Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, 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...
20-02-2018
We zijn niet alleen in het heelal. Abductee vertelt openhartig over zijn ontvoering door aliens
We zijn niet alleen in het heelal. Abductee vertelt openhartig over zijn ontvoering door aliens
De afgelopen dagen vond in Scottsdale in Arizona het International UFO Congress plaats. Eén van de sprekers was Travis Walton, die naar eigen zeggen op 5 november 1975 werd meegenomen aan boord van een UFO, schrijft The Arizona Republic.
Indertijd werkte Walton als houthakker in de Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests toen hij plotseling een fel licht zag hangen boven een open plek in het bos.
Samen met enkele collega’s reed hij richting het licht. Hij werd er als het ware naartoe getrokken. Een collega riep: “Het is een vliegende schotel.”
Mooi
Hoe dichter hij in de buurt van het object kwam, hoe banger hij en zijn collega’s werden. “Het was niet alleen beangstigend, het was ook mooi,” zei Walton.
“Het zag eruit als glas. Er kwam een gloed vanaf. Het glom en was metaalachtig,” voegde hij toe. “Het oppervlak glom zo erg dat het leek alsof er licht uit kwam.”
Na een tijdje begon de UFO te bewegen en besloot hij het op een lopen te zetten. Toen hoorde hij een harde knal.
Zijn collega’s lieten hem in de steek en belden de politie. De zes ‘hysterische’ collega’s vertelden aan politieagent Chuck Ellison, die ook op het congres was, in tranen dat Walton was ontvoerd door een vliegende schotel.
Twee figuren
Vijf dagen lang werd niets van Walton vernomen. Zijn collega’s werden ervan beschuldigd het UFO-verhaal te hebben verzonnen. Anderen zeiden dat het een hoax was.
Ondertussen bevond hij zich aan boord van een buitenaards schip dat hem had meegenomen.
Walton zei dat hij bewusteloos raakte na de knal. Toen hij weer bij kennis kwam zag hij twee figuren aan boord van het schip.
Het eerste wezen was klein en had een groot hoofd, grote ogen en geen haar, aldus de abductee.
Hel
Het tweede wezen zag er mensachtig uit en kwam aan boord toen Walton weer wakker werd.
Het enige wat hij zich verder herinnert is dat hij werd afgezet in het plaatsje Heber, waar hij contact opnam met zijn familie.
Hij zag nog hoe het schip wegvloog.
De familie Walton ging door een hel. Ze werden gemeden als de pest, bespot, gepest en uitgemaakt voor leugenaars.
Niet alleen
Travis richtte zich vooral tot de critici. “Veel mensen vormen een mening en verzamelen daarna alle zogenaamde feiten waarmee ze hun theorie kunnen ondersteunen,” zei hij.
“In plaats daarvan zouden ze eerst de feiten moeten verzamelen en die laten bepalen hoe hun theorie eruit komt te zien,” vervolgde hij.
Hij wil mensen naar eigen zeggen laten weten dat dit echt is, dat deze dingen echt gebeuren en dat we niet alleen zijn in het heelal.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETOns naburig sterrenstelsel, Andromeda, is minder dan drie miljard jaar geleden geboren door een botsing van twee verzamelingen van sterren. Dit staat in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Onze buurvrouw bevindt zich op 2,5 miljoen lichtjaar van ons.
François Hammer van het Observatorium van Parijs en zijn Frans-Chinees team hebben miljoenen bytes aan data onderzocht. Met behulp van de krachtigste computersimulaties konden de wetenschappers het traject van de twee oorspronkelijke sterrenstelsels opnieuw uittekenen. Zo bleek dat ze 1,8 tot drie miljard jaar geleden zijn gebotst.
Dat betekent dat Andromeda - een afgeplatte schijf - geboren is toen de Aarde al bestond. In de gigantische schijf van Andromeda ondergaan alle sterren van meer dan twee miljard jaar oud ongeordende veranderingen, luidt het. Ter vergelijking: de sterren van onze Melkweg volgen netjes bewegingen van rotatie. Enkel een recente botsing kan het gedrag van de sterren in Andromeda verklaren.
Andere studies wijzen uit dat er een botsing zal plaatsvinden tussen Andromeda en onze Melkweg, maar dat zal pas binnen vier miljard jaar gebeuren.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETMoskou wil de komende jaren zo’n 90 miljoen euro investeren in het Europees-Russische onderzoeksproject ExoMars. Met het project zoeken het ruimtevaartagentschap Roskosmos en zijn Europese partner ESA naar sporen van leven op de Rode Planeet.
Het grootste deel van de investering staat gepland voor 2019 en 2020, meldt het persagentschap Interfax. Met ExoMars zoeken Rusland en ESA naar sporen van leven op de Rode Planeet. België speelt een belangrijke rol bij ExoMars.
Al in oktober 2016 hebben beide organisaties een sonde in een baan rond Mars gebracht. Een lander crashte. De verwachting is dat de sonde medio maart gereed is met de laatste manoeuvres om een analyse van de atmosfeer te beginnen. België is toonaangevend in dat atmosfeeronderzoek. Exomars heeft nog een tweede luik met de lancering in 2020 van een robotjeep.
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Black Disk Seen In Sky Over Great Britain, Proof Alien Bases Exist In GB, UFO Sighting News.
Black Disk Seen In Sky Over Great Britain, Proof Alien Bases Exist In GB, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 8-3-1998, but reported today.
Source: MUFON #90312
Location of sighting: Gainsborough, Great Britain
I really like this photo. It shows a classic shaped UFO in the far distance above Great Britain. There is just too much evidence coming from GB to deny the existence of aliens any longer. The truth is, we are not alone, and never have been.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I had just bought a new camera and was trying it out by swizzling around and napping pictures to see if the was any blurring. I took about 10 pictures doing the same thing I only looked at the first couple and they seemed good quality. So I downloaded them into a file on my computer and never thought any more about it. Then I acquired a program called Picasa which found lots of photos on my computer looking through them I spotted this one I thought it might have been a bird in flight and passed it by. I have never bothered to much about it and it might be nothing at all, I will let you judge.
Astronaut caught trying to hide UFO near ISS on Live Stream
Astronaut caught trying to hide UFO near ISS on Live Stream
This footage was captured during the ISS live stream on February 18, 2018 at approximately 8.20 pm.
It shows a mysterious UFO fly into shot from the left hand side of the screen and change direction before emitting a white glow and shooting off at high speed before the astronaut tries to hide the UFO.
Gigantische draaiende 'donut' gespot rond supermassief zwart gat
Gigantische draaiende 'donut' gespot rond supermassief zwart gat
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nog niet eerder is de roterende gasschijf zo duidelijk in beeld gebracht.
Met behulp van het Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) hebben astronomen beelden gemaakt van het centrum van M77, een spiraalstelsel op tientallen miljoenen jaren afstand. Op de beelden is een roterende gas- en stofschijf te zien die rond het supermassieve zwarte gat in het hart van dit sterrenstelsel cirkelt. De beelden zijn uniek; hoewel het bestaan van zo’n roterende ‘donut’ rond een supermassief zwart gat decennia geleden al gesuggereerd werd, is er nog niet eerder zulk overtuigend bewijs voor gevonden.
20 lichtjaar De ‘donut’ in kwestie is enorm: ALMA onthult dat deze een straal van zo’n 20 lichtjaar heeft. Daarnaast bevestigen de beelden dat deze compacte structuur rond het zwarte gat cirkelt.
Hier zie je de beweging van gas rond het supermassieve zwarte gat. Het gas dat naar ons toe beweegt, heeft een blauwe kleur gekregen. Het gas dat van ons af beweegt, is rood.
Afbeelding: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO), Imanishi et al.
Evolutie De observaties van deze enorme gas- en stofschijf kunnen meer inzicht geven in de evolutie van sterrenstelsels en hun zwarte gaten. Bijna alle sterrenstelsels herbergen een enorm zwart gat in hun centrum en onderzoek heeft uitgewezen dat er een verband is tussen de massa van een zwart gat en de massa van zijn gastheer: het sterrenstelsel: hoe zwaarder een sterrenstelsel is, hoe zwaarder ook het centrale zwarte gat. Dat klinkt logisch. Maar sterrenstelsels zijn zo’n 10 miljard keer groter dan de zwarte gaten, en dus rijst de vraag hoe twee objecten die zo in grootte verschillen elkaar direct kunnen beïnvloeden. Dat vraagstuk was voor astronomen de reden om een blik op M77 te werpen: een stelsel met een zogenoemde active galactic nucleus (kortweg AGN), wat betekent dat materie richting het centrale zware gat valt en intens licht afgeeft. AGNs kunnen hun omringende omgeving ster beïnvloeden en dus meer inzicht geven in de co-evolutie van sterrenstelsel en zwarte gaten.
Een artistieke impressie van de ‘donut’. Dankzij ALMA is de rotatie ervan nu helder in beeld gebracht.
Afbeelding: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO).
“Om verschillende observationele kenmerken van AGNs te kunnen interpreteren, hebben astronomen aangenomen dat er rond actieve supermassieve zwarte gaten roterende donut-achtige structuren te vinden zijn,” legt onderzoeker Masatoshi Imanishi uit. “Maar de donut lijkt heel klein. Met de hoge resolutie vanALMA kunnen we de structuur nu direct waarnemen.”
De observaties leveren ook een verrassing op. Zo is de distributie van het gas rond het supermassieve zwarte gat in M77 een stuk gecompliceerder dan eerdere modellen suggereerden. Het kan erop wijzen dat dit sterrenstelsel een gewelddadig verleden heeft (mogelijk is het met een kleiner sterrenstelsel gefuseerd).
While we have still not found life off-Earth, we have found many exo-planetary systems. The planets most likely to sustain life are eyeball exo-planets–and they’re drastically different than our home planet.
What is our planet made of? How does it work? Where does the Earth belong in the universe? Is life an unlikely happenstance?
Humans have pondered these delicate questions since the dawn of civilization.
According to the histories we’ve retained, Greek philosophers were among the first to try to answer these questions.
They perceived the Earth as a flat disk surrounded by an endless circular river. Above, there was a dome-like firmament of Heaven. Here, Zeus and Hera ruled the domain of the gods.
Aristotle and Ptolemy defended the theory of Geocentrism. According to this theory, Earth is a motionless body at the center of the universe. Around this version of Earth, all celestial bodies, including the Sun and stars, orbit.
As you may know, the Geocentric model lasted until the end of the 16th century when Copernicus challenged it with his Heliocentrism theory, claiming that the Earth revolves around the Sun. This theory extrapolated that the Sun was now the center of the universe, not Earth.
Since then, we’ve come to know that neither the Earth nor the Sun is the center of the universe.
In fact, the Milky Way is only one of the hundreds of billions of galaxies in an expanding universe. In all, the human-centric theory of us being the focal point of the universe was rendered meaningless.
This mysterious, infinitely enormous universe of ours gave rise to sentient life, at least here on Earth.
This raises the question: what are the chances of humans being the only sentient life in the universe?
Before we get to answer this question, we have to identify the “habitable” worlds that could support life.
The Goldilocks Zone, Habitability, and Earth Twins
An exoplanets’ theoretical ability to host life, or habitability, is largely based on one reference: Earth.
There are about 100 billion stars, give or take a few billion, in the Milky Way alone. As far as galaxies go, that’s on the low end. Estimates for this figure can go up to 400 billion stars.
Most stars have solar systems with at least one planet, so we can safely assume there are more planets than stars in the universe.
According to their conclusions, there are hundreds of billions of billions (≈2×1019 to ≈7×1020) of terrestrial planets orbiting around stars. Some of these stars are like our Sun, while many others are less-luminous types like red dwarfs.
In searching for alien life, scientists generally focus on worlds that resemble Earth. As such, in addition to being telluric, candidate exoplanets need to meet two major criteria: their size, and the distance from their home star.
To be eligible for consideration, a rocky planet must be neither too big nor too small.
They also have to be located in the habitable zone of its star for the temperature to allow for liquid water to exist on the surface.
As of writing this article, there are 3,605 exoplanets that have already been confirmed, with another 4,496 candidates needing further evaluation. Among these, 890 are rocky planets.
Taking into account the above criteria, the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog estimates the number of potentially habitable planets at 53, including 22 Earth-size ones.
The HEC even assigns an ESI score (Earth Similarity Index) to each of these planets, with Proxima Centaury b and Trappist-1e topping the list with 0.85s.
Red Dwarfs, Best Hope to Find ET Life
The hunt for alien planets likely to host life is in full swing.
In the last couple of years, more and more planets are being discovered outside our solar system, with many believed to be potentially habitable.
To most of these researchers, habitability boils down to liquid water flowing on the surface of a planet.
Recent studies revealed that these alien worlds are mostly rocky planets and are up to about 5% water. That’s 250 times more than Earth’s 0.02%!
These seven Earth-like planets orbit around the Trappist-1, which is a red dwarf star.
While the habitability zone or even the existence of liquid water can’t guarantee there will be life, this discovery should encourage astronomers to zero in on red dwarfs and planetary systems they may host.
The reason why we should make red dwarfs the main target is simple: red dwarfs are believed to be the most common star type (up to 70% of all stars) in the universe.
Then there’s also the fact that they tend to exist longer, sometimes for trillions of years, giving life a better chance of evolving.
Eyeball Exoplanets and the Twilight Ring
The habitability zone of a system depends on the nature of the star. The bigger the star, the farther out its habitable zone will be.
In the case of red dwarf stars, their habitable zone is much closer. Red dwarfs are about 20% of the mass of the sun and up to 50 times less radiant.
The relatively small size of red dwarfs means that any planet orbiting them would be much closer.
That also means that they orbit their host star more frequently, which makes their detection easier using the transit method or other observation techniques.
However, any planet lying near a red dwarf star is likely to be subjected to a strange phenomenon.
As it orbits the red dwarf very closely, these planets are usually forced by the star’s gravitational pull into synchronous rotation, which will make it permanently show the same side to the star.
This phenomenon, also known as tidal locking, isn’t actually so uncommon as a concept.
Earth exerts the same effect on the Moon, which takes four weeks to rotate around its axis and the same to turn around the Earth. That’s why we always see only one side of the Moon.
Tidally-locked exoplanets are called “Eyeball” planets because of the look they might give, with one side permanently facing heat and the other frozen in a night without end.
Your imagination can really go wild on these planets. For example, in some cases, there could be an ocean covering the bright side with ice all around it.
However, in between these two extremes, there is a twilight temperate zone that runs through the Eyeball planet’s middle and could gather the conditions for life to thrive.
“The day side is roasting and dry. The night side is frigid and icy. In between, it’s just right! The sweet spot—let’s call it the “ring of life”—is at the terminator, the boundary between night and day. The ring of life is bounded by deserts on one side and ice on the other. There is a constant flow of water from the night side to the day side—a series of rivers, all flowing in the same direction. The Sun is fixed in the sky right at the horizon, and the area is in permanent light.”
If the exoplanet is an “eyeball”, the hemisphere that is always facing the star would be the pupil. Per Raymond, there are many types of Eyeball planets, such the “hot Eyeball planets” and the “cold Eyeball planets”.
The concept of Eyeball exo-planets was first suggested with the discovery of Gliese 581g, the first exoplanet that was thought to have potentially habitable signs. It was then revealed that Gliese 581g might not exist at all.
Based on the hypothetical prevalence of tidally-locked Eyeball planets (based on the prevalence of red dwarfs), statistically-speaking, it’s most likely that we’d find alien life on one of these planets than other types of planets.
In all, the question of whether we are alone in the Universe or simply not looking with the right methods is a debate which is likely to continue until we either find life, or we run out of places to look. For now, these exo-eyeball planets give us hope for the possibility that we might not be the only intelligent life in existence.
Can you imagine what forms of life would exist in the twilight ring of Eyeball planets, between the scorching heat and the deathly cold?
Humans would rather come in contact with aliens than with artificial life made on Earth, a team of researchers has found. They also say that despite the prevalence of movies and TV shows depicting aliens as malevolent creatures, people might react well to a discovery of extraterrestrial life.
The findings are published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology and are based upon an analysis of responses to hypothetical reports of alien discoveries — specifically microscopic life as opposed to intelligent life — and real newspaper stories that discussed potential discoveries in the past.
According to the study, people predicted that they as individuals would take the news better than the rest of humanity.
They also had better “responses to reading an actual announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial microbial life … than responses to reading an actual announcement of the creation of man-made synthetic life” in a laboratory. That conclusion came from a comparison of how subjects reacted to an article about Martian microbes and how they reacted to one about artificial life. The people were more receptive to the former, revealing something about how people view organic life forms and how they view synthetic life.
“Taken together, this work suggests that our reactions to a future confirmed discovery of microbial extraterrestrial life are likely to be fairly positive,” the researchers wrote in their paper.
Are we alone in the universe? Scientists say humans would probably respond well to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Photo: CC0 Creative Commons
In addition to gauging people’s reactions to reading newspaper stories about aliens, the scientists analyzed language used in articles and reported that the coverage was associated mostly with positive emotions rather than negative ones.
Among the real articles on possible alien discoveries were stories about fossilized microbes on Mars, unexplained activity around a star and the existence of Earth-like planets in another solar system.
“If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be prett upbeat about it,” researcher Michael Varnum said in a statement from Arizona State University. “So far, there’s been a lot of speculation about how we might respond to this kind of news, but until now, almost no systematic empirical research.”
According to the study, there could be many factors behind how people respond to alien life, including their religious views and whether they would take comfort in knowing that Earth’s life forms are not alone in the universe.
“Perhaps it speaks to their desire for novelty,” the paper says. “At present, we do not know the mechanisms by which this effect occurs, and we encourage future researchers to test these and other possibilities.”
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Isaac Newton’s Philosopher’s Stone Recipe Discovered
Isaac Newton’s Philosopher’s Stone Recipe Discovered
According to reports, researchers have re-discovered Isaac Newton’s recipe for alchemists’ mercury.
The document, which dates back to the seventeenth century is believed to have been handwritten by Isaac Newton himself and explains the fundamental part of the process to create the mythical Philosopher’s Stone, a substance that alchemists believed could transmute base metals into gold.
The papers written by Newton on theology and alchemy far exceed in volume those dedicated to Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics, sciences in which he is a leading figure.
However, it is important to mention that Newton wrote more than a million words about alchemy, something that was known only after his death since ‘proto-science’ was illegal in his time.
His forbidden texts were written under the pseudonym of Jeova Sanctus Unus.
The document contains text copied from another alchemist’s writings as well as descriptions of Newton’s own experiments
The philosopher’s stone was, according to the tradition of alchemists and necromancers, a substance with extraordinary properties capable of transmuting any metal into gold, it was also capable of curing diseases and granting immortality, through the elixir of life.
One of the great cultivators of these secrets was Isaac Newton, one of the fathers of physics, who practically devoted himself to the Great Work—Latin: Magnumopus, in an exhaustive way.
The Great Work is an alchemical term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher’s stone. It has been used to describe personal and spiritual transmutation in the Hermetic tradition, attached to laboratory processes and chemical color changes, used as a model for the individuation process, and as a device in art and literature.
The manuscript which contained the extraordinary recipe, was in the possession of a private collector, and auctioned in Pasadena, California, and purchased by the Chemical Heritage Foundation of Philadelphia.
It is an instructive guide that details the process for preparing ” alchemists mercury “, a recipe that Newton copied from the American alchemist George Starkey, whom he probably considered a better alchemist.
Starkey (1628 – 1665), considered the first man of American science, also wrote under a pseudonym; Eirenaeus Philalethes.
According to website Chemistry World, ‘Philosophic mercury was [thought to be] a substance that could be used to break down metals into their constituent parts,’ explains James Voelkel, the CHF’s curator of rare books. ‘The idea is if you break the metals down you can then reassemble them and make different metals.’ The process was part of the effort to make the philosopher’s stone, he adds, a mythical substance that alchemists believed could turn lead into gold.
Translated from Latin, the manuscript title is: ‘Preparation of the [Sophick] Mercury for the [Philosophers’] Stone by the Antimonial Stellate Regulus of Mars and Luna from the Manuscripts of the American Philosopher’. The manuscript is believed to describe the necessary process to make ‘sophick’ – short for ‘philosophic’ – mercury.
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Researchers Unearth Sophisticated Engineering And Metal-Work Beneath Ancient Greek ‘Pyramid’
Researchers Unearth Sophisticated Engineering And Metal-Work Beneath Ancient Greek ‘Pyramid’
As noted by experts, this ancient ‘pyramid’ composed of a number of terraces of would have blazed in the Greek sun, visible from far off. Beneath the structure, researchers discovered traces of complex engineering and metal-working.
A group of archaeologists from three countries has found evidence of advanced engineering work under the terraces of the pyramidal sanctuary of the islet Daskalio.
New excavations on the remote Greek island of Keros have revealed evidence of spectacular engineering feats and monumental architectural works that, according to researchers, make it one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Aegean.
An Impressive ancient mold for metallurgy found in the archaeological site.
Image Credit: University of Cambridge
According to reports, more than 4,000 years ago, to be precise 4,500 years ago, the ancient builders carved the entire surface of a natural promontory in the form of a pyramid on the Greek island of Keros. They formed it in terraces covered with 1,000 tons of gleaming white stone specially imported to give it the appearance of a giant stepped pyramid that rises from the Aegean, making it the most imposing artificial structure of the entire Cycladic archipelago.
However, what’s inside is even more impressive, say archaeologists.
Experts have found below the surface of the terraces still-undiscovered engineering and craftsmanship feats that rival the impressive exterior of the structure.
As noted by the Guardian, Archaeologists have found evidence of a complex of drainage tunnels – constructed 1,000 years before the famous indoor plumbing of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete – and traces of sophisticated metalworking.
Experts are still unsure whether the ancient tunnels were designed as a system for wastewater or fresh water.
This is an aerial image of the promontory of Dhaskalio, rising from the Aegean sea. According to experts, it was once joined to the major sanctuary of Keros.
Image Credit: Michael Boyd
Researchers uncovered the first traces of advanced metalworking ten years ago on the site. Since then, new discoveries have shown the ancient inhabitants of the Mini-Islands were far more sophisticated than researchers imagined, as experts have excavated two workshops full of metalworking debris, and a number of artifacts including a lead axe, a mold for copper daggers, as well as countless ceramic fragments from metalworking equipment, used by the ancient builders, thousands of years ago.
“What we are seeing here with the metalworking and in other ways is the beginnings of urbanization,” said Joint director of the excavation Michael Boyd, of the University of Cambridge in an interview with the Guardian. Far-flung communities were drawn into networks centered on the site, craft and agricultural production was intensified, and the architecture became grander, gradually overshadowing the original importance of the sanctuary.
Archaeologists have found complex drainage tunnels and metalwork
Image Credit Michael Boyd.
It is noteworthy to mention that the Dhaksalio promontory is now essentially a small islet due to the rise in sea level.
However, 4,500 years ago it was attached through a narrow channel to Keros, which, according to previous research, was a maritime sanctuary, center of power and destination of pilgrimage where mysterious rituals were carried out with broken marble objects.
The Mysterious UFO Incident with Many Witnesses above Gosford, Australia (1994) FindingUFO
The Mysterious UFO Incident with Many Witnesses above Gosford, Australia(1994)
On New Year’s Eve 1994, police switchboards suddenly lit up with reports of an unidentified illuminated object flying over the waters around Gosford on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
According to Sergeant Bob Wenning, callers reported seeing a “huge ball-shaped object with bright lights on the bottom”. To many of the witnesses, it appeared as though the illuminated craft was sucking up water from the bay with beams of light shining down from the object, penetrating the water.
Some thought that these beams were turning the water to steam, while others described the water frothing.
In 1957, three men were driving by the Silpho Moor near Scarborough, England, when they saw a glowing object light up the sky and crash to the ground. One of the men got out of the car to investigate, and found a metallic saucer lying in the bushes. Though experts were emphatic that the object was not a UFO, the incident caused a sensation in the UK, with headlines proclaiming that “a real flying saucer” had been found.
The saucer was studied and taken apart. Eventually, it disappeared, prompting some to speculate that it had been deliberately concealed. But six decades after the initial discovery, parts of the so-called “Silpho Saucer” have surfaced once again. As Sarah Knapton reports for the Telegraph, fragments of saucer were recently found inside a cigarette box in the archives of London’s Science Museum.
The objects were identified by David Clarke, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and a consultant for the National Archives UFO project. He was giving a talk on the Ministry of Defense’s UFO files at the Science Museum when a staff member approached him and asked if he was aware that fragments of a “flying saucer” had been stored at the museum for decades. According to the BBC, the staffer in question, exhibition developer Khalil Thirlaway, had discovered the fragments in the cigarette tin while looking through folders connected to the aviation historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith.
“I was absolutely amazed when later we opened the tin box and saw the wreckage,” Clarke tells Knapton. “It was obvious these were the remains of the missing Silpho Saucer.”
The saucer was covered in hieroglyphics when the men discovered it in 1957. After it was pried open, a book made of 17 thin copper sheets, each one inscribed with additional hieroglyphics, was found inside. According to Rafi Letzter of Live Science, a local café owner subsequently claimed to have deciphered the hieroglyphics as a message from an alien named “Ullo,” who warned of impending atomic war and promised Earthlings that they “will improve or disappear.”
Researchers at London’s Natural History Museum studied the object and concluded that the metal had no extraterrestrial properties and showed no signs of having hurtled through the high temperatures of Earth’s atmosphere. But despite experts’ assurances that the Silpho Saucer was just an elaborate hoax, the public was captivated, and the object drew comparisons to the Roswell “UFO,” the wreckage of a weather balloon, which was discovered in New Mexico in 1947, that excited similiar extraterrestrial fervor.
On his website, Clarke cites UFO expert Jenny Randles, who says she believes the Silpho Saucer incident holds the distinction of being “the most costly and well organised hoax that has ever taken place in Britain.”
As Knapton of the Telegraph reports, pieces from the saucer came to the Science Museum in 1963 and were promptly forgotten. The fragments may not have much scientific value, but Thirlaway, the exhibition developer, says his conversation with Clarke has illuminated the Silpho Saucer’s rich history.
“We didn’t know there was this massive cultural history behind it, it really brought the items to life for us,” Thirlaway tells the BBC. “There’s a chance they may go on display as we’re now aware of their cultural significance.”
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Disc-shaped UFO spotted soaring above Mount Everest in spooky footage
Disc-shaped UFO spotted soaring above Mount Everest in spooky footage
UFO watchers say the spooky object causes a silhouette and its height means it can't be a drone or helicopter
By Ed McConnell
A bizarre UFO has been spotted above Mount Everest.
The disc-shaped object can be seen in the sky over the Himalayas.
UFO watchers say the spooky object causes a silhouette and its height means it can't be a drone or helicopter.
The image is one of 477 stitched together by mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears as part of an amazing two-billion-pixel photo.
The mosaic image is intended to show Mount Everest in all its glory and stretches from the camp of 500 prospective climbers at the base to the sky above.
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While it was created in 2012 it remains unclear exactly what the object is.
UFO Today adds in its coverage that there have long been rumoured to be secret underground 'Area 51'-type bases in the area, especially in the virtually inaccessible Ladakh border area between India and China.
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Last year declassified CIA files revealed seven sightings of UFOs were reported in the skies above Nepal and neighbouring India and Bhutan in 1968.
Two of those were in Nepal including one in which "a blazing object, flashing intermittently and accompanies by a big thunder sound" was seen disintegrating above the western part of the country.
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The report goes on to state that a "huge metallic disc-shaped object with a six-foot base and four feet in height was found in a crater, five miles north east of Pokhara."
A former UFO tracker claims Government phone-tappers forced the closure of his own organisation, the Unidentified Flying Object Information Bureau.
Brian Leathley-Andrew chronicled reports of a plethora of strange craft in the late 1960s.
Press cuttings at the time suggest that, in the Swinging Sixties, the truth was definitely out there – and lurking in the skies over the West Midlands.
But his work made shadowy figures in the halls of power twitchy, Brian – who now refers to himself as Lord Brian Leathley-Andrew – believes.
Brian Leathley-Andrew(Image: CET)
They were concerned, he reckons, that he’d tripped upon dark technology being developed in secret locations.
Now 71 and living in Bedworth, Warwickshire, the former electrical engineer says: “Society is being watched by the Department of Them. Say hello to System X.
“Quite clearly, I had problems with phone tapping, bloody crude phone tapping. You could hear the click.
“There were too many people looking, in hindsight.”
It has been more than 50 years since Brian turned his back on the UFO bureau and his interest in Close Encounters has diminished.
“These days I’m retired,” he admits. “I struggle to find time to tie my shoelaces.”
But he’s convinced of the validity of some of the sightings, even if work was sometimes bogged down by hoaxers.
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He is also adamant that Big Brother was, indeed, watching – and listening in.
His personal security, even safety, he says, were compromised.
“There were a lot of mickey-takers,” he admits. “One man sent me pictures of a UFO.
“It was the lid of exactly the same handcream my wife used. The jar was there on the table in front of me.”
Half a century on, the work of Brian’s bureau lives on through the yellowed archives of our sister newspaper, The Coventry Telegraph.
On December 3, 1968, Brian publicly admitted he was a scared man.
Under the banner headline “Worried UFO Man Gives Up”, he announced the organisation’s closure.
In the bombshell article, Brian alleged:
He had been watched by a man with a glowing orange face;
His phone cut off whenever he attempted to talk about UFOs;
He had a phone message from a caller “speaking unusual English”.
“I have given this thing up and destroyed all the papers,” he told the Telegraph. “There have been happenings which have worried me and frightened my wife.”
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For Brian, the alarm bells rang while repairing his mother’s car.
“Suddenly, I noticed a man standing by the next door garage,” he told the paper. “Nobody had been there before.
“His face was glowing orange. As I watched, the face changed to that of an old man before my eyes.
“Then he turned and walked away.
“You could not describe the first face in normal terms. It had eyes, nose and mouth in the proper places – but not of the shape that we associate with the human figure.”
Soon afterwards, a visit to a fellow UFO watcher in Stoke was strangely scuppered.
“All the lights in the house suddenly dimmed as though a huge electrical load had been put in the circuit,” he said.
“This will happen once in a while normally, but it kept on happening. This is most unusual.
“All this started two days after I opened my bureau. I want to publicly warn all teenage hobbyists that this is nothing to dabble in lightly.”
Did ET get sent to Coventry?
Judging by the flood of reports, Brian was in the right place to experience extra-terrestrial activity.
At the time, the Coventry Telegraph carried page after page of sightings.
And he was not alone in being gripped by ET fever.
He believes the flood of sightings coincided with experimental research by the Government. The Rolls Royce factory was nearby, he pointed out.
Coventry folk – even city policemen – were experiencing close encounters on a daily basis.
The dramatic reports can best be described as “of their time”. Frankly, some of the Coventry Telegraph reporters seem to have approached the topic with tongue firmly in cheek.
For example....
“UFO Became A Mum” (September 28, 1968):
“A flying saucer which gave birth over Willenhall has been reported to the Unidentified Flying Object Information Centre of Mr Brian Leathley-Andrew.
“An eye-witness phoned Mr Leathley-Andrew to report that the mother UFO was a giant sphere-like object seen in 1953. Sparks came from the underside of the UFO which gave birth to a small sphere. The incident was seen by people in a bus queue near Willenhall traffic island.”
And there’s more...
“Flying Saucers Not A Load of Tripe” (September 24, 1968):
“Flying saucers were the greatest mystery of our time and should not be dismissed as a load of tripe, Mr Wilf Grunau told Nuneaton Rotary Club.
“Mr Grunau is managing director of the Awson Motor Carriage Company which has works at Solihull and Nuneaton. Mankind, he said, had been seeing strange things in the sky since the beginning of recorded history. Mr Grunau spoke of making two sightings himself over Coventry through binoculars. He said: ‘As a result, I believe in UFOs. All I can repeat is UFOs must be piloted by beings from other worlds or else they are a natural phenomena in our atmosphere’.”
And yet more...
“Saucer Over City Say Women” (March 31, 1969):
“Two Coventry women believe there may have been a flying saucer over the city during the weekend after they were woken by an ‘unearthly’ high-pitched whining accompanied by a glowing light.
“‘I have been over all the possibilities and that is the only explanation I can think of,’ said 28-year-old Patricia Hughes.”
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‘Do not be too sceptical about UFOs’
Back in the 1960s and early 1970s members of the constabulary were less shy about admitting they had seen UFOs.
After all, the whole nation were closet believers.
On February 24, 1971, four bobbies gave their story to the Coventry Telegraph.
It reported: “PC Brian Hewitt of B sub-division said: ‘We were attending a job in Lythall’s Lane at 6.15am when we all saw a strange object in the sky.
“‘It was not a meteorite or anything like that. There were three single white lights in the sky over the Nuneaton area and moving at a great spread in a westerly direction towards Birmingham. They then turned northwards.
“‘They were at the height of about two miles and the lights did not belong to the same object because they were so far apart. They appeared to be in formation.
“‘They were also travelling at a tremendous speed because an aircraft flying at, say, 600mph at that height would appear to be going very slowly.
“‘I don’t know what they could have been. I don’t believe in flying saucers or anything like that and I have tried to look at it in a reasoned way. I have checked with air traffic control at Birmingham Airport and the first aircraft to land there was later than the time we saw those lights. I cannot explain it.’”
Such was the space fever that the police actually appealed for UFO sightings.
On January 4, 1972, Warwickshire police sergeant Mike Davies told the Telegraph: “Don’t be too sceptical about UFOs.
“I ask people to whom sightings are reported to listen to what is said. Then they can deduce what the object was not, and speculate what it was. I believe there is something beyond our comprehension and our technology.
“The tendency is to take a few statements and then to make a sweeping statement about what an object was. People are too prepared to dismiss the subject.”
The officer added: “I have yet to be convinced that some information about UFOs is not withheld by the authorities.
“But supposing there was a statement that we were being invaded by people from another planet, what do you think the reaction of the public would be?”
Google Maps, created in 2007, is a brilliant platform to spot suspected UFO sightings around the world.
One such fascinating sighting is in footage taken from Arizona, which seems to showcase a UFO crash landing.
Situated in the deserted Arizona mountains, the footage shows a mysterious round black shape.
Pointed blobs are seen on the top of the suspected spacecraft, in a formation that resembles the bottom of an overturned UFO, suggests a crash landing.
Google Maps: This footage shows what seems to be a UFO crash
Leafy trees surround the craft, which would provide a handy hiding place for an escaped aliens who might have survived a crash.
Although there is no light coming from the object – usually characteristic of UFOs – it is possible the light function may have been broken in the crash.
The bizarre, unexplained UFO shape was first spotted by alien hunting team, @secureteam10 on Youtube.
According to the person who posted it, the site where the suspected UFO was found is not only remote – it is also a no-fly zone.
Google Maps
Google Maps: The UFO crash suspect site is located in a remote part of Arizona
In the video, which he created to showcase this UFO alien conspiracy, he said the no-fly restrictions “interested him”.
“As I said, it could be a crash site, or it could be a testing site.
“What really interests me is not only the military no-fly restriction put on this exact area, but the SECOND no-fly restriction literally placed dead-centre on the location of this object.
"That's a hell of a lot of military-grade restriction overkill for whatever this thing is.”
According to a New York Times story, a secretive Pentagon program analyzed reports of UFOs. But the associated videos raise some questions.
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ON DECEMBER 17, 2017, a newspaper printed a story titled“Real U.F.O.’s? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know.” No, the headline wasn’t surrounded by text about post-baby bods and B-listers’ secret sorrows. Because it was on the front page of The New York Times.
The article describes a federally funded program that investigated reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs, the take-me-seriously acronym that includes UFOs). And within the story, the Times embedded videos of two such UAPs.
Although the article was careful not to say that unidentified meant extraterrestrial, the Department of Defense acknowledged the program, and it was easy enough for readers to draw the conclusion that these videos could show alien aircraft. The Times supplemented one of the clips with a first-hand account of a Navy pilot who was sent to investigate “mysterious aircraft” that appeared—poof!—at 80,000 feet, dropped down to 20,000, and then seemed to hover before either leaving radar range or launching straight up. Weird, right?
The discovery, and federal acknowledgement, of a UFO of non-earthly origin would be revelatory—and the Times’ scoop seemed to suggest that such a worldview-shifting scenario is at least not not-true. That the videos came courtesy of the Defense Department made it easier for readers to put faith in their validity.
“The video footage, in this case, is what captures people’s imagination and is part of what made this case more compelling,” says historian Greg Eghigian, a recent NASA and American Historical Association Fellow in Aerospace History.
But there are a few missing links in this narrative chain, links that need to be forged before anyone has enough information to accurately interpret these videos, let alone conclude they even remotely suggest anything extraterrestrial.
But wait, this story broke the news that the DOD had a secret UFO program and had released secret video! That’s huge!
Here’s what happened. About a decade ago, the Department of Defense inaugurated a UFO program, budgeted at $22 million according to the Times. It went by AATIP, for Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, though the Times story refers to it as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Its purpose was to investigate flying foreign weapon threats—ones that exist now or could be developed in the next 40 years. The product of legislation cosponsored by senators Harry Reid of Nevada and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the program, according to Pentagon spokesperson Audricia Harris, was primarily executed through a contract with Bigelow Aerospace—a company owned by Reid’s constituent and donor Robert Bigelow. (The wealthy businessman, who is best known for his inflatable space habitats, still owns a company called Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, which has also researched UFO reports.)
The Pentagon program was run by Luis Elizondo, who told WIRED he took the lead position in 2010. (WIRED was unable to verify that Elizondo worked on AATIP, but Harris does confirm that he worked for the Defense Department.) The AATIP team, Elizondo says, took strange-sighting reports from pilots, as well as associated data like camera footage and radar returns, and tried to match them with known international aircraft signatures. “What we found many times was the fact that the aircraft did not belong to anybody,” Elizondo says. Sometimes, he says, the craft displayed behavior the AATIP team couldn’t explain.
Elizondo has become a kind of celebrity—in the wider world, arguably, but definitely in the UFO community. This week, those UFO researchers and enthusiasts and skeptics gathered in Fort McDowell, Arizona, for their annual International UFO Congress. And Elizondo, who had brought them closer to the capital-D Disclosure they’ve long sought, was supposed to be there. Instead, this evening at 6 pm Eastern, the Congress will show a prerecorded interview in which Elizondo will answer submitted questions from the community— “many of the questions that have gone unanswered,” according to a press release.
People have been clamoring for those answers—and Elizondo characterizes himself as being all about the answers. He says he wanted, for instance, to speak more publicly about the crafts’ non-nationality. “That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people,” Elizondo told the Times, and the website linked to his new venture makes reference to the declassification processes the films had to undergo. The Times portrays the program as “shadowy” and possessing “excessive secrecy.”
But those are all funny things to say, because it doesn’t seem like the Pentagon ever held the program’s data or documents that close, and it doesn’t seem like the videos in that story ever were classified.
“If they were officially declassified, they would have to have been officially classified,” says Nate Jones, director of the Freedom of Information Act Project at the National Security Archive. And a classified video would likely have a markingat least at the beginning and end, even after it was okayed for public consumption. Someone—at the Times, at To The Stars—could have cut those introductory and closing seconds from the video, but why would they do that, when both groups were emphasizing the direct-from-DOD legitimacy of the videos? “It looks very strongly like these weren’t released through any proper DOD declassification channels that I’ve ever seen,” says Jones. “I’ve seen a lot of DOD declassification in response to FOIA, in response to mandatory declassification review, in response to proactive disclosure. And it doesn’t look like this.”
Here is, perhaps, why: While the details of the program weren’t widely known, Harris says that the program files the Pentagon has pored over so far—Pentagon staffers have been reviewing AATIP documentation since around the time the Times story broke—were unclassified.
Of course, there are endless quibbles to be had over classification. Elizondo, for his part, clarified to WIRED that he didn’t believe the videos themselves were ever classified: They were just stored on a classified system. Either way, though, it seems that they made their way into the world without the typical release process, which the Department of Defense requires of “all documents that are submitted for official public release.”
Information is classified, according to the National Archives, if its improper release would present a national security problem. So why would a secret program looking at aerial anomalies—“aerodynamic vehicles engaged in extreme maneuvers, with unique phenomenology,” says Harris—remain unclassified? Sounds like those UAPs weren’t so threatening after all.
Well, fine. But the videos were still part of the program, even if they weren’t classified. It even says right there: “Courtesy of US Department of Defense.”
It’s true, that’s what the December Times story says about the videos. But there are two important things to know about that credit.
First of all, Harris maintains the Pentagon isn’t the source of the videos. “The official who is authorized to release this video on behalf of DOD did not approve the release of this video,” she says. She’s adamant: “I stand firm that we did not release those videos.”
Which means that although the videos may have originated within the DOD, which Harris acknowledges they may have, there’s no public proof or Pentagon acknowledgement of their association with AATIP. Of course, perhaps the Pentagon wants it that way. In the 1950s, according to a bookby investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen, the CIA’s Psychological Strategy Board concluded that the public’s potential reaction to UFOs (belief, followed by hysteria) constituted a national security threat. The '50s were a long time ago, but we still enjoy Jell-O salad every so often, so maybe we would still be susceptible to social chaos if we were to learn about flying objects of questionable origin.
And in any case, one of the Times’ video credits has since changed. WIRED contacted the Times reporters in late December, asking them to comment on how the paper obtained the videos, and on the Defense Department’s denial that it had released them. Reporter Ralph Blumenthal replied on behalf of the three coauthors in early January, “We don't discuss the processes by which we obtain information.” But he added, “We have official documents showing the origin of the videos and the process of review provided within the DOD before they were released.”
In mid-January, though, the Times changed the caption of the lead video in its story. Both videos still have captions stating they were “released by the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.” But the page now simply says the first video is “by,” not “courtesy of,” the Department of Defense.
Journalists gonna journalism, though. Of course they’re protecting their sources. But I just so happen to know that there’s another place that has original video straight from the DOD, and they’re up-front about everything.
Ah, you must be talking about To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.
In case other readers are not already caught up, To the Stars is a company cofounded by former Blink-182 member and longtime paranormal enthusiast Tom DeLonge. The company wants to collect data on unexplained phenomena, maybe even building out tech based on what they observe. Oh, and sell books, movies, music, and merchandise related to To the Stars’ efforts
It also, coincidentally, now employs Luis Elizondo. Elizondo says he wanted to speak about what he says the AATIP team had seen, but he didn’t think that was possible from within the Pentagon. So he resigned in October 2017, he says, signing on with To The Stars soon thereafter (although WIRED’s FOIA request for Elizondo's resignation letter, which was quoted in the Times, turned up no records, according to the Office of the Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff).
Also coincidentally, To the Stars launched a video-centric site on the same day the Times story came out—carrying the same two fighter-jet clips that appeared with the article. The so-called Community of Interest currently hosts one pilot report and one video interview along with the gun-camera videos—“the first official UAP footage,” the page says, “ever released by the USG.” (That’s the US government, for all you sheeple.)
While the academy’s site may make bolder claims than the Times did, that doesn’t make those claims more true. The Community of Interest page says the videos come from the Defense Department, have gone through the official declassification review process, and have been approved for public release. Further, it boasts that the academy can prove it with chain-of-custody paperwork. Its two UAP videos, together, have garnered nearly 3 million views on To The Stars’ YouTube channel, where the footage begins with on-screen text characterizing the videos as official and released.
Those chain-of-custody files aren’t public, but To The Stars did show WIRED some paperwork suggesting that the videos had gone through the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR), which is one part of the DOD’s document release procedure. DOPSR, says this guide, conducts “security and policy reviews on all documents that are submitted for official public release.” “It means that one of the steps for the review of a product has been completed,” says the Pentagon’s Harris.
But that documentation doesn’t actually clear material for release. “An approval from DOPSR does not equate to public release approval,” says Harris. To release AATIP videos by the book, someone would have had to coordinate with the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. So the videos on the To the Stars don’t carry any more weight than the same videos published by the Times.
OK, fine. But those videos are still spooky. If we can’t trust the feds or the paperwork, we can trust our own eyes, right?
True, the videos show some weird stuff. But without a clear chain of custody, we can’t even know whether they were part of AATIP at all, or trust that they haven’t been tampered with.
And a copy of one of the much-touted videos has been online since at least 2007. UFO researcher Isaac Koi (a pseudonym under which he writes about the topic) established that the second video in the Times story, of an event in 2004, appeared online in 2007. Someone posted it on the conspiracy website Above Top Secret, and Koi delved into its origins. The first appearance he could find was on a website for a company called Vision Unlimited—a film production company. An archived 2007 version of vision-unlimited.de confirms that the footage was hosted there back then.
That archival film matches the Times video.1
After all the unclassifications and release-denials, this information shouldn’t surprise you. We’ve pretty clearly established that whatever these videos show, they don’t seem important enough for the Pentagon to get in a tizzy over. And while the fact that one of them has shown up online before doesn’t prove that they didn’t originate with the military, it does call that chain of custody into question. Without official confirmation or available documentation (and more documentation than WIRED saw), you can’t be sure what you’re viewing is unadulterated footage, and you can’t be sure who recorded it first.
To The Stars Academy acknowledges that the 2004 video has existed elsewhere; its explanation is that those incarnations were leaked versions and that theirs is original. But there’s no public proof for that statement.
It’s true, a Navy pilot named David Fravor did give an account to the Times of his 2004 experience with a UFO, and an unnamed source provided a report in September 2017 of the same events to To The Stars Academy. But squint just a little to see that there’s no definitive link between these accounts and that video. The witnesses give a description of an alleged strange event, and the video shows an encounter with a strange object. But without a time and location stamp of some sort, viewers can’t know whether the witnesses are actually describing what’s in the video. And, beyond that, there’s no definitive link between this video and AATIP.
In the end, also, there’s no way for the public to know whether, five seconds after the other film ends, the pilots don’t discover the “fleet” of crazy flyers wasn’t from Finland. Or the Air Force.
Fine, hater. What would it take to make you believe?
In lieu of federal nondenial, or more public paperwork, there should exist hard data—like air traffic control reports, or the radar returns Elizondo mentioned—that could help establish the videos’ actualness and officialness, as well as the UAPs’ strangeness. If someone—in an aircraft, on the ground, on a ship—sent radio waves up, and they bounced off a flying object, the timing of their return and the way those waves had changed could reveal the object’s speed, its distance, and sometimes its shape.
Will To The Stars Academy be releasing those?
Yes, Elizondo says. But how and when and where, he doesn’t know.
1 UPDATE 9:45 AM ET, 2/17/2018: This article previously included an interpretation of the text on the Nimitz video display.
Though many have speculated that humans would respond negatively to the discovery of alien life, we have very little scientific research on the subject. According to a new study, however, people in the U.S. would likely have a positive reaction to the news.
If science fiction’s to be believed, humans are going to absolutely freak out when we first encounter extraterrestrials — we’re talking pandemonium, nothing short of out-and-out hysteria. From Independence Day to Alien, your average human in a movie doesn’t take well to meeting our newly-discovered alien neighbors, who, to be fair, are usually threatening the widespread elimination of humans in some way.
But if you talk to the average person, you might get a different picture of what a reaction to first contact might look like. Most people aren’t so alarmed. In fact, they’re pretty optimistic about what meeting aliens might mean. Most of us are like the kids in E.T., rather than the terrified adults: A reaction that’s less reflexive hostility, more peaceful curiosity.
A new study suggests that, in the event of an extraterrestrial encounter, the rioting and looting would be kept to a minimum — humans would actually react pretty positively to the news.
Michael Varnum, assistant professor of psychology at Arizona State University, took several different approaches in his study, which he presented during a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Austin, Texas.
For the first part, he and his team used a computer program to analyze the language used in news articles about discoveries that indicated the possibility of alien life. The program focused on the emotional timbre of the articles and found that the media coverage was generally positive. The researchers also made a (hypothetical) announcement that humans had detected extraterrestrial microbial life, and asked more than 500 people to offer their written responses. Again, the language the authors used was largely positive.
As for something that feels a bit more real? In the final part of the study, the researchers asked 500 people to respond to one of two articles in the New York Times about real scientific discoveries: evidence of microbial life on a Martian meteorite and the creation of synthetic life in a lab. Interestingly, participants reacted more positively to the possibility of alien life than the human capacity to create life.
“[T]aken together, this suggests if we find out we’re not alone, we’ll take the news rather well,” said Varnum in a press release.
Varnum’s studies, it should be noted, only took American perspectives into account. First contact would affect the entire human population (and probably some other types of organisms, too), and different cultures might respond to the news very differently.
Plus, it’s easy to be optimistic about something that you know hasn’t happened. Many of us are simply rosy about going to the gym, but hate it once we’re actually there (or, conversely, we hate the idea of going to the gym, but love it once we’re actually exercising). After all, we are humans, and we do tend to do a great job of tricking ourselves into looking forward to things.
If scientists have their way, the question of whether extraterrestrials exist won’t be hypothetical for long— increasingly sophisticated technology will help us detect aliens, if in fact they’re out there. Playing out possible scenarios and getting a sense for how humanity would react to such a discovery could help governments come up with better-informed policies for how to handle first contact, when and if it arises.
Ultimately, we can at least hope that humans would have an upbeat reaction to the discovery of alien life. We can test the waters, make policies, or play out different scenarios in the fictional space all we like.
But the best way to figure out how humans will react to extraterrestrials? Find the aliens. Then we’ll really get to see if humans are as upbeat as researchers predict.
Photos taken from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed a new mystery for scientists to crack. The dark storm on Neptune, which was once so vast it spanned the distance from Boston to Portugal, is now shrinking.
A mysterious storm in Neptune that is the size of China and believed to smell like rotten eggs is dying. The reason for this is unknown, along with any ...
In the 1980s, NASA first discovered dark storms on the planet with its Voyager 2 spacecraft. The large oval-shaped storm was called the Great Dark Spot. Since then, Hubble has given us a better look at the mysterious storms that appear and vanish.
The newest storm was spotted in 2015, and is similar to the gigantic storm swirling on Jupiter, dubbed the Great Red Spot (GRS). Jupiter's particular storm has tumultuous winds that reach up to 400 miles per hour and has been on the planet for more than 150 years. Like the GRS, this storm moves in an anticyclonic direction, which coughs up substances found inside the planet’s atmosphere. Analyzing this allows astronomers to study Neptune’s winds, as no other measurement tools exist. Scientists believe it could be made of hydrogen sulfide—meaning there’s a good chance it smells like rotten eggs.
However, Neptune’s storm does differ from the one on Jupiter in that its vortices are short-lived. This new image is the only photograph of a storm captured during its demise. But scientists are puzzled at how they began in the first place.
“We have no evidence of how these vortices are formed or how fast they rotate,” Agustín Sánchez-Lavega from the University of the Basque Country in Spain, said in a statement. “It is most likely that they arise from an instability in the sheared eastward and westward winds.”
3 billion miles away on Neptune, the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – was captured shrinking out of existence by @NASAHubble: http://go.nasa.gov/2Bw3c0Q
This elusive vortex has also gone rogue, behaving differently than expected.
“It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael Wong of the University of California, Berkeley, in a statement. “Their dynamical simulations said that anticyclones under Neptune’s wind shear would probably drift toward the equator. We thought that once the vortex got too close to the equator, it would break up and perhaps create a spectacular outburst of cloud activity.”
Instead, the dark spot faded away instead of vanishing in one big dramatic exit.
We can thank Hubble for the discovery of this baffling phenomenon, according to scientists.
“No facilities other than Hubble and Voyager have observed these vortices. For now, only Hubble can provide the data we need to understand how common or rare these fascinating neptunian weather systems may be,” Wong said in a statement.
A Foul-Smelling Storm on Neptune is Mysteriously Fading Away
If they indeed exist, extraterrestrial (literally, “outside earth”) beings have a material existence in the world of space and time on some planets other than the earth.
Such beings may be simple one-celled creatures similar to bacteria, but most people commonly use the term extraterrestrial to mean intelligent life on other planets.
A Scientific Understanding
From a scientific point of view, there are a few important points we should not lose sight of when discussing life forms.
Life requires complex and subtle chemical reactions for it to come into being as well as to exist. And such reactions require a liquid medium to facilitate them.
Now of all the known objects in our solar system, only the earth is definitely known to have the conditions needed for liquid to exist under the prevailing conditions.
Do not the unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before We cleaved them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?(Quran 21:30)
Today, scientists tell us that life began in the sea when simple molecules bonded together and became self-replicating.
And Allah said He created all life from water and raised a protective canopy over the Earth. Allah knows best, and all we can do is to study, to research, and to reflect.
There are verses in the Quran that apparently favor the belief in the existence of such creatures, though we cannot find any particular verse explicitly stating their existence.
For example, the very phrase “rabbul `aalameen”(meaning “the Lord of the worlds”) as a description of God points to the possibility of the existence of beings in many worlds.
We read in the Quran several verses where God’s creatures of various kinds are mentioned:
Among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the living creatures that He has scattered through them: and He has power to gather them together when He wills. (Quran 42:29)
Note the expression in the above verse “living creatures He has scattered through them.” There is a reference here to creatures on planets other than earth.
The word dabbah denotes any sentient, corporeal being capable of spontaneous movement; it is contrasted here with the non-corporeal, spiritual beings designated as angels.
So one day, if scientists come forward with solid proof for the existence of extraterrestrial beings, it should not be a surprise for Muslims.
Cultural Obsession
Aliens and UFOs have provided great scope for the kind of fiction that appeals to people’s imagination while drawing heavily on their increasing interest in the wonders of science and technology.
Particularly in the United States, there is fertile ground for all kinds of “fashionable” myths to be advanced and propagated.
Think of the number of psychics, clairvoyants, spiritualist mediums, and other self-proclaimed experts who flourish there on the “educated ignorance” of the gullible public.
People in the East, who have almost forgotten all these superstitions, are led to believe by the media that these are part of the postmodern lifestyle now renovated and closely followed by a glamorous West.
People in the East tend to swallow almost anything spewed out by the American visual media, falling easy prey to such beliefs.
From the Islamic point of view, it is all left to science, as the Quran clearly and categorically supports all kinds of honest scientific investigations.
But the universe is such an enormous entity that we cannot discount the possibility of life existing, as on earth, in some remote planet in one of the millions of galaxies.
This is the sound scientific stand towards everything that is yet to be known conclusively.
We do not know all the secrets of the universe, nor can we know them.
And finally, this issue of the existence of extraterrestrials is not related to our fundamental faith, and a belief or disbelief with regard to them need not trouble us overmuch.
I hope this answers your question. Please stay in touch.
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How Would Mankind React To The Ultimate Proof Of Alien Life?
How Would Mankind React To The Ultimate Proof Of Alien Life?
A study has reflected on how humanity will react when we finally come across the ultimate proof of alien life: how are we going to assimilate it? Will we feel threatened and react with horror? Shall we embrace alien life as a development, and are we going to understand it?
In 1938, Orson Wells created a radio adaptation of Hg Wells War Of The World. The result? Total panic: The first two-thirds of the one-hour broadcast was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins. The first news update interrupted a program of dance music to report that a series of odd explosions had been spotted on Mars, which was followed soon thereafter by a seemingly unrelated report of an unusual object falling on a farm in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. Martians emerged from the object and attacked using a heat ray during the next interruption, which was followed by a rapid series of news reports describing a devastating alien invasion taking place across the United States and the world.
Now, a new study by the University of Arizona asked people how would they feel about the discovery of alien life. The result took experts by surprise.
“If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it,” said Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Psychology Michael Varnum.
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“So far, there’s been a lot of speculation about how we might respond to this kind of news, but until now, almost no systematic empirical research,” says Dr. Varnum, who presented his findings at a press conference this at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is held in Austin, Texas, United States.
In a pilot study, Dr. Varnum and his colleagues analyzed the language in newspaper articles about potential discoveries of extraterrestrial life in the past. Dr. Varnum aimed to address the nature of reactions to the discovery of extraterrestrial life using a software program that quantifies emotions, feelings, impulses and other psychological states in written texts.
Dr. Varnum and his team looked at the 1996 discovery of possible microbes on the surface of Mars, the discovery of a periodic oscillation around Tabby’s star in 2015, which was thought to indicate the presence of an extraterrestrial megastructure; and the discovery in 2017 of a number of exoplanets similar to Earth in the habitable zone of a star.
This analysis revealed that the language in the coverage of these events showed significantly more positive than negative emotions.
In a separate study, the team asked more than 500 different participants to write about their own hypothetical reactions and humanity’s hypothetical reaction to the announcement that extraterrestrial microbial life had been discovered.
The responses of the participants also exhibited significantly more positive than negative emotions, both when contemplating their own reactions and those of humanity as a whole.
“I would have some excitement about the news,” one participant said. “It would be exciting even if it was a primitive form.”
Dr. Varnum explained that the studies demonstrate that “taken together, this suggests if we find out we’re not alone, we’ll take the news rather well.”
“In summary, the results of this study suggest that people believe, on the whole, both themselves and humanity will respond in positive ways if a confirmed discovery of extraterrestrial life is made,” he said.
“I would qualify that by saying that if the intelligent life discovered was sort of an armada of hostile warships entering the Solar System, the no I don’t imagine you would see this pattern,” concluded Dr. Varnum.
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