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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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21-03-2018
Leaked WikiLeaks Cable Confirms Alien Life On Other Planets
Leaked WikiLeaks Cable Confirms Alien Life On Other Planets
A cable released by Wikileaks seems to have confirmed what millions of people around the globe believe for decades: we are not the only “intelligent” lifeforms in the universe.
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit media organization, which publishes anonymous reports and leaked documents with sensitive content of public interest on its website, preserving the anonymity of its sources.
The site was launched in December 2006, although its activity began in July 2007-2008.
Since then its database has grown steadily to accumulate 1.2 million documents.
Its creator is Julian Assange and is managed by The Sunshine Press.
The website itself is a treasure-trove of ‘secret’ or better said sensitive information, and unsurprisingly, among the 1.2 million leaked documents posted on Wikileaks, we find a couple for them that directly speak about extraterrestrial life.
A document titled: “MAYOR MEETS AMBASSADOR, CONFIRMS EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE” seems to confirm what many of us have known for decades, there is life on other planets in the universe.
The leaked document was posted in January of 2010 and was originally classified as ‘Confidential’ according to Wikileaks.
The document reads:
REASON: 1.4 (b), (d)
(C) Summary: In a platitude-ridden meeting, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev said upcoming elections would be free and fair, that contributions to the Roghun Dam were voluntary, and that the losses suffered by the United States in Afghanistan were felt by Tajiks as their own. Ubaidulloev asked for help in getting Tajik students admitted to Harvard University but effectively declined to help find a new location for an American Corner in Dushanbe. He asserted the existence of life on other planets, caveating this by noting that we should focus on solving our problems on Earth. End Summary.
AFGHANISTAN
(SBU) On January 13 Ambassador called on Dushanbe Mayor and Chairman of the upper house of Parliament Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev at his parliamentary office. The Mayor began the meeting with a lengthy discourse on Afghanistan, thanking the United States for its contributions and sacrifices there, and saying that U.S. activities there were very important “as we enter the third millennium and the 21st century.” Ubaidulloev thought the main task there was to build a sense of national identity among ethnically disparate groups, and said the United States was an example for this. He noted that “war is very dangerous”, and said, “we know there is life on other planets, but we must make peace here first.”
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Bevestigt een gelekte WikiLeaks-cable het bestaan van buitenaards leven? Kijk wat deze burgemeester erover zegt
Bevestigt een gelekte WikiLeaks-cable het bestaan van buitenaards leven? Kijk wat deze burgemeester erover zegt
Een WikiLeaks-cable lijkt te bevestigen wat miljoenen mensen op aarde al decennialang geloven: dat we niet de enige intelligente levensvormen in het universum zijn.
De onthullingssite bevat een schat aan informatie. Er zijn inmiddels ruim 1,2 miljoen gelekte stukken op geplaatst. Een aantal daarvan heeft betrekking op buitenaards leven.
Een document getiteld ‘Burgemeester ontmoet ambassadeur, bevestigt buitenaards leven’ lijkt te bevestigen dat er leven is op andere planeten.
Verwijzing
Op 15 januari 2010 werd vanaf de Amerikaanse ambassade in de Tadzjiekse hoofdstad Doesjanbe een bericht naar Washington gestuurd met een verwijzing naar buitenaards leven.
Twee dagen daarvoor had de ambassadeur burgemeester van Doesjanbe en parlementsvoorzitter Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev uitgenodigd voor een gesprek.
De burgemeester en de ambassadeur spraken uitgebreid over de situatie in Afghanistan.
Leven op andere planeten
Ubaidulloev bedankte de VS voor haar bijdrage en opofferingen aldaar en zei dat de Amerikaanse activiteiten erg belangrijk waren ‘terwijl we het derde millennium en de 21e eeuw zijn binnengegaan’.
Ubaidulloev dacht dat de inspanningen vooral waren gericht op het versterken van het nationale identiteitsgevoel onder etnische groepen en noemde de VS als voorbeeld.
Hij merkte op dat oorlog ‘zeer gevaarlijk’ is en dat hij weet dat ‘leven op andere planeten bestaat’, maar dat we eerst vrede op aarde moeten realiseren.
For your next intergalactic voyage: a weather station by MB&F and L’Epée 183
For your next intergalactic voyage: a weather station by MB&F and L’Epée 183
MB&F L'Epee The Fifth Element horological weather station - Baselworld 2018
For their latest collaboration, MB&F and L’Epée give us… an intergalactic weather station named The Fifth Element. It comprises a clock, a barometer, a hygrograph and a thermometer (as detachable pods) within a mothership, flown by an alien.
The Fifth Element is an intergalactic horological weather station enabling accurate weather forecasting even when the power goes down. Four (UFO) elements: clock, barometer, hygrometer, and thermometer combine in a mothership (with Ross, the alien pilot) to create an entity much larger than the sum of its parts: The Fifth Element. An analogue weather station might at first glance appear anachronistic; however, when the storm hits and the power goes down, the Fifth Element will still work perfectly. And, in the worst-case scenario, you can hitch a ride off planet Earth with Ross.
Max Busser (MB&F) et Arnaud Nicolas (L'Epée 1839)
MB&F founder Maximilian Büsser long admired desktop weather stations of the last century, but frustrated in not finding the right vintage model for himself decided to create his own. Four removable and interchangeable instrument Elements make up the Fifth Element:
Clock Element: Because weather forecasting is based on the speed of changes over time, the accurate time is required for meteorological observations. For the Fifth Element, L’Epée 1839 reengineered and skeletonised their 8-day clock movement to maximize transparency and visual access.
Barometer Element: The barometer, which measures air pressure, is the mainstay of weather forecasting. As a general rule, increasing air pressure foretells good clear weather, decreasing air pressure portends inclement weather. The faster the change, the more extreme the coming weather.
Hygrometer Element: The hygrometer measures the percentage of water vapour in the air; it displays this as a percentage of the maximum amount of moisture that might be held at a given temperature.
Thermometer Element: Thermometers don’t simply measure temperature, but the average kinetic energy of a substance. The higher the temperature, the higher the energy. A thermometer is essentially a power reserve indication of the energy in the atmosphere around us.
While the Fifth Element attends to the serious side of weather forecasting with joyful fantasy, this space-age weather station was only made possible thanks to L’Epée 1839, which mastered the precision manufacturing of the intricate series of curves and circles within circles that make up the large structure. Over 500 individual components form the mother ship and its interchangeable Elements; more than many Grand Complications!
And there’s one more function that MB&F surreptitiously integrates into all of its machines: the ability to make you smile. For the Fifth Element, that role goes to Ross: thanks to his own manually-wound, air-regulated movement, the alien pilot rotates around the UFO’s cockpit checking that the skies are clear of both clouds and hostile invaders. The Fifth Element is available in 3 limited editions of 18 pieces each in Black, Silver and Blue.
Eerie moment ‘UFO speeds after passenger jet and overtakes it’ sending conspiracy theorists into a frenzy
Eerie moment ‘UFO speeds after passenger jet and overtakes it’ sending conspiracy theorists into a frenzy
A WITNESS says he was blown away by the sighting of a bizarre object following and then overtaking a passenger jet high in the sky.
Alys Bowen
BIZARRE footage apparently showing a UFO speeding after and overtaking a passenger jet has sent conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.
The eerie clip shows a saucer-shaped object following the plane in its vapour trails before passing it completely.
The person who filed the clip said they were reading at home in Lincoln, New Hampshire, when they noticed the strange object close to the aircraft.
They said: “I am told that military pilots train in the mountains around where I live and I’ve always enjoyed seeing them fly through.
“This happens all the time, jets and helicopters are a common sighting.
“So I naturally saw the jet and did a double take, because there was something following it.”
The shocked witness added: “I immediately thought I was witnessing some strange aircraft, possibly military but it was not a jet.”
An alleged UFO in apparent proximity to a passenger jet has caused a You Tube sensation.
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“The UFO was gaining on a jet. No helicopter could do that. I was blown away and luckily got out my phone in time to take a video.”
The footage was captured in 2016 but it was recently shared on YouTube and has racked up over 27,000 views.
One user wrote: “I am actually baffled. This looks legit, as to why — who knows.”
Another had a different explanation: “It’s two planes travelling at different altitudes, one creating a vapour trail.”
But the witness is convinced the sighting was supernatural.
They said: “I was very excited and anxious.
“I felt I had witnessed something very hard to dismiss as a “weather balloon” or some obvious type of aircraft.
“Shortly after the jet and object left my range of sight I saw three more jets and 1 helicopter going the same direction (in my opinion chasing the UFO).”
Thanks to the ceaseless march of technology, agencies like NASA and other scientific bodies from around the world have been able to teach us a lot about space. We now get regular news about new plants from other star systems, we know what makes many of our nearest planetary neighbors tick, and we’re learning more than ever about how Earth formed long before life existed here. But space still holds many secrets, and fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most tantalizing mysteries of the cosmos.
FRBs are high-energy signals blasted into space that can be detected here on Earth with the help of technology, but their origins remain unclear. When scientists detect them, they are numbered and named based on when they were first heard, but other than that there’s not much we know about them. Now, a new batch of bursts has been detectedby astronomers in Australia, and one of them was the brightest ever recorded.
FRBs last only fractions of a second before disappearing. They are unpredictable and follow no obvious pattern. This most recent FRB sighting comes from Australia’s Parkes Observatory where three distinct radio bursts were detected in rapid succession. The first burst, detected on March 1st, was followed by subsequent radio bursts on March 9th and 11th.
It was the March 9th signal that is most interesting to astronomers, due to its size. It boasted a signal-to-noise ratio of 411, making it the strongest FRB ever recorded by a large margin. As New Atlas explains, the second brightest burst had a signal-to-noise ratio of around 90, with most FRBs falling between 10 and 40 on the same scale.
The mystery of where fast radio bursts come from has fascinated scientists for a long time, but a few theories are currently leading the pack. Some researchers believe that supernovas are responsible for the bright signal bursts, with the radio waves of a distant star’s supernova arriving long after the light of the event would have been visible to us. By the time we hear the signal, the actual supernova event has long since fizzled out, making it appear as though the bursts are originating from nothing at all. Or, maybe it’s aliens? Yeah, it’s probably aliens.
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Area 51 may hold answers about aliens
There has been much speculation surrounding the 1947 crash of a flying object near Roswell, N.M.
WRITTEN BY JENNIFER WAGNER
Are there aliens? And if so, why don't we know about them?
No one knows the true answer to these questions, but many speculate the answers might have something to do with Area 51.
Area 51 is a highly known and widely debated Air Force Base located in Nevada, about 80 miles outside of Las Vegas. Its official purpose is to test military aircraft technology; however, it is rumored to contain the remains of alien spacecrafts that have crashed as well as communication with extraterrestrials, according to Time. This is due to all of the supposed UFO sightings surrounding the area. The government claims that the information from the base is classified for national security purposes, which only helps confirm in the minds of many that their suspicions are correct.
But how did all of these ideas start?
While there have been many possible UFO sightings, the most compelling and widely talked about is the Roswell incident of 1947. Sometime in early July of that year, an unknown object crashed in a ranch outside of Roswell, N.M., according to the Huffington Post. The owner of the ranch, W.W. Brazel, collected some of the debris, took it to the local sheriff, George Wilcox, who eventually notified the FBI.
From there, Maj. Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer for one of the local Air Force bases, was brought to inspect the crash site. On July 8, the Roswell Daily Record printed an article stating that the Roswell Army Air Field had captured a flying saucer. The next day, a second article was run stating that a mistake was made and the crash material was from a weather balloon, according to the Huffington Post.
Since 1947, there have been many investigations and reports published by both the military and civilians to find out what really happened in Roswell. After the initial article was published, both Marcel and Brazel rescinded their claims that the crash site contained a flying saucer and possible alien bodies, but in recent years they have both again claimed that they believed that these original statements were true.
As strange as this all may sound, there is also another conspiracy theory that suggests Area 51 is being used to study time travel and teleportation technology, although this theory is not nearly as popular as the theory on extraterrestrial communication and cover-ups.
These theories, to me, may hold some water due to the uncertainty revolving around the existence of extraterrestrials, although I am not entirely convinced. However, we will never really know the answer to these questions, so unfortunately what Area 51 contains and what really happened in the Roswell incident will probably remain a mystery.
Harvard astrochemist Karin Öberg told Aleteia, "Wouldn’t it be really cool to talk to another species that had a relationship with God ... ?”
Karin Öberg hopes there is intelligent life on other planets.
That’s not only because her job as an astronomer is to look for solar systems that could be home to life. It’s also because of her Catholic faith. “I would hope yes,” Öberg said in a recent interview with Aleteia. “It would be so exciting to meet rational animals that are not humans and the same holds for non-rational life also. Again, we don’t know but I wouldn’t be doing what I do for a living if I didn’t think they existed.”
Öberg is an astrochemist at Harvard University whose research focuses on protoplanetary disks around other stars and how their chemical composition makes the planets that form out of them hospitable to life. Öberg spoke with Aleteia after a lecture on the science and theology of other worlds on March 5 at Brown University, hosted by the Thomistic Institute.
Just what are the chances that there is another earth out there with rational animals like us? Öberg won’t say how probable it is because probability involves a scientific calculation that can’t yet be made. But her gut instinct says yes. Her hope is driven by both professional as well as spiritual considerations.
“Wouldn’t it be really cool to talk to another species that had a relationship with God but must look different because it’s not influenced by our story?” Öberg told Aleteia. “I realize we’re very limited in what we can do but getting a second data point I think would be helpful.”
As a scientist, Öberg may not be ready to talk about the probability that there is intelligent life, but she can talk about whether there are planets that would be conducive to it. Here there is more data. Planets around other stars, technically known as exoplanets, were hypothesized in 1584 by the Italian monk and philosopher Giordano Bruno, but the first one was not discovered until 1995. Since then, the existence of thousands has been verified. In 2016 alone, scientists found 1,284 new exoplanets.
At least three big criteria must be met in order for an exoplanet to be hospitable to life, according to Öberg. First it must be small and rocky, like earth. Second, it must be the right distance from the star it is orbiting. Being too close or too far would make the planet correspondingly too hot or too cold. Finally, because it is a good solvent for the necessary organic chemicals, water is essential for life.
Based on those criteria, is it certainly possible there are life-friendly worlds out there. Out of 4,034 total exoplanets, as of last summer, 50 were earth-like and in the “habitable zone” of their stars, according to the New Scientist. As for water, while it is unique, it is “one of the most common things in space,” according to Öberg.
And that’s about as far as science goes, leaving so far unanswered the big question about other intelligent life. “We do not yet know whether any of these extraterrestrial planets are inhabited or not, even by the simplest life-forms. Are we inhabiting a universe teaming with life, that seems to have the transition from non-living to living matter built into its laws? Or are we a lonely ark, traveling through space and time carrying all living things with us?” Öberg asked in her lecture.
The question is intriguing from both a scientific and a theological perspective.
In terms of theology, Öberg, who is a convert to Catholicism, said Christianity already has a belief in other intelligent life. “We already know extraterrestrials. They’re called angels,” Öberg said. But angels are intellectual beings, not rational animals. Angels are not in need of salvation, whereas we human beings as rational animals are, Öberg noted. (She didn’t mention the issue of fallen angels, but St. Thomas Aquinas taught that demons aren’t saved because their free choices once made, unlike ours, are permanent. Thus, they persist in their rejection of God.)
That leads to a big theological question: “If there are rational aliens out there, how are they saved? Are they saved?” Öberg asked.
For Christians, salvation comes through the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Trinity. “It seems clear from reading the New Testament that this was a one-time event for all,” Öberg said. Likewise, Aquinas arguedthat it was fitting for the Word to take on human nature alone. But the reasons for this—the dignity of having a rational nature and needing salvation—in theory would apply to other rational beings, Öberg noted. (But Öberg remains skeptical that there would be another incarnation.)
Although she is hoping there are rational animals, Öberg says she would be happy with the discovery of far humbler life-forms elsewhere in the universe. “I would be excited by the tiniest bacteria,” Öberg told Aleteia. “I don’t need much more than that.”
Either way, future discoveries are bound to reveal more about the kind of universe in which we live, and indirectly, further reveal its Creator.
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These Drawings Show How Pop Culture Has Changed the Way We See UFOs
These Drawings Show How Pop Culture Has Changed the Way We See UFOs
By Molly Gottschalk
The National Archives DEFE24/1999. Drawing of a UFO producing a crop circle, November 1998.
From 1962 to 2009, a secret division of the British Ministry of Defense—dubbed the “UFO desk”—fielded reports of some 11,000 sightings of unidentified flying objects. These came in the form of tirelessly detailed letters, drawings, photographs, and paintings submitted by an ever-watchful public. But for decades, no one ever saw the files.
Thanks to a decade-long undertaking by the U.K.’s National Archives, more than 60,000 pages of the reports have been released to the public. A new book by Dr. David Clarke, who spearheaded the project as a consultant from 2008 and has spent more than 20 years immersed in ufology, zeroes in on perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the files: the artwork.
From encounters scrawled in crayon by a group of bewildered schoolchildren to a detailed diagram of a UFO producing a crop circle, the now-declassified artworks in UFO Drawings from the National Archiveschronicle flying saucers and rockets of all shapes and sizes, reflecting a cultural fascination—and evolving visual language—around UFOs.
The National Archives AIR 2/18961. Painting of a UFO spotted on 18 January 1975, near Birmingham. Later identified as satellites Zond 4 and Cosmos 460.
Fittingly, Clarke’s journey to unearth these documents traces back to the era of 1990s sci-fi. Around the 50th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, and as films like Men in Black, Mars Attacks, and Independence Day packed theaters across the globe, Clarke was working as a journalist and engaging with a revival of public interest in aliens and UFOs.
Not long before, the U.K. government had begun releasing previously classified documents from the UFO desk in small increments. Clarke took notice. And when the country’s Freedom of Information Act passed in 2000, granting the public “right of access” to government records, he began making targeted requests for the release of these materials. Ultimately, he began working with the National Archives in an official capacity, acting as a curator of the declassified UFO material.
After publishing an initial book on the files, Clarke narrowed his focus to the artwork embedded in the records, which encapsulate what he describes as a “social phenomenon.”
“If you look at the illustrations, you tend to notice that the way that people describe the things that they see in the sky seems to change in response to… what’s going on in pop culture,” Clarke tells me. In the 1930s through the ’50s, he says, drawings often mimicked the classic disc-shaped flying saucer—like the one that descends on Washington, D.C., in the 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still, or the rocket-shaped objects of the 1930s serial TV show Flash Gordon.
“But the nearer you get to the present day, you find that people are reporting things in the sky in completely different terms,” he says. More recently, civilian drawings depict giant wedge-shaped or triangular-shaped objects, recalling not only The X-Files spacecraft but, Clarke says, the development of Stealth technology, like the U.S. air force classic F-117 stealth fighter and the B2 bomber.
There’s two schools of thought here, Clarke says: Either aliens are watching our films and TV shows and are altering their spaceships accordingly; or people are seeing unidentified things in the sky, but the way they recall and report them is being altered by what they expect to see based on popular culture and current technology.
In 1977—a year, Clarke notes in the book, in which a slew of UFO sightings aligned neatly with the release of Star Wars—a group of 10 young children spotted an oval-shaped object floating between a pair of trees on their school playground in Macclesfield, England. Encouraged by their teacher to draw what they saw, the students delivered eerily similar pencil-and-crayon renderings of the scene, which were passed along to the Cheshire Police. The drawings made their way to Air Traffic Control authorities and ultimately were sent to the secret UFO investigation bureau at the Ministry of Defense.
Clarke was about 10 years old at the time, he says, his head filled with images of whirring flying saucers and spaceships borrowed from sources like Dr. Who. Thirty years later, while researching this project, Clarke came across the original drawings from Cheshire.
The National Archives DEFE24/1967.
It could well have been a weather balloon gone astray, or a helicopter, he says, but it’s impossible to know at this point. “If you’ve got it in your head that aliens exist and that UFOs are visiting us, it’s quite logical then—if you’re of that age, and you’re quite suggestible, you’re going to see something and think it’s a flying saucer.”
But adults, he says, are just as suggestible as children. In 1976, a 27-year-old woman who was the daughter of a Royal Air Force captain was driving near London with her boyfriend when they both spotted a strange object, lit up with white lights, that passed overhead and appeared to be coming in to land. She filed a detailed drawing that showed the UFO from three vantages—straight on, from below, and as seen through the car windshield. Her report made its way to a secretive branch of the Ministry of Defense called D155, where, by consulting radar footage from the area, it was decided that the object was a Boeing 720 plane that had diverted from Gatwick airport at the same time. But she had been clear that the object had no wings, and stressed “it was nothing recognisable to me.”
Another image, known today as The Solway Spaceman, is a mysterious photograph that Carlisle fireman Jim Templeton took of his five-year-old daughter Elizabeth in the English countryside in May 1964. As the story goes, when Templeton came to pick up his developed film, the shop assistant said, “That’s a marvelous photograph, but it’s rather spoilt by the big man behind her!” Indeed, an unexplained figure dressed in a white astronaut suit loomed behind his daughter’s head. Neither the local Cumbrian police (nor the Kodak film company) could explain it. After the image was published in outlets around the world, Templeton reported being visited by two men in black suits and bowler hats. They drove a black Jaguar and said they were from “the Ministry” they asked to be taken to the site of the photograph.
he National Archives DEFE 24/1206.
The National Archives DEFE 24/1983.
One less dramatic example holds particular significance for Clarke. “In many of these cases in the history of ufology,” he says, “there are lots of people who have made things up or that have played pranks and told lies about things that they’ve seen.” Others, he says, are just imaginative, claiming they’ve been abducted by aliens or adventured on trips across the universe. So a story of an ordinary policeman who spotted something unusual while on the job, and promptly filed a report, stands out.
In January 1966, a police officer in a town called Wilmslow was checking on houses late in the evening when he saw something unexpected in the sky. Twenty minutes later, back at the station, he quickly sketched the object in pencil—a 30-foot-long mass, roughly the size of a bus, emitting a greenish-gray glow. He even drew a map. The officer then shared his drawing with the police chief and it was forwarded on to an intelligence officer.
As the report reads, “There is no reason to doubt the fact that this constable saw something completely foreign to his previous experience.”
Clarke explains, “This story is typical of an ordinary person just doing their job, not expecting something unusual to happen—and they almost walk over this invisible curtain into the twilight zone, and see something absolutely extraordinary that they just cannot explain. This is the heart of the UFO enigma that we still can’t fully explain.”
Little did they realize these drawings, photographs, and illustrations would find a place in the National Archives, and in the history of 20th-century visual culture.
How humans might react has been the topic of a great deal of speculation in fiction, policy circles and academia, said Michael Varnum, assistant professor of psychology at ASU.
He has been interested in answering the question for years, Varnum said. Before the study, he said, there was not enough information that could lead to reasonable predictions of humans' reactions.
"But until now, it was all speculation essentially. This set of studies for the first time tackles the question empirically and the resounding conclusion is that we will take the news rather well."
Varnum is a lifelong science-fiction fan and a member of the university's Interplanetary Initiative, a pan-university effort aiming to "pave the way for the future of humans in space," according to the center's website.
Back when UFO was a new term
This isn't the first time scientists worked to answer the question.
In 1953, the United States Air Force coined the term "UFO," or unidentified flying object. That same year, a panel of scientists was formed to study evidence of UFOs and the potential danger they posted to U.S. national security.
The Robertson Panel, as it was known, "did find that continued emphasis on UFO reporting might threaten 'the orderly functioning' of the government by clogging the channels of communication with irrelevant reports and by inducing 'hysterical mass behavior' harmful to constituted authority," according to the Central Intelligence Agencyin a report.
Air Guard unit dropped flares on night Valley saw the lights The Arizona Republic
Skeptics seek solutions to UFOs The Arizona Republic
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Small organisms, big impact?
Scientists believe humanity is much more likely to come into contact with microbial extraterrestrial life before intelligent life.
Overall, the new ASU study focused on just that — humanity's reaction to the discovery of microbial life from other worlds.
The team performed a pilot study as well as two additional studies. In the additional studies, 500 different participants provided their reactions.
"If this kind of discovery were to take place, it would be one of the most important scientific events in our history. It also might represent a major paradigm shift in terms of how we see our place in the cosmos," Varnum said.
Overall in the studies, people had mostly positive reactions of possible extraterrestrial life.
Participants looked at past media coverage on events suggesting extraterrestrial life and responded to claims of the discovery of microbial fossils. Articles focused on the possible fossilized Martian microbes, Tabby's Star, the "Dyson sphere," and Earth-like exoplanets.
"In our second experiment with a general sample, we felt that rather than come up with bogus stories it would be better to present people with actual media coverage of discoveries as a way to increase the realism of the study," said Varnum.
Also, Varnum's team used media coverage on Oumuamua to determine if participants believed the first-known interstellar asteroid was actually a spaceship. The asteroid was discovered in 2017.
Varnum believes the studies are important to scientific research and could lead to change.
"My work shows that at least in the short term, reactions to this kind of news will be positive, so that rather than worry about the potential for societal chaos, disruption, or negative mental health impacts, instead we can expect that people will be happy to learn we are not alone," Varnum said.
In the good old days, the arrival of UFOs on the front page of America’s paper of record might have seemed like a loose-thread tear right through the fabric of reality — the closest that secular, space-race America could have gotten to a Second Coming. Two decades ago, or three, or six, we would’ve also felt we knew the script in advance, thanks to the endless variations pop culture had played for us already: civilizational conflicts to mirror the real-world ones Americans had been imagining in terror since the beginning of the Cold War.
But when, in December, the New York Timespublished an undisputed account of what might once have sounded like crackpot conspiracy theory — that the Pentagon had spent five years investigating“unexplained aerial phenomena” — the response among the paper’s mostly liberal readers, exhausted and beaten down by “recent events,” was markedly different from the one in those movies. The news that aliens might actually be visiting us, regularly and recently, didn’t provoke terror about a coming space-opera conflict but something much more like the Evangelical dream of the Rapture the same liberals might have mocked as kooky right-wing escapism in the George W. Bush years. “The truth is out there,” former senator Harry Reid tweeted, with a link to the story. Thank God, came the response through the Twitter vent. “Could extraterrestrials help us save the Earth?” went one typical reaction.
Suddenly, aliens were an escapist fantasy — but also more credible (legitimized by the government!) than mere fantasy. That Pentagon report, which featured two gripping videos of aerial encounters, was just one beat in a recent search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence (or SETI) drumroll: In October, an object passed through our solar system that looked an awful lot like a spaceship; astronomers spent much of 2016 arguing over whether the weird pulses of light coming from a distant star were actually evidence of an “alien megastructure.” An army of Silicon Valley billionaires are racing to make first contact, and our new superpowered telescopes are discovering more conceivably habitable planets every year.
Then, in March, a third video emerged, featuring a Navy encounter off the East Coast in 2015, with the group that released it hinting at an additional trove. “Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?” wondered a Washington Postop-ed — surely the first time the newspaper of Katharine Graham was raising a stink about aliens. The next week, President Trump seemed to announce he was creating an entirely new branch of the military: “We’ll call it the Space Force.” You could be forgiven for thinking you’d woken up in a science-fiction novel. At the very least, it is starting to seem non-crazy to believe. A recent study shows half the world already does.
Searching the Universe for Extraterrestrial Life: A Timeline
Alien dreams have always been powered by the desire for human importance in a vast, forgetful cosmos: We want to be seen so we know we exist. What’s unusual about the alien fantasy is that, unlike religion, nationalism, or conspiracy theory, it doesn’t place humans at the center of a grand story. In fact, it displaces them: Humans become, briefly, major players in a drama of almost inconceivable scale, the lasting lesson of which is, unfortunately: We’re total nobodies. That’s the lesson, at least, of a visit from aliens, who got here long before we were able to get there, wherever there is; if humans are the ones making first contact, we’re the advanced ones and the aliens are probably more like productive pond scum, which may be one reason we fantasize about those kinds of encounters a lot less than visits to Earth. Of course, when the aliens are the explorers, we’re the pond scum.
But a lot of people in the modern world will take that bargain, which should probably not surprise us given how dizzying, secular, and, um, alienating that world objectively is. Most conspiracy theory is fueled by a desire to see the universe as ultimately intelligible — the bargain being that things can make sense, but only if you believe in pervasive totalitarian malice. Alien conspiracy theory keeps the malice (cover-ups at Roswell, the Men in Black). But rather than benzo comforts like order and intelligibility, it offers the psychedelic drama of total unintelligibility — awe, wonder, a knee-wobblingly deep, mystical experience of existential ignorance.
Floating Down (1990), by David Huggins, who makes oil paintings about his encounters with aliens. As featured in Love & Saucers, a 2017 documentary about the artist. Photo: David Huggins
Every extraterrestrial era has its own fantasy of consequentiality. Crop circles began as a phenomenon of the English countryside, then spread to the far corners of the onetime British Empire (Australia, Canada) after World War II, when the U.K. was falling unmistakably back in the ranks of nations and when its provincial subjects would have felt some understandable desire to demonstrate that, somehow, their lives really mattered. American encounters were invariably rural as well — typically farmers and ranchers, mostly in the country’s interior and the deserts and mountains of the West, in decades the country as a whole spent rapidly urbanizing and then industrializing its farmland so systematically it looked like Monsanto was trying to exterminate the American farmer along with the cotton bollworm.
These incidents, which never occurred in cities, where other witnesses could have verified them, were often reported as horror stories even as they may have expressed secret desires. But the pop culture of the same era introduced another mode: the suburban encounter, often still private and personal but more ooey-gooey New Age than abductions and anal probes. The two major authors were Steven Spielberg, who gave us broken-family theology in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T., and Carl Sagan, who gave us Cosmos and Contact, which, when it was turned into a movie, featured an eerie seascape that was basically a secular heaven, maintained by offscreen aliens explicitly playing the role of gods. Stephen Hawking, who died in March, was also a godfather of a sort, not just a physicist but a sage and guru for a generation of squishy-lefty seekers curious about life beyond Earth; among his last acts was partnering with Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire building a giant SETI laboratory at UC Berkeley. Americans used to regard the space race with not just national but something like collectivist pride — all those government engineers from the new middle class. Suddenly, it’s the rich kids with the cool toys and the keys to the rocket ship.
Which does mark a change. Beyond the mysticism, American stories of alien encounters have been (often anxious) meditations on the status of American power — meditations informed, surely, by both the memory of European settlers, for whom “first contact” was a story of triumphant genocide, and sympathy for those they trampled. Given the option, America will always prefer to play the cowboy, and through the post–Cold War 1990s, the dominant alien-encounter template was still the swaggering military strut of Independence Day. (The closest thing we got to a counterpoint was the cover-up paranoia of The X-Files, which just expressed a darker faith in the same American power.) By the time we got an alien epic for the War on Terror era, even Spielberg staged it as a story about armed conflict: The War of the Worlds. Of course, in that story, the winner was always going to be the humans — that is, the Americans. And then came the financial crisis, the recession, and Trump, and the new hope that E.T. may take pity on us.
Elsewhere in the world, where things are looking up, relatively speaking, you might expect a different perspective on aliens — and indeed, as The Atlantic’s Ross Andersen documented last fall, the Chinese have recently opened the world’s largest radar facility to listen for signs of aliens, wherever they are out there. But even our future Chinese overlords, projecting power for the first time into the ever-receding reaches of the universe, are a bit nervous about aliens; as Andersen points out, their popular science fiction bears the evidence. And why wouldn’t they be? They have their own memory of colonial contact — the Opium Wars, the end of that empire — to reckon with. And, besides, the unknown is just scary. Things have to get pretty bleak before you take a chance on the arrival of a total blank slate, just for the sake of change. —David Wallace-Wells
1. The Government Literally Just Admitted It’s Taking UFOs Seriously
And, according to researchers, it’s only pretended to end the program.
A 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an “unknown object.”
In 1952, a CIA group called the Psychological Strategy Board concluded that, when it came to UFOs, the American public was dangerously gullible and prone to “hysterical mass behavior.” The group recommended “debunking” campaigns to tamper the public’s interest in unexplained phenomena. But the government seems to have been interested, too: In December, the Pentagon confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Created in 2007 by senators Ted Stevens (who reported being chased by a mysterious object), Daniel Inouye, and then–Majority Leader Harry Reid, and funded with $22 million of “black money” from the Department of Defense’s budget, the program investigated and evaluated reports of UFO sightings, many of which came from American service members.
So much of what the program uncovered remains classified, but what little we know is tantalizing. Based on data it collected, the program identified five observations that showed mysterious objects displaying some level of “advanced physics,” also known as “stuff humans can’t do yet”: The objects would accelerate with g-forces too strong for the human body to withstand, or reach hypersonic speed with no heat trail or sonic boom, or they seemed to resist the effects of Earth’s gravity without any aerodynamic structures to provide thrust or lift. “No one has been able to figure out what these are,” said Luis Elizondo, who ran the program until last October, in a recent interview.
Elizondo has also talked about “metamaterials” that may have been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena and stored in buildings owned by a private aerospace contractor in Las Vegas; they apparently have material compositions that aren’t found naturally on Earth and would be exceptionally expensive to replicate. According to a 2009 Pentagon briefing summarized in the New York Times, “the United States was incapable of defending itself against some of the technologies discovered.” This was a briefing by people trying to get more funding — but still.
Some of the accounts Elizondo and his team analyzed supposedly occurred near nuclear facilities like power plants or battleships. In November 2004, the USS Princeton, a Navy cruiser escorting the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the coast of San Diego, ordered two fighter jets to investigate mysterious aircraft the Navy had been tracking for weeks (meaning this was not just a trick of the eye or a momentary failure of perspective, the two things most often blamed for unexplained aerial phenomena). When the jets arrived at the location, one of the pilots, Commander David Fravor, saw a disturbance just below the ocean’s surface causing the water to roil around it. Then, suddenly, he saw a white, 40-foot Tic Tac–shaped craft moving like a Ping-Pong ball above the water. The vehicle began mirroring his plane’s movements, but when Fravor dove directly at the object, the Tic Tac zipped away.
The Pentagon has said funding for the program ran out in 2012 and wasn’t renewed. But Elizondo has claimed the project was alive and well when he resigned in October. —James D. Walsh
2. Harry Reid Says We’re Not Taking Them Seriously Enough
The former Senate majority leader is definitely a truther.
Eric Benson: I’m curious about just where your interest in this subject comes from.
Harry Reid: Bob Bigelow [the founder of Bigelow Aerospace and Budget Suites]. He’s a central figure in all this. When he was a young man, he heard a story from his grandparents about driving down from Mt. Charleston, near Las Vegas, where they saw a so-called flying saucer, for lack of a better description. Bob became a very wealthy man. He would pay for these conferences about UFOs, and he would bring in scientists, academics, and a few nutcases.
There were people trying to figure out what all this aerial phenomena was. Bob started sending me tons of stuff. Mainly what interested me is that so many people had seen these strange things in the air.
EB: So tell me how this program got started.
HR: I was in Washington in the Senate, and Bob called me and said, “I got the strangest letter here. Could I have a courier bring it to you?” I said sure. He didn’t want to send it to me over the lines, for obvious reasons.
The letter said, “I am a senior, longtime member of this security agency, and I have an interest in what you’ve been working on. I also want to go to your ranch in Utah.”
Bigelow had bought a great big ranch. All this crazy stuff goes on up there — you know, things in the air. Indians used to talk about it, part of their folklore.
So I called Bigelow back and said, “Hey, I’ll meet with the guy.” The program grew out of that, to study aerial phenomena.
We decided it would be [funded by] black money. I wanted to get something done. I didn’t want a debate where no one knew what the hell they were talking about on the Senate floor.
EB: I saw that you tweeted, “We don’t know the answers, but we have plenty of evidence to support asking the questions.” To you, what’s the most compelling evidence to support asking the questions?
HR: Read the reports. We have hundreds of — Eric, two, three weeks ago, maybe a month now, up in Montana, they had another strange deal at a missile base up there. It goes on all the time.
EB: Do you know things about this program that you can’t discuss publicly?
HR: Yeah.
3. Scientists Are Suddenly Much More Bullish About the Possibility of Life Out There
The universe is really big, people.
Just 20 years ago, we had not discovered a single planet outside our solar system. Now we know of more than 3,000 of them, and we know nearly every star in the night sky has at least one planet in its orbit. “Even people who are not terribly interested in science know that we’ve found that planets are as common as fire hydrants — they’re everywhere,” says Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. “One in five or one in six might be a planet similar to the Earth.”
That doesn’t mean we’ll ever find an exact replica of Earth, but maybe we don’t have to. Our study of other planets and moons in the solar system shows us many worlds possess the ingredients necessary for life — an atmosphere, organic compounds, liquid water, and other necessities. (The moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, for example, feature whole subsurface oceans.)
And even though these places are extremely harsh environments, that doesn’t mean as much as we might once have thought it did; recent discoveries on Earth itself demonstrate that life is much tougher than we thought. We’ve found organisms in blisteringly hot geysers in Yellowstone National Park, in the darkest crevices under the most ungodly pressures in the deep ocean, in dry hellscapes like the Atacama Desert in Chile (an analogue for Mars). These “extremophiles” don’t need a warm and fuzzy paradise to call home — in fact, they have already evolved to live in environments as harsh as those on other planets. Some, like tardigrades, can even survive the bleak vacuum of space itself. If there’s life in most of those places, “it’s going to be pond scum,” says Shostak. “But it’s alien pond scum. It shows that biology is all over.”
And where there’s biology, there may well be intelligence, and our increasing understanding of evolution also tells us life can evolve faster than we ever anticipated. Millions of years is a long time for us, but it’s the blink of an eye on the cosmic scale. Blink too fast, and you’ll miss that pond scum turning into an intelligent civilization sending out messages every which way, looking for friends.
And we’re now at the point where we could one day find those messages and send a reply. New technology gives us a better chance to actually make contact with extraterrestrials. Our radio telescopes can scan more of the night sky for an intelligent message than ever before. Our optical telescopes and observatories can peer farther into space and look for new planets, moons, and perhaps even signs of something altogether artificial (see “Tabby’s Star”). Our ability to parse volumes of data in mere seconds means we could conceivably survey much of the galaxy in just a few decades. That’s why, in the past few years, Shostak has continually bet a cup of coffee with everyone he knows that humans will find aliens by around 2029. “We’d have to be dead above the neck if we weren’t interested in this,” says Penelope Boston, the director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. —Neel Patel
4. They’re Especially Bullish About These Planets
Adventures in the “Goldilocks zone.”
Scientists now think every one in five or six planets might be habitable, based on two general criteria: They’re rocky, and they reside in a region of the star’s orbit called the “Goldilocks zone,” where it’s not too cold and not too hot, but just right to allow for liquid water to form on the surface. And where there’s water, there can be life. Extraterrestrial researchers and enthusiasts are most excited about these seven:
Proxima B:The closest exoplanet ever discovered is also a potentially habitable world in its own right, if the intense stellar winds don’t make it barren. It’s not totally inconceivable we might be able to actually send a probe and study it directly this century — even travel to it ourselves one day.
TRAPPIST-1 System:The red dwarf at the center of this possesses a whopping seven planets in its orbit — three of which reside in the Goldilocks zone, but all of which seem to possess some degree of potential habitability — and they’re so close to one another that life on one planet could quickly spread to another.
LHS 1140b: This wouldn’t be a planet we could colonize. It’s almost seven times the mass of the Earth and 40 percent larger, making it a “super-Earth.” But its mass means that it would retain a thicker atmosphere capable of keeping it warmer and more comfortable for life than most other places.
Ross 128 b: One of the best chances we have so far at finding life on another planet. It orbits an inactive red-dwarf star, meaning it’s likely not being bludgeoned by solar radiation. And we’ve detected strange signals emanating from the nearby host star — signals that perhaps have intelligent origins?
Mars:Mars has water, as we’ve known since 2015. Although the planet looks like a barren wasteland these days, there’s little reason to write off any chance we might find aliens residing in some cavern or crevice.
The Ocean Worlds (Europa, Enceladus, Titan):Many of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons show signs of possessing a liquid ocean underneath the surface.
GJ 1214b: Nicknamed “waterworld” by scientists; signs of potential clouds give us some hope the planet has an atmosphere.
—N.P.
5. And There Is “Documentation”
In 2012, the photographer Steven Hirsch asked UFO-convention attendees who claimed to have had personal contact with extraterrestrials to draw and describe their experiences. A sampling below.
Camille: A beam of solid blue light came through her ceiling and transported her onto a table where she was surrounded by beings in white robes with high collars. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Bruce: An alien woke him from his bed to show him the moons of Saturn. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Lisa: A gray alien knocked at her door and handed her two babies, leaving her with a hole in her head. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Steve: He saw a beeping, bright white light; it zapped his friend up. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Nancy: Her body responded to the “low hum” of the UFO spacecraft, a memory she accessed in regression therapy. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
Rita: She has been visited by a golden reptilian alien throughout her life. Photo: Courtesy of Steven Hirsch
6. That “Asteroid” Looks an Awful Lot Like a Rocket Ship
For science-minded SETI freaks, the last decade has been a particularly exciting one.
‘Oumuamua.
We May Have Just Seen an Actual Flying Saucer When ‘Oumuamua — the name means “first messenger” in Hawaiian — was discovered floating through the solar system in October, SETI nuts immediately started checking the boxes that suggested the rod-shaped object might be an alien spacecraft of some kind. After all, it’s the first interstellar object we’ve ever seen pass through the solar system. UFO enthusiasts point out that rods (along with flying saucers) are the two most common shapes cited by witnesses in UFO sightings, and the cigar shape would allow it to be slim enough to avoid collision with other objects as well as maximize aerodynamics for travel. Both the SETI Institute and the Breakthrough Listen initiative pointed their instruments toward the object but found no unusual signals emitting from it. Of course, maybe it’s an ancient relic from an interstellar civilization, or maybe the aliens just weren’t interested in making contact (that asteroid-ness could’ve just been camouflage). With the object on its way out of the solar system, we may never know.
And There Could Be an Alien Megastructure Much Farther Out In the fall of 2015, Penn State astronomer Jason Wright posited that erratic shifts in brightness coming from a newly discovered star 1,280 light-years from Earth couldn’t be explained by exoplanets or other astrophysics that we understand. He theorized, instead, that the fluctuations may be the result of massive objects passing in front of the star, in a kind of orbit — a whole array of massive satellites or other kinds of structures, presumably produced by a civilization of advanced intelligence. Whoa.
Aliens Could Be Dancing to Earth Music Right Now Last year, two planets were discovered orbiting a red dwarf 12.36 light-years from Earth. At least one of these planets is in the Goldilocks zone, so SETI International decided to beam some musical signals over to the planet. With a closer proximity to Earth than most potentially habitable exoplanets, it’d be an exciting planet to start an interstellar pen-pal relationship with — assuming there’s someone around to hear our notes and listen to them as a welcoming tune instead of a battle cry.
And We’re Getting Radio Signals From … Something Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most mysterious phenomena ever observed by scientists. Though they last only a few milliseconds, these pulses, first detected in 2007, emit more energy in that time than the sun does in 24 hours. Three more were found this month, and we’re no closer to understanding their origin — except that they’re coming from outside the Milky Way. So naturally, many experts have begun to think perhaps they’re produced by an ultra-advanced civilization from afar, trying to speak to us through signals we can barely comprehend.
7. These Masters of the Universe Are Obsessed (They Are Also All Men)
Which space-besotted billionaire will be the first to make contact?
Robert Bigelow As a child, Bigelow watched the government test atomic bombs from his bedroom window and he and his classmates could see the mushroom clouds bloom over the Mojave Desert from their school playground. To some, such memories are the stuff of dystopic Cold War hellscapes, but Bigelow remembers them as an epiphany. Even back then, Bigelow knew he wasn’t going to be a scientist (he was lousy at math), so he resolved himself to make as much money as possible in the hopes that he could one day fund his own space program. He went on to make at least $1 billion with Budget Suites of America, long-term motel rentals around the Southwest. He now runs Bigelow Aerospace, which holds contracts with NASA and was a primary contractor for the Department of Defense’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters
Elon Musk Musk is hell-bent on using his $21 billion to colonize Mars. His company SpaceX has been trying desperately to reduce the cost of space travel in the hopes of beginning a million-person colonization of Mars. “If [we’re not in] a simulation, then maybe we’re in a lab and there’s some advanced alien civilization that’s just watching how we develop, out of curiosity, like mold in a petri dish,” says Musk.
Photo: Paul Gallen/Twitter
Paul Allen When Congress cut off funding for NASA’s hunt for aliens in 1993, Allen gave millions to the SETI Institute; in 2009, the Allen Telescope Array started searching the cosmos. Allen has given an additional $30 million to the project, a sum that bought him a guarantee that if the array detects an extraterrestrial communiqué, Allen will be the first nonscientist to know.
Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breaktrough Prize Foundation
Yuri Milner Last year, Milner — named after a Russian cosmonaut — announced a plan to send spaceships to Saturn’s moon Enceladus in search of alien life. Milner is also funding Breakthrough Listen, a ten-year project to use a telescope in West Virginia to search for messages from intelligent life, and Breakthrough Starshot, in conjunction with Mark Zuckerberg and the late Stephen Hawking.
Jeff Bezos His company Blue Origin is competing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch reusable rockets (and comically rich tourists) into space. While Musk played himself in a cameo in Iron Man 2, Bezos appeared as an alien Starfleet official in 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. (It was not a speaking role.)
“Why do I feel so much like Sigourney Weaver?” Bezos said last March as he piloted a giant manned robot at Amazon’s MARs conference.
Franklin Antonio Antonio cofounded Qualcomm, a mobile tech company, in the mid-’80s. He’s also the company’s chief scientist and has given millions to SETI research. Last year Antonio gave $30 million to the University of California San Diego’s school of engineering and followed that donation up with a contribution to Roy Moore’s failed senate campaign.
8. As Are Some Prominent Military and Government Folks
You see a lot more as a test pilot than as a farmer in Iowa.
Nick Pope “Know that there are people who watch our skies to protect the sleeping masses,” Britain’s former chief UFO investigator warns in his memoir. “But also know that not all potential intruders into our airspace have two wings, a fuselage, and a tail, and not all show up on our radar.” Pope’s ominous counsel follows time he spent in the ’90s inspecting thousands of paranormal incidents from crop circles to purported bedside abductions. He took that job certain this kind of stuff “only happened to weirdos,” but unexplainable sightings soon convinced him that “there is a war going on” with aliens. Worse, the U.K. Defense Ministry cut his old UFO desk’s funding in 2009, so whatever’s out there “could attack at any time,” Pope believes. Earthlings’ diminished odds have gotten him more fatalistic lately, too: After scientists suggested ‘Oumuamua — a bizarre-shaped asteroid that’s the first interstellar object to pass through our solar system — might be an alien spaceship, he argued in December we “probably wouldn’t survive an alien invasion” anyway, because if they find us, it’s clear who has the upper hand.
Paul Hellyer Canada’s Defense minister during the Cold War, now 94, believes that at least 80 species of aliens have been visiting Earth for millennia. One group is called the Tall Whites (because they can reach basketball-goal height) or Nordic Blondes (because they look like they’re “from Denmark or somewhere”). Unfortunately, the others may include ecoterrorists: “We’re doing all sorts of things which are not what good stewards of their homes should be doing,” he told media in 2014. “They don’t like that, and they’ve made it very clear.” Hellyer adds that many technological “breakthroughs” were aped from these extraterrestrials. Microchips and fiber optics, for instance, were taken off crashed alien vehicles and reverse-engineered. The aliens have a special technology that would solve climate change as well, he claims, but the Illuminati are hiding it because it would devastate oil interests.
Philip Corso Corso’s military career was long and illustrious, from rebuilding Rome’s government after World War II as an Army Intelligence captain to having worked the Pentagon’s foreign-technology desk in the ’60s. He doesn’t appear to have said a word publicly about aliens until 1997, when Simon & Schuster published The Day After Roswell — with a foreword by Strom Thurmond — just 13 months before Corso died. It was his tell-all outlining a decades-long Roswell cover-up while plugging his own clandestine exploits, which he claimed involved reverse-engineering technology found on alien spacecrafts. This is how the world got lasers, particle beams, microchips, even Kevlar, Corso said. Skeptics argue that regular Earth people’s R&D behind technology like lasers is impossibly well documented.
Barry Goldwater Had he won election in 1964, one of his White House’s first acts might have been releasing top-secret UFO files. He harbored a lifelong fascination with the truth about extraterrestrial contact, much of it stemming from his desire to “find out what was in” the mysterious Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, home to the Air Force’s Project Blue Book. In the ’80s, it surfaced he’d spent decades corresponding with UFO investigators and harassing the military for access to the hangar’s so-called Blue Room, where conspiracy theorists believe alien bodies from Roswell are preserved. (“Not only can’t you get into it,” his friend General Curtis LeMay supposedly snapped in 1975, “but don’t you ever mention it to me again.” Goldwater claims he didn’t.) After retiring in 1987, the senator toldLarry King the Earth is “one of several billion planets in this universe. I can’t believe that God or whoever is in charge would put thinking bodies on only one planet.”
Roscoe Hillenkoetter After he’d served as the first CIA director (he’d been appointed by President Truman), Hillenkoetter retired from a distinguished Navy career in 1957 and took a gig at a brand-new private research group called the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Its chief purpose was pressuring the government to disclose what it knew about UFOs, via investigations like Project Blue Book. Hillenkoetter went after the intelligence community, writing angry open letters that said things like: “It is time for the truth to be brought out in open congressional hearings.” When he pointed out in 1960 that the Air Force had investigated 6,312 UFO reports to date, but was seemingly trying “to hide the facts,” the military reminded Americans that “no physical evidence, not even a minute fragment of a so-called flying saucer, has ever been found.”
Of course, another theory popped up in the ’80s — that Hillenkoetter had helped run a secret committee all along of politicians, military officers, and scientists called the Majestic 12. Ufologists claimed this cabal was formed in 1947, once Truman started panicking over what to do with all the alien spacecrafts the government kept finding. The group’s existence is based on government files that allegedly materialized in 1984. The FBI denied their authenticity entirely, but they and the Majestic 12 remain popular grist for conspiracy theories, having figured in Blink-182’s song “Aliens Exist” and even one of Twin Peaks’s side plots.
Dennis Kucinich Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign didn’t suffer from his admission, made during a live TV debate, that, back in 1982, he’d seen a UFO at friend Shirley MacLaine’s Washington State home. (He was polling around 4 percent at the time.) But the current candidate for Ohio governor got mocked plenty; one joke among Beltway insiders was he wanted the “little green vote.”
Staff were prepped to deny the encounter when reporters asked about the passage in MacLaine’s 2007 New Age self-help book, Sage-ing While Age-ing, that revealed Kucinich didn’t just see a UFO but had also felt “a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.” The other witnesses — a Juilliard-trained trumpeter working as MacLaine’s bodyguard and his model girlfriend — also report having seen a trio of triangle-shaped aircrafts flying in tight formation. Her house was 50 miles from Mt. Rainier, a “saucer magnet” for UFO buffs because of all the nearby sightings, including America’s very first “flying saucer” in 1947. Kucinich had the community’s full support, even if he spent years playing coy.
It helped that in Congress he did things like trying to ban space-based weapons. A 2001 bill he authored himself prohibited America from using “radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies” for the purposes of “information war, mood management, or mind control of such populations.” It explicitly singled out “chemtrails,” a term for jet condensation trails when conspiracy theorists believe they’re being used for biological warfare. In 2008, however, he only confirmed he’d seen a UFO, then pointed out, accurately, to moderator Tim Russert that “more people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush’s presidency.”
John Podesta When WikiLeaks published the Hillary Clinton emails, a weird number of Podesta’s mentioned aliens and involved contact with believers like Tom DeLonge and astronaut Edgar Mitchell. As Bill Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, he was known as an X-Files fanatic who’d “call the Air Force and ask them what’s going on in Area 51.” In 2014, he spent 13 months advising President Obama — and what was his “biggest failure”? According to him, failing to get government files declassified on the 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, UFO incident. Then during Bush’s term, he began publicly crusading for NASA to release UFO documents to journalist Leslie Kean, the person ultimately behind the Times’ Pentagon exposé.
Podesta has kept his personal ET beliefs under wraps, but in Kean’s best seller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, he gamely wrote a foreword that argues: “It’s time to find out what the truth really is … The American people — and people around the world — want to know, and they can handle the truth.”
Pavel and Marina Popovich This husband-wife duo was one part world-renowned cosmonaut (Pavel) and one part the Soviet Union’s most celebrated female pilot (Marina). They held among their titles that of sixth human in orbit, first Soviet female to break the sound barrier, and holder of more than 100 aviation world records. Once their illustrious flying careers ended, both became ufologists. Pavel headed up Russia’s UFO association and claimed to have seen an unidentified aircraft zip past his airplane on a trip home from Washington, D.C., with a group of scientists. People onboard said it was triangular, brightly lit, and rocketed by at 1,000 miles per hour.
Marina one-upped him, though — she claimed to have seen multiple UFOs and a “Bigfoot creature” — and after they divorced, she became the acclaimed expert, not Pavel. She began preaching a UFO glasnost of sorts under Gorbachev, claiming the Soviet government had pieces of five spaceships in its possession and reports of 14,000 UFO sightings, yet for decades researchers were “either fired or put in psychiatric hospitals.” Her eventual book, simply called UFO Glasnost, spoke candidly about how Leonardo da Vinci, Jules Verne, and Ray Bradbury were alien mediums and Gorbachev had the markings of an extraterrestrial emissary because “he’s an epoch-making phenomenon.”
—Clint Rainey
9. (And This Genius Thinks He Can Talk to Them)
In January, Stephen Wolfram — a computer-scientist philosopher and the author of a “universal” programming language that informed the alien communication in the movie Arrival— wrote an exceedingly long blog post about how best to communicate with aliens.
Tim Urban: You created a language you think we might be able to use to communicate with aliens. So what exactly is it that we would want to say to the rest of the universe if we had the chance?
Stephen Wolfram: I think the main difficulty is the definitional one. You talk about alien life, you talk about intelligence; what are those things abstractly?
We know the specific example that we have historically been exposed to: life on Earth, human intelligence. The question is, when you generalize away from that, what do you get to? One of the things that I’m fond of quoting is the statement “The weather has a mind of its own.” What does this mean? What is the abstract kind of thing that’s like the mind? It’s the ability to do sophisticated computation. That’s something that exists in the weather, just as it exists in our brains, just as it exists in lots of living systems. And then, what’s different between the weather and its sort-of-mindlike thing and our human intelligence? The fundamental answer to that is our human intelligence has its particular cultural, civilizational history and the weather doesn’t.
TU: So is it that history that we’d want to communicate?
SW: Yes, I think the thing to realize is that we in our civilization have followed a particular path. There are an infinite number of possible paths that we could’ve followed. To any other intelligence, our path would be quite mysterious.
TU: Right, so we actually have unique information to communicate. You could have the most sophisticated species, and we can still tell them something they don’t know about our history.
SW: I’m particularly amused by Elon Musk’s car going into space. That is so extremely aligned with the notion of grave goods from ancient Egypt, where you’re taking things from your everyday life to be buried with you. It’s charming.
10. There Have Been Enough Well-Known Encounters to Fill Encyclopedias
Here, just a small sampling of the classics.
Barney and Betty Hill. Photo: Bettman Archive/Getty Images
Barney and Betty Hill’s Abduction The Hills (above) claimed that in 1961 a bright light swooped over their car on a New Hampshire road and that they woke up a few hours later and the car had been “magnetized.” With regressive hypnosis, both were able to recall being abducted and probed by the little gray men, which soon became the de facto alien description. (The Hills’ captors were, interestingly, very similar to Selenites — the five-foot moon inhabitants H.G. Wells invented for The First Men in the Moon.) Betty astonished authorities when she began drawing a map of the constellation the creatures claimed to be from. Initially it looked like nonsense, until a few scientists noticed its resemblance to Zeta Reticuli, a system inside the constellation Reticulum largely unknown in that year. Their case generated widespread publicity, partly because they were a mixed-race couple in the ’60s, and turned into the flagship example of a “close encounter,” though not until years after the fact (skeptics argue the delayed report is a sign it’s a hoax). The hype ultimately culminated in The UFO Incident, a 1975 made-for-TV movie starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons.
Antonio Villas-Boas’s Seduction In 1957, small aliens with huge heads allegedly came for Villas-Boas, a young Brazilian farmer. Villas-Boas was forced inside their vessel, where the creatures took blood samples from, of all places, his chin, and rubbed in some sort of gel. Soon after, a blonde female with big, almond-shaped eyes joined him. She began rubbing his body, then initiated sex. After they were done, she left quickly, which gave Villas-Boas the impression that he was being used to better the aliens’ “stock.” He didn’t react well, as he suddenly felt exploited as “a good stallion” by these foreign chin-fetishists.
Weird as it was, Boas’s encounter, with its probing and forced sex, became the archetypal alien abduction. Reportedly skittish at first, he eventually told his story to João Martins, the writer behind popular magazine O Cruzeiro’s “Flying Saucers’ Terrible Mission” series. Doctors confirmed Boas had suffered radiation poisoning, but Martins ultimately soured on Boas’s story, for one because his spaceship sketch bore remarkable similarities to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik. He turned out all right, though: He got a law degree, had four kids, and died believing his children had a half-sibling living in space.
The “Wow!” Signal In 1977, Ohio State’s Big Ear radio telescope intercepted a 72-second burst of sound that bore signs of having come from interstellar space, which could be a sign of extraterrestrial communication. The anomaly measured 1,420 megahertz, a frequency in the “water hole,” the term for a radio-emission range thought ideal for intergalactic messages because it’s unusually quiet. Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who spotted it, was so excited that he scribbled a giant “Wow!” on his printout. Astronomy’s explanations for the bizarre phenomenon include secret spy satellites and a passing comet nobody knew about in 1977. But many admit nothing explains it adequately, and even if the signal doesn’t prove aliens exist, it’s still a “tug on the cosmic fishing line.” To date, it remains the best evidence of alien communication ever obtained.
Foo Fighters In the middle of World War II, things took a mysterious turn for Air Force pilots flying overnight missions. They reported seeing lights chasing their aircraft. The number varied (sometimes it was one; other times ten), and so did the colors (red, orange, and green). But the unidentified objects shared in common that they moved very fast, up to 200 miles per hour, yet could dart on a dime. These pilots — among the world’s best — admitted the objects generally flew circles around them. Their lore grew among the squadrons. In 1944, a crew flying along the Rhine in Germany described seeing “eight to ten bright orange lights” whiz by “at high speed.” Neither ground control nor their own planes caught anything on radar, and when one pilot turned toward the lights, they reportedly “disappeared.”
They called their mystery air companions “foo fighters,” an inside joke based on a phrase the comic-book character Smokey Stover used to declare (“Where there’s foo, there’s fire”). The term flying saucer hadn’t caught on yet, or else it would’ve sufficed. Some witnesses assumed they were tracer fire, reflections from ice crystals, or high-tech weaponry developed by the Nazis, while the government had a boring explanation as always: They were “electrostatic (similar to St. Elmo’s fire) or electromagnetic phenomena,” though which one and wherefrom were “never defined.”
Kecksburg UFO Crash In 1965, an intense fireball streaked over southern Canada and Detroit and dropped debris over Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Officially, it was declared a midsize meteor, but eyewitnesses in the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg claimed they’d found an acorn-shaped object about the size of a VW Beetle in the woods that was festooned with hieroglyphics. Newspaper reporters on the ground said the military conducted a “close inspection” of the crash site, and despite the official line being that the search yielded “absolutely nothing,” conspiracists maintain the object was packed onto an Army flatbed truck and that the whole thing was a Roswell-level cover-up. Leslie Kean’s Coalition for the Freedom of Information managed to secure some of the government’s files but reportedly not anything enlightening.
However, a second explanation surfaced in the early aughts: It was Die Glocke, purportedly a top-secret weapon Nazis developed that let them time-travel. By dumb Back to the Future–esque luck, it had come to rural Pennsylvania in the year 1965. These proponents argue Nazi SS officer Hans Kammler was navigating the device when it crash-landed in Kecksburg, allowing him to escape Allied troops in the days before VE Day and successfully integrate into postwar U.S. society.
Kenneth Arnold’s “Flying Saucer” Kenneth Arnold, a respected pilot, claimed in 1947 he’d seen nine mostly flat objects whip past Mount Rainier at speeds he timed at 1,760 miles per hour. “They were shaped like saucers,” he reportedly explained, “and were so thin I could barely see them.” A neologism was born.
Arnold he demanded military personnel explain what the contraptions were, if they knew, since he’d dismissed any possibility of them being guided missiles or new types of jets. His best guess? “From another planet.” Dozens of others came forward with similar sightings, from as far away as Oklahoma and Arizona. But Arnold didn’t enjoy his newfound celebrity. He said people had started shrieking in cafés when they saw him and fleeing. He described the situation to reporters as “out of hand” and regretted having people “look at me as a combination of Einstein, Flash Gordon, and screwball.”
Phoenix Lights On March 13, 1997, thousands of people in southern Arizona say they saw weird lights move across the night sky in a flying V. Most of their reports came in between 7 and 10:30 p.m. along a 300-mile stretch from Phoenix, through Tucson, and to the Mexico border. A majority of people spied the pattern passing overhead (it was supposedly several football fields long), but the Air Force also sent a team of A-10 Warthogs from nearby Barry Goldwater Range on a training exercise that same night, and, as luck would have it, those planes dropped some stationary flares just outside Phoenix, considerably complicating any UFO conspiracies with a second set of strange bright lights.
Witnesses claim to have watched the first set of lights — the low-altitude wedge formation — coast by with their binoculars; they say the lights were red, had a singular white one at the V’s tip, seemed engineless, and even banked southeast at one point. Actor Kurt Russell now claims he saw them while up in a private plane near the Phoenix airport, but air-traffic control told him the radar was clear. Governor Fife Symington reportedly witnessed the V-shaped as well. At the time he felt sure it wasn’t aliens, but his mind changed in 2007, after retiring from politics: He told media that as a pilot, he knows “just about every machine that flies,” and these lights definitely weren’t terrestrial.
The “Warminster Thing” Warminster’s long, controversial association with UFOs began in the English town on Christmas Day in 1964, when a local woman heard a “crackling sound” rip over her head. Other so-called sonic attacks plagued scores of others in town around the same time. Townspeople had no clue what was behind them, so they began blaming the “Thing.” Additional reports of inexplicable lights in the sky made it clear the “Thing” might have hailed from outer space.
Travis Walton’s Abduction In 1975, a team of loggers claimed their 22-year-old co-worker Travis Walton disappeared for five days after a glowing disc in the Arizona woods zapped him with a “bluish ray.” Intrigued, he’d reportedly wandered underneath the hovering object, and it abducted him. He claims he awoke on a table in a sterile-looking room surrounded by three “well-developed fetuses” wearing tan robes. He tried to flee, passed out, then regained consciousness only once the aliens had ditched him on the Arizona roadside.
The story received loads of publicity — authorities thought Walton had been murdered, and seven eyewitnesses corroborating a single close encounter was unheard of. The National Enquirer ultimately paid the group $5,000 for the story, after they passed polygraphs and Walton agreed to be interviewed by the tabloid’s “prestigious” hypnotist. In 1993, Paramount released Fire in the Sky, a movie it said was based on “the most famous case of UFO abduction ever recorded.” Skeptics have shot holes in what they assume was a hoax and note that James Earl Jones’s NBC movie The UFO Incident had aired two weeks before Walton’s own UFO incident. The encounter has a cult following to this day, though, enough that a first edition of Walton’s 1978 memoir The Walton Experience now fetches hundreds of dollars online.
The Battle of Los Angeles On February 25, 1942, reports filtered in of a glowing object floating over Culver City. Air-raid sirens sounded; the Army proceeded to pepper it with 1,400 anti-aircraft shells. Eventually it disappeared from view, but not before a citywide blackout was ordered, shell fragments got lodged in surrounding buildings, and five civilians died. The Navy later explained it had been a weather balloon. But ufologists suspected an alien spacecraft, which would explain why an hour’s worth of heavy artillery had failed to eliminate a single weather balloon.
Steven Spielberg would mercilessly satirize the incident in 1941, a “comedy spectacular.” But ufologists immediately suspected an alien spacecraft, which would explain why an hours’ worth of heavy artillery had failed to eliminate a single weather balloon. Conspiracists site a famous L.A. Times photo as extra proof; it seemingly caught searchlights trained on a very un-balloon-like object getting barraged with shells. The next day’s Times ran an editorial on page A1 (“Information, Please”) demanding the Army and Navy release more info, “if only to clarify their own conflicting statements about it.”
New encounters happen all the time — even to famous people. When Guillermo del Toro spotted one in Guadalajara, he says, “It was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights.” Above, a sampling from ufosightingsdaily.com over recent months.
January 18, Japan. Photo: Ufosightingsdaily
February 4, Popocatépetl, Mexico. Photo: Ufosightingsdaily
February 28, Cleveland, Ohio. Photo: Ufosightingsdaily
March 7, Bangs, Texas. Photo: Ufosightingsdaily
12. We Even Have Some Pretty Developed Theories About Why We Haven’t Heard From ET Yet
Maybe we’re the pond scum.
The Aliens Are All Dead Let’s start with the most depressing theory: Maybe we haven’t found extraterrestrials because they’re all dead — at least now. The universe is 13.78 billion years old, and in that amount of time, there might have been plenty of civilizations that evolved and went extinct.
The Aliens Are All Sleeping But maybe they’re not dead — just hibernating. Another theory suggests that perhaps there’s an extraterrestrial species out there that’s so advanced it cannot efficiently make use of its technology right now, because the universe’s temperature is currently too high. Good news, though: The universe’s temperature is cooling down (even as Earth’s is heating up). So aliens may have decided to take a snooze for a few trillion years while they wait for colder weather that’s more suited.
The Aliens Are Hiding If even a genius like Stephen Hawking thought that aliens might destroy us if they ever were to find us, then maybe we should be a little afraid. Perhaps the aliens think the same thing, so they’ve gone into hiding — from us. If another civilization were technologically savvy enough and had enough resources, it could build a massive orbital structure like a Dyson sphere to keep it cloaked from detection. Or it might use high-powered lasers to provide an optical façade that keeps its planet from being detected by telescopic instruments.
The Aliens Are Still Evolving Maybe alien life is actually everywhere — it’s just not intelligent enough to speak with us. It took about 3.5 billion years of evolution to turn single-celled microbes into humans. Maybe we just happened to evolve faster and earlier than everyone else.
Humans Haven’t Spent Enough Time Looking Realistically speaking, we’ve only had the proper equipment to search for aliens for a little over half a century. On the scale of the cosmos, that time frame is less than a fraction of the blink of an eye. The process could take centuries or even millennia — optimistically speaking.
The Aliens Are Already Here This is where the conspiracy theorists get to go nuts. Yes, maybe the aliens are already here and we just haven’t figured it out yet. They might be taking some time to study us before unveiling themselves, or maybe they have already let themselves be known to certain groups. The truth isn’t out there — it’s here.
—N.P.
13. And in the Meantime, Aliens Can Be Whatever We Want Them to Be
Katie Heaney: Why, when we think of aliens, do they all look the same — three feet tall, gray or green, big black eyes?
Joseph O. Baker: It didn’t used to be that way. UFO narratives became much more popular in the 1950s and ’60s, and during that era, the descriptions of the aliens would be almost humanlike in form. If you see drawings that some of the so-called contactees made, the aliens almost look like Swedish people — very attractive blond types with shining eyes. The abductee narrative really took over pop culture in the 1970s and ’80s, and after that, there’s this homogenization of the public perception because of all the stories and TV and movies about abductions.
KH: Even those guys look pretty human — why do we have such a hard time imagining radically different forms of life?
JB: We’re the people doing the projecting here. Much the same way people do with God — really, what sense does it make for a supernatural entity to have a gender or be humanoid Anthropomorphized supernatural entities tend to be more compelling.
KH: Is there a reason why so many of the abduction stories feature “probing”?
JB: The probe part of the abduction narrative took over in some sense because it tends to be the most salacious aspect of these stories. It’s almost become shorthand for alien abduction. But the stories of abduction among believers are really diverse, and usually probing is only one small part of it. Men will report having sperm extraction, and women will report having eggs extracted. Positive encounters tend to be akin to religion in some ways, in which beings of higher enlightenment show people the errors of humanity, or help them reach a higher plane of consciousness.
KH: Who is likely to believe?
JB: Men, and people with lower levels of income, are more likely to believe. We don’t really find strong patterns by education, and if we do, there’s usually a slight positive effect. But one of the strongest predictors you can find for believers is their extreme distrust of the government. That’s part of the reason it got so big in the ’70s, when trust in institutions was low. Trump might actually increase belief in UFOs.
Another one of the strongest predictors is not participating as strongly in forms of organized religion. In some sense, there’s a bit of a clue there about what’s going on with belief — it’s providing an alternative belief system.
KH: Most alien-encounter stories give aliens one of two motives: Either they want something from us or they want to kill us. What does that say about us?
JB: It shows that we have a high level of perceived self-importance. The idea that, in this vast universe, these beings sought us out in this tiny corner of the spiral arm of the Milky Way to come learn omething from us, or eliminate us, is a bit flattering.
KH: I’ve heard that sightings are way down in the smartphone era, when people presumably don’t take a story as proof enough.
JB: Well, it’s easier to hoax things now than it used to be. I would think that with an increased availability of videos, if it was going to do anything, it might lead to more belief, but from most of what I’ve seen, it looks more like stasis. Rates of reported sightings and rate of belief have been pretty stable. The 2005 Baylor Religion Survey found that 25 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “Some UFOs are probably spaceships from other worlds.”
ABriefHistoryof‘AlienDreams’
1899: Nikola Tesla notices rhythmic sounds on a radio receiver and is convinced they’re communications from Martians.
1924: At the request of David Todd, former head of the astronomy department at Amherst College, the Navy agrees to limit unnecessary radio communications from its largest bases for one day so that he can listen for alien signals as Mars passes closer to Earth than it’s been in over a century.
1960: The modern search for ETs begins when Frank Drake uses an 85-foot radio telescope in the hills of West Virginia to scan stars for signs of intelligent life; he later develops an equation to estimate the number of advanced civilizations.
1969: Jimmy Carter, candidate for Georgia governor at the time, sees a strange light.
1992: NASA formally begins its own SETI program.
1993: Congress eliminates funding for NASA’s SETI program.
1999: UC Berkeley launches SETI@home, a screen saver available to the public that enables anyone’s idle computer to analyze data collected by radio telescopes.
2016: Breakthrough Listen launches; it will collect as much data in a day as past SETI projects collected in a year.
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Stanton Friedman – UFO Research Pioneer – March 20, 2018
Stanton Friedman – UFO Research Pioneer – March 20, 2018
Open Minds UFO Radio: After more than 50 years of researching and publicly speaking about UFOs, former nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman is doing his victory lap. After a historic career conducting over 700 lectures, writing six books, and countless media interviews, Stanton is retiring from Ufology. To honor Stanton’s work and learn from his unique experience, Open minds UFO Radio will conduct several interviews with him over the next few months. In this interview, we talk about how Stanton got started becoming the face of ufology.
Golden UFOs Seen Leaving Mountain Peeks Of Sedona, Arizona On March 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Golden UFOs Seen Leaving Mountain Peeks Of Sedona, Arizona On March 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2018 Location of sighting: Sedona, Arizona, USA Source: MUFON #90899 Bright golden lights were seen at Sedona this week in the mountains. The bright lights were caught in two different photos, always in the same location. The mountains would make a great exit area for UFOs that were leaving an underground base in the area. Also in the clouds above the mountains is another golden UFO. Its unknown if the lights were seen by the eyewitness or when they got home, but often cameras catch the full activities of the moment, where the human eye is more flawed and processes much less. Scott C. Waring
Home Security Camera Records A Fairy Visiting In London, England, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Home Security Camera Records A Fairy Visiting In London, England, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 10, 2013 Location of sighting: London, Great Britain Source: MUFON #90907
This report took place back in 2013, but was reported today. Look closely at the objects that were caught on a outside home security camera and you will notice a strange resemblance to a fairy. Could they be an alien species visiting this planet? Yes, most likely. Stories of fairies have existed for hundreds of years. For a story to last so long, some truth must be in it. Humanity only knows a small percent of the life that exists on our own planet, and this could be a species that has visited often enough that stories of the little flying people have spread far and wide. Scott C. Waring
Was Stephen Hawking murdered to stop him from revealing the existence of aliens? UFO Sighting News.
Was Stephen Hawking murdered to stop him from revealing the existence of aliens? UFO Sighting News.
Was Stephen Hawking murdered to stop him from revealing top secret information about the existence of aliens? People have been killed for much less, and its easy for someone to be killed an make it look of natural causes. However, in his case, he really did look exhausted in the last few months of his life. It was clear his ailments were taking a huge toll on him. You decide, tell us in the comments below please. Scott C. Waring UFOMania of Youtube states:
A stunning new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) circulating in the Kremlin today claims it is “more than likely” that world renowned British Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking was murdered as his 14 March death came just 10 days after his 4 March revision to his scientific research paper titled “A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?”
A plane passenger taking pictures of the rising sun in Texas made an odd discovery Sunday after he noticed a bizarre orange triangle standing out like a sore thumb in his photos.
The images, which were taken around 6:30 a.m., were quickly shared with popular YouTube page "UFOmania — The truth is out there" on Monday and labeled as evidence of a "strange, flaming-looking triangular UFO."
Gaining more than 9,000 views, the group's video has thrown conspiracy theorists into a tizzy, with some saying the footage proves that UFOs are everywhere. *dun, dun, dun*
"I live in Dallas," one YouTube commenter wrote. "[I] can confirm that the skies are currently full of flying, shape shifting, demonic, reptilian plasma monsters." And possibly Doritos.
Another wrote, "We see them all the time here with other UFO crafts. Where we are is always something in the sky early morning [and] at night."
Others speculated that the mysterious aircraft could've been the TR-3B, an alleged secret government plane that can reportedly go undetected on air traffic radars, according to Military.com.
Not all netizens immediately saw alien life forms or secret US government projects, however.
"Reflection off of the plane window," one user wrote. "Just once would one of these people take a photo that is not blurry."
UFO PROOF? Shock footage emerges of 'ALIEN AIRCRAFT in pursuit of jet liner'
UFO PROOF? Shock footage emerges of 'ALIEN AIRCRAFT in pursuit of jet liner'
SHOCKING footage has emerged of a UFO in pursuit of a jet liner that could be the greatest evidence that aliens exist and have visited Earth that has left witnesses stunned, it has been claimed.
The video shows a jet in “hot pursuit” of another craft in the sky that was claimed to be “some of the best evidence” of UFO’s by YouTube channel “thirdphaseofmoon”.
The man who filmed the craft stated that he did a “double take” as soon as he saw looked into the sky in New Hampshire.
He stated: "I was reading on my deck around 7 o'clock.
"I am told that military pilots train in the mountains around where I live and I've always enjoyed seeing them fly through.
Getty • YouTube thirdphaseofmoon
YouTube viewers were decidedly split on the footage that claims to prove the existence of UFO’s
"This happens all the time, jets and helicopters are a common sighting. So I naturally saw the jet and did a double take, because there was something following it.
"I immediately thought I was witnessing some strange aircraft, possibly military but it was not a jet.
"I knew it wasn't a jet because it was actually right behind one. The jet it was chasing left a long contrail behind it, but the UFO did not.”
The witness added that the “UFO was gaining on the jet” and declared that he was “blown away” by the incident.
He went on: "The UFO was gaining on a jet. No helicopter could do that. I was blown away and luckily got out my phone in time to take a video.”
The footage is believed to have been taken in 2016, but has surfaced for public viewing for the first time on YouTube.
The cameraman stated that it would be “very hard” to write off the incident as a “weather balloon” or another aircraft.
He went on: "I watched the object gaining on the jet for about 10 seconds when I lost them in the trees.
"I was very excited and anxious. I felt I have witnessed something very hard to dismiss as a 'weather balloon' or some obvious type of aircraft.
"Shortly after the jet and object left my range of sight I saw three more jets and 1 helicopter going the same direction, in my opinion, chasing the UFO."
YouTube thirdphaseofmoon
The footage is believed to have been taken in 2016
YouTube thirdphaseofmoon
The cameraman stated that it would be 'very hard' to write off the incident as a 'weather balloon'
YouTube viewers were decidedly split on the footage that claims to prove the existence of UFO’s.
One commented: “Great evidence...keep your eyes on the skies...the truth will come from above..eyes open!”
Filer’s Files #11 – 2018 Trump’s Space Force - PART I
Bangs, Texas -- strange object photographed March 7, 2018
Filer’s Files #11 – 2018 Trump’s Space Force - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: The Military Keeps Encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon Care? Undersea UFO Base. Trump states, We May Even Have a Space Force, National Space Defense Center, Venus May Have Been Habitable, Venus Rising Trilogy, and China’s on Track to Contain the World’s Largest Christian Population
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. These files are dedicated to my wife, Janet P. Filer for being everything that I’m not. For putting up with everything I am. For stitching me together whenever I bleed. For taking care of me and being the love of my life. .
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The Military Keeps Encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon Care?
We have no idea what’s behind these weird incidents because we’re not investigating. The existence of UFOs using technology more advanced than anything on Earth has been proved “beyond reasonable doubt,” according to Luis Elizondo, the former head of a secret US government program that studied UFOs. Elizondo, who quit as head of the program is now part of Tom DeLonge’s ‘To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences’ (TTSASS) team. After an early military career in Army Intelligence, Elizondo was assigned to a position in the Pentagon where he was surprised to learn that he was chosen to study the UFO issue and believes we may not be alone.
His immediate supervisors had no knowledge of this part of his duties because of the compartmentalized nature of the project, meaning only those directly involved in the program had a “need to know.” After his initial shock, Elizondo realized that it was “definitely a profound topic to be exploring.” Luis Elizondo, used to run the Pentagon’s intelligence UFO program that examined evidence of “anomalous” aircraft, but he resigned last fall to protest government inattention to the growing body of empirical data.
Elizondo said the Defense Department was concerned with anything that was not readily identified by witnesses, radar, or other sensing technology. The famous USS Nimitz UFO event and video footage was just one example, he said, and added that “there were other events that occurred like the Nimitz, and not in the distant past.” Elizondo also mentioned that reports from military witnesses included physical effects such as feelings of nausea or “a weird loss of time perception.” He also confirmed that military hardware has been affected or disabled during UFO encounters.
Aliens would interfere with nuclear weapons not because they are dangerous to life here or elsewhere, but because nuclear weapons are a threat to what the aliens wish to collect from Earth or if they decide to stay here.
It has been well documented that for 60 years or more, UFOs have been monitoringnuclear weapons facilities, and in some situations have actively interfered with nuclear weapons. Many UFO researchers have interpreted this as a sign that extraterrestrials were trying to warn humanity of the global threat posed by nuclear weapons. They told abductees they would interfere in a nuclear war.
Elizondo said, Robert Bigelow directed the remodeling of buildings that allegedly hold debris from alien craft. He discussed the controversial “alloy” or “meta material” in the possession of Robert Bigelow’s company (shown) and said that it shows unusual properties when tested and contains “isotopic ratios that are very unique.” As for the UAPs themselves, Elizondo has not made up his mind as to whether they are “from outer space, inner space, or the space in between.”
Indeed, numerous individuals claiming to have been contacted or abducted by extraterrestrials since the early 1950s have made a similar point. Springer’s comments reveal the contrasting conclusion drawn by the Pentagon in their planning scenario.
Christopher Mellon an adviser to the To the Stars Academy for Arts and Science served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations reports on UFO sightings.
In December, the Defense Department declassified two videos documenting encounters between U.S. Navy F-18 fighters and unidentified aircraft. The first video captures multiple pilots observing and discussing a strange, hovering, egg-shaped craft, apparently one of a “fleet” of such objects, according to cockpit audio. The second shows a similar incident involving an F-18 attached to the USS Nimitz carrier battle group in 2004. Apparently there were numerous UFOs.
The videos, along with observations by pilots and radar operators, appear to provide evidence of the existence of aircraft far superior to anything possessed by the United States or its allies. Defense Department officials who analyze the relevant intelligence confirm more than a dozen such incidents off the East Coast alone since 2015. In another recent case, the Air Force launched F-15 fighters last October in a failed attempt to intercept an unidentified high-speed aircraft looping over the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately, we have no idea, because we aren’t even seeking answers.
Undersea UFO Base.
For 100 years, strange activity has been occurring off the southern California Coast near Malibu. Mile for mile, this area is one of the top producers of USOs (unidentified submersible objects) in the entire world. Drawing on firsthand testimonies from the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, police officers, lifeguards, residents and many others, Researcher Preston Dennett presents a compelling case for the possible existence of an undersea UFO base. California has been a UFO hot spot for years, so when it was theorized that a structure discovered 600 meters (2,000 feet) below the water 10 kilometers (6 miles) off the coast of Malibu was in fact an alien base, it didn’t come as that much of a surprise. The structure has a distinct oval shape and what appears to be underwater entrances.
Possible USOs Base in the Santa Catalina Channel
Sightings of weird lights, anomalous glowing clouds, objects flying in and out of the water, mass UFO sightings, humanoid encounters–they’re all here. More than ten years of research, was presented here for the first time. Using Google earth, someone had obtained images of what appeared to be an undersea base right off the California coast, in the direct center of where all the USO activity was taking place! The images were startling, and the story again caught fire. Submarine Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) hydrophones has picked up fast moving underwater objects moving at several hundred knots. This speed is triple human submarines. The truth about this area can no longer be denied: something very strange is lurking in these waters.
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humanoid encounters, including abductions to an apparent base.
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The new book, “Undersea UFO Base: An In-Depth Investigation,” is now available on Amazon and other online retailers. Undersea UFO Base
Trump states, We May Even Have a Space Force.”
Colin Clarkon writes, “In a somewhat surreal scenario, President Donald J. Trump yesterday remarked on the idea of a “Space Force,” something he’d clearly been briefed on at some point. After telling an audience at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar that “space is a war fighting domain,” Trump tossed off the idea “that “we may even have a space force.”
Trump wandered among topics such as going to Mars — “Very soon we’re going to Mars. You wouldn’t have been going to Mars if my opponent had won. You wouldn’t even be thinking about it” — and then to a Space Corps.
“You know I was saying it the other day, because we’re doing a tremendous amount in space, maybe we need a new force. We’ll call it the space force, and I was not really serious, and then I was, what a great idea. Maybe we need to do that.”
The Space Corps, which would relate to the Air Force as the Marine Corps does to the Navy, has been pushed hard by Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, and his ranking member, Rep. Jim Cooper.
The simple fact that President Trump mentioned this before a military audience and has clearly devoted some thought to it may indicate a space force already exists to protect the satellites or as part of the Star Wars ballistic missile system. There have been frequent stories of UFOs crashing with apparent damage allegedly caused by the anti ballistic missile defense capability missiles . A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon system that inflicts damage at a target by emission of highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves and particle beams hey can have much greater speed and range than conventional weapons, therefore, are suitable for use in space warfare.
National Space Defense Center
It will focus on “information sharing in space defense operations among the DoD, National Reconnaissance Office, the (NSDC) and other interagency partners,” the center’s director Col. Todd Brost said in the news release. The ultra-secret NSDC is both a joint and interagency center that is not part of U.S. STRATCOM. The center is expected to be staffed by about 200 personnel.
Vice President Pence, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Air Force Space Command Gen. John Raymond, head of the command, called the National Space Defense Center, the (NSDC) transitioned to 24/7 operations event a “significant milestone.”
The center started with months of analysis of what it would take to defend American satellites. Leaders used war games to determine staffing levels and to hone internal procedures. The center, which started as a concept in late 2015, arose out of increasing fear that America’s enemies would make satellites a wartime target.
The military’s satellites provide communications, navigation and missile warning for troops around the globe. In wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, satellites have given American ground troops an unprecedented advantage to track and target enemies. Intelligence satellites focus on foreign powers, with capabilities to – necessary to provide CDR JFCC SPACE the ability to plan and execute command and control of worldwide space forces. It is composed of five core divisions: Strategy Plans, Combat Plans, Combat Operations, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance and Space Surveillance It appears offensive forces would be needed conduct combat operations to protect the satellites.
On 13 September 1985, Maj. Wilbert D. “Doug” Pearson, flying the “Celestial Eagle” F-15A 76-0084 launched an ASM-135 ASAT about 200 miles (322 km) west of Vandenberg Air Force Base and destroyed the Solwind P78-1 satellite flying at an altitude of 345 miles (555 km). Prior to the launch the F-15 flying at Mach 1.22 executed a 3.8g zoom climb at an angle of 65 degrees. The ASM-135 ASAT was automatically launched at 38,100 ft while the F-15 was flying at Mach .934.[7] The 30 lb (13.6 kg) MHV collided with the 2,000 lb (907 kg) Solwind P78-1 satellite at closing velocity of 15,000 mph (24,140 km/h). Again it is logical to assume some type of space force, or armed satellites exist. Thanks to USAF
Nevada Man Who Survived UFO Abduction Says Aliens Asked Him About Jesus Christ
Henderson – A Nevada man who claims he was abducted by aliens from outer space last month says his extraterrestrial kidnappers attempted to convert him to Christianity while he was aboard their spacecraft.
Nigel Harshaw of Suffolk, England, who is in the United States on a temporary work visa, told Channel 13 Action News that on the evening of January 28, he was in his backyard assembling a grill when the incident occurred. “I just remember I was standing there with an Allen wrench in my hand and then in what felt like an instant, I was someplace else,” he recalled.
That “someplace else,” according to Nigel, was the inside of an unidentified flying object. The thirty-seven year-old IT consultant, who claims he spent nine hours aboard the spacecraft, says he was able to communicate with his alien captors. “Their language and speech patterns were unlike anything I’ve ever heard,” he said, adding, “Yet, somehow I was able to understand and interact with them.”
According to Harshaw’s account, the “human-like” beings did not appear hostile. “They asked me if I’d heard the good news. I told them, ‘I don’t know that I have.’ They said, ‘God loves you and He wants you to know and love Him. He offers you peace and joy and a fulfilled life.” Nigel, who is an atheist, said he was too frightened to say so at the time and instead did his best to appear open to their message.
“They told me that Jesus Christ visited their planet hundred thousand years ago proclaiming to be the Son of God,”
Harshaw recounted. He added that one of the beings presented him with an object that it described as a bible. “The last thing they told me before I was returned home was that Jesus is coming.”
Harshaw said despite being spared any physical harm, he was beside himself with terror throughout the entirety of the experience. “Honestly, I wish it had happened to somebody else,” he told Channel 13 Action News.
On January 30, just two days after the alleged event, two “very stern” officials from the U.S. Air Force showed up at Mr. Harshaw’s Black Mountain home and confiscated the “bible-like” object. “They didn’t ask any questions,” he recalled. “They made it very clear what they were there for, and once they had it, they simply left.”
To add insult to injury, Nigel Harshaw was notified by the U.S. Department of State on Sunday that his temporary work visa has been revoked. He has until the end of the week to return to the United Kingdom. Thanks to R. HOBBUS J.D. Investigative Journalist
Alien Versus Experimental Craft
Triangle photo by Bruce Cornet
Eric Hermanson writes, In my opinion, it helps to talk with insiders who have analyzed UFO/UAP craft. For example, there are other books besides Mills that work with the physics of UFO propulsion dynamics. I would also recommend Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis by Paul Hill, a former NASA engineer, which owes its existence to Dr. Bob Wood. To comment about the Bulgarian video, I would share the repeated general average of ET (non-human) vs. BP (Black Project) percentage, which is often put forward by BP guys to be about 30/70 or perhaps even 20/80. Though theory is interesting and fifth force valuable, the engineering details are my focus. If you are not familiar with the ET/BP ratio, let me share the awesome lecture by aerospace illustrator, Disclosure 2001 participant, and colleague of mine, Mark McCandlish, which only gets better and more revealing as he goes on:
Mark Xperimental
Based on eye-witness accounts and insider information, This video takes the audience through a series of revelations as to how remarkable breakthrough technology, may have been back-engineered from recovered or captured off-world vehicles, enabled aerospace corporations to create a special access only, secret space program and develop a break-away civilization with its own goals and agenda.
We are talking about Special Access Programs (SAP). From these we have unacknowledged and waived SAPs. These programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are better known as ‘deep black programs. Some of these vehicles are capable of flying at mach 17 and performing maneuvers that seem impossible.
McCandish talks about a flying wing at Lockheed Skunk Works that had a long boom extending out the back of the Triangle. At the end of that boom was a V-shaped fin or tail that could be moved like the tail feathers of a bird in order to change flight. Now this information was revealed at MUFON LA, and released by UPARS LA in 2017, 20 years after this craft flew over me as I was standing on South Searsville Rd. in Orange County, NY. This Triangle lost out in competition with the Northrop B2 contract, so what is it doing flying low over Orange County at night, and where was it parked? With all the thousands of Black Triangle sightings between 1997 and 2004, clearly this craft was not mothballed.
So Mark McCandish seems to have described what Lynch and I videotaped. Thanks to Bruce Cornet
NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable
Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight and made the planet habitable.
Credits: NASA Venus
Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet’s ancient climate by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The findings, published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, were obtained with a model similar to the type used to predict future climate change on Earth.
“Many of the same tools we use to model climate change on Earth can be adapted to study climates on other planets, both past and present,” said Michael Way, a researcher at GISS. Venus today has a crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere 90 times as thick as Earth’s. There is almost no water vapor. Temperatures reach 864 degrees Fahrenheit at its surface.
Scientists long have theorized that Venus formed out of ingredients similar to Earth’s, but followed a different evolutionary path. Venus is closer to the sun than Earth and receives far more sunlight. As a result, the planet’s early ocean evaporated, with no water left on the surface, carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere, leading to a so-called runaway greenhouse effect that created present conditions.
The research was done as part of NASA’s Planetary Science Astrobiology program through the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) program , which will try to detect possible habitable planets and characterize their atmospheres.
Excellent Venus Adventure
Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure is the third thrilling book in realist, and ufologist, Dr. Raymond A. Keller’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning Venus Rising series. Some of the interesting- and real individuals- you’ll meet in this book of astounding science include: A Canadian defense minister Paul Shishis Hellyer who “spilled the beans” about Venusians and other aliens living and working among us, scientists from around the world engineering new developments to explore and understand various outer space phenomena like magnetic reconnection, traveling faster than the speed of light, and the requisites for intelligent life on other planets.
“Cosmic Ray” traversing Dimension X with the Queen of Outer Space, Dolores Barrios.. Krsanna Durant of TimeStar reveals startling new revelations that will shake the Ufology universe. A Nevada road construction foreman at Mormon Mesa, Nevada, who encounters a female saucer pilot. Sporting a beret and looking quite the revolutionary, her name is Aura Rhanes and she is from the Venusian space base Clarion on the far side of the Moon. An Aerojet missile contractor who flew in a remote controlled flying saucer from White Sands, New Mexico, to New York City and back in 30 minutes. Never-before-seen photos taken by the contractor of Air Force personnel attached to him while working on the development of the top secret Falcon missile’s dual radar and heat-seeking targeting systems are included. Countless others also appear in the well-documented pages.
Dan Johnson writes, “Water, water, surround yourself with water. Water is why Ets come to this earth. It is for water.” I listened to the two hour interviews on the Jeff Rense radio program with Dr. Raymond Keller, entitled, “From Venus with Love. Ray Keller’s speaks of missing some 40 gallons of water at Giant Rock, which he and others think were taken by Ets for use for whatever endeavor. Ets use this same plasmatic medium, water, to power their space vehicles. The last statement is pure speculation on my part but it makes a lot of sense. Maybe the Ets came to Giant Rock to power their ships, among other things.
Not all Ets have a supportive agenda. (My way of saying that there are some bad Ets). Water can be gleaned in several ways. It can be gotten from oceans, lakes or rivers for example or it can be gotten from humans, taken or otherwise. For example, we humans are made up of some 75% water, and BTW, so is the earth. Our sci-fi pictures and movies depict vampires sucking the blood of humans, which is made up of some 75% water and also has a plasma content as its base. Some say that science fiction is 95% truth. Maybe this is why there have been so many abductions. What better way to get water than taking something through abduction that has 75% water in it. What a neat little package we humans make.
China’s on Track to Contain the World’s Largest Christian Population
Thanks to a surge in underground house churches and state-sanction places of worship, according to the Council of Foreign Relations China’s Christian population is expanding rapidly.. The more China tries to stop the growth the faster it expands.
In a background document titled “Christianity in China,” the CFR estimates of the number of Protestants at anywhere from 58 million to 115 million and higher — though fewer than 30 million attend officially registered churches.
The CFR reported underground house churches exist parallel to state-sanctioned Christian churches, operating outside of the guidelines of the government, and their regulation by party authorities is largely determined by local leaders. According to the background report, the number of Chinese Protestants has grown by an average of 10 percent annually since 1979, putting China on track to have the world’s largest population of Christians by 2030. Estimates of the Catholic faithful in China, meanwhile, range between 10 to 12 million — despite the fact that the Holy See and Beijing haven’t had formal diplomatic ties since 1951. According to the CFR, the two sides now are reportedly close to finalizing a deal on the appointment of Catholic bishops. According to the CFR, social scientists are linking the rise in Christianity with that of a spiritual vacuum following decades of unbridled economic growth in China. And with a richer and better educated society and a renewed interest in religion, the Chinese Community Party philosophy loses its public traction, the CFR noted.
Protestantism “appeals to Chinese traditions of ritual and community are drawn to the religion’s emphasis on egalitarianism and spiritual community within the church. It is also possible that more Chinese may choose Christianity over other faiths, such as Tibetan Buddhism, Islam or Falun Gong, because Christianity is more tolerated and is potentially a safer option in China. Still, Christians have faced growing repression in recent years — and China has ranked 10th as a country where it’s most difficult and dangerous to practice Christianity, according to Open Doors, a non-profit that tracks the persecution of Christians worldwide.
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Filer’s Files #11 – 2018 Trump’s Space Force - PART II
Filer’s Files #11 – 2018 Trump’s Space Force - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
This picture was taken out West, a few years ago by a friend of mine. It clearly shows a disc shaped object high above the trees taken last summer.
It was not seen directly, but after the photo was observed more closely a few day later.
The inset photo shows the object a little closer and one can make out more details of the craft. Love and Light, Dan Johnson
California Object
Valencia— My ex husband saw these objects and our son sent them to me.
They were taken on March 12, 2018,
He said, “They were “zipping around really fast“.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Mutilation
My wife and I were driving down US Hwy 285, Alamosa, CO 81101, passed Rio Grande Ranch on the right side of road.
Across fence laid several dead, mutilated cattle with no faces and odd looking. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Triangle
Spring Hill — Walking the dogs with my girlfriend we noticed an unusual light pattern in the northern sky heading over SR 50 and Mariner Boulevard area on March 6, 2018. It took me a few seconds to realize I was looking at something abnormal as no normal aviation lights were observed. I hold a certification in airplane mechanics and noticed this crafts light pattern was unusual. I was unable to see a defined outline of the craft, but several pale white lights appeared on the underside of the craft in the shape of a triangle. See attached sketch. It flew faster than normal air traffic. and flew up into cloud cover. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Lights
Manchester— This sighting occurred from around 11:57 to 12 Midnight. I was sitting by my deck door on March 10, 2018, and noticed a light through the trees. I saw a flying object casting a bright light with smaller blinking lights around it. I knew it wasn’t an ordinary plane as it made no sounds. I heard a quiet hum/buzz as it flew over at a couple hundred feet. It continued flying in a straight line, coming from the NW to SE, I noticed two white lights to either side of it that weren’t blinking, one red light on its front, and one white light on its back/bottom, and both the red and white light were alternating blinks. I could see the outline of it, and it was definitely a triangular shape. After researching a little the only thing I found is a TR-3B or a B-2. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nebraska Disk
Curtis — I was taking my normal walk for my anxiety on a dirt road at night on my school’s campus on March 7, 2018. I live in a very small town, with very little light pollution. This makes the stars in the sky very visible, so I noticed a large chunk of it was solid black. I stared at the slowly moving black mass was like a disc. The light from the building I was nearby reflected off the slowly spinning object. It felt almost predatory and I felt I had to get out of there and head indoors. My heart was racing as I kept looking up but I never saw it again. The sketch is a rough outline of what I saw.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Black Triangle
Gloucester County — I heard a loud whoosh and looked up on January 19, 2018, as it flew right over my head. The craft had no wings, no lights, no markings, as the large white craft passed over me. I could draw it. It went straight past the house across from me at 9;55 pm. I was amazed as I only heard the displacement of air sound, “whoosh.”. I saw it and as much as I pretty much believe Earth probably had visitors from someplace else..There’s no way in hell it was ours! It was like the end of a Comcast channel control with the rounded edges and rectangular shape, but this got a little slimmer towards the front. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Egg Harbor Township — This was something I have never seen before. It moved, very slowly on March 14, 2018, with no sound and a force field around it.. It was a black triangle, with a circular field around it that I observed for 10 to 15 minutes. It was moving so slow, and straight, ascending at the same time. I live on the 3rd floor of a apartment complex and live near Pomona Air Force Base. I see all different kinds of military and commercial aircraft all day long. Honestly, it could have a been military craft. I’m not sure. What was so odd was how slow it moved, and the force field around the craft. It vanished into thin air. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Triangle
Broadway— I saw this object in the sky and decided to film it with my Canon on March 15, 2018. The sky was clear while I was filming, at 1:03 PM. In the video you can see the object moving right to left.
In the video you can see a jet’s chemtrail flying above this object in a couple of shots. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Object
Bangs — Going to check my pasture; and looked up and noticed this object in the sky on March 7, 2018.
I thought it was a meteorite, however it didn’t move and disappeared/de-materialized shortly after observation (45-60 seconds).
Have photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Utah Object
I took a picture of the clouds that were moving weirdly.
Then this shape opted out of the clouds on
March 2, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Everett— Might just be a reflection of my fence lights off my camera on March 1, 2018, or maybe UFOs.
They know how to be elusive and blend in.
Interestingly the Sea lions stopped making noise. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
My husband saw strange lights in the sky on March 3, 2018, that changed color and I videotaped them.
On the videos there was a bell shaped object with 3 lights that looked a lot closer. Before hand and after there were a few lights that whizzed past. It was a very dark night and only taped it on my iPhone. We are not sure what we taped but it was something very different.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Object
Rio de Janeiro— During my vacation last November 30, 2017, I took this photo.
Now 4 months later I realize that this hovering object at the top of the photo was caught by my mobile.
I was descending the sugar loaf hill.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Object
Maple Ridge, B.C. — It was early Saturday morning March 10, 2018, around 5:40am I went out on my back porch. I looked over towards the mountains and saw this bright white light flying towards me from the west. I watched it for a few seconds and realized that this was the same light I saw the night before around 10pm.
I took ten pics as it flew over my neighbor’s house. There was six or seven planes and then I saw this silent light to the west. It was flying north and then just blinked out. It was not a conventional aircraft.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Columbia Base
Ubaté— I’m a writer and in 2005, during the preparation of my last book about antediluvian culture, I was Googling in the valley of Ubate.
I was astounded to discover in an isolated place what appears to be a large UFO base.
In the same place I could also observe from the air giant sarcophagi (stone coffins). I decided to investigate the matter further, so I drove towards the place, but I was unable to get there. The roads were interrupted, so I decided to quit the search.
A few days later a very strange report was published in the EL TIEMPO newspaper showing the photograph of a UFO that could be clearly seen flying very near the area in which I had observed the supposedly UFO base.
Some years passed by, but I finally decided to contact MUFON and show the photographs that I include with this report.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Orbs
Cancun— Never saw these objects in real time when I took the photo on March 3, 2018.
Only after looking at my sunrise shot did I notice these lights under the cloud.
Also notice 45 shaft of vapor from object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Sphere
Boqueron — More UFO / OUFO Images from Daniel Matos Velez
Received by Joshua P. Warren March, 2018
Due to hurricane Maria, FEMA workmen are living next to the beach in Boqueron, Puerto Rico.
In early March, 2018, there was a mass sighting of a craft over the water. One engineer snapped this video of a UFO above the helicopter.
In less than a second, a silvery probe can be seen flying past the helicopter.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
Stonehenge — Been a true believer, I opened my mind with ecstasy and symbolically laid myself down in front of the stones trying to concentrate waves of emotion through myself, and through the stones focused upward. I almost had to complete a ritual for the revelation and made the pilgrimage to Stonhenge on June 21, 2015.
I had a sudden urge to photograph the stones, now it was 1.20am the morning of the solstice in one of the most ancient and holy sites in Britain, I took out my phone and started snapping, at first standing up with no flash and eventually laying on my belly. It was soon clear the spotlights installed for the event lighting the stones was absorbing my camera flash and in fact my desired picture would not be possible, but I didn’t stop.
I don’t know if they removed me briefly physically or just connected with my mind but I know I called them, they spoke to me and let me capture the moment on film. Snip Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
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