Research Claims UFOs Are Getting More Difficult To Spot

It might be one of the blurred kind close encounters.

Researchers are puzzled with the new research that suggests UFO sightings in the US tend to move in fluctuating cycles for six to seven years and a permanent downtrend.

The International UFO Congress researcher of the year Cheryl Costa found out that there are 7, 837 average sightings in the country, a massive 41 per cent drop from the three-year peak average years.

Costa explained her findings in the Syracuse New Times that the UFO sightings rise to a peak during the cycles, went back to the baseline, and initiate a new cycle with a rise.

Based on her findings from National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), Costa wrote that the US had a peak average of 13,500 annual UFO sightings between 2012 and 2014.

In 2015, however, sightings fell 11,975 to 11 per cent and an even more dramatic drop in 2016, falling to 10,602 to 21 per cent.

Costa did not discover a concrete reason for the significant decline in sightings. However, she speculated that broadband Internet access had something to do with it.

Costa wrote that from 2001 to 2006, they see relatively flat sighting report numbers. The flatness is deemed to be an artefact of reporting because of the broadband Internet access was still growing in almost all areas. Broadband access is a significant driver in people having routine use of web reporting services such as MUFON and NUFORC.

The New York state rose to the fourth-most likely place to see a UFO during 2016 and 2017, Costa noted, but the number of sightings sharply declined from its peak average in 20017 at 325 sightings down form an average of 577 between 2012 and 2014.

Costa wrote that both New York state and the national charts reveal the classic rise-and-fall scenario from 2006 to 2010 and the spike started again in 2011.

She also explained that the Mayan Calendar media ballyhoo could be attributed to the spike in 2012, causing more people to become more curious about what’s going on in our skies. With that into consideration, from 2011 to 2017 the classic UFO sighting cycle is clearly seen.

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06-07-2018 om 18:18 geschreven door peter  

Video Shows An Apparent UFO Over Gulf Shores

An object hovering over Gulf Shores has brought excitement among UFO watchers after seeing a video of it.

Nicholas, a commuter, captured the video during an electric storm. The video was then released on conspiracy theory YouTube channel MRMB333. It showed an apparent UFO in the sky next to what the site called an “out of this world portal.”

The video received mixed suggestions from conspiracy theorists as to what the object could be, ranging from a run-of-the-mill UFO visit to Planet X or Nibiru appearance.

The video garnered thousands of views after just a few days it was uploaded.

According to the International Business Network, the video clip of the UFO sighting has been submitted to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for further investigation.

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06-07-2018 om 18:16 geschreven door peter  

This month, a dome will be slipped over the first of 10 1.4-meter telescopes in an optical interferometer.

At a time when astronomers are building billion-dollar telescopes with mirrors 30 meters across, the 1.4-meter instrument being installed this month atop South Baldy Mountain in New Mexico may seem like a bit player. But over the next few years, nine more identical telescopes will join it on the grassy, 3200-meter summit, forming a Y-shaped array that will surpass any other optical telescope in its eye for detail. When it's complete around 2025, the $200 million Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI) will have the equivalent resolution of a gigantic telescope 347 meters across.

MROI's small telescopes can't match the light-gathering power of its giant cousins, so it will be limited to bright targets. But by combining light from the spread-out telescopes, it is expected to make out small structures on stellar surfaces, image dust around newborn stars, and peer at supermassive black holes at the center of some galaxies. It will even be able to make out details as small as a centimeter across on satellites in geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 kilometers above Earth, enabling it to spy on spy satellites.

That's one reason why the U.S. Air Force, which wants to monitor its own orbital assets and presumably those of others, is funding MROI. "They want to know: Did the boom break or did some part of the photovoltaic panels collapse?" says Michelle Creech-Eakman, an astronomer at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro and project scientist on MROI. But if the facility succeeds, its biggest impact could be on the field of astronomy, by drawing new attention to the promise of optical interferometry, a powerful but challenging strategy for extracting exquisitely sharp images from relatively small, cheap telescopes.

MROI, like optical interferometry itself, has made slow progress. The U.S. Navy began funding the facility in 2000, but lost interest and pulled out in 2011. Air Force support is not assured beyond the array's first three telescopes. "If for some horrible reason they failed, it would be a disaster for us all," says Theo ten Brummelaar, associate director of the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), an array of six 1-meter optical telescopes on Mount Wilson in Los Angeles, California.

Radio astronomers have had it easier. The long radio wavelengths mean data from separated dishes can be recorded, digitized, time-stamped by an atomic clock, and combined later for analysis. But optical interferometry is far trickier: The short wavelengths of visible light, running at terahertz frequencies, cannot yet be digitized by any electrical system. So the light must be merged in real time, with nanometer precision.

In the 1990s, advances in fiber optics, lasers, and computers developed to the point where the Keck Observatory's twin 10-meter telescopes, separated by 85 meters atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, could be made to work as an optical interferometer. But the system needed at least four additional NASA-funded "outrigger" telescopes to reach its full potential—and the outriggers were canceled in 2006 after protests from native Hawaiians, who consider the summit of Mauna Kea sacred. "Interferometry is still something of a dirty word around NASA," says Gerard van Belle, chief scientist at the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) near Flagstaff, Arizona.

Many astronomers have overlooked optical interferometry's recent achievements, says Tabetha Boyajian, an astronomer at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who used CHARA to perform a survey of stellar sizes. She says astronomers are sometimes surprised to learn about the technique's capabilities. "You hear, ‘Oh wow, how can I use that for my science?’” she says.

CHARA and other optical arrays have imaged the squashed shapes of rapidly rotating stars, captured roving sunspots on stellar surfaces, filmed binary companion stars swapping material, and witnessed objects whipping around the Milky Way's central black hole in real time. After linking up the four 8.2-meter telescopes of the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert of Chile, researchers with the European Southern Observatory last year were able to discern boiling convective cells on the face of a star 530 lightyears away. A new infrared instrument should enable that interferometer to image the warm dusty disks where planets are forming around other stars.

And despite its previous setbacks, NASA is supporting interferometry on the twin 8.4-meter instruments at the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory atop Mount Graham in Arizona. This year, scientists there announced they had used an interferometric technique to show that many young solar systems contain less dust than expected—good news for astronomers hoping to image exoplanets directly.

Once complete, MROI's telescopes will be more widely separated than any other interferometer, enabling its superior resolution. It will also test new technologies for combining starlight from multiple telescopes that could simplify the process. If it lives up to expectations, the observatory could give optical interferometry a boost in future decadal reviews, community exercises that set budget priorities for NASA and the National Science Foundation. By the time of the 2030 decadal survey, John Monnier, a physicist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a CHARA member, wants solid support for the Planet Formation Imager, a 12-telescope, 1-kilometer-baseline optical interferometer that would be able to resolve dusty disks not just around young stars but newborn planets—the grist for moons and rings.

By then, NASA could be ready to put an optical interferometer in space, too. In 2007, the agency abandoned plans for the Terrestrial Planet Finder, an orbiting array of four telescopes designed to image planets around other stars. But it may now be more receptive to space interferometers, as giant space telescopes like the 6.5-meter James Webb Space Telescope, due to launch in 2021, strain the limits of rocket cargo loads.

"At some point [interferometry is] the only way we can address questions that are burning on the frontiers of astronomy," Van Belle says.

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06-07-2018 om 00:32 geschreven door peter  

Het zou 200.000 jaar duren om met lichtsnelheid de Melkweg over te steken - HLN.be 

Bron: space.com

De wetenschappers onderzochten de verhouding van metalen, de zware elementen, in sterren. Ze ontdekten dat er nog voorbij de veronderstelde grenzen van de galactische schijf sterren te zien waren met samenstellingen die lijken op die van sterren binnen de schijf. “We hebben aangetoond dat er nog verder dan de tot nu aangenomen stralingslimieten van de galactische schijf een aanzienlijk deel van sterren bestaat met een hogere metaalverhouding, een kenmerk van sterren binnen de schijf”, zegt co-auteur Carlos Allende van het Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.

Tot nog toe werd de diameter van onze melkwegschijf geschat op iets tussen de 100.000 en 160.000 lichtjaren. Een lichtjaar is de afstand die het licht in een jaar aflegt of ongeveer 10 biljoen kilometer. Volgens het nieuwe onderzoek - gepubliceerd in Astronomy & Astrophysics - blijkt de schijf nu een diameter van 200.000 lichtjaren te hebben.

De astronomen beweren dat de pas ontdekte sterren zo’n drie keer verder van het melkwegmidden staan dan de zon. Mogelijk kunnen er zelfs sterren binnen de galactische schijf gevonden worden die zich zelfs vier keer verder bevinden.

Het gebeurt wel meer dat wetenschappers bepaalde meetresultaten bijstellen dankzij moderne technieken. Zo bleek onlangs dat de Andromedanevel toch niet groter zou zijn dan ons eigen melkwegstelsel, maar ongeveer even groot is. Dat heeft belangrijke gevolgen voor de berekening van de crash tussen de twee stelsels, die er onvermijdelijk over zo’n 4 miljard jaar zou aankomen.

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06-07-2018 om 00:20 geschreven door peter  

Wereldprimeur: eerste sla rolt uit voedselprinter van KU Leuven - HLN.be

Bron: AD.nl

“Levende plantencellen geven voedsel een sappig en knapperig mondgevoel”, zegt onderzoeker Valérie Vancauwenberghe die de techniek ontwikkelde, op de site van Vilt, het Vlaams infocentrum land- en tuinbouw. “Daarom wilden we ze printbaar maken.” Het is volgens de makers een wereldprimeur in 3D-foodprinting.

Niemand heeft de beertjes al geproefd. Niet omdat ze giftig zijn, maar omdat ze nog niet goedgekeurd zijn voor consumptie. Voor de wetenschap maakt het weinig verschil, vindt Vancauwenberghe. “Het punt is dat we een protocol hebben ontwikkeld om plantweefsel te printen. Het gaat om de technologie, de beschrijving van de materialen, de optimale recepten en condities.” De onderzoekster heeft de bioprinter zelf gebouwd, de inkt ontwikkeld en geëxperimenteerd met printmodellen.

Langer houdbaar

Virtueel fruit is de specialiteit van de onderzoeksgroep aan de KU Leuven. Er is al een digitale bibliotheek van wiskundige modellen van appels, peren en tomaten. Die worden gebruikt om te achterhalen hoe groenten en fruit langer houdbaar gemaakt kunnen worden.
Het printen van sla is een logische stap, vindt Vancauwenberghe. Het resultaat is volgens haar “natuurlijk en artificieel tegelijkertijd”. “De inkt bevat pectine en levende cellen die ik heb geïsoleerd uit sla. Daarmee heb ik beertjes geprint. Maar ook honingraatstructuren en blokjes zijn mogelijk, telkens met een verschillende textuur. Luchtig of minder luchtig.”

Echte sla bevat 100 miljoen levende cellen per milliliter. Geprinte sla bevat één miljoen levende cellen per milliliter. Onderzoeker Valérie Vancauwenberghe: “De hoeveelheid aanwezige cellen is nog niet groot genoeg, maar ze overleven de printkop. In de toekomst moet het mogelijk zijn ze te laten groeien nadat ze geprint zijn.”

De uitvinding kan mensen helpen die moeite hebben met slikken. Het printen biedt de mogelijkheid de structuur en de textuur van voeding in de hand te houden. “De presentatie is daarnaast aantrekkelijker dan bij gepureerd voedsel.” In de toekomst wordt het volgens Vancauwenberghe mogelijk voeding te printen die is afgestemd op persoonlijke wensen en noden.

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06-07-2018 om 00:08 geschreven door peter  

By Kyle Mizokami

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Today is World UFO Day, when UFO enthusiasts around the world celebrate that strange phenomenon and remind the public that many mysteries remain unsolved. A whole 71 years after the sighting that kicked off the worldwide UFO craze, we are still no closer to determining what exactly causes hundreds of thousands of people to believe they have been witnesses to flying saucers.

UFO eyewitness Kenneth Arnold, center, examines an alleged photo of a UFO with two other pilots.

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The History of “Flying Saucers”

On June 24th 1947, civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying his private airplane over the Pacific Northwest when he suddenly realized he was not alone in the skies. Near Mt. Rainier, Washington Arnold spotted “nine objects, glowing bright bluish-white” flying nearby. Eight of the objects were roughly disc-shaped, while the ninth larger object resembled a crescent. The nine objects were flying in a v-shaped formation.

Arnold estimated the craft were flying somewhere around 1,200 miles an hour and that he was witnessing a military exercise. He also compared their motion to a “saucer if you skipped it across water.” The objects obviously did not resemble any known aircraft and at the time there were no aircraft capable of flying in formation at Mach 1.5—Chuck Yeager would break the sound barrier only two months later.

The press misconstrued the “saucer” comment, applying it to their physical description, and the term flying saucer was born. Obviously, since the objects were beyond the ability of humans, newly minted UFO experts declared the objects had to be from space and evidence of life on other planets. Though in strict terms, a UFO is merely a mysterious flying craft and so is not inherently tied to the idea of visiting aliens.

"Could other stars harbor other forms of life, and could they be more advanced than ours?" If there are aliens, UFO thinkers speculated, it would stand to reason that at least some of them are millennia more advanced than we are, leaping across the universe in the blink of an eye. 

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Back when Kenneth Arnold’s sighting over the Pacific Northwest triggered a flying saucer mania, with flying saucers reported worldwide, the fast pace of technological development which saw the U.S. go from subsonic propeller-driven to supersonic jet-powered fighters and a military based on conventional to nuclear weapons in less than ten years drove an intense interest in UFOs. The U.S. was also set to push into space with the establishment of NASA and the eventual goal of reaching the moon. Anything seemed possible, so why not aliens?

In the 1970s, as environmental problems mounted, trust in government decreased and the threat of nuclear war loomed, the emphasis shifted to reports of face-to-face contact with alien species, many of which were apparently unhappy with how humans were ruining the planet.

In the 1990s this narrative of direct interaction grew to its most extreme, with thousands reporting that they had been “abducted” by aliens, who then performed medical experiments.

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Is the Government Hiding Something?

If you take these experiences to be even remotely true, the logic leads you to an inevitable conclusion: The U.S. government knows far more than it lets on about flying saucers. One conviction among UFOlogists is that the U.S. government not only knows more about aliens than it lets on, but that actively cooperates with them. According to some conspiracy theories, the federal government, particularly the national security apparatus, allows aliens to maintain underground bases, such as the one allegedly underneath Dulce, New Mexico, or in the mountain next to the famous Area 51 in Nevada.

Another, more plausible theory is that a secret arm of the U.S. government achieved a technological breakthrough to the point where its craft are mistaken for the work of aliens. This technology, proponents explain, is so advanced the government is keeping it under wraps. Still, if Kenneth Arnold had seen top-secret military aircraft in the 1940s, why does the U.S. military not have anything like his “flying saucers” 70 years later?

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PASCAL PAVANI

The military's engagement with flying saucers isn't just conspiratorial. In December 2017, The New York Times published an account involving U.S. Navy fighter pilots and their encounter with unidentified flying objects. The encounter, which took place in 2004, involved UFOs sighted on radar, by pilots themselves, and actual video of the mysterious objects. Six months later the account was followed up by another, also involving Navy pilots, that reportedly took place in 2015.

The Navy sightings were some of the best accounts in decades, and involved some of the most highly trained pilots and advanced sensors in service anywhere. If the objects involved in the sightings were real and were not U.S. government property their technological superiority could be a real threat to our national security.

Yet despite all of this the Navy has offered no explanation for the events and appears disinterested in investigating the matter further.

F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter.

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The Suspicious Decline

The Navy's UFO interaction is notable in large part because it is the exception that proves the rule of modern UFO sighting trends: They're just not happening so much despite the fact that the smartphone revolution should ostensibly increasing sightings if UFOs exist.

Every single day, hundreds of millions of people are carrying a high quality camera in their pockets but there has been no corresponding explosion in UFO photos or video. The connected nature of the internet and social media allows ordinary people to reach a wide audience, but interest in talking about so-called “alien abductions” has dropped precipitously in the last ten years.

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Even in the face of those seemingly obvious facts, it can be tough to shake the uncanny experience of seeing the explainable with your own eyes. In May of 1987 on an overnight trip to the San Francisco State University Sierra Nevada Campus at Yuba Pass, California with my high school biology class, it happened to me.

After curfew, about a dozen of us decided to climb a nearby tree-covered ridge and sat in silence, taking in the clean, cool night air and the twinkling stars above.

Then, someone saw it, and pointed it out to us all. It was a white, blinking light not unlike a satellite visible from Earth, but brighter. It was moving faster than anything I had ever seen before. But the real shock came when it made two sets of three zig-zagging turns, like a cue ball hitting the side of a pool table. Then it vanished over the horizon in seconds.

So what was it? I've asked myself over and over. Was it a classified military aircraft? At the time the F-117A Nighthawk, the world’s first stealth fighter was highly classified but we now know the aircraft regularly flew at night from Area 51 in Nevada over nearby Lake Tahoe, using its electro-optical targeting systems to pinpoint individual boats on the lake for target practice.

Still, F-117s—or any other publicly known aircraft in the past thirty years—are incapable of the maneuvers I saw that night. It was impossible to tell the object’s speed and altitude. If it was a high-flying aircraft, it was moving much faster than anything with the possible exception of the SR-71 Blackbird—and the SR-71 couldn’t pull off turns like that. If it was flying low we should have heard engines—and a sonic boom—but the encounter was totally silent.

Thirty one years later, all I know was that I saw a flying object and I could not and cannot identify it.

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The State of UFOs Today

Today, 71 years after Kenneth Arnold’s sighting, we are still no closer to the truth behind the UFO phenomenon. There is a real phenomenon, but whether it is based in mass hallucinations, secret government aircraft, or actual beings from another planet is still up in the air.

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The Real Story Behind the Myth of Area 51

James Abbott, author of The Outsider’s Guide to UFOs, says, “For anyone with a truly open mind, the a priori case for UFOs as a scientific anomaly is firmly established. We do not have a good understanding of what the inexplicable sightings are, but the numbers, credibility of observations, and the lack of satisfactory scientific explanation in many cases, mean that we have to start looking at the phenomenon as a scientific problem; one which must be given long-term, serious scientific attention.”

On the other side of the fence is the bulk of scientific community, many of which are unconvinced. Skeptics believe that extraordinary claims, from claims of aliens to government aircraft that can make abrupt 90 degree turns in violation of the laws of physics, require extraordinary proof. This is not an unreasonable demand but it also, given the lack of accumulated evidence over the better part of a century, seems unlikely to be fulfilled anytime soon.

Until then, keep your eyes on the sky.

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06-07-2018 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

05-07-2018 om 23:54 geschreven door peter  

Looking Back at 'Paul' | Mysterious Universe

The onscreen teaming of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost has produced some real gems over the years, from Spaced, to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz—all co-written and dynamically directed by Edgar Wright. Their 2013 sci-fi, The World’s End, put a slightly disappointing cap on their “Cornetto Trilogy” (so-called for each of the instalments—Shaun, Fuzz, and End—featuring a different flavoured Cornetto ice cream). But before The World’s End, Pegg and Frost gave us another sci-fi outing, this time without their favored director, Edgar Wright.

Pegg and Frost.

2011 saw the release of Paul, a foul-mouthed, sweet-hearted story of geekdom and friendship set against the rich tapestry of American UFO lore. In the movie, directed by Greg Mottola, writers Pegg and Frost play Graeme and Clive, two British sci-fi enthusiasts who embark upon a UFO road trip across the United States with the goal of hitting all the key pilgrimage sites, including Roswell and Area 51. While in the Nevada desert en route to the famous Area 51 perimeter, Graeme and Clive stumble across a Gray alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) who has just escaped from the base, where he had been a “guest” (i.e. prisoner) since 1947. Graeme and Clive agree to help the benevolent but potty-mouthed Paul flee his Men in Black pursuers and eventually return to his home planet.

The idea for Paul traces back to the filming of Shaun of the Dead in 2003 when the crew had lost so many days to the torrential English rain that they started wondering how great it would be to shoot a movie where it never, ever rained. “We just spit-balled from there,” Frost told MTV. “No rain became the desert, the desert became Area 51 and then it was a short step to thinking about these two guys encountering an alien.” They proceeded to watch more than 50 movies about aliens and road trips. “Then we just sat opposite one another and banged it out, line by line,” recalled Frost.

Paul is a witty movie that utilizes almost every ingredient of modern UFO conspiracy lore to enrich its plot, from the Roswell Incident and Men in Black, to aliens in the custody of the US government inspiring human technological developments. It even draws our attention to the interplay between UFOs and Hollywood and makes light of the idea that pop-culture has been deliberately seeded with alien imagery in an effort to prepare the masses for open contact. At one point in the movie, Clive remarks of Paul’s archetypal appearance, “He looks too obvious!” Paul responds: “There’s a reason for that, Clive! Over the last 60 years, the human race has been drip-fed images of my face, on lunchboxes and T-shirts and shit. It’s in case our species do meet, you don’t have a fucking spaz attack!”

Rain-free shoot: Greg Mottola directs Nick Frost and Simon Pegg on location for ‘Paul’ (2011).

Later in the movie it is revealed that, while at Area 51, Paul worked closely with Hollywood filmmakers, inspiring iconic movie and TV characters, including Fox Mulder and Steven Spielberg’s E.T. In a flashback scene set in 1980, we see Paul at Area 51 on the phone to Spielberg (appearing as himself in vocal form only), who is seeking Paul’s advice on a future movie about a friendly little alien. The conversation plays out as follows:

Paul: Okay Steven, how about cellular revivification?
Spielberg: I don’t know what that is.
Paul: Oh. Restoration of damaged tissue through telepathic manipulation of intrinsic field memory.
Spielberg: What’s that mean?
Paul: It means healing, Mr. Spielberg.
Spielberg: Yeah right, healing. Like by touch or something like that. Like maybe his finger lights up on the end when he reaches out and touches?
Paul: Maybe… You know, sometimes I find less is more.
Spielberg: Hey, trust me.

Today, seven years after its original release, Paul stands up well. Change comes so slowly in the UFO subculture that none of its UFOlogical references have dated even a day. The special effects still look strong too. This is thanks to Mottola and his team spending a huge portion of their production budget on bringing the CGI Paul to life. The director recognized that, for the movie to work, Paul had to look absolutely real—no expense could be spared.

“To do the CGI of Paul was one-third of our budget,” Mottola told recalled. “The actual production budget was kind of small… so we gave up 10 days of shooting and a second unit for the action scenes, just to pour more money into getting Paul right.”

It may not be as sharp as some of Frost and Pegg’s earlier outings (the absence of Edgar Wright can be felt in both script and direction), but Paul is still bags more brains and fun than most Hollywood comedies today. If you’re a fan of toilet humor, there’s a shit load. If you’re a sci-fi or UFO enthusiast, you might just feel you’ve died and gone to geek heaven.

05-07-2018 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

Uranus already has self-esteem issues due it its name and the off-color mispronunciation the rest of the solar system (OK, just us) use. Now it looks like it will have to deal with taunts that it can’t defend itself from galactic invaders. A new study says it’s highly likely that the planet’s strange axial tilt and misplaced magnetic field was caused by a large rogue planet slamming into it four billion years ago. What’s up, Uranus? (Sorry.)

Uranus May Have Been Knocked Out of Alignment by a Huge Rogue Planet | Mysterious Universe

“We perform a suite of smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations to investigate in detail the results of a giant impact on the young Uranus.”

Is this what it looked like?

In “Consequences of Giant Impacts on Early Uranus for Rotation, Internal Structure, Debris, and Atmospheric Erosion,” a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, author Jacob Kegerreis describes how he and fellow researchers at Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology tackled the perplexing questions about Uranus’ odd traits, such as its 98-degree axial angle to its orbital plane and its rings and moons which all seem to orbit in the same orderly direction. Then there’s the puzzling magnetic field which seems to open and close daily, allowing deadly solar winds through.

“We ran more than 50 different impact scenarios using a high-powered super computer to see if we could recreate the conditions that shaped the planet’s evolution. Our findings confirm that the most likely outcome was that the young Uranus was involved in a cataclysmic collision with an object twice the mass of Earth, if not larger, knocking it on to its side and setting in process the events that helped create the planet we see today.”

While simulations of objects hitting Uranus have been run before, this study uses the latest data and technology. These simulations showed that the rogue object most likely made a glancing impact rather than a direct hit, which explains why Uranus still has an atmosphere. That atmosphere is colder than expected because the simulations show debris from the impact could have formed a shell and trapped heat emanating from the planet’s core. The glancing hit could also explain why the debris spun off into rings and small moons that all travel in the same direction rather than in a helter-skelter multi-directional mess a direct hit would have caused.

The indirect blow would likely have made a less-visible shakeup inside Uranus, changing its shape and density in ways that would explain the funky, warped magnetic field and the axial tilt which is contrary to all other solar system planets.

NASA image of Uranus and its moons and rings

Unfortunately, while the simulation gives possible answers to the mysteries of Uranus and helps researchers better understand other ice giants being found in other solar systems, it leaves unanswered a bigger question … where did this rogue planet or giant object come from and will it come again? The model pictures its size at twice the size of Earth, which is smaller than speculations on the size of the rumored Planet X or Planet 9 or whatever you want to call it.

So many planetary mysteries … so little supercomputer time for running simulations. Perhaps these researchers need to focus more on rogue planets and get their heads out of Uranus. (Sorry.)

“Cataclysmic” collision shaped Uranus’ evolution

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05-07-2018 om 23:30 geschreven door peter  

Something Plunged Into The Ocean!

On March 7, 2018 a bright flash followed by a sonic boom occurred along the Washington coast.

A local resident told the Seattle Times that he thought it was a spaceship but from analysis of radar signals, they concluded it was a meteorite about the size of a golf cart that broke apart and plunged into the ocean about 16 miles off the coast.

Further analyses suggest that about two tons of meteorite debris, may be some as large as a brick, have survived the plunge into the ocean and now scientists want to retrieve as much as they can for further study.

According to scientists, who stated that it was the biggest recorded meteor fall in the United States in 21 years, the debris field is situated near an underwater canyon about 400 feet deep.

This week the exploration vessel Nautilus which is the flagship of the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET), a nonprofit group founded by explorer Robert Ballard has arrived on the spot and they are trying to recover debris of the object by using remote-operated submarines to survey the area and collect any fragments they find.

They are joined by scientists from the University of Washington, the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, and NASA.

Indeed, NASA is involved in the operation since NASA wants to study the meteorite fragments too and that is very suspicious as we know the organization for its ‘Never A Straight Answer’ policy.

Knowing NASA is involved in the search for debris, we may wonder whether it was a meteorite or something else that splashed down into the ocean.

If you want to follow the search, three live stream videos are available at nautiluslive.org.

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05-07-2018 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

Pyramid and Arch-like objects in the skies over Michigan and Southern England

A huge chevron/pyramid-like object has been photographed over Taylor, Michigan and it looks like it is cloaked.

Is it possible that a cloud formation could have been formed in this way or the photographer has captured a cloaked triangle UFO?

Another strange phenomenon has been filmed in the sky over Southern England on July 3, 2018.

The witness has no idea what it could be, but it looks like a bridge or arch in the sky. It is striking that a layer of clouds apparently sits on top of something.

  

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05-07-2018 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

Flying saucer filmed being shipped across Nevada

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05-07-2018 om 01:47 geschreven door peter  

UFO Spotted Over France

Footage showing a UFO moving fast in the skies of France has brought speculations about global governments running secret projects. The camera appears to struggle to keep up with the unidentified flying object, which seems to have a U-shape body.

YouTube channel ZealotinAll Black3 uploaded the clip online. They speculated the unusual aerial object vanished following the recording.

Soon after it was made available on the internet, the video has since gained popularity among conspiracy theorists.

Tyler Glockner of secureteam10 suggested it could be something out of Star Wars.

His video has gotten over 350,000 hits since. Viewers were quick to give their thoughts about it.

One commenter says the object is like a shape of an alien craft from the movie Prometheus.

Another comment says it looks the same thing in a Sci-Fi movie.

Another viewer claims it is a new secret weapon of the government, used to experiment people for future use on war.

However, it is not the first time alien life has reportedly spotted. Similar scenes were reported in Texas over the weekend when a man spotted something mysterious leaving a military facility.

And before that, another unidentified flying object was allegedly noticed close to Area 51.

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05-07-2018 om 01:28 geschreven door peter  

Video Footage Apparently Shows White Orb Hovering Over Dublin Home In Ireland

A video that was posted online shows a strange white orb hovering over a residential area in Dublin.

The clip was reportedly recorded during a family barbecue. It apparently shows a white object in the skies over a heavily-populated residential area on June 9.

The video footage, which was posted to the YouTube channel UFO Institute, has a detailed description of the incident from the person who claimed to have witnessed it.

The description reveals that the object was stationary high above in the sky and was turning, pulsating and seemingly having three lights at the bottom of it.

After observing the object for 45 minutes, the witness noticed a smaller orb came out from the side of it. The orb darted up and down many times before it disappeared.

As the witness shed further light on his experience, he also cast further doubt on some of his claims.

The witness added that he saw nine orbs in formation wherein two were moving. He observed them for some time and returned to the main object. Then he saw a small sphere around the main object again, which then disappeared.

Though these claims come one in a blue moon, Dublin is becoming a hotspot for UFO sightings.

There have been over 20 reported sightings above the Irish capital in the past twenty years alone.

The military may be testing out top-secret flying stealth flying technology as one theory suggests.

However, this notion could easily be dispelled because these sightings took place in densely populated areas.

There are some commonalities on the latest sighting and the reported sightings chronicled on UFO Stalker.

In one instance, a witness claimed to have seen two star-like objects, similar to the ones in this clip. Low flying, silent craft were also reported elsewhere on the site.

Many other UFO sightings were reported in the Emerald Isle as well.

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Filer’s Files #26 – 2018 UFOs Are Real and Ancient - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Light

Metlakalle –My kids and I were out at the beach on June 22, 2018. I was laying there and noticed a white object in the sky. I couldn’t figure out what I was looking at first. My daughter also noticed the white object. It took us quite a while to figure out that was going on. It was moving slow very high and coming towards us and then moved sideways. We then knew we were watching a UFO. It hovered around ascending but never disappeared. It then came back down and hovered for a while in the left side of the sky and blinked and it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Object

Stockton – My friend noticed about 10 pm an object moving erratically on June 17, 2018. None of our aircraft does that. It shot a green laser at the object for about 20 seconds. A couple seconds after that the object’s green light came on. It started coming closer then stopped. My brand new green laser lost power in less than 2 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Georgia Lights

 Atlanta — Someone commented on a picture of lightning that I posted to Facebook asking about an object in the north east corner of the sky on June 1, 2018 26, 2018. I later went back to take a photo and zoomed in to my shock and awe I saw what looked like 2 floating panels each with 2 rows of Vertical orbs. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Iowa Lights

Red Oak — My family is sure that it was very late 1957 or early 1958 on a cold dark cloudy night. I was waiting with my Mom for my Dad to get off work near the city square when my Dad started driving us home. At Fourth Street and Corning my Dad said, “Look and pointed towards the southeast.” My Mom and I saw a very large object hovering above the local high school.
The object was flying east and had multiple colored lights and was egg or oval shaped. The object was flying at flag pole height against a wind. My Dad turned the car onto Corning Street and drove under the object and looked straight up at the object. It floated out of our line of vision behind the Jr. High building and was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Minnesota Lights

New Brighten — I had just left some friends for dinner on June 21, 2018, and looked up and saw this object just above the buildings. It was hovering with red lights all in one area and two white lights in front. Then the colors changed to blinking blue and green. Then the red lights came on in the middle of the spaceship. I could then see the shape of the craft.. By the time I got my cell phone, it was already leaving. I only got a picture of if leaving.. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Orbs

Egg Harbor — I had just gotten into my car at the Home Depot on June 20, 2018, when a black crow caught my eye. I then realized there were four black spheres or orbs around the crow. I had left my camera at home. I then focused my attention on four spheres that had now formed a and moved higher into the sky

I then quickly grabbed my cell phone and snapped a picture. I watched them until they were out of sight and they stayed in the same formation the whole time. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 New York Object

 Greenfield Park — While driving on Route 52 at roughly 50 MPH I noticed something that seemed to be floating above the roadway ahead. I couldn’t see it clearly because another car was tailgating. I pulled off into the parking lot of the Greenfield Park Post Office. I asked, “Is that you little light?” The object moved further up the road and I pursued it. It may have been 100′ to 300′ away and moving along with my car. It’s hard to tell how large it is or exactly how far away. It looked like a truncated cone shape with glowing blue lines running down its sides from the narrow end to the wider end. The metallic surfaces of the object reflected moonlight and streetlights.

The light was spreading in a wide cone shape and was slightly bluish. Then it started to rotate and  shined at me and flashed five times in my direction.

As it faced away I could see the ‘top’ or the side that the light wasn’t shining from. The center where the cone shape was truncated looked dark and the lines of blue light looked like ‘EL Wires’ radiating from it. They seemed to come out of the dark opening and go into a metallic-looking flange surrounding the wider end that was shining the light. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Pennsylvania Object

 Saint Thomas — My grandmother called us to tell us that there was a double rainbow, so me and my family took pictures on June 5, 2018. I took three consecutive pictures. Later I reviewed the pictures, I noticed an object in the second photo that did not appear in the first and third photos, even though the photos were taken consecutively.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Object

1. Midland — I was at the Cinergy movie theater in TX going to watch a movie on May 29, 2018
   2. I felt like someone was looking at me and I happened to look up in the sky and saw it sitting in there.
   3. I thought the object was a star or a satellite- but then it moved in ways that those objects naturally do not.
   4. The object was circular and white and had a grey middle. In the picture looked like many rings within itself.
   5. I was at first scared but then became inquisitive and decided to watch it and take pictures. It moved closer to me the longer I stood there.
   6. Eventually I had to go inside when I returned the object had disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Virginia Object

I took this photo on June-22, 2018. I was taking pictures, and thinking that the sun might be cloaking or UFOs might be hiding near the sun as most people can’t look directly into the sun. At first I thought that this photo was an insect or a bird but after seeing the latest Filer’s Files, # 25 I am looking at the West Virginia photo and mine is quite similar. What do you think? Love and Light, Thanks to Dan Johnson

Washington Lights

Richland — We were walking outside at a local strip mall. We saw an airplane (the one in the photo) moving fast and heading toward us on May 26, 2018. I told my wife to take a photo of it as it was approaching. By the time she got her iPhone out, the aircraft was beginning to make a tight turn to the left. After she took the photo was when we noticed the three lights. They were not evident to us when the photo was being taken. In the video, the lights appear to be above the aircraft and moving with it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Afghanistan Triangle

 Kabul – – Last April while on duty here in Kabul, I was outside at 0100 hours talking on my cell phone to my mother in Texas.
I was pacing back and forth in the middle of our compound, which is located in the infield of the airport.
I saw a matte black triangle/wedge shaped object hovering around 200-300 feet in the air above me. It was about 100 yards in front of me between the taxiway and the active runway. It had no lights whatsoever and made no sound and had several portholes in the sides of the craft. It was flat black and the portholes were completely black. It floated around in a N,S,E,W pattern for about 30-45 seconds, then descended down to about 50 feet off the ground and about 50 yards in front of me. I was explaining what I was seeing to my mother on the phone while this was happening. It looked to be about the size of a large car/SUV or something of that size, possibly a bit larger. It turned around and I could see it was more shaped like a wedge than a triangle. It had ridges in it as well, like it was made from flat black and matte black materials, It then began to rise up slowly as if floating and rose up until it was no longer in view.

We share our airfield with USA/NATO military, I have worked with UAV’s before and never seen anything this big or this quiet before. Plus they would NEVER allow any Gov aircraft to maneuver so close (50 yards) to an active commercial flight line. So, I just wanted to let someone know. I asked ATC if they had anything on RADAR and they said that they didn’t see anything. Photo is a similar craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Light

On Sunday , June 10 ,2018, I was outside on my deck in Oshawa having a tea. The sky was quite clear before there was jet activity.

After some minutes outside looking westward I could see five miles away and very high in the sky. A bright longish white light object was moving very slowly so I took my camera and started filming at 9:44 am I tried to video  but got seven shots, In number 29 & 34 you can see it in the clouds. I lost it after 9:46 am. This one was quite far away and appears to have size. Thanks once again for you interest and time Enjoy Paul Shishis

Columbia Light

 Bogotá — I was waiting for the doc and I decided to take a few pictures of the scenery. However what came out after had me scratching my head as I did not see any of this with my own eyes. I thought I saw the lights from inside at first but it couldn’t have been since the bulbs used are the long bulbs and not the regular round bulbs.

PS. From what I can see,  there are 3 things that were there but not visible to the naked eye.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

 France Triangle

 Cap D’Ai — Every afternoon at 15: 00-16: 00 I always go out to clean the pool. In front of us is the sea and from time to time I look at the sky and to my surprise I saw this cloud shape triangle or something. It was huge. We are near the airport. There are planes and helicopters that pass every day here, So I know the size of an airplane. It can probably fit 8-10 planes within easy reach. It disappears slowly towards the West. That’s all I can describe.
I had an experience before returning 2013 but it was a clear UFO (2) same place. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Germany Objects

Frankfurt — While walking in the fields south of Darmstadt and near castle Frankenstein, I noticed a group of 5 helicopters or light airplanes in the middle distance in front of me but more to the left. I got one photo with my mobile before they dwindled into the distance on June 23, 2018.  In all the years of walking these fields I had never seen such a group of objects before. There was no noise so they were not jet planes. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Iran Cylinder

Gilan, Zendaneh — I go to nature tour with many people and I get many pictures in the mountain.  It was a sunny day.

On April 17, 2018, after I come back home checking my photo and see this object on picture not like any airplane and chopper on sky . Also I have row image file from my canon camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Italy Moon

 UFO hovering near Tycho Crater. the object seem to produce a shadow on the Moon.

This video footage was taken by T-FEB (Independent Research Group) from Italy, coordinate: N 45°70’86,02″, E 10°66’58,85″ at 00:02 on June 24, 2018 .

The video shows the passing of an U.F.O. over the moon surface between Tycho and Maginus craters. We can see clearly two unidentified objects moving together, where the biggest black one, seems to be the shadow of the smallest reflective one, on top of it. The dimension of the “shadow” is similar to the central Peak of Tyco crater. Equipment used: Telescope: Dobson 16 7mm ocular Video: IPhone 6s Thanks to MUFON CMS

Japan  Object

Tanushimaru Machi — My family and I are staying in Japan for the summer, near Fukuoka on June 26, 2018.
We were riding our bikes along the path, as seen on the map when I stopped to just take a sweeping shot of the surroundings. That is when I saw a helicopter being followed by a black pill shaped object. Only the helicopter made noise as the object flew just behind it. I filmed till I could not see it any more. The object following the helicopter was not another helicopter. It was smaller ( around 10 feet long) and shaped like a pill. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK Object

London — 1. Watching TV in the living room after dinner.
2. My neighbor was shouting for me to come outside as they couldn’t really make out what they were seeing/.
3. Drones with LEDs/ birds/ bats but the light emanating from them just couldn’t be explained.
4. Swarming, rising and falling almost like birds but not.
5. They seemed to merge into the background and disappear Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Our Skies Are More Watched Than Ever, So Why Are Reported UFO Sightings on the Decline?

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05-07-2018 om 00:22 geschreven door peter  

(Dr. Michael Salla) A former employee in a covert program has described the draconian security measures in place in extraterrestrial related projects, and the dire consequences for transgressing these. In the June 26 episode of Cosmic Disclosure, Emery Smith described what happened when he violated security protocols.

Related Trump’s Plan for US Space Force challenges Deep State Secrecy

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In previous episodes of Cosmic Disclosure, Smith described his involvement in a highly classified project during his military service as a Surgical First Assist based at Kirtland Air Force Base from 1992 to 1995.

In addition to his regular military assignment he also worked in a classified program managed by a corporation, where he examined roughly 3000 tissue samples extracted from non-human  entities. He says that he worked on approximately 250 extraterrestrial bodies.

As described in a previous article, Smith has provided documentation proving his training and service as a Surgical First Assist, which makes him a credible eyewitness to events he has described. So far, the reaction of the mass media to Smith’s stunning revelations has been consistent – silence.

Even the UFO research community has largely shunned Smith’s testimony, despite all the credentials he brings to substantiate his military and medical background.

In the security violation incident described by Smith, he says that he befriended his commander in the classified project involving medical examinations of extraterrestrial tissues and bodies. This eventually led to the commander inviting Smith to view a captured extraterrestrial vehicle stored at Kirtland Air Force base in what Smith believed at the time to part of a recruitment effort to introduce him into a different covert project.

In the interview, Smith describes how he believed that his friendship with the commander of the covert project was acceptable despite him knowing that befriending co-workers was against security protocols:

You think because it’s your commander inviting you to the barbecue, that – and he’s been in it for 10, 20 years more than you – that everything’s going to be all right, right? And that’s not the fact. That is not a fact . . . that it’s not all right.

Smith explained his belief that what the Commander was about to show him was part of a recruitment into a new project:

And one of the things he mentioned to me was this amazing craft that he was going to get me involved with possibly to work on and to actually try out the flight simulator of an alien reproduction vehicle.

In the interview, David Wilcock asked Smith about the security protocols surrounding him getting access to the extraterrestrial vehicle which was stored in a secure underground room at Kirtland AFB:

David: Okay. How did you get there if you’re not cleared to be there? If you’re not authorized to be there, how in the world would you get into that room?

Emery: There is a stipulation if you’re escorted by someone of high authority. And a lot of the times, for emergency reasons, you have to go to certain places really quick.

And as long as you’re with someone that has a clearance higher than you, then the responsibility falls under that person for legal issues and for everything….

Emery: But everyone knows that if you’re not read into a project, it’s very unlikely you would go see something without knowing everything about it. And I was NOT read into the project. I was read into the project clandestinely through my friend.

Smith further clarified how authority in such a corporate run classified projects on military bases is based on clearance rather than rank:

It’s all based on clearance. You can be a captain and have the same clearance as a general or a colonel. You can be a sergeant and have the same clearance as a captain or a colonel.

Remember, it’s the duties that you perform, and what is needed to get the job done. It’s not about the . . . They don’t use the military system of rank for these positions, okay?

They use the knowledge base and educational base of the people that are put in place to run these projects.

Smith’s account here parallels what William Tompkins described about his work in a covert Navy espionage program during World War II. Tompkins’ position as a “Disseminator of Aircraft Research and Information” carried with it an authority that was far beyond his lowly military rank as a 2^nd class Petty Officer.

Smith says that his commander eventually showed him the captured extraterrestrial vehicle:

There was an actual extraterrestrial craft that they had captured and brought into one of the underground hangar operating rooms . . . the whole vacuumed one. And inside that, they were duplicating it in the same room, trying to reverse engineer the craft.

… they were duplicating it in the same room, trying to reverse engineer the craft… And it was a diamond-shaped craft, and it wasn’t that big. It was probably no bigger than an 18-wheeler [large semi-tractor trailer]….

The craft that they were making next to it was just . . . They were trying to find out how it works and how it flies around.

And they were doing a lot of stuff with the actual electromagnetics of it. So they duplicated a half version. They cross sectioned a man-made half version, okay?

Smith’s description of the craft he witnessed, both the diamond shaped extraterrestrial vehicle and the reverse engineered craft was captured in the following illustration.

Credit: Gaia.com – Cosmic Disclosure 6/26/18

Smith elaborated upon the large room and the thick walls that separated it from the rest of the facility:

… It’s very secured, for sure. And I don’t know why they have this room suspended away from walls maybe a hundred feet.

So you have this giant room now. You’re walking into it with multiple catwalks from other doors that go into it.

And then you come there, and the same thing. These doors open up . . . the same doors that you just saw, another 24”. And NOW you’re in the bay…

Smith further added:

This is not a clean area, by the way. So you don’t have to have your space suits in here. This is what we call a “dirty area”. So you can just be in your uniform there.

His description of the facility was also illustrated in the June 26 episode of Cosmic Disclosure:

Source: Gaia.com – Cosmic Disclosure 6/26/18

Smith described his excitement at the prospect of being recruited into a new program, and his confidence in the Commander’s authority to recruit Smith in the manner he was experiencing. After all, this was the same person running the classified corporate program involving medical examinations of extraterrestrial tissues and bodies, who also had authority over the stored alien vehicles at Kirtland AFB.

Most would have made similar assumptions to Smith about the unique opportunity that was unfolding with what was being shown to him, despite the violation in protocol in befriending one’s commander in a covert extraterrestrial related project:

David: What was your experience? Were you afraid to talk and to say how awesome this looked? Did you say anything to the commander?

Emery: Yes, I did say it. I said, “This is amazing! This is awesome! Thank you for allowing me to be part of this project.” Because I was just an . . . I really just thought this is my first introduction maybe to this, and now I’m maybe going to be part of this in some way or another….

I was figuring on him being the ultimate commander here being in charge of anything. No one’s higher than him. So how are any security going to say anything about this? Because I legitimately thought this was okay. And it was not.

Smith went on to explain how in the midst of him trying out the flight simulator for the alien reproduction vehicle, four or five very large men in suits walked unannounced into the classified facility. They proceeded to handcuff and blindfold both him and his commander, and assaulted Smith during his subsequent debriefing:

And these suits came in … suit and tie, four or five of them. They were all taller than me and bigger than me…. [Smith is 6’ 4” inches/193 cm]….  I had a concussion and a big hematoma on the back of my head…. I was broken down enough until they took the blindfolds off, and I just remember looking up at them. And they just said never to repeat this again, “and if you say anything or do anything, you know what happens.”

It’s worth emphasizing that none of the men wore uniforms which is significant given that the underground room was located at Kirtland Air Force base, and his debriefing occurred at the base.

Smith’s incident illustrates that despite the secure room/facility being on USAF property and using Air Force servicemen, it was a corporation that was firmly in charge of the facility and security.

This correlates with an incident described by Dr. Steven Greer where he and former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, were told in 1997, by Rear Admiral Thomas Wilson, that he was denied access to a covert project by corporate attorneys. Wilson was at the time the head of intelligence (J-2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, vividly illustrating how rank is inconsequential in gaining access to highly classified projects requiring need to know access.

Smith described how his silence over the brutal treatment he received during his debriefing, where he decided not to report it the base commander or senior Air Force personnel, saved him his covert job:

 I was petrified to go report it… I thought that was the next test.  And it was, because I didn’t say anything. And that’s how I got my job back, because I was able to keep a secret. And the secret hurt me….

I was restricted from ever trying to contact him [his commander] or his family ever again “for the duration of my life on Earth”, quote unquote.

Smith responded to Wilcock’s question about how the security violation changed his whole attitude to working in the corporate run project:

David: How did this event change you in terms of how . . . because you said you were very enthusiastic about your job. You felt like you were in an amusement park almost – an alien amusement park. How did this change that?

Emery: There was some sort of continuity breakdown, I thought. And I just didn’t believe in them anymore. I didn’t believe in the structure. Like, who the heck is behind this? Who is pulling the cords? Who is giving . . . You know, who is REALLY running this show down here? Who were those guys in the black suits?

I started getting mad, like going mad. I was trying to figure it out for myself and now I can’t even talk to anybody about it. I can’t even . . . To my own co-workers, I can’t say anything….

Smith’s account has many similarities to the testimonies of other whistleblowers/insiders that have worked on classified extraterrestrial related projects, where stringent security process are in place. His account parallels key elements of what Dan Sherman, Bob Lazar and Clifford Stonehave described about their involvement in classified extraterrestrial related projects and the security protocols they experienced.

In examining Smith’s testimony, one of the things that stands out is that he was informally being shown technology outside of his primary area of expertise and training in an apparent recruitment effort by his commander. It is not clear how someone trained as a Surgical First Assist who was recruited to examine extraterrestrial tissue samples and bodies, could transfer such skills into the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial craft.

Did Smith’s commander genuinely believe Smith could make such a transition or was Smith being set up? After all, there are important elements in the Lazar case which makes it very plausible that his whole recruitment into the covert operation involving reverse engineering flying saucer craft at Area 51 was a set up. Lazar’s friends and psychological profile would have been major red flags that he would break security protocols and eventually become a whistleblower.

Was Smith also identified as someone whose psychological profile would eventually lead him to becoming a whistleblower? Is Smith’s coming out part of a sanctioned disclosure process by White Hats or others running covert extraterrestrial projects?

Regardless of the answers to such questions, Smith’s testimony is ground breaking and reveals important information about a secure facility at Kirtland Air Force base conducting a variety of extraterrestrial related projects under the authority of corporations. He provides corroborating witness support for similar accounts by other whistleblowers/insiders describing what they encountered in classified facilities they were recruited to work in while enlisted in the USAF or other military services.

Smith’s testimony also provides important clues for understanding topical issues such as 2004 Tic Tac incident involving a Navy battlegroup encountering several Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (UFOs), a case which is being closely scrutinized by the mainstream media and many UFO researchers. Was the vehicle an alien reproduction craft, part of secret space program, or an extraterrestrial vehicle?

Given Smith’s credentials and credibility as a witness, it is hard to fathom why mainstream media, and most UFO researchers, are disinterested in what he has to say about covert extraterrestrial projects occurring at secure military facilities. One thing is becoming clearer by the day though, reverse engineering of extraterrestrial spacecraft has been secretly conducted for decades at multiple military facilities, with major aerospace companies in control, alongside stringent security procedures to keep it all secret.

[Note: Emery Smith’s interviews on Cosmic Disclosure can be found here.]

Michael Salla, Ph.D. Copyright Notice 

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• Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs & Extraterrestrial Alliance
• Kennedy’s Last Stand: Eisenhower, UFOs, MJ-12 & JFK’s Assassination
• Galactic Diplomacy: Getting to Yes with ET
• Exopolitics: Political Implications of Extraterrestrial Presence
• Us Navy’s Secret Space Program & Nordic Extraterrestrial Alliance
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04-07-2018 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times

Fears of Zeppelins, rockets and drones have replaced the “celestial wonders” of ancient times

In 1896, newspapers throughout the United States began reporting accounts of mysterious airships flying overhead. Descriptions varied, but witnesses frequently invoked the century’s great technological achievements. Some sources reported dirigibles powered by steam engines. Others saw motorized, winged crafts with screw propellers. Many recalled a flying machine equipped with a powerful searchlight.

As technologies of flight evolve, so do the descriptions of unidentified flying objects. The pattern has held in the 21st century as sightings of drone-like objects are reported, drawing concern from military and intelligence officials about possible security threats.

While puzzling over the appearance of curious things overhead may be a constant, how we have done so has changed over time, as the people doing the puzzling change. In every instance of reporting UFOs, observers have called on their personal experiences and prevailing knowledge of world events to make sense of these nebulous apparitions. In other words, affairs here on earth have consistently colored our perceptions of what is going on over our heads.

Reports of weird, wondrous, and worrying objects in the skies date to ancient times. Well into the 17th century, marvels such as comets and meteors were viewed through the prism of religion—as portents from the gods and, as such, interpreted as holy communications.

By the 19th century, however, “celestial wonders” had lost most of their miraculous aura. Instead, the age of industrialization transferred its awe onto products of human ingenuity. The steamboat, the locomotive, photography, telegraphy, and the ocean liner were all hailed as “modern wonders” by news outlets and advertisers. All instilled a widespread sense of progress—and opened the door to speculation about whether objects in the sky signaled more changes.

Yet nothing fueled the imagination more than the possibility of human flight. In the giddy atmosphere of the 19th century, the prospect of someone soon achieving it inspired newspapers to report on tinkerers and entrepreneurs boasting of their supposed successes.

The wave of mysterious airship sightings that began in 1896 did not trigger widespread fear. The accepted explanation for these aircraft was terrestrial and quaint: Some ingenious eccentric had built a device and was testing its capabilities.

But during the first two decades of the 20th century, things changed. As European powers expanded their militaries and nationalist movements sparked unrest, the likelihood of war prompted anxiety about invasion. The world saw Germany—home of the newly developed Zeppelin—as the likeliest aggressor. Military strategists, politicians, and newspapers in Great Britain warned of imminent attack by Zeppelins.

The result was a series of phantom Zeppelin sightings by panicked citizens throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in 1909, then again in 1912 and 1913. When war broke out in August 1914, it sparked a new, more intense wave of sightings. Wartime reports also came in from Canada, South Africa, and the United States. In England, rumors that German spies had established secret Zeppelin hangars on British soil led vigilantes to scour the countryside.

In the age of aviation, war and fear of war have consistently fueled reports of unidentified flying objects. A year after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Sweden was beset by at least a thousand accounts of peculiar, fast-moving objects in the sky. Starting in May 1946, residents described seeing missile- or rocket-like objects in flight, which were dubbed “ghost rockets” because of their fleeting nature. Rockets peppering Swedish skies was well within the realm of possibility—in 1943 and 1944, a number of V-1 and V-2 rockets launched from Germany had inadvertently crashed in the country.

At first, intelligence officials in Scandinavia, Britain, and the United States took the threat of ghost rockets seriously, suspecting that the Soviets might be experimenting with German rockets they had captured. By the autumn of 1946, however, they had concluded it was a case of postwar mass hysteria.

04-07-2018 om 23:25 geschreven door peter