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
Is this a REAL ALIEN? Shock new twist in Roswell 'alien autopsy' case
Is this a REAL ALIEN? Shock new twist in Roswell 'alien autopsy' case
EXCLUSIVE: The man who directed the Roswell alien autopsy video today vowed to “put the final nail in the coffin” of the infamous case.
REAL ALIEN? Ray Santilli claims this is genuine footage from 1947 of a Roswell alien autopsy.
Spyros Melaris exclusively told Express.co.uk he would take a lie detector to prove once and for all that the film released in 1995 was a “pure hoax” and not based on any original genuine material.
The film’s producer Ray Santilli claimed yesterday the 1995 film was based on genuine footage.
But his claim has been refuted by Mr Melaris who maintains genuine footage did not exist.
Mr Santilli, who is CEO of Orbital Media Group, claimed yesterday that, although the 1995 film was made using actors, it was a “restoration” of original footage of the Roswell crash site and alien autopsy, that he had obtained, but it was of too poor quality to screen.
The film showed men in white coats apparently dissecting the alien, leaving UFO hunters convinced it was the smoking gun evidence they were looking for of the Roswell incident.
Truthers have been searching for proof since it was first claimed aliens crashed a flying saucer in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in July 1947 before the US Government covered up the evidence by storing the flying saucer and dead bodies in a secret military base.
It remains one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories, but to the disappointment of alien hunters the 1995 footage was later exposed as an elaborate hoax.
Mr Melaris today hit back at claims it was a recreation of some unseen genuine footage, saying “none existed.”
He said: “I will also prove that there is no real 1947 footage. There never was. Mr Santilli has called this film a restoration.
“There was never any real film to restore. It isn't even a recreation. It is a work of art.
“I would welcome a lie detector test alongside Mr Santilli. I hereby offer myself for such a test.”
The row comes as Mr Santilli claimed he has a still from “original 1947 poor-quality footage” possibly showing a genuine alien from the Roswell UFO crash.
British businessman Mr Santilli, 58, released the image after Express.co.uk reported on a one-man theatre show Mr Melaris is performing, in London in which he explains how the famous hoax was carried out.
In the show, Mr Melaris tells how the video was produced inside a north London flat, thousands of miles from the secret US base it was purporting to be in.
Cow and lamb organs from a butcher were used to represent those of the extraterrestrial.
In a previous interview with UFO researcher Philip Mantle, who exhaustively investigated the autopsy video, Mr Melaris said: “The question is did I make it from original film? And the simple answer to that is no. I’ve never seen any other film.
“Ray maintains that he’s got original film. My question to Ray is how would that film marry with what I made? It can’t. I haven’t actually seen the film.
“The story’s a bigger story if there was a real film. There would be more money in it.
Mr Melaris said that he was shown by Mr Santilli black and white film which appeared to show an alien inside a tent, but it had later emerged this was also shot in the 1990s.
He said: “There was never any original film other than the tent footage.”
He said of the interview with Mr Sington that he was referring to the tent footage, which was also fake.
Mr Melaris said: “I told him about how Santilli invited me to his office to show me the genuine article.
“I explained in detail what I saw… a genuine film… I later discovered this to be the tent footage and I knew this was fake. The excerpts they used were out of context.”
Humanity will find alien life within the next two decades, an astronomer has claimed.
In a recent interview, a senior expert at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute said he 'bet everybody a cup of coffee that we'll find intelligent life within 20 years'.
The SETI Institute has spent decades researching strange and unexplained signals in our universe in the search for intelligent life.
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Seth Shostak, who leads efforts to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, says that governments have taken little interest in updating the guidelines, and that more needs to be done
FIRST CONTACT
Basic protocols for our first contact with aliens were put in place in the 1980s, but these are merely guidelines, rather than an action plan for dealing with alien contact.
Dr Seth Shostak, who leads the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute's efforts to detect radio signals from alien civilisations, has previously said a more detailed action plan must be put in place.
In November last year he said our current response to aliens 'would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the US Air Force showed up.'
In the 1990s, Dr Shostak chaired a committee that prepared a 'post-detection protocol' for researchers listening for alien transmissions.
But these have remained largely unchanged since then, and are seen as guidelines, rather than a definite plan for dealing with alien contact.
Speaking to Futurism at this year's Worlds Fair Nano in New York, Dr Seth Shostak, who leads efforts to detect radio signals from alien civilisations at SETI, discussed humanity's search for aliens.
'We may find microbial life - the kind you'd find in the corners of your bathtub,' he said.
'We may find that a lot sooner, but that remains to be seen, but it's gonna happen, I think, in your lifetime.'
Dr Shostak said he is confident that humans will discover extraterrestrial intelligent life relatively soon.
But he said that making 'contact' will not be direct due to the immense distances signals will need to travel.
'If they're 500 light years away ... you'll hear a signal that'll be 500 years old, and if you broadcast back "Hi we're the Earthlings, how're you doing?" - it'll be 1,000 years before you hear back from them. If you ever hear back from them,' he said.
'So, it's not exactly contact, but at least you know they're there.'
When asked what science currently has to say about the existence of extraterrestrials, Dr Shostak said 'very little' because we haven't yet found any.
He added that while we have not yet found evidence of alien life, what humanity has discovered about the universe over the last two years is not insignificant.
These findings could mean a lot in the continuing search as, Dr Shostak said.
Stephen Hawking (left) and billionaire Yuri Milner (right) have their sights set on finding alien life. The first results from a $100 million (£75 million) 'Breakthrough Listen' mission to uncover signals from ET were released earlier this year
ALIEN WELCOME MAT
The mat, which is the same size and shape as a regular doormat, sports bold red and blue colouring that fades into violet
Earth's first alien welcome mat was unveiled at the 68th International Astronautical Conference in Adelaide this week.
The mat, which is the same size and shape as a regular doormat, sports bold red and blue colouring that fades into violet.
A red 'amorphous blob' represents 'the alien', and was picked for its lack of similarity to life on our planet.
The blue represents the sky, while the violet represents artificial indoor light.
The hope is that an alien will see the red blob within the other colours, and recognise it has been welcomed in from the outside.
The mat is an art project from philosopher Jonathon Keats and Alice Gorman, a space archaeologist at Flinders University in Adelaide.
They argue that the reason humanity has never made contact with aliens is that they have never felt welcome.
Mr Keats told the Guardian: 'Maybe the reason we’ve never encountered aliens is that they never felt invited.'
For instance, astronomers now know there are many unexplored planets within the habitable zones of distant stars - something we had been unaware of decades ago.
Basic protocols for our first contact with aliens were put in place in the 1980s, but these are merely guidelines, rather than an action plan for dealing with alien contact.
Dr Shostak, who leads SETI's efforts to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, has previously said a more detailed action plan must be put in place.
In November last year he said our current response to aliens 'would be like the Neanderthals having a plan in case the US Air Force showed up,'.
Dr Shostak said he is confident that humans will discover extraterrestrial intelligent life relatively soon. But he said that making 'contact' will not be direct due to the immense distances signals will need to travel (stock image)
In the 1990s, Dr Shostak chaired a committee that prepared a 'post-detection protocol' for researchers listening for alien transmissions.
But these have remained largely unchanged since then, and are seen as guidelines, rather than a definite plan for dealing with alien contact.
Mr Shostak told Live Science that the guidelines say: 'If you pick up a signal, check it out ... tell everybody ... and don't broadcast any replies without international consultation.'
But the protocol has no force of law, and Mr Shostak says that the United Nations has taken little interest in updating them.
After Cassini: 14 Epic Planetary Science Missions to Get Excited About
After Cassini: 14 Epic Planetary Science Missions to Get Excited About
By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor
An artistic representation of the Mars2020 rover (operating the SuperCam remote sensing instrument) on the Red Planet.
Credit: NASA
NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its epic 13-year stint at Saturn on Sept. 15, but there are other upcoming planetary science missions to look forward to.
Currently, there are several active missions (led by NASA as well as other space agencies) exploring planets and other rocky objects in the solar system. For example, the Juno probe is studying Jupiter, and the Curiosity rover is exploring Mars. Looking ahead, NASA is reviewing mission proposals that may include returning to Saturn to search for signs of life on ocean worlds, like the planet's moons Enceladus and Titan. Planned missions to Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and other celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond are also in the works.
NASA's Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of past microbial life and possibly habitable conditions that may have once existed on the Red Planet. The rover's basic design resembles that of NASA's nuclear-powered Curiosity rover. The Mars 2020 rover will use a drill to collect core samples of rocks and soils, and then examine those samples on a microscopic level to search for biosignatures, or chemicals that could be indicative of ancient life on the Red Planet. (The Mars 2020 drill will probe much deeper into the Martian surface than the drill on Curiosity.) Samples collected by the Mars 2020 rover could potentially be returned to Earth in a future mission.
The rover is expected to launch in July or August of 2020 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Three potential landing sites have been selected and include an ancient lake bed called the Jezero crater, the edge of the Syrtis Major volcanoes and a hot-spring site called Columbia Hills. Mission scientists hope that, after it touches down on the Red Planet, the rover will explore the Martian surface for two years. This mission offers a unique opportunity to prepare for future human exploration of Mars, mission team members have said.
2. InSight
NASA's InSight Mars lander is expected to launch in May 2018 and arrive at the Red Planet in November 2018. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission will study the planet's deep interior to gain a better understanding of the processes that helped shaped rocky planets like Mars and Earth.
Once it has landed on the Red Planet, the probe will spend a full Mars year (687 Earth days) surveying its surroundings. (Because it's not a rover, it will have to stay in one spot.) InSight will be equipped with two specialized instruments, allowing it to probe deep beneath the Martian surface and study the planet's internal geologic activity and temperature.
3. ExoMars rover
The European Space Agency (ESA) also has its eye on the Red Planet. The ExoMars rover mission is designed to search for signs of ancient life that may have once existed on Mars. The golf-cart-size rover will be equipped with a drill to collect samples, as well as a panoramic camera system for stereoscopic imaging and ground-penetrating radar to search for ice beneath the Martian surface.
The ExoMars rover is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2020. The rover will reach the Red Planet in 2021, joining the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter — the first phase of the ExoMars mission, which launched toward the Red Planet on March 14, 2016.
4. Europa Clipper
This artist's rendering shows NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is being developed for a launch sometime in the 2020s and will explore Jupiter's icy moon.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Europa Clipper mission will study the possibly habitable Jovian moon Europa. The probe is expected to launch in 2022 and later settle into orbit around Jupiter in 2025. The solar-powered spacecraft will perform about 40 flybys of Europa to learn more about the ocean of liquid water that lies beneath the moon's icy crust and perhaps determine if it is capable of supporting life as we know it on Earth.
5. Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
ESA is also planning a mission to Jupiter in 2022. However, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, also known as JUICE, won't arrive at the Jovian giant until 2029. JUICE will study Jupiter's atmosphere and magnetic environment, and it will also investigate three of the planet's Galilean moons: Europa, Callisto and Ganymede.
6. BepiColombo
ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plan to launch a joint mission to Mercury in October 2018. The mission includes a carrier spacecraft called the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) — which supplies electrical power during interplanetary cruising — and two separate orbiters: Europe's Mercury Planet Orbiter and Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter.
The spacecraft will take about seven years to get into orbit around Mercury, using several gravity assists from Earth and Venus. The mission is designed to investigate how Mercury formed so close to a parent star, and to take a closer look at the planet's interior structure, geology, composition and magnetic field.
7. Parker Solar Probe
This artist's rendering show the Parke Solar Probe, which will fly closer to the sun than any previous spacecraft.
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which is scheduled to launch on July 31, 2018, will travel closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. The mission will perform 24 close flybys of the sun — some of which will bring the spacecraft within just 3.9 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) of the solar surface.
From this unique vantage point, the probe will be able to measure the sun's electric and magnetic fields, photograph the solar structure and study the solar wind. These findings could help astronomers answer questions about the sun's perplexing outer atmosphere, also known as the corona, and other long-standing mysteries.
8. Chang'e 5
China is planning to launch a sample-return mission to the moon at the end of November 2017. The mission, called Chang'e 5, will be the first to return lunar material to Earth in more than 40 years. The spacecraft will include an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and an Earth re-entry module. Chang'e 5 is one in a series of China's moon exploration missions, which also include Chang'e 4 — a lunar probe set to launch around 2018 and make the first-ever soft landing on the farside of the moon.
9. Google Lunar X Prize
The Google Lunar X Prize is an international challenge to land a robot on the lunar surface, have it travel at least 1,650 feet (500 meters), and send high-definition photos and videos back to Earth. There are five teams still competing for the $30 million prize: Florida-based Moon Express, Israel's SpaceIL, Japan's Hakuto, India-based TeamIndus and the international collaboration Synergy Moon. To qualify for the Lunar X Prize, teams must complete their lunar missions by March 31, 2018.
10. OSIRIS-REx
This artist's concept shows the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft grabbing a sample of an asteroid for return to Earth.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) mission will study the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The mission launched on Sept. 8, 2016, and is slated to arrive at Bennu in 2018.
OSIRIS-REx will spend approximately two years studying the rocky body in great detail, before collecting a sample to bring home to Earth. Asteroids are leftovers from the formation of planets and carry blueprints of the early solar system. Samples collected from Bennu will therefore help astronomers learn more about the evolution of our solar system and how planets formed. If all goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx will return to Earth in 2023, marking the first U.S. asteroid sample-return mission.
11. Hayabusa2
JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission is another asteroid-sampling mission en route to its target destination. The spacecraft launched on Dec. 2, 2014, and is expected to arrive at asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2018. Hayabusa2 follows JAXA's historic 2003 Hayabusa mission, which brought the first pristine samples of an asteroid to Earth in 2010.
This time around, the mission will land a small probe on the surface of the asteroid, as well as a pair of rovers for exploring the asteroid's surface. Hayabusa2 will spend a year studying the asteroid before collecting samples to return to Earth in December 2020.
12. Psyche
NASA's Psyche mission will launch in 2022 to study a bizarre metal asteroid up close. The asteroid, called 16 Psyche, is located in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. Whereas most asteroids are made of rock, Psyche is composed of metallic iron and nickel — the same material found in Earth's core. It's the only known object of its kind in the solar system, leading astronomers to believe that the asteroid is the remnant of what was once a protoplanet in the early solar system. Therefore, learning more about this asteroid will help scientists better understand the cores of Earth, Mars, Mercury and Venus.
13. New Horizons
NASA's New Horizons probe visited Pluto in July 2015, completing a nearly decade-long journey to the distant dwarf planet. The mission provided the first-ever up-close view of Pluto, revealing new details about its icy surface and largest moon, Charon.
Since accomplishing this amazing feat, the probe is still going strong and is set on a new object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, located approximately 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond Pluto. On Jan. 1, 2019, the spacecraft will fly within just 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) of the distant object called 2014 MU69, allowing the probe to study the rocky body up close. This ancient object is also expected to help paint a clearer picture of what the early solar system was like.
14. Voyager
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space in 2012. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are still in contact with Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This year, NASA's historic Voyager mission celebrated 40 years in space, and it's not ready to quit anytime soon. The twin spacecraft launched two weeks apart in 1977 — Voyager 2 on Aug. 20 and Voyager 1 on Sept. 5 — with an initial goal to study the planets and explore the outer solar system.
Over the course of the mission, the Voyager probes have captured up-close views of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and many of the moons of these giant planets. In August 2012, Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft ever to reach interstellar space, and Voyager 2 is currently flying through the bubble of solar material that marks the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.
New research into old data suggests that ice may hide around Mars' equator. Here, the Red Planet is seen in a vivid Hubble view.
Credit: Steve Lee (University of Colorado)/Jim Bell (Cornell University)/Mike Wolff (Space Science Institute)/NASA
A new examination of old data suggests that there might be ice hiding in the Martian equator, even though scientists previously thought that the substance couldn't exist there.
Scientists uncovered an unexpected amount of hydrogen when looking at older data from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft dating back to between 2002 and 2009. At higher latitudes, hydrogen generally indicates buried water ice, but this was not believed possible at the equator, according to a statement from NASA.
If there is indeed water there, this would help with a future human mission to Mars, because it could mean the astronauts wouldn't need to bring the substance with them for drinking, cooling equipment or watering plants, researchers said in the statement. Instead, the astronauts could live off the land to an extent, reducing the number of resources that need to be trucked (at higher cost) from Earth. [How The Search for Water on Mars in Pictures]
Mars Odyssey's first major discovery, in 2002, was also linked to water; the spacecraft found buried hydrogen at high latitudes, and the 2008 landing of the Phoenix Mars lander confirmed that there was water ice. However, at lower latitudes, measurements of hydrogen were explained as hydrated minerals (which other spacecraft have also observed). Researchers didn't think water ice was thermodynamically stable in those areas.
For this new study, the researchers analyzed data collected using Mars Odyssey's neutron spectrometer. The instrument is not designed to directly detect water, but by measuring neutrons, it can detect signatures of hydrogen, which can mark the presence of water or other hydrogen-bearing substances.
Researchers' reanalysis of 2002-2009 data from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter gave a clearer view of the hydrogen present around the planet's equator, suggesting that the element is contained within water ice.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
The science team reduced the blurring or "noise" in Odyssey's data using image-reconstruction techniques based on those used for other spacecraft and for medicine, according to the statement. This improved the spatial resolution of the data to 180 miles (290 kilometers), twice the previous resolution of 320 miles (520 km).
"It was as if we'd cut the spacecraft's orbital altitude in half, and it gave us a much better view of what's happening on the surface," Jack Wilson, the study's principal investigator and a postdoctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, said in the statement. Using those closer views, the researchers saw even higher levels of hydrogen, suggestive of water.
Their work focused on equatorial areas, particularly in zones around the Medusae Fossae formation, an area that includes material that is easy to erode. Previous observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter suggested there might be volcanic deposits or water ice just below the surface. Scientists, however, were skeptical that it was water ice, because "if the detected hydrogen were buried ice within the top meter [3.3 feet] of the surface, there would be more than would fit into pore space in soil," Wilson said.
The study's scientists emphasized that more evidence is needed to conclude that the signature indeed comes from water ice. They're not too sure how the water was preserved, they said; perhaps ice and dust flowing from the poles moved through the atmosphere when Mars had a steeper axis tilt than today. However, it's been at least hundreds of thousands of years since those conditions existed, and the water ice deposited back then shouldn't be around anymore, the researchers said. (This would be true even if, somehow, dust or a crust at the surface trapped the humidity underground, the scientists added.)
"Perhaps the signature could be explained in terms of extensive deposits of hydrated salts, but how these hydrated salts came to be in the formation is also difficult to explain," Wilson said. "So, for now, the signature remains a mystery worthy of further study, and Mars continues to surprise us."
Voor het eerst in 16 jaar kunnen we meer te weten komen over de atmosfeer van Triton
Voor het eerst in 16 jaar kunnen we meer te weten komen over de atmosfeer van Triton
Caroline Kraaijvanger
No pressure.
Later deze week moet het gaan gebeuren. Op 5 oktober zal Triton voor het eerst in zestien jaar tijd voor een ver van ons verwijderde ster langs bewegen en het licht van die ster tegenhouden. Het biedt kansen. Want terwijl Triton voor de ster langs beweegt, glijdt een deel van het sterlicht door de atmosfeer van de maan heen. En door dat door Tritons atmosfeer gefilterde licht te bestuderen, kunnen we meer te weten komen over de temperatuur, druk en dichtheid van die atmosfeer.
SOFIA Voor die waarnemingen wordt een beroep gedaan op het vliegende observatorium SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy). Het observatorium heeft daarmee een lastige taak op zich genomen. Want het betekent dat SOFIA zich direct in de schaduw die Triton op de aarde werpt, moet zien te wurmen. En die schaduw haast zich met een snelheid van meer dan 17 kilometer per seconde voort, terwijl ook SOFIA een snelheid heeft van 1050 kilometer per uur.
2014 MU69 Gelukkig heeft SOFIA ervaring met dit soort karweitjes. In 2011 en 2015 werd het observatorium ingezet om meer over Pluto’s atmosfeer te weten te komen terwijl de dwergplaneet voor een verre ster langsbewoog. En recent werd SOFIA gebruikt om op vergelijkbare wijze meer te weten te komen over Kuipergordelobject 2014 MU69 (de volgende bestemming van ruimtesonde New Horizons). De geschiedenis leert ons bovendien dat uit dit soort studies verrassende ontdekkingen kunnen komen. Zo werden er sterke aanwijzingen gevonden dat 2014 MU69 uit twee delen bestaat. En dankzij vergelijkbaar onderzoek ontdekte de voorloper van SOFIA – Kuiper Airborne Observatory – dat Uranus ringen heeft.
De druk om op 5 oktober ook nieuwe ontdekkingen te doen omtrent de atmosfeer van Triton is enorm. Het is namelijk jaren geleden dat Triton voor een heldere ster langs heeft bewogen. Om er alles uit te halen, wordt naast SOFIA ook een beroep gedaan op meer dan dertig telescopen op aarde. Zij worden onder meer ingezet om de vorm van Tritons atmosfeer te achterhalen. Die vorm wordt weer bepaald door Neptunus, waar Triton zeer dicht bij in de buurt staat.
The SETI Institute has spent decades researching and exploring the mysterious, and often unexplained, phenomena of our universe. The enduring hope being that the search will help us confirm that there is, in fact, life out there.
He began by boldly stating that he "bet everybody a cup of coffee that we'll find intelligent life within 20 years".
When asked what science has to say currently about the existence of aliens, Shostak said, "Very little - because we haven't found any."
Shostak went on to say that while we may not have found evidence confirming extraterrestrial life yet, what we have discovered about our Universe, say, over the last 20 years, has not been insignificant.
In fact, those findings might mean a lot to our search. One thing we know now that we didn't know decades ago is that there's a lot of unexplored cosmic real estate out there.
"We may find microbial life - the kind you'd find in the corners of your bathtub. We may find that a lot sooner, but that remains to be seen. But it's gonna happen, I think, in your lifetime."
While Shostak is confident that, not just eventually but relatively soon, we will discover the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life, making 'contact' may not go quite according to what we would imagine. What decades of science fiction would have us believe it would be like.
"I don't know about contact," Shostak said. "I mean if they're 500 light years away ... you'll hear a signal that'll be 500 years old, and if you broadcast back 'Hi we're the Earthlings, how're you doing?' - it'll be 1,000 years before you hear back from them. If you ever hear back from them. So, it's not exactly contact, but at least you know they're there."
This article was originally published by Futurism. Read the original article.
So-called UFO anomaly hunter Mark Sawalha says he found the pyramid on a NASA image taken close to the Eudoxus Crater.
He revealed his findings in a YouTube video entitled "Pyramid on the Moon".
He told Express.co.uk: "Here is a Pyramid looking object in the middle of Eudoxus Crater in a NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) image on the Moon.
"When I started to research this huge LROC map I found this pyramid looking object in Eudoxus crater. My fellow anomaly hunters have also found other objects on the same image."
Mr Sawalha's previous findings include what he thinks could be alien craft, cubes, and other structures on the moon, and even buildings on Venus.
Here is a Pyramid looking object in the middle of Eudoxus Crater in a NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) image on the Moon.
Mark Sawalha
Some conspiracy theorists claims the moon could be occupied by aliens and that is the reason NASA has not returned since the Apollo missions ended in the 1970s.
They suspect findings such as this pyramid and other anomalies could be monuments built by an ancient alien civilisation similar to the pyramids and other structures on Earth.
Similar anomaly hunters have found what they believe could be pyramids on Mars and other parts of the moon.
One popular, but far-fetched, conspiracy theory claims our ancestors who built the pyramids were visited by superior aliens who helped them construct them.
However, sceptics and NASA say the pyramid and other similar findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
This would mean that the new "pyramid on the moon" could just be a misshapen rock.
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Scott Brando shows how there is no pyramid in another picture of the same crater.
UFO hoax buster Scott Brando told Express.oc.uk there was no pyramid in the crater.
He runs the debunking website ufoofinterest.org.
Mr Brando said that the image used in the video was of lower quality than some avaialble, and it was just an optical illusion.
He provided a link to a clearer official image of the same part of the moon and there was no pyramid visible in the same crater.
‘Oude piramide’ gevonden op de maan. Deze UFO-jager spreekt van een belangrijke ontdekking
‘Oude piramide’ gevonden op de maan. Deze UFO-jager spreekt van een belangrijke ontdekking
Een UFO-jager die archieven doorspit op zoek naar bewijs voor aliens zegt dat hij een ‘piramideachtige structuur’ op het oppervlak van de maan heeft gevonden.
Mark Sawalha zegt op een foto van de NASA een piramide te hebben ontdekt in de krater Eudoxus. Hij deelt zijn bevindingen in een video die hij op YouTube heeft gezet.
“Je ziet op een foto van de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter van de NASA in het midden van de krater Eudoxus een object dat eruitziet als een piramide,” vertelde hij aan Express.co.uk.
Vreemde objecten
“Toen ik deze foto begon te analyseren vond ik dit piramideachtige object in de krater,” voegde hij toe.
Sawalha ontdekte eerder ook al vreemde objecten op de maan, waaronder iets wat lijkt op een buitenaards vaartuig, kubussen en andere structuren.
Sommige theoretici claimen dat de maan mogelijk wordt bewoond door aliens en dat dat de reden is dat de NASA na de Apollo-missies niet meer is teruggekeerd naar de maan.
Mars
Ze vermoeden dat vondsten zoals deze piramide en andere vreemde structuren zijn achtergelaten door oude beschavingen. Andere UFO-jagers beweren ook piramides op Mars te hebben gevonden.
Volgens één theorie zijn onze voorouders bezocht door hoogontwikkelde aliens, die hebben geholpen bij de bouw van de piramides.
Sceptici en de NASA stellen dat dit soort piramides op de maan het gevolg zijn van pareidolie, het verschijnsel waarbij je gezichten of patronen ziet in alledaagse dingen.
MEER AANWIJZINGEN VOOR BESTAAN RUIMTESCHIP GESTRANDE ALIËN ( VIDEO )
MEER AANWIJZINGEN VOOR BESTAAN RUIMTESCHIP GESTRANDE ALIËN ( VIDEO )
Enkele dagen geleden schreven wij een artikel over een bizar verhaal van een gestrande buitenaardse die allerlei aanwijzingen gaf via een forum van zijn bestaan.
Eén van de meest opmerkelijke zaken daarbij was dat iemand in Australië daadwerkelijk zijn ruimteschip had zien hangen in de lucht en gefotografeerd, maar wat als er nu meer waren?
Het verhaal van de gestrande ruimtereiziger bleef ons toch enigszins bezighouden en plotsklaps kwam het idee om eens te kijken of er afgelopen week meer mensen een soortgelijk ruimteschip hebben waargenomen.
De foto van het ruimteschip van de alien zag er als volgt uit:
Vervolgens zijn we op zoek gegaan naar misschien nog meer waarnemingen van hetzelfde schip.
Het bericht op het forum is op 22 september geplaatst, dus iedere waarneming van een driehoekige UFO ergens in die periode zou misschien betrekking kunnen hebben op het ruimteschip van Myziam, de gestrande alien.
Deze vloog tenslotte van hot naar her over de wereld om via foto's bewijs te leveren van zijn bestaan, dus er is dan ook een goede kans dat dit schip door andere mensen op andere locaties is waargenomen.
En we vinden inderdaad waarnemingen van driehoekige objecten in die periode zoals de volgende.
Deze video laat ook een soort driehoeksformatie van lichten zien en is genomen op 23 september op de Freeway bij Playa del Rey in de Amerikaanse staat Californië. De waarneming is tevens aangemeld bij Mufon onder nummer 82591.
Enkele dagen eerder, op 18 september wordt er eveneens een driehoekige UFO of formatie UFO's waargenomen bij het plaatsje Kay in de Amerikaanse staat Texas.
Dan, op 22 september wordt er een driehoekig object of een driehoekige formatie waargenomen boven de Russische hoofdstad Moskou.
En dan tot slot een Youtube kanaal uit Texas dat zich bezighoudt met onderzoek naar UFO's en zich verbaasd afvraagt hoe het kan dat er opeens weer een golf van waarnemingen is van driehoekige objecten. Dit kanaal is vooral op de USA gericht dus komen ze ook vooral met voorbeelden daar, maar feit is dat er rond die 22e en ook al wat eerder, een toename was in meldingen van driehoekige objecten.
Of het verhaal op het forum over de gestrande alien echt is of niet, voor wat betreft waarnemingen in die periode van dat soort ruimteschepen zou het heel goed kunnen.
Dit keer komt hij met een heel interessant verhaal over een gestrande alien die met "gewone mensen" communiceert via een groot Amerikaans forum.
Het bericht begint in slecht Engels, zo te zien vertaald door een machine, met:
Hallo, ik ben Myziam van Varn, mijn thuisplaneet. Ik heb een ruimteschip dat in een paar uur tijd door het gehele zonnestelsel kan reizen, maar daarvoor heb ik speciale brandstof nodig. Net voor jullie planeet kwam ik zonder die brandstof te zitten en daardoor kan ik niet langer met die grote snelheid vliegen. Ik kan wel in een paar minuten rondom jullie planeet vliegen, maar niet terug naar mijn thuis planeet. Ik moet hier blijven totdat mijn team mij heeft gevonden. Zolang ik hier ben zal ik bewijzen dat ik Myziam ben door hier foto's te plaatsen van iedere locatie op jullie planeet. Geef mij de coördinaten en ik zal de foto hier plaatsen.
En er komen inderdaad verzoeken om een foto te laten zien van een bepaalde locatie en binnen de kortste keren verschijnen die ook daadwerkelijk. Het zijn geen haarscherpe foto's maar ze schijnen wel te kloppen.
Na een aantal aardse locaties vraagt iemand aan de alien om naar de maan te vliegen en ook van de maan, inclusief de achterkant, verschijnen enige tijd later foto's.
Dan gebeurt er iets merkwaardigs. Iemand ergens uit Australië vraagt aan de alien om zo laag mogelijk boven zijn huis te gaan vliegen en om daarvan een foto te maken.
Korte tijd later plaatst deze een foto die hij buiten zijn huis heeft genomen van de hemel boven hem met de opmerking:
IT'S REAL WTF
Dit alles gaat nog even door op dat forum en op een gegeven moment laat de buitenaardse weten dat de redding is gekomen in de vorm van de rest van het team en er weer voldoende brandstof is om naar de thuisplaneet te kunnen reizen.
Als laatste verschijnt er als afscheid nog een foto die ze onderweg terug naar huis klaarblijkelijk nog van de aarde hebben genomen, planeet 0422 zoals zij die noemen.
Waarheid of een zeer bijzondere hoax. De meningen zijn verdeeld, maar velen zijn ervan overtuigd dat hier wel degelijk sprake was van een echte alien.
Misschien zullen we het nooit zeker weten, maar de resultaten die deze buitenaardse wist te produceren, zijn op zijn minst opmerkelijk te noemen en zeker ook omdat iemand een foto heeft weten te nemen van het ruimteschip boven zijn huis.
Hierna volgt het verhaal zoals dat wordt verteld door Tyler van Secure Team en wie weet wordt er ook bij ons binnenkort contact opgenomen door een alien.
We weten niet hoe het zit met buitenaardse astronauten, maar onze aardse astronauten die de ruimte in worden gestuurd blijven daar gezond mede dankzij het eten van chlorella.
Nu hoef je gelukkig geen astronaut te zijn om dit ook te kunnen gebruiken als voedingssupplement en bovendien kun je als Nibirulezer deze week ook nog eens de beste chlorella die te krijgen is, kopen met korting met gebruik van de Orjana aanbieding die nog geldig is tot en met zondag aanstaande.
Er zijn door Mike Adams van Natural News dan ook talloze testen uitgevoerd op verschillende chlorella en hij heeft uiteindelijk daarvan de beste gekozen om die zelf te gaan verkopen.
Gelukkig is de door Mike Adams geselecteerde (buitengekweekte) chlorella ook in Nederland te verkrijgen via Orjana en deze week voor Niburu lezers aan te schaffen met 10 procent korting. Doe je een lichaam een groot plezier en maak gebruik van dit aanbod dat geldig is tot en met zondag 30 september aanstaande. Voer bij het afrekenen de code "alg10" in en ontvang de korting.
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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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.
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