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19-12-2017 om 00:12 geschreven door peter  

The people in Wales desperate to find the truth about UFOs and aliens

A small determined group are compiling their own Welsh X-Files

By Katie Bellis -Video Journalist

A group of people in Swansea are hoping to unravel the mystery of UFO sightings in Wales.

The question over whether aliens exist has caused debate for centuries.

Conspiracy theorists have claimed for years that aliens have been visiting Earth, but many doubt their claims.

Swansea UFO Network, however, strongly believe in UFOs and alien abduction, and have evidence which they feel backs up their beliefs.

The group were founded in 2015, and since then Emlyn Williams, Steve Drewson and Mike Maunder have been researching various cases reported to them from members of the public.

They have so far had 752 reported sightings in south Wales.

According to their research, hotspots where you are most likely to see a UFO are Townhill, Gower and Pentyrch, although the group have had reports from all over south Wales.

They hold monthly conferences as well as regular night time Sky-Watches around South Wales.

“I first believed in UFOs around the age of 15 when I picked up a book about the subject,” said Emlyn, who is from Wanarlwydd.

“I enjoy collecting cases, I started doing it before the group was put together. I’ve always wanted to set up a group. We don’t get paid for this, we do a lot of travelling and work long hours.

“People don’t get ridiculed for going to church yet there is more evidence that ETs exist than God. Where’s the evidence that God exists?

“People will send us a family photo and they will notice an object in the background that wasn’t there at the time, we get it blown up and there’s a picture of a craft behind,” the 53 year-old added.

Steve, aged 64, from Gower, said he was open minded about everything.

“I have always believed in UFOs, people who dismiss it altogether are ignorant of the subject.

“Religious people don’t get ridiculed for their beliefs, I don’t see why we should.

“A lot of people say if they do exist then why haven’t we got any good photographs but the reason for that is that most of the time they move too fast.”

He said people came to their monthly meetings to share their stories as they knew they weren’t going to be laughed at.

“You do have to see it first to believe it so I understand why some may not believe. We just want to get the truth out of this but I doubt we will in our lifetime.”

Mike, aged 54, from Gower, said the group researched thoroughly into every case.

“If people see a sighting they will come to us and we will research into it. We check flight radars, satellites, drones and military operations. That allows us to write off certain cases.

“We will then meet with witnesses to get primary source information. We have met so many people and you can tell if someone is telling the truth because they will tell you time and time again their story and they won’t change it.

“A lot of sightings do seem to have objects appearing out of nowhere and disappearing quickly. It doesn’t matter what time of the day it is, but most sighting’s happen in the night as that’s when lights seem to attract the eye more.”

The researchers said people would often lie about sightings in order to get attention.

“There’s a lot of conspiracy theories out there which makes it hard and hides the truth, the internet is the prime example of this,” said Steve.

“A lot of people are posting videos and pictures but no one takes it serious, with CGI you can fake so much stuff and make it look real.

“A lot of people who are telling the truth don’t want to give their names so you can tell they are not doing it for attention.

“People lie because they just want a bit of fame.”

The Welsh X-Files

The trio have also had several cases of alien abduction reported to them.

Emlyn, who also works full-time as a caricaturist, has had a few cases where people have been taken on board a craft.

The abducted family

“We know quite a lot of people who have been abducted. In the 90s a family from Newport were abducted,” said Emlyn.

“They were driving across the old Severn bridge and they saw a light and a circle shape object in the sky.

“The father can remember being in a craft and he was naked with beings who had control over him.

“The next thing he knew he was driving the car and it was light, the daughters were dazed and stunned and they were ill afterwards. The family have never wanted to be named.

“We also find that a lot of sightings are by schools. There’s definitely a link with children and schools.”

The Night of the Triangles

“This occurred on the evening of January 19, 1983, when dozens of witnesses in the Swansea and Port Talbot area (over 60 recorded so far), saw huge black triangular-shaped craft, some the size of jumbo jets, some the size of a family car, hovering silently just over roof-tops, two of which moved slowly and silently over Swansea Bay, and one possibly causing a power failure in Bishopston,” said Steve.

“We call it The Night of the Triangles and we are tracking down many of the witnesses, and filming interviews which have been put on SUFON’s YouTube channel. Two witnesses were CID inspectors making a house call in the Trallwn area of Swansea who saw a huge craft ‘about the size of a football pitch’ moving over the valley and heading towards the coast.”

“This was one of the biggest UFO sightings ever and it’s been underestimated in my opinion. All of these people can’t be lying, none of them knew each other, they had nothing to gain from this,” the 64-year-old added.

The refinery incident

“Another sighting that evening, from a family at home in Skewen , was of a gigantic triangle - which moved from Kilvey Hill to Llandarcy in an instant, and which then hovered over the BP oil refinery. The size was truly huge, covering much of the refinery!”

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18-12-2017 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

Navy pilot recalls encounter with UFO: 'I think it was not from this world'

18-12-2017 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

By Joby Warrick

 

The Pentagon is seen in an aerial view. (Charles Dharapak/AP)

Just before leaving his Defense Department job two months ago, intelligence officer Luis Elizondo quietly arranged to secure the release of three of the most unusual videos in the Pentagon’s secret vaults: raw footage from encounters between fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles” — military jargon for UFOs.

The videos, all taken from cockpit cameras, show pilots struggling to lock their radars on oval-shaped vessels that, on screen, look vaguely like giant flying Tic Tacs. The strange aircraft — no claims are made about their possible origins or makeup — appear to hover briefly before sprinting away at speeds that elicit gasps and shouts from the pilots.

Elizondo, in an internal Pentagon memo requesting that the videos be cleared for public viewing, argued that the images could help educate pilots and improve aviation safety. But in interviews, he said his ultimate intention was to shed light on a little-known program Elizondo himself ran for seven years: a low-key Defense Department operation to collect and analyze reported UFO sightings.

Footage shows encounter between U.S. navy jet and unknown aircraft

The Department of Defense released footage showing encounters between U.S. fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles.” (Department of Defense/To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science)

The existence of the program, known as the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was confirmed officially for the first time Saturday by a Pentagon spokesman. The acknowledgment came in response to media inquiries, which were generated in part by a start-up company Elizondo has joined since retirement. The private company specializes in promoting UFO research for scientific and entertainment purposes.

Current and former Pentagon officials confirm that the Pentagon program has been in existence since 2007 and was formed for the purpose of collecting and analyzing a wide range of “anomalous aerospace threats” ranging from advanced aircraft fielded by traditional U.S. adversaries to commercial drones to possible alien encounters. It is a rare instance of ongoing government investigations into a UFO phenomenon that was the subject of multiple official inquiries in the 1950s and 1960s.

• [Do we really want to know if we’re not alone in the universe?]

Spending for the program totaled at least $22 million, according to former Pentagon officials and documents seen by The Washington Post, but the funding officially ended in 2012. “It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding and it was in the best interest of the DOD to make a change,” Pentagon spokesman Tom Crosson explained in a statement.

But officials familiar with the initiative say the collection effort continued as recently as last month. The program operated jointly out of the Pentagon and, at least for a time, an underground complex in Las Vegas managed by Bigelow Aerospace, a defense contractor that builds modules for space stations. It generated at least one report, a 490-page volume that describes alleged UFO sightings in the United States and numerous foreign countries over multiple decades.

Neither the Pentagon nor any of the program’s managers have claimed conclusive proof of extraterrestrial visitors, but Elizondo, citing accounts and data collected by his office over a decade, argues that the videos and other evidence failed to generate the kind of high-level attention he believes is warranted. As part of his decision to leave the Pentagon, he not only sought the release of videos but also penned a letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis complaining that a potential security threat was being ignored.

• [No, we haven’t discovered alien megastructures around a distant star]

“Despite overwhelming evidence at both the classified and unclassified levels, certain individuals in the [Defense] Department remain staunchly opposed to further research on what could be a tactical threat to our pilots, sailors and soldiers, and perhaps even an existential threat to our national security,” Elizondo said in the letter, a copy of which was provided to The Post.

The first public revelations of the program came in a video conference aired in October by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, the firm Elizondo joined as a consultant after retiring from his Pentagon job. The New York Times and Politico reported the existence of the program on their websites Saturday. The Washington Post conducted several confidential interviews over two months with Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who also is an officer of the private firm.

Documents provided by the former officials included letters of support by former Senate majority leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), a key backer of the initiative who helped secure funding for the program and sought to ensure a high degree of secrecy. Elizondo said knowledge of the program was limited, even within the Pentagon itself. He said the program had multiple enemies at senior levels of the department, from officials who were either skeptical or ideologically opposed to AATIP’s mission.

“I was honored to serve at the DOD and took my mission of exploring unexplained aerial phenomena quite seriously,” Elizondo said. “In the end, however, I couldn’t carry out that mission, because the department — which was understandably overstretched — couldn’t give it the resources that the mounting evidence deserved.”

It is difficult to draw conclusions about the nature of the unidentified vessels from the videos alone. Experts generally urged caution, explaining that reported UFO sightings often turn out of have innocuous explanations.

A retired Navy pilot contacted by The Post who was involved in a 2004 encounter depicted in one of the videos confirmed that the images accurately reflected his recollection of the events. The pilot would only speak on the condition of anonymity.

Elizondo, a 22-year veteran of the department who has held top security clearance and worked on secret counterintelligence missions, said he chose to join the private venture because he believed it was the best way to continue the work he was unable to complete as a government employee.

“I left to find an environment where investigating these phenomena is priority number one,” he said.

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18-12-2017 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

Here’s a natural phenomenon you might never have imagined. That is, the sun actually sets more slowly around the time of a solstice.

Peter Lowenstein in Mutare, Zimbabwe captured this beautiful sunset on December 16, 2017, a few days before the December solstice – his summer solstice.

Here’s a natural phenomenon you might never have imagined. That is, the sun actually sets more slowly around the time of a solstice. The slowest sunsets (and sunrises) occur at or near the solstices. The fastest sunsets (and sunrises) occur at or near the equinoxes. This is true whether you live in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. And, by the way, when we say sunset here, we’re talking about the actual number of minutes it takes for the body of the sun to sink below the western horizon. Follow the links below to learn more:

When is the solstice?

Why does the sun set so slowly around the solstices?

Adrian Strand captured this photo on a beach in northwest England.

When is the solstice? 

In 2017, the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice (Southern Hemisphere’s summer solstice) will fall on December 21 at 16:28 UTC.

In the United States, that translates to December 21 at 11:28 a.m Eastern Time, 10:28 a.m. Central Time, 9:28 a.m. Mountain Time, 8:28 a.m. Pacific Time, 7:28 a.m. Alaskan Time and 6:28 a.m. Hawaiian Time.

Equinoxes and solstices, via Geosync

Why does the sun set so slowly around the solstice? 

At the December (or June) solstice, the sun rises and sets farthest south (or north) of due east and due west. The farther the sun sets from due west along the horizon, the shallower the angle of the setting sun. That means a longer duration for sunset at the solstices.

Meanwhile, at an equinox, the sun rises due east and sets due west. That means – on the day of an equinox – the setting sun hits the horizon at its steepest possible angle.

The sunset duration varies by latitude, but let’s just consider one latitude, 40^o north, the latitude Denver or Philadelphia in the United States, or Beijing in China. At that latitude, on the day of solstice, the sun sets in about 3 and 1/4 minutes.

On the other hand, at 40^o north latitude, the equinox sun sets in roughly 2 and 3/4 minutes.

At more northerly temperate latitudes, the sunset duration is greater; and at latitudes closer to the equator, the sunset duration is less. Near the Arctic Circle (65^o north latitude), the duration of a solstice sunset lasts about 15 minutes; at the equator (0^o latitude), the solstice sun takes a little over 2 and 1/4 minutes to set. Regardless of latitude, however, the duration of sunset is always longest at or near the solstices.

Actually, the sunset and sunrise are a tad bit longer on the December solstice than they are on the June solstice. That’s because the sun is closer to Earth in December than it is in June. Therefore, the sun’s disk looms a bit larger in our sky in December. Additionally, the closer December sun moves eastward upon the ecliptic at a faster clip, helping to retard the December solstice sunset (and sunrise) even more. For instance, at 50^o north latitude, the winter solstice sunset (sunrise) lasts about 4 minutes and 18 seconds, or about 8 seconds longer than the sunset (sunrise) on the summer solstice.

Bottom line: The slowest sunsets of the year are happening now, around the time of the June solstice.

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18-12-2017 om 18:14 geschreven door peter  

18-12-2017 om 17:52 geschreven door peter  

EN IEDEREEN  TRAPT WEER IN DE UFO'S-AFLEIDINGSMANOEUVERS BILDERBERGERS ( VIDEO )

Grote koppen afgelopen weekend in de mainstream media, want er zijn in het geheim door het Pentagon miljoenen dollars gestoken in onderzoek naar UFO's. 

Het niet publiekelijk bekendgemaakte programma dat begon in 2007 en is stopgezet in 2012 zou dan volgens sommigen aantonen dat Disclosure nu toch wel echt heel dichtbij is gekomen.

Afgelopen weekend te lezen bij de mainstream media:

Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie heeft jarenlang miljoenen gestoken in onderzoek naar ufo's. Dat onthult de Amerikaanse krant The New York Times. Het onderzoek werd geleid vanuit het Pentagon en begon in 2007 en eindigde in 2012.

Jaarlijks trok Defensie 22 miljoen uit voor het onderzoek naar buitenaards leven, zo bevestigt het ministerie de onthulling van de krant. De uitgaven stonden verstopt in de begroting, zo stelt The New York Times.

En dit:

Wanneer je beseft dat er de afgelopen decennia een bedrag "zoek" is geraakt binnen het Pentagon van 10 trillion dollars op zijn Amerikaans, wat bij ons 10 biljoen dollar is, oftewel een 10 met twaalf nullen erachter, dan begrijp je dat er echt grote dingen gaande zijn in de achtergrond.  Dat er grote bedragen zoek zijn bij het Pentagon is niet iets waarover alleen in de alternatieve media wordt bericht, maar ook in de mainstream media, the black budget.

Het is ook niet nieuw want "toevalligerwijze" berichte de toenmalige Amerikaanse Minister van Defensie, Donald Rumsfeld, de dag voor de aanslagen in New York op 11 september 2001 dat hij een bedrag van 2,3 biljoen dollar "kwijt was" binnen het Pentagon.

 

Het verhaal van de 22 miljoen dollar die is uitgeven aan UFO onderzoek door het Pentagon is dan ook een prachtige afleidingsmanoeuvre voor wat er werkelijk allemaal speelt.

Terug naar een onlangs door ons gepubliceerd interview met de befaamde Watergate advocaat Douglas Caddy:

David Caddy was heel goed bevriend met één van de inbrekers en dat was de CIA agent en insider E. Howard Hunt. Tijdens de allerlaatste ontmoeting die Hunt en Caddy hadden, vertelde deze dat de werkelijke reden dat ze die bewuste inbraak hadden gepleegd, was om bewijs boven tafel te krijgen dat er een grote samenzwering was geweest om John F. Kennedy te vermoorden.

Hunt vertelde Caddy dat de werkelijke reden dat JFK was vermoord was omdat hij pogingen ondernam om buitenaards leven bekend te maken en dat hij deze kennis wilde delen met de Russen, met wie Amerika ook toen al was verwikkeld in een Koude Oorlog.

Na de gebeurtenissen bij Roswell en andere UFO incidenten eind jaren veertig werd er door de overheid een geheime groepering in het leven geroepen onder de naam Majestic 12, ook wel MJ12 genoemd, iets waarover wij al eerder schreven.

Het doel van MJ12 was het bestuderen van het buitenaardse fenomeen en via zogenaamde "reverse engineering" zelf ook dit soort ruimteschepen te bouwen. 

Echter, de macht van deze MJ12 werd steeds groter, zodanig zelfs dat het niet meer onder de supervisie van de president viel. Deze groep opereerde als zelfstandige eenheid binnen de veiligheidsdiensten zoals de CIA. Toen John. F. Kennedy dit gewaar werd, ondernam hij een aantal initiatieven om dit recht te zetten en om zo eveneens controle te krijgen over de technologie die inmiddels was ontwikkeld op basis van de beschikbare buitenaardse voorbeelden.

En waar is een groot deel van de ontbrekende Pentagon biljoenen gebleven? Dat wordt duidelijk uit het volgende, wat een deel is van een ander eerder door ons gepubliceerd artikel:

Het schijnt dat de crash van een vliegende schotel in 1936 in Duitsland de werkelijke start was van het Duitse Vliegende Schotel programma. Er werd een operationele schotel getest in 1939, maar dit soort door elektromagnetisme aangedreven schepen, konden niet echt worden gebruikt in de oorlog. Dat was omdat er geen centrales waren die klein en compact genoeg waren om in de schotels te passen en die bovendien nog een geweldige hoeveelheid elektriciteit moesten kunnen leveren om de grote condensatoren te voeden die op hun beurt weer de magnetische velden moesten creëren die de schotels aandreven. 

Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzamelden zowel de Russen als de Amerikanen niet alleen de wetenschappers die werkten aan conventionele raketten, maar ook de vliegende schotel wetenschappers samen met veel van hun uitrusting, om tegelijkertijd zowel een conventioneel als een niet conventioneel ruimteprogramma te kunnen beginnen. 

Het duurde niet zolang voordat de conventionele aandrijving begin jaren '60 overbodig werd. De aanwezige raketprogramma’s waren niets meer dan een dure propaganda-operatie voor publieke consumptie, om een fantasieverhaal levend te houden, een die al heel snel sterk afweek van het werkelijke verhaal. 

Het geheime ruimteprogramma kwam onder de toenemende invloed van de wereldelite die georganiseerd was in de Bilderbergconferentie, een groep van machtige industriëlen, bankiers en Europese koninklijke families. 

Het legerproject uit 1959, Project Horizon, werd in het geheim ingevoerd om zowel bases op de Maan als op Mars te bouwen. Volgens een aantal betrouwbare klokkenluiders worden deze bases gebruikt en onderhouden door de Bilderbergvloot. 

Uit een vrijgegeven document van Wright Patterson kunnen we zien dat men in 1956 al bezig was met het plaatsen van nucleaire aandrijving in schotels. De senior wetenschapper van Lockheed, Boyd Bushman, liet in een interview in 1959 technische tekeningen zien van een operationele vliegende schotel, aangedreven door een nucleaire centrale. 

Een technicus uit Area 51, Bill Uhouse, claimde dat hij al vroeg in de jaren '60 samengewerkt heeft met een Grey Alien in vliegende schotel simulators waarin piloten leerden vliegen met deze objecten. 

In dezelfde tijdsperiode werkte een luchtmacht technicus, Charles Hall, bij Nellis en had contact met de Tall White Extraterrestrials (Grote Witte Buitenaardsen). Zij lieten hem een TW shuttle schotel van binnen zien waarmee je naar de Maan en naar Mars kon reizen, maar niet dieper de ruimte in. Deze schotel had logo’s van alle grote lucht- en ruimtevaartbedrijven in het interieur van de schotel. 

Er was een ongeluk met een door kernenergie aangedreven schotel in 1980 waarbij een lekkage ontstond in een reactorvat. Terwijl de schotel was omringd door drie militaire helikopters kregen drie personen de volle laag straling over zich heen. Deze zaak is uiteindelijk tot in het Congres gekomen, zonder enige vorm van compensatie voor de slachtoffers. 

Ongeveer 10 jaar geleden slaagde de Engelsman Gary McKinnon erin om de computers van NASA te hacken en ontdekte de code naam “Solar Warden” en roosters voor alle buitenaardse officieren en lijsten met rompnummers van de grote ruimteschepen, groter dan twee voetbalvelden, en hun kleinere beschermers. Maar, vier jaar voordat McKinnon zijn ontdekking deed werd er op het Open Mind Forum al gesproken over Solar Warden en ook dat de Bilderbergers eigenaar zouden zijn van die bewuste ruimtevloot. 

Alle bestaande ruimteprogramma’s dienen om de bevolking zand in de ogen te strooien. De Solar Warden vloot bestond in 2005 uit acht grote ruimteschepen, vergelijkbaar met vliegkampschepen, en 43 “beschermers”, wat natuurlijk ook ruimteschepen zijn.

Naast de bekendmaking van het project van 22 miljoen dollar zijn er ook enkele video's vrijgegeven uit 2004 die absoluut echt zijn en waarbij op de radarschermen van gevechtsvliegtuigen objecten te zien zijn die allesbehalve lijken op vliegtuigen zoals wij die kennen en die op een gegeven moment ook met hoge snelheid wegvliegen.

Er zijn in totaal drie video's vrijgegeven, waarvan de eerste twee inmiddels zijn gepubliceerd en die volgen hierna.

 

 

Hebben we hier dan het begin van de Disclosure zoals sommigen denken en luidkeels van de daken schreeuwen?

Nee, allesbehalve, want Disclosure betekent openheid van zaken geven over dat er al jarenlang buitenaards contact is en dat de mensheid met haar geheime ruimtevloot al vele malen verder is in technische ontwikkeling dan ons altijd is verteld.

Uiteraard wordt dit geheime 22 miljoen dollar project nu met een bepaalde reden naar buiten gebracht en die zou bijvoorbeeld heel goed kunnen zijn dat er binnenkort stemmen op gaan in het Amerikaanse Congres naar aanleiding van de recente "onthullingen" dat het Pentagon nog vele miljarden dollars extra nodig heeft op korte termijn, want dat er nu toch wel een gerede kans is dat er buitenaardsen bestaan en wij, de mensheid, moeten ons natuurlijk wel hiertegen kunnen verdedigen, indien nodig.

In dat licht kun je dan ook de vrijgave zien eerder dit jaar van 13 miljoen CIA documenten over het UFO onderwerp, maar bovenal de recente waarschuwingen van de UFO specialist van het Engelse leger Nick Pope, waar wij onlangs over schreven.

Zo vertelt Nick Pope in een recent interview dat een invasie van buitenaardsen helemaal niet denkbeeldig is en dat wij er goed aan zouden doen om ons daarop voor te bereiden. Dat niet alleen, maar dat we er ook maar beter van uit kunnen gaan dat ze kwade bedoelingen hebben.

Het zijn allemaal stappen naar de laatste troefkaart die door de elite zal worden gespeeld, de nep buitenaardse invasie waarover wij al jaren schrijven:

Je kunt ervoor kiezen een buitenaardse dreiging te veinzen, waarbij het lijkt alsof de wereld op het punt staat te worden aangevallen door een vloot ruimteschepen. Dit is het scenario waarvoor Wernher von Braun aan het eind van zijn leven voor waarschuwde. 

Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) was de wellicht meest controversiële raketbouwer ooit. Hij maakte de dodelijke V2-raketten voor Hitler en nadien de ruimtevaartraketten voor de NASA, waarmee onder andere  de eerste landing van een mens op de maan werd uitgevoerd. 

Ongeveer drie jaar voor zijn dood kwam hij in aanraking met Dr. Carol Rosin. Misschien kreeg hij aan het eind van zijn leven iets van wroeging, want haar vertelde hij een groot aantal geheimen. Om de gigantische kosten en de mega verdiensten voor de ruimtewapensystemen enigszins te rechtvaardigen en de agenda voor de New World Order te promoten, zouden er kunstmatige vijanden worden gecreëerd. 

Eerst zou dat Rusland zijn. Daarna de terroristen. Vervolgens de landen in het Midden-Oosten. Dan de laatste troefkaart: Een bedreiging uit de ruimte.

Hier een korte Nederlands ondertitelde video van Carol Rosin waarin zij haar verhaal vertelt:

 

Het nieuws van afgelopen weekend heeft dan ook niets te maken met Disclosure, maar alles met de volgende stappen naar meer slavernij van de wereldbevolking, ook wel de New World Order genoemd.

{ http://www.niburu.co/ }

18-12-2017 om 17:47 geschreven door peter  

NASA-telescoop ontdekt twee nieuwe planeten - HLN.be

Bron: NASA

Kepler 90-i

De ster Kepler 90 ligt op 2545 lichtjaren van ons vandaan in het Draak-sterrenbeeld en is een beetje warmer, groter en zwaarder dan onze zon. Voordien waren er zeven planeten in het stelsel van Kepler gekend. 

Lees ook

Ruimteschip of niet? Reusachtige telescoop onderzoekt tien uur lang sigaarvormig gevaarte

De nieuw ontdekte planeet Kepler 90-i is de kleinste in het stelsel en heeft vermoedelijk een rotsachtige bodem. De temperatuur op planeet Kepler 90-i schommelt volgens de berekeningen van NASA rond 423 graden Celsius: de planeet is ongeveer 30 procent groter dan de Aarde. Kepler 90-i draait in ongeveer 14,5 dagen om haar zon.

De onderzoekers vermoeden dat het Kepler 90-zonnestelsel nog niet al haar geheimen heeft prijsgegeven. “Er is veel vastgoed in het stelsel van Kepler 90,” zegt Andrew Vanderburg, astronoom en professor aan de universiteit van Austin. “Het zou me verbazen als er niet nog meer planeten in het stelsel van Kepler 90 zouden zijn.”

Artificiële intelligentie

Volgens NASA was Google betrokken bij wat ze een ‘doorbraakontdekking’ noemen. Dankzij de artificiële intelligentie (AI) van Google was het mogelijk om een veel grotere hoeveelheid van data te doorzoeken dan wanneer alles zou geanalyseerd zou moeten worden door menselijke onderzoekers. Zonder ‘machine learning’ zou het veel langer geduurd hebben om de planeet te ontdekken, beklemtoont Christopher Shallue, software-ingenieur bij Google AI.

De voorbije vier jaar verzamelde de Keplertelescoop 35.000 signalen die mogelijk van andere planeten afkomstig zijn. Die data worden doorgaans geanalyseerd met geautomatiseerde tests en het menselijk oog, maar de zwakkere signalen worden op die manier vaak over het hoofd gezien.

Shallue en Vanderburg trainden daarom computers om het patroon te herkennen van een exoplaneet die voor een ster passeert. Vervolgens werden 670 sterrenstelsels geanalyseerd die al meerdere gekende planeten hadden, in de veronderstelling dat de kans groter was om daar meer exoplaneten te ontdekken. “We kregen veel valse positieven voor planeten, maar ook meer echte potentiële planeten,” aldus Vanderburg. “Het is zoals tussen stenen op zoek gaan naar diamanten. Als je een fijnere zeef hebt, zal je meer stenen vinden, maar je kan ook meer diamanten vinden.”

Wat is die Keplertelescoop?

In 2009 werd de Keplertelescoop de ruimte in gelanceerd, al die tijd speurt die naar exoplaneten. Dat zijn planeten die draaien om andere sterren dan de zon. Het bestaan van deze planeten is voornamelijk afgeleid van indirecte waarnemingen en daarop gebaseerde berekeningen. NASA is zo tevreden over het werk van de ruimtetelescoop dat ze in 2014, een jaar nadat zijn taak er officieel opzat, een nieuwe reeks onderzoeken met de Kepler startten. Toen de missie begon, wisten wetenschappers niet hoeveel exoplaneten er zijn, maar intussen werd duidelijk dat ze vaker voorkomen dan gedacht en dat elke ster er minstens één heeft. }

De Keplertelescoop scant het zwerk voortdurend en bekijkt daarbij meer dan 145.000 sterren. Wetenschappers zijn vooral alert voor sterren wier licht dimt wanneer een planeet voor ze komt te staan. Door de patronen van dat dimmen te onderzoeken, kunnen ze achterhalen hoeveel planeten elke ster heeft en hoe die eruit zouden kunnen zien.

De Keplertelescoop heeft tot nog toe het bestaan van 225 planeten aan het licht gebracht, zegt Jessie Dotson, verantwoordelijke wetenschapper voor het Keplerproject. 

{ https://www.hln.be/ }

18-12-2017 om 13:12 geschreven door peter  

Alien Spacecraft Above The Moon’s Surface?

In the nearly 20,000 Apollo Mission images they've now released to the public, we are finding alarming evidence of ET space vehicles.

This image, though, requires no altering of exposure or any other filters in order to view a possible alien craft flying near the moon during Apollo 14.

The object is indeed an alien craft or it is just a photographic defect, a speck of dust on the photograph and no-one cared or bothered with it... or could it be the Command Module?

18-12-2017 om 12:57 geschreven door peter  

UFO caught on tape over Mount Adams, Washington

New footage of a strange craft over Mount Adams in Washington.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

18-12-2017 om 12:45 geschreven door peter  

Gulf Breeze UFO Incident Still Divides the Public 30 Years Later

Three decades ago, a building contractor in Gulf Breeze released strange pictures of circular UFOs to local media. Days later, those photos set off a year-long sky watching phenomenon. The reported incident then became the so-called “Gulf Breeze Sightings,” and turned into part of American lore.

Ed Walters claimed he snapped the pictures from his yard on November 11, 1987. Even after three decades, people are still divided on what took place in late 1987 through 1988 in Gulf Breeze.

The Gulf Breeze event was featured in the 1990s hit series “X Files.” UFOlogist, fictional FBI Special agent Fox Mulder weighed in on the strange incident. Mulder said in a classic 1994 episode “E.B.E.” that he knew the photos were a hoax the first time he saw them.

Mulder is not alone in concluding the photographs that Walters presented were a hoax, an opinion that became even more widespread when Walters decided to move from his home, and the new owner found a model of a flying saucer wrapped in old drafting paper in the attic in 1990.

Walters claimed the model did not belong to him and someone planted it. However, most thought Walter’s pictures were a hoax, and some witnesses came forward claiming to know about the staged UFO.

However, Walters has always maintained the photos he snapped were authentic. He even wrote a book about it titled “Gulf Breeze Sightings.”

While many did not believe Walters’ claim, few others think otherwise, including UFO researcher and physicist Bruce Maccabee, who believes that the photos were real and the model was a hoax squared.

Maccabee said that there were too many other witnesses, including politicians, who claimed to have seen UFOs in the area and not all of them can be ignored.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

18-12-2017 om 12:41 geschreven door peter  

Indialantic UFO case from 1994

1994 video is getting attention showing a fleet of UFOs offshore Indialantic in Florida. What do you think about this footage? (Mufon Case 87314).

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18-12-2017 om 12:35 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers thought the 1st galaxies would be small. Now they’ve spotted 2 giant galaxies from when the universe was only 5% of its current age.

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Artist’s concept of SPT0311-58, a pair of massive galaxies in the very early universe. Researchers say galaxies of this era are “messier” than the ones we see in the nearby universe. Their more jumbled shapes are due to the vast stores of gas raining down on them and their ongoing interactions and mergers with their neighbors.

Image via NRAO/ AUI/ NSF; D. Berry.

Our solar system – our sun and family of planets – is thought to have been built from clumps of space stuff sticking together. Likewise, astronomers expected the first galaxies – those that formed shortly after the Big Bang – to resemble the little dwarf galaxies we see today, so that they’d serve as building blocks for larger galaxies that came later. And so nature surprised us by revealing examples of massive, star-filled galaxies seen when the cosmos was less than a billion years old. Now, new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed two giant galaxies seen even farther away, and longer ago, when the universe was only 780 million years old, or about 5 percent its current age. These giant, early galaxies – collectively known as SPT0311-58 – appear to be nestled inside an even-more-massive dark matter halo, containing several trillion times the mass of our sun.

The researchers reported their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on December 6, 2017.

They said these two giant, early galaxies are close to each other, less than the distance from Earth to the center of our Milky Way galaxy. That’s why, they think, the galaxies will shortly merge to form the largest galaxy ever observed at that period in cosmic history. Dan Marrone, associate professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson and lead author on the paper, said in a statement:

With these exquisite ALMA observations, astronomers are seeing the most massive galaxy known in the first billion years of the universe in the process of assembling itself.

A composite image showing ALMA data (red) of the two galaxies of SPT0311-58. These galaxies are shown over a background from the Hubble Space Telescope (blue and green). The ALMA data show the two galaxies’ dusty glow. The image of the galaxy on the right is distorted by gravitational lensing. The nearer foreground lensing galaxy is the green object between the two galaxies imaged by ALMA.

Image via ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Marrone, et al.; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); NASA/ESA Hubble.

Located in the Atacama desert of northern Chile, ALMA is one of the world’s most advanced tools for astronomical observing. It’s an interferometer of radio telescopes, which has been fully operation only since March of 2013. It’s made possible by an international partnership between Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Chile. But even ALMA couldn’t see so far back into space and time without help.

In this case, the help came from nature itself, which produces what is called a a gravitational lens whenever an intervening massive object, like a galaxy or galaxy cluster, bends the light from more distant galaxies. In a universe of at least 100 billion galaxies (or more), this happen pretty often, but can be tricky to observe. Although galaxies between us and SPT0311-58 bent and magnified their light, sophisticated computer models were required to reconstruct the image of SPT0311-58 as these galaxies would appear in an unaltered state.

Yet the process of teasing out this data from the observations yielded yet more information according to these astronomers:

This ‘de-lensing’ process provided intriguing details about the galaxies, showing that the larger of the two is forming stars at a rate of 2,900 solar masses per year. It also contains about 270 billion times the mass of our sun in gas and nearly 3 billion times the mass of our sun in dust.

Justin Spilker at the University of Texas at Austin, a co-author on the study, commented:

That’s a whopping large quantity of dust, considering the young age of the system.

The astronomers believe the larger galaxy’s pace of star formation was likely triggered by a close encounter with its slightly smaller companion, which already hosts about 35 billion solar masses of stars and is also forming stars at a rate of about 540 solar masses per year.

The new observations also allowed the researchers to infer the presence of a truly massive dark matter halo surrounding both galaxies. Dark matter is thought to provide the pull of gravity that causes the universe to collapse into structures such as galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies and so on. By comparing their calculations with current cosmological predictions, the researchers found that this halo is one of the most massive that should exist at that time.

Gravitational lensing works – as Albert Einstein explained in his theory of general relativity – mass bends light. The gravitational field of a distant galaxy or galaxy cluster causes light to bend around it. From Earth, we see the light as displaced from where it would otherwise be.

Image via SpaceTelescope.org.

The astronomers said they are seeing these galaxies during a period of cosmic history known as the Epoch of Reionization:

… when most of intergalactic space was suffused with an obscuring fog of cold hydrogen gas. As more stars and galaxies formed, their energy eventually ionized the hydrogen between the galaxies, revealing the universe as we see it today.

Marrone commented:

In any case, our next round of ALMA observations should help us understand how quickly these galaxies came together and improve our understanding of massive galaxy formation during reionization.

Read more about this study from NRAO

To correct for the effects of gravitational lensing in these galaxies, the ALMA data (left panel) is compared to a lensing-distorted model image (second panel from left). The difference is shown in the third panel from the left. The structure of the galaxy, after removing the lensing effect, is shown at right. This image loops through the different velocity ranges within the galaxy, which appear at different frequencies to ALMA due to the Doppler effect.

Image via ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); D. Marrone et al.

Bottom line: Astronomers thought galaxies in the early universe would be small. But they’ve just spotted 2 giant galaxies – collectively known as SPT0311-58 – at a time when the universe was only 780 million years old, or about 5 percent its curr }ent age.

Source: Galaxy growth in a massive halo in the first billion years of cosmic history

{ http://earthsky.org/ }

18-12-2017 om 01:49 geschreven door peter  

PENTAGON SECRET UFO SIGHTINGS: THE STRANGEST DISCOVERIES IN SEARCH FOR ALIENS

18-12-2017 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

C’est officiel, nous savons maintenant que les OVNIs sont réels, mais sont-ils extraterrestres ?

Nous sommes presque en 2018, et le sujet des Objets Volants Non Identifiés (OVNI) ou du Phénomène Aérien Non Identifié (PANI, un terme qui semble être le nouveau “libellé officiel” du personnel gouvernemental) est maintenant un fait vérifié dans le courant dominant. Tout aussi certains que nous le sommes de plusieurs concepts différents issus de la science dure répétable, ou de l’information sur d’autres phénomènes dans d’autres domaines traitant de l’observation, nous (l’humanité) sommes tout aussi certains de l’existence des OVNIs.

Lorsque l’ex-ministre de la Défense nationale, Paul Hellyer, a déclaré que “les ovnis sont aussi réels que les avions qui volent au-dessus de nos têtes”, il ne plaisantait pas. Des documents, ainsi que des témoignages en direct de douzaines, voire de centaines de personnes de gouvernements et de groupes de renseignements de “haut niveau”ont également parlé publiquement du sujet.

Il y a littéralement trop d’exemples, depuis les généraux quatre étoiles jusqu’aux directeurs d’entreprises militaires comme Lockheed Martin, les directeurs d’agences de renseignement, les chefs de grands comités militaires comme l’OTAN, et bien plus encore.

Les derniers exemples en date seraient Steve Justice, un administrateur de Lockheed Skunkworks (aérospatiale) qui a récemment pris sa retraite il y a 30 ans, maintenant administrateur de To The Stars, il a récemment déclaré :

“Il s’agit d’un concept pour un engin de transport international point à point qui efface les limites actuelles de la distance et du temps de déplacement. Il imite les capacités observées dans le phénomène aérien non identifié en utilisant un système d’entraînement qui modifie la métrique espace-temps. Nous avons un aperçu de la façon dont cela fonctionne, mais nous devons exploiter les technologies de la Division des sciences pour “réaliser” cette capacité.” – Steve Justice, directeur de la Division de l’aérospatiale.

En faisant cette déclaration, il nous dit qu’il y a des embarcations non identifiées qui utilisent ces capacités pour parcourir ce que nous considérons comme de grandes distances.

Un de ses prédécesseurs, Ben Rich (2ème directeur de Lockheed Shunkworks) a également fait des commentaires très intéressants. Vous pouvez en savoir plus à ce sujet et consulter ses commentaires ici.

Robert Bigelow, le fondateur de Bigelow aerospace a récemment déclaré publiquement qu’il savait que “ET” est là. Vous pouvez voir cette interview et en savoir plus ici.

Bien sûr, les témoignages ne sont pas suffisants pour tirer une conclusion, mais étant donné leur position et leurs longs dossiers de “crédibilité”, il est presque ridicule de les ignorer. S’il s’agissait d’une ou deux personnes, il y aurait des raisons de douter, mais lorsqu’il y en a plusieurs centaines, nous savons qu’il y a quelque chose qui se passe, surtout quand leurs rencontres avec des “OVNIs” ont déjà été vérifiées par leur employeur, le gouvernement et par des documents officiels préalablement classifiés.

Puisque beaucoup ne considèrent pas que les témoignages de témoins sont crédibles, peu importe d’où ils viennent, il est toujours important de mentionner les documents, les preuves de suivi radar et plus encore.

Évidemment, c’est un sujet qui interpelle encore beaucoup de gens, ça les brosse dans le mauvais sens du poil et entre en conflit avec des systèmes de croyances ancestraux. C’est une tendance qui s’est manifestée avec de nombreux sujets et de nouvelles découvertes tout au long de l’histoire humaine, les choses changent lentement au fil du temps, mais avec notre développement technologique rapide, qui continue d’augmenter à un rythme exponentiel, nous ne semblons pas si lointain. En fait, nous semblons déjà en être là.

“Nous avons déjà les moyens de voyager parmi les étoiles, mais ces technologies sont enfermées dans des projets noirs, et il faudrait un acte de Dieu pour les faire sortir au profit de l’humanité. Tout ce que vous pouvez imaginer, nous savons déjà comment le faire” 

– Ben Rich (source)

Rappelez-vous, OVNI ne signifie pas à 100% extraterrestre, cependant, c’est l’une des nombreuses possibilités et probabilités qui ont leurs propres preuves pour faire cette affirmation.

Les documents qui ont été rendus publics par plusieurs gouvernements, agences de renseignements et par l’intermédiaire de la Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) indiquent des objets et des rencontres (principalement militaires) avec des objets voyageant à des vitesses inaccessibles et effectuant des manœuvres qu’aucun de nos avions connus ne peut réaliser, dans certains cas, ils défient notre propre compréhension de la physique.

“Au fur et à mesure que le F-4 s’approchait, il perdait toute l’instrumentation et les communications. Lorsque le F-4 s’est éloigné de l’objet et qu’apparemment il n’était plus une menace pour lui, l’avion a retrouvé toutes les communications et instruments de navigation. Un autre objet brillant est sorti de l’objet original. Le second objet s’est dirigé vers le F-4.” (source)

Ci-dessous, un petit discours de Jacques Vallée sur la façon de commencer à apprendre de toutes ces rencontres. C’est un informaticien et astronome qui a travaillé pour la NASA, et plus encore. Il est le plus à même de co-développer la première cartographie informatisée de Mars et pour son travail à SRI International sur le centre d’information réseau d’ARPANET.

Déception gouvernementale

Ce serait le bon moment pour affirmer que, de toute évidence, nos gouvernements nous ont trompés bien souvent et sur divers sujets, il est plus que probable qu’au fur et à mesure que de plus en plus d’informations continueront à se retrouver dans le domaine public, il y aura de bonnes raisons d’avoir un scepticisme accru lorsqu’ils parleront des OVNI et/ou des extraterrestres, comme c’est le cas pour n’importe quoi d’autre.

Le monde dominant est plein d’agendas tordus et de tentatives de modifier notre perception de la vérité et du profit, ou d’autres agendas qui ne sont pas vraiment dans le meilleur intérêt du peuple, mais plutôt dans le meilleur intérêt des “1%”. La guerre mondiale contre la drogue ou le terrorisme en sont de parfaits exemples.

Pour se faire une idée claire de ce sujet, ce qui est presque impossible, il faut faire des recherches indépendantes plutôt que de s’en remettre aux mêmes médias qui ont des liens étroits avec les intérêts des entreprises et du gouvernement, sous le couvert de la “sécurité nationale”.

Cela ne veut pas dire qu’il n’y a pas de bonnes personnes, avec des intentions pures, qui ne font que leur travail dans ces arènes. C’est un sujet compliqué, mais en discutant, il faut toujours garder l’état profond dans le dos de son esprit, car il contrôle la perception géopolitique dans son ensemble, dans la plupart des cas.

Il y a des efforts qui sont faits pour alerter le public, l’effort de To The Stars par Tom Delonge en est un, mais c’est un sujet très compartimenté. Il reçoit de l’information de ceux qui travaillent dans le milieu du renseignement, mais de qui obtiennent-ils cette information et est-ce exact ? Est-ce vrai ? Ou est-ce qu’il y a une sorte de tour de passe-passe, pour quelque raison que ce soit ? Et ceux qui relaient cette information se rendent-ils compte qu’il pourrait y avoir un véritable tour de passe-passe ?

Qui sait ce qui se passe vraiment.

Y a-t-il vraiment des raisons légitimes pour justifier le camouflage après tant d’années ? Était-ce justifié ? Je crois que l’humanité est censée vivre dans la transparence, et nous pouvons et devons gérer ce type d’information, nous étions censés la recevoir. Reconnaître certaines vérités sur la nature de la réalité est une étape importante de notre évolution humaine, car elle nous donne l’occasion de dépasser les paradigmes du passé et d’avancer là où nous sommes censés aller, et peut-être vers les étoiles.

La prise de contrôle corporatif et financier de notre système démocratique a sans aucun doute contribué au secret. Ce sujet a d’énormes implications technologiques et intellectuelles qui pourraient transformer complètement notre planète et aider à créer de nouvelles façons de faire les choses ici. Et, comme c’est le cas pour tout le reste, ceux qui font des milliards et des billions avec l’ancienne façon de faire les choses peuvent aussi avoir leur mot à dire.

Quel type de systèmes de propulsion ces embarcations utilisent-elles ?

Bien sûr, nous savons que les OVNIs sont réels, mais les médias grand public (ainsi que le gouvernement) ont une longue histoire de prendre des événements réels et de les utiliser à leur avantage, et le font généralement en déformant notre perception de ce qui se passe réellement.

Avec ce sujet, comme avec tous les autres, nous ne pouvons tout simplement pas compter sur les services de renseignements gouvernementaux et officiels en tout temps, avec une crédibilité totale. Il est important de se rappeler qu’il y a beaucoup de désinformation qui s’est infiltrée dans ce domaine, et il faut toujours utiliser leur discernement.

Sont-ils extraterrestres ?

L’existence des OVNIs est vérifiée de plusieurs manières différentes, mais l’intelligence extraterrestre est toujours une histoire différente. Plusieurs facteurs conduisent à l’hypothèse extraterrestre. Comme mentionné plus haut, avant que les OVNIs ne soient officiellement “vérifiés”, il y avait de bonnes raisons de croire en leur existence, et maintenant c’est officiel. De la même façon, il est maintenant prouvé que certains de ces engins sophistiqués sont en fait extraterrestres.

“Il y a de fortes chances que des gens de l’espace et d’autres civilisations nous visitent depuis de nombreuses années. Ce qu’ils sont, d’où ils viennent et ce qu’ils veulent devrait faire l’objet d’une enquête scientifique rigoureuse et ne pas faire l’objet d’une dissimulation ridicule par les tabloïds.” µ

(source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, ancien chef d’état-major de la Défense, amiral 5 étoiles de la Marine royale, président du Comité militaire de l’OTAN.

Beaucoup de gens, comme Lord Amiral Hill-Norton, sont venus exprimer la même chose, et ont dit qu’ils ont une grande connaissance de l’intelligence extraterrestre en ce qui concerne le phénomène OVNI.

Voici un document du FBI discutant des corps extraterrestres et un vaisseau (pages 21 et 22), voici un article avec un document intéressant de la CIA qui fait référence à des corps extraterrestres et une rencontre militaire. Il y a plusieurs exemples que l’on peut trouver dans la littérature, qui sont à la fois bienveillants et malveillants.

Vous trouverez ci-dessous une discussion intéressante avec Richard Dolan, l’un des plus éminents spécialistes mondiaux du sujet. Il va un peu plus loin sur l’hypothèse extraterrestre. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur le sujet, c’est un excellent point de départ.

“C’est ma thèse que les soucoupes volantes sont réelles et qu’elles sont des vaisseaux spatiaux d’un autre système solaire. Je pense qu’ils sont peut-être habités par des observateurs intelligents, membres d’une race qui a peut-être étudié notre Terre pendant des siècles” 

– Herman Oberth, père fondateur de la fusée moderne (source)

Source : Collective Evolution

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18-12-2017 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

Le Pentagone reconnaît l'existence d'un programme d'étude des ovnis (vidéo)

18-12-2017 om 00:29 geschreven door peter  

Top Space Stories of the Week, Dec. 15, 2017

Photo Credit: Aubrey Gemignani/NASA

Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Photo Credit: NASA

17-12-2017 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

Recycled SpaceX Dragon Capsule Makes 2nd Delivery to Space Station

17-12-2017 om 22:13 geschreven door peter  

{https://www.theguardian.com/international }

17-12-2017 om 21:54 geschreven door peter  

For most people, any mention of the term “UFO” inevitably conjures up imagery of all-things airborne and saucer-shaped. In reality, however, unidentified flying objects come in a dizzying array of shapes – and have done so for decades. In other words, the classic Flying Saucer is merely one facet of an infinitely larger puzzle, as will now become graphically apparent. On numerous occasions throughout the latter stages of the Second World War, military pilots from Britain, Germany, Japan, Poland, and the United States reported seeing strange, seemingly intelligently-controlled, aerial globes of light that furiously pursued their aircraft, and at times even engaged in dogfights with the mystified aircrews. They were the Foo Fighters.

A Royal Air Force report of 3 February 1944, from the crew of a Lancaster bomber, describes a typical encounter: “It was a ball of red fire on port side 2 miles away at same height with yellowish red flame coming out behind and black smoke. It was 30/40 mph faster than the Lancaster. It went like this for a period of ¾ to 1 minute. It did not explode at any time. Fizzled out and not seen again. The smoke was very black and showed up well against grayish night background. It followed when Lancaster went into a dive and again on corkscrewing. It seemed to go out once but sprang into life again when Lancaster changed from dive to starboard into a corkscrew.”

As the following statement – extracted from an article that appeared in the 13 December 1944 issue of the South Wales Argus newspaper – makes clear, initial theories were focused upon the idea that the Foo Fighters were the work of the Nazis: “The Germans have produced a “secret” weapon in keeping with the Christmas season. The new device, which is apparently an air defense weapon, resembles the glass balls which adorn Christmas trees. They have been seen hanging in the air and are apparently transparent.”Problematic with the theory that the Foo Fighters were weapons of the Nazis, however, is the revelation that Hitler’s minions were having their own encounters with such objects, and assumed that Allied forces were responsible for their creation! Needless to say, the matter was never fully resolved and the Foo Fighters ultimately vanished as mysteriously and as quickly as they had first appeared.

The Ghost Rockets were curious missile-like objects that were predominantly seen in Scandinavian skies in 1946: one year after the Foo Fighters vanished, and only twelve months before the Flying Saucer burst forth onto the world’s stage. Astonishingly, somewhere in the region of two thousand sightings were made between May and December of that year, with August 9 and August 11 seeing the largest volume of encounters – including some that were corroborated on radar.

Search for “ghost rocket” seen crashing July 19, 1946, in Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden. by Swedish Air Force officer Karl-Gösta Bartoll (pictured).

Interestingly, the August 1946 encounters fell directly within the peak of the annual Perseid meteor-shower. Problematic when it comes to dismissing the whole affair as a case of mistaken identity, however, is the fact that most of the Ghost Rocket incidents fell firmly outside of the time-frame of the Perseid shower. And the fact that some of the witnesses reported seeing the devices changing direction in the sky would seem to effectively eliminate meteors as the culprits.

Another conventional theory addressed at the time was the possibility that the Ghost Rockets were the work of the Russians, who were capitalizing upon the rocket research of German scientists stationed at Peenemünde in the 1940s. It is a historical fact that a number of such scientists were indeed employed by the Russians after the defeat of Nazi Germany, and did expand upon the work that had led to the production of the deadly V-1 and V-2’s that caused considerable damage to the British Isles during the War. As a result of this potentially worrying scenario, the Swedish military quickly issued a directive requesting that newspapers not report on the estimated speeds of the objects, or their trajectories; since this information would be vital to those test-flying the machines.

Nevertheless, as with the theory that the Ghost Rockets were meteors, a possible Russian connection to the puzzle was never confirmed either. Twelve months later, however, the Ghost Rockets were eclipsed by a new, and much more famous, breed of UFO.

The saga of the Flying Saucer began with the pilot Kenneth Arnold, whose 24 June 1947 encounter at the Cascade Mountains, Washington State, kicked off the modern era of UFO sightings. At approximately 3.00 p.m. on the afternoon in question, Arnold was searching for an aircraft that had reportedly crashed on the southwest side of Mt. Rainier. At the time of its occurrence, Arnold’s encounter attracted the keen interest of not just the public and the media, but also that of the all-powerful Federal Bureau of Investigation. The following is a verbatim statement made by Arnold himself, and taken from previously Secret FBI records of 1947:

“I hadn’t flown more than two or three minutes on my course when a bright flash reflected on my airplane. It startled me as I thought I was too close to some other aircraft. I looked every place in the sky and couldn’t find where the reflection had come from until I looked to the left and the north of Mt. Rainier, where I observed a chain of nine peculiar looking aircraft flying from north to south at approximately 9,500 feet elevation and going, seemingly, in a definite direction of about 170 degrees.”

Arnold stressed that the objects were approaching Mt. Rainier very rapidly and he was puzzled by their physical appearance: “I thought it was very peculiar that I couldn’t find their tails but assumed they were some type of jet plane. The more I observed these objects, the more upset I became, as I am accustomed and familiar with most all objects flying whether I am close to the ground or at higher altitudes. The chain of these saucer-like objects [was] at least five miles long. I felt confident after I would land there would be some explanation of what I saw [sic].”

And from that day forth, the world was forever changed: that most mysterious of all aerial intruders, the Flying Saucer, was well and truly born. For the next three decades, countless sightings of such objects were reported all across the planet; making the subject truly one of global proportions. In the 1980s, however, the Flying Saucer was firmly elbowed out of the picture by a new player in town: the Flying Triangle.

For more than two decades, sightings of large, triangular-shaped UFOs, usually described as being black in color, very often with rounded – rather than angled – corners, and that make a low humming noise, have been reported throughout the world. he sheer proliferation of such reports has led some ufological commentators to suspect that the so-called Flying Triangles are prime examples of still-classified aircraft, the development of which was secretly begun in the 1980s by elements of the United States’ Department of Defense and Air Force. Not everyone is so sure that this particular theory has merit to it, however. Consider the following.

On the night of 31 March 1993, an event occurred that was personally investigated by the Ministry of Defense’s then-UFO-investigator, Nick Pope. Reportedly, it involved the sighting of a huge Flying Triangle seen in the early hours of the morning in the direct vicinity of RAF Shawbury, Shropshire. Pope was able to speak with the chief witness to the Flying Triangle – namely, the Meteorological Officer at Shawbury – and offers his recollections on the intriguing conversation:

“Military officers are very good at gauging sizes of aircraft and they’re very precise. His quote to me was that the UFO’s size was midway between that of a C-130 Hercules and a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet.” Pope continues: “He had eight years worth of experience with the Royal Air Force; and a Met. Officer is generally much better qualified than most for looking at things in the night sky. And there were other factors too: he heard this most unpleasant low-frequency hum, and saw the craft fire a beam of light down to the ground. He felt that it was something like a laser beam or a searchlight. The light was tracking very rapidly back and forth and sweeping one of the fields adjacent to the base. He also said – and he admitted this was speculation – that it was as if the UFO was looking for something.

“The speed of the UFO was extremely slow – no more than twenty or thirty miles per hour, which in itself is quite extraordinary. As far as the description is concerned, he said that it was fairly featureless – a sort of flat, triangular-shaped craft, or possibly a bit more diamond-shaped. He also said that the beam of light retracted into the craft, which then seemed to gain a little bit of height. But then, in an absolute instant, the UFO moved from a speed of about twenty or thirty miles per hour to a speed of several hundreds of miles per hour – if not thousands. It just suddenly moved off to the horizon and then out of sight in no more than a second or so.”

Although the Flying Saucers, Ghost Rockets, Flying Triangles and Foo Fighters are all integral parts of the UFO puzzle, long before each and every one of them appeared in our skies, there was yet another unknown, aerial intruder whose presence still creates controversy to this day: the Phantom Airship. Very much the product of the latter years of the 19th Century, the Phantom Airships were, as their name suggests, often Zeppelin-like devices that were seen on countless occasions during the years in question; and particularly so in the night-skies of the United States.

Interestingly, even back then, theories abounded that the Airships were piloted by extra-terrestrials. For example, in 1897, none other than the Washington Times reported on the theory that the mysterious vehicles represented “a reconnoitering party from Mars.” Similarly, in the same time frame, the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch speculated that “these may be visitors from Mars, fearful, at the last, of invading the planet they have been seeking.”

One of the most famous – or, rather, infamous – incidents of the Phantom Airship variety allegedly occurred at the little Texas town of Aurora on 17 April 1897. So the wild story goes, on the day in question, an Airship slammed into a windmill owned by a local man, Judge J.S. Proctor, practically destroying the craft, and killing its diminutive alien pilot. Strange wreckage, described as being a combination of aluminum and silver, and adorned with hieroglyphics, was rumored to have been scooped up by the locals, and the body of the alien visitor was said to have been buried in the local cemetery. Whether true, a hoax, a practical joke, or something else, the town of Aurora still to this day attracts those curious about this early Roswell-style event.

Quite clearly, UFOs are forever changing. While we could speculate endlessly upon the issue of what type of UFO will one day replace the now-ubiquitous Flying Triangle, only the intelligence behind the phenomenon know the answer to that intriguing question.

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17-12-2017 om 21:18 geschreven door peter