Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
16-09-2017
UFO enthusiasts say Houston has seen lots of strange flying objects in 2017
UFO enthusiasts say Houston has seen lots of strange flying objects in 2017
"I was traveling to work along Beltway 8 East in Houston, TX, this morning and noticed an extremely bright light high in the clear blue sky. The illuminating light was spherical and grew in size, somewhat changing shape, then decreased in size, then completely disappeared in an instance. It did this three times within a period of 3 minutes or less." Reportedly seen on Sept. 8, 2017 in Houston Source: Texas UFO Sightings
Photo: Lorenz And Avelar/Getty Images
"I was sitting in my truck on the second level of the Hilton Parking Garage making phone calls, when I noticed something reflective moving in a NNW direction high in altitude... I saw no details, other than it was quite large and it was shiny- close to what I would guess was disk like- but I can't say for certain." Reportedly seen on Aug. 5, 2017 in Houston Source: Texas UFO Sightings
"A beekeeper was retrieving a bee trap at the Sienna Plantation near Sugar Land in Houston when they stopped to snap some quick photos of the sun setting. When they viewed the photos later, they noticed a strange dark cylindrical object in just one of the photos, implying the object must have been moving at a very fast rate." Reportedly seen on June 17, 2017 in Sugar Land Source: Texas UFO Sightings
A large bright light hovering in the sky was seen in Katy without an explanation as to what it could be. Some say it was a UFO. Reportedly seen on June 1, 2017 Source:Texas UFO Sightings
Photo: Mark Stevenson/Stocktrek Images, Getty Images
"At the beginning, it was 6 UFOs in a shape of triangle/Diamond and move fast from one location to another. When they move in shape of one line. We had pictures taken at the open of the golf course." Reportedly seen on April 23, 2017 Source:Texas UFO Sightings
Photo: Anonymous, ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Originally there was 3 lights in a large, vertical triangle formation. Each light would independently fade away, vanish and then reappear in place. They were almost stationary but you could see them very slowly moving south. One by one, each light finally disappeared." Reportedly seen on May 24, 2017 Source: Texas UFO sightings
Photo: ANTONIO SCORZA, Getty Images
"I was in the front yard trying out my sons telescope he received for his birthday that friday with him and few other family members while trying to focus on the moon (when) my nephew started yelling look look over there when we looked up we saw (an) orb with orange and red glow coming very fast from behind us." Reportedly seen on May 27 ,2017 in Spring Source: Texas UFO Sightings
Photo: Christian, Carol, Screen Shots Via MUFON
"I had nine other friends that saw this event. We saw 12 total lights. They were all a couple minutes apart.... it also was not a windy night... it is hard to say it was Chinese lanterns."
"I was watching the Seattle Mariners vs Houston Astros last night. I saw an orb seem to roll out onto the field from between the catchers legs and roll towards the pitcher. As it crossed the pitcher's mound I could clearly see the ORB was in the air! As it crossed the mound it turned a little. Not much wind last night in Houston. The players did not seem to notice it." Reportedly seen on TV while the Astros hosted the Mariners on April 5, 2017 Source: Texas UFOs
Photo: David McNew, Getty Images
"I was driving home from work in stop and go traffic headed north, and noticed the object towards the right side of my viewing range. It seemed to move in a spinning or rotating motion, with a hazy, glowing appearance. I had to veer to the right, as the road turned, and I lost sight of it." Reportedly seen on April 5, 2017 Source: Texas UFO Sightings
Photo: Visions Of America, Getty Images
"My husband and I were sitting in our hot tub watching the sky. I saw a kind of disc shaped object in the sky traveling northward. It had 2 lights that were triangular in shape on either side and a dark center. It also seemed to "wobble" slightly, almost as if it were disturbing the atmosphere or gravity field around it." Reportedly seen on March 19, 2017 Source:Texas UFO sightings
Photo: AP
"They spin in two directions simultaneously (a wheel within a wheel,) as they jump and bop around within a reasonably confined area within our view. They go up and down but never in extreme ranges and do not land while we observe them."
The Houston area has been a hotspot for UFOs so far this year, if a website dedicated to tracking UFO sightings in Texas is to be believed.
Texas UFO Sightings welcomes photos and videos from Texans reporting on alleged UFO sightings as people come across them. The reports range from believable to absurd.
In one reported sighting, a submission includes a photo from an April 5 Astros game at Minute Maid Park against the Seattle Mariners. The tipster told the website that "an orb seems to roll out onto the field from between the catcher's legs and roll toward the pitcher. ... The players did not seem to notice."
A former NASA scientist is continuing to claim that alien activity is occurring within Saturn’s rings.
Media: GeoBeats
Other reports range from bright, unidentifiable lights at night to strange disc-shaped objects traveling through the sky. There are some suggestions the objects could be mistaken for airplanes flying in and out of Bush Intercontinental and Hobby airports, but people deny these notions vehemently.
"We had to video this strange object in the sky," wrote one UFO witness in Montgomery County who claimed to see a flying orb on Feb. 26. "It was definitely not an airplane. The object moved from side to side and up and down. It would go from bright to dim and back to bright again."
UFO sightings in America have a long history, dating back to at least 1865 reports the American Chronicle.
The Missouri Democrat ran an article that year after interviewing a trapper who claimed to see a "bright, luminous body" in the skies. The headline for the story was "A Strange story-remarkable discovery."
Texas UFO Sightings doesn't claim that any of the submitted photos and videos are in fact flying saucers. Instead, the site asks people if they believe the objects could be satellites or military crafts.
Read the stories submitted to Texas UFO Sightings in the gallery above.
Filer’s Files #36 – 2017 Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here - PART I
Lambertville, New Jersey Cylinder –on August 26, 2017.
Filer’s Files #36 – 2017 Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here, Did Aliens Create the Pyramids? Did Secret Cyber Attacks Kill Navy Sailors? Stop the Hurricanes, and Unacknowledged Movie on Netflix
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here
I met with Dr. John Mack at Princeton University and we had a long discussion about his speaking with the Dalai Lama. John E. Mack, M.D. (1929-2004), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, who was interviewed for the documentary film about the Dalai Lama, called, “The Dalai Lama Renaissance.”In the film he speaks about his conversations with the Dalai Lama concerning extraterrestrials and his experience with them.
The Dalai Lama had awareness that the universe is filled with beings of all kinds. In fact when we were here he classified intelligent life in the cosmos in three categories: beings like us that have form that are embodied. Second were beings that have form where they’re not embodied, and the third is beings that have no form.
Dr. Mack explaining a common theme and belief of many as to why they are here. Based on my research, I believe there are multiple beings from multiple star systems and possibly other dimensions and universes. It’s logical to assume that there could be multiple motives, and multiple races out there who are also not at all concerned with us Aliens looking at Earth would see are good at destroying the greenery on Earth.
It’s important to note that Mack believed the ET phenomenon was, without question, real, and so did his funders (which included Lawrence Rockefeller. The people he works with are told by the aliens that they are very aware of our destroying the environment of the planet. The abductees are shown incredibly beautiful images of the planet and then are shown people sowing destruction of the enviroment.
In 1992, the Dalai Lama said in his explanation of why the alien beings were coming here is that they were disturbed by what was happening on Earth and in some sense we were destroying their home whether on their Earth or physically in another dimension. Coming here as part of a process to wake us up to what we are doing. This has been confirmed over and over again. (Note: This is the message I also received that we must environmentally protect the Earth
Dr. Mack was the founding director of the Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age and was active as a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Prevention of Nuclear War. He began a study of people who felt they were abducted by aliens. In the beginning he felt they had some sort of mental problem. John assured me that abductions were an authentic mystery, and were real evcnts.
A number of different ‘faiths’ or religions have different depictions of extraterrestrial and/or extra dimensional beings. It’s not really clear (to me) under what definition of ours (humanity) Buddhism would fall under, but the Dalai Lama, along with other texts and various teachings are no doubt aware of the fact that there our cosmos is teeming with all kinds of life. Tibet allegedly has an alien base and Dalai Lama’s statements are profound.
“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy alone exists in the tens of billions, and that’s on the lower end of the scale. And the number of habitable galaxies we can see apart from our own is approximately one hundred billion. That means there are billions of planets within each galaxy, in a sea of galaxies, which seems to be infinite — that we are aware of. To ponder the idea that intelligent extraterrestrial life might exist out there in all that endless possibility only seems natural. How could there not be?
“If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.” — The Dalai Lama Interesting video John Mack Television appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfBODQZTQR0
Did Aliens Create the Pyramids?
There are almost 200 known pyramids in China. The first one was reported to the outside world during WWII by an American pilot, James Gaussman. He was flying over the mountains of China carrying supplies to the Chinese from India. One of his engines began to fail and he thought the fuel lines were icing up so descended to a lower altitude. He leveled out in a wide valley and there directly in front of him there was a gigantic white pyramid that shimmered as though it were made of metal. The most remarkable thing was the pyramids’ capstone. It was a huge jewel-like material that he thought was made of crystal. He circled the pyramid three times then headed to his home base. In his intelligence report he stated he saw nothing around it, just a huge pyramid set in the wilderness. Gaussman ended his report with these questions “Who built it? Thanks toGeorge Reynolds
China – A team of Chinese scientists found a mystery pyramid that local legend says is a launch tower left by aliens from space that is 50-60 meters (165-198 ft) tall structure dubbed “the ET relics” – in the western province of Qinghai. The mystery pyramid sits on Mount Baigong, has three caves with triangular openings on its façade and is filled with red-hued pipes leading into the mountain and a nearby salt water lake.
Xinhua said. Rusty iron scraps, pipes and unusually shaped stones are scattered around the inhospitable and largely uninhabited area.
The pipes are allegedly 150,000 Year-Old that might rewrite Chinese history. In China’s Qinghai Province near Mount Baigong is a mysterious pyramid with three caves that lead to a saltwater lake. Under the lake bed and on the shore are iron pipes ranging in size with some being as small as a toothpick. Someone used the pipes to carry water to or away from the pyramid. What is baffling Chinese historians is that the area wasn’t thought to have been occupied by people until around 30,000 years ago. And according to historians, the humans that were around were nomads, thus making it unlikely that they would have taken the time to install plumbing. That leaves a 120,000 year gap of “who was here laying down iron pipe?”
To add to the mystery ancient pyramids are also being found on Mars as this NASA image shows.
Did Secret Cyber Attacks Kill Navy Sailors?
Ten American sailors are dead after what’s been called an “accidental” collision between an oil tanker and the guided-missile destroyer USS John McCain in the South China Sea on August 22, 2017. Now, security experts are warning that the American public isn’t being told what really happened. The ship was likely the victim of a serious cyber attack? North Korea is essentially at war with the US and they have sophisticated cyber warfare technology to fool the ships involved. >
On Wednesday, the U.S. Navy removed Vice Admiral Joseph P. Aucoin from command of the Seventh Fleet, after four accidents since January — including two deadly collisions in the past two months. On July 29, 2017 the USS Fitzgerald allow itself to be hit by ACX Crystal in open water, killing seven sailors in clear weather conditions and light traffic? But according to Jeff Stuzman, a top cyber intelligence expert and a former information warfare specialist for the Navy, these tragedies may not be accidents at all. Stuzman told the McClatchy news service that he’s particularly suspicious about where the USS John McCain collision occurred, near the crowded Strait of Malacca that connects the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea.
“A Navy destroyer normally has a full navigation team going with full lookouts on every wing and extra people on radar,” he told McClatchy. “There’s something more than just human error going on because there would have been a lot of humans to be checks and balances.” A cyber attack could prevent a ship’s radar, steering, or guidance systems from operating properly. North Korea really has done a lot more damage with their cyber warfare than they’ve ever done with missiles. The North Korean cyber warfare units– Bureau 121 and No. 91 Office, are part of the Reconnaissance General Bureau of North Korea’s military, and have over 6,000 hackers, some of whom are based outside of North Korea, Charles R. Smith reported. These units, he continued, have conducted major bank heists, such as breaking into the security system at the Bank of Bangladesh, and siphoning $81 million through casinos in the Philippines.
And Navy Admiral Michael S. Rogers testified before Congress in May that the U.S. Cyber Command was witnessing a serious escalation in cyber attacks around the world. And while the Navy has been investigating the collision for days, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson refused to debunk claims that cyber sabotage may have occurred, McClatchy reported.
China seems to be reveling in the disaster. “What goes around, comes around,” Chinese Real Admiral Zhang Zhaozhong wrote in a cryptic social media post. “The USS John McCain has been making a lot of trouble in the South China Sea. The American public and the families of the sailors who lost their lives deserve the truth as many nations have advanced cyber technology. Both Kim and Trump are playing to their bases, he added, but In spite of the stepped up threats from both North Korea and President Trump, Smith does not foresee a military conflict at this time. . North Korea, , does not have the logistics to carry out much of an operation outside of a missile or artillery strike, and for the most part US naval operations are not in place for an attack with several severely damaged ships
Unacknowledged Movie on Netflix
Now available on Netflix Worldwide with Major George Filer, Paul Hellyer Canadian Defence Minister, and Dr. Richard Greer etc
Unacknowledged, LLC is thrilled to announce this historic deal with Netflix which reaches over 108 million subscribers thru the streaming service. Dr. Greer and The Orchard worked closely with Netflix to bring Unacknowledged to a wider audience and disclose the shocking issues around UFO secrecy. If you’re a subscriber on Netflix you can now access the film in all countries with subtitles.
“Unacknowledged” focuses on the historic files of the Disclosure Project and how UFO secrecy has been ruthlessly enforced-and why. The best evidence for extraterrestrial contact, dating back decades, is presented with direct top-secret witness testimony, documents and UFO footage. From briefings with the CIA Director, top Pentagon Generals and Admirals, to the briefing of President Obama via senior advisor John Podesta, chairman of the Hillary Clinton Campaign, we take the viewer behind the veil of secrecy and into the corridors of real power where the UFO secrets reside. The viewer will learn that a silent coup d’état has occurred dating back to the 1950s and that the Congress, the President and other world leaders have been sidelined by criminal elements within the military-industrial-financial complex.
Letter from Frank Chille
The photos of indeed originals (in color) taken during the same time that Adamski took motion picture footage of the same craft. KT told me that Valiant Thor was inside this craft however it is not Victor One but a much smaller craft. Madeleine C. Rodeffer has passed. Did reverse look-ups on her phone number and address and found out she had passed at the age of 86 in West Virginia.
KT does want this info to come out and thinks your website would be ideal to present all the data she sent me. Thanks to Frank Chille
Stop the Hurricanes
Hurricane Sandy has caused untold billions of dollars in damage and 300 deaths and we saw the “storm coming,” for days in advance. We can send people into space and put vehicles on Mars — why can’t we stop a hurricane in its tracks, before it comes to our major population centers and starts causing heavy damage? I know we can modify the weather if we decide to.
The National Severe Storms Laboratory NSSL Site Information – NOAA’s reports, “The most destructive and deadly tornadoes occur from super cells, which are rotating thunderstorms with a well-defined radar circulation called a mesocyclone. (Super cells can also produce damaging hail, severe winds, unusually frequent lightning, and flash floods.) Numerous super cells form into hurricanes.
When I was in Vietnam in 1968, the Air Force extended the Monsoon season by over a month by cloud-seeding with silver iodide crystals using two C-130s and two F-4s on the Ho Chi Minh trail. I encourage the Air Force to use weather controlling tactics to protect American lives and property. Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into them and seeding with silver iodide starting in 1962 by the United States Government. Initially wind speeds were successfully cut, but it was determined most hurricanes do not contain enough super cooled water for cloud seeding to be effective. The last experimental flight was flown in 1971. Additionally, researchers found that unseeded hurricanes often undergo the same structural changes that were expected from seeded hurricanes. This finding called Stormfury’s successes into question, as the changes reported now had a natural explanation.
I suggest hurricanes can be tamed and potential flooding storms should be spread out. For example, the Chinese, in August of 2008, used 37,000 people to seed clouds aiming for a dry Olympics. Hundreds of teams used anti-aircraft guns to shoot shells of silver iodide into approaching cloud masses and kept Beijing dry.
The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Liquid propane, which expands into a gas, has also been used. This can produce ice crystals at higher temperatures than silver iodide. After promising research, the use of hygroscopic materials, such as table salt, is becoming more popular. The bad news is that storms and floods still account for almost three-quarters of weather-related disasters, and they are becoming more common. Harvey was unusually devastating because it suddenly gained strength came ashore off Houston and stalled over the city that has virtually no restrictions on land use that made the situation much worse. Cities need to protect flood defenses and wetlands where excess rain can go. The National Severe Storms Laboratory NSSL Site Information –
Even more important is to develop methods to stop the hurricanes from forming. Silver iodide causes the cloud to form more ice crystals, making the hail smaller. And while we don’t yet have the technology to stop rain completely, cloud seeding has been used to put a hold on rainy days.
This has primarily been documented happening in China, which has the largest, national weather modification team on Earth. The stand-alone ministry utilizes planes, rocket launches, and anti-aircraft guns to employ cloud-seed technology, which they credit with the lack of rain during the Olympics in 2008. In 2009, they used 18 cloud-seeding aircraft and 48 fog-dispersal vehicles to ensure a rain-free day for the 60th anniversary of communist party rule.
The goal, rather, is to fill up a cloud with silver iodide and make it rain before it actually passes over the coast. The alternate technique is shooting a coolant made from liquid nitrogen into the cloud, which increases the number of droplets while decreasing their size — making an acceptable sprinkle.
So why don’t city officials plan to cloud-seed every time there is a flood warning? Clever planning while the hurricane is forming out at sea would just end up raining heavily over the ocean.
Surplus Harvard T-6 single engine aircraft were fitted with racks under each wing containing 32 railroad fuses that were impregnated with silver iodide were ignited individually or all at once, depending upon the threat. In coordination with ground units, the aircraft would lay a plume of silver iodide in front of approaching cumulonimbus clouds (CBs) with noticeable effect. Large, active Cumulonimbus clouds CBs which cause most of the damage were reduced to nothing. Heavy hail storms were also reduced in intensity.
A potential hurricane starts out has a tropical disturbance the first stage of development of a hurricane. It consists of a mass of thunderstorms that have only a slight wind circulation. The tropical disturbance becomes a tropical depression when the winds increase to more than 20 knots or 23 miles per hour.
A TROPICAL DEPRESSION forms when a group of thunderstorms comes together under the right atmospheric conditions for a certain length of time. Winds near the center of the tropical depression are constantly between 20 and 34 knots (23 – 39 mph). Lowered pressure is indicated with at least one closed isobar on a surface pressure chart. Also, the organized circulation of wind in the center of the thunderstorms is detected. This is possible w
When attacking the potential hurricane would be most successful. This is a satellite picture of a tropical depression. Tropical depressions look like individual thunderstorms that are grouped together.
A TROPICAL STORM forms when the maximum sustained winds have intensified to between 35-64 knots (39-73 mph). It becomes better organized and begins to look like a hurricane with a circular shape. At this point, the storm is given a name. Most of the problems from tropical storms come from heavy rainfall.
This is a satellite picture of tropical storm Charlie in 1998 over Texas. This storm dumped between 5-10 inches of rain over many southern Texas cities. A HURRICANE finally forms when surface pressures continue to drop and when sustained wind speeds reach 64 knots (74 mph). There is also a definite rotation about the eye.
C-5 Galaxy aircraft can carry a standard: payload of 240,000 pounds of dry ice or chemicals that could seriously affect a hurricanes eye walls. Maximum payload capacity of the C-17 is 170,900 pounds with a service ceiling of 45,000 feet. Even drones could be used to tame dangerous clouds. Air Weather Service is headquartered at Scott AFB, IL, where I briefed the commander on a regular basis. AWS was restructured as a field operating agency during the reorganization of the former Military Airlift Command now called Air Mobility Command.
As the storm intensifies, the updraft draws in low-level air from several miles around. Some low-level air is pulled into the updraft from the rain area. This rain-cooled air is very humid; the moisture in the rain-cooled air quickly condenses below the rain-free base to form the wall cloud. (Possible attack point)
Weather Modification Incorporated, in Fargo, ND 58102 •phone: 1-701-235-5500 conducts cloud seeding with small two engine aircraft with good results.
. The Air Force could gain tremendous support from the American people if they could calm the hurricanes, lightning, and flooding deaths. Thanks to NSSL.
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Filer’s Files #36 – 2017 Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here - PART II
Filer’s Files #36 – 2017 Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Chatsworth — I was in the car and I took a photo of an unusual cloud formation on August 27, 2017.
It was only when I looked at the photo on my phone, that I noticed the black UFO in the upper right corner. The UFO was no longer visible.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
’Florida Lights
Boynton Beach— I we walking my dog and decided to take a photo of the morning sun on August 31, 2017. Upon reviewing the photo I saw a blue dot inside a saucer shaped object that was just to the left of the sun.
My phone has the ability to show movement if you flick the photo. When I did this, I saw that the blue dot was moving downward in a wavy direction. The photo clearly shows the blue dot locates in a saucer-shaped object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Object
Palentine — On august 24, 2017, about 9:30 pm,. I took my dog out for a walk and saw a flickering light. Kind of looked like a star but I knew it was not. So I ran in and got my external zoom lens for my iPhone and shot some videos. There were amazing good videos for an iPhone at night. It looked like an orb to the bare eye, but when I zoomed in the camera it made my jaw drop.There was a glowing saucer shaped ship. Hovering but still moving slightly side to side and up and down. It was amazing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Strange Object
Monroe — It was 1:24 in the afternoon on Sunday, August 13th. I was driving to watch the final day of the PGA event. The interstate runs through some pretty rural areas, two miles before a small town on the way, I see an object hovering about 20 feet above full grown oak trees. I pulled out my iPhone 7 in time to snag a picture of the object. As I passed the object I looked back to get another glimpse of it, but it had vanished before I could do so. I wasn’t acquainted with any of them. I was driving 75 mph and could only get one picture without putting other drivers in danger by not paying attention at the wheel. I’ve been living here for 26 years, driving up and down that same stretch of interstate, and have never seen anything like it in my life. Nobody can give me a good explanation of what it might be. It’s not balloons because they weren’t moving in the wind, and they weren’t rising or falling. There was no string or rope attached to it. I don’t know what it could be. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mississippi Lights
Hernando — I was traveling on I-55 north bound on my way to work on August 27, 2017. I first noticed the lights in the sky about half a mile up ahead on the east side of the interstate in Memphis. As I got closer the lights just stayed there and did not move. It seemed as if the lights where attached to an object that was stationary and not moving. They were about 100 feet above the tree top level. I took my phone out once I got closer and shot a quick video. But once I passed it I could not video anymore. If you watch the video and slow it down, you can see the same lights fly over my car. After that I did not see anything else. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Cylinder
Lambertville – I took a casual picture of the County Fair amusements using an Apple SE phone which has the live photo feature on August 26, 2017. The live photo shows the object projecting diagonally up to the twilight sky from bottom left to upper right. It was a quick projection motion like a slingshot. I noticed this when reviewing my picture during dinner later that night. I would not be surprised if this picture was a UFO because a few years ago while driving east on Rt. 202 through Buckingham, PA. I had a white comet like light swoop down and up just over my sunroof on my 2003 Neon SXT. I felt the momentum which caused me to look up through my sunroof to see the comet like form. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Garden City South — I saw glowing orange orbs traveling southwest to northeast on August 26, 2017. They were traveling at approximately the same speed. I had no time to obtain a camera. There was a total of seven (7) of these objects not clustered. Some other individuals and I watched these objects. The woman that was observing these orbs at the same moment as I stated that she and some other people observed these same orange glowing UFO’s a few years previously on a July evening. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Oklahoma Light
Tulsa— I was in my bed because I was unable to sleep on August 31, 2017. The past few nights my daughter and son hadn’t been able to sleep much either. My daughter noticed a bright blinking light. I went outside to see if I could see it better and noticed there were two of them to the east. They were really far apart and I’m not sure what they were. This is the third incident with weird objects in the sky. My daughter took a picture of one and also a week later. I came in and watched the one I could see from my window. I took 19 pictures trying to zoom in to see what they were but my phone kept blurring out with red boxes kept flickering on my screen. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Light
Detroit Lake— his odd image was taken during the eclipse. Whatever this is its moving fast. I am guessing it traveled a half to one mile from the picture. The camera shutter speed was 1/250 to 1/500th of a second. One mile in 1/500th of a second equals 1,800,000 MPH.
Note: The witness’s speed estimate of the object is based on an estimate of the distance of the object from the camera lens. I suspect that the object was quite close to the camera lens and could have been an insect.
Altoona— My mom, my sister and I were driving back to my sister’s apartment when they told me they saw a UFO in the sky on August 13, 2817. I was sitting in the backseat and looked up and sure enough there was a huge triangle hovering over a tall building. It had two red lights in the rear and one white light that would flash on and off. I could see the craft slowly turning and the craft soon vanished. We continued driving and we saw about 3 triangles hovering over the church. We did not stop driving to look however and continued on our way home when we got back to the e third floor balcony we could see another triangle hovering above the tree tops within half a mile of the apartment. Looking very closely I could see dim beams of light coming out from the craft. Also if I remained very silent I could hear a very faint humming coming from the craft. The triangle hovered there for at least four hours, I went to bed, the next morning it was gone. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Light
Nashville — After the death of my father in law in 2011, my mother was freaked out by images appearing in her security camera, in Gallatin TN. March 16, 2016, Thereafter, I begin to record and study the phenomenal images, one of which persuaded me that there may very well be life after death; that spirit energy does exist. I began to study spiritual energy and ectoplasm; the unseen as described in the Quran and everything concerning the possibility of extra terrestrial life. I started collecting crystals and meditating to high frequency vibes.
I also began to take photos at dusk – wherever I happened to be. On the 21st of March, in 2016, I took the usual photos of the area around and above my home. As a habit, I resisted using a flash for fear of distorting whatever might be projecting natural light. That night, took photos of what I believed (at the time) to merely be the dark night sky above and behind my home – where I had photographed other phenomena (but not observed with my naked human eye), including tall dark smoky looking images, weird images reflected in a car mirror, and objects floating to the ground like a spider on a web into my ancient trees. It wasn’t until a month or so later that I noticed the two attached photographs, as I was casually flipping through my iPad and deleting bad photos. I’ve taken lots of photos since, but have taken nothing that compares to these!
Attached are photos of the event. Also attached are two comparative photos: one showing the night sky featuring a triangle of stars, one of which appears to have been near the area from which what I call “the lightship” may have been traveling. There is another object in the background of the photos that appears to have been in motion. It does not align with any of the three stars in the triangle.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Brazil Cylinder
Curitiba— The photo I attached to this report was taken by a friend of mine during his vacation in Brazil in 2009. He was aboard a regular speed bus south of Curitiba when he and the passengers saw the flying object standing in the sky at a height of about 500 meters and had an apparent length of 100-150 meters. The flying object has made a tilt change on its axis to remain stationary.
Canada Light
Picton, Ontario — Here’s is a coincidence I just discovered that I also have images of the same type of flying white rod
On August 1, 2017, while at camp near Sandbanks Lake Ontario this is located in the Prince Edward County near Picton, Ontario I was filming the clear night sky with my Sony Camcorder after midnight until 1:00 am
The setting on the camcorder is on a night shot – infrared, giving technology a peek we do not see with the naked eye. Later on August 6, 2017 when I reviewed the clips taken Shock and fascinated to see what I have captured These unknown long white flying serpent- like creatures These are known as flying ‘ Rods ‘PLEASE if this is a insect I would sure like to know the class order type of insect? They are biological and move quite fast in swirling manners as illustrated have over a dozen captures on film here is the photographic evidence to better illustrate the same
Audenge — My 11-year-old girl filmed last night in the garden while she was playing. When she watched her video she alerted me to the fact that something crosses the horizon at high speed while everything is idle. I’ll add an extract because the video is longer. She is very sensitive and she felt the presence of an entity in a house and became frightened. She was afraid I did not believe her. I told her “even if you saw a UFO I will believe you, an hour later she showed me her video. Personally I think it is a big bug but why would it go faster than the speed of the video? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Object
Zacatecas — “My nephew went on vacation to Mexico. and visited Zacatecas and stood in front of a street sign that stated “ZACATECAS. He decided to take a picture with him standing next to the sign. So he had his girlfriend take the cell phone picture. After the picture was taken, he ended up posting it on his Facebook page a few days later. I saw the picture on Facebook and noticed something odd in the upper left corner was this round silver object. There are visible power lines underneath the object. But as I zoomed in, I could see there weren’t any wires holding this object up. I remembered from watching TV programs that they showed video of UFO’s that looked very similar to the one in the picture. I’m not sure if it’s a UFO or not. What do you think? C
New Zealand Dusk
This is the second time I’m reporting this craft as I have a little more understanding of it. My first reported is ”case 84965” this is my update July 7, 2017. I only knew about this craft after looking at my photos so up until then I couldn’t tell you anything. But now I would like to inform the public of my case after down-loading my event on MUFON the following happened. Upon arriving home recently I noticed changes in my table-office. Things had been moved about and papers vanished. This not only happed once but at least 3-4 times within 2 weeks. My flat is always locked. I checked my laptop and usb sticks and a lot of my UFO pictures had been removed of which there were many and good close up ones of ufos. I have excellent camera gear, not only that my printed photos of that craft are missing as well. I took my laptop in to be checked by geeks, there answer was brief. Yes laptop has-is being hacked and my pics had been removed. Back to the craft, I know a high-up person in the us air force. When I showed him the picture; he said, “Yes it’s one of ours, you’re not meant to know about these craft, and what they do.” That’s all he said. Is it one of the DARTS I asked; he refused to answer. So to anybody that’s reading this. I do not know who helped themselves to my laptop, pictures, usb sticks or photos. I do know I am being watched and my ufo pics are stolen from me. So people, beware of our lying governments and the organization that’s involved in UFO cover-ups, Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Object
Lisbon— I was (as an airline spotter) taking some photos of an unusual visit of a Lufthansa A340 at Lisbon airport from the balcony of my house on July 30, 2017. I took several snapshots of the incoming plane doing its final approach when the camera spotted a very fast object passing behind the aircraft. When downloading the images to the computer, cropped to have a better view, I spotted a dark spot and found that it was not a bird or drone, because of shape. Size, and hi speed. This is cropped photo with the object over the back of the plane. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Russia Object
Tyumen— I was working at the table when I saw a strange object outside the window on September 1, 2017, moving at a speed of a hundred kilometers per hour. I managed to turn on the camera and decided to record the video, there was not time for the pictures, although they had more resolution.
The focal length of the lens is 90 mm diaphragm 5.4. When the object was clearly visible, the UFO suddenly disappeared from the field of view and the lens. The object moved in one direction and did not turn anywhere, I pointed the camera to the sky where it moved but it was not in it. I turned the lens back and also down and up but the UFO disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Beams
London — A year ago my girlfriend was driving my son home to Kent on July 10, 2017, from London. I was in the passenger seat and my son said, “What’s that in the sky?”
On way back to London I see this silver thing in the sky near Bexleyheath and took picture of a crystallized saucer with a blue beam pointing down to street level. Then the next day I started seeing objects near the moon spaces all the time for a week. Then I got picture of a faint lizard man that was scary at first but he was smiling at me? So I just kept seeing low orbit space ships hovering in the sky from July. I have been seeing some alien monsters everywhere in the sky. I have at least 1000 pictures to show you. But since last week there must be over 10.000 massive industrial type spaceships in orbit. THINK THEY ARE SENDING MASSIVE BLUE BEAMS TO GROUND EVERY NIGHT. My phone is a Sony e3. Let me show you some of the monsters Please tell me what you think is it an invasion or something. They intimidate the other ships because they are so big and there is so many of them.
I see a face in the clouds and my camera went into error mode it would not start up again. The pictures I took of the human face were gone? Then I see two triangle ships no more 150 feet high just above me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Filer’s Files #35 -2017 William Tompkins Passes - PART I
Object flew over petroleum site in Columbia on August 23, 2017.
Filer’s Files #35 -2017 William Tompkins Passes - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: William Tompkins Remembered, UFOs Ancient Objects of Worship and Adoration, Chilean Navy Spots UFO. , We Are Not Alone, Total Eclipse UFO.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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William Tompkins Remembered
Frank Chille writes, So very sorry to inform you of the passing of William ‘Bill’ Tompkins. I just got off the phone with his loving life-mate and wife Mary, who informed me that Bill left this realm. At 2:30 AM PT on August 21, 2017 it is so difficult to find the words to adequately define the nature of our bonding and friendship.
Bill was selfless in his sharing of the extraordinary events in his life and how astounded, he, himself found it all to be. Yet he lived all of these experiences and recalled the minutest of details. These accounting which he shared many hours on Jeff Rense’s Program as well as others once he was given – what he affectionately called, “Having Holy Water Thrown. On Him” by his US Navy contacts to come forward with his life story and what happened behind the scenes.
Those who knew and Loved Bill will miss him unquestionably. He was a very giving man who would share tirelessly his passion for getting out the real message of the Battle of Los Angeles, the history of the Secret Space Program and the hidden knowledge acquired during WWII while at North Island Naval Station in San Diego California. Remember, these were all first person experiences and interactions with some of histories most profound and oft times little known activities of noteworthy public figures. There was so much shared in our long conversations that I’d like to bring forward and recount with you folks over the next week or two. A great man of integrity with a genuineness and sincerity that is rarely found has left an indelible imprint on what will be discussed and studied for many years to come. Bill has given us a treasure trove of knowledge, documents as well as hours of broadcast time to review and consider for the gems he has presented to us. Rest Well & With Love Brother Bill . . . .
Note: I personally met Bill and spoke with him many times and affirm Frank’s email. Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy due to his excellent memory and model building skills he was assigned to Naval Intelligence working for Admiral Rick Abatta. According to Tompkins, his unit had a series of US Naval spies who returned from Germany who had discovered that the Germans were working on advanced wingless aircraft or types of discs apparently with the help of extraterrestrials. He was discharged in 1946. After working at North American Aviation and Northrop, he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, and when they found out about his involvement in classified work, was given a job as a to create design solutions as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a “think tank”. This work was partly controlled by the Navy personnel who used to work for James Forrestal, who was allegedly assassinated because he was going to publicly reveal what he knew about UFOs. Bill Tompkins was asked to conceive sketches of huge space Naval interplanetary craft designs.
Later, as he became involved in the conventional aspects of the Saturn Program that later became the Apollo launch vehicle, his insight to system engineering resulted in his offering some critical suggestions personally to Dr. Wernher von Braun about ensuring more reliable checkout using the missiles in their vertical position and also some very efficient launch control concepts adopted by both NASA and the Air Force. He also helped design the Apollo Control Room. Our friend will be greatly missed and to pass away just hours before the eclipse is a salute to his life.
UFOs Ancient Objects of Worship and Adoration
Bronze Age Art and Culture in Irish Gold from 2000 BC
Stone Age cave dwellings have drawings of UFOs indicating they have been with us for over ten thousand years. Following the Stone Age and followed in turn by the Iron Age, the Bronze Age (c.3000-1100 BCE) marked the era in which prehistoric man began mixing copper with tin to produce bronze implements and other precious metal work of great skill and imagination.
. Archeologists claim ancient Jewelry and metalwork are sun discs that ancients used in worshipping the sun. We all know what the sun looks like, and the sun does not have a cross or beams on it or various circles as shown. I suggest the metalwork was trying to depict disc shaped UFOs. Many graves in all parts of the world hold the remains of people holding the discs. Cave drawings, hieroglyphic early statues show God like beings inside the discs. It would be difficult for a god to be inside the heat of the sun.
Belief in the soul and continuation of life after death is part of numerous religions and the very earliest beliefs. The discs seen would represent a viable method for our souls to reach heaven. When Pacific Islanders saw aircraft in the 1930s they started worshiping them. Assuming ancients saw UFOs they likely assumed they were gods and collected souls.
Thus, in Ireland, the “Copper Age” (Chalcolithic era) did not commence until about 2500 BCE and the Bronze Age not until around 2000 BCE. While most of the prehistoric art fashioned by Irish craftsmen was strictly functional, in the form of decorative features added to weapons, cooking utensils, horse-tack, and drinking vessels, the Bronze Age also saw more artistic examples like horn-shaped Celtic metalwork.
Up to 400 tons of copper was mined in the southwest of the country (c.2500-1800 BCE), in County Kerry and Cork, and then alloyed with tin brought over from Cornwall in England. Many bronze items were exported to the Continent from Ireland during this period.
. Ireland was a relatively rich source of gold ore which stimulated an active cottage industry in this precious metal. This is evidenced not only by the considerable number of gold ornaments and artifacts, dating back to the Bronze Age, which have been unearthed in Ireland.
At first, this gold-work comprised mainly simple shapes (like crescents) as well as disks of gold sheet.
Hold hair in place (c.800-600 b.c.). National Museum of Ireland
Most cultures have traditions and words to describe the straight, often geometric alignments that ran across ancient landscapes, connecting both natural and sacred prehistoric structures together. Usually the names given to represent these invisible lines are translated to an equivalent of ‘spirit‘, ‘dream‘, or ‘energy‘ paths that are often used by ufos.
Even though the term ‘ley-line was originally conceived by Alfred ‘Watkins, by 1929, he referred to his alignments only as ‘old straight tracks’ or ‘archaic tracks.’
Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, whose book ‘The Old Straight Track’ brought the alignments to the attention of the wider public’. wikipedia.en.org
The following natural and man-made features were suggested by Watkins to be reliable ley-markers: mounds, long-barrows, cairns, cursus, dolmens, standing stones, mark-stones, stone circles, henges, water-markers (moats, ponds, springs, fords, wells), castle, beacon-hills, churches, cross-roads, notches in hills, camps (hill-forts),
There are several developed theories on the purpose of ley-lines such as spirit ways and death roads – (funerary paths. in the various burial mounds discs made from stone or metal are found with the buried bodies, this Hopewell mound was located in Ohio and the discs shown came from a mine 90 miles away. there is certainly evidence that funerary rites were involved at several important locations around the world. the burial of valuable goods alongside funerary remains, placing of remains inside stone chambers underground, that may have been added to pre-existing ley-lines. there is also indication the ufos followed the ley lines. I personally viewed a large ufo over Stonehenge.
A number of rituals and traditions have been associated with the path taken by funerary parties. Watkins mentions the English funerary tradition of stopping at a crossroads and saying a prayer, a custom still practiced to this day. Other customs involve walking around churches and stones en-route. Processions are not supposed to carry a corpse twice over the same bridge. Another interesting funerary-custom, still practiced into the 20th century was for mourners to carry a pebble and when they passed certain spots, throw their pebbles into a pile of previous mourner’s pebbles. Could the round pebbles represent UFOs?
Sir Norman Lockyer (astronomer-royal) was the first ‘respectable’ person to recognize geometry in the ancient English landscape. He noticed the geometric alignment between Stonehenge, Grovely Castle and Old Sarum. the three form an equilateral triangle with sides 6 miles long, with the Stonehenge-Old Sarum line continuing another 6 miles to the site of the present Salisbury Cathedral, and beyond.
Aerial view of Old Sarum
This extremely significant finding shows both that the early megalithic builders were aware of both astronomy and geometry, and combined them deliberately into their constructions. The megalithic tradition in the British Isles can apparently be traced back to at least 3,000 B.C., if not earlier. The Romans themselves, who in their conquests discovered these ‘straight tracks’ in almost every country they subjugated: across Europe, north Africa, Crete, and the regions of ancient Babylon and Nineveh.
in 1911, W.Y.Evans-Wentz, mentions the ‘fairy paths’, along which invisible elemental spirits are believed to travel across Ireland. In his book ‘the Fairy Faith In Celtic Countries’, he referred to them as the ‘arteries’ through which the earth’s magnetism circulates. Jacques Vallee writes, in Celtic regions, witnesses described seeing fairies who were accompanied by strange oval objects in the sky, and these beings were also known for abducting people– not unlike modern reports of alien abduction, he pointed out. A ninth century account from the Archbishop of Lyon, France dealt with three people who were said to emerge from a flying ship– villagers thought they came from a magical land called Magonia that was beyond the clouds.
After the 1914-18 World War, Major F.A. Menzies, M.C., a distinguished British army engineer became very proficient in locating earth energy alignments (ley-lines), and also sources of noxious energy. During the 1940’s, his research at ancient megalithic sites showed several astronomical alignments that are believed to have been associated with solar (fire) worship in pagan times.
Alexander Thom found a smaller common unit of measurement in the spiral carvings on certain megaliths. He concluded that the megalithic builders were sophisticated astronomers engaged in a detailed study of the movements of the heavenly bodies, incorporated into their structures over a long period of observation.
We find that the spiral configuration is also carved on ornate antler rods in France, found in Sicily, Spain and not least of all Malta, where some of the most sophisticated spirals adorn the ancient Maltese temple of Tarxien (ca.3300 b.c), one of the oldest stone buildings on earth. Moreover, adjacent to the extensive megalithic site Carnac in Northern France is the impressive structure at Gavr’inis, which is described by Alistair service and Jean Bradbury (m galiths and their mysteries, 1979) as quite simply the finest decorated passage-grave of all,with Newgrange in Ireland its only rival.
Twenty-three of the twenty-nine slabs which form the walls of Gav’inis are carved with intricate spirals, intersecting semicircles, and other whorled patterns. It is not yet known whether these patterns are purely decorative of whether they have some religious significance. A meaning or a symbolism seems likely, since the spiral forms occur so often in Newgrange one of the World’s oldest structures.
Spirals are Neolithic carvings, but the code remains hidden. A spiral may represent a UFOs circling to ascend or descend.
Ornate spirals and patterns also adorn two large stones outside the entrance to Newgrange, perhaps pointing the way to what lies inside – further carvings of grouped spirals on the roof of side cells, and an enigmatic triple spiral illuminated by sunlight flooding down the passage at sunrise the winter solstice.
Newgrange, Ireland Scotland Tarxian, Malta
Paul Devereux found in his book entitled ‘lines on the landscape’, that wherever the straight landscape line occurred, a key theme connecting them which was a belief in the dead travelling along ‘spirit/funerary paths’, to the ‘otherworld’. ufos are thought to travel along the ley lines picking up the dead spirits. Numerous borrows and burial mounds are located along the ley lines.
Stonehenge Discs
Stonehenge Discs are virtual copies of Irish Discs or did both artisans see similar craft.
The 4,500 year old thin disc of gold is decorated with a cross and circle
It is one of just six sun-discs to have been found in Britain and may have belonged to a chieftain of a tribe living in the area around Stonehenge
The golden disc is one of the earliest known pieces of metalwork in Britain
It was found in a burial mound at Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire in 1947
One of the earliest known pieces of metalwork in Britain, found just a few miles from Stonehenge, has gone on display to the public for the first time.µ
Stonehenge
Thought to represent the sun, the gold disc, which was forged around 4,500 years ago at around the same time the main circle of Stonehenge was erected, was discovered in the Bronze Age burial mound of a local chieftain.
The 4,500 year old thin disc of gold is decorated with a cross and circle. It is one of just six discs to have been found in Britain and may have belonged to a chieftain of a tribe living in the area around
Stonehenge. The golden disc is one of the earliest known pieces of metalwork in Britain. It was found in a burial mound at Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire in 1947.
Archeologists claim these are sun discs claiming ancient men worshiped the sun. The sun does not have a cross or beams on it. I suggest the metalwork was trying to depict disc shaped UFOs. Many graves in all parts of the world hold the remains of people holding the discs. Cave drawings, hieroglyphic early statues show God like beings inside discs. Belief in the soul and continuation of life after death is part of numerous religions. The discs seen would represent a viable method for our souls to reach heaven. DailyMail on Facebook
Both the Egyptians and Babylonians developed languages that they claim were “given” by the gods and also, even the Egyptian specialists are at a loss as to explain how a backward nomadic people could blossom into a fully fledged literate, technologically advanced, political state in what seems to be the space of 200 years!, which is what I am led to believe happened in the case of the Egyptians, a byproduct of ET intervention? Who knows? As an aside: We are also talking about a time when a small band of tribesmen in about the same geographic area were having regular visits from “God” in various forms, fiery chariots, pillars of fire, burning bush, and a wheeled vehicle that Ezekiel described in such detail that an engineer from NASA has taken out a patent on its wheels!.
There are thousands of depictions of winged sun discs in Egypt. An interesting correlation with Sumerian culture is that the original Egyptian rendering of Osiris is Ausur. A striking resemblance to the name Ashur? Then there’s the Hindu God Surya, which bears resemblance to Assyria, the city named after Ashur. Depictions of Surya bear remarkable resemblance to the Greek gods riding on their Chariots of the Sun powered by winged horses.
If you want to get New Age there’s also Ashtar of the Galactic Federation of Light.
Winged Sun Disc on Ben Ben Stone found in Dashur, Egypt
Note: It is worth noting the “all seeing eyes” of Horus in the image which is a description for the flying Greek god Helios the all seeing. It is easy to observe the world from on high.
If you lived 2000 years ago and you saw a helicopter, how would you describe it? Would it make a noise like galloping horses? Would you describe it as having a scorpion’s tail? In the book of revelation there are what seem to be descriptions and thus prophesy about today’s machines described in the language and imagery of the time.
If we go further back in time there are more incredible descriptions of things such as the chariots of the gods. The people of the time did their best to describe them by carving them into stone, writing about them, passing down stories about them etc.
The Faravahar Persepolis
The most interesting of these for me is the winged sun disc, which appears all over the world in ancient times (and in modern times too). Very similar versions of this symbol appear in various countries in Mesoamerica (Toltec, Aztec, Mayan cultures) and the Middle East (Babylonian, Egyptian, Persian, Hebrew cultures).
In modern day Iran the Faravahar is a national symbol. The Faravahar is a winged sun disc with the primary god Ahura Mazda sitting in it or on top of it who represents a guardian angel.
In present-day Zoroastrianism, the Faravahar is said to be a reminder of one’s purpose in life, which is to live in such a way that the soul progresses towards Frashokereti, or union with Ahura Mazda. It’s the symbol of the state religion of the Persian Empire: Zoroastrianism.
Teams of daring Chinese researchers, digging into the ancient mysteries of the origin of their country, have come to the inescapable conclusion that 12,000 years ago; an interstellar supreme alien race used much of the northern and central Chinese regions as massive Earth bases. Incredible Ancient Asian art depicts alien encounters. China’s pre-history is rife with alien ships, alien beings and alien goings-on.
An ancient Chinese relief depicts an episode in the countryside when frightening “flying men” terrorized herders.
Eerily, the ancient artist recorded exactly what UFO investigators would record today.
This is a reproduction of the stone relief found by a scientific expedition of anthropologists during 1957 led by professor Tsj’i Pen-Lai.
The remarkable relief was discovered within an ancient maze on Jotuo island in Lake Toengt’ing.
The Lolladoff disc plate above was found in Nepal and dated to around 10,000 BCE.
Note what appears to be a saucer-shaped object in the center and a being, resembling an alien at the lower right.
This old Asian scroll from Japan depicts a Japanese merchant happening upon a small flying saucer that’s landed near a rice field. Look carefully at the writing above the craft.
The column on the right of the image is not Japanese, it’s a representation of the symbols the merchant saw on the craft and described to the artist who then added them to the scroll for accuracy.
Ezekiel Spots UFO
The religious leader in the Bible, Ezekiel writes about an encounter with a flying object year 592 B.C. near Cheber River Chaldea, in today’s Iraq.
“As I looked, behold a stormy wind came out of the north and a great cloud, with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.
“And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the form of men, but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs were straight and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands… each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side… the face of an Ox on the left side, and… The face of an eagle on the back.”
Ezekiel describes hominoids wearing helmets with virtual cameras or helmets on the sides and at the rear, marked with symbols? “And their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.
“Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creature’s one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of a chrysolite… being as it where a wheel within a wheel… the four wheels had rims and they had spokes: and their rims were full of eyes round about. And when the living creatures went the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the Earth, the wheels rose.”
“.There was a likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness as it were of a human form. And upward from his loins I saw as it where gleaming bronze, and there was brightness .Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about … And when I saw it… I heard the voice of one speaking, the spirit lifted me up. I heard the sounds of the wheels that sounded like a great earthquake.”
Ezekiel claims he was taken to Tel-Abib where his fellow exiles are”…overwhelmed amongst them seven days Ezekiel encountered a flying craft. Thanks to http://www.ufoevidence.org
Chilean Navy Spots UFO
The Chilean Navy video of the UFO was captured on November 11, 2014, when the Airbus Cougar AS-532 helicopter was on a patrol mission flying west of Santiago and north along the coast. The helicopter was at an altitude of 4,500 feet with perfect visibility flying at 152 mph.
At 1:52 p.m., the technician was already filming when he noticed an odd-looking flying object in the sky over the ocean and both the Navy captain and technician observed an object 37 miles away. The technician zoomed in with the infra-red while filming in order to achieve better clarity of the object. The pilot made contact with two radar stations that were unable to pick up the object on their radars.
The Chilean Navy handed the video over to the CEFAA, and scientific experts from around the world analyzed the footage. General Bermudez states. “This has been one of the most important cases in my career as director of CEFAA because our Committee had full participation from the scientists of the academic world, the armed forces, and the aeronautic personnel from the DGAC; General Bermudez noted that the final conclusion that was reached after two years of study of this video footage is that the object in question is believed by most to be a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon).
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Total Eclipse UFO
Hello Major Filer: I hope you were able to view the recent total eclipse. It was quite a show.
I have attached a general view of totality and a couple of partials with something more of interest to you. Something rectangular in shape darted across some photos taken in burst mode, less than 1 second between #158 and #159.
I have heard quite weird. reports of square and rectangular craft. I guess they did not want to miss the event. Regards Robert M Stiles
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Filer’s Files #35 -2017 William Tompkins Passes - PART II
Filer’s Files #35 -2017 William Tompkins Passes - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arkansas Light
I was taking photos of the solar eclipse with my camera on a tripod and looked up to see a jet weaving around and spraying chemtrails. I took out my phone and snapped a photo of the jet and didn’t think of it after that. I went inside and looked at it and there was the object I thought was a star. I zoomed it in and it didn’t look like a star at all. I never observed the object with my eyes nor did I see it in the viewfinder. I saw it only after I was going through the photos on my phone.
I would have noticed the very bright light before I took the photo but it was not there, nor was it there after I took the photo.
Just to the right of the object is also a black spot that was not visible in the sky but it showed up on the photo. Rogers —
Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Thermal— I tried viewing the eclipse on August 21, 2017 by making holes on Piece of paper with needle didn’t work so put my phone camera on “shutter” took random pics walking around the yard with phone high above my head.
Hoping to view the eclipse I decided to take more pics at 10:25ish. Going through my pics I found this and it freaked me out; so I was done with the eclipse after that. Our dog was in a gated area where we have a large black water bucket that had a bunch of bees swarming around it. I showed my husband the picture and he thinks it’s just an out of focus bee but hell no, I checked every pic I took and yes there were allot of bees, but I found nothing like that in any of the other pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Lights
Nunn — I was setting up to record the eclipse of the sun for tomorrow on August 21 when I caught a circle shaped object next to the Sun on August 20, at 11:20 am. At first I thought it was the reflection so I took 9 videos to see if the object would move and it did! I was using my Z740 Cell-phone Camera with a number 12 welding glass plate for welding to record the eclipse with.
I clip number 4 I rotated the camera 90 degrees and the object was not a reflection or it would have moved! In clip 8 the sun was behind a cloud but the planet or ship wasn’t! The Sun was out of focus due to the clouds but the ship/planet wasn’t! In Clip 9 it was gone! I’m not sure why that happened? Can you please tell me what I’m looking at to put my mind at ease? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Object
Coral Gables— During the peak time of the eclipse 2:58 PM, I took a series of pictures using my IPhone and a polarized lens. The first picture I took was horrible so I quickly used my sunglasses to reduce the glare. I took a series of pictures seconds apart and noticed the disk object. When I zoomed in on the object I was surprised with the detail. You can see the solid shape of disk with some type center structure. You can also see some transparent tentacles.
When you look at the series of pictures (that were taken a few seconds apart) you can see that the object is moving away from the sun and was not anywhere near the ground. So it had to be few miles high and very large. I have no idea what this is. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Disc
Louisville— I was driving along the Ohio River in Kentucky on August 8, 2017, when I saw an object in the sky I have been calling them fake stars, low on the horizon. I was close to the house so I went home got my video camera. I first saw the object started filming; zooming in and out when my camera focused onto a cylinder object that projected a triangle shape with a red light. The object shot something down to the ground or up from the ground it looked like a fire beam. I have been seeing these things all summer. Black helicopters are always in the area.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Eclipse Object
Lancaster — During yesterday’s eclipse I was trying to take pictures to show my students. I was not successful in pointing my camera directly at the sun because there were clouds in the way. So I decided to see if I could find another way to record the event. A few minutes later I decided to run an errand and as I was going to my car I noticed that I could see the eclipse in the reflection of the glass windows of my vehicle.
I took out my phone and snapped some pictures using the window as a filter. (There were no lights on inside my car and I angled the camera so my reflection wasn’t in it). When I was reviewing the pictures later on, I noticed pretty clear images of a UFO in each of them. I was really excited to see what I had captured!! I believe we are not alone and this solidifies my belief!
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Object
Las Vegas — A floating object was above so I took this image then suddenly it disappeared on August 23, 2017.
Object appears to be triangle shaped with large lights or propulsion
system underneath. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Canilworth — We were driving when a circle reflecting object came out the clouds. I took a picture of it on August 22, 2017.
We spotted it until I reached my destination. It came lower and went back up.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Object
Greensboro— I was on a flight to Chicago from Greensboro NC and being I had a window seat by the engine. I decided to take selfies with my phone of the view. I didn’t review any of the photos until two days later. I was having a conversation with a coworker about our flights and started to show him the photos. At first glance I thought there was something on my film and realized something was outside the window following the plane. In the photos you can see at least 3 objects in different positions in each photo. My coworker and I were amazed at the objects zooming in and out trying to make out what the objects could possibly be. Had I seen the photos while still on the airplane I would have tried to get video of these UFO’s? What do you think about the objects? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Disc
Concord Township — My husband and I were watching the eclipse on August 21 between the hours of 2 and 3 pm and snapped some pictures of the eclipse. Some kind of disc shaped object was in the pictures but when we looked up we did not see anything in the sky due to the suns extreme brightness that day.
In two of the pictures you can see a trail in the sky’s atmosphere. We both were taken back by these photos and we both feel we witnessed a UFO sighting that day.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Object
Salem— I was taking pictures during the eclipse on August 21, 2017, continuous shots and caught these lights that seem to be in motion in only one shot.
The sun is not blurred so it’s not movement from the camera, it’s the object moving.
I zoomed in on the photo to double check; there is a nice sharp line on the sun…no movement.
Included are the other pics from this burst in order. I didn’t notice it until I downloaded the pics onto my computer.
Thanks to MUFON CMS Note: Likely Planet Venus
Pennsylvania Lights
Pittsburgh – I was viewing the solar eclipse through my camera phone taking pictures without looking into the camera. Three clouds covered the sun for a short time, so I looked direct through the phone and took a pic.
I saw a quite large object gliding through the air and took the camera away to look, and it was gone. I got a descent picture of it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Object
Maryville — We live on a farm next to the Smoky Mountain National Park on August 22, 2017. I was taking a great deal of pictures yesterday to capture the behavior of animals on our farm during the eclipse for my farm life blog. About 15 minutes before the full eclipse I was taking rapid pictures of my goats. When I downloaded my pics today I noticed in one of my shots that had four different interpretations of the shot spanning about 1/100ths of a second intervals – an object in the sky high and smaller. There were NO birds flying at this time. The animals including our chickens and turkeys had all gone to lie down. Then on the next picture the disc shaped object had moved a vast amount and was larger and dropped 300 feet downward. The first picture didn’t have any object, then picture two and three both showed this disc like object and the fourth picture didn’t have it. In 1/100th of a second, it had moved a huge amount. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia UFO
Hobart, Tasmania — We were on vacation on February 27, 2017, when my aunt decided to take a photo at dawn near the place we were staying at.
We only noticed the object in the picture after the fact, so cannot say it was witnessed in person.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Light
Burke Mountain— The night of July 2nd, 2017, was fairly warm and our bedroom window was left open. Around 3:20 a.M., I heard a thump noise coming from outside. Looking above my neighbors’ house I saw an extremely bright light. It was way too big and bright to be a star and not on the mountain itself. I then took the binoculars and this light was not one but five round lights side by side in a row. The middle light was the largest and most powerful. They each emitted their own beam of light powerful enough to be radiating above, below and on each side of this row of lights. I stared at it for a few minutes more and then around 3:45 a.M., they simply continued to beam, so I went back to bed. It did not move. I woke up my husband who had been sleeping downstairs, not wanting to deal with a hot bedroom. When I explained what I had seen, he casually replied that I had seen a ufo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Columbia Objects
I wasn’t the witness, a relative who works at the petroleum site sent me the pictures.
The pictures of a disc were sent on August 23, 2017.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Costa Rica Disc
Heredia — The day of the event started with a storm, so I went out to see if it was a tornado, but I could see a formation of spiral clouds on January 24, 2016, as if something had made them take a circular shape. Then I left with my with my mother and my partner, I took pictures with my Sony Xperie S cell phone of a diamond shaped object with a kind of motor or reactor in the bottom. You can see an airplane a little below the object. A few days later I saw cigar shaped objects that move slowly and then change direction and move away at very high speed.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Object
Queenstown — I was in my house on June 24, 2017 and recently started filming the night sky with my infrared night vision camera 60×60 350m and military laser after wanting to find the unknown for myself. I was on my balcony filming the night sky as usual in a crystal clear sky on the South Island of New Zealand. Then out of nowhere the disc shaped craft zooms in! I’m trying to get my laser on it but it’s quite difficult when aiming a camera with one hand and a laser with the other. I hit this disc shaped craft with my laser as I’m getting reflections off it! Just to mention I do live at the bottom of a mountain with surrounding mountains on all sides in the distance’s with an 800 ft deep lake in the middle. (Google Queenstown New Zealand).
United Kingdom Light
My dad and sister were sat in the back garden and seen a strange light hovering in the sky on August 23, 2017.
They continued watching this for around 40 minutes and seen this thing change shapes and move around in an odd manner.
They took some photos and stopped looking. Went to look again and it had vanished. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Wilsthorpe Incident: There were allegedly 30 to 40 UFOs over the sea.
The husband and wife, aged in their 80s, who have not been named claim to have witnessed the phenomenal sight over Wilsthorpe Beach in East Yorkshire.
Paranormal investigator Paul Sinclair tells their story in a new book he is penning about the Wilsthorpe Incident, which has been branded Britain's new Roswell due to the mysterious military activity seemingly connected to UFO sightings.
The couple's bizarre claims concern the night of September 14 2009 at 11pm.
They lived in one of 30 flats that overlook the sea at Wilsthorpe.
The pair decided to go to bed, however, as the woman went to turn off the lights, she saw a glow outside.
Mr Sinclair said "something told her to go outside" before she opened the front door and looked out to sea where she was amazed to see several glowing UFOs above the coast.
Mr Sinclair said she described them as 15-feet long and eight-feet wide "spaceships over the sea".
He said: "She said there was a huge circle of boomerang-shaped craft.
"She said there were loads - 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing.
"They were silent, but there was electricity going into the sea.
"Ron (her husband) said it was like a blue and white Christmas tree over the sea. He was frightened and left after ten minutes and put his head under the pillow for the night.
"But, she told me she was not frightened and knew she was never going to see anything like it again in her life."
She stayed for around half and hour before the objects began to "lift out of the circle in pairs at a 45 degree angle until just two were left which shot off straight up."
Two Chinook helicopters full of RAF personnel landed at the beach by the remote hamlet.
Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen "triangle" craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.
Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen "triangle" craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.
She said there were loads - 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing. They were silent, but there was electricity going into the sea.
Paul Sinclair
He said two of his bait diggers had been on Wilsthorpe Beach the day the couple saw the military operation.
They told of seeing "triangles entering the sea" and later "being surrounded by soldiers."
Separately a man working on a boat at Blythe Park boat compound also confirmed the military presence, he said.
Mr Sinclair submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to find out why the operation took place on September 15.
However, the response he eventually received, said it was just a "routine military exercise" and few other details were provided.
The reply said "no live ammunition was used" and "any explosions heard were controlled detonations of simulated ammunitions."
The response added that it was "one of a number of regular exercises" as part of work to defend the UK, and new locations would often be used with landowners' consent.
Mr Sinclair continues to investigate the case and is trying to obtain historic coastguard reports from the period.
He believes it is connected to a high level of reported UFO activity along a 25-mile stretch of the East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire coast from Brandesburton in East Yorkshire to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between May and September 2009.
High levels of military aircraft flying low and circling near his home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, were also recorded that September.
Mr Sinclair said the case did not yet prove a UFO presence, but: "I think the military arrived because of the objects."
In a post on his Truth Proof Facebook page about the case, he wrote: "Nothing found can prove with any certainty the UFOs were over the sea as an elderly couple claim, or that the black triangles entered the sea in September 2009 like the bait diggers described.
"All I can do is stack the evidence for and against, either side of the scale."
Some of the sightings have been detailed in Mr Sinclair's first book - Truth-Proof: The Truth That Leaves No Proof, which is available on Amazon.
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Alien hunter offers $100K reward for proof of UFOs
Alien hunter offers $100K reward for proof of UFOs
By Joe Hildebrand, News.com.au
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As one great search for alien life comes to a fiery end on the edge of Saturn, another one is about to begin in Australia.
American UFO hunter James Fox is offering $100,000 to anyone who can give him credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity on Earth — including from a claimed sighting in suburban Melbourne he is investigating.
The proposal is perhaps not as crazy as it seems. It comes in the same week that the NASA spacecraft Cassini ends its groundbreaking 20-year mission that recently discovered the Saturnal moon Enceladus had an ocean and potential hydrothermal activity — key building blocks for life.
However, Fox’s quest is at the opposite end of the journey: Any alien life that made it to Earth. And that quest has now come to Australia.
In particular, he is appealing to government officials who might have documentary or photographic evidence but might be fearful of going public because of either the stigma or official repercussions.
“We’re trying to get government officials to come forward and not say ‘Hey, ET has landed’ but there have been events (witnessed) by extremely credible observers of relatively incredible things and we have yet to explain or be able to explain these and to sort of acknowledge some of these incredible events in an official capacity,” he tells News.com.au.
“Coupling along with that, we know through interviews with some of the military men and women we met with, that there are bits of evidence, whether it be radar or some photographs of landing gear, that sort of thing, that have never seen the light of day. And we are encouraging any military or government officials with some of these materials a rather large sum of money — $100,000 and possibly more — if they are willing to come forward.”
Very few of the tips Fox has received make the cut even for analysis.
“We’ve got lots of compelling photographs but nothing where our jaw hit the floor.”
At the moment, Fox says a physicist is currently examining some “physical evidence” — an object found in New Mexico — to see if it might have come from an alien spacecraft. If it is found to be unearthly that could be the first to qualify for the reward.
He is offering complete anonymity and even encourages people to contact him via tradition mail lest electronic communications get intercepted.
But while the documentary maker admits this all sounds very paranoid, he insists he is no tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist. He has no truck with people who got drunk and then woke-up claiming they’d been beamed up for a probing.
Instead, Fox says there are serious questions about classified material the US military is refusing to release. And he says Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta has spoken to him on the record for his upcoming film, voicing frustration that the military refused to fully declassify potential UFO material under Bill Clinton’s administration. He also says that Hillary Clinton was planning to revisit the issue if she had become president.
“He (Podesta) basically said that he was acutely aware of the stigma associated with the phenomenon but he felt that someone in his position needs to come forward and participate to encourage others to do so. And that President Clinton had made efforts and he had many discussions with Hillary and that Hillary was planning on doing another effort of releasing classified documents.”
“He said that the phenomena cannot be explained away … (not) all of it. That it merits further investigation and that other people should take it more seriously.”
Fox says he cannot reveal his financial backers due to obvious sensitivities but that they include two extremely high-profile American public figures and philanthropists.
Fox first made the $100,000 offer among UFO circles during a conference in 2013 but none of the material submitted has yet satisfied him. Now he is publicly announcing the reward to the world ahead of a speaking tour of Australia that kicks off this weekend.
The significance of this is that he will be interviewing people who claim to have witnessed one or more flying saucers in the Melbourne suburb of Westall in 1966.
The infamous “sighting” by some 200 students and teachers at Westall High School was reported in both The Age and The Dandenong Journal and remains a mystery to this day.
The Age report suggested it might have been a weather balloon while others have suggested it may have been an experimental military aircraft.
Fox says that anyone who has credible evidence, such as a rumored photograph of the craft, would be eligible for the $100,000 if that evidence proved to be authentic.
“It would have to be coupled with a piece of pretty substantial evidence. If there was a photograph of the object on the ground, a photograph of the object in the air, if there was a government document, irrefutable, confirming that, that would certainly be considered something that was bona fide,” he says.
“We’re talking to a gentleman now, I can’t say any names, but apparently there was someone who did take a photograph of something very similar to that a day or two prior to the landing so we’re going to meet with him.”
Meanwhile, in the outer reaches of the solar system, a more conventional and expensive search for alien life is drawing to a close.
The extraordinary $3 billion-plus Cassini mission will end on Friday when the spacecraft self-immolates by plunging into Saturn. Having discovered the potential for life, its controllers at NASA and the European and Italian space agencies must now destroy it rather than risk contaminating the very worlds it unlocked with its own alien composition.
And so if someone like James Fox ever evolves on the oceanic moon of Enceladus to search for evidence of UFOs he will be sorely disappointed.
EXCLUSIVE: Military swamped beach after spate of UFO sightings in new 'British Roswell'
EXCLUSIVE: Military swamped beach after spate of UFO sightings in new 'British Roswell'
A BRITISH RAF squadron was seen by multiple witnesses swarming an area of coastline that had been plagued by mysterious UFO sightings, Express.co.uk can exclusively reveal.
UFO SHOCKER: Details of a new 'British Roswell' UFO case were revealed by Paul Sinclair (pictured)
The case of the Wilsthorpe Incident is being investigated after a number of witnesses to the bizarre events along a 25-mile stretch of the East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire coast were discovered.
Witnesses reported seeing strange lights, and odd-shaped craft in an area from Brandesburton in East Yorkshire to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between May and September 2009.
In some cases UFOs were seen entering the sea, and cars ground to a halt as one appeared, it is claimed.
Two Chinook helicopters full of RAF personnel landed at the beach by the remote hamlet of Wilsthorpe, East Yorkshire, on Tuesday, September 15 2009, at the height of the sightings, paranormal researcher Paul Sinclair has revealed.
It was the day after a bizarre late-night sighting of between 30 and 40 UFOs in the same area by an elderly couple whose home overlooked the beach, he said.
The multiple UFOs sighting followed a spate of other strange UFO sightings along the area of coastline, Mr Sinclair told the Outer Limits Magazine 70 Years of the Modern UFO Era Conference in Hull.
The military action and UFOs were witnessed by the couple, two bait diggers, and a boat worker, a seven-year investigation by Mr Sinclair has discovered.
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A pink UFO image sent to Paul Sinclair in 2009 during the height of the sightings.
A local newspaper report written more than a week later on September 24 said up to 50 people had seen the military arrival.
The case began in 2009 as Mr Sinclair recorded several UFO sightings in the area on his former website ILF-UFO.
He also video recorded high levels of military aircraft flying low and circling near his home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, on September 18 that year.
He said: "At least one of the choppers had its rear loading ramp half open and for some reason the men inside were observing me."
It was not until 2014 when he interviewed the couple, aged in their 80s, about their experience in 2009, that he realised it was one of the UK's most important UFO incidents.
The couple lived in one of 30 flats that overlook the sea at Wilsthorpe.
Mr Sinclair told the conference that the woman described seeing on September 14 2009 15-feet long and eight-feet wide "spaceships over the sea".
He said: "She said there was a huge circle of boomerang-shaped craft.
Jon Austin* Paul Sinclair
The remote flat from where the elderly couple claimed to see up to 40 UFOs.
"She said there were loads - 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing."
The woman said that after about half an hour, the "craft" flew off.
The next day the couple said they saw the military swarming all over the beach.
Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen "triangle" craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.
He said two of his bait diggers had been on Wilsthorpe Beach the day the couple saw the military operation.
They told of seeing "triangles entering the sea" and later "being surrounded by soldiers."
Separately a man working on a boat at Blythe Park boat compound also confirmed the military presence, he said.
Mr Sinclair, who continues to investigate the case, has collated a record of other UFO sightings in the area from at least May 2009 that were either reported in local newspapers or directly to his website.
These include a pink flying saucer and three star-like objects over Flamborough Head, east Yorkshire, on May 10 2009, a huge UFO over Driffield six days later, and a "spherical-shaped craft" seen by nine people at River Head three days after that.
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Sketch of 'crucifix-shaped UFO' seen by retired police man David Holroyd, who saw three UFOs.
As a collective they tell an amazing story that if true stands with the great UFO incidents of our time.
Paul Sinclair
He revealed sightings that continued throughout June and July, including spheres of light over the sea, plus triangle, circular, and egg shaped craft.
Witnesses included trawler men and a retired police officer.
He also had reports of cars stopping working after a UFO sighting, including a black triangular object.
The vehicles worked fine again after the UFO flew out to sea.
These included an off-duty police man driving back from Barmston, East Yorkshire, whose car lights dimmed after a large cube-shaped UFO appeared.
Mr Sinclair said witnesses, including himself, also saw unusually high levels of military aircraft in the area at the peak of the sightings spate.
He said RAF helicopters had flown exceptionally low over his home at times, including when he recorded them three days after the military presence on September 18.
He said: "Why were these planes there? What was so important at the time?
"Does that mean there was a UFO presence, no, but it means there was a military presence.
"We still get military aircraft in the area, but you never get them flying over the rooftops like then."
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Picturesque Wilsthorpe beach was mobbed by military after alleged UFO sightings.
Mr Sinclair submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to find out why the operation took place on September 15.
However, the response he eventually received, said it was just a "routine military exercise" and few other details were provided.
The reply said "no live ammunition was used" and "any explosions heard were controlled detonations of simulated ammunitions."
The response added that it was "one of a number of regular exercises" as part of work to defend the UK, and new locations would often be used with landowners' consent.
Mr Sinclair said the case did not yet prove a UFO presence, but: "I think the military arrived because of the objects."
He continues to investigate the case and is trying to obtain historic coastguard reports from the period.
In a post on his Truth Proof Facebook page about the case, he wrote: "When I filmed the helicopters I had no idea there would be any connection to a UFO incident.
"So far it has taken seven years to connect these events, mine and the people who have been bold enough to submit their accounts.
"As a collective they tell an amazing story that if true stands with the great UFO incidents of our time.
"Nothing found can prove with any certainty the UFOs were over the sea as an elderly couple claim, or that the black triangles entered the sea in September 2009 like the bait diggers described.
"All I can do is stack the evidence for and against, either side of the scale."
Some of the sightings have been detailed in Mr Sinclair's first book - Truth-Proof: The Truth That Leaves No Proof, which is available on Amazon.
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New Netflix documentary blows Roswell alien conspiracy WIDE OPEN after sensational claims
New Netflix documentary blows Roswell alien conspiracy WIDE OPEN after sensational claims
A SHOCKING new Netflix documentary claims to have unearthed fresh evidence casting doubt on the official narrative surrounding the infamous Roswell UFO incident.
In 1947, an alien spacecraft was alleged to have crash-landed in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, US, carrying multiple extraterrestrial occupants onboard.
The US military denied the claims, suggesting the “flying disc” reportedly spotted by multiple eye-witnesses was instead a conventional weather balloon.
Despite repeated investigations into the crash, Roswell remains one of the most talked-about conspiracy theories of recent times.
And now Unacknowledged, a recently-released Netflix documentary, claims to have unearthed fresh evidence suggesting the military might have covered up evidence proving alien life crash-landed on Earth.
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FRESH CLAIMS: Richard Doty described the alien spacecraft in great detail
Richard Doty, a former special agent working for the US Air Force, worked on multiple investigations into the alleged visitation of extraterrestrials – starting out with Roswell.
“It was more or less an oval, or egg-shaped craft. It wasn’t a saucer”
Richard Doty
In an interview with filmmaker Michael Mazzola, Doty went into great detail describing the spacecraft that had been picked up by military forces on July 8, 1947.
“It was more or less an oval, or egg-shaped craft. It wasn’t a saucer,” he explained.
“It didn’t have any actual levers or flight control systems that we would identify.
“But they [researchers] eventually, over some time, figured it out. It was all done by hands. The creatures would put their hands on controls and have these headsets on.
“The headset would somehow control the aircraft.”
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QUESTIONABLE: A report of the incident claims there were three alien bodies recovered
Veteran serviceman Doty went on to describe the physical appearance of the three aliens he claims were found dead on board the downed craft.
“The creatures were about 4ft,” he continued.
“Some of them were mangled, heavily injured and their bodies torn apart.”
Multiple exhaustive investigations into the Roswell crash failed to produce any evidence of an alien crash-landing – but believers in the conspiracy claim this in itself proves the incident has been concealed by the government.
SpaceX, the space exploration venture headed by Elon Musk, has followed a rocky road to get where it is today. The company has successfully landed a number of orbital rocket boosters back on Earth after launch, a practice aimed at reducing costs and preparing for a mission to Mars. On Thursday, though, the company shared a two-minute video of its failings.
“Long road to reusabity of Falcon 9 primary boost stage…When upper stage & fairing also reusable, costs will drop by a factor >100,” Musk said on his Twitter account.
If SpaceX can reuse its rockets, it stands to save a considerable amount of money. A Falcon 9 rocket booster costs $62 million, but the fuel only costs $200,000 to $300,000 a mission. Reusing the rocket saves the company $46.5 million of the initial cost, or 75 percent.
One YouTube commenter described the video as a real-life version of Kerbal Space Program, while also “the most expensive fail video on the internet.” Considering the initial cost of the rocket and the amount of failures, it’s possibly true.
The video contains a number of failures and successes. Watch the full, high-resolution footage here:
That’s what makes it all the more remarkable to look back at what NASA’s website looked like when Cassini first launched back in 1997. The internet was in its infancy then: YouTube and Facebook both wouldn’t be founded until 2005, while Twitter only began in 2006. What web presence Cassini had was limited to NASA’s own site, and it’s unrecognizable from the page in 2017. To realize Cassini is a product of 1997’s technology rather than 2017’s is to be even more humbled by all it has accomplished.
Here’s what greets you when you arrive at the current webpage for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cassini’s home instition.
And here’s the 1997 page, as preserved by the Internet Archive.
Welcome to retro NASA.
Pointing this out isn’t intended as some mere exercise in laughing at the rather basic fact the internet was more primitive in 1997 than 2017. But think about how far technology has come in those 20 years, as shown by the difference between these two websites — and then consider Cassini didn’t get to enjoy any of that.
After all, once Cassini launched on October 15, 1997, there was no way of changing its on-board tech. All the computers at JPL that work with Cassini are now 20 years more advanced than what the probe has to offer. It’s all the more awe-inspiring to realize Cassini achieved all it has considering it was built at a time when NASA, perhaps the world’s single most famous science and research institution, couldn’t manage a website more impressive than this.
Slightly different than 2017's site.
Or a news page that was anything more than a long bulleted list of hyperlinks.
It's nothing but news.
Or this announcement of Cassini’s launch on October 15, which is nothing more than the proverbial wall of text.
Hey, at least it's printer-friendly.
In the grand scheme of things, 1997 isn’t even that long ago. Voyager 1 and 2 are still operating as they slowly leave the solar system, and those both run on tech from the late 1970s. But that’s just it: Every probe we send into space becomes a relic of the time it was first launched, its every success a tribute to how far we had come by that point. That we’ve come so much further since then makes the prospect of Cassini’s successor missions all the more tantalizing.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind suggested that, while light years and galaxies may separate humble humankind and extraterrestrial life, the universal language of music could transcend such differences. Before the mothership opens its glowing gates in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 classic, its passengers collaborate with human experts on a giddy light and sound symphony.
As the film is re-released in cinemas nearly 40 years later, we seem no closer to making first contact with aliens. But if we did, would music really be the best way to communicate with them?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was somewhat timely: on September 5, Nasa launched its Voyager programme, which, four decades later, continues to study the solar system. Jonah Katz, a linguistics professor at West Virginia University, tells The Telegraph, “those records were included 'just in case' the probes somehow ended up being discovered by an extraterrestrial; that wasn't the point of the Voyager mission at all”.
Golden Record: Greetings to the Universe contained pictures of life on Earth - such as a woman in a supermarket - as well as music that reflected the diversity of humankind’s creative capabilities. Bach was on there, along with Mozart, Beethoven and Stravinsky, as well as Azerbaijani folk music and Chuck Berry - a controversial choice at the time as some deemed his song Johnny B Goode to be “adolescent”. (Carl Sagan, the Cornell University academic who chaired the record’s creation, argued that there were “a lot of adolescents on the planet”.)
The discs also came with a diagram of how to play them, in the hope that extraterrestrial life might come across the Voyager spacecraft and discover the record. Two years ago, the contents were uploaded online, so all of humankind could listen to them, too.
In 2008, Nasa beamed a Beatles song towards the North star, but again, this was more for human benefit - a means of celebration of the Beatles' and Nasa's shared anniversaries - than for any aliens.
Nasa engineers installing the 'Golden Record' into Voyager
A couple of years later, scientists from SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, explained at a conference that human art and music would be of far greater interest to alien life than maths or physics, which have previously been used to try and contact aliens.
Douglas Vakoch, the director of interstellar message composition at SETI, said at the time: “If they’re so advanced, we probably can’t teach them about science, but we can tell them what it’s like to be at this precarious point where we don’t know if we’re going to continue as a species.”
But Katz believes that using the fundamentals of mathematics to communicate with aliens is still a better strategy. “[Music] tends to be 'tacked on' to other kinds of messages that represent more fundamental information about the universe and our place in it,” he says. The laws of physics and maths don’t vary between different points of the universe, but the laws of music do. As Katz explains: “There's no particular reason to think that, say, a melody in a major key would be interpretable or pleasant for an alien. The major scales is not even universal across human cultures.”
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) telescope array in CaliforniaCREDIT: REUTERS
Bearing scales in mind, the chances of the aliens using exactly the same 12-note chromatic - as they do in Close Encounters of the Third Kind - is extremely unlikely. “It would be extremely far-fetched for extraterrestrials to coincidentally stumble across the same pitch collections, using the same 12-note chromatic,” says Katz.
Say, however, that our music was heard by aliens and they managed to make sense of its scale, what could we expect to hear back? Spielberg’s symphony isn’t so unrealistic - theoretically speaking, at least: “We often repeat melodies or harmonies more than once, but alter them in some way on the repetitions,” says Katz. “So maybe if we sent a particular kind of melody or harmonic sequence into space, an alien that 'understands' human music could send back a slightly altered repetition to us to show understanding.”
After that, it’s just a case of waiting to see if they want to invade our planet and turn us into slaves, or not.
A group called Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence are about to step up the call to ET
A group called Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence are about to step up the call to ET
A SMALL group of stargazing researchers want to be more step up the hunt for ET, but others think it’s a risky idea.
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OUR quest to contact aliens has reportedly created a rift between scientists responsible for handling humanity’s potential communication with ET.
For the past five decades or so, a network of scientists and astronomers have been scanning the cosmos looking for any radio signals or electronic signs left by an advanced alien species.
This network is largely known as SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Despite all their efforts, the cosmic radio waves have remained quiet when it comes to celestial messages from intelligent life.
The cynics among us would probably be quick to invoke the idea of the Fermi Paradox as to why such exercises by SETI are a fool’s errand — but some of the researchers are highly optimistic. The director of the institute, Seth Shostak, has famously predicted we’ll make some sort of contact with an alien species within the next two decades.
Of course, he is way more bullish on this topic than anybody else, and sadly there has so far been nothing to support his optimism.
So a splinter group of stargazing researchers inside SETI wants to be more proactive in the hunt for ET. Instead of just combing the skies looking for signals, they want to go on the offensive and beam messages into the cosmos on behalf of the human race.
The group calls themselves Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, and they are dedicated to designing and sending messages intended for extraterrestrial recipients.
METI plans on beaming out its first messages in 2018.
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It won’t be the first time we’ve sent messages into space but some worrywarts think it’s a bad, or potentially even dangerous idea to solicit the attention of an unknown and obviously intelligent alien race. Those opposed to the idea include Stephen Hawking who thinks sophisticated aliens might view us like we view bacteria.
But Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, is dismissive of such concerns.
“One of the reasons people are so afraid of METI is that it seems riskier to do something than to do nothing,” Mr Vakoch told Motherboard over e-mail.
“When we try to evaluate the risks and benefits of an unknown situation where we have little or no actual data, we fall back on the most vivid images that come to mind. But just because the first images of alien contact that come to mind are horrific, that doesn’t mean they’re realistic.”
METI plans on beaming out its first messages in 2018, the only question is how do you communicate with a species we have absolutely no idea about?
Previous solutions to this conundrum have proposed things like sending some form of a purely mathematical language, music, or pictograms in the direction of potentially habitable exoplanets.
The message will almost certainly need to be rooted in maths and physics, since they’re the fundamental language of the universe as we know it and thus are likely to be the only two types of knowledge we have in common. And that is exactly METI’s plan.
“Some of the most prominent messages of the past have tried to cover everything,” Mr Vakoch said. “We’re taking the opposite approach. Rather than trying to communicate everything (about math, science and life on Earth), we are focusing on saying a few things very clearly.”
But the question remains: will anyone, or anything, hear it?
It would be those two that would bring another emerging directorial talents work to Columbia. Steven Spielberg had just had a massive financial success with Jaws, his third feature film, at Universal Pictures. It was during post-production of his second feature film, The Sugarland Express, in 1973 that Columbia had picked up a new science-fiction project Spielberg had been working on for a while. With the vast acclaim of Jaws, Spielberg would be given unprecedented complete creative control of what would become Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also taking full screenplay credit for the picture -despite numerous other writers working on the project, including Taxi Driver's own Paul Schrader.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind would go on to critical acclaim and financial success -thus saving Columbia from the indignity of bankruptcy- and established Spielberg's artistic voice of childlike wonder and astonishing imagery for years to come. Like Star Wars -released the same year to even bigger financial rewards, the film has established iconic imagery that even those who haven't seen the film recognise. But what does it tell us about Spielberg and our relation to film as an art form?
The film began life as an early amateur feature that Spielberg had made called Firelight as a teenager. Entire sequences from this attempt at a full-length feature were lifted and incorporated into Close Encounters. It was an idea formed at a young age, during a meteor storm that the youthful Spielberg had witnessed.
From this and buoyed by the success and stresses of Jaws, and it's lengthy shoot, Spielberg started putting together the elements of Close Encounters. Working backwards from its iconic climactic sequence, the script was heavily influenced by the song 'When You Wish Upon a Star' from Walt Disney's adaptation of Pinocchio. Under the working title of Watch The Skies -which would later be referenced in the Joe Dante directed but Spielberg produced Gremlins (1984), as a film playing at a movie theatre- the film went into production in 1976. The film's final title would come from famous ufologist J.Allen Hynek, who had written a book called “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry” that detailed his three points of contact with UFO's. The First Kind: A sighting of one or more UFO's. The Second Kind: Observation of physical evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation. The Third Kind: Contact with one or more extra-terrestrials.
Casting wise, Richard Dreyfuss got wind of what Spielberg was up to as his next project during the shooting of Jaws and campaigned to play the lead role of Roy Neary. Spielberg later conceded that Dreyfuss was perfect for the character as he was "a bigger child than his own children" which perfectly fit with Roy's descent into total obsession with the imagery he sees after his close encounter. One of Spielberg's great celluloid heroes, François Truffaut, plays the role of Lacombe, the French scientist entrusted with extra-terrestrial activities in the United States. Truffaut was ably supported by a young Bob Balaban as his interpreter and by sparse appearances from Lance Henriksen. The crucial roles of a mother called Jillian and her young son Barry are portrayed by Melinda Dillon and Gary Guffey. More so than Neary's own family unit -a post-Young FrankensteinTeri Garr portrayed Ronnie Neary, Roy's wife- these two would act as kindred spirits for Roy's journey in the film.
The journey Roy takes is fascinating and there are numerous interpretations one could read into it. The concept of him being obsessed and plagued by visions of what would eventually be Devil's Tower- the point of contact for the extra-terrestrial life-forms- is one almost of religious enlightenment. Roy is given the clues by an other-worldly force and is possessed enough to follow this whim, to the complete detriment and abandonment of his family unit and earthly responsibilities. Spielberg has since admitted -not being a father at the time of creating this picture- that he regrets the way that Roy takes himself away from his family. But in a spiritualist reading of the events, with him ascending to another world or reality at the end, is there any other way it could have happened? Similarly, Jillian is led to Devil's Tower after the abduction of her son Barry, via perhaps the film's most iconic sequence where bathed in bright light and the possession of a variety of household appliances, he opens the door to them. She is plagued by the exact same visions. The breath-taking cinematography of Close Encounters would win cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond an Oscar and it's likely that this sequence was at the forefront of voters' minds.
There is the nature of these visions too. When Roy starts to have them, he initially draws them. This quickly expands to creating models out of his children's train sets and his food until, in the last straw for his confused and terrified family, he erratically starts taking elements of the outside world in to build Devil's Tower. Shovels full of dirt and fences are thrown in through the window. He himself is almost about to give in when, either in a coincidence or divine intervention, he sees the location on television as a decoy story the government are running to protect their own investigation, which has also led to Devil's Tower. When he begins his journey there are others alongside him trying to reach the Tower, who are also compelled to be there. Some have had an audible communication from the life-forms. This five note communication would go on to become another iconic element and was composed by John Williams, two films into his collaboration with Spielberg which continues to this day.
Another interpretation is one of film making itself. Is making a film not a series of visual ideas that require drawing or constructing before being let loose in reality? Was Spielberg reflecting on the whole creative process? It's an interesting thought.
The idea of the participants in the event being challenged and exerting themselves to be there creates a great tension in proceedings that is then magically lifted with the arrival of the mothership. Infamously, Spielberg and his editor Michael Kahn have reflected that the last 35 minutes of this film were the hardest they have ever had to cut together and Spielberg was not satisfied with his final cut upon its release in November 1977 -Columbia's financial woes leading to pressure for getting the film out there. Kahn would go on to edit every film Spielberg has directed since.
The sequence concludes with Neary stepping onto the mothership and disappearing off into space with it, beginning a new life. With the release of the special edition in 1980, thanks to the massive box office success of the picture, audiences got a glimpse inside that mothership. Spielberg's dissatisfaction with the original cut leading Columbia to let him add some sequences in, as long as they had something massive to promote a re-release with -hence the addition of that moment. He has since admitted to regretting adding it, believing it to be the province of the audience's imagination as to what the interior should look like. It's telling that for the 1998 Collector's edition version of the movie, he kept most of the other changes and excised that sequence leading to his definitive directors cut.
With its financial success, the picture kept Columbia from going under, but more importantly it firmly established Steven Spielberg's cinematic manifesto. More so than Jaws, this is the escapist child-eyed imagery that would later be complemented by E.T. – The Extra-terrestrial and Jurassic Park. The eyes of a dreamer who could express his heartfelt emotions via dazzling effects sequences and technically superior compositions. Forty years on from it's theatrical release –let's not forget, in the same year as George Lucas's Star Wars, which gave us a completely different science-fiction story to be dazzled with- the film retains all of its power and despite the protesting of its inaugurator, is as near perfect and as cerebral as some of the greatest of science-fiction classics.
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Pharaohs of Egypt as Alien Hybrids: Truth or Myth?
Pharaohs of Egypt as Alien Hybrids: Truth or Myth?
There are wall paintings and petroglyphs from every corner of the earth that seem to indicate we have had visitors from other worlds. Who were they? The old inscriptions depict aliens with halos around their heads and appear to be trying to show something from other worlds. There has also been much talk about alien species being responsible for the pyramids. At first, it was a believed to be a myth, but now, it is more than that. According to the latest and modernized genetic studies, Egyptian Pharaohs were the subject to genetic manipulation through an advanced Alien civilization. The conclusions were discussed because it appears like the builders and designers of these pyramids had a strong connection with ET beings. Of course, these ET beings were originated far away.
While the media is silent about this discovery, it is still a massive game changer for human existence. As stated in the history, if Stuart Fleischmann’s 7-year study of the genomes of 9 Pharaohs were proven correct, then the world’s history books should be changed, and humans should be ready to accept the new understanding of the Universe. The research started when Fleischmann and the scientists submitted the ancient DNA to Polymerse Chain Reaction. In this field, the technique is used to amplify and replicate a single piece of DNA, which provides researchers a clearer picture of a genetic fingerprint.
After the initial test, eight of nine samples had interesting results. Akhenaten, who belonged to the 14th century BC Pharaoh and the father of Tutankhamun, is the ninth example. It was a small fragment of brain tissue at first and was then repeated by bone tissue. With regards to the overall findings, none of the results came back to normal. With all the scientific explanation, it is clear that the Pyramids were not created by stones, water, and sand, but are made by advanced ET Beings.
Scientists and conspiracy theorists may fight even with the small details due to the opposing viewpoints. Whether you believe the existence of extraterrestrial beings or not, experts came to design to dig at the mysterious and confusing accounts of alien sightings and abduction.
The 22-year old Frederick Valentich disappeared while training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft in Australia on 21 October 1978. According to Valentich, he could see a huge unknown vessel has four bright landing lights. He cannot confirm the type, but said it passed 1,000 feet overhead at a high speed. However, as soon as he stated that it is not an aircraft, he disappeared. His disappearance coincided with the sighting report.
Travis Walton is an American logger who was abducted by an alien on November 5, 1975 while working with a logging crew in Arizona. After five days of working, Walton reappeared. Before his abduction, he and his crew saw a massive golden disc flying shining brightly. The men reported that Walton was below the object when the vessel wobble from side to side, and everything disappeared. UFO historian writes that abduction reports have generated much controversy.
Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who were abducted by aliens in New Hampshire from September 19, 1961, up to September 20, 1961. The Hills were driving to Portsmouth and observed a bright light in the sky. Betty found a “bizarre-shaped” craft flashing the multi-colored lights travelling across the face of the moon.
A Positive Note from John Salter Jr John Salter Jr has a different view of an alien abduction. The sociology professor was driving in Wisconsin when he had an encounter with the “friendly” aliens. He claims that they were all gripped by amnesia. After regaining consciousness, the humanoid creatures were led away.
There are more registered UFO sightings than you believed them to be, at the same time debunkers are accompanying them.
ALIEN FLYING SAUCER? Could 1950 black and white 'best ever UFO pic' actually be real?
ALIEN FLYING SAUCER? Could 1950 black and white 'best ever UFO pic' actually be real?
IN THE age of digital telescopic zooms and phone cameras there are now more so-called UFO pictures and videos captured around the globe than ever before.
But despite the advances in technology, most images are arguably still blurred or grainy at best.
Some still say that the best ever UFO caught on camera was one of the first - an image which was shot 67 years ago.
Just two snaps were taken of the "flying saucer" Evelyn and Paul Trent claimed to see as it flew passed their farm ranch between McMinnville and Sheridan in Yamhill County, Oregon, USA.
All those years on and many still believe these were genuine pictures caught on a simple Kodak camera, although last year there were a number of claims saying it was a hoax using a truck wing mirror as the spacecraft.
One who believes it could be a real flying saucer caught on camera is Russ Calaghan.
The UFO researcher made the claim at a UFO conference in Hull on Saturday.
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Taken in 2008, this UFO image is in colour and impressive, but fairly grainy
He told the 70 Year Anniversary of the Modern UFO Era event: "The Trent photographs are one of the most plausible.
"Some people say you can see the cable dangling from the wire or that the light is different in the two pictures and the sun is in the wrong place.
"But, if you zoom in I can see no cable.
"And it looks pretty cloudy in this one, so I can see no sun - look at the close up - that, to all intents and purposes, is a flying saucer."
UFO mania began in the US in june 1947 when a salesman from Boise in a small plane near Mount Rainier, Washington, said "nine shiny objects" were "flying at high speed near his plane".
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The other snap by Trent is less clear and some say shows the part of the mirror that would have atta
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Paul trent photographed at his farm in 1950
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A close up of the 'UFO' in first snap also appears to show what could be connector of wing mirror
A month later an Air Force colonel revealed the 509th Bomb Group had captured a downed flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico, with an alien crew.
His report was denied by superiors the next day who said it was a crashed weather balloon, but the Roswell incident took UFO sightings off the scale.
So did the Trents just pull off a fantastic hoax off the back of the craze that started three years earlier, or was this one of or the first UFO ever snapped?
Their story was that on May 11 1950 in the evening, Evelyn Trent walked back toward the house and saw a "flying metallic disc" moving towards her.
She ran to get husband Paul who grabbed the Kodac and took two photos, before it flew off.
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The local newspaper splash after the Trents first revealed their pictures
There was no motor, no sound, just the wind. We have been bugged an awful lot.
Evelyn Trent, 1950 UFO witness
After being developed and shown to a friend, the pictures made the front page of their local paper, the Telephone Register, then the story went national, on TV, and later worldwide.
The Trents became celebrities for a time and were flown to New York to appear on TV. They loaned the photo negatives to the international News Service, whi
the late couple were reportedly never paid for the pictures, and although there were some inconsistencies in their recounting, pretty much stuck to the original account.
The pictures have been analysed ever since with some researchers claiming they must be genuine and others believing they were hoaxed using a hubcap hanging from wire from the telphone line.ch circulated them worldwide, according to Oreganlive.com.
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Evelyn Trent and the couple's son at their home
In 1997, the Trents were interviewed by Bryan Denson of The Oregonian for a 50th anniversary piece and Mrs Trent said the craft made no sound, but a wind descended from the saucer.
She also claimed they had been "bugged" since the sighting.
In September last year, a number of UFO sites ran a theory that the Trents had photographed a wing mirror from Mr Trent's truck hanging from the washing line to create the UFO effect.
One report on the badufos.blogsot even produced claims to have found a police record of Mr Trent getting a ticket for having a missing side mirror at 6.30pm the day the photo was taken.
The object appears to expand and contract as it hovers above Bracknell in Berkshire – not the first time the small town has seen unexplainable phenomena
Father-of-one Bob Wise, 49, could not believe his eyes when he filmed the UFO last week.
Wise, a carer who claims to have seen around 15 UFOs, said: "It was really bright and moving slowly."
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WEIRD: A glowing light appeared in the sky above Bracknell in Berkshire
“People laugh at me but things are happening up there”
Bob Wise
"The way it glowed reminded me of burning magnesium.”
He isn’t sure what the object was – though he theorised it may be extraterrestrial or a Government experiment.
Wise added: “I’m open to the possibility that there might be a secret military base nearby.
"The military could be 60 or 70 years ahead in terms of technology," he continued.
"I'm always on the look out because it so fascinating.
"Every time I walk to the shop I stare up at the sky – people laugh at me but things are happening up there."
Bracknell has seen a number of high profile UFO sightings over the years.
In 2013, a pilot was flying 34,000ft over the town when he saw a "bright silver, rugby-ball shaped" craft hurtling towards him.
Photos were taken from the ground of mystery objects after the incident.
On Friday, Cassini will vaporize itself in Saturn's skies.
The Cassini orbiter is ready to die. Nearly 20 years after it departed Earth, and 13 years after it arrived at Saturn, the workhorse spacecraft is nearly spent. Its fate was orbitally sealed on Monday, when it flew by Titan, Saturn's largest moon, for one last gravity assist. Mission leads dubbed this Cassini's "goodbye kiss."
It was also a kiss of death, as Titan swung Cassini towards its final destination. On Friday at around 6:32 AM ET, the spacecraft will plunge into the ringed gas giant. It will radio back data for as long as possible, capturing a taste of Saturn's atmosphere and the closest visuals of the planet humankind has ever witnessed, before it meteorically vaporizes in the skies, a dramatic end to its tenure as the most productive interplanetary orbiter in decades.
"There isn't anything like Cassini," Jonathan Lunine, a planetary scientist who has worked on Cassini-Huygens from its inception, told me at his Cornell University office in Ithaca, New York. "Now, it's going to be in my mental rearview mirror. It's going to be a strange feeling."
Saturn has beckoned to countless generations of skywatchers, including the orbiter's namesake, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712). Radially, the planet is around nine times larger than our own, and is extremely voluminous, containing enough space to fit over 700 Earths inside it.
It's no wonder that this exotic system has captivated so many people across history, but its far-flung location has been a major roadblock in studying it. Saturn's distance from our planet fluctuates between 1.2 billion kilometers (746 million miles) and 1.7 billion kilometers (one billion miles) at its farthest, which makes Cassini's epic seven-year trek to the system that much more impressive.
Arrow pointing to view of Earth from Saturn (a 2013 Cassini image).
As a joint project between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Cassini-Huygens mission also has a special legacy as one of the most successful collaborations in space exploration history.
Harnessing the talents of thousands of experts across the world over a timespan of 35 years—from its beginnings in 1982, when the mission was formally conceived, through its launch in 1997, to Friday's self-destruction—Cassini is a multinational and multigenerational labor of love. People have understandably grown attached to this spacefarer, and that personal connection shines through when they speak about it.
"It's really a sad feeling," Nicolas Altobelli, who began working on the mission as a graduate student in 2000, and is now the ESA project scientist for Cassini-Huygens, told me over Skype from Madrid, Spain.
"Cassini has been with me for all my professional life so far," he said. "It's very weird to think that Cassini will not be there somewhere in the sky."
Cassini has undeniably earned its retirement. During its trailblazing adventures, the spacecraft discovered several Saturnian moons, witnessed a rare storm rage in the planet's northern hemisphere, directly sampled the watery plumes of the potentially habitable world Enceladus, collected grains of interstellar dust, and delivered the Huygens lander to Titan's otherworldly surface, sticking the first planetary landing ever achieved in the outer solar system.
In addition to racking up these stunning milestones, the orbiter has snapped around 400,000 pictures of the Saturn system, including breathtaking views of Earth from its distant vantagepoint. It has relayed back terabytes of data about its adopted home, revolutionized our understanding of Saturn, and raised a fresh slate of intriguing mysteries that will have to be resolved by its successors.
Cassini kicked its reputation up a notch during its "Grand Finale," which refers to its 22 "daring dives" between Saturn and its ring system during the past five months.
Titan has been one of Cassini's priorities during this last act. This strange moon, which is slightly larger than Mercury, shares a particularly special relationship with the orbiter. Hidden under a veil of atmospheric haze, Titan has been the source of intense curiosity since its discovery by the Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens in 1655. Voyager 1 imaged Titan up close in 1980, and determined the composition, temperature, and density of its atmosphere, which sparked theories that liquid hydrocarbons might be under the moon's cloudy skies. ESA and NASA were inspired to partner Cassini with a lander to expose the tantalizing landscape on the surface.
The result was the ESA-led Huygens lander, which hitched a ride with Cassini to Saturn. After separating from the orbiter in December 2004, Huygens entered Titan's thick atmosphere and successfully parachuted to the ground on January 15, 2005.
Lunine, an expert on Titan, worked on Huygens, and served as the co-investigator of the probe's Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer instrument, which catalogued the composition of the moon's atmosphere. When Huygens' descent snapshots began to arrive back at Earth, he was with the imaging team at ESA's Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany. The portrait Huygens painted of its final destination was "spectacular," Lunine said, somehow both strikingly alien and eerily familiar.
"The images were unworldly; they were like Earth in terms of certain features. Then, in other ways, they didn't look at all like Earth," he recalled. "We saw gullies in the side of a hill that looked like they had definitely been carved by [liquid methane] rainfall."
These unique features, in tandem with Titan's rich organic chemistry, have sparked debates over its potential habitability. No life has been detected there, but then again, Cassini-Huygens was not specifically equipped to assess habitability of any of the other worlds it explored.
Given the adventures that Titan and Cassini have shared, it's fitting that the moon was responsible for tugging the orbiter into its Grand Finale victory lap back in April, before pushing it toward its grave this week.
Titan is not the only Saturnian moon that has divulged its secrets to Cassini. Enceladus, a walnut-shaped oddball measuring only 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter, was also thrown into sharp focus. Several close Cassini flybys revealed that the moon was spewing the contents of a subsurface liquid ocean from icy surface cracks, literally spilling its guts out to the solar system.
"Of equal import to what we've learned about Titan is what we've learned about Enceladus," Lunine said. "Before Cassini arrived at Saturn, it was clear Enceladus was peculiar, but we didn't know there was a plume."
Enceladus was a major research target for Cassini from the start, but the surprise discovery of the plume in 2005 left mission leads brainstorming ways to directly sample these jets of moon juice. Cassini got to pull off this maneuver on October 28, 2015, diving through the moon's sprinkler at an altitude of only 50 kilometers (30 miles) above the surface, and collecting a spray of alien ocean particles.
"What we have seen fantastically demonstrated by Cassini is that those icy moons are able to be geologically active," Altobelli told me. For instance, an April 2017 study co-authored by Lunine and published in Science detected molecular hydrogen and silicates in the plume, which means that the moon is likely to be hydrothermally active. On Earth, hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor support thriving communities of life, so it's plausible that Enceladus has its own biology too.
"It's a very Earthlike environment that could, for all we know, support life," Lunine said.
The prospect of alien inhabitants in the Saturn system is the reason why Cassini must die, as mission leads do not want to risk the spacecraft colliding with worlds that could be contaminated by Earth microbes. So for now, Enceladus' habitability remains an open question to be resolved by future spacecraft, such as the proposed mission Enceladus Life Finder (ELF).
Beyond these exciting revelations about Titan and Enceladus, Cassini provided unprecedented visuals of the known worlds Phoebe, Iapetus, Rhea, Hyperion, and Dione, and discovered six tiny moons called Methone, Pallene, Polydeuces, Daphnis, Anthe, and Aegaeon.
It also used its Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) tool to trap submillimeter dust grains from the interstellar medium. These small particles, primarily composed of calcium, carbon, iron, magnesium, silicon, and sulfur, are direct samples of this extrasolar void, sifted from the abundance of icy particles produced by the Saturn system. As interstellar interlopers, they can be mined for clues about the broader environment from which the solar system was born some 4.5 billion years ago.
"It is the end of a human adventure"
"It's exactly like a deep space survey with a telescope, except instead of photons we are getting dust particles," Altobelli, who is a member of the CDA team, told me. "You get the end product of millions of years of processing in the interstellar medium."
The scope of Cassini's mission ranged from capturing particles smaller than red blood cells to mapping out planetary-scale atmospheric dynamics to testing the general theory of relativity that governs the known universe. Cassini took wide shots and close-ups across several wavelengths and from wildly different angles. It constrained, and in some cases solved, long-debated theories about Saturn and the solar system. It has intimately studied the planet's rings, and during its final months, it captured the view between this icy belt and the gas giant for the first time.
Perhaps most importantly, Cassini made a powerful case to further explore Saturn and its dazzling satellites, and address this system's copious unsolved mysteries. Unfortunately, due to budget constraints and changing cultures at NASA and ESA, there's no project of this scale on the horizon to follow up on Cassini's efforts.
"This whole legacy of understanding Saturn to a much greater depth than before actually leads us to a dilemma," Lunine said. "If we want to address all the exciting things that Cassini has discovered, we need a super-orbiter system." Think: Life-sniffing probes to fly through Enceladus' plume, boats and aerial vehicles for Titan, and other accoutrements.
But the next generation of Saturn missions is more likely to be deployed piecemeal to study specific objectives, each one with a budget of under $1 billion (Cassini-Huygens cost about $3.26 billion). Several of these concepts focus on exploration of Enceladus' plumes and Titan's lakes, including Lunine's projects ELF and the aquatic vehicle Titan Mare Explorer (TiME). Other scientists have proposed Titan drones and Saturn atmospheric entry probes.
Many of these proposed missions have been selected for development by NASA, but as of now, they still remain in administrative limbo.
NASA and ESA have sketched out broad details of a possible Cassini-Huygens successor called the Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM) that would bundle a Titan aerial balloon and the TiME boat concept in with a new Saturn orbiter. But that project is now on hiatus, ousted by a preference for visiting Jupiter and its own icy moons, including Europa. For now, NASA's public manifest of planned Saturn missions remains sadly empty.
The uncertain future for Saturnian exploration underscores the singular adventure of Cassini-Huygens. Though this trusty orbiter will cease to exist Friday, the years it spent exploring the Saturn system are etched in its dispatches.
"This is really something people should know," Altobelli said, "that these missions are selected for delivering data that can be preserved for future generations. Most of the Cassini data has already been archived. This provides the possibility for anyone in the world to access the data and analyze them." While Cassini will no longer be relaying back information every day, its scientific legacy is far from over.
Moreover, there is a prismatic range of ways to consume, interpret, and represent Cassini's motherlode of data that transcend science. Take the work of Matt Russo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, who specializes in converting the resonances of astronomical systems into musical compositions. Inspired by the Grand Finale, he produced scores based on Cassini's trajectory and its observations of Saturn's rings and moons.
"Saturn is just jam-packed with resonances," Russo told me over the phone. "Within the ring system, you have every resonance you could want with any of the moons. It's really the most musical object in the solar system."
Such interdisciplinary revelations mined from Cassini will continue, and that is some consolation to the international network of people who are about to lose the emissary they raised through a rocky bureaucratic infancy, blasted into deep space, and guided through an eventful expedition that ended in its atmospheric cremation.
"This, in some ways, looks almost like a one-of-a-kind thing," Lunine said, "because Cassini has had a much more intimate collaboration than other missions. Every instrument on both the probe and the orbiter was an international collaboration between the US and a European country."
"I hate to think it was a fluke," he continued. "But it was a great example of how, by working together with Europe, the US could do something greater."
The sense of gratitude is echoed by team members from around the world.
"It is the end of a human adventure," Altobelli said. "This type of project, where you have so many people trying to get the best science from the mission—and you have to negotiate—little by little, you get a family spirit developing."
On the eve of its death, Cassini has brought people together for one final daredevil maneuver. NASA will livestream the scene at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where team members have convened for the orbiter's fatal dive.
By the time the last radio signal is received on Earth, at approximately 7:55 AM ET Friday, the orbiter will have joined its astronomer namesake as part of history, and merged with the beautiful planet it has come to know so well.
We're not likely to hear any robotic chattering from the Saturn system for a long time, and the outer solar system will seem lonely. But Cassini-Huygens, even as a mission of the past, will be a beacon of what is possible when Earthlings work together to explore new frontiers. Goodbye and godspeed to a beloved interplanetary trooper.
In his 1952 short story, “The Martian Way,” science fiction legend Isaac Asimov imagined a future where settlers of the red planet, cut off from Earth’s water supply by an oppressive government, travel to the rings of Saturn to get their hands on precious ice.
As with any sci-fi written more than six decades ago, there are plenty of details we now know are inaccurate, and for a long time it looked like Asimov had erred when his settlers considered all their watery options. Vesta, the second-largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is described in the story as “a two-hundred-mile-diameter asteroid that’s hardly more than a chunk of ice,” very different from the arid space rock astronomers long took it to be.
Now, thanks to the latest round of results from NASA’s Dawn mission, we have learned Asimov was right about Vesta all along. As researchers at the University of Southern California write in Tuesday’s Nature Communications, the probe discovered unusually large smooth regions on the otherwise craggy asteroids. The researchers linked these with higher hydrogen concentrations, which in turn strongly suggest the presence of ground ice on Vesta.
“It was believed to be a dry body,” NASA researcher Essam Heggy, Ph.D. tells Inverse, saying previous evidence for water on Vesta had, at best, been ambiguous. Dawn’s findings erase those ambiguities. It’s just the latest of many findings in recent years showing that water and ice are damn near everywhere in the solar system, adding Vesta to a list that already includes Mars, the moons Europa and Enceladus, and its fellow asteroid Ceres.
“The more we search, the more we find ice and water in the solar system,” says Heggy, “and the more we realize water is not unique to our planet.”
The extent of Vesta's smooth, possibly hydrogen-rich areas
The presence of ice in the asteroid belt is especially intriguing, as collisions between asteroids can knock them out of their orbits and send them hurtling elsewhere in the solar system. Heggy says comets are already known to be a major transporter of water molecules through the solar systems. Asteroids might well have also played a role in distributing water, though he says it’s too early to speculate on what role they might have played in shaping Earth’s supply of water in the primordial solar system.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited Vesta in 2011-12, and it has since moved on to Ceres. Even half a decade later, researchers are able to pull new observations from the Dawn data that would be impossible to replicate here on Earth.
“There are Earth-based radar observations of the asteroid system, but the Dawn spacecraft was able to explore the roughness on the surface of Vesta at much better resolution than we could do from the Earth,” says Heggy. “And that’s how we were able to distinguish the presence of large, smooth areas on the surface of Vesta.”
Beyond hinting at the presence of water on yet another body in the solar system, having this more precise understanding of Vesta’s surface means it’s even more possible for NASA to plan out a potential future landing on the asteroid. There might not be the same need for water that drove the explorers of “The Martian Way” to consider a trip to the icy asteroid, but this latest data suggests Vesta is very much worth seeing up close.
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