Inscription Finally Confirms Biblical Record of Hezekiah’s Tunnel

Two Israeli archaeologists have successfully deciphered an 8th century BC inscription that was left on a wall in an underground tunnel located just outside the walls of the City of David (ancient Jerusalem). The inscription references the deeds of the legendary King Hezekiah , matching certain passages from the Book of Kings and Book of Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible.

The task of deciphering the enigmatic lines, which were written in Old Hebrew script, was completed by Professor Gershon Galil, head of the Institute for Biblical Studies and Ancient History at Haifa University, and Eli Shukron from the Bible and Ancient History research institute.

According to Galil, the inscriptions include a summation of the King’s primary accomplishments during the first 17 years of his kingship, which began in the late 8th century BC and continued into the early 7th century BC. These inscriptions list Hezekiah’s accomplishments as an infrastructure builder, religious and political leader, military conqueror and accumulator of wealth.

Because of its age and contents, the inscription represents a one-of-a-kind discovery within the context of Israeli archaeology.

“These are actually the earliest manuscripts of the Bible,” Galil said in the Jerusalem Post . “They predate the Ketef Hinnom silver amulets by about 100 years and the Dead Sea Scrolls by hundreds of years. They also support the claim that scriptures in the Book of Kings are based on texts originating from chronicles and royal inscriptions, and that the Bible reflects historical reality and not imagination.”

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A wall inside the Siloam tunnel is inscribed but yet to be fully deciphered.

(Eli Shukrun/ The Jerusalem Post )

Confirming Hezekiah’s Construction of the Siloam Tunnel

One of the events specifically referenced in the stone tablet’s inscription is the Siloam Tunnel water project, a celebrated infrastructure initiative that represents one of the most remarkable engineering feats of the ancient world.

The tunnel, which covered 1750 feet (533 meters), was designed to siphon waters from the Gihon Spring outside the walls of the City of David to the Pool of Siloam inside those walls. The construction of the tunnel was believed to have been a response to the military threat presented by the Assyrians during Hezekiah’s reign. In case the City of David were to come under siege, the tunnel would guarantee continued access to fresh water from outside the city. 

The theory that King Hezekiah ordered the construction of the Siloam Tunnel water project has been widely accepted, but still considered unproven. Some academics have suggested the tunnel was actually built 100 years before the time of Hezekiah. But the newly decoded inscriptions would seem to put the issue to rest once and for all.

“Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, made the pool and the conduit, in the seventeenth year, in the second (day), in the fourth (month),” the deciphered inscription says in its first two lines.

By Galil’s calculation, this means it was completed in the year 709 BC. Hezekiah is believed to have ascended to the throne in about 726 BC, so it seems he must have ordered the construction of the tunnel in the very early days of his reign.

Left; Hezekiah's Tunnel ( Tamar Hayardeni/ CC BY 3.0 ) Right; Hand-colored photo/print of the site of the Pool of Siloam. (c. 1865)   

Public Domain )

Hezekiah’s Tunnel? The Truth is Revealed

The Gihon Spring was an underground water source located outside the walls of the ancient City of David (ancient Jerusalem). Its presence made the settlement of the City possible, and it was connected to the areas of settlement by a series of tunnels that allowed access to the spring in some cases and diversion of its water flow in others.

The story of how the Siloam Tunnel was built was revealed in 1880, when explorers in the now-dry underground aqueduct found an inscription on a wall that described the process in detail. But this inscription didn’t contain any text that would prove conclusively that it was built during the time of Hezekiah, as the Bible states in the Book of Kings and Book of Chronicles.

In 1909, another set of engravings was found on a rock wall in an access tunnel leading to the entrance of the Siloam Tunnel. But on initial examination this appeared to include only the frames used to surround inscriptions, with nothing written inside of them. The final verdict was that someone had intended to inscribe something here, but for one reason or another had never gotten around to it.

But Eli Shukron, long recognized as one of the most knowledgeable of all the archaeologists who’ve performed excavations in ancient Jerusalem, wasn’t so sure. He believed there might be faint inscriptions inside the frames that had not previously been detected, because they weren’t obvious to the naked eye. To prove his theory, Shukron recruited Gerston Galil to help him study the rock wall engravings more carefully.

“We took high-quality photos of these ‘frames,’ Professor Galil explained. “It soon became clear that there were indeed exciting and surprising texts there.”

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Inscription 3 has the names and deeds of the biblical King Hezekiah of Judah in ancient Israel.

(Eli Shukrun/ The Jerusalem Post )

Through their enterprising work, the Israeli archaeologists overturned a consensus that had held sway for more than a century.

“It turned out that there is an extremely impressive inscription there. Though eroded by time, the vast majority of the letters are legible,” Galil said.

In total the newly discovered inscriptions included 11 lines of text, which the archaeologists were able to comprehend in their entirety.

Galil explained that the ancient text was divided into five sections, arranged in literary rather than chronological order. These included the title of the inscription, referencing King Hezekiah, an accounting of his construction of the Siloam water project, a brief mention of his most notable military success (“he smote the Philistines from Ekron to Gaza”), lines about his actions as a religious reformer, and finally a boast about his wealth and the wealth of his kingdom, describing how he’d accumulated “a lot of silver and gold, perfumes and good ointment” in his treasure houses.

“This is an extremely important discovery that changes [some basic assumptions of] research, since until today it was commonly accepted that the kings of Israel and Judah, unlike the kings of the ancient Middle East, did not make themselves royal inscriptions and monuments… to commemorate their achievements,” Galil said.

Even More Confirmatory Evidence Emerges

The results of this new analysis seem conclusive. But Professors Galil and Shukron have produced an additional piece of evidence linking Hezekiah with the Siloam Tunnel . This is in the form of a small rock tablet, which contains a short inscription in Old Hebrew script that the two archaeologists were able to recently decipher, after more than a decade of determined effort.

Hezekiah inscription in Jerusalem

(Photo: Vladimir Neichin, Elad foundation)

The palm-sized tablet was discovered by Eli Shukron and another colleague in a man-made pool inside the Siloam Tunnel in 2007. It was mixed in with a collection of pottery shards that were dated to the 8th century BC.

The artifact contained just two lines of inscribed text, which Galil and Shukron have now translated into modern language. According to the archaeologists, this ancient writing says the following:

“Hezekiah built the pool in Jerusalem.”

So in a very short period of time, the same two archaeologists have produced two separate translations of ancient writings that show King Hezekiah was indeed responsible for the construction of the Siloam water project, as most scholars have long believed.

“In these new inscriptions, there are answers to many issues that scholars have debated for years,” Professor Galil said, speaking of the results of his and Professor Shukron’s work in total. “The inscriptions are evidence that Hezekiah carried out a comprehensive reform (before 709 BC) and even that he conquered Philistia, especially Ekron, and stationed soldiers there (in 712 BC). Moreover, Hezekiah is indeed the king who built the pool and the Siloam Tunnel and not others.”

The contents of the inscriptions and the story of how they were discovered and eventually deciphered will be revealed in full in an upcoming book entitled “The Inscriptions of Hezekiah King of Judah,” which Galil and Shukron will be co-authoring.

• Top image: Photo of a replica of the previous Hezekiah’s tunnel inscription
•  Source: Public Domain

By Nathan Falde

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21-12-2022 om 01:39 geschreven door peter  

We Could Spread Life to the Milky Way With Comets. But Should We?

Here’s a thorny problem: What if life doesn’t always appear on planets that can support it? What if we find more and more exoplanets and determine that some of them are habitable? What if we also determine that life hasn’t appeared on them yet?

Could we send life-bringing comets to those planets and seed them with terrestrial life? And if we could do that, should we?

This is the question that a new research article in the journal Astrobiology explores. The paper is “Directed Panspermia Using Interstellar Comets.” The authors are Christopher P. McKay, Paul C.W. Davies, and Simon P. Worden. They’re from NASA’s Ames Research Center, the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, and Breakthrough Initiatives, respectively.

The idea that life spreads throughout the Universe is called panspermia. (Ancient Greek: pan meaning all and sperma meaning seed.) It’s not a new idea. The Greek philosopher Anaxagoras first proposed it back in the 5th century BCE. He wasn’t explicit about it but mentioned that seeds might be part of the Universe. Historians have put two and two together to divine what he meant. Basically, according to panspermia, life exists throughout the Universe and was spread by asteroids, comets, and even space dust—seeds, according to Anaxagoras.

Some researchers have proposed that powerful impacts on planets like Earth or Mars could eject microbe-carrying rocks into space. Mars has lower gravity than Earth, and we know that impacts on Mars have sent rock into space. We’ve found over 270 of them on Earth. Since it happened on Mars, it would’ve happened in other cases and in other solar systems.

We also suspect Mars was inhabited by microbes billions of years ago. This is speculative, but Martian microbes could’ve hitched a ride on impact-ejected rocks and been sufficiently sheltered from the hazards in space to endure a long journey. Eventually, the rock could’ve crashed into another body, and if the heat from the impact didn’t wipe out any surviving microbes and if the body they crashed into was hospitable, life could theoretically spread this way. Multiply that idea by the immense number of collisions in solar systems throughout the Milky Way, and the panspermia idea starts to take shape.

That’s accidental, or natural, panspermia. But if a civilization did this on purpose, it’s called directed panspermia. That’s the subject of the paper, and the civilization is ours.

We don’t know how life originated on Earth. We know some of the necessary conditions, but our knowledge is full of gaps. So by extension, we don’t know how it could originate on other worlds. “We have a scant idea of the appropriate geological/chemical setting for non-life to transform into life, with most of the popular scenarios being largely unproven and no consensus has emerged,” the authors point out.

We know life exists, obviously, and we suspect it may exist elsewhere. But we don’t know if all planets that can support life have life on them. “It may well be that a favourable location for life’s origin is very different from a planetary environment in which life might be successfully sustained over the long term,” the authors write.

Panspermia doesn’t address the question of how life started. It asks us to consider how life might spread from world to world in the Milky Way rather than appear on each world separately. The Milky Way galaxy contains around 200 billion stars. 200 billion stars is an awful lot of solar systems, planets, asteroid belts, Kuiper Belts, and Oort Clouds. If panspermia does occur, it has lots of opportunities.

Our Solar System is a puzzle, and each planet and moon is a piece of it. Mars likely had life in the past, but not anymore, unless it’s somewhere underground, sheltered from the inhospitable surface. There’s intriguing evidence that some of the icy moons, like Enceladus and Europa, have hospitable oceans under thick ice caps. And distant, frigid, Titan is the only body besides Earth with liquid on its surface, though it’s not water. Then there’s itself, a planet that “ripples with life,” in Carl Sagan’s words. Could panspermia be the thread that somehow connects all these pieces?

One of our Solar System’s puzzles is life on Earth and how rapidly it appeared. The young Earth was barely habitable when life appeared. Cellular life might date back as far as 3.95 billion years ago. At that time, Earth had just emerged from the Hadean eon, when our young, barely recognizable planet was wrapped in a thick, carbon dioxide atmosphere and ruled by super-heated conditions.

Some scientists wonder how endogenous life could have appeared so soon after the Hadean. Though there’s a lack of clarity, this thinking does support the idea of panspermia, at least potentially. Earth and other young planets might be able to support life seeded by panspermia before their own life could appear.

Modern thinkers have fleshed out the panspermia idea in detail. We may soon be able to characterize all of the exoplanets in a 100-light-year sphere centred on our Solar System. There are nascent proposals to send spacecraft carrying terrestrial life to any planets that could harbour it. These are largely thought experiments, but time has a way of passing, and someday humanity may have to wrestle with the idea more realistically.

The authors point out that this idea is physically possible (With lots of caveats.) But what about the expense? What about spacecraft reliability?

Nature already produces objects capable of long interstellar voyages: comets. They’ve become part of the discussion around directed panspermia and form the bulk of this research article. “In this article, we build on the foregoing research and propose the concept of directed panspermia using interstellar comets as opposed to dedicated spacecraft,” the authors explain.

The article is motivated by specific events from the last few years. In 2017, the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua passed through our Solar System. Two years later, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov also briefly visited our Solar System. They were the first two observed interstellar objects (ISOs) to pass through our system, making Borisov the first comet we’ve seen doing so. These occurrences beg the two-pronged question, how many more ISOs have/will make the same journey?

The discovery of two ISOs in such a short period of time is a result of our technological advancements and the large number of telescopes that watch the skies. There were certainly many others in the Solar System’s long history, and there will be many more in the future. They are likely common, and they present an opportunity, according to the authors.

“Interstellar comets enable low-cost directed panspermia that is potentially wide in scope in terms of the number of possible probes and range ultimately covered,” they write. A 2021 study predicted that a total of about 6.9 objects like 2I/Borisov per year should pass within one AU of the Sun. When the Vera Rubin Observatory comes online sometime in 2023, we’ll start finding these ISOs, maybe five per year.

Comet Borisov is particularly interesting to the authors. Its size is uncertain, but estimates put it as large as 16 km in diameter. That makes it large enough to shelter an inoculant from radiation. It lost mass during its journey through the inner Solar System, but that’s actually good. The dust it left behind “… can be a mechanism for disseminating inoculum,” they explain.

The authors explain how comets like Borisov could be used to spread life throughout the Milky Way. Panspermia by ISO would be a combination of natural and directed panspermia. “It combines them effectively, using interstellar comets as transporters of opportunity by adding biological inoculum to the comet without attempting to change its trajectory,” they explain.

The ideal inoculum would be a collection of life forms that could successfully seed different habitats on different exoplanets. “Inoculum for planets with liquid water on the surface, such as Earth and early Mars, may be set to develop rapidly into diverse and complex life evolving in tandem with the planetary environment,” the authors write. For moons like Enceladus, Earthly methanogens might be the most suitable inoculum.

The inoculum needn’t be restricted to single-celled organisms. Small multicellular organisms might make the most sense, at least in some instances. The hardy tardigrades appear in the paper because they can survive the vacuum and radiation in space.

If humanity ever undertakes a program of directed panspermia, genetically-modified organisms might play a role. That technology will probably be necessary because there could be a wide variety of habitable worlds that are nothing like Earth. We have them in our Solar System, and the best example might be Titan. It’s the only body other than Earth with surface liquid. “But as synthetic biotechnology advances, we might be able to construct life forms that could thrive on Titan and in other non-water habitats discovered on exoplanets in the future,” the authors explain.

This could all be a wasted effort, and the authors acknowledge that. Is it really as simple as plopping some life forms onto a planet? “A serious argument that might be advanced against panspermia stems from the point of view that life is a planetary phenomenon forming a complex globally distributed web of interdependent organisms that exchange material and information,” they write. “Therefore, merely dropping a few microbes on a habitable but otherwise barren planet would not successfully seed it.”

In that case, the inoculum would have to be a much more custom design. It would have to be a web of its own, designed for a specific environment, that could successfully implement the relationships between life forms that characterize biospheres like Earth’s. That’s a difficult proposition. “Determining the minimal subset of organisms required is a formidable challenge that may require significant advances in our understanding of the web of life.”

But things get really tricky when we imagine a future where all of this starts to become possible. We’ll be exploring some of Jupiter’s icy moons soon, and a mission to Titan will likely become a reality. What will we find? If they’re barren but look like they can support life, will we be tempted?

Some familiar, uncomfortable questions arise. The more powerful our technologies become, the more far-reaching the consequences of using them. Technological advancements like genetic modification and climate engineering engender powerful responses as people consider how they could go wrong. These concerns would “… carry over with a vengeance to the purposeful dissemination of life across the galaxy,” the authors write.

‘Now them crazy scientists want to plow ahead and start messing with the entire galaxy,’ some will think, and we can see the headlines and opinion pieces in our mind’s eyes. But we’re nowhere near doing any of this so we can pull ourselves back from the ledge and think soberly about it.

A critical question around directed panspermia poses itself before we even get to the questions of ‘can we’ or ‘should we.’ We simply don’t know how many planets that could support life actually have life. “Astrobiological optimists tend to assume that habitable planets are very likely to be inhabited,” the authors write. But that’s only an assumption.

With all we don’t know, it’s entirely possible that only a tiny fraction of habitable planets and moons have life on them. Maybe there are a billion or more planets and moons that can support life, like blank canvasses, but natural panspermia hasn’t reached them yet. “… it is entirely possible that only an exceedingly small fraction of all habitable planets actually hosts life,” the authors point out.

What if panspermia is a natural part of the Universe, and since we’re a natural part of the Universe, we have a role to play in spreading life? Maybe we even have the duty to do so. Maybe Earth was seeded by directed panspermia. Maybe a long-dead civilization faced what we’re facing now and decided to go for it.

That’s a lot of maybes, but that’s the nature of these questions. Another maybe is that this may be how it goes for civilizations. Maybe civilizations never become the advanced types laid out in the Kardashev Scale. Maybe they reach a point, one that’s quickly approaching for humanity, where the Great Filter looms over all our affairs. Maybe, when civilizations reach that point, all they can do is try to spread life. And the decision might have to be made long before we understand exactly what’s going on with life in the galaxy.

That’s a whole bunch of maybes strung together on an uncertain trajectory. But there’s another string of maybes and what-ifs that leads to caution when we follow it, and the authors outline these concerns.

What if we send life to a planet thinking it’s uninhabited, but it’s only at the very beginning of hosting life? In that case, our good intentions might end in disaster, as that planet’s life is snuffed out by Terran life that outcompetes it.

What if we base our panspermia decisions on biosignatures, but our understanding of biosignatures is too biased towards Earth life? That could also end in disaster as our robust, genetically engineered microbes committed a uni-cellular atrocity and wiped out the planet’s existing life.

Or, our life-bearing comet might find an appropriate uninhabited target and successfully seed it with microbe-carrying dust. But what if it didn’t stop there and seeded other planets that were already inhabited? That’s another disaster, as our good intentions manifest as an invasion or even a weapon.

The situation quickly grows complex. But it leads us back to questions about exactly what happened on Earth.

Early Earth life bubbled along for a long time before photosynthesis appeared. That changed everything, as oxygen became more concentrated in the atmosphere and complex life appeared and took over the planet. What if the genetic ability to perform photosynthesis was seeded through panspermia, either directed or natural? What if life on Earth never made the energy-exploiting jump to photosynthesis without a boost from panspermia?

We’ve got a lot more to learn about comets before any of this even approaches practicality. In 2019, the ESA selected the Comet Interceptor mission from among several candidate missions. They hope to launch it in 2029. The Interceptor will sit and wait at the Sun-Earth L₂ point for a suitable Long Period Comet (LPC) to approach the inner Solar System. By 2029, we’ll have more powerful telescopes that can identify a good comet long before it reaches the inner Solar System.

When one is found, the Comet Interceptor will deploy two smaller probes to intercept the comet. The mission is purely scientific. LPCs are pristine objects, holders of clues to the origins of our Solar System. The probes will study the comet in detail and create a rich 3D model of the comet and the region that surrounds it as it moves through space.

There will likely be many more comet-exploring missions in the near future. We’ll keep learning about them and which ones might serve as vehicles for panspermia. As time marches on, we’ll get closer to executing some sort of panspermia strategy. Maybe circumstances will force our hand.

The authors say that the idea of directed panspermia has migrated from the outright absurd to something that needs to be thought of more seriously, and the discovery of interstellar comets is responsible. “Until recently, the idea that humans could literally sow the seeds of a cosmic transformation having multi-million-year downstream consequences would have been regarded as absurd,” they write. “But the discovery of interstellar comets has changed all that.”

In their article, the authors outline their vision of a biological Universe. Panspermia’s objective “… is to enhance the richness and diversity of life in the universe,” they say. We don’t have the technology to do it, but future generations will. “Although we currently lack the technology to harness these comets as biological delivery vehicles, there is no difficulty in understanding what is needed to do so and in refining the strategy to achieve the goal of seeding the galaxy with life suitably constructed to thrive in a variety of exoplanetary environments.”

That’s a positive outlook, but there’s a haunting aspect to panspermia, too. All stars burn out and fade away, and no world remains hospitable forever. Maybe natural panspermia leaves too much to chance, and we have a duty to spread life wherever we can because every instance of life faces extinction.

From that vantage point, is there really any difference between directed and natural panspermia? Maybe we’re agents of nature, and we’ll know it’s the right thing to do when we know it’s the right thing to do. Maybe the Great Filter will force our hand, and we’ll take a bold step. Humanity’s boldest step and defining act might be spreading life elsewhere, hoping it can find hospitable cradles throughout the galaxy. The cycle can continue, and life can persist.

Panspermia could be our grand gesture and a tip of the hat to life before we fade away. If it were a scene in a science fiction film, the setting would be a dying, resource-depleted Earth, with its biosphere in tatters and its aging Sun bathing it all in an eerie light. The last few hundred thousand bedraggled humans would gather what resources they could and build one last spacecraft. They’d watch the flare of a rocket one last time, loaded with inoculant and headed for a rendezvous with a suitable interstellar comet that’s passing through our inner Solar System.

That may sound melodramatic, but is there something more dramatic than birth and death on a galactic scale?

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Now, back to your cubicle.

More:

• Research Article: Directed Panspermia Using Interstelr Comets
• NASA Astrobiology: In Search of Panspermia
• Universe Today: Asteroids are Dangerous, but They Might Also be the Key to Life on Earth

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21-12-2022 om 01:10 geschreven door peter  

Mothership Over Sao Paulo, Brazil Dec 12, 2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Dec 12, 2022

Location of sighting: Sao Paulo, Brazil

This is a video of an important event in Brazil. An eyewitness was driving and noticed an unusual disk light in the sky. The outer edge of the disk was lit up and the disk itself was nearly half a mile across! It was seen over the mountain for a few minutes and then disappeared. It looks as if aliens are deeply interested in Brazil. Since Brazil is against the ocean, it stands to reason that this UFO was heading to or from an under water alien base not far off shore. But the Amazon jungle could also hide an ancient base 5km below it. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

Eyewitness states: 

Mystery in the sky, I filmed this strange formation in the sky of Sao Paulo yesterday! It was around 9:45 PM local time in São Paulo Brazil when I drove my vehicle down this street and saw the strange formation in the sky, so I slowed down and decided to film it, I posted the video on a local page where many commented that they also saw such formation from other parts of the city. I had mixed feelings, I was both scared and dazzled by that vision, and it certainly wasn't a natural phenomenon but something unknown in the sky.

 

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20-12-2022 om 23:44 geschreven door peter  

A dog walker claims she's captured footage of a 'demon ghost' crawling across the path in an infamous haunted National Trust country park in England - so shocking that it's turned her skeptical hubby into a 'believer'. 

Hannah and Dave Rowett were walking their Labradors through the supposedly haunted forest in Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, around 6.30am earlier this month when the mum 'felt they weren't alone'. 

The 52-year-old quickly pulled out her phone and captured a 'scary' white silhouette crossing the path in front of her as she follows it with a torch. 

The footage shows an odd white mist that quickly materializes into a form that resembles a figure which then hastily moves across the path in front of her before vanishing into thin air. Although she initially suspected that the anomaly was the spirit of a dog, Hannah now believes that it was humanoid in nature and mused that "it's quite demonic in the way it's crawling and has long limbs" reports CoasttoCoast.

  

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20-12-2022 om 23:15 geschreven door peter  

A mysterious brightly glowing object moving at high speed through the water, low above the water or shallow under the water, was caught on a surveillance camera on the beach of Encinitas, California. 

At some point the glowing object emerges from the water followed by a bright flash and disappears into thin air. When zoomed in on the bright flash it shows a triangular UFO. 

It is again proof that UFOs disappear into the ocean, as well as take off again, especially in the area off coast California and Santa Catalina Island and San Clemente Island which islands are known for its many UFO sightings reported by the Navy and local residents over the years.

  

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20-12-2022 om 23:03 geschreven door peter  

Latest UFO Sightings: Mysterious Lights Appear in Wisconsin Skies, Baffling Witnesses

On December 1, multiple witnesses in rural Wisconsin reported seeing strange lights in the sky. The lights were filmed from different locations and were described as white, glowing objects and multicolored lights flashing, swooping in circles, and darting across the sky. Some witnesses ruled out searchlights on the ground as a possible explanation for the phenomena. Some of the sightings occurred a few hours apart in different locations, including West Bend, Howard, and Greenfield.

In multiple videos shared by DailyMail.com, witnesses can be seen shooting videos of strange lights moving across the sky in rural Wisconsin on December 1. These include one who had a terrifying encounter with the lights.

The lights, which appeared to move at speeds of up to 150 mph, left the witnesses convinced that they saw a UFO. This case is different from other similar UFO sightings as it has multiple witnesses who were not acquainted with each other and captured the phenomenon at the same time.

The Daily Mail was able to obtain videos of the encounters from two individuals, who are identified as Ken and Kimberly, who are from West Bend and Fredonia, respectively.

According to Kimberly, she and her husband were driving home at around 10:45 pm when they saw the strange lights. She said that they initially thought that they saw a white owl. She noted that on rare occasions, they would see an animal fly past their headlights as they were driving on country roads.

They initially thought that the object was an animal until it flew past their car three times. They then noticed that the white lights in the sky were moving in the same direction. They initially thought that the object was an alien or something else.

As they were driving, she said that they started to see the lights as they were leaning forward into their car’s windshield. They couldn’t wrap their heads around what they saw. They watched the object for a couple of minutes before they could realize that it was moving. They then used their phones to record the incident.

According to Kimberly, the night was clear and normal in Wisconsin. She said that instead of the UFO lights shining from the ground, she thought that they were in the sky. In videos shared by Ken and Kimberly, they can see multiple lights appear in a row. A fifth appears from the left in the background as they circle together.

In one of Kimberly’s videos, the lights appeared in a tight cluster overhead, and they then split into multiple lights and flew away to the east. Ken, who was 54 years old at the time of the incident, started filming after he saw the lights in the sky over Fredonia, Wisconsin.

According to the weather data, there were no storms or clouds in the area that night. A federal air traffic controller noted that he did not see anything on radar. He was also not able to identify the aircraft that appeared in the sky. Another witness posted videos of the incident on Facebook, which were taken from outside her home.

In one of her videos, Andrea Lynn captured four different videos of the multicolored lights dancing across the sky.

In her post on her Facebook page, Andrea asked the people of Green Bay, Wisconsin, to share their observations about the mysterious lights.

The National Weather Service also informed her that they spotted the same lights a week later. In the first video, which was taken from a suburban sidewalk, a white light appears in the sky before disappearing. Three more lights then appear in a triangular shape before the central light disappears.

In the second video, a bright yellow light streaked across the sky before it stopped moving. It then speeds up and disappears as it flies away. In the third video, a blue light appears in the clouds. Two yellow lights then dance around the sky before abruptly darting away.

On December 2, Chris Nowak was driving with his family to West Allis, Wisconsin, to visit the Candycane Lane lights. This is a tradition for the family. While driving over Interstate 43 at around 6:55 pm, his wife saw the same strange lights.

According to Nowak, he was completely blown away by the phenomenon, which he described as a row of illumination. It appeared to be moving rapidly across the sky.

He and his family were able to see the lights for about 20 miles during their trip. He said that the phenomenon was moving from southwest to northeast across the sky. After five minutes, he decided to start filming the lights in a church parking lot. He captured what appeared to be a bright blue light as it hovered in the clouds. Then, multiple white lights streaked across the sky.

According to Nowak, the lights appeared as three different beams moving across the sky at an incredible speed. He dismissed the idea that searchlight installations were behind the phenomenon.

The strange looking objects in the videos caught the attention of a meteorologist friend, who couldn’t explain what exactly happened. Nowak shared the videos with the weather expert, who struggled to come up with a possible explanation. That night, two women driving on a road in Brighton, Michigan captured videos of the same lights.

Tasha Lynn and Kenna VanBrocklyn posted a video of the mysterious lights dancing in the clouds on their Facebook page. The strange phenomenon has caused some people to shout out their astonishment. Some believe the lights were searchlight installations or a light show at a country club.

Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent, first spotted the three individuals who were identified as Ken, Chris, and Kimberly on his television show UFO Witness. He conducted an investigation for DailyMail.com. Due to the totality of the situation, Hansen said that the case became more compelling.

According to Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent, he believed that the sightings of Ken and Kimberly were hard to explain away. He noted that there were several factors that didn’t add up to the explanation. For instance, there’s no evidence suggesting that searchlight installations have been permitted in the area, and the speed and intensity of the lights didn’t conform with current technology.

According to Hansen, the majority of reported sightings of UFOs are light anomalies instead of traditional shapes such as cylinders, triangles, and disks. These new sightings are similar to the reported sightings of the Foo Fighters in World War II and the lights that appeared over Washington DC in 1952.

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20-12-2022 om 22:07 geschreven door peter  

Are Aliens Spying On NASA With A UFO In The Sky?

Some people believe that a mysterious circle of light spotted over Houston led them to believe that a UFO was flying over the city.

NASA has a long history with the city of Houston, Texas, and residents are accustomed to seeing strange sights in the sky. However, one particular sighting in August 2014 left many people scratching their heads.

A resident of Houston stepped outside to film a building storm and captured footage of a circle of lights hovering in the sky. The object was clearly visible from the ground and appeared to be large. When the footage appeared online, people speculated about the possible causes of the anomaly. One theory was that it was simply light reflecting off the clouds. Another popular explanation was that it was an example of ball lightning, a rare and mysterious orb of light often associated with thunderstorms. However, the circular shape of the Houston anomaly made this theory unlikely.

As more people reported similar sightings in a range of different conditions, it became clear that the lights were not caused by the weather. Some speculated that the lights could be connected to an advanced NASA craft, such as the LDSD (low density supersonic decelerator), a flying saucer designed to help humans reach Mars. However, it was eventually suggested that the lights were simply street lights reflected off the wet road surface during the storm.

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20-12-2022 om 21:48 geschreven door peter  

Unidentified Flying Objects Sighted in Crawley, UK: A Mystery to be Solved?

On the evening of December 17, 2022, a UFO sighting was reported in Crawley in UK. According to the witness, two bright orange lights were seen flying over a local school in the area. The lights were initially observed moving in one direction, but then stopped and hovered for a period of time before heading in the opposite direction and eventually disappearing.

A number of similar reports have been made around the world. Although some believe that these objects are alien visitors, others think that they might have been man-made phenomena. The public’s fascination with UFOs continues to grow as these sightings continue to captivate people’s imagination.

It’s worth noting that not all UFO sightings can be easily explained, and many reports remain unexplained to this day. While it is impossible to say for certain what the witness in Crawley saw on the evening of December 17, 2022, the report serves as a reminder of the enduring mystery surrounding these unexplained phenomena.

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20-12-2022 om 21:38 geschreven door peter  

90,000 US UFO sightings gathered into one map

For decades now, people around the world have been fascinated by the mysterious and unsettling phenomenon of UFO sightings. While some believe that these objects are alien visitors, others think that they might be man-made or natural phenomena. Regardless of the reason for these sightings, it has become an annual curiosity for most people.

Now, a new map compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) has brought this fascination to a whole new level by aggregating over 90,000 reports of UFO sightings dating back to 1905. The map, which can be found on the NUFORC website, displays each reported UFO as a circle, with the size of the circle representing the number of reports received for that particular sighting. As you might expect, the map is filled with clusters of UFO sightings, particularly in more populated areas.

One of the most interesting features of the map is its ability to track the evolution of UFO sightings over time. For instance, the chart below shows that while these sightings were rare during the 20th century, they became more common during the latter half of the decade. This continued into the 21st. More people reported sightings during the past few years.

Unfortunately, some of the reports on the map are not labeled as genuine sightings. These can be the result of hoaxes or misidentifications. However, the majority of these sightings are believed to be genuine.

Although it’s hard to predict exactly what the map will reveal about the future of UFO sightings, it can provide some interesting insight into the current state of affairs. For one, it shows that these objects are more common than people realize. Also, it suggests that these phenomena has been going on for a long time.

It should also be noted that the map doesn’t include every reported sighting of an unidentified flying object. This could be because these objects were either not credible or weren’t included due to their lack of credibility.

The map serves as a record of the continued fascination with this strange and unsettling phenomenon, as well as the possibility of alien life. Regardless of your beliefs about aliens, it’s still hard to deny that these objects continue to draw people’s attention. So, if you see something strange in the sky, you can also report it to us using this form.

2004: Chicago, Illinois

UFOs clearly enjoy visiting the Windy City. For example, 77 people reported seeing a UFO on the night of October 31, 2004:

Witness No. 13 wrote:

Fire balls in the sky, form triangle, lasted 5 minutes.

Second Sighting 45 minutes later lasted 5 minutes. There were 3 Fire balls at 8:20pm they formed in a straight line in the east sky, then they formed into a triangle, one then moved quickly out of sight traveling North then the other two disappeared. What was strange about 45 minutes later another fireball appeared South east, just one , it also lasted about 5 minutes. I took pictures on my digital camera and have night vision video on both sightings , In the video it appears as a white ball, when you look in the sky it looks as tho they barely move, but when researching the video it is moving all over the place at at times it looked as tho it was right on top of the screen. In the pictures the camera captured the light movement which is very interesting. I blew the photos up on the computer and in some it looks like they wrote something. My daughter and I had the chills. I never experienced anything like this.

2009: Burlington, New Jersey

Witness No. 41 of 75, September 19, 2009:

Fishers Island, Long Island Sound there was a large lamp shade/flashlight light in the sky for 10 seconds+ it fadded away into the sk

Beach party early in the night. 20+ people saw most of the event. 10+ saw it "turn on" and then called out to the rest. There was a light in the sky like a huge lamp or a flash light. It was turned on over Long Island Sound and very obvious light. We saw it and then it faded slowly UP outward away from us. It did not go right, left or down, it just faded away. the light lingered in the sky for 20-30 seconds and everyone sort of got over it. It still bothered some of us. It was nothing like anyone had ever seen not a plane or satalite or anything people who live on an island and looking at the sky had ever seen.

It is dark and boring here, we all look at the sky all the time.

1997: Phoenix, Arizona

UFO Sightings Abound Over United States Military Bases

UFO sightings over military bases in the United States have long been a source of fascination and speculation. According to data from the National UFO Reporting Center, there have been numerous reports of UFO sightings in the vicinity of military bases across the country. Some of these sightings have been accompanied by strange and unexplained phenomena, such as unexplained lights or strange aircraft behavior. While it is difficult to say for certain what these sightings represent, they have fueled speculation about the possibility of extraterrestrial activity or advanced military technology being tested. Regardless of the cause, these UFO sightings over military bases in the United States continue to pique the interest of UFO enthusiasts and the general public alike.

In the image below I’ve combined two images:

1. Map of 90.000 UFO sightings from 1905
2. Map of U.S. Military Bases

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20-12-2022 om 21:29 geschreven door peter  

A typical mine uses about 20 MW of power to operate, and they typically pay a power purchase agreement (PPA) to a power provider that provides the generators or some other form of energy. Wind and solar are two possible alternatives, but they are too intermittent to provide steady power, especially at the latitudes most mines are located. As such, many mine operators would be open to an alternative.

But, as with so much technology, it comes down to cost. On average, a typical mine pays up $.30 per kWh of operation, so in a best-case scenario, that is the price that a power satellite would have to be at least close to. However, there could be some wiggle room, as a mine operator might want to look more “green” by not burning thousands of gallons of diesel fuel, so they might take a serious look at a power satellite that can provide energy at a slightly higher price.

So how much does energy from a power satellite cost? Since there isn’t yet one in operation, it’s hard to judge, but the researchers based their calculations on a proposal put forward by John Mankins called the SPS-ALPHA 18 system. As the name implies, it provides 18 MW of power, conveniently close to the average use case of a typical remote mine. It is also detailed in a paper Mankins wrote and an upcoming book that explains an updated version. Since that book wasn’t released at the time of writing of the paper, their calculations are based on the (assumedly inferior) original satellite platform.

In that paper, Mankin provides three different types of cost estimates that would help put a price on the electricity supplied by the power satellite system. The first of those is manufacturing – with an estimate of almost $800 million to build the various parts of the SPS-ALPHA 18 system. “Other” costs, including the R&D and building the ground station, come in at another $600 million. The final expense, launch cost, is the focal point of so much of the development of the commercial space flight industry and varies widely based on some assumptions. In a best-case scenario, a flight with what was then known as the BFR, now known as Starship, can launch the slightly over 1 million kg necessary to get a satellite into orbit for just over $600 million in total.

All told, that’s around a $2 billion cost to get a complete functional power satellite into orbit. That’s actually on the scale of some large-scale power plants, especially of the nuclear variety. However, those ground-based power plants are designed to be tied into a power grid and produce a few orders of magnitude more power than the SPS-ALPHA 18 would. So would that $2 billion investment look like a good one from the standpoint of a potential investor?

The simplest way to calculate the overall energy cost of a mine is to figure out how much they use per year and then multiply it by the life expectancy of the mine itself. At 18 MW per year, the SPS-ALPHA 18 could provide pretty much the mine’s total energy consumption. Thirty cents per kilowatt hour spread out over 24 hours a day, and it comes to something like $47.3 million annually. Over a life span of a mine (about 25 years), that annual revenue totals around $1.1 billion. 

So even in a best-case scenario, the proposition to power a remote mine with a satellite would still lose money. However, to an economist’s eyes, it’s even worse. They use a variable called the “discount rate,” basically a way of calculating how much the money used to finance a project costs, which includes things like inflation and opportunity cost (i.e., how much they would make from investing elsewhere). Another big factor in determining the discount rate is the risk of failure of the project itself – given the novel nature of a space power satellite, this is pretty high for a project of this nature.

Dr. Ian Lange and his co-authors selected a 12% discount rate, which, he points out, is about average for the remote mining industry. But that means that each year, the revenue from the project is worth 12% less than the revenue from the previous year. Moreover, they expect a 5-year capital investment up front, where there wouldn’t be any actual revenue for five years, which means that in 5 years, the $47.3 million in revenue from the first year would only be worth $26.84 million in today’s money. 

And it gets worse from there, with the total revenue at the end of the project only counting for about $2.78 million in today’s money. All of these economic calculations end up with a number called the “net present value” or NPV. Investors look at that number and attempt to decide whether or not a project is investable. 

In the case of using SPS-ALPHA 18, the most thought of space power platform designed at the time of writing the paper, the net present value of using SPS-ALPHA 18 to power a remote mine is, at best, -$1.8 billion. That’s a stretch even for the most space-minded billionaire. 

So the answer to whether a space-based power satellite could power remote mines is “yes,” but there’s not much of a business case for it. There’s still a long way to go before beaming power from space becomes a profitable venture. But, as the authors note at the end of the paper, the whole calculation changes dramatically if some of the parts for the satellite are manufactured in space. So there is still a point in the future, with a much more fleshed-out space infrastructure, where the price might eventually become competitive. But there will be lots of necessary investment, at a very negative NPV, before humanity gets to that point.

Learn More:

• Proctor et al. – Feasibility of space solar power for remote mining operations
• UT – Finally, a Practical use for Space-Based Power Beaming. Sending Power to Satellites in Shade
• UT – The Navy is Testing Beaming Solar Power in Space
• UT – With Better Communication, Astronomers and Satellites can co-Exist

Lead Image:

• Artist’s impression of an SPS-ALPHA satellite operating in space.
  Credit – John Mankins

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19-12-2022 om 00:59 geschreven door peter  

This video, which was filmed yesterday (December 15), shows a meteorite illuminating the night sky and falling on the ground like a "fireball" in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. No injury was reported. 

The fireball seen from a dash cam video crossed the sky for just a few seconds and fell far away while burning, with a brightness that was brighter than a full moon. 

Some unburned meteorite fragments were found in Chengtou Village, Pujiang County, Jinhua. The meteorite found measured 8 centimeters in length and weighed 1.7 kilograms. 

It is understood that the meteor was too big to be burnt up at high altitude so it then entered the Earth's atmosphere, producing dazzling light. 

Zhang Baolin, a senior meteorite expert at the Beijing Planetarium and a science expert at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said to the local media that the meteorite probably came from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. 

Zheng Yongchun, deputy director of the Space Science Communication Expert Studio and a science expert, made a preliminary judgment after seeing the meteorite fragment that the meteorite is 4.6 billion years old, older than all the rocks on Earth.

  

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19-12-2022 om 00:39 geschreven door peter  

Uncovering the Mysterious Intersection of Traditional Indigenous Beliefs and Modern UFO Mythology: A Case Study of the Warlpiri People of Australia

The intersection of traditional indigenous beliefs and modern UFO mythology has long been a subject of fascination and intrigue for researchers and laypeople alike. In this in-depth research article, we delve into the mysterious and complex ways in which these seemingly disparate worlds intersect among the Warlpiri people of Australia.

hrough extensive interviews with members of the community, we uncover a deeply rooted belief in the power and importance of the “warnayarra,” a traditional indigenous being with qualities similar to a rainbow serpent. This formidable being is closely tied to concepts of land ownership and protection, with traditional owners able to guarantee the safety of their guests through rituals such as placing a small amount of water on a visitor’s head and speaking to the warnayarra.

However, we also discover that the warnayarra is a force to be reckoned with, capable of causing harm to those who do not regularly visit or “look after” the land. This highlights the importance of maintaining rights to land among the Warlpiri people, and the warnayarra serves as a means of politically arguing for and legitimizing these claims.

As we delve deeper into the mysterious world of the Warlpiri people, we begin to uncover a strange and unsettling connection between the warnayarra and another otherworldly force: aliens. Through their encounters with these extraterrestrial beings, the Warlpiri people speak of a recognition and respect for their distinct identity and enduring claim to land.

But what is the true nature of these aliens, and how do they fit into the complex cultural landscape of the Warlpiri people? Our research suggests that the aliens serve as a unique validation of indigenous identity, reinforcing the status of the Aboriginal people within the community through their ability to protect non-Aboriginal individuals from abduction.

However, the intersection of traditional indigenous beliefs and modern UFO mythology is far from simple. As we continue our research, we find ourselves drawn into a web of mystery and intrigue, with many questions yet to be answered. Is it possible that the warnayarra and the aliens are connected in some way, or are they simply two separate and distinct beings coexisting in the same cultural landscape?

We also explore the potential significance of these beliefs for contemporary indigenous political and cultural issues. The presence of aliens in Warlpiri mythology could be seen as a way of addressing and coping with the impact of colonization and the loss of traditional land and cultural practices. At the same time, the recognition and respect shown to the Aboriginal people by the aliens in these narratives could be seen as a means of promoting and affirming indigenous identity and agency.

Further investigation is needed to fully understand the true significance of these beliefs within the Warlpiri community and beyond. But one thing is certain: the intersection of traditional indigenous beliefs and modern UFO mythology is a complex and multifaceted subject that continues to captivate and intrigue researchers and laypeople alike.

Aboriginal People and UFO and Alien Encounters

The intersection of traditional indigenous beliefs and modern UFO mythology is a complex and multifaceted subject that has long captivated researchers and laypeople alike. In this chapter, we will explore the ways in which Aboriginal people have interacted with UFO and alien encounters, and how these encounters have been incorporated into traditional beliefs and cultural practices.

One notable example comes from the Warlpiri people of Australia, as discussed in previous chapters. Through interviews with members of the community, we found that the concept of the “warnayarra,” a traditional indigenous being similar to a rainbow serpent, is closely tied to ideas of land ownership and protection. However, we also found that narratives of alien abductions among the Warlpiri people contain many of the same themes, with the aliens being perceived as recognizing and respecting the distinct identity and enduring claim to land of the Aboriginal people.

Other indigenous communities around the world have also reported encounters with UFO and alien beings. For instance, the Hopi people of the southwestern United States have a long tradition of stories about “star beings” who have visited and interacted with the community. Similarly, the Dogon people of West Africa have a complex mythology that includes encounters with extraterrestrial beings, which they believe have played a role in the evolution and development of their culture.

It is important to note that the interpretation and significance of these encounters can vary significantly among different indigenous communities. For some, these encounters may be seen as a validation of traditional beliefs and cultural practices, while for others they may be seen as a source of conflict or a threat to traditional ways of life.

Overall, the intersection of traditional indigenous beliefs and modern UFO mythology is a complex and multifaceted subject that continues to captivate and intrigue researchers and laypeople alike. Further investigation is needed to fully understand the true significance of these encounters and how they fit into the cultural landscape of indigenous communities around the world.

Belief in UFOs and Aliens in Australia

The intersection of traditional indigenous beliefs and modern UFO mythology has long been a topic of interest in Australia, with many people reporting encounters with UFO and alien beings. But how common is belief in these phenomena among the broader Australian population?

According to a 2019 survey conducted by the Australian National University, approximately 25% of Australians believe in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. This figure is consistent with global trends, with similar studies finding that approximately 25% of people around the world believe in the existence of aliens.

Belief in UFOs, or unidentified flying objects, is somewhat less common among the Australian population, with only 16% of respondents in the aforementioned survey reporting that they believe in the existence of UFOs. However, this figure may be influenced by the fact that many UFO sightings can be explained by natural or man-made phenomena, such as meteorites or aircraft.

• Australian UFO sightings

It is worth noting that belief in UFO and alien phenomena is not necessarily tied to traditional indigenous beliefs. While some indigenous communities in Australia may have long-standing traditions of encounters with otherworldly beings, many Australians who believe in UFOs and aliens have no connection to these traditions.

Overall, while belief in UFO and alien phenomena is not necessarily widespread among the Australian population, a significant minority of people do hold these beliefs. Further research is needed to understand the factors that contribute to belief in these phenomena and how they are perceived by the broader public.

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18-12-2022 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

Latest UFO Sightings reports from our readers!

Here are some UFO sightings that were recently reported to me through our Facebook page and report UFO sightings form on our website.

It appears that our readers have reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in various locations around the world. On December 15, 2022, in Lenexa, Kansas, a witness reported seeing something in the sky that may have been spotlights. In Cape Town, South Africa on September 12, 2022, a witness reported seeing a round object without lights that glided against the wind, stopped, and then displayed neon green and blue lights before continuing over Table Mountain. On November 27, 2022, a witness in Southern California reported seeing something interesting in the sky. On November 11, 2022, in Wakefield, UK, a witness reported seeing a stationary object in the clouds emitting blue light for almost 10 minutes. On November 5, 2022, a witness in Scottsdale, Arizona reported a UFO sighting at Horizon High School. Finally, on June 11, 2019, in China Grove, North Carolina, a witness reported seeing a light that moved in unexpected ways and at high speeds, and claimed to have video evidence of the sightings.

Location: Fair oaks, Ark
Date: 12/16/22
Witness report:

Mt uncle robbie caught this in his back yard.

Location: Lenexa, Kansas
Date: 12-15-22
Witness report:

12-15-22 @8:37 pm, central standard time. In Lenexa Kansas. Many say it’s just spotlights. It could be.

Location: Cape town – above cbd
Date: 09/12/2022
Witness report:

Round, no lights, glided against the wind, then stopped and then neon light green/blue lights under it…then continued over table mountain. Have video but poor quality

Location: Southern California
Date: 27/11/2022
Witness report:

I saw something yesterday here in Southern California on Sunday that looks interesting.

Location: Wakefield, UK
Date: 11/11/202
Witness report:

I have just forward what I filmed on my iPhone 12 on the 11/11/202 in Wakefield.. stationary something in clouds emitting blue light for almost 10 minutes.. a little breezy but light was perfectly stationary

Location: Scottsdale Arizona @Horizon HS
Date: 11/5/2022

Location: My home on Beaten Path Rd. in China Grove NC
Date: 06/11/2019
Witness report:

I was outside smoking cos I don’t smoke inside and light movement caught my eye so I grabbed my phone and started filming. I have like 15 minutes of video but it would let me upload so that’s two cropped videos. The light blinks off and on and moves like NO flying object on Earth. The object moves at right angles and every direction at ridiculous speeds. I have more video of Im assuming the same object returning a little over a month later in July. It behaves like the first sighting but not 15 minutes of footage, only a little over 2 minutes of video on the second sighting. Plus I had my mom come outside and see it too and to witness me filming it to see that I wasn’t moving my hands except to recenter the object in frame. I narrate in video when im moving my hands to re-enter. I don’t make crap up and I have the video to prove it. I would know how to fudge a video if my life depended on it. Anyways I have better things to do than to try and make a fake video. It’s 100% real and frickin amazing to witness…twice!! I couldn’t believe it myself.

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18-12-2022 om 23:41 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS -- 18/12/2022

Repeat Offenders A Unique Spinning UFO Has Been REC @ Four Different Times @ Four Different Places?

Starting in 2019 and ending in in 2022 as known so far the same UFO has been witnessed and REC in four different places check out this comparison and tell me what you think. Also and if you do feel so inclined Please hit the Thanks button.

SpaceX launches Starlink batch on booster's unprecedented 15th flight, nails landing

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 54 Starlink satellites on Saturday, December 17 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Full Story:

• https://www.space.com/spacex-starl+ink...

The first stage of the rocket landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after separation, completing its record 15th flight.

Soviet UFO Landing Incident - Russian Military Badly Mistreated Alien Visitors

In January 1985 a UFO descended near an ICBM base in Soviet Russia, inciting a firefight between military personnel and extraterrestrial beings. Richard Doty relays details of the accounts of that night, which include the capture of the alien beings who interacted with nuclear warheads. It comes to light that this was not an isolated incident and there are reports of E.T. interference on other Soviet and U.S. nuclear launch sites. This prompts us to consider the messages being sent to us about nuclear proliferation and the threat of war.

The Mystery Secret - This New Controversial Discovery Has Been Revealed!

The past still holds countless mysteries. In order to breathe new life into the reality of our ancestors, archaeological finds are of incomparable value. However, there are also some artifacts slumbering in the ground that have the potential not to provide any plausible answers, but only to raise more questions. Today, let's take a look at several controversial discoveries that serve as a powerful reminder of just how little we really know about the world before our time.

TOP 10 UFO SIGHTINGS OF 2022 | The Proof Is Out There

Check out this The Proof Is Out There compilation featuring the top 10 moments from 2022.

00:00:00 - Chapter 1: GIANT FLAME SPOTTED IN FLORIDA SKY

00:04:46 - Chapter 2: FLAMING UFO OVER CANADA - "Something Out of This World!"

00:08:40 - Chapter 3: CUBE-SHAPED UFO SHOCKS PILOT

00:12:57 - Chapter 4: UTAH MONOLITH = ALIEN PORTAL?

00:17:51 - Chapter 5: TWIN UFOS TEAR OPEN THE AUSTRALIAN SKY

00:22:05 - Chapter 6: UFO SPOTTED IN JERUSALEM

00:26:30 - Chapter 7: BIGFOOT'S FEROCIOUS GROWL - CAUGHT ON CAMERA! 00:31:08 - Chapter 8: CLASSIFIED UFO VIDEO - “This Footage Wasn’t Meant for the Public"

00:37:14 - Chapter 9: UFOS INVADE NYC

00:41:27 - Chapter 10: ALIEN AIRCRAFT OR SECRET WEAPON?

Watch all new episodes of The Proof Is Out There on Fridays at 10/9c, and stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at

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Ancient Aliens: Horrific Creatures Live Under Red Dwarf Stars

Astronomers believe that red dwarf stars may produce habitable conditions for alien organisms. See more in this clip from "Aliens and Strange Creatures."

Watch all new episodes of Ancient Aliens, Friday, January 6th, at 9/8c, and next day on The HISTORY Channel website at http://history.com/schedule.

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Are Aliens Spying On NASA With A UFO In The Sky? | NASA’s Unexplained Files

A mysterious circle of light over Houston has led some people to explore the theory of a UFO circling the skies - and even spying on NASA.

Cleopatra's Lost Tomb (Full Episode) | Lost Treasures of Egypt

Archaeologists hunt for the lost tomb of Cleopatra. One team dives the sunken city of Alexandria and an explorer unearths a secret underground tunnel.

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18-12-2022 om 23:09 geschreven door peter  

'Avatar: The Way of Water' cast talks sequel's visual magic in new featurette

17-12-2022 om 23:35 geschreven door peter  

Mars is Alive! NASA Detects Unusual Activity From Inside The Planet

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17-12-2022 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

Car Pulls Over To Watch UFOs, Cameron, Texas, Dec 15, 2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Dec 15, 2022
Location of sighting: Cameron, Texas, USA

 

Watch as a person the car over and begins to record a whole UFO fleet traveling across the sky. The Glowing orange UFOs are all traveling in the same direction. The person recorded 54 seconds of video and its enough to see these objects have no wings, no aircraft lights, no sound, no flashing at all that might identify them as aircraft. These objects are UFOs, unidentified flying objects. Texas is famous for its sightings and recently they had four tornadoes in Texas which I believe were caused by these UFOs. Often UFOs are seen around destructive weather phenomenon. The UFOs are doing scientific research on creating these destructive phenomenons and humans reactions and adaptations to them. To aliens knowledge is gold.

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

Eyewitness states:

I saw a formation of 8-10 fire ball like lights traveling in the sky. They were flying at a constant altitude above the north tree line in an east to west direction. The formation shape and distance did not appear to change. They did not appear to be far away. Just as the last light was about to go out of view I quickly moved to a higher and clearer area. The lights had vanished but should not have if they continued as they had.

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17-12-2022 om 22:01 geschreven door peter  

In 1908, President Teddy Roosevelt wanted to declare the Grand Canyon off-limits to all timber and mining operations. It would take another 11 years for Congress to designate the Grand Canyon a national park. 

Sensing a final opportunity for adventure, explorer G.E. Kincaid took a boat down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. The canyon was rich in minerals like gold, silver and copper and Kincaid wanted to see what he could find before the area was closed off for good. 

About 40 miles up-river from the El Tovar Crystal canyon, Kincaid saw stains in the sediment formation about 2,000 feet up. He tied off the boat and got out to investigate. 

Kincaid couldn't find a trail, but after a short hike he found something interesting covered in desert brush. Steps. Hundreds of them. Carved in sandstone. Steps that wound their way up to a high shelf on the side of the canyon. 

He followed the steps until he came across a cavern entrance. An entrance that was clearly man made. 

Kincaid entered the cavern and turned on his flashlight. On the walls he saw writing. But it wasn't English or Native American writing. It was Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics. 

Kincaid lifted his flashlight and saw that the tunnel ran far into the distance. He didn't realize it at the time, but this was only the beginning. 

Interesting to know that Smithsonian denies the story of the Ancient Egyptians and Giants in the Grand Canyon and they came up with the following explanation in an attempt to debunk the story. 

Smithsonian: Backstory: On April 5, 1909, the Arizona Gazette ran the following headline: “Explorations in Grand Canyon; Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light; Jordan Is Enthused; Remarkable Find Indicates Ancient People Migrated from Orient.” The article includes testimony of one G. E. Kincaid who says that he, traveling solo down the Green and Colorado Rivers, discovered proof of an ancient civilization—possibly of Egyptian origin. The story also asserts that a Smithsonian archaeologist named S. A. Jordan returned with Kincaid to investigate the site. However, the Arizona Gazette appears to have been the only newspaper ever to have published the story. No records can confirm the existence of either Kincaid or Jordan. 

In the following video 'The Why Files' provides a detailed explanation and analysis on this possible archaeological cover-up.

  

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17-12-2022 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

Triangular UFO Formation Spotted in Los Angeles Skies

On the evening of December 16, 2022, residents of Los Angeles were treated to a rare sight: a triangular shaped UFO formation flying in the sky above the city.

Here’s the video. Please let me know in the comments what you think about it.

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17-12-2022 om 21:12 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sightings on the Rise: All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Investigates

The office, which is called the “Anomaly Resolution Office,” was established to monitor reports about flying objects in the air, space, or underwater. They’ve already received hundreds of reports.

According to the agency’s leadership, they have received hundreds of new reports about flying objects, but so far, there has been no evidence of alien life.

The agency, called All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), was established in July to monitor reports about flying objects in the air, space, or underwater. It’s also tasked with identifying and tracking other unidentified objects that can move from one domain to another. This issue has been brought to light by military pilots, who have been reluctant to report these sightings due to their fear of stigma.

In 2021, the agency reported that there were 144 instances of flying objects that were spotted from 2004 to 2021. According to Sean Kirkpatrick, the number of reports about these sightings has increased significantly.

Officials said that the agency’s director is expected to release an updated report by the end of the year regarding the number of reports received regarding flying objects. The office was established to look into the possibility of alien life, as well as the security risks that come with encounters with such objects.

In May, the House Committee on Intelligence held its first hearing regarding the matter in over half a century. It was concerned that the unknown could create a security risk due to the possible involvement of other countries, such as Russia or China. Although the agency has not seen any evidence of alien life, officials believe that the objects spotted so far could be from another planet.

• DoD Announces the Establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Defense.go)

According to the agency’s director, the office is currently working on developing new technologies that will allow it to identify the objects that were spotted. One of these is the recalibrating of sensors that were previously focused on identifying known enemy aircraft. The outreach the department conducted to inform the public about the procedures involved in reporting encounters with flying objects has also contributed to the increasing number of reports.

In addition to the unidentifiable objects, the agency’s director noted that the development of new technologies, such as drones and stealth fighters, could also be mistaken for UFOs. To prevent this, the office has been working with the intelligence community and the Pentagon to get the signatures of these new aircraft.

In order to prevent these types of sightings, the agency has established clear mechanisms that will allow it to identify the objects that were spotted. These include the Pentagon’s “blue programs” and the intelligence community’s “IC programs.”

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17-12-2022 om 21:01 geschreven door peter