Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
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24-08-2018
Filer’s Files #33 – 2018 ET Contact: They Are Here - PART I
UK’s “Most Spectacular” UFO Photo from Calvine, Scotland
Filer’s Files #33 – 2018 ET Contact: They Are Here - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: UK’s “Most Spectacular” UFO Photo, “ET Contact: They Are Here,” Administration Wants Space Force by 2020, Space-Based Missile Defense Can Be Done,
and National Football League (NFL) History
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Eire, France, Guatemala, Poland, Portugal, and England and Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
UK’s “Most Spectacular” UFO Photo
Nick Pope
Two people had been walking near the town of Calvine in Scotland when they spotted the large diamond-shaped object. They described the object as looking metallic. Nick Pope from the UK’s Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) and UFO investigator learned that the object had been photographed on August 4, 1990, and photos sent to the Scottish Daly Record Newspaper. The object sat in one position, hovering silently for several minutes before taking off vertically at, as Nick Pope writes, “a massive speed.”
During the sighting, the witnesses also saw a military aircraft that they thought might be a Harrier jet, but they were unsure whether the jet was escorting the craft, chasing it, or whether the jet pilot was even aware of the diamond-shaped UFO.
. The paper contacted the MoD, and the MoD was somehow able to convince the paper to hand over the photographs along with the negatives. The photos were then sent to the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) who then sent them on to imagery analysts at JARIC (Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre). Yet at the time, MoD hadn’t even publicly acknowledged that there was any intelligence interest in UFOs at all,” Nick Pope explains.
“We implied and sometimes stated that we didn’t ‘investigate’ UFOs, but merely ‘examined sightings to see if anything reported was of any defense interest’ – as if the two were somehow different!”
Pope says the MoD was actually very interested in these cases, but often less interested in where the craft came from than what they could learn from it. They had hoped to identify some sort of technology they would be able to appropriate.
Nick Pope, former MOD UFO investigator, at the International UFO Congress. (Credit: Peter Beste/Open Minds)
Either way, the Calvine UFO photos impressed the United Kingdom UFO desk investigators enough that they hung the poster in the office.
“At one particularly surreal briefing on the UFO phenomenon my DIS opposite number indicated the photo and pointed his finger to the right: ‘It’s not the Americans’, he said, before pointing to the left and saying ‘and it’s not the Russians.’ There was a pause, before he concluded ‘and that only leaves …’ – his voice trailed off and he didn’t complete the sentence, but his finger was pointing directly upwards,” recalls Pope.
The disappearance of the UK’s “most spectacular” UFO photo. The photo showed a picture of a large diamond shaped craft with a jet in the background. When he asked about the photo, Pope was told that they had officially determined the image was real. They estimated the craft to have been 25 meters (over 80 feet) in diameter.
However, if asked, they were instructed to answer, “no definite conclusion had been reached regarding the large diamond-shaped object.”
Hanging on the wall near the British government’s UFO Desk was what one of the men who occupied that desk called “the most spectacular UFO photo ever sent to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).” The photo has since disappeared, but the story of how the picture was obtained, and what it showed, has not.
Nick Pope ran the MoD’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994. When he was first assigned to the position, he was not excited about it. He felt the issue was ridiculous and he was not looking forward to having to deal with a bunch of UFO nuts. However, over the years, Pope found there were credible cases of incredible things, and began to see there was something truly mysterious about the phenomenon. One of the cases that lead him to this conclusion had to do with a photo that was made into a poster that he found hung in the office near his desk when he began working the UFO desk. Thanks to Alejandro Rojas
“ET Contact: They Are Here”
Joan Bird PhD, wrote the book “Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials: Extraordinary stories of documented sightings and encounters
In 1950, two spinning disks flew over Great Falls, Montana, and were filmed on a hand-held camera. Today, those “flying saucers” in the now-famous “Montana Movie” still defy conventional explanation.In the 1960s, UFOs were reported at Minuteman missile silos in Montana. In separate incidents while a UFO was overhead, armed and ready nuclear missiles were suddenly deactivated as missile launch officers watched helplessly. The U.S. Air Force ordered these men never to tell anyone what happened.This book critically examines these and other UFO events in Montana, including reported contact with extraterrestrials. Drawing on recently declassified government documents, historic reports, and first-hand interviews, Ph.D. zoologist and author Joan Bird presents compelling evidence that UFOs are real, have frequented Montana’s Big Sky, and have landed in the state.
This book also introduces readers to significant UFO incidents in the U.S., to official government investigations such as Project Blue Book, and to major figures in the study of UFOs.
Joan Bird writes, This documentary about contactees is very well done, interviewing a number of highly credentialed scientists as well as the contactees and the researchers who work with them.
Joan Bird writes, “For some time I have been most fascinated by the contactee literature, as well as by the recent study done by the Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) <https://www.experiencer.org/” I consider it important enough that I now include some of the results of that study in my talk, most significantly the preponderance of highly positive contact experiences, and positive effects on the lives of the contactees.
The last two UFO Conferences I have attended have highlighted contactees and the information they are sharing. While the information from the whistleblowers and government/aerospace insiders is important, it tends to be biased towards perceiving the phenomenon as a threat. If you’ve not already seen it, I highly recommend the movie “Arrival,” because it contrasts the military lens (everything’s a potential threat) to that of someone (notably a woman,) who insists on personal contact to communicate with the visitors. Her insistence allows the visitors to convey consciousness expanding information to her and the humans on earth, and to avoid needless destruction and slaughter. At least most of it. Couldn’t completely restrain the trigger happy guys.
The Mt. Shasta UFO Conference last week was titled “From Venus with Love,” and included contactees who have had encounters with Venusians, researchers on the early contactees and their accounts of Venusians, and Omnec Onec, author of the book, From Venus I Came. Her book was recommended to me at one of the first UFO conferences I attended by the grandfather of UFO research, retired AF pilot Wendelle Stevens. He told me that many people did not believe her, but he had met her and witnessed her unusual gifts. I thoroughly enjoyed and marveled at her book, as she described the culture she was born into as free of war, poverty and disease. I had seen videos of her, and always wanted to meet her. At long last, was able to do that. (Photo below). For those who may know him, you can see Luis Fernando Maertens over Omnec’s shoulder in the white shirt. He is a Bolivian man, a contactee extraordinaire. My husband and I did a week long retreat with him in 2009 in Bolivia, and I consider him a very important teacher on the planet. His presentations at this conference were mind blowing. His presentations are in Spanish with interpreters, and you can find him on Youtube.
So much of the contactee information is good news, uplifting news, hopeful news. Basically, what they are saying is that we have many beings who are assisting us at this time, with ideas for solving many of the problems facing us, and just encouraging us in our spiritual development to be more loving, non-judgmental and forgiving. This is not new information, as it has been delivered through the centuries by many of earth’s great spiritual teachers. However, it is especially crucial at this time. I know it’s not easy, but it is the path forward, and we have many allies both in other dimensions, and walking among us. We were told Venusians have often been visiting earth for a long time, and have often been mistaken for angels. Blessings and strong hearts as we make our way through these challenging times. Thanks to Joan Bird
Administration Wants Space Force by 2020
Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday outlined the Trump administration’s plan to establish a sixth military service dedicated to space, saying the goal is to stand up the US Space Force by 2020. The move will require a significant cultural and organizational shift at the Pentagon—and in the Air Force specifically—and will be the first time the US has established a military service since the US Air Force was created in 1947. Also on Thursday, the Pentagon released a congressionally mandated report detailing five actions the department will take to begin building the new service. “Just as in the past, when we created the Air Force, establishing the Space Force is an idea whose time has come,” Pence said, pointing to a space environment that has become “crowded and adversarial.” US adversaries, he said, have turned space into a war fighting domain, and “the Un asked about the impact of the proposed changes on the Air Force Space Command, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Paul Selva said the first step in the shift is to “do no harm to the missions that are being accomplished today,” so part of the job would be to figure out how to move missions, such as GPS, subject to approval by Congress.
Space-Based Missile Defense Can Be Done
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. writes, ‘Some 35 years after Ronald Reagan’s famous Star Wars speech, the Pentagon’s R&D chief said that space-based missile defenses are technically feasible and reasonably affordable.”
Hypersonic weapon (Raytheon concept)
Since Reagan’s day, technology has advanced enough that putting both sensors and shooters in space is not only possible but “relatively easy,” Undersecretary for Research & Engineering Mike Griffin said. What’s more, past estimates of the cost of space-based interceptors have been “unrealistically,” even “naively” high.
Specifically, Griffin told reporters here,
Michael Griffin
The US “absolutely” needs space-based sensors to detect low-flying hypersonic cruise missiles, a new threat that’s much harder to spot from orbit than ICBMs; and
We probablyneed space-based interceptors to shoot down high-flying ballistic missiles during the boost phase, the period before the warheads separate from the rocket.
Note these are two different functions with two different types of targets. Space-based interceptors would notwork against hypersonic cruise missiles, Griffin said. They fly too low, deep in the atmosphere, so any munitions you shoot at them from space would have to be hardened against the heat of atmospheric reentry, which he called prohibitively difficult. “It may not be a bridge too far, but it’s a pretty far away bridge.” Ballistic missiles, by contrast, ascend rapidly out of the atmosphere into space, so space-based interceptors would only have to travel through vacuum, which is much easier.
Note that Griffin’s speaking only about interceptors, missiles that shoot down other missiles. He didn’t comment on lasersexcept to note them as a promising possibility. (In the past, he’s told Congress he wants a megawatt-plus laser in space by the late 2020s).
F-35 firing AMRAAM air-to-air missile
Air-Launched or Space-Based? It is also possible, Griffin noted, for an aircraft to shoot down a ballistic missile in boost phase. The launch platform could be either a manned fighter — the stealthy F-35has gotten a lot of attention, but the older F-15 could do the job as well, he said — or an unmanned drone — which he said might be “more cost-effective” than a manned fighter. (Griffin didn’t go into details, but unmanned aircraft can dispense with bulky, costly life support systems and can stay aloft longer than a human can endure). Such an airborne boost phase intercept would require modifying current air-to-air missiles such as the AMRAAM to take on new types of targets, Griffin said. But that’s entirely doable against “limited threats,” he said, and in a shorter timeframe than developing a space-based interceptor.
(For those who need a reminder, an F-15 fired an anti-satellite weapon and successfully destroyed an American bird in September 1985. Shooting down a satellite isn’t quite the same as hitting a ballistic missile in flight, but there are similarities.)
Alien Technology in a Pyramid in North Carolina
Dr. Bruce Carnet writes, “There are many theories that could explain the fast, powerful radio blips, from spinning neutron stars to alien spaceships.”
Dr. Cornet Bartoo and wife
Bartoo a huge man had contacted me out of the blue and invited me to see his Magnetron in North Carolina . He told me his story of communicating with extraterrestrials, who told him to move from New Jersey to North Carolina, and to purchase land on the eastern side of Stone Mountain where the ley lines intersected. It was revealed to him by those aliens that he was spiritually one of them who had been ordered to incarnate as a human so that he could carry out their plans for Earth. Keep in mind that I had only recently been introduced to the spirit world through my late wife’s Spirit, and to the UFO phenomenon. As a scientist this exposure was very different and at odds with scientific beliefs. The question became: Why was I chosen and how did Bonnie and her Spirit fit into the bigger picture. Meeting my biological offspring for the first time was a systemic shock to my psyche, and opened up my mind to the existence of alternate (parallel) worlds, which were mostly invisible and out of reach to scientists.
When I talked to Walter Bartoo on the phone, I shared with him my communication with KaRa, who claimed to be the Spirit of my late wife, I told him how KaRa had revealed my spiritual name: Bar, which is also what Bonnie had called me during our seven years together. He surprised me by saying that his name was Bar too. It took me a moment to realize that we had the same first names, and that his last name was Bartoo! That connection or synchronicity helped to confirm in my mind that our meeting was important for my education into the invisible world.
When he got to North Carolina, he contacted real estate agents, looking for property near or on the site the aliens told him to He was then contacted by a real estate agent, who said she had property exactly where the Lay Lines crossed. He told her he didn’t have much money, but she said she could get a loan for purchase which he could afford.
The next problem was purchasing materials to build the Magnetron, whose blueprint was downloaded into his brain by the But first he had to build a house on his new property. Surprisingly, when he put out the word for help, people came to him with building materials and offers to help him build his house. Then he needed materials to build the containment structure for the Magnetron. He either was given the design by aliens and again, people brought him building materials. He constructed with volunteer help a wooden pyramid at the exact location his ET source had told him to put the Magnetron.
Next he needed the materials to build the Magnetron: Fifty+ foot copper pipe, circular magnets that would fit exactly around the copper pipe, plus hundreds of quartz crystals of three different sizes that would be arranged on acrylic circular plates sandwiched between dozens of circular magnets on the copper This device had to be isolated from the Earth, but positioned over a copper pipe embedded in the ground as a ground. Both ends of the discontinuous copper pipes would have huge quartz crystals connected to the ends of the pipes, and pointing at each other. Even the top of the main copper pipe would have a huge quartz crystal capping it in the very apex of the pyramid, whose capstone is constructed of four triangular, semitransparent acrylic windows.
Bartoo constructed it with the help of friends and his When I arrived at his property, I was amazed. His house was built in the shape of a Celtic Cross, and a pyramid stood up hill from his house in the middle of the woods. He invited his friends, wife, and daughter to join him while we watched the Magnetron function. I was very skeptical at first, not knowing how one would determine if energy was being transmitted down the copper pipe to the Earth without instrumentation. I would soon see the proof with my own eyes.
Bartoo told us to watch the clouds as they traveled from west to east over the top of Stone Mountain which towered above the pyramid behind As the front and winds changed direction, they carried the clouds towards the pyramid. I could tell something unusual was happening, because the small puffy clouds began to change direction and converge on the pyramid location. At first this was unbelievable, but seeing is believing. This process happened continuously, as cloud after cloud changed direction towards the location of the pyramid. What was most extraordinary is that when each small cloud moved over the top of the pyramid, it was rapidly sucked down into the top of the pyramid and Magnetron as if in a spiraling energy vortex.
I tried to capture this event on film, but the speed of the process was too fast to anticipate every shot, and only one picture above shows a disappearing cloud to the left of the larger cloud in the process of being stretched downwards towards the I am a witness to the energy contained in each cloud in drops of moisture being transferred to the magnetized and crystal-shielded copper pipe. I saw the cloud pulled down and descend into the Earth through an alien device in order to fix one of the ley line grid points for energy on our planet. Bartoo had accomplished his mission on Earth. Who would believe it? Cheers, Bruce Cornet
National Football League (NFL) History
by Richard Anderson
Millionaire San Francisco NFL Players Protest
NFL History … a history rarely reported or “leaked” to the
ticket holders …I hope this helps you; it opened my eyes to understanding just when the public’s respect for the NFL organization started to crumble ….
* In 2012, the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, They also had an issue with Tebow wearingJohn 3:16 as part of his eye-black to avoid glare, and made him remove it.
* In 2013, the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.
* In 2014, Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said “Know Jesus/Know Peace”, but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
* In 2015, DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing “Find the Cure” eye black for breast cancer awareness.
* In 2015, William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (Not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem ??).
*In 2016, the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
* In 2016, the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
So please tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression. All of a sudden it seems quite clear, based on the above facts, that CEO Roger Goodell has taken a position against any action by NFL players demonstrating RESPECT for any issue:
For God, social causes such as mental health, cancer, domestic violence, for cops killed arbitrarily for being cops, for the Memory of 9/11
BUT, they will allow demonstrations of DISRESPECT for our National Flag, our National Anthem, for the military, for America, and for the American People if it will help mollify a particular group and its supporters. That is who and what the NFL now has shown itself to be.
I’m a big Eagle fan but disagree with the disrespect to America by the players who have access to radio and TV whenever they call. Please pass this post along to all your friends and family. Honor our military … too many of whom have come home with the American Flag draped over their coffins. Sincerely, Major George Filer 111
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Filer’s Files #33 – 2018 ET Contact: They Are Here - PART II
Filer’s Files #33 – 2018 ET Contact: They Are Here - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Alabama Light
Centre –A few minutes after nightfall, on August 14, 2018, I went outside for a walk in front of my residence. The sky was clear. At 8:26 p.m. I noticed an unusual light approaching from the east. I am well acquainted with seeing aircraft in the night sky, but I realized this object was different. It flashed and pulsated with a white light. Quickly I grabbed my digital camera, since I have experienced multiple UFO sightings. It wasn’t until afterward reviewing the video that I realized the object appeared to be rotating. Also, there was one big light in the middle with two smaller lights – one on top and the other on bottom. It appeared to fly in an upright, vertical position. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Costa Mesa— At 3:30 am I was patrolling one of our accounts when I noticed a triangle object heading east with three lights under it moving at low altitude. I immediately snapped two pictures then the object was gone just like that. I noticed the object because it had three bright lights under it and was very silent. I did not know what to think but I reported it to my dispatch and added the pictures to the clients report. I was very concerned because I never thought I would encounter something like this .I lost track of it as soon as I snapped the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Orb
Parker — I was on my flight back home from Tucson, AZ to Denver, CO when I saw out of the window of the plane an orb like object hovering beside the wing of the plane.
I first thought it was something on the window but the UFO moved up and down in the same position.
This made me curious about what this object really is. The object flew past the wing and I never saw it again.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Daytona Beach – On August 7, 2018, I saw two bright red orbs moving in perfect formation across sky out to sea then disappear. Four others followed at the same distance and disappeared at the same location. These moved across the entire sky and stayed visible for 15 minutes from start to finish. Two planes looked to almost collide with them heading in opposite direction. Red orbs flew NE heading out to sea and disappearing as the rest did. They were very large solid red orbs. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Palm Beach Gardens— I saw something on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 7:30 AM, that was so strange I have no idea what it was. I have been following UFOs avidly since 1958 and seen them a few times. I took several photos and several videos of this “object“ or “ phenomenon.“
I noticed a very tiny, dull-black, perfectly round, flat “thing” overhead. After 15 minutes I saw a quick lightning-like discharge but only around the edges. A little later I saw a straight laser beam. Sometimes it “danced erratically, like a tiny bug. It was superimposed over our reality and was “not of this world,”. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orb
Chicago— I was in my back yard getting ready to walk in the house at about 10 pm and a bright light caught the corner of my eye. I turned and saw an orange and pink digital electric orb slow down in my alley.
It saw me and lifted up over the tree .I called my mother out and we both watched it slowly fly away. Last night it came again and I filmed it with my mother. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan’ Light
Petoskey— I got home and was turning off the lights to go to bed when I noticed in the distance a blinking light. When I let the dog out, it was still there. I watched it for a good 10 minutes. It was randomly flashing red, green, blue, and white. I got the binoculars and could see four lights in a row. The center two were randomly flashing colors. I recorded a little of it on my phone. After watching it for 30 minutes or so, the flashing got slower, but it did not move. There was also 2 or 3 times a light shot out from the left side and faded. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Orbs
Forest Lake — There are strange and frequent things taking place over Central Minnesota as of July 23, 2018
} they are consistently showing up! And in multiple forms.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Lights
Missouri River — I received this pic from a friend of a friend that was deer hunting up on the Missouri River. The pic I received from my friend was so intriguing I felt compelled to post it to see if anyone else witnessed these objects on November 20, 2017. The sun had set 15 minutes earlier. The sun may be reflecting off the bottom of the cloud causing a very cool sun dog-type reflection. But I was having a hard time explaining the chevron group of lights above the cloud, and the evenly spaced’ beams of light shining down from the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Utica — If the video isn’t on the UFO map page search name above recorded around 3am.
Monitoring human activity UFOs overny video close up Utica NYon Aug 15 2018 Video Close Up
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Orb
Lexington – I was taking a picture of the wine vineyard from our car and the window was down so this is not a reflection. We took two pictures back to back and as you see it descended quickly. I believe UFOs exist and have heard there are transdimensional ones not seen without digital devices. The images attached are amazing to me.
We did not see anything until we got home and uploaded our vacation pictures to our laptop. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Glowing Object
Hazleton — Review of a security camera on the side of my house revealed a glowing object with an irregular travel path. Lights in the background are from another house. I suspected at first a drone, then a flashlight, then perhaps a bird. Friends have viewed the video as well, with no plausible explanation. Object first appears round, then the shape changes as it nears the ground finally coming to rest on a tree. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Orb
Pflugerville– On August 13, 2018, Blue/green flashing light that was moving erratically then started flashing brighter red. I was on the balcony having a cigarette, and noticed this flashing light, that was moving odd. I grabbed my phone and started recording it. I was in my backyard around 1:00 AM on August 14, 2018, trying to see if I could glimpse any Presides shower activity. I noticed flashing red and white lights. It turned in a controlled, wide loop then turned around again. The flashing lights were not in a discernible repeating pattern. This object was changing direction often. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Russel Island — As children and I got out of the car to go to dinner on August 12, 2018, we noticed a bright glowing object shrouded in clouds in the SE sky. It looked too small for the moon and much too big for stars. It looked like something entering the atmosphere. Very slowly. We watched it for 10 minutes and took photos and videos. Object is visible in photos but invisible in videos..
Belgium Disk
Ypres — On a Battlefields trip with youth group I was taking pictures out of window with short bursts of film.
I noticed later that there was something there that I didn’t notice at the time.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Object
São Paulo – It happened in January of 2010, the object was a black cube that followed the electric power transmission lines that go towards Cogon south region of the city. I looked up and saw the object above my house. I was watching and even waved, but I was afraid, fear because the object seemed to me to approach.
I decided to go to the house of my mother who lives in a nearby street. I could see the object slowly following over the tower’s heading south. By coincidence I recently saw the object in the street view on Google. CMS.
Canada Lights
British Columbia — On July 10, 2018, on the way back from a motorcycle trip in the North Okanagan, we stopped one last time in the late afternoon over Lake Okanagan. I took several pictures overlooking the lake, and my fiancée and I did not see anything flying. However, after viewing the pictures on our computer screen, we noticed what appears to be ” orbs”. On closer observation however, the “objects” seem to be of perfect round shapes. They seem transparent green with some reflection from the inside. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Czech Republic
Pøíbram – This photo was taken at sunset on August 13, 2018.
A moving object was noticed in the upper left of the photo,
Note: The object may be a reflection on the lens of the sun.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Eire Light
Curragha, Kilbrew –Blue sphere seen while taking a photo of the clouds, up in the sky but way below the clouds.
Then moved downwards to the closest tree that I’m standing next to and then just vanished. I got this photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Object
Schmittviller — We were 7 people watching the shooting stars on the terrace of my home facing West. After sharing pizzas, we cut out all the lights about 10:30 PM and several people saw the object that made me think of a huge space ship. The object looked like a huge T. formed with several “bubbles”. The color was between gray and white. No noise, no light. The size seemed very big and the altitude was high. The speed was very fast because the observation only lasted between 5 and 10 seconds crossing the sky. It’s a bit like if the international space station passed 2/3 km above the house. Everyone thought of a gigantic ship or UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Guatemala Light
Quetzaltenang — We were going through the area of sighting when we turned up and noticed a light.
At first we thought it was a plane, but the light became bigger and brighter and we realized that it could not be a plane or in drone and we decided photograph it. Then it disappeared without a trace. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Poland Lights
Warsaw— I was walking past the Palace of Culture and decided to take some pics as it looked nice on August 11, 2018. I was walking whilst snapping some shots and not really paying much attention. I didn’t notice the lights at the time, it was only after returning home that I and my father saw the lights. I have a few photos where the lights seem to be in different configurations. CMS
Portugal Light
Vale da Amoreir— On August 14, 2018, I made two pictures of what looked the same yesterday at 10 pm. I was at the window to look at the moon and above it I could see a light, that I was to big to be a star, Just for a second looked inside my room, when I look back to the moon, to my surprise the light was not there anymore.. Then I look to the left side of the moon, and the same light flashed two times.. Then I thought this is not a star, nor plane
I grab my phone, made some pictures and then 2 small videos.. The object light stayed in the same place for about 10 minutes. I could see some flashes of red light, and also some yellow as it slowly descended until I stop seeing it, because of some trees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Orb
Biggleswade— I spotted this object hovering above an airfield in Bedfordshire England on May 1, 2018. Late in the afternoon around 5.25 pm while photographing some gliders performing tows and aerobatics I noticed a very bright star like object high above. It was stationary as far as I could tell and remained visible for some five or six minutes in a very blue and cloudless spring sky. I began to take photos of the object hoping to enlarge the images. I take many aviation photos as a hobby.. After a while the object simply disappeared from view almost as though it had flown away very quickly. It was star like but later looking at the images noticed it had a structure and either reflective silver like or lit from within. One flew over my garden and when I noticed I thought it to stop and it did….even allowing me to run in the house and grab some binoculars and observe the object closer. I saw the same hovering object at air show a few years ago .
UK/Scotland
My niece was at Trump Turnberry Golf Course and took a picture of the golf course from the balcony of her room on August 16, 2018 at 7:56 pm Scotland time.
She emailed the picture because I like to play golf, and when I looked at it closely I saw 4 strange disk shaped objects in the background which she said she had not noticed when taking the picture.
Can you help me identify these UFO’s? Any ideas?
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Discovery of Water Ice on the Moon Thrills Lunar Scientists
Discovery of Water Ice on the Moon Thrills Lunar Scientists
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
This image shows the distribution of surface ice at the moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), as detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument, which flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
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Scientists who study the moon are beaming about the new discovery of exposed water ice in lunar polar regions.
Using data from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectrometer experiment, a team of researchers — led by Shuai Li iof the University of Hawaii and Brown University — found direct evidence of water ice on the lunar surface, in permanently shadowed areas in polar craters.
Previous data could not confirm the existence of water ice on the moon's surface, but Li et al. provide esolid evidence for its presencee in their study, which was published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"This is a critical paper, as it demonstrates that we have four independent lines of evidence that there are surface ice exposures at the lunar poles," explained Clive Neal, a leading lunar expert at the University of Notre Dame.
"With the neutron data, we also know that these deposits extend into the subsurface. Therefore, we now have great maps that we can use to target prospecting surface rovers," Neal, who was not involved with the new study, told Inside Outer Space.
Key details about these lunar ice deposits still need to be worked out, Neal stressed. For example, researchers don't yet know the deposits' size and purity, or thee geomechanical properties of the regolith in which they lie. Such information could be gathered on the ground by robotic explorers.nl.
"It is time to get to the surface of the moon and start prospecting!" Neal said.
North and south poles
Angel Abbud-Madrid, Director of the Center for Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines in Goldeno, also found the new research exciting.
"This new piece of evidence is valuable in that it provides additional confirmation on not just the presence of ice on permanently shadowed regions — which was obtained from previous instruments and from NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impact mission in 2009 on Cabeus Crater — but of water ice exposed on the surface in various well-defined spots on both the north and south poles," Abbud-Madrid told Inside Outer Space.
"These data are of importance for prospecting and in-situ resource utilization operations related to water extraction from the lunar poles," Abbud-Madrid added.
The locations of surface-exposed water ice described in the new study, he said, could be used to select potential sites for more extensive ground-truth exploration to qualify and quantify the ice content of these regions.
"This information is crucial to select the most appropriate extraction method to be used for ice exposed on the surface, as opposed to techniques to drill and recover subsurface ice," Abbud-Madrid concluded.
Lunar bases?
An artist’s illustration of a crewed moon base. The recent discovery of water ice on the lunar surface could help make such visions a reality, researchers say.
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The new research provides "robust evidence" for the presence of water ice on the moon's surface, noted James Head, of the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
"If ice is at the surface, this means that much more could be buried at depth and covered and preserved below insulating soil, or diffused into and frozen in the soil layers," Head said.
"This is very exciting news, and provides significant impetus for future international landings in the polar regions to drill and return samples of this ice," he added. "Ice deposits in significant quantities on the moon could provide resources for future lunar bases and for fuel for future human exploration of deep space."
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. This version of the story published on Space.com.
What happens to your religion if we find extraterrestrial life?
What happens to your religion if we find extraterrestrial life?
The discovery of life on another planet might seem incompatible with faith in a deity. Yet many theologians are already open to the existence of extraterrestrials, argues the writer Brandon Ambrosino.
In 2014, Nasa awarded $1.1M to the Center for Theological Inquiry, an ecumenical research institute in New Jersey, to study “the societal implications of astrobiology”.
Some were enraged. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which promotes the division between Church and state, asked Nasa to revoke the grant, and threatened to sue if Nasa didn’t comply. While the FFR stated that their concern was the commingling of government and religious organisations, they also made it clear that they thought the grant was a waste of money. “Science should not concern itself with how its progress will impact faith-based beliefs.”
The FFR’s argument might well be undermined, however, when the day comes that humanity has to respond to the discovery of aliens. Such a discovery would raise a series of questions that would exceed the bounds of science. For example, when we ask, “What is life?” are we asking a scientific question or a theological one? Questions about life’s origins and its future are complicated, and must be explored holistically, across disciplines. And that includes the way we respond to the discovery of aliens.
This is not just an idle fantasy: many scientists would now argue that the detection of extraterrestrial life is more a question of when, not if.
There are several reasons for this confidence, but a main one has to do with the speed at which scientists have been discovering planets outside of our own Solar System. In 2000, astronomers knew of about 50 of these ‘exoplanets’. By 2013, they had found almost 850, located in over 800 planetary systems. That number may reach one million by the year 2045, says David Weintraub, associate professor of Astronomy at Vanderbilt University, and author of Religions and Extraterrestrial Life. “We can quite reasonably expect that the number of known exoplanets will soon become, like the stars, almost uncountable,” he writes. Of those discovered so far, more than 20 are Earth-size exoplanets that occupy a “habitable” zone around their star, including the most recently discovered Proxima b, which orbits Proxima Centauri.
The upshot is that the more we’re able to peer into space, the more certain we become that our planet isn’t the only one suitable for life.
As astronomers locate more and more exoplanets beyond the solar system, some believe that the discovery of extraterrestrial life will be inevitable
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Space exploration leads directly to religious and philosophical questions – Carl Sagan
With few exceptions, most of the discussions about Seti (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) tend to stay in the domain of the hard sciences. But the implications of Seti extend well beyond biology and physics, reaching to the humanities and philosophy and even theology. As Carl Sagan has pointed out in (the now out-of-print book) The Cosmic Question, “space exploration leads directly to religious and philosophical questions”. We would need to consider whether our faiths could accommodate these new beings – or if it should shake our beliefs to the core.
Working out these questions might be called exotheology or astro-theology, terms defined by Ted Peters, Professor Emeritus in Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, to refer to “speculation on the theological significance of extraterrestrial life”. As he notes, Peters isn’t the first or only one to use the term, which dates back at least 300 years, to a 1714 publication titled ‘Astro-theology, or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God From a Survey of the Heavens’.
How unique are we?
So what issues might the discovery of intelligent aliens raise? Let’s start with the question of our uniqueness – an issue that has troubled both theologians and scientists. Guiding Seti are three principles, as Paul Davies explains in the book Are We Alone? First, there’s the principle of nature’s uniformity, which claims that the physical processes seen on Earth can be found throughout the Universe. This means that the same processes that produce life here produce life everywhere.
Second is the principle of plenitude, which affirms that everything that is possible will be realised. For the purposes of Seti, the second principle claims that as long as there are no impediments to life forming, then life will form; or, as Arthur Lovejoy, the American philosopher who coined the term, puts it, “no genuine possibility of being can remain unfulfilled”. That’s because, claims Sagan, “The origin of life on suitable planets seems built into the chemistry of the Universe.”
The third, the mediocrity principle, claims that there is nothing special about Earth’s status or position in the Universe. This could present the greatest challenge to the major Abrahamic religions, which teach that human beings are purposefully created by God and occupy a privileged position in relation to other creatures.
Some people of faith may find that the discovery of aliens challenges their sense of human uniqueness
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In some ways, our modern scientific world was formed by the recognition of our own mediocrity, as David Weintraub notes in the book Religion and Extraterrestrial Life: “When in 1543 C.E. Copernicus hurled the Earth into orbit around the Sun, the subsequent intellectual revolution … swept the discarded remnants of the Aristotelian, geocentric Universe into the trash bin of history.”
The Copernican revolution, as it would later come to be understood, laid the groundwork for scientists, like Davies, to eventually claim that ours is “a typical planet around a typical star in a typical galaxy”. Sagan puts it even more startlingly: “We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”
But how could a believer reconcile this with their faith that humans are the crowning achievement of God’s creation?. How could humans believe they were the apple of their creator’s eye if their planet was just one of billions?
The discovery of intelligent aliens could have a similar Copernican effect on human’s self-understanding. Would the discovery make believers feel insignificant, and as a consequence, cause people to question their faith?
According to the Talmud, God spends his night flying throughout 18,000 worlds
I would argue that this concern is misguided. The claim that God is involved with and moved by humans has never required an Earth-centric theology. The Psalms, sacred to both Jews and Christians, claim that God has given names to all the stars. According to the Talmud, God spends his night flying throughout 18,000 worlds. And Islam insists that “all things in the heavens and on the Earth” are Allah’s, as the Koran says, implying that his rule extends well beyond one tiny planet. The same texts are unequivocally clear that human beings are special to God, who seems fairly able to multitask.
Depending on how literally you read their message, some holy texts do not exclude the possibility of alien life
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Second, we don’t reserve the word “special” only for unrepeatable, unique, isolated phenomena. As Peters says, the discovery of life elsewhere in the Universe would not compromise God’s love for Earth life, “just as a parent’s love for a child is not compromised because that child has a brother or sister”. If you believe in a God, why assume he is only able to love a few of his starchildren?
Revelation
But do the religious texts themselves mention the possibility of alien life? “What is most basic in religion,” writes Catholic priest and theologian Thomas O’Meara, “is the affirmation of some contact within and yet beyond human nature.” For Jews, Christians, and Muslims, this involves a written revelation, albeit one that is contingent upon the specific historical situations in which they initially circulated. The best theologies recognise these limitations. Some don’t, however, and for those believers that adhere to them, the discovery of ETs might prove initially threatening.
Evangelist Billy Graham told the National Enquirer he “firmly” believed God created alien life “far away in space”
Weintraub thinks Evangelicals might have a difficult time with Seti, because they approach their Scriptures with a high degree of literalism. Their hermeneutical heritage extends back to Luther’s Sola Scriptura, a Reformation rallying cry that affirms “Scripture alone” is necessary for understanding God’s plan for salvation. (One notable exception here is evangelist Billy Graham who in 1976 told the National Enquirer he “firmly” believed God created alien life “far away in space”.) These believers maintain that any other writing or idea must be evaluated and judged by the Bible. Take, for example, Darwin’s theory of evolution, which some Evangelicals reject on the grounds that the Bible says God created the world in seven days.
The worldview of these believers might be summed up in the Christian slogan, “God said it, I believe it, that settles it!” Were you to ask one of these Christians if she believed in ET life, her first instinct would probably be to consider what the Bible says about God’s creation. Not finding any positive affirmation of alien life, she might conclude, like creationist Jonathan Safarti, that humans are alone in the Universe. “Scripture strongly implies that no intelligent life exists elsewhere,” he wrote in an article in Science and Theology News. Granted, she might remain open to the discovery of alien life, but she’ll have to revise her notion of divine revelation in one very big way: by tempering it with some epistemic humility.
Second, she would have to deeply reflect on the concept of the Incarnation, the Christian belief that God was fully and uniquely present in a first-century human called Jesus of Nazareth. According to Christianity, salvation can be achieved only by Jesus’ death and resurrection. All paths to God, in effect, go through him. But what does that mean for other civilisations whirling around out there in the Universe, completely unaware of Jesus’ story?
Believers may need to question whether their religion - and its routes to salvation - would apply to all alien beings
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Thomas Paine famously tackled this question in his 1794 Age of Reason, in a discussion of multiple worlds. A belief in an infinite plurality of worlds, argued Paine, “renders the Christian system of faith at once little and ridiculous and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air”. It isn’t possible to affirm both simultaneously, he wrote, and “he who thinks that he believes in both has thought but little of either.” Isn’t it preposterous to believe God “should quit the care of all the rest” of the worlds he’s created, to come and die in this one? On the other hand, “are we to suppose that every world in the boundless creation” had their own similar visitations from this God? If that’s true, Paine concludes, then that person would “have nothing else to do than to travel from world to world, in an endless succession of deaths, with scarcely a momentary interval of life”.
In a nutshell: if Christian salvation is only possible to creatures whose worlds have experienced an Incarnation from God, then that means God’s life is spent visiting the many worlds throughout the cosmos where he is promptly crucified and resurrected. But this seems eminently absurd to Paine, which is one of the reasons he rejects Christianity.
But there’s another way of looking at the problem, which doesn’t occur to Paine: maybe God’s incarnation within Earth’s history “works” for all creatures throughout the Universe. This is the option George Coyne, Jesuit priest and former director of the Vatican Observatory, explores in his 2010 book Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life and the Theological Implications.
“How could he be God and leave extra-terrestrials in their sin? God chose a very specific way to redeem human beings. He sent his only Son, Jesus, to them… Did God do this for extra-terrestrials? There is deeply embedded in Christian theology… the notion of the universality of God’s redemption and even the notion that all creation, even the inanimate, participates in some way in his redemption.”
There’s yet another possibility. Salvation itself might be exclusively an Earth concept. Theology doesn’t require us to believe that sin affects all intelligent life, everywhere in the Universe. Maybe humans are uniquely bad. Or, to use religious language, maybe Earth is the only place unfortunate enough to have an Adam and Eve. Who is to say our star-siblings are morally compromised and in need of spiritual redemption? Maybe they have attained a more perfect spiritual existence than we have at this point in our development.
Many faiths require specific rituals associated with spiritual experiences
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As Davies notes, spiritual thinking requires an animal to be both self-conscious and “to have reached a level of intelligence where it can assess the consequences of its actions”. On Earth, this kind of cognition is at best a few million years old. If life exists elsewhere in the Universe, then it’s very unlikely that it’s at the exact same stage in its evolution as we are. And given the immense timeline of the existence of the Universe, it’s likely that at least some of this life is older, and therefore farther along in their evolution than we. Therefore, he concludes, “we could expect to be among the least spiritually advanced creatures in the Universe.”
If Davies is right, then contrary to popular works of literature like The Sparrow, humans won’t be the ones teaching their star-siblings about God. The education will go quite the other way.
Let’s note that this possibility doesn’t invalidate Earth religions’ claims of divine revelation. There is no need to imagine that God reveals the same truths in the same way to all intelligent life in the Universe. Other civilisations could understand the Divine in their own myriad ways, all of which could be compatible with each other.
Identity
But what about the divisions between faiths? How would the discovery influence religious identity? A 1974 story by Phillip Klass, On Venus We Have a Rabbi!, invited Jews, and all religious people, to consider this question. At some point in the future, goes the story, the Jewish community on planet Venus holds the Universe’s first Interstellar Neozionist Conference. In attendance are an intelligent alien species named Bublas, who have traveled from a faraway star named Rigel. The Jews at the conference are bewildered by the physical appearance of the Bulbas, what with their gray spots and tentacles. They decide the Bulbas can’t really be human, and therefore they can’t be Jewish.
A Rabbinical court is called to think about how Jews should respond to their new visitors. What happens, they ask, if some day humans come across alien creatures who want to be Jewish? “Do we say, no, you’re not entirely acceptable?”
The rabbis conclude that isn’t a good response, and suggest a paradoxical way for the Venusians to look at it: “There are Jews – and there are Jews. The Bulbas belong in the second group.”
The comedy of the story is heightened by what we recognise as a certain tribalism inherent to religion. The announcement of any identity has the potential to split the world into groups: us and them. But when religion is involved, that separation takes on a cosmic dimension: us and them, and God is on our side. This has always been one of the challenges of cross-cultural conversion, which is often tasked with negotiating, though not dissolving, such boundaries.
A sense of location is also critical to many religious practices - meaning that those beliefs could be bound to life on our planet
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Perhaps this is a bigger challenge to Judaism and Islam than it is for some forms of Christianity, which place less emphasis on daily rituals than other religions. Think of Islam, which requires its adherents to take up embodied behaviors throughout the year. Unlike Christianity, whose founder eradicated the necessity of location for religious experience, Islam is a very placed religion. Prayers are said facing Mecca, at five specific times throughout the day, and are physicalised through bowing and kneeling. Fasting is required at specific times, as is a pilgrimage to Mecca for all Muslims who are able. Judaism, too, has its own fasts, and – though it’s not a requirement – a concept of pilgrimage, which is its birthright trip, taglit, to the Holy Land. Contemporary Judaism, however, is not as dependent on location as Islam, given its tragic history with exile and diaspora.
What, then, would it take for an alien to be considered a participant in an Earth religion? What would she be required to do? Pray five times a day? Perhaps her planet does not rotate exactly as ours, and her days are much shorter – would she be expected to pray as often as Muslims on Earth? Would she have to be baptised? Receive communion? Build a tent for Sukkot? Though we imagine aliens to have a similar physical structure to us, there’s no reason to believe they have physical bodies. Maybe they don’t. Would that restrict their conversion options?
This may seem to be a bit of frivolous exotheology, but the point is this: all of our religious identities are Earth-centric ones. There’s nothing wrong with that (so long as we don’t collapse the Universe down to our finitude). Here’s how Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky puts it: “Religion is the human, social response to transcendence … Normative Judaism provides an excellent, time-tested path for sanctifying our minds, morals, and bodies, refining us as a people, improving the world, correlating our lives to the infinite God unfolding on the finite Earth.”
His upshot? “I am Jewish. God is not.”
The rabbi’s theory can help us think about our neighbours in outer space, and our neighbours right here on this planet. If religion is a human response to divinity – even if that response is taught and initiated by divinity – then it’s obvious that those responses would differ according to the contexts in which they take shape. If Western Christians can learn to respect the religious experiences of good-willed aliens who are in their own ways responding to the divine, maybe they’ll be able to apply the same principles as they learn to live more peaceably with Muslims on Earth. And vice versa.
“In a billion solar systems,” writes O’Meara, “the forms of love, created and uncreated, would not be limited. Realisations of divine life would not be in contradiction with each other or with creation.”
The end of religion?
If we wake up tomorrow morning to the news that we’ve made contact with intelligent aliens, how will religion respond? Some believe that the discovery will set us on a path the end goal of which will be to outgrow religion. One notable study conducted by Peters found that twice as many non-religious people than religious people think that the discovery of alien life will spell trouble for earthly religion (69% to 34%, respectively).
But it’s ahistorical to assume that religion is too weak to survive in a world with aliens. That’s because, as Peters points out, this claim underestimates “the degree of adaptation that has already taken place.” With few notable exceptions – creationism, violent fundamentalism, gay marriage – religion has often been able to adapt without much fuss to various paradigm shifts it’s encountered. Surely its re-inventiveness, its adaptability is a testament to the fact that there is something about religion that resonates with humans at a basic level.
Certain aspects of religion will have to be reconsidered, but not totally abandoned, as O’Meara notes. “If being and revelation and grace come to worlds other than Earth, that modifies in a modest way Christian self-understanding” – and, we might add, all religious self-understanding. However, he says, “It is not a question of adding or subtracting but of seeing what is basic in a new way.”
Many religions have always believed God names the stars. Is it really a stretch to believe God names the stars’ inhabitants, too? And that they might possibly each have their own names for God?
Brandon Ambrosino has written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Politico, Economist, and other publications. He lives in Delaware, and is a graduate student in theology at Villanova University.
Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were brought to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago
Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were brought to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago
What if Humans are the aliens we’ve been looking for all along? According to experts, humans were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth—in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
Tell Al-Uhaymir modern-day Iraq, where the ancient Sumerian city of Kish used to be, archaeologists found one of the oldest ancient documents on the planet, the tablet of Kish which is believed to date back to the year 3500 BC.
The Sumerian king list states that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Jushur.
Jushur’s successor is called Kullassina-bel, but this is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”. Thus, some scholars have suggested that this may have been intended to signify the absence of a central authority in Kish for a time.
This ancient document is believed to precede the cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years.
Developing the ability to express thoughts through written language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
Five thousand years since, humans have developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species have still not.
No other species on earth can attribute such unique achievements in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species of the earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
It has been a short period of time, most likely a few million years since the first hominid walked on Earth. Precisely this is one of the biggest scientific questions of all times: Why have only our species emerged to this truly advanced technological intelligence?
Evidently, there is nothing more advanced than humans on planet Earth.
While there are different ‘intelligent’ species on Earth, none of them makes use of technology like us.
Just imagine for a second, if for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there. Many experts agree that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time.
Many scientists agree that humans, in addition to their intelligence, are not very capable to occupy a wide range of environments. In other words, we are very limited when it comes to our planet.
In addition to our fascinating intelligence, biologists have also noticed contrasts between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Many scientists agree that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby horse when born is able to walk and function almost independently, but this a human baby cannot do, which makes us quite helpless. In other words, we are born before being neurologically ready for life.
Many researchers agree that there are many vulnerabilities that accompany our intelligence.
Humans on earth eventually became bipeds, which freed up our superior extremities allowing us to manipulate objects, create tools and much more. But for all this, experts believe that our species has paid an expensive price. Lumbar pain a sign that according to many experts could tell us a lot about our species. Curiously, other animals on Earth do NOT have this problem. It’s as if only humans are affected by some of these problems.
So what does all of this mean? According to one expert, it means that we are the aliens we’ve we been looking for all along.
A new theory proposed by Dr. Ellis Silver states that there are several tell-tale signs present in the human race that suggest human beings did not evolve ALONGSIDE other lifeforms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories for and mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book, leading environmentalist and ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver goes through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more said Dr. Ellis in an interview.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity, adding to the mysteries, Dr. Ellis also indicates that it is strange that newborns have large heads and make it difficult for mothers to give birth, which can result in fatalities for both mother and child.
So where do we come from? According to Dr. Ellis, Neanderthals were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth— in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
According to Dr. Ellis, there are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis explains: “This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. One reason for this … is that the Earth might be a prison planet since we seem to be a naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Dr. Ellis concludes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Furthermore, as noted by Robert Sepher, according to modern DNA sequencing, it is demonstrated that humanity as we know it, isn’t just ONE single ‘race’ that descended from the same ancestor in Africa, but a hybridized species, with a far more enigmatic truth behind it all.
Many questions have been raised in the discussion about Rh negative blood. If mankind did, in fact, evolve from a mutual ancient African ancestor, theories state that everyone’s blood would be compatible, but regrettably, this is not the case. This raises numerous questions that science alone has not been able to fully answer. Where did Rh-negative blood come from? And why is it that a Rh-negative mother carrying Rh positive children tries rejecting her own offspring? Is it possible that this can be explained by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t in fact one race, but a hybridized species.
The book was written by Robert Sepehr, Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History tells us more about the enigmatic blood type Rh-negative. Not only does Species with Amnesia suggest mankind is, in fact, a hybridized species, the author suggests that highly advanced civilizations have been on Earth before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophe, as mysteriously, history tells us.
Sepehr argues that for each race that has died out, another has taken its place, with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past race. In our vanity, we think we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology, but we are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. In many ways, we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, yearning to reclaim our forgotten past. –
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh-negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene.
“There are 612 primate species and subspecies recognized by the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN), and not one has Rh-negative blood”.
Asteroïde “groter dan Piramide van Cheops” nadert aarde met 32.000 kilometer per uur
Asteroïde “groter dan Piramide van Cheops” nadert aarde met 32.000 kilometer per uur
FOTO: SS
Een enorme asteroïde nadert de aarde met een snelheid van 32.000 kilometer per uur. Dat meldt de ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. Omdat het object “groter is dan de Piramide van Cheops”, staat het gecategoriseerd als potentieel gevaarlijk.
Asteroïde 2016 NF23 nadert onze planeet met een snelheid van 32.400 kilometer per uur om precies te zijn. Vermoedelijk zal het object op 29 augustus het dichtst bij de aarde zijn. De afstand zal dan 4,8 miljoen kilometer bedragen, of ongeveer dertien keer de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan.
Waarom de asteroïde dan gezien wordt als potentieel gevaarlijk? Voornamelijk door haar grootte. Het object zou een diameter van maar liefst 160 meter hebben, wat meer is dan de hoogte van de Piramide van Cheops (oorspronkelijk 146,59 meter hoog).
Alle ruimteobjecten die een diameter groter dan 140 meter hebben, krijgen de stempel “potentieel gevaarlijk”. NASA heeft de taak om dergelijke objecten goed te volgen zodat reëel gevaar op tijd gespot kan worden.
Earth can be likened to one big, planetary magnet. Likewise, Earth’s magnetic field is similar to that of a bar magnet tilted 11 degrees from the spin axis of the Earth. The magnetic field serves to deflect most of the solar wind, whose charged particles would otherwise strip away the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. But were you to use a compass at varied points throughout history, you would be in for a huge surprise, like seeing the compass’ needle pointing in the opposite direction than expected. When South becomes North and North becomes South, all sorts of unexpected and dangerous things can happen. This has happened many times throughout Earths’ geological history, and a new study suggests that we’re not only overdue for a pole reversal but that such events happen much faster and suddenly than previously thought.
The Earth’s magnetic field looks like that which would be produced by placing a bar magnet at the center of the Earth, with the North Magnetic Pole corresponding to the South Geographic Pole and vice versa. The Earth’s magnetic dipole originates in swirling currents of molten iron deep in the Earth’s core, and extends more than 10 Earth radii, or 63.7 million meters out into space on the side facing the Sun, and all the way to the Moon’s orbit, at 384.4 million meters on the opposite side. Magnetic field lines loop out of the South Geographic Pole and into the North Geographic Pole.
Credit: NASA Cosmos.
There are currents that guide the molten iron inside the planet’s core and, consequently, the magnetic poles can move or shift over time, losing or gaining strength. Scientists not only know that the magnetic field’s intensity changes over time, but they also know when dramatic shifts in intensity or pole reversal occurred. That’s because such events are recorded in the “frozen” ferromagnetic (or, more accurately, ferrimagnetic) minerals of consolidated sedimentary deposits or cooled volcanic flows on land.
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It’s from these records that geologists learned that the last magnetic reversal took place 786,000 years ago. It happened very quickly, too, occurring in less than 100 years.
However, there are also dramatic reversals in field polarity, which occur more frequently. The challenge in pinpointing such events lies in the fact that igneous rocks do not capture the fine movements that lead up to a reversal. Andrew Roberts from the Australian National University (ANU) and colleagues found a workaround by studying stalagmite growing on the floor of a cave in southwestern China. A stalagmite is a type of rock formation that rises from the floor of a cave due to the accumulation of material deposited on the floor from ceiling drippings — given its slow growth, such formations offer the perfect opportunity to study slight variations in Earth’s magnetic field along the years.
The stalagmite, which is one meter in length and eight centimeters in diameter, has a candle-like shape and ranges in color from yellow to dark brown. Researchers cut it into 190 pieces, analyzing each with a high-res cryogenic magnetometer to make a snapshot of Earth’s magnetic field direction and strength as they stood from 107,000 to 91,000 years ago.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors of the new study found a brief pole reversal that occurred about 98,000 years ago and lasted for a century, maybe two. That’s a lot faster than scientists had guessed. Previously, scientists used to think it would take several thousands of years for the poles to change.
“The record provides important insights into ancient magnetic field behaviour, which has turned out to vary much more rapidly than previously thought,” Professor Roberts said.
This is bad news for a technologically-dependent species such as ourselves. Every pole reversal is joined by a weakening of the field and because the field’s intensity is bound to decrease considerably, much more radiation from space will be able to reach the planet’s surface than it does today. However, life on Earth shouldn’t be affected too much by this directly — humanity has lived through several pole reversals and we’re still here. Likewise, there were no mass extinction events coinciding with a pole reversal that scientists could find.
However, much has changed since the last time the planet’s magnetic field weakened by this much. For one, much of our existence is predicated on not only electrical power but also satellite-based communications, which nowadays are synced so much with the power grid that the two are basically inseparable. If our fleet of satellites was to suddenly come offline, much the world could suffer blackouts which could last for years. In the ensuing chaos, it’s anyone’s guess what would happen next.
Even today with Earth’s magnetic field at full strength, solar weather can pose a threat to sensitive electronics.
“Hopefully such an event is a long way in the future and we can develop future technologies to avoid huge damage, where possible, from such events,” Professor Roberts said in a statement.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETVolgens wetenschappers van de ANU Research School of Earth Sciences veranderden de magnetische polen in het verleden al meermaals van positie. Zo’n omkering vindt gemiddeld elke 200.000 à 300.000 jaar plaats. Uit een nieuwe studie - gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA’ (PNAS) - blijkt dat zo’n een switch van het aardmagnetisch veld veel minder tijd nodig heeft dan gedacht. Dat is niet zonder gevaar voor onze planeet.
Bij een omkering van het magnetische veld, wordt het magnetische noorden het zuiden en omgekeerd. Hoewel eerder werd gedacht dat een omkering met intervallen van enkele honderdduizenden jaren gebeurde, suggereren wetenschappers nu dat het slechts een kwestie van enkele eeuwen is. Volgens experts zitten we mogelijk op dit moment in zo’n switch, zo staat te lezen in een eerder gepubliceerd wetenschappelijk rapport op de website Undark.
“Het magnetisch veld van de aarde, dat minstens 3,45 miljard jaar bestaat, biedt een schild tegen de directe impact van zonnestraling”, aldus professor Roberts van de ANU Research School of Earth Sciences. Volgens hem kan een switch grote gevolgen hebben overal ter wereld. Het magnetische veld zou immers zo’n negentig procent verzwakken, waardoor elektronische netwerken verstoord kunnen raken. Ook telecommunicatie, internet, luchttranssport of eender ander welk systeem dat op elektriciteit steunt, kan door de switch onderbroken worden.
De gevolgen van zo’n verzwakking houden een ernstig risico in voor onze planeet volgens wetenschappers. “Op die manier kunnen immers meer onzichtbare krachten die levende wezens schade kunnen toebrengen of doden onze aarde bereiken”, waarschuwt het rapport. “Bovendien is zelfs het doorspoelen van de wc niet meer vanzelfsprekend”, aldus Daniel Baker, directeur van het Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics aan de University of Colorado. Hij vreest ook dat “delen van de planeet onbewoonbaar worden tijdens de omwisseling”.
Naar verluidt zou dit enkele “miljarden dollars aan schade veroorzaken”.
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Volgens het onderzoeksteam van ANU Research School of Earth Sciences is de impact van zo’n omkering mogelijk zelfs groter dan de zonnestorm die de aarde in 1859 raakte. Een vuurbol spuwde toen een grote plasmawolk uit die in amper 17 uur tijd onze planeet bereikte, waardoor het telegraafnetwerk uitviel. Een omkering van de magnetische polen kan vernietigend zijn voor het hele elektriciteitsnetwerk en alles wat erop aangesloten is.
De laatste magnetische ompoling dateert van 780.000 jaar geleden. We zijn dus al even “overtijd”, klinkt het. Professor Roberts hoopt dat zo’n switch “nog niet in de nabije toekomst zal plaatsvinden”. “We moeten nu nieuwe technologieën ontwikkelen om grote schade te voorkomen”, concludeert hij.
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NEW KIND OF AURORA IS NOT AN AURORA AT ALL
NEW KIND OF AURORA IS NOT AN AURORA AT ALL
WASHINGTON — Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were dubbed a new type of aurora when brought to scientists’ attention in 2016. But new research suggests these mysterious streams of light are not an aurora at all but an entirely new celestial phenomenon.
Amateur photographers had captured the new phenomenon, called STEVE, on film for decades. But the scientific community only got wind of STEVE in 2016. When scientists first looked at images of STEVE, they realized the lights were slightly different than light from typical auroras but were not sure what underlying mechanism was causing them.
Alberta Aurora Chasers capture STEVE, the new-to-science upper atmospheric phenomenon, on the evening of April 10, 2018 in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Fellow Aurora Chaser Robert Downie kneels in the foreground while photographer Ryan Sault captures the narrow ribbon of white-purple hues overhead. The vibrant green aurora is seen in the distant north, located to the right in the photo. In this issue, Gallardo-Lacourt et al. use a ground based all-sky imager and in situ satellite data to study the origin of STEVE. Their results demonstrate that STEVE is different than aurora since the observation is characterized by the absence of particle precipitation. Credit: Ryan Sault.
In a new study, researchers analyzed a STEVE event in March 2008 to see whether it was produced in a similar manner as the aurora, which happens when showers of charged rain down into Earth’s upper atmosphere. The study’s results suggest STEVE is produced by a different atmospheric process than the aurora, making it an entirely new type of optical phenomenon.
“Our main conclusion is that STEVE is not an aurora,” said Bea Gallardo-Lacourt, a space physicist at the University of Calgary in Canada and lead author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. “So right now, we know very little about it. And that’s the cool thing, because this has been known by photographers for decades. But for the scientists, it’s completely unknown.”
The study authors have dubbed STEVE a kind of “skyglow,” or glowing light in the night sky, that is distinct from the aurora. Studying STEVE can help scientists better understand the upper atmosphere and the processes generating light in the sky, according to the authors.
“This is really interesting because we haven’t figured it out and when you get a new problem, it’s always exciting,” said Joe Borovsky, a space physicist at the Space Science Institute in Los Alamos, New Mexico who was not connected to the new study. “It’s like you think you know everything and it turns out you don’t.”
Auroras are produced when electrons and protons from Earth’s magnetosphere, the region around Earth dominated by its magnetic field, rain down into the ionosphere, a region of charged particles in the upper atmosphere. When these electrons and protons become excited, they emit light of varying colors, most often green, red and blue.
A group of amateur auroral photographers brought STEVE to scientists’ attention in 2016. A Facebook ground called the Alberta Aurora Chasers had occasionally noticed bright, thin streams of white and purple light running east to west in the Canadian night sky when they photographed the aurora.
Auroras are visible every night if viewing conditions are right, but the thin light ribbons of STEVE were only visible a few times per year. The light from STEVE was also showing up closer to the equator than the aurora, which can only be seen at high latitudes.
The photographers first thought the light ribbons were created by excited protons, but protons can only be photographed with special equipment. The light protons produce falls out of the range of wavelengths picked up by normal cameras.
The aurora chasers dubbed the light ribbon occurrences “Steve,” a reference to the 2006 film Over the Hedge. When researchers presented data about the unusual lights at a 2016 scientific conference, a fellow space physicist proposed converting the name into the backronym STEVE, which stands for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, and the researchers adopted it.
Where does STEVE come from?
Scientists then started using data from satellites and images from ground-based observatories to try to understand what was causing the unusual light streaks. The first scientific study published on STEVE found a stream of fast-moving ions and super-hot electrons passing through the ionosphere right where STEVE was observed. The researchers suspected these particles were connected to STEVE somehow but were unsure whether they were responsible for producing it.
After that first study, of which Gallardo-Lacourt was a co-author, the researchers wanted to find out if STEVE’s light is produced by particles raining down into the ionosphere, as typically happens with the aurora, or by some other process. In the new study, Gallardo-Lacourt and her colleagues analyzed a STEVE event that happened over eastern Canada on March 28, 2008, using images from ground-based cameras that record auroras over North America.
They coupled the images with data from NOAA’s Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite 17 (POES-17), which happened to pass directly over the ground-based cameras during the STEVE event. The satellite is equipped with an instrument that can measure charged particles precipitating into the ionosphere.
The study’s results suggest STEVE is an entirely new phenomenon distinct from typical auroras. The POES-17 satellite detected no charged particles raining down to the ionosphere during the STEVE event, which means it is likely produced by an entirely different mechanism, according to the authors.
The researchers said STEVE is a new kind of optical phenomenon they call “skyglow.” Their next step is to see whether the streams of fast ions and hot electrons in the ionosphere are creating STEVE’s light, or if the light is produced higher up in the atmosphere.
Steve the aurora is not as cool as astronomers thought he was
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Mysterieuze paarse lichtstrook aan de hemel stelt wetenschappers voor raadsel. Niemand weet wat dit is
Mysterieuze paarse lichtstrook aan de hemel stelt wetenschappers voor raadsel. Niemand weet wat dit is
Vorig jaar werd per ongeluk een nieuw poollichtverschijnsel ontdekt. Terwijl een groep fotografen in Canada foto’s maakte van het bekende noorderlicht verscheen opeens een paarse lichtstrook.
De paarse lichtvlaag, die Steve werd gedoopt, was nog niet eerder opgemerkt, maar bleek na onderzoek wel vaker voor te komen.
Elektrische deeltjes van Steve verplaatsen zich 600 keer sneller dan de deeltjes eromheen. Ze bereiken bovendien temperaturen tot wel 3000 graden.
Raadsel
Het lichtverschijnsel blijkt nu niets met poollicht te maken te hebben. Het is nog een raadsel wat Steve dan wel is.
Er worden al tientallen jaren foto’s gemaakt van Steve, die in de lucht verschijnt als strook van wit en paars licht.
Wetenschappers dachten in eerste instantie dat het om een nog onbekend soort poollicht ging.
Geen geladen deeltjes
Tijdens een nieuw onderzoek, dat is gepubliceerd in Geophysical Research Letters, is gekeken of het lichtverschijnsel op dezelfde manier ontstaat als normaal poollicht.
Bij poollicht regenen geladen deeltjes neer op de ionosfeer van de aarde, waar ze in botsing komen met andere geladen deeltjes.
Tijdens een waarneming van Steve in maart 2008 regenden er geen geladen deeltjes neer op de ionosfeer.
Heel andere oorzaak
Steve moet dus een heel andere oorzaak hebben dan het normale poollicht. Het fenomeen wordt voor nu omschreven als een ‘luchtgloed’.
Aan de hand van verder onderzoek zal het mysterie rond deze gloed moeten worden ontrafeld.
DIT AANTAL AARDBEVINGEN IS VEEL, ZELFS VOOR DE RING VAN VUUR...
DIT AANTAL AARDBEVINGEN IS VEEL, ZELFS VOOR DE RING VAN VUUR...
De USGS, United States Geological Survey, classificeert aardbevingen met een kracht groter dan 4.5 op de schaal van Richter als aanzienlijk.
Afgelopen zondag vonden er op één enkele dag 53 aanzienlijke aardbevingen plaats in het gebied dat bekendstaat als de Ring van Vuur.
De aardveranderingen beginnen zich nu toch wel in een aardig tempo te ontwikkelen.
Zo schreven wij onlangs dat advocaat Michael Snyder zich behoorlijk zorgen begon te maken over de toestand in de wereld en zich afvroeg wat er in 's hemelsnaam aan de hand is met onze planeet.
Velen kennen de beruchte Ring of Fire, het gebied waar altijd wel aardbevingen voor komen.
Echter, ook hier begint het de spuigaten uit te lopen, want Michael telde alleen al in dit gebied op één enkele dag (afgelopen zondag) 53 aardbevingen met een kracht van 4.5 op de Schaal van Richter of hoger.
Dan schrijft hij verder hoe hij inderdaad kortgeleden een artikel schreef over de steeds dramatischer wordende aardveranderingen en dat hij nu toch wel heel verrast is over de toenemende seismische activiteit.
Dit is geheel in lijn met de cijfers die wij enkele dagen geleden publiceerden. Er is niet zomaar een toename van aardbevingen; er is sprake van een spectaculaire toename.
Terecht vraagt Michael zich dan ook af hoelang het zal duren voordat de grote en lang verwachte aardbeving aan de westkust van Amerika zal plaatsvinden. Dit gebied maakt tenslotte ook deel uit van de Ring of Fire.
Interessant gegeven is dat ongeveer 90 procent van alle aardbevingen op aarde plaatsvindt ergens op de Ring of Fire en dat 75 procent van de actieve vulkanen in de wereld zich ook bevinden in dit gebied. Dat is op zich natuurlijk goed nieuws voor mensen die niet in dat gebied wonen zoals wij, maar met de manier waarop nu de aardveranderingen toenemen, is straks overal op aarde het nodige vuurwerk te verwachten.
En hoewel Michael blijft zeggen dat we hier met een uniek wereldwijd fenomeen te maken, weet hij niets aan te dragen als mogelijke oorzaak.
Iemand die dat uiteraard wel doet is Marshall Masters en nadat op zijn website de dramatische cijfers over toegenomen aardbevingen werden gepubliceerd, heeft hij fase 2 afgekondigd. Die fase houdt in bij hem om nu echt en serieus te beginnen met de voorbereidingen op de komst van de onbekende planeet. Er is geen tijd meer te verliezen.
In dat kader ontvingen wij enkele interessante foto’s van een lezer, die het volgende schrijft (dank!):
Voorgisteren zijn deze foto's gemaakt in Rovinje op de berg.
Ik volg deze ster al vanaf 2012. Ik was zelf geschrokken hoe groot deze is vergelijk maar eens met de maan.
Hij word steeds groter met andere woorden komt recht op ons af. Dat mooie weer zachte winters extreme toename aardbevingen allemaal hem.
Hij staat er en niemand kijk ernaar of denkt niet wat is dat.
Als je inzoomt op de rode dwerg zie een astoiriden ring erom heen. Dus er komen ook een aantal steentjes mee.
Is dat wat de hopi indianen bedoelde.
Kijk en oordeel voor jezelf.
(Wat wij niet kunnen beoordelen is of het hier inderdaad om de planeet Nibiru gaat, of wellicht Venus of Mars).
Ook de afgelopen maand juli liet weer een scala zien aan weer extremen. Maar, het is met zoals zoveel dingen: Ook al worden deze iedere maand heftiger, de mens wordt in beslag genomen door allerlei afleidingen en ziet niet wat er gaat komen.
“I am totally excited by this photograph – it is the best of ‘Nessie’ in years.”
That evaluation came from the man who is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records for the longest continuous monster hunting vigil on the shores of Loch Ness. Have his standards been lowered, is he getting desperate or is a photograph taken by a 12-year-old tourist really one of the best Loch Ness monster photos of all time? More importantly, is it the Loch Ness monster?
Charlotte Robinson took this picture apparently showing the Loch Ness Monster while she was on holiday
(Picture: Peter Jolly NorthPix)
“This is just the image we have been waiting for – for years. Congratulations Charlotte. I am totally excited by it.”
“Charlotte” is Charlotte Robinson from Leeds who was on vacation with her family this week in Scotland when she took the photograph that elicited those platitudes from Steve Feltham. Who has been interested in the Loch Ness monster since age seven and has “sat watching and waiting on the shores of Loch Ness full time since 1991 for one decent sighting of the monster,” according to his website which proclaims him “Nessie Hunter.” If longevity counts, he’s earned it. If proof counts, it’s no wonder he gets excited at small black dots in photographs of Loch Ness. (See Charlotte’s here and here and here — they’re all the same but hey, it’s the “best” in years.)
“There was something in the water about 50 feet from the shore. I took a photo. It had a neck and head was in the shape of a hook. I just took what I saw. It was black – I just don’t know how far it was out of the water. I’m not good at judging distances. But after about a minute it disappeared and then came back up again in a different place. It was up for less than a minute the second time. I kinda believed in Nessie, but I wanted to see the proof. I always imagined her as having a long neck and flippers.”
So did we, Charlotte, so did we. We also imagined we’d get better pictures once everyone on the planet began carrying smartphones, especially 12-year-olds who were probably taking selfies the day they were born. However, the photo in the Daily Record isn’t much to look at. Even Steve Feltham, who called it the best he’s seen in years, hedged his bets by commenting on its clarity, but not its authenticity.
“There is clearly a solid object in it and it is relatively clear. It warrants further study. There may be a mundane explanation such as a seal, but I have not heard of a seal in the loch this year. For my money it is larger than a seal or an ottter.”
Yes, and? (For you improv fans.)
“But when I saw the picture, I couldn’t believe it. Something’s there. With all the sightings over the years there must be something in the loch.”
Unfortunately, that comment is not from Nessie expert Feltham but from Charlotte’s proud mum, Kat, who naturally thinks her child has taken the best and most authentic Nessie photo ever – suitable for hanging on the refrigerator and entering in the Loch Ness monster photo contest held annually by the Inverness Courier, which offers a $2,000 prize for the submitted photo that is accepted by the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings’ Register and garners the most fan votes.
The Loch Ness Monster has been hunted for years even though it’s not known if it actually exists
(Picture: AP)
And Steve … have you thought about taking a vacation yourself?
Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, Robin Cole was someone who dug deep into one specific aspect of the UFO phenomenon (he was part of a now-closed group called Circular Forum). Cole focused his attention on the connection between UFOs and the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters, better known as GCHQ. It’s the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ National Security Agency. Wikipedia state: “The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organization responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom.”
Wikipedia continues: “Based in ‘The Doughnut’ in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ is the responsibility of the country’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, but it is not a part of the Foreign Office and its director ranks as a Permanent Secretary. GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and was known under that name until 1946. During the Second World War it was located at Bletchley Park, where it was responsible for breaking of the German Enigma codes. Currently there are two main components of the GCHQ, the Composite Signals Organization (CSO), which is responsible for gathering information, and the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), which is responsible for securing the UK’s own communications.”
Robin Cole, of Cheltenham, England, spent a great deal of time addressing the matter of GCHQ and UFOs. To the extent that, in 1997, he published a report that detailed his extensive research in this seldom-addressed area. Cole cultivated sources from GCHQ, secured data on UFO cases secretly investigated by staff at the agency, and learned that GCHQ had a large library of books on the UFO subject. But, there was more, too. As a result of his investigations, Cole was visited by personnel from the U.K. Police Force’s Special Branch, who wanted to know all about his work, which had him worried or a while. You can find out more on Cole and his GCHQ-UFO discoveries in his self-published report, GCHQ and the UFO Cover-up (which, unfortunately, is hard to find now).
In the summer of 1997, I did an extensive interview with Cole about his research. A substantial amount of that interview has never been published, specifically at Cole’s request. On those matters which he did feel comfortable about speaking, Cole told me he had been able to confirm that GCHQ has in its files details of actual attempts by the Royal Air Force to intercept UFOs in British airspace. He stated of one such example, from the early 1950s:
“This came to me off-the-record from an informant who was told of the events at the time. Pilots from what used to be RAF Little Rissington, were out on maneuvers when in their sights, an object similar to the descriptions of a flying saucer came into view. Receiving permission to go after the object, they then kept in constant contact with the RAF base. Radar control had the object on screen and heading towards Cornwall. At this point one aircraft returned – the reason is unclear – while the other continued. On reaching the coast the unidentified object put on tremendous speed leaving the pilot and his aircraft well behind. This was also noted on radar. Realizing he had no chance of catching up the pilot simply returned and was debriefed accordingly. GCHQ were fully aware of this event.”
But why would GCHQ take an interest in this particular encounter? “My knowledge,” said Cole, “comes from the person who typed the document up at the time, and they were from inside GCHQ. I don’t think that GCHQ had a department which collated UFO information on a regular basis at that time – the early 1950s; however, it’s clear from my investigations that on occasion GCHQ did play a role in the subject and did come across interesting cases and asked themselves: Is this some form of alien intelligence that we’re not aware of? The way in which GCHQ became involved in the 1952 case is this: because a large part of their work deals with Signals Intelligence – the collection of data – it was that GCHQ picked up on the various messages passing back and forth from the aircrew and RAF Little Rissington. In other words, GCHQ intercepted the conversation.”
What is particularly significant about this case is that the UFO investigator Dr. David Clarke was able to officially confirm its reality, years later. Clarhe also succeeded in tracking down one of those aboard the aircraft in question. That man was then-Flight Instructor Michael Swiney, who told Clarke: “I got the fright of my life because there appeared to be, smack in front of the aero-plane, three circular objects.”
As Clarke noted: “In 2001 [Swiney] broke fifty years of silence to reveal the full story after I discovered a reference to the incident in the operations records books stored at The National Archives.” Indeed, this was supported by an entry in the Operations Record Books at the Central Flying School, which stated: ‘Flight Instructor M.J.E. Swiney, instructor, and Lieutenant D. Crofts, R.N., student, sighted three mysterious ‘saucer shaped objects’ traveling at high speed at about 35,000’ whilst on a high level navigation exercise, in a Meteor VII. Later, A.T.C.C. Gloucester reported radar plots to confirm this, but Air Ministry discounted any possibility of “extra terrestrial objects.'”
It is important to stress that it was years after Robin Cole discussed privately with me his knowledge of this case – acquired direct from a source connected to GCHQ – that Clarke was finally able to verify its reality. This would strongly suggest that Cole’s informant was truthful, reliable and did have access to classified, insider evidence pertaining to the UFO mystery. Cole had other sources, and information, too.
It’s unfortunate that Cole no longer pursues the UFO-GCHQ issue. He was on the verge of significant developments.
There’s nothing quite like an old fashioned livestock mutilation to get the imagination going. For decades, reports of strange and unexplained injuries on dead animals have baffled ranchers and veterinarians alike, and have even attracted the attention of the FBI. Livestock mutilations and reports of UFOs sometimes go hand-in-hand, as unexplained lights often accompany these grisly discoveries. Often, mutilated animals are found drained of their blood, organs having been removed with high levels of precision. Even stranger, there are often no traces of blood or violence to be found surrounding the animals. What could be behind these mutilations?
If reports out of India are true, some type of “mysterious animal” may be responsible. Could an Indian version of the Chupacabra be on the loose? I sure hope so. Over the last year, several incidents of unexplained animal mutilations have rocked the countryside of India’s eastern state of Odisha, sending farmers into a panic. In some of the cases, the animals are reported as having been drained of their blood as in other mutilations.
Placid, docile sheep are common targets of these anomalous mutilations.
The latest incident comes out of Bhanjanagar, Odisha, not far from where other mutilations have been reported. Witnesses claim ten sheep were found dead with their intestines missing. Some of the sheep were found in village streets, while others were killed and mutilated in their pens. After discovering his sheep, one local farmer reported finding “deep nail indentations on their neck parts pointing at a predator attack.” It is believed that the dead animals were dragged into the village streets after their brutal slaughter.
Local wildlife and forest officials are still investigating these brutal and unexplained killings, but have yet to identify a possible culprit other than claiming a “mysterious animal” is responsible. Anomalous big cat sightings are on the rise worldwide, with a few even reported in India. Might a large cat thought to be extinct or non-native to this area be responsible? We like to think of the natural world as a static background for our human activity, but all of that activity is met by opposite and equal reactions on the part of the animal kingdom and the rest of nature. Might endless human development be driving new predators into contact with livestock, or is something stranger happening here?
I was looking over the newest batch of Curiosity Rover photos on the NASA site and found something in the sky that NASA over looked. At first I thought it was a meteor, then I realised the darker end was the front and the lighter end was its tail, so this object was coming from the Mars surface!
Also it appears that the object dropped off part of itself. If you look at the screenshot above, you will notice a small black dot below it. The UFO dropped off a small exploration orb and it was caught on NASA camera. I now understand why NASA didn't want to report this to the public.
UFO Partly Visible Terrifies Village Residents Apeu, Brazil, Aug 15, 2018, Videos, UFO Sighting News. Date of sighting: August 15, 2018 Location of sighting: Castanhal, Brazil Residents in a small village in Brazil were terrified when they looked up in
UFO Partly Visible Terrifies Village Residents Apeu, Brazil, Aug 15, 2018, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 15, 2018
Location of sighting: Castanhal, Brazil
Residents in a small village in Brazil were terrified when they looked up in the sky and saw a giant black ring moving below the clouds. As the ring passed overhead, residents prayed to Jesus and cried out in Spanish, as you can see in the videos.
Also the rings edges disappeared when there was a blue sky background, but became visible again when a white cloud was in the background. Look at the gif I made below of it moving to understand. The UFO was cloaked, yet for some unknown reason its edges were visible! Within a a few minutes the UFO had vanished 100% leaving the residents wondering what it was and why was it over their village.
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
News states:
Residents were frightened by this unidentified ring-shaped object, which was flat in the sky on Wednesday afternoon, in the village of Apeú, in the municipality of Castanhal, northeast of the state. Many did not know what to say about the phenomenon, which called everyone's attention with a cell phone in hand, to register the object that appeared out of nowhere and disappeared within minutes. The scene brought everyone to the street to film the possible unidentified object, which coincides with the area near the municipality of Colares in northeast Pará.
Strange Footage Shows Cigar-Shaped UFO Above An American Lake
Strange Footage Shows Cigar-Shaped UFO Above An American Lake
A clip of an unidentified flying object over a US lake sparks speculations of the presence of alien life on Earth.
In the footage, a man is recording a video of a lake using his mobile phone. All of a sudden a UFO came into view that convinced him he had seen an extraterrestrial ship.
As he turns his camera around, the cameraman says “Hey! This is a spacecraft!”
A silver lining can be seen floating above the water.
When the clip is slowed down, it shows a clearer picture of the object, which looks like a cigar over the tree line.
The video was reportedly taken at Lake Norman, North Carolina in the US. YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 shared the clip online.
The footage re-fueled the debates on whether there’s extraterrestrial life on Earth.
Many believe this is a substantial proof that many of space aliens are here and they are among other things on Earth. They say there’s more going on than the public know.
Some users say that the clip is a great catch.
However, some have other ideas saying that the UFO is an advanced military aircraft.
The Most Unusual UFO In Years, The All Seeing Eye In The Sky…
The Most Unusual UFO In Years, The All Seeing Eye In The Sky…
Presented for your viewing pleasure is the most unusual UFO captured on camera in many years. The footage was shot in Lima Peru June 11 and it starts out normal enough with a strange light in the sky. As the cameraman zooms in things start to get very strange.
As the object grows in size and detail it appears to be a 2 dimensional diamond with an eye peering out, the illuminates’ all seeing eye at that. If that isn’t the strangest thing you’ve seen recently then you should probably be posting it up on YouTube. Sit back, relax and don’t stare directly into the all seeing eye, they may remember you.
Black Sarcophagus: Results Of The Archaeological Studies Are In
Black Sarcophagus: Results Of The Archaeological Studies Are In
Inside the sarcophagus: Will the curse be unleashed in the future?
There has been plenty of evidence throughout history that ancient Egyptian mummies can be the source of dreadful curses for those who dare to interfere with them. Here are just two examples from the past fifty years.
In 1972, the antiquities director at the Museum of Cairo died after he handled artifacts from King Tutankhamun’s tomb that were being sent to the British Museum for an exhibition. In 2004, a German tourist took an ancient relic as a souvenir from the Valley of the Kings. Soon after returning home, he developed a fever and died.
Archaeologists Defy the Curse
With the mounting evidence of so many stories, it is little wonder that many people have been fearful about opening a 2000-year- old dark granite sarcophagus that was found in Alexandria earlier this year. Initially, there was considerable speculation that the massive black box would contain the remains of a wealthy powerful citizen or even Alexander the Great himself. Its opening on July 19 by archaeologists proved to be somewhat of an anti-climax; however, a whole new set of mysteries have been created.
Skeletons and Sewerage
The opening of the sealed sarcophagus revealed three adult skeletons submerged in murky sewerage water. A petition was even started by people who wanted permission to drink the water, believing that it could bring them special powers. It is speculated that the three occupants are likely to be warriors, judging by wounds that appear to be evident.
One skeleton sports a particularly interesting feature in the form of a hole in the skull. Early reports suggest that this is the result of an ancient type of surgery called trepanation. Archaeologists are excited by this discovery because, although the surgery had been used for thousands of years to treat cranial conditions, it was extremely rare in Egypt. A hole was created in the person’s skull, either by drilling or scraping, in order to relieve swelling or release evil spirits. The procedure still has medical uses today.
Keep Watching
The skeletons will be housed in the National Museum of Alexandria. This is definitely a story to put on watch because, as we know from history, fate is not kind to the people who handle ancient Egyptian remains.
The results of the archaeological studies carried out by a team of researchers from the Ministry of Antiquities on the skeletons found inside the black granite sarcophagus uncovered early last month in Sidi Gaber district in Alexandria.
Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary- General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities announces that the preliminary studies carried out by a team of researchers headed by Dr. Zeinab Hasheesh, Director of the Department of the Skeleton Remains Studies at the Ministry of Antiquities, have determined the gender, and age of the skeletons found inside the Alexandria sarcophagus, according to the anatomy of the skulls, pelvis and longitudinal bones through anthropological examination.
He added that the team had also found gold sheets within the bones of the skeletons and are now subjected to study.
Dr. Nadia Kheider, Head of the Central Department of Antiquities of Lower Egypt said that the first skeleton belongs to a woman between the age of 20 to 25 years old, with a height around 160 to 164 cm. The second one belongs to a man between the age of 35 to 39 years old, with a height ranging between 160 to 165.5 cm while the third skeleton is for a man between the age of 40 and 44 years old and its height was between 179 to 184.5 cm
She pointed out that studies on the right bone located on the back area of the skull shows a rounded cavity of 17 cm wide which reveals that the owner of this skull has survived a long period with this cavity. This means that the cavity is a result of a surgery.
Dr. Hashish said that this probably the “Trepanation” surgery where a burr hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull.
“This surgery is the oldest surgical intervention ever known since pre-history but was rare in Egypt,” Hashish said.
She added that few skulls with this surgery were found in Egypt among those found in Qasr Al-Eini Hospital museum and both skulls found in Maya and Merit’s tombs in Saqqara Necropolis.
Dr.Waziri explains that most probably the burring processes inside the sarcophagus were carried out on two consecutive phases as every skeleton was found on top of one another.
Dr. Ayman Ashmawy, Head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector said that the researchers have cleaned all the remains found inside the sarcophagus and archaeologically documented all the bones and skulls as well as the gold sheets.
He pointed out that the strange color of the water found inside the sarcophagus is probably resulted from the mixing of the sewage water that filled the sarcophagus with the remnains of the skeletons’ wrappings which have been decomposed from the sewage water.
Now, Dr. Ashmawy said, several analyzes are carried out on the water to uncover more about its components.
Dr. Waziri asserted that more researches and studies are carried out as well as DNA tests and Ct-Scans on the bones of the skeletons to know more about them and whether they have any familial relationship.
A Race of Giants Described By Ancient Civilizations
A Race of Giants Described By Ancient Civilizations
A lot of the evidence was covered up or destroyed for very pathetic/sinister reasons. No, they were not depicted in history as giants because of their intelligence. A lot has been suppressed about our history and the sooner people wake up to that, the easier it becomes to piece it all together. Research David Wilcock and Corey Goode and start there with an open mind. Just because scientists aren’t flashing the evidence on National Geographic, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
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