Extraterrestrial Life Search Could Be Helped By The Discovery Of Two Lakes Beneath The Canadian Arctic Glaciers

 by Vadim Caraiman

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19-04-2018 om 01:41 geschreven door peter  

1. Study Reveals How Earth Would Change if It Suddenly Spun the Other Way

By Rae Paoletta

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19-04-2018 om 01:30 geschreven door peter  

The How and Why Anti-Intellectualism Is Killing UFOlogy

There is an overall drive to anti-intellectualism that is infesting UFOlogy to its core. Our culture is one that glorifies the moronic and idiotic, not the intellect. What is truly disheartening is that it now appears intellectualism is now synonymous with Elitism and Conspiracy.

I point my finger directly at our failing educational system. It is designed to just make children memorize information. It is not designed to teach kids how to critically think or how to think at all. Schools make great automatons but not great creative thinkers. Public school is no place for a smart person.

In life, there are few big-picture questions we all must work through. Who am I?, Where do I come from? Where am I going? UFOlogy encompasses all of those concerns and more. The rational study of the Cosmos and our place in it should be near the top of the list of worthwhile pursuits.

For most people, it is NOT.

UFOlogy is slowing being poisoned from the inside out by the lunatic click bait crowd. Every day 1000’s of clearly fraudulent and hoaxed UFO images and videos flood the communities. Spread by the greed of financial gain these bottom feeders of UFOlogy are making all of us laughing stocks. UFOlogy will never gain the respect and ultimately the research dollars it needs while such rampant, childish, and dis-informational material is created every minute of every day and served up with a huge heaping bowl of “Screw You”.

UFOLogy is not yet in a terminal state but it sure could use a brain smoothie. It is in desperate need of a good infusion of vitamin Ra (rationality), Sa (sanity), and Ed (education). We all must stop supporting known fraudster and hoax websites and Youtube channels.

It all comes down to how a person values Science

An artist’s ability is innate in many cases. A scientists tool belt must be learned. Scientific methodology is not something we are born with. It must be taught to be understood.  The push for “no fail” states, lower educational standards, and general apathy has created entire generations of people who are barely scientifically literate.

True science and the appreciation of how such a self-correcting, peer reviewing, open architecture does not typically occur until you hit at least College level. A high school education will not typically cut it when you are wading into the ever advancing ocean of cutting-edge science.

Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. ~Desiderius Erasmus

A strange turn in our collective consciousness has occurred where the masses believe that their layperson perspective on science is somehow as valid and weighted as accredited professors would be. Even worse than that the professor’s opinion based on facts and all the tools science has to offer is completely nullified by a single word.

Professionals, Scientists, and Doctors all get lumped under the “Conspiracy” banner when they state their known scientific facts. Facts which more often than not, do not support the established beliefs of the UFO true believers. Scientists and doctors are the ones we should trust when considering scientific things. They have done the legwork to get a degree in their choice of the physical sciences. Their opinion in their field is worth more than the laypersons. That is just a logical deduction.

If you are someone that is a scientist, doctor, or researcher and you choose to speak out on some of the downright lunacy in UFOlogy. You are instantly labelled a government spy, disinformation agent, or a spook. You are condemned to be part of an evil cabal planning world domination by the subjugation of scientific advances. Sounds insane but a lot of people believe this. Scientists that state facts that is contrary to the lay person’s beliefs make them the proverbial enemy.  The people that do this are the ones educated by television. Television is entertainment, not education.

Truth in any form is rarely seen on TV. 

These people think their opinion is somehow on the same level as doctors. It is not when they are discussing the scientist’s field of study.

Reality is not best served by the false balance perspective we see all the time in the media. A professor that has researched say the Great Pyramids on the Giza Plateau, knows better than you what happened to make this wonder of the world. End of story.

There is no grand conspiracy in the sciences. It may appear that way to the TV educated people. If any scientist could prove ANY aspect of the “Ancient Alien” hypothesis, for example, they would become instant rock stars in their field. 

There is no motivation to suppress anything in academic circles. Grand discoveries are why scientists become scientists to start with. A breakthrough that would rewrite textbooks would be heralded, not spirited away in the depth of Area 51. Scientists are not the enemy, they are our only chance. After all, they are just like us in every way except they may have a denser neural network. All these evil scientists live and eat the same foods as us, have children like us, love them like us, and drink the same water as us. We all experience the same world in the same way. They are not the proverbial “Them”. They are us just with better jobs. They have no secret dark motives more than you do when it comes to subjugating the planet. 

It comes down to a simple question. Are you in it for the truth or just to be entertained.

If your sum total of knowledge on UFO’s comes from watching TV and Youtube videos. You can guarantee that you have been fed a huge bowl of bullshit. TV entertains that is all. You get much more outright lies and frauds than any factual data. Facebook is even worse for filling your head with excrement.  The source of the information your brain digests matters. Facebook posts from the lunatic fringe vastly outweigh any real research people may have done, at least when you ponder time spent. Your brain gets much more false information and not enough real information to balance it out. Take in 10lbs of shit and only drop 5lbs…you still stink.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. ~ Marina Tsvetaeva

People really have to give their head a shake and realize this. It comes down to if you are looking for the truth in UFOlogy or are you looking to be entertained. Don’t confuse the two they are quite different. 

The real Universe as it will unfold before us as we trundle through the fourth dimension will be more wondrous and fascinating than any new age guru or television show could ever envision.

The Universe is stranger than we can comprehend. Reserve your belief and more importantly your knowledge for the real deal.

We have to contemplate the nature of a life form that has evolved on a completely separate planet. Even that statement is limiting. Life may be able to evolve on moons, nebula, or on planets that are bombarded with strange sources of radiation. They may exist and function on different time scales based on the gravity that they evolved in. Special relativity makes for very strange bedfellows. It is possible that they could be here already just beyond our perceptual ability. There truly are more things in heaven and earth than is dreamed in our collective philosophy.

Remember that it is OK to change your mind in the light of new or better information. UFOlogy is not a religion…no faith required. The real Universe will not disappoint.

Science! – It has Electrolytes

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19-04-2018 om 01:18 geschreven door peter  

Extraterrestrials Genetically Engineered Homo sapiens 780,000-years-ago | Ancient Code

Extraterrestrials Genetically Engineered Homo sapiens 780,000-years-ago

By Bruce Fenton

Early humans emerged on Earth around 4 million years ago, but new evidence arising from the study of human evolution has revealed compelling evidence that a small group of these hominins was genetically modified by ancient alien visitors to create the first Homo sapiens.

Researcher and author, Daniella Fenton, has been taking an in-depth look at the earliest origins of humanity and its sudden acceleration in brain development close to 800,000 years ago, this investigation has led to a massive revelation.

Homo sapiens are the creation of ancient astronauts that arrived through a wormhole from the Pleiades star cluster 780,000 years ago.

The Australian researcher, an expert in equine bloodlines and genetic expression, uncovered numerous genetic changes which mark humans as anomalous when contrasted with modern primate species, some are so extreme that they are best explained by advanced genetic engineering.

In her book, titled ‘Hybrid Humans: Scientific Evidence of Our 800,000-Year Old Alien Legacy’, Daniella Fenton highlights a series of profound changes in the genes associated with brain size, neural structures, and information processing. These changes include genes that appear suddenly fully formed out of so-called ‘junk DNA’ and fragments of genes that have been snipped out, copied and re-inserted.

Fenton points the mysterious fusion of Chromosome-2 at the same time as these other changes, around 780,000 years ago, as further evidence of extraterrestrial experimentation. This fusion is found in all large-brained human types, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, but not in any other primate species.

She explains that the fusion of chromosome-2 should have been a one-off error that disappeared in the subsequent generation or perhaps led to a small population of people with 46 chromosomes among a more substantial number of those carrying 48. Instead, all humans after 780,000 years ago exhibited the ‘mutation’. This strongly infers that there was an enormous benefit associated with the fusion and that it appeared suddenly in a considerable number of individuals, allowing chromosome-2 to become a permanent and dominant trait. This does not fit with known natural mutations in the human genome.

Fenton explains, “Somebody created an entire generation of breeding pairs that carried the fusion of chromosome-2. The chromosome modification is such that it would have impacts on the brain development, the immune system and reproductive processes.”

Humans also carry unique changes in the gene FOXP2 that changed synaptic connectivity and enhanced our ability to transform new experiences into routine procedures, this had enormous influence on our ability to produce meaningful speech. Fenton points out that this change is not observed in other primates and it appears our creators wanted us to be able to quickly form new habitual behaviors particularity language use.

Fenton said: “It is not just the genetic changes 780,000 years ago which inform us Homo sapiens is a species created by alien beings, we have also identified physical material left behind by these star people, materials dated to that same specific point in time.”

Fenton offers a detailed explanation for why these visitors ended up marooned here and the motivations which led them to modify early hominins in her book Hybrid Humans: Scientific Evidence of Our 800,000-Year Old Alien Legacy.

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19-04-2018 om 01:06 geschreven door peter  

Diamonds Found Inside Meteorite Belonged To A Lost Planet In Our Solar System

A study published today in Nature Communications suggests that diamonds trapped in a rare meteorite called a ureilite is evidence of long-lost planets within our solar system. These particular diamonds are believed to have originated inside a Mars-sized object.

Remains of diamond detected in fragments of the meteorite Almahata Sitta (2008 TC3)—an object almost four meters in diameter that burned up around 37 kilometers above the Nubian Desert a decade ago—reveals that the fireball may have been part of an ancient planet of the Solar System that has long since disappeared.

According to the authors of the study published in Nature Communications, the diamonds found in the fragments that were scattered on the surface require enormous pressures to form, only compatible with the birth of a planetary object.

Researchers have calculated that the formation of such crystals required a pressure above 20 gigapascals, which suggests that the supposed missing planet should have been as large as Mercury or even Mars.

Here on Earth, most diamonds are formed at around just 4.5 gigapascals.

(Nabiei et al./Nature Communications)

Diamonds, Planets, and Ureilites

Theories say that these small diamonds can be formed in three different ways: by the creation of shock waves in impacts between objects in space, by a chemical process or because of the high pressures present inside planets.

Until now, scientists wondered how the ureilites of «2008 TC3» had been formed.

The researchers, led by planetary scientists Farhang Nabiei, from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a research institute in Switzerland, studied the diamond inclusions inside the meteorite and discovered it contained relatively large, individual diamond crystals up to 100 μm that could not have formed under an impact event, because of such an event’s short duration, which would not allow time for such large crystals to form.

“Normally we talk about telescopes [to study space]. Here we are talking about the past, so it’s different. Here we use the electron microscope,” said Farhang Nabiei.

Evidence of a long lost planet

“Before you end up with the nine planets, you had a population of larger bodies a few thousands of kilometres in size – Mercury to Mars-size I would say – that were populating the solar system,” Professor Philippe Gillet, a geophysicist at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), told The Independent.

“These ‘proto-planets’ were colliding into each other, forming the planets we know today. These were the building blocks.”

Scientists have always considered that during the birth of the Solar System many other planets may have existed, some of them barely formed by molten masses of magma.

For example, it is believed that one of these planetary embryos, like the famous planet Theia, collided with a young planet Earth and created a large mass of debris that eventually gave rise to the Moon.

“Although this is the first compelling evidence for such a large body that has since disappeared, their existence in the early Solar System has been predicted by planetary formation models,” the researchers wrote in their paper.

“Mars-sized bodies were common, and either accreted to form larger planets, or collided with the Sun or were ejected from the solar system.

“This study provides convincing evidence that the ureilite parent body was one such large ‘lost’ planet before it was destroyed by collisions.”

Source:

• A large planetary body inferred from diamond inclusions in a ureilite meteorite

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19-04-2018 om 00:55 geschreven door peter  

Scientists find diamonds forged deep within a lost, ancient planet of the early solar system

 BY TIBI PUIU

Artist impression of an early solar system.

Credit: NASA.

About a decade ago, a violent explosion roughly 23 miles above the surface sent incendiary fragments hurling towards the dunes of the Nubian desert in Sudan. In and of itself, the event was not necessarily impressive, apart from the fancy light show — after all, our planet is constantly bombarded by relatively small objects. But, according to a new study, these meteorites have a much more dramatic origin and history than meets the eye. Scientists say that under the meteorites’ thick carbonized exterior hid diamonds which enclosed remnants of a long-lost planet or planetary embryo during the crazy days of the early solar system. 

It was mighty crowded back then

A jeweler wants diamonds to be perfect, meaning impurities should be kept to a minimum, ideally none at all. However, a diamond with inclusions is far more valuable from a scientific standpoint than a so-called flawless jewel. Because diamonds are forged at immense pressures and temperatures, typically deep inside the planet, the various materials that get trapped inside are quite hard to get a hold of at the surface — and diamonds can preserve them for billions of years.

The team led by Farhang Nabiei of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland was initially investigating the relationship between the diamonds and the layers of graphite surrounding them, when they realized the small pockets of material trapped inside looked far more interesting. With the help of a high-power electron microscope, the researchers studied the tiny diamonds inside a thin section of the meteorite and were astonished to learn they were formed at incredibly high pressures — much higher than any kind of pressure the meteorites might have been subjected to when they crashed into Earth.

A chemical map shows sulfur (red) and iron (yellow) inside the inclusions in the diamond matrix.

Credit: Dr. F. Nabiei/Dr. E. Oveisi, EPFL, Switzerland.

Specifically, the diamonds must have formed at 20 gigapascals, which is the kind of pressure found deep within a planet the size of Mars or Mercury — but the meteorites come from neither of these planets or any other planet that we know of for that matter. The meteorites have, in fact, been classed as ureilites — a rare type of stony meteorite that has a unique mineralogical composition, very different from that of other stony meteorites. Transmission electron microscopy also revealed traces of chromite, phosphate, and iron-nickel sulfides inside the larger diamonds, which are inclusions that can be found in Earth’s diamonds, too. It’s the first time such inclusions have been identified inside extraterrestrial diamonds.

A colorized image shows the diamond phase (blue), inclusions (yellow) and the graphite region.

Credit: Dr. F. Nabiei/Dr. E. Oveisi/Prof. C. Hébert, EPFL, Switzerland.

The size of the diamonds is another clue that we’re dealing with some very peculiar objects. Their average size is about 100 microns, which is about the size of a human hair. That may not sound like much, but that’s still larger than any diamond that could possibly form by shock transformation of graphite (i.e. when a meteorite crashes on Earth). This suggests that the diamonds formed deep in a body’s interior and not on impact. Such a planetary-sized body is now long gone, having been destroyed in a cataclysmic game of billiard early on in the solar system’s history. These early proto-planets would have been hurled towards each other by a tug of war between the gravities of a young Jupiter and the sun. The environment likely looked very crowded too, with multiple Mars-sized protoplanets destined to collide into each other.

“This study provides convincing evidence that the ureilite parent body was one such large ‘lost’ planet before it was destroyed by collisions [some 4.5 billion years ago],” researchers wrote in the new paper on the subject, published this week in the journal Nature Communications.

The discovery offers new insight into our solar system’s tumultuous past, helping piece together how it all came to be. This is merely the beginning, as hundreds of other ureilites could offer new clues to the nature of the early solar system and the evolution of its planets.

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19-04-2018 om 00:40 geschreven door peter  

Inexplicable Similarities Between Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, And Other Ancient Sites

Design elements present at Göbekli Tepe are also found in Easter Island on the massive Moai Statues, in Tiahuanaco, and other ancient sites around the globe. How’s this possible?

Despite the fact that we’ve studied our ancestors, their cultures, their origin, and their way of life, we have failed to answer many questions related to our past.

The countless monuments scattered across the globe are an ancient message left behind by our ancestors, a message which despite extensive studies, we have yet failed to decipher.

One of the most mysterious ancient temples on Earth is located in modern-day Turkey, more precisely, the city of Urfa.

There, we find an ancient temple complex which is believed to have been erected around 9,600 BC.

Image Credit: Shutterstock

Göbekli Tepe is considered among many experts as the oldest temple on Earth, and despite its importance, we know very little about it.

Not only is this ancient temple complex important because of its age, but it’s also of great importance because by who it was built, and perhaps, even more interestingly, by the symbology it offers.

If you take a close look at Göbekli Tepe, you will notice a curious stance and symbolism that we can find in many other places across the globe.

On Easter Island, for example, we see a great similarity between the Moai and the curious Pillars at Göbekli Tepe.

On both archaeological sites, it seems the ancient builders used the same symbology.

Notice the curious position of the hands.

Image Credit: National Geographic.

But is this a mere coincidence?

The Archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe is composed of several temples whose main construction motif are massive stone pillars that range in weight between 30 and 60 tons.

Somehow, thousands of years ago, ‘primitive’ cultures managed to quarry, transport and build something history tells us should not exist.

These enigmatic T-shaped pillars are intricately decorated with depictions of a number of animals such as foxes, lions, snakes, etc.

However, in addition to the various animal depictions at Göbekli Tepe, we see humanoid characteristics depicted on some of the pillars.

Gobekli Tepe holds many secrets. 

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Göbekli Tepe’s T-shaped stela display arms and hands belonging to what many experts believe are depictions of humanoid beings.

The ancient builders of Göbekli Tepe carved on the t-shaped tocks long hands and arms of what could also be representations of their gods.

However, this extremely interesting symbolism is not unique to Göbekli Tepe and is found in various archeological sites across the globe.

If we travel halfway around the globe to Easter Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, we see the massive Moai statues and their curious symbolism which is eerily similar to the stone pillars of Göbekli Tepe.

A Statue from Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. Notice the hand posture.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The massive Moai were intricately carved in a sacred standing position, with hands position on omphalos.

Many authors agree that this posture is meant to portray birth or rebirth.

But how is it possible that such symbolism is present both in Göbekli Tepe and on Easter Island? Is this just a coincidence?

Not likely, as other ancient sites around the globe feature the same thing.

If we take a trip back to Turkey, we will find that the Neolithic settlement of Nevali Cori and Kilisik feature similar design elements.

But that’s not it.

Statues from Tiahuanaco in Bolivia, and archaeological sites in Mexico, as well as Mesopotamia, feature the very same symbolism: massive stone statues and hands coming together.

The question is… what connects all of these archaeological sites, and, is it possible that somehow, these ancient cultures shared a common designer?

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19-04-2018 om 00:29 geschreven door peter  

Ley Lines, Ancient Flight Plans, And Their Mind-Bending Connection To Ancient Monuments

Have you ever heard about the so-called Ancient flight plans?

Mostly found in Britain and France, ancient flight plans are geographical markers placed intentionally, that are interconnected and clearly visible once portrayed on a map.

If we travel to Herefordshire England, we find what AncientAstronaut theorists call ‘Ancient Flight Plans‘.

Said to have been discovered by amateur archaeologist AlfredWatkins while horseback riding, Watkins is believed to have noticed that structures across the landscape appeared to be arranged in straight, continuous lines.

Four years after that, in 1925 Watkins published his book “The old straight tracks” where he theorized that ancient mankind built monuments and megaliths across the Earth and that these were connected by a network of straight lines: Referred to as Ley lines.

In his book, “The old straight tracks“, Watkins proposed that ancient monuments were deliberately placed along these ‘tracks’ for a line of sight navigation and may have even been used as trade routes.

However, there’s a slight issue with that theory.

Some of the so-called straight tracks cross terrains that were difficult to access and to identify.

The following natural and man-made features were suggested by Watkins to be reliable ley-markers:

Mounds, Long-barrows, Cairns, Cursus, Dolmens, Standing stones, mark-stones, Stone circles, Henges, Water-markers (moats, ponds, springs, fords, wells), Castle, Beacon-hills, Churches, Cross-roads, Notches in hills, Camps (Hill-forts),

This leads us to believe there must be a different explanation for their purpose.

Most of these so-called ley lines are found in England and in France, although they are not limited to these two countries.

They are basically geographic markings of a number of places of historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and similar places.

According to Linda Moulton Howe, an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories: “The Michael Line in England is a straight line and it is measurable. It’s a magnetic field line that you can measure and it will be higher than other areas around it geographically. “

Today there are many authors and researchers who believe that these so-called Ley lines, are in fact, magnetic in nature and that they delineate the lines of Earth’s unseen energy fields.

Remember my article on the Earth Grid?

If we travel to Denmark, we will find more of these geometrical patterns, along with the northern reaches of the European continent. In Scandinavia, we find the archaeological ruins of a once prospering and mighty Viking fortress dating to 900 A.D.

Preben Hansson first discovered a direct line of flight fromTrelleborg to other three Viking fortresses, which happen to be very similar in design.

But not only are these structures similar in design, but a direct line connects these four Viking Forts in Denmark.

A bit strange, don’t you think?

But there’s something more that doesn’t seem to add to the story.

Ley lines - Europe

As we all know, the Vikings were seafaring people, well-known as mighty warriors and sailors. Because they were seafaring people, it makes sense that most of their settlements and forts were near water.

However, here we have forts positioned inland, which also happen to be precisely aligned.

Furthermore, a more detailed analysis of the forts revealed a fascinating detail. Not only are these forts precisely aligned, but researchers have been left stunned by the precise design of Trelleborg, with courtyard’s divided into four zones, each with four longhouses and gateways open precisely to the four cardinaldirections: north, south, east, and west.

That makes it clear that the construction and design of Trelleborg would have required great knowledge of engineering, orientation, and positioning.

Are Ley Lines a global phenomenon?

Several authors and ancient astronaut theorists note that if you draw a straight line and cross the Alps in Europe, you will eventually reach Delphi in Greece.

Why is this important? Delphi is known as the homeplace of the Oracle of Delphi and to the God Apollo.

According to Greek mythology, the mighty God Apollo took his “heavenly chariot” and disappeared heading north.

This idea has aroused the interest of various ancient astronaut theorists who see a clear connection between the so-called ley lines, and other historically important geographic locations on Earth.

Is it possible that these patterns, lines, and ancient structures are all interconnected as some theorists suggest?

Why is it that there are so many ancient structures around the globe that appear to follow an intricate pattern? Lines, geometric shapes?

It is not a coincidence, say ancient astronaut theorists, pointing to other incredibly positioned structures such as the Pyramids of Giza, or even the Nazca lines in Peru, which just as some of the ley lines in England seem to bare magnetic anomalies.

The perfect alignment of these locations to the stars, the cosmos, and to other monuments around the world is something that was not done randomly.

The Ley lines, the Earth Grid, and the electromagnetic field anomalies that are present in different geographic locations around the world does not seem something random.

It is something planned, something elaborate, something that truly seems, out of this world.

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19-04-2018 om 00:20 geschreven door peter  

UFOs: Natural Explanations

by jessiekratz

Today’s post comes from Joseph Gillette, an archivist on a cross-training assignment in the National Archives History Office. This is the second in a series concerning the Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigation.

Close-up photo of UFO in Redlands, CA, 1958.

(Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

From 1947 to 1970, the United States Air Force conducted investigations into the increasing number of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings throughout the United States. The purpose of the investigations was to assess the nature of these sightings and determine if they posed any potential threat to the U.S.

Three successive projects were created to carry out these investigations: Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book.

Blue Book was the longest and most comprehensive, lasting from 1952 to 1970. A 1966 Air Force publication gave insight into how the program was conducted:

The program is conducted in three phases. The first phase includes receipt of UFO reports and initial investigation of the reports. The Air Force base nearest the location of a reported sighting is charged with the responsibility of investigating the sighting and forwarding the information to the Project Blue Book Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

If the initial investigation does not reveal a positive identification or explanation, a second phase of more intensive analysis is conducted by the Project Blue Book Office. Each case is objectively and scientifically analyzed, and, if necessary, all of the scientific facilities available to the Air Force can be used to assist in arriving at an identification or explanation. All personnel associated with the investigation, analysis, and evaluation efforts of the project view each report with a scientific approach and an open mind.

The third phase of the program is dissemination of information concerning UFO sightings, evaluations, and statistics. This is accomplished by the Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Information.

—Project Blue Book, February 1, 1966, p. 1. (National Archives Identifier 595175)

After investigating a case, the Air Force placed it into one of three categories: Identified, Insufficient Data, or Unidentified.

Project Blue Book, February 1, 1966, p. 2.

(Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

Sightings resulting from identifiable causes fall into several broad categories:

• human-created objects or phenomena including aircraft, balloons, satellites, searchlights, and flares;
• astronomical phenomena, including meteors and meteorites, comets, and stars;
• atmospheric effects, including clouds and assorted light phenomena; and
• human psychology, including not only psychological frailty or illness but also fabrication (i.e., hoaxes).

The conclusions of Project Blue Book were:

(1) no unidentified flying object reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;

(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as unidentified represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present day scientific knowledge; and

(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as unidentified  are  extraterrestrial vehicles.

—Project Blue Book, February 1, 1966, p. 4. (Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

In 1967, the Air Force’s Foreign Technology Division (FTD), the organization overseeing Blue Book, briefed USAF Gen. William C. Garland on the project. The July 7 report stated that in the 20 years the FTD had reported and examined over 11,000 UFO sightings, they had no evidence that UFOs posed any threat to national security. Furthermore, their evidence “denies the existence of flying saucers from outer space, or any similar phenomenon popularly associated with UFOs.”

The FTD reiterated an expanded finding from Project Grudge: “Evaluations of reports of UFOs to date demonstrate that these flying objects constitute no threat to the security of the United States. They also concluded that reports of UFOs were the result of misinterpretations of conventional objects, a mild form of mass hysteria of war nerves and individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or to seek publicity.”

An independent review requested by FTD came to the same conclusion:

Briefing by 1st Lt. William F. Marley, Jr. to General William C. Garland, July 7, 1967, p. 7 (Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

Looking to specific investigation files, we can see what a typical investigation was like, the kinds of documentation and information collected, the investigatory process, and how the Air Force arrived at its conclusions.

Datil, NM, 1950

Cpl. Lertis E. Stanfield, 3024th Air Police Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, reported seeing a strange object in the sky on the night of February 24/25, 1950. He had a camera with him at the time and took several pictures, including the following:

(Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

 The details of the sighting were included in an investigation report:

This was not the first time an unusual sighting had occurred at Holloman. In fact, it was part of a recurring pattern (and one that explains Stansfield’s possession of a camera at the time of the sighting).

Report of Aerial Phenomena, Holloman Air Force Base, February 21, 1950, through April 31, 1951.

(Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

At the time, Project Grudge was unable to provide an explanation. However, a decade and a half later, a similar sighting over the Soviet Union provided Blue Book with an answer: a comet.

Project 10073 Form, ca. 1965

(Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

Several sightings of this kind were reported in the desert Southwest around this time. Despite the delay in reaching a conclusion, the similarity of the photographic evidence to known comet sightings led the Air Force to conclude it was dealing with a comet here too.

Redlands, CA, 1958

On December 13, 1958, a man in Redlands, California, snapped a photograph of a strangely shaped object in the sky.

Photo of UFO sighting in Redlands, CA, 1958.

(Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

 The UFO worksheet described the sighting in detail:

However, inconsistencies in the reporting led the Air Force to initially determine that the case was impossible to analyze accurately.

Correspondence, February 5, 1959.

(Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force, National Archives)

A final report dated January 1959 elaborated on these inconsistencies but reached a conclusion nonetheless. The observer had photographed a lenticular cloud.

All of these sighted were explained as initially misinterpreted natural occurrences. In the next post of the series, we’ll turn our attention to sightings ultimately identified as human-created objects and one sighting truly classified as a UFO.

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18-04-2018 om 23:21 geschreven door peter  

18-04-2018 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

Les diamants d’une ancienne planète perdue retrouvés sur Terre

par Brice Louvet

Des chercheurs suisses, français et allemands expliquent avoir examiné des fragments de diamants trouvés à l’intérieur de la météorite Almahata Sitta, venue s’écraser dans le désert de Nubie au Soudan, en octobre 2008. Après analyse, ils suggèrent qu’ils se sont probablement formés au cœur d’une proto-planète il y a au moins 4,55 milliards d’années, époque durant laquelle notre système solaire était en train de se former.

« Nous démontrons que ces gros diamants ne peuvent pas être le résultat d’un choc, mais plutôt d’une croissance qui a eu lieu au sein d’une planète », expliquent les scientifiques, notant au passage qu’une pression de 200 000 bars serait nécessaire pour former de tels diamants. La planète mystère était donc au moins aussi grande que Mercure, voire même que Mars. Certains nano-fragments étaient en effet relativement grands – jusqu’à 100 μm de diamètre. En raison de la courte durée d’un d’impact, des fragments aussi gros n’auraient jamais pu se former.

Également, les inclusions présentes dans les diamants de la météorite renfermaient principalement deux composés chimiques, le fer et le soufre. À l’image de l’eau et de l’huile, ces deux éléments ne peuvent se mélanger sans force extérieure, étant plus stables séparés. Dans les inclusions, ces derniers étaient cependant présents sous une phase cristalline solide, laissant ainsi entendre qu’ils ont très certainement été soumis à une intense pression. Il est donc beaucoup plus probable que de tels diamants aient été créés dans les profondeurs d’une planète.

Les astronomes ont longtemps émis l’hypothèse que le système solaire contenait jadis beaucoup plus de mondes. L’une de ces planètes embryonnaires – surnommée Theia – aurait d’ailleurs percuté notre jeune Terre, éjectant une grande quantité de débris qui plus tard ont formé la Lune. « Ce que nous revendiquons ici », explique Philippe Gillet, co-auteur de l’étude, « c’est que nous avons dans nos mains un reste de cette première génération de planètes qui nous manquent aujourd’hui, parce qu’elles ont été détruites ou incorporées dans une planète plus grande ».

Vous retrouverez tous les détails de cette étude dans la revue Nature Communications.

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18-04-2018 om 22:47 geschreven door peter  

18-04-2018 om 22:04 geschreven door peter  

Diamantjes in meteoriet zijn restanten van verloren planeet - HLN.be

Bron: National Geographic, The Guardian

Astronomen vermoeden al lang dat tientallen prille planeetjes ontstonden tijdens de eerste tien miljoen jaar van ons zonnestelsel. Deze protoplaneten, bestaande uit gas, stof en gesteente, zouden qua omvang ergens tussen Mercurius en Mars liggen. Ze cirkelden rond onze jonge zon, maar werden uiteindelijk aan diggelen geslagen tijdens hevige botsingen. Hun materiaal vormde de basis voor de planeten, asteroïden en brokstukken die vandaag rond de zon draaien.

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Echt bewijs voor deze theorie was er tot voor kort nog niet, maar de Almahatta Sitta-meteoriet zou wel eens de sleutel kunnen zijn. Uit microscopische analyse van de piepkleine diamantjes in de meteoriet blijkt immers dat ze bestanddelen bevatten die geproduceerd werden onder immense druk, wat doet vermoeden dat de diamanten onder het oppervlak van een planeet tot stand kwamen.

“Simulaties tonen aan dat het vroege zonnestelsel tientallen van deze embryonale planeten had die met elkaar botsten om de aardse planeten te vormen, maar bewijs vinden voor [het bestaan van] één van hen? Dat verwachtte ik niet”, zegt Farhang Nabiei, die stukjes van de meteoriet bestuurde in het Federaal Instituut voor Technologie in Lausanne, Zwitserland.

“We doen aan archeologie: we kijken naar het verleden en proberen de geschiedenis van ons zonnestelsel te ontrafelen”, zegt Philippe Gillet, een van de hoofdonderzoekers van de studie.

Ureïliet

De Almahatta Sitta-meteoriet werd voor het eerst waargenomen toen hij op weg was naar de aarde en ontplofte boven de Nubische Woestijn in 2008. De Universiteit van Khartoem verzamelde vervolgens 480 fragmentjes van de meteoriet, goed voor 4 kilogram in totaal.

Uit onderzoek bleek dat de meteoriet een ureïliet was: een zeldzame soort die niet vergelijkbaar is met andere stenen die bijvoorbeeld afkomstig zijn van de maan of Mars. De onderzoekers van het Zwitserse laboratorium en Japanse wetenschappers troffen in de meteoriet diamantjes aan van zo’n 100 micrometer groot. Dat is volgens hen te groot om het resultaat te zijn van een botsing tussen twee asteroïden. De onderzoekers speculeerden dat de meteoriet mogelijk afkomstig was van een verloren planeet, maar hadden meer bewijzen nodig om die theorie te staven.

Extreme druk

In het tijdschrift Nature Communications beschrijft het Zwitserse team nu dat uit nieuwe analyses blijkt dat de diamanten in de meteoriet spikkeltjes van een ijzer-zwavelverbinding bevatten die alleen maar kan ontstaan bij een druk die groter is dan 20 gigapascal. Bijgevolg moeten die diamanten onder het oppervlak van een onbekende wereld tot stand gekomen zijn.

“We kijken vermoedelijk naar een voorwerp dat een van de eerste planeten was die rond de zon cirkelden, voor ze met elkaar botsten om de echte planeten te vormen die we vandaag kennen”, aldus Gillet.

“Dit bewijst de theorieën over de vorming van ons zonnestelsel”, zegt Nabiei. [Ureïlieten] kunnen ons een beter idee geven van de vorming en evolutie van de planeten in ons zonnestelsel”, voegt hij eraan toe.

Als de recente bevindingen bevestigd worden, is de Almahata Sitta-meteoriet voorlopig het enige bekende overblijfsel van een van deze lang verloren planeten. 

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18-04-2018 om 21:54 geschreven door peter  

“Bijna” raak: laat opgemerkte ruimterots scheert langs aarde - HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

2018 GE3 is ongeveer even groot als de Toengoeska-meteoriet die begin vorige eeuw boven Siberië ontplofte. Door de explosie braken in een omtrek van 30 kilometer alle bomen aan de basis van de stam af. De meteoriet sloeg in met een kracht die vergelijkbaar is met 30 keer de kracht van de atoombom die in 1945 op Hiroshima werd gegooid.

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Dichter dan maan

Gelukkig lag de baan van planetoïde 2018 GE3 op 192.000 kilometer afstand van de aarde. Maar dat is nog altijd dichterbij dan onze maan die op 384.400 kilometer afstand staat. Als een planetoïde de aarde zo dicht nadert, was die natuurlijk al lang in kaart gebracht en wisten astronomen dat niemand zich zorgen hoefde te maken? Nee, dus. Niemand zag de brok steen aankomen. Pas enkele uren voor de passage, afgelopen zondag, werd 2018 GE3 ontdekt. Om weer even snel in de ruimte te verdwijnen.

Aardscheerders

De late ontdekking roept de vraag op of de jacht op aardscheerders zoals 2018 GE3 wel deugt. Die jacht werd tien jaar geleden geopend in de hoop dat de aarde genoeg voorbereidingstijd heeft om een eventuele grote inslag van een ruimtebrok te kunnen voorkomen.
2018 GE3 slipte er doorheen omdat hij te klein was. De zoektocht naar aardscheerders richt zich op brokstukken die groter zijn dan 140 meter. Daarvan zijn er al meer dan 8.000 in kaart gebracht. De verwachting is dat er nog eens 8.000 zullen worden ontdekt.

Wake-upcall

Voor NASA en het waarschuwingssysteem voor aardscheerders is de passage van 2018 GE3 een ‘wake-upcall’. Deze ‘test’ wijst uit dat het systeem nog verder moet worden verfijnd om verrassingen als die van afgelopen zondag te voorkomen’, aldus astronomen.

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18-04-2018 om 21:43 geschreven door peter  

For some time now, “mystery booms” have been reported persistently in various parts of North America. Often accompanied by noticeable shaking and, at times, even property damage, in many cases the exact cause of these unusual, earthquake-like phenomena remains undetermined.

Among the most recent locales to be affected by the mystery quakes is the village of McAdam in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, which has been plagued by an unusual number of earthquakes in recent weeks. According to sources in the area, more than 20 earthquakes have been reported in the last month alone, and with no identifiable cause–seismic or otherwise. 

The current earthquake “swarm” is similar to circumstances that occurred in the region in early 2016, when dozens—perhaps more than 100—similar quakes were reported in the same area. Many homeowners have described quakes that shook their homes at night, waking some residents; a few claimed that windows in their homes were even broken as a result of the mysterious shaking. 

Prior to the events of last month, there had been no reports of similar incidents since the previous wave of earthquakes in 2016. When they do occur, many residents also describe hearing loud “booms” with the quakes, which have been compared to the sounds of a gunshot, only louder. However, seismologists with Natural Resources Canada confirm that there are no faults in the area, and hence it seems unlikely that the shaking and booms are associated with traditional sources of earthquakes. 

New Brunswick is not the only region being affected by the unusual phenomenon. NBC affiliates out of San Diego, California, also reported on a recent series of rumblings that had residents taking to social media, with some describing “a strong rumble that shook their homes Monday morning.”

However, scientists with the United States Geological Survey said there was no indication that an earthquake had occurred.

Last November, a similar incident prompted some scientists to propose an alternative explanation. According to a group of researchers at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education in Ensenada, a variety of meteorological phenomenon that occurs when hot and cold air “masses” converge may also result in shaking at ground-level. Nonetheless, physical evidence for this as a cause behind California’s mystery booms remains elusive.

Sputnik News also reported on recent reports of mystery booms that have occurred in Ohio, where it was reported that shaking and thunder-like noises, “left many scared to see their floorboards shaking and pieces of their homes starting to break off the foundations.” Video uploaded to YouTube which reportedly captured footage that coincided with the booms have spurred theories about their cause, with many suggesting underground bases or facilities “in preparation of World War III.”

All fearmongering aside, the mystery booms are nothing new. A possible variety of causes have been determined to cause perceptible booms that can be heard–and felt–across great distances, which range from high-altitude “super thunderbolts,” to atmospheric refraction which carries the sound of booms from far away across great distances, as was determined with booms heard for years near Mother Lode, California.

Along with New Brunswick, Canada, and California, a number of locales have seen reports of the booms in recent months, ranging from, South Carolina and Georgia (areas where fault lines do exist). Mystery booms have even been reported as far away as Great Britain, and as with their American cousins, many of the incidents occur in the absence of any indication of seismic activity to accompany them.

For those interested in reading more on the natural and manmade causes associated with reports of mystery booms, a collection of information can be found here, as well as at this page (compiled by the author) which lists their various known causes.

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18-04-2018 om 21:07 geschreven door peter  

“If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?”

That’s the opening question asked by Gavin A. Schmidt and Adam Frank in their new research paper, “The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?”, in which they look for geological fingerprints of advanced civilizations that may have lived on Earth before our own and been wiped out by some sort of extinction cataclysm. Did they find it?

Adam Frank, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, describes the jaw-dropping research proposal presented to him by Gavin Schmidt, the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in an excellent article in the current edition of The Atlantic. It follows the publication of the study (also an excellent read) in the International Journal of Astrobiology.

(“Ma” = a million years ago; “Ga” = a billion years ago)

“Humans are the only example [of an industrial civilization] we know of, and our industrial civilization has lasted (so far) roughly 300 years (since, for example, the beginning of mass production methods). This is a small fraction of the time we have existed as a species, and a tiny fraction of the time that complex life has existed on the Earth’s land surface.”

However, it’s big enough to have a physical impact on the surface of the Earth – an impact that would be evident to future researchers digging thought the layers of the planet’s crust millenniums from now. Frank and Schmidt start here, because that industrial civilization evidence may be the same thing we need to be looking for to find past civilizations.

But first … the name.

“We name the hypothesis after a 1970 episode of the British science fiction TV series Doctor Who where a long-buried race of intelligent reptiles “Silurians” are awakened by an experimental nuclear reactor. We are not however suggesting that intelligent reptiles actually existed in the Silurian age, nor that experimental nuclear physics is liable to wake them from hibernation.”

Of course, you Doctor Who fans already knew this. A name you may not recognize is “Anthropocene,” which is the moniker proposed for our current geological period. What would identify the Anthropocene age to future geologists? The study points to evidence of fossil fuel usage, plastics (our garbage), agriculture (fertilizers and erosion), pollutants, unusual radioactive isotopes (from nuclear war or meltdowns) and climate change (variations in carbon dioxide, methane, etc.). While these are indicators of the existence of an industrial civilization, they may also be indicators of what killed it.

Then again, what if the advanced civilization was more advanced than we Anthropocene beings. If they no longer used fossil fuels, would we find dead batteries instead? There’s also the question of how long the civilization was industrial. We’ve only been there for 300 years. Even if it lasted 100,000 years, after millions of years, would there be any evidence left? How thin would that layer be?

Is this our layer?

As you may have guessed, Frank and Schmidt didn’t find evidence of a past advanced civilization yet … nor did they find the Silurians (which may be good news because they’d probably want royalties (or something more painful) for the use of their name). However, they point out that looking for evidence of past industrial civilizations on Earth provides knowledge that will help determine if other planets had similar now-extinct advanced life forms. They also warn that, while they have found clear evidence of other periods of global warming/climate change that match what we’re going through (the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 56 million years ago, for example), that period did not match “the speed at which we’re dumping fossil carbon into the atmosphere … never before in the planet’s multibillion-year history has so much buried carbon been dumped back into the atmosphere so quickly.”

Will the only evidence of the Anthropocene age be a thin black residue in the Earth’s crust? Maybe we should stop looking for past civilizations and start looking in the mirror.

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18-04-2018 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

The more we learn about ancient humans, the less we seem to know. Recent archaeological discoveries of ancient civilizations have upended our theoretical timelines of human evolution, and we’ve found the other known species of humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans, had a much larger role in our genetic story than previously thought. According to a paper published in PLOS ONE by a team of Australian archaeologists, now another mysterious culture has been discovered. The archaeologists say that tools and animal hides discovered in a cave in Indonesia belonged to a primitive, ancient culture, and might be evidence of a “distinct human species” that called the area home some 50,000 years ago.

The cave, called Leang Burung, sits on the island of Sulawesi in southern Indonesia. It was discovered and first excavated in 1975, and the artifacts found were seen as evidence modern humans’ arrival to the area between 25,000 and 34,000 years ago. The new findings suggest something different. Dr. Adam Brumm of Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution specifies:

We have uncovered archaeological evidence for an ancient population of “Ice Age” hunter-gatherers that inhabited Leang Burung 2 rock-shelter around 50,000 years ago.

Dr. Brumm says that early modern humans were creating cave art in nearby sites by 40,000 years ago, which suggests that the newly discovered ancient culture arrived on Sulawesi before the Ice-Age cave painting culture did. The inhabitants of  Leang Burung were much more primitive than the known early humans of the time. Based on this, Brumm says, “the first inhabitants of this site may not only have been members of a different culture but also a distinct human species.”

Artist’s depiction of a Neanderthal tribe, who were a different species of human.

What that species may be is unclear. Sulawesi was one of the last stops before Australia on the road of human migration, and there were many different species and subspecies of hominins that journeyed across the chain of islands over the course of millennia. The island sits to the north of Flores, where the ancient race of “hobbits” were discovered, and recent research suggests that the mysterious Denisovan hominins made their way to Australia, where they bred with early humans, via the same route.

Map showing the timeline of human migration out of Africa

The archaeologists have not yet reached the bottom layers of sediment and they say that with further excavation they may find evidence of even older civilizations.

The researchers are quick to say that, while they believe that this is evidence of a separate human species, it may be that these artifacts belonged to the same Ice-Age cave artists that were previously discovered in the area, or it could be another group of early humans. Adam Brumm says:

It is now known that Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and that an early population of our species had spread out of Africa (into Israel) by 200,000 years ago, and possibly even made it much further east.

Whatever culture it was, it’s another look into the fascinating and mysterious path our ancestors and ancient relatives took, and yet another example of how limited our knowledge of the past really is.

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18-04-2018 om 20:48 geschreven door peter  

In 2008, an 80-ton asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded some 37 kilometers (23 miles) above Sudan’s Nubian Desert. It was estimated that the asteroid was around 4 meters (13 feet) in diameter when it hit our atmosphere and exploded into 600 smaller meteorites. These fragments only weighed around 10 kilograms (23 lb) altogether, but contained scores of tiny nanodiamonds which formed on impact with the atmosphere.

Nanodiamonds can be as small as just a few micrometers across.

The asteroid’s official name is 2008 TC3, although it was later named Almahata Sitta. The impact marked the first time that meteorites were recovered from an asteroid which was tracked by astronomers prior to a collision with our planet. Researchers from the University of Khartoum in Sudan recovered many of the meteorites and nanodiamonds, providing an unprecedented glimpse into the life of asteroids and resulting meteorites. Scientists studying those nanodiamonds have just published the first study of these diamonds, and it turns out they might reveal a whole lot more than just the geological composition of space rocks. In fact, they might be evidence of an entire lost planet of our Solar System.

An Almahata Sitta fragment.

The research has been published in Nature. According to the article, this study marks “the first compelling evidence for such a large body that has since disappeared.” The authors note that due to the immense pressure required to form the types of nanodiamonds found in the Almahata Sitta meteorite, they were likely the result of an early planet in our solar system which is no longer in existence:

These diamonds contain inclusions that can only form above ~20 GPa, which can only be attained in a large planetary body.This study provides convincing evidence that the [meteorite] parent body was one such large “lost” planet before it was destroyed by collisions.

Several recent astronomical studies have claimed that irregularities in the orbits of our solar system’s planets and the anomalous tilt of the Sun could only be due to the existence of a hidden “Planet X.” Could these tiny diamonds prove such a planet actually used to exist? If so, what happened to it? Given the near-miss Earth just had with a sizeable, undetected asteroid, do we really want to know?

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18-04-2018 om 20:37 geschreven door peter  

Ghostly lights hovering in the sky over Baltimore

Strange lights have been spotted in the night sky over Baltimore and Holland Hills on April 16, 2018.

A witness of the lights has submitted the sighting to Mufon case 914475 said:

White round lights. Random positions, rapid change of directions, several of them, I personally lived in Baltimore for several years, never seen anything like it (near the harbor).

There are many of them, not just a few (1-3) there are 10+ going random directions, almost like ghosts. (Almost like the "birds" incident live on the news).

But, instead white orb like lights ABOVE the clouds, and I personally know the people in the video, they also stated they thought it was spot lights from the harbor, but then they soon realized there was no source from the ground in plain sight; also the lights are ABOVE the dark clouds.

Note: The lights may be birds, such as seagulls, or is it more mysterious?

  

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18-04-2018 om 20:27 geschreven door peter  

Huge 'UFO' spotted passing space station

Kristine Tarbert

Yahoo7 Be 

UFO enthusiasts believe they have spotted an alien craft almost 300m long, flying alongside a space station.

'UFO' spotted next to space station

VIDEO The 275m craft's lights started blinking as the station passes. YouTube/kingwilly200

The new video was shared on Youtube and shows what appears to be flashing lights in close proximity to the International Space Station.

UFO hunter Scott Waring was quick to point out what he believed to be a 275m long triangular-shaped craft.

The expert says it first shows up as a single glowing orb.

It started as a single glowing orb just to the right of screen.

Photo: Youtube

"Then it divides into about four-six flashing orbs," he said.

"During this time the UFO is revealed partially, meaning its not six UFOs, but one large UFO of about 300 meters diameter."

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He said the craft has a TR3B shape - UFO speak - meaning it's a triangle.

More and more lights start flashing.

Photo: Youtube

However, NASA and other investigators have repeatedly stated that these 'sightings' of UFOs near the space stations are generally reflections of the sun on space junk or other matter.

"It is down to wishful thinking that images sent back from the space station are of alien craft," Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual said.

Others online also agreed.

"It's lens flare created by that metal sheeting catching the sun's light," one person commented online.

Just last month a Bristol man saw something similar, sharing footage of what he believed to be an alien ‘mothership’, along with several other vessels, in the night sky.

“The main UFO was some distance away – it looked like it was bouncing off the moon," he told the Bristol Post.

Man films 'UFO lights' bouncing off the moon

VIDEO He claims he saw the 'mothership' and several other ships.

Source: Bristol Post

In the footage, the bright moon can be seen clearly – before another bright object enters the frame.

“There were two or three altogether but the mothership was the focus – it was so big, even from a distance.”

Jet fighters battle 'UFO'

VIDEO Bizarre images captured above alien site Area 51. YouTube/thirdphaseofmoon

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18-04-2018 om 01:34 geschreven door peter