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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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28-09-2017
An interview with the author of UFOs Today – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up
An interview with the author of UFOs Today – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up
The UFO book that seems to be gathering interest and momentum at the moment is ‘UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up’ so I have taken this opportunity to interview the book’s author, Irena Scott PhD. 2017 will see the 70th anniversary of flying saucers and debate has raged on ever since and there seems no sign of it stopping anytime soon.
PM: Please tell us something about your background. Who is Irena Scott PhD?
I have a PhD, have had a professorship and have worked in scientific research for most of my life. My life began on an Ohio farm. We lived under quite primitive conditions, such as farming with horses. This background enables me to consider things from both a heartland farmer and a scientific viewpoint. Despite our lack of books and media, I became interested in astronomy at a very young age. I worked my way through college with an astronomy major, but found that I couldn’t be employed in that field because it was male-only in those days (which also enabled me to see scientists as less logical than normally presented). So, I went into one of the closest fields that females were allowed in, satellite photography. I worked at the Aerospace Center in St. Louis, Missouri, where they sent me to six months of cartography school, which was equal to a master’s degree. I later transferred to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington D.C. in the field of photointerpretation and photogrammetry. Here I received some of the highest clearances in the government and learned not only about this field, but also government secrecy and cover-up, and now think the government has much more ability to cover-up than people expect.
Later I married and moved to Nevada, because my husband had a position there after a previous position that included working in Area 51. I began working for the University of Nevada, earned free tuition, and later transferred and received a PhD from the University of Missouri School of Veterinary Medicine in physiology (a combination of chemistry and biology). After doing post-doctoral research at Cornell University, I became an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University. Other positions included research and teaching at The Ohio State University, the University of Missouri, and at Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle). I have also been a volunteer astronomer at the former Ohio State University Radio Observatory, been stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), and have taken flying lessons.
I have a variety of publications including books, research published in scientific journals, and in newspapers and magazines–such as having been a correspondent for Popular Mechanics magazine with byline articles and photographs in the science and technology sections. My listings as a scientist include: Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in the Midwest, and Who’s Who in Frontier Science and Technology. One of my recent books, Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue published by the Purdue University Press, is on a historical subject.
In the 1990s, I joined several UFO groups. I served on the MUFON Board of Directors (1993 to 2000), was a MUFON consultant in physiology and astronomy and a field investigator for both MUFON and the Center for UFO Studies. I co-edited eight MUFON symposium proceedings, have been a State Section Director for Ohio MUFON, was a founding member of the Mid-Ohio Research Associates (MORA) and its journal editor, and have published UFO material in books and magazines–including scientific journals. As an investigator, I conducted many studies and in these I met numerous fascinating people with amazing accounts.
PM: How and when did you first become interested in the UFO phenomenon?
I have always slightly paid attention to the subject because of a number of events that happened in my family from an early time. For one example, an aunt in West Virginia would write letters to my mother describing UFO events. Some events happened even before we had heard of UFOs–in one case, an aunt in West Virginia talked about small glowing objects that sometimes flew through their house. However my parents were conservative, Middle–American, farmers and did not allow us to even speak about the subject, thus, any interest was repressed. This made me a little sensitive to the idea of government cover-up, also.
I was also quite fortunate in the places I lived – such as Ohio, Nevada, and Washington DC – have been heavily involved in the UFO scene. For example, in Ohio are WPAFB and Battelle where the best-known studies took place. The DIA has been important in UFO study and some think that is the agency that began to investigate UFOs after Project Blue Book was closed.
PM: Have you ever had a personal UFO sighting at all?
Several events have drawn my attention. For one, I sometimes visited people who lived in the Davis Mountains in Texas that overlooked Marfa, which is known for the Marfa Lights. One night I saw and videotaped for about half an hour a large bright light over the town of Marfa that would turn on and off. Later I called the airport and they had nothing to report, but they would have been closed that late at night.
In another instance, while living in Missouri, my Mother in Ohio called to ask if I had just heard a strange sound. I thought this was quite odd and asked if my parents had just developed dementia. Later when I moved back to Ohio, I found information about this October 11, 1973 event. Not only had there been a strange noise, but a sudden wave of UFO reports happening at the same time. With the help of the State of Ohio seismologist Mike Hansen, I studied the noise. It was extremely widespread and much larger than a sonic boom or similar event. I was able to publish information about this sound in a peer-reviewed scientific journal (“Investigation of a Sound Heard over a Wide Area,” Ohio Journal Science 87(2), 1987: 11). I still don’t know what caused the sound. I also wondered why my parents had the strange mental reaction to it and wondered if others did.
PM: Has being an academic helped you in your research of the UFO phenomenon?
Yes, for example a Battelle co-worker and I were the first to show smoking gun evidence that UFO materials research may have taken place there. I also make some smoking gun discoveries while working in other places, for example at the DIA and at WPAFB. Being in the scientific field has made this possible. I worked in several of the institutions that were the most involved in UFO research, the DIA, Battelle, and WPAFB.
Being an academic has helped me in other ways. For example, I have been able to publish pieces about UFOs in scientific journals, and think this helps to establish the credibility of UFO study. I’ve spent much time interviewing not only witnesses, but people at random. In one case, after a sighting had been reported in the newspapers, I began to interview other people in that general location and published the results, “Survey of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Reports in Delaware County, Ohio.” Ohio Journal of Science 87.1 (1987): 24-26. One impressive result was that there appeared to be many more possible sightings than reports. Unfortunately, because of the difficulty of reporting these events, UFOlogy has been slow to advance and is still the subject of ridicule.
In addition, having training in statistics and experimental methods, I am able to evaluate the scientific experiments that have been done. It has helped me in interviewing witnesses, because I can ask questions that might be useful in scientific understanding. It makes me more aware of what might be called hard evidence and how to collect it, also.
PM: Could you explain how your new book UFOs TODAY first came about.
I joined several UFO groups in the 1990s and began to investigate sightings. I also became an editor of such publications as the MUFON symposium proceedings, and a local publication, the Ohio UFO Notebook. My field investigations gave me more of a perspective on UFOlogy than I would have from simply reading books. I discovered that the sightings that contained the most detail, often did not necessarily match the general idea of flying saucers as disc shaped craft. There were all kinds of unusual sightings, which along with my childhood exposure to the subject, made me think that the phenomena is much more complex than generally presented. I reported on many of these odd instances, thus, I already had them written up. Later the idea of writing a book struck me.
PM: Whilst compiling your research for your new book is there any one piece of evidence that for you really stands out?
Some of the most amazing to me have been ones that included interaction and ones such as lengthy events where authorities were notified, came, and even took part in the sightings. The authorities were often as mystified as the observers. For example, one sighting near Logan, Ohio, was of objects above a cornfield. These would blink on and off and move around. They were interactive with people. One followed a car. Authorities were notified, the event was reported on newscasts and TV, and police and other people came out to watch. Airplanes began to fly over in a grid pattern, although no one knew where they came from–the agency didn’t contact anyone. The objects remained interactive and one flew up to an airplane. A second sighting occurred the very night after another investigator and I had interviewed the witnesses.
Others have been abduction events, such as several that were linked with the October 11, 1973, sound that I investigated.
Dr. Irena Scott
(Credit: Irena Scott/Philip Mantle)
PM: What do you say to those that remain skeptical with regards to the UFO subject?
The term UFO carries considerable baggage. People generally link it with little green or gray men in space ships, or even the Loch Ness Monster. People ask each other whether they believe in it. This is because in general the idea is associated with alien visitation; people are asking whether they believe UFOs come from space. However the phenomena actually consists of many credible empirical observations such as of balls of light that can change to different forms; objects that appear and disappear, go through walls, merge and separate; and groups of lights that come together to form humanoid appearing entities. Others include objects of incredible size and speed, poltergeist-like activity, large and small UFOs, magnetic and radiation effects, abduction phenomena, thought control, and telepathy, for a few. Because of this, the phenomenon often doesn’t fit the profile of pilots and space ships, but of something vastly different from us. Such observations suggest that this data also might be investigated using different paradigms than our nuts and bolts ideas of space ships, such as by using quantum mechanical theories, or the idea that the phenomena might not be molecular as we are, or other ideas. I think new ways and different paradigms of science are needed to study it.
Another reason for the skepticism is that government has deliberately created it. Not only does it cover up, but it appears to use brainwashing techniques that produce skepticism rather than scientific examination. For example, there is some evidence that in even the very earliest reports some form of cover-up may have been active. The government has manipulated the results scientific studies, such as the one done by Battelle, to show that they found noting when in fact they did. In other cases it has set up panels that purported to scientifically examine the subject, but instead used them to debunk the phenomena, such as those of Robertson and Condon. It has actively set up debunking campaigns to plant outlandish UFO claims in the media to make UFO reports sound ridiculous. The Condon Report summary cautioned teachers to discourage any interest of pupils in UFOs, because such study would be harmful to their development. So if UFOs do not exist, how would an interest in them harm pupils and why should pupils be brainwashed? Why expend large amounts of money to lie and cover-up the phenomena, if it doesn’t exist. Such activities would certainly help the UFO phenomena by causing people to not take it seriously, thus helping it to hide its activities. In addition, UFO phenomena may be quite complex, thus one even wonders exactly what governments are covering up.
PM: In your opinion, how do we keep moving forward with UFO research?
I think numerous observations indicate this important phenomenon is much more complex that just space ships. I think it would be well to have statisticians go over the best UFO event data with the best developments in statistics to see what treads, or even significant results, can be found. I also think that as knowledge of people’s family trees and genetic studies are improving that one might search to see if there are any genetic similarities in people having sightings. Also people may not really understand what the phenomena is and that it might be much more complex that space ships from other worlds. Thus, I think that examining it for proof that we have visitors from space, or studying the propulsion systems and that sort of thing may not be as valuable as thought. For example, in both scientific experiments and in many reports there are mental aspects that are very difficult to understand. I think people need ways to study this element. I also think that people are interpreting the phenomena using Newtonian physics ideas, but need to study the possibility that the quantum theory elements may be involved in the phenomena. Other methods might be those of Dr. Harley Rutledge, who set up a study area with observing stations in an area of many sightings. His design may have resulted in the best scientific study ever done. He was even able to examine interactive behavior. Moreover, numerous reports have shown that the phenomenon is interactive, or even seems to put on a show, but witnesses in general are not directly contacted. This should also be studied.
END.
One of the most controversial aspects of this book has of course been the testimony of former US Deputy Sheriff Charles Forgus (deceased). He claims that he was a witness to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947. There is no way this can be verified of course and his testimony is simply being put into the public domain for further scrutiny. In my opinion the author is to be congratulated on treating such possibly controversial testimony in an open and honest way. Obviously efforts are continuing to try and obtain more information about Charles Forgus and his testimony with a variety of researchers involved and organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. It will be interesting to see what they uncover.
Christelijke numeroloog stelt de apocalyps uit. Het einde der tijden vindt nu op deze datum plaats in Universum 28 september 2017 19:00 11 Reacties 1,153 Bekeken
Christelijke numeroloog stelt de apocalyps uit. Het einde der tijden vindt nu op deze datum plaats
De christelijke numeroloog die suggereerde dat de wereld op 23 september zou eindigen, heeft nu gezegd dat de apocalyps is uitgesteld.
Tegenover de Washington Post verklaarde David Meade, die claimde dat een mysterieuze planeet in botsing zou komen met de aarde, dat die datum slechts het begin van de eindtijd markeert.
“De wereld eindigt niet, maar de wereld zoals we die kennen zal eindigen,” lichtte hij toe. “Een groot deel van de wereld zal rond het begin van oktober niet meer hetzelfde zijn.”
Geen toeval
Meade voorspelde dat de planeet Nibiru op 23 september op de aarde zou botsen en tot een aantal rampzalige gebeurtenissen zou leiden.
Volgens hem zijn de recente zonsverduistering in de VS en de reeks verwoestende orkanen geen toeval.
Nibiru zou 33 dagen na de totale zonsverduistering te zien zijn, aldus de numeroloog. “Ik heb het hier over astronomie, over de Bijbel,” vertelde hij aan de krant.
Teken
Een andere christelijke groep, die zichzelf Unsealed noemt, claimde dat er een ‘teken’ aan de hemel te zien zou zijn op 23 september.
Een video die de groep over dit proces maakte is al ruim vier miljoen keer bekeken.
Eind augustus zei Meade dat Nibiru tussen 20 en 23 september zichtbaar zou worden. Hij zei dat aanwijzingen hiervoor op de Egyptische piramides en in de Bijbel zijn geschreven.
15 oktober
Hij focust zich nu op een andere datum: 15 oktober 2017. “Dat is de belangrijkste datum van deze eeuw en van dit millennium,” schrijft hij op zijn website.
“Het begin van het einde start nu,” voegt hij toe. “De wereld gaat zeven jaar ellende tegemoet. Er zullen zeven jaar lang catastrofale gebeurtenissen plaatsvinden.”
“Wacht maar tot midden oktober,” klinkt het nog. “Ik denk niet dat je teleurgesteld zult zijn.”
When we think of space travel, or the exploration of the cosmos in general, we are inundated with grandeur notions of enormous spacecraft, thriving multi-planetary civilizations, and awe-inspiring extraterrestrials. Popular culture and exciting research has thus molded our perception of space into one of unbridled and relentless optimism (which I love). We see Mars and other Earth-like planets as organic cradles of life, and as we get lost in the amazement of doing so, we trivialize a very difficult reality – our need to colonize and assimilate into a new world.
Being cooped up in an air-locked dome for months and eating freeze-dried food for every meal engenders immense psychological and social changes, ones which we haven’t come to fully appreciate. Thankfully for us, six brave research subjects have committed themselves to the very same reality; they spent eight months in isolation in a Mars-like habitat to better understand the long-term psychological impacts of a manned mission to the red planet. What did they eat? How did they live with each other? How did they retain their sanity? Was it eight months of hell? What follows is a fairly unorthodox set of human experiences, but one that fully underscores the importance of space travel’s most unappreciated dimension.
The crew of four men and two women was quarantined below the summit of the Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano. They left their dome in space suits, and all communications were purposefully delayed by 20 minutes – the time/signal delay between Earth and Mars. Moreover, their outfits were laced with sensors to track proximity to others and noise levels. Most importantly, however, their purpose extended beyond the geological studies to simply gauge whether or not it was possible to maintain a self-sufficient habitat on Mars. During the eight months in isolation, mission biology specialist Joshua Ehrlich managed to grow vegetables, even in the hard-rock soil of the volcano’s summit.
Obviously, we are deeply limited by our capacity to re-create such a reality for the researchers. That being said, the NASA-backed project has taken every reasonable measure to do so, and across their team of biologists, tech specialists, and psychologists, they’ve formed a representative environment to conduct a traditionally disregarded type of study.
If there’s any takeaway from this research project, it’s that we now have an empirical study on the psychological implications of space exploration. Now, keep in mind that this kind of stuff isn’t new – my issue arises in the fact that we let Sci-Fi blockbusters and spaceship launch videos take precedence over these kinds of studies. We become giddy at the prospect of leaked rocket designs, but fail to make ourselves aware of Mars simulation projects that may not actually get us to the red planet, but will fully determine the longevity of a potential civilization there.
I strongly feel that if we begin to understand human interaction in limited spaces and different environments, we can center our designs for structures and technologies that will ensure our health and well-being in an exogenous civilization. This gets into a field known as HCD (Human Centered Design) that seeks to build great resources only after fully accepting the needs, sentiments, and desires of their users. These research projects help collect the data required for the creation of such intelligent designs. Ultimately, Mars simulation projects play a monumental role in the development of living structures and other survival technologies that will come to define the length of our stay away from Earth, and we should revere the purveyors of such studies just as much as those who are building machines to help get us there.
'We are emphasizing the essentials of math and physics'
galaxy
Perhaps they just came up woefully empty in their search here on Earth, but scientists are hunting for intelligent life in outer space – and they plan to begin sending messages to aliens in 2018.
While astronomers have long scanned the stars with radio telescopes, hoping to detect some life form in the great beyond, alien hunters in a network known as Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, are ready to take the search to the next level.
Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International
By chatting with aliens, of course.
Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, is leading a research group that’s determined to send messages to extraterrestrials.
Vakoch’s team has faced opposition from some in the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, community. In February 2015, 28 top SETI scientists published a letter warning of the dangers of reaching out to alien life forms.
“Intentionally signaling other civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy raises concerns from all the people of Earth, about both the message and the consequences of contact,” the 28 scientists wrote. “A worldwide scientific, political and humanitarian discussion must occur before any message is sent.”
Specifically, the scientists are concerned that:
An alien’s “reaction to a message from Earth cannot presently be known.” Earthlings know nothing about the space inhabitants, their intentions, their capabilities or whether they’re benign or hostile.
Because Earthlings are so far behind when it comes to space communications, “it is likely that other communicative civilizations we encounter will be millions of years more advanced than us.”
The scientists worry that Earthlings are still decades away from “creating a comprehensive search for radio signals similar to those produced by our own technology. They warn, “As a newly emerging technological species, it is prudent to listen before we shout.”
They say nearby advanced space inhabitants may have already detected Earth’s radio transmissions, “such detections are far more difficult than detecting a focused radio or optical signal sent from a large telescope.”
In fact, they argue, it’s not even necessary to send powerful electromagnetic signals into space to study interstellar communication or develop a plan to respond to alien messages sent to Earth.
Finally, they warn, “Opponents of METI would vocally condemn METI transmissions, confusing the public about, and imperiling funding for, bona fide scientific endeavors related to extraterrestrial life.”
E.T.
But Vakoch and his team of METI researchers aren’t too concerned with the warnings.
“One of the reasons people are so afraid of METI is that it seems riskier to do something than to do nothing,” Vakoch told CNet’s Daniel Oberhaus. “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.”
Both the SETI and METI communities agree that any language transmitted to aliens should be rooted in math and science.
Yoda in ‘Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith’
“Some of the most prominent messages of the past have tried to cover everything,” Vakoch told CNet. “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. For our first messages, we are emphasizing the essentials of math and physics.”
The METI International team will begin by blasting the messages to nearby stars, particularly ones that have planets in habitable zones.
Vakoch told the site his team is determined to learn how to communicate with aliens so Earthlings aren’t left in the dark once the space beings try to talk to us.
Sigourney Weaver in ‘Alien’
“Many of our most severe problems on Earth today are due to a focus on immediate gratification,” Vakoch said. “If future generations of SETI researchers are looking for replies to today’s transmissions, committed to a multigenerational scientific project, the very act of continuing to look will be a success in itself, whether or not they ever find life out there.”
The news of the scientists’ 2018 transmissions sparked dozens of online comments, including the following:
This will not end well for Earth.
Yeah, I’m thinking that is a bad idea. We are going to get our a–es handed to us if anyone comes.
This is akin to the Mayans or the Aztecs sending an invitational message to Spain.
Threat of nuclear war, religious terror, racial strife, arguments over climate change, globalism vs. nationalism … The message: We still need a few years to figure out our own s–t, K?
Yes, let’s send them messages right away. Give the death star something to home in on.
Bad idea. We should passively listen until we know what we are dealing with. If aliens are anything similar to humans, things may turn bad. Throughout history, what have humans done when new lands were discovered? We conquer and pillage the land from the indigenous (less advanced) people. Advertising our whereabouts is not smart in an unknown universe.
Lack of signs? Maybe there has been an old, old master race eradicating civilizations once they are discovered so it doesn’t have to share the cosmos. … Selfishians.
Unfortunately, the transmission will be received by the XzgyddllIax, a binary race, which will read only the null values in the transmission, and interpret it to read, “Eat Us! We’re chewy on outside with delectable crunchy center.”
How the Dawn Space Mission Unveiled the Asteroid Belt
How the Dawn Space Mission Unveiled the Asteroid Belt
Happy launch-iversary, Dawn.
Dawn Science Team/NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC
By Marc D Rayman, NASA
More than a thousand times farther from Earth than the moon, farther even than the sun, an extraordinary extraterrestrial expedition is taking place. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is exploring dwarf planet Ceres, which orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The probe has just reached the closest point it ever will, and is now beginning to collect its most detailed pictures and other measurements on this distant orb.
Ceres is a remnant from the dawn of our solar system nearly 4.6 billion years ago. All the data Dawn is now sending back will provide insight into Ceres' history and geology, including the presence of water, past or present. Scientists believe that by studying Ceres, we can unlock some of the secrets of the epoch in which planets, including our own, formed.
But this mission isn't only for scientists. Discovering the nature of an uncharted world is a thrill that can be shared by anyone who has ever gazed up at the night sky in wonder, been curious about the universe and Earth's place in it, or felt the lure of a bold adventure into the unknown.
I happen to fall into all those categories. I fell in love with space at the age of four, and I knew by the fourth grade that I wanted to earn a doctorate in physics. (It was a few more years before I did.) My passion for the exploration of space and the grandeur of scientific discovery and understanding has never wavered. It's a dream come true for me to be the mission director and chief engineer on Dawn at JPL.
Although Ceres appeared as little more than a fuzzy blob of light amidst the stars, scientists determined that it's the behemoth of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – nearly 600 miles in diameter. Its surface area is more than a third of the area of the continental US. Before Dawn's arrival, Ceres was the largest object between the sun and Pluto that a spacecraft had not visited.
Since well before Dawn, we've had telescopic evidence that Ceres harbors water. While it's mostly in the form of ice, scientists have good reason to believe an underground ocean once circulated. The question of whether reservoirs still lurk beneath the alien surface remains open. Dawn's studies of Ceres may even provide hints about how Earth acquired its own supply of that precious liquid billions of years ago.
Dawn en route to Ceres
In 2007, we launched Dawn from Cape Canaveral, and it will never again visit its erstwhile planetary home. In 2011, it became the only spacecraft ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, devoting 14 months to scrutinizing protoplanet Vesta. Dawn showed us this second most massive resident of the belt is more closely related to the terrestrial planets (including Earth) than to the much smaller chunks of rock that are typical of asteroids.
The unique capability to travel to worlds beyond Mars, enter orbit and maneuver extensively and then depart for yet another destination is achieved with advanced ion propulsion. The technology spent much of its history in the domain of sci-fi, including Star Trek and Star Wars. (Darth Vader's TIE Fighter is named for its twin ion engines.) But what may have seemed only science fiction is science fact. Without its three ion engines (note that Dawn does the TIE Fighters one better), Dawn's mission wouldn't be possible.
The ion engines use xenon gas, a chemical cousin of helium and neon. With electrical power from Dawn's large solar panels, the xenon is given an electrical charge in a process called ionization. The engines use high voltage to accelerate the ions. They're then shot out of the engines at up to 90,000 mph. When the ions leave the spacecraft at this fantastically high speed, it's pushed in the opposite direction. Dawn's ion propulsion system is exceptionally efficient – 10 times as efficient as conventional spacecraft propulsion. It's comparable to your car getting 250 miles per gallon.
Dawn drops into Cerean orbit
Finally, after a journey of more than seven years and three billion miles, our interplanetary ambassador reached Ceres on March 6 2015, and gracefully entered the dwarf planet's permanent gravitational embrace.
Mission controllers at JPL then piloted the craft to three orbits at successively lower altitudes, so we could first obtain an overview and then gain better and better views of this vast unexplored territory. And Dawn has just performed the penultimate act in its grand celestial choreography. It's spent the last seven weeks maneuvering to its lowest altitude. Orbiting now about 240 miles above the exotic terrain of rock and ice, Dawn is closer to Ceres than the International Space Station is to Earth.
Dawn brings Ceres into focus
Included in the spacecraft's suite of sophisticated sensors is a camera that has already taken 10,000 pictures of alien landscapes on Ceres. Following from Ceres' own name, features Dawn discovers are named for agricultural deities and festivals from around the world.
We see rugged terrain and smooth areas, sometimes with streaks of material that's flowed across it. There are craters large and small, created by billions of years of assaults in the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of the asteroid belt. We see mountains and valleys, huge fissures in the ground and bright spots that glow with a mysterious luster, reflecting much more sunlight than most of the dark surface.
The most striking of these shining regions, inside the 55-mile-wide Occator Crater (named for the Roman deity of harrowing), is so bright that the Hubble Space Telescope detected a hint of it a decade ago. Dawn's pictures to date have been more than 200 times sharper than Hubble's. The images we're starting to get back now will be even better, revealing 850 times the detail that Hubble had provided.
Dawn has shown us a mountain named Ahuna Mons that towers more than 20,000 feet in an otherwise unremarkable area, comparable to the elevation of North America's tallest peak, Mt Denali. (Ahuna is a celebration of thanksgiving for the harvest among the Sumis of northeast India.) Bright streaks seem to suggest some unidentified material once flowed down the steep slopes of Ahuna Mons. While scientists have not yet determined what forces and processes shaped this conical mountain, it doesn't take a geologist to notice its resemblance to terrestrial volcanic cones. Imagine what it might have been like to witness an eruption of some strange combination of water and other chemicals on this cold, distant world.
Beyond photos, Dawn will take a great many other measurements from its new orbital perch before its mission concludes in 2016. It will measure radiation to help scientists determine what types of atoms are present on Ceres. It will use infrared light to identify the minerals on Ceres' surface. And it will gauge subtle variations in the gravitational field to reveal the interior structure of the dwarf planet.
Once the spacecraft exhausts the small supply of conventional rocket propellant it squirts through thrusters to control its orientation in the zero-gravity, frictionless conditions of spaceflight, it will no longer be able to point its solar arrays at the sun, its antenna at Earth, its sensors at Ceres or its ion engines in the direction needed to travel elsewhere. But the ship will remain in orbit around Ceres as surely as the moon remains in orbit around Earth and Earth remains in orbit around the sun. Its legacy in the history of our efforts to reach out from our humble home to touch the stars is secure. Dawn will become an inert celestial monument to humankind's creativity, ingenuity, and passion for exploring the cosmos.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here.
The little ones then stop and hold up glasses with their outstretched arms waiting for them to be filled.
But then things turn a little strange.
A spaceship , coloured like a Friesian cow , suddenly opens its port and a giant cow's udder flops out, swinging high above the children's heads.
The UFO hovers overhead with the udder hanging down(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
Viewers have asked for the advert to be changed(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
Even the children look confused(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
As the shots pans out, white milk is then shot down from the craft to the children's glasses.
The advert by Rakunoh Mother’s milk company has caused controversy in the country with many users taking to social media to express their views on the bizarre milky downpour.
One said: "This is madness!", while another added: "Shouldn’t that be pixelated when it appears onscreen?"
The advert has come in for criticism(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
The advert by Rakunoh Mother's milk company has caused controversy(Image: AsiaWire/Youtube)
Another user wrote: "That’s one long nipple right there", while another netizen joked: "I never knew this sort of thing happened in Kumamoto."
ROSWELL SHOCK: Hoax alien autopsy film 'WAS recreation of REAL ET post mortem footage'
ROSWELL SHOCK: Hoax alien autopsy film 'WAS recreation of REAL ET post mortem footage'
EXCLUSIVE: A "hoax alien autopsy" film that fooled the world in 1995 was a recreation of genuine footage of a post mortem on an extraterrestrial found at the Roswell UFO crash site, it has sensationally been claimed.
A still from the 1995 "hoax" footage - now said to have recreated a genuine video.
British businessman Ray Santilli, 58, who was responsible for distributing the hoax autopsy film, contacted Express.co.uk after we reported on the video yesterday.
Mr Santilli, who is CEO of Orbital Media Group, maintains the 1995 film is based on genuine footage.
He said: "I maintain the original film was real and as stated we restored and recreated elements of the film."
He said not everyone involved in the production of the film was aware of the alleged genuine footage, which is understood to have been discovered in Florida.
Mr Santilli said: "The team used were employed on a need to know basis and were never privy to the entire story.
"They only knew what they were commissioned to work on. The team were all the very talented and best in their field."
Yesterday, we reported on how Spyros Melaris, who was hired by Mr Santilli and film producer Gary Shoefield to make the black and white film, told his story of his involvement in a one-man West End show.
The film showed men in white coats apparently dissecting the alien, leaving UFO hunters convinced it was the smoking gun evidence they were looking for of the Roswell incident.
Truthers have been searching for proof since it was first claimed aliens crashed a flying saucer in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in July 1947 before the US Government covered up the evidence by storing the flying saucer and dead bodies in a secret military base.
It remains one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories, but to the disappointment of alien hunters the 1995 footage was later exposed as an elaborate hoax.
Mr Melaris revealed how the video was produced inside a north London flat, thousands of miles from the secret US base it was purporting to be in.
He explained how the "dead alien" in the 17-minute film, which has been viewed by millions of people across the globe, was created by a sculptor called John Humphreys, who was a special effects expert who had worked on the sets of Dr Who.
Mr Melaris said 1940s surgeons’ outfits and medical equipment were supplied from prop providers in the UK and USA.
The two pathologists were his brother and then girlfriend, he said.
Cow and lamb organs from a butcher were used to represent those of the extraterrestrial, and raspberry jelly was planned to be used for the brain, but it turned out to be "too dark".
The 16mm film was then spliced with an original Pathe newsreel of a 1947 college baseball match in Roswell to help convince experts from Kodak it could be real, he said.
Musician Mr Santilli made millions, after claiming it had been shot by a US military official after the Roswell incident, and obtained by him years later, according to Mr Melaris.
Yet, Mr Santilli insists there is an original reel the film was based upon.
Mr Santilli told Express.co.uk: "I refute the Spyros Melaris's version of his involvement in Alien Autopsy. If anything Spyros was part of a team."
Gareth Watson, who played the doctor observing the procedure in the fake footage, appears to confirm what Mr Santilli says about there being original footage that was recreated.
I maintain the original film was real and as stated we restored and recreated elements of the film.
Ray Santilli
He took part in an email question and answer session with veteran UFO researcher Philip Mantle earlier this year.
Mr Mantle asked him: "Have you anything you would like to add about the alien autopsy film hoax that perhaps you have never shared with anyone before?"
Mr Watson said: "I was led to believe there was original footage of poor quality and this was 'a recreation', not a hoax."
He went on to say that he viewed what was described as the original footage.
Mr Watson said: "I was shown by Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield a VHS copy of very grainy poor quality footage of an alleged alien autopsy.
"They decided it was not of commercial value in its current state hence the 'recreation'.
"So I left with impression that what I saw was the original footage. I have no idea where that is now or what Ray Santilli did with it.
"The original footage was of very poor quality to the point I could have been looking at the yeti."
A brother and sister alien hunting team have discovered a “UFO highway” across America along which hundreds of unexplained events have taken place - from cattle mutilations to alien abductions.
Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer have spent years travelling across the US investigating hundreds of UFO sightings and other paranormal occurrences.
It was during one cattle mutilation investigation that Chuck realised that many of the unexplained events he had looked into had taken place on the 37th latitude.
He called his sister - who noticed the same with her investigations in Missouri - and the pair began researching the phenomenon, discovering that there are clusters of unexplained events taking place across the same latitude line.
The pair believe that the 37th latitude line is a kind of UFO or paranormal “highway” along which extra terrestrial craft enter and exit the earth.
Their theory is now the subject of a book called the 37th Parallel - and is about to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster in the next few months.
Chuck told Sun Online: “Back in 2006 I was looking at my cattle mutilation investigations - there were huge similarities between them all - most of them were laying on their right side, they’re laying east to west and then I noticed that lots of them were on the 37 degree latitude.
“I called my sister at midnight and I said, ‘Didn’t you have cattle mutilations on the 37 degree latitude in Missouri?'
"And she said, 'Yes' and we started looking more into it. We soon realized it wasn’t just cattle mutilations – there were all kind of events.
"We we're up until 2:30 in the morning going through all these cases and started seeing these amazing patterns.”
The 37th latitude line runs from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.
Examples of cases along the line include the Joplin Spook Lights - unexplained balls of light that have been appearing in Hornet, Missouri since the 19th century; The Aztec, Nevada incident of 1948 when a flying saucer allegedly crashed; and Piedmont, Missouri where 500 people reported UFO sightings in 1973.
The infamous Area 51 in Nevada - and the Dulce Base - an alleged underground alien base - are also located on the line.
"For the next month or so I start looking at all these cases and I had all this data," Chuck explained.
"All these GPS co-ordinates, everything from Native American sites to underwater caves.
"I released it all on my website and I mentioned it during an appearance on the Science Channel's Unexplained Files - then for the next season of that show they asked me to expand on the theory so I did a whole episode on it for them.
"The bottom line is the 37th latitude is like a UFO highway or paranormal highway across the continent.
"We seem to think that this highway is a major highway that these crafts use - they seem to exit and enter here."
After his appearance on the Science Channel a Hollywood producer got in touch and told Chuck his theory would be a great idea for a book and movie.
The book 37th Parallel, by New York times best selling author Ben Niezrich, came out last year - and a screen play is currently being written.
"In 2015 I signed a life-rights contract with Flint Pictures - it got picked up by New Line Cinema - Warner Brothers before the book was even written - just on the idea," Chuck said.
"The book came out last year. The screen play is being written by a Hollywood screenwriter who has written movies for Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr and should be ready in the next month.
"We’ll know in October if the movie is going ahead but they already have some big name actors following the project already."
Debbie said she is now investigating what incidents have occurred on the 37th latitude around the world - particularly over water.
Athens, Greece, sits on the line - and it's also the the dividing line between North and South Korea.
Debbie has even witnessed UFOs herself on the 37th latitude after a party at her family's lake house near Farmington, Missouri - which lies on the line - last year.
"I have an app on my phone that you can use to look up and it tells you what planets and constellations are visible," she said.
"And then all of a sudden we saw four stars in a formation. They were small stars which kept getting brighter and brighter - so apparently whatever it was was coming into the atmosphere then the one on the top left hand corner shot fast, straight up, and the top right and bottom left did the same - and the bottom right one went right across the horizon.
"I spoke to other experts to see if we have any military or government projects that could do that and they said no - they had no idea what it could be."
Chuck and Debbie say they have investigated hundreds and hundreds of paranormal cases - and it's not just UFOs - the pair also investigate ghost and Bigfoot sightings.
"I get three or four people a week getting in touch with me through my website - sightings, photos and videos - I always have a backlog," Chuck said.
"We started off as crash retrieval investigators but then you gather all this equipment like geiger counters, Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF) instruments, night vision goggles and then people get in touch.
"Lots of Bigfoot sightings are associated with UFO sightings - and ghost investigations started coming up because I had all this equipment.
"We use EMF instruments to look for trace evidence to look for crafts or entities because they leave electronic signatures - well it turns out ghosts leave electronic signatures too.
"Sometimes where they have had ghost sightings the orbs they see might not be ghosts but UFOs.
It’s been almost two weeks since NASA’s Cassini spacecraft plunged itself into Saturn, becoming one with the longtime object of its fascination. While that chapter of Cassini’s mission has closed, the spacecraft left behind volumes of photos to inspire and evoke new questions, including a spellbinding final portrait of Saturn and its rings.
The image — featured Tuesday on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) — is actually a composite of 36 photos taken on September 12th, fastidiously rearranged by citizen scientist Mindaugas Macijauskas. The result shows Saturn in its most hauntingly beautiful form, as our Sun illuminates the planet’s northern hemisphere from outside the frame. According to NASA, this shadow position “cannot be imaged from Earth” and we won’t see it again until another spacecraft visits Saturn.
Feel free to drink it all in:
Cassini's final view of Saturn and its rings
While NASA hasn’t released any formal plans for another trip to the gas giant, scientists — including Cassini project manager Earl Maize — are already itching to return. Some former Cassini team members want NASA’s next sojourn in the Saturnian system to be a dedicated hunt for alien life, which would seriously up the ante on an already incredible voyage.
“We left the world informed, but still wondering, and I couldn’t ask for more,” Maize said at a press conference on September 13, just before mission end. “We’ve got to go back — we know it.”
While Saturn might not be as thicc as its celestial neighbor Jupiter, the gas giant remains a cornucopia of unsolved mystery. We still don’t know how oldits famous rings are, or how long a day on the planet actually is. But perhaps the most often-overlooked Saturnian mystery is that it has been secretly harboring “kittens” in its F Ring, according to data from NASA’s Cassini.
Of course, these features aren’t actually baby cats — if they were, I would have jetted out of here long ago. These 60-some odd “kittens” are actually baby moons — or moonlets — which form after particles within the ring collide and clump together. These kittens — which were first spotted by researchers from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft back in 2007 — influence the shape of the F ring so that it’s constantly changing its structure.
For some reason, Saturn’s kittens remained under the radar for many years. A spokesperson from NASA tells Inverse that the kittens are suddenly back in the public consciousness after a reporter asked about naming Saturnian features after pets during a post-mission briefing on Sept. 15. According to NASA, the baby moons were named kittens — and even given individual cat names like “Mittens” and “fluffy” — because “they appear to come and go unexpectedly over time and have multiple lives.” Apparently, some dog people weren’t happy about the name change, but were ultimately overruled.
“This was an appropriate nomenclature for temporary features, and I favor using feline names in other applicable situations,” Larry Esposito, principal investigator of the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) experiment on the Cassini, tells Inverse. Esposito — who is credited with discovering Saturn’s F Ring back in 1979 — was chiefly in charge of naming the kittens.
“These ‘kittens’ show us clumps now forming in Saturn’s F ring, a disk of material like the original protoplanetary disk around our Sun, like when the Earth and the other planets formed 4.5 billion years ago,” he said.
Prometheus and Saturn's F Ring
The great thing about these kittens — besides the obvious — is that they reveal how utterly mysterious Saturn still is, even after Cassini. To be fair, if any planet were secretly serving as a kitty utopia, it would almost certainly be Saturn.
“Saturn’s rings look so serene from a distance, but then when you get up close there is SO MUCH dynamic activity taking place,” Summer Ash, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, told Inverse. “From spiral waves to vertical structure to spokes, and now moonlets! It’s bananas. These moonlets are yet another aspect of Saturn’s rings that shows how little we understand about the system, even after a 13-year mission at the planet.”
Earth was not destroyed by Planet X last weekend, so we can now turn our attention back to more important things, like the three-fingered, potentially-alien Peruvian mummies. The last time we heard from the “researchers,” they had announced the finding of at least 20 mummies by a ‘guy named Mario’ and someone – possibly Mario – saw live creatures running away when the mummies were discovered in a Peruvian cave. One of the mummies appeared to be pregnant with eggs, leading to more speculation that the creatures are aliens and possibly reptilian. Meanwhile, the World Congress on Mummy Studies doubts all of the conclusions and is upset with the profiteering use of the Peruvian creatures – whatever species they may be — and the Peruvian government agrees. Seems like it’s time for a diversion, right? That came this week with the long-promised DNA tests of the mummies and the long-awaited announcement of the findings. The results of the tests are in, and the creatures were found to be …
Let’s pause here for a moment. What do you think the mummies are?
As in the past, the go-to source for all things on the 3-fingered Peruvian mummies is Express.co.uk, which claims to have viewed all of the videos from Gaia.com, the group allegedly in possession of the mummies, conducting the research and sending the samples to laboratories for further studies. It identified the lab which performed the test as the Paleo DNA laboratory at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada, and said that the report on the mummies’ DNA was available online, but no links were provided and searches turned up no further details on the report. The Gaia.com website has a short preview of its latest video, which is available for a fee. There also appears to be no updates from journalists Steve Mera and Barry Fitzgerald, who are said to be conducting their own investigations on the mummies.
So-called baby mummy
(youtube/gaia.com)
That’s enough prefacing. The wait is over. The DNA test results are in on a 3-fingered hand and some brain matter and the mummies are … humans! Express.co.uk quotes the report:
“The evidence suggests the source of DNA from the biological material from the cranial brain and the bone extracted from the hand belongs to homo sapiens (humans).”
Specifically, a male homo sapien. Let the back-pedaling begin.
“Because we know that now we have three types of human like creatures. It is Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon like ourselves, and Denisovan. Now, at next level, they have to make much more detailed analysis, and much more complicated analysis, so they will create a library of genes, and then they will be able to compare it with database of human subjects. Then, we’ll see whether it is exactly human like, or it is little bit different.”
“Human like” says Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, who claims to have been working with Gaia.com since the discovery of the mummies, in a response video. He and others say more DNA testing is needed.
Is it time to wrap up these mummies and return them to the people of Peru?
BOOK REVIEW:Operation Trojan Horse by John A. Keel (Anomalist Books) 2013
“Our skies have been filled with ‘Trojan horses’ throughout history, and like the original Trojan horse, they seem to conceal hostile intent” – John A. Keel, 1969.
Over the many years that I have read about, researched and personally experienced the UFO mystery, my intuition has always ended up on the side of things pointing to these mysterious craft as not being of the “nuts-and-bolts” variety, but of a more elusive and, possibly, multi-dimensional source.
That position, while not shared by the majority of folks out there, was one held, more or less, by the late John A. Keel (1930-2009), the same guy who coined the terms “Men in Black” and “ultraterrestrials” and whose book The Mothman Prophecies would lead to a feature film in 2002 starring Richard Gere.
A writer, journalist and adventurer, Keel was drawn to the idea of “magic” at an early age, seeking it out in the mysterious “Far East” in the 1950’s, following a stint in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
And that interest in magic led the ramblin’ writer to bounce around the wide-ranging region between Singapore and Egypt, where he befriended snake charmers, was “buried alive,” learned the secrets of the “Indian rope trick” and was “cursed by a mummy,” experiences captured in his first book, Jadoo, which was first published in 1957.
And between 1957 and 1970, Keel began to seriously immerse himself in the controversy surrounding flying saucers, also known as UFOs.
Like any good and objective journalist, Keel spent these years researching the subject, talking to UFO eyewitnesses and delving deep into the history of the confounding and puzzling topic and ultimately publishing Operation Trojan Horse, a 300-plus page book that focuses on the bizarre nature of the alleged “craft” and how we really don’t know who or what is behind their unexpected appearances around the world.
Keel’s findings seemed to parallel that of Dr. Meade Layne, an investigator of the “inter-dimensional/folklore school of thought” on the UFO phenomena (to quote a relative of Layne’s). That “paraphysical” and “parapsychological” position was not widely embraced by those who followed the more commonly trod path of extraterrestrials and spacecraft from distant stars.
In fact, Keel writes in his groundbreaking book, now 47-years old, that Kenneth Arnold, the private airplane pilot whose June 1947 sighting of strange craft flying near Mount Rainier in Washington state, kicked off the “modern flying saucer scare” and would later express his belief that “the objects were actually some form of living energy, and were not necessarily marvelous spaceships.”
Other researchers, Keel notes, would conclude that UFOs are closely linked with “mysticism and the metaphysical.” Clearly, the research was pointing to a more “occult” quality to the UFO phenomenon than the mainstream government, military and – in most cases – civilian researchers wanted to admit.
But Keel had already seen a lot of strange things by this time and was a seasoned journalist having traveled the world. It only made sense that he would report on the subject, wherever it took him.
And it took Keel to some pretty wild places!
No, there is a more “trickster”-ish quality to the experiences, things that don’t make sense, at least in a logical way. And then there is the issue of “visible light.” It would seem that UFOs may exist at “frequencies beyond visible light but that they can adjust their frequency and descend the electromagnetic spectrum – just as you can turn the dial of your radio and move a variable condenser up and down the scale of radio frequencies.”
Keel notes plenty of “patterns” in the phenomenon, how UFOs seem to stay within geographical boundaries, or appear in great “circle” patterns over large stretches of landscape. Many UFO sightings happen of Wednesdays, we learn.
We are taken back to the 19th century, when people like Joseph Smith are visited by “angelic beings” who point out the location of buried plates that will lead to the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – the Mormons.
Throughout history, Keel notes, these “beings” which are thought to be from “heaven,” may actually be “ultraterrestrials,” entities that are non-human and may be of natural or even supernatural origin and are indigenous to our planet. They are thought to be linked to the folkloric entities of days gone by – fairies, brownies and so forth.
Flying ships were reported with increasing frequency throughout the 19th century, leading up the 1896-97 airship “flap” (or major, continued series of sightings) that had thousands of people seeing strange things in the sky.
But what were they seeing? What about the people of the mid-20th century, when Keel was gathering his information? It’s never entirely clear.
For instance, in March 1966, Eddie Laxton, of Temple, Okla., was driving on U.S. Highway 70 in Cotton County, on his way to work at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, Texas, when he had a dramatic UFO experience near the Red River, one that got the attention of his Air Force bosses.
Laxton said a human-like alien, who looked more like a mechanic in coveralls, was examining the underside of his “fish-like” spacecraft, with a “flashlight,” as if he were making repairs. But the alien got spooked pretty quickly, jumping in his UFO and taking off at a rapid rate.
Keel says this ruse of “pretending” to repair an ailing saucer has been used time and again by the “ultraterrestrials” of Operation Trojan Horse, or whatever it is they are doing. And yet no one really knows what their objective is.
And then there is the distortion of time, when it comes to many sightings. In one utterly shocking case, an Argentinian doctor and his wife got into their Peugeot 403 in a town near Buenos Aires, planning to travel 150 km south.
But the travelers did not make it to their destination. Keel tells us their family received a call from the Argentine consulate in Mexico City saying the couple “appeared” in Mexico’s capital city 48 hours later and nearly 5,000 miles from home. Except for a weird “fog” that enveloped their car that morning in May 1968, the doctor and his wife have no idea how they got to Mexico City.
Again, the occult angle cannot be emphasized enough. Keel says that “black magic” is often linked to the phenomenon, and some people have such frightening experiences dabbling in the topic, that they abandon it for good. In fact, Keel tells his adult readers who are parents to warn their children away from Ufology altogether.
“I have in my files hundreds of cases, some of which have now been investigated by qualified psychiatrists, in which young men and women obsessed with the UFO phenomenon have suffered frightening visits from these apparitions, been followed by mysterious black Cadillacs which appeared and disappeared suddenly, and have been terrified into giving up their pursuit of UFOs. Many contactees report similar experiences.”
“The phenomenon is reflective,” adds Keel. “the more frightened the victim becomes, the more the manifestations are escalated.”
While Keel does not solve the mystery, he was courageous enough to diligently investigate the topic with seriousness and open-mindedness.
UFO HUNTERS - Brother and sister alien hunters discover ‘UFO highway’ across America – with clusters of sightings and unexplained events along same latitude
UFO HUNTERS - Brother and sister alien hunters discover ‘UFO highway’ across America – with clusters of sightings and unexplained events along same latitude
Their theory has been turned into a book "The 37th Parallel" and will soon be made into a Hollywood movie
EXCLUSIVE
By Emma Parry, US Digital Correspondent
A BROTHER and sister alien hunting team have discovered a “UFO highway” across America along which hundreds of unexplained events have taken place - from cattle mutilations to alien abductions.
Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer have spent years travelling across the US investigating hundreds of UFO sightings and other paranormal occurrences.
JOHN CHAPPLE
UFO hunters Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer
It was during one cattle mutilation investigation that Chuck realised that many of the unexplained events he had looked into had taken place on the 37th latitude.
He called his sister - who noticed the same with her investigations in Missouri - and the pair began researching the phenomenon, discovering that there are clusters of unexplained events taking place across the same latitude line.
The pair believe that the 37th latitude line is a kind of UFO or paranormal “highway” along which extra terrestrial craft enter and exit the earth.
Their theory is now the subject of a book called the 37th Parallel - and is about to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster in the next few months.
Chuck told Sun Online: “Back in 2006 I was looking at my cattle mutilation investigations - there were huge similarities between them all - most of them were laying on their right side, they’re laying east to west and then I noticed that lots of them were on the 37 degree latitude.
“I called my sister at midnight and I said, ‘Didn’t you have cattle mutilations on the 37 degree latitude in Missouri?'
ATRIA BOOKS
The 37th Parallel by Ben Mezrichis based on Chuck and Debbie's theory
"And she said, 'Yes' and we started looking more into it. We soon realized it wasn’t just cattle mutilations – there were all kind of events.
"We we're up until 2:30 in the morning going through all these cases and started seeing these amazing patterns.”
The 37th latitude line runs from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.
Examples of cases along the line include the Joplin Spook Lights - unexplained balls of light that have been appearing in Hornet, Missouri since the 19th century; The Aztec, Nevada incident of 1948 when a flying saucer allegedly crashed; and Piedmont, Missouri where 500 people reported UFO sightings in 1973.
The infamous Area 51 in Nevada - and the Dulce Base - an alleged underground alien base - are also located on the line.
UFONUT.COM
A map of the "UFO highway" across America
"For the next month or so I start looking at all these cases and I had all this data," Chuck explained.
"All these GPS co-ordinates, everything from Native American sites to underwater caves.
"I released it all on my website and I mentioned it during an appearance on the Science Channel's Unexplained Files - then for the next season of that show they asked me to expand on the theory so I did a whole episode on it for them.
"The bottom line is the 37th latitude is like a UFO highway or paranormal highway across the continent.
"We seem to think that this highway is a major highway that these crafts use - they seem to exit and enter here."
JOHN CHAPPLE
Chuck's registration reads UFONUT - the name of his website
After his appearance on the Science Channel a Hollywood producer got in touch and told Chuck his theory would be a great idea for a book and movie.
The book 37th Parallel, by New York times best selling author Ben Niezrich, came out last year - and a screen play is currently being written.
"In 2015 I signed a life-rights contract with Flint Pictures - it got picked up by New Line Cinema - Warner Brothers before the book was even written - just on the idea," Chuck said.
"The book came out last year. The screen play is being written by a Hollywood screenwriter who has written movies for Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr and should be ready in the next month.
"We’ll know in October if the movie is going ahead but they already have some big name actors following the project already."
Debbie said she is now investigating what incidents have occurred on the 37th latitude around the world - particularly over water.
Athens, Greece, sits on the line - and it's also the the dividing line between North and South Korea.
JOHN CHAPPLE
Chuck and Debbie at Devil's Rock, Wyoming - where they spoke at a UFO conference
Debbie has even witnessed UFOs herself on the 37th latitude after a party at her family's lake house near Farmington, Missouri - which lies on the line - last year.
"I have an app on my phone that you can use to look up and it tells you what planets and constellations are visible," she said.
"And then all of a sudden we saw four stars in a formation. They were small stars which kept getting brighter and brighter - so apparently whatever it was was coming into the atmosphere then the one on the top left hand corner shot fast, straight up, and the top right and bottom left did the same - and the bottom right one went right across the horizon.
"I spoke to other experts to see if we have any military or government projects that could do that and they said no - they had no idea what it could be."
JOHN CHAPPLE
Chuck travels to UFO and ghost sightings, cattle mutilations and other paranormal incidents in this truck
Chuck and Debbie say they have investigated hundreds and hundreds of paranormal cases - and it's not just UFOs - the pair also investigate ghost and Bigfoot sightings.
"I get three or four people a week getting in touch with me through my website - sightings, photos and videos - I always have a backlog," Chuck said.
"We started off as crash retrieval investigators but then you gather all this equipment like geiger counters, Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF) instruments, night vision goggles and then people get in touch.
"Lots of Bigfoot sightings are associated with UFO sightings - and ghost investigations started coming up because I had all this equipment.
"We use EMF instruments to look for trace evidence to look for crafts or entities because they leave electronic signatures - well it turns out ghosts leave electronic signatures too.
"Sometimes where they have had ghost sightings the orbs they see might not be ghosts but UFOs.
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Prince Philip’s UFO interests inspired biography
Prince Philip’s UFO interests inspired biography
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband to the queen of England, is a UFO aficionado. His UFO interests are not only included in a biography, author Philip Eade writes in his foreword that the idea for the biography came about when he was considering writing a book about prominent ufologists in the period after World War II. The biography is titled, Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II, and proves to be a great read.
In a story in The Daily Beast, they highlighted 12 of the most “juicy bits” of the biography. Regarding the UFO “bits,” they wrote:
During the course of that research, Eade discovered not only that Prince Philip was a subscriber to the magazine Flying Saucer Review, but that he once sent his equerry, Sir Peter Horsley, “to meet an extraterrestrial humanoid at a house in Ealing.” Eade writes, “A number of witnesses were invited to Buckingham Palace to discuss their experiences, as Horsley later explained, to ‘put them on the spot’ and to test their honesty in the presence of royalty, a method as effective as any truth serum.” Horsley was on the prince’s staff from 1952 to 1955 before climbing to great heights in the Royal Air Force. When Horsley published his memoirs in 1997, a senior official at the Ministry of Defence commented, “How unfortunate that the public will learn that the man who had his finger on the button of Strike Command was seeing little green men.”
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, June 2012.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Although it may seem surprising that a member of the royal family would have an interest in UFOs, Prince Philip is not the first. In fact his uncle, Lord Mountbatten, had similar interests. In a biography by Philip Ziegler in 1985, he wrote that Mountbatten had admittedly “far-fetched” ideas about the origins of the mysterious phenomenon. Ziegler explained this idea in his book:
[We were] both convinced that they come from another planet but we mutually and independently came to the conclusion that they were not ‘aeroplanes’ with silly little almost human pilots but are themselves the actual inhabitants: Martians, Venusians, Jupiterians or what have you. Why should life in another planet with entirely different conditions in any way resemble life on our planet? Their inhabitants might be ‘gaseous’ or circular or very large. They certainly don’t breathe, they may not have to eat and I doubt if they have babies—bits of their great discs may break away and grow into a new creature. The fact that they can hover and accelerate away from the earth’s gravity again and even revolve round a V2 in America (as reported by their head scientist) shows that they are far ahead of us. If they really come over in a big way that may settle the capitalist-communist war. If the human race wishes to survive they may have to band together.
Lord Mountbatten (Credit: Allan Warren)
In 1955 Lord Mountbatten investigated a UFO incident in his own back yard, literally, that put his theory to the test. In Timothy Good’s book, Above Top Secret, there is a report written by Mountbatten on his investigation of a sighting on the grounds of his Broadlands Estates in Romsey, Hampshire. Frederick Briggs, a retired British Army Sergeant, was working as a bricklayer on the grounds, when he says he saw a large craft that looked like a child’s top hovering over a field. He says a column came down from the center of the craft, and there appeared to be a humanoid figure descending with the pillar.
Mountbatten states in his report that he personally interviewed Mr. Briggs. He reported that Briggs “did not give the impression of being the sort of man who would be subject to hallucinations, or would in any way invent such a story.”
In an interview with Nick Pope, a man who led official investigations into UFOs for Britain’s Ministry of Defence, I asked about the royal family’s interest in UFOs. Pope was reticent to speak on the subject, stating:
Um… yeah this is a kind of difficult area for me to enter. Of course, even though I have left the Ministry of Defence, I am still bound by the official secrets act, and it binds me for life. Yes, I know that some members of the royal family have an interest in UFOs, Crop Circles, and the unexplained generally, because of my security oath this isn’t an area that I can really discuss in any great detail I am afraid.
I told him that his answer was sort of fun, and he laughed and said, yes you can infer from that what you will. It begs the question, is the queen herself also a UFO buff, or does she shrug off her husband’s interests as spouses are prone to do?
A version of this story was first posted in the Huffington Post, but I discovered that I had neglected to post it here at OpenMinds.tv. I discovered that when I was looking for this story in relation to a recent talk I did that was featured in The Sun, a UK newspaper.
Karen Van EykenHet eiland Lord Howe behoort tot Zeelandië
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETSinds begin dit jaar is onze Aarde een continent rijker: ‘Zeelandië’. Vandaag de dag is nog maar 6 procent van het nieuwe continent zichtbaar. Het hoeft dan ook niet te verbazen dat het zo lang duurde vooraleer het ontdekt werd. Tijdens een maandenlange internationale expeditie - bestaande uit 32 wetenschappers uit 23 landen - heeft het nieuwe continent haar geheimen prijsgegeven.
Over het ‘zevende’ continent was amper iets geweten omdat het grotendeels is gezonken en zich meer dan een kilometer onder het zee-oppervlak bevindt. Vroeger dacht men dat het gewoon om een groep continentale eilanden ging waaronder onder meer Nieuw-Caledonië en de Australische eilanden Lord Howe en Norfolk. Maar een jarenlange studie van de aardkorst heeft begin dit jaar uitgewezen dat ze samen met Nieuw-Zeeland het zevende continent vormen. Geologen spraken tot nu immers over zes continenten. Zij voegen Europa en Azië immers samen tot Eurazië. Nu is Zeelandië het nieuwste en zevende zusje.
Zeelandië is 3,5 miljoen vierkante kilometer groot. Het wordt van Australië gescheiden door een 25 kilometer brede trog. Het ligt voor 94 procent onder water en zou miljoenen jaren geleden gestaag zijn gezonken na een afsplitsing van het megacontinent Gondwana. 23 miljoen jaar geleden zonk het grootste gedeelte weg waardoor nog maar 6 procent van het oppervlak boven zee uitstak.
Karen Van Eyken Het eiland Lord Howe
De recente expeditie bestond onder meer uit boringen in de diepzee. Volgens de Amerikaanse expeditieleider Gerald Dickens werden heel wat significante nieuwe fossielen ontdekt. Zij bewijzen dat Zeelandië zich niet altijd zo diep onder het zee-oppervlak bevond als nu het geval is.
Karen Van Eyken Lord Howe
“De wetenschappers bestudeerden 8.000 specimens en hebben honderden fossielen geïdentificeerd”, verklaarde Dickens. “De ontdekking van microscopische organismen die normaal in warme ondiepe zeeën terug te vinden zijn en stuifmeelkorrels van landplanten toont aan dat de geologie en het klimaat van Zeelandië dramatische veranderingen hebben ondergaan doorheen de tijd.”
Karen Van Eyken Lord Howe
De nieuwe ontdekkingen gaan meer duidelijkheid verschaffen over hoe tektonische platen bewegen en zullen toelaten om toekomstige veranderingen in het klimaat te voorspellen.
thinkstockEen zwart gat in een sterrennevel. (illustratiebeeld)
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers hebben voor de vierde keer een zwaartekrachtgolf van twee in elkaar smeltende zwarte gaten opgemerkt. De waarneming is een primeur voor de Europese zwaartekrachtgolvendetector Virgo, die staat in de buurt van het Italiaanse Pisa.
Het verschijnsel werd op 14 augustus om 12.30.43 uur Belgische tijd voor het eerst tegelijk waargenomen door twee soorten van detectoren: de twee LIGO’s (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) in de VS en Virgo.
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Rapper zamelt geld in om te bewijzen dat aarde plat is
Volgens het Franse Nationaal Onderzoekscentrum CNRS was de LIGO-detector in Louisana de eerste om de vierde zwaartekrachtgolf op te pikken. Die in de staat Washington volgde acht duizendsten van een seconde later, en nog eens zes duizendsten van een seconde later was de Virgo aan de beurt. LIGO staat voor “Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory”.
De Virgo was op 1 augustus opnieuw opgestart, na een update en maanden testen. De detector verenigt 250 natuurkundigen, ingenieurs en technici uit twintig Europese laboratoria.
Trillingen in ruimtetijd
Albert Einstein stelde in 1915 dat het heelal bestaat uit ruimte en tijd, en dat die één geheel vormen. Na een heftige gebeurtenis kan die ‘ruimtetijd’ trillen. De schokgolven, de zwaartekrachtgolven, gaan dan door het heelal als rimpelingen na een steen in een vijver. Bij zo’n rimpeling rekt de ruimte iets uit of krimpt hij iets. Hoe groter de massa en hoe sneller de beweging van een massarijk object, des te hoger de zwaartekrachtgolf. Dat Einstein het opnieuw bij het rechte eind had, bleek in september 2015. Toen zijn de eerste zwaartekrachtgolven gemeten.
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1,8 miljard lichtjaar ver weg
GW170814, zoals de nieuw ontdekte zwaartekrachtgolf is gedoopt, is veroorzaakt in de laatste ogenblikken van de versmelting van twee zwarte gaten die 31 en 25 keer zo zwaar waren als de Zon. Uiteindelijk bleef er één zwart gat over dat 53 keer de massa van onze ster heeft. Het energie-equivalent van 3 keer de massa van de Zon is in de vorm van zwaartekrachtgolven uitgestraald. De botsing vond plaats op zowat 1,8 miljard lichtjaar afstand.
De laatste dagen zijn er geruchten dat de Nobelprijs voor Fysica volgende week naar de ontdekking van de zwaartekrachtgolven zou gaan. De bekendmaking van de vierde vondst, waarover te lezen zal zijn in het vakblad Physical Review Letters, kan daarbij een duwtje in de rug geven.
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27-09-2017
Enorme ijspieken onthullen dat Pluto veel veranderlijker is dan gedacht
Enorme ijspieken onthullen dat Pluto veel veranderlijker is dan gedacht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nieuw onderzoek onthult hoe Pluto aan zijn tot wel 500 meter hoge ijspieken komt.
In eerste instantie stonden onderzoekers voor een raadsel toen ze op beelden van Pluto – gemaakt door ruimtesonde New Horizons – een soort slangenhuid ontwaarden. Maar eerder dit jaar moesten onderzoekers concluderen dat die slangenhuid bestaat uit vele penitenten die tot wel 500 meter hoog zijn en enkele kilometers van elkaar verwijderd zijn. Een unieke ontdekking. Voor het eerst waren penitenten op een ander hemellichaam dan de aarde ontdekt (zie kader).
Op aarde vinden we penitenten – uit sneeuw of ijs opgebouwde pieken – op grote hoogte (bijvoorbeeld in de Andes). Hoewel de pieken qua uiterlijk sterk doen denken aan de penitenten op Pluto zijn er toch de nodige verschillen. Zo zijn de penitenten op aarde hooguit enkele meters hoog en staan ze vrij dicht op elkaar. Op Pluto kunnen ze tot wel 500 meter hoog worden en zijn ze enkele kilometers van elkaar verwijderd. Een ander belangrijk verschil is dat de ijspieken op Pluto niet bestaan uit waterijs, maar uit methaanijs.
Dynamisch Wetenschappers hebben zich nu nog eens over deze ijspieken gebogen en denken te weten hoe ze precies zijn ontstaan. Hun bevindingen suggereren dat zowel het oppervlak als de lucht op Pluto een stuk dynamischer is dan werd aangenomen.
Klimaatvariaties De penitenten op Pluto ontstaan wanneer methaan – afkomstig uit de atmosfeer van Pluto – in bevroren vorm op het oppervlak neerslaat (net zoals ijs aan de binnenzijde van je diepvries neer kan slaan). “Toen we ons realiseerden dat het geschubde terrein bestaat uit hoge afzettingen van methaanijs, vroegen we ons af waarom het deze pieken – in plaats van grote klodders – op de grond vormt,” vertelt onderzoeker Jeffrey Moore. “En wat blijkt: Pluto heeft te maken met variaties in het klimaat en soms – als Pluto iets warmer is – begint het methaanijs te verdampen.” Het ijs transformeert dan direct in gas (ook wel sublimatie genoemd, zie kader hieronder). De aanwezigheid van deze penitenten op Pluto wijst er dan ook op dat het klimaat van de dwergplaneet over lange perioden – denk aan miljoenen jaren – veranderingen heeft ondergaan. Eerst zorgde een vrij koud klimaat ervoor dat methaan op grote hoogte in bevroren vorm neer kon slaan en later zorgde een warmer klimaat ervoor dat er sublimatie plaatsvond, waardoor uiteindelijk ijspieken achterbleven.
IJspieken ontstaan dus door sublimatie. Maar hoe krijgen ze dan precies hun karakteristieke vorm? Je moet je voorstellen dat er eerst een sneeuwoppervlak is, waarin holtes zitten. In die holtes wordt gereflecteerd licht opgevangen, waardoor er in die holtes meer sublimatie plaatsvindt en alsmaar diepere sleuven ontstaan. “Doordat de temperatuur en de luchtvochtigheid toenemen, kan het ijs in deze sleuven wél smelten,” zo legt men op de site van ESO uit. “Deze positieve terugkoppeling versnelt de groei van de karakteristieke vorm van de penintentes.”
Het onderzoek toont niet alleen aan dat het oppervlak en de lucht op Pluto veranderlijker zijn dan gedacht. Het geeft ook meer inzicht in de topografie van Pluto. Dankzij de scheervlucht van New Horizons langs Pluto kunnen we één zijde van de dwergplaneet nu in hoge resolutie bekijken. Van de andere zijde hebben we alleen beelden in lagere resolutie. Nu we weten dat er methaan te vinden is in hoger gelegen gebieden, kunnen onderzoekers uit de aanwezigheid van methaan afleiden welke gebieden hoger gelegen zijn. En dus ook nauwkeurigere topografische kaarten maken van de zijde die New Horizons niet in hoge resolutie heeft kunnen vastleggen. Overigens hebben onderzoekers reeds sterke aanwijzingen gevonden dat penitenten ook op de ‘andere zijde’ van Pluto te vinden zijn en dus een wereldwijd verschijnsel zijn.
ESA test instrument waarmee we de ijzige manen van Jupiter gaan bestuderen
ESA test instrument waarmee we de ijzige manen van Jupiter gaan bestuderen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het radarsysteem dat dwars door de ijskorst van Europa, Ganymedes en Callisto gaat kijken, ondergaat zijn vuurdoop.
In 2022 is het zover. Dan vertrekt een ruimtesonde naar misschien wel één van de spannendste plekken in ons zonnestelsel: Jupiter. Tijdens de missie (Juice genaamd) zal er onderzoek worden gedaan naar de atmosfeer en magnetische velden van Jupiter. Maar nog veel interessanter is dat er ook een blik wordt geworpen op Jupiters ijzige manen Ganymedes, Europa en Callisto. Van alle drie deze manen wordt vermoed dat ze onder het oppervlak een vloeibare oceaan herbergen en dus potentieel leefbaar zijn.
Het instrument Zoals gezegd bevinden die oceanen zich niet aan het oppervlak. Ze gaan schuil onder een ijskorst. Maar daardoor laten onderzoekers zich niet van de wijs brengen. Ze gaan gewoon proberen om dwars door die ijskorst te kijken met behulp van het Radar for Icy Moons Exploration-instrument. Het is het eerste instrument dat in staat is om direct te achterhalen wat er onder het oppervlak van werelden aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel speelt. En daarmee is het misschien wel het belangrijkste instrument van de complete missie.
De test van het radarsysteem.
Afbeelding: Airbus / Rolf Schwark.
Test En zo’n instrument stuur je vanzelfsprekend niet op pad zonder het eerst uitgebreid te testen. En dat heeft ESA nu gedaan. De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie bootste de omstandigheden waarin het instrument straks moet functioneren na. En daarvoor had ESA nodig: een nep-ruimtesonde en een helikopter.
Antenne Kort nadat de ruimtesonde die Jupiter en zijn manen gaat verkennen, gelanceerd is, zal er een zestien meter lange antenne worden uitgeklapt. Eenmaal bij Jupiters manen aangekomen, zendt deze radiogolven naar het oppervlak van de manen. Het instrument zal vervolgens meten hoelang het duurt voor reflecties van die radiogolven weer bij het instrument arriveren. Ook de kracht van die reflecties wordt vastgelegd. Het instrument kan op basis van die gegevens tot wel negen kilometer diep ‘kijken’.
Tijdens de test van het instrument werd een nep-ruimtesonde met daaraan de antenne onder een helikopter gehangen. Gekeken werd hoe de antenne zich – onder meer ten opzichte van de ruimtesonde – gedroeg en hoe de signalen die naar de antenne terugkeerden, eruitzagen. “Alle experimenten werden afgerond en zullen de komende weken geanalyseerd worden,” vertelt onderzoeker Lorenzo Bruzzone. De inzichten die dat oplevert, worden meegenomen tijdens de verdere ontwikkeling van de antenne. “De test was een belangrijke stap richting het begrijpen van het gedrag van de echte antenne die ons uiteindelijk in staat stelt om zeer accurate metingen te verkrijgen van de radarecho’s die het diepe ondergrondse van Jupiters ijzige manen voortbrengen.”
Juice wordt in 2022 gelanceerd en zal zo’n zeven jaar later bij Jupiter aankomen. De sonde zal negen maanden rond Ganymedes cirkelen, waarvan vier maanden op een afstand van slechts 500 kilometer. Ook zal de ruimtesonde op kleine afstand langs andere manen van Jupiter scheren. Het is niet helemaal duidelijk of het radarsysteem dwars door de ijskorst van de manen heen kan kijken, omdat onduidelijk is hoe dik die ijskorst precies is. Maar zelfs als de ijslaag te dik blijkt, levert de missie waarschijnlijk een schat aan informatie op. Zo kan er gekeken worden hoe die ijskorst is opgebouwd en of er tussen de ijslagen van Europa bijvoorbeeld nog vloeibaar water huist. Ook hopen onderzoekers met behulp van het radarsysteem meer inzicht te krijgen in de evolutie van de kraters op Callisto en de tektonische geschiedenis van Ganymedes.
Bronmateriaal:
"Helicopter test for Jupiter Icy Moons Radar" - ESA Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: ESA / ATG medialab (ruimtesonde) / NASA / ESA / J. Nichols (University of Leicester) (Jupiter) / NASA / JPL (Ganymedes) / NASA / JPL / University of Arizona (Io) / NASA / JPL / DLR (Callisto en Europa)
Filer’s Files #39 -2017- UFO Crash Revelations - PART I
Beonne, New Jersey Disc captured on September 13, 2017 I was traveling
Filer’s Files #39 -2017- UFO Crash Revelations - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Roswell UFO Crash, UFO Crash on Plains of St Augustin, New Jersey UFO Landing Site Heals Horses, and Mighty Temple of the Sun. and Navy Attack Submarines Key to Defeating North Korean Navy.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, , Portugal, Puerto Rico, and England and Wales 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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Lord Admiral Hill-Norton
Lord Admiral Hill-Norton writes, “There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilization; and it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out that they are, where they come from, and what they want.
This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”
Comments from excellent artist and investigator Bill McDonald concerning the Roswell craft and the Lockheed Skunk Works development of advanced aircraft…
Skunk Work’s Director Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson mentored two young men: Ben R. Rich who was hired in 1957 to design engine inlets for the U-2 and John Andrews–The young hotshot model kit designer for Comet Models—who went on to design and be Chief Special Projects Designer for the Testor Corporation.
From 1980 to 1999, John Andrews sat on the knowledge of the skiff’s “Wave rider-stingray-cetacean-form” configuration. He died on Good Friday, 1999 of a cancer similar to Ben Rich’s.
Bill McDonald obtained detailed information about the Roswell alien craft from Army counter intelligence personnel he called Rick and Frank who carefully described, sketched and overdrew on my sketches until the lateral profile of the craft was exactingly close to the profile of a harbor porpoise a species of cetacean known as Dall’s Porpoise. The stingray-skate-like diamond triangular wing form profiles were subtly different–But close enough to satisfy a detective’s standards regarding multiple witness composites.
The hexagonal power cell belly tiles were identically described by both men, to include being subducted under a thin rim layer of approximately eighteen inches. Big hexagons near the nose, shrinking in size towards the tail and trailing wing edges.
John Andrews independently confirmed that Kelly and Ben also described a complex “Power grid” on the ships belly. Likewise for the cockpit canopy/forward sensor array shield–Only subtle variances in shape and placings. Frank thought it was a cockpit canopy. Rick stated it was a cover for a multi-tiered instrument array. The craft carried seven aliens.
Witness “Dutch” Bischoff in Anaheim (Who claimed to be a CIC auxiliary pilot) stated it was a “Half nose cone.”– May 1993—Long before my interviews with Rick and Frank.
Len (Stringfield) stated very surprising things over the phone in December ’94. Len was VERY specific about the skin of the flight crew: He stated that macroscopically, the skin resembled the tiny, granulated smooth beaded scales of the tiny albino Geckos inhabiting the islands of the South Pacific.
He stated that his physicians reported that the skin was NOT the semipermiable layers that hold in moisture and fluids and hold out dangerous rot bacilli. He stated that it was like synthetic screen mesh under a microscope.
He stated that the flight crew members would have leaked like sieves if they were walking around outside the landed craft and not encased in some artificial cellophane-like substance. Infection would have occurred in seconds. They apparently worked together navigating and operating the craft. Rick n his porch during those early July 1995 interviews that when he crawled through the wreckage he noticed something very odd about the texturing of the floor of the flight deck of the interior crew cabin. He stated that it was the oddest form of “Antiskid” imaginable. He stated that examining experts had compared the deck flooring to rings and swirls like “Fingerprint” and “Coral growth” patterns. Rick stated that in later years, he had occasion to examine a kidney dialysis bag and that when cut open, the microtubule packing was similar to the crystalline layers of microtubes in the floor layers. He also described vented louvers in the flooring edges on either side of the crew compartment which when he drew them reminded me of the gill slits of sharks and rays.
I put the skin and the flooring descriptions together and came up with the fluid life support system / flight ballast inertial dampening buffer. Oxygenated fluorocarbons approximate the weight of water but evaporate fast after a hull breech. Sterile fluids would not only sustain life but would also cushion the flight crew from high “G” aerial maneuvers and in dead from rapid onset infections and rapid catastrophic dehydration.
All witnesses told me that the craft was unusually light for its size. Without some form of heavy ballast, it would have fluttered like a kite without a tail in atmospheric flight mode. Trim was critical for a craft of its size and weight. Every seat needed to be filled–And as you know, two bodies remain unaccounted for unless you believe Don Schmitt’s latest claims with Tom Carey. Only a fluid fulfills all ballast and all delicate trim requirements for atmospheric flight–Magneto-aero electric propulsion in the air. Certain species of frogs breathe and receive nutrients directly through their skin tissue membranes. They die fast out of the water. Their lungs are partially atrophied from lack of use. Their digestive systems are reduced. Normal defecation is almost never seen. Sound familiar? Thanks to Bill McDonald http://www.alienufoart.com/aboutwilliamlmcdonald.html
A UFO Crash on Plains of St Augustin
Art Campbell
Art Campbell has done an incredible job of researching the July 2, 1947 crash of a small, extraterrestrial craft in the Plains of St Augustin, New Mexico not far from the Roswell crash. There is speculation that the two UFOs collided or were affected by radars. Art Campbell has been interested in UFO research since the 1950’s. He was an early NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.) investigator, founder and Chairman of a NICAP chapter in Kansas City, and worked closely with Major Donald E. Keyhoe. He made a contact with ex-president Truman in the spring of 1958 at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. Keyhoe’s subsequent letter to President Truman begins Mr. Campbell’s UFO book with accompanying material sent to the president in the appendix.
He is a retired 30 year teacher, coach, and school principal, a Navy veteran, with a Masters Degree in Education.
Art Campbell writes, “In May of 2012 a group of 15 people found a great deal of important material near the San Augustin, NM crash site that is thought to have happened tube same time as the Roswell crash. By far the most important finding was this I-beam.
Alien beam found at crash site
It is 2 inches across at the flanges and 13 1/4 inch long. Rather crude flanged holes at each end indicate it may have been a repair. Bottom skin, honeycomb, and I-beam might have been scraped off a craft on the first skip down. Below the I-beam is another piece of honeycomb. This one had some skin attached, believed to be just inside the interior. Some excitement occurred when a faint triangle, circle and other markings were found near the right end of beam. The beam is probably the most significant find at the crash site and wants to make sure everybody knows about it. The beam looks more like an H-beam used to distribute horizontal loads. Crude flanged holes are a mystery. It is possible it was used more than once in a repair of some sort.
The beam has a metallurgical composition primarily aluminum with high silicon, manganese, copper, and iron. It is my guess that a grid of beams covered the entire bottom of the UFO (probably crisscrossing the bottom of the craft in 10-12″‘ squares) supporting the honeycomb sandwich. Our craft when it skipped down lost allot of its bottom and this beam was probably ripped out. The honey comb material has been found at two crash sites.
Honeycombs nearly identical were found 6000 miles apart and 41 years later, Magdalena, NM Plains UFO crash debris honeycomb on left, Shikoku Island debris found in 1971, on the right. A Mr. Shioto saw the UFO explode and found the debris.
All of the samples were tested with a volt-ohmmeter, and were found to conduct electricity. Fifty-six (56) elements were detected in at least one sample. The aluminum contained alloys not available in aluminum in 1947. The coatings on all metals were blended with metal and rich in silica, titania, magnesia, sulfate, phosphate, and chloride, were almost certainly not available in 1947. The coatings are similar to those removed from people claiming alien contact. The samples still emit magnetic and electrical energy indicating these samples include nanotechnological smart metals and of probable alien origin. Analysis of some of the metal indicated it was not from Earth.
Skin of St. Augustin UFO
Campbell found many items which are as follows:
The major component of the metallic portions of all of the samples proved to be aluminum (Al). All of the samples appeared to be composed of aluminum alloys, with varying amounts of alloying elements. Other elements detected included beryllium (Be), carbon (C), oxygen (O), sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), silicon (Si), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), chlorine (Cl), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), titanium (Ti), iron (Fe), and palladium (Pd). The coating layers of the coated samples were much different in composition from the metallic portions of the samples. Aluminum was still a major component of the coatings, but was present to a lesser degree than in the metallic portions of the samples. The amount of oxygen in the coatings was much greater than in the metallic phase of the samples, indicating that the aluminum was probably present as an oxide layer, rather than as free metal. The proportions of carbon, silicon, and chlorine in the coatings were also higher than in the metal, indicating.
An artificial 3-layered container about the size of a human fist, believed to be some kind of an artificial body organ.* Seven kinds of unusual foil containing high levels of silicon, iron and manganese (unknown to the foil industry.)* Some strange wax material which may have been some kind of an insulation coating inside the UFO* Also found of a similar material was the remains of a small structural member (possibly a tiny I-beam)/* Possible alien sole shoes were found of different sizes of an extremely narrow width. Art’s book goes into great detail with photographs and analyses of these shoe soles.
The fluid would also allow for near but not quite neutral buoyancy in seawater. Her shape suggests that she could most likely dive into the ocean and fly out again with slightly positive buoyancy easily offset by her magneto-hydrodynamic propulsion modes underwater.
New Jersey UFO Landing Site Heals Horses
Medford — Darlene writes, My friend told me that in 1969 or 70 her friend and several people saw three unusual objects hovering the high tension wires next to my property the house was not built. They saw one land on what is now my horse field and pond. I Google it and the articles said that in fact there were sightings. We have an indentation in the field since we moved here that fills up with water yet it never erodes and stays the same shape. We have found unusual metal pieces in that area when it does dry up. This is a picture of a framed view if my lot. Thanks Darlene.
Note: I drove out to investigate the pond site and visited Darlene’s friends, horses, donkeys and horse stables. . The amazing situation was that Darlene takes in virtually dying animals that would normally be end of their lives with .wounded and crippled legs and bodies. They are attracted to the water and spend some time there and are cared for and fed normal food. Miraculously, the animals gain their strength and appear healed and feisty.
I have interviewed several abductees who claim to have been healed, and some people claim to be in touch with aliens/angels who are able to heal others. It appears that aliens feel obliged to preserve the specimen for their own purposes. As one abductee said, ‘It’s equipment maintenance.” I examined the area around the pond and there was little plant life and the dirt seemed to clump.
I was able to obtain samples of the area for the Missouri MUFON Laboratory who did a great job in analyzing the area. The conclusions were as follows: Many diseases and conditions in horses are due to nutrition. The healing of horses in this case may be due to minerals lacking in their former diet which are present in different combinations in this pasture area. As for the human healing this may be due the same conditions that are present in the crop circle healing which cannot be either proven or disproven by scientific methods as yet.
At some time in the past the soil under the pond has been subjected to high heat event of 1000 F or more which resulted in changes seen in forest fires, There is a lack of pond organisms and lack of very low bacteria are counter to what are regularly seen in ponds where animals live, it may be contributed to the high minerals (potassium and phosphors) present or in fact to the serializing effects of high heat on the soil, A small glassy stone or possible meteorite was found in the pond (shown)
Possible Meteorite Twice Actual Size
The recommendation is to have the stone go further testing in an SEM elrctron microscope equipped with a mineral evaluation system to determine all elements to rule out a meteorite. There is further evidence of a high heat event that melted the soil into a glazed conglomerate of gravel encased glass.
Note: A meteorite may have caused the high heat event, or the landing of a possible UFO. Thanks to MUFON Missouri Lab Thanks to Lynn Mann.
Mighty Temple of the Sun God
Sun god Inti
The amazing Temple of the Sun, Koricancha which means “golden courtyard.” The Inca dedicated it to the sun god Inti, and as is the case with many temples dedicated to sun deities throughout the world, they adorned it with gold. Strangely the sun god resembles small aliens.
At the height of their power, this temple was one of the most important in the entire empire. The Inca used large stones, similar to those used in the construction of Machu Picchu to create the walls. Then, they inserted golden plates, and decorated the temple with golden vases and statues. The mummified bodies of deceased Incan kings were also placed inside, and the Inca likewise honored them with royal clothing, headdresses, and golden ritual objects. These mummies, while certainly not alive, were not considered dead, and the Aclla Cuna (Virgins of the Sun) cared for them. Other important artifacts were in Koricancha. Life-sized golden statues of deities and deified ancestors were in the courtyard, and golden altars were the stage upon which the Aclla Cuna prepared ritual foods and offerings. Among all of the sacred artifacts, however, one in particular was revered: a sun disk made of pure gold.
Koricancha, originally called Inta Wasi
Key to the Gate of the Gods
According to legend, this disk was more than an ornamental or even ritual object. It was the key to a sacred doorway called La Puerta de Hayu Marca, or the Gate of the Gods. It is said that the first Incan priest-king Aramu Muru took this golden disk to the site of an ancient, spiritual city in which the inhabitants could commune with gods. Readers may find this idea strange, but even in modern times, legends from worldwide cultures relate that ancient, even antediluvian civilizations were in contact with gods. In the Christian tradition, God became angry and decided to kill all humans save Noah and his family and friends, and He tasks him with saving two of each species. The Sumerian, Akkadian, and more than 500 other traditions have similar accounts of a great flood and divine beings reaching out to assist a select group of sentient beings. Even in modern times, Mahayana Buddhists meditate upon Bodhisattvas, savior deities who supposedly assist humans. Catholic and Orthodox Christians likewise pray to saints, deified human beings who are closer to divinity. While such saints are alive, they are similarly thought to have the ability to commune with God. Therefore, when Incan legends speak about an ancient city in which its inhabitants were closer to Inti, this is universal and unceasing nomenclature, and the tale should not be dismissed outright because of it.
Worldwide myths and legends generally spring from something, some fraction of truth that storytellers elaborate upon throughout the centuries. Good questions to keep in mind are, “What is the real truth?” and “What is the real history?”
The Santo Domingo Church was built in the 17th century on the foundations of the Inca Temple of the Sun (or Koricancha). The Church was nearly destroyed by earthquakes twice, but due to the spectacular construction of the Inca walls it sustained minimal damage. The uninspiring Baroque decoration of Santo Domingo contrasts poorly to the superbly crafted Inca masonry, and much of the cloister has been gutted to reveal four of the original chambers of the great Inca Temple (Koricancha).
Some of the finest Inca stonework that one can see in all of the old Inca Empire is the curved wall beneath the West End of the Church. It is said that during Inca times the walls of the Koricancha (Quechua for ´Golden Courtyard´) were lined with about 700 solid-gold sheets each weighing about two kilos. This is where life-size gold and silver replicas of corn were ceremonially ´planted´ in agricultural rituals. Also reported were solid-gold treasures such as altars, llamas and babies. All that remains today of this splendor is the stonework – the conquistadors took the rest, which was melted down, and nothing survives.
The first conquistadors reported the existence of a “Golden Sun Disc” which was considered a replica of the sun and considered the holiest religious symbol in the empire. This solid golden disc was larger than a human being and before the main party of Spaniards arrived, it mysteriously disappeared. Today, the Golden Sun Disc remains lost. In Inca times the disc was positioned to catch the morning sun and to throw its rays into the gold-lined temple. It filled the temple with bright light and illuminated the mummies of the dead Inca rulers, who were seated in niches along the walls.
The entire temple complex was also an observatory, from which priest’s monitored major celestial activities. Every summer solstice, the sunrays shine directly into a niche – the tabernacle – in which only the Inca was permitted to sit. Along with the main temple dedicated to the Sun, there were other temples dedicated to the Moon, Venus, the Thunder and Lightning and the Rainbow.
Navy Attack Submarines Key to Defeating North Korean Navy
The U.S. Navy has taken delivery of the future USS Colorado, the 15th Virginia-class attack submarine that will likely be required to attack the North Korean Submarine force considered one of the largest in the world.
. (UPI) — The future U.S. Navy submarine USS Colorado, built by Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics Electric Boat, has been delivered to the service. U.S. Sea Systems Command says “Colorado’s delivery is the 15th Virginia-class submarine produced for the Navy. It brings another Block III Virginia-class submarine to the fleet within budget,
The future USS Colorado, or SSN 788, is and the fifth Block III model. Block IIIs feature a redesigned bow with enhanced payload capabilities — 12 individual vertical launch tubes were replaced with two large-diameter Virginia Payload Tubes that can launch six Tomahawk cruise missiles against land and naval targets.
North Korea’s reliance on submarines exposes a harsh reality for the country: U.S. and South Korean naval and air forces are now so overwhelmingly superior that the only viable way for Pyongyang’s navy to survive is to go underwater. While minimally capable versus the submarine fleets of other countries, North Korea does get a great deal of use out of them. Although old North Korea’s submarines have the advantage of numbers and, in peacetime, surprise. Pyongyang’s history of armed provocations means the world hasn’t seen the last of her submarine force. Romeo Submarine
. The Korean People’s Navy (KPN) is believed to have sixty thousand men under arms—less than one-twentieth that of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) ground forces. This, as well as comparable budget makes the KPN’s draftees spend an average of five to ten years, so while Pyongyang’s sailors may not have the latest equipment, they do end up knowing their jobs quite well. The KPN’s submarine fleet is one of the world’s largest, but most of their seventy .submarines are older models. Some submarines are able to launch mid range missiles that could launch from coastal areas. The Soviet Union declared North Korea’s prize.
Romeo class submarine to be obsolete, but they could be tasked to sink US carriers, South Korean, and Japanese vessels. The country has 20 Romeo class boats, comprising almost a third of its submarine fleet.
But Kim Jong-un, the “Supreme Leader” of North Korea, took a short ride on a Romeo sub and issued stern battle orders during a proud tour of a Romeo class submarine. Every other navy in the world gave up on the Romeo, with its noisy and easily detectable diesel engine. The boats carry Yu-4 torpedoes, a Chinese-made weapon dating from the 1960s with a range of six-and-a-half kilometers. The Los Angeles Class nuclear-powered attack submarines of the U.S. Navy, meanwhile, carry Harpoon missiles that can sink a ship 240 km away. Each Romeo displaced 1,830 tons submerged, had a top speed of thirteen knots and was operated by a crew of fifty-four. The Romeo submarines were armed with eight standard-diameter 533-millimeter torpedo tubes, two facing aft. A multinational report on the sinking of the South Korean corvette states that the KPN operated twenty Romeo-class submarines, forty Sang-O (“Shark”) class coastal submarines (SSCs), and ten midget submarines of the Yono class.
The Soviet Union declared North Korea’s prize submarine to be obsolete and started building nuclear subs.
But Kim Jong-un, the “Supreme Leader” of North Korea, issued stern battle orders during a proud tour of a Romeo class submarine of the People’s Navy. Every other navy in the world gave up on the Romeo, with its noisy and easily detectable diesel engine. The country has 20 Romeo class boats, comprising almost a third of its submarine fleet. Any captain of a Romeo class submarine might, however, view hostilities with trepidation.
The boats carry Yu-4 torpedoes, a Chinese-made weapon dating from the 1960s with a range of six-and-a-half kilometers. The attack submarines of the U.S. Navy carry Harpoon missiles that can sink a ship 240 km away. North Korea’s submarine fleet, while smaller and less well funded than the other armed services, has generated an outsized number of international incidents. On September 18, 1996, a Sang-O SSC operated by the Reconnaissance Bureau ran aground near Gangneung, South Korea. The submarine, which had set a three-man party of commandos ashore two days before to reconnoiter a South Korean naval base, had failed to pick up the party the previous night. On its second attempt, the submarine ran aground and became hopelessly stuck within sight of the shoreline.
This week the North Korean foreign minister asked on a visit to New York to attend the UN General Assembly announced his country would launch devastating countermeasure and said his country may test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean that could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific.
Kim Jong Un is surrounded by “Yes” men who are likely encouraging his actions despite his enemies have over whelming military capability. It would seem logical to attack the missile capability and nuclear operational centers of North Korea. During the Iraq War Israeli Commandos attacked the nuclear capability of Iraq that had been moved to Syria. A similar operation could be carried out. The biggest problem in attacking North Korea is that they have thousands of well hidden missiles and artillery that can bombard Seoul, South Korea. In recent months, it has also launched a pair of still-developmental ICBMs it said were capable of striking the continental United States and two intermediate-range missiles that soared over Japanese territory.
A hydrogen bomb test could pose a danger to shipping and aircraft, even if North Korea declares a keep-out zone. The missile would likely fly over Japan and provide a risk to the population by putting a live nuclear warhead on a missile that has been tested only a handful of times. The United Nations after its sixth test has put stiffer sanctions on North Korea and China has joined in with Banking Sanctions. Russia that has a joint border with North Korea may be the only nation still helping. The US is likely to respond if North Korea conducts further provocations.
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Filer’s Files #39 -2017- UFO Crash Revelations - PART II
Filer’s Files #39 -2017- UFO Crash Revelations - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
I was using my Flirt ONE infra-red attachment to my IPhone 5 camera to observe the unknown large planet in sky on September 1, 2017, at 10:21 PM. I saw some birds, stars, or meteors. The birds were noticeable flying in the view of my camera. The video is 4:24 minutes long and during the last 19 seconds a bright object comes from the bottom left heading southeast above me in the night sky. It continues to cross the mid line, and then backs up, stops, then backs up again and zaps a meteor. I presume to knock it out of its orbit. Then it continues on its path. This was a UFO or military vehicle traveling in near earth orbit zapping an incoming meteor. Then continues on towards the top right. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Light
North Port— Driving with my wife and son, leaving my daughter’s house on September 18, 2017, turning a corner I first saw a very low flying helicopter flying in a southeasterly direction. I then saw a glowing light or orb hovering over the parking lot in front of us, just to the west of the helicopter. I stopped the car and the orb starting flying northwest. It would stop, hover, pulsate, and change direction abruptly. We observed it for close to 5 minutes and it disappeared in the sky. At first, I thought the helicopter shot off a flare. The orb was hovering when I first observed it, and I did not physically act like a flare. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Orb
I was coming back after shopping and I stopped after seeing a golden object flying near my house. I started taking pictures of it on September 17, 2017.
Soon I had to move and when I looked back it vanished. The object sometimes pulsated and once changed shape and spitted into 7. I got it all in the video that is attached.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iowa Triangle of Lights
Muscatine — My friend and I were out shooting video of the night sky in March 2017, and flying my phantom drone. We were a couple miles down the road from the local Salsbury Recreation Area by highway F70. As I was flying my drone, my friend noticed this star like light that started moving towards me. The moon was bright, and I didn’t notice it right away. As I brought my drone back towards me, I noticed that the light started following my drone. As I got closer to my landing area it was so close and low to the ground that I was getting freaked out. Around 4 AM it went directly over our heads at about 300 feet with no sound. As it followed my drone it stayed in a direct path right towards me. I landed a few minutes before the object reached us. As it got close to us, it seemed to slow down and just kind of hover for a few minutes and then started heading northwest towards Iowa City. As it got to the Cedar River banks it slowed to a complete halt and sat above the tree line for a bit. After about 5 minutes; it faded away.
It was triangle in shape and had a light on each point as well as some strobing lights on the bottom of the craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Red Light
Milan– I’m head cook at my job and I let my buddy go home and he quickly runs into the restaurant and tells me to go outside. I get out and I see two bright vivid red orbs side by side and it was a bright red and it was pretty far away. I quickly pull out my phone but before I get my camera started it disappears.
Then it reappears after 10 seconds, disappears again, after coming back it goes up and down in a perfect line and then it just vanishes. I have a video before it comes back the second time cause I thought my boss was going to yell at me but it was crazy. If this goes viral or anything please MUFON contact me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mississippi Object
Jackson — It was like someone was using a laser pointer in the sky on June 27, 2017.
That’s how they always move around the sky.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Disc
Bayonne— At 8:20 AM on September 13, 2017, I was traveling to work east bound on the Newark Bay Extension Bridge, right adjacent to Marist high school, I noticed an object that looked like an ink colored oval/disk. The object flew across my path from south to north. I originally thought it was a balloon due to the fact it had that type of movement, it may have been tumbling slowly while it remained in a continuous flight path. It was very hard to tell how big it was and how high it was. I grabbed my phone stuck my arm out the window and snapped 2 holy Mary’s shots. That being said, as soon as I saw it, despite the fact I said to myself it looked like it moved like s balloon, this object looked very strange to me and I’ve never seen anything like it before. I’ve lived across the bay from Newark Airport my whole childhood so I know so the sky in that area, and it’s filled with planes and I know what they look like. I’ll admit I am kind of a UFO enthusiast but I’m not inclined to be fanciful. Shape color and location of this object was very unusual and doesn’t make any sense.
New Mexico Cylinder
I was taking a photo of a rainbow with my camera phone on September 15, 2017. When I came in to look at the image, I saw the object next to the rainbow.
I had not seen it while taking the photograph. I took several photos of a sunset directly after taking this photo, and the object was not visible in these photographs.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Triangle
Hoboken— About 1 30 AM on September 21, 2017, I looked up and there it was, passing overhead. I saw a real UFO today flying slow and silent across the sky. I was able to video for 30 seconds. It moved from bottom right to upper left in the film which was north east to south west. There were two spikes coming off the front of it. Video on request should anyone want. Thanks to Doug Auld
Pennsylvania Lights
Philadelphia— My husband was driving home and it was then that people spotted some unusual lights in the sky on September 9, 2017. My husband saw them and pulled over to the side of the road, pulled out his phone and started recording. There were other people pointing up at them also. When my husband got home he rushed upstairs and told me to look out the window at the lights. I looked but they were gone. My son went out front to look and they continued on south. My husband is retired Air force and is a history buff and loves the military aircraft. This was something he didn’t know how to describe. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Utah Lights
Salt Lake City— My daughter and two other friends were driving north on I-15 when her friend saw a bright light appear on September 16, 2017.
She told the other two and all started watching the light. Then another light appeared and then a third. My daughter called me, but I was not in a place to observe so I told them to record it using their phones of which one did. Then the lights blinked out one at a time and the is clearly shown in the recording. Thanks to MUFON CMS
’Washington Object
Seattle — I saw this very low in the air by my work yesterday with coworkers. It was the size of a helicopter. It was flying in an unnatural path on September. I have a normal photo and a zoomed in photo. It happened at 12:28 PM. It lasted maybe 4 to 5 minutes. This was in South Seattle on airport road at my work at Seattle Barrel Company. It flies to the left in the picture I will send. It was red on top and the bottom was a gold color.
Witness Responses to Investigator Questions: Yeah it was very strange. It was directly in front of me at first. It was about a football field and a half away. It was in a straight path. But when I pointed it out to my coworkers and managers it started to go up and down out of sight through what little bit of trees were there. Once there were no more trees it was fully exposed. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Brazil Light
Fortaleza Ceará, Parque Araxá – On July 8, /2016, at 12:13 PM, some lights appear in random formation following left to right. Five lights are visualized accelerating at super speed in the same second. A brilliant point surge and a bright light cut the video in diagonal at a super speed. A second bright light of circular format this of greater intensity and of greater size cut the sky. Another luminous point in direction of the sun almost impermeable. A new ufo appears in the left corner, follows right and accelerates with supersonic acceleration and some lights appear and follow. The ovnis disappear as everything was filmed, and various lights can only be viewed on the video in slow motion. Camera – Lenovo vibe k5, 16mb pixels, model 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Light
St Sauveur – I was driving home after night shift, near Lake N Ski Hills on September 16, 2017, when I saw a large object hovering. I stopped the car and took a photo. Then I drove away.
Object was there when I left. I felt peaceful but very aware and couldn’t believe what i was seeing. No doubt it was a UFO.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Light
Montijo – On September 20, 2017, a video was taken of a single engine aircraft flying above the cameraman.
Suddenly the bright light appeared near the aircraft and moved with the craft for a short distance. Direcção 800 metros Pista Principal Base Aérea nª 6.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England: Lights
Livingston — While walking my dogs at night outside on September 18, 2017, I noticed two strange lights flying around in the night sky. At first I thought it was a helicopters or drones, but the more I watched I don’t think this is the case. They didn’t look too far away, maybe a mile or so and seemed to maneuver effortlessly through the sky. After watching for a few minutes I went for my phone and recorded them. After recording I went inside to put dogs in and when came back out they were gone.
Wales Object
Just arrived on holiday at the Black Hills in Wales on May 4, 2017.
I took images of dark objects above the hills.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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