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08-08-2017 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s response to 9-year-old job applicant is out of this world

Jennifer Brett

NASA's official logo. Image: NASA.gov.

NASA generated headlines with its recent job posting for someone in its Office of Safety and Mission Assurance for Planetary Protection – and spurred the most brilliant cover letter ever:

Dear NASA,
My name is Jack Davis and I would like to apply for the for the planetary protection officer job. I may be 9, but I think I would be fit for the job. One of the reasons is my sister says I am an alien. Also I have seen almost all the space and alien movies that I can see. I have also seen the show ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and hope to see the movie ‘Men in Black.’ I am great at video games. I am young, so I can learn to think like an alien.

Sincerely,

Jack Davis,
Guardian of the Galaxy
Fourth Grade

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The NASA post seeks someone to protect Mother Earth when space exploration missions go into the final frontier.

“NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies, and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration,” the job post reads.

It pays up to $187,000. Here’s the job listing.

The position has been around for decades but recently went into orbit, pardon the pun, no doubt thanks to the word “extraterrestrial” in the job description. The ensuing buzz may explain why the precocious youngster from New Jersey decided to set his sights on the gig.

Dr. James L. Green, director of NASA’s planetary science division, took the time to respond:

“We are always looking for bright future scientists and engineers to help us, so I hope you will study hard and do well in school,” it read. “We hope to see you here at NASA one of these days!”

Green also worked in a little clarification about the job: “Our planetary protection officer position is really cool and is very important work. It’s about protecting Earth from tiny microbes when we bring back samples from the Moon, asteroids and Mars. It’s also about protecting other planets and moons from our germs as we responsibly explore the Solar System.”

Here are both letters, which NASA has posted on its official site:

Images: NASA.gov

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08-08-2017 om 20:50 geschreven door peter  

Colleagues offer tribute to one-of-a-kind north Texas author

Infamous North Texas author and world renowned JFK conspiracy theorist died in FW home

Kevin Reece, WFAA

When I met Jim Marrs for the first time he agreed to talk about one of his favorite subjects.

"Yeah, think it happened," he said on the 120th anniversary of the alien incident of 1897 in the North Texas town of Aurora. It's the infamous tale of an alien spaceship that allegedly crashed in the town north of Fort Worth and whose occupant was given a "good Christian burial" in the town cemetery.  

Decades later Marrs and a colleague took a metal detector to the grave and found readings for possible metal fragments. But the next day the readings disappeared.

"He said I think it was the government and I said I think you're right," Marrs said with a laugh.

"The personification of a good Texas man. Honest as the day is long," said former Fort Worth Star Telegram colleague Donna Darovich. “If you looked up character in the dictionary it would say Jim Marrs. He was the personification of a character."

Marrs was a long-time reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He was also the author of a dozen books including Alien Agenda and the book Crossfire - The Plot that Killed Kennedy. The conspiracy narrative became much of the motivation for the Hollywood movie by Oliver Stone.

"Jim was one of the first people to find his niche and stuck to it and found a great audience," said Fort Worth Star Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy. "What I admire about Jim is that I don't really believe everything he wrote but I believe he knew how to sell books."

Jim Marrs died of a heart attack last week at the age of 73. Tributes poured in over social media over the weekend from across the world.

"I can't think of him as not being vibrant and alive somewhere in the cosmos," said Linda Moulton Howe, an investigative reporter in Albuquerque, New Mexico who became friends with Marrs at multiple conferences across the country. She admired him for his dogged determination to get government officials to answer long-standing questions and conspiracies.

"Jim Marrs' 12 books have helped open up minds to facts that were contradictory to US policies of denial. His work I think will live on and on because that is all that Jim Marrs wanted to do - find out the truth and report it in the face of political agendas, policies of denials and lies."

"I believe in a God," Jim Marrs told me in our conversation about aliens and UFO's.  "But, I know there are UFO's," he laughed.

"A wild and wacky guy but a really sweet good ole Texas boy," said Darovich.

A good ole Texas boy, journalist, and author whose influence and who's countless questions live on.

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08-08-2017 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

08-08-2017 om 20:24 geschreven door peter  

His name was Sanakhat or Sa-Nakhat and he reigned for about 18 years as an Egyptian pharaoh in the Third Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, starting around 2650 BCE. His remains were found in 1901 in a tomb, not a pyramid, near Beit Khallaf in upper Egypt, the location of a number of Third Dynasty tombs. Not much else was known about Sanakhat until a recent study took another look at his skull and bones and determined that he not only ruled over but also towered over his subjects because he was … a giant!

The report in the August issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology opens with the usual caveat that the term ‘giant’ is relative to the size of everyone else living at the time, but Sanakhat’s size was unusual in a number of ways. Led by Francesco M. Galassi, from the University of Zurich, researchers took a number of new and detailed measurements of Sanakht’s skeletal remains, extrapolated his probable size and compared it to known data on the size of the average Egyptian 4,700 years ago.

Possible skull of Sanakht

(Credit: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)

What they found was big. Sanakht was at least 187 cm or 6 foot 1 inches tall. That would make him a small NBA player today but a giant among his fellow, albeit non-royal, Egyptians who averaged about 162.5 cm or 5 foot 4 inches. That huge height difference is much more than what could be attributed to the royals eating better than the commoners, so the researchers concluded that Sanakht was a true Egyptian giant. And not just any giant. Based on archeological records, Sanakht was taller than any known Egyptian pharaoh before or after him.

What made Sanakht a giant? Before anyone starts shouting “Alien!”, the researchers anticipated the question. They found that his bones showed “signs of exuberant growth” but his skull did not. Today, those are indicators of gigantism, a hormonal condition that results in abnormal and excessive growth in young children (if the growth occurs in adulthood, it’s known as acromegaly) and is generally caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland. While today it can be treated if identified early, that obviously wasn’t the case in 2650 BCE.

Relief fragment of image believed to be Pharaoh Sanakht from The British Museum

That date — 2650 BCE – is significant because it makes Sanakht the oldest known case of gigantism … if it’s really Sanakht. While the remains were found in an elite tomb in an area known for having tombs from the Third Dynasty, there’s little to identify these as Sanakht. Also, the giant size of the skeleton is unique among other short-statured Third Dynasty rulers he would have been related to. The tomb contained nothing more that would show Sanakht’s actual dates of ruling nor his place in the dynastic line.

Whether the remains are Sanakht or some other elite individual, the discovery is important because it dates the condition of gigantism further back in history – potentially explaining many other stories of giants – and it shows that, in a culture that preferred short people and revered dwarfs, a giant was also considered special.

Even without a basketball.

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08-08-2017 om 20:15 geschreven door peter  

We Explored NASA's Concept Mars Rover, and It Was Out of This World

08-08-2017 om 18:27 geschreven door peter  

After 5 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Still Making Big Discoveries

08-08-2017 om 18:12 geschreven door peter  

Life in the Saturn System? Cassini Has Shown It's Possible

08-08-2017 om 17:53 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s ‘Planetary Protection Officer’ Protects Other Worlds From Earth (Synopsis)

The process of sterilizing spacecraft before they are launched to another world -- typically 'dry heat sterilization,' as applied here -- is regarded as the gold standard in keeping other worlds safe from Earth-based contamination. Image credit: NASA.

“To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn’t see in either eye – that, I think, would cause some people to lose control.”

- Chris Hadfield

Sure, you probably laughed about it when you first heard that NASA had a Planetary Protection Officer, as though Earth actually needed protection from non-existent alien invasions. Perhaps, you thought, this might have been relevant back in the 1960s, before we realized how barren the Moon was, or how woefully insufficient the Solar System is for harboring some type of doomsday, Andromeda-strain-like bacterium.

The crew of Apollo 11 — Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin — in the Mobile Quarantine Facility after returning from the surface of the Moon.

Image credit: NASA.

Although that NASA office is responsible for external biological threats to Earth, the main function of planetary protection is quite different: protecting other worlds from Earth. Which is to say, every time we launch a mission into deep space, we need to ensure that Earth-based life doesn’t compromise an otherwise pristine environment. There are big questions about the Solar System that we can only answer if we don’t contaminate those other worlds; one screw-up can override billions of years of natural history.

A scanning electron microscope image of a Milnesium tardigradum (Tardigrade, or ‘water bear’) in its active state. Tardigrades have been exposed to the vacuum of space for prolonged periods of time, and have returned to normal biological operation after being returned to liquid water environments.

Image credit: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. (2012).

What is the big deal with NASA’s Planetary Protection Office (and officer)? Find out, and get the facts instead of just some vainglorious headlines!

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08-08-2017 om 17:35 geschreven door peter  

China Built The World's Biggest Telescope But They've Got No One To Run It

Jonathan O'Callaghan 

Senior Staff Writer

China may have the world’s largest radio telescope in the world, but they’re apparently running into a few problems. Namely, they can’t find someone to run it.

Known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China opened this huge dish in September 2016 to study the cosmos. Among its numerous goals, it will be used to look for signals from extraterrestrial life and study black holes.

Upon completion, the $178-million FAST observatory became the largest operational telescope in the world, with its dish spanning 500 meters (1,600 feet), as its name suggests. It made use of a natural sinkhole in the Guizhou region of China, although some locals had to be relocated to make way for it.

Now, however, it has emerged that China can’t find someone to run the telescope. They’ve been advertising the job of chief scientist for an annual salary of $1.2 million, but there have been no takers so far. It’s reported that China was looking for a foreigner because no astronomer at home had the expertise to run the telescope.

“The post is currently open to scientists working outside China only,” a human resources official at the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), which owns the telescope, told the South China Morning Post. “Candidates can be of any nationality, any race.”

For many, that could be a rather exciting opportunity. However, Ars Technica notes that there are only about 40 people in the world who could have the necessary requirements for the job. These include 20 years of experience in the field, and experience managing a large-scale radio project.

China has denied reports they have been looking for a foreigner to run the telescope, despite the seemingly verbatim quote from the HR official. In a post on Sina Weibo yesterday, as reported by the state-run Global Times, they said there was no such posting for the job, and it had been filled since July 2016. This chief scientist has not been named.

Presuming it does run smoothly, FAST should be pretty useful. Its huge collecting power will enable it to collect radio waves from distant sources, much like the Arecibo observatory did in the US.

“Having a more sensitive telescope, we can receive weaker and more distant radio messages,” CAS Director-General Wu Xiangping said in 2015. “It will help us to search for intelligent life outside of the galaxy and explore the origins of the universe.”

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08-08-2017 om 17:27 geschreven door peter  

Kiwi man's Manurewa UFO footage - is it debunked?

It's a question that has left viewers puzzled, and searching for explanations.

"Is it Nibiru with the two tails, like a comet?" one person asked.

"When the earth is in conjunction with Mars it will really start big time.. they will be hopping off Mars and coming to earth by the hundreds or maybe thousands..  they come in on hyper drive and use Jupiter's gravity to slow down," a commenter argued.

"I have had very lucid dreams of this, how the Intergalactic Federation fended off an invasion of predator ships that looked like that coming in," another said.

But scientific investigation site Metabunk - to which NIWA has directed us - offers a more prosaic answer.

"Cool footage of a sunlit contrailing jet suddenly increasing its rate of climb in the far distance, then continuing with less persistent contrails," wrote Mick West.

"Likely flight is Emirates 435 from Auckland to Brisbane."

Newshub.

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08-08-2017 om 17:19 geschreven door peter  

THE ULTIMATE MEN IN BLACK DOCUMENTARY

BY NADIA VELLA

The Ultimate Men In Black Documentary.

There have been reports of MIB’s for decades.

What are they?

Governement Agents?

Something Else?

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08-08-2017 om 16:36 geschreven door peter  

Experts are studying a mysterious aluminum object that could date back to 250,000 years: Some speculate it might be a part from a UFO

by Ian Harvey

A fragment of aluminum that appears to have been made by hand is being claimed as 250,000-year-old evidence that aliens once visited Earth in the long distant past.

Metallic aluminum was not being produced by mankind until about 200 years ago, so this find of a large chunk that could be around 250,000 years old is held as a sensational discovery. The exact details of the find were never made public at the time for the reason that the metal was excavated in communist Romania in 1973.

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Aluminium object dating back 250,000 years could be part of ancient UFO

Metallic aluminium was not produced by mankind until around 200 years ago - but this appears manufactured making the object a baffling find

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The discovery was made when builders that were working on the shores of Mures River found three objects that were 33 feet (10 meters) underground. This river is not far from the central Romanian town of Aiud. The pieces look unusual and very old, and archaeologists were brought to view them immediately and identified two of the objects as fossils. But the third piece seemed to be a man-made metal, and even though it is very light, it was suspected that it may be the end of an axe.

All three objects were sent together to be further analyzed by archaeologists in Cluj, the main city of the Romanian region of Transylvania. They quickly determined that the two large bones had belonged to an extinct mammal that died out around 90,000 years ago. The third object stunned the experts since it was a piece of lightweight metal, and seemed to have been manufactured.

According to tests, the object is made out of 12 different metals, but it was 90% aluminum. The Romanian officials dated the object as being 250,000 years old. The first results were later confirmed by a lab located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Later, other experts conducted tests and said that could be wrong – the age could range between 400 and 80,000 years old. Even if the object is 400 years old, that would still be 200 years before aluminum was known to have been first produced.

The object is 7.8 inches (20 centimeters) long, 4.9 inches (12.5 centimeters) wide and 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) thick. The experts were puzzled by the fact that the piece of metal has concavities that make it seem that it was manufactured as a component of a more complex mechanical system.

Now there is a heated debate around whether the object is part of a UFO and is evidence of aliens having visited our civilisation in the past.

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The Deputy Director of the Romanian Ufologists Association, Gheorghe Cohal, told the local media that lab tests concluded that it’s an old UFO fragment, given that the materials could not have been combined with the technology that’s available on Earth. The local historian Mihai Wittenberger has claimed that the item is actually a metal piece from a WWII German aircraft. However, this does not explain the actual age of the artifact, Daily Record reported.

Read another story from us: Mysterious objects wash up on New Zealand beaches

The metal object is now on public display inside the History Museum of Cluj-Napoca with the full history that was the cause of the heated debate. It was noted that museum officials added a sign that states the origin is still unknown. Maybe one day we will be able to find out exactly where this mysterious object originated.

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08-08-2017 om 16:25 geschreven door peter  

NATIVE AMERICANS HAVE NO FEAR OF ALIENS. HERE’S WHY

Deeply spiritual cultures remember a time when “people from the stars” freely interacted with members of the human species.

Before intrepid and greedy Europeans ‘discovered’ the Americas, the land was populated by a variety of cultures encompassing millions of souls. Sadly, the near-annihilation of Native Americans has also meant the disappearance of ancient knowledge that we might never win back.

Therefore, it is fortunate that the efforts of the survivors have included the passing down of stories from time immemorial and many of these talk about the “Star People”, a   term that groups various beings who came from the sky to share a connection with humans who were worthy of their teachings.

The ancient world was in contact with a multitude of advanced extraterrestrials, as evidenced by the rich collection of stories detailing these interactions. Many cultures separated by thousands of years refer narratives of flying objects and technology so advanced it could have well been magic. These stories are particularly strong within the mythos of the Native American tribes.

“My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago,” Richard Wagamese of the Wabaseemoong First People writes. “The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.”

He continues:

“If Star People did come to the Ojibway, where did they go? Where did they come from? Who brought teachings to them? What scientific magic did they own that allowed them to make such an incredible journey – and is it possible for us?”

The peaceful Hopi people believed their ancestors came from the Pleiades and the general demeanor of Pleiadian aliens is reflected in the Hopi lifestyle. Could this mean their genesis stories hold truth in them? It sure seems so.

Dakota legends make reference to the same star cluster – Tiyami they called them – as being their ancestor’s primal home.

Similarly, the Cree believed that in a time before history, their ancestors arrived from the stars in spirit form, only to become humans on Earth.

Native legends of the Lakota people speak of mysterious celestial beings that manifested themselves as spheres of light and would often choose particular children to follow them on a journey through space and time.

Native Americans perceive the issue of alien visitation and even abduction in a more spiritual manner, as Plains Cree author Stephane Wuttunee explains in a UFO digest article:

[My people] “give far greater attention to the seeking of the spiritual understanding of things rather than going after “the truth” as people from dominant cultures do. This is part of the reason why we tend to stand back and view or listen at first rather than bare in with questions or take the hard, direct approach.”

Growing up in a tightly-knit community, Wuttunee listened carefully to the stories passed down by the Elders of his tribe. They told of “distant relations and Star People living amongst the stars many times, mainly around campfires and during traditional ceremonies.”

“Far from being anything to be feared, Star People was just another term I grew up around,” Wuttunee writes. “I remember listening in awe and fascination at the thought of us having relations that lived off and outside our world, and sometimes spoke to them in my silent moments at night. I wanted to know who they were and what they looked like, if they had families like us etc.[…] It wasn’t until my later teens that I discovered that people from the dominant cultures were talking about the same “people” as my elders did, though each side’s sense of perception of these people seemed radically different from one another.”

Black Elk (1863-1950), an Oglala Sioux holy man who toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show when he was young described one of his experiences, way before the UFO phenomenon had become bastardized by mass-media:

“So when I went to vision quest, that disk came from above. The scientists call that a…Unidentified Flying Object, but that’s a joke, see? Because they are not trained, they lost contact with the wisdom, power and gift.”

“So that disk landed on top of me. It was concave, and there was another one on top of that. It was silent, but it lit and luminesced like neon lights. Even the sacred robes there were luminesced, and those tobacco ties lying there lit up like little light bulbs.”

“Then these little people came, but each little group spoke a different language. They could read minds, and I could read their minds. I could read them. So there was silent communication. You could read it, like when you read silent symbols in a book. So we were able to communicate…They are human, so I welcomed them. I said, “Welcome, Welcome…”

Here we have the written, unambiguous testimony of pivotal figure in the Sioux culture, a legendary man who was the cousin of Crazy Horse, telling us about his interaction with extraterrestrial beings aboard their luminous UFO.

Without exception, all Native American tribes foster an umbilical connection with Mother Earth. They see themselves as the “original caretakers” of our planet and lament the path to destruction we’re currently on. Many tribal figures see this as the primary reason behind the weakening of the bond between humanity and the Star People.

But at the same time, this implies that a global shift in our attitude towards the place we call home could rekindle this dwindling connection.

So maybe that’s where all the good aliens are: out of sight, waiting for us to come into our senses.

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08-08-2017 om 16:01 geschreven door peter  

PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT : AN INVISIBLE BOAT THAT TRAVELED IN TIME THANKS TO EINSTEIN?

Summer of 1943. In the midst of World War II, an American battleship tested a technology designed by Einstein himself and managed to become invisible and teleport. That is, at least, what some conspiracy theorists say. This is the true story of the USS Elridge, the ship that “traveled in time”.(Philadelphia Experiment)

The legend of the Rainbow Project

What is popularly known as the Philadelphia Experiment, alludes to an alleged dark program of the US Navy called Project Rainbow. Urban legend says the military was testing a generator of electromagnetic fields with which they sought to find practical applications to the unified field theory proposed by Albert Einstein. In one sentence, they tried to achieve invisibility.

Private technicians who did not know what they were installing provided two powerful generators, dozens of meters of electrical cable around the hull and other complex electronic devices to the USS Elridge, a 93-meter-long battleship. On July 22, 1943, the first supposed experiment took place. The generators activated an electromagnetic field that made the battleship disappear from sight for a few minutes surrounded by a greenish fog. Some sailors complained of strong nausea caused by the test.

The equipment was readjusted and the second test took place on October 28. This time, the whole ship completely disappeared and appeared at the navy base in Norfolk, 600 kilometers away and 15 minutes in the past. There he was sighted during that time. After that he disappeared again in the middle of a blue lightning to return to Philadelphia.

Official statements of the navy

According to urban legend, the consequences of this second experiment were so devastating for the crew that the Navy decided to cancel the project. Most of the sailors developed schizophrenia and some completely lost their judgment. Many were seriously injured as they materialized, and others, less fortunate, fused horribly with the ship’s hull. Some vanished days after the experiment and never reappeared.

This is, roughly speaking, the truculent history perpetuated by conspiracy theorists, ufologists, and some science-fiction films. The navy has always denied the existence of the Philadelphia experiment. In a statement released in November 2000, the Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) completely denied the existence of any invisibility or teleportation program, as well as Einstein’s involvement. In a summary of the note published by Naval History & Heritage, it is said:

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has already explained that the use of forcefields to make a ship and its crew invisible does not conform to the known laws of physics. The ONR also asserts that Dr. Albert Einstein’s unified field theory has never been completed.

Between 1943 and 1944, Einstein worked as a part-time consultant for the navy in theoretical investigation of explosives and explosions. There is no evidence that Einstein worked on anything related to invisibility or teleportation.
Indeed, unified field theory was a concept coined by Einstein when he attempted to explain the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field by a single unified theory. He never succeeded, but many do not care that the laws of physics overturn a good story.

The letters of Carlos Allende

How did the Philadelphia Experiment come to light? The answer is through a series of letters sent by Carl Meredith Allen under the pseudonym of Carlos Miguel Allende. Supposedly, Allen was a merchant seaman who saw the USS Elridge disappear from his own ship, SS Andrew Furuseth.

With a somewhat peculiar prose and abundant spelling mistakes, Allen described the supposed experiment of teleportation in a correspondence maintained with the writer and ufologist Morris Jessup. Although the sailor never provided any reliable proof of what he was saying, Jessup was fascinated by the tale and included it in a book titled The Case for the UFO. Jessup failed to repeat the moderate success of this book and committed suicide four years later. The circumstances surrounding his death further fueled the theory that the experiment existed and that the government has since tried to cover it up. The urban legend of the Philadelphia experiment had been officially born.

The Truth About The Philadelphia Experiment

The Philadelphia Experiment is a complicated hodgepodge of Allen’s feverish imagination, Jessup’s credulity, real facts, and gossip about sailors. The first thing that does not agree are the dates. Official records say that the USS Elridge was launched on July 25, 1943, two days after the alleged first experiment. He officially entered service at the Shipyard of New York on August 27, 1943.

What is certain is that, in the 1940s, the US Navy experimented with invisibility. Of course, it was not invisibility to the naked eye. The USS Elridge and its twin, the USS Engstrom were equipped with a new system that surrounded the whole hull with electric cables. The technique was called Degaussing, and its aim was to reduce the magnetic field of the ship to avoid that it was an easy target of the mines and magnetic torpedoes used in the Nazi submarines. The technique became very popular in the 40’s and came to be applied to military and civilian vessels alike.

As Edward Dudgeon, one of the sailors aboard the USS Elridge, explains, the degaussing system was installed by outside contractors. Not knowing exactly what they were installing together with the jokes of sailors who spoke of a system to “make the boat invisible” was enough to trigger the gossip. To this was added the fact that the ship did carry secret experimental equipment. It was, in particular, a new type of sonar and a system to sow loads of depth called Hedgehog.

The “lightning” spoken of in the urban legend about the Philadelphia experiment may be as simple as the discharge of ionized plasma known long ago as San Telmo fire.

As for the mysterious disappearance of the USS Elridge, Dudgeon explains that the origin of that part of the urban legend is due to an incident at the base of Norfolk. The Elridge landed at the base to get supplies, but soon he released moorings and returned to Philadelphia, where he arrived in less than six hours. According to the navigation charts of the area, this crossing was impossible because it was necessary to take a large detour to avoid German submarines and minefields. In fact, the ship used the channel Chesapeake & Delaware, that allows skipping the detour to the peninsula.

Dudgeon explains how until his departure and the one of a companion by the back door during a tavern fight encouraged the rumors of sailors of the USS Elridge that disappeared. Neither Edward Dudgeon nor his companion bar was old enough to drink, and when the fight broke out, the taverna took them out the back door to avoid problems with the authorities. To many, Dudgeon’s entire account is the cover of a mad experiment.

On January 15, 1951, the USS Elridge was transferred to Greece, where he served under the name of Leon. The ship left the service in 1999 and ended its days peacefully in a scrapping. It served to attenuate the legend of the Philadelphia Experiment that a group of veterans of the USS Elridge offered an interview in 1999 in which commented the history fun. The most fanciful prefer to believe that the US navy managed in a delusional pseudo-scientific combo invisibility, teleportation and time travel, but decided not to move forward because some sailors died.

Case closed

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08-08-2017 om 15:49 geschreven door peter  

Temperature anomalies arranged by country from 1900 - 2016

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08-08-2017 om 15:35 geschreven door peter  

Negenjarige jongen solliciteert als 'Guardian of the Galaxy" bij NASA en krijgt antwoord - HLN.be

Bron: Metro.co.uk

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Jack Davis (9) wil een echte 'Guardian of the Galaxy' (bewaker van het heelal) zijn. Hij besloot een sollicitatiebrief te schijven voor de topjob 'hoofd planetaire bescherming' bij NASA. Die vonden het briefje zo leuk dat ze het deelde met de wereld.

NASA: "Doe goed je best op school"

Directeur van planetaire bescherming Dr. James L. Green van NASA

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De directeur van de planetaire bescherming van NASA, Dr. James L. Green, besloot een briefje terug te schrijven. "We horen dat je een echte 'Guardian of the Galaxy' bent en dat je interesse toont in de functie 'hoofd planetaire bescherming'. Dat is geweldig", vertelt Green in de brief.

"De openstaande job is heel cool en is heel belangrijk werk. Zo moet de man of vrouw ervoor zorgen dat de aarde beschermd is tegen kleine microben die vastzitten op materiaal dat we meebrengen na een ruimtereis naar de maan, asteroïden of Mars. Je moet er ook op toezien dat we andere planeten en manen niet besmetten met onze microben. Zo willen we op een verantwoorde manier de ruimte leren kennen", een uitleg die Jack ongelofelijk spannend zal vinden. 

Toch zit een job bij NASA er nog niet direct in voor de kleine 'bewaker van het heelal'. "We zijn altijd op zoek naar slimme wetenschappers om ons te helpen. Daarom hoop ik dat je hard zal studeren en het goed zal doen op school. We hopen je zeker ooit te mogen ontvangen hier bij NASA."

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08-08-2017 om 15:04 geschreven door peter  

NASA: "Stuur uw boodschap naar verst verwijderde ruimtetuig" - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

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Wie dat wil, kan een boodschap proberen te laten sturen naar de Voyager-1, de verst van ons verwijderde sonde, zo heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA vandaag getwitterd.

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Send 60-character message to the farthest man-made object in space: @NASAVoyager! Submit #MessageToVoyager by Aug 15 http://go.nasa.gov/2fkaEmx 

7:27 PM - Aug 6, 2017

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Op 5 september zal het veertig jaar geleden zijn dat de NASA de Voyager-1 lanceerde. Het tuig verkende de planeten Jupiter en Saturnus, maar vertoeft sinds augustus 2013 al in de interstellaire ruimte. Dus niet meer in ons zonnestelsel.

Geïnteresseerden mogen via een reeks sociale media zoals Twitter en Facebook een boodschap van maximaal zestig karakters naar de NASA sturen. Dit moet voor 16 augustus 08.59 uur Belgische tijd gebeuren, getagd als #MessagetoVoyager. De NASA zoekt dan de beste boodschappen uit, en dan kan het publiek uitmaken welke zal winnen. Dan komt NASA weer aan beurt, door het ding op 5 september naar Voyager-1 te sturen. De aankomst is een dag later.

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08-08-2017 om 14:57 geschreven door peter  

UFO HUNTER FILMED AN OBJECT CREATING A FIREBALL ACROSS THE SKY

UFO footage that was supposed to be of a UFO blazing across the sky in Manurewa in Auckland may have been debunked, and it might not be the alien invasion that people had first thought it to be.

KIWI MAN CLAIMS TO HAVE WITNESSED 12 UFOS IN 12 WEEKS

Some people said that what the man had captured on the video was a meteor or fireball as the camera did not zoom in close enough to see what it was.

Others said that they thought they could make out a pulsating red headlight on the UFO and that it was some alien craft. The footage appeared to show an object of a large size that was flying through the sky and which had two jets of flames trailing behind it. The UFO was said to have changed its direction and in doing so made some maneuvers that typical aircraft would not be able to do and which could not be explained.  

SKEPTICS DEBUNK UFO SIGHTING AS JET, WHILE OTHERS BELIEVE IT IS ALIENS

One fan who said that it was a UFO said that it was not a jet aircraft as a jet was not able to stop in mid-air and do what the alien craft had done. This did get skeptics thinking about what type of aircraft would be able to make maneuvers such as this if it was not alien. One person said that they thought it might be Nibiru and it had two tails in the same way as a comet.

Another person said that once Earth and Mars are in conjunction things would start big time. He said that extra-terrestrials would be fleeing from Mars and they would arrive on Earth in the thousands. The person said that aliens would arrive on hyper drive and then use the gravity of Jupiter to slow them down.

Another person commenting on the UFO video said that he had lucid dreams of how an Intergalactic Federation had managed to fend off an invasion or ships of predators that had looked as though they were coming in.

However, a website based on scientific investigation may have debunked the UFO mystery. They said that it was probably footage of a controlling jet that was lit by the sun, which had increased its climb rate suddenly in the far distance and then continued with contrails that were less persistent. They continued by saying that more than likely what had been captured on the video was an Emirates 435 flight going from Auckland to Brisbane.

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08-08-2017 om 14:42 geschreven door peter  

No Return is the title of a new book from David Booher. It is published by the good folks at Anomalist Books. The subtitle is UFO Abduction or Covert Operation? That’s a very good question! I finished reading the book last week and, I can say with certainty, it does not disappoint. It’s a real-life, little-known, saga that dates back to the latter part of the 1950s. It still remains filled with enigmas and puzzles, close to sixty years after it occurred.

Anomalist Books’ publicity page for No Return states: “On a lonesome road in Utah, a young soldier returning from leave speeds through the desert night. Suddenly the sky lights up as a blazing object streaks across the highway and crashes nearby. Stunned, the soldier stops and decides to investigate. Little does he know, but his life will never be the same again. This is the true story of a man named Gerry Irwin. Following a mysterious experience in Utah in 1959, inexplicable blackouts and bizarre behavior threatened to derail his promising Army career. Then one day he suddenly deserted his Army post in Texas and disappeared without a trace. No one knows what became of him—until now. What happened to Gerry Irwin? Was he abducted by aliens, in what would amount to the first known case of this phenomenon on American soil? Or was he a pawn in a covert intelligence operation? And how does his story really end? A new investigation launched in 2013 attempts to answer these and other questions, revealing along the way the ordeal of a man whose mind was ravaged by a confrontation with the unknown.”

To his credit, David Booher is refreshingly open-minded on the matter of what happened to Gerry Irwin on the night of February 20, 1959. He tackles all of the various theories which have been suggested: alien abduction, MK-Ultra-type mind-meddling, and a hoax on the part of Irwin himself. In other words, the book is free of any particular agenda – which is something you seldom see in a book that is focused on the domains of the paranormal, the conspiratorial, and the ufological.

Long-time ufologist Jacques Vallee agreed to write the foreword. Vallee says something in his foreword that is of critical importance: “I believe two major themes stand out from the insights we can derive from David Booher’s work: First, the virtue of a patient, long-term perspective on cases that seemed forever lost in amnesia or hidden in secrecy; and second, the critical need for an intelligent alternative to the shoddy, pop psychology of hypnosis that has come to masquerade for ‘research’ in numerous reports of UFO abduction.”

Although many people reading this review will possibly never have heard of the case, it was highlighted not at all long after it occurred. That coverage came from both the media of the day and the UFO community of that era – and primarily by Coral and Jim Lorenzen of APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. The affair was also highlighted by Jacques Vallee, in his 1988 book, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact.

It was in November 2013 that author Booher, while digging into a UFO book of yesteryear, came across the case. Booher knew of it from years gone by, but on visiting it yet again he became fascinated. It was, of course, the saga of Gerry Irwin. In no time, Booher found himself immersed in a definitive mystery. There was one question Booher wanted answering: what really happened to Gerry Irwin in 1959?

Booher is not someone content to get all of his data from the Internet. As we quickly learn, he is someone who has a very proactive approach to his UFO research: he first set about locating Irwin. Booher succeeded: Irwin was still alive and in his eighties. In practically no time at all, Booher then finds himself immersed in a definitive mystery of epic proportions. At times the story becomes almost surreal, as our author seeks out the truth of what happened to Irwin. Nothing is quite as it seems. Significant portions of Irwin’s memories are gone, wiped clean. We learn that, as Irwin’s military records show, at one point after his mysterious experience, he was “interviewed under the influence of sodium amytal” by a psychiatrist assigned to Irwin, a Captain Valentine.

Booher skillfully juggles the two primary theories offered for Irwin’s experience: abduction by extraterrestrials versus mind-manipulation by something akin to the CIA’s MK-Ultra program. In a strange set of circumstances, Booher makes an intriguing case for both theories. On the one hand, he notes some of the classic aspects of an alien abduction event that are central to the experience of Irwin. We’re talking about (A) a strange light seen in the sky; (B) “missing time;” and (C) evidence of “psychological trauma.” Also in terms of the alien angle to all of this, Booher notes the similarities between Irwin’s encounter and that of Betty and Barney Hill in 1961.

On the other hand, though, Booher does not shy away from looking at Rich Reynolds‘ research into Antonio Villas Boas famous “close encounter” of 1957. It was an encounter which allegedly saw Brazilian Villas Boas get it on with a wild and willing space-babe from a faraway world. The curvy and stacked hottie even growled. Could it get much better? In case you don’t know, Rich’s work has shown that there may well be a very down to earth (but no less controversial) answer to the Villas Boas story – one which is connected to government mind-control programs. Booher recognizes this and presents the reader with his observations and theories on this issue. And, it should not go without notice that Booher also addresses the theory that the whole thing was a hoax by Irwin himself, a very odd attempt on his (Irwin’s) part to get out of the military. Booher does so in a fashion that makes it clear he wants answers – regardless of what the outcome might be. That Irwin did go AWOL at the time becomes the subject of a 20-page chapter.

One of the most intriguing parts of the book is that which highlights the various official, military documents on Irwin that Booher was able to obtain. One such document was prepared by the aforementioned Captain Valentine – who sought to figure out what had happened to Irwin. The document includes the following words from the captain: “[Irwin] stated there was a ‘special intelligence’ that he couldn’t explain to me, since it would be incomprehensible to me, which has directed him not to remember or not to tell me about any of the events in Utah.” Captain Valentine also noted in the papers that: “[Irwin] states ‘it’ all began at the age of three years.” Booher suggests this latter quote “provides further support for an abduction scenario.”

I won’t reveal to you all of Booher’s conclusions, but what I will say is that he has written an absorbing, unbiased and genuinely fascinating story. It’s Booher’s own, personal search for the truth of a young man whose life was forever changed on a dark night back in the fifties. You should read this book.

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08-08-2017 om 14:34 geschreven door peter