Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
02-10-2017
SETI Scientist Bets Everyone a Cup of Coffee That We’ll Find Intelligent Life in 20 Years
SETI Scientist Bets Everyone a Cup of Coffee That We’ll Find Intelligent Life in 20 Years
IN BRIEF
A senior astronomer at the SETI Institute believes we are just decades away from confirming the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (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. In an interview with Futurism at the Worlds Fair Nano NY, Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, discussed where we currently are in the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. He began by boldy 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.
LIFE BEYOND EARTH
Shostak went on to discuss the likelihood and nature of discovering alien life somewhere out there in the as yet uncharted parts of our universe: “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.”
It’s probably safe to say that most people would be pretty interested in humanity making contact with intelligent alien life, but few of us actually dedicate our lives to the search for it. Seth Shostak from the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute does just that, and he firmly believes we’re incredibly close to answering the question of whether or not we’re alone in the universe. In fact, he’s willing to bet that we’re just a couple of decades away from proving that aliens exist.
Speaking with Futurism at a recent event in New York City, Shostak was incredibly bold in his predictions, noting that he’ll “bet everybody a cup of coffee that we’ll find intelligent life within 20 years.”
Humans have explored much of our Solar System, sending probes to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and soon the Sun, but we’ve yet to discover evidence that life in any form exists elsewhere. At the moment, the most promising possibility is that we’ll discover some kind of microbial life, even invisible to the naked eye, but that’s not really what SETI has its sights set on.
Shostak is quick to point out that while he believes we’ll discover indisputable proof of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe within 20 years, that might not mean we’ll actually meet or even communicate with an alien civilization.
“I don’t know about contact,” Shostak explained. “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.”
It’s certainly within the realm of possibility, and scientists are always listening for signals in the noise, but it’s proved fruitless thus far. But if we do discover intelligent life within the next 20 years, perhaps we can ask them to save us from ourselves.
Express.co.uk published the image after being sent it by Ray Santilli, the British music producer behind a hoax "alien autopsy" video that fooled the world in 1995.
Thousands of alien truth seekers believed Mr Santilli had obtained genuine US military footage of the infamous incident, allegedly involving a crashed UFO and alien bodies, said to have happened outside the New Mexico town in July 1947.
To their disappointment, the film was later exposed as being staged using actors.
The hoax was back in the spotlight last week after Spyros Melaris, who was hired by Mr Santilli and film producer Gary Shoefield to make the black and white film, told the story of his involvement in a one-man West End show.
However, Mr Santilli hit back saying the hoax was a "recreation" of genuine 1947 footage that he obtained before the fake was made, but was of too poor quality to be screened.
He provided Express.co.uk with a grainy still from what he said was the original, in a bid to prove he is telling the truth.
Ray Santilli
ALIEN AUTOPSY: Is this real or just the latest Roswell hoax?
The image, which we published, appears to show a form, possibly an alien, lying down.
However, debunkers have already seized upon it as "just another hoax".
Scott Brando runs Ufoofinterest.org and forensically examines UFO and alien images and video to see if he can work out what they actually are.
He tweeted Express.co.uk saying the image Mr Santilli provided us looked like a negative of a still from the 1995 hoaxed alien autopsy video.
He compared it to a still from the 1995 film, and said it looked like it had been scuffed to look older.
Alejandro Rojas, host of Open Minds Radio, said of Mr Brando's observations: " He provided the image below, and it does look spot on.
"Mr Santilli claims he may release the entire film at some point in the future, but I would guess it would need to involve a lot of money and that it will be inconclusive in the end."
Mr Santilli claims he may release the entire film at some point in the future, but I would guess it would need to involve a lot of money and that it will be inconclusive in the end.
Alejandro Rojas
Andre Milne, founder of defence technology firm Unicorn who is an avid UFO researcher, also contacted Express.co.uk about the "new 1947 image".
He said: “I ran a forensic comparison of this image against the autopsy 'hoax' film.
"It is a nothing but an after effect negative of a screen shot taken from the autopsy 'hoax' film itself."
We contacted Mr Santilli saying it was suggested the still was just a negative of a still from the 1995 hoax.
On email, he simply replied: "1947".
When asked if he was maintaining it was a still from 1947 original footage, and not a negative from the 1995 remake, he said: "I am driving."
His 1995 release showed men in white coats apparently dissecting an alien, leaving UFO hunters convinced it was the smoking gun evidence they were looking for of the Roswell incident.
Truthers have been searching for proof since it was first claimed aliens crashed a flying saucer in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in July 1947.
They say the US government then covered up the evidence by storing the flying saucer and dead bodies in a secret military base.
It remains one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories but, to the disappointment of alien hunters, the 1995 footage was later branded an elaborate hoax.
Mr Santilli said the original footage came to light in 1992 when he was asked by Polygram, now Universal, to do a comprehensive documentary about Elvis Presley.
He said: "During the trip a cameraman in Cleveland asked if we were interested in anything else.
Ray Santilli*Ufoofinterest.org
Scott Brando analysed the new image and concluded it was a negative of a 1995 hoax still (below).
"At the time we had no knowledge of Roswell or aliens, but he claimed he was the cameraman working for the army airforce and explained the whole alien autopsy story."
Mr Santilli contacted Express.co.uk after we reported on how Mr Melaris revealed in his show how the video was produced inside a north London flat, thousands of miles from the secret US base it was purporting to be in.
After seeing the "1947 still" we published, Mr Melaris hit back at claims the 1995 film 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.
Both have now agreed to take a lie detector test and Express.co.uk plans to film and publish the results.
REIZEN Elon Musk heeft zijn plannen om Mars te bevolken vandaag verder uit de doeken gedaan. Een bemande missie van zijn ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX naar de rode planeet staat gepland voor 2024. Daarnaast schudde hij nog een plan uit zijn mouw voor gigantisch snelle raketreizen die elke plek op aarde binnen een uur bereikbaar moet maken.
Dat vertelde Musk vandaag tijdens een ruimtevaartcongres in Australië. De eerste onbemande missie naar Mars moet zelfs al over vijf jaar, in 2022, plaatsvinden. Volgend jaar moet de bouw beginnen. De grote droom van de SpaceX- en Teslabaas is om een permanente kolonie op die planeet te stichten. Alle pijlen zijn daarom gericht op het ontwikkelen van de juiste raket, die de codenaam BFR draagt. Die zou staan voor ‘Big Falcon Rocket’, al is ‘Big Fucking Rocket’ de gangbare naam.
Musks eerdere plannen voor de kolonisatie van Mars zijn daarmee weer aardig aangepast. In zijn vorige presentatie had hij het nog over verschillende raketten. Maar om de kosten te drukken focust SpaceX zich nu op één enkele smallere en kleinere variant. “We willen één systeem gebruiken. Als we dat voor elkaar krijgen, kunnen alle middelen toegepast worden op dit ene systeem”, vertelt Musk. “Ik ben er vrij zeker van dat we dit ruimteschip in vijf jaar klaar kunnen hebben en kunnen lanceren.”
EPAElon Musk.
Lanceerplatform
Het ruimtevaartuig is deels herbruikbaar en in staat om direct van de aarde naar Mars te vliegen, met plaats voor 100 passagiers. Diezelfde BFR moet óók nog eens dienst doen op Aarde, als het aan Musk ligt. Want: “Als we naar plekken als Mars gaan, waarom dan ook niet naar plekken op aarde?” Het concept moet elke plek op aarde binnen een uur bereikbaar maken en daarmee de concurrentie aangaan met de commerciële luchtvaart. Een vlucht van New York naar Shanghai zou met de raket slecht een halfuur in beslag nemen.
In een door dramatische muziek ondersteunde animatie is te zien hoe passagiers in New York met een boot naar een lanceerplatform varen en een halfuur later in Shanghai op een ander platform landen. De BFR haalt daarbij een maximumsnelheid van 27.000 kilometer per uur. SpaceX experimenteert al langer - succesvol - met raketten die kunnen landen op drijvende platforms.
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SpaceX is niet de enige die alle zeilen bijzet om Mars met een bemande raket te bereiken. Lockheed Martin onthulde op hetzelfde congres eveneens vergevorderde plannen, in samenwerking met NASA. Het bedrijf wil in eerste instantie geen kolonisatie op de planeet, maar een basiskamp dat in een baan rond Mars vliegt. Daarbij moet een aparte raket vier astronauten van en naar Mars vervoeren. Naar verwachting moet dit rond 2030 werkelijkheid worden.
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UFO INVESTIGATOR CLAIMS HE HAS ANSWER TO ONE OF SCOTLAND’S GREATEST UNEXPLAINED ALIEN ENCOUNTER MYSTERIES
UFO INVESTIGATOR CLAIMS HE HAS ANSWER TO ONE OF SCOTLAND’S GREATEST UNEXPLAINED ALIEN ENCOUNTER MYSTERIES
A UFO investigator believes he may have solved one of Scotland’s great unexplained mysteries.
Forestry worker Bob Taylor reported an incident 34 years ago involving an alleged alien craft and two “robot” attackers. He was left unconscious with ripped trousers in the middle of woods at Dechmont Law, near Livingston.
Despite inquiries by police and ufologists, no plausible explanation has been found and the incident has remained one of Scotland’s highest profile X-Files type cases.
It has featured in several TV specials and books down the years. But local businessman Phill Fenton has just published a report which he feels may hold the key to the mystery.
And Phill believes the UFO he believes he saw could have been a saucer-shaped water tower nearby.
Phill, a 56-year-old sign maker from Livingston, said: “I have always been intrigued by the incident and one day I spotted the dome-shaped object and it struck me that it looked a lot like Robert Taylor’s description.
“The more I looked, the more I thought it was more than a coincidence that something this close matched the description of the so-called UFO nearby.”
He added that chemicals used in such tanks could make people experience the effects which Bob reported and the rips on his clothes matched the shape of a security fence near the tower.
The report, which has been published as an Amazon e-book, suggests Bob may have suffered a mini-stroke and been exposed to harmful chemicals which left him confused and disoriented.
Bob, who had a reputation for being down to earth, reported feeling overcome by a powerful odour which left him choking for breath before he fainted. He died in 2007, aged 88.
Malcolm Robinson, author of the books UFO Case Files of Scotland, is the leading authority on the Livingston incident. He said of Phill’s report: “It’s a very interesting hypothesis which is very well put together. But it’s one I don’t adhere to myself.
“He (Bob) always took investigators to the original site, not to a water tank, and he told us this is where it happened and I saw the marks in the grass myself.”
Another unexplainable video of a UFO sighting has emerged on YouTube last week. The video clip documents a strange but clear view of a cigar-like object hovering in the night skies of “possibly near” Paris, France. Similar footage was recorded in 2014 along the Gold Coast in Australia, and in China in 2010, over an airport that ended up being closed, with out bounded flights grounded and incoming flights diverted.
The new video documenting the strange light shows a suspended elongated object floating in the sky and emitting beams of light. Uploaded to the YouTube channel SecureTeam10, the channel’s creator Tyler Glocker admits he has limited information to explain the video’s appearance. Glocker explained that the video was received via email and that the information accompanying it stated it was recorded near Paris last week. Admittingly, Glocker also says he is dubious about the location and that no time stamp was available.
UFO sightings are becoming frequent in the tech era as citizens capture footage on their phones. However, skeptics are most likely to debunk the latest footage as an elaborate hoax. Meanwhile, for those convinced that alien life exists, the clip provides clear footage.
Is the clip a fabrication, a hoax, or are these objects real? If they are, what are they?
In recent times, lucid accounts of UFO sightings have documented an abundance of evidence existing to support the theory of extraterrestrial life forms and visitations to Earth. Former NASA astronaut and professor of physics at Princeton University (amongst many other titles), Dr Brian O’Leary was one such expert to claim these sightings as valid, shortly before his death caused by cancer.
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, which seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon,” O’Leary said.
Apollo 14’s Edgar Mitchel, the sixth man to walk on the Moon has also spoken out about UFO phenomenon as a real entity, and his knowledge of Roswell.
“The evidence for visiting of other species goes back in historical record. Back past the bible to ancient times. Clearly they have been coming here in more recent times. Governments keep hushing it up. They don’t really want to talk about it,” Mitchel said in an interview with the Observer. “The government and powerful parties may use the technology for profit motives. They want to hold onto everything. Particularly the idea of going off the planet – they want to hold onto it. The monied interest has a hold on it.”
The latest YouTube clip is another documentation of our perplexing world. Whether you believe in UFOs or not, the clip certainly raises some serious questions.
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There is a very strange situation in the world when a lot of eyewitnesses report observing UFOs, seeing these unidentified aircraft not only spray the sky above our planet, but also land and leave those who control them. Usually 100% confirmation of UFO landing and the presence of foreigners at the moment nobody provided.
The explanation for this paradox is that it is that people directly contact the UFOs, who are present at the place of their landing and who come into contact with the crew – they forget that they have a cell phone, a photo apart or a video camera with them. Many remember the contact vaguely and fragmentarily as if someone had erased their memory. Some people were able to take photos or videos confirm their statements, but none of them had time to publish these testimonies. In some cases, these witnesses simply disappeared, in others, suddenly there was an accident.
In this connection, the impression is that some influential forces carefully conceal the facts of the Earth’s attendance by representatives of other civilizations and are taking extreme measures to support this concealment, including the elimination of objectionable witnesses. So – we do not have a photo and video evidence of the presence of foreigners on our planet, but we have enough evidence from people who were involved with government structures and who were not afraid to state that governments of different countries not only direct contact with aliens but also cooperate on different issues.
For example, several years ago Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a former astronaut in the Apollo program and the sixth person who stepped onto the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission, interrupted the conspiracy of silence, and speaking live on the phone on Fox News, said that aliens really exist , and that the government conceals this information from the public.
At the time of this statement, Mitchell was 82 years old and had nothing to lose. He broke the promise of silence and declared. that it’s time to put an end to government secrecy in this area and that the media deliberately discredit the UFO theme.
If contacts with aliens are a reality, then the information about it is stored in seven seals. What prevents them from officially publishing them? In 2009, on the question of a well-known radio journalist about contacts with aliens, whose information allegedly is stored in the Book of Mysteries in a particular Green Room, visited by each newly elected president, Barack Obama replied with a joke: “I would” said that it is written in “The Book secrets “, but then I’ll have to kill you”.
Jokes are a joke, but in 2011 the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations was fully officially confirmed by the FBI, which declassified part of the archives of the UFO disaster in 1947 near the American city of Roswell. Before presenting its archive to the public, the Bureau staff carefully deleted all conclusions and recommendations from there. In many documents, there was only a “hat”, and the text itself was cleaned “for reasons of secrecy.
In fact, the first information about the Earth’s attackers appeared in the press and on TV, when an independent group of British television journalists conducted an investigation into the disappearances of many prominent scientists and talented soldiers in the 1960s. Everyone thought that they had traveled to other countries to make money. Journalists interviewed their friends and relatives and discovered strange things: leaflets and letters to their homeland left the specialists looked like two drops of water. And although the handwriting was all different, the style of writing – one, as if they were ordered to write these texts under dictation. After some time, the connection with these people was completely lost.
For a long time in the concealment of information about aliens accused mainly of US authorities. The most “ufological” rumors were about Duat Eisenhower. They suspected that he was the first of the strongest in the world to enter the “diplomatic relations” with the newcomers. In February 1954, during a vacation in California, Eisenhower suddenly fell out of sight for journalists for several hours. William Milton Cooper (who then served as military advisor to the US government) confirmed the version of the relationship between the president and the newcomers: on April 26, 1989, he sent 536 copies of the “Petition of the Prosecution” to each member of the US Senate and the House of Representatives. It was reported that in 1954, Eisenhower entered into contractual relations with the civilization of “gray” aliens from the planet, rotating around the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion. Arriving on Earth on spacecraft, which astronomers initially accepted as asteroids, they landed at the Holloman air base, and later – at the base of Edward, where a pre-agreed meeting of Eisenhower arrived with the humanoids. In addition, Cooper argued that the leaders of many states and other influential persons established a strong contact with aliens.
As a result, a “secret world government”, known as the Bilderberg Club, based in Geneva, was formed. It became secret because of the secrecy of information about cooperation with the “occupiers of the Earth”. According to him, this club serves as the supervisor, keeping the humanity in ignorance, for which orders are issued for the destruction and compromise of scientists ahead of their time; inventors who made epoch-making inventions; archaeologists, “not those who excavated”, and contractors, “not with those” came into contact. The “Petition of the Prosecution” contained lists of members of a secret international government, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush, Nelson Rockefeller, and others.
In 1991, the director of the Geneva Institute for Planetary Synthesis, R. Schneider, published the report of the same Milton Cooper, “The Secret Government,” which stated that from 1947 to 1952 about one and a half dozen alien ships landed in only one US territory. Some crashed, others made a forced landing. As a result, in the hands of Americans turned out to be 65 corpses and … one alive alien. The report confirmed the existence of a secret world government, which entered into the agreement with representatives of “other worlds.” Under this agreement, “devoted” received some advanced technology in exchange for allowing people to use for research. Why the question of whether there are aliens on the Earth, the government officials are negative?
Analysts are offered three theories.
1. The purpose of the silence is not to injure the population by realizing the existence of other forms of life in the universe. Within this theory, it is considered that the government has a certain level of technical development of aliens; Correlated it with the terrestrial level, it came to the conclusion that in the military sense we should not fear anything – there should be no conflict with extraterrestrial civilizations.
2. There has historically been a “world government” on Earth that stands above all countries and peoples and controls financial flows. And it knows about UFOs, contacts with aliens at the diplomatic level, receiving some kind of “technical assistance” from them in exchange for a “modest” request for the allocation of their territories for the creation of enclaves and the study of life forms on Earth.
3. Perhaps members of the “world government” do not want to publish the “X-files”, fearing loss of control over people. They believe that the loss of power is due to the needs of people in studying the social structure of aliens and borrowing from them technologies for restructuring the state and society.
According to the test pilot Marina Popovich, the first wife of the astronaut Pavel Popovich, “UFOs will see all the astronauts without exception, but recognized in this unit.”
An American astronaut and test pilot, Gordon Cooper, made two flights to outer space (in 1963 and in 1965), arguing that in 1951, “while flying over Germany, the F-68 fighter personally observed UFOs.” In 1978, Cooper wrote a letter to the UN asking for a special body to investigate this phenomenon.
The head of the FBI, from the beginning of its founding in 1935 and before 1972, Edgar Hoover on the famous 1942 incident (the shooting of flying saucers over Los Angeles): “We must insist on access to these aircraft. In Los Angeles, the military seized the devices and did not allow us to investigate them. ”
In 1955, with an awesome call for the rise of the Cold War, the commander of the Pacific armed forces, Douglas MacArthur, appealed to the military and scientific forces of the nation: “The nations of the world must unite, as the next war will be a war of interplanetary … Nations of the world will have to … create a common front against aliens from other planets “.
Mikhail Gorbachev: “The phenomenon of a UFO exists and it needs to be treated very seriously.”
Richard Nixon, US President from 1969 to 1974: “I still have no right to discuss information about UFOs and the unearthly mind that the government has. Discussion of this issue continues. ”
Heller’s Floor, I’m a former Minister of Defense of Canada: “UFOs are as real as airplanes fly over our head.”
Speaking of UFOs and aliens, it’s worth bearing in mind that all of them do not necessarily have to be the most alien from other planets in our solar system. Facts say that our planet is flown by representatives of other worlds, but also on the planet Earth itself, there is a parallel civilization living an invisible life for us.
Here is the world-famous Evard Snowden: “The higher echelons of the government do not know what to do with UFOs and feed the citizens with an official version that they are all just meteorological probes or natural phenomena. But documents show that UFOs are a reality. The transport ships of this civilization fly not only in the atmosphere of the Earth but were noticed on the seabed, in hydrothermal sources, volcanoes and directly in the solar orbit.
The CIA stores the data of surveillance systems and deep-sea sonars, but they have the status of state secrets, and even scientists have no access to these data about these objects. This kind of smarter Homo sapiens and lives in the mantle of the Earth. This is the only place where conditions have been more or less stable over billions of years. Extremophiles can live at different temperatures, they were able to thrive and develop intelligence at an accelerated pace. Homo sapiens and they evolved at the same speed, but their living conditions in the earth’s mantle protected their civilization from many cataclysms that took place on the surface of the earth.
The president receives daily briefings on the activities of this civilization and the movement of its vehicles – UFOs. Analysts believe their technology has gone so far that we have little chance of surviving in any potential war with them.
The general idea is that we are just ants from their point of view, there is a small chance that they will not continue to pay attention to us. But the military also considers the possibility of aggression and the current plan of action in emergencies includes a plan to undermine nuclear weapons in deep caves to “seal” the enemy in the hope of destroying their communications, which will prevent further attacks from the bowels of the earth. ”
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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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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