New evidence suggests a huge asteroid DID hit EARTH 12,800 years ago causing an ice age, wiping out dozens of species and decimating humans

• A team of scientists discovered a 'platinum spike' suggesting a meteorite had hit

• Found in Wonderkrater in the Limpopo Province, north of Pretoria in South Africa

• Findings could prove mini-ice age Younger Dryas was triggered by a meteoroid

By MILLY VINCENT FOR MAILONLINE

A huge asteroid may have hit the Earth 12,800 years ago causing global climate change and extinction, according to new evidence found in South Africa.

Scientists analysed ancient soil at a site called Wonderkrater and found high levels of platinum - which they say supports the The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis that a disintegrating meteor hit Earth and caused a mini ice age. 

The resulting ice age is believed by many scientists to have wiped out dozens of mammals species including the Mammoth and giant wildebeest and decimated the human population. 

Scientists believe 'platinum spikes' found in ancient soil samples across the world are evidence of the meteor fragments that crashed into Earth.  

Meteorites are rich in platinum and the Wonderkrater site  in the Limpopo Province, north of Pretoria in South Africa adds to almost 30 other platinum spikes found worldwide, mostly in the northern hemisphere. 

This map shows the locations of platinum spikes which have been observed around the world, suggesting a meteorite may have smashed into Earth and scattered debris everywhere

WHAT IS THE YOUNGER DRYAS IMPACT HYPOTHESIS?

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis proposes that fragments of a disintegrating comet struck the Earth around 12,800 years ago.

These fragments bombarded North and South America, Europe and western Asia.

This generated a thin layer of detritus covering around 19.3 million square miles (50 million square kilometres).

This layer contained concentrations of platinum, meltglass and nano-diamonds from the impactors. 

Experts argue that this episode saw large-scale biomass burning, an impact-induced winter, longer-time climatic shifts and the extinction of late Pleistocene megafauna.

Until now, proof that meteoroids had impacted during that period and potentially led to a mini-ice age had only been documented across the northern hemisphere.

A total of 28 areas with high levels of platinum had been found. 

The findings from the researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa partially support the theory that a meteorite crashed into earth with global consequences – along with another meteorite site discovered in Chile.

An episode of rapid cooling named the The Younger Dryas is a well documented period believed to have contributed to the extinction of many species of large animals around 12,800 years ago.

Theories previously pointed to this post-ice age cooling as a result of changes in oceanic circulation systems.

Another theory was presented by American scientists in 2007 – that the cooling was triggered by the dust fallout of an asteroid impact.

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Dust circulating in the atmosphere after an impact could have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, affecting plant growth and temperatures on earth.  

Now Francis Thackeray of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa believes a platinum spike found in South Africa proves the extinction of many large animals globally could have been caused by one or multiple meteoroid impacts.

Researchers have discovered their first evidence in the southern hemisphere that a mini ice age almost 13,000 years ago may have been caused by clouds of dust thrown up by an asteroid impact

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Dr Thackeray who was working with researcher Philip Pieterse from the University of Johannesburg and Professor Louis Scott of the University of the Free State, said: 'Our finding at least partially supports the highly controversial Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH).

'We seriously need to explore the view that an asteroid impact somewhere on earth may have caused climate change on a global scale.

'And [it may have] contributed to some extent to the process of extinctions of large animals at the end of the Pleistocene, after the last ice age.' 

Many mammals became extinct in North America, South America and Europe at the time of the Younger Dryas. 

In South Africa a few extraordinary large animal species became extinct around that period including the giant African buffalo, a large zebra, and a very big wildebeest each weighing around 1,100lbs (500kg) more than its modern counterpart.

Human populations may also have been indirectly affected at the time in question. 

Thackeray argues that a dramatic halt in the development of the use of stone tools by the Clovis people in North America and the Robberg stone artefacts used by populations in South Africa around that period could indicate that an asteroid may have caused global consequences.

Dr Thackery said: 'Without necessarily arguing for a single causal factor on a global scale, we cautiously hint at the possibility that these technological changes, in North America and on the African subcontinent at about the same time, might have been associated indirectly with an asteroid impact with major global consequences.'   

WHEN WERE EARTH'S 'BIG FIVE' EXTINCTION EVENTS?

Traditionally, scientists have referred to the 'Big Five' mass extinctions, including perhaps the most famous mass extinction triggered by a meteorite impact that brought about the end of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. 

But the other major mass extinctions were caused by phenomena originating entirely on Earth, and while they are less well known, we may learn something from exploring them that could shed light on our current environmental crises.

1. The Late Ordovician: This ancient crisis around 445m years ago saw two major waves of extinction, both caused by climate change associated with the advance and retreat of ice sheets in the southern hemisphere. This makes it the only major extinction to be linked to global cooling. 
2. The Late Devonian: This period is now regarded as a number of 'pulses' of extinction spread over 20m years, beginning 380m years ago. This extinction has been linked to major climate change, possibly caused by an eruption of the volcanic Viluy Traps area in modern-day Siberia. A major eruption might have caused rapid fluctations in sea levels and reduced oxygen levels in the oceans.
3. The Middle Permian:  Scientists have recently discovered another event 262m years ago that rivals the 'Big Five' in size. This event coincided with the Emeishan eruption in what's now China, and is known to have caused simultaneous extinctions in the tropics and higher latitudes.
4. The Late Permian: The Late Permian mass extinction around 252m years ago dwarfs all the other events, with about 96% of species becoming extinct. The extinction was triggered by a vast eruption of the Siberian Traps, a gigantic and prolonged volcanic event that covered much of modern day Siberia, which led to a cascade of environmental effects.
5. The Late Triassic: The Late Triassic event, 201m years ago, shares a number of similarities with the Late Permian event. It was caused by another large-scale eruption, this time of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, which heralded the splitting of the supercontinent Pangaea and the initial opening of what would later become the Atlantic Ocean.

A meteor glowing as it enters the earth's atmosphere

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He added: 'We cannot be certain, but a cosmic impact could have affected humans as a result of local changes in environment and the availability of food resources.'

At Wonderkrater, the team has also uncovered evidence from pollen to show that about 12,800 years ago there was temporary cooling.

This linked up with the 'Younger Dryas' drop in temperature that is well documented in the northern hemisphere, and now also in South Africa. 

According to some scientists, this cooling in widespread areas could have been caused by the global dispersal of platinum-rich atmospheric dust after a meteorite hit. 

Thackeray's team believes their discovery of a platinum spike at about 12,800 years ago at Wonderkrater is just part of the strengthening view that an asteroid or cometary impact might have occurred at that time.

This is the first evidence in Africa for a platinum spike leading to the mini-ice age of the Younger Dryas.

Younger Dryas spikes in platinum have also been found in Greenland, Eurasia, North America, Mexico and recently also at Pilauco in Chile.

Wonderkrater is the 30th site in the world discovered with evidence of platinum spikes.

Thackeray said: 'Our evidence is entirely consistent with the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis.'

The discovery in South Africa is expected to be analysed in context with those made in other parts of the world.

A large crater 31 kilometres in diameter was discovered in northern Greenland beneath the Hiawatha Glacier last year. 

Thackery recognises that the source of the platinum at Wonderkrater could hypothetically be cosmic dust that was dispersed in the atmosphere after a meteorite impact in Greenland. 

The South African research has been supported by the National Research Foundation and the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for the Palaeosciences and was published in Palaeontologia Africana.

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23-01-2022 om 18:09 geschreven door peter  

Asteroid Impact vs. Pole Shift as Cause of Catastrophic Destruction 12,900 Years Ago

I often write about a periodic cycle of pole shift catastrophes that alter the entire surface of the Earth and reduce civilizations to ruins every 12-13,000 years (probably every half-precession cycle of about 12,900 years.) But many researchers, including Graham Hancock, suggest that this (last) catastrophe roughly 12,800 years ago was caused by a comet impact – not a pole shift. Does evidence favor one theory over the other? From a Russian article I found recently:

What was the largest catastrophe in the history of the Earth: theories and facts

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) have evidence that the Earth was hit by a comet or asteroid almost 13,000 years ago.

“A global catastrophe led to climate change known as the Dryas Cooldown (10730-9700 BC) and also caused the extinction of many animal species. In 2019, South African researchers analyzed rock samples recovered from peat deposits in the Limpopo province of South Africa. As a result, they found a high concentration of platinum, which is also found in celestial bodies.

According to the researchers, this is another evidence in favor of the hypothesis of a large space object colliding with the Earth – a comet or an asteroid, which probably fell in Northern Greenland, where a crater 31 kilometers in diameter and 12,800 years old was discovered under the Hiawatha glacier. Climate change has been caused by the dispersion of dust and soot in the planet’s atmosphere. Platinum has also been found in rocks of the same age in Greenland, Eurasia, North America, Mexico, and Chile.”

The image directly above does not show impact craters under the ice, like the recently discovered Hiawatha Crater in NW Greenland. It doesn’t show the ones in South Carolina or anywhere outside North America. What it does show, however, is that the last ice cap in Pleistocene times was centered near Hudson Bay, not our current North Pole.

Notice most of Alaska and all of Siberia (where so many remains of mammoths – which ate 500 pounds of vegetation a day – have been found) were not covered by an ice sheet but in fact were much warmer – before Asia moved north by 30 degrees of latitude (suddenly freezing the region) and the Americas moved 30 degrees south (thawing eastern Canada) during the last pole shift.

I feel the following adequately sums up the asteroid theory: we found impact craters, and the surface of the entire world shows a layer of dust rich in platinum (and other elements far less common on Earth) covered our world roughly 10,800 B.C. Therefore, the resulting climate changes and mass extinctions were caused by the comet (or fragments) impact.

While there are many impact craters from approximately the first century of the Younger Dryas climate change events, there is massive evidence supporting another cause – the idea that our entire galaxy has a positive and negative side separated not by a flat sheet but by a rippling, wave-like undulation between positive and negative charge. This ripple or wave reaches us roughly every 12,900 years and causes stellar micronovas and planetary pole shifts.

Many nearby stars between our sun and the galactic center have already erupted in recent years. It is only a matter of time before the strength of the incoming galactic wave overpowers and reverses the electromagnetic fields of our sun and our Earth.

Our sun’s magnetic field will eventually be overwhelmed and reversed by the galactic field changes, and our planetary magnetic field is overwhelmed with both the galactic wave (which takes centuries to make the full polarity reversal) and the solar micronova (which is over in hours and is the direct and immediate trigger of the pole shifts on Earth.) This is supported by many ancient myths, legends, and religions – such as Egyptian records of the sun rising in the west and setting in the east prior to the last catastrophe – or the Greek myth of Phaethon failing the handle Apollo’s sun-chariot and coming to close to Earth and scorching it before Zeus intervened by “tilting the table” to flood the burning lands and put out the fires and returning the reins to Apollo – or the description of an intensely brightened sun from Isaiah 30:26 “…the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days…”

As our terrestrial magnetic field weakens to zero and reverses, our protection from cosmic radiation and dust temporarily disappears. The flow of the extended and greatly strengthened solar magnetic field flows right through the Earth, north to south, and carries extra cosmic dust pushed in from the galactic wave and a much greater amount of solar particles blasted out with the micronova. This also explains the high levels of platinum and other elements on the surface of the Earth at the time of pole shift events.

Earth is rarely hit by comets or asteroids, partially because the ones that intersect Earth’s orbit usually hit within the first thousand years of the establishment of such intersecting orbits, followed by long periods of stability and virtually no impacts for many thousands of years (our recent history) because Earth has cleared the path of its orbit by impacting the problems earlier…. Until the next galactic wave and micronova blasts disturb the orbits of everything in the solar system, followed by centuries of newly dislodged objects pushed into new trajectories. This causes at least a few centuries of much more frequent impacts on Earth.

So yes, there are impact craters and high levels of rare elements approximately 12,800 years ago. But I think the evidence suggests that was a result of the galactic ripple, solar micronova, and pole shift which occurred around 12,850-12,900 years ago. If the evidence truly favors a periodic (recurring) cycle of pole shift catastrophes, and not a one-time random impact event for the Pleistocene extinction that happened almost 13,000 years ago – why does our government – which funds the scientific establishment that won’t bite the hand that funds it – not admit or acknowledge the recurring pole shift cycle? (Or any other cyclic theory, such as our sun having a distant binary companion such as Sirius – or even that the sun is in one of the filaments/threads of a galactic rope of Birkeland currents of charged plasma, making it look like we are rotating with another nearby star or two as our filament channels and spirals us around the larger “rope” of entwined filaments?)

Because a one-time impact won’t happen again. Governments often love to incite fear and make the public take the action they want and have planned for. But in this case, they want the public to remain ignorant and take no action beyond continuing to work and pay taxes right up to the end, so that the elite get build, supply, and retreat into their bunkers without millions or billions of informed and angry unselected useless eaters like us banging down their doors or detonating nukes or burying their exits under tons of concrete. To avoid that, they must not teach about recurring cycles of destruction, especially if another event is due within our lifetimes. Instead we are offered distractions and lies.

The next pole shift is due in the 2nd quarter of the 21st century. There are plans to survive it. But you and I are not invited. I can find no acknowledgement of pole shift cycles by the American government. But I did recently find declassified KGB files offering Soviet acknowledgement – and they comment on known American preparations and even the Nazi archives they found on the subject. (The Nazis also expected the next pole shift in the early 21st century.)

If interested in any of these theories, check the links below for what I consider the best sources.

• English translation of over 200 pages of the KGB’s “Project Orion”
• The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
• Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, Michael Shermer, and Joe Rogan discuss the Impact Theory
• Doug Vogt of the Diehold Foundation explains the cycle of Stellar and Solar Novas
• Ben Davidson (Suspicious0bservers channel on Youtube) explains the Solar Micronova cycle

This post, with the links to files and videos above – is in my opinion the best source of information on these subjects except for my last book:

Pole Shift: Evidence Will Not Be Silenced

Thank you for reading this. If you are convinced – please tell others.

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23-01-2022 om 17:39 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Alien Base Found On Mars, NASA Source, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: January 2022

Location of discovery: Planet Mars, Moreux Crater

NASA Source: 

• https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_036685_2220

An ancient structure sits in this crater on Mars. The structure is buried by thousands of years of wind blown dirt and sand, but it's still there, standing out proudly...an achievement of an ancient culture of long ago. Had this been found on Earth in Egypt...archeologist would jump all over it thinking its some ancient tomb of an Egyptian king. However on Mars...a planet 34 million miles away makes it impossible to investigate it. The mystery will remain for decades to come. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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23-01-2022 om 15:30 geschreven door peter  

The Megalithic Unfinished Obelisk St Aswan In Egypt, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: January 8, 2022

Location of Obelisk: St Aswan, Egypt

 

This video was taken by the famous Brian Foerster in Egypt. He is a tour guide and history expert who is looking at the unfinished Megalithic obelisk that is still laying in the ground. Although carving this huge megalith would be possible for humans if years of work were put into it...it would however be impossible to move such a massive stone structure hundreds of miles to Cairo which is 650km (404 miles) away. The structure is 137 feet (42 meters) long if completed and would weigh and estimated 1,200 tones. Thats like carrying a cargo ship loaded with containers on it...and carrying it not sailing it...across the mountains, desert, rocks and scorching earth to Cairo 650km away...we cannot even do that today! Its insane! 

 

The only way such a megalithic structure could be moved is by using alien anti gravity technology. Even today, with all our modern equipment, technology and methods of transportation...we could never create and move this structure in one piece. This is 100% proof that aliens were here a long time ago, creating ancient Egypt. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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23-01-2022 om 15:17 geschreven door peter  

Four Lights Over University place, Washington Jan 8, 2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Jan 8, 2022

Location of sighting: University place, Washington, USA

Source: MUFON

 

I really like the conversation happening during this video. Its 100% authentic and keeping it real is important in such cases. The eyewitness calls up her husband or boyfriend in order to tell him so he might see it and you can really hear their conversation about focusing on the UFO. Also a third eyewitness, a woman stood with her and then they attempted to get closer by taking the car. Which worked for a little bit. The videos are short and sweet, but they are hard core evidence that UFOs exist. Absolutely amazing, wish more folks were this excited about seeing a UFO, then maybe more people would be aware of the existence of aliens today. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states:

Random bouncing lights with three stagnant lights that appeared and reappeared. In one of the videos there is a reflection of a light in my car but the other video I took outside of my car sitting on my carport. I’ve lived here most of my life and I have never seen those lights located where we saw them. Also, pardon our French.

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23-01-2022 om 15:04 geschreven door peter  

British Police Force Shares Array of Bizarre UFO and Alien Reports from 2021

By Tim Binnall

In a testament to the kinds of strange calls that authorities receive on a fairly regular basis, a police department in England has shared details on a variety of very weird UFO and alien reports that their emergency operators fielded in 2021. Responding to an FOIA request, the West Yorkshire Police Force reportedly revealed that over the past year there were several incidents, ranging from fairly benign to outright bizarre, wherein bewildered residents said that they witnessed or encountered something from out of this world.

The first report, received in April, concerned a man who claimed to have seen a UFO "that kept appearing, then disappearing" for about 15 minutes. Another call came in to authorities in May when a resident said that they spotted "a number of solid lights that look like stars moving in the sky." The witness went on to describe the objects as being "spaced evenly out," which makes one suspect that the 'UFOs' could have been SpaceX Starlink Satellites which have sparked similar reports in the past.

A more difficult to explain report from July saw a man call police with concerns about "white orbs in the sky" that were "moving really weird." These odd objects, the witness said, would occasionally take off "like a shooting star" or simply disappear. According to the caller, the eerie activity occurred over the course of two nights and, in total, he observed ten of these mysterious lights in the night sky. Although the man claimed to have captured video of the peculiar objects, it would appear that he did not turn it over to police.

Amazingly, the West Yorkshire Police Force say that 2021 saw a staggering six calls from residents who said that they had encountered visitors from another world! In one instance, a woman simply told the emergency operator that "an alien has attacked her," while another woman later in the year reported that she had been abducted by ETs. Meanwhile, a disappointingly brief report came in from a man who declared that "an alien has put drugs in his eyes."

Two separate callers in 2021 reported seeing an alien floating outside their window and, in one the cases, the being purportedly spoke to the witness. Sadly, the police logs do not include whatever message the 'space brother' shared with the witness. And perhaps the strangest of all the reports contained in the released files came from a man who talked to the operator about "life savers and aliens" and then went on to reveal that he "has a vision that the Queen sent him to another galaxy."

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23-01-2022 om 00:20 geschreven door peter  

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER BLACK HOLE THAT’S CREATING STARS INSTEAD OF DEVOURING THEM

IS THIS THE LEAST DEADLY BLACK HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE?

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23-01-2022 om 00:12 geschreven door peter  

We'll fight them in the stratosphere! Forgotten papers from 1939 reveal how Winston Churchill believed alien life probably DID exist

• Churchill wrote an extraordinary essay speculating on existence of aliens

• Previously undiscovered article suggested Mars and Venus could harbour life

• Sci-fi enthusiast wrote piece in 1939 a year before he entered Downing Street 

By MATT DATHAN, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE

Winston Churchill penned an 11-page essay about the prospect of alien life on other planets despite Europe being on the brink of war as he wrote, newly discovered documents revealed today. 

In an article written in 1939 entitled 'Are We Alone in the Universe?' the wartime hero correctly predicted decades before time that large numbers of stars could have families of planets. 

He also identified the importance of liquid water for alien life to survive in the typewritten essay, published a year before he became Prime Minister in 1940. 

Before becoming Britain's greatest wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill found time to muse in an essay on whether aliens exist

Churchill suggested in his newspaper article that the planet Mars, pictured, could harbour life

The article, which was hidden away in a museum in the US until rediscovered last year, revealed how Churchill believed there may well be life on Mars.

In it he muses about the possibility of life evolving elsewhere in the Solar System and beyond.

Pre-empting discoveries of extra-solar planets by more than five decades, he defines what scientists later called the 'habitable' or 'Goldilocks' zone - the narrow orbital region where a planet is not too hot or too cold but 'just right' to support life. 

He also correctly concluded that many planets 'will be the right size to keep on their surface water and possibly an atmosphere of some sort' and some would be 'at the proper distance from their parent sun to maintain a suitable temperature'.

Churchill famously ordered that reports of UFO sightings should be kept secret in 1952 to avoid public panic.

The 'closet science fiction fan' suggested in the article - believed to have been intended for publication in the News of the World - that Mars and Venus could harbour life.  

Churchill's 11-page essay was rediscovered last year by the museum's new director Timothy Riley, left, who passed it on to Israeli astrophysicist, author and former Hubble Space Telescope scientist Mario Livio, right

The article was written a year after the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles dramatising The War Of The Worlds by HG Wells - later made into a film, pictured - which caused widespread panic among listeners in the US who thought they really were being invaded by Martians

The lengthy essay was never published but was passed to the US National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri in the 1980s, where it was unearthed by a museum director and is published in the journal Nature today.

Writing as the Second World War broke out, Churchill wrote: 'I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilisation here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time.'

The article was written a year after the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles dramatising The War Of The Worlds by HG Wells, which caused widespread panic among listeners in the US who thought they really were being invaded by Martians

The document was rediscovered last year by the museum's new director Timothy Riley, who passed it on to Israeli astrophysicist, author and former Hubble Space Telescope scientist Mario Livio.

Describing the find in the journal Nature, Professor Livio said it came as a 'great surprise,' despite Churchill's well-known interest in science.

It is not the first time the Conservative leader and historian's love of science fiction has come to light. 

Churchill was the first prime minister to hire a science adviser, and in the 1920s and 30s wrote a number of popular science essays for newspapers and magazines on topics such as evolution and cells  

Churchill's famous phrase 'the gathering storm', used to describe the rise of Nazi Germany, crops up twice in The War of the Worlds to describe pending attacks on Britain by the Martians.

Historian Richard Toye, who has suggested that the Prime Minister borrowed the line, said of Churchill: 'He was not a scientist but science appealed to his imagination because he liked to play with ideas and was visionary in his understanding of scientific issues.

Churchill's lengthy essay was never published but was passed to the US National Churchill Museum, pictured, in Fulton, Missouri in the 1980s, where it was unearthed by a museum director and is published in the journal Nature today

'It is fair to say that Martians and life elsewhere in the universe are subjects he would have been happy to speculate about.'

Churchill's article builds on the 'Copernican principle' – the idea that, given the vastness of the universe, it is hard to believe that humans on Earth represent something unique.

He started by defining the most important characteristic of life, the ability to 'breed and multiply', going on to note that living creatures can only survive where liquid water exists.

Decades before today's search for water on Mars, Churchill correctly identified the 'Goldilocks zone' – the narrow region around a star that is neither too cold nor too hot, so that liquid water may exist on the surface of a rocky planet.

He wrote that life could survive only in temperatures 'between a few degrees of frost and the boiling point of water'.

Correctly predicting man reaching the Moon, he did however get it wrong with his assumption that planets are formed from the gas torn off a star when another star passes close to it. The model suggested by astrophysicist James Jeans in 1917 has since been ruled out, although the Tory leader did foresee the 1990s discovery of exoplanets around stars other than our sun.

Venus was another planet that Churchill speculated might have the ability to sustain life

He wrote: 'I am not sufficiently conceited to think that my sun is the only one with a family of planets.'

The essay concludes that Mars and Venus are likely to be the only planets apart from Earth capable of sustaining life. And it finishes on a positive note, stating: 'With hundreds of thousands of nebulae, each containing thousands of millions of suns, the odds are enormous that there must be immense numbers which possess planets whose circumstances would not render life impossible.'

The article was written a year after the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles dramatising The War Of The Worlds by HG Wells, which caused widespread panic among listeners in the US who thought they really were being invaded by Martians.

It was a year before Churchill would become Prime Minister, and is one of a number of popular science pieces on topics such as evolution and cells he penned in the 1930s to pay for the upkeep of his house in Kent, Chartwell.

His longstanding interest in science began when aged 22 he read Darwin's On the Origin of Species while stationed with the British Army in India and continued during the Second World War when he supported the development of radar.

Israeli astrophysicist Mario Livio, who was given the Churchill essay by the US museum, writing a comment piece on it in Nature, said: 'At a time when a number of today's politicians shun science, I find it moving to recall a leader who engaged with it so profoundly.'

WHAT IS A GOLDILOCKS ZONE? 

The Goldilocks zone is the belt around a star where temperatures are ideal for liquid water to pool on a planet's surface - a key ingredient for life.

Earth inhabits the sun's Goldilocks zone, and astronomers are searching for other rocky planets in the Goldilocks zones of distant stars.

Bigger, hotter stars have their Goldilocks Zones further out, while smaller cooler stars such as M-type red dwarf stars have habitable zones much closer in.

Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the Milky Way galaxy, and have very long life expectancies.

This means that Red dwarf Goldilocks zones are good places to search for alien because organisms have plenty of time to evolve into complex lifeforms.

To determine the location of a star's habitable zone, scientists have to first learn how much total radiation it emits.

Knowing precisely how far away a habitable zone needs to be from a star also depends on chemistry.

For example, molecules in a planet's atmosphere will absorb a certain amount of energy from starlight and radiate the rest back out.

How much of this energy is trapped can mean the difference between a turquoise sea and erupting volcanoes.

Looking for planets in the Goldilocks Zone is a way for scientists to hone in their search for Earth-like planets that could contain life. 

Looking for planets in the Goldilocks Zone, such as Earth's nearby Kepler-22 system, is a way that allows scientists to hone in their search for Earth-like planets that could contain life

Since Churchill's letter in 1939, scientists have discovered several exoplanets outside of the Milky Way that occupy a distant star's Goldilocks zone.

The nearest, named Proxima b, orbits within the habitable zone of our sun's closest star, Proxima Centauri, and may have a mass just 1.3 times that of Earth.

Astronomers believe Proxima b may have a massive ocean and gassy atmosphere perfect for harbouring alien life.

Earlier this month, scientists unveiled plans for a soap-sized probe that measures only a few inches and weighs just 100 grams (0.2lbs) that could explore the mysterious planet. 

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22-01-2022 om 23:54 geschreven door peter  

Derek Craig had been bagging Ben Vorlich and Stùc a' Chròin at Loch Earn on Monday January 3 when something suddenly caught his attention.

By Naina Bhardwaj - Trainee Reporter

A Scots man who believes he may have seen a UFO while bagging a munro has described it as "a special moment" for him.

Derek Craig, of Knightswood in Glasgow, had been bagging Ben Vorlich and Stùc a' Chròin at Loch Earn on Monday, January 3 when he noticed something in the sky.

The 41-year-old had been joined by two of his own friends, Scott McCandless, 43, and Christopher Lee, 43, as well as his son and his two friends.

As the older group made their way back down to join 26-year-old Callum Smith, and his pals, something suddenly caught their attention.

In pitch darkness, just after 4.30pm and in a valley roughly 2,000ft high, the trio saw a strange object shooting across the sky.

Derek explained: "It was a like a wee ball of power, I have no idea what it was, it was unbelievable.

"It was coming back, disappearing, shooting away. You could actually see it pulsing, it was just powerful.

Asked whether it could possibly have been a shooting star, the 41-year-old replied: "No, this thing just moves in so many directions, a shooting star shoots but this thing was doing loop-de-loops.

"At one point, it shoots right up and it pulses twice and it zooms away, it was like something out of Star Wars.

"It also zig-zags in the sky, disappears and then it just appears again."

Derek, who had started his own YouTube channel just weeks before, had been filming the expedition to share online later.

Although he was initially surprised at the sight in real life, he only realised just how much of a unique experience it really was at home.

The Glasgow native continued: "I've never experienced anything like this in my life.

"It's all I'm thinking about constantly, it's so strange what's happened to me."

Derek, who first took up the popular Scottish hobby of munro bagging with Callum in March 2021, has also changed his thoughts on whether there is other life out there.

He said: "I never thought before that there was, I was really skeptical but since I've seen this, I totally believe this was something else.

"That video has changed my beliefs.: He joked: "I don't think we're even human now, it's playing with my head that much."

Derek added: "I can't stop thinking about it, it's absolutely changed my life.

"It was pretty amazing to see."

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22-01-2022 om 23:24 geschreven door peter  

• Ancient paintings assumed to be animal symbols actually represent star maps

• Humans had a sophisticated knowledge of the stars as long as 40,000 years ago 

• They appear to have kept track of time by watching how stars change position

By HARRY PETTIT FOR MAILONLINE 

Some ancient cave paintings assumed to be animal symbols actually represent star constellations, scientists have claimed.

New research suggests humans had a sophisticated knowledge of the stars as long as 40,000 years ago.

They also appear to have kept track of time by watching how stars slowly change their position in the night sky.

The phenomenon, known as precession of the equinoxes, is caused by the gradual shift of Earth's rotational axis.

Its discovery was previously credited to the ancient Greeks thousands of years later.

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Pictured is the Lascaux Shaft Scene in a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of France. The work features a dying man and several animals. According to a new study, it may commemorate a comet strike around 15,200 BC

The cave artists looked to the stars to mark major events such as comet strikes, according to the researchers.

Study leader Dr Martin Sweatman, from the University of Edinburgh, said: 'Early cave art shows that people had advanced knowledge of the night sky within the last ice age. Intellectually, they were hardly any different to us today.'

Teams from the universities of Edinburgh and Kent studied details of Palaeolithic and Neolithic cave art sites in Turkey, Spain, France and Germany.

Animal symbol pictures daubed on the walls of the caves were aged by chemically dating the paints used.

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Computer software was then employed to predict the positions of stars when the paintings were made.

The results showed that what looked like abstract depictions of animals could be interpreted as zodiac signs based on constellations as they appeared at the time.

At every site, the cave artists practised a method of time keeping based on astronomy, the scientists claimed.

This was despite the fact that the paintings were separated in time by tens of thousands of years.

The world's oldest sculpture, the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany (pictured), an ivory carving almost 40,000 years old, was also found to support the zodiac symbol theory

The world's oldest sculpture, the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany, an ivory carving almost 40,000 years old, was also found to support the zodiac symbol theory.

Researchers said an ancient carved stone pillar from Gobekli Tepe in Turkey provided them with their 'Rosetta Stone' - the key to unlocking the zodiac code.

It was thought to commemorate a devastating meteor impact in North America 11,000 years ago that led to the Younger Dryas Event, a period of sudden climate cooling that triggered a mini-ice age across the northern hemisphere.

The authors wrote in their paper: 'The date carved into the Vulture Stone is interpreted to be 10,950 BC, to within 250 years.

'This date is written using precession of the equinoxes, with animal symbols representing star constellations corresponding to the four solstices and equinoxes of this year.'

The scientists also decoded what is probably the best known ancient artwork, the Lascaux Shaft Scene in a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of France.

The work features a dying man and several animals.

It may commemorate another comet strike around 15,200 BC, the researchers suggest.

Dr Sweatman added: 'These findings support a theory of multiple comet impacts over the course of human development, and will probably revolutionise how prehistoric populations are seen.'

The study was published in the Athens Journal of History.

WHAT EXAMPLES OF EARLY HUMAN ART HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED WORLDWIDE?

It seems that humanity and its ancestors have been driven to create patterns, abstract images and representations of the world around them for thousands of years.

The earliest known engraving, a zig-zag pattern, incised on a fresh water shell from Trinil, Java, was found in layers of sediment dated to 540,000 years ago.

A recent article proposed that painted representations in three caves of the Iberian Peninsula were 64,000 years old and therefore produced by Neanderthals. 

The oldest known shell (top) to have been engraved by an early human has been uncovered in a Dutch museum collection, where it remained unnoticed since the 1930s. Pictured here is its polished edge (bottom)

Lifelike images found at sites such as the famous Lascaux Cave in south-west France, which date to around 30,000 years ago, are said to demonstrate an ability to depict animal movement superior to that seen today.   

In 2018, experts uncovered evidence of art made by humans dating back 73,000 years in an African cave.

Scientists say the drawing, which consists of three red lines cross-hatched with six separate lines, was 'intentionally created' on a smooth silcrete flake.

That makes the drawing, found in the Blombos Caves site in South Africa, the oldest drawing by Homo sapiens ever found, experts say.

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• Athens Journal of History | Academic Journals

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22-01-2022 om 23:23 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Star Maps: “40,000-Year-Old Ancient Paintings Reveal Highly Advanced Knowledge in Astronomy”

According to a scientific study, 40,000-year-old rock paintings with star maps demonstrate a fantastic application of advanced astronomy in ancient times.

Advanced astronomical representations can be found in ancient rock art.

What were thought to be archaic animal glyphs turned revealed to be an ancient star map.

According to new research, our forefathers were demonstrated to have a significant astronomical understanding of early rock art. This suggests that knowledge was not that different between the old ice era and today.

Star charts from the past.

Observing how the stars altered their positions in the sky, scientists discovered that ancient humans had excellent control over the passage of time.

This has been demonstrated by art unearthed in many parts of Europe, which is not only animal images as previously thought.

And it’s because these figures are actually depictions of star constellations in the night sky. They were used to symbolize, date, and commemorate significant events.

According to researchers at the University of Edinburgh, ancient peoples fully comprehended the impact of progressive changes in the Earth’s axis of rotation.

The ancient Greeks were originally credited with discovering the phenomena known as the precession of the equinoxes.

These findings, according to researcher Martin Sweatman, corroborate the notion of several comet impacts during human evolution. As a result, it’s conceivable that they’ll change the way people think about prehistoric civilizations.

The research was based on cave explorations in Turkey, Spain, France, and Germany, with the art being chemically dated to determine its age.

It was originally thought to be a portrayal of wild creatures, but it turned out to be a representation of constellations.

Knowledge of constellations at a high level

 The scientists were able to anticipate the position of the stars at the time the paintings were created thanks to the use of computer tools.

This revealed that it is about deciphering constellations as they appeared in the past.

These cave paintings are, in fact, compelling proof that ancient humans used a complex form of timekeeping based on astronomical calculations, according to the researchers.

Even though the cave drawings were separated in time by tens of thousands of years, all of this was conceivable.

For example, scientists determined that the Lion-Man from the Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave is the world’s oldest sculpture, dating back to 38,000 BC. This works with the previous time system.

The figurine commemorates the disastrous collision of an asteroid 11,000 years ago, which kicked off the Younger Dryas Event. A period in which the weather abruptly cools.

How did early humans acquire such a sophisticated understanding of constellations? It’s still a mystery. It would appear nonsensical without modern technology and instruments.

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22-01-2022 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

Deze foto heeft voor veel verwarring gezorgd: Greta Thunberg gevonden op een 123 jaar oude foto

De meeste mensen in de moderne wereld hebben gehoord van Greta Thunberg. Ik bedoel, hoe zouden ze dat niet kunnen hebben?

Deze 18-jarige klimaatactiviste heeft meer gedaan om het huidige ultravervuilende systeem waarin we leven te bestrijden dan de meeste zogenaamde “wereldleiders” samen.

In een tijd waarin goed zijn in niets doen en vragen ontwijken je een succesvolle politieke carrière oplevert, is het verfrissend om te zien dat iemand het opneemt tegen de chagrijnige dinosaurussen aan de macht en weigert de nijpende situatie te accepteren waarin onze planeet zich momenteel bevindt.

Maar nu, een afbeelding die online floreert suggereert dat ze misschien terug in de tijd is gereisd…

Ze zeggen dat alle mensen op aarde een dubbelganger hebben, iemand die er precies hetzelfde uitziet. Of je erin gelooft of niet, is natuurlijk aan jou – maar het lijkt erop dat Greta Thunberg er in ieder geval één had.

Een foto uit 1898

Een zwart-wit foto die volgens Metro uit de archieven van de Universiteit van Washington komt – toont drie kinderen die werken in een goudmijn in het Canadese Yukon Territory in 1898 – maar iemand die we kennen staat er op… Greta Thunberg!

De foto is dus 123 jaar oud, en het meisje links lijkt griezelig veel op de Zweedse klimaatactiviste. Zou het kunnen dat de 18-jarige Zweed terug in de tijd kan reizen?

Nah, natuurlijk niet – toch? .. Ik zou me nog steeds zorgen maken als ik Donald Trump of Jair Bolsonaro was.

Lijkt sprekend op Greta Thunberg

Sommigen beweren dat de foto nep is. Wij kunnen niet garanderen dat dit niet het geval is, maar verschillende grote mediakanalen – zoals de New York Post, 7 News, en Unilad – zeggen dat de foto echt is.

Kijk eens extra naar het meisje op de genoemde foto – lijkt ze niet griezelig veel op Greta Thunberg?!

Wat vind jij ervan? 

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22-01-2022 om 21:24 geschreven door peter  

Video: Huge Green Fireball Seen Over Hungary

A stunning green fireball lit up the skies over Hungary this past Thursday night. The bright meteor was caught on multiple cameras by a variety of witnesses. UPI reports that, at this time, it's not known whether any fragments hit the ground or the entire object burned up in the atmosphere. View additional videos on this Hungarian website.

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22-01-2022 om 20:49 geschreven door peter  

Underground Race Of Aliens: UFOs Can Come From Inside The Earth

For the first time, researchers started talking about an unknown underground people in 1946. This happened after the writer, journalist and scientist Richard Shaver told readers of the American paranormal magazine Amazing Stories about his contact with aliens living underground.

According to Shaver, he lived for several weeks in the underworld of mutants, similar to demons, described in ancient legends and tales of earthlings.

By the way, practically any nation has similar myths telling about the race of ancient creatures that inhabited the planet Earth millions of years before a human foot set foot on it. Infinitely wise, talented and culturally advanced, they do not want to have anything to do with people.

One could attribute this “contact” to the writer’s wild imagination, if not for hundreds of responses from readers who claimed that they also visited underground cities, communicated with their inhabitants and saw various miracles of technology, not only providing the underground inhabitants of the Earth with a comfortable existence in its very depths, but also giving the opportunity to… control the consciousness of earthlings!

This extraordinary story, oddly enough, had a huge impact on scientists and gave a new impetus to the study of the paranormal.

However, the fact that the Earth is an empty sphere was claimed in his writings by the 17th-century English astronomer Edmund Halley, the writers Jules Berne in his novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, Edgar Poe in Arthur Gordon Pym’s Narrative, and some others.

Moreover, in the 18th-19th centuries in the United States of America, the possibility of equipping a special scientific expedition was even considered, which would prove that our planet is a hollow sphere and it is easy to penetrate into its depths through holes in the earth’s crust.

But as it turned out over time, getting underground is not so easy.

The deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the “Kola well.” It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970.

After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft). Work continued until the project was abandoned in 1989 because the drill became stuck in rock at a little over 12km (almost 40,000ft or 8 miles) deep. That is the current record for a depth reached by humans.

So, the shell of the Earth is much larger than scientists can unearth.

Scientists of the Third Reich were also very interested in the mysterious world of the underground. For example, back in 1942, with the support of Goering and Himmler, an expedition, which included the most advanced minds of National Socialist Germany, went to look for an underground civilization in an atmosphere of great secrecy.

The “home” of the super-developed peoples of antiquity was supposed to be found on the island of Rugen, located in the Baltic Sea. The expedition had other goals as well. German scientists seriously hoped that if they could place fundamentally new radar devices underground, they would come close to the goal of world domination.

In 1963, two American miners, David Fellin and Henry Thorne, while tunneling, saw a huge door, behind which marble steps descended.

The Story brings us to the events on August 13,1963, at Sheppton, located in the anthracite coal belt of Schuylkill County in eastern Pennsylvania where the famed Sheppton Mine Disaster and Rescue transpired. Three men were trapped some 330 feet beneath the earth after the collapse of a mining shaft.

Some two weeks later, on Tuesday, August 27th, two of the miners, Henry Throne and David Fellin, were brought safely to the surface, after rescuers successfully drilled a 17 1/2-inch and later 28-inch borehole into their chamber, while the third miner, Lou Bova, being trapped in another part of the mine, regrettably perished.

The story of Throne and Fellin’s survival and rescue were enough to captivate the world’s attention, but it was what they claimed they saw and heard, while entombed, that fascinated the public, statements which both men swore as to their authenticity, both separately and publicly, emphatic declarations which they took to their graves, though others believed they had simultaneously witnessed the same hallucinations.

David Fellin’s ‘affidavit’ was printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on August 29, 1963, wherein he remarked how, “Now they’re trying to tell me those things were hallucinations, that we imagined it all. We didn’t. Our minds weren’t playing tricks on us. I’ve been a practical, hard-headed coal miner all my life. My mind was clear down there in the mine. It’s still clear.”

Fellin went on to remark, how some of the things he and Throne saw, they couldn’t explain in words, while on the other hand, he stated that, “On the fourth or fifth day, we saw this door although we had no light from above or from our helmets. The door was covered in bright blue light. It was very clear, better than sunlight. Two ordinary looking men, not miners, opened the door.

We could see beautiful marble steps on the other side. We saw this for some time and then we didn’t see it… We saw many other things like that that you couldn’t explain. But I’m not going to tell you about them because I feel too deeply about all this.”

Other miners, already in England, digging an underground tunnel, heard the sounds of working mechanisms coming from below. When the stone mass was broken through, a staircase leading to an underground well was also discovered.

The sounds of running machines intensified. Frightened to death, the workers ran away, and returning after some time to this place, they could no longer find either the entrance to the underground well or the stairs.

In the 1970s, interesting photographs were obtained from an American satellite, which then went around many Western scientific journals: in the place where the North Pole should be located, the satellite discovered a dark spot of the correct form, similar to a huge hole. It would be possible to attribute these pictures to failures in the equipment, if not for exactly the same photos taken a few years later.

Also interesting are the testimonies of the anthropologist James Macken, who examined a cave in Idaho, which is notorious among the indigenous population. Makkena and his companions, after several hundred meters of careful movement along a wide stone corridor, suddenly heard screams and groans, and soon terrible finds in the form of human skeletons appeared before them. Unfortunately, further exploration of the cave, which in these parts was considered the entrance to the underworld, had to be stopped: the smell of sulfur was simply unbearable.

If we turn to the opinion of scientists, then geologists do not share the theory of the ubiquitous cavity of the Earth, although they do not deny the possible presence of huge hollow spaces in its depths.

It is unlikely that people could live there, because inside our planet there is not only a rather high temperature, but also very little oxygen, but it is full of other gases that are incompatible with human life. All this prompted restless researchers to create a new hypothesis: perhaps the underground civilization has an extraterrestrial origin?

And why not? Perhaps, alien beings, tired of the constant wars and strife of mankind, moved underground, from where they still observe our development … And it is from under the earth, and not from other galaxies, that they appear from time to time. time in the sky on flying saucers, come into contact with people and conduct their cruel experiments on them.

But here a legitimate question arises: if our Earth is still hollow from the inside, then why the entrance to the underworld has not yet been discovered. The group of scientists from the United States came closest to the possible truth, which suggested that underground cities exist … in the fourth dimension.

And only when the Earth’s electromagnetic field changes from time to time, tunnel entrances open on its surface, allowing you to see underground cities and their inhabitants. At other times this is not possible.

And if we really lean towards the hypothesis that some kind of intelligent beings lives in the bowels of our planet, many mysterious phenomena would find their explanation.

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22-01-2022 om 20:29 geschreven door peter  

One of the clearest photographs of a real flying saucer taken in Tepic, Mexico

One of the clearest photographs of a real flying saucer taken in Tepic, Mexico

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22-01-2022 om 18:42 geschreven door peter  

In 1953, the most famous UFO Contactee, George Adamski, gave a number of lectures in the Los Angeles area, stating that his data on UFOs and aliens had “all been cleared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Air Force Intelligence.” It most definitely had not been cleared. Personnel from both the FBI and the Air Force heard of this and descended on Adamski, warning him to quit his crap. For a while, Adamski did exactly what he was told to do: Stop! Unfortunately for Adamski, he was a magnet for publicity and praise. So, yet again he told his foaming fans he had supporters in the FBI and the Air Force. That the FBI had agents sitting in every lecture Adamski ever gave in California in the fifties, meant that Hoover’s finest were getting more and more frustrated and angrier by the day. They made a decision: they paid Adamski another visit. Whereas on the first occasion Adamski was “warned” to stop, on the next occasion, as the now-declassified reports show, the FBI “severely admonished” him for all of his extra-terrestrial idiocy. The FBI demanded that Adamski would never, ever again make such claims about the military and the FBI. To ensure that, one of the FBI agents whipped out an official document they demanded Adamski sign. He did. One of the agents signed it too, as did a somewhat bemused Air Force officer who thought the whole thing was a farce of epic proportions. Surely that would have made Adamski get the message. It didn’t. The man who claimed to have met 1960s-era hippy-looking aliens was about to find himself in a bucketful of serious shit with a band of unsmiling G-Men.

Declassified into the public domain by the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (and free for anyone to read and use) is just one page of Adamski’s 300-pages-plus FBI file.

It was roughly nine months further down the line when the FBI’s Los Angeles office received a visit from a representative of the L.A. Better Business Bureau. Staff of the BBB were concerned that Adamski’s 1953 book Flying Saucers Have Landed (co-written with Desmond Leslie) was one big scam. One way or another, their staff was determined to get the answers. One of the BBB went knocking on Adamski’s door. The whole story of alien encounters was true, Adamski said earnestly to the man. It’s hardly surprising that the BBB was having none of this book of lies and exaggerations. Adamski hit back by saying his book was endorsed by the U.S. government. To prove this, Adamski pulled out of his pocket a document that had a “blue seal in the lower left corner, at the top of which appeared the names of three Government agents,” as the FBI described things. One of those names was attached to an Air Force officer. Two were of FBI agents. Incredibly, and recklessly, what Adamski had shown to the BBB employee was actually that document Adamski had been ordered to sign some nine months earlier, at the order of the FBI. Worse still for Adamski, he had altered the document. He’d taken real FBI paperwork, fiddled around with it, and changed it for his benefit. This was the last straw for the men in black suits. An FBI summary of this run-around, of December 16, 1953 reads:

(Nick Redfern)

“[Deleted] instructed Willis to call on Adamski at the Palomar Gardens Café, Valley Center, California. (This is located five miles east of Rincon, California, near the Mount Palomar Observatory.) Willis was told to have the San Diego agents, accompanied by representatives of OSI if they care to go along, call on Adamski and read the riot act in no uncertain terms pointing out he has used this document in a fraudulent, improper manner, that this Bureau has not endorsed, approved, or cleared his speeches or book, that he knows it, and the Bureau will simply not tolerate any further foolishness, misrepresentations, and falsity on his part. Willis was told to instruct the Agents to diplomatically retrieve, if possible, the document in issue from Adamski. Willis said he would do this and send in a report at once.” Adamski was very lucky he didn’t end up with some degree of jail-time. Maybe, that would have given him even more publicity, something both the FBI and the Air Force were extremely keen and careful to avoid. That Adamski had the wrath of God put into him finally ensured that his document-doctoring days were over. And, by the late-1950s, Adamski’s “career” as a ufological guru began to tail off. He lived until 1965, by which time many people in Ufology had dismissed the man and his wacky, “I flew to Venus”-style pseudo-science.

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22-01-2022 om 17:04 geschreven door peter  

‘UFO’ Docu-Series Exposes The Cover-Ups And Alien Encounters

In 2017, a bombshell New York Times article revealed that the US government had been secretly tracking UFOs for years. And now, the explosive new Paramount+ docu-series ‘UFO’ delves deeper to expose the cover-ups and alien encounters that will change the way you think.

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22-01-2022 om 16:27 geschreven door peter  

The Real Story of Medusa: Protective Powers from a Snake-Haired Gorgon

Stone carved panel of the head of Medusa.

( Shelli Jensen / Adobe)

Thus, the description of Medusa changed from one of an alluring lady, as Ovid describes in Metamorphoses:

Medusa once had charms; to gain her love
A rival crowd of envious lovers strove.
They, who have seen her, own, they ne'er did trace
More moving features in a sweeter face.
Yet above all, her length of hair, they own,
In golden ringlets wav'd, and graceful shone.
– Ovid, Metamorphoses

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To a monstrous being which Virgil writes of in a far less attractive manner:

“In the middle is the Gorgon Medusa, an enormous monster about whom snaky locks twist their hissing mouths; her eyes stare malevolently, and under the base of her chin the tail-ends of serpents have tied knots.”

Some other variations of the myth suggest that Medusa and the other Gorgons were always hideous monsters and covered with snakes.

The Legend of Medusa and Perseus

The full myth of Perseus and Medusa begins years before they battled. Perseus was the son of Danae, daughter of Acrisius the King of Argos, and Zeus. The god had impregnated the princess in the form of a shower of gold after her father had locked her away upon learning from an oracle that he would be killed by his grandson. Acrisius feared the child, but wanted to avoid Zeus’ wrath, so instead of killing Perseus, he sent the baby and Danae out to sea in a wooden chest.

Dictys of the island of Seriphus rescued the two and he raised Perseus like a son. However, there were others close by who weren’t so kind to the boy. In the myth of Perseus , the hero is sent by Polydectes, Dictys’ brother and the king of Seriphus, on a quest to bring him the head of Medusa. This was a trick because Polydectes desired Perseus’ mother and wanted to get rid of her son, who was not in favor of the relationship. Such a mission would have been equivalent to suicide for Perseus and Polydectes did not expect him to ever return to Seriphus.

As Perseus was the son of Zeus, he was aided by the gods. Perseus received the Cap of Invisibility from Hades, a pair of winged sandals from Hermes, a reflective bronze shield from Athena, and a sword from Hephaestus. With these divine gifts, Perseus sought out Medusa and decapitated her with the bronze shield while she was asleep.

Head of Medusa by Peter Paul Rubens.

( Public Domain )

Immediately after the Gorgon was beheaded, the winged horse Pegasus sprung out from her neck. In the Theogony, Hesiod also mentions that the golden giant Chrysaor, who was born with a golden sword in his hand, emerged from the severed neck of Medusa. Medusa’s sisters also arrived on the scene around the same time and chased Perseus. But the hero escaped by using the Cap of Invisibility. Some versions of the myth say he took Pegasus with him as well.

After this, Perseus flew away via Hermes’ sandals or Pegasus, setting course for Seriphus. But he had several other exciting events before returning to the island. Although Perseus may be at the center of these stories, it could be argued that it is the transformative powers of Medusa’s severed head that played a pivotal role in the hero’s subsequent adventures.

Pegasus emerges from the body of Medusa. ‘The Perseus Series: The Death of Medusa I’ by Edward Burne-Jones.

( Public Domain )

The Powers of Medusa’s Head

When the blood dripped from Medusa’s head onto the plains of Libya, each drop of blood transformed into venomous serpents. The power of Medusa’s head is seen again when Perseus encountered the Titan Atlas. When Perseus asked Atlas for a place to rest for a short while, his request was refused. Knowing that he would not be able to defeat the Titan with brute force alone, he took out Medusa’s head and Atlas was turned into a mountain.

Perseus also encountered Andromeda, the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. Using Medusa’s head, Perseus succeeded in rescuing the princess, who was being sacrificed to Cetus, a sea monster sent by Poseidon to punish Cassiopeia for boasting that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids. Medusa’s petrifying power is also used on Phineus, Andromeda’s uncle whom she was betrothed to, Proetus, the usurper of the throne of Argos, and finally Polydectes himself. Perseus’ friend Dictys took the throne and, now finished with the relic, Perseus gave Medusa’s head to Athena, who wears it on her aegis whenever she goes into battle.

Perseus Confronting Phineus with the Head of Medusa by Sebastiano Ricci.

( Public Domain )

Keeping the Medusa Myth Alive

Although Medusa is commonly regarded as a monster, her head is often seen as a protective amulet that would keep evil away. In fact, the name Medusa comes from an ancient Greek verb meaning “to guard or protect.”

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The image of Medusa’s head can be seen in numerous Greek and subsequent Roman artifacts such as shields, breastplates, and mosaics. One such example of a protective Medusa head pendant appeared in the form of a late 2nd to 4th century AD Roman artifact recently unearthed in the Cambridgeshire countryside . A 2,000-year-old marble head of Medusa was found not too long ago at a former Roman commercial center in Turkey as well. There are also numerous coins that bear not only the imagery of Perseus holding the head of Medusa, but also the head in its own right.

A Roman cameo of Medusa’s head from the 2nd or 3rd century.

(Sailko/ CC BY SA 3.0 )

Today, the most well-known image of Medusa’s head belongs perhaps to the logo of the Italian fashion company, Versace. And let’s not forget that Medusa also made headline gaming news in the not so distant past as a tough boss battle for players in the newest game of the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise . These factors remind us that myths of the ancient world are still alive and with us in the modern world.

• Top Image: Detail of a modern representation of Medusa.
• Source: Riordan Wiki

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22-01-2022 om 01:29 geschreven door peter  

A couple of days ago I wrote here at Mysterious Universe on why, in my opinion, the 1950s-era “Space Brothers” should not have been trusted. Not only that, I briefly highlighted the work of the late writer Mac Tonnies, who suspected that the Space Brothers may not have been aliens at all, but were possibly from right here on our planet. In other words, Tonnies pondered on the possibility that the Space Brothers were, collectively, an ancient human society that has the power to move among us in stealth. In terms of his theorizing, Tonnies said to me: “After devouring countless books on the UFO controversy and the paranormal, I began to acknowledge that the extraterrestrial hypothesis suffered some tantalizing flaws. In short, the ‘aliens’ seemed more like surreal caricatures of ourselves than beings possessing the god-like technology one might plausibly expect from interstellar visitors. Like Jacques Vallee, I came to the realization that the extraterrestrial hypothesis isn’t strange enough to encompass the entirety of occupant cases. But if we’re dealing with humanoid beings that evolved here on earth, some of the problems vanish. My hypothesis works too when we apply it to Martians stranded [on Earth] and who, I sometimes wonder, are waiting for the day when our world becomes theirs.”

(Nick Redfern)

Just before he died, Mac Tonnies gave me this piece of artwork as a gift. A Cryptoterrestrial and not an Extraterrestrial?

Tonnies continued: “I envision the Cryptoterrestrials engaged in a process of subterfuge, bending our belief systems to their own ends. And I suggest that this has been occurring, in form or another, for an extraordinarily long time. I think there’s a good deal of folkloric and mythological evidence pointing in this direction, and I find it most interesting that so many descriptions of ostensible ‘aliens’ seem to reflect staged events designed to misdirect witnesses and muddle their perceptions.” Tonnies also acknowledged that at least some of the Cryptoterrestrials looked somewhat different to us. Yes, they could move among us, but if you looked at them too close you would see there was something very strange about them. With that said, let’s look at these “slightly different ones,” as I put it. It occurs to me that the Men in Black and the Women in Black just might be Cryptoterrestrials. Consider this: they look like us, but take a nearer look and you’ll see their skin often has a plastic-like appearance to it. Their eyes bulge. And you’ll see them wearing wigs and wraparound sunglasses. All of that suggests that the MIB and the WIB just might be examples of what at least some of the Cryptoterrestrials look like.

(Nick Redfern)

They’re just not quite right

Author and UFO researcher Denise Stoner told me of a very strange experience she had some years ago: “My Mom and I had gone to the mall on Christmas Eve for a couple of last minute stocking stuffer type gifts.  We actually knew what we wanted so parked outside J.C. Penney’s on the side where those goods were. We went in and immediately noticed that in late afternoon, there were only a few shoppers. We picked out our gifts and got in line at the cashier in back of two other people. We could easily see the exit door and the sun in the parking lot, we were facing that way. The glass doors opened and two very tall, thin women entered. They had long almost waist length blond hair parted in the middle on top and it was thin in texture. Their skin was also pale and I did not notice any make up but each had huge piercing blue eyes.” Over the years, Denise has had run-in with these not-quite-normal characters.

Now, onto a strange saga that went down in early 1967. The location: Melville, New York. It involved a rancher whose farm was located in a rural, isolated part of town. Only days before he received a most unwelcome visit, the man saw a definitive flying saucer hovering over one of his fields, and which – somewhat amazingly – had what was described as a “ladder” hanging from its underside. At least, until the ladder was hastily retracted and the saucer shot away, high into the sky, and vanished from view. That was hardly the end of the matter, however. Just a few days later, the man heard a knock at the door. Given that his home was in the middle of pretty much nowhere, he opened the door both slowly and cautiously. Stood before him was a “Gypsy lady” who was dressed in a gray dress that reached her ankles and who wore sandals. Just like so many of the Men in Black, her skin was noted for its deep, olive complexion, and her eyes were described as “Oriental.” The rancher added that she stood around five-feet and four inches tall, and had long hair that was “so black” it “looked dyed.” And, finally…

(Nick Redfern)

Hats and Darkness: perfect camouflage for a Cryptoterrestrial

It was a wintry, freezing, and dark Saturday afternoon in the latter part of January 1987 and a man named Bruce Lee – who worked as a senior editor at a New York publishing house, William Morrow & Co. – walked into a bookstore on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It was the now- closed-down Womrath’s, on Lexington Avenue. Also with Lee was his wife. It turns out that William Morrow & Co. had then very recently published Whitley Strieber’s New York Times’ bestseller, Communion – a book that told of Strieber’s very own and deeply personal encounters of the so-called “alien abduction” variety. Womrath’s had a large display set up for Communion and they also stocked a couple of Lee’s own books. Quite naturally, Lee, who had also worked for Reader’s Digest and Newsweek, was curious to see how both of the displays looked. At this point, Lee and his wife parted and she headed off to the fiction section.

Lee’s attention was suddenly drawn to a strange couple that entered the store. In his own words, the pair headed “directly for Communion.” He explained: “I mean, it was just, you could see them come in – they didn’t know where the book was, you couldn’t see it from the street – and they came in and headed right back for where that rack was. Most unusual, if you see what I mean.” Yes, we do.  That was not the only unusual thing about that fateful, Saturday afternoon. Both the man and the woman were barely five feet in height – maybe even slightly smaller. They had scarves that covered their chins, hats pulled tightly down, and huge, black sunglasses. They also appeared to begin speed-reading the book, noting out loud – one might even suggest for Lee’s benefit – where Strieber had “got this wrong” and “got that wrong.” They also giggled in a strange, unsettling fashion. We’ve seen that before, too. Quite naturally, given that he worked for the very publisher that had just released Communion, Lee walked over and asked the pair what was wrong with the book. The woman suddenly looked up, at which point Lee was able to see through her sunglasses that her eyes were not just large, but huge, and shaped like almonds. Lee, by his own admission, felt the hackles on the back of his neck rise, and got a “mad dog”” feeling emanating from the woman. He was likely not wrong when he observed: “I got to feeling that I was in eyeball contact with somebody who did not like me at all.”

Could all of these slightly strange characters be prime examples of Mac Tonnies’ Cryptoterrestrials? Perhaps, that’s exactly what they were.

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21-01-2022 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

Extreme Close Up! Orb On Live Space Walk At Space Station, Jan 19, 2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 19, 2022
Location of sighting: Space station

 

Guys, I made an extreme close up of the UFO that appeared during a spacewalk at the space station. I made two close ups and slowed the speed down by 6X so that you can see its full detail. Its totally focused and easy to see that yes its an orb. But I noticed something odd. The orb radiates a fluctuation in its luminosity and all the while the color of it changes ever so slightly. To show this, I added shadows and added color enhancing...its in the end of the video. Hope the video stirs your imagination as much as it excites mine. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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21-01-2022 om 18:51 geschreven door peter