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 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...
16-08-2017
Boerin overspoeld door bezoekers na verschijnen graancirkel. Wat maakt deze zo bijzonder?
Boerin overspoeld door bezoekers na verschijnen graancirkel. Wat maakt deze zo bijzonder?
Een Engelse boerin is overspoeld door bezoekers nadat in haar weiland een enorme graancirkel was verschenen. Dat schrijft de BBC.
Shelley Klindt uit Hannington in Wiltshire vertelde aan de zender dat de 60 meter grote graanformatie begin deze maand van de ene op de andere dag was verschenen.
Sindsdien hebben al honderden mensen het weiland bezocht. Klindt heeft een hoogwerker ingezet zodat bezoekers de formatie kunnen aanschouwen zonder de gewassen te beschadigen.
Meteorenzwerm
Graancirkel Hannington (Frank Laumen)
Ze zei dat bezoekers uit de hele wereld naar haar weiland zijn gekomen om de gigantische graancirkel te bekijken.
“We hebben hier helikopters, laagvliegende vliegtuigen en heel veel drones gehad,” zei ze.
Afgelopen zaterdag waren er zo’n 130 mensen en een aantal daarvan bleven in het midden van de graancirkel overnachten om de meteorenzwerm van de Perseïden te zien.
Donatie
Klindt vraagt bezoekers om een donatie als compensatie voor het verlies van de oogst. Mensen moeten ook betalen om gebruik te mogen maken van de hoogwerker.
Vrijdag wordt het graan geoogst en zal de graancirkel niet meer te zien zijn.
Pierre Beake is ervan overtuigd dat de mysterieuze formaties op het platteland het gevolg zijn van paranormale activiteit.
Lichtbollen
Hij doet al jaren onderzoek naar de cirkels in het zuidwesten van Engeland, zo vertelde hij onlangs tijdens het Glastonbury Symposium.
In Wiltshire zag hij tot zijn verbazing een aantal bizarre lichtbollen boven een bekende graancirkelplek.
UFO vastgelegd bij internationale ruimtestation ISS. Enig idee wat dit kan zijn?
UFO vastgelegd bij internationale ruimtestation ISS. Enig idee wat dit kan zijn?
Camera’s aan boord van het internationale ruimtestation ISS hebben opnieuw een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object vastgelegd. Dat meldt het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
Op de beelden is te zien hoe een object enige tijd achter het ruimtestation blijft hangen.
Ufologen speculeren dat het object mogelijk toebehoort aan een buitenaardse beschaving.
Zwart
Sommige deskundigen zijn echter van mening dat het een optische illusie is die wordt veroorzaakt door de reflectie van zonlicht op het ISS.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA zet geregeld het beeld op zwart als er onbekende objecten verschijnen bij het ruimtestation.
Op die manier probeert de NASA het bestaan van buitenaardsen te verhullen, zo claimen complottheoretici.
Uit beeld
In juli maakte Sputnik nog melding van een object bij het ISS dat volgens UFO-onderzoekers een buitenaards ‘moederschip’ was.
Bij het ruimtestation verscheen een object dat in eerste instantie leek op een sliert brandende oranje lichtbollen.
Op het moment dat de contouren van het object wat meer duidelijk begonnen te worden, verdween het weer uit beeld.
Cilindervormig
En in april werd op de livestream van het ISS een mysterieus object gespot. Volgens UFO-experts ging het toen om een cilindervormig vaartuig.
De cilinder was ‘gedeeltelijk transparant’, mogelijk een techniek om de UFO onzichtbaar te maken, aldus de onderzoekers.
Onderstaande beelden zijn op YouTube geplaatst door UFO-jager Streetcap1:
The mesmerising cloud looks similar to a hexagon and seems almost too perfect to be caused naturally, according to conspiracy theorists.
The incredible cloud formation was spotted on Wednesday morning over the Scandinavian country and quickly uploaded to social media by people who snapped it.
One person wrote on Twitter: “It is clearly a UFO”
Another added on Facebook: “For a certain cloud formation that's not too common we sure are seeing them often. I'm finished accepting what ‘they’ want us to believe so from here on out we must question everything.”
While a third posted: “Cloaked UFO sitting at Cloud level. Just saying!”
However, the Finnish Meteorological Institute chipped in, stating the odd cloud was probably formed by ice crystals in the sky reacting with a ‘plate’ of droplets a bit lower down in the skies.
Paavo Korpela, a meteorologist with the Finnish Meteorological Institute, told Iltalehti: “That cloud layer, which is now there, is about six to seven miles (10-12km) high, and the temperature is over 20 degrees frost (12 Fahrenheit).
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Meteorologists claim that it is a natural cloud formation
“One explanation could be that if ice crystals come from above cloud layers, it causes very rapid liquid water freezing in ice crystals, where clouds will rain down and evaporate at the same time.”
It is not the first time that civilians have been baffled by a cloud formation and cried alien.
Black rings have been spotted across the world, which some believe is a sign of alien activity.
In April, onlookers in the Russian city of Novosibirsk spotted tan odd black circular cloud, while in 2016, an almost identical one was spotted over Disneyland, California.
The numerous sightings have seen alien hunters clamouring to offer their opinions, with prominent UFO blogger Scott C Waring saying it is a type of extra-terrestrial space craft.
He wrote about the sighting over Disneyland: “Ring UFOs are super rare, but they have been seen.
“This UFO is over Disneyland and causes the family to worry about an alien invasion.”
Strange footage emerged online of a object appearing in the sky over Jinshitan beach in the city.
The video shows the object floating among the clouds before disappearing.
Swimmers and beachgoers can be seen observing the ring as it flies above them.
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Beachgoears were puzzled by the sudden UFO-like appearance in the clouds over Dailan beach
In the video, onlooker Jing Qi said: "There is an unidentified flying object appearing in the sky. Its oval shape is expanding and it's coming towards us closer and closer."
Before disappearing, the UFO-like ring changed its shape into a parallelogram.
Following the publication of the video, social media users began to speculate on the possible origin of the object on China's version of Twitter, Weibo.
According to ET Today, some eyewitnesses suggested the ring could have been formed by a group of insects moving together.
However, web users were quick to point out a reasonable explanation for the sudden appearance.
Local residents said the ring had been caused by special visual effects from a performance that had just taken place.
A spokesperson from a local playground confirmed the ring was a flame effect from a show organised for the public.
They explained that the smoke from the special effect manifested as a floating ring.
Jaw-Dropping Enormous Tall Land Vortex filmed in Jaguapita, Brazil
Jaw-Dropping Enormous Tall Land Vortex filmed in Jaguapita, Brazil
More amazing examples of Climate Chaos as it becomes a daily feature of the news somewhere on earth.
As extreme weather phenomenon is increasing everyday and seems to be strengthening we may wonder whether it is all connected or not.
This week a series of events took place in South America, South Africa, Finland and Brazil.
Water receded from several places in South America. We also caught another huge “Antarctica” wave anomaly over this region around the same time.
On the other side of the ocean, people witnessed huge wave’s crashes into the shores of South Africa while Helsinki, Finland was hit by a Cat1 Hurricane Force.
Another example of such an extreme weather phenomenon is an enormous tall land spout that has been filmed at the moment it passes through Jaguapita in Brazil.
According to CratersNews, he went running outside but instead of a car accident he discovered a burnt circle of grass in his backyard with smoke still rising from it.
Approaching closer he discovered a flame and a small piece of pink colored rock in the middle of the spot and concluded that it was a small meteorite, before he took it out of the hole.
Earlier this year, both the scientific community and “alien enthusiasts” were excited when NASAannounced in Februaryit had found a star system 40 light-years away with seven Earth-size rocky planets. Called Trappist-1, the system is thought to have at least three of those planets in a potentially habitable zone with the possibility of liquid surface water.
But being located at the right distance from the parent star is not nearly enough for a planet to be actually habitable because life as we know it doesn’t seem to spring up so easily. Among the many and varied factors, take, for example, the matter of the star’s age. Trappist-1 is thought to be anywhere between 5.4 billion years and 9.8 billion years old, which is at least 20 percent (and up to over 100 percent) older than our own solar system that formed about 4.5 billion years ago.
In a statement Friday, NASA explained: “If we want to know more about whether life could survive on a planet outside our solar system, it’s important to know the age of its star. Young stars have frequent releases of high-energy radiation called flares that can zap their planets’ surfaces. If the planets are newly formed, their orbits may also be unstable. On the other hand, planets orbiting older stars have survived the spate of youthful flares, but have also been exposed to the ravages of stellar radiation for a longer period of time.”
This artist's concept shows what the Trappist-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star. The planets have been designated letters b to h, from closest to farthest.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To estimate the age of Trappist-1, Adam Burgasser, an astronomer at the University of California, San Diego, and Eric Mamajek, deputy program scientist for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, used a number of indirect clues. These included the speed of the star as it moves in its orbit within the Milky Way (older is usually faster), the chemical composition of its atmosphere and the number of flares seen during observation periods.
The old age estimation they arrived at is not very unusual for the kind of star Trappist-1 is — an ultra-cool dwarf. It has a mass of less than a tenth of the sun, and its planets are all very close orbits to it. Despite the relatively cool temperature, radiation from the star cloud has, over billions of years, evaporated any atmosphere and water that may have existed on any of the three planets in the habitable zone — much the same way as Mars.
All the planets of Trappist-1 are thought to be rocky but with densities lower than Earth, it is also possible that volatile molecules (like water and carbon dioxide) create a thick atmosphere, thereby shielding the planets from most of the harmful radiation. The planets are also thought to be tidally locked to the star (the same side always faces the star, like the moon and Earth), so an atmosphere would also mean that some of the incoming heat would be distributed to the planets’ night side too. But a very thick atmosphere also creates the possibility of an excessive greenhouse effect, which would overheat the planet, like on Venus.
“If there is life on these planets, I would speculate that it has to be hardy life because it has to be able to survive some potentially dire scenarios for billions of years,” Burgasser, first author of a new research paper on the topic, said in the statement. “Our results really help constrain the evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 system, because the system has to have persisted for billions of years. This means the planets had to evolve together, otherwise the system would have fallen apart long ago,” he added.
This provides more evidence of the system’s stability, which was first initially thought to be very unstable and the planets doomed to crash into each other in less than one million years. Previously, a study published in May by scientists and musicians from the University of Toronto said the planets had very stable orbits that formed ratios of whole numbers.
This illustration shows what the Trappist-1 system might look like from a vantage point near planet Trappist-1f (at right).
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The temperature and brightness of stars the mass of Trappist-1 tend to remain more or less constant over very long periods of time, even in terms of cosmic time-scales. With the exception of occasional magnetic flaring events, the lifetime of Trappist-1 is estimated to be over 10 trillion years (the universe is only 13.7 billion years, by comparison.
“Stars much more massive than the sun consume their fuel quickly, brightening over millions of years and exploding as supernovae. But Trappist-1 is like a slow-burning candle that will shine for about 900 times longer than the current age of the universe,” Mamajek said in the statement.
Trappist-1 is so-named because the main instrument that led to its discovery is Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and other ground-based telescopes were also used in the discovery of the star system.
The paper by Burgasser and Mamajek, titled “On the Age of the Trappist-1 System,” has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal and is available online on the preprint server arXiv.
Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University
Disclosure statement
Jason Wright acknowledges funding from NASA, the NSF, the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Words at The Pennsylvania State University, and from Breakthrough Listen, part of the Breakthrough Initiatives sponsored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation (https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/).
The Conversation UK receives funding from Hefce, Hefcw, SAGE, SFC, RCUK, The Nuffield Foundation, The Ogden Trust, The Royal Society, The Wellcome Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Alliance for Useful Evidence, as well as sixty five university members.
Forty years ago, NASA launched Voyager I and II to explore the outer solar system. The twin spacecraft both visited Jupiter and Saturn; from there Voyager I explored the hazy moon Titan, while Voyager II became the first (and, to date, only) probe to explore Uranus and Neptune. Since they move too quickly and have too little propellant to stop themselves, both spacecraft are now on what NASA calls their Interstellar Mission, exploring the space between the stars as they head out into the galaxy.
Both craft carry Golden Records: 12-inch phonographic gold-plated copper records, along with needles and cartridges, all designed to last indefinitely in interstellar space. Inscribed on the records’ covers are instructions for their use and a sort of “map” designed to describe the Earth’s location in the galaxy in a way that extraterrestrials might understand.
Since we still have not detected any alien life, we cannot know to what degree the records would be properly interpreted. Researchers still debate what forms such messages should take. For instance, should they include a star map identifying Earth? Should we focus on ourselves, or all life on Earth? Should we present ourselves as we are, or as comics artist Jack Kirby would have had it, as “the exuberant, self-confident super visions with which we’ve clothed ourselves since time immemorial”?
But the records serve a broader purpose than spreading the word that we’re here on our blue marble. After all, given the vast distances between the stars, it’s not realistic to expect an answer to these messages within many human lifetimes. So why send them and does their content even matter? Referring to earlier, similar efforts with the Pioneer spacecraft, Carl Sagan wrote, “the greater significance of the Pioneer 10 plaque is not as a message to out there; it is as a message to back here.” The real audience of these kinds of messages is not ET, but humanity.
The choice to include music has inspired introspection on the nature of music as a human endeavor, and what it would (or even could) mean to an alien species. If an ET even has ears, it’s still far from clear whether it would or could appreciate rhythm, tones, vocal inflection, verbal language or even art of any kind. As music scholars Nelson and Polansky put it, “By imagining an Other listening, we reflect back upon ourselves, and open our selves and cultures to new musics and understandings, other possibilities, different worlds.”
Engineers mount the Golden Record and secure its cover on Voyager 1.NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY
The records also represent humanity’s deliberate effort to put artifacts among the stars. Unlike everything on Earth, which is subject to erosion and all but inevitable destruction (from the sun’s eventual demise, if nothing else), the Golden Records are essentially eternal, a permanent time capsule of humanity. And unlike the Voyager spacecraft themselves – which were designed to have finite lifespans and whose journey into interstellar space was incidental to their primary function of exploring the outer planets – the Golden Records’ only purpose is to serve as ambassadors of humanity to the stars.
Placing artifacts in interstellar space thus makes the galaxy subject to the social studies, in addition to astronomy. The Golden Records mark our claim to interstellar space as part of our cultural landscape and heritage, and once the Voyager spacecraft themselves are not functional any longer, they will become proper achaeological objects. They are, in a sense, how we as a species have planted our flag of exploration in space. Anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan muses, “Has NASA been to interstellar space because this spacecraft has? Have we, as a human species, [now] been to interstellar space?”
I would argue we have, and we are a better species for it. Like the Pioneer plaques and the Arecibo Message before them, the Golden Records inspire us to broaden our minds about what it means to be human; what we value as humans; and about our place and role in the cosmos by having us imagine what we might, or might not, have in common with any alien species our Voyagers eventually encounter on their very long journeys.
Giant hole on Mars could be work of aliens, researchers say
Giant hole on Mars could be work of aliens, researchers say
Credit: SecureTeam 10, Youtube)
A giant hole on Mars has scientists baffled and some UFO researchers are theorizing it could be the work of extraterrestrials.
In a video obtained by conspiracy theorist Youtube channel SecureTeam 10, a deep depression in the surface of Mars has astronomers questioning what it is.
Tyler Glockner, who runs SecureTeam 10, said the hole is estimated to be hundreds of feet across. The rocky terrain of Mars -- which like Earth, has polar ice caps -- does not account for what the depression is, Glockner added.
The images come courtesy of NASA's Mars reconassiance orbiter, which has been exploring the planet.
Below is the video in its entirety:
NASA has given several possibilities of what could have caused the hole, including meteorites, lava tubes, ancient floods and volcanoes. But conspiracy theorists have other ideas.
Glockner said the hole shows artificial characteristics, noting that it looks as if it has been hollowed out. Glockner added that the hole could also be an entrance of an underground civilization.
SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 900,000 YouTube subscribers, often runs conspiracy theory-based videos. The organization describes itself as the "source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, info on the space cover-up, and the strange activity happening on and off of our planet."
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Mining complex on the moon? UFO hunter claims structures visible on lunar surface
Mining complex on the moon? UFO hunter claims structures visible on lunar surface
File photo: A supermoon appears after a total "supermoon" lunar eclipse in Brussels September 28, 2015.
(REUTERS/Yves Herman)
A UFO hunter claims to have spotted a mining complex on the surface of the Moon.
Streetcap 1, which posts extraterrestrial-related and other paranormal videos on its YouTube page, purports a series of objects in a video could be a mining complex on the lunar surface.
In the video, Streetcap 1 says: "Can you see those buildings? They are in Tycho Crater on the moon. That's quite amazing isn't it?"
Commenters on the video, which has over 5,000 views, seemed to agree with the findings. "Nice find mate," Thomas Mundt wrote.
Another commenter, Kristin Bacon, wrote: "[T]his is a great pic. definitely something going on. no one can say that dosnt look like a mining complex of some sort. i would love to go to the moon and look around lol"
A third commenter, going by the name of Clint Steel, wrote: "I do believe there are structures on the moon but what i think is happening here is pixelization of some kind with any white patches on the surface. The pixelization is even subtly there on the darker areas. Can you show us a white patch that doesnt pixelize like this?"
This latest video, which was published on July 29, is the latest in a series of videos from Streetcap 1 about unexplained anomalies on the Moon.
YouTuber Crrow777 has spent years trailing a high-definition camera through a telescope on the moon, and captured an array of objects passing the lunar surface.
They include a "boomerang" object, he says is made up of three interconnected discs, regular discs, and a strange unevenly-shaped object.
Crrow777, who narrates his own videos, claims after years of filming the moon through a telexcopic lens, he knows the UFOs are not satellites, or insects or birds that were flying much closer to Earth and created an optical illusion as to their size.
In a promotional blurb for the video, he said: "This is a compilation of unknown objects (UFO's) transiting the moon.
"These objects were shot over the past couple years and represent a small portion of my captures. The also show some of the similarities I have documented."
However, he is a major conspiracy theorist who believes the moon does not exist, and is actually a hologram, and claims the International Space Station (ISS) is a hoax.
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These odd-shaped UFOs were captured by Crrow777.
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Crrow777 insists he does not use misleading footage.
I pledge that I will never run deceptive or misleading clips on this channel.
Crrow777
Many conspiracy theorists believe the US Government has developed secret craft that can go into space that the public is not told about.
Many conspiracy theorists claim the moon is actually occupied by aliens, and this is why NASA has never returned.
One of the most far-fetched theories, whose supporters include former BBC Grandstand presenter David Icke, is that the moon is a hollow alien space station.
Objects filmed in front of the moon can appear much closer to it than they actually are.
Scott Brando, of debunking website ufoofinterest.org, said the objects featured in Crrow777's videos had been shown to be satellites, birds, insects and standard aircraft.
he added that the "boomerang" and other oddly-shaped UFO in the video looked like helium balloons.
Crrow777 states on his website: "I pledge that I will never run deceptive or misleading clips on this channel."
UFOs have been spotted across south-east London and north Kent
Tony Histed spotted this strange feature in the sky
Many of us spent time this weekend gazing up at the night sky, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Perseid meteor shower – only to be disappointed by the clouds marring the view. But the News Shopper area has had its fair share of objects in the sky that are harder to explain than the weekend’s celestial show.
Bright lights in Bexley, light shows in Lewisham, and eerie crafts in Erith – we take a look at some of the area’s most notorious UFO sightings.
1. Mother(ship) of all sightings at Thames Barrier
Andrew Burlington, of Cliffview Road, Lewisham, was out with his family in August 2016 when he spotted what he thinks may have been a fleet of UFOs flying over the Thames Barrier. He witnessed with his two nephews what they at first thought were balloons moving along the river, in the direction of Charlton, and caught the whole things on camera. “The fact that a long anomalous object shoots across the sky at the start of the video may well indicate that a UFO mothership was above the Thames Barrier releasing smaller UFOs,” said Mr Burlington.
Margaret Fry and her doctor reported seeing a 30-foot-wide craft hovering over the street in broad daylight on July 17, 1955. Car engines nearby reportedly stalled, and the object was seen by around 30 people as it landed at the junction of Ashbourne Avenue and Whitfield Road, near King Harold’s Way.
3.‘Intelligent life’ over Lewisham
Andrew Burlington and his father, Les, again spotted an unidentified craft over their home on February 22, 2014. They ruled out the craft being a Chinese lantern because it appeared to change direction several times. Mr Burlington said: "Whatever it was, we all agree on one thing - it was being intelligently controlled."
King Harold’s Way was again the scene of a mysterious sighting on December 30, 2014, when Tony Histed spotted strange lights in the sky and saw two orbs flying up off the ground from the building site he was working at.
The most recent sighting over Lewisham was on July 2 this year, according to Facebook group Lewisham UFO Sightings. An object was seen making little or no sound, moving north and with three separate lights on it.
6. Gravesend visitations
A ball of lights was seen hovering over Deering Way for about 30 minutes at 7.50pm February 19, 2009 and reported to the Ministry of Defence, according to files released by the Ministry in 2013. No other sightings were reported in the area that evening, according to the Ministry.
Two on-duty Metropolitan police officers witnessed a yellow UFO over Coldbath Street, Lewisham in May 1978. The craft hovered in the air for around 20 minutes, and was witnessed by several members of the public on the same evening. The officers described the UFO as ‘six times brighter than any star.’
8. Erith enigma
A sighting in Erith in September 1998 reported two objects larger than planes, both with round fronts, lit in red and blue. This sighting is listed in a government database of UFO sightings which was maintained until 2009 when it was discontinued along with the accompanying hotline because it served ‘no defence purpose,’ according to the Ministry of Defence.
9. Shapeshifting in Gravesend
A policeman was called by a mother and son in October 1993 after they described seeing an object in the sky. The UFO, which was reported to the Ministry of Defence in a seven-page report, apparently changed from being bell-shaped into an oval with protruding spikes.
Amateur photographer Gary Porter spotted these UFOs by the Dartford Crossing in September 2011 and managed to capture them on camera. He was on the industrial estate in Galleon Boulevard with his girlfriend when they noticed small, bright, circular lights in red, green and blue. Mr Porter said: "Mr Porter said: "There wasn't anything unusual to the eye. It was when we took a photo they appeared on the screen. The longer the exposure the brighter these things came out. They look almost as if they are a heat source."
The 25-year-old added: "I have spoken to friends and other photographers and Greenwich Observatory and there's no one who can explain what it is."
The UFO files of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have been declassified. There are 20 pages in the files, and although there is a dubious claim about the construction of a secret alien base and an unconvincing UFO photo, there is an interesting UFO report from U.S. Air Force personnel at a radar station in Montana.
The Forest Service UFO files were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by John Greenewald. Greenewald runs TheBlackVault.com, a site that houses over one million declassified files obtained via FOIA requests.
Greenewald says he made the request in November, 2016 and received the files in February, 2017.
UFO Photo in Bighorn National Forest
The first report in the file is a letter and photographs from a man who says he caught something “very strange” in a photograph he took while visiting Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest. The witness says he did not see or hear anything unusual while taking the picture, but he noticed an odd object in one of the photos when he reviewed them later. He speculates that perhaps it is a drone, but also says he did some research and did not find any drones that looked like the object in the image.
The marker shows the location of Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest.
(Credit: Google Maps)
The photograph was taken at about 2:30 pm on September 12, 2015.
Images of unidentified object at Bighorn National Forest provided to U.S. Forest Service.
(Credit: U.S. Forest Service)
It is hard to make out what exactly the object in the image is, but the USFS files did not include a high resolution image. Greenewald says he did inquire if higher resolution images were available, but they were not.
Enlargement of object in photo.
(Credit: U.S. Forest Service)
Without better images, this blob of light and shadows could be anything, and is likely a bird in flight. Often vacation photos with weird objects that were not noted at the time of their taking turn out to be birds or bugs that look strange in photographs once they are reviewed back home.
The USFS did not include their response to the UFO photog, or if they responded at all.
UFO Sighting at Yaak Air Force Station in Kootenai National Forest
Following the UFO photos letter and was a copy of an article regarding Yaak Air Base. According to the article, Yaak Air Base was in operation from April, 1952 to July, 1960, as part of a number of stations throughout the country that served as an early warning system during the cold war in case of a potential Russian attack. The base was near Yaak, Montana, in the Kootenai National Forest.
Location of Yaak Air Base as described in the article.
(Credit: Google Maps)
For our purposes, the most interesting paragraph in the article is the last, and in the file provided to Greenewald, is highlighted in yellow.
It reads:
The Yaak Radar Station also had its share of mystery, on Sept. 1 , 1952, Yaak, Montana. 4:45 a.m: Two USAF enlisted men, and three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Report visually sighting two small, varicolored lights becoming black silhouettes at dawn, and flying erratically for one hour. The crew at the radar station saw a, “dark, cigar shaped object,” right where the radar had the UFO pinpointed. What these people saw is a mystery to this day.
This is my favorite part of the USFA UFO files. Unfortunately, no further information is provided.
Alien Base Construction in Tonto National Forest
The most sensational claim in the files, and the one picked up by silly UK tabloids, is a report of a secret government installation being constructed that has something to do with aliens. The subject of the report is “Secret govt installation being built in the Salt River Canyon area on the TNF [Tonto National Forest].”
Area of alleged construction of secret government base that has some relation to aliens that eat people.
(Credit: Google Maps)
What is scary is that this is not far from my house. However, it does make it less scary for me that I do not believe an alien base was actually built there.
Here is a report regarding the call that was taken by David of the Forest Service on the morning of December 30, 2013 regarding UFOs, aliens and one detached head.
David received a call this morning at the front desk from a male caller reporting the construction of a secret government installation upstream from the Salt River Canyon past Pinal Creek (upstream from Roosevelt Lake). Aliens and at least one detached head are involved.
Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site, aliens eating people. He found a severed head and claims to have pictures of some of this stuff.
Caller reported that he is 60, not crazy, and doesn’t do drugs. He said he had already called the “office at the lake,” but he didn’t know if those people were turning the other cheek or maybe those people have been paid off.
David had him leave a message with Bray.
Please let me know if t here are any Talking Points to be developed. I’m sure the Phoenix media will be all over this.
Thanks.
P.S. David and I aren’t doing drugs either.
The only other item in the files was a report in 2012 of a meteor or space junk that landed in George Washington & Jefferson National Forests and caused a fire. It was determined the fire was caused by a lightning strike. The report states, “Witnesses saw flaming space junk or satellite crash land in these mountains [Massanutten Range, Virginia] which may have caused the forest fire of last year: June 24, 2012, at around 1150PM Sunday.”
A former security officer at the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska reported seeing a UFO over the plant sometime in the late 80s. The report was found in documents recently declassified as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for UFO files.
The files were posted today on the website TheBlackVault.com. The website is a repository for millions of pages of declassified documents. It is ran by John Greenewald, who says he requested the NRC files in late February, and was surprised how quickly they responded. He received the UFO files today.
Cooper Nuclear Power Plant on the edge of the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 15, 2011.
(Credit: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers/WikiMedia Commons)
There are 43 pages of documents, although some of those pages are copies, or have very little information on them. The majority of the pages are correspondence dealing with an incident described as, “unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station.”
According to the documents, the report was received in June of 2010 by a former security officer. The event actually took place sometime in the late 80s.
The report’s short description reads: “An unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989, but the event was not reported to the NRC as required.”
The detail section of the report reads (reproduced unedited):
The CI [Confidential Informant] described an event that occurred during his employment as a security officer at Cooper Nuclear Station. He was employed there from 1986 through 1989 and did not remember specifically when during that time the event occurred.
While posted at the intake structure one night, he observed an “unidentified flying object” fly down the Missouri River about 150 feet in the air and hover in front of the intake. He observed it for a few moments and then contacted a fellow security officer who also observed it (he could not recall the individual’s name exactly but his first name was [REDACTED] and his last name was either [REDACTED ]. After they together observed the UFO, it turned and went back up the river and did not come back that shift. He and the other officer shared their observation with their peers who did not believe them.
The next evening he again was posted at the intake and observed the UFO return again. This time he didn’t call anyone until the UFO had traversed into the protected area and hovered above the protected area just north of the Reactor Building. He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO. These individuals included [REDACTED] (both of whom were security officers), all of whom still work at the plant today. After hovering there for a few minutes, the UFO exited the protected are [sic] and returned back up the river to the north as it had the previous night. The CI said that he never saw the UFO at the plant again after that evening.
The CI believes that this incident should have been reported as a violation of the protected area space but was not reported.
In the report, Nick Taylor, the NRC Senior Resident Inspector, searched for corroborating documents from the time, but found nothing. However, he cautioned, “I’d be careful about concluding that if an even wasn’t recorded in CAP [Corrective Action Program] that it did not occur.” Taylor went on to explain the reporting structure in the 80s was not as robust as it currently is. As an example, he noted that there were only 1020 reports between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 1989. Whereas there are nearly 10,000 a year nowadays.
Excerpt of Nuclear Regulatory Commission UFO report.
(Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Although the report appeared to be taken seriously, in one email regarding the follow-up on the report, Taylor wrote: “This one should be a wild ride.”
If the investigation of this case was a wild ride, there is no indication of it in the report. However, William B. Jones, the chief of Allegations Coordination and Enforcement, did request that the letter regarding the incident “be controlled and distribution limited to personnel with a ‘need to know.'”
The report claims that the other witnesses to the event were interviewed, but the results are not included. Those results were sent to “ARB”, presunably an Allegations Review Board, but not included in the files provided to Greenewald.
Cooper Nuclear Station
(Credit: Nebraska Public Power District)
That is the extent of the report. A letter to the witness from the Director of Reactor Safety was also included. It essential said that they will forward the information to Cooper Nuclear Station, but that “no further action” will be taken, and they thanked him for his report.
All in all, an interesting report.
As for the rest of the NRC UFO documents, there is correspondence with an individual who believes there are nuclear craft being flown around, some of which may have crashed and caused radiation contamination.
The other report is a bit more difficult to summarize. The NRC writes:
The individual expressed vague concerns about finding low-level radiation within the last year where his daughter, whom he believes is an alien or alien transplant, passed. In addition, the individual believes that travel speed can be increased using the relativity equation with minor modifications. Finally, the individual has observed UFOs.
The NRC responded that this was out of their jurisdiction and perhaps the individual should contact the Department of Defense.
A former security officer at the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska reported seeing a UFO over the plant sometime in the late 80s. The report was found in documents recently declassified as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for UFO files.
The files were posted today on the website TheBlackVault.com. The website is a repository for millions of pages of declassified documents. It is ran by John Greenewald, who says he requested the NRC files in late February, and was surprised how quickly they responded. He received the UFO files today.
Cooper Nuclear Power Plant on the edge of the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 15, 2011.
(Credit: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers/WikiMedia Commons)
There are 43 pages of documents, although some of those pages are copies, or have very little information on them. The majority of the pages are correspondence dealing with an incident described as, “unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station.”
According to the documents, the report was received in June of 2010 by a former security officer. The event actually took place sometime in the late 80s.
The report’s short description reads: “An unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989, but the event was not reported to the NRC as required.”
The detail section of the report reads (reproduced unedited):
The CI [Confidential Informant] described an event that occurred during his employment as a security officer at Cooper Nuclear Station. He was employed there from 1986 through 1989 and did not remember specifically when during that time the event occurred.
While posted at the intake structure one night, he observed an “unidentified flying object” fly down the Missouri River about 150 feet in the air and hover in front of the intake. He observed it for a few moments and then contacted a fellow security officer who also observed it (he could not recall the individual’s name exactly but his first name was [REDACTED] and his last name was either [REDACTED ]. After they together observed the UFO, it turned and went back up the river and did not come back that shift. He and the other officer shared their observation with their peers who did not believe them.
The next evening he again was posted at the intake and observed the UFO return again. This time he didn’t call anyone until the UFO had traversed into the protected area and hovered above the protected area just north of the Reactor Building. He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO. These individuals included [REDACTED] (both of whom were security officers), all of whom still work at the plant today. After hovering there for a few minutes, the UFO exited the protected are [sic] and returned back up the river to the north as it had the previous night. The CI said that he never saw the UFO at the plant again after that evening.
The CI believes that this incident should have been reported as a violation of the protected area space but was not reported.
In the report, Nick Taylor, the NRC Senior Resident Inspector, searched for corroborating documents from the time, but found nothing. However, he cautioned, “I’d be careful about concluding that if an even wasn’t recorded in CAP [Corrective Action Program] that it did not occur.” Taylor went on to explain the reporting structure in the 80s was not as robust as it currently is. As an example, he noted that there were only 1020 reports between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 1989. Whereas there are nearly 10,000 a year nowadays.
Excerpt of Nuclear Regulatory Commission UFO report.
(Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Although the report appeared to be taken seriously, in one email regarding the follow-up on the report, Taylor wrote: “This one should be a wild ride.”
If the investigation of this case was a wild ride, there is no indication of it in the report. However, William B. Jones, the chief of Allegations Coordination and Enforcement, did request that the letter regarding the incident “be controlled and distribution limited to personnel with a ‘need to know.'”
The report claims that the other witnesses to the event were interviewed, but the results are not included. Those results were sent to “ARB”, presunably an Allegations Review Board, but not included in the files provided to Greenewald.
Cooper Nuclear Station
(Credit: Nebraska Public Power District)
That is the extent of the report. A letter to the witness from the Director of Reactor Safety was also included. It essential said that they will forward the information to Cooper Nuclear Station, but that “no further action” will be taken, and they thanked him for his report.
All in all, an interesting report.
As for the rest of the NRC UFO documents, there is correspondence with an individual who believes there are nuclear craft being flown around, some of which may have crashed and caused radiation contamination.
The other report is a bit more difficult to summarize. The NRC writes:
The individual expressed vague concerns about finding low-level radiation within the last year where his daughter, whom he believes is an alien or alien transplant, passed. In addition, the individual believes that travel speed can be increased using the relativity equation with minor modifications. Finally, the individual has observed UFOs.
The NRC responded that this was out of their jurisdiction and perhaps the individual should contact the Department of Defense.
Jimmy Kimmel is at it again, this time with former POTUS George Bush. Kimmel has a habit of asking presidents – and a presidential candidate -what they know about UFOs and the government’s secret files. Bush was on the hot seat last week, and his answers might make some scratch their heads.
George Bush answering UFO questions on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
(Credit: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Kimmel broached the topic by asking:
“This is a question, first, that I think is important to me and to the country. When you were in office, I don’t know when this happened or if it happened, did you go through the secret files, the UFO documents? Because…”
Bush interrupted, “Maybe.”
Kimmel finished his question, “…that would be the first thing I did.”
Bush responded: “My daughters asked the same question.”
Kimmel was surprised by this, and asked, “Would you be allowed to tell your daughters what was in those files?”
“No,” Bush replied.
Kimmel continued to push, “Now that you’re out of office, you can do anything you want, right?”
“True. But I am not telling you,” Bush replied.
Kimmel then sought to clarify, “Are you not telling me you looked at them?”
“I’m not telling you nuthin’,” Bush responded. This got a chuckle out of the crowd and Kimmel.
However, Kimmel was not done yet. He asked, “Are there really great secrets that you know that you can’t share with people?”
“Yeah,” Bush replied.
Kimmel then asked, “There are? And you never write about them?”
“No,” Bush replied.
Kimmel then suggested perhaps Bush would write about it later in life, like when he is 90.
“No,” Bush replied.
Still pressing, Kimmel asked, “Nothing? What if you were to get a little loopy and…”
“Start drinking again?,” Bush asked.
Kimmel laughed, and agreed. “Yeah. Start drinking again. Guillermo, get some tequila!”
Bush and Kimmel laugh during UFO discussion on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
(Credit: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live)
That was the extent of their ET conversation, as you can see in the video above. The conversation was actually very interesting. Bush seemed to imply he has seen UFO files of which he cannot share the content. Was he kidding? In this setting, one which is about getting laughs, that could be assumed. However, during much of the conversation, Bush did not appear to be joking.
If Bush really has seen UFO files that are top secret and still under wraps, that would be significant. Thus far, every president has denied that such a thing exists. Obama said the aliens would not let him tell Kimmel about the secret files, but he did seem to be joking. Clinton said he looked for secret government UFO files, but did not find any. At least once, he did imply that career bureaucrats could be keeping them secret for him. One of our previous stories on this, and Clinton’s talk with Kimmel, was found in recent WikiLeaks.
Ben Hansen presenting his analysis of other presidential interviews regarding UFOs and aliens at the 2017 International UFO Congress.
(Credit: UFOCongress.com/OpenMinds.tv)
Ben Hansen, former host of the Syfy program Fact or Faked: The Paranormal Files, has examined previous statements by presidents, or presidential hopefuls, and he says there is some indication that there is something to hide. He admits, he is not sure what the something is, or if it is UFO or ET related. He intends to scrutinize this video, and when he does, we will let you know what he finds out.
Never mind the bizarre theories that have put aliens on the moon constructing creepy obelisks and even inside to pilot it like a spaceship—new revelations about its vanished magnetic field may shed light on how other moons could potentially host alien life forms.
While the moon now has nothing but a ghost of what was once a magnetic field, a new study has found that its magnetic field must have lasted a billion years longer than what scientists previously estimated. This extended shelf life could mean that magnetic fields on distant celestial bodies may be able to survive long enough to support some sort of extraterrestrial life.
Whether anything ever crawled around on the moon itself is a mystery, but science has been able to find out approximately how strong its dead magnetic field used to be by using moon rocks brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts. The rocks are relics of a period between 3.56 and 4.25 billion years ago, when the moon’s magnetic field could have been anywhere from 20 to 110 microtesla (in comparison to Earth’s 50). Sometime around 3.19 billion years ago, the strength of the lunar magnetic field plunged to under 4 microteslas, and the question of what happened after that and before it dissipated completely remains unanswered.
Apollo 15 sample 15498.
Greater insight into what the magnetic field of the moon was like when it actually existed could tell us more about how those of alien moons and planets influence their potential for habitability. Earth’s magnetic field shields our planet from getting radiation-bombed by the sun, as Mars did when its own was ruthlessly stripped away by stellar winds to turn it from a planet that is thought to have once been running with rivers into a dry, dusty wasteland.
"Magnetic fields can shield planets from stellar winds which can strip atmospheres of water, which is important for planetary habitability," said lunar geophysicist Sonia Tikoo, who led a study recently published in Science Advances.
An Apollo 15 moon rock, sample 15498, was tested by Tikkoo and her colleagues for what it could reveal about the past. Moon rocks have preserved evidence of the existence and strength of the moon’s ancient magnetic field through thousands of metallic micrograins that aligned with its force as they cooled from a molten state. 15498 is one of the rare ones that formed after volcanism on the moon, and with it, igneous rock formation sputtered to death 3 billion years ago. This one was found to have formed from an intense cosmic impact around 1 to 2.5 billion years ago.
Sample 15498’s magnetic properties were first gauged by a supersensitive magnetometer before it was exposed to an artificial magnetic field in the lab. The rock was then heated to be as close as possible to the extreme temperatures it emerged from, about 1,436 degrees Fahrenheit. How magnetized the rock gets is compared to the natural magnetic field previously measured to determine what the strength of the lunar magnetic field was when it formed. The rock revealed that there was still the vestige of a magnetic field with a strength of 5 microteslas from 1 to 2.5 billion years ago.
The reason the magnetic field held on for so long is thought to be a dynamo much like Earth’s liquid metal core (which fuels our own magnetic field). There are several theories as to how the lunar dynamo could have lasted for billions of years, but it is still an unsolved mystery.
What was once a liquid metallic core (that glowing red thing that looks like the Eye of Sauron) is thought to be what made the lunar magnetic field last a billion years longer than previously thought.
So what does all this say about aliens?
“Even small planetary bodies can generate long-lived magnetic fields operating on billion-year timescales, so it is possible that small exoplanets or exomoons might be able to preserve water on timescales long enough to permit life to develop,” said Tikoo.
Don’t be surprised if the first sign of extraterrestrial life emerges from an exomoon.
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK (used with permission )
The covered bridge where it all started John Phelan / CC BY SA 3.0
Solar lamppost THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK (used with permission )
One of the benches at the park THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK (used with permission )
THOMAS REED and his monument THOMAS REED UFO MONUMENT PARK (used with permission )
Cars are not allowed to drive over the covered bridge in Sheffield, Massachusetts, anymore. Part of the reason may have to do with what happened there on September 1st, 1969, when a station wagon met a UFO.
The 1969 event was not Thom Reed’s first bizarre encounter, but it was the most verifiable. Not only did he and his family encounter the UFO that night, witnesses in four surrounding towns reported seeing it. Those witnesses, though, did not have as close an encounter as Reed’s family.
According to Reed, after crossing the bridge, he and his mother, grandmother, and brother saw a bright light rise out of the water of the Housatonic River. They were taken, mysteriously, from their car to what appeared to be an airplane hanger, where they saw creatures that resembled large insects. He was separated from his mother and grandmother and taken to a strange room, though he could hear them calling for him. Then, just as suddenly, they were all back in the car.
Forty people reported strange lights and a saucer like object in the sky to a local radio station that night, and when Reed took a polygraph test he was found to be 99.1% truthful. For this reason, the Great Barrington Historical Society voted 6-3 to recognize the encounter as “historically significant and true.” It was the first time a UFO encounter has had this kind of recognition.
A 5,000-pound granite monument, with a plaque commemorating “our nation’s first off-world/UFO incident” was placed near the covered bridge where the encounter took place. A few solar lampposts and a couple of benches later joined it. Not everyone in town is thrilled to be known for such a thing, but Reed feels validated by the historical society and the state historians and governor who also officially recognized the encounter as historical, something very few UFO witnesses ever get to feel.
NASA’s recent job posting for a Planetary Protection Officer and the House approving a plan to create a Space Corps in the U.S. Air Force have made worldwide headlines. It is not hard to understand why. They are exciting pieces of news that make space nerds like me giddily feeling like our sci-fi fantasies have come true.
Could it be that the time has come for us to defend ourselves from a threat from beyond? Perhaps the recent meeting by the Mutual UFO Network focused on a secret space program was not as farfetched as I thought. While it may be fun to think this is the case, the threats these positions are focused on are not alien invaders, well, not the sci-fi kind.
The USAF already has a Space Command and Space Wing. This graphic details the 50th Space Wing’s locations. Click to enlarge.
(Credit: USAF)
As NASA recently pointed out, in a response to a nine-year-old would be “Guardian of the Galaxy,” the Planetary Protection Officer position has actually existed since the 60’s. According to the job posting, this position is “concerned with the avoidance of organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration.”
Or, as they described to the nine-year-old applicant: “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.”
They make it seem kind of boring, but these sorts of protocols would have helped the space colonists in the latest installation of the Alien franchise when (spoiler) they got infected by the weird pollen-like substance that turned some of them into deadly xenomorphs.
Contamination of space colonists in Alien Covenant caused slight discomfort for those infected.
(Credit: 20th Century Fox)
Although the knowledge I just imparted might make it seem like I could be a good candidate for the job, watching sci-fi movies and having watched every episode of X-Files several times is not what NASA is looking for. They would prefer someone with an advanced degree in engineering, physical science, or mathematics. I guess I am out.
So is Jack Davis. Davis is a fourth grader who, like me, felt he was more than qualified to do the job. He sent NASA a one paragraph resume/cover letter, and actually got a response. It is even posted on NASA’s website.
Jack wrote:
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
The kid had me convinced. However, as NASA Director of Planetary Science Division Dr. James L. Green explained, there is a bit more to the job than meets the eye.
Dear Jack,
I hear you are a “Guardian of the Galaxy” and that you’re interested in being a NASA Planetary Protection Officer. That’s great!
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.
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. We hope to see you here at NASA one of these days!
Sincerely,
Dr. James L. Green
Director, Planetary Science Division
Dr. Green makes it seem like the Planetary Protection Officer position is a tough gig to land. But there may be hope. Jack and I may have a shot to gallivant around space saving the universe as members of the USAF Space Corps. This sounds like a job more likely to include laser blasters, and the House really did pass a defense spending bill approving their creation.
Young Jack Davis’ letter and NASA’s Dr, Green response.
(Credit: NASA)
There are just two problems that may prevent Jack and I from receiving our standard issue laser blasters. The first is that although the House approved the bill, the Senate is more skeptical about the need for the Space Corps. Many feel it might be premature to create the department. In fact, according to the New York Times, the White House has said the proposal is “premature,” and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis essentially laughed it off.
It’s true that there is little evidence we are in imminent danger of being invaded by an alien force, but that is not really what the Space Corps is for anyway. The Space Corps’ proposed purpose, as the New York Times puts it, is to “oversee military operations in that emerging, and important, domain of military competition.” Specifically, competition from the Russians and Chinese.
Fourth-grader Jack Davis got a special call Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, from NASA’s Planetary Research Director, Jonathan Rall, congratulating Jack on his interest in serving as the agency’s planetary protection officer.
(Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
The sorts of weapons currently residing in space are satellite signal jammers.
“What hasn’t happened is the kinetic part: blowing up satellites,” Brian Weeden, director of program planning for Secure World Foundation, an organization that studies the international use of space, told the New York Times.
So we are not in a time where we need the Guardians of the Galaxy… yet. This dashes my hopes of becoming a space cadet, but lucky for Jack, the future is coming very quickly. It would be wise for him to take Dr. Green’s advice, because our activity in space is sure to become even more exciting and sci-fi-like in the near future.
Screenshot of mysterious light balls around crop circles in the UK which was shot by Pierre Beake on a hot day.YouTube screenshot/ NowYouKnow
Mysterious UFOs have been spotted by Pierre Beake, which appear to be like flying saucer and floating rocks. There are also reports of strange spherical objects and lights being spotted in England and his native France.
Beake is an experienced photographer who has been covering an area called Col de Vence situated near the south of France. Most of his photos have been taken from this very region, this location is popular for the UFO sightings and can provide numerous evidence about these extra terrestrial phenomena.
At an annual conference called the 27th annual called Glastonbury Symposium which focuses on conspiracy theories, paranormal, philosophies of a new age as well as alternative thought.
"It is one hour from Nice. It is a rocky place where you get a strange feeling. I go once a week to Col de Vence. Why there are so many paranormal things there I do not know," he told the symposium.
Exclusive photo showing UFOs flying over crop circles on August 10, 2017Facebook/ Berg Ufo Wayne
Beake captured an image in a rocky region which portrays numerous mysterious lights present in it. According to him, this incident took place in the 1970s for the first and the last time.
"People saw those lights above the mountain. There was no noise and they moved so slowly," Beake was quoted as saying by Express.
These objects were not any army helicopters else he would have heard them Beake revealed.
"There was a big ball of light which moved backwards and disappeared. It is unsolved and there can be no explanation," he said as reported by Express.
The other images captured by Beake shows giant glowing objects along with a tail, another type of UFO he snapped looked like flying rocks.
"We took this and did not see anything while making the film. A cloud was just passing in front and there was this thing in the sky which was enormous. It looked like a stone or rock, they are part of the Col de Vence mystery," Beake stated referring to another image.
"Some people say they have been here for 10 years and got nothing on camera. I can't help them and do not have the solution, but some people say I just must attract them," he concluded.
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