Supposed alien encounters really run the range of the weird. We have everything from the ubiquitous “Greys,” to Reptilians, Nordic humanoids, and many others. At times it seems that we have a menagerie of different alien species allegedly going about their business on our world, but some of these are even weirder than most. Here we will look at a selection of cases of what seem to be inscrutable and very alien robotic humanoids or metal men of some sort, and they are quite the rare and very bizarre type of alien encounter, indeed.

On the evening of March 17th, 1978, a man by the name of Ken Edwards was driving to his home in Warrington, England from his job as a service engineer. It was a long, lonely stretch of road, with few cars and nothing but the lane lines flickering by, but as he stared ahead with his mind off on other things, something very bizarre would bloom out from the night to change his life forever and go on to become one of the weirdest humanoid encounters there is. As he drove along the M62 motorway past the nuclear facility in the nearby district of Risley, he noticed some movement on a nearby embankment, and when he slowed down to get a better look, he could see that it was a massive humanoid figure, 7 or 8 feet in height, and that it was walking in a robotic, disjointed fashion. As it came ambling closer to his headlights, he could see that it was even more bizarre than he had thought, covered in what looked like silver skin, with a black, featureless mask of some kind, glowing eyes, and two small arms that jutted out directly from its chest. Edwards would claim that he had the strong sense that this was some sort of otherworldly robotic humanoid, and it would only get stranger from there.

The humanoid was apparently not afraid of him or the bright headlights, indeed stepping over to the vehicle to loom there right on the road in front of him and stare with those inscrutable glowing eyes. Edwards was nearly mesmerized at this point, not knowing whether to sit there and stare right back or get out of there, and then some sort of beams of light pierced forth from the thing’s eyes to hit him, paralyzing and disorienting him in the process. He tried to get his body to move, but could not even budge his finger, and he was now overcome with a profound sense of terror. He could only move his eyes, and upon feeling a tingling in his hands he looked down to see that they were red and raw, as if he had a bad sunburn. The entity transfixed him with those beams for some time before it suddenly turned away and lumbered off towards a security fence, giving Edwards back the control of his body. Edwards at this point tried to call for help on a transistor radio he kept in his car, but found that it was completely fried. He turned his attention back to the metallic creature and the weirdness would continue.

The metal entity stood at the security fence for several moments, studying it, and then moved forward. Edwards was sure the hulking thing was about to smash physically through the fence with brute force, but it instead stepped through it, passing right through like a ghost. It then ambled off up a hill on the other side into the night. Edwards sat there for some time trying to process what he had just seen, and then took off in his car, arriving at home to find that he had one hour of missing time that he could not account for. Oddly, his watch had also stopped at roughly the time he had met the strange entity. His wife woke up and saw him standing there, trembling and obviously frightened, and when she asked him what had happened, he told her about the “Silver Man” he had seen. They ended up deciding that he should contact the authorities about what had happened, driving to the nearest police station to spin the whole yarn to the visibly skeptical officers. At first, they dismissed it entirely, but Edwards seemed so sincere and so genuinely scared that they decided to check it out just in case there really was some trespasser at the nuclear facility, alien or not. A search of the area where the metallic being had appeared would turn up nothing, and Edwards went home with his mind still reeling from the whole otherworldly incident. Unfortunately for him, the ordeal was far from over.

Over the following days Edwards would develop some black marks on his hands where the burns had been, as well as nausea and headaches. In the meantime, the site would be combed by police and security forces at the facility, and they would turn up an odd oval shaped patch of dead, flattened grass, as well as a dead rabbit just lying there pristinely upon the ground with no discernible physical injuries. It was unknown if either of these things had anything to do with the humanoid that Edwards had seen, but it was all undeniably eerie and creepy. The police would end up just sort of shrugging their shoulders and moving on, but for Edwards it wasn’t over yet.

On March 23, 1978, Edwards went back to the location of his strange encounter along with an independent UFO researcher, and while they were there Edwards was immediately uncomfortable and gripped by a sense of panic. He managed to keep his composure and go out to investigate, and that was when he allegedly saw the same entity standing off on a nearby hill. It seemed to be staring right at him, and then it simply vanished into thin air. Not long after this, on April 2, 1978, Edwards and his wife were driving through the area when he was again hit with an inexplicable sense of panic and fear. He felt compelling to bring the vehicle to a stop, and as he walked outside, he was hit with a wave of terror that sent him scrambling back into the car to speed off. The final incident would be when he was woken by a deep hum on April 12, after which he searched for its source even as it gained in intensity, but he could find nothing to account for it. He would later find that two neighbors had also heard the hum and had seen a red UFO in the sky. The whole story would bring a whole lot of unwanted attention to Edwards and his family. As soon as the news hit the stands, his house was besieged with reporters and curiosity seekers, to the point that it affected his life and strained his marriage. After this, he would come down with a mysterious illness that left him with stomach pains and almost bedridden. He would eventually be diagnosed with cancer, which would ultimately take his life.

This seems in some ways similar to another weird case that comes from 1973, in the U.S. state of Alabama near the small town of Falkville. On October 17, 1973, a panicked woman called into police to report that she had seen a UFO land in a field right outside of town, and an incredulous police officer named Jeff Greenhaw went off to investigate, no doubt thinking that he was dealing with some nutcase. He arrived at the scene at around 10 PM, not really expecting to find much, and at first he didn’t. The field held no spaceship, nor any sign of one, but the lady who had called was frantically insisting that not only had a UFO really landed, but that there was an alien running around out there in the woods. Greenhaw thought that at the very least there might be in intruder prowling about, so he did a sweep of the area. Little did he know that this intruder would be far stranger than anything he had imagined. As he peered into the darkness and shone his flashlight about, he noticed someone standing off the side of the road, but when he looked in its direction he saw that this was no normal man. The figure seemed to be completely covered with some shiny substance that looked somewhat like tin foil, with an antenna on its head, and Greenhaw would even take a photo of it. He would say of the creature:

It looked like his head and neck were kind of made together… he was real bright, something like rubbing mercury on nickel, but just as smooth as glass; different angles give different lighting. I don’t believe it was aluminum foil.

Alleged photo of the entity

This figure seemed to move in a rather disjointed, mechanical way, giving the impression that it was almost robotic in nature, and wanting to see it in better light, Greenhaw trained his vehicle’s headlights on it. This apparently set the entity into a panic, and it ran off at great speed, after which Greenhaw started up his car and pursued it right through a field. The officer went as fast as the terrain could allow, but the creature he had seen and was chasing was reportedly amazingly fast, far faster than any human, and he eventually lost it when it bolted off into some trees. In the days after his encounter, Greenhaw would come forward with his account, which would make him a laughing stock, the object of ridicule, and cost him his job.

Was this some sort of alien robot, perhaps used as a probe by its inscrutable handlers? It reminds me of a similar case of seemingly robotic aliens that is made all the odder in that it predates it by over 50 years. The bizarro case supposedly occurred in 1924, in Pasco County, in the state of Florida, and which was related in 1974 by an elderly witness named Evelyn Wendt, who claimed that this had happened to her when she was a girl. She said that she had been playing outside on the grounds of St. Joseph school when she had noticed an egg shaped object nearby that glowed so intensely and brightly that she had to cover her eyes at first, but it then supposedly suddenly dimmed to reveal some sort of saucer shaped metal craft. As she stood there staring wide-eyed at the strange sight, a small door suddenly opened to disgorge a procession of rather bizarre creatures, and Wendt would say of them thus:

Little people emerged. I think they were robots. I tried to count them, but they changed about so. They were smaller than I was and resembled animated flowers with faces where the bud would be.

These truly bizarre “robotic sunflowers” were apparently hoisting a sinister looking machine of some sort, which Wendt instinctively sensed was a weapon of some kind, and which they also seemed to be setting up to aim towards the school’s science building. It was at about this time that the witness claimed the entities communicated with her telepathically, telling her that they intended to destroy the science building because there were dangerous experiments going on in there behind closed doors. Bizarrely, they then suddenly changed their minds, and began to file back into the craft as they invited their human companion to come along. She refused, but they supposedly promised to come back for her in later years. Wendt would say of what happened:

They promised to come back for me in 35 years, but that was a long time ago and nothing happened that I know of. All I can remember now is that the saucer was leaden-looking and very pockmarked. Then, when it started up, its molecules expanded and it turned silvery bright. The UFO then went straight up, hovered a minute, and disappeared from sight.

UFO researchers in later years sought to bring out any other details through hypnosis, but Wendt proved impossible to hypnotize. Bizarrely, the science building of the school at one point was destroyed by unspecified means, leading one to think that maybe the robo-flowers had come back to finish the job. What in the world was going on here? In all of these cases we are dealing with something removed from the typical Grey aliens and anything seemingly biological at all. There has been the speculation that aliens might choose to send robots instead of actual beings, so is that is what is going on here? Are these perhaps robotic alien entities, of which I have written about before? Or is it perhaps some sort of interdimensional interlopers or something else entirely? Is it perhaps even just figments of the imagination or hoaxes? Whatever they are, they truly earn their place as among the stranger alien encounter stories out there.

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27-09-2021 om 18:17 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers Detect Clouds on an Exoplanet, and Even Measure Their Altitude

The search for planets beyond our Solar System has grown immensely during the past few decades. To date, 4,521 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,353 systems, with an additional 7,761 candidates awaiting confirmation. With so many distant worlds available for study (and improved instruments and methods), the process of exoplanet studies has been slowly transitioning away from discovery towards characterization.

For example, a team of international scientists recently showed how combining data from multiple observatories allowed them to reveal the structure and composition of an exoplanet’s upper atmosphere. The exoplanet in question is WASP-127b, a “hot Saturn” that orbits a Sun-like star located about 525 light-years away. These findings preview how astronomers will characterize exoplanet atmospheres and determine if they are conducive to life as we know it.

The research paper that describes their findings appeared in the December 2020 issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics. It was also the subject of a presentation made during the recent Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021, a virtual conference from September 13^th to 24^th, 2021. During the presentation, lead author Dr. Romain Allart showed how combining data from space-based, and ground-based telescopes detected clouds in WASP-127b’s upper atmosphere and measured their altitudes with unprecedented precision.

Like many exoplanets discovered to date, WASP-127b is a gas giant that orbits very close to its parent star and has a very short orbital period – taking less than four days to complete a single orbit. The planet is also 10 billion years old, which is over twice as long as Earth (or “our” Saturn) has been around. Because of its close orbit, WASP-127b receives 600 times more irradiation than Earth and experiences atmospheric temperatures of up to 1,100°C (2012°F).

As a result, the planet’s atmosphere has expanded (or puffed up) to the point that it is 1.3 times as large as Jupiter but far less dense. In fact, WASP-127b is one of the least dense (or “fluffiest”) exoplanets discovered to date. This makes WASP-127b an ideal candidate for researchers working on atmospheric characterization, as the extended nature of fluffy exoplanets makes them easier to observe.

Using data obtained by the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and visible light measurements from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, the team observed WASP-127b as it made two passes in front of its star. Consistent with the Transit Method (aka. Transit Photometry), the team monitored WASP-127 for periodic dips in luminosity that indicated an exoplanet passing in front of the star (transiting) relative to the observation team.

Whereas Hubble obtained optical data that confirmed the transits, the VLT’s Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observation (ESPRESSO) instrument obtained spectra from the light passing through WASP-127b’s upper atmosphere. Dr. Allart, a Trottier Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREX) at the Université de Montréal, led the study.

The combined data allowed the researchers to trace the altitude of the clouds to an atmospheric layer moving at speeds of about 13.5 to 17 km/s (48,600 km/h; 61,200 mph). They further estimated that the cloud deck altitude conformed to an atmospheric pressure range of between 0.3 and 0.5 millibars. Lastly, they detected signs of tenuous atomic sodium in the atmosphere, though there were no indications of other atomic species or water. As he explained in a recent Europlanet Society statement:

“First, as found before in this type of planet, we detected the presence of sodium, but at a much lower altitude than we were expecting. Second, there were strong water vapor signals in the infrared but none at all at visible wavelengths. This implies that water vapor at lower levels is being screened by clouds that are opaque at visible wavelengths but transparent in the infrared.

“We don’t yet know the composition of the clouds, except that they are not composed of water droplets like on Earth. We are also puzzled about why the sodium is found in an unexpected place on this planet. Future studies will help us understand not only more about the atmospheric structure but about WASP-127b, which is proving to be a fascinating place.”

The team’s ESPRESSO observations also showed that WASP-127b has a retrograde orbit, meaning that it orbits in the opposite direction of its star’s rotation and that it orbits on a different plane than the star’s equatorial. “Such alignment is unexpected for a hot Saturn in an old stellar system and might be caused by an unknown companion,” said Allart. “All these unique characteristics make WASP-127b a planet that will be very intensely studied in the future.”

These include space-based observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Nancy Grace Roman State Telescope (RST). Then there are ground-based observatories like the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). With their combination of advanced imaging, coronagraphs, and/or adaptive optics, these facilities will allow astronomers to conduct detailed studies of exoplanet atmospheres.

Just as important is the fact that these studies will include rocky planets that orbit with the habitable zones (HZs) of their stars, not just gas giants with very distant or very close orbits (as was the case here). Since these “Earth-like” candidates are expected to be the most likely candidates for habitability, astrobiologists anticipate that it won’t be long before they find evidence of extraterrestrial life!

While the results of these studies are somewhat limited, the implications of the team’s research are anything but. In addition to demonstrating the effectiveness of combining data from multiple observatories, it also illustrates how astronomers are getting closer to the point where they can fully characterize an exoplanet’s atmosphere. With the introduction of next-generation observatories in the near future, these capabilities will become far greater.

• Further Reading: Europlanet, Astronomy & Astrophysics

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27-09-2021 om 16:51 geschreven door peter  

New Anonymous: You Need To Hear This "They Have Been Here All Along" (2021)

Extraterrestrial life is hypothetical life that may occur outside Earth and which did not originate on Earth. Such life might range from simple prokaryotes (or comparable life forms) to intelligent beings and even sapient beings, possibly bringing forth civilizations that might be far more advanced than humanity. The Drake equation speculates about the existence of sapient life elsewhere in the universe.

The science of extraterrestrial life in all its forms is known as astrobiology. Since the mid-20th century, active ongoing research has taken place to look for signs of extraterrestrial life. This encompasses a search for current and historic extraterrestrial life, and a narrower search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. Depending on the category of search, methods range from the analysis of telescope and specimen data to radios used to detect and send communication signals. The concept of extraterrestrial life, and particularly extraterrestrial intelligence, has had a major cultural impact, chiefly in works of science fiction.

Over the years, science fiction communicated scientific ideas, imagined a wide range of possibilities, and influenced public interest in and perspectives of extraterrestrial life. One shared space is the debate over the wisdom of attempting communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Some encourage aggressive methods to try for contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. Others—citing the tendency of technologically advanced human societies to enslave or wipe out less advanced societies—argue that it may be dangerous to actively call attention to Earth.

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27-09-2021 om 16:21 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

UFO Filmed Moving Out Of The Way Of Another UFO Over Fayetteville, Arkansas. September 25, 2021

While noticing the moving light for the second time that evening the witness grabbed his phone to film it and caught the second object to which he thought was a star move out of the way of the moving craft. The witnesses watch the hovering object for over an hour with no further movement.

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27-09-2021 om 15:47 geschreven door peter  

New “structures” on the Moon: The Guardian Station?

As NASA prepares for man’s first mission to Mars, it is curious that it has not set foot on the Moon since Apollo 17 (1972), much less establish a base there.

Many astronauts and researchers have claimed that this is because bases already exist on the lunar surface … and, in fact, they would not be human base

Former NASA Communications Systems chief Maurice Chatelain confirmed in 1979 that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had seen two UFOs on the rim of a crater during the Apollo 11 lunar mission in the summer of 1969.

“The encounter was common knowledge at NASA,” Chatelain said, “but no one has talked about it until now,” he added.

Is it possible that NASA has been hiding knowledge of alien bases on the Moon for the past 50 years? 

In fact, much of this evidence is corroborated by the claims of numerous high-level officials, such as a former US Air Force employee named Karl Wolf, who came to possess a “top secret cryptological” security permit. 

He revealed that an NSA employee told him: “We have discovered a base on the back of the moon.” Wolf added: “And then he took out one of these [maps] and showed this base, which had geometric shapes.”

“There were towers; There were spherical buildings… they are huge. Some of the structures are half a kilometer long. They are huge structures, ”he commented.

In other images there are more of what appear to be giant structures that were obtained during the Apollo 16 mission. 

They include a raised cylindrical structure, similar to a nuclear cooling tower, next to what could be a type of turret.

What makes all of this evidence so compelling is the number of well-known astronauts who have made corroborating statements. 

The sixth man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, shared this:

“After traveling in space, I am absolutely sure that the aliens are watching us. I don’t know how many, where and how they do it, but they look at us; we always see these ships ”.

Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin supported this statement with his own experience:

“I saw this light moving relative to the stars. We were smart enough not to say, ‘Houston, there is a light, there is a light that follows us.’ So, technically, it becomes an unidentified flying object. “

Could that be the real reason why the lunar surface has not been stepped on or colonized since the last lunar mission?

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27-09-2021 om 00:34 geschreven door peter  

27-09-2021 om 00:22 geschreven door peter  

They detect a UFO near the ISS and this time NASA does not cut the transmission

This recording released by NASA a few months ago is worthy of hours of debate. The images speak for themselves: a strange UFO has been captured by the cameras of the ISS (International Space Station).

The YouTube user Streetcap1, an expert in conspiracy issues and UFO sightings, has once again charged NASA, collecting on his channel a new video in which one of these strange space objects is sighted:

“During a period when the camera is moving for about two minutes, NASA captured a nearby object… we need, to begin with, that the cameras of the International Space Station start investigating the outside and NASA stop treating humanity as to kids”.

The controversial images have set the network on fire and many expert pages on the UFO phenomenon have not hesitated to affirm that it is a new real sighting that supposes a new contact with extraterrestrial life.

UFO magazine editor and alien life seeker Scott C. Waring has decided to keep charging at NASA, stating wryly that he loves how the ISS camera casually turns to the right, focuses on the UFO and then continues its I walk like nothing.

Waring doubts that the crew of the International Space Station and those responsible are unaware of the existence of another type of life beyond the earthly one.

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26-09-2021 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

Has Loch Ness monster been caught in 4k video by canoeist's drone? Mysterious black shape appears on banks of the lake

• Camper Richard Mavor shot footage appearing to show the Loch Ness monster

• Video appears to show the shadow of the monster lurking near the loch's bank

• Mavor, 54, took the footage on a drone while canoeing in Scotland in August 

By LAUREN LEWIS FOR MAILONLINE

The 'Loch Ness monster' has been caught in a 4k video taken by a canoeist's drone.

Footage shot by Richard Mavor, 54, shows a mysterious black shape on the banks of the lake in Scotland. 

The drone video zooms in on the dark Nessie-shaped shadow which wriggles as the camera gets closer. 

Mavor said there was no driftwood in the vicinity and that the shadow had 'the same shape as previous sightings of Nessie'.

He was shooting for Youtube channel, Richard Outdoors, when he captured the remarkable footage in August. 

Mavor captured the footage on his drone while in Scotland, but did not notice the shadow lurking at the lake's banks until viewers on his YouTube channel pointed it out in the comments

The Loch Ness monster is believed to resemble a prehistoric swimming reptile such as the plesiosaur (pictured)

He did not notice the shadow lurking at the edge of the footage until viewers on his channel pointed it out in the comments, according to the Daily Record. 

He said: 'I couldn't believe it. I had to rewind the footage several times and have watched it several times since.'

Mavor was wild camping doing the Great Glen Canoe Challenge -  a 60 mile paddle across Scotland - for the Alzheimer's Society when he took the video. 

'The more I watch it I think "crikey!" there really wasn't anything in the area that could be,' he added.   

'We had just parked up and I thought I would get some nice shots on the beach for my Youtube. 

'I didn't notice what I had picked up until others told me to watch out for it. It could be a trick of the light but we can't be sure.'

Mavor did not notice the shadow lurking at the edge of the footage until viewers on his channel pointed it out in the comments

It's not the first sighting of the Loch Ness monster this year - at least five others have recorded 'officially' seeing the legendary beast. 

The first sighting was made by Kalynn Wangle, of Oregon, who reported a v-shaped wake near the left of the loch's front shore at 11.42am on January 11.

And days later on January 19 long time Nessie watcher Eoin O'Fagan from Donegal, Ireland, spotted an unexplained dark spot on a webcam live stream at 2.20pm, towards the bottom right hand corner of the loch which came in and out of view for 20 minutes.

Just three days later on January 22 as Mr O'Fagan was watching the livestream again he made the third 'official' spotting of Nessie this year.  

The fifth sighting was made by Kalynn Wangle on March 17 at 4.15pm. She recorded catching sight of the very large dark shape that 'appeared to be swimming' before going behind a tree 

An avid watcher of the webcam, Mr O'Fagan also reported the fourth sighting of the year on March 12 at 5.08pm.

He claims a black shape 'rising up and down' can be seen by a disturbance on the water with two smaller black shapes nearby.

The fifth sighting was made by Kalynn Wangle on March 17 at 4.15pm. She recorded catching sight of the very large dark shape that 'appeared to be swimming' before going behind a tree. 

A sixth potential sighting was made by Roslyn Casey from Leeds on March 26 at 5.46pm - but this spotting has not been confirmed. 

What IS the Loch Ness Monster?

Rumours of a strange creature living in the waters of Loch Ness have abounded over the decades, yet scant evidence has been found to back up these claims.

One of the first sightings, believed to have fuelled modern Nessie fever, came in May 2, 1933.  

On this date the Inverness Courier carried a story a local couple who claim to have seen 'an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.'

Another famous claimed sightings is a photograph taken in 1934 by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson.

It was later exposed as a hoax by one of the participants, Chris Spurling, who, on his deathbed, revealed that the pictures were staged.

Other sightings James Gray's picture from 2001 when he and friend Peter Levings were out fishing on the Loch, while namesake Hugh Gray's blurred photo of what appears to be a large sea creature was published in the Daily Express in 1933.

Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London physician, captured arguably the most famous image of the Loch Ness Monster. The surgeon’s photograph was published in the Daily Mail on April 21, 1934

The first reported sighting of the monster is said to have been made in 565AD by the Irish missionary St Columba when he came across a giant beast in the River Ness.

But no one has ever come up with a satisfactory explanation for the sightings - although in 2019, 'Nessie expert' Steve Feltham, who has spent 24 years watching the Loch, said he thought it was actually a giant Wels Catfish, native to waters near the Baltic and Caspian seas in Europe.

An online register lists more than 1,000 total Nessie sightings, created by Mr Campbell, the man behind the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club and is available at www.lochnesssightings.com. 

So what could explain these mysterious sightings? 

Many Nessie witnesses have mentioned large, crocodile-like scutes sitting atop the spine of the creature, leading some to believe an escaped amphibian may be to blame.

Native fish sturgeons can also weigh several hundred pounds and have ridged backs, which make them look almost reptilian.

Some believe Nessie is a long-necked plesiosaur - like an elasmosaur - that survived somehow when all the other dinosaurs were wiped out.

Others say the sightings are down to Scottish pines dying and flopping into the loch, before quickly becoming water-logged and sinking.

While submerged, botanical chemicals start trapping tiny bubbles of air.

Eventually, enough of these are gathered to propel the log upward as deep pressures begin altering its shape, giving the appearance of an animal coming up for air.

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• 'Loch Ness Monster' caught on drone footage by wild camper - Daily Record

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26-09-2021 om 23:25 geschreven door peter  

Over the years and decades, reports of UFOs by police officers have grown and grown. Some such cases are more well-known than others. With that said, today I’m going to share with you some intriguing UFO cases involving the police. One of the most fascinating of all UFO reports secured from a serving police-officer concerns an English police-officer named Colin Perks, who, in the early hours of the day in question, was on duty in the town of Wimslow, U.K. According to Perk’s official log report: “Sir, I have to report that I have been in the Police Force for almost four years. I am 28 years of age, a married man and I reside with my wife and child in [witness’s address]. I am in excellent health and I have no worries of any description. On the night of Thursday/Friday the 6th to 7th January 1966, which was a cold clear night and started [sic] with a full moon which made visibility good. I commenced duty at 10pm on the 6^th and due to finish duty at 6am on the 7^th. At 1.15am on the 7^th I had my refreshments at Wilmslow Police Station where I resumed normal patrol at 2am on this date where I commenced walking around the village. I was alone on this occasion.”

(Nick Redfern)

The document continues: “About 4am on the 7th I was checking property at the rear of a large block of shops which are situated off the main A34 road (Alderley Road) Wilmslow. At 4.10am I was still checking property and facing the back of the shops when I heard a high pitched whine, for a moment I couldn’t place the noise as it was most unfamiliar to the normal surroundings. I turned around and saw a Greenish/Grey glow in the sky about 100 yards from me and about 35 feet up in the air. I stopped in my tracks and was unable to believe what I could see. However I gathered myself together after a couple of seconds and made the following observations. The object was about the length of a bus (30 feet) and estimated at being 20 feet wide.”

Perks added: “It was elliptic in shape and emanated a greenish grey glow which I can only describe as an eerie green color. It appeared to be motionless of itself; that is there was no impression of rotation. The object was about 15 feet in height. The object had a flat bottom. At this time it was very bright and there was an East wind. Although it was cold there was no frost. No cloud formation was anywhere near ground level. The object remained stationary for about five seconds then without any change in the whine it started moving at a very fast rate in an East-South-East direction.” Despite an extensive investigation by the British Ministry of Defense (the official report of the MoD runs to 21-pages), the affair was never satisfactorily resolved.

The following document, dated September 16, 1980 and written on official U.S. Air Force stationery, was forwarded to UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield by a source to whom Stringfield gave the pseudonym of “Jeffery Morse.” He said:  “In January of 1978, I was stationed at McGuire AFB, N.J. One evening, during the time frame of 0300 hrs. and 0500 hrs., there were a number of UFO sightings in the area over the air field and Ft. Dix MP’s were running code in the direction of Brownsville, N.J. A state trooper then entered Gate #5 at the rear of the base requesting assistance and permission to enter. I was dispatched and the trooper wanted access to the runway area which led to the very back of the air field and connected with a heavily wooded area which is part of the Dix training area. He informed me that a Ft. Dix MP was pursuing a low flying object which then hovered over his car. He described it as oval shaped, with no details, and glowing with a bluish-green color. His radio transmission was cut off. At that time in front of his police car, appeared a thing, about 4 feet tall, grayish, brown, fat head, long arms, and slender body.”

“Morse” added: “The MP panicked and fired five rounds from his .45 cal. into the thing, and one round into the object above. The object then fled straight up and joined with eleven others high in the sky. This we all saw but didn’t know the details at the time. Anyway, the thing ran into the woods towards our fenceline and they went to look for it. By this time several patrols were involved. We found the body of the thing near the runway. It had apparently climbed the fence and died while running. It was all of a sudden hush-hush and no one was allowed near the area.” I should stress this case has been promoted by some ufologists and totally dismissed by others. It’s about time a new investigation was put into action.

In February 1962, an employee of the UK Royal Air Force Police – one Sergeant C.J. Perry – was ordered to investigate a then-recent, extraordinary UFO report. The documentation prepared by Perry is now in the public domain. It tells an intriguing story: “At Aylesbury on 16^th February 1962, at 1530 hrs., I visited the Civil Police and requested information on an alleged ‘Flying Saucer’ incident. I was afforded every facility by the Civil Police authorities and although no official report had been made, details of the incident were recorded in the Station Occurrence book. The details are as follows: Mr. Ronald Wildman of Luton, a car collection driver, was traveling along the Aston Clinton road at about 0330 hrs. on 9^th February 1962 when he came upon an object like a hovercraft flying approximately 30 feet above the road surface.”

The documentation continues: “As he approached he was traveling at 40 mph but an unknown force slowed him down to 20 mph over a distance of 400 yrd., then the object suddenly flew off. He described the object as being about 40 feet wide, oval in shape with a number of small portholes around the bottom edge. It emitted a fluorescent glow but was otherwise not illuminated. Mr. Wildman reported the incident to a police patrol who notified the Duty Sergeant, Sergeant Schofield. A radio patrol car was dispatched to the area but no further trace of the ‘Flying Saucer’ was seen. It was the opinion of the local police that the report by Mr. Wildman was perfectly genuine and the experience was not a figment of imagination. They saw that he was obviously shaken. I spoke to Sergeant Schofield and one of the Constables to whom the incident was reported. Both were convinced that Mr. Wildman was genuinely upset by his experience” The case was never resolved. And, now, finally…

(Nick Redfern)

Shortly before 1:00 a.m. on June 8, 2008, a South Wales Police helicopter, carrying a crew of three, was over Ministry of Defense St. Athan, awaiting permission to land and refuel. As they held their position in the skies, the crew’s attention was drawn to a “brightly lit” object above them that was reported as being ‘flying saucer shaped.’ Suddenly, without warning, the object raced towards them at “great speed” – something that caused the pilot to take immediate, evasive action to avoid a potential collision. The object then sped away and the helicopter crew decided to follow. Their pursuit took them over the Bristol Channel until, as they neared the North Devon Coast, a lack of adequate fuel forced them to abandon the chase.” And, this is just the tip of police-based UFO cases on record.

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26-09-2021 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

In October of 1986, the Soviet Navaga-class ballistic missile submarine K-219 was prowling through the waters of the North Atlantic, about 1,090 kilometers (680 mi) northeast of Bermuda, on a routine nuclear deterrence patrol. At the time the Cold War was in full swing, and this was pretty normal procedure at the time, basically lurking about to let the enemy know you were there, and since the K-219 was equipped with between 32 to 48 nuclear warheads and 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles, you can be sure that the Americans heard the message loud and clear. At around 0530 Moscow time, seawater began inexplicably leaking into missile silo six, and not long after this chaos would erupt aboard the K-219 and turn into a great mystery that has become part of the lore of the Bermuda Triangle.

As the leak continued, efforts were made to fix the situation, the alarm was sounded, and measures were made, which included hermetically sealing all compartments. However, it was too late. At 0538, an explosion occurred in missile tube No. 6, killing two men outright and a third when toxic fumes suffocated him, and it also ejected the missile and its warheads into the sea. Another man died while trying to shut off the submarine’s engine reactor, which had oddly not turned off automatically, and the disaster would in the end claim five lives. K-219 was able to limp to the surface, where it was found that the side of the vessel had a deep groove, as if it had struck something underwater, and K-219’s Captain Second Rank Igor Britanov believed that it could have been the reason for the leak that had led to the explosion. The only problem was, they were in the middle of nowhere, and had not received any collision alarm, so what was going on here? The K-219’s problems only continued from there.

K-219

Considering that the sub was basically dead in the water, it was towed by a Soviet freighter back towards their home port of Gadzhiyevo, a full 7,000 kilometers (4,300 mi) away, but the tow line broke, and the order was given to abandon ship. The surviving crew were rescued and the metal behemoth sank down to the bottom of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain, coming to rest at a depth of about 6,000 m (18,000 ft) in dark, freezing waters and taking its full payload of nuclear warheads with it. Oddly, when an operation was later launched to investigate the wreck, it was found that all of the warheads were nowhere to be found and the silo hatches were dangling open. Considering the loss of life, the sub, and the warheads, it was a pretty big deal, and there were immediately accusations flying as to what had caused the leak and explosion.

The Soviets were very quick to lay the blame on the Americans. Their official stance was that the K-219 had collided with the American submarine USS Augusta, which was operating in the same general region at the time. However, both the captain of the USS Augusta and the captain of the K-219 denied this, and it was also found that the American sub was nowhere near them at the time of the incident. In fact, no U.S. sub had been anywhere near them, and no American vessel had come in for repairs for any such underwater collision. So what had caused that gash on the sub? How had there been a leak in the silo, where such a thing should have been impossible? The Soviets would continue to hang onto the theory that it had to have been a collision with an American submarine, and they fully charged Britanov with negligence, sabotage, and treason, although these charges were eventually dismissed. For years the incident aboard the K-219 was a mystery often debated and discussed, and considering its proximity to the infamous Bermuda Triangle at the time, you can be sure that of course some began turning to speculation taking us into the world of the weird.

The main idea here is that it was, well, aliens. There would be numerous uncorroborated and unverified claims that subs and vessels in the area had seen mysterious lights zipping about underwater, often called Unidentified Submerged Objects, or USOs, as well as a strange low frequency sound picked up on equipment that sounded like a quacking duck or a low croaking. Appropriately called “Quakers,” these sounds have been speculated as being anything from misidentified whale song, to some sort of top-secret sonar system, to alien transmissions, and apparently the K-219 picked up these sounds as well shortly before its accident. In 2010, a former Russian naval officer, a Captain Nikolai Tushin, came forward with a new piece of testimony in the incident. According to him, at the time of the incident, Tushin was part of a group of specialists of the Soviet Navy tasked with admission of nuclear submarines built in Severodvinsk at Sevmash to the fleet, and so he had his finger on the pulse of pretty much everything that happened with the submarines, including every accident and incident. According to him, the K-219 had picked up not only one of the unidentified Quaker noises, but had also tracked a mysterious moving underwater object on its radar. He had allegedly kept this information classified for decades, but came forward with it when he figured that there would be no repercussions. He would speak to Russian researcher Dmitry Sudakov would say of all of this on the site Pravda:

Nikolai had no doubts that the underwater object that collided with the strategic submarine “K-219” carrying two nuclear reactors and 16 ballistic nuclear missiles was not man made. Incidentally, he was the one to tell me about the troubles endured by Soviet (as well as American, British, and French) atomic submarines from the so-called “Quakers.” He said that experienced sailors were quite serious about the talks of underwater unidentified objects. According to Tushin, he, like many other submarine commanders, saw glowing balls and cylinders in the ocean. Almost every diver has a “cherished” story. It was not customary to talk about it, and no instruments recorded sightings of such objects. Even now little is known about these croaking invisible objects. They were first heard a few decades ago, when more or less sensitive sonar equipment that could hear the ocean in many sectors of sonar range appeared on submarines, especially nuclear ones.

The range of “Quakers” action expanded from the Barents Sea to the Mid-Atlantic, including the Bermuda Triangle, where Russian atomic submarine “K-219” has perished. The theory of the man-made origin of the mysterious underwater object sounds rather weak because even the wealthy United States could not afford such costs. These mysterious objects persistently pursued Russian (and not only Russian) submarines, and the chase was accompanied by characteristic acoustic signals resembling croaking of frogs. According to Tushin, sometimes submarines thought that the mysterious objects were displaying friendliness.

The famous atomic experienced diver, admitted to the controls of nearly all projects of the Soviet nuclear submarines, admitted that we might be dealing with some unknown underwater civilization. Indeed, the underwater world is explored much less than space. Those who thought of the unidentified objects as the reason of the accident were afraid to speak up not to be considered insane. Tushin was convinced that “К-219” was sunk by a mysterious force, but at the time could not admit it out loud. The unidentified floating objects remain a mystery of the ocean.

What was going on here? Is there any truth to this at all? As of now, the whole incident has been sort of brushed over and forgotten, with many ideas put forward. Was this just a technical malfunction, a collision with an American sub, or something else, perhaps something more otherworldly? By the way, where did the nukes go? Do you have them? I know I don’t, but I sure wish I knew who did. It is a rather obscure account from the Cold War era to be sure, and the answers have not been coming in. Perhaps time will tell.

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26-09-2021 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

David Icke: The Truth about DUMBs - Top Secret Research Facilities with Hidden Technology

The “conspiracy theory” of DUMBS or Deep Underground Military Bases, is pretty incredible. Most people have never even heard of DUMBS, and I suspect that even fewer believe that they are real. Even though there are many conflicting opinions on the existence of Deep Underground Military Bases, there seems to be a great deal of evidence that DUMBS do exist.

David Icke: The Truth about DUMBs – Top Secret Research Facilities with Hidden Technology

We are all explorers trying to find ourselves…

Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them.

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26-09-2021 om 22:14 geschreven door peter  

The idea of ETs decimates other UFO explanations

http://ufocon.blogspot.com – The UFO Iconoclast(s)

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26-09-2021 om 22:06 geschreven door peter  

Flying Objects A State Secret

Unidentified flying objects have been a state secret for a long time. In less than 100 years, mankind has experienced a wide range of U.F.O./U.A.P. phenomena the world over. From these experiences, fascinating data has been gathered by military, government, and private organizations in key geopolitical countries, leading people within these organizations to believe that a unified human effort should be undertaken to study extraterrestrial phenomena. Watch this UFO documentary and let us know what you think in the comments.

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26-09-2021 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

Mars rover grabs first rock sample, a major step in hunt for alien life

NASA’s Perseverance rover will cache this pristine sample and others for return to Earth, which will “change everything for Mars science.”

With the whirr of a drill, a robotic geologist some 244 million miles away just made history, collecting the first sample of Mars for return to Earth. Sealed in an airtight, ultraclean tube, the sample is an important milestone in a multibillion-dollar effort to finally answer the question: Was there ever life on the red planet?

The successful maneuver by NASA’s Perseverance rover comes after the first sampling attempt failed last month when a weak, weathered rock on the crater floor crumbled to pieces. This time the team tried at a different spot, nabbing a finger-size cylinder of more durable rock from a boulder along a nearly half-mile-long ridge.

“For all of NASA science, this is truly a historic moment,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, says in a press release.

This sample is only the first of dozens to be collected in the coming months. The rover will ultimately deposit its cache on Mars's surface, and a future mission will scoop it up and transport the rocks to eager earthbound scientists.

"It feels kind of surreal," says Vivian Sun of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who co-leads the mission's first science campaign. "What we're doing right now is going to impact Mars science for a long time."

In addition to sampling, Perseverance is equipped to sniff, taste, and peer at the Martian landscape in greater detail than ever before, helping scientists unwind the planet's watery past and seek out hints of Martian microbes that may have once thrived in now-vanished rivers and lakes. The stage for this dramatic search is Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide basin carved by a meteorite impact billions of years ago.

Perseverance touched down near the crater's rim in February 2021 after a harrowing, seven-minute plunge through Mars's thin atmosphere. Though the ground under the rover's six wheels is now parched, the ruddy rocks and sand hold clues to a past flush with water. The science team will explore this region with the rover’s advanced suite of instruments, selecting samples from the crater floor up through an ancient river delta and beyond.

"We are going to be surprised," says Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist and team lead for Space and Planetary Exploration at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "We are going to learn things that we never could have imagined."

Scientists believe Mars was once blanketed in a thick atmosphere, which helped trap enough heat to keep water from freezing and produced enough pressure to stop the liquid from evaporating and escaping as gas. But at some point the atmosphere thinned, and Mars's climate took a dramatic turn. By three billion years ago, the planet was parched, and Mars became the red dustball we see today.

Exactly why and how this happened remains unknown. Jezero's rocks offer a chance to study this dramatic transformation, capturing the key slice of time during which the great drying took place. "As we explore different parts of the crater inside Jezero, we have the potential to kind of step through time," says Kathryn Stack Morgan, a deputy project scientist at NASA's JPL.

Jezero is a crater within a crater. The planetary pockmark is perched on the western edge of the Isidis Basin—a sprawling crater about 750 miles wide blasted out by a huge space rock some 3.9 billion years ago. A later impact sculpted the inner rocky bowl now known as Jezero. Then came the water.

Winding rivers spilled over the crater rim, feeding what became an ancient lake. The water slowed as it poured into the basin, causing suspended sand and mud to settle to the lake bottom and form a pair of deltas, which fanned out around the branching waterways.

The rover will explore the dried remains of the crater's larger delta, which is cradled in Jezero's western edge. This delta's rapid buildup of sediments could have readily buried and preserved signatures of life—if it did exist—before the rivers dried up roughly 3.5 billion years ago.

"As a geologist, I can't help but get excited for understanding Mars history," says Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

"Poorly behaved rock"

To collect Jezero’s geologic bounty, Perseverance’s sampling system is composed of a trio of robots that work in tandem to drill cylinders of rock, seal them in airtight tubes, and deposit them into a storage rack within the rover's belly. "It's a spacecraft within a spacecraft," says Ian Clark, a systems engineer at JPL who is part of the Perseverance team.

During Perseverance’s first sample attempt, the rover targeted an interlocking mosaic of light red-brown stones that make up swaths of the crater floor—perhaps the oldest rocks the rover will find in Jezero. Hints from orbit and the rover's analyses on the ground point to a volcanic origin for these "paver stones," as the team calls them. If that's the case, returning these rocks to Earth would allow scientists to precisely date them using radioactive elements, helping piece together the region's complex past.

But the first sampling attempt left the team empty-handed. While the rover's sampling system initially seemed to work as planned, the sealed tube remained empty. Later analyses suggested that the rock's interaction with ancient water whisked away much of the geologic glue binding it together, which caused the sample to crumble to bits under the coring drill's percussive strikes.

The team hasn't given up hope for sampling the crater floor, and they plan to eventually look for less weathered paver stones to drill, Ken Farley, a Perseverance project scientist, writes in a blog post.

But for their second and most recent drilling attempt, the team directed the rover west to search for rocks "as different as possible" from the paver stones. The rover zeroed in on a boulder on top of a nearly half-mile-long ridge called Artuby. Standing tall above the landscape, the boulder appears to have resisted eons of battering, which suggested it'd be tough enough to withstand drilling.

The sampled boulder appears similar to other rocks poking up from the crater floor, sometimes called "high-standing rocks," says Roger Wiens, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and principal investigator of Perseverance's SuperCam. Early on, the team planned to sample one of these high-standing rocks as well as the paver stones. “But we wanted to start with what we thought would be the easiest, which would be the softer ones—and, uh, oops,” Wiens laughs.

Now the newly stashed core confirms that the first sample was "just poorly behaved rock," as Farley suspected, rather than an issue with the rover’s mechanisms for drilling and storing the cores.

Collecting more samples—and sending them home

With the first sample safely stowed, the rover will soon double back east and then move northward to the delta, studying the rock formations along the way. One type of feature that scientists are eager to scrutinize is finely layered rock. Such laminations can be found on Earth in sediments deposited by water, wind, or sometimes volcanoes.

In water, laminations accumulate from the slow deposition of mud one layer at a time, which could have preserved traces of life in Jezero, as well as the chemistry of the now-vanished lake—providing "a true archive" of the conditions in which the rocks formed, says Keyron Hickman-Lewis, a geobiologist at the Natural History Museum in London and a return sample scientist on the Perseverance mission. 

Layers are common in deltas, including the one in Jezero, but the rover also spied promising laminations in rock units on the crater floor. At a July 21 press briefing, Farley pulled up a picture of a crater floor deposit that looks like an uneven stack of brown papers. "This is exactly the kind of rock that we are most interested in investigating," he said. But scientists are still working out what processes formed these rocks, whether they're sediments, volcanics, or a mix of both, Wiens says.

Up on the delta, two other attractive targets are clays and carbonate minerals, which Caltech’s Ehlmann and her colleagues first spotted in Jezero using orbital data more than a decade ago. On Earth, carbonates often have close ties to life and can preserve exquisite structures, such as the finely wrinkled layers of ancient microbial mats known as stromatolites. Clays can rapidly entomb organic material, and if any exists on Mars, they may be shielding it from the destructive cosmic radiation that blasts the planet’s surface.

Another intriguing possible target for study is manganese-rich rocks. Manganese minerals can form in many ways, but microbes sometimes have a hand in the process.

Los Alamos’s Lanza and her colleagues suggested in a recent study that cyanobacteria could produce manganese-rich varnishes that commonly coat rocks found in deserts around the world. The microbes may use the minerals as a sort of sunscreen, protecting themselves from harsh ultraviolet radiation.

Manganese was previously spotted on Mars in nearby Gale Crater, where the Curiosity rover is busy with its own investigations. The team thinks they might have found some in Jezero too, but they are still working to confirm its presence and determine how much is there. Manganese on Mars can come in many forms and may create a similar veneer on rocks within the crater.

"If we see anything that's like rock varnish, we really should stop and take a closer look," Lanza says.

Once dozens of samples have been collected and cached, another mission will have to land on the planet to pick them up. NASA and the European Space Ageny are designing a lander equipped with a "fetch rover" that could launch as soon as 2026.

A small rocket on the lander would carry the precious rocks into orbit around Mars, where an orbiter would grab them and take them back to Earth, releasing the samples in a small probe that will crash land in the Utah desert.

After the samples are safely back on Earth, scientists will use sophisticated tools to unlock any secrets held within the rocky remnants. But even then, steep challenges lie ahead in the search for ancient alien life. Experts debate what kind of evidence would be enough to identify extremely early life-forms, even on Earth. Claims of life that existed billions of years ago on our planet have driven multiyear feuds and cut schisms between scientists.

One recent debate involved a series of 3.7-billion-year-old rocks on the southwest coast of Greenland. In 2016, a team of scientists declared that a set of wrinkled triangles in the rock were traces of microbial activity, which would make them the earliest known fossil life. But JPL geologist Abigail Allwood and her colleagues were suspicious. When they returned to study the outcrop, a different picture emerged. The wrinkles weren't caused by churning microbes, but by geologic processes squashing the stone.

"There's nothing like standing there in front of the outcrops to give you an understanding of what's going on. You can't do it through a lens of a camera," says Allwood. Her words catch as she realizes what she's saying, and she adds with a chuckle, "which is exactly what we're trying to do on Mars."

Since the human team can't physically stand on Mars, Perseverance is equipped to give them a look at the rocks on multiple scales—from landscape-wide images right down to chemical analyses of pinprick-size bits of the rock. Allwood is the principal investigator for Perseverance's PIXL instrument, which can take images of tiny features and use x-rays to measure the chemistry of Martian rock.

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26-09-2021 om 00:47 geschreven door peter  

Un bombardier furtif B-2 à la base de Whiteman dans le Missouri, le 30 octobre 2002. | Tim Sloan / AFP

Un ovni militaire apparaît au-dessus des Philippines

L'archipel se trouve en mer de Chine méridionale, une région explosive: quel est donc cet aéronef mystérieux?

Repéré par Barthélemy Dont sur The Drive

Si vous prenez des photos du ciel, jetez toujours un coup d'œil attentif à ce qui se cache dans les nuages: vous n'êtes pas à l'abri d'y découvrir un avion furtif non identifié qui provoquera quelques remous chez les experts et quidams que la question des programmes secrets passionne. C'est en tout cas ce qui est arrivé à Michael Fugnit, un photographe philippin.

Plus habitué aux photos d'animaux et de paysages, Fugnit se trouvait le 2 septembre à Santa Magdalena, sur l'île de Luçon au sud-est de Manille, pour photographier le ciel. Sur l'une de ses images, on distingue un mystérieux aéronef en forme d'aile volante.

Si tant est que cette image est authentique, l'avion n'est que partiellement visible. Il est toutefois possible de percevoir sa forme en losange, qui suggère que ce n'est pas un avion militaire classique mais un appareil furtif, comme le fameux bombardier B-2.

• Le Pentagone a «misérablement échoué» lors d'une guerre simulée contre la Chine

Le média The Drive, qui a analysé l'image, propose une théorie: l'aéronef aperçu dans le ciel philippin pourrait être le drone espion RQ-180 conçu par Northrop Grumman, et encore placé sous le sceau du secret le plus élevé.

Non seulement la forme correspond, mais la fonction de ce projet secret de l'US Air Force est de mener des misions de «renseignement, surveillance et reconnaissance» dans les «espace aériens refusés». La mer de Chine méridionale, où se trouvent les Philippines, semble être la région idéale pour ce type de sorties.

Région explosive

Cette zone est un territoire très disputé et d'une importance économique et géopolitique primordiale. De nombreux îlots sont revendiqués par plusieurs États dont Taïwan, le Vietnam, la Malaisie, les Philippines et surtout, la Chine qui y mène une politique agressive. Les États-Unis rivaux y maintiennent donc aussi une présence soutenue.

En juillet, le ministre américain des Affaires étrangères rappelait son engagement à appuyer militairement les Philippines en cas d'agression. Les pêcheurs philippins notamment sont régulièrement harcelés par les garde-côtes et navires de pêche chinois.

• L'US Air Force prépare le B-21 Raider, son nouveau bombardier furtif

L'autre suspect potentiel est donc la Chine, qui dispose elle aussi de plusieurs drones et avions furtifs en développement qui pourraient correspondre à l'appareil observé.

Comme le souligne The Drive, les marines indienne, américaine, australienne et japonaise ont récemment effectué des exercices militaires communs dans la mer des Philippines.

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26-09-2021 om 00:34 geschreven door peter  

The truth is out there and it may well be closer than we thought after a schoolboy captured a shocking video of an unidentified craft hovering in the skies above Edinburgh Airport

By Tara Fitzpatrick - James Delaney -- Digital Journalist

Jack McKnight captured the flying saucer on film.

(Image: Daily Record / Jack McKnight)

A family have been left stunned after a close encounter with a UFO in the skies above Edinburgh Airport.

Jack McKnight had been filming planes taking off and landing on the runway in the Capital afternoon when he captured the shimmering object hovering overhead.

The 12-year-old, who was attending the Truckfest Scotland event with his mum, sister Jade and her son, saw the unexplained craft magically appear and then vanish within a minute.

The schoolboy told the Daily Record the experience left him ‘a bit scared’ of going to bed on Monday night, but family members have sought out UFO experts for clarity on what they saw.

The family, from Lanark, all have an interest in aeroplanes and decided to film them taking off from nearby Edinburgh Airport while tracking them on a flight radar app.

The unidentified shape appeared in the video as Jack was filming a Norwegian aeroplane take off from the runway.

Jack said he was “shocked” when he discovered the strange shape on the video when he got home.

He said: “I was out taking pictures of aeroplanes and I didn’t realise there was this object until I got home.

“It is a kind of metallicy or silvery colour.

“One minute it appears and then just disappears.

“I was so surprised when I got home, I was just scrolling through my pictures to show my mum.

“I had actually made a joke about there being aliens and then we show that.

“I have always wondered what it would be like to see one but I was actually a bit scared last night going to bed.”

The family contacted a UFO specialist and the video is now under investigation by the British UFO Research Association.

Jack’s sister Jade, 26, told the Record: “I have never followed anything to do with aliens or UFOs before but we had no idea what this was.

“It just appears out of nowhere.”

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26-09-2021 om 00:23 geschreven door peter  

Space Force talent strategy is a departure from the norm

by Sandra Erwin 

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25-09-2021 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

 RALPH BLUMENTHAL

25-09-2021 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

The Moon: “An artificial satellite left by ancient civilizations”

Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Sherbakov, two experienced Russian scientists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences, developed a theory where they claimed that the Moon is not a natural satellite. In fact, no ancient civilization mentions it.

In the 1960s, the magazine Sputnik published an article in which two scientists claimed that the Moon is not a natural satellite of the Earth, but a colossal hollow planetoid.

Its creation was thanks to an advanced civilization that strategically placed it in Earth orbit many centuries ago.

A theory could be considered somewhat far-fetched a priori, however, it would explain many of the enigmas of “our” satellite.

The Moon An artificial satellite?

The article explained that for the Moon to support its warp without breaking, it must be maintained by certain unusual internal characteristics . One of them is a huge inner fortress .

Experts said that artificial satellites are normally hollow and with colossal resistance to withstand the variations of outer space.

“The base probably had a double layer, a dense armored shell about 30 km thick, and over it a less compact cover, a thinner layer, about 4.5 km.”

Most of the debris that enters the atmosphere is destroyed , but this is not the case with the Moon. This would explain the immense amount of craters that exist on its surface compared to Earth.

If you take into consideration that the Moon traveled from a distant point in the cosmos , then it received many more impacts than the Earth.

Another issue is the depth of the impacts; they are all superficial. The explanation for this phenomenon is that objects collide with a buffer layer before encountering an impenetrable protective shell .

That would be the 30-kilometer-thick armored layer , so the explosion from the impact would only damage the 4.5-kilometer crust . The common depth of craters found on the Moon.

Another inexplicable event is the traces of seas of lava that have been found on the Moon. Some scientists claim that the lava could have come from inside the satellite. Something unlikely, since it has always been considered a cold body , incapable of generating that heat.

Another theory speaks of meteorites that exploded on its surface, producing lava. The problem is that it seems to emanate from within . For Vasin and Sherbakov, these seas did come from the interior of the Moon, but not as we believe.

Legacy of an ancient civilization?

The experts assured that, from the inside, someone or something produced said material composed of rocks and materials, which took the appearance of lava.

This paste was used as cement to repair the damage caused by meteorites, thus creating “cleaner” and darker areas than others.

This could explain the gravitational variations in some sectors of the Moon. The composition and weight of these “seas” would provoke them.

We should know that the theory that the Moon is an artificial satellite is nothing new. In fact, since ancient times, there are no records of the Moon.

Philosophers like Aristotle speak in the Constitution of Tages, that the Pelasgian people inhabited the Earth “before the Moon appeared in the heavens .”

Ancient Tibetan texts also say that in the disappeared continent of Gondwana , where ancient Lemuria was, the Moon did not exist .

Inmanuel Velikovsky , a Russian researcher, stated in the 1950s that there are no clear records of the Moon in many ancient cultures.

Can we thus say that there is sufficient evidence to at least make us doubt that the Moon is a natural satellite? If this is true, it is time to question everything related to the lunar exploration of the different countries. What have they really discovered in that place?

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25-09-2021 om 23:18 geschreven door peter  

THE UFOS CARL SAGAN WAS CONVINCED OF BUT COULDN’T TALK ABOUT

_{Sagan had already been denied tenure at Harvard, a sci-fi screenwriter reflects, and he couldn't afford to take more chances}

Sci-fi screenwriter Bryce Zabel recalls a memorable dispute with cosmologist Carl Sagan (1934–1996) in a parking lot forty years ago:

The Voyager II unmanned spacecraft had been launched in August of 1977. Now, four years later, it was due to make its closest approach to Saturn on August 25, 1981. It was even going to send back photos in almost real time.

I got an idea.

BRYCE ZABEL, “COSMIC COLLISION: MY UFO DEBATE WITH CARL SAGAN” AT MEDIUM (AUGUST 24, 2021)

His idea was to interview Sagan (remember the insignificant Pale Blue Dot that Earth is supposed to be?).

I got to host Saturn and Beyond, and it was going to be Carl Sagan and me “live,” without commercial interruption, for thirty minutes on a show that got picked up by PBS for broadcast across the United States. It was heady stuff. After all, he was designing the messages for extraterrestrial civilizations that would ride with that Voyager spacecraft on the “Golden Record” at the same time I was a hippie radio news jock in Eugene, Oregon during college. Now I was going to sit on the same stage with him and talk a little space travel.

BRYCE ZABEL, “COSMIC COLLISION: MY UFO DEBATE WITH CARL SAGAN” AT MEDIUM (AUGUST 24, 2021)

Sagan was already famous for the 1980 TV miniseries Cosmos:

He was also very much a believer in extraterrestrials and UFOs and even believed that dolphins might have a role to play in the matter. Newsman Zabel was not then “a UFO guy.” At any rate, Zabel walked Sagan out into the parking lot…

This is what I asked him:

“You’re famous for saying that there are billions and billions of stars out there in the Universe. You’ve actually said that you believe the Universe is teeming with life, and that some of it must be intelligent, probably more advanced than we are. But you also insist that none of these other beings could actually be here on Earth because the distances are too vast.”

Sagan’s smile left his face during this. He said, “What’s your point?”

“Well, only that you want us to look for radio signals coming from other civilizations out in space, but you say in Cosmos that UFOs aren’t really worth investigating, because they can’t be here in the first place. You’re a scientist. Why wouldn’t you want to investigate, particularly since it could prove we’re not alone?”

“I also said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof,” said Sagan. “The claims I’ve seen don’t come with much proof at all.”

BRYCE ZABEL, “COSMIC COLLISION: MY UFO DEBATE WITH CARL SAGAN” AT MEDIUM (AUGUST 24, 2021)

Sagan left abruptly. Reflecting on the evidence, four decades later (and twenty-five years after Sagan’s death), Zabel thinks that Sagan had to downplay his passionate belief in extraterrestrials in order to avoid being written off as a crank — a cool crank but a crank nonetheless: “The truth of the matter, to me, is that he felt giving any quarter on the UFO issue could kill his career.”

Zabel has much more to tell in his story at Medium, including how he developed an interest in UFOs himself and went on to work in the sci-fi area.

Significantly, the discussion has become much less toxic over the years. The Pentagon report earlier this year clarified that UAPs (UFOs) are “not caused by any U.S. advanced technology.” There does not appear to be a straightforward weather-related explanation either for some of them. In short, it’s not a situation in which everyone on one side of the debate is a sharp cookie and everyone on the other side is a fool. In some cases, we just don’t know what’s happening.

Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard for being, according to Zabel, a little too “out there.” But today, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb openly discusses his thoughts on ETs and UFOs in popular science venues. And, in what sounds like a helpful move, NASA is seeking standards for ET life claims, rather than just denying or avoiding them altogether.

Perhaps all unidentified aerial phenomena are due to rare natural events. But the only way to honestly evaluate that is to start with the premise that they might — in principle — not be natural events. The need to simply “debunk” is not so much part of science as it is a social phenomenon: the Ingroup vs. the Outgroup. Continually proving that one is a member of the Correct group is hardly the spirit that advances science.

Here’s some retro from Voyager 1 and 2:

You may also wish to read:

The surprising role that dolphins have played in the search for ET. Dolphins, with their apparent alien intelligence, have been seen by scientists interested in ET as a stand-in. The discovery of dolphin intelligence supported the view that intelligence might evolve in unexpected places among life forms without hands.

and

The UAPs (UFOs) are “not caused by any U.S. advanced technology.” And that’s all the Pentagon probably really knows. Some, including physicist Mark Buchanan, hope we never find out if it’s aliens or not.

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25-09-2021 om 22:54 geschreven door peter