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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
05-01-2019
SHOCK as world-renowned scientist says humans are on the brink of making ALIEN CONTACT
SHOCK as world-renowned scientist says humans are on the brink of making ALIEN CONTACT
HUMANS are on the brink of contacting alien life, with one of the most respected physicists in the world “sticking his neck out” and predicting it could be within this century, it has been revealed.
Michio Kaku thinks humans will detect aliens before 2100
American theoretical physicist, futurist, and populariser of science, Michio Kaku, thinks humans will detect aliens before 2100 by listening to radio communications, but he does not know if we will be able to talk back to them.
Speaking on an “ask me anything” question and answer session on social media platform Reddit, the futurist answered a Redditor who asked, "Dr Kaku, if we make contact with alien civilisations, then what? And how will we talk to them?"
Dr Kaku replied: “Let me stick my neck out.
“I personally feel that within this century, we will make contact with an alien civilisation, by listening in on their radio communications.
“But talking to them will be difficult, since they could be tens of light years away.
“So, in the meantime, we must decipher their language to understand their level of technology. Are they Type I, II, or III???
“And what are their intentions? Are they expansive and aggressive, or peaceful?”
Types of civilisations represent the three categories in the “Kardashev scale”.
The scale measures a civilisation’s technological advancement based on the amount of energy they are able to use for communication.
Humans are not yet a Type I civilisation because they have not reached a stage of being able to use every ounce of energy on their home planet - which includes solar, thermal, oceanic and more.
Mr Kaku added: "Another possibility is that they land on the White House lawn and announce their existence.
"But I think that is unlikely since we would be like forest animals to them, i.e. not worth communicating with."
Dr Kaku is not the first renowned scientist to predict that humanity will make contact with alien life.
Stephen Hawking recently said that he is "more convinced than ever that we are not alone" and added that humanity should stop reaching out to aliens before it is too late.
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Dr Kaku is not the first renowned scientist to predict that humanity will make contact with aliens
He added: "One day we might receive a signal from a planet like Gliese 832c, but we should be wary of answering back.
"Meeting an advanced civilisation could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus.
“That didn't turn out so well.”
Dr Hawking is involved in the Breakthrough Listen project, which will scan planets around the nearest million stars for signs of life within radio signals.
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Stephen Hawking recently said that he is 'more convinced than ever that we are not alone'
Senior astronomer at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, Seth Shostak, has placed a wager that we will find signs of alien life within 20 years.
According to the Drake equation, based on the sheer volume of stars in space it is highly unlikely that we are the only life in the universe.
Scientists are currently focussed on radio waves, which Shostak, Hawking, and Kaku all predict will be where alien contact will come through.
Radiowaves stand out from the naturally occurring background noise in the Universe, which typically extends across a much wider frequency range.
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Tempel Mexicaanse vruchtbaarheidsgod blootgelegd waar gruwelijke rituelen plaatsvonden: hogepriesters vilden menselijke offers en trokken hun huid aan - HLN.be
Tempel Mexicaanse vruchtbaarheidsgod blootgelegd waar gruwelijke rituelen plaatsvonden: hogepriesters vilden menselijke offers en trokken hun huid aan - HLN.be
REUTERSEen van de twee stenen hoofden die werd ontdekt.
WETENSCHAPIn Mexico hebben archeologen voor het eerst een duizend jaar oude tempel en offerplaats gewijd aan de vruchtbaarheidsgod Xipe Totec ontdekt. Om hun “Gevilde Heer” te eren, offerden de inheemse volkeren een keer per jaar menselijke offers die voor de tempel gevild werden, waarna hogepriesters zich in de huid van de slachtoffers kleedden.
Tijdens het jaarlijkse ‘feest’ Tlacaxipehualiztli, letterlijk vertaald ‘de huid van de gevilden dragen’, offerden de inheemse inwoners gevangenen om zo in de gunst van Xipe Totec te komen, zo noteerden de Spaanse overheersers die honderden jaren geleden op de Azteekse stammen stootten bij hun verkenning van het Mexicaanse binnenland. De gevangenen werden gedood in een soort gladiatorengevecht of met pijlen doorboord. Daarna werden ze gevild en hogepriesters trokken hun huid aan als symbool van wedergeboorte. Het hart werd uit het lichaam gesneden en eveneens geofferd.
Met de ontdekking van de tempel is er nu ook voor het eerst tastbaar bewijs van dat gruwelijke verhaal. De tempel werd blootgelegd op de site Ndachjian-Tehuacán in de centrale deelstaat Puebla. Ze bestaat uit twee offeraltaren en drie sculpturen: twee 70 centimeter grote en 200 kilogram zware stenen hoofden en een 80 centimeter grote torso. Ze moeten het huidloze lichaam van Xipe Totec voorstellen. De torso heeft bijvoorbeeld twee handen aan de linkerarm: een van de god zelf en een van de gevilde slachtoffers. In de buik zit een gat waar waarschijnlijk een groene steen zat.
De tempel werd waarschijnlijk gebruikt tussen het jaar 1000 en 1250 door de Popoloca-stam. Die groep werd later door de Azteken overwonnen, die hun rijk over Mexico uitbreidden tot de Spanjaarden arriveerden. Ook de Azteken bleven Xipe Totec aanbidden.
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De ontdekte sculptuur van de torso is ongeveer 80 centimeter groot, heeft twee handen aan zijn linkerarm ene en gat in zijn buik.
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De archeologische site van Ndachjian-Tehuacan in Puebla.
After China’s Chang’e 4 probe landed on the dark side of the moon, many people focused on the pictures of its rover roving off to search for grass, lunatics and paperboys. However, back on the lander, an experiment got underway that involves both life existing on the moon and growing food to sustain it. Three guesses as to what kind of food it will grow … Matt Damon, you need to recuse yourself on this one.
“The container will send potatoes, arabidopsis seeds and silkworm eggs to the surface of the Moon. The eggs will hatch into silkworms, which can produce carbon dioxide, while the potatoes and seeds emit oxygen through photosynthesis. Together, they can establish a simple ecosystem on the Moon.”
People’s Daily Online described what Zhang Yuanxun, chief designer of the container, put inside it before sending the package to the moon. While the term “dark side” has been replaced somewhat by “far side,” most people still don’t know that the remote non-Earth-facing side of the moon gets sunlight in quantities that are more than enough to grow potatoes and flowers. (Arabidopsis is a flowering plant related to mustard and cabbage – is this a Chinese experiment or an Irish dinner?) The main challenge for the seeds and worms will be heat, so the mini biosphere is insulated and has a battery-operated heat generator and light pipes.
Silkworms
The experiment was developed by students at Chongqing University and 28 other universities in China who will be anxiously awaiting the results. Will they have to wait until the next manned flight to find out?
“The biosphere package also contains water, air and nutrients, which will hopefully allow the seeds and eggs to briefly flourish in their protective capsule on the lunar surface. A tiny camera and data transmission system will allow researchers to see when and if the seeds blossom.”
Get the pan ready … I found ’em!
The key word there is “briefly.” Just how long will those worms be eating the plants while generating fertilizer and carbon dioxide to stimulate more growth? Will there be enough potatoes to feed Matt Damon? Enough silkworms to all him to weave clothing? Hardly. The container is only 18 cm (5 inches) long. Will that be enough of both to prove to moon residents that there’s life on Earth? Better yet, will they be alive long enough for China to call it a “colony” and lay claim to owning the far side of the moon? The official statement of China’s Communist Party, quoted by the Washington Post, says no.
“Unlike mankind’s mania in the past, the Chinese people ultimately harbor the dream of shared human destiny and practices open cooperation. We choose to go to the back of the moon not because of the unique glory it brings, but because this difficult step of destiny is also a forward step for human civilization!”
Will the world accept that?
Will the lunar silkworms? Will they tire of potatoes and cabbage and send the probe back to Earth for Chinese takeout?
Super Wolf Blood Moon Harbinger Prophecy January 21 2019
Super Wolf Blood Moon Harbinger Prophecy January 21 2019
Many people stick to predictions, but do we believe predictions or is it just the uncertainty what the future will bring that people are starting to believe in predictions?
There are many self-proclaimed prophets but there are a few who have indeed made correct predictions, like Edgar Cayes and the blind woman Baba Vanga.
Known as the 'Nostradamus of the Balkans,' Baba Vanga passed away in 1996 at age 85, but more than two decades later her recorded prophecies continue to stir the imagination.
Said to have accurately foreseen such events as 9/11 and the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, a news report informs that her predictions for 2019 include:
A new devastating tsunami in Asia A giant meteorite hitting Russia An economic collapse for the European Union An assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin A baffling illness for Donald Trump occurring in the forthcoming year.
The year begins with January's full moon which is set to be very special indeed as four lunar spectacles combine to give the night sky a red hue.
Could it be that the first full blood moon which starts on Jan. 20-21 is a harbinger for the things to come this year?
The following video provides more information about the wolf blood moon including the expectations for 2019.
Giant UFO Seen In Night Vision Over Netherlands, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Seen In Night Vision Over Netherlands, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Summer of 2018, but uploaded Dec 2018. Location of sighting: Groenio, Netherlands A person was recording with a 3rd generation night vision scope when he noticed a strange cloud. The cloud is rectangle in shape and has four sharp ninety degree corners. He mistakenly identifies it as a partial chem trail, but that is highly unlikely due to the immense size and shape of this object. Night vision scopes see in infrared and any cloaked craft would become visible using this scope. If you remember past military infrared video tracking of UFOs, then you know this to be true already. That my friends, is a UFO. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
In July of this year during sky watching I noticed a single cloud in the night sky ...maybe nothing special but it was a little strange because there were no other clouds except that one...I guess a Chemtrail ..... decide for yourself 😁👍....and in December I tested my Bushnell Equinox during a meteor shower.
Imagine this...you are responsible for landing the Mars Spirit rover on the planet. You succeed and drive the Spirit rover out onto the Mars surface. After getting about 50 meters you notice that you can see your wheel marks in a long trail behind you...so you do what first pops into your head, draw a giant penis! Now we know what the Mars rover driver was thinking about during his/her mission. He or she was thinking about some penis. Its the first Mars art ever made by humans. Its also the first Mars porn made by humans. I wonder if NASA will try to preserve this site so that all humanity can remember this great achievement for thousands of years to come?
I also found many there ancient artefacts from faces to strange structures.
NASA put these photos in FAULSE color, which is a deep brown/red. So I put them back into natural normal color, which is a click of a button on my photo program. I prefer the real colors over the fake. What you see here on my site is the real color. Click the link to see the dark false color.
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Kid In India Records Glowing UFO Over City, Dec 28, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News
Kid In India Records Glowing UFO Over City,Dec 28, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Dec 28, 2018 Location of sighting: India This possible UFO was seen on Dec 28, 2018 during a overcast night in India. When the smog of the city blocks out the sky at night, no stars can be seen during such a time. So this rules out stars. The object does not have red or blue flashing lights...which most drones have. Also the object is holding position, trying to confuse the eyewitnesses by appearing like a star. Remember what I told you in other posts, aliens are prize themselves on being more intelligent than humanity. They literally believe they can fly as close as they want and not get caught...but with todays cheap video cameras and cell phone cameras...humanity is proving them wrong. Also, someone should download this video, I estimate that there is a 90% chance the person will panic within a week when people say its a UFO and will take down the video. It happened a lot over the years. This looks to be just a kid and kids worry a lot about posting the wrong kind of videos getting the wrong kind of attention. Scott C. Waring
UFO Glowing And Pulsating Over The Black Sea, Bulgaria On Jan 4, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Glowing And Pulsating Over The Black Sea, Bulgaria On Jan 4, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 4, 2019
Location of sighting: Black Sea, Burgas, Bulgaria
This is one of the most irritating UFOs seen around the world. The UFO hovers over neighbourhoods and appears like a star, but is clearly very close, within half a mile away from the eyewitnesses most the time.
I myself was eyewitness to such a UFO one evening over my apartments and recorded it, just 24 hours after the same UFO was seen on TV news in parts of China. The video I uploaded has since disappeared...I'm searching, but strangely enough...its just gone from my channel??? Very odd, will continue searching for it.
What I am saying is that aliens are highly skilled in the art of trickery and deception. They are required by their laws to not interrupt in our way of life or change how things will go in the future, so instead they try to play mind games with eyewitnesses by having their UFOs fly within a few hundred meters of the ground and make clouds around it to hide the craft, or they will fly low over a neighbourhood trying to move very slowly to look like a star, but is clearly too big and too bright to be a star and too small to be the moon. Aliens are extremely intelligent, and they take too much pride in that fact. But in some areas we are better at...like creativity, passion and empathy.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Fast UFO big spaceship with changing type, trajectory , shape , sizes , color and very dynamic flexi - pulsations ; Location -- in the international space area over Black Sea -- about BULGARIA ; Time -- 03.10. 2018. // 00 : 06AM ; Documentary raw video report № 42 -- Bu. Sh. -- 1636 -- 100N ; Position -- from stationary camera with resolution - 2K ; Photographer -- Rosen Zheynov.
When browsing through Google Sky, one conspiracy theorists believes he spotted a mega-alien base. Google Sky is a free map programme from the search giants which allows users to browse the stars. However, one user got more than they bargained for when they discovered what they believe is an alien base.
Among the stars at the coordinates 03 57 08.63, -07 11 26.2 appeared a massive blue object.
One alien hunter was keen to point out that this is “100 percent proof” of the existence of aliens.
It is also evidence that extraterrestrials are super advanced and have the ability to colonise the entire universe.
Writing on his blog UFO Sightings Daily, prominent conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring said: “Google Earth map is famous for many UFO and alien base discoveries over the years.
Alien PROOF? Huge ‘ET BASE’ discovered using Google Sky (circled)
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
“However a lesser known feature of the free map program is that it allows you to see the stars in the sky. When you search using the star map, some strange objects will be found.
“This Giant Blue alien base is visible on Google sky map and its dimensions and size indicate that its bigger than Earth and its geometric pattern is not possible for that size in nature.
“This is an artificially created object of immense size.
“This is 100 percent proof that aliens not only exist in the universe, but are so advanced that the size of their ships are more enormous than anyone ever thought possible.”
“This is 100 percent proof of aliens"
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
This is not the first time an ‘alien base’ has been found using one of Google’s programmes.
In September, 2018, conspiracy theorists were sent into a frenzy when a massive structure was spotted on the moon using Google’s search tool Google Moon.
In a video uploaded to YouTube by Argentinian Marcelo Irazusta, the man-made-looking structure seems to be an anomaly on the surface on the moon.
The supposed Moon Base
(Image: GOOGLE MOON)
A description from Mr Irazusta alongside the video reads: “A strange elevation of hundreds of meters in the middle of a plain of the Moon is a mystery that must be revealed.
“Everything seems to indicate that it could be a non-natural structure. It is really awesome.”
However, sceptics and NASA say the pyramid and other similar findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
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Aliens are coming to Belgium as UFO sightings soar in 2018
Aliens are coming to Belgium as UFO sightings soar in 2018
Brussels, which hosts the main institutions of the EU and the Nato HQ, has seen a spike in UFO sightings. Stock picture
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UFO sightings over Belgium surged last year with the public reporting higher numbers of possible alien spaceships than in 2017.
Belgium recorded 255 reports of UFOs in 2018, an increase on the 171 witnessed the previous year.
Sightings were up across the whole country, with increases in Wallonia, Flanders and Brussels.
The mayor of the leafy Brussels suburb of Wezembeek-Oppem made news last summer when he claimed to have spotted a UFO.
Belgium has regularly punched above its weight when it comes to UFO sightings. Even in 2017, a relatively fallow year, it outscored Norway, Finland and Denmark and recorded only a handful fewer sightings than its much larger neighbour France.
Patrick Ferryn, president of Cobeps, the Francophone Belgian committee for the study of space phenomena, said: "We don't know why the numbers have increased. It was a hot summer and it may be simply that when the weather is good and the skies are clear, people look at the skies more often."
UFO sightings over the supposedly boring country of Belgium surged last year with astonished Belgians reporting higher numbers of possible alien spaceships than in 2017.
Belgium recorded 255 reports of UFOs in 2018, an increase on the 171 witnessed in 2017. Sightings were up across the whole country, peaking in October, with increases in the French-speaking region of Wallonia, Dutch-speaking Flanders and Brussels.
179 sightings were reported in more prosperous Flanders, compared to 76 in more rural Wallonia. Brussels is the country’s third federal region and the mayor of the leafy suburb of Wezembeek-Oppem made news last summer when he claimed to have spotted a UFO.
Belgian UFO investigators told the Telegraph that the 2018 figures were a return to the form shown over the last five years.
Despite being smaller than Switzerland, Belgium has regularly punched above its weight when it comes to UFO sightings. Even in 2017, a relatively fallow year, it outscored Norway, Finland and Denmark and recorded only a handful fewer sightings than its much larger neighbour France.
From November 1989 to April 1990, Belgian UFO spotters enjoyed their golden age. The Belgian UFO Wave involved multiple reports of triangular shaped craft in Belgian skies over an extended period, including one which was chased by F-16 fighter jets.
Patrick Ferryn, president of Cobeps, the francophone Belgian committee for the study of space phenomena, said, “You must know that most of these sightings will have the most banal explanation but there is a residue, which we simply can’t explain. And of those, there may be two or three where we may have questions over where they came from."
“We don’t know why the numbers have increased this year. It was a hot summer and it may be simply that when the weather is good and the skies are clear, people look at the skies more often,” he added.
Out of the 76 sightings in Wallonia, 14 were explained, 12 "probably explained" and 28 were impossible to evaluate because there was too little information. There were “reasonable doubts” about eight sightings, although the witness accounts lacked important information.
14 were still under investigation by Cobeps, which last reported an inexplicable UFO sighting in 2015, when there were 317 sightings across the country.
In 2018 the majority of sighting were explained away as being planes, balloons, meteors and satellites. The culpable satellite normally turned out to be the International Space Station.
Between 2010 and 2016, more than half of Belgian UFOs turned out to be Chinese lanterns, a decorative candle powered hot air balloon.
“Surprisingly drones have still not had an impact,” said Mr Ferryn, “Ever since the first drones went on the shelves we have been waiting to be submerged with reports of a galactic invasion of drones – but it still has not happened.”
Mr Ferryn said there was simply no comparison with the famous Belgian UFO Wave, which has been dismissed by some as a mass delusion. There is no video or photographic evidence of the craft despite the many sightings.
“This is definitely not a new wave of the Belgian wave of UFOs,” he said, “Then the quantity of sightings was higher, more frequent and concentrated on one region of Belgium and all the descriptions were similar rather than the very different descriptions of last year.”
China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft set down last night, according to clocks in the Americas. It’s a historic event, the first time a spacecraft has landed on the side of the moon we cannot see.
The Chinese Chang’e-4 moon lander touched down in the Von Kármán crater on the moon’s far side. No, the far side of the moon does not always stay dark. In fact, Chang’e-4 mission controllers waited for sunrise over this region to set the lander down.
Simulation of lunar far side today, via Alan Dyer (@amazingskyguy on Twitter).
More space history this week, besides thesmallest space objectever orbited, and themost distantobject yet visited. Last night, according to clocks in the Americas – January 3, 2019, at 02:26UTC(10:26 a.m. Beijing time; January 2 at 10:26 p.m. on the U.S. East Coast) – China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft successfully landed on the moon’s far side.
Chinese state media announced the event. The spacecraft landed in Von Kármán crater, located on the lunar far side within the South Pole-Aitken basin. Jason Davis at the Planetary Society wrote:
Chang’e-4 itself launched on December 8, 2018. It entered lunar orbit four days later, where mission controllers spent 22 days testing the spacecraft’s systems, waiting for the sun to rise at the landing site. [On January 2-3, 2019] Chang’e-4 successfully de-orbited and landed.
Scientists say Chang’e-4’s landing site is an area where an ancient impact by space debris pounded the moon long ago, possibly exposing some of the lunar mantle, the layer beneath its crust. So it’s an interesting region geologically. Chinese scientists hope to learn more about the early history of our moon (and by extension the Earth and rest of the solar system) by studying this region via Chang’e-4.
The spacecraft is a combination lander-rover. At this writing, there’s no word that the rover has been deployed, but that’s expected soon. Stay tuned!
The Chinese Chang’e Moon lander touched down in the Von Karman crater in the large South Pole-Aitken Basin on the lunar farside, an area that just had sunrise and is starting a two-week-long lunar day.
#ChangE4's rover may descend around 1030 UT (Jan 3) but it's bedtime now... good night folks. It has been a fun day, commenting an American mission (#MU69flyby) on Chinese social media and then tweeting a Chinese mission here.
Chang’e-4 mission profile. since the far side of the moon never faces Earth, missions there require a relay satellite. To solve that problem, China launched the Queqiao relay satellite in May 2018. The Queqiao relay satellite also brought along two SmallSats named Longjiang-1 and 2 bound for lunar orbit. Only Longjiang-2 was successful.
Bottom line: China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft set down on the moon’s far side on January 3, 2019, at 02:26 UTC. It’s the first time a spacecraft has landed on the far side of the moon.
In 1953, Ottawa Journal readers were urged to be on the lookout for flying saucers, after Wilbert Smith's Project Magnet was given space and equipment to operate out of Shirley's Bay.
One fine summer evening in 1953, with Bank Street bustling as thousands of ball fans headed to Lansdowne Park to watch a game, Wilbert B. Smith, a senior radio engineer with the Department of Transport, and his research team released a weather balloon over the area. Not just any weather balloon, this one was covered with aluminum to make it disk-shaped, while fastened to its centre was a large aircraft flare timed to ignite when the balloon reached 5,000 feet, or 1,524 metres.
The silver object rose slowly in the air and, at 5,000 feet, glowed brilliantly for 15 seconds as its flare ignited. What Smith and his team, dubbed Project Magnet, expected to happen next was a deluge of phone calls from panicked and concerned citizens about the unidentified flying object they’d just seen. It was 1953, after all, with the post-Second-World-War Cold War in high gear and UFOs and their possible extraterrestrial origins frequently in the news. What they got, though, was nothing, or, rather, the conclusion that people just don’t watch the sky all that much: not one person called to report the strange object. This, however, hardly deterred Smith and his colleagues.
Project Magnet was formed in December 1950 on the authorization of Commander C.P. Edwards, then Deputy Minister of Transport for Air Service, with the aim of investigating UFO claims in Canada. It ran separately but in conjunction with a multi-department effort coordinated by the Defence Research Board, named Project Second Storey, to investigate reports of UFO sightings. According to Smith, Project Magnet was never officially sanctioned and no government funding was provided; he had simply requested some space and surplus equipment at a Transport Station at Shirley’s Bay, with which to collect research in his own spare time. Project Magnet’s primary goal was to study how the Earth’s magnetic field could be harnessed as a propulsion system for vehicles, a technology Smith believed extraterrestrials used.
At the time, 50 per cent of Canadians believed “that these mysterious disks are not just imagination and that they are not just a natural phenomenon,” according to a poll conducted by the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion.
“So many reliable people are among the witnesses,” noted the Fort William Times-Journal, “it is no longer possible to ignore entirely the possibilities that some aerial survey of the earth is being taken by personalities from some other part of the universe.”
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Reports of UFOs in Canada stretch back to 1792, when explorer David Thompson reported a bright blob flying overhead in northern Manitoba. In February 1915, the lights of Parliament Hill, Rideau Hall and the Royal Mint were extinguished after reports of unknown lights crossing the St. Lawrence River and headed for Ottawa reached Prime Minister Robert Borden. Thought to possibly be an aerial attack, the sighting were later blamed on fireworks-laden balloons released in Morristown, N.Y. to celebrate a century of peace.
Smith, who in 1955 became one of City View’s three inaugural trustees, was himself an ardent believer in aliens. In a speech delivered to the Vancouver Area UFO Club in 1961, a year before his death, he claimed to have communicated with extraterrestrials, whom he at least occasionally referred to as “the boys topside.” An engineer, he was particularly interested in such technical matters as how their spacecraft was built and how they were propelled. He claims they explained to him how the speed of light is not constant, and that time was not the measured chronological ticking we imagine, but a “field function” that changed throughout the universe, and which could be altered. Their ships, he was told, were supported on the Earth’s gravitational field. The fields surrounding their ships, he added, created areas that reduced areas that weakened the strength of objects that came into contact with them, accounting for the destruction of earthly military craft that flew too close to them. This explained, among other phenomenon, the May 1956 crash of a military jet into the Villa St. Louis convent in Orleans — the jet, Smith said, flew into a “very strong vortex of reduced binding,” causing it to break apart.
“I wrote a very stiff memorandum to the appropriate people in my own department pointing out some of these facts,” he wrote. But his letter, he maintained, “wound up on the crank file.”
Similar unstable vortices, he added, were created when nuclear explosions occurred. An unnamed friend of his who had also been in contact with “these people from outside” claimed to have spoken with one, Tyla, a garbage collector whose job it was to clean up the radioactive messes created by such man-made explosions. Tyla, Smith said, gathered the material, took it aboard his ship where it was rendered inert, and then dumped it in some secluded spot on Earth. In 1948, Tyla reportedly told his friend that he would dump his next load near Ottawa, and that he would pick an opportune time so many people could witness it. According to Smith, it took place on Remembrance Day that year: “We looked up to the north-west of Ottawa and there was Tyla’s little craft, an egg-shaped affair in the sky, and coming out of the tail-end of it was what looked like an almost dissipated portion of a jet trail that was dropping down.”
By summarizing sightings reported in 1952, Smith reported that UFOs were “a hundred feet or more in diameter; they can travel at speeds of several thousand miles per hour; they can reach altitudes well above those which should support conventional aircraft or balloons; and ample power and force seem to be available for all required maneuvers.”
The sightings, he noted, occurred at approximately six-week intervals, and most frequently when Earth and Mars were nearest to one another. In his 1952 report, he wrote: “We are forced to the conclusion that the vehicles are probably extraterrestrial, in spite of our prejudices to the contrary.”
The Project Second Storey committee, of which Smith was a member, developed a weighted 28-question questionnaire for those who reported seeing UFOs, to try to determine the likelihood that what they thought they saw actually happened. The conclusion, according to Smith, was that there was a 91-per-cent chance that reported sightings involved real objects, and a 60-per-cent chance that those objects were extraterrestrial vehicles.
On Aug. 8, 1954, Smith and his team at Shirley’s Bay recorded a disturbance they believed was caused by a UFO. Among the telling signs were Morse code transmissions too rapid for a trained operator to decipher.
Only days later, Project Magnet was disbanded. “Scientists,” wrote the Ottawa Journal, “say there is no proof flying saucers exist but they honorably admit there is no proof that all the strange and wandering objects reported in the sky are freaks of imagination or atmosphere.”
It was, Smith explained in a 1957 Weekend Magazine article on UFOs, all a matter of perspective: “If a stock promoter told you that there was a 60-per-cent probability that a certain stock would go up, I don’t think you’d invest with him. But if the weatherman told you there was a 60-per-cent probability that a hurricane was going to hit your area, I think you’d hurry up and bring in the lawn furniture.”
In 2017, there were approximately 1,100 UFO sightings reported in Canada, including 31 in the Ottawa area. The truth remains out there, somewhere.
This cartoon ran in the Ottawa Journal in April 1961, accompanying an article about Wilbert Smith’s interest in flying saucers and alien technology. It depicts then-prime minister John Diefenbaker surrounded by saucers outside the Parliament Buildings.
La Belgique a-t-elle connue une vague d’ovnis en 2018 ?
La Belgique a-t-elle connue une vague d’ovnis en 2018 ?
La Belgique a-t-elle connue une vague d’ovnis en 2018 ?
Au premier abord c’est bien ce que semble démontrer les statistiques traitant de ce sujet.
En effet, on y a enregistré 255 signalements d'ovnis en 2018 ce qui représente une nette augmentation par rapport aux 171 cas signalés pour 2017.
Le phénomène a été constaté dans tout le pays et c’est au mois d’Octobre qu’un pic a été noté avec une forte activité signalée en Wallonie francophone, en Flandre néerlandophone et au dessus de Bruxelles.
La Flandre à elle seule représente 179 observations contre 76 dans une Wallonie plus rurale.
Les enquêteurs en charge de ces statistiques indiquent que les chiffres de 2018 ne sont finalement qu’un retour à la situation normale en ce domaine. Les données sont en effet sensiblement équivalentes à celles des cinq dernières années (hors 2017 bien entendu).
Questionné sur la genèse des signalements,
Patrick Ferryn, président de COBEPS, le COmité Belge francophone pour l'Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux, indique « Bien entendu, la plupart de ces signalement ne correspond qu’à des phénomènes normaux totalement explicables, néanmoins il demeure toujours un nombre non négligeable de cas que nous ne pouvons expliquer. Pour 2018 il y a par exemple deux ou trois cas pour lesquels nous ne pouvons donner aucune explication ».
Pour expliquer la forte augmentation des signalements,
il précise « Nous ne savons pas pourquoi les chiffres ont augmenté cette année, néanmoins nous pouvons noter que nous avons connu un été chaud avec un ciel nocturne souvent dégagé. Ce contexte peut expliquer les chiffres obtenus».
Néanmoins, à ses yeux 2018 ne représente certainement pas une nouvelle vague d’observation comparable à celle de la période 1989 / 1990.
" A cette époque là, le nombre d'observations était plus élevé, ils étaient plus fréquents et concentrés principalement sur une région de la Belgique. Parallèlement les descriptions des objets observés étaient toutes similaires alors qu’en 2018 celles-ci étaient souvent assez différentes les unes des autres".
Pour mémoire c’est entre novembre 1989 et avril 1990 que la Belgique a connu sa vague d’observation d’ovnis la plus célèbre avec en constante l’observation d’un ovni de forme triangulaire très régulièrement signalé.
In 2018 registreerde het Belgische ufo-meldpunt 179 waarnemingen van vreemde luchtverschijnselen in ons land. Een lintvormig, felgroen tuig interesseert de UFO-watchers het meest.
179 waarnemingen: dat is een stijging van 33 procent in vergelijking met het aantal meldingen uit 2017 (134 waarnemingen).
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: we zaten dan veel vaker en langer buiten.
Ook het feit dat er vaak wolkenloze dagen waren, werkte het ufo-spotten in de hand.
In de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen werden de meeste ufo’s gezien. 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.
Sterren, of het ISS
Frederick Delaere, coördinator van het Belgisch ufo-meldpunt, beklemtoont dat de meeste ufo’s vrij snel ontmaskerd worden als vliegtuigen, sterren of het ruimtestation ISS. ‘Dat weten we door het moment van de waarneming en de manier waarop het tuig zich volgens de getuigen verplaatste, te checken.’
Een invloed van drones – die ook voor een ufo zouden kunnen aanzien worden – is er volgens Delaere nog niet.
Toch zijn er een handvol meldingen waarvoor het meldpunt nog geen verklaring heeft. Zo werd in Nederland een felgroen lintvormig object gespot waarvoor nog geen verklaring werd gevonden. Hetzelfde geldt voor enkele foto’s van verwonderlijke wolkenformaties.
On Earth, oxygen is a signature byproduct of life. But what if astronomers found oxygen in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant sun? Would that prove life exists there? Not necessarily, says a new study.
Much of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere is produced by tiny marine organisms, such as phytoplankton.
Most people know that oxygen is vital to earthly life. Humans and other animals breathe it. Green algae, marine bacteria and Earth’s abundance of plants produce it. About 20 percent of Earth’s atmosphere is currently composed of oxygen, and that fact has led to oxygen’s role inastrobiologyas a signature of life. In other words, if astronomers discovered oxygen in the atmosphere of another rocky planet like Earth, orbiting a distant star, they’d likely consider that oxygen a strong signal of possible life on that planet. But now a new study casts doubt on that conclusion. It shows that oxygen can be generated in the absence of life as well … originating, if you will, from an alien imposter.
The newpeer-reviewedfindings wereannouncedby Johns Hopkins University andpublishedin the December 11, 2018 issue of ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.
Basically, researchers were able to create both oxygen and organic compounds in simulations of exoplanet atmospheres, without the involvement of life. The experiments were conducted in the lab of Sarah Hörst, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences and the co-author of the new paper. Using the Planetary HAZE (PHAZER) chamber, they tested nine different mixtures of gases thought to exist in the atmospheres of super-Earth and mini-Neptune exoplanets – worlds that are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Each mixture was composed of gases such as carbon dioxide, water, ammonia and methane, and heated to temperatures ranging from about 80 to 700 degrees Fahrenheit.
A simulated CO2-rich planetary atmosphere being exposed to a plasma discharge in Sarah Hörst’s lab. Image via Chao He.
Each mixture was exposed to two different kinds of energy – plasma and UV light – that can trigger chemical reactions in planetary atmospheres. Plasma – stronger than UV light – can simulate electrical activities like lightning and/or energetic particles, while UV light creates chemical reactions in planetary atmospheres such as those on Earth, Saturn and Pluto.
The experiments were allowed to run for three days, about the same amount of time that they would be exposed to plasma or UV light from space, with the resulting gases then being measured by a mass spectrometer – which is used to identify the amount and type of chemicals present in a physical sample.
So what did the researchers find?
The simulated conditions produced both organic molecules and oxygen that could build sugars and amino acids such as formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide – the raw materials from which ice could start. According to Chao He, an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins:
People used to suggest that oxygen and organics being present together indicates life, but we produced them abiotically in multiple simulations. This suggests that even the co-presence of commonly accepted biosignatures could be a false positive for life.
Artist’s concept of the super-Earth exoplanet Gliese 667 Cb. In this three-star system, the host star is a companion to two other low-mass stars, seen here in the distance. If oxygen is found in the atmosphere of a planet like this, it may – or may not – be evidence of life.
The results are certainly interesting, showing that oxygen could indeed be produced without the involvement of any kind of life, but at the same time indicates that the building blocks of life – from which life could arise – are also easily produced. That itself is exciting, since it supports the idea that life could begin in many different environments where conditions are favorable.
In 2015, a different study by Norio Narita and colleagues found another process that can also produce oxygen, involving titanium oxide – an oxidized metal which catalyzes the splitting up of water into oxygen and hydrogen when a planetary surface is exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Even as little as 0.05 percent titanium oxide making up surface materials on an exoplanet could produce oxygen levels similar to that in Earth’s atmosphere. That study can be found here.
Bottom line: Discovering oxygen in the atmosphere of super-Earth or Earth-sized exoplanet would be exciting – and possibly evidence for life – but this new research shows that even then, the results should be looked at very carefully – as a cautionary tale. The oxygen may indeed come from living organisms, as on Earth, but it may also be a case of an alien imposter.
Damn impressive Footage from China's 'Jade Rabbit' on Zee Moon!
Damn impressive Footage from China's 'Jade Rabbit' on Zee Moon!
Very cool footage from the freshlly landed Chinese robotic exploration of the Moon..
Is it made of green cheese>? Does the cheese taste good? Can you grow potatoes in the cheese? All these of these questions and more the Chinese hope to answer...
SoooOOOooo... All you NASA Naysayers.... Lemme guess... Chinese hasn't landed anything on the Moon right?
Many peoples experiences who have reported their abductions, have reported seeing beings on board space ships that weren’t quite human but not alien as well. These ‘hybrids’ as experiencers and Urologist’s have called, appear to have physical characteristics of human and alien.
Hybrids have become a popular feature in modern Ufology. Some female experiencers have made the claim that they were abducted, impregnated and forced to carry as near to term as possible before the aliens return to take the fetus to live among the stars so the tabloid joke, “The aliens stole my baby” may not be too far from the truth.
When considering a theory that borders on the ridiculous, we once again run into the question of why again. Why are aliens impregnating women and then taking their babies. Some theorists believe one of two things. 1, the aliens are actually us from a far off distant future where mankind has evolved past procreation and they need to keep the species going. The second, which is somewhat similar to the first, is that these aliens can no longer have children and after scouring the galaxy for beings who share key genetic markers they discovered that humans were compatible with their own DNA. But is there any proof to back up this rather outlandish story? Allow me introduce you to Antonio Villas Boas, Brazilian farmer and intergalactic ladies’ man.
On the night of October 16, 1957, Brazilian farmer, Antonio Villas Boas was out ploughing the fields of his family’s farm. The day was far too hot and doing this work at night gave him some time to think.
As Antonio was working he became aware of a strange light in the sky. As he watched the light descended from the sky. At first, Antonio didn’t give it much thought until the light landed in the field. When the hatch opened and several strange beings stepped out Antonio, now terrified, decided to make a run for it. Unfortunately Antonio never made his escape.
After Antonio was taken aboard, he was stripped of his clothes and tossed into an all-white room. Just then, a door opened and a strangely beautiful woman entered the room and gestured for the young farmer to come to her. Antonio claims that he and the alien woman had sex.
When the love was over, Antonio reported that she put her hand on her belky, and gestured with her hand towards the ceiling implying the child would be raised among the stars. Villas Boas was then placed back in the field where he was working and watched as the spacecraft flew off into the distance.
Antonio’s story is rare. Those who claimed to have mothered or fathered a hybrid claim that the sperm or egg is extracted and arterially inseminated. It’s incredibly rare that actual sexual activity was involved. Many sceptics, of course, cast doubt on Boas’ story just because it was far too outlandish. However, Antonio, who became a successful attorney and husband and father, maintained his story until the day he died.
The “Gundiah Mackay Abduction” is a very controversial case in ufology. The witness and abductee reports tell of an extraordinary event that happened on Friday, October 5th, 2001. The witness and abductee accounts of the reported abduction scream of one of the top abduction cases, with a mix of theWalton Abduction, X-Files-like story line, whisperings of a “Scientology mission”, physical evidence, and one hell of a in-depth and terrifying story.
But was it a hoax? Some, including the local police agency who spent many man hours investigating the case, which for a short time became a missing persons case similar to the Walton Incident, think so. But what really happened that Friday evening? So far there has not been any conclusive evidence to prove one way or the other what really happened, although the police investigation does present some interesting evidence and theory.
The purpose of this thread is to explore both sides of this extraordinary story and present it in such a manner that the readers can decide for themselves what really happened. If this case is indeed a hoax it is still important to learn from such things, so those interested in ufology can truly understand all the aspects of the field, including complex and well thought out hoaxes. If this case is true however, then this is an unbelievable account of alien abduction. One that thoroughly deserves much more research, as this if true, could add a much needed piece of evidence to ufology in my opinion.
Friday, October 5th, 2001
Actually beginning in the late hours of Thursday, the 4th of October the following report is based upon the witness reports of what was reported to be an extraordinary alien abduction incident that began around 11:00 PM local time. First off, here are the three witnesses to the reported incident, as well other relevant information:
Witnesses
Amy Rylance: 22 years old, the alleged victim of the abduction.
Keith Rylance: 39 years old, husband of Amy.
Petra Heller: 35 years old, business partner of couple.
Location
The location of this incident was at Gundiah property, near Tiaro, in Queensland, Australia. The property was being developed as a winery to be called Whispering Winds. The following is a map of the area
Close Up
Extended View
The investigating crew on this case were Bill Chalker and Diane Harrison ofAUFORN.
The Incident
Keith states that he had gone to sleep in the caravan bedroom around 9:00PM. Petra stated that she went to into her bedroom in the residences annex. Amy stated that she had stayed on the couch watching TV in the “lounge room”. The investigators report that these locations were close to each other, only separated by a window and a wall. Both Keith and Petra's rooms had a door that was connected to the lounge room where Amy was reportedly watching television. The reported abductee, Amy, reportedly fell asleep on the couch watching TV.
At around 11:15PM, Petra states she woke up and walked into the lounge area where Amy was supposed to be asleep. What she reports she saw is phenomenal to say the least:
A rectangular beam of light was being projected through the open window of the caravan lounge room. This light beam appeared to be truncated at the end. Inside the beam Petra claims to have seen Amy in a sleep prone position, being carried out head first through the window. Underneath her, also within the beam were the items that had been on the coffee table adjacent to the couch Amy had been on. Before apparently fainting in shock Petra saw that the beam was coming from a disc shaped UFO hovering just above the ground a short distance away, near a tree at the rear of the clear section, immediately behind the annex caravan house.
Apparently Petra quickly regained consciousness and began screaming, which in turn awoke Keith. Keith states that when he entered the room he encountered a terrified Petra and the entire contents of the coffee table strewn on the floor. He also stated that the window screen in the lounge room was torn in “both a vertical fashion and along the the bottom of the window frame.” Keith then stated he rushed outside in an attempt to find Amy.
After talking to Petra and reluctantly believing the story she told him, Keith decided to call the police after his wife was reportedly no where to be found. About and hour and a half later the police arrived at the scene. The officers were Senior Constable Robert Maragna of Tiaro and an officer from Maryborough, According to the reports, the police thought they might have been dealing with a situation of foul play, maybe even a murder.
With the two witnesses remaining steadfast on the events that lead to the disappearance of Amy by a “spaceship” the case was quickly becoming phenomenal. The two officers were later joined by Sgt John Bosnjak, which was the officer in charge of the Tiaro police force, who was awoken from sleep to join the investigation. As the scene of the incident was analyzed for evidence a plant outside the window was discovered to have apparent heat damage, oddly another bush to the right of this plant was not affected. The police took samples of the affected bush for further testing.
While the police where at the property a phone call was received by Keith, it was a women calling from Mackay who stated she found a distressed and dehydrated women form a local BP gas station on the northern outskirts of the central Queensland city of Mackay, which is about 790 kilometers(490.883 miles ) to the north of of Gundiah, which is where the reported abduction took place! The women told Keith that Amy (which was the women she encountered) was fine and in the Mackay hospital.
What Happened to Amy?
Amy signed a notarized police statement at the hospital in Mackay, which under law held her legally accountable for everything she said in the statement. She stated that last remembered lying on the couch she sated she did not remember anything that Petra stated. She then went on to claim that she woke up lying on a bench in a strange rectangular shaped room. It is interesting to note that she states the illumination came from the “walls and ceiling”, this is interesting because it is commonly reported that ETs use some sort of electromagnetic energy source, which does not utilize “lights” as we understand it. It is reported that the illumination comes from the material that makes up the rooms themselves. This has been reported in many abductions, as well as the illumination technology used in the rumored Dulce Base.
Amy stated that she was alone when she awoke. She then states she “called out” and heard what she describes as “what seemed to be a male voice asking her to be calm and that everything would be alright and that she would not be harmed.” She went on to describe that “soon an opening appeared in the wall and a 'guy' about 6 feet tall walked into the room.”
The man appeared to be slender in build but in perfect proportion, covered head to foot in a full body suit. He had what seemed to be a black covering mask on his face, with a hole for his eyes, nose and mouth. He repeated his calming assurances. Amy felt she had been there a while. The guy told her they were returning her to a place not far from where they took her from, because the lights were wrong at the property and it wasn't safe. She then indicates she found herself lying on the bed and falling asleep.
She stated the next thing she recalled was waking up on the ground with trees around her and smelling the ocean, but feeling disoriented. She made her way through the bushland for what seemed like a long time before finally coming to a road and seeing the gas station where she was found at. When she walked into the station the staff, seeing that she was not in a good state and covered in mud offered her assistance.
At the BP station Amy drank some water, stating that she felt dehydrated. It is reported that initially she could not answer simple identifying questions and did not know where she was. The staff at the gas station asked her if she had been drinking or on any kind of drugs, which she denied. Amy stated she felt sore, lethargic, tired, and drained. She then asked a women at the station to take her to the hospital The women and her friend took her to the Mackay hospital. Later at the hospital Amy contacted her husband and spoke with two police officers. After being released from the hospital Amy went to the Mackay police station, where she gave the notarized statement of events, which is where the majority of this account comes from, as well investigator interviews.
It is interesting to note that Amy claimed she was gone for days, and strangely enough the hospital confirmed that she had excess hair that had not been shaven in a couple days, as well no signs of eating anything for at least two days.
Amy stated this has never happen to her before, but she did see a large UFO surrounded by several smaller objects when she was in 5th grade. The Mackay police set up a motel room for Amy to stay at while she awaited the arrival of her husband, Keith. When Keith and Petra arrived in Mackay they state they spent a large amount of time discussing the incident with Amy.
The Ufology Investigation
Extensive notes were apparently made and photographs were taken of a triangular arrangement of marks on her inner right thigh, marks on each heel and the growing out of her hair which she had dyed earlier in the week. Her hair had apparently started to show her former color, suggestive that some considerable time had passed for her, apparently indicative of rather more than a few hours. Body hair had allegedly also become somewhat more pronounced that would otherwise would be apparent for the short time involved.
Via an Newsagent's a copy of the Australian Ufologist magazine was purchased, Keith, Petra and Amy started to learn more about UFOs. Keith Rylance contacted the Australian UFO Research Network office number mentioned in the magazine. Diane Harrison took the call Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:20 p.m and for the next hour or so listened to the story that Keith and Amy told. Petra was apparently sleeping at the time.
Given the nature of the story, its complexity and the fact it apparently featured the alleged use of "solid light", Diane decide to bring Bill Chalker into the investigation, making contact with him during the evening of Friday, October 5th. Paradoxically Bill was scheduled to talk at a Brisbane UFO conference on October 13th, and his topics included "solid light" cases and the application of science to alien abduction cases. Bill put a call through to them at the motel, securing permission to record the conversation.
Petra was not available to discuss the events she had witnessed, but investigators Bill Chalker and Diane Harrison were able to have a detailed discussion with Keith and Amy over the phone. The initial ufologist investigation focused on what Petra and Keith experienced, as well Amy's account of what happened to her, particularly the events that happened before and after the actual onboard experience.
I must personally say that it appears the ufologists were doing exceptional in their investigative approach at this point. They were using correct tactics in attempting to judge Amy's physical and mental state, as well her general responses in what I assume was to check for any inconsistencies or evidence of lying, or any signs of her having a misinformed memory of events. There was also a good timeline built by asking about the events prior and after the reported abduction, which is also useful to spot any possibly inconsistencies and to get a more lucid understanding of events.
Amy's husband, Keith had a strong desire to contact the media about this incident, as he believed it was important to “get his story out, as it would come out anyway and this way he could control the way it did.” One thing that I find somewhat suspicious is the way Keith apparently tried to restrict the way the investigators looked into their experience. He claimed that the investigators did not need to prove the event, I would assume this is because he seemed to believe everything Amy said even though he did not directly experience the events himself. While some may think this is expected, since Amy was his wife, it does raise some investigative questions none-the-less:
1.)Why was Keith not concerned with the investigators proving his wife’s story? 2.)While Keith was apparently not concerned with proving Amys story he still wanted to go public with her account. One would think you would want to have at least some type of evidence to back such an extraordinary claim. 3.)Why was Keith concerned about controlling the course of the investigation? This does not look good, as it could imply he (they) had something to hide that could be exposed during the course of an investigation. 4.)Why was Keith apparently so concerned about getting this story out to the media?
Now while all those investigative questions could be attributed to the emotional stress of being involved I such an extraordinary event and being the husband of the victim they are still aspects that need to be looked at. Now let's continue with the incident report:
Given the possible nature of the event, and that irrespective of the ultimate resolution of the affair, it seemed destined to be a big story, Diane and Bill decided to undertake an investigation. They had been given an indication from Keith Rylance that the three would wait for the investigators to come to Mackay. The claimants were in no apparent hurry to return to Gundiah. They gave permission for Bill and Diane to visit the property on the way. Bill arrived in the Brisbane area on Tuesday afternoon, October 9th.
Diane and Bill then traveled to Gundiah, arriving at the Whispering Winds winery property, just after 10 pm. Because of the lateness of the hour, we got the witnesses permission to stay there overnight and to conduct whatever investigation we needed to do. Keith had arranged for a neighbor to regularly check on the two pets left behind, namely a parrot and a kelpie dog. He indicated to us that it would be okay to let the dog off for a run, but warned us it was very friendly but inclined to jump all over people.
We let the dog off at some point and observed its behavior At one point it did jump up on the window where the damaged screen was located.
When the investigators noticed how active the dog was they began to wonder if the dogmay have been responsible for some or all of the damage to the window screen. They state that some of the damage appeared suggestive of possible dog damage. The investigators also noted that the plant damage could also possibly be explained by prosaic causes, in this case heat stress. This possibility was considered because other plants ( one of the same species) around the house and area had similar damage.
It is vital to note that these observations were only suggestive at this point, and I am not aware of any further investigations carried out to confirm or deny this postulate, as more investigation would be required for any certainty. In totality the investigation at the residence raised many more questions, which were not and have not been properly addressed, even eight years later.
The investigations of the ufologists moved on to the service station where Amy made her “re-appearance”. The staff at the gas station were spoken to and a surveillance video that should have showed Amy's visit there was also acquired. According to the investigators this part of the investigation also led to many more questions that need to be answered (isn't this ALWAYS the case in UFO reports?).
At this point the investigation and thus the case gets extremely interesting, but somewhat suspicious. Keith, Amy, and Petra indicated to the investigators they would make themselves available for physical questioning, but when the investigators arrived in Mackay for the interview Keith, Amy, and Petra were no where to be found. It was soon found out that the three had checked out of their third hotel (in 9 days since arriving in Mackay) early that morning.
The investigators state they did not hear from Keith until the next day, where he stated they had to “flee the area and had moved to a unspecified location.” The reason for this move was given by Keith as a result of a “ kind of Men In Black” encounter. Keith stated that their vehicle was pursued by a “high powered, dark brown 4 wheel truck” Keith claimed they lost they lost the truck and moved to the new, undisclosed area.
The investigators state that they did hear from Keith on more time on October 14th, 2001 (10 days after the event). As far as I can find there has been no further developments in this case in regards to Keith, Amy, and Petra. The case is over eight years old now and apparently stagnate. This is also a highly controversial case with the investigating police force believing this a hoax, but without further investigation we are still left in the dark on what happened. This from the investigators report filed on October 14th, 2001:
We remain hopeful that they will get into more direct contact with us.
This affair is both extraordinary and controversial. Many have rushed to judgment, but given it's complex and evolving dynamics, caution and patience is necessary. We have many issues and questions we would like to try to resolve. Further contact with the Rylances and Petra Heller may help this process. The case is far from closed and requires an objective, open-minded investigation. Only time will give us the possibility of resolution and certainty about this intriguing but controversial affair.
As already stated above, the investigating police agency in Mackay, believes that this case was nothing more than a hoax. This conclusion was reached by the odd behavior and reluctance of the witnesses to talk,as well some suspicious evidence.
By November 2001, New Idea had come out with a four page story, with the article reading, “Amy, Keith and Petra then fled Gundiah, and the UFO investigators haven’t been able to complete their research.” By December, Keith Rylance’s contact details, mobile phone and e-mail were no longer functional.
The police also found paper towels, black hair dye, and burnt remains of two flood lights and electrical wiring in a incinerator 60 feet from the annex. Police Sergeant Robert Maragna states they found phone records from a motel in Rockhampton, which is in between Gundiah and Mackay. The calls were made the day before the incident:
The police scenario had Amy already on her way to Mackay via the Rockhampton motel, with the black hair dye being used by Petra later to play the blond Amy. The newspaper also quoted the Tiaro mayor John Horrex, however, who still believed the alien story. In March 2003, civilian investigators were contacted by an overseas source who suggested events had to do with a Scientology mission to find a buried spaceship as described in “Mission Earth”, by Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard. When investigators visited Tiaro police station back in October 2001, they were shown a notebook apparently owned by Petra which the police had removed from the Gundia property. The police were suspicious of some strange content they thought might be connected to the case. Chalker recognized some of its content as being related to Scientology, such the words ‘thetan’ and ‘clearing’. Recall that the Gundia property was called “Whispering Winds” - Hubbard lived out his last years on a remote property in the United States called “Whispering Winds”.
In 2002 the Fraser Coast Chronicle published an article proclaiming the whole incident a hoax:
On October 4-5, 2002, the Fraser Coast Chronicle newspaper published an article asking, “Why did they do it?”, arguing that the affair had been a hoax and highlighted forensic issues that the police had found back in October 2001. The Tiaro police had a clear message: “The police file remains open and Sergeant Robert Maragna would love to talk to Amy, Keith and Petra and give them the bill for the hours of police time that went into investigating the alien abduction.” “There were too many inconsistencies in the story for it to be true,” said Sergeant Maragna.
Unfortunately the Mackay police will not release the nine relevant documents to this case because they contain personal information. So until Keith, Amy, and Petra can be properly interviewed it is hard to see this case going any further. This from AUFORN in 2006:
However, all was not as it seemed. Journalist Kevin Corcoran of the "Fraser Coast Chronicle" newspaper, in an article 12 months after the event wrote: "Mystery still surrounds the trio at the centre of an alleged abduction by aliens of a woman from her Gundiah farm a year ago. Except for a few Brahman heifers, the farm is deserted. It has been unoccupied since English born Keith Rylance, his wife Amy, then 22 and house-mate Petra Heller, left the country after the story of Amy's abduction by aliens broke." The account went on: "Officer in charge of the Tiaro police Acting Sergeant Robert Maragna, who was first at the property after the alleged alien visit, is 99.9% sure that the abduction was nothing more than an elaborate hoax." Given our success with the Federal Freedom of Information (FOI) Act it was decided to use the Queensland FOI Act to try and secure copies of any papers on the above case. To this end, an FOI request was submitted to the Queensland Police Service asking for any documents "held relative to the police investigation of the alleged "abduction" of one Amy Rylance, formerly of Gundiah, Queensland on or about the 4th & 5th October 2001." In a letter of response, the Queensland Police Service replied that "Following receipt of your application, inquiries were conducted at Tiaro Police Station for documents relevant to your request. As a result of those inquiries nine (9) documents were located and a determination made concerning them." The response went on to state: "I have determined today, to exempt from release all documents pursuant to section 44(1) of the Act. I consider the information contained in these documents relates to the "personal affairs" of a person other than yourself and is exempt from release pursuant to section 44(1) of the Act." A retrospective investigation is currently being undertaken into this reported UFO abduction. The Rylances are believed currently to be in the north of England. Any UK reader who might wish to assist in this research is asked to contact the Project.
This is a very controversial case, there is no way to make any type of conclusion on this case at this time in my opinion, due to the lack of witness interview. Although the corroborating evidence in favor of the witness reports is interesting, there is also some suspicious behavior and evidence that needs to be further explained. I for one do not agree with the police theory based on the evidence they found in the incinerator for the following reasons:
The hair dye was explained adequately by the witnesses, as it was mentioned beforehand.
How does the finding of floodlights and wires mean this is a hoax? Why would the hoaxers need to fool themselves by mimicking an alien abduction “beam” with the lights, which is the only logical theory the police could have been proposing.
The phone conversation is suspicious, but not damning, as the police put it. There are many other explanations that I feel are being overlooked, including the overall likelihood of this hoax being carried out to the detail they postulate.
Although I do not agree with the police conclusions I do not omit them, nor do I omit the odd behavior of the witnesses, and as stated needs to be explained. What is interesting to me is the fact that the witnesses have not continued to try and propagate this hoax, if indeed that is what it was. With recent evidence showing that Amy and Keith fled to the UK what would be the point of making this up if they were not going to attempt to make money off of it or further the “story”? Maybe they got scared of being arrested for lying to the police? This is possible, but given the evidence and events surrounding the case it seems to me that the police scenario would be a stretch at best, in my humble opinion.
I also feel that we must be careful to judge what is and what isn't “suspicious behavior” concerning the experiencing of an event like a alien abduction. How are we to know how one would act? Do we really have the facts to judge that the reports of a “MIB-type encounter” is a lie? We do not, but admittedly the odd behavior and stories of the witnesses does not look good. There is however enough questions and evidence to further an investigation in this case, as well give some credence to the witness testimony.
With even the police themselves refusing to close this case I feel it is very ambiguous to make any form of further conclusions. While in the best case scenario (at this point) we could either get a “likely true” or “likely hoax”, I firmly believe this case is indubitably worthy of much deeper study, if possible. In this case I feel that some rather hasteful conclusions have been made erroneously, with a potential great case being quickly dismissed as a hoax. If indeed this whole event was a hoax than it still serves a useful purpose in my opinion, and that is to teach us how far some will go to perpetrate such things. In either event I feel this is an important case to bring to the attention of our community, and I look forward to any additional insight anyone may be able to provide if possible. At the least this case will hopefully come to some further attention than it has gotten thus far.
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