Mind blowing UFO filmed over South Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

A very odd unidentified flying object is seen flying over South Vancouver Island, BC, Canada on June 27, 2017.

Credit image: Ian Purcell - YouTube.

Ian Purcell who filmed the mind blowing object managed to capture very clear and very close up images of the UFO which you can see in the below 9.50 minutes video at around 33 and 55 seconds for a really clear still shot of the back and at 50 seconds for a clear shot of the front.

Editor’s note: At first glance I though it is a drone however after a quick search on the web I could not find similar objects.

So, any idea what this robotic-like object, what seems to be under intelligent control, could be?

  

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05-07-2017 om 23:39 geschreven door peter  

MOD FILES REVEAL UFO INCIDENT WITH COLD WAR SPY PLANE

The Ministry of Defence in Britain has released 15 files of out of the remaining UFO files that are held at the National Archives in the UK and in them are details about a UFO encounter that was witnessed by the whole crew in a spy-plane belonging to the US Air Force.

USAF RC-135 PLANE BUZZED BY UFO WITH MANY FLASHING LIGHTS

The secret RAF files have a detailed account of an incident that happened on October 19, 1982, and this was when a USAF RC-135 plane that had been watching the activity of the Soviet military was buzzed over the Eastern Mediterranean by what was described as a big object.

In the files, it was stated that British personnel who were stationed at the RAF Troodos, a remote base located on the island of Cyprus at Mt. Olympus, had listed to radio calls that had come from the crew from the USA while they encountered the UFO 35,000 feet above the level of the sea.  

Radome at 280 Signals Unit base, RAF Troodos, Mt Olympus, Cyprus – one of the most important overseas British installations (credit: Wikipedia/Ed Weissman)

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They had described the UFO as being covered with many flashing lights, with as many as 20 of them flashing at any one time and it had been picked up on the radar of the spy plane while it was approaching them from the south. It was then said to have gone in a circle around the plane with the call sign Beano 73 and then closed in on it while the navigator asked for help down on the ground.

NAVY FIGHTER JETS SCRAMBLED TO UFO INCIDENT

Two F-14 US Navy fighter jets were scrambled from their aircraft carrier along with an RAF Phantom, which had to be diverted from a nighttime exercise, to go and intercept the UFO, which was to the south of Cyprus. While the three interceptors were approaching the crew on the spy plane saw the UFO departing and making its way to the coast of Africa, but the fighter pilots did not see it.

The hidden files that have just been revealed show that the RAF personnel at the radar station monitored the whole incident and it lasted around 90 minutes, with it starting at about 4 pm local time. However, the British air defense stations did not see the incident and nor was it picked up by seaborne or ground radar.

After the UFO encounter, an investigation was launched in secret by the authorities in Britain and the results of it were sent along to the Department of Defense in the US in November 1982. Neither the US or British government ever gave any information about the incident, until the secret files were opened.

MOD AND USAF CLOSE DOWN UFO FILES 

An extract from the RAF file on the incident [David Clarke/The National Archives]

The Blue Book of the US Air Force UFO Project was officially closed in 1969, and in 2009 the British Ministry of Defence went on to close their own UFO desk. The secret space intelligence unit, DI55, then claimed that they were no longer interested in any unidentified aerial phenomena in 2000.

However, the RAF files that have been released now reveal that the officials did order a transcript to be made of the tape that recorded the capture of radio transmissions that had been made between the people on the ground in the control tower and the crew of the spy plane. Copies of the report were sent out to the Assistant Chief Scientist of the RAF, DD Ops, and GE of the RAF, DI55, and DSTI.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE WAS MISSING FROM FILES

The RAF Troodos radar station had provided film, and this had been studied very carefully by photographic experts in the UK along with large prints that had been taken from the radar picture had been prepared for scrutiny by intelligence officers. The file did not say where this evidence had gone. Also, the results of the investigation by the UK and USA were not in the file.

A tentative explanation for that was given by a senior member of the RAF who said that they had a suspicion that the UFO had been a mirage effect that came from the lights which were on the coast of Lebanon or Israel. However, a signal that had reported the sighting that had been sent from RAF Troodos to the Ministry of Defence in the UK had described the UFO as being bigger than an RC-135.

The Boeing RC-135 is an aircraft that was used by the RAF and USAF in support intelligence gathering. The airplanes have been used in all armed conflicts, and this included the Cold War around borders of the former Soviet Union. This is an aircraft that has a length of 136 feet and a wingspan of about 130 feet.

UFO TRACKED BEANO 73 FOR 90 MINUTES

The signal from the RAF that reported the encounter said that the UFO had first been seen around two miles from the RC-135 and then changed its position around the aircraft and closed. The object then tailed Beano 73 for around 90 minutes on the northeast/southwest race track. The signal went on to report that the UFO had been witnessed by the entire crew.

Three of the RC-135s had been bought in 2017 by the RAF, and they serve in the 51 Squadron which has a base at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. The crew of them includes a navigator, two pilots, and as many as 25 mission staff.

Also in the file, it was said that the RAF Group Captain had gathered together information about the UFO reports that had been received by his air defense staff over a period of 30 years and coming to an end in 1996. This was in response to a question in parliament from Martin Redmond, the Labour MP for Don Valley. He had asked radar stations, including the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station, which is located on the North Yorkshire Moors at RAF Fylingdales to submit UFO data to the HQ No 11 Group. He said in his report that he could not find any reports or mentions of the UFOs that had been detected by the Air Defence Ground Environment units or the 11/18 Group aircraft using the radar equipment.

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05-07-2017 om 23:04 geschreven door peter  

Roswell SOLVED? Ex-USAF Major claimed UFO crash was 'cover story for a nuclear incident'

THE alleged Roswell UFO crash may have been a cover story from the United States Air Force (USAF) to take away the heat from a botched nuclear incident, it has been claimed.

05-07-2017 om 22:35 geschreven door peter  

Are they hiding something? The government is using EU laws to block requests to access its files on UFOs spotted in the sky, expert claims

• The Civil Aviation Authority annually receives numerous reports of UFOs
• The files it collects should be subject to Freedom of Information requests
• This law allow any member of the public to view files held by a public institution
• European legislation from 2014 is being used to block these requests

By Tim Collins For Mailonline

Sightings of UFOs are being hushed up by the government using EU laws, a leading expert has claimed.

The public has previously been granted access to records held by the state, detailing reports of strange sights seen in the sky by civilian aircrews.

They are now finding that this access has been revoked, with the agency responsible for maintaining the files citing European legislation to block requests.

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Sightings of UFOs are being hushed up by the government using EU laws, a leading expert has claimed. The Civil Aviation Authority reportedly receives numerous reports of unexplained sightings above Britain each year (stock image)

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) receives numerous reports of unexplained sightings above Britain each year, according to The Sun.

It was previously the responsibility of the MOD's UFO desk to collect this information, but since its closure in 2009 it has fallen to the CAA.

As a government agency, the files collected by the CAA should be subject to Freedom of Information requests.

These transparency laws can be used by any member of the public who wishes to view files held by public institutions. 

But the CAA has reportedly refused to release any information about UFO sightings, known as 'occurrences' in bureaucratic language, citing European legislation from 2014.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'This move falls into the hands of those of think there is an ongoing Government cover-up of UFO sightings and related evidence.

'"Occurrences" in this instance could relate to anything from meteor sightings, drones, foreign aircraft infringing our airspace or anything unusual that might fall into the UFO category.

'There is also the embarrassment factor where pilots are reluctant to report anything unusual, because if it is made public they might seem like cranks or unreliable. 

'This very thing is highlighted in the teaser trailer for the re-release of Steven Spielberg's classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind film, in which aircraft controllers and aircrew see a UFO but mutually agree not to report it.

Dr David Clarke, principle research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University's department of journalism, has previously accessed the CAA's files by using FOI requests.

He was refused permission to do so again earlier this year.

Speaking to The Sun, Dr Clarke said:  'The only conceivable reason for this change of policy is embarrassment on the part of the aviation industry.

As a government agency, the files collected by the CAA should be subject to Freedom of Information requests. But the CAA has reportedly refused to release any information about UFO sightings, citing European legislation from 2014 (stock image)

'It does not want to admit that its pilots do occasionally report things in the sky that are difficult to explain. 

'To improve public confidence in air safety, the authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of this type.'  

The EU legislation is designed to protect pilots and other airline staff who report seeing unexplained aerial phenomena.

But identifying information about private individuals is already routinely redacted from data supplied in response to FOI requests. 

The European law states: 'Occurrence information can only be used for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety, and the release of occurrence information to the general public or the media, including in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, is not permitted.

'However, if you require occurrence information for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety you are able to make an application to the CAA.' 

'BRITAIN'S X-FILES' REVEAL A UFO WAS SPOTTED FLOATING ABOVE SKEGNESS FOR SEVEN HOURS

A UFO was visible on military radar for seven hours above the Wash in Skegness in 1996 but officials were ordered to do nothing about it, according to a shocking document from 'Britain's X-Files'.

The RAF was 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange bright lights - which flashed red, blue and white - despite the fact several witnesses also spotted it.

The Ministry of Defence was criticised for a shambolic reaction which some believed could have put the nation at serious risk in one of the country's most mysterious UFO sightings.

The UFO files have revealed that on the morning of 5 October 1996 bright lights were reported by several civilians but the Defence Secretary at the time, Michael Portillo, did nothing, 

The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of sightings of UFOs over almost five decades.

They contain information about a number of high profile incidents that are believed to be related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'

The papers were originally meant to be released in 2013 alongside thousands of others which did see the light of day, but 18 specific documents were withheld. No one knows exactly why. 

Fifteen have now been published with the remaining three still withheld.  

The release marks the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.

Mysteriously, the files have not yet been digitised so enthusiasts must go to the National Archives in Kew, West London if they want to have access to them.

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05-07-2017 om 22:23 geschreven door peter  

05-07-2017 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sightings In Wales and Manchester

While the existence of alien UFOs still hotly contested, Wales and Manchester in the UK have recorded multiple videos of UFO sightings since the last year. Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a UFO phenomenon investigative body, reported that Wales and Manchester have 25 and 23 UFO sightings respectively since January 2015.

According to people who have claimed to spot UFOs in Wales, the sighting range from a white dot moving three times faster than a jet, to craft as wide as a street.

UK MUFON recorded a total of 476 sightings between January 1, 2015, and in the middle of February in 2016.

Manchester also recorded several UFO sighting videos that show a range of objects, from five metallic flying objects travelling in a triangle formation to a red-green orb flying in diagonal formation at an incredible speed, and a large square object flying above the roof.

Are these numbers of UFO sightings mean that UFOs are hovering above the UK?

UFO sightings have not been only recorded in the UK, but also the other parts of the world, including the U.S.

ABC News previously revealed that the National UFO Reporting Center or NUFORC recorded a total of 1,177 UFO sightings from January to April 2015.

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05-07-2017 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

Edwin Fuhr Shares His UFO Sighting In 1974 During An Interview

An eyewitness revealed in an interview that he saw many small silver disks landed in his farming field. Farmer Edwin Fuhr, 36, was at his grape crop at about 11:00 am to make a harvest. All of a sudden, he noticed a metallic dome object in a grassy area about 50 feet away. Trying to investigate the mysterious thing, he left his swather and walked around 15 feet of the object.

Seeing the object spinning and swirling the grass underneath made him afraid and backed away. He climbed back on the swather to look around and observed four more domes in a rough semi-circle, all looked the same, spinning and hovering approximately a foot over the ground.

Then one object took off, which was followed by the other four quickly, going up in a step formation. They stopped in approximately 200 feet with their exhaust-like extensions at the base emitting a puff of gray vapor. He saw the vapor extending about six feet. He then noticed a downward gust of the wind that flattened the rape in the immediate area.

The mysterious objects then formed a straight line, hovered for about two minutes, then suddenly went up into the low cloud cover and vanished.

Fuhr later learned that cattle in a field nearby had bellowed and broken through a fence during the time of the sighting. Eager to learn something more about what had taken place, he went into the landing area and saw five rings of depressed grass swirled in a clockwise pattern. He found no traces of heat or burning. Later that month, more circles were reported in the area.

Canadian Press quoted Ron Morier, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable, saying there was something and he doubted it was a hoax. He said the witness appeared genuinely scared and no indication that it had been wheeled in or out.

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05-07-2017 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

NASA to shoot Didmyos asteroid into new flight path in DART test

The spacecraft, which is the size of a refrigerator, will strike an asteroid at nine times the speed of a bullet.

Image:Artist concept of NASA's DART spacecraft. Pic: NASA/JHUAPL

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05-07-2017 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

MASSIVE MEGALITHIC BLOCKS OF STONES. EVIDENCE OF ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS OF GIANTS IN RUSSIA?

In a remote region of Russia researchers and geologists have discovered huge rock formations that now make the existence of an ancient civilization made up of giants an extremely likely explanation.

More evidence emerges to prove the existence of an ancient giant civilization

The formations found near Mount Shoriya in Siberia are made up of huge boulders weighing from 3000 to 4000 tons each and stacked 130ft high. As with many other similar large rock formations found all over the globe for instance in Stonehenge and the Pyramids, the question arises as to how they were put together. Increasingly experts are considering the possibility that the explanation of an ancient civilization made up of giant humanoid beings is the only theory that comes close to explaining the construction of these huge and expertly assembled structures.

Such structures have baffled experts the world over for years

Firstly, the smooth flat surfaces and accurate angles on such huge boulders indicate the use of massive tools. Even modern machinery today would struggle to sculpt individual boulders of such size and on such a scale.

Secondly, the assembly of these boulders into the massive structures that are visible even today requires cranes and lifting equipment that did not even exist back when these structures were assembled.

Folklore and religion have previously been used to explain these structures and have even alluded to the existence of such beings. Scriptures in most Abrahamic faiths including Judaism, Christianity and Islam as well as Native American, Greek, Roman, Norsk, Jainism and Hindu faiths tell of a prehistoric civilization made of giant beings.

Some scientists have proposed that the formations arose due to natural geological processes over millions of years which have led to the eroding and shaping of the structures visible today.

However now in the face of lack of any other feasible explanation more and more skeptics have had to accept that only the existence of giants comes close to providing a credible explanation.

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05-07-2017 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

UFOS, NASA, AND SHINY NEW PLANETS

A curious aspect of the UFO phenomena is why more people aren’t curious about it. I don’t mean regular people. A Newsweek poll shows most Americans (54 per cent) believe UFOs are visiting Earth from Alpha Centauri, or Sirius A, or Krypton, or some other place with cleaner air and better coffee.

I’m talking about those who could reveal to the public whether extraterrestrials are, in fact, visiting our planet illegally and taking jobs away from hard-working Americans. Connected people, powerful people, people who get things done – like Oprah Winfrey.

A recent study by doctoral student and statistician Sam Monfort (favorite T-shirt, “No one parties like a statistician”), shows there are more UFO sightings now than, well, ever. Triangle craft, cigar-shaped craft, saucers and the Millennium Falcon are being reported at a record number.

Seriously, the Millennium Falcon. Crashed. At the bottom of the Baltic Sea. This picture was taken in 2011 by the Swedish diving team that discovered it.

Monfort’s report shows there are 300 times as many sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in the United States than there are in the rest of the world combined. Given our political climate, I’m not surprised. Which brings me to the Offutt Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: Americans see UFOs because Canada’s not far enough away.

With the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arresting weepy American border crossers (21 in just one weekend in Emerson, Manitoba), I’m sure Taphao Thong looks like a good place to settle down (this is the planet’s actual name. It rolls off the tongue compared to 47 Ursae Majoris b).

But what do people in The Know know? You know?

NASA recently announced the discovery of seven rocky Earth-like planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 in its Goldilocks Zone (a distance from its star that would allow a planet to support liquid water). NASA scientists are going to begin searching for life there just as soon as they feel like it, but not now. They’re too busy naming the planets after Belgian beers (not a joke).

If there’s life out there, however, NASA may already know.

The agency mysteriously cut its live feed from the International Space Station on 9 June last year after a bright object flew through its view, per an article in USA Today. NASA denies voluntarily cutting the stream – just like it didn’t cut the video in January 2015 when a UFO hovered in front of the camera, and this February when “six large objects scurry(ed) by,” per the U.K.’s Daily Mirror.

The Daily Mirror article included posts from a man simply named “Tyler” from the UFO research group SecureTeam, claiming the objects to be “a fleet of unidentified flying objects moving in the distance behind the International Space Station.”

The objects were lens flares, per NASA. Even the one with the Pearl Jam bumper sticker.

NASA didn’t help its case for “move along, there are no aliens to see here,” by appearing on Reddit Feb. 22 to discuss the TRAPPIST-1 announcement. When the alternative media outlet Collective Evolution asked NASA when it was coming clean on aliens, Reddit deleted the outlet’s account.

I mean, that’s not suspicious, or anything.

UFO disclosure is all on your shoulders, Oprah Winfrey. All on yours.

Still frame from the ISS live feed picturing a hovering UFO.

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05-07-2017 om 01:00 geschreven door peter  

Will truth about 'UFO crash' in Roswell desert 70 years ago ever be known?

EXACTLY 70 years ago this week arguably the world's most notorious UFO mystery began after an "object" crashed near a ranch in the desert on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico.

05-07-2017 om 00:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO Disclosure 2017- 70th Anniversary of Roswell

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05-07-2017 om 00:24 geschreven door peter  

Russische satelliet zou op drie na helderste object aan nachtelijke hemel worden en astronomen zijn in alle staten - HLN.be

Bron: IFL Science, The Independent

© Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University .

Bij de lancering zal hij niet groter zijn dan een brood, maar een Russische satelliet die binnenkort in een baan om de aarde wordt gebracht, zou een van de helderste objecten worden aan de nachtelijke hemel als hij zich helemaal heeft ontvouwd. Alleen de zon, de maan en de planeet Venus zouden nog sterker schijnen. Astronomen kunnen er alvast niet mee lachen.

Het gaat om een project van de Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University en het werd gefinancierd via de Russische crowdfundingwebsite Boomstarter. Dankzij de 26.500 euro die daar voor 'Mayak' werd verzameld, kan de satelliet over tien dagen de ruimte in gebracht worden vanop de lanceerbasis van Bajkonoer in Kazachstan.

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Eenmaal in een baan om de aarde, op 600 kilometer hoogte, zal hij een gigantische, flinterdunne reflector van 16 vierkante meter ontvouwen in de vorm van een piramide. Die zal zonlicht naar de aarde kaatsen. Met de missie willen de wetenschappers ook een betere manier vinden om satellieten in en uit een goede baan om onze planeet te brengen. En de interesse in ruimtevaart en technologie doen toenemen.

© Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University .

Volgens de wetenschappelijke website IFL Science zou de satelliet echter schijnen met een magnitude van -3.6. Alleen de zon, de maan en Venus zijn nog krachtiger. De site acht het echter ook mogelijk dat het zelfs een magnitude van -10 zal zijn, wat hem nog helderder maakt dan Venus. 

"Vreselijk"
Astronomen kunnen er alvast niet om lachen. Want zij zitten niet te wachten op een kunstmatige ster die hun zicht beperkt. "We voeren strijd voor een donkere hemel bij nacht en het is vreselijk om dat verloren te zien gaan door belachelijke crowdfundingnonsens", aldus Nick Howes van het Kielder Observatory in Britse Northumberland.

Volgens Alex Shaenko - de projectleider van Mayak - zal het zo een vaart niet lopen en zou de satelliet niet zo helder schijnen als gevreesd.

© Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University .

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05-07-2017 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

NASA ROVER SPOTS 'ALIEN THIGH BONE' ON MARS

E.T. enthusiasts claim photos are proof 'intelligent life forms once occupied the planet'

NASA’s rover has photographed a strange formation of rocks that some UFO hunters claim are really fossilized “alien bones” proving there’s life on Mars.

The one-ton Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the surface of the planet since August 2012, sent back a pair of images that resemble thigh bones and a hip bone protruding from the planet’s surface.

The alien-hunter group Martian Archaeology presented the images in a video claiming the photos are evidence of “signs of life”:

Some took the photos as surefire evidence that NASA must be hiding proof of life.

“After years of research and study, I’m convinced now, more than ever, that there[‘s] much more to Mars then [sic] what NASA admits to,” wrote T.J. Devereaux in the comments section of the video. “I’m certain life, including water, and intelligent life forms, once occupied the planet, and … big leap here … that both still exist, in much smaller quantities.”

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However, NASA has said the following 2014 photo – which some have claimed could be an “alien thigh bone – is just another weathered Martian rock.

In the photo description, NASA explained that the “Mars rock may look like a femur bone,” but it’s not the remains of a dead Martian.

“Mission science team members think its shape is likely sculpted by erosion, either wind or water,” NASA explained.

Even so, if aliens do live on Mars, they’re more likely to be microscopic creatures, the scientists said.

“If life ever existed on Mars, scientists expect that it would be small simple life forms called microbes,” NASA officials wrote in the photo description. “Mars likely never had enough oxygen in its atmosphere and elsewhere to support more complex organisms. Thus, large fossils are not likely.”

Some also claimed another photo snapped by the rover resembles a hip bone:

Image taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows weathered rocks that some say resemble a ‘hip bone’ on Mars

Apparently humans seeing shapes in Mars rocks is nothing new. In the 1800s, astronomers believed they located canals on the Red Planet.

And in 1976, a photo from NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter depicted a rock formation that resembled a shadowy human face, known as the “Face on Mars.”

Since then, other photos revealed rock formations resembling a lizard, a rat and even a jelly donut.

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04-07-2017 om 23:25 geschreven door peter  

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04-07-2017 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious trailer teases Close Encounters of the Third Kind re-release

NIVEA SERRAO@NIVEASERRAO

World UFO Day may have just passed, but that doesn’t mean we can’t experience a few more Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Sony Pictures released a mysterious trailer Monday titled “This means something,” meant to tease an exclusive theatrical re-release in time for its 40th anniversary, EW has learned.

The video — which you can watch above — features air traffic controllers tracking a colorful, unexplained craft of some kind slowly descending before simply disappearing. Interspersed throughout are “flashes” of scenes from the 1977 movie (below). In the final seconds, the site address for WeAreStillNotAlone.comflashes across the screen, with the page it leads to asking visitors to “sign up” for news on UFO sightings.

The title itself is a reference to an iconic line from the movie which Richard Dreyfuss’ Roy Neary utters after building the famous mashed potato replicaof the Devils Tower (a rock formation that is one of Wyoming’s national monuments). The Steven Spielberg-directed movie told the story of Neary’s determined attempts to contact alien intelligence (a.k.a. having a close encounter of the third kind) after he witnesses a UFO.

No word yet when Close Encounters‘ theatrical return will be, but it’s worth noting the anniversary is on Nov. 16.

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04-07-2017 om 22:35 geschreven door peter  

Lisa Neff

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.

The CIA helpfully lists “Top 5 CIA Documents Mulder Would Love To Get His Hands On,” and “Top 5 CIA Documents Scully Would Love To Get Her Hands On.”

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.

“But there it is.”

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04-07-2017 om 22:22 geschreven door peter  

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.

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 main agency in charge of another form of cosmic exploration — the search for alien life — is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence institute (SETI). While SETI has no satellites in space, it is attempting to communicate with extraterrestrial life by building huge radio transmitters and receivers, which include the Southern SERENDIP and the Allen Telescope Array. With all of these eyes on the sky, it may be just a few years until we discover alien life.

References: Phys.org, PLATO Yellow Book , ESA, Warwick Press Release

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04-07-2017 om 21:26 geschreven door peter  

Space Warfare: America could soon have a new branch of the military protecting outer space

By Jason Kopp

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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"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.”

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04-07-2017 om 20:56 geschreven door peter