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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16-10-2017
Miami politician says aliens took her on a spaceship. Now she’s running for Congress.
Miami politician says aliens took her on a spaceship. Now she’s running for Congress.
Miami congressional candidate, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, speaks in 2009 about her relationships with extraterrestrial beings in an Américan Tevé program. Courtesy of América Tevé
WASHINGTON - Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.
A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she’s been aboard a spaceship too. But this one was crewed by aliens. As in extraterrestrials.
Three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was 7 years old and have communicated telepathically with her several times in her life, she says. (Sen. Bill Nelson served as payload officer aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986. All seven people aboard were from Earth. As far as is known.)
Rodriguez Aguilera, 59, a Republican who is running to replace retiring Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, recounted her experience with the ETs during a 2009 television interview.
She described “going up” inside the spaceship — though whether it went into space or just hovered around town was left unclear.
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes,” Rodriguez Aguilera said.
In two separate videos posted to YouTube years ago, one by local Spanish-language station America TeVe and another by a political critic with the user name DoralGirl26, Rodriguez Aguilera spoke on television in detail about her extraterrestrial experiences. She said the alien beings reminded her of the famous statue in Rio de Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer, with arms outstretched.
Among the things she said she found out from the aliens:
▪ There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.
▪ The world’s “energy center” is in Africa.
▪ The Coral Castle, a limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade, is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
▪ “God is a universal energy.”
She also said that the aliens had mentioned Isis, though she didn’t clarify if they meant the terrorist organization or the ancient Egyptian goddess.
What are the politics of U.F.O.s? Hillary Clinton said she believed in giving wider access to government records related to U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life. Listen to what other presidents had to say about aliens and Area 51.
The New York Times
The Miami Herald asked Rodriguez Aguilera about her experiences Friday. She responded with a statement that waxed astronomical, but sadly failed to mention close encounters of any kind.
“For years people, including Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone,” she said. “I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
Rodriguez Aguilera was a Doral councilwoman from 2012-14 and served as the city's first economic developer. She works as an entrepreneur and has taught leadership seminars at local universities.
She declared her candidacy in late August and raised about $10,000 during the most recent fundraising quarter, she said — a paltry amount she attributed to halting her campaign during Hurricane Irma.
Rodriguez Aguilera’s daughter is former Republican National Committee Hispanic outreach director Bettina Inclán Agen. Her son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, is Vice President Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff.
Miami attorney Rick Yabor, a frequent political commentator in Spanish-language media, said Friday that Rodriguez Aguilera’s account could hurt her congressional campaign. Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro andformer school board member and Miami-Dade County mayoral candidate Raquel Regalado, both far better known than Rodriguez Aguilera, are also running in the Republican primary.
“Being a politician, to come out and say that, it’s odd,” Yabor said. “She got into details that are not very mainstream. Someone who’s running for Congress — you’ve got to raise a lot of money. A donor might have second thoughts.
“Miami politics are unusual,” Yabor said. “This one takes it to a new level.”
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a former Doral city council member and the city’s first economic director, will run to replace retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Congress in 2018. Rodriguez Aguilera said during a 2008 TV appearance that she has seen aliens extraterrestrials throughout her life. Roberto Koltunrkoltun@elnuevoherald.com
A witness in Tarpon Springs, Florida, observed a rectangular UFO during the day, according to a report submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) earlier today.
Tarpon Springs (red marker) in relation to Tampa Bay.
(Credit: Google Maps)
According to the witness, he had gone outside to smoke a cigarette when he noticed a flat rectangular object under the clouds. He says the area has a lot of air traffic, and at first he thought it might be a helicopter, but soon realized it was not. After a few seconds of watching it, the object zipped off.
The witness estimated the object to be about 100 miles away, over the Gulf of Mexico. He said it was headed south, towards the coast of Tampa. The witness drew a map (seen below) showing the path of the object.
Witness provided map of path of object.
(Credit: MUFON)
Another strange aspect to his sighting, is that the witness claims he saw spots when he closed his eyes. Apparently like those when you look at a bright object, like the sun. However, the witness says he was not looking in the sun direction.
Came outside for a smoke facing west on a clear sunny day with a few clouds at 11:27 am on 10/16/17. We have a lot of air traffic in the Tampa bay area. I noticed a dark rectangular object at 33 degrees to the NW over a mile away. I thought it was a bird gliding at first. Dark with no reflection from sun. Sun was still in the east and object was west so it should have been bright if it were a plane. We are subject to military aircraft such as black hawk helo’s. Object appeared a thin rectangular object and moved south in front of clouds for several seconds. In less than a mile and aprox. 100 mph it just vanished. No cloud cover when this happened. I tracked it’s known path for a while to see if it would reemerge. It did not. Then I noticed my eyes were full of spots every time I blinked. Similar to a photo flash but in a 20 X 20 grid of dots. This is not unusual looking up in the sky in Florida but not when looking away from the sun and not in a grid pattern. Not sure what I saw due to it’s distance. I know I was fully awake and conscious and saw this event clearly. The object would have been over the Gulf of Mexico at least a mile out.
Alleged rectangular UFO photo taken in Federal Heights, Colorado. Photo info: “On an unrecorded day in August, 1987, Joe Clower was out driving with his camera in his car when he spotted a most unusual flying object in the twilight sky. It was a dark flying rectangle having lights in all four corners. It flew over silently as he prepared his camera and got this one picture of it above. When that film was finally developed and he saw the image, he could no longer accurately remember the date. A friend was with him during this photographic event.” (Credit: OpenMinds.tv Photo Archives)
The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this sighting in the comments below.
Aliens CREATED GOD… and now they want him back – shock claim of how religion began
Aliens CREATED GOD… and now they want him back – shock claim of how religion began
A new conspiracy theory says, before religious texts like the Bible were written, alien lifeforms visited Earth and were seen as “gods” by the more primitive humans.
In an article entitled “Aliens Are Coming Back To Retrieve ‘Their’ Religion,” the website ufointernationalproject.com tried to explain the theory.
It claims either aliens created the religious texts for the benefit of mankind, or they were written by humans based on the “alien gods” who visited at that time.
It went onto say much more advanced extraterrestrial species were angry that humans had used religions as a reason for waging countless wars across the globe over hundreds of years.
The article said: “Religion was not designed for terrorism
“The aliens quite knew that man is so destructive in nature, that’s the more reason why Religion was bestowed to us, to serve with faith and fear of the unknown, but man has completely failed the experiment.”
It went on to list a series of wars carried out in the name of religion, including the bitter conflicts in the Middle East against Islamic State.
The unnamed author of the piece said: “I have studied all religions for over 20 years, and it has led me to nothing more than one vast conclusion.
“Man was not smart enough to write any of the religions, and I mean the eastern spiritualism (the self), western religions (God – which I always have referred to as the extraterrestrial) or American Creationism (Nature itself, including man).
“One of the oldest religious text ‘The Egyptian Book of the Dead’ dates back more than 3000 BC.
“When writing was invented and the scribes and artists first wrote down what the priests had used in their prayers and litanies, they were very perplexed and hardly understood the text.
“What I am getting at is that all religions were not composed by humans at the time they were created.
“These Aliens would truly be gods to us humans.
“Their civilisations could be millions of years old, they know exactly how this macrocosm works.
“They might have seen other worlds come and go, and destroy themselves.
“They know the evolutionary steps cognition has to go through, and that is the crucial point for the aliens, they want to protect our beautiful Universe from harm.
“After all, when you have become God, you don’t want to see your world being destroyed. And that brings us to the crux of religion.”
It went on to say that aliens would want their religions returned, and will quarantine us here on Earth to prevent any cosmic disasters.
It added: “Now be ready to give it back, since humans have no respect for life, ideas, other races and cultures.
“That brings me to my final point – with us humans pointing a cannon at anything different from ourselves, the aliens will not allow us to transverse the Universe.
“We have an idea of how the atom works, and if we ever develop spaceships using antigravity, they do not want us to explore space pointing a cannon at everything alien to us, especially since we failed to master our emotions.”
Alien conspiracy theorists have been saying for years that extraterrestrials have already visited Earth, and world leaders know this, but it is kept from us under an alleged “truth embargo” amid fears over the impact the truth would have on religion and the rule of law.
Several people are campaigning for the “embargo” to be lifted and the “disclosure” of all facts about aliens on Earth.
The article finished saying that the only thing that would stop wars on Earth was so-called disclosure.
It added: “Truly the only thing that can put a stop to the wars on earth both religious and others which have killed thousands of innocent people including children and animals, is only one thing – DISCLOSURE!”
Nigel Watson, author of The UFO Investigations Manual, told Express.co.uk: “These ideas are very much like those of the alleged alien contactees of the 1950s, who said they had meetings with space people and had rides in their flying saucers.
“Ironically, it is a bit like the view of some religious groups that say we should not venture into space because that is the domain of God.
“I don’t think we will be producing spacecraft capable of visiting nearby alien civilisations for a very long time, and it is still a matter of debate whether they will
welcome us or attack us.
“Certainly, Professor Stephen Hawking says we should be wary of making any type of contact with aliens.
“As for disclosure as a means of uniting humanity, I don’t think that will ever happen.”
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Sporen van onbekende beschaving ontdekt hoog in Himalaya. Deze archeologen staan voor een raadsel
Sporen van onbekende beschaving ontdekt hoog in Himalaya. Deze archeologen staan voor een raadsel
Russische archeologen hebben hoog in de Himalaya twee archeologische complexen met unieke stenen figuren gevonden.
De complexen blijken te zijn gebouwd door een nog onbekende beschaving. Ze dateren uit de middeleeuwen, zegt het onderzoeksteam onder leiding van archeologe Natalia Polosmak.
“Er zijn twee rituele complexen ver en hoog in de bergen ontdekt op plekken die allesbehalve makkelijk te bereiken zijn,” zei Vyacheslav Molodin van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen.
Uniek
De beelden, waaronder zo’n 200 stenen ruiters, zijn in dezelfde stijl gemaakt en rijkelijk versierd. Toch is ieder beeld uniek.
In de buurt van de heiligdommen hebben archeologen ook waterbronnen en andere stenen bouwwerken ontdekt, die gerelateerd zouden zijn aan religieuze complexen.
Onduidelijk
“Het is onduidelijk welke beschaving hierachter zit,” zei Molodin. “Het moet een bevolking zijn geweest die plotseling is verschenen in de Himalaya, zich heeft gevestigd in afgelegen gebieden en deze sporen heeft achtergelaten.”
Molodin sprak van een verrassende en fantastische vondst. “Je zou denken dat we alles al weten over India, maar dit is voor het eerst dat de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap hier kennis van neemt.”
“De vondst laat zien dat we nog niet alles weten over de planeet,” zei hij tegen persbureau RIA Novosti. Het team van Polosmak is al drie jaar in India.
Supervulkaan Yellowstone kan sneller uitbarsten dan gedacht. Deze wetenschappers vertellen wat er dan gebeurt
Supervulkaan Yellowstone kan sneller uitbarsten dan gedacht. Deze wetenschappers vertellen wat er dan gebeurt
De supervulkaan onder het Yellowstone National Park zou weleens sneller tot uitbarsting kunnen komen dan gedacht.
In het geval van een uitbarsting zou heel de VS onder as bedekt kunnen worden en zou er zelfs een vulkanische winter over de hele planeet in gang kunnen worden gezet, zeggen wetenschappers van de Arizona State University.
In één uitbarsting kan de supervulkaan liefst 1000 kubieke kilometer rots en as verspreiden. Een vulkanische winter zou de planeet sterk afkoelen.
Niet de enige
De laatste uitbarsting van de supervulkaan onder Yellowstone dateert van 631.000 jaar geleden, schrijft National Geographic. Gemiddeld barst de vulkaan eens in de 600.000 jaar uit.
Yellowstone is niet de enige supervulkaan op aarde. De wetenschappers zeggen dat de aarde elke 100.000 jaar getroffen kan worden door een uitbarsting van een supervulkaan.
Zij kwamen tot de ontdekking dat de factoren die bepalen of er al dan niet een uitbarsting komt, veel sneller veranderen dan gedacht.
Schokkend
“Het is schokkend hoe weinig tijd er nodig is om een slapend, vulkanisch systeem te wekken en tot op de rand van een uitbarsting te brengen,” zei onderzoeker Hannah Shamloo tegen de New York Times.
Wetenschappers maakten zich tot voor kort geen zorgen, omdat ze dachten dat de eerste tekenen van een eventuele uitbarsting duizenden jaren van tevoren zichtbaar zullen zijn. Maar het blijkt volgens de laatste metingen te gaan om enkele decennia.
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes.”
Attention Tom DeLonge … THAT is how you announce that you’ve had personal contact with aliens and rode in a flying saucer. A politician running for US Congress from Miami, Florida, has admitted in the past that she has had contacts with extraterrestrials and was a passenger on their spaceship. However, now that she’s a candidate for higher office, she’s suddenly evasive. Isn’t this the time to stand up and be proud that you have first-hand information about contacts with a species from another planet? Or does she have something more to hide?
According to McClatchy DC, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a longtime public servant for the city of Doral and Miami-Dade county, admitted in 2009 in a televised interview that she had an extraterrestrial encounter at age 7 with “three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male” – and that the beings looked like the giant Christ the Redeemer statue on the top of a mountain in Rio de Janeiro (those must have been some BIG bodies). She also admitted in this and in a second interview in 2011 that the beings continued to communicate with her telepathically at various times later in her life, although it doesn’t appear she said when the last time was.
Aguilera says the aliens also shared some interesting information with her:
There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.
The world’s “energy center” is in Africa.
The Coral Castle, a mysterious limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade (sometimes called Florida’s Stonehenge) is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
“God is a universal energy.”
Those are interesting ideas – especially since the Coral Castle is generally believed to have been built by Latvian American Edward Leedskalnin in the first half of the 20th century – and the Miami Herald decided last week to ask her for more details about her encounters. This time, Rodriguez Aguilera was very evasive, admitting nothing. Has she been visited by the Men in Black? Possibly, but more likely she’s been visited by Republican Party officials (her party) and members of the White House staff. The White House?
Yep. Turns out her daughter is former Republican National Committee Hispanic outreach director Bettina Inclán Agen and her son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, is Vice President Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff. Pence is no Tom DeLonge or John Podesta and is probably quite wary of anyone who believes in space aliens.
Rodriguez Aguilera tried to dance around the question about her alien encounters. After invoking Ronald Reagan by pointing out that he claimed to have seen a UFO, she said:
“I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
Of course there must be … you met them! Or did you?
What will Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera do now? Will she go back to her original statements to woo voters who believe in ETs? Will she toe the party line and deny saying it? If she loses the election, will she head for Malta to look for the skulls? Has Tom DeLonge talked to her yet?
Once again, politics and religion get in the way of disclosure.
We survived the September 23rd apocalypse. In fact, if you’re reading this, it means we’ve survived EVERY apocalyptic prediction. So those who are warning us about the upcoming crash of an abandoned Chinese space station aren’t predicting the end of the world – even though the ‘thing’ about to plunge back to Earth is eerily named “Heavenly Palace” — but they actually have scientific evidence tat it will indeed happen and it ‘could’ cause some problems. Who is going to need to duck … and when?
Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace 1” is an 8.5 ton prototype space station – China’s first – that was launched unmanned on September 29, 2011. It has been visited by both unmanned and manned missions but has never functioned as an operational space station like the International Space Station, Skylab or Mir. Its mission was scheduled to end in 2014 but was extended for two years until March 21, 2016, when the Space Engineering Office officially announced its termination. A few months later, after amateur astronomers noticed it was acting erratically, Chinese officials confirmed that the Heavenly Palace was leaving the heavens at some point but they didn’t know when because the telemetry link with it was lost. Uh-oh.
Tiangong-1 (source: The Guardian)
At that time, the estimated time of departure from the heavens was between October 2017 and April 2018. Now, Harvard University astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell has revised and narrowed the window. In an interview with The Guardian, he said this:
“Now that [its] perigee is below 300 kilometers [186 miles] and it is in denser atmosphere, the rate of decay is getting higher, I expect it will come down a few months from now—late 2017 or early 2018.”
That’s a little better, but how about something more specific, like who should duck and when? Unfortunately, neither McDowell nor Chinese space officials can get any more accurate that “soon.” Even worse, they expect some of the pieces of Tiangong-1 – which was small in comparison to 77.5 ton Skylab – to be up to 100 kg (220 pounds), which could cause some serious damage if they make it through Earth’s atmosphere and crash in a populated area.
“You really can’t steer these things. Even a couple of days before it re-enters we probably won’t know better than six or seven hours, plus or minus, when it’s going to come down. Not knowing when it’s going to come down translates as not knowing where it’s going to come down.”
“Not knowing when it’s going to come down translates as not knowing where it’s going to come down.”
Is McDowell an astronomer or a politician? China doesn’t have to take responsibility as long as it informs the United Nations “Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space” when the Heavenly Palace is being demolished (hopefully) by the atmospheric wrecking crew, which may not get the pieces small enough for safety.
Well, at least there’s the comfort in knowing that over 3/4 of the planet is water, right? Leave it to McDowell – and climate change – to ruin that little bit of hope. McDowell noted that even a slight change in atmospheric conditions could translate into Tiangong-1 skipping from a predicted continent to another one.
With this lack of accurate information, it looks like everyone needs to be ready at a moment’s notice to perform a Peking duck. (You knew there would be a Peking duck joke eventually).
IS ALIEN TRUTH COMING? Tom DeLonge's Area 51 and military insiders will 'lift lid on UFOs
IS ALIEN TRUTH COMING? Tom DeLonge's Area 51 and military insiders will 'lift lid on UFOs'
ROCK star Tom DeLonge has sensationally revealed a team of US government insiders he has been secretly working with to try to prove aliens have visited earth.
The Former Blink-182 frontman, aged 41, says he has convinced a string of former senior US Department of Defense (DoD), CIA and other intelligence officials to break rank and speak out about UFOs and aliens.
Ufology truth seekers have been stunned by the news which has been branded "unprecedented" by leading UFO researchers.
Alejandro Rojas, host of Open Minds Radio, wrote on Openminds.tv: "A team like this getting together to pursue answers to the UFO question is unprecedented, and their comments show they are serious."
Investigative journalist and UFO author Leslie Kean broke the news on Huffington Post.
She wrote: “Something extraordinary is about to be revealed.
"Former high-level officials and scientists with deep black experience who have always remained in the shadows are now stepping into the light.
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ALIEN TRUTH? Tom DeLonge has assembled a team of former insiders to lift lid on UFOs.
“The team includes a 25-year veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations; a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at ‘Skunk Works’; a former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; a Department of Defence senior intelligence officer who, among other sensitive responsibilities, ran a Pentagon aerospace ‘threat identification’ program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies.”
Mr DeLonge revealed the team at a filmed live event to launch his new organisation they are all part of called the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
One of the former insiders claims the group will blow open a government conspiracy to hide evidence of aliens.
The team says it will "advance research into unexplained phenomena".
DeLonge told the launch: “This is why I am here, this is why they are here, we are going to bring it to the world.
“We have a plan to bring the unimaginable, the stuff of dreams, to the world.”
The organisation is crowd funding for its research and has already amassed more than $300,000 from supporters, according to its website.
There are certain things that should never have been secret; two their secrets that were justifiable at the time which should now be disclosed.
Tom DeLonge
Chris Mellon, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for two administrations, said he came out because "figuring out the UFO phenomenon is going to take an effort outside of the government".
He added: "This is another case in which the system will not repair itself and people outside of government need to take action for breakthroughs to occur.”
“This team has the skill set to process information others avert their eyes to and turn it to the advantage of the nation and the world.”
Jim Semivan is said to have served for 25 years in the CIA, and was a part of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service.
He is the Stars Academy Vice President of Operations.
He said: "At the age of 65, I feel it is time I do what I can to find out what is behind this mystery. This is the big question. What does it all mean, and what is real? What is behind the veil?
"I have maybe 15 years of life left, and this is what I want to do, and when I got connect with Tom I found out he feels the same.
“Nature is incredibly big and this sort of exploration allows us to reach out and touch the divine. I want to get close to it and understand it. It is a quest.”
DeLonge told the launch: "I had the rare opportunity to present my ideas to an executive with the Department of Defense who worked in the special access programs in an area called Watertown also known as Area 51.
"That meeting led to multiple clandestine encounters across the United States from desert airports to vacant buildings deep with Washington DC from these exchanges I learned three things: one, there are certain things that should never have been secret; two their secrets that were justifiable at the time which should now be disclosed."
43 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES - PART I
43 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES - PARTI
A “Conspiracy Theory” is the belief that an organization is secretly responsible for an event. Sometimes, these theories end up being true, but the vast majority of the time, they’re totally fictional. Here at Factinate, we aren’t claiming to believe in any of these. We’re just bringing you the good gossip. Here is a list of 50 top conspiracy theories.
43. Poisoned by the CIA
Bob marley, the famous reggae musician, died of cancer. It started in his foot, and spread all the way up to his brain. However, despite the fact that he was already dying, there was an assassination against his life one year before he died. A group of men broke into his house, and tried to shoot him. That’s not even the conspiracy–that’s a real fact. However, the conspiracy starts with the fact that one of his attempted killers was a CIA agent. Was this agent just a crazy guy gone rogue? Or was he working on a mission directed from his bosses at the CIA? Some people believe that the US government was afraid of Marley’s political power over the African-American community, and that cancer was simply taking too long to kill him. So they poisoned him.
42. Flat Earth Theory
There are people out there who still believe the world is flat. They believe that everything else is one big conspiracy–space images are fake, zero gravity astronaut footage is filmed in a plane doing loops in the air, and astronomy teachers all over the world are lying to students. They believe that Antarctica is at the ends of the flat earth- like the crust on a pizza, and that’s why no one ever “falls off” the edge of the Earth, because it’s too cold to cross it.
41. The Royal Family Killed Princess Diana
The much-beloved Princess Diana of Wales tragically died in a car accident in 1997. Some people believe that this was done on purpose. Diana died sitting next to a man named Dodi Fayed, who was an Egyptian millionaire. This was not unusual, since princess went on many diplomatic meetings. However, some believe she was having an affair with him, and was planning on leaving Wales to marry Dodi. There are many different theories on “how” and “why”, but there is no evidence to support these conspiracy theories.
40. Jesus and Mary Magdalene Got Married
Some people believe that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were more than just friends. This conspiracy theory has been around for a long time, but it’s featured in the fictional movie The DaVinci Code. People who believe this theory think that Jesus’ family moved all the way from Israel to Southern France to raise their children.
39. Lorde is Lying About Her Age
When Lorde’s music started playing on the radio, nobody could believe that “Royals” was sung by a 15-year old girl. Her voice is so deep, and her lyrics are very mature for someone her age. You can call her a genius, but some people find it easier to believe that she is actually much older than she claims, and that lying about her age was part of what made her stand out and become famous. People were so skeptical that they demanded to see her birth certificate. After a while, it was finally released, just to get people to stop. The creators of SouthPark thought this conspiracy theory was hilarious, so they decided to take it to the next level, and make Stan’s Dad the secret identity of Lorde.
38. The Super Humans of MK-ULTRA
This is another conspiracy that has roots in the truth. From the 1950’s to the 1970’s, the US Government was conducting experiments on human beings. Their goal was to use mind control to create “sleeper agents,” or assassins who had no idea they were killing people. They were given LSD, and essentially tortured. When they were found out, they began to destroy all of their documents on their experiments. This is where the rumors began. The CIA was also known for studying people with alleged psychic powers. The experiments conducted on the young girl, Eleven, from TV show Stranger Things seems to be inspired by MK-ULTRA, since the truth of what happened behind closed doors leaves so much to the imagination.
37. The Megan Fox Clone Army
Over the years, Megan Fox has looked a little bit different. It could be because of aging, plastic surgery, makeup style, weight loss…Or she could be a CLONE?! One conspiracy theory believes that there is no real Megan Fox. She is just a series of perfect-looking clones that end up slightly different each time.
36. Operation Northwoods
This is a conspiracy that actually turned out to be true. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Joint Chief of Staff plotted a fake Cuban bombing, in order to get America’s support in a war against Cuba. President Kennedy stopped it from happening. This lead to the rumors that the CIA planned to kill JFK, and it also gives some weight to the next rumor on the list.
35. Terrorist Attacks on 9/11 Were an Inside Job
Some people believe that the US government knew about the 9/11 attacks ahead of time, and yet chose to let it happen. Others believe that it was completely orchestrated by the government, and that bombs went off inside the building in order to make it fall, and they blamed it on the plane. So, why would any President do this? Some believe that Bush wanted an excuse to go to war with the Middle East, because his family profits a huge amount of money from oil. But would this get the support of the government? Unlikely.
34. Hollywood Actors are Immortal
In 2011, an antique photograph emerged of a man that looked a heck of a lot like Nicholas Cage. Over time, more and more old photos have emerged that look a lot like celebrities. There is a conspiracy rumor that they can either time travel, or that actors are actually vampires. However, there are apparently 7 people who look like any single person currently living in the world. So it’s not surprising if there are old photographs of anyone’s “twin.”
33. The Moon Landing
During the Cold War, the United States and Russia were in a race to see who could get to the moon first. Russia was winning by a long shot in the space race, and yet, somehow, the US got to there first, and Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. This has caused some people to believe that the US Government filmed the whole thing in a studio, and that it was all fake. Many of them are not denying that space exploration is real today. They just think that particular moon landing was orchestrated simply to beat the Russians.
32. William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare lived during the 1600’s, so not many records have been found about the man’s actual life. There is a grave in England where he is buried, but it still leaves doubts in some people’s minds. Since theater was seen as being disgraceful at the time, some theorists believe that Shakespeare was a pseudonym created by members of the aristocracy who wanted to write plays. For eye-witness accounts of the playwright, conspiracy theorists say that he must have been an actor hired to be “William Shakespeare,” and that any man outside of the nobility could not have possibly written such groundbreaking plays. There are multiple theories of the “true identity” of William Shakespeare, including Sir Francis Bacon, and the Earl of Oxford.
31. Hollow Moon Theory
This is the idea that the moon is actually hollow, and an ancient alien civilization lives inside of it, like one giant space station. While this may sound extremely far-fetched, there are actually a lot of people out there who believe they have “evidence” of this being true.
30. Katy Perry and Jonbenet Ramsey
The unsolved murder mystery of child beauty pageant star Jonbenet Ramsey has been a topic of conspiracy for years. One of the newest ideas was that she never actually died, and she grew up to be Katy Perry. Why, exactly, would parents do this? Theorists believe that the motive would be to get their beautiful daughter thrust into the spotlight, which would capture the public’s attention, and help her get into show business. The two look very much alike, but that’s pretty much the only “evidence” supporting this conspiracy theory.
29. A Door to Another Dimension
The children’s book series and TV show of the Berenstain Bears was a big favorite for kids who grew up in the 90’s. However, for those of us who have grown up and gone back to Google search for the show, we noticed something a little weird…Was it always spelled with an “a” in “Berenstain”? This may seem sort of small and innocuous, but thousands of people have come forward, swearing on their life that they remember it being spelled “BerenstEin” with an “e”. This is a product of what’s called “The Mandela Effect”, which got its name when a large group of people can vividly remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison…But in reality, he survived. Conspiracy theorists believe events like this are a door into another dimension, and some people remember their parallel-life experiences, while others don’t.
28. “Paul is Dead”
Can you imagine how different the world of music would have been if one of the Beatles died in the 60’s? Well, lots of people do, actually. There is a conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney died in 1966, and a look-alike replaced him. Theorists see “signs” of “proof” everywhere–like how on the Abbey Road cover, Paul is the only one out of step from the others.
Specially the ear !
27. Water Fluoride and Mind Control
In the United States, fluoride is added to the drinking water, because it was thought to reduce tooth decay. Some people aren’t buying that excuse, because fluoride has been known to have medicinal side effects of “dumbing people down,” which could make them more complacent and less likely to revolt.
26. Plastic Coffins Are Ready For You
In Atlanta, Georgia, FEMA is an organization that gets prepared for natural disasters. During the Obama Administration, the group ordered 500,000 “plastic coffins.” There are so many that it creates a gigantic wall that is visible from the highway. FEMA claims that they’re not coffins, they’re actually liners to go around a coffin to prevent seepage from the dead going into the ground, and possibly getting into drinking water. Conspiracy theorists aren’t buying it. They think the government knows something we don’t know–and they’re going to need those coffins for thousands of dead Americans.
25. Bigfoot, Can You Hear Me?
Thousands of people go missing from National Parks, and some of their disappearances defy explanation. The CANAM Missing Project is lead by David Paulides, who is the author of the Missing 411 books. His organization is dedicated to figuring out what is going on to make this people simply vanish. While Paulides refuses to give his own theories, many fans of the Missing 411 stories believe that theanswer is Bigfoot. If it was, in fact, Bigfoot, then the National Parks and the government would know about it by now, and keep it a secret.
24. HAARP Makes it Rain
In Alaska, they are housing what is called the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. The government claims that they are using radio waves to generate heat, and they are also studying the atmosphere. It’s true that they are studying a lot of stuff–but conspiracy theorists go one step further, because they believe that HAARP is a project attempting to control the weather.
23. “You’re a wizard, Harry.”
Jo Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, is very beautiful. She is so pretty, in fact, that some people find it hard to believe that she could be nerdy enough to write a story like Harry Potter. Some people believe that the woman we have seen in interviews is actually an actress paid to pretend that she is JK Rowling, and that the true author is hidden from the public eye. So pretty much their entire line of reasoning is “pretty girls can’t write about wizards.”
22. The CIA and AIDS
Since the disease didn’t really seem to be an issue until the 1980’s, some people believe that the CIA created AIDS in a lab in order to get rid of “undesirable” people. Even a Nobel-Prize winning ecologist named Wangari Maathai used her newfound fame to try to let the public know what the CIA was doing. In reality, many scientists think that it used to be a disease that was only found in monkeys, and around the 1930’s, people somehow started to catch it too? This theory is not confirmed, but it’s true that scientists have accidently let diseases free, even without evil intent.
43 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES - PART II
43 FREAKY FACTS ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES - PART II
A “Conspiracy Theory” is the belief that an organization is secretly responsible for an event. Sometimes, these theories end up being true, but the vast majority of the time, they’re totally fictional. Here at Factinate, we aren’t claiming to believe in any of these. We’re just bringing you the good gossip. Here is a list of 50 top conspiracy theories.
21. Chemtrails Are Poisoning Everyone
When planes fly, they leave behind “contrails” from the exhaust of their engines. The moisture crystallizes, and form clouds that are long and thin. Conspiracy theorists believe that these clouds are not “contrails.” They believe they’re “chemtrails”–toxic chemicals trying to poison people through the tailpipes of airplanes.
20. Junkie Jesus
Throughout history, Biblical imagery is riddled with mushroom-like images. Some people believe that Jesus was on ‘shrooms, and that’s part of what gave him so many visions where he apparently spoke to God. While this is a conspiracy theory, it’s actually true that many cultures use drugs as part of their meditation rituals. Since they grow on the Earth, these ‘shrooms could have been seen as like a gift from God to seek a higher truth…In theory.
19. Where’s the Proof? Shut Up, Irma.
There are so many right-wing politicians publicly denouncing the existence of global warming that some people actually consider this to be a true fact, rather than a conspiracy theory. They think that it’s a big lie to raise taxes, or distract people from other issues.
18.Hitler Lives On?
Adolf Hitler killed his wife, and then committed suicide. However, a few people believe that he actually escaped to Argentina, and body doubles were put in the place of him and his wife. There are many eye-witnesses who claim to have met Hitler when he lived in Argentina. Considering how conniving he was with the Nazi party, it’s actually not too difficult to believe that he had some kind of escape plan when he knew it was all coming to an end.
17. Tupac Forever
In 1996, the famous rapper Tupac Shakur was shot while in his BMW. However, many theorists believe that he never actually died. They believe it was an elaborate way for his record sales to go up, and get him out of the public eye. Some people say he started a new life in Cuba.
16. George Bush Hired Britney Spears to Distract People?
We all remember when Britney Spears went a little bit crazy shaving her head. Everyone was talking about it. Some people believe that the Bush Administration paid Britney to cause such a ruckus to distract people from the shady things they were doing.
15. We’re all in The Matrix
Elon Musk publically said that it’s totally possible that we are all living in a simulated reality, like The Matrix. Conspiracy Theorists go wild with this, and find “evidence” everywhere. It’s pretty tough to prove or disprove anything when your theory discredits the laws of reality.
14. The Government and Pearl Harbor
For years, the United States did not join World War II. People didn’t want to get involved…Until Pearl Harbor happened. Theorists believe that the military actually knew that the Japanese were on their way, because the US technology should have been more advanced than theirs, and they should have had the capacity to see them coming. If this is true, the government allowed the attacks to happen so that the US would have an excuse to join WWII. One of the key pieces of evidence pointed to is that several US aircraft carriers were assigned to Pearl Harbour, but they were stationed elsewhere on the day of the attacks.
13. JFK Assassination
We all know that President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed, but the motivation behind his death is a huge topic of speculation. There are multiple conspiracy theories out there, and no one really knows which one (if any) is true.
12. The Reptilian Elite
The “Reptilian Elite” is a conspiracy theory that all of the biggest leaders in the world are secretly a race of Reptilians who are planning to control humans and take over the world. Some people even claim to have seen it happen for a split second, where a person turns into a giant humanoid lizard, and suddenly turns back again. If these people are truly seeing this, it sounds like a terrifying experience, at the very least.
11. The Government is Hiding Aliens in Area 51
Roswell, New Mexico is home of the Area 51 secret government base. If you search for video footage on YouTube, you will see footage of security patrols stopping citizens venturing near the area, and even an incident of stopping them at gunpoint. Whatever is in there, the government sure doesn’t want you to find out. Many people believe that they are keeping an alien spacecraft, and trying to reverse engineer it for the US military. Thousands of tourists visit Area 51 each year. Of course, others are quick to point out that it’s pretty reasonable for a secure military base to be, well, secure.
10. The Men in Black Are Real
Everyone loves “Men in Black,” but many theorists take it much more seriously. Apparently, people have seen these “Men in Black” shortly after claiming that they witnessed a UFO. Anyone who believes that the government is hiding aliens would also find it easy to believe this conspiracy theory.
9. Holocaust Denial
“Holocaust Revisionists” believe that the Nazis imprisoned people, but they have a hard time believing the gruesome stories of the gas chambers and the millions of Jewish people who died. There would be no logical motivation for all of the Holocaust survivors to lie about these facts, or for Germany to publically acknowledge and apologize, if it hadn’t happened. For whatever reason, people still deny it, and believe it’s some big conspiracy.
8. The Global Elite…They’re Takin’ Our Jobs!
Many of the US Presidents and other people in power are said to have been apart of the “Skull and Bones Society,” or the Freemasons. Apparently, they are just puppeteering the whole world to do whatever they want in order to keep themselves rich.
7. The American Prohibition Poison
In the 1920’s, the US government made alcohol illegal. People who believed that the government put poison into barrels of alcohol were once called conspiracy theorists, but this one holds water. The Federal Poisoning Program was real, and it targeted industrial alcohol, which was commonly stolen by bootleggers for recreational drinking. Some estimates states that 10,000 may have died as a result of this lethal law enforcement.
6. The Vril Society
There is a conspiracy theory that the Nazis were a part of this secret society of higher beings called the “Vril,” who had access to deeper knowledge and understanding of the Universe. For some people, this was justification for why the Aryans were so much “better” than everybody else. To most people, it just sounds like a thin veil to justify racism and horrific brutality.
5. Ancient Aliens Created Humanity
In many ancient stone drawings and etchings, people look a little weird–maybe they have wings, or animal heads. Their eyes may be huge, and their bodies may be disproportionate compared to real people. Rather than attributing this to symbolism or an artistic style, some people believe that theseweird humanoid creatures were actually aliens who are the origin of humanity.
4. The Nazi Bell
Apparently, the Nazis were planning a “wonder weapon” that has been nicknamed “The Nazi Bell.” There is no physical evidence that this weapon ever actually existed, but it has theorists running wild with their imaginations.
3. Monsanto Conspiracy
Monsanto is a company that is responsible for genetically modified food. Many people hate the corporation, and believe that they are responsible for a lot of issues going on in the world, including pollution that has contributed to global warming, and illnesses spreading. The conspiracies on Monsanto run so deep that it’s impossible to list them all.
2. The Philosopher’s Stone is Real
The Philosopher’s Stone is a fictional object that was what alchemists were aspiring to make for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. If an alchemist figured out how to create the stone, they could make gold, and live forever. There are rumors that a few alchemists actually succeeded, and lived forever. They include (reportedly, of course–we’re talking about conspiracy theories here!) Nicholas Flamel and The Comte de Saint-Germain. Chinese alchemists have also claimed to find the “elixir of life.”
1. The Illuminati: Confirmed
The Illuminati is apparently a secret group that controls everything on the planet. Some of the rumored members are celebrities. Some believe they’re a bunch of Satanists trying to do bad things to everyone, which makes them an easy group to blame whenever something bad happens. Others claim they’re dedicated to the survival of the human species, which doesn’t sound so horrible at face value, but the truth is that no one really know much about them… which is perhaps the strangest thing about them.
“I would have thought these would be once-a-millennium events, if even that,” said a researcher. Instead, the storms on Titan happen about once a Saturn-year, creating massive floods in an otherwise-desert terrain.
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, behind the planet’s rings. The much smaller moon Epimetheus is visible in the foreground.
Image via NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/UCLANewsroom.
Scientists with UCLA’s Titan climate modeling research group said on October 12, 2017 that they were surprised by the intensity of the rainstorms on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Their new computer models – based on Cassini spacecraft data – show that the most intense storms dump at least a foot (0.3 meters) of rain a day, which “comes close to what we saw in Houston from Hurricane Harvey this summer,” these scientists said. They said these storms can be expected less than once in a Saturn-year (29-and-a-half Earth-years). But, said Jonathan Mitchell, UCLA associate professor of planetary science and a senior author of the research:
I would have thought these would be once-a-millennium events, if even that. So this is quite a surprise.
On Earth, intense storms can trigger large flows of sediment that spread into low lands and form cone-shaped features called alluvial fans. The work of the UCLA researchers is based on recent detections of alluvial fans on Titan, which, these scientists found in their computer model, may have been formed by regional patterns of extreme rainfall. The was published October 9 in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Geoscience.
A 60-km-long alluvial fan across a desolate landscape in the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China. The left side appears blue from water flowing in the many small streams. If the structures on Titan are alluvial fans, they’re formed not by flowing water, but by liquid methane.
The storms create massive floods in terrain that are otherwise deserts, these scientists said. They pointed out that, in many ways, Titan’s surface is strikingly similar to Earth’s, with flowing rivers that spill into great lakes and seas. They said the moon has storm clouds that bring seasonal, monsoon-like downpours.
But these rivers, lakes, seas and storms aren’t related to water. Instead, on Titan, the precipitation is liquid methane.
A large alluvial fan in the southern floor of Holden crater, showing inverted (positive-relief) distributary channels that were preserved while wind stripped away fine-grained sediment between them. THEMIS visible imaging, 17 m/pixel. Image via PlanetaryGeomorphology.
Possible alluvial fans on Titan. giant wedge-shaped sedimentary structures on Saturn’s moon Titan. Read more about this image.
Bottom line: UCLA climate modelers said they were surprised by the intensity of the rainstorms on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Their new work shows the most intense storms dump at least a foot (0.3 meters) of rain a day and can be expected about once in a Saturn-year (29-and-a-half Earth-years).
‘We’re not ready to meet aliens’: Humans are too stupid and religious to cope with extra-terrestrial life, claims expert
‘We’re not ready to meet aliens’: Humans are too stupid and religious to cope with extra-terrestrial life, claims expert
A professor from Spain says we’re not ready to meet extraterrestrial life
Gabriel De la Torre surveyed 116 students from the US, Italy and Spain
He found that many had a lack of knowledge in a number of areas
They also had religious beliefs that would make finding ET a ‘big shock’
We also focus too much on daily problems than bigger things like Earth
He concludes we need to improve our ‘global consciousness’
Finding extraterrestrial signals has been dreamed about for decades.
But a researcher from the University of Cádiz in Spain says we shouldn’t be looking – because we’re not ready to meet aliens.
Gabriel De la Torre revealed to MailOnline how his survey of students showed the general level of ignorance and influence of religion would leave us shocked if we made first contact.
A study by Professor Gabriel De la Torre from the University of Cádiz in Spain claims that we’re not ready to make first contact. He claims we’re not prepared mentally or ethically to meet beings unlike ourselves and we should try to improve our ‘global consciousness’
Since 1984 the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) Institute has been looking for signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
To date nothing has been found, although the search continues unabated.
Members of the project are now going further by sending out messages from Earth (Active Seti) to try and contact other lifeforms.
But De la Torre, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cádiz and participant in previous projects such as Esa’s Mars 500 (a simulated mission to Mars on Earth), has carried out a study that he claims indicates we are not ready to make contact.
In the study he sent a questionnaire to 116 students in Spain, the US and Italy.
De la Torre tells MailOnline he used students because they ‘will be the future politicians, scientists, the people in charge, so I wanted to know what their knowledge was.’
THE RESULTS AT A GLANCE
Of the 116 students…
72.8% believe that demons and angels exist.
33.7% don’t think humans are the origin of global warming.
82.1% think it is important to have a space agency.
71.4% think the military should have the main role in the event of contact with an alien civilisation.
80% believe if we find aliens more advanced than us they will try to conquer us.
78% believe there is a chance we’ve been visited by aliens in the past.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) Institute was established in 1984. Since then it has used a number of observatories around the world, like the Allen Telescope Array (pictured), to try and find alien signals from another world, but so far nothing has been found
The questions were split into five sections: religious beliefs, the environment, space-related knowledge, their daily activities and their opinions on life issues.
‘In all those areas I defined a different type of question based on other studies that I think related to Seti research,’ De la Torre says.
These included questions such as how likely they thought life was to exist on other planets, what year man first walked on the moon and what the largest planet in the solar system is.
The results were somewhat disconcerting for De la Torre. For example only 82 per cent of the students knew the first moon landing was in 1969.
‘The conclusions were that scientific knowledge, especially the knowledge related to space among college students, is not good,’ he continues.
‘So I think space agencies should increase education efforts.’
Another conclusion by De la Torre was that religious beliefs seem to be very strong in general.
While not necessarily a problem, he says this may influence the opinions of people facing major events in future such as making first contact.
On 16 November 1974 the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico (pictured) was used to send out a signal called the Arecibo message, a ‘calling card’ from Earth to potential alien races. However De la Torre says we shouldn’t perform ‘Active Seti’ like this as we aren’t ready to make contact
But ultimately it is our lack of appreciation for our own planet and our place in the universe that would be our downfall, he says.
‘We’re not ready to talk to extraterrestrials because global consciousness is not developed enough in the population,’ he concludes.
‘People have daily life problems and the government doesn’t pay attention to global issues like the planet and the environment.
‘That makes us a species too focused on daily life problems, we don’t have an awareness of our surroundings.
‘It’s like when a meteor falls in some place on the planet, it’s big news. But that’s a regular real possibility.
‘If we have a more global consciousness about our situation on the planet, how fragile the planet is, maybe that’s a step in the evolution of our consciousness as a species.
‘There could be other intelligent life out there and it could be really different from us physically, mentally, socially and even morally.
‘They could maybe not even be biological, they could be robots.
‘Right now I don’t think as a species we are ready.
‘Of course some people are ready, but as a species I think it would be a big shock.’
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Titan and Enceladus: Saturn's moons are two of the most likely locations for extraterrestrial life
Titan and Enceladus: Saturn's moons are two of the most likely locations for extraterrestrial life
Following Cassini, Nasa needs a new mission to look for life on Saturn's mysterious moons.
By Monica Grady
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NASA's Cassini mission has made its "death plunge" into the swirling clouds of Saturn after 20 years of exploring the planet and its moons. It's been amazingly successful, making headlines with groundbreaking discoveries throughout its journey. But today the headlines are more like obituary notices, looking back at the mission's spectacular achievements.
Cassini discovered new moons around Saturn, found evidence for an ocean below the surface of the moon Enceladus and even managed to land a probe on the satellite Titan (the Huygens probe). It also observed unusual features in the rings of the planet and recorded an enormous, hurricane-like storm whirling around its north pole. Surely, we must now know everything about Saturn and its moons?
Fortunately, scientists are never satisfied, and the answer to one question usually leads to at least three new questions. The discoveries from Cassini and Huygens have resulted in a whole series of issues that require further investigation. Two of the main targets for future exploration are Titan and Enceladus.
Signs of life
Before Huygens parachuted down onto Titan's surfacein January 2005, all we knew about the moon was that it was cold (about 100K or -173.15°C) and had a thick atmosphere (mostly of nitrogen, but with traces of methane), which prevented us from seeing the surface. Huygens revealed networks of valleys and rivers cutting through hills to the shoreline of an inland sea. Subsequent observations by instruments on-board Cassini have given us a greatly expanded understanding of Titan's landscape – with an entire gazetteer of named features, from mountains to plains and oceans to ponds.
We must now try to understand what they are, how they formed and how they change with the seasons. We need to learn about tides and ocean icebergs, to define a climate cycle and to determine the composition of the land masses – are they derived from basalt, the most common rock type in the solar system, or are they frozen ice and mud? Does Titan have a rocky core overlain directly by an icy mantle, or does it have an ocean below the surface? If so, is it made up of water?
This all matters because what we have learnt about Titan from Cassini and Huygens has confirmed that it has an active chemistry, based on methane and ammonia. We know that these substances, when irradiated by the sun, result in interesting mixes of chemicals that are precursors to amino acids and other biologically important molecules. The freezing temperature of Titan's surface precludes anything being alive – but how far below the surface do you have to go before the environment becomes sufficiently balmy for a cryophile to be comfortable? Without a dedicated mission to Titan, we will not find out.
Titan
Cassini's exploration of Titan was always one of the main goals of the mission, with a few larger moons also scheduled for observation. But early in the mission, it became clear that Enceladus should be a prime target too. Anomalies in data observed as the spacecraft flew past Enceladus were subsequently verified as resulting from a large plume of gas and dust venting from the surface close to the south pole.
This was further investigated by Cassini, flying past Enceladus at different altitudes – the closest of which was at 25km. The data it collected helped scientists resolve the plume into a series of vents through cracks in the surface. It became clear that, like Jupiter's icy moon Europa, Enceladus was home to an ocean below the icy crust.
Scientists also managed to identify grains of dust, water-rich ice and gases including methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide – plus traces of other organic molecules – in the plume. This lead to to much speculation about the possibility of life in the ocean.
Like Titan, Enceladus is now recognised as one of the solar system's most likely locations for extraterrestrial life. A recent report of hydrogen in Enceladus' plume has given that recognition even greater prominence. That's because hydrogen is expected to be released as a byproduct of reactions between water and rock. Scientists believe that ocean water on Enceladus collides with rock, becomes heated, reacts chemically and rises up in the ocean via "hydrothermal vents". That happens in the Earth's oceans, too. And here, the chemically charged water around these vents supports a rich ecology of microbes and other life forms.
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A single mission?
Follow-up missions to Saturn, Titan and Enceladus have all been proposed to both the European Space Agency and NASA, but none has yet been accepted and taken forward to the planning stage.
There might be a case for combining a mission to Titan with a mission to Enceladus to investigate the opportunities for life close to Saturn. I am not sure what such a mission would look like. Certainly there should be a spacecraft orbiting Titan and Enceladus, to gather additional information prior to launching vessels to the surface of both moons. Would these vessels be "penetrators" so they could pierce the ice of Enceladus? Or should they be balloons to float down through the atmosphere of Titan? I don't know, but a possible name for the mission could be EnTiRE – Enceladus and Titan Research and Exploration. You heard it here first…
Of course, one should not forget the "Lord of the Rings" itself. There are still many unknown aspects of the giant planet that would be worth going back to investigate, such as the composition and formation of its unusual rings. And what about that huge, hexagonal-shaped hurricane at the north pole? Is there something comparable at the south pole? How do such weather systems form – and, more to the point, given the current catastrophic hurricanes experienced recently on Earth, can we learn anything from Saturn about our own atmospheric disturbances?
Given the timescale for mission planning, alongside the time it takes to get to the Saturnian system, it will realistically be at least another 20 years before Cassini's successor arrives. Until then, we will have to rely on the next generation of Earth-based telescopes to help us explore Saturn and its fascinating satellites.
Ruimtestation stort binnenkort neer: “Brokstukken van 100 kilo zullen op Aarde vallen”
Ruimtestation stort binnenkort neer: “Brokstukken van 100 kilo zullen op Aarde vallen”
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Een Chinees ruimtestation van maar liefst 8,5 ton zwaar zal binnenkort neerstorten op Aarde. Het station is al meer dan een jaar op drift en beweegt steeds sneller richting onze planeet. Dat hebben experts gezegd inThe Guardian.
Ruimtestation Tiangong-1, oftewel Hemels Paleis, werd gelanceerd in 2011. Sindsdien werd het gebruikt voor zowel bemande als onbemande missies. Maar vorig jaar - na maanden van speculatie - raakte bekend dat de Chinese autoriteiten de controle over het ruimtestation verloren hadden.
Het nationale ruimteagentschap meldde al snel dat een neerstorting onvermijdelijk was. Ze kondigden aan dat dat waarschijnlijk tussen oktober 2017 en april 2018 zou gebeuren.
Snelheid neemt toe
Nu hebben ze gezien dat Tiangong-1 zich steeds sneller richting onze planeet begeeft. Jonathan McDowell van Harvard University vermoedt dat het station binnen enkele maanden zal neerstorten.
Verwacht wordt dat een groot deel van het ruimtestation al opgebrand zal zijn in de atmosfeer, maar experts waarschuwen dat er nog steeds brokstukken van 100 kilogram op Aarde kunnen terechtkomen. Waar die delen zullen vallen, weet niemand.
“Je kan die dingen natuurlijk niet sturen”, zegt McDowell. “We zullen waarschijnlijk pas zes à zeven uur op voorhand weten wanneer en waar ze precies zullen terechtkomen.”
China heeft inmiddels beloofd om de oncontroleerbare koers van het ruimtestation nauwlettend in het oog te houden. De kans dat er effectief iemand gewond zal geraken, wordt nu nog vrij klein geschat.
The Remains of a 200,000 Year Old Advanced Civilization Found in Africa
The Remains of a 200,000 Year Old Advanced Civilization Found in Africa
The incredible discovery was made in South Africa, around 150 km west of port Maputo. There, we find the remains of a huge metropolis that measures, according to tests, around 1500 square kilometers. This ancient city is, according to researchers, part of an even larger community with about 10,000 square kilometers and is believed to have been constructed 160,000 to 200,000 years before Christ.
The region is somewhat remote and the “circles” have often been encountered by local farmers who assumed they were made by some indigenous people in the past. But, oddly, no one ever bothered to inquire about who could have made them or how old they were. This changed when researcher and author, Michael Tellinger, in association with Johan Heine, a local fireman and pilot who had looked at these ruins for years, decided to investigate them. Heine had the unique opportunity to see these incredible structures from the air and knew that their significance was not appreciated.
“When Johan first introduced me to the ancient stone ruins of southern Africa, he had no idea of the incredible discoveries we would make in the following years. The photographs, artifacts and evidence we accumulated, point towards a lost civilization that has never before been and precedes all others – not for a few hundred years, or a few thousand years … but many thousands of years.” – Tellinger
According to Tellinger, these discoveries are so incredible that It will need a complete paradigm shift in how we view our human history.
The surrounding geology is interesting due to the numbers gold mines located in the vicinity. Researchers have proposed that a vanished civilization from the distant past, could have lived and proposed in that part of the world while mining gold. They point to the Ancient Anunnaki:
The Anunnkai Timeline – Coming to Earth: (According to Sitchin)
450,000 B.C. After long wars, the atmosphere of Nibiru began to deteriorate and became a hostile place for life, The Anunnaki needed gold to repair their atmosphere. According to researchers, we can use gold nano particles to repair our damaged ozone layer.
445,000 A.C. The Anunnaki aliens landed on Earth and established their base in Eridu, wanting to extract gold from the Persian Gulf. They were led by Enki, son of Anu.
416,000 B.C. Gold production fell, which made Anu come to Earth. Beside him his other son Enlil arrived. Anu decided that mining would take place in Africa and promoted Enlil in charge of the Terran mission.
400,000 A. C. In southern Mesopotamia were seven developed nations. Among the most important were: “Sipar”, “Nippur” and “Shuruppak”. After the metal was refined, the ore was transported from Africa with ‘ships’ and sent into orbit.
You can take look at these incredible structures with Google Earth using the following coordinates:
Carolina: 25 55 ‘53.28? S / 30 16 ‘13.13? E
Badplaas: 25 47 ‘33.45? S / 30 40 ‘38.76? E
Waterval: 25 38 ‘07.82? S / 30 21 ‘18.79? E
Machadodorp: 25 39 ‘22.42? S / 30 17 ‘03.25? E
These incredible ruins mostly consist of stone circles, most have been buried in the sand and are only observable by plane or satellites. Some have been exposed to climate change that has removed the sand, revealing the walls and foundations.
“I see myself as someone quite open-minded but I admit that it took me over a year to figure it out, and I realized that we are actually dealing with the oldest structures ever built by man on Earth. The main reason for this is that we have been taught that nothing of significance has ever come from South Africa. Powerful civilizations all emerged in Sumeria and Egypt and other places. “- Tellinger
According to Telling: It shows that the Sumerians and even the Egyptians inherited all their knowledge from an earlier advanced civilization that lived at the southern tip of Africa more than 200,000 years ago… mining gold.
These were also the people who carved the first Horus bird, the first Sphinx, built the first pyramids and built an exact stone calendar right in the heart of it all. Adam’s Calendar is the flagship among millions of circular stone ruins, ancient roads, agricultural terraces and thousands of ancient mines, left behind by a vanished civilization which they now call the FIRST PEOPLE. These were the ancestors of all humans today with an advanced knowledge of energy fields through planet Earth.
They carved detailed images into the hardest rock, worshipped the sun, and are the first to carve an image of the Egyptian Ankh – key of life and universal knowledge, 200,000 years before the Egyptians came to light. Tellinger presents this groundbreaking new evidence in which is released in his latest book Temples Of The African Gods. It graphically exposes these discoveries and will undoubtedly be the catalyst for rewriting our ancient human history.
If we look at the long list of astronauts to share their knowledge and beliefs about UFOs, as well as intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations that are or have been visiting our planet, the list is quite long and it never seems to stop growing. Apollo 14 astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, told us that there “have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered.” Dr. Brian O’leary told the world that there is “abundant evidence that we are being contacted,” Gordon Cooper, and others like Story Musgrave have all made some interesting remarks about their knowledge or beliefs.
Also joining them is a long and growing list of hundreds, if not thousands of high ranking military personnel, political figures, academics and many more.
On top of this we have hundreds of thousands of pages released by multiple governments that document these interesting cases. Although we may not quite know exactly what is going on, we know something is.
All of this information that’s leaked over the past few years, in turn, has also provoked a response from the “mainstream world,” a world that used to criticize and ridicule the subject is now taking corrective measures to bring more credibility into it, in some cases, despite doing a poor job.
This has been seen with recent citizens hearings on the manner, as well as popular people from within pop culture getting together with some “well known” people from companies like Lockheed Martin, and others from within the intelligence community and starting awareness initiatives, like Tom Delonge.
Take the founder of Bigelow Aerospace for example, who is one of many who has shared his knowledge about the fact that we are not alone, and that are being visited.
For so long, this subject has been swept under the radar by so many people, and all of a sudden we’ve had this burst of information that’s made it clear to most that something is going on here.
The more popular this subject gets, the more it becomes dripped into the mainstream arena, and the more we need to put our critical thinking caps on.
For years, government, and those from within the government as well as intelligence agencies, have had a very heavy interest in this subject. All of the mainstream organizations started to officially investigate this phenomenon, like NICAP, and MUFON, originate by those from within the intelligence and defence community. This is a common trend with regards to mainstream initiatives dealing with the UFO/ extraterrestrial subject.
The point is, our government and mainstream media, for the most part, have been deceiving us on so many different topics, with perhaps 9/11, and other false flag events that have happened in recent history. People still question this narrative, despite the fact that multiple insiders, whistleblowers, and even active presidents, politicians and academicians have been providing the evidence for decades.
It seems that when something that is not heavily present or made known by our sources of ‘reliable’ information, which lie in the hands of a tightly knit, small group of financial elite with vested big powerful interests in multiple areas, is not considered to be of significance.
This comes despite the fact that our mainstream media has direct connections to the intelligence community.
There is news transpiring everyday that should be making headlines, but it doesn’t and instead we are drip fed with lies, which is made even more clear by international media in other countries sharing information that contradicts the western world.
This is why, the solution is not to censor information or deem it as “fake news,” but rather to have open discussions, teach people how to think critically, and examine sources for themselves. Let them decide, and not have some authority figure deciding it for them.
After all, a lot of what we see is used for corruption, and brainwashing, and providing narratives that justify military action.
So, when it comes to the UFO/extraterrestrial topic, why should we really expect anything else? This field, being a veteran researcher within it, has a long history of infiltration by special interests, to change narratives, and more. Hillary Clinton seemed to use the topic a lot this year and speak about it in a serious matter in order to rack up more votes, but who really knows.
This type of thing has been seen within our media, and even academia, to sway or persuade a perception.
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.”
– Former head of CIA Roscoe Hillenkoetter (source)
If you want to learn more about the UFO/extraterrestrial topic, we’ve published many heavily citied articles on the subject. You can read those, as they are all archived, by visiting the exopolitics section of our website, here.
While we’ve had so many astronauts share their experiences, others are quick to dismiss any talk of UFOs, saying that they have not personally come across any evidence to suggest that the phenomenon is real. This is quite confusing, and brings into question the possibility of a ridicule campaign in continuance, while a disinformation is currently underway. Who knows?
It’s important for us to be able to distinguish between a ‘credible reliable source,’ that’s honest, and another that fits the same description but is not reliable, and spreading disinformation. How we do that is a topic of discussion for another article.
Let’s take a look at what the astronaut said.
He said, very seriously,“We are the aliens, we just think they’re somebody else, but we’re the ones who came from somewhere else. Because somebody else had to survive…they got in a little space craft and they came here and they landed and they started civilization here, that’s what I believe. And if you don’t believe me, go get books on the ancient Sumerians and see what they had to say about it, they’ll tell you right up front.”
Again, he is sharing his beliefs, perhaps he has more knowledge on the subject, but who really knows. After all, everything with regards what really happened and is happening on the moon is quite scattered and hard to piece together.
It’s not like this astronaut is saying something along the lies of what Dr. Edgar Mitchell did when he said he “happens to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we are not alone on this plant ” and that we have “been visited many times.” (source) (source) (source)
As far as coming from space, this astronaut is not the only one who has brought for this theory. You can read more about that in the article lined below.
Obviously, this brings a lot of other questions into play. Anything on this topic really does open a can of worms that dive and related to multiple areas and aspects of human life and history.
NASA has stated that it's quite likely that our solar system is home to a massive, distant ninth planet. Its existence could shed light on some burning questions about the cosmos.
PLANET NINE
Earlier this month, NASA issued a press release stating that it’s likely that our solar system has a ninth planet—even if it’s proving difficult to find.
The planet could have a mass ten times that of Earth’s, and be situated twenty times as far from the sun as Neptune. It’s being referred to as “Planet Nine,” and while it’s very difficult to procure clear evidence of its existence, some scientists are absolutely convinced that it’s out there.
The six most distant known objects in the solar system with orbits exclusively beyond Neptune (magenta) have a tilt and alignment that can only be maintained by some outside force. (Image credit: Caltech/R. Hurt, IPAC)
“There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine,” said Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who is part of a team on the search for the planet.
“If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve. All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them.”
THE EVIDENCE
In a 2016 paper, Batygin and co-author Mike Brown detailed six known objects in the Kuiper Belt that behave rather strangely. All of them have elliptical orbits pointing in the same direction, and all of those orbits are tilted the same way. Both of these traits serve as clues to the presence of Planet Nine.
Computer simulations that took the hypothesized planet into account indicated that there should also be several other bodies with more extreme tilts from the solar plane, on the order of 90 degrees. Brown realized that astronomers are already aware of five such objects, meaning nature did fit with the simulations.
Planet Nine would also explain why the plane in which the other planets orbit is tilted about six degrees away from the sun’s equator: over time, Planet Nine’s distant gravity has made the entire solar system plane wobble away from center.
Finally, there are the objects in the Kuiper belt that orbit in the opposite direction of everything else in our solar system.
“No other model can explain the weirdness of these high-inclination orbits,” explained Batygin. “It turns out that Planet Nine provides a natural avenue for their generation. These things have been twisted out of the solar system plane with help from Planet Nine and then scattered inward by Neptune.”
Based on the behavior of these distant objects, the astronomers believe the planet to be a Super-Earth, a massive rocky planet that is extremely common in the universe—but which our solar system, oddly, lacks. The planet could have coalesced out in the cold reaches of our system over millions of years, formed close to the sun and then been flung outward, or even been captured by the Sun from another system.
Batygin and Brown are using the Subaru Telescope at Hawaii’s Mauna Kea Observatory to continue their search for Planet Nine. According to Batygin, this telescope is the best tool available to hunt down something dim and distant in the vast expanse of sky.
However, Planet Nine isn’t the only explanation for the orbital behaviors observed. A recent survey of the outer solar system found over 800 trans-Neptunian objects. A random distribution of this matter could also potentially have the same effect on the tilt on the traits observed in various orbits—but the jury is still out.
Theoretical physicists are suggesting that when the Big Bang occurred it produced two parallel universes, our universe and one in which time is moving backward.
TWO UNIVERSES CREATED BY BIG BANG NOT ONE
In the 1920s it was said by physicist Arthur Eddington that time only moves in one direction and this is from low entropy towards increased and it has been known as the thermodynamic view of time.
ONE ARROW PONTING FORWARD AND ANOTHER BACKWARDS
However, three physicists have said that time is something of a mystery and there should be a different set of time that is based on gravity, not thermodynamics. They said that all known laws of physics look the same regardless of which way time runs, and in our world, everything goes in one direction. They said that if you think of a simple model with bees in the middle of the Big Bang, there would be two arrows of time, one that points in the opposite direction of the swarm. So one arrow would be forward, and the other would be going backward.
Dr. Barbour acknowledged that being able to find the other universe is a very different thing altogether. The three physicists managed to create a simulation of 1,000 particles on a computer that interacted while being under the influence of gravity. They discovered that each of the particle configurations settled in a structure that was low-entropy fluctuation and from this, the particles then expanded outwards, and they went into two symmetrical opposite arrows of time that were very distinct. So thanks to the computer simulation they believe that not one but two universes exist and in one of them, time is going backward.
NOT THE FIRST TIME A PARALLEL UNIVERSE HAS BEEN PREDICTED
This, of course, is not the first time that a parallel universe theory has come to light. In May of this year, a mysterious cold spot in space was said to be evidence that there was a parallel universe. This was a strange dark region in space that was said to be radiation that had been left over when the big bang occurred. While there was a range of different explanations as to why it was there, the main one was that it was a parallel universe. So the three physicists are not the only ones who think that there is a parallel universe out there.
UFO STRUCK BY LIGHTNING STRIKE DURING THUNDERSTORM IN DELAWARE
UFO STRUCK BY LIGHTNING STRIKE DURING THUNDERSTORM IN DELAWARE
During a recent thunderstorm in Delaware, a UFO was hit by a lightning strike.
The object seemed unaffected by the 10 billion joules jolt. If this was a man-made object it would be destroyed in milliseconds.
The UFO was hovering in the proximity of the thunderclouds for a couple of minutes.
There is a possibility that it was deliberately flying towards the thunderstorm in order to get hit by one of the lightning strikes to get a recharge of its power supplies.
HERE IS THE DRAMATIC FOOTAGE:
It's not the first time a UFO was captured on video while it was hit by a lightning strike. Could it be that these extraterrestrial objects are studying our weather systems in order to optimize their energy systems?
Even back in 1750, Benjamin Franklin proposed to capture the energy of a lightning strike using a kite. Can it be an extraterrestrial intelligence has found a way to use our lightning strikes as a source of energy to power their UFO's?
Owls and UFOs. To those with no interest in either, the two might seem like chalk and cheese, but these ‘phenomena’—one assumed to belong exclusively to our world, the other thought to originate elsewhere—often go hand-in-hand, at least according to the testimonies UFO experiencers the world over.
It has long been theorized in the UFO research community that the sighting of an owl shortly prior to, during, or soon after a UFO close encounter is a strong indication of a repressed abduction experience, the image of the owl acting as a screen memory for the traumatized abductee. The logic here is that the large, penetrating eyes of an owl closely resemble those of the archetypal alien Grey. Owls also swoop from the skies—the domain of the UFO.
In his fascinating book, The Messengers, author Mike Clelland considers the psychological function of owl imagery in abduction reports, but, ultimately, he ascribes it a more profound and mystical meaning, confidently speculating that the owl in these circumstances may be “part of a shamanic initiation,” a wake-up call from the universe itself for those who suspect but refuse to acknowledge their lifetime of hidden experiences with intelligences beyond the realm of everyday perception.
Owl imagery was used very explicitly in the context of abduction in the 2009 movie The Fourth Kind. Before that, it was used prominently in the 1989 big screen adaptation of Whitley Strieber’s bestselling Communion. For the purposes of this article, I’m interested in how owl imagery can be linked to UFO phenomena by filmmakers very subtly, even subconsciously. Examples that spring to mind are Twin Peaks(“The owls are not what they seem”), or even Labyrinth, in which Bowie’s Goblin King, Jareth, adopts the form of an owl to spirit away an infant to an other-dimensional realm.
A couple of years back, soon after a chat with “owl guy” Mike Clelland (and having owls on the brain as a result), I switched on the TV. The 1986 movie Short Circuit was playing. A family-friendly sci-fi flick, the movie follows the adventures of Johnny 5, an escaped experimental military robot who gains sentience—and apparently even a soul—after being struck by lightning.
Synchronistically, the scene that happened to be playing was a pivotal one: Johnny 5’s first meeting with the character of Stephanie Speck (Ally Sheedy). The scene is shot to resemble a distinctly Spielbergian “close encounter” style event, with Stephanie under the impression that Johnny 5 is not a robot, but an extraterrestrial. As Stephanie steps outside her house one night to investigate a disturbance, she sees a mysterious glow emanating from her van. “Hey, get outta there!” she yells, nervously. It is at this point that we cut to a close-up of an owl perched atop Stephanie’s personalized mailbox. The bird turns its head to her, almost expectantly.
As Stephanie approaches her van, its side panel flips open to reveal an alien-looking Johnny 5 bathed in misty light. We then cut once more to the owl, which turns its head to Johnny 5, and, in that moment, one can’t help but draw a visual parallel between the robot and the bird—both having large, round, yellow and black eyes harshly accented by a “frown” (metal eyebrows in Johnny’s case, and ‘ear’ tufts in the owl’s).
Short Circuit (1986)
Stephanie exclaims: “Oh, my God! I knew they would pick me, I just knew it!” perhaps indicating that she expects—even wants—to be abducted. “Welcome to my planet,” she says, excitedly.
It goes without saying that owls have always been a permanent fixture in the iconographic landscape of the horror genre. But Short Circuit is sci-fi, not horror, and, while Johnny 5 isn’t actually an alien, in this crucial scene, the filmmakers have gone out of their way to present him as alien-esque and as a potential abductor. Also significant is the positioning of the owl directly on top of Stephanie’s mailbox, which clearly bears her name, as if the bird has come for her specifically (just as Mike Clelland feels the owls in his own life are communicating something to him on an intensely personal level). We might expect an owl to be perched on a tree branch, but here the owl prefers a mailbox—a ‘message’ box, a communications receptacle. In Western culture, owls are often associated with knowledge and wisdom, and so it is fitting that, in the very same scene, the first thing Johnny 5 demands of Stephanie is “input.” She’s delighted: “That’s information,” she replies, “I’m full of it!” As an aside here, it’s also worth remembering that Harry Potter’s beloved owl, Hedwig, was also a messenger, serving Harry faithfully for years by delivering his mail to him.
The prominent inclusion of the owl in Short Circuit was most likely little more than an effort to enhance the spooky atmosphere of Stephanie’s introduction to Johnny. Nonetheless, in the implied context of the scene (a close encounter with an alien entity), and in light of Mike Clelland’s work, the presence of the owl assumes a deeper meaning, whether or not it was consciously intended.
The mystical connection between owls and otherworldly entities also presents itself in an entirely different film: the 1982 inspired-by-real-events domestic chiller, The Entity, starring Barbara Hershey.
This disturbing film follows the plight of Carla (Hershey), a young, essentially single mother of three. One day, without warning, Carla is viciously beaten and raped in her bedroom by a powerful but invisible entity. In the days and weeks that follow, Carla continues to be sexually assaulted by the entity and, fearing for her sanity, seeks help, first from a skeptical psychotherapist, and later from a team of parapsychologists. All the while, the entity is relentless in its aggressive sexual pursuit of this traumatized woman.
In many respects, The Entity can comfortably be classed as a horror movie, but it also flirts with science fiction. It constantly defies genre expectations; perhaps, in part, because it is based on a true story—the rigidity of genre rarely applying to life as we live it.
The film’s sci-fi element is particularly identifiable in an onscreen debate surrounding just what the entity actually is, and where it comes from. In the third act, the team of university parapsychologists devises a plan to capture and kill the entity for scientific study. Their weapon of choice: liquid helium.
One of the parapsychologists explains:
“What we’re seeking is to determine if this entity has mass. If in fact this is the case, then we should be able to freeze it, verify its objective existence, and prove that it isn’t just a psychic projection, but rather an independent force from some other level of reality that has never been isolated.”
Spoken about in these terms, the entity seems to have less in common with the traditionally supernatural (ghosts, for example) and more with the interdimensional trickster intelligences theorized by the likes of Jacques Vallee and John Keel.
The interdimensional hypothesis posits that UFO entities might exist beyond space-time and can flit in and out of our reality at will, assuming a multitude of forms—from the faeries, goblins, and incubi of ages past, to the UFOs and aliens of modern times. This theory is explicitly brought to mind in The Entityduring a scene in which Carla’s psychiatrist, Dr Sneiderman (Ron Silver), attempts to dispel her “irrational” belief in the literal existence of her invisible tormentor, showing her old drawings of goblins, demons, and faerie folk: “They were supposed to abuse people sexually,” he tells her, “they were supposed to impregnate people. Do you think these things really existed then!?”
It is notable that the true nature of the entity is never discovered, and there is no indication that it is anything so mundane as the lingering ghost of a deceased man; indeed, no indication that it was ever human at all. In the movie, the entity’s few physical manifestations take the form of dazzling lights, bright, fast-moving orbs, and electrical discharges—phenomena typically associated with UFOs. In one scene, when asked by parapsychologists to reveal itself, the entity appears literally as an unidentified flying object, a vaguely spherical green light that calls to mind the green fireballs frequently sighted over US nuclear installations throughout the late 1940s and which lead directly to the formation of the USAF’s Project Twinkle. The stunned parapsychologists look on in awe in shots that wouldn’t seem out of place in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The woven owl in Carla’s kitchen. Here she appears to be smiling at the owl. This is never explained in the movie.
So where do owls come into this? Well, they’re onscreen throughout the movie, from beginning to end, as decorative wall ornaments. In the hallway, directly by Carla’s front door, we can see a board displaying five owls made from coloured felt. In Carla’s kitchen we can see a woven owl on the wall near the sink. At one point, in Carla’s bedroom, her dressing chair even appears owl-like. The camera never dwells on any of these images, but they are noticeable to the perceptive viewer. Why this owl motif pervades the film and whether or not there was conscious purpose behind its inclusion is debatable.
Five owls stand watch over Carla’s front door. Is their purpose to keep something out, or to keep her in?
The Native American Hopi people traditionally associate owls with sorcery and evil. In Mesoamerican cultures, the owl is considered a symbol of death and destruction. In the Mayan religious text, the Popol Vuh, owls are described as messengers of Xibalba (the Mayan “Place of Fright”). In these folkloric and religious contexts, owl imagery perfectly complements the nature and intent of the malevolent entity in the movie.
The owl is noticeably skewed on the wall as Carla feels the strain of her abuse.
I could waffle on about all of this for quite some time without threatening to reach anything resembling a conclusion. So, I’ll leave it here. Next time you watch a movie—any movie—keep your eyes peeled for sneaky owls… you never know where they might decide to put in an appearance.
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