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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
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.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
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.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
As you may have seen, last week I wrote three articles here at Mysterious Universe on the involvement in the UFO subject of the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). It’s the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). You can find the three articles at these links: one, two and three. It’s worth noting, though, that there are more than a few agencies of government in the United Kingdom that have been involved in the investigation of (a) UFOs and (b) those involved in the subject, whether researchers or eyewitnesses.
Nick Pope is someone who is well known to many people in Ufology. Between 1991 and 1994 he handled UFO reports for a body within the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense (MoD). When Pope’s first book was published (Open Skies, Closes Minds – in 1996) his publicist billed him as “the Real Fox Mulder.” Well, no, he wasn’t. Pope – when he was working in a branch of the MoD called Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a – told me that: “There is no specific ‘UFO budget,’ except the staff costs, i.e. around 20 % of my salary, together with a tiny percentage of some other salaries, reflecting my line management’s supervisory role.”
The Freedom of Information Act has shown that when Pope received letters or calls from people who may have seen UFOs, it was the job of Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a to forward the reports onto the Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) and it was the DIS that did the work to determine if the witnesses had seen satellites, aircraft, etc. Their evaluation would then be shared with Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a, who would reply to the caller/letter-writer who wanted answers regarding what they had seen. Notably, too, there was no budget for Pope to travel around the country to investigate cases. It was all done from within the MoD Main Building. So, we have an office that investigated UFOs in the MoD, but which had a budget of only 20 percent of Pope’s salary, plus a “tiny percentage” of funding from “some other salaries.” On top of that, the work was actually done by the far more secret DIS, and Pope never had the ability or the funding to hit the road to investigate even a single case in that 1991-1994 period.
As my earlier articles showed, this is very much at odds with what GCHQ was doing in regards to UFOs. They were intercepting military messages concerning UFOs, investigating cases, keeping Robin Cole under surveillance, and working with the U.K. Police’s Special Branch. On the matter of Special Branch, they opened files on George King and his Aetherius Society in the late 1950s, specifically because of the society’s stance on atomic weapons. Now-declassified files on the Aetherius Society show that Special Branch sat in on lectures given by the society and hung around in the crowds when George King and his followers were expressing their views on atomic weapons at various locations in London. Here, then, is an example of how Special Branch personnel were given funding to investigate UFO-connected issues, and to hang out at Aetherius Society meetings and prepare reports. There is also a Special Branch file on Matthew Williams, the first man in the U.K. to be arrested, charged and fined for making a Crop Circle (the actual charge was criminal damage).
Moving on, there is the matter of what used to be the U.K.’s Provost and Security Services, an arm of the British Royal Air Force that got involved in matters relative to national security and counter-intelligence. When we once again turn our attentions to the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act, we find that in the 1960s, the P&SS were very active in visiting UFO witnesses to UFO activity. The 1960s equivalent of the office that Nick Pope worked in played no role in any of those visits. In February 1962, the P&SS was involved in the investigation of a “UFO/vehicle interference” case in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England. It was in the early hours of February 16 when Ronald Wildman encountered a Flying Saucer-type craft that affected the lights and engine of his vehicle. A P&SS team was soon on the scene – and a file was quickly created.
P&SS personnel were also quickly on the scene when Anne Leamon saw a strange light (strange in the sense that it seemed to hover, reverse and move in ways that a regular aircraft could not) over the hills near her Taunton, Somerset, England home. Anne contacted the Air Ministry and was amazed when a Sergeant J.S. Scott of the P&SS turned up on the doorstep one night – and returned on several, subsequent nights. He suggested to Anne that she not discuss the encounter outside of her family. The P&SS were also involved when, in November 1966, a woman named Diane Foulkes encountered a low-flying UFO at Great Ness, England. The object had adverse effects on the engine and the lights of her vehicle. And, she felt “very ill” and traumatized. Once again, the P&SS opened a detailed file.
What all of this tells us is that various agencies, offices and bodies in the U.K. have had deep involvement in the UFO subject: GCHQ, Special Branch, the P&SS, and the Defense Intelligence Staff. All of them seemed to have had significant funding – and the ability to travel around the country – to carry out research into notable cases. Ironically, the publicly visible office that Nick Pope worked in had no budget to allow for travel, no budget to interview witnesses, and no budget to keep a watch on controversial figures in Ufology.
If you’re a fan of Spielberg-flavored sci-fi entertainment (kids chasing aliens around their neighbourhood while being pursued by spoilsport authorities and all that jazz), you may want to seek out a new movie written and directed by Alexander Murillo.
The movie, Watch the Sky, is based on the graphic novel of the same name and was released on August 21 of this year through iTunes, Amazon Instant, Google Play, Xbox, Vudu, Fandango, and On Demand through local cable/satellite providers.
The synopsis reads as follows:
“It all began with a simple question: it’s just one balloon in the entire sky, what’s the worst that can happen? In an effort to capture amateur video of outer space, two young brothers unexpectedly find themselves in harm’s way when an innocent Science experiment becomes a day filled with unearthly events threatening their sleepy coastal town.”
Co-President of distributor Breaking Glass Pictures, Richard Ross told BroadwayWorld.com:
“Murillo does a wonderful job capturing the ‘awe and wonder’ innocence of two brothers in a small coastal town, when they find themselves in the middle of an alien sighting. This is an engaging family-friendly film, with a tip of the hat to Spielberg.”
A number of movies in recent years have sought –with varying degrees of success– to recapture and pay homage to the magic of Spielberg’s sci-fi productions of the 1970s and 1980s, most notably J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 (2011), Dave Green’s Earth to Echo (2014), and Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special (2016).
Watch the Sky (title surely inspired by dialogue from Spielberg’s Close Encounters: “… Okay, watch the skies please…”, or by the working title for Spielberg’s abandoned movie based on the Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO case from 1955) is produced by Renée O’Connor (of Xena: Warrior Princess fame) and Jed Sura. It stars J. Nicole Brooks (Chicago Med), Luke Albright (Devil’s Pass), Christopher Corbin (Jane the Virgin), Amie Farrell (American Sniper), Miracle Laurie (Dollhouse), and Carol Mansell (Desperate Housewives).
Could this be the year that the Loch Ness monster is found? Is something stirring up the loch and forcing it to surface more frequently? Could that DNA testing experiment have spooked it … or was the experiment a cover for placing something in the loch to bring Nessie out of its lair? These rumors and more are flying after monster sightings were reported at the same location within 12 hours of each other … sightings that include one of the “best photos ever” (according to a local expert) and bring the 2018 total to seven, with another still under study.
The magic Nessie day was August 17th. According to The Scottish Sun, Lynn Locke of Ontario, Canada, was at the loch for a vacation with her husband and daughter. Standing 50 yards from the water at about 9:40 am near Urquhart Castle, a popular spot for spotting the monster, Lynn was ready to see something after seeing nothing on a Ness cruise. Noticing a strange abject 50 yards off shore, Locke locked onto the loch with her smartphone for a minute and recorded … something. (See the photos here.)
Lynn’s pic has now been officially logged
Lynn spotted the object
A young girl took this picture of what could be the Loch Ness Monster on the first day of her holiday
“While we were visiting the castle I noticed something moving in the water, with trails of bubbles leading up to it. It went under the water a couple of times and reappeared.”
Before you say it, Lynn already knows what you’re thinking.
“I do think I saw Nessie – maybe the tail. I’ve seen a stick floating in the water before and that didn’t look like one to me.”
It doesn’t look like a boat.
Well, that plus the photos was enough for Gary Campbell, keeper of the official Nessie sightings register, to enter Lynn’s account into the official log. Little did he know that this would turn out to be one of the biggest days in that log’s history. At around 7 pm, Charlotte Robinson saw something just 12 miles away and only 15 yards from the shore and snapped her “best ever” photo which was also logged in the log. Still waiting for approval is what Campbell described as a similar sighting the day before – perhaps the owners of the photo, if one was taken, are holding out for the highest bidder, rather than taking their chances on the Inverness Courier’s Loch Ness Monster monster photo contest with its $2000 prize.
Gary Campbell, keeper of the official Nessie sightings register, hasn’t seen this much activity since … well, since last year, which had a record number of sightings – 11. This year’s are different because they’re so close together in times and locations. Meanwhile, the DNA collectors have collected their DNA, but don’t plan to release their findings until January 2019. Would they release them sooner if someone gets a conclusive photo? WILL someone get a conclusive photo? Anyone? Bueller?
Whatever they are, sightings in Loch Ness are up — two years in a row. The local tourism bureau and Inverness businesses are certainly reaping the benefits. Are they also floating the logs?
A drone has captured two “Fastwalkers” flying over a lake. Remarkable, this is the first time that two “Fastwalkers” have been filmed instead of a single “Fastwalker”.
Owner of the drone: I need help figuring out what this is. It almost took out my Phantom 4.
The video shows it twice, first at regular speed then in slow motion.
Look up at the top, it comes from the center, then passes by in the upper left at a very high rate of speed. It made no sound that I could hear. It looks like two bright lights flying side by side.
'ET told me to do it' UFO alien landing pad built in Argentinian desert
(Image: YOUTUBE)
The strange monument is believed to have been built by a Swiss man called Werner Jaisli.
The landing pad is a collection of white and brown rocks placed in the shape of an ‘ovniport’ – a monument which resembles a star which conspiracy theorists have linked with extraterrestrial activity.
Mr Jaisli built the monument in the Argentinian desert just outside of the small town of Cachi in the province of Salta.
The larger monuments is surrounded by smaller pieces and can be seen from the skies, which would be handy for any UFO’s driven by aliens as they near Earth.
The site attracts hundreds of visitors a year and Mr Jaisli decided to build it when he claims he received a “telepathic message” from extraterrestrials in which they told him they needed a place to land when they arrive at our planet.
He told Argentine newspaper El Tribuno: “I was in Fuerte Alto with my neighbor Luis. It was midnight on November 24, 2008.
“'It's a UFO night,' I said to Luis. And the sentence was not over, when two luminous objects advanced about 200 meters above the Calchaquí River.
“They were solid, circular and like burnished metal. I do not know why, but mentally I asked them to come closer. And they did it!
“They were solid, circular and like burnished metal." (Image: GETTY)
“They landed about 100 metres above our heads and projected on us a beam of light that made us both see their own brightness.
“The funny thing is that it did not affect our vision. Something began to bubble through my brain: it was an order.
“They asked me telepathically to build the airport.”
After supposedly receiving the message in 2008, Mr Jaisli immediately got to work in constructing the star which has 36 points and measures 48 metres in diameter.
Visions of an other-worldly “pulsating” glow was reported by hundreds of people at around 11pm, and many took to social media sites to share shocking pictures and videos of the bizarre lights.
One witness wrote on Facebook: “It was really odd. It was there for a fair few seconds then moved to the left.
“I thought it was a plane at first and it was just me being silly.
“But then everyone else seemed to say they had seen it too.”
MEN
MYSTERY: An other-worldly blue light bamboozled hundreds in Greater Manchester
“Anyone see the strange purple lights over Tameside earlier? UFO invasion?”
Concerned Twitter user
Another took to Twitter to ask: “Anyone see the strange purple lights over Tameside earlier? UFOinvasion?”
Many suggested the lights were part of the Pride Festival celebrations in Manchester city centre on Monday evening.
But some appeared convinced it could be coming from a drone, a larger aircraft – or even an alien spaceship.
However a more sensible reason for the phenomenon has been offered.
MEN
WTF: An other-worldly 'pulsating' glow appeared to hover over Greater Manchester
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FEARS: The strange phenomena sparked concerns of an extra-terrestrial invasion
Dozens of Facebook users said the lights looked similar to those on a specialist railwork repairs train, which was seen flashing similar powerful blue lights in southern areas of the UK earlier this year.
A spokesperson for Network Rail said: “We can confirm this was not an unidentified flying object (UFO). It was rather an identified non-flying object (INFO) – namely a railway ballast tamping machine, which uses lasers.”
It was reportedly working to pack ballast under the railway tracks to make them more hardy.
Network Rail is carrying out improvement works on the Manchester to Preston line, via Bolton, as part of a multi-million pound project.
Filer’s Files #34 – 2018 William Tompkins & UFOs- PART I
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii photo on August 23, 2018, prior to hurricane
Filer’s Files #34 – 2018William Tompkins & UFOs- PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: William Tompkins Designer of Spaceships. President Reagan and Winston Churchill and UFOs. and Water Planets Are Common
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio , Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Eire, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Sao Tome, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
William Tompkins Designer of Spaceships.
A friend of mine William Tomkins passed away a year ago. He was introduced to me by Dr. Bob Woods after I spoke about Life on Mars in a MUFON Symposium in Irvine California in July of 2011. I met William just after some NASA personnel assured me there had been life on Mars, but they could not reveal it to the public. William Tompkins testimony to me then was mind blowing, but Dr. Bob Woods vouched for William. I attempted to verify the very advanced testimony of William and found some support from high ranking military officers.
William Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was personally present at the “Battle of L.A.” when a thousand rounds of ammo were fired at UFOs, and one of the Nordic craft may have selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race.
Tompkins stated in his book due to his excellent memory and model building skills he was assigned to Naval Intelligence working for Admiral Rick Abatta in World War II. According to Tompkins, his unit had a series of US Naval spies who returned from Germany who had discovered that the Germans were working on advanced wingless aircraft or types of discs apparently with the help of extraterrestrials. Germans reportedly back-engineered a crashed UFO and according to Tomkins the Navy spies claimed Adolph Hitler was working with Reptilian aliens and building early models of UFOs.
The Reptilians had large caverns in Antarctica and numerous scientists were transferred to Antarctica to build advanced craft. The SS allowed a group of personnel to build UFOs in Germany and attempted to develop their own. Tomkins job was to take this information to various aviation companies, universities and research organizations. He often flew to Naval Development Center in Warminster, Maryland. This book is a partial autobiography about his life to the beginning of the 1970s including some of his early work for TRW. In his autobiography, Tompkins describes what the Navy spies had found:
Tompkins explained, the Germans started in 1939, building and importing equipment into a massive cavern in Antarctica that was tied to extraterrestrial operations. They were building large transport submarines and anti gravitational UFOs. These craft allegedly flew Hitler and large numbers of Nazis to Argentina and Antarctica in the last stages of the war.
Selected by the Navy prior to completing high school to be authorized for research work, he regularly visited classified Naval facilities during WWII until he was discharged in 1946. After working at North American Aviation and Northrop, he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, and when they found out about his involvement in classified work, was given a job as a to create design solutions as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a “think tank”. This work was partly controlled by the Navy personnel who used to work for James Forrestal, who was allegedly assassinated because he was going to publicly reveal what he knew about UFOs. Bill Tompkins was asked to conceive sketches of mile-long Naval interplanetary craft designs.
Tompkins Spaceship Drawing
Later, as he became involved in the conventional aspects of the Saturn Program that later became the Apollo launch vehicle, his insight to system engineering resulted in his offering some critical suggestions personally to Dr. Wernher von Braun about ensuring more reliable checkout using the missiles in their vertical position and also some very efficient launch control concepts adopted by both NASA and the Air Force. Tompkins claimed he designed the NASA Apollo Launch Facility.
This story is peppered with very personal interactions with his co-workers and secretaries, some of whom the author believes to be Nordic aliens helping the “good guys” here on Earth. Towards the end of this volume of his autobiography, he sketches what he personally saw on TV when Armstrong was landing on the moon.
Born in May 1923, Bill Tompkins is one of the few survivors of the “big war” who is lived healthy to age 96, married to the same girl Mary, and is willing to tell his story about what he really did during his aerospace life in the 40s, 50s and 60s that relate to aliens, NASA and secrets that now can be told.
William Tompkins has extensive experience in advanced space research relating twelve years as engineering section chief at the Douglas Missile and Space Division, four years as corporate director of North American Advanced Space Research, founder and chairman of the Advanced Space Concept Staff at the think tank within the TRW Space Systems, four years as program director of the 2020 advanced Anti-Sub Warfare program and was a member of the corporate headquarters Red Team at General Dynamics Corporation. This experience has led to his membership in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and he has done extensive research into extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects. He was preparing a six-volume autobiographical study on the subject to be released soon to be entitled Selected by Extraterrestrials.
The Navy agents (spies) in Germany discovered what all those “out of this world” aliens gave Hitler: UFOs, antigravity propulsion, beam weapons, extended life and plenty of mind-controlled willing girls programs. Allegedly, the reptilians made a deal with the Third Reich SS giving them this big box full of toys in exchange for letting Hitler enslave the rest of the planet. (pp. 70-71) The Air Force Library contains a document reporting that a team led by Colonel Watkins who later was promoted to general scavenged Nazi Aviation companies and airfields to capture the latest enemy aircraft. These aircraft were loaded on a British aircraft carrier and brought to the US. Most of the craft were named but some experimental ones were not described. General Watkins always maintained UFOs were not alien and were likely Soviet using German engineers..
Over his four years with Navy Intelligence, Tompkins helped in the covert distribution of data from Nazi Germany’s two distinct secret space programs to Douglas Aircraft Company, along with other select aerospace companies and universities that had the scientific expertise to understand what the Nazis were doing.
When Tompkins joined Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, it had already formed its Advanced Design think tank to design antigravity space craft. Once Tompkins moved over to Advanced Design in 1951, he was specifically tasked to design a variety of antigravity space vehicles, using his knowledge of Naval Intelligence gathered from Nazi Germany and his own talent for technical detailing. Dr. Michael Salla has successfully attempted to verify Tompkins’s statements and has been able to obtain a great deal of favorable evidence.
Mr. William Tompkins has extensive experience in advanced space research relating twelve years as engineering section chief at the Douglas Missile and Space Division.
Photo of Space ship from UK by John Lenard Walson
William Tompkins had four years as corporate director of North American Advanced Space Research, founder and chairman of the Advanced Space Concept Staff at the think tank within the TRW Space Systems, four years as program director of the 2020 advanced Anti-Sub Warfare program and was a member of the corporate headquarters Red Team at General Dynamics Corporation. This experience has led to his membership in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and he has done extensive research into extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects.
Tompkins’ revelations about the current operations of secret space programs derive from two periods in his life. First is his time at the helm of the Rogue Valley (Medford), Oregon chapter of the U.S. Navy League from 1985 to 1999. During this period, he was given briefings about operations of secret space programs and extraterrestrial life, and shared some of this information through a “Special Projects Committee”; with retired Navy, Marine and USAF officers .Corroboration for Tompkins’ statements about the Navy League
Admiral Hugh L. Webster
Special Projects Committee comes both from related documents and two retired Navy officers who confirmed key aspects of his testimony. Furthermore, Tompkins says that Admiral Hugh Webster, who ran the U.S. Navy League chapter in San Diego and was an executive officer for it nationally, was initially briefed about the Navy’s secret space program by Tompkins in 1985. Webster subsequently began a similar operation in San Diego, and became part of the Navy’s covert operations.
The second period in which Tompkins learned about the operational details of the Navy’s secret space program began in 2000, when he moved to San Diego, giving him more opportunities to work directly with Webster. It was Admiral Webster who gave Tompkins permission to write his autobiography and reveal all he knew about the Navy’s secret space program.
Tompkins has further disclosed that he is a participant in the Navy’s annual “West” meetings in San Diego, where leading aerospace companies come together to share their research and development findings. Among the purposes of these meetings is the goal of finding the latest technologies that may be of use for the Navy’s secret space program.
Photographic Evidence of Space ships
John Walson ‘s claims and disclosures have not been given the coverage which they undoubtedly deserve. He has hundreds of official USAF documents to back up his claims. If he is correct, as the evidence suggests, then the U.S. does have a secret space fleet consisting probably of dozens of 600 feet wide flying triangles, which can go to and from space with ease, travel at Mac 9 +in any direction. For over ten years John Walson has taken up close images of celestial craft in orbit around the Earth John writes, ‘I have so much more that I have not told anyone yet, I have very specially made UV spectrum telescopes and UV real cameras with very amazing footage. I would really like to share my telescope inventions in a TV show to use my equipment to solve famous historical Ufo or Sky space based events.
I’m saving to be able to bring my telescope to a dark area, no atmospheric distractions. I want to give you clear beautiful high quality video, and evidence from a remote location without freezing in the process, and without interference.
Walson claims he discovered that many “stars” in the sky are in fact HUGE structured objects – giant machines are “fixed” in the sky. With this new-found ability, he has proceeded to videotape, night and day, many strange and heretofore unseen objects in earth orbit. Walson claims that he can record them in plain daylight at noon and that he can record sounds from the machines in space. The resulting astro-photographic video footage has revealed a raft of machines, hardware, satellites, spacecraft and likely alien space ships which otherwise appear as ‘stars’… if they appear at all. These discs are seen hovering over thunderstorms appearing to collect lightning strikes perhaps to collect electrical energy.
Note: John has given Filer’s Files permission to show his excellent copyrighted images. Below is a possible space ship taken by John that President Reagan refers to.
President Reagan announced in the United Nations an extraterrestrial presence was already among us. Address
“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”
It appears that Reagan was secretly briefed daily about extraterrestrial life, and some of the threats this posed to humanity. It appears he was really warning the world about classified alien secrets withheld from the global public and launched the most expensive defense program ever to protect humankind? Global unity was an imperative to deal with all the implications of such a presence! There is testimony from several witnesses that joint nation military units are on occasion downing alien ships not of the planet. In 1983, President Reagan gave a speech in which he called for the development of a missile-defense system.
The project was called the Strategic Defense Initiative, but the media cheerleaders mocked it as “Star Wars,” and surprisingly Reagan offered to share the technology with the Soviet Union. Solar Warden a series of spaceships with several types of weapons systems appears to exist.
This system now exists with a demonstrated capability although with changed names. It is now the Missile Defense Agency, which is very rare indeed: a federal agency that is generally regarded as both responsible and effective.
Reagan wasn’t the first world leader to think about extraterrestrial life — Winston Churchill, for one, had done that decades earlier. Winston was well aware of UFOs and Earl Mountbatten his Commander of the Navy had seen them up close.
Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II and his spies likely obtained similar information as the US Navy spies that Tompkins interviewed. Predictions Ahead Of Their Time
Churchill begins his 1939 essay pointing out that “all living things of the type we know require water,” and although we can’t say for certain that other liquids are possible sources of life, “nothing in our present knowledge entitles us to make such an assumption.” One point for Churchill: nearly 80 years later, we still use the presence of water as a sign that life is possible on another planet.
After concluding that, due to their favorable conditions, Mars and Venus are the only other planets in our Solar System that could harbor life, he ventures beyond, writing “the sun is merely one star in our galaxy, which contains several thousand millions of others…I am not sufficiently conceited to think that my sun is the only one with a family of planets.” Churchill goes on to say that a sizeable portion of planets outside our solar system “will be the right size to keep on their surface water and possibly an atmosphere of some sort” and some will even be “at the proper distance from their parent sun to maintain a suitable temperature.” That might not seem surprising until you remember that Churchill, a non-scientist, wrote this more than 20 years before the Drake Equation—which laid out the probability of finding life on other planets—and decades more before the first exoplanet was ever discovered.
As Churchill wrote later in 1958, “It is only by leading mankind in the discovery of new worlds of science and engineering that we shall hold our position and continue to earn our livelihood
I feel Reagan’s warning was authentic, and extraterrestrials are already here? I know there is much closer cooperation between nations when chasing and confronting UFOs. The news media doesn’t seem to have any reliable inside information concerning this entire field of research not to mention most other fields .
Huge Spaceships photographed in our Skies Are Evidence for Tompkins. The ISS is on the left, a spaceship right.
What is John Lenard Walson videotaping with his proprietary telescope video camera technique? Are these just satellites or ET spacecraft Or, are we seeing large and very sophisticated spacecraft for the first time that we AREN’T supposed to see? Walson received the following comment about one of the videos:
“Hello again. And, again, my congratulations on your superb astrophotography. MIT Lincoln Laboratory is the group which has built some of the things you are seeing. Much of what they do is what used to be the Star Wars project, which no doubt involves some of your objects.” They examined crashed UFOs held at Wright Patterson AFB and likely back engineered these craft.
Typical Walson Spaceship
Important Navy Sighting
The military personnel who are encountering these phenomena tell remarkable stories. In one example, over the course of two weeks in November 2004, the USS Princeton, a guided-missile cruiser operating advanced naval radar, repeatedly detected unidentified aircraft operating in and around the Nimitz carrier battle group, which it was guarding off the coast of San Diego. In some cases, according to incident reports and interviews with military personnel, these vehicles descended from altitudes higher than 60,000 feet at supersonic speeds, only to suddenly stop and hover as low as 50 feet above the ocean. The United States possesses nothing capable of such feats.
On at least two occasions, F-18 fighters were guided to intercept these vehicles and were able to verify their location, appearance and performance. Notably, these encounters occurred in broad daylight and were independently monitored by radars aboard multiple ships and aircraft. According to naval aviators I have spoken with at length, the vehicles were roughly 45 feet long and white. Yet these mysterious aircraft easily sped away from and outmaneuvered America’s front-line fighters without a discernible means of propulsion.
Jeff Rense Radio Show will honor William Tomkins on August 31, 2018 starting at 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Western for three hours. Frank Chile, Bob Woods, and I with Jeff will discuss the revelations of Tomkins. Rense.com
The Space Force
President Trump announced he is going to create the Space Force a new military force to defend us from attack from space implying the Chinese and Russians are increasing their forces in space . This force would also be able to defend Earth from aliens coming in from space. The Space Force will be independent from our other military forces. Shortly after the announcement, information started coming out that we already had a large Space Force and it had been kept secret for a very long time. Secrecy had been required to protect the Force from being targeted and attacked by potential enemies, both foreign and extraterrestrial. The following two videos will show you that the existence of the Space Force was known to individuals here who are now talking about it and show how we captured advanced anti-gravity craft from the Germans who used them against us in World War 2.
In The Diary entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1985 (page 334) Reagan wrote:
Lunch with 5 top space scientists. “It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.”
Note: This would indicate a space ship at least as large as a 747 aircraft that is 250 feet long. It is likely much bigger to accommodate sleeping quarters, kitchen facilities, bathrooms, storage radar and weapons. The now grounded Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people and even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to put 300 astronauts in orbit. Apparently President Reagan revealed the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit that would to be at least 500 feet long?
British hacker Gary McKinnon first hacked into NASA’s Johnson Space Center: He found a high definition picture of a large cigar shaped object over the northern hemisphere.
McKinnon later hacked into classified files of U.S. Space Command incorporated into Strategic Command on October 1, 2002. He found a list of officers’ names. Under the heading ‘Non-Terrestrial Officers. McKinnon stated that what he found was a list of fleet-to-fleet transfers’ ‘fleet-to-fleet transfers, and a list of ship names’. He said that after looking them up. He realized that they were not US Navy ships. What he saw made him believe that NASA was keeping a secret about an off planet space fleet. Gary McKinnon claims to have stumbled upon a secret list of up to ten space warships after breaking into NASA computer databases. A couple ships were named the USSS Curtis Lemay and USSS Roscoe Hillenkoetter. He claims it points to a secret American space program.
Father of Stealth aircraft, Ben Rich was the second director of Lockheed Skunkwork’s from 1975-1991. He developed the stealth fighter, the F-117A Nighthawk. , Rich made several shocking open statements about the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do it.”
“We now have technology to take ET home. No it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars.”
“There are two types of UFOs — the ones we build and the ones ‘they’ build.”
When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”(This is related to Quantum entanglement, you can read more about that here.)
Jan Harzan the International Director of MUFON and former senior executive with IBM attended a talk given by Rich to engineers on March 23rd, 1993 at a UCLA School of Engineering.
Rich stated, “We now know how to travel to the stars. There is an error in the equations, and we have figured it out, and now know how to travel to the stars and it won’t take a lifetime to do it. It is time to end all the secrecy on this, as it no longer poses a national security threat, and make the technology available for use in the private sector. There are many in the intelligence community who would like to see this stay in the black and not see the light of day. We now have the technology to take ET home.”
For Those Who May Have Missed the Memorial Tribute to the Memory of Bill Tompkins on the One Year Anniversary of His Passing. Here is the link: Please Share
This artist’s conception shows habitable-zone planets with similarities to Earth. From left: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-452b, Kepler-62f and Kepler-186f. Last in line is Earth itself.
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
“Water worlds” are incredibly common throughout the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.
Midsize alien planets — those two to four times larger than Earth — tend to harbor huge amounts of water, according to the research. Indeed, some of these exotic worlds are probably up to 50 percent water by weight. (Our seemingly wet Earth, by contrast, is just 0.02 percent water by weight.)
“Our data indicate that about 35 percent of all known exoplanets which are bigger than Earth should be water-rich,” study leader Li Zeng, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, said in a statement. “It was a huge surprise to realize that there must be so many water worlds.” [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
Correction Alien Technology in a Wooden Pyramid in North Carolina
Bob Padgett was incorrectly identified in this photo. He is the large Man shown with Dr. Bruce Cornet in last week’s article.
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Filer’s Files #34 – 2018 William Tompkins & UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #34 – 2018 William Tompkins & UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Bermuda Dunes — It was August 16, 2018, exactly 6pm as I looked at my IPhone. There was a bank of high white clouds 10-15 miles South East of me as I was driving down Avenue 42 . started to notice two black saucer shape objects slowly come out of the clouds. They each had to be larger than 300 feet due to the distance. They had no lights or other object protruding from them. I was driving at 40 mph so it was hard to focus take picture and drive. I got one picture that shows as they both started going back into the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Object
Canon City— The object was caught on a game camera with before and after pictures of the horizon which gives perspective on the event. It was captured on film about 7.5 miles SE from the camera location and 1/2 mile in the sky (above the tree line ~ 8400 feet) on July 9, 2018 . Data was discovered upon review of all game cameras on the property. It is located ~ 15 miles NNW of Canon City on a mountain ridge line. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Orlando — I was at a light turning into my business and I noticed three trails high in the sky on August 21, 2018, Three objects appear to be flying in formation above the cloud cover I also noticed a normal commercial airline flying in to MCO which is normal, but these objects were flying super fast even faster than military jets. I’ve seen in the past they appeared to be ascending into the atmosphere almost like a rocket but I am not aware of any rocket launches happening at the Cape today and in perfect formation. It was very odd. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Disk
Lahaina, Maui — I was taking a sunset picture prior to the hurricane like I almost always do on my lanai in Napili, when I saw a blurb in my picture review on my camera on August 23, 2018. I did not see anything thru my viewfinder as I was shooting. I looked up and saw nothing in the sky. We are currently in hurricane watch conditions from Lane with winds at 20 – 25 mph at the time, so I don’t think it was a drone or a weather balloon because how could it disappear so fast, maybe 5 seconds elapsed from shooting to looking up. In the picture the wind is blowing right to left. Upon downloading my shots I noticed the blurb and assumed it was a large bird. I zoomed in and saw a round disc with a V shape cut from one side, greyish – green. The photo was taken at 1/1000 of a second, a setting I used in the high winds to ‘freeze’ the trees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Object
Driving down main street, I first noticed the dark mass coming from clouds then a white line coming from below, It popped up for two pics then vanished on August 10, 2018.. In the clouds you’ll see tons of white orbs and in one pic more to let you’ll see couple black orbs or birds. All this Happen as I drove about two blocks then they vanished. I’m assuming they were using the sun to charge the crafts
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Cylinder
Amherst – On August 25, 2018, witnessed a cylindrical object hovering at approximately 1000 feet altitude with very little movement on a clear day. Event lasted 15 minutes before I lost sight of it, but not after taking pictures. Two small aircraft were seen approaching the object, which seemed to be several times larger than them. It was a clear day with no sound or lights. Eventually it moved out of my line of sight behind some trees. The object was at least 100 feet long. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Object
Sparks — On the evening of August 7, 2018, my wife and I were coming out of a building and I looked up at the amazing Sunset over Peavine Mountain. I took a few pictures and we headed to our next stop. While in route I told my wife Maria Teresa, to take another photo of the Sun setting. We stopped in a parking lot to get a better picture, the Sun was almost gone and I buried her to snap the photo. We didn’t see the craft until we viewed it and expanded the size of the picture. I first thought it was something on the phone lens, but it didn’t wipe away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Clifton — My wife saw it first and then called me as we witnessed the strange ball of light just hovering. We also saw airplanes flying underneath the hovering ball of light.
The was taken on August 14, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina
Charlotte — This is something I noticed on my TV screen
Watching the US Open as they went to commercial I noticed this on my TV on August 23, 2018,
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Light
Xenia— My wife was driving home from the store around 8ish on August 12. 2018.
and noticed this light in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Bright Light
Portland — At the first I thought it was a star because I have been seeing it f or 3 weeks prior. Tonight on August 18, 2018, I realized it was the second UFO I have ever seen in my life.
It just hovered and changes a buff shape and it seemed to get bigger and smaller the longer I kept watching it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Light
State College — Was attending the State College Spikes baseball game when a lightning storm caused the game to be stopped on August 15, 2018.
My wife tried to get a picture of the lightning and this is what we saw in the picture.
Have no idea what it is but a friend also saw these lights on his drive home. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina
FT Mill— My sister took the attached photo from outside a restaurant. Other people were looking up to the sky so she did too and saw this strange coloring in the sky on September 15, 2016. It almost looks like an object fell out of the cone shape. Could this be a UFO or just a strange but normal weather condition? There was no storm or rain that day. This photo is untouched. I am just looking for a professional to check it out and tell me what you think it is. There really isn’t anything else to add. We didn’t even see the small white object under the cone shape until after the photo was taken. She just thought the cone shape looked unusual.
Tennessee Diamond
Hohenwald — A woman found a strange diamond shaped object above her head in a photo taken of her.
Neither the photographer or herself saw the object. Photo was taken on August 12, 2018.
Rockport – On the first day of school I took pictures of my granddaughter. After taking her to school I was looking at my pictures and noticed an object in her pictures. I made the picture bigger and can see it’s not a cloud.
Photo was taken on August 22, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Wisconsin Lights
Oconto – I took this photo on a terrible storm night. Didn’t realize until a couple years later that it sure looks like ships in the lighting if you look close.
I just wanted someone with experience to blow this photo up and get there perspective. Photo was taken on June 14, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Bunbury— I was sitting in car around 6:30 AM on my phone. It was dusk, just becoming light. I couldn’t get off the phone quick enough as I saw this light traveling across the sky on August 20, 2018. , which appeared to have come from the west coast. The ocean is a few KM’s away from where I live( on the West Coast of Western Australia. So I quickly started phone camera my Samsung Galaxy S5) and filmed it for a few minutes as it traveled in easterly making no noise at all. There is an airport just out of town and I hear them flying most days very clearly. This light object made NO noise at all and disappeared into smallish cloud.
Hastings –On August 8, 2018, while taking two of my kids home to their mum’s house after dinner we noticed what we thought were red and green plane lights in the sky. We drove another 400 meters until we were beside the object which was only 70 meters east and 100 meters up. I was constantly asking the kids about the lights, the shape, visible things on the object. My kids are 14 and 12. Both kids and I witnessed the lights that didn’t flash. The lights were on each corner and consisted of 1 green and 2 red. There was a white light and a triangle shape. My son 14 said there were three white lines underneath and what looked like a hatch. I told them both to keep an eye on it while I turned around as we were now 200m past. It took 4 seconds to turn around. We drove back toward the objects position but it was now moving south and gaining altitude much faster than I could drive. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Disc
Thunder bay — It was a strange storm it sounded like a tornado storm. I was watching for lightning.
It showed up as soon as I was taking a picture of the lightning on April 17, 2018.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Eire Glowing Lights
Limerick — On August 10, 2018, young men went for a drive to Loch Gur, Co:. Limerick , Ireland in two full cars. As they sat outside the cars at some picnic benches they all witnessed 4 glowing lights in the air. The lights were zig zagging , as if chasing each other, or circling around the stone circle, Grange, co.Limerick. Only one witness could capture it on his phone. Shortly afterwards he sent me the 2 videos through social media.34 seconds and second video was 26 seconds. The lights remained in the sky when the group left the area. .They watched the lights for 30 minutes approximately. They all felt fine, but amazed at what they saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Lights
Colmar — I was sitting on the balcony and saw a light of spherical shape. After I took my phone I filmed it for 10 minutes. on June 12, 2018
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Jons –The event occurred on July 9, 2018, the witness observed several white lights in the sky and shot a video of the event that he posted on Youtube.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Lights
Neuerburg — I was was on the way home with a good friend after a birthday party on August 8, 2018. On the way I saw different colors coming from the forest behind the medical centre. I thought it’s a laser show being reflected from the centre to the woods. The objects were round, changed their colors, moved in different sides, always staying on the top middle of a tree, which was over 20-25 m high on the top of a hill. I’ve never seen lights and objects like this before. We were staying for a long time just watching the movements and the changes of the colors. I then did a video, you can see the movements, but unfortunately the colors can’t be identified. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Lights
Povoa de Lanhoso — UFO observed in the mountains 10 km east at 22:40 until 23:05 on 27 July 2018 My family and myself (2 adults + 2 children 9 and 11 years) and see a blue gradient towards the horizon. We were all four in the veranda + my brother Who told us to quickly come and see. We discover a cloud of bright dots that move in all directions. The cloud moves and changes shape slowly towards the moon that is followed by a sphere (breadth of the index, arm extended) The sphere turns on it even as if it “rolled
Puerto Rico
Humacao— Cigar shaped object photographed on August 19, 2018,. After taking several pictures, discovered this moving cigar shaped object to the east across that mountain.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sao Tome
Lotijac— I didn’t see it. My father did. It was above 2 years ago. Actually he didn’t see object directly. His interests is to make a photo of clouds usually. He did it as usual. Then he went back to house. He didn’t know what he spotted. Later in the evening, he was checking images he saw he captured something strange. Maybe possibly it is just photographic mistake or maybe a cloud but picture is strange.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Light
Manresa, Barcelona — On Wednesday 22th of August, my parents and I decided to go visit Montserrat, which is a famous for ufo sightings mountain located near Barcelona. We drove to the monastery located up in the mountain of Montserrat. We took many photos there and went for a walk and then we drove home 2 hours away). On Thursday I uploaded the photos in my pc saw the weird object in one of them. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Object
Object appeared to be flying through the sky, at first I thought it was a daytime view of the moon but realized it was flying through the sky on April 10, 2018….so I filmed what I was observing on my mobile phone So far friends and family have told me it’s a plane and the sun is hitting it at a strange angle. It’s the moon and the clouds are moving so it’s an optical illusion, it is just a cloud and it’s a UFO,s o all I want is someone to view the footage and tell me WHAT it is. Note: Looks like clouds
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New-Witness Angle to Nimitz Tic Tac UFO Incident
New-Witness Angle to Nimitz Tic Tac UFO Incident
NY Times is MIA
“Oh my god! Oh my god! I’m engaged, I’m engaged! Shit!’ He’s screaming on the radio.”
Excerpts from the podcast testimony of radar operator Kevin Day, former senior chief petty officer aboard the USS Princeton, relaying the words he heard in real time from an F-18 pilot in hot pursuit of what may turn out to become the best-documented military UFO challenge ever. Day was being interviewed by Air Force veteran John Burroughs at KGRA.
By Billy Cox De Void 6-18-18
“I found out later this thing did a barrel roll around him,” Day recalled during a two-hour Q&A last week on Phenomenon Radio Live. “And just basically kicked his butt in a dogfight.”
This is a new-witness angle to what’s being called the Nimitz Tic Tac incident of 2004, an update to the story broken by the New York Times last December. Day said he was in charge of air defense for the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group as it conducted training exercises 80 miles off the coast of San Diego. And he was on duty in the second week of November when a pilot with the elite “Black Aces” captured the now-famous Tic Tac-shaped UFO with an infrared gun camera.
But Day wasn’t the only Navy veteran to spill the beans last week about what he saw. On Wednesday, “Extraordinary Beliefs” podcaster Jeremy Corbell bagged a 23-minute interview with an operations specialist who would give only his first name, Trevor. During nearly week-long interactions with the furtive UFOs, Trevor was watching the radar scopes aboard the Nimitz’s Combat Direction Center, the nexus of the entire task force. Early on, he described watching high-flying blips dart across his grid in jerky movements that sound (to De Void, anyway) like a cursor on a computer screen. Trevor said he “couldn’t tag it” because the thing(s) “kept jumping around.”
But the news peg here is Trevor’s claim about what he didn’t see on radar. The day after the F-18s returned from their intercept mission, colleagues, including officers and a pilot, invited him to check out gun-cam footage that had been downloaded into the Secret Internet Protocol Routing Network (SIPRNet) system. This anomaly looked nothing like the Tic Tac. This was your classic flying saucer – flat below, rounded dome on top. The video resolution was sharper than the Tic Tac. Furthermore, when they slowed the action down, frame by frame, the UFO disappeared in sequential frames before reappearing in others. “And then boom,” says Trevor, “it was gone.”
Again, what set these new accounts into motion was the Times’ original reporting six months ago. And what ultimately led to Day’s interview is an enduring public appetite for more info on the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the $22 million UFO research initiative, exposed by the NYT.
“This is the first chance that I’ve had a chance to actually appear before the public and speak about details of the program and not go to jail” — Hal Puthoff, June 8/CREDIT: To The Stars Academy
Less than two weeks ago, during a Society for Scientific Exploration conference in Las Vegas, engineer and research insider Hal Puthoff reminded listeners there were 38 related papers logged by the Defense Intelligence Agency, prepared by contractors as part of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Project during 2007-12. Two of those broad theoretical reports, written in 2010, one by Puthoff himself (“Acquisition Threat Support”), went public in May.
But those were tame compared with the May release of yet another paper addressing the Nimitz incident specifically. Though its author was anonymous and it bore no government markings, the summary was detailed enough to create a firestorm of Internet speculation over who wrote it.
Known for co-authoring a bangup radar analysis the 2008 Stephenville Incident as well as bringing critical scrutiny to the infrared UFO footage shot by airborne federal Customs agents over Puerto Rico in 2013, Robert Powell had been keeping an eye on the Nimitz story long before the Times’ coup. Working leads for volunteer researchers called the Scientific Coalition for Ufology, Powell located crew logs and started reaching out to potential Tic Tac witnesses. He recorded an interview with Kevin Day in either late December or early January; Trevor (“that’s his actual first name, he’s real,” Powell says) never replied to his email.
Powell kept his SCU teammates looped in, aiming to publish a fuller accounting of the Nimitz mystery online in August. But with the legitimacy of the “executive summary” of the Tic Tac being hotly contested, one of the SCU members jumped into a cyberdebate and speculated the author might’ve been the hitherto unknown Kevin Day – and dropped Day’s name in the middle of it. Powell issued a WTF to his colleague, who deleted the post. By then, it was too late. Alternative media was hot on Day’s trail.
“Once witnesses start going public,” Powell explains, “they start getting contaminated. The more they tell their stories, they begin to change. It’s weird how the mind works.”
Powell said he heard some contradictions between what Day told him several months ago and what he told Burroughs. For instance: Did the UFO(s) drop from 28,000 feet to sea level within the snap of a finger, as Day said last week, or did it/they go from 80,000 feet to 28,000 feet, as he told Powell? There are other discrepancies, most of them minor. “It wouldn’t matter to most people – this thing happened and that’s all they care about,” says Powell. “But the inconsistencies can create openings for debunkers to say it never happened.”
And what about Puthoff? Best known for his government research into the quantum mechanics behind things paranormal, the Vice President of Science and Technology for the To The Stars Academy was a key character in the Times’ scoop. On June 8 in Vegas, Puthoff openly discussed the AATIP’s research into material allegedly recovered from a UFO years ago. It was a “multi-layered bismuth and magnesium” artifact that early investigators couldn’t get to bond in the lab; furthermore, the embroidery served no discernible function.
“Well, years later, decades later actually, finally our own science moves along,” Puthoff told his audience. “We move into an area called metamaterials, and it turns out exactly this combination of materials at exactly those dimensions turn out to be an excellent microscopic waveguide for very high frequency electromagnetic terahertz frequencies.”
De Void isn’t sure what that means, exactly. But how is this not interesting?
Two days after co-authoring the Times piece on the AATIP, veteran reporter Ralph Blumenthal wrote how the story “has dominated the most emailed and most viewed lists since.” He reiterated the point on MSNBC a day later, saying “This is probably the most watched and looked-at story the New York Times has run in a long time, because people are fascinated by the subject.” Queried by the network host about what kind of stuff the Pentagon experts had investigated, Blumenthal replied, “They don’t know, they’re studying it, but it’s some kind of compound they don’t recognize.”
That was six months ago. Where is the New York Times followup? Are they really walking away from a story they started? Because?
Given the readership market for this information, as described by Blumenthal, this isn’t just bad journalism. This is a bad business decision.
UFO fly-by caught on surveillance footage from Denmark on June 28th 2011 at 5.15 PM local time. Recorded from my apartment with a HD video camcorder pointing in westerly direction in Odense city. I was filming the passing clouds and did not see the dark grey object passing by. See the UFO fly-by footage in below video.
Actually I first discovered the UFO on August 24th 2018 while I looked through some old video footage. In these years old cloud videos I encountered some few insects and birds which at first glance behaved strangely, however, a more thorough look at these revealed their earthly origin. But the one object in the video above stands out clearly. And I have not yet been successful with the identification of this object. It seem not to look like any earthly object I know of.
UFO fly-by in a precise straight line
Then I first saw it, my first thought was “insect”, but the movement in a straight line across the screen made me curious. I investigated further and found it actually follows a precise straight line from right to left. It is so precise that you can draw a line from where the object first appears (right side of screen) to the last time just before it disappears (left side of screen).
That it follows a straight line is of course not an indication that the object can not be an insect. But when I think about it, I have never seen an insect in cruise flight. They always tend to fly around in chaotic patterns and not follow a straight course. Birds are cruising but this object does not really resemble a bird if you ask me.
Angular shaped object releasing fog?
The unknown object seem to have an angular shape that remains throughout nine individual frames I managed to get from the UFO footage. But some minor changes are seen when it´s flying. What made me convinced that this object is not an insect, or a bird, is the condensation or fog that is seen been released from the object in flight.
What also made me curious was, that the unidentified flying object seem to have several dark spots on it´s surface. If these are openings or portholes I don´t know, but they are there. In frame 4 below it looks like the object has a big opening behind also.
In the picture above you also see this strange condensation, or fog, being released on the top of the object. Actually you can see there is some fog beneath and around the object in below animation that seem to follow the object.
UFO fly-by footage animated
As you can see in below fly-by footage animation based on 9 frames, this object is not what you normally see in our skies. Jet planes produce condensation trails (contrails) but not the same way as this object does here.
The UFO footage animation above shows an object that seem to release short bursts of condensation or something else that looks like fog. Are these aliens in the sky over Denmark? Besides the Unidentified Flying Object terminology, we could also put the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) terminology on this one. It´s behaviour in the sky is very strange.
UFO fly-by on surveilance footage in Denmark
The UFO fly-by was caught on surveillance footage recorded with a JVC Everio HD memory camcorder GZ-HM200 on tripod. Camcorder was focused on the clouds which is the reason why the object seems a little blurred. The video format is *.mts and carries high definition video. I was filming the clouds passing by in that hope I could use some of this footage as background for other videos I produce. So I made these recordings but did not find any useful material. I did not delete any of it but forgot it. And then the computer crashed and I had no access to the hard drives until August 2018. So seven years after I finally got the opportunity to look through the material and found this object.
Earlier sighting maybe same object in footage?
I had a sighting one day looking out my terrace door in westerly direction, the same place from where I recorded this UFO fly-by footage. I saw a small dark grey object estimated to be under 100 meters away then it passed in front of me. It was travelling across the sky from south towards north and disappears just above the treetops about 100 meters away to the right of me.
I only had few seconds to see it while it passed in front of me. To me it did not act like a bird and it was too big to be an insect. There were no sound at all. Just a little grey object that flew in a precise straight line. I wonder if that object could be the same I also caught on film here?
Unidentified aerial phenomenon releasing fog is not new
Here on site I have other pictures that shows the unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) releasing fog or something that looks like fog. If you look throughout the galleries you will see that condensation happens now and then.
“j’ai posé la question au site Scooper en rapport à d’autres photos et à d’autres témoins potentiels. Il m’a répondu en disant; “Oui, il y a eu des rapports de campeurs du côté du lac. Il y a aussi eu un pécheur qui a utilisé son bateau pour mener son enquête quant à la disparition de l’eau. Scooper continue de s’intéresser à ces rapports.” [voir la capture d’écran ci-dessous]
L’observation est incroyable à tellement de niveaux. Premièrement, c’est un pilote qui a pris la photo. Deuxièmement, le pilote a essayé de contacter l’ovni en utilisant sa radio. Troisièmement, l’ovni n’est pas invisible ou même partiellement invisible, ça s’est passé en plein jour! Quatrièmement cet ovni soulève de l’eau, elle monte vers sa direction. C’est une observation qui marque les annales. Comme vous pouvez le constater c’est une zone peu peuplé et ils avaient très peu à craindre. Volent-ils vraiment notre eau et est-ce la raison pour laquelle ils viennent sur Terre? Dans tous les cas, nos frères de l’espace sont libres de faire comme chez eux. Ils vivent probablement sur la Lune ou quelque part dans notre système solaire, et la Terre est le coin le plus proche pour avoir de l’eau fraîche. SCW
Un pilote local et un photographe amateur a partagé une photo exclusive avec le magazine Scooper du Comté du Nevada représentant un objet volant non-identifié en train de survoler le lac de Scotts Flat situé dans l’important bassin du comté de Nevada, en Californie. D’après le pilote, l’objet apparaissait pomper de l’eau hors du réservoir.
Le pilote, qui a préféré rester anonyme, a dit qu’il effectuait un vol de routine tard vendredi après-midi quand il a remarqué ce qui apparaissait être un autre avion. Cependant quand il a tenté de contacter l’appareil en utilisant sa radio, il n’a pas reçu de messages en retour.
“Comme vous pouvez le constater dans la photo, j’effectuais ma descente finale au Nevada County Airport quand j’ai remarqué cet objet rouge,” a déclaré le pilote. “Alors j’ai remarqué une ‘trombe d’eau’ juste en dessous de lui.”“J’avais l’impression qu’il y avait une gigantesque paille d’eau claire sous lui. Donc j’ai effectué un contact radio pour leur faire savoir que j’étais dans les parages mais ils n’ont pas répondu à ma requête, ce qui était très inhabituel.”
Partout dans le monde, des ufologues soupçonnent que des visiteurs venus d’ailleurs dans l’univers, ont rendu visite à la Terre à cause de toute l’eau qu’elle recèle. Certains ont même spéculé que l’eau est utilisée pour “faire le plein”.
“Wow la vache. C’est la preuve finale qu’ils utilisent le satellite Chevalier Noir pour coordonner leurs ‘visites’ en masse” a déclaré Mr. Bradenshauer en utilisant ses doigts pour faire des signes dans l’air. “Je vais dire qu’ils volent notre eau, et ne nous demandent définitivement pas la permission pour le faire.”
Le Scooper a fait de plus amples investigations pour avoir des commentaires, mais personne n’a accepté de nous recevoir. Nous assumons donc que le NID est conscient de cette invasion, et ignore ou est impuissant face à ces extraterrestres. Cela vaut de même pour toutes les agences de renseignement qui elles aussi refusent de commenter ces événements.
E.T., Phone Earth? How Neutron-Star Crashes Could Help Aliens Call Us
E.T., Phone Earth? How Neutron-Star Crashes Could Help Aliens Call Us
The first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the astronomy community last year, but not quite as much as the first-ever signal from extraterrestrial life might someday stun the world.
And a new paper argues that the observations of an binary-star merger may actually be the key to making that second detection, which is the ongoing quest of a scientific effort called the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI.
“We were really impressed by the rapid growth of multi-messenger astronomy associated with [the neutron star merger detected last August], and started thinking about interesting possibilities far beyond traditional astronomical studies,” lead author Yuki Nishino, a physicist at Kyoto University in Japan, wrote in an email to Space.com. “Actually, previously, we were not familiar with the SETI activities.” [9 Strange, Scientific Excuses for Why Humans Haven’t Found Aliens Yet]
So, he and his co-author started considering how a technologically advanced alien civilization beyond our galaxy might piggyback on the bright signals created by colliding neutron stars to catch our attention.
Their basic idea is that aliens would have the ability to predict the merger of a binary neutron star elsewhere in their own galaxy with plenty of warning. We can sometimes do that now, the pair wrote, because many neutron stars are pulsars, which produce a spinning jet of light. That means we can track where they are and how they are interacting in binary systems.
Next, the aliens would need to produce a signal timed around that collision. Scientists have already started dreaming up space-based gravitational-wave detectors they believe could observe a collision years in advance; they already turn all the telescopes at their command toward a collision after it’s been registered. That means aliens may be able to catch our attention with an artificial signature before, after or both before and after the natural collision signal.
It would need to be quite a powerful signal, given that the study is focused on civilizations beyond our own galaxy, requiring long travel times even at the speed of light. The pair calculated that for aliens 130 million light-years away from Earth, the feat would require feeding a telescope like the Square Kilometer Array (currently being built) about a terawatt of energy. (For context, Earth’s total energy consumption in 2015 was 17.4 terawatts, by one calculation.)
Of course, all this assumes that our still-hypothetical distant neighbors want to reach out to us, and there’s no way to know how valid that assumption is. Nishino thinks outreach is inevitable. “I think one of the basic grounds for developing an advanced civilization is a profound desire to leave behind information,” he wrote in his email. He added that it may well be safer in a scenario like his, where alien and correspondent civilizations are in two separate galaxies buffered by vast distances.
But for Nishino, what’s compelling about this approach to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is that it relies on observations that are being gathered anyway. When word got out about the initial gravitational-waves detection from colliding neutron stars, astronomers around the world hustled to turn telescopes in all sorts of wavelengths toward the event. Nishino wants to ask them to look through the data with SETI in mind as well — which is much easier than gathering separate data for the hunt.
The research is described in a paper published on Aug. 1 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Producer Tracy Torme Discusses Making UFO Film Fire in the Sky with Travis Walton
Tracy Torme is a movie producer and script writer. Most recently, he produced the movie I am Legend starring Will Smith. He has written for Saturday Night Live, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Outer Limits, Carnivale, and much more. He also produced the 1988 documentary UFO Cover-Up? Live!
This presentation is from the 2015 Skyfire Summit, commemorating the 40th anniversary of a UFO sighting by several loggers and the disappearance of one of the men, Travis Walton.
The men say they saw a bright light in the forest that they believed to be a fire. They rushed to the site only to find a large metallic disc-shaped object hovering above the forest floor.
Walton, being a bit of a show-off, ran off to get a closer look, despite his friends calling for him to get back into the truck. The object shot out some kind of beam at him, and Walton flew several feet in the air. Believing him to be dead, and scared out of their wits, his co-workers took off.
Walton’s harrowing experience made headlines when he went missing. After seeing Walton zapped, his coworkers took off, assuming he was dead. They returned soon after, but the UFO and Walton were gone. They raced to report Walton’s disappearance to the police, but the police had a hard time believing their friend was attacked by a UFO. A massive man hunt was mounted, but as time when on, authorities began suspecting that Walton’s friends must have killed Walton and concocted a wild story about a UFO taking him away.
Eventually, Walton returned. He thought he had been gone only a few hours, but it turned out to be five days. Walton remembered seeing the UFO before it zapped him. He then didn’t remember anything until being dropped off on the side of the street and seeing the UFO flying off in the night sky above him.
Later, under regression, he remembered strange events taking place onboard some sort of apparent spacecraft.
The 1993 movie Fire in the Sky, was based on Walton’s experiences, and portrayed the events fairly accurately, except for what Walton remembers happening under regression. The movie starred D.B. Sweeney, James Garner and Robert Patrick.
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Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
Testing Russian humanoid robot Fyodor at Android Technics enterprise in Magnitogorsk MAGNITOGORSK, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 8, 2016: Testing the Russian humanoid rescue robot Fyodor created by the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects by order of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, at the Android Technics Scientific Production Association. The robot can be remotely controlled by a person in a special suit or work autonomously performing voice commands. Donat Sorokin/TASS
A rhetorical question for you. Let’s say you’re an AI scientist, and you’ve found the holy grail of your field — you figured out how to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI). That’s a truly intelligent computer that could pass as human in terms of cognitive ability or emotional intelligence. AGI would be creative and find links between disparate ideas — things no computer can do today.
That’s great, right? Except for one big catch: your AGI system is evil or could only be used for malicious purposes.
So, now a conundrum. Do you publish your white paper and tell the world exactly how to create this unrelenting force of evil? Do you file a patent so that no one else (except for you) could bring such an algorithm into existence? Or do you sit on your research, protecting the world from your creation but also passing up on the astronomical paycheck that would surely arrive in the wake of such a discovery?
Yes, this is a rhetorical question — for now. But some top names in the world of AI are already thinking about their answers. On Friday, speakers at the “AI Race and Societal Impacts” panel of The Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligencein Prague gave their best responses after the question was posed by an audience member.
Here’s how five panelists, all experts on the future of AI, responded.
Siegelmann urged the hypothetical scientist to publish their work immediately. Siegelmann had earlier told Futurism that she believes there is no evil technology, but there are people who would misuse it. If that AGI algorithm was shared with the world, people might be able to find ways to use it for good.
But after Siegelmann answered, the audience member who posed the hypothetical question clarified that, for the purposes of the thought experiment, we should assume that no good could ever possibly come from the AGI.
Irakle Eridze, Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor at UNICRI, United Nations
Easy one: “Don’t publish it!”
Eridze otherwise stayed out of the fray for this specific question, but throughout the conference he highlighted the importance of setting up strong ethical benchmarks on how to develop and deploy AGI. Apparently, deliberately releasing an evil super-intelligent entity into the world would go against those standards.
Turchin believes there are responsible ways to handle such an AI system. Think about a grenade, he said — one should not hand it to a small child, but maybe a trained soldier could be trusted with it.
But Turchin’s example is more revealing than it may initially appear. A hand grenade is a weapon created explicitly to cause death and destruction no matter who pulls the pin, so it’s difficult to imagine a so-called responsible way to use one. It’s not clear whether Turchin intended his example to be interpreted this way, but he urged the AI community to make sure dangerous algorithms were left only in the most trustworthy hands.
Tak Lo, a partner at Zeroth.ai, an accelerator that invests in AI startups
Lo said the hypothetical computer scientist should sell the evil AGI to him. That way, they wouldn’t have to hold onto the ethical burden of such a powerful and scary AI — instead, you could just pass it to Lo and he would take it from there. Lo was likely (at least half-)kidding, and the audience laughed. Earlier that day, Lo said that private capital and investors should be used to push AI forward, and he may have been poking fun at his own obviously capitalistic stance. Still, someone out there would absolutely try to buy such an AGI system, should it arrive.
But what Lo suggests, in jest or not, is one of the most likely results, should this actually come to pass. While hobbyists can develop truly valuable and innovative algorithms, much of the top talent in the AI field is scooped up by large companies who then own the products of their labor. The other likely scenario is that the scientist would publish their paper on an open-access preprint server like arXiv to help promote transparency.
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Executive Director of the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk
Ó hÉigeartaigh agreed with Eridze: you shouldn’t publish it. “You don’t just share that with the world! You have to think about the kind of impact you will have,” he said.
And with that, the panel ended. Everyone went on their merry way, content that this evil AGI was safe in the realm of the hypothetical.
In the “real world,” though, ethics often end up taking a back seat to more earthly concerns like money and prestige. Companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazonregularly publish facial recognition or other surveillance systems, often selling them to police or the military which uses it to monitor everyday people. Academic scientists are trapped in the “publish or perish,” cycle — publish a study, or risk losing your position. So ethical concerns are often relegated to a paper’s conclusion, as a factor for someone else to sort out at some vague point in the future.
For now, though, it’s unlikely that anyone will come up with AGI — much less evil AGI — anytime soon. But the panelists’ wide-ranging answers means that we are still far from sorting out what should be done with unethical, dangerous science.
No, these comets won’t collide with Earth, but skywatchers are already getting nice views of one of them already, using small backyard telescopes.
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. Shot on August 18, 2018 from Moscow region, Russia. Used Canon 600D and guided Celestron AVX 8″ with focal reducer. Stack of 90 frames * 2-minute each (plus calibration frames). Calibration and processing in PixInsight 1.8.
There’s exciting news about two comets, one in our sky now, and one about to be. The first – comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, parent object of the Draconid meteor shower – is being picked up with small telescopes now. It’s about to come closer to Earth than it has in 72 years! The other – comet Wirtanen – will come even closer and might become visible to the unaided eye later this year.
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner – affectionately called simply 21P by astronomers – is currently approaching the Earth and sun at incredible speeds (about 14 miles/second, or 23 km/s). Its closest approach to both the Earth and the sun takes place on the same day – September 10, 2018 – when this comet will sweep past Earth at a completely safe distance of 36 million miles (58 million km) from our planet. That’s nearly as far from us as the next planet outward in orbit – Mars – is right now. But, for a comet, it’s relatively close.
And that’s one reason astronomers are excited. But there are more reasons!
Amateur astronomers are getting nice images of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, even with small telescopes, like this one taken with an 80 mm refractor by Alex Guadalupe from Puerto Rico.
Periodic comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, 16 days before perihelion
21P is currently moving southwards through the northern constellation Camelopardalis at increasing speed. It is visible at 8th magnitude now, moving at 4 arcminutes per hour.
The structure of 21P's coma continues to evolve. Within an asymmetric, tear-shaped region 1.5 by 1.2 arcminutes in size lies a bright central condensation, from which three short jets are emanating in different directions. The dust tail has a length of at least 8 arcminutes (extending beyond the edge of our image). The outer coma, which also partially exceeds the size of our field of view, has a diameter of 10.5 arcminutes.
21P/Giacobini-Zinner will approach within 0.39 AU (58 million km) of Earth on September 10th (which is also the day of its perihelion passage). It is expected to reach 7th magnitude at that time, when it will be moving through the constellations Auriga and Taurus. After its perihelion passage, 21P will move into the southern skies. It becomes unobservable from our location by early October.
Photometry (APASS V comparison stars unfiltered, 242" aperture radius): m1 = 8.5 ± 0.1 mag (lower limit, for coma diameter of 8 arcminutes) Nuclear magnitude (Gaia DR2 G magnitude unfiltered, 8" aperture radius): m2 = 10.95 +/- 0.1 mag
Measurement in ICQ format: 21 2018 08 25.02 C 8.5 AQ 25.4Y 7A200 10.5 8.0m267 ICQ XX BAMaaI C 8.05mG2x ICY KPR 0 U9*0.05 2.1s 2.1
Images taken in support of the PACA_21P/GZ campaign
During the first half of September, comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner will be visible with binoculars. The comet is expected to reach a visual magnitude of 6.5 to 7. That means it will not be visible to the eye … but nearly.
Around this time, 21P will be passing in front of the constellations Camelopardalis, Perseus, and Auriga.
Location of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner on August 29, 2018, at 11:45 p.m. CDT, as seen from the central U.S., facing northeast.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
On September 1, 2018, at 11:55 p.m. comet 21P is located not too far from Capella, the bright star visible near the horizon in the northeast direction, as seen from the central U.S. The comet passes about twice the apparent moon diameter from Capella.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
Because closest approach to Earth happens on the night of September 9-10 (September 10 at 06:27 UTC to be exact)- the same day as the comet’s perihelion – Saturday, September 8, is also a good night to get a glimpse at the celestial visitor. On that date, it will be visible in front of the constellation Auriga.
Using binoculars or a small telescope, you will be able to find the comet as a fuzzy patch of light, if you observe in the right direction. See the illustration below.
The illustration shows the comet location on September 9, 2018, at 3 a.m. CDT, as seen from the central U.S. Observers using computerized telescopes can point their instruments at RA 5h38m46s / DEC +36º31’30.6″ a few minutes before that time.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
Although the nucleus of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner is estimated to be just over a mile (about 2 km) wide, the heat the comet is now feeling from the sun has caused it to develop a coma or cometary atmosphere some 180,000 miles (about 290,000 km) in diameter, according to observations by Northolt Branch Observatories in London.
This means comet 21P now has an atmosphere about twice the diameter of our solar system’s biggest planet, Jupiter!
Some images show the comet’s coma as a green color, which indicates the comet has cyanogen and diatomic carbon, gases that glow in a green color as they’re illuminated by sunlight.
Using a small telescope, carefully observe which stars are close to the comet’s nucleus, and then compare the view just 15 or 30 minutes later; you will be able to detect its motion. Comet 21P is travelling through space at 50,555 miles per hour (81,360 km/h) relative to Earth.
Late on the night of September 10-11, the comet passes very close to Messier 37, aka M37, the richest and brightest open cluster in the constellation Auriga. See illustration below.
On September 11, 2018, at 4:30 a.m., comet 21P passes almost in front of open cluster M37 in Auriga. This view shows the close encounter as seen from the central U.S., facing east.
Illustration by Eddie Irizarry using Stellarium.
Meanwhile, if you don’t want to wait 40 years, take a good look at Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, as its next best close approach occurs on September 18, 2058.
Now about that meteor shower. As it orbits the sun, 21P produces some debris, causing the Draconid meteor shower. In 2018, Draconids will probably be seen on the evening of October 7 or 8, close to the new moon phase. The Draconids are not known for being an outstanding shower in most years. But, when a parent comet is nearby, the resulting meteor shower can be spectacular. We haven’t seen any predictions for a spectacular Draconid shower in 2018 … yet. But it’s definitely a shower worth watching. Read more … All you need to know: Draconids in 2018.
Comet 21P was discovered on December 20, 1900, by Michel Giacobini from France, and then was seen again or recovered by Ernst Zinner from Germany in October 1913. It is a frequent visitor to Earth, with an orbit around the sun lasting 6.6 years.
Another comet approaching Earth is 46P/Wirtanen. In December 2018, comet Wirtanen might be visible with the unaided eye, at least from dark skies. Closest approach to the sun will be December 12, 2018, and closest approach to Earth is just a few days later, on December 16. According to astronomers at the University of Maryland, this passage of comet Wirtanen near the Earth (near by comet standards, that is) will be the 10th closest approach of a comet in modern times. At its closest to us, the comet will be about 30 times the moon’s distance (7.1 million miles, or 11.5 million km). Contrast that number to the number of 21P/Giacobini-Zinner’s closest approach to Earth (36 million miles, or 58 million km).
Estimates indicate Wirtanen might reach a visual magnitude of 3.5 to 6. That would place the comet clearly in the realm of visibility with the unaided eye (although diffuse objects like comets are tougher to see than the pinpoints of stars at comparable magnitudes).
And, of course, comets have been shown to be unpredictable. We will keep you updated.
The December 16, 2018, close approach to Earth of comet Wirtanen will happen less than 4 days after the comet’s perihelion, or closest point to the sun. Because comets are increasingly active as they draw nearer the sun that binds them in orbit, this comet can be expected to be near its brightest around then. It might be visible to the eye from a dark location.
Bottom line: Here are two comets to watch for in the months ahead, comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, coming closest to Earth in September, 2018 – and comet Wirtanen, coming closest in December.
Researchers have found evidence of an existing body of liquid water on Mars.
What they believe to be a lake sits under the planet's south polar ice cap, and is about 20km (12 miles) across.
Previous research found possible signs of intermittent liquid water flowing on the martian surface, but this is the first sign of a persistent body of water on the planet in the present day.
Lake beds like those explored by Nasa's Curiosity rover show water was present on the surface of Mars in the past.
However, the planet's climate has since cooled due to its thin atmosphere, leaving most of its water locked up in ice.
The result is exciting because scientists have long searched for signs of present-day liquid water on Mars, but these have come up empty or yielded ambiguous findings. It will also interest those studying the possibilities for life beyond Earth - though it does not yet raise the stakes in the search for biology.
The discovery was made using Marsis, a radar instrument on board the European Space Agency's (Esa) Mars Express orbiter.
Image copyrightNASA/JPL/MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEM
Image caption
The proposed lake sits beneath ice near the south pole of Mars
"It's probably not a very large lake," said Prof Roberto Orosei from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, who led the study.
Marsis wasn't able to determine how thick the layer of water might be, but the research team estimate that it is a minimum of one metre.
"This really qualifies this as a body of water. A lake, not some kind of meltwater filling some space between rock and ice, as happens in certain glaciers on Earth," Prof Orosei added.
Image copyrightESA/INAFImage captionArtists' impression: Mars Express probing the planet's surface. Marsis radar results above.
How was it found?
Radar instruments like Marsis examine the surface and immediate subsurface of the planet by sending out a signal and examining what is bounced back.
The continuous white line at the top of the radar results above marks the beginning of the South Polar Layered Deposit; a filo pastry-like accumulation of water ice and dust.
Beneath this, researchers spotted something unusual 1.5km under the ice.
"In light blue you can see where the reflections from the bottom are stronger than surface reflection. This is something that is to us the tell tale sign of the presence of water," says Prof Orosei.
Image copyrightUSGS ASTROGEOLOGY SCIENCE CENTER, ARIZONA STATE UNImage captionArtists' impression: Marsis data shows an area of high reflectivity (dark blue) which is thought to be water
What does this mean for life?
Nothing definitive. Yet.
Dr Manish Patel from the Open University explained: "We have long since known that the surface of Mars is inhospitable to life as we know it, so the search for life on Mars is now in the subsurface.
"This is where we get sufficient protection from harmful radiation, and the pressure and temperature rise to more favourable levels. Most importantly, this allows liquid water, essential for life."
This principle of following the water is key to astrobiology - the study of potential life beyond Earth.
So while the findings suggest water is present, they don't confirm anything further.
"We are not closer to actually detecting life," Dr Patel told BBC News, "but what this finding does is give us the location of where to look on Mars. It is like a treasure map - except in this case, there will be lots of 'X's marking the spots."
Image copyrightSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage caption Astrobiologists study extreme environments like salt lakes on Earth to understand how life might survive on Mars
The water's temperature and chemistry could also pose a problem for any potential martian organisms.
In order to remain liquid in such cold conditions (the research team estimate between -10 and -30 Celsius where it meets the ice above), the water likely has a great many salts dissolved in it.
"It's plausible that the water may be an extremely cold, concentrated brine, which would be pretty challenging for life," explained Dr Claire Cousins, an astrobiologist from the University of St Andrews, UK.
What next?
While its existence provides a tantalising prospect for those interested in the possibility of past or present life on Mars, the lake's characteristics must first be verified by further research.
"What needs to be done now," explained Dr Matt Balme from the Open University, "is for the measurements to be repeated elsewhere to look for similar signals, and, if possible, for all other explanation to be examined and - hopefully - ruled out.
"Maybe this could even be the trigger for an ambitious new Mars mission to drill into this buried water-pocket - like has been done for sub-glacial lakes in Antarctica on Earth," he added.
Image copyrightSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage caption The area has been compared to Lake Vostok, which lies 4km beneath the Antarctic ice
Scientists have previously claimed to find bacterial life in the buried depths of Antarctica's Lake Vostok, but drilling on Mars would make for an ambitious project indeed.
"Getting there and acquiring the final evidence that this is indeed a lake will not be an easy task," said Prof Orosei.
"It will require flying a robot there which is capable of drilling through 1.5km of ice. This will certainly require some technological developments that at the moment are not available."
Following notes written by an English traveler in the early 19th century and two French pilots in the 1950s, Pierre Tallet made a stunning discovery: a set of 30 caves honeycombed into limestone hills but sealed up and hidden from view in a remote part of the Egyptian desert, a few miles inland from the Red Sea, far from any city, ancient or modern. During his first digging season, in 2011, he established that the caves had served as a kind of boat storage depot during the fourth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, about 4,600 years ago. Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script the ancient Egyptians used for everyday communication. Tallet realized that he was dealing with the oldest known papyri in the world.
Astonishingly, the papyri were written by men who participated in the building of the Great Pyramid, the tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu, the first and largest of the three colossal pyramids at Giza just outside modern Cairo. Among the papyri was the journal of a previously unknown official named Merer, who led a crew of some 200 men who traveled from one end of Egypt to the other picking up and delivering goods of one kind or another. Merer, who accounted for his time in half-day increments, mentions stopping at Tura, a town along the Nile famous for its limestone quarry, filling his boat with stone and taking it up the Nile River to Giza. In fact, Merer mentions reporting to “the noble Ankh-haf,” who was known to be the half-brother of the Pharaoh Khufu and now, for the first time, was definitively identified as overseeing some of the construction of the Great Pyramid. And since the pharaohs used the Tura limestone for the pyramids’ outer casing, and Merer’s journal chronicles the last known year of Khufu’s reign, the entries provide a never-before-seen snapshot of the ancients putting finishing touches on the Great Pyramid.
Experts are thrilled by this trove of papyri. Mark Lehner, the head of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, who has worked on the pyramids and the Sphinx for 40 years, has said it may be as close as he is likely to get to time-traveling back to the age of the pyramid builders. Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian archaeologist, and formerly the chief inspector of the pyramid site and minister of antiquities, says that it is “the greatest discovery in Egypt in the 21st century.”
Tallet himself is careful to speak in more measured terms. “The century is at the beginning,” he says at one of his digs along the Red Sea. “One must not enlarge this kind of find.” Was he very emotional when he came upon the cache of papyri? “You know, when you are working like that all the day for one month you cannot realize at once what happens.”
Tallet has been toiling quietly on the periphery of the ancient Egyptian Empire—from the Libyan Desert to the Sinai and the Red Sea—for more than 20 years without attracting much notice, until now. He finds it both amusing and mildly annoying that his discoveries are suddenly attracting attention in the scholarly press and popular media. “It’s because the papyri are speaking of the Pyramid of Khufu,” he says.
We are standing in an encampment in a desert valley a couple of hundred yards from the Red Sea near the modern Egyptian resort town called Ayn Soukhna. Tallet and his crew—part French, part Egyptian—sleep in rows of tents set up near the archaeological site. Above the tents is a steep sandstone hillside into which the ancient Egyptians carved deep caves, or galleries, in which they stored their boats. Tallet leads us up the hillside and clambers on a rocky trail along the cliff face. You can see the outlines of a set of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs carved delicately into the stone. There is the royal seal of Mentuhotep IV, a little-known pharaoh who ruled for just two years in about 2,000 B.C. And right below there are three lines of a hieroglyphic inscription proclaiming the achievements of the pharaoh, which Tallet translates: “In year one of the king, they sent a troop of 3,000 men to fetch copper, turquoise and all the good products of the desert.”
On a clear day you can see the Sinai Desert about 40 miles away across the Red Sea from where we stand. Before these recent excavations, the ancient Egyptians were not widely known to be notable sea travelers, and were thought to confine themselves to moving up and down the Nile or hugging the Mediterranean coast. The work that Tallet and others have done in the last two decades has shown that the ancient Egyptian Empire was as ambitious in its outward reach as it was in building upward in its colossal monuments at Giza.
Tallet, a short, almost bald man of 49, wears wire-rimmed glasses and, on this day, a tan wool sweater vest. He looks like someone you would be more likely to encounter in a Paris library or office than in a desert camp. Indeed he is soft-spoken, choosing his words with scholarly scruple and carefully citing the contributions of other scholars, and he likes working in remote locations far from the hubbub at the monumental sites, royal tombs and palaces and necropolises that have generally captured the world’s attention. “What I love are desert places,” he says. “I would not like to excavate places like Giza and Saqqara.” (Saqqara is where early Egyptian pharaohs built some of their tombs before beginning the pyramid complex at Giza.) “I am not so fond of excavating graves. I like natural landscapes.” At the same time, he has professional reasons for preferring remote sites over famous monuments. “Most new evidence is found in the periphery,” he says.
Tallet’s taste for the periphery goes back to the beginning of his career. Tallet grew up in Bordeaux, the son of a high-school French teacher (his father) and a professor of English literature (his mother). After studying at Paris’ famous École Normale Supérieure, Tallet went to Egypt to do an alternative military service by teaching in an Egyptian high school; he stayed on to work at the French Institute, where he began his archaeological work. He scoured the edges of the Egyptian world—the Libyan desert on one end, the Sinai Desert on the other—looking for, and finding, previously unknown Egyptian rock inscriptions. “I love rock inscriptions, they give you a page of history without excavating,” he says. In the Sinai he also found abundant evidence that the ancient Egyptians mined turquoise and copper, the latter essential for making weapons as well as tools. This, in turn, fit with his discovery of the harbor at Ayn Soukhna that the Egyptians would have used to reach the Sinai. “You see,” he says, “there is a logic in things.”
The area was not recognized as an ancient Egyptian site until 1997 when the cliffside hieroglyphs were noted by an Egyptian archaeologist. Ayn Soukhna has gradually become a popular weekend destination, and since the construction of a larger, faster highway about ten years ago, it is now only about a two-hour drive from Cairo. Across the road from Tallet’s site is an older Egyptian hotel closed for renovation, which allows his crew to work in peace, sifting through the area between the boat galleries up in the hillside and the sea. They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots.
Sixty-two miles south of Ayn Soukhna, along the Red Sea coast, is Tallet’s second archaeological site, at Wadi al-Jarf, and it’s even more obscure. Among the only landmarks in the vicinity is the Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite, a Coptic Orthodox outpost founded in the fifth century near the cave, which had been inhabited by their hermitic patron saint. The area is almost the definition of the middle of nowhere, which is probably why it long failed to attract the attention of either archaeologists or looters. The remoteness also helps explain why the papyri left in the desert there survived for thousands of years. Precisely because administrative centers like Memphis and Giza were occupied and reused for centuries—and then picked over or looted repeatedly in the intervening millennia—the survival rate of fragile papyri from the early dynasties there has been close to zero.
Among the few people to take note of the place before Tallet was the British explorer John Gardner Wilkinson, who passed by in 1823 and described it in his travel notes: “Near the ruins is a small knoll containing eighteen excavated chambers, beside, perhaps, many others, the entrance of which are no longer visible. We went into those where the doors were the least obstructed by the sand or decayed rock, and found them to be catacombs; they are well cut and vary from about 80 to 24 feet, by 5; their height may be from 6 to 8 feet.”
Perhaps associating the area with the monastery, Wilkinson took the gallery complex to be a series of catacombs. But the description of this series of carefully cut chambers carved into the rock sounded to Tallet exactly like the boat storage galleries he was busy excavating at Ayn Soukhna. (They also looked like the galleries at another ancient port, Mersa Gawasis, then being excavated by Kathryn A. Bard of Boston University and Rodolfo Fattovich of the University of Naples L’Orientale.) Moreover, two French pilots who were based in the Suez Gulf in the mid-1950s had noted the site, but didn’t associate it with the harbor. Tallet tracked down one of the pilots and, using his notes, Wilkinson’s description and GPS technology, figured out the location. It was two years later that Tallet and his crew began clearing out a small passageway at the entrance to the boat galleries, between two large stone blocks that had been used to seal the caves. Here they found entire papyrus scrolls, including Merer’s journal. The ancients, Tallet says, “threw all the papyri inside, some of them were still tied with a rope, probably as they were closing the site.”
Wadi al-Jarf lies where the Sinai is a mere 35 miles away, so close you can see the mountains in the Sinai that were the entry to the mining district. The Egyptian site has yielded many revelations along with the trove of papyri. In the harbor, Tallet and his team found an ancient L-shaped stone jetty more than 600 feet long that was built to create a safe harbor for boats. They found some 130 anchors—nearly quadrupling the number of ancient Egyptian anchors located. The 30 gallery-caves carefully dug into the mountainside—ranging from 50 to more than 100 feet in length—were triple the number of boat galleries at Ayn Soukhna. For a harbor constructed 4,600 years ago, this was an enterprise on a truly grand scale.
Yet it was used for a very short time. All the evidence that Tallet and his colleagues have gathered indicates that the harbor was active in the fourth dynasty, concentrated during the reign of one pharaoh, Khufu. What emerges clearly from Tallet’s excavation is that the port was crucial to the pyramid-building project. The Egyptians needed massive amounts of copper—the hardest metal then available—with which to cut the pyramid stones. The principal source of copper was the mines in the Sinai just opposite Wadi al-Jarf. The reason that the ancients abandoned the harbor in favor of Ayn Soukhna would appear to be logistical: Ayn Soukhna is only about 75 miles from the capital of ancient Egypt. Reaching Wadi al-Jarf involved a considerably longer overland trip, even though it was closer to the Sinai mining district.
After visiting Wadi al-Jarf, Lehner, the American Egyptologist, was bowled over by the connections between Giza and this distant harbor. “The power and purity of the site is so Khufu,” he said. “The scale and ambition and sophistication of it—the size of these galleries cut out of rock like the Amtrak train garages, these huge hammers made out of hard black diorite they found, the scale of the harbor, the clear and orderly writing of the hieroglyphs of the papyri, which are like Excel spreadsheets of the ancient world—all of it has the clarity, power and sophistication of the pyramids, all the characteristics of Khufu and the early fourth dynasty.”
Tallet is convinced that harbors such as Wadi al-Jarf and Ayn Soukhna served mainly as supply hubs. Since there were few sources of food in the Sinai, Merer and other managers were responsible for getting food from Egypt’s rich agricultural lands along the Nile to the thousands of men working in the Sinai mine fields, as well as retrieving the copper and turquoise from the Sinai. In all likelihood, they operated the harbor only during the spring and summer when the Red Sea was relatively calm. They then dragged the boats up to the rock face and stored them in the galleries for safekeeping until the next spring.
Ancient Egypt’s maritime activities also served political and symbolic purposes, Tallet argues. It was important for the Egyptian kings to demonstrate their presence and control over the whole national territory, especially its more remote parts, in order to assert the essential unity of Egypt. “Sinai had great symbolic importance for them as it was one of the farthest points they could reach,” Tallet says. “In the Sinai the inscriptions are explaining the mightiness of the king, the wealth of the king, how the king is governing its country. On the outer limits of the Egyptian universe you have a need to show the power of the king.”
In fact, their control of the periphery was rather fragile. Distant and inhospitable Sinai, with its barren landscape and hostile Bedouin inhabitants, represented a challenge for the pharaohs; one inscription records an Egyptian expedition massacred by Bedouin warriors, Tallet says. Nor were the Egyptians always able to hold on to their camps along the Red Sea. “We have evidence from Ayn Soukhna that the site was destroyed several times. There was a big fire in one of the galleries....It was probably difficult for them to control the area.”
Apparently all parts of Egypt were involved in the great building project at Giza. Granite came from Aswan far to the south, food from the delta in the north near the Mediterranean, and limestone from Tura, about 12 miles south of Cairo on the Nile. The burst of maritime activity was also driven by the monumental undertaking. “It is certain that the shipbuilding was made necessary by the gigantism of the royal building projects,” Tallet writes in a recent essay, “and that the great majority of the boats were intended for the navigation of the Nile and the transport of materials along the river, but the development of Wadi al-Jarf exactly in the same period allows us to see without doubt the logical extension, this time toward the Red Sea, of this project of the Egyptian state.”
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Working on the royal boats, it seems, was a source of prestige. According to the papyri found at Wadi al-Jarf, the laborers ate well, and were provisioned with meat, poultry, fish and beer. And among the inscriptions that Tallet and his team have found at the Wadi al-Jarf gallery complex is one, on a large jar fashioned there, hinting at ties to the pharaoh; it mentions “Those Who Are Known of Two Falcons of Gold,” a reference to Khufu. “You have all sorts of private inscriptions, of officials who were involved in these mining expeditions to the Sinai,” Tallet says. “I think it was a way to associate themselves to something that was very important to the king and this was a reason to be preserved for eternity for the individuals.” Clearly these workers were valued servants of the state.
The discovery of the papyri at such a distant location is significant, Tallet says: “It is not very logical that [the writings] should have ended up at Wadi al-Jarf. Of course [the managers] would have always traveled with their archives because they were expected always to account for their time. I think the reason we found [the papyri] there is that this was the last mission of the team, I imagine because of the death of the king. I think they just stopped everything and closed up the galleries and then as they were leaving buried the archives in the area between the two large stones used to seal the complex. The date on the papyri seems to be the last date we have for the reign of Khufu, the 27th year of his reign.”
The work that Tallet and his colleagues have done along the Red Sea connects with Lehner’s work at Giza. In the late 1980s, Lehner began a full-scale excavation of what has turned out to be a residential area a few hundred yards from the pyramids and the Sphinx. For centuries, travelers had contemplated these amazing monuments in splendid isolation—man-made mountains and one of the world’s great sculptures sitting seemingly alone in the desert. The paucity of evidence of the substantial number of people needed to undertake this massive project gave rise to many bizarre alternative theories about the pyramids (they were built by space aliens, by the people from Atlantis and so forth). But in 1999, Lehner began uncovering apartment blocks that might have housed as many as 20,000 people.
And many of the Giza residents, like the boatmen at the Red Sea, appear to have been well-fed. Judging by remains at the site, they were eating a great deal of beef, some of it choice cuts. Beef cattle were mostly raised in rural estates and then perhaps taken by boat to the royal settlements at Memphis and Giza, where they were slaughtered. Pigs, by contrast, tended to be eaten by the people who produced the food. Archaeologists study the “cattle to pig” ratio as an indication of the extent to which workers were supplied by the central authority or by their own devices—and the higher the ratio, the more elite the occupants. At Lehner’s “Lost City of the Pyramids” (as he sometimes calls it), “the ratio of cattle to pig for the entire site stands at 6:1, and for certain areas 16:1,” he writes of those well-stocked areas. Other, rather exotic items such as leopard’s teeth (perhaps from a priest’s robe), hippopotamus bones (carved by craftsmen) and olive branches (evidence of trade with the Levant) have also turned up in some of the same places, suggesting that the people who populated Lehner’s working village were prized specialists.
Sailors may have figured among the visitors to the pyramid town, according to Merer’s papyrus journal. It mentions carrying stone both up to the lake or basin of Khufu and to the “horizon of Khufu,” generally understood to refer to the Great Pyramid. How did Merer get his boat close enough to the pyramids to unload his cargo of stone? Currently, the Nile is several miles from Giza. But the papyri offer important support for a hypothesis that Lehner had been developing for several years—that the ancient Egyptians, masters of canal building, irrigation and otherwise redirecting the Nile to suit their needs, built a major harbor or port near the pyramid complex at Giza. Accordingly, Merer transported the limestone from Tura all the way to Giza by boat. “I think the Egyptians intervened in the flood plain as dramatically as they did on the Giza Plateau,” Lehner says, adding: “The Wadi al-Jarf papyri are a major piece in the overall puzzle of the Great Pyramid.”
Tallet, characteristically, is more cautious. “I really don’t want to be involved in any polemics on the building of the pyramids at Giza—it’s not my job,” he says. “Of course it’s interesting to have this kind of information, it will deserve a lot of study.”
Tallet believes that the Lake of Khufu, to which Merer refers, was more likely located at Abusir, another important royal site about ten miles south of Giza. “If it is too close to Giza,” Tallet says, “one does not understand why it takes Merer a full day to sail from this site to the pyramid.” But Tallet has been persuaded by Lehner’s evidence of a major port at Giza. It makes perfect sense, he says, that the Egyptians would have found a way to transport construction materials and food by boat rather than dragging them across the desert. “I am not sure it would have been possible at all times of the year,” he said. “They had to wait for the flooding, and could have existed for perhaps six months a year.” By his estimate the ports along the Red Sea were only working for a few months a year—as it happens, roughly when Nile floods would have filled the harbor at Giza. “It all fits very nicely.
The World’s Oldest Piece of Architecture Tells a New Story About How Civilization Developed
The World’s Oldest Piece of Architecture Tells a New Story About How Civilization Developed
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Located in south-east Turkey, the 11,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe is considered to be the world’s oldest temple, greatly surpassing England’s Stonehenge, and the Egyptian pyramids. The ancient site, awarded Unesco World Heritage status in July 2018, predates pottery, writing, and the wheel, leading archaeologists such as its discoverer Klaus Schmidt to ask if Göbekli Tepe may, in fact, be not only the world’s first piece of architecture but a crucial catalyst for the onset of settled societies.
Spread across eight hectares near the city of Sanliurfa, the Göbekli Tepe is an artificial mound hosting a series of sunken circular structures adorned with limestone carvings, believed to have been occupied for thousands of years before their abandonment.
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The 11,000-year-old structure was first encountered in the modern age by a team of anthropologists from the University of Chicago and Istanbul University in the 1960s. However, its significance was only truly revealed by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt in 1994.
The structures contain massive stone carvings made by prehistoric people who had not developed metal tools, pottery, or farming techniques. With no evidence that people had permanently resided on the hill itself, it is believed that the Göbekli Tepe was an unprecedented place of worship, or as Schmidt describes it, humanity’s first “cathedral on a hill.”
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Years of excavations slowly revealed T-shaped monolithic limestone columns arranged in circles, with larger inscribed columns at its center reaching up to five meters in height. Once the stone rings were carved, placed upright and finished, prehistoric builders covered them with dirt before placing another ring nearby or on top.
Over time, this repeated action created a layered hilltop place of worship. The intricate though unexplained carvings of abstract humans and animals on the stone pillars are of particular fascination, given their creation 6000 years before the invention of writing. While Schmidt is certain that Göbekli Tepe is a religious structure, a definitive theory of what its function was, who it was dedicated to, or who is buried within, remains out of reach for now.
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The intrigue of Göbekli Tepe revolves less around its function, and more around its potential to invert our understanding of how civilization developed. Experts had long argued that the time, planning, and resources needed to construct such structures would only be possible in a settled, agrarian society. The discovery of Göbekli Tepe leads Schmidt to theorize the opposite – that the desire to construct such intricate architectural works may have been the catalyst for the development of complex societies.
Schmidt argues that Göbekli Tepe would have required hundreds of hands, all requiring housing and food. While the discovery of animal bones at the site suggest that hunter-gathering was still a common practice at the time, this method alone could not have sustained the labor force required to construct such an elaborate temple.
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Schmidt believes that the builders of Göbekli Tepe were on the verge of a major change in how people lived, with evidence of hunter-gathering combining with the raw materials of basic farming, such as wild sheep and grains with domestic potential.
The discovery of domesticated animals and grain in a nearby prehistoric village believed to be 500 years newer would further suggests that Göbekli Tepe’s construction coincided with a crucial revolutionary move humans made from nomadic hunter-gathering to the settled, agrarian societies which would ultimately become the genesis for urban settlements we know today.
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Aliens are already here the cover-up is about to be blown
Aliens are already here the cover-up is about to be blown
The governments along with the elite around the world may have their reasons for wanting to keep people in the dark about the fact they have discovered aliens. Some people have said they have been covering up the fact that they know about the existence of aliens for many decades. One of the main reasons why knowledge of them has been kept quiet is that the government does not want to lose control over people.
Is extraterrestrial cover-up is finally coming to an end?!
A Door to the Universe Will Be Opened Up
Open knowledge about the existence of aliens will mean a door to the universe, the chance to explore what it out there. Borders will be broken down between the countries around the world. While the political leaders along with religious leaders will want to ensure that people see things as being insignificant. For a long time, they have tried to keep Knowledge about the existence of aliens to themselves and have manipulated the people on Earth to believe they are the only race.
Sightings of UFOs are getting more common day by day with more people wanting to believe in UFOs along with alien lifeforms. The human race is awakening to the fact that perhaps humans are not alone in the universe. Many no longer ask the question of whether we are alone. Today the question is more along the lines of when will aliens be discovered along with what do they want with Earth.
Governments Are Aware We Are Not Alone
The governments of the world are more aware of a global awakening to the possibility that we are not alone. It has been suggested that they have all met in secret to come up with plans to delay the discovery of aliens.
The natural resources of Earth are being drained. Not just by climate change and global warming but by money along with control from governments and the elite. To keep control, the governments encourage a division between races and religion to keep people apart.
When Aliens Announce Their Presence the World Will Change
The governments around the world have even been accused of brainwashing people through TV, electronic devices along with putting importance on money. Today having money is all that matters. However, changes are coming, and these changes will happen the world over. The changes will happen when alien lifeforms announce their presence to the world, not just the leaders and governments.
When people realize there are aliens out there, there will be some division. Some people will want to welcome the alien visitors warmly while others will feel threatened. The government will want people to be frightened, while religious groups will oppose alien lifeforms telling people to stay away from them, as they are demons.
Alien Reveal Will Make Our Technology Obsolete
The aliens will probably reveal to humans where they came from and who they are along with what they want on Earth. Once the majority of humans have accepted them, the world will change and awaken. Of course, alien lifeforms will bring with them new technology that makes the technology on Earth obsolete. Corrupt leaders on Earth will be frightened of losing control over the people of Earth. However, it will be important for people to stick together, welcome the aliens warmly, becoming universal brothers.
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