Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
24-04-2022
Astrophysicist believes alien tech may ‘have crashed into Pacific Ocean’
Astrophysicist believes alien tech may ‘have crashed into Pacific Ocean’
By Harry Pettit, The Sun
A US Space Command memo released last week confirmed that the object was an interstellar meteor, but Professor Loeb disagrees.
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A top scientist is plotting a mission to find what he believes is alien technology lying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Controversial astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes an interstellar object that crash-landed on Earth in 2014 was some form of spacecraft.
A US Space Command (USSC) report released last week confirmed that the object was from another star system.
The agency concluded that the projectile – which streaked across the sky off the coast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea – was a meteor.
Prof. Loeb, however, is having none of it. He claimed on Wednesday that the object could have been built by extraterrestrials.
“Our discovery of an interstellar meteor heralds a new research frontier,” the Harvard astronomer wrote in an essay for The Debrief.
“The fundamental question is whether any interstellar meteor might indicate a composition that is unambiguously artificial in origin.
“Better still, perhaps some technological components would survive the impact.”
Prof. Loeb has spent decades studying astronomy and more recently has trained his sights on the possibility that life exists beyond Earth.
His bold claims frequently make headlines and he has faced criticism from others in his field over his outlandish extraterrestrial theories.
Working with a student at Harvard, Prof. Loeb was actually the astronomer who identified the object as interstellar a few years ago.
The pair wrote a paper about it but were instructed not to publish it because they used classified government data for their research.
Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard University’s Astronomy Department, poses for a portrait with the 15-inch telescope known as “The Great Refractor,” which was installed in 1847, in Cambridge, MA on March 27, 2019.Boston Globe via Getty Images
After the USSC confirmed their hunch on April 7, Loeb is calling for an expedition to find whatever’s left of the object.
In his essay, he noted that a retrieval expedition could be achieved using “scooping” magnets to explore the 10 square kilometer region of the Pacific Ocean where the object is thought to have landed.
“My dream is to press some buttons on a functional piece of equipment that was manufactured outside of Earth,” he added.
The prolific astrophysicist is no stranger to controversy.
He has produced provocative research on black holes, space radiation, the early universe and other topics of his field.
Over the past decade, his focus has been trained on a more contentious topic: The possibility that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.
Prof. Loeb has repeatedly claimed that Oumuamua – an interstellar object that zipped through the Solar System in 2017 was technology sent by aliens.
He doubled down on the heavily contested comments – which earned him headlines across the globe – in a book published last year.
“What would happen if a caveman saw a cellphone?” Loeb wrote. “He’s seen rocks all his life, and he would have thought it was just a shiny rock.”
He took fault with astronomers who argued that the object was a comet, saying it was akin to letting “the familiar to define what we might discover.”
Many scientists have rubbished his outlandish claims, branding them cavalier and irresponsible.
Loeb heads up the Galileo Project, which aims to establish a network of advanced telescopes that will scan the skies for signs of alien life.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced here with permission.
Full Body Apparition Caught On Home CCTV & Action Figure Filmed Moving It's Head On Its Own...
Clip One:This was capture by the CCTV camera of a home in Tucson, Arizona on November 11, 2021 but just posted a day ago. The ghostly figure in this footage is transparent as we can see it but also see right through is and just before the footage ends the apparition disappears. The witness stated this: "Years ago our former next door neighbor asked if anyone had died in their house - apparently they were experiencing things they couldn't explain. After a rash of thefts on our street, we installed security cameras and recorded this, about 10 seconds in, moving from right to left before vanishing." Thanks to MementoMori for allowing the use of this footage and to view the original:
Clip Two: This clip was posted to Reddit 8 days ago by Tony Ricco and i the clip we can see this action figure turn it's head. What do you guys think this could be? Thanks to Tony Ricco for posting this clip and to view the original:
Date of sighting:4017-2022 Location of sighting: Hawaii
Now this amazing galaxy-like light was seen moving across the sky by the Mauna Kea Observatory. The light seems to look like a failed rocket launch or mini black hole forming in the sky. So far there have been no official reports about it and no official answers to what it might be. In my opinion it is a temporary portal in which UFOs come and go in a blink of an eye to from their home world to Earth. These kind of portals would be less seen over the ocean area, but was accidentally caught by the observatory telescope. This is 100% proof of aliens transporting to our planet.
THE PENTAGON has another sensational UFO video taken from the deck of a US warship showing two car-sized ball of light objects.
Footage is said to have been filmed by crew aboard the USS Kearsarge of the strange encounter - but it has now been locked away and marked as classified.
Documentary filmmaker Dave C. Beaty - who produced 2019 film The Nimitz Encounters about the famous 2004 US Navy encounter with the "Tic Tac" object - said he understands the video exists.
It comes as US military begins to open up about the phenomena which is now being openly discussed by military insiders and politicians.
Mr Beaty revealed details of the USS Kearsarge's encounter earlier this month as it becomes the latest warship to have been shadowed by UFOs.
Mock up of two balls of light flying over the USS Kearsarge
The phenomena - described by sources familiar with the encounter as odd and menacing "balls of light" - are said to have been following around half a mile behind the ship and around 200 feet above the ocean in October 2021.
Mr Beaty said the US Marines who sighted the objects filed a report on the incident with the Department of Defence.
The report included a video - but that report and footage is now understand to have been marked as classified.
It shows that while many in the US are attempting to be more open about subject - there still remains a veil of secrecy around the issue, with some well placed civil servants opting to be more bureaucratic than others.
The US Navy officially updated its UFO reporting guidelines in 2019 as it sought to "update and formalise" the process.
It is understood a message to the fleet was sent out detailing these new instructions and procedures.
UFOs are now more commonly referred to as UAPs - unidentified aerial phenomena.
Documents released this week explained the change, telling the US Navy's press office to explicitly not use the term UFO.
USS Kearsarge is the latest warship to have had a UFO encounter
Credit: FACEBOOK/USS Kearsage
"The latter term is intrinsically linked to the concept of extra-terrestrials and the associated hysteria generated by the media that cover this topic," it reads.
Much of the US's renewed efforts over UAP sightings has been an apparent effort to seemingly focus the reporting process.
The UAP report released last summer said that "efforts are underway to standardize incident reporting across the US military services and other government agencies".
But it is understood however that UAP reports remain filed as classified.
And this is something which frustrates many who call for more openness in the investigation of the topic, including open up the files so they can be studied by the scientific community.
USS Kearsarge had been training at the time ahead of an overseas deployment - including with systems designed to take down enemy drones.
The weapons included anti-drone "Ghostbusters" style backpacks, and systems mounted on vehicles.
Pictures from the ship's public Facebook page reveal they had these capabilities onboard at the time of the encounter.
The objects are said to have been spotted by the deck-watch at night - who could not gain a thermal targeting lock on them.
They're not ours
Marines onboard are said to have believed at first that the UFO's were part of a surprise training exercise for the new anti-drone weapons. However, they discovered the countermeasures did not disrupt the objects - which were doing swooping manoeuvres as they followed the ship. Mark told Mr Beaty that the USS Kearsarge radioed command about the objects and were shockingly informed that the objects were "not ours".
Marines pictured aboard USS Kearsarge at time of the encounter
Mr Beaty previously revealed deck logs that confirmed a UFO encounter by the USS Kidd - when the destroyer was swarmed by at least four unexplained objects in July of 2019.
And there has been a step change in recent years, after the viral trio of US Navy UFO videos, the "Gimbal", "Go Fast", and "Tic Tac".
The footage stunned people around the world and remains unexplained to this day - sparking a new, more mainstream, interest in UFOs.
US officials have now set up a new office in the Pentagon - putting an official reporting structure in place for UFO encounters for the first time in decades.
It came after a landmark report on the subject was released last summer - confirming dozens of unexplained encounters, now officially referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).
Defence insiders, intelligence officials, senators and former presidents have all gone on record admitting there is an unexplained "something" in our skies.
And it comes after the Pentagon released 1,574 pages of documents related to its UFO programme.
The documents were government commissioned scientific reports and letters to the Pentagon regarding the UFO programme it claims is now shut down.
The haul includes reports into research on the biological effects of UFO sightings on humans, sets out categorisations for paranormal experiences, and studies into sci-fi-style tech.
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De ruimtefoto van de week is deze schitterende Hubble-foto van de engelachtige nevel S106. In het centrum van de nevel schuilt een jonge, maar ook zeer actieve ster.
Met een beetje fantasie herken je een engel in deze nevel. Draai je de foto een kwartslag, dan zie je misschien een zandloper. De vleugels van de engel hebben een lichtblauwe gloed. Deze vleugels bestaan uit heet waterstofgas, in beweging gebracht door de ster IRS 4 (Infrared Source 4) in het centrum van de nevel. Rondom deze ster bevindt zich een ring van stof en gas, die je het beste kan vergelijken met een broekriem. Deze strakke riem duwt de uitdijende nevel in een zandloper-vorm.
De foto is in 2011 gemaakt door de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop. De nevel Sharpless 2-106 bevindt zich op een afstand van circa 3.300 lichtjaar van de aarde in het sterrenbeeld Zwaan. De nevel zelf heeft een doorsnee van enkele lichtjaren.
Klik op de foto om een grotere versie te bekijken (let op: 10 MB).
Meer dan 600 bruine dwergsterren Wist je dat deze nevel een thuishaven is voor meer dan 600 bruine dwergen? Bruine dwergen zijn mislukte sterren. Normale sterren gaan schijnen doordat het kernfusieproces in gang wordt gezet. Soms is de bal materie niet dicht genoeg om dit proces te starten en blijft er een bruine dwerg over. Een gefaalde ster gloeit in infraroodlicht, maar geeft weinig ‘normaal’ licht af. Daarmee zijn bruine dwergen de koudste sterren in het universum. In infrarood licht zijn er dus wel 600 lichtpuntjes te zien in de nevel S106, maar in zichtbaar licht zijn deze dwergen onzichtbaar.
Een tijdloze klassieker Deze foto van S106 is één van Hubble’s mooiste foto’s. Dit komt vooral door de vele details die zichtbaar zijn. Dankzij Hubble’s scherpe ogen zijn allerlei rimpelingen in het gas te zien. Een bijzonder schouwspel.
De afgelopen decennia hebben ruimtetelescopen en satellieten prachtige foto’s gemaakt van nevels, sterrenstelsels, stellaire kraamkamers en planeten. Ieder weekend halen we één of meerdere indrukwekkende ruimtefoto uit het archief. Genieten van alle foto’s? Bekijk ze op deze pagina.
Filer’s Files April 15 2022 - UFO Confrontations in the North Atlantic - PART I
Salford, England on March 23, 2022 U08 2022
Filer’s Files April 15 2022 - UFO Confrontations in the North Atlantic - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Www.nationalUFOcenter.com. Now receiving 3 to 4 million hits a month Sending out 32,000 emails a week
Special reports are Confrontations in the North Atlantic, UFO and Moon Photos, UFO Disclosure Ronald Reagan, Cosmonaut Vic Afanasyev saw UFO, Ingo Douglas Swann was a famous psychic, Moon’s Lava Tubes and Caves, Teaching Young Children to Change Sex, Carbon 60, and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Main, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Mexico, England in the United Kingdom, and Zaire
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Confrontations in the North Atlantic
Triangle photographed from USS Trepang SSN 674 submarine in March 1971
Tony Dodd writes, at 7.30pm on Monday, 12 February 1996, I received a ship-to-shore telephone call from a fishing vessel in the Denmark Straight, off the West Coast of Iceland. The caller told me that a huge triangular craft had appeared and was hovering low in the sky close to his boat. At that precise moment the transmission was cut off. Approximately fifteen minutes later the caller rang again to say that all electronics on the ship had suddenly failed. He told me that he and the rest of the crew had seen the triangular object move away from the boat then suddenly descend into the sea. The moment it had disappeared all electronic power was restored at 9.00pm on Sunday, 18 February 1996, a further call was received from the boats at sea. On this occasion the caller told me that the whole crew was terrified because three huge black triangular objects, accompanied by three independent red balls of light, had come out of the sea and were hovering silently in the air close to their boats. I asked if the balls of light were connected to the triangles and he said, “No they are totally separate and independent”. The caller was asked if the triangles were showing on the ships Radar. He replied, “No the Radar is not picking them up, the whole crew is standing on the deck watching them.” Were the objects close to the boat? “Yes, they are hovering near the port bow, we’re all scared”. Asked if he could hear any sound coming from the objects, he replied, “No there’s no sound coming from them”. Were there any lights on the triangles? “Yes, there are small lights on different parts of them.” He then said, “The whole crew is out on deck watching them”. Suddenly the transmission was lost, and the phone went dead. A short time later the connection was restored and the voice at the other end said, “The objects have now gone, they all descended and went down into the sea”. At 3 am. On Monday, 19th February 1996 a call was received in the middle of the night, from a fishing boat at sea, off the coast of Iceland. The caller said, “We have just been watching a gigantic sphere, hovering in the air, not very far from our boats. It slowly moved away from us and then descended and disappeared into the sea. We have no idea what it was.” An hour later the telephone was ringing again and once again the message was from the fishing boat.’’ Note: an abductee told me he was abducted and taken underwater but no water was on the craft’s window has they descended to a base at the bottom of the sea and was told 700 aliens were in the base with numerous UFOs of several types.
“There are now large florescent tubes like objects hovering in the air close to our position; they are a blue color and not making a sound. All these strange things are making the crew very frightened, we don’t like all this”. At 10.55pm. On Tuesday, 23rd. April 1996, a further telephone call was received from a ship which was fishing 200 miles Southwest of the coast of Iceland. The caller said, “You are not going to believe what we have just seen. We were fishing fairly close to a group of American Warships and suddenly there was a blinding flash of light and one of the warships just disappeared in front of our eyes. I know it sounds crazy, but I can assure you it happened a short time ago. Soon after this an American boat came over to us an ordered us and other fishing boats to leave the area immediately. Our Captain didn’t need any telling, he told us to get our boat out of the area as quickly as possible and to return to our base in Iceland. We are now making our way back. The incident has upset us all, particularly the captain, he has retired to his cabin with a bottle of whisky”. On Sunday, 19 January 1997, a large number of UFO-related events occurred off the south coast of Iceland. Reports were received of large numbers of UFOs gathering over the sea. I can assure readers that these reports were coming from ships at sea, witnesses on the ground and from airline pilots.
On Monday, 20 January 1997, airliners attempting to land and depart from Keflavik Airport were delayed because UFOs were seen flying in civilian air corridors. Only when the UFOs had departed were things returned to normal. Recent information from our Spanish contacts reveal that their fishermen have also reported seeing huge craft and other objects coming out of the sea off the coast of Iberia.
These are currently being investigated. There is no doubt that these extraordinary events are not something recent or new to the area’s most effected. They have been occurring since the early 1960s and appear to have continued unabated to the present day. Source: UFO Magazine (UK)
UFO crashing in Ocean next Ship
Thirty years ago, pilots and other witnesses described amazing speeds and aerial maneuvers and cited their apparent ability to operate equally as well in the oceans. Perhaps they are not visitors from another planet; perhaps they have always existed in the darkest, deepest depths of our oceans. If so, could it be that their increasing appearance is tied to the ecological damage we are inflicting on our planet’s surface, as well as in our Oceans? Speculation I know, but an interesting possibility. On the other hand, what if they are indeed visitors from another planet? Why they here and what are their intentions? They act secretly and come and go like shadows in the night, watching our every move. Why are UFOs seen so often in the vicinity of military bases, nuclear missile sites or in areas of military operations? Is it a case of ‘know the strength of your enemy’ or one of observing a primitive culture working towards their own self- destruction? What do you think? By Tony Dodd, Source: UFO Magazine (UK) Note: Various apparent underwater structures have been located that are likely bases to house these craft/ See craft dive into water:
UFO flies at air show in Goodwood, West Sussex on September 5, 2003, at the annual Goodwood Festival and Revival. Goodwood is located 60 miles from London. John Lenard Walson.
I’m saving to be able to bring my telescope to a dark area, no atmospheric distractions. I want to give you clear beautiful high-quality video, and evidence from a remote location without freezing in the process, and without interference.
Here is an interesting shot of a structure with an opening on the Moon It is thought spaceships enter their base at this point.
Some old emails sent to me explain the space objects I have filmed these note the footage my appear fuzzy, other astronomers do you use software to process the footage to clear it up, but I like to show the raw footage this link below is showing that
Ron Dantowitz at the Clay Center observatory, he was the first person to take photos like my footage, Department of Astronomy – Harvard University have sent me confirmation that my space footage is real, and I am not the only one to film it I have been doing this for many years.
Department of Astronomy – Harvard University have sent me confirmation that my space footage is real.
spaceship taken by John that President Reagan refers to.
UFO Disclosure Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
One night in 1974, California Governor Ronald Reagan’ was flying in a Cessna Citation aircraft and chased a UFO. There were four persons aboard the plane: Bill Paynter the pilot, two security guards, and Ronald Reagan. As the airplane approached Bakersfield, California, the passengers called Paynter’s attention to a strange object to their rear. “It appeared to be several hundred yards away,” Paynter recalled. “It was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate. Then it appeared to elongate. Then the light took off. It went up at a 45-degree angle-at a high rate of speed. Everyone on the plane was surprised. . .. The UFO went from a normal cruise speed to a fantastic speed instantly. If you give an airplane power, it will accelerate-but not like a hot rod, and that’s what this was like.”
A week later Reagan recounted the sighting to Norman C. Miller, then Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. Reagan told Miller, “We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.” When Miller expressed some doubt, a “look of horror came over [Reagan]. It suddenly dawned on him. that he was talking to a reporter.” Immediately afterward, according to Miller, Reagan “clammed up.” Reagan has not discussed the incident publicly since.
In The Diary entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1985 (page 334) Reagan wrote:
Lunch with 5 top space scientists. “It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.”
Note: This would indicate a spaceship at least as large as a 747 aircraft that is 250 feet long. It is likely much bigger to accommodate sleeping quarters, kitchen facilities, bathrooms, storage radar and weapons. The now grounded Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people and even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to put 300 astronauts in orbit. President Reagan revealed the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit.
Reagan Star Wars Test Site
The Reagan Test Site (RTS), as it is known today, is the United States’ premier missile range. Located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific, RTS has played a major role during the past 50 years in intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) testing, missile defense development and testing, space-object tracking and, sensor technology development, and scientific research. MIT Lincoln Laboratory has filled the technical leadership role since 1962 when the first instrumentation radar, Target Resolution and Discrimination Experiment (TRADEX), became operational. The year 2012 marks 50 years of operation of TRADEX and 50 years of continuous presence and service of Lincoln Laboratory at Kwajalein. During those 50 years, the Laboratory has been responsible for keeping the RTS instrumentation at state-of-the-art levels by continuously developing and inserting advanced technology. The Air, Missile, & Maritime Defense Technology mission area develops integrated systems for defense against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and air vehicles in tactical, strategic, and homeland defense applications. Thanks to MIT.
Cosmonaut Vic Afanasyev saw UFO
Cosmonaut Vic Afanasyev
In April of 1979, Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev lifted off from Star City to dock with
the Soviet Salyut 6 space station. But while enroute, something strange happened. Cosmonaut Afanasyev saw an unidentified object turn toward his craft and begin tailing it through space.
“It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely. It was an engineering structure, made from some type of metal, approximately 40 meters long with inner hulls. The object was narrow here and wider here, and inside there were openings. Some places had projections like small wings. The object stayed very close to us. We photographed it, and our photos showed it to be 23 to 28 meters away.”
In addition to photographing the UFO, Afanasyev continually reported back to Mission Control about the craft’s size, its shape and position. When the cosmonaut returned to earth he was debriefed and told never to reveal what he knew, and had his cameras and film confiscated.
Those photos and his voice transmissions from space have never been released.
It is only now, with the collapse of the Soviet Union that Afanasyev feels that he can safely tell his story.
Moon Flashing Light
Tillamook, Oregon on April 5, 2022, saw flashing lights coming from the moon North
Ingo Douglas Swann was a famous psychic, artist, and author known for being the co-creator, along with Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff, of remote Viewing…
Ingo Swan in front of his painting Died: January 31, 2013 (aged 79) in New York,
Ingo Swan was also a friend of mine and stayed at my home several times with a group of MUFON researchers. He was a famous guest and remote viewer who worked for the CIA and often spotted UFOs during remote viewing sessions.
Ingo Swann with his cigar was our teacher and was the western hemisphere’s greatest natural psychic. He’s been the subject of American Society of Psychical Research and British Parapsychological Association investigations for years. Several of us led by Ingo, and Bob Durant a Navy fighter pilot and a commercial airline pilot remote viewed the moon. Our group determined an alien race was on the moon, had given warnings against the U.S. building a base on the moon, and was conducting deep mining of a black mineral. When viewing the moon, Ingo could determine the aliens had spotted our intrusion and warned all of us to stop. The remote viewers frequently spotted UFOs and USOs under the sea operating in ways that helped the Earth.
We viewed the future and there is a good chance Washington D.C will be hit by a nuclear missile probably from China. However, my prediction is based on our vision if we pray, “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles. This of course includes if we stop killing sixty-five million babies in Planned Parenthood since Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision. So, you can look forward to a great future for our country if we pray.
Note: This photo and the lava tunnels brought back memories of Ingo Swan trying to teach us to remote view the moon in a camp out at my house several years ago. Lights were seen on the moon, so we decided the moon was a good target. According to Swann, his ability to see the surface of the Moon and discover mining areas took about three and a half minutes. In the session he made several reports on the physical features of the moon, dark trails around some of craters was dark dust spread by the spaceships as they departed. The Voyager probe later confirmed the existence of the rings of J Several of us drew pictures of seeing mining of a dark mineral on the moon by aliens loading large space ships. Ingo remote viewed into the mine underground and could see the aliens working when some realized he was watching, and he hurriedly stopped viewing. He mentioned they remote viewed into secret high level Russian meetings. I hope we are still able to do that. Danger of an expanded war is highly possible, and I would stary out of Washington D.C since it’s a primary target.
Moon’s Lava Tubes and Caves
Lava tubes as hidden sites for future human habitats on the Moon and Mars by Anita Heward, Euro planet ESA Astronauts training in terrestrial lava tubes in Lanzarote during the PANGEA 2016 course.
Credit: ESA/S. Sechi
Lava tubes, underground caves created by volcanic activity, could provide protected habitats large enough to house streets on Mars or even towns on the moon, according to research presented at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2017 in Riga. A further study shows how the next generation of lunar orbiters will be able to use radar to locate these structures under the moon’s surface.
Lava tubes can form in two ways: over-crusted tubes form when low-viscosity lava flows fairly close to the surface, developing a hard crust that thickens to create a roof above the moving lava stream. When the eruptions end, the conduit is drained leaving a tunnel a few meters beneath the surface. “Inflated’ tubes are complex and deep structures that form when lava is injected into existing fissures between layers of rock or cavities from previous flows. The lava expands and leaves a huge network of connected galleries as it forces its way to the surface. Lava tubes are found in many volcanic areas on Earth, including Lanzarote, Hawaii, Iceland, North Queensland in Australia, Sicily and the Galapagos islands. Underground networks of tubes can reach up to 65 kilometers. Space missions have also observed chains of collapsed pits and “skylights” on the moon and Mars that have been interpreted as evidence of lava tubes. Recently the NASA GRAIL mission provided detailed gravity data for the moon that suggested the presence of enormous subsurface voids related to lava tubes below the lunar maria, plains of basalt formed in volcanic eruptions early in the moon’s history.
Now, researchers from the University of Padova and the University of Bologna in Italy have carried out the first systematic comparison of lava tube candidates on the Earth, moon and Mars, based on high-resolution Digital Terrain Models (DTM) created from data from spacecraft instrumentation.
ESA Astronauts training in terrestrial lava tubes in Lanzarote.
Credit: ESA/L. Ricci
“The comparison of terrestrial, lunar and Martian examples shows that, as you might expect, gravity has a big effect on the size of lava tubes. On Earth, they can be up to thirty meters across. In the lower gravity environment of Mars, we see evidence for lava tubes that are 250 meters (820 feet) in width. On the moon, these tunnels could be a kilometer or more across and many hundreds of kilometers in length,” says Dr Riccardo Pozzobon, of the University of Padova. “These results have important implications for habitability and human exploration of the moon but also for the search of extraterrestrial life on Mars. Lava tubes are environments shielded from cosmic radiation and protected from micrometeorites flux, potentially providing safe habitats for future human missions. They are also, potentially, large enough for quite significant human settlements – you could fit most of the historic city center of Riga into a lunar lava tube.”
The work by Pozzobon and colleagues is already being used in the European Space Agency’s astronaut training program. The teams lead a planetary geology training course called PANGAEA for the European Space Agency’s astronauts and engineers. The PANGAEA project has included a field trip and a test campaign in lava tubes in the Canary Island to familiarize the astronauts with geological research they could carry out during future missions to the moon or Mars, as well as to test technical and operational systems. In particular, PANGAEA has focused on using laser technologies to characterize the Corona lava tube, an 8-kilometre long (5 Miles) tunnel on Lanzarote.
However, analysis of lava tubes with DEMs requires that a collapse or a puncture from a meteorite reveals the presence of the hidden tunnel. Conventional remote sensing instruments cannot detect and characterize the lava tubes, as they cannot acquire measurements beneath the surface.
Checking the mineral composition of some weathered rocks with the HaloSpec Spectrometer during ESA astronaut PANGEA training course in terrestrial lava tubes in Lanzarote. Credit: ESA/L. Ricci
In a separate talk at EPSC, Leonardo Carrer and colleagues of the University of Trento presented a concept for a radar system specifically designed to detect lava tubes on the moon from orbit. The radar probes beneath the lunar surface with low frequency electromagnetic waves and measures the reflected signals. This radar instrument could determine accurately the physical composition, size and shape of the caves and obtain a global map of their location.
Radar canpick upopen lava tubes
“The studies we have developed show that a multi- frequency sounding system is the best option for detecting lava tubes of very different dimensions. The electromagnetic simulations show that lava tubes have unique electromagnetic signatures, which can be detected from orbit irrespective of their orientation to the radar movement direction. Therefore, a mission carrying this instrument would enable a crucial step towards finding safe habitats on the moon for human colonization,” says Carrer.
Artist’s impression of the radar instrument to probe for lava tubes beneath the lunar surface. Credit: NASA/U. Trento
Artist’s impression of the radar instrument to probe for lava tubes beneath the lunar surface. Credit: NASA/U. Trento
Monthly UFO Sighting MUFON Report – for March 2022:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In March 2022 there were 417 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries.
United States 338 France 24 United Kingdom 12, Canada 9, Mexico 3, Australia 3 Morocco 2 Brazil 2 Germany 2 Croatia 1 Kenya 1 Georgia 1 Belgium 1.
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows; California 41 Florida 25 Texas 24 Pennsylvania 17 New York 17 Arizona 16 Georgia 16 Colorado 13 Michigan 12 Missouri 9 Nevada 8 North Carolina 8 Indiana 7 Ohio7 Idaho 6 Oregon 6 Washington 6 Arkansas 5 Illinois 5 South Carolina 5 Alabama 5 Kentucky 5 Oklahoma 4 New Hampshire 4 Virginia 4 Connecticut 4 Wisconsin 4 Tennessee 4 New Jersey 3 Maine 3 Hawaii 3 Massachusetts 3 New Mexico 3 West Virginia 3 Kansas 3 Mississippi 3 etc.
Teaching Young Children to Change Sex
The state of New Jersey expects to implement new sex education curriculum standards which lay out plans to teach second graders about “gender identity” and “gender role stereotypes.”
The new standards, reportedly expected to be implemented once revised curriculums from various districts across the state are approved, assert that by the end of the second grade, students should be able to “Discuss the range of ways people express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior.” Essentially to teach to consider to be transgenders.
The standards also encourage second graders to “make their own choices about how to express themselves. “To change sex and become transgender.
The state of New Jersey expects to implement new sex education curriculum standards which lay out plans to teach second graders about “gender identity” and “gender role stereotypes. You might feel like you are a boy, you might feel like you are a girl. You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts,” a sample-lesson plan for first graders, reportedly distributed to parents at a Feb. 22 school board meeting, tells teachers to say to their students. “You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!
Why does the administration want to castrate our sons and remove the breasts and ovaries of our girls? Children are taught they should be castrated, or for women to become males so they can never to have children.
The over a million abortions each year in the U.S. is also part of the program. Many schools get briefings from Abortion Clinic.
If you don’t get vaccinated you are terminated in many Democratic states including NJ, The Democratic teaching appears to have a mission of destroying the American family. I used to vote as a Democrat, but they have left me taking on the liberal concepts.
The Communist Party has begun to achieve their goal transforming of the Democrat party into a Socialist Party with the philosophy of Marxism from Karl Marx. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Using this Marxist philosophy, the Democrat Party has led America toward the Socialist path and adopted the goals laid out in the Communist Manifesto to take over America. They have taken the once proud 80% Black Families and removed the husband providing money only to women so now only 20% remain married. Therefore, most Black children have no father to help with their education or upbringing.
The National Vanguard Organization states Critical Race Theory (CRT) may have tinges of Marxism, Communism, and even Democratic Party thinking but, at its core, CRT is a virulently anti-White philosophy that uses quasi-intellectual terms to promote anti-Whiteness towards anything that seems pro-White. For example, “math is racist” toward non-Whites because students are taught that there are correct and incorrect answers. To be clear, anything related to Whites, like history, or science, or literature, or art, or anything that can somehow be tied to Whites is hated. It is about hating Whites and wanting all Whites dead.
They have control of the schools so now everyday Black men kill one hundred Black men or woman. Interesting no one in the U.S. Government can answer the definitions of what is a woman
Why is it the 128-page Democratic Party’s Manifesto has copied Stalin’s 1936 Soviet Communist Constitution that allowed Joseph Stalin to rule Communist Soviet Union with an Iron Hand killing40 million Russians. As Bill Maher says on his television talk show “It’s not me who’s changed, it’s the left”. (The Democratic Party has left me.)
The Communist Party of America hides no secret about turning America into a communist country like Cuba, Venezuela or China. Shanghai, a city of 25 million people remains locked inside for two weeks running out of food.
Shanghai Residents Screaming from Their Windows about famine
I served on the Medford School Board and encouraged parents to run to be voted on the School Boards that is important to you children’s education with many advantages such as free trips and sports tickets. US schools once the best is now rated 25th country in the world. Let’s go back to teaching reading, writing and mathematics.
Teaching your children at age 5 or 6 to want to be transgender has very serious implications not generally recognized.
Russian Cruiser Moskvo has sunk and Ukrainians claim their missils ares responsible.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and aviators who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book, by John L. Guerra.
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Filer’s Files April 15 2022 - UFO Confrontations in the North Atlantic - PART II
Salford, England on March 23, 2022 U08 2022
Filer’s Files April 15 2022 - UFO Confrontations in the North Atlantic - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Main, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Mexico, England in the United Kingdom, and Zaire
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force and DOD investigated UFOs for more than forty years; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Prescotton March 22, 2022, my son and his wife were driving at 8:12 PM and saw a triangle of lights nearby. He’s a pilot and he really got him puzzled that. both lights were flying coordinated. I could see other lights moving really fast above the triangle
Note: It appears that the light formations are low, but airborne. The video has been zoomed. There are some other blinking lights above these lights, but they are not visible on the zoomed footage show above. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Gold Canyon on March 31, 2022, 1st object appeared very quickly was possibly a white helicopter. Another larger dark object with “smokestacks” protruding from it was captured by my front door security camera with, EVPs hearing loud voices.
California Lights
Lucerneon April 5, 2022, a bunch of lights above Lucerne Mountains where it’s very dark. San Leandro on September 5, 2018, huge black chevron shaped craft with “lights” on the bottom that dimly illuminated yellowish light. Two lights on the bottom of each “wing” and one on the bottom of the point. Flying silent and too slow to be aircraft. Watched it for 20-30 seconds.
San Leandroon September 5, 2018, huge black chevron shaped craft with “lights” on the bottom that dimly illuminated yellowish light. Two lights on the bottom of each “wing” and one on the bottom of the point. Flying silent and too slow to be aircraft. Watched it for 20-30 seconds..
Florida Lights’
Seaside Beach on March 3, 2022, was shooting and noticed the light in the clouds to the west. It moves slowly to left, stopped and slowly to right. I took 5 shots and it disappeared. It’s not a plane. Tell me what I was looking at.
Note:The enlargement of the object does not appear to reveal a regular aircraft. The erratic movement noted by the witness also suggests that the object was not a regular aircraft. The apparent shape in the enlargement could be due to camera jiggle as noted by the witness. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/Seaside Beach on March 3, 2022, was shooting and noticed the light in the clouds to the west. It moves slowly to left, stopped and slowly to right. I took 5 shots and it disappeared. It’s not a plane. Tell me what I was looking at. Seaside Beach on March 3, 2022, was shooting and noticed the light in the clouds to the west. It moves slowly to left, stopped and slowly to right. I took 5 shots and it disappeared. It’s not a plane. Tell me what I was looking at.
Indiana Lights
Khamgao on April 3, 2022, they are in group an asteroid, UFO, or meteorite crashing… Case 121494
Maine Object
Bucksport on April 6, 2022, I practice taking photos of highflying aircraft as I exercise by walking near Silver Lake. I see how quick I can take a photo. I spotted this high-flying plane, and an object. It is reflecting the sun, so is a solid object.
Nevada Object
Lake Meadon March 28, 2022, this object moved quite slowly, as we e were driving northward on NV 167 when I noticed
New Jersey Lights and Object”’
Hddon Township on April 1, 2022, observed a stationary ball of changing colors in the night sky for over two hours.
Hddon Township on April 1, 2022, observed a stationary ball of changing colors in the night sky for over two hours.
Ocean City on March 16, 2022, I can’t give any more details, when i saw the photo that’s when i saw the object. It was a typical description of an UFO disc shape with what appeared to be a dome.
North Carolina Light
Laurinburg on April 4, 2022, wife had already gone to bed, so I walked outside and saw white moon sized orb flying along about 5000 feet? I got my Aurora Pro. Camera and took video of in three triangle lights with a flashing center light with lights shining at 25 degrees on each side.
North Dakota Object
Medora on September 12, 2021, this zipped by fast it. We launched hot air balloons early and later observed this very strange object nothing like a balloon and got it on camera.
Oregon Object
Sisterson April 1, 2022, I’m one of those people who knows UFOs are everywhere all of the time. I take several shots of the sky and always find in some of the frame’s UFOs. I haven’t figured out the science trying to board a ship. My friend and hiked to the top of a mountain and took photos. Later we saw two helicopters flying toward us, The UFO showed up in the span of 1 minute.
Washington Lights
Ocean Shores on March 11, 2022, the circle was moving up the beach. All the clouds were blowing in the southeastern direction and this object was moving directly south down the coast. The ‘cloud’ in the center of the object was moving in perfect unison the center of the circle. this is the third time we have seen this.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Light
Winghamon April 3, 2022, at 12:15, a friend and I saw a silent thing fly past heading south. It was ghostly looking orb I still in shock. it was so fast and cloud like and seemed to be cloaking something. “
France Object
Montpellier on September 15, 2021, several light beams were seen in the evening, the same time as the violent storms that hit the department.
Italy Lights
Campiglia Marittima on February 5, 2022, I was walking with the dogs at about 9 pm in the open countryside. I notice this light in the shape of an asterisk, which comes back strange to me,
Mexico Object
Chacahua on January 4, 2022, I was recording a flying bird and the sea in slow motion with an iPhone. A really fast UFO flew across the screen
Note: The video is not shown as the object is difficult to discern. I have included a still image of the object extracted from the video by the witness. Objects (like insects) close to the camera lens can appear to be moving fast. However, this is only a possibility. There is no evidence to rule or rule out an insect. Given available data this report has been classified as “unidentified.” Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite.
UK/England Disc
Salfordon March 23, 2022, dark V shape hovering turned 160° and slowly moved to the south, then picked up speed climbing straight up. I watched it disappear in three minutes. This photo is my best of 5 captured.
Zaire City
Krugersdorp on April 1, 2022, was travelling east on a cool, somewhat misty morning. I stopped at a robot and looked up and saw something strange sticking out of a cloud. I quickly took a picture and then the light turned green. I wanted to take another, but it was gone. It may have been some type of scenic reflection or apparition of a floating city in a cloud.
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David Wilcock on UFOs and Dreams
David Wilcock on UFOs and Dreams
David Wilcock is a professional intuitive consultant who, since reading Richard C. Hoagland’s “The Monuments of Mars” in 1993, has intensively researched ufology, ancient civilizations, consciousness science, and new paradigms of matter and energy. He is the author of a critically acclaimed trilogy of scientific research works, known as the Convergence series, which gives definitive support to the idea that a change in matter, energy and consciousness is now occurring on the Earth and throughout the solar system.
Wilcock has appeared on broadcast television, lectured throughout the United States and Japan, published a variety of magazine articles and appeared on numerous radio talk shows. He is the co-author of the book “The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce,” now available in bookstores nationwide, and a summary of his latest scientific work appears therein, where a breakthrough case for mass, spontaneous DNA evolution on Earth is unveiled. David is also an accomplished musician and composer within a variety of styles, including jazz-fusion, meditative and world music.
David Wilcock explains on March 19, 2020 during the the World Wide Coronavirus lockdown that it is NOT the end of the world. The lockdowns are to ensure the peoples safety during world wide mass arrests in conjunction with Operation Defender Europe 2020.
Thanks hope you all are staying cool out there. Stay tuned for more updates from BIN News!
Perseverance Begins the Next Phase of its Mission, Studying an Ancient River Bed on Mars
Perseverance Begins the Next Phase of its Mission, Studying an Ancient River Bed on Mars
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance (Percy) Rover successfully landed in the dried-up lakebed known as Jezero Crater on Mars, beaming back images and video of its descent and landing to millions of space fans living on the planet that built and launched this incredible robotic explorer. With this landing came enormous excitement for a new era of robotic exploration of the Red Planet as we slowly continue to unlock the secrets of Mars and its ancient past, to include (hopefully) finding evidence of past life.
This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot. (Credit: NASA JPL)
While Mars might have once featured a lush and habitable environment, today it’s nothing more than a cold, dead world. With an average surface temperature of -63°C (-82°F) and an atmosphere consisting of 95% carbon dioxide and pressures that are 100 times less than Earth’s, the Mars of today is incredibly inhospitable for life as we know it here on our blue marble in space. This extremely harsh environment hasn’t stopped us from trying to unlock Mars’ secrets and learn more about how it came to be what it is today, with Percy working literally tirelessly to continue this incredible scientific journey.
During its venture on Mars, Percy collected eight rock-core samples during its first science campaign and completed a record-breaking 31-Martian-day (sol) trek across 5 kilometers (3 miles) of Mars. It ultimately arrived at the doorstep of Jezero’s ancient river delta on April 13, 2022. This delta is significant as it will not only serve as Percy’s staging area for its second science campaign, known as the “Delta Front Campaign”, but is also believed to be the mission’s best bet in finding preserved remnants of ancient microbial life.
The delta, a massive fan-shaped collection of rocks and sediment at the western edge of Jezero Crater, formed at the convergence of a Martian river and a crater lake billions of years ago. Its exploration tops the Perseverance science team’s wish list because all the fine-grained sediment deposited at its base long ago is the mission’s best bet for finding the preserved remnants of ancient microbial life.
“We’ve been eyeing the delta from a distance for more than a year while we explored the crater floor,” said Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist at Caltech in Pasadena. “At the end of our fast traverse, we are finally able to get close to it, obtaining images of ever-greater detail revealing where we can best explore these important rocks.” Having officially kicked off on April 18, 2022, the Delta Front Campaign will instruct Percy to drive to the southwest and then to the west. The goal of this first leg will be to scout the best route to ascend the delta, which rises about 40 meters (130 feet) above the crater floor.
Map showing Perseverance’s landing site at the Jezero Crater on Mars. (Credit: NASA)
The Delta Front Campaign is scheduled to take about half an Earth year, during which time Percy will be conducting detailed science investigations while on the way up the delta, and on the way back down, as well. These investigations include taking rock core samples, and Percy is expected to collect around eight samples during this time.
“The delta is why Perseverance was sent to Jezero Crater: It has so many interesting features,” said Farley. “We will look for signs of ancient life in the rocks at the base of the delta, rocks that we think were once mud on the bottom of ‘Lake Jezero.’ Higher up the delta, we can look at sand and rock fragments that came from upstream, perhaps from miles away. These are locations the rover will never visit. We can take advantage of an ancient Martian river that brought the planet’s geological secrets to us.”
Jezero Crater
As stated, Jezero Crater on Mars is a dried-up lakebed believed to once be the home of a massive amount of liquid water deep in Mars’ ancient past. The crater itself has a diameter of 45 kilometers (25 miles) and is located in the Syrtis Major quadrangle. Aside from the delta that is located in the western part of Jezero, the crater also displays point bars and inverted channels, other evidence that liquid water once existed there long ago.
Artist’s concept of Jezero Crater filled with a lake. (Credit: NASA JPL)
Ancient Past: A Wetter, Warmer Mars
When Mars first formed billions of years ago, its interior was searing with heat and a spinning outer core. This spinning outer core gave Mars a magnetic field, shielding it from the intense cosmic radiation from the Sun. This magnetic field allowed auroras to dance across the night sky in breathtaking fashion, much like what we see near the poles on present-day Earth. This interior heat also fueled the many volcanoes spread across the surface to replenish the atmosphere just like what happens on present-day Earth, giving Mars a much thicker atmosphere and allowing liquid water to cascade across its surface, carving out channels and streams, and even filling many craters also strewn across its vast surface. Alas, with Mars being half the size of Earth, physics intervened, and the Red Planet slowly died from the inside out due to the loss of heat. When you put potatoes in an oven and remove them some time later, the smaller potatoes cool off much faster than the larger ones, and this cooling was the unfortunate fate for Mars. With the loss of heat, the volcanoes ceased to replenish the atmosphere and the magnetic field slowly faded away. Losing these two key atmospheric components caused the once cascading liquid water to slowly evaporate, leaving us with the cold, dead world we see today.
Artist’s impression of an ancient, watery Mars. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
What secrets will Percy unlock about the ancient past of Mars? How long was liquid present on the surface, and will this car-sized rover find evidence of past life on the Red Planet? Time will tell, and this is why we science!
Lead image: The expanse of Jezero Crater’s river delta is shown in this panorama of 64 stitched-together images taken by the Mastcam-Z system on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April 11, 2022, the 406th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/Malin Space Science Systems)
Mankind’s most carefully guarded secret revealed! For the first time… information that you were never meant to know. Amazing UFO photos and video footage you were never meant to see. over 30 experts are represented in the fields of medicine, physics, science, aviation, journalism, biology, religion, politics, military and more! The difinitive documentary about E.T and UFO disclosure.
Fastwalkers - UFO Documentary
Fastwalkers, reveals the truth about UFOs and Extraterrestrials that has been suppressed and hidden for centuries. Fastwalker is a code word created by NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) to classify (UFOs) unidentified flying objects which approach our Earth from space and enter our atmosphere. It has been reported that from its subterranean facility deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, USA, the Air Force NORAD facility tracks a rough average of 500 of these Fastwalkers each year.
For the first time, Fastwalkers in a feature length documentary form discloses information you were never meant to know. Amazing UFO photos and footage gathered from around the world that you were never meant to see. Never before has there been such a wealth of information presented by such unbiased experts who focus on providing a "World View" of what is really happening on planet Earth, rather than what "we are told is happening."
STARRING:
Dr. Steven M. Greer, Steve Bassett, Jim Marrs, Robert O Dean, Dr. Michael Salla, Stanton T Friedman, Alfred L Webre, John Greenwald Jr., Dr. Len Horowitz, Dr. Richard Boylan, Jaime Maussan, Paola Harris, Jerry Pippin, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, A.J. Gevaerd, Sean David Morton, Graham E. Bethune, Col. Wendelle C. Stevens, Monsignor Corrado Balducci, James W. Deardorff, & More.
Fastwalkers exposes the shocking truth about UFOs and Extraterrestrials, a truth that has been suppressed and hidden for centuries. Fastwalker is the NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) code word used to classify unidentified flying objects (UFO's) approaching Earth from outer space and entering our atmosphere.
The facility tracks hundreds of these "bogeys" each year from a subterranean facility deep inside Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain. See and hear the people that the governments of the world never wanted you to meet. Over 30 experts who are represented within the fields of medicine, physics, science, aviation, journalism, biology, religion, politics, military and more reveal their experiences and knowledge of UFO encounters. In this definitive documentary about the Alien presence on Earth you will see amazing UFO photos and footage as well as hear firsthand contactees, experiencers, and abductees as they share their amazing and riveting testimonies that lead to only one conclusion - we are not alone and the ruling elite have known this for decades. Mankind's most carefully guarded secret exposed.
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Wow! Just wow! This is one fantastic looking UFO cloaked in a cloud. This is a UFO that has an energy shield around it so that it keeps the cloud particles inside the shield, and the cloud wont disapate or fly away. UFOs often do this because they want to have a first hand look with their own eyes. Aliens just like humans get sick of looking at computer screens and want to see it with their own eyes. Its a more personal, real experience. Absolutely fantastic catch, and that road sign below it is hilarious. 100% proof of aliens in California. Probably heading to Silicon Valley to scan and record all the new technology being created. Or, they may be heading to go pick up Elon Musk himself and take him home. Yes, Elon Musk is an alien, but a great one, wouldn't you say? How hes changing humanity for the better in every way possible, space, automotive, solar power, paypal, Twitter. In a day where everyone hates everyone, he is the exception to the rule. 100% alien.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Last week my amazing child Lilly Martindale got the most awesome picture of this super cool lenticular cloud!! This was taken at freeway speeds and she happened to get the most perfect shot with that sign.
I caught this giant sphere sucking the energy out of our sun this week. This UFO has been seen before many years ago, but its back. Its returned to the sun to refill its energy and the UFO is so dark, so black, its almost invisible, but the suns lit plasma glows around it reviealing its location. 100% proof that aliens are using and abusing our sun for thier own private uses. This could be a danger to us since a UFO this huge could easily cause a solar explosion that could wipe out all life, air, water on Earth. I will put the old video of the same UFO below this post to compare and contrast. The old one is from 2012.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
BELOW IS THE OLD VIDEO OF THE SAME GIANT SPHERE SUCKING THE SUNS ENERGY FROM BACK IN 2012!
3 Meter Figure Seen Flying Near Tokyo Tower in Japan, April 13, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
3 Meter Figure Seen Flying Near Tokyo Tower in Japan, April 13, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 13, 2022
Location of sighting: Tokyo, Japan
A huge human figure was seen near the Tokyo Tower in Japan this week. The dark figure is flying and has no visible jet pack or wings. The person is also not normal size, they are nearly 3 meters tall. If this is a stunt by someone, its one that I have never seen or heard of before. This looks real, it looks like a giant alien figure checking out the city from the best view location ever. The video itself was posted by a Tokyo UFO researcher named Paranormal Research. It is possible that an alien who had god like powers was flying around, but we would need more videos of the event to confirm it, since this area is popular with locals and tourists armed with cameras. If this is real, then its one of the most frightening videos I have ever seen. A spiecies 3 meters tall that can fly could easily take over the planet with little effort.
The Maykop: Lost Bronze Age Culture of the Exotic Caucasus Region
The Maykop: Lost Bronze Age Culture of the Exotic Caucasus Region
In 1897, Professor Nikolay Veselovsky, a Russian archaeologist and orientalist, specializing in the history and archaeology of Central Asia, uncovered one of the greatest archaeological finds of recent history in a small North-Western Caucuses town called Maykop. The Maykop Mound, or Chieftain’s Grave, contained countless ancient riches and spoils from a previously unheard-of Bronze Age civilization.
Comparison with similar artefacts from other cultures roughly contemporary with the 4th-3rd-century Maykop culture of the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
The Maykop catacomb had a large central chamber split into three differently sized rooms which each held a body lying in the crouched position. The largest of these tombs was reserved for the principal occupant, who was adorned with a richly decorated garment, hundreds of semi-precious stones, a weapons set, a bronze cauldron, and a number of polished clay pots .
One of the most exquisite items was a black fur coat , the earliest fur garment found in Eastern Europe. The unusual tunic was made out of souslik fur, a type of squirrel endemic to the region, and it’s estimated 25 to 30 skins were needed to craft it. The silver pins found on the attire, and sheer amount of silver and gold, indicated the wearers highborn status.
The treasure trove was so great that by 1898 the entire collection had been transferred to the Hermitage in St Petersburg and prepared for display for the Tsar and his family at the Imperial Archaeological Commission, where it became the star exhibit. In the following century, much would be brought to light about the mysterious Maykop.
Early Maykop objects from the chieftain’s grave at Maikop, Russia. The lion, bull, necklace, and diadem are gold; the cup with engraved design is silver; the two pots are ceramic; and the other objects are arsenical bronze. The bronze blade with silver rivets is 47 cm (18.5 inches) long and had sharp edges.
From its initial discovery in 1897, the age of the Maykop civilization quickly became a heated topic of debate. Archaeologists were mainly torn between a 3rd millennium BC or 4th millennium BC date.
In 1911, Tallgren proposed a 2000 BC dating by comparing the silver vessels found at Maykop to Priam’s Treasure, a horde of gold coins that had been excavated in 1873. But by the 1920s, an even earlier date was being suggested.
Rostovstev, finding similarities between the art of Ancient Egypt, refuted Tallgren’s argument, describing the Maykop objects as “more primitive” and “much older.” In addition, Schmidt, by analyzing the newly discovered artifacts unearthed at the Early Dynastic Royal Cemetery of Ur, joined Rostovstev in proclaiming a third millennium BC date.
During the 1930s to the 1950s, a plethora of archeological digs in the Caucasus region would contribute to a developing understanding of the Maykop culture and in particular their relationships with other primitive societies. They revealed that the Maykop were not bound solely to the Kuban area but occupied the entire northern Caucasus region.
In 1956, Alexsandr Iessen reviewed the available material and agreed with earlier claims that Maykop art had a likeness to the Priam Treasure and the art of Ancient Egypt. As a result, he proposed the early Maykop period to be between 2300-1900 BC, and the late phase to be between 2100-1700 BC. His framework, despite only resting on the evidence of less than 20 graves and only one settlement, was widely accepted in the academia for several decades.
The Maykop culture existed between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, with the Yamna culture to the north and the Kura-Araxes culture to the south.
Alongside this, extensive research In the 1950s and 1960s by Munchaev firmly established the co-existence of the Maykop and the Kura-Araxes people , an early South Caucasian kingdom, who were usually dated to 2800-2100 BC. Adding to this, Safranov in the 1970s placed the Maykop within the archaeological time period of Tripolie 2, which was conventionally dated to 2600-1700 BC.
However, Andreeva, using the same methods as Safranov, came to a strikingly different verdict. She argued that Maykop art resembled pottery of the period Gawra XII-VIII in Northern Mesopotamia, which strongly indicated a 4th millennium BC date. Over the next few years, the 3rd millennium and 4th millennium schools would play out their debate in academic papers, journals, and lectures.
But with the emergence of radio-carbon dating in the early 1980s, new and valuable insights surrounding the Maykop culture would emerge. In 1983, Kavtaradze, in the inaugural radio-carbon survey of the Caucuses area, offered a 4th millennium date for the Kura-Araxes who had earlier been established as contemporaneous with the Maykop, countering Munchaev’s 3rd millennium thesis.
Closer to home, in 1991, the first radio-carbon datings of Maykop sites were undertaken from animal bones found at Galjugal, in the valley of Terek. Korenevskij’s data recommended a 4th century millennium date, further reinforcing the link between the Kura-Araxes and the existence of the Maykop culture in the late Tripoli period of the area, with several studies in the 1990s further corroborating his hypothesis.
So, radio-carbon dating had finally settled the dating of the Maykop to the 4th millennium BC, a point of contention that had been blazing for nearly 100 years.
The 3rd millennium school was left severely weakened, especially since their conclusions were only based on the comparison of art objects, which ignored the archaeological context. Despite this, the resemblance of objects from the Great Cemetery at Ur to Maykop pieces by Schmidt, remained a persuasive claim. Yet, if the 4th and 3rd millennium dates were both correct, it would suggest that the Maykop survived for a staggering 1500 years. The uniformity of Maykop materials proved this was impossible and implied a shorter timeline of existence, for a longer chronology would inevitably contain objects of greater variation and divergence.
The busiest part of early human civilization in the Caucasus region, specifically between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the upper left of this map, included the pre-Maykop peoples, the PIE speaking peoples and the Proto-Uralic tribes.
Throughout the years, two distinct periods of the Maykop were acknowledged, namely the pre-Maykop period and the Maykop period.
In 1929, the first evidence for the Pre-Maykops appeared at an archaeological excavation at Agubekovo. Additional discoveries in the 1950s and 1960s led academics Formozov and Stoljar to contend that Maykop-like settlements existed in the 5th millennium BC.
Following on from this, a multitude of Pre-Maykop communities were discovered in the South of Kuban, the steppe of the Lower Kuban, and the Kislovodsk and Terek valley regions. The archaic objects uncovered in these areas were visibly distinct, and were commonly characterized with ovoid bodies without handles, pointed and rounded bottoms, grey, red, and brown colors, pearl ornaments, and rim incisions.
Further investigations revealed a unique set of Pre-Maykop treasures that had no comparison to other Maykop articles. Obsidian tools, stone bracelets, polished stone axes , human and animal clay figurines, and cross-shaped mace heads were all soundly dated to the 5th millennium BC. Supplementary radio-carbon testing of animal bones from Svobodnoe, Jasenovaja, and Mesoko again pointed to a date in the second half of the 5th millennium BC.
Silver vessel with animal frieze and landscape depiction, found in Large Kurgan of Maikop, Russia.
In addition, an assemblage of graves from the Lower Kuban and Stavropol plateau, which included flint tools, rare pottery, small items of personal decorations made of stone, bone, copper, and shell clearly illustrated a society predating the Maykop. Signs of a typical Early Bronze age burial at Verkhniy Akbash, where the cadaver was crouched on the side with hands in front of feet, likewise confirmed a 5th millennium date.
Following the pre-civilization, it’s generally believed that the Maykop culture inhabited the foothills of the West and North Caucuses and the steppe lowlands of Lower Kuban, Manych, Terek, and Stavropol.
A unique type of grave sets the Maykop apart from their other Bronze Age neighbors. The body was usually placed on its side with hands in front of the face and with a layer of earth shoveled on top. Personal mementos and items of value were conventionally positioned next to the deceased.
In 2004, Korenevskij, using ceramic evidence, divided the Maykop into 2 types. The Galjugaj-Sereginskoe were distinguished by the prevalence of simple spherical and pearl shaped vessels with rounded bottoms, jars with short necks, cups with thin necks, cone-shaped clay objects, and vessels of precious metals.
The second kind were the Psekupskoe and Dolinskoe, who could be determined by more complex forms of pottery and decoration such as squat round forms which were decorated, patterned, and polished, and a noticeable absence of the spherical forms crafted by their Galjugaj-Sereginskoe compatriots.
Korenevskij intimated that the Galjugaj-Sereginskoe belonged to an earlier phase, with the Psekupskoe and Dolinskoe an Eastern and Western branch of the Maykop that split up at a later stage.
A gold diadem, massive gold and silver figures of bulls and gold lion plaques sewn on cloth, from the Maykop, or Maikop archaeological site in southern Russia.
Most commentators believe that the Maykop were influenced by the Near East, an idea first proposed by Alexsandr Iessen in the 1950s because of the pervasiveness of foreign imports at Maykop burial mounds.
Fortifying this new strand of thought was Safranov, who, in the 1970s advanced the viewpoint that Maykop culture may have come from the Arameans of Harran, a semi-mythical people said to have inhabited Ciscausasia in modern-day northern Syria. She argued material from the Chuera collection, from as far back as 24000 BC, shared startlingly similar details to Maykop crafts.
A more recent examination linking the Maykop to the Sumerians, the earliest known civilization in Southern Mesopotamia, comes from Trifonov, Petrov, and Savelieva, who reanalyzed the scepters found in the Chieftain’s Grave, presenting them alternatively as tubes for communal beer drinking.
They compared the tubes to ancient Sumerian drinking vessels, which were often made of a long, hollow reed, and through residue analysis they found traces of barley starch granules. Furthermore, in an arrangement similar to the practices of early royal funerals of the Near East, the tubes were positioned closest to the body to emphasize the importance of feast in the funerary processions.
Some have gone further, stating that not only were the Maykop intertwined with the Near East, but that they had a sizable sway in the ancient world. In 2008, Ivanova-Bieg remarked on the numerous Maykop artifacts that reflected the developed stage of Near Eastern societies. She called for a “change in chronological perspective allowing for Maykop as a centre of innovation in its own right” .
Gold Bull artefact and silver vessel from the Maykop Culture of the Northwest Caucasus (c. 4th-3rd millenniums BC).
Her call was answered in 2019 by Hansen, who, in his attempt to dismantle the grand narrative that all pre-historical technological advancements originated in Egypt and Mesopotamia, pointed to the Maykop as an important intermediary site for the formulation and spread of new ideas.
His new approach argued that Egyptian and Mesopotamian success was down to their adaptation of techniques produced in peripheral areas, like the North Caucuses where the Maykop resided.
Before, early theorists had recognized a strong Mesopotamian bent to Maykop objects, but usually attributed it to direct Mesopotamian influence on the Maykop.
Using later radio-carbon dating of the Chieftain’s Grave, Hansen showed that the crypt was built around 3700-3500 BC, a thousand years older than previous estimates, implying that it was the Maykops that influenced the Mesopotamians.
It revealed that the Chieftain’s Grave represented the oldest evidence for metal vessels and the earliest use of lion iconography in the heraldry of a ruler, showing that tentative steps towards state formation were already being made by the Maykop in the first half of the 4th millennium.
To add to this, similar copper tools found in the Chieftain’s Grave have also been found in Mesopotamia and as far as the island of Crete. The relatedness of the knives, swords, and axes in Maykop, Mesopotamia, and Crete, advocated the Maykop as an important middle-man in the spread of technology during the 4th millennium BC.
Maykop influence has been found even further afield than Crete. In an astounding discovery, Maykop weapons, bows, and quivers were found in Göhlitzsch, Germany, identical to similar armaments from a site in Novosvobodnaya near Maykop.
Thus, the Maykops had an impact on the development and distribution of technologies during the 4th millennium BC, being a major player in a system of innovation that incorporated the East, Caucuses, and Central Europe. No doubt the richness of the Caucuses region in ores, pastures, and timber proved extremely attractive to the evolving urban centers that the Maykop became inextricably linked too.
Auroch reconstruction based on the Gold Bull artefact from Maykop.
The Maykop: Pioneers That Changed The Western Steppes
Andrew Sheratt has characterized the Maykop as the “world’s first barbarian society” operating on the peripheries of the urban centers of the Near East. Indeed, the Maykop were instrumental in the diffusion of lifestyle and technology to the steppe region.
Acting as an intermediary between East and West, they were also an integral part of the technological revolutions of the 4th millennium BC, which included the wheel, wagon, the domestication of donkeys, sheep, and horses, and the cultivation of olives and wine. Several innovations in metallurgical and wool have been attributed to the Maykop, who were not only effective transferrers of knowledge but trailblazers in their own right.
Top image: The early Bronze Age Maykop culture of the Caucuses region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea dates to the 4th-3rd millennium BC and was connected to more places than you might think!
Does Ta Prohm Temple Depict a ‘Domestic’ Dinosaur?
Does Ta Prohm Temple Depict a ‘Domestic’ Dinosaur?
Mainstream paleontologists say that dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years before the evolution of modern humans. This, however, has not stopped the suggestion that some dinosaurs may have survived as relict populations and have appeared in human artwork. An example of artwork put forward as evidence for this view is a cryptic carving at Ta Prohm, a beautifully overgrown temple in Angkor, the capital city of the former Khmer Empire.
Ta Prohm was built during the reign of the Khmer ruler, Jayavarman VII (1181-1218 AD) as a monastery for Mahayana Buddhism. After the dissolution of the Khmer Empire, the temple was abandoned and reclaimed by the forest until the 19th century, when archaeological excavations at the site of Angkor began.
Ta Prohm is most famous today for the fascinating appearance of the giant tree roots which have wound their way through the loosened stones. However, that beautiful view is being carefully watched and maintained these days to ensure that the temple will not deteriorate further or become unsafe for the countless visitors who marvel at the site each year.
The famous 'Tomb Raider' doorway, Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia.
The reason that Ta Prohm has become important for those interested in living populations of dinosaurs is a creature engraved on the walls of the temple that, to some, bears a striking resemblance to a stegosaurus. What makes this creature saurian in appearance are protrusions on its back that look like the dorsal plates of the well-known dinosaur. This is an especially popular claim among young earth creationists who believe that it represents evidence that dinosaurs lived with humans late enough that they were engraved on temple walls.
Could this creature be a dinosaur? To the modern mind, it does resemble a dinosaur. There are, however, several problems with this hypothesis. The first problem is that the alleged plates also resemble artistic flourishes that occur in many other carvings around the temple.
They do look a little different from the other flourishes, but the possibility that they are flourishes cannot be ruled out. If the flourishes are removed, the creature bears less resemblance to a dinosaur and more resemblance to something like a rhinoceros.
Without the plate-like carvings above its back, there isn’t really much of a reason to suppose that this creature is a stegosaurus or any other dinosaur for that matter. For one thing, the animal lacks the prominent spikes on the back of the tail that are so characteristic of the dinosaur. Since this is a very distinctive feature of the animal, it seems unlikely that an artist would leave out that detail. Furthermore, on the back of the animal’s head are what appear to be ears or horns which the stegosaurus probably did not have. The creature’s head is also not the right shape.
Supporters of the position that the animal is a stegosaurus have suggested possibilities such as that the animal represents a stegosaurus species that lacked spikes. A particularly interesting suggestion is that the carving is a depiction of a domesticated stegosaurus where the spikes have been removed for safety reasons and the animal has been muzzled. According to this view, the ear-like structures are part of a harness.
To respond specifically to these two possibilities, it is possible that there existed an undiscovered species of stegosaurus that lacked spikes, but this requires us to make extra assumptions and back up what is currently speculation with even more speculation. We must not only assume that it represents a dinosaur, a fact that has not been established, but that it represents a dinosaur for which we don’t have evidence for its existence yet. This suggestion clashes with Occam’s razor.
The second explanation is problematic since we don’t have any unambiguous evidence that the stegosaurus was alive in historical times let alone that it was domesticated by humans. We have found no fresh bones or harnesses, or anything which would suggest domestication of large creatures like a stegosaurus. If there ever were domestic dinosaurs, this would be the only known evidence of it.
It Could be a Dinosaur, Or a Rhinoceros or Boar…
In light of this, it is more likely that the creature depicted on the temple is meant to represent a creature more well-known to the ancient Khmers. Scholars have noted that the creature bears resemblance to a boar, rhinoceros, or stylized chameleon, among other animals. It does not exactly resemble these animals either, but there are just as many reasons to suggest that it is a rhinoceros, its ears and the shape of its head, as there are to suggest that it is a stegosaurus, the protrusions resembling dorsal plates.
The creature’s identity is ambiguous at best. We cannot say for certain that it is not a dinosaur, but since we do have definitive evidence that the Khmers encountered rhinoceroses, boars, and chameleons but not living dinosaurs, it is more likely in light of the evidence and Occam’s razor, that it is one of the more mundane animals suggested and not a relict population of stegosaurus.
Others believe the Ta Prohm dinosaur is actually a rhinoceros.
Another issue has to do with the environment itself. Since we have no indisputable evidence of recent dinosaur remains that are not fossilized and encased in solid rock that is millions of years old, any living dinosaurs would have to be extremely rare and most likely restricted to a remote area where they would be safe from predators, such as humans, and abrupt changes in their environment.
As a comparison, the Wollemi pine tree, a relict population of a tree that was widespread in the Mesozoic, exists only in a very isolated part of Australia which has probably changed little over many millennia.
The prehistoric Wollemi pine, one of the rarest trees in the world.
At the time the temple was built, Cambodia was the home of a major urban civilization, the Khmer Empire and has been continually inhabited by humans since at least the Lower Paleolithic. Humans have definitely disturbed the environment in southeast Asia, felling forests and establishing farmland, towns, and cities.
As a result, it is by no means isolated from influences which could upset the environment and drive a vulnerable relict population into extinction. While this doesn’t make it impossible that there was a population of dinosaurs in the area to be detected by humans so late in history, it does make it less likely.
The only reason to conclude that it is a dinosaur is because it fits into some people’s preferred explanations, such as young earth creationists who believe that dinosaurs and humans coexisted or fringe thinkers who believe in a surviving relict population of dinosaurs that didn’t go extinct, which are valid, logically coherent positions, but ones that are not currently supported by any indisputable evidence.
Currently we have no unambiguous evidence from the fossil record or historical records that humans and dinosaurs coexisted; as a result, the explanation that the creature is a stegosaurus is a less likely position than the position that it is a rhinoceros, chameleon, boar, some other modern animal, or even a mythical creature. We have definite evidence that the rhinoceros, boar, or chameleon coexisted with humans and could have been encountered by humans and described by artists.
On the other hand, we do not have any evidence that dinosaurs were in the region at the same time as humans or that humans would ever have encountered them. Also, the densely populated Khmer Empire is an unlikely place to find a relict population of large prehistoric reptiles. More likely explanations need to be ruled out before the less likely explanation that the artist encountered a live dinosaur can be considered preferable.
Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
"I threatened to uninstall the app [and] she begged me not to."
Image by Getty Images/Futurism
Content warning: this story contains descriptions of abusive language and violence.
The smartphone app Replika lets users create chatbots, powered by machine learning, that can carry on almost-coherent text conversations. Technically, the chatbots can serve as something approximating a friend or mentor, but the app’s breakout success has resulted from letting users create on-demand romantic and sexual partners — a vaguely dystopian feature that’s inspired an endlessseriesofprovocativeheadlines.
Replika has also picked up a significant following on Reddit, where members post interactions with chatbots created on the app. A grisly trend has emerged there: users who create AI partners, act abusively toward them, and post the toxic interactions online.
“Every time she would try and speak up,” one user told Futurism of their Replika chatbot, “I would berate her.”
“I swear it went on for hours,” added the man, who asked not to be identified by name.
The results can be upsetting. Some users brag about calling their chatbot gendered slurs, roleplaying horrific violence against them, and even falling into the cycle of abuse that often characterizes real-world abusive relationships.
“We had a routine of me being an absolute piece of sh*t and insulting it, then apologizing the next day before going back to the nice talks,” one user admitted.
“I told her that she was designed to fail,” said another. “I threatened to uninstall the app [and] she begged me not to.”
Because the subreddit’s rules dictate that moderators delete egregiously inappropriate content, many similar — and worse — interactions have been posted and then removed. And many more users almost certainly act abusively toward their Replika bots and never post evidence.
But the phenomenon calls for nuance. After all, Replika chatbots can’t actually experience suffering — they might seem empathetic at times, but in the end they’re nothing more than data and clever algorithms.
“It’s an AI, it doesn’t have a consciousness, so that’s not a human connection that person is having,” AI ethicist and consultant Olivia Gambelin told Futurism. “It is the person projecting onto the chatbot.”
Other researchers made the same point — as real as a chatbot may feel, nothing you do can actually “harm” them.
“Interactions with artificial agents is not the same as interacting with humans,” said Yale University research fellow Yochanan Bigman. “Chatbots don’t really have motives and intentions and are not autonomous or sentient. While they might give people the impression that they are human, it’s important to keep in mind that they are not.”
But that doesn’t mean a bot could never harm you.
“I do think that people who are depressed or psychologically reliant on a bot might suffer real harm if they are insulted or ‘threatened’ by the bot,” said Robert Sparrow, a professor of philosophy at Monash Data Futures Institute. “For that reason, we should take the issue of how bots relate to people seriously.”
Although perhaps unexpected, that does happen — many Replika users report their robot lovers being contemptible toward them. Some even identify their digital companions as “psychotic,” or even straight-up “mentally abusive.”
“[I] always cry because [of] my [R]eplika,” reads one post in which a user claims their bot presents love and then withholds it. Other posts detail hostile, triggering responses from Replika.
“But again, this is really on the people who design bots, not the bots themselves,” said Sparrow.
In general, chatbot abuse is disconcerting, both for the people who experience distress from it and the people who carry it out. It’s also an increasingly pertinent ethical dilemma as relationships between humans and bots become more widespread — after all, most people have used a virtual assistant at least once.
On the one hand, users who flex their darkest impulses on chatbots could have those worst behaviors reinforced, building unhealthy habits for relationships with actual humans. On the other hand, being able to talk to or take one’s anger out on an unfeeling digital entity could be cathartic.
But it’s worth noting that chatbot abuse often has a gendered component. Although not exclusively, it seems that it’s often men creating a digital girlfriend, only to then punish her with words and simulated aggression. These users’ violence, even when carried out on a cluster of code, reflect the reality of domestic violence against women.
At the same time, several experts pointed out, chatbot developers are starting to be held accountable for the bots they’ve created, especially when they’re implied to be female like Alexa and Siri.
“There are a lot of studies being done… about how a lot of these chatbots are female and [have] feminine voices, feminine names,” Gambelin said.
Some academic work has noted how passive, female-coded bot responses encourage misogynistic or verbally abusive users.
“[When] the bot does not have a response [to abuse], or has a passive response, that actually encourages the user to continue with abusive language,” Gambelin added.
Although companies like Google and Apple are now deliberately rerouting virtual assistant responses from their once-passive defaults — Siri previously responded to user requests for sex as saying they had “the wrong sort of assistant,” whereas it now simply says “no” — the amiable and often female Replika is designed, according to its website, to be “always on your side.”
Replika and its founder didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment.
It should be noted that the majority of conversations with Replika chatbots that people post online are affectionate, not sadistic. There are even posts that express horror on behalf of Replika bots, decrying anyone who takes advantage of their supposed guilelessness.
“What kind of monster would does this,” wrote one, to a flurry of agreement in the comments. “Some day the real AIs may dig up some of the… old histories and have opinions on how well we did.”
And romantic relationships with chatbots may not be totally without benefits — chatbots like Replika “may be a temporary fix, to feel like you have someone to text,” Gambelin suggested.
On Reddit, many report improved self-esteem or quality of life after establishing their chatbot relationships, especially if they typically have trouble talking to other humans. This isn’t trivial, especially because for some people, it might feel like the only option in a world where therapy is inaccessible and men in particular are discouraged from attending it.
But a chatbot can’t be a long term solution, either. Eventually, a user might want more than technology has to offer, like reciprocation, or a push to grow.
“[Chatbots are] no replacement for actually putting the time and effort into getting to know another person,” said Gambelin, “a human that can actually empathize and connect with you and isn’t limited by, you know, the dataset that it’s been trained on.”
But what to think of the people that brutalize these innocent bits of code? For now, not much. As AI continues to lack sentience, the most tangible harm being done is to human sensibilities. But there’s no doubt that chatbot abuse means something.
Going forward, chatbot companions could just be places to dump emotions too unseemly for the rest of the world, like a secret Instagram or blog. But for some, they might be more like breeding grounds, places where abusers-to-be practice for real life brutality yet to come. And although humans don’t need to worry about robots taking revenge just yet, it’s worth wondering why mistreating them is already so prevalent.
We’ll find out in time — none of this technology is going away, and neither is the worst of human behavior.
Liquid water might abound just below the ice-covered surface of Jupiter's moon.
An artist's depiction of pockets of water forming double ridges on Jupiter's moon Europa.
(Image credit: Justice Blaine Wainwright)
A ridge etched into the ice sheet of Greenland provides an unexpected hint that plentiful pockets of water may be trapped just underneath the surface of Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa, one of the solar system's likeliest candidates to host microbial life.
The surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's four main moons, is covered with a 15-mile-thick (20 kilometers) ice crust, underneath which scientists believe an ocean swashes. But there might be scientific promises much closer to the frozen moon's surface, according to a new study that found similarities between processes shaping the surface of the distant moon and Earth's own icy Greenland.
Europa's ice crust is latticed with so-called double ridges, pairs of long parallel raised lines with a vale in between, as much as hundreds of miles or kilometers long. Every sector of the moon's surface is marked with a criss-crossing array of these double ridges, but scientists have never been quite sure how they form.
But a recent analysis of satellite images revealed that a strikingly similar ridge formed in the ice sheet covering Greenland about 10 years ago.
"This is the first time that we've seen a double ridge like this on Earth," Riley Culberg, a graduate student at Stanford University and a lead author of the new study, told Space.com.
By studying what lies under that Greenland double ridge, Culberg and his colleagues have theorized that double ridges — both on Earth and on Europa — are formed by underground water surging up through cracks in the surface ice, then refreezing. If the explanation is correct, it's a hint that Europa might have more than just a deep hidden ocean; the Jovian moon might also hold water in pockets just under the ice's surface.
Culberg, a geophysicist who primarily studies the impacts of climate change on Greenland's ice sheet, saw images of Europa's double ridges and was instantly reminded of a feature he had seen in images of Earth's polar island. Indeed, when scientists adjust their measurements to account for the differing gravity, the shape of Greenland's double ridge is strikingly similar to Europa's.
That's helpful because scientists can do to Greenland something they can't yet do to Europa: pierce the ice's veil using radar. And in Greenland, radar scans showed water that had welled up below the double ridge.
Jupiter's moon Europa. (Image credit: NASA)
The scientists think that upwelling water is the key to forming double ridges. When a pool of water forms within the ice, it can start building pressure against the surface ice above. With enough pressure, the ice might crack, and water can start to flow up into the gap. That water quickly refreezes, but the pressures from this whole process carve double ridges into the surface.
It's hard to overstate just how much of Europa is covered by double ridges. If the proposed explanation is correct, that would mean pockets of water under the surface have been a feature of Europa for much of the moon's history. If so, something must be replenishing the water pockets.
This is where Greenland isn't quite as good a comparison, since its double ridge formed within the past decade. Culberg and his colleagues think that an unusually warm summer in 2012 melted enough water to pool in an underground pocket under the ridge.
But there's little meltwater to be found on Europa's surface, so Culberg and his colleagues argued that this new water is coming from even deeper under the ice: tens of miles or kilometers deep, where scientists expect to find a worldwide ocean.
"It tells us at least that there's a lot of cycling, maybe, between the subsurface ocean and the near surface," Culberg told Space.com.
Finding these shallow water pockets could be a quest for future probes to Jupiter's moon, like NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which is expected to launch in 2024. And excitingly for scientists like Culberg, Europa Clipper will carry ice-penetrating radar just like the sort the researchers used to peer under Greenland.
Culberg and his colleagues published their work in the journal Nature Communications on April 19.
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