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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
02-10-2017
Author and Researcher Wants The Truth Of Her Aunt and Uncle’s Experience of Seeing A UFO and Aliens
Author and Researcher Wants The Truth Of Her Aunt and Uncle’s Experience of Seeing A UFO and Aliens
Betty & Barney Hill
Barney and Betty Hill reported their UFO sighting experience while out driving in rural New Hampshire. Their story has become one of the most famous alien abduction accounts of all time in the past 60 years. Now, author and researcher Kathleen Marden, niece of Barney and Betty, shares her uncle and aunt story through the biography of the Hills.
Mrs Marden believes aliens exist because of the critical evidence from the famous incident. She was just 13 when the incident took place, but years later, she started researching what happened for the Hill’s biography.
Mrs Marden said that her aunt and uncle shared to her what happened and physical evidence added weight to the story. Among the pieces of evidence were the substance on the dress of Betty and spot marks on the car’s boot.
Betty’s drawing of the alien she believed she saw
Mrs Marden thinks there was an abduction. She stated that she was unbiased of her investigation. She analysed her relative’s statement from the alien craft, to being taken in and released back. According to Mrs Marden’s analysis, the experience was real.
She said that her aunt and uncle did not want their UFO sighting to become public, but a newspaper reporter picked it up due to a breach of confidence.
The couple reportedly went to hypnosis, and further information emerged on what took place. They described the UFO as a disc-shaped craft with ten individuals that somehow not human. These strange-looking individuals were reportedly dressed in shiny black uniforms.
According to Barney, he believed the so-called aliens had a plan to capture him as they began to drop down out of the craft. Barney ran screaming to Betty that they had to stay away from the area or else the aliens would capture them.
The couple managed to get out from the scene, but they had little memory of what had occurred in the interim period.
Mrs Marden does not think the story was all just made up. She explains that the scientist investigators said Betty and Barney were mentally healthy and honest. She suggests that people should stop speculating and look at the evidence instead.
According to Mrs Marden, she is not trying to convince anyone that the alien abduction story of Barney and Betty Hill is true.
Mrs Marden says that she only wants to separate fact from fiction and get the bottom of what actually happened because many fictions have been created around the story.
Flaming Balls Seen Flying Across The Night Sky Above Utah
Flaming Balls Seen Flying Across The Night Sky Above Utah
UFO enthusiasts went frenzy over the weekend after the appearance of strange lights in the night sky over Salt Lake City, Utah.
Some witnesses thought that they spotted a UFO after three white lights darted in the sky, moved at around the same speed, and changed direction.
One of the witnesses caught a video of the mysterious lights. Tommae Billings said they saw these amazing lights while driving up 700 East.
In the video, the car’s passengers appear to be shocked after seeing the lights. One of the witnesses can be heard saying the lights keep on changing and another asking what these strange things were.
Another video was uploaded to Twitter showing lights moving across the sky. Gerardo Rios said that it was scary not knowing the identity of the flaming balls. He stopped recording the video and ran back to his home.
One commenter said that they were just skydivers with lights shining into their shoots, but the strange lights in the video were not just moving down towards the ground.
Another commenter named Mike said that he lives in North Ogden and he has seen the three lights changing formation very slowly. He added that he has not only seen them once but multiple times.
A HARVARD SCIENTIST WHO TOOK EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ABDUCTION SERIOUSLY
A HARVARD SCIENTIST WHO TOOK EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL ABDUCTION SERIOUSLY
John Mack was a Harvard scientist who took extra-terrestrial abduction seriously. Is he the reason I like misfits?
My younger brother and I called him ‘the old lizard’ (on account of his reptilian resemblance — and to irk our mother, his partner at the time). To his enemies, he was a crackpot, fraud, and a cheat. And to his patients, and many of his friends, he was a source of support, an open listener, a sage and protector.
Dr John E Mack was many things to many people. A Harvard-trained psychiatrist, tenured professor, and one of the founders of the Cambridge Hospital Department of Psychiatry (a teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard University), John held an impressive command and was respected in his field. After an early career spent working on issues of child development and identity formation, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for his psychoanalytic biography of Lawrence of Arabia, entitled A Prince of Our Disorder(1976). Then, in the late 1980s, John put his reputation on the line when he started investigating the phenomenon of alien abduction.
It all started innocently enough. He began holding sessions with patients or ‘experiencers’ (as they’re called) who believed they’d been abducted. He ran hypnotic regressions from our home, and he gradually came to furnish enough evidence for a book, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens(1994). This was followed in 1999 by Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters. His standard line with the outside world was (as given to the BBC): ‘I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can’t account for in any other way, that’s mysterious… I can’t know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry.’
In the privacy of our home, where he was a regular presence, John was bolder in his claims. Aliens were real — it was just that their existence threatened the dominant logic of our worldview. John attributed society’s failure to account for the abduction experience as a cultural failing. Alien abductees weren’t deranged or mentally ill — we just didn’t have a way of interpreting and understanding what they’d been through. Rather than label these peoples’ experiences as a new disorder or syndrome, John argued that we had to probe into and change our perception of reality to account for this phenomena. The subtext: we had to allow for the existence of aliens.
For more than a decade, from the time I was eight until I was of legal age, I was witness to these debates and to the politics surrounding John’s ‘coming out’ in support of abduction phenomena. My mother, an anthropologist by training, was John’s primary research assistant. They bought a house together in Cambridge, Massachusetts and my brother and I visited them once a month and during school holidays. The rest of the time we lived with my father and stepmother in Arlington, Virginia.
Like many of his colleagues, I viewed John with a mixture of scepticism and intrigue. Part of my scepticism can be put down to the fact that he was dating my mom; but a good fraction of it owed to my sense of reality being overturned by the postulation of ‘greys’ — a particular manifestation of extraterrestrials, known for their large heads, huge almond eyes, and shortened, pretty much featureless bodies.
At eight, and still learning to distinguish between fantasy and reality, the imposition of adults who believed in aliens was confusing and anxiety-provoking, but adventurous and thrilling too. I was fairly sure that Santa Claus wasn’t real. But I wouldn’t have bet my life on it. My stuffed animals and toys had only just lost that animistic quality — becoming mere playthings, instruments of the imagination, as opposed to real creatures with essences all their own. As for aliens, I couldn’t be sure. Flying on airplanes between my parents’ houses I’d sometimes be on the lookout for a hovering metallic orb.
It was 1992 when John entered our lives. Bill Clinton was president, and Kurt Cobain dominated the airwaves. It was the end of the Cold War stand-off, and the political scientist Francis Fukuyama had just published his book The End of History and the Last Man, where he wishfully predicted that human evolution had come to an end with the triumph of Western liberal democracy. Everything was smooth sailing. We no longer had the threat of communists, but we didn’t yet have the threat of terrorists. In need of a symbolic enemy, aliens personified an important ‘other’ — a dystopian warning to our Western culture’s all too eager triumphalism.
On television, the paranormal soon paraded around on shows such asRoswell and The X-Files, which explored extraterrestrial phenomena in the shadow of government cover-ups and conspiracy. Flip channels and you might have caught Arthur C Clarke’s equally other-worldly 26-part series Mysterious Universe . It’s no wonder that the 1990s saw a rush of alien appearances in the popular imagination. The impending millennium brought with it the arrival of a future that had always been distant. As the political scientist Jodi Dean, author of Aliens in America(1998), articulated at the time, the appearance of aliens corresponds to our ‘anxieties over technological development and our growing consciousness of ourselves as a planet and our fears for the future at the millennium’.
There is some truth here. When I asked my mom and John growing up what the aliens intended (subtext: ‘Do they come in peace or should I be really scared?’), they said that many experience’s felt that aliens communicated an environmental message about the urgency of saving the planet.
At the same time, many of the abductees that John interviewed attested to the technological superiority of the alien race. I was told stories about patients who experienced aliens that could pass through walls, were able to communicate with extrasensory perception (ESP) and mind-reading, and perform medical experiments on humans without invasive surgery. In this light, aliens provided an outlet for all our fears of technological domination. To have an experience of aliens was to realise that the human race might not represent the pinnacle of evolution, that we were perhaps inferior to extraterrestrial life.
In daylight, I was sceptical (the good little rationalist), but night-time brought with it a tide of magical thinking
But as a kid largely ignorant of grander sociological forces, aliens were only one thing: scary. They had large black eyes and androgynous forms. And they were real — like ghosts and witches and monsters. In daylight, I was sceptical (the good little rationalist), but night-time brought with it a tide of magical thinking. I used to lie in bed and worry that maybe I would be abducted. I would even make supplicating promises of better behaviour in the hope of bartering with these outsiders — ‘I’ll be good, just leave me alone.’ In my secular progressive household, aliens offered a moral disciplining authority, an invisible spectator to police my actions.
After many years elapsed without any sign of extraterrestrial visitation, I began to feel ignored. My fears turned to pangs of dejection: ‘Wasn’t I special?’ ‘Shouldn’t I be a chosen ambassador for the human race?’ Or even: ‘If the aliens were really out to create a master race (as I overheard), didn’t they want my DNA?’
John had many of the same laments. They weren’t the ego bruises of a child in pursuit of some fantastical ambassadorial calling, but they were in the same genre. He felt passed over. He longed for an encounter. He was the public face of this movement and yet he had only secondary experience of the abduction phenomena. Having spent more than 15 years listening to other people’s encounters with these mythical beings, he wanted some evidence beyond the testimonials he gathered from his patients. He wanted to be visited. We all did.
Just as important, a visitation would have answered the growing chorus of critics lining up on the ‘respectable’ side of John’s working life. Many of his colleagues thought he’d gone crazy. He, in turn, felt betrayed by those academic collaborators who failed to support his work. John’s biggest critics called into question his use of hypnosis. In keeping with Freud’s theory of ‘repression’ — which held that the mind can banish traumatic memories to prevent us from experiencing anxiety — much of John’s research invoked the idea of recovered memory, whereby, through hypnosis, you could get a patient to go back into repressed traumas and recall their abduction experiences.
I remember one summer evening in a beach house on Martha’s Vineyard when I was about 11, we all watched as John regressed my aunt back into a past life. She lay on the couch recalling an incident in which she was a forest ranger who witnessed the death of a few people during some kind of avalanche. My aunt later told me that she was fully conscious of the experience, but couldn’t control what she was saying. It was like she was watching herself tell a story. John later tried to hypnotise my brother so that he wouldn’t be afraid of spiders.
Ultimately, the question that plagued memory excavators like John was whether these repressed memories, divulged under hypnosis, were mere ‘artefacts’ of the mind, or else legitimately true recollections. John’s tendency towards a more literal interpretation of his patients’ experiences with aliens was controversial.
John described the investigation as ‘Kafkaesque’. He never quite knew the status of it or the nature of the committee’s complaints
In 1994, the dean of Harvard Medical School called a committee of peers to investigate John’s scholarship. This was the first time a tenured professor had ever been subject to an investigation. It was, effectively, an inquisition that some likened to a ‘witch hunt’, and it left John feeling persecuted and misunderstood. John described the investigation as ‘Kafkaesque’. He never quite knew the status of it or the nature of the committee’s complaints. Unable to accuse John of any ethical violation or professional misconduct, its aim was to ask, as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz put it, ‘whether a Harvard Medical School professor ought to be lending his credibility to stories of space alien abductions’. To Dershowitz, this was a dubious goal. ‘No great university should be in the business of investigating the ideas of its faculty,’ he wrote in the university magazine, in 1995. In the end, the dean reaffirmed John’s academic freedom to study what he wished and to state his opinions without impediment. But the damage had already been done.
As his professional credibility faltered, John’s anxiety and anger began to rise. John cared about his reputation. It was not easy to becomepersona non grata in the very institutions he had helped to build. He was used to working within established professional systems, and when those very institutions called his integrity into question, he sought out allies in other like-minded people. He grew an entourage of support among shamans, experiencers, and celebrities.
Our household became a living altar to an esoteric band of misfits who were regular houseguests and interlopers. One morning, when I went to get some orange juice from the kitchen, the actor Woody Harrelson was there, drinking coffee with John at the table. It was normal. Normal was also being offered a peace pipe by Sequoia, a Native American shaman who blew tobacco in our youthful faces and challenged us to seek out greater visionary experience.
By 13, however, I was ready to move on. John and my mother were headed to the Australian outback for a year to speak with Aboriginal people about their experiences with aliens. My brother and I were invited to go along: our formal education would be satisfied by distance learning packets, while our real education, as I understood it at the time, was to be some combination of didgeridoo and Aboriginal creation myths. But something inside me desired stability and order. I longed to be absorbed into an antiseptic American culture where lacrosse, school dances and flared blue jeans were ends in themselves; where ordinary reality wasn’t usurped by the fantastical.
My brother and I ultimately opted to stay behind. We stayed living with my father and stepmother, and succumbed to a deliciously comfortable white picket-fence existence (literally, the fence was painted white). We became absorbed in teenage politics and concerns. And the only flying saucers we encountered were Frisbees.
Later on, at college at Brown University, I gave myself licence once again to explore the magical thoughts of my youth, not least the idea that reality was merely a construction. As an adult, it was a less threatening prospect. Rather than induce existential panic, it furnished reputational accolades. I ended up writing a thesis about 17th-century astrology and the fashioning of scientific boundaries. It was an ode to John in some ways. I wanted to understand how ‘science’ became ‘science’. Many of the astrologers of the time were booted out of the emerging scientific establishment — some were even put on trial for instigating civil disorder. It was not unlike John’s own experience, when his psychiatric methods were called into question by the scientific establishment.
Before my thesis was published, John was hit by a drunk driver and killed, in London. It was 2004. Immediately after his death, my mother began receiving phone calls from clairvoyants who claimed to have communicated with John, ‘on the other side’. Before he died, John had begun outlining a manuscript on the power of love, based on the stories of those who had been able to communicate with loved ones after death. It was a surreal experience for my mother to be experiencing such intense grief, while at the same time receiving phone calls from people who had reportedly been in conversation with John after the accident.
After John died, aliens seemed to vanish from household discussion almost entirely. It felt like the public’s interest had also waned. When I asked my mother why the phenomenon had seemed to die down, I was told that the aliens were placing less emphasis on the Western world; that they were more interested in China. And that’s where we left it.
But if I reflect on the impact of my childhood experience, I think it left me with a profound openness, and a generous ear. John taught me the power of listening; really hearing people out and having the courage and resilience to question established orthodoxies. I still remain entirely agnostic about the existence of aliens. I have a commitment to preserving unknowns, and I thrive on ambiguity and complexity in my work and my relationships. John’s legacy has also left me with a certain reverence for misfits, for outliers and challengers of the status quo: for the type of person who walks the line between delusion and insight.
John, too, remains immortalised in my mind as someone with great courage and empathy. I associate him with a period of my childhood wrought with big questions. Bearing witness to the craziness that surrounded those ten years of cosmological exploration left me with a shaky groundwork in which reality was never quite what it seemed, but it also furnished me with a profound sense of awe and wonder about the world.
I feel incredibly grateful for the experience. To be exposed at such a young age to a zeitgeisty obsession with deprogramming, where Western culture was perceived as an enemy of consciousness and truth, was an education that left me with a residual feeling of always being on the outside of mainstream culture. There is a part of me that also looks back with nostalgia for a time when the primary conversation was a probing of the cosmological – when we weren’t all busy on our laptops, stressed about finances, or waiting with bated breath for the next season of Homeland; but were concerned, rather, with ancient and meta-questions about our role in the universe and the existence of life elsewhere.
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01-10-2017
THE ONLY MAN TO EVER SHOOT AT A UFO
THE ONLY MAN TO EVER SHOOT AT A UFO
AS WILL Smith would say: “Welcome to Erf.”
Thirty-five years ago, fighter pilot Oscar Santa Maria Huerta had a real-life Independence Day moment when he attempted to shoot down a mysterious light-bulb shaped craft, in what to this day remains the only documented case of a military aircraft firing on a UFO.
It was early on the morning of April 11, 1980, and the 23-year-old Peruvian air force lieutenant was preparing for daily exercises along with around 1800 military personnel and civilians at the La Joya Air Force Base, 1000km south of the Peruvian capital.
Lt Huerta, a pilot with eight years’ experience who had been flying combat missions since 19, was ordered to take off in his Russian-made Sukhoi-22 fighter to intercept the strange silvery object that had been spotted floating near the end of the runway.
The object was five kilometres away, hanging in the air about 600 metres off the ground, and was not replying to any communications.
Colonel Huerta was one of many researchers, former military officers and others who gave evidence at a major press event at the National Press Club in Washington in 2013, aimed at pressuring the US government to open its files on UFO encounters.
“It had to come down. La Joya was one of the few bases in South America that possessed Soviet-made warfare equipment, and we were concerned about espionage,” he wrote.
After takeoff, Colonel Huerta flew to 2,500 metres and came in for an attack run. “I reached the necessary distance and shot a burst of sixty-four 30mm shells, which created a cone-shaped ‘wall of fire’ that would normally obliterate anything in its path,” he writes.
Just one of those shells would wipe out a car, but they had no effect on the object. “I thought that the balloon would then be torn open and gases would start pouring out of it. But nothing happened. It seemed as if the huge bullets were absorbed by the balloon, and it wasn’t damaged at all.”
A diagram showing the encounter with the object.
The object then shot rapidly skywards away from the base, prompting Colonel Huerta to activate the plane’s afterburner to give chase 500m behind. As they reached the city of Camana, 84km from the base, the object came to a sudden stop, forcing him to veer to the side.
Turning up and to the right, Colonel Huerta attempted to position himself for another shot.
“I began closing in on it until I had it in perfect sight,” he writes. “I locked on the target and was ready to shoot. But just at that moment, the object made another fast climb, evading the attack. I was left underneath it; it ‘broke the attack’.”
He attempted the same manoeuvre two more times, and each time the object escaped by shooting upwards seconds before he could fire.
By this time the object was 14,000 metres above ground. Colonel Huerta decided to attempt an attack from above, so it could not leave his target range, but the object shadowed him all the way up to 19,200 metres — well above his aircraft’s specifications.
Running low on fuel, he realised he couldn’t continue the attack, so decided to fly close to the object to get a better look. It wasn’t until he was 100m away that he realised what it was.
A rough diagram of the object.
“I was startled to see that the ‘balloon’ was not a balloon at all. It was an object that measured about 10 metres in diameter with a shiny dome on top that was cream-coloured, similar to a light bulb cut in half,” he writes.
“The bottom was a wider circular base, a silver colour, and looked like some kind of metal. It lacked all the typical components of aircraft. It had no wings, propulsion jets, exhausts, windows, antennae, and so forth. It had no visible propulsion system.
“At that moment, I realised this was not a spying device but a UFO, something totally unknown. I was almost out of fuel, so I couldn’t attack or manoeuvre my plane, or make a high-speed escape. Suddenly, I was afraid. I thought I might be finished.”
Colonel Huerta made his return, gliding part way due to lack of fuel and “zigzagging to make my plane harder to hit, always with my eyes on the rearview mirrors, hoping it wouldn’t chase me”.
“It had no visible propulsion system.”
After he landed, the object remained in the place he left it for another two hours, “visible to everyone on the base while it reflected in the sun”.
Colonel Huerta says the craft was witnessed by everyone on the base, many of whom were required to give reports. A June, 1980 document from the US Department of Defence titled ‘UFO Sighted in Peru’, describes the incident, stating only that the object remains of unknown origin.
A similar incident occurred in 1976, when Iranian air force General Parviz Jafari attempted to fire on a UFO but found his equipment malfunctioning. “My equipment was mechanical, and perhaps that’s the reason it could not be shut down, so instead, the object had to jump away at the last minute,” Colonel Huerta writes.
“I find myself in the unique position, at least for the moment, and as far as I know, of being the only military pilot in the world who has actually fired a weapon and struck a UFO. It still gives me chills to think about it.”
THE MAN WHO LIVED WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS FOR 10 DAYS - PART I
THE MAN WHO LIVED WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS FOR 10 DAYS - PART I
Alec Newald went missing for 10 days when he was taken to an alien planet. In this video, he recounts his life-changing experience and describes extremely advanced organic technology which also allows you to “grow” your house as well as its environment.
He also talks about how spaceships are operated by consciousness and “melding”, and indeed, is conscious itself, much like what we’ve repeatedly been told is possible in the higher realms. The extraterrestrials that brought Alec aboard their ship were human-like, technologically advanced and could raise their vibration with biological technology so their bodies were less dense and thus capable of space travel.
They could grow anything they wanted by splicing plant and animal genes, and they grew sentient ‘houses’ and craft that would obey their thoughts. Their craft were a biological ‘animal/plant mix. They would operate it with their consciousness, which was an intrinsic part of the vehicle itself. Instead of eating, they drank a ‘cosmic solution’ that could be likened to monatomic gold.
Co-Evolution author Alec Newald reveals significant new details which his ET hosts say can be released now. (Locklip)
Alec Newald first contacted Nexus Magazine in 1995 about publishing his book, CoEvolution, describing his incredible ten-day round trip to his abductors’ homeworld, Haven, and the Earth-based controversy it created. We found Alec’s story particularly fascinating; and, having met him and had him speak at the 1996 NEXUS Conference, we have no reason to doubt his integrity. Here we publish some intriguing excerpts from his recently released book. — Nexus Magazine Editor
In 1989, Alec Newald’s life-path took an unexpected turn when he was abducted by a group of benevolent aliens for ten days and transported to their home-world.
His amazing experiences have great significance for the future of humanity and our galactic cousins.
By Alec Newald
One Monday in mid-February 1989, Alec Newald set off on what should have been a three hour drive from Rotorua to Auckland, in New Zealand.
He arrived in Auckland feeling tired and confused, but was even more confused to learn that Monday was now Thursday ten days later, and that he had no idea of what had happened in the meantime!
What he learned and experienced during his stay with these friendly beings has profound implications for all of us here on earth.
Soon after his “return”, Alec received strange visits from “government scientists” wanting to know about his experience.
Among other things, they were keen to learn what he had noticed about the capabilities of this alien race. Alec was uncooperative and soon found himself in “hot water”.
It was obvious that these “scientists” knew all about Alec’s abductors’ and expected they would return to Earth one day – soon.
Through Alec’s experiences he has written a book called “Co-Evolution”. Which is what the following information will be drawn from.
Of course it is quite impossible to relay to you all the entire contents of the book itself, so I will be focusing on some of the events that transpired, during his Abduction and a little of what happened on his return.
When Alec did retrieve his memories of those missing ten days, he realized his life had changed forever. Early on in that fateful trip, while driving through a foggy mountain pass, Alec was whisked from the road by beings from an extraterrestrial civilization.
Introduction
The Hidden Reality
There is much about this planet’s history that has never been told. I do not speak here of yet to be discovered historical facts, but only of material that is already known by a select few within our communities.
Most of this knowledge has been carried through the ages and jealously guarded by the few secret sects that were privy to it from it’s inception, but these sects were not necessarily “secret” at the time this information was first placed in their trust. The original intention was that this ancient knowledge would be shared with this planet’s inheritors, en masse, when the trust holders deemed it appropriate.
The species slated for inheritance of this knowledge is known as Homo Sapiens. For your information, Homo Sapiens and the Cro-Magnon precursor species were artificially engineered!
The final pieces of the Cro-Magnon jigsaw puzzle were put together approximately 70,000 years ago. This was not the first humanoid creature to walk planet Earth, but it was the first type ever to be constructed to act as a receiver or container so that a second “bodiless” entity could cohabit with this humanoid form to experience physicality through the actions of it’s host’s solid outer body form! You may recognize this entity if I refer to it as the soul or spirit.
There new species was designed to be able to take on board all the stored information that awaited it at any time in the future. In other words, it was already fully developed in it’s mental capabilities and required no further improvements or evolutionary developments at that point. All the knowledge that would ever be needed by this race, up until it’s next evolutionary step, was already present on the planet and in the safekeeping of the trustees.
These trust holders have long since broken their vows to the givers of the knowledge, and I think that until very recently they had even forgotten the identity of their ancient benefactors. Perhaps a day of reckoning is close at hand for the trustees.
It may now be a little clearer to you as to why the secret sects or governors of our planet would prefer that the anticipated visit from the “Landlord” did not take place!
From here on in, I will be focusing on some of Alec’s drawings that he made upon his return, and giving a brief summary of each one. Alec’s experience is one of the most documented and intriguing cases in UFO Abductions that I’ve come across. The knowledge he gained from the experience is beyond any price on earth.
Below are actual quotes from Alec’s book “Co-Evolution”
Meeting the Guardian
Looking up, I realized we were being approached by three aliens, the tallest of them looking like my female escort from earlier on. The second one was just a little shorter and was male as far as I could tell. The third was smaller, much smaller, and walked ahead of the other two.
He, for want of a better word was slightly built with a roundish head and rather unusual, squinty eyes which were well spaced and placed rather lower down than are our own. He had a very small mouth, but I did not notice any ears or much of a nose. His physical appearance, however, was of almost no consequence, for I was immediately struck with an almost overpowering feeling of his presence. I cannot say it was hypnotic; if anything, the opposite. It was as if his energy was being projected and absorbed by my body.
There is no way I could ever adequately describe this sensation to you, using mere words. Those who have had this experience will know just what I mean! His communication with me was also much stronger and clearer than I had experienced with any of the others.
This was still not the “alien” I had read about or seen graphically illustrated in various magazines or papers.
The size was about right – four feet in height with a slight frame.
“Welcome”, he said. “I am the designated Guardian of this section. Anything that you feel you might need to make your stay with us more pleasant, ask and I shall do my best to supply it. The suit you have been given will make it possible for you to understand us, and us you”.
He must have read my mind as he entered the room, for I had just asked about the suits.
“We do not speak as such, as you will have noticed by now. Sometimes a verbal sound message is necessary in long distance.”
“I will not enquire if you wish to stay or return at this time. I would hope you may desire the chance to absorb more knowledge and understanding before you make that decision. There are things we cannot tell you at this point in time.
You will understand I hope. Nevertheless, you will have the chance to acquire some considerable knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, including your own kind, before you make up your mind up on this.
However, some or all of this knowledge may have to be removed from you, should you decide to leave us and return to your own planet.”
The Arrival
The first most striking thing about the city was it’s neatness and order; the second, it’s immensity. Even from well up I could not make out the boundaries.
There may well be bigger cities on Earth, but where I come from this place would be rated big, VERY big. It stretched out in both directions, following the coastline out of my line of sight. There seemed to be only a thin strip of land that was not coastline or desert, and the city was sandwiched within it.
As we dropped in altitude, the sea lost it’s bluish look and turned almost black. There could not have been much wind as it looked very glasslike. I could make out a dark outline not too far off the coast which presumably was a deep drop off from the coastal shallows.
The last thing really to make an impact upon me was the lack of tall buildings, save for the odd tower or two, and the dominance of a small circular shapes among a few larger pyramid shaped constructions.
Hardly more than a minute had passed since we had entered the atmosphere, but now the craft had already settled. There was a mixture of apprehension and excitement within me. Now that I was here – wherever “here” was, just what had happened to me really started to sink in. Would I ever see home again? Was anyone looking for me?
My panic soon eased, however and curiosity won the day. I eagerly scanned the viewer for my first close look at the alien landscape. What I could see was an area of level ground, similar to a courtyard, leading to two pyramid shaped buildings.
They appeared to be made from a material that looked just like tinted glass or semi-transparent plastic. I couldn’t quite see the apex of these buildings from my vantage point, but later I was to find that they were capped with a spiral tower or antenna arrangement. The height of the tower added approximately twenty five percent to the buildings overall height. Each building in turn was topped with what I can only describe as a large light bulb. As peculiar as it may sound, I was sure I had seen something like this before, in the distant past.
These bulbs glowed day and night, and upon closer inspection appeared to be of a net or mesh construction rather than being glass spheres.
There appeared to be some form of electromagnetic grid or shielding device above the actual landing site, possibly a force field or energy gathering device.
There was a short walk to one of the large structures which I had seen from inside the craft.
The air was still and amazingly quiet. Indeed, it was not until I had stepped out of the transporter that I realized there must have been some sort of background noise on board although I’d not noticed it at the time.
The surface upon which I was walking was not unlike cork, it appeared to be porous and slightly yielding underfoot.
Spiral Tower Building – Possible Energy Transmitter or Receiver
The Dwellings
I was at a loss as to which way to look for awhile, such was my curiosity and awe at what was around me. Some buildings resembled those on Earth, but the outer walls were sloped back at approximately thirty-degree angles and set back some distance at each floor level, making them look more like steps up a hill.
Most of the buildings were circular or tube like in shape. They were laid out in a spiral pattern with the tallest buildings in the centre, but the heights became progressively lower as the buildings spiraled out. All the buildings appeared to be made of glass or plastic.
Access to the upper levels of the home I was staying, was by way of a gentle slopping spiral ramp which skirted the curved perimeters of the walls. This ramp could also be seen from the outside of the building. My personal observation of this feature is that it could have been a form or frame or reinforcement for the dwelling.
The rooms or, rather, the various levels were lit by some form of diffused lighting, both day and night, but I could find no direct source to explain this light. As we reached the second level, their main living area, I was stunned by the beauty and layout. No matter how hard I try here, my description cannot do it justice.
The color was predominantly pearl white with perhaps a touch of silver grey within. This may have helped remove any glare, for I can assure you there was none. Reflected from even deeper within were all the colors of the rainbow, not unlike a mother of pearl seashell. The soft light I mentioned earlier appeared to radiate from everywhere.
To say it was a truly amazing sight is grossly inadequate!
Variant of Dwelling or House, also Three Storey high – Hexagonal Crystalline Pattern Within Walls
I’m not even sure if it was the color that was the most stunning aspect of the interior, for I was equally smitten with the molded flow of form from one section, shape or partition into the next.
It was as if the whole dwelling, including every item of furniture, had been constructed simultaneously. Again there appeared to be no joints or seams that I could distinguish. However this dwelling had been constructed, similar techniques to those used in the transporter must have been employed. The floor, a smooth, padded rubber, was soft to walk on; the color, just one or two shades darker than the walls.
The furniture looked to be made from the now quite familiar glass or plastic substance. Although it was slightly tinted or smoky, all the colors of the rainbow seemed to be deep within it.
These colors could be changed by a person’s thought patterns, so if you were excited there was no way to keep it a secret as the room’s colors would dance about right through the color spectrum. When a person was in meditation, the light level would drop and only the softer tones would come through.
The central space of this room upon the second level was circular and used as a general purpose area, including for meditation. Bedrooms as such had been made totally redundant, with meditation having entirely taken the place of sleep.
These meditative states would last for an hour or two each day.
The Transport
Like most other items that were not made from natural products or grown, the car appeared to be made from a plastic like material. Even here, there is room but doubt in my mind as to whether this plastic was indeed a synthetic product of some natural substance, the like of which we do not have on earth. The reason for this doubt shall soon become apparent to you.
The top half was transparent but heavily tinted, the bottom, opaque and greyish brown. I guess you could say it was even vaguely pyramidal in shape, but it had a squashed and stretched out look compared to a conventional pyramid. There were no wheels, and it sat a few inches above the ground, even though it was not yet in motion.
If you could imagine a stealth fighter cockpit without wings, you would not be far off the mark.
“How does this thing work? I asked.
“Part mind power, part magnetic repulsion” I was told.
I decided perhaps I wouldn’t ask too much more about it’s internal parts.
“Well, how can I drive it then?” was going to be my next question, but before I could even ask she responded.
“You guide, I’ll provide the power”, she said, sliding back the top section. “Like this”. She was reaching over and moving a slider from side to side. “That is the manual way of doing it. I don’t think you’re quite up to doing that by pure thought yet Alec”.
“I doubt it”, I was thinking to myself without sending the thought to her. Yes, I had at least learnt to keep some thoughts to myself!
“Looks easy enough”, I said confidently as I got into the car.
“Just set the slider…. that’s right. Straight ahead is in the middle, sliding it to the right side will turn us right at the next available intersection. Don’t worry”, she emphasized, “it won’t turn until the road guides let it. Then it will reset to the middle, awaiting the next instruction. I’ll navigate”, she said.
I was hesitant. “Come on let’s go” she added impatiently, “and do not forget your extra eye protection”.
These glasses or goggles were an event in themselves. The only way to describe how they were attached is to say they simply stuck to your face of suit-covering material without any other support. There was some sort of interaction of materials, as far as I could tell.
The car’s guidance system had me puzzled. As the vehicle did not actually touch the ground, how did it know when to turn? It was suspended above the road by a form of magnetic repulsion, the details of which I did not get into but which didn’t seem all that complex.
I’m sure it could be reproduced here on Earth without too much trouble. In some way, the vehicle would have to set up an electromagnetic field, or charge some particles and not others, in order to find its way around corners and so on without being instructed to do so.
Speculations on Future Technology
My objectives in writing this book was to give a factual report on an actual incident. While I have tried to keep any speculation on my part to a minimum, if I have included any it was not my intention.
Wherever possible, I have tied to remain neutral, at least as far as the off planet segments are concerned. However, my demise at the hands of terrestrial authorities has made it difficult for me to remain neutral in that area. Perhaps you will forgive me this transgression.
What I’d like to do here is unleash upon you some personal speculation (albeit based on fact), as to how some of what you’ve just read might be more easily understood in the world of terrestrial reality.
The year 1947 (coincidentally, the same year as the now infamous Roswell saucer retrieval incident) heralded one of the biggest single technological breakthroughs of this century when, on the 23rd of December at the Bell Laboratories, inventors John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley unveiled the first point-contact transistors.
Shockley followed up a year or so later with his junction transistor development. This amazing new technology amplified electrical signals by passing them through a solid semiconductor material – basically the same operation performed by present day junction transistors.
What resulted from this invention has been little short of miraculous, even “out of this world”, dare I say. Following on from here, we end up deep within the next subject.
Most substances can exist in three different states, solid liquid and gaseous. Temperatures and pressures determine which state is adopted. The solid state is usually crystalline.
Differences between the three fundamental states are often depicted by simple diagrams in which atoms are represented by circles. Usually these circles are clustered together in a roughly spherical layout, at least with the solid and liquid states. However, when the atoms are replaced by molecules that are elongated in one direction, a peculiar intermediate state of matter arises: the liquid crystal.
We must therefore conclude that there are more than just three states of matter.
Another Viewpoint of The Transport That Alec Used
Another related subject concerns a group of organic superconductors known as Bechgaard salts, discovered in 1985. I mention them here because they have interesting characteristics in relation to UFO sightings.
If light is shone at the crystal but is polarized parallel to the conducting direction, it is reflected, this giving the crystal a characteristic metallic luster. Polarization in the transverse direction produces a dull gray appearance. If the power supply is turned off, the material disappears from sight . How about that! Conclusion: just because something looks like it’s made of metallic substance, this does not necessarily mean that it is!
Since 1989, I have had two thirds of a jigsaw puzzle in my head. I knew that my aliens’ craft could have changed shape on command and that these craft were in fact living entities in their own right.
I knew that some form of crystalline technology, possibly using a pulsed resonance or vibrational frequency along with temperature variations, was being used to go interdimensional.
What I did not know or understand was how all this could be put together, but since the white powder gold article appeared in “Nexus Magazine”. I may possibly have found the missing link!
This is a Drawing Made by Alec Upon His Return to Earth, it was of a Generator that he saw, and this is his depiction of it
Closure
Upon Alec’s return to this Planet, it was obvious from the start that some governmental agency knew about his “off world” experience, and wanted to get as much information out of him as humanly possible.
Two New Zealand DSIR scientists visited him wanting to know rather a lot of information about things they should never of even known about…. It soon became apparent that these two “gentleman” were not DSIR (Department of Scientific & Industrial Research) at all.
The harassment continued and intensified, with his flat being broken into several times, even though Alec continually changed address’s to try and shake these people off his trail. Their demeanor was always threatening and when Alecrefused point blank to cooperate with these individuals, they really started the to play “hard ball!”
As I stated at the beginning of this review of Alec’s experience, there it is not possible to do this story justice in just a couple of pages. The entire experience is one that will utterly amaze you. From start to finish it one of the best documented and illustrated abduction experiences that I have ever read.
During Alec’s experience he had access to ancient records of earth’s history, which in itself spins a story that will put a lot more of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together on how this planet evolved.
This is a Book that “everyone” should read, and I urge all of you to get Alec’s book “Co-Evolution“, and read this amazing and fascinating experience for yourself. I assure you, you will not be disappointed!! I have absolutely no financial interests or ties to Alec’s book….
I just truly believe that this is a book that everyone interested in informing themselves on what is happening “right” now to this planet, “must” read this book.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then, finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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THE MAN WHO LIVED WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS FOR 10 DAYS - PART II
THE MAN WHO LIVED WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS FOR 10 DAYS - PART II
Conversations with Zeena
THE EARTH SEEN IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT
I must have gone to sleep almost immediately. When I opened my eyes again, Zeena was sitting opposite my cubicle. “Verva,” she said. “Did you sleep well?” “Like a rock,” I replied. “Curious expression,” was her reply. “How long has it been?” I added, enquiring as to the length of my sleep. “One half of an Earth day–twelve hours,” she answered. “What’s ’verva’?” I asked. “Oh, ’good spirit, fresh energy to you’. It is a greeting we use a lot, like your ’hello’,” she explained. “What’s on the schedule?” I enquired. “Some more liquid replacement for you,” was her reply. “Come on. We have only two more of your Earth days and there is much to learn if you desire, and quite a few questions I have for you, too, before I return home.”
Zeena appeared most anxious, but how could she be more inquisitive than I? Even though, I was still reeling from awakening to find myself ’dream-bound’ and not back on Earth as I had expected.
“Her home! Now there’s something I’d like to know about,” I thought to myself but realized almost immediately that Zeena would read it.
“About the size of the planet Mars in your system,” she replied, right on cue. “But it is not in the best of health, for our sun is slowly dying and we are being roasted with radiation. We are also losing our atmosphere. We can patch that up to a degree, but not for ever.”
“Doesn’t sound good. What are you guys doing about it?” I asked.
“Well, we have been looking for a new home for many of your years. The best bet is still Earth, but we cannot take your gravity, among other things. That has always been the major factor but it is also not of the right conformation for us yet. It used to be, but we are not quite like we used to be.”
Zeena hesitated, as if pondering whether to go on with this topic. She chose not to continue.
“There is every chance that the Earth is about to change in the not-too-distant future,” was her revised answer.
“Change its conformation?” I enquired, startled.
“It shall mutate to a different density level, as you would understand it. It’s no big deal. It’s happening all over, all the time,” she replied.
I think she might now have been trying to downplay it all after she noted how panicked I must have appeared.
“It’ll what?” I queried, looking at her in amazement.
“Well, that is another of those long stories I promised to tell you about. It is best we get comfortable first and you get some fluid intake.”
ANCIENT HISTORY LESSONS FROM THE FUTURE
“Now, how shall I start?” Zeena asked. “Perhaps with the Elders.”
“Elders?” I chipped in.
“Like the Guardian you have met. They are each many hundreds of Earth years old and have a very ancient lineage. Their ancestors, who are my ancestors, are also very distant ancestors of yours; at least in part they are. Now do not interrupt!”
Zeena headed me off at the pass, even before I could get the thought out of my head.
“This is going to be difficult enough to explain without interruption. I will make room for questions a little later,” she added. “These distant common ancestors of ours came to Earth many times, but more important to you was the visit of two million years ago, your time-scale. They were not the first [aliens]to visit. In fact, they and others have lived in and explored what you call your solar system for hundreds of millions of years.
“These travellers tidied up some earlier attempts to manufacture a race of humanoids on Earth, the end result being Homo sapiens. I will not go so far as to say these ancient ancestors of mine were solely responsible for your race, for that was indeed a joint effort of many ETs, all of which at some time have laid claim to manufacturing your race. This is not a deliberate lie on their behalf–just a slight exaggeration of the facts. Do not interrupt yet, please. I shall explain all in due course.
“In many ways you have manufactured or at least fine-tuned your own race, and it continues even at this very moment. This is mistakenly called ’evolution’. ’Natural progression of the species’ is a fine turn of phrase uttered by one of your kind’s more enquiring minds some years ago. It was thought by many to explain the path of evolution, and there is an end to it. But this thinking leaves more questions unanswered than answered, for how and when did a butterfly obtain its wings? I shall not pursue this subject for there are more important things to discuss, but no doubt you see my point. Perhaps there will be a time at a later date.
“I will, however, tell you more of your own race’s personal history, for it is important that you should know your own past, and that evolution as you understand it is a myth. The changes are never slow but they are always planned. Later I shall show you that nothing in this Universe–past, present or future in your time-scale–is left to chance. Forgive me, for I diverge from our chosen path.
“Some of my ancient Elders stayed with your developing race. Others moved on. From time to time there were conflicts with other ET races as to what was best for one or the other, just as there are conflicts on your planet now, among your own kind. You must understand that Earth is a very special place. It is very beautiful and there are many who have desired to own it. I would not go so far as to say this is no longer the case, but you should always have your wits about you! Even we, although we do not wish to own it, would like to live there. But we cannot–indeed, we must not–interfere with the processes that are happening on your planet right now. That is not to say there are no other ET races that will not interfere, and that is why you must have your wits about you.
“Some of those processes which are occurring, or are about to occur, are the direct result of that seeding by our ancient Elders. Even the pyramids are ancient legacies left behind by our Elders to help you awaken when the time is right. They are very important to you, and it is from this front that progress of a most unexpected kind will manifest itself to your race in the not-too-distant future.
“All knowledge will be made available to your race in good time and in accordance with the laws of evolution. There has yet to be a force artificially manufactured in any universe that my people know of that is more powerful or wiser than this natural law. Trust me when I say this, for my race knows well the cost of interfering with the laws of evolution. We would warn your own people, if only those in control would listen. Alas, that approach appears to have fallen on deaf ears, so we shall now attempt to pass on the message in a different way. “There was indeed a time upon your planet, not so long ago in the context of this history lesson, when a ’force’ came down upon it and did in fact claim it [the Earth]and all upon it as its own. That force–and I know you will find this difficult to accept, Alec [Zeena used my name for the first time]–that force is still among you. It is indeed now a part of all of you, so I suppose you could say it still does own the planet in some way.
“After this force won your planet, it realized it would have a continuous fight on its hands, for you were not as you are now. You were well on your way to enlightenment, with a very strong spiritual base. You were actually almost as strong as this force itself. It had to trick you in order to master you, and while you were down it altered your make-up, your very structure; your DNA, in fact. It crippled you and stunted you, and set you back many thousands of years. It made you into what you are today, which is only a portion of the greatness you can be, for you have not yet even fully recovered. And if that forcehas its way, you never will!
“That force is known to most as the ’force of darkness’, for it is indeed the enemy of enlightenment. You will please understand that this is a very simplistic description of a most complex entity. Even we do not understand it in its entirety. It is in the air that you breathe and everywhere about you. It has aligned itself to the planet and you. It beats to the pulse of your very planet, for you and the Earth are one and the same. This is one thing your peoples do not seem to comprehend, but you can use this union of the whole to do wondrous things, just as we have.
“Unfortunately, most of your kind fight the natural forces of your wondrous planet. By this I mean you bend them, even break them, to fit your needs. It need not be this way. If your people will just open their minds and hearts to your planet, as many of your ancient races have done in the past, it will show you the way. All is not lost; it just needs to be recalled. Until this is done, we have much need for concern. It is not just Earth planet you are violating as you bend and break Nature in your whims of fancy, for all of all is connected. This is really very basic knowledge. It has been ignored because it suits those who would play with power to ignore it. We and others are indeed benevolent to your race, as we all are connected, but soon something must be done before your play does meaningful harm to us all!
“We find that there is a need to teach you more about the dark forces that permeate you. You would do well by your people if you take great heed of this lesson and pass on your findings to those of your kind who would listen. The dark force vibrates at a level that is compatible with your brainwave patterns. This much you should already know, but others of your kind have kept it from you.
“In spite of this, some, like you, Alec, are building a resistance to this alien intruder. This is one of the reasons why you find yourself thinking differently from the majority around you. It has enabled you to see more clearly the error of your ways and what must be done. You shall continue along this path a while longer yet, and even doubt your own kind from time to time. Be patient. This is all I can suggest, as inadequate as it may sound. We have been working on these things with you for many a year now. All of your people will find their way with the passing of time.
“As you find with all afflictions, they are easier to contend with if you understand them. I am doing my best to explain all this to you in terms you will understand. Please interject from here on if you do not understand some point, for we do consider the following to be most important.
“Some on your planet have aligned themselves with this ’force’. Note I have said ’aligned’ and not ’allied’, for there is a difference. Do you understand this? [I nodded.] They have gained much power from the force, and some are even foolish enough to think they have it under control. This is naïve, of course, as the force or alien entity is feeding off these people or, rather, feeding off the conflicts these people create in their bid for wealth and power. As long as this suits the dark force, it shall continue; for the ’fear’ emotion is what it lives off.
“The easiest way to defeat this force is to remove fear from your societies. This will, in effect, starve it out. It will then go elsewhere, looking for easier prey. You see, your human race is one of the very few that lives with this most unusual thing called ’emotion’, which is why the force came here in the first place. We, too, had emotions once, so I am told, and some are saying we can now experience them again, thanks to the new breeding program we are experimenting with. Forgive me, I digress again.
“You will find some of your kind are trying very hard to harness this most dangerous force. Unfortunately, they do not fully understand that it is an entity in its own right and that this is a very dangerous mistake to be making. They think they are playing a game and that they are winning this game. We have tried to warn your people more than once in the past, but no heed has been taken. As your people say, ’it is your life’.
“The worry we have is that your planet breathes with you, in harmony even with your thoughts. To attack the people by using the force in this way is to attack the planet. Be it on your own heads if you invoke the wrath of your planet. There would be little or nothing we could do for your people should that happen. Perhaps you can help us with this message. We have an idea to put to you, but that shall keep until another time, for there is still much to be related on other subjects.
“Your societies, right from the very beginning, have engineered fear into your lives. Most of it is an artificial fear of society itself; in other words, you fear your very own laws. Your high priests from long ago shouted down to the common masses, describing what wraths would be set upon them if they did so much as dare to cross the all-mighty gods of their time. Forgive me if I make what you call a ’joke’ of this, for these all-mighty gods they describe were people like me or the Guardian, whom you have met. Do you fear me, Alec, from where you stand?” Zeena asked.
“I feel no fear,” was my answer.
“So you see how your masses were manipulated in our absence by those who would gain from it?” she asked again.
“I can see how a lie could fool the uneducated,” was my reply.
“And you think your people are better educated on this subject today?” she asked once more.
“If you ask what we know of God, then perhaps not,” I replied.
“Exactly my point,” Zeena stated.
“And so the intimidation goes on, only you have a hundredfold the number of laws today. These are not the laws of Nature, however; just of your manipulators who in turn have been manipulated by the force.
“The laws of Nature you break every day as you drive to work in your disgusting machines. It is even more curious to us that you all know these things but you continue to allow them just the same. Why is there not a law against it in your society? Does pollution not kill? Are your people so blind they could not see what would happen with the proliferation of these strange machines? You need not answer, for we know the reasons. This is just, as you might say, an example.
“You will perhaps tolerate our confusion, though, when we fail to understand what we have observed in your so-called Western societies in which thousands of your money are spent to save but one life, while millions of your kind die in other far areas for the sake of small amounts of this money. Are you not all one people of the same flesh and blood? For this question, we ourselves do not have such an answer. Could you perhaps help us in the reasoning of this?” Zeena asked, looking at me in a most perplexed way.
“My own people sometimes embarrass and confuse me. No, I have no answer to that question,” I replied. “Very well. Why do your people take such time and interest in a single tree, should it be cut down in your cities, while they allow large areas of many-years-old trees to be removed from the forests which are out of their sight? Please take this question home with you to put to others, for we also find this most confusing.”
I have since duly completed that request.
Zeena did have some encouraging news. She suggested that the force would soon feel the weight of an invasion from above, and there would be battles fought at sea and underwater, and also in the skies high above. Most would know little about these events, except those caught within the by-product of the battles. By this she meant that the Earth would experience storms of gathering intensity, and where these storms would once have been confined to the vortex points of our globe (the western Atlantic-Bermuda area and the western Pacific, south-east of Japan) they would now appear randomly all over our planet. She did not say who or what might be behind these battles or be the cause of them. However, when the way is clear and some portion of the fear has been removed, we may indeed see other races of the Cosmos openly visiting and interacting with us here on Earth!
“In the due course of time you will awaken from this ’sleep’ that the force has had you in, with a little help from your friends,” she added. “Being a sailor,” she said, suggesting I watched the weather, “you will know what to look for. Trust in your instincts.”
This is all she was prepared to say on the subject.
“Your race is nearly strong enough to fight back and win its rightful place in this galaxy of ours. We will help you and your planet to do great things again, for we love all life. Even the dark force is a form of life and we must and do respect it. Do you understand, Alec? This is very important.”
Zeena at last let me have a say.
“Yes, I do. But how do we fight this force if we cannot see it or know where it is?” I asked.
“It is within your very soul. You fight it with knowledge and understanding. But only each and every one of your kind can help yourselves. Nevertheless, to know that it exists is half the battle, and you can pass on this knowledge to all who should care to listen. Your race is about to change, become more aware–well, most of you are. It is an unfortunate fact that the ones upon your planet who truly understand what a great hold this force known to you as fear has over your people, are the very ones who are using it against you–and always have. They only understand its power, not its reason for being. That is why we have chosen this time to explain to you, and others of your kind, what we are here for. We have come to help enlighten you and, in so doing, perhaps free you from this force. We also understand that there will be some among you who will resent this knowledge being made available and will do their best to belittle and downplay its importance to your race.
“We may also need things from you and your planet. Call it a trade if you like, but I would prefer to use the word ’coevolution’. We both can grow. We both need to change. You will become more like us, while we need to become more like you. We can truly become great friends once you learn to break free. We have been waiting a long time for this to happen, and you, Alec, are part of this very special event that will happen, as are many others. You will find them and they will find you. Just let it be known that you are a child of the light, whenever you feel the time is right. You will be amazed at what will happen from then on.”
As Zeena finished this part of the lesson, I really did not know what to say. How could I reply to what she’d just said? Her narration had brought up more questions than answers, and quite frankly I did not know where to begin. Even though most of what she’d just said was totally amazing, it was as if I had always known it was so! For that reason you may think my next question out of place.
“The thing that worries me the most,” I replied, “was your earlier comment before this lesson began about the Earth ’mutating’ into something. Where will that leave us, the people?”
“You have no fears there. It will be you, the people, who help the Earth to transform. You will already have passed over to the next level of density, or be in the act of doing so, which in actual fact is evolution–true evolution, as it just so happens; not the form of change that you may have associated with that word in the past. I am sorry, here, because there has not yet been time to ground you in that knowledge. The Earth, too, will evolve along these same lines, and that is what I meant by ’mutate’. I am sorry for the use of that word if it has caused you concern,” Zeena quickly replied.
“I have more questions,” I said, looking at Zeena and hoping I could continue to ask them. Her indication was that I could.
“What happened to those early ancestors — the ones who stayed on Earth, the ones who helped us in the past?” “Some of them eventually interbred with your kind, although there was resistance to this initially. The offspring of these unions became our common ancestors. All who were pure of our blood eventually died of an unknown illness or left the planet. Their life-span should have been many hundreds, perhaps even thousands of your years. Some say they simply died of premature ageing. There are many possible reasons why this may have occurred, but it is not necessary for us to discuss that now. The few who escaped this fate and left Earth are now lost to us; where they may have gone, my people do not know, for that was indeed a long time ago. But while we are on the subject of interbreeding, there are a few questions I would ask of you, if I may,” Zeena requested.
I nodded my approval, knowing I would get more chances to ask the hundred-and-one questions I was waiting to ask.
Her first question took me a little by surprise.
“Have you bred on your home planet?”
“That’s an interesting question,” was my startled reply. “By ’breed’, I suppose you mean have I any children of my own?”
I couldn’t believe she didn’t already know the answer to this question. Perhaps she was just being polite.
“Yes,” she said.
“Well, I have a son who is fourteen years old and is fit and healthy. He doesn’t appear to have too many problems, except that he could be without a proper father from now on.”
“What do you mean by that?” she asked.
“I was in the process of leaving my family unit permanently when you guys zapped me up here!” I replied. “Don’t ask why. It’s very complicated, and I’m not sure I know the answer anyway.”
“This breeding process, in the form you Homo sapiens use, I have studied as much as I can from our records, but there is still much I wish to know. I have been selected for a modified reproductive process when I return to my home planet. We as a people are running out of time to develop offspring which could survive on any other planet apart from our own without life-support systems. By this I mean we have not yet found another world that is compatible with our specific and rather unique needs. I may be able to elaborate on this point a little later. For now, it is enough to say we have few options, and may have to adjust to new environments such as planet Earth–which we still like to call our second home, even though we are far removed from being able to live there full time,” Zeena finished, sounding rather distressed.
“Our planet is rather full already,” I commented, not really wishing to add to her burden. In spite of what I had already witnessed and been party to, I was in no way prepared for her reply to my statement.
“Oh, we have already had communication with Earth governors on that subject; since the 1950s, in fact. They know of our desire and need. We have even made a trade, as you might call it. I cannot elaborate on it at this time. But not everyone has lived up to their agreements since then.”
“Why does nobody know of this on Earth?” I asked, my eyes wide open.
“Your various governors, in their wisdom, decided that the Earth’s general population was not then ready for the message and knowledge we had planned to give your people. If you think back to the subjects we have recently discussed, it is hardly surprising, is it? They feel you are still not ready, and we will not tell your people a half-truth to suit others. So we have this situation–what do you say?–a stalemate,” Zeena concluded.
“What did the governors say when you said you would like to return to Earth at some time in the future?” I asked.
“All they wanted were the ’lollies’,” she commented, without expanding on that subject.
“There are not that many of us,” Zeena continued. Fifteen million is but a small total, is it not, among your billions? And our technology trade-off would make life so much easier for your population. If I dare be so brave as to say history could repeat itself, you may find we interbreed to become one race again, as happened so long ago in your past histories.
“At this point in time there are still some important things that we must physically do here on Earth: some repair work, as it were; a legacy from the past which I am not permitted to discuss at this time. We must correct that which is in a state of disrepair. Just by way of coincidence, that work is now almost completed. This is no small thing, for repairs have been going on for many of your years. Time is now short, for next will come the changes–your awakening.”
She answered my question before I could ask it. There was not much I could do but sit in silent amazement.
“You must realize,” she continued, as I couldn’t think of any worthwhile thing to say, “that we are quite a primitive race compared to other extraterrestrials that may communicate with Earth people from time to time. That is one of the reasons we are so attracted to Earth and to you as a race. We feel a real kindred or bonding for your people. We also think Earth is a most beautiful place.”
“Where would you like to live on Earth if you had a choice?” I asked.
“We have an area that we call our own.”
Zeena explained to me that they were already using an underwater base in the general area of this land that had been set aside for them, although she would go no further in describing where that might be. She was then called away, promising to return as soon as possible to continue our conversation.
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
Upon her return from duty, Zeena was keen to continue her explanation of what they were doing and were about to do on the new breeding program, and why it had become such a priority to her people. In order for me to understand, or try to understand fully, another lesson was apparently necessary, so she suggested once again that I make myself comfortable as it was likely to take some time.
“For you to understand the problems that we have, it is best that I tell you a little more about the world you live in. Some of this will be a little hard to understand, but some other aspects will ring a bell when you start to look at them in a different light,” said Zeena, who was sitting opposite my sleeping cubicle.
I had just finished another small nap to make up for my forty-hour marathon without sleep.
Zeena continued.
“You will remember some time ago I promised to tell you about the other side of yourself. This concerns the cycle of the atom, the part that is still little understood by your people, or, should I say, not yet fully understood by them. When this is understood, a whole new dimension, or dimensions, will open up for you; for in this instant of time between the pulses of atoms lies a world within worlds. They are in fact parallel dimensions to your own–at least to the one where most of you live your ’now’. These dimensions are so close to your real ’now’ that you can slip in and out of them without even knowing you have done so! There are sometimes little clues that tell you what has just happened. This dimension-slipping has been going on since you first walked the Earth, only now it is becoming more common to your people. It can happen almost every day to some, but they are basically unaware of it. This is happening because you are awakening to your true selves.
“You are close to a major dimension-leap, the like of which you have never before experienced; a leap that will bring you closer to my people. This is what we have all been waiting for! How many times have you searched for something in a room and could not find it? You go back some time later and there it is, right in front of your nose; there is no way you could have missed it when you searched. You see, you are not always where you think you are. The trick is to be fully conscious when you make these mini-leaps and be aware of where you have gone. You will be very surprised, I think. It is a place not far from there that you will find us.
“We basically come from your future. It does not matter if it is six minutes into your future or six years; if you can get to one, you can get to the other. But, for us, it is not as simple as that, for we also come from another dimension; not quite the one you will shift into, but close. So we are what you would call dimensional time-travellers. Sounds like a good movie, does it not? Your Mr Spielberg would love it!”
I had to laugh at that one.
“We–myself and others like me–are in fact a whole new race, or, to be more accurate, a newly reconstituted race. Further modifications are still required before we can achieve our goals as a people. This is one of the reasons for our travel to your time zone, and, indeed, the reason for others being here who are also experimenting with their biological make-up, although they have far different goals behind their experimentation than we do.
“The reason behind so many abductions occurring on your planet over the last few years of your time is that this is the last chance for our race–and other races of ETs with problems similar to ours–to interact with you as a race before you change to a form that will no longer be of use to us. Yes, it is that close! My own surrogate mother was of your time and race…”
“We could go further back in time, but it is this now that we need. I will not complicate matters by trying to explain that; we would be here for many more days. My race still has a problem to overcome. We must breed a race with stronger limbs and oxygen-processing units.”
“Lungs?” I enquired again.
“Yes. We have been using a mixture of your species’ DNA and chromosomes, along with our own. Our blood used to be very similar to yours–and still is, with a little modification–although we really only have one type as you would know it; well, two, but they are both very much like your A-negative. We can modify most things, but what it adds up to is that we are not going to go looking for problems–we already have enough of them.
“We have approximately only five per cent of your male population to work with, notwithstanding health, age, etc. There is a very special, shall I say, ’X-factor’ which must be brought into this equation, which in fact brings only about one per cent of this already small group into our calculations–that is, if we should require a male to help us. The fact that we are not of the same vibrational plane is the major problem. This is part of that X-factor, and is related to health and disease resistance, biological balance in relation to birth location, previous adaptability tests, and so on and so on.
“I cannot begin to explain the complications we have had. It has stretched our technology to its limits and beyond. The end result is what you see before you now. I may look good to you, but I still could not live on your planet without our technology to help me constantly. The bottom line is that the process has been too slow, and up to now has not done the job. At the present rate, it may take more time than we have to spare on our crippled planet! We now need to start taking some risks to speed up the process.”
“What kind of risks?” I asked.
“Well, up until now we have been more concerned with preserving our mind-generated energy distribution abilities–which I don’t expect you to comprehend just yet–but now we need to concentrate on the physical aspects, the strength and endurance, even if we lose a little of the other abilities.”
“Become more like us?” I chimed in again.
“Yes, we must,” Zeena replied. “We already have, as you noticed earlier,” she said, with what almost appeared to be a smile on her face. This was the first hint of an emotion I had seen.
“Now there needs to be a step–a big one–even further down that road. There is a chance for me to become part of that step,” she added. “That is why I wish to ask you more questions about your breeding processes; procreation–would that be a better word for it?”
“You would be surprised at some of the words we use for it,” I replied. “Even I don’t know where some of them come from.”
“I understand it is most primitive and basic in its natural form. It is possible that I may be able to be fertilized and to carry the foetus almost full-term within me. That may not sound much to you, but no female of our race has carried a child within her for many hundreds of thousands of years. The artificial methods we have been using are too slow and hard to change. They may even be impossible to use if we settle on a planet like your Earth.
“I have been designed to take the place of what you would call a synthetic birth process. There has been quite some progress just lately. Even a hundred years ago, your time, one of our type could not have interacted with your species on this level. That is how much we have evolved in different directions since the early colonists left your planet. Now we find it necessary to take a step in another direction.”
I noted how she diplomatically skirted the suggestion that they might be going backwards on the evolutionary tree. I could not really understand what knowledge she could want from me, and I doubted there was anything I knew that she did not already know…
Ask an astronomically-inclined astrobiologist what their favorite research paper of the past three decades is and there's a good chance they'll say 'the Galileo flyby of Earth'.
In 1990, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter took a swing by the Earth as part of its orbital maneuvering to gain enough velocity and the right trajectory to head on out to Jupiter. During that close pass - about 960 kilometers above the Caribbean - Galileo had its scientific instruments fired up. That data helped shake down the mission's systems, but also afforded a unique opportunity to study the Earth as if it were an alien world.
Written by Carl Sagan and colleagues: "A search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft", published in 1993, was a beautiful thought-experiment made real, a control for future efforts to find life far beyond. The conclusion, combining observations of atmospheric composition (ohh, look, methane!), reflectivity, and even radio waves, was that this blue-green world might very well harbor living things.
Flash forward to 2017, and on September 22nd NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission performed a similar flyby. Swooping across the southern polar end of Earth at an altitude of about 11,000 km, the spacecraft used the planetary gravitational field to tweak the inclination of its trajectory, aiming up out of the ecliptic plane for a rendezvous in August 2018 with the asteroid Bennu.
But OSIRIS-REx kept busy, and as it zipped past Earth it had one of its imaging cameras and a visible-and-infrared spectrometer and thermal (far IR) spectrometer switched on to grab a set of wonderful datasets (below) that echo the way that the Galileo mission studied the Earth.
Looking at these data, and especially the spectra of reflected and emitted light from the Earth, we can immediately see some tantalizing evidence for a world infected with biology. There are clear signs of both oxygen and methane in the atmosphere, there is plenty of water vapor, ozone, and an ocean temperature of a passable 13 Celsius emission temperature.
It's another beautiful, even if serendipitous experiment.
Artist depiction of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swinging by Earth on September 22nd for a gravitational "slingshot" maneuver sending it toward its destination, asteroid Bennu.
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona)
On September 22, a spaceship visited Earth—NASA can confirm that it wasn’t alien property. It was NASA’s own OSIRIS-RExprobe, swinging by Earth in a gravitational “slingshot” maneuver designed to fling it toward a 2018 rendezvous with an asteroid named Bennu.
The spacecraft will become NASA’s first mission ever to visit an asteroid, collect samples of its ancient materials, and return them to Earth for laboratory analysis.
More than merely an asteroid-dust collector, however, this mission aims to give scientists a clearer understanding of the formation of the solar system, the Earth, and the origin of life on our planet.
Launched on September 8, 2016, OSIRIS-REx —which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer—will arrive at Bennu in August 2018, where it will map the asteroid’s surface in detail, and then graze to within a few meters of its surface to collect dust samples. It will then head back to Earth for an expected return in 2023.
Artist illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performing its dust-sample collection maneuver prior to its return to Earth. (NASA)
What Can Asteroids Tell Us About Life on Earth?
Asteroids—as well as comets—are the debris left over from the formation of our solar system, about 4.6 billion years ago, and are potential gold mines of information about the early conditions that shaped Earth and the other planets. They formed during the earliest times in the solar system, and have remained largely unchanged since then.
On Earth, geological action and weathering alter terrestrial rocks over time, effectively erasing information about the earliest conditions on our planet. Attempting to reconstruct the environment that led to the origin of life on Earth by studying terrestrial rocks is a bit like trying to perceive an artist’s original painting on a canvass that has been painted over multiple times.
Radar images of Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu taken by the Goldstone Radio Telescope in the Mojave Desert. (NASA/Goldstone Radio Telescope)
Were Oceans Filled by Asteroids Like Bennu?
Bennu is a roughly 500-meter diameter Near-Earth Asteroid–one whose closest approach to the sun is less than 120 million miles. Not only is it close to Earth and relatively easy to visit, it is a “carbonaceous” asteroid—rich in carbon compounds, as well as other materials like water.
This makes it a good candidate for testing a theory that the young Earth may have been supplied with organic materials (compounds of carbon and hydrogen) and water from asteroids like Bennu colliding with our planet, during a period called the “Late Heavy Bombardment” between 3.8 and 4.1 billion years ago.
We know that during this period, the moon, as well as Earth and the other planets of the inner solar system, were showered by large numbers of asteroids and comets—a fact that our moon and the planets Mercury and Mars testify to with tens of thousands of ancient impact craters.
The materials carried by the impacting objects became part of the makeup of Earth’s crust, and are thought to have supplied some or much of Earth’s surface water and the organic compounds that set the stage for the appearance of life.
Bennu is a Near-Earth Asteroid whose orbital plane is tilted six degrees relative to Earth’s. OSIRIS-REx’s slingshot maneuver past Earth on September 22nd was necessary to boost the spacecraft to Bennu’s orbital trajectory. (NASA)
Have Comets Fallen Out of Favor?
For many years, comets were singled out as a likely source of Earth’s water and organic materials. Comets are composed largely of water ice and chemicals like ammonia. More recently, we’ve also discovered organic hydrocarbon compounds mixed in.
Attempts to match the chemical signatures of the water in Earth’s ocean with the water-ice in comets have yielded mixed results. Of several comets from which measurements have been obtained—most recently comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko visited by the European Rosettaspacecraft in 2014—a trend has developed that points away from comets as a significant source of Earth’s fertile starting point.
At the same time, the detection of water ice and carbon compounds within some asteroids has revealed that they are not merely bone-dry hunks of rock and metal as once assumed, strengthening the argument favoring asteroids as the main contributors of those precious materials. In 2015 NASA’s Dawn spacecraft discovered that the former asteroid (now dwarf planet) Ceres may contain a mantle of ice greater in mass than all of Earth’s fresh water.
Asteroids: Friend or Foe?
Recently there has been a lot of concern over the probabilities of Near-Earth Asteroids (of which Bennu is one) colliding with Earth and wreaking havoc and devastation to humans, Earth’s ecosystems, and even our civilization.
It is amusing to think that the first spacecraft mission sent to one of these potential Earth-colliding, flying mountains is aimed at understanding how objects such as these may have brought life to Earth in the first place.
Now that OSIRIS-REx has completed its slingshot maneuver past Earth, it should be smooth sailing all the way to Bennu. NASA will use the time to test the health of its systems and functions. Then, next August when the spacecraft is a little more than a million miles from the asteroid, it will use its thrusters to match course and speed with the asteroid to set up for a final approach.
In 1950, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi posed a question to his lunch companions: Why haven’t we encountered intelligent life in our universe when there’s a high probability that it exists?
In an attempt to answer what became known as Fermi’s Paradox, experimental philosopher and conceptual artist Jonathon Keats examined human society and concluded that Well, we’re not a particularly welcoming bunch. Maybe our space neighbors haven’t said hello because they don’t feel wanted by Earthfolk. They likely sense hostility toward outsiders in our media, our demeanor, our way of expressing ourselves — which, of course.
To that end, Keats is extending a hand to Fermi’s theoretical extraterrestrial friends with an actual welcome mat. Even if the project doesn’t draw any actual martians, he hopes this common, even clichéd, symbol of hospitality can help us address alienation and growing polarization on our own planet.
Keats has devoted many of his projects to thinking about how to bridge divides. In 2015, for example, he issued a proposal, complete with diagrams, to smush the continents together with magnetrons and nuclear reactors to address fundamental issues in geopolitics. In 2016, he devised a method of fostering better understanding of climate science through literally eating climate models.
The Cosmic Welcome Mat is not supersized, viewable from space, nor merely conceptual. It is as quotidian an object as you might find outside of any American door — or rather, Australian, as it’s currently on display at the International Aeronautical Congress in Adelaide. Additionally, four doormat-sized versions of the Cosmic Welcome Mat will be placed at thresholds around the campus of Adelaide’s Flinders University.
So, how do you make the “welcome” message clear to intergalactic visitors? Keats consulted space archaeologist Alice Gorman to help tailor the mats to potential alien tastes. Each version is printed with different jewel-colored blobs — “it’s actually quite hard,” Keats says, “to design a blob that doesn’t look like anything else” — that signify fundamental concepts. The pairs of cloud-like shapes symbolize growth to indicate progression of time, stretching to suggest travel and distance between homes, and merging to represent fitting into a welcome environment. These are all iterations of “the language of welcomeness,” Keats explains.
Grist / Jonathon Keats
This project may sound slightly insane, but our approach to space communication has always been bizarre. Carl Sagan helped design a plaque sent to Jupiter on the Pioneer 10 spacecraft in 1972. The plaque bears an illustration of a man and woman with a full, detailed pubic package on the former and Barbie-blank canvas on the latter. The Golden Record, carried on each of NASA’s Voyager space probes in 1977, contains a greeting unfortunately recorded by former Nazi and then-Secretary General of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim. It also includes this extremely peculiar photo collage of people eating things:
National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
The worst way to show hospitality to a stranger is to focus on oneself — which is, Keats notes, the primary characteristic of most of our attempts at space communication. “Generally speaking, it’s been about us,” he says. “It’s like going to a cocktail party and talking about yourself, indefinitely.”
Truly inviting foreign beings into our homes requires looking upon ourselves from the perspective of outsiders. It requires questioning our assumptions, rethinking the way we communicate, and pondering the limits and failures of language.
You see where this is going. I ask Keats how we apply these ideas to our current, increasingly more divisive, cultural moment. There are valid lessons, Keats notes — particularly with regard to, say, talking about and legislating based on climate change with those who don’t believe in it.
“If we assume we’re able to understand our audience completely,” he continues, “I think we are deceiving ourselves.” Keats says that we always have something in common with another entity, whatever it may be, wherever it may be. “It simply is a matter of enlarging the scope of our thinking.”
A project like the Cosmic Welcome Mat “makes one aware of all the ways in which failings in communication can lead to disagreement and facilitate xenophobia,” Keats says. “To recognize limitations of my ability to communicate what I believe, and also to understand what you believe, can be powerful tools toward avoiding misunderstanding.”
Is it tragic or appropriate that, in these times, it takes a thought experiment about how we’d communicate with aliens to consider how we might reach out to our political detractors, or to refugees, or simply to anyone different? The entire year — how long it’s been! — has felt like a torturous exercise in questioning so many assumptions while simultaneously attempting to maintain perspective, skepticism, and energy. I, for one, didn’t expect to see that captured in a welcome mat.
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MOCK ALIEN CITY COSTING £100M TO BE ‘MOST SOPHISTICATED IN WORLD’ RECREATING LIFE ON MARS
MOCK ALIEN CITY COSTING £100M TO BE ‘MOST SOPHISTICATED IN WORLD’ RECREATING LIFE ON MARS
AN ALIEN city costing £100 million is being built in the desert of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that will be the ”most sophisticated building the world”, it has been revealed.
The aim is to simulate conditions for human settlers on Mars as part of an enormous Scientific city project.
The UAE Mars Mission aims to make a human colony on the red planet by the year 2117.
This comes after the UAE Space Agency unveiled plans to send a probe to orbit Mars by 2021.
World-renowned architect Bjarke Ingels will design the city and it will consist of a series of futuristic domes.
Mr Ingel’s martian city will feature laboratories for food, energy and water research and will be designed to withstand the red planet’s harsher climate and will have extensive radiation and heat shielding.
The planet’s surface gravity is roughly 38 per cent of the surface gravity on Earth and its average temperatures are also much lower.
The 1.9million square foot (176,5151 square meters) project was launched by the UAE earlier this week and will be the largest simulated off-world environment ever constructed.
After it has been completed, a team of researchers will conduct a year-long experiment which will simulate colonist-living on Mars.
Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE Sheikh Mohammaed said: ”The Mars 2117 Project is a long term project, where our first objective is to develop our educational system so our sons will be able to lead scientific research across the various sectors.
“Human ambitions have no limits, and whoever looks into the scientific breakthroughs in the current century believes that human abilities can realise the most important human dream.
“The UAE is a great country with vision and understanding of the challenges we face and the rapid changes our world is experiencing.”
More countries are developing space agencies than ever before which could lead to human life on Mars happen a lot sooner than we anticipated.
The lessons learned from past exploration has allowed technology to improve.
Architect Bjarke Ingels will design the city
Recent developments have seen Ghanaian satellites launched, Japan planning missions to Mars’ moons, and China working on space rockets that are launched from planes.
The city will also contain a museum dedicated to humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration which it is hoped will inspire young people to pursue careers in science and mathematics.
De JSF is een verschrikkelijk toestel. Kijk wat de Australische luchtmacht zegt over dit mislukte vliegtuig
De JSF is een verschrikkelijk toestel. Kijk wat de Australische luchtmacht zegt over dit mislukte vliegtuig
De Australische luchtmacht heeft geen goed woord over voor de F-35, beter bekend als de JSF.
Australië kreeg afgelopen jaar twee toestellen geleverd van vliegtuigbouwer Lockheed Martin, maar daar schort nogal wat aan.
Australische media melden op basis van bronnen binnen de luchtmacht dat het honderden miljoenen dollars gaat kosten om de toestellen gevechtsklaar te maken.
160 aanpassingen
Er moeten zo’n 160 aanpassingen worden gedaan, schrijft nieuwssite News.com.au.
Gebleken is dat de meeste systemen aan boord van de F-35 nooit goed zijn getest. Toch wordt de JSF al geleverd aan diverse landen, waaronder ook Nederland.
Het Australische ministerie van Defensie speelt mooi weer en claimt dat er alleen wat kleine problemen zijn geweest met de software.
Area 51
Ook uit de Verenigde Staten komen steeds berichten over problemen met de F-35. De Technical Airworthiness Authority stelde bijvoorbeeld dat de schietstoel niet goed werkt, wat de komende jaren tot wel 22 piloten het leven kan kosten.
Er zijn daarnaast steeds meer aanwijzingen dat een vliegtuig dat onlangs neerstortte bij Area 51, een F-35 is geweest.
De Nederlandse regering besloot in 2013 om de F-16 te vervangen door de F-35. Het aantal voor Nederland bestemde JSF’s is vastgelegd op 37.
Absolute nachtmerrie
Amerikaanse overheidsfunctionarissen die nauw betrokken zijn bij de ontwikkeling van het gevechtsvliegtuig zeiden vorig jaar dat de F-35 mislukt is en dat het hele project een absolute nachtmerrie is.
Het is alleen veel te laat om het project, waarmee meer dan 400 miljard dollar is gemoeid, te stoppen. Nederland houdt voorlopig vast aan de peperdure aanschaf van het mislukte vliegtuig.
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
˜Mademoiselle Rose Bertin, French milliner and dressmaker to Marie Antoinette
UFOlogy is a senile discipline. By this I’m not referring to its age, or how after more than 60 years it hasn’t seemingly come any closer into solving the enigma which spawned its existence. What I mean is that UFOlogy as a field has the terrible tendency of narrow-sightedness, and of forgetting the valuable lessons from the past. Some of our critics on UFOs: Reframing the Debate, for example, complained we weren’t really saying anything particularly original compared to the thinkers and ideas of the late 60’s and early 70’s; our defense was we weren’t actually trying to be novel so much as remarking what was pointed out by the true mavericks preceding us, but hasn’t been paid attention to enough by the newer generations… to the detriment of the study of unidentified flying objects, and the intelligence(s) in control of them.
Take for instance the controversial topic of the Contactees: Most people believe it was in the 1950’s when common citizens like George Adamski or Truman Bethurum began claiming to be in contact with extraterrestrials hailing from Venus, Jupiter –or far more exotically-named planets like Clarion– and the main concern of our Space Brothers was the proliferation of nuclear weapons in our world, and the threat they posed to the survival of Humanity… or even to the stability of the entire Cosmos. Psychologists have tried to explain the sociological phenomenon of the Contactees as stemming out of Cold War anxieties, and a religious need from saviors from on-high repackaged for the consumption of the Space Age.
But those psychologists –and even most UFOlogists– would be surprised to learn warnings against a nuclear Armageddon can be traced back before the start of the Cold War and the Space Age –before even the fission of the atom had been experimentally achieved for the first time by German chemist Otto Hahn in 1938! And these warnings didn’t come from long-haired Venusians on board silvery saucers, but from a secretive individual who claimed to be in possession of a powerful legacy of knowledge, assembled from the scattered remains of a lost civilization.
These warnings came from an Alchemist.
The story I’m about to tell can be found on a book I consider to be indispensable reading by anyone interested in these topics: “Le Matin des Magiciens”(Morning of the Magicians) by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. Alas, this gem is barely known among most English-speaking UFO circles for three main reasons: It was published in 1960 (strike one); its main topic is not UFOs but philosophy and secret knowledge (strike two) and it was written by two French men (strike three! You’re out!!).
Louis Pauwels (1920-1997) was a writer and journalist with a life-long interest in Eastern mysticism and the philosophy of Gurdjieff. In 1954 he met Jacques Bergier (1912-1978) whose life is probably more deserving of a motion picture than any lazy 80’s remake: Born in Ukraine and of Jewish descent, he was a writer as well as a chemical engineer who became a resistance fighter and spy during the German occupation of France, was later captured and sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the Liberation he played a key role into the discovery of the Nazi nuclear program, and how far they have gone into the development of atomic weaponry.
Bergier was credited by his friends for having a prodigious intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge. When he was 6 years old he saw an ancient woodcut illustration of two old alchemists working on their lab, which sparked his interest in the forgotten lore of Alchemy. To him the modern discoveries about radioactivity and the composition of the atom held the promise of unlocking the true secret behind the transmutation of the elements, and creating a bridge between the Past and the Future.
But his contemporaries not only considered Alchemy a superstitious nonsense (the way we still do to this day) but even nuclear energy was still regarded a ‘fringe’ subject in theoretical physics, with no possible applications in real life (just like electricity and magnetism in the XVIIIth century). In 1933 Bergier is scolded by a teacher of his –one of the best chemists in all of France– for wasting his time in such ‘infantile’ interests as nuclear physics, and admonishes him to pursue a ‘sensible’ career in the sugar refinement industry instead.
Thankfully to us Bergier was not only smart; he was also stubborn, bless his heart. He disregards the advice and continues his ‘reckless’ studies in both cutting-edge physics and ancient Alchemy. From 1934 to 1940 he became a collaborator of the eminent physicist and chemist André Helbronner, who was among the first scientists trying to unravel the secret behind atomic energy, before he was murdered by the Nazis in 1944.
It was at the behest of Helbronner that Bergier had a strange meeting with a mysterious individual on June of 1937, two years before Germany invaded Poland and WWII began. The meeting took place in an empty testing lab owned by ‘Gas Society’ of Paris. The strange man started the conversation by saying he knew Bergier assisted Helbronner in the quest of the atomic secret, and mentioned their recent success in unleashing radioactivity in polonium.
“You are very close to success, as are many other contemporary wise men,” said the stranger (remember Hahn’s experiment in ’38) “but the work you and your peers are doing is terribly dangerous. And it is not only you who are in peril, but the whole of Humanity.”
The man explained to Bergier the liberation of nuclear energy was easier than what was believed at the time, and the resulting superficial radioactivity could poison the entire planetary atmosphere in just a matter of years. He also warned that atomic explosives could be manufactured using only a few grams of metal and they would have the power to vaporize entire cities. “We Alchemists have known about this for a long time.”
Before Bergier could protest or ask any questions, the man continued: “I know what you are going to say –that Alchemists didn’t know the structure of the atomic nucleus, didn’t have electricity or any detection methods. Therefore they could never release the nuclear energy. I shall not try to prove what I am about to tell you now, but I beg you to repeat this to monsieur Helbronner: It only takes certain geometric assemblies, without the need for electricity or a vacuum medium. And now I will limit myself to reciting a few lines…”
The man took from over a desk a book written by Frédéric Soddy: L’interpretation du Radium (The Interpretation of Radium), found a passage and read:
“I believe there existed in the past civilizations who knew the energy of the atom and were totally destroyed for the misuse of that power.”
The man closed the book and continued his exposition, asking to an astonished Bergier to entertain the possibility of partial techniques of such ancient knowledge being able to survive throughout the ages. That knowledge had been kept in the safe hands of men who tempered their experimental curiosity with moral and religious concerns; whereas our ‘modern’ physics in his opinion was a “Science without Conscience,” having been born during the XVIIIth century for the amusement of “lords and libertine rich men” –here the Alchemist was no doubt referring to the Royal Society of London, founded in 1660 under the auspice of King Charles II, which saw considerable expansion in the late 1700s.
The strange man kept explaining to Bergier he had tried to warn other researchers like him about the dangers of their work… to absolutely no avail.
Bergier finally managed to ask a question: “If you yourself are an Alchemist, monsieur, I cannot believe you employ your time in the attempt to make gold, like Dunikowski or Doctor Miethe.” –Dunikowski was a Polish engineer who had announced in Paris he had discovered a new kind of radiation capable of transmuting quartz into gold, but was found to be a fraudster; Dr. Adolf Miethe (not to be confused with Richard Miethe, a name often mentioned in the swampy subject of Nazi-made flying saucers) of the Photochemical Department at the Berlin Technical High School claimed to have found small deposits of gold inside the mercury vapor lamps used on his lab as a source of ultraviolet light. In 1924 he claimed to have changed mercury into gold in a high-tension mercury vapor lamp. Alas, he had produced approximate $1 worth of gold… at a cost of $60,000 due to the staggering amount of energy employed in the process.
Bergier continued: “For around a year I’ve tried to document myself on the subject of Alchemy, and have only stumbled upon with either charlatans or interpretations I find ludicrous. Could you, monsieur, tell me what your own investigations consist of?”
The Alchemist replied: “You are asking me to summarize in 4 minutes 4,000 years of philosophy and the efforts of my entire life! You are also asking me also to translate in clear language concepts which do not admit any plain explanation. I can, nevertheless, tell you this: Surely you are aware that in the official Science now in progress the role of the observer is evermore important. Relativity and the Uncertainty Principle show just how much the observer intervenes in natural phenomena” –Let’s remember the Copenhagen interpretationof quantum mechanics was proposed in the late 1920s.
“The secret of Alchemy,” the man revealed to Bergier, “is this: There is a way to manipulate matter and energy in such a way that it produces what contemporary scientists would call a ‘force field’. This field acts upon the observer and places him on a privileged position in the Universe. From this vantage point he has access to Realities that space and time, matter and energy tend to hide from us. This is what we call The Great Work (Magnum Opus).”
“But, what of the Philosopher’s Stone?” asked Bergier. “What of the making of gold?”
“That is nothing more than applications, particular cases” answered the Alchemist. What’s essential is not the transmutation of metals, but that of the experimenter himself. It is an ancient secret which few men will find throughout the centuries.”
“What do they transform themselves, then?” questioned Bergier.
“Perhaps, one day, I shall find out,” were the final words of the mysterious man.
Bergier never saw the Alchemist again. As for his true identity, it remains unknown to his day. Bergier himself was convinced the man was none other than the mythical Fulcanelli, the pseudonym of an anonymous individual who was the author of two books which are highly regarded as among the best in the whole Alchemical bibliography:”Le Mystère des Cathédrales”(The Mystery of the Cathedrals) and “Les Demeures Philosophales” (Dwellings of the Philosophers). Fulcanelli had a protegé, Eugène Canseliet, who was the one entrusted by his master to publish his books in the 1920s. Pauwels and Bergier were convinced Fulcanelli had survived the war but had gone into hiding, never to reveal anything more about his hidden knowledge.
It is said the last time Canseliet met Fulcanelli was in Spain during the 1950s, and he had gone through an incredible transformation. Instead of being an old man, like his pupil remembered him, the Alchemist had miraculously rejuvenated and acquired an androgynousappearance, proof that he had managed to complete the Great Work, and the reward was a total physical –and spiritual– metamorphosis. The caterpillar had been changed into a butterfly.
What to make of this wonderful, and yet unprovable story? We only have Bergier’s word that the meeting between himself and the man (possibly Fulcanelli) took place. The source for the account is a book that was published in 1960, 15 years after the reality of nuclear energy had been proved in the most horrendous way possible, with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What I personally find fascinating about this pre-WWII warning about the dangers of nuclear weapons, is not only that it preceded ALL of the similar admonitions given by the so-called ‘Space Brothers’ to the Contactees in the 1950’s and 60’s –and isn’t it interesting how those ‘superior beings’ were often described as having androgynous features?– but also that, if it really happened as admitted by Bergier, all of the things declared by the Alchemist were essentially true: In 1986, the radioactive cloud produced by the Chernobyl nuclear plant literally covered the entirety of Europe. The Hiroshima bomb contained only 141 lb of enriched Uranium –not “a few grams” like the Alchemist had claimed… although maybe there are methods to further amplify the destructive power of fissible material we (luckily) haven’t discovered yet. And after the Allies defeated the Nazis they discovered Heisenberg’s rudimentary Uranium battery, consisted of extremely pure substances placed together on an specific geometric disposition –the Germans hadn’t placed it on a vacuum, just like the Alchemist had ‘predicted’.
But I guess what has fascinated me the most about Alchemy, ever since I read Morning of the Magicians in my early teens, is the idea of an ancient knowledge which parallels our current understanding on the nature of energy and matter, and perhaps even surpasses it. And yet, unlike our modern times, the men who’ve possessed that knowledge knew they had to keep it away from kings and rulers, lest it would be corrupted –or worse, used to unleash a power capable of wiping out our entire civilization… as it might have happened before.
Werner von Braun said that “Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.” Perhaps so; or perhaps these are words meant to acquiesce the conscience of a man who had no qualms in killing innocents in his selfish pursuit to achieve his dreams to conquer the stars. “The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet,” von Braun is credited of saying with regards to his V-2 rocket bomb launched against London. “If we don’t do it first, somebody else will” have been the words used to justify everything from the creation of bacteriological weapons to automated killing drones. Science without Conscience, indeed…
In Morning of the Magicians, the authors tried to interest their peers in the hidden treasures buried beneath the dusty manuscripts and codices written by the ancient Alchemists, which managed to survive into our era –thousands of volumes, and yet a pittance when compared to all the scrolls turned to ashes in Alexandria. They argued that chemists, engineers, and even nuclear physicists should team up with historians and symbologists in order to crack the codes of those treatises, and see if they contained techniques and processes which could be of any use in our modern industries and laboratories. A fool’s errand, some might think, and yet Pauwels and Bergier claim that after the war in Europe was over, there were many American agents trying to get their hands on any alchemical book their could find. Bergier also narrated how when he was collaborating with the French government in the study of the nuclear capabilities of the Germans –something nobody paid any attention to in Europe… prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki– he was asked to meet with an anonymous American commander, whose realinterest was not the Nazi nuclear program, but finding the whereabouts of Fulcanelli.
Given how Dr. Jacques Vallee’s recent studies with UFO’s ejected material seem to point out to a reingeneering of seemingly common metals which are almost suggestive of a bonafide alchemical transmutation —the way I speculated upon recently at The Daily Grail— perhaps it is not unreasonable to assume the art of Alchemy is one of the key pieces missing in the UFO puzzle, and that someone in the high echelons of power may be in hot pursuit of the alchemists’ ancient secret.
And yet, if they are, then I suspect they will never find it. Because if Alchemy is the true Science with Conscience, as Rabelais –and our anonymous Alchemist– maintained, then the ultimate goal of this ancient art goes far beyond the gaining of material wealth and power. And the Great Work can only be fulfilled by men of ambitions tempered in the melting pots of their laboratories, through years and years of indomitable hard labor. Until they find themselves transformed from common humans into… something more.
…Perhaps the Philosopher’s Stone is the true Red Pill.
What is the reality — if any exists at all — behind the UFO phenomenon?
This question has been asked for decades already, and still we collectively don’t seem to have any real answers that help instruct us as to whatever “reality” may constitute serious, tangible data on UFOs.
Way back in 1955, Edward Ruppelt, the first director of the USAF’s Project Bluebook, wrote that, “I wouldn’t want to hazard a guess as to what the final outcome of the UFO investigation will be, but I am sure that within a few years there will be a proven answer.”
I often wonder if Ruppelt would ever have foreseen that well after the turn of the next century, we would still be awaiting that final “proven answer” that he anticipated.
At the very least, we might say that, based on what anecdotal evidence has been collected in UFO witness testimony since the end of World War II,there appear to have been varieties of unusual aircraft seen in our skies for decades now. Their origin, however, remains a matter of conjecture, due to the lack of physical evidence to support the range of theories that have been proposed in this regard.
Hence, with little more than decades of witness testimony, and the occasional (though scant) physical evidence that turns up rarely, perhaps one of the most important questions that should be asked is, “how useful is the anecdotal evidence at our disposal?”
At this point, it would seem appropriate that I give a disclaimer: what follows in this article is intended for readers that are still perplexed by the subject of UFOs, as I am, and are willing to ask serious, sober, and scientifically-informed questions about it. The points addressed will likely be of disdain to the willful believers that are already “certain” (in their minds, at least) of an extraterrestrial reality, and of space brothers who came here long ago to instruct humankind, or perhaps even save us from our own destructive potentials. In equal measure, dogmatic skeptics may be similarly discouraged from bothering with reading further; particularly those who have convinced themselves that nothing exists behind any UFO reports whatsoever (even those which seem indicative of clandestine, experimental manmade aircraft… which constitutes a perfectly reasonable potential solution to at least some alleged UFO reports).
For those willing to continue in the spirit of open-minded, but discerning skepticism, we must return again to the question of anecdotal data: what does it really tell us about the UFO enigma?
While unable to provide physical evidence that can be tested under laboratory settings, the point is frequently argued that anecdotal evidence, particularly gathered from multiple sources, is often what must be relied upon in a courtroom; especially in cases where physical evidence is lacking. I realize fully that this argument does little to sway the minds of skeptical scientists, who demand (and rightly so!) physical proof before they can commit to belief. However, the point to be made is that in the face of numerous instances where testimonies given by individuals seem to match, or are otherwise relatable in some way, perhaps some anecdotal data should be given consideration, as it is presently all that we have to work with.
Recently, a pairing of questions were posted at the Paracast Forums, where one of the users, operating under the amusing moniker of “Greer’s Event Planner,” raised several points of contention about UFOs in modern times. Among these had been the following:
“As a total body of evidence there is nothing that would pass scientific muster and there are no reliable multiple witness cases that prove the aliens in physical ships hypothesis.”
The thread had been partly in response to a recent appearance on The Paracast’s subscriber show by researcher Paul Kimball (also a friend and colleague of mine), who similarly offered that, “There may be a paranormal / supernatural component to it all, but I don’t see anything that even remotely indicates structured craft from an extraterrestrial source.”
Indeed, while we have a plethora of UFO reports that have piled up over the decades, some of which lend descriptions of strange beings or other phenomena, where has there been any hard evidence of extraterrestrial visitors?
This raises a common, but important misconception about the broader UFO phenomenon: that if proof of unidentified flying objects were obtained, it would therefore mean that proof of aliens exists.
Not so.
The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) has long been a favorite among UFO theorists, but it is by no means a consensus view among UFO advocates. The UFO phenomenon remains far too ambiguous and varied to be able to present a good case for any conclusive origin. If anything, it could be argued that early interpretations of UFOs as being evidence of extraterrestrial visitors probably relied heavily on the influences of science fiction books and films on our culture (both in America, and abroad). Also influential were our expectations about space travel in the coming decades, and our own projections for how space travelers from elsewhere might get here, from the perspective of a civilization only on the cusp of going off-planet ourselves.
Old ideas die hard, of course, and this seems to be the case with the extraterrestrial hypothesis. While it seems evident that a variety of expectations (and misconceptions) were likely informing our bias toward “alien” visitors, that meme has stuck throughout the ages… and still today, many see the concepts of “UFOs” and “aliens” as being indistinguishable.
Perhaps they should never really have become bedmates in the first place.
Returning again to what the anecdotal evidence says, we are faced with myriad problems. For one, there is the issue of the apparent variety of UFO craft reported over the years. While there are some general themes which have emerged consistently — “flying saucers” are probably the most well known of these — the actual variety of UFO craft reported since the end of WWII far exceeds anything that could be expected of a single, systematic survey of Earth by intelligent extraterrestrials. Varieties of craft include discs or saucers, globes, triangles, cigars or torpedo-shaped craft, and other strangely shaped aerial objects.
Granted, the term “daylight discs”, first used by astronomer J. Allen Hynek as a general classification system, didn’t necessarily mean that all such objects were truly “discs.” According to Hynek’s reasoning, this was merely to be used as a general classification system; however, a variety of objects, possessing various shapes, were placed in this category. Hence, many of the “discs”, at least in terms of statistics, actually weren’t discs at all.
Among the myriad types of UFOs that have remained present over the years, there is one type that, in the opinion of this writer, does appear to maintain a particular presence, and consistency, which sets it apart from other UFO category types. These are the so-called “Black Triangles,” which are large, ominous (and often very quiet) aircraft seen passing at relatively low altitudes by cover of night.
Even the Federation of American Scientists have looked into the possible relationship between reports of these aircraft, and possible black project programs, as outlined in the following quote from the FAS website:
“A very intriguing aircraft was been reported in the late 1980s. Some observers claim to have witnessed a vast black flying wing, estimated at between 600 and 800 feet in width, passing silently over city streets in California. The craft moved so slowly one observer claimed that he could jog along with it. The aircraft reportedly executed bizarre maneuvers in which it stopped, rotated in place and hovered vertically, pointing its thin trailing edge toward the ground. This vehicle’s unlikely gyrations suggest that it is distinct from the other sightings, and could be a lighter-than-air craft pushed by slow- turning propellers.”
On a personal note (and in keeping with our discussion about the relevance of anecdotal witness reports), I’ve collected several reports of aircraft like this over the years, which I deem to have been from reliable sources. Among my favorites is the following description, provided to me by a Canadian witness just a few years ago:
“We had noticed a very bright light on the eastern horizon but didn’t take much notice of it until we realized that it was slowly coming directly towards us. We kept checking in that direction and watched as the now amber light kept coming straight at us. When it was almost on top of us it was like we became frozen to the spot staring at this light that we could now see had a dark shape behind it.
The triangle flew directly over us. I estimate that it was about 75 – 100 ft. off the ground. I made this estimate because at one point I realized that it was so low I was concerned that it was going to hit the chimney on our 2 1/2 story house! We sat transfixed as it seemed to take the triangle forever to pass overhead due to the extremely slow speed that it was travelling at. I would estimate it was going no more than 10 mph. As it was about halfway over I realized that the triangle was so massive that it filled my entire field of vision. We couldn’t make out any detail of the underneath of the triangle; it was just an enormous black shape lit on each corner by an amber light. I really can’t think of anything to compare the size of the triangle to it was so huge.”
Unlike a lot of UFO reports collected since the beginning of the 1950s, the more recent reports of these “triangles” bear an almost peculiar consistency… enough so that, as the FAS seemed to think by virtue of their analysis of some of the triangle reports, these probably should not be lumped in alongside other typical UFO reports from the last few decades. In likelihood, the triangles are probably a top secret aircraft of some variety, and whether DARPA or some other agency was behind its development, it is the opinion of this writer that this craft is seen often enough, and described consistently enough by witnesses, that it warrants particular attention among those who pay attention to reports of un unusual aircraft in our skies. In other words, here the anecdotal evidence seems to support the idea that there have been a number of legitimate sightings of some variety of aircraft operating in our night skies.
To conclude, we return again to a quote from Edward Ruppelt in his Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, where he said, “Maybe the final proven answer will be that all of the UFO’s that have been reported are merely misidentified known objects. Or maybe the many pilots, radar specialists, generals, industrialists, scientists, and the man on the street who have told me, ‘I wouldn’t have believed it either if I hadn’t seen it myself,’ knew what they were talking about. Maybe the earth is being visited by interplanetary spaceships. Only time will tell.”
Although time has yet to give up the secrets Ruppelt had been looking for, it is with hope that our persistence, and a bit of logic, may yet unravel a few secrets about our world, and the types of things many have reported seeing in our skies for many decades.
Phillip Schofield stunned by UFO evidence on This Morning
They were not able to determine whether it was not of this planet
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“Their car started to vibrate and they heard a series of buzzing sounds in the car and suddenly they found themselves in a new location down the road,” Cathleen explained.
“They drove to their home and found evidence that something odd had happened to them.”
Cathleen claimed Betty’s dress had been torn in multiple places while “fighting for her life”, and was covered in a mysterious pink powder.
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Cathleen claimed Betty's dress provided evidence of alien lifeforms on This Morning
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Betty and Barney said they were abducted by aliens
However, while skeptics could easily question Cathleen, she showed viewers a photograph of the shredded garment.
“[The dress] has been analysed in five scientific labs to date and the finding is anomalous,” she stressed. “They know [the powder] didn't belong to Betty, it was where the non-human entities touched the dress.”
Cathleen added: “They were not able to determine whether it was not of this planet.”
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Cathleen stunned Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning
Viewers were amazed by Cathleen’s story, with one posting: “Wow an amazing story - wish they had a longer segment though and she wasn't interrupted constantly!”
Another admitted: “Normally I’m the first to call BS on a alien story, but this woman actually has me hooked.”
Some – such as David Meade – said a giant mythical planet called Nibiru or Planet X would come into view for the first time before crashing into Earth.
But official confirmation the alien world has arrived is yet to be given.
“Doomsday is like tomorrow – it never actually comes”
Nick Pope
Now Nick Pope – who used to run the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project – has revealed why we haven’t seen Nibiru and what till happen next.
The conspiracy theory expert told Daily Star Online: “As the world didn't end on September 23, the doom merchants are back-pedalling furiously and coming up with a series of 'clarifications' and 'recalculations'.
“Now, apparently, the apocalypse has been postponed – perhaps due to lack of interest!
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PLANET X: An artist's impression of the mysterious planet Nibiru
“The new date for Armageddon is October 21. Or maybe not – because this may simply be the start of seven years of calamity, which is all part of the 'end of days'.
“As before, the predictions seem to based on a highly-dubious mixture of astrology, numerology and an 'imaginative' interpretation of various Biblical passages.
“Frankly, it all sounds like nonsense to me. You might as well pull dates out of a hat.
“This is classic behaviour in the aftermath of a failed prophesy, when you get these brazen attempts to keep the story rolling on, by moving the goalposts.
“Given that Nibiru doesn't exist, all these dates are nonsense.
“In the final analysis, doomsday is like tomorrow – it never actually comes.”
Norris awakens and senses the presence of some kind of being nearby. It reaches out and touches his forehead. He finds himself floating up to the ceiling. He is no longer in his room and can see stars through the porthole-like windows in what he realizes is an alien spaceship. A small crowd of grey humanoid creatures closes in around the operating table he is lyingon, and he sees that they are holding sharp and shiny implements. He begins to scream, and struggles but can’t avoid the sleek metal snake they slide up his nose. The pain is unbearable and the creatures continue to do unspeakable things to him. It seems to go on forever. Eventually Norris awakens in bed, feeling shaken and uncertain of what has just happened. He has a feeling that he has been given telepathic instructions to forget the events that he had just experienced. Over the next days and weeks, the memories of this experience enter his awareness and create anxiety and feelings of panic. The first time this happens Norris is twelve years old, and it is October. For years he has a similar experience every year in the fall.
While there are many variations on alien abduction reports, most occur at night after the abductee has fallen asleep (Appelle, Lynn, Neuman, & Malaktaris, 2014). The core features of the alien abduction experience include being captured and taken to an alien craft where the abductee is subjected to an examination that may be physical, sexual, or even spiritual in nature. The abductee may also be given a tour of the craft or be taken on a journey to another realm. They may also be given telepathic messages, then returned to earth. These abduction experiences often leave troubling aftereffects that are physical and/or psychological in nature (Appelle, Lynn, Neuman, & Malaktaris, 2014).
It is difficult to determine how many people have had these experiences. According to surveys cited by Appelle, Lynn, Neuman, & Malaktaris (2014), 36% of the population of the United States believes that unidentified flying objects are actually alien spacecraft. Another survey found that 3.7 million Americans have had some form of abduction experience but the survey items allowed for the inclusion of experiences such as sleep paralysis that may not have been intended by the survey participants to be considered actual abduction experiences. One figure that has been cited is that about 2.5% of the people in the United States believe that they have been abducted by space aliens.
While many abduction experiences are reported as having happened after the individual went to bed, others have been reported as having occurred in various circumstances such as while the person was hiking in a forested area or was driving home late at a night. It is hard to pinpoint the very first alien abduction report, but an often-cited one is that of Barney and Betty Hill, an interracial couple who were involved in the civil rights movement. It is a familiar story to those who have studied the alien abduction phenomenon. This event occurred during the early sixties (September 19, 1961) as the couple was driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire late at night. During their trip they had observed what appeared to be a bright object following them and when they got home felt that something very bad had happened to them. They also felt that they were missing several hours of time from the trip. Of note, this event occurred to them while they were likely under a great deal of psychosocial stress, were most likely sleepdeprived, while on a trip through an isolated part of the country, and at a time of heightened tension and fascination with the accelerating destructive power of our weapons during the Cold War.
The couple gradually began to remember details that occurred during their missing hours and Betty started having nightmares. Two years after the event they consulted a psychiatrist and underwent hypnosis. Under hypnosis they were able to recall being taking aboard a flying saucer by grey aliens and subjected to probing with needles. The events described are truly chilling. Apparently Barney was very disturbed and frightened by the recollection but Betty gradually began to share the story and give talks on it. A book about their experiences was published in 1966 followed by a TV movie about their abduction that was aired in 1975. Following this movie, reports of alien abduction rapidly increased.
Reports of unidentified flying objects may go back as far as the Bible (e.g. Ezekiel, chapter 1), depending on how you interpret ancient reports. But reports of these objects being interpreted as alien space craft really only began in the 1940s. In the 1950s contact with aliens became a staple of early Cold War science fiction cinema. One of my favorites was “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951). In this movie, the earth is visited by a powerful alien and threatened with annihilation unless humans put aside their weapons of mass destruction, as alien peoples feared these weapons would come to endanger life everywhere in the universe.
Anyone who has heard president Eisenhower’s final report to the country as he was finishing his presidency in 1961 heard him use the frightening term “military industrial complex”. A short time after his speech, the Cuban missile crisis occurred and those times, like ours today, were tense and uncertain. Add in the stress of being involved with the highly charged and challenging efforts to promote civil rights and it isn’t hard to imagine that Barney and Betty were under significant stress, although they apparently didn’t believe this was a factor in their experience. It was, however, in that context that reports of individual alien abductions began to emerge.
While I can’t verify this, my first memory of being aware of UFOs as alien craft occurred around the mid-1960s. I believe I was watching “Astro Boy”, an early example of anime that was broadcast from Washington D.C and aired on a channel we were able to pick up in a small town in Virginia. The program recounted the first appearance of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) during World War II. These were observed by pilots on bombing missions and were known as bogeys. A few years later “The Invaders” (1967 – 1968) aired and took paranoia to a whole new level. During the Viet Nam and Cold Wars, this kind of programming fit right in.
My first opportunity to meet actual abductees occurred in the early 1990s when I attended a MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) convention with a relative who was, at that time, deeply involved in the UFO research world. Interestingly, there were people there who were very angry that their reports were not being taken seriously and that the government was doing nothing to help them. At that time, the book “Communion”, by Whitley Strieber was extremely popular and a central text in the abduction movement. In it Strieber described his own abduction experience. A major researcher and popularizer of alien abduction experiences was John Mack, a psychiatrist at Harvard, who extensively used hypnosis to recover memories of abduction experiences from patients. His credentials helped legitimize the belief in these events, even if his research methods were questioned. (Here is a link to a transcript of a fascinating interview with him on NOVA from the 1990s.) In the 1980s and 1990s, increasing numbers of people reported experiences of alien abduction and these accounts were incorporated into cinematic depictions of alien encounters.
There have been many movie depictions of alien abductions over the years. The above mentioned 1975 made for TV movie was an early example of this. It was followed by many others including “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), “Fire in the Sky” (1993), and “The Fourth Kind” (2014). “Close Encounters” popularized the scale, developed by Allen Hynek in the early 1970s, that listed the various levels of increasing theoretical contact that we could have with aliens. A close encounter of the first kind involves seeing an alien craft in close proximity. An encounter of the second kind leaves some trace such as people being placed in a trance or burn marks being left on the ground by alien technology. An encounter of the third kind involves actual contact with an alien being. Additions have subsequently been made to the scale beyond these three. For example, the fourth kind is alien abduction.
“Close Encounters” had the 1970s New Age feeling of beneficent aliens that could help humans develop to a higher level. “Fire in the Sky”, based on the reported 1975 abduction of Travis Walton, while not a perfect movie, gives one of the most harrowing and “realistic” depictions of a terrifying and overwhelming medical examination that would almost certainly leave the victim with a severe case of PTSD. “The Fourth Kind” despite its flaws was interesting in that it seemed to conflate two of our greatest fears – abduction by aliens and the demonic.
I will state at this point that while I tend to find the falsifiability and Occam’s Razor positions (discussed in the previous post) to be powerful arguments against the objective reality of these events, we cannot entirely rule out the possibility that abduction reports are accurate descriptions of actual events involving aliens. Clearly intelligent people like Strieber and Mack have found evidence that they find compelling enough to argue that these are not simply psychological phenomena. Before considering possible explanations for these experiences I want to address a number of other factors that might impact on how we interpret these reports.
The first thing that I want to make clear is that people who report these experiences are not psychotic and most are not simply advancing a hoax. In fact, going public with these reports can have a negative effect on your standing in most communities. There are, of course, communities of people, often with “New Age” beliefs, who accept these experiences as being objectively real and are supportive of each other, but this is not the typical social environment of most people today. There is risk in sharing one’s abduction story. Second, studies that have been done of the aftereffects of these events report injuries such as cuts and puncture wounds, vision problems such as sensitivity to light and pupil dilation, skin burns, stomach distress such as nausea and diarrhea, balance problems, and dehydration (Appelle, Lynn, Neuman, & Malaktaris, 2014). People have also reported being healed of illnesses and experiencing weight loss. There are a number of frequently reported psychological effects including anxiety and nightmares. Interestingly, despite the often negative aftereffects, most abductees report that they would still choose to have been abducted. This is because many abductees come to see these events as having added meaning and purpose to their lives and they may also feel that they have undergone positive personality changes as a result.
The universe is a very large place, little explored directly by humans, and may be only one aspect of a vastly greater, indeed infinite, multiverse (Green, 2011). We have been systematically observing the universe for the past few thousand years, and only during the last 400 years have we had tools such as the telescope to see much beyond the nearest planets and stars. Since the 1990s vast numbers of planets have been observed around other stars. I think that even with the progress that humans have made, we need to be humble about what we say concerning what exists in the vast expanses of space-time.
The lack of obvious alien visitation, say with a landing by an alien space ship on the White House lawn, has been dubbed the Fermi Paradox after the physicist Enrico Fermi who asked, “Where are the aliens?” He reasoned that there must be many planets in the galaxy that could support alien life, and noted that even at sub-light speeds, over millions of years it would be possible for an advanced civilization to spread throughout the Milky Way. Some of the explanations for why we haven’t met them in an obvious way include: we are the only advanced civilization in the galaxy, other advanced civilizations have wiped themselves out with their own technologies, or they exist but have chosen to not make contact. Of course, for alien abductees, these ideas are absurd because, for them, the reality of alien contact is clear. There is no lack of evidence - they have experienced it themselves.
Other scientists have tried to imagine what far advanced civilizations could potentially do after a long period of exponentially advancing growth in science and technology. The Kardashev Scale was an effort by the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev to use a theoretical scale of energy usage to measure the development of advanced societies. A type 1 civilization would have the ability to use all of the energy and control the events on an entire planet. A type 2 civilization would be able to use the energy resources of an entire solar system. A type 3 civilization would be able to use the output of an entire galaxy. Even more advanced civilizations have been proposed. On this scale, we on earth have not yet reached a type 1 civilization.
If intelligent entities could reach the levels of types 2 and 3, it is easy to see that they could be virtually beyond comprehension to us with our relatively crude technological means. I believe it was the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku who once used the analogy of the ant and the superhighway. If there were a truly advanced civilization capable of spanning the vast distances of the cosmos, then, to us, their activities might be indistinguishable from the workings of nature itself. Consider the ant walking along the edge of a superhighway. It only sees hills and valleys with occasional rocks here and there. It would, we assume, have no comprehension that the thing it was walking on was built by other creatures who possess a type of technology far advanced beyond the tunnels and rooms in the earth it can construct.
How would such advanced alien entities go about contacting us? Would they use things we can recognize such as space ships or medical instruments that we could have fabricated in the 20th Century? More abstract depictions of contact with alien beings have been presented in works such as “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), “Contact” (1997), and “Interstellar” (2011). These show aliens (or possibly our future selves in the case of Interstellar) as vastly more advanced than those using the kind of space ships usually reported in typical alien abduction accounts. On the other hand, these movies also suggest that the aliens might use familiar-seeming props to help us gain some understanding of them. So perhaps, these typically reported space ships and medical instruments are meant to facilitate communication between us and an otherwise incomprehensible intelligence.
At the other end of the scale, according to the rare earth hypothesis, it seems that life of a simple nature may be very common in the universe, while more complex forms may be less so, and intelligence may be very rare indeed, perhaps having happened only once so far. In this case movies such as “Andromeda Strain” (1971), “Alien” (1979), and “The Thing” (1982) might be closer to what would be expected for first contact. In the case of aliens of these kinds, panspermia would be the most likely means of contact. Panspermia is the idea that simple forms of life could spread slowly and accidentally throughout space by being attached to asteroids and comets and would introduce the new life forms to the planets they happen upon. It could also include the deliberate release into space of “instructions” carried on tiny craft or existing objects like asteroids in the form of genetic information that could then assemble more complex life forms once it had reached a hospitable environment.
We have now explored the nature of the alien abduction experience and considered some possible factors relating to the probability that they represent actual contact with alien entities. In the next post I will delve deeper into the possible explanations for them, including sleep phenomena.
Appelle, S., Lynn, S.J., Neuman, L., & Malaktaris, A. (2014). Alien abduction experiences, in Cardena, E, Lynn, S.J., & Krippner, S. (Eds.). (2014). Varieties of Anomalous Experience, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Greene, B. (2011). The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. New York: Vintage Books.
MYSTERIOUS PLANET EJECTED FROM BLACK HOLE AT CENTER OF GALAXY COULD SOON IMPACT EARTH
MYSTERIOUS PLANET EJECTED FROM BLACK HOLE AT CENTER OF GALAXY COULD SOON IMPACT EARTH
A literally mind-bending new 737 page report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) scientists states that this past January’s confirmation by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2005 discovery of a new planet in our solar system has been confirmed.
What is in the center of the Milky Way? For many years, astronomers suspected that there was a black hole in the center of our galaxy, but they were not sure. Only recently, after 15 years of regularly monitoring the Galactic Center with ESO telescopes, at the La Silla and Paranal Observatories, have scientists finally obtained conclusive evidence. The density of stars at the center of the Milky Way is so high that special techniques such as the Adaptive Optics were needed to increase the resolution of the VLT.
Astronomers were able to observe individual stars with unprecedented accuracy as they revolved around the Galactic Center. Their trajectories have conclusively shown that they must be subject to the immense gravitational pull of a black hole with a mass that is almost three million times the mass of the Sun. The observations of the VLT also revealed flashes of infrared radiation emerging from region at regular intervals. Although the exact cause of this phenomenon is still unknown, observers have suggested that the black hole may be spinning fast. Whatever is happening, the life of a black hole is not calm or quiet.
UNKNOWN OBJECT RECORDED IN THE SKY OVER SAN DIEGO, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
UNKNOWN OBJECT RECORDED IN THE SKY OVER SAN DIEGO, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Several witnesses in Sand Diego have seen these lights in the sky above San Diego.
Are there six objects or a large one? The lights don't move down. Skydivers, Chinese lanterns or flares can be excluded. Are there any more witnesses? What's your opinion?
The curious case of the alien in the photo and the mystery that took years to solve
The curious case of the alien in the photo and the mystery that took years to solve
In the spring of 2012, Chicago videographer Adam Dew received a mysterious phone call from his former business partner Joseph Beason. “I have something to show you,” Beason said with urgency in his voice.
Later that day, Beason showed Dew a series of slides. The slides had been found 14 years earlier by his sister, who had been hired to dispose of the belongings of an elderly woman who had recently died. His sister couldn’t bring herself to jettison the collection, and so she took the box home, placed it on a shelf and forgot about it.
Many years later, she finally projected the slides on to her bedroom wall. She saw vivid color photographs of Dwight Eisenhower on what appeared to be a postwar victory train tour, pictures of Bing Crosby and Clark Gable, as well as several photos of European towns. Figuring they had some historical significance, she sent them to Beason, who had worked in book publishing.
Now Dew scrolled through the slides. Some were stunning and had the unmistakable clarity of Kodachrome – Kodak’s revolutionary mid-century color processing. He wondered how the person who took them was able to get so close to Eisenhower. They must be important, he thought.
Then Beason showed him another picture, the first of two nearly identical slides. These had not been in the tray, but tucked underneath, wrapped in parchment paper.
Dew gasped. Staring at him was a small, brown, withered body inside what appeared to be a glass case. The figure had withered arms, shriveled legs, a large triangular skull with elongated eye sockets, and a tiny sliver of a mouth.
He had but one thought.
He was looking at a dead space alien.
Until that day, Dew had spent little time pondering UFOs. He’s a stout father of three who shoots freelance sports videos for a living. People would describe him as gruff, diligent, short on chitchat – hardly the type to be chasing little green men. But he just couldn’t stop thinking about the slides.
“I knew immediately it was a good story,” Dew told me a few months ago as we sat outside a coffee shop in Fredrick, Maryland. “Whatever was on that slide was a great story.”
Dew had long dreamed of making a documentary, and suddenly he had the ultimate topic. He convinced Beason, his friend, they should research one together.
The pair found out that the pictures were found in the garage of a woman named Hilda Blair Ray near Sedona, Arizona.
Dew only knew of one UFO place – Roswell, New Mexico, just a state away. A UFO supposedly had crashed there in 1947, and many believed it to be one of America’s biggest government cover-ups. (In its 231-page report about the incident, released in 1997, the US air force denied all of it).
Could this be related?
Newspaper headlines dated 8 July 1947, shortly after the Roswell crash. Photograph: Sipa Press/REX/Shutterstock
News accounts and military documents all confirm a celestial device tumbled to earth that night in Roswell, but this is where the stories divide.
Witnesses and their relatives describe a destroyed flying saucer that broke into two wreckage fields. Aliens, many of those witnesses say, were found in the mangled craft, and then transported to a top-secret site. The military, after first announcing a flying disk crash, quickly revised their story, saying it was actually an experimental weather balloon.
For years, the Roswell incident was largely unknown outside New Mexico until 1978, when a Canadian nuclear physicist named Stanton Friedman met an air force officer who had been there. Intrigued by the man’s story, Friedman researched the case, and helped make a documentary called UFOs Are Real. Soon after the documentary’s release, the town turned into an extraterrestrial mecca, giving birth to a culture of self-declared researchers yearning to find the “truth” about the event.
Some of those, like Tom Carey, a retired Philadelphia businessman with a background in anthropology, and Don Schmitt, who owns a ranch in southern Wisconsin, have written several books on the subject. But so far their evidence is only anecdotal, and their years of research have not provided any physical proof aliens crashed at Roswell.
“If Roswell turns out to be true, it’s the story of the millennium,” Schmitt says.
By 2012 time was running out on Roswell. With nothing tangible to link the accident to aliens, Roswell was becoming a cold case.
Then Joseph Beason contacted Tom Carey.
The most-promising UFO lead in years
At first, Carey was suspicious. He had been disappointed enough times by phony claims of Roswell evidence, and his first reaction was to distrust any new discovery. To make matters worse, Beason also struck him as secretive, insisting that anyone who looked at the slides must first sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Still, Carey felt an obligation to pursue any Roswell possibility so he signed the non-disclosure, and in return he was emailed a scan of one slide.
When Carey opened the email attachment in his Philadelphia-area home office , he jolted in his seat. Clearly visible on the figure’s head was a dark mark similar to other black blotches across the body’s torso. It appeared to be some kind of skin discoloration, but to Carey, who has anthropology degrees from two different universities, that mark on the head was something else.
“Child of earth,” he said to himself.
In the American south-west lives a small reddish-brown insect called the Jerusalem cricket. It has a faint, dark indentation on its head, almost like a newborn’s still melding skull. The Jerusalem cricket’s more common name is the potato bug but in Spanish it is known as el niño de la tierra – “the child of earth”.
The daughter of Dan Dwyer, a Roswell firefighter in 1947, has said her father saw three of the aliens at the crash site. When pressed by his children to describe them, he had said: “Child of earth.”
Those three words had haunted Carey for years. What did that mean? Carey assumed it had something to do with the Jerusalem cricket, but how?
Now the answer glowed from his computer screen.
“For me, that was almost like a fingerprint,” Carey says. “When I saw that image and saw that marking on that body lying on the slab, it jumped right out at me. That’s what Dan Dwyer was talking about. Also, the body looked exactly like what had been described to me by several eyewitnesses: frail, big head, et cetera. My first thought was: this has to be one of the Roswell bodies. It wasn’t a sketch, it was a photo – and it was taken right after recovery.”
Suddenly, Roswell had its most promising lead in years.
“What do you want of me?” Beason remembers Carey asking.
“I want you to help verify,” Beason replied.
‘Does the government know you have this?’
With Carey and Schmitt’s guidance, Beason and Dew began what UFO experts call “an investigation”. They took the slides to professors, color experts and animators. They cut one of the images from its cardboard border to look for a date code, then had it run through a drum scan to improve clarity. A digital illustrator made a 3-D image of what the body might look like alive.
They consulted people at the Kodak headquarters in Rochester, New York. The experts told them the slides were real, had not been tampered with, and were from between 1945 and 1950, making it possible the photos were taken right after Roswell.
They looked more into Hilda Blair Ray’s life. She had a pilot’s license and worked as an attorney. She was one of the first women to graduate from the University of Minnesota’s law school and had married a geologist named Bernard. The couple moved to Midland, Texas. Bernard became head of the powerful West Texas Geological Society. They never had children. They roamed the world.
Beason and Dew started to suspect Hilda might have known Eisenhower’s wife, Mamie. (Eisenhower’s great-granddaughter Laura once claimed the president actually met aliens while he was president.) They wondered how deep Hilda and Bernard’s connections went. Looking at a map, they realized Roswell, New Mexico, is 250 miles from Midland, Texas. They thought that seemed close.
“You start to fill in the blanks,” Dew says.
Carey took a photo of one of the slides to an old associate at the University of Toronto, Richard Doble, who noticed the figure hadhalf as many ribs as a human, no collarbone and its arms attached to the top ribs.
“The more you look at it, the more you realize it is not from earth,” Doble later said.
But finding other opinions was challenging. Schmitt says American scientists “hold up a cross like to a vampire” when the word extraterrestrial is used. He and Carey also worried that any Roswell evidence taken to a US college that received federal funding would be shipped to the military and disappear forever.
Dew still wasn’t sure he believed in UFOs but he was starting to think the figure in the slides was something. The more he went around Roswell, the stranger people acted. “Does the government know you have this?” one woman asked. Several others told him to “be safe”.
Soon, Dew grew paranoid. He worried powerful people were interested in his slides. He wondered why the same white van kept parking in front of his house. His wife thought his UFO pursuit was absurd and wanted nothing of it.
Finally, he loaded a copy of the slides on to his phone and went to Roswell. He showed the photos to the children of witnesses and filmed their responses. Then he tracked down Eleazar Benavides, an air force base veteran who claims to have seen the aliens when they were brought to the Roswell base.
“That’s what I saw in 1947,” Benavides said after looking at the slides.
“That was a chill-inducing moment for us,” Dew says.
Dew started to put together the trailer for his documentary, which gives a flavor of his truth-seeking efforts.
By the fall of 2014, whispers trickled through the UFO community that Carey and Schmitt had photographs of a Roswell alien.
The world of UFO research can be a vicious one, filled with self-proclaimed researchers certain they can find evidence others have not. “You don’t need an advanced degree to be a UFO researcher,” says Kevin Randle a UFO researcher himself, as well as an author, blogger and radio host. “In 10 minutes you can say: ‘I’m a UFO researcher’ and start posting on [internet message] boards.”
Many of these “investigators” turn on each other, and Carey and Schmitt could hear the sniping about their slides. People wondered what they were hiding. They couldn’t respond – they had signed a non-disclosure.
Finally, Carey couldn’t hold back. While speaking at a UFO conference in November 2014 at Washington DC’s American University he blurted: “We have the smoking gun!”
He told the audience about Hilda and Bernard, about the Eisenhowers, about the slides in the box, about the shriveled body in the pictures and about the Toronto anthropologist who said the figure wasn’t human.
Within days, the entire UFO world knew about the alien in the slides.
But since Beason and Dew wouldn’t show the slides publicly until they proved the body was an alien, the UFO community was flustered. Tom Carey had access to the smoking gun, and he couldn’t show it? Rather than hail Carey’s proclamation, the message boards and chatrooms that make up the vast extraterrestrial internet buried it in scorn.
“Smells like bullshit,” said one Reddit poster.
“Sasquatch community is rife with charlatans like this,” said another.
Carey and Schmitt were shocked. While accustomed to criticism for their research, they lived shielded from the modern internet’s rage. Carey couldn’t comprehend someone calling him “a hemorrhoid with glasses”.
“Say it to my face!” Schmitt wanted to scream to his invisible attackers.
A stunning reveal
By early 2015, Beason and Dew knew they had no choice but to reveal the slides. The pressure to do so was extreme and Dew needed money to fund his documentary. Dew spoke to a reality show producer, hoping to build a TV special around the slides, but the offer was too small.
The only appealing proposal came from Jamie Maussan, an investigative journalist based in Mexico City. Depending on whom you talk to, Maussan is either a fearless crusader tackling environmental issues or a sensationalist with an unhealthy UFO obsession.
Maussan wanted a great slide-revealing spectacle in Mexico City. He said attitudes about UFOs are more open there than in the US.
He imagined renting the Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City’s grandest theatre, and said they could sell a live stream of the event around the world. He had a name for his extravaganza: BeWitness. He promised Beason and Dew enough money to fund a documentary.
Beason and Dew hated the idea: it sounded like an overblown fiasco. But Maussan was their best option, so in early 2015 they signed an agreement for BeWitness, and sent Maussan a scan of the slides. He took the scan to Mexico’s National Forensic Institute where researchers found 20 anomalies in the figure’s body that they said made it different from a human’s, including the extra-large head, four sets of ribs instead of 10, the position the eyes, and the fact it lacked a pelvis.
On 5 May 2013, Cinco de Mayo, nearly 7,000 people paid between $20 and $86 to attend BeWitness
The show was more than four hours long, the list of speakers endless
Carey and Schmitt gave a PowerPoint presentation. Doble testified that the body was not human. The forensic scientists described the anomalies they discovered.
Beason found BeWitness too much of a spectacle to attend. Almost to prove his point, a person dressed as a giant alien strolled the stage.
Then Maussan projected the two slides on to enormous screens.
At first, there was little response from the UFO world.
Though the slides had been on huge screens in the auditorium, they weren’t easy to see online. Many people noticed what appeared to be a reflection of a woman’s leg and the corner of a bench in one photo. It looked suspiciously like something from a museum. No one could tell for sure.
Three days after BeWitness, someone involved in the show leaked a high-resolution scan of one slide to a group of skeptics. The next morning, Beason called Dew as he prepared to leave Mexico.
The placard they could never read had been deciphered.
A member of the Roswell Slides Research Group posting under the screen name Neb Lator examined the high-resolution image using SmartDeBlur Pro, a software program easily found on the internet. Several hours later, the placard’s top words had cleared enough to be deciphered.
“MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO YEAR OLD BOY”
The smoking gun: the picture showing the ‘alien’. Photograph: Hilda Blair Ray
Further deblurring revealed most of the placard’s other writing:
“At the time of burial the body was clothed in a (unreadable) cotton shirt. Burial wrappings consisted of these small cotton blankets. Loaned by Mr (unreadable) San Francisco, California”
Dew was stunned.
“No way could they read in two days what it took us three years trying to decipher,” he says.
The deblurring had to be phony, he thought.
For a few days Carey and Schmitt, much like Dew, refused to believe the placard actually had been read. They accused the Roswell Slides Research Group of photoshopping the placard. Carey released a statement calling the members “a cast of characters” and accused one of “being party to a UFO hoax years ago”.
But soon more information was unearthed. A better reading of the placard identified the mummy’s donor as an SL Palmer. Debunkers located government records showing Palmer discovered the body in 1896 near Montezuma Castle, a series of cave dwellings cut into the Arizona cliffs about 30 miles from the garage where Beason’s sister initially found the slides. The records included evidence that the child was Native American, and photos of the burial site along with pictures of the body spread on blankets not long after its discovery.
The mummy was traced to the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum in Mesa Verde, Colorado. The museum confirmed the child’s body had been on display for years. Which is where it seems an attorney and geologist named Hilda and Bernard might have snapped photos of it in the later 1940s.
A road sign near Roswell. Photograph: Getty Images
The UFO world mocked Carey and Schmitt for not realizing their Roswell alien was a mummy in a museum. “The whole investigation was amateurish,” scoffs Kevin Randle, the UFO researcher and radio host. How could everyone not see the pictures clearly came from a museum? Did they really think that even if Dwight Eisenhower somehow knew the Rays he would let them look at something as top-secret as a dead Roswell alien?
Not long after the placard’s deciphering, Carey was pulled from a prime speaking role at a top UFO conference. Humiliated, Carey and Schmitt apologized to the Roswell Slides debunkers.
“I came back to the States thinking: the only redeeming thing is that 99% of the American press has no clue or idea about this or that it happened,” Schmitt says.
They wondered how they could have been so wrong. They considered the previous three years, and concluded that Beason and Dew had duped them by distorting the slides and blurring the placard, making it impossible for anyone to read. They said Beason and Dew only showed them a low-resolution photo that kept them from realizing the body was in a museum.
“It was a very sophisticated hoax,” Carey says. “Dew manipulated the slides. The one clue we couldn’t figure out was the placard, but they played hocus pocus with the placard. We were given something that had been altered.”
“These guys would tell you they were being up front and honest, but they were controlling the slides,” says Schmitt. “I shouldn’t have trusted them as much as I did.”
But why?
“M.O.N.E.Y. That’s why [Dew] did it,” Carey says.
Night is falling outside the coffee shop where Dew tells his story. He gazes into the inky darkness then shakes his head.
He says he and Beason did show Schmitt a high-resolution version of the slides early in their investigation, and the experts they approached were those recommended by Carey and Schmitt. He insists he has always tried to “remain neutral” about the slides, even as he and the others let their imaginations stretch random pieces of Hilda’s background into believing they had the world’s only photos of a Roswell alien.
When asked if he wanted too much for the body to be an alien – something Carey and Schmitt both admitted to me that they themselves did – and that he was willing to set aside all good sense, he said: “I’m definitely guilty of not discouraging the talk [of it being alien]. It was good for the project.”
Beason has moved on, but Dew wants to finish the documentary. He will call his film Kodachrome, a tribute to the red processing label stamped on each of Hilda’s pictures. It is, after all, the reason he dedicated four years to the slides and why he still clenches his jaw as he denies Carey and Schmitt’s charge that he manipulated the photos.
“They got their hopes up,” he says. “They will never get the answers they are looking for. They dedicated their lives to this. Me, I just go back to shooting high school football.”
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Doomsday Alert: Is Our Black Hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way Exploding!?
A Mysterious GLOW Has Been Found At Center Of Our Galaxy
