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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Stanford Prof. & US Navy Vet’s Claims Might Prove Wilson-Davis UFO Memo Is Authentic

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    Stanford Prof. & US Navy Vet’s Claims Might Prove Wilson-Davis UFO Memo Is Authentic

    For a number of years, the Admiral Wilson UFO document, which previously used to be considered a hoax, has been in the public domain. But as the UFO disclosure pace fastened, the hoax is seemingly turning into an authentic document that author & researcher Richard Dolan called the “UFO leak of the century.” Moreover, to confirm the authenticity of Wilson’s UFO leak, there are two credible personalities: Standford professor Gary Nolan and former manager of Special Projects for Los Alamos Labs, USN Vet, Oke Shannon (his name is mentioned in the document).

    Brief Overview of Wilson-Davis Memo

    In 2002, after a meeting with former Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, who had been the head of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs back in the 1990s, Dr. Eric Davis, a former Pentagon physicist supposedly took a transcript of the conversation.

    Somehow, these documents found their way into the public domain after they were discovered in the files of the now deceased Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell. These 15 pages of notes describe Admiral Wilson’s discovery of a deeply classified program to study extraterrestrial technology.

    During this alleged conversation, Admiral Wilson tells Eric Davis about a series of programs that he discovered hidden deep within the black project’s records of the Pentagon that were actively involved in attempts to reverse engineer a recovered craft that they believed could operate in air, sea, space or perhaps even in other dimensions. The program manager concluded that the craft was not man-made.

    Wilson davis UFO document

    Astrophysicist Eric Davis during an interview with New York Post.

    The claims have been hotly debated among ufologists but never corroborated. The DIA director at the time, Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson has reportedly denied it all. Numerous national security experts and researchers have also dismissed it as a hoax. (Source)

    But one of the other primary individuals cited in the document, astrophysicist Eric Davis has not directly addressed it in public, only fueling suspicions that there might be something to it. And Davis alluded to the possibility of some of the claims contained in the alleged memo as recently as last year in an interview in The New York Times.

    Key Witness

    Jay Anderson, a founder of Project Unity has recently interviewed Oke Shannon, whose name is mentioned in the documents multiple times. Shannon confirmed that “what was said about him in these notes is accurate, further proving that the conversation between Admiral Wilson and Eric Davis did indeed take place, and they really did discuss the reality that a recovered, non-human vehicle, is being studied in extreme secrecy by a shadowy, quasi-governmental working group that is evading standardized oversight, operating outside of the reservation of government control,” wrote Anderson.

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    Jay Anderson with Oke Shannon and his wife Linda.
    Credit: Facebook

    Oke Shannon is a US Navy Veteran and a physicist. He was the manager of all Special Projects at Los Alamos National Labs, one of the highest funded and most secretive US Government Research Facilities in the United States.

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    Below is a transcript of the conversation held between Oke Shannon (OS) and Jay Anderson (JA) discussing the Wilson-Davis Memo: (Source)

    JA: I think it’s important that we just get your side of this on the record so I would just like to be able to ask you first of all whether or not you personally know Dr. Eric W Davis.

    OS: Yeah! I didn’t work with him day in and day out but I did work with him. I know him fairly well. (Shannon said he got to know Davis through mutual projects and mutual acquaintances.)

    JA: Do you personally know Admiral Thomas R Wilson?

    OS: Yes I do. Of course, I know of him but I read somewhere that his response was Oke who? and I thought that was kind of funny. I’m sure that my memory of him is stronger than his memory of me because he became a flag officer, and I went off.

    JA: Did Admiral Wilson get in contact with you in 2001 or 2002 inquiring into the background and overall trustworthiness of Dr Eric Davis?

    OS: Earlier than that. This was in 1999. I got this phone call and it was from Admiral Wilson. He wanted to know was could he trust Eric Davis. I mentioned that YES I believe that Eric Davis was an honorable and conscientious scientist and that he would honor any restrictions the Admiral might put on.

    JA: One last question on these notes. I just wanted to kind of get it in a confirmatory statement. So, in these notes that were recovered from Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s estate that are a transcription of an alleged meeting that took place between Admiral Wilson and Dr. Eric Davis. It’s mentioned within the trust a transcript of their conversation that you were difficult to get in touch with at the time you were in poor health due to heart conditions and were not easy to get hold. So this is true in of itself you were struggling with that?

    OS: Yeah so it was difficult to get in touch with and I might add to that I’m still difficult to get in touch with.

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    During 2022 US Congress hearings on UFOs, Rep. Mike Gallagher asked Ronald Moultrie, the top Pentagon intelligence official, and Scott Bray, the deputy director of naval intelligence, whether they were aware of an unverified 2002 document known as the “Wilson-Davis memo.” (Source)

    “There’s nothing we can offer or help out with on your request,” a spokesperson for the federal think tank said. As for Moultrie and Bray, they told Gallagher that they were unfamiliar with the Wilson-Davis document. The fact the document was even broached — and then entered into the official hearing record — was shocking to those who have followed the saga.

    However, not many would be satisfied with the Pentagon’s response to Rep. Gallagher on the Wilson-Davis leak. There is another expert named Dr. Gary Nolan, a Stanford Professor who claimed that the documents are “genuine.” He told investigative journalist Ross Coulthart that he knows Eric Davis and that he would not lie. “You know Eric is the kind of character that it’s just impossible for him to lie,” Nolan added.

    Nolan asserted that the document was ultimately leaked. “Why would Eric Davis lie about writing something that he never intended to go public in the first place? He was just doing what an intelligence agent does on a regular basis which is write reports of what it is that they’ve been doing,” he said.

    Davis, who is now a senior project engineer at the government-funded The Aerospace Corporation, worked on the Pentagon’s secret UFO program AATIP. He also said that some of the materials taken from the found UFOs have so far been unidentifiable. “We couldn’t make [the materials] ourselves,” Davis told the Times. (Source)

    • Interview with Jay / Project Unity (September 2, 2021)

    • The Wilson/Davis Notes: The Final Act? (September 6, 2021)

    Additional Background

    The following documents were “leaked” or uploaded to IMGUR (an image sharing site) on April 19, 2019. However, they did not start making waves within the UFO community, until sometime in the first week of June 2019.

    With no provenance, it is unclear if the documents are legitimate, and even if they are, it is even more unclear if the content outlined within is credible.  Allegedly, they contain the notes of Dr. Eric Davis, Chief Science Officer at EarthTech International, founded by Dr. Hal Puthoff. They outline a 2002 meeting between Dr. Davis, and Admiral Thomas Ray Wilson, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. During this meeting, many things were discussed including Admiral Wilson stating he was denied access to UFO related information.

    It should be noted – this particular story involving Admiral Wilson has been around since at least 2001, nearly two decades ago. It first made an appearance in a lecture by Dr. Steven Greer, given in Portland, Oregon on September 12, 2001. During this speech, according the transcript, Dr. Greer said the following:

    “To say that some of these witnesses are terrified is an understatement. You know, I feel like I’ve been the cosmic hand-holder for ten years. I had to go to the Pentagon. I was asked by the head of intelligence for the Joint Staffs, who had an office not far from the section that was blasted yesterday. This admiral, Tom Wilson, who was the J2 position, the head of intelligence Joint Staff and I, met along with one of the Apollo astronauts and a couple of these military witnesses, one of whom has not been recorded because of security reasons–his family were some of the original directors of NACA who saw some of the extraterrestrial bodies brought into Langley way back. He found this out on a deathbed confession from his father. But in this meeting with the Admiral, we [came to a conclusion]based on information I had given the Admiral, which had included some of the code names–you want code names? Project Red Light, Project Looking Glass, Magi Control, Royal Ops, Cosmic Ops. Don’t walk, run to anyone you know who has access and ask them to go into these classified areas and take whatever they can out and hand it to me. We’ll take a walk on the beach, and I’ll take full responsibility for it. I’ve been doing it. I’m a big boy. I’m willing to do it. Nobody has to be identified, because we have concluded the following: None of those projects have legal classification controlling authority. Why? They’ve opted out of the system because they have subverted it. And essentially the head of intelligence Joint Staffs said, “I am horrified that this is true. I have been in plenty of black projects, but when we tried to get into this one,” he was told, and I quote, “Sir, you do not have a need to know.” The head of intelligence Joint Staffs. You don’t have a need to know. Neither did the CIA director, and neither did the President. Who the hell does? Well, a bunch of bureaucrats and corporate and other people who have these projects, and people within the National Reconnaissance Office, NSA, and very compartmentalized islands that are free-standing islands that basically operate as their own sovereign nation. We can prove that they’ve violated the Constitution of the United States. They were operating outside the rule of law, a priori, they cannot hide behind the law by enforcing National Security Act regulations on anything they have. Which means that somebody can haul an entire ET spacecraft out of a place, and I’m asking them to do it, and do it now. We’re ready to roll!”

    On July 4, 2008, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, recounted the story during his appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live. The segment is available here:

    In August of 2008, investigative journalist Billy Cox contacted Admiral Wilson, who denied many aspects to the rumors. Cox wrote:

    “A former high-ranking military intelligence official rumored to have been snubbed in his attempts to obtain sheltered UFO data insists he never even bothered to look for it.

    ‘Never,’ retired Rear Adm. Thomas R. Wilson replied Tuesday when asked if he’d ever been barred from retrieving classified material, exotic or otherwise, during his career.”

    In July of 2019, I interview retired police Lieutenant Tim McMillan. Armed with his experience and research of Special Access Programs (SAPs) for his article published on THE WARZONE, along with his long career as a law enforcement officer, he weighed in on the Admiral Thomas Wilson leaks.

    That segment is available below:

    The interview above is an excerpt from a longer interview, available here.

    In June of 2020, Cox ran another story denying any involvement in the meeting that allegedly took place with Dr. Eric Davis. Cox wrote:

    “The admiral at the center of controversial notes describing his inability to access a classified UFO research program says the documents are bogus. Furthermore, he says the alleged author of those notes, physicist Dr. Eric Davis, never interviewed him.”

    In July of 2020, I interview Alejandro Rojas. This is the segment on the Wilson/Davis documents:

    The interview above is an excerpt from a longer interview, available here.

    You can find the documents below for your own perusal.

    Official Statements

    In the interest of accuracy and not relying on third/fourth hand hearsay, The Black Vault aims to archive official statements (if any) from key players involved or that surround this story. This is a fresh objective, so there are many blanks, however, I am waiting for additional quotes. As they come in, this page will be updated and posted on social media.

    https://www.howandwhys.com/ }

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    1933 Italy UFO Sketch

    Extraordinary Document Reveals Sketch of 1933 Crashed Alien Craft, Shared by Italian Journalist for First Time

    In the ongoing investigation into the alleged 1933 UFO crash in Italy, a significant breakthrough has emerged. Italian journalist Roberto Pinotti reveals that he obtained crucial documentary evidence about the incident. Astonishingly, he got these documents from a mysterious source who claimed that they had been inherited from a family member involved in the top-secret program.

    Pinotti claimed that the reported UFO crash happened in Magenta, Lombardy, Italy, on April 11, 1933. This event took place 14 years before the well-known Roswell UFO incident in New Mexico. The crash itself revolved around a saucer-shaped object resembling a flying saucer. Its occurrence prompted an inquiry conducted by the “Gabinetto RS/33” (or RS/33 Cabinet), a clandestine intelligence division formed during wartime under the authorization of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

    In his book “UFO Contacts In Italy Volume Two,” Pinotti disclosed that the crashed UFO was stored in the hangars of SIAI Marchetti in Vergiate. Mussolini, perceiving the unorthodox aerial craft as a clandestine weapon belonging to France, Britain, or Germany, found it intriguing. Meanwhile, Sen. Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian Royal Academy of Sciences’ leader, purportedly speculated that its origin was extraterrestrial.

    Roberto Pinotti

    Roberto Pinotti (left) is a President of the Italian National UFO Center
    (CUN)

    Additionally, the former US intelligence officer David Grusch, who provided astonishing insights into secret UFO programs, has given credence to this story. Grusch disclosed that the United States and its allies engaged in covert programs for nearly ninety years, revealing that one of the recovered craft was found in Italy in 1933.

    Mr. Grusch plans to testify publicly in the near future, potentially happening soon. Journalist Ross Coulthart acknowledges knowing multiple witnesses and whistleblowers who support Mr. Grusch’s claims. Mr. Grusch has provided evidence under oath to Congress and the Inspector General.

    Coulthart also mentions that there are others waiting to observe how Congress treats Mr. Grusch before stepping forward. Simultaneously, an additional interview with Mr. Grusch has surfaced online, revealing previously undisclosed and astonishing details about the UAP topic.

    During an interview with NewNation, Coulthart commends US Senator Marco Rubio’s statement, highlighting its bipartisan nature. Senator Gillibrand and Representative Mike Gallagher have also expressed support for holding hearings on the matter. Coulthart believes that certain classified information may be preventing some members of Congress from discussing the issue publicly. He praises NewsNation for giving the story the coverage it deserves and speculates that other media outlets may be hoping the story fails. Coulthart draws a parallel to the Watergate scandal, emphasizing that legitimate stories take time to gain recognition.

    Pinotti disclosed in his interview with DailyMail that he received the original secret documents about the case in 1996 from an anonymous source who claimed to have inherited them from a family member involved in Mussolini’s supposed UFO program. The documents included telegrams from June 1933 demanding silence regarding the alleged landing of an unknown aircraft and threatening penalties for journalists reporting on it. The telegrams were said to be by the personal order of Mussolini himself.

    1933 Italy UFO Sketch

    Pinotti received handwritten memos with a sketch and description of a cylindrical aircraft with portholes and lights flying over Northern Italy. The memos were on paper with a government agency letterhead dated August 22, 1936.
    Credit: DailyMail

    Pinotti also mentioned other documents referring to the mysterious government department “Gabinetto RS/33,” supposedly headed by Nobel Prize-winning inventor Guglielmo Marconi, which was responsible for managing the retrieval and study of the alleged saucer wreckage and other UFO incidents. However, the existence of this department and Marconi’s involvement have not been verified by Italian historians or UFO researchers.

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    Pinotti claimed that the alleged crash site was near Magenta, a satellite town of Milan, and he identified SIAI Marchetti in Vergiate, an aircraft facility in the area, as the likely site where the supposed wreckage was stored. According to Pinotti, the site miraculously avoided bombing raids during World War II and was secured by US and UK troops in 1945.

    Grusch stated that the craft was recovered by agents of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a former US intelligence agency, around this time.

    “In 1933, a bell-like craft, around ten meters in size, was recovered in Magenta, northern Italy. It was kept by Mussolini’s government until 1944 when it was recovered by agents of the OSS,” Grusch revealed in his interview with the French newspaper Le Parisien in June 2023.

    The authenticity of the documents related to the alleged 1933 UFO crash in Italy has been a subject of debate and skepticism. Pinotti claims to have authenticated some of them through forensic analysis.

    According to Pinotti, a forensic expert tested one of the documents dated 1936 and concluded that the paper and ink were from that period. However, it is important to note that this analysis focused on a single document, and the telegrams from 1933 have not been tested.

    Skeptics have pointed out that vintage paper and ink from the time could have been used to forge the documents. Furthermore, the lack of protocol numbers or official stamps on the papers raises doubts about their authenticity. Some critics argue that the documents resemble personal memos rather than official government documents.

    Pinotti himself, as well as his colleague Alfredo Lissoni, have been advocates for the authenticity of the documents and have conducted research on the alleged 1933 UFO crash in Italy. Additionally, British historian Graeme Rendall, who has written books on WWII UFO sightings, believes the evidence is inconclusive.

    Journalist Christopher Sharp of Liberation Times did extensive research on the Italy crash and found that alongside the crashed UFO, two human-like bodies were allegedly recovered at the site in Lombardy, Italy, in 1933. The bodies described by Mr. Sharp sparked intrigue and speculation due to their unusual characteristics and alleged extraterrestrial origin.

    Later, the retrieved unknown craft’s information was confided to Pope Pius XII by Mussolini himself, as they had good relations. However, after Mussolini allied with Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, the Pope became uneasy about the craft and leaked it to the US from the Vatican. Post-war, the craft was allegedly brought to the USA, where it supposedly remains today.

    Lue Elizondo, a former government official involved in UFO investigations, mentioned seeing “compelling” documents from Mussolini’s office, indicating that some pieces of the Italian craft were transported to the USA after World War II. Speculations suggest that the craft was not a typical unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) with advanced technology, but rather a vehicle powered by jet engines and rockets, resembling the flying wing designs of the Horten brothers. The exact purpose of this technology transfer to the Axis powers remains unclear but is likely linked to gaining a military advantage.

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    04-07-2023 om 21:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.The Brilliance of ‘Pre-diluvian’ Sculpture - Cannot Be Hand Made!

    Left is the original photo of the Khafre statue; right is the photo cut in half and flipped.	Source: Author provided.

    The Brilliance of ‘Pre-diluvian’ Sculpture - Cannot Be Hand Made!

    I'm still digesting our recent tour to Egypt; the temple and the pyramids - just the atmosphere of the ancients was a lot to take in. Each time I visit, I’m stunned at the beauty, sophistication, and intelligence of those who left evidence of their time on Earth.

    Each Spring, a group of listeners joins me and our guide, Mohamed Ibrahim, for a 12-day tour of ancient Egypt. These visits are unique and feature compelling evidence of a highly sophisticated people who shaped Egypt’s pre and Dynastic periods. This past May, we were introduced to a class of statuary that appeared to reveal clues about these people who settled in Cairo and the surrounding area. We're also learning that the egos of many of the dynastic pharaohs and their “God” status may have overwhelmed their common sense, and in the case of Ramses, Khafre, and others - - buildings, temples, and statuary thought to be commissioned in their time period are actually from earlier people.

    Diorite sculpture of Khafre. Egypt Museum, Cairo Egypt. (Cliff Dunning)

    Diorite sculpture of Khafre. Egypt Museum, Cairo Egypt.

    (Cliff Dunning)

    An example of this misinterpretation is a discovery presented by Mr. Ibrahim is a statue identified as  the pharaoh Khafre at the Cairo Museum. Found in the valley temple of his pyramid complex thought to have been commissioned by Khafre, the figure is seated on a throne decorated with the  sema-tawny, a symbol of the unity of Upper and Lower Egypt. Perched on the back of the throne, behind the king's head, the god Horus in the form of a falcon spreads his wings around the head of the individual in a gesture of protection. Khafre is thought to have reigned during the Old Kingdom (c. 2600 BC – c. 2551 BC), which can be confused with a much earlier pre-diluvian period (perhaps 9500 BC or earlier.) Very little is known of the pharaoh, and few other statues remain.

    Historians attribute the sculpture to Khafre based on a cartouche crudely scratched into the base of the seated figure. The cartouche shows none of the craftsmanship or tooling used in the creation of the statue, is poorly cut into the stone, and appears entirely out of place, like graffiti, marring the elegance of the statue. Why was it defaced??? Did the priesthood or an administrator notice a slight resemblance to Khafre, and choosing to gain favor with the pharaoh, mention its uncanny likeness?

    One would think it sacrilegious to carve their name on an ancient relic, but here we can look at what writings we have of the dynastic period for a possible reason for defacing the statue. During that period in history, pharaohs were elevated to gods and goddesses allowing them to behave in a manner we might consider disrespectful. In this example, the god Khafre, agreeing with his counsel, has an artist carve his name on the statue.

    Wanting to learn more, I found two additional statues and created a comparative view which is telling; each figure has unique and separate features but is not the same man.

    The known statues of Khafre - three similar, but different statues. (Cliff Dunning)

    The known statues of Khafre - three similar, but different statues.

    (Cliff Dunning)

    In his seminal book Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt, Christopher Dunn provides a comprehensive look at exquisite and precise statuary created with unknown and highly advanced cutting tools. His primary focus is on the Ramses II statues at Karnak, Egypt. Each is identical and leaves us wondering how the work was achieved. I’ve applied Dunn’s formula to this seated figure, leaving us with remarkable evidence of machining technology.

    I took a photo of the face of the statue, cut it down the middle, then flipped it - placing the two sides together. When you compare the original to the manipulated version, you can see they are identical. This means that the face, perhaps the entire body, was cut using some schematic or what may have represented the ideal man.

    Left is the original photo, right is the photo cut in half and flipped. The symmetry is remarkable. (Cliff Dunning)

    Left is the original photo, right is the photo cut in half and flipped. The symmetry is remarkable.

    (Cliff Dunning)

    You can see from the images below and above, that both feet, the shoulders and chest, left to right, are identical and that a human being did not carve the work by hand as is generally proposed, but rather, some sophisticated technology. My conclusion is, this sculpture was made from a highly advanced culture  from an early, unknown epoch. 

    The crude cartouche of Khafre at the base of the statue. Notice the exacting quality of the left and right feet. (Cliff Dunning)

    The crude cartouche of Khafre at the base of the statue. Notice the exacting quality of the left and right feet.

    (Cliff Dunning)

    I’ve often wondered what type of people occupied the earth’s previous epoch, before 9500 BC. Archaeologists tell us that our ancestors were hunters and gatherers, primitive hominids of limited intelligence and means. But I think a great deal of evidence is confusing because we have little documentation for places like Atlantis, Doggerland, and other cultures that were swallowed by the seas when the ice caps melted. The dynastic Egyptians were left with the ruined cities and statues as evidence of these early people, and because there were no records of their existence, much of the culture was absorbed, sanctified, and resurrected (copied as a form of devotion.) It’s likely, the gods known to us as Isis, Osiris, Ra, Amon, Hathor, and others were once living human beings immortalized in stone by the survivors of the planetary deluge. I believe this statue represents these early people.

    This wonderful statue is another key to understanding our past.

    • Cliff Dunning  is an archeo-investigator, author, and host of the popular History podcast, Earth Ancients: Startling New Discoveries from our Planets Distant Past:  www.earthancients.com
    • Top image: Left is the original photo of the Khafre statue; right is the photo cut in half and flipped.
    • Source: Author provided.

    By Cliff Dunning

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    04-07-2023 om 20:56 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.TAKE A SCROLL THROUGH THE COSMOS WITH THIS AWE-INSPIRING NEW MAP OF THE UNIVERSE

    TAKE A SCROLL THROUGH THE COSMOS WITH THIS AWE-INSPIRING NEW MAP OF THE UNIVERSE

    04-07-2023 om 17:25 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Alfred O’Donnell, Ex-Area 51 Chief, Confirms Possession of Alien Crafts and Beings, Backing Bob Lazar’s Assertions

    Alfred O’Donnell, Ex-Area 51 Chief, Confirms Possession of Alien Crafts and Beings, Backing Bob Lazar’s Assertions

    Alfred O’Donnell

    One of the most captivating topics that have stirred the public’s imagination for decades revolves around the intriguing mysteries of Area 51. Adding fuel to this debate, recent revelations by Alfred O’Donnell, the former head of Area 51, have breathed new life into the controversial claims made by Bob Lazar, the self-proclaimed Area 51 scientist. This fresh wave of information, brought forward by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and investigative journalist George Knapp, uncovers another layer of the enigma, with stories of extraterrestrial craft and beings.

    Area 51 has long been at the heart of numerous conspiracy theories due to its clandestine nature and associations with unexplained phenomena. Amidst this swirl of speculation, the figure of Bob Lazar has emerged as a significant but contentious player. Lazar asserts that he worked on reverse-engineering alien technology at a sub-installation near Area 51, known as S-4. These claims, however, have been met with both skepticism and intrigue.

    Lazar’s credentials have been under continuous scrutiny, with critics suggesting he merely held a janitorial position at Area 51. Nonetheless, an array of credible experts has defended Lazar’s claims of employment as a scientist at the notorious base, adding a fresh twist to the saga.

    A key figure who surfaced to reinforce Lazar’s narrative is Alfred O’Donnell, the former general manager at EG&G, a company heavily linked with Area 51 operations. O’Donnell, who had unrestricted access to the facility, asserted the existence of a “recovered flying saucer” from New Mexico and a “live being,” furthering the intrigue surrounding Area 51 and its alleged extraterrestrial connections.

    EG&G, established by scientists Harold Edgerton, Kenneth Germeshausen, and Herbert Grier, specialized in nuclear weapon-related research and played a crucial role in attracting highly educated professionals to Las Vegas in the early 1950s. Alfred O’Donnell was one such professional, whose association with EG&G and Area 51 lends credibility to Lazar’s narrative.

    According to George Knapp, O’Donnell shared classified information regarding UFOs over a casual coffee meeting. He spoke of attempts to reverse-engineer the recovered crafts and the trepidation of the extraterrestrial “IT” escaping from containment. This “IT” was described as an odd-looking creature bearing a resemblance to Ross Perot, a political candidate at the time. This testimony offers a riveting perspective to the ever-evolving UFOlogy.

    Further unfolding the saga, Knapp shared an anecdote about a former defense contractor who allegedly knew about “crashed saucers” and “recovered materials.” However, she was reportedly intimidated into silence before a scheduled meeting with Knapp. Adding to the complex narrative, O’Donnell’s deathbed confession seemed to verify the existence of the crashed saucer and a living being.

    area-51

    Area 51

    However, O’Donnell’s narrative took a surprising turn when he shared a different version of the incident with journalist Annie Jacobsen, suggesting that the Roswell incident in 1947 involved a Russian craft with child-sized aviators, a result of horrific experiments by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. This alternate story was, however, debunked by Knapp, who maintained that the Russians were as perplexed about the Roswell incident as the Americans.

    Bob Lazar, on the other hand, remained firm in his assertions, claiming the U.S. government has been secretly reverse-engineering technology from nine different UFOs stored near Papoose Lake. These claims gained attention when Jeremy Corbell shared a story about Jerry Freeman, a civilian who allegedly infiltrated the Area 51 base and witnessed strange phenomena.

    The continuing saga of Area 51, Alfred O’Donnell, Bob Lazar, and the involvement of figures such as George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell is a testament to the enduring allure of the unknown. As new details continue to emerge, they further weave the intricate tapestry of conjecture, controversy, and curiosity surrounding Area 51 and its alleged extraterrestrial encounters. Only time will tell if these narratives are a glimpse into a hidden reality or merely the product of human fascination with the cosmos.

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    04-07-2023 om 17:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Stanford Top Scientist Claims ‘100%’ Aliens Are On Earth; He Himself Saw Grey E.T.s

    Gary Nolan aliens on Earth

    Stanford Top Scientist Claims ‘100%’ Aliens Are On Earth; He Himself Saw Grey E.T.s

    What is the probability that the extraterrestrial intelligence has visited Earth? 100%. That’s what the renowned Stanford Professor Garry Nolan claimed in an interview with Alex Klokus during the SALT New York Conference. Dr. Nolan is known for his bold statements on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) and has been sharing breathtaking information on the subject.

    Dr. Nolan has given the most controversial interview of the decade. A person whose credibility cannot be questioned says that ETs have been here for a long time and that they are still on Earth. He further said: “…People talk about the wow signal, looking for extraterrestrial intelligence. Wow! Signal is that people see it on an almost regular basis. That’s the communication that’s already here.”

    Note

    NASA considers the Wow! Signal the best candidate radio signal for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). It was detected in the middle of the 20th century. However, one astronomer suggests that it may be a one-time broadcast, similar to the Arecibo message sent in 1974. Another recent signal, dubbed BLC-1, was detected by a team from Pennsylvania State University during a decade-long search for alien broadcasts. NASA’s recent investigation into UFO/UAP phenomena suggests that they could also be dealing with something unexplained.

    Dr. Nolan, an immunologist at Stanford has published over 300 research articles and is the holder of 40 US patents. Besides, he has been honored as one of the top 25 inventors at Stanford University. So, his involvement in UFOlogy would bring some factful things to the field.

    Klokus asked him: “If you had to assign a probability to that statement that you believe extraterrestrial intelligence has visited this planet, what probability would you assign?” Dr. Nolan replied without hesitation: “One hundred percent.”

    He points out that the National Defense [Authorization] Act passed last year included the establishment of an unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Office (AARO). This office, currently staffed by 25 people, aims to collect information from various intelligence offices within the US Department of Defense and present it to Congress in a uniform format for the first time.

    Additionally, he mentions that 12 US Senators have signed a document expressing their desire for information on this topic. Dr. Nolan highlights the creation of a whistleblowers’ program that allows individuals involved in reverse engineering programs to share classified information with Congress. He also refers to a recent event that caused controversy in Washington, further suggesting ongoing interest and investigation into the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence on Earth.

    He suggests that what is crashing are likely drones or advanced AI rather than living beings. “An analogy can be drawn to studying a tribe of cannibals in the Amazon. Would you personally venture into the tribe and risk becoming their meal?” says Dr. Nolan. He points out that we already deal with alien intelligence in our technology, such as emails and AI systems like ChatGPT, and wonders how one would have a dialogue with a million-year advanced intelligence.

    Dr. Nolan said: “I think it is an advanced form of intelligence, something that we don’t understand, that is using some kind of intermediaries. You’re not going to end up in the middle of the tribe, the angry monkeys that are flinging muck at each other or nuclear bombs. You’re not going to show yourself in the middle of the ambulance. You’re going to send intermediaries.”

    During his interview with Tucker Carlson, Dr. Nolan said “Grey entities” are perhaps intermediaries but not actually living creatures from another planet. He gained information from the inside intelligent community that “most of what we think we’re seeing are avatars, biological robots that are basically put there to be the minions, if you will.”

    He further stated:

    It is a hypothesis to me. If I were going to another place, or if I were going to study a native tribe of, let’s say, cannibals, maybe I wouldn’t show up in the middle of their village so that I don’t inadvertently become dinner.

    Right, so you would send an intermediary first. But I’ve used this example […] of the ants as well, let’s say that there were a race of intelligent ants at the bottom of your garden. How do you tell them about Instagram? Right, how do you talk with them? How do you interact with them? You would probably make something that looked almost like an ant, and you’d put it down there.

    But then how are you going to interact with them? Well, with pheromones, that’s how they talk. But you do something else. Right, you’re speaking about whatever it is you talk about at the dinner table. But to translate down to their terms, you would have to use some sort of an intermediary.”

    The example of humans using intermediaries to communicate with ants that Dr. Nolan mentions is a common one among planetary species. In abduction cases, there are reports of a “praying mantis-like” being leading the hierarchy, who just observes procedures from a distance without communicating with humans.

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    Additionally, during his 90-minute interview with Chrissy Newton, Dr. Nolan shared his personal alien-UFO encounter at an early age. He recounts three separate instances of unexplained encounters he experienced during his life.

    It includes seeing multiple small figures (Grey-looking) in a room and faces in the window at his childhood home, a silent object with bright lights hovering over trees during his paperboy route, and recognizing a face from a UFO encounter while browsing books in a used bookstore. He was initially scared in the first instance and felt an eerie connection with the third experience.

    Further in the interview with Alex Klokus, Dr. Nolan discussed the downed craft and alleged material that he has been testing that perhaps is being used for the reverse-engineering program. He suggests that the discovery of the potential of a small grain of silicon, specifically Germanium doped with the right elements, in the 1950s or 1960s had a profound impact on our culture and world. This led to the development of multiple advanced sensor systems that tracked UFOs that can travel from 50 feet above the water to 14 miles in less than a second.

    When asked if physical material for analysis exists, Dr. Nolan confirms its presence and shares an incident where he almost gained access to one of these objects before it was taken away by those who opposed it.

    While the US government does not explicitly confirm the presence of extraterrestrial life, their careful statements imply that these objects possess capabilities beyond what is known and are not of Russian or Chinese origin, says Dr. Nolan. The physics behind such high-speed maneuvers challenges our current understanding.

    He mentions the USS Nimitz incident in 2004, where multiple sensor systems tracked objects displaying extraordinary maneuvers. He believes that such phenomena require a rethinking of our understanding of physics.

    Dr. Nolan mentions conversations with physicists from defense corporations who propose tweaks to general relativity to explain the observed phenomena. However, he acknowledges that the energy required for such maneuvers exceeds the planet’s entire nuclear output in a day. Obtaining even a fraction of the knowledge from these advanced objects could revolutionize our understanding and capabilities.

    In regard to his interview at SALT New York Conference, he posted a comment on Reddit, saying

    “I guess I am surprised anything I said is surprising to anyone. People have been talking about the entire matter for decades. Ross Coulthart and George Knapp have been talking about it on their shows as well as many others. Richard Dolan has written entire books about it. Conferences are held on it at UAP dedicated conferences.

    It was probably news to many in the audience if they’ve ignored it on Netflix documentaries or otherwise not part of the echo chamber. We’ll have to see if Congress decides to bring more information forward or context things in a way that is significant. I personally doubt that if any public scientist gets access to the materials it will see the light of day before much study and MAYBE a publication indirectly referencing it. I’d like to hope and advocate otherwise. In the meantime, Avi Loeb’s Galileo project is a best of class approach.”

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    03-07-2023
    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.These six distant galaxies captured by JWST are wowing astronomers

    A composite image of the six most distant galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope

    These six distant galaxies captured by JWST are wowing astronomers

    A model spacecraft with a golded mirror made of small hexagons in the foreground. A man in a blue shirt is out of focus behind.

    A model of JWST at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, which operates the observatory. Lee Feinberg, in the background, is the telescope’s manager.

    Credit: Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty

    This month, researchers unveiled results from one of the biggest and deepest astronomical surveys of the night sky carried out by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The effort has identified some of the earliest galaxies ever seen — from within the first 650 million years after the Universe was born in the Big Bang. And the findings have been dazzling astronomers, revealing that stars and galaxies were forming and evolving much earlier than anyone had suspected.

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    The project, known as the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), peered at several patches of sky, including one in the constellation Fornax — made famous in 2004 after the Hubble Space Telescope stared at it for 11 days, revealing thousands of galaxies. Unlike Hubble, however, JWST operates mainly at infrared wavelengths of light, making it ideal for spotting extremely distant galaxies, the light from which is stretched as the Universe expands, making it appear redder.

    Starlight from these objects has travelled such great distances that they look as they did not long after the Big Bang occurred, 13.8 billion years ago. Astronomers measure distance using a factor known as redshift: the higher the redshift, the more distant the object.

    Before JWST was launched in 2021, only a few dozen galaxies had been spotted at redshifts greater than 8. JADES has identified a whopping 717 galaxies that are probably in this range1. Here, astronomers help Nature make sense of the data deluge by choosing some of their favourite galaxies (listed from the most distant to the least) and explaining what the objects can teach us about the early days of the Universe.

    1. The record holder

    JWST NIRCam imaging of JADES-GS-z13-0

    The record holder.

    Credit: JADES Collaboration, B.E. Robertson et al./Nature Astronomy

    This blurry red blob might not look like much, but it is the current record holder for the most distant object known in the Universe. JWST discovered the galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z13-0, late last year and then confirmed2, through detailed studies of its starlight, that it lies at a redshift of 13.2. That means it looks as it did just 320 million years after the Big Bang.

    The galaxy is physically small, just a few hundred light years across, but is pumping out new stars at a rate comparable to the Milky Way today, says Brant Robertson, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. That’s remarkable because scientists had thought that the first galaxies to form in the Universe would come together slowly as stars ignited and coalesced. JADES-GS-z13-0 and other such objects show3 that early galaxies were hotbeds of star formation.

    “These galaxies are the building blocks of structure in the Universe,” says Kevin Hainline, an astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson. With JWST, he adds, “we’re seeing them everywhere”.

    2. The glowing dog bone

    JWST NIRCam imaging of JADES-GS+53.076-27.807

    The glowing dog bone.

    Credit: JADES Collaboration

    Researchers think that this dog-bone-shaped object is at a redshift of 11.3, although that distance still needs to be confirmed. Assuming it is, then it appears as it was around 400 million years after the Big Bang.

    JWST is finding more structure early on in the Universe than anyone had expected: the dog bone seems to be two smaller galaxies in the process of coalescing. So, by 400 million years after the Big Bang, the Universe had already formed stars that grouped into galaxies, and two of those galaxies had come together.

    Before JWST began surveying the night sky, scientists had not thought that so much galactic action was possible so early in the Universe. “I did not expect to see these types of objects at all in our data,” Hainline says.

    3. The one with (maybe) the first stars

    The region around GN-z11.

    The one with (maybe) the first stars.

    Credit: JADES Collaboration, S. Tacchella et al./arXiv (CC BY 4.0)

    At a redshift of 10.6, this galaxy is surprisingly bright at just 430 million years after the Big Bang, Robertson says. First spotted with Hubble, the galaxy, called GN-z11, appears as an incredibly compact bright sphere under JWST’s gaze4. That brightness might come from a giant black hole at its centre, around which superheated gas and dust spiral5.

    Other JWST observations suggest that this galaxy contains some of the first stars to form in the Universe6. The evidence, in the form of chemically unusual pockets of primordial helium gas around the edges of the galaxy, is tentative.

    But the very first stars would have been made mostly of hydrogen and helium, with very few other chemical elements. That’s exactly what JWST might have spotted in GN-z11. If so, it would fulfil astronomers’ long-standing dream of detecting these stars.

    4. The big clumpy one

    JWST NIRCam imaging of JADES-GS-53.08-27.86

    The big clumpy one.

    Credit: JADES Collaboration, K. N. Hainline et al./arXiv (CC BY 4.0)

    This bulbous galaxy lies at a redshift of 8, putting it around 300 million years later than the record holder. Given the clumpy structure it has developed, however, those 300 million years must have been action-packed.

    If the 13.8 billion years of the Universe’s history were compressed to a two-hour film, the first five minutes — which set up the plot for everything that follows — would show all the early galaxies that JWST is finding, Hainline says. And this enormous galaxy, which spans some 3.7 kiloparsecs (12,000 light years), indicates that the Universe was dynamic from the beginning.

    5. The inside-out one

    A red-green-blue (F444W-F410M-F277W) image of the galaxy, where the central core and disc are prominent.

    The inside-out one.

    Credit: JADES Collaboration, W. M. Baker et al./arXiv (CC BY 4.0)

    This small galaxy, seen as it was 700 million years after the Big Bang, has more stars forming in its outskirts than in its centre.

    “It is the first time we can quantify inside-out growth at such an early stage” of the Universe, says Sandro Tacchella, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge, UK. That’s surprising because theory suggests the opposite — that early galaxies should have stars forming closer to their centres.

    This galaxy seems to have got started right away, forming as many stars in its compact heart as big galaxies have now7. After that, it turned to making stars in its outskirts, which is the stage at which astronomers can see it today.

    6. The cosmic rose

    The JADES NIRCam "Cosmic Rose"

    The cosmic rose.

    Credit: JADES Collaboration, D. J. Eisenstein et al./arXiv (CC BY 4.0)

    This floral-like gathering of very dusty, very red galaxies caught the eye of the JADES team almost immediately, garnering the nickname the cosmic rose.

    “It has a special place in the team’s heart,” says Stacey Alberts, an astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “Science-wise, it’s a beautiful demonstration of JWST’s leap forward in understanding how red the Universe is.”

    The rose’s galaxies are probably not physically related to one another, because they lie at varying distances encompassing redshifts from 2.5 to 3.9. But those values put them at the heart of ‘cosmic noon’, a period around three billion years after the Big Bang, when galaxies formed stars so quickly and furiously that they produced most of the stars known in the Universe today.

    • doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02157-9

    Nature adjusted the colour on some images to ensure viewability.

    References

    1. Hainline, K. N. et al. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02468 (2023).

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    03-07-2023 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.IN BEELD. Saturnus door de ogen van de James Webb ruimtetelescoop
    Saturnus zoals je hem nog nooit hebt gezien.
    Saturnus zoals je hem nog nooit hebt gezien. 
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    IN BEELD. Saturnus door de ogen van de James Webb ruimtetelescoop

    Vier op een rij! De James Webb ruimtetelescoop heeft nu ook de laatste reus van ons zonnestelsel op beeld vastgelegd. Na Jupiter, Uranus en Neptunus was Saturnus eindelijk aan de beurt. Het resultaat: de planeet met zijn iconische ringen zoals je hem nog nooit gezien hebt.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims 'Metallic Spheres' found on ocean floor may be alien tech

    Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims 'Metallic Spheres' found on ocean floor may be alien tech

    The discovery of microscopic spherules by a team of scientists, including Harvard Professor Avi Loeb, during an expedition off the coast of Papua New Guinea has raised intriguing possibilities. 

    According to Professor Loeb, these iron sphere-shaped fragments could potentially be remnants of an extraterrestrial object, labeled "IM1, that exploded in Earth's lower atmosphere before falling into the Pacific Ocean nearly a decade ago. 
    The spherules, weighing a total of 35 milligrams, were collected using a magnetic sled. Professor Loeb suggests that the unusual material strength and properties of the fragments make them distinct from space rocks previously studied by NASA. He speculates that the source of these spherules could be either a natural environment different from our solar system or an extraterrestrial technological civilization. 

    Avi Loeb, discusses their findings, saying the objects are being examined with the best instruments available. If future studies support the hypothesis that these spherules are indeed remnants of an extraterrestrial object, it would represent a significant discovery with profound implications for our understanding of the universe and the existence of extraterrestrial life.
      

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    03-07-2023 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 03/07/2023

    LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 03/07/2023

    'Are we alone?': Five-part special report examines UFOs, aliens and close encounters in 1986

    Most of us never see an unidentified object -- a UFO -- but can we say for sure there's nothing out there. In 1986, WLWT spoke to a series of witnesses and tracked down first-hand accounts of aliens in hopes of answering the question, "Are we alone?" Check out the full five-part series in the video above.

    The UFO Lie: Shocking truth of Pentagon AAWSAP program | The Basement Office

    Everything you were told is wrong. In 2017, the New York Times released a bombshell story revealing AATIP, the Pentagon's "UFO program" and Lue Elizondo, the director of that program. It proclaimed a shocking truth: UFOs are real. Since then, that story has been reprinted hundreds and thousands of times across the world and Mr. Elizondo has reached the status of cultural icon. But we've since learned that the whole story... was wrong. In this episode, we reveal the real story of the Pentagon's AAWSAP program - led by scientist James Lacatski - and it's even crazier than you could possibly imagine: $22 million in taxpayer money spent on werewolves, ghosts, goblins, and "dinobeavers" at the infamous Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. But UFO advocates, who are currently lobbying Congress to spend money on UFO investigations, hope you never find out about that. | Season 3, Episode 1

    UFO Expert: 'Everyone is wondering if David Grusch will appear before Congress' | Morning in America

    Since military whistleblower David Grusch claimed that the U.S. government recovered and secretly kept extraterrestrial aircraft, the topic has taken off at warp speed. Nick Pope discusses the excitement of other UFO enthusiasts about what's to come from Congress' hearings about Grusch's claims.

    'Metallic marbles' from ocean floor may be alien tech: Harvard scientist | NewsNation Prime

    Avi Loeb, professor of science at Harvard University, is part of a team studying meteorite debris on the ocean floor. He joins "NewsNation Prime" to discuss their findings, saying the objects are being examined with the best instruments available.

    UFOs - Nuclear Tampering (Session 8) | The Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure

    Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013.

    In this captivating video, we take you back to the historic Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure held at the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, D.C. from April 29th to May 3rd, 2013.

    Witness the gathering of forty esteemed researchers, including influential military, agency, and political figures, as they presented compelling evidence pointing towards an extraterrestrial presence engaging with humanity. The goal of this unprecedented event was to achieve what the U.S. Congress had overlooked for an astonishing forty-five years.

    We are thrilled to bring you exclusive footage from this groundbreaking event, allowing these courageous testimonies to become part of the public record on the intriguing topic of UFOs. Join us as we delve into the mysteries that have captivated the world's attention for decades. Don't miss out—subscribe now and be a part of this remarkable journey!

    He's Seen More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive

    Jacque Vallee is the legendary French UFO researcher who formed the basis for Steven Spielberg's eccentric scientist in Close Encounters of The Third Kind. He has worked with every prominent player in UFOology since the 60's including Dr. J. Alan Hynek who served as the Chief Science Advisor to project Blue Book, the Airforce's UFO investigation program from 52'-69'. Vallee has written multiple groundbreaking books that suggest "aliens" are actually interdimensional entities codirecting human evolution, not new visitors from Space. In this interview, he makes some fascinating new suggestions around the nature of these entities; we also discuss a real, secret project behind Project Bluebook, his model of reality and time and the commercial group that holds the secrets to the American UFO story.

    UFOs - Nuclear Tampering (Session 7) | The Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure

    Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013.

    In this captivating video, we take you back to the historic Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure held at the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, D.C. from April 29th to May 3rd, 2013.

    Witness the gathering of forty esteemed researchers, including influential military, agency, and political figures, as they presented compelling evidence pointing towards an extraterrestrial presence engaging with humanity. The goal of this unprecedented event was to achieve what the U.S. Congress had overlooked for an astonishing forty-five years.

    We are thrilled to bring you exclusive footage from this groundbreaking event, allowing these courageous testimonies to become part of the public record on the intriguing topic of UFOs. Join us as we delve into the mysteries that have captivated the world's attention for decades. Don't miss out—subscribe now and be a part of this remarkable journey!

    UFO Crash Retrievals - Historical Overview

    Michael Schratt presents an overview of UFO crash retrievals from the 1940's onward. An excerpt from Dr Steven Greer's Disclosure event June 10, 2023.

    (Sorry about the sound quality, it gets better half way through)

    0:00 Intro 2:26 Wright Field - 1946 5:20 Papagos Reservation - 1947 6:29 Roswell - 1947 12:20 White Sands Missle Range - 1947 13:39 Berkeley Warehouse - 1947 15:00 Fort Polk - 1953 16:26 Wright Patterson AFB - 1953 18:46 Walker AFB - 1954 20:29 Cherry Point - 1963 30:39 Fort Riley - 1964 32:38 Southwest USA - 1967 34:02 Norton AFB - 1973 38:10 Okinawa - 1991 39:09 McClellan AFB - 1973 41:11 Unknown Location - 1950's 41:51 Texas/Mexico Border - 1955 44:05 Coyame Incident - 1974 46:40 Fort Dix/McGuire AFB - 1978 48:25 Unknown Army Base - 1942 49:34 Wright Field - 1946 51:22 Salinas California - 1947 52:46 Sierra Madre - 1950 54:03 Naval Air Station - 1950 54:52 Unknown USAF Base - 1950 56:50 Farmington - 1950 1:00:22 Moscow - 1990 1:01:49 Great Lakes Naval Center - 1973 1:04:52 The Pentagon - 1952 1:05:51 Wright Patterson AFB - 1955 1:08:04 Walter Reed Hospital - 1952 1:10:10 Who's running the show?

    The ORIGIN of Enoch Will BLOW Your Mind!

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    Enoch, a captivating figure in both biblical and Enochian traditions, reveals fascinating connections to older myths, particularly from Ancient Sumer. One striking example is the parallel between the story of Enoch's ascent to heaven and the myth of Adapa, featuring Anu, the sky god, summoning Enoch for breaking the wings of the south wind. In the Adapa myth, Enki, the god of wisdom, deceives Adapa into abstaining from the food and drink of immortality, leading to his return to humanity. Enoch's story mirrors this pattern, but with a unique twist.

    In the context of the Enochian tradition, Enoch emerges as a countercultural figure, challenging and subverting the earlier mythological traditions, particularly the Babylonian legacy. The biblical narrative of Enoch undermines the grandiosity of the Tower of Babel and the Babylonian aspirations associated with it. Enoch's emphasis on divine encounters, heavenly revelations, and his ultimate destiny as a mortal contrasts with the Babylonian tradition's lofty ambitions.

    The inclusion of Enoch in the Enochian literature showcases a deliberate reimagining of ancient myths and the construction of a distinctive theological framework. Enoch's role as a prophet and visionary enables the development of unique perspectives on cosmology, divine communication, and humanity's fate.

    Exploring these connections deepens our understanding of the intricate interplay between religious traditions, mythological reinterpretations, and the evolution of theological concepts in the ancient Near East. Enoch's enigmatic story exemplifies how ancient traditions were reshaped, reflecting cultural and religious shifts that have influenced subsequent religious and literary traditions.

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    03-07-2023 om 21:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the World’s Greatest Secret (Full Movie)

    Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the World’s Greatest Secret (Full Movie)

    UFO documentary

    For centuries, humankind has looked to the stars, pondering the possibilities of life beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), often dubbed as UFOs, has fuelled this curiosity, sparking numerous investigations, discussions, and debates. However, it seems that this complex, intriguing narrative may be mired in layers of secrecy, leading to numerous misconceptions and fear among the general public.

    The Veil of Secrecy

    Many discussions around UAPs have been surrounded by a dense cloud of secrecy. This has been primarily due to the clandestine operations of governmental and military organizations globally, who are believed to be maintaining stringent control over data and knowledge related to these phenomena. One major hypothesis is that some governments have developed advanced aerospace technologies capable of mimicking UAP characteristics, which could be used in psychological warfare or false flag operations.

    For instance, from 1982 to 1989, over 25,000 eyewitnesses reported the Hudson Valley Boomerang craft. The question raised was whether part of the substantial funding used for the B2 stealth bomber went into mimicking such an object. This theory aligns with the assertion that there might already be an embedded psychological warfare narrative, preparing minds to expect extraterrestrial craft, not secret human aircraft.

    Intriguing Encounters and Stories

    Abductions, or Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, have been categorized as interactions with humans who claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrials. Some insiders suggest that the government has orchestrated staged alien events to maintain a cover for deep black programs. These so-called “program life forms” are supposedly man-made robotic systems made to appear like extraterrestrial creatures. If true, this may underline a comprehensive psychological operation designed to instill fear and manage public perceptions around extraterrestrial life.

    Hope Amid the Unknown

    Despite the deep-seated secrecy and misdirection, hope still persists. Countries like France have taken steps towards transparency around the UAP phenomenon. An example of this is the “French initiative” where, under the administration of President Sarkozy, they committed to peaceful engagement protocols with these civilizations. The Vatican has also opened up discussions about the philosophical and theological questions posed by the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

    The Future is Now

    The acknowledgment of UAPs could initiate a radical paradigm shift for humanity. Advanced technology related to these phenomena has the potential to solve Earth’s urgent problems and revolutionize our macroeconomic system. Imagine a world where energy is virtually free and unlimited, emanating from zero-point or Quantum vacuum energy systems. This would not only eliminate the world’s energy crises but would also significantly reduce environmental pollution.

    Humankind is currently at a crossroads. We have the choice to venture towards endless warfare and environmental destruction, or we could embrace peace and exploration of the cosmos. The acknowledgement and application of UAP technology might just be the key to a brighter, sustainable future. As one famous saying goes, “The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.” Maybe it’s time for us to let our imagination catch up with reality.

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    03-07-2023 om 20:56 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.SUMMER OF THE SAUCERS

    SUMMER OF THE SAUCERS

    2022 is the 75th anniversary of the biggest UFO year ever. 1947 gave us so much more than just flying saucers. That summer came complete with many hundreds of legitimate sightings by excellent witnesses, classified memos admitting something strange was actually going on, a governmental reorganization to confront future existential threats, and even a public admission of some kind of crash wreckage retrieval, followed by a retraction.

    Looking back now, have any lessons actually been learned?

    THE PENTAGON’S HISTORICAL AMNESIA

    On May 17, 2022, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation Subcommittee called two witnesses from the Department of Defense to testify before it about UAP or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It was the first congressional hearing in 54 years, going back to a similar one-day event back in 1968 that came and went with no public impact.

    The headline from the 2022 hearing was that both Ronald Moultrie, the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, and Scott Bray, the deputy director of Naval Intelligence, seemed to be suffering complete amnesia about the history of the Phenomenon. To hear them tell it, they might have known a thing or two about Project Blue Book but anything before or after just never seemed to register. For them, the entire matter of UAP seemed to start, oh, sometime around 2004 with the now-famous Nimitz incident.

    It was probably intentional that they were so clueless. After all, if they knew nothing about the history of the issue, they could have plausible deniability if asked any tough questions. Which they were — questions about the Wilson-Davis Memo, the Malmstrom Air Force Base nuclear shutdown and even a softball question like what other investigations DoD had even done on the UFO subject. They claimed to have no knowledge of any of it. They were “unaware.”

    Well, as Spanish philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Yet that would allow us to think about their lapse as faulty memory, not the purposeful obfuscation it clearly was.

    The quote we should really savor comes from William Shakespeare, who wrote in The Tempest, “What’s past is prologue.” The irony is that this line of memorable dialogue, engraved on the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., is often used by the military when they teach about similarities between various wars fought throughout history. If you want to understand the future, start with learning about the past.

    So, for the benefit of Moultrie and Bray and any other hapless Department of Defense insiders who will be called to testify at future hearings, let’s start their education with the basics.

    THE WORLD OF 1947

    As the only nuclear-armed superpower, the United States had come out of the Second World War stronger, more powerful, and more secure than ever before in history. Yet even with this strategic advantage, 1947 was still the year that the Cold War with the Soviet Union got kicked into high gear with the announcement of the Truman Doctrine in March. This was also the origin year for the famous Doomsday Clock initiated by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to sound the alarm about the likelihood of nuclear war.

    Europe was still an incredible disaster area. The famous Marshall Plan to rebuild the nations devastated by Hitler’s rampage and the Allies’ relentless and destructive counter-attack would not become law until nearly a year later. U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, however, made the pitch on June 5th, 1947, in a speech at Harvard University.

    This was the year that Chuck Yeager would make that first supersonic flight, the one made famous in the book and film, The Right Stuff. Sadly, it was also the year that America suffered its greatest commercial aviation disasters on back-to-back days on May 29 and May 30, 1947, losing 42 and 53 lives respectively.

    The big news out of Washington, D.C. on the third day of summer in 1947, June 23rd, was that the Taft-Hartley Act went into effect in the United States when the Senate overrode President Truman’s veto by a vote of 68–25. With political division on the front pages, no one was thinking about “flying saucers” or expecting news about such matters to come from the other Washington, the state on the opposite side of the country.

    What a difference a day makes.

    KENNETH ARNOLD’S STRANGE FLIGHT

    On Tuesday, June 24th, an experienced civilian pilot named Kenneth Arnold, flying a small CallAir A-2 plane on the way to an air show, was over twenty miles from Mount Rainier, a volcano in Washington State. It was a glorious day for flying as the air was calm and the sky was clear.

    Arnold sold and installed fire suppression systems, a job that took him around the Pacific Northwest and explains why he was such an experienced pilot with several thousand hours of flying time. He was also a modern-day treasure hunter that day. A Marine Corps C-46 transport airplane had crashed in the area recently, and there was a $5,000 reward for the person who found the wreckage. Even with today’s inflation, that’s a lot of money. In 1947, it was a small fortune.

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    A portion of the drawing that Kenneth Arnold provided to the Air force of the flying objects he observed
    (Wikimedia Commons).

    Arnold was then startled by a flash of light on his airplane that was so intense it lit up his cockpit. Looking for the source, he scanned the sky and saw them to his left. It was, as Arnold would soon tell the world, a fleet of unknown craft flying in “a diagonally stepped-down, echelon formation.” Each one was repeatedly flashing bright lights.

    And that began a three-minute observation that would change the world. His case took America by storm. Flying saucers became such a big thing that stories about them generated as much news coverage as had Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color line a few months earlier.

    Arnold was flying at an altitude of 9,200 feet when he saw those nine blue, glowing objects flying fast. He did something then that few observers would do even today — he measured their speed by using his plane’s clock and observing how long it took them to travel about fifty miles south, something he could do because he knew the terrain well.

    He came up with an estimated speed of 1,700 m.p.h. Given that Yeager’s X-1 was still four months away from managing 662 m.p.h. it was enough to blow Arnold’s mind. He checked his work later using a map when he landed and put in lower numbers. He still came up with a speed in excess of 1,200 m.p.h.

    It wasn’t just their speed and size that astonished him. It was the fact that he saw no wings, fuselage, tails, vertical stabilizers, or engines. He first believed the objects to be some sort of new military aircraft, but the military confirmed they were conducting no tests in the area that day. Here’s a condensed run of some of his interviews:

    “They didn’t fly like any aircraft I had seen before… they flew in a definite formation, but erratically… like speed boats on rough water… they fluttered and sailed… emitting very bright blue-white flashes from their surfaces… I kept looking for tails and they didn’t have any tails. They seemed to flip and flash in the sun just like a mirror.”

    Somewhere in that awestruck word salad, Arnold described the crafts’ motion as similar to “a saucer if you skip it across water.” The media coined the catchy phrase “flying saucer,” and it stuck.

    Although it is remembered for ushering in the modern UFO age, the case had no radar confirmation, no photos, and no supporting witnesses. What it had, however, was a pilot of excellent reputation describing something that, while extraordinary, would soon be far more common than anyone might imagine.

    EXCEPT KENNETH ARNOLD REALLY WASN’T THE FIRST

    While UFO/UAP reality may trace back deep into ancient prehistory, there had been, in the years before Arnold, constant “foo fighter” sightings by both Allied and Axis pilots in 1945, the final year of World War II. That mystery continued in 1946 with the “ghost rockets” in Scandanavia, particularly vexing Sweden.

    In fact, there had already been multiple sightings of anomalous objects in 1947 before the Arnold case caught the public fancy. Lake Mead, Nevada. Weiser, Idaho. Spokane, Washington. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Bakersfield, California. And there were many more. As it turns out, many people were seeing unidentified objects in the sky, but with no point of reference, they tended to keep them to themselves.

    Forty-nine sightings were reported to have happened in the period between June 1st and June 24th. There are even six reports in the Air Force files for this period. In 1967, researcher Ted Bloecher wrote a definitive account, “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947,” that’s worth reading in its own right and also contains a compelling introduction by Dr. James McDonald. You can download a copy for yourself here.

    The point is only that the Arnold sighting, historically important as it turned out to be, was no one-off. His candor did allow some of those earlier reluctant witnesses to come forward. Based on its sensational details and media coverage, and the date itself, however, the Arnold case was definitely the starter’s gun for the 1947 Summer of the Saucers.

    Over the next days, literally hundreds of sightings occurred across the United States and flying saucers became the subject of intense interest. While there were some reported cases elsewhere around the globe, the phenomenon did seem to be centered in the United States. And so, ironically, it was during the July 4th holiday that the entire affair deepened further. As the Bloecher report states:

    “Reports of sightings, coming almost simultaneously from hundreds of bewildered citizens, were made to newspapers and police stations all over the country, and adjacent areas as well, from Southern California to New Brunswick, and from Louisiana to North Dakota. People everywhere were experiencing the beginning of one of the most massive waves of UFO sightings on record. Reports came from all kinds of observers: from picnickers and holiday crowds, from policemen and public officials, and from pilots, farmers, professional men, housewives and bus drivers.”

    The sightings were, at first, treated respectfully in most of the press that reported on them. These were good stories relayed by reliable people, often locals, including many officials from politics, law enforcement, government and the military. As the wave crescendoed through the holiday, the tide began to turn. By mid-July, as if recovering from a hangover, the coverage took on an air of ridicule, something that continues to this very day.

    While the report cited above makes for some good reading, making clear that these are not easily dismissed cases, it’s impossible to summarize or break them down in an article of this scope. There are, however, two key cases that came out of the Summer of the Saucers — United Airlines Flight 105 and, of course, the Roswell crash.

    UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 105

    On July 4th, just eleven days after Kenneth Arnold’s sighting, a United Air Lines DC-3 crew, led by Captain Emil J. Smith, took off from Boise, Idaho, at just after 9:00 pm, and almost immediately sighted two separate formations of wingless discs.

    The irony is that in the aftermath of Arnold’s sighting, Captain Smith had been asked for his opinion by reporters about the flying saucers being seen over the northwest, an area where he regularly flew. He told reporters: “I’ve never seen anything like that (Arnold’s flying saucers) and the boys (other pilots) say they haven’t either. . .what that other fellow (Arnold) probably saw was the reflection of his own instrument panel.”

    Just over a week later, on the evening of July 4th, as Smith was boarding his aircraft, he told another reporter, “I’ll believe in those discs when I see them.” He didn’t have to wait long.

    Just eight minutes into their flight, in clear weather, UAL 105 saw five disc-like objects, one larger than the rest, heading straight for the DC-3. Smith and co-pilot Ralph Stevens observed the objects reverse direction and take up a course literally parallel to their own. They got a good look, too. Studying them against the twilight sky, Smith and Stevens soon realized that neither wings nor tails were visible on the five objects tracking with them. They appeared “flat on the bottom, rounded on top” with a perceptible “roughness” top-side.

    Smith, Stevens, and the airliner’s stewardess, Marty Morrow, all were able to keep the objects in their view for about twelve minutes!

    The objects clearly demonstrated intelligent control. When co-pilot Stevens, thinking the objects were aircraft, flashed the airliner’s landing lights, they responded by changing formation from a very tight cluster to a more open one. The cluster of discs then began to open and repeatedly close before settling down into a loose formation.

    Almost immediately after they lost sight of the first five, a second formation of four (three in line and a fourth off to the side) moved in ahead of their position, again traveling westward but at a somewhat higher altitude than the DC-3’s 8000 ft. These passed quickly out of sight to the west at speeds that the pilots felt surpassed any conventional speeds. They had the general impression that these disc-like crafts were appreciably larger than ordinary aircraft.

    Smith talked to reporters at their next scheduled stop in Pendleton, Oregon, and told them about what Flight 105 had just encountered. The United Airlines incident was picked up by Reuters News Service and sent around the world. It got a lot of ink in the papers, like the Arnold sighting, but four days later, it would be pushed aside by an even more alarming story.

    THE ROSWELL CRASH

    If the UFO cover-up has an original sin, it may be what happened in Roswell, New Mexico, over the July 4th holidays. It was during this time that rancher Mac Brazel discovered a collection of strange debris scattered across his employer’s land southeast of Corona, New Mexico. He drove some of it into town, primarily to complain to the local Army base, thinking they had crashed one of their secret planes.

    One of the first to investigate was Major Jesse Marcel, who, as an intelligence officer, immediately assessed this was not military property but something stranger. The Roswell Army Air Force base outside of town responded vigorously, cleaning up the rancher’s site and another one. In addition to debris, the rumors started that they found a craft and bodies at a second site. Many of the locals, including future Apollo 14 pilot and Roswell resident Edgar Mitchell, said this publicly.

    In the immediate aftermath, Colonel William Blanchard, base commander, instructed Lieutenant Walter Haut to release a hastily drafted press release describing the wreckage as a “flying disk.” The local paper headlined their own story with “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region.”

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    The front page of the Roswell Daily Record, July 8, 1947
    (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons).

    That news ricocheted around the world at record speed. After all, this was not even two weeks after Kenneth Arnold’s story had done the same.

    The statement was quickly retracted. Major Marcel was ordered to pose for reporters next to some tin foil and balsa wood. It was, they now said, a misidentified weather balloon. This is particularly unconvincing given that Roswell Army Air Base was the only nuclear bomber base in the U.S. arsenal at the time. In other words, the public was now being told that these people out in the New Mexico desert of 1947 who were trusted with the nation’s nuclear weapons got it all wrong and misidentified a weather balloon, something they dealt with every day.

    It allows one nagging question to remain burrowed in your consciousness: What if the government accidentally told the truth that first day?

    THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT

    The National Security Act of 1947 enacted a major restructuring of the United States government’s military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first secretary of defense and, yes, places it firmly into our Summer of the Saucers chronology.

    The act merged the Army, Navy, and the newly established Air Force into the National Military Establishment run by a Secretary of Defense. Aside from the unification of the three military departments, the act established the Central Intelligence Agency.

    The legislation was signed into law by President Truman on July 26, 1947.

    It’s also worth noting that the Air Force, which had been part of the Army during World War II, was now an independent service branch that would be given responsibility for flying saucer investigations. It created Project Blue Book in 1952 and disbanded it in 1969, although before, during, and after, it continued to study unidentified flying objects while denying to the public that this was the case. Such misrepresentations were largely revealed by classified documents released as part of the new Freedom of Information Act in the 1970s.

    The reputation of the Air Force has not improved. It’s been called out in extraordinary detail by intelligence insider Christopher Mellon for not being responsive to congressional calls for data and for basically saying it has no good cases to look at when the Navy has forwarded hundreds of them.

    As for the CIA, it kept its powder dry for five years, letting the Air Force ride shotgun on the UFO issue. In 1952, however, the CIA formed a special study group to review the situation. The group reported that most UFO sightings could be easily explained but also urged that the CIA conceal its interest from the media and the public to avoid alarming the public.

    This duck-and-cover from the Central Intelligence Agency continued with the Robertson Panel, which concluded unanimously that there was no evidence of a direct threat to national security or evidence that the objects might be ETs. It worried that potential U.S. adversaries might exploit the UFO phenomena and use them to disrupt air defenses. It recommended debunking UFO reports and suggested using the mass media, advertising, business clubs, schools, and even the Disney corporation to get the message across.

    By most accounts, the CIA has had a lot more interest in UFOs than it has ever admitted publicly, although FOIA requests and a director-ordered document dump both leave the impression that the CIA has been content to watch others investigate than do it for itself.

    In any case, by August of 1947, the flying saucer wave was history. Captain Edward Ruppelt, who ran Project Blue Book for several years and wrote a powerful book about the experience, put it this way:

    “By the end of July 1947 the security lid was down tight. The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing got the same treatment you would get today if you inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stock-piled in the U.S.’s atomic arsenal.”

    Still, there was one final goodbye to the Summer of the Saucers, a memo that had been written that summer, completed two days into fall, and not discovered until the 1970s.

    THE TWINING MEMO

    United States Air Force General Nathan Farragut Twining was a very big deal. During World War II, he was considered an outstanding commander of bombing operations in both the European and Pacific theaters. After the war, then Lieutenant General Twining was named Commanding General of the military’s Air Materiel Command, working with the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was in this esteemed capacity that he was asked to write a secret memo about UFOs in 1947 for Brigadier General George Schulgen, Chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division at the Pentagon.

    Twining put his name to a high-level “coordinated” memo from extremely in-the-know officers and scientists on September 23rd, 1947, in which he stated his considered opinion (and theirs) that UFOs were real and had capabilities he did not believe the U.S. had yet achieved. For context, this memo came just three months after the Kenneth Arnold sightings, two months after the Roswell crash, and just five days after the U.S. Air Force was officially created as its own entity.

    The entire memo is a barn-burner, not just for its time but for our time. It starts out with a single sentence, under Section 2, which reads:

    “It is the opinion that the phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.”

    In further clear language, it goes on with specificity to state what these devices could do —

    “The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted … lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically, or remotely.”

    Yes, that does sound like a few of Lue Elizondo’s so-called “Five Observables.” Only it was being put in writing some 70 years before we ever heard of Elizondo or read the New York Times story about his Pentagon gig and the Nimitz case.

    Twining listed several common descriptions of UFOs. They generally were silent, had a metallic or light reflecting surface, no trail, were circular or elliptical in shape, and often flat on the bottom. Many descriptions indicated a dome on top. Several reports indicated they flew in formation.

    Importantly, such statements did not hurt Twining’s career, given that he was subsequently made Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960, being the first member of the Air Force to serve as Chairman, let alone become a key advisor to the President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower.

    The takeaway is that Twining was hardly ridden out of military service for advancing crazy ideas. That, of course, is what makes the memo he wrote so damned interesting.

    As an addendum to tie some of these elements together, on July 8, 1947, the exact same day that the Roswell Air Base put out its press release saying that they had a flying saucer in their possession, Twining canceled a scheduled trip to the West Coast. He did so, as he told others, “due to a very important and sudden matter.” It appears that while it was thought he was in Washington, D.C., travel records show he actually made a trip to New Mexico, where he remained until July 10.

    LESSONS LEARNED

    To the extent that the government of the United States and the citizens of the country were aware of the flying saucer controversy in the Summer of the Saucers, it seems reasonable to assume that few of them could have believed we would remain as ignorant of this subject as we appear to be today.

    The majority of journalists continue to treat UFO stories as human interest pieces, and the people who report them as not exactly credible. The government, based on these latest hearings in Washington, seems not yet ready to level with the people about what it has learned in studying the Phenomenon for nearly eight decades. Some scientists are starting to take the subject seriously, but most of the scientific community treats the topic as one that is not the subject of serious research and can only harm careers.

    And yet…

    There are also signs everywhere that a critical shift in perspective is underway. The government has at least confirmed in public what it had only said before in classified memos — that the Phenomenon is real and that not only are citizens seeing these objects but so are the military’s pilots and data collection devices. The hearing, while frustrating, still managed to put the idea before the public and show that representatives were capable of asking pointed questions of the Department of Defense. And while scientists who took the subject seriously in the early days were practically non-existent, some are now openly visible, even if in the minority.

    It now seems clear that we will not go another 75 years without some kind of answer. In fact, there are moments where it even seems possible we may not have to wait another 75 days, before we finally get a more complete picture of what this phenomenon might entail.

    In a world of pandemics, politics, war, and economic insecurity, we seem to be moving toward some kind of new status on this subject. Maybe there is room for a surprising message of hope amid all the gloom and doom of today’s chaotic world. A message that says maybe–just maybe–the “War of the Worlds” is really just a way to end the War Among Ourselves, to unify humanity, and brighten the skies that have often seemed so dark.

    The people who had the courage to speak up in 1947 may someday soon be names found in history books that tell a story about how it all began.

    • Bryce Zabel co-hosts the podcast Need to Know with Coulthart and Zabel — a concise analysis of news, research and history related to the UAP/UFO issue. He is the creator of five produced one-hour TV drama series, screenwriter on multiple features and limited series and winner the Writers Guild award. He has been a CNN correspondent, PBS investigative reporter, CEO of the TV Academy and adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of three award-winning books. Follow him on Twitter @HollywoodUFOs. His professional credits can be found on LinkedIn.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Karla Turner Claimed She Found Evidence That Aliens Are Manipulating Human Reality

    Karla Turner Claimed She Found Evidence That Aliens Are Manipulating Human Reality

    Karla Turner was one of the few alien abductees who found a respectable position in UFOlogy after she had made some strong claims about alien abductions. Her extensive research into the subject revealed that aliens manipulate perception, control consciousness, cause unexplained illnesses and mental decline, and engage in gruesome activities in underground facilities. Her findings highlight the alarming physical, psychological, and spiritual consequences faced by abductees, raising questions about the true nature and intentions of these extraterrestrial encounters.

    Dr. Turner was an intrepid human rights activist and alien abduction investigator. With the background in Old English Studies and a former college instructor, she authored three books on the abduction phenomenon: Into the Fringe (1992), Taken (1994), and Masquerade of Angels (1994), co-written with psychic Ted Rice. Her work raised important questions about the true nature and intentions of these extraterrestrial encounters.

    Dr. Turner had been involved in studying alien abductions since 1988. In her books “Into the Fringe” and “Taken,” she shared her abduction experiences and the stories of other abductees, highlighting the disturbing nature of these events. In “Masquerade of Angels,” she recounted the experiences of Ted Rice, who initially believed the aliens to be benevolent but later realized their predatory nature. One particular account involved Rice as an 8-year-old boy, witnessing his deceased grandfather transforming into a reptoid and demanding intimacy with him, resulting in the death of his grandmother shortly afterward.

    Dr. Turner lost her battle with breast cancer in 1996 and only after that, her work was published where she described her family’s firsthand encounters. In her work, she also suggested that the abducted are targeted individuals and not chosen randomly. She was convinced the military targeted abductees in response to the reports people had made.

    In one of her interviews, Dr. Turner explained how she became involved in the field. Initially, her family had no knowledge of the phenomenon until they began experiencing UFO sightings and abduction encounters. Dissatisfied with the available UFO literature, she took it upon herself to conduct research and find trustworthy answers. She started by documenting her family’s experiences in her book “Into the Fringe,” which chronicles their awakening and coping process. Eventually, she worked with Barbara Bartholic, Tulsa OK-based UFO/abduction researcher on her case and began working with her on other cases.

    It was discovered that abductions were transgenerational in her husband’s family, with accounts dating back to the early 1900s. Turner and her family members, including her son, brother, sister-in-law, and their children, had all had experiences related to abductions. Some family members were initially hesitant to discuss their encounters until they learned about Turner’s experiences. Hypnosis was used in their research, although it has been controversial, with some researchers suggesting that it can lead to false memories. Turner’s opinion on these issues is not stated in the given excerpt.

    In her book named “Taken,” she discussed the idea that some prominent abduction theorists state should be avoided — do not think of aliens as good and evil. Turner claimed that “this cannot be done, nor should it be.” She continued that those who had been abducted have the right to know how their “participation” would be used by their abductors, under what circumstances and what reason would the abducted be “made a part of this agenda” since they have been “implanted, trained, and programmed to participate in some future scenario.” Don’t abductees have the right to know for what purpose “our minds, bodies, and souls will be used?”

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    Dr. Turner’s main concerns regarding alien abductions were the aliens’ cruelty towards abductees, both physically and mentally. Victims experienced traumatic events such as forced impregnation, painful miscarriages, and severe injuries. Turner believed that the aliens had complete control over the minds of humans, using psychic technology to manipulate their perceptions and memories.

    She disagreed with those who saw the phenomenon as positive, arguing that understanding it was beyond our capability. She questioned the purpose behind the aliens’ agenda and expressed her belief that some alien groups, particularly reptoids, consumed human bodies for emotional or soul vibrations. She speculated that cloned bodies lacked those qualities and wondered if hybrid beings were created as a food source for the reptoids.

    Before her death, she frequently spoke at UFO conferences in the United States and other countries, urging people to take action. She claimed that aliens were manipulating our perceptions and spreading disinformation to weaken us and deceive us into thinking they cared about us, when in reality, their intentions were self-serving and disregarded our well-being. Turner emphasized the need to regain control over the situation and confront these aliens. Dr. Turner discovered these seven basic elements of the alien abduction phenomenon published by John Chambers in the UFO Magazine:

    1. Aliens can control what we think we see. They can appear to us in any number of guises and shapes;
    2. Aliens can take us – our consciousness – out of our physical bodies, disable our control of our bodies, install one of their own entities, and use our bodies as vehicles for their own activities before returning our consciousness to our bodies;
    3. Aliens can be present with us in an invisible state and can make themselves only partially visible;
    4. A surprising number of abductees suffer from serious illnesses they didn’t have before their encounters. These have led to surgery, debilitation, and even death from causes the doctors can’t identify;
    5. Some abductees experience a degeneration of their mental, social and spiritual well-being. Excessive behavior frequently erupts, such as drug abuse, alcoholism, overeating and promiscuity. Strange obsessions develop and cause the disruption of normal life and the destruction of personal relationships;
    6. Some abductees report being taken to underground facilities where they see grotesque hybrid creatures, nurseries of hybrid humanoid fetuses, and vats of colored liquid filled with parts of human bodies;
    7. Abductees report seeing other humans in these facilities being drained of blood, being mutilated, flayed, and dismembered, and being stacked, lifeless, like cords of wood. Some abductees have been threatened that they, too, will end up in this condition if they don’t cooperate with their alien captors.

    Interviewer: Abductees tell stories of seeing beings–angelic Nordics, for example–and then, when they concentrate and try to focus on their memories of those beings, they disappear, and behind them are these “lizard people.”

    KT: I am not familiar with a number of cases. I have heard other researchers talk about the same thing. In one case that I recount in “Into the Fringe,” James had mostly conscious recollections and almost no hypnosis. He remembered being drawn into the proximity of a beautiful “Pleiadian” woman, who was very alluring and tender, and almost seductive. She wanted him to come into her embrace. When he got into the embrace, and thought she was going to kiss him, she disappeared entirely, and what was left in her place was a purplish-black, bumpy, almost slimy-looking character with fairly asymmetrical features.

    I have encountered this same type of creature in a couple of other cases. The entity was very strong. Instead of embracing James, the creature threw him down on the ground and shoved a two-foot-long tube down his throat, into his stomach, and pulled up stomach juices. The next day, he still had some of the bile taste, the interior of his throat was sore, and he discovered claw marks around both sides of his neck, where he had been held down. Whatever the entity was, there was something claw-like about it (which, of course, matches reptilians). Maybe, as close as he was to it, he could not perceive the whole figure. But he could see a bumpy covering, which could equate to the rough, scaly exterior sometimes reported to be reptilian. It is described as bumpy, ridged, bony, strong, clawed.

    CF: Apparently these beings have the ability to project different images.

    KT: Some people say that they transform–that they mutate or change their own real forms. I don’t accept that as accurate. I don’t believe they really look like a blond, and they do something to trick you and then they suddenly look like a reptilian. I think that what they alter is human perception. They certainly can project false images–just as Ted’s [Ted Rice’s] grandmother was shown her dead husband, so that she would consent to have a sexual encounter. Ted’s grandfather had been dead for six years. And in the middle of having the encounter with what she thought was her restored husband, the image disappeared–I suppose because the aliens wanted to get the “emotional juice” from her–and she saw a “reptoid” on top of her.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Giant gravitational waves: why scientists are so excited

    Giant gravitational waves: why scientists are so excited

    The collision of two supermassive block holes emits gravitational waves in this artist’s illustration.

    Credit: Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration

    On 29 June, four separate teams of scientists made an announcement14 that promises to shake up astrophysics: they had seen strong hints of very long gravitational waves warping the Galaxy.

    Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time that are generated when large masses accelerate. They were first detected in 2015, but the latest evidence hints at ‘monster’ ripples with wavelengths of 0.3 parsecs (1 light year) or more; the waves detected until now have wavelengths of tens to hundreds of kilometres.

    Here Nature reports what these monster gravitational waves could mean for our understanding of the cosmos, and how the field could evolve.

    How do the newly announced gravitational waves differ from those astronomers had already found?

    Gravitational waves were first spotted by the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Louisiana and Washington State. They sensed the ripples produced by two black holes spiralling into each other and merging. LIGO and its counterpart Virgo in Europe have since reported dozens of similar events.

    For the latest results, the authors relied on special beacon stars called millisecond pulsars. The teams tracked changes over more than a decade in the distances between Earth and millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way, comparing the signals from arrays of dozens of the beacon stars. These pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to waves that are 0.3 parsecs long or more.

    And whereas LIGO and Virgo spot evidence of the last stages of individual merger events — regularly spaced waves coming from one definite direction in the sky — the four PTA collaborations have so far found only a ‘stochastic background’, a constant jostling in random directions. This is comparable to the random sloshing of water on the surface of a pond caused by the rain.

    What is the origin of the waves?

    The most likely explanation for the stochastic background seen by PTAs is that it is produced by many pairs of supermassive black holes orbiting each other in the hearts of distant galaxies, says Sarah Burke-Spolaor, an astrophysicist at West Virginia University in Morgantown.

    Most galaxies are thought to harbour one such monster black hole, with a mass millions or billions of times that of the Sun. And astronomers know that throughout the Universe’s history, many galaxies have merged. So, some galaxies must have ended up with two supermassive black holes, known as a black-hole binary.

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    Researchers also have calculated that in the crowded centre of such a galactic merger, each black hole would transfer some of its momentum to surrounding stars, slinging them out at high speed or simply dragging them around. As a result, the two black holes would eventually slow down and end up orbiting each other at distances of around 1 parsec, explains Chiara Mingarelli, a gravitational-wave astrophysicist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

    Only paired black holes that got much closer to each other than 1 parsec would contribute to the PTA signal, however. “They need to be separated by a milliparsec to emit detectable gravitational waves,” says Mingarelli. Theories that explain how this would happen are speculative, however, and whether the binaries can do this has been an open question, known as the final-parsec problem. “If you don’t overcome the final-parsec problem, then you don’t get any gravitational waves,” says Mingarelli.

    Scientists will now seek to verify that the PTA signal does indeed come from binary supermassive black holes. If that could be confirmed, it would be evidence that supermassive black holes can come very close to each other in nature.

    That result would be of fundamental importance, says Monica Colpi, an astrophysicist at the University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy — showing that thousands of black-hole binaries across the Universe have somehow ‘solved’ the final-parsec problem. “It would be the discovery that such a population exists.”

    What would such binary black holes mean for LISA, Europe’s planned space-based detector?

    Supermassive-black-hole pairs that got close enough to emit gravitational waves would eventually collide and merge. That’s because the gravitational waves themselves would carry energy and momentum away from the black holes, turning their orbits into spirals. In hundreds to tens of thousands of years, each of the pairs would end up colliding.

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    Colpi says this could be good news for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a trio of probes the European Space Agency plans to launch in the mid-2030s.

    As the black holes spiral inwards, the frequencies of their gravitational waves will increase and, in some cases, enter LISA’s spectrum of sensitivity. LISA will be sensitive to wavelengths of between 3 million km and 3 billion km — shorter than the wavelengths that can be detected by the PTAs, although still much longer than those seen by ground-based detectors. So LISA could see several of these mergers during its mission.

    Black-hole mergers could also help to explain how some of the black holes have grown so large: they are themselves the result of earlier mergers.

    Could something other than binary black holes be producing the stochastic background?

    There is a plethora of exotic-physics theories that predict a similar omnidirectional background of waves coming from all directions in space. These sources could constitute part or even most of the signal. The possibilities include certain types of dark matter and even cosmic strings, hypothetical infinitesimally thin defects in the curvature of space-time. Cosmic strings could develop kinks, which could eventually snap, producing gravitational waves.

    One of the most exciting alternative explanations is a cosmic gravitational-wave background originating from the early Universe, says Burke-Spolaor. Telescopes that see across the electromagnetic spectrum — from radio waves to γ-rays — are limited in how far away they can peek, and thus in how far into the past they can see. This is because, long before galaxies and stars existed, an opaque ionized gas filled the cosmos. This blocks astronomers’ view of what happened in the Universe during its first 400,000 years or so.

    But gravitational waves can travel across any medium. As a result, any such waves created since the first instant after the Big Bang could still be around and be detectable as part of a stochastic background, providing a window into the extreme physics of the Big Bang. “That is just amazing to me,” says Burke-Spolaor. “Who knows what’s back there.”

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    02-07-2023 om 22:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Truly Bizarre Accounts of Shapeshifting Alien Infiltrators Amongst Us

    Truly Bizarre Accounts of Shapeshifting Alien Infiltrators Amongst Us

    Truly Bizarre Accounts of Shapeshifting Alien Infiltrators Amongst Us

    There have long been stories, rumors, and reports of aliens amongst us. According to some conspiracy theorists we are definitely not alone, and not only are we not alone, but these extraterrestrials are infiltrating our society under the guise of being human. It may all sound like the plot of some science fiction movie, but these reports won’t go away, and so here we have a selection of some of the more bonkers of such accounts. Put on your tinfoil hat and fasten your seatbelt, because we are going for a ride into the truly bizarre. 

    A suitably off-the-wall case of some sort of shapeshifting alien infiltrator comes to us from the site ThinkAboutit Docs, from a source they call an “anonymous Intelligence officer and planetary patriot” called simply “Commander X,” who allegedly holds a high-security position within the Intelligence Community. According to this Commander X, not only are aliens here on Earth, but they walk amongst us in disguise, and he claims he to have collected several reports of encounters with such mysterious entities. Some of these reports originate from a place called Dulce Base, which is an alleged underground facility on the Colorado–New Mexico border near the town of Dulce, New Mexico, and which is also ground zero for a plethora of bizarre conspiracy theories and rumors, ranging from that the U.S. government is keeping captured aliens there and reverse engineering UFOs, to the idea that the base itself is jointly-operated by both human and aliens. Legends here abound, including aliens using human guinea pigs for bizarre genetic experiments, medical experiments on human abductees, firefights between aliens and the Delta Force, and everything in between, and one to add to the pile are all of the shapeshifting aliens running around there. According to this Commander X, Dulce Base is very real, and many of the personnel stationed there are kept in the dark about what is really going on there. He also claims that the base is partly manned by shapeshifting aliens in disguise, and one such report he says comes from a private who was stationed on the surface at Dulce. This unnamed private supposedly had no idea of just how deep the rabbit hole went at the base, but would learn that something was off after a very odd encounter involving what he believes was an alien posing as a human being. The witness would say:   

    One morning last September, I was working on a routine job when another of the young enlistees, a mechanic, came in with a small rush job he wanted welded at once. He had the print and proceeded to show me exactly what he wanted. We are both bending over the bench in front of the welder when I happened to look directly into his face. It seemed to suddenly become covered with a semi-transparent film or cloud. His features faded and in their place appeared a ‘thing’ with bulging eyes, no hair and SCALES for skin. I stood and looked at it for about 20 seconds. WHATEVER IT WAS stood and looked at me without moving. Then the strange face seemed to fade away, and at the same time recede into the ordinary face of the young man underneath. The dissipation of the imposed face lasted or took about five seconds before it was completely gone and I was standing there weak, my mouth open and staring at the young man who had come in with the rush order. The young ‘man’ did not seem to be conscious of the elapsed time when I had observed all this but went right on talking about the job as if nothing had happened. This is hard to take but I assure you it was still harder for me. No one can realize a jolt you could get from seeing anything like this until they have experienced it for themselves. It was several days before I had myself convinced that maybe after all what I had seen was real and that I was not suffering from illusions and the beginning of insanity. 

    The witness would have another similar weird encounter a few days later, when he saw another instance of this shape changing phenomenon. He says of this encounter:   

    The next time was later at night at the guard house near the front gate, on the way to work. I had purchased some small items and on arriving I went around to the guard house with my slip to retrieve my package. There was only one guard on duty. I handed him the check and he began to look at the package, taking his time. I waited a minute, then happened to look directly at him again. His face began to change. Again a face of a strange creature was imposed. You could see through the imposed face for a few seconds and then it became the only one visible [solidified is the word] and again about 20 seconds duration. Again five seconds for dissipation and the guard started to move normally again, found my package and gravely handed it to me and I walked out without a word being said.  

    Dulce is not the only place where these sort of sightings are happening by a long shot. Another location that has apparently had sightings of shapeshifting aliens is the Dugway Proving Ground (DPG), which is a U.S. Army facility outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons. According to ThinkAbouIt:   

    Aside from Dulce, New Mexico and the Nevada Test Site, other areas where these “chameleon” sightings have taken place include Deep Springs, CA where these alien “impostors” have allegedly been sighted; and Dugway, Utah where one woman by the name of Barbara who worked as a hair stylist claimed she saw one of the HIGH RANKING MILITARY OFFICIALS transform temporarily into an entity with ‘reptilian’ features. Another source at Dugway who worked in an auto shop claimed that he saw a similar phenomenon while changing the tires on the car of one Dugway military official. Remember that Dugway works closely with Area 51, which is just to the west and across the state border. It is interesting that there are claims that the joint CIA-alien activity within the ‘Dreamland’ underground complexes of Nevada have and are being extended to the underground facilities below the St. George and Dugway areas of Utah, among other sites.  

    A thoroughly off-the-wall account supposedly comes from the Madigan Military Hospital south of Seattle, Washington near Fort Lewis. According to UFO researcher Val Valerian, the hospital is absolutely overrun with reptilian aliens posing as human beings, and he says of it in the Leading Edge newsletter, all caps and all:   

    About a year ago, we ran into SEVERAL PEOPLE who stated that they ‘had heard’ that ‘REPTILIAN HUMANOIDS WERE WORKING AT A U.S. ARMY HOSPITAL’ NEAR FORT LEWIS, WASHINGTON. At that point, these statements were simply filed away in ‘rumor’ status, pending the arrival of something more substantial. Descriptions of the nature of and appearance of alien humanoid forms that could be termed ‘REPTILIAN’ vary widely. REPTILIAN HUMANOIDS HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED IN ITALY AS LOOKING VERY LIZARD-LIKE, EVEN WITH TAILS. Logic would seem to tell us that if alien humanoids were in fact in ‘collusion’ with military medical personnel at a hospital, they would not in fact have the appearance of anything other than humans, or be close enough to humans to blend in. About a month ago, the nature of synchronicity brought me to an espresso bar, where I chanced to engage a lady in her early 50’s in some small conversation about an entirely unrelated matter. She had been a nurse for some twenty years, and sixteen of those twenty years had been spent working for the U.S. Army. She retired from the service and was now job hunting in the local area. She was very professional, and seemed to know a lot about the nursing field.   

    Gradually, her conversation got around to a ‘very unusual place’, Madigan Military Hospital, which is located on Route 5 south of Seattle. She had applied for work at the hospital and noticed that it was indeed a hospital unlike any she had ever seen before. Madigan is a brand new $150-million-dollar facility, built about a year or so ago. From her description, there are small R2D2-type robots that shuttle prescriptions between floors, all the equipment is prototype ‘one-of-a-kind’, like laser x-rays and a lot of equipment that was extremely high tech. It was not this alone which peaked my interest, but a comment she made later. She made the statement that when she entered a specific lab in the hospital, she noticed that all the personnel were extremely absorbed in their work — nothing too uncommon about that. But then she stated that she had the thought that some of the equipment looked quite ‘alien’, AND TWO MEN WHO LOOKED EXACTLY ALIKE TURNED AND LOOKED AT HER IN RESPONSE TO HER THOUGHT. She said that THE EYES OF THESE TWO MEN WERE QUITE PENETRATING AND THAT THEY BOTH MOVED IN UNISON. That got my interest. She then stated that during the tour of the facility, the individual who was escorting her said that the top floor of the hospital AND TWO OF THE SUB-BASEMENT FLOORS were Top Secret R&D areas and were off limits to BOTH military and civilian personnel. That really got my attention.

    The nurse supposedly had some pretty outlandish stories to tell about her visit to the hospital. According to her, there was equipment there far more advanced than anything she had ever seen before, and that there were some very odd procedures being carried out on patients. She explains of one of these (all caps not mine):   

    I noticed that a patient walked over and climbed on an exam table. The procedure they were doing always requires that the patient must be sedated, HOWEVER I NOTICED THAT THE PHYSICIAN LEANED OVER THE PATIENT AND TOUCHED THE PATIENT IN THE CENTER OF THE FOREHEAD WITH ‘HIS’ INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER OF ONE HAND. IMMEDIATELY, THE PATIENT FELL INTO A STATE OF SEDATION AND THE PROCEDURE WAS STARTED. What kind of doctor can touch a patient in that way and sedate him? I looked around at the other personnel in the room at this time. There were two, a Private First Class and a Specialist 4th Class at opposite ends of the room from where I was standing. BOTH OF THESE MEN WERE THE SAME SIZE, HAD THE SAME SKIN COLOR, AND MOVED IN A VERY DELIBERATE MANNER. I was talking with the Sergeant and happened to say something to myself very softly while having the thought how strange these people seemed. BOTH OTHER MEN TURNED AND LOOKED AT ME ALMOST AS IF TO STARE AT ME. I GOT THIS STRANGE FEELING. I had heard before from a friend whose brother had made the uncharacteristic comment that ‘ALIENS WORKED AT MADIGAN’. ‘ALL’ THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM AND THE MILITARY PERSONNEL IN GENERAL THAT I HAD SEEN IN THE HOSPITAL SEEMED TO MOVE VERY VERY SLOWLY, ALMOST IN SLOW MOTION. I left the area and went back to the Sergeant’s office.  

    She was so intrigued by this otherworldly strange place that she decided to go back there several weeks later with a friend, and it would only further convince her that there was something off about the place. She says (all caps make a major appearance yet again):   

    My friend and I entered through what is known as the clinic mall. This area houses the outpatient clinic. THERE WERE VERY FEW PEOPLE THERE FOR SUCH A LARGE CLINIC. We were told that THERE ARE THREE FLOORS BENEATH THE HOSPITAL and one floor above that are off limits to ALL PERSONNEL, MILITARY AND CIVILIAN, and that these areas were classified Top Secret and were research and development [R&D] areas. THERE ARE VERY UNUSUAL ANTENNAS ON TOP OF THE HOSPITAL. The three-story main service area has a complex on top of it THAT APPEARS TO HAVE NO ENTRANCE AND NO WINDOWS. Judging from the way the hospital is built, there are a lot of ‘DEAD AREAS’ that comprise spaces THAT CANNOT BE ACCESSED FROM THE MAIN SERVICE AREA. The personal feeling we both got being in the hospital WAS THAT WE STARTED TO FEEL VERY DRAINED, AND WE BOTH EXPERIENCED GETTING A DULL HEADACHE. It wasn’t until we had driven SEVERAL MILES from the facility that we started to feel better.

    What is going on with this freakish place and is it staffed by aliens in disguise as humans? Who knows? It is all a pretty damn strange story and it’s hard to really know what to make of it. These aliens have supposedly even wormed their way into the Pentagon itself, as well as other top level government agencies. According to the ThinkAboutIt docs report:   

    Sometime during the 1980’s a Secretary working in the Pentagon noticed a high-ranking Pentagon ‘official’ who had apparently lost a contact lens. The eye from where the lens fell out was NOT human, but instead contained a vertically-slit pupil. No one working at the Pentagon seemed to know where the official worked although they had apparently assumed that he was supposed to be there in some capacity or another. The Secretary however informed her superiors of the strange incident, and immediately Security Personnel approached the ‘officer’ who apparently was not aware of his missing contact lens. The ‘man’ did not make any major attempts to resist. When the apartment of this ‘official’ was searched, copies of several sensitive documents on the “Star Wars” or “Strategic Defense Initiative” program were discovered. Apparently the entity had been stealing the documents and transmitting their contents to some point beyond the planet. Rumor had it that the entity was physically examined and it was discovered that its internal organs were NOT human.   

    Several areas across the Western U.S. where surface and/or underground military installations exist have reportedly produced similar ‘Chameleon’ sightings. There seems to be a trend which involves the infiltration of the NSA-CIA and the subsequent ‘replacement’ of agency personnel, and in turn Military-Industrial personnel, by alien life forms not loyal to planet earth nor to the human race in general. These reports are very similar to other reports that made the rounds within ‘fringe’ research groups during the early 1980’s concerning the reported ‘assimilation’ of high-ranking Communist officials and scientists by serpent-like humanoids, reptilian beings that were reputedly revived out of suspended animation from a frozen city that was discovered under the northern Siberian ice fields. The was referred to as the “Siberian Affair”.  

    Every bit as bizarre as any of these cases is an account of a supposed military operation to actually track and capture an alien infiltrator in disguise living amongst us. Our story here comes from UFO researcher Victor Martinez, an alleged former federal employee and coordinator of news at the Joint Recon Study Group. According to Martinez, officials of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and other U.S. government agencies have long been involved in top secret security activities involving human-appearing extraterrestrial beings in the U.S., and he relates one such operation carried out in 1980, which was called “Operation TANGO-SIERRA.” Martinez claims that he learned of this operation through a close intelligence contact in the DIA, who outlined the government’s plans to monitor and detain an extraterrestrial entity masquerading as human being to live among us. It supposedly began with the alien abduction of a federal employee by an alien disguised as a human being, and the contact says:   

    The original operation began in early 1980 when an Earth female was identified by U.S. intelligence as being a so-called ‘alien abductee.’ She had been abducted by a male non-human in 1977 which was her first abduction. This woman was single, 23-years-old and a trusted, well-respected U.S. government employee. The male non-human showed the Earth woman abductee projections of alien life on another planet. The projection was from a small, triangle device. The woman viewed this projection which she described as images displayed in a 3-dimensional ‘holographic’ view.   

    The male non-human never harmed the Earth woman abductee. During the three years of her ongoing abduction, the Earth woman was taken by the male non-human through a ‘veil of light’ to another place. The Earth woman described this place as being ‘a light bubble.’ She would sit inside the bubble and view these holographic projections with the male non-human. On one occasion, the male non-human introduced the Earth woman to another male, whom the Earth woman described in debriefing details as not being human, i.e., not being an Earth male abductee. The Earth woman called this other being a “creature.' This creature performed a medical examination on the Earth woman. The woman did not fully consent to the alien’s examination as she was temporarily paralyzed. After the examination, the woman was taken back to her residence. When the Earth woman brought up her abduction by a male alien to the attention of a co-worker, the co-worker contacted an office security official, who then contacted U.S. intelligence officials.   

    U.S. intelligence spent hours and hours vetting the woman’s story, conducting thorough background investigations, performing surveillance, and administering several polygraph examinations. The Earth woman’s story was eventually deemed to be factually true and correct. U.S. intelligence then mounted a very special, highly classified operation to capture this alien being, who lived near Landover, Maryland.   

    An intensive investigation was allegedly launched by the "7602 Air Intelligence Wing, Section III," which would last 5 months and involve around 60 intelligence officers tasked with determining whether or not this man was an actual extraterrestrial creature/non-human and a possible imminent or potential threat to national security. The mysterious individual was purportedly identified, followed, and detained without incident, after which he was questioned. The report says of this questioning:   

    The male non-human was interrogated by teams of AFOSI special agents over several weeks and in total was questioned and intensely interrogated for many months by other agencies. It was during this time that the male non-human disclosed its race, its resident planet and the reason it came to Earth. The male alien basically cooperated and provided details of its life on his alien home world. The non-human entity was released on the direct orders of then President Carter in late 1980, and subsequently left Earth and returned to its home planet. The male non-human originated from the star system Delta Pavonis, 20 light-years from Earth where it was the 4th planet from their sun. It is roughly the same size as our Earth. The travel time to Earth was 18 Earth months using a very complex propulsion system and time-space displacement travel mode. Back then in 1980, we could not understand the alien propulsion system and we never saw his spacecraft. When President Carter let the male non-human leave, he just vanished. I was never in the intelligence loop as to how he left or how he departed Earth.   

    I’m not sure how they learned English so well nor other languages. You’ve got to remember that this was extreme compartmentalization. I knew just what I was supposed to know. There is much more to the alien debriefing that I do not know. From what I’ve learned over the years, this race of alien beings originally came to Earth as explorers about a century ago. Apparently, they could assume the human shape and form and easily live among us. With respect to the male non-human’s employment, he worked as a records keeper for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce in Washington D.C. He was able to manufacture his own identification documents by assuming the name/ID of a deceased Earth human. He was in a career that did not require a high-level security clearance thereby enabling him to escape the much greater scrutiny given to ‘Secret’ clearance level background checks and above.”   

    Martinez’ source also explains that, although the alien looked perfectly human, and that his race was able to take human form through some unexplained process, they were definitely not human, and that their real form was rather hideous. He would also explain the aliens’ agenda to some extent, and he would say of all of this:   

    Although they possessed the human shape, form and basic anatomy, they were not human beings like you and me. Their actual, normal, ‘real’ appearance was that of a hideous-looking creature that would most certainly scare, frighten and terrify a normal Earth human. Above all, they did not have any extra powers nor abilities. They had no weapons and never tried to harm Earth humans. Their sole intent and stated mission was that they just wanted to study Earth humans and obtain the basic structure of the human body, anatomy and social interplay.   

    I don’t know how many others of this specific type of aliens were among us as I was not authorized that specific highly classified information. However, I am positive that there were more similar-type operations than just this one. ‘Operation TANGO-SIERRA’ was just one operation that lasted nine months from start to finish in the D.C area.” “U.S. intelligence had more such operations around the U.S., with one in the southwest and another in the northwest, but I don’t know for sure on the location details. Indeed, the government was claimed to be very intently focused on investigating “the presence of extraterrestrial creatures having infiltrated the highest levels of the United States government. As for other visiting alien races, we knew of nine of them. The Ebans (Ebens) were the nicest while the Trantaloids were the ugliest, meanest sons-a-bitches and most dangerous. I only know that the very inner circle of our government knows. That is about all I can tell you. I never spoke with the male non-human in ‘Operation TANGO-SIERRA,’ but I was actively involved in this operation. Most of the older fellows who knew all of this are dead now. Former CIA Director Richard M. Helms was our boss for this operation. He died some years ago.

    Our friend Commander X claims that this phenomenon of shapeshifting “chameleons” or “alien infiltrators” involves several different races of aliens, including the “Greys” and “Reptilians,” and that they use a wide variety of techniques to blend in, such as “reconstructive surgery, molecular shape-shifting occult-technology, techno-hypnotic transmitters, and portable laser-hologram technology.” This technology is purportedly very sophisticated and hard to detect, but some have found a way to do it. Enter researcher George Andrews, who is author of the book “Extraterrestrial Friends and Foes,” who says of some of the attempt to see through the alien disguises:   

    A friend of mine and four of his friends experimented with crystalline structures a year or two ago, and they figured out how to cut them along certain planes so they could actually see the aura or energy field around people. That’s when they discovered that all people aren’t ‘people’, or the people they thought they were. It appears that some E.T. humanoids have a dark blue ovoid aura. It so happens that all the people they checked that met these criteria also wore dark glasses and made every attempt to act like they really wanted nothing to do with people in general. They followed one of these people out into the desert where he evidently had a trailer. After waiting until dusk, they made a pretense of needing help and knocked on the door. After a short while, the light went on and the man came to the door. He looked normal, EXCEPT THAT HIS PUPILS WERE VERTICAL SLITS INSTEAD OF CIRCLES. It works. The only trouble is that it costs $2,000 to put a pair of those glasses together.

    It is all pretty bizarre, to say the least, and it leaves us wondering just what to make of all of this. Are there really aliens walking among us who have the power to change their shape to blend in? Are out highest positions in the government being infiltrated by these extraterrestrial forces mimicking us and carrying out some sort of twisted charade? Or is this just the tabloid, sci-fi nonsense it all sounds like? There is really no way to truly know, and believe it or not, it is all a very damn weird corner of the alien and UFO pehnomenon. 

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Euclid gelanceerd: de ruimtetelescoop die een van de grootste mysteries van ons universum moet ontrafelen
    Wetenschappers hopen met Euclid nieuw inzicht te krijgen in een van de grootste vraagstukken over ons heelal: wat zijn donkere materie en energie?
    Wetenschappers hopen met Euclid nieuw inzicht te krijgen in een van de grootste vraagstukken over ons heelal: wat zijn donkere materie en energie? 
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    Euclid gelanceerd: de ruimtetelescoop die een van de grootste mysteries van ons universum moet ontrafelen

    Vandaag is het zover. Rond 17u Belgische tijd zal ESA haar Euclid ruimtetelescoop lanceren. Euclid gaat een ongekend nauwkeurige atlas van ruimte en tijd maken om te ontdekken waarom het heelal steeds sneller blijft uitdijen. Wetenschappers hopen daarmee nieuw inzicht te krijgen in een van de grootste vraagstukken over ons heelal: wat zijn donkere materie en energie? SpaceX lanceert de telescoop vanuit Florida.

    Ruimtetelescoop Euclid, genoemd naar de oude Griekse wiskundige Euclides, gaat de structuur van het heelal op de allergrootste schaal opmeten. Dat gaat een uiterst gedetailleerde kaart opleveren met 2 miljard sterrenstelsels, een flink deel van het waarneembare heelal. En die kaart vertelt ook nog eens hoe al die sterrenstelsels zich de afgelopen pakweg 10 miljard jaar ontwikkeld hebben.

    Wetenschappers hopen hiermee prangende kosmologische kwesties mee te kunnen oplossen. Raadselachtige donkere materie, donkere energie, zwaartekracht en de ontwikkeling van het heelal: het blijft in nevelen gehuld. Dit zijn vijf fundamentele vragen waarmee Euclid op pad gaat.

    SpaceX lanceert de telescoop vandaag vanuit Florida.
    SpaceX lanceert de telescoop vandaag vanuit Florida. 
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    Waaruit bestaat ons heelal?

    Ons heelal bestaat uit heel veel sterren en sterrenstelsels, plus nog wat wolken van stof en gas. Toch? Als je dit aan een kosmoloog vraagt, is dit verre van het goede antwoord. Al die sterrenstelsels zijn enkel wat we kunnen zien. Maar dat is nog geen vijf procent van wat er werkelijk moet zijn.

    Zeker twintig procent van het heelal moet uit ‘donkere’ materie bestaan. Spul dat we niet kunnen zien maar waarvan we wel de zwaartekracht-effecten kunnen meten. En dan is er nog heel veel donkere energie, een mysterieuze uiteendrijvende kracht die zorgt dat de uitdijing van het heelal steeds sneller gaat. Van allebei hebben wetenschappers geen idee wat het precies is.

    Wat is donkere materie?

    Op de allergrootste schaal bekeken vormen de sterrenstelsels in ons heelal een soort spinrag, ook wel het kosmische web genoemd. Maar de zwaartekracht van al die sterrenstelsels samen is simpelweg niet voldoende om een dergelijke structuur te kunnen vormen, legt René Laureijs, project scientist van Euclid uit.

    Euclid speurt naar de zwaartekrachteffecten van donkere materie.
    Euclid speurt naar de zwaartekrachteffecten van donkere materie. 
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    Volgens veel wetenschappers moet zich onzichtbare ‘donkere materie’ tussen en rond de sterrenstelsels bevinden. De zwaartekracht ervan is meetbaar, maar waaruit het bestaat is totaal onbekend. Door goed te kijken naar de zwaartekrachteffecten van deze donkere materie gaat Euclid de verdeling ervan in kaart brengen. Dat helpt de vraag te beantwoorden waarvan het is gemaakt.

    Wat is donkere energie?

    In de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw ontdekte astronoom Edwin Hubble dat alle sterrenstelsels van ons wegvliegen. Het heelal dijt dus uit, als een ballon die opgeblazen wordt. In de late jaren negentig ontdekten wetenschappers tegen alle verwachtingen in, dat dit opblazen steeds sneller gaat.

    De onbekende, uiteendrijvende kracht die hiervoor verantwoordelijk is, noemden ze donkere energie. Waar zwaartekracht aantrekkend werkt, duwt donkere energie alles juist uit elkaar. Dit constante geduw lijkt inherent aan de lege ruimte zelf te zijn. Hoe meer lege ruimte er ontstaat, hoe meer donkere energie er ook komt. En dus wordt alles steeds sneller uit elkaar geduwd.

    Op aarde merken we helemaal niets van donkere energie. Ook tussen bijvoorbeeld naburige sterrenstelsels trekt de zwaartekracht nog altijd veel sterker. Alleen op de allergrootste kosmische schaal speelt donkere energie een hoofdrol.

    Als donkere energie kan veranderen, dan moeten we de kosmologi­sche theorieën herbekij­ken

    Kan donkere energie veranderen?

    Donkere energie zorgt dus dat het heelal steeds sneller uitdijt. Maar dat versnellen begon pas zo’n zes miljard jaar geleden, toen het heelal pakweg half zo oud was als nu. Toen werd donkere energie sterker dan zwaartekracht.

    Om meer te begrijpen over deze geheimzinnige energievorm willen wetenschappers onder meer ontdekken of donkere energie constant is of veranderingen ondergaat, vertelt Laureijs. In dat laatste geval moeten namelijk de kosmologische theorieën herbekijken.

    Met Euclid kunnen wetenschappers de vorming van de allergrootste kosmische structuren gedurende miljarden jaren bekijken.
    Met Euclid kunnen wetenschappers de vorming van de allergrootste kosmische structuren gedurende miljarden jaren bekijken. 
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    Omdat het heelal zo groot is en omdat licht tijd nodig heeft om ons te bereiken, is diep het heelal in kijken ook ver terug in de tijd zien. Euclid gaat terugkijken naar dat moment zes miljard jaar geleden, toen donkere energie zo sterk werd dat het zich met de ontwikkeling van het heelal begon te bemoeien.

    Is zwaartekracht wel wat we denken?

    De effecten van donkere materie en de vorming van sterrenstelsels in een webachtige structuur heeft allemaal met zwaartekracht te maken. Zwaartekracht begrijpen we vooral dankzij de algemene relativiteitstheorie van Einstein. Maar is deze theorie ook geldig op de allergrootste kosmische schaal? Dat weten kosmologen niet zeker.

    Met Euclid kunnen wetenschappers de vorming van de allergrootste kosmische structuren gedurende miljarden jaren bekijken. Mogelijk vinden ze met Euclid aanwijzingen dat de zwaartekracht op kosmische schaal net iets anders werkt dan gedacht. En ook dan moeten de theorieën op de schop.

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    02-07-2023 om 21:10 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Valiant Thor: Unraveling the Enigmatic Story of the Alien Residing in the Pentagon

    Valiant Thor: Unraveling the Enigmatic Story of the Alien Residing in the Pentagon

    Valiant Thor

    In the world of UFOlogy and extraterrestrial enthusiasts, there are myriad accounts, sightings, and stories that spark intrigue and fuel the pursuit of the truth. One such tale, steeped in mystery and seemingly out of a sci-fi blockbuster, is that of Valiant Thor – a supposed alien who not only visited Earth but allegedly had a direct line with the U.S. government.

    Born from the pages of the book “Stranger at the Pentagon,” (Amazon link) authored by Dr. Frank E. Stranges in 1967, the narrative surrounding Valiant Thor quickly gained traction. The story suggests that Thor, an alien from Venus, came to Earth in 1957, landing in Virginia where he was taken to meet President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon. He then spent three years living at the Pentagon, presenting solutions to eradicate poverty, disease, and even nuclear threats.

    One might quickly dismiss such claims as the imaginative works of an eager author. However, Stranges himself claimed to have met Thor, describing him as a man of ‘extraordinary’ abilities. Valiant Thor, according to Stranges, had an elongated lifespan of 490 years and possessed a pair of lungs more advanced than our own, letting him breathe in any atmospheric condition.

    Nevertheless, the story of Valiant Thor doesn’t come without controversy and skepticism. Some critics point out the striking resemblance of Thor’s narrative to the plot of the 1951 film “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. This has led many to question whether Valiant Thor’s tale is a genuine account of alien interaction or simply a case of creative plagiarism.

    What adds another layer to this already riveting tale is the existence of a rock band, Valient Thorr, that was established in 2001. With all members adopting ‘Thor’ as their surname, they seem to pay homage to this unique character in their very foundation.

    Despite the ongoing debates, the story of Valiant Thor has undeniably left an indelible mark on the extraterrestrial enthusiast community. It pushes the boundaries of our understanding of the universe and makes us wonder – could we really have been visited by an alien diplomat named Valiant Thor?

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    02-07-2023 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.UFOs Keep Appearing in the News. Here’s Why We Can’t Quit Them

    UFOs Keep Appearing in the News. Here’s Why We Can’t Quit Them

    For most of us, aliens are a source of mystery and fun, which keeps them forever in vogue

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    UFOs Keep Appearing in the News. Here's Why We Can't Quit Them

    County deputy sheriff, Val Johnson, indicating the claimed size of a flash of light he encountered in a 1979 UFO sighting.
    Credit: Stormi Greener, Star Tribune/via Getty Images

    In 1995, Fox Television captivated millions with a medical autopsy of a space alien. The 17-minute black and white clip purported to show military doctors examining a bloated, humanoid-looking extraterrestrial  that had died in a flying saucer crash.

    The broadcast generated so much hoopla that Fox aired it two more times that year, tacking on “added footage” of the UFO wreckage. Even then, the hoax—recycling the Roswell myth, which holds that the U.S. government in 1947 recovered an alien craft from the New Mexico desert—was old hat.

    The latest version of this fable is the widely circulated story of—you guessed it—crashed UFOs  that the U.S. government has been hiding for many decades. In June, a recently retired intelligence community “whistleblower” made this claimlike others before him in years past. That the latest “bombshell” landed without any evidence or corroboration has not dampened our feverish enthusiasm. “Are we finally ready to admit UFOs are aliens?” asks the Daily Beast in its headline.

    Americans have a bottomless appetite for this stuff. The initial story of crashed aliens was the Roswell incident, which stemmed from an actual cold war event; a balloon from a then-secret U.S. military project had fallen near Roswell, N.M., just as the flying saucer phenomenon was taking root. Ever since, the crashed saucer myth and UFOs in general have steadily profited news and entertainment outlets, and they have sated a deep human need for mystery.

    I get it. Aliens are cool. Fuzzy UFO videos, which (let’s be honest) the media uncritically hype way too much, are fun. Maybe this is why friends and family members are always texting me the latest, craziest UFO story (that is quickly proven to be bogus). UFOs are so damn entertaining!

    (A quick public service announcement: All this talk for decades about a “cosmic Watergate” is not amusing to everyone. Some people get really worked up and land in serious legal trouble; others find it a gateway to a toxic, paranoid swamp and entice vulnerable minds to join them.)

    For the most part, the ubiquitous alien icon is now a gimmicky relic from a larger landscape of escapist fantasy, the same terrain that has relegated other faddish subjects, like the Bermuda Triangle and Nessie, to the annals of pseudoscience. UFOs, in contrast, remain an enduring American obsession. Why? Are they so much fun that we can’t let them go?

    It’s more than that. “Despite centuries of scientific and social progress, we remain, at our most intimate level, believers,” writes author Marc Fitch in Paranormal Nation: Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot. Indeed, this is a core sentiment of the hit 1990s  X-Files show, which is embodied on the poster of a flying saucer above agent Mulder’s office wall with the phrase, “I want to believe.”

    Perhaps it also explains why Scott Brando, a diligent monitor and debunker of phony UFO videos that regularly go viral online, is always playing whack-a-mole. People fall prey to such hoaxes because they “need to believe something extraordinary” or “satisfy their craving for mystery,” he wrote in an e-mail to Scientific American.

    That human desire for mystery is something that UFO promoters—and they seem to have multiplied in recent years—are adept at fulfilling. Hence, all the recycling and reimagining of classic UFO narratives, such as Men in Black

    On occasion, there is a creative blending that invents a new myth for the UFO canon. The latest is a 512-acre ranch in rural Utah that is supposedly a “hotspot” for UFOs, poltergeists, animal mutilations and “shadow creatures.” A Las Vegas TV journalist (who is also a host of a conspiracy-themed radio show), refers to the ranch as a “paranormal Disneyland.”

    It’s the basis for a scripted reality show on the History Channel called The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. The main character is a retired Department of Defense astrophysicist (a featured character for years on Ancient Aliens) who also happens to be the former chief scientist of the Pentagon’s 2022 Unidentified Aerial Phenomena report produced by an agency task force.

    Wait, this gets better.

    The person formerly in charge of the Pentagon’s UFO task force is now appearing on the Skinwalker show (as himself), after he too, retired after a long DoD career. Both have reportedly claimed that a Skinwalker ranch poltergeist followed them home. (Nonetheless, this hasn’t kept them from returning to the ranch.)

    Like the latest UFO “whistleblower,” these fellows all have otherwise impeccable credentials. As Mick West, a prominent skeptic and debunker, writes in a 2021 Guardian piece, such influential messengers couch “weak evidence” for UFOs as compelling. “Don’t be fooled,” he cautions.

    But what if, like fans of professional wrestling, we know it’s just a big goof and don’t care? After all, ghost stories are fun. It’s the same with UFOs. The filmmaker behind the Alien Autopsy video later said he regretted his deception, but admitted “it was a joke, a bit of fun.”

    Avid consumers of UFO stories seem to be in on the joke. “Part of this whole thing is just wonderful bullshit,” Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, said to me in a recent conversation about the latest wave of UFO mania. “It has nothing to do with science, but we all love talking about aliens.” Frank was speaking in general about the silliness factor that has long made it virtually impossible to take UFOs seriously—except as a sociocultural phenomenon

    Pop culture needs a consistent diet of this junk food to meet our incessant UFO hunger. Will we ever kick the habit? UFO promoters obviously don’t think so. In recent days, the “whistleblower” has spoken out more to say that the multiple space alien crafts retrieved by the U.S. military are the size of football fields and held by unnamed U.S. defense contractors. Additionally, he suggested that the Vatican is involved in the cover-up and that, oh, by the way, people have been murdered to keep all this hushed up.

    That does not sound like fun. Perhaps this is why no one texted it to me.

    • This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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    George Knapp Pentagon UFO

    George Knapp Believes This US Company Helps Govt. In Reverse-Engineering UFOs

    What UFOs actually are is one of the mysteries that the entire world is yearning to have answered. Top agencies from all around the world invest millions of dollars to uncover this reality and determine the cause of numerous UFO sightings. George Knapp recently broke a story about an Alabama-based private company that he asserts might be working with alien technology.

    Controversial physicist Bob Lazar told long ago about the alleged secret US program aimed to reverse engineer the alien technology. Perhaps he knows something that we do not. Investigative American journalist George Knapp was the first person who interviewed Lazar and brought his story to the world. Now, Mr. Kanpp believes that a private American company named “Radiance Technologies” might be reverse engineering UFOs.

    Radiance Technologies, Inc. is an employee-owned small business prime contractor. It has over 900 employees working in more than 15 U.S. and international offices. It serves customers in the Department of Defense (DOD), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the national intelligence community, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), other government organizations, and selected commercial customers.

    In 2021, the US Congress passed a bill (soon-to-become law) that would allow funding to reverse engineer UFO technology. In a few months, the Pentagon created an office to track UAP, and NASA also joined in the investigation. Any data gathered could also be used in funding requests to “replicate any such advanced characteristics and performance” of UAPs, according to Military.com. This means that government plans to encourage the reverse engineering of UFOs.

    Mr. Knapp claims that this private defense contractor has an office inside Wright-Patterson Air Base that is known for holding alleged UFO material. Radiance Technologies has quietly become a major player in developing Cutting Edge weapons and systems for the Pentagon but unlike some of its larger competitors Radiance without hesitant talks about a topic long considered Fringe or forbidden UFOs. (Source)

    Tim Tinsley, president of Radiance Technology

    Tim Tinsley, a president of Radiance Technology avidly said that he would like to work on UFO technology if somebody offered them to do it. “Why not,” he says. “I’m waiting for one of those.” Tinsley is an engineer who spent two decades working on missile defense systems before joining Radiance.

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    Mr. Knapp hinted (as per the information available on their website) that Radiance deals in exotic defense Technologies such as Star Wars-like direct energy, Hypersonic missile systems to defend against cyber warfare, etc.

    Perhaps they are working on other unclassified projects at Nellis Air Force Base, however, Tinsley refrained himself telling about it. “I can’t tell you a lot,” Tinsley said. “I can tell is you is we’ve supported the Las Vegas community, Nellis Air Force Base, for over 20 years.” He noted the work is mainly for the Air Force in research and development, test and evaluation spectrum.

    For more than three decades, Nellis Air Force Base has been rumored to be the home of mysterious materials of unknown origin. The rumor claims that a top-secret operation located at or close to Nevada’s Area 51 military base has been attempting to reverse-engineer alien technology. However, this rumor has been dismissed as folklore by military organizations and defense companies.

    However, Radiance Technology is unable to validate the claims. Longtime Navy intelligence official Jay Stratton, who earlier served as the chief of the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial phenomenon, or UAP, task force, was hired as a reverse engineering specialist, according to an announcement made months ago. (Source)

    “I am very excited to join Radiance Technologies. Radiance has a great culture, balancing mission focus and vision with a strong emphasis on the professional and personal growth of our employees. I’m excited to provide our customers with a diverse and innovative approach to delivering capabilities and supporting our nation in strategic competition,” said Stratton.

    Dr. Travis Taylor, who collaborated with him as the lead scientist for the UAP task team, was recommended for hire by Stratton to Radiance. When Radiance announced the hire of two UFO research veterans, the news releases didn’t downplay the association and specifically mentioned their credentials. But is the business concerned about the notion that they could be creating UFOs through reverse engineering? (Source)

    Taylor, for his part, isn’t saying what he and Stratton are working on but makes it clear what they’re hoping to tackle, writes Mr. Knapp. “Jay and I are working on growing the capabilities, doing reverse engineering of foreign materials,” Taylor explained. “If we were to get something to reverse engineer, we would absolutely want to do that.”

    During an interview for On Balance With Leland Vittert, a member of the US House of Representatives Tim 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.

    First of all, Burchett again highlighted the UFO cover-up by the intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense, recalling what happened at the last public hearing in Congress. “We are the most technologically advanced nation in the world, and they present us with these lousy videos, which — during the hearing — weren’t even able to pause properly to show us two or three frames,” he said. “Everything is bad, they don’t trust us. It’s all about power and control,” he added.

    Vittert then asked the Congressman about the statement issued by the Navy and how they are refusing to release any more videos showing UAP. He questioned whether this might be because it is a proprietary technology that adversary nations should not know about. The Congressman replied by saying that he thinks the United States Government had probably reverse-engineered alien technology. He claims that many sightings are made on military installations or over restricted airspace.

    The Congressman was also asked about his thoughts on whether the Navy was working on technology that could have applications in space or similar to that. In addition, he was asked whether he thought Roswell was a weather balloon. “They are covering it up, and American taxpayers should sue them. It’s so compartmentalized that probably a lot of the people working on it — reverse engineering projects — don’t even know what they’re working on,” he said.

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    ‘Ik heb de gevaren van AI niet ernstig genoeg genomen’

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    ‘Ik heb de gevaren van AI niet ernstig genoeg genomen’

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    Hij is een van de peetvaders van artificiële intelligentie, maar vandaag maakt Yoshua Bengio zich grote zorgen over zijn uitvinding. Over tien jaar kunnen de systemen al slimmer zijn dan wij, gelooft hij. ‘Ik heb altijd gedacht dat we de menselijke intelligentie moesten trachten te imiteren. Nu denk ik dat dat een grote vergissing zou zijn.’

    Bezorgd is Yoshua Bengio al langer. In 2017 al was hij een van de initiatiefnemers van de Declaratie van Montreal, die pleitte voor meer ethische artificiële intelligentie. Bengio is samen met Geoffrey Hinton en Yann LeCun een van de grondleggers van AI: in 2019 kreeg het drietal de Turingprijs, zowat de Nobelprijs voor computerwetenschap, voor hun rol in de ontwikkeling van deep learning, de tak van AI die sinds 2010 tot nooit geziene doorbraken leidde. ‘Zo’n vijf jaar geleden begonnen grote bedrijven als Facebook en Google elkaar te beconcurreren bij het opkopen van AI-start-ups’, vertelt hij. ‘Het werd toen duidelijk dat we van spoor moesten veranderen. Dit was niet langer een puur intellectuele verkenning voor de wetenschap, we moesten echt nadenken over hoe de technologie gebruikt zou worden.’

    Maar de stroomversnelling waarin de technologie dit jaar is terechtgekomen, maakt Bengio ronduit bang. De Standaard praatte via videoverbinding met hem over de verbijsterende ontwikkelingen van de afgelopen maanden en zijn groeiende bezorgdheid.

    Wat is uw grootste zorg?

    ‘De onzekerheid en de omvang van de schade die aangericht kan worden als we machines bouwen die slimmer zijn dan wijzelf. De technologie kan ook misbruikt worden of op een onverstandige manier gebruikt. Beide scenario’s kunnen catastrofale gevolgen hebben.’

    Wanneer kreeg u het gevoel dat het allemaal sneller gaat dan u had verwacht?

    ‘Dat is geleidelijk gebeurd, de voorbije paar maanden, naarmate ik meer vertrouwd raakte met ChatGPT en later GPT-4 en daarover nadacht en praatte met collega’s van over de hele wereld.’

    Taalmodellen

    Nochtans zijn taalmodellen als GPT-3.5 (het AI-systeem dat ChatGPT aandrijft) en opvolger GPT-4 niet nieuw voor Bengio. Hij was zelf de grondlegger van de technologie, toen hij 20 jaar geleden begon neurale netwerken (computerprogramma’s die geïnspireerd zijn op de werking van hersencellen) te trainen door ze te voeden met tekst. ‘We begonnen met zeer kleine datasets en zeer kleine neurale netwerken, maar de resultaten waren toch al interessant.’ In 2014 werd een nieuw element toegevoegd: een attentiemechanisme, dat maakt dat het taalmodel beter rekening kan houden met context. ‘Toen we dat deden aan de universiteit, werkte het gewoon iets beter dan de bestaande systemen, maar echt indrukwekkend was het niet. Maar Google bouwde een groter neuraal netwerk, trainde dat op meer data en liet er goede engineering op los.

    Het resultaat was verbluffend. Toen begonnen we het effect van schaalvergroting te zien: we hoeven het recept van die neurale netwerken eigenlijk niet zo veel aan te passen, we maken ze gewoon groter, trainen ze langer en op meer data, en ze worden verbazingwekkend veel beter.’

    En dat heeft u dit jaar opnieuw verbaasd?

    ‘Ja.’

    Wat was het dan precies, dat u niet had zien aankomen?

    Ik dacht dat de systemen, zelfs met zoveel trainingsdata, zouden falen als ze geconfronteerd werden met nieuwe vragen. Maar dat blijkt niet zo te zijn. Je kunt de systemen nog altijd in de fout laten gaan, maar dan moet je daar al echt moeite voor doen. Veel mensen zouden diezelfde vragen ook niet correct beantwoorden. Ik realiseerde me dus dat we een paar echt belangrijke mijlpalen hebben bereikt. We hebben de Turingtest gehaald, het moment waarop je mens en machine niet meer uit elkaar kunt houden als je ermee interageert door tekst in te tikken.’

    U denkt dat systemen als ChatGPT voor die test zouden slagen?

    ‘Officieel is dat niet gebeurd, maar in de praktijk is dat toch wat we zien gebeuren.’

    De jongste maanden groeit de bezorgdheid over de ontwikkelingen. Wat loopt er momenteel mis?

    ‘Wel, er is net iets goeds aan het gebeuren: meer mensen worden zich bewust van de gevaren die misschien in het verschiet liggen. Eerst waren dat de mensen die de technologie ontwierpen en de bedrijven errond oprichtten. Maar ook politici zijn zich er mee gaan bemoeien en dat is heel belangrijk.’

    ‘Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat er manieren zijn om veilige AI-systemen te bouwen – systemen waarover we de controle niet kunnen verliezen en die de mensheid echt kunnen helpen. Het probleem is: als we weten hoe we veilige AI-systemen moeten bouwen, dan weten we ook hoe we de gevaarlijke kunnen bouwen – dus: hoe verhinderen we dat dat gebeurt? En dat is een politieke vraag, geen technische.’

    Europa werkt aan een AI-Act. Zitten we op het juiste spoor?

    ‘Ik vrees dat het om een erg log instrument gaat, terwijl alles nu heel snel evolueert. We hebben een regelgevend orgaan nodig dat zijn regels snel kan updaten als er nieuwe potentiële gevaren opduiken. Er is ook een interessant Canadees wetsvoorstel, dat de rol van de wet en van het regelgevend orgaan opsplitst op een flexibele manier. Maar deze wetten zijn ontworpen vóór ChatGPT en vóór de huidige discussie over het verlies van controle en de bedreiging van de democratie. Er moeten meer controles op die potentiële gevaren ingebouwd worden. Ik meen te begrijpen dat het comité over AI-richtlijnen van de G7 zal nadenken over alle gevaren en dat is goed.’

    Verschillende kopstukken van de AI-industrie, zoals OpenAI-baas Sam Altman, verklaren openlijk dat zij grote gevaren zien en dringen aan op regulering. Hoe oprecht is Altman daarin?

    ‘Ik ken hem niet goed genoeg om daarop te antwoorden. Hij ziet er oprecht uit, maar anderzijds: verklaren dat er regulering nodig is en dan zeggen dat de Europese wetgeving onmogelijk gerespecteerd kan worden, dat klinkt niet zo coherent.’

    OpenAI heeft de technologie achter ChatGPT niet uitgevonden, maar wel als eerste op de markt gebracht. Was dat onverantwoord?

    ‘We weten eigenlijk niet precies wat er in hun systeem zit. Maar we hebben aanwijzingen dat ze verschillende bestaande elementen hebben samengebracht – zoals wel meer gebeurt. En dat hebben ze opmerkelijk goed gedaan. Ik denk dat ze zeker gestart zijn met een sterke intentie om de risico’s aan te pakken, inbegrepen het risico op verlies van controle. Ik lees dat ze die zorg misschien wat laten verslappen door de commerciële druk en de race waarin ze zich nu bevinden, maar dat kan ik niet met zekerheid zeggen.’

    Yann LeCun, die andere peetvader van AI, vindt het zinloos om ons nu al zorgen te maken over superintelligentie, omdat we daar nog mijlenver vanaf staan.

    ‘Dat is niet wat hij zegt, denk ik. Ik denk dat hij het ermee eens is dat we op een spoor zitten dat zal leiden tot machines die slimmer zijn dan wij. En niet pas over een eeuw. Misschien ligt die horizon voor hem wat verderaf dan voor mij, maar dat is geen fundamenteel meningsverschil. Zoals ik het begrijp, vindt LeCun dat we ons geen zorgen hoeven te maken omdat we het probleem wel zullen kunnen oplossen als het zich aandient.’

    En u denkt van niet?

    ‘Ik denk dat de inzet veel te groot is om niet zo voorzichtig mogelijk te zijn.’

    U tekende in maart de open brief die opriep tot een pauze van zes maanden in de ontwikkeling van de meest geavanceerde AI-systemen. Zou dat helpen?

    ‘Ja, maar het zal niet gebeuren. Nog voor de brief gepubliceerd werd, wist ik dat het nooit zou gebeuren. Maar de brief had een positieve impact: het bracht de discussie op gang. Dat is een indrukwekkende verwezenlijking.’

    Dus wat moet er nu gebeuren?

    ‘Geoff Hinton zei enkele weken geleden: we moeten evenveel uitgeven aan het verbeteren van de algoritmes als aan het maken dat ze veilig zijn en dat we het publiek beschermen. Dat kunnen AI-researchers niet in hun eentje, we moeten werken met juristen, met mensen die de ethische aspecten begrijpen, specialisten in cybersecurity en in nucleaire, biologische en chemische wapens.’

    De grote AI-systemen die nu zo snel evolueren, zoals GPT-4, kunnen die veilig gemaakt worden?

    ‘Het probleem zit niet bij de architectuur, al kunnen we die altijd verbeteren. Vooral de manier waarop de systemen getraind worden, moet veranderen. En daar heb ik enkele ideeën over. Eén manier om de systemen veilig te maken, is garanderen dat ze geen agency(het vermogen om initiatief te nemen, red.) hebben, dat ze zelfs geen notie hebben van een eigen doel of plan. Al wat ze doen, is proberen te begrijpen hoe de wereld werkt en ons met die kennis helpen om vragen op te lossen.’

    Systemen als GPT-4 leken geen agency te hebben, ze beantwoorden alleen vragen. Maar plots komen er systemen uit als AutoGPT, dat ChatGPT omtovert in een soort autonoom optredende assistent. Is dat wat u agency noemt?

    ‘Ja. Het is erg eenvoudig om iets te nemen wat dienst doet als een soort orakel dat alleen vragen beantwoordt, en het om te toveren in een agent. De agent hoeft immers alleen te weten: van alle mogelijke acties die ik kan ondernemen, welke actie zal mij helpen om mijn doel te bereiken? En als je het antwoord hebt op die vraag, dan onderneem je die actie.’

    Dus AutoGPT is gevaarlijk?

    ‘Niet zoals het nu is. Er is nog niet veel werk in gestopt om het goed te maken. En ChatGPT is nog niet zo slim. Maar stel dat we in kwaliteit nog een stapje boven GPT-4 gaan, laten we zeggen GPT-5 of zoiets, dan kan het gevaarlijk worden.’

    Superintelligentie

    Bengio betreurt dan ook dat hij niet eerder in actie is geschoten. ‘Ik denk dat er een psychologisch obstakel is dat ons verhindert om iets te zien wat zo in tegenstelling is met het doel waar we naartoe werken. En daarom heb ik niet gedaan wat ik had moeten doen. Deze gevaren zijn al 10 à 20 jaar bekend, maar ze werden niet ernstig genomen omdat mensen als ik dachten: ach, dat ligt nog veel te ver in de toekomst, we hebben zelfs nog geen idee van hoe zulke AI-systemen eruit zullen zien, dus hoe kunnen we daar vandaag al iets aan doen? Maar nu is de situatie anders, nu staat het vlak voor ons.’

    Er zijn nog heel wat technische obstakels met de huidige taalmodellen, maar Bengio gelooft dat die in sneltempo opgelost kunnen worden. Dat systemen als ChatGPT om de haverklap feiten verzinnen, de zogenoemde ‘hallucinaties’, bijvoorbeeld: ‘Dat kan ingeperkt worden, daar werken momenteel veel mensen aan. En zelfs in hun huidige staat, met al hun gebreken, kunnen die systemen nuttig zijn. Alle mensen die ik om me heen zie, gebruiken ze.’

    ‘We begrijpen in grote lijnen wat er aan die systemen ontbreekt. Er wordt gewerkt aan algoritmes die dat kunnen verbeteren. Misschien kunnen we alle problemen in drie tot vijf jaar oplossen, en dat is wat mij zorgen baart. Nu, het blijft mogelijk dat er nog iets anders, iets fundamenteels, ontbreekt wat we nu nog niet zien. Dat zou dan eigenlijk een goede zaak zijn, want het zou ons meer tijd geven om ons aan te passen. Maar wat als het juist sneller gaat dan verwacht, zoals het afgelopen jaar het geval was?’

    U gelooft nu dat superintelligentie, een AI-systeem dat de mens overtreft, er over 10 jaar al kan zijn?

    ‘Ja, net als veel van mijn collega’s.’

    Nochtans zeggen andere onderzoekers dat er nog te veel onopgeloste problemen zijn, dat het veel langer zal duren.

    ‘Absoluut. En had je mij die vraag een jaar geleden gesteld, dan had ik 20 tot 100 jaar gezegd. Nu zeg ik: 5 tot 20 jaar.’

    Dus hoe kijkt u nu naar uw eigen onderzoek? Vindt u het gevaarlijk?

    ‘Mijn onderzoek heeft zeker geholpen om ons te brengen waar we nu staan. Al die vragen stel ik mezelf elke dag: wat is het beste gebruik van mijn tijd om de risico’s te minimaliseren en de voordelen voor de hele mensheid te maximaliseren?’

    Het klinkt alsof u daar echt mee worstelt.

    ‘Dat is ook zo. Hier zijn geen gemakkelijke antwoorden op te vinden.’

    ‘Ik heb de gevaren van AI niet ernstig genoeg genomen’

    Mijn hele carrière lang heb ik gedacht dat we moesten proberen om onze eigen intelligentie te imiteren. Nu denk ik dat dat een vergissing is.’ 
    Foto: pa

    Uw onderzoek zou het mogelijk maken dat de AI-systemen meer denken zoals wij – maar dat vindt u dus nu eigenlijk geen goed idee meer?

    ‘Gedurende mijn hele carrière heb ik gedacht dat we inspiratie moesten halen uit de mens, moesten proberen om onze eigen intelligentie te imiteren. Nu denk ik dat dat een vergissing is. Het is belangrijk dat we begrijpen hoe het brein werkt, maar machines bouwen die erg lijken op mensen zou in veel opzichten een grote vergissing zijn. In sciencefiction zien we androïden en AI-systemen die min of meer als mensen zijn, maar dan mechanisch. Zoals Data in Star Trek. Dat beeld klopt volgens mij niet. Om te beginnen zijn machines in wezen onsterfelijk, want ze kunnen hun programmacode en hun staat kopiëren. Wij zijn fundamenteel anders. We ontwerpen die machines omdat we instrumenten willen bouwen die ons helpen. Maar misschien scheppen we een nieuwe soort die gevaarlijk is voor ons en zelfs voor het voortbestaan van onze eigen soort. In het verleden zijn vele soorten uitgestorven, ­gewoonlijk omdat er een slimmere  soort kwam. In de laatste paar eeuwen hebben we het uitsterven van zo’n duizend soorten veroorzaakt. Niet omdat we ze dood wilden, maar omdat ze in de weg stonden tussen ons en meer land of meer geld.’

    Dus u gelooft op dit moment dat het beter is dat we die superintelligentie nooit bereiken?

    ‘Dat zeg ik niet. Als we die superintelligentie op een veilige manier bereiken, kan het ons helpen met veel van de uitdagingen waarvoor de mensheid staat: ziekte, klimaatverandering, armoede en economische ongelijkheid – problemen waar we geen of amper vooruitgang in boeken. Maar we moeten het op een veilige manier doen. En op dit moment weten we eigenlijk niet hoe dat moet. En dus moeten we het langzaamaan doen en werken aan maatregelen die de schade kunnen beperken.’

    ‘Het andere probleem is: zelfs als ik, of iemand anders in een paar landen, beslist om te vertragen, dan zijn er toch mensen in andere landen die dat niet doen. Wat doen we daar dan tegen? Een van de dingen die mijn vriend en collega Yann LeCun zegt, en waar ik het mee eens ben, is dat we waarschijnlijk de hulp van sommige AI-systemen nodig zullen hebben om ons te beschermen tegen mogelijke losgeslagen AI’s. Dus daar staan we dan: we hebben die systemen nodig, maar tegelijk willen we ze niet. En als ze toch ergens opduiken, dan hebben wij er ook nodig om ons ertegen te beschermen. Het is zoals nucleaire wapens, nietwaar? Kernwapens zijn gevaarlijk, maar als iemand anders ze gaat bouwen, dan hebben wij ze ook nodig. We moeten daarmee leren om te gaan.’

    Moeten we ons zorgen maken over de toekomst?

    ‘Wel, je zorgen maken is op zichzelf niet nuttig. We moeten handelen. In de eerste plaats om die kwesties beter te begrijpen, want er is veel wat we nog niet begrijpen. Een goede aanwijzing daarvoor is dat er zoveel onenigheid bestaat tussen onderzoekers. Daarnaast moeten we in regulering voorzien, in internationale akkoorden, om op een pad te raken naar veiligheid en fairness, met de bedoeling het publiek beter te beschermen.’

    Hebben overheden nog tijd om op te treden? Er bestaan al open-sourceversies die iedereen zomaar kan downloaden en verder bewerken. Dat kun je toch niet meer stoppen?

    ‘Nee, de huidige systemen zijn nog te dom om echt gevaarlijk te zijn. Ja, ze kunnen gebruikt worden voor desinformatie. Maar de echt grote gevaren liggen nog een aantal jaren voor ons, dus het is nog niet te laat. Maar we zullen wel veel sneller wetgevende maatregelen moeten opstellen dan we, bijvoorbeeld, gedaan hebben tegen de klimaatverandering. Daarin waren we veel te traag.’

    Zieners

    Hoe kunnen we de radicale veranderingen begrijpen die onze wereld ondergaat? In de reeks ‘Zieners’ zoeken we houvast en inspiratie bij vooruitziende denkers.

    In deze aflevering is dat Yoshua Bengio, een van de grondleggers van Artificial ­Intelligence. Bengio is professor computerwetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Montreal en wetenschappelijk ­directeur van het Montreal ­Institute for Learning Algorithms. In 2019 won hij de ­Turing-prijs voor zijn bijdrage aan de ontwikkeling van AI, ­samen met Yann Lecun en ­Geoffrey Hinton. Vorig jaar was Bengio de meest geciteerde wetenschapper ter wereld.

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    Over mijzelf
    Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
    Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
    Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
    Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
    Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën... Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
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    LINKS NAAR BEKENDE UFO-VERENIGINGEN - DEEL 1
  • http://www.ufonieuws.nl/
  • http://www.grenswetenschap.nl/
  • http://www.beamsinvestigations.org.uk/
  • http://www.mufon.com/
  • http://www.ufomeldpunt.be/
  • http://www.ufowijzer.nl/
  • http://www.ufoplaza.nl/
  • http://www.ufowereld.nl/
  • http://www.stantonfriedman.com/
  • http://ufo.start.be/

    LINKS NAAR BEKENDE UFO-VERENIGINGEN - DEEL 2
  • www.ufo.be
  • www.caelestia.be
  • ufo.startpagina.nl.
  • www.wszechocean.blogspot.com.
  • AsocCivil Unifa
  • UFO DISCLOSURE PROJECT

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