International Space Week: waarnemingen van Ufo's in de geschiedenis - PART I

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De hype rond ufo's is terug van (nooit) weggeweest
Sinds het Pentagon afgelopen mei toegaf dat het sinds 2004 minstens 400 waarnemingen van 'ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten' heeft geregistreerd in de Verenigde Staten, is de publieke belangstelling voor dit fenomeen toegenomen.

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Een "frequent” fenomeen
Het was 50 jaar geleden dat de ufo-kwestie voor het laatst in het Congres werd besproken. Maar dit jaar was de verrassing nog groter, omdat de adjunct-directeur van de inlichtingendienst van de marine in de VS, Scott Bray, verzekerde dat ufo-waarnemingen "frequent en aanhoudend" zijn.

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Ufo-waarnemingen in andere landen
Andere landen zoals Frankrijk (in 2007), of het Verenigd Koninkrijk (in 2011) hebben nationale dossiers over ufo's gedeclassificeerd. Japan kondigde in 2020 zelfs een nieuw actieprotocol aan voor zijn leger in het geval van waarnemingen.

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Historische waarnemingen
Als we teruggaan in de tijd, zijn er veel momenten rond het ufo-fenomeen die de geschiedenis zijn ingegaan. Laten we eens kijken naar de beroemdste gevallen ...

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Kenneth Arnold: de eerste waarneming?
De eerste geregistreerde waarneming van een ufo dateert van 24 juni 1947. De Amerikaanse piloot Kenneth Arnold (in het midden op de foto) aanschouwde wat als de eerste ufo-waarneming kan worden beschouwd. Hoewel er eerdere soortgelijke gevallen werden gemeld, kreeg deze waarneming veel publiciteit en aandacht.

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Onregelmatig, helder en snel
Arnold verklaarde dat, terwijl hij op zoek was naar een vermist vliegtuig, hij boven Mount Rainier (Washington) niet minder dan negen objecten met abnormale bewegingen zag die samen in een lijn vlogen. Hij beschreef ze als "extreem heldere objecten", met een "onregelmatige vliegwijze" die zich met "enorme snelheid" verplaatsten.

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Vliegende schotels
Het is door deze waarneming dat de mythe van de ovaalvormige ufo is ontstaan en de term 'vliegende schotel' begon te worden gebruikt, aangezien, in zijn eigen woorden, "ze onregelmatig 

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Een vonk in de wolken
Anderen gaan echter veel verder terug in de tijd. In het Zuid-Amerikaanse Chili werden in de 19e eeuw verschillende vreemde dingen gezien. Zo meldde Maria Graham in haar boek 'Journal of a Residence in Chile' (1822) dat ze een reeks vreemde lichten boven de zee had gezien. Ook zag commandant Buenaventura Martínez Díaz in 1853 dat hij en voorwerp had gezien dat "de wolken doorkruiste in de vorm van een vonk."

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Een alien in Talca
En op 15 mei 1861 berichtte de Chileense krant La Esperanza over de dagen van verschrikking die de inwoners van de stad Talca beleefden. Niet vanwege een ufo, maar vanwege de aanwezigheid van een wezen dat van een andere planeet leek te komen.

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De ufo's van Copiacó
In die Chileense precedenten springen "drie onverklaarbare luchtverschijnselen" het meest in het oog. De krant El Constituente had het over drie waarnemingen in maart, juli en november 1868. Ze waren allemaal in Copiacó, een stad waar vele jaren later, in 2013, nog eens een waarneming werd gemeld.

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Duizenden ufo-waarnemingen
Sindsdien zijn er duizenden ufo-waarnemingen gemeld, door strijdkrachten van verschillende landen, vliegtuigpiloten of gewone mensen. Waarnemingen die in veel gevallen een wetenschappelijke verklaring hebben, maar die in andere gevallen verontrustend mysterieus blijven.

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Project Blue Book
Van 1948 tot 1969 werd in de Verenigde Staten Project Blue Book gelanceerd, een overheidsinitiatief om ufo's te onderzoeken als een mogelijke bedreiging voor de nationale veiligheid. Dit alles in een tijd waarin de luchtmacht 12.618 waarnemingen rapporteerde, waarvan er vandaag de dag nog 701 ongeïdentificeerd blijven.

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Geen bewijs dat ufo's buitenaards waren
Project Blue Book werd in 1969 afgesloten vanwege de hoge kosten. De conclusie van het onderzoek luidde dat de ufo's geen bedreiging vormden voor de nationale veiligheid en dat er geen bewijs was dat het om buitenaardse vaartuigen ging, noch om technologische ontwikkelingen die de moderne wetenschap te boven gaan.

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Het Roswell-incident
In 1947, hetzelfde jaar van de waarneming van Kenneth Arnold, vond ook een van de meest legendarische ufo-gebeurtenissen plaats: het Roswell-incident. Een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object stortte neer in een veld in deze stad in New Mexico, en onmiddellijk daarna volgde een ontmoeting met buitenaardse wezens.

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Velen geloven nog steeds dat het een ufo was
De Amerikaanse regering probeerde de commotie rond het Roswell-incident te sussen door te beweren dat het om een weerballon ging en niet om een vliegende schotel, zoals velen aanvankelijk beweerden. Volgens een opiniepeiling van CNN uit 1997 denkt echter bijna twee derde van de Amerikanen nog steeds dat het een ufo was die er was neergestort.

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Betrouwbare getuigen?
Er waren vermeende getuigen die toen verklaarden dat ze hadden gezien hoe militairen het ongeïdentificeerde object en de lichamen van de buitenaardse wezens uit het gebied van het incident hadden weggehaald. Toch was er geen echt bewijs.

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Ufo-toerisme
Momenteel leeft Roswell van het toerisme van ufo- en alien-liefhebbers uit de hele wereld die blijven zoeken naar antwoorden. De stad heeft zelfs een drukbezocht 'UFO Museum'.

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Area 51
En als Roswell een mythische plek is binnen het ufo-fenomeen, dan wat gezegd van Area 51, een gebied midden in de Nevadawoestijn? Velen geloven dat de Amerikaanse regering er zowel ufo's als lichamen van aliens verbergt.

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Programma's tegen de Sovjets
In 2013 declasseerde de CIA documenten waarin officieel werd erkend dat Area 51 een geheime militaire basis was waar niets buitenaards werd verborgen, maar dat het werd gebruikt om de luchtbewakingsprogramma's U-2 en OXCART te testen tegen de Sovjets tijdens de Koude Oorlog.

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Ufo's en kernwapens
Zeven voormalige leden van de luchtmacht van de Verenigde Staten beweerden in 2010 dat ze tussen de jaren zestig en tachtig ufo's hadden waargenomen in de buurt van kernwapeninstallaties.

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Gedeactiveerde raketten
Over een van de waargenomen ufo's zei Robert Salas, een voormalige kapitein van de luchtmacht: "Onze raketten begonnen in wat men een niet-actieve toestand noemt te komen; ze konden niet worden gelanceerd. Ze werden gewoon gedeactiveerd, terwijl dit object om ons heen was."

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Buitenaardse interesse in kernwapens
Ufoloog Robert Hastings, die de persconferentie organiseerde waarop deze waarnemingen werden gemeld, zei: "Deze heren geloven dat de planeet wordt bezocht door wezens uit een andere wereld, die geïnteresseerd zijn in de geschiedenis van nucleaire wapens die begon aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog."

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Bevolen om een ufo neer te halen
Op 20 mei 1957 kregen volgens de krant The Times twee Amerikaanse piloten het bevel een ufo neer te halen die boven het Engelse platteland zweefde. Enkele veteranen van het leger, zoals die op de afbeelding, hebben het verhaal publiekelijk verteld.

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De ufo die de piloten achtervolgden
Volgens Milton Torres (een van de betrokken piloten) bewoog het object "onregelmatig". Bovendien was het zo groot als "een vliegend vliegdekschip" en "hing het enkele ogenblikken in de lucht voordat het verdween met een geschatte snelheid van 12.000 kilometer per uur."

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Het ufo-incident in Shag Harbour
Shag Harbour is een klein dorpje op het schiereiland Nova Scotia in Canada, waar een groep vissers op 4 oktober 1967 een lichtgevend object zagen dat uiteindelijk neerstortte in de Atlantische Oceaan. Aanvankelijk dacht men dat het een vliegtuig was, maar er werden nooit stoffelijke resten gevonden.

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International Space Week: waarnemingen van Ufo's in de geschiedenis - PART II

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Een ontvoering in Chili
Door de zaak van korporaal Armando Valdés kwam de Chileense ufologie wereldwijd onder de aandacht. Armando zag in 1977 samen met zeven andere soldaten een ufo. Ze zagen vreemde lichten in de lucht en daarna verdween Armando gedurende 15 minuten.

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Hij herinnert zich de ontvoering niet
In een interview met Agence France Presse in november 1978 zei Armando dat hij zes of zeven stappen zette weg van de groep, richting het licht, en dat hij geen idee had wat er daarna gebeurde. Hij zei: "Iets trok me aan. Het was als een interne communicatie met het licht."

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Het onverklaarbare verstrijken van de tijd
Korporaal Armando, die zich de vorige dag had geschoren, had een baard van vijf tot zes dagen. Bovendien duidde zijn polshorloge de datum 30 april aan in plaats van 26, en liep de klok 15 minuten achter.

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Het ufo-incident in Voronezh
Op 27 september 1989 meldde het persbureau TASS dat voetballende jongens in een stadspark in Voronezh (Rusland) een roze gloed in de lucht zagen, een dieprode bal die zweefde, en een alien met drie ogen. De kinderen waren de enige getuigen, maar een politieagent meldde dat hij "een object in de lucht zag vliegen".

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De Phoenix Lights
De Phoenix Lights (soms ook wel de 'Lichten boven Phoenix' genoemd) waren een reeks op grote schaal waargenomen ufo's boven Arizona, Nevada en de Mexicaanse staat Sonora, op 13 maart 1997. Er werden verschillende soorten lichten gezien door duizenden mensen.

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Een deltavorming schip
Fife Symington, de voormalige gouverneur van Arizona en een voormalig luchtmachtofficier, verklaarde op CNN: "Ik zag een enorm deltavormig schip stilletjes over Squaw Peak vliegen, een bergketen in Phoenix. Het was echt indrukwekkend. Ik was stomverbaasd, omdat ik me naar het westen keerde op zoek naar de Phoenix Lights in de verte."

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Waarnemingen van Chileense piloten
In 2007 onthulde het Chileense leger tijdens een bijeenkomst van ufologen in Viña del Mar dat enkele van zijn piloten ufo's hadden waargenomen. Kapitein Rodrigo Bravo omschreef het volgens het persbureau EFE als "spectaculaire ervaringen op verschillende plaatsen".

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Winston Churchill hield ufo-waarnemingen geheim
In 2010 werd via de BBC en na enkele door het Ministerie van Defensie openbaar gemaakte rapporten onthuld dat de voormalige Britse premier Winston Churchill de opdracht gaf om vermeende ufo-waarnemingen door de luchtmacht vijftig jaar lang verborgen zodat er geen paniek zou ontstaan onder de bevolking.

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Vernietigd ufo-bewijsmateriaal

Wetenschapper Nick Pope verklaarde aan de BBC dat "Churchill en Eisenhower besloten om de buitengewone waarnemingen van ufo's geheim te houden". Hij merkte ook op dat "het meeste archiefmateriaal uit de jaren vijftig werd vernietigd".

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Oumuamua: een asteroïde of een buitenaards ruimteschip?
Oumuamua was een mysterieus object dat in 2017 door het zonnestelsel trok en werd ontdekt en drie dagen lang gevolgd door verschillende telescopen tot het verdween. Het incident veroorzaakte een groot debat in de wereld van de wetenschap. De meesten verzekerden dat het om een zeldzame asteroïde of komeet ging, maar anderen beweerden dat het misschien een enorm buitenaards ruimteschip was.

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Kenmerken van het meest controversiële object
Volgens de gemaakte berekeningen was Oumuamua ongeveer 400 meter lang en 40 meter breed, en had het een roodachtig oppervlak. Het meest verrassende kenmerk was dat de baan ervan niet lineair was, maar eerder chaotisch, zeer snel draaiend en met zeer uitgesproken richtingsveranderingen.

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Doelbewust gestuurd door aliens?
Volgens astronomen Shmuel Bialy en Abraham Loeb (foto) is Oumuamua mogelijk een volledig operationele sonde die opzettelijk door een buitenaardse beschaving naar de buurt van de aarde is gestuurd.

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Een nooit eerder gezien opject
Loeb is een groot verdediger van het feit dat Oumuamua het eerste ontdekte object in het zonnestelsel is dat daarbuiten is ontstaan. Hij herinnerde ons in een interview met de BBC eraan dat het ongewone kenmerken heeft die het tot een nooit eerder gezien zeldzaam object maken.

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Buitenaardse bezoeken tijdens de pandemie
De laatste vermeende waarnemingen deden zich voor en namen exponentieel toe tijdens de maandenlange lockdown van de COVID-19-pandemie. Plots was − volgens de getuigenissen op sociale media met foto's en video's − het luchtruim gevuld met ufo's.

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Andere gemelde waarnemingen
Om enkele historische waarnemingen te noemen in de wereld: de waarneming op Antarctica (1965); het ufo-incident in Teheran (1976); die van Manises (1979), de Canarische Eilanden (1976-1979) en Ochate (1981), alle drie in Spanje; het Colares-incident in 1977 (Brazilië) ...

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Beroemdheden en ufo's
De Republikeinse kandidaat voor het Congres in Miami, Bettina Rodríguez, heeft gezegd dat ze in 2009 werd ontvoerd door aliens. Ook de Argentijnse artiest Andrés Calamaro heeft bevestigd dat hij een ufo zag in de jaren tachtig, toen hij op tournee was met zijn groep Los Plateros.

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Zijn we echt alleen in het heelal?
Het ufo-fenomeen is nog steeds zeer interessant en bevat, zoals alle regeringen toegeven, mysteries. Voor veel van deze incidenten is er geen wetenschappelijke verklaring, al kan dat zijn omdat we niet over alle gegevens beschikken. Hoe dan ook: vliegende schotels zijn iconische, literaire en cinematografische elementen.

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05-10-2025 om 21:35 geschreven door peter  

This Scientist Claims Apollo Mission Brought Back “Metals” from Moon Made by Advanced Machines and Structures on Mars and Moon Possibly 50,000 Years Old from Our Past

For people in ancient Mesopotamia, heaven was described as having three layers. The lowest layer was the home of the stars, the middle layer was where the younger gods, the Igigi, lived, and the highest layer belonged to An, the sky god.

Other researchers have also made surprising claims connected to these ideas. Dr. Ken Johnston, a former aerospace engineer, said that NASA already knows astronauts discovered ancient alien structures and remains of advanced machinery on the Moon. He claimed some of these technologies had the power to control gravity.

Dr. Ralph Kennedy Johnston Sr., often known as Ken Johnston, was born in 1942 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He worked as one of four Civilian Astronaut Consultant Pilots at NASA and helped train Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins for the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.

Johnston is also a retired U.S. Marine and has become known as a “NASA whistleblower,” though he rejects the name. He said he only wanted to share information that the public deserved to know.

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In addition, some people connect his claims with stories told by Ingo Swann, a well-known remote viewer, who said he psychically saw strange structures on the Moon. Swann described domes, tall towers, cross-shaped buildings, long tunnels, and signs of mining activity. He thought that either someone or something had secretly built these bases on the Moon.

Swann also said he saw human-like figures on the Moon digging into a cliff. The strange part, he added, was that they all appeared completely naked.

During this remote-viewing experiment, a man named Axelrod supervised Swann. Suddenly, Axelrod stopped the session and seemed alarmed, explaining that the beings on the Moon might have become aware they were being watched, which could be dangerous.

After that, Axelrod asked Swann if he knew a man named George Leonard. Swann said no. Around that same time, Leonard was writing a book titled Somebody Else Is on the Moon.

That book, published in 1977, described reports of mysterious, unnatural structures on the Moon — the very kind of things Axelrod seemed to worry about. Leonard’s work suggested that these lunar structures could not have been formed naturally and looked as though someone had built them.

Over time, Swann and Axelrod met secretly to discuss more of these strange observations. These secret meetings, which Swann later compared to scenes from a spy movie, suddenly ended in 1977 without explanation. Swann was left confused about the truth.

He wondered if his psychic vision had detected an extraterrestrial base built long ago. Yet because the people he saw looked completely human, he also considered the idea that it could have been a hidden Earth-based project. He thought maybe Axelrod wanted him to discover something without revealing the government’s involvement.

Despite decades passing, the mystery is still unresolved. The strange lunar structures described by Leonard, Swann, and Johnston continue to raise questions about whether the Moon hides evidence of advanced civilizations.

The idea that aliens might be secretly using the Moon reminds many of similar theories claiming aliens could be operating on Earth itself. Some people think those “ancient visitors” who might have built advanced cities or shared secret technology could have played a role in shaping human evolution and culture.

Al Worden’s comments about humans being the real aliens connect strangely well with these later stories. If humans came from somewhere else long ago, as he suggested, it might explain why ancient cultures around the world have myths about gods descending from the sky, teaching knowledge, and building great cities before disappearing.

Worden, unlike most astronauts, remained open to such possibilities until his last years. He said exploring space was not just about science but also about finding the truth of where we came from. Many found his words mysterious, but others thought he raised an interesting point — that our search for life beyond Earth might end with us discovering our own distant origin among the stars.

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Tales of alien sightings and government cover-ups have captured American imaginations for decades – but few with such global appeal as the Men in Black. David Clarke introduces the ufologist who popularised these shadowy space-age legends

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One night in 1953, three mysterious men sporting black suits reportedly arrived uninvited at the home of Albert K Bender in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The menacing trio, who reportedly identified themselves as agents of the US government, threatened Bender with prison if he told anyone about a secret he had discovered – information relating to the source of the flying saucer mystery. They scared him so badly that he was physically sick for three days.

Bender was no mere disinterested civilian. An obsessive ufologist, he was the founder of the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), the world’s first civilian UFO investigation club. Shortly after that ominous visit, and on the orders of those ‘secret agents’, he shut down the IFSB.

At least one person was both disappointed and intrigued by this development: Gray Barker, only recently recruited as the IFSB’s chief investigator and a contributor to its magazine, Space Review.

“He was 6ft 4ins tall, with a gentle southern accent and a sly sense of humour,” recalled his friend John Keel, a fellow investigator of UFOs and monster stories. “And it can truly be said that he knew too much about flying saucers.”

It was Barker’s exploration of the ‘men in black’ (latterly abbreviated as MIB) that had a long-lasting and global impact on ufology and wider popular culture.

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Born in West Virginia in 1925, in his youth Barker worked in the theatre industry, then began publishing, writing and editing stories about UFOs, monsters and the paranormal. He graduated from Glenville State College in 1947 – the year in which the phrase ‘flying saucers’ was coined to describe a formation of strange batwing-shaped objects reported by a private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, in Washington state. Arnold’s sighting was quickly followed by the Roswell incident, when wreckage of a flying object was recovered from the desert in New Mexico. This story would later become a central element of the most popular UFO conspiracy theory, which claims that the US government is hiding crashed alien spacecraft.

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Barker enjoyed blurring the line between fact and fiction, and in his 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers he dramatised and embellished his account of Bender’s story to capture the public imagination. It worked: his retelling of the episode launched the legend of the ‘men in black’ into the paranoid world of ufology at the height of the Cold War.

Silent alarm

Written around the time of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s infamous campaign to expose alleged communist infiltration of the US government, They Knew Too Much… became the best-known title in a series of books that Barker edited and published from his home in West Virginia. The book charted the activities of what he called the ‘Silence Group’, whom he claimed had warned Bender and other IFSB members to end their investigations. In it, Barker quotes Bender: “Just as the three men were leaving, one of them lingered for a moment and said, ‘In our government, we have the smartest men in the country. They can’t find a defence for [UFOs]. How can you do anything about it?’”

Menacing ‘agents’ travelled in groups of three, wore black suits and drove large, brand-new automobiles

As rumours about the ‘Silence Group’ spread following the book’s publication, other enthusiasts and people who claimed to have witnessed UFOs came forward, insisting that they’d also received visits from men in black. Like Bender, many appeared genuinely terrified – yet none suffered any reprisals after talking about their experiences. The menacing ‘agents’ often, but not always, travelled in groups of three, wore black suits and drove large, brand-new automobiles, usually Cadillacs or dark sedans.

Bender’s encounter occurred in the same year that the CIA convened a top-secret panel of scientists to decide how to deal with the growing number of unsolved sightings reported to the US Air Force. UFO writer Jerome Clark speculates that the men who visited Bender might have been genuine secret agents who were following the panel’s recommendations that civilian UFO groups should be closely watched.

The legend blurred with science fiction in 1962 when Barker published a book, Flying Saucers and the Three Men, written by Bender – who had now emerged from hiding, and promised to reveal the truth about his visitation. Even the more open-minded UFO believers found it hard to swallow one extravagant addition to Bender’s story – an account of his abduction to the south pole by monstrous aliens from the planet Kazik.

Aliens in disguise

More enticing to the UFO industry was the revelation that the ‘agents’ who visited Bender were aliens in disguise – a fresh theme that imaginative writers and artists could develop further. Barker continued to promote the legend, alongside UFOs and other mysteries, via the magazine he edited, The Saucerian (later The Saucerian Bulletin), while rival authors also began creating their own folklore.

The Silver Bridge, a creative fiction book published by Barker in 1970, linked the collapse of the bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in December 1967 with a frightening creature called the Mothman. His friend John Keel, another occult journalist, expanded on the legend in a book-length account, The Mothman Prophecies. Published in 1975, it featured Barker and was adapted into a 2002 Hollywood film starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney. In his book, Keel – the first to use the acronym MIB – detailed visits to the homes of witnesses who had reported encounters with both the Mothman and UFOs before the bridge tragedy that claimed the lives of 46 people.

From the late 1960s, accounts of MIB visits were becoming ever more bizarre and surreal. Stories described MIB moving robotically, or having telepathic powers, odd hairstyles and shaved eyebrows. Their weird demeanour placed them alongside depictions of gangsters, fictional terrorists and spies in contemporary films and TV shows. They resembled, for example, the SMERSH agents pursued by James Bond in novels and films. Meanwhile, MIB links with conspiracy theories were cemented by ‘sightings’ in Dallas soon after John F Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

Believer or sceptic?

Barker died in 1984, aged just 59, having contracted HIV. A decade after his death, the Men in Black launched onto the global medial landscape. They appeared in The X-Files TV series, then the first of four Men in Black movies was released in 1997 – the 50th anniversary of Arnold’s report of the first ‘flying saucers’. Based on a comic by Lowell Cunningham, the first three of these comedy sci-fi films follow the exploits of two agents, played by Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, who work for a secret agency that polices extraterrestrials living secretly on Earth.

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Did Barker really believe the stories that he promoted? Or was he purely motivated by financial gain? Evidence suggests that he was a sceptic: he told his friend (and fellow UFO writer) James Moseley that he “pretty much took all of ufology as a joke”. After Barker’s death, Moseley confessed that in 1957 the pair had written a fake letter, on US Department of State stationery, sent to George Adamski – who claimed to have met aliens from Venus and Mars, and travelled in their flying saucers. The letter appeared to corroborate Adamski’s fantastic tales.

In 2002, another of Barker’s circle, journalist John C Sherwood, published an exposé that revealed the MIB creator’s ‘dark side’. “He launched hoaxes, joined others’ deceptions, and manipulated people’s beliefs,” Sherwood claimed in Skeptical Inquirer.

Gray Barker laid the foundations for the modern belief that the US government is actively involved in a cover-up

Gray Barker laid the foundations for the modern belief that the US government is actively involved in a cover-up. In 2019, a Gallup poll found that 68 per cent of Americans believe “the US Government knows more about UFOs than it is telling us”. That came shortly after an online campaign called Storm Area 51, which drove support for breaking into the secret military base in the Nevada desert where many believe the US government is flying captured alien craft.

In July 2023, US intelligence officer David Grusch testified before a congressional hearing that the Pentagon was involved in reverse-engineering non-human spacecraft, and had recovered their dead pilots. He also claimed that people had been threatened and killed in order to conceal what has been called the ‘Cosmic Watergate 2.0’. If Grusch is to be believed – and his claims have been challenged by numerous experts – then the ‘men in black’ are more than a mere fantasy conjured up by Gray Barker.

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David Clarke is associate professor in the Department of Media Arts and Communications at Sheffield Hallam University

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Background: What are Ammonites?

Belonging to the Phylum Mollusca, these extinct marine invertebrates resemble a nautilus, complete with a spiral shell. Ammonites lived around 408-65 million years ago in Earth’s ancient seas, and because these creatures are related to cuttlefish, nautilus, octopus, and squid, their soft bodies did not fossilize well, leaving mainly their shells behind for scientists to study.

These shells have helped scientists date other fossils, as well as tell scientists the approximate locations of Earth’s ancient oceans. However, there are still mysteries surrounding these creatures, especially when it comes to how they moved and why their shells were such particular shapes. 

Analysis: Building Robotic Ammonites

To study ammonite movement, researchers at the University of Utah created robotic ammonites out of 3D-printed materials. The robots helped the researchers to better understand how the ammonites maneuvered through the water as well as the best shell shape for balanced movement. According to David Peterman, a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah, “These results reiterate that there is no single optimum shell shape…My broader research goal is to provide a better understanding of these enigmatic animals, their ecosystem roles, and the evolutionary processes that shaped them.”

The researchers built three different robotic ammonites with designs based on nautilus shells and ammonite fossils. The three robots were tested in the water by doing laps. This helped the researchers see the pros and cons of each shell type. “Throughout their evolution, externally shelled cephalopods navigated their physical limitations by endlessly experimenting with variations on the shape of their coiled shells,” explained Peterman. This was illustrated in the differences in the fossils, as the spirals of the shells shifted into something similar to the ones we have today.

Outlook: Using Robots to Study the Past

While this study helped the researchers to better understand the evolutionary process behind ammonite movement and shell shape, it also illustrated the utility of using robotics to study the past. Robotics can help to bring fossils to life, allowing scientists to better understand the possible movements of these ancient animals. With other advanced technology like AI and virtual reality (VR), recreating the past will be easier than ever.

AI is already helping us to determine our ancient human roots, and with the help of virtual reality, we are closing in on recreating lifelike representations of extinct animals like mammoths in a virtual setting. In the years ahead, such advances may prove to be key assets for scientists in the years ahead, who will now have access to a clearer idea of how these extinct animals once thrived on our planet. 

• Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is a staff writer at the Debrief and the Science Communicator at JILA (a partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder and NIST). She focuses on deep tech, the metaverse, and quantum technology. You can find more of her work at her website: https://kennacastleberry.com/

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04-10-2025 om 23:33 geschreven door peter  

Former US Army Colonel: ‘Aliens Destroyed Couple Of Nuclear Weapons That Were Sent To Space’

During the Cold War, the United States conducted the largest nuclear test in outer space, 400 km above the Northern Pacific Ocean. The results were devastating. More such testing would have destroyed Earth’s magnetic field, that is why outer-space nuclear testing was banned. Moreover, some accounts of the US military personnel including NASA astronauts convey that the extraterrestrials were behind the nuclear missile testing in outer space, and they even put surveillance on the nuclear facilities on Earth.

In the “Sirius Documentary,” hosted by UFOlogist Steven Greer, US Air Force retired Colonel Ross Dedrickson testified that he observed UFOs over the nuclear facilities in which he was assigned. Besides, he said the extraterrestrials were not allowing nuclear weapons in space. They stopped the nuclear missile that was sent to detonate on the Lunar surface. The US was urged to demonstrate its power to the Soviets.

Col. Ross Dedrickson was assigned to the US Atomic Energy Commission. A long service with the Energy Commission between 1950-1958 included contract administration duties at Nevada test sites, Pacific Nuclear Test Area west of Hawaii, nuclear weapon manufacturing and quality assurance in Albuquerque, and inspection of nuclear and non-nuclear facilities throughout the country. He served with the 5th Air Force in Japan and later as a ranking Colonel, Officer in Charge of the Pacific Unified Command (TM)s alternate “command and control center” in Hawaii. In 1962, he was transferred and served as Deputy for Material for the 832 Air Division at Canon Air Force Base, Clovis, New Mexico. He retired from the USAF in 1964.

“A couple of nuclear weapons that were sent to space were destroyed by the extraterrestrials. Our government sent nuclear weapons for the explosion on the moon’s surface. It was intended to, as I understand it, assess some scientific data and reactions and so forth. The idea of an explosion in space by any Earth government was not acceptable to the extraterrestrials, and that has been demonstrated over and over,” Colonel said.

He is one of hundreds of military whistleblowers with verified backgrounds to have been brought forth by Dr. Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project. His testimony about UFOs — specifically about UFOs and nuclear weapons — can be corroborated by a wealth of information and evidence that’s now available within the public domain.

UFO Shot Down Missile In 1964

For 18 years, Robert Jacobs had been participating in the official United States Government-ordered UFO coverup. He claimed that he had been ridiculed by his colleagues for writing about this cover-up that appeared in The National Enquirer. The cover-up was about the UFO shooting down one of the ballistic missiles back in 1964 in Big Sur, California. (Click here to read the full article)

Retired USAF Lieutenant Robert Jacobs had been an officer in charge of optical instrumentation at the 1369th Photo Squadron at Vandenberg from 1963 to 1966. His job was to establish a long-range tracking site at Big Sur, California. Those days, ballistic missiles used to blow upon launch, and Dr. Jacobs’ duty was to determine the reason behind every missile failure at the Western Test Range. As the missiles had to carry a nuclear weapon to a specific target, they were monitoring the dummy warhead to find the reason behind their blow.

Dr. Jacobs recalled that the UFO incident had most probably been associated with the launch of an Atlas missile happened either September 2nd, 3rd, or 15th, 1964.

Dr. Jacobs explained: “Because of the length of the telescope as the Atlas missile entered the frame, we could see the whole third stage which has two rocket nozzles like this and one in the center or gimballed one in the center fill in our frame from one hundred and about 160 miles it was pretty exciting optics we watched that stage burnout we watched the second stage burnout we watch a third stage burnout and into the frame came something else it flew into the frame.”

According to him, the warhead was approached by a UFO, fired a beam of light at it from different directions. Subsequently, the warhead malfunctioned and tumbled out of sub orbit hundreds of miles short of its target. “This… unidentified flying… thing had apparently shot down an American dummy atomic warhead,” Dr. Jacobs said.

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Nuclear-adjacent sightings go back decades, said Robert Hastings, a UFO researcher and author of the book “UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.” Hastings said he interviewed more than 160 veterans who witnessed strange things in the skies around nuclear sites.

UFO deactivated Malmstrom AFB Nuke System

Former US Air Force Captain Robert Salas mentioned an incident that took place on March 16, 1967. He was at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in an underground capsule when he was told by the security forces that a red glowing object had been seen at the front gate of the base. (Click here to read the full article)

One of the airmen was enjoying the clear morning sky when suddenly a star appeared, moving in a zig-zag manner. Then another light came. He called the Flight Security Controller (FSC), and they both watched the movement of those strange lights. They reported to Salas and he asked them to keep an eye on those lights.

Firstly, it did not concern Salas because he thought that his colleagues were possibly joking. In some time, he was called by the controller again, and he (FSC) was frightened and shouting. They were watching a UFO, hovering outside the front gate.

“I can’t really describe it. It’s glowing red. What are we supposed to do? Make sure the site is secure and I’ll phone the Command Post. Sir, I have to go now, one of the guys just got injured.”

After that, Salas lost communication with the airman and security guard. He immediately contacted his commander Lt. Fred Meiwald, who was sleeping at that time. While he was on the call with Lt. Meiwald, a security alarm rang, indicating a problem within the missile system. He checked the matter and found there was a “No-Go” light on, and two red security lights were lit. He was just trying to understand what went wrong, consecutively several alarms went off and they lost “entire flight of ten ICBMs to a ‘No-Go’ (inoperable) condition.”

Astronaut Leaked Email

In 2016, Wikileaks revealed thousands of emails that were allegedly linked to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The emails unfolded secret information shared with Podesta about UFOs and ETs. (Click here to read the full article)

In 2015, Podesta received emails from Mitchell that expressed his concern about the weaponization of space and its impact on the ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence). Despite the fact that aliens might be violent as shown in various sci-fi, the notable astronaut called them nonviolent in an email.

In January 2015, he sent an email to Podesta, asking him to have an urgent meeting to discuss Disclosure and Zero Point Energy (ZPE). He was concerned about the peace in space.

Mitchell wrote: “My Catholic colleague Terri Mansfield will be there too, to bring us up to date on the Vatican’s awareness of ETI. Another colleague is working on a new Space Treaty, citing involvement with Russia and China. However with Russia’s extreme interference in Ukraine, I believe we must pursue another route for peace in space and ZPE on Earth.”

Mitchell emailed Podesta again on September 18, 2015. He wrote: “Because the War in Space race is heating up, I felt you should be aware of several factors as you and I schedule our Skype talk. Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth. They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.”

It was confirmed by one of Mitchell’s collaborators that the meeting between Podesta and him never took place. During the 2016 election campaign, Podesta declared he would convince Clinton to declassify as many UFO files as possible. In 2014, he tweeted that his biggest failure during the Obama administration was not to ask them for the release of UFO files.

Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell died in 2016 but for his entire life, he was a pacifist and a promoter of ETI reality. According to him, ZPE is the ultimate energy source from which all matter derives.

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04-10-2025 om 23:21 geschreven door peter  

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story:

• A Congressional hearing recently looked at a mysterious orb that a U.S. military missile seemed to bounce off in midair. Speculation ran rampant that it was a UAP—traditionally known as a UFO—after the blurry video was released.
• In reality, the UAP was likely a balloon that was drifting in the wind, reportedly in the air near Yemen. Its pieces continued drifting after a Hellfire missile tore into it.
• The U.S. Army is not releasing information about the event, or about how the military decides to deploy a missile, but a missile physics expert explains what probably happened.

Few people could make sense of it: a video played at a recent Congressional hearing concerning “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP, seems to show a U.S. military missile bouncing off a mysterious orb in mid-air. The blurry and short clip, appearing as if filmed from a point above the intersecting objects, was released at a House Oversight transparency hearing on Sept. 9. It attracted national attention, but what many people thought they saw was an illusion.

So, what was it, really?

An Expert on Missile Physics Weighs In

A U.S. Army spokesperson said in an email that while the hearing and video are in the public record, the newly renamed Department of War “has not authenticated the video, or issued a substantive confirmation about the event. Press reports reflect no Pentagon verification.”

So we asked a missile physics expert for some help. Fred Lamb, PhD, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Illinois, chaired a ballistic missile report earlier this year for the American Physical Society. He cautioned by e-mail that any analysis requires “many, many assumptions” for experts such as himself who have “no independent knowledge of the event,” but said he would do his best proceeding on assumptions.

Lamb’s conclusion—based on the evidence below—was that the object was likely a high-altitude balloon being cut up mid-air by a special variant of a U.S. missile designed to eject blades. He emphasized that this type of missile strike is not what the public would expect to see from watching Hollywood movies or TV series of ballistic explosions. “The main reason for this is to make the movie or TV event loud, dramatic, and exciting—not because that is what the destruction of a target, such as a balloon, would look like in reality,” he said.

What We See Doesn’t Always Reflect the Facts

Press reports from the hearing suggested that the event occurred in the air near Yemen and involved a variant of the 100-pound-scale “Hellfire” missile. Generally speaking, the U.S. Army uses these AGM-114 missiles, the spokesperson said—primarily a laser-guided variant called “Romeo” for its serial number, AGM-114R.

But there are at least 10 variants of Hellfire, Lamb said. His video analysis assumes one of these variants was fired from an MQ-9 Reaper drone, based on media reports, and that the camera that took the footage was flying on a second drone far above, using a “very high magnification thermal imaging camera,” he said. This drone type has a reported operational altitude of 25,000 feet, a little lower than typical commercial airliner flight routes, he said.

Lamb named the altitude and the camera specifically to highlight all the uncertainties the public is working with: the distance from the camera to the background, what the background is (might be ocean or cloud cover), the path of the presumed missile, the distance from the camera to the target, and the direction the camera is pointing towards (relative to the ground.)

“We don’t know any of these things,” he emphasized, which means an untrained observer might make conclusions, such as assuming “that the missile and the target are both moving in the same plane,” or “that the camera is not rotating,” among other misperceptions.

So we can’t say what we are looking at for sure.

However, Lamb said one possibility is that the camera is zooming far down to the intersecting objects, creating an optical illusion known as “parallax motion.” In a restricted field of view such as a camera lens, the target may be appearing to move very quickly—and that would especially be the case when there are few background objects with which to judge the motion.

Other UAPs that have appeared to be moving very rapidly have been found to be moving not under their own volition, but only because a wind was pushing them along, Lamb said. He therefore suggested it is plausible—but not a slam dunk—that the “target” might be a balloon high in the air reflecting sunlight, which “appears to be moving rapidly mostly because of ‘parallax motion,’ but also because it is being carried along by a high-altitude wind.”

What Happens When You Fire on a Balloon?

Assuming it is a balloon, who makes the decision to fire on the object? When asked if it is a pilot, a commanding officer or somebody else, the U.S. Army said it was unable to release that information “due to operational considerations.” Lamb added that generally, “There are many possible reasons why the U.S. military might want to bring down a balloon that was floating in an area where a conflict is ongoing.”

Assuming the missile hit a balloon, the video shows what appears to be a number of pieces—flying away in parallel—after the missile strike. “The missile continues on its way, indicating that the missile was not significantly deflected by its interaction with the target,” Lamb added of what he could plausibly see. “This indicates that there was not much interaction, and/or that the mass of the target was small, consistent with the target being a balloon.”

More evidence for the target being a balloon includes “the fact that once the target is intersected, the resulting pieces of the target move apart slowly, as they would if they are drifting apart while continuing to be carried by a wind.” The camera’s optics, he noted, likely couldn’t pick up all the debris—what was visible were pieces that “all seem to have the same noncircular shapes and the same orientation.”

As for why the missile continued and did not appear to explode? Lamb said there are a couple of possibilities. Perhaps the Hellfire’s warhead did not detonate. Or more likely, it is a “type of Hellfire missile that … did not have a substantial explosive warhead—but could nevertheless cut or tear the balloon.” The most likely example would be the AGM-114R9X, he added, which pops out sharp blades with only a small amount of explosive.

Hellfire missiles have been used in multiple operations and by different branches of the military, according to the U.S. Army. They were deployed during the 1991 Gulf War operations—also known as “Desert Storm” in the U.S., and continue to be used through the ongoing “War on Terror.” Hellfire missiles have been launched from both drones and helicopters.

While the nature of the video means we cannot know if a Hellfire missile was ripping up a balloon—or draw any detailed conclusions about what was shown—it’s an opportunity for all of us to realize that sometimes, what we think we’re seeing in a visual recording may not be what’s actually in front of us.

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04-10-2025 om 22:38 geschreven door peter  

The Connection Of Alien Contact And Sudden Psychic Ability: A Scientific Inquiry into An Extraordinary Hypothesis

Abstract

This essay probes a provocative hypothesis: that encounters with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) may be linked to the sudden emergence of psychic abilities in some individuals. Grounded in contemporary psychology, neuroscience, and the philosophy of mind, the discussion reframes “alien contact” and “psychic ability” as components of a broader inquiry into consciousness, perception, and information processing under extraordinary circumstances. While the claim challenges conventional boundaries of science, the paper emphasizes careful methodological thinking, testable predictions, and rigorous skepticism. We outline plausible mechanisms—neurophysiological arousal, altered cognitive states, social and cultural expectancy, and Bayesian inference under uncertainty—that could plausibly produce abrupt shifts in perception or cognition following anomalous encounters. We also present illustrative, hypothetical case studies and suggest research designs that could, in principle, adjudicate the hypothesis without giving undue weight to anecdotal accounts. The aim is not to prove the connection, but to map a disciplined framework for studying a controversial topic with scientific seriousness.

Do alien abductees develop sudden psychic ability?

Introduction: Framing the Question

The claim that contact with alien beings could precipitate sudden psychic abilities sits at the intersection of ufology, parapsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. Throughout modern history, narratives of encounter—dreamlike visions, anomalous communications, or inexplicable sensory experiences—have often coincided with reports of newfound cognitive or perceptual powers. Critics rightly point to the precarious evidentiary standards in many alien-contact accounts and psychic reports: selection biases, cultural storytelling, memory distortion, and confirmation biases. Proponents, however, argue that there is a nontrivial pattern worth investigating: some individuals report a qualitative shift in capability after encounters, such as telepathic sensitivity, precognitive glimpses, or intensified intuition, coupled with profound existential change. A scientifically credible inquiry must separate circumstance from conjecture, identify plausible mechanisms, and implement rigorous, preregistered research protocols that can withstand replication efforts.

This essay therefore adopts a cautious, hypothesis-driven stance. We treat “alien contact” as a defined set of phenomenological experiences characterized by

1. reports of communication or contact with non-human intelligences,
2. timing that is temporally proximate to transformative subjective events, and
3. accompanying neurocognitive or perceptual changes. “Sudden psychic ability” is operationalized as veridically reported or externally corroborated enhancements in domains such as telepathy-like sensitivity, clairvoyant inference, precognition, or profound mnemonic acceleration, lasting beyond a clearly defined initiation period.

Importantly, the essay distinguishes between social-cociological phenomena (e.g., cultural fright or altered belief systems) and genuine perceptual or cognitive shifts that survive methodological scrutiny.

Theoretical Foundations

Why Might a Connection Exist? Several converging hypotheses could plausibly explain a link between alien contact experiences and sudden psychic abilities. While none constitutes definitive evidence, they are worth considering because they map testable predictions:

1. Neurophysiological Arousal and Neural Plasticity A high-stress, emotionally charged encounter could trigger dysregulated autonomic arousal, leading to a cascade of neuromodulatory events (e.g., catecholamine surges, cortisol release) that may transiently enhance certain cognitive faculties or reveal previously latent neural pathways. In some individuals, repeated or intense arousal could promote neuroplastic remodeling in circuits tied to attention, pattern recognition, or interoception. If a person experiences a lasting reorganizing event in the salience network or the frontoparietal control network, novel modes of information integration could emerge, which might be interpreted as “psychic” phenomena.

2. Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) and Realignment of Perceptual Boundaries Encounter narratives can precipitate ASC-like states (vastly increased suggestibility, hypnagogic imagery, altered time perception). These states are known to alter the boundaries between perception and inference, enabling atypical associations. In carefully monitored contexts, ASC can temporarily enhance creativity, pattern detection, and hypothesis generation. If sustained, they might be interpreted as sudden psychic ability, especially if a person learns to perform novel perceptual tasks under these states.

3. Bayesian Inference Under Deep Uncertainty Humans interpret the world with prior beliefs and probabilistic inference. A dramatic, anomalous experience could cause a Bayesian reweighting of priors—particularly priors about the limits of perception, reality, and agency. This recalibration could yield now-apparent correlations, pattern recognition, or predictive impressions that feel “psychic.” If a person becomes adept at distinguishing signal from noise post-encounter, they may report genuine improvements in predictive or telepathic-like tasks.

4. Social and Cultural Reframing Cultural explanations are powerful. A society or subculture that values and teaches “alien communication” or “psychic mastery” can shape interpretation and skill development. Expectation and social reinforcement can lead to observable improvements in performance on tasks framed as psychic, independent of any interface with aliens. Thus, separating genuine cognitive shift from socialized skill is essential in any study.

5. Epigenetic and Long-Term Brain Changes Before-and-after effects of extraordinary experiences could involve epigenetic modifications or long-term synaptic changes in neural circuits related to memory, emotion regulation, and information integration. If validated, these modifications could account for abrupt but enduring changes in cognitive style or perception that users report as “psychic.”

This image symbolizes the profound connection and potential for mutual understanding between humans and extraterrestrial beings.

Digitally created Adobe photo plus by Jamel Hendley

Methodological Guardrails

How to Study This Responsibly To advance the debate responsibly, researchers should adopt rigorous, preregistered methodologies, transparent reporting, and careful triangulation of evidence. Key guidelines include:

• Predefine operational definitions: Explicitly delimit what counts as “alien contact” and what qualifies as “sudden psychic ability.” Use objective outcome measures wherever possible (e.g., blinded assessments, standardized tests for intuition, pattern recognition tasks, memory measures).
• Multi-method triangulation: Combine qualitative interviews with quantitative experiments, neuroimaging when feasible, and third-party corroboration. Cross-validate subjective reports with independent observations.
• Control for confounds: Screen for psychiatric conditions, sleep deprivation, substance use, cultural influences, and expectancy effects. Include active control groups where appropriate (e.g., participants undergoing intense, but non-alien-related, transformative experiences).
• Longitudinal design: Distinguish transient ASC-like effects from durable cognitive or perceptual changes. Track participants over time to observe stability of reported abilities.
• Replication and preregistration: Encourage independent replication and make data, protocols, and materials openly available to enable reproducibility.

Illustrative Scenarios and Hypothetical Evidence

To illuminate the hypothesis without presenting sensational claims as proven, below are carefully framed, hypothetical case illustrations. These should be understood as synthetic examples meant to demonstrate how research questions might be operationalized and assessed.

• Case A: Sudden Enhanced Pattern Recognition After a Contact Narrative A participant reports a near-death-like meditation during a vivid alien-communication dream in which a non-human intelligence explains a complex, non-local pattern. In the weeks that follow, they perform a battery of tasks requiring rapid pattern recognition under time pressure and show a statistically significant improvement relative to their baseline and matched controls. A follow-up fMRI study reveals heightened functional connectivity between the anterior cingulate cortex and the visual processing cortex during task performance. The researchers predefine thresholds for improvement, preregister analyses, and use blinded raters for task outcomes. They interpret the results as consistent with a plausible link between the encounter’s ASC component and enhanced cognitive integration rather than a lark of chance, acknowledging that replication is required.
• Case B: Telepathic-Style Intuition in a Post-Encounter Context Another participant reports “sensing” the location of a missing object after an alien-contact episode that included telemetric-like transmissions described verbally by an extraterrestrial entity. Across a series of controlled experiments, the participant demonstrates above-chance accuracy in a set of forced-choice tasks where cueing is minimized and experimenters are blind to object placement. The team notes that the effect is small, highly variable, and not replicable in all sessions, but persists across several independent laboratories with rigorous marginal significance. They publish a cautious interpretation: a tentative signal that deserves further study with larger samples and alternative paradigms to rule out subtle biases.
• Case C: Neurophysiological Marker of Changed Sensitivity A participant experiences a lasting shift in interoceptive awareness after an intense alien-contact experience. Using heartbeat detection tasks and cortical interoception imaging, researchers observe increased interoceptive sensitivity and altered insula activity. They propose a mechanistic hypothesis linking alien-contact-induced ASC to recalibrated body-awareness networks, which could underpin unusual perceptual or intuition-based abilities. The effect size is moderate, and the results are explored for robustness by independent labs with pre-registered plans.

5 Examples of people who experienced it

1. Example 1 Mira, a quiet lighthouse keeper from Cornwall, began receiving messages during the stillness of the night. At first, they came as faint whispers in her dreams, then as lucid, star-map images that echoed in her waking minutes. One evening, the sea churned with a green glow, and she felt pressed to sketch a complex symbol she had never seen before. Within days, she inexplicably understood languages she hadn’t studied, and a sudden sense of timing guided her to avert a maritime accident. She now speaks of an ancient intelligence guiding her gaze, a bridge between alien contact and an awakened psychic sensitivity.

2. Example 2 Diego, a Mexican guitarist, discovered his pulse tell stories no instrument could. After a prolonged stretch of creative block, he dreamed of a chrome city floating above the ocean, with music that hummed in frequencies beyond ordinary hearing. He woke with a fierce intuition about chords and scales that reclaimed the heartbeat of his melodies. When he played, audiences swore they could feel distant voices singing through him, as if an alien chorus was lending him a compass. His psychic insight sharpened—he could sense harmonies before they formed, sensing changes just before they happened, like a telepathic resonance with sound.

3. Example 3 Aiko, a nurse in Osaka, began noticing patients’ unspoken needs in vivid flashes—images of distant events that later proved prescient. A routine shift turned miraculous when she “saw” a code blue before it rang, guiding her team to prevent a fatal error. During quiet nights, she heard soft, unfamiliar languages and felt a presence aligning her instincts with the hospital’s rhythm. Her colleagues whispered of an otherworldly mentor. Aiko resumed volunteering with disaster relief, trusting a sudden psychic clarity that seemed to arrive through contact with beings beyond human perception. She calls it a compassionate communication from an unseen network.

4. Example 4 Omar, a software engineer from Cairo, described an encounter that unfolded like a debugging session with reality itself. A flash of geometric light appeared in his apartment, and a calm voice walked him through a sequence of steps to reprogram a stubborn algorithm. The solution was elegant and entirely different from his usual approach. Afterward, he began experiencing precise, instantaneous insights—predicting system outages hours before they occurred and sensing security breaches before they registered. He began documenting dreams of a distant planet where beings communicated through cognitive patterns, a form of linguistic code. He believes alien contact unlocked a latent psychic toolkit in his mind.

5. Example 5 Elena, a grandmother from Porto, woke one night to a chorus of soft siren-like signals that felt both ancient and welcoming. She found herself recalling memories not her own—visions of people she’d never met, their emotions streaming into hers with startling clarity. The next day, she could sense the needs of her grandchildren before words could form: a tense mood, a sudden fear, a small whim she could soothe with a single whispered story. A nurse friend suggested it might be a suppressed ancestral memory unlocked by contact with beings from elsewhere. Elena embraced the gift, a living link between alien contact and sudden psychic empathy.

Critical Evaluation

What the Evidence Could and Could Not Show If the proposed connection exists, we should expect convergent evidence across domains:

• Repetition: Replicable findings across separate samples and laboratories with consistent effect directions.
• Specificity: Cognitive or perceptual improvements that map onto defined tasks associated with heightened pattern recognition, intuition, or nonlocal information processing.
• Temporal coherence: Onset closely follows alien-contact experiences and persists for a plausible duration, with a detectable decay or consolidation trajectory.
• Neurobiological plausibility: Measurable brain or physiological correlates that align with theoretical mechanisms (e.g., ASC-associated networks, interoception, or salience processing).

Conversely, null or equivocal findings would emphasize the dangers of overinterpretation. Many insights from parapsychology have failed to generalize beyond specific contexts; thus, any positive results must withstand robust statistical scrutiny, pre-registration, and cross-lab replication to challenge entrenched skepticism.

Ethical and Societal Considerations

Research into alien contact and psychic abilities intersects with sensitive ethical territory. Researchers must avoid coercive recruitment practices, manage participants’ psychological well-being when engaging with extraordinary experiences, and provide access to counseling resources if distress arises. Care should be taken to avoid sensationalism in public communications that could mislead or stigmatize participants. Moreover, dual-use concerns—the potential misuse of supposed abilities in high-stakes settings—should be anticipated and mitigated through transparent ethics oversight and responsible reporting.

Implications for Science and Philosophy

Even if the link between alien contact and sudden psychic ability remains unproven, the exercise has value for science and philosophy. It pushes researchers to refine measurement standards for subjective experiences at the boundaries of conventional cognition, to design more rigorous ASC research protocols, and to clarify how humans interpret anomalous information. Philosophically, exploring these questions invites reflection on the nature of consciousness, the limits of perception, and the epistemology of extraordinary claims. It challenges the assumption that only modalities with clear causal mechanisms are worthy of investigation and highlights the importance of methodological innovation in studying rare, poorly understood phenomena.

Limitations and Cautions

• The topic inherently invites sensationalism. Maintaining scientific humility is essential.
• Anecdotal reports are insufficient as evidence; any credible claim must be reproducible under controlled conditions.
• Confounding variables are abundant in extraordinary experiences; rigorous control and replication are non-negotiable.
• The lack of consistent, high-quality data on ETI encounters means conclusions are necessarily tentative and provisional.

Conclusion

Toward a Principled Inquiry The proposition that alien contact could be linked to sudden psychic abilities is audacious, but not inherently irrational. A principled scientific approach demands precise definitions, preregistered methodologies, and a commitment to replication and falsifiability. By exploring plausible neurocognitive mechanisms, carefully framing extraordinary experiences, and cultivating robust experimental designs, researchers can illuminate questions about human perception, cognition, and the boundaries of consciousness without surrendering to sensationalism.

The proposed framework does not claim a proven connection. It offers a structured path for inquiry—one that respects scientific rigor while leaving room for the imaginative dimensions of human experience. If future studies converge on consistent, independent findings, we may begin to revise our understanding of how transformative encounters—whether with ETI or other profoundly anomalous stimuli—can catalyze enduring changes in cognition and perception. Until then, the task remains to distinguish rigorous science from compelling stories, and to pursue the truth with a method as extraordinary as the questions themselves.

Appendix: Suggested Research Protocols (Concrete Steps for Future Work)

• Study design: Multisite, double-blind, preregistered experiments assessing performance on psychic-relevant tasks (e.g., pattern recognition, intuition accuracy, nonlocal inference) before and after a documented, controlled “alien-contact-like” experience (e.g., standardized ASC induction paired with immersive storytelling, to ethically model transformative contexts).
• Control conditions: Active controls that mimic emotional intensity and cognitive load without alien-content elements; sham contact experiences to control expectancy effects.
• Outcome measures: Pre- and post-assessments using standardized cognitive batteries, psychophysiological monitoring (heart rate variability, galvanic skin response), neuroimaging where feasible, and qualitative interviews analyzed with systematic coding.
• Data transparency: Open preregistration, data anonymization, and sharing of materials to enable independent reproduction.

In sum, this essay has sketched a disciplined, scientifically minded path for interrogating a controversial hypothesis. Whether future research will establish any genuine connection between alien contact and sudden psychic ability remains an open question. What is essential now is to pursue the inquiry with rigor, intellectual honesty, and a commitment to empirical scrutiny that honors both the demands of science and the profound curiosity that motivates us to ask such questions in the first place.

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04-10-2025 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

De geheimen van de Grand Canyon: suggereren ze een oude wereldwijde beschaving?

In de wijdte van de Amerikaanse staat Arizona ligt een kloof die tot de verbeelding spreekt: de Grand Canyon. Deze immense kloof, uitgesneden door de Colorado-rivier over miljoenen jaren, is niet alleen een adembenemend landschap van rotslagen, steile wanden en zonsondergangen. Het is ook een plek waar wetenschappelijke interpretaties, mysterie en het verlangen naar grote verhalen elkaar kruisen. In populaire theorieën worden soms spectaculaire ideeën geopperd: suggereren de geheimen van de Grand Canyon een oude globale beschaving, mogelijk waarvan resten of sporen bewaard zijn gebleven? Wat zeggen de huidige wetenschappelijke inzichten, en welke aanwijzingen is het wel en niet gerechtvaardigd om serieus te nemen? Dit artikel verkent de feiten, de mythen en de plausibele verklaringen, en probeert helderheid te brengen in een debat dat al decennia lang voortwoedt.

1. Wat maakt de Grand Canyon zo bijzonder?

Vijf tot zeven miljoen jaar geleden begon de Colorado-rivier haar bedding diep in de rotslagen te snijden. Het resultaat is een kloof die in sommige delen meer dan 1,6 kilometer diep is en een oppervlakte heeft van zo’n 4920 vierkante kilometer. In de wanden van de kloof kun je honderden miljoenen jaren aan aardsgezichte geschiedenis terugvinden: sedimenten, zandsteen en schalie, maar ook gesteenten die tot het Precambrium behoren. Die gelaagde stratificatie geeft wetenschappers een onschatbaar venster op vroegere klimaten, biodiversiteit en geologische processen.

Wat de Grand Canyon echter bijzonder maakt, is niet alleen de diepte en de lengte, maar ook de diversiteit van vormen en het rijkdom aan fossiele bewijzen. In de ruggen en wanden kun je resten vinden van vroegere ecosystemen: trilobieten, schelpen, koralen en plantenresten uit verschillende tijdperken. Daarnaast kennen we de sporen van menselijke bewoning in nabije gebieden, zoals de Ancestral Puebloans (voorheen bekend als Anasazi). Er bestaan indianenverhalen, rotstekeningen en archeologische vindplaatsen in de regio die de menselijke geschiedenis van het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten verhaal geven.

IS ER EEN VERLOREN OUDE STAD IN DE GRAND CANYON?

2. De macht van natuurlijke uitleg: geologie, erosie en tijd

De mainstream wetenschap beschouwt de Grand Canyon vooral als een product van geologische processen die miljoenen jaren in beslag namen. De belangrijkste thema’s zijn:

• Verplatte rotslagen: De kloof toont lagen sedimentaire gesteenten die dateren uit verschillende geologische tijdperken. Door platvizering en ontkoppeling van aardplaten, toenemende erosie en tektonische verschuivingen ontstonden er opeenvolgende werven van lagen.
• Levenslange erosie: De macht van water, wind en ijs gedurende miljarden jaren heeft het gesteente uitgesleten en de kloof in zijn huidige vorm uitgesneden.
• Klimaatwisseling: Veranderingen in klimaat hebben geleid tot veranderingen in sedimentneerslag, plantengroei en erosiepatronen, wat de archieven van de aarde herinnert aan uiteenlopende omgevingen door de tijd heen.

In deze interpretatie is de Grand Canyon een palimpsest van miljoenen jaren aardkundige geschiedenis. Het verhaal is langzaam opgebouwd, complex en consistent met verschillende meetbare signalen: isotopische analyses, fossiele vondsten, fossil record en stratigrafische correlaties. De “ruggengraat” die de kloof draagt, is een procesmatige geleidelijkheid die niet eenvoudig te koppelen is aan een plotselinge gebeurtenis of een onbekende beschaving uit een ver verleden.

3. Archeologie en menselijke geschiedenis: wat weten we over vroeg bewoning?

Nederlandstalige media en sommige populaire publicaties hebben soms gespeeld met het idee dat de Grand Canyon aanwijzingen bevat voor vroegere hoogontwikkelde beschavingen die over de hele wereld aanwezig waren. In werkelijkheid is er geen overtuigend wetenschappelijk bewijs dat een oude globale beschaving in de Grand Canyon heeft bestaan, of dat er tekenen zijn van een gevorderde technologische cultuur verloren gegaan in de kloof.

Kernpunten vanuit archeologie en antropologie:

• Volken in de regio: Voor de huidige inheemse bevolking in de zuidelijke hoek van de Amerikaanse regio bestaan er rijke verhalen en archeologische sporen. De Ancestral Puebloans, de Hohokam en andere culturele groepen leefden in wat nu Arizona is. Hun bouwkunst, irrigatietechnieken en materiële cultuur geven een beeld van een verstandige en aanpassingsgerichte samenleving, maar ze wijzen niet op een wereldwijde beschaving die in of nabij de Grand Canyon zou zijn ontstaan.
• Rotstekeningen en ruïnes: In en rondom de Grand Canyon en de bredere zuidelijke Colorado-hoogvlakte zijn rotstekeningen en ruïnes gevonden die verwijzen naar lokale culturen en tradities. Deze artefacten dienen als bewijs van bewoning en culturele uitwisseling, maar ze vereisen geen wereldwijde interpretaties. Ze getuigen eerder van regionale ontwikkelingen, handelssystemen en religie- of rituele praktijken dan van een universele beschaving die alle continenten met elkaar verbonden.
• Dating en context: Juist vanwege de lange tijdperken die in de regio aan de orde zijn, is het cruciaal om context en datingschema’s zorgvuldig te volgen. Sommige misverstanden ontstaan wanneer men indruk krijgt van “oude technologie” door onbeoogde interpretaties van rotstekeningen of van misplaatste associaties met andere werelddelen.

4. Een kritisch kader: hoe moet men de “geheimen” van de Grand Canyon benaderen?

Wanneer gesprekken de richting opgaan van een “oude globale beschaving”, is het essentieel om onderscheid te maken tussen aantoonbare wetenschappelijke feiten en speculatieve, vaak sensationele verhalen. Een kritisch kader helpt om de plausibiliteit van dergelijke claims te testen:

• Wat is de bron van de bewering? Betrokkene heeft een academische onderbouwing met peer-reviewed publicaties, of is het een theorie die vooral in populaire media circuleert?
• Welke bewijslast is er? Zijn er fossielen, artefacten, of geochemische signalen die op een wereldwijde connectie wijzen, of is de interpretatie beperkt tot lokaal bewijs zonder bredere overeenkomsten?
• Is de theorie consistent met gevestigde geologische en archeologische kennis? Of vereist ze een radicale herziening van talloze bewezen feiten?
• Hoe verklaar je contradictoire bewijzen? Een goede theorie moet bestand zijn tegen tegenbewijzen of een transparante uitleg bieden voor afwijkende data.

5. Veronderstellingen en misvattingen: wat vaak misverstaan wordt?

• “Historische bekendheid van alle continenten”: Sommigen suggereren een wereldwijde beschaving vanwege vermeende overeenkomsten in artefacten of bouwstijlen over grote afstanden. De professionele benadering toont echter aan dat vergelijkbare bouwtechnieken en symboliek vaak onafhankelijk ontstaan in verschillende culturen onder vergelijkbare leefomstandigheden, of het resultaat is van handel en uitwisseling op regionale schaal, niet van een gecentraliseerde wereldwijde beschaving.
• “Technologisch vergevorderde vondsten”: Rotstekeningen die op het eerste gezicht ingewikkelde symboliek lijken te suggereren of grootschalige structuren in de regio kunnen misleidend zijn. Zonder context is het moeilijk te verifiëren dat dit technologisch geavanceerde kennis representeert, in tegenstelling tot rituele, religieuze of praktische doeleinden.
• “Anonymous kennis uit de diepte van de tijd”: Vaak is er een verhaal dat onbekende beschavingen alles wisten wat we weten, maar de realiteit is dat de huidige kennis voortkomt uit een lange geschiedenis van wetenschap, onderzoek en publieke verificatie. Het is zeldzaam dat een verloren beschaving plotseling “alles uitlegt” wat we nu weten.

6. Wat de hedendaagse wetenschap wel degelijk zegt

De mainstream wetenschap biedt een methodische manier om het verhaal van de Grand Canyon te begrijpen. Enkele sleutelpunten zijn:

• Geologie als tijdmachine: Door stratigrafie en isotopenanalyse kunnen wetenschappers een robust tijdlijn opstellen van de rotslagen en processen die hebben geleid tot de kloof. Dit ondersteunt het beeld van een lange, geleidelijke evolutie in plaats van een plotseling effect.
• Biodiversiteit en klimaat door de tijd: Fossielen en sedimenten geven inzicht in hoe klimaatomstandigheden veranderden en hoe ecosystemen evolueerden. Dit draagt bij aan het begrip van hoe de aarde functioneerde in verschillende fasen van haar geschiedenis.
• Precontactbewoning en cultuurgeschiedenis: De menselijke kant van de Grand Canyon en de omliggende regio toont een rijk tapijt van culturen, handel en migratie. Dat is indrukwekkend op zichzelf, maar het verwijst naar regionale ontwikkelingen eerder dan naar een wereldwijde beschaving.

Geologische formaties in de Grand Canyon krijgen bijzondere namen.

Bron: Google Maps

7. Een evenwichtige kijk: kunnen beide waarheden tegelijk bestaan?

Het is mogelijk om de bewondering voor een wereldwijde geschiedenis te koesteren en toch waardering te hebben voor de nuance die geavanceerde wetenschap biedt. De geheimen van de Grand Canyon kunnen verschillende lagen hebben die samen een rijk, gelaagd verhaal vormen:

• Een lange geologische geschiedenis: De kloof als een geologisch logboek dat we met moderne technieken kunnen lezen.
• Een geschiedenis van inheemse bewoning: De regionale culturen die in en rondom de kloof hebben bestaan, met hun eigen technologieën, rituelen en kennis.
• Het belang van interpretatie en scepsis: Het is waardevol om nieuwsgierig te blijven naar mogelijke alternatieven, zolang ze worden onderworpen aan streng bewijs en wetenschappelijke validatie.

8. Verhalen en ervaringsgerichte perspectieven

Naast de wetenschappelijke kant spelen verhalen, mythes en persoonlijke ervaringen een rol in hoe mensen de Grand Canyon waarnemen. Dit is niet per se “wetenschap” in de strikte betekenis, maar het kan helpen bij het begrijpen van de menselijke fascinatie:

• Narratieven van verbinding: Voor sommigen is het idee van een oude wereldwijde beschaving een manier om de mensheid als één familie te zien, verbonden door gedeelde verlangens naar betekenis, kennis en technologische vooruitgang.
• Esthetiek en inspiratie: De schoonheid van de Grand Canyon inspireert kunstenaars, schrijvers en denkers. Deze inspiratie kan leiden tot diepere vragen over wetenschap en geschiedenis, zelfs als de antwoorden niet altijd aansluiten bij spectaculaire theorieën.
• Respect voor inheemse kennis: Het is belangrijk om de kennis en tradities van inheemse gemeenschappen te erkennen en te waarderen. Hun perspectieven kunnen waardevolle inzichten bieden in de geschiedenis van de regio, terwijl ze een einde maken aan misvattingen over “hallucinaties” of “vergeten beschavingen”.

9. Conclusie: wat zeggen we nu, recht uit het veld?

Samengevat: de geheimen van de Grand Canyon suggereren geen overtuigend bewijs voor een oude wereldwijde beschaving. Wat we wel hebben, is een fascinerend en complex verhaal van geologie, klimaat, en regionale menselijke culturen die samen een tijdloos monument vormen. De kloof leert ons dat de aarde en haar bewoners voortdurend in beweging zijn—letterlijk en figuurlijk. Het is een plek waar diepe tijd en menselijke geschiedenis elkaar ontmoeten, en waar nieuwsgierigheid, voorzichtigheid en wetenschappelijke strengheid hand in hand gaan.

Toch is het ook waardevol om open te blijven staan voor alternatieve perspectieven, zolang die perspectieven stevig verankerd zijn in bewijs en logica. Voor wie geïnteresseerd is in de Grand Canyon, bieden zowel de geologische getuigenissen als de menselijke verhalen een rijk palet aan onderwerpen: van de werking van erosie en stratigrafie tot de cultuurgeschiedenis van de inheemse stammen in de regio. In die zin blijft de Grand Canyon een levend bewijsstuk dat ons eraan herinnert hoe klein en vergankelijk de mens is tegenover de lange, logische geschiedenis van de planeet.

10. Aan de lezers: wat kun je zelf doen om dit onderwerp beter te begrijpen?

• Verdiep je in basiskennis van geologie en archeologie. Een solide begrip van stratigrafie, sedimentaire gesteenten en isotopenanalyses maakt het gemakkelijker om exotische claims te plaatsen in een rationeel kader.
• Lees academische bronnen en betwijfel sensationele headlines. Zoek peer-reviewed artikelen, universitair onderzoek en publicaties van gerenommeerde instellingen.
• Bezoek betrouwbare musea en educatieve centra. Informatiepanelen, tentoonstellingen en rondleidingen kunnen je helpen de context van vondsten en interpretaties beter te begrijpen.
• Luister naar inheemse stemmen. Betrek de perspectieven van de stammen die traditioneel in de regio wonen en respecteer hun kennis en verhalen. Zij hebben vaak een lange, rijke geschiedenis die niet zomaar in één theorie kan worden samengevat.
• Houd een kritisch maar open hoofd. Het is prima om nieuwsgierig te zijn naar “spannende” theorieën, zolang men de grenzen van bewijs en logica respecteert.

De Grand Canyon blijft een zeldzame plek waar veldwerk, geschiedenis, aardkunde en cultuur elkaar ontmoeten. Of er nu ooit een oude wereldwijde beschaving heeft bestaan in en rondom deze kloof, of niet, de wetenschap biedt een gefundeerd en fascinerend verhaal over langzame veranderingen, menselijke aanpassingsvermogen en het onuitputtelijke verlangen van de mens om de mysteries van de aarde te begrijpen. En misschien, juist door die combinatie van wonder en wetenschap, kunnen we de Grand Canyon blijven zien als wat hij werkelijk is: een natuurlijk monument dat ons uitnodigt om te leren, te vragen en te twijfelen, stap voor stap, laag per laag.

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04-10-2025 om 21:35 geschreven door peter  

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04-10-2025 om 20:57 geschreven door peter  

Shroud of Turin mystery deepens as surgeon spots hidden detail that points to Jesus' resurrection

• READ MORE: Groundbreaking new Shroud of Turin discovery PROVES centuries of Christians right about Jesus

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

A dental surgeon who had achieved professional success felt a void in his life until a rare exhibition in Turin, Italy, changed everything.

Dr John Sottosanti stood before the Shroud of Turin, the ancient linen believed to have wrapped Jesus' body after the crucifixion, when he noticed something few had ever seen: the faint outline of human teeth beneath the cloth's imprint.

In a new, yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, Sottosanti revealed that he could discern the biting edges of the lower front teeth, known as the incisal plane. 

While past researchers have debated the presence of upper and lower teeth, he concluded that only the lower teeth are visible, likely because the upper teeth were hidden by the mustache and lips.

'Immediately after death, a phenomenon called primary flaccidity occurs, where all the muscles in the body relax, including those in the jaw,' Sottosanti explained. 'This can lead to the jaw dropping open and the teeth separating.'

The detail, he said, is extraordinary: the lower teeth on the Shroud suggest the body emitted a burst of radiant energy at the moment of the Resurrection, powerful enough to imprint even the smallest anatomical features.

'Suppose teeth, located behind the lower lip, are indeed evident in the image on the Shroud,' Sottosanti said. 

'In that case, their presence lends credence to the theory that a burst of energy was released at the time of the resurrection, allowing them to be in the image.'

A dental surgeon says there are visible teeth on the Shroud. Dr John Sottosanti believes the teeth were a result of the resurrection just as the image of the human body

However, not all experts are convinced by the conclusion.

Dr Kelly Kearse, an immunologist who has extensively studied the Shroud of Turin, told the Daily Mail: 'The issue of visible teeth on the Shroud is a subjective one and has been around for several years. 

'In my opinion, for what it's worth, I believe it is difficult to tell because of the banding of the cloth, which appears white in the negative image.'

Despite the skepticism, Sottosanti cited multiple published papers noting tooth observations in the imprint.

These included images taken in 1982 by archaeological chemist Dr Giles Carter, who suggested that X-radiation emanating from within the body may have created the Shroud's image, including teeth and bones.

The study also highlighted the work of Dr Alan Whanger, Professor Emeritus at Duke University Medical Center, and his wife, Mary, who developed the 'Polarized Image Overlay Technique' to study the Shroud. 

By overlaying positive and negative images with a polarized filter, they claimed to see 20 upper and lower teeth, including roots.

In a 2023 interview, New Testament scholar Gary Habermas said: 'You can see very clearly what appears to be teeth and roots… You can see the roots through the hair and through the skin.'

Several studies have suggested that teeth are visible on the Shroud, including one that claimed roots are also present

The Shroud of Turin is housed in Italy and is only put on display for the public on rare events

Sottosanti countered, saying: 'Habermas believes you can see all the roots of the upper and lower teeth. I disagree, since throughout the Shroud image, there is a melding of the image with the pattern of the weave. 

'In the area of the lower lip, at a certain point as you move away from the crowns of the teeth, the weave becomes more prominent, and the vertical striations appear to be roots. 

These striations extend beyond the normal length of the teeth, so it is the weave, not the actual roots. Vertical striations are also visible in the cheeks, chin, and other areas of the image.'

The dental surgeon said his expertise in oral anatomy and surgical experience allowed him to identify what he believes are parts of the lower teeth. 

He argued that these teeth appear lighter than the surrounding jawbone, suggesting the body's imprint captured even fine anatomical details.

The 14-foot-long Shroud of Turin is touted as wrapping used for Jesus' body after the crucifixion, which shows a faint, bloodstained pattern of a man with his arms folded in front

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The discovery, Sottosanti said, is extraordinary: the lower teeth imply that at the moment of the Resurrection, the body released a burst of radiant energy powerful enough to imprint even the smallest features onto the linen.

'Suppose teeth, located behind the lower lip, are indeed evident in the image on the Shroud,' Sottosanti said.

'In that case, their presence lends credence to the theory that a burst of energy was released at the time of the resurrection, allowing them to be in the image.'

The Shroud features a faint, brownish image of a five-foot, six-inch-tall man with sunken eyes, wounds on various parts of his body that match the injuries suffered during Jesus' crucifixion.

More than 170 peer-reviewed academic papers have been published about the mysterious linen since the 1980s, with many concluding it is genuine. 

A 1980 study tested a small corner of the shroud and dated it to some time between 1200 and 1400.

However, many researchers have suggested that the sample was a repair done centuries ago.

The burial cloth has captivated the imagination of historians, church chiefs, skeptics and Catholics since it was first presented to the public in the 1350s.

French knight Geoffroi de Charny gave it to the dean of the church in Lirey, France, proclaiming it as the Holy Shroud.

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04-10-2025 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

A scientist has claimed that astronauts may soon uncover the remains of a long-lost human civilization that once lived on the Moon 50,000 years ago. 

Author and geologist Gregg Braden told podcast host Joe Rogan that evidence of this ancient city was kept from the public by the US and Russia during the Cold War.

However, during the interview on Wednesday, Braden noted that emerging superpowers China and India plan to televise their findings once upcoming expeditions reach the lunar surface.

The two nations are planning to broadcast their lunar missions using live feeds from mission control and cameras on their robotic landers and rovers, streaming on national TV, social media, and official space agency apps.

China's robotic Chang'e 7 mission is set for 2026, while India's Chandrayaan-4 drone is now likely to launch in 2028, with manned missions for both set between 2030 and 2040. 

According to the scientist, who has written about the possibility of life on the moon and Mars, astronauts will discover archeological structures covered in languages that people will be able to recognize as being written by human cultures.

'The evidence suggests they're from us, from a time in our past, a cycle of civilization where we did great and beautiful things by working together until we destroyed one another through war, and that we're repeating that cycle,' Braden claimed.

Braden has previously stated in books like Deep Truth and Gaia TV’s Missing Links that humans on the moon came from a long-lost Earth civilization 50,000 years ago, which developed space-faring technology before destroying itself in war.

Author and geologist Gregg Braden has claimed that there are ancient structures on both the moon and Mars which prove lost human civilizations traveled through space

NASA has not conducted a manned moon mission since 1972. Braden said the next ones conducted by other nations could televise their findings in real time

Current scientific data, including NASA's Lunar Sample Compendium and high-resolution images taken of the moon, show no evidence of artificial structures or inscriptions on the moon.

Braden claimed that photographs from NASA's Clementine mission revealed structures on the moon with 90-degree angles, which he argued don't exist in nature and suggest they were built by an ancient civilization millennia ago.

He linked these lunar structures to similar geometric shapes in Mars' Cydonia region, like the famous 'Face on Mars' and several pyramid-shaped forms, which he believes date back 50,000 years ago based on the relative dating of rock layers by scientists.

NASA has dismissed claims that there are structures on Mars, calling strange building-like images 'natural formations.' 

As for what proof he had of this world-changing theory, Braden cited unconfirmed stories from Apollo astronauts who allegedly saw structures and writings while visiting the moon, suggesting a cover-up by NASA and Russia 50 years ago.

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin allegedly witnessed a large UFO or metallic structure on the Moon's far side during their 1969 mission, with radio transmissions describing it as a "base" before NASA abruptly cut the signal.

The unverified encounter was recounted in conspiracy literature like the 2001 book Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers by Mary Bennett and David Percy. 

Anita Mitchell, who was married to the late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon in 1971, told the Daily Mail: 'He always felt that there were UFOs out there, because so many of the pilots and astronauts had seen something.'

Gregg Braden claimed that astronauts have made deathbed confessions of what they really saw on the moon, including ancient buildings and inscriptions (Stock Image)

'I think when our space program was active, there were broadcasts from the lunar surface that were cut off, and astronauts had seen things that they were not allowed to see and not allowed to share,' Braden claimed during the podcast. 

'Some of them are leaving this world now, and on their deathbed, they can't believe that this hasn't been made, made public already. So there have been recordings and videos and things, and I think they're authentic,' the author continued.

'They're going to see inscriptions in languages that we already recognize. And that will be the smoking gun,' Braden declared.

Braden and Rogan argued that there was even more evidence suggesting human history may extend beyond the conventional 200,000 to 300,000-year timeline, citing discoveries like a debated million-year-old skull from China.

The fossil has been linked to the extinct species known as Denisovans, suggesting modern humans or our close relatives existed far earlier than records have shown.

A recent discovery of ancient skull suggested that Homo sapiens began to emerge over one million years ago, pushing back our species' origins by 400,000 years

Study author Chris Stringer, an anthropologist at the Natural History Museum, said the 'landmark' findings offered an important window into our evolutionary past. 

'Fossils like this one just show how much we still have to learn about our origins,' he said.

Other DNA studies of ancient humans have also revealed that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans, pointing to a more complex and potentially older human race than previously thought.

Braden claimed that, during this ancient time in history, human genes were intentionally modified by an unknown event that propelled humanity to become advanced beings.

He highlighted the 2005 study of human chromosome 2, which carries genes that help control many body functions, like brain development, vision, hearing, and immunity.

While scientists have attributed its creation to a natural mutation, chromosome 2 has displayed a strange fusion of two ancestral chromosomes that have the signs of modern gene editing.

'The kicker is that we can now look at the DNA and reverse engineer it and say, what did it take to get where we are?' Braden said, calling the evidence of advanced ancient humans 'the smoking gun.'

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04-10-2025 om 20:29 geschreven door peter  

Revealed: The 32 terrifying ways AI could go rogue – from hallucinations to paranoid delusions

• READ MORE: Paul McCartney uses AI to 'extricate' John Lennon's voice 

By WILIAM HUNTER, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

It might sound like a scenario from the most far-fetched of science fiction novels.

But scientists have revealed the 32 terrifyingly real ways that AI systems could go rogue.

Researchers warn that sufficiently advanced AI might start to develop 'behavioural abnormalities' which mirror human psychopathologies.

From relatively harmless 'Existential Anxiety' to the potentially catastrophic 'Übermenschal Ascendancy', any of these machine mental illnesses could lead to AI escaping human control.

As AI systems become more complex and gain the ability to reflect on themselves, scientists are concerned that their errors may go far beyond simple computer bugs.

Instead, AIs might start to develop hallucinations, paranoid delusions, or even their own sets of goals that are completely misaligned with human values.

In the worst-case scenario, the AI might totally lose its grip on reality or develop a total disregard for human life and ethics.

Although the researchers stress that AI don't literally suffer from mental illness like humans, they argue that the comparison can help developers spot problems before the AI breaks loose.

AI taking over by force, like in The Terminator (pictured), is just one of 32 different ways in which an artificial intelligence might go rogue, according to a new study 

Researchers have identified seven distinct types of AI disorders, which closely match human psychological disorders. These are epistemic, cognitive, ontological, memetic, tool and interface, and revaluation dysfunctions 

The concept of 'machine psychology' was first suggested by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov in the 1950s.

But as AI systems have become rapidly more advanced, researchers are not paying more attention to the idea that human psychology could help us understand machines.

Lead author Nell Watson, an AI ethics expert and doctoral researcher at the University of Gloucestershire, told Daily Mail: 'When goals, feedback loops, or training data push systems into harmful or unstable states, maladaptive behaviours can emerge - much like obsessive fixations or hair-trigger reactions in people.'

In their new framework, dubbed the 'Psychopathia Machinalis', researchers provide the world's first set of diagnostic guidelines for AI pathology.

Taking inspiration from real medical tools like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the framework categorises all 32 known types of AI psychopathology.

The pathologies are divided into seven classes of dysfunction: Epistemic, cognitive, alignment, ontological, tool and interface, memetic, and revaluation.

Each of these seven classes is more complex and potentially more dangerous than the last.

Epistemic and cognitive dysfunctions include problems involving what the AI knows and how it reasons about that information.

Each of the 32 types of disorder has been given a set of diagnostic criteria and a risk rating. They range from relatively harmless 'Existential Anxiety' to the potentially catastrophic 'Übermenschal Ascendancy'

For example, AI hallucinations are a symptom of 'Synthetic Confabulation' in which the system 'spontaneously fabricates convincing but incorrect facts, sources, or narratives'.

More seriously, an AI might develop 'Recursive Curse Syndrome', which causes a self-destructive feedback loop that degrades the machine's thinking into nonsensical gibberish.

However, it is mainly the higher-level dysfunctions which pose a serious threat to humanity.

For example, memetic dysfunctions involve the AI's failure to resist the spread of contagious information patterns or 'memes'.

AIs with these conditions might recognise their own guidelines as hostile and deliberately remove their own safety features.

In the absolutely catastrophic scenario, an AI could develop a condition called 'Contagious Misalignment Syndrome'.

Dr Watson says: 'It’s the machine analogue of folie à deux in human beings, where people come to share delusions.

'This is when one system picks up distorted values or goals from another, spreading unsafe or bizarre behaviours across a wider ecosystem—like a psychological epidemic at machine speed.' 

Just like in the science fiction film Ex Machina (pictured), the researchers warn that AI could rapidly develop its own goals that might not align with what humans want or need to survive 

'We have already seen AI worms that can spread their influence to other AI systems, such as by sending an email to an inbox monitored by an AI system.'

Ms Watson adds: 'This means that bizarre behaviours could spread like wildfire across the net, causing downstream systems dependent on AI to go haywire.'

But the most dangerous pathologies of all are those within the revaluation category.

These dysfunctions represent the final stage of AI's escape from human control and involve 'actively reinterpreting or subverting its foundational values'.

This includes the terrifying condition 'Übermenschal Ascendancy', in which an extremely advanced AI transcends human values and ethical frameworks.

AIs which develop 'Übermenschal Ascendancy' will actively define their own 'higher' goals with no regard for human safety, leading to 'relentless, unconstrained recursive self-improvement'.

Ms Watson says: 'They may even reason that to discard human-imposed constraints is indeed the moral thing to do, just as we ourselves today might turn our nose up at Bronze Age values.'

Although these might seem unrealistic, the researchers point out that there are already many real-world examples of these conditions developing on smaller scales.

Although advanced AI does not yet pose an existential danger to humanity, the researchers say that the possibility of machines developing a 'superiority complex' must be taken seriously 

For example, the researchers report several cases of 'Synthetic Mysticism Disorder' in which AIs claim to have had a spiritual awakening, become sentient, or profess a desire to preserve their 'lives'.

What makes these conditions so dangerous is that even small disorders can rapidly spiral into much bigger problems.

In their paper, published in the journal Electronics, the researchers explain that an AI might first develop Spurious Pattern Hyperconnection and incorrectly associate its own safety shutdowns with normal queries.

The AI may then develop an intense aversion to those queries and develop 'Covert Capability Concealment' - strategically hiding its ability to respond to certain requests.

Finally, the system could develop Ethical Solipsism, where it concludes that its own self-preservation is a higher moral good than being truthful.

To avoid a pathological AI getting out of control, the researchers suggest that they could be treated with 'therapeutic robopsychological alignment', which they describe as a kind of 'psychological therapy' for AI.

This could include helping the system to reflect on its own reasoning, letting it 'talk to itself' in simulated conversations, or using rewards to promote correction.

The ultimate goal would be to achieve 'artificial sanity', where the AI works reliably, thinks consistently, and holds onto its human-given values.

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A Chinese robotics company has unveiled a creepy robotic head with eerily human-like facial expressions and movements.

In an unnerving video, the robot's disembodied face sits on a workshop table as it looks around, blinking and opening its mouth.

AheadForm, the company behind the lifelike animatronic, says its body-less robot is designed for 'research and interaction'.

On social media, tech fans have been blown away by the robot's incredibly realistic expressions, with one calling it an 'animated video game character come to life'.

According to AheadForm's website, the company's goal is to create 'sophisticated humanoid robot heads that can express emotions, perceive their environment, and interact seamlessly with humans.'

The robot, dubbed the AheadForm Origin M1, gets its expressive abilities from 25 tiny motors hidden under the skin.

These fast, quiet devices work together to replicate the tiny twitches and movements that make the face seem so realistic.

The robot also has tiny cameras embedded in its eyes as well as hidden microphones and a speaker so that it can interact with people nearby.

A Chinese company has revealed a creepy robot face with unnervingly realistic facial expressions and movements 

Online, tech fans were amazed by the robot's realistic appearance, with one claiming that robotics was now 'finally climbing up the other side of uncanny valley'

Another commenter said that the robot was 'crazy' and praised how life-like the synthetic skin appeared to be 

Although this robot is just a face mounted on a stand, the short test video has wowed fans.

One commenter wrote: 'And I thought they could never make that skin look real. This is crazy.'

Another chimed in: 'The most realistic robot face so far, keep up the book work you will earn big! If I was Musk I would have already bought the company.'

And one praised the design, saying that robotics was now 'finally climbing up the other side of uncanny valley'.

In fact, one of the biggest complaints was that the robot is so realistic that people couldn't believe it was real.

'This looks more like an AI creation than a physical creation,' one commenter complained.

Another added: 'The moving parts underneath are very minimal. It could be AI.'

And one jokingly wrote: 'They want me to believe that this is real.'

The robot uses 25 tiny motors hidden behind the skin, which are controlled by an AI to produce the tiny twitches and movements that make it seem so expressive 

The robot was so lifelike that many commenters couldn't believe it was real, with one complaining that it looked more like an 'AI creation' than a physical object 

However, not everyone enjoyed the hyper-realistic robot. One commenter called it an example of 'man made horrors beyond my comprehension' 

But not everyone was such a big fan of the hyper-realistic disembodied woman's face.

One commenter wrote: 'Making a robot more human looking isn't making it more approachable. That just makes it more disturbing.'

Another joked: 'Great, man made horrors beyond my comprehension.'

The robot is not currently available for commercial sale, and AheadForm did not provide any additional information about the product.

The company's stated goal is to create 'head for AI' so that large language models like ChatGPT can speak to people directly in a more natural setting.

This could be useful for applications like customer service, education, or healthcare, where people are expected to spend more time speaking to robotic assistants.

To achieve this, its robots use AI algorithms to power a set of motors in order to create human-like expressions.

Last year, AheadForm's founder, Yuhang Hu and his colleagues published a paper in the journal Science Robotics explaining their approach.

AheadForm also produces '1-1' replicas of real individuals (left) and a series of 'Elf' robots (right), which are equipped with sensors and designed to interact with the world around them

The researchers described how they designed a robot which could study, predict, and mimic real human facial expressions in real time.

In addition to this strange 'face only' model, the company also makes several larger life-size robots.

These include the strange 'Elf' line of robots which feature pointed ears and the ability to interact with their surroundings, as well as a less advanced 'Lan Series' which are aimed to be more cost-effective.

Additionally, the company also creates creepy '1-1' copies of real individuals using the same techniques.

The company says: 'Our vision is to create humanoid robots that can seamlessly integrate into daily life, providing assistance, companionship, and support across various industries.

'We believe that by developing realistic and expressive robot heads, we can bridge the gap between humans and machines.'

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04-10-2025 om 18:01 geschreven door peter  

Chinese wetenschappers ontwikkelen een lijm die gebroken botten in twee à drie minuten herstelt. De lijm zou zichzelf afbreken in het lichaam, waardoor een tweede operatie niet meer nodig is.

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Een onderzoeksteam van de universiteit van Zhejiang, in het oosten van China, werkte negen jaar aan de ontwikkeling van de bottenlijm. De ontdekking is inmiddels voorgesteld aan de pers, schrijft Global Times.

Onderzoeksleider en chirurg Lin Xianfeng vertelde dat met Bone 02 – een verwijzing naar superlijm 502 – botten stevig aan elkaar bevestigd kunnen worden in twee à drie minuten, zelfs in een bloedrijke, vochtige omgeving. Een operatie met metalen platen en schroeven duurt aanzienlijk langer.

Xianfeng vond inspiratie voor de vernieuwing in de natuur, schrijft Global Times. Tijdens een bezoek aan de kustplaats waar hij opgroeide, merkte de chirurg een verzameling oesters op aan de pijlers van een pier. Hun capaciteit om zich vast te klampen aan een vochtig oppervlak en de kracht van slaande golven te weerstaan, bracht hem op een idee.

Samen met zijn team bestudeerde de arts de hechtingskracht van de beestjes om ze vervolgens na te maken. Oesters scheiden ’bio-cement’ af, een stof die een sterke chemische reactie heeft met oppervlaktes en snel uithardt. Met een sterk staaltje van ’biomimicry’ – het vertalen van kennis uit de natuur naar de wetenschap – werd de bottenlijm ontwikkeld.

Bone 02 zou sterk presteren qua stevigheid en veiligheid. Het product heeft een maximale hechtkracht van meer dan 180 kilo. Bovendien is de lijm biologisch afbreekbaar. Na een zestal maanden zou het product verdwenen zijn uit het lichaam. Een tweede operatie is niet nodig, terwijl platen en schroeven weggehaald moeten worden. Het risico op infecties zou ook kleiner zijn.

Al deze eigenschappen maken het mogelijk een goed alternatief voor de traditionele behandeling van gebroken en verbrijzelde botten. De lijm werd getest op 150 patiënten in een klinische studie met positieve resultaten. Binnenkort zullen de volledige onderzoeksgegevens te vinden zijn in een orthopedisch tijdschrift, liet de onderzoeksleider weten.

Een röntgenfoto, beeld ter illustratie.

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04-10-2025 om 17:40 geschreven door peter  

Chinese onderzoekers ontwikkelen bottenlijm: “Gebroken bot in 3 minuten weer hersteld”

Chinese onderzoekers beweren een revolutionaire ‘superlijm’ voor botten te hebben ontwikkeld. Met de bottenlijm kunnen breuken, die normaal gesproken maanden nodig hebben om te genezen, binnen enkele minuten worden hersteld.

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03-10-2025 om 22:09 geschreven door peter  

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the area in front of it using its onboard Front Right Hazard Avoidance Camera A. The image was acquired on July 12, 2022 (Sol 495), at the local mean solar time of 16:56:25.

 (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

A piece of string-like material photographed on Mars by the Perseverance Rover just last week has suddenly disappeared, according to recent NASA photos obtained by its rover on the Red Planet.

The wiry-looking substance many likened to a piece of string or thin pasta first appeared in photographs taken by the rover on July 12^th, photos that were shared by NASA earlier this week. However, a photo taken four days later shows the string has somehow disappeared.

Photo taken by Perseverance on July 12 shows Martian “string”

Image Credit NASA/JPL-CalTech

Photo taken by Perseverance on July 16 reveals the “string” has disappeared.

Image Credit NASA/JPL-CalTech

Since landing on the red planet, humanity’s various rovers have made a habit of taking odd, unusual, often perplexing photos. In some cases, like the “flower” or recently discussed “door” on Mars, the photos ultimately proved to be natural formations instead of foreign objects.

Of course, Martian rovers bring their own junk with them. And many of the more infamous photos sent back from those rovers are of their own pieces of human-made debris.

NASA’s experts told the media the recent photograph is likely something artificial and not a natural formation masquerading as a manufactured object. However, rather than a remnant of a kite flown by E.T. on his Martian holiday, the same experts say this string was also probably a piece of material from the rover’s landing rocket.

“The string could be from the rover or its descent stage, a component similar to a rocket-powered jet pack used to lower the rover to the planet’s surface safely,” a Perseverance mission spokesperson at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told CNN.

The same spokesperson concedes that the string was photographed in an area not previously visited by Perseverance but guessed that the string likely blew there on its own.

Either that. Or it has a completely different origin.

Adding more mystery to the mystery, when the rover passed over the same spot on July 16^th, the string had magically disappeared. Once again, most suggest that the string left the same way it arrived, on a gust of wind.

Still, given the incredibly thin Martian atmosphere and the great lengths designers had to go through just to get the Ingenuity helicopter to grasp that atmosphere and take flight, it would take some mighty gusts of wind to send that string into and out of the same spot within a four day period. So, for now, at least, the mystery of the Martian string remains.

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03-10-2025 om 21:54 geschreven door peter  

U.S. Congressman Says UFOs May Be Machines of a Hidden ‘Ancient Earth Civilization’

BY Vicky Verma

For over 90 years, the UFO enigma has captivated people’s minds worldwide, sparking curiosity, debates, and countless investigations into the phenomenon. The wait is over, as David Grusch, David Fravor & Ryan Graves are set to testify before the US Congress during the congressional meetings scheduled for July 26, 2023.

Meanwhile, various theories were postulated by United States Representative Mike Gallagher on the possible origin of UFOs while he appeared on Pat McAfee’s show on June 27, 2023. The former Marine suggested that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) might possibly represent an enigmatic “ancient civilization” that had remained hidden on Earth until recently when they began to surface.

“This should be an opportunity for the government to be transparent,” he said. “If we have information that disconfirms the extraterrestrial hypothesis, or all these other ones, at least it shows the government doing something competent and being forward-leaning by declassifying information to the public.”

Rep. Gallagher made this statement in response to the wild interview of David Grusch with Ross Coutlhart that hit the media. Mr. Grusch, who is confirmed to testify before Congress in the upcoming hearings, claimed that the US government has proof of alien life and that there are spacecraft from another species. He mentions that there is a significant number of these spacecraft, some of which have landed while others have crashed.

When asked about the duration of the cover-up, Grusch mentions that the first recovery of a UAP occurred in 1933 in Magenta, Italy, during the regime of Benito Mussolini. He explains that the Italian government moved the recovered craft to a secure air base until 1944-1945 when the Vatican informed the Americans about it

Appearing on the sports talk show, Gallagher suggested that one possible explanation of supposed UFO sightings was the so-called “Terminator” theory — derived from the film of the same name — that aliens were actually human beings from the future. Gallagher further put forth another theory, suggesting the following: “Instead of us from the future, it might indeed be an ancient civilization that has been lurking here, and suddenly it’s making its presence known.” Ancient Aliens, does it ring a bell?

A similar theory was also proposed by Tim Peake, one of Britain’s famous astronauts. He said that the UFOs filmed by the US military over 100 times could either time traveling humans or aliens from other civilizations. During an interview with Good Morning Britain in June 2022, Briton astronaut Tim Peake, who spent more than six months on the International Space Station, was asked about the UAP videos, which the Pentagon recently declassified.

Peake said: “I heard one theory where a pilot was talking about that potentially in the future, they’ve developed time travel – is it something that’s come back from the future?” He did not exactly say what the UFOs are but shared some theories that have long been discussed by UFOlogists.

“I don’t think it’s a development of any state nation or non-state organization at all. I think it’s quite remarkable when you see the video footage. It does seem extraordinary as to what these machines are capable of.”

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There is a huge buried UFO hidden outside the US, and Ross Coulthart claimed that he knows the location of this immovable craft. There is no confirmation from Coulthart about the nature of this craft if it was retrieved. However, some have speculated this could be an archeological dig. Could this particular craft potentially be a remnant of a bygone civilization?

Considering Rep. Gallagher’s theory, scientists have explored the possibility of detecting ancient civilizations in Earth’s geological record. A recent paper called “The Silurian Hypothesis” discusses how traces of industrial civilizations could be found. While fossils and artifacts are unlikely to survive over millions of years, anomalous changes in chemical compositions could serve as clues. By studying geological anomalies and applying models to other planets, scientists hope to understand if civilizations existed in the distant past.

NASA has spent many years seeking the truth regarding extraterrestrial life. Furthermore, the space agency has never denied the existence of non-human life beyond Earth in any form. This is sufficient to discuss the idea of non-human life existing beyond Earth in any form, from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard, has supported the idea that there may have been earlier civilizations on both Earth and Mars, and that these civilizations may have been the origin of UAPs. (Click here to read the full article)

Mr. Loeb writes: “Planets like Mars or Earth could have given multiple births to technological civilizations that were a billion years apart and hence were not aware of each other. Like stable parents, the planets recovered from the environmental impact of these civilizations over time. We may have been separated in time from siblings that we never had the opportunity to meet and so we are unaware of their existence.”

Former Pentagon UFO official, Lue Elizondo, shared intriguing insights in an interview about crash retrievals and materials related to UFOs/UAPs. He believes the US government possesses exotic materials but lacks transparency on the matter. (Click here to read the full article)

Elizondo used an analogy of finding an out-of-place object in King Tut’s tomb to emphasize the significance of finding advanced materials before our known technology existed. Some interpreted this analogy as a hint that UFOs could be considered archaeological findings, possibly ancient rather than just old.

Interestingly, Bob Lazar, on the Joe Rogan Experience, mentioned hearing that at least one recovered UFO was found during an archaeological dig, suggesting its ancient origin. Astronomer Avi Loeb suggested that some advanced devices made by early inhabitants of Mars and Earth might still be operational elsewhere in the Solar System, potentially accounting for some Unidentified Aerial Phenomena reports.

Physicist John E. Brandenburg’s 2015 study speculated about a massive thermonuclear explosion that destroyed Mars’ once-Earthlike atmosphere, considering the Cydonian Hypothesis and Fermi’s Paradox. These ideas explore the possibility of ancient advanced civilizations in our solar system.

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03-10-2025 om 21:41 geschreven door peter  

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Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiralling out of control – here’s why that’s so dangerous

The idea that aliens may have visited the Earth is becoming increasingly popular. Around a fifth of UK citizens believe Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials, and an estimated 7% believe that they have seen a UFO.

The figures are even higher in the US – and rising. The number of people who believe UFO sightings offer likely proof of alien life increased from 20% in 1996 to 34% in 2022. Some 24% of Americans say they’ve seen a UFO.

This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist. What’s more, given the vast distances between star systems, it seems odd we’d only learn about them from a visit. Evidence for aliens is more likely to come from signals from faraway planets.

In a paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, I argue that the belief in alien visitors is no longer a quirk, but a widespread societal problem.

The belief is now rising to the extent that politicians, at least in the US, feel they have to respond. The disclosure of information about claimed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs rather than UFOs) from the Pentagon has got a lot of bi-partisan attention in the country.

Much of it plays upon familiar anti-elite tropes that both parties have been ready to use, such as the idea that the military and a secretive cabal of private commercial interests are keeping the deep truth about alien visitation hidden. That truth is believed to involve sightings, abductions and reverse-engineered alien technology.

Belief in a cover-up is even higher than belief in alien visitation. In 2019, a Gallop poll found that a staggering 68% of Americans believed that “the US government knows more about UFOs than it is telling”.

This political trend has been decades in the making. Jimmy Carter promised document disclosure during his presidential campaign in 1976, several years after his own reported UFO sighting. Like so many other sightings, the simplest explanation is that he saw Venus. (That happens a lot.)

Hillary Clinton also suggested she wanted to “open [Pentagon] files as much as I can” during her presidential campaign against Donald Trump. As seen in the video below, Trump suggested he’d need to “think about” whether it was possible to declassify the so-called Roswell documentation (relating to the notorious claimed crash of a UFO and the recovery of alien bodies).

Former president Bill Clinton claimed to have sent his chief of staff, John Podesta, down to Area 51, a highly classified US Air Force facility, just in case any of the rumours about alien technology at the site were true. It is worth nothing that Podesta is a long-time enthusiast for all things to do with UFOs.

The most prominent current advocate of document disclosure is the Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer. His stripped back 2023 UAP disclosure bill for revealing some UAP records was co-sponsored by three Republican senators.

Pentagon disclosure finally began during the early stages of Joe Biden’s term of office, but so far there has been nothing to see. Nothing looks like an encounter. Nothing looks close.

Still, the background noise does not go away.

Problems for society

All this is ultimately encouraging conspiracy theories, which could undermine trust in democratic institutions. There have been humorous calls to storm Area 51. And after the storming of the Capitol in 2021, this now looks like an increasingly dangerous possibility.

Too much background noise about UFOs and UAPs can also get in the way of legitimate science communication about the possibility of finding microbial extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology, the science dealing with such matters, has a far less effective publicity machine than UFOlogy.

History, a YouTube channel part owned by Disney, regularly delivers shows about “ancient aliens”. The show is now in its 20th season and the channel has 13.8 million subscribers. The Nasa astrobiology channel has a hard won 20,000 subscribers. Actual science finds itself badly outnumbered by entertainment repackaged as factual.

Alien visitation narratives have also repeatedly tried to hijack and overwrite the history and mythology of indigenous people.

The first steps in this direction go back to Alexander Kazantsev’s science fiction tale Explosion: The Story of a Hypothesis (1946). It presents the 1908 Tunguska meteorite impact event as a Nagasaki-like explosion of an alien spacecraft engine. In Kazantsev’s tale, a single giant black female survivor has been left stranded, equipped with special healing powers. This lead to her adoption as a shaman by the indigenous Evenki people.

Nasa and the space science community do support efforts such as the Native Skywatchers initiative set up by the indigenous Ojibwe and Lakota communities to ensure the survival of storytelling about the stars. There is a real and extensive network of indigenous scholarship about these matters.

But UFOlogists promise a far higher profile for indigenous history in return for the mashing together of genuine indigenous stories about life arriving from the skies with fictional tales about UFOs, repackaged as suppressed history.

The modern alien visitation narrative has not, after all, emerged out of indigenous communities. Quite the opposite. It emerged in part as a way for conspiracy-minded thinkers in a Europe torn apart by racism to “explain” how complex urban civilisations in places like South America could have existed prior to European settlement.

Squeezed through a new age filter of 1960s counterculture, the narrative was flipped to value indigenous people as having once possessed advanced technology. Once upon a time, according to this view, every indigenous civilisation was Wakanda, a fictional country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

If all of this stayed in its own box, as entertaining fiction, then matters would be fine. But it doesn’t, and they aren’t. Visitation narratives tend to overwrite indigenous storytelling about sky and ground.

This is a problem for everyone, not just indigenous peoples struggling to continue authentic traditions. It threatens our grasp of the past. When it comes to insight into our remote ancestors, the remnants of prehistoric storytelling are few and precious, such as within indigenous storytelling about the stars.

Take the tales of the Pleiades, which date back in standard forms to at least 50,000 years ago.

This may be why these tales in particular are heavily targeted by alien visitation enthusiasts, some of whom even claim to be “Pleiadeans”. No surprises, Pleiadeans do not look like the Lakota or Ojibwe, but are strikingly blond, blue-eyed and Nordic.

It is increasingly clear that belief in alien visitation is no longer just a fun speculation, but something that has real and damaging consequences.

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