The Harvard Psychiatrist Engrossed in Extraterrestrial Encounters

In the labyrinthine halls of science, few have dared to traverse the controversial path of UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) research. Dr. John Mack, a respected professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is one of those daring pioneers whose exploration into the alien abduction phenomenon has stirred both intrigue and controversy. The narrative of Dr. Mack’s journey, described in detail by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ralph Blumenthal in his book “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack”, offers a captivating lens into the life of a man willing to challenge conventional wisdom and orthodoxy.

John Mack first ventured into UFO research in 1990 after encountering the works of Bud Hopkins, a UFO abduction researcher. Mack referred to those claiming to have been taken by aliens as “experiencers” rather than “abductees”, a reflection of his non-judgmental and humanistic approach. Within less than two years, he had organized a lecture at Harvard, introducing several experiencers and sharing a chilling account of a woman claiming her pregnancy had been taken by alien beings.

However, Mack’s unconventional research path was met with staunch opposition from his Harvard colleagues, who saw it as unscientific and lacking empirical evidence. His attempts to publish his findings in academic journals were also met with resistance due to the complexity of the subject matter. The New England Journal of Medicine, for instance, would not even open his submission envelope. Mack believed that an article was not enough to capture the nuances of his research. Instead, he saw the need for a book-length exploration of the phenomenon.

The Harvard administration launched an investigation into Mack’s work in 1994, shortly after the publication of his book. The investigation highlighted a clash of world views: the empirical, reductionist perspective of the Harvard committee and Mack’s open-minded exploration of anecdotal but compelling evidence from experiencers. Despite the committee’s insistence that the unprovable does not exist, Mack maintained his stance, arguing that something was indeed happening, though it defied traditional scientific explanation.

Ultimately, Mack emerged from the investigation unscathed. He was allowed to continue his research without sanctions, although he was cautioned to temper his enthusiasm. This event demonstrated his steadfast character, a quality reflected in his writings, speeches, and personal life. Despite the admonitions, Mack remained passionately devoted to his research until his untimely death in a car accident in 2004.

VIDEO:

• The Harvard Psychiatrist Obsessed with Alien Abduction | Ralph Blumenthal

The saga of Dr. John Mack underscores the complexity of navigating unconventional research paths within traditional academic settings. His work challenges the typical boundaries of scientific materialism and pushes us to consider possibilities that might lie beyond our understanding. As we continue to explore the unknown, his story serves as a beacon, reminding us of the courage it takes to pursue truth, regardless of the opposition.

John Mack’s passion and dedication towards UFO research not only pushed boundaries but also encouraged others to question, explore and unravel the mysteries of the universe. His story remains an inspiration for those willing to tread off beaten paths and is a testament to the endless human curiosity that drives us to understand our place in the cosmos. His enduring legacy encourages us to always seek the truth, no matter how unconventional or daunting it might seem.

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17-07-2023 om 19:51 geschreven door peter  

UFO BOMBSHELL & LIVE REACTION RICHARD DOLAN, DANNY SHEEHAN, LINDA MOULTON HOWE

On June 5, 2023, a major new breaking story occurred in the UFO/UAP field concerning the allegations of a significant new whistleblower, David Grusch. This is covered in an article from the Debrief by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, who previously wrote important UFO pieces for the New York Times. Grusch has stated that there is definitely a UFO crash retrieval program in existence and has been around for many decades. Moreover, it is subject to international rivalries. There is much more in the article, which is linked below. Richard Dolan was at the Contact in the Desert UFO conference when the story broke and incorporated the news into his final lecture there. This video includes an introduction to the news by Richard, along with clips from his lecture, then the breaking news story, then discussion with attorney Danny Sheehan, and finally comments by researcher Linda Moulton Howe. Historical events and reactions.

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17-07-2023 om 01:35 geschreven door peter  

Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With Close-up on Birth of Sun-like Stars

The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you’d never know it from Webb’s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)

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From our cosmic backyard in the solar system to distant galaxies near the dawn of time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered on its promise of revealing the universe like never before in its first year of science operations. To celebrate the completion of a successful first year, NASA has released Webb’s image of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.

“In just one year, the James Webb Space Telescope has transformed humanity’s view of the cosmos, peering into dust clouds and seeing light from faraway corners of the universe for the very first time. Every new image is a new discovery, empowering scientists around the globe to ask and answer questions they once could never dream of,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Webb is an investment in American innovation but also a scientific feat made possible with NASA’s international partners that share a can-do spirit to push the boundaries of what is known to be possible. Thousands of engineers, scientists, and leaders poured their life’s passion into this mission, and their efforts will continue to improve our understanding of the origins of the universe – and our place in it.”

The new Webb image released today features the nearest star-forming region to us. Its proximity at 390 light-years allows for a highly detailed close-up, with no foreground stars in the intervening space.

“On its first anniversary, the James Webb Space Telescope has already delivered upon its promise to unfold the universe, gifting humanity with a breathtaking treasure trove of images and science that will last for decades,” said Nicola Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “An engineering marvel built by the world’s leading scientists and engineers, Webb has given us a more intricate understanding of galaxies, stars, and the atmospheres of planets outside of our solar system than ever before, laying the groundwork for NASA to lead the world in a new era of scientific discovery and the search for habitable worlds.”

Webb’s image shows a region containing approximately 50 young stars, all of them similar in mass to the Sun, or smaller. The darkest areas are the densest, where thick dust cocoons still-forming protostars. Huge bipolar jets of molecular hydrogen, represented in red, dominate the image, appearing horizontally across the upper third and vertically on the right. These occur when a star first bursts through its natal envelope of cosmic dust, shooting out a pair of opposing jets into space like a newborn first stretching her arms out into the world. In contrast, the star S1 has carved out a glowing cave of dust in the lower half of the image. It is the only star in the image that is significantly more massive than the Sun.

“Webb’s image of Rho Ophiuchi allows us to witness a very brief period in the stellar lifecycle with new clarity. Our own Sun experienced a phase like this, long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another’s star’s story,” said Klaus Pontoppidan, who served as Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, since before the telescope’s launch and through the first year of operations.

Some stars in the image display tell-tale shadows indicating protoplanetary disks – potential future planetary systems in the making.

A Full Year, Across the Full Sky

From its very first deep field image, unveiled by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Nelson live at the White House, Webb has delivered on its promise to show us more of the universe than ever before. However, Webb revealed much more than distant galaxies in the early universe.

“The breadth of science Webb is capable of exploring really becomes clear now, when we have a full year’s worth of data from targets across the sky,” said Eric Smith, associate director for research in the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters and Webb program scientist. “Webb’s first year of science has not only taught us new things about our universe, but it has revealed the capabilities of the telescope to be greater than our expectations, meaning future discoveries will be even more amazing.” The global astronomy community has spent the past year excitedly poring over Webb’s initial public data and getting a feel for how to work with it.

Beyond the stunning infrared images, what really has scientists excited are Webb’s crisp spectra – the detailed information that can be gleaned from light by the telescope’s spectroscopic instruments. Webb’s spectra have confirmed the distances of some of the farthest galaxies ever observed, and have discovered the earliest, most distant supermassive black holes. They have identified the compositions of planet atmospheres (or lack thereof) with more detail than ever before, and have narrowed down what kinds of atmospheres may exist on rocky exoplanets for the first time. They also have revealed the chemical makeup of stellar nurseries and protoplanetary disks, detecting water, organic carbon-containing molecules, and more. Already, Webb observations have resulted in hundreds of scientific papers answering longstanding questions and raising new ones to address with Webb.

The breadth of Webb science is also apparent in its observations of the region of space we are most familiar with – our own solar system. Faint rings of gas giants appear out of the darkness, dotted by moons, while in the background Webb shows distant galaxies. By comparing detections of water and other molecules in our solar system with those found in the disks of other, much younger planetary systems, Webb is helping to build up clues about our own origins – how Earth became the ideal place for life as we know it.

"With a year of science under our belts, we know exactly how powerful this telescope is, and have delivered a year of spectacular data and discoveries,” said Webb Senior Project Scientist Jane Rigby of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. “We've selected an ambitious set of observations for year two — that builds on everything we've learned so far. Webb's science mission is just getting started — there's so much more to come."

The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's premier space science observatory. Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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17-07-2023 om 01:22 geschreven door peter  

Famous 'man in the moon' could be 200 million years older than we thought

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

Astronomers May Have Found Ancient Stars Formed from Dark Matter

First stars, is that you?

BY DORIS ELÍN URRUTIA

 

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A ‘SUPERMASSIVE DARK STAR’

JWST can view regions of space that have never been seen before by human eyes. Its first year was packed with, among other exciting things, galaxy after galaxy peeking at us from the distant universe.

But a few of these objects might be something else — supermassive stars powered by invisible material called dark matter.

Light’s speed is finite. The farther away an object is, the longer its light takes to reach the instruments aboard JWST. Astronomers can witness scenes from the ancient universe in its images. They’re on the lookout for galactic precursors called protogalaxies. From these forebearers until now, galaxies retain the stuff that stars shed throughout their lifetimes, including the heavier elements that are essential to creating life. Knowing how they evolve is a major area of interest.

But as astronomers have scanned for protogalaxies on their quest to unpack our origins, they may, in fact, be looking at something else entirely: the Tuesday paper proposes that three hazy specks from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) are actually incredibly-hefty stars, bigger than anything in the modern universe.

They’re called dark stars, owing to an explanation that puts dark matter in the driver’s seat instead of nuclear fusion.

“Dark stars could theoretically grow to be several million times the mass of our Sun and up to 10 billion times as bright as the Sun,” according to a Thursday announcement about the paper.

REVEALING THE FIRST STARS

In the 20th century, galaxy scholars were confused by what they saw. Galaxies seem to have too little mass to stay together in a huddle. Eventually, an explanation would propose that the universe was full of a material that didn’t interact with light. And though this matter couldn’t be seen in telescopes, it had mass to help bind visible matter together.

JWST hasn’t seen the first stars — yet. But astronomers are optimistic that one day it will. And if these three supermassive dark star candidates are confirmed to be what researchers suspect, a deeper understanding of the cosmos will arise.

“The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the formation and properties of the first luminous objects in the universe,” researchers write in the study.

Dark matter is a foremost source of intrigue for modern astronomers. Missions like the recently-launched Euclid spacecraft and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study dark matter like never before.

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17-07-2023 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Astronomers May Have Found Ancient Stars Formed from Dark Matter

First stars, is that you?

BY DORIS ELÍN URRUTIA

 

NASA/ESA

NASA/ESA

A ‘SUPERMASSIVE DARK STAR’

JWST can view regions of space that have never been seen before by human eyes. Its first year was packed with, among other exciting things, galaxy after galaxy peeking at us from the distant universe.

But a few of these objects might be something else — supermassive stars powered by invisible material called dark matter.

Light’s speed is finite. The farther away an object is, the longer its light takes to reach the instruments aboard JWST. Astronomers can witness scenes from the ancient universe in its images. They’re on the lookout for galactic precursors called protogalaxies. From these forebearers until now, galaxies retain the stuff that stars shed throughout their lifetimes, including the heavier elements that are essential to creating life. Knowing how they evolve is a major area of interest.

But as astronomers have scanned for protogalaxies on their quest to unpack our origins, they may, in fact, be looking at something else entirely: the Tuesday paper proposes that three hazy specks from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) are actually incredibly-hefty stars, bigger than anything in the modern universe.

They’re called dark stars, owing to an explanation that puts dark matter in the driver’s seat instead of nuclear fusion.

“Dark stars could theoretically grow to be several million times the mass of our Sun and up to 10 billion times as bright as the Sun,” according to a Thursday announcement about the paper.

REVEALING THE FIRST STARS

In the 20th century, galaxy scholars were confused by what they saw. Galaxies seem to have too little mass to stay together in a huddle. Eventually, an explanation would propose that the universe was full of a material that didn’t interact with light. And though this matter couldn’t be seen in telescopes, it had mass to help bind visible matter together.

JWST hasn’t seen the first stars — yet. But astronomers are optimistic that one day it will. And if these three supermassive dark star candidates are confirmed to be what researchers suspect, a deeper understanding of the cosmos will arise.

“The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the formation and properties of the first luminous objects in the universe,” researchers write in the study.

Dark matter is a foremost source of intrigue for modern astronomers. Missions like the recently-launched Euclid spacecraft and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study dark matter like never before.

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17-07-2023 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Liquid Water on Rocky Planets Could be 100 Times More Likely

It’s easy to think of Earth as a water world, with its vast oceans and beautiful lakes, but compared to many worlds, Earth is particularly wet. Even the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn have far more liquid water than Earth. Earth is unusual not because it has liquid water, but because it has liquid water in the warm habitable zone of the Sun. And as a new study in Nature Communications shows, Earth could be even more unusual than we thought.

Water is one of the more common molecules in the universe. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the cosmos, and oxygen is easily produced as part of the stellar CNO fusion cycle. So we would expect water-rich planets to be plentiful in stellar systems. But that isn’t to say liquid water will be plentiful. In our solar system, two kinds of worlds have liquid water. Earth and gas giant moons.

Like other warm terrestrial planets such as Venus and Mars, Earth had liquid water in its youth. Mars was too small to retain its water. Much of it evaporated into space, while some froze into its surface crust. Venus was large enough to retain water, but its extreme heat boiled much of it off into its thick atmosphere. We still aren’t entirely sure how Earth managed to retain its oceans, but it was likely a combination of a strong magnetic field and an extra helping of water from asteroids and comets during the heavy bombardment period.

The icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn are another story. They were far enough from the Sun that they retained the water of their formation. They quickly formed a thick layer of ice to prevent water from evaporating into space. But these moons are small worlds and would have very quickly frozen solid were it not for the tidal forces exerted by their gas giant.

Since cold gas planets are likely to have icy moons, the general thought we would be far more likely to find life on a Europa-like world than an Earth-like one. But this new study begs to differ. It argues that liquid water is much more likely to be found on super-Earths.

Super-Earths span a mass range from a couple of Earth masses to Neptune mass. On the large end, they are likely to be gassy worlds with thick atmospheres. On the small end, they are likely to be more Earth-like. Based on the exoplanets we’ve found so far, super-Earths are by far the most common. And a majority of them are likely to be outside their star’s habitable zone in the cold regions of the star system. So they are likely water-rich. But they also aren’t likely to be found orbiting a gas giant, so it’s generally been assumed that their ice layer would be mostly frozen solid over time.

The reason has to do with the various freezing and melting points of ice. The kind of ice we have on Earth melts at around 0 °C. But this is only true at around Earth’s atmospheric pressure. At higher pressures, there are several varieties of ice with differing melting points. Although it’s a bit complicated, generally at higher pressures ice can have a much higher melting point. So even if a super-Earth is geologically active, it might not be warm enough to melt ice.

This new study shows that super-Earths don’t have to be hot enough to create a deep ocean. Through geothermal and nuclear heating it can melt a thin layer of water at its surface, and thanks to fissures and various water phase transitions water can creep up to the layer just below the frozen surface. This process would be enough to create a rich ocean layer of liquid water. Since the heat of a super-Earth lasts billions of years, it could maintain a liquid ocean long enough for life to evolve.

Based on what we know about exoplanets, super-Earth oceans could be 100x more common than those of Earth-like worlds or icy moons. And that means life has even more possible homes than we thought.

Reference: 

1. Ojha, Lujendra, et al. “Liquid water on cold exo-Earths via basal melting of ice sheets.” Nature Communications 13.1 (2022): 7521.

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16-07-2023 om 23:05 geschreven door peter  

20 Rare Historical Photos That Scientists Can Not Explain - July 2023

20 Rare Historical Photos That Scientists Can Not Explain
Learning about history is a never-ending, fascinating endeavor. What makes it even more exciting is exploring the past via authentic photographs. These rare photos and the fascinating tales behind them provide us with an intimate look into the lives of people who have passed on. They serve as a tangible link that connects us to these strange individuals and tells us about their hopes, anxieties, and courageous decisions that changed the course of history.

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16-07-2023 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

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'. 

Vallée's investigation and analysis lead to a compelling hypothesis - that the UFO sightings and associated paranormal events could be indications of interactions with beings or entities originating from different realities or dimensions beyond our conventional understanding, reports howandwhy.com

Dr. J. Alan Hynek, in his own speculations, contemplates the existence of alternate universes governed by different quantum rules or vibration rates. He proposes that our perceived space-time continuum might be merely a slice of a larger and more complex universe, encompassing multiple dimensions yet to be fully understood. 

Delving deeper into these mysteries, UFO whistleblower David Grusch theorizes that certain non-human intelligences might manifest within our reality, existing in a four-dimensional realm, while their true origins lie in higher-dimensional planes (5D, 6D, or even beyond) that intersect with our earthly realm. 

This perspective opens up new and intriguing possibilities, suggesting that our encounters with UFOs might not be isolated incidents from distant planets, but rather interactions with entities existing in parallel dimensions, offering a broader and more mysterious aspect to the UFO phenomenon. 

On Jesse Michels' show, Jacques Vallée delves into an intriguing UFO case that involves a witness experiencing a seemingly otherworldly dimension. Vallée recounts the story of a woman in San Jose who had a remarkable encounter. 

The woman reported seeing a large disc-shaped object hovering over her house, approximately the same size as her residence. Vallée inquired further, asking about her experience inside the craft. She described encountering a mysterious being who guided her up a staircase that led to a vast, round room resembling a movie theater, much larger than her own home. 

This extraordinary account unveils the idea that UFO encounters may not be limited to mere physical sightings but may involve encounters with entities or beings from different dimensions. Such experiences challenge conventional beliefs and open doors to the possibility of interdimensional phenomena.

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16-07-2023 om 21:58 geschreven door peter  

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16-07-2023 om 21:06 geschreven door peter  

Sen. Schumer Proposes Bill to Unveil Classified UFO Documents

In an unprecedented move, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pioneering a pathway for the public to gain an intriguing look into the long-speculated existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Senator Schumer, whose significant influence in the Senate amplifies the weight of his initiative, is introducing a bill akin to the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. The primary objective of this bill is to declassify substantial amounts of records related to UFOs currently held by the Pentagon.

Schumer’s groundbreaking endeavor comes after a whistleblower’s exclusive report to NewsNation hinted at a clandestine U.S. program centered on retrieving extraterrestrial technology. The forthcoming bill’s enactment, if successful, promises to deliver a deeper understanding of the phenomena by granting Americans access to hard evidence and tangible proofs of these unidentified objects.

The bill, which is set to be an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), insists on the Pentagon releasing a wealth of data relating to UFOs. This array of evidence will encompass several eyewitness accounts and potentially even classified videos captured by the Pentagon. If approved, the Pentagon will have a maximum of 100 days to compile and hand over all UFO-related records to a select nine-member board.

• US Senate UFO Hearing: The AARO Takes Center Stage

The proposed nine-member board, directly chosen by the president, would undertake a comprehensive evaluation of the accumulated data. Subsequently, they will discern which documents can be declassified and made public, and which ones necessitate continued secrecy. As such, this bill has the potential to shed light on mysteries that have long intrigued the public and conspiracy theorists alike.

VIDEO:

• Sen. Schumer introducing UFO records declassification bill | NewsNation Now

Representative Jeffries, a leading Democrat, expressed his support for the proposed legislation, affirming his endorsement of transparency. He believes that unveiling this information could bring about enlightenment and possibly dispel some of the prevalent conspiracy theories that have permeated society.

Furthermore, the NDAA houses several additional measures pertaining to UFOs. One particular stipulation obliges the Pentagon to reveal any programs they are conducting concerning UFOs. Another provision ensures protections for whistleblowers who are willing to disclose valuable information about the subject.

All eyes are now on this bill’s journey through the legislative process, its subsequent enactment potentially marking a turning point in our understanding of the universe. The effort embodies an important step toward the public’s right to know, and it could ultimately open a door into the unexplored and the unidentified, demystifying what was once concealed in secrecy and shadows.

In conclusion, Senator Schumer’s move to introduce this bill is a significant event in the ongoing discourse surrounding UFOs. Regardless of the bill’s fate, it reflects a shift in attitudes and perhaps a readiness to embrace transparency over secrecy in the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe. The impact of this initiative is expected to be far-reaching, pushing the boundaries of our knowledge about the unknown, and perhaps even our very understanding of what constitutes reality.

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16-07-2023 om 17:32 geschreven door peter  

Clearance Jobs, an organization that defines itself as “the largest career network for professionals with federal government security clearance,” has issued an apparent letter of guidance that also serves as a chilling warning to any industry or government insiders who are considering coming forward as UAP whistleblowers with evidence of their work with non-human craft and their pilots.

The letter, titled “How to Blow the Whistle if You Work With Flying Saucers and Their Alien Pilots,” was issued to all subscribers via email on July 13th and is peppered with well-worn buzzwords seemingly meant to belittle the topic before laying out the dire consequences that likely await anyone who breaks their security oaths to talk about their classified work.

WHISTLEBLOWING SOMETHING GOOD?

After outlining the claims involving the U.S. government’s alleged possession of non-human craft made by former intelligence officer David Grusch, claims which first appeared in a story by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal and published by The Debrief (a story that was later expanded upon to include potential alien pilots of these crafts in an interview with Grusch by Australian investigative journalist Ross Coulthart that aired on cable news network News Nation), the letter is broken into five segments.

The first, titled “Whistleblowing Something Good,” opens with more loaded phrasing and language, including the second use of the term “space aliens,” which seems to have replaced the classic “little green men” when trying to downplay and stigmatize the topic, before positing a scenario where Grusch’s claims are actually found to be true.

“If it were all true, it would be the most extraordinary event in millennia, with seismic implications for science, philosophy, religion, sociology, psychology, technology—everything!” writes author David W. Brown, who is described as a regular contributor to Clearance Jobs. “Nothing would ever be the same again. It would be a unifying force unlike anything since Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.”

Brown then goes on to note that he cannot think of a single drawback to the government “revealing the existence of space aliens (feudalistic dominance notwithstanding)” before commenting that “If Grusch is sane,” this would mean that he has done a good thing by blowing the whistle.”

“Hiding flying saucers isn’t government wrongdoing, exactly, or fraud, waste, or abuse,” Brown adds with one metaphorical eyebrow raised. “At most, it’s just a little weird. Blowing the whistle on aliens, in other words, is a complete and total positive for all involved.”

Interestingly, this sentence seems in direct contrast to the claims by Grusch that the efforts to conceal and reverse engineer these crafts have been kept from the U.S. Congressional oversight, a clear violation of a number of laws designed specifically to prevent rogue elements of the security state (or any part of government) from spending taxpayer funds on programs not authorized by congress.

In fact, it is specifically this allegation of those crimes (an allegation found “credible and urgent” enough by the Inspector General (IG) of the intelligence community to open an investigation and also refer Grusch and his claims to the congress members who oversee budget appropriations for secret programs. These moves have spurred members of Congress from both sides of the aisle (not an insignificant accomplishment in today’s political environment) to enact legislation designed to reveal any such misappropriation of funds and associated malfeasance.

SO SAYETH THE LAW

The second section of Brown’s letter, titled “What The Law Has To Say,” strikes a significantly more serious tone, which is in direct contrast to his introduction, opening with a quote from Sean Bigley, credited as “an attorney and ClearanceJobs legal correspondent.”

“The statutes that pertain to whistleblowing all speak to things like violation of the law, gross mismanagement, gross waste of public funds, threats to life or public health—those types of things,” explains Bigley, a comment that seems to perfectly outline the more serious claims of the illegal circumvention of congressional oversight outlined by Grusch in both his legal complaint to the IG and his direct testimony to congressional staffers.

The letter’s author then goes on to outline the legal steps, as told to him by Bigley, that one must undertake if they are planning to blow the whistle on activities inside the government before making a somewhat startling and seemingly ill-informed statement of his own.

“Grusch claims he did all those things,” Brown writes. “The catch is that he has not really exposed any government wrongdoing, which means whistleblowing statutes might not protect him if the government wanted to prosecute.”

“This would fall under what I would call a ‘public good category.’ But under current law, there isn’t one,” Bigley adds.

Fundamentally, the messages from both men seem to overlook or misunderstand the very specific crimes Grusch has alleged–which includes the information about alleged UAP-related programs being illegally withheld from Congress–while also pointing out how any such claims could be trouble for those making them “if the government wants to prosecute,” though without addressing specific protections for such whistleblowers defined last year in language passed into law within the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.

LEAVE THE LIZARD PEOPLE OUT

In the next section, “If Lizard People are not Involved,” Brown lays out a theoretical scenario that could be faced by a potential whistleblower.

“Let’s leave the aliens out of it for a moment,” he writes. “Suppose you are a scientist for the Department of Energy helping to develop some revolutionary carbon capture technology. It uses minimal energy, works in seconds, and turns carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere into a stable, harmless solid.”

“You document your concerns and go through the chain trying desperately to get someone to listen, but no one does. The classification remains,” Brown laments. “So you leak it to the journal Nature (though are careful to protect the parts that can be reverse-engineered by bad guys). The revelation causes an uproar for obvious reasons.”

Brown then goes on to point out the legal Pandora’s Box his seemingly good-intentioned Paul Revere has opened, specifically the legal consequences for them personally.

“Legally, you are on the hook for this,” he writes, “even if you just saved the planet Earth.”

Brown presents a series of possible consequences the suddenly doomed hero may incur, including “being charged for violating the Espionage Act (and) for leaking classified information that could benefit a foreign nation,” to being sued by the government, losing your security clearance, losing your job, and being barred from other government or contractor jobs.

In the following section titled “What Defense Do You Have,” the same attorney is quoted as telling Brown that even such a “positive” whistleblower would have a very hard time in court.

“It is all subjective,” Bigley explains. “Who is to say what is and isn’t for the public good? The government might have a compelling reason to keep such a secret, so the ‘public good’ defense wouldn’t really fly from a legal standpoint—at least not under existing law.”

To this, Brown posits that a strong, positive reaction from the court of public opinion may be enough to save our misguided good Samaritan from the direst of legal consequences before once again quoting Bigley, who says, “But I would not advise anyone to be the test case for that.”

Like the previous sections, the subtext of these comments by both author and attorney is a hypothetical claim of secrecy against the public good, which is agreeably not a crime, instead of the financial and oversight dodging efforts alleged by Grusch that are anything but legal.

In a last-ditch effort to offer his hypothetical whistleblower a lifeline, Brown proposes the idea of jury nullification, the legal concept that even if you have committed a crime, the jury might just let you get away with it anyway. But just like before, Brown quickly dashes his hero’s hopes by reporting that Bigley says he would advise anyone against trying to “roll the dice” on such an outcome.

GOOD DEEDS OR PUNISHABLE OFFENSES?

“Whether you work in the UFO warehouse at Area 52, are the surgeon who handles the alien autopsies, or are the designer of the amazing climate cleaning machine, if your work is classified, you can’t blow the whistle on it for the public good and expect the law to work in your favor,” Brown states in the fifth and final section, aptly titled “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.”

“It’s just not a category of protection,” he quotes Bigley as saying, “but it’s one of those things that, arguably, a case could be made that there should be. There just isn’t right now, and I’m not sure how you could create a standard that somebody could even follow.”

Similar to the bulk of the arguments against blowing the whistle layered within the letter, this pair of comments seem to assume once again that one is blowing the whistle for some sense of public good and not for the specifically illegal activities alleged by Grusch, activities which, again, have spurred congress members from both sides of the aisle to investigate them together and motivate the former Inspector General to take up the filing of Grusch’s IG case.

The letter ends with a comment that not only fits perfectly with the title of this particular section but also serves as a strongly-worded warning by Brown that any would-be whistleblower looking to follow in Grusch’s footsteps, even if their testimony were true, the people on whom they are blowing the whistle are not likely not give up without a fight.

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16-07-2023 om 00:27 geschreven door peter  

It's a very little known fact that for a long time certain elements of the U.S. government and military operatives have carefully watched alien abductees. With that said, let's have a close look at some of the most intriguing and fascinating examples. We'll begin with one of the world’s most famous alien abductions of all time, that of Betty and Barney Hill. They were abducted on the night of September 19, 1961, while returning to their New Hampshire home, after a vacation in Canada. Like so many abductees, the pair was subjected to stressful, intrusive medical procedures on-board a UFO. Their abductors were non-human things with penetrating, staring eyes. The U.S. Air Force soon opened a file on the Hill affair, a copy of which details their extraordinary experience. It’s an almost legendary story that took place on the night of September 19, 1961 and involved a married couple, Betty and Barney Hill, of New Hampshire. On the night in question, the pair was driving back from a vacation in Canada. The sky was black and filled with stars, the roads were winding, and a backdrop of huge mountains dominated much of the drive. A good time was had over the border and great memories were made: a visit to Niagara Falls was just one of the many highlights. Little did Betty and Barney know it at the time, though, there was about to be another highlight, a deeply disturbing one. Indeed, it was filled with nothing but terror and trauma. As they negotiated the shadowy, dark roads on their return to New Hampshire, the Hills were about to encounter something unearthly and fear-filled. It was an event that was destined to radically alter and dictate the rest of their lives.

New Hampshire, at around 10:30 p.m., they noticed something in the skies above them, and not at all far away. Whatever it was, the brightly lit vehicle was certainly no regular aircraft. Nor was it a helicopter. So, what was it? A sense of anxiety mixed with puzzlement and foreboding enveloped the pair - and in quick time, too. The Hills could only speculate on what it was – and to try and get a better view of it, too. Betty, already intrigued to the max by the presence of the futuristic-looking vehicle, suggested to Barney that he should pull the car over to the side of the road, and grab his pair of binoculars, which he had taken with them on the vacation – which was most fortuitous, to say the very least. It was at a picnic area near Twin Mountain that Barney was able to stop the vehicle and see that whatever the object was, it definitely was no aircraft, even though it did have porthole-type windows which could be seen fairly clearly. Betty excitedly looked carefully through the binoculars, too – she too was convinced that the craft was definitely out of the ordinary, to put it mildly. The pair sat, almost in awe, as they concentrated on the mysterious craft that was already provoking thoughts in their minds of UFOs and alien creatures from a faraway world – maybe even from a faraway galaxy. Adrenalin was pumping and tension was rising. Something was clearly going down and the Hills were caught right in the middle of it. Not a good thing.

As they approached Franconia Notch, which is a pass in the vast White Mountain National Forest, the two got an even better look at the craft. It moved silently and effortlessly above giant firs, pines and spruces. The Hills looked on amazed as the clearly rotating object performed all manner of astonishing maneuvers in the sky: it briefly hovered, then raced away at high speed, and finally returned to hang ominously in the air near their car. The pair continued to look on when two wings emerged from the sides of the craft, giving every impression that it was about to land. It turns out that their instincts were right on the money: creatures from another world were about to put in an appearance and turn the lives of the Hills upside down and inside out. A close encounters of the third kind? Undeniably. Let's have a look at some cases where abductees have been watched by government personnel.

There's the May 23, 1973 alien abduction experience of Judy Doraty, who, while driving near Houston, Texas late at night, encountered a disk-shaped UFO. Following a series of bad dreams, it became clear there was a period of “missing time” in Doraty’s recollections of what happened to her. Upon being hypnotized by UFO researcher Dr. Leo Sprinkle, Doraty recalled the portion of the event which had been almost completely erased from her mind. She described seeing a calf being taken aboard the UFO, “like it’s being sucked up.” Doraty also recalled being taken on board the craft. In no time at all, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico opened a secret file on Doraty and her experience – something which was prompted by the unique nature of her kidnapping. Namely, that Doraty was abducted because she had stumbled upon a so-called “cattle mutilation” event. The implication being that the ETs tried to wipe her memory clean, as a means to prevent her from revealing what she had encountered. The AFOSI was deeply concerned by the cattle mutilation/alien abduction connection, as will become apparent.

And, there was Charles Hickson's and Calivin Parker’s late-night kidnapping from the banks of the Pascagoula River in October 1973. They recalled, under hypnosis, being taken on-board a UFO by creatures with “lobster-like claws.” The pair became the subject of intense scrutiny by military personnel at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. Intelligence staff at Keesler kept a careful watch on Parker and Hickson for months, secretly monitoring their activities. Myrna Hansen’s encounter of May 5, 1980, which occurred as she was heading to Eagle’s Nest, New Mexico, after a road trip to Oklahoma. Hansen experienced a classic alien abduction experience. Notably, and just like Judy Doraty seven years earlier, Hansen saw a young cow being “sucked” into the UFO. More intriguing, Hansen recalled being taken to an underground facility, where aliens implanted her with a sophisticated tracking device. When Hansen described the appearance of the facility, it quickly caught the attention of the AFOSI at Kirtland Air Force Base.

There was a very good reason for this: the facility she described was an off-limits, underground bunker at the base’s weapons storage area; the implication being that the military and the ETs may have been secretly working together, deep underground. Extensive files were opened on Hansen’s experience. In the mid-1990s, UFO researcher Greg Bishop struck up a friendship with the late alien abductee, Dr. Karla Turner, who was the author of a number of books on her experiences, including Into the Fringe. As this was, largely, the pre-Internet era, the pair corresponded by mail. As Greg revealed after Karla’s death, mail sent to and from the pair arrived already opened – torn and resealed. On other occasions, the letters weren’t even resealed. Both Greg and Karla were convinced this was all part of some mind-manipulating program, a government-driven operation designed to psychologically destabilize the pair by letting them know that the government was watching them.

For years, numerous abductees have reported close encounter with not just UFOs and aliens, but with what have become infamously known as “black helicopters.” These usually unmarked craft are reported flying over the homes of abductees. On occasion, they will hover over the same homes for minutes at a time, and at precariously low levels. Typically, they turn up within a day or two of an alien abduction experience. All of the evidence suggests that the helicopters are piloted by “black-ops” teams who have three, primary agendas: (A) to try and determine the range and scope of alien abductions; (B) to frighten the experiencers into staying quiet on their experiences; and (C) to figure out the true nature of the extraterrestrial agenda.

The black helicopter-based experiences of numerous people have been addressed deeply, including those of abductee Betty Andreasson, one of the most famous figures in Ufology. Such was the huge number of intrusions in the skies above the Andreasson home, Betty’s husband, Bob, fired off a letter to the Army’s Office of the Adjutant General, insisting that someone provide answers. No-one in officialdom would own up to anything. The mystery remained a mystery. Then, there is Ed Conroy. In 1990, Conroy, a journalist, wrote a book on the alien abduction experiences of Whitley Strieber, the author of a 1987 bestseller, Communion. Conroy’s book was titled Report on Communion. The more that Conroy delved into the experiences of Strieber, the more he became a victim of black helicopter invasions. Then, there were mysterious problems with Conroy’s answerphone – as if someone had tampered with it. On one occasion, while Conroy was out of town, his answerphone message was inexplicably changed. An attempt by shadowy figures to intimidate Conroy and dissuade him from digging into the Strieber affair? Almost certainly. 

Not only all that, there are claims that deep within the heart of the Department of Homeland Security, there exists a small group that secretly, and actively, monitors the alien abduction issue. Much of this is undertaken by keeping a careful watch on social media (primarily Facebook and Twitter), as well as websites, blogs, lectures, conferences, and books. The DHS group is secretly compiling an extensive database of alien abductees in the United States. On occasion, DHS agents have visited the homes of abductees, warning them not to talk about their UFO abduction experiences. In recent years, such actions may have been interpreted as so-called “Men in Black” encounters. Now, how about a careful examination of the “MILAB” phenomenon, which has been escalating in the 21st century. It means: “military abductions.” Many abductees report that after being kidnapped by ETs, they are soon abducted by other forces. Not aliens, but military personnel who are usually dressed in black “SWAT”-style outfits. Those who have reported such experiences describe being taken to underground installations, where they are interrogated and questioned about their encounters. Military personnel reveal to the abductees the government’s belief that the aliens are creating “underground armies” of abductees who, when fully mind-controlled by the aliens, will one day turn upon the rest of the population. In other words, at the heart of the MILAB phenomenon is a worrying belief that the alien agenda is based around massive mind-manipulation and control.

Now, let's go into some more, deeper affairs. Evidence of serious, government concerns about the real alien abduction phenomenon continued into the 1950s, specifically in 1959. That was the year in which a young American soldier found himself caught up in a very strange saga that, to a degree, still disturbs him to this very day. It all went down on a chilly night in Utah’s expansive desert. Private Bernard Gerry Irwin was the man whose life took a turn of the decidedly unforeseen type. February 20, 1959 began as a regular day for Irwin, but, it most definitely didn’t end that way. At the time, Irwin was driving to Fort Bliss, Texas, from Idaho – the former being the facility at which Irwin was stationed, and the latter his home state. As night set in, something completely unforeseen and paradigm-shifting happened to Irwin. He was about to be confronted by the UFO phenomenon in spectacular and mysterious fashion. 

The night was dark, silent and all but empty of vehicles. As desert highways so often are well after sunset. But, for Irwin this was a night he would never forget – which is somewhat ironic, as a result of the fact that certain portions of his memory were forever erased from his mind. As he drove along the winding, curving road, Irwin was suddenly distracted by a bright light in the night sky – but at a distinctly low level – which descended below a looming ridge. A meteorite? No. A flare, perhaps? Wrong again. Maybe an aircraft in trouble? That was Irwin’s first thought and, with that in mind, he brought his car to a stop at the side of the road, and turned on the blinkers. He quickly got out, and left a note for passing drivers. It read: Have gone to investigate what looks like a plane crash about one-quarter mile to my right. Notify state police immediately. Wearing his Army coat and armed with a flashlight, Irwin headed off into the unknown. Irwin headed for what he suspected – and feared – just might be the site of a plane crash, only to find himself in an even greater nightmare. 

The next thing Irwin remembered was waking up in a hospital bed in Cedar City. Where and why, he didn’t know. A doctor and a nurse were standing around the bed, and were soon joined by a local county sheriff. Irwin was confused and scared, which is not surprising. The other three were far more interested in finding out what had gone on. Irwin kept muttering about “survivors,” asking the nurse and the doctor if there were any. Were they all killed? Who “they” might have been, it seems that no-one really knew. That included Irwin, whose mind was in complete turmoil. The doctor then broke the news: Irwin had been unconscious for a full day and night. It was only thanks to a passing warden with the Fish and Game Commission, who came across Irwin’s car, that Irwin was found. The police were soon on the scene, and Irwin was finally found, completely unresponsive, around a quarter of a mile from the road. It was in the early hours before Irwin was finally resting in an unfamiliar bed. Irwin was kept under observation for several days, but remained unable to recall any of the events of that strange night. Military personnel soon appeared on the scene to fly Irwin back to Fort Bliss, where he was placed under additional observation by a military medical team. 

The night of October 10, 1973 was one that Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson would not forget. And it all began in a perfectly normal, relaxed fashion. Forty-two-year-old Hickson and Parker – who was nineteen - worked together and often spent time fishing on Mississippi’s Pascagoula River. It was around 9:00 p.m. on a dark and fateful night when their world came tumbling down around them. For a while the fish were biting. It would, however, not be long before the two men would find themselves reeled in. “Hauled in” might be a better piece of terminology. As they sat on the banks of the river, the two could not fail to see that there was an odd, blue, flickering light in the distance – odd in the sense that it seemed to be following the contours of the river, but slightly above it. Both Hickson and Parker stared at it, trying to figure out what on Earth it was. Earth may very well have had nothing to do with it. They wondered: helicopter? But, there was no noise. An aircraft? Way too low and slow. Someone’s idea of a joke? If only. When the strange whatever-it-was got closer, a stark realization quickly hit both men: this was like nothing they had ever seen before. There was, however, something else: government interest in the pair. In no time at all after contacting the police, Parker and Hickson were whisked off to Keesler Air Force Base, which is in Biloxi, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. They were driven there by a local police-officer: Deputy Tom Huntley, who later made an intriguing statement: “We were in an unmarked car but the guards were expecting us and waved us through the moment I said who I was. I looked back through my rear-view mirror, and damn if two cars full of air police hadn’t fallen in behind us. They had more air police stationed at each crossing all along the road.”

Officer Huntley eventually revealed much more, too: on being directed to one particular building, a team of medical personnel were already there, waiting for the arrival of Hickson and Parker. Huntley said that after he and Parker and Hickson were directed into the building, a series of tests quickly began. Of the doctors, Huntley added that they “looked like space creatures – all wrapped in white and masked and gloved.” Both men had a Geiger-counter ran over them. Their fingers and shoes were swabbed – with each swab carefully placed into separate bottles. John Keel, of The Mothman Prophecies fame, said something notable when the story of the military’s involvement got out: “It was clear the Air Force doctors knew what they were doing and had probably done it many times before. After the examination was completed, Huntley, Hickson, and Parker were escorted to another building.”

Of this other facility, Officer Huntley stated: “It was something. Armed air police at each door and all along the route. Four of them in the conference room. And the brass – colonels, majors – the whole base command must have been there. And a heap of doctors.” Back to Keel: “The intriguing part of this is the extensive security measures taken. It sounds as if the whole base had been put on alert for the occasion, and the two contactees were so closely guarded during their visit that it seems as if the air force expected them to blow up the base. To me, this Keesler Air Force base investigation was far more interesting than the UFO contact itself.” In light of all the above, one has to wonder just how many secret dossiers on Parker and Hickson were created by the Air Force on that strange and mysterious day.

In 1993, said Whitley Strieber, and after having been given apparently classified information on where the U.S. Government’s top secret UFO data could be found, “Spooks started prowling around my neighborhood upstate. A business associate was accosted on an airplane by a group of young men who flashed badges, claimed to be with the National Security Agency, and questioned him about our activities for a couple of hours.”  Of course, Strieber is one of the most  well-known alien abductees. Those same agents were reportedly looking at attempted penetrations of Department of Defense computers. Then, on one occasion in the following year, 1994, someone managed to stealthily get into Strieber’s cabin, skillfully disabling his security system in the process, and checking out the contents of his computer. Clearly, Strieber was a person of deep interest to more than a few people in the shadowy world of government espionage and clandestine operations. And, it wasn’t just Strieber, his family, and that friend accosted by the NSA who felt the brunt of all this.

Now, more about Ed Conroy. In 1989, he wrote a book titled Report on Communion. It was an independent study of Whitley Strieber and his incredible experiences. In taking on the project, Conroy didn’t realize what he had got himself into. At least, not at first he didn’t. What began as an impartial investigation into Strieber’s claims, soon mutated into something very different: Conroy found himself under similar intimidation to that which would eventually hit the Strieber family. Weird phone calls, secret surveillance and – even – visits from our old friends, those mysterious black helicopters, whose crews keep more than a careful watch on alien abductees, abounded. It was in the latter part of 1986 that Conroy was given a copy of the original manuscript of Communion. Initially, at least, Conroy didn’t display too much enthusiasm for the book. That is, until he read the book – as well as various other books from Strieber, too, including the truly chilling 1984 book, Warday, which is a hair-raising tale of a disastrous, limited nuclear exchange between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Conroy was now interested; very interested. Conroy was clearly destined to dig further, which he did. That Strieber was from San Antonio and Conroy worked there, made things easier, too. Conroy did an extensive interview with Strieber in April 1987, followed by a face to face meeting three months later. Conroy was, initially, planning to write an article or several on Strieber. He quickly realized, though, that there was enough material for a book – a book that would address the many and various intricacies from a detached, open-minded perspective. Conroy was destined not to remain detached though, and particularly so when he too was caught up in a definitive maelstrom of mystery and conspiracy. 

On one occasion, at the height of his research into Strieber’s story, Conroy encountered in his very own bedroom what he described as “a kind of shadow man, completely black, poised in the classic pose of Rodin’s ‘The Thinker.’” This sounds very much like what, today, are known as the Shadow People – malevolent, supernatural entities that have clear and undeniable links to the equally sinister Men in Black, who, as we have seen, have nothing to do with the government (despite what the phenomenally successful Men in Black movies might say…) and everything to do with the UFO phenomenon itself. Strange noises plagued Conroy, waking him from a dead sleep, almost in a manipulative, playful fashion, but which bordered upon the unsettling. Then, there was the matter of those infamous copters. 

It was one particular morning in March 1987 that Ed Conroy found himself a target of whoever it is that flies the mysterious helicopters. It appeared to be a Bell 47, said Conroy, and it lacked an identifying markings – which is very curious, but absolutely typical of the helicopters of the phantom type. Notably, said Conroy: “What was remarkable about this particular helicopter was the inordinate amount of attention it seemed to be paying to my building.” In no time, and shortly after the Bell 47 finally exited the area, a totally black helicopter was on the scene too. Follow-up visits occurred – something which prompted Conroy to contact the Federal Aviation Administration for answers. No luck there. Things got even more intense in 1988 when Conroy was practically seeing helicopters here, there and everywhere. And particularly, again, in the direct vicinity of his apartment, including the huge, double-rotor, military Chinooks. Conroy even saw some of the helicopters vanish – as in literally vanish. Some kind of stealthy, cloaking technology, perhaps? Then, in June 1988 something else happened: while Conroy was out of town, someone changed the message on his answerphone, in his apartment. And it was changed again. And again. Clearly, someone was screwing with Conroy – perhaps even trying to plunge him into states of paranoia and fear. 

One of the most famous of all alien abductees is Betty Andreasson, whose encounters with large-eyed, diminutive extraterrestrials have been chronicled in a number of books, most notably The Andreasson Affair. For years, Andreasson and her family have been plagued by unwanted visits from black helicopters. Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood, who, in the early 1980s, spent a great deal of time addressing the many and varied intricacies of the Andreasson case, said of Betty and her husband, Bob Luca: “They reported that their home was over flown numerous times by black, unmarked helicopters of the Huey UH-1H type and that these helicopters would fly over their homes at altitudes as low as 100 feet. The Luca’s described these helicopters as being black in color, with no identifiable marking on them. They noticed that the windows were tinted black also, so that no one could see inside. During many of the over flights, Bob was able to take close to 200 photos of the helicopters.” Angered and frustrated as to what was going on – and, more importantly, why – Luca fired off a communication to the U.S. Army’s Office of the Adjutant General. Luca demanded answers. All he got was a brief, and hardly satisfying, reply: “It is difficult to determine what particular aircraft is involved or the owning unit.” 

Debbie Jordan, whose alien encounters are detailed in her book, Abducted!, said of her very own run-ins with the black helicopters: “These could be seen almost daily around our houses. They are so obvious about their flights it’s almost comical. On occasions too numerous to even remember, they have hovered around my house, above my house, and above me for several minutes at a time, not trying to hide themselves or the fact that they are watching us. “Even when I am outside and obviously watching back, it doesn’t seem to bother them. They just sit there in midair, about sixty to ninety feet above the ground, whirling and watching. They are completely without identification and are always low enough so that I could easily see the pilot, if the windshield were clear glass. But the windshield is smoky black, with a finish that makes it impossible to see who’s inside.” 

So far, we have seen the various agencies of government and the military acting very much as what we might call a combined voyeur: carefully watching, listening, logging, probing, and collating data. How many secret files on alien abductees might be stored in vast warehouses, or in underground vaults, across not just the United States but the world itself, is anyone’s guess. All we can say for sure is that as long as the alien abduction phenomenon continues, highly classified files will continue to be compiled, studied, and stored in secure vaults. Black helicopters will continue to fly over the homes of American citizens, looking for leads and answers. Abductees will continue to be grilled and threatened by those running the military side of the situation: the MILABS. And, a vast secret – that something unearthly is harvesting our souls and bodies for reasons not fully understood – will grow ever greater in size and scope, as governments struggle to hide the terrible, complicated truth from all of us. It’s a truth which officialdom won’t come clean on – because they are deathly frightened to admit they don’t know how to tell us. 

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15-07-2023 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

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UFOs Roswell Part 1 (Session 11) | 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.

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Scientists have observed a puzzling event related to the Higgs boson which shows our understanding of the particle may not be correct. They have observed an unexpected decay of the exotic particle that’s far beyond the accepted realms of the Standard Model of Physics. These unexpected findings challenge the predictions of the Standard Model and indicate the possibility of new physics at play.

CERN Press Release: https://bit.ly/3O9V373

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Join us this week for an incredible lineup featuring Eric Hecker, Michael Herrera, and DC Long, three extraordinary whistleblowers. Prepare to be captivated as they reveal mind-blowing encounters with hidden technologies, concealed from both us and the government. Their encounters include witnessing a monolithic slab mysteriously floating above the ground, experiencing intense vibrations that defy explanation, thwarting assassination attempts, and unveiling a secret operation involving a UFO craft engaged in human trafficking, information about the world's largest directed energy weapon, responsible for triggering a devastating earthquake, Stargate, and more! The revelations will leave you questioning what else remains concealed from our knowledge. Could these technologies hold the potential to bring about positive change for humanity? Discover the answers in three thrilling episodes set to release on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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15-07-2023 om 23:34 geschreven door peter  

Ross Coulthart Sheds Light on ‘Extraterrestrial’ Craft, Alien Entities and the Journey Towards Disclosure

In an era where skepticism and disbelief seem to reign supreme, there’s one man who stands out with his relentless pursuit of the truth – Ross Coulthart. A renowned investigative journalist and author, Coulthart has spent years digging deep into the subject of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), popularly known as UFOs.

Ross Coulthart: Unmasking the UFO Mystery

Having spent over three decades in journalism and law, Coulthart brings a unique perspective to the mystery surrounding UAPs. He’s not an alien activist or a conspiracy theorist but a devoted pursuer of the truth. His book, “In Plain Sight,” (Amazon link) has become a beacon for those seeking clarity about the UFO phenomenon.

A Government in Paralysis

According to Coulthart, the US government is currently in a state of paralysis concerning the UAP issue. While the existence of these phenomena is not disputed, the Pentagon has been reluctant to divulge what they know. The challenge seems to be more political than scientific, with the government hoping the issue doesn’t surface before the next presidential elections. However, as Coulthart asserts, the truth is destined to come out, whether they like it or not.

Witness Intimidation and Threats

One of the most alarming revelations from the discussion was the potential intimidation of witnesses. There have been allegations of threats and reprisals against individuals willing to testify about their encounters with UAPs. If true, this not only highlights a breach of law but also a grave injustice to those seeking the truth. According to Coulthart, it’s time for Congress to determine whether it has the courage to investigate these allegations.

The Push for UAP Transparency

Coulthart asserts that there is a legislative pushback against UAP transparency. Some factions within the Pentagon and intelligence community seem intent on preventing the full disclosure of their knowledge on the matter. However, the public, he argues, has a voice. By expressing their concern and demanding answers, citizens can push their congressional representatives and senators to address the issue seriously.

The Right Side of History

In his closing remarks, Coulthart sends a strong message to officials not yet engaged with the subject, urging them to choose the right side of history. For those holding information about UAPs, he calls it a “patriotic duty” to come forward, ensuring that Congress is properly informed. It’s not the UFO phenomena that are hard to grasp; it’s the silence surrounding them.

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Ross Coulthart’s candid conversation underscores the urgent need for transparency regarding UAPs. The quest for truth is not solely about unveiling the existence of extraterrestrial life, but about illuminating a subject that has been shrouded in secrecy for too long. With the rise of public interest, it seems that the days for derision and ridicule are over. Whether the truth turns out to be benign or earth-shattering, one thing is clear – the demand for UFO transparency is only growing stronger.

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15-07-2023 om 22:57 geschreven door peter  

Ross Coulthart Sheds Light on ‘Extraterrestrial’ Craft, Alien Entities and the Journey Towards Disclosure

In an era where skepticism and disbelief seem to reign supreme, there’s one man who stands out with his relentless pursuit of the truth – Ross Coulthart. A renowned investigative journalist and author, Coulthart has spent years digging deep into the subject of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), popularly known as UFOs.

Ross Coulthart: Unmasking the UFO Mystery

Having spent over three decades in journalism and law, Coulthart brings a unique perspective to the mystery surrounding UAPs. He’s not an alien activist or a conspiracy theorist but a devoted pursuer of the truth. His book, “In Plain Sight,” (Amazon link) has become a beacon for those seeking clarity about the UFO phenomenon.

A Government in Paralysis

According to Coulthart, the US government is currently in a state of paralysis concerning the UAP issue. While the existence of these phenomena is not disputed, the Pentagon has been reluctant to divulge what they know. The challenge seems to be more political than scientific, with the government hoping the issue doesn’t surface before the next presidential elections. However, as Coulthart asserts, the truth is destined to come out, whether they like it or not.

Witness Intimidation and Threats

One of the most alarming revelations from the discussion was the potential intimidation of witnesses. There have been allegations of threats and reprisals against individuals willing to testify about their encounters with UAPs. If true, this not only highlights a breach of law but also a grave injustice to those seeking the truth. According to Coulthart, it’s time for Congress to determine whether it has the courage to investigate these allegations.

The Push for UAP Transparency

Coulthart asserts that there is a legislative pushback against UAP transparency. Some factions within the Pentagon and intelligence community seem intent on preventing the full disclosure of their knowledge on the matter. However, the public, he argues, has a voice. By expressing their concern and demanding answers, citizens can push their congressional representatives and senators to address the issue seriously.

The Right Side of History

In his closing remarks, Coulthart sends a strong message to officials not yet engaged with the subject, urging them to choose the right side of history. For those holding information about UAPs, he calls it a “patriotic duty” to come forward, ensuring that Congress is properly informed. It’s not the UFO phenomena that are hard to grasp; it’s the silence surrounding them.

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Ross Coulthart’s candid conversation underscores the urgent need for transparency regarding UAPs. The quest for truth is not solely about unveiling the existence of extraterrestrial life, but about illuminating a subject that has been shrouded in secrecy for too long. With the rise of public interest, it seems that the days for derision and ridicule are over. Whether the truth turns out to be benign or earth-shattering, one thing is clear – the demand for UFO transparency is only growing stronger.

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From within a supergiant elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo, in 2019, the world was given its first glimpse of a massive black hole at the heart of Messier 87, one of the largest galaxies in our local universe.

One of the most remarkable images ever produced in physics, a fiery golden ring encircling the dark remnants of the collapsed former star—almost reminiscent of the flaming eye of Sauron depicted in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films—finally presented astrophysicists with an idea of how a black hole might actually look.

Since light is unable to escape the event horizon, these images weren’t an actual photograph of a black hole but a representation based on data that conveys glowing gas in orbit around it, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array. Since the images were revealed, scientists have anticipated that more data might be forthcoming, revealing even greater details about the dark, distant singularity.

Early on, simulations had already predicted that photons captured by the extreme gravity of the black hole would be spun around behind it, giving rise to an additional ringlike formation comprised of light unable to escape its incredible mass.

Now, astrophysicist Avery Broderick with Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo, along with an international research team, says they have “remastered” the groundbreaking 2019 images, revealing new details from within the data that produced the world’s first clear view of a black hole.

In a recent statement, Broderick likened his team’s efforts to that of shutting off a bright searchlight to reveal the light of hundreds of fireflies, whose faint light would otherwise remain hidden. The result, according to Broderick and the recent paper’s authors, represents “the first in an infinite series of so-called ‘photon rings’ around the supermassive black hole M87.”

In their recent research, Broderick and his team were able to provide measurements of gravitationally lensed secondary imagery, which relies on the way a distant light source is bent on account of the presence of matter in our universe as it travels toward an observer.

“The ‘secondary’ image is associated with those radio waves that start propagating away from Earth, but subsequently have their trajectories bent by the black hole’s extreme gravity, and are redirected toward us after completing a half-orbit.”

Along with the primary and secondary images, Broderick explained that a third “tertiary” image was obtained through radio waves that make a complete orbit prior to reaching Earth, which he likened to a “gravitational infinity mirror.”

“There is an infinite sequence of such images, though only the first two (primary and secondary) are bright enough for EHT to disentangle,” Broderick said.

According to the paper, the observed photon ring remained constant in appearance and size over a week-long period in data collected by the EHT array back in 2017. This, according to the researchers, is “consistent with theoretical expectations, providing clear evidence that such measurements probe spacetime and a striking confirmation of the models underlying the first set of EHT results.”

Significantly, the research team was also able to detect what appeared to be an extension of the ring oriented to the southwest, indicating the presence of a jet, characterized as “rapidly rotating in the clockwise direction.” Broderick and his team believe these observations support the presence of a black hole spin-driven outflow, a proposed means for the extraction of energy out of a rotating black hole first proposed by astrophysicists Roger Blandford and Roman Znajek in 1977.

Additionally, the team’s observations of the photon ring around the black hole led them to revise previous calculations about the mass of M87.

“We present three revised estimates for the mass of M87 based on identifying the modeled thin ring component with the bright ringlike features seen in simulated images,” the paper’s authors wrote, who further noted that one of these appears “only weakly sensitive to the astrophysics of the emission region.”

“All three estimates agree with each other and previously reported values,” the researchers wrote.

In correspondence with Broderick, he elaborated on the uncertainties of the physical environment that he and his research team had to overcome in order to reach their calculations.

“The largest uncertainty in the M87 mass was systematic: the relationship between the diffuse ring (dominated by the primary image) and the shadow edge,” Broderick told The Debrief.

For Broderick, the new information is just one more example of the kinds of unique imagery researchers will be able to produce in the years ahead based on the vital data collected by the EHT array.

“Cutting-edge algorithmic developments have allowed us to probe key features of the image while rendering the remainder in the EHT’s native resolution,” Broderick said in a statement.

“We have been able to do something profound,” Broderick says. “To resolve a fundamental signature of gravity around a black hole.”

The team’s paper, “The Photon Ring in M87,” was published in The Astrophysical Journal, and can be read online.

• Micah Hanks is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief. Follow his work at micahhanks.com and on Twitter: @MicahHanks. 

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14-07-2023 om 23:55 geschreven door peter  

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Perseverance is in de Jezero-krater op veelbelovende organische moleculen gestuit, die ook wel worden gezien als ‘de bouwstenen voor leven’. Maar of ze ook echt door Martiaanse microben zijn achtergelaten, blijft twijfelachtig.

Het is alweer zo’n twee jaar geleden dat Marsrover Perseverance in de Jezero-krater op Mars landde. Sindsdien speurt het Marswagentje zorgvuldig de krater af, op zoek naar tekenen van (voormalig) leven. En dat kan de rover nu zomaar eens gevonden hebben. Zo blijkt Perseverance bewijs te hebben ontdekt van verschillende soorten organische moleculen, zo laten onderzoekers weten.

Organische moleculen
De aangetroffen organische moleculen zijn een klasse van op koolstof gebaseerde moleculen. “Ze komen overeen met moleculen die koolstof bevatten en de bouwstenen zijn van het leven zoals wij dat kennen,” zegt teamlid Ashley Murphy. “Dit is één van de eerste keren dat we potentiële organische stoffen in de Jezero-krater vinden.” De ontdekking is dan ook best spannend. Want mogelijk zijn de ontdekte organische moleculen wel achtergelaten door oud microbieel leven! Al hoeft dat overigens niet per se het geval te zijn.

Bouwstenen voor leven
Organische moleculen bestaan voornamelijk uit koolstof en bevatten gewoonlijk waterstof- en zuurstofatomen. Ze kunnen ook andere elementen bevatten, zoals stikstof, fosfor en zwavel. De vondst van dergelijke organische moleculen zijn van belang, omdat sommige van deze verbindingen de bouwstenen van leven zijn. De aanwezigheid van deze specifieke moleculen wordt beschouwd als een potentiële biosignatuur – een stof of structuur die een bewijs zou kunnen zijn van voormalig leven. Toch houden wetenschappers een slag om de arm. Sommige organische moleculen kunnen namelijk ook door middel van chemische processen, zonder de aanwezigheid van leven, ontstaan.

Geen biologische oorsprong
“Niet alle organische moleculen hebben een biologische oorsprong,” legt Murphy uit. “Daarom is het belangrijk om de relatie tussen mineralen en organische stoffen te bestuderen. Alles wat we weten over het leven op aarde is beperkt tot wat bewaard is gebleven in het gesteente en mineralen. Op aarde worden biosignaturen gevonden in bepaalde mineralen en sommige mineralen zijn beter in het bewaren van organische stoffen dan andere.”

Mars en de aarde
Het betekent dat onderzoekers de aarde vaak als voorbeeld gebruiken om te achterhalen wat er op Mars kan hebben plaatsgevonden. “Mars kan een vergelijkbare vroege geologische geschiedenis hebben gehad als de aarde, dus we gebruiken onze kennis van het leven zoals we dat op aarde kennen om te zoeken naar mogelijk bewijs van voormalig leven op Mars,” aldus Murphy. “Het in kaart brengen van organische stoffen zorgt voor een beter begrip van de koolstofcyclus van Mars. We kunnen dan bepalen of deze vergelijkbaar is met of juist verschilt van die van de aarde. Ook zal het ons meer kunnen vertellen over hoe waarschijnlijk het is dat Mars leven herbergde.”

Close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 Rover's SHERLOC Instrument

SHERLOC
De organische moleculen werden aan het licht gebracht met behulp van Perseverance’ SHERLOC-instrument. SHERLOC – een afkorting voor Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals – gebruikt een ultraviolette laser om mineralen in gesteente te identificeren. Daarnaast is het instrument uitgerust met camera’s en spectrometers om te zoeken naar organische stoffen en mineralen die mogelijk tekenen zijn van microbieel leven uit het verleden. “Met het SHERLOC-instrument, gemonteerd op de robotarm van Perseverance, kunnen we potentiële biosignaturen evalueren,” licht Murphy toe.

Máaz en Séítah
De onderzoekers gebruikten het SHERLOC-instrument om twee Martiaanse rotsformaties, Máaz en Séítah, nader te bestuderen. Perseverance boorde daarvoor kleine gaatjes in het gesteente. En op alle tien de plekken trof het team sporen van organische moleculen aan. “De potentiële organische stoffen zijn te vinden in meerdere lagen,” vertelt Murphy. “Dit kan erop wijzen dat Mars ooit verschillende oppervlakteprocessen en een relatief complexe organische geochemie had. Op aarde wordt dit geassocieerd met bepaalde bewoonbare omgevingen waar tekenen van oud leven bewaard kunnen blijven.”

Andere vondsten
Overigens is het niet de eerste keer dat er op Mars organisch materiaal wordt gevonden. Zowel Perseverance als de Curiosity-rover hebben dit al eerder aangetroffen. “De nieuw ontdekte moleculen lijken op de exemplaren die al eerder in de Gale-krater en in verschillende meteorieten zijn gevonden,” vertelt Murphy. “De detectie van diverse organische stoffen in twee oude meren (de Gale- en Jezero-krater) is belangrijk voor ons begrip van de omvang en diversiteit van oppervlakteprocessen en hoe dit verband houdt met de leefbaarheid van de planeet.”

Oorsprong
Maar nogmaals, de ontdekking is geenszins een bevestiging dat er ooit leven op Mars bestond. Organische moleculen kunnen op verschillende manieren worden gevormd, waaronder door niet-biologische processen zoals interacties tussen water en gesteente, afzettingen door interplanetair stof of meteoren of door synthese met vulkanisch materiaal. Op dit moment is het nog niet duidelijk wat precies de oorsprong van de opgeduikelde organische moleculen is.

Ondanks dat de organische stoffen dus geen bewijs zijn van voormalig leven, is de vondst alsnog opwindend, omdat het wel laat zien dat Mars over de bouwstenen van leven beschikt. De monsters zullen nu eerst terug naar de aarde moeten worden gebracht en hier nader moeten worden onderzocht, voordat er definitieve conclusies kunnen worden getrokken. We zullen dus nog even geduld moeten hebben voordat er voor eens en voor altijd kan worden bepaald of er leven is (geweest) op Mars.

Meer weten…
…over de toekomstige Mars Sample Return-missie, waarin de door Perseverance verzamelde Marsmonsters op aarde zullen worden afgeleverd?

Lees dan ook dit eerder verschenen artikel op Scientias.nl!

Bronmateriaal

• "SHERLOC Instrument Offers New Perspective on Jezero Crater, Mars" - Planetary Science Institute
• Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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