Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, 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...
03-10-2018
Earth Size UFO Exiting Our Sun On NASA Image, Sept 30, 2018, UFO Sighting Daily News.
Earth Size UFO Exiting Our Sun On NASA Image, Sept 30, 2018, UFO Sighting Daily News.
Date of sighting: Sept 30, 2018 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: NASA/SOHO images Photo: EIT 284, 01:06 I was looking through NASA SOHO images and found this earth size object shooting out of our sun at high speed. The objects luminosity indicates that its not the same material seen on the surface of the sun since no white glowing surface areas exist...only yellow. The UFO is huge, since the earth is 109X the diameter of the sun, this UFO is an exact match in size...and yet it shot away so fast that it was not captured on any other photos. That is a mystery...unless it quickly accelerated to light or faster than light speed...then thats called alien technology. Only an ancient alien race could build a ship that could travel inside the sun and withstand such temperatures. Scott C. Waring
UFO Sighted Over Valsad and Vapi Gujarat, India September 26, 2018 UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighted Over Valsad and Vapi Gujarat, India September 26, 2018 UFO Sighting News.
Above is the photo placed in negative format to better see the edges of the UFO.
Date of sighting: September 26, 2018 Location of sighting: Valsad, India
This is a big UFO! It looks to be over a mile long and has a classic disk shape. It probably came up from the ocean floor, since 75% of the earths surface is covered in water, it just makes sense that they would hide where humans do not go. Also, I placed the first screenshot in negative formate, which made the edges of the UFO more pronounced so its true shape can be more easily seen. Yes this is absolutely a UFO, 100%. There is no doubt at all about this sighting. A alien mothership was caught on video. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Observed the distinctive shape. It is camouflaged by a cloud. It was also leaving a trail of smoke like that of a jet plane.
Metalic Disk Recorded Flying Over London On Sept 29, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Metalic Disk Recorded Flying Over London On Sept 29, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 29, 2018 Location of sighting: London, Great Britain Source: MUFON #95215 This UFO was captured in London this week. Being the size of a car, the object floated and pulsated as it traveled. The object appears disk shape but curved. The dark rectangle area at the top is the pilot area. The lower bottom displays its true color which is a grey metal. Extraordinary catch. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
The object was somewhere between 3 and 5 m large. Difficult to say. It was metallic and glowed a bright blue colour. Very visible because of the pulsating blue light. It was moving fast. The area in Herne Hill is very active in terms of UFOs, orbs, critters and anomalies.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Hosts Alejandro Rojas and Martin Willis discuss the latest UFO news including the scientific analysis of materials allegedly from a UFO. The materials are in the hands of the To the Stars Academy, who has created a program called the ADAM Project to scientifically analyze materials believed to have come from anomalous sources, especially UFOs. Recently, they released an article regarding material that they say has been debated for decades. Although they do not say for sure, it appears this material was sent anonymously to Art Bell in the 90s and is referred to as “Art’s Parts.” Alejandro and Martin also discuss their interviews with witnesses to a very credible alleged alien encounter in South Africa, and the latest UFO news.
Google Moon Maps Apparently Shows Pyramid Structure
Google Moon Maps Apparently Shows Pyramid Structure
A pyramid-like object was spotted on the Moon’s surface on Google, and some UFO hunters believed it was an alien base. Conspiracy theorists were into a frenzy when a vast structure was observed on the lunar surface.
Many immediately concluded that it was an alien base or extraterrestrial monument and thought NASA and the likes are covering something up.
Using Google Moon, the alleged moon pyramid can be seen on coordinates 20 ° 48’45.54 “N 25 ° 59’50.89” W.
Argentinian Marcelo Irazusta uploaded the video to YouTube. The video seemingly shows human-made looking structure on the surface of the moon.
Mr Irazusta wrote in the description that a mysterious elevation on the Moon indicate that it could be a non-natural structure.
Many viewers believed NASA was covering something up. However, others were not so convinced, suggesting that the anomaly was merely rendering issues. One person explained that it was a nice glitch, just like previous other alleged structures on the lunar surface.
Some conspiracy theorists said that aliens occupied the moon, which was the reason NASA did not return since the end of the Apollo missions in the 1970s.
They suspect that anomalies such as the pyramid on the surface of the moon could be monuments built by an ancient alien civilisation just like the pyramids found on Earth.
Shocking Claim – Martian Male Warrior Skull Found On Mars
Shocking Claim – Martian Male Warrior Skull Found On Mars
Many UFO enthusiasts are upbeat with the discovery of alleged alien skull with an antenna on Mars. Some alien hunters believe NASA has missed proof there’s life on Mars or the agency has concealed the truth.
Some conspiracy theorists believe they have discovered something strange from NASA’s Martian Rover.
They believe they have found a skull of an alien being on the Red Planet. The supposed creature is claimed to be a male warrior. What makes the alleged creature even more interesting is the fact that it looks to have an antenna.
Some UFO hunters have been expressing their dismay over NASA of allegedly looking at mathematical stats, measurements, surface pressure, wind speed and hundreds of other stats instead of doing their job to report signs of intelligent life.
They think the skull has an extended cranium, beard, chin, mouth, nose, and eyes. They even believe that it belongs to a male warrior because the helmet can be seen with a ridge down its centre of the forehead area to the centre of the cranium. They also point out a ridge around the broken area.
However, sceptics and NASA have been explaining that the skull and other similar discoveries are just the effects of pareidolia. The pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar shapes or objects in textures or patterns such as a rock surface.
Many UFO enthusiasts are upbeat with the discovery of alleged alien skull with an antenna on Mars. Some alien hunters believe NASA has missed proof there’s life on Mars or the agency has concealed the truth.
Some conspiracy theorists believe they have discovered something strange from NASA’s Martian Rover.
They believe they have found a skull of an alien being on the Red Planet. The supposed creature is claimed to be a male warrior. What makes the alleged creature even more interesting is the fact that it looks to have an antenna.
Some UFO hunters have been expressing their dismay over NASA of allegedly looking at mathematical stats, measurements, surface pressure, wind speed and hundreds of other stats instead of doing their job to report signs of intelligent life.
They think the skull has an extended cranium, beard, chin, mouth, nose, and eyes. They even believe that it belongs to a male warrior because the helmet can be seen with a ridge down its centre of the forehead area to the centre of the cranium. They also point out a ridge around the broken area.
However, sceptics and NASA have been explaining that the skull and other similar discoveries are just the effects of pareidolia. The pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar shapes or objects in textures or patterns such as a rock surface.
A Supermassive Black Hole Is Heading Earth’s Way At 110 Km Per Second
A Supermassive Black Hole Is Heading Earth’s Way At 110 Km Per Second
There is a massive black hole with millions of times more mass than our sun is plunging towards Earth and will one day annihilate life as we know it.This particular black hole is coming towards us at 110 kilometres per second and is at the center of the Great Andromeda Galaxy – the Milky Way’s closest and much larger neighbor.
At the center of the most known galaxies, there exist a supermassive black hole which stars spin around and helps keep everything in formation.
But such is the powerful gravitational pull of the Milky Way and Andromeda that they are being drawn toward each other and will one day crash.
Fraser Cain, publisher of space website Universe Today, wrote for Phys.org:
“There’s a black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. And not just any black hole, it’s a supermassive black hole with more than 4.1 million times the mass of the Sun. It’s right over there, in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation. Located just 26,000 light-years away. And as we speak, it’s in the process of tearing apart entire stars and star systems, occasionally consuming them, adding to its mass like a voracious shark.”
Due to the size of Andromeda however, there is only going to be one winner when it smashes into the Milky Way.
But, as Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, it will take over four billion years to reach us, so we are safe for now.
Mr Cain said: “Panic will happen when the Milky Way collides with Andromeda in about 4 billion years. “Suddenly, you’ll have two whole clouds of stars interacting in all kinds of ways, like an unstable blended family. “Stars that would have been safe will careen past other stars and be deflected down into the maw of either of the two supermassive black holes on hand. Andromeda’s black hole could be 100 million times the mass of the Sun, so it’s a bigger target for stars with a death wish.”
Filer’s Files #39 – 2018 The UFO Crashes in 1947- PART I
Smederevo. Serbia photo Jasenak Church on September 25, 2018
Filer’s Files #39 – 2018 The UFO Crashes in 1947- PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Russian Cosmonaut Claims UFOs Are Real, The UFO Crashes in 1947 and Antarctica: Newly found entrance to Interior.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, 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.
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Russian Cosmonaut Claims UFOs Are Real
Cosmonaut Alexandr Baladin stated that “flying saucers” have come into close proximity to the MIR space station as well as the Baikonur Cosmodrom. He added there is sufficient evidence to warrant a scientific study of the phenomenon, and that it is time that world governments officially acknowledge the UFO phenomenon’s existence.
Baladin disclosed at Brazil’s First International Ufology Forum, that he and fellow cosmonaut Musa Manarov had seen UFOs. During docking operations between his space capsule and the MIR, Baladin saw a glowing object a short distance away. Manarov managed to capture the strange phenomenon on videotape, that was shown during the UFO congress in Brazil. Baladin claimed that the recording and other evidence presented during the Congress, “must be studied by an international scientific commission.” Baladin insisted that the Russian military has a great contribution to make to UFO research, giving as an example the multiple-witness case at the Kaputsin Yar missile base, whose personnel sighted a semi-circular object flying at low altitude lighting up the bases facilities with a powerful searchlight in June 1989. “Many of my old comrades, who are now working at top-secret military facilities, acknowledge having seen UFOs.
“General Vladimir Ivanov, former commander of Russia’s Military Space Forces, recalls that three objects flew at a considerable altitude over Baikonur Cosmodrome and were picked up on radar. There is no way they could have been airplanes.” insisted the cosmonaut. Thanks to Rubén Sobrino.
Editor’s Note: Forces around the world and in space are asking that the US release information concerning UFOs and visitors from space. The number and quality of UFO reports are increasing. With modern mobile phones millions of people are now carrying both cameras and quick methods of communication.
The UFO Crashes in 1947
Many of the people I interviewed at the Roswell Museum and crash sights felt two saucers had crashed in New Mexico in July of 1947. There is evidence two saucers had a mid-air collision had crash landed some fifty miles apart. Sheep rancher Mack Brazel’s found a plowed up area on his land and debris from a crashed disc on his land and notified the authorities. Major Jesse Marcell the intelligence chief at Roswell was sent to investigate, Marcel confirmed that the crash debris had highly anomalous properties and was “not of this Earth.” Marcel carried much of the debris back home and showed his wife and son before taking it to the base to show the Base commander Col. William Blanchard also spoke of Ramey’s weather balloon cover-up at Fort Worth. , and General Ramey gave highly laudatory post evaluations to Major Marcel who was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and later retired.
Colonel Blanchard had Lt. Walter Haut thc base Public Affairs Officer prepare a press release to Roswell Daily Record. On July 8, 1947 at 5:26 EDT, carried an Associated Press news wire announced that Roswell Army Air Field had reported recovering a “flying disk” from a nearby rancher’s property, first found “sometime last week,” and that it was being flown to “higher headquarters.” The curious base press release triggered a national press feeding frenzy.
Later Brigadier General Ramey the Commander of the 8th Army Air Force It announced that the recovered “disk” was eventually destined for Wright Field, Ohio, home of the Air Materiel Command and the AAF’s aeronautical research labs.
Using the chronicle given in the Daily Illini of 9th July 1947 which o the AP news messages, that afternoon went something like: After the initial reports starting at 3:26 pm (FW time) 4:10 pm (FW time) AP announces it’s going after the story. 4:11 pm ” The war department in Washington had nothing to say immediately about the reported find” Then a very long gap in the news of 42 minutes!!! (?while they got their act together?) until 4:53pm Washington dateline, statement by Brig Gen Roger Ramey “disk” had been sent to Wright Field Ohio. After further “adds” 5:02 pm Full story pulled together and transmitted as “First Lead Disk” The next major item is 1 hour! later at 6:03 pm Dateline Washington, giving the first hint the object found might be a weather device 6:15 pm
Report, Gen Ramey to speak on radio at 6:30pm from Fort Worth – Roswell’s celebrated ‘flying disk’ was rudely stripped of its glamour by a Fort Worth army airfield weather officer who late today identified the object as a weather balloon.”
It’s during that 40+ minute time period just after 4 pm we believe photographer James Bond was in Ramey’s office taking his photo’s for the Fort Worth Star Newspaper. He claimed the debris in the photos smelled of fire, smoke and dead aliens.
It seems probable from Washington’s initial statement of 4:11 pm they hadn’t got a handle on what was happening at that point in either Roswell or Fort Worth. Even by the 4.53 pm AP release they were still not denying they had a “flying disk”. It took Washington almost a further hour before the first hint of a “weather device” surfaced, and a further half hour for the story to filter out of Fort Worth Army Airfield.
Looking at these timings, to me it seems probable that up until Washington’s active involvement sometime after 4:15-4:30pm or even 5 pm, Ramey was playing it straight and open, and as General Dubose maintained it was the direct order from General McMullen together possibly with the revelations held in the Ramey Message that forced him to backtrack, shut the lid down tight on events and come up with the balloon story.
Gen. Ramey message and Col. DuBose.
The fact that Washington seemed to be caught napping by the Roswell events doesn’t mean to say they were totally unaware of other events going on earlier or concurrently with events in Roswell, in fact if the US high command were deeply engrossed with the crash of the other similar disc about a 100 miles to the west of Roswell at San Augustin. It could account for their slow take up not realizing two discs had actually crashed.
General. Ramey began putting out an alternate weather balloon version of the story as ordered by higher headquarters. The press bought the change of story. Just to make sure, the Army and Navy engaged in a debunking campaign during the following days which involved weather balloon and radar target demonstrations. The weather balloons, the public was told, explained not only what was found at Roswell, but also accounted for the numerous “flying disk” or “flying saucer” sightings that preceded the Roswell events.
I personally talked to Mrs. Roger Ramey who would not confirm the Roswell crash. However she indicated, “Her husband was very upset about being forced to make false statements, he did not want to make, he was a very proud man and would never lie unless ordered to do so.” He had been taught never to lie and the order really bothered his integrity.
She confirmed that General Ramey and her and become good friends with President Truman and had dinner with him several times. I suggested it was very unusual for military personnel to become friends with a President and I asked how it happened? She indicated that her husband and the President had worked together on important classified projects. She would not confirm that this was the Roswell crash.
She stated her husband expected to become the Chief of Staff of the Air Force partly because he was a good friend of President Truman and that they had dinner with him at the White House . She felt President Truman had come to Texas and met with Brigadier General Ramey (probably to see the bodies.) She knew General Ramey was very upset about having to lie to the press about the weather balloon. It is known President Truman at the time of the crash flew to his home in Missouri. He was not seen by the press for several days at the time of crash using the excuse is wife was very sick. Its speculated he was picked up in a military plane and flown to Ft. Worth where he saw the alien bodies and issued orders that the alien story should be kept Top Secret. Later. Ramey was transferred to Washington and became a Major General apparently working on the Roswell incident. Ramey was called the AF “saucer man” in 1952.
Analysis of Ramey Message
Photographer James Bond who I became friends with remembered General Ramey was reading and holding a message while he was taking photos of the debris.There is no question that Ramey’s message, even when greatly enhanced by computer is a very difficult read. However, there are various keywords and phrases that can be readily seen by anyone, even in lower resolution scans of the message first analyzed in 1999 by a number of people.
Far and away the most important word of the entire message is “VICTIMS” on the third line (part of phrase “THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK”).
The first paragraph describes what had been found. Ramey starts by acknowledging “THAT A ‘DISK’ IS NEXT NEW FIND.” He then adds that “THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK” and something else (possibly just “A WRECK”) had also been found near the recovery “OPERATION AT THE ‘RANCH’.” At the end it states that “YOU” (i.e. Gen. Vandenberg) had ordered the “victims” and/or the wreckage “FORWARDED”to “FORT WORTH, TEX.”
In the second paragraph, Ramey describes how the situation was being handled. Ramey first states that something “IN THE ‘DISC'”, probably the bodies of the “forwarded” “victims” (and possibly termed “AVIATORS”) would be flown by a B-29 Special Transport or C-47 to the “A1” (personnel director) of some “8TH ARMY****” division, most likely the head flight surgeon at Fort Worth given the context. Wright Field, Ohio, home of the AAF’s aeronautical labs, was to assess the Roswell crash object (possibly referred to as an “AIRFOIL”).
Finally, both the Air Force and General Accounting Office (investigating on behalf of Congressman Schiff) in 1995 reported that air crash records revealed no plane crashes in that area during that time frame that could possibly explain the Roswell incident.
Confirmation by Two U.S. Air Force Generals of RoswellCrash
General Exon
I phoned former Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Commander Brigadier General Arthur Exon before his death. He spoke freely and claimed he had many friends who informed him of the disc and bodies. General Exon has been the highest ranking military officer to come out and say directly that Roswell was the crash of a spacecraft and that alien bodies were recovered. He had to bailout of his plane in World War 11 after 135 missions and spend the rest of the war in a Nazi Prison Camp. He seemed to feel the public should know about the disks.
In 1947 Exon was a Lt. Colonel stationed at Wright Field at the time of the Roswell crash and heard of the incident at that time. He said he also flew over the area of the crash some months later. He observed two distinct crash sites and gouges and tire tracks on the ground leading into the “pivotal areas.”
From 1964-66 he was the Commanding Officer of Wright-Patterson AFB, where crash material was taken in 1947. He said other UFO-related field operations were staged at W-P during his tenure. Teams of men would fly in from Washington on an investigation. W-P would supply them with planes and crews for their operations.
Photo of General Arthur Exon
Exon did emphasize that he was told these things by men who were directly involved and whom he knew well and trusted. He mentioned knowing some of the photographers who photographed the sites.
He also confirmed the existence of the Roswell metal reports.” Exon, the Base Commander of Wright Patterson in the 1960s, related that he was privy to some of the details on the composition of the crash debris and the variety of tests that were performed on it on the base. Exon stated the debris: “It was Titanium and some other metal they knew about, and the processing was somehow different.” Of course, special “processing” of Titanium and the “other metal” that “they knew about” (Nickel) is required to create Nitinol.
Exon added, “And it wouldn’t surprise me if the material wasn’t still around, certainly the reports are.” Exon was likely referring to the Battelle Progress Reports on memory metal done for Wright Patterson in the late 1940’s. Among the things that General Exon was very specific about was that everybody “from Truman on down” had known about the Roswell incident from the day it happened, and that it was known to be an alien spacecraft “almost as soon as we got on the scene.”
I phoned General Exon and explained I was researching the crash he was quite open that he was told the Roswell debris was extraterrestrial and that the issues it raised had been debated in the White House.. In 1948, following completion of a two-year industrial administration course at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, he was assigned to Air Materiel Command Headquarters, as chief of the Maintenance Data Section. He told me the crash of the Roswell UFO was openly discussed as extraterrestrial in the course at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He arranged to fly out to the crash sights and viewed where the UFO crashed up near a hill.
Wings in Roswell debris.
As base commander he spoke to many personnel, he spoke of the delivery of alien materials, artifacts, and biological remains to Wright Field from the Roswell Army Air Base in the summer of 1947. He felt sure that the existence of these materials and what to do about them had been debated at the highest levels of the government. …In 1991, after I had written Majestic, my uncle put me into contact with a general — an old and trusted friend of his — who knew even more. The general, Arthur Exon, is the cousin of Senator Exon…”]
“We heard the material was coming to Wright Field. [Testing was done in the various labs.] Everything from chemical analysis, stress tests, compression tests, flexing. It was brought into our material evaluation labs. I don’t know how it arrived, but the boys who tested it said it was very unusual.”
“[Some of it] could be easily ripped or changed… There were other parts of it that were very thin but awfully strong and couldn’t be dented with heavy hammers… It was flexible to a degree… Some of it was flimsy and was tougher than hell, and the other was almost like foil but strong. It had them pretty puzzled. …couldn’t be easily ripped or changed …you could change it. You could wad it up, you could change the shape, but it was still there and … there were other parts of it that were very thin but awfully strong and couldn’t be dented with heavy hammers and stuff like that… which at the time were causing some people some concern… again, say it was a shape of some kind, you could grab this end and bend it, but it would come right back. It was flexible to a degree.”
The Crash Sites
“[It was] probably part of the same accident, but [there were] two distinct sites. One assuming that the thing, as I understand it, as I remember flying the area later, that the damage to the vehicle seemed to be coming from the southeast to the northwest, but it could have been going in the opposite direction, but it doesn’t seem likely. So the farther northwest pieces found on the ranch, those pieces were mostly metal. “…I remember auto tracks leading to the pivotal sites and obvious gouges in the terrain.”
” I know people that were involved in photographing some of the residue from the New Mexico affair near Roswell. There was another location where….apparently the main body of the spacecraft was…where they did say there were bodies.”
There would be reports, probably filed in the Foreign Technology Building, that would describe everything learned in the last forty-plus years. There would be photographs, from the debris field and the crash site, of the bodies and of the autopsies, filed away. Everything needed to prove that Roswell represented the crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft would be found, if those reports were ever to be released.
Air Force General George Schulgen (who led Intelligence at the Pentagon at the time of the Roswell incident) authored a previously-marked “secret” draft memo on the flying saucer issue on October 30, 1947- about four months after the crash. In the verified version of this memo is found a section entitled “Items of Construction.” Schulgen instructs his officers to be aware of flying objects and their materials of construction. He specifically notes the “unusual fabrication methods to achieve extreme lightweight” and that the material is of a “composite construction…using various combinations of metals.”
Schulgen is describing precisely some of the very characteristics of Nitinol. Just like the Roswell debris material, it is an “extreme lightweight” intermetallic alloy. As a novel “composite construction,” it is created by an “unusual fabrication” method that “uses a combination of metals”- perhaps like Titanium and Nickel. Thanks to Anthony Bragalia
I spent several days talking with Lt. Walter Haut in his office who was the former Roswell base public information officer who told me his did exactly has he was ordered by Col. William Blanchard. He issued the base press release has Col. Blanchard instructed about the disc. He did say Blanchard wanted publicity to help get him promoted. Haut showed me a model of a roughly disc shaped craft implying it was a model of the crashed craft without actual verification of it being real. He implied he would not have a model of a fictitious craft and I should make my own conclusions. He knew I was speaking at the Roswell Museum and gave me every indication that as far as he knew the craft was alien.
Later, Haut’s “deathbed” sealed affidavit confesses to seeing the spacecraft and bodies in base Hangar 84/P-3 and tells us the mysterious press release was Gen. Ramey’s idea to divert press and public attention away from the closer and more important craft/body site.
Bill McDonald designed this model.
My friend Warrant Officer Joe Stefula interviewed First Lieutenant Chester P. Barton a crypto specialist and assigned to an MP unit, Barton said he was ordered to the crash site 45 minutes north of town to check on the cleanup, saw a football-field-size burn impact area heavily guarded by MPs, scattered metal debris, was told radiation was at the site, heard archeologists had first discovered it, and also heard bodies were taken to base hospital and then to Fort Worth. Because of what he saw, he knew that the balloon explanation was ridiculous and there had been a cover-up. However, Barton was unusual in being a flying saucer crash skeptic, instead thinking that it was maybe a B-29 crash and nuclear accident.
Brigadier General Steven Lovekin (served in the White House Army Signal Corp during Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, 1959-1961) Although like Exon not a direct participant, Lovekin said he received 1959 Pentagon briefings and being shown a metallic beam with symbols from a 1947 N.M. crash (presumably Roswell) plus being told of either 3 or 5 aliens being recovered, one initially alive. He also visited the Library of Congress and shown very compelling photographic and radar evidence of UFOs. He also testified of the threats against military personnel given this information if they were to publicly reveal it. Lovekin is a Disclosure Project witness with me. .
I had lunch with Colonel and Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. who was the 11-year old son of Major Marcel in 1947. He had just returned from a tour in Afghanistan. He said, he remembered the night vividly of how his father woke up his mother and himself in the middle of the night when he returned from the debris field, showing them the pieces of a “flying saucer.” Among other material, he distinctly remembers a small metallic “I-beam” with purplish “hieroglyphics.’ He thought some of the debris may still be under the concrete patio outside the kitchen where they examined the debris. It was nothing like any of them had seen and they were quite familiar with all types of metals.
I personally met the son of Oliver Pappy Henderson who was one of the senior pilots at Roswell. When the first public stories of a Roswell saucer crash began circulating in 1981, Henderson confided to family and friends of being the pilot who flew bodies of the aliens and crash wreckage to Wright Field. He also claimed to have seen the craft and bodies, and provided a description of the aliens. His son moved to Australia due to his intimate knowledge of UFOs and made numerous contacts with me claiming his father was truthful and had firsthand knowledge of the craft. Sgt. Robert E. Smith said he helped load crates filled with debris for transport by C-54’s, including one flown by Henderson and his crew.
I personally phoned Lorretta Proctor neighbor of rancher Mack Brazel who was very friendly. She said Mack Brazel told her and her husband of finding strange material before going to Roswell, and showing them a wood-like piece that could not be cut or burned. They advised him to go to Roswell and report it. Brazel was detained at the base and complained bitterly of his treatment when he returned. She indicated she believed there was the crash of some kind of exterrestrials craft.
Concerning newspaper reports of Roswell base commander Col. William Blanchard who later became a four star general was allegedly away on leave when the story broke in the 1947 newspapers. “Blanchard’s leave was a screen. It was his duty to go to the site and make a determination of what had crashed. Blanchard couldn’t have cared less about a weather balloon.” said Exon.
I personally found that most if the officers’ wives had knowledge of the extraterrestrial craft. Blanchard’s wife told many of the officers’ wives it was alien and likely extraterrestrial. They spoke among themselves and discussed the crashes. The orders came down from headquarters to change the story from a disc to a weather balloon.
“According to Exon, once the nature of the crash at Roswell was understood, the information would have been passed up the chain of command. Ramey probably called the Army Chief of Staff, Dwight Eisenhower.
All witnesses told Exon that the craft was unusually light for its size. Without some form of heavy ballast, it would have fluttered like a kite without a tail in atmospheric flight mode. Trim was critical for a craft of its size and weight. Every seat needed to be filled.. Only a fluid fulfills all ballast and all delicate trim requirements for atmospheric flight–Magneto-aero electric propulsion in the air.
The aliens had skin like certain species of frogs breathe and receive nutrients directly through their skin tissue membranes. They die fast out of the water. Their lungs are partially atrophied from lack of use. Their digestive systems are reduced. Normal defecation is almost never seen. Sound familiar? Thanks to Bill McDonald
General Twining Visited Crashed Disks
The Air Material Command General Twining’s flight logs of 1947 have been released so his whereabouts between July 7th and July 9th 1947 have been confirmed. The Wright Airfield command developed aircraft for the Army Air Force. This flight to New Mexico was Twining’s one and only trip during Summer of 1947. Several key scientists and engineers accompanied him IPU Summary Page 4 states the following:-
7th July 1947 – Twinning went to Alamogordo AAF for a secret meeting with AAF Chief of Staff Spaatz and to view recovered remains of craft from crash landing site 20 miles northwest of Socorro.
8th July 1947 – Twinning and staff went to Kirtland AAF to inspect parts recovered from power plant.
9th July 1947 – Twining and staff went to White Sands Proving Ground to inspect pieces of craft being stored there.
10th July 1947 – Twining made inspection of R and D facilities at Alamogordo and then returned to Wright Field.
President Truman met with Twining on 25th September 1947, probably detailing the technology of the crashed UFOs.
Twining’s pilot said Twining sometimes made secret flights with Truman actually flying the plane.
Art Campbell has done an incredible job of researching the July 2, 1947 crash of a small, extraterrestrial craft in the Plains of St Augustin, New Mexico not far from the Roswell crash. There is speculation that the two UFOs collided or were both affected by radars. Art Campbell writes, “In May of 2012, a group of 15 people found a great deal of important material near the San Augustin, NM crash site that is thought to have happened at the same time as the Roswell crash.
By far the most important finding was this I-beam. It is 2 inches across at the flanges and 13 1/4 inch long. Rather crude flanged holes at each end indicate it may have been a repair. Bottom skin, honeycomb, and I-beam might have been scraped off a craft on the first skip down. Below the I-beam is another piece of honeycomb. This one had some skin attached, believed to be just inside the interior. Some excitement occurred when a faint triangle, circle and other markings were found near the right end of beam. The beam is probably the most significant find at the crash site and wants to make sure everybody knows about it. The beam looks more like an H-beam used to distribute horizontal loads.
The beam has a metallurgical composition primarily aluminum with high silicon, manganese, copper, and iron. It is my guess that a grid of beams covered the entire bottom of the UFO (probably crisscrossing the bottom of the craft in 10-12″‘ squares) supporting the honeycomb sandwich. The craft when it skipped down lost allot of its bottom and this beam was probably ripped out. The honey comb material has been found at two crash sites. Alien beam found at crash site
This is the third apparent entrance into Antarctica that we’ve posted on this website. It measures from 115 to 149 feet across and 71 feet at its maximum height. To put this in perspective, the popular A320 Airbus has a wing span of 117 feet.
Beyond the size of the entrance, there are other indications it might be a secret entrance. First, it is located 215 miles from any known research facility in Antarctica.
Second, when you zoom out, there is a mile-long line of 22 structures. At a distance, the first 18 look a bit like badminton cocks with two seeming to emit a reddish light. Together, they might suggest a lighted airport runway.
You also can CLICK HERE and see an 8:15 minute video by the man who made the discovery which the general public first learned about in a September 13, 2018 article in The Daily Mirror.
It’s harder to imagine the purpose of the third formation which is located between the “runway lights” and the entrance. It looks to be three aligned structures on a shadowy triangular mound.
If you would like to explore this Antarctica mystery for yourself, copy and paste the following coordinates in your Google Earth search bar:
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Filer’s Files #39 – 2018 The UFO Crashes in 1947 - PART II
Filer’s Files #39 – 2018 The UFO Crashes in 1947 - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Mesa– I live 8 miles E of Sky Harbor Airport and our house is under the various flight paths in and out of the airport. I was out on our patio talking to my husband on September 21. 2018, and saw a large white airplane coming in for landing. I also saw numerous bright white objects slightly above the airplane, which I first thought were a large group of balloons floating East. As soon as the plane past I saw 12-15 of these objects, it seemed they had a point to them versus only round like balloons. Each one was moving in all different directions around each other. Then they headed in a S direction in a group. The group began circling S over my house, heading W, they then formed a wide V shape heading to Sky Harbor. It became harder to see them so I am assuming they were climbing to a very high altitude. I managed to get two pics of the objects that were under intelligent control. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Delaware Lights
Hockessin — My friend and I were looking at the stars on August 23, 2018, around 9:45 pm at the Ashland Nature Center and saw what we thought to be a plane crashing in the distance. The plane looked as if it were on fire and plummeting down to the ground. As time passed, we realized that this was no plane. It was flying very close to the ground and had three exterior lights. The vehicle was triangular in shape and the lights were on the corners. There was a lead red blinking light on the front and two solid while lights on the rear two corners. We were sitting on top of a large hill and could clearly see the shape of the vehicle. The surface of it was dark and almost invisible. The size of the machine was larger than most jets but smaller than a commercial air line. There was no noise and it seemed to be looking for something since it was moving very slowly. It flew directly over us and continued in a straight line into the distance. I hid under a bench thinking might be abducted.
I videotaped this object as it got closer you could clearly see the lights and flatness of the vehicle.
Then about 10 minutes later a second one flew over with an extra white light on the rear of the vehicle. This one stopped and hovered about a half mile away from us, shined a light on the ground, and then continued at the same slow pace. There was a third object that was flying extremely high and much faster.
Sara told me she saw what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Miami— I was on a boat inside the bay when I saw the lights. We were on a bay cruise before night time. I had no idea what they were so I took a photo on May 15, 2009. The lights didn’t seem to be moving so I thought they might just be a reflection of the lights inside the boat but they were not. When I looked back, all of the objects were no longer there. I took the photo through the glass window and didn’t look at the photo until much later. After enlarging the photo. It seemed there was a shape similar to a chevron with the lights at the bottom. It was eerie after realizing that they could be something else other than an ordinary aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Object
casyville — ufo came down from a higher altitude on September 23, 2018. It hovered to the west close to tree top level.
I was driving down Highway 157 heading to Collinsville and used my phone to take pictures when I first seen it.
When it came down I heard a static type of noise that’s what made me try to get the pictures before it was gone.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Lights
Las Vegas — I noticed the object after I chose to go out to our building’s rooftop pool on September 25, 2018. I laid down when I noticed a glinting object high in the sky. We are near Nellis Air Force Base and are used to seeing planes of all types. I paid a bit closer attention as I stared up and noticed the object was not moving across the sky. It seemed to move in one direction or another. It became clear it was staying in a specific area but moving rapidly from side to side within the area. I watched it for a few minutes then decided to try to video it.
A couple hours later I began looking at the video and could see in 36 to 39 seconds and also in the low 50s there was an object moving faster than a weather balloon and higher than typical planes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Disc
Memphis –This happened at 7:40 PM as my wife was driving and I looked up and saw that object on August 19, 2018.
I know it wasn’t an airplane because it was dark and it had no lights anywhere plus it seemed to be still.
As I started to record it the object just vanished.
The object looked like an A7 UFO . Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Sydney — I took this picture from my window at a hotel I was staying at in September 24, 2018.
I sent it to my partner and it wasn’t too much later in the day my partner called and said to zoom in on the image.
I then noticed this yellow shape in the clouds as she had told me
I noted the planes. Sydney was over cast yesterday.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Object
Nanaimo— My wife and I noticed two orange glowing orbs outside our back window. We both rushed to the deck and tried to take video but were unsuccessful, but was able to take a picture that shows orbs in the distance. I captured on cell phone a not so best quality image. The orbs were moving at a slow pace one was quite low to moving over the Nanaimo harbor while the other was near the cloud line. After reaching the southern end of downtown Nanaimo the low flying orb changed directions and flew high up to the second orb. It followed the same path going east and then out of viewing range.. Two adults saw this clearly for 5 or 6 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Lights
Termoli, Campobass— I see coming from the west, They arrived at two and three at a time, and after the first small groups, the lights that formed the “pentagon” were launched and all went towards the East and sea. on January 2, 2010. I realized it was a strange event and I ran back to get my Fujifilm MV camera. The most impressive thing is that these last luminous objects flew at a lower altitude than those that had gone before. I was desperate to get the camera working. I finally saw the green LED shine. I do not know how many lights flew above me, I only saw lights darting in the sky. I filmed, but because after a few seconds I did not see other lights, I stopped. Others were coming in droves heading East, while some turned South and began swarming around to the cloud. CMS
Norway Light
Larvik— We were watching TV when I suddenly noticed a bright light on the sky on September 24, 2018.
Staying at one place for about 10 minutes, after it started moving and disappeared out of site in less than one minute.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Serbia Object
Smederevo — I made a photo of local Jasenak Church on September 25, 2018, and spotted something like UFO in the photo. During photo with my Samsung S8 cell phone not see anything. You can see an object in the left upper corner. Because my cell phone has a very good camera.
Church Jasenak is special healing place on hill with endemic creatures. This object hovered right above this place.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Slovenia Triangle
Otočec — Unknown flying object was observed looking into night sky in the direction of Novo Mesto on September 27, 2018. Objects appeared in the night sky at 20:40 local time about 60 degrees elevation. The four lights were dimmed. Several objects were seen by my friend standing beside me. It was fast moving descending with a slight change of direction. It appeared triangular shape with lights in the center and every corner. Seemed as enormous size and rapidly disappeared from the sky flying direction SW. Few seconds later there was a meteorite like object just falling from the sky from same direction and just descending. This time he was standing with me while it happened and observed the objects with me with his own eyes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Lights
Swansea — 1. I was in my garden taking photos of the moon on September 23, 2018. 2. I was looking through my telescope’s finder scope and noticed a moving object come from the moon at about 10 ‘o clock. (NE) 3. I first thought it was a satellite or the ISS. 4. I didn’t see any detail on it as it was far away and happened really quickly, no more than 5 seconds. It moved quickly and in a diagonal direction from the left side of the moon in a straight line, then it disappeared.
5. I felt really excited when I saw it and was able to take a photo immediately. When I studied the picture and was unable to identify what it was I felt really elated at the prospect that it could be a UFO. 6. I lost sight of it and was unable to locate it again. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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NASA Balloon Observes Glowing Blue Clouds in Earth's Upper Atmosphere (Video)
NASA Balloon Observes Glowing Blue Clouds in Earth's Upper Atmosphere (Video)
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
Strange Clouds Spotted at the Edge of Space
A NASA long-duration balloon mission observed glowing blue clouds that ripple at the edge of Earth's atmosphere. The mission aims to help researchers learn about how energy transfers through the atmosphere's layers.
The phenomenon, called noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds(PMCs), occurs 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth's poles during the summer just after sunset. The clouds form as ice crystals grow on tiny meteor fragments in the region of Earth's atmosphere called the mesosphere. NASA's PMC Turbo mission sent up a huge balloon in July 2018 to study the phenomenon up close and gather information about movement in Earth's atmosphere; the balloon snapped 6 million high-resolution photos as it floated across the Arctic for five days, according to a statement from NASA. The balloon traveled from Sweden to Canada.
"From what we've seen so far, we expect to have a really spectacular data set from this mission," Dave Fritts, principal investigator of the PMC Turbo mission at Global Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences in Boulder, Colorado, said in the statement. "Our cameras were likely able to capture some really interesting events, and we hope [the photos] will provide new insights into these complex dynamics." [Strange Clouds Spotted at the Edge of Space]
The clouds' rippling and flow reflect the movement of air in the upper atmosphere resulting from a phenomenon called atmospheric gravity waves— not to be confused with the gravitational waves created by massive objects colliding in deep space.
A NASA balloon mission examined the rippling, electric blue clouds found high over Earth's poles during twilight in summertime.
Credit: Joy Ng/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravity waves are oscillations in the atmosphere that form as air rises or falls and hits obstacles. This can happen when, for example, atmospheric layers bump up against each other or airflow runs into mountain ranges. Atmospheric gravity waves are normally invisible, but can be seen as they flow through noctilucent clouds.
"This is the first time we've been able to visualize the flow of energy from larger gravity waves to smaller flow instabilities and turbulence in the upper atmosphere," Fritts said. "At these altitudes, you can literally see the gravity waves breaking — like ocean waves on the beach — and cascading to turbulence."
The researchers also used a lidar system to measure, for the first time, the precise altitudes of the clouds and variations in temperature above and below the clouds. By watching gravity waves flow through these vivid clouds, scientists can learn more about how turbulence works in the upper atmosphere, as well as in other fluid systems, such as oceans, lakes and atmospheres on other planets, NASA officials said.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains.
5 Ancient Petroglyphs & Cave Paintings that depict “Ancient Aliens”
5 Ancient Petroglyphs & Cave Paintings that depict “Ancient Aliens”
Thousands of years ago, ancient people around the globe created a number of petroglyphs and cave paintings. Why ancient man depicted strange beings with 5 or 6 fingers, helmets, sandals, and what appear to be space suits is a mystery no one has been able to answer.
Millions of people around the world firmly believe we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings for millennia.
But if such highly advanced beings visited us in the distant past… how did ancient cultures react 2000-3000 years ago? Did ancient man freak out when ‘highly advanced’ spaceships landed on our planet? Or did ancient cultures glorify the visitors, referring to them as gods? Strangely, many ancient civilizations like the Ancient Chinese, Maya, Aztec and Inca, speak of visitors that came from the heavens bringing great knowledge to mankind.
But even before ancient civilizations recorded their legends and spoke of gods that came down to Earth, people were recording what today is interpreted as ‘alien visitations’.
If we take a look at cave art and petroglyphs around the globe, we will notice that in all corners of the planet, ancient man drew on rock all sorts of important events, and in nearly all petroglyphs found to date, there are representations of mysterious and strange beings that do not resemble human beings.
However, what is even more fascinating is that even though these petroglyphs are found scattered across the entire planet, the depictions of the mysterious creatures are eerily similar. This has lead many to believe that ancient mankind that carved and painted the mystery beings must have seen them at one point in history.
Let us go ahead and take a look at three of the most amazing depictions of ancient aliens discovered to date!
1. The Wandjina cave paintings
The Wandjina cave paintings are one of our favorite cave paintings discovered to date. There are a number of interesting details about the cave art found in Kimberley, Australia, in 1838. First of all the age of the cave paintings has become a subject of debate among numerous researchers. Some even suggest that the mystery art called the Wandjina could be well over 100,000 years old (yes you read right).
Among the numerous pieces of ‘ancient Picasso art’ ancient people depicted beings that measure up to six meters in height.
Locals refer to the mystery beings as the “wandjinas”. These mysterious beings are said to have brought civilization and prosperity to the people, and like many other ancient cultures around the globe indicate, the enigmatic “wandjinas” also came from the sky. Even more impressive is the fact that numerous ancient cultures around the globe have in their destroy a serpent or dragon. Strangely, the “wandjina’s” symbol was a feathered serpent. Quetzalcoatl anyone?
But even more fascinating are other depiction of the Wandjina, who are depicted as strange humanoid figures without mouths, with huge black eyes and pale white faces that are surrounded by strange halos.These mysterious paintings have received all kinds of interpretation: strange representation of human beings, gigantic owls, down to the theory of Ancient Astronauts, as beings who visited Earth in the distant past.
2. 10,000-year-old cave paintings in India depict ancient aliens
Another fascinating discovery of what could be interpreted as ancient aliens can be found in India where researchers discovered a number of strange pieces of ancient art resembling what many have interpreted as otherworldly beings and disc-shaped objects.
According to Indian experts, it’s as if people, 10.000 years ago made these paintings while looking at science fiction movies.
The set of curious ancient art is located inside caves located near the town of Charama in the Kanker district.
One archaeologist from India firmly believes that this art clearly reflects that 10,000 years ago, people knew we were not alone in the universe.
Archaeologist JR Bhagat made some very interesting comments while speaking about the enigmatic cave art: „The paintings are done in natural colors that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. Especially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits.“
3. Tassili n’Ajjer: Proof of Ancient Astronauts
It seems that there is plenty of evidence of ancient alien visitations.
In addition to the above-mentioned cave paintings, ancient art found in Tassili n’Ajjer seems to illustrate mysterious creatures with helmets gloves and strange suits.
Today, experts have managed to catalogue around 5,000 cave paintings in the region. Regrettably, around 20% of them remain visible today, since most of them were destroyed by erosion.
The age of the cave art is believed to be around 10,000 to 15,000 years old. Among the sheer number of rock art found, ancient man drew giraffes, ostriches, elephants, oxen, alligators and even hippos; demonstrating that the Sahara region was full of life in the distant past. However, the most incredible feature are the mysterious depictions of strange beings with helmets and suits, which according to a number of researchers resemble modern-day astronauts.
Why would the ancient inhabitants of Tassili n’Ajjer depict the humanoid figures with helmet-like objects and spacesuits unless they did not seem them? Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that the natives of the Tassili Caves depicted the ancient astronaut that visited them in the past 10,000 years ago? According to many researchers, it is a possibility.
4. The Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Another set of intriguing pieces of ancient art depicting strange beings can be found in Peru at the mysterious Petroglyphs of Toro Muerto, which according to many depict strange humanoid figures that do not resemble human beings.
The petroglyphs cover an area of several kilometers in length. Toro Muerto, which translated, means Dead Bull was named because of the herds of livestock that commonly died because of dehydration in the area.
Among the countless carvings at Toro Muerto, there are interesting depictions of what appear to be, shepherds, hunters, and semi-realistic figures, zoomorphic figures like jaguars, condors, camels, and fish. The ancients also depicted sunflowers and trees without branches, geometric symbols, zig-zags, square, diamond shapes and some inscriptions, intaglios, and bizarre writings all over an area of approximately four kilometers.
The most intriguing depictions at Toro Muerto are those of beings that do not share much resemblance to normal human beings. Even more fascinating is the fact that some of the petroglyphs of Toro Muerto bear a freakish resemblance to petroglyphs found in Australia where ancient man also depicted mysterious beings with ‘halos’ around their heads. The beings depicted at Toro Muerto were carved with a number of strange characteristics, like antennas on top of their heads.
5. The Petroglyphs at Karahunj, Armenia’s Stonehenge
This ancient site located in modern-day Armenia is fascinating for a number of reasons. First of all, many researchers claim that the site itself predates both Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza.
This ancient complex occupies over 7 hectares and offers its visitors a number of strange carvings created by early civilizations that inhabited the region thousands of years ago.
Among the numerous carvings, ancient man depicted what appeared to be strange beings with elongated heads and almond-shaped eyes, eerily similar to ‘modern-day’ representations of Grey Aliens.
In an age of wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, perhaps people don’t care as much any more
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Are aliens deserting us? Or do we simply not care any more? Photograph: Joe McBride/Getty Images
This month, the two major online sites for reporting UFOs – the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network – both documented steep drops in worldwide sightings. The declines started around 2014, when reports were at a peak. They have since reduced drastically to 55% of that year’s combined total, many UFO interest groups have folded, and numerous previously classified government documents have been disclosed.
Do these declines reveal that UFO interest is becoming a blip on the human cultural radar? Perhaps UFO and alien lore is seeming more like a reflection of human culture, tied to the space age, motivated by conquering new existential frontiers.
It might not be a coincidence that the term UFO (unidentified flying object) and some of the phenomena that surrounds it – abductions and impossible technologies – are relatively recent. Before the 1940s, reports of sightings of objects in the sky were extremely rare. Centuries of recorded history give no clear indication of any such activity. Then, at the predawn of the space-age, around the time of the Roswell conspiracy, UFO culture was born, giving rise to everything from Space Invaders to The X-Files.
Possible answers as to why sightings are decreasing are varied. A key factor, however, may be that more people simply don’t care any more. As we are accustomed to being inundated with wild claims churned out by politicians, media and advertisers, the next report of a UFO is no more believed than the long-range weather forecast.
Before home video, photographs were the staple of UFO evidence. Video evidence, during the height of the 1990s UFO mania, was regarded by many as even more substantial. Amateur footage of glowing objects in the sky, as mysterious as they seemed real, made the cut for appearing on television – they were meant to be taken seriously and they fed an audience hungry for amazement, helped by a healthy dose of conspiracy theorising.
According to the cultural historian Stuart Walton, “Belief in UFOs is definitely in a state of decline, along with much else that could be classed as paranormal. Part of the reason is that the technology for providing documentary evidence of such matters is now widely available to everybody with a smartphone, and such purported evidence as there is on YouTube looks extremely threadbare.”
He adds: “It isn't so much that belief can exist without proof; it's that it must emphatically avoid proof to remain belief. We are in the process, paradoxically, of proving a negative hypothesis with UFOs: there never was any such thing.”
Indeed, indisputable evidence of intelligent life coming to Earth could be the greatest news of all time. Yet, after thousands of anecdotal, photo, and video reports have accrued over decades, what are we to conclude? With the greatest balance of scepticism and “wanting to believe”, all that can confidently be asserted is that some objects, appearing in the sky on film or video, seem unidentifiable.
Furthermore, government disclosure of its own video footage isn’t helping to maintain belief. Joseph Baker, sociology professor at Tennessee State University, says: “It’s actually better for UFOs when ufologists can claim that ‘the powers that be know everything and are hiding it from us’ rather than seeing that the government appears to have basically the same info about UFOs as the public: namely grainy, inconclusive visual evidence.”
Perhaps though, the declines in reported sightings may signify only an end to current trends in ufology. After all, from the 1940s aliens were originally characterised as saviours who could help humans transcend the cold-war paranoia of nuclear annihilation; especially marked at the time, after two world wars. But after events like Watergate and the Vietnam war fuelled distrust in government, UFOs came to be viewed more as a possible threat, and some came to believe their existence was verified in secret military documents.
Sharon Hill, a researcher on the paranormal and pseudoscience, says: “The ideas about UFOs and aliens continue to evolve as we project our social and cultural ideas on them. Since we have no single easy explanation for all these claims regarding the decline in sightings, the future vision of ufology seems rather open-ended. I don't think it's dead, just changing.”
This article by the late Mac Tonnies is from Volume 2 of our Darklore anthology series (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK).
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“We are property.” – Charles Fort
“We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.” – Terence McKenna
Part of the fun of being a Fortean is second-guessing myself. While many endeavors encourage us to trust our first impressions, the study of unexplained phenomena offers no such luxuries. Researchers of the “paranormal” are instead tasked with policing their own streams of consciousness – a process as rewarding as it is laborious.
In my own case, the study of UFOs and occupant encounters has led me to two predominant interpretations, each at odds with the traditionally accepted Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH). In one scenario, the beings sighted since at least the 1950s (and, if folklore is any indication, long before) are the denizens of an invisible landscape: technologically savvy but impoverished hominids I’ve dubbed “cryptoterrestrials.” In the other, the enduring UFO spectacle is the product of an almost inconceivably ancient machine intelligence not unlike that portrayed in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001. I’ll limit the scope of this essay to the latter possibility.
As the human species enters an era of rampant existential threats and finds itself mirrored in the quantum circuitry of would-be artificial intelligences, there’s reason to suspect our existence has been monitored (and perhaps even groomed) by a “post-biological” super-intelligence. Although the galaxy is formidably vast, it’s also ancient. A growing chorus of pundits clamors over the perceived “Great Silence” that greets our arsenal of electronic listening gear; either we’re alone, condemned to solitude on the edge of an unremarkable galactic disk, or we have neighbors. And if even one of these neighboring intelligences has managed to spawn an artificially intelligent offshoot, there’s no end to how expansive it might have become in the ensuing millennia.
Suppose we’ve not only been detected, but catalogued and studied, our very identity eviscerated and infiltrated. What might we expect? Overt acknowledgement on behalf of the overseeing intelligence might be too much to ask, but it seems reasonable to expect an echo imprinted in our mythological and historical records, however faintly. Indeed, our collective psyche itself might bear mute witness to a visitation we don’t dare acknowledge for fear of staring too deeply into the abyss.
UFOs: A Social Engineering Campaign?
Like most proponents of an imminent technological “singularity,” I’m troubled by the seeming absurdity of UFO behavior. But instead of trying to dismiss the mystery outright, I’ve become convinced that the phenomenon is substantially deeper than the “mere” comings and goings of predominantly biologically beings in metal spacecraft How likely is it that UFOs might represent a spectacle enacted by an ET machine intelligence? As noted by acclaimed researcher Jacques Vallee, the ETH fails to account for the phenomenon’s enduring weirdness. Drawing from world folklore, Vallee posits that UFO sightings might be staged events that unfold according to the mythological syntax of any given era.
The UFO puzzle certainly represents an intelligence of some kind. Once we exclude the fashionable notion that all “good” sightings must invariably be the result of misinterpretation or hoax, it becomes apparent that we’re dealing with an extremely adaptable form of technology (or at least compelled to think we are). If the UFO intelligence is ET in origin, it’s conceivable that the enigmatic “flying disks” and apparent “occupants” that have come to populate 21st century mythology are so much theater designed to appeal to our sense of planetary selfhood. (It bears mentioning that the UFO phenomenon has never been exclusively American. Nor did it begin in the 1940s, as often assumed by ufologists and committed skeptics alike.)
As Vallee has argued in books such as Passport to Magonia and Dimensions, we’re witnessing the latest permutation of a richly historical drama that challenges researchers to re-examine the ETH. Like accounts of gods and “little people” before them, UFOs fulfill a significant psychosocial role. Examined superficially, this alone seems like grounds for debunking sightings of unlikely humanoids and their alleged vehicles. Yet UFOs behave in ways that refute a simple psychological explanation. Decades of multiple-witness encounters, complete with anomalous radar returns, leave little doubt that UFOs are a physical reality.
But why would visiting aliens behave in such a maddeningly elusive manner, eschewing open contact yet persistently presenting themselves in the most bizarre context?
While humanoid aliens engaged in a scientific study of our planet might very well inadvertently reveal themselves from time to time, UFO researchers must grapple with the peculiarly theatric flavor that accompanies so many credible sightings. It seems that whatever we’re witnessing is intentionally tricking us, adopting prudent disguises that fit the reigning zeitgeist.
Vallee – and other researchers of an esoteric bent – suspect we’re the recipients of a social engineering campaign that has little or nothing to do with flesh-and-blood visitors. If they’re right, we might be on the cusp of a new way of addressing ET contact that enlivens the UFO debate and casts new light on our own technological future.
Incompetent Alien Overlords
I’ve always been intrigued by the essentially clumsy methods employed by the purported pilots of UFOs. Alien abductors fare little better. Their induced amnesia has a way of crumbling over a curiously brief period of time; almost inevitably, their victims share stories of their experiences that, while often sincere, seem most unlike the machinations of an advanced extraterrestrial task-force.
Worse still, alien craft – which proponents of the ETH would have us believe are arbitrarily more advanced than our own – tend to leave incriminating scars on the terrain, if not crash with worrisome frequency. Coupled with their occupants’ human mannerisms, such seeming anachronisms all but beg that we rethink the standard interpretation offered by the ETH; instead of dealing with beings wielding technology “indistinguishable from magic,” UFO files reveal beings with the seemingly limited capabilities familiar to readers of pulp science fiction.
Indeed, their arsenal of gadgets, while impressive, is only a few decades in advance of our own. This observation, culled from a near-inexhaustible catalog of close encounters, hints that the phenomenon is at least partly physical, yet extraordinarily unlikely to represent the sort of ET visitation we might expect after viewing Close Encounters.
For example, abductee Betty Hill reported a pregnancy test identical to amniocentesis, a technique invented only shortly after her abduction. Similarly, accounts of electromagnetic effects on car engines and appliances are more in keeping with proposed earthly propulsion technologies than the sort of stealthy efficiency in keeping with a species hundreds of thousands of years ahead of us.
Scientists are already creating microscopic robots for use in medicine and industry. Given the inevitability of such devices, the presence of large metallic craft manned by humanoid pilots would appear, at best, a remarkably inept way to go about observing and cataloging life on this planet. Wouldn’t a genuine ET survey mission employ miniaturized surveillance in keeping with its need for secrecy?
Instead, UFOs cruise our skies with an implacable arrogance. If our visitors are indeed extrasolar aliens, then they have a most curious penchant for drama. If, on the other hand, we’re observing the activities of a machine intelligence, the apparent desire to be seen can be readily explained in terms of misdirection.
“Alien” imagery of the sort encountered in science fiction of the 1950s is the perfect cover, as our own military understands all-too-well. Greg Bishop chronicles just one example in Project Beta, a devastating critique of the black-ops underworld and its readiness to exploit ET mythology in order to deflate serious interest in secret Air Force projects.
By utilizing our innate fascination with flesh-and-blood interplanetary visitors in resplendent metallic spacecraft, the operative intelligence has ensured that any “accidental” sightings will be ascribed to the ETH. The mainstream media, quick to “debunk” for fear of inciting ridicule, thus ignores credible sightings and inadvertently assists the overarching agenda. And if by some chance the sighting is undeniable, its cultural connotations will almost certainly relegate it to our collective Fortean attic.
In a related vein, I don’t think it’s accidental that so many UFOs are adorned with mesmerizing flashing lights. While one can always argue that conspicuous lights indicate the presence of some truly unearthly propulsion system, it’s just as possible that they’re a deliberate ploy to appeal to our sense of the unearthly, thereby eliciting the excitement of the very ET enthusiasts whose sightings are certain to be ignored . . . or, at best, published in some obscure journal or website.
As Vallee has astutely noted, many accounts of UFO landings have the undeniable flavor of staged events. The controversial events at Rendlesham Forest, for instance, seem to make sense only if they were intended to be witnessed, perhaps in an attempt to further impress us with the extraterrestrial meme. Similarly, the famous Washington National sightings, in which objects were tracked over Washington, D.C. with ground- and air-based radar and confirmed visually by multiple witnesses, smack of an orchestrated event intended to arrest our attention.
Intriguingly, the objects over Washington were limited to inexplicable sources of light – not the “structured craft” described in other notable cases. Could the UFO intelligence use a form of holography to trick us into thinking we’re observing tangible vehicles? The possibility can’t be easily discounted. Michael Talbot supports the holographic theory in his book The Holographic Universe, noting that some UFO displays have more in common with sophisticated projections than nuts-and-bolts spacecraft.
The same can be said of many close encounters of the third or fourth kind in which witnesses report anomalous spatial effects. Some witnesses have described the interior of apparent alien vehicles as considerably larger than the craft as seen from outside. This odd detail, so bizarre when considered in isolation, might be explained as a perceptual trick enacted by the “aliens” to render their vehicles more impressive than they actually are. Upon exiting, a witness would be more likely to describe her experience in otherworldly terms.
That the ufonauts use a form of mind control is taken as a given by most abduction researchers. But once we concede that our visitors are able to induce or dampen perception at will, where does one draw the line? Who’s to say the bulk of abduction narratives can’t be interpreted as induced hallucinations? Perhaps some incredible abduction reports, while sincere, reflect an intimate brush with virtual reality rather than encounters with humanoid extraterrestrials.
Establishing the Foundations
But what do we know about the phenomenon? What can researchers agree on, if anything? I certainly don’t expect them to abandon the notion of biological visitors in favor of immersive virtual reality. Neither do I expect ufologists to agree on the ever-nebulous Interdimensional Hypothesis, which raises at least as many reality-altering questions as it purports to answer.
At the same time, the Null Hypothesis, maintaining that UFOs can be universally ascribed to misidentified natural phenomena and sightings of unconventional earthly aircraft, has grown decrepit and toothless. Fashionable debunking aside (up to and including the brittle posturing of self-styled “alien experts” such as the SETI Institute’s Seth Shostak) something absolutely fascinating is happening.
Taking stock of the situation, I’m tempted to reduce the UFO riddle to a few guiding tenets which I think can be reasonably supported by the evidence provided since the “modern” era of sightings began 60 years ago.
A list of pertinent characteristics might go like this:
Regardless of their origin, UFOs are physically real.
UFOs are sometimes observed engaged in behavior which can only be described as intelligently directed.
The psychological and sociological impact of the phenomenon is especially enduring and should be a topic of paramount interest for scholars and researchers in fields as disparate as cultural anthropology, aeronautics and neurology.
The sometimes theatrical behavior of unidentified flying objects suggests the possibility of some form of dialogue, whether directed by ourselves or orchestrated by the phenomenon itself. Likewise, military encounters in which weapons systems have been apparently manipulated in intelligent fashion invite the prospect that the UFO intelligence is at least partially amenable to understanding in terms of human psychology.
A Post-Biological Booster
Assume that something very much like the imminent “Singularity” we’ve been hearing so much about from futurists and transhumanist pundits has already happened elsewhere in the galaxy. Now imagine us awash in its wake, scrambling to summon a vocabulary up to the task of making sense of it.
If I’m right, a postsingular intelligence would eschew formal contact for the simple reason that such disclosure would destabilize us, possibly to the brink of obliteration. Lest this sound unnecessarily dire, it’s worth recalling that theorists have attacked the assumptions underpinning radio-based SETI for much the same reason. If our own history is any example, technologically robust civilizations inevitably subsume less sophisticated cultures, not merely by violently dismantling them, but by introducing a virulent strain of apathy. (The infamous Brookings report to NASA, recommending that the potential discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts be covered up for fear of paralyzing research/development enterprises, stands as perhaps most explicit elucidation of this idea.) The UFO/”alien” phenomenon described by Vallee, John Keel and even Whitley Strieber is alarmingly congruent with a “postbiological” hypothesis. We appear to be interacting with an exceptionally patient intelligence which, despite its advantages over terrestrial science, seems limited by a steadfast refusal to make itself widely known. (Whether this indicates a guiding morality or pragmatic necessity remains to be seen.) Contrary to mainstream expectations, our visitors have opted for a much more gradual form of contact, evidenced both by the often theatrical nature of the apparent vehicles in our skies and by the behavior of the presumed occupants (who seem to enjoy letting us assume they’re predominantly human-like, governed by such familiar traits as curiosity and even sexuality).
I propose that this intelligence has played a significant role in hastening our species’ development as well as keeping us in a periodic “standby” state, rendering us less likely to destroy ourselves. In a way, the human legacy has been scripted to conform to an alien template about which we know nothing. But the available historical, mythological and experiential evidence tends to support a largely benevolent raison d’etre. Perhaps we’re being groomed in preparation for our own Singularity, after which the “others” could have no choice but to deal with us as equals.
Accessing the Interzone
I’ve speculated that the diverse humanoid forms encountered by “abductees” and UFO witnesses might be best understood in terms of a “hive society,” replete with “drones” engineered to perform specialized tasks.
Science fiction writers continue to debate what methods we’ll use when colonizing a planet such as Mars. Ultimately, we might choose to terraform the world into a facsimile of our own. But we could just as easily decide to modify ourselves to tolerate inclimate conditions. A space-faring post-biological intelligence could take up residence elsewhere and populate the surface of its designated planet with lifelike, semi-autonomous drones.
Such a civilization might seem remote, but the general concept is already in practice; if our own robotic space probes continue to increase in sophistication and brain-power, they’ll eventually become indistinguishable from living creatures, at which point we will have effectively achieved the “Singularity” advocated by technoprogressives such as roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil. We will have also created the forebear to the very sort of resourceful, self-replicating machine envisioned by John von Neumann, whose idea suggests that our night sky should be veritably illuminated by the comings and goings of ETs (or their technology).
Taken to its logical extreme, telepresence offers an expansive – if tentative – explanation for myriad “occult” phenomena. It potentially explains why we seldom see aliens in the flesh unless they want us to. And we can’t dismiss the possibility that some UFO sightings, while seemingly physical events, might be enacted on a psychological level. Our own neurological dabbling demonstrates that such techniques are less exotic than some may expect; indeed, if neurologist Michael Persinger is correct, radiation emitted from natural phenomena can sometimes result in convincing hallucinatory states.
To be sure, the realm of the UFO intelligence has the visual flexibility of a multimedia installation or high-bandwidth website. It’s conceivable that “trippers” can access this interzone, even if inadvertently. The beings seen – described similarly in both UFO and drug narratives – might be the equivalent of neuropharmacologists and system operators. If so, what role might be in store for us?
A Sort of Amnesiac Stupor…
UFO researchers like their aliens to abide by 20th century preconceptions of what alien beings “should” look like; encounters with “absurd” entities (such as the goblin-like, levitating creatures made famous by the Hopkinsville case) comprise a kind of viral assault on conformist ufology by insinuating themselves into reigning conceits and quietly subverting ETH dogma. Ultimately, their existence is marginalized and becomes less ufological than “Fortean.” We’re asked, in effect, to consider the Hopkinsville visitors and their like as somehow separate and distinct from “hardcore” case-files that more readily suggest “traditional” extraterrestrial visitation. We do so at our peril.
Even UFO cases central to advocates of the ETH sometimes betray a psychosocial agenda. (“Dogfights” and radar-visual engagements with UFOs, while impressive evidence that the phenomenon is anything but simply visionary, also present the specter of an inexplicably “playful” disposition; this clashes with dogmatic assurances that humanoid aliens would refrain from such childish behavior.)
Encounters with “Hopkinsville-type” beings demonstrate an undeniable commonality with both folkloric sources and the contemporary UFO phenomenon. Taken together, these inconvenient similarities force us to question the easy certainties that prevailed in the 1950s, when human-like space aliens in comprehensible spacecraft seemed all-but-inevitable. “Limbo” cases like Hopkinsville allow us to assess the phenomenon in a brighter, less sullied light.
While one can argue endlessly in favor of a traditionalist extraterrestrial interpretation, a holistic approach leads us to consider that the UFO intelligence not only wants to perpetuate itself via dramatic encounters with ostensible “occupants,” but intends to discredit its own machinations: it stages exciting UFO events that infect both the research community and the popular imagination, knowing that the phenomenon’s inherent absurdity will eventually undermine attempts to arrive at an indictment.
We’re thus conditioned to accept the ETH one moment only to succumb to the “giggle factor” the next, never peering past the curtain to see the agenda behind the special effects. We’re kept in a sort of amnesiac stupor, occasionally graced by visits from what can only be structured ET craft . . . and then deflated by the latest bizarre “occupant” report or account of “missing time.”
Our infatuation with the unknown is systematically provoked and dismantled by a memetic campaign that’s never less than astute in its grasp of human belief.
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Is it aliens? Scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy
Is it aliens? Scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy
Some think the “fast radio bursts” could be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization.
by Jeremy Hsu
Researchers using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia announced the detection of 15 pulses of radio energy from an object known to the astronomy community as FRB 121102.
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For the past decade, scientists have been puzzling over powerful, millisecond-long flashes of energy from deep space. Some scientists think these “fast radio bursts,” or FRBs, come from natural sources, such as newborn neutron stars or black holes. Others think they could be signals from alien civilizations.
One thing’s for sure: FRBs are more common than we realized. In the latest discovery, scientists working as part of a $100-million initiative known as Breakthrough Listen used artificial intelligence to detect dozens of additional FRBs coming from FRB 121102, an as-yet-uncharacterized source in a galaxy 3 billion light-years from Earth.
The work is the first step in the initiative’s grander plans for using AI to find hidden patterns in the bigger sea of cosmic signals that come our way — research that could finally provide an answer to that eternal question: Are we alone in the universe?
"It's a great way of developing the kinds of techniques that we ultimately want to use to find other types of signals that might come from extraterrestrial intelligence," says Andrew Siemion, principal investigator for Breakthrough Listen and director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
In August 2017, the Breakthrough Listen team discovered 21 fast radio bursts from FRB 121102 during five hours of observations made by a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia. In their latest study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal, the researchers deployed a specialized AI technique known as deep learning to see if any signals had been overlooked in their initial research.
Siemion gave Yunfan "Gerry" Zhang, a doctoral student at Berkeley, the job of training a deep learning algorithm to hunt for the additional bursts. The trained AI was turned loose to sort through 400 terabytes of observational data — a huge trove containing about as much data as is contained in 40,000 hours of 4K video.
After a month of work, Zhang strolled into Siemion's office and told his stunned mentor that he had discovered about 100 previously undetected bursts. To be sure Zhang was right, the researchers used standard computer software to clean up the messy signals — and confirmed the existence of at least 72 additional bursts.
The same AI approach could help astronomers find new repeating sources of fast radio bursts closer to Earth than FRB 121102. If closer repeater sources do exist, astronomers might be able to get a better look at them using optical and X-ray telescopes, says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the science theory director for all initiatives funded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
But the Breakthrough Listen team is already looking beyond fast radio bursts. It's developing AI to analyze a wider range of similarly interesting signals coming from nearby stars and galaxies. In this case, AI's broad pattern recognition abilities could prove especially helpful when nobody knows exactly what an alien signal might look like.
"If AI could flag things that don’t look right or don’t look natural, that might be an interesting thing to do," says Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California who was not involved in the Breakthrough Listen study.
Eventually, AI could do much more than just filter radio signals. Shostak speculates that AI — already enabling Internet searches for cat and dog videos — could someday automatically search telescope images for unusual visual features that might represent huge alien megastructures from either existing or bygone civilizations. As he puts it, "AI can find cats on the Internet, but maybe it could also find Klingons in space.”
Scientists weigh in on cigar-shaped UFO, believed to carry alien life
Scientists weigh in on cigar-shaped UFO, believed to carry alien life
A GROUP of scientists claim to have identified a mysterious object spotted flying through space and thought to have been an alien spaceship.
Rhian Deutrom
Analysis Reveals Elongated, Cigar-Like Shape for First Interstellar Asteroid. Credit - NASA via Storyful
SCIENTISTS have uncovered the truth about a mysterious space rock called Oumuamua which has been hurtling through Earth’s solar system and was spotted last year.
A group of acclaimed astronomers, including members from NASA, the European Space Agency and the German Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, released a report this week on the origins of the cigar-shaped asteroid which was first observed in October 2017.
The name Oumuamua is Hawaiian for “messenger from afar arriving first” and was named by the site who first spotted it.
An artists’ impression of what Oumuamua would look like close up. Screengrab from video produced by Martin Kornmesser, ESA and NASA.
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According to the report, “a fast moving object on an unbound orbit was discovered close to the Earth” by a high-powered telescope, located in Hawaii.
The report claims Oumuamua is a metallic or rocky object, approximately 400 metres in length and about 40 metres wide.
It has a “comet-like density” and a dark red surface.
“(The red surface suggests) either an organic-rich surface like that of comets and outer solar system asteroids, or a surface containing minerals with nanoscale iron, such as the dark side of Saturn’s moon Iapetus,” the report said.
This image shows the journey of Oumuamua through our solar system. Screengrab from video produced by Martin Kornmesser, ESA and NASA.
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The report suggested Oumuamua left its home millions of years ago and was likely sent on its lonely journey when it was “ejected during planet formation and migration” and has been linked to four possible star systems.
It was also calculated that Oumuamua moved faster than the existing laws of celestial mechanics.
The report has been accepted into The Astrophysical Journal.
The discovery of Oumuamua sparked international debate when it was first discovered, as scientists struggled to explain what exactly the long, thin asteroid was and why it was flying so close to Earth.
The discovery even prompted suggestions that the rock was actually an alien spaceship or probe, used to explore our solar system.
Oumuamua is the first-ever object spotted from beyond our solar system. Screengrab from video produced by Martin Kornmesser, ESA and NASA.
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But one fact has remained uncontended: Oumuamua is the first object ever observed travelling into our solar system from deep space.
The report found that Oumuamua is likely “one of many” interstellar objects that pass through Earth’s solar system on a regular basis.
The discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India's western state of Maharashtra has greatly excited archaeologists who believe they hold clues to a previously unknown civilisation, BBC Marathi's Mayuresh Konnur reports.
The rock carvings - known as petroglyphs - have been discovered in their thousands atop hillocks in the Konkan region of western Maharashtra.
Mostly discovered in the Ratnagiri and Rajapur areas, a majority of the images etched on the rocky, flat hilltops remained unnoticed for thousands of years.µ
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Most of them were hidden beneath layers of soil and mud. But a few were in the open - these were considered holy and worshipped by locals in some areas.
The sheer variety of the rock carvings have stunned experts - animals, birds, human figures and geometrical designs are all depicted.
The way the petroglyphs have been drawn, and their similarity to those found in other parts of the world, have led experts to believe that they were created in prehistoric times and are possibly among the oldest ever discovered.
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"Our first deduction from examining these petroglyphs is that they were created around 10,000BC," the director of the Maharashtra state archaeology department, Tejas Garge, told the BBC.
The credit for their discovery goes to a group of explorers led by Sudhir Risbood and Manoj Marathe, who began searching for the images in earnest after observing a few in the area. Many were found in village temples and played a part in local folklore.
"We walked thousands of kilometres. People started sending photographs to us and we even enlisted schools in our efforts to find them. We made students ask their grandparents and other village elders if they knew about any other engravings. This provided us with a lot of valuable information," Mr Risbood told the BBC.
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Together they found petroglyphs in and around 52 villages in the area. But only around five villages were aware that the images even existed.
Apart from actively searching for them, Mr Risbood and Mr Marathe have also played an important role in documenting the petroglyphs and lobbying authorities to get involved in studying and preserving them.
Media captionStunning aerial shots of India's prehistoric art
Mr Garge says the images appear to have been created by a hunter-gatherer community which was not familiar with agriculture.
"We have not found any pictures of farming activities. But the images depict hunted animals and there's detailing of animal forms. So this man knew about animals and sea creatures. That indicates he was dependent on hunting for food."
Dr Shrikant Pradhan, a researcher and art historian at Pune's Deccan College who has studied the petroglyphs closely, said that the art was clearly inspired by things observed by people at the time.
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"Most of the petroglyphs show familiar animals. There are images of sharks and whales as well as amphibians like turtles," Mr Garge adds.
But this begs the question of why some of the petroglyphs depict animals like hippos and rhinoceroses which aren't found in this part of India. Did the people who created them migrate to India from Africa? Or were these animals once found in India?
The state government has set aside a fund of 240 million rupees ($3.2m; £2.5m) to further study 400 of the identified petroglyphs.It is hoped that some of these questions will eventually be answered.
IS ANYBODY OUT THERE? The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has been used for decades in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) but has barely made a dent in the space to be searched, new calculations suggest.
COURTESY OF THE NAIC-ARECIBO OBSERVATORY, AN NSF FACILITY
With no luck so far in a six-decade search for signals from aliens, you’d be forgiven for thinking, “Where is everyone?”
A new calculation shows that if space is an ocean, we’ve barely dipped in a toe. The volume of observable space combed so far for E.T. is comparable to searching the volume of a large hot tub for evidence of fish in Earth’s oceans, astronomer Jason Wright at Penn State and colleagues say in a paper posted online September 19 at arXiv.org.
“If you looked at a random hot tub’s worth of water in the ocean, you wouldn’t always expect a fish,” Wright says.
Still, that’s far more space searched than calculated in 2010 for the 50th anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. In that work, SETI pioneer Jill Tarter and colleagues imagined a “cosmic haystack” of naturally occurring radio waves she could sift through for the proverbial needle of an artificial, alien beacon (SN Online: 5/29/12). Her haystack went beyond physical space to include factors such as a possible signal’s duration, frequency, variations and strength, as well as the sensitivity of radio telescopes on Earth that would presumably detect a signal.
She concluded that searches had covered about a drinking glass’s worth of seawater — hardly enough to conclude the ocean is fishless.
Wright and colleagues Shubham Kanodia and Emily Lubar updated Tarter’s calculation by devising a slightly different haystack, including factors like the frequency and bandwidth aliens might broadcast in. It also included more recent SETI searches such as the Breakthrough Listen project(SN Online: 7/20/15).
Converting the volume to liters for the sake of analogy, the researchers concluded that SETI has covered the equivalent of 7,700 liters out of 1.335 billion trillion liters of water in Earth’s oceans.
“We’re finally getting to the point today … that we have a chance of finding something, depending on how much there is to find,” Wright says.
Earth Could Be Crushed to The Size of a Soccer Field by Particle Accelerator Experiments, Astronomer Warns
Earth Could Be Crushed to The Size of a Soccer Field by Particle Accelerator Experiments, Astronomer Warns
Martin Rees, a well-respected British cosmologist, has made a pretty bold statement when it comes to particle accelerators: there’s a small, but real possibility of disaster.
Particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider, shoot particles at incredibly high speeds, smash them together, and observe the fallout.
These high speed collisions have helped us discover lots of new particles, but according to Rees, this isn’t without its risks.
“Maybe a black hole could form, and then suck in everything around it,” he writes, as Sarah Knapton reports over at the Telegraph. “The second scary possibility is that the quarks would reassemble themselves into compressed objects called strangelets.”
“That in itself would be harmless. However under some hypotheses a strangelet could, by contagion, convert anything else it encounters into a new form of matter, transforming the entire earth in a hyperdense sphere about one hundred metres across.”
That’s approximately 330 feet, or around the length of a soccer field.
And that’s not all. The third way that particle accelerators could destroy the Earth, according to Reese, is by a “catastrophe that engulfs space itself”.
“Empty space – what physicists call the vacuum – is more than just nothingness. It is the arena for everything that happens. It has, latent in it, all the forces and particles that govern the physical world. The present vacuum could be fragile and unstable.”
“Some have speculated that the concentrated energy created when particles crash together could trigger a ‘phase transition’ that would rip the fabric of space. This would be a cosmic calamity not just a terrestrial one.”
Sounds frankly terrifying. But should we really be worried? Surely the smart people at the LHC can clear this up.
“The LHC Safety Assessment Group (LSAG) reaffirms and extends the conclusions of the 2003 report that LHC collisions present no danger and that there are no reasons for concern,” CERN writes on their website.
“Whatever the LHC will do, nature has already done many times over during the lifetime of the Earth and other astronomical bodies.”
And this is an important point – cosmic rays are basically natural versions of what the LHC and other particle accelerators are doing. And these rays hit Earth constantly.
The team behind the LHC have an answer for strangelets as well.
“Could strangelets coalesce with ordinary matter and change it to strange matter? This question was first raised before the start up of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC, in 2000 in the United States,” they explain.
“A study at the time showed that there was no cause for concern, and RHIC has now run for eight years, searching for strangelets without detecting any.”
Even the late, great Stephen Hawking gave his blessing to the particle accelerator:
“The world will not come to an end when the LHC turns on. The LHC is absolutely safe. … Collisions releasing greater energy occur millions of times a day in the earth’s atmosphere and nothing terrible happens,” said Hawking.
In a way, Rees is correct. We’re not 100 percent sure, and might never be. But as he explains, many scientific advances can have risks, but that’s not to say we need to stop entirely.
“Innovation is often hazardous, but if we don’t forgo risks we may forgo benefits,” he writes in On The Future.
“Nevertheless, physicists should be circumspect about carrying out experiments that generate conditions with no precedent, even in the cosmos,” Rees writes.
“Many of us are inclined to dismiss these risks as science fiction, but give the stakes they could not be ignored, even if deemed highly improbable.”
We’ll leave that gargantuan task to the particle physicists.
By Gordon Slovut, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
They sat quietly, leaning toward the lectern in a dark-paneled room near Lake Calhoun, Minn., as a professor from New York told of his encounter with one of the mysterious Men in Black.
In the audience were people such as biophysicist Otto Schmitt, a retired professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota; retired aircraft developer and physicist Cecil Behringer; physician Steven Zuckerman and polymer scientist Arthur Coury.Peter Rojcewicz told them there have been hundreds - perhaps thousands - of such encounters over the centuries.
"The Men in Black are part of the extraordinary encounter continuum - fairies, monsters, ETs, energy forms, flying saucers, flaming crosses," said Rojcewicz, a 37-year-old professor of humanities and folklore at New York's Juilliard School.
The modern era of Men in Black - visitations by mysterious, black-clad men who seem evil and threatening - goes back to at least the early 1950s when a man named Albert Bender reported seeing a UFO in Bridgeport, Conn., and was later frightened by a visit from three Men in Black.
Rojcewicz told the audience that his own MIB (Men in Black) experience occurred in 1980. "I have never gone public with this before," he said.
Most of the modern era MIB encounters have followed sightings of UFOs or strange lights. Rojcewicz's encounter involved no sightings. He said he was just sitting in the University of Pennsylvania library, reading a UFO book suggested by another professor who thought that Rojcewicz would be interested in such phenomena.
"Then in the corner of my vision I noticed a black pants leg and a black shoe, scuffed," Rojcewicz said. Standing in front of him, Rojcewicz said, was a very gaunt, very pale man. He wore a black suit, black shoes, black string tie and a bright white shirt.
Rojcewicz told the man he didn't know much about flying saucers and wasn't sure he was very interested in the phenomena.
The Man in Black screamed: "Flying saucers are the most important fact of the century and you are not interested?"
"I tried to calm him," Rojcewicz said. The man got up, once again all in a single awkward movement, put his hand on Rojcewicz's shoulder and said: "Go well on your purpose" and left.
Rojcewicz said he thinks his experience - and that of others who have been exposed to the Men in Black - are somewhere "in the crack" between real life and fantasy. He has been studying anomalous phenomena such as the Men in Black ever since his 1980 experience. He has interviewed many people who have reported UFOs, flying saucers and Men in Black experiences.
You’d think that physicist Stephen Hawking’s favorite place on Earth would be his native England, but it’s actually someplace completely different – as he explains in a new 25-minute documentary from CuriosityStream.
“Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places” is an exclusive offering from the online video-on-demand channel, founded last year by John Hendricks, who was the mastermind behind the Discovery Channel. It’s the first episode in what’s expected to be a series of original “Favorite Places” features, supplementing CuriosityStream’s library of science documentaries from the BBC and other providers.
The real-life Hawking has to use a computer-equipped wheelchair to get around nowadays, but CuriosityStream’s documentary uses CGI magic to put the good doctor into the cockpit of the S.S. Hawking, a spaceship he designed himself.
From that vantage point, Hawking takes viewers on a tour through time and space – and talks about his own journey through life as well.
“My goal is simple: complete understanding of the universe,” Hawking said in a statement. “It’s always been a dream of mine to explore the universe. So, what if I could? Imagine I could go anywhere and see anything.”
Here are the five places that Hawking picked:
1. The Big Bang:
The S.S. Hawking starts its trip with a visit to the beginning of the universe, giving Hawking the opportunity to explain that the Big Bang wasn’t as big of a bang as people think. “There are no fireworks,” he says. “Light won’t exist for hundreds of thousands of years.” But Hawking spins the time dial fast enough to get to a satisfying flash, 380,000 years after the beginning.
2. The Milky Way’s central black hole:
When Hawking gets to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, fans of the movie “Interstellar” will recognize the scene. It’s a bigger version of Gargantua, the huge black hole in the movie that’s based on calculations by one of Hawking’s pals, Caltech physicist Kip Thorne. To CuriosityStream’s credit, the scene neatly explains the mechanism behind a black hole’s “Hawking radiation” and why Hawking changed his thinking on black hole behavior.
3. Gliese 832 c:
Hawking journeys to one of the likeliest nearby candidates for habitability beyond Earth – Gliese 832 c, a super-Earth that orbits a red dwarf star located 16 light-years from our solar system. “Plants here wouldn’t be green,” he says. “Photosynthesis from the sun’s red light would produce purple or black foliage. There could be animals, too, perhaps intelligent ones.” Hawking notes that Gliese 832 c (like the more recently discovered Proxima Centauri b) is under observation by the Breakthrough Listen SETI campaign. “Finding intelligent life would be the single greatest discovery in history,” Hawking said. “We would be forced to change.”
4. Saturn:
Hawking’s in love with the giant planet’s rings and its more than 60 moons. “I have no doubt in the future it will be a massive tourist hot spot, complete with hot-dog stands and screaming children,” he says. The S.S. Hawking spends a few extra moments zooming past Enceladus, an ice-covered moon that spews geysers of water vapor and may well harbor life in its hidden ocean.
5. Earth:
The whole planet counts as a favorite place for Hawking, but he’s especially fond of sunny Santa Barbara, Calif., where he spent many happy hours with his young family in 1974. At the time, Hawking held a position at Caltech in nearby Pasadena and was coping with the early stages of his neurodegenerative disease. “My home away from home … It was a world away from the gray skies of Cambridge,” he said. “I’ve traveled the globe, but I’ve never found anywhere quite like this.” Even today, he stops by Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, which he calls “the perfect place for blue-sky thinking.”
CuriosityStream works on an ad-free subscription model, with a month’s free trial. Standard-definitiion access is $2.99 a month, HD is $5.99 a month, 4K Ultra HD is $11.99 a month. More than 1,500 titles are available. For more information about the service, check out the website.
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