Long UFO Sighted Over Florida August 18, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 18, 2018

Location of sighting: Florida, USA

 

This long black UFO was seen this week in Florida. The UFO blends in and out of the overcast cloudy sky. The darkness along the edges of the UFO give it away. The UFO shows up at 38 seconds into the video. The shape of this UFO is unlike anything I have seen before. I don't think the pilots of the craft knew it was visible, but perhaps the static electricity in the air or some other phenomenon caused to to be visible for a little while. Notice that the lighter parts of the UFO appear invisible at times in the video. Amazing footage of a real UFO. 

Scott C. Waring

 

Eyewitness states: 

Raw unedited footage of Cigar Shape UFO over Florida 8.18.18, or Arial Banner (you decide) captured on a Galaxy Note 8 at 12:20 pm EST. I uploaded this directly from my phone onto YouTube without putting it through an editing program first to adjust the screen perspective. I am going to do this now, but it may reduce the resolution in the process – we shall see! Peace.

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21-08-2018 om 16:31 geschreven door peter  

LE PENTAGONE A ÉTUDIÉ LA "TECHNOLOGIE DES OVNIS EXOTIQUES". CONFIRMATION DANS UNE LETTRE D'UN SÉNATEUR ET DU SOUS-SECRÉTAIRE AMÉRICAIN À LA DÉFENSE.

Le programme secret du Pentagone sur les OVNIS a mené une série d'enquêtes sur les "technologies futuristes exotiques", révèle une lettre d'un sénateur et du secrétaire adjoint à la défense des Etats-Unis.

Les documents relatifs aux enquêtes du Programme d’identification aérospatiale avancée (AATIP) confirment que les États-Unis ont étudié en secret des technologies leur permettant d’exercer un plus grand contrôle militaire sur d’autres pays au cours des prochaines décennies. Ce programme, principalement consacré à l'exploration des anomalies des phénomènes aériens, a été dévoilé à la fin de l'année dernière, lorsqu'une vidéo a été publiée sur la rencontre rapprochée entre un chasseur FA-18 Super Hornet et un ovni de forme ovale. Ils voyageaient à grande vitesse.

Maintenant, un échange de fonds entre le sénateur Harry Mason Reid et William Lynn III, sous-secrétaire à la Défense, a révélé les détails juteux sur l'intérêt du Pentagone pour l'étude des objets volants non identifiés et des progrès de la technologie aérospatiale. Et bien que la correspondance ne mentionne pas spécifiquement les OVNIS, cela semble confirmer que le sénateur a ordonné l’évaluation du degré de "menaces étrangères" de l’espace.

De plus, nous parlons de concepts extrêmement sophistiqués tels que la mécanique quantique, la science nucléaire, l'électromagnétisme, l'antigravité et la thermodynamique. "Ces technologies ont le potentiel d'être utilisées par nos adversaires avec des effets catastrophiques", prévient le sénateur Reid dans la lettre, qui a été obtenue de Las Vegas.

En fait, les progrès réalisés grâce aux technologies étudiées dans le programme AATIP sont si « sensibles » que le sénateur suggère un contrôle plus rigoureux de la part du ministère de la Défense et établisse les références « niveau SAP » (programmes d'accès spéciaux) qu'il s'agit d'informations classées au-dessus du TOP SECRET (Ultra Top Secret). La lettre indique également que "l'identification de différents résultats aérospatiaux non conventionnels a beaucoup progressé". "Enfin, les résultats de l'AATIP ne profiteront pas seulement au gouvernement américain, mais également au ministère de la Défense d'une manière qui ne soit pas imaginée", écrit le sénateur. "Les connaissances et les compétences technologiques que nous avons obtenues donneront à notre pays un avantage sur toute menace étrangère et nous permettront de maintenir notre suprématie en tant que leader mondial".

Bien sûr, les menaces et les développements spatiaux d'autres pays, tels que la Russie et la Chine, constituent probablement des menaces. Cependant, il semble y avoir une allusion claire que l'étude de l'AIPIP sur les ovnis a aidé à améliorer la technologie aérospatiale américaine ... peut-être avec l'ingénierie inverse, c'est-à-dire la rétro-ingénierie ? Ce dernier peut être déduit des déclarations faites l’année dernière par l’ancien directeur de l’AIPIP, Luis Elizondo, après que le secret ait été révoqué sur l’existence de ce programme du Pentagone, a déclaré M. Elizondo. Nous ne sommes pas seuls »et a laissé entendre que le gouvernement avait accès à des « métamatériaux » obtenus à partir de vaisseaux spatiaux extraterrestres récupérés et stockés dans des structures spécialement modifiées situées quelque part dans le désert de Las Vegas.

Nick Pope, ancien chercheur sur les OVNIS au ministère britannique de la Défense, estime que cette lettre "est une bombe" et "révèle plus que ce que nous pensions savoir sur le programme AATIP". "Ces révélations choquantes montrent à quel point le problème des OVNIS est grave pour le gouvernement américain, au-delà de ce qu’ils croient être la véritable nature du phénomène. La lettre exprime les véritables raisons pour lesquelles le Pentagone étudie le sujet - la technologie des ovnis - et la dichotomie entre la considérer comme une menace et une opportunité ", conclut avec ces mots Nick Pope dans une interview avec le tabloïd britannique The Metro. Le programme AATIP a été achevé en 2012, même si les journalistes du New York Times qui l'ont exposé au public croient qu'il fonctionne toujours à un certain niveau.

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21-08-2018 om 01:27 geschreven door peter  

The Geology Of Star Trek: From Extraterrestrial Minerals To Alien Life-Forms

David Bressan Contributor

You must be one with the rock.
- Spock to Kirk in Star Trek V.

As with any good science fiction, part of our fascination with Star Trek comes from the combination of real science and fantastic possibilities. When you think of science in the show, disciplines like spaceship engineering, astronomy, physics and biology probably spring to mind first. However, the show actually features a lot of geology.

You can meet great geologists, as volcanologist Jessica Ball observes, or explore outstanding geological formations, like alien caves, as petrologist Evelyn Mervine has noted. Mineralogist Jeffrey de Fourestier has analyzed the use of minerals in every Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) episode, and his review was a major inspiration and guide for the following short introduction into the fantastic geology of Star Trek.

Captain Kirk fights a Gorn - you can see Vasquez Rocks in the background. (CBS via Getty Images)

In TOS, geology can often be observed simply in the background of an alien planet, like in the episode "Arena", filmed at the famous, stratified Vasquez Rocks in California. Sometimes rocks and geological formations are only mentioned, for example when the sensors of the starship Enterprise scan the surface of a strange, new world. Other times, however, crystals and minerals are essential plot devices.

In many episodes, the crew of the Enterprise visits mining colonies or is on a mission to search for valuable minerals and crystals. There exists even a geological tricorder for prospecting resources, designed for analyzing rock samples and comparing them to the records memorized in the mineralogical database of the federation. By convention, the names of terrestrial minerals (a crystalline combination of one or various elements) end with the suffix "-ite", the denominations of elements with the suffix "- ium", "-um", "-on", "-gen" or "-ine". Unfortunately it seems that this nomenclature is not always applied with the necessary scientific accuracy in the 23th century. But to be fair, many of the minerals are unknown to the present day. And that's accurate, as there are indeed elements found only in stars and outer space, like Technetium, that don't form naturally on Earth.

Could such non-terrestrial elements form also extraterrestrial minerals? We have found some very promising samples just in the last years. In meteorites, rock samples from the moon and chemical analysis done by space probes on the other planets of our solar-system, we have found almost 300 different minerals, composed of already known elements. However, because many of those minerals were formed under conditions that don't exist on Earth, such as low gravity, or the complete absence of liquid water, many are indeed unknown in the Earth's environments.

More than 125 minerals are mentioned in the Star Trek universe. Of these, however, only 23 are actual terrestrial minerals and only one mineral, the silicate olivine, has been found in extraterrestrial rocks. Curiously quartz, one of the most common minerals on Earth, is almost never mentioned. Perhaps because quartz is often used as a prop stand-in for dilithium crystals.

Quartz crystals from the Alps

(planet Earth)

In the Star Trek universe "dilithium" is not only a rare and valued gemstone, known also as radan, but its chief use is in the show's matter-antimatter reactors, standard equipment on board of every Federation spaceship. As its (supposedly) cubic crystal structure can somehow transform energy (a physical property mentioned in the episode “Pen Pals” of Star Trek: The Next Generation) and control the flow of antimatter (mentioned in the TOS episode “Elaan of Troyius") This sci-fi property of the crystalline dilithium may be not so far-fetched: some real crystals, such as Iceland spar, can filter or distort certain wavelengths of light (a form of energy)

• Interested in more Star Trek science? Check out this look at the physics of transporters.

Futuristic minerals and metals play also an important role in other Star Trek technology, such as "transparent aluminum," which is used for the construction of spaceships and a beryllium-titanium alloy is used in the highly advanced androids encountered in the TOS episode "I, Mudd".

But even very simple minerals play an important role in some Star Trek episodes. Halite, better known as common table salt, plays an important role in "The Man Trap," the first episode of Star Trek ever broadcast. In this episode a remote outpost is infiltrated by a mysterious shape-shifting creature that requires salt to survive, by any means necessary. The originally unaired Star Trek pilot "The Cage," also featured a geologist.

Sulfur, saltpeter and carbon, in two crystalline modifications, as coal and as diamond, saved Captain Kirk´s life in the already mentioned episode "Arena". Kirk, transported to a desolate planetoid,  is forced into a battle against the reptile-like Gorn, which is protected by an almost indestructible armored skin. Using the sulfur, saltpeter and coal to make gunpowder and pointy diamond-crystals (here the writers made quite a mineralogical blooper, as such a crystal-shape is not to be found in real diamonds) as high-impact projectiles, he finally puts down his adversary.

Sometimes, though minerals are shown to be deadly. During negotiations for the rare, but important (and also non-existing) mineral topaline, a red-shirt is killed in the episode “Friday's Child” on the surface of Capella IV just 32 seconds after beaming down.

The everyday tools of geologists today, hand lens and geological hammer, are of no real use in the 23rd or 24th centuries. In the episode "Obsession," Spock analyzes on the surface of planet Argus X a rock composed of the mineral "tritanium" with his geological tricorder. Tritanium is said to be 21.4 times harder than diamond (despite Kirk's comment in "Arena" that diamonds are the hardest substance known in the Star Trek universe). That makes it quite useful for the construction of starships. The rock itself was shown to sampled by phasering off a piece, as it was too hard to be cut with common tools.

But even the most sophisticated technology can´t replace geological intuition. That may not be logical, but is often true. In the episode "The Apple" Spock immediately notes the lush vegetation of the planet Gamma Trianguli VI. From that, he correctly deduces that soil-nutrients (and therefore geology) plays a role in supporting this peculiar paradise-like world. With his sharp geological eye Spock identifies also hornblende and quartz in a collected rock (according to this petrological composition maybe an igneous rock?) that is easily erodible (even explosive!) and so may be the source of all the sediments and soils.

Kirk and Spock encounter the silicon-based Horta.

(Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection)

Perhaps the most fascinating use of geology in the Star Trek universe is the discovery of life, but not as we know it.

"Life, as we know it, is universally based on some combination of carbon compounds," remarked Mister Spock at the beginning of the episode "The Devil in the Dark." However when the crew of the Enterprise is contacted by the miners on Janus VI, who are supposedly under attack by an unstoppable "monster" that can't be tracked by the ship's sensors. By the end of the episode, Spock soon changes his mind - "But what if life exists, based on another element. For instance, silicon."

This may not be far-fetched. In 1891, German astrophysicist Julius Schreiner speculated that silicon could replace carbon in molecules supporting the complex chemical reactions needed for the metabolism of any life-form. Three years later, H.G. Wells wrote in a popular science article:

One is startled towards fantastic imaginings by such a suggestion: visions of silicon-aluminium organisms – why not silicon-aluminium men at once? – wandering through an atmosphere of gaseous sulphur, let us say, by the shores of a sea of liquid iron some thousand degrees or so above the temperature of a blast furnace.

In 1934, chemist and author Stanley Weinbaum published his short story titled "A Martian Odyssey," where he introduced the first silicon-based life forms in popular culture. The story actually went into some detail about its metabolism:

Those bricks were its waste matter… We’re carbon, and our waste is carbon dioxide, and this thing is silicon, and its waste is silicon dioxide-silica. But silica is a solid, hence the bricks. And it builds itself in, and when it is covered, it moves over to a fresh place to start over.

Silicon can indeed form polymers and complex compounds together with metals or elements like boron, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Such molecules can also work in liquid nitrogen, methane, ammonium, various alcohols and even acids.

However, using silicon as replacement element for carbon has some disadvantages. Complex silicon compounds are unstable and ineffective under terrestrial surface conditions. McCoy notes this in the episode, stating that silicon life would not survive in the artificial, human environment created on Janus VI. The episode later reveals that the alien life-form, named "Horta", comes from within the planet, where suitable conditions for silicon-based life might exist. Such an environment would likely need to be a dry, cold and oxygen-free environment, because free oxygen would react with the silicon to form silicates. That would in turn destroy the complex and fragile silicon-molecules a life-form would need to support itself.

Human-required conditions would also reduce the metabolism and reproduction rate of this hypothetical organism. In the episode, the Horta is the last of it´s kind, guarding thousands of eggs, which appeared to the crew and miners as inanimate silicon-concretions. It was the destruction of those eggs that led the Horta to attack the miners, and once its nature was understood, Kirk and Spock were able to negotiate peace between the Horta and the miners.

Could such life really exist?  We don't know. One of the great achievements of Star Trek has been to pose both intriguing ethical and scientific questions. Hopefully, some of those questions will be answered by the coming generations.

I find that fascinating!

Interested in reading more? Try:

• PICKOVER, C.A.(1999): The Science Of Aliens. Basic Books: 240
• SHOSTAK, B. (2012): Life in the Universe. Addison-Wesley Publisher: 544
• SCHULZ-MAKUCH, D. & IRWIN, L.N. (2006): "The prospect of alien life in exotic forms on other worlds." Naturwissenschaften. Vol.93: 155-172

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21-08-2018 om 01:19 geschreven door peter  

Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets - PART I

Credit: U.S. Air Force

A secret history

Government and military secrets can range from terrifying to amusing to downright absurd, but most are nothing short of intriguing. From a secret U.S. Air Force project to build a supersonic flying saucer to a now-famous World War II-era research program that produced the first atomic bombs to a plan to train domesticated cats to spy on the Soviet Union, here are 22 declassified military and CIA secrets.

Credit: National Archives

1. Project 1794

In late 2012, the U.S. Air Force declassified a trove of documents, including records of a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. The ambitious program, called Project 1794, was initiated in the 1950s, and a team of engineers was tasked with building a disc-shape vehicle capable of traveling at supersonic speeds at high altitudes.

The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). The project's estimated cost was more than $3 million, which in today's dollars would be more than $26 million.

Project 1794 was canceled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds).

Credit: Frank J. Leskovitz

2. Project Iceworm

In the 1960s, the U.S. Army embarked on a secret mission to build a series of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The objective was to house medium-range missiles close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union.

The program was codenamed Project Iceworm, but to test its feasibility, the Army launched a cover research project called "Camp Century" in 1960. Under this guise, engineers built a network of underground buildings and tunnels, including living quarters, a kitchen, a recreation hall, infirmary, laboratories, supply rooms, a communications center and a nuclear power plant.

The base, which was kept secret from the Danish government, operated for seven years. The program was canceled in 1966 after shifting ice created unstable conditions. Today, the crushed remains of Project Iceworm are buried beneath Arctic snow.

Credit: RealCG Animation Studio | Shutterstock

3. Project MK-ULTRA

During the Cold War, the CIA initiated Project MK-ULTRA, a secret and illegal human research program to investigate potential mind-control systems. The program's operators examined the effects of hypnosis, biological agents and drugs, such as LSD and barbiturates, on human subjects. Some historians suggest the program was designed to develop a mind-control system that could be used to "program" the brains of potential assassins. [The 10 Craziest Military Experiments]

In 1973, then-CIA director Richard Helms ordered that all documents from Project MK-ULTRA be destroyed, but a formal investigation into the program was launched several years later. The project became the basis for several movies, such as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats."

Credit: Public domain

4. Area 51

Almost no other site has garnered as much attention from conspiracy theorists and UFO-enthusiasts as Area 51, a remote desert tract near Groom Lake in Nevada, roughly 83 miles (134 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas. The intense secrecy surrounding the base sparked peoples' imaginations, and Area 51 was commonly linked to paranormal activities, including pervasive theories that suggested Area 51 hid aliens and UFOs.

In July 2013, declassified documents from the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 for the first time, and confirmed that the top-secret site was used to test a variety of spy planes, including the well-known U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.

While Area 51, which operates as a detachment of Edwards Air Force Base in neighboring California, has never been declared a covert base, the research and activities conducted there were some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets.

Credit: Fer Gregory | Shutterstock

5. Project Grudge

While Area 51 was not a top-secret base designed to study extraterrestrials, the U.S. Air Force did study the existence of UFOs. Project Grudge was a short-lived program launched in 1949 to study unidentified flying objects. The mission followed an earlier program, known as Project Sign, which published a report in early 1949 stating that while some UFOs seemed to be actual aircraft, there was not enough data to determine their origins. [Top 10 States for UFO Sightings]

Critics of Project Grudge said the program solely set out to debunk UFO reports, and very little actual research was conducted. In his book on the topic, Edward J. Ruppelt, Air Force Captain and director of Project Grudge, wrote: "[I]t doesn't take a great deal of study of the old UFO files to see that standard intelligence procedures were not being followed by Project Grudge. Everything was being evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist. No matter what you see or hear, don't believe it."

Credit: NASA

6. Operation Paperclip

In September 1946, President Harry Truman authorized a program called Operation Paperclip, which aimed to lure scientists from Nazi Germany to the United States following World War II. Officials at the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor to the CIA) recruited German scientists to America to aid the country's postwar efforts, which would also ensure that valuable scientific knowledge would not end up in the hands of the Soviet Union or the divided East and West Germany.

Operation Paperclip's most famous recruit was rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who would go on to mastermind NASA's Apollo moon missions.

Credit: Warren K. Leffler, Library of Congress

7. Operation Northwoods

The tense relationship between the United States and Cuba during the Cold War led the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hatch a slew of bizarre schemes aimed at taking down the Castro regime. While the goal of most of these covert operations (such as Operation Mongoose) was to assassinate Fidel Castro himself, other plans aimed to incite an all-out war between the U.S. and Cuba, experts have said. 

In 1998, the National Security Archive (NSA) — a non-governmental organization that publishes information made available through the Freedom of Information Act — posted declassified documents related to Operation Northwoods. The scheme, dreamed up in 1962 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (uniformed members of the U.S. Department of Defense who advise the president and others), involved committing acts of violence against U.S. and Cuban civilians and then blaming those acts on the Cuban government, according to the NSA documents. These acts, which included faked terrorist attacks in U.S. cities, the hijacking of planes and the sinking of boats full of Cuban émigrés en route to the U.S., would then be used to justify a war with Cuba, according to the documents.

The Kennedy administration recognized the folly of Operation Northwoods and rejected it, according to news reports.

Credit: Jack Aeby

8. Manhattan Project

One of the most well-known secret research programs is the Manhattan Project, which eventually produced the world's first atomic bombs. The project began in 1939, and was cloaked in secrecy as physicists investigated the potential power of atomic weapons. From 1942 to 1946, Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers led the Manhattan Project.

The first nuclear bomb was detonated at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, during the so-called Trinity test at the Alamogordo Air Base, 120 miles (193 km) south of Albuquerque, N.M. The explosion created a mushroom cloud that stretched 40,000 feet (12,200 m), and the bomb's explosive power was equivalent to more than 15,000 tons of TNT.

A month after the Trinity test, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in the waning stages of World War II. To date, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in war.

Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

9. Operation Gladio

During the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, developed a classified plan for keeping Europe "safe" in the event of a Soviet invasion. The plan, known as Operation Gladio, called for the formation of secret armies or "stay-behind" organizations in many NATO countries, including Italy, Belgium and France, according to declassified documents.

The mission of the secret armies was simple: Prepare for a potential communist takeover and lead an armed resistance should such a takeover occur. In some countries, "preparing" for Soviet invasion included espionage and the hoarding of ammunitions.

And these clandestine armies weren't just kept secret from the Soviet Union. High-ranking government officials in countries where the military forces operated were sometimes not aware of the armies' existence. Italian Prime Minister at the time, the late Giulio Andreotti divulged information about Italy's secret Cold War army (known as Gladio) in 1990, becoming the first leader of a NATO country to publicly acknowledge one of these forces. Declassified documents related to NATO's stay-behind armies are accessible via The Black Vault, a website that makes declassified documents available to the public.

Credit: Public Domain

10. My Lai Massacre

In March 1968, American soldiers murdered hundreds of unarmed civilians in the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, according to accounts of the massacre that describe harrowing killings of at least 300 women, children and elderly people.

Army officials managed to cover up the massacre for a year before an investigative journalist with the Associated Press (AP) brought the atrocity to the attention of the American people in November 1969. In light of news reports, an official inquiry was made into the events at My Lai and was concluded in March 1970. The inquiry resulted in criminal charges against 14 U.S. Army officers, all but one of whom were acquitted for their crimes. Declassified documents associated with the inquiry are available from the Library of Congress.

In the wake of the My Lai massacre, the Pentagon established a task force known as the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group, which investigated incidents similar to the killings at My Lai. That group compiled more than 9,000 pages of documents detailing crimes by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, many of which were declassified during the 1990s. These and other declassified documents regarding Vietnam War crimes can be accessed through the National Archives.

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11. Operation Washtub

Secret armies also existed in the United States during the Cold War. In 2014, declassified documents from the U.S. Air Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed a plan dreamed up in 1950 for a "covert intelligence and evasion and escape operation in Alaska."

Nicknamed "Operation Washtub," the plan called for the training of ordinary Alaskans in coding, decoding and other espionage techniques so that they could spy on the enemy in the event of a Soviet invasion of Alaska. While such an invasion never occurred, a total of 89 "agents" were trained for this purpose, according to news reports. 

Flying Saucers to Mind Control - 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets

21-08-2018 om 00:53 geschreven door peter  

Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets - PART II

12. Oleg Penkovsky

13. Acoustic Kitty

14. Greenland's Lost Bomb

15. Project Horizon

16. Mapimi Silent Zone

17. Iran Flight 655

18. Kidnapping of the Lunik

19. USS Liberty

20. FBI Surveillance Planes

21. Operation Crossroads

22. Doctor Zhivago

Flying Saucers to Mind Control - 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets

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21-08-2018 om 00:49 geschreven door peter  

Seeing a dragon in a patch of clouds, or a face in the moon, are examples of what’s called pareidolia. Look here for photos to test your own ability to see things that aren’t there.

Dragon at dusk by Sarah Chisholm Photography.

Maybe you’ve seen the proverbial bunny in a patch of clouds, or a clown’s face in a mud splatter on the side of your car? Seeing recognizable objects or patterns in otherwise random or unrelated objects or patterns is called pareidolia. It’s a form of apophenia, which is a more general term for the human tendency to seek patterns in random information. Everyone experiences it from time to time. Seeing the famous man in the moon is a classic example from astronomy. The ability to experience pareidolia is more developed in some people and less in others. Look at the photos below to learn more and test your own ability to see things that aren’t there.

What Is Pareidolia?

A woman’s face in the clouds, floating above the sea, as captured from Saquarema, Brazil, by Helio C. Vital.

Can you see a bird in flight in this photo? It is a a photo of the aurora borealis taken near Fairbanks, Alaska. by Dave Bachrach. Used with permission.

Erwan Mirabeau shot this rock formation in Ebihens, France. It’s reminiscent of a green haired man, known in the area as an Apache.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The “face of Jesus” in this photo is actually a child with a bonnet, and the hair is vegetation in the background. Anonymous Swedish photograph from the late nineteenth century via Wikimedia Commons.

Sometimes the ability to see objects in photos, where no such objects exist, has results that are not simply beautiful or intriguing, but downright bizarre. For example, consider the old photo above from an anonymous Swedish photographer of the 19th century.

In the image above, many viewers will immediately see the image of a bearded man with wavy hair, which could be interpreted as Jesus, near the left center of the image. In fact, however, the face is just a phenomenon of light, shadow and placement. The “face of Jesus” is actually a child with a bonnet, and the hair is vegetation in the background.

You have probably have seen claims of images of Jesus in a piece of toast, or the Madonna in the misshapen form of a gourd. Although intrinsically meaningless, such images are sometimes striking. More often, though, the similarity to known persons, animals or objects is a bit more subtle.

Pareidolia of dog on closet door by Chad Johns. Photo used with permission.

Ty Lawrence in Las Vegas, Nevada contributed this photo. We posted it at EarthSky Facebook and asked people what it looked like to them. We got many answers. Puppy. Dragon. Dog. Map of the Mediterranean Sea. But most people said “bird.” Thanks, Ty!

What can you see in the folds of this tissue? Many people will not see anything. It depends, in part, on the innate ability to see patterns, and in part on the natural inclinations and interests of the viewer. In some cases the image will immediately pop out, while for some folks it will come after a little close examination, and others may not be able to see it at all.

Here’s a close-up. Do you see the head of a Dachshund?  Don’t worry if you cannot, but for many the ears, eyes and snout will seem obvious.

To a certain extent, the definition of pareidolia can be used to describe how the ancients connected the dots and came up with the patterns we know as constellations. It does not take a great deal of imagination to see a lion in Leo, a scorpion in Scorpius, or a mighty hunter in Orion. To be honest, many other constellations, such as Cancer the Crab or Capricornus the Sea Goat, stretch the pattern recognition idea a bit far, making the naming process more one of contrivance than of pareidolia.

Staying in the realm of astronomy for a bit, many have seen a face or a rabbit in the moon or any of a variety of other figures on the face of the moon for ages. Nowadays, technology has given us close-ups of other planets that serve as fodder for the pareidolia monster.

Here is the so-called “face on Mars” as originally captured in a 1976 image from the Viking 1 orbiter. Click here to see how subsequent spacecraft revealed the “face” to be simply a play of light and shadows.

Glass tunnels or “ice worms” on Mars? In fact, these Martian canyons contain crescent-shaped sand dunes, which are formed when the wind is predominantly from one direction.

For example, some self-appointed experts have stated that the image above – which is an enlargement of a small section of image M0400291 from the Mars Global Surveyor – shows large glass tunnels on Mars, or even evidence for ice worms on the red planet. What the image above really shows is a convergence of deep canyons on the planet Mars. At the bottom of these canyons are crescent-shaped sand dunes, which are formed when the wind is predominantly from one direction. Such dunes are common in desert areas of the Earth and are known as barchans.

People have found many imaginary images in this photo of the atomic cloud over Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 – from Koyagi-jima by Hiromichi Matsuda.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Although deliberately manipulated (“photoshopped”) photos are very easily made today and cannot be ruled out for many pareidolia images, hoaxes are considerably less likely in older images. Consider the old Swedish image above in which the “face” of Jesus is actually a baby with a bonnet. Or consider the image above from the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, shot by Hiromichi Matsuda, showing the mushroom cloud over the city just 20 minutes after detonation.

With just a casual glance, most people will notice nothing in the bomb cloud other than the expected shape. But for someone with an eye for pareidolic images, several things can pop out. Let’s consider just one, that the head of an apparently sleeping woman with 1940s-style hair, facing the right from just left of the top center area of the cloud.

Go ahead, try to see the lady’s face before you look farther down. Truth be told, there are a number of things to be seen in this image, but the point to make is that these are all purely coincidental. There is absolutely no reason to believe that any of the images have any meaning whatsoever except the meaning that an active and creative mind may give them. They are not symbols or signs from the spirit world. They are not warnings about the future or indications of the waywardness of our ways. They are simply the result of coincidental patterns that the human mind chooses to interpret in particular ways.

It goes without saying, I hope, that this just happens to be a photo from the tragic bombing of Nagasaki, but has nothing else to do with Nagasaki or even with the atomic bomb. Similar patterns can be found in many many other images and natural formations.

In some ways, the pareidolic images we discover tend to indicate things about which we are most interested, whether they be people, puppies or planes. Finding such “embedded” images can fun and interesting, almost a hobby for some. But for some they can also fuel obsessiveness and paranoia. Enjoy finding your own pareidolic images, but keep in mind that what you are seeing is not really there, but in your mind.

Nagasaki image annotated.

Now, if you did not successfully see the lady in the Nagasaki image, see the annotated image, above. (Can you also see the puppy in her hair?)

Bottom line: Seeing recognizable objects or phenomena in otherwise random or unrelated objects or patterns is called pareidolia. It’s a form of apophenia, which is a more general terms for seeing apparently meaningful connections between unrelated patterns, data or phenomena.

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20-08-2018 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

THE MYSTERIOUS MAGNETIC ANOMALIES AT PUMA PUNKU, PROOF OF ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES ?

High up the Bolivian altiplano,’ south of Lake Titicaca and the ancient complex of Tiahuanaco, we find the ancient ruins of Puma Punku.

Believed to have been erected by the ancient Tiwanaku culture in the bronze age, between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago, the ancient site is home to some of the most fascinating ancient stone structures on the surface of the planet.

Shrouded in mystery, the archaeological site of Puma Punku is one of the biggest headaches for mainstream archaeologists who are unable to explain how ancient cultures cut and shaped granite stone to an incredible precision, transported blocks of stones that weigh more than 50 tons, and placed them in position like a puzzle, so that not a single sheet of paper can fit between them.

But if that wasn’t enough of a mystery, there’s some strange magnetic anomaly present at Puma Punku.

The stones at Puma Punku were believed to have been quarried by the Tiwanaku culture at Cerro Khapia, located some 70 kilometers away.

The question that arises here is… how on Earth did the ancients transport these massive blocks of stone, tens of tons in weight across 70 kilometers from their quarry to Puma Punku?

The Magnetic Anomaly

This mysterious feature which makes Puma Punku even stranger was spotted by researcher and author Brien Foerster.

In a video uploaded onto his YouTube account, Brien Foerster takes us on a trip to the Bolivian Altiplano where he tours through Puma Punku and shows us how certain rocks at the site – Puma Punku’s Grey Stones – display magnetic anomalies.

These curious features have been completely ignored and left unattended by scholars who have studied Puma Punku in the past.

Here is another video where we can see the curious magnetic anomaly present on the grey stones of Puma Punku.

And another video by Brien Foerster:

Could these magnetic Anomalis indicates that the ancient tawanaku people had access to very advanced technologies given to them by extraterrestrials ?

or did another really advanced civilisation from earth or Spcae might have been building this amazing site ?

One Thing is for sure, Puma Punku is one of the most fascinating ancient site on earth !

Related Article: 

• EVIDENCE OF ADVANCED ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY: PUMA PUNKU

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20-08-2018 om 23:44 geschreven door peter  

Pseudo-Satellite Drone Flies for 25 Days Straight, Sets Endurance +

20-08-2018 om 23:28 geschreven door peter  

NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover Might Be Gone for Good — Here's Why

By Oscar Gonzalez

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20-08-2018 om 23:09 geschreven door peter  

Stanford’s Most Successful Remote Viewer Reveals Location Of 4 Alien Bases On Earth

IN BRIEF

• The Facts:

  The U.S. had a program called STARGATE. It ran for 25 years, where remote viewing was highly successful. Many of the 'viewers' have since been speaking about their ET encounters. One of them identified the location of 4 ET bases here on Earth.

• Reflect On:

  Why are so many people from within this program sharing such information? Is remote viewing something military has used quietly for some time? It was extremely successful and credible practice, but why wasn't this part of the declassification?

What is remote viewing? It’s an ability that allows the ‘viewer’ to be able to describe a remote geographical location up to several hundred thousand kilometres away (even more) from their physical location — one that they have never been to.

This skill was taught to soldiers in multiple countries around the world, and from what I understand, still is. In the United States, the Remote Viewing program ran for 25 years at Stanford Research Institute before 70 percent of it was declassified, it was run in conjunction with the CIA and other intelligence agencies.

In 1976, a presentation was given at the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on a paper published by the Institute on behalf of Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, key players in what became known as the STARGATE project.  The paper was titled “A Perceptual Channel For Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspectives and Recent Research.” After its publication, that’s when everything went dark, into the world of Special Access Programs (SAPs), so sensitive that they are exempt from reporting to Congress.

After its declassification in 1995, or at least, partial declassification, the Department of Defense and those involved revealed an exceptionally high success rate.

To summarize, over the years, the back-and-forth criticism of protocols, refinement of methods, and successful replication of this type of remote viewing in independent laboratories has yielded considerable scientific evidence for the reality of the [remote viewing] phenomenon. Adding to the strength of these results was the discovery that a growing number of individuals could be found to demonstrate high-quality remote viewing, often to their own surprise. . . . The development of this capability at SRI has evolved to the point where visiting CIA personnel with no previous exposure to such concepts have performed well under controlled laboratory conditions.” 

(source)

Multiple examples were used, from locating a lost spy plane in Africa, viewing future events, as well as past events. Remote viewing is not limited to time, it’s a quantum phenomenon, like most parapsychological phenomena. In the declassified literature, there are many shocking examples where remote viewing was successfully used for intelligence purposes, which makes sense given the fact the government decided to fund it for 25 years.

It was also used to discover the Rings around Jupiter, a man by the name of Ingo Swann, one of the programs best remote viewers was able to describe and view a ring around Jupiter, which at the time, scientists had no idea even existed. This happened before NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft flew by the planet, confirming that the ring did actually exist.

This is amazing because at the time there was no way to even perceive rings existing around planets…

To determine whether it was necessary to have a ‘beacon’ individual at the target site, Swann suggested carrying out an experiment to remote view the planet Jupiter before the upcoming NASA Pioneer 10 flyby. In that case, much to his chagrin (and ours) he found a ring around Jupiter, and wondered if perhaps he had remote viewed Saturn by mistake. Our colleagues in astronomy were quite unimpressed as well, until the flyby revealed that an unanticipated ring did in fact exist

(source)

Here is a great brief timeline of government Remote Viewing.

The Common Theme Among Remote Views Is: Extraterrestrial

Since the declassification of the program, many people from within it, remote viewers, as well as army personnel and academics have come out and spoken about the program. The most popular viewer within the program, Ingo Swann, as mentioned above, wrote a book called “penetration” where he provided more details about the program that we didn’t get from the government files. He described viewing humanoid bodies on the moon, working on something (back side of the moon), as well as tall structures, buildings and more. He was very outspoken about the extraterrestrial presence that was apparently known about within these programs.

Joseph Mcmoneagle was another one, who also had experiences remote viewing an extraterrestrial presence, this time it came from Mars. Many of them have been outspoken about the extraterrestrial presence.

On a side note, while mentioning Mars and remote viewings, it’s noteworthy to bring awareness to the fact that six former U.S. Army remote viewers were commissioned by officials within the Russian space program to study the cause of Phobos II’s disappearance. The viewers issued a final report titled, “Enigma Penetration: Soviet Phobos II Space Craft Images Anomaly.”

As Jim Marrs points out, in his novel, Our Occulted History,

The report stated that a disc-shaped object rose from the Martian surface towards Phobos II while a second object moved into even closer proximity and scanned the probe with a penetrating particle beam device, which disrupted the communication and guidance equipment. The out-of-control Soviet craft was then struck by a “micrometeorite” that delivered the coupe de grace. The remote viewers said this may have been no accident, as it seems that all of the technology put into space from Earth is scrutinized closely by nonhumans….After being struck, Phobos II spiraled down, crashing onto the Martian surface.

The 4 Alien Bases

Then, there is Pat Price, who, along with Ingo Swann, is described as one of SRI’s most successful viewers, his sessions were extremely accurate. Within the remote viewing community, among the declassified literature, he is best known for his sketches of gantries and cranes which matched CIA intelligence photographs he had never seen, this was during the cold war.

Russel Targ, the co-founder of the program at RSI has also recently given lectures on “everything” he “knows about ESP.” In fact, his TED talk about it was cancelled, you can watch that here.

According to Atwater, Pricer had successfully remote viewed 4 extraterrestrial ‘bases’ stationed on Earth.  One was located underneath Mount Ziel, another under Mount Perdido in Spain, as well as Mount Inyangani in Zimbabwe, and in Alaska, underneath Mount Hayes.

This comes from a plethora of sources, including one of the leading researchers in the field, Timothy Good, from his book, Unearthly Disclosure.

What’s also interesting to note is the lore associated with these mountains, take Inaynagi, for example. There are no shortages of strange disappearances of those who go wandering in this region, it’s well-known in the region and the mountain has been surrounded by mysterious lore for a long time.

Credo Mutwa

One interesting story comes from  Credo Mutwa, born in 1921, he’s a Zulu Sangoma, a traditional healer, from southern Africa. He has done tremendous humanitarian work in Africa and is extremely knowledgeable in Zulu tradition and lore.

Now, there are uncountable amounts of stories pertaining to extraterrestrial contact, if even one of them true, it’s fascinating. Many of these stories corroborate with each other and coupled with proof for the extraterrestrial hypothesis regarding UFOs, and all of the testimony from people with ‘credibility, it’s not ridiculous at all to contemplate.

In the bushes of the mountain, while Mutwa was a Sangoma apprentice, he was searching for a herb which he planned to use as medicine. Something he did quite often to bring health back to his people, specifically with regards to the HIV pandemic in Africa, a disease he says was created to destroy the African population.

While he was doing so, he was covered by a bright blue mist, which, he said “was swirling all around me, getting between me and the eastern landscape.” Later, he found himself in what he described as underground, underneath the mountain. This is interesting because it’s exactly what the remote viewer Pat Price describes.

The next thing he knew, he was lying on a table of some sort. His boots and trousers were missing. He was approached by a group of grey skinned humanoid creatures, with Very large heads, very thing arms, and very thing legs.

(source)

A lot of this information also comes from several interviews Mutwa did with David Icke.

Price described the occupants of these bases as ‘looking like Homo Sapiens, except for the lungs, heart, blood, and eyes.”

Mutawa wanted to flee, but couldn’t move and was Paralyzed,

I just lay there like a goat on a sacrificial altar

Mutwa was then subjected to some kind of operation on his left thigh, which caused him to scream out in agony. An abundance of blood flowed from the wound. Next, one of the creatures stuck a silver, pen-like object up his right nasal passage; then yanked it out. “The pain,” he says, “was out of this world.”…The pain subsided, however, when one of the creatures – who was bigger and taller than the others, and who possessed an air of authority – placed its hand on Mutwa’s forehead. Mutwa could ‘sense’ that the creature was female, despite the fact that ‘she’ lacked breasts and other feminine characteristics. Staring at Mutwa intently, it projected visions of destruction into his mind. He saw cities being destroyed by floods, fires and other natural disasters. (source)

He speaks at length of these experiences in his interviews with David Icke.

Cred Mutwa

He goes on to describe an instrument being inserted into his penis, and as soon as it was taken out, his bladder opened and he urinated hard. Another creature came in and had pink skin, blue eyes, high cheekbones and looked almost human. The creature then “mounted Mutwa like “a crazy Zulu girl” and proceeded to have sex with him.

This is another common theme among many supposed extraterrestrial contactees. He said during this encounter, a device was used to make Mutwa ejaculate “too much,” and after the ordeal, he was in tremendous amounts of pain.

It’s important to mention that numerous extraterrestrial encounters have been described, both of what as we perceive as “friendly” and “unfriendly” contact, as well as ‘unfriendly procedures’ being performed, with the strange beings sometimes comforting the human through the process, and sometimes not…

It’s strange, to say the least, but as far as underground alien bases, it’s a possibility.

An Interesting Encounter of Mine

I used to teach on a First Nations reserve, in a place called North Spirit Lake. I came home for the holidays, and when I arrived in Toronto I was waiting for the train, and next to me was a gentleman in uniform. Anytime I see what appears to be a senior officer in uniform, I always ask questions… This one was a veteran, having served overseas in the Middle East for 5 years, and was now with the Coast Guard. Instantaneously, I thought of the ocean, and underwater military bases, having studies them in-depth. I knew he would most like be aware of their existence being with the Coast Guard. This was always 10 years ago, when it was taboo to talk about ‘strange’ things, that no longer seem so taboo anymore…

I asked him about HAARP, his eyes lit up wide, he was shocked and surprised and told me he couldn’t talk about it. I asked him about in-bottom and under-ocean military bases, the same thing happened… I asked him about extraterrestrials and what was going on with that, he told me to “come work for us and ask them yourself.”

If you want to learn more about the ET/UFO phenomena, and all of the evidence behind it, you can sift through our articles in the disclosure section of our website. You will find a variety of articles there to quench you’re interested!

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20-08-2018 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

20-08-2018 om 22:21 geschreven door peter  

DUITSERS OP ANTARCTICA WAREN IEDEREEN TE SLIM AF

In 1965 schrijft het hoofd van de Britste Antarctica vestiging een brief aan het Ministerie van Defensie waarin hij schrijft dat diverse landen die actief zijn op Antarctica UFO’s waarnemen. 

UFO’s die vrijwel zeker niet toebehoren aan buitenaardsen, hoewel de technologie wel van hen afkomstig is. 

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20-08-2018 om 22:05 geschreven door peter  

TURKSE LUCHTMACHT SCHIET UFO UIT DE LUCHT ( UPDATE )

Er is weer de nodige commotie binnen de UFO gemeenschap omdat er beelden zijn opgedoken van een UFO die uit de lucht wordt geschoten. 

Het gebeurde in Turkije en de beelden lijken behoorlijk overtuigend, hoewel dat tegenwoordig ook weer niet alles zegt. 

Het is een korte video die klaarblijkelijk is opgenomen boven Turkije en het beeld is zo te zien van een druk bezochte plek in een stad op een zomeravond. 

Opeens verschijnt er een snel vliegend rond object in beeld en hoor je ook het gebrul van staalmotoren van één of meerdere militaire jets. 

Vervolgens explodeert de UFO, komt er ook een deel op de grond terecht, zie je een zwarte wolk en mensen die krijsend alle kanten op vluchten. 

Wanneer de explosie plaatsvindt, wordt ook de filmer bijna ondersteboven geblazen en wat het ook is wat daar gebeurt, de beelden en de opname lijken echt. 

Ook het kanaal waar deze video op is gepubliceerd is er niet één waar normaal gesproken zaken over UFO’s verschijnen, maar gewone alledaagse huis tuin en keuken dingen. 

Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring is hier absoluut sprake van een UFO en niet van een raket of iets dergelijks omdat er anders een spoor van rook te zien zou zijn. Ook wijst hij op het feit dat het type UFO dat we hier zien er één is die veel wordt gesignaleerd op diverse plekken. 

En als laatste geeft hij een waarschuwing dat als de Turken hier inderdaad een UFO uit de lucht hebben geknald ze heel gevaarlijk bezig zijn, omdat je op deze manier heel gemakkelijk een oorlog met buitenaardsen kunt uitlokken. 

Is hier inderdaad sprake van een UFO die uit de lucht wordt geknald of toch iets anders? 

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20-08-2018 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

AMERIKANEN BESCHULDIGEN RUSSEN VAN LANCEREN GEHEIME RUIMTEWAPENS ( VIDEO )

Vroeger was het leven in zoverre overzichtelijk dat wanneer er oorlog werd gevoerd, je er vanuit kon gaan dat dit gewoon op aarde gebeurde. 

Tegenwoordig is er een waanzinnige bewapeningswedloop gaande in de ruimte en wij mensen op de grond lopen misschien veel meer gevaar dan we denken. 

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20-08-2018 om 21:43 geschreven door peter  

The movie “Independence Day” highlighted the importance of countries have a plan for dealing with the arrival of alien spacecrafts. While the talk of a “Space Force” in the U.S. indicates that we’re at least talking about it (and likely have something already in place behind the scenes), what about other countries? While the Swiss are always ready with their knives, what about their neighbors in Germany? Germans may be getting a little nervous after a question asked of a lawmaker about their country’s space alien preparedness program generated the wrong answer.

“Not the German Federal Government. It confirms in writing (pdf document) that on the part of the Federal Government and its subordinate authorities there are no plans or protocols for a possible first contact with extraterrestrial life, because they “on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany according to current scientific knowledge for extreme unlikely holds “.”

Uh-oh.

Dieter Janecek, Green Party leader and a member of the German Parliament since 2013, revealed that answer to his questions to the government about its plans for close encounters of any kind with an alien species.

“Aliens so far obviously have no role in international diplomacy.”

Of course, the government is referring to “space” aliens and points out that climate change and other problems on Earth deserve more of its and other world organizations’ attention. But … no plans at all in this era when some polls indicate that half of all Americans and Western Europeans believe Earth has already been visited by alien species?

Perhaps this is a distraction. After all, Germany has a rich history of stories of Nazi flying saucers, secret UFO bases, foo fighters, rocketry development and the rumors that all of these technologies came from reverse-engineering crashed alien spaceships.

Does Germany already have a Space Force? Is the U.S. playing catch up? Or is this one of those areas where there is secret cooperation behind the scenes to avoid international panic over a possible alien encounter – friendly or worse than any Independence Day sequel?

When will fictional alien encounters become reality? The Little Prince, one of the most famous fictional alien contacts, has just been translated into Klingon. For whom?

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20-08-2018 om 21:33 geschreven door peter  

Were UFO Hunters Foiled Again After "Huge Spacecraft" Video Went Viral?

A YouTube video posted earlier this year has gained international attention after it was picked up and reposted last week on UFO and British tabloid websites, said The Charlotte Observer.

The footage, recorded May 29 by “Jason Swing,” shows a long tubular object hovering for more than two minutes over North Carolina’s Lake Norman, north of Charlotte.

Swing called the object “a spacecraft” at the beginning of his video.

“It had been raining all morning. Rain finally stopped so we went (to) pick up a boat from Lake Norman,” Swing wrote in the about section of the video. “When (I) came around the corner I saw this thing sitting still very close.”

Swing’s extremely shaky cellphone video went unnoticed for weeks and even months on end but gained international attention after being featured in two British tabloids and Russia’s Sputnik News.

Comments on Swing’s video have ranged from mockery to support for the UFO theory.

According to a Goodyear tweet, the Goodyear blimp was reportedly circling the region on May 29, for NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 race.

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Since the video went viral, social media trolls have not been kind to Swing, with many criticizing his amateurish video work. One user even said it looked like Swing was recording the object “while jumping on a Pogostick.”

“So annoying that people can’t film properly. I get that they are scared, but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” user Tom Brown wrote.

“A line in the sky can’t be that scary. [It] wasn’t moving or flashing lights [and] there was no indication that it was alien and not some kind of craft made by humans. Who knows. Wish people would film things properly these days. It’s 2018 and we can’t even get a good UFO video. Ah well until we get true disclosure nothing will ever change.”

Here are some comments from the YouTube video (unedited):

• “Yes, we have many of them here. Among other things we’ve seen here. There is more going on than you know.”

• “How difficult it is to stand on an empty road and hold the freakin’ phone right?”

• “Also known as the Goodyear blimp. Real common to that area — like most anytime there is a game or race at the speedway about thirty miles south of Lake Norman. I, myself, have spoken to blimp aliens. They are an impressive life form, but for some odd reason they refused to take me aboard their mother ship.”

• “So irritating when someone is incapable of keeping their phone the least bit still. Wish I had the last two minutes of my life back.”

• “I suspect hoax and a scam due to the SHORT nature of the video and the OVERLY SHAKY cam that can only be intentional.”

• “It was terrifying. His shaking made me want to call 911 for him.”

• “Just a passenger jet coming out of Charlotte Douglas Airport. Flying low (below the cloud deck) on northbound track from airport. See this all the time up there. Look at the tops of the trees and bushes each time the video shows the plane and you see that it is steadily moving left to right. Going to look like hovering and slow movement since it is about 4 miles away.”

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20-08-2018 om 17:18 geschreven door peter  

North Carolina Man Films ‘UFO’ Hovering Over Lake, Then Goodyear Makes Astonishing Announcement

by GIOVANNA BOLDRINI

20-08-2018 om 16:49 geschreven door peter  

Pilot wanted for secretive airline that flies to Area 51

By Chris Irvine, Fox News

A Janet Aviation Boeing 737 returning to Vegas from an undisclosed location.

Getty Images

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20-08-2018 om 16:32 geschreven door peter  

A Look Back: Charles Hickson talks of his abduction by a UFO in Pascagoula

One of two men who claimed to have been abducted by a UFO in Pascagoula in 1973, Calvin Parker, has finally explained what he remembers about that night 45 years ago in a new book, "Pascagoula — The Closest Encounter, My Story" 

The other man, Charles Hickson, told Clarion Ledger columnist Billy Watkins his account of the event in great detail 16 years ago at his home on the Gulf Coast. Hickson died Sept. 9, 2011, at the age of 80. During that interview, he revealed something he had never talked about publicly. 

Here is Watkins' story from Oct. 20, 2002.

The Pascagoula Mississippi UFO Abduction

GAUTIER — Charles Hickson has no proof. No photograph he can pull from his wallet, no papers certifying his story.

Just his word that 29 years ago this month he and a fishing buddy were abducted by a UFO, examined by a machine resembling a giant eyeball, then released physically unharmed.

He has told his story under hypnosis, told it to Johnny Carson on national TV. Recently, while sipping coffee in his modest home in Gautier, he told the story to a Clarion-Ledger reporter. His account of that night never changes. He has passed numerous lie-detector tests.

What Hickson hasn't talked about publicly, until now, is that he believes whatever - or whoever - was on that craft has kept track of him.

"I think they know where I am at all times," he says. "Too many strange things have happened."

Hickson, a retired shipyard foreman with five children and a no-nonsense demeanor, is 71 and spends most of his time caring for Blanche, his wife of 48 years who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. He is fighting health problems of his own, including clogged arteries in his neck.

Hickson says he is a God-fearing man who "believes Jesus Christ died for my sins." Whether people believe his UFO story doesn't seem to be a big deal to him. "If you were in my place right now, I'm not sure I'd believe you or not," he said.

But others saw something that night, too.

Several people later reported strange lights in the Gulf Coast sky just after sunset on Oct. 11, 1973 - about the time Hickson and then 19-year-old Calvin Parker say they were abducted.

Mike Cataldo, a retired Navy chief petty officer now living in Rotonda West, Fla., says he saw "a very strange object on the horizon" late that afternoon while driving on U.S. 90, between Pascagoula and Ocean Springs.

"Puddin' Broadus, a Pascagoula detective back then, told me he saw something streak through the air," says Glenn Ryder, a former captain with the Jackson County Sheriff's department who was the first to interrogate Hickson and Parker. "Puddin's dead now, but he was a fine man. He wouldn't make up something like that.

"A guard at Ingalls (Shipbuilding) saw it. Another guy was in his back yard and said he saw something streak above his house.

"When we studied it, all those reports were in a straight line. And I'll tell you this: After talking with (Hickson and Parker) that night, I'm convinced they had some kind of experience. I don't know exactly what, but something happened to them. They were both shook up, especially that boy.”

Parker, now 48, has avoided the media in recent years.

In this Oct. 9, 2013 file photo, Calvin Parker, Jr., stands in the area where he and fellow Mississippian Charles Hickson were allegedly abducted by aliens on Oct. 11, 1973, on th+e banks of the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula Miss. The incident made headlines, sparked UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record.

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"This thing really messed Calvin up," Hickson says. "He was so young ... he just couldn't handle it."

In a 1993 interview with The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Parker said he was convinced it was demons, sent directly from Satan, who visited them that night.

Beverly Parker, Calvin's stepmother who lives with his father in Kiln, says they haven't heard from him "in a couple of months." Last she knew, Calvin was working construction in North Carolina and "doing pretty good."

The UFO incident is "something he won't talk about anymore," she says.                    

'Looked like they had elephant skin'

It is late on a Saturday night, and Blanche Hickson has gone to bed. The house is quiet and dark, except for a single lamp softly illuminating the den.

"I don't mind talking about it," Charles Hickson says, settling his 5-foot-8, 172-pound body into an easy chair. "I don't seek folks out to tell it, but it's something I feel like people deserve to know if they ask."

Hickson begins his story:

"Calvin was working for me at Walker's Shipyard, and doing a dadgum good job. Calvin and his brother had sorta grown up with my oldest boy, Eddie. Some evenings after work, we'd go fishing.

"We got off about 4 o'clock that day and came by my house to get the fishing tackle, then we went and got some shrimp for bait. We tried several places and hadn't caught anything. I said, 'Calvin, there's one more place I want to try. If they don't bite there, we'll give it up and go on home.'

"So we went down toward Ingalls and started fishing off a pier. We sat there for a while, and I finally got a bite. I was reeling in and started hearing this hissing sound. Like steam coming out of a pipe.

"I looked around, and it just startled me. Something was hovering two or three feet above the ground, probably no more than 10 or 15 yards from us. There were two blue flashing lights on the top part of the end that was toward us. I couldn't tell if it was round or oblong. I could see a little dome on top, but I couldn't see all the way around the thing so I couldn't tell for sure how big it was.

"I jumped to my feet, looked over at Calvin, and he looked plumb strange. Then a door opened and this brilliant light came out of it. I couldn't figure what in the world was happening. I've known fear. I fought 20 months in hand-to-hand combat in Korea. The only thing I'm scared of is a snake. I'll run from a snake. But this wasn't normal.

"All of a sudden, these three things began coming out of that door. They looked like they had elephant skin. Wrinkled. Real wrinkled. And triangle shaped ears that had to be some sort of antennas.

"These things were robots. They seemed to come right out of that beam of light. They never touched the ground. They moved right out there beside me and Calvin. I couldn't move, and neither could he. Two of ''em came around behind me, took me under each arm. When they grabbed me, I seemed to rise to their height. They weren't as tall as me, but they sorta had me in a leaning position.

"One took hold of Calvin, and I saw him go limp. He told me later that he fainted. They took us through that doorway, in the middle of a room, and I couldn't see Calvin anymore. There was nothing in there ... just a real bright glow. I couldn't move anything but my eyes.

"They let go of me. I still wasn't touching nothing, just kinda floating. All I could think was, 'What are they gonna do with us?' I figured they'd take us off, and we'd never see our families again.

"I didn't see (the robots) for a while. Then an eyeball, about the size of a football, came out of the wall. It moved right in front of my face. I saw dials and gadgets moving around. It went behind me, then came back over me. Then it disappeared back into the wall.

"I was just about out of my mind. I thought they were gonna kill me. Folks would think we fell off in the river and drowned, and nobody would ever know about this.

"It seemed like a long time, but it couldn't have been more than a few minutes. (The robots) came and carried me back outside. They didn't throw me down, they eased me down. And when they did, I fell to the ground. My legs were real weak.

"I saw Calvin standing there, staring out at the water. He was in shock. I've seen men in shock, and if you don't do something pretty quick, they'll die. I started going over to where he was, and I saw the craft leave. The blue lights were on again, I remember that.

"When I got to Calvin, I had to slap him a time or two. I finally got him to where he could say something. He said, 'Charlie, what in the world was that?' I said 'Son, I don't know. But they didn't kill us.' “

'What if it's a threat to our country?'

As they drove away in Parker's Plymouth, Hickson and Parker agreed not to tell anyone about the incident.

"I knew people would call us crazy and everything else," Hickson says. "But I thought about it some more and said, 'What if it's a threat to our country?' That's when I decided to call Keesler (Air Force Base in Biloxi)."

The person who answered the phone at Keesler said they didn't investigate UFOs and suggested Hickson call the sheriff's department.

That's when Hickson spoke with Glenn Ryder from a convenience store pay phone.

"He said, 'I want to tell you something, but you've got to promise not to laugh,' " recalls Ryder, now 63 and retired. "I was about to get off work, so it kinda aggravated me. I said, 'If you want to tell me something, then tell me.' He asked me again to promise not to laugh, so I promised.

"He said, 'I just got picked up by a UFO.' And, of course, I busted out laughing. He got real upset, so I apologized and told him to go ahead with his story. I could tell he was serious."

Ryder convinced Hickson and Parker to drive to the sheriff's office. He called Jackson County sheriff Fred Diamond, now deceased, to join him for the questioning.

Ryder remembers: "When they walked in, Charlie said, 'I just want to tell you up front, I've had a drink. I had to do something to try and settle my nerves.'

"The young boy was real fidgety. He was about to crawl the walls."

Hickson and Parker told the officers what had happened. Ryder says it was a struggle to keep a straight face.

Then he and Diamond plotted to find out the truth. "We kept a tape recorder in the top drawer of the desk," Ryder says. "It was a small office, so it would pick up everything said in there. We let them go to the bathroom and decided to turn the recorder on, then leave them alone for a while.

"We did that, and when we listened to the tape later, we expected to hear them saying, 'Boy, we sure fooled them' or something like that."

But they didn't. Here is the transcript from the hidden recorder.

Parker: "I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can't stand it. I'm about to go half crazy."

Hickson: "I tell you, when we're through, I'll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep."

Parker: "I can't sleep yet like it is. I'm just damn near crazy."

Hickson: "Calvin, when they brought you out - when they brought me out of that thing - (expletive) I like to never in hell got you straightened out."

Parker: "My damn arms, my arms. I remember they just froze up and I couldn't move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake."

Hickson: "They didn't do me that way."

Parker: "I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life."

Hickson: "I've never seen nothing like that before in my life. You can't make people believe ..."

Parker: "I don't want to keep sitting here. I want to see a doctor."

Hickson: "They better wake up and start believing."

Parker: "You see how that damn door come right up?"

Hickson: "I don't know how it opened, son. I don't know."

Parker: "I just laid up, and just like that, those (expletive) come out."

Hickson: "I know. You can't believe it. You can't make people believe it."

Parker: "I paralyzed right then. I couldn't move."

Hickson: "They won't believe it. They gonna believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me."

Parker: "You know yourself I don't drink."

Hickson: "I know that, son. When I get to the house, I'm gonna get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sitting around for? I got to go tell Blanche ... what we waiting for?"

Parker: "I gotta go to the house. I'm getting sick. I gotta get out of here."

Hickson leaves the room, and Parker is left alone.

Parker: "It's hard to believe ... Oh, God, it's awful. I know there's a God up there."

Parker begins to pray. His words become inaudible.

  'There were people on that spaceship'

*When he got home, Hickson told his wife what had happened and where he had been.

"I was like everybody else ... I had a hard time believing it," Blanche Hickson says. "But three or four hours later, I knew something was wrong. I was up all night, wiping sweat off of him. He'd jump straight up in the bed. He was scared to death."

Hickson went to work the next morning. "I had to get my men going," he says. "But as soon as I got back to my office, the phone rang. It was a reporter from Jackson, asking what had happened the night before. I just slung the phone down."

Diamond called minutes later. He said word had leaked out and that his office was flooded with reporters.

He asked me to come over and talk to them, and I told him I wasn't going no damn where," Hickson says.

Hickson took off work for two weeks, hoping things would die down. They didn't.

Officials at Keesler interviewed him and Parker. Reporters and astronomers were coming to Hickson's house, begging for details.

"It got to the point where I was like, 'They know about it. I might as well tell them what happened.' And I told Calvin that," he says.

Hickson and Parker were all over the national news and made the talk-show circuit: The Dick Cavett Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Tonight Show.

Something surprised Hickson: "Nobody was laughing at us, at least not to our face. I never took any ridicule. My children at school never took any ridicule. It surprised me."

Hickson became friends with Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University and one of the world's leading UFO investigators at the time. Hynek is now deceased.

"He convinced me to undergo hypnosis," Hickson says. "I wasn't sure about it at first, but I did it several times."

His story was basically the same during each session.

"But under deep hypnosis once, I discovered something that still gives me chills," Hickson says. "There were people on that spaceship— living beings in another compartment. They never came in there where we were. And I'm telling you, they looked almost like us.

"Only thing I can figure is that they couldn't live in our atmosphere, so they let the robots come out there and carry us inside."

The Pascagoula incident was not the first — nor the last — reported abduction. The first documented case involved Barney and Betty Hill, who said they were taken aboard an alien craft in 1961 while driving in New Hampshire.

Hickson visited Betty Hill in Boston a few months after his encounter. "Her husband had died, but she wanted to try and find out if it could've been the same craft," he says. "From what she described to me, I told her I didn't think so."

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, has studied both cases extensively.

"It was the Pascagoula case that played a crucial role in convincing my predecessor (Robert J. Gribble) to set up this center," says Davenport, a graduate of Stanford University with degrees in Russian and biology.

"He said cases like Mr. Hickson's and Mr. Parker's made him realize the need for a centralized place where people could call and report things they had seen."

Davenport realizes many people believe UFOs are about as real as the Tooth Fairy.

He is not one of them. When he was 6, Davenport witnessed a bright red object, the size of a full moon, hovering like a traffic signal in the night sky above a drive-in theater in St. Louis. "People were getting out of their cars and pointing and actually running toward it," he says. "In a matter of seconds, it accelerated and was gone over the horizon.

"My father had seen it with binoculars from the airport tower where he worked. I always thought it was strange he didn't care to talk about it."

Davenport can cite numerous inexplicable cases, including the Phoenix Lights of 1997. "Tens of thousands of people witnessed objects acting in an utterly bizarre fashion over Arizona," he says. "The objects hovered, then flew at supersonic speed through the air space of at least three major airports."

He says five years ago, "prestigious people" with the U.S. government requested a meeting with him in Washington.

"They asked not to be identified," Davenport says, "and they were 32 minutes late to the meeting. But when they got there, they said, 'As a courtesy to you, we'd first like to tell you our position on UFOs. One, we know they're real. Two, they appear to be sophisticated crafts under intelligent control. And, three, we're worried about them.'

"That confirmed everything I had suspected up to that time. I don't think I'm crazy. I don't think I'm dumb. And I believe the UFO phenomenon is real."

So does John Podesta, President Clinton's former White House chief of staff. Just last week, Podesta said he will be leading a group to gain access to secret governmental records about UFOs.

"It's time to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon," he said.

   'See if that light ain't following us'

On Mother's Day, May 1974, Hickson was riding back from a family get-together in Jones County with his wife, their youngest son (Curtis), their daughter (Sheila) and the man she was married to at the time.

"It was almost midnight," Hickson says, "and I kept noticing a light back behind us. I nudged Sheila, who was sitting on the front seat beside me, and said, 'Look out that window and see if that light ain't following us.'

She looked out the window and just froze. Blanche saw it and started screaming."

Seconds later, a saucer-shaped craft was hovering 150 feet above, and to the right, of their car.

"I saw it with my own eyes," says Sheila Hynum of Vicksburg, who was 18 at the time. "Mama was so scared, she was screaming."

"It was a terrifying thing to see," Blanche Hickson says. "It affected me bad. Tore me up. We stopped the car and Charles wanted to get out, but I wouldn't let him. We were all grabbing him and holding him.

"It hovered there a while, then just disappeared."

Charles Hickson, whose 1983 book UFO: Contact at Pascagoula will be re-issued in November, says that wasn't the first sighting he'd had since the initial encounter.

While squirrel hunting in February 1974, he knelt down beside a tree to eat a sandwich. Through the brush, he says, part of a craft was visible. Suddenly, he heard a voice.

"It was like a radio signal or something inside my head," he says. "They said, 'Tell people we mean you no harm. You have endured. You have been chosen. There is no need for fear. Your world needs help. We will help before it is too late. You are not prepared to understand. We will return again soon.'

"I picked up my gun and came straight home."

The same voice, with the same message, came to him again a month later in his backyard. Since then, he says, all the fear has left him.

"I want to go to that world - wherever it is they came from," he says. "I don't think they'd carry me if they couldn't bring me back. And if they ever decide to destroy this world, they might save a few of the people. I'd like to think I'd be one of those."

Well past midnight now, Hickson gets up from his chair, leaves the den, and returns with a large brown envelope. He pulls out several X-rays and shows them to the visiting reporter.

"See that little mole-looking thing behind my (right) eye?" he says, holding the image over the lamp. "I think they implanted something in there. I've been to the VA hospital in New Orleans twice. Been to a cancer doctor at Tulane University. Nobody can figure out what it is.

"Me, I think it's maybe how they keep track of me. It doesn't hurt. Doesn't affect my vision. It just showed up when they were taking pictures of the arteries in my neck.

"Strange, ain't it?"

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