First announced in 2015, Breakthrough Listen is an unprecedented $100 million program – backed by Russian high-tech billionaire Yuri Milner – to listen for signals from an alien intelligence. This massive SETI project is already listening via the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and Parkes Telescope in Australia. On October 2, 2018, Breakthrough Listen announced it will also begin listening via the 64 radio dishes of South Africa’s brand new MeerKAT telescope. It made the announcement at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, saying it planned to:

… examine a million individual stars – 1,000 times the number of targets in any previous search – in the quietest part of the radio spectrum, monitoring for signs of extraterrestrial technology. With the addition of MeerKAT’s observations to its existing surveys, Listen will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Yuri Milner commented:

Collaborating with MeerKAT will significantly enhance the capabilities of Breakthrough Listen. This is now a truly global project.

Artist’s concept of an extraterrestrial, via Shutterstock.

Yuri Milner funds Breakthrough Listen. He was an early investor in Facebook and Twitter and has funded other large endeavors. For example, he has established the largest award in the world in the field of biomedicine and life sciences, called the Breakthrough Prize.

The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) spent part of this year verifying the 64 radio antennas, each 13.5 meters (44 feet) in diameter, of the MeerKAT telescope. SARAO officially inaugurated the telescope in July 2018.

Breakthrough Listen said its involvement:

… adds the capability to search for technosignatures – signals that indicate the presence of technology on an alien world, and hence provide evidence that intelligent life exists elsewhere.

The MeerKAT telescope of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas, located in the remote Karoo Desert of South Africa.

Image via SARAO.

Scientists and engineers from the University of California, Berkeley SETI Research Center have already installed Breakthrough Listen’s special digital instrumentation (much like that installed at Green Bank) at the MeerKAT telescope. The Breakthrough Listen team said its observations will:

… occur in a commensal mode – at the same time as other astrophysics programs. Using sophisticated processing, Breakthrough Listen scientists will digitally point the telescope at targets of interest.

This means that the Breakthrough Listen instrument at MeerKAT will be operating almost continuously, scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life.

The Green Bank telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, is another one of the observatories attempting to eavesdrop on aliens with the help of Breakthrough Listen. Using the Breakthrough Listen digital instrumentation at this telescope, astronomers 3 weeks ago announced they’d found 72 more fast radio bursts from a distant galaxy. Photo via NRAO.

Bottom line: Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen program has added the new MeerKAT telescope of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory to its global SETI effort.

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07-10-2018 om 23:32 geschreven door peter  

Incredibly Weird Microbes Found Deep Underground Could Change Search for Life on Mars

07-10-2018 om 23:20 geschreven door peter  

Did astronaut reveal NASA's 'codeword for aliens' in live International Space Station feed?

Conspiracy theorists have suggested that a "nervous" astronaut was telling ground control about appearance of a strange red-coloured UFO

By Kelly-Ann Mills

This controversial footage is causing a stir among UFO fans and conspiracy theorists as records a bizarre conversation between a "nervous" astronaut and mission control.

The outer-space experts claim that during a live feed from the International Space Station the astronaut mentions the word "gospel" as a strange red-coloured UFO appears on the screen.

According to Mr Waring, the appearance of the UFO on the ISS live video feed as the astronaut mentions the gospel" was significant and could not be a coincidence."

Talking his viewers through the footage he drew the attention of viewers to the moment in the recording that the astronaut said the word “gospel,” and the moment that ground control replied to the astronaut, saying, “we will pray for you."

Secure Team 10's Tyler Glockne r also noted how odd it was for the astronaut to be talking about religion ans said the conversation was "very unusual".

He said: "You can hear the astronaut speaking about God as a UFO appears, which is strange.

“Although it is not strange to think there may be astronauts who may be religious, but I think it would be uncommon due to the training and scientific knowledge they have.”

But his fans asked whether the reference to "gospel" was actually code for "aliens".

Conspiracy theorists have suggested that the astronaut’s statement that he was looking “forward to this partnership with the gospel,” could be coded language and he was actually telling ground control he was about to meet a delegation of extraterrestrials and hold "talks" with them.

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07-10-2018 om 23:04 geschreven door peter  

UFO over Jacksonville, North Carolina – May 17, 2018

Case File Information

TBV Investigations Case Number: 595176

Date of Event / Case File: 05/17/2018
Name of Witness: Anonymous

07-10-2018 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

The Pentagon Is Building An Army Of Insects To 'Protect Crops'

The Pentagon has been researching for a program with the title of “Insect Allies”.

The program has the intention of creating insect armies that defend crops; however, they could also be used as a biological weapon with the Pentagon not denying they have the potential for dual use.

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DARPA created Insect Allies to protect against threats to the food supply. An opinion piece in @sciencemagazine questions motives & value of the research. Here we reassert the need for Insect Allies and map the efforts we've taken to proceed responsibly.

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Researchers Are Worried About the Project

Researchers at the Max Planck Institution for Evolutionary Biology along with researchers at the University of Freiburg in Germany and the University of Montpellier in France have criticized the program. They believe that the knowledge that has been gained from the research along with the program is limited in the ability to be able to enhance agriculture in the US. They also don’t believe it could be used in response to any national emergency.

Researches believe that the program "may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile purposes and their means of delivery."

Program Was Developed to Protect Food Supplies

The insect armies are under development by DARPA with the intention of them being able to protect food supplies against any threats. However, the program along with the motives and values of it has been questioned by many researchers.

The program manager of Insect Allies, Dr. Blake Bextine tried to quell any fears by saying that DARPA was "not producing biological weapons, and we reject the hypothetical scenario," though they "accept and agree with concerns about the potential dual use of technology."

While Bextine had tried to persuade people that there were no intentions of using the insect army for bioweapons, a later response by him by way of a two-page document did not have any strong denials about the insect armies becoming bioweapons. He came up with the argument that the program was intended only as a "respond rapidly to threats to the food supply."

Nothing Can Go Wrong With Modified Virus Technology

Bextine was adamant that there was nothing that could go wrong with the program. He put emphasis on "every performer in the program is required to include at least three independent kill switches in their systems to shut down functionality of the technology." Essentially meaning that if the technology, the insects, went rogue they could be killed off.

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DARPA's "Insect Allies" program: aims to use insects to disperse infectious genetically modified viruses engineered to edit crop DNA directly in fields (horizontal environmental genetic alteration agents, HEGAAs) https://www.darpa.mil/program/insect-allies … ...

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The aim of the Insect Allies program is to use the modified insects to spread infectious viruses that have been genetically modified to edit the DNA of crops in the fields. Of course, there is nothing to say that they could not be sent out to kill off crops of other countries to bring about famine and death.

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07-10-2018 om 22:23 geschreven door peter  

A Dyson sphere megastructure is one type of hypothesized alien technosignature.

Image via SentientDevelopments.com.

Here’s a buzzword you might or might not have heard before: technosignatures. SETI pioneer Jill Tarter has proposed that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) be renamed the search for technosignatures. Although the question of whether we’re alone in the universe is one of humanity’s oldest (are there “others” who share the universe with us or are we all alone?), most searches for advanced alien life have sought radio waves of artificial origin. More recently, astronomers have suggested looking for visible laser pulses; this is called optical SETI. And there’ve been some exotic ideas, like the possibility that an advanced civilization might use neutron star mergers to signal across the cosmos.

But do we really know what to look for, from an alien civilization that might be millions of years ahead of us?

NASA focused on that question last week (September 26-28, 2018), by hosting a NASA Technosignatures Workshop in Houston, Texas.

Technosignatures are any signs of advanced technology in any one of various plausible forms. They’re analogous to biosignatures, which could be any element, isotope, molecule, or phenomenon that provides unmistakeable scientific evidence of past or present life on another world, whether intelligent or not. Technosignatures encompass a much larger conception of alien technology than just intelligent radio or light signals. They could also include such things as massive artificial structures or a planet’s atmosphere full of pollutants. In this way, the search for technosignatures extends beyond the more familiar SETI-type scenarios of looking for radio or light signals.

The workshop was formed after Congress expressed a renewed interest in looking for intelligent alien life last April, urging NASA to expand on its search for technosignatures. The three main facets of the workshop included assessing the current state of the field of research, the most promising avenues of research in technosignatures and where investments could be made to advance the science. Another goal was to determine how NASA could best support the endeavor through partnerships with both private and philanthropic organizations. The workshop had four main specific objectives:

Define the current state of the technosignature field. What experiments have occurred? What is the state-of-the-art for technosignature detection? What limits do we currently have on technosignatures?

Understand the advances coming near-term in the technosignature field. What assets are in place that can be applied to the search for technosignatures? What planned and funded projects will advance the state-of-the-art in future years, and what is the nature of that advancement?

Understand the future potential of the technosignature field. What new surveys, new instruments, technology development, new data-mining algorithms, new theory and modeling, etc., would be important for future advances in the field?

What role can NASA partnerships with the private sector and philanthropic organizations play in advancing our understanding of the technosignatures field?

On September 27, several speakers from the workshop also addressed questions in a Reddit AMA.

The NASA Technosignatures Workshop was recommended by Congress back in April 2018 as means for NASA to expand its search for evidence of alien civilizations.

Image via NASA/Lunar and Planetary Institute.

There may be many ways that an alien civilization, especially one more advanced than us, could affect or alter its environment. Searches for alternative evidence such as this have been done to some extent, but primarily only in the private and philanthropic sectors, not NASA. SETI itself used to be a NASA program until budget cuts ended it in 1993. SETI is now a privately-funded venture. NASA shifted its focus to understanding the origin of life itself, and the potential habitability of other bodies in our solar system and galaxy. This is especially true with its Mars rover missions in recent years, looking for evidence of past habitability, but not life itself. There was even some talk at the conference of the possibility of a technological civilization existing on Earth itself before humans.

Expanding the search to include other possible signs of alien intelligence is a good thing. According to NASA’s 2015 Astrobiology Strategy;

Complex life may evolve into cognitive systems that can employ technology in ways that may be observable. Nobody knows the probability, but we know that it is not zero.

SETI is still valuable but limited in scope, currently looking for intentional signals that are strong enough to be detected from many light-years away. Many signals, including ones simply “leaking” out into space, may simply be too weak to be easily detected with current technology. One promising development, however, was noted by Gavin Schmidt on Twitter – it should soon be possible to detect Earth-level leakage of radio waves (not just intentional signals) from nearby stars:

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This is exciting - the next phase Square kilometer Array (SKA2) will be able to detect Earth-level radio leakage from nearby stars.

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SETI has typically been based on a lot of assumptions about ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence), as Andrew Stewart, a student at Emory University and lead researcher of the Trillion Planet Survey explained in The Current:

First and foremost, we are assuming there is a civilization out there of similar or higher class than ours trying to broadcast their presence using an optical beam, perhaps of the ‘directed energy’ arrayed-type [such as weapons] currently being developed here on Earth. Second, we assume the transmission wavelength of this beam to be one that we can detect. Lastly, we assume that this beacon has been left on long enough for the light to be detected by us. If these requirements are met and the extraterrestrial intelligence’s beam power and diameter are consistent with an Earth-type civilization class, our system will detect this signal.

Traditional SETI effort have used radio telescopes such as the Allen Telescope Array in California.

We really don’t know what the first evidence for an alien civilization may look like. It could indeed be radio or light waves, or something even more profound, like a Dyson sphere – a hypothesized massive artificial structure built around a star to harness all of its energy. Or maybe ruins of some now long-dead civilization on some distant planet or moon. Or perhaps intelligent, autonomous probes such as Bracewell probes sent into our solar system.

As one example, Tabby’s Star (aka Boyajian’s Star) has generated a lot of excitement in recent years due to its bizarre episodes of sudden, rapid dimming – up to 22 percent – leading to speculation it may be home to a Dyson sphere or something similar. The sharp dimmings, as well as a much longer overall dimming pattern on the order of decades or centuries, are now thought to be caused by very fine dust, but the origin of the dust and how it’s replenished is still unknown.

The enigmatic Fast Radio Bursts coming from deep space have also sparked much interest, in particular the ones that have now been seen to repeat many times from one single source. They are still unexplained, and probablyhave a natural explanation as per Occam’s razor, but the jury is still out.

Tabby’s Star was an example of what a potential technosignature might look like, although the star’s weird dimmings are now thought to be caused by dust. This artist’s illustration of exocomets orbiting a distant star is suggestive of what might be occurring there.

Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The renewed search for technosignatures is fueled in part by the discovery of thousands of exoplanets in recent years, including ones that are Earth-sized and orbit in the habitable zones of their stars. There are also the ocean worlds – moons such as Europa, Enceladus, Titan and others – which have vast subsurface oceans beneath their icy surfaces. What kind of life might be found in such exotic environments? Such findings increase the likelihood that life – at least of some kind – will be found elsewhere.

Bottom line: When it comes to searching for alien technosignatures – evidence of advanced technology – it has mostly been through the efforts of private organizations. But NASA getting involved again would be a hugeboost, increasing the possibility that some kind of signal or other artifact of intelligent alien life will be found in the not-too-distant future.

Via NASA Technosignatures Workshop

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07-10-2018 om 22:13 geschreven door peter  

Intelligent Extraterrestrial Beings Visited Earth in Prehistoric Times, This Contact Is Connected With the Origins or Development of Technologies and Religions (Video)

Why do people believe in the ancient aliens theory?
The ancient astronaut theory is:

Ancient aliens is the idea that aliens visited earth in the past. The idea of ancient aliens is not a new one either. Imagination is one of the most powerful tools in humanity’s evolutionary struggle for survival. As a race, we are hardwired to consider important concepts, such as the creation of life on Earth and the history of people on this planet.

At some point, we are all presented with various explanations and theories regarding the expansion of human life on Earth. In the long history of mankind, the majority of these concepts have followed religious teachings, and the power of a spiritual God or Gods. In modern times, many people have come to challenge these claims. The idea of evolution has been used to describe the gradual change of traits that living organisms undergo over time, which is related to the environment, but it doesn’t explain how the biological cells of human’s first ancestor were spawned.

Because of the fact that everyone is interested in the creation of life on Earth, and concurrently we have been taught to believe in the power of religion and the impossibility of alien life, the idea that this article will be examining is controversial.

It will be based around some concepts that have been labeled absurd by the scientific community, but let your imagination go, and have some fun with the list.

The idea surrounding ancient aliens is a basic one. It states that the human population was influenced by a group of extraterrestrials that visited Earth in the past. The ancient aliens were directly involved in the evolution of primates, including humans. It has been suggested that this was accomplished by way of genetic engineering, cross-breeding, or a combination of both, ultimately helping in the development of human cultures, technologies and religion. The idea first gained widespread exposure with the 1968 publication of Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken, but the concept has been around since the middle of the 19th century. A common variant of the idea includes proposals that deities from most, if not all, religions, including angels and demons, are actually extraterrestrials whose advanced technologies were taken by people as evidence of a divine status.

This concept is related to the religious practice of a cargo cult, which can be seen in modern day pre-industrial tribal societies. Especially during World War II, when indigenous people were contacted by soldiers with advanced equipment, such as guns and tanks.

The cults subsequently attempted to obtain wealth through magic and religious rituals and practices. The ancient alien theory states that extraterrestrials purposely tricked the human population into believing they were Gods, creating religion to help people evolve more efficiently.

The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations. It has been proposed that, with the current age of the universe and its vast number of stars, if the Earth was typical, extraterrestrial life should be common. In response to this paradox, the zoo hypothesis has been suggested. It states that aliens generally avoid making their presence known to humanity, or avoid exerting an influence on development, somewhat akin to zookeepers observing animals in a zoo, or experimental scientists observing a study of life.

Adherents of the hypothesis feel that the Earth and humans are being secretly surveyed using equipment located on Earth, or elsewhere in the Solar System. Charles Fort’s unpublished 1915 manuscript, novel X, describes how Martian beings or Martian events control life on Earth.

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07-10-2018 om 21:40 geschreven door peter  

US Air Force: Don't Worry About Those Weird Lights and Booms Sunday, It's Just a Space Ship

07-10-2018 om 21:27 geschreven door peter  

A new analysis of Cassini data could shed light on the origins of the massive belts

BY  MARIA TEMMING 

IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING  Up-close views of the “ring rain” falling from Saturn’s rings into the planet’s atmosphere taken by Cassini (shown in this artist’s illustration) have scientists scratching their heads.

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The “ring rain” of material falling from Saturn’s rings into the planet’s atmosphere is a much more intense, contaminated downpour than scientists thought.

For decades, astronomers have suspected that Saturn’s rings pelt the planet with grains of water ice, but some of the final observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide the first detailed views of these celestial showers(SN: 4/14/18, p. 6). Ring rain is highly contaminated with organic matter and other molecules, and hammers Saturnat thousands of kilograms per second, researchers report in the Oct. 5 Science. Understanding the rain’s surprising quantity and quality could help clarify the origins and evolution of Saturn’s rings.

Researchers analyzed data collected by Cassini’s Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer during the spacecraft’s final few orbits in 2017, as it sailed through the gap between Saturn and its innermost ring, known as the D ring (SN Online: 9/15/17). Water constituted only about 24 percent of the material tumbling from Saturn’s ring system into its atmosphere; the rest was methane, carbon monoxide, dinitrogen, ammonia, carbon dioxide and fragments of organic nanoparticles.

The ring rain’s diverse chemical composition “was a big surprise,” because remote observations show that Saturn’s ring system, on the whole, is almost entirely water ice, says Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wasn’t involved in the study. Researchers aren’t sure why ring rain is so deprived of water.

Cocktail conundrum

The ring rain that Cassini’s Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer caught falling from Saturn’s rings into its atmosphere is only about 24 percent water — a major surprise, given that Saturn’s ring system is almost entirely water ice. The rest of the ring rain is composed of organic material and other molecules.

The chemical breakdown of Saturn’s ring rain

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A belt of radiation tucked inside Saturn’s rings could be responsible, says study coauthor Jeff Cuzzi, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. Cassini’s end-of-life observations also provided the first closeup views of this band of energetic protons, described in another study in the Oct. 5 Science. The belt’s high-energy radiation may have blasted away much of the water in the D ring very close to Saturn, leaving behind heavier materials like organic compounds, Cuzzi speculates.

Whatever its cause, the ring rain’s peculiar composition may reshape our understanding of the carbon and nitrogen content of Saturn’s atmosphere, says Hunter Waite, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and a coauthor of the ring rain study. Saturn’s presumed chemical makeup may be “just a veneer” created by falling material masking the gas giant’s true composition, he says.

In addition to the ring rain’s chemistry, the Cassini observations also revealed how quickly this material is falling into Saturn’s atmosphere: between 4,800 and 45,000 kilograms per second.

I spy

Observations from Cassini’s final few months revealed a radiation belt composed of high-energy protons tucked inside the gas giant’s ring system. This belt (bright colors below) passes through Saturn’s thin, innermost D ring, and might be stripping water out of the ring material closest to Saturn.

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“It’s just an enormous amount of mass flowing into the planet,” Cuzzi says.

Saturn’s rings probably haven’t sustained this rate of rainfall over the course of the planet’s history, he says. If that were the case, the spindly little D ring would have long since eroded away. But a comet or other rogue object may have hit Saturn’s ring system recently, jostling grains out of their usual orbit and making them more vulnerable to Saturn’s gravitational pull.

But if the current deluge is, in fact, Saturn’s normal rate of ring rain, then perhaps the D ring continually siphons material from Saturn’s outer rings, says Kelly Miller, a cosmochemist at the Southwest Research Institute and a coauthor on the ring rain study.

The exact nature of Saturn’s relationship to its rings “is still a puzzle,” Spilker says. But devising more detailed theoretical simulations of what’s going on between the planet’s atmosphere and rings, and testing these theories against the trove of data collected by Cassini could help fill in the picture.

Such work may help scientists better understand not only Saturn, but also any ring-bearing planets that might circle other stars in the universe, she says.

Citations

• J.H. Waite Jr. et al. Chemical interactions between Saturn’s atmosphere and its rings. Science. Vol. 361, October 5, 2018, p. 51. doi:10.1126/science.aat2382.
• E. Roussos et al. A radiation belt of energetic protons located between Saturn and its rings. Science. Vol. 361, October 5, 2018, p. 47. doi:10.1126/science.aat1962.

Further Reading

• L. Grossman. 5 things we’ve learned about Saturn since Cassini died. Science News. Vol. 193, April 14, 2018, p. 6.
• L. Grossman. R.I.P. Cassini. Science News Online, September 15, 2017.
• L. Grossman. As Cassini’s tour of Saturn draws to a close, a look back at postcards from the probe. Science News. Vol. 192, September 2, 2017, p. 16.

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07-10-2018 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious 5-kilometer object on Mars. Great discovery on Mars

This was published in an important newspaper the Inquisitr. The discovery was made by the Argentine researcher Marcelo Irazusta and he published it in a YouTube video

The images of the supposed UFO are very eloquent. It will be a system error? The fact that the object has more than 5 kilometers in diameter. Because of the shadow it displays, it would be flying over its surface. Amazing, right? Watch the video and broadcast.

A new UFO on Mars has been sighted in NASA images compiled by Google — and easily accessible to anyone using the Google Earth app, in its “Google Mars” setting. Whatever this strange ...

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07-10-2018 om 20:35 geschreven door peter  

Engine Burn Puts New Horizons on Track for New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule

07-10-2018 om 20:26 geschreven door peter  

L'ASTRONOME CAPTURE UN OVNI AVEC TOUTE LA CLARTÉ QUI PASSE À GRANDE VITESSE DEVANT LA LUNE

Pendant longtemps, certains experts en OVNIS pensent qu'il existe une base extraterrestre de l'autre côté de la Lune. En supposant qu'ils viennent d'une planète lointaine au-delà de notre système solaire, ils devraient disposer d'une base à partir de laquelle ils pourraient se rendre sur Terre. Et quel meilleur endroit que la face cachée de la Lune ? Mais non seulement sur la base d’hypothèses, il existe également des preuves de la présence extraterrestre dans notre satellite naturel. Milton William Cooper, un ancien officier des services de renseignement de la marine américaine, a révélé dans un communiqué de presse en 1989, sous serment, que le gouvernement des États-Unis. J'étais conscient de l'existence de vaisseaux spatiaux extraterrestres sur notre planète.

Et cela allait plus loin, en veillant à ce que la face cachée de la Lune abrite une base extraterrestre. Il a été vu et enregistré par les astronautes Apollo. Selon Cooper, sur cette base, les opérations minières sont menées à l’aide d’énormes machines et d’un grand navire extraterrestre. Aussi connu sous le nom de Bill Cooper, il a écrit sur ses théories dans les livres "Le gouvernement secret: l'origine, l'identité et la raison d'être de MJ-12 (1989)", "Operation Majority (1989)" et "Voici un cheval pâle ( 1991) ". Cooper a été tué par des agents du bureau du shérif du comté d'Apache en 2001 lors d'une descente dans son domicile, en Arizona, pour fraude fiscale. Selon la version officielle, l'ancien officier du renseignement a ouvert le feu.

Y a-t-il une meilleure preuve ? Apparemment, c’est un objet en forme de soucoupe qui a été enregistré par mon astronome qui passe devant la Lune.

La meilleure observation d'OVNI à ce jour ?

Mon astronome amateur a découvert le 6 juillet 2017, un étrange objet qui a traversé la Lune. Je révèle que la vidéo a été enregistrée, et tentais alors d'approcher les cratères lunaires lorsque cette étrange observation a eu lieu.Dans la vidéo, on voit un géant objet se déplacer de bas à haut sur la surface lunaire Aristarchus Crater. Même si j’ai essayé de suivre l'objet volant non identifier, le faible éclairage de la Lune l'a fait perdre de vue. Et comment pourrait-il en être autrement, alors que la vidéo devenait virale, les théoriciens du complot disaient que c'était la meilleure preuve que les extraterrestres avaient une base secrète à la surface de la Lune. Ils ajoutent que les gouvernements du monde entier et les agences spatiales comme la NASA sont très conscients de l'existence d'aliens.
Voici quelques images incroyables d'un OVNI se déplaçant à la surface de la Lune. Les images ont été prises avec un télescope en cherchant des cratères. Ce navire noir coïncide avec les nombreux autres OVNIS qui ont été enregistrés en mouvement à la surface de Luna au cours des dernières années. Il y a encore des extraterrestres qui vivent sur notre Lune, même aujourd'hui, qui vont et viennent dans ces navires ... tout le temps en riant de la façon dont l’humanité croit encore qu’elle est seule dans l’univers. "
Mais d'autres théoriciens du complot ont une version très différente de l'ovni d'origine extraterrestre. Il serait clair que la US Space Force C'est opérationnel, et ils expliquent que l'augmentation du nombre d'observations d'OVNIS est une autre preuve de leurs activités dans l'espace.

Le vice-président américain Mike Pence, lors d'un discours prononcé au Pentagone en août dernier, a annoncé que le "Corps spatial" ferait partie du ministère de la Défense et s'appellerait la "United States Space Force", qui commenceront à fonctionner en 2020. Mais apparemment, ils avaient déjà commencé ces opérations, sans qu'aucun autre pays ne le sache.

Et les sceptiques qui pensent ? La vérité, c’est qu’ils ont été vraiment surpris par la vidéo, mais ils croient néanmoins qu’il peut s’agir d’un montage ou tout simplement de débris spatiaux. Comme d'habitude. Maintenant, nous avons seulement besoin de connaître votre version.

Est-ce la meilleure vidéo d'OVNI de l'histoire ? Une preuve évidente de l'existence de bases extraterrestres sur la Lune ? La force spatiale Trump ? Ou avez-vous une autre explication ?

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07-10-2018 om 20:13 geschreven door peter  

Stenen “deurstopper” blijkt kostbare meteoriet - HLN.be

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Nadat David Mazurek in januari vernam dat kleine stukjes meteoriet voor duizenden dollars verkocht werden, wilde hij weten of die bizarre, tien kilogram zware steen die hij al jaar en dag gebruikte om zijn staldeur open te houden, ook wat zou kunnen opbrengen.

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Mazurek trok ermee naar de Central Michigan University. Daar had hoogleraar geologie Monaliza Sirbescu meteen in de gaten dat ze niet zomaar een steen in handen kreeg.

Sirbescu werkt al achttien jaar aan de universiteit van Michigan. Geregeld vragen mensen haar of een steen die ze hebben gevonden misschien een meteoriet is. “Achttien jaar lang was het antwoord altijd nee”, vertelt ze. “Maar nu wist ik dat het iets bijzonders was.” De professor stuurde twee kleine fragmentjes van de steen naar het Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, waar haar bevindingen bevestigd werden.

Uitgegraven

Mazurek had de meteoriet al sinds 1988 in zijn bezit. Hij kreeg de steen erbij toen hij een boerderij kocht. Volgens de oorspronkelijke eigenaar was de steen in de jaren 1930 met een zware klap neergestort op het terrein. Toen hij samen met zijn vader de meteoriet gingen uitgraven, was hij nog steeds warm. De kinderen namen  de steen wel eens mee naar school voor een spreekbeurt, maar verder deed het ding dienst als deurstopper.

Vroegste zonnestelsel

Uit onderzoek van de steen blijkt dat hij voor 88,5 procent uit ijzer bestaat en voor 11,5 procent uit nikkel. “Dit is het waardevolste dat ik ooit in handen heb gehad, zowel in prijs als in wetenschappelijke waarde”, aldus Sirbescu. “Het is een stukje van het vroegste zonnestelsel dat ons in de schoot viel.”

“Wat er op dit ogenblik meestal gebeurt is dat meteorieten ofwel verkocht en tentoongesteld worden in een museum, of verkocht worden aan verzamelaars en kopers die er winst op willen maken”, aldus Sirbescu.

Zowel het Smithsonian Museum en een museum in Maine zijn geïnteresseerd in het exemplaar, dat naar schatting 100.000 dollar (87.000 euro) waard is.

Mazurek wil een deel van de opbrengst van de verkoop aan de universiteit schenken. “Ik ben het beu om hem als deurstopper te gebruiken. Tijd om een koper te vinden”, zegt de man.

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07-10-2018 om 17:50 geschreven door peter  

You expect some UFO witnesses, especially those who also encounter extraterrestrials, to be somewhat eccentric. You don’t expect them to be terrorists. Yet that’s what an investigative team in Brazil found out recently while researching 50-year-old unpublished documents concerning terrorist acts discovered they were committed by a group under the direction of a UFO cult leader and used to justify repression by a military dictatorship.

“He was seen as a crazy guy, but he had a relationship with the authorities.”

Vasconcelo Quadros, the investigative journalist who broke the story this week in Publica, released the documents just days before a highly controversial presidential election expected to be won by Jair Bolsonaro, the controversial far-right presidential candidate referred to by many as Brazil’s Donald Trump. Bolsonaro has often praised the time of the dictatorship as being a good thing for Brazil. Well, it wasn’t so good for the victims of the terrorist attacks of Aladino Felix, the paramilitary group leader who claimed to have been contacted by aliens.

“In November 1952 I was touring with a friend in the State of Sao Paulo. On reaching the top of the Angatuba range coming up from Parana, we were confronted by five Flying Saucers hovering in the air. It was a rainy day and visibility was bad. I went back to the same spot later and spent three days and nights there in the hope of seeing a Flying Saucer again. On the last night, after a series of episodes which we will not go into here for fear of digression, a Flying Saucer landed and we were given the chance of going inside it and meeting its crew. We stayed on board for about an hour looking at the various pieces of equipment in the machine. The Captain was kind enough to explain how they all worked. At the end of our visit, this fascinating individual promised to come and see us as soon as he was able. And now, four or five months later, he had come as promised.”

Aladino Félix was the author of the book My Contact with Flying Saucers under the name Dino Kraspedon. Published in Brazil in 1957 and in the US and UK in 1959, it describes his various contacts with the Captain and other aliens who he claimed were from a satellite of Jupiter. In the book, Felix presents detailed drawings and descriptions of the flying saucers, including how they defeat gravity and navigate among the planets. He also relays warnings from the Captain about atomic energy and a second sun entering the solar system.

The Captain talks quite a bit about God, which may have itself been a warning about Felix’s other interests. He declared himself to be the messiah of the Jewish people and founded a UFO cult based on that belief. However, the current investigation found this was or became a front for a right-wing paramilitary organization of police officers which carried out a series of terrorist attacks – bombings, bank robberies, and more – that egged on left-wing groups to do the same, allowing the government to use it as a way to justify repression by force in an era that became known as the Anos de Chumbo, or Years of Lead.

“The Earth is not the center of the planetary system, as was previously believed, but the center of evil. If man were to reform himself, it is possible that the Creator would have compassion on him. Avoid war, because man can thereby destroy his planet with his own hands without the intervention of the forces of Nature. It is not difficult to be good; it is sufficient to do no evil. God will do the rest.”

Do no evil.

Despite that advice from The Captain in My Contact with Flying Saucers, Aladino Félix seemed to have chosen the opposite path. Perhaps that’s why he wrote the book under another name. He was arrested in 1968, spent three years in prison and died in 1985.

Did he ever talk to the Captain again? Did he ever talk to the Captain at all?

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07-10-2018 om 17:33 geschreven door peter  

Officially, the U.S. Government got out of the UFO issue in 1969 when the Air Force’s Project Blue Book closed its doors. Of course, that doesn’t mean that agencies have not taken an interest in UFOs post-1969. They certainly have. A perfect example is the so-called “Flying Triangle” phenomenon. It took off in the early-to-mid 1980s and reached its peak in the following decade. Although, a careful study of the history of Ufology demonstrates that the large, black, triangular-shaped UFOs have, in fact, been reported since the 1940s – although, admittedly, not on the scale they were reported in the eighties and the nineties.

One of the more interesting documents that demonstrates post-1969 interest in the UFO puzzle focuses on those strange Flying Triangles – specifically over Belgium in the 1989-1990time-frame. It originates with the U.S. Department of Defense and is titled “Belgium and the UFO Issue.” Circulated widely among the U.S. Intelligence community, it reveals the following: “Numerous UFO sightings have been made in Belgium since Nov 89. The credibility of some individuals making the reports is good…Investigation by BAF [Belgian Air Force] continues.”

Then, the document digs into the matter of witness reports. We’re told that…

• “Source A cites Mr. Leon Brenig,a 43-year-old professor at the Free University of Brussels in the field of statistics and physics…Mr. Brenig was driving on the Ardennes autoroute in the Beaufays region east of Liege, Sunday, 18 March 1990 at 2030 hours when he observed an airborne object approaching in his direction from the North. It was in the form of a triangle…and had a yellow light surrounding it with a reddish center varying in intensity. Altitude appeared to be 500-1000 meters, moving at a slow speed with no sound. It did not move or behave like an aircraft.”
• “Source B,” the document reveals, “…discusses a Belgian television interview with Colonel Wil De Brouwer, Chief of Operations for the BAF…De Brouwer noted the large number of reported sightings, particularly in NOV 89 in the Liege area and that the BAF and MOD [Ministry of Defense] are taking the issue seriously. BAF experts have not been able to explain the phenomena either.”

Moving on, we have the following: “De Brouwer specifically addressed the possibility of the objects being USAF B-2 or F-117 Stealth aircraft which would not appear on Belgian radar, but might be sighted visually if they were operating at low altitude in the Ardennes area. He made it quite clear that no USAF overflight requests had ever been received for this type of mission and that the alleged observations did not correspond in any way to the observable characteristics of either U.S. aircraft.”

We’re then provided with the story of a very credible source: “[Deleted] related a similar UFO sighting which apparently happened to a Belgian Air Force officer in the same area near Liege during November 89. The officer and his wife were allegedly blinded by a huge bright object as they were driving on the autoroute. They stopped their car, but were so frightened they abandoned the vehicle and ran into the woods…The BAF is concerned to a point about the UFO issue and is taking action to investigate information they have…The USAF did confirm to the BAF and Belgian MOD that no USAF Stealth aircraft were operating in the Ardennes area during the periods in question.”

Nick Pope

There ends the document. But, not the interest in the Flying Triangles over Belgium. Following a wave of similar FT encounters in the U.K. in March 1993, Nick Pope – who, between 1991 and 1994, handled UFO reports for the British Ministry of Defense – approached the Belgian military to get its views on the Flying Triangle phenomenon (there is, however, a down to earth explanation for the UK sightings). In a January 1997 interview, Pope told me:

“I approached the Belgians to get a comparison after their sightings. I phoned the Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Brussels and he spoke to one of the F-16 pilots who had been scrambled to intercept a Flying Triangle over Belgium back in 1990. Well, the Air Attaché reported back to me that the corporate view of the Belgian Defense Staff was that they did believe that they were dealing with a solid, structured craft. Apparently, the word from the Belgians was: ‘Thank God it was friendly.’ If it hadn’t been, it was made clear to me that there was very little that the Belgian Air Force could have done anyway – despite the fact that the F-16 is no slouch.”

Pope also approached the U.S. Department of Defense to discuss the Flying Triangle phenomenon. Pope outlined the nature of the discussion: “We decided that we couldn’t ignore the various rumors that were doing the rounds about a supposed Top Secret aircraft developed by the U.S. Government and called Aurora – or, indeed, any hypersonic and/or prototype aircraft operated by the Americans. There had been persistent rumors in the aviation world and among the UFO lobby that the SR71 Blackbird had been replaced by a hypersonic aircraft code-named Aurora and that that was what the Flying Triangles really were.”

Pope continued: “I was well aware that there had been some interesting stories about visual and radar sightings around certain air bases; however, I hadn’t put much store in these rumors – not least because there had been some very definitive denials from the Americans. I know there’s a lot of cynicism about government and the military. And although officialdom may refuse to answer a question and may sometimes give a misleading answer, outright lying is incredibly rare. And when it does occur, if it’s uncovered it almost certainly leads to resignation.

“But with the March 1993 sightings – and in spite of the denials from the Americans that they were responsible for the Flying Triangles – we did contact them to make inquiries. This was because they have the responsibility pertaining to the U.S. presence in Britain. Those inquiries bore absolutely no fruit at all. The Americans said: ‘No. We can shed no light at all on the UFO sightings that have led to your inquiry.'”

Pope told me that the liaison with the Americans was not without its moment of intrigue: “If anything, there was an interesting little hint that the Americans, too, were seeing these Flying Triangles over their territory. As we were making our inquiries, they turned the question around and wanted to know if our Royal Air Force had a triangular-shaped, hyper-sonic prototype aircraft of some sort. So, presumably, the Americans were having Flying Triangle sightings, too.”

Pope’s final words on the matter are well worth keeping in mind: “But this was interesting, in light of the fact that the Americans supposedly got out of UFO investigations back in 1969 when the Air Force’s Project Blue Book closed down. Of course, you may not officially be in the UFO game, but you are certainly going to be aware of – and take an interest in – reports of structured craft in your airspace.”

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07-10-2018 om 17:24 geschreven door peter  

It was thirty years ago this month that a wave of UFO activity broke out in the skies of the United Kingdom. As October 1988 drew to a close, a puzzling encounter was reported by Tony Silvestri, a mechanic from Ciliau Aeron, Wales. In an interview with a journalist from the Western Mail newspaper, Mr. Silvestri recalled the encounter, which occurred while driving with his wife and daughter. He said: “Gwendoline, my wife, and Allana, who is eight, were both scared stiff by it. The whole interior of the car was lit up by a greenish light. It was so bright that I could not see through the windscreen or out of the windows.”

Tony Silvestri continued: “Fortunately, it only lasted for a few seconds. It couldn’t have been caused by the headlights of other cars because it was too bright and the wrong color. I pulled up and stopped at the side of the road but could see nothing that might have caused the strange light inside the car. Next day I gave the car a complete electrical check and there was nothing wrong with it. I didn’t think there would be because the light was too brilliant to be caused by an electrical fault.”

Sea Hawks at RNAS Brawdy

On October 27, Mr. Silvestri was interviewed by Flight Sergeant Dave Pengilly, of Royal Air Force Brawdy, Pembrokeshire. “Each report  of this kind is always investigated,” explained Sergeant Pengilly. “I make checks and then pass it on to the powers that be in the Ministry of Defense, who are now looking into this case. We don’t like unidentified things in our airspace.”

“Until now,” said Mrs. Silverstri, “we’ve had no time for UFO stories. We didn’t really believe in them. But, nothing like this has ever happened to us before and we hope it won’t again. We were terrified.”

The latter part of October 1988 also saw a significant amount of UFO activity in the counties of both Kent and Sussex, England. One incident in particular stands out. It was reported by Police Constables Norman Sells and Robin Buxton. They were driving through High Halden at around 3:45 a.m. on an autumn morning when “the whole of the night sky became as bright as daylight.” The curious light display lasted for three or four seconds before normality was restored. The officers quickly filed a report with police headquarters at Maidstone. Notably, other unusual events were reported by people in the same area for several days.

Teenagers Joanna Dickinson and Julie Jessop were walking near to Julie’s home at Woodlands Caravan Park, Biddenden, when they saw an oval-shaped object displaying four bright white lights, with a red light in the center. Both girls estimated that the object was at a height of around 500 feet; it emitted a deep humming sound. As they watched, the object suddenly climbed vertically into the evening sky.

Shortly after the sighting at Biddenden, Stephen Button, the brother of a Tenterden policeman, reported seeing a strange object while driving his car in the area. When Mr. Button first caught sight of the object, which was likened to “a blue ball,” it was at a height of between fifty and 100 feet, but began to descend as Mr. Button looked on. He finally lost sight of the object as it disappeared behind a line of trees. Staff at Royal Air Force Manston were duly informed and details were passed on to the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense for analysis.

Never a dull moment at Cannock Chase

Then, on October 29, a huge, “Flying Triangle”-type UFO was seen flying – and very briefly hovering – over the Cannock Chase woods, Staffordshire, England. In this case, the witness was a police-officer heading home after finishing up his late-night/early hours shift. He described the craft as being “massively big,” black in color, and giving off a loud hum. The officer watched, stunned, for a few moments as the object flew across the tree-shrouded road at a speed of barely 20 miles per hour. Then, suddenly, the triangular craft shot into the star-filled skies above. The stunned officer chose not to share the story with his colleagues at work, but did give the details to a local UFO group.

The strange UFO wave of October 1988 was over.

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07-10-2018 om 17:16 geschreven door peter  

Black doughnut-shaped UFO flying above the Moon’s Surface caught by Skywatcher

Skywatcher Jason Callum from Bracknell, Berkshire, England pointed his telescope at the moon’s surface when a black doughnut shaped UFO came into view, flying past the moon.

The unknown object has led to much discussion about its origin. Besides the possibility that the object is an alien craft, some people say the UFO could be a craft of the secret space fleet, while others suggest it is the black knight.

It is worth mentioning that in the past similar doughnut shaped UFOs have also been observed in the vicinity of the sun.

The video shows the black UFO flying above the moon’s surface till the moment it disappears into the darkness of space.

  

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07-10-2018 om 17:01 geschreven door peter  

Black Arrowhead UFO With Static Charge Seen Over British Colombia, Canada, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 8-9-2012, but reported today.

Location of sighting: Abbotsford, British Colombia, Canada

Source: MUFON #95361

 

Here is a UFO report just in. It took place back in 2012, but reported today. A black arrowhead shaped UFO shot over Abbotsford. The witness said it had a static charge around it. Such UFOs have been reported before during lighting storms when bolts of lighting were frequent. Its thought the they can deliberately cause a lighting storm in order to use the energy from the bolts in some way. 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

 

Eyewitness states: 

It looked like a dark grey arrowhead with a glowing static charge around it. 

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07-10-2018 om 13:43 geschreven door peter