Ex-CIA Officer On UFOs & Aliens: Says ‘They Are Showing Up In 2027’

The slides, which are available online, also include historical information about UFOs and current statements made by prominent former U.S. intelligence officials, including John Ratcliffe, a former director of national intelligence. He stated a schematic on how to investigate a UFO in the CIA style:

Establish a group to investigate and evaluate sightings;
Determine the objectives of your investigation;
Consult with experts;
Create a reporting system to organize incoming cases;
Eliminate false positives;
Develop a methodology to identify common aircraft and other aerial phenomena often mistaken for UFOs;
Examine witness documentation;
Conduct controlled experiments;
Gather and test physical and forensics evidence and Discourage false reporting.

Ramirez made assumptions regarding the current UFO disclosure procedure, and it appears that his opinions may have been influenced by members of the intelligence community, either current or former, or perhaps by individuals connected to the Department of Defense. During his interview with Project Unity, Ramirez claimed that the US government does not currently discuss the UFO craft’s occupants. This is a significant comment from Ramirez, who has asserted his opinion that UFOs may indeed represent a form of non-human intelligence.

Ramirez is not the first CIA agent to make the assertion that UFOs might be non-human intelligence. John Brennan, a former CIA director, suggested that UFOs might be “a different form of life.” Brennan said: “You try to ensure that you have as much data as possible in terms of visuals and also different types of maybe technical collection of sensors that you have at the time. (Source)

Also, I believe, it’s important to reach out into other environments and find out, were there any type of weather phenomena at that time that might have, in fact, created the appearance of the phenomenon that you’re looking at? Were there some things that were happening on the ground, or other types of phenomena that could help explain what seems to be quite a mystery as far as what is there? You really have to approach it with an open mind, but get as much data as possible and get as much expertise as possible brought to bear.”

Ramirez made an intriguing statement in response to the rumor that the US government is reluctant to discuss the potential UFO occupants. The U.S. Air Force may be partially to blame for this current stance, according to Ramirez. However, not for obvious reasons. He commented:

“The air force and their exploitation of that type of technology made a mess of things, as when people see the triangular craft, and they’re not flying in space but in our atmosphere, it points to the fact that we know what the triangles are and we want people to think they’re seeing UFOs because then people won’t know exactly what they’re seeing.”

Some speculated that Ramirez suggests that the USAF may be responsible for sightings of triangular aircraft, which some have dubbed the TR3B. On the Joe Rogan Experience, Tom Delonge implied that the United States government owned such vessels, but also said that some of them belonged to other intelligence. Delonge claimed that triangle-shaped craft, assuming they contain tail fins, symbolize human technology.

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According to a member of the US House of Representatives Tim Burchett, it may all have started after the government recovered crashed alien vehicles. During an interview for On Balance With Leland Vittert, Burchett was asked about the Navy’s possession of more videos of UFOs that it is not willing to release to the public for reasons of National Security.

If anti-gravitic crafts exist, then potentially, such technology will be disclosed throughout the disclosure process. Former senator Harry Reid has already asserted that Lockheed Martin may have UFO materials, thus perhaps technology does exist. According to Lue Elizondo, the disclosure procedure and potential international collaboration (including with China) may lead to amazing technological advancements. (Source)

Ross Coulthart, an investigative journalist, in his tweet shared a link to a YouTube video (which is now private), stating John Ramirez tells IUFOC the agency’s weird desk investigations into UAP never stopped from the 1940s. “These are ongoing programs from the very beginning. They are still there.” It’s “more than” just the Pentagon’s AAWSAP-AATIP. Check the below Twitter thread to understand the context Coulthart is trying to explain.

“There for them to ask me questions. But it was very clear to me that AATIP was not the first of its kind effort. There was an organized effort back in the 80s to do exactly this as well. Now how far they got, I don’t know because what was told to me, verbatim,” Elizondo said.

Ramirez also experienced what might be considered alien abduction-type experiences, including being placed on an examination table in a circular craft. Interestingly, a number of his counterparts in the CIA and NSA also had UFO experiences, he revealed. In his job related to missile defense, he became aware of times when Russian radar would detect unusual craft, and in one instance, he said they tried to lure a UAP into landing.

Ramirez noted that CIA historian Gerald Haines wrote about the agency’s study of UFOs from 1947 through the 1990s, for a division that was initially called the Office of Scientific Intelligence. What was particularly intriguing to Ramirez is that the division had life sciences and medical people on staff, indicating possible interest in alien bodies.

He also described how an Air Force pilot on the plane that flew near Kamchatka to monitor Russian tests observed a massive “milky white wall” of light flying toward him at 6,200 mph, though the Air Force assumed it was some kind of countermeasure by the Russians. Regarding the military sightings of “trans-medium” UAP like the Tic Tacs, Ramirez said he does not believe that Russia or any other foreign country has the capabilities to produce this kind of antigravity technology.

Elizondo made these points in several interviews, but in this one, he was asked to elaborate on his comments about how our senses are reductive and limit our reality, and how this might be relevant to the phenomenon.

In his interview with Project Unity, Ramirez opined that Humans are hybrids. According to him, Elizondo is unable to use the word “hybridization,” but the Pentagon employees are counting on him to do so eventually. Elizondo discussed the possibility that non-human intelligence have been in contact with humans for a very long time on the Theories of Everything podcast. This would imply that we have all forgotten about our own past, which would hide the possibility that we are hybrids of humans and extraterrestrials.

Something is coming in 2027

On Podcast UFO with Martin Wills, Ramirez claimed that government is aware of an impending event in 2027 which will reveal something quite significant so people are being prepared. He has been stating that there is a presence on Earth (which he refers demonic) who are just projecting their own belief systems to make us disbelieve in what we believe. Wills asked Ramirez what would happen if there was mass Landing? would we just simply prepare for a conflict or would we actually initiate something? (Source)

Former CIA replied:

“I think the dialogue we have now in this country, even with the recent legislation that passed through the legislature and is on its way up to the president’s desk, is preparing the U.S population, and by extension the world population, for the reality that there is a presence here that we need to explain. If they show up and we continue to do what we did before in previous decades, there will be mass panic. However, if we understand that these are real and we have five years from 2022, or maybe now four years, if they come in 2027, for the US government to prepare the people about what is up there.

In many ways, I think the word got out within the government that they’re showing up in 2027, and we better be prepared. If not, there’s going to be a lot of explaining to do. So, I think that dialogue has happened within certain areas inside the government, that we need to prepare.

That’s why in 2017, that set a clock of 10 years, and why Lou Elizondo earlier in this year said, “Just find a hobby for five years, and it’ll all be out in five years,” and he said that this year, so that was 2027. I’ve heard 2027 in an official capacity, and I can’t reveal, so I would say that people in the government are aware of something happening, and there’s limited time, a few more years to prepare the people. That’s what’s wrapping up this acceleration from the previous seven decades of not even acknowledging it to now acknowledging it at a faster and faster pace.”

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15-06-2023 om 01:39 geschreven door peter  

A Day on Earth Used to Only Be 19 Hours

In past decades, geologists examined a special type of sedimentary rock that contains preserved layers from tidal mud flats. By counting the number of sedimentary layers caused by tidal fluctuations, they could determine the number of hours per day during previous geological periods. But such records are rare, and those examined were often disputed regarding their age. However, there is another method for estimating day length known as Cyclostratigraphy, which Mitchell and Kircher employed for their study.

This geologic method examines rhythmic sedimentary layering to detect Milankovitch cycles, which describe how changes in the eccentricity and obliquity of Earth’s orbit affect its climate over time. In recent years, there has been a proliferation in the number of Milankovitch records that deal with the ancient past. In fact, over half the data concerning ancient geological periods has been obtained in just the past seven years. This allowed Mitchell and Kircher to test a previously-unproven theory. As Kirscher explained in a recent CAS press release:

“Two Milankovitch cycles, precession and obliquity, are related to the wobble and tilt of Earth’s rotation axis in space. The faster rotation of early Earth can therefore be detected in shorter precession and obliquity cycles in the past. Because of this, if in the past these two opposite forces were to have become equal to each other, such a tidal resonance would have caused Earth’s day length to stop changing and to have remained constant for some time.”

In short, this theory posits that day length may have remained at a constant value in the past for extended periods of time rather than gradually growing longer. A key factor in this is “solar atmospheric tides,” where the “push” of charged solar particles from the Sun (aka. solar wind) is related to the heating of our atmosphere during the daytime. This is similar to how lunar tides, caused by the “pull” of the Moon’s gravity, are related to the rise and fall of ocean levels. But whereas the Moon’s gravity has slowly slowed Earth’s rotation down, the Sun was responsible for speeding it up.

While solar tides are not as strong as their lunar counterpart today, this may not have always been the case. When Earth was rotating faster in the past, the influence of the Moon’s gravitational pull would have been much weaker. When Mitchell and Kirscher examined the data compilation, they noted that between two to one billion years ago, Earth’s day length appears to have stopped its long-term increase and stopped at about 19 hours. According to Mitchell, this period is alternately known as “the billion years” or the “boring billion.”

What is especially intriguing about the new result is how the “boring billion” occurred between the two largest rises in oxygen content in our atmosphere. These were the Great Oxidation Event, where photosynthetic bacteria dramatically increased the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, and the Cryogenian period (aka. “Snowball Earth”) – a glacial period where the entire surface (or close to it) was covered in ice. If confirmed, these results indicate that the evolution of Earth’s rotation is related to the composition of its atmosphere.

The study also supports the idea that longer days were needed before photosynthetic bacteria could produce enough oxygen to reach modern atmospheric levels (24%). However, this study’s main implication is how it alters astronomers perceptions of Earth’s rotation in the past (or “paleorotation”). For a long time, it has been theorized that the Moon gradually absorbed Earth’s rotational energy, slowing the planet down, boosting the Moon into a higher orbit, and creating a 24-hour day. But these results indicate there was a break in that process between 2 billion and 1 billion years ago. As Kirscher summarized:

“Most models of Earth’s rotation predict that day length was consistently shorter and shorter going back in time. Two Milankovitch cycles, precession, and obliquity, are related to the wobble and tilt of Earth’s rotation axis in space. The faster rotation of early Earth can therefore be detected in shorter precession and obliquity cycles in the past.”

Further Reading: 

• Phys.org, 
• Nature Geoscience

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15-06-2023 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

Two day ago, Dr. Steven Greer held a stunning UFO disclosure press event at Washington's D.C. press club. Led by renowned researchers, members of the military, defense contractors and former government officials, this conference revealed shocking testimony about the secrets of an Antarctica station, the secret space program, reverse engineered alien craft, and massive crimes and cover up. 

Speakers: 

Michael Herrera former US Marine who witnessed a (deep state) UFO in Indonesia See our article, dated: June 6, 2023 - Former Marine witnessed UFO being loaded with weapons by unmarked US forces in Indonesie 

Steven Digma former US Army who witnessed a UFO he was not supposed to see that left him brain damaged as a result of an explosion and microwave pulse coming from the UFO. 

Eric Hecker, Raytheon contractor worked at the Ice Cube Neutrino observatory at Antarctica from 2010-2011. The observatory constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. 

Scientists bored 86 holes in the ice. Each hole is almost 2.5 kilometers deep and about 60 centimeters wide and contains 60 basketball-sized sensors, what they call DOMS. Totally there are 5160 sensors embedded in the ice which actually can transmit 2470 volt each. 

The station do what they say, it is designed to look for point sources of neutrinos in the teraelectronvolt (TeV) range to explore the highest-energy astrophysical processes... but it does much more... 

Eric Hecker states that this Antarctica station is a huge air traffic control power station that monitors all interstellar craft that be operated by humans as well as non-humans. 

Besides, he says that the thousands of sensors located under the Antarctic ice, distributed over a cubic kilometer is effectively a direct energy weapon platform. 

And according to Eric it also is used for faster than light communications for example to and from the secret space fleet, discovered by Gary McKinnon in 2002 by hacking United States military and NASA computers. 

Eric also witnessed a powerful green laser on top of this facility beaming into the cosmos; he believes this is a secondary form of long range communications or defense system. 

It should come as no surprise that Google Earth has covered the area in the center of Antarctica where the Ice Cube Neutrino observatory is located. 

Like Steven Greer said: The biggest secret is not the extraterrestrial issue, it is the technology developed by the deep state through the capture and reverse engineering of alien craft over the years (The secret retrieval UFO program) and the use of this technology which is a threat to the national security. The deep state (cabal) is all running this, they are running all these UAPs and more including the secret space program. 

The deep state is happy to take billions of your tax money, not only to fund their black (UFO/UAP) projects, but also to scare you into believing the aliens are a threat, eventually allowing them to launch a false flag alien invasion, with the aim of establishing a world government. 

In the video below redacted host Clayton Morris walks us through the highlights of the UFO event including the live testimonies from the several speakers. (Watch the first 35 minutes of the video.)

 

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14-06-2023 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious Circle of Lights: A Captivating UFO Sighting in Candler, NC

In the quiet, rustic surroundings of Candler, North Carolina, an unforgettable event took place on the evening of June 24, 2022. Among the latest in UFO sightings, this encounter stands out for its intriguing details and palpable eyewitness accounts.

It began as a tranquil evening, with an inviting summer breeze enveloping the small town. At approximately 10:17 pm, a local resident, accompanied by her daughter and a friend, witnessed an unusual spectacle. In the expansive, starlit sky above, they noticed a circle of lights – an object that didn’t correspond with any conventional aircraft.

The peculiar formation, idly hovering over the treetops, immediately captured their attention. The spectacle bore an uncanny resemblance to the stereotypical UFO – an unidentified flying object. The witnesses described the mysterious object as eerily silent, its luminescent halo casting an otherworldly glow on the surrounding landscape.

The circle of lights began to move in an erratic pattern, sending a wave of fear among the spectators. The girls were startled by the abrupt change in the object’s behavior. As the circle began to maneuver in the sky, the witnesses retreated indoors, overwhelmed by the unknown.

After mustering enough courage, they decided to confront their fears and stepped out again, approximately five minutes later. However, the lights had vanished, leaving behind an empty sky and a sense of unshakeable intrigue.

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This Candler, NC, UFO sighting was not just a fleeting moment but an experience that will continue to raise eyebrows in the UFO community. As the word spreads, more enthusiasts and skeptics alike are eager to dissect the event, eager to unveil the mystery behind this mesmerizing spectacle.

Although the phenomenon continues to be shrouded in speculation, one thing is certain – the UFO sighting in Candler has sparked curiosity and will remain a talking point for a long time. As we continue to explore the possibility of life beyond Earth, such occurrences serve as a reminder that we might not be alone in the universe.

Stay tuned for more information and updates on this and other UFO sightings, as we delve deeper into the world of the unexplained. Who knows? The skies of North Carolina may still hold a surprise or two.

To catch a glimpse of this mesmerizing event, be sure to watch the accompanying video, and don’t forget to share it with fellow UFO enthusiasts!

Video, photos and witness report of the sighting can be found in the video below!

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14-06-2023 om 22:23 geschreven door peter  

700,000-Year-Old Tools Found in Greece Rewrite History

The rich historical tapestry of Greece has been dramatically expanded with the recent discovery of hunting tools dating back an astonishing 700,000 years. Unearthed in a coal mine in Megalopolis, these ancient stone tools have not only pushed back Greece's historical timeline by a staggering quarter of a million years but have also opened a window into the development of our ancient hominin ancestors before their migration to northern Europe.

Megalopolis: Where Time Began

The ancient Greek city of Megalopolis was located in Arcadia, a region in the central Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. The original settlement was founded in 371 BC by the Theban general Epaminondas, during the Peloponnesian War, to counter the power of Sparta and to support the independence of the smaller Greek city-states.

Megalopolis shares the same sun-battered landscapes as Olympia, Mycenae and Pylos, each of which feature centrally in Greek mythology. Olympia, the home of the Olympic Games, housed the chief sacred site of the god Zeus, and Mycenae was the city of the legendary King Agamemnon who led the Greeks during the Trojan War. Pylos, was a centre of the Mycenaean civilization most famously ruled by King Nestor, and it featured in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

But now, the recent discovery of very ancient stone tools in a coal mine are shadowing the nation's semi-mythological history, by revealing valuable secrets about the development of our ancient hominin ancestors, before they populated northern Europe.

A Game Changing Discovery

According to a report in Greek City Times the latest archaeological discoveries in Megalopolis are “game-changing.” In the oldest-known archaeological site in Greece, dating back approximately 700,000 years, not only did the archaeologists recover the remains of now extinct giant deer, elephants, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and a macaque monkey, but they also found stone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic period (3.3 million to 300,000 years old).

The skull of a member of the deer family in Megalopolis

(Greek Culture Ministry)

Used for butchering animals and chopping plants approximately 700,000 years ago, the still sharp stone flakes are suspected to have been manufactured by a Lower Palaeolithic Homo antecessor, considered a possible ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern humans. While this is yet to be confirmed, if hominin remains are discovered, the find pushes back Greece’s official archaeological record by up to 250,000 years.

Until now, the oldest tools in Greece date back to around 500,000 years ago, and were discovered in the Petralona Cave, in the Chalkidiki region of northern Greece. These stone tools were unearthed alongside the fossilized remains of an ancient human skull, known as the Petralona Skull , and such a discovery would need to be made at the Megalopolis site to definitely date the new discoveries.

• The controversial Petralona skull and Greek government suppression of information
• New Information on the Petralona Skull Controversy

Stone tools dating back 700,000 found in the coal mine.

(Greek Culture Ministry)

Pushing Back Archaeological Timelines

These new finds come after a 5-year-long project led by Professor Panagiotis Karkanas of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens , Eleni Panagopoulou from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Katerina Harvati, a professor of paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen in Germany .

An article in Breaking News said these “groundbreaking discoveries surpass any previously known archaeological record in Greece.” And, if the dating is confirmed, what these finds demand, effectively, is a rewriting of Greek archaeology with a new starting point at around 700,000 years ago.

A Second Stunning Discovery

In addition to this main discovery, the team of archaeologists explored a second site in the Megalopolis area where they found “the oldest Middle Palaeolithic remains ever found in Greece, dating back approximately 280,000 years.” In conclusion, the researchers said of this second discovery, that it suggests Greece played a significant role in stone industry developments throughout ancient Europe, “solidifying its position as a pivotal hub of ancient civilisation.” Furthermore, the researchers said this discovery further illustrates what is known about “hominin migrations to Europe and human evolution as a whole.”

Megalopolis declined in importance following the rise of Macedon under Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great, and it finally lost its prominence during the Roman era, after which it faded into obscurity. Today, the ancient ruins of Megalopolis can still be visited, but these new archaeological discoveries extend well beyond the ancient city's history and architecture, providing new insights into Greece’s ancient past.

• Top image: Stone axe and knife (representational).
• Source:  JPS / Adobe Stock.

By Ashley Cowie

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14-06-2023 om 01:23 geschreven door peter  

Military contractor Raytheon Technologies has announced the delivery of a fully portable, combat-ready laser to the United States Air Force. This marks the fourth such delivery by Raytheon to the Air Force, with the latest laser said to be fully portable and immediately ready for deployment.

“The new palletized laser weapon was the first 10-kilowatt laser built to U.S. military specifications in a stand-alone configuration that can be moved and mounted anywhere it’s needed,” explains a press release sent out by the company.

Known internally as “H4,” the combat-ready laser is not only the fourth such weapon delivered by Raytheon to the Air Force but is the eighth overall such weapon that Raytheon has delivered to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).

The Debrief has previously covered a number of similar combat laser weapons under development, including the company’s High Energy Laser Weapons System (HELWS) as well an entry from Lochheed-Martin dubbed the most powerful combat laser ever built. But this newest combat laser is the first to boast a readiness for immediate deployment alongside unprecedented portability. This means it can be attached to a wide range of vehicles used in combat situations and put into real-world combat use right away.

Such versatility and readiness are significant since the 21st-century battlefield is continually changing with all kinds of new threats. Of course, the new laser, which is rated at 10 kW, isn’t the most powerful, but it is well-suited to protect forward forces against asymmetrical attacks primarily from the rapidly expanding use of low-cost drones.

“Anywhere the Air Force sees a threat from drones, they now have four proven laser weapons that can be deployed to stop asymmetrical threats,” said Michael Hofle, senior director of High-Energy Lasers at Raytheon Technologies. “Whether it’s on a fixed location, a flatbed, or even a pickup, these laser weapons are compact, rugged, and ready to go.”

“We’re proud to support the Air Force’s effort to provide this new tech to the personnel who need it in the field,” added Hofle, “who can trust and be confident in the system’s capabilities.”

The press release also points out that the new laser weapon system “comprises a high-energy laser weapon module, a long-range EO/IR sensor that also serves as the beam director, thermal control, internal electrical power, and targeting software.”

That same release notes that the laser system can be operated with a laptop and a video game-style controller and “can plug into a long list of existing air defense and command and control systems to provide a needed layer of defense.”

The DOD is increasingly looking at combat lasers and other directed energy weapons like the microwave system known simply as “Thor’s Hammer” to address a number of emerging threats. The more powerful combat laser weapons under development range anywhere from 100 kW to 300 kW and are potentially capable of downing incoming missiles and possibly even enemy aircraft. But the most common threat posed to forces is the ever-expanding use of drones, simply because of their low cost and ease of use.

There is also an inherent cost benefit to using lasers over conventional munitions, which is the only current option for downing incoming aerial threats, as their ammunition is simply light and, therefore, significantly cheaper than conventional ammunition.

This cost-benefit was highlighted by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, which has deployed a laser system known as Iron Beam to complement its Iron Dome system that uses conventional rockets to down enemy drones, mortars, and missiles.

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14-06-2023 om 01:09 geschreven door peter  

Ongeziene hittegolf in de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan baart wetenschappers zorgen

Er worden recordhoge temperaturen gemeten in het noorden van de Atlantische Oceaan. Nog nooit zagen wetenschappers zo hoge oppervlaktetemperaturen, en dat al drie maanden lang. Momenteel is de gemiddelde temperatuur 22,7°C. Dat is maar liefst 0,5°C boven het vorige record uit 2010. Wetenschappers maken zich dan ook ernstig zorgen.

Lander Van Tricht 

Het eerste record dit jaar werd gebroken op 5 maart. De gemiddelde temperatuur van de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan steeg toen tot 19,9°C. Sindsdien liggen de temperaturen steevast op recordniveau. Op 11 juni bereikten de temperaturen een voorlopig hoogtepunt van 22,7°C. Het is dan ook niet verwonderlijk dat de wetenschap vol verbazing en ongerust naar deze ontwikkelingen kijkt.

Verschillende factoren spelen een rol in waarom de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan met uitzonderlijk hoge temperaturen kampt. Allereerst zijn de zogenaamde passaatwinden sinds maart zwakker dan normaal. Deze winden waaien vanuit het oosten tot noordoosten en brengen kouder water naar het oppervlak in de oostelijke delen van de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan. Hierdoor koelt het water af. Dat gebeurt nu minder, waardoor de oceaantemperaturen stijgen.

Daarnaast is er in 2023 tot nu toe een gebrek aan Sahara-stof, dat doorgaans een verkoelend effect heeft op het noordelijke deel van de Atlantische Oceaan. Normaal gesproken worden grote wolken van dit stof vanuit de woestijnen van Noord-Afrika over de oceaan geblazen, maar dit jaar is de concentratie opvallend laag, zelfs op recordniveaus voor juni. Onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat het stof een aanzienlijke verkoeling veroorzaakt, vooral rond deze tijd van het jaar.

Een wereldwijde stijging is aan de gang

De ongewone temperaturen in de Atlantische Oceaan maken deel uit van een patroon van bovengemiddelde oppervlaktetemperaturen in alle oceanen wereldwijd. Momenteel bedraagt de gemiddelde oppervlaktetemperatuur wereldwijd 20,9°C. Dat is minder hoog dan de 21,1°C van 1 april, maar nog steeds 0,2°C hoger dan het vorige record uit 2022.

Momenteel ligt de gemiddelde oppervlaktetemperatuur wereldwijd 0,2°C hoger dan het vorige record. 

© Climate Change Institute - University of Maine

Deze ongeziene temperaturen zijn het resultaat van een combinatie van factoren die verband houden met El Niño en de buitengewoon hoge temperaturen in de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan. Naast deze factoren draagt klimaatverandering bij aan de langdurige opwarming van het zeewater. Ook hebben nieuwe scheepvaartregels de uitstoot van zwavel drastisch verminderd, waardoor het verkoelende effect van sulfaataerosolen afneemt.

Wat zijn de gevolgen van deze hittegolf in onze oceanen en zal dit aanhouden?

Het hoge temperatuurniveau in de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan heeft een belangrijke gevolg voor subtropische stormen. Warmere oceanen leveren meer energie voor tropische systemen en kunnen sterkere stormen veroorzaken als andere factoren dat toelaten. Eerdere jaren met een warm oostelijk Atlantisch gebied (2010, 2017, 2020…) vertoonden bijvoorbeeld zeer actieve orkaanseizoenen. Al zal dit niet noodzakelijk nu het geval zijn dankzij een sterke El Niño. Historisch gezien verlaagt dit weerfenomeen net de kans op zware orkaanseizoenen in de Atlantische Oceaan.

Dit betekent dat er waarschijnlijk minder tropische stormen zullen zijn en zwakkere systemen. Hoewel de Atlantische Oceaan recordwarmte ervaart, voorspellen experts van instellingen zoals NOAA, dat dit jaar daardoor eerder gemiddeld zal zijn. Er is echter meer onzekerheid in de voorspellingen voor dit jaar.

De weermodellen suggereren dat de atmosferische respons op de ontwikkelende El Niño in het oosten van de Stille Oceaan zich begint te vormen. Hierdoor krijgen we misschien opnieuw een meer gebruikelijke luchtdrukverdeling en positie van de subtropische straalstroom. Dit kan op zijn beurt leiden tot een afname van de afwijkingen in de zeewatertemperaturen in de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan. Al blijft het voorlopig afwachten. Wetenschappers houden dit in ieder geval nauwlettend in de gaten.

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14-06-2023 om 00:33 geschreven door peter  

The Mysterious Las Vegas UFO Incident: “100 percent not human”

On a quiet night at the end of April 2023, an unexpected phenomenon sent ripples through the stillness of Las Vegas, resulting in a thrilling narrative of UFO sightings and reported extraterrestrial encounters that has caught the attention of people across the globe. A series of unusual events unfurled, with witnesses and official recordings contributing to a story that feels more like an enthralling science fiction narrative than a regular news report.

In the late evening hours of April 30, a police officer’s body camera recorded a peculiar, glowing green light streaking across the Nevada sky. This sighting wasn’t an isolated incident – at least 21 people from various locations, including California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, reported witnessing the same mysterious light, according to the American Meteor Society.

Just around midnight on May 1, the extraordinary tale took an even stranger turn. A local resident, working on his car in his backyard, claimed to have experienced an event that shook him to his core. He described seeing a bright light falling from the sky, accompanied by a loud impact and a shockwave that temporarily blurred his surroundings. He recounted hearing what sounded like thousands of footsteps that abruptly ceased.

But that wasn’t the climax of his harrowing encounter. The man reported seeing large, non-human entities in his backyard. According to his 911 call, he described these beings as around 8 to 10 feet tall, with large, shiny eyes, and big mouths – an image that couldn’t be anything but alien to him.

Las Vegas police took the matter seriously, promptly responding to the 911 call. The responding officer’s bodycam footage corroborated the witness’s account, even capturing a potential physical evidence – a perfect circle in the man’s backyard, possibly left by the crashed unidentified object.

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As news of the incident spread, it gained the attention of George Knapp, a renowned journalist known for covering UFO-related stories. After several conversations with the involved family, Knapp stated that he didn’t sense any hoax or mischief at play. However, he admitted that the exact nature of the incident remains unclear, creating an intriguing puzzle that is yet to be solved.

Further fueling the suspense, Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon’s newly formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), gave recommendations at a recent NASA meeting about UFOs, indicating the government’s increased interest in such inexplicable occurrences.

Despite the hard evidence, conjecture, and compelling narratives, authorities are still uncertain about what precisely occurred in Las Vegas that night. Nonetheless, the witness stands firm by his account, even as skeptics question his story.

This riveting tale of potential extraterrestrial encounters reminds us of the vastness of the universe and the unanswered questions it holds. Regardless of the nature of the Las Vegas incident, it has undeniably captured public fascination, adding another chapter to the unending saga of humanity’s quest for answers about our place in the cosmos.

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13-06-2023 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

2023 Crop Circles: An Intriguing Discovery at Roundway Down

There is a mesmerizing allure that surrounds the intricate phenomena of crop circles. In 2023, we have been captivated yet again by these otherworldly patterns, this time at the mysterious location of Roundway Down in Wiltshire. The intrigue of the “Crop Circles 2023” found on June 11th has captured global attention, spiraling countless discussions and theories.

The Roundway Down Crop Circle Discovery

Dawn on June 11th, 2023, revealed an astonishing sight on the vast farmlands of Roundway Down. A new crop circle had been etched into existence, bearing a complex pattern that defies human understanding.

The “Roundway Down Crop Circle” is an intricate labyrinth of geometric shapes and designs. The manifestation of precision and attention to detail in this creation is simply spellbinding. It combines traditional circle designs with elaborate forms that seem to hint at advanced mathematical and astronomical principles. The complexity of this “June 11th Crop Circle” has triggered a worldwide debate, captivating both skeptics and believers.

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Unraveling the Enigma of Crop Circles

While the Roundway Down crop circle discovery has spurred countless theories, the origins and purpose of crop circles remain a puzzle. Are they a bizarre meteorological phenomenon? The outcome of ingenious human trickery? Or perhaps they carry an extraterrestrial signature?

As “Crop Circles 2023” make headlines, technology has played a key role in their discovery and analysis. Advanced drone technology and satellite imagery have provided high-definition images and data, offering researchers a more detailed look at these magnificent structures. However, the true identity of the architects behind these formations remains a mystery.

Some scientists dismiss crop circles as the work of human pranksters, citing the elaborate and beautiful hoaxes of the past. But the sheer size, symmetry, and precision of the “Roundway Down Crop Circle” demand a second thought.

While we continue to unravel the mystery behind these intricate designs in the “Crop Circle Discovery 2023,” they remain a symbol of intrigue and fascination. Their beauty, scale, and complexity continue to draw us in, offering a compelling journey into the heart of the unknown.

In 2023, Roundway Down has put itself on the global map as the host of one of the most stunning crop circles of the year. The discovery on June 11th remains a highlight, rekindling the age-old discussion about these enigmatic designs and their mysterious architects. Whether a message from another world or a spectacular work of terrestrial art, the crop circles of 2023 continue to captivate our collective imagination.

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13-06-2023 om 22:42 geschreven door peter  

FULL 1 hour interview with UFO whistleblower David Grusch

In a riveting revelation, former U.S. Air Force officer and Pentagon insider David Grusch has come forward with unsettling claims concerning the U.S. government’s secretive involvement with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the beings piloting them. During an engrossing hour-long interview with journalist Ross Coulthart, Grusch blew the whistle on a top-secret U.S. program that he alleges has been investigating, retrieving, and concealing evidence of alien contact for decades.

Grusch, a decorated Afghanistan war veteran with 14 years of service in the U.S. Air Force, claims to have been privy to this confidential information through his association with others involved in the covert operation. Following his tenure with the Air Force, Grusch’s professional journey led him to roles within the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), both of which would further deepen his immersion into the classified world of UFO intelligence.

In his role with the NRO, Grusch was actively engaged with the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, a unit established to investigate the growing number of UFO sightings. It was here that he reportedly became privy to some of the U.S. government’s most tightly guarded secrets.

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At the heart of Grusch’s allegations lies the contentious claim that extraterrestrial entities, far from being benign or indifferent to humanity, have demonstrated malevolent intent during their visits to Earth, even going as far as causing human fatalities.

Grusch went on to say, “I think the logical fallacy there is because they’re advanced, they’re kind. We’ll never really understand their full intent and that’s because we’re not them. But I think what appears to be malevolent activity has happened. That’s based on nuclear site probing activities and witness testimony.”

This perspective disrupts the conventional narrative that advanced alien civilizations would necessarily espouse a doctrine of pacifism or benevolence. In contrast, Grusch suggests we might be naively attributing our human notions of morality to species with potentially unfathomable motivations.

In addition to claiming that the U.S. government has been actively hiding its knowledge of these encounters, Grusch postulates that the nation is caught in a silent arms race with Russia and China. The objective? To gain a superior understanding of extraterrestrial technology and potentially harness its power.

According to Grusch, the U.S. government is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to safeguard these secrets, a fact he found particularly disturbing. Grusch states that even “white-collar crime” has been committed in the name of maintaining this secrecy.

Moreover, he alluded to UFO sightings involving crafts the size of football fields and other eyewitness accounts detailing encounters with aircraft capable of distorting space and time. In one such account, another military veteran alleges his six-man unit observed a UFO being loaded with weaponry while stationed in Indonesia.

Full interview below!

Grusch’s chilling narrative is the latest in a series of recent disclosures that have thrust the UFO debate back into the public spotlight. With the U.S. government’s gradual acknowledgment of UAPs, these revelations call for more transparency, increased scientific inquiry, and an end to decades of denial and disinformation.

While his accounts might shake our perceptions of our place in the universe, they could ultimately serve to foster a broader understanding of the reality that we may share this cosmos with other, more advanced civilizations. As we stand at this new frontier, it’s clear that the UFO phenomenon is not just about lights in the sky; it’s about who we are, what we might become, and how we coexist in an increasingly complex cosmic neighborhood.

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13-06-2023 om 22:07 geschreven door peter  

Stephen Hawking's most famous prediction could mean that everything in the universe is doomed to evaporate, new study says

According to quantum field theory, there is no such thing as an empty vacuum. Space is instead teeming with tiny vibrations that, if imbued with enough energy, randomly burst into virtual particles, producing very-low-energy packets of light, or photons.

In a landmark paper published in 1974, Hawking famously predicted that the extreme gravitational force felt at the mouths of black holes — their event horizons — would summon photons into existence in this way. Gravity, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, distorts space-time, so that quantum fields get more warped the closer they get to the immense gravitational tug of a black hole's singularity.

Because of the uncertainty and weirdness of quantum mechanics, Hawking said this warping creates uneven pockets of differently moving time and subsequent spikes of energy across the field. These energy mismatches make photons appear in the contorted space around black holes, siphoning energy from the black hole's field so they can burst into existence. If the particles then escape the black hole, this energy theft led Hawking to conclude that — over a vast timescale much longer than the current age of the universe — black holes would eventually lose all of their energy and disappear completely.

But if a gravitational field is all that's needed to produce quantum fluctuations and photons, what's stopping any object with a space-time warping mass from creating Hawking radiation? Does Hawking radiation need the special condition of a black hole's event horizon, or can it be produced anywhere in space? To probe these questions, the authors of the new study analyzed Hawking radiation through the lens of a long-predicted process called the Schwinger effect, in which matter can theoretically be generated from the powerful distortions caused by an electromagnetic field.

Sure enough, by applying the framework of the Schwinger effect to Hawking's theory, the theoretical physicists produced a mathematical model that reproduced Hawking radiation in spaces experiencing a range of gravitational field strengths. According to their new theory, an event horizon isn't necessary for energy to slowly leak from a massive object in the form of light; the object's gravitational field is good enough on its own.

"We show that far beyond a black hole the curvature of space-time plays a big role in creating radiation," second author Walter van Suijlekom, a professor of mathematics at Radboud University, said in the statement. "The particles are already separated there [beyond the black hole] by the tidal forces of the gravitational field."

What the researchers' theory means in reality isn't clear. Possibly, as the matter that makes up stars, neutron stars, and planets ages, it will eventually undergo an energy transition into a completely new ultralow energy state. This might be enough to eventually collapse all matter into black holes, which could continue to slowly drip out light until they too disappear without a trace.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on any misgivings you may have about evaporating), all of this is just speculation awaiting confirmation. To figure out if it's a true prediction of our universe's eventual fate, physicists will need to spot some Hawking radiation being produced around gravitationally dense objects — both around black holes and planets, stars, or neutron stars. If everything is destined to disappear in a flash of cool light, there should be plenty of places to look.

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13-06-2023 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

Ex-Defence Minister: E.T.s From Andromeda & Saturn’s Moon Visiting Earth For Thousands Of Years

There are already dozens of claims in favor of extraterrestrial visitation. Today, numerous astronauts and government officials support the UAP phenomena, and some are highly positive that they could have an alien origin. The Honorable Paul Hellyer (1923-2021), former Canadian Minister of Defense said extraterrestrials have been visiting our planet for thousands of years and it is likely that at least two of them are working with the U.S. government and sharing their highly-advanced technologies with humans.

In the 1960s, Paul Hellyer, a high-ranking official during the Cold War, asserted that he had discovered with certainty about the existence of aliens while serving in the military. He said that people from other worlds had been coming to Earth for a very long time. He insisted that a lot of the stuff that makes up our high-tech gadgetry had been gifted to us by overly-advanced ETs.

Hellyer had long expressed his views on extraterrestrials in public. He testified at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure in May 2013 in Washington, DC. Five former members of U.S. Congress and one former U.S. senator listened to more than thirty hours of testimony from government officials, military personnel, researchers, and witnesses.

Huffington Post Canada described that, as part of his testimony, Hellyer stated that “aliens are living among us and that it is likely at least two of them are working with the U.S. government.” More specifically, Hellyer announced that at least four species of extraterrestrials had been visiting Earth for thousands of years. According to Huffington Post Canada, he also stated that some extraterrestrials originate from the “Zeta Reticuli, the Pleiades, Orion, Andromeda, and Altair star systems” and “may have different agendas.”

He first spoke openly about his belief governments are covering up an alien presence back in 2005, saying UFOs are as plentiful in our sky as airplanes. “Much of the media won’t touch it, so you just have to keep working away at it and we will get a critical mass and one day they will say Mr. President or Mr. Prime Minister, we want the truth and we want it now because it affects our lives.”

In 2013, Hellyer appeared on the RT interview show SophieCo with Sophie Shevardnadze to discuss extraterrestrials and UFOs. Shevardnadze asked Hellyer, “Why do you say that UFOs are as real as airplanes flying over our heads?” Hellyer replied, “Because I know that they are. As a matter of fact, they’ve been visiting our planet for thousands of years.” He further stated military action had brought down UFOs, and humans had adapted alien technology for use on Earth. (Source)

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He said: “As far as technology is concerned, they are light years ahead of us, and we have learned a lot of things from them. A lot of the things we use today we got from them, you know – led lights and microchips and Kevlar vests and all sorts things that we got from their technology and we could get a lot more too, especially in the fields of medicine and agriculture if we would go about it peacefully. But, I think, maybe some of our people are more interested in getting the military technology, and I think that’s wrong-headed, and that’s one of the things that we are going to have to change, because we’re going to have to work together, all of us, everywhere on the planet.”

Shevardnadze asked: “Have you ever had your own encounter with aliens?” Hellyer replied: “Not encounter with aliens, no. I’ve seen a UFO, about 120 miles north of Toronto, over Lake Muskoka, where I have a cottage. Two years ago, at Thanksgiving, which is October, [my wife?] said that she wanted to go out and look at the stars, so… I’m not much of a night man… but I put on my cap and went out with her and she looked into the eastern sky and said, ‘There’s a star,’ and I turned the other way and said, ‘Oh, there’s a much brighter one over here,’ and she looked there and we watched it until our necks almost broke for about 20 minutes, and it was definitely a UFO because it could change position in the sky by three or four degrees in three or four seconds.”

Shevardnadze further asked Hellyer if shooting down those UFOs was risking an interstellar war, and, if so, “should we be creating a Star Wars force to defend ourselves from possible invasion or something like that?”

Hellyer said: “I think it’s a possibility, but it’s a possibility especially if we shoot down every UFO that comes into our airspace without asking who they are and what they want. Right from the beginning, we started scrambling planes, trying to shoot them down, but their technology was superior enough that we weren’t able to get away with it, certainly not for a long while.”

He continued: “During that period of time they could have taken us over without any trouble if they wanted to, so I think, rather than developing our own Star Wars to protect ourselves against them, we should work with the benign species that are of a vast majority and work together, and rely largely on them, of course, and cooperate, so that we would be contributing something at the same time; I don’t think there’s any point in us developing a galactic force that would tempt us to ride on our own and get into mischief, which is one of the things that some of them are concerned about.”

On countering physicist Stephen Hawking’s assertion that any alien visitors to Earth would likely be malevolent, Hellyer argued that not only have aliens already visited Earth but that they have helped contribute to humanity’s technological progress. He said earthlings owe a lot to their alien friends. “Even that computer screen on your desk,” he said, “can trace its origins to spaceships. Microchips, for example, fiber-optics, they are just two of the many things that allegedly — and probably for real — came from crashed vehicles,” Hellyer added. (Source)

Hellyer was not the only one speaking of a partnership between humans and extraterrestrial intelligence. The former head of the Israeli space security program and retired general Haim Eshed also claimed that a sort of agreement had been made between aliens and the US government to keep silent on their experiments on Earth and secret bases on Mars.

Mr. Eshed said that aliens and “Galactic federation” do exist and have been working with the US and the Israel government for years, but they keep it a secret to avoid mass hysteria. According to him, President Trump was aware of it and has already been in contact with space aliens. He further said that the aliens have been waiting for humans to evolve and reach a certain stage to actually understand space and spaceships. Besides, they signed a contract with humans to do experiments on Earth and also research with them to learn the fabric of the universe.

13-06-2023 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

BY ANDY TOMASWICK

They’re also no strange to actual spaceflight, with several of their helical antennas already making it onto various missions launched by Lacuna, another satellites manufacturer that lies down the road in Harwell, UK, and specializes in providing sensor technologies. However, they have yet to find a mission willing to support some of their more advanced antennas, including their “wrapped rib” antenna.

That design resembles a traditional satellite dish, but its real magic is in its packaging and deployment. It’s difficult to store a fully-fledged dish in a rocket fairing, so OSS designed its antenna to deploy once it reaches space. It’s made of a type of mesh highly reflective to RF signals but looks almost transparent at some angles and is supported by a series of “ribs” that expand out from a central point. 

They’ve completed a series of thorough tests on the antenna and its deployment system on the ground in the UK so far. But now it is time to get it into space to prove that “flight heritage” coveted by space industry companies. So they needed another partner willing to adopt this new technology, and they found one that was – not quite – just down the road again.

Surrey, where SSTL is located, is about an hour’s drive from Harwell down the M4 motorway and has become quite the hub for satellite system development in recent years. SSTL is just one of several companies working in that space in the town, though they specialize in a technology that is particularly interesting to the defense industry.

Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, is a relatively modern take on radar that can create 3D images of objects as a satellite passes over them. SSTL has a lineage of creating satellites that are exceptional at doing so and have previously provided spy satellites for British intelligence services, among others.

One of their upcoming technology demonstration projects is CarbSAR, a 140kg SAR satellite that will orbit around 520km up and provide data back to its ground station at 500MBps. SSTL decided to go with OSS as its antenna provider for CarbSAR as a way of proving that their satellite platforms can be integrated with equipment from other suppliers – a good characteristic to have if your company doesn’t want to be reliant on a single source supplier for a critical component that could go bankrupt at any time.

Both companies don’t seem to be near bankruptcy and are hiring more staff as they scale up their operations. There’s no firm date for when CarbSAR will launch yet, but when it does, it will hopefully add another feather in the cap to both English companies as they continue on their mission to build better satellites.

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• Artist’s rendering of the CarbSAR antenna.
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12-06-2023 om 23:52 geschreven door peter  

Solar panels on Earth already provide us with a clean source of power, but they can be a blot on the landscape and are practically useless when it's dark.

Now, scientists in California have provided a solution – sending solar panels to space so they can harness the sun's power 24/7. 

In a world first, the researchers beamed solar energy to Earth from a spacecraft called MAPLE, which was launched to orbit in January. 

MAPLE is equipped with solar panels that can withstand 'the harsh environment of space', including wild temperature swings and solar radiation. 

'Space solar power' – a concept conjured by science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov in 1941 – could potentially yield eight times more power than solar panels at any location on Earth's surface. 

Above the Earth there are no clouds and no day or night that could obstruct the sun's ray - making a space solar station a constant green power source

The project is being led by Caltech's Space Solar Power Project (SSPP), which aims to harvest solar power in space and transmit it to the Earth's surface as a permanent source of power.

What is space solar power? 

Space solar power is a concept for generating electricity from solar energy in space and then transmitting it to Earth. 

A spacecraft uses solar panels to collect solar energy. A 'power transmission system' then converts the solar energy into a form that can be transmitted to Earth, such as microwaves or lasers. 

Receivers on Earth then convert the transmitted energy back into electricity that can be fed into a national grid.

SBSP has the potential to provide a large, reliable and clean source of energy for the world. 

The experts hope it could offer a better green alternative to fossil fuels and even renewable energy sources such as geothermal, wind and nuclear. 

'Through the experiments we have run so far, we received confirmation that MAPLE can transmit power successfully to receivers in space,' said Ali Hajimiri, professor of electrical engineering at Caltech. 

'We have also been able to program the array to direct its energy toward Earth, which we detected here at Caltech. 

'We had, of course, tested it on Earth, but now we know that it can survive the trip to space and operate there.' 

Solar panels on Earth are made up of multiple 'solar cells' – little devices that convert radiation from the sun into electricity. 

Solar cells have existed on Earth since the late 1800s and currently generate about 4 per cent of the world’s electricity, in addition to powering the International Space Station.

But critics of the technology point out that they often don't work in a countries blighted by cloudy weather for much of the year, such as the UK. 

Other problems with the technology generally is these panels take up a lot of ground and can be an eyesore, often on green land that could be freed up for other uses. 

The Caltech team therefore developed MAPLE, short for Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment, which was launched aboard the Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral on January 3.

Artist's rendering of what the Caltech team's space solar power demonstrator looks like when unfolded

MAPLE consists of an array of flexible lightweight microwave power transmitters driven by electronic chips built using low-cost silicon, the team say.

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  Above the Earth there are no clouds and no day or night that obstruct the sun's rays

They need to be flexible so they can fold up into a package that can be transported in a rocket and then unfold once in orbit, much like NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

MAPLE's transmitters convert the solar energy into a form that can be transmitted to Earth, such as lasers or, in this case, microwaves. 

The array of transmitters can beam the energy to desired locations, such as a receiving station on Earth that feeds the power into the national grid. 

In the world first, MAPLE's transmitted energy was detected by a receiver on the roof of a building on Caltech's campus in Pasadena, California. 

The received signal appeared at the 'expected time and frequency', according to the experts, and had the right change in frequency as predicted based on its travel from orbit. 

'To the best of our knowledge, no one has ever demonstrated wireless energy transfer in space even with expensive rigid structures,' said Professor Hajimiri. 

'We are doing it with flexible lightweight structures and with our own integrated circuits – this is a first.' 

The academics ultimately envision a 'constellation' of spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electricity, then wirelessly transmit that electricity over long distances wherever it is needed.

This could be especially important for the places that currently have no access to reliable power, such as developing countries. 

It's unclear what will happen to the orbiting MAPLE spacecraft now, or if it will form the basis of this constellation.  

Photo from space of the interior of MAPLE, with the transmission array to the right and the receivers to the left

Detecting power from MAPLE on the roof of the Gordon and Betty Moore Laboratory of Engineering on Caltech's campus in Pasadena, California 

However, the technology is not quite ready for mass-scale adoption, according to the Caltech team, as solar power generation and transmission needs to be rethought for use on a large scale in space. 

Solar panels are bulky and heavy, making them expensive to launch, and they need extensive wiring to transmit power. 

Professor Hajimiri's team is now assessing the performance of individual elements within the system – a 'painstaking process' that can take up to six months.

Once complete, it will allow the team to sort out irregularities and trace them back to individual units, providing insight for the next generation of the system.

Caltech isn't alone in its space solar power efforts; the UK government is also looking into the feasibility of building solar power plants in space.

In 2020, it commissioned new research into the concept of such solar power stations as a way to meet the Earth's growing energy needs. 

A short history of space-based solar power

The idea of Space-Based Solar Power stations have been around since 1941.

Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov first wrote about them in the short story Reason. 

In the story he wrote about a space station that transmits energy collected from the Sun to various planets using microwave beams. 

There were a number of concept designs from the 1970s but non were deemed economically viable. 

The basic concept involves a space station with a solar array to convert solar energy into electrical energy.

Then it would use a microwave transmitter or laser emitter to transmit the energy to a collector on the Earth.

The UK has joined Japan, China, Russia and the US in pursuing the idea of space based power generation.

As of 2008, Japan made the idea of space solar power a national goal. 

Advantages of the technology include the fact it is always solar noon in space with a full Sun.

Collecting surfaces could also receive more intense sunlight than on Earth.

However they would be large satellites, costing a lot of money to launch - although launches have become cheaper thanks to commercial firms. 

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12-06-2023 om 22:24 geschreven door peter  

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US Attorney Saw Crashed UFO Photos In Classified Version Of Project Blue Book

A big UFO reveal was made by American Attorney Daniel Sheehan in the 2001 Disclosure Project Event at The National Press Club in Washington, DC. He claimed to go through documents from the Project Blue Book that remained classified. Mr. Sheehan boldly claimed that those uncensored documents of the Blue Book had photographs of a crashed UFO being investigated by Air Force personnel.

Who is Daniel Sheehan?

Daniel P. Sheehan is a Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Divinity School-trained Constitutional Trial Lawyer and Appellate Attorney. Over the last five decades, his work as a trial lawyer, appellate attorney, public speaker, author, and college and law school educator has helped to expose injustice, protect fundamental rights and elucidate a compelling vision for the future of humanity. Mr. Sheehan has served as a legal counsel on many high-profile cases such as Karen Silkwood, Iran-Contra, the American Sanctuary Movement, the Pentagon papers, Three Mile Island, and Watergate. (Source)

Mr. Sheehan’s UFO journey began in 1977, when he was approached by his friend Marcia Smith who spent 31 years as a science and technology policy expert specializing in space activities at the Congressional Research Service.

She informed him that newly-elected President Carter held a meeting with the Director of Central Intelligence and demanded that the CIA should provide classified information about unidentified flying objects to the president, as well as the information that was in the possession of the United States intelligence community concerning the existence of extraterrestrial.

However, George H. Bush, who was the CIA director at that time, refused to give this information to the President of the United States. He told Carter that such intelligence is available strictly on a need-to-know basis and that the newly-elected president did not have a need to know. Mr. Sheehan said Bush’s response could have been based on the probability that the intelligence community feared Carter planned on making such information public.

“The director insisted that the president in order to have access to this information needed to have clearance through contact the Congressional Research Service (part of the U.S. Congress) to contact the United States House of Representative science and technology division to have them undertake a process to declassify this information because the DCI suspected that the president was preparing to reveal this information to the American public,” Mr. Sheehan said in the Disclosure at the National Press Club in 2001.

Marcia Smith asked Mr. Sheehan if he could get access to the Vatican library in an attempt to see what information the Catholic Church had on the UFO phenomena and extraterrestrials. Sheehan used all his influence and tried to obtain the information, but the Vatican flat-out refused his requests.

However, with Carter’s help, Sheehan did manage to get access to the classified portions of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book for a few hours in May 1977. Sheehan perused the files and microfilms in the just opened Madison building near Capitol Hill. He carefully examined various films until he came across a startling discovery in the frames of one of them taken by the Air Force.

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Sheehan UFO Experience

So, in May 1977, he went to the Madison building of the United States Library of Congress, and there was no one inside at that time. It was brand new. He was directed to a basement office, where there were two guards at the door and one more sitting at the table who verified his designation and that he had been appointed as a special consultant to the Congressional Research Service of the United States Library of Congress.

“There were these photographs of unmistakable — of a UFO sitting on the ground. It had crashed,” Sheehan said. “Apparently, it had hit into this field and had dug up, kind of plowed this kind of trough through this field,” he paused for a second.

“It was wedged into the side of this bank,” he said after taking a deep breath. “There was snow all around the picture. The vehicle was wedged into the side of this mud-like embankment — kind of up at an angle. There was Air Force personnel. As I cranked the little handle and looked at additional photos, these Air Force people were taking pictures.

In the photograph, they were taking photographs of this vehicle. One of the photos actually had the Air Force personnel with this big long tape measure measuring this thing. You could see that they had these parkas on, with little fur around their hoods. You could see that they had little name tags on their jackets. They were clearly U.S. Air Force personnel. I was kind of in this strange state saying: Here it is!So, I turned the crank for more pictures, and I could see on the side of this craft these, like, little insignias — little symbols. So, I turned ahead a couple of pictures to see if there was a closer picture. Sure enough, there was. One of the photos had kind of a close-up picture of these symbols. So, what I did is — I was getting nervous — I looked around, and the [security] guys weren’t watching or anything. They were outside of the room, so I took the yellow pad, and I flipped it open to the little gray cardboard backing and I flipped it under the screen. I shrank the size of the picture to the same size as the back of the yellow pad, and traced the actual symbols out in detail, verbatim of what was there. Then I said, like, I’m going to leave. That’s it. I’ve got this, and I don’t want to push my luck on this thing…”

When Mr. Sheehan left the room, the guard asked to see his yellow legal pad and flipped through the pages, missing the alien hieroglyphs Sheehan had copied on the back of the pad. Sheehan offered to share this information with the religious establishment; they told him they were not interested.

On August 30, 2021, during an interview with Coast To Coast AM George Noory, Mr. Sheehan shared his contention that the US military has recovered more than one crashed UFO, which they had been deconstructing and back-engineering. He recounted how he came to legally represent Luis Elizondo in his complaints against the US Defense Department over its handling of the UFO issue over the years. (Source)

Mr. Sheehan admires Elizondo for trying to disclose UFO information to the American public, reminiscent of the controversies that activist Daniel Ellsberg faced when trying to reveal the Pentagon Papers (about the Vietnam War) in 1971.

The Pentagon wants to keep recovered UFO technology secret, and monopolize it for weaponry and their own purposes, Sheehan asserted, rather than use it for new or free forms of energy that would upend the oil industry and the vested interests behind it.

UFO technology, he added, would also help combat the crisis of global climate change. Advanced ET civilizations have realized they cannot directly interfere with species’ choices, as this would thwart their evolution, Sheehan noted. And when UFOs demonstrated they could shut down our nuke facilities, he continued, that was to send a message that they have this capacity but want humanity to choose to eliminate this destructive technology themselves.

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12-06-2023 om 01:47 geschreven door peter  

Would YOU survive an alien invasion? New study reveals safest states to live in event of extraterrestrial attack - and its bad news for the West Coast!

• The best and worst states for surviving an alien invasion have been revealed amid a spike in UFO mania 
• Virginia residents will fare the best, while the wide open landscape and high numbers of UFO sightings put West Coast metros at the bottom 
• READ MORE: How a crashed UFO recovered by the US military 'distorted space and time' 

By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

An ominous spike in UFO sightings has captured America's imagination - but what state is the safest to live in if aliens decide to invade the earth? 

A new study has attempted to put the question to rest, with Virginia residents the most likely to survive an extraterrestrial visit. 

According to researchers with njcasino.com, the chances of staying alive are determined by factors including how much each state spends on defense, its population density, and cover from incoming attacks in caves and woodland. 

The number of UFO sightings per state were also included in the study, after a Pentagon chief recently admitted hundreds of flying saucers have already been spotted 'all over the world.'

America's recent obsession with alien invaders comes after intelligence officials have made a series of startling revelations, with even Barack Obama admitting he saw UFO footage he 'can't explain'. 

And if aliens were to make their arrival more invasive, those who want to live should make their way to Virginia to hedge their bets on survival.  

Thanks to its impressive military spending coupled with a small population size, the Easy Coast metro came out on top in the rankings with a score of 8.04 out of 10. 

Georgia and Massachusetts rounded out the podium, while New York's expansive NYPD force helped the Big Apple come in a close fourth. 

Alongside a high number of cops, New Yorkers also enjoy over 2,600 food and drink spots, which would be sure to help residents make it through an alien apocalypse. 

However, West Coast citizens are set to fare far worse, with Nevada registering the lowest survivability score at just 4.53 out of 10. 

One of the main reasons for the state's poor showing is its large number of UFO sightings, while it also has a lack of helpful terrain such as caves and forests. 

The wide open plains of the West Coast also saw states including New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Idaho fall to the bottom of the pack. 

A high number of apparent UFO sightings in recent years has led many to speculate if an alien invasion is imminent - or if one quietly happened already 

The study comes amid heightened interest in extraterrestrial activity in the US, with Congress hosting several high-profile hearings confirming the existence of 'UAPs' - stood for unidentified aerial phenomenon. 

Earlier this month, a Pentagon chief admitted during NASA's first-ever public hearing that hundreds of UFOs have been spotted 'all over the world'. 

Physicist Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), said: 'We see these ('metallic orbs') all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers.' 

And a top attorney involved in bringing UFO whistleblowers to Congress has sensationally claimed that a crashed vessel recovered by the US military 'distorted space-time' when it was picked up. 

Daniel Sheehan says he was told the mind-boggling tale by a whistleblower who allegedly took part in an illegally-undisclosed program retrieving crashed non-human spacecraft. 

He claims when investigators entered the UFO, they found it to be 'bigger on the inside' than it initially appeared. 

Lawyer Daniel Sheehan tells DailyMail.com that a whistleblower told him of a crashed UFO recovered by the US military that 'distorted space-time' 

Sheehan said that a supposed UFO crash retrieval program insider told him that they recovered a 30ft saucer partially embedded in the earth. Pictured is a sign for the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash site of 1947

Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defense UFO investigator, warned AZ Big Media the phenomena is here to stay. 

'Gone are the days when it was regarded as part fringe, part-science fiction, and part conspiracy theory,' he said. 

'UFOs are now being treated as a defense and national security issue, discussed in the United States Congress, and attracting attention from the Head of NASA.  

'It's difficult to tell whether we're seeing a genuine spike in UFO sightings - and if so, what this means - or whether what's happening is that a higher proportion of sightings is being reported, as a result of the current mainstream media coverage of this subject.

'The subject has come out of the fringe and into the mainstream, which has led to lots more people speaking out about their own sightings and encounters. 

'Regardless of the truth about these various incidents, it focuses on the fact that UFO sightings - whatever their cause - have serious and profound defense, national security, and air safety issues.'

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12-06-2023 om 00:40 geschreven door peter  

New Pentagon-funded hypersonic test vehicle could fly in summer 2024

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• US Air Force launches 1st operational hypersonic missile

The vehicle could now be ready as early as next summer as part of Pentagon efforts to boost its hypersonics flight-test cadence, C4ISRNET reported.

The DIU, which operates under the U.S. Department of Defense, describes itself as an organization focused on accelerating the adoption of commercial and dual-use technology to solve operational challenges at speed and scale.

The Pentagon is pursuing research and development of hypersonic defense programs. As part of this, the DIU has rolled out the high-cadence testing capabilities (HyCAT) project, which brings opportunities for commercial companies to develop reusable and low-cost test vehicles and reduce strain on DoD resources.

Lt. Col. Nicholas Estep, HyCAT program manager, told C4ISRNET that the DIU is refining the details of the mission, including the flight conditions, the launch provider and the location for next year’s first fully integrated, autonomous flight of DART AE.

Fenix Space, Inc., located in San Bernardino, California, and Rocket Lab, located in Long Beach, California, have also been awarded DIU contracts for a reusable tow-launch platform and the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) rocket, respectively.

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11-06-2023 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 11/06/2023

Flying Saucer Type UFO Sighted While Driving On The Outskirts Of Mason, Ohio

Although this footage was taken nearly three years ago the video was just posted and the witness stated the following: " it was in South lebanon / mason ohio on april 12th 2022 at 11:12am I was driving my jeep on break at work on Columbia road heading south when I witnessed what appeared in my vision to be a floating door in the sky hovering above mason krogers on 741 when I took the video and later review the video it looked like a traditional flying saucer which was so weird how it looked different on video. It was totally trippy and unexplainable. When I got back from break it was gone. Wish I had more answers but that is all that took place. There were other witnesses but they unfortuantly they did not get it on video atleast not the ones that I know saw it..

GPT creator talks about the development and threats of AI | New humanoid robots and brain chip

GPT creator talks about the development and threats of AI | New humanoid robots and brain chip PRO Robots is not just a channel about robots and future technologies, we are interested in science, technology, new technologies and robotics in all its manifestations, science news, technology news today, science and technology news 2022, so that in the future it will be possible to expand future release topics. 

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The Truth Behind the Super Hornet UFO Encounters

Buy "Punk's War," Ward's bestselling debut novel about life in a deployed F-14 squadron, at a deep discount from the original publisher at https://www.usni.org/press/books/punk....

Recently declassified forward looking infrared from U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets show what the Pentagon is calling "unidentified aerial phenomenon." These FLIR contacts lack wings, any sign of propulsion, and indications are that they can travel upwards of 13,000 miles per hour.

The aircrew (pilots and weapons systems officers) involved were all slow-rolled the first time they debriefed their footage to intelligence officials at their local military commands, but when a former undersecretary of defense leaked the FLIR footage to the New York Times, the Pentagon had to admit that the images were real and the Department of Defense had no reason to believe that UAPs didn't exist.

The only question was what they actually were.

Reasonable analysis basically puts the options into three categories: a domestic developmental program, a near-peer spy program, or aliens. In this episode, Ward builds the case for which of those three he believes is most likely.

ICRA 2023: The best robots that will change the world! | Robots of the future | Pro Robots

The ICRA 2023 Robot Exhibition, held in London, showcased some of the most innovative developments in robotics and artificial intelligence. In this report, we highlight some of the most interesting inventions that are changing our world today.

Lite3 is designed for educational and scientific research. Using the latest proprietary joints, control systems and advanced algorithms deep in the cloud, it has stronger, more flexible and more reliable motion capabilities. Lite3's open modular structure and interface make it adaptable and scalable, allowing it to develop advanced perceptual abilities such as autonomous navigation, visual positioning and environmental reconstruction.

Also on display was the X20 robot, the latest version of DEEP Robotics' Jueying series, which has already been deployed for industrial use. Tasks it performs include power inspections, emergency rescue work, public safety inspections, tunnel, mining and industrial site inspections, and construction site reconnaissance.

Yes We Have A Spacecraft From Another Species - US Gov. Best UFOs Of May 2023, AFO

Fighter Pilot Reacts to UFO Retrieval Program

Does the US have a UFO retrieval program? A whistleblower claims the US has alien vehicles. But where’s the proof? House of Representatives to hold hearing on whistleblower’s UFO claims. US collects intact UFOs as part of secret program, Air Force veteran claims.

NASA Looks Into UFOs And Here's What It Found | Between the Lines with Palki Sharma

NASA Looks Into UFOs And Here's What It Found | Between the Lines with Palki Sharma

Scientists at NASA held their first ever public meeting on "unidentified anomalous phenomena" - more commonly called UFOs. This is the same space agency that has spent years debunking any UFO rumour.

NASA's public briefing came just before an US whistleblower claimed that the United States government is in possession of UFOs. Why is the United States so obsessed with aliens and UFOs and why is NASA suddenly looking into UFOs? Palki Sharma tells you on this episode of Between the Lines. ​

Has the U.S. already discovered alien spaceships? A whistleblower sure thinks we have.

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According to former Intelligence Officer David Grusch, an alien crash-landing isn't too far-fetched.

Bombshell UFO claim made by whistleblower

A former U.S. intelligence official and Air Force veteran claims a top-secret program is withholding evidence of alien spacecraft.

David Charles Grusch, a 36-year-old decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, served the National Reconnaissance Office, acting as their representative to Congress’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. At the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, he also served from late 2021 to July 2022 as co-lead of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) analysis and its representative to the task force, which was recently renamed the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

The Debrief first reported Monday that Grusch said he filed a whistleblower complaint to Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) on classified information that he insists proves the recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the U.S. government, its allies and defense contractors.

The recoveries have been determined through analysis to be "of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures," Grusch said.

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11-06-2023 om 23:36 geschreven door peter  

Aliens: Extra-Terrestrial or Trans-Dimensional?

• From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 12 No 2 (April 2018)

Are aliens extra-terrestrial? Ufologists, contactees and abductees presume that they are. This presumption is based on the theory that alien-astronauts visited the Earth in ancient times to establish off-world colonies and engineer the process of human evolution. Since the aliens supposedly come from worlds other than our own, or so the theory goes, it follows they must be extra-terrestrial. 

However, there is little evidence for believing this. To date, not a single ufologist, contactee or abductee can present credible evidence to support the view that aliens are extra-terrestrial. Evidence of a kind, however, does exist for an alternate theory about the ontological nature of alien entities. This is the view that aliens are trans-dimensional entities inhabiting the myriad layers of alternate dimensions that interpenetrate the Multiverse, ‘in’ the world as we know it and yet not really ‘of’ the world. 

The great 20^th century magickal practitioner Aleister Crowley, in his own experiments, first postulated this view; he saw aliens, in fact, as humanity’s best chance for solving the problems of life, death, and achieving perfection. Similarly, Crowley’s disciple and protégé, Kenneth Grant, head of the UK branch of the OTO for many years and author of the monumental 9-volume Typhonian Trilogies series, also made the argument that aliens are trans-dimensional. Grant went a bit further than Crowley due to the fact that the UFO craze was gathering steam when Grant was starting his own career (Grant’s Typhonian New Isis Lodge was in active operation between the years 1955–1962). Studying the documents of the early contactees such as George Adamski, Betty and Barney Hill, and Howard Menger, Grant attempted to reconcile ufology, which he referred to as “ufologicks,” with mainstream occult theory & practice. 

Aleister Crowley & LAM

Aleister Crowley (1875–1945), poet, mountaineer, adventurer & philanderer, worked his way through most of the grade structure of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the early 1900s, learning the theory and practice of Western magick from the bottom up. When the order was wracked with schism, Crowley left and founded his own more congenial magickal order, the Argenteum Astrum. Later, in 1912, Crowley became the Grand Master of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) in the UK, where he developed his special, stylised brand of sex magick based on Tantric and Yezidis sources. 

Crowley defined magick as “the science and art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.” The “change” Crowley refers to is psychological and spiritual transformation. This is accomplished by utilising the latent, psychic powers of the mind and activating the psycho-sexual power zones that reside in key areas of the body and the brain, the areas known as the chakras. As a necessary preliminary step towards making the “magick” happen, so to speak, the magickal practitioner must achieve contact with a genuine alien entity, something not connected to the practitioner’s own mind or body. Crowley referred to this entity by the rather fanciful name “Holy Guardian Angel” (HGA), and he described the experience of contacting the HGA somewhat less fancifully as obtaining “Knowledge & Conversation.” Crowley insisted that contact with the HGA was absolutely required before the magickal practitioner could hope to utilise the powers and energies of lesser entities such as spirits, elementals, demons and so forth (none of which, it must be remembered, can be wholly disassociated from the mind of the practitioner). And finally, Crowley insisted that each and every person on Earth must achieve contact with his or her own HGA if humankind is expected to advance. As Crowley writes:

My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings.

This is one of the most important passages that Crowley ever wrote. Crowley offers a three-fold definition of an alien entity: (1) aliens are genuinely ‘alien’ since they exist apart from the physical and cerebral attributes of human beings; (2) aliens have a higher level of intellectual and cognitive ability than humans; and, most importantly, (3) aliens, being essentially magickal beings, are trans-dimensional, not extra-terrestrial. This last point is implicit in Crowley’s statement but it is there nonetheless. The magickal practitioner is expected to achieve the knowledge and conversation of the HGA via magickal or mystical methods; this entity can be summoned by magickal rites, whether evocations or invocations; it can be summoned by astral travelling or lucid dreaming; or the entity can be summoned in meditation and/or mystical trance. In contrast, extra-terrestrial entities cannot be reached by using any of these methods – they must be met face-to-face in real time, in a common, shared time-space continuum.

In his lifetime Crowley achieved contact with only one alien entity of this nature, and that was the alien known as Lam or Aiwaz (the two are sometimes distinguished by occult scholars, but they were virtually synonymous in Crowley’s mind and I shall therefore speak of them as one entity in this essay). Lam was believed by Crowley to be an emissary of other aliens or “outer-ones”; Lam/Aiwaz was the entity that dictated the notorious Book of the Law, or Liber AL, to Crowley via the seer Rose Kelley in 1904. Crowley also had direct contact with Lam in America later in 1915 and 1919. Crowley drew a portrait of Lam and included it with some of his expressionist paintings in an exhibition held in Greenwich Village, New York City, 1919. This drawing was reproduced for the first time in The Equinox, Vol. III, No. 1 (1972); Kenneth Grant reproduced the same drawing in The Magical Revival (1972) and Outside the Circles of Time (1980). Lam has a small, diminutive body visible only from the chest on up, covered by a coarse, wool-textured robe. The area of the head above the eyebrows and the bridge of the nose is very high, bulbous and hairless; it is more than twice as long as the lower area. There is a faint, mushroom-cloud shape etched into the expansive forehead. The face itself is scrunched down low between the eyebrows and the chin; the eyes are narrow and slanted, the pupils tiny, the nose long, the mouth a mere slit. 

When we compare the image of Lam with the descriptions of aliens given by contactees and abductees, there are striking similarities. Grey-skinned humanoids have been reported as being 3-4 feet tall with bald, elongated heads, black almond eyes and slits for mouths. There are descriptions of diminutive green humanoids, also bald with elongated heads, slanted eyes, slit-mouths. There are even accounts of small silvery creatures who resemble the other two types. Clearly, contactees and abductees are seeing the same sorts of entities that Crowley saw; the only difference is that Crowley’s entity was not coloured green, gray or silver. In this context, it is worth noting that all of these alien archetypes are virtually equivalent to the 1950s Hollywood Science Fiction versions of aliens – the big-brained, bug-eyed, little green or gray men that still crop up occasionally in SF films on TV and in the cinema today. 

David J Skal, horror film scholar and author of The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (1993), offers an interesting interpretation of the big-headed, bug-eyed alien stereotype. 

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) boasted the most exaggerated eye-brain hypertrophy of all: aliens (played by dwarves) with heads shaped like gargantuan light bulbs, their bugging eyes the size of baseballs…. these new creatures anticipated not the violent rending of the body but its withering and atrophy. The future was about watching images and processing information; the eyes and brain were the only useful parts of the human form left…. ocular anxiety and depersonalization was reflected in films like The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955), The Crawling Eye (1958), and The Cyclops (1957).

This is eerily applicable to our contemporary times where young millennials are addicted to their smartphones, cherishing them more, seemingly, than the hands that hold them, as they pump unceasing bits of social and entertainment data directly into their brains. Perhaps in the future, as our technologies advance and proliferate, we will see increasing levels of “ocular anxiety” and depersonalisation of the type mentioned by Skal. But this is more or less a human thing. Alien entities such as Lam do not have big heads because of information overload; they need the expanded cranial capacity to house their superior minds and apply their cognitive energy, enhanced as it is, to assist humankind in taking the next, necessary step towards enlightenment.

Kenneth Grant & Ufologicks

After Crowley’s death, his disciple Kenneth Grant (1924–2011) received a charter from Karl Germer, Crowley’s successor as Outer Head of the OTO, to set up a UK branch of the OTO. From its inception, Grant’s New Isis Lodge reflected Crowley’s hopes, which he articulated in his diaries during the last two years of his life, for a fundamentally different, re-structured OTO, focused less on initiation and more on promoting and fostering communication with alien entities.

Elaborate ceremonial and the establishment of fixed Lodges in specific locales would be superseded by a fluid and far-flung web comprised of Thelemic power-zones. These power-zones would form a loosely-knit network of occult groups using the Ophidian Current to prepare human consciousness for intercourse with the denizens of other dimensions.

Grant followed through on Crowley’s game-plan; he divided his “Typhonian” OTO as he called it into a series of disparate cells, each operated by either a single, dedicated magickal practitioner or by a small coven of practitioners. The main lodge facility was reserved for visiting magickal practitioners and performance artists who were allowed to stage their own creative rites on a first-come, first-serve basis, using lodge members occasionally for support and backup.

Grant, like Crowley, also contacted the HGA. Grant’s guardian angel was named Aossic-Aiwass, and not surprisingly it closely resembled LAM. Grant provides plates in the various volumes of his Typhonian Trilogies series that show the faces of the alien entities he communicated with over the course of his magickal experiments, both during his tenure as head of the New Isis Lodge and afterwards. These aliens also resemble Lam. An alien known only as Desmodus is shown in Plate 8 of Outer Gateways (1994); this was drawn by Grant. Desmodus’ face occupies only the lower half of the head; the rest is a high, bulbous forehead, with a small, weird face etched into the skin, smoke pouring out of its eyes. In Plate 29 of Beyond the Mauve Zone (1999) there is the drawing (also by Grant) of an alien priest. Like Aossic-Aiwass, the priest has a large, bulbous head, though the face is more normal looking. These examples are clear evidence the alien entities that haunted Grant’s magickal chambers and the chambers of his imagination are the same diminutive, big-brained creatures that appear to countless contactees and abductees. 

Grant, likewise, accepted Crowley’s view that alien entities are trans-dimensional. In Outside the Circles of Time (1980), Grant calls into question the whole extra-terrestrial vs trans-dimensional dichotomy, seeing outer space as a form of inner space, especially when it comes to alien beings. This takes aliens out of their metal ships and plants them squarely in alternate dimensions. 

Whether or not…. intrusion proceeds from actual entities in outer space is problematic; outer space may be another form of that inner space which comprises the mental or subjective universe.

In a later, more penetrating analysis of the nature of aliens, in his Outer Gateways (1994), Grant rightly notes that the larger percentage of encounters involve aliens that are not flesh and blood but are actually magickal beings. Grant theorises that aliens are largely “etheric,” not quite astral-entities but closer in substance to the astral than they are to the physical. Grant extends this theory to include alien ships. These ships, according to Grant, are etheric – astral shells or capsules fabricated by the trans-dimensional aliens as a necessary by-product to assist in reification on the physical plane. 

The substance of manifestation appears ….to be of an etheric as distinct from an astral nature. This supposition is suggested by the tangible quality of many of the objects observed. Sightings in this category appear to be far in excess of those in which the occupants of UFO’s are considered to be flesh-and-blood beings… that suggests that ufonauts are of a substance more subtle than their vehicles, as the astral body of man is more subtle, or less dense, than his physical body. Such might be the case, for example, if an astral entity fabricated for itself an etheric shell, or capsule, as in the practice known as the magickal assumption of god-forms.

Grant coined the term “ufologicks,” which is phonetically similar to “magicks.” He defined ufologicks in obscure terms as “a suggested designation for the mantric vibrations associated with Gematria and with the power-wave impinging upon earth from Outside.” When we get past the over-inflated terminology, the meaning is rather simple: ufologicks is (or will be) a new magickal system focused primarily on rites that are specifically designed to enable magickal practitioners to contact alien entities like Lam, Aossic-Aiwass, or Desmodus. 

Unfortunately, Grant died before he could take practical steps to implement this new system. But he did leave behind some notes on an improvised magickal rite which could be used to summon Lam. Grant instructs the magickal practitioner to gaze at the portrait of Lam, concentrating attention on the eyes. As concentration deepens, the eyes will start to enlarge, and they will suck you into the portrait so that you have the sensation of being inside the entity’s head. Then, Grant tells us, two paths are possible, either a “downward” or an “upward” path. Grant doesn’t elaborate on what might occur if the upward path is chosen, but he is very explicit about the downward option. The results are quite dramatic, and they deserve full quotation here. 

If downward, the descent will be accompanied by a sensation of rushing air… A deep blackness will engulf the mind as one enters the dark tunnel beneath the mouth of Lam, and the wind will be replaced by the sound of rushing waters… [this] will awaken the image of an octopoid entity, the tentacles of which are the branchings of the tunnel below the mouth of Lam…. [A] fusion will occur between the eyes of Lam, in the region of the ajna chakra, and the flame will shoot aloft into the vast brilliance of a cranium that appears infinite in extent and dazzlingly lustrous. 

This rite serves as an excellent example of what the formal rites for a ufologick lodge might have looked like if Grant had lived to establish his proposed magickal system. 

As a parting concession to future ufologists, there is a curious and rather peculiar UFO-centric account of the creation of the world in one of Grant’s last books, Beyond the Mauve Zone (1999). Grant describes the appearance of an alien astronaut on Earth in ancient, pre-human times (the period is not specified). The alien presents itself in the guise of an eccentric, reclusive scientist. In his laboratory, the alien has set up a shrine to the goddess Nu-Isis, consisting of a statue of the goddess and an eternal flame burning in front of it. The statue is fashioned from a metal that cannot be found on Earth. She is a metallic, biomechanoid Earth-woman, reminiscent of the countless biomechanoid female aliens that proliferate in the canvasses of the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. The alien scientist feeds the statue with fluids drawn from elemental, astral entities. Eventually, the laboratory is destroyed by a massive explosion and the alien either perishes or escapes back to his own dimension. Much later a living human woman emerges from the ashes of the lab, born from the apocalypse of the explosion. She is Lura, daughter of the biomechanoid statue, who Grant describes as “the vitalised image worshipped and nourished by the scientist in the secrecy of his laboratory.” Along with the birth of Lura, humans begin to populate the Earth. Some of these humans are directly descended from Lura herself, the children of her sexual liaisons with Earth men, and these individuals are particularly suited to communicate with trans-dimensional alien entities. At the present day, the descendants of Lura are the magickal practitioners – magickians, mystics and psychonauts – who seek supra-human knowledge and power. 

Real or Not Real?

Previously, I mentioned there is scant empirical evidence for the existence of aliens. This is especially true when it comes to the extra-terrestrial alien. In all fairness, it must be noted that the evidence for the existence of the trans-dimensional alien is equally weak. We have examined the testimony of Crowley and Grant, but is this any more reliable than the testimony of ufologists, contactees or abductees? The issue here boils down to the distinction between the imaginary world and the so-called ‘real’ world. Which is true? Or are both true? Or neither? In the last few decades, quantum physics has eroded our views about reality, and the theories of contemporary scientists are beginning to sound a lot like the theories of the magickal practitioners, both past and present. The line between what is real and what is not is no longer distinct, and in the absence of certainty we are free to believe what we will. 

In this regard, I am reminded of Harry Potter’s final meeting with his mentor Albus Dumbledore near the end of the 7^th book in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). Potter finds himself in an alternate dimension that looks like King’s Cross station, except that it is empty – no trains, no passengers and full of bright mist. Initially, Potter is surprised to see Dumbledore, because Dumbledore died in the previous book. After they converse, Potter asks Dumbledore: “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”, to which Dumbledore replies: “Of course it is happening inside your head… but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”   

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11-06-2023 om 22:17 geschreven door peter