Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
24-12-2017
VIDEOS. Le Père Noël ? Un ovni ? Un missile ? Le lancement d'une fusée de SpaceX offre un spectacle troublant dans le ciel californien
VIDEOS. Le Père Noël ? Un ovni ? Un missile ? Le lancement d'une fusée de SpaceX offre un spectacle troublant dans le ciel californien
La société américaine SpaceX a lancé vendredi dix nouveaux satellites de communication de la société Iridium avec sa fusée Falcon 9, le quatrième lancement sur huit prévus par SpaceX pour le compte de cette entreprise.
"Ca va faire flipper tellement de gens à Los Angeles." "Regarde comme ça brille ! Oh mon dieu !" "Waouh !" Smartphones et caméras à la main, les témoins n'en croient pas leurs yeux : lancée par la société américaine Space X vendredi 22 décembre, une fusée Falcon 9 a illuminé le ciel du sud de la Californie, aux Etats-Unis.
Une trainée blanche dans la nuit, qui s'étire et s'allonge pour prendre la forme d'une méduse fumeuse parmi les étoiles... Le spectacle, visible jusque dans l'état voisin de l'Arizona, a intrigué de nombreux internautes, comme le rapporte le magazine Time. En effet, ceux qui n'étaient pas au courant du lancement prévu par SpaceX ont pu s'imaginer une invasion extraterrestre.
"Les extraterrestres existent et s'en est fini de l'espèce humaine", a tweeté un témoins, tandis que d'autres s'interrogeaient sur la possibilité qu'il s'agisse tout simplement du Père Noël.
Heureusement, une simple passage sur les réseau sociaux a pu rassurer les internautes. Et nombreux étaient ceux à savoir qu'il s'agissait simplement d'une fusée.
Si certains ont eu un peu peur, d'autres ont préféré en rire, mettant en doute la version officielle - le lancement prévu de SpaceX - afin de propager une théorie du complot. "SpaceX est une couverture pour les extraterrestres", a ainsi lancé un internautes, sur Twitter. "Il s'agissait bien d'extraterrestres", a même confirmé Elon Musk, le patron de SpaceX.
Et ce dernier d'ajouter, ironique : "Un extraterrestre nucléaire en provenance de Corée du Nord."
In its last launch of the year, on Friday, December 22, SpaceX successfully sent a communications satellite into orbit and created a stir on social media.
(Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post)
The people of Los Angeles can be forgiven if they were a little quick to jump to extraterrestrial conclusions.
So, it’s perfectly logical that Angelenos gazing into a darkening sky around 5:30 p.m. Friday would assume their city was in the midst of an alien invasion as they saw this:
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who ultimately wants to put people on a space-bound Megabus, fanned the flames by saying on Twitter that the jellyfish-like shape in the sky was a “nuclear alien UFO from North Korea.”
Southern Californians and other people out West, well, freaked out.
Jan Brewer, whose Twitter profile succinctly identifies her as “Arizona’s 22nd Governor” tweeted that she was wondering what the lights over Phoenix were. For some reason, she tagged President Donald Trump.
And many, many others pointed their smartphone cameras skyward, capturing what they assumed was the first sign of the alien apocalypse — or something — and musing about the vapory lights in the sky.
There was, of course, a perfectly reasonable explanation.
Musk’s SpaceX had launched an Irdium-4 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California — about 150 miles from the City of Angels.
According to the Los Angeles Times, officials had warned that people would be able to see the launch across Southern California and elsewhere on the western half of the country. There was even a live webcast for those with more than a passing interest in rockets.
The moment a SpaceX rocket launch produced a shining, billowing streak in the sky over California
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 satellites into orbit, left behind a trail of mystery and wonder as it soared into space after lifting off in the setting sun from coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
If you liked tonight’s launch, you will really like Falcon Heavy next month: 3 rocket cores & 3X thrust. 2 cores return to base doing synchronized aerobatics. 3rd lands on droneship.
What we know — and don't know — about aliens and UFOs
The Post's Cleve Wootson explains why a recent admission from the government is like pouring kerosene on UFO conspiracy theories.(Video: Monica Akhtar/Photo: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
'UFO invasion' in California was a nuclear alien sent by North Korea, claims Elon Musk
'UFO invasion' in California was a nuclear alien sent by North Korea, claims Elon Musk
DRAMATIC footage that illuminated the night sky with a luminous blue trail could be a “nuclear alien UFO” sent by “North Korea” according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Cosmic Filament Probes Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole
Cosmic Filament Probes Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole
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The center of our Galaxy has been intensely studied for many years, but it still harbors surprises for scientists. A snake-like structure lurking near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is the latest discovery to tantalize astronomers.
In 2016, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University reported the discovery of an unusual filament near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy using the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). The filament is about 2.3 light years long and curves around to point at the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), located in the Galactic center.
Now, another team of astronomers has employed a pioneering technique to produce the highest-quality image yet obtained of this curved object.
“With our improved image, we can now follow this filament much closer to the Galaxy’s central black hole, and it is now close enough to indicate to us that it must originate there,” said Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the study. “However, we still have more work to do to find out what the true nature of this filament is.”
The researchers have considered three main explanations for the filament. The first is that it is caused by high-speed particles kicked away from the supermassive black hole. A spinning black hole coupled with gas spiraling inwards can produce a rotating, vertical tower of magnetic field that approaches or even threads the event horizon, the point of no return for infalling matter. Within this tower, particles would be sped up and produce radio emission as they spiral around magnetic field lines and stream away from the black hole.
The second, more fantastic, possibility is that the filament is a cosmic string, theoretical, as-yet undetected objects that are long, extremely thin objects that carry mass and electric currents. Previously, theorists had predicted that cosmic strings, if they exist, would migrate to the centers of galaxies. If the string moves close enough to the central black hole it might be captured once a portion of the string crosses the event horizon.
The final option is that the position and the direction of the filament aligning with the black hole are merely coincidental superpositions, and there is no real association between the two. This would imply it is like dozens of other known filaments found farther away from the center of the Galaxy. However, such a coincidence is quite unlikely to happen by chance.
“Part of the thrill of science is stumbling across a mystery that is not easy to solve,” said co-author Jun-Hui Zhao of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. “While we don’t have the answer yet, the path to finding it is fascinating. This result is motivating astronomers to build next generation radio telescopes with cutting edge technology.”
Each of the scenarios being investigated would provide intriguing insight if proven true. For example, if the filament is caused by particles being ejected by Sgr A*, this would reveal important information about the magnetic field in this special environment, showing that it is smooth and orderly rather than chaotic.
The second option, the cosmic string, would provide the first evidence for a highly speculative idea with profound implications for understanding gravity, space-time and the Universe itself.
Evidence for the idea that particles are being magnetically kicked away from the black hole would come from observing that particles further away from Sgr A* are less energetic than those close in. A test for the cosmic string idea will capitalize on the prediction by theorists that the string should move at a high fraction of the speed of light. Follow-up observations with the VLA should be able to detect the corresponding shift in position of the filament.
Even if the filament is not physically tied to Sgr A*, the bend in the shape of this filament is still unusual. The bend coincides with, and could be caused by, a shock wave, akin to a sonic boom, where the blast wave from an exploded star is colliding with the powerful winds blowing away from massive stars surrounding the central black hole.
“We will keep hunting until we have a solid explanation for this object,” said co-author Miller Goss, from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico. “And we are aiming to next produce even better, more revealing images.”
A paper describing these results appeared in the December 1st, 2017 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists, organized into six research divisions, study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.
For more information, contact:
Megan Watzke Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +1 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu
Peter Edmonds Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +1 617-571-7279 pedmonds@cfa.harvard.edu
Deze reusachtige 2,3 lichtjaar lange structuur in het centrum van de Melkweg stelt astronomen voor een raadsel
Deze reusachtige 2,3 lichtjaar lange structuur in het centrum van de Melkweg stelt astronomen voor een raadsel
Sterrenkundigen hebben een nieuwe opname gemaakt van een vreemde slangvormige structuur die afgelopen jaar in het hart van de Melkweg is ontdekt.
Het reusachtige filament is 2,3 lichtjaar lang en wijst in de richting van het superzware zwarte gat Sagittarius A*, dat zo’n vier miljoen keer zwaarder is dan de zon.
In 2016 werd de ongewone structuur ontdekt door Farhad Yusef-Zadeh van de Northwestern University.
Snelle deeltjes
De astronomen hebben nog altijd geen idee hoe de mysterieuze structuur precies is ontstaan. Ze beschrijven drie mogelijke scenario’s.
De eerste mogelijkheid is dat het filament bestaat uit snelle deeltjes die uit het superzware zwarte gat ontsnappen.
Nog niet waargenomen objecten
Daarnaast kan de structuur een zogeheten kosmische snaar zijn, een keten van nog niet waargenomen objecten die lang en extreem dun zijn en die massa en elektrische stromen kunnen vervoeren.
Wetenschappers hebben eerder voorspeld dat kosmische snaren, als ze bestaan, naar het centrum van sterrenstelsels zouden migreren.
Mysterie
Tot slot is het ook mogelijk dat er geen relatie is tussen het filament en het superzware zwart gat. Maar astronomen achten de kans klein dat er geen verband is.
“Wat wetenschap spannend maakt is dat je op een mysterie kunt stuiten dat niet gemakkelijk kan worden verklaard,” zei coauteur Jun-Hui Zhao van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
For just about as long as the UFO phenomena has been around there has been the complimentary anomaly known as the notorious Men in Black. These phantom figures have long been reported to threaten and stalk certain eyewitnesses or those with insider knowledge of UFOs, usually warning them away from sharing what they have seen or know and always freaking them out. Reported from around the world, the Men in Black are typically almost universally described as being individuals, usually male, dressed in black suits or trench coats, often with sunglasses on even at night, mostly at least a bit odd-looking, and always displaying extremely bizarre behavior and mannerisms, and this is a phenomenon which my fellow Mysterious Contributor Nick Redfern has covered in far more detail than I intend to go into here. However, what has always intrigued me are the times when these frightening and creepy specters have actually been allegedly photographed or even filmed, and there are actually a few cases where this has allegedly happened. This is what I plan to delve into here, so let’s take a look.
Perhaps the earliest and best known purported image of a Man in Black comes from 1968, in Jersey City, in the United States, where a UFO researcher named Jack Robinson lived with his wife, Mary. The couple began to notice something strange going on when they would come home to find that their house seemed to have been searched or rummaged through, ransacked even, especially their files of the UFO phenomena, although there was never any sign of forced entry or burglary. Shortly after this, Mary claimed that she began to notice a peculiar stranger dressed all in black and wearing sunglasses lurking and loitering about the area of their apartment, who could sometimes be seen staring up at their window. This was all spooky to be sure, and the creeped out couple told a friend of theirs, Tim Green Beckley, about what was happening. My esteemed colleague Nick Redfern, an expert on the MIB phenomenon and author of numerous books on the matter including The Real Men in Black, talked about this stranger and what happened next in an interview with New Dawn Magazine, saying:
Mary said he had an unsettling look on his face, kind of unemotional and zombie-like. Mary happened to mention this to Tim and Jim, and because the guy appeared three days in a row, they decided to drive over early one morning and see if they could see the Man in Black for themselves. Sure enough, he was there, staring ahead, with the black sunglasses, long black coat, and enigmatic stare.
Beckley allegedly came by one day when the enigmatic man was prowling about and managed to capture a photograph of him before he sauntered off and was gone. Although it is inconclusive to say the least, the resulting photograph is believed to be one of the first and clearest photos of one of the alleged Men in Black. What does this picture show? Is this really one of the Men in Black or just a guy in black clothes hanging out on the street? It is hard to say, and the authenticity of the photograph has been much discussed in UFO circles.
The alleged photo of the Man in Black
Perhaps even more impressive than this is a purported piece of video footage that is said to show two of the Men in Black, which surfaced in April of 2012 from the Aerial Phenomena Investigations Team. The incident allegedly began at a hotel in Canada, when the hotel manager was approached by one of his bellboys, who seemed to be rather unsettled about something and wanted to talk in private. He then claimed that two mysterious men dressed in black suits and trench coats had approached him, and he told the manager:
Something really weird happened here yesterday, and you weren’t here. There were a couple of guys looking for you. Well, this is really hard for me to say, but there were a couple of really strange looking men that were here, and they kind of freaked everybody out, and they were asking questions about you. And I said, “I’m sorry, he’s actually not working today.”
The bizarre strangers were described as being very tall, and of exactly the same height, with very pale skin and generally looking “odd.” It was also noted that they appeared to have the same face, as if they were twins. The bellman claimed that the two strangers had not seemed to really believe that the manager wasn’t in at the time, and proceeded to look around the premises and question other employees, with one other hotel staff member who was approached saying of them:
They asked some questions about you, and they said strange things that I didn’t understand, and they were talking about governments and conspiracies, and none of it made any sense to me, but they were very, very scary. They had no facial hair, none. They had no eyebrows, no eyelashes, nothing. Their hair looked like they had a wig on, like it was attached to their hat, like it wasn’t even real. And the scariest thing, their eyes were so big, and so blue, that they almost hypnotized me a little bit. These men, they didn’t blink. Not once did I see them blink.
The hotel manager was a bit disturbed to hear all of this, but was still skeptical about the whole thing. He claims that he then went through the security footage to check it out and found exactly what had been described, with two strange men dressed in black entering the hotel through the front doors. Is footage this the real deal? If it is not a hoax, then who were these mysterious gentlemen and what did they want? Were these really the legendary Men in Black? We will probably never know.
A still from the footage at the hotel allegedly showing the Men in Black
Even more recent is a case of supposed photographic evidence of the Men in Black that came out in 2014, according to a UFOGrid report. In the report, two witnesses came forward to tell their tale of being harassed by the Men in Black in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the witnesses was identified by the alias Jack Smith, now in his 50s, who claims that he had been relentlessly stalked by a pair of the mysterious entities wearing identical black suits his whole life, which he surmised was due to encounters he had had with the “grey” aliens back in his youth. He says that ever since, he had been menaced by the Men in Black for decades, saying:
They have let me know that I could be found where ever I was. What was said to me was threatening and they have caused me to live in fear a lot of the time. I know the truth. My good, close friends know the truth, as well.
On April 13, 2014, he claims that he and a friend were followed by the mysterious strangers, and that this time he managed to capture them on video staring directly at them. The day had started with Jack and his friend, Jane, going out for some sightseeing and lunch, and they found themselves waiting for a streetcar at the French Quarter’s Bienville Street station near Jackson Square. It was here where they would notice two weird looking men dressed in stuffy black suits despite the hot weather at the time, standing there milling about at the station, and Jane would say of them and their behavior:
I knew something was wrong immediately. They looked like identical twins. They were slim, and much taller than the average person. They were dressed in identical black suits, white shirts, skinny black ties, fedoras, and black sun glasses. They just looked so odd. They were pale, they were stiff, and they moved eerily in unison. They had oblong faces with a thin line for a mouth. Their whole vibe was cold and creepy. (They were) calm, but like how a reptile can appear calm. Twin lizards in suits. They leaned in simultaneously to communicate with each other. Their mouths opened slightly, but they were not talking. They were communicating something to each other, but not talking!
A still from the footage supposedly showing the Men in Black at Bienville Street station, New Orleans
The two strange men apparently waited there and repeatedly stared at Jack and Jane the entire time, but when the streetcar finally arrived after a 20-minute wait, the two men reportedly turned away and walked over to a shiny black car with a foreign license plate. The two then simply got into the vehicle and drove away. Jack had captured some of the encounter on his cell phone, and he would later relate to Jane what he thought they were, and although she was taken aback she had indeed seen it all herself so there was no denying that these were not ordinary people. Eerily, Jack later sent her the video footage he had taken, but Jane’s phone inexplicably deleted it, as well as all of the data on her SD card, which the cell phone company was unable to explain. The mysterious video also supposedly deleted itself off of another friend’s phone when Jack attempted to send it. Jack would finally send it to UFOGrid, telling them:
The thought of giving (the video) to anybody scares the hell out of me because when I tried to share it before bad things happened. The thought of what could possibly happen to me if I did release this…I honestly do fear for my life. This experience is awful. I can’t even begin to explain to you how awful it is. The very thought of stirring things up scares the heck out of me. I hope it can help someone that is struggling in silence because of MIB harassment. Whatever or whoever uses these [MIBs] to keep us in fear to control us, is despicable.
Again, what does this strange footage show? There are certainly men dressed in black visible, but it is impossible to tell if they had anything off about them or if they are really the Men in Black or not. And therein lies the trouble with capturing photographic or video evidence of these mysterious individuals. They appear as more or less human, albeit creepy looking, and any alleged photograph is difficult to assess, as it could very well just be some weirdo in a black suit. There is absolutely no way we can really know what we are really seeing in such images, nothing to mark it as truly outside of the explainable and so banishing such evidence to the limbo of mere speculation and rumor.
Indeed, it has not even really been ascertained just what the Men in Black are actually supposed to be in the first place. They are surrounded by so much lore and bizarreness that it is hard to say if they are agents from some secretive government organization, a freelance cabal with their own inscrutable agenda, aliens themselves, something more paranormal in nature, or simply an elaborate and persistent urban legend. Reports of the Men in Black help matters little, as they are so varied and absolutely riddled with myriad high strangeness. Just what are we even supposed to be dealing with here? To again quote my colleague Nick Redfern, when asked what he thought they were he has said in the past:
My personal conclusion is that there are at least two things going on. There are the government-originated MIB, and there are the weirder MIB. As for the former, I prove in the book (The Real Men in Black) that some can be traced back to official agencies of at least several governments. As for those stranger MIB, my personal view is that they are paranormal. Of course, much of this depends on how we define the paranormal! My personal view is that the MIB may be the inhabitants of multi-dimensions or extra-dimensions that co-exist with ours, and whose role it is to keep us away from the truth about not just UFOs, but a whole range of strange phenomena too. But as for why, that is the big question still eluding us!
Whatever the Men in Black are, they appear to be here to stay, and they invariably go hand in hand with the UFO phenomenon, whatever that all entails. Who they are, how they are linked to such oddities, and what their capacity is may likely be debated forever, but for those who have encountered them they are at the very least very real. While these figures have mostly been confined to the realm of witness accounts, with very little physical evidence, we are still left with these intriguing images. Are we really seeing the legendary Men in Black here? Is there any clue to be gleaned from these images and videos? It is all at the very least a baffling piece of the Men in Black puzzle.
First they came for our jobs, and we did nothing. Then they came for our board games, and we did nothing.
“They” are AI robots and the board game is chess. An AI robot programmed by engineers at Google was able to learn chess in four hours just by playing against itself. Then it proceeded to demolish the reigning AI chess bot in a 100 game tournament with 28 wins, 72 draws and no losses. If that’s not scary enough, it used moves and tactics never seen in the 1,500-year history of the game. But the most terrifying thing about this AI chess-monster is this … it was developed by Google.
“The ability of a machine to surpass centuries of human knowledge . . . is a world-changing tool.”
No less than Garry Kasparov, regarded by many as the greatest chess player of all time and the grandmaster lost to IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997, says he was more impressed with the victory, learning speed and strategic creativity of AlphaZero.
AlphaZero began (or should we start saying ‘was born’?) at DeepMind, a UK company that was bought in 2014 by Google for $500 million. It was originally AlphaGo, which in 2015 became the first computer Go program to beat a human professional Go player without handicaps on a full-sized 19×19 board. In October 2017, AlphaGo begat AlphaGo Zero, which had the ability to learn the game on its own from the rules rather than from inputting human games. In December 2017, AlphaGo Zero begat AlphaZero, a generalized version of the AI with the same ability to learn games by playing itself.
Hours after it was given the rules of chess, AlphaZero threw down the rook and challenged Stockfish 8, the greatest chess program ever developed. One hundred games later, there was a new champion.
In a paper published in arXiv, the team of developers explain AlphaZero’s secret ability and it is … intuition! Instead of grinding through ever larger numbers of possibilities like most other chess-playing programs, AlphaZero taught itself to test random lines of play and identify and focus on the most relevant ones. This allowed it to examine about 0.1 percent of the possible moves that Stockfish analyzed. As the chess geeks at chess.com point out, there was nothing chess-specific about how AlphaZero learned, allowing it to try moves that chess players (and programs based on their moves and games) would never consider, like using a King as an attacking piece.
The irony in all of this is apparent in the AI robot’s name … AlphaZero plays more like a human than any other chess-playing AI yet learned this with zero human input – just a set of rules and four hours of playing against itself. What other ‘games’ can it master beyond the ability of humans with just a set of rules and a few hours of computing time? Government? Business? War?
Do we really want this kind of power in the hands of Google? Sure, it’s better than Facebook, but Google?
« Au coeur de l’étrange, OVNI, les nouveaux dossiers secrets »
« Au coeur de l’étrange, OVNI, les nouveaux dossiers secrets »
Depuis quelques temps, le nombre d’observations d’ovnis est en net augmentation et beaucoup se demandent si nous ne sommes pas à l’aube d’une invasion. De plus, nombre de personnes issues des gouvernements commencent à parler de l’existence de dossiers secrets concernant les extraterrestres. Dans ce reportage, vous allez entendre des témoignages plus que troublants sur ce sujet.
Nous commençons ce reportage à Washington, le 29 avril 2013 où plus de 40 personnes de haut rang ont affirmé qu’une civilisation intelligente extraterrestre existait. Stanton Friedman, ancien physicien nucléaire a affirmé que ces preuves existaient réellement. Par ailleurs, John Callahan, ancien responsable de l’agence américaine de l’aviation civile a affirmé que la CIA avait récupéré tous les documents et avait obligé les témoins à garder le silence. Ces différents témoignages sont troublants. Toutes ces personnes veulent que la vérité éclate au grand jour et que les gouvernements arrêtent de nous mentir.
Pour connaitre la vérité, notre enquête commence à Kumburgaz, en Turquie où plusieurs ovnis auraient été aperçus entre 2007 et 2009. Le témoin de ces observations est un gardien de nuit et il a réussi à filmer un étrange engin. Egon Kragel explique qu’on peut y voir un appareil immense. Ces images sont surprenantes. De plus, d’autres témoins ont vu cet ovni et tous accréditent le témoignage et la vidéo du gardien de nuit. Cette affaire a fait la Une des journaux turcs. De ce fait, une enquête a été ouverte pour savoir si cette fameuse vidéo était réelle ou non. Après des analyses très poussées sur les images, tous les scientifiques s’accordent à dire qu’il s’agit d’un engin inconnu et ils le placent dans la catégorie ovnis. Pendant plusieurs jours, le même objet a été vu dans le ciel de Kumburgaz. Par la suite, un ufologue chilien a analysé le film et a mis à jour la présence d’extraterrestres dans ce vaisseau. Encore aujourd’hui, l’ovni turc reste un mystère.
Aujourd’hui et grâce à internet, on trouve ce genre d’image un peu partout dans le monde. Si certaines sont des montages, d’autres sont vraiment troublantes. Pour connaitre la vérité sur certaines vidéos, celles-ci sont montrées à des experts. La première est celle de l’ovni qui est entré dans le volcan Popocatépetl, prise le 25 octobre 2012 et les experts affirment que ces images sont réelles. C’est avec une photo de la Nasa montrant une forme noire sur la lune que les analyses continuent et les experts expliquent que cette forme provient d’un défaut de la lentille de l’appareil. D’autres vidéos leur sont montrées et aucune explication rationnelle ne peut être apportée.
En France, c’est le GEIPAN qui s’occupe de ces observations. Pour la plupart, les scientifiques trouvent une explication, mais une petite quantité résiste pourtant à leur expertise. Celle de l’affaire de la centrale nucléaire de Golfech où une observation a été faite en 2010 fait partie de ces affaires qui restent inexplicables. Le témoin a fait part de ce qu’il avait vu aux gendarmes en illustrant son témoignage par des dessins. Cet homme nous explique que le 6 octobre 2010, au environ de 20h00, il a vu un immense triangle noir entouré de lumières passer tout près de la centrale et à très basse altitude sans aucun bruit. Par ailleurs, il n’est pas seul à avoir vu cet engin et ils ont réussi à le filmer l’engin. Le lendemain, il a fait une déposition à la gendarmerie et son témoignage a été transmis au GEIPAN. Rapidement, ce dernier a conclu que cet ovni était un avion. Pourtant, le témoin est sûr que ce n’en était pas un.
Trois ans plus tard, l’homme a reçu un courrier l’informant que l’enquête était ré-ouverte. De plus, la centrale nucléaire était étroitement surveillée et personne ne comprend pourquoi les vidéos des caméras de surveillance n’ont pas été visionnées au début de l’enquête. Quelques mois après la réouverture de cet enquête, les journaux annonçaient que d’autres centrales nucléaires avaient été survolées par des drones. Pourtant, beaucoup affirment que ces engins n’avaient rien de drones et que leur technologie était beaucoup plus avancée que la nôtre.
Avec ces témoignages, on pourrait penser que les extraterrestres s’intéressent au nucléaire. C’est à partir de 1945, après l’explosion de la première bombe atomique que les apparitions d’ovnis ont considérablement augmenté. Les observations au-dessus de centrale nucléaire militaire ou civile se sont multipliées, comme pour le cas de la base militaire de Malmstrom où en 1967, des ovnis auraient désactivé des lancements de missiles avant de disparaitre. Ce phénomène s’était déjà produit sur d’autres bases.
Si pour certains, les extraterrestres veulent nous exterminer, d’autres pensent qu’au contraire, ils veulent nous protéger de nous-mêmes et de ce que nous pourrions faire avec le nucléaire. Certains témoins affirment même avoir été enlevés par des extraterrestres, comme l’histoire de François Kleindienst. En effet, l’homme explique que le matin du 10 janvier 1998, à Haravilliers, alors qu’il allait rejoindre des amis, il a vu un objet immense et rond passer au-dessus de sa voiture. Par la suite, il a perdu connaissance et ne se souvient de rien. De plus, ses amis qui étaient dans deux voitures différentes ont vécu la même chose. Dans le même temps, plusieurs habitants du village se sont réveillés vers midi alors qu’ils avaient l’habitude de se lever de bonne heure. Quelques temps plus tard, l’un des témoins prénommé Bruno a retrouvé la mémoire et il a affirmé avoir été enlevé par des extraterrestres. Son témoignage est époustouflant et il est difficile de remettre en question son récit, car l’homme a fait partie de l’armée.
Après tous ces témoignages, il est difficile de croire que les extraterrestres n’existent pas. Malgré tout, aucun rapport ne parle de vaisseaux extraterrestres et pour beaucoup, les autorités nous cacheraient la vérité. En effet, beaucoup pensent que les gouvernements en savent beaucoup plus que ce qu’ils veulent bien nous dire. De plus, en 1987 Ronald Reggan a fait une allusion sur une possible menace. D’autres gouvernements ont fait aussi allusions aux ovnis et vont même jusqu’à dire que certains seraient déjà présents sur terre.
Se pourrait-il que l’on nous cache la vérité ? Il semblerait que oui. Je vous laisse profiter de ce reportage édifiant.
NASA is planning the first interstellar journey in history to search for Aliens
NASA is planning the first interstellar journey in history to search for Aliens
NASA has set their sights on Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our Solar System, and wants the mission to take place in 2069 and look for signs of alien life.
After reaching the moon (again) and actually getting to Mars, the American Space agency wants to turn mankind into an interstellar species.
Despite the fact that the ‘mission’ does not have a name yet and most of the technology necessary to take us there does not even exist, the projected launch date would coincide with the centenary of the arrival of mankind to the Moon.
NASA is yet to develop the necessary technology to travel to Alpha Centauri in a reasonable time.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
Initially, scientists say that a spaceship which would need to travel at a minimum of 10 percent of the speed of light would be required to get us there.
The Alpha Centauri constellation is located 4.4 light-years away, and even if one-tenth of the speed of light were achieved, we would be able to visit the star system after a 44-year journey, reaching our nearest neighbor in 2113.
This means we need to ramp up our tech game. In order for mankind to really become an interstellar species, colonize other planets and moons, first in our solar system, we need to develop a technology that’s affordable, reusable, and fast. Really fast.
According to the New Scientist, NASA is considering sending tiny laser-powered probes that, in theory, can travel at a quarter of the speed of light. Other techniques under consideration include the use of nuclear reactions, or through collisions between antimatter and matter.
However, there are other options experts will consider. But, time is ticking so NASA will need all the help it can get to make a trip to Alpha Centauri a reality.
Perhaps the best way to start their journey to our closest cosmic neighbor is by developing a technology that would get us to Mars in a matter of weeks, then days.
Getting to Mars, and creating a transportation system between the two planets could serve as a starting point for further technology in development, and it would make traveling to Mars something routine.
As reported by Newsweek, NASA’s revolutionary mission in 2069 will visit Proxima B, a planet that was discovered not long ago and may be a world very similar to Earth. Interestingly, the manager of the Innovation Foundry at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Anthony Freeman called the entire project “very nebulous.”
Proxima Centauri B is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the closest star to the Sun—the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is in a triple star system. The planet—which has been hailed as Earth’s twin in the past—is located around 4.2 light-years from Earth, which makes it the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System.
In comparison, the only man-made spacecraft that has reached interstellar space is Voyager-1, which is currently traveling at LESS than 1 percent of 1 percent of the speed of life, reports Newsweek.
IF Voyager-1 had the ability to travel at 10 percent the speed of light, it would make it to Alpha Centauri in about 44 years.
The Return of the skull-shaped asteroid: Astronomers say it’s coming back in 2018
The Return of the skull-shaped asteroid: Astronomers say it’s coming back in 2018
The return of the “skull-shaped” asteroid: astronomers calculate when the weirdly shaped space rock will approach Earth.
There are strange things out there in space.
Astrophysicists have warned that our planet will have a new encounter with a strange asteroid that strangely resembles a skull.
The object in question is known as 2015 TB145 and possibly formed from the remains of an extinct comet say, experts.
But don’t worry, astronomers are confident it won’t collide with Earth anytime soon.
Image Credit: NAIC-Arecibo/NS
The asteroid measures between 625 and 700 meters in diameter and has a rotation period of 2.94 hours.
Astronomer Pablo Santos-Sanz, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (Spain), characterized it as „a “dark” asteroid, whose reflectance index is «scarcely superior to that of coal.“
“It is currently 3.7 astronomical units away from Earth; that is, 3.7 times the average distance from the Earth to the sun.”
The skull-shaped asteroid “has a magnitude of 26.5, which means it is only visible from Earth using very large telescopes or space telescopes.”
This celestial body caught the attention of scientists and amateur astronomers during its first approach to Earth, which coincided with Halloween on October of 2015.
Animation showing the rotation of the weirdly shaped space rock.
In 2015, the skull-shaped asteroid passed between a distance of 499,000 kilometers of our planet, traveling at a speed of 125,500 kilometers per hour.
During this ‘close’ encounter, astronomers observed the curious celestial body in order to try and gather as much information as possible.
Thanks to numerous measurements, which included observations with the Pan-STARRS telescope located in Hawaii (USA), scientists modeled the course of the asteroid and predicted it will travel passed Earth in November of 2018.
Thankfully, the mystery shaped asteroid will travel noticeably farther from our planet, with an equivalent distance of about 105 Earth-Moon distances, compared to an approximate 1.3 distances when it zipped passed Earth in 2015.
Despite accurate measurements, NASA scientists have warned the asteroid has an erratic orbit, which means that astronomers aren’t sure where it will end up traveling, but they are confident it will miss Earth in the near future.
Users on social networks discussed what would happen if such an asteroid impacted Earth. Some argue that if an asteroid of about 700 meters in diameter impacted our planet it could wipe out entire cities.
Furthermore, if it were to hit Earth, there is a 71 percent chance that it would hit water, and not landmass. Then, a tsunami is our biggest concern. A fireball product of the impact would have an approximate radius of more than eight kilometers. Such a collision would create numerous earthquakes measuring high 7’s on the Richter scale.
A massive structure, stretching 2.3 light-years at the center of our galaxy puzzles astronomers
A massive structure, stretching 2.3 light-years at the center of our galaxy puzzles astronomers
The gigantic structure of 2.3 light-years in length near a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A * baffles astronomers.
It turns out that at the center of our galaxy, at around 26,000 light years from Earth, lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *, four million times more massive than the Sun.
This cosmic monster is not the only one lurking in that region of space.
Astronomers have discovered another gigantic structure located in close proximity, which measures a stunning 2.3 light-years across.
While astronomers have absolutely no clue what it is, they’ve managed to snap a pretty good picture of the ‘structure.’
In 2016, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern University reported the discovery of an unusual ‘filament’ near the center of the Milky Way.
Now, a year later, another team of astronomers has used a state-of-the-art technique to produce the highest quality image of this mysterious structure.
A radio image from the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array showing the center of our galaxy. The mysterious radio filament is the curved line located near the center of the image, & the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is shown by the bright source near the bottom of the image.
Image Credit: NSF/VLA/UCLA/M. Morris et al.
“However, we still have more work to do to find out what the true nature of this filament is.”
Despite the fact that astronomers aren’t sure what it is, there are three main theories.
The first is that the massive structure is the product caused by high-velocity particles ejected from the supermassive black hole.
A black hole can produce a vertical rotating magnetic field tower that approaches or even coils in the event horizon, the point of no return for approaching matter.
Within this structure, particles would accelerate and produce radio emissions as they spiral around the lines of the magnetic field and away from the black hole.
Another possibility is that the strange filament is a cosmic chain of theoretically not yet detected objects, that are long and extremely thin and transport mass and electrical currents. Pretty awesome, right?
Previously, scientists had predicted that the cosmic strings, if they existed, would migrate to the centers of galaxies.
If the string moves close enough to the black hole, it can be captured when a part of the string crosses the event horizon.
The third theory is that the position and direction of the filament that lines up with the black hole are just coincidental overlaps, and there is no real association between the two. Basically, there’s nothing there.
This would imply that this structure is similar to dozens of other known filaments that are farther from the center of the galaxy.
However, such a coincidence is quite unlikely to happen by chance say astronomers.
“Part of the thrill of science is stumbling across a mystery that is not easy to explain,” said co-author Jun-Hui Zhao of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. “While we don’t have the answer yet, the path to finding it is fascinating. This result is motivating astronomers to build next-generation radio telescopes with cutting-edge technology.”
The Star of Bethlehem – nowadays often just called the Christmas Star – is a major seasonal symbol throughout the world.
Imagine, if you will, the silhouettes of three regally attired men on camels. They are gazing across gently rolling hills or dunes of white, to a tiny solitary building in the distance. The night is dark, and one exceedingly bright star appears to hover over the small building, sending a bright shaft of light earthward to illuminate its outline. Another light glows gently inside.
Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy: The Three Wise Men” (named Balthasar, Melchior, and Gaspar). Detail from Mary and Child, surrounded by angels, mosaic of a Ravennate italian-byzantine workshop, completed within 526 AD by the so-called “Master of Sant’Apollinare”.
That is the picture most of us have of the Christmas Star, but it’s an image derived more from imagination and greeting cards than from the Bible. In fact, the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament is the only place this “star” is mentioned in the Bible (Matt 2:2, 7-10, King James Version). Even there, information on the star is sparse. The most telling reference is Matt. 2:9:
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
For anyone inclined to insist on the literal truth of scripture, this verse solves the question. If this verse is literally true, then the Star of Bethlehem could not have been any known natural phenomenon, simply because none would move that way.
However, if we grant the author of Matthew – who assuredly was not an eyewitness at the Nativity – a little artistic license, the “star” might not have appeared literally in the way described. In that case we can consider some natural, astronomical possibilities. In fact, there is some uncertainty about the use of the word for star in the Greek manuscript. Some contend that the word could have meant or implied an object other than a physical star.
Wesley Loftis in Clarksville, Virginia caught this Gemind meteor on the morning of December 13, 2017.
Some artistic depictions show what appear to be a bright meteor or “falling star.” Although exploding meteors, sometimes called bolides or fireballs, can be startling and truly impressive, they last only seconds. They can occur at any time. People far more aware of the night sky than the modern city dweller is likely would not have placed much significance in them. Such transient phenomena could not possibly have “led” the wise men (the Bible never calls them “kings”) to Bethlehem.
There are other astronomical objects or events that might have seemed more significant, but there are problems. First off, we don’t know for sure when Jesus was born. Due to an error by a Church cleric hundreds of years later, the birth of Jesus was thought to be at least 4 years later than it really was. So today we know that the birth was no later than 4 BC, and it could have been a little earlier. And it certainly was not on December 25. The Bible does not say, leaving us few clues. One clue we do have, however, is the reference that shepherds were out in the field “keeping watch over their flock by night” (Luke 2:8), something the scholars say was likely only done in the spring when lambs were born. Thus the birth was likely in the spring, probably between 7 and 4 BC.
Few astronomical records were kept at the time, except by the Chinese and Koreans. They did record what might have been comets in 5 and possibly again in 4 BC. The main problem here is that comets were generally regarded as omens of evil and bad fortune by the Chinese and likely also by the magi-astrologers the New Testament calls “wise men.” Rather than follow such a cometary “star,” they likely would have gone the other way.
Another possibility is that the Christmas Star was a nova or supernova, a previously unseen star that suddenly brightens in a big way. Indeed, one such star was recorded by the Chinese in the spring of 5 BC, and was seen for more than 2 months. However, its position in the constellation Capricornus meant that it likely would not have seemed to “lead” the wise men in the manner implied in the Bible.
For some, the star was not really a star at all, but a planet, Jupiter. Or more precisely, it was the conjunction or close meeting of Jupiter with two other planets, Saturn and Mars. Planets were “wandering stars” to the ancients, and to many they bore great astrological or mystical significance. Astronomers know that there was a series of such conjunctions in 6 and 5 BC, occurring in the constellation Pisces (the Fishes), said by some to be the astrological “sign of the Jews.” To add more credence for later Christian writers such as Matthew, the sign of a fish later became the secret sign for Christians.
Mosaic pavement of a 6th century synagogue at Beth Alpha, Jezreel Valley, northern Israel. It was discovered in 1928. Signs of the zodiac surround the central chariot of the sun (a Greek motif), while the corners depict the 4 “turning points” (“tekufot”) of the year, solstices and equinoxes, each named for the month in which it occurs- tequfah of Tishrei, (tequfah of Tevet), tequfah of Ni(san), tequfah of Tamuz.
Unless some major and indisputable archaeological discovery is found to settle the question once and for all, the mystery of what the Christmas Star was will remain in the realm of faith. Science cannot explain it as any known physical object; history offers no clear record; and religion offers only an untestable miraculous apparition. But although there may be no agreement on the nature of the star or even its actual sighting two millenia ago, all sides can agree on the message the Christmas star heralded: “…on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:14)
Bottom line:Possible astronomical explanations for the Star of Bethlehem or Christmas star.
Our Solar System may have been born from bubbles of material hurled from a colossal Wolf-Rayet-type star, according to a theory published Friday.
Scientists studying the origin of our system generally believe – no, wait, sorry. Stop. You know 2017 has been a bonkers year when the New York Times reveals a classified $22m US military program to investigate UFOs – complete with grainy videos of possibly alien spacecraft and claims of finding out-of-this-world alloys – and no one blinks an eye.
Did you miss that report? Quite a few people did. It came out on Saturday. And everyone was distracted by politics, hackers, longing looks at 2018, Christmas shopping, we dunno. Just letting you know.
Where were we? Oh yeah. The Solar System. Scientists generally believe our system formed near a supernova – an exploding dead star that emits shockwaves of energy and a shower of elements that kickstart the formation of a new star. As one of these protostars matures, leftover material in the shape of a disc clumps together to create planetesimals and eventually planets. That's pretty much how boffins think our system was created.
Now, however, a bunch of physicists reckon – look, OK. Sorry. Very cool research, but time out.
This New York Times story. It was written by a couple of Pulitzer Prize winners and one of their colleagues. It feels like it should be significant, but, what are we dealing with here? Blurry video and audio recordings of UFOs spotted by pilots in Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets. Is it just... bollocks, or what? This particular program was scrapped in 2012 after five years. Is it a convenient cash cow for aerospace research companies? Oh sure, we'll take a look at these UFOs, here's our not inconsiderable invoice.
On the surface, this NYT exposé looks exciting, but, just, what exactly was proven by Uncle Sam's classified probe into UFO sightings – anything? The videos look like a bug got stuck on the Navy jets' sensors.
Right, sorry. Real science. Focus. So, these physicists have put forward an alternative scenario for the formation of our Solar System, describing it in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal this week.
They point out that our system has an abundance of aluminum-26 and not a lot of iron-60 compared to the rest of the Milky Way galaxy. If the system was formed from a supernova, it would have a relatively rich amount of both isotopes, yet like a pale nerd, it is iron deficient.
Vikram Dwaradas, coauthor of the paper and a research associate professor in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago in the US, said supernovae release both aluminum-27 and iron-56. So “it begs the question of why one was injected into [our] Solar System and the other was not."
Hold that thought. Speaking of metals, these mysterious, unknown alien alloys the US government apparently found. It's freaking some people out. We're obviously not talking machined metal, right? Actual alien spacecraft parts landing on Earth. A fucking wing fallen off the back of an intergalactic lorry. No way. Where's the mass panic? No one's batting an eyelid. These alloys have got to be just rocks from space. Flecks of metal from another corner of the galaxy littering our planet. Sorry, it's just too distracting right now.
OK, focus. Actual proper peer-reviewed science.
This lack of iron isotope in our Solar System. The physicists have turned to Wolf-Rayet stars for an answer. These are gigantic hot stars, and are more than 40 times the size of our Sun. As they burn, they produce copious amounts of elements that are spewed across space via a powerful stellar wind.
The key thing here is that Wolf-Rayet stars create lots of aluminum-26 and little iron-60, and their output is therefore a close match to the conditions at the early stages of our Solar System.
So, forget a dramatic supernova. A Wolf-Rayet star likely kickstarted and fueled our system, and is responsible for the nonsense world we live in now, according to this study.
The stellar wind sends ripples through the Wolf-Rayet star’s surrounding debris, causing dense shells of material to form around bubble-like structures. Nicolas Dauphas, coauthor of the paper and a professor of geophysical sciences also at the Chicago uni, said "the shell of such a bubble is a good place to produce stars."
The dust and gas within each sphere can be compressed to form stars. The researchers estimated that between one per cent to 16 per cent of all Sun-like stars could be forged in these environments.
"The idea is that aluminum-26 flung from the Wolf-Rayet star is carried outwards on grains of dust formed around the star. These grains have enough momentum to punch through one side of the shell, where they are mostly destroyed – trapping the aluminum inside the shell," Dwarkadas explained.
The shell collapses inward due to gravity over time, ultimately forming a solar system. The Wolf-Rayet star that may have been our stellar nursery would have burned out and died long ago. The researchers argued that even if it ended its life as a supernova, the iron-60 may not have penetrated the walls of the bubbles nor be equally scattered through the surrounding space. If it collapsed into a black hole, it would also have produced small amounts of iron-60.
Suddenly, the notion that there are alien metals on Earth and all around us in space isn't so crazy. We are all made of stars. Merry Christmas. Now, where's our $22m? ®
There is overwhelming evidence that we are being visited by aliens, says Greater Sudbury's resident UFO researcher and webmaster of noufors.com. Michel Deschamps shares some of this year's sightings. (Supplied)
This is the time of year to witness a strange site in the sky, not an alien spacecraft, mind you, but a chubby guy in a flying sleigh.
But that's not what gets Michel Deschamps' heart racing. Greater Sudbury's resident UFO researcher and webmaster of NOUFORS.com reached out to Sudbury.com this month to share some of the best UFO sightings he received over the past year.
“It has been a while since my last submission to the Northern Life,” Michel M. Deschamps said in an email. “I have been busy adding new sections to my historical UFO-related website, NOUFORS.com, and correcting all the broken links I can find."
But that's not all Deschamps has been doing. For decades, he's been collecting local and area reports of strange objects in the sky and cataloguing them on his website, a somewhat thankless job to which Deschamps has dedicated himself since nearly the dawn of the internet.
NOUFORS.com might retain the look of a website circa the late 1990s, but it is an historical treasure trove of sightings. What it lacks in design esthetic, it makes up for in data.
Here are some of the best sightings reported to Deschamps in the past year, and catalogued on NOUFORS.com.
Date: Monday, Jan. 30 Location: Sudbury, Ontario
A Sudbury resident had a daytime sighting of a large object while riding the Lasalle-Madison bus on Notre-Dame. She watched as it came down out of the sky, somewhere between where she was and the Adanac Ski Hill, and proceeded to "pace" the bus from that distance. She said that it seemed to be submarine-shaped with a segmented top that reminded her of cauliflower. She submitted a sketch of the object and is willing to have her story recorded as an MP3 for my website.
Date: April 14 Location: Sudbury, Ontario
I received the following message from one of my Facebook contacts who said that her mother had seen something unusual in the sky: "My neighbour and I had a fire in the pit. We had been looking up at the sky and I said, 'There's the Little Dipper.' Shortly after that, she said: 'Lynn, what's that?' I looked up and saw something flying in a diagonal formation — four lines — heading from the northeast to the southwest, not white but slightly yellow tinge. The best way to describe it would be like stripes on (the sleeve of a soldier). She kept asking what it was, and I said it's either a UFO or the U.S. testing a new plane. She said, 'What if it comes back?' and I said, 'They're probably over Killarney by now.' But then it came back, this time in a different formation. It came from the southwest to the northeast in sort of a triangle formation, this time. There was the 'nose' and two to the side and then one following at the back. We watched and then they zoomed away and disappeared."
Date: Thursday, May 11 Location: Sudbury, Ontario
A cabby friend of mine sent me the following message at 1:57 a.m., Thursday, May 11: "Just dropped off the crew from Westjet from the airport. They said they saw something when they were coming in to land. They were playing off that it was a drone. I said, 'I doubt it.' It was a bright light they said lit up the cabin. They had the landing gear down.' I asked him about what altitude were they at, and he said: 'I guess maybe 5,000 feet or so.' "
Date: Monday, Oct. 30 Location: Sudbury, Ontario
My girlfriend was headed to the hospital for an appointment, and as she walked towards Van Horne, she looked up at the sky as she usually does, and she spotted a white object moving among the clouds at a very high altitude. She described it as being oval in shape, completely white in color, and moving from the east and heading north. At arm's length, the object was about a quarter inch in size. It had no wings and no tail, so this was not a plane, which she would have been able to identify, even at the distance she was looking from. She submitted a sketch, which is on the 2017 Sightings Reports page of my website. http://noufors.com/2017_sighting_reports.html
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 22 Location: Blind River, Ontario
While at work and on my supper break, I received a short message via e-mail from my friend and contact, Joan Morningstar, which stated that there had been a sighting of seven strange lights traveling in a straight line. They were at a relatively low altitude because of the cloud cover.
UFO sightings are not rare, Deschamps said in his email to Sudbury.com, but things are made more complicated by having Chinese lanterns and personal remote-control drones flying around. But UFO behaviour is different, and once people know what to look for when trying to identify what they are seeing, it becomes easy to "separate the wheat from the chaff," as they say (or in this case, as Deschamps would say).
Deshcamps' next project is to try and collect as many reports from former police officers and make the interviews available as audio files on his website.
“I already have plenty of highly interesting audio files to listen to, and I'm hoping to add a few more,” he said.
Anyone willing to have their stories recorded for the NOUFORS.com audio archive is asked to contact Deschamps via his website, or by phone.
“I've seen how much relief people get when they finally get their stories off their chests,” he said. “They now have the peace of mind that they are not alone in seeing these objects, and that together, we can bring the UFO truth to the surface for all to see.
“But then again, the evidence is overwhelming that we are being visited, the hundreds of thousands of government documents that I have in my possession will attest to that fact.”
USA : Un Marine décrit sa rencontre rapprochée avec un OVNI en 2004
USA : Un Marine décrit sa rencontre rapprochée avec un OVNI en 2004
Un pilote de chasse américain a décrit une rencontre terrifiante qu’il a eu avec un OVNI au-dessus de l’océan Pacifique.
David Fravor était l’une des quatre personnes envoyées dans deux avions de combat pour surveiller un objet volant non identifié après que celui-ci ait été repéré par ses supérieurs sur le porte-avions USS Nimitz en 2004.
Il a dit que cet engin mystérieux faisait littéralement mousser la mer et pouvait radicalement changer de direction à volonté. Cette scène s’est passée au large de la côte de San Diego aux Etats-Unis.
Fravor raconte:
« Il n’avait pas d’ailes. Alors nous avions pensé que c’était un hélicoptère, mais il n’y avait pas de souffle du rotor visible dans l’eau. De plus, quand les hélicoptères se déplacent d’un côté à l’autre, ils ralentissent, puis accélèrent dans l’autre sens. »
« Il était extrêmement brusque, comme une balle de ping-pong qui rebondit contre un mur et qui frapperait et irait dans l’autre sens et changerait de direction à volonté. »
« Ensuite, il était capable de planer au-dessus de l’eau, puis de commencer une montée verticale de zéro jusqu’à environ 12 000 pieds, puis d’accélérer en moins de deux secondes et de disparaître. C’est quelque chose que je n’ai jamais vu dans ma vie. »
Fravor est convaincu qu’il ne s’agissait pas d’un ballon météo ou d’une fusée éclairante.
Il a ajouté :
« Il est facile de décrire ce que nous ne pouvons pas expliquer et ce n’est pas le premier récit de personnes voyant un OVNI. »
« Dans cette situation, il y avait quatre personnes, tous avaient les yeux rivés dessus, et nous avions tous de l’expérience … moi-même j’avais eu plus de 16 ans de vol. »
Les séquences publiées par une « source inconnue » cette semaine nous montrent cette rencontre inexplicable.
L’un des autres pilotes, Chris Mellon, a déjà décrit cette rencontre. Il a dit :
« Imaginez que nous participions à un exercice d’entraînement de routine lorsqu’un aéronef non identifié est apparu sur le radar et se dirigeait directement en direction du groupement tactique. »
« Cet engin n’avait pas de transpondeur et ne répondait pas aux appels radio. »
« Le Princeton a alors contacté deux F-18 déjà en l’air pour intercepter la cible. Alors que les deux F-18 s’approchaient, les quatre aviateurs ils ont remarqué que l’objet n’avait ni d’ailes ni d’échappement. »
As I’ve said before, there’s nothing more both goth than space, and the universe constantly reminds us . On Halloween in 2015, a spooktacular asteroid called 2015 TB145 whizzed by Earth at a distance of 30,200 miles (486,000 km). Apparently, this freaky-looking space thing will be visiting us again next year.
The so-called “Halloween Asteroid” is only about 2,300 feet wide. Though astronomers first spotted it a few years ago, only recently did scientists at the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico notice the asteroid’s more chilling qualities. In certain lights, it resembles a human skull, which is astonishingly on-brand for a “Halloween asteroid.”
Researchers studying the asteroid published their new findings in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics back in February.
“It is an Apollo-type near-Earth asteroid (NEA),” researcher Pablo Santos-Sanz from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) said in a press release. “The proximity of this small object meant greater brightness, so we decided to study it using various observation techniques: on the one hand, we used optical telescopes from the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Granada, the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería and the La Hita Observatory in Toledo; and on the other, we analysed it in the mid-infrared using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) VISIR instrument at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Cerro Paranal, Chile”.
When the Halloween Asteroid makes its next pass near Earth, it’ll be even fartheraway than it was back in 2015 — this time, it’ll be about 105 lunar distances from us. And it won’t even be stopping by for Halloween — researchers say it’s expected to visit in November 2018.
Still, that doesn’t mean 2015 TB145 won’t come back for Halloween ever.
“The next slightly more exciting encounter will be around Halloween’s day in the year 2088, when the object approaches Earth to a distance of about 20 lunar distances,” researcher Thomas G. Müller from the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, said in a statement. “The encounter on Halloween’s day 2015 was the closest approach of an object of that size since 2006, and the next known similar event is the passage of 137108 (1999 AN10) on August 7, 2027. Later, 99942 Apophis will follow on April 13, 2029 with an Earth passage at approximately 0.1 lunar distances.”
Scientists will continue to monitor this strange asteroid as it makes its way back to Earth. Clearly, this is no phony goth — and it’s NOT A PHASE, MOM.
SpaceX's Jaw-Dropping Rocket Launch Wows Spectators Across Southern California - PART I
SpaceX's Jaw-Dropping Rocket Launch Wows Spectators Across Southern California - PART I
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — Wow! Talk about some Friday night lights! A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the evening sky over Southern California last night (Dec. 22) in a dazzling display that was visible to potentially millions of spectators and set Twitter abuzz with sightings.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched into space from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base north of Los Angeles at 5:27 p.m. PST (8:27 p.m. EST/0127 GMT) — just 30 minutes after sunset — carrying 10 Iridium Next communications satellites into orbit. The mission was a success, with all 10 satellites reaching their intended orbits. But it was the jaw-dropping views of the Falcon 9 streaking into space that stole the show, leaving an ethereal glowing plume in its wake as it soared into orbit.
"Caught off guard and had no idea what was happening at first ...must say it was one of my life's coolest moments!!!," said Michelle Snyder, who watched the launch from the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California. She sent in the video shown above. "A forever memory with my daughters and parents who were in town visiting for the holidays. FOREVER MEMORY!!!
From a southbound lane of the Interstate-5 freeway in Irvine, the launch wowed my 9-year-old daughter Zadie, who marveled at seeing the Falcon 9's first stage separate from its upper stage ("I saw first stage separation? I saw stage separation!") as we drove to meet relatives for the holidays. Her final say on the launch: "That is beautiful!"
My daughter wasn't alone in her awe. Observers across Southern California, and even as far away as Arizona and Tijuana, Mexico, reported stunning views of the launch.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chimed in with a joke: "Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea," he wrote in a video post of the launch on Twitter.
Tonight I saw a weird light in the sky in Los Angeles. Minutes later The LAFD issued an advisory that the "mysterious light in the sky" was from a rocket launch. The @spacex 's Falcon 9 rocket lighted up the sky as it carries 10 Iridium satellites from California to Earth's orbit
Usuarios reportaron extrañas luces en el cielo de #Tijuana; en realidad se trató del lanzamiento de un cohete espacial de @SpaceX en #California. : @MortizLH
Enjoy those awesome views? We'll try to share more as readers send in images, but SpaceX says its rocket launch shows will only get better.
In one last Twitter post, Elon Musk promised even more spectacular views when SpaceX's new heavy-lift rocket — the Falcon Heavy — begins launching in 2018. That rocket consists of three first-stage boosters, each of them based on the Falcon 9 first stage, that will separate and return to Earth much like the booster seen in Friday night's launch.
"If you liked tonight's launch, you will really like Falcon Heavy next month: 3 rocket cores & 3X thrust. 2 cores return to base doing synchronized aerobatics. 3rd lands on droneship," Musk wrote.
Editor's note:If you captured an amazing photo of video of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launch and would like to share it with Space.com for a story or gallery, send images and comments in to: spacephotos@space.com. This story was updated at 10:42 a.m. EST to include the video and comments by Michelle Snyder from Coronado, California.
What were our ancestors like 10,000 or more years ago? The most common image is one of small nomadic bands endlessly in pursuit of the next meal. Men hunted game while women and children gathered fruits, seeds, roots, shoots, insects, and other edibles.
The height of technology was a finely worked stone knife blade or spear point; nets, baskets, and cordage were also put to good use. Permanent structures were superfluous, for the group never stayed in one place very long. Material goods were sparse as possessions had to be limited to those easily carried. Jewellery (perhaps beads, animal teeth, or shells strung on a cord) and personal decoration (body paint, tattoos) were prized. In colder climates appropriate clothing was fashioned from animal skins. Social institutions were minimal. Not until the Neolithic Revolution, beginning about 10,000 years ago, did agriculture and domestication appear. This in turn allowed permanent settlement, leading to specialisation of labour, the development of crafts (including pottery and metalworking), the building of substantial structures, long-distance trade, and the slow and gradual evolution of complex societies.
None of this happened overnight. It took thousands of years, and it was not until around 4000 to 3000 BCE that true signs of high culture first appeared, such as fine artistry in decorative crafts, written records, scientific observations of the heavens, complex political organisations, and megalithic building projects. This level of achievement was reached in Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, and the Indus Valley by the beginning of the third millennium BCE. A well-known example is the rise of dynastic Egypt about 3200 to 3100 BCE and the building of the Djoser pyramid circa 2630 BCE. Stonehenge in England dates from the same period.
Although accepted as dogma by many, this nice neat scenario may be completely wrong.
Questioning Accepted History
Back in 1991, I had the temerity to announce that the Great Sphinx of Egypt, conventionally dated to 2500 BCE (the reign of Pharaoh Khafre), actually has its origins in the 7000 to 5000 BCE range, or possibly earlier.
My announcement was done via a presentation at the October 1991 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (this was allowed only after a formal abstract, submitted with my colleague John Anthony West, was accepted based on positive professional peer review).1 I made my case utilising scientific analyses, comparing erosion and weathering profiles around the Sphinx to the ancient climatic history of Egypt.
In brief, the Sphinx sits on the edge of the Sahara Desert, a hyper-arid region for the past 5,000 years; yet the statue shows substantial rain-induced erosion. The original structure must date back thousands of years prior to 3000 BCE (the head was re-carved in dynastic times).
I had pushed the Great Sphinx, arguably the grandest and most recognisable statue in the world, back into a period when humanity was supposedly just transitioning from a hunter-gatherer economy to a sedentary life. People 7,000 or more years ago were still brutish and unsavoury, at least by modern civilised standards. Certainly they were not carving giant statues (the Sphinx is about 20 meters tall by over 70 meters long) out of solid limestone bedrock. Immediately after my announcement of an older Sphinx, I was under attack. Archaeologist Carol Redmount (University of California, Berkeley) was quoted in the media, “There’s just no way that could be true.” The article continued, “The people of that region would not have had the technology, the governing institutions or even the will to build such a structure thousands of years before Khafre’s reign, she said.”2
The initial hoopla peaked in February 1992 at a “debate” on the age of the Great Sphinx held at the Chicago meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.3As the New York Timesput it, “The exchange was to last an hour, but it spilled over to a news conference and then a hallway confrontation in which voices were raised and words skated on the icy edge of scientific politeness.” Egyptologist Mark Lehner could not accept the notion of an older Sphinx, personally attacking me by labelling my research “pseudoscience.” Lehner argued, “If the Sphinx was built by an earlier culture, where is the evidence of that civilisation? Where are the pottery shards? People during that age were hunters and gatherers. They didn’t build cities.”4
At the time I lacked any pottery shards. But I was sure of my science, and I persisted. Two decades later, we have something better than pottery shards, and even earlier than my conservative Sphinx date of circa 5000 BCE to 7000 BCE (I now currently favour the older end of this range, or an even earlier date for the original Sphinx). Göbekli Tepe dates from over 10,000 years ago.
Better than Pot Shards
A short drive from Urfa (alternatively Sanlıurfa), southeastern Turkey, atop a mountain north of the Harran Plain, sits Göbekli Tepe. Since 1995 Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute has been excavating the site.5 Recently I visited it for myself. I was amazed.
At Göbekli Tepe immense finely carved and decorated T-shaped limestone pillars, many in the range of two to five and a half meters tall and weighing up to an estimated 10 to 15 tons, stand in Stonehenge-like circles. The workmanship is extraordinary, with clear sharp edges that would do any modern mason proud. It may be a cliché, but I cannot help but think of the opening scene of the classic 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. A group of ape-like proto-humans discovers a giant monolith; influenced by it, they learn to use tools, leading to civilisation.6
Various pillars at Göbekli Tepe are decorated with bas-reliefs of animals, including foxes, boars, snakes, aurochs (wild cattle), Asiatic wild asses, wild sheep, birds (cranes, a vulture), a gazelle, and arthropods (scorpion, ants). The carvings are refined, sophisticated, and beautifully executed. Not only are there bas-reliefs, but also carvings in the round, including a carnivorous beast, possibly a lion or other feline, working its way down a column, apparently in pursuit of a boar carved in relief below. In the round, carvings of lions and boars have been uncovered, now housed in the Museum of Sanlıurfa, as is a life-sized statue of a man, which, though from Urfa, apparently dates to the Göbekli Tepe era.
Also from Göbekli Tepe are perfectly drilled stone beads. And, according to Prof. Schmidt, while some of the stone pillars were set in the local bedrock, others were set into a concrete- or terrazzo-like floor. Looking only at style and quality of workmanship, one might easily suggest that Göbekli Tepe dates between 3000 and 1000 BCE. How wrong one would be. Based on radiocarbon analyses, the site goes back to the period of 9000 to 10,000 BCE, and was intentionally buried circa 8000 BCE.7That is, the site dates back an astounding 10,000 to 12,000 years ago!
This was supposedly the time of the brutish, nomadic, hunters and gatherers who, according to many academics, did not have the technology, governing institutions, or will to build structures such as those found at Göbekli Tepe. Clearly there is a disconnect between what conventional historians and archaeologists have been teaching all these years and the clear evidence on the ground.
As Stanford University archaeologist Ian Hodder commented, Göbekli Tepe is “unbelievably big and amazing, at a ridiculously early date… huge great stones and fantastic, highly refined art… Many people think that it changes everything… It overturns the whole apple cart. All our theories were wrong.”8Like my redating of the Great Sphinx, Göbekli Tepe forces us to reconsider our antiquity.
And like my work on the Sphinx, the specialists are perplexed by Göbekli Tepe. Patrick Symmes wrote in Newsweek, “But the real reason the ruins at Göbekli remain almost unknown, not yet incorporated in textbooks, is that the evidence is too strong, not too weak. ‘The problem with this discovery’, as [Glenn] Schwartz of Johns Hopkins puts it, ‘is that it is unique’. No other monumental sites from the era have been found. Before Göbekli, humans drew stick figures on cave walls, shaped clay into tiny dolls, and perhaps piled up small stones for shelter or worship. Even after Göbekli, there is little evidence of sophisticated building.”9
In a nutshell, we have evidence of high culture and civilisation circa 10,000 to 8000 BCE, but then an apparent decline or hiatus for thousands of years, until the “rise” of civilisation once again in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and elsewhere. What happened?
A Record of Precession at Göbekli Tepe
A hallmark of civilisation is precise scientific observation. Astronomy is often considered the earliest yet most sophisticated of the sciences. A particularly subtle astronomical phenomenon, the discovery of which is generally credited to Hipparchus of Rhodes in the second century BCE,10 is the slow movement of the stars relative to the equatorial coordinate system. This is commonly referred to as the precession of the equinoxes. The entire cycle, with stars returning to their “starting points,” takes somewhat under 26,000 years. Some researchers suggest that precession was known to the ancient Egyptians and other early civilisations, and is reflected in myths worldwide.11 Others dispute such assertions. I found evidence of precession at Göbekli Tepe, adding another layer of sophistication to this remarkable site.
The excavated portions of Göbekli Tepe lie on the southern slope of a hill looking out to the southern skies. Thus far, the better part of four stone circles (enclosures) has been excavated in an area measuring about 40 by 40 meters square. Additional, later and smaller, pillars and structures have been partially uncovered both 20 to 30 meters north and about 80 meters west of the major area of circles,12 and eighteen or more stone circles still under the earth have been identified. Enclosure D is located furthest north. To the southeast lies Enclosure C, and to the south of Enclosure D lies Enclosure B and finally A. The enclosures are very close to each other, almost abutting. Each enclosure possesses a pair of tall central parallel pillars ringed by a circle of shorter pillars with later stonewalls between the pillars. If at some point the enclosures were covered over, they may have been entered from above; indeed, possible carved stone “portals” have been found that may have been set in a roof.
The central pairs of pillars are oriented generally toward the southeast, as if forming sighting tubes toward the sky. The central pillars of Enclosure D include arms and hands, with the hands holding the belly or navel area, and it is clear that the anthropomorphic pillars are facing south. The orientations vary from enclosure to enclosure, however. For Enclosure D the central pillars are oriented approximately 7º east of south. Those for Enclosures C, B, and A are approximately 13º east of south, 20º east of south, and 35º east of south respectively.13 These varying angles suggest the builders were observing stars and building new enclosures oriented progressively toward the east as they followed particular stars or star clusters over hundreds of years.
What were the builders observing? This is a difficult question to answer, but we can hypothesise. On the morning of the Vernal Equinox of circa 10,000 BCE, before the Sun rose due east at Göbekli Tepe, the Pleiades, Taurus, and the top of Orion were in view in the direction indicated by the central stones of Enclosure D, with Orion’s belt not far above the horizon (as seen from the best vantage points in the area) as dawn broke.14 A similar scenario played out for the orientation of the central stones of Enclosure C in circa 9500 BCE and for Enclosure B in circa 9000 BCE. Enclosure A is oriented toward the Pleiades, Taurus, and Orion on the morning of the Vernal Equinox circa 8500 BCE, but due to precessional changes, the entire belt of Orion no longer rose above the horizon before dawn broke. By about 8150 BCE the belt of Orion remained below the horizon at dawn on the morning of the Vernal Equinox. These dates fit well the timeframe established for Göbekli Tepe on the basis of radiocarbon dating.
The Vernal Equinox is easily observed and noted, and since the beginning of recorded history has been an important marker, celebrated with festivities. It marks the first day of the year in numerous calendars, and is tied to cosmological creation stories. I suspect that these traditions go back to Göbekli Tepe times, and even earlier.
The Orion-Taurus region of the sky has been a focus of ancient humans for tens of thousands of years in Europe and the Middle East. Here are located the asterisms of Orion’s belt and the Hyades, as well as the Pleiades. Researchers such as Michael Rappenglueck, Frank Edge, and Luz Antequera Congregado have identified the constellation Taurus and the Pleiades among the paintings of Lascaux cave, France, dating back 16,500 years ago.15 Additionally, Rappenglueck asserts that a tiny tablet from Germany, carved of mammoth ivory and dating back at least 32,500 years, depicts the constellation Orion in the familiar guise of a narrow-waist male with outstretched arms and legs.16
Given such evidence, it is reasonable that the Göbekli Tepe people recognised Orion as a human figure, even as a hunter. The mammal remains found while excavating Göbekli Tepe (including numerous gazelle, aurochs or wild cattle, wild ass, fox, wild sheep/goat species, and boars), as well as the reliefs on the pillars, can be taken to indicate a hunting society. Indeed, studying the anthropomorphic pillars of Enclosure D, they may represent, in stylised form, Orion. Not only do they have arms (which could be interpreted as the arms of Orion brought down to the body), but also prominent belts (the belt stars of Orion) and fox pelt loincloths that may represent the Orion Nebula and associated features.
My suggestion that the Göbekli Tepe people were observing the Orion-Taurus-Pleiades region of the sky on the morning of the Vernal Equinox is simply a hypothesis. If they were observing stars (versus the Sun, for instance), then they needed to readjust their observations over the centuries due to precessional changes. And maybe they were observing something more than just the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars.
Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, and the Plasma Connection
Having returned from Easter Island (January 2010) not long before visiting Göbekli Tepe (May 2010), I was surprised to see numerous iconographic similarities between the two. I believe these similarities are real, but I might have missed them if I had not been to both sites in succession. Furthermore, both Easter Island and Göbekli Tepe may relate to powerful plasma events in the skies at the end of the last ice age.
The outstanding feature of Easter Island is the moai, those huge stone heads and torsos that dot the island. In the case of Göbekli Tepe, stone pillars dominate the scene. Amazingly, both the moai and the anthropomorphic central pillars of Enclosure D at Göbekli Tepe have arms and hands positioned similarly against the body, with hands and fingers extended over the belly and navel region. The moai are looking up at the skies, and I believe the Göbekli Tepe pillars are also looking towards the skies. Are they looking to identical phenomena?
As I have discussed elsewhere,17the indigenous Easter Island rongorongo script may record a major plasma event in the skies thousands of years ago, at the end of the last ice age. Plasma consists of electrically charged particles. Familiar plasma phenomena on Earth today include lightning and auroras, the northern and southern lights. In the past, much more powerful plasma events may have taken place, perhaps due to coronal mass ejections from the Sun or emissions from other celestial objects. Powerful plasma phenomena could cause strong electrical discharges to hit Earth, burning and incinerating materials on the planet’s surface.
Los Alamos plasma physicist Anthony L. Peratt and his associates have established that petroglyphs found worldwide record an intense plasma event (or events) in prehistory.18Peratt has determined that powerful plasma phenomena observed in the skies would take on characteristic shapes resembling humanoid figures, humans with bird heads, sets of rings or donut shapes, and writhing snakes or serpents – shapes reflected in the ancient petroglyphs. Plasma events may be a dominant theme found among the ancient remains of Easter Island. Likewise, plasma may be important to understanding Göbekli Tepe.
One of the strange and perplexing aspects of Göbekli Tepe is that it was not simply abandoned and left to oblivion, but intentionally buried around 8000 BCE. Furthermore, before its final burial, stonewalls were built between the finely wrought pillars. These walls are, in my opinion, clearly secondary as in many cases they cover over the fine relief carvings on the pillars. They are also much cruder than the pillars. Additionally, some pillars appear to have fallen over and broken, and were subsequently repaired or re-erected when the walls were built. In several cases the bases of the broken pillars are missing or lying horizontally under the tops of the broken pillars that were set to the correct height on a pile of stones. At this late stage the walls and pillars may have been roofed over.
Among the oddities of Easter Island are the low-lying, solid, thick-walled stone buildings with narrow entrances that look like bunkers or fallout shelters. These stone “houses” of Easter Island are similar to the structures formed by the walls and pillars of Göbekli Tepe. Could they, in both cases, have been protection from some type of phenomena emanating from the skies, such as plasma strikes?
Some might criticise comparisons between Easter Island and Göbekli Tepe not only on the basis that they are on opposite sides of the globe, but are also ostensibly separated by thousands of years (Göbekli Tepe dating from 8000 BCE and before, whereas according to standard chronologies Easter Island was not inhabited until a mere millennium and a half ago). In counterargument, I question whether we really know when Easter Island was first colonised. Even if surviving Easter Island antiquities and structures are from a relatively late period, they may reflect earlier traditions and styles, perhaps brought by settlers from elsewhere, that date back to a time of intense plasma outbursts. The rongorongo tablets may carefully preserve ancient texts that were copied over and over.
Just as I have argued that the Easter Island rongorongo script records plasma events in the ancient skies, so too might certain carved motifs found at Göbekli Tepe. Peratt has made the connection between birdman petroglyphs and plasma phenomena around the world. On Easter Island we find birdman petroglyphs as well as birdmen and bird symbols among the rongorongo hieroglyphs. At Göbekli Tepe a very similar bird form was carved into one of the pillars. Peratt records many plasma phenomena that can be interpreted as having the appearance of snakes. An abundance of snakes are found on the pillars of Göbekli Tepe, slithering vertically up and down the ends of some of the columns. Could these represent huge bolts of plasma?
Buried for Posterity
Based on the evidence slowly being pieced together, it appears there may have been a major plasma event, or events, in antiquity. In a previous article (see New Dawn 121)19I posited that a major plasma event, circa 9700 BCE, helped bring about the end of the last ice age. If the radiocarbon dating of Göbekli Tepe, to circa 10,000 to 8000 BCE is correct, perhaps the first-built stone circle was initiated in response to this plasma event of circa 9700 BCE.
The plasma phenomena were observed originating from the south, the direction toward which the Göbekli Tepe complex is oriented. Plasma events may have continued for centuries, and they may correlate with the additions and elaborations – stonewalls and more stone circles – seen at Göbekli Tepe. Perhaps ultimately the plasma was too much for the Göbekli Tepe people to bear, and they abandoned the site, but not before carefully covering it over. Whether their intention was to return once the skies calmed down, or to preserve their work for posterity, we do not know.
What happened at Göbekli Tepe? What were the people of that time doing? What were they experiencing? Why did they bury their creation and leave? Where did they go? These may be more than simple academic questions. I suspect that the Göbekli Tepe people experienced something dramatic, something so important they felt compelled to memorialise it in a record of stone that could last for over ten thousand years. They expended enormous resources to leave a message, possibly a warning, for us. Now it is time to fully uncover it and decipher what they had to say.
1. Robert M. Schoch and John Anthony West, “Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt”, Geological Society of America abstracts with programs, vol. 23, no. 5, A253 (1991). For further discussion of the date of the Great Sphinx, see: Robert M. Schoch. “Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza”, KMT, A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, vol. 3, no. 2, 52-59, 66-70 (Summer 1992); Robert M. Schoch, “Geological Evidence Pertaining to the Age of the Great Sphinx”, in New Scenarios on the Evolution of the Solar System and Consequences on History of Earth and Man (Eds. Emilio Spedicato and Adalberto Notarpietro), Proceedings of the Conference, Milano and Bergamo, June 7-9th, 1999, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Quaderni del Dipartmento di Matematica, Statistica, Informatica ed Applicazion, Serie Miscellanea, Anno 2002, N. 3, 171-203 (2002); Robert M. Schoch, “Life with the Great Sphinx: Some Personal Reflections”, Darklore, vol. 1, 38-55, 291 (2007); Robert M. Schoch with Robert Aquinas McNally, Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations, New York: Harmony Books, 1999; Robert M. Schoch with Robert Aquinas McNally, Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2003; Robert M. Schoch and Robert Aquinas McNally, Pyramid Quest: Secrets of the Great Pyramid and the Dawn of Civilization, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005; Robert M. Schoch and John Anthony West, “Further Evidence Supporting a Pre-2500 B.C. Date for the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt”, Geological Society of America abstracts with programs, v. 32, no. 7, A276 (2000); T. L. Dobecki and R. M. Schoch, “Seismic Investigations in the Vicinity of the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt”, Geoarchaeology, vol. 7, no. 6, 527-544 (1992).
2. Lee Dye, “Sphinx’s New Riddle–Is It Older Than Experts Say? Archeology: Geologists cite study of weathering patterns. But Egyptologists say findings can’t be right”, Los Angeles Times, October 23, 1991. Posted at: http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-23/news/mn-183_1_great-sphinx (Accessed 14 June 2010).
3. Robert M. Schoch, “How old is the Sphinx?”, Abstracts for the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago, 202 (1992).
5. Klaus Schmidt, Sie bauten die ersten Tempel: Das rätselhafte Heiligtum der Steinzeijäger, Die archäologische Entdeckung am Göbekli Tepe, München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006/2008; Klaus Schmidt, Tas Çagi Avcılarının Gizemli Kutsal Alanı Göbekli Tepe En Eski Tapınagı Yapanlar, Istanbul: Arkeolojí ve Sanat Yayınları, 2007; K. Schmidt, “Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey: A Preliminary Report on the 1995-1999 Excavations,” Paléorient, vol. 26, no. 1, 45-54 (2001); Joris Peters and Klaus Schmidt, “Animals in the symbolic world of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey: a preliminary assessment”, Anthropozoologica, vol. 39, no. 1, 179-218 (2004). For popular discussions of Göbekli Tepe, see: Graham Chandler (photographs by Ergun Çagatay), “The Beginning of the End for Hunter-Gatherers”,Saudi ARAMCO World, vol. 60, no. 2, 2-9 (March/April 2009); Andrew Curry (photographs by Berthold Steinhilber), “The World’s First Temple? Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s Stunning Gobekli Tepe Upends the Conventional View of the Rise of Civilization”, Smithsonian, vol. 39, no. 8, 54-58, 60 (November 2008); Patrick Symmes, “History in the Remaking: A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution”, Newsweek, 1 March 2010, article published online 19 February 2010 at: www.newsweek.com/id/233844 (Accessed 29 April 2010).
6. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968.
7. I briefly discussed the dating of Göbekli Tepe on site with Prof. Schmidt. It is based not only on calibrated radiocarbon dates of circa 9000 BCE or earlier on organic remains found in the material used to fill the site (these dates would be later than the actual occupation of the site), but also dates of circa 8000-7500 BCE on pedogenic carbonate coatings and micro-stalactites on wall stones (see Peters and Schmidt, 2004, 182 [note 5.]). These carbonate coatings and micro-stalactites would have formed only after the burial of the site and after soil formation began, thus indicating that the site itself was buried by circa 8000 BCE. Taken together, I am convinced that the evidence indicates that the site was actively used in the tenth and ninth millennia BCE and intentionally buried (as indicated by the systematic layers of the fill material and the material the fill contains, including flint tools and waste, animal and plant remains) circa 8000 BCE. The older Enclosures (A, B, C, and D) belong to Schmidt’s “Layer III.” Overlying Layer III is the younger Layer II, which contains smaller pillars and structures, and may date to the same period as the Neolithic site of Nevali Çori, an area northwest of Göbekli Tepe and similar in many respects to the Layer II period at Göbekli Tepe. Nevali Çori was excavated in the 1990s, but has since been flooded as a result of the Atatürk Dam built on the Euphrates River. Nevali Çori and Layer II of Göbekli Tepe may date to the second half of the ninth millennium BCE. In the catalog to accompany a 2007 exhibit at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit. Vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien, Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss, 2007), the earlier material at Göbekli Tepe, that of Layer III, is referred to 9500-8800 BCE whereas the material from Layer II is referred to 8800-8000 BCE and material from Nevali Çori is dated to circa 8500-7900 BCE. Prof. Schmidt suggested that some of the carved depressions and gouges, for instance on the tops of pillars, may date to a time when the site was buried but still remembered as an important or holy site, and people came to partake of the energy of the site. As Veysí Yildiz, son of the local landowner, explained, even before the archaeological remains were discovered at Göbekli Tepe, the area was held in reverence (stone-covered graves are found on the top of the mound to this day).
8. Quoted by Patrick Symmes in Newsweek [see note 5.].
9. Patrick Symmes [see note 5.]
10. Giulio Magli, “On the possible discovery of precessional effects in ancient astronomy,” article from 2004 posted at: http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0407/0407108.pdf (Accessed 17 June 2010); Giulio Magli, Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island, New York: Copernicus Books, 2009.
11. See for instance, J. Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy, New York: Macmillan, 1894 (reprinted, with a preface by Giorgio de Santillana, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1964); Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, Boston: Gambit, 1969.
12. The main, and older, portion of Göbekli Tepe under discussion in this article belongs to Schmidt’s Layer III; the younger and smaller pillars and structures belong to Schmidt’s Layer II [see note 7.].
13. These measurements are only approximate, and are based on the plan of Göbekli Tepe on page 186 of Peters and Schmidt, 2004 [note 5.].
14. Alignments discussed here were determined using the computer program “Starry Night Pro 4.5” (Toronto: Space Holding Company, 2003).
17. Robert M. Schoch, “An Ancient Warning, A Global Message, From the End of the Last Ice Age”, New Dawn 121, 15-22 (July-August 2010).
18. Anthony L. Peratt, “Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity”, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 31, no. 6, 1192-1214 (December 2003); Anthony L. Peratt, John McGovern, Alfred H. Qöyawayma, Marinus Anthony Van der Sluijs, and Mathias G. Peratt, “Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity Part II: Directionality and Source”, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 35, no. 4, 778-807 (August 2007); A. L. Peratt and W. F. Yao, “Evidence for an Intense Solar Outburst in Prehistory”, Physica Scripta (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), 13 pages (December 2008).
All unidentified flying objects seen over the past 70 years were secret Government experimental craft, according to an expert in the unexplained who researched the subject.
Author Mark Pilkington said agencies like the CIA in the USA were behind a huge double bluff, and were happy the public believed they were alien craft as it took the heat off the top-secret projects that were really going on.
The British author claims the strange craft sighted around the world really do exist – but they are not aliens.
Flying saucers and unidentified aircraft are actually secret technology being developed mostly by the US, he claims.
Mr Pilkington claimed a shadowy organisation he dubbed “mirage men” were behind the global double bluff, Dailystar.co.uk reports.
He has produced a new documentary of the same name he boasted exposes the truth behind UFOs.
He claimed the secrecy all started with the Roswell UFO mystery of July 1947.
In the early 1950s the US military was testing a lot of new technologies and it was convenient to disguise them as UFOs.
Mark Pilkington
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a mysterious top-secret military base.
There have been claims and counter claims, including that the bodies were crash test dummies and it had been a top-secret balloon spying on the Russians.
All the confusion means it is one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories to this day.
Mr Pilkington claims Roswell is one of the “most famous examples” of the work of the mirage men.
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He told Sputnik: "In the early 1950s the US military was testing a lot of new technologies and it was convenient to disguise them as UFOs.
"It was a double bluff."
Mr Pilkington added the US Air Force found people were more easily accepting of rumours about UFOs and aliens than any other explanation of the secret aircraft.
Mr Pilkington is not the first researcher to propose that some UFOs are secret spy craft, but he appears to be the first to suggest they all are.
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