Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
10-12-2017
What’ll happen when 3200 Phaethon sweeps past Earth?
What’ll happen when 3200 Phaethon sweeps past Earth?
This mysterious rock-comet is the parent body of this week’s Geminid meteor shower. It’ll brush closely past Earth on December 16, just a few nights after the Geminids’ peak. Will 2017 be a fantastic year for the Geminids?
3200 Phaethon will sweep close to Earth – just 0.069 astronomical units (6.4 million miles, 10.3 million km, 26 lunar-distances) on December 16, 2017 at 23 UTC; translate to your time zone.
Image via Osamu Ajiki (AstroArts)/ Ron Baalke (JPL) / Ade Ashford (AN)/ AstronomyNow. It will not be visible to the eye.
On the peak mornings of the 2017 Geminid meteor shower – December 13 and 14 – the moon will be in a waning crescent phase, visible only shortly before dawn, and near two planets before dawn. Even more importantly, a curious body known as 3200 Phaethon – sometimes called a rock-comet, thought to be the source of the Geminid meteor shower – will be gliding through space relatively near to Earth. It’ll come closest to Earth in its 523.5-day orbit only a few days after the Geminids’ peak, on December 16.
What will happen? No one knows for sure how many meteors you might see, or if 2017’s shower will be extra special because 3200 Phaethon is nearby. But it’s a fact that, when a parent comet is nearby, a meteor shower can be spectacular.
The object 3200 Phaethon is located between the red tick marks at the center of this photo. Image acquired November 20, 2017 by Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project. Gian will be hosting an online view of 3200 Phaethon.
3200 Phaethon is a very interesting and mysterious object. It was one of the first known bodies in space that blurred the distinction between asteroids and comets. All the other meteors in annual showers are known to be icy debris left behind by comets, after all, but the Geminids are known to come from this strange asteroid-comet hybrid, which some call a rock-comet.
Asteroids are rockier, or more metallic, than comets. Their orbits tend to be more circular, while comets tend to have more elongated orbits. 3200 Phaethon, with its asteroid name, has an orbit that more closely resembles that of a comet than an asteroid. It also has mysterious ejections of dust, and dust tails, and astronomers have said it’s possible that the sun’s heat causes fractures on the surface of 3200 Phaethon, similar to mudcracks in a dry lake bed.
This closeup of an image of 3200 Phaethon by NASA’s STEREO A spacecraft shows a tail extending faintly toward lower left.
3200 Phaethon was the first asteroid to be discovered via spacecraft on October 11, 1983. Astronomers Simon F. Green and John K. Davies noticed it while searching Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) data for moving objects. Charles T. Kowal confirmed it optically and said it was asteroid-like in appearance. The object received the provisional designation 1983 TB. Two years later, in 1985, using the convention for naming asteroids, astronomers assigned it its number and name: 3200 Phaethon.
An interesting feature of the orbit of 3200 Phaethon is that it comes very close to the sun, closer than any other named asteroid (though there are numerous unnamed asteroids that do sweep closer to the sun). That’s why it was given the name Phaethon, for the mythological son of the Greek sun god Helios.
Today, it’s classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, which doesn’t mean it’s a threat to Earth. It just means two things. First, 3200 Phaethon is big – about 3 miles (5 km) wide – big enough to cause significant regional damage if it were to strike Earth. Second, it’s known to make periodic close approaches to Earth. A “close approach” in 2017 means 26 times farther than the moon. And, by the way, the orbit of 3200 Phaethon is exceedingly well studied, and astronomers know of no upcoming strike by this object in this foreseeable future.
In fact, in December 2017 – according to NASA NEO Earth Close Approaches – there are no fewer than 30 objects that’ll come closer than 3200 Phaethon. The closest of these will be 2017 WV12, a 20- to 40-meter-wide object that’s miss us by about a million miles (1.6 million km) on December 9.
The composition of 3200 Phaethon resembles that of asteroid 2 Pallas. Both are dark, B-type asteroids comprised of materials that have been modified by water. The first in this series of Hubble images is marked with the asteroid’s spin axis (top) and south pole.
On the peak nights of the 2017 Geminid meteor shower – nights of December 12 and 13, mornings of December 13 and 14 – the meteors will be radiating from near the star Castor in Gemini. On those nights, 3200 Phaethon won’t be far from Gemini on the sky’s dome. It’ll sweeping across a neighboring constellation, Perseus the Hero. Will you be able to see it with the eye? Not even kinda. Its magnitude is predicted to be around +10.7, making it far too faint to see with the eye alone.
Telescope users will be following 3200 Phaethon, however.
The Virtual Telescope Project will be offering online viewing this year of both the Geminids and 3200 Phaethon. Check out the times listed in the poster above.
Click here to go to Virtual Telescope Project’s site.
Bottom line: 3200 Phaethon will brush relatively close to Earth on December 16, just a few nights after the peak of the 2017 Geminid meteor shower. Will 2017 be a fantastic year for the Geminids?
It was on Thursday, November 20, 1952 that the controversial and infamous UFO Contactee, George Adamski, claimed a face to face encounter with an alleged extraterrestrial named Orthon. The location was near to Parker, Arizona. Also along for the ride were George Hunt Williamson (who was even more controversial than Adamski, and for a variety of highly dubious reasons, including smuggling), Adamski’s secretary Lucy McGinnis and Alice Wells. The latter was the “…owner of the property where Adamski gave lectures on Universal Law and the café where he flipped burgers to pay the rent,” as good mate Greg Bishop describes it in his article “Tracks in the Desert.” You can find the article in Greg’s book, Wake Up Down There! Around 8:00 a.m., the group rendezvoused with Al and Betty Bailey. So the story went, it was very much on a hunch that the group headed out to Parker.
Everyone was hungry, so breakfast was the first order of the day. It was followed by a scan of the skies for UFOs. How incredibly convenient that one such craft – of a “cigar”-like shape – allegedly turned up, and which Betty raced to film. She failed to do so, however, because she was too excited – or so we’re told. Adamski informed the group – his ego overflowing – that the aliens had come to see him. The result? McGinnis and Al Bailey drove Adamski down a small road, in the direction of the craft. Adamski soon got out of the car, ordering the pair to return to the rest “as quickly as possible…and watch for anything that might take place.”
Well, what supposedly happened next is that a number of military jets quickly appeared on the scene, something which allegedly caused the crew of the UFO to hit the gas and get the hell out of Parker. Not to worry, though: another UFO – a “beautiful small craft” – soon took its place. Not only that, it landed. Out of the craft walked a very human-like ET who waved genially in Adamski’s direction. Adamski later stated: “I fully realized I was in the presence of a man from space – a human being from another world!” His name, Adamski said, was Orthon. And he came from Venus. Yes, really. Venus. Whatever. There was the usual Contactee-driven discussion about the perils of atomic weapons and Armageddon, after which Orthon walked back to his craft and get on the road, so to speak.
Even more, ahem, “convenient,” Williamson had brought with him some Plaster-of-Paris (as we all do when we got for a drive in the desert, right?) and was able to make casts of Orthon’s footprints. Williamson would say (in his 1954 book, Other tongues, Other Flesh): “I could see where the space being had scraped away the topsoil in order to get more moist sand that would take the impressions from the carvings on the bottom of his shoes. The carvings on the shoes must have been finely done for the impressions in the sand were clear cut.”
The saga of Orthon became one of the central points in Adamski’s tales, books, lectures, and conferences. Far less well known, however, is the fact that Adamski also shared his thoughts and revelations concerning Orthon with none other than the FBI and the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations.
On January 12, 1953, an agent of the FBI and one of the AFOSI turned up at Adamski’s California home. They were actually there to chase down a rumor suggesting that Adamski had in his possession a strange contraption which could destroy aircraft. Our aircraft. It turns out that wires had gotten crossed somewhere. The man who was making claims of possessing this aircraft-destroying technology was actually not Adamski at all. It was one Karl Hunrath, a UFO investigator who – along with friend and fellow-saucer-seeker, Wilbur Wilkinson – vanished under mysterious circumstances in November 1953. And never to be seen again.
But, such was Adamski’s still-ever-present ego, after putting the two agents right on the Hunrath affair he launched into his experiences with Orthon. The FBI files on Adamski and Orthon are in the public domain (thanks to the Freedom of Information Act) and state the following: “At a point ten and two-tenths miles from Desert Center on the road to Parker and Needles, Arizona, [Adamski] made contact with a space craft and had talked to a space man. Adamski stated that he, [deleted] and his wife Mary had been out in the desert and that he and the persons with him had seen the craft come down to the earth. Adamski stated that a small stairway in the bottom of the craft, which appeared to be a round disc, opened and a space man came down the steps. Adamski stated he believed there were other space men in the ship because the ship appeared translucent and [he] could see the shadows of the space men.”
Adamski also revealed that the alien was “over five feet in height, having long hair like a woman’s and garbed in a suit similar to the space suits or web suits worn by the US Air Force men.” Adamski also informed the FBI and AFOSI agents that he conversed with Orthon by means of sign language, but felt that his mind was being “read.” As evidence of this, Adamski said that as he was about to take a photograph of the aliens’ craft, the humanoid “motioned” him to stop. Adamski told the agents that he took his photograph regardless, but that this was not to the liking of Orthon, who grabbed the material evidence out of Adamski’s hands and soared off into the sky.
Adamski’s adventures with the aliens were not over, however. Once again, according to the FBI: “Adamski further advised that he had obtained plaster casts of the footprints of the space man and stated that the casts indicated the footprints had designs on them similar to the signs of the Zodiac. On January 12, 1953, Adamski advised that on December 13, 1952, the space ship returned to the Palomar Gardens and came low enough to drop the [film negative] which the space man had taken from him, Adamski, and had then gone off over the hill. Adamski stated that when he had the negatives developed at a photo shop in Escondido, California, that the negative that the space man had taken from him contained writing which he believed to be the writing of the space men. Adamski furnished the writer with copies of the space writing and photographs of the space ship.”
From another source, however, the FBI was told that: “The photographs were taken by setting the camera lens at infinity, which would sharpen the background of mountains and trees and blurs the saucer, which was probably strung on a thin wire. [Source] advised that if the camera were set at infinity the wire would not show.”
And, that seems like a very good place to stop – and to move on from George and his photos. None of which impressed the FBI or the Air Force, at all.
WETENSCHAP Onderzoekers hebben geluidsopnamen gemaakt van een mysterieus gebrom dat uit het diepste van de aarde komt. Door speciale apparatuur te plaatsen op de bodem van de zee konden de klanken worden vastgelegd. Het is al sinds 1959 bekend dat er een gek geluid uit het binnenste van de planeet komt. Maar nu pas is het gelukt om de bromtoon op te nemen.
De wetenschappers probeerden het eerder op land, maar zelfs na honderden pogingen leverde dat weinig op. Op de oceaanbodem was er wel succes. De gegevens zijn al in 2013 verzameld maar het wegfilteren van allerlei ruis nam een tijd in beslag. Nu is de studie gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Geophysical Research Letters.
Voor het menselijk oor is het mysterieuze geluid uit de aarde niet te horen. Het betreft maximaal 4,5 millihertz, 10.000 keer lager dan wat mensen kunnen oppikken.
De onderzoekers uit verschillende Europese landen gebruikten voor hun studie elf maanden lang tientallen seismometers. Daarmee gingen ze duizenden kilometers van de Indische Oceaan af. Omdat het gebrom overal in het onderzochte gebied aanwezig is, bestaat het vermoeden dat het over de hele wereld op de zeebodem is waar te nemen.
Hoewel de wetenschappers dolblij zijn dat het is gelukt om het geluid op te nemen, weet nog niemand waar het precies vandaan komt. Een theorie is dat de golven in de oceaan trillingen veroorzaken maar anderen vermoeden juist dat het gebrom het resultaat is van stormen en turbulentie in de atmosfeer.
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Egyptische archeologen hebben in de stad Luxor twee oude grafkamers uitgegraven. De zowat 3.500 jaar oude kamers bevatten onder meer verschillende mummies, beelden, aardewerk, kleurrijke inscripties en grafzegels, zei minister voor Oudheid Khaled al-Enani. Hij kondigde verdere ontdekkingen aan voor de toekomst.
De tombes stammen waarschijnlijk uit de achttiende dynastie van het oude Egypte, meldden de Egyptische autoriteiten volgens de BBC. De tombes werden zo’n twintig jaar geleden al gevonden, maar nu voor het eerst uitgegraven. “Het is echt een uitzonderlijke dag”, zei minister van Oudheden, Khaled al-Anani.
De tombes bevinden zich in de buurt van Luxor, vlakbij de tempel van Hatsjepsoet en de Vallei der Koningen. Van wie ze zijn is niet bekend. Mogelijk gaat het om hooggeplaatste ambtenaren.
Het graf is het laatste van verschillende archeologische vondsten in Egypte dit jaar. In april vonden archeologen acht mummies in een andere grafkamer, eveneens in Luxor. In maart ontdekten ze een bijzonder groot beeld in een achterbuurt in Caïro, dat waarschijnlijk koning Psammetichus voorstelt.
The world of sleep and dreams has long fascinated mankind, and has held a prominent place in folklore, legends, and myths around the world for as long as we have been able to ponder such things. It is interesting that even now in the modern age sleep and dreams remain virtually as mysterious as they always have been, with no real concrete, agreed upon reasons for why we do either one of them. When we dream we might as well be venturing out to the boundaries of the known universe for all we know about them. One curious and recurring facet of this landscape of mystery and lore is the consistently reported presence of entities or demons, usually hostile, which appear to us in our dreams or upon awakening to watch, frighten, and torment us. Do such creatures exist, invading our subconscious as we sleep and lurking on the fringes of this shadow world? Or is there some other more rational explanation to all of this? Here is a peek into the strange world of dream demons.
Tales and myths of dream-dwelling entities and apparitions can be found in all cultures from every corner of the world, with the descriptions of such mysterious entities varying as much as the people who dream them. Japan has its Baku, also known as “eaters of dreams.” China has its dream-walking fox spirits. St. Lucia has its creepy dream spirits called the kokoma, which come in the form of babies that beat their victims with furious little fists. In Germany these entities were called the trud or alp, and they were said to come to people or even animals in their dreams to press down on them and in some cases even crush the victims to death, with the German word for “nightmare,” alpdrücke, coming from their name. Medieval Europe had its “old hags,” which were spooky apparitions that similarly invaded dreams to immobilize or hold their prey down, and there were also the incubi and succubi, which were dream demons that sexually assaulted their victims and fed off of sexual energy. In Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse lore these dream demons were called the mårt, or also the mara, mahr, or mare, which is indeed the origin of the English word “nightmare,” which comes from the word nightmårt.
Although such dream entities can be found in many different physical forms in far-flung countries across the world, the basic experience of encountering them is remarkably similar between cultures. The victim typically will awaken or partially awaken unable to move, as if being held down by some unseen force, and there is often a sense of something pressing down on the chest, a sense of breathlessness, or the terrifying experience of being actively attacked or strangled, and in some cases there is even sexual molestation or assault involved. In almost every case there is described as being some entity or presence in the room that exudes a nearly incapacitating aura of malevolence and dread, sometimes more than one, either peering from the shadows or the very thing sitting atop the victim or attacking. These entities are often accompanied by strange sounds or smells that the victim cannot explain and which feel incredibly real, often more potent than anything in the waking world. Professor Chris French, psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, says of the phenomenon:
It is a very common experience but typically people haven’t heard of it. I have people calling me about it and often they have the same story; they’ve been suffering and never told anyone because others would think they were crazy. In the whistles and bells version, people get a strong sense of a presence and they may also get hallucinations. They may see dark shadows and lights and monstrous figures, or footsteps and mechanical sounds or voices. They may feel as if they are being dragged out of bed. It is absolutely terrifying. There is also intense fear. It doesn’t have a dream-like quality; it feels incredibly real.
These are classic hallmarks of such attacks, and are present and incredibly consistent throughout cultures around the world. Indeed, many of you reading this likely have experienced such inexplicable, scary incidents yourselves, no matter where you are from, and many accounts of encountering such alleged dream creatures are harrowing. One report reads:
I couldn’t move a muscle. Something was in the room and walked across the bed. I tried to scream but only a slight noise came from my throat. Whoever or whatever was in my room then disappeared. Unfortunately, I have been getting this horrible paralysis for about two months now. The last time it happened I managed to open my eyes but still could not move my body.
Another was given by a young woman named Helena Adelina, 24, who reported a menacing, very vivid and real figure that would stalk her in her sleep and immobilize her nearly every night, and she became convinced that this was not just any ordinary nightmare. She would report:
He was a slim, tall figure but with no features, like a silhouette. My sense was that he was terrifying, an ancient being, very dark and pure evil. Sometimes I would wake and not see him but hear his voice in my ear talking about destruction, war and death. Sometimes he would grab me around the ankles and drag me under the covers. I would be fighting it and be struggling to breathe. Sometimes a woman would enter the scene, laughing and cackling. She would keep slapping me around the face and laughing and finding it very amusing. And there would be a serious ringing in my ears. When I came out of it my ears would be ringing very badly. At the time it was happening it felt like it was going on forever; how long it went on for I don’t know.
These are pretty typical examples of these sorts of reports, and while it may seem that this is all in the witnesses’ heads, there are amazingly reports of these supposed entities having an actual physical effect on or presence in the real world around the dreamer. In these terrifying cases objects can move, the sleeper can be witnessed by others to be thrown about or struck, and those who have had these horrific dreams sometimes report having bruises, scratches, or bite marks on their bodies upon waking that could not have possibly been self-inflicted, and in the case of Incubus attacks exhibiting vaginal tears that cannot be explained. One prisoner gave a report of being attacked by a dream demon, which was actually seen by his cell mate, saying:
The last time it happened, I was tossing and turning and trying to get to sleep when a strange dark power pulled me off the bed and pushed me against the wall. My cellmate screamed when he saw what was happening.
The cellmate would report that before his eyes the victim had been physically lifted off of the bed and thrown against the wall in such a way that it could not have possibly been done by himself. In other cases, the visual hallucinations that victims report are seen by others around them, making them perhaps something more, and objects can be seen to move on their own. One elderly witness said of such an encounter in an article on the topic by Craig Hamilton-Parker called Demonic Possession, Attacks and Sleep Paralysis thus:
I am terrified at night as I believe that I am being menaced by a ghost or spirit. If I awake during the night, I see what I would call “smoke” in my room. One night my husband and I saw the harrowing sight of my bedclothes being slowly pulled off the bed. But the last straw was when I felt “it” move to the side of the bed and poke me hard in the arm. I prayed out loud but it wouldn’t go away.
In yet another report from the website Psychic Experiences the witness describes an evil being in his dreams that also left behind physical changes in the real world and holds hints of having some connection to the supernatural. The dream reportedly featured a shapeshifting entity calling itself the two names “Gamigin” and “Lillin.” In this intense dream this apparition brings the witness to a house full of strangers, and the victim would say of what happened next thus:
Its an apartment filled with strangers who were waiting on me but would not tell mw why. Then fear strikes when it occurs to me this guy who brought me here is a demon, he then tells me the women in the room want my soul and hes brought me to them, that it was his job to give me to them and that by doing so he would be allowed back into hell. In my dream I began to pray which made the demon and the people in this place angry. The women came out from the room where they had been waiting on me and they were witches. I showed them the grey streak in the front of my hair, which I have in real life, and told them I was a witch too so while they were confused I tried to escape. At this point I was finally able to wake myself up. I ended up falling back asleep and right back into the dream, this time the demon came to me different but the same goal of getting my soul so he could return to hell. I finally woke and would not let myself go back to sleep. I looked up the names of the demon he gave which were actually real names to real Christian based demons. I have previously never looked into. Any type of demonology nor did I watch anything about it before I went to sleep in fact I have never heard any of the names before, which scared me a little more. I have always been sensitive to spirits and energy but never anything like this nor anything that ever scared me this much. I will also add that about 2 years ago my younger sister started dabbling in witchcraft and brought in a Ouija board and messed with it as well. I was not home during this time and she has since moved out but I fear she may have opened something she had no business to. Side note, the past few weeks I have had experiences with something cold on the back of my neck, the house being incredibly colder inside than the temps outside, lights turning off and on for no reason and weird unexplained noises.
One particularly odd report of such an apparition affecting the physical world around the sufferer can be seen in an account by a woman who seems to have been visited repeatedly by a classic Incubus. One report written of in an article on ThoughtCo., called Spirit Lovers: Incubus and Succubus Attacks, relates the tale of a frightened woman who was visited and tormented on a regular basis by a sex-crazed dream demon that also stalked her daughter and was able to cause objects to move and could be seen by other people. The witness explains:
My age is 47 and I am female. For about six years, my daughter and I felt walking on the bed and other surfaces that we sleep on. My husband and son thought we were nuts. It would happen while we were completely awake or even just getting into bed. The walking would be light and sometimes the bed would wave. A couple of times, during that approximate six years, I would wake up to find something sexual happening. At that time I would shake it away. My husband had been sick for the last five years (stroke and other complications), and this past December passed away. A few months before he died, I found him sitting on the side of his bed looking ashen. He had told me that something jumped on his bed. It had happened before and he always blamed it on the cat, even though the cat was not in his room. This time he believed and was shaken. On August 1, the entities were back in my bed, and this time I relented at a weak moment. I can’t understand how I could have because the thought of it frightens me. The first few times, my heart was beating like a drum. Once it started, it never ended. I developed an insatiable appetite for sex and didn’t stop thinking about it 24 hours in the day. Neither did “they.” I rationalized that it was friendly spirits of the universe, but I knew in the back of my mind differently. For three days, going on four, I had constant sex. They did not enter for long and then the next one would come. I could not get enough. Literally, I could not function normally. The turning point came today. I was at work and something that was cold enveloped me starting at my feet and ending behind me. My hands, which were trying to type at the time, were frozen in place, not paralyzed. The thing seemed to scare the others away like it had some power beyond theirs. It had sex with me while I was sitting in the chair, but it was different. More mellow and soft. It scared me tremendously because it was outward and not inward, like the others. This is all going to wear me down if I don’t find some serious help. This is all true.
Such reports go on and on, always very potent and vivid, mostly while the victim is partially or even fully awake and aware of what is going on. What are we to make of such amazingly strange experiences? Well, the official scientific explanation is that this is all due to a natural phenomenon known as “sleep paralysis,” a sleep disorder which various studies have estimated around 20% to 40 % of the population, possibly more, will experience at some point in their lives. The whole thing works like this. When we sleep, we enter a phase of sleep called the REM stage, or the “Rapid Eye Movement” stage, which is accompanied by the eyes moving very quickly back and forth under the eyelids. It is this stage in which dreams come to us, and to keep our bodies from acting out on what we are seeing or doing in this dream world they release a neurotransmitter called glycine and a nerve receptor in the voluntary muscles called GABA, which effectively paralyze us.
In most cases, these chemicals will have dissipated by the time we wake up, but in some instances they can still be active even when the brain wakes up either fully or partially during REM sleep, keeping your motor functions inhibited even as you are awake. In essence, when this happens you become fully aware of your surroundings, yet you are still partially immobilized by your own body. According to this theory, the sense of a malign presence or spiritual attacker or apparition is the brain’s desperate attempt to explain to itself what is going on, eventually conjuring up these subliminal images of evil entities, demons, and ghosts. The disorder has been used to explain everything from dream demons, to poltergeists, to alien abduction and even demon possession, and supernatural explanations of this supposed phenomenon go back centuries.
While this is the scientific rational explanation, there is little knowledge of how this actually works or what it entails, and it remains poorly understood. Of course, despite this attempt to write this all off as misfiring brain chemistry and derailed sleep cycles, it is hard to reconcile this with some of the reports that describe actual physical symptoms of attack, effects on the real world, or episodes witnessed by other people, complete with inexplicable physical phenomena such as moving objects. There are also those who insist that what they have encountered is not the result of mere hallucinations or fierce nightmares, but rather something more, something with a malignant will, intent, and intelligence of its own. An article called The Dark Side of Lucid Dreams, by a Ryan Hurd, explains that there could be more to such entities than just hallucinations, saying thus:
This class of nightmares seems not to be merely reflections of fear, but to have an autonomous energy all its own. There is intelligence in the eyes of the dream figures, and they don’t like to be told that they are a symbol of some waking-life fear, or that they are not “real.” They have their own story to tell, but we often don’t know how to listen….yet.
Throughout history people have been haunted by such nocturnal, dream invading specters. Is this all the result of tricks of the human brain during sleep or could there be something more to some of these accounts? If so, what is going on here? If there are indeed at least some cases that go beyond the sleep paralysis explanation, then why could these entities be and what do they want? Whatever the answers may be, this is a universal phenomenon that has gone on since time unremembered, virtually unchanged across cultures and geographic boundaries, and only reasserts that there is much about sleep and dreams that we have yet to fully understand.
Ancient Egyptians tell us they superseded an Earlier Kingdom
Ancient Egyptians tell us they superseded an Earlier Kingdom
How over the ages have we managed to class History as Mythology you have to wonder, is it simply because the Powers that were at Play on this Earth thousands of years ago did not fit our understanding in relatively modern times?
By calculating the decrypted information obtained from the Papyrus of Turin, we obtain the initial period, referred to as the kingdom of Ptah, creator and first ruler of ancient Egypt, dating back 39,000 years!
The Egyptian historical texts are not the only one to record extremely long life and kingdom reigns and just as the Sumerians state that they did not develop their knowledge, but that it was given to them.
Just as the Incans told the Conquistadors "We did not build this. It was here long before us."
Why is it that humans don’t know their true origins and why all the things they have discovered in Egypt and everywhere else have been kept away from us?
Because it would change every aspect of life here!
Speculation is mounting about the announcement by NASA – which is set for 1pm on Thursday.
"The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google," NASA officials wrote in a press release.
“Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data."
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“The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google”
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Kepler spots alien worlds by noticing the tiny brightness dips they cause when they cross the face of their host star from the spacecraft's perspective.
It has found more than 2,500 confirmed alien worlds — about 70% of all known exoplanets.
The vast majority of these discoveries have come via observations that Kepler made during its original mission, which ran from 2009 to 2013.
It is now on a second mission, called K2, during which it's hunting for exoplanets on a more limited basis and making a number of other observations.
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LIFE: Alien planets outside our solar system could be teaming with life
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SCIENCE: NASA boffins will announce the amazing discovery
Last year, NASA announced the incredible find of nine planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.
Three of the planets were believed to be in the star’s habitable zone and capable of harbouring life.
A spokesman for NASA said: "The latest Kepler catalog of planet candidates was created using the most sophisticated analyses yet, yielding the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date.
"This survey will enable new lines of research in exoplanet study, which looks at planets outside our solar system.”
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Over the years, multiple mysterious objects have been spotted hovering in the sky, fuelling the belief that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) do exist. In the US, Project Blue Book was a series of systematic studies conducted by the country's Air Force to investigate these sightings.
Between 1947 and 1969, a total of 12,618 sightings were reported, of which 701 cases remained "unexplained". Although the documents are now declassified, there is still a huge amount of interest among people to know more about the unexplained events.
History Channel is coming up with a scripted drama series titled Blue Book. The 10-episode series will chronicle the top- secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena that occurred in the 1950s and the 60s.
With an intriguing subject, the series will be executive produced by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis. Created and written on spec by David O'Leary, the show has roped in big names in the television industry as its lead cast, Deadline reports.
After immortalising the vicious Little Finger aka Lord Petyr Baelish in the Game of Thrones, Aidan Gillen is set to enter the world of unexplained mysteries by playing Dr. Allen Hynek – a brilliant astrophysicist, family man, and UFO sceptic who is recruited as the Chief Scientific Advisor for the "Project Blue Book."
He will be joined by Michael Malarkey, famed for his role Enzo in hit series The Vampire Diaries. He will play the character of Captain Michael Quinn, a decorated WWII hero. In the scripted drama, Quinn is selected to run Project Blue Book, a new Air Force division investigating UFO phenomena and will have intellectual clashes with his Blue Book partner Hynek.
History Channel is yet to announce the filming details and the premiere date of the show. The series has already generated huge interest among UFO enthusiasts for its picks. While the list of mysterious UFO sightings is pretty long, the series may pick few popular incidents for the plot.
It remains to be seen, how History Channel will narrate the UFO sightings in its scripted show. In its closure report, the Air Force claimed that "no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security. There has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles."
VILLAGE NEAR {OSCOW IS 'TERRORIZED' BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
VILLAGE NEAR MOSCOW IS 'TERRORIZED' BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
A "parked" UFO in a Russian village on the outskirts of Moscow seems to be a surreal fact. What are you doing in this rural world? In fact, it is a monument erected by the locals to immortalize their encounter with extraterrestrials.
For the inhabitants of the Russian village of Protasovo, which lies 50 km from Moscow, the little green men are not characters in science fiction, but something absolutely real that visited the place in 1990. Impressed by this meeting, the locals installed a metal UFO at the entrance of the village.
There are few who have not seen the extraterrestrial aircraft in their village for 10 years. Extraordinary visitors are one of the locals' favorite topics of conversation.
Among the residents of this small village, there are even those who claim to have had personal encounters with extraterrestrials. "It happened 15 years ago.A night I woke up and went to the window without any reason.And I saw a strange blue creature.á She looked me in the eyes and sent telepathic messages:` Come here ... come here, '"said one resident.
“The object was captured with a camera installed on the International Space Station.”
The video adds that some believe it is a UFO of alien origin, while others claim it could be a military craft.
Some people were convinced of the video’s authenticity.
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One user, Frank Mccracken, said: “Don't think it's a plane. No plane I've ever seen or heard of. Who knows”.
Another person, onigk612, added: “Obviously it is a UFO because it's an unidentified flying object but I think it could be missile test.”
However, others said that there was a more natural explanation for the mysterious sighting, claiming that it is probably just a reflection from the Sun.
Arekusu was particularly scathing, writing: “This is just the Sun’s reflection. People nowadays don't have a brain.”
Jonathon Kearney added: “Is this video about the Sun's reflection on the small bodies of water?”
Get your political jokes ready because this story is sure to generate tons of suggestions on how it can be beneficial to everyone in Washington, London, Beijing, Berlin, Pyongyang and anyplace else where people seem to be acting like monkeys. A team of neuroscientists has injected electronic instructions into the premotor cortex of monkeys that resulted in the animals getting instructions to complete actions without any other instructions, cues or stimuli. Can the instruction be to just shut up?
“What we are showing here is that you don’t have to be in a sensory-receiving area in order for the subject to have an experience that they can identify.”
In their study, published in the journal Neuron, neuroscientists Dr. Kevin A. Mazurek and Dr. Marc H. Schieber, describe how they used two rhesus monkeys to demonstrate how instructions can be sent to the premotor cortex using injections of electrical stimulus. The premotor cortex is part of the motor cortex in the brain’s frontal lobe that controls the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements. The premotor cortex feeds directly to the spinal cord but its functions are not fully understood … which is why these two neurosurgeons met with two rhesus monkeys.
I thought I was in the line for the banana eating experiment
The experiment was relatively simple. The monkeys were put in front of a panel of knobs (a great nickname for Congress) and trained to perform one of four specific tasks with a knob when one was lit by LEDs. At the same time, a mild microstimulus was applied via implanted electrodes to one of four areas in their premotor cortex. This stimulus was just a brief buzz and did not control any of the movements, since the premotor cortex is not part of the brain’s perception process.
Once the monkeys learned the tasks, the lights were turned off but the microstimulations continued and the monkeys were able to move the correct knows in the proper way when microbuzzed. To prove that the areas of the premotor cortex were not predisposed to the movements, the researchers switched the electronic impulse injectors around and retrained the subjects. When the lights were turned off, the monkeys continued to move the proper knows. (Does this sound like training them to vote?)
Of course, the researchers say this experiment has nothing to do with mind control in humans. Dr. Mazurek has other plans for it, as he explains in an interview with The New York Times:
“This could be very important for people who have lost function in areas of their brain due to stroke, injury, or other disease. We can potentially bypass the damaged part of the brain where connections have been lost and deliver information to an intact part of the brain.”
The example Mazurek gives correlates the experiment to learning that a red light while driving means to put a foot on the brake pedal. If parts of the brain’s chain of command to complete this task are damaged, a stimulus could replace them.
Why did I pick this up? I hate when that happens.
The next step is to conduct the experiments on humans and eliminate the visual LED stimulus. If that’s successful, it means the “information” or instructions can be “injected” without the person knowing it. Now THAT sounds like mind control.
Fortunately, before the researchers try this on humans, they will continue to perform their tests on politicians. (You knew it was coming.)
It has been thirty years since the original, so-called “MJ12 documents” surfaced. In 1987, Timothy Good’s bestselling book Above Top Secret was published. One of the most-talked-about aspects of Good’s book was the mention of a supposed top secret research and development group established in 1947 to deal with highly classified UFO data. Referred to as either Majestic 12 or MJ12, it was said to have been created in the wake of the notorious events at Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947. It was said to have been comprised of military personnel, scientists, and the elite of the U.S. Intelligence community. Not only that: Good published copies of what were said to be leaked MJ12 documents that told of (a) the establishment of the group; (b) the apparent crash of a UFO, complete with alien bodies, at Roswell; and (c) a briefing given in 1952 on the matter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Shortly after Good’s publication of the documents, additional copies surfaced in the United States. They came from the then research team of well-known ufologist Stanton Friedman, William Moore (the co-author, with Charles Berlitz, of the 1980 book The Roswell Incident) and Jaime Shandera (a television producer). Moore had been working quietly with a number of intelligence insiders who had contacted him shortly after publication of The Roswell Incident. From time to time various official-looking papers were passed onto Moore, the implication being that someone in the U.S. Government, military or Intelligence Community wished to make available information on UFOs that would otherwise have remained forever outside of the public domain.
It was as a result of Moore’s insider dealings that a roll of film negatives displaying the MJ12 documents was delivered in the mail to the home of Shandera in December 1984. Moore, Friedman and Shandera worked carefully and quietly for two and a half years in an attempt to determine the authenticity of the documents. With Timothy Good’s release, however, it was decided that the best course of action was to follow suit. As a result, a controversy was created that still continues to this day. At least, it continues to a small degree. Most people in Ufology have moved on from the MJ12 documents. But, they still occasionally cause a brief raising of eyebrows, such as when the latest batch surfaced earlier this year. Who remembers them now? I try not to.
Jacques Vallee, UFO author, investigator, and former principal investigator on Department of Defense computer networking projects-stated in his book Revelations that the FBI turned away from the MJ12 documents in “disgust” and professed no interest in the matter. Papers and comments made to me by the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, however, reflect a somewhat different scenario. It was in 1988 that the FBI’s investigation began – after the late UFO skeptic/debunker Philip Klass contacted the FBI and told them all about the supposedly leaked, highly-classified documents and who had put them in the public domain.
We also know – thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act – that what was possibly a separate autumn 1988 investigation was conducted by the FBI’s Foreign Counter-Intelligence division (operating out of Washington and New York). Some input into the investigation also came from the FBI office in Dallas, Texas – the involvement of the latter confirmed to me by the Dallas office in the early 1990s.
On September 15, 1988, an agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations contacted Dallas FBI and supplied the Bureau with a copy of the original MJ12 papers. This set of the papers was obtained from a source whose identity, according to documentation released to me by the Bureau, AFOSI has deemed must remain withheld. As a result, on October 25, 1988, the Dallas office transmitted a two-page Secret Airtel to headquarters that read as follows:
“Enclosed for the Bureau is an envelope which contains a possible classified document. Dallas notes that within the last six weeks, there has been local publicity regarding ‘OPERATION MAJESTIC-12’ with at least two appearances on a local radio talk show, discussing the MAJESTIC-12 OPERATION, the individuals involved, and the Government’s attempt to keep it all secret. It is unknown if this is all part of a publicity campaign. [Censored] from OSI, advises that ‘OPERATION BLUE BOOK,’ mentioned in the document on page 4 did exist. Dallas realizes that the purported document is over 35 years old, but does not know if it has been properly declassified. The Bureau is requested to discern if the document is still classified. Dallas will hold any investigation in abeyance until further direction from FBIHQ.”
Partly as a result of the actions of the Dallas FBI Office, and partly as a result of the investigation undertaken by the FBI’s Foreign Counter-Intelligence people, on November 30, 1988 an arranged meeting took place in Washington D.C. between agents of the Bureau and those of AFOSI. If the AFOSI had information on MJ12, said the Bureau, they would very much like to know. A Secret communication back to the Dallas office from Washington on December 2, 1988 read: “This communication is classified Secret in its entirety. Reference Dallas Airtel dated October 25 1988. Reference Airtel requested that FBIHQ determine if the document enclosed by referenced Airtel was classified or not. The Office of Special Investigations, US Air Force, advised on November 30, 1988, that the document was fabricated. Copies of that document have been distributed to various parts of the United States. The document is completely bogus. Dallas is to close captioned investigation.”
At first glance, that would seem to lay matters to rest, once and for all. Unfortunately, it does not; at least, not quite. The FBI was assured by AFOSI that the MJ12 papers were fabricated. The Chief of the Information Release Division at the Investigative Operations Center with the USAF, admitted to me on April 30, 1993 that AFOSI was not maintaining (nor ever had maintained) any records pertaining to either MJ12, or any investigation thereof. This begs an important question. How was AFOSI able to determine that the papers were faked if no investigation on their part was undertaken? I was also advised that while AFOSI did “discuss” the MJ12 documents with the FBI, they made absolutely no written reference to that meeting in any shape or form whatsoever. This is indeed most odd: government and military agencies are methodical when it comes to documenting possible breaches of security.
The Deputy for Security and Investigative Programs with the U.S. Air Force advised me similarly on October 12, 1993: “The Air Force considers the MJ12 (both the group described and the purported documents) to be bogus.” He, too, conceded, however, that there were “no documents responsive” to my request for Air Force files on how just such a determination was reached. Moreover, there is the fact that AFOSI informed the FBI that, “copies of that document have been distributed to various parts of the United States.” To make such a statement AFOSI simply must have conducted some form of investigation or have been in receipt of data from yet another agency. So, there are a few issues that still require answers. Today, however, the FBI’s investigations into MJ12 are in “closed status.” While I agree with the Air Force that the documents are bogus, I would still very much like to see how the determination was made. Was it just an opinion based on the unlikely nature and content of the documents? Very possibly, yes – and which is both understandable and reasonable.
On a final note, I have heard rumors that the FBI got involved again in the 1990s, when Timothy Cooper surfaced with literally hundreds of pages of questionable MJ12-related papers. But, rumors do not amount to evidence or facts. As for the latest MJ12 papers, I have heard nothing about agencies taking an interest in them. Time, methinks, for the rotted corpse to be laid to rest, once and for all.
Coen vertelt in 1980 in 5 VWO van De Nassau Scholengemeenschap in Breda al graag wetenschappelijke verhalen. Liggend op het strand vertelt hij zijn klasgenoten alles over de sterrenlucht. Jaren later promoveert Coen in de lucht- en ruimtevaarttechniek en nu is hij het hoofd van de Studium Generale aan de TU Delft.
Maar daarnaast bestudeert hij in eigen tijd intensief het bestaan van UFO's. Samen met rapper Lange Frans vertelt hij er zelfs over in theaters. Aan Ajouad El Miloudi legt hij uit wat voor bewijs hij inmiddels heeft verzameld. En hoe graag hij eens een reisje zou willen maken met zo'n UFO. John is uroloog, maar heeft een fascinatie voor skeletten en fossielen. In een speciaal daarvoor ingericht kamertje in zijn huis toont hij ons zijn bijzondere collectie. Daarbij springt vooral de complete paardenschedel in het oog.
Briene is een man van de wereld geworden, met huizen in Laos, Barcelona en Amsterdam. En met een voorliefde voor kunst. Hij zet zich met ziel en zaligheid in voor het Nationaal Ballet door donateurs te enthousiasmeren. Briene neemt ons mee naar een training van het Nationaal Ballet waar hij vertelt waarom deze dansers hem zo raken.
Coen Vermeeren heeft ook een boek geschreven over UFO’s. Dit boek heet UFO’s Bestaan Gewoon – Een Wetenschappelijk Visie.
Coen Vermeeren: ‘911 is gewoon een complot’
Coen Vermeeren in KRO's Brandpunt over UFO's uitz.13 april '14
Coen Vermeeren, docent Lucht- en Ruimtevaart Technologie aan de TU Delft, vertelt over UFO’s en ET’s
Coen Vermeeren, docent Lucht- en Ruimtevaart Technologie aan de TU Delft, vertelt over UFO’s en ET’s
Een interessant interview/gesprek van Jesse en zijn moeder met Coen Vermeeren. Hij geeft dit interview vanuit zijn privé persoon maar is daarnaast ook hoofddocent Lucht- en Ruimtevaart Technologie aan de Technische Universiteit van Delft. Wat hem een interessante, serieuze en professionele achtergrond geeft voor dit onderwerp.
Hij vertelt in dit interview openhartig over zijn visie op, en eigen ervaringen met UFO’s, buitenaardse wezens en aanverwante onderwerpen.
Coen Vermeeren heeft ook een boek geschreven over UFO’s. Dit boek heet UFO’s Bestaan Gewoon – Een Wetenschappelijk Visie.
Wanneer gaat het echte ufo-dossier open? Valt er iets zinnigs te zeggen over zo’n beladen onderwerp als ufo’s?
Verstandige mensen geloven er niet in. Maar waarom eigenlijk niet?
Als je je verdiept in de uitgebreide literatuur, de vele getuigenverslagen en officiële rapporten, dan valt één ding op: we weten inmiddels ongelooflijk veel van ufo’s!
Waarom spreken we er dan niet over? Zijn we bang de feiten onder ogen te zien?
Gedegen rapportages van experts, getrainde waarnemers, verantwoordelijke bestuurders en onverschrokken wetenschappers.
Pleidooi voor een wetenschappelijke houding t.o.v. onverklaarbare verschijnselen.
Er zijn op YouTube ook nog andere interessante interviews met Coen Vermeeren te vinden bijvoorbeeld dit interview van hem over UFO’s bij KRO’s Brandpunt. Ook heeft hij een interessante website voor de mensen die meer willen weten: coenvermeeren.nl.
Buitenaardsen zien ons als beschaving die hulp nodig heeft. Ruimtewetenschapper openhartig in De Reünie
Buitenaardsen zien ons als beschaving die hulp nodig heeft. Ruimtewetenschapper openhartig in De Reünie
UFO’s en wetenschap moet samengaan, maar men wil dat niet. Dat zegt lucht- en ruimtevaartdeskundige Coen Vermeeren. “Men wil het niet in de mainstream science.”
Volgens dr.ir Vermeeren weten we van heel veel getuigen dat het wel in het geheim gebeurt. “Er wordt absoluut onderzoek naar gedaan. Al heel lang.”
En met heel veel resultaten die ze niet met ons willen delen, voegt hij toe.
10 tot 12 bollen
De getuigenissen van astronauten die hebben gezegd dat er objecten met hen meevlogen naar de maan ziet Vermeeren als het beste bewijs voor het bestaan van UFO’s.
In het tv-programma De Reünie vertelt hij dat hij al meerdere keren zelf een UFO heeft gezien. Een paar jaar geleden zag hij in zijn achtertuin zo’n 10 tot 12 bollen ontstaan in de lucht.
“Die gingen heel hard door de lucht en wisselden van plaats,” licht hij toe. “Dat kan niet. En ineens waren ze foetsie, weg.”
Daar zijn ze
“Daar zijn ze, zijn de legendarische woorden die ik toen sprak,” vervolgt hij.
Presentator Ajouad El Miloudi vraagt Vermeeren of hij zou instappen op het moment dat er een UFO in zijn achtertuin zou landen. “Onmiddellijk,” klinkt het.
“Ik zou oneindig veel vragen hebben over wie ze zijn en wat ze hier komen doen,” zegt hij.
Zaadje geplant
Vermeeren denkt dat buitenaardsen ons zien als een beschaving die hulp nodig heeft. “Omdat wij onze planeet compleet aan het verwoesten zijn.”
Hij wist El Miloudi uiteindelijk niet te overtuigen, maar presentatrice Anita Witzier liet weten dat bij haar het zaadje geplant is.
If you were alive in the 1970s and had any level of interest in the pervasive culture of UFOs, then you totally owned a dog-eared paperback copy of Erich von Daniken's ancient astronaut expose, Chariots of the Gods?
First published in 1968, the pioneering book ignited a worldwide craze for flying saucers, crop circles, extraterrestrial abductions, and ufology that slingshotted into the Swingin' '70s. No self-respecting stargazer or sci-fi conventioneer was without this bible of the bizarre, which postulated that our planet had been a stopover point thousands of years ago for interstellar visitors who shared futuristic technology with ancient civilizations.
Von Daniken theorized that many of Earth's most amazing structures and landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, the Moai of Easter Island, the Nazca lines in Peru, and cart-ruts in Malta and Australia had been influenced or utilized by these benevolent beings from beyond.
He also hypothesized that artwork throughout the world could be interpreted as depicting helmeted astronauts, fantastic air and space vehicles, intricate spaceports, and complex machines far outside any known human technologies of the time.
Controversial yet captivating, with significant pseudoscience at its core, Chariots of the Gods was eventually translated into 28 languages with total worldwide sales of 16 million copies.
The Swiss author went on to write another 32 sequels and companion novels on the spacey subject (selling a staggering 63 million copies) and his works have spawned multiple documentaries, Hollywood films, video games, and TV shows -- most notably the Ancient Aliens series on the History Channel. Chariots of the Gods and its legacy remain some of the most copied and referred-to texts within the UFO community, and next year the novel celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special deluxe edition from Berkley Publsihing.
Here's the official press release:
Berkley is thrilled to be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the classic CHARIOTS OF THE GODS by Erich von Däniken in July 2018 by re-releasing the groundbreaking book that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens in a beautiful anniversary edition with a new foreword and afterword by the author.Here, von Däniken examines ancient ruins, lost cities, spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Däniken's theory that we are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and he reveals the archaeological discoveries that prove it.
Check out SYFY WIRE's exclusive interview below with von Daniken, who makes his home in Switzerland, discussing the current state of ufology, how modern archaeologists and historians have debunked some of his groundbreaking theories, and what he hopes new generations of readers will take from his monumental book.
How do you see the status of UFO culture today as opposed to its peak intensity in the '70s and '80s?
Erich von Daniken: The spirit of time has changed. Although UFOs are for many persons something which does not exist and has to be ridiculed, many famous persons around the world accept the facts of UFO and even say this in public.
With science fiction so popular in entertainment offerings, how doesChariots of the Gods fit into the scene today?
Prometheus from Ridley Scott is a Chariots of the Gods theme. So are many other science fiction series, like for example Stargate from Roland Emmerich.
Did you ever meet Leonard Nimoy and what are your memories of Chariots of the Gods being featured on In the Search Of Ancient Astronauts show?
Unfortunately I never had the chance to meet Leonard Nimoy. The TV-Series Ancient Aliens from the History Channel is a full Erich von Däniken-documentary. It mostly has to do with my books. I am – so to say – the godfather of the series. Giorgio Tsoukalos who presents the series brilliantly has grown up with my knowledge and was my student. We are very good friends.
What are some of your favorite alien invasion or extraterrestrial abduction movies or TV shows?
The best movie in this connection is definitely 2001 and 2010: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. And in the Stargate TV series there are many elements from my books.
What do you hope a new generation of readers might absorb and understand from Chariots of the Gods?
They will realize, that humanity was never alone and that we are the offsprings of an extraterrestrial space family. And, of course, in the future it will be absolutely clear that the reason for so many religions comes from the deep past and has to do with extra-terrestrials.
Have you changed any of your theories or positions on ancient astronauts and extraterrestrial visitors since Chariots was published?
The general theory is in the meantime absolutely confirmed and provable. On the other hand, there were some mistakes in my earlier books. This is the normal way in scientific works.
How do you hope the book will be remembered today, and another 50 years from now for its 100th anniversary?
As a modest man, I don’t know what the future will bring. Of course, I hope, to be not completely forgotten.
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De mensheid is nooit alleen geweest op aarde. UFO-expert Erich von Däniken blikt na 50 jaar terug
De mensheid is nooit alleen geweest op aarde. UFO-expert Erich von Däniken blikt na 50 jaar terug
In 1968 publiceerde schrijver Erich von Däniken zijn beroemde boek Waren de goden kosmonauten?waarvan inmiddels 16 miljoen exemplaren zijn verkocht.
In het boek theoretiseert hij dat veel bouwwerken op aarde – waaronder de Egyptische piramides, Stonehenge, de moai op Paaseiland, de Nazcalijnen in Peru en vreemde karrensporen op Malta en in Australië – zijn achtergelaten door buitenaardse wezens.
Op oude rotstekeningen van over de hele wereld zag hij astronauten met helmen, ruimtevoertuigen en complexe machines waar mensen in die tijd nog niet over beschikten.
Openlijk
Volgend jaar komt er een speciale jubileumeditie van het boek uit, om het 50-jarige bestaan ervan te vieren. De editie bevat onder meer een nieuw voor- en nawoord.
“De tijden zijn veranderd,” zegt Von Däniken in een interview met nieuwssite SYFY WIRE.
“Hoewel velen niet in UFO’s geloven, accepteren veel beroemdheden de feiten over UFO’s en praten ze hier zelfs openlijk over,” vervolgt hij.
Nooit alleen
Hij hoopt dat mensen die het boek hebben gelezen zullen beseffen dat de mensheid nooit alleen is geweest en dat we de nazaten zijn van een buitenaardse ruimtefamilie.
“In de toekomst zal duidelijk worden dat de reden waarom we zoveel religies hebben te maken heeft met het verre verleden en buitenaardsen,” zegt hij.
Vijftig jaar na dato staat Von Däniken nog altijd achter de uitspraken die hij in zijn boek heeft gedaan.
Absoluut bevestigd
“De algemene theorie over buitenaardse bezoekers is ondertussen absoluut bevestigd en bewijsbaar,” aldus de schrijver.
Hij erkent dat in eerdere boeken enkele fouten stonden. “Maar dit is de manier waarop de wetenschap werkt,” besluit hij.
The mysterious flying object burst out into the night sky out of nowhere, before exploding behind the cover of clouds.
Many locals managed to capture the bizarre fireball on video and shared it online to uncover the truth about the incident.
One family in Riverview managed to film the object on a security camera mounted outside their house. Elsewhere, the fireball was caught on a dashcam near Little Road and 54 outside Trinity.
Under mounting pressure from the public, NASA were forced to reveal that the object was in fact a speeding meteor and not an alien UFO.
FOURTRAXER YOUTUBE
NASA have confirmed that the fireball was indeed not from Earth
The American space agency told ABC Ation News that the flaming asteroid fragment burst into the atmosphere and broke up over the Gulf of Mexico.
It was like a bright spark as if someone was welding in the sky
Matt Hinkle, Witness
NASA tracked the 10inch-wide meteor some 35 miles west of Naples where it crash landed into the Gulf.
The non-profit American Meteor Society (AMS) also reviewed over 55 witness reports from locals who were caught off-guard by the meteor.
Ryan Cooper, who saw the meteor over West Palmetto, said: “It looked like the second video but 10 times closer! It was an amazing site for sure.
FOURTRAXER YOUTUBE
The 'UFO sighting' was in fact a 10-inch wide meteorite crash landing into the Gulf of Mexico
“I could even see pieces breaking off of it! So many colors! Sadly no video or pictures.”
In another report, Matt Hinkle added: “I saw it in Port Charlotte. Was at Murdoc Walmart. It was like a bright spark as if someone was welding in the sky. Very cool sight to witness.”
The news comes just days ahead of the annual Geminid meteor shower, where up to 120 meteors an hour are expected to break out in the night sky.
Jane Houston-Jones form NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said: “The Gemini’s peak on the morning of December 14 and are active from December 4 to December 17.
“The peak lasts for a full 24 hours, meaning more world-wide meteor watchers will get to see the spectacle.”
A fireball streaked over Florida on the evening of Dec. 5, with people thinking that it might be a UFO. NASA has tried to dispel such rumors by explaining what the people saw.
( Bill Ingalls | Getty Images )
A fireball streaked over Florida on the evening of Dec. 5, lighting up the night sky before disappearing behind the clouds.
While some people immediately thought that the fireball was a UFO, NASA has tried to dispel such rumors by explaining exactly what the fireball was.
Florida Fireball: UFO, Or Something Else?
Florida residents saw a fireball travel through the sky before it exploded behind clouds, with the phenomenon caught on video through mobile phones, security cameras, and dash cameras.
NASA received over 60 reports of the phenomenon, and has tried to quell the theories that it was a UFO that signals the start of an alien invasion. It was a bolide, the space agency claims, which is a ball of rock that explodes into flames as it enters the Earth's atmosphere.
According to scientists, the blazing object was most likely a tiny asteroid that is about the size of a bowling ball. They believe that the fireball was a piece of a bigger asteroid that broke into pieces over the Gulf of Mexico.
Analyzing the fireball's trajectory, scientists believe that any pieces that survived the friction with Earth's atmosphere landed in the ocean, about 45 miles off the Florida coast.
The American Meteor Society, a nonprofit group that observes and collects data on meteoric events, received more than 55 reports about the Florida fireball. In a map that it compiled, the group found that the fireball was seen by people as far north in Jacksonville and as far west in West Palm Beach.
Fireballs In The Sky: Not As Rare As You Think
People don't get to see fireballs lighting up the night sky often, but it actually happens more frequently than most would think. About 500,000 fireballs pass through the Earth per year, but many go unnoticed because some are too small and some appear during the day.
Just last month, a fireball was caught on video blazing a trail over Phoenix. As with the Florida fireball, many residents were able to capture the phenomenon on video, and similarly resulted in theories of a UFO when it was also nothing more than a bolide.
There was even another Florida fireball just about a year ago. It was not a UFO, but rather a bolide.
What is uncommon to see in the night sky, however, was a glowing ball that appeared over Siberia. It was not a bolide, and also certainly not a UFO, but rather a phenomenon resulting from a ballistic missile launch.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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