eruptions to such stars, and found that the eruptions from those stars could affect the exoplanets’ chances of habitability.
Christina Kay of the NASA Goddard Flight Center presented the research at the ongoing National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2017 at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. Coronary mass ejections (CME) — large eruptions of plasma and magnetic fields from stars, including the sun — contribute to space weather and potentially affect the habitability of the planets they encounter, the research found.
Artist’s impression of HD189733b, showing the planet’s atmosphere being stripped by the radiation from its parent star.
Photo: Ron Miller
The CME impact on a planet could severely deplete the planet’s magnetosphere, which in turn would expose its atmosphere to space. The CME would then strip away the atmosphere, causing the temperatures to rise and any liquid surface water to evaporate, leaving behind a barren desert. This phenomenon would also leave the planet’s surface and any life-forms on it exposed to harmful X-rays from the nearby star.
“We figured that the CMEs would be more powerful and more frequent than solar CMEs, but what was unexpected was where the CMEs ended up,” Kay said, according to a statement released by NAM.
For the research, Kay and her team used CMS theories developed at Boston University, based on our solar system, and applied them to other stars. Specifically, the trajectories of theoretical CMEs were modeled for the cool star V374 Pegasi, and the results suggested exoplanets would need magnetic fields that are ten to several thousand times that on Earth if their atmoshpheres were to be shielded from the star’s CMEs.
“While these cool stars may be the most abundant, and seem to offer the best prospects for finding life elsewhere, we find that they can be a lot more dangerous to live around due to their CMEs,” Marc Kornbleuth, a graduate student involved in the project, said in the NAM statement.
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Sea pickle invasion
Pyrosomes fished out of the water along the Oregon coast range in size from a few inches to more than 2 feet (0.6 meters) long.
Credit: Hilarie Sorensen/University of Oregon
The waters off the Oregon coast are mysteriously awash with strange, jelly-like creatures that look like translucent slugs, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Each pickle-like creature is, in fact, a colony made up of individual zooids that join to create a hollow, tube-like structure that has one closed end and one open end. (A zooid is a small, multicellular organism that makes up part of a colonial animal, and can arise from another zooid by budding or dividing.) [Read more about the alien invaders.]
Strange deaths
A female great white shark that was missing its liver.
Credit: Marine Dynamics
Orca whales have claimed the life of another great white shark by eating its liver and leaving it for dead, making it the fourth such gristly death in less than two months.
No one saw the sharks' last moments, but their injuries indicate that orcas, also known as killer whales (Orcinus orca), were the culprits, the researchers said. [Read more about the dead sharks.]
Lab-grown parts
A sun-shaped viral replication center within sea turtle skin tissue. Re-creating sea turtle skin in the lab allowed scientists to observe how a tumor-associated herpesvirus replicates in three-dimensional tissue.
Credit: Thierry Work/USGS
Dr. Frankenstein, eat your heart out: Scientists have grown the pebbly green skin of sea turtles in the lab for the first time ever.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and the U.S. Endangered Species Act list green sea turtles as threatened or endangered throughout their ranges worldwide. [Read more about turtle skin.]
Dangers of fireworks
The image on the left shows the man's left eye shortly after the explosion. The yellowish spots are fragments from the firecracker embedded in his cornea. The image on the right is a CT scan of the man's head. The arrows point to firecracker fragments, which appear as bright white spots, embedded in both eyes.
With July Fourth just around the corner, it's important to keep an eye out for eye dangers: A man in India suffered severe eye injuries after a firecracker exploded close to his face, according to a new case report.
The doctors were able to remove the firework fragments from the man's left eye, though Dr. Jagat Ram, a professor of ophthalmology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in India who treated the man, said removing all of the fragments took several sessions. [Read more about firecracker injuries.]
Coffee with a side of what?
How do you take your iced coffee? For some people in the United Kingdom, an investigative report from the BBC has sparked concerns that the drink may come with an unwanted add-in: a dash of fecal bacteria.
The sample size was very small, and all three coffee chains told the BBC that they are looking into the problem. [Read more about the caffeinated scare.]
Carved skulls
Researchers have discovered seven skull fragments from three different skulls, each marked with deep cuts like this one made shortly after death.
Credit: German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Fragments of three carved human skulls have been uncovered at a mysterious ritual site in Turkey.
Now, Göbekli Tepe has become a little bit more fantastic with the discovery of skull fragments carved with long, deliberate lines from the forehead to the back of the head. These discoveries reveal the existence of a "skull cult" in ancient eastern Anatolia, Gresky told Live Science. The ritual markings on these skulls are unlike those seen in any other civilization, though. [Read more about the ritual skulls.]
Weird creature
An artist's reconstruction shows Macrauchenia patachonica, which lived in South America during the last ice age.
Credit: Jorge Blanco
An odd extinct mammal that lived in South America during the last ice age had a long neck like a llama's, three-toed feet like a rhino's and what may have been a tapir-like trunk. This peculiar combination of traits fueled a mystery lasting nearly two centuries about how to classify the bizarre beast.
Macrauchenia fossils are fairly plentiful, but paleontologists nonetheless struggled to understand the creature because its combination of features was so unusual, said study co-author Ross MacPhee, curator in the mammalogy department at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. [Read more about the ancient mystery.]
Marriage and animals
That "squeee!" you feel when you look at pictures of cute puppies or bunnies might be good for your love life. A new study finds that looking at baby-animal photos may increase couples' levels of satisfaction with their relationships.
In the study, the researchers looked at 144 married couples who had been married for less than five years. The participants' average age was 28. Around 40 percent of the couples had kids, the researchers said. [Read more about animals and matrimony.]
New liquid water
Liquid water exists in two different forms, new research reveals. Here, an illustration of the water molecule in front of an X-ray pattern from high-density amorphous ice, created by creating high pressures and low temperatures.
Credit: Mattias Karlén
Liquid water comes in two forms — low density and high density, scientists have found.
Water is essential for life (at least on Earth). And wherever liquid water exists — whether it's in icebound lakes or scalding hydrothermal vents — tiny microbes have been found. That is why scientists have been excited by the possibility of salty water flows and other evidence of ancient water on Mars — it means there may well have been life early on in the Red Planet's history. [Read more about the strange liquid.]
How eclipses work
The Hinode spacecraft captured this stunning image of the maximum solar eclipse on May 20, 2012, which darkened the sky in parts of the Western United States and Southeast Asia, according to NASA.
Credit: Hinode/XRT
If the sun were just a little bit bigger or the moon a bit farther away, total solar eclipses may never occur. But they do, and it turns out this celestial phenomenon that has changed human history, and our perspective of the universe, may be a sheer coincidence.
Such a nearly perfect match wasn’t always the case, however. Because the distance between the moon and the Earth is slowly changing, solar eclipses looked very different millions of years ago — and they will again, tens of millions of years in the future. [Read more about solar eclipses.]
The south pole of Jupiter is seen from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) in this enhanced color mosaic of images from NASA's JunoCam. Cyclones up to 600 miles wide (1,000 km) are visible.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles SCOTT BOLTON - 3
Juno gets a first look at Jupiter's marvelous poles, the world's largest (current) aircraft goes for a spin, Earth science loses on the proposed NASA budget and two astronauts perform an urgent spacewalk — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.
Jupiter whirls
The first science results from NASA's Juno probe reveal huge cyclones raging near Jupiter's north and south poles and the workings of is spectacular auroras. Juno is the first spacecraft to get a close look the planet's beautiful and bizarre poles. [Full Story: Mysteries at Jupiter: NASA's Juno Probe Reveals Cyclones, Auroras & Surprises]
Astronauts kept freeze-dried mouse sperm on the International Space Station for nine months — and when brought back to Earth it gave rise to healthy pups. [Full Story: Freeze-Dried Space Sperm Gives Rise to Healthy Baby Mice]
After a computer relay box malfunctioned, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer went out for a quickly-planned spacewalk to replace the failed part. (Don't worry, a backup took over in the meantime.) Whitson built the replacement from spare parts aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story: Astronauts Restore Space Station to Full Health in Quick Repair Spacewalk]
Clash of the dwarfs
New research suggests that most of the Milky Way's antimatter could come from the collision of two special kinds of white dwarfs — the Earth-size cores of dead stars. [Full Story: Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery]
Mammoth flier success
A massive blimp-like aircraft called the Airlander 10 successfully flew for 180 minutes and landed, testing its improved landing technology and handling. It's the third test flight for the world's largest aircraft currently flying, which is designed to stay in the air for up to 5 days at a time with people on board. [World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight]
Earth science nix
The White House's official 2018 budget request curtails five NASA Earth-science missions, including the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem satellite; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 experiment; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder; the Earth-viewing instruments aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft and, now, the Radiation Budget Experiment. [Full Story: Trump's 2018 Budget Request Axes 5 NASA Earth-Science Missions]
The Cassini spacecraft has seen Saturn through the seasons as the planet has orbited the sun, watching its dramatic changes. Now, it's finally the planet's solstice and the end of the spacecraft's second extended mission — just in time for its Sept. 15 Grand Finale dive into the planet's atmosphere. [Full Story: Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes]
Listening in
The world's most sensitive dark matter detector, XENON1T, has gone online deep beneath a mountain in Italy, completing a 30-day science run hunting for the minuscule fireworks that could be caused by a certain type of dark matter ramming into a xenon atom inside the detector. [Full Story: The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running]
It's a Phantom
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build the U.S. military's new XS-1 space plane. The plane, called the Phantom Express, is designed to launch to the edge of space to deploy a second stage rocket, which would deposit a satellite in orbit. [Full Story: US Military's XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing (Video)]
In recent weeks, the release of a trove of once-classified British UFO documents has managed to arouse controversy, both for the information contained therein, as well as the fact that the documents have had a somewhat limited readership: following their release by the Ministry of Defense, the files were not disclosed in an easily-searchable digital format, evoking cries of suppression, and even conspiracy from eager potential readers worldwide.
Fortunately, news agencies in the UK have been following up, with featured articles appearing every few days that detail elements contained within the files, often dealing with hair-raising encounters kept quiet by the MOD for decades.
One of the most recent reports to come to light deals with an unusual, Cold-War era incident that occurred in October 1982. It involved an American RC-135 spy plane that, while monitoring Soviet military operations, came under some kind of surveillance by a large, unidentified and brightly-lit aircraft.
The USAF base detailed in the report was located at RAF Troodos on Cyprus, and discussed an incident involving an unidentified aircraft which lasted close to 90 minutes.
According to the report, two US Navy F-14 fighters were involved, as well as an RAF Phantom, which had been diverted to join the F-14s in pursuit of the aircraft over Cyprus. The object was observed by the pilots of the American crew streaking away toward the African coast; the intercepting pilots did not report seeing the object.
According to the Sun, “Radar film, tapes and transcripts of the distress call were also analysed by intelligence officers – but removed from the files.”
Reports of similar encounters between military aircraft and unidentified objects are rife throughout UFO literature, having been disclosed in government documents by a number of countries around the world. The UK has a long history of similar incidents, which include an event that occurred in 1956 at Lakenheath-Bentwaters (not to be confused with the later RAF Bentwaters incident, otherwise known as the “Rendlesham Forest Incident”).
Apart from the reports themselves, we are left with considerations about what, precisely, these kinds of incidents represent. Within the broader UFO narrative, a number of hypotheses emerge, which range from skeptical interpretations of the incidents as being pure misidentification of prosaic phenomena, to secret military operations and, yes, the long-held idea of alien visitors.
Different theories, ranging from the thought-provoking, to the downright absurd, have emerged over the years pertaining to UFO sightings. A listing of these might include the following; note that these are arranged in no particular order, and taking into full account that some are highly improbable, while some are, at very least, far less likely than others:
Extraterrestrial visitors
Unexplained Natural Phenomena
Secret technologies developed by the U.S. or other world superpowers
A so-called “Breakaway Civilization”
Time travelers from the future
“Cryptoterrestrial” hidden denizens of Earth
Interdimensional visitors
Psycho-social phenomenon and misperception/misidentification
Evidence of a hologram-like “Matrix” reality, in which UFOs are the operators
A form of artificial intelligence of unknown origin
An open-minded collection of ideas such as this takes into account a number of very creative concepts, borrowed largely from science fiction. Though in truth, this has been the case since the inception of the modern UFO phenomenon beginning shortly after WWII, where such ideas began to be appended to the subject in an effort to try and account for the seemingly unexplainable.
In other words, the fact that no simple explanation exists for the “how, why and what” associated with these alleged aircraft has inspired a lot of imaginative thinking over the years, which, of course, isn’t to say that something like “extraterrestrial visitors” can be ruled out entirely. Rather, it is to drive home the point that in the absence of a clear explanation for UFOs, a division of thought has seemingly occurred, where one end of the broader spectrum favors the otherworldly, while the other proposes that simple things have been blown out of proportion, and that no such “phenomenon” exists at all.
These two “primary arguments” will inevitably continue to be appended to the UFO situation, especially with the release of new material like the MOD’s current batch of files. However, if there is truly anything we can glean from new data like this (even if it is decades old by the time we see it), perhaps it is that between the two extremes, there is something which might logically account for why government agencies have had such a long history of encounters with phenomena they can’t explain… and which, at times, has warranted military responses, like with the 1982 Cyprus incident.
A multitude of reports like these, often involving what are described as being clearly tangible objects, and seemingly of technological origin, do remain unexplained. Beyond any filtration through overt belief or skepticism (which often requires a certain level of illogic in order to bend the phenomena to fit the parameters of the interpreter), we are left with a plethoraof data that does suggest that something unusual is occurring… whatever that is. Logically, this would appear to stand, even if only a handful of these reports remain viable after cold, hard, skeptical analysis.
So what is our “estimate of the situation”? As with virtually all rational attempts to draw conclusions about the UFO phenomenon, we are left with too many holes in the data to know anything for certain, apart from the fact that something exists, which is seemingly technological, and which cannot be accounted for based solely on knowledge of technologies and aircraft on the civilian level. In our opinion, evoking the paranormal in order to account for these objects requires a logical leap, whereas overconfidence in the skeptical dismissal of every UFO incident, despite the data, represents equally illogical behavior.
Somewhere in between these two “universes of belief”, a more likely, and logical, solution may exist; these aircraft are obviously capable of operating in Earth’s atmosphere, and are seemingly highly-adaptable to earthly circumstances. In equal measure, these objects appear to display an interest in earthly happenings, often interacting with military aircraft; this would seem to suggest that the technologies in question are being operated with an interest in things of a political nature, rather than the pursuit of scientific knowledge, etc. Perhaps this is a significant clue to the ultimate nature of the more tangible UFO incidents that have turned up over the years.
At the end of the day, the same old conundrums keep turning up: we need more physical evidence to back up the claims of tangible objects. Conversely, if these things are “ours”, then whoever is in-the-know isn’t talking… and the likelihood that those with a “need to know” would (or could) keep so quiet, and for so long, seems almost as unlikely as space aliens, dimensional visitors, or time travelers.
If there is something tangible at work here, then there must be some kind of solution too, right? In the long run, solving the UFO mystery may require some creative thinking, paired with a willingness to keep our ideas in check, and not get ahead of ourselves with our theories.
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