Mysterious 'UFO' spotted over South Carolina ignites speculation about aliens

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A mysterious unidentified flying object was spotted over South Carolina's Kiawah Island during the Christmas holiday, prompting speculation about what the object is.

The video was posted to YouTube by Debra Thomson, who wrote in the caption that she had an unobstructed view and was unsure what the object was.

"It was about 9:33pm EST of the coast of Charleston SC," Thomson, who also referred to herself as Kiawah Island Girl, wrote in the description. "I have an unobstructed view in all directions. Earlier in the evening I put a light up Christmas tree on outside light up. I went outside to unplug it when I noticed this beautiful red sphere in the sky. I knew it was not Venus, it was in the North West Sky. It was moving toward my direction and also seemed intelligently in control."

She added that the object "moved around a bit and disappeared into a pin hole, then it reappeared back to its same size in a few minutes."

Thomson also wrote that she called the local airport who told her that there was nothing on the radar and that it was not a weather balloon.

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News of the UFO was first reported by The Post and Courier, a South Carolina-based newspaper.

Several YouTubers commented on the video, with some believing the lights may be from an advanced civilization, while others believe it has a more Earthly explanation. "I wonder...maybe a drone? Deff odd.," one user wrote.

"It's the afterburner of a military jet," another person wrote.

Kiawah Island is no stranger to unidentified objects in the air, especially around the holidays. On New Year's Day night in 2015, a bright orange disc was spotted over Rivers Avenue, The Post and Courier reported.

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Three weeks later, there was an "array of sparks" that crossed Hamlin Sound near Mount Pleasant, according to data provided to the Mutual UFO Network.

In August, mysterious lights were spotted above Myrtle Beach, S.C., which also prompted speculation about what the lights were and where they came from.

The person who submitted the August video to MUFON said they were taking pictures and a time-lapse video of a thunderstorm and did not notice the strange lights until they got home.

"Taking pictures and time lapse of the incoming storm," the person wrote on the website. "[I] was taking the pictures off the edge of a long pier after dark, so there were no reflective surfaces around. [I] did not notice the objects until i returned home and checked the photograph and video."

That same month, a purported UFO was captured on film flying over a North Carolina lake. While some believe the shaky footage depicted an extraterrestrial craft, the GoodYear Blimp account took credit for the incident, noting it was in the Charlotte area on May 29 for a NASCAR race.

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"We don’t want to get in the way of a good story, but that’s definitely us," the GoodYear Blimp account wrote, according to the Daily Mail. "We left the Charlotte area 5/29 after covering the Coke 600."

The National UFO Reporting Center has a State Report Index that breaks down UFO sightings by state, duration of sighting, shape and description.

Here are the 10 states with the most UFO sightings, according to the center:

1. California: 11,092

2. Florida: 5,017

3. Washington: 4,951

4. Texas: 4,313

5. New York: 3,799

6. Illinois: 3,031

7. Arizona: 3,143

8. Ohio: 2,883

9. Michigan: 2,424

10. North Carolina: 2,247

Sightings in the database range from the 1950s to 2015.

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VIDEO. Belgen zagen vorig jaar 179 keer UFO’s vliegen boven ons land - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

Dat blijkt uit het jongste jaarverslag van het Belgische UFO-meldpunt.

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In de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen werden de meeste UFO’s gespot. Het Franstalige COBEPS (Comité Belge pour l’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux) ontving het afgelopen jaar 76 UFO-meldingen, eveneens een stijging vergeleken met het jaar ervoor.

De stijging van het aantal meldingen liet zich - naar jaarlijkse gewoonte - vooral voelen tijdens de zomermaanden juli en augustus. Beide maanden samen waren goed voor 44 meldingen. Dit grote aantal waarnemingen kan grotendeels verklaard worden door het warme weer in die periode. Ook in oktober waren er beduidend meer meldingen dan het maandgemiddelde. Dit kan mee verklaard worden door de uitzonderlijk lage bewolkingsgraad in die maand.

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The first dimension, as already noted, is that which gives it length (aka. the x-axis). A good description of a one-dimensional object is a straight line, which exists only in terms of length and has no other discernible qualities. Add to it a second dimension, the y-axis (or height), and you get an object that becomes a 2-dimensional shape (like a square).

The third dimension involves depth (the z-axis), and gives all objects a sense of area and a cross-section. The perfect example of this is a cube, which exists in three dimensions and has a length, width, depth, and hence volume. Beyond these three lie the seven dimensions which are not immediately apparent to us, but which can be still be perceived as having a direct effect on the universe and reality as we know it.

Scientists believe that the fourth dimension is time, which governs the properties of all known matter at any given point. Along with the three other dimensions, knowing an objects position in time is essential to plotting its position in the universe. The other dimensions are where the deeper possibilities come into play, and explaining their interaction with the others is where things get particularly tricky for physicists.

According to Superstring Theory, the fifth and sixth dimensions are where the notion of possible worlds arises. If we could see on through to the fifth dimension, we would see a world slightly different from our own that would give us a means of measuring the similarity and differences between our world and other possible ones.

In the sixth, we would see a plane of possible worlds, where we could compare and position all the possible universes that start with the same initial conditions as this one (i.e. the Big Bang). In theory, if you could master the fifth and sixth dimension, you could travel back in time or go to different futures.

In the seventh dimension, you have access to the possible worlds that start with different initial conditions. Whereas in the fifth and sixth, the initial conditions were the same and subsequent actions were different, here, everything is different from the very beginning of time. The eighth dimension again gives us a plane of such possible universe histories, each of which begins with different initial conditions and branches out infinitely (hence why they are called infinities).

In the ninth dimension, we can compare all the possible universe histories, starting with all the different possible laws of physics and initial conditions. In the tenth and final dimension, we arrive at the point in which everything possible and imaginable is covered. Beyond this, nothing can be imagined by us lowly mortals, which makes it the natural limitation of what we can conceive in terms of dimensions.

The existence of these additional six dimensions which we cannot perceive is necessary for String Theory in order for their to be consistency in nature. The fact that we can perceive only four dimensions of space can be explained by one of two mechanisms: either the extra dimensions are compactified on a very small scale, or else our world may live on a 3-dimensional submanifold corresponding to a brane, on which all known particles besides gravity would be restricted (aka. brane theory).

If the extra dimensions are compactified, then the extra six dimensions must be in the form of a Calabi–Yau manifold (shown above). While imperceptible as far as our senses are concerned, they would have governed the formation of the universe from the very beginning. Hence why scientists believe that peering back through time, using telescopes to spot light from the early universe (i.e. billions of years ago), they might be able to see how the existence of these additional dimensions could have influenced the evolution of the cosmos.

Much like other candidates for a grand unifying theory – aka the Theory of Everything (TOE) – the belief that the universe is made up of ten dimensions (or more, depending on which model of string theory you use) is an attempt to reconcile the standard model of particle physics with the existence of gravity. In short, it is an attempt to explain how all known forces within our universe interact, and how other possible universes themselves might work.

For additional information, here’s an article on Universe Today about parallel universes, and another on a parallel universe scientists thought they found that doesn’t actually exist.

There are also some other great resources online. There is a great video that explains the ten dimensions in detail. You can also look at the PBS web site for the TV show Elegant universe. It has a great page on the ten dimensions.

Image credit: Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics

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Our Universe: An expanding bubble in an extra dimension

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IS HET EEN GEEST, ORB, OF TOCH IETS  ANDERS? ( UPDATE + VIDEO )

Met onze menselijke zintuigen kunnen we maar een beperkt aantal zaken waarnemen, maar dat er veel meer is dan dat wij zien, is een (wetenschappelijk) feit. 

Alleen is het niet altijd even duidelijk wat er zich dan in die voor ons onzichtbare dimensies bevindt, zoals bij de onverklaarbare verschijnselen die zich voor doen in een werkplaats in Texas.

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It’s big – an estimated five times the footprint of New York City. Its location is super-secret – even the people working on it don’t know for sure where it’s at. Its purpose is even more secret – it could be an earthquake detector; it could be a way to communicate with submarines with them needing to surface; it could be something else. It’s scary – even China’s own media is worried about the safety of the people living near it. And now it’s allegedly up and running. It’s the Wireless Electromagnetic Method (WEM) Project and the Chinese media has made the risky move of notifying the world about it and its potential dangers.

“Though I am involved in the project, I have no idea where it is. It should be up and running by now.”

When a scientist working on a 13-year project doesn’t know where it’s located, it can’t be a good sign. Yet that‘s what Chen Xiaobin, a researcher with the Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, told the South China Morning Postabout the WEM Project as it investigated reports that it’s finally up and running. Here’s what it knows so far. The WEM’s main above-ground part, possibly located in the central China Huazhong region, is a pair of high voltage power supply lines which form a cross that is 60km (37 miles) wide and about 100km (62 miles) long. At the ends, the copper wires go deep underground to power stations generating extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves whose official stated use is to provide early earthquake warnings and support the country’s resource extraction industry in detecting fossil fuels and precious metals and minerals.

The ELF waves can travel up to 3,500km (2,200 miles) through the Earth’s crust, but that’s not what worries military watchdog sites like The Drive. It reports that the ELF wave generators are difficult for spy satellites to detect and the possible location is in a heavily populated area. It also points out that ELF waves can travel through water, which makes them perfect for communicating with submerged nuclear subs and doesn’t require the transmitters to be close to the coast.

Believe it or not, according to the South China Morning Post, what worries the Chinese the most is that ELF waves are suspected to cause cancer. The World Health Organization-affiliated International Agency for Research on Cancer warns that ELF waves are “possibly carcinogenic to humans” and has been linked to an increased risk of childhood leukemia as well as a cause of delusions, sleep deprivation, stress, depression, breast and brain tumors, miscarriages and suicide. ELF fields can also affect human nerve fibers, stimulate synaptic transmissions in neural networks and cause retina cells to generate sporadic flashes of light in eyes. Other than that, they’re perfectly harmless. China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment submitted a request for a comprehensive review on the WEM Project’s environmental impact. An anonymous source (for obvious reasons) said:

“The money came from civilian budgets, but the military has intervened and muted the ministry’s complaint.”

So, a secret wave generator that’s five times the size of New York City yet impossible to find is probably being used to expand China’s nuclear submarine capabilities despite the fact that its cancer-causing ELF waves are endangering upwards of 230 million of its own people. The Chinese government is learning American-style “everybody else is doing it” public relations. Xi Jilou, a researcher with the Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, said this:

“China is not the first country doing this. Other countries conducted similar projects long ago.”

And Huang Zhiwei, a professor with the department of electrical engineering at Nanhua University in Hengyang, says:

“The matter must be handled with extreme caution, or it can easily lead to public panic.”

Kudos to the South China Morning Post for breaking this story. Will it help stop Project WEM … or is it too late?

Other secret project of Chine

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I’m not a nut. I just wanted to know if anyone has had any experiences in the last few days…It really is quite amazing when you see one that seems to ‘splat’ out of another dimension and change into a round shape.

That’s how Charleston, South Carolina resident Debra Thompson described her encounter with a strange object off the coast on Christmas Eve, 2018. Around 9:30 pm local time on the evening of December 24, Thompson stepped outside to unplug some Christmas lights when she saw the odd light in the sky and instinctively pulled out her camera to film it, eventually posting the footage to YouTube.

Glowing orbs in the sky are among the most commonly reported UFOs, but due to their ambiguous appearance, it’s difficult to determine what they may be.

According to the description of the incident she included with her footage on YouTube, Thompson says the object appeared to move “intelligently” through the night sky:

I noticed this beautiful red sphere in the sky. I knew it was not Venus, it was in the North West Sky. It was moving toward my direction and also seemed intelligently in control. I felt as if it knew I was [filming] it. It moved around a bit and disappeared into a pinhole, then it reappeared back to its same size in a few minutes. With the naked eye it was much more brilliant to see. I called the local airport and they saw nothing on radar.

Local news stations broadcast Thompson’s footage of the object and were soon after inundated with emails from other eastern South Carolina residents who witnessed similar phenomena. Facebook users throughout the coastal area of the state posted comments on local news stations’ coverage of the incident claiming they also saw unidentified, curious lights that night. While many feel that they witnessed something otherworldly, many others think they merely saw a drone lit up with LEDs, a Chinese lantern, or perhaps – you guessed it – a weather balloon.

Chinese lanterns are often cited as possible explanations for strange lights in the sky. Are they really that common?

According to Charleston’s Post and Courier newspaper, the glowing orange orb is “a phenomenon that turns up in the sky here every so often.” The newspaper reports a similar orb was seen on New Year’s Day 2015 and again three weeks later. With so many witnesses and repeat incidents, this one seems like a credible UFO sighting – but it’s important to keep in mind that “unidentified” doesn’t necessarily mean “aliens.”

It’d be a lot cooler if it did, though.

Given the area’s proximity to Charleston Air Force Base, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, and Naval Weapons Station Charleston, it’s likely these strange lights are related to military exercises or aircraft tests. Of course, there’s always the possibility, however small, that the lights could be something else entirely. What exactly is going on in the skies above South Carolina?

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John Lear Reveals Secret Advanced Technology That You Wont See For Decades

John Lear has long been a legendary figure in the field of UFO research, who exerts his influence with government organizations to push the limits of disclosure.

As the son of the inventor of the Lear Jet, he can gain access to what transpires within clandestine operations concerning secret technology and extraterrestrial activities.

Corey Goode and David Wilcock discuss his testimony which include the development of advanced technology, the presence of beings from other planets and the degree of testing in secret military facilities with exotic materials.

  

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NASA's technosignatures report: every way to find evidence of an intelligent civilization

In 1961, famed astronomer Frank Drake created a formula for estimating the number of extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs) that could exist within our galaxy. Known as the "Drake Equation," this formula demonstrated that even by the most conservative estimates, our galaxy was likely to host at least a few advanced civilizations at any given time. About a decade later, NASA officially kicked of its search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) program.

These efforts have experienced a major infusion of interest in recent decades thanks to the discovery of thousands of extrasolar planets. To address the possibility that life may exist out there, scientists are also relying on sophisticated tools to search for telltale indicators of biological processes (aka. biosignatures) and technological activity (technosignatures), which could indicate not only life but advanced intelligence.

To address the growing interest in this field, NASA hosted the NASA Technosignatures Workshop back in September. The purpose of this workshop was to assess the current state of technosignature research, where the most promising avenues lay, and where advances can be made. Recently, the workshop's report was released, which contained all their findings and recommendations for the future of this field.

This workshop emerged as a result of the Congress House Appropriations Bill that was passed in April 2018, wherein NASA was directed to begin supporting the scientific search for technosignatures as part of their larger search for extraterrestrial life. The event brought scientists and principle investigators together from various fields at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, while many more participated via Adobe Connect.

During the three-and-a-half-day workshop, numerous presentations were made that addressed many relevant topics. These included different types of technosignatures, the radio search for extraterrestial intelligence (SETI), solar system SETI, megastructures, data mining, and optical and near-infrared light (NIL) searches. As per the House Appropriations Bill, the outcomes of the workshop were compiled into a report that was submitted on Nov. 28th, 2018.

Ultimately, the purpose of the workshop was four-fold:

1. 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?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. What role can NASA partnerships with the private sector and philanthropic organizations play in advancing our understanding of the technosignatures field?

Artist’s impression of a sunset seen from the surface of an Earth-like exoplanet.

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

The report begins by providing background info on the hunt for technosignatures and offering a definition of the term. For this, the authors cite Jill Tarter, one of the foremost leaders in the field of SETI research and the person who coined the term itself. In addition to being the director of the Center for SETI Research (part of the SETI Institute) for 35 years, she was also the project scientist for NASA's SETI program before it was cancelled in 1993.

As she indicated in 2007 article, titled "The evolution of life in the Universe: are we alone?":

"If we can find technosignatures— evidence of some technology that modifies its environment in ways that are detectable– then we will be permitted to infer the existence, at least at some time, of intelligent technologists. As with biosignatures, it is not possible to enumerate all the potential technosignatures of technology- as-we-don't-yet-know-it, but we can define systematic search strategies for equivalents of some 21st century terrestrial technologies."

In other words, technosignatures are what we humans would recognize as signs of technologically-advanced activity. The best-known example is radio signals, which SETI researchers have spent the past few decades searching for. But there are many others signatures that have not been explored fully, and more are being conceived of all the time.

These include laser emissions, which could be used for optical communications or as a means of propulsion; signs of megastructures, which some believed were the reason behind the mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star; or an atmosphere full of carbon dioxide, methane, CFCs, and other known pollutants (to take a page from our own book).

When it comes to looking for biosignatures, scientists are limited by the fact that there is only one planet that we know of that supports life: Earth. But the challenges extend far beyond to include issues of funding and . As Jason Wright – an associate professor at PSU and the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds (CEHW) and one of the authors on the report – told Universe Today via email:

"The technical challenges are many. What sorts of technosignatures would an extraterrestrial technological species generate? Which of those are detectable? How will we know if we have found one? If we find it, how can we be sure it's a sign of technology and not something unexpected but natural?"

In this respect, planets are considered to be "potentially habitable" based on whether or not they are "Earth-like." In much the same way, the hunt for technosignatures is limited to technologies that we know are feasible. However, there are also some key differences between technosignatures and biosignatures.

As they explain, many proposed advanced technologies are either "self-luminous" (i.e. lasers or radiowaves) or involve the manipulation of energy from bright natural sources (i.e. Dyson Spheres and other megastructures around stars). There is also the possibility that technosignatures will be widely distributed because the species in question may have spread their civilization to neighboring star systems and even galaxies.

As Wright explained, there are many types of technosignatures, the most commonly sought-out of which is a radio signal:

"These have many advantages: they are obviously artificial, they are one of the cheapest and easiest ways to transmit information over long distances, they don't require any extrapolation in technology from ours to generate, and we can detect even quite weak signals at interstellar distances. Other common technosignatures are lasers—either pulses or continuous beams—which have many of the same advantages. Both technosignatures were proposed almost 50 years ago, and most of the work done on technosignatures so far has been looking for them."

For each of these signatures, it is therefore necessary to establish upper limits, so that scientists know exactly what not to look for. "When you search for something and don't find it, you have to carefully document exactly what signals you have proven don't exist," said Wright. "Something like: no signals stronger than some level, at some time, within some range of certain stars, narrower than some bandwidth, within some range of frequencies."

The report then addresses what the upper limits of detection are for each technosignature and what current method and technology exists to search for them. To put this in perspective, they quote from a 2005 study by Chyba and Hand:

"Astrophysicists… spent decades studying and searching for black holes before accumulating today's compelling evidence that they exist. The same can be said for the search for room-temperature superconductors, proton decay, violations of special relativity, or for that matter the Higgs boson. Indeed, much of the most important and exciting research in astronomy and physics is concerned exactly with the study of objects or phenomena whose existence has not been demonstrated—and that may, in fact, turn out not to exist. In this sense astrobiology merely confronts what is a familiar, even commonplace situation in many of its sister sciences."

In other words, future progress in this field will consist of developing ways to hunt for possible technosignatures and determining in what form these signatures cannot be ruled out as natural phenomena. They begin by considering the extensive work that has been done in the field of radio astronomy.

When it comes right down to it, only a extremely narrowband astronomical radio source could be said to have an artificial origin, since broadband radio transmissions are a common occurrence in our galaxy. As a result, SETI researchers have conducted surveys that looked for both continuous wave and pulse radio sources that could not be explained by natural phenomena.

A good example of this is the famous "WOW." signal that was detected on August 15th, 1977, by astronomer Jerry R. Ehman using the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. In the course of surveying the Sagittarius constellation, near the M55 globular cluster, the telescope noted a sudden jump in radio transmissions.

Unfortunately, multiple follow-up surveys were unable to find any further indications of radio signals from this source. This and other examples characterize the painstaking and difficult work that comes with searching for radio wave technosignatures, which has been characterized as looking for a needle in the "cosmic haystack".

Examples of existing survey instruments and methods include the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, the Arecibo Observatory, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the Parkes Telescope, and the Very Large Array (VLA), the SETI@home project and Breakthrough Listen. But given that the volume of space that has been searched for both continuous and pulsed radio searches, the current upper limits on radio wave signatures are quite weak.

Similarly, optical and near-infrared light (NIL) signals also need to be compressed in terms of frequency and time in order to be considered artificial in origin. Here, examples include the Near-Infrared Optical SETI (NIROSETI) instrument, the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), and the Keck/High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES).

When it comes to looking for megastructures (such as Dyson spheres), astronomers focus on both waste heat from stars and dips in their luminosity (obscurations). In the case of the former, surveys have been conducted that looked for excess infrared energy coming from nearby stars. This could be seen as an indication that starlight is being captured by technology (such as solar panels).

Consistent with the laws of thermodynamics, some of this energy would be radiated away as "waste" heat. In the case of the latter, obscurations have been studied using data from the Kepler and K2 missions to see if they could indicate the presence of massive orbiting structures – in the same way that they were used to confirm planetary transits and the existence of exoplanets.

Similarly, surveys have been conducted of other galaxies using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) to look for signs of obscurations. Other ongoing searches are being conducted with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO).

The report also addresses technosignatures that may exist in our very own solar system. Here, the case of 'Oumuamua is raised. According to recent studies, it is possible that this object is actually alien probe, and that thousands of such objects could exist in the solar system (some of which could be studied in the near future).

There have even been attempts to find evidence of past civilizations here on Earth though chemical and industrial technosignatures, similar to how such indicators on an extra-solar planet could be considered evidence of an advanced civilization.

Another possibility is the existence of space -based alien artifacts or "bottled messages." These could take the form of spacecraft that contain messages similar to the "Pioneer Plaque" of the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions, or the golden record of the Voyager 1 and 2 missions.

Ultimately, the upper limits on these technosignatures vary, and no attempts to find any have succeeded so far. However, as they go on to note, there are considerable opportunities for future technosignature detection thanks to the development of next-generation instruments, refined search methods and lucrative partnerships.

These will allow for greater sensitivity when looking for examples of communications technology, as well as signs of chemical and industrial signatures thanks to the ability to directly image exoplanets.

Examples include ground-based instruments like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). There are also existing space-based instruments, including the recently-retired Kepler mission (whose data is still leading to valuable discoveries), the Gaia mission, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

Space-based projects that are currently under development include the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), and PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) missions. These instrument, combined with improved software and data-sharing methods are expected to yield new and exciting results in the not-too-distant future.

But as Wright summarized, the thing that will make the biggest difference is a lot of time and patience:

"Despite being 50 years old, SETI (or, if you like, searches for technosignatures) is in many ways still in its infancy. There has not been very much searching compared to searches for other things (dark matter, black holes, microbial life, etc.) because of the historical lack of funding; there hasn't even been that much quantitative, foundational work about what technosignatures to search for. Most of the work so far has been people thinking about what work they would do if they had funding. Hopefully, we'll soon be able to start putting those ideas into practice."

After a half-century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has still found no evidence of intelligent life beyond our solar system – i.e. Fermi's famous question, "Where is everybody?", still holds. But that's the good thing about the Fermi Paradox, you only have to resolve it once. All humanity needs is to find a single example, and the equally time-honored question, "Are we alone?," will finally be answered.

The final report, "NASA and the Search for Technosignatures", was compiled by Jason Wright and Dawn Gelino – an associate professor at PSU and the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds (CEHW) and a researcher with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), respectively.

 Explore further: NASA wants to begin hunting for intelligent aliens who, like us, create technology

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Au large de l’île au Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande, l’équipage se souvient du jour où un OVNI a été aperçu au-dessus de Kaikōura 40 ans plus tôt -- part I 

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Dossier UFO de Nouvelle Zélande. « Les OVNIS de Kaikōura« 

Ici pour commencer l’année 2019 nous vous proposons ce dossier complet sur une affaire compliquée ,une de plus qui démontre le cover up entourant les phénomènes inexpliqués qui ne reçoivent jamais de réponses pour les témoins.

Nous profitons ERA ( Emma ) et moi pour vous présenter nos meilleurs vœux pour cet an 2019 en vous remerciant de votre fidélité.

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L’équipage se souvient  40 ans plus tard du jour où un OVNI a été aperçu au-dessus de Kaikōura 

Article source : nzherald.co.nz/

-publié le : 15 décembre 2018 18h34

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C’était le jour du Nouvel An, 1979, lorsque le monde a pris conscience que six personnes avaient aperçues d’étranges lumières dans un avion au large de l’île du Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande.

Était-ce un ovni? Non, ont dit les sceptiques. C’était Vénus, des calmars, des retours radar d’un champ de choux. (ironie)

Quarante ans plus tard, les deux pilotes et les quatre passagers sont catégoriques: rien de tout cela, ils sont frustrés d’être incapables de trouver des réponses.

The Herald on Sunday a retrouvé chaque membre du groupe dans le monde entier. L’une est agricultrice de mangues à Hawaii, tandis que l’autre est une dame mariée âgée de 80 ans .

L’affaire a acquis une renommée instantanée – mais aucune fortune – pour certains, avant que la honte et la colère ne leur soient reprochées lorsqu’ils ont été accusés de falsification de l’observation. Cela a eu pour conséquence de  casser un mariage.

À la fin de l’année 1978, le continent  était en proie à la fièvre ovni. En octobre, Frederick Valentich, âgé de 20 ans, a disparu alors qu’il pilotait un petit avion Cessna 182 au-dessus du détroit de Bass, tandis qu’il se dirigeait vers King Island, en Tasmanie. Décrit comme un « passionné de soucoupes volantes », Valentich a informé le contrôle de la circulation aérienne de Melbourne qu’il était accompagné d’un avion inconnu.

Deux mois plus tard, le 21 décembre, à bord du Tasman, Vern Powell et Ian Pirie, deux pilotes de Safe Air, ont repéré d’étranges lumières alors qu’ils volaient de Blenheim à Christchurch.

Producteur pour la chaîne 0 de Melbourne (aujourd’hui la chaîne 10), Leonard Lee a entendu la nouvelle et a retrouvé le journaliste Quentin Fogarty, qui travaillait pour la chaîne mais qui était en vacances avec sa femme et ses enfants à Christchurch, séjournant au domicile de Dennis Grant, journaliste de TV One.

Quentin Fogarty présentant l’actualité en 1979 après l’observation. Photo / Fichier archives .
Crédit : nzherald.co.n

Le cameraman freelance de Wellington, David Crockett, a également été embauché avec son épouse Ngaire, qui exploitait le magnétophone.

Le groupe a été invité à monter à bord de l’avion Argosy de Safe Air basé à Blenheim, baptisé Merchant Enterprise, le 30 décembre, que les pilotes Bill Startup et Bob Guard prenaient pour un journal entre Wellington et Christchurch.

Bob Guard, à gauche, et Bill Startup en 1979. Photo / Paul Davidson crédit :nzherald.co.nz

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Les observations de Kaikoura en 1978 constituent l’un des plus grands mystères de la Nouvelle-Zélande et l’un des cas d’OVNI les mieux documentés au monde. Près de 40 ans plus tard, les événements étonnants restent inexpliqués. Les observations ont été confirmées par des observations visuelles au radar – et ont également été filmées en couleur à bord d’un cargo Argosy volant de Wellington à Christchurch au sud dans la nuit du 31 décembre 1978.

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Peu de temps après le décollage, les pilotes ont remarqué d’étranges lumières apparaître et disparaître sur la côte de Kaikōura à environ 20 miles à l’ouest.

« Tandis que nous filmions une scène devant la caméra, le capitaine Bill Startup nous a crié que nous devions nous rendre immédiatement au poste de pilotage, car quelque chose se reproduisait », a déclaré David Crockett.

Il a réussi à filmer une lumière blanche brillante se déplaçant rapidement.

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« Avec la conversation venant des pilotes et du radar de Wellington, tout a commencé à devenir très effrayant », a déclaré Ngaire Crockett.

« J’ai été capable de me lever plusieurs fois et j’ai pu voir cette lumière brillante qui allait et venait. Quentin était dans un état de stress, il m’a saisi par les mains et a commencé à trembler. Je n’ai pas eu le temps de m’inquiéter moi-même, je devais l’aider. « 

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L’avion a atterri à Christchurch pour décharger les journaux et les pilotes ont demandé aux journalistes s’ils souhaitaient revenir dans la région qu’ils avaient traversée. Ngaire était trop effrayé alors resta à Christchurch. Les autres ont repris l’avion avec Dennis Grant à la place de Ngaire.

« David avait utilisé tout le film dans son appareil photo 16 mm », explique Grant.

« Quentin m’a appelé peu après minuit de l’aéroport de Christchurch pour voir si je pouvais fournir un nouveau film. Je le pouvais – mais il y avait un problème: je voulais monter dans l’avion pour le vol à destination de Blenheim. »

L’avion a décollé à 02h16. Environ trois minutes après le décollage, le groupe a vu une lumière brillante et ronde à droite. Le radar de l’avion indiquait une cible dans la même direction à environ 18 milles marins.

On entendra plus tard Fogarty dire à la caméra: « Espérons qu’ils sont amicaux ».

Crockett a filmé la lumière pendant plusieurs minutes alors qu’elle semblait voyager avec l’avion.

Les images ont provoqué une frénésie dans le monde entier.

Photo / Fichier crédit : nzherald.co.nz

Lorsqu’ils se tournèrent vers elle, la lumière sembla réagir en s’éloignant de l’avion.

« L’expérience en elle-même était extraordinaire », déclare Fogarty.

« Le fait de se trouver sur le pont d’envol bruyant et encombré de l’Argosy qui dévalait la côte en pleine nuit était passionnant. Pensez à une rangée de lumières palpitantes et hypnotiques planant à l’extérieur de la fenêtre, et cela passe à un autre niveau. »

Après avoir atterri à l’aéroport de Woodbourne vers 3 heures du matin, le groupe est resté dans les deux maisons des pilotes à Blenheim.

La fille de la start-up, Tracy Moore, se souvient du retour de son père à la maison au milieu de la nuit.

« Tout le monde était à la maison pour en parler au milieu de la nuit. Ils parlaient de lumières, de radars inexpliqués.

« À un moment donné, je me souviens que papa avait dit que ce serait une bonne idée de le signaler à la police. C’était pendant la guerre froide, il y avait un peu de paranoïa autour. Maman a dit: » Vous ne pouvez pas rester sur cette information  » .

«C’était effrayant à ce moment-là. C’était une chose inconnue qui s’était produite et nous étions tous des adultes autour pour en discuter. Il n’y avait aucune blague.»

Fogarty a interviewé les pilotes avant de s’envoler pour Melbourne pour confier les enregistrements à Channel 0. Les images ont été diffusées aux heures de grande écoute cette nuit-là et un documentaire plus long a été projeté plus tard.

Les nouvelles ont fait le tour du monde et ont été présentées par les principaux médias, notamment le Herald et le présentateur de CBS, Walter Cronkite.

Une copie du Herald du 3 janvier 1979-

Crédit : nzherald.co.n

Une copie du journal Herald du 4 janvier 1979-

Crédit :nzherald.co.nz

La réaction sceptique fut immédiate. Les explications incluaient qu’il s’agissait de Vénus, de la drogue, de la lumière réfléchie par les choux ou les calmars.

Le gouvernement Robert Muldoon a ordonné à l’armée de l’air de mener une enquête, qui concluait que les observations pouvaient être expliquées par des phénomènes naturels mais inhabituels.

Leonard Lee s’est rendu aux États-Unis pour donner le film à Bruce Maccabee, un physicien optique spécialisé en technologie laser et ayant travaillé pour la US Navy dans le Maryland, en Virginie. Il a également été envoyé en Nouvelle-Zélande et à Melbourne pour interroger des témoins.

Leonard Lee, ancien producteur de Channel 0.

Photo / Paul Davidson
Crédit : nzherald.co.nz/

Il a conclu que l’événement impliquait des objets inconnus ou des phénomènes correspondant à la définition des OVNIS.

« On pourrait penser que la conclusion selon laquelle plusieurs des observations auraient impliqué des objets non identifiés volant impunément dans l’espace aérien néo-zélandais aurait été suffisante pour entamer une étude encore plus approfondie des OVNIS », a déclaré Maccabee.

« Mais ce n’était pas le cas. Les observations ont été reléguées à la poubelle de l’histoire, oubliées de tous, à l’exception des témoins et de quelques ufologues qui ont discuté des divers événements d’observation pendant des années. »

Bruce Maccabee, photographié en 1979, a examiné des images du supposé OVNI.

Photo / fourni-Crédit :nzherald.co.n

Il dit que 39 ans après la diffusion de la séquence de Kaikōura, en décembre 2017, les principaux médias ont rapporté des observations d’OVNI par des membres de la marine américaine lors d’exercices d’entraînement.

Il a ajouté qu’ils impliquaient plusieurs témoins et de multiples sources d’informations, telles que le radar d’un navire de guerre au niveau de la mer, un radar dans les avions à réaction de la Marine, des caméras vidéo visibles et infrarouges dans les avions.

Mais l’incident semble avoir été oublié.

« L’histoire semble se répéter. »

Après sa victoire dans le monde, Quentin Fogarty, originaire de Dunedin, a souffert d ’« épuisement nerveux »et a été hospitalisé pendant quelques semaines.

« Le niveau de scepticisme initial à la fois m’a surpris et parfois bouleversé. Je ne m’attendais certainement pas à être accusé d’avoir mis la main à la pâte. Cette blessure profonde est encore là.

« Le tabloïd du quotidien local de Melbourne m’a qualifié de » journaliste d’OVNI « et cela a duré peu de temps, mais il n’a pas fallu longtemps pour que je reprenne mon rôle de journaliste à la télévision, traitant de sujets plus banals. »

Fogarty, un père de quatre enfants qui vit toujours à Melbourne, a déclaré qu’il s’était efforcé de raconter l’histoire de la manière la plus précise et la plus impartiale possible.

« Nous avions un film, nos propres comptes rendus de témoins oculaires et la confirmation de l’équipage de conduite et des contrôleurs aériens que nous étions tombés sur quelque chose d’étonnant.

Quentin Fogarty.

Photo / Paul Davidson via nzherald.co.nz

Fogarty, qui a commencé sa carrière chez Evening Star de Dunedin, a écrit un livre sur l’expérience de 1982, espérons qu’ils sont amicaux , et reste convaincu qu’une analyse informatique améliorée du film pourrait permettre de trouver des réponses.

« Quarante ans plus tard, il s’agit toujours d’un travail inachevé. »

Projet de loi pilote, 85

Bill Startup in 1978. Photo / Fourni via nzherald.co.nz

David Crockett a eu des soucis de santé, quelques effets après avoir filmé des objets étranges.

«À ce jour, l’incident n’a jamais quitté mon esprit. Je me souviens également de l’événement de personnes qui se sont approchées de moi et m’ont dit:« Je t’ai vu l’autre soir sur Discovery ou Science Channel ».

« L’effet de cette observation historique sur nous tous a certainement inclus beaucoup de stress. De mon côté, j’ai été insomniaque  pendant plusieurs nuits et, après avoir donné plusieurs conférences à l’étranger sur cette observation, j’ai été très déprimé. »

Crockett, qui vit maintenant à Hawaii, où il travaillait comme producteur de mangues, a réalisé un documentaire sur l’incident et a donné des conférences qui l’ont fait voyager à travers le monde. Il espère réaliser un nouveau documentaire pour marquer les 40 ans.

« Cela a considérablement changé ma vie. À cette époque de l’histoire des phénomènes OVNIS, les sceptiques pensaient que nous étions fous et nous critiquaient de nombreuses manières. En 1978, la plupart des gens ne considéraient pas sérieusement qu’il s’agissait d’un objet réel et  qui pouvait même provenir de d’autres planètes.« 

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02-01-2019 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

Au large de l’île au Sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande, l’équipage se souvient du jour où un OVNI a été aperçu au-dessus de Kaikōura 40 ans plus tôt -- part II

Journaliste de télévision Dennis Grant, 66 ans

Dennis Grant.

Photo / fourni via nzherald.co.nz

Au fil des ans, Grant a amassé une collection massive de journaux et de magazines. Il a parcouru des archives officielles en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande et a déposé des demandes officielles d’information pour des fichiers oubliés depuis longtemps.

« Les résultats sont extrêmement inutiles pour expliquer les lumières et ce qu’ils faisaient dans le ciel d’été solitaire de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Quarante ans plus tard, je suis toujours très curieux. »

« Mes petits-enfants adorent entendre l’histoire de mes contacts avec des OVNIS, je souhaite juste pouvoir fournir une conclusion. »

Grant travaillait chez TV One (maintenant TVNZ 1) à Christchurch en 1978 et vit maintenant en Australie.

« J’étais un jeune journaliste à l’époque, enflammé du zèle de raconter des histoires inédites, et j’ai aidé à raconter cette histoire. Mais le reste du monde, les scientifiques, les responsables, les militaires et – le plus triste pour moi – les médias , ont tous été consommés avec indifférence. Incurieux. « 

Alors, croit-il aux OVNIS?

« Je suis tout à fait sceptique quant à la notion de petits hommes verts, de sondes anales martiennes et de tout le reste. Je note que le nombre d’observations d’OVNI a considérablement diminué depuis que les caméras vidéo et numériques ainsi que les caméras de téléphone sont devenues facilement disponibles. nous avons vu que la nuit au-dessus de Kaikōura n’était pas identifiée et l’est toujours. « 

L’argosy

Paul Davidson, de Blenheim, avec son avion Argosy.

Photo / Tim Cuff via nzherald.co.nz

Désactivé, Argosy se trouve maintenant sur un terrain près de l’aéroport de Marlborough, propriété du cinéaste de Blenheim, Paul Davidson.

Il a acheté l’avion en 1991 après avoir appris qu’il devait être mis au rebut. Il a dit au directeur général de Safe Air qu’il paierait ce qu’il aurait obtenu du revendeur de ferraille.

L’avion avait une signification particulière pour lui. En 2009, Davidson a réalisé un documentaire présentant des interviews avec les pilotes et l’équipage de 1978.

Davidson, dont le domicile se trouve à proximité de l’avion, a restauré l’avion et effectue des expériences de simulation de vol, avec des films en vol racontant l’histoire de Safe Air – et des repas.

Les passagers peuvent dîner au café Argosy, à côté de l’avion, qui sert de terminal où ils peuvent récupérer leurs cartes d’embarquement et se rendre à leur porte pour faire l’expérience. Il y a aussi des souvenirs exposés.

L’avion est situés en face de la maison de Davidson.

Photo / Tim Cuff via nzherald.co.nz

« Nous l’avons remonté et rangé. C’est unique à Marlborough. »

À partir de jeudi, pour coïncider avec la première observation étrange, Davidson organisera une expérience sur le thème des OVNIS.

Son documentaire sera projeté, les lumières seront tamisées et une « atmosphère fantasmagorique » sera créée.

« Les gens peuvent s’asseoir à leur place, là où le capitaine Startup s’est assis. »

« C’est le seul endroit au monde où vous pouvez faire cela. »

Alors, Davidson croit-il aux OVNIS?

« Je crois en leur possibilité. »

« J’ai appris à connaître les deux pilotes avec mon documentaire. Ils en ont eu marre de dire: » Ce sont probablement les phares de voitures ou de calmars « . Ce sont des pilotes professionnels. » Nous savons à quoi Vénus ressemble, ce n’était pas Vénus « .

« Tout le monde à bord a déclaré que l’événement avait eu un effet traumatisant sur leur vie. »

• Les faits ont été approchés avec l’aide de Bruce Maccabee.

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Références : 

• TV One / TVNZ 1
• Bruce Maccabee
• Davidson
• Getty
• Tim Cuff
• Dennis Grant
• Fourni
• Dumbbell Dumbbase
• journal Herald

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02-01-2019 om 23:05 geschreven door peter  

How the 40-year-old mystery of a UFO in New Zealand lives on

Pilots and passengers saw something unusual on their flight from New Zealand, which sparked a national frenzy. Years later, they’re still stumped.

It was New Year’s Day, 1979, when the world woke to the news that strange lights had been spotted by six people on a plane off the New Zealand’s South Island.

Was it a UFO? No, said the sceptics. It was Venus, it was squid boats, it was radar returns from a field of cabbages.

But 40 years later, the two pilots and four passengers are adamant it was none of the above and are frustrated at being unable to find answers.

New Zealand’s The Herald on Sunday tracked down each member of the group around the world. One is a mango farmer in Hawaii, while another is an 80-year-old newlywed after her royal wedding-themed ceremony at her retirement village the night before Meghan and Harry’s big day.

The case bought instant fame — but no fortune — for some, before bringing shame and anger when they were accused of hoaxing the sighting. It broke up a marriage.

Guido Valentich holds a photograph of his son Frederick, a pilot who went missing while on a flight to King Island in a Cessna in October 1978.

Picture: Popperfoto/GettySource:Getty Images

At the end of 1978, Australasia was in the grip of UFO fever. In October, 20-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared while piloting a small Cessna 182 aircraft over Bass Strait while heading to King Island in Tasmania. Described as a “flying saucer enthusiast”, Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic control he was being accompanied by an unknown aircraft.

Two months later across the Tasman, on December 21, Safe Air pilots Vern Powell and Ian Pirie spotted strange lights while flying from Blenheim to Christchurch.

A producer for Melbourne’s Channel 0 (now Channel 10), Leonard Lee heard the news and tracked down reporter Quentin Fogarty, who worked for the channel but was on holiday with his wife and children in Christchurch, staying at TV Onejournalist Dennis Grant’s home.

Quentin Fogarty presenting the news in 1979 after the sighting.

Picture: FileSource:NZ Herald

Freelance Wellington cameraman David Crockett was also hired, along with his wife Ngaire, who operated the audiotape recorder.

The group were invited to jump aboard Safe Air’s Blenheim-based Argosy plane, named Merchant Enterprise, late on December 30, which pilots Bill Startup and Bob Guard were taking on a newspaper run between Wellington and Christchurch.

Shortly after takeoff, the pilots noticed strange lights appearing and disappearing over the Kaikōura coastline about 30 kilometres west.

“While we were filming a stand-up to camera, Captain Bill Startup shouted to us that we should go to the flight deck immediately as something was happening again,” says David Crockett.

He managed to film a rapidly moving, bright white light.

Bob Guard, left, and Bill Startup in 1979.

Picture: Paul DavidsonSource:NZ Herald

“With the conversation coming through my headphones from the pilots and radar from Wellington, it all started to get very scary,” says Ngaire Crockett.

“I was able to stand up a couple of times and was able to see these bright light coming and going. [Quentin] was a real mess and grabbed hold of both my hands and started shaking. I didn’t have time to worry about myself, I had to help him.”

The plane landed at Christchurch to unload newspapers and the pilots asked the news team if they wanted to go back through the area they had traversed. Ngaire was too frightened so stayed in Christchurch. The others reboarded the plane with Dennis Grant in Ngaire’s place.

“David had used up all the film in his 16mm camera,” Grant says.

“Quentin called me sometime after midnight from Christchurch Airport to see if I could provide a fresh roll of film. I could — but there was a catch — I wanted to get on the plane for the flight to Blenheim.”

The “UFO”, captured by cameraman David Crockett in New Zealand.

Source:News Corp Australia

The plane took off at 2.16am. About three minutes after takeoff, the group saw a bright, round light to the right. The aeroplane radar showed a target in the same direction about 18 nautical miles.

Fogarty would later be heard saying on camera: “Let’s hope they’re friendly.”

Crockett filmed the light for several minutes as it appeared to travel along with the plane.

When they turned toward it, the light seemed to react by moving away from the aeroplane.

“The experience itself was extraordinary,” Fogarty says.

“Just being on the cramped, noisy flight deck of the Argosy barrelling down the coast in the dead of the night was exciting. Factor in a row of pulsating, hypnotic lights hovering outside the window, and it goes to another level.”

After landing at Woodbourne Airport at about 3am, the group stayed at the two pilots homes in Blenheim.

Startup’s daughter Tracy Moore remembers her father coming home in the middle of the night.

A copy of the New Zealand Herald from January 3, 1979.

Source:NZ Herald

This was the copy of the Herald on January 4, 1979.

Source:NZ Herald

“Everyone was at our house talking about it in the middle of the night. They were talking about lights, unexplained radar.

“At one point, I remember dad saying it might be a good idea to report it to the police. It was during the Cold War, there was a bit of paranoia around. Mum said: ‘You can’t sit on this information’.

“It was scary at the time. It was a big unknown thing that had happened and we had all the adults around discussing it. There were certainly no jokes being made.”

Fogarty interviewed the pilots before flying to Melbourne to give the recordings to Channel 0. The footage featured on prime time news that night and a longer documentary piece screened later.

The news went around the world and was featured by major news media, including by the Herald and by CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite.

Bruce Maccabee, pictured in 1979, examined footage of the supposed UFO.

Source:NZ Herald

The sceptical reaction was immediate. Explanations included that it was Venus, drug runners, light reflected from cabbages or squid boats.

The Robert Muldoon Government ordered an inquiry by the Air Force, which concluded that the sightings could be explained by natural but unusual phenomena.

Leonard Lee travelled to the US to give the film to Bruce Maccabee, an optical physicist who specialised in laser technology and worked for the US Navy in Maryland, Virginia. He was also flown to New Zealand and Melbourne to interview witnesses.

He concluded the event involved unknown objects or phenomena fitting the definition of UFOs.

“One would think that the conclusion that several of the sightings involved unidentified objects flying with impunity in the New Zealand air space would have been sufficient to start an even deeper study of the UFOs,” Maccabee says.

Maccabee pictured recently.

Source:NZ Herald

“But it wasn’t. The sightings were relegated to the dustbin of history, forgotten by all except the witnesses and a few ufologists who discussed the various sighting events for years afterward.”

He says that 39 years after the Kaikōura footage emerged, in December 2017, major media carried reports of UFO sightings by US Navy personnel during training exercises.

He says they involved multiple witnesses and multiple sources of information such as battleship radar at sea level, radar in the Navy jet aeroplanes, visible and infra-red video cameras in the aeroplanes.

But the incident appears to have been forgotten.

“History appears to be repeating itself.”

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

The Herald on Sunday caught up with the pilots and passengers.

Journalist Quentin Fogarty, 72

After his world scoop, Dunedin-born Quentin Fogarty suffered from “nervous exhaustion” and ended up in hospital for a couple of weeks.

Quentin Fogarty.

Picture: Paul DavidsonSource:NZ Herald

“The level of initial scepticism both surprised and, at times, overwhelmed me. I certainly did not expect to be accused of hoaxing the whole thing. That cut deep, it still does.

“The local daily tabloid in Melbourne branded me as the ‘UFO Reporter’, and that stuck for a short time, but it did not take long for me to be back in my role as a TV journalist reporting on more mundane matters.”

Fogarty, a father of four who still lives in Melbourne, says he endeavoured to report the story as accurately and as impartially as he could.

“We had film, our own eyewitness accounts and confirmation from the flight crew and air traffic controllers that we had stumbled into something astonishing.

Fogarty, who started his career at Dunedin’s Evening Star wrote a book about the experience in 1982, Let’s Hope They’re Friendly, and remains convinced that enhanced computer analysis of the film might get closer to finding answers.

“Forty years down the track, this is still unfinished business.”

Pilot Bill Startup, 85

Startup now lives in a rest home in Blenheim. He had a stroke a three years after the incident and had to retire from flying.

He wrote a book the following year, The Kaikōura UFOs, his daughter says, to clear up the misinformation doing the rounds. The same year, Startup then took his wife Shirley and children to visit Bruce Maccabee in the US.

Bill Startup in 1978.

Source:NZ Herald

Shirley, who died in 2012, was interviewed in 2008 and said a psychiatrist had thought the men had lost their faith in God and were seeing angels.

Startup, who was not well enough to be interviewed by the Herald on Sunday, told a documentary in 2009: “What it was all those years ago … I wish I knew. People can think what they want but they were not in the aircraft.”

Startup did not dwell on the experience, Moore says.

“Over the years there has been periodic interest, so he was being visited every one to two years from reporters all over. But he didn’t bring it up.”

She didn’t get the impression he truly believed it was UFO.

“He’d seen something that he did not know what it was, and his colleagues couldn’t come up with an explanation. He had no thoughts that he ever communicated to us.”

Co-pilot Bob Guard, 73

Guard has never said too much about the strange lights.

“One of the issues for me is we were just doing our job. We suddenly had to justify ourselves. We didn’t know what the hell it was.

Bob Guard in 1978.

Source:NZ Herald

Bob Guard recounting his experience in Paul Davidson's documentary The Kaikoura UFOs.

Picture: Paul DavidsonSource:NZ Herald

“We didn’t expect to see anything. It was a bit tense as it got closer to the aircraft.”

“I got over it. Have I ever seen anything like that again? No I haven’t. Do I believe in UFOs? No I don’t. Pilots see a lot of unidentified flying things.

“Would I tell anyone if I saw anything like that again? No I wouldn’t. It’s not worth the hassle.”

Research followed the sightings but he says “some were a sham — they used newspaper articles for their research”.

Guard stopped working for Safe Air in 1990 and went on to work at Air Nelson. He was the flight operations manager when he retired, aged 65, in 2010.

His children and grandchildren were aware of the story but it is not “something that has taken over their lives”.

Sound recorder Ngaire Crockett, 80

The Crocketts, who had five children, separated soon after the incident.

Ngaire is now Ngaire Gilmore after her new marriage to husband Ray Gilmore.

Ngaire Crocket in the 1970s.

Source:NZ Herald

Ngaire Gilmore at her home in Palmerston North.

Picture: Alexander RobertsonSource:NZ Herald

The pair, who met during a blind date eight years ago, married in a surprise ceremony at the Julia Wallace Retirement Village in Palmerston North the day before Meghan and Harry’s nuptials this year.

Residents dressed up in royal wedding theme for happy hour but didn’t know they were attending a real wedding.

“Has this film changed my life?” asks Gilmore.

“I guess it did. We had phone call after phone call and people knocking on our door. David and the reporter became so obsessed that the doco was all they talked about. I switched off as we had five children and it was effecting all our lives.”

Cameraman David Crockett, 85

David Crockett dealt with health a handful of effects after filming the strange objects.

“To this very day, the incident has never left my mind. I am also reminded of the event by people who come up to me and say, ‘I saw you the other night on the Discovery or Science Channel’.

David Crockett in 1978.

Source:NZ Herald

David Crockett.

Picture: SuppliedSource:NZ Herald

“The effect this historic sighting has had on all of us has certainly included a fair amount of stress. As for me, I was sleepless for several nights, and after having performed several overseas lectures on this sighting, became quite depressed.

Crockett, who now lives in Hawaii where he worked as a mango farmer, made a documentary about the incident, and gave lectures, which took him around the world. He is hoping to make a new documentary to mark the 40-year anniversary.

“It substantially changed my life. At that time in the history of the UFO phenomena, sceptics thought we were crazy, and criticised us in many ways. In 1978, most persons would not seriously consider that these were real object and may even originate from other planets.”

TV journalist Dennis Grant, 66

Over the years Grant has amassed a massive collection of a newspaper and magazine stories. He’s scoured official records in Australia and New Zealand and lodged official information applications for long-forgotten files.

Dennis Grant.

Source:NZ Herald

“The results are overwhelmingly unhelpful in explaining the lights and what they were doing in the lonely summer skies of New Zealand. Forty years on I’m still very curious.

“My grandkids love to hear the story of my brush with UFOs, I just wish I could provide an ending.”

Grant was working at TV One (now TVNZ 1) in Christchurch in 1978 and now lives in Australia.

“I was a young journalist back then, fired with the zeal of telling stories untold, and I helped tell this story. But the rest of the world, the scientists, the officials, the military and — saddest of all for me — the media, were all consumed with indifference. Incurious.”

So does he believe in UFOs?

“I am entirely sceptical of the notion of little green men, Martian anal probes and all the rest of it. I note that the number of UFO sightings has greatly diminished since video and digital cameras and phone cameras have became readily available. However, what we saw that night over Kaikōura was unidentified and still is.”

The Argosy

The decommissioned Argosy now sits on land near the Marlborough Airport owned by Blenheim filmmaker Paul Davidson.

He purchased the aircraft in 1991 after hearing it was to be scrapped, telling the Safe Air general manager he would pay what he would have got from the scrap dealer.

Paul Davidson, of Blenheim, with his Argosy aircraft.

Picture: Tim CuffSource:NZ Herald

The aircraft had special meaning to him — in 2009, Davidson made a documentary, featuring interviews with the pilots and crew from 1978.

Davidson, whose home is on land adjacent to the aircraft, has restored and refurbished the aircraft and runs flight simulation experiences, complete with in-flight movies telling the story of Safe Air — and meals.

Passengers can dine at the Argosy Cafe, next to the plane, which acts as a terminal where they can collect their boarding passes and go to their gate for the experience. There is also memorabilia on display.

“We put it back together and tidied it up. It’s unique to Marlborough.”

Paul Davidson, of Blenheim, with his Argosy aircraft.

Picture: Tim CuffSource:NZ Herald

From Thursday, to coincide with the first strange sighting, Davidson will be running a UFO-themed experience.

His documentary will be screened, lights will be dimmed on-board and a “spooky atmosphere” created.

“People can sit in actual seat Captain Startup sat in.

“It’s the only place in the world where you can do that.”

So, does Davidson believe in UFOs?

“I believe in the possibility of them.

“I got to know both pilots with my documentary. They got sick of people saying ‘It was probably the lights of cars, or lights of squid boats’. These were professional pilots. ‘We know what Venus looks like, this was not Venus’.

“Everyone on board has said the event had a traumatic effect on their lives.”

• The accounts were pulled together with the help of Bruce Maccabee.

This article originally appeared on the New Zealand Herald and was reproduced with permission

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Fear of the Future: A.I.

I know all of us have seen the movies: Terminator, the Matrix, the films of man’s cataclysmic failure to recognize that A.I. technology could lead to a world war of man versus machine. Is this concern valid.

Before we can even get into this talk we have to lay down an answer to a more basic question to quench our initial concerns, that being, is A.I. even possible.

Alexa, Google and The Superbots

Data mining has led to a theory that by creating a large enough tracking and intelligence database A.I. can come to life.

In all truth we know that simply because people are being tracked in live time by machines does not technically constitute artificial intelligence.

A recent video I watched breaks this event down handily and is well worth the watch:

{ https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/ }

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