Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
29-09-2023
UFO Sightings and the Alaskan Enigma: The Mysterious Ketchikan Connection
UFO Sightings and the Alaskan Enigma: The Mysterious Ketchikan Connection
From the iconic Roswell incident to the notorious Area 51, UFO sightings have always stirred a mix of intrigue, skepticism, and fear. While these stories generally dominate southwestern deserts, there’s an often-overlooked hotspot for UFO activity that might surprise many: the picturesque town of Ketchikan, Alaska. But what is it about this serene town that’s turning it into the new capital for UFO sightings?
The Ketchikan Chronicles
Situated far southeast of the enigmatic Alaska Triangle, Ketchikan is embraced by mountainous forests and the deep, mysterious waters of Alaska’s inside passage. However, the town’s allure goes beyond its natural beauty. Over the years, Ketchikan has become synonymous with inexplicable UFO sightings. From radiant orbs hovering over the ocean to lights performing outlandish maneuvers in the night sky, the town has seen it all.
Local artist and wilderness guide, Terry Piles, recounts an unforgettable New Year’s Eve in 2012 when he observed not one, but two glowing objects descending from the sky. To him, they resembled cauldrons of molten metal, accompanied by an eerie silence. He’s not alone in his experiences. Many Ketchikan residents have their own stories to share, making UFO sightings almost a part of the local culture.
Secret Military Operations: Coincidence or Connection?
It’s not just the UFO sightings that have piqued interest. Southeast Alaska, and Ketchikan, in particular, has had a long-standing military presence, most of which is veiled in secrecy. The waters off Ketchikan, though hundreds of miles away from the closest U.S. naval subbase in Washington state, often see nuclear subs traversing the waves. This led to the eventual public acknowledgment of the CFAC, Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility, a secret submarine testing site.
While the official line is that CFAC is primarily for acoustical testing of submarines, many believe there’s more beneath the surface. Could there be a correlation between these secretive submarine activities and the frequent UFO sightings in the region?
Eric Hecker, a UFO researcher and former Navy weapons technician, believes so. From his experience, military establishments often have hidden agendas. The Ketchikan phenomena make many wonder if the military might be engaging in reverse engineering, possibly analyzing alien technology salvaged from the deep.
VIDEO:
UFO Footage Filmed in Ketchikan Proves High UFO Activity In the Area | The Alaska Triangle
The combination of frequent UFO sightings, secret military operations, and the mysterious allure of Ketchikan creates a tantalizing puzzle. Whether it’s the breathtaking beauty of the Alaskan landscapes or the possibility of witnessing extraterrestrial activity, Ketchikan is surely on the map for UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike.
As UFO sightings become more mainstream and research continues, one can only hope that the answers to the Ketchikan mystery will soon be unveiled. For now, the skies (and waters) of Ketchikan remain a fascinating conundrum, beckoning all those eager to unravel its secrets.
In 2025, if all goes according to plan, NASA will launch the first-ever nuclear fission-powered rocket into space.
The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) won’t go very far. It will only reach an orbit above Earth, the distance of most satellites. But if DRACO is successful, its successors could set out for Mars or the outer solar system. Nuclear fission can reach Mars or the outer solar system far more quickly and efficiently than today’s rockets. In fact, nuclear fission might be the only way humans ever make it to the Red Planet.
“The final goal is to get to Mars,” Fatima Ebrahimi, a physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, tells Inverse. “You really need nuclear for that.”
REVIVING A HALF-CENTURY-OLD DREAM
Most of today’s rockets are chemical rockets, generating immense energy from chemical reactions. If you’ve ever seen a chemical rocket launch, you know how spectacular it can be. “Chemical rockets have the advantage of producing large thrust — they are very powerful,” Ebrahimi says. “But they cannot go very far.”
If we want to get to Mars with today’s chemical rockets, we have to take advantage of narrow windows when our planets’ orbits align, which come just once every 26 months. To reach the outer solar system with those same rockets, we usually have to undertake an even more complicated path, dipping closer to the Sun and harnessing the gravity of a planet like Venus to pick up sufficient speed. It’s also quite time-consuming. To reach Jupiter in the early 2030s, for example, we would need to launch today.
Enter nuclear energy.
“The final goal is to get to Mars ... You really need nuclear for that.”
If the phrase “nuclear rockets” sounds old fashioned, you aren’t wrong. Nuclear rockets were an invention of the 20th century, not the 21st. But in staking a nuclear-powered future, the American space program is reviving a dream that is over half a century old.
Engineers have been tinkering with nuclear rockets since the dawn of the Space Age. In the 1950s, when nuclear energy was new and exciting, the U.S. Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission teamed up to develop Project Rover, a prototype nuclear engine that could power a missile.
Then came NASA, which took over the program, ditched the missiles, and transformed the tests into a dedicated program to get a nuclear engine into space: Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA). In the sands of a nuclear test site in Nevada, NERVA fine-tuned a sequence of test-fired engines. At least on the ground, the tests were successful.
A 1964 nuclear rocket prototype where the crew would be housed in the upper stage with a heavily shielded bulkhead separating them from the engines.
NASA
T United States wasn’t alone in taking nuclear rockets for a spin. In 1965, the Soviet Union began crafting its own prototype nuclear rocket and kept up the research for decades. Well into the 1980s, Soviet engineers conducted full-scale trials of an engine they called RD-0410 at the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing ground in northeast Kazakhstan. Nevertheless, RD-0410 never fully took flight.
As you might imagine, those grand designs never came to pass. After Apollo 11 did its job, pressures from the Nixon administration and budget cuts shifted NASA’s focus to near-Earth projects like Skylab and the Space Shuttle.
A 1970 drawing of the NERVA nuclear rocket engine.
NASA
Even though NERVA had political support and over $1 billion of investment, the project didn’t have a place in this new NASA era and was mothballed in 1973 before ever entering space. But even as budget cuts doomed Project NERVA to fade away into the desert — and even as nuclear power, in general, gained a fallout-stained reputation thanks to Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the simultaneous rise of an anti-nuclear movement — the idea of nuclear rockets never truly disappeared.
THE RETURN OF THE NUCLEAR ROCKET
For the pyrotechnic-minded, the words “nuclear rocket” might conjure images of something like Project Orion: a craft that would push itself along by triggering nuclear detonations behind it. In reality, nuclear propulsion is a little more mundane (and, certainly, more compliant with international bans on nuclear explosions in outer space).
The nuclear rockets that engineers propose — to be more specific, what they call a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) — replace chemical reactions with a fission reactor.
NTR designs vary, but most are built around two key components: the reactor itself and a superheated fluid, typically liquid hydrogen. A turbopump pipes the hydrogen through the reactor, which superheats the liquid into searing gas. In turn, the gas escapes out an attached nozzle, creating thrust. The hotter the rocket can heat the fuel, the more thrust it can produce.
Artist concept of Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could be used for future NASA crewed missions to Mars.
LOCKHEED MARTIN
To the untrained eye, an NTR engine wouldn’t look obviously different from a chemical rocket. Even from the rocket builder’s eye, many of an NTR engine’s components — the valves, the nozzles, the hydrogen that must be kept at cryogenic temperatures — have places aboard a chemical rocket.
Where nuclear rockets shine instead is in their efficiency, what rocket scientists call specific impulse. In other words, how much an engine can boost its spacecraft with the same amount of fuel. NTR engines have two to three times more specific impulses than their chemical counterparts. Once outside Earth’s gravity, nuclear-powered craft can travel far more quickly than chemical craft.
Again, if we wanted to reach Mars using the best chemical rockets we have available, it would be very difficult, with available launch times of just once every 26 months. NTR engines promise to drastically slash those times. Because they can accelerate spacecraft to higher speeds, they open up far more opportunities for flights to other planets that don’t require complex gravitational dances.
“It gives me the ability to abort my mission and return home — not all the time, but for a much longer part of my mission,” Kurt Polzin, chief engineer for space nuclear propulsion at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, tells Inverse.
NTR proponents like Polzin believe that isn’t the only reason a nuclear-powered mission will be fundamentally safer than one with today’s rockets. A shorter journey means astronauts can carry fewer supplies, and their bodies won’t absorb as much ionizing radiation en route.
“If we can improve crew safety, I think we would consider that what we’ve done has been very successful,” Polzin says.
GETTING OUT OF EARTH’S ORBIT AND ONTO THE MOON
In the 1980s and 1990s, nuclear rockets gathered dust, and most scientists overlooked them. Nuclear rocket designs became the province of secretive U.S. military projects like the Strategic Defense Initiative (the so-called “Star Wars”) Project Timber Wind, which tried to return the technology to its destructive missile roots.
But by the 2010s, a new generation of researchers had taken hold, and NASA’s priorities again began to shift away from Earth orbit. NASA engineers once more dared to dream up plans for nuclear-powered Mars missions.
Within a few short years, it also became clear that the Artemis Program — NASA’s ambitious push to establish a permanent base on the Moon, which could serve as a stopover for human missions to Mars — was actually going to happen. Funding began to follow. In 2019, the U.S. Congress allocated more than $100 million to NTR research.
Dale Thomas, a propulsion engineer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville whose research focuses on NTR engines, thinks there’s one big, Earth-bound factor contributing to the sudden rise in interest in nuclear power. “[Climate change] has caused people to rethink their position on nuclear power in general as a non-greenhouse gas emitting technology,” Thomas tells Inverse. He says shifts in attitudes, which resulted in new nuclear power plants and delays of plans to close old ones, extend to space travel as well.
Thomas, for his part, hopes that studying how to build better NTR engines — building reactors that can stand up to the intense pressures and temperatures of a reactor — can translate into building better reactors down on Earth.
The largest challenge, Thomas says, is “convincing NASA mission planners that they can count on nuclear thermal propulsion in their mission designs.”
That is one goal of DRACO, the mission that plans to launch the first nuclear-powered rocket, picking up where NERVA left off half a century ago.
DRACO will launch atop a standard chemical rocket, partly because chemical rockets are currently more powerful and partly to minimize the risk of a nuclear accident. That rocket will take DRACO up to a relatively high orbit above Earth — somewhere between 435 and 1,240 miles (700 and 2,000 kilometers) — where engineers will take DRACO’s nuclear drive through preliminary tests in a space environment.
“We’ve never done this before ... we’re going to learn how to do it … we’re going to take that and pay it forward to the next system.”
DRACO inherits NERVA’s legacy and research results, but there are a few differences between the two. For one, where NERVA used weapons-grade uranium, which is over 90 percent uranium-235, DRACO uses what is called high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), which is more like 10 to 20 percent uranium-235. This brings DRACO closer to the uranium that’s used in the civilian nuclear power sector. While HALEU does generate less power, acquiring a license to play with it in the U.S. is far easier and far cheaper than getting permission for the higher-grade stuff.
Additionally, part of the reason DRACO’s builders are so eager to test it in space is that, with NERVA’s facilities long abandoned, the original testing grounds are no longer usable. In that sense, it’s already getting off the ground far more quickly than NERVA ever could.
“I just hope that the mission is successful as planned,” Thomas says. “That is, a successful flight demonstration of a nuclear-thermal-propulsion-powered spacecraft.”
DRACO is a prototype. Much of the test’s value will be in letting NASA’s engineers gain practical knowledge: practicing getting DRACO into space in the first place, understanding the quirks of an NTR engine in operation, and creating flight checklists for a type of engine they have never flown.
“We’ve never done this before,” Polzin says. “We’re going to learn how to do it … we’re going to take that and pay it forward to the next system.”
There is still a great deal of work to be done. For instance, Polzin says that engineers need to push NTR engines to even higher temperatures than DRACO. But Polzin firmly believes that “next system” — or the one after it, or so on — will be what finally pushes astronauts to Mars.
NTR may be just the beginning of a growing category of what some scientists and engineers call “advanced propulsion” — or propulsion that doesn’t rely on standard chemical reactions.
Probes to destinations near Earth rely on electric ion propulsion, which uses electric current to accelerate xenon or krypton ions out of a thruster to push it forward. In fact, future craft may generate that current with nuclear fission. More hypothetically, engineers have proposed craft that very literally sail through the solar system with solar sails, which would catch the sun’s light as an oceanic ship’s sails catch the winds. Meanwhile, Princeton’s Ebrahimi is one of a handful of scientists working on engines powered by a different sort of nuclear physics: fusion.
There is no reason we have to only power spacecraft with one type of engine. The future of space travel might be all of these options existing in tandem, each one specialized for a specific purpose.
A fraction of red quasars have been shown to be young active galaxies smothered in cosmic dust.
A dusty quasar is seen as red and radio loud from Earth.
(Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada)
Red quasars filled with cosmic dust produce stronger radio emissions than their bluer, dust-free counterparts — and these phenomena, scientists say, could represent a generation of younger active galaxies with supermassive black holes that only recently switched into overdrive.
"There are still many unanswered questions surrounding red quasars, such as whether black hole winds or radio jets are ultimately responsible for this enhanced radio emission," Victoria Fawcett, lead author of a new study on this finding and an astronomer at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, said in a statement.
However, Fawcett believes we're getting close to the brink of fully understanding the nature of these incredible marvels.
A quasar is the powerful central region of an active galaxy, and is driven by a supermassive black hole that is being fed huge amounts of matter. That matter forms a disk of gas around the black hole, known as an accretion disk, that reaches millions of degrees and releases fierce radiation winds. Meanwhile, magnetically collimated jets launch outwards from the disk.
Quasars are so bright that they vastly outshine the collective starlight of their host galaxies and can therefore be seen across the universe.
Most quasars appear blue, a hue caused by optical and ultraviolet emissions from the hot accretion disk. However, a fraction appears red instead. To reach their conclusions about those red quasars, Fawcett and fellow researchers sampled approximately 35,000 quasars observed by DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument on the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
Of this collection, Fawcett’s group found 3,038 to be red quasars. Cross-referencing with radio astronomy data from the LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS), they confirmed that most of these red ones are also emitting strongly in radio waves.
The redness comes from the presence of dust, which absorbs shorter, bluer wavelengths but allows longer, redder wavelengths to pass. The red quasars must therefore be smothered in cosmic dust, formed of tiny grains just microns in size.
"It was really exciting to see the amazing quality of the DESI data and to discover thousands of these previously rare red quasars," Fawcett said. "I think this is the strongest evidence so far that red quasars are a key element in how galaxies evolve."
The red quasars seem to be radiating more strongly in radio waves than the blue quasars because of interactions between outflows of radiation pouring from a quasar and the surrounding curtains of dust. As the outflows slam into the dust, they excite molecules within the dust to prompt the emission of radio waves. Over time, the outflows, driven by the energy of a supermassive black hole hungrily feeding on vast amounts of matter, will blow the dusty cloak away to leave a naked blue quasar with much weaker radio emission. Fawcett calls this the 'blow-out' phase.
Therefore, when astronomers see a red quasar, they are seeing a younger quasar than if they were to see a blue one.
The realization that red quasars represent a younger type of quasar could prove to be an important missing piece in our understanding of how galaxies develop and evolve over time. It’s believed that most galaxies, at one time or another, undergo a quasar phase, and that there is an observed relationship between the mass of the supermassive black hole at the heart of a quasar and the mass of the galactic bulge belonging to the quasar's host galaxy. In other words, quasar activity seems to help grow the mass of a galaxy.
The origin of quasar dust may be a by-product of this. Cosmic dust is produced by stars when they die, either as explosive supernovas or in more sedate fashion by putting off their outer layers to form a planetary nebula. Either way, the presence of dust in a quasar suggests that it has undergone a starburst – an intense period of rapid star formation, with many of those stars having already expired. Starbursts are commonly found in active galaxies, particularly those that have endured a galactic merger that has forced massive molecular clouds to crash into one another and instigate the star formation process.
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Drone Records UFOs Behind Las Vegas, Nevada 9-21-2023, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Drone Records UFOs Behind Las Vegas, Nevada 9-21-2023, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 9-21-2023
Location of sighting: Las Vegas Mountains, Nevada USA
Source: MUFON
Guys, this is the legendary Tall White ships seen behind Nellis AFB in Las Vegas hills. The US military gave the Tall Whites some land at the old firing range, between Nellis AFB and Area S4. All the land between belongs to the US military and is off limits. If you have never heard of the Tall Whites, search Charles Hall interview or see this video at, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPGvfDanq2M&t=2s
Eyewitness states:
3 Very bright orbs flying over the Nevada mountains. Flew in a linear path. Perfectly aligned then disappeared.
UFO Over Boston, MA Causes Power line surge! 9-22-2023, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Boston, MA Causes Power line surge! 9-22-2023, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:9-22-2023
Location of sighting: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Source: Email report
Caught by a door cam, this UFO was so powerful it caused a power surge in the telephone pole power cables. Watch and see a glowing line race back and forth over the lines. UFOs do that, UFOs can shut down cars, watches, lights and even cause surges in energy on power lines as you see in this video. This power surge is 100% proof that an alien craft was nearby.
UAPs or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena have long been a topic of intrigue, speculation, and skepticism. Whether it’s the elusive Area 51tales, the intriguing reports from military pilots, or the alleged sightings from ordinary citizens, the mystery behind these phenomena persists. This article dives deep into the world of UAPs, examining credible sources, documented experiences, and the burning questions they leave in their wake.
The Puzzling World of UAPs:
While Hollywood might have you believe that every unidentified object in the sky is an alien spacecraft, the truth is far more nuanced. UAPs encompass a range of anomalies – from optical illusions and atmospheric conditions to high-tech drones or potentially otherworldly entities.
Recent data collection efforts have revealed something fascinating. Contrary to popular belief, the US Department of Defense (DoD) hasn’t filtered out fast or slow-moving objects in their radar data, providing a more comprehensive view of what’s really out there.
Radar Filters & Unveiling Truths:
One notable revelation concerns the DoD’s radar systems. While focused primarily on detecting conventional aircraft and missiles, there’s an acknowledgment of ‘filters’ set on these radars. The implication? Decades of data might have omitted these UAPs. Speculations run wild. Could they be technological assets from rivals like Russia dating back to the Cold War? Or perhaps advancements of US technology, strategically hidden?
The potential of this technology, if real, is astonishing. UAPs have been reported to perform maneuvers that defy our current understanding of physics and aeronautics. Instant acceleration, sharp turns at unbelievable speeds, and hovering still in the air have all been documented.
Whistleblowers & the Controversies:
Bob Lazar stands out as a significant, albeit controversial, figure in UAP discourse. He claimed to have worked in Area 51, revealing secrets about reverse engineering alien tech. Though skeptics question the authenticity of his claims, the sheer amount of detailed information he provided remains thought-provoking.
It’s not just Lazar. Commander David Grosch came forward, risking his reputation, driven by a “sense of duty” to share his experiences. This bravery shines a light on the seriousness with which some insiders view these phenomena.
VIDEO:
The realm of UAPs remains clouded in mystery. Are they secret advanced technology? Evidences of extraterrestrial life? Or perhaps a mixture of many explanations? While we might not have definitive answers, one thing is clear – our sky holds more mysteries than we once believed.
UFO testimony via military recounts 'nonhuman' pilots and 'superior tech'
Three former military members appeared for a congressional hearing on the national security threats from "unidentified anomalous phenomena."
SCOTT L. HALL, USA TODAY
The chance that extraterrestrials hailing from deep within the incomprehensibly vast regions of outer space have discovered and visited planet Earth may be infinitesimal.
But it's not zero.
Witnesses have for decades comes forward to share their alleged encounters with strange flying objects and even otherworldly beings themselves, only to often be ridiculed and dismissed. The specter of flying saucers and little green men has long been a topic relegated to the realm of pop culture at best, and hokum at worst.
Now, witnesses once made to feel like crackpots are sharing what they believe are sightings of UFOs in "Encounters," a docuseries premiering Wednesday on Netflix. Across four episodes, the series will rely on firsthand accounts to explore the evidence (or lack thereof) that we may not be alone in the universe.
"Encounters" will premier Wednesday on Netflix. The four-part docuseries explores four different mass UFO sightings in different parts of the world.
NETFLIX
"Most people would say the question is, like, 'Are we alone,'" one person says in the trailer, released earlier in September. "I think the question is, 'Who are we?'"
Directed by Yon Motskin, each episode of the series produced by Stephen Spielberg's Amblin Television, Boardwalk Pictures and Vice Studios explores a separate report of a mass sighting in a different part of the world.
The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful to be placed in orbit, has revealed the clearest image to date of the early universe.
Billed in Netflix press materials as a "detective story," "Encounters" relies on both firsthand accounts and also the testimony of various scientists and military officials to delve into reports of suspected extraterrestrial phenomena. The four episodes feature accounts of strange lights in the sky in 2008 over small-town Texas; Cold War-era submersible crafts lurking near a coastal Welsh village; a non-human intelligence reportedly interfering in 2011 with the operations of a nuclear power plant in Japan; and an alien encounter in 1994 experienced by schoolchildren in Zimbabwe.
"UFOs, UAP's, non-human intelligence, whatever we might call it — I didn’t before but now I think it exists," Motskin told Netflix. "It could be non-human intelligence from far away, or from the past or future, or even us from the future. But I believe ‘the phenomenon’, as it’s called, has been around for a long time."
A witness reviews footage in Netflix's "Encounters" from the Department of Defense depicting an unidentified object in the sky observed by a Navy pilot. TheU.S. government now refers to UFOs as UAP, short for unidentified anomalous phenomena.Show less
The claim of the crash retrieval program came from former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch, who testified before a House Oversight subcommittee that his country has been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s. Though he was constrained in presenting hard evidence about alleged classified programs, Grusch claimed to have been informed that the Pentagon has been able to obtain and study not only interstellar crafts, but the bodies of extraterrestrial pilots themselves.
The Pentagon has repeatedly denied that such a program exists.
Since then, the Pentagon's office to investigate UFOs unveiled a website where the public can access declassified information about reported sightings and soon make reports of their own.
NASA scientists and other astrophysicists acknowledge the phenomena of objects sighted in skies flying in ways believed to be beyond the capabilities of known human technology, but also caution that otherworldly explanations for UFOs aren't likely even in the absence of a natural one.
UFO sightings have been a topic of intrigue, speculation, and debate for decades. With numerous eyewitness accounts and growing public interest, the mystery deepens as new sightings emerge. Especially when these encounters involve not just the skies but the vastness of our oceans. Let’s dive into some of the most riveting naval encounters that will make you rethink everything you know about UFO sightings.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the National UFO Reporting Center’s database recorded several incidents involving the US Navy. These weren’t your usual skyward-looking sightings; these were encounters from the depths, involving massive naval vessels and mysterious unidentified submerged objects, or USOs.
One captivating account from 1965 speaks of a witness aboard the USS Albany in the Azores Islands. This individual detailed an event where three unidentified objects, maintaining a triangular formation, trailed the fleet for hours. Attempts to approach these objects with jets resulted in them swiftly disappearing from radar screens.
Fast forward to 1977 in the Bermuda Triangle, a locale already rife with mysteries. Crew aboard the USS Glover reported seeing bright orange objects descend from the sky, only to perform acrobatic maneuvers above their ship. But what was truly astounding was that during this event, the ship lost all power. Once the objects vanished, power mysteriously returned.
These aren’t isolated events. Time and again, naval crews across the world have reported unexplained phenomena that defy logic and our understanding of physics. Such incidents not only raise questions about what we’re seeing but also about the extent to which authorities are willing to suppress information.
VIDEO:
5 Concealed Navy UFO Encounters | The Richard Dolan Show
It’s vital to approach UFO sightings with an open yet analytical mind. While some might be explainable phenomena, others challenge our understanding of the world around us. Are they proof of otherworldly civilizations, or are they top-secret experiments? One thing is certain: with every new sighting, our desire to decode the mysteries of the universe only grows stronger.
De James Webb Ruimtetelescoop heeft het adembenemende beeld van een uitgestrekt sterrenveld met een sterrenstelsel en een bolvormige sterrenhoop in de schijnwerpers gezet.
In de afbeelding is het onregelmatige sterrenstelsel NGC 6822 te zien, dankzij de Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) gemonteerd op de James Webb, een telescoop die gezamenlijk wordt geëxploiteerd door NASA, ESA en CSA.
Met het infraroodbeeld is het ook mogelijk om de talrijke sterren in dit dichtbevolkte veld te observeren. De helderste sterren verschijnen in lichtblauw en cyaan, terwijl de zwakkere sterren zich tonen in warmere kleuren.
Bovendien bevindt zich links van het midden een heldere blauwe ‘bol’ die opvalt als een bolvormige sterrenhoop.
Several years ago I began researching the phenomenon of ball lightning since it comes up so frequently in discussions of the UFO phenomenon. (Or unidentified anomalous phenomena, UAP, as the U.S. government insists we say these days.) In recent months I have gone back to investigate some of the more current research material and reports available on this topic and I'll provide some updates on both the historical and newer information that has become available here.
It's worth noting that "ball-shaped" UFOs (as ball lightning is typically described) are among the most common sightings reported. This is no longer just an anecdotal assumption. The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) website confirms this in a recently published morphology chart. They even provide a verified and still unidentified video of one of them filmed by a drone over the Middle East. Those "orbs" are frequently described as being silver or metallic in appearance, but recently advanced theories suggest that in some cases, particularly at night, they might exhibit some sort of field around their surface, giving them the appearance of fire or even electrical "lightning."
People have been reporting sightings of such objects for quite some time. Rather than being a recent phenomenon, something fitting the description of ball lightning was first reported in the 12th century, written by Benedictine monk Gervase of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury in 1195. Suggesting that the phenomenon has an affinity for religious institutions (or just that churches had most of the people who were literate back then), ball lightning reportedly struck the church of St. Pancras in Widecombe-on-the-Moor, England during a severe thunderstorm in 1638. Church records indicate that the fireball came through a window, knocked the minister off of his feet, and singed his clothing. While it melted metal around him, it left the wood of the church untouched. The event was considered to be potentially miraculous.
Ball lightning isn't only seen over land. Ships at sea have reported similar sightings and even alarming damage for centuries. In 1726, while sailing along the Gulf Coast off of Florida, the sloop Catherine and Maryreported being struck by a ball of fire from the sky that "blew the mast into a thousand pieces." One witness wrote that three men were struck down with one of them being killed. Similarly, in 1809, ship's records from the HMS Warren Hastings told of three fireballs striking the ship, killing two of the crew. Thunderstorms and rough seas were reported in both cases.
During my initial investigation, I sought out some sort of scientifically verifiable, plausible explanation for such a phenomenon that wouldn't involve UFOs or anything paranormal. And many scientists have engaged in similar pursuits dating back to at least the 1940s. Since it is described as "lightning," I interviewed one of the chief meteorologists for NBC News. Could this actually be lightning as we currently understand it? He pointed me to the current description of ball lightning offered by the American Meteorological Society. They are willing to admit that ball lightening is "considered controversial due to the lack of unambiguous physical evidence" and the exact mechanisms for how it might take place are "unknown." He further confessed that "Not a lot is known about it.”
That comment speaks volumes because we actually do know quite a bit about lightning and electricity in general after centuries of study. NOAA can mostly accurately predict which storms are more or less likely to produce lightning within a window of a few hours. We know that "balls of electricity" will not "float" through a glass window if there is any less resistive path because glass is such an amazing insulator. The reason that "ball lightning" is unverifiable is that it doesn't act like lightning or other typical electronic activity.
That's not to say that scientific investigations into the phenomenon haven't continued. I reviewed a more recent, peer-reviewed paper from M. Sanduloviciu and E. Lozneanu of the Department of Plasma Physics at the University of Ias in Romania, titled, "Ball lightning as a self-organization Phenomenon."
In a laboratory, they were able to reproduce the effect impressively and they included many photographs and explanatory charts. But they almost all require very controlled conditions and the introduction of an electrical anode. Happening in nature, they described it as a "sudden injection of matter and energy in a well-located hot plasma generated by a lightning stroke."
This ties back nicely to my original findings, indicating that so-called ball lightning is typically associated with fireballs that are observed immediately following a lightning strike on the ground in an area where combustible materials are located. You can see a video of such an event here. Commercially created fireballs are also common. But they all share certain properties in common. They are the obvious combustion of fuels and they typically are very short in duration and they travel in predictable ways, generally upward. They do not zoom around and track over the wings of fighter jets like the foo fighters of yore.
So are we any closer to knowing if ball lightning is "real" today? If we are assuming that the phrase means that people are seeing balls of light doing remarkable things in the skies, there is plenty of evidence to indicate that it certainly is. But it's a phrase of convenience. Is it actually "lightning" as we currently understand that meteorological phenomenon? Almost certainly not. That's not how electricity works. But there's something going on and plenty of evidence continues to accumulate.
Reports are piling up to this day. The Weather Channel saw fit to publish a video of one example from 2013. CBS News in Sacramento California published a highly intriguing video in 2021. Some other relatively recent reports include one from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where a witness reported a green ball of light hovering outside of his house for approximately ten seconds, whereupon it exploded. The power to his house was knocked out until the next morning. A second from Jordan, New York involved a glowing red ball seen inside a person's house that hovered in the air for more than three minutes.
Those last two are related because they are part of a collection of sightings being assembled by a team at New Mexico Tech University labs. They set up a site specifically for people to report ball lightinng sightings a few years ago and they have many examples. Their goal is to take a scientific approach, matching witness testimony to meteorological data from the time and location reported, seeking patterns. They hope to identify the conditions most likely to spawn ball lightning, hopefully increasing the chances of capturing it on film in the future.
So what are these flaming balls? Personally, I think they look very much like UFOs, but that simply means that we haven't yet identified precisely what they are or where they come from. But all of the data thus far suggests that they really aren't "lightning" and we have a very solid understanding of how that natural phenomenon operates.
The Mysterious Hybrid Creatures Depicted on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser: A Genetic Experiment of the Gods?
The Mysterious Hybrid Creatures Depicted on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser: A Genetic Experiment of the Gods?
Bibhu Dev Misra
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is one of the most intriguing artifacts of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Discovered by Sir Austen Henry Layard in 1846, it is one of only two complete Neo-Assyrian obelisks yet discovered. This perfectly preserved monument commemorates 31 years of King Shalmaneser III’s reign, who ruled from 858–824 BCE. It was erected as a public monument in 825 BCE, in the central square of Nimrud (biblical Calah, or ancient Kalhu), located in modern-day Iraq. After its discovery, the object was transferred to the British Museum where it still resides.
The four-sided obelisk is made of black limestone, and stands just under 2 meters (6 ½ feet) tall. It has five vertically arranged panels on each side, adding up to a total of 20 panels. They depict five different subdued kings, bringing tribute and prostrating before King Shalmaneser. The tributes from each subdued king occupies four panels around the monument and is described by a cuneiform script above them.
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III in the British Museum, black limestone, c.827 - 824 BCE, from Nimrud, Iraq.
The really intriguing elements of this obelisk can be seen on the third panel from the top, which depicts the tributes brought by an unnamed ruler of “Musri”. Earlier, historians used to think that Musri was a kingdom in northern Iraq, but now that it is accepted that it was a Neo-Assyrian term for Egypt, phonetically similar to the Hebrew “Mizraim”, Classical Arabic “Misr” and Egyptian Arabic “Masr”. So, what did this subdued king of Egypt (not necessarily the pharaoh), bring as tribute to Shalmaneser III, sometime around the 9th century BCE? Human-animal hybrid beings, which are depicted alongside other easily recognizable animals! The hybrids are smaller than humans, and are held in chains like pets.
Tributes brought to Shalmaneser III by the king of Musri i.e. Egypt. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, CC BY-SA 4.0
This panel shows a pair of human-animal hybrid beings, held by chains. Both the creatures have human-like head and arms, but their hind limbs are like that of an animal, and they also have a tail. The creatures appear to be capable of standing or walking on their hind limbs. One might think that they look like a miniature version of a sphinx, which, of course, is a startling thought, for haven’t we been told that the sphinx is a “mythological” creature?
Tributes brought to Shalmaneser III by the king of Musri i.e. Egypt. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, CC BY-SA 4.0
This panel shows three human-animal hybrids, of which two are held by ropes. These hybrids seem to be quite comfortable walking on their hind legs, and are very human-like except for their long tail. One of the hybrids is perched on the shoulder of a man, which indicates that they have a friendly attitude towards humans and can be trained. They resemble the satyrs of Greek art, and the vanaras of Indian legends, which, once again makes us wonder how so-called mythical beings could have been offered as a tribute by a king of Egypt in the 9th century BCE.
It is important to remember that the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III was a royal monument which was meant for the express purpose of recording the various tributes that King Shalmaneser had received during his reign. It was probably executed by the royal scribes, working hand-in-hand with the highly skilled royal sculptors. This was not the place where the sculptor could indulge in flights of fancy, and employ religious symbols and metaphorical devices. Nor could a sculptor afford to attach a tail to a prisoner, simply because he had a personal dislike for that person. The Neo-Assyrian kings were not known for their sense of humour, and any deviation or practical joke would have been severely dealt with.
What I am trying to get at is that, if a royal monument shows human-animal hybrid beings being received as tribute, then it is very likely that they were. And it is only because such creatures do not exist today that we find this thought so incredible.
In fact, there is documented evidence that bizarre, human-animal hybrid beings existed in some parts of the world till the late first millennium BCE. One of the interesting accounts was written by a Greek physician called Ctesias, who served as a doctor at the court of the king Artaxerxes II of Persia. He wrote a book called Indica, which was based on various stories brought to the Persian court by visitors and travelers from India and other parts of the world. Pliny, the Elder, quoting Ctesias, writes that,
“Ctesias informs us, that among these same Ethiopians, there is an animal found, which he calls the mantichora; it has a triple row of teeth, which fit into each other like those of a comb, the face and ears of a man, and azure eyes, is of the colour of blood, has the body of the lion, and a tail ending in a sting, like that of the scorpion. Its voice resembles the union of the sound of the flute and the trumpet; it is of excessive swiftness, and is particularly fond of human flesh.”[1]
Ctesias also wrote of similar hybrid animals being found in the mountainous regions of India. Pliny quoting Ctesias in Natural History, writes that,
“There are also satyrs in the mountains in the east of India...this is an extremely swift animal, sometimes going on all fours and sometimes standing upright as they run, like human beings; because of their speed only the old ones or the sick are caught.”[2]
The satyr in the above description, could, of course, refer to the Mande Burung, which is the counterpart of the Yeti that lives in the mountains of eastern India, in the state of Meghalaya. What it most certainly does not describe is the “monkey”, which is an animal that everyone in India is familiar with, and unlikely to evoke any interest.
The accounts of Ctesias indicate that human-animal hybrids, like those depicted on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, may have existed in Ethiopia and India around the 5th century BCE, and therefore, could have been given as a tribute by a king of Egypt in the 9th century BCE.
Another interesting incident was recorded by the Greek historian Plutarch in the 2nd century CE. Plutarch wrote in the Life of Sulla that the soldiers of the Roman general Sulla had captured a satyr sleeping during a military campaign in Greece in 89 BCE.[3] Sulla’s men brought the satyr to him and he attempted to interrogate it, but it spoke in an unintelligible sound, which was a cross between the neighing of a horse and the bleating of a goat.
It appears from accounts such as these that, satyrs may not be imaginary creatures, as is commonly believed, but could have been hybrid beings that lived till the beginning of the Christian era and became extinct soon afterwards, as the environmental conditions continued to change. Millions of animals have become extinct over time, so why not sphinxes and satyrs? Or, perhaps, they did not become extinct, but retreated inside mountain caves and subterranean grottoes, where they are simply biding their time until conditions become favorable for their emergence?
The question is, if these creatures actually lived in the past, how did they evolve? We know that human DNA is not compatible with that of animals, which means we can pretty much rule out any involvement of humans in this matter. What do the ancient texts and traditions have to say about it?
When it comes to the sphinx, there is not much to go on, especially with respect to their origin. We know that the sphinx was always regarded as a protector or guardian of a sacred sanctuary, and was generally depicted in pairs on either side of the entrance to a temple, palace or tomb. This custom was consistently followed across the world, wherever sphinxes are depicted in art and architecture - in Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, India and South-east Asia.
With regards to their appearance, there are slight differences between cultures. In Greece, the sphinx was generally female, and had a pair of wings. In Mesopotamia, the sphinx was called lamassu. It combined the characteristics of a man and a bull, and was typically depicted with wings. Colossal statues of the lamassu were placed in pairs at the entrances of the royal palaces and cities. Interestingly, on many cylinder seals, the lamassu was depicted in an upright, standing position, adoring the stylized “sacred tree”, which indicates that they played an important role in the religious life of the people.
A gigantic sculpture of a lamassu, flanked by an equally big sculpture of Gilgamesh grasping a lion, from the throne room of Sargon II, in Khorsabad. On display at the Louvre, Paris. Credit: Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal from c. 9th - 7th century BCE, depicting a pair of bearded bull-men, standing on either side of a sacred tree, with the winged disk of Ashur hovering above it. Source: Met museum, Public Domain.
In India, the sphinx was called purusha-mriga or kimpurusha. It used to be depicted standing on four legs at the entrances of temples, as well as in an upright position on two limbs in front of a Shiva-linga. The Shiva-linga, which is a stone pillar symbolizing the god Shiva, is the axis-mundi of the world, and is conceptually equivalent to the “sacred tree” depicted on the Mesopotamian seals. It is apparent that the sphinx, in an upright standing posture, looks quite similar to the hybrid creatures depicted on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III.
A pair of Indian sphinxes, standing upright while worshipping a Shiva-linga. Credit: Raja Deekshithar.
Unfortunately, there are very few stories associated with the sphinx, because of which we don’t know anything about it origins or parentage. In case of the satyrs, however, a lot more information is available, which hints at a genetic experiment carried out by the gods, sometime prior to 7000 BCE, in order to produce these strange, hybrid creatures.
In Greek art, the satyrs were shown with the ears and tails of a horse, but their face was like that of humans, and they sported long beards. In fact, apart from their ears and tail, everything about the satyrs is completely human-like. They walked upright like humans, played the aulos (double flute), lyre and other musical instruments, drank wine, and danced around merrily in the entourage of Dionysus, along with the maenads i.e. dancing nymphs. I have no doubt that if a satyr were to cover his ears with long, flowing hair, and dress up in a formal suit, he would be unrecognizable in any modern-day orchestra. Who knows, they might already be lingering amongst us!
A satyr playing the aulos to entertain Dionysus, c.480 BCE. Credit: Jean Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
Dionysus seated on stool and holding a wine cup, entertained by two dancing satyrs, c. 510 - 500 BCE. Credit: ArchaiOptix CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pan was the leader of the satyrs in the Dionysian retinue, and he was the general of Dionysus’s army during his military expeditions. He had precocious musical talent, being the inventor of the “pan flute”. An Orphic Hymn to Pan states: “Only at evening, as he (Pan) returns from the chase, he sounds his note, playing sweet and low on his pipes of reed: not even she could excel him in melody —that bird who in flower-laden spring pouring forth her lament utters honey-voiced song amid the leaves.”[4] Interestingly, Pan was regarded as a demigod, being the son of Hermes, and he was worshipped in caves and grottoes as the god of the wilderness, pastures, groves, flocks, music and fertility.
The satyrs of Greek art correspond to the vanaras of Indian legends, who accompanied Rama on his military campaigns. The vanaras had monkey-like faces covered with beard, hairy bodies, and a long tail. But they walked upright like human beings, and were similar to humans in their speech and customs. The most powerful of the vanaras was Hanuman. Like Pan, he was a demigod, being the son of the wind-god Pavan, and was therefore known as “Pavan-putra Hanuman.” Hanuman was also musically gifted, being a sitar player par-excellence, and one of the four styles of Indian (Hindustani) classical music is named after him.
Hanuman, with raised right hand, and holding a branch in his left hand. Ramachandra Temple, Hampi. Credit: G41rn8, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rama with Hanuman. Srivaikuntam temple, Tamil Nadu. Credit: Sowrirajan s, CC BY 2.0.
When the noted scholar and philologist, Sir William Jones, came to Calcutta, India, in 1783, as a Supreme Court judge, he immediately noticed the stark correlations between Dionysus and Rama, and wrote an article elaborating on these connections. A number of Greek historians had written that Dionysus had been born on a mountain of India named Meros, which was located close to the city called Nysa, from where his name Dionysus (God of Nysa) had originated.
It appears that Rama and his retinue of vanaras had gone westwards, propagating a mystery religion in which god-communion was achieved through ritual ecstasy. This is not surprising, considering that Rama was a great devotee of the god Shiva, and many elements of the Dionysian rites – such as the long processions, consumption of intoxicants, ritual dances, the use of serpents and phallic cult objects – are still practiced by the devotees of Shiva.
After the conquests of Alexander, the Greek and Roman historians - Pliny, Solinus and Arrian - wrote about Indian customs and culture. Their writings indicate that the Indians counted their kings from 6776 BCE, starting with a ruler whom they identified with the Greek Dionysus or Roman Bacchus. Since we can be quite certain that Dionysus or Bacchus is indeed Rama, it means that the satyrs or vanaras were roaming the world since that remote period.
This brings us to the big question: how did this strange race of vanaras originate? As per the Ramayana, the gods, sages and other celestial beings mated with the animals of the forests to create powerful progenies who would be able to assist Rama in his fight against the rakshasas i.e. giants. For instance,
“When Brahma addressed them thus, those gods agreed to his order and accordingly started to parent sons in the semblance of monkeys.”[5] “Thus the gods have procreated many thousands of such valorous and guise changing monkeys who with their immeasurable strength and bravery are manifest for the elimination of the decahedral demon Ravana.”[6]
So, the gods were involved in the creation of the race of vanaras. As to who these gods were, I shall not speculate here, other than to say that the accounts of most native cultures portray them as “humanoid” beings of great power who came to the earth in very ancient times, the most likely place of their origin being the Pleiades star cluster. But did the gods actually procreate with the forest animals for the purpose of creating the vanaras or did they use advanced genetic manipulation techniques? Probably the latter, for that is the method that the gods had adopted for the creation of human beings, as per the Mesopotamian epic of creation, the Enuma Elish.
The Enuma Elish relates that the gods lived on the earth in the beginning, and toiled hard to make the rivers, lakes, mountains and other features of the ecosystem, so that our planet could become habitable. After Marduk slayed Tiamat, the monstrous serpent of the oceans, he wanted to create man, so that man could take over the labors of the gods and the gods could rest. Enki (or Ea), the Lord of Underworld, then created man from the blood of Qingu, who was one of the underworld divinities who had instigated Tiamat to rebel against the gods. These are the exact lines from the Enuma Elish:
27 The Igigi, the great gods, answered him (Marduk), 28 That is, Lugaldimmerankia, the counsellor of the gods, the lord, 29 "Qingu is the one who instigated warfare, 30 Who made Tiamat rebel and set battle in motion." 31 They bound him, holding him before Ea (Enki), 32 They inflicted the penalty on him and severed his blood-vessels. 33 From his blood he (Ea) created mankind, 34 On whom he imposed the service of the gods, and set the gods free.[7]
Although the text doesn’t say so explicitly, it is quite likely that Enki extracted Qingu’s DNA from his blood and re-engineered it to create human beings. In which case, a similar process may have been followed for the creation of the vanaras, satyrs, sphinxes and many other kinds of magical, hybrid beings that are depicted in ancient art and architecture.
We are prone to regard these hybrid beings of ancient art as mythical or imaginary creatures since we don’t see them around today, but it is quite possible that the DNA of these hybrid beings degraded over time due to the accumulation of harmful genetic mutations, and as a result they slowly became extinct, or retreated to some hidden location. However, as the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III shows, some of these hybrid creatures were still around in the 9th century BCE. They had shrunk in size by then, and were caught by humans and possibly trained as pets. However, their numbers would have substantially reduced by that time, to the extent that they became rare or exotic animals, and were offered as tribute to kings.
References
[1] Pliny the Elder, The Natural History 8.30, https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+8.30#note1 [2] Pliny the Elder, The Natural History 7.2.6, https://topostext.org/work/148 [3] Hansen 2017, pp. 167–168. [4] Hymn 19 to Pan, ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. [5] Valmiki Ramayana 1.17.8 [6] Valmiki Ramayana 1.17.17 [7] Enuma Elish, Tablet VI, lines 33-34, https://www.worldhistory.org/article/225/enuma-elish---the-babylonian-epic-of-creation---fu/
MIB or Aliens Walk Up To Door, Knock, California, RingCam, Sept 20, 2023, UFO Sighting News.
MIB or Aliens Walk Up To Door, Knock, California, RingCam, Sept 20, 2023, UFO Sighting News.
Location of sighting:City Unknown,
Date of sighting: Sept 20, 2023 at 10:45 AM.
Source: MUFON
Now this just in. A ultra rare encounter recorded by an unbiased ringcam. Two alien visitors, dressed like MIB and a dark sphere hovering behind them over the yard. That screams out alien visitation, since most MIB are aliens themselves, it appears the aliens ether look like humans or took human form to keep the home occupant relaxed. They were probably there to chat with the person gather data and scan the occupants of the home. Aliens often do this to humans who have been tagged with trackers...where the aliens come back every few years to record the scientific data, scan and sometimes examine and operate on a person before returning them to their home. Wow, my mind is melting over this video. So rare, so amazing, how will the public react?
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
My mother has a ring door bell. And she witnesses two guys she has never seen before knocking on the door. She texts her children and asks of we knew them. We do not. Then I noticed something unusual in the back ground. AN floating or flying object.
This UFO video was just released a few days ago, the website itself just went up a few days ago. Most people never heard of it, and I'm sure thats the way they want it, but I have to share it, have to show you the truth. It's real, its there, its being tracked for 30 full minutes! It's undeniable proof that alien craft are crossing US boarders under the eyes of the US gov infrared cameras.
Mysterious Square-Shaped UFO Stuns Boat Driver at Lake Monroe, Indiana 23-Sep-2023
Mysterious Square-Shaped UFO Stuns Boat Driver at Lake Monroe, Indiana 23-Sep-2023
Square-shaped UFO sighting over Lake Monroe / Watch the full video below!
On the calm waters of Lake Monroe, Indiana, an unsuspecting boater had an experience that would leave even the most hardened skeptics scratching their heads. The date? September 23, 2023. As the sun began its descent, the clear skies were punctuated by an anomaly that defies traditional explanation – a square-shaped UFO.
The witness, navigating his boat on the Cutright side of Lake Monroe, initially mistook the object for an airplane banner. But in an unexpected twist, there was no plane in sight. Instead, a silent, hovering square shape dominated the horizon, moving with inexplicable speed and agility.
Witness report
Without a sound, the object darted southward, only to disappear and re-emerge further in the same direction. As if defying the very laws of physics, it zipped back north, repeating its mysterious path. But the grand finale was yet to come. As the observer made his way through the causeway, this enigmatic UFO executed a rapid ascend northward, taking a 25-degree incline, and vanished into the abyss of the sky.
WithUFO sightingsbecoming increasingly mainstream, this incident at Lake Monroe stands out not only because of its unique shape but also its baffling movements. Was it an advanced drone? A secretive military project? Or perhaps something not of this world? Only time will tell. But for now, Lake Monroe joins the growing list of global UFO hotspots.
This is not the the website that was released to the public last month called the AARO, this is the US boarder patrol UAP site they just made and they released a dozen videos silently on the site. The videos contain unknown craft that have been recorded by the US military planes or US drones. This one shows a square craft that suddenly has a single large wing and then the wing vanishes. Also the UAP drops some flat rectangle object at the 1:45 mark in my video. Yes it could be a drug drone dropping of drugs, but if US Boarder patrol calls it a UFO who am I to argue with them. If this was a drone, the wing would not vanish for most of the video, very odd, no craft can cloak from infrared video, but it happens. Also, why does the US gov release videos that have no date, no exact location? Why keep the public in the dark here?
Secret underground alien base hold the answers to the vanishing of 20,000 people in the Alaska Triangle?
Secret underground alien base hold the answers to the vanishing of 20,000 people in the Alaska Triangle?
The Alaska Triangle, a remote and sparsely populated area, located between Juneau, Anchorage, and Barrow, is known for its disproportionately high number of unsolved missing person cases, surpassing any other place on Earth. Over the past half-century, more than 20,000 individuals have mysteriously vanished without a trace leaving a haunting question mark hanging over the Alaskan wilderness.
Adding to the intrigue are the reports of mysterious UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters and other paranormal activity making the Alaska Triangle a hotspot of unexplained phenomena.
Some theorists believe that the Alaska Triangle conceals a electromagnetic anomaly, such as a vortex, which may have an affect on the physical realm. This magnetic mystery has given rise to speculation linking these phenomena to the vanishing acts of so many people.
The discovery of three secret extraterrestrial underground bases by a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst years ago could possibly be an answer to the many reports of unidentified objects flying through the skies without making any noise.
One such a base is purportedly located beneath Alaska's Mount Hayes, the highest peak in the state's eastern range. Its remote and inaccessible location raises questions about whether such an extraterrestrial underground base might be connected to the many UFO sightings and other strange occurrences including the inexplicable vanishing of so many people that have persisted in the area for decades.
Among the most haunting mysteries is the loss of 44 military personnel aboard a Douglas C-54 Skymaster en route from Alaska to Montana. Despite one of the most extensive joint search and rescue missions ever conducted by Canadian and American authorities, not a trace of the aircraft has ever been recovered.
Yet, another mystery is the disappearance of Congressman Hale Boggs in 1972. His aircraft inexplicably vanished from radar while traversing the Triangle's airspace. Despite extensive search and rescue efforts, neither wreckage nor survivors were ever found.
With all the unexplained events and strange sightings happened over the years, it raises a tantalizing question: Could there be a connection to extraterrestrials entities harboring a secret underground base beneath Alaska's Mount Hayes and could these entities hold the answers to the disappearances of over 20,000 individuals, who have vanished without a trace, along with the two aircraft and their passengers and crew?
Did ALIENS abduct a US Air Force pilot over the North Sea? Serviceman took off from RAF base in 1970 and disappeared 12 minutes later - but when his plane was found the cockpit canopy was closed and there was no body
Did ALIENS abduct a US Air Force pilot over the North Sea? Serviceman took off from RAF base in 1970 and disappeared 12 minutes later - but when his plane was found the cockpit canopy was closed and there was no body
In the final extract from his gripping book about the chequered history of the ejection seat, John Nichol — who was taken prisoner by Saddam Hussein's troops after his Tornado jet was shot down over Iraq during the first Gulf War — tells the intriguing story of an American pilot who disappeared without trace over the North Sea.
At RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire, U.S. pilot Captain Bill Schaffner was a popular addition to the ranks of 5 Squadron. He arrived there in 1970 to learn to fly one-man Lightning fighter planes as part of an exchange programme between the U.S. Air Force and the RAF. With him were wife Linda and small children David, Glennon and baby Michael.
Life on a Cold War airbase in those days revolved around the ever-present threat from the Soviet Union. All personnel were required to be fully prepared for such an eventuality, and in September that year, a major exercise began to test a squadron's reaction to a Soviet attack on the UK.
British aircraft posing as Soviet bombers were out over the North Sea, threatening to stray into territorial waters. 5 Squadron's challenge was to find them, shadow them and warn them off, or, if necessary, practise shooting them down.
All day, Lightnings roared airborne to challenge 'the invaders', then headed back into Binbrook, tyres squealing as they landed, to refuel and then take off again, straight back into the fray.
Tragedy: US pilot Bill Schaffner with his wife Linda in 1966
Missing body: Captain Schaffner's Lightning being pulled from the North Sea
It was evening before Schaffner was scrambled, ordered to his fighter, XS894. The weather had begun to deteriorate as he climbed into the cockpit, strapped into his ejection seat and sat stationary on a taxiway until he was allocated the call sign 'Charlie 45'. Then he blasted off the runway, climbing to 10,000ft over the North Sea.
Three minutes and five seconds later he checked in with the radar station at RAF Patrington in Yorkshire, from where the exercise was being run, to be told that his mission was to shadow and shepherd a four-engine Avro Shackleton that was posing as a Soviet bomber and heading towards the Yorkshire coast. This was despite shadowing and shepherding being a manoeuvre he had practised but not actually been cleared to perform.
It was also now getting dark, and he had only notched up 18 hours of night flying on the Lightning. There was a further complication: the speed of a Shackleton was 185mph, whereas the slowest a Lightning could be flown in this type of operation was 230mph. This was going to be tricky, testing to the full his flying skills on an aircraft that was new to him.
The night was pitch-black, the weather had worsened, and, as he concentrated on shadowing the slow-moving aircraft, Schaffner probably could no longer see the horizon. For a Lightning pilot with such limited experience, the workload in the cockpit was reaching breaking point.
To make a challenging situation even worse, his task was then dramatically upgraded. His mission now was not just to follow the Shackleton but to intercept it and, if necessary, escort it to RAF Binbrook.
He dropped to 5,000 feet and followed an instruction to increase his speed to 0.95 Mach (728mph) towards the 'target', which was now just 28 nautical miles away. A Lightning had phenomenal acceleration. In seconds it could be travelling at well over 12 miles a minute. He would be on top of the target before he knew it. He needed to slow down.
Patrington reminded Schaffner to keep a sharp lookout. 'Roger, I'm watching 'em,' he replied.
At 9.42, just 12 minutes after he had blasted off from RAF Binbrook, he got another set of instructions. 'If target aircraft approaches within three miles of the UK coastline, it is to be directed to land at Waddington [another RAF base in Lincolnshire].'
There was no response.
Aircraft English Electric Lightning T5 of RAF 111 Squadron taking off with Chief Marshall Sir Wallace Kyle on board
For decades, Captain Schaffner's disappearance 12 minutes after take-off from RAF Binbrook in 1970 was part of UFO lore
What was also worrying was that the controller could no longer see Schaffner on his radar screen and was growing increasingly frantic. A succession of urgent radio calls rang out. 'Charlie 45, Charlie 45, this is Patrington, do you read? Over.'
Only the hiss and crackle of static filled the radio. Schaffner and his Lightning fighter had disappeared.
Listening in to all this, RAF pilot Chris Coville went to look for his friend, flying low over the water, but was unable to see anything. 'The penny began to drop,' Coville (later Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville) recalls. 'Something terrible had happened to Bill. It was obvious that he had crashed into the sea. But there was still hope.'
A lifeboat and an RAF Marine Branch rescue vessel were alerted and on their way to the area, eyes peeled in the darkness for a dinghy floating on the sea. 'If he had ejected and triggered his survival beacon it would transmit a signal to allow rescuers to home in on him.'
But there were no bleeps from Schaffner's survival radio. With every passing minute, Coville's feeling of dread increased.
'I landed back at base to see the padre in the crew room, never a welcome sight.' Minutes later the padre and the station commander were knocking on Linda Schaffner's door with the news that every airman's wife lives in dread of.
Linda recalled an RAF doctor arriving with a box of Valium to calm her down. But nothing could take the edge off her mounting grief. 'I was in total shock. I was told Bill was probably dead. But what did probably mean? How could they know? I stayed up most of the night, hoping, praying, that they would find him. Every time I heard a noise outside, I rushed to the window to see if it was him.'
Discussing with me the events of that day over 50 years ago, Coville retrieves his RAF logbook and reads the entry aloud: '8th September 1970 — Captain Bill Schaffner lost.' There was no sign of his aircraft. There was no sign of him. It was not known if he had ejected.
A week later there was still no sign of Bill or his Lightning. He had to be presumed dead. His wife and children went back to the US. On the flight home, one thought nagged away at Linda. Bill's body had still not been recovered. Had he managed to eject? Was there perhaps a scintilla of hope?
A month later, a Royal Navy minesweeper in the North Sea picked up a bulky object on its sonar, five miles north-east of Flamborough Head, lying in mud on the seabed, about 100 feet from the surface. A diver went down and reported back. It was Schaffner's Lightning, its back broken but otherwise remarkably undamaged.
Then from the seabed the diver relayed something very strange: 'Cockpit closed. Looking in now. It's empty. No sign of the pilot.'
His plane was found on the seabed, its ejection seat in place, the cockpit canopy closed – but minus a body...
Only one thing was for sure. Schaffner had hit the water at 180mph. The exact point of impact had frozen on the altimeter and the air speed indicator
The plane was winched to the surface. Photographs taken at the time show the Lightning's distinctive swept-back wings, with the aircraft's registration, XS894, on the underside. Inspection confirmed the top canopy was closed but the cockpit was empty. The ejection seat was still in the aircraft with the harness undone. The mystery deepened — what had happened that night? And where was Bill?
An official Board of Inquiry, set up the day after the accident, went to work, with a host of difficult questions. Had the ejection seat failed, or had the pilot not pulled the handle? And if not, why not? Where was the body? If he had managed to unstrap and climb out, why was the cockpit canopy closed?
Only one thing was for sure. Schaffner had hit the water at 180mph. The exact point of impact had frozen on the altimeter and the air speed indicator.
Over in the US, Linda Schaffner received an official letter. 'This is to advise you that the aircraft which your husband Captain William Schaffner was flying was recovered from the North Sea. However, his body was not inside the aircraft. The whereabouts is undetermined at this time. I will advise you immediately of any new developments. I extend my deepest sympathy.'
Linda was bewildered. 'It was inexplicable. Where was Bill? I had no husband to bury and no information about what happened to him. How was he not in the aircraft? Had he ejected? I couldn't understand it.' No one could.
The years went by, Linda remarried and she and her boys had happy lives. But in 1999, the youngest, Mike, now a 29-year-old, was as puzzled as ever. 'As a teenager, I remembered day-dreaming that my father had somehow survived and was suffering from amnesia somewhere.
'Or perhaps he had been picked up by a Soviet submarine and was languishing in a gulag. As an adult, I put those thoughts away. I'd never known him beyond his military mementos that my mom kept in an old red box.'
Killing time one day, he went online, idly looking for any references to his father. The family had been promised the Board of Inquiry's accident report but had never received it. Mike had no idea it had been completed back in June 1972, and then restricted for security reasons.
'About ten pages into my search I saw the words 8 September 1970 and RAF Binbrook. It was the date my dad died, and his base. I was astonished.' He clicked on the link and up popped a 1992 article in the Grimsby Telegraph — 'The Riddle of Foxtrot 94'.
It claimed that 'a young USAF pilot, Captain Bill Schaffner, had been scrambled in his Lightning, along with six RAF fighters from other bases, three tankers and a Shackleton early warning aircraft to intercept a 'mystery contact'.' The reference was to an unidentified flying object — a UFO.
Mike couldn't quite believe what he was reading. This was the first real information he had found about the accident. There was a whole clutch of stories about his dad, each one more astonishing than the last, all based on the sleuthing of UFO hunters.
Incredibly, one ran what it claimed was an official transcript of Bill's final radio calls with his flight controllers. 'I have visual contact, repeat visual contact. I'm alongside it now, maybe 600 feet. It's a conical shape. Jeez, that's bright. It hurts my eyes to look at it for more than a few seconds.'
The article claimed Schaffner now saw an object 'the size of a large football, like it's made of glass, bobbing up and down' at the back end of the mystery craft. It's not actually connected. Maybe a magnetic attraction. Could be the power source. It's within a haze of yellow light. There's no sign of ballistics.'
Suddenly there was alarm in his voice. 'It's turning, coming straight for me, am taking evasive action.' His radio then went dead.
Reading all this, Mike didn't know what to believe. Over the coming days, he and his brothers made calls to people who had known their father, and to any contacts they had within the US Air Force who could offer any advice.
And they discovered even more ludicrous stories, and TV interviews with so-called experts who delighted in promoting UFO theories. Mike sent the supposed transcript to one of his father's old USAF friends. The reply was prompt and precise. 'This is utter hokum. It's just a bunch of made-up junk.'
After his initial shock, Mike agreed. 'Clearly it was utter rubbish, but the fact that there was so much information out there about my dad spurred me on to investigate more.' He and his brother were also angered by the stories for doing their distinguished and decorated father a gross disservice. 'My dad was a pilot. I was horrified his name was linked to this UFO nonsense.'
But there still remained that one big mystery. 'None of us could understand why the ejection seat was still in his jet, but my father was not. It became my mission to establish what had happened to him that night.'
After years of secrecy, the Aircraft Accident Report was handed to his sons by an RAF Wing Commander. 'Tragic though it was,' he told them, 'it was an accident. There is no other logical explanation'
More years went by when, out of the blue, Mike had a call from someone at the BBC to say they were investigating his father's death and invited the brothers to come to London to put pressure on the Ministry of Defence to release the accident report.
At first the MoD claimed not to have it — it must have been shredded, they said — but they eventually dug it out. It had the real transcript of their father's final conversation with ground controllers, exposing as a total fake the 'UFO' transcript, with its manufactured conversations and ludicrous descriptions of floating lights.
After years of secrecy, the Aircraft Accident Report was handed to his sons by an RAF Wing Commander. 'Tragic though it was,' he told them, 'it was an accident. There is no other logical explanation.'
A string of operational and procedural errors had led to their father's flight to oblivion. There was no single root cause. The report said: 'His lack of training led to a situation where he failed to monitor the height of his aircraft while slowing down and acquiring his target. And he had inadvertently flown his aircraft into the sea.'
A battle-hardened combat pilot had made a simple error flying a new aircraft on a complex night sortie and it had cost him his life. He would not be the first, or the last.
But why had he not ejected? Why was his seat in the cockpit while he was not?
The explanation was tragically simple. The inquiry revealed that he had pulled the ejection handle but a tiny, misaligned screw in the mechanism that blew off the overhead canopy meant its explosive charge failed to detonate.
The seat was designed not to eject if the canopy was still in place to avoid fatal head injuries. There was no problem with the design of the seat, but the circumstances were such that night that it was never going to blast Bill to safety. A simple engineering error resulted in the death of a husband and father.
'Crashing into the sea at 180mph would probably have resulted in severe injuries,' Chris Coville says. 'He had tried to eject at some point and failed. But he had then clearly unstrapped from his ejection seat, managed to open the cockpit canopy and struggle out as the jet initially floated on the water.'
So why was the jet later discovered with the canopy fully closed? Didn't that point to some outside interference? No. After Schaffner had escaped from his cockpit the aircraft began to sink and the increasing water pressure forced the canopy shut again as it descended.
According to Coville, there was only one answer to the mystery of his friend's disappearance. 'Incapacitated and without his survival dinghy, Bill almost certainly drowned in the cold North Sea. It was sheer bad luck that several elements combined
on that fateful night to take him to his death.'
For Glennon Schaffner, 'discovering that my father's ejection seat hadn't worked because of a servicing error was a shock. The tiniest detail — a damaged screw thread — meant that the canopy jettison unit failed to fire. If it had been serviced correctly, my father might still be alive today.'
No culprit was ever identified but, as the crash report says, the MOD had acted quickly when it discovered what had happened. 'The servicing procedures for the inspection, re-arming and servicing of cockpit canopy firing units have been amended. All ejection firing units have been inspected for signs of damage.'
Just as well. Glennon later discovered that other Lightnings were found to have exactly the same issue with their ejection seats, which was hurriedly rectified. 'There is no doubt our father's death, and the discovery of the fault, meant other lives were saved. At least that's something we can hold onto.'
Mike and Glennon had one final pilgrimage to make, travelling north to Flamborough Head. 'There was a large boat a mile or so out to sea,' Glennon said. 'It climbed and dipped in the swell, disappearing from sight, then rising to appear again.
'I thought of my dad, injured, unstrapping from his ejection seat and climbing from his Lightning out there on a stormy night. He really didn't stand a chance.'
'Fifty-two years after he died,' says Mike, 'I still have a Dad-shaped hole in my life, but now I know why. He died doing what he loved, and I am grateful for that. When I die I want my ashes to be thrown into the North Sea. So I can be back with my him, in his final resting place.'
Adapted from Eject! Eject! by John Nichol, to be published by Simon & Schuster on May 25 at £20. To order a copy for £18 (offer valid to 27/05/23; UK p&p free on orders over £25), visit mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.
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In the vast expanse of UFO encounters and reports, very few stand out quite like the story of Kelly Cahill’s mysterious experience in the southern Dandenong Mountains of Australia. This isn’t just an ordinary tale. Multiple witnesses and eerie physical evidence weave together to create a narrative that has both skeptics and believers scratching their heads.
A Midnight Drive Turned Eerie
On the night of August 8th, 1993, Kelly Cahill and her husband Andrew were driving home from a friend’s barbecue. The midnight atmosphere was pierced only by the occasional pockets of light rain, an ambiance one would call normal. But as they drove along the Belgrave-Hallam Road, their journey was interrupted by an unexpected sight — a strange object in the sky.
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At first, Kelly thought it resembled a blimp. But as it drew nearer, its true form became clear: a disc-shaped object, hovering with an ethereal orange glow. Windows seemed to line the object’s exterior, and behind them, dark figures stood tall and still. Before either of them could react, the object vanished, leaving behind a trail of awe and confusion.
A White Curtain and Missing Time
Shortly after the initial sighting, the couple encountered an intense, blinding white light. As they drove through it, they were left disoriented, and it felt as though they had moved considerably further down the road than they remembered. To compound the strangeness, upon arriving home, Kelly found a geometric marking below her navel – a red, equilateral triangle that seemed burned into her skin.
Perhaps even more perplexing was the realization that they had lost 90 minutes of time during their drive — time neither could account for.
Connecting the Dots
Kelly’s experience didn’t end that night. In the days that followed, she suffered from abnormal health issues: a sudden and intense menstruation, relentless migraines, and an inexplicable womb infection. Medical examinations offered no concrete answers.
Haunted by what had transpired, Kelly sought the help of UFO researchers. It was then that she learned she wasn’t the only witness that night. Two other cars had stopped to observe the strange object. Bill, Glenda, Jane, and Dave all shared eerily similar stories, and, even more intriguingly, the same triangular mark appeared on the bodies of several of the witnesses.
Sketches drawn independently by the witnesses to depict the event all mirrored each other. They showed the large, circular craft lined with windows and dark, tall figures standing inside. Each account had subtle variations, but the crux remained consistent.
Lingering Mysteries
After the event, Kelly claimed she was visited multiple times by one of the dark figures from that night, sparking electrical disturbances around her. Kelly wasn’t alone in her post-encounter experiences. Glenda shared an unsettling account of waking up in a strange room, strapped to a table, being observed by a cloaked entity.
Many questions remain: Was it an alien encounter? A shared hallucination? Or perhaps a collective spiritual or near-death experience?
While the Dandenong Mountains incident remains unexplained, the multiple witnesses and corroborating evidence make it hard to dismiss. Kelly, Andrew, Bill, Glenda, Jane, and Dave have all had their lives irrevocably changed by that one night. And whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, their tale serves as a chilling reminder of the mysteries that lurk in our world — waiting to be understood.
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