Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field

Our planet's magnetic field is in a constant state of change, say researchers who are beginning to understand how it behaves and why.

Every few years, scientist Larry Newitt of the Geological Survey of Canada goes hunting. He grabs his gloves, parka, a fancy compass, hops on a plane and flies out over the Canadian arctic. Not much stirs among the scattered islands and sea ice, but Newitt's prey is there--always moving, shifting, elusive.

His quarry is Earth's north magnetic pole.

At the moment it's located in northern Canada, about 600 km from the nearest town: Resolute Bay, population 300, where a popular T-shirt reads "Resolute Bay isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from here." Newitt stops there for snacks and supplies--and refuge when the weather gets bad. "Which is often," he says.

Right: The movement of Earth's north magnetic pole across the Canadian arctic, 1831--2001. Credit: Geological Survey of Canada. [More]

Scientists have long known that the magnetic pole moves. James Ross located the pole for the first time in 1831 after an exhausting arctic journey during which his ship got stuck in the ice for four years. No one returned until the next century. In 1904, Roald Amundsen found the pole again and discovered that it had moved--at least 50 km since the days of Ross.

The pole kept going during the 20th century, north at an average speed of 10 km per year, lately accelerating "to 40 km per year," says Newitt. At this rate it will exit North America and reach Siberia in a few decades.

Keeping track of the north magnetic pole is Newitt's job. "We usually go out and check its location once every few years," he says. "We'll have to make more trips now that it is moving so quickly."

Earth's magnetic field is changing in other ways, too: Compass needles in Africa, for instance, are drifting about 1 degree per decade. And globally the magnetic field has weakened 10% since the 19th century. When this was mentioned by researchers at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union, many newspapers carried the story. A typical headline: "Is Earth's magnetic field collapsing?"

Probably not. As remarkable as these changes sound, "they're mild compared to what Earth's magnetic field has done in the past," says University of California professor Gary Glatzmaier.

Sometimes the field completely flips. The north and the south poles swap places. Such reversals, recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks, are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years; the last one was 780,000 years ago. Are we overdue for another? No one knows.

Above: Magnetic stripes around mid-ocean ridges reveal the history of Earth's magnetic field for millions of years. The study of Earth's past magnetism is called paleomagnetism. Image credit: USGS. [More]

According to Glatzmaier, the ongoing 10% decline doesn't mean that a reversal is imminent. "The field is increasing or decreasing all the time," he says. "We know this from studies of the paleomagnetic record." Earth's present-day magnetic field is, in fact, much stronger than normal. The dipole moment, a measure of the intensity of the magnetic field, is now 8 x 1022 amps x m2. That's twice the million-year average of 4 x 1022 amps x m2.

To understand what's happening, says Glatzmaier, we have to take a trip ... to the center of the Earth where the magnetic field is produced.

At the heart of our planet lies a solid iron ball, about as hot as the surface of the sun. Researchers call it "the inner core." It's really a world within a world. The inner core is 70% as wide as the moon. It spins at its own rate, as much as 0.2o of longitude per year faster than the Earth above it, and it has its own ocean: a very deep layer of liquid iron known as "the outer core."

Right: a schematic diagram of Earth's interior. The outer core is the source of the geomagnetic field. [Larger image]

Earth's magnetic field comes from this ocean of iron, which is an electrically conducting fluid in constant motion. Sitting atop the hot inner core, the liquid outer core seethes and roils like water in a pan on a hot stove. The outer core also has "hurricanes"--whirlpools powered by the Coriolis forces of Earth's rotation. These complex motions generate our planet's magnetism through a process called the dynamo effect.

Using the equations of magnetohydrodynamics, a branch of physics dealing with conducting fluids and magnetic fields, Glatzmaier and colleague Paul Roberts have created a supercomputer model of Earth's interior. Their software heats the inner core, stirs the metallic ocean above it, then calculates the resulting magnetic field. They run their code for hundreds of thousands of simulated years and watch what happens.

What they see mimics the real Earth: The magnetic field waxes and wanes, poles drift and, occasionally, flip. Change is normal, they've learned. And no wonder. The source of the field, the outer core, is itself seething, swirling, turbulent. "It's chaotic down there," notes Glatzmaier. The changes we detect on our planet's surface are a sign of that inner chaos.

They've also learned what happens during a magnetic flip. Reversals take a few thousand years to complete, and during that time--contrary to popular belief--the magnetic field does not vanish. "It just gets more complicated," says Glatzmaier. Magnetic lines of force near Earth's surface become twisted and tangled, and magnetic poles pop up in unaccustomed places. A south magnetic pole might emerge over Africa, for instance, or a north pole over Tahiti. Weird. But it's still a planetary magnetic field, and it still protects us from space radiation and solar storms.

Above: Supercomputer models of Earth's magnetic field. On the left is a normal dipolar magnetic field, typical of the long years between polarity reversals. On the right is the sort of complicated magnetic field Earth has during the upheaval of a reversal. [More]

And, as a bonus, Tahiti could be a great place to see the Northern Lights. In such a time, Larry Newitt's job would be different. Instead of shivering in Resolute Bay, he could enjoy the warm South Pacific, hopping from island to island, hunting for magnetic poles while auroras danced overhead.

Sometimes, maybe, a little change can be a good thing.

More Information

The Geodynamo -- (Gary Glatzmaier) An overview of Earth's magnetic history and the physics of the geodynamo The North Magnetic Pole -- (Geological Survey of Canada) find out where the north magnetic pole is now, and much more.  Magnetic Field of the Earth -- (Hyperphysics) an explanation of the dynamo effect Core Concerns -- (Science News) The hidden reaches of Earth are starting to reveal some of their secrets. Earth's North Magnetic Pole -- (APOD) The North Magnetic Pole is currently located in northern Canada. Origin of the Earth's Magnetism -- (NASA) a history of ideas concerning Earth's magnetic dynamo

 

Feature Author: Dr. Tony Phillips 
Feature Production Editor: Dr. Tony Phillips 
Feature Production Credit: Science@NASA 

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13-01-2019 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

Enoch: The Story Of Extraterrestrial Fallen Angels

Angels make frequent appearances in the holy scriptures and continue to play an active role in the popular imagination. While many people believe that these beings are either symbolic or supernatural figures, others believe that angels could be extra-terrestrials. The Book of Enoch gives an intriguing view on this controversial position.

While most people associated angels with the Christian faith, they are actually a mainstay of many ancient cultural traditions. Many of the earliest known civilizations in the Near East, including the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians, and the Egyptians had their own narratives surrounding angelic beings. These beings tended to manifest themselves as beings with wings which served as the agents of higher gods. The higher gods utilized the angels as messengers and watchers who would visit the Earthly dimension at their behest.

One of the most explicit descriptions of angels serving in this capacity comes from the Book of Enoch in the Old Testament. The Book of Enoch describes a vast number of angels settling on the planet Earth who set out to teach Enoch various disciplines. These include meteorology, astronomy, and metalwork. This is a fairly unusual story, and it appears to chime with a theory known as the Ancient Astronaut theory. Many people believe that the ancients were lent a helping hand in the progression of human civilization on account of the fact that a number of ancient monuments and texts display extraordinary sophistication which is completely unexplained by the cultural and social circumstances of historical record. Could the Book of Enoch be confirmation of this controversial theory?

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13-01-2019 om 22:32 geschreven door peter  

UFO Flying Very Low Over Yellowstone Park (Video) 

Yellowstone National Park UFO Orb looks like pure energy

The UFO phenomenon still seems to baffle people, but these things have been coming to Earth for many generations you'd think people where a little used to them by now wouldn't you?

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13-01-2019 om 22:03 geschreven door peter  

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13-01-2019 om 21:04 geschreven door peter  

Strangest Unexplained Alien Encounters Ever, They Are Not From This Earth! (Video)

How well do you know the UFO phenomenon? Perhaps not as well as you think. This presentation focuses on the weirder and more unusual side of UFOs–the cases that defy the standard model of contact, the cases that many UFO investigators don’t like to talk about. The evidence presented here will change the way you feel about UFOs:

• People who have received phone calls from ETs.

• What happens if you shoot at a UFO?

• Abductions in which people have seen “Alien Zoos.”

• Why are UFOs hovering over graveyards?

• What is the alien-clown connection?

• Proof that aliens are mining are metals.

• Are UFOs shrinking people?

• Cases of people who receive alien artifacts.

• UFOs and Rockets: The ETs are monitoring our space program.

• Abductions observed by outside witnesses.

• The alien bigfoot connection.

• UFOs Investigator’s Disease: when UFO researchers become investigated by UFOs.

• Cases in which shipwreck castaways are saved by UFOs.

• Can we contact UFOs with a Ouija board?

• Do aliens make mistakes? Hint: Yes!

• Cases of abductees taken into the engine room of UFO and taught how to build a UFO engine.

And much more! The UFO phenomenon is stranger than most people realize. This presentation will show you how truly strange it can be.

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13-01-2019 om 19:42 geschreven door peter  

Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)

Are they trying to tell us something? Although some crop circles can be explained as man-made art, many still defy logic, and so have fallen onto the plates of researchers.

From America, Russia, to Japan and even Canada – crop circles have appeared all over the World. In many cases, their structure tends to be elliptical rather than circular, with the crop (mostly wheat) being either bent, flattened or woven to form complex patterns.

What we should Know, and What questions should we be asking? Jennifer will review the unique characteristics found in crop circles researched here in the states.

Various theories will be presented along with the peer reviewed scientific literature on the phenomena allowing everyone to be informed enough to make their own opinion as to what could be creating these unusual formations on the ground and find their own interpretations as to what they might mean

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13-01-2019 om 19:36 geschreven door peter  

“Frankly, I think the federal government has done almost nothing to help us with this.”

What do you think the person who made this statement was referring to by “this”? If you said “UFO research,” thank you for joining our conversation, Senator Reid! Yes, those words were spoken in a recent radio interview given by the former U.S. senator from Nevada, Harry Reid. It’s not important what party he belongs to because a topic as important as this should be bipartisan, right?

It’s good to see Senator Reid back fighting for disclosure after he himself disclosed in 2017 that he was retiring from Capitol Hill after receiving a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. After two years of treatment and despite a fatalistic piece in The New York Times about him just last weekend, Reid says he’s strong and has a good life and looks to be in good enough health to kick that heavy Sunday edition of the Times into the street. However, what he came to KNPR Nevada Public Radio to talk about was UFOs and some other minor stuff going on in Washington and the White House. (Listen to the interview here.)

Former Senator Harry Reid

“I think it is something we can’t ignore. I personally don’t know if there exist little green men places. I kind of doubt that, but I do believe the information we have indicates we should do a lot more study. We have hundreds and hundreds of people that have seen the same thing — something in the sky, it moves a certain way.”

Many of those “hundreds and hundreds” of witnesses are military pilots, and Reid was getting ready to meet with an unnamed senator still in office about giving these pilots protection from retaliation for coming forward with their accounts – pilots have long feared telling about the strange crafts they’ve seen because previous witnesses were ridiculed, harassed, recommended for psychiatric evaluation, passed over for promotions and more. Reid hopes this senator will champion a safe place for pilots and other military witnesses – radar operators, sailors who have seen unidentified submerged objects, etc. – to share their experiences and possibly video or audio recordings.

“Oh sure, I’ve been to Area 51. I know Area 51. I don’t know if I should say many times, but lots and lots of times. I know Area 51 quite well, I know what they’ve done there. I don’t know in recent years, of course, but I know what went on there.”

Is Reid a witness who needs protection too? He didn’t give any more details about Area 51, which is in the state he represented. Nor did he say what should be done after the witnesses come forward. It was revealed in 2017 that Reid helped sneak $22 million into the annual Defense Department budget for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which we now know was shut down in 2012 after being run at the Pentagon by military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who is now part of the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences which is continuing its investigations and disclosures.

Those seeking UFO disclosure had a friend in Harry Reid when he was in the Senate. Can Reid convince his unnamed friend (rumored to be Reid’s former deputy, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin who is the ranking member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee) to take up the mantle?

Can he convince anyone? Two other senators who supported the program — Ted Stevens of Alaska and Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii – died in office (Inouye) or shortly after leaving (Stevens). Reid was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after leaving office.

Just a thought.

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13-01-2019 om 19:17 geschreven door peter  

Our reality relies on balance and symmetry. From our physical laws (“for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”) to philosophical musings (“as above, so below”) through pop culture (“the love you take is equal to the love you make”), the idea that nature is balanced by default seems hardwired into our heads. And it is, for the most part. The symmetry of the laws of nature holds up pretty well, up until you get to one of the biggest unsolved problems in all of cosmology: there’s a whole half of the universe that’s straight up missing.

The current model of our universe suggests that for every particle of matter, there should be an equal particle of antimatter. Of course, that isn’t true, evidenced by the fact that we’re still here. If antimatter was in equal parts to our boring old regular matter, the whole universe would explode. Our model of the universe states that there should be an equal amount of antimatter, yet it’s only through antimatter’s mysterious absence that we have a physical universe at all. So what gives?

Boom.

A new theory may have the answer. According to an article published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the antimatter problem may be solved if we consider our universe after the big bang as only one half of the universe. The other half of the universe would be a mirror image of ours, stretching backwards in time from the big bang and composed almost entirely of antimatter, just as ours is composed almost entirely of matter. This mirror image would have all of it’s properties flipped: positive charged particles would be negative, up would be down, left would be right. The same as ours, just opposite in every way.

This theory has several advantages, says physicist Neil Turok. For one, it explains another sticky problem of cosmology: the existence of “dark matter,” which makes up the bulk of the universe yet is invisible and undetectable. This mirror image model of the universe states that all that elusive mass from dark matter may be caused by elusive, ultra-massive particles called “sterile neutrinos,” which would have a mass some 500 million times that of a proton. Interestingly, this number would line up with some anomalous readings taken by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA).

Another advantage is that it gives us a way to explain several of the complications with the period of rapid expansion right after the big bang without having to invent new particles or forces.

Like this but, you know, opposite.

A problem with the theory, however, is that it doesn’t explain some of the temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation, leftover energy from the big bang, that scientists have detected. According to Neil Turok, that was a sticking point with the peer reviewers for the paper, but he says:

“They said you have to explain the fluctuations and we said that is a work in progress. Eventually they gave in.”

Whether or not they gave in from being convinced that they were in fact working on it, or were just tired of a physicist’s browbeating is unknown, but all new theories generally have problems like this. They’re trying to explain the universe, after all. It’s complicated stuff.

It’s certainly an intriguing theory, and the model of a universe with two equal yet opposite halves extending in in either direction through time is a beautiful and elegant model. Is it true? We’ll see. But don’t worry, even if this does explain ours, we’ll have a whole other universe to be wrong about.

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13-01-2019 om 19:07 geschreven door peter  

Whitley Strieber’s 1987 best-selling book, Communion, brought the world of alien abductions to a massive, mainstream audience. During the course of investigating his experiences that prompted him to write Communion, Strieber discovered something intriguing: that the name “Aura Rhanes” – an alleged human-like alien encountered by a man named Truman Bethurum in 1952 – was extremely similar to “Aerach Reann,” a Gaelic term that translates approximately to “heavenly body of air.” It must be said that the fashion by which Bethurum became entranced by Aura Rhanes (“tops in shapeliness and beauty” was how smitten Bethurum described her) mirrors those centuries-old cases of hapless and helpless men falling under the spell of the fairy queen. Strieber pursued this Gaelic issue.

In the same time-frame that Truman Bethurum was under the hypnotic spell of Aura Rhanes, a controversial man named George Adamski claimed encounters with human-like extraterrestrials in the deserts of California. There’s no doubt that Adamski was, and still is, the ultimate Contactee – regardless of what one might make of his claimed experiences with the long-haired, human-looking “Space Brothers,” as he termed them. What is particularly interesting is that one of Adamski’s alleged brothers from the stars was named Firkon. Strieber says of this: “Fir or fear when used as a prefix means ‘man,’ and Conn, meaning ‘Head,’ is the name of a seventh-century Irish king whose son, tradition tells us, was abducted by a beautiful lady in a flying craft. Firkon means, in Gaelic, ‘man of Conn.’”

Then there are the experiences of a young man named Bob Renaud. On one particular night in July 1961, Renaud picked up an extraordinary message while “browsing around the shortwave bands” in his small, Massachusetts town. It began with a series of bleeps but was soon replaced by a female voice, which later identified herself as Linn-Erri from the planet Korendor. As was the case in so many Contactee-themed cases of the 1950s and 1960s, Renaud had repeated and extensive chats with his newfound alien friends, many of which were focused on the aliens’ fears that we, the Human Race, were on the verge of destroying ourselves. Also closely following the trend of so many Contactees, Linn-Erri and her comrades took Renaud on trips to secret, alien installations, and taught him to create complex machines, one of which was somewhat akin to an old-style television set. It reportedly allowed Renaud to see Linn-Erri in the flesh, so to speak. She was, said Renaud, a ravishing blond, who looked to be about nineteen years of age, but who claimed to be closer to her mid-seventies – in human years.

It’s not unreasonable to suggest that this could all have been provoked by nothing stranger than the late night, hormone-driven fantasies of a young man run wild. But, as with the equally controversial saga of Truman Bethurum, there is something that makes Bob Renaud’s story intriguing, as Strieber states in his work. Strieber notes that the aliens’ alleged home planet, Korendor, is very similar to a Gaelic term that Strieber described as “a place of oracle.”

Betty Andreasson is someone who has had a lifetime of profound interaction with other-world entities and whose encounters caught the attention of Strieber. On one occasion in the 1960s, when Andreasson was deep in channeling-style conversation with a small, large-headed alien being named Quaazga, a curious statement was made to Andreasson in a language that she could not understand. One person didunderstand it, however: a man named Leonard Keane. Listening to audio-recordings of Andreasson relating the statement word for word, he concluded the alien was speaking in a form of ancient Gaelic, which translated to the following: “The living descendants of the Northern Peoples are groping in universal darkness. Their mother mourns. A dark occasion forebodes when weakness in high places will revive a high cost of living, an interval of mistakes in high places, an interval fit for distressing events.”

Coincidence or something more? A UFO-Gaelic Connection?

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13-01-2019 om 18:20 geschreven door peter  

You don’t know the power of the dark side.

When Darth Vader growled those words to Luke Skywalker, he was warning his son against questing for unlimited power, as he knew that quest would lead only to tragedy. Could those words ring true in real life? I mean, on some levels they obviously do. Those who reach the highest often stoop the lowest as they claw their way up the ladder of life at all costs. But what about the actual dark side; could Vader’s warning apply to China’s current quest for power on the dark side of the Moon?

China’s space agency landed their Chang’e 4 probe on the far side of our Moon last week, an achievement which got little coverage here in the Trump-obsessed US. Still, the accomplishment is a major one in the history of human space travel, even if some analysts warn that the move was more militaristic than it might seem. Isn’t all space travel, though?

There’s a reason space agencies have always had close ties with militaries. If you can send a rocket to the moon, you can send one to anywhere on Earth.

China has already established a scientific laboratory on the dark side of the Moon which, if it works properly, will grow potatoes and silkworms. Neat. China’s Moon mission isn’t all vegetables and worms, though; there might be a hidden ulterior motive involved. According to a report published in the South China Morning Post, the Chinese might have sent their probe to the dark side in order to hunt for a rare and potentially invaluable fuel which could revolutionize spaceflight as we know it.

That fuel is helium-3, a non-radioactive isotope which appears to be common on the lunar surface. Helium-3 could hypothetically be mined or otherwise extracted from the lunar surface and used to power spacecraft for long-distance journeys. Even more promising, those spacecraft could make a refueling pit stop on the Moon as they make their way into deeper corners of space.

One of the biggest hurdles to overcome to achieve deep space flight is finding sufficient fuel sources. A fuel station on the moon could help spacecraft reach more distant destinations.

Will lunar helium-3 mining trigger a new space race to colonize the Moon and control its resources? Wars over natural resources are fought all the time. Could the surface of the moon be the first major theatre of operations for the Space Force?

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13-01-2019 om 18:08 geschreven door peter  

The Mysterious Genius Who Patented the UFO

Alexander Weygers, a Renaissance man in the mold of the tech industry’s stated ideal, inspired an art dealer to become an acolyte.

Alexander Weygers made numerous detailed drawings of an aircraft called the "Discopter", a vertical liftoff aircraft that looked very much like what was to be later termed "flying saucer" and other drawings of an American cities specifically flying saucers in San Francisco and as well as a port in Chicago.

He sent these detailed plans to all the branches of the U.S. Military and was eventually told that they were intrigued by the concept and the design of the craft but were not prepared at that time because the war effort superseded its development.

However he did indeed patent the design for the "Discopter" in January 1944 with the U.S. Patent Office and it served as the prototype for other similar aircraft that have been developed up to the present day.

Ashlee Vance visits the dealer whose curiosity about Weygers has evolved into an obsession.

  

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13-01-2019 om 17:55 geschreven door peter  

A UFO Bewilders Derbyshire Town Residents

An unidentified flying object (UFO) was observed in the night skies over Derbyshire on January 8, 2019. Thousands of bewildered residents have been discussing in the social media about the neon green flash, which many want to believe produced by the UFO that was spotted in the sky between 4 pm and 5 pm.

Ilkeston resident Debbie Pickard said she had seen three flashes of green light from her office window. The 37-year-old principal added that it looked like something shot through the houses. She described the source of green light as not very high, and it seemed to travel horizontally.

She ruled out the possibility that it was a drone as the UFO was miles away than the drones could travel. She believes it is a UFO by definition.

Ms Pickard revealed that she spotted the same thing in 1988 together with her dad. It was confirmed on the Gatwick radar, and it was in the papers then.

She did not get a photo of the strange neon green flash as it disappeared after just seconds.

Some witnesses have said that the flash of light had a blue colour and it formed a crescent shape.

One Beeston resident took to Facebook sharing their encounter of the strange UFO.

They said that they’ve just spotted a bright light streaking across the sky towards the north of Beeston. They believed that it was not a firework or aircraft.

The American Meteor Society and UK Meteor Watch received 63 reports of a fireball, including from East Leake, Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield, and Edinburgh.

There are also dash-cam videos showing a bright blue fireball shooting across the sky, but it remains unclear what it was precisely at this time.

People on social media have various suggestions ranging from a spotlight from the university to a UFO doing a mysterious activity.

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13-01-2019 om 14:08 geschreven door peter  

Experiencers, Unique Intuition, and Biomarkers

A guest article written by “Twitter User Jay.” (@Jay09784691) 

I’ve been fortunate enough to have slides shared with me by Dr. Garry Nolan (@GarryPNolan) a professor at Stanford University who has been undertaking some incredible work on a patient population brought to him by Dr Kit Green that might shed light on individuals with unique cognitive and intuitive abilities. The study was accomplished in close collaboration with Dr Christopher (Kit) Canfield Green who worked for the CIA between the 1970s and 1980s, and who is now a private physician in forensic medical practice, and is affiliated with the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the Wayne State School of Medicine and Detroit Medical Center.

The presentation itself occurred during the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School, so carries weight not only from the people giving the presentation but from the venue as well. The whole talk centers on one main topic with two relating subtexts. The leading reason for the talk isquestioning whether there is evidence for biological indicators that identifies people with unique forms of intuition and the two subtexts being the intuition itself with related information on what’s known as “experiencers” – more on those later.

It’s important to mention that some of the details may sound like a work of science fiction, but the information here was presented to a group of mainstream scientists at one of the most prestigiousuniversities in the world. If doubt arises, please consider performing some research into the authors of the paper and looking into the histories around this subject. While it’s important to have some skepticism, I would suggest it’s also important to consider the wider picture and message being sent.

Several of the slides are included in this article to better represent the information that was shared at Harvard back in December 2018; as agreed with the authors of the slides not all can be shared. The first slide is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Opening slide of the presentation by Drs. Nolan and Green at Harvard.

What is Intuition?

A question asked in the talk is whether there are forms of inherited intuition that are handed down across families that allows for distinct forms of intelligence and which are correlated, roughly, bycontributing to higher IQ (later referred to those with >140). The subtext asked is whether thisbenefits the population with “high intuition” and “high performance”. It would appear these indicators are present in the patients included in the trial, however, it’s not clear whether such high performance is absolutely required to be considered an “intuit” along with the required brain connections (discussed below). According to Green and Nolan, a wider patient population will be required to explore this matter further.

The primary section of interest will be the intuitive abilities, since high performers – while rare– are possibly less unique than people with the brain features as outlined in the presentation. The definitionof intuition, and there are many, are initially mentioned in Figure 2.

Figure 2. RPD model = Recognition Primed Decision

The concepts above are from the mainstream literature, which has honed an understanding of where decisions are made in the brain when presented with complex problems to be solved in 1) limited time and with 2) limited information. The cohort studied by Green and Nolan included a heavy sampling of individuals whose daily jobs, and lives, depended on taking the correct course of action for time-limited events and have fast problem solving. While interesting, this alone doesn’t make the patients seem especially unique, it’s when we get later in the slides that we start to get an idea of the broader picture.

The following was included in the presentation to show that identification of a particular area of the brain involved in these processes may have been first recognized by a Russian neuroscientist by the name of Oleg Sergeivich Adrianov (Figure 3).

Figure 3. Excerpts from Oleg Adrianov’s paper in 1988.

Now this is where the nature of the patients’ abilities starts to reveal itself. Dr. Adrianov has called out “high integrative activity”, which is much the same as listed in the prior slide, and then, “programming future activity” and “foreseeing the future”. All of which allow the brain to have a “higher psychic function”. This is especially interesting since it seems to indicate that people can anticipate future events. Of course, that’s what intuition is—just predicting what might happen. The open question is from where the information in the brain, or environment, arrives. Whether these people are particularly good at processing information from their senses in a way that allows them to predict the most likely course of action logically or if they’re witnessing some sense of future information remains unanswered. I believe it the latter. If they’re able to foresee (remote view) the future, without having the data at hand as understood by mainstream physics, then it would suggest that some level of precognition of future events are possible. While none of the slides even speculate about this per se, the mention of the work of Dr. Adrianov is revealing in and of itself.

While an aside, it was alluded to elsewhere in the slides that people have “multiple episodes” without explicitly stating the type of episodes suffered. It’s specified as being “Hallucinations… NOT”, so presumably these people are getting visions or are seeing/hearing things to which the general populace may be oblivious. Later in the slides it’s mentioned that people see “visual and auditory of orbs, voices, entities”, it’s worth noting that these experiences are not detailed beyond this piece of text.

Experiencers

Individuals commonly referred to as “Experiencers” are people that have received exposure to something that would normally be referred to as paranormal, whether that be UFOs, spirits, ghosts, or religious apparitions. These can be experienced when these people are, as mentioned in the slides, “awake”. While the talk never specifically mentions paranormal, it seems to suggest that hallucinations may not explain the visual or auditory experiences, the slides are vague on this point. I suspect this was Dr Nolan’s intent to not distract from the central message of “real science” and data.

The presentation again mentions savant level IQs, so it can only be assumed that this is a main requirement for the experiences. It also has more references to genetic inheritance as two brothers and their mother are mentioned as well as a father, mother, and daughter.

While the study points out to the, now, mainstream understanding of the caudate-putamen’s role in processing complex information, it is possible to speculate that the study population might be capable of interpreting some information from their environments to which the rest of the population may be somewhat blind. Whether this is the “akashic field” that’s been spoken about in various esoteric religions and scripts, Annie Jacobsen’s reporting on the “spidey sense” program(http://time.com/4721715/phenomena-annie-jacobsen/) , or something else is not clear. Considering it’s mentioned that people see “entities”, it may be possible that such a thing (whatever they are – religious spirits, aliens, fairies, etc.), if existing, may be drawn to these people. We should consider the possibility that they’re attracting these things as these people can interpret their environmental changes in a manner that makes some forms of communication feasible. Without full analysis of the communication across a blinded population, it may be impossible to read much more into any possible consistent message being received. However, this is speculation on my part.

Caudate-Putamen

The general focus of the slides appears to be the identification of a physical biomarker (by MRI brain scan) that can be used to identify people that have these novel traits. There are no references to DNA analyses in the slides, so the genetic DNA markers are unlikely to have been identified by the time of the presentation. It’s entirely possible that should the features be genetically determined, they will require the interplay of thousands of genes that architect the relevant brain functions, making genetic analyses difficult until more precisely determined.

The brain feature that correlates to this patient population are the connections between the caudate and the putamen. Helpfully, the slides show normal brain connections compared with those in the study group, again none of the brain scans from the slides can be shared here due to privacy reasons.

In some of the images it’s possible to see a scan of a patient with the specific caudate and putamen connections with the relating sections highlighted. While the MRI scans cannot be shown here, some of the “cartoon” 3D renders that have been prepared are shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4. The snapshot in this image is from a slide showing a 3D spinning representation of both the control (i.e., “Normal” people) and the intuit (listed on the slide as “hyper”). The visual representation above where there are “bright” regions indicated heightened areas of neuronal connectivity between the head of the caudate and the putamen.

Figure 5. A diagram from the literature of the Caudate-Putamen.

The oval shaped section is the putamen with the tail being the caudate (see the figure above for specifics, from http://what-when-how.com/neuroscience/the-basal-ganglia-motor-systems-part-1/).

In the 3D rendered image of Figure 4’s slide, on the right all the additional connections (termed hyper)between both parts are highlighted (the lines or nerves connecting the two). The total number of these connections or strands are not as complex for the control population (as measured in 100 ‘normals’), as shown in the left-hand side of the image.

Fundamentally, the additional connections (or strands) between these areas of the brain are speculated to identify people that have higher intuitive capabilities that are not present in the greater populace. At present this is only correlation, speculation, and no causality has been demonstrated. The significance of these findings may start to become more apparent as more details are released and data are available. Dr Nolan insisted in our side discussions that these findings are, so far, preliminary data and require considerable further analysis. While the study was carried out in a blinded fashion, it was his feeling that the study of this area of the brain can be accelerated by pointing out these findings to others for independent verification and invite the field in general to participate. Apparently, since many mainstream scientists are focused on this area of the basal ganglia and its role in decision making processes, data will be forthcoming from others to support, or not, the speculation put forward.

Whether or not these people are approaching an evolution of the species or if these types of rare connections are present in what would have been present in the shamans of the past remains unclear, but it appears that Drs Nolan and Green are onto something interesting.

It’s worth noting that patients with ADHD and autism (as presented in the talk) have been shown in the mainstream literature to have deficits in the caudate region of the basal ganglia—among other deficits. This supports the role of this region in “perception” and information management. There are no indicators as to the population size when compared to the control to determine percentage rates across the general population. But publicly available databases of brain MRIs might be scanned to determine the frequency of the trait.

Might our species may be going through an evolutionary process as suggested by several scientists in their papers over the past few years? My speculation in this blog posting is that perhaps as consciousness evolves to interpret messages from elsewhere (for instance a hyperdimensional space if you’re willing to accept the “woo”), then this region of the brain might be involved. Considering that super-string theory suggests that there may be as many as ten spatial dimensions and that our minds, or consciousness, appear to exist in something greater than the three usual spatial dimensions, then maybe there is some exposure is occurring to wider/greater dimensional spaces.

The significance of the details of this presentation are potentially dramatic. While Drs Nolan and Green were not claiming at all that this area of the brain functions as an antenna per say, what ifhumans are experiencing evolutionary changes that allow access (whether visual or auditory) to some future events, and be in receipt of information from something “other” that currently can’t be easily objectively measured? Given the role of the caudate putamen in the mainstream understanding of information processing, it is reasonable to speculate it would be involved in processing data from anomalous sources.

While it may be trickier to accept, there have been suggestions from psychics in the past that have for all intents and purposes intuited the exact same brain connections Drs Nolan and Green determined empirically. Specifically, Dr Nolan called out in one of his later slides the book “Through the Curtain”by Viola Petitt Neal and Shafica Karagulla. Ms. Neal talks about this exact area of the brain, it’sconnections to higher consciousness capabilities in the 1960s—well before mainstream neuroscience understood the role of the caudate-putamen in cognition. The full detail around this will be covered in a later article.

For some further reading, I would suggest some of the following scientific papers (also check my Twitter account for more; @Jay09784691):

Theoretical Physics Between Adjacent Realities by ex-NASA scientist Alex Vary.

Tuning the Mind in the Frequency Domain by Shelli Renee Joyce.

Analysis of Technically Inventive Dream-Like Mental Imagery by Bruce Towe and Cay Randall-May

Intuitive Consciousness and the Logic of Single Field Physics: A Conscious Synergy of Worldviews and Theories by James Beichler and Sperry Andrews

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13-01-2019 om 01:08 geschreven door peter  

Spinning Black Holes Could Open Up Gentle Portals for Hypersonic Spacecraft

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Signals from space: Five theories on what they are

13-01-2019 om 00:32 geschreven door peter  

Crowd Goes Silent As Actor Kurt Russell Shares His UFO Experience from Phoenix in 1997

Arjun Walia, Collective-Evolution
Waking Times Media

Everybody always says, “if they’re here then why don’t they just show up.” “They” is referring to extraterrestrials of course, and there are probably a million reasons as to why a more intelligent race from the “outside” looking in would not want to interact with us on such an open level just yet. To an outsider, we might not look the most attractive. The planet is plagued with war, poverty, diseases, greed, and secrecy. Environmentally it’s a disaster, and despite the fact that our potential is literally limitless, we choose to live in a way that is not really harmonious with the planet and all life on it. These are just a few of many reasons. Not to mention the fact that full blown contact might be a little more than our minds can handle, but perhaps not?

All of the theories surrounding the “alien takeover” agenda fail to account for the evidence that points to the fact that they’re already here, and that they’ve been visiting us for a very very long period of time.

That being said, sightings of unidentified objects, even ones performing physics-defying maneuvers have been documented by military authorities via visual and radar confirmation for decades, but whether or not these craft are ‘ET’ is an entirely different question. We do have, however, statements from hundreds of credible witnesses alluding to the fact that yes, some of them are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.

Was this the case with what happened in Phoenix Arizona in March of 1997? On this day, something extraordinary happened that, as Kurt mentions in the video below, was witnessed by 20,000 people, recorded by multiple cameras, which was then in-turn witnessed by millions.

Kurt Russell, a well known American actor is also a pilot, and on that day he was flying into the city and witnessed this phenomenon first hand. Listen to him share his story in the interview below.

“We’re on approach and I saw 6 lights over the airport in absolute uniform, in a V shape…It’s unidentified, it is flying and it’s 6 objects….That was the most viewed UFO event, over 20,000 people saw that.”

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED?

It began with Luke Air Force Base, the media, the National UFO Reporting Center, the Governor’s office, and the police receiving a number of reports from people in Nevada of a very large craft hovering in the sky. Some people were reporting it as a boomerang formation of lights, just as Kurt describes in the video above.

The object (or objects) began moving south towards Arizona where even more people would see it. Again, people were not reporting just lights hovering in the sky, they were reporting an actual solid object, a craft of some sort, spanning the size of one or two football fields. The witness reports detail lights, sometimes multiple lights, in a pattern that ranged from a few all the way up to a dozen, all in some sort of organized formation. Witnesses reported them as white, and in some cases they were orange, red, or yellow. Reports indicate that at some point, the lights moved at very rapid speeds, while at others, they moved slowly and were also reported to hover. Some people described it as a huge, wedge-shaped craft with five lights on it. Some people claim that it passed directly over their heads and even hovered there for extended periods of time. People reported seeing, again, a large solid object, even going into detail about certain features they could spot on the craft.

“It was a giant V, and the right side of the V went over us, the left side was a couple blocks over.”        

– One (out of thousands) of the witnesses (source)

Again, this object has been described as massive, the size of one to two football fields.

There were a number of these types of descriptions from people who witnessed the object.

These types of reports came in at a time where it was much easier to make out the object or objects that were in the sky, as there was still some daylight. It was not until later that evening at approximately 10 pm when people in Arizona witnessed something truly spectacular. As UFO researcher Richard Dolan describes it:

“People in Phoenix were treated to an amazing display of hovering lights over the city. These lights appeared to be motionless and in perfect formation. They were truly an astounding sight to behold: an enormous semi-circular string of lights in the night sky.”

(source)

The event received massive amounts of media attention.

Fife Symington, the Governor of Arizona at the time, even held a press conference that featured a large and costumed alien mocking all of the UFO enthusiasts, but it seemed goodhearted in nature and, according to him, was done to lighten the mood.

What is interesting to note, however, is that Fife was keeping something to himself – he actually witnessed the event, and the former Air Force veteran spoke out years after the event (when his stint as governor ended) saying:

“If you had been here 10 years ago, standing out here and looking out there at the lights, you would have been astounded, you would have been amazed. I suspect that unless the Department of Defense can prove otherwise, then it was probably some form of alien spacecraft. It was enormous and it just felt otherworldly, in your gut you could just tell it was otherworldly.” 

(source)

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13-01-2019 om 00:09 geschreven door peter  

See the Far Side of the Moon in This Amazing Panorama from China's Chang'e 4 Lander

Because the panorama was captured by the Chang'e 4 lander, it shows on the left the Yutu 2 rover, complete with the tire tracks left behind by the adventuring robot. Yutu 2 has a little more freedom to explore, but although it was deployed on Jan. 3, it soon settled down for a nap to avoid overheating during the long lunar day. According to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, temperatures reached 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius). [Photos from the Moon's Far Side! China's Chang'e 4 Lunar Landing in Pictures]

The moon's surface experiences days and nights that each last about 14 Earth days, and the mission landed just after sunrise at Von Kármán Crater. Chinese media reported yesterday (Jan. 10) that Yutu 2 successfully woke upfrom that nap — a feat its predecessor, the Yutu rover, had failed to accomplish in 2013. Expect those tracks from the rover's tires to lengthen in future photographs.

The panorama also shows the edges of some of the science instrumentsonboard the Chang'e 4 lander itself. According to the China National Space Administration (CNSA), several of those instruments, which are collaborations between China and other governments, have already been turned on. They are starting to gather observations on the lunar far side and should send science data back within the next few weeks, according to CNSA.

Information cannot be sent directly from the lunar far side to Earth — the moon's bulk gets in the way. Instead, signals are sent from the lunar surface up to a relay satellite called Queqiao, which launched in May 2018 and is hovering in an orbital "parking spot" from which it can communicate with Earth.

In addition to the panorama view, each robot has sent back an image of its compatriot on the surface. We may also get a bird's-eye view of the mission. That would come courtesy of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is due to fly over the site on Jan. 31.

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12-01-2019 om 23:50 geschreven door peter  

DIT KAN NOOIT DOOR DE ROMEINEN ZIJN GEBOUWD ( VIDEO )

Eén van de meest mysterieuze plaatsen ter wereld ligt in Libanon; Baalbek heeft ruïnes uit de tijd van de Romeinse overheersing. 

De Romeinen hebben tempels gebouwd op fundamenten waarvan onbekend is wie ze daar heeft neergelegd, met welk doel en waarom.

Zo wordt in de mainstream wereld de mysterieuze plaats Baalbek in Libanon verklaard. Het mainstreamverhaal gaat als volgt verder: 

Inmiddels staat dit ruïnecomplex op de Werelderfgoedlijst van de UNESCO. 

Baalbek wordt of wel Balabakk genoemd, het is een stad in Libanon gelegen in de Bekaa vallei. Deze vallei ligt tussen de rivieren Litani en Orontes. De naam Baalbek betekent: “Baäl van Beka”. Baäl was een god.

In deze stad, die voornamelijk bekend staat om zijn ruïnes, wonen ongeveer 55.000 mensen. De wereldberoemde Romeinse tempels zijn gebouwd ter ere van Jupiter, Heliopolitanus, Venus en Bacchus. Voordat de Romeinen hier gingen bouwen, waren de Feniciërs hen al voor geweest, evenals de Grieken. 

Deze bouwwerken van Baalbek zijn het grootste en bestbewaarde voorbeeld van de Romeinse bouwkunst. Er staan nog steeds 6 zuilen van ieder 20 meter hoog op de plaats van de voormalige tempel van Jupiter. De afmeting van de tempel moet ooit het grootste tempel van het Romeinse imperium zijn geweest het was ongeveer 49 x 88 meter groot.

Deze tempel wordt beschouwd als één van de belangrijkste Romeinse ruïnes ter wereld. De ruïnes, van zowel Jupiter, Bacchus en Venus zijn van een enorme schoonheid. De 2.000 jaar oude tempel van Bacchus is groot en nog zeer goed intact. De tempel van Jupiter echter was groter dan die van Bacchus. Dit is niet uit de ruïnes af te lezen, want er is niet zoveel meer van over. 

Tot zover de mainstream fabeltjes. 

Ze zeggen wel eens dat Chinezen bijna alles kunnen, maar vlak de Romeinen ook niet uit. Volgens de mainstream wetenschap zijn zij degenen die al die enorme granietblokken en pilaren in Baalbek op hun plek hebben weten te krijgen. 

Dat niet alleen, al die honderden blokken en delen van pilaren zouden afkomstig zijn uit de steengroeves van Aswan in het zuiden van Egypte en door de Romeinen een kleine 2.000 kilometer zijn verplaatst. 

In de onderstaande video die is gemaakt door iemand die Jimmy heet en een oorlogsveteraan is uit de oorlog met Irak, wordt meer dan duidelijk gemaakt dat de Romeinen simpelweg niet beschikten over de middelen om dergelijke bouwwerken tot stand te brengen. 

Hoe graag de mainstream wetenschap ons dit ook wil doen geloven, het wass niet mogelijk voor een volk als de Romeinen om dit voor elkaar te krijgen. 

Bovendien is het bekend dat de Romeinen alles wat ze deden op schrift vastlegden en er bestaat geen enkel verslag over het bouwen van tempels in Baalbek. 

Niet alleen is Evert Jan Poorterman van mening dat wij het uitverkoren volk zijn, ook spreekt hij over de raketbasis Baalbek die door kernwapens zou zijn vernietigd. 

En de weg terug naar Adam die reeds Diets sprak met God in de Hof van Eden. Jaren terug kreeg ik van Herman Hegge (van Frontier Magazine...) een wit T-shirt dat hij had opgeduikeld op de Amsterdamse Vrijmarkt op koninginnedag. In oranje staat het volgende te lezen; 'As finishing touch, God created the Dutch'... en zo is het ook! Als deel van de 12 stammen Israëls kunnen we stellen dat Nederland mensen herbergt die tot de 'uitverkorenen' behoren en verwant zijn aan de oer-Nederlanders of de proto-Friezen die 500 tot 800 jaren daarvoor al vertrokken uit de landen Babylon, Sumer en Akkad. Niet vrijwillig maar gedwongen. De Babyloniërs vanwege wateroverlast en de anderen vanwege de atoombommen op Sodom en Gomorrah, op de Sinaï en de Baälbek (raketbasis in de Beka-vallei in de Libanon...). Zo weken tal van volken uit het Midden-Oosten uit naar het noordwesten van Europa. Maar dat begon bij Adam2. God zei in Genesis

Of Evert Jan het goed heeft, weten wij niet, maar wat wij wel weten is dat we in de schoolbanken zoals gewoonlijk weer worden bedonderd.

Kijk naar de volgende video en dan weet je voor eens en voor altijd dat de Romeinen dit niet hebben gebouwd. 

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12-01-2019 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

By: Kyle Rempfer 

In the words of X-Files-assigned FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder: “I want to believe.”

Once upon a time, maybe the U.S. Air Force wanted to as well.

In the early days of the Cold War, the skies over the continental U.S. were flush with sightings of objects that led many Americans to look to the stars for answers. The Air Force’s own answer was more bureaucratic.

The service began Project Blue Book in 1952 as a systematic study of unidentified flying object sightings. The project was charged with scientifically analyzing UFO data to determine whether UFOs were a national security threat.

Although it was officially terminated in December 1969, the project has captured the imagination of science fiction fans ever since its findings were publicly disclosed. Now, a new generation of UFO researchers may be spawned with the airing of the History Channel’s new TV series “Project Blue Book.”

The series premiered Jan. 8, and will run for ten episodes in the first season. History Channel described the new show as being “based on the true, top-secret investigations into [UFOs] and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force."

In the show, as well as real life, University of Chicago-trained astronomer Dr. Joseph Allen Hynek is recruited from his college professorship to serve as the scientific adviser to the clandestine Project Blue Book.

Hynek also consulted for the Air Force on two earlier UFO investigations known as Project Sign and Project Grudge, which both began and ended prior to Blue Book. In the show, he and his partner, Air Force Capt. Michael Quinn, are summoned to investigate UFO sightings across the country.

The duo quickly find, though, that some encounters cannot be easily dismissed.

A newspaper clipping from Project Blue Book Project 10073, near Schenectady and Oswego, N.Y., on April 8, 1956. The incident involved an airline pilot's pursuit of a UFO. (DoD)

The series diverges from historical fact when Hynek begins to suspect that he has been duped by the government into a conspiracy to cover up the truth.

The show is set against the backdrop of the Cold War and the rise of atomic weapons. Each episode in the series draws from the source material of actual Project Blue Book case files, “blending UFO theories with authentic historical events from one of the most mysterious eras in United States history,” according to the History Channel.

Still, there is some basis for Hynek’s mistrust of the Air Force.

In his 1977 book titled “The UFO Experience,” Hynek chronicled a personal shift away from his role as a UFO debunker, the role which he said the Air Force expected him to perform.

Video shows apparent encounter between Navy pilot and UFO

A DoD video was released on Friday that shows Navy pilots encountering an unidentified flying object.

By: Nicole Bauke

Over time, Hynek came to believe that while a great many UFO sightings could be explained as normal phenomena misidentified by untrained eyes, some cases could not be reconciled with known scientific knowledge.

Before the service shut the project down, he reported that he believed UFO sightings deserved more rigorous scrutiny, and that the surplus of reliable witnesses, including pilots and high-ranking military personnel, indicated that there was more than what meets the eye when it came to UFOs.

Regardless of his later beliefs, Project Blue Book officially concluded on a more skeptical note.

Thousands of UFO reports were filed and studied as part of the project. In its final report on Blue Book, the Air Force summarized its findings as follows:

• No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security;
• There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and 
• There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as “unidentified” were extraterrestrial vehicles.

All Air Force documentation pertaining to Project Blue Book was eventually transferred to the Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Service, and is available for public analysis.

“Since the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred that would support a resumption of UFO investigations by the Air Force,” the service said in an archived fact sheet on the report from July 2012. “Given the current environment of steadily decreasing defense budgets, it is unlikely the Air Force would become involved in such a costly project in the foreseeable future.”

Funny enough, though, the U.S. Defense Department’s intelligence arm was actually involved in UFO research at that time.

In December 2017, the Pentagon acknowledged for the first time that a program was established in 2007 to investigate service members’ reports of unidentified flying objects. That project didn’t end until 2012, though some officials speculated that it is ongoing, according to the New York Times.

Pictures from Project Blue Book Case 2853, at Toms River New Jersey Nov. 1, 1945. (DoD)

The project, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, had the backing of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as well as former Sens. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii.

“I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Reid said after the project became public in 2017. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”

One of the most famous of the publicly disclosed videos from Reid’s pet UFO project involved footage taken by U.S. Navy fighter jets as they tracked an unknown object maneuvering in inexplicable ways off the coast of southern California in 2004.

The existence of these programs doesn’t necessarily mean that UFOs are extraterrestrial in nature. But they do show that the government takes unidentified aerial objects seriously, perhaps worried about the ever-growing capabilities of near peer adversaries — or far.

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12-01-2019 om 18:53 geschreven door peter