Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
31-08-2020
Here Is Why David Hoffman Believes UFOs Are Real
Here Is Why David Hoffman Believes UFOs Are Real
About:
I am not a documentary filmmaker who believes in conspiracy theories. And I am not a scientist or an astronomer. I made this video for my subscribers because I do believe that unidentified flying objects (UFO) and aliens are real because of what happened to me – the story that I tell in this video. My friends and colleagues think that I am crazy or in fantasyland when I bring up this issue. So I for the most part keep it to myself. Until now. Does it make me nervous or uncomfortable to think that aliens are around us? Yes. Is there anything I can do about it? No. And as I say in the video, I do believe that if they meant us harm, they would have done us in all long time ago. I do not expect this video to change your opinion one way or the other but hope that you find my presentation and the old documentary of interest. And as always, you are welcome to share your thoughts in the comments section below. Thank you.
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Take a couple of minutes and have a little fun with this new video from NASA
Take a couple of minutes to check out this new video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, released August 14, 2020:
So you’ve somehow rigged up your spaceship to travel almost at the speed of light? … Before you fly off all willy-nilly, however, there are some important things you should probably know about approaching the speed of light.
Enjoy!
If you take a trip at near the speed of light, you won’t just feel younger when you get back. You’ll BE younger! (compared to friends who stayed behind.) See more postcards like this, from NASA.
Bottom line: New animated video from NASA on traveling near the speed of light.
Although Roswell is the most famous alleged UFO crash, it is not the only one, nor is it the first. Some researchers believe there may have been dozens of UFO crashes. Below is a collection of some of the more well-known cases in the United States.
Aurora, Texas, 1897
In 1896 and 1897, news of mysterious airship sightings was sweeping the nation. Many of these reports were similar to modern UFO sightings and consisted of strange lights darting around the sky. Other stories, however, referred to giant dirigibles (lighter-than-air aircraft). Even though there were a few inventors building dirigibles at the time throughout the world, for the most part, this explanation has been dismissed. There were no known successfully built dirigibles in the United States. The descriptions were also often much larger and flew much faster than the experimental blimps of this era.
An abandoned windmill in Texas, similar to the one described n the UFO crash.
Credit: Steve Schowiak
Some witnesses reported seeing human-looking occupants in the airships. A few newspapers, including TheWashington Times, went so far as to speculate that these were visitors from Mars. One of the last reports of mysterious airships was the curious report of S.E. Haydon in the Dallas Morning News on April 17, 1897. In his article, Haydon claimed that witnesses spotted an airship at 6 a.m. in the town of Aurora, Texas, on April 16. It flew low to the ground, descending until it finally collided with a windmill on the property of Judge J.S. Proctor. The collision resulted in a massive explosion, “scattering debris over several acres of the ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge’s flower garden.”
According to the article, the townspeople were surprised to find the pilot’s body among the debris. It appeared to “not [be] an inhabitant of this world.” The local signal service officer speculated that he was from Mars. They also allegedly found papers containing strange hieroglyphics, which they assumed comprised a journal of the pilot’s travels. They were unable to determine the craft’s method of propulsion, but they did recover metals that appeared to be a mixture of aluminum and silver.
Original newspaper article describing the incident, by S. E. Haydon, “A Windmill Demolishes It,” The Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5.
Nearly seventy-six years later, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), decided to take a closer look at this UFO legend. By then, rumors had circulated that Haydon had fabricated the entire story. When Haydon wrote the story, the town of Aurora was reeling from a string of bad luck. Several residents had died from typhoid that winter, cotton crops had failed, and a railroad planned for the city had gone broke. It was believed that Haydon, a local cotton buyer, created the story to try and breathe some new life into the town. MUFON investigators found surprising evidence; however, that supported the idea that something extraordinary may have taken place.
According to MUFON’s report, Texas state director, Bill Case, found two individuals who testified that their parents had witnessed the events described by Haydon in his article. The first was Mrs. Mary Evans, who says that she was fifteen-years-old when her parents went to the crash site and when they returned home, described to Mary the explosion and the small man who was killed in the crash. She recalled they had informed her the townsfolk buried what was left of the pilot in the local cemetery. The other witness was Charlie Stephens, whose father said he had seen the crash, which caused a massive fire that could be seen for three miles.
Using the witness testimony, MUFON investigators found what they believed to be the site of the crash. Radiation levels were checked and were typical for the area. The investigators found metal fragments with metal detectors that indicated something had crashed and spread debris over a two-or-three-acre area east of where the windmill was located. One-piece, in particular, caught their attention.
The mysterious piece of metal was found beneath four inches of soil and appeared to have been in a molten state when it penetrated the Earth and smashed against a limestone rock where it was found. Under analysis, the metal was determined to be a very pure form of aluminum alloy, oddly devoid of traces of copper, which is typically seen with this sort of manufactured aluminum. It had also gone through a heating-and-cooling stage consistent with that of an explosion.
The next part of MUFON’s investigation was to find the remains of the UFO pilot. They located a headstone with a triangle and some circles carved into it, possibly an etching of the craft. The metal detectors also alerted to metal below the surface at this location. Paperwork was submitted to exhume the body, but townsfolk vehemently denied the request and asked that researchers not enter the cemetery. Soon after MUFON’s investigation, the headstone disappeared altogether, leaving the location of the grave unknown.
In an article published in the Houston Chronicle in 2007, Aurora business owner Karen Tedrow said she understood the townspeople’s reluctance: “My parents are buried there, and I don’t want them digging around. Earthly body or not, they ought to let it rest in peace.”
In the end, MUFON investigators determined that there was more to the story than previously believed and that they had found “sufficient evidence to cast reasonable doubt on the hoax theory.”
Aztec, New Mexico, 1948
Another famous alleged UFO crash case occurred in March 1948 in the remote town of Aztec, New Mexico, in the northwest corner of the state. This story began with the publishing one of the first UFO books, Behind the Flying Saucers, written by Frank Scully in 1950.
Scully was a writer for the entertainment magazine Variety. He says some of his Hollywood friends recommended that he get in touch with Silas Newton, a successful oilman, who had some interesting UFO crash stories. Newton shared his stories with Scully and explained the electromagnetic nature of the propulsion of crashed UFOs. Newton, along with an anonymous scientist referred to as Dr. Gee, became the primary source for Scully’s book.
According to Newton and Dr. Gee, advanced radar stations in New Mexico caused the crash of a disc-shaped UFO near Aztec. The craft was mostly intact with just a puncture near one of the windows. Scientists, including Dr. Gee, who were first to arrive on the scene, saw bodies inside the craft. Without visible doors on the object, the scientists were eventually able to get into the craft by sticking a pole inside and pressing a button on a wall that opened a hidden door.
Inside, the scientists found sixteen charred bodies of beings that were humanoid in form but only three-to-four-feet tall. They appeared to have been killed by a fire inside the craft. The craft was made of a solid material that looked similar to aluminum and was very lightweight. Eventually, the aircraft was disassembled and taken to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, which is often rumored to be the home base for recovered extraterrestrial objects.
Once Scully’s book was published, it quickly became a bestseller. However, doubts about the credibility of the main witnesses began to surface. J.P. Cahn, a freelance reporter, wrote an investigative piece for True magazine, claiming that the whole book was based on lies. Cahn claimed that he could prove that the metals Newton was purporting to be from an alien spacecraft were just a standard grade of aluminum used in pots and pans. He also said that he discovered the true identity of Dr. Gee.
According to Scully, Dr. Gee was a very accomplished scientist, with “more degrees than a thermometer.” However, Cahn discovered that Dr. Gee was a business associate of Newton’s by the name of Leo GeBauer. GeBauer owned a radio-and-television-parts company in Phoenix, Arizona. Although technologically inclined, GeBauer did not have the myriad of degrees claimed in Scully’s book. Scully’s response to this accusation was that GeBrauer was only one of many scientists represented by Dr. Gee in the book.
Cahn also uncovered that, although never formally charged, Newton had been accused of making false claims regarding stocks and oil prospects. Cahn believed that Newton and GeBrauer conned Scully into accepting their story to convince investors that they had access to secret alien technology capable of finding oil fields.
All of this has tarnished Scully’s book; however, there are UFO investigators who believe they have found evidence that supports the Aztec crash happened, including FBI documents. One such report can be found in Timothy Good’s book, Above Top Secret. In the book’s appendix, there is an FBI document from March 1950 that includes the report of an air force investigator on rumors of a crashed “flying saucer” discovered in New Mexico with three small bodies inside. It says the crash was the result of nearby “very high-powered radar.” Skeptics believe that Newton and GeBrauer had been peddling this story everywhere, and it eventually got back to the air force and the FBI.
Researchers Nick Redfern and Scott Ramsey obtained additional FBI documents regarding the Aztec crash. Ramsey says that these documents describe Newton as a very successful businessman and philanthropist. Although Newton told some tall tales to his investors, Ramsey says the investors seemed to be mostly happy with Newton’s results.
Ramsey has also been able to unearth alleged witnesses to the actual crash. Ken Farley claims he was driving from Durango, Colorado, to San Diego, California, on March 25, 1948, when he stopped outside Aztec to visit a friend. Having heard recent talk of emergency vehicles headed into the desert, Farley and his friend decided to check out what was going on. They arrived at a mesa with a large disc sitting next to it. There were several oilfield workers and a couple of police officers at the scene. They described an object much like the one Scully had written about, which appeared to be undamaged. Police eventually asked them to leave.
Another witness was nineteen-year-old Doug Noland, a gas company employee. He says that on that day, he had picked up his boss, Bill Ferguson, and drove to the desert to put out a brush fire. When Noland and Ferguson arrived at the scene, oilfield workers that were already on the scene told them that the fire was under control and showed them a mysterious large disc-shaped object.
Ramsey says he started as a skeptic, but twenty years later is still finding evidence that convinces him there may be something more to the crash at Aztec, New Mexico.
On December 10, 1965, newspapers across the country reported events that took place the prior evening. Witnesses from Pennsylvania to Illinois, and even as far north as Canada, reported seeing a fireball race across the sky. In Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, debris was reported falling from the fiery object. Outside of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, witnesses reported a flash of light and a fire in the nearby woods.
On the evening of December 9, Robert Gatty, writer for the Tribune-Review out of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was asked to report on an alleged UFO crash site in a forest outside Kecksburg. When he arrived, Gatty found the area was roped off by police expecting the arrival of “Army engineers and, possibly, civilian scientists.” Gatty claims that police threatened to arrest him if he proceeded into the forest. He reported that the roads were jammed with curious spectators and news reporters.
One of the other newsmen on location was John Murphy, the news director for one of the local radio stations, WHJB. According to his wife, Murphy arrived before the authorities, took pictures, and recorded some witnesses’ audio interviews. He would later put this all together in a radio documentary called Object in the Woods. Murphy later told listeners that he left out some conversations because the witnesses feared reprisal by the police or the army. Murphy’s wife and a coworker both have since said Murphy was visited by men claiming to be with the government. They confiscated some of his recordings and photographs.
To this day, the military maintains that it did not find anything in the forest that night. Nonetheless, Stan Gordon, a local UFO researcher, has gathered several witnesses who attest to the event and the object. Witnesses at the scene reported seeing an acorn-shaped object in the forest that was the size of a “Volkswagen.” Some witnesses later reported seeing the army hauling the tarp-covered object away, revealing only the lower lip of the object. Others reported a band of strange hieroglyphs around the base of the object.
This acorn shaped UFO was created as a prop for a TV show and is now on display in Kecksburg.
Credit: Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department
Some scientists have speculated that the object was just a meteorite seen in Lake Erie’s vicinity that night. Russia’s Cosmos 96 space probe re-entered the atmosphere over Canada that day, and some have speculated that this is what landed in the woods. Witnesses claimed that the object changed direction several times before slowly falling in a downward trajectory towards the forest. Neither a Russian space probe nor a meteorite would change directions.
In 2002, inspired by Gordon’s work, the Syfy channel decided to investigate the Kecksburg case and, to do so, enlisted the help of journalist Leslie Kean. Together, they formed the Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFI). According to Kean’s report on the CFI website, the team set out to obtain official documents from NASA using the procedures allowed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In doing so, the CFI team was determined to “not accept the usual ‘no records’ responses” that are usually given for such requests.
Their initiative caught the attention and support of President Bill Clinton’s then Chief of Staff, John Podesta. He joined a press conference held by the Syfy channel on October 22, 2002, in which the CFI announced the efforts to obtain NASA files on the Kecksburg incident. Podesta stated before the press,
I think it’s time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs… It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there. We ought to do it because it’s right; we ought to do it because the American people quite frankly can handle the truth; and we ought to do it because it’s the law.
John Podesta
Credit: Center for American Progress
The CFI focused on obtaining records from NASA instead of the air force or army because Gordon had previously received files from NASA, indicating that there were more files yet to be uncovered. In particular, CFI pursued the “Fragology Files,” which were described as “reports of space objects’ recovery, [and] analysis of fragments to determine national ownership and vehicle origin.” NASA responded that the files were destroyed, and, in a separate letter, NASA claimed that the records had been missing since 1987.
NASA continued to stall and claim that it had no relevant files, even files that had already been retrieved by Gordon. The CFI appealed the NASA responses and won, but NASA continued to stall. The CFI was then forced to sue and announced its intentions at a press conference on October 21, 2003. NASA finally agreed to send specific files, but only sent unhelpful pieces of information. CFI continued to pursue the lawsuit.
During this time, the chief scientist for orbital debris at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Nicholas Johnson, reviewed whether the Kecksburg incident could have been a human-made object that simply re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. In an interview on October 10, 2003, he told Kean, “I can tell you categorically, that there is no way that any debris from Cosmos 96 could have landed in Pennsylvania anywhere around 4:45 p.m.” Kean’s report demonstrates that “Johnson’s data shows that no man-made object from any country entered our atmosphere and landed in Pennsylvania on the afternoon of December 9.”
Although Johnson made strong statements to the contrary, in 2005, NASA spokesman David Steitz told the Associated Press that “the ‘UFO’ [Kecksburg object] was a Russian satellite, but government records documenting it have been lost.” This response was particularly strange in part because NASA had said that it did not even investigate the Kecksburg case. So, where did Steitz get this information? Kean tried to follow up with Steitz to clear up these discrepancies but could not obtain any particularly useful explanation.
Illustration of the UFO described by witnesses.
Credit: Michael Schratt
Finally, after being tied up in court for two years, the final hearing on the CFI’s case against NASA occurred on March 20, 2007. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, clearly dissatisfied with NASA’s conduct in the case, reprimanded NASA’s attorney and, at one point, stated, “heads should roll” at NASA, and “I can sense the plaintiff’s frustration because I’m frustrated. It’s totally frustrating.” Judge Sullivan ruled in favor of the CFI and required NASA to pay for all legal fees for the case, to reexamine the files, and declassify relevant documents if necessary, explaining any redactions.
NASA sent more files to Kean, but none of them pertained to the Kecksburg incident. NASA searched hundreds of boxes. Kean feels that NASA made a genuine effort in the end, but that the filing systems were so weak that it was difficult to find anything. She concluded, “In summary, we’ll never know whether any documents in the missing or destroyed boxes might have shed light on the Kecksburg incident, even if only by providing a small lead that could open doors for researchers. It only takes one page to change everything.”
A version of this article originally appeared in Issue #8 (June/July 2011) of Open Minds UFO Magazine. Back issues can be found here.
Hanging on the wall near the British government’s UFO Desk was what one of the men who occupied that desk called “the most spectacular UFO photo ever sent to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).” The photo has since disappeared, but the story of how the picture was obtained, and what it showed, has not.
Nick Pope ran the MoD’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994. When he was first assigned to the position, he was not excited about it. He felt the issue was ridiculous and he was not looking forward to having to deal with a bunch of UFO nuts. However, over the years, Pope found there were credible cases of incredible things, and began to see there was something truly mysterious about the phenomenon. One of the cases that lead him to this conclusion had to do with a photo that was made into a poster that he found hung in the office near his desk when he began working the UFO desk.
A recreation of the Calvine UFO photo poster.
(Credit: Channel 5)
“I first came across this story in 1991, when I joined the UFO project,” writes Pope on his website. “A poster-sized enlargement of the best photo was prominently displayed on the office wall.”
“The X-Files first aired in the UK in 1994 and I acquired the same nickname (Spooky) as Fox Mulder, for obvious reasons,” Nick continues. “Mulder famously had his ‘I want to believe’ UFO poster on his office wall and though uncaptioned, I suppose this was my equivalent.”
The photo showed a picture of a large diamond shaped craft with a jet in the background. When he asked about the photo, Pope was told that they had officially determined the image was real. They estimated the craft to have been 25 meters (over 80 feet) in diameter.
However, if asked, they were instructed to answer, “no definite conclusion had been reached regarding the large diamond-shaped object.”
Pope learned that the object had been photographed on August 4, 1990. Two people had been walking near the town of Calvine in Scotland when they spotted the large diamond-shaped object. They described the object as looking metallic. It sat in one position, hovering silently for several minutes before taking off vertically at, as Pope writes, “a massive speed.”
During the sighting, the witnesses also saw a military aircraft that they thought might be a harrier jet, but they were unsure whether the jet was escorting the craft, chasing it, or whether the jet pilot was even aware of the diamond-shaped UFO.
The witnesses had taken several photographs and sent them to the Scottish Daily Record newspaper. The paper contacted the MoD, and the MoD was somehow able to convince the paper to hand over the photographs along with the negatives.
” The photos were then sent to the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) who then sent them on to imagery analysts at JARIC (Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre). Yet at the time, MoD hadn’t even publicly acknowledged that there was any intelligence interest in UFOs at all,” Pope explains.
“We implied and sometimes stated that we didn’t ‘investigate’ UFOs, but merely ‘examined sightings to see if anything reported was of any defence interest’ – as if the two were somehow different!”
Pope say the MoD was actually very interested in these cases, but often less interested in where the craft came from than what they could learn from it. They had hoped to identify some sort of technology they would be able to appropriate.
Nick Pope, former MOD UFO investigator, at the International UFO Congress.
(Credit: Peter Beste/Open Minds)
Either way, the Calvine UFO photos impressed the UFO desk investigators enough that they hung the poster in the office.
“At one particularly surreal briefing on the UFO phenomenon my DIS opposite number indicated the photo and pointed his finger to the right: ‘It’s not the Americans’, he said, before pointing to the left and saying ‘and it’s not the Russians.’ There was a pause, before he concluded ‘and that only leaves …’ – his voice trailed off and he didn’t complete the sentence, but his finger was pointing directly upwards,” recalls Pope.
The office where the UFO desk was located also housed other non-UFO related projects.
Pope says the reaction of some colleagues who came to visit unaware of the UFO program had amusing reactions to the poster.
Pope writes, “You’d have this surreal moment when they’d stop mid-sentence, stare at it, point and say ‘what the hell’s that?’ – this wasn’t the archetypal distant, blurred UFO photo. This was up close and personal, reach out and you can touch it stuff. ‘I don’t know what it is, but it’s not one of ours’ was our stock answer to the inevitable question.”
Eventually, around 1994, Pope says his superior determined the craft was a secret American aircraft or drone. Pope says they had already asked the U.S. if the craft or something similar of theirs was being tested over the UK, and were told they were not. Pope believes his boss had decided to support a potential cover-up by the Americans and the MoD and removed the poster. It was never to be seen again.
Although Pope has discussed these photographs in the media and has posted an article on his website, no one has come forward to claim they took the photos. Nor has anyone at the Scottish Daily Record come forth to discuss any involvement. The case remains a mystery.
Earth’s building blocks may have had far more water than previously thought
Earth’s building blocks may have had far more water than previously thought
Meteorites suggest that H2O in the mantle comes from local origins, contrary to expectations
A study of enstatite chondrites (one shown), a type of meteorite similar to the material that formed Earth, suggests that Earth’s primordial building material had plenty of water, even though the planet is thought to have been born in an interplanetary desert.
Earth’s deep stores of water may have been locally sourced rather than trucked in from far-flung regions of the solar system.
A new analysis of meteorites from the inner solar system — home to the four rocky planets — suggests that Earth’s building blocks delivered enough water to account for all the H2O buried within the planet. What’s more, the water produced by the local primordial building material likely shares a close chemical kinship with Earth’s deep-water reserves, thus strengthening the connection, researchers report in the Aug. 28 Science.
Earth is thought to have been born in an interplanetary desert, too close to the sun for water ice to survive. Many researchers suspect that ocean water got delivered toward the end of Earth’s formation by ice-laden asteroids that wandered in from cooler, more distant regions of the solar system (SN: 5/6/15). But the ocean isn’t the planet’s largest water reservoir. Researchers estimate that Earth’s interior holds several times as much water as is found at the surface.
To test whether or not the material that formed Earth could have delivered this deep water, cosmochemist Laurette Piani of the University of Lorraine in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France, and colleagues analyzed meteorites known as enstatite chondrites. Thanks to many chemical similarities with Earth rocks, these relatively rare meteorites are widely thought to be good analogs of the dust and space rocks from the inner solar system that formed Earth’s building blocks, Piani says.
She and her team measured the abundance of hydrogen in these meteorites — a proxy for how much H2O they could produce — and calculated that local interplanetary debris had the potential to deliver at least three times as much water as is found in all the oceans. The meteorites don’t contain water, Piani says. Rather, they house enough of the raw ingredients to create water when heated.
In the meteorites, the team also found a close match to the type of water found in Earth’s mantle. A smattering of all water molecules on Earth contain a heavy variant of hydrogen known as deuterium. The ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the enstatite chondrites lies within the range measured in Earth’s deep water. That similarity, the team argues, makes a strong case for local building blocks being the source of much of the planet’s water.
“This work is something I wanted to do myself or had been waiting for someone to do,” says Lydia Hallis, a planetary scientist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. In 2015, she led a team that measured the deuterium abundance in lava plumes that tap deep into Earth’s mantle (SN: 11/12/15). “I’m really happy that [the new data] sits within the region where our previous data from deep mantle samples is sitting.”
Hallis and others stress that these new measurements are difficult. Once the meteorites hit the ground, they quickly absorb hydrogen from Earth’s environment. “They did a really good job of picking the right meteorites and making the right measurements,” she says. “This is pretty convincing that this hydrogen that’s measured is from the enstatite chondrites rather than from terrestrial contamination.”
The enstatite chondrites could have also contributed a lot of water to the oceans as well — but they are not the full story. The deuterium-hydrogen ratio in ocean water, which is a bit higher than that of mantle water, is better matched to the ratio found in icy asteroids from the outer solar system. “We still need a bit of water coming from the outer solar system,” Piani says. So, while local materials may have delivered the bulk of Earth’s water, the oceans were likely topped off a bit later by collisions with remote space rocks.
Underground Base Found At Area 51, Possible Tall White Aliens Hive, UFO Sighting News.
Underground Base Found At Area 51, Possible Tall White Aliens Hive, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Aug 29, 2020 Location of discovery: Area 51, Groom Lake, Nevada, USA Coordinates: 37°10'22.29"N 116°11'34.37"W I was using Google earth map at Area 51, when I came across an underground base. This base has three entrances, one large 18 meters by 9 meters. And Two other smaller ones. There are air ventilation pipes coming out of the largest one and two pipes coming out of the top of the hill. All this was just a few kilometers from where I had discovered a 30 meter UFO parked on a runway and having a hanger built around it. I really am thinking about those tall white aliens that Charles Hall said he worked with behind Nellis AFB. Because this is behind Nellis...same military land, and it is behind a firing rage of sorts...where hundreds of bombs were tested underground leaving only crater reminders. This could be...the tall whites military entrance to their base. Scott C. Waring
Seems URL fails to take us there. Click on Mercury map at that location...lots of fun stuff there. SCW
Now these maps at Planetary Cesium Viewer are great, huge, parts edited, but half of the parts are original. The map is laggy on my computer but on a new computer its probably not noticeable. It took a whole 3 minutes to find this blade structure. I'm surprised more people don't search for them. The structure is very tall, coming above the crater rim all the way from the crater floor. Thats got to be at least 2 miles tall. The structure is even throwing a 5 mile long shadow. Only aliens could make a structure this thin and this tall...no way it could be made in nature. This is 100% proof that aliens exist on Mercury. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
I was looking at a new planetary map and found these structures on Venus. The structure above is over 5 miles across. Many human-like alien contact cases constantly reveal Venus as their home world. A world shared by many species in underground cities. Here we see even the surface of Venus has structures. One structure even has a human-like face on it. A chubby little guy with curly hair and a cigar in his mouth. How can I be sure these are structures you may ask? I have been doing this since 1976 when I was first to discovery the face at Cydonia, Mars. Experience over decades builds up. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Both the above structure and below screenshot are the same face, one close up one far.
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NASA solar probe caught giant UFO leaving the Sun
NASA solar probe caught giant UFO leaving the Sun
Aplasma burst from the surface of the Sun? No, it is more likely a enormous alien spaceship that appears to leave the Sun.
Images taken from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) - (SDO AIA 171) and uploaded to Helioviewer (Solar and heliospheric image visualization tool) this week, show a cigar-shaped UFO of truly staggering proportions emerging from the sun.
In reality there many different types of alien spaceships and many of them are active around the sun. For example,several years ago, a huge alien craft has been photographed by NASA's Lasco C2 satellite on May 29, 2016 and shows the spacecraft at the moment it shoots a beam of light into the sun.
Since they access our solar system by using the sun as a stargate, these giant UFOs are no stranger to the earths atmosphere or space itself.
It is quite possible that this kind of alien craft, often depicted on very old drawings, have been seen since ancient times.
A new study suggests there are more rogue, free-floating planets – unconnected to any star – than stars in our Milky Way galaxy. NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to begin finding hundreds of them.
Artist’s concept of rogue planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9. Researchers now think there could be more such nomadic planets than stars in our galaxy.
Image via ESO/ L. Calçada/ P. Delorme/ Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/ R. Saito/ VVV Consortium.
There are some 100 to 400 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists now say there may be as many, or more, exoplanets or planets orbiting those distant stars. That’s incredible to ponder, but now consider this. Researchers at Ohio State University just announced a new study suggesting there may be more free-floating rogue planets – planets not orbiting any star – than stars in the Milky Way. Wow!
The theoretical, but fascinating, peer-reviewed conclusions were published in The Astronomical Journal on August 21, 2020.
What’s more, these scientists say, an upcoming NASA mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, should be able to find hundreds or more of these rogue planets. Astronomer Samson Johnson at Ohio State – lead author of the study – commented:
This gives us a window into these worlds that we would otherwise not have. Imagine our little rocky planet just floating freely in space; that’s what this mission will help us find.
As our view of the universe has expanded, we’ve realized that our solar system may be unusual. Roman will help us learn more about how we fit in the cosmic scheme of things by studying rogue planets.
Illustration of a rogue planet floating through space between the stars.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC).
These rogue worlds are called free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPs) and have masses similar to planets that orbit stars. Scientists don’t yet know how they came to be cosmic wanderers, untethered to any stars, but it’s possible that they were once part of regular solar systems, and somehow broke free of their stars’ gravity. Roman should be able to provide more clues, and provide a better idea of how many are out there. According to Scott Gaudi at Ohio State, a co-author of the paper:
The universe could be teeming with rogue planets and we wouldn’t even know it. We would never find out without undertaking a thorough, space-based microlensing survey like Roman is going to do.
If scientists can start to build a census of the numbers of FFPs, that itself would help them figure out how they formed. Do they form around stars just like other planets and then get ejected from those planetary systems? Or do they form from gas and dust independently of stars? It’s also thought that the ejection of planets from their home planetary systems might be more common in denser star clusters, since more frequent encounters between stars in dense clusters will make the planetary systems unstable.
Animation depicting how gravitational microlensing can reveal rogue planets. When an unseen rogue planet passes in front of a more distant star from our vantage point, light from the star bends as it passes through the warped space-time around the planet. The planet acts as a cosmic magnifying glass, amplifying the brightness of the background star.
Roman will test various theories and models to see which ones come closest to explain these enigmatic worlds.
It is expected that Roman will be 10 times more sensitive in detecting these objects than previous searches. Roman will focus on searching for FFPs between our sun and the center of the galaxy. That search will span about 24,000 light-years in total. Johnson said:
There have been several rogue planets discovered, but to actually get a complete picture, our best bet is something like Roman. This is a totally new frontier.
According to the new paper, it is expected that Roman should find at least 250 FFPs, even ones as small as Mars.
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Exoplanets orbiting stars can be difficult to detect, and rogue exoplanets even more so. How will Roman find them? It will use a technique called gravitational lensing, which relies on the gravity of stars and planets to bend and magnify the light coming from stars that pass behind them, from the telescope’s viewpoint. This technique can find exoplanets thousands of light-years from Earth, and is based on Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. According to co-author Matthew Penny at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge:
The microlensing signal from a rogue planet only lasts between a few hours and a couple of days and then is gone forever. This makes them difficult to observe from Earth, even with multiple telescopes. Roman is a game-changer for rogue planet searches.
Of course, another question is whether any rogue planets could support life. Johnson said it is probably unlikely since they have no stars for heat and energy:
They would probably be extremely cold, because they have no star.
Samson Johnson at The Ohio State University, lead author of the new study.
Discovering how rogue planets came to be will help astronomers figure out what makes them so unique and also better understand how regular planetary systems form. Johnson said:
If we find a lot of low-mass rogue planets, we’ll know that as stars form planets, they’re probably ejecting a bunch of other stuff out into the galaxy. This helps us get a handle on the formation pathway of planets in general.
Rogue planets are enigmatic objects, essentially planets as we know them but with no stars to call home. And there may be many more of them than ever thought possible.
Bottom line: New research shows that there could be more rogue, free-floating planets than stars in our galaxy. An upcoming NASA mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, should be able to find hundreds or more of them.
Such tunnels in the fabric of space could show up via unusual gravity waves
A wormhole, illustrated here, is a tunnel through spacetime that connects different parts of the universe. Scientists report that a black hole circling a wormhole would emit a special pattern of gravitational waves — one unique to wormholes.
Gravitational wave detectors have already spotted mysterious black holes. But what they turn up next might be even stranger: wormholes.
Physicists have long suspected wormholes might exist. If wormholes exist, from the outside they might appear similar to black holes. But an object that falls into a black hole would become trapped inside it. In contrast, anything that falls into a wormhole should be able to pass right through to the other side.
The force we experience as gravity actually results from the curving of spacetime.
It can be hard to picture, so consider this: Planets orbit around the sun because the sun makes a bowl shape in the fabric of space. (The planets are a bit like marbles circling around and around inside that bowl.) Black holes curve spacetime into chasms so deep that nothing can escape. But spacetime could also curve into other weird shapes, such as tunnels.
Spacetime can curve, but it also can ripple. Those ripples are called gravitational waves, or sometimes gravity waves.
Scientists know how to detect these small tremors when two black holes swirl around each other and collide. There might also be patterns of gravity waves they haven’t seen yet. A black hole spiraling into a wormhole should create an odd pattern of ripples in spacetime. And with the right tools, certain observatories might be able to pick that up.
That’s the conclusion of a new July 17 report at arXiv.org. The waves from the black hole-and-wormhole pair would blink off and on as the black hole passed through the wormhole and then came back out again.
But are they real?
To be sure, no evidence yet exists for wormholes.
“These are speculative for sure, with a capital S,” says William Gabella. He’s a physicist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. However, he adds, if wormholes do exist, researchers should have a chance of detecting them. It would just take the right conditions and a gravity-wave detector.
Gabella is part of a team that wondered what ripples from a wormhole might look like.
That team considered a black hole with a mass five times that of the sun. They imagined it orbiting a wormhole about 1.6 billion light-years from Earth. As the black hole swings around the wormhole, they calculated, it should begin spiraling inward. This would release gravity waves. At first, these would look just like gravity waves from two black holes. The pattern of waves, called a chirp, would increase in frequency over time. But when it reached the wormhole’s center, or “throat,” the black hole would pass through.
The researchers then considered what would happen if the black hole emerged in a distant realm. For instance, it might come out in another universe. In that case, the gravitational waves in the first universe would abruptly end. In the second universe, the black hole would shoot outward before spiraling back in again. Then, it would pass back all of the way through the wormhole and into the first universe again.
As the black hole returned, it would initially spiral outward from the wormhole. This might produce an “anti-chirp” — a pattern of gravitational waves opposite to a chirp’s — before plunging back in with a chirp.
Over time, the black hole would continue bouncing between the two universes. This should cause repeated bursts of gravity waves. In between would be periods of silence. Once the black hole lost enough energy to those gravity waves, its journey would end as it settled down in the wormhole’s throat.
It all depends on those chirp detectors
“You can’t reproduce that [pattern] with two black holes,” says Dejan Stojkovic. “So it’s a clear-cut signal of a wormhole.” A physicist at the University at Buffalo in New York, Stojkovic was not involved with the new research. In the end, he says, the waves would be so unusual that their pattern “should be sticking [out] like a sore thumb.”
The general theory of relativity describes gravity as the result of the curvature of spacetime. And that theory suggests wormholes are possible. But actually detecting one would imply that there also exists some strange type of matter that physicists don’t understand. To keep a wormhole’s throat from collapsing, some substance with negative mass must prop it open. Right now, no known material could do that.
A few gravity-wave detectors now exist. Advanced LIGO is made up of two U.S. detectors. (Its acronym stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.) Another detector, in Italy, is known as Advanced Virgo. Both Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detect ripples from black holes or from dense stellar corpses known as neutron stars.
Scientists are now skilled at spotting such mergers. They have confirmed more than a dozen. Even more await confirmation. But at some point, physicists will need to start focusing on more unusual possibilities, says Vítor Cardoso. He’s a physicist at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal. Says Cardoso: “We need to look for strange but exciting signals.”
After decades trying to directly detect gravitational waves, the recently upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, now known as Advanced LIGO, has succeeded. This has ushered in a new era of astronomy.
In the depths of Venus' hellish atmosphere, a layer of mysterious haze could be home to life, a new study finds.
Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, a broiling world where temperatures can reach 870 degrees Fahrenheit (465 degrees Celsius), more than hot enough to melt lead. And this scorching heat causes any water on the surface of Venus to boil away, leaving the rock extraordinarily dry.
Previous research has suggested that Venus might once have been a habitable desert world as recently as 1 billion years ago. But over time, escalating temperatures caused steam to build up in the atmosphere of Venus, which trapped heat that vaporized still more water, leading to a runaway greenhouse effect that boiled all the oceans off the planet. Nowadays the Venusian atmosphere is about 50 times as arid as the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert, at midday in summer, researchers noted.
If any life on Venus survived this runaway greenhouse effect, a possible haven for it may be the planet's clouds, a region spanning from about 30 to 37 miles (48 to 60 kilometers) in altitude, according to the new research.
Although such a possibility might seem far-fetched, "Earth itself has an aerial biosphere," study lead author Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Space.com. "Microbial life does not stay up there permanently, but it can get transported up and stay a week or two before coming back down again."
In the skies of Venus, the researchers determined, life would likely need to shelter within cloud droplets. But such cloud droplets repeatedly merge and grow, eventually getting large enough they fall out of the atmosphere. And although such a tumble is rarely a problem for airborne microbes on Earth, it would likely prove deadly to Venusian life.
Now Seager and her colleagues have discovered a scenario in which hypothetical microbes could survive in the skies of Venus, escaping a fate where they rain down onto the planet's hellish surface to die.
Prior work found that below the lowest clouds of Venus, at altitudes of 29.5 to 20.5 miles (47.5 to 33 kilometers), is a layer of mysterious haze. Scientists don't know what particles make up the haze, just that they measure between 0.4 to 4 microns wide. (In comparison, the average human hair is about 100 microns wide.)
"People don't really know why this haze layer is there," Seager said. "There's a lot we don't know about Venus."
The researchers suggested that Venusian microbes could fall into this haze layer and stay there, suspended in the air, just as similarly-sized haze particles have. In order to survive the heat of the lower atmosphere, the microbes would have to go dormant, becoming inactive, dessicated spores that could better resist their hazardous surroundings.
An artist's depiction of lightning in the atmosphere of Venus. (Image credit: ESA)
Updrafts could pull spores up from this haze depot to more temperate layers of the atmosphere. The spores could then attract droplets of fluid around themselves, much as dust and potentially microbes do in Earth's atmosphere, and return to active life. During their time aloft, the microbes could grow and reproduce, potentially living in these droplets for hours to months to even years. Eventually, the droplets would grow too large and fall into the lower atmosphere, beginning the cycle anew.
"People talked before about life in Venus' atmosphere, but they never thought through what that would mean," Seager said.
If it were permanently confined to an aerial biosphere, life on Venus would have to get all its nutrients from the atmosphere and would have to be photosynthetic, like plants on Earth.
Although the scientists assumed the spores would passively stay in temperate layers until their droplets grew enough to fall downward, microbes could also potentially employ active means of remaining aloft. Seager noted that renowned astronomer Carl Sagan proposed a number of ways life could potentially stay aloft in Jupiter's atmosphere, such as sucking in gases that could help them stay buoyant.
If just 1% of one-thousandth of the mass of Venus' lower haze layer is dried spores, there could be 5,500 tons (5,000 metric tons) of microbes there, the researchers calculated. Assuming these desiccated microbes weigh about 0.4 trillionths of a gram each, as they might on Earth, there could be about 10^22 spores (a 1 with 22 zeroes behind it) within the haze of Venus. In comparison, scientists estimate that Earth has about 10^24 cells in its aerial biosphere, and more than 10^30 free-living single-celled microbes altogether.
Life in the Venusian atmosphere would still prove extremely harsh compared to its Earthly counterpart. In addition to the extraordinarily dry air constantly threatening to dehydrate any microbes, Venusian life would also have to contend with the local clouds, which are rich in sulfuric acid.
"There are a lot of challenges to life on Venus," Seager said.
Although microbes can survive in hyper-acidic environments on Earth, such as the Dallol Geothermal Area in Ethiopia, Venusian clouds are more than 100 billion times more acidic than that environment, the researchers said. Still, any Venusian microbes might potentially be able to survive these deadly conditions by forming sulfur shells around themselves, the scientists suggested.
And thinking about how life might survive on Venus could shed light on how it might exist elsewhere. "Could some exoplanets have life in their clouds? Could planets like Jupiter or Neptune have life in their clouds?" Seager said. Future missions to Venus could help shed light on just how extreme life could get across the universe.
The scientists detailed their findings online Aug. 13 in the journal Astrobiology.
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Elon Musk has put a new spin on the expression “guinea pig” by trotting out a live pig to perform in his much-anticipated “Neurolink” demonstration. This was a real porker, not a rodent, and Musk played the ‘rat’ in the demo by touting it as a major breakthrough and attempting to recruit human volunteers while comparing the whole thing to the dystopian science fiction series, “Black Mirror.” Is Musk electrically driving us into a real-life Twilight Zone?
“In a lot of ways, it’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull, with tiny wires. I could have a Neuralink right now and you wouldn’t know. Maybe I do.’”
Fitbit not in your skull … yet
Wannabe comedian Musk tried to put the audience in a pseudo Joe Rogan interview as he introduced a group of pigs. (Watch the entire presentation/demonstration here.) One was said to have had a ‘Link’ implanted and later removed, to demonstrate that the process is safe (for pigs, at least). Before you start thinking that this doesn’t sound too bad, the Link is about 23 millimeters (.9 inches) by 8 millimeters (.3 inches) and …
“Getting a link requires opening a piece of skull, removing a coin size piece of skull, robot insets electrodes and the device replaces the portion of skull that is closed up with super glue.”
If getting sawed open, probed and superglued by a so-called “sewing” robot is on your bucket list, the line starts at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. However, you may want to talk to a former employee first. Some of them spoke out to STAT on the run-up to the demonstration that the company’s Muskian philosophy to “move fast and break things” has many employees “completely overwhelmed” – which turns them into ex-employees and explains why Musk used the pig demonstration to appeal for more workers … not pigs, of course. He’s more likely looking for engineers who don’t want to be left behind, but instead want to be part of his weird wide world where memories will be unloaded, downloaded, off-loaded and more.
“You could upload, you could basically store your memories as a backup, and restore the memories, and ultimately you could potentially download them into a new body or a robot body. The future’s going to be weird.”
Disappointingly, most of Musk’s ‘demonstration’ was videos and gonna-be-great commentary and predictions – like that the Neuralink could potentially be used for gaming or summoning your Tesla. If you’re interested in upping your game or your Tesla summoning, volunteers need to meet one more criteria, according to The Verge:
“The first clinical trials will be in a small number of patients with severe spinal cord injuries, to make sure it works and is safe. Last year, Musk said he hoped to start clinical trials in people in 2020. Long term, Musk said they will be able to restore full motion in people with those types of injuries using a second implant on the spine.”
There you go – you knew Musk had to have a noble cause hidden among the boasts of “general anesthesia,” “30 minutes or less” (If it takes longer, is it free? Asking for a friend), “like a Fitbit in your skull” and “Black Mirror.” Speaking of that last one, Musk likes the comparison because “I guess they’re pretty good at predicting.”
So were George Orwell and Rod Serling. Speaking of Orwell, do you think the pigs on “Animal Farm” would stand in line on their two legs to get a Fitbit in their brains from Elon Musk?
As a follow-up to my previous article (titled “Dead Aliens or Dead Humans? From Roswell to Underground Bunkers”) I have decided to put a few things straight regarding my Roswell research – mainly because I’m done with certain scum who seem determined to try and derail it (that will be the theme of another article soon). They have a big surprise coming for them. I’ve written two books on Roswell (Body Snatchers in the Desert in 2005 and, most recently, 2017’s The Roswell UFO Conspiracy). In both of those books I concluded that aliens never crashed outside of Roswell in the summer of 1947. Rather, the Roswell legend was born out of a series of highly-classified experiments using human guinea-pigs, lifting-bodies, and huge balloon arrays. Time and again, I have heard (and particularly from the debunkers and the skeptics) words to these effect: “How come Nick Redfern got this story, but no one else did?” Well, the fact is that I’m actually not the only one who was given the story. In fact, quite the opposite. Let’s take a look at the data at the heart of this article. Namely, and in reality, I was actually just one of many who got the real story of Roswell. I just happened to have been the one who chose to publish the story at length.
Back in the early 1990s (which was long before I was on the Roswell research scene), the late Karl Pflock (Ufologist and CIA employee) wrote: “Even if there were bodies – and I believe there were – they may not have been of unearthly origin. In which case, Roswell turns out to be a significant chapter in early Cold War history, akin to the currently unfolding disclosures about the U.S. government radiation experiments spawned in the same era.” When we met in 2002, and had further chats, it was clear Karl knew much more about this angle of “experiments spawned” than met the eye. He was very careful, however, as to how far he was willing to go. Now, let’s take a look at another aspect of all this. This gets further into the bodies angle, and the data given to me – and to others – concerning how some of the people secretly used in the experiments were Japanese.
Melvin E. Brown was a man who was stationed at the Roswell Army Air Field at the time of the mysterious crash in early July 1947. In an interview with Timothy Good, one of Brown’s daughters – Beverly – made a very intriguing and revealing statement. She said the bodies her father saw back in 1947 “looked Asian [italics mine],” but had larger than normal heads and lacked any hair. There is also this from Beverly to Timothy Good: “They could have passed for Chinese [italics also mine].” As with the revelations from Karl Pflock (as well as the data he held back), the Good / Brown story was independent and had nothing to do with me. But, it fits in very nicely with the “secret experiment” angle of all this that I later chased down. It’s one thing to say the bodies looked somewhat Asian; however, specifically stating the bodies which Melvin Brown saw “could have passed for Chinese” strongly suggests they were extremely human-looking. That’s because they were.
During the Second World War, Fort Stanton, New Mexico held a number of Japanese “internees.” The fort is situated barely spitting distance from the Foster Ranch – which is where the wreckage and the bodies were found. Indeed, they are both in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Researcher and writer John A. Price received a letter from “an acquaintance” who he had known for some time. Price said: “In the letter he told me that the aliens I was looking for were at Fort Stanton.” Price’s source told him that at some undisclosed point: “There were some pretty deformed young men there, several of which could be of alien nature. We only went by what we were told; please don’t tell anyone. Mongoloid large heads, small ears, pin heads who could function and had shrill voices.” Price took the story seriously, and mused on the possibility that the government may have grabbed handicapped people who had “no paper trail, no social security number, and no traceable family connections.”
In 1990, UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield was given an intriguing story from a man named Timothy Cooper. According to Cooper, he had then recently met with a nurse who knew something of all this. In Cooper’s own words: “She casually mentioned to me over coffee that ‘bodies’ were being flown to Los Alamos periodically from late 1945 to sometime in 1947. I asked her if she had seen these ‘bodies’ and she said no, but others had. I asked her where these ‘bodies’ were coming from. She said she did not know but it was rumored that they were human experiments for biological and nuclear medicine research. She thought they may have come from Japan after the war [italics mine]. I asked her why she thought that. She said that they were small bodies with deformed heads and limbs. The eyes were abnormally big, she was told. She did have some view of them in the morgue very briefly for a few minutes at some distance.”
The story continues: “I asked her why she was allowed to be present at the autopsies. She told me that she was asked to assist in the preparation and cleanup. I asked her again about the bodies. She said they were being flown in on special transport planes equipped with refrigerator units to keep the bodies from decomposing. The flesh was badly burned and charred. There was no hair on the heads and had a grayish-yellow color. That’s all she knew.” Interestingly, it wasn’t long after this story reached Stringfield’s eyes and ears that Cooper was suddenly fed – by shadowy characters – a large amount of highly controversial, and clearly bogus, documents. They were focused on dead aliens, wrecked UFOs, autopsies of ETs, and the mythical Majestic 12 group. Clearly, and quickly, someone was intent on diverting Cooper away from the human experimentation angle and equally intent on pushing him in the direction of bogus tales of crashed Flying Saucers. With so much controversy, Cooper eventually quit Ufology. That was very likely the goal of whoever it was that wanted Cooper derailed. Moving on…
Months after Body Snatchers in the Desert was published in June 2005, I received an out-of-the-blue email from a well-respected Australian UFO researcher, Keith Basterfield. He said: “Months before the publication of Redfern’s book, and six years before the release of Jacobsen’s work, I heard a similar story, right here in Adelaide, South Australia.” Keith, whose data came from a trusted source, added: “One night during one of these experiments with one of these craft an incident occurred. They had previously used monkeys and other animals such as pigs on board. Prisoners could volunteer for dangerous missions in return for early release but were not used in these experiments. Two to three live people were needed. The government got people with hydrocephalus – water on the brain – from a facility…They put these people in the craft – either the balloon ruptured early or blew off course and came down. Retrorockets went off and set fire to it. It landed and a farmer/rancher saw it and reported it. One of the humans on board was still alive. The authorities were very concerned that the rancher had hidden souvenirs from the wreckage. The balloons were of chrome plated cellophane to reflect the heat. The experiments were conduced at night so balloons would not explode in the daylight.”
The late Kathy Kasten was a feisty and outspoken contributor to the now-defunct online discussion forum, UFO Updates. She was also a good friend. On August 7, 2012, Kathy died from a cardiac arrest. As far back as 2005, I had been corresponding with her on matters relative to Roswell and her suspicions that the incident had nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with post-war experiments on human guinea-pigs. At the time of her death, Kathy was working on a full-length book on her theory – parts of which closely matched the findings I detailed in Body Snatchers in the Desert, which was encouraging. It was shortly after Kathy died that her family got in touch with me, as they had decided to donate to me all of Kathy’s research files, correspondence, and much more – and not just her Roswell-based material. Which was, of course, extremely generous of them. A week or so later, a large amount of files turned up on the doorstep, collectively contained in heavy cardboard boxes. To say there were thousands upon thousands of pages of material, dating back decades, would not be an exaggeration.
In Kathy’s files, and while going through them in 2013, I found something interesting written in a notepad – and which she had later turned into a Word document. It read: “My research has uncovered the fact that the American Government was testing many different types of aircraft at the time of the Roswell crash; some of it for the purpose of forming the basis for a future space program, and perhaps even one that involved American-Japanese ex-internees from a New Mexico detention camp.” There’s very little doubt Kathy was talking about Fort Stanton. Particularly notable is the fact that the date of Kathy’s original note was March 23, 1992. This was, of course, long before the Japanese / secret experiment angle of Roswell was on the radar of almost no-one in Ufology. Certainly, my Body Snatchers in the Desert book would not be published for another thirteen years. We now know, however, that as far back as the 1990s, Kathy was pursuing a near-identical angle to the one I was exposed to in the early 2000s.
This is just the tip of the iceberg: there are plenty of people (some in Ufology, and others previously in government) who were given the same account to me – of “secret experiments” and not of aliens. In other words – and finally putting the situation correct – this is not “Nick Redfern’s theory” or “Nick Redfern’s story” (as it has been described). There are multiple sources. Unfortunately, two of those in Ufology who can add significantly to this whole story of top secret tests (and zero aliens) have chosen not to and, instead, prefer to stay silent. I can only see one reason for this: they don’t want to be ostracized by their colleagues in the UFO research community. I call it lacking in a pair of testicles.
Recently, astronomers detected a very strange white dwarf as it spins two times per second with a rotation period of approximately 29 seconds per revolution while sucking in materials from its nearby companion. As a matter of fact, it is thefastest spinning white dwarfthat has ever been found.
White dwarfs are the core remnants of collapsed sun-like stars. Their oxygen and carbon masses are normally very close to that of our sun although they are quite a bit smaller (approximately the size of Earth). It takes white dwarfs billions of years to emit all of the residual heat into space and it takes millions of years to become cold enough to appear invisible as a black dwarf.
Artist’s interpretation of a white dwarf sucking materials from a minor planet.
The binary system is called CTCV J2056-3014 or J2056 and it is located approximately 850 light-years from Earth. White dwarfs contain tons of charge particles and when they spin, the particles create magnetic fields that stretch outwards, ultimately affecting anything close to them and causing materials from other celestial bodies to be sucked onto the white dwarf’s surface.
If the magnetic fields are weak, the hydrogen that’s being sucked from its companion turns into a normal disk of matter that goes onto the white dwarf. If they are strong, the gas from its companion wraps around the white dwarf and hits the poles, causing a type of aurora borealis. Now, if the magnetic fields are in the middle (not too strong or weak), they are considered to be “intermediate polar” which means that they aren’t strong enough to totally disturb the accretion disk but are strong enough to suck in the gas of its companion. This makes the white dwarf flare and flicker in a manner that is highly unpredictable.
Since J2056 is an “intermediate polar” system, the white dwarf has trouble collecting the gas from its companion onto its surface. Its companion completes a full orbit around the white dwarf in just 1.76 hours. Another strange fact about J2056 is that it doesn’t release much X-ray radiation which is quite unusual for that type of system.
Artist’s interpretation of debris around a white dwarf.
As for the reason why the white dwarf spins so fast, it may be because of its magnetic fields sucking material onto its surface, therefore, making it spin at incredibly fast speeds. And since its magnetic fields aren’t strong enough to slow it down, it keeps spinning. The study can be read in full here.
It’s still unclear whether J2056 is just a very unusual white dwarf or if it in fact represents a new type of cataclysmic variable stars. Whatever it may be, it is very interesting and the information gathered from its unusual characteristics will surely help experts in studying how white dwarfs and their magnetic fields work.
As many of you will know, my views on the Roswell “UFO crash” of 1947 have changed significantly. Certainly, until the 1990s I was pretty sure that aliens – and their craft – had plummeted to the ground on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. By the 2000s, however, I was of the opinion that aliens did not crash in the summer of 1947. As I conclude in my 2017 book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, the Roswell legend was born out of a top secret program using people in balloon-based, high-altitude flights – several of which went drastically wrong. One of those failures was the Roswell affair. That said, even though I am no longer of the opinion that aliens died on that aforementioned ranch, I still take a deep interest in the claims of deceased ETs held by the U.S. military (or, maybe, by the intelligence community). Some of those stories are intriguing and thought-provoking.
Others are downright bizarre – which brings us to the following:
Leonard Stringfield was a UFO researcher who collected and disseminated reports of crashed UFOs and dead aliens for decades. What was perhaps the most bizarre account related to Stringfield concerned an allegedly live alien on the loose at the Ohio-based National Museum of the United States Air Force (s it is called now) that had supposedly escaped from its confines within the bowels of Wright-Patterson! It was a Sunday in 1965 when “R.M.” and his wife decided to pay a visit to the museum. With his wife engrossed in examining a German V-2 rocket, R.M. wandered off and found himself lost and heading down a corridor with a double door marked OFF LIMITS. Going through the door, he suddenly found himself confronted by “a being so incredible looking that all he can remember in his numb state was saying ‘Hi,’ to which he got no response.” The creature was small, and its eyes were large under a heavy brow; there was no nose and only a slit for a mouth. Standing in stark amazement, R.M. could only stare in awe as the creature shuffled towards him and pointed its elongated fingers into his face. At that point, alarms began to scream, lights flashed and R.M. made a hasty retreat. Military police were everywhere, ushering people to the exits.
“The cause for the emergency evacuation [R.M] opined, was without question the creature who probably had escaped from its confinement,” said Stringfield. Intriguingly, according to a retired Air Force colonel known to R.M., at the time two live alien creatures were reportedly held at Wright Patterson – American scientists having developed an “incubative [sic] atmosphere” to sustain them. As Stringfield stated: “Live aliens! Loose in the Air Force Museum? Fantastic, of course, but the Wright-Patterson complex is vast and so are its underground facilities. It is conceivable, if truly live aliens exist, that one may have slipped by the guards into the passageways and surfaced in an upper chamber of the museum.” Stringfield, however, was not alone in collecting such incredible tales. Victor Marchetti, for example, a former executive assistant to the Deputy Director and Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), recalls that during his tenure with the Agency, UFOs came under the category of “very sensitive activities.” More significantly, Marchetti states that he heard from “high levels” within the CIA that the bodies of an undisclosed number of “little gray men” and their crashed UFO were stored at the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Of course, this is not the only occasion that the involvement of the FTD in the crashed UFO controversy has surfaced. In 1993, commenting on data concerning crashed UFOs and dead alien bodies acquired from “half a dozen former and current intelligence sources,” Far Out magazine stated, “An extensive but little-known complex of underground bunkers, rooms, vaults and tunnels [at Wright-Patterson] did conceal such secrets up through the early 1970s, when following the close of U.S.A.F. Project Blue Book, everything was moved to a ‘consolidated location’ elsewhere. According to these same sources, nothing ‘alien’ now remains at Wright-Pat except perhaps for some ‘Special Control Channel’ documentation and a few left-over scraps of wreckage material retained by the old Foreign Technology Division (FTD), which is now known as Foreign Aerospace Science and Technology Center (FASTC).”
There are numerous sources who claim to have seen dead aliens – and/or know where they are stored. On the other hand, I have a large number of informants who are sure that Roswell involved human guinea-pigs and not aliens. Clearly, one is a clever cover-story for the other. You may be persuaded by the alien angle. Me? I’ll stay with the “secret experiments” angle. Unless, that is, 100 percent verifiable evidence surfaces to the contrary. I’m not holding my breath though.
The oldest artwork ever found in Britain was discovered on the Channel Island of Jersey (specifically at Les Varines in southeast Jersey) between 2014 and 2018. The artwork that dates back at least 15,000 years appear to show a scene from the Ice Age with mammoths in now-drowned lands that could have been Doggerland which was once a land bridge that connected Britain to Europe before rising waters from the North Sea submerged it around 8,000 years ago.
The images were drawn on ten fragments of plaquettes (flat stone) and seem to depict mammoths in addition to some abstract patterns that were etched on top on each other. The abstract patterns were made with straight and curved lines while the other drawings seemed to show the body of what could be an ox or bison with mammoth tusks on top of it. An additional overlaid portrait seemed to depict a human face as it had several circular lines. The drawings, which were engraved by using ancient stone tools, were more than likely created by the same person in a very short amount of time. (Pictures can be seen here.)
The drawings engraved on the stone plaquettes from the ancient site on the Channel Island of Jersey are thought to be about 15,000 years old, making them the oldest artworks found in Britain.
Some of the ancient drawings are overlaid on each other. The engravings on this stone fragment are thought to show a bovid animal like an ox or bison; the outline of a mammoth; and circular scratches that could portray a human face.
(Image credit: Silvia Bello/Natural History Museum London)
Archaeological project at Les Varines in 2013.
It was actually because of a local farmer that the drawings were even found. Ed Blinkhorn, who is a geoarchaeologist from University College London and was the director of the excavations, stated that when a farmer was ploughing the fields, he found fragments of flint and since it isn’t local to the area, it must have been brought in from another location.
“We traced this flow of material to its source — a largely intact saddle of land between an ancient sea stack [a coastal rock formation] and a buried granite cliff,” he explained to Live Science. At that point, excavations began and they found several pits, big granite slabs, numerous hearths that were used for fires, and ochre.
As for the artwork, three of them were discovered underneath a granite slab while the rest of them were located close to one of the hearths. In a statement, Chantal Conneller, who is an archaeologist at Newcastle University in England and a co-author of the study, said, “These engraved stone fragments provide exciting and rare evidence of artistic expression at what was the farthest edge of the Magdalenian world.”
Previously found engraved plaquettes that were unearthed in Portugal, Spain, France, southern part of Germany, and Belgium, were connected to the Magdalenians who were hunter-gatherers that thrived between 23,000 and 14,000 years ago.
Another picture of an archaeological project at Les Varines in 2013.
Since the island of Jersey is only 9 miles in width, the large animals that may have been depicted in the artwork would have lived in the areas that are now submerged in water. In fact, numerous artifacts from the Stone Age as well as human remains have been uncovered beneath the waters of Dogger Bank. It is possible, however, that the Magdalenian people did stay at the site at Les Varines on a temporary basis even though the intentional artwork suggests they may have stayed longer.
Connoller explained this by stating, “The engraved stones are firmly domestic art.” “The people at Les Varines are likely to have been pioneer colonizers of the region, and creating engraved objects at new settlements may have been a way of creating symbolic relationships with new places.” Whether they stayed there for a short amount of time or on a more permanent basis, the artwork is very important and symbolic nevertheless.
UFO Crahses Into Lake Erie, New York 8-17-2020, MUFON, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Crahses Into Lake Erie, New York 8-17-2020, MUFON, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 17, 2020 Location of sighting: Fredonia, New York, USA Source: MUFON #111180 This video just came into MUFON today. A dark thick disk was recorded falling from a cloud...making a thin vapor trail. I made some close ups and slowed down the video 5x because this UFO was really in a hurry to get to the entrance of an underground base. I think this UFO was falling out over Lake Erie, then went to the lake floor where it found an entrance to an underground base. Remarkable footage and for it to be this big...I would say its the size of a city bus. Absolute proof of aliens live below New York. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan Eyewitness states:
I was filming the lighting in the distance and caught a dark object appear out of nowhere and then it disappeared out of frame. At first I thought it was a bird, but it has a trail and is moving very quickly. Also seems large for the percieved distance. It appears at 0:03. Coordinates video was taken from 42.386, -79.373. Facing North East level with horizon.
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