Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
29-09-2017
Artificial Intelligence Is Our Future. But Will It Save Or Destroy Humanity?
Artificial Intelligence Is Our Future. But Will It Save Or Destroy Humanity?
If tech experts are to be believed, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the world. But those same experts don’t agree on what kind of effect that transformation will have on the average person. Some believe that humans will be much better off in the hands of advanced AI systems, while others think it will lead to our inevitable downfall.
How could a single technology evoke such vastly different responses from people within the tech community?
Artificial intelligence is software built to learn or problem solve — processes typically performed in the human brain. Digital assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri , along with Tesla’s Autopilot, are all powered by AI. Some forms of AI can even create visual art or write songs.
There’s little question that AI has the potential to be revolutionary. Automation could transform the way we work by replacing humans with machines and software. Further developments in the area of self-driving cars are poised to make driving a thing of the past. Artificially intelligent shopping assistants could even change the way we shop. Humans have always controlled these aspects of our lives, so it makes sense to be a bit wary of letting an artificial system take over.
Image credit: Silver Blue/Flickr
The Lay Of The Land
AI is fast becoming a major economic force. According to a paper from the McKinsey Global Institute Study reported by Forbes, in 2016 alone, between $8 billion and $12 billion was invested in the development of AI worldwide. A report from analysts with Goldstein Research predicts that, by 2023, AI will be a $14 billion industry.
KR Sanjiv, chief technology officer at Wipro, believes that companies in fields as disparate as healthcare and finance are investing so much in AI so quickly because they fear being left behind. “So as with all things strange and new, the prevailing wisdom is that the risk of being left behind is far greater, and far grimmer, than the benefits of playing it safe,” he wrote in an op-ed published in Tech Crunch last year.
Games provide a useful window into the increasing sophistication of AI. Case in point, developers such as Google’s DeepMind and Elon Musk’s OpenAIhave been using games to teach AI systems how to learn. So far, these systems have bested the world’s greatest players of the ancient strategy game Go, and even more complex games like Super Smash Bros and DOTA 2.
On the surface, these victories may sound incremental and minor — AI that can play Go can’t navigate a self-driving car, after all. But on a deeper level, these developments are indicative of the more sophisticated AI systems of the future. Through these games, AI become capable of complex decision-making that could one day translate into real-world tasks. Software that can play infinitely complex games like Starcraft, could, with a lot more research and development, autonomously perform surgeriesor process multi-step voice commands.
When this happens, AI will become incredibly sophisticated. And this is where the worrying starts.
AI Anxiety
Wariness surrounding powerful technological advances is not novel. Various science fiction stories, from The Matrix to I, Robot, have exploited viewers’ anxiety around AI. Many such plots center around a concept called “the Singularity,” the moment in which AIs become more intelligent than their human creators. The scenarios differ, but they often end with the total eradication of the human race, or with machine overlords subjugating people.
Several world-renowned sciences and tech experts have been vocal about their fears of AI. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking famously worries that advanced AI will take over the world and end the human race. If robots become smarter than humans, his logic goes, the machines would be able to create unimaginable weapons and manipulate human leaders with ease. “It would take off on its own, and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate,” he told the BBC in 2014. “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”
Elon Musk, the futurist CEO of ventures such as Tesla and SpaceX, echoes those sentiments, calling AI “…a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization,” at the 2017 National Governors Association Summer Meeting.
Neither Musk nor Hawking believe that developers should avoid the development of AI, but they agree that government regulation should ensure the tech does not go rogue. “Normally, the way regulations are set up is a whole bunch of bad things happen, there’s a public outcry, and after many years, a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry,” Musk said during the same NGA talk. “it takes forever. That, in the past, has been bad, but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization.”
Hawking believes that a global governing body needs to regulate the development of AI to prevent a particular nation from becoming superior. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently stoked this fear at a meeting with Russian students in early September, when he said, “The one who becomes the leader in this sphere will be the ruler of the world.” These comments further emboldened Musk’s position — he tweeted that the race for AI superiority is the “most likely cause of WW3.”
Musk has taken steps to combat this perceived threat. He, along with startup guru Sam Altman, co-foundedthe non-profit OpenAI in order to guide AI development towards innovations that benefit all of humanity. According to the company’s mission statement: “By being at the forefront of the field, we can influence the conditions under which AGI is created.”Musk also founded a company called Neuralink intended to create a brain-computer interface. Linking the brain to a computer would, in theory, augment the brain’s processing power to keep pace with AI systems.
Other predictions are less optimistic. Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at SETI believes that AI will succeed humans as the most intelligent entities on the planet. “The first generation [of AI] is just going to do what you tell them; however, by the third generation, then they will have their own agenda,” Shostak said in an interview with Futurism.
However, Shostak doesn’t believe sophisticated AI will end up enslaving the human race — instead, he predicts, humans will simply become immaterial to these hyper-intelligent machines. Shostak thinks that these machines will exist on an intellectual plane so far above humans that, at worst, we will be nothing more than a tolerable nuisance.
Image source: Max Pixel
Fear Not
Not everyone believes the rise of AI will be detrimental to humans; some are convinced that the technology has the potential to make our lives better. “The so-called control problem that Elon is worried about isn’t something that people should feel is imminent. We shouldn’t panic about it,” Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates recently told the Wall Street Journal. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg went even further during a Facebook Live broadcast back in July, sayingthat Musk’s comments were “pretty irresponsible.” Zuckerberg is optimistic about what AI will enable us to accomplish and thinks that these unsubstantiated doomsday scenarios are nothing more than fear-mongering.
Some experts predict that AI could enhance our humanity. In 2010, Swiss neuroscientist Pascal Kaufmann founded Starmind, a company that plans to use self-learning algorithms to create a “superorganism” made of thousands of experts’ brains. “A lot of AI alarmists do not actually work in AI. [Their] fear goes back to that incorrect correlation between how computers work and how the brain functions,” Kaufmann told Futurism.
Kaufmann believes that this basic lack of understanding leads to predictions that may make good movies, but do not say anything about our future reality. “When we start comparing how the brain works to how computers work, we immediately go off track in tackling the principles of the brain,” he said. “We must first understand the concepts of how the brain works and then we can apply that knowledge to AI development.” Better understanding of our own brains would not only lead to AI sophisticated enough to rival human intelligence, but also to better brain-computer interfaces to enable a dialogue between the two.
To Kaufmann, AI, like many technological advances that came before, isn’t without risk. “There are dangers which come with the creation of such powerful and omniscient technology, just as there are dangers with anything that is powerful. This does not mean we should assume the worst and make potentially detrimental decisions now based on that fear,” he said.
Experts expressed similar concerns about quantum computers, and about lasers and nuclear weapons—applications for that technology can be both harmful and helpful.
Definite Disrupter
Predicting the future is a delicate game. We can only rely on our predictions of what we already have, and yet it’s impossible to rule anything out.
We don’t yet know whether AI will usher in a golden age of human existence, or if it will all end in the destruction of everything humans cherish. What is clear, though, is that thanks to AI, the world of the future could bear little resemblance to the one we inhabit today.
During his presentation at the International Astronautical Congress, Elon Musk explained how he envisions SpaceX's BFR helping humans explore space. He believes the system could support the establishment of human bases on the Moon and Mars alike.
The basic idea behind the BFR is to create a single booster and ship that could replace the company’s Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon. This would allow SpaceX to pour all the resources currently split across those three crafts into the one project.
Once completed, the BFR could be used to launch satellites and space telescopes or clean up space debris. It would also be capable of docking with the International Space Station (ISS) for the delivery of cargo. Most excitingly, though, is the BFR’s potential to facilitate the establishment of off-world colonies.
MISSION TO MARS
The current BFR design is large enough to ferry up to 100 people and plenty of equipment, which Musk believes will be instrumental in creating a base of operations on the Moon. “It’s 2017, I mean, we should have a lunar base by now,” he said during his IAC presentation. “What the hell is going on?”
Musk’s aspirations go well beyond the Moon, though. SpaceX’s goal of heading to Mars as soon as they have the technology to do so is well known, and during last night’s presentation, Musk shared imagery of a fully fledged Martian city.
Construction on SpaceX’s first ship capable of heading to Mars is expected to start within the next nine months, and Musk hopes to send a pair of cargo ships to the planet in 2022, though he admitted that this goal is somewhat “aspirational.”
Two years later, SpaceX would send astronauts to the Red Planet aboard two crewed BFRs. These first “settlers” would construct a fuel plant that would serve as the beginning of the Martian colony. After that, the plan is to build multiple landing pads, then expand out into terraforming and the construction of an urban environment.
Musk’s objectives are indisputably audacious. However, putting humans on Mars will take some big, bold ideas, and his certainly qualify.
Often, the resulting videos and pictures are immediately discredited or easily explained – but on rare occasions, believers are treated to a genuine mystery.
Unfortunately, that is not the case with any of the following videos.
Daily Star Online has collected four of the most outrageous alien hoaxes ever to fool the world – starting with a classic.
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FACT OR FICTION: Daily Star Online explores four of the most famous alien hoaxes
In September last year, it was reported that a giant alien spacecraft had been spotted in the skies above Malaysia.
Video of the alleged sighting does indeed show an enormous object whizzing through the air, accompanied by the low roar of an engine while panicked voices behind the camera murmur with concern.
As the craft passes overhead, white light can be seen shining from the underside of the vessel.
However, Malaysian police claimed to have received no reports of such a sighting.
The spacecraft was later understood to have been inserted into the video using special effects, hijacking a 2007 conceptual spaceship design by artist Damien White.
'UFO' hovers in the night sky before disappearing
Almost 13 million people saw remarkable footage showing a cluster of glowing blue lights in the skies above Colorado, US, after it was posted on Facebook earlier this year.
The group of UFOs behave strangely in the sky before ascending in unison and disappearing into a portal and out of sight.
It is claimed that the video was shot near the San Luis Valley – a notorious hotspot for alleged UFO activity – although local media did not pick up on the incident.
As it transpired, the footage was ripped from a YouTube video claiming to have been filmed in Mexico.
But a Spanish YouTube investigator savaged the footage, suggesting it could be easily replicated using video effects.
Gabe Hash said: “The video is only 30 seconds long and nobody is talking while the person is recording it, meaning that it meets all the characteristics of an animation.
“Most of the video is blurry and as I’ve said below, this is done to camouflage the animation. In conclusion, in our opinion the video is fake and just an animation rendered via computer.”
NASA live stream cuts out after floating grey object spotted
UFO-hunters could not believe their eyes when they discovered a grey-shaped object appear on NASA’s live video stream from the International Space Station.
And their suspicions were apparently confirmed when the stream cut out almost immediately, fuelling rumours of an agency cover-up.
However, the bizarre phenomenon was easily dismissed by experts as, rather disappointingly, the moon.
The moon can appear grey, not white, when viewed from outer space due to various mineral on its surface.
The Earth’s atmosphere can also make the moon seem oddly-shaped.
These two facts, combined with the likelihood of technical malfunction when broadcasting from space, mean the feet likely showed the moon shortly before a common video interruption.
UFO-like figures appear in the sky over the Dominican Republic
Strange lights in the skies above Haiti were captured on video in one of the first YouTube viral phenomena.
The clip shows a series of strange ships appear in the sky before whizzing out of sight, with footage of similar incidents claiming to have been shot in other cities around the world.
Millions have seen the video since it was posted on YouTube – although the video has far less exciting origins than many would have you believe.
It is actually the creation of an artist known only as “Barzolff”, forming as part of a “sociological experiment”.
SHAG HARBOUR, N.S. – As Laurie Wickens pointed off to the horizon one evening last year, it was like he was 18 years old again.
But there were some major differences. This time he was riding in a bus with a group of UFO-story enthusiasts.
And it was nearly five decades later.
What wasn’t different, however, was the level of intrigue and mystery, despite the passage of time.
This week the annual Shag Harbour UFO Festival touches down and will mark the 50-year anniversary of the Shag Harbour UFO incident of Oct. 4, 1967.
Wickens was one of many eyewitnesses to see something in the sky five decades ago, and he’ll be among those taking part in the festival running Friday, Sept. 29 to Sunday, Oct. 1.
Wickens still can’t say with 100 per cent certainty what he saw that night in Shag Harbour, but he’s convinced it was an unidentified flying object – a UFO – which is also how the incident was referred to in Government of Canada documents.
Wickens’ description on the bus tour last year – and more bus tours are planned this year – kept everyone enthralled. He said as he and some friends drove in a 1956 green and white Pontiac they saw lights above the tree line, but heard no sound.
“The lights would come on in sequence – one, two, three, four – then they’d all go off for a while and then start that sequence over,” he described, estimating the length of what he saw to be around 60 feet long, flying low to the horizon
"They weren't high because we wasn't looking up, we were looking out,” he said about the lights.
At the Shag Harbour Incident Centre.TINA COMEAU PHOTO
Eventually the lights crossed over the road and for a few seconds he and others lost sight of them. But then they watched the lights dive in a rapid 45-degree movement towards the water’s surface. At that point they Wickens and his friends thought they had witnessed a plane crash.
“When I called the RCMP the first thing he wanted to know was what I was drinking,” Wickens said about reporting the incident. But his phone call was followed by other ones, including one from other residents and also an off-duty RCMP officer. It wasn’t long before the RCMP, Coast Guard and fishing vessels had descended on the scene.
The fact that there was never any debris found made Wickens certain it wasn’t a plane crash he has witnessed. But what had left the yellow foam on the water’s surface, and what were the lights they had seen in the sky and then watched for about an hour on the water’s surface?
To this day, that remains the question.
Visiting the site of the crash of an object in the water in what is referred to the 1967 Shag Harbour UFO incident.TINA COMEAU PHOTO
Peter Goreham is another witness to the 1967 Shag Harbour UFO incident. In an interview during last year’s festival he recalled about telling his parents about the incident the next morning. They didn’t believe him until they saw the story on the news.
In the decades that have past Goreham said he continues to wonders about a cylinder-type device found by a lighthouse keeper the following morning. It was damaged, smouldering and had wires or something else coming out from it, he said. Someone from the American military, he claimed, took it away and told the lighthouse keeper not to talk about it.
“That was the last we saw of it,” he said
The keynote speaker at this year’s festival will be Chris Styles, who has been investigating the Shag Harbour incident for decades and has co-authored two books on the subject: Dark Object, with Don Ledger, and Impact To Contact, with Graham Simms.
“There’s been a lot of updates to the story and more information is now available since he wrote the two books,” Brock Zinck, vice-president of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society, told this newspaper a few weeks ago. “I’m really looking forward to his presentation. I don’t want to give away anything, but I think people are going to be surprised by what he has to say.”
At the Shag Harbour Incident Centre you can buy an alien.TINA COMEAU PHOTO
2017 Shag Harbour UFO Festival Schedule
Friday, Sept. 29
• 6-6:45 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: registration and meet and greet
• 6:45-7 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: opening remarks
• 7-9 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Keynote address: Chris Style “Shag Harbour 50 Years On”
• 9-11 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Musical performance by Jon Mullane
• 10 p.m. Impact Site: Dark Skies Stargazing presented by Deep Sky Eye Observator
Saturday, Sept. 30
• 7-9 a.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Breakfast served by community hall
• 9-10:15 a.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Don Ledger “Pilot Cases & Incident, and Air Canada Flight 305”
• 10:15-11:30 a.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Aaron Gulyas “History of UFO Crashes”
• 11:30 a.m. UFO Interpretation Centre: Vendors
• 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Graham Simms “Maritime Mysteries and UFOs”
• 12:45-1:45 p.m. Lasagna Lunch at Samuel Woods Museum or food trucks at the Interpretation Centr
• 1:45-3:45 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Shag Harbour UFO Incident Witness Panel with Q&A. Panel will include Laurie Wickens, Peter Goreham, Norman Smith, Michael Crowell, Captain Ronnie Newell (Skipper of Coast Guard Cutter 101), Bill Boudreau (Shelburne Witness), Ralph Loewinger (commercial pilot)
• 3:45-5 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: TBA
• 5 p.m. Shag Harbour Community Centre: Dinner Break served by the Chapel Hill Historical Society
• 4:30-6:30 p.m. UFO Interpretation Centre: Live Podcast Recording with Jordan Bonaparte from Night Time Podcast and Martin Willis from Podcast UFO
• 7-8 p.m. Guided Bus Tour #1
• 9 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Danc
Sunday, Oct. 1
• 7-9 a.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Breakfas
• 9-9:45 a.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Hugh Spencer “Roswell, St. Paul, and Shag Harbour”
• 9:45-10:30 a.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Coffee Party with Tim Doucette of Deep Sky Eye Observatory
• 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Alien Abduction Panel with Q&A: Susan Anderson and Ruth Kenney
• 12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch (Served by Woods Harbour Community Hall)
• 1:30-2:30 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Paul Kimball “UFO Filmography”
• 2:30-4 p.m. Woods Harbour Community Centre: Q&A with festival speakers
Speaking on This Morning , she claimed neither her auntie or uncle believed in aliens until their holiday in Montreal where they saw a UFO.
She told Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield: "They were driving through Hampshire in 1961, when they had a close encounter with a UFO.
"Barney got out of the car with binoculars and looked, and according to the airforce report, they observed a craft that was approximately 100ft above them.
Kathleen Marden claims her auntie and uncle were abducted by aliens(Image: ITV)
Barney and Betty say they saw a red light and UFO(Image: ITV)
"It was very large, as large as a dinner plate at arms length, and was observed by a dozen people as well as them.
"They said it was a bonafide sighting, not just a blip."
Kathleen went on to explain how her uncle described "figures standing behind the windows on the craft, dressed in shiny uniforms, and somehow not human."
She said: "Barney believed he saw a cap on some of the heads, when they turned sideways, something seemed to be protruding from the head area.
A red beam of light then came, and Barney ran to the car shouting, 'We need to get out of here!' There was then a loud sound, and then woke up and realised they'd lost two hours of time.
"Barney believed there was a plan for them, and they jumped in the car, raced down the highway from this craft, and moved over the vehicle.
"Betty looked up, expecting to see a light but looked up at darkness.
"The car was vibrating, and they woke up and then had very little memory of the interim, other than encountering a road block and a fiery orb."
Kathleen was blasted by viewers(Image: ITV)
Holly and Phil managed to keep a straight face(Image: ITV)
Kathleen continued to claim the biggest evidence they'd been involved in an alien abduction came when they got home.
Betty's dress was torn in several places, but she put it in her wardrobe knowing she'd wash it and fix it at a later date.
However, when she went to take it out again, there was a "pink powder on all the areas she'd been touched".
Cynical This Morning viewers were quick to accuse Kathleen of lying about her family's alien abduction.
One said: "This woman is crazy. She's reading this!"
Another blasted: "This woman is nuts ...pink powder bulls**t!!"
A third, wondering why aliens never go anywhere but the States, quipped: "Seems aliens are a bit xenophobic and racist... they always visit USA."
*This Morning continues on ITV1 weekdays at 10.30am
Doctor Roger Lier is a polarizing figure in the world of UFO enthusiasts and the new mystery/documentary, Patient Seventeen, seeks to provide more information about Lier and his beliefs. Roger Leir claims to be a leading surgeon that removes nanotechnology from human beings that were placed in them by aliens from another world and Patient Seventeen looks to verify the authenticity of Leir's claims through the thought provoking documentary. The real-life Patient Seventeen is a man from Southern California in his forties and he claims that he was visited by aliens when he was a child. Leir recently put him under the knife to remove a metallic object from his calf, which he believes was put there by extraterrestrial beings. The official synopsis for the documentary reads.
"Meet a surgeon who claims to remove highly advanced implants, nanotechnology microchips imbedded by aliens, non-humans monitoring our earth. Discover the world of abductions, scalar wave transmissions, and a program to study or manipulate the human race. Armed with a patient, a scalpel, black lights and a stud finder; we seek to verify the authenticity of this alleged Off-World Implant Technology."
Filmmaker Jeremy Kenyon Locker Corbell aims to find the truth in Leir's work and interviews him and Patient Seventeen at length throughout the course of the unsettling movie that is sure to raise a few eyebrows. Patient Seventeen is the latest movie in a series that Corbell calls his "investigative film series" through his Extraordinary Beliefs productions.
A podiatrist by training, from the late 1980s Roger Leir became increasingly involved with his local branch of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Attending one of its conferences in 1995, he was presented with several foot X-rays from a woman who believed that she had been abducted by aliens. Despite Leir's skepticism, the scans did indicate that there was something in her big toe, and to satisfy his curiosity he offered to operate on her, free of charge. On August 19th, 1995 he extracted two very small foreign objects from the patient, each one metallic in appearance. A second patient underwent surgery that same day for an object about the size of a watermelon seed, between his thumb and index finger.
By the late 1990s, Leir's findings had established him as a prominent, though controversial, spokesperson for the alien abduction and UFO communities. The Aliens and the Scalpel, detailing his experiences with "implant" surgery, was published in 1999, followed by Casebook: Alien Implants. He made appearances in various television documentaries, including the History Channel's UFO Hunters, and attended conferences in more than 40 countries. In 2003, he travelled to Varginha, Brazil, to conduct his own research into the alleged crash of an alien craft there seven years previously, an event dubbed "the Brazilian Roswell." The investigation formed the basis of his final book, UFO Crash in Brazil.
Doctor Roger Leir died in 2014 at the age of 79 and Patient Seventeen aims to dive into his studies that many believe to be completely fabricated. Discover the world of alien abductions in the new trailer from The Orchard's Patient Seventeen. Armed with a patient, a scalpel, black lights and a stud finder; director Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell seeks to verify the authenticity of alleged Off-World Implant Technology in this gripping documentary available to own October 10th, and On Demand October 31st. You can check out the trailer courtesy of The Orchard Movies YouTube channel below.
Famous alien autopsy film confession reignites debate
Famous alien autopsy film confession reignites debate
The man responsible for making what has become one of the most famous alleged alien films in the world recently spoke the the UK’s Metro News, admitting that he had created the video. He says he made it as a joke, but he regrets that it has fooled so many people. One of the men who paid for the creation of the film told the Daily Express that although the film is fake, it was based off of real footage. However, there are many reasons to doubt this account.
What has come to be known as the “Alien Autopsy” in UFO circles was first made famous in a TV documentary in 1995. The show was called Alien Autopsy – Fact or Fiction, produced by Robert Kiviat in 1995 and hosted by Star Trek’s Jonathan Frakes.
The film was purportedly of an alien that was recovered at the famous alleged crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft outside of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. However, it was quickly picked apart and was found to be fake. Still, the filmmakers purportedly made millions.
The movie was owned by Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield. To defend their participation in the hoax, Santilli claimed that they really were given a piece of film of the alien autopsy by a mysterious cameraman who they say they confirmed was a US Air Force cameraman in 1947. They claim the film had deteriorated, so they hired people to make a recreation.
Spyros Melaris told Metro News he was the guy hired to make the film, but he says the whole thing came from his imagination, not any mysterious footage.
A recent article in Metro News reads, “Spyros Melaris reveals in a new one-man West End show that the film claiming to show an alien body being examined in 1947 was actually shot in a north London flat.”
From left: Gary Shoefield, Philip Mantle, Ray Santilli.
(Credit: Philip Mantle)
Melaris says he hired sculptor John Humphreys, a special effects expert, who among other shows, has worked on Dr. Who. Humphreys created the aliens, and for the innards, they obtained cow and lamb organs from a local butcher.
To further fool people, Melaris says they spliced their footage into real 1947 newsreel to look more authentic.
As for Humphreys, he has also come forward regarding his involvement. UK UFO researcher, and frequent contributor to OpenMinds.tv, Philip Mantle has been investigating the Alien Autopsy for years, and has corresponded with Humphreys.
Humphreys also, ironically, worked on a movie about Sheffield and Santilli’s creation of the hoaxed film. It generally followed Santilli’s claim that they had seen real footage and tried to create it. The movie started comedy team Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, known as Ant and Dec. At the end of the movie, after the two had been exposed as hoaxers, they receive the “real” footage, but it was too late.
John Humphreys creating the alien prop for the movie.
(Credit: Philip Mantle)
This “real” footage was grainy black and white film, and sure enough, rumors started that the footage used in the movie was the real footage Santilli had seen. This rumor was supposedly given credence by Santilli himself. When confronted, he told Mantle that he could not talk about it, adding to the mystery.
Alien Autopsy movie poster.
(Credit: Warner Bros.)
Humphreys was not so shy. He told Mantle that he had created the props for the entire movie, including the new black and white film at the end.
“For me this ends the debate,” writes Mantle. “Humphreys has no reason to take credit for something he did not do. The evasiveness of Santilli and [director Johnny] Campbell also speaks volumes. As far as I’m concerned the short black & white sequence at the end of the ‘Alien Autopsy’ feature movie is not the real deal and is simply a cinematic special effect made by the movie company and John Humphreys.”
But the story does not end there. As recently as today, the Daily Express released an exclusive interview with Santilli who stands by his claim that the real footage exists. In fact, he provided an image that allegedly shows a piece of the real film. However, he still will not reveal the name of the man who provided him the film.
“I refute Spyros Melaris’s version of his involvement in Alien Autopsy,” Santilli told the Daily Express. “If anything Spyros was part of a team. He felt there should been more acknowledgement for his work or the artistic side.”
Gareth Watson, an actor who played a doctor in the fake video, says he was also lead to believe there was real film footage and he saw it.
However, he says, “The original footage was of very poor quality to the point I could have been looking at the yeti.”
Alien Autopsy image recently provide to the Daily Express. This is supposedly part of the real footage provided to Santilli.
(Credit: Ray Santilli)
If Watson is right, and the footage is of such poor quality, how could they have recreated it?
At one point, years ago, our organization was offered the opportunity to examine a piece of the “real” film, but we were told we could not be proved a piece that had an image of the alien or anything else from the autopsy footage. But it was allegedly a piece from the reel. Without being able to prove that, it was not worth our time.
But let’s take a closer look at the image Santilli provided the Daily Express. Scott Brando runs ufoofinterest.org. He is also active on social media and carefully examines UFO and alien claims. He tweeted me something he noticed, which is that the image Santilli provided the Daily Express looks like a negative of a still from the hoaxed alien autopsy video. Of course it is also scuffed up to look old. He provided the image below, and it does look spot on.
Comparison made by Scott Brando/UFOofinterest.org
So this once again seems to be Santilli up to his old tricks. Why doesn’t he give up? Maybe he loves the attention and is still making money. He claims he may release the entire film at some point in the future, but I would guess it would need to involve a lot of money and that it will be inconclusive in the end.
“I would like to say now that there is a big part of me that feels remorse. I underestimated the response,” Maleris told Metro News. “The reality is that everybody in the UFO community took this film as the smoking gun, proof of UFOs and aliens.”
Well, not everyone. Most UFO researchers didn’t buy it, but many UFO enthusiasts have. Either way, many interested in the UFO phenomenon will find it hard to forgive Melaris as the search for the smoking gun continues. I’de be willing to wager that if a smoking gun is found, it is not Santilli who has it.
Alexander the Great's 'lost city' was a magical place where people drank wine and naked philosophers imparted wisdom, ancient accounts claim.
Now, nearly 2,000 years after the great warrior's death, archaeologists believe the city may have finally been discovered in Iraq.
Experts first noticed ancient remains in the Iraqi settlement, known as Qalatga Darband, after looking at declassified American spy footage from the 1960s.
The images were made public in 1996 but, due to political instability, archaeologists were unable to explore the site properly for years.
Now, using more recent drone footage and on-site work, researchers have established there was a city during the first and second centuries BC, which had strong Greek and Roman influences.
They believe Alexander the Great founded it in 331 BC, and later settled in the city with 3,000 veterans of his campaigns.
Alexander the Great's 'lost city' was a magical place where people drank wine and naked philosophers imparted wisdom, ancient accounts claim.
Now, nearly 2,000 years after the great warrior's death, archaeologists believe the city may have finally been discovered in Iraq.
Experts first noticed ancient remains in the Iraqi settlement, known as Qalatga Darband, after looking at declassified American spy footage from the 1960s.
The images were made public in 1996 but, due to political instability, archaeologists were unable to explore the site properly for years.
Now, using more recent drone footage and on-site work, researchers have established there was a city during the first and second centuries BC, which had strong Greek and Roman influences.
They believe Alexander the Great founded it in 331 BC, and later settled in the city with 3,000 veterans of his campaigns.
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Nearly 2,000 years after Alexander the Great's death, archaeologists believe his 'lost city' has been found in Iraq's Qalatga Darband. Shown here is the Darband-i Rania pass from the northeast. The site of Qalatga Darband is the triangular land beyond the bridge on the right
WHO WAS ALEXANDER THE GREAT?
Alexander the Great is arguably one of history's most successful military commanders.
Undefeated in battle, he had carved out a vast empire stretching from Macedonia and Greece in Europe, to Persia, Egypt and even parts of northern India by the time of his death aged 32.
Only five barely intact accounts of his death at Babylon in 323 BCE survive to the present day.
None are from eyewitnesses and all conflict to varying degrees.
According to one account from the Roman era, Alexander died leaving his kingdom 'to the strongest' or 'most worthy' of his generals.
In another version, he died speechless in a coma, without making any plans for succession.
Undefeated in battle, Alexander had carved out a vast empire stretching from Macedonia and Greece in Europe, to Persia, Egypt and even parts of northern India by the time of his death aged 32.
Researchers believe Qalatga Darband - which roughly translates from Kurdish as ‘castle of the mountain pass’ - is on the route Alexander of Macedon took to attack Darius III of Persia in 331 BC.
The city may have served as an important meeting point between East and West.
It is 6 miles (10km) south-east of Rania in Sulaimaniya province in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Researchers at the British Museum first explored the site using spy footage of the area from the 1960s.
An archaeological dig was not possible when Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq.
But more recently improved security has allowed the British Museum to explore the site as a way of training Iraqis to rescue areas damaged by Islamic State.
As well as on-site work, the Museum has also been able to capture its own drone footage of the area.
'We got coverage of all the site using the drone in the spring — analysing crop marks hasn't been done at all in Mesopotamian archaeology', lead archaeologist John MacGinnis told The Times.
'It's early days, but we think it would have been a bustling city on a road from Iraq to Iran.
'You can imagine people supplying wine to soldiers passing through', he said.
'Where there are walls underground the wheat and barley don't grow so well, so there are colour differences in the crop growth'.
A graphic of what the 'lost city' would have looked like, with a temple, inner fort and wine press facilities. Farmers in the area had found remains of big buildings and a large fortified wall in the area
Researchers first noticed apparently ancient remains in the Iraqi settlement, known as Qalatga Darband (pictured) after looking at declassified American spy footage from the 1960s. However, an archaeological dig was not possible when Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq
From the excavation work, they discovered an abundance of terracotta roof tiles and Greek and Roman statues, suggesting the city's early residents were Alexander’s subjects.
Among the statues they found was a female figure believed to be Persephone, the Greek goddess of vegetation, and the other is believed to be Adonis, a symbol of fertility.
They also discovered a coin of Orodes II, who was king of the Parthian from 57 BC to 37 BC.
On its western flank, the city was protected by a large fortification which ran from the river to the mountain.
It is situated on a large open site around 60 hectares (148 acres) large on a natural terrace.
The 1960s Corona spy satellite footage showed a large square building, potentially believed to be a fort, according to aBritish Museum blog.
More recently improved security has allowed the British Museum to explore the site as a way of training Iraqis to rescue areas damaged by Islamic State. The findings suggest, Qalatga Darband, may be on the route Alexander the Great took to attack Darius III of Persia in 331 BC
An abundance of terracotta roof tiles and Greek and Roman statues suggests the city, which now has a thriving wine trade, could have been created by Alexander. Statue of a nude male (left) which could possibly be Adonis and a Coin of Orodes II (right)
WHAT DID THEY DO?
There were rumours there was an ancient city at the site three years previously and farmers had found remains of big buildings and a large fortified wall.
Experts processed their drone footage and increased the colour contrasts to show rectangular buildings hidden beneath fields of crops.
An abundance of terracotta roof tiles and Greek and Roman statues also suggests the city, which now has a thriving wine trade, could have been created by Alexander.
They found two key statues - one a female figure believed to be Persephone, the Green goddess of vegetation, and the other is believed to be Adonis, a symbol of fertility.
Farmers in the area had also found remains of big buildings and a large fortified wall.
There were a number of limestone blocks, believed to be wine or oil presses.
Meanwhile, excavation of a mound at the southern end of the site revealed a monument which could have been a temple for worship.
Fieldwork started in the autumn of 2016 and is expected to last until 2020.
The project, which was part of the government-funded Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Programme, has been possible due to improved security in the country.
It is part of a £30 million ($40 million) government plan to help Iraq rebuild historical sites destroyed by Islamic State.
This fund is designed to counter the destruction of heritage in cultural zones from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The programme involves bringing groups of Iraqi archaeologists to London for eight weeks of training at the British Museum.
They are then sent to excavations in the field for six additional weeks where they learn how to do drone surveys and 3D scanning.
Archaeologists at the British Museum have found a number of statues and coins and have established there was a city during the first and second centuries BC which had strong Greek and Roman influences
Archaeologists also found terracotta roof tiles, such as this antefix (pictured) - which suggested Greek and Roman influences
Experts believe Qalatga Darband is on the route Alexander the Great (pictured) took to attack Darius III of Persia in 331 BC
Qalatga Darband is six miles (10km) south-east of Rania in Sulaimaniya province in Iraqi Kurdistan, just next to Dukan Lake. Using drone footage, experts have now established there was a city during the first and second centuries BC
CULTURAL PROTECTION FUND
The project, which was part of the government-funded Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Programme, has been possible due to improved security in the country.
It is part of a £30 million ($40 million) government plan to help Iraq rebuild historical sites destroyed by Islamic State.
This fund is designed to counter the destruction of cultural heritage in cultural zones from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The training programme involves bringing groups of Iraqi archaeologists to London for eight weeks of training at the British Museum.
They are then sent to excavations in the field for six additional weeks where thy will learn how to do drone surveys and 3D scanning.
The plan is to provide training for more than 50 Iraqis over a period of five years.
The team now want to find linguistic evidence to confirm their findings.
Earlier this year archaeologists believe they found the last will and testament of Alexander the Great - more than 2,000 years after his death.
A London-based expert David Grant claimed to have unearthed the Macedonian king's dying wishes in an ancient text that has been 'hiding in plain sight' for centuries.
The long-dismissed last will divulged Alexander's plans for the future of the Greek-Persian empire he ruled.
It also reveals his burial wishes and discloses the beneficiaries to his vast fortune and power.
Evidence for the lost will can be found in an ancient manuscript known as the 'Alexander Romance', a book of fables covering Alexander's mythical exploits.
Likely compiled during the century after Alexander's death, the fables contain invaluable historical fragments about Alexander's campaigns in the Persian Empire.
The project, which was part of the government-funded Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Programme, has been possible due to improved security in the country
Beelden autopsie op Roswell-alien gepubliceerd. Is dit een echt buitenaards wezen?
Beelden autopsie op Roswell-alien gepubliceerd. Is dit een echt buitenaards wezen?
De Britse filmmaker Ray Santilli claimde eerder dat hij van een tachtigjarige militair een film had gekocht die was gemaakt van het onderzoek naar het Roswellincident.
Nu heeft hij enkele frames vrijgegeven waarop één van de Roswell-aliens te zien zou zijn.
De militair zou altijd hebben gezwegen over de film, maar hem uiteindelijk verkocht hebben om aan geld te komen voor het huwelijk van zijn dochter.
Vreemd uitziende organen
Op de film zou te zien zijn hoe onderzoekers het lichaam van de alien openen en er vreemd uitziende organen uit halen.
Volgens Santilli heeft Kodak aan de hand van serienummers vastgesteld dat de film in 1927, 1947 of 1967 uit de fabriek moet zijn gekomen.
Hij claimt dat de nepfilm die hij in 1995 maakte over de Roswell-crash (zie video hieronder) is gebaseerd op de oorspronkelijke, authentieke beelden.
‘Zeker geen hoax’
Op het beeld, dat door de Daily Express is gepubliceerd, zijn drie frames te zien die een dode alien op een operatietafel lijken te tonen.
De film die Santilli in 1995 maakte was ‘zeker geen hoax, maar een reconstructie’, zo vertelde hij aan de krant.
Op de vraag of het gaat om de oorspronkelijke beelden, antwoordde hij: “Zeker weten.”
Roswell-alien (Ray Santilli)
Iets anders
“Laat me duidelijk zijn: ik was er niet bij in 1947, dus ik kan niet met zekerheid zeggen of het een alien is, maar het zijn de oorspronkelijke camerabeelden,” zei hij.
De beelden kwamen volgens hem in 1992 boven water, toen Polygram (nu Universal) hem vroeg om een documentaire over Elvis Presley te maken.
“Een cameraman vroeg ons in Cleveland of we interesse hadden in iets anders,” zei Santilli. “Hij claimde voor de luchtmacht te hebben gewerkt en de autopsie op de alien te hebben gefilmd.”
Hele film
De beelden waren na al die jaren van dusdanig slechte kwaliteit dat hij besloot om een reconstructie te maken. Dat vertelde hij er indertijd echter niet bij.
Santilli zegt nog steeds eigenaar te zijn van de oorspronkelijke beelden. Mogelijk maakt hij op een later moment de hele film openbaar.
Verloren stad van Alexander de Grote ontdekt in Irak. De manier waarop is verrassender dan je zou denken
Verloren stad van Alexander de Grote ontdekt in Irak. De manier waarop is verrassender dan je zou denken
Archeologen hebben in Irak een verloren stad ontdekt. De stad, die meer dan 2000 jaar verborgen lag, is ontdekt aan de hand van dronebeelden en oude foto’s die openbaar zijn gemaakt.
Qalatga Darband, naar verluidt in 331 voor Christus gesticht door Alexander de Grote, is ontdekt door een team Iraakse en Britse archeologen onder leiding van het British Museum.
De vindplaats trok de aandacht van archeologen nadat de CIA satellietbeelden uit de jaren zestig had geopenbaard, waarop ruïnes te zien waren.
Bruisende stad
De beelden zijn al in 1996 vrijgegeven, maar vanwege de politieke instabiliteit konden archeologen de vindplaats jarenlang niet goed onderzoeken.
Hoofdonderzoeker John MacGinnis en zijn collega’s gebruikten drones om de resten van de gebouwen te vinden die eeuwen onder de grond verscholen lagen.
“Het is nog vroeg, maar we denken dat het een bruisende stad was op de weg van Irak naar Iran,” vertelde hij aan The Times.
Chaos
Op de vindplaats in Iraaks-Koerdistan zijn onder meer Griekse munten en standbeelden van Grieks-Romeinse goden gevonden.
De Iraakse archeologische diensten hebben zeer veel hinder ondervonden van de chaos die ontstond na de door Amerika geleide invasie van Irak in 2003.
Eén van de grootste
Alexander de Grote creëerde één van de grootste rijken in de oudheid, een rijk dat zich uitstrekte van Macedonië en Griekenland in Europa tot Perzië, Egypte en zelfs delen van India.
Hij was ongeslagen in de strijd en wordt beschouwd als één van de meest succesvolle bevelhebbers aller tijden.
Flaming object streaking across the sky releases escape pod over Santiago, Chile?
Flaming object streaking across the sky releases escape pod over Santiago, Chile?
The following footage of a strange moving flaming object was caught on camera by Francisco Garcia on September 25, 2017 19.30 local time over Santiago, Chile.
While the object streaking across the sky it suddenly releases something what looks like an escape pod sparking theories that it could be a UFO.
Others suggest that the flaming object is the effect of a large plane as it’s cuts through a cloud layer but I’m not sure if that is the case because it does move in a way that doesn’t suggest clouds.
So, the object is a UFO ejecting an escape pod or is it more likely that the object is something like a meteorite, space junk or a man-made reentry vehicle reentering the atmosphere and breaking up?
COUPLE SAW ’40 UFOS’ HOVERING OVER BRITISH BEACH BEFORE MAJOR MILITARY OPERATION
COUPLE SAW ’40 UFOS’ HOVERING OVER BRITISH BEACH BEFORE MAJOR MILITARY OPERATION
The couple’s bizarre claims concern the night of September 14 2009 at 11pm.
They lived in one of 30 flats that overlook the sea at Wilsthorpe.
The pair decided to go to bed, however, as the woman went to turn off the lights, she saw a glow outside.
Mr Sinclair said “something told her to look outside” before she opened the front door and looked out to sea where she was amazed to see several glowing UFOs above the coast.
Mr Sinclair said she described them as 15-feet long and eight-feet wide “spaceships over the sea”.
He said: “She said there was a huge circle of boomerang-shaped craft.
“She said there were loads – 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing.
“They were silent, but there was electricity going into the sea.
“Ron (her husband) said it was like a blue and white Christmas tree over the sea. He was frightened and left after ten minutes and put his head under the pillow for the night.
“But, she told me she was not frightened and knew she was never going to see anything like it again in her life.”
She stayed for around half and hour before the objects began to “lift out of the circle in pairs at a 45 degree angle until just two were left which shot off straight up.”
Two Chinook helicopters full of RAF personnel landed at the beach by the remote hamlet.
Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen “triangle” craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.
He said two of his bait diggers had been on Wilsthorpe Beach the day the couple saw the military operation.
They told of seeing “triangles entering the sea” and later “being surrounded by soldiers.”
Separately a man working on a boat at Blythe Park boat compound also confirmed the military presence, he said.
Mr Sinclair submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to find out why the operation took place on September 15.
However, the response he eventually received, said it was just a “routine military exercise” and few other details were provided.
The reply said “no live ammunition was used” and “any explosions heard were controlled detonations of simulated ammunitions.”
The response added that it was “one of a number of regular exercises” as part of work to defend the UK, and new locations would often be used with landowners’ consent.
Mr Sinclair continues to investigate the case and is trying to obtain historic coast guard reports from the period.
He believes it is connected to a high level of reported UFO activity along a 25-mile stretch of the East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire coast from Brandesburton in East Yorkshire to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between May and September 2009.
High levels of military aircraft flying low and circling near his home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, were also recorded that September.
Mr Sinclair said the case did not yet prove a UFO presence, but: “I think the military arrived because of the objects.”
In a post on his Truth Proof Facebook page about the case, he wrote: “Nothing found can prove with any certainty the UFOs were over the sea as an elderly couple claim, or that the black triangles entered the sea in September 2009 like the bait diggers described.
“All I can do is stack the evidence for and against, either side of the scale.”
Elf jaar geleden maakte de eerste maanorbiter van de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie SMART-1 een geplande, maar allesbehalve zachte landing op onze natuurlijke satelliet. Met een snelheid van zo’n twee kilometer per seconde stuiterde deze over het maanoppervlak. “Er waren in die tijd geen andere ruimtevaartuigen in een baan rond de maan om close-upbeelden van de inslag te maken en het vinden van de exacte locatie was meer dan tien jaar een ‘cold case’,” vertelt SMART-1-projectonderzoeker Bernard Foing. Want hoewel de op aarde gevestigde Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope de lichtflits die tijdens de inslag ontstond, vastlegde, bleef de exacte locatie van de inslag in nevelen gehuld.
Gevonden! Maar die cold case kan nu gesloten worden. Want Foing heeft de laatste rustplek van SMART-1 gevonden, zo vertelde hij tijdens het European Planetary Science Congress. “Voor deze Crash Scene Investigation gebruikten we alle mogelijke getuigen op aarde, observaties en computermodellen om de exacte plek te vinden en uiteindelijk vonden we de littekens.”
De littekens Want de inslag is ook de maan niet in de koude kleren gaan zitten, zo blijkt. Op beelden van de inslagplek is een twintig meter lange en vier meter brede geul te zien die dwars door een oudere krater loopt. Aan het einde van de geul treffen we ejecta aan – maanmateriaal dat tijdens de inslag is weggeslingerd – dat richting het zuiden is uitgewaaierd. “De hoge resolutie-beelden van de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiterlaten sneeuwwitte ejecta van het eerste contact (met de maan, red.) zien, vervolgens is door het ruimtevaartuig een kanaal dat van noord naar zuid loopt, uitgekerfd voor deze ging stuiteren.”
De laatste rustplaats van SMART-1.
Afbeelding: P Stooke / B Foing et al 2017 / NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University.
Als het aan Foing ligt, gaan we de littekens die SMART-1 heeft achterlaten nog eens van dichterbij bekijken. “De volgende stap is het sturen van een robotische onderzoeker die de resten van SMART-1 – het lichaam en de ‘vleugels’ bestaande uit zonnepanelen – gaat onderzoeken.”
Wonderschone Saturnusnevel vastgelegd door ESO's Very Large Telescope
Wonderschone Saturnusnevel vastgelegd door ESO's Very Large Telescope
Tim Kraaijvanger
Deze planetaire nevel heeft qua silhouet iets weg van de planeet Saturnus, maar is wel een totaal ander object.
De Saturnusnevel is zo’n 5.000 lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd en is te vinden in het sterrenbeeld Waterman. Ooit was deze nevel een lichte ster, vergelijkbaar met de zon. Aan het einde van zijn bestaan dijde het object uit tot een rode reus en begon het zijn buitenste gaslagen af te stoten. Deze gaslagen zijn weggeblazen door krachtige sterrenwinden en vervolgens verlicht door de ultraviolette straling van de ster.
Het resultaat is dat er nu een kleurrijke nevel te zien is. Deze foto is gemaakt door het MUSE-instrument van ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Dankzij de observatie van de Saturnusnevel leren onderzoekers meer over de complexe structuren binnen een planetaire nevel. Zo ontdekten de wetenschappers een golfachtige structuur in het stof, die nog niet helemaal te plaatsen is. Er is minder stof te vinden aan de rand van de binnenschil van de nevel. Wordt dit stof daar vernietigd? Zo ja, komt dit door de uitdijende schokgolf of verdampt het stof door de hitte?
Nevel NGC 7009 met annotaties. Voor het eerst is het stof in de nevel vastgelegd.
In het midden van de nevel is een ster te zien, die langzaam transformeert in een witte dwerg. In deze ster vinden geen kernreacties meer plaats. Wel is de ster zeer dicht. Zo heeft een gemiddelde witte dwerg een straal van enkele duizenden kilometers, terwijl een kubieke centimeter witte dwerg-materiaal een paar honderd ton weegt. Als je op een witte dwerg zou staan, zou je direct in elkaar worden gedrukt door de zwaartekracht. Het zwaartekrachtsveld is namelijk honderdduizenden malen sterker dan op het aardoppervlak.
Ook onze zon wordt ooit een witte dwerg. Zo’n witte dwerg koelt heel langzaam af. Pas na tientallen miljarden jaren – en mogelijk nog langer – is de ster volledig uitgedoofd en blijft er een zwarte dwerg over.
NASA Satellites Detect MASSIVE, 150-mile anomaly in Antarctica
NASA Satellites Detect MASSIVE, 150-mile anomaly in Antarctica
A bizarre anomaly of around 250 km has been found in Antarctica thanks to satellite images provided by NASA.
A bizarre, new theory claims that a mysterious anomaly discovered beneath the ice in Antarctica may be a sort of secret base.
UFO hunters are convinced that not only did the Nazi’s built secret bases on the north and south pole but that there are several bases on Antarctica that were used not only by humans but by otherworldly visitors as well.
The massive Antarctica anomaly encompasses a distance of nearly 250 kilometers across and reaches a maximum depth of 850 meters below the surface.
The anomaly was discovered in an area known as Wilkes Land on Antarctica.
Speaking about the discovery, Secureteam10 says: ‘To this day, scientists have no idea or way to discover exactly what is buried deep under this thick ice shelf. This continent has been shrouded in a mystery of its own for years now.’
‘There is some evidence of this coming to light in recent years, with images purporting to show various entrances built into the side of mountains, with a saucer shape and at a very high altitude. This begs the question: how would you enter these entrances without something that could fly and was the same shape as the hole itself?’
You only need one such discovery, and a conspiracy is at hand.
Furthermore, it is believed that the US Navy led a mission to investigate such anomaly.
The recon mission was dubbed ‘Operation Highjump.’ Operation Highjump included a staggering 13 ships, aircraft escort, aircraft carrier, a submarine, two destroyers and a total of 4,700 men with full battle gear in what was officially called an ordinary ‘training exercise.’
Operation Highjump was curiously terminated six months earlier than expected. An excerpt from February 19, 1947 describes Admiral Byrd’s arrival over the pole at 1000 hours:
We are crossing over the small mountain range and still proceeding northward as best as can be ascertained. Beyond the mountain range is what appears to be a valley with a small river or stream running through the center portion. There should be no green valley below! Something is definitely wrong and abnormal here! We should be over Ice and Snow! To the portside are great forests growing on the mountain slopes. Our navigation Instruments are still spinning, the gyroscope is oscillating back and forth!
The odd anomaly was first found by NASA satellites in 2006.
However, not everyone is willing to go with the conspiracy theory of secret bases located hundreds of meters below the Antarctican ice.
Others believe that the bizarre anomaly isn’t so bizarre after all, and that it is in fact the result of an asteroid impact twice the size of the one which exterminated the dinosaurs.
‘This Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time,’ said Ralph von Frese, who was a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University when he discovered the crater in 2006. All the environmental changes that would have resulted from the impact would have created a highly caustic environment that was really hard to endure. So it makes sense that a lot of life went extinct at that time.’
Dusk is falling outside the Alien Research Center, and I’m ready to go home. But Mikayla, our photographer, wants to capture some final shots of the metal alien while the light is good. The sun is flat on the horizon, turning the desert, the highway, the alien and everything else gold. The pros call this moment “magic hour.” I shuffle around the empty lot and snap a few phone pics of a street sign that warns: Open Range Next 110 Miles.
From out of nowhere, a rushing engine and flying dirt. Could it be a UFO? Nope. It’s a jalopy, nearly hitting me. A young man and his father have driven all the way from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to explore the interplanetary hot spot that surrounds state Route 375, aka the Extraterrestrial Highway. They’ve already visited the gate to Area 51, but they’re too late for the Alien Research Center. The gift shop is closed.
Meeting an extraterrestrial would be the coolest thing ever, the son, Jeremy Richter, tells me. He spins intricate histories of aliens, and I wonder aloud what he’ll do if he actually meets one.
His answer? A question: “What do you think about our species? In my opinion, our species is half idiotic and half insane.”
What is it about humanity and our insatiable need to be judged? Thousands of years of advancement and we still desire some Egyptian god—or Ancient Alien—to weigh our souls against a feather.
In Rachel, Nevada, polite European tourists have mostly replaced the true believers. This town is famous for interstellar travel, yet it doesn’t even have a gas station. But it does have the Little A’Le’Inn, which serves surprisingly delicious “World Famous Alien Burgers.” Inside, the waitress wears flying saucer earrings and a branded T-shirt. Also, the wall of old UFO photos has been encased in plexiglass, and the owner has grown suspicious of camera-wielding journalists.
There, Mikayla and I buy enamel souvenir pins and a 33-cent map of Area 51. We use the latter to find the famous “black mailbox,” which an annoyed local rancher constructed to corral all the letters people sent to aliens. It has come and gone and even changed color over the years. Right now, it’s located at the dirt-road turnoff to Area 51.
It’s also surrounded by an ad hoc collection of trinkets. I look and see the future: One day, after the robots revolt, the zombies attack and the few human survivors regroup into sad little bands that scour a scorched and despoiled Earth, this will be what passes for a religious temple. Even now, it feels holier than Parisian cathedrals. The items could be mistaken for the flotsam and jetsam of a single-use society, except for the thoughtful way it has all been arranged: painted rocks, a Star Wars-themed sunshade, a Hawaiian lei, mason jar shrines, business cards, foil food wrappers, water bottles, a pink glowstick, a brunette hairdresser’s mannequin ... and, above it all, an American flag taped to a broken lawn chair.
The black mailbox is stuffed, and the letters are all dated within the past few weeks. They’re written on whatever scrap people had with them: valet parking tickets, a Utah church comment card and a Styrofoam cup. Most are ironic or funny or fishing for social media likes. But Mary Staunton’s letter to “E.T.” sticks with me: In neat script, the Irish woman explains how her late husband had wanted to meet an alien: “He always said that we have enough room in our garden for a ship to land. Maybe he’s with you now. I still miss him so much.”
The scene outside the Little A’Le’Inn is equal parts Mayberry and Twilight Zone. Two middle-aged tourists from the Midwest relax out front, enjoying the shade of a rare tree. Begrudgingly they admit their fascination with UFOs, like it’s an embarrassing medical condition. They have a healthy sense of skepticism, but still, they’ve seen some freaky stuff. To their credit, invisible planes buzz overhead—circling and circling, like motorcycles in a cage. Also, right on the side of the road, there’s a big government testing device that tracks the amount of nuclear contaminants in the air. It’s higher here than in Vegas, but Vegas isn’t at zero radiation, either.
These men understand the ambient creepiness but also stand outside it. Like the way we enjoy Vegas kitsch: It’s that double appreciation where you get the joke but also fall for it at the same time. Just as Mikayla and I are searchers, even though we pretend not to be.
Once I start looking for them, I see aliens everywhere. A Hoover Dam gift shop called the Flying Saucer stocks a collection of used and rare books and DVDs about aliens. A green figurine rides a model train at the Railroad Museum in Boulder City. A bunch of cute, alien-themed school supplies are on clearance at the local big box. Bumper stickers, tattoos, emoji and trendy hipster patches. Turns out Alien Tequila is owned by George Harris, who also owns the Alien Research Center. He’s planning to build a museum in the back.
If what we seek can be found, Mikayla and I discover it in the array of alien-themed gift shops and jerky stands scattered around our desert landscapes. Here, decades of human ambition, fears and scientific discoveries have been distilled to a shelf of refrigerator magnets and bouncy balls. I’m sincerely inspired when I see the vast selection of memorabilia. Together it tells the story of who we are and who we want to be: from the optimism of Star Trek’s Prime Directive to the deadpan cool of Men in Black to the suspicion and distrust at the heart of The X-Files. Are aliens as ubiquitous in older places, where trees and skyscrapers crowd out potential UFO landing spots? Or just in the desert Southwest, where the Wild West serves as a runway to the Final Frontier?
As part of the festivities at the recent UFO Rendezvous, James and Sally Neiman were some of the stars of the parade and costume contest.
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Devils Tower, near Hulett, Wyoming, became the first national monument in 1906 and is also is the focal point of the UFO movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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At the recent UFO Rendezvous in Hulett, Travis Walton told the story of his 1975 alien abduction.
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Giraffe Girl, Lit Eimi, was an enthusiastic participant in the alien-themed parade at Hulett’s UFO Rendezvous near Devils Tower.
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Jeanna Wiley, Chris Campbell, Sandra Mooney, and Kile Tarrant model their alien pants at the Devils Tower Visitors Center gift shop.
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Jim Gruehl, operator of the Devils Tower Trading Post, offers 40 different alien items for sale.
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Laurie Tucker, an organizer f the 1st Annual Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous, shows off her UFOs Wyoming license plate.
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Christine Edwards was the winning entry in the mashed potato Devils Tower building contest.
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Just that morning as the first annual Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous revved up a few miles down the road, Jim Gruehl conducted inventory and counted 40 different alien items for sale at the Devils Tower Trading Post in Hulett.
Rubbery masks, socks, stickers, magnets, T-shirts, plush toys, feet-tall plastic green men, mugs, shot glasses and signs seemingly channelling messages from afar were in stock.
“Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious,” read one sign. “Spaceship Parking Only,” was another
This may be the center of the universe for alien memorabilia.
“It’s absolutely because of ‘Close Encounters,’” said store general manager Gruehl.
Devils Tower, the signature character in the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” owns the horizon in this eastern region of Wyoming, a unique monolith of symmetrical rock standing 5,112 feet above sea level .
It emanates the same magnetic attraction as it did 40 years ago when “Close Encounters” made its debut, and in 1906 when President Theodore Roosevelt designated it the first National Monument.
More than 500,000 accounted-for people visit each year along with an uncounted number of aliens.
Some of the gravitation was sparked by the Steven Spielberg movie released in 1977 and re-released for a 40th anniversary this month.
For a few days in mid-September, Planet Hulett, population 383,
located in the shadow of Devils Tower, was transformed by true believers in unidentified flying objects, becoming the epicenter of the ongoing search for intelligent life in the universe.
The Sept. 14-16 program was organized by Laurie Tucker and others and included lectures on “UFOs Are Real” and “Alien Abduction.”
Tucker, who owns vehicles with Wyoming license plates “C-UFO” and “UFOS,” ensured the agenda featured a community parade with alien theme, a costume contest and a Devils Tower mashed potato sculpture contest. This was a tribute to a movie scene when a UFO-obsessed Richard Dryfuss shaped Devils Tower at the dinner table.
“I take it more seriously,” Tucker said of UFOs, “but I also have fun with it.”
Tucker said a tentative reach-out to Dreyfuss was aborted when she heard he commands $70,000 an appearance.
That’s a lot of mashed potatoes.
In another “Close Encounters” homage, the Main Street Civic Center played the 135-minute movie when the heavens did not cooperate and an outdoor show was rained out.
Frieda Dent, 93, ran the movie. She remembered filming in the 1970s and how some Hulett residents were extras in a panic scene as government officials cleared the Devils Tower area.
“Every time I see it, I see something different,” Dent said.
The locals’ attitude seemed to be, “Hey, who are we to say there’s nobody else out there?”
Science or science
fiction
UFOs have long fascinated, perplexed, tweaked imaginations, been pshawed, or described as fabrications of the crazy.
The debut of American UFO consciousness, as well as Exhibit A of accusations of government conspiracy to hush up spaceships penetrating U.S. air space, basically dates to Roswell, N.M., in 1947.
A crashing flying saucer was reported in the July 8 edition of the Roswell Daily Record. The mysterious “flying disc” was taken into custody on a ranch by the U.S. military and soon after was identified as “a weather balloon.”
Seven decades later in Hulett, the weather balloon theory still didn’t fly.
Scientists say the earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. Since it presupposes a visiting alien culture would be more advanced technologically than humans, it was suggested aliens may have checked out earth long ago with only mild interest and UFO sightings could be periodic reconnaissance follow-ups.
During a panel discussion it was noted many scientific ideas or inventions were dismissed as harebrained long before being proven.
When Columbus set off to sail the ocean blue in 1492, a large segment of the population still believed his ship was going to drop right off the edge of the flat earth.
How many people living in 1850 envisioned the jet plane, putting a man on the moon via rocket ship or the cell phone?
“I don’t think we can actually think of anything that’s impossible,” said astronomer Marc D’Antonio, whose presentation was titled, “The Real Science of E.T.”
Generally, in science fiction movies aliens are portrayed as looking quite different from the human race. They are either good guys who wish to make friends, such as in the 1982 “E.T-The Extraterrestrial,” or guys who want to annihilate everyone, such as in the 1996 “Independence Day.”
Speaker Richard Beckwith, former city attorney of Rock Springs, gave a talk titled “UFOs Are Real.”
“It’s not a belief system, it’s science,” Beckwith said. “If you can’t say what an object is, you can’t say what it is not. It’s a big universe.”
With such a massive universe, traveling across it for millions is an issue of relevance. In some films astronauts are placed in suspended animation for years as they hurtle towards destinations.
“Light speed is the speed limit of the universe,” D’Antonio said of the 186,000 miles-per-second measurement.
That could be an obstacle for reaching Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy – the nearest one – 662 trillion kilometers – from Earth.
D’Antonio said aliens may have, or humans might someday, make “an end run around it.”
Have Americans been conditioned for that in “Star Trek” by “Beam me up, Scotty?”
“That’s exactly right,” D’Antonio said.
Speaking of movies, the new version of “Close Encounters” had been available for just a week, but when asked, about half of the 50 listeners said they had already seen it.
Many participants made pilgrimages to Devils Tower; one of them being Alejandro Rojos of Arizona, a first-time viewer who said, “It’s incredible.”
Rojas, a host for “Open Minds” radio, and a science and entertainment blogger for the Huffington Post, talked about “Close Encounters,” “E.T” and “Gremlins,” saying Spielberg was probably influenced by a highly publicized UFO incident in Kelly, Ky., in 1955.
Five adults and seven children in a farmhouse where no alcohol was drank attested they spent four hours employing gunfire to hold off little men from a spaceship that landed on the property.
The aliens were described as 2-to-4 feet tall with claw-like hands and later “little green men” was appended to the narrative. Subsequently, little green men became a somewhat standard look for aliens in the media.
Alien abduction
The movie “Fire In The Sky” differs considerably from Spielberg’s work.
Based on the book of the same name by Travis Walton, who was played in the 1993 film by D.B. Sweeney, it is purported to be the true story of a mind-bending alien abduction. Despite being a better-documented incident than others, Walton ever since has been derided as crazy.
“It never goes away,” said Walton as he began telling his spell-binding tale.
The Arizona logger, then 22, and six other crew members, were driving out of a national forest on Nov. 5, 1975. They halted when they saw a bright light through some trees and stopped to investigate. Walton, on the passenger side, jumped out of the truck.
“There was a clearly defined metallic disc outlined against the sky,” Walton said. “It was frightening and beautiful.”
Feeling entranced, Walton began walking toward the UFO as his co-workers yelled to get back in the vehicle.
A beam of light lasered Walton with “a stunning sort of force.” He was hurled 20 feet and knocked unconscious. Convinced Walton was dead, his friends fled to report to authorities.
Walton, weak and scared, woke in a strange room surrounded by aliens. When left alone he made a run for it through the craft, but was re-captured. Eventually released, he staggered sobbing to a phone booth to call relatives.
Walton had been missing for five days and a widespread manhunt was conducted. Fellow loggers were interrogated and suspected of murder, though they passed polygraph, drug and sobriety exams. So did Walton.
Despite the passage of years, at times Walton teared up in his telling. No one has shaken his or the other loggers’ story, with multiple lie detector tests passed. But the incident is still called an elaborate hoax.
“I’m certain I’m not the only one,” Walton said of being abducted by aliens. “It’s very common for things we fear to become the butt of jokes.”
Walton was asked if he had emerged from merely being lost in the woods for five days having likewise lost 10 pounds from lack of food and water, whether he might not have been declared a hero for surviving.
Walton paused. “It might have been completely different,” he said.
The Tower
Devils Tower is completely different. It cannot be mistaken for any other rock formation.
Square-like, with striations on its sides, its composition is molten rock. But its origins are as mysterious as UFOs.
Devils Tower is considered sacred in Cheyenne and Arapahoe oral traditions long predating “Close Encounters.” Visitors pause for reflection on benches at its base, necks craning upward, perhaps scanning for aliens still hovering from the movie.
A National Park Service ranger was asked how often she is quizzed about the movie laughed, and said, “Hundreds of times a day.”
Four female workers at the visitors center gift shop wore matching lycra alien-design pants and hobnobbed with a few-foot-tall alien modeling a Devils Tower zip-up sweatshirt. A new sticker reading, “Hello, my name is Lloyd” was slapped on his chest.
There were numerous Lloyd-lookalikes at the cold, but not rained-on Hulett parade. Jude Talaba of Boulder, Colo., like a ventriloquist held an alien in her arms, and said, “He was born just three days ago.” As in purchased.
Andy Bears drove a golf-cart disguised as a spaceship. Strapped in, he said, “I can’t get out.” Another alien abduction.
Ivy Flores manufactured a Devils Tower for her float consisting of a barrel covered in tinfoil and sprayed brown, with stones and foliage around the base, like the genuine article.
Smaller rocks and greens were available when others shaped mashed potato Devils Towers like build-your-own sundaes.
Giraffe Girl, Lit Eimi, claimed to be an alien from “everywhere” who parachuted in. Her full giraffe outfit included a tail.
“I do like humans,” she said. “I love humans. All of them.”
Her age, Eimi said, is “Infinity. But they tell me I was born on July 18, 1991.”
James Neiman, 87, and wife Sally, 83, love to dress up and she ordered spiffy alien duds online. Yet the senior-citizen aliens lost out in the costume contest to a 9-year-old from the wrong movie.
In impeccable character imitation wearing a red, hooded sweatshirt, pushing a bicycle with an E.T. doll in a basket perched on the handlebars, Ben Harrison as Elliott won the crowd applause.
Devils Tower beckoned, but prepared to pedal skyward, Harrison could not gain l }ift-off because the chain busted on his bike during the parade.
Ray Santilli, 58, claims the grainy image is a still from "genuine original footage" he based the fake 1995 film on.
He says it is proof that the 1995 hoax film, which initially purported to show an autopsy being carried out on a dead alien recovered from the supposed Roswell UFO crash site in 1947, WAS based on REAL original footage which came to light.
Express.co.uk is publishing the image, which appears to show three slides from a real of film, for the first time after being sent it by Mr Santilli.
It is suggested the slides show a dead alien, recovered from the Roswell crash, on an operating table.
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Mr Santilli said the "alien autopsy" film he released in 1995 was not a hoax but a "restoration or recreation."
Mr Santilli, who is CEO of Orbital Media Group, said: "It was certainly not a hoax."
YouTubeALIEN AUTOPSY? Ray Santilli claims this is a still from a 1947 video of the "Roswell incident".
His 1995 release showed men in white coats apparently dissecting an 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 branded an elaborate hoax.
Asked if the image said to be from the original film depicted an alien, Mr Santilli initially said: "Of course it does."
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ALIEN AUTOPSY: A scene from the 1995 Ray Santilli film which was done using actors.
He then said: "Let me just be clear. I was not there in 1947, so I can't say for sure if it is an alien, but it is the original camera footage."
Mr Santilli said the original footage came to light in 1992 when he was asked by Polygram, now Universal, do do a comprehensive documentary about Elvis Presley.
He said: "We placed ads in local papers in the Eastern Seaboard of the US for anyone who had seen Elvis in 1954 who had still images or footage.
"We listed the hotels we would be in and said to meet us and we would look at it and buy for cash.
"We came away with the largest collection of Elvis assets brought together on one occasion, it was a remarkable achievement.
"During the trip a cameraman in Cleveland asked if we were interested in anything else.
"At the time we had no knowledge of Roswell or aliens, but he claimed he was the cameraman working for the army airforce and explained the whole alien autopsy story."
Mr Santilli said it tool two years of exchanges to reach an agreement to buy the footage.
"By the time we got back it had deteriorated to a certain extent and we were not able to use it and recreated a fair section."
However, when the recreated footage was released, Mr Santilli and his team did not make it clear it was a remake of poor original footage, which there was no mention of.
He still maintains that was the right thing to do.
He said: "If you look at the great works of art - these works of art are over 200 or 300 years old and have been restored with people working on them many times.
"they have very little bearing on the original image.
"We did the same thing with the moving image of the alien autopsy."
He said that the recreated film was given to broadcasters "for free" who were told to "make a documentary and investigate the authenticity" of the footage.
Mr…reportedly made millions from the footage.
He did not confirm an amount, but said the money his team made was from "home video" rights to the documentaries that broadcasters then made.
He maintained it was the right way to go about it.
He said: "We were not there in 1947 so did not want to misrepresent the event.
"It was not a hoax - Fox put up a million dollar reward for someone to come forward and say it was fabricated and it was 20 years before anyone spoke.
"If it was a hoax someone would have come forward a lot sooner."
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Real alien? Ray Santilli in his office at the time he met with UFO researcher Philip Mantle.
Let me just be clear. I was not there in 1947, so I can't say for sure if it is an alien, but it is the original camera footage.
Ray Santilli
So where is the original footage now?
He says he still has it, but some of the frames are missing.
He may release it in full at a later stage.
Mr Santilli also said full background checks were carried out on the cameraman, but he is not currently prepared to identify him, to kill off the doubters.
Mr Santilli contacted Express.co.uk after 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 the story of his involvement in a one-man West End show.
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.
Mr Santilli said: "I refute the Spyros Melaris's version of his involvement in Alien Autopsy. If anything Spyros was part of a team.
"He felt there should been more acknowledgement for his work or the artistic side.
"We followed a plan, laid out by a sequence of events, they all did a remarkable job.
"There was original film, an original concept or story, and no one person was responsible for everything."
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.
He took part in an email question and answer session with veteran UFO researcher Philip Mantle earlier this year.
Mr Watson said: "I was led to believe there was original footage of poor quality and this was 'a recreation', not a hoax.
"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."
Mr Mantle does not believe any original footage existed, and it was all just a hoax.
He said: "There are however a few people who still believe that Ray Santilli is telling the truth and there was original authentic film.
"One such gentleman in the UK is Colin Woolford. Colin and I disagree but we have remained on friendly terms."
Mr Woolford tours the country giving lectures at UFO conferences where he argues the original footage is likely to exist.
Social media users first reported the sighting of the four large lights at the bottom of the famous volcano, which last erupted in 2013.
And some even believe it's proof that aliens exist after claiming they were UFOs .
There were reports that three of the lights disappeared all at once, after which the fourth appeared to enter the crater of the volcano.
The remaining light was said to move with a trajectory and ease 'unlike that of a helicopter or plane'.
Four large lights appear at the bottom of the San Miguel volcano in El Salvador(Image: CEN)
But others have criticised these theroies.
John Jimenez dismissed the idea of the lights being UFOs and highlighted El Salvador’s high crime rate, saying: "People are delirious from so much crime."
The San Miguel volcano, also knowns as Volcan Chaparrastique, is 2,130 metres (6,990 feet) in height and last erupted on December 29, 2013.
Reports say the lights moved with an ease 'unlike that of a helicopter or plane'(Image: CEN)
Last year, residents in El Salvador were baffled after they heard 'strange noises' in the sky that lasted three hours.
Reports of odd sounds in San Salvador, the capital, sparked a huge debate over whether it was the work of aliens.
A recent video also appeared to show an unidentified flying object near the active volcano of Popocatepetl in Mexico.
Lights believed to be 'UFOs' near the active volcano of Popocatepetl(Image: CEN)
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.
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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.
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